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SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOR FICE
FACTS
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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.
REMEMBER,»
No old shop-worn or second-hand
goods. Everything new and
up-to-date.
SPECIALTIES!
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 C U B A customer of
ours.
Johnson & McCulloh,
ELK LICK, PENNA.
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Hisher’s Book Store,
SOMERSET, PA.
WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL!
DIVO DOIVIVOID
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 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
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-
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. HH. Fisher.
Get It At Jeflery’s!
iim.
When in need of anything in the line of Pure
Groceries, Fancy Confectionery, Thompson’s
Fresh Bread, Books, Stationery, Notions, ete.
Goods.
CALL AT Se
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 tow 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,
are EE IR RY
- Grant Street.
Opposite Postofflice.
HF ALso Ronuirns that | Jefferys is agent for
the CONNELLSVILLE STEAM LAUNDRY and sends
laundry away every Tuesday.
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.
| tinuance of the same.
I am prepared as never before tooffer to all those in need of Monumental work.
from small Headstones to Granite Monuments.
PRICES HERETOFORE UNHEARD OF.
None but the best of Marble and Granite, and workmanship the finest. I
make Granite work a specialty. You will be surprised at my prices. Call and
see me. ALBERT |. HILLEGASS, Berlin, Pa.
10 OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
It is now almost one year since Tne
Star has resumed publication, and it
will be but a few weeks until many of
our patrons will be in debt to us for a
full year’s subscription, while many
others have paid in advance. Those in
arrears are kindly requested to pay up
at the earliest possible moment, as we
need the money badly, owing to many
improvements that we have been add- |
ing to our printing plant at great ex-
pense. To all those in arrears
would say: If you receive a statement
by mail, do not take it as a reflection
upon your character or integrity,
nothing of that kind is meant, We have
been kind enough to trust you all these |
months, and we trust that in no case
has our confidence been misplaced.
you receive a statement it will simply
mean that we need our money and
expect prompt settlements.
We also wish to call your attention |
to the fact that after Jan. 1st, 1899, all
subscriptions not paid spot cash will |
be $1.50 per year, but if paid spot cash
in advance, $1.25 will pay for a year’s |
subscription. In other words, the 30-
day offer will be withdrawn.
We thank our numerous subscribers
for their prtronage and solicit a con-
Our subserip-
( tion list has had a phenomenal growth
throughout the entire year, every week
adding a goodly number of new sub-
scribers, and the increase shows no
abatement. In the meantime we are
contemplating many additional im- |
provements, and while we already have
a printing plant that is a credit to the
town, we expect to add many other im- |
provements to it during the coming
year. And it shall also be our aim to
greatly improve the paper during the
next.year.
Kindly help-the good work by pay-
ing what you owe and a year’s sub-
scription in advance.
Wishing all our patrons a prosperous
New Year, I am yours for the best in-
terests of Salisbury and Somerset
county, ”
P. L.. L1vENGOOD.
QUAY’S FATE IN THE BALANCE.
At the
burg, last night, Quay was renominated
for United States Senator, but it looks |
as though he is doomed to be defeated
when the ballot for election takes place,
as ten Republican Senators and forty-
five Republican Representatives re-
fused to go into the caucus.
The Pittsburg Dispatch sees certain
defeat for Quay, while even the Times
admits that Quay and his friends are
chagrined and not at all certain of his
election. This is the state of affairs as
Tne Star goes to press, Wednesday
evening, Jan. 4th. What the result will
be is a matter of conjecture, and a lit- |
tle more time will tell the tale.
Witar has become of the “Meyers-
dale coal region?” Of course there
never was such a coal region, but a
certain fake newspaper used to call the
well known Elk Lick region by that
name, and in course of time some oth-
er papers began to use that name also.
However, when THe STAR was estab-
lished and began to spread the truth
about this coal region as well as about
county politics and other matters the
people were being misled in, the Mey-
ersdale coal region soon dropped out of
sight, and now, when you pick up a
Baltimore, Pittsburg or other newspa-
per of acknowledged standing and rep-
utation, you frequently read about the
Elk Lick coal region, which is a reality;
while the Meyersdale region, which was
always a myth, is now practically un-
known. Tur Star has won an enviable
reputation for reliability, and we are
proud that it is becomming widely recog-
nized as standard authority on matters
pertaining to the great Elk Lick coal
region, of which Salisbury 1s the busi-
ness center.
SO SAY WE ALL.
