@d Good Advertising Medium. [ The Somerset a sf Yomi Star, Fine Specialty. A pam aa Job Printing a SALIS BURY. ELK LICK POSTOFF YOE, PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, + 1900. NO. Bt ld TAILUR SULLS. Only a few beautiful Royal Blue, Black, Brown and Gray Coat Suits left, and they are going at from $4.00 to $10.00 each. Plaid Skirts at cost. Good selections and styles. fants’ Long Coats 75 cents to $2.50. at these prices. We have good heavy Men’s and Boy's sey Suits at $2.75 to 5.50. Overcoats worth $3.50 to 15.00 at 2.75 t0-9.00. Children’s Suits and Overcoats worth $1.75 to 6.00 at 1,00 to goods won’t last long. Come carly and get We have jobs in Shoes, Hats and Caps, Tam O’Shanters, I Our stock is complete in all departments. Il bat HOR BN D Fleet les! Beautilu Patterns Cut Prices! Ladies’ and Misses’ Capes and Coats below cost. Children’s Coats, $1.25 to $2.50. In- Call early for best selections Clothing And Overcoats! Ker- 3.00. At these prices these Hoods, Tascinators, Heavy Wool Underwear. BOYS SUITS. k Lick Supply Co. Boy = $ Bho es *FREMEMBER, and Children’s Fine Shoes, having the largest stock or 18 Here and we have an immense line of Clothing, Shoes and Overshoes suitable for the season, which we are sell- ing at Yori Cash Prices. s Suits from 75 cents up. from $1.00 up. s IKnee Ponts 25 cents. We have al 9 received from New York Men’s Trou - s, elegantly tailored and cut up to date, which will be old very low. Considering the advance in these lines, we con- tinue to sell Dry Goods And Groceries Very Low. Calicos, 4 and 5 cents. Lancaster Ginghams, 5 cents. Best Unbleached Muslin, 5 ets. Shirt Waists at cost. Piques and all Summer Goods at cost. TALLY Uackage Coffee, 10 cents. 7 Cakes Coke Soap, 25 cents. 5 Pounds Best Rice, 25 cents. ous to mention. we arc headquarters for Men's, Ladies’ in town. ‘Barchus & Livengood. W. H. KOONTZ. J. G. OGLE KOONTZ & OGLE, Attorneys=-At-I.aw, SOMERSET, PENN’A. Office opposite Court House. Fraxcis J. KOOSER. ERNEST O. KOOSER. 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M. ..10:54 AL ML The Blanks We Keep. Tur Star has just added a large stock of Deeds, Mortgages, Judgment Bonds, Property Leases, Constable Sale Blanks, Summons Blanks, Commit- ments, Subpenas, Criminal Warrants, Judgment Notes, Receipts and many other blank forms that are useful and save lots of writing. A full line of these goods «ili always be, kept on hand at this office. MACHINE BLUFF AT "BALLOT REFORM. Trying to Create Public Opinion in Its Favor by a Renewal of the ’95 Pledge. QUAY’S BROKEN PROMISES. Deceived the People Once and Can't Do It Again—Machine Trying to Deal With to Quay—Congressman Sibley Democrats Ileln Plead- ing the Couse of the Boss at Wash- ington—Soldiers’ Orphans’ Schools in Hands of Politicians. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Harrisburg, Feb. 6.—As between the fear that the senate will -not seat Mr. Quay and the fear that the people of Pennsylvania will repudiate the me- chine at the coming election because of the gigantic ballot frauds in Phila- delphia, the Quay machine leaders are in a fright. The people of the state. particularly the farmers and the plain people, are now thoroughly aroused to the fact that the padding of assessors’ lists by the machine in Philadelphia means dollars and cents out of their pockets. The machine has been hear- ing from this, and now they are send- ing out columns of matter to the Quay organs, declaring that new ballot laws must be enacted by the next legislature and pledging the Republican machine to see this done. This will fool nobody. The machine can stop ballot corruption any moment it chooses. It is an old trick of the Quay combination to make promises. Ex-Senator Quay himself promised all sorts of reforms five years ago, and then deliberately broke his plighted word to the people of the state. Since that time the people have never trusted Quay. That year in which he made his monumental bluff at reform has never been forgotten, and all of his troubles date from that time. While the Quay machine today is trying to fool the people again. telling what a fine administration Mr. Que man. Governor Stone, is giving the state. and boosting all the machine leaders: the skies, the people are getting ready to vote without regard to its wishes. THE PEOPLE READY. Reports from all over the state and the crowds of visitors to the headquar- ters of the Business Men’s Republican I.eague indicates this fact. The at- tempt has been made by the Quay newspapers to link the fortunes of the anti-Quay Republicans and William J. Bryan. This is the veriest foolishness. It has amused the anti-Quay Republi- cans immensely. The idea of sterling lifelong Republicans like those at the head of the anti-Quay movement being in league with Populism, free silverism and all the other “isms” that Mr. Bryan represents is not only amusing. but absolutely