SBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE,
SALI
‘“ Dock-tailed Horses’ and Scull
Jackasses.
The Somerset [Flerald is evidently
very sorry that the Quay machine, of
which the Herald is a part and parcel,
could not in asneaking and underhand-
ed way defeat Joseph E. Thropp for
Congress. In commenting on Mr.
Thropp’s election, last week, the Her-
ald sneeringly remarked as follows:
“Dock-tailed horses” is not a winning
issue in the Twentieth Congressional |
District. Joseph KE. Thropp carries the
district by a little better than 2,000. He
loses his own county of Bedford by a
large majority, carries Blair by a re- |
duced majority, is defeated in Cam- |
bria, but his bacon is saved by the loyal
Republicans of Somerset county. 1ol-
lowing are the unoflicial majorities:
Blair county, Thropp, 1500
Somerset Co., * 2355
Bedford county, Walters, 991
Cambria county, te 700
to a business policy that makes folks want to deal with us. Everything in our
stock is choice, well made and has the stamp of merit upon it, no matter how
small the price. It will pay you to see our new fall exhibits, even if you
live twenty miles away.
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Our $325 Iron Beds can’t be beat
any place for the money. Seeing is
believing ~~ Drop in and convince your-
self of the bargains we offer.
Center Tables, 11x16, 55 cents.
Couches, $5.75.
Thropp’s plurality, 2164
| Now, Tie Star cannot see anything |
| to sneer at, but “Timmie” Scull is noted
| for sneering and snickering when can- |
$18.00 Parlor Suite. Mahogany fin- | didates are elected whom he has reason
ish, highly polished, artistic in design | to believe will refuse to have their legs
aL i. | pulled by his royal Seullship. Jecause
6-foot Extension Tables, $3.50. { Mr. Thropp refused to have his leg pull-
ed for $60, at Windber, during the cam-
{ paign, may have something to do with |
I \1-F- Sy ~~ | I: ] ‘ | ~ : - | the disorder of “Timmie spleen.
ndertakine and tmbalming “ae of “dock-tailed |
oO DO | horses,” “bacon” and “loyal Republi- |
os . . el =. v : avi
promptly attended to. Night calls answered at our store, where an electric | cans” all in one item, but the braying
of a Scull jackass no longer counts for
call bell will be found on our door. i !
{much in Somerset county, and we |
I would consider it safe to bet that none |
| of the Sculls were of the loyal Republi-
{ cans that helped to elect Mr. Thropp.
And why associate the word “bacon”
with Mr. Thropp’s name? When kd-
ward Scull was elected to (Congress, the
{ Herald always aflixed “Hon.” to his
| name, but in Mr. Thropp’s case the old
{ faded fairy the word “bacon.”
| This may be because Mr. Thropp re-
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a 17 J NTN Thropp will doubtless consider the
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source, the loyal Republicans of
uses
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: as
as
Homerset county will do.
Following is a bit of past history for
Fimmie’s” benefit. In 1890, when Ed-
ward Scull was elected to Congress for
| the last tine, the vote of the district |
We have largely increased our stock of goods and
are better prepared than ever to
ACCOMMODATE THE PUBLIC.
We want your trade and we will do our best to
was as follows:
Greevy, D. Scull. R.
Nomerset
Bedford
17,434
16,908
make “it profitable and interesting for you to do 16,908
business with us. |
{ Scull’s majority. {
° ib ° | The above figures are from the Her-
. Y ) AY 2 DY I2th, 1890. By comparing
- 11] > e 10) ev x C Jd] 11 CI [them with the figures of Thropp and
[ Walters, we fail to see where “Timmie”
has any grounds for sneering at Thropp |
and making use of such slurs as “dock- |
I tailed horses,” “bacon,” ete.
ald of Nov,
is full of MEN'S, LADIE’S, CHILDREN’S and
SCHOOL SHOES; MENS’, LADIE’S and CHILL-
DREN’S RUBBERS and ARCTICS.
UNDERWEAR
for everybody and a full line of MEN'S and BOYS’
FALL and WINTER CLOTHING.
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Defacing Rural Scenery.
| New York Tribune.
The defacement of rural scenery by
| ugly advertisements on fences, rocks
[ and barns is an old story; but in spite
of frequent and vigorous protests the
evil custom appears to continue. This
is largely because many farmers have
not a keen appreciation of the artistic
offense of such advertisements. They
are a good illustration of the adage that
| familiarity centempt. They
have spent their whole lives amid the
beauties of nature, with the result that
their eyes are blinded to those beau-
ties. In this respect they are no worse |
than city people,who, for the same rea-
son, are almost wholly indifferent to
excrescences that mar the beauty of
j city streets and buildings. Tt |
hard to the harried farmer |
| when he sniffs contemptuously at the |
| city botanist or entomologist who raves
over those two enemies of the farmer,
“pesky weeds” and “bugs.” Nor is it
| strange that he sees little picturesque |
| beauty in the straggling fence which it
time and effort
Keep “bull proof,” or perhaps even “hog |
proof ” and “hen proof.” Why. there- |
fore, he asks himself, should he not
make three or four dollars a year by
renting it to an advertising agent?
