VOL U ME IV.
GREAT BARGAINS In &
SALISBU RY, E LK LIC K POST OFFIC EA
Buy where vou can get the best goods for the least money.
- 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 MATTRESSES,
SIX-FOOT EXTENSION TABLES,
LARGE ARM ROCKERS, - -
HIGH-BACKED DINING CHAIRS, - -
Johnson” & MceCulloh,
ELK LICK, PENNA.
antique or ma-
514.00
3.25
1 25
295
dd © pt ©
3.00
1.00
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Hisher’s Book =toxre,
SOMERSET, PA.
WHOLESLAE AND RETALLY.. coe
VOLO DOTOTOD
This large and pushing
90 town and country merchants in this and adjoining counties.
Its wholesale trade extends into Maryland
We are at all times prepared to
markets.
At this season we are specially pushing School
Our stock of
complete, and che prices lowest wholesale.
School Supplies. these goods is
Special attention is also being given to Base
W
and Doll Carriages.
are also doing «
Constantly
cry and Harmonicas.
vantage,
Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blank Books, Judgment Notes
Receipt Books, School Books and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books
and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book, |
Hi. Hisher.
News and Stationery Store.
Chas
large,
establishment sells at wholesale to |
and West Virginia.
compete in prices with the city |
Books
full
Ball Goods.
Merchants and others can buy of us to ad-
and
Lowest Prices In Town!
Arbuckle’s and
4 1hs. Best Ried
10 Ths. Nayy Bons... oon in ony
151bs. White Hominy
7 Cakes Coke Soap
¢ Cakes Waterlily
H Ihe. Good Raisins...
F&F Men's Suits from $4
up.
Good Calico
Best Calico
Good T-cent
soap...
Muslin
A005.
Boys’ Knee Pants from 25 cts. up.
coats, overalls, ete. at prices away down.
@n_ GREAT BARGAINS IN SHOES] st
We carry an immense line of SITOES and buy direct
turers—Rice & Hutchins, Walker and Douglas—thereby saving fully
bers? prices. We warrant these shoes in every part.
Carlisle and Evitt Ladies’ Shoes. REMEMBER, THE ABOVE
Barchus& 1avengood,
Salisburv, Penna.
121-2
Children’s Suits from
25 per
We are also agents for
ARE CASH PRICES.
Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 cents.
Lancaster Ginghams........5 cents per yard.
Good Cashmeres from .......
Very best Cotton Bats. ........... 000. 10¢.
1 cents per yard. |
beents per yard.
reduced
to 5H
Men’s working pants
oo
from the celebrated manufae-
of job- |
the famous
cent.
centsup,
79 cts.
Cxrain Hour and Heed!
8S. A. Liehliter is doing businees at the old stand.
ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the
wants of our customers in
ALL KINDS OF
Feed, Flour,
In short anything to feed man or beast.
STAPLE
Ifurthermore,
We are also
H
We pay cash for good Butter and nice, clean Frosh Eggs.
load lots.
what advantages we offer.
S. A. LICHLITER,
2adquarters For Maple Swan
Come
With greatly increas-
GROCERIES,
Corn, Oats, Ete.
we are JOBBERS |
OF CARBON OIL and can save merchants money on this Jine, as we buy car-
ts
and
Salisbury, Pa.
IN THE KOONTZ BUILDING!
Having some time ago purchased the Koontz property, ail those
> > 3
interested in Monumental work will find
known as
TIE K OONTZ
I am prepared ¢
from small Headstones to Granite Monuments,
PRICES HERETOFORE UN!
None but the best of
make Guanite work a specialty.
See me.
ALBERT
+ ag
EAL
You will be surprised at my prices.
J. HILLEGASS, Berlin, Pa.
me in what was oilce
MARBLE WORKS.
1s never before to offer to all those in need of Monumental work.
> 3 ID
1D OF.
Marble and Granite, and workmanship the finest.
Call and |
REPUBL ica AN TIC KET.
STATE.
Lor Governor,
War. A. STONE,
Of Allegheny County. !
