VOLUME 1V.
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Everything in our]
it,
exhibits, even
to a business p«
stock is choice, well made and has the stamp of merit
small the prices. It will pay you to
live twenty miles away.
liecy that makes folks want to deal with us.
how |
you
Upon no. matter
see our new fall if
I hardly enough to defeat
Fem Ry
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SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFI(
R
pgress in this distr
LIN
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1 REPUBLICA WETORS
Also Elected
arge ity—Curp
icket Has the
jority.
fl
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pp
Maine
Major
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The Result
Hext Congress Willi be Clos
—Local Politics.
Pennsylvania
Repul
Stone Governor
ther
for by
“oat
and
xeeeds these figures
The .anti-Quay forces have = made
gains for State legislature, buf
some g
Quay for the
| United States Senate
Swallow's vote for Governor is much
smaller than his supporters anticipated.
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Thropp has a large majority for Con-
ict, and it is reported
that he carried the four eounties, al
{ though Bedford is said to be close.
3.25
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owt
Mahogany fin- |
ic in design
AVeTY respect.
Ke rsy 98 cents:
Fo.00.
sion Tables, $a.
promptly attended to. answered at cour store, where an electric
call bell will be found on ot
Johnson & NMoeC'ulloh,
BLE LICK, PENNA.
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yo) 1 x)
—AND—
[OW PRICES
r-door.
rs 3 In
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them
(stantial gains for Congress.
The
ticket
Somerset county Republican
is elector cabot 3,000 major-
(
and (
a0
iy, while for rnor ORgress
thie minjority is about :
The. lepublicans edrried New York
’ [loosevell, their
for
I'he Repub
ididats GOVErnor.
licans claim
1i-
Massachusetis.
ried Ohio, California, Connecticiit,
nois, Towa Maryland,
Kansas, Michi Minnesota, Nebros-
ka, New Jers
North
Nevad a,
and South Rliode Is
West
However, the result is still in dobut in
Virginia and Wisconsin.
some of these states, and in some of
the e =ub-
The next
chances
Democrats have mad
Congress will be close, but
seem to favor the Republicans for a
| majority.
The elections in the Southern states
are largely favorable to thie Democrats.
We can not get the full tabulated re-
turns of this county in time for this is-
{sue of Tue Srar, but will make the fol-
lowing brief mention of our two home:
precinets.
In Salisbury borough Stone received
O04 votes; Jenks: ; Swallow 30; Thropp,
179; Walters, 58; Koontz, 91; Kendall,
We have largely increased our stock of goods and
are better prepared than ever to
ACCOMMODATE THI
We want your trade and
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PUBLIC.
we will do our best to
make it profitable and interesting for you to do
business with us.
Jur. Shoe.” Department
IN'S, LADIES; CHILDREN’S: as
ES MENS, LADIES
ind ARDTIC
1d
and CHI1.-
is. full of |
SCHOOL, 10
DREN'S RUBBERS :
—.
LINE RW HAR
for everybody and a full line of MEN'S
KRALL and WINTER CLOTHING.
M
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5 BOYS’
and
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Very Respectfully,
Barchus& 1 aveneood,
Salisburv, Penna. |
Hisher’s Book Store,
SOMERSET, PA.
WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL!
OVODOVOVOD
~~ This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to
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 specially pushing School Books
Our stock ef these goods is large, full
and
School Supplies. and
complete, and the prices lowest wholesale.
Special attention is also being given to Holiday
ellaneous Books and Baby
Goods.
We are also doing a nice trade in Misc
and Doll Carriages.
Constantly in stock a full line of Staple and Fancy Station-
ery and Harmonicas. Merchants and others can buy of us to ad-
rantage, 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. H.. Hisher.
| candidate
| ‘county.
| from this county are in and that
but
| them.
89: Grrolf, 48; Geisel, 48.
In 11k Lick township Stone received |
I 184
98; Swallow, 185;
139
182;
votes: Jenks,
Thropp, 163; Walters, 121; Koontz,
Kendall, 141 ; Groff, 96; Geisel, 96.
In our next issue we will give full
and correct tabulated returns for each
in. every precinct in the
Thropp was beaten in Elk Lick town-
{ship and badly cut in Salisbury borough
by the lavish distribution of pernicious
and untruthful literaiure and the dirty
well-known soreheads
work of
that wear the Scull ring collar.
some
LATER.
Just as we go to press (Wednesday
evening) we learn that all the returns
some
are as follws: Stong,
Weller.
