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Buy where you can get the best goods for the least
-: It Pays to Deal With Us.
The people of Salisbury and vicinity have had it demonstrated
in the purchases they have made.
BED ROOM SUITS with bevel plate mirror, in
hogany finish,
ENAMELED BEDS,
SPIRAL SPRINGS -
COTTON-TOP M a
SIX-FOOT EXTENSION TABLES,
LARGE ARM ROCKERS, 1.00
HIGH-BACKED DINING CHAIRS, 40
Johnson & Mc x nllon,
"ELK LICK, PENNA.
antique or ma-
S14. 20
3.2
1 oo
9 0s
di 0 ded ©
3.00
Fisher's Book Store,
SOMERSET, PA. :
WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL
VODJ1DOIOIDOITD OID
This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to |
90 town and country merchants in this and adjoining rts
Its wholesale trade extends into Maryland and West Virginia.
We are at all times prepared to compete in prices with the city
markets. |
Our
stock cf these goods is large, full and complete, and the prices |
At this season we are specially pushing Fishing Goods.
lowest wholesale. |
being
Special attention is also given to Base Ball Goods.
We are also doing a nice trade in Hammocks and Baby and Doll |
Carriages.
line of
Constantly in stock a full
ery aud Harmoni Merchants angl others can buy of us to ad-
vantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pencils, Envelopes, Bill Books and |
|
: 3 ced
Staple and Fancy Station- |
as. |
1
Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blank Books, Judgment Notes,
Receipt Books, School Books and Supplies, Miscellancous Books |
and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book,
Hi. Hisher.
News and Stationery Store.
(‘has
west Prices In Town!
Bice:
and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 cents.
i 1hs. :
10 Ibs. Na
13 The, W tii
7 Cakes Coke Soap
6 Cakes Waterlily
oH 1bs. Good Yeaision as
F&F Men's Suits |
up.
Se.p Lancaster Ginghams 5 eents per yard,
Good Cashmeres from ........ 12 1-2 cents up.
Yery best Cotton Bats, lo, 0c.
(rood Calico foents per Sard {
Bost Calico Heents per yard.
Good 7-cent reduced
from $4.00 up. Children’s
Knee Pants from 25 up.
Muslin to 5 cents.
Suits from 75 cts.
Boys’ cts. Men's working pants,
coats, overalls, ete. at prices away down.
@.. GREAT BARGAINS IN SHOES! _cs®>
We carry an immense line of SHOES and buy direct
& Huatehins, Walker Dougliis—thereby saving fully
bers’ prices. We warrant these shoes in every part. We
Carlisle and Evitt Ladies’ Shoes. REMEMBER, THE
from the celebrated manufac- |
25 per cent. of job-
also agents for the famous |
ARE CASH PRICES.
turers—Rice and
are
Barchus& liavengood,
Pe
Salisburv, nna.
(Garam Hlour and Heed!
| can get
who have seen Chickamauga, the old |
S.A. Lichliter is doing businees at the old stand. With greatly increas-
ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the
wants of our customers in
ALL KINDS OF STAPLE GROCERIES,
Feed, It'lour, Corn, Oats, Itc.
JOBBERS
OF CARBON OIL and can save merchants money on this line, as we buy car-
load lots.
In short anything to feed man or beast. Furthermore, we are
We are also
IHeadquarters For Maple Sweets.
We pay cash for good Butter and nice. clean IFresh Eggs. Come and see
what advantages we offer.
S. A. LICHLITER, Salisbury, Pa.
IN THE KOONTZ BUILDING!
Having some time ago purchased the Koontz property, all those
what was once
interested in Monumental work will find me in
known as
THE KOONTZ MARBLE WORKS.
I am prepared as never before to offer to all those in need of Monumental work.
from small Headstones to Granite Monuments.
PRICES HERETOFORE UNHEARD OF.
None but the best of Marble and Granite, and workmanship the. finest. 1
make Granite work a specialty. You will be surprised at my prices. Call and
see me. ALBERT I. HILLEGASS, Berlin, Pa
| For District
| nor will
| properly appointed board of inquiry.
| Its a shame to publish such stuff; it
| hurts us as a nation. —Meyersdale Com-
| Meyersdale Commnereial.