Lor Lieutenant (rerio
J.P. 8. Gopix,
T.chanion County.
For Judge of Superior Court,—
«WW. W. PorTER,
Of Philadelphia. |
D. PORTER,
Of Philadelphia.
I'or Secretary of Internal Affairs,—
James Wo Larrea,
Of Philadelphia. |
War.
For Congressmen-at-Large,—
GrALUsiA A. Grow,
S. A. Davexrorr,
Of Erie County.
COUN’EY
For State Senator,—
J.J. HoBrLrrzeil,
Of Meyersdale Borough.
Jonx 8. WELLER,
and |
(Subject to the decision of the
onference.)
District
F. J. Koosenr,
Of Somerset
(Subject to the Decision of the District
Conference.)
For Assembly, —
W. H. Kooxrz,
Of Somerset Borough.
S.A. Kexnary,
Of Meyersaale Borough.
For Associate Judge, —
A. F. Dickey,
Of Somerset Township.
| For District Attorney, —
nice trade in Miscellaneous Books and Baby |
in stock a full line of Staple and Fancy Station- |
Tablets, Inks, Pens; Pencils, Envelopes, Bill Books and
cents. |
Rurus E. Meyers,
Of Somerset Borough. |
For Poor Director,
ApaM SS. MILLER,
Of Lincoln Township. |
| never doubted, when war was declared,
Ir is still a question with us, which is |
i correct; the Populist statement that
Kansas’ prosperity is due to the “Pop”
{ administration, or the Populist state-
{ ment that there is no prosperity. —
| Wathena (Kan) Star.
So ALGeEr wants an investigation,
| does he? llere’s a rare chance for the
| President. He can redeem himself in.
| public estimation by calling the blufr
| of the incompetent whom he raised to
| power to pay a political debt. By all
| means give Alger all the investigation
{be wants (or, more properly
| want ).—. Altoona Mirror.
lican State Committee, has issued a
| circular threatening with prosecution
| any and all Democratic and Prohibition |
Lorators and organs who may libel Sen-
ator Quay or the Republican candidates |
lin this campaign. In the
candidate Swallow invites
i the press generally smiles. It looks
| like a hard task to libel Senator Quay,
| although the Republican ticket could
be much worse than itis. But as for
{ big Boss Quay, we do not believe that
he could be easily pictured and worse
than he really is.
meantime,
a suit and
Wiarever else Quay did, he never
{ was a traitor to his party.—Meyersdale
| Commercial.
Is that so? Well, we guess not.
Didn’t Mr. Quay vote with the Demo-
crats and Silverites in the U. S. Renate, |
{ last spring?
did. To tell the truth, Quay never was
anything but a traitor to his party.
| Where is there another
who has so often gone back on Repub-
lican doctrine, when the
the way of his own personal greed and |
| political ambitions, as has M. S.
| Quay is a millstone attached to the Re-
| publican party’s neck, and if he isn’t
soon relegated to the rear. the Repub-
lican party in Pennsylvania is doomed.
same stood in
The Commission in Havana.
Pittsburg Times.
With the arrival of the evacuation com- |
| mission in Havana there begins a task |
such as this country never undertook
| before, and that, in its magnitude, may
even rival the war itself. The work of
; the present commission is only prelim- |
{ inary, since it only relates to the evac- |
carrying |
the
protocol ;
the island and
out of the terms of hut
teven that is a task of no inconsiderable
for it
deporting of an army
100.000
{
uation of
! the
| proportions, involves among oth-
| er things the
nearly, if not «quite, mein,
| property, the substitution of American
| 2 garrisons for those of Spain, and the
Of Susqehanna County. |
Of Bedford County. |
Borough. |
don’t |
Cuaamyax J. P. ELkIN, of the Repub- |
Everybody knows that he «
. {
Republican
Quay? |
of |
the |
{arrangement for the transfer of publie |
| order pondii the advent of whateve
| form of government shall be determin-
| ed upon, either for permanent or tem-
| porary purposes, by the Paris peace
| commission.