Kendall,
of the mujorities
2.205; Throop,
958% :
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- 2 3563
Kooutz, Swal-
low received 577 votes in this county.
Stone stoned Jenks too a political
death and swallowed Swallow.
Now let the Swallows homeward fly,
don’t throw any more Stones at
Om! wad we hae the giftie gie us to
see ourselves as ithers see us—Iigh-
land Billy.
Tie next in order will be to write a
few chapters on the Fair-y tales of
Highland Billy.
OxEe swallow does not make a sum-
mer, neither does one Swallow make a
governor of Pennsylvania.
We don’t know whether Stone is a
drinking msn or not, but we know that
he downed a Swallow on Tuesday last.
Tits election proclamation this year
are not of the side-of-a-house, cost-a-
farm, bust-the-taxpayer size—Berlin
Record.
Harr-preep Republicans like Adam
and Bill are small potatoes and few in
a hill. That is a kind ot a rhyme like,
as little John Brown would say.
Tue political cut-throats and assas-
sins of character, such as Adam and
Bill, didn’t defeat Thropp after all,
even if they did fool a few misinform-
ed voters.
Tue poor old Everett Republican, the |
chief smut mill and lie factory of Bed-
ford county, can now proceed to wash |
its filthy garments and explain “where
it is at.”
Now that Joseph E. Thropp has pre-
pared the political remains of James
to have cur-
Aa
Fear
frp add inte
, PA.,, THURSDAY, NOVEMBEI
M. Walters
proceed, with the editor of the Johns-
Dono
for burial, let (he funera
town rat to do the Mark Antony
is: owned by
other
cleeted,
office will show that
any man, and for that
ison he was Now, if: his
eareer in
nial was sincere, nobody will
Governor Stone,
cvibexcethat the
ust among the manufacturers of en-
fact
stationery
q
v. per cen
ir
velopes became a
ie paper
shape of circulars,
§
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envelopes, the trust is sai
ion.
56 per cent of the product
Asp: Will
orator from Neottland, it made
Thropp
cease?
tongued
miner Yet
1
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a speech to the Is.
elected. When will miraeles
“WWolie?
ca tio
atic
can now go
up Salt river with
Candidate Walters, where
he-ean-geta little more-brine-splashed
into h fe can take .
is ears.
for a headlig Farewell,
Fair-weli!
election proclamation
oof our eount
30
at a total cost of about
Herald, Somerset
Meincerat ard eyersdale Conimercial
d A
tinn proclamation, a total cost
tel elvan fit 1
cach charge nting the elee-
to the
meas
| HAVE
2 10, 1898.
YOUR LOCAL PAPER. |
U ANY IDEA WHAT IT HA
DONE FOR YOU?
x
rr
Iv
And, as to What You Might Do In
R_ turn, Have You Ever Given
That a Passing Thought?
—An Editor’s Interest-
ing Review of the
Subject.
The paper has done 50 things for you
and is only anxious to do 50 more.
It told your friends when your par-
t arried.
It announced to the world when
were born.
Were rl
you
It recorded the great events of your
lost
had the
childhood, when you were
baby, when
as un
wanaering you
les and scarlet fever,when you fell
nearly drowned,
into the washtub and
when you fell from the cherry tree and |
broke your collar bone, when you first
started to school and when you earned |
your first prize.
it told how you had com-
pleted the studies of the district school
Later on
and how cioquently you recited vour
tivae! :
graauating oration.
it told of
or academy.
your entering high school
It told of
in bazeball and tennis.
your contests
It told of your
departure for college or your first ven-
usiness,
ture in b
it told of your various visits back to
[the old home neighborhood, ond it al-
county of $1,701, or $1.37] more than ft |
cost this year to have it printed in five
papers.
republicanism the credit
this great saving to the tax-payers.
deserve
Tue Maria Teresa, the Spanish eruais-
er raised from grave by
i Lieutenant Hebson, while on Ler way
to the United States encountered a
furious storm, a few days ago, and is
water. . It
indeed a pity that this vessel went to
the all the of
rajzing her, but let us be thankful that
the crew in charge of her was rescued.
In the meantime the spanish will re-
joice at her sinking this time and gloat
over Hobson’s disappointment.
its watery
is
now under three miles of
bottom after expense
Prorue talk about this world coming
' fo an end.
pers that some of the prophets who be-
I am glad to see by the pa-
Sheriff Hartzell and anti-Reull |
fori :
| timely warning t
I neighbors
vays wished you well in your greatest
undertakings.