The Counellsville Courier, in com-
menting on ballot reform, a topic on
which much has lately been said, agrees
with Tie Star’s sentiments as follows:
“One of the laws almost universally
demanded at the hands of the present
Legislature is a ballot reform law.
The Baker ballot, besides being an
unwieldy and cumbrous thing,
been shown to be susceptible of defeat-
ing the sovereign will of the voters in |
the most open and shameless manner.
The point at which most of the ob-
| jection to the present law is aimed is
the form of ballot which it provides for.
| The separate party column is justly
| condemned, and the demand made for
the grouping of the names under the
heading of the office.
There should be a change in the pro-
vision which enables a voter to get as-
we |
for | |
If
ipabiioan caucus in Harris- |
has”
PA, TH URSDAY, JAN
UARY 5,
1899.
NUMBER 50.
sistance in ting his ballot by merely
requesting such "aid. There are not
many voters who require such help,
and there would be still fewer if the
ballot were simplified as proposed, but
it is a notorious fact that under the
present loose system, election officers
have permitted voters to be assisted
{ whom they know perfectly well did not
| need to be, the whole matter being in-
tended to cover the bribery of the
| voter and the certain delivery of the
| purchased vote.
Many important matters will be be-
| fore the coming Legislature, but there
| will be none more important than this.
It should have early and intelligent at-
| tention.”
The Strike Situation.
| The situation among the strikers at
| the Merchants Coal Company’s mines
| bas changed somewhat since our last
| issue. Yesterday morning some more
| imported men arrived, and we are told
that nineteen newcomers went to work
| under the protection oi fifteen armed
deputies. And what need is there of-
{armed deputies? « Have our native
! miners been committing any acts of
violence? No. They have been peace-
| able and law-abiding ever since they
| came out on a strike, and it is not likely
that there will be any rioting unless
the strikers are driven to it by the
pangs of hunger.
We do not think that these deputies
| are needed here, and if there is any
lawlessness indulged in, we believe that
© | hiring armed depatics will be in a
measure responsible for it, as their
| presence invariably has much to do
with arousing hatred and malice. We
| do not believe in acting toward strik-
ing men as though they were criminals,
| assassins and incendiaries until they
| have proven themselves to be of that
class.
In the meantime the general public |
cided to do.
lis looking on and waiting to see the
ultimate outcome of affairs, and public |
{ sentiment still remains on the side of
{ the strikers. Their demand is
| one, we believe, and there
doubt that by conceding totheirdemand
| the company would be benefitted as
| well as the striking employes.
| Here's hoping the strikers will win,
| and we believe they will win. If they
| don’ t, business depression for the whole
gemma will be the result.
DEWEY, BRYAN OR WHO?
Pittsburg Times.
It is a little early to bring out the
prospective candidates for 1900, and
that is why Henry Watterson’s boom
for Admiral Dewey and Gen. Lee can-
not yet be considered seriously. At the
| present moment the Democracy has
nothing on which to make the cam-
| paign of 1900, except the memory of
Col. Bryan and free silver. Certainly,
Dewey and Fitzhugh Lee have both
overshadowed Mr. Bryan in the mere
point of prominence, but personality-is
not an issue, and it is doubtful if it can
be made an issue for a longer time than
while the shouting and the enthusiasm
prevail. By 1900 it is possible that both
Iewey and Lee will have lost some of
the intense popularity that they won
within the past year, for it must not be
forgotten that Bryan was a year ago a
very much lauded hero. What has
happened to him may happen to them.
Then a year has developed many new
events and shifted politics amazingly.
Because 1898 has been packed with im-
portance, it cannot be presumed that
all that is of consequence is past. One
vear ago Bryan and silver were of
great value to conjure with. Now they
are ostensibly eclipsed. What has
eclipsed them is liable to suffer in its
turn by the ‘new things that are to
come from the hand of time.
experi-
the col-
We are entering upon a new
ence abroad, not only with
relations with the rest of the world are
{ undergoing surprising changes. It may
be that domestic polities will have been
forgotten by 1900 to give opportunity
to bring our foreign affairs to the front,
and that new events in that time will
raise up new leaders, just as new events
have done in the past year.
candidate and the platform of Democ-
racy in 1900 need not be guessed out
yet. The date is too remote.