Even before this commission has fin-
| ished its labors we will be under the |
| necessity of beginning to transport to
|t this new possession an army far larger |
| than that which went there in June |
| and July ; and we will assume the task |
k of preserving order and giving securiiy |
to life, property and industry ina coun- |
| try that has been torn by war for some |
| threz years, while we must devote our- |
selves to the task of providing it with
a government that will make peace and
security permanent. We will also have
to fight out among ourselves the ques-
tion as to whether the island is to be-
Ee
come a part of our domain, or whether |
| it is to be turned over, according to the
| promise of Congress, to the Cuban peo-
ple. In addition to that, we
contend against the sentiment on the
island which looks upon us as
lopers, and which claims that the coun-
[try should at once be handed over to
, THUR SDAY, SE PTEMBER 15,
have to |
inter- |
1898.
food that is suitable to a convalescent,
how, we ask, are the convalescents to
be brought over the 8,000 miles of
ocean that separate Manila from the
United States? Yet the work of trans-
porting troops and maintaining them
| in garrison duty in some of the dead-
| liest climates in the world, of bringing
| home the sick, of transferring garrisons
| from one island to another, will have
to be carried on continuously as part
| of our control and administration of
these newly acquired possessions. Does
any one doubt that.if our present meth-
| ods were followed, the mortality among
| the troops would be & repetition of that
| which is now carrying off our soldiers
by the hundred?
Our war department stands in
| of immediate and sweeping
This reform is necessary for the double
| purpose of visiting condign punishment
upon the parties answerable
|
need
who are
on a footing which shall enysble it
| cope successfully with the grave mili-
tary problems of the future.
the tender mercies of roaming bands of
insurgents to do with as they please, |
{and who seem to hold everything in
| sight as spoils of war. From now on,
for a long time to come, Cuban politics
and Cuban policies are likely to be on-
[ly a little less exciting than was the |
| war.
The War Department and Our New
Foreign Policy.
i Scientific American.
It did not require the test of the late
| war to prove the mettle of the Ameri-
can soldier, or the skill and heroism of
that led him into battle;
but it did require just such a test to
{open the eyes of the American public
the ofiicers
| to the woeful incapacity and confusion |
I that reigns in certain branches of the
War Department. With all the accu-
i mulated experience of the great Civil
[| War to go our quartermaster,
istence, and medical departments
[should have been among the most effi-
| eient in the world. They were popular-
ly supposed to be so and the public
upon,
subs
| that in the transportation of troops, the
| bringing up of supplies, and the care of
| the sick and wounded, we should show |
something of that characteristic order |
Fan method which has contributed so
[largely to cur present industrial su-
| premacy.
The public was doomed, however, to
a bitter
ment. The confusion that existed from
the first the Southern camps was
merely
excusable suffering and negleet which
in
marked the progress of the campaign |
{and the melancholy
| the troops at its close.
Nor can the department be absolved
of all the blame because great results
| were actually achieved in the few
| months of the war. The same
could have been achiéved, and
without the terrible acecom-
and starvation
home-coming ot
have been,
paniments of neglect
indignation to pass from ore end of the
country to the other. The performance |
| of one duty does not atone for the total
neglect of another, and the demand of
the public for asearching and impartial |
investigation is both reasonable and
just.
Apart from ils moral aspects, how-
ever, there is another consideration of |
be set on foot at once. We
| the portentous change which has taken
{ place in the foreign
plicated field of
operations upon
{ entered.
naval and military
which the
| songd ;
land holds .Jamacia; Ilawaii, in the
| mid-Pacifie, and the Philippines, 8,000
miles away in the Southern
all likely to become the outposts of
military activities, which have hitherto
been confined to our own borders and
represented by a mere handful of 25,000
| men. If the wish of a considerable sec-
{ tion of the American people is fulfilled,
| we shall find ourselves embarked upen
a colonial policy which
the very highest eflicieney in those
i very branclies of the War Department
{ that have
in the present-avar.
