VOLUME 1V. GREAT BARGAINS ie Buy where you can get the best goods for the least money. =: It Pays to Deal With Us. = The people of S and vicinity have had it demonstrated in the purchases tiey 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, 1.00 HIGH-BACKED DINING CHAIRS, 40 Johnson & McCalich, ELK LICK, PENNA. & Hisher’s Book Store, SOMERSET, PA. WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL! VOVIOIIIDOIVOIN Salisbury antique or ma- 31 4, 00 3. 28 1 20 ) > tad 0 ad © 3.00 This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to SALISBU RY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE 90 town and country merchants in this and adjoining counties. | Its wholesale trade extends into Maryland and West Virginia. | We are at all times prepared to compete in prices with the city | markets. At this season we are Our complete, and the prices lowest wholesale. specially pushing School Books School Supplies. stock of these goods is large, full and Special attention is also being given to Base Ball Goods. We al and Doll Carriages. Constantly in stock a full line of Staple » also doing a nice trade in Miscellaneous and Fancy Station- ery and Harmonicas. Merchants and others can buy of us to ad- vantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pencils, Envelopes, Bill Books and 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, News and Stationery Store. Chas. 11. Iisher. Jowest Prices In Town! Arbuckle’s and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 cents. 4 Ibs. Best Rice 0: 0bs Navy Beans... ... viii 0 15 Ibs. White Hominy 7 Cakes Coke Soap 6 Cakes Waterlily a Ibs. Good Itaisins. HF \en's Suits from $4.00 up. Boys’ Lancaster Ginghams........5 cents per yard. Good Cashmeres from ........ 12 1-2 cents up, Very:hest-Caotton Bats: ................0 10¢. Good Calico 4 cents per yard. Best Calico Jeents per yard. Good 7-cent Muslin reduced to 5 cents. soap Children’s Suits from 75 cts. up. Knee Pants from 25 cts. Men's working pants, coats, overalls, ete, at prices away down. <x. (GREAT BARGAINS IN SHOES]. =e We carry an immense line of SHOES and buy dircet from the celebrated manufac- turers—Rice & Hutchins, Walker and Douglas—thereby saving fully 25 per cent. of job- bers’ prices. We warrant these shoes in every part. We are also agents for the famous Carljsle and Evitt Ladies’ Shoes. REMEMBER, THE ABOVE ARE CASH PRICES. Barchus & Liveneood, Salisburv, Penna. (rain Hlour and Heed! 8S. A. Lichliter is doing business at the old stand. up. With greatly increas- ed stock and facilities for handling goods, ae are prepared to meet the wants of our ¢ustomers in ALL KINDS OF STAPLE GROCE Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Itc. Furthermore, we are JOBBERS UES In short anything to feed man or beast. OF CARBON OIL and can save merchants money on this line, as we buy car- load lots. We are also Headquarters For Maple Sweets. We pay cash for good Butter and nice, clean Fresh 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 interested in Monumental work will find me in what was once 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 Dest of Marble and Granite, and workmanship the finest. I make Granite work a specialty. You will be surprised at my prices. Call and so Se ALBERT J. HILLEGASS, Berlin, Pa. and, | | | | | | For Poor Director, Jooks and Baby | | instrument the political stake. wil sn | or » PAS, THURSDAY, § SEPT E] © REPUBL ICAN TICKE T. posed of the political RT tenn men for the most part without charac- ‘er or influence for good in their re- spective communities. Any observing person acquainted with the average boss-ruled convention knows that such is the truth. We have just driven the medieval cruelty and treachery of Spain from the Western hemisphere by force of American arms. It is time we should destroy the political “machin&*~the representative of the Spanish inquisi\ tion in American politics. Pennsylva- nia is a good place to begin it. Spain, France and Italy are slowly but surely being strangled to death by corrupt politicians and rulers Witness the barbarities and cruelties of Cuba and the Philippines and the Dreyfus and Panama scandals. Political corruption leads to death everywhere and always. The political “machine” is bringing America to the verge of the same abyss of destruction. Unless we awake and shatter the “machine”’—the instrument STATI. “or Governor, Wx. A. STONE, Of Allegheny County. For Lieutenant Governor,— J. P. 8S. GoBix, Of Lebanon County. Lor Judge of Superior Court,— W. W. PORTER, Of Philadelphia. Wx. D. PORTER, Of Philadelphia. For Secretary of Internal Affairs, — JAMES VW. LaTra, Of Philadelphia. For Congressmen-at-Large,— Ganusira A. Of Susqehanna County. Grow, S. A. DAVENPORT, Of Erie County. COUNTY For State Joux cy of American politics—unless we be | soon delivered from the body of this | death, we shall die! Awake! My countrymen, awake! Put on thy strength, the nation shake! Give now thy time to affairs of state, E’er thou rudely be wak’d to the rescue too late.