SOLICITORS WANTED EVERY-
| w HERE for*The Story of the Philippines”
| by Murat Halstead, commissiened by the
| Government as Official Historian to the
War Department. The book was written in
army enmps at San Francisco on the Pacifie
with General Merritt, in the hospitals at
Honolulu, in Hong Kong, in the American
CTIVE
trenches at Manila, in the insurgent camps |
with Aguinaldo,on the deck of the Olym-
pia with Dewey, and in the roar of battle at |
the fall of Manila. Bouanza for agents.
Brimful of original pictures taken by gov-
ernment photogra phers on the spot. Large
| book. Low prices. Big profits. Freight
paid. Credit given. Drop all trashy unof-
| ficial war books. Outfit free. Address, F. T.
Barber, Sec'y. Star Insurance Bldg.,Chicago.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent.]
WasHINagTON, DEC. 30, 1898.
President McKinley’s instructions to
Admiral Dewey and Gen. Otis say in
substance: Hoist Old Glory in every
seaport of the Philippines, peaceably,
if you can, forcibly if you must; and let
it be distinctly understood by the in-
surgents that the authority of the
United States will be maintained at all
hazards. His instructions to all of our
officers in Cuba are equally explicit,
concerning the transfer of authority
from the Spanish to our troops—allow
no unjust treatment of either Spaniards
or Cubans by each other, and so far as
may be possible prevent either doing
anything calculated to humiliate the
other.
What to do with the Cuban soldiers
tention from the officials. The men
are entirely without clothing or money,
and the so-ealled Cuban government
has no money to pay them, although it
gets enough from somewhere to main-
tain a number of ornamental, rather
than useful, agents, in Washington,
New York and elsewhere. Some of
these soldiers have been in the field
ever since the rebellion started and
never received a cent. It would be un-
just, as well as dangerous, to dismiss
them ragged and penniless. It has
been suggested that this government
advance a sufficient sum to pay them
all something like $100 each, and repay
itself from the Cuban revenues that
will be collected by us while the island
remains under military control, and
the suggestion has been favorably re-
ceived, and may be carried out. There
a just |
is little |
is an item of $3,000,000, for emergencies;
| in the special deficiency appropriation
made by Congress, that could be used
for this purpose, if the President order-
ed it done, but this he has not yet de-
IFew public men have died in Wash-
ington whose loss was more sitccerely
regretted that Senator Morrill, of Ver-
mont, who died this week, of pneumon-
ia, after an illness of less than one
week. Senator Morrill has been in
Congress for the last forty-four years,
and has been identified with much use-
ful legislation. He was instrumental
| in putting through the House, when he
was a member of that body, the first
bill against Morman polygamy; he in-
troduced and carried through both
branches of Congress the first bill
granting public lands for the support
of agricultural, scientifié, and indus-
trial colleges, under which act there
are now 47 colleges, with 500 professors
and more than 5,000 students; the war
tariff bill, known as the “Morrill tariff,”
was largely his personal work—in fact,
there has been no tariff or financial
bill put through Congress during the
last forty years that he did not have a
hand in shaping. The Congressional
Library building, the finest of its kind
in the world, is a monument to his tire-
less industry and perseverance, and al-
most his last work was to have the Sen-
ate pass, for the third time, his bill to
purchase the square of ground opposite
the Library building as a site for a
Supreme Court building. Senator Proc-
tor, his colleague, told Senator Morrill’s
character, in a sentence, when he said
of him: ‘*‘All during his political life
he has been outspoken in his expres-
sions of opinion, and in the many years
that I have known him [ have never
heard an unkind word said of him.”
Funeral services will be held in the
Senate chamber.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, is the sec-
ond Republican on the Finance Com-
mittee, of which the late Senator Mor-
rill was chairman, but as he is chair-
man of the Appropriation Committee, a
position he is not likely to give up for
the vacant chairmanship, it is regarded
. . . |
onies, but our commercial and financial |
At the |
rate which we are making history, the
as certain that Senator Aldrich, of
| Rhode Island, who, owing te Senator
Morrill’s feebleness, performed all the
hard work of the chairman during the
| amending of the Dingley tariff bill and
the debate on tke bill in the Senate,
{ will become chairman of the commit-
tee, if Senator Allison waives his right
| to it. No Senator is better fitted for
the place than Mr. Aldrich.
It was not surprising to those famil-
inr with the situation when Gen. Otis
| cabled the War Department that Agui-
| naldo’s so-called government had fall-
l en to pieces, by the resignation of his
cabinet and his inability to form anoth-
‘er, owing to the indisposition of the
Filipinos to assist him in his bluff at
opposing the rule of the United States.