If we ca
camp within our
broken down so completely
| and
own borders without
so preventable an epidemic as
nnot form
starting
typhoid fever, how, in Ileaven’s name,
intain permanent
towns of Cuba and
if {he transportation and
{re-we io m
in the fever-
Porto Rieu?
nursing a
short trip froin the West Indies is such
that they die, sovn after landing, “of
camps
aden
and humiliating disappoint- |
a prelude to the scenes of in- |
resalts |
should |
(that are causing a thrill of anguish and |
a very practical nature which makes it |
imperative that the investigation should |
refer to |
relations of this |
|
country, and the widespread and com- |
nation has |
Cuba, with its diverse and bitterly |
opposed races fo be pacified and garri- |
Porto Rico to be held as Eng- |
Seas, are |
will demand |
maintain a
forded our sick troops on a
What Justice Demands.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
About the weakest and most untena-
ble of the excuses put
| ability American soldiers in
camp to-day
during the Civil War.
among
The utter in-
for official dereliction has already been
pointed out
| pretence has been urged so brazenly
expose and condemn the humbug once
more.
The Civil War lasted four years.
contest with Spain lasted less than four
In the Civil War the number
of enlistments on the Union side aggre-
| gated about 2,800,000. In the contest
just ended the total number of menen-
listed for land service in both the Regu-
lars and Volunteers has been less than
260,000.
In the conflict that began with Sum-
ter and ended oifippnnstin, the I'ed-
eral armies were ompelled to march
and fight over a vast extent of territory
months.
inthe most inclement seasons, frequent-
from their sources |
ended’
ly at long distances
of supply. In the war which
with the signing of the peace proctocol
| on August 13th, eighty per cent. of
troops under never faced a foe,
never made a forced march
the
arms
kept in close touch with the great cen- |
| ters of supply by railroad communica- |
| per
tions,
Thirty-seven years ago the ypopula-
tion of the Northern States
than thirty million; the
tem of the country was in
was less
railway
its infaney,
and the facilities for furnishing supplies |
of food, medicines, and camp necessar-
ies were noo to be compared with the
superb industrial equipment of the Na-
the present time. When the
| Federal and Confederate Armies faced
each other in the field,
as it exists at this hour was practically
unknown. The rules for
| the health and strength of vast bodies
| of men which have been formulated
| into an exact code and applied with
conspicuous success by every civilized
power except ourselves did not exist.
tion at
preserving
In population, in wealth, in manufac-
turing and agricultural production,
railway in sanitary
knowledge, in all ihe departments of
|
| :
| in
!
transportation,
immeasurably in the
{ last third of a century. Itis only the
incompetent and blunderers the
War Department who have stood still.
have advanced
of
Their constantly reiterated plea that |
our boys in camp, when American soil |
more than |
is free from foes, suffer no
the soldiers who conducted campaigns
bloodiest war of history,gwould be lu-
dicrous if the subject were not a grim
| heartrending tragedy.
The people of the United States—the
fathers and
lantly answered the call for Volunteers,
| only to be held for months in unwhole-
some camps, where decent food was un-
mothers whose sons gal-
{ obtainable, where the hospital service
in nmititudes of instances was a mock-
ery, where official stupidity and inea-
pacity proved far more deadly than
Spanish bullets at the front— «ill not
be put off by this absurd and menda-
cious pretense. They demand an inves-
| tigation that will go straight to the root
affair; that will
show why sick men at Montauk Point
been forced
of the whole wretehed
and elsewhere have to lie
the bare
medical attendance;
without
that will fix the
| responsibility for the bigotry that has
condemned invalid soldiers
starvation because their
| stomachs rejected an unfit and unvary-
ing diet of fat pork and dry hardtack
on earth adequate
to slow
reform. | :
lof the foreign powers professed to ques-
| tion the ability of the American forces
: 2 | the war.
for the present mortality among our |
| troops and of placing the department |
to | >
| world looks on in wonder, and accepts
| always insisted on being.
- ? | what he sets out to accomplish,
is no greater than it was | although some of the pagesof the story
dV] : | of the Nile are not crowned with
| adequacy of this statement as a shield |.orous deeds
: . | dounds to the credit of the British em-
in these columns; but this |
,and were |
Sys-
sanitary science |
over thousands of square miles in the |
{a mere insect; 1 can’t see you.
| me advertise?
enfeebled |
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plies are so entra that it feeds half
Europe.