[ me to write to you and have
| officers of the War department.
{ dealer?
| scenes
| we are talking about.
| tell all that the public ought to know.|
| It
| time things are exposed, and the ones |
RY, ELK LICK POS
RE PUBL IC. AN
HICKEY.
For Governor,
Wun. A. Stone,
Of Allegheny Qounty,
For Lieutenant Gove rnor,—
J. P. 8S. Gonix,
Of f.oinen County.
Lor Judge of Superior Court,—
W. W. Porrer,
Of Philadelphia. |
Wai. D. PORTER,
Of Philadelphia.
{ For Secretary of Internal Affairs,—
JAMES WW. Latra,
Of Philadelphia.
For Congressmen-at-Large,—
GALUSHA A.
Of Susqehanna County.
Grow,
S. A. DAVENPORT,
Of Erie County.
COUNTY
For State Senator,—
Jol. HoBLITZELL,
Of Meyersdale Borough.
(Subject to the decision of the
Conference.)
District
For Congress, —
I. J. KoosEr,
Of Somerset Borough. !
(Subject to the Decision of the District
Conference.)
For Assembly,—
W. H. Kooxrz,
Of Somerset Borough.
S.
v
A;
Of Meyersaale Borough. |
KENDALL,
For Associate Judge, —
A. FF. Dickey,
Of Somerset Township.
Attorney,—
MEYERS,
Of Somerset Borough.
Lor Poor Director,
ADpad RS. MILLER,
Of Lincoln Township.
Rurvs E.
Are We Becoming a Race of Physi- !
cal Degenerates?
Are we becoming a race of physical
degenerates?
ment of the war.
not until after a report by a
wercial.
The above clipping from the Com-
{mercial was enclosed with a letter writ-
{ten to the editor of Tue Star. Sept.
I 2nd, by one of the soldier boys of the
Sth Pa. regiment. In his letter the sol-
| dier says:
from the
A great many
of the boys of this regiment have asked
“Enclosed find clipping
your opinion on it through Tur Stak,
I knowing that you are a true friend of |
| the
| Smith has insulted
most ealls us liars in trying to uphold |
Would-be Editor
our
soldier boys.
boys. le al-
I the eriminal negligence of some of the
What
double-
does the old
have
suffered know
he know about it,
We who
and have
may hurt us as a nation, but it is
guilty should suffer. Smith
testimony 75,000
who are
from
swamp erroneously un
What does
of sickness and death signify?
management? No. Answer
item,
reason to believe it will Tie Srar
will be sent through the different regi-
ments and read with approval.
like our new camp, but we want
more of Chickamauga. Ilad we been
sent here sooner, the life and health of
many a brave boy would have been
saved.”
Rince Tne Star has been requested
to give its opinion on the topic at is-
sue, we will endeavor to make a state-
ment in accordance with what we hon-
estly believe, and according to the way
that matters look to Tie Star.
called park.
all the unnecessary amount
be,
no
In the first place, Tug Star is entire-
ly in sympathy with the soldiers. That
they have been subjected to outrage
and great wrong, there is not the least
doubt, and it is our opinion that either
Secretary Alger or some person or per-
sons closely in touch with him are to
blame for it all. We do not believe
that we are a nation of physical degen-
erates, and the fact that
complaint from the soldier boys does
not necessarily indicate that we are.
The boys who enlisted in the army
represent the best manhood of the na-
tion, and when they enlisted they ex-
TOFFIC CB, PA.