ridiculous. It is too silly for serious consideration. The latest move of the Quay machine leaders has Leen to drag in the sol- diers’ orphans’ schools into their strug- gle for continued supremacy. It is also preparing to get control of all of the Republican national convention appointments when the convention meets in Philadelphia in June. The soldiers’ orphans’ school episode is particularly flagrant, and shows to what depths the Quay machine will descend in its greed for spoils and to retain its grip on the state. JSING THE ORPHANS. The commisison which controls these schools is dominated by the machine, and it is about to make A. S. Lebanon, principal of the soldiers’ or- phans’ training school at Scotland. This position was abolished some time ago by the commission, but Quay and Penrose insist that it be restored for Light's especial benefit. Ever since Light was appointer deputy revenue collector in the Ninth district against the protest of the machine leaders in Lebanon and Lancaster county Quay and Penrose have Leen trying to find another place for him. There was no opening in the departments at Harris- burg, and they finally hit upon the principalship of the Scotland school, which the commission is only too anx- ious to give to Light to please his backers. Mr. Quay is still dickering with the Democrats in Washington for votes to seat himself. The latest declaration that he will be seated comes from Joe Sibley, the cx-Populist, ex-Democrat and everything else, whom Senator Quay elected to congress last year as a Democrat, instead of that sterling Re- publican congressman, Charles W. Stone. Quay helped Sibley then, and later cn Sibley came to Harrisburg and tried to get Democrats to vate for Quay, but he failed miserably and sneaked out of Harrisburg without ob- taining a vote. Now he is trving to get Democratic senators in Washing- ton to help Quey, and is giving out type written interviews to the news- papers, saying that Quay is sure to be elected. CORPORATIONS HELPING HIM. The fact is that all of the corpora- tions and other influences are working for Quay. Senator Clark, of Montana, who is on trial before the senate for bribing his way into that body, is heip- ing Quay. The lobbyists of the Mor- mon church are working in his inter- ests, and these, together with the Standard Oil company, the Sugar trust and all the other great corporations are, as has already been pointed out in these letters, striving with might and main to get Quay into the senate on Governor Stone's appointment. Not only in Washington, but all through Pennsylvania, the best inter- ests, including leading business men, prominent farmers and men in all ranks of life are against the Quay ma- chine. In Philadelphia the Municipal League, composed of the leading men of the city, have nominated a city ticket in opposition to the Quay tick- et for magistrates. A signal rebuke to the Quay machine was administered in Allegheny county last week, where out of a total of 31 delegates to the coming state convention Quay got only seven delegates. It is the worst de- feat that Quay and his friends bave sver recelved in Allegheny county, and is a refutation of the assertions made by Quay’s friends that the powers op- posing him are losing ground. The de- feat in Allegheny was overwhelming. One reason that leads the machine in the state to assert that its enemies are losing ground is because ihe fight be- ing made against the machine is not carried on with a brass band. It is very quietly, but very effecetively, be- ing conducted, and it can positiv ely be asserted that in every district in the state where the anti-Quay people are operating gains are reported and a most satisfactory cornidition of affairs. —_ ~~ a Order Tie Star sent to your friends abroad. It will be like a letter from the old home to them and they will ap- preciate your kindness. Tue Johnstown Democrat, the strong- est Democratic newspaper in Centra Pennsylvania, in a recent issue review- ed the Congressional situation in the and after naming seven men who seek the Congressional nomination, among other things says: “The opinion of political judges is that Mr. Thropp will defeat the opposition and secure the nomination again, if he Twentieth district, really w ants it? et Carr. CoGgHLAN, the gallant comman- der of the Raleigh in the Manila fight, is quoted by a friend as saying that al- though he is of Irish blood, his sympa- in the Boer war, and will be with them in any war, on account of the friendly manner in treated the fleets of all other nations were displaying an attitude. “I am an Irishman, but I am an Ameri- can first,” the captain added, and after that splendid exhibition of friendship by the Britons in Manila bay, I am and always will be a friend of the Britons.” The service which Great Britain did us thies are with the British which the British fleet Americans at Manila when the unfriendly or contemptuous in our conflict with Spain is not fully appreciated by the mass of the Ameri- can people. attitude of that power the United States would have had somebody else to deal with besides Spain. Spain would never have entered upon the war had she not expected European belp, and she would have got it if it had not been for the British navy.