VOLUME 1V. WD OVWOoVODTD 2 We are now better preprared to meet the wants of our customers than at any time before, as we have on hand a complete stock of every- thing belonging to a first-class Furniture Store. EMEMBER, » on-hand | rR No old shop-worn o had goods. Everything now and | up-to-date. | 5 Ng TN —\ — | SPECIALTIESL., zis Couches, $5.75; rideboards, S10.- $518.00; always 00; Parlor Suites, sold at prices that our customers. TRY US and be your own judge, and let us C U B A customer of Ours. Johnson & McCualloh, FLK LICK, PENNA. LEW GOODS — 0 OW PRICEY] Chairs | pleases | [ nia than any other state. ‘ported the whole Republican ticket if Rev. Dr. LyMax Apporr, owing to failing health, resigned his charge as pastor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, last Sunday. Abbott was the ( bo. or of the eloquent, Ienry Ward Beech- er. and like Beecher he has ever been a very liberal-minded man. He has always been outspoken against narrow-minded prejudice, and to such men belongs the credit of making the world better and more enlightened. The world will advance and become su ASS - better as intolerance bigotry and super- | stition is blotted out. Tur League of American ‘\sheelmen now has more members in Pennsylva- For a long time New York was the banner I. A. { coming century. W. state, but Pennsylvania, according | to Secretary Bassett’s last report, now | leads the Empire state by 115 mem- | bers. One of the principal objects of | the I.. A. W. is to secure legislation for | the building and maintaining « f od | and substantial roads. Along this line | the organization has been doing much | good in some of the states,and nowhere is there more room for road improve- | ment than in Pennsylvania. The L. A. W. is a good thing; help it along. = | Tie Somerset Herald last week tried | to make people believe that the old | { Scull gang voted solidly for Hicks, two | years ago, and that the anti-Scull fac- tion voted solidly for Thropp. What a fool The ma- jority of both factions voted for Hicks, ! two years ago, as “Timmie” well knows. | “Timmie” is, anyhow! { But this year it was different, and at ! | the last election Mr. Thropp had the solid support of the anti-Scull faction, | while many of the old Scull gang voted | | for and worked for the Democratic can- | | didate. I heelers were working for the Democrat- | | ic candidate all day in Salisbury and | Elk Lick, as all men Lere know, and it 18 believed that they did so under pri- | ing business conditions, the revolutions | | vate instructions from their boss. “Tim- | A number of the old Scull | mie” Scull can pretend that he sup- lire wants to, but the people will believe as much of it as they please. “Tim- mie” is a great pretender, but his ae- | tions do not accord with his words. | There is such a thing as pretending to {be loyal to a candidate and secretly | We have largely increased our stock of goads and -are better prepared than ever to ACCOMMODATE THE PUBLIC. We want vour trade and we will do our best to make it profitable and interesting for you to do business with us. 3 Our. Shoe.” Department is full of MEN'S; LADIE’S, CHILDREN’S and SCHOOL SHOES; MENS’, LADIE’S and CHIL- DREN’S RUBBERS and ARCTICS. UNDERWEAR for everybody and a full line of MEN'S and BOYS’ FALL and WINTER CLOTHING. Very Respectfully, Barchus& 1 avengood, Salisburv, Penna. WATCHES! ~ ~~ PERL ~~ = The Cook Jewelery store has the largest line of Watches in the county, in all sizes and makes, from the five-year to the thirty- year cases. Should You Desire a high grade movement, I call your attention to the new Hamilton R. R. movement, 17-jeweled, adjusted to heat and cold 18 and 16 sizes. Finest and cheap- est line of STERLING SILVER NOVELTIES. - Rings, Chains, Bracelets, Guards, Pins, ete. We have the finest display of ribgs for ladies and gentlemen (Opals) and can furnish Dfa- monds at a big discount. H. M. Cook, Jeweler and Graduate Opteian, MEY ERSDALE, PA. Center St., {and contest the election. | It i that the anti-Quay condidates were the i tion. | ordered in a supply of Barker liniment, | Just supporting him with a knife, and “Tim- | mie” knows how it is done. MacuiNe exhibits have been billed for Chester, Lackawanna, Montgomery, ! Blair and other counties,with the open- {ing in Chester. There a majority of the voters elected the anti-Quay machine legislators, determined to not denied has 15 choice of the people, but the Quayites | claim the people had no right to vote | for men whose names were on the bal- lots more than twice, and that when they were voted for the election offi- cers had no right to aggregate their votes. In other words they claim that the people had no right to elect anti- Quay legislators when Quay was a can- didate for the Senate, and this is Quay- ism pure and simple. The Chester coun- ty machinists are not so resourceful as those of Somerset county, else they would have nipped the will of the peo- ple in the bud by calling off the elec- If they had done this and then they would have had the’ pesky anti- Quayites foul, and they would have been spared the present exhibition. what effect this liniment would | have where only a part of the people | are to be disfranchised we do not know, | but for wholesale purposes it has a repu- tation.