That’s about all we can |
| make of the howl raised on the managc- |
We do not believe it, |
you give |
witnessed the |
what |
Tongue cannot |
men |
Good |
Smiths |
and if the answeris what we have |
We |
! White, of the Supreme Court,
{
there is much |
y THU RSD AY SEPTEMBE
| otal to see some dire hards hi and
| privation if thrown into a position where
such things were to be expected. There
are times when soldiers must necessar-
| ily suffer hunger, thirst, the ravages of
| disease and all the of w
| When an army is hard pressed by the
| enemy, when it is unavoidably cut off
{from its supplies, when hard fighting is
| the program day after day, then sick- |
ness, suffering, thirst and hunger can-
not be prevented. And when such is the
{ case and the situation cannot be help-
horrors ar.
matter how great the suffering. Had our
brave boys at Chickamauga been so
situated that their condition could not
{ have been
been little cr no complaint. But
try, where suffering, cannot be avoid-
ed, what do we see?
| of from 60,000:to 75,000 men thrown to-
(gether "at an old disease-breeding,
;scum-covered swamp that for some
| strange reason is called a park. Here
{ they are compelled to remain for sev-
| eral months under a scorching Georgia
| and drinking water that is unfit for
even a wild beast to drink. Fever
| rages and many a brave boy is called
| from the fitful scenes of life forever.
' Others, poor, emaciated
sent to their homes while yet so weak
as to be unfit to travel alone. And all
| this is transpiring right here in our
civilized country, hundreds
{ miles away from the enemy and the
| fields of battle—here at home
these men should want for nothing
[that the soldiers stand in need of.
own
But let us turn away from this dis-
| mal picture, for it beggars description,
| and the boys are now more comforta-
| bly located,
| But was there mismanagement? Well,
| Tne Star does not know what else to
(eall it, unless we term
| ligence and the lack of a proper regard
| for the defenders of our country. Some
| of the boys who have returned home
look like men taken from their graves |
or from a Spanish prison pen, instead
lof from a camping ground in a civil-
| ized country.
| We do not believe in suppressing
facts and covering up rottenness. If
other nations think we are a nation of
physical degenerates, let them tread
upon “Uncle Sam’s”
otherwise. The great trouble is with
| the mental degenerates that for person-
al gain, political reasons and the like are
always ready to cover up the rotten-
ness that too frequently exis(s in oflicial
circles. Some of these mental degen-
erates are publishing newspapers, and
they are always pretending not to be-
[lieve that they in their cwn
hearts know to be only too true. They
fakirs, humbugs.
They always take up for those in pow-
er, matter how corrupt they
while the manhood of the common sol-
dier. the plain citizen, the honest labor-
er—the brain and the brawn of
tion go for naught with them.
not right, and we say, turn on the light.
[“Iew to line, let the c¢hips fall where
{they may.”
All the boys of the 5th regiment from
whom we have yet heard, speak highly
of their oflicers. No blame has been
laid to them that we know of.
horrors of Chickamauga are charged
the War department, and
a full investigation will be
things
are hirelings and
no are,
the na-
This is
[up to
trust that
| made
those who deserve it.
i and die without cause at Chickamauga,
ed from necessity at Santiago.
is not a physical degenerate
them, else they would not have been
admitted to the army. But they
| not dogs, and there was no necessity
for them to be allowed to suffer asthey
did at Chickamauga. This is our opin-
ion and by it we will stand. We donot
Read the ar-
are
share this opinion alone.
ticle from the Scientific American on
Connellsville Courier on local page.
Peace Commission Appointed.
The
the United States to arrange
peace commission representing
terms of
peace between the United States and
Spain, has been appointed.
of Secretary of State William R. Day,
of Ohio; Senator Cusham K. Davis,
Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, Minnesota;
William P. Frye, of Maine; Whitelaw
Reid, of New York, and Justice E. D.
Louisi-
ana.
the only democrat on the commission
and is a Roman Catholic. The com-
the 17th of September.
ed, no true soldier will complain, vo |
bettered, there would have |
such |
was not the case. Instead of Sntesive |
while doing battle in an enemy’s coun
We sec an army |
and wan are
of |
where |
for which we feel glad. |
it criminal neg- |
coat-tail and learn |
The |
we | : > : i
| have performed their duties with zeal
ish sted -out to 4: y : : Toi: 4
aud-ponishment amet bt dignity with which President McKin-
|
The boys * ho were made to suffer |
It consists |
Justice White, the last appointed, is |
mission it is expected will sail for Paris |
R 8, 18¢ 898.
TURN ON THE LIGHT.