—F. B. Stevenson, in Harrisburg Commonwealth. WELLER, Of Bedford County. I'or Congress,— F. J. Koosgr, Of Somerset Borough. (Subject to the Decision of the District Conference.) For Assembly, — W. H. Kooxrz, Of Somerset Borough. GRAND OLD PARTY RACKET. S.A. Kexpawnn, It Has Been Worked by Politicians Of Meyersdale Borough. | to the Point of Exhaustion. | Philadelphia Record. The | past. Its record in national adminis- y EL | tration is one to be proud of. Its gen- For District Alturney— | eral legislation when in control of the Rurvs BE. Meyers, | State Legislature has been in the main Of Somerset Borough. | beneficial and wise. It is always possi- ble to make an eloquent and telling S. MILLER, speech by merely recalling and dwell- Of Lincoln Township. ing upon that proud record. | manifest that candidates for office find it easier and safer to rely upon the [ merit and records of their party for an election than to dwell upon their own particular merits. The public has too For Associate Judge, — A. F. Dickey, Of Somerset Township. ADAM This is so The Political Inquisition. The modern political machine is an of torture. It the old medieval Spanish inquisition adapted | often been satisfied with to politics. Irom a commercial stand- | | claim. But now it is asking for some- point it is medieval fedual barbarism. The growth of modern corporations has made the political machine® possible. Certain. political exigencies confront | the corporations in the shape of hostile | plected. or favorable legislation. They must | The great majority of the voters of | have friends where they are quite apt Pennsylvania are Republicans,and they to find enemies—in legislative halls. | are displeased and discontented with The machine comes to their rescue, the fact that an incubus in the form of a controls the legislature and transforms | tyrannical, corrupt and self-seeking ma- their otherwise enemies into friends, | chine has fastened upon it inthis State, who respect their wishes and enact | and they want to strike that incubus laws to their aggrandizement. The | off. Tts centre of power is the Legisla- machine is most powerful where the | ture, and of candidates for the Legis- corporations and saloons are most pow- | lature it will be asked. how do you erful, in such states as New York and | ¢tand in regard to the Quay machine? Pennsylvania. It easily and materially | How did you vote in the last Legisla- grinds out class legislation; to the en- richment of the few and the impover- ishment of the many. This creates a feudalism of wealth in direct contra- diction of American institutions. Amer- ica will soon cease to be the country of the average man, if the machine con- tinues to rule. In the concluding chapter of Prof. John Fiske’s work on the “Discovery of America” he describes the inquisition thus: “It was a machive for the win- | nowing out and destroying all such in- | dividuals as surpassed the average in quickness of wit, earnestness of purpose and strength of character. * * * The more closely the people approach- ed an elevated standard of intelligence and moral courage, the more likely | | | 15 ly in our present State election not sim- Ly by what party name the candidate calls himself, but | | on State money to the State instead of to the politicians? How did you stand on padded pay-rolls, junketing trip ex- i pense bills-swollen to the proportion of a grand larceny and all the other vi- cious measures which have been expos- ed and described so forcibly and fre- quently by Mr. Wanamaker? These are the tests to apply to Legis- lative candidates. Will they serve the people and oppose the purpose of a corrupt machine and the petty swind- ling and big stealings which its mana- gers promote and protect? It is not enough that the candidates belong to a noble party with a glorious past. Are they themselves noble or ignoble? Will their past record bear examination? Are there any guarantees that their future course will be directed to the promotion of the highest public inter- est, rather than the private benefit of scheming politicians? The grand old party racked has been worked to the point of exhaustion. It has served often to confirm the ma- chine in power by diverting attention from present evilsto past history. It will not work this time. The people have caught on to the sham and can | no longer be deceived by it. was the machine to reach them, * * They were strangled and burned by tens of thousands as the inevitable result, and the average character of the Spanish people was lowered. The brightest and boldest were cut off; the dullest and weakest were spared until the Spaniard of the eighteenth century was a much less intelligent. man than the Spaniard of the sixteenth.” How like the effects of the modern political “machine” that reads! It is made up of men-of low cunning, with- out “earnestness of purpose or strength of character.” They are frowning scy- | ophants who lick the feet of a Quay or v Platt. and kiss the Blarney stone of party regularity. They love their party solely and only for what is “in it” for themselves. Such are the men whoset up nominations in the state, district and county conventions and who get themselves elected to public place. Men of character