— Minneapolis Tribune. ee —— Tue two Quay organs of this county, which were last fall busily engaged in bolting our Republican county organi- zation, now have the impudence to of- fer “pointers” to Chairman Berkey on how to conduct the coming primary campaign. It is amusing to see them plead for John M. Reynolds, the would- be Democratic Congressman of the Re- publican 20th Congressional district. It is also amusing to see them gloating over the fact that the Democratic Bed- ford Gazette is going to fight Congress- man Thropp’s renomination. Well what else can be expected from a Dem- ocratic paper? And what else can be expected than that the Quay organs in this county, which are Republicans for revenue only, which are “regular” only when it suits their own selfish interests, and which are always ready to work with the Democrats when a Republi- can whom they cannot use for a mere tool wants office? Thropp is the can- didate of the Republicans of Bedford county, while Reynolds, it seems, will be the candidate of the combined forces of the Democrats and Hadderman Re- publican bolters. They have a few sympathizers in this county, but they are not in possession of the Republican organization, and it is not likely that Chairman Berkey will pay much at- tention to kiekers. ————— Tue staid Bedford Inquirer, which was seldom known to vary its contents from pastorals on crimson clover or copies of hotel registers, astonished its readers last week by “speaking its mind,” as the other old women say when goaded to deliver curtain lec- tures. The httle birdie and the balance of the brood have not been getting the canary seed (hey think is their right from the political counter, and they also see in the future the certainty that their little game of big profits in cram- ming the court house officials with legal blanks and doing county advertising at exhorbitant rates is to be brought to an end by officials who have more regard for the welfare of the people than for a few political sapvers. But these are not all their grievances. The other fellow got the Bedford post- oflice, a position aspired to by Editor Because of this, like Nasby of political horizon of this Congressional district and can see awaiting the Re- They conclude that if Lutz. old, they view the nothing but disaster publican party. a new Congressman is elected the post- office may probably be theirs, and the the shriek of Mohammed as he descended upon Me- dina, they declare they have discover- ed the true political god of the district, and that the Inquirer in his prophet. With a spear in one hand, with the and clenching a sword between its teeth, court house, too. With other one wildly gesticulating the Inquirer stalks forward with the ery of peace! licans of this county turn down the most able Congressman has ever had, and support a man of the Inquirer’s choosing. In calling quirer and its gang are quite consist- ent. These people did all they could in 1898 to elect a Democrat to Congress and helped defeat part of the Republican Legislative tick- The people at home gang for several of its rottenness, domineering and sowing of dissention. professing peace, but at the same time flaunting its defiance in the face of the people: These people have tried to bulldoze ke him their tool, from this district et in this county. have repudiated the years past, because Now it takes a new tack, Mr. Thropp and = and have signally failed. They have been for Mr. Thropp, eyes and makes them desperate. ested in Bedford county’s turn down Mr. next county man. served.—Saxton Herald. It seems certain that if it bad not been for the firm and friendly It asks that the Repub- this district upon the true Republicans to do this, the In- bafiled at every point, by the people and by the courts; they see the affection the people have and the green-eyed monster in their hearts has been so much expanded until it blinds their 154 they really mean peace and are inter- welfare and rights, these few dissenters should bow to the will of the majority and support the present Congressman, for it is the candid opinion of substantial Repub- licans that if Bedford county should Thropp this year the Congressman from this district would undoubtedly not be a Bedford We have a Congressman of whom we are justly proud, and prec- edents and abilify: entitle him to at least a second term, and more, if the best interests of the district are to be Get Justice. A correspondent writes to Tug Star as follows: “What does Tue Star think of the as- sassination of Goebel? When a people cannot get justice at the