If Secretary of War Alger is guilty of |
{one-half of the criminal mismanage-
| ment charged up against him, he should
be bounced from his office at once and |
| ipeisaned besides. Under the above
| heading the Scientific American, which
has a reputation for rolinbitity at all |
| times, last week had the following to |
| say:
|
Bie ;
N UMBE R: 33.
r tysburg alone were 3,070 killed and '14.-
497 wounded. In the twelve great bat-
tles of the civil war the Union losses
were 23,268 killed and 120,849 wounded.
| No war ever produced
| important and far reaching results
with so small a loss of life as has our
war with Spain.”
has such
PENNSYL VANIANS FOR DUTY.
“Three weeks ago we felt it incum- |
bent upon us to protest
place as the result of the criminal in-
competency of the War Departmert.
{ Events that have transpired in the in-
terim have merely served to strengthen
together
| our soldiers. The disgraceful ineflici-
ency of Siboney and Santiago has now
| been repeated at Montauk; and the
men who fought so bravely, even if un-
front, are |
now coming home, many of them to |
| fed and unattended at the
die—to die, not of disease, but
any said, of “starvation,” “due to the
fact that” they “did not have food that
was suitable to the
valescent.”
One of the most heartless and inex- |
cusable blunders of the department
has been that of permitting so-called |
convalescents to set out alone for their |
veriest |
| far distant homes, when the
tyro in nursing might know that they
| should have been the subjects of care-
ful nourishment in a sick ward. That
this has been done and is being done
| the people of the United States have
painful evidence before their eyes in
| the emaciated and pallid forms, that |
may too easily and too often be seen
dragging their way to the terminal sta-
{tions of this and other great cities.
Many a young life that Spanish bullets
and Cuban fevers could not quench has
succumbed to neglect, due to the shame- !
ful mismanagement of certain branches
of the department over which Secre-
tary Alger presides.
And the pity of it all is that the peo-
ple of the United States, who are only
I too eager to assist the returning troops,
fare helpless in the matter. Where
anxious relatives and friends are only
able to find the particular objects of
their search after neglect
done
disease or
has its
itself how much longer such ghastly
comedies as that which recently
vailed at Montauk Point
last.
pre-
are going to
One thing is certain—there is a grow- |
ing feeling throughout the country that
the time is ripe for an oflicial investi- |
gation. A great wrong has been done,
the responsibility for whieh rests di- |
{rectly upon the shoulders of Secretary
Alger; or upon one or more of the heads
under
the first, instead of showing such
of departments that serve him.
If
feverish haste to whitewash his depart-
the Seacretary
bona jide investigation, he
at
I ment,
would have
perhaps escaped the public resentment
which is now unmistakably aroused.
The certainly for
President to order an investigation of
i the whole conduct of
it came under Mr. Alger’s administra-
tion. Nothing short of this will satisly
| the country or serve to vindicate those
| officials in the War Department who
time is ripe
| and efliciency. The firmness, tact, and
{ ley has handled the affairs of his high
oflice during the war have won for him
| the confidence and supreme respect of |
are as great heroes as those who suffer- |
| There |
among |
the whole nation. llitherto he has main-
tained a severe silence regarding an
be causing him as much grief and in-
dignation as it does every other well- |
wisher of his country. The scandal,
| however, has now grown too big to be |
overlooked, and the country is natural-
| ly awaiting some action on the part of
f :
| the President
and exhaustive inquiry.”
this same page, also a clipping from the |
The oflicial statement of our losses in
| the war with Spain is not yet made up,
{ but the approximate figures compiled
| from the reports to the War and Navy
Departments and obtained by the New
York World, gives this remarkable
showing:
| Killed in the army
An Extraordinary Record.
| Killed in the navy
| Killed in the
Senator |
marines
Wounded in the army
Wounded in the navy
Wounded in marines
“Here” says the World,
Spanish navy, in the freedom of Cuba,
| cession of Puerto Rico and the capture
of Manila.