—Somerset Standard. A Century of Development. Pittsburg Times. The Twentieth century would be the one to live in if it were possible for the individual to have a pick. The world has moved ahead just far enough that civilization and_development can now begin in earnest. It is to be the cen- tury of great things and of new forces. The Siberian railroad which Russia is already constructing through Asia is one of the big engineering schemes that will mark the beginning of the century. The French cabinet has just authorized a loan of 160,000,000 francs to establish an Indo-Chinese system of railroads that shall connect with the Chinese roads. In Africa, Great Brit- ain is pushing her railroad system northward from the Cape, until it is nearly in the heart of the continent now, while France, to hold her grip on the vast new field, is projecting an east and west railroad through the middle of the Soudan. Already American capital has been associated with a long railroad in the eastern part.of China. The Nicaragua ofinal is among the probabilities of the new century, while i ture. I complishing good | right, and everything will depend upon | the organization of the next House of | in the United States Navy,according to | | would be surely averted the canals that are to be built in Eu- rope will make navigation possible in the heart of Russia. The territory that will be opened to commerce and development by the schemes already outlined will be be- yond conception, as the results will also. And what is the most remarkable is that some of the projected railroads will be built. It is doubtful if any sec- tion of the globe will be inaccessible in | 50 years more, and when distance shall be thus annihilated nothing is too won- | 1898. ) leaders to an organization of the body in the interest of the people. They cannot do it by passive opposition or perfunctory protest. They can do it only by declaring that if the Republi- can party will not organize the House [in the interest of reform, the reform { members of the House of every politi- | cal faith must do it themselves. The only way to plant the next Legislature i squarely on the basis af respect for the popular will, is to start right. derful to predict for the first half of the | Treachery Exposed. Philadelphia Press. The figures showing the vote for Gov- ernor and for Congress in the Twenty- | W. | Ee he : | condition to“relinquish Cuba and to ! | cede Porto Rico, Galtm and the Philip- | not | protests, but because | next | step will be to adjust other questions, | | such as the acquisition of a naval sta- | seventh Distriet, where Charles Stone was defeated by the demagogue Sibley, are most significant. it by counties: — Governor. WW. A Ch Congress. NM A. ; | Counties... Stone. Jenks. Stone. Sibley. | H30 2425 5098 4518 10071 849 3546 3969 3434 Hb 3906 3498 Cameron EcKean........337 Warren......... 3933 Venanfifo ......4091 Totals. ,... 12151 11793 1403 While W. A. Stone. for Governor, had a plurality in the district of 2080, C.W. Stone, for Congress, was beaten by 2236. | This is a conspicuous display of treach- ery that will be long remembered. START RIGHT AT HARRISBURG. High Compliment to One of the As- semblymen-elect from Somer- set County. | Philadelphia Times. While scores of thousands of Penn- | sylvania Republicans voted the party. | State ticket from necessity rather than | from choice, because of fear of disturb- wrought in many of the Legislative districts clearly indicate that the peo- i ple ot this State demand thorough and practical reform from the next Legisla- How is it to be accomplished? The way to make a certainty of ac- results is to start Representatives. Tf it shall be organ- ized in the interest of faction or of in- dividual power, the discreditable rec- ord of the last Legislature would more than likely be repeated. If organized squarely in the interest of reform, unwise or profligate legislation The people are in earnest on this issue, and if the Legislature shall fail to meet their wishes the Republican party must suf- | fer immeasurably. The best way to organize the IHouse would be for the Republican leaders of | i all shades to select a member who com- bines the highest character and ability to fill the Speaker’s chair. Who that man is could not be a matter of dispute. William HH. Koontz of Somerset, is un- questionably the foremost man of the | body. He is not only without "his peer in intellectual force,but hiswell-known