polls, do you think any man is justified in removing with a bullet the chief obstacle in the way of justice, seeing that no other remedy will bring about honest elec- tions?” To this inquiry Tne Star will say that it deplores the fact that it some- times seems necessary for people to take the law into their own hands. We abhor murder and bloodshed, but the killing of bad men sometimes becomes a necessity for the good of the human race, no matter whether (he killing is done in the name of the law or not. We are not prepared to say that the killing of Goebel was necessary to the cause of justice, for we do not know all the particulars and motives of the af- fair. It is a sure thing, however, that Goebel was fairly beaten for Governor of Kentucky, and it is just as sure a thing that he was defiantly trying to set aside the will of the people and get into the official chair by the rankest kind of fraud. While we do not gloat over Goebel’s death, yet we have no npathy to express for him, as he openly and brazenly tried to destroy the sanctity of the ballot box and trample on the sovereign rights of American freemen. He was the cause of his own death, and Kentucky may or may not be benefitted by it. Our views on the matter of using violence to obtain justice are somewhat similar to an old Dutchman’s advice to his boy on finance. The story is as fol- lows: - The son of an old German having ar- rived at the age of 21 years, obtained from his father his just portion of the parent’s estate, and as he was about to embark in business for himself, the fa- ther admonished him as follows: “Schon, be steady, vork hardt und make money. Und Schon, rememper I vant you to make money honestly.” Then, after a pause, the old man added: “Ovver schtill uf you can’t money hon- estly, make money.” Now we do not approve of such ad- vice on finance, but in such matters as threaten our just personal rights and liberties, Tue Star’s advice would be about as follows. Maintain your rights peaceably if you can, forcibly if you must. Get jus- tice without violence if it is at all pos- sible, but if it is utterly impossible to get justice without Holenes, get justice. i . How to Win Completa Vietory. The decent people of Philadelphia, and the decent people of all Pennsyl- vania, are heartened by the conviction of Markley, Hogan and Pearce, the bal- lot-box stuffers employed by the Quay machine and exposed by The North American. There is surprise mingled with the general satisfaction. The machine so long has been domi- nant in Philadelphia, so entirely confi- dent of its power to escape punishment for its erimes, that the public ltad grown to regard its power for self-defense as irresistible. But within a year a great change has taken place. Blow after blow has been struck and the machine is loosened at every rivet. The defeat of Quay for re-election to the Senate was the be- ginning. A newspaper has grown up in Philadelphia, whose work has but commenced, yet which already has ac- complished much toward the purifica- tion of politics. The North American’s first triumph over the machine was to compel it freihiesnidst of a campaign to withdraw an unfit judicial“eaudidaie from the ticket. Then came the ex- posure of the election frauds, which shook the State and aroused press and people to a realization of the truth that in this city the machine habitually stuffs the ballot-box with from 40,000 to 80,000 illegal votes to procure the majorities it needs in its business. The experience of the North Ameri- can demonstrates that in order to over- throw the machine all that is necessary is to show the way. Good and courage- ous men spring up whenever they are required, provided hope of results is visible. At every step there has been earnest and able co-operation in the war upon the election thieves. No sooner had the North American made sure of the guilt of the miscreants in the Thir- teenth division of Isreal W. Durham’s ward and the Twelfth division of James B. Anderson’s ward than ex-Judge James Jay Gordon volunteered for the war upon them, laboring day and night to put the evidence in legal form, ap- pearing in the courtroom and exerting himself without fee as few lawyers would exert themselves for any fee. Magistrate Eisenbrown, knowing that to do his duty would be to earn the vengeance of the machine of his party, wnich is a cog in the Republican ma- chine, nevertheless did his duty. He held the scoundrels to answer and took the expected consequences. His party has refused him renomination, and it is now as an independent candidate that he must be voted for. Judge Finletter has swept away the false sacredness that preserved from lawful examination the contents of ballot-boxes containing evidence of crime, thus establishing a precedent of enormous value for the protection of the suffrage. The grand jury rose above all be- numbing fear of the machine, and, list- ening to but a small