This is what the people want. * It is
what justice, humanity, and the inter-
ests of the Nation require. President
McKinley cannot order an investigation
too quickly. The men appointed to con-
duct it cannot be too thorough or too
relentless.
Anglo- -Saxon Ascendancy.
Pittsburg ines S.
The summer of 1898 will long be mem-
orable in the history of the Anglo-Sax-
on family. The remarkable triumph
of the United States over Spain has
given the English-speaking man a pres-
tige for accomplishment that many
were disposed to doubt, and even some:
to deal very promptly with Spain in
But the result is so decisive
and so thoroughly butiness-like~in all
its methods of attainment that the
the Yankee as the marvel that he has
No sooner
are the American victories written in
| history than our more stolid English-
| man begins to make further
toreard by the | his sweeping victory on the Nile.
apologists of Algerism is the assertion |
that the percentage of death and dis- |
record by
The
Englishman is not so quick to act nor
so volatile as the American, but he has
the same determined way of achieving
and
val-
the end is one that re-
pire. At this particular time, when
iE , | the powers of the old world are striving
and repeatedly that it is worth while to |
in every way to clip the lion’s elaws
| and to get an accurate measure of his
ir | strength, it is somewhat startling for
1e |
England’s rivals to discover the reserve
force in men and money as well as in
mental ability that the empire possess-
What Britain failed in some years
ago she kept at until finally the tri-
umph was easy. Of course the affair
on the Nile was not a great one; but it
was one that points the capacities of
the men who made it a success. The
Anglo-Saxon on every hand has given
to the student of human affairs plenty:
to think about this year, and most of it
is proof of the rising star of the family.
es.
Miners Strike at Niverton.
The mining machines at the Niver-
ton mine are said by some to be a great
while others condemn them
and say they are a nuisance. The
miners at Niverton struek, last week,
saying they could not accept 19 cents
ton, the prices offered them for
Success,
| loading coal after the digging machines.
They claim that 30 cents per ton would!
be little enough, and even at that price
they they cannot make as
good wages as they can at 40 cents per
ton without the machines. -We are in-
formed, that of the
strikers have accepted the price offered
and have gone to work. A number of
informed, have
accepted work at 19 cents.
Machines are also expected to be put
in at the Merchants Coal Company's
claim that
however, some
Italians, we are also,
{ mines in the near future, and many of
the miners employed there are feeling
gloomy over the fact.
Machine mining is a new thing im
| this region, and the ehanges they will
| work are being watehed with intense.
What the outcome will be
to. be but Tie Stan
that the miners” wages will not
interest.
remains seen ;
hopes
how : | be cut, forthey are getting little enougly
civilized grogress, the American people |
now for so hazardous an oceapation.
An.Advertising Fahle.
oakland Republican.
Once upon a time there was a mer-
chant who said, “lluh! What dol want
to advertise for? I can’t advertise and
I shant advertise. Who, Why.
I’ve got more business now than I can
attend to. By gee! it keeps me awake
nights! Go away, young man, you are
What
Me? Wel I guess not!
1 don’t have too. I am the whole
thing! Tam the people?” So the man
swelled up very large and puffed, like a
steamboat, and the poor advertising
insect crept out of his office and wen!
over to see a pkuin approachable sort of
a man across the way, who. did not havc
all the business he could attend to, and
thought he would advertise.
And it came to pass that in a year or
so that the plain approaehable man’s.
business came creeping up because the
me?
and
while they conclud-
token that the large
the way must be
they hear
him. larga
pompous m&n’s” business dropped off,
and he laid the fact to the monetary
system and the tariff, while the quiet
approachable man’s business grew and
grew, and he laid it to judicious adver-
people had seen his advertisement
knew he was alive,
ed by
pompous man across
dead, dying, of
soinething
the same
or would
from No the
making of arrangements for keeping 'starvation, because they do not have 'in the midst of a land whose food sup~' tising.
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