Nevertheless, there is good reason to
Very Respectfully,
Barchus & ILiavengood,
: : Salisburv, Penna. breeds
S
Hisher’s Book Store,
SOMERSET, PA.
WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL!
DODO VDODOD
is not |
excuse
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
. costs him so much to |
markets. |
At this season we are specially pushing School Books and
School Supplies. Our stock of these goods is large, full and
complete, and the prices lowest wholesale.
Special attention is also being given to Holiday
We are also doing a nice trade in Miscellaneous Books and Baby
Goods. |
| believe that the majority of farmers |
such ad- |
vertising defaces, and therefore de- |
preciates their property. This, at least,
ery and Harmonicas. Merchants and others can buy of us to ad- | is the opinion of Dr. G. Alder Blumer,
vantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pencils, Envelopes, Bill Books and | Medical Superintendent of the Utica |
1 C Pp F inp Blatik Books. Tudeinont Not | State Hospital for the Insane. Not |
Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blan oks, udgment Notes; |, "20 his attention was called to |
Receipt Books, School Books and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books | the work of the English Society for the
and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book, | Control of the Abuses of Public Adver- |
News and Stationery Store.
| tising commonly known as the Scapa.
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This society has already done much |
and Doll Carriages.
Constantly in stock a full line of Staple and F
a
ancy Station-
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| can be easily convinced that
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to reform the abuses of outdoor adver-
tising, and Dr. Blumer has undertaken,
here” displayed.
| the expiration of the contract.
| his first
Committee
| eyesores.,
‘every
{ matter.
| School houses
| some
| [cull henchmen out fee the
{ pose in this county, Thropp and
supporters put up a magnificent battle.
| aggregated
| period in
| said last year that the record of such
{ exports could not be kept up under the |
new tariff bill, but they cannot dispute |
{ or overcome the logic of figures.—Jin-
| missed.
ever, on another charge—~Loi:acowing |
PA.
on his own account, to work a reform
in his own neighborhood on similar
lines. The road between Utica and his
country home was defaced by many
signs, some of which were out of keep-
ing with the rural surroundings. He
communicated with the farmers and
others owning the adjoining property,
and requested them to have the ad-
vertisements withdrawn, and a neat
tin sign reading “No ‘ads’ allowed
In a majority of
cases he found that the property own-
ers were more than willing to do as he
requested. Even those who were be-
ing paid for the advertising privilege
promised not to renew the privilege at
When
their attention was called to the mat-
| ter they saw how disfiguring such ad-
| vertisements are, not to speak of the
| fact that property so defaced is cheap- |
{ ened and vulgarized.
success, Dr. Blumer has now |
attacked another road, that to White-!
Encouraged by
boro, and through the local Good Roads
he hopes to circulate
great many “Scapa” appeals to farmers
to keep their property free from such |
Ie has also made arrange-
ments to address meetings of farmers
on the subject, and by interesting oth- |
er peonle in the movement he is arous-
| ing a public sentiment on the subject |
that is likely to effect a wholesome re-
{ form.
What Dr. Blumer is doing in his own
neighborhood might be done also in
other neighboorhood. All that
is needed is that some one shall call
the attention of property owners io the i
And in order to stimulate in-
terest it would be a good thing to or-
ganize something like the
Iinglish “Scapa,” with local officers in
different parts of the country. While
the function of such a society would be
simply to persuade, we are confident
that its efforts would be, in nearly all
cases, successful, and that it would soon
create sentiment
subject that few property owners would
permit such advertisements on their
a society
)
so strong a on the
fences.
Tre smallest showing of commercial
failures recorded for any month for five
years: past that for the month
August, 1898, after one full year of the
is
Dingley tariff.
Garrerr county, Md , voted down by
the of bonds to
build needed school houses, and by so
over 600 votes issue
doing a great sin was committed against
i the rising generation of that county.
fortification of |
are the
| the Republic, and Garrett county can-
I not afford to stand in its own light.
Joserir BE. Turorr is to be congratu-
Inted on his election to Congress, but |
would he be without his hand-
majority county?
Wirth Quay boodlers at work in Blair to
defeat the noted
where
in Somerset
him, and some of
Doerixa the first seven months of the
| present year our manufactured exports
$178,334,867, as compared |
| with $£166,706,398 in the corresponding
1897. Democratic crokers
neapolis Journal.
