SALISBURY
cid 1S ie 1° Book = Sicre,
SOMERSET, PA.
- WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL!
DOVODOIVODO0D
This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to
90 town and country merchants in this and adjoining counties:
and West Virginia.
[ts wholesale trade extends into Maryland
We are at all times prepared to compete in prices with the city |
tions appears to have favored the Re- |
During the campaign the! ; : Sa :
= mpaig i who has missed his ealling in life to |
is to make a |
markets.
At this season we are specially pushing School Books
School Qur stock full
complete; and the prices lowest wholesale.
1
and
Supplies. of these goods is large, and
is alsg being given to Holiday Goods.
rade in Miscellaneous Books and Baby
Speeial attention
We are al
and Doll Car:
Constantly
20 doing a nice
Tages.
in stock a full line of Staple and Fancy Station-
cry and Harmonicas.
Table
Legal Cap Papers, Foun
Pens, Pencils,
B bar rk
Receipt Books, School Books and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books
| Pl
vantage, ts, Inks,
ain Pens; Books;
and such oter goods as are pr for sale in an up-to-date Book, |
News anda Statio nery Store.
Chas. HL.
(Get It At
M=her
J ofl
ory st
Pure
“Thompson's
Notions,
When
iroCeii
Fresh
in need of anything in the line of
s, Fancy Gonfectionery,
Bread, Books, Stationery, ete.
CALL AT oom
THE LEADING GROCERY
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THE LEADING GROCERY.
Space is too limited to enumerate all my bargains here,
Call and be convinced that I sell the best of goods at the
lowest living prices.
My business has grown wonderfully in the past few years,
for which I heartily thank the good people of Salisbury
and vicinity and shall try harder than ever to merit. your
future patronage. Respectfully,
J. T. JEFFIERY,
Opposite TPostollice. - -
Two Hundred and Forty-three
OL) WATCHEN=
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carried in stock.
These must be sold
very cheap. All sizes and shapes. The
largest line and lowest prices in Som-
erset county.
I have handled the HAMILTON
movement three yearsand am selling
them
SVERY CHEAP!
Seventeen jewels adjusted, 16 and 18 sizes. I also have
rings ever brought to Meyersdale.—Diamonds, Opals, Rubies, Emeralds and
all the different stones that can be mounted in rings.
Next door to my Jewelry Store I have opened a Stationery Store with
one of the finest and newest lines imaginable. One must see it to know
what [ have, All the latest books that will make
xmas Presents. ===
Fine Stationery of all Kings.
[ine
\
‘Pound Paper at 15 cents per pound, ete. See
my beautiful line of holiday goods before buying.
T. W. GURLEY,
MEYERS
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The Leading
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Jeweler,
SDALE, PA.
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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-
cst line of STERLING SILVER NOVELTIES.
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Rings, Chains, Bracelets,
~~ Guards, Pins, ete. We have the finest display of rings
for ladies and gentlemen (Opals) and can furnish Dia-
monds at a big discount.
H. M. Cook,
Jeweler and Graduate Opt cian,
Center St., MEYERSDALE, PA.
Merchants and others can buy of us to ad- |
Envelopes, Bill Books and |
Judgement Notes;
the finest line of |
J fools. |
In these days too much money is be- |
Ameri-
abolish
Tne students of sonre of the
{ean colleges have decided to
{ hazing. This is a step in the right di-
rection and the example should be fol-
{lowed by 2ll colleges. Some of the
| larger colleges have of late years been
| turning out little else than educated
| rowdies and thugs, while many of the
smaller ones are veritable dude factor- |
ies.
Democratic Gush.
The result of the Congressional elec-
| publicans.
| orators and press of that party inform-
ed us that Spain stood waiting to see |
i whether the
| hands of the
(tration, and if she did not, then
| would refuse to treat
Spain
i her in the contest of diplomacy.
the President’s hands have been “up-
iards stand pat and defy McKinley and
his congress. The fact that Spain
| has much less to fear from the United
States witha president in the hands of
the
and a congress of
if n
was there to insist upon his doing his
duty, regardless the
{Mark Hanna and cohorts
I County (Neb.) Democrat.
is
sharks, gamblers and speculators
kind than
Democratic cong
his own
she would ress
of interests
his — Clay:
The foregoing is an editorial which
appeared in
which it
| idiocy
a late issue of the paper to
and for
gush it
it just too
is credited,
takes the
awful the
“stand pat.”