It hinted modestly about the first
time you went a courting and gave |
o “her folks” that the
knew that matters were
growing interesting over their way.
time of
pected wedding, and it
It announced the your ex-
published the
notice of the marriage license and gave
you a nice pul concerning the wedding
Leeremony.
"to
t told of your extended honeymoon |
tour and of your settling down to
housekeeping.
When you were sick, the home paper
week by week informed your more dis-
tant neighbors of your lapses and im-
provements.
It told
hier recovery. lt told. how
horse had been stolen and led to the
tarrest of the thief.
| . . .
lieve this have taken a new lease for |
eighty years. There is instinet in
us wiser than
an end!
We
from
an
our brains. Coming to
the
thing in this
We
God has
have searcely shaken
yet. The best
world to-day barbarism.
us
is
only at the introductory age.
i cot uncounted years for this world.
to live; the older I becomae
[feel
the edge of
is a delight
the more hopeful I become.
that the world dangles on
oo. Pr \ .
the sublime. The world began with a
i
Lt
ends with
paradise, and ends with oue, began
with one in a corner, and
one which shall streteh from where the
sun
ends on the rocky deep. . It began with
tenants, and ends with countless
Wathi
two
millions. —270. 801.
Tig Brethren Evangelist ealls the at-
tention of the church people to the f
f that winter is coming on, that preach-
ers and their
i clothing, fuel, ete., and that
families peed additional
perhaps
some of the ministers’ salaries are un-
i paid. Then it urges the importance of
| congregations seeing to it that
ministers are properly provided for, so
I that they can properly provide for their
families. The Feangelist is right, for a
mud
|
. . . . |
It is coming to a beginning. |
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|
i
i
are |
It |
helped
I meits,
When you
through the monotony of your labor,
aper urged that the people get up
a celebration, and you were named as
the i
about your lost cow and led |
your |
were getting dull and tired |
one of a suitable committee on aarange- |
And
gave you just praise for the success of
when it was all over, it
the undertaking.
In numerous ways the paper has
to put name before
And
had your luerative ofiice or your hou-
G
your
people. you would never have
orable recognition from the communi:
hut for the Kind aid of the local printer.
rises In the morning to where he |
would
their |
{ laborer is at all times worthy of his |
| hire, and a congregation of professed
| christians that does not pay its minis- |
| . ;
[ ter his dues is worse than
heathens.
not stop there.
| gregation there are poor but worthy
all times to obtain the bare necessaries
of life.
are allowed to suffer all manver of pri-
vations, while the
ents besides. In many cases these do-
nations would be a much greater char-
ity if taken to some poor widow or oth-
er needy person instead of to a well
paid preacher.
cared for. We believe that the help-
less and the poor are
a band of |
But the good work should |
In almost every con- |
If you are a member of a Sunday
1
school or society of any sort, that same
publishes your announcements
the
meetings.
paper
and ‘arious proceedings of your
it tells the people mueh which you
like to have known, but which
modesty or necessity prevents you from
telling.
lreseing
|-dressing
the |
watermelon or a peck of peaches.
Invite him to your pienies and fam-
ily dinners, so that he can eat a square
meal occasionally.
Don’t eall the ticket you give him to
the He
buy tickets from everybody tc
chureh concert nn deadhead.
can’t
everything, bat he will say kind words
of and thus
others to buy your tickets.
your performances lead
If you have anything to buy or sell.
let the paper assist you to find custom-
Advertising that really pays the
advertisers and
ers.
printer benefits both
readers.
If you have any job printing to do
don’t take it to an outside oflice, but
give your newspaper the first chance.
Give the editor a pointer occasionally
or write him sensible short articles and
don’t get mad if he fails to see every-
Vhen he dees
good thing, tell him so.
thing your way. say a
in short, remember the golden rule
and don’t forget the editor of your local
paper.—Richmond (Lnd.) Fut prise,
Spanish Wooden Bullets.
is well Known that Spanish soldiers
in Cuba were poor marksmen, but great
the
able lack of execution which ehar-
surprise has been expressed at re-
mark
acterized their fire at Guantanamo and
the United
States gunboat Montgomery has been
santiago, and an officer of
able to throw some light on the matter.