Hox. W. 11. Kooxrtz ought to set ’em
Just glance over
returns
wr: Ta? Qarl
up to Timmie' Scull.
the oflicial etection
the of the
ceived, and all this in face
the “General” for years.
any candidate for oflice to have the
Heralds influence against him, for the
people have learned that “Timmie” al-
ways fights the best men in the Repub-
lican party.
It will pay
Ar the Circuit court, on Saturday,
August Wagner was put on trial for
stealing a horse. [Iis counsel, after the
testimony had shown that the_ stolen |
point |
which the!
animal was a mare, raised the
that “a mare is not a horse,”
court held good, and the case was dis- |
Wagner was detained, how-
E
Review.
All mares
mares.
liorses, but not
The Circuit
are
horses are
some horse sense.
Durixa the political campaign just
closed, Wm. A. Stone was charged with
| being a mere tool in the hands-of M. §.
Quay, and that if elected Quay would
! virtually be the Governor of this com-
monwealth. This assertion was bitterly
denied by Mr. Stone, who declared that
he was owned by no man, and that if
a |
of |
some pur- |
his |
and see |
| what a splendid vote Mr. Koontz re-
all |
court |
referred to hy the Review ought to learn |
clean administration. Enough people
believed Mr. Stone to elect him, and
now, if he does as he promised, he will
go out of office with honor and greater
prominence in his party than when he
was clected.
IN a famous lecture Henry Ward
Beecher once said: “The thoughtless
farmer premits his potatoes to rot in
the cellar. The arising miasma finds
its way through the floor and perme-
ates carpets and furniture and beds.
Baby falls sick of a fever, and presently
is carried tenderly away to its tiny
mound in the cemetery. Its grief-
stricken parents mourn for a season,
and finally become reconciled with the
consoling thought that it is all some- |
how a providence of God. It isno such
thing. God has had nothing todo with
[it. It is all due to rotten potatoes.”
NEW YoRKERS, and others, too, like to
characterize Philadelphians as “slow.”
Whatever the basis of this character-
lization, it is certain that the Philadel-
phia Board of Trade has not been
“slow” to recognize American interests
or “slow” to work for those interests.
| Board
of Trade, it was
“urge Congress to consider at the ap-
At a recent meeting of the Philadelphia |
Several days ago Mr. Amos Thomas
had a warrant issued for the arrest of
Theodore Wagner and James Michaels,
on the charge of wilfully and malicious-
ly shooting his cat. Mr. Thomas claims
that the lads shot toward his house
when they killed his cat and that they
concealed themselves behind a big
rock before doing the shooting, so that
they would not be detected. He also
claims that they were trespassing at
the time the shooting was done, and
furthermore that neither one of them
is fit to carry or handle a gun.
We do not know whether the boys are
guilty of killing the eat or not, but we
do know that there are too many silly
young goslings allowed to handle fire-
arms in and around this town. The
average boy with a gun is a menace to
I his own life as well as to the lives of
|
| others.
Parents make a great mistake
in allowing boys in the bitter-apple
| period of life to roam about the woods
| with guns.
In nine cases out of ten a
good white thorn rod, well applied to
their bocks, would do them much more
| good.
Wagner and Michaels have been ar-
(rested, but we have not yet learned of
resolved to!
proaching session what action is need- |
| ed to restore to the United States the |
{under the American flag.” The
will also seek the aid of other boards of |
trade and of the press. Similar action
| throughout the country would probably
of Congress toward enacting legislation
in aid of American shipping. Asamat-
ter of fact, some of the “fastest” things
done anywhere for the benefit of Amer-
ican trade, commerce and industry are
being done right along in Philadelphia.
In this regard that substantial and sue-
cessful city might well pot2 as a model
for the rest of the country.
Tie Pennsylvania railroad company
has had 5,000 ears constructed during
this year and it has found that they are
not. enough to meet the
mand, and President Thomson has de-
cided to have 2,000 more box ears built,
The contract for tneir econstruetion will
be given out at once.
age of cars all over the country, and
the railroads are taxed to their utmost
capacity to move the freight. A prom-
inent freight oflicial even predicts that |
or three weeks the
car -famine that the
country has ever experienced will be
on. Between the Pittsburgdistrict and
| the Chiengo district, and throughout
for the next two
most formidable
on the part of other boards of trade |
% 2 Ta | my. of sores, burns fr S.
ocean carrying trade in vessels sailing | Sond Nounos
board |
any further developments in the case.
ri ce i re aim
Soothing healing, cleansing, De Witt’s
Witch ITazel Salve is the implacable ene-
It never
fails to cure piles. P.S. Hav, Elk Lick, Pa,
ere ete srt
Incendiarism.