“defy
and senseless
| premium. Isn't
way the Spaniards
ever that
{ ard his congres The Spaniards de-
[ fied McKinley so Toned that they con-
ceded every demand “Uncle Sam”
land in yielding they almost said,
| ele Samuel, if you don’t see what
want, ask for it.” In fact the
| acted real nice, considering that they
did not fear a Republican administra-
| tion as they would have feared a Dem-
what-
means, and MeKinley
"made
“Un-
you
Dons
| ocratic congress, as our wild and woolly |
western contemporary would have us |
| believe. But why should Spain fear
| McKinley and his gongress? Did any-
| thing take place that should make the !
rrant Street. |
Spanish have fears? Of course, there
was that little incident in Manila bay,
i the little serap just outside of Santiago
{ harbor, the fall of Cavite, S
i Manila, the entire
Spanish navy and a few other little
i things that it took about three months
to accomplish, but the westdrn Demo-
{ eratic editor of the “Billy” Bryan stripe
does not consider these things
I cause of fear to the Spanish, because all
| of them transpired while a Republican
! President and Congress were
business at the old stand in Washing-
{ ton.
A long haired western Populist is
generally a shallow-brained fool but a
western Democratic editor who
| fused with the “Pops” as often as the
editor of the Gage County Democ:at
has, is a much bigger fool and couldn’t
write a truthful or sensible editorial if
he tried.
as n
has
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The Best Business School.
| Business cannot be learned from
| books nor acquired at school. A theo-
{ retical course in business is only an in-
| troduction to its practice. It requires
thorough training to make a success-
ful man.
| prosperous and progressive establish-
| ment, affording as it does the oppor-
| tunity for watching causes and effects
| and stimulating a desire to excel in
the duties imposed, is the only practi-
{ eal training school.—Knoxville (Tenn.)
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business
| Business Magazine.
Our Tennessee brother who penned
| the above words of wisdom might also
| have added, and very appropriately,
! too, that neither colleges nor schools
can make those wise who're stricly
ing wasted in trying to make “profess-
ors” and college graduates of young
men who have an insufficient quantity
of brain to acquire even a good com-
mon school w®ducation. * He who
destined to become a learned man
must have some natural ability as well
as good schooling ; and if the natural
ability is great enough, the possessor
thereof will become a scholarly man
even if his schooling is limited.
A young man who is naturally bright
will ncquire a finer education by ob-
| servation, association and self applica-
is
i
any other way by one who is naturally
dull
Many young men who are well quali-
fied by nature for agricultural and me-
to college and forced into a profession
, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE; P
Sui would uphold the
resident by the election |
{of a conaress favorable to the adminis-
further, relying |
upon the Democratic congress to assist |
Well, |
of |
genuine |
santiago and |
destruction of the |
doing |
Employment in a |
{ tion than can possibly be acquired in |
chanical pursuits are rendered practic- |
ally useless in the world by being sent’
A., THURSDAY,
for ohio nature never intended them,
and in which they are not competent
to make a success of.
Parents should study the make-up
their sons and daughters and try to ob
serve n: tural gifts they have.
This hard to do, and if good
what
i= not
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| judgment is exercised by the parents, |
DECEMBER
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there will be fewer people who miss |
their calling iu life.
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Don’t try to make a lawyer, doctor or |
{ some other kind of professional man of |
your son when you see that
or a laboror. Itis as hard for a
it
i silk handkerchief of a mule’s ear.
I make a success of it as it
Europ ’s Alleged Opinion.
Pittsburg Times.