integrity and courage would at once settle all doubts as to an honest organ- ization of the committees, on the basis of the respective merits of the mem- bers, and thus assure prompt and faith- ful action on every question brought before the body. General Koontz is a Republican elee- | ted on the regular Republican ticket to | which he gave his support from Gov- ernor to Auditor, and it should be the pride of the Republican leaders to de- ganize the House on a basis that could not fail to command the confidence of every good citizen. If the Republican leaders shall re- fuse to organize the louse by the dis- tinet recognition of ability, integrity and devotion to reform, the friends of reform should organize the House themselves The Republican leaders have every opportunity to do it, and if they shall refuse, it would be a chal- lenge to the reform sentiment of the State to meet the issue in the crucial battle for the control of the House in ‘ the interests of machine politics or in the interests of the people. If the Democrats are to be a respect- ed party with any hope of successful battles in the future, they must stand as solid as the walls of Gibraltar in favor of State reform and be ready to give a solid vote to attain the result. If they are to be mere hewers of wood and drawers of water for machine lead- [ ers, as were many of the Democrats in the last Legislature, they must end all claim to popular respect for the Demo- cratic organization of the State. We believe that there are quite Happy the child who | | is young enough to live io see what this | | period hasin store. We give | 6069 ! it shall be | SPAIN YIELDS. { All of “Uncle Sam’s” Demands Com- plied With. The treaty of peace with Spain is now completed. I Sam's” offer of $20,000,000,and at a joint | session of the Peace (Commissions, last Monday afternoon, consented without pine Islands: made The concession without {Spain can fight no longer. was The | tion in the Caroline Islands, ete. Now that it is all over, one can not help but feel a certain amount of pity | for the poor deluded people of old tot- tering, staggering Spain. - It was a | spectacle for gods and men to see such | a puny, ignorant, superstitious nation | to resist by force of arms the just de- | mands of a great nation like the Uni- | Spain’s honor, which the | ted States. Dons imagined they had to defend, was only imaginary hoaor, for that coun- | try never kncw what real honor meant. | Anglo-Saxon people are revolu- | tionizing the world, and to this people | debt of | Before this people supersti- | The the world owes its | gratitude. greatest tion, tyranny, ignorance and intoler- ance have been melting away as snow beneath the rays of the noontide sun. Anglo-Saxon blood is the enlightening force of the world, and to have this blood in your veins is more to be de- sired than to occupy a throne and tyr- anize over an ignorant people like the Spanish. Somerset County Mcn Honored. a late Washington dispateh two Somer- set county men were among those hon- ored by promotion, as follows: Captain Henry F. Picking from Cap- tain to Commodore, and Chester MM, Knepper from a‘Junior Lieutenant to Lieutenant Somerset county is honored by these promotions, and in behalf of the county | Tie Star extends congratulations. An Electric Man. Wyalsuing Rocket. Near Vestal there lives a remarkable | freak, Henry Longman. Three years | | ago, during a storm, he was engaged in | gathering tan-bark, when the tree from | : lightning, Longman receiving a severe { shock. It transformed him into a gen- | uine eleetric man. Anyone who shakes { hands with him now receives a noticea- | [ : | ble shock.By passing the blade of a knife | | between his thumb and finger during | the progress of a storm he charges the | metal so strongly that heavy weights { can be lifted. him they drop dead, and when he is in like incandescent {and his shine lights. eyes electricity. and is dangerous to touch. Ile claims to feel no inconvenience, ex- { cept that he will not go near a moving locomotive for fear of being drawn against it and Killed. Engin: 717 Elopes. B. & O. engine No. 717 needs watch- ing. She has a habit of running off without her master that gets her into { trouble, and sometimes into the river. This happened Sunday night. While | sbe was standing on the ash siding in the lower yards near the Sodom shops, | she suddenly took it into her head to | get a move on, and she did. She pulled | out, and before any person could get | on board, she headed straight for the end of the siding, which terminates on jn little bluff, twelve feet above the { Youghiogheny river. With a devilish { tilt of her tender she leaped off the end | Connellsville Courier. | | | | of the siding down into the water and | at the bot- | tom. The coal continued to run down | into her fire box from the tilted tender, | buried