and courage could not belong to such a “machine.” If | they presumed to join it they would | immediately lose their character and | courage. Indeed the “machine” does not want such men. It suppresses them, strangles them, burns them at And so it comes to that the average machine-made eoun- ty, district or state convention is com- What is Elkin Driving At? Philadelphia Press. : Chairman Elkin would have us be- | { lieve that the prodigal and reckless ex- treasury gives the tax-payers no rea- are realized from corporations, inherit- ances, licenses and charters. What difference does it make from source the money comes? people’s money, and are not the peo- ple robbed thereof when the state treasury is looted? This is the thinest plea we have ever seen in defense of treasury raids. Mr. Elkin apparently regards the treasury funds as unclaimed assets, which any- one is {ree to sieze,at least if he hap~ Republican party has a glorious | ] : t +e] hariynasa 2 { hard to convince the average jury that | MBER of torture, the feudal barbarism, the in- | quisition, the cess-pool, the kokistacra- | 22, 1898. hd dy pens to be inside the ring. Outsiders are not supposed to participate. Cer- tainly they are not given the same show. Even if we accept the absurd assumption that taxes levied on corpor- ations, estates, and licenses are not paid by the people, the dullest can comprehend that the more money that is taken wrongfully from the state treasury, the less there is to distribute among the counties for school and other public purposes, and to that ex- tent increases the tax on farm and oth- er real estate. Does Chairman Elkin hope to make the tax-payers of Pennsylvania believe that robbing the state treasury is not robbing them? Does he expect by this means to make them indifferent to corrupt raids on the state funds? If not, what is the object of the argument that the tax-payers are not concerned with the fate of the money in the state treasury? Railroads Are Not Enemies. The following very sensible arricle, which appeared in the Brandon, (Miss.) News, June 23d, 1898, contains so much | { good sense that we deem it worthy of reproduction. | much gain, | The old feeling that “anything you ican get out of a railroad company, is so is dying out and people are | S fg Peo | the house was well guarded to keep the 7 learning that the railroads are the best friends any community can have. In years gone by it has been the custom | { to bring suit against the railroad com- would stand, every occasion ‘where a suit | no matter how trivial the | pany on NUMBER Qn De), Michael Kearney and John Lenhart Killed by S. P. Meyers. A- horrible double murder was com- mitted at Garrett, this county,between- the hours of four and five o’clock,Tues- day evening, when 8S. P. Meyers shot and killed Michael Kearney and John: Lenhart. The story of the crime as re- ported to the Tie-Star is about as fol- lows: Meyers, who did the shooting, had a quarrel with his father about the pos-. session of a house. The father, it is re- ported, took Michael Kearney and an- other man with him to make some re- pairs at the building in dispute, when: the son appeared with a shotgun. A quarrel ensued, whereupon the young- er Meyers shot Kearney in the back. from which’ the wounded man died soon after. He then fled to the home of a Mr. Judy, where he boarded, and when Constable Lenhart and his broth- er John entered the house to arrest him, Meyers fired again, killing the: constable’s brother outright, the charge: having strack Lenhart in the face, lac- erating it in a horrible manner. The: constable then ded from the house, | and as soon as the already enraged | | amount involved, and it is an old say- | ing that “no jury ever returned a ver- | {dict in favor of the company.” It is citizens learned what had taken place, criminal from escaping, though the people feared to enter. However,Sher- iff Hartzell was soon on the scene, and near the mid-night hour he entered the: | house with Soldier I'red Dupont and a man named Sullivan, and with their: assistance the desperate man was cap- | tured and taken to the Somerset jail. [there is any merit in any defense acor- | | poration may present, and because of Llieves this sort of | this well-known and well-grounded It is repgrted that after Meyers was captured it was hard to keep the out-. raged citizens from lynching him, and | that he was kicked and wounded in the. feeling, it has been the policy of the | railroads to possible. It is not our purpose to take up the cause of the raiiroads as against the people, only so far as justice and mu- tual interest goes, but the that rapidly coming, the compromise every News be- giving the same consideration and is which railroads action | head by a stone or a glance shot from a gun or a pistol. ¥ Kearney, one of the men Killed, | leaves a wife and three children, while. | Lenhart, the other victim, leaves a wife. and one child. Meyers, who did the. | shooting, is a single man. the-change of sentiment | ‘the same chance that is accorded pri- | vate inviduals, will be beneficial to the ! people and to the country, as well as to | l