There is a sedulous attempt being
nature has |
intended him for a mechanic, a farmer |
man |
made to influence public opinion in this |
country by the publication of what is |
regard to this country’s attitude con;
cerning the Philippines. The enforced
demand by peace commissioners
for the relinquishment of
sovereignty in the Philippines is said to
very bad in
our
Spanish
have produced a effect
continental Ilurope.
there we are told that there
ing to the sincerity
which the United States
war and predictions of the most woeful
are
allusions
become of
alleged fall
ange that such
if
ruling classes
How
character as to what is to
us in eonsequence of our
from grace. It is not str
opinions should be expressed, not
actually held among the
sincere
The
of continental Europe.
they may be is another question.
people of the United States are, how- |
the
The
never been very
the
They
lever, not accustomed to meeting
expressed desires of these classes,
latter have, as a rule,
ardent their admiration
American way of doing things.
in for
| have always abounded in prophecies of |
evil to come to this country because of
its pursuit of policies diametrically op- !
e to what would suit their own. de-
| signs. When this country was in the
throes of civil war there was a general
| Kuropean
lend as a nation was in sight.
we put into effect the policy of protec-
| posite
tion
{of the Chinese wall we had builded |
around us. When the 16 to 1 craze was
upon a portion of our people, again the |
80 because
cial overthrow. And now
we have compelled Spain to relinquish
| Republic.
chorus predicting that our
When
y American industry, again our |
commercial ruin was predicted because |
European prophets foretold our finan- |
\ . | reported to be European sentiment in|
held,” and strange to observe, the Span- | |
Upon every hand?
sneer- |
with |
went into the!
her criminally bad rule overthe Philip- |
pines, the same old crowd again see the
handwriting on the wall for the great |
Patriotic Americans will only be the |
of our government thus far with regard |
to the Philippines, because of the un- |
| fair and prejudiced European criticisms
of it. They know full well that this
cruel rule. Yet the logic of events was
lowed.
of Spanish sovereignty
| pines.
| its people to determine.
ianrds they have amply shown. They
opinion, and they will settle the future
of the islands without regard to it.
What the $20,000,000 Are For.
New York Sun.
“What are the twenty millions for?
For the commutation of that part of
by actual investment in improvements
for the benefit of the islands. It is an
obligation which properly belongs tous
when we take over the sovereignty.
tion?” On the strength of information
procured by the administration from
American otlicers and others now inthe
Philippines, and carefully weighed by
the commissioners at Paris.
Not a cent of itis tribute to Spain, or
compensation to Spain, or mdemnity to
Spain.
It
any money, be paid?” is a reason-
received ;
obligation might be repudiated by our |
government when the creditors are
powerless to enforce their claims.
the Philippine debt which is represented |
“How is the extent of this obligation |
estimated for the purpose of commuta- |
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| more confirmed in sustaining the action |
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country did not begin the late war to |
annex any Spanish territory whatever.
No man in all the United Stated per- |
ceived then that the taking up ef arms |
in defense of the Cubans meant also
liberation for the Filipinos from Spain’s |
such that both results necessarily fol- |
The peace commission has thus |
far simply secured the relinquishment |
in the Thilip- |
What the American nation may |
| decide to do with those islands is for |
That they ap- |
prove of the driving out of the Span- |
did this without consulting European |
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| ean do without it.
| be in the hands of every up-to-date farmer or poultry raiser.
“le a . <Q . io |KIV 9 { :
Is the tribate to | pain, excessive: i best paper we know of for the ladies, being. very similar in size, make-up and quality to
| tere sting matter.
“31s | Mari Harland’s Cook Book contains over 300 well printed pages and more than 1,00¢
“Why should the twenty millions, or | = #708 Ji ana or Sk oa Dagns
| practical recipes; there is no better cook book in print for practical every-day use among
able and just payment of eash for value !
a payment which might be |
avoided just as any reasonable and just |
8, 1898.
RE
WOVOVOV RV
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.
> Eo = TaD
REMEMBER, -
No old shop-worn or secohd-hand
had goods. Everything new and
up-to-date.
Couches, $5.75; Sideboards, $10.-
00; Parlor Suites, $18.00; Chairs
sold at prices that always pleases
our customers.
TRY US and be your own judge,
and let us € U B A customer of
ours.
Johnson & NMcecC'ulloh,
ELK LICK, PENNA.
FN)
;O0DS
~LUW PRICES
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ND—:
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
make it profitable and interesting for you to do
business with us.
o a ; ®
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
and BOYS’
S
for everybody and a full line of MEN'S
FALL and WINTER CLOTHING. ]
Very Respectfully,
Barchus & Lavengood,
Salisburv, Penna.
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