They know that Aguinaldo sold them
out to Rpain, and they believed, doubt-
Jess correctly, that he intended to try
to do the same to the United States.
{ They displayed more sense than Agui-
| naldo, as there is no probability of his
receiving a cent from the United States,
under any gircumstances, while there
is a problem that is receiving much at- |
is a possibility that he may be called
upon to account for the various sums
of money he is known to have stolen
from business establishments and
church institutions which have been
looted by the insurgents.
Only two Republican Sesators have
publicly spoken against ratification of
the treaty of peace—Hoar, of Magsa-
chusetts, and Perkins, of California—
and both of them have stated condi-
tions under which they will vote for its
ratification. Mr. Hoar says he will
vote to ratify if the treaty is amended
sO as to prohibit statehood for the Phil-
ippines, or any portion of them, and Mr.
Perkins that he will vote for ratifica-
tion if instructed by the California leg-
islature to do so.
January Ladies’ Home Journal.
The New Year's Ladies” Home Jour-
nal gives assurance of a purpose to
make that magazine more useful and
helpful, and stronger in its literary
and artistic features, during 1899 than
ever before. It contains a number of
features of lighter interest, and opens
with a full-page drawing by W. L.
Taylor, illustrating Longfellow’s Vil-
lage Blacksmith. Early Colonial social
life is mirrored in “The Most Aristo-
cratic Social Event in America” —the
annual ball of the Philadelphia “As-
sembly,” an article that will be read
with unusual interest. G. Gordon tells
“What it Means to be a Newspaper
Woman,” a subject upon which she
writes from her own experiences.
Edward Bok, in the January Journal,
writes on “The Rush of American
Women.” making a plea for more re-
pose, through whieh the real pleasures
of life are to be extracted. In fiction,
the experiences of “The Girls of Camp
Arcady,” The Minister of Carthage”
and “The Jamesons in the Country”
are continued. The first of a series of
articles on “The House" Practical” de-
tails how to furnish and decorate the
hall and staircase, and other page
features give photographs of “Fifteen
Good Halls and Stairways” and “Pret-
ty Rooms of Girls.” Mrs. 8. T. Korer
tells how to carve and serve meats and
game, and gives a variety of menus for
small soeial affairs.
By The Curtis Publishing Company,
Philadelphia. One dollar per year;
ten eents per copy.
They Die Hard.
“That ad is dead,”
“Throw it in.”
But it was not dead. It could not
die until the last eopy of the paper con-
taining it had been destroyed. Even
then the advertisement might be kept
alive by word of mouth. * The advertis-
er who lets all his eontracts expire is
wrong if he imagines that his adver-
tisements have eeased to “pull.” They
may, indeed, have failed to bring in
business enough to pay the gas bill,
but they are far from dead.
Fourteen or fifteen years ago a
bright young man opened a book store
in Harlem. He put a small advertise-
ment in a magazine. ‘To this day he
sometimes hears from that advertise-
ment, although he ran it only a few
times and has been out of the book
business since 1892.
The Scranton (Pa.) Republican tells
of a medicine man whe advertises to
cure certain diseases. Oneday a wom-
en came to him for treatment, and got
$150 worth of it. The doetor asked her
how she had heard of him, and she said
her husband, when taking up an eld
carpet in Buffalo, had found beneath it
an old newspaper in w heh he saw the
said the foreman,
doctor’s ad.
There is no telling how long an ad-
vertisement will live—National Adver-
tiser.
Ensign Bagley’s Ss Last Words.
A private letter ies a pathetic in-
cident connected with the death of En-
sign Bagley on board the torpedo-boat
Winslow at the engagement off Car--
denas.
Bagley had been fearfully wounded
by a shot which practically tore through
his body. He sank over the rail and
was grasped by one of the enlisted men
named Reagan, who lifted him up and
placed him on the deek.
The young officer, realizing that he
had oly a short time to live, allowed no
murmur of complaint or ery of pain to
escape him, but opened his eyes and
stared at the sailor, and simply said :
“Thank you; Reagan.”
These were the last words he spoke.
Notice to Exehanges.
Some of Tne Srar’s exchanges will
please take notice that our post-oflice
address is Elk Lick. Some of our ex-
changes are not being received regular-
ly, on account of being addressed *‘Sal-
isbury?” tf