The losses on the Union side at Get-
against the |
wanton waste of life which was taking |
our conviction that a shameful wrong |
has been done in the wholesale and al- |
unnecessary sacrifice of the |
lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of |
as the
! : ; | attendant physician of poor young Tiff- |
sun, inhaling the poisonous swamp air |
condition of a con- |
fatal work, the public |
stands in helpless indignation, and asks |
had instituted a!
our
the war as far as
episode of the war which must surely |
looking to a searching |
260 |
“is a total of |
| 279 killed and 1,423 wounded in a war |
which resulted in the destruction of the |
Fifth, Tenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
and Sixteenth Regiments Among
those Retained in the Service.
Washington, Sept. 4—Adjt. Gen.Cor-
| bin has made official announcement of
| the
intention of the War department in
the matter of mustering out and re-
taining in the service the volunteer
regiments. Among those designated
for muster out are:
Pennsylvania—First, Second, Third,
Fourth, Sixth and Eightheenth infant-
ry; Philadelphia city, Governor's and
Sheridan troops of cavalry; batteries
A, B and C light artillery.
Ohio—First, Third, Fifth and Seventh
infantry; First cavalry and First bat-
talion light artillery
Among the regiments retained in the
{ service until further orders are the fol-
lowing:
Pennsylvania—Fifth, Eighth, Ninth,
Tenth, Pwelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
| Fifteenth and Sixteenth infantry.
Ohio—Second, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth,
Ninth battalion, Tenth regiment in-
fantry.
West Virginia— First and Second
| regiments infantry.
SOMERSET JAIL DELIVERY.
Four Prisoners Escape — Deputy
Sheriff Baker Badly Beaten.
Last Saturday evening intense ex-
citement was stirred up all over the
county when the news was flashed over
the wires that four prisoners had es-
caped from the Somerset jail after
saulting Deputy Sheriff Baker and bad--
ly beating him.
The affair took place about as fol-
| lows: On Saturday evening when the
deputy sheriff was locking the pri-on-
ers, in their cells, Ben Eddy who was
locked in cell with a young man
I named Zegfoss, asked the officer for a
{ small table that stood in the corridor.
The deputy sheriff suspecting nothing
| wrong, picked up the table and unlock-
ed the cell to place the same inside. At
this juncture, however, one of the pris-
grabbed him, the other
{ struck him over the head with a piece of
a chair knocking him down, then pound-
ing him until
They then dragged the otlicer into the
coll, took his keys and locked him in,
[alter which they went to another cell
{and liberated the
Shroyer and Pat Morgan.
then escaped the
started to flee the
soon discovered,
as-
a
loners while
he was unconscious.
notorious Russell
This quartet,
and
They
and
resulted in
i the capture of Morgan, the same eve-
from building
{rom town.
were however,
{were hotly pursued, which
i ning, and Zerfoss was nabbed {he next
day and returned to jail, where a clese
watch will be kept on both of them.
I Shroyer and Eddy are still at
and people should be the lookout
for them everywhere. There is $25 res
ward on each, and they
but somehow people seem to care but
Hittle about capturing them, saying they
don’t keep prisoners when they've got
them at Somerset.
ning to think that there is entirely too
{ much jail breaking at Somerset, and
| really it begins to look that way. The
deputy sheriff ought to be more watch-
ful of bad in his and the
sheriff is expected to see to it that the
deputy does not deal too loosely with
large
on
are bad men,
People are begin-
men care,
such characters. The people are get-
ting all-fired tired of this flourishing
I jail delivery business.
The deputy sheriff was seriously in-
jured at the hands of the escaping
criminals, but last report he was
resting reasonably well. However. it
{ was a close call for him, and for a time
injuries might
at
"it was feared that his
| prove fatal.
WitaTevER else may be said of Gov.
Hastings, it must be admitted that he
{is a good military man and has a high
| regard for the welfare of the volunteer
soldiers. To Gov. Hastings belongs
the -credit for raising the money to
equip the hospital train that brought
| the sick Pennsylvania troops away
from Chickamauga. The Governor act-
ed in time tosave many lives, for which
7 | he has the thanks of a grateful public.
Fall Poetry.
There was a man in our town,
Who wasn’t over wise;
Ile started into business,
And didn’t advertise.
Of course there is a moral
Connected with this tale;
He runs an advertisement now—
1t’8 headed: “Sheriff ’s Sale.”