Ile visited the Maria Teresa after the
destruction of Cervera’s fleet in search
of souvenirs. ile found alarge number
of Mauser cartridges in groups of five
ready to go into the magazines of the
guns, and, if the entire Spanish army
and navy were equipped with that kind
of ammunition, both Cervera and Toral
were amply justified
when they did.
sisted of a metal shell loaded with hair
and a sprinkling of powder. The bullet
was of neither nor lead, but of
Some army contractor had im-
posed on the ordinance bureau of the
Spanish army, but to what extent the
wooden Mauser bullets were used will
probably never be known,
in surrendering
The cartridges con-
brass
wood.
A Transposition.
Harper's Magazine.
An American who years ago served
as our minister to Spain was fond of
telling the following joke upon himself :
Shortly after he had become settled
in his new home bidden to
state ceremonial, where he was to be
presented to the king. His knowledge
of languages was limited to English
he was a
and French, and being desirous of ad-
the sovereign in his own
tongue he took pains to “coach” for the
i feet >
If you and all your folks have been!
prosperous and fortunate in your af-
fairs, the paper has boosted you all the
wy.
If you have had misfortune, the ! Sih
4 ! ? quite altered the meaning.”
paper asked for sympathy in your be- |
|
half.
Thus the paper hasrejoiced when you
rejoiced and wept when you wept. If
you are a good and enterprising citizen,
the paper will always be your friend
and will back you in your enterprises
and will help to find
friends.
It tells you where to buy and where
to sell.
{ ed.
i members that have a hard struggle at |
Some of these are poor widews |
and orphans in wealthy congregations, |
and many are the instances where they |
preacher receives a |
good salary and is the recipient of many |
donations of food, clothing and pres- |
lin the
It tells you of current prices and pre-
vents being cheated and
swindled in 100 ways.
you from
your business |
e |
It tells of rogues to be avoid-
Finally, when you die, the paper will |
publish your obituary and will cover
over your faults and will recite the
story of your good deeds.
All these things the local editor will
cause his paper to do, but no one else
world will do them or can do
i most interesting of subjects.
| and why it
i through a series
| by scientists.
ition is unquestionably the
| them for you even for love or money. |
| The outside paper is a stranger to your
little world and is not at all interested |
The poor we have al- |
{ ways with us, and be they inthe minis- |
try or in the laity, every congregation |
should see to it that they are properly |
in its improvement. Yet your local pa-
der does all this free of cost to you, if
you are willing to receive it that way.
However, for your sake, we hope you
i are too generous to accept so many un-
neglected to a |
f much greater extent in the laity than |
keep the wolf from the door are paying
| burdensome sums to the minister that
ought to be paid by their wealthy
brethren and sisters.
in the ministry, and there are instances |
where people who have a hard time to |
requited favors and that you are will-
ing to reciprocate the same.
Help the editor. Be his friend, and
he will prove his friendship to you.
Subscribe for his paper and pay for
it regularly in advance and get your
neighbors to do the same.
Send him the news or occasionally a
oceasion. Reveral were
had
When the critical moment
phrases re-
hearsed until he felt that he
tered them.
mas-
arrived, he saluted the King with great
dignity, spoke a few words in Spanish
and passed on.
“What did
lish gentleman.
you say?” asked an Eng-
“1 spoke in Spain,” was the rejoin-
myself at your
the re-
der. cast
said; *]
which I am told is most,
speetful form of salutation.”
“Ah, no,” corrected a Spaniard, who
had been observed to smile at the em-
bassador’s greeting. “You are mistak-
en. You transposed your words, and
“What did IT say?” asked the diplc
mat.
With a twinkle in his eye the Span-
iard “what you really
said was, ‘I throw my heels at your
head.”
Jut the king had not betrayed by so
much as the fluttering of an eyelid that
anything unusual had occurred.
)-
made answer,
How Snake Poison Kills.
New York Ledger.
The action of poisons upon the sys-
tem is and always has been one of the
Just how
kills has been determined
of experiments made
The following descrip-
best and
most lucid of any that has been given
to the public: “The venom may be
| roughly separated into two parts—one
acting upon the blood, and the other
upon the nerves. When injected, it
immediately begins to create terrible
destruction in: the blood vessels, the
walls of the veins are eaten away and
an internal hemorrbage takes place.
While this is going on a portion of the
venom is attacking the nerves. Par-
ticularly susceptible to its ravages is
the ‘vasomotor’ system, a nerve center
which controls the muscles of respira-
tion. Paralysis takes place in these
organs, and the victim generally dies
from inability to breathe.”