her nose in the mud | making her Steve Brodie leap. Work- | men have been getting “No. 717, Elop- | er,” back on the track in pieces. That is what it was made for. Spain has accepted “Uncle | Among the promotions recently made | which he was taking it was struck by | When flies alight upon | a dark room sparks flash from his flesh | Whenever a storm approaches, | { Longman becomes highly charged with | mand for State reform by making Gen- | eral Koontz the nominee of the Repub- | i lican eaucus for Speaker and thus or: and she didn’t want to stop even after | NUMBER 45. How to Tell an Oyster’s Age. Fishing Gazette. He who wishes may find out the exact age of an oyster, though he has not the telltale evidence in teeth. The lines in the groove of the hinge of the shell tell the whole story, each line representing a year. An eyster is of age at four years—that is, he is old enough to vote. take care of a family and go to market. Going to market is a disastrous under- taking, for a four-year old oyster is particularly palatable. By this it must not be supposed that after an oystér has passed the four-layer period, and has five, six or even 10 wrinkles on his shell, he is a back number. Indeed, there are records of oysters being eat- {en just after celebrating their 30th birthday, and in most cas~s they form- ed a delicious meal. Thirty is an un- usual®age for an oyster to attain, be- cause few are given an opportunity to live fo long. If left to anjoy life in his own way, it is quite probable that the oyster would become an octogenarian or even a centenarian. Capt. Coch- rane on his last trip to Fulton market, | New York, brought in an oyster found | is believed to be at in his beds that | least 35 years old. | Law Governing Hunting and Gun- ning in Maryland. As there are many Pennsylvanians who hunt game in Maryland and are not familiar with the Maryland laws, we reproduce the following from the Acts of 1892, pages 874-875. : Srerioy 136.—Every person who shall upon any pretense whatever, come te hunt with gun or dog upon the lands of another, without leave ‘or license from the owner or possessor thereof first had and obtained, shall for every such of- fense, forfeit and pay to the party ag- grieved the sum of $5,to be recovered before a justice of the peace in the name of the State; and in default of payment of fine, shall be committed to the county jail for not more then twen- [ty days, nor less than one day. this sec- { tion not to apply to Dorcester, Harford | and Talbot eounties. How to Cure Meats. t E.M. Todd, of Virginian, whose cured | hams have given his product a reputa- tion that sells them whenever offered, | gives the following description of his | method of curing. 1. The hams are placed in a tray of { fine Liverpool salt, then the flesh sur- { face is sprinkled with finely ground, | erude saltpetre, until the hams are so white as though covered with moderate | frost—or say use three or four pounds of the powdered satpetre to the thou- sand pounds of green hams. | 2. After applying the saltpetre, im- | mediately salt with the Liverpool fine i salt, covering well the entire surface Now pack the hams in bulk, but not in i pile more than three feet high. In or- |dinary weather the hams should re- main thus for three days. 3. Then break bulk and resalt with fine The hams thus salted and resalted should now remain in salt in bulk one day for each and every pound each ham weighs; that is, a ten-pound salt. “ham should remain ten days, and in ['such proportion of time for larger and smaller sizes. 4. Next you wash it in tepid water funtil the hams are thoroughly cleaned, and, after partially drying, rub the en- {tire surface with finely ground black pepper. 5. Now the hams should be hung in the smoke house, and this important "operation begun. The smoking should be very gradually and slowly done, | lasting thirty or forty days. After the hams are cured and smoked, they shold he repeppered to guard against vermin, and then bag- ged. These hams are improved with age, and the Todd hams are in perfec- tion when one year old. —Ex. . - Then and Now. Country Publisher. Newspapers are a great convenience to men and women. Formerly when an article was wanted a trip to the store was necessary in order to ascer- ‘tain if the commodity was in stock and if the price was suitable. Now a glance at the advertising columns direct a man where to make his purchases and he loses no time in finding a merchant to supply his wants. At one time men came to ask of a merchant what he had, but now a‘merchant must tell the peo- ple what he has. This has been ac- complished by the newspaper, it being | the best means of communication. CARTRIDGE I APER !'—The miners can get enough Cartridge Paper for a few cents, at Tue Star office, to last them for several months.
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