the corporations. | thing more. It wants toknow especial- | | what he will do if | | { co-operation : ov | should | ture on the question of paying interest | thrive and the No community can | railroad facilities, | these facilities, | tunities for thrift. be quaintance of the railroad people, and | getting them interested in local prog- This is not a difficult-“matter, for the railroad men know that whatever goes to build up the towns on their ress, without | greater ! the better the oppor- | According to Gen. Wheeler’s Way: Every town may | benefitted by cultivating the ak- | | Thus has another horrible crime been added to Somerset county’s eriminal record, and it is altogether likely that Sherifl Hartzell will have another job. of hanging to do before his term of of- fice expires. WAR IS NOT ENDED. of Thinking. The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser printed the following as a portion of an, interview with Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and stated that the General was in the presence of three gentlemen, one of’ whom is Hon. Samuel Blackwell, when. lines, helps their company also, and in | talking to the reporter: nearly every instance are ready and | | willing to do more than their share in with be known the people. They personally a personal acqurintance has much to do with fostering good feeling. public improvements should be made known to them, and in nine cases out of ten the railroads will aid and encour- age the people. In short, the railroads and the com- munities should get closer together, and work for mutual good, rather than along the old lines of antagonism. SrowLy, but surely, the American Indian is adopting the higher civiliza- tion of his white brother. Tt has just been learned that a young brave and a maiden in British Columbia have re- cently been disemboweled for witch- craft in imitation of the actions of the saints at Salem, Mass, a few genera- tions ago.—Johnstown Tribune, Tue general opening of public schools throughout the country at this season recalls the immenge amount of money we annually expend for education. It is | penditares of the money in the state | | son to complain, because these taxes | what | Is it not the | well spent, and the system of free edu- | eation is responsible for no one can tell i how much of our greatness. Nobody | need be a blockhead unless nature has been unkind in not providing a brain | to be educated, or he chooses not to use the opportunities offered. Last year there were enrolled in the schools of the United States 14,465,370 pupils, with an average daily attendance ot 9,- 747,015. There are 240,968 school-houses, 400,325 teachers, the school property is valued at $455,984,164, and the annual cost of the schools is $181,453,780, or at the rate of $18.62 per pupil. On this basis, it appears that, with one-twen- tieth of the world’s population, we have one-third of the world’s sehool ehildren, and expended one-half of the world’s outlay for edueation.— Johnstown Tribune. - DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve Cures Plies, Scalds, Bates. The | {ambition of the towns in the way of | | by the | business men of the different towns, for | | | | | “I de not believe the war is over by: any means; neither does President Me- Kinley, who told me personally he had no faith that the Peace Commission would settle the difliculties existing with Spain over the Philippines. The. Spanish claim that the battles at Ma- nila were fought after the protocol was. signed, and on these grounds will re-. fuse to give up the islands.” Continuing, General Wheeler said: “Spain will want us to give up the Philippines,” and laying emphasis here, said, “we will never do that. T am go- ing back to duty and really expect to be ealled into action again.” re——————— The Modern Funeral. Rev. J. A. Maxwell, formerly pastor of the Baptist chureh of Connellsville now pastor of the First Baptist church, of McKeesport, has some very sensible ideas on the subject of funerals and he. isn’t afraid te preach them. In a re- cent sermon he said: “The modern funeral is not Cristian. Christianity does not make ostentation over a dead body. It does not enshroud: death with sueh gloom. People who. can afford it have set such a pace of extravaganee in the burial of their dead: that it breaks an ordirary man up when, he has a loved one dead to conform to funeral customs. Itis no good to the dead, but is an immense injury to the living. The ordinary funeral sermon reflects no great credit to Christianity. Usual- ly it is a desperate effort to erect a post-mortem character upon a fre quently shaky ante-mortem founda- tion. If funeral sermons are preached, let them be preached to the living. If a man has been a good man he does not need an obituary orator. 1f he has been a bad man he ought not te have one. The wearing of symbols of mourning is not consomant with the hepe of a Christian. A true Christian cannot at any time be in mourning over the prov~ idenees of God or anything that eomes to his life. DeWitt’s Little Early § Risars, The tameue Ween
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