Several unsuccessful attempts have
| € ] | recently been made to burn what is
| have great weight with Congress and |
| might secure speedy action on the part |
known as the Sam Devore house, in
Garrett, and in there are also
evidences of incendiarism, as B. J. Bow-
Jerlin
| man’s furniture store has twice been
| mans Store i will send you
present de- |
There is a short- |
| ding itself of waste matter.
fired in
speaking of
a manner. In
the Berlin
Record says a letter was recently re-
ceived by Ed Baker, the only colored
citizen of that town, which was worded
as follows:
“Ed Baker if you will burn Ben bow-
$25.00 do it
right go in late at night the hind way
ben has been A thorn my {flesh I
WILL SHOW HIM”
Baker promptly
mysterious
this matter,
in
turned the letter
tover to Mr. Bowman, who is making a
| quiet effort to discover the person who
wrote it.
Constipation prevents the body from rid-
De Witt’s Lit-
Risers will remove the trouble
le Karly
| and cure sick headache, biliousness, inac-
the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illi-
| nois and Michigan the roads are prob- |
ably short on orders ten per cent. of
the necessary equipment to take care
| of the offered by shippers.
The late wheat crop and the corn crop
business
| next two weeks. Then it will not be a
of furnishing cars. In view of the
shortage it was announced on Iriday
that the western lines had ordered an
| advance in freight rates
classes, and it is believed that this
the beginning of a general restoration
of rates. r
on
is
Fifth Regiment Mustered Out.
The Fifth regiment was mustered
out, last week, and our soldier boys are
now private citizens. The
| Company I received their pay and were
boys
mustered out in Somerset, last I'riday,
{ and by this time-all have doubtless re-
| turned to their homes, where a hearty |
abuse the Herald, “Timmie’s old faded |
fairy of a paper, has been heaping on |
welcome awaited them.
|
i battle, these men nevertheless enlisted
for the purpose of fighting Spaniards,
| and they are heroes none the less, Some
will begin to move freely within the |
tive liver and ¢lear the complexion. Small,
sugar coated, don’t gripe or cause nausea.
P. 8. Hay, Elk Lick, Pa.
Candidates For the Penitentiary.
[For some time there has been a great
deal of reckless shooting done about
this town, and if the persons guilty of
it persist in their outrageous conduct,
are to get
trouble.
Several persons (and it is pretty well
they going into serious
| known who they are) are in the habit
i question of rates, but simply a question |
of filling up on rot-gut whisky, then go-
| ing about town yelling like wild sav-
|
| ages and shooting recklessly in all di-
| rections.
certain |
{
Some of tne houseson Union
street are full of bullet holes, and just
! lately a bullet came crashing through
{one of the windows of the A. P. Beachy
{ building, on Ord street, in which James
| Dann and family reside.
| were
of | vig
i the deadly missile
| him.
Mr. Dunn says he and his family
in bed the bullet
through a window of his bedroom, and
same near striking
did the
when came
He elaims to know who
i shooting, and he says if there is any
Although none of the Fifth regiment |
{ had an opportunity to participate in a
{ Cure.
more of it, somebody is going to get in-
{ to trouble.
Overcome evil with good. Overcome your
coughs and colds with Ope Minute Cough
2 Ter .
It is so good childeen: cry for “it. It
| cures croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe
j of them had experience that was as |
| = . .
{trying as the battle-field, and one of!
them, Wilson Eaos, a Salisbury boy, |
{ died in the service of his country. This
was the only death in Company I, but |
a number of the other boys had a close
eall.
Daniel Thomas, of West Salisbury,
[ who was sick at a Chickamauga hospit-
al for several months, has recovered
and is expected home this week. lle
| will probably be the last of Company I
[to leave the hospitals, where a good
many of them had been down with
burning fevers.
Well, it is all over now, and the boys
are no doubt glad that they enlisted.
They saw some hard times, to be sure,
{ but they gained some valuable exper- |
and all throat and lung disease. P. 8S. Hay,
Elk Lick, Pa.
A Family Row.
Last Saturday Robt. K. Showalter
got into an altereation with his mother-
in-law, Mrs. llenry DeHaven, owing to
a aispute over some household goods.
iepee, and besides that, it is an honor |
| American war, or America’s war for
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what it was made for.
to have been a soldier in the Spanish- | : ;
| out harm tothe sufferer the better. Linger-
ying colds are dangerous.
humanity, as John J. Ingall’s terms it.
Angry words were exchanged, and it is
alleged that Robert drew a revolver
and threatened to kill both his mother-
in-law and his wife. This lead to his
arrest and commitment to jail. :
This week, however, friends secured
Robert's release, and whether the mat-
ter will be settled in court or by the
warring parties themselves, remains to
be seen. Robert’s family relations have
been very unpleasant for some time.
The sooner a cough or cold is cured with-
Hacking cough is
distressing. One Minute Cough Cure quick-
ly cures it. Why suffer when such a cough
cure is within reach? It is pleasant to the
taste. DI. S. Hay, Elk Lick, Pa.