portion of the proofs collected by the North Ameri- can, indicted the scoundrels whose crimes it had made public. District Attorney Rothermel has pressed the proofs home and fought successfully at every point the attor- neys paid to rescue, if they could, the detected servants of the machine. The flight of one gang of ballot-box stuffers and the conviction of another sive the people a great victory, and its highest significance is the spirit it has revealed in so many quarters. That its entrenchments. It is the spirit of American citizens who want American government in Pennsylvania. Behind the banished and imprisoned heelers of the machine are the chiefs of the machine—the men who hire such reatures to commit crime. The bat- tle will not be won until they too have been sent to join Salter in exile, or Markley in Moyamensing. It will not be won until the election laws are re- modeled and the frauds of the Salters and Markleys rendered impossible. The road to complete victory is plain to every honest man’s sight. A Legis- lature committed to ballot reform must be elected—a Legislature over which the ballot-box stuffing Quay ma- chine will have no control.—/"Liladel- plia North Ame rican. —— fust Stand for Justice. “Mr. Taylor is governor by every principle of law and equity, and he and his followers must. of course, resist to the last the reckless and unscrupulous failed to accomplish by the most scan- dalous fraud prior to and during elec- tion. “The sole responsibility for all blood- shed, past and to come, lies with these same conspirators, and with all who in any way abet them. Under no circum- stances should there be any backdown by Gov. Taylor and the lawful govern- ment authorities in Kentucky, and they good and law-abiding citizens through- out the union.”—Gov. Roosevelt, of New York. In the above declaration Gov. Roose- velt presents a clear, resolute and fear- view of the responsibilities of American civil government. less majority of the people in compliance with law and in orderly custom chose a chief executive they at the same time gave into his hands the right, duty, and declared power to protect them in the right of civil government. No man worthy the name, thus chosen, will abandon his people and sacrifice their rights, and no people worthy of self- government will abandon their leader in such struggle. littl Times. The Worm Turns. It takes money to run a newspaper. —St. John (Kan.) News. What an exaggeration! what a whop- per! It has been disproved a thousand times; it is a case of airy fancy. Itcan run without money. 1t is not a busi- ness venture. It is a charitable insti- tution, a begging concern, a highway robber. A newspaper is the child of the air, a creature of a dream. It can goon and on, and any other coucern would be in the hands of a ree -iver and wound up with cobwebs in the windows. It takes wind to run a newspaper; it takes gall torun a newspaper. It takes a scintillating, acrobatic imagination and a half dozen white shirts, and a railroad pass to run a newspaper. But who ever needed money to conduct a newspaper? Kind words are the medi- um of exchange that do the business for the editor—kind words and church sociable tickets! When you see an editor with money, watch him. He'll be paying his bill and disgracing is profession. Never give money to an editor. Make him trade it out. Ie likes to swap! Then when you die, after having stood around for years and sneered at the editor and his little jim crow paper, be sure and have your wife send in for three extra copies by one of your weep- ing children, and when she reads the thing. The editor knows it; he can thank the printers and they can thank their grocers! Take your job work to another job office, and then come and ask for free church notices. Get your lodge letter- heads and stationery printed out of town, and then flood the editor with beautiful thoughts in resolutions of respect and cards of thanks. They make such spicy reading,and when you pick it up filled with these glowing and vivid mortuary articles, you are proud of your little local paper! But money—scorn the filthy thing! Don’t let the pure, innocent editor know anything about it. Keep that for sordid tradespeople who charge for their The editor gives bounty away. The Lord loves a cheer- ful giver! He’ll take care of the editor. He has a charter from the State to act as doormat for the company. Ie will get the paper out somehow ; and stand up for the town and whoop it £0 wares, able halk, and smile at your giddy wife’s second marriage. Don’t worry about the editor—he’ll get on. Lord knows hocton (N. Y.) Times. —-~—— In Hard tok, to beat; on the street. He couldn’t keteh a idee—he couldn’t ketel a train, time he prayed fer rain. mortals here below; prophesied fer snow. an’ the dimes When he told uso’ the comin’ o’ luia times! the hulle It warn’t his fault, I reckon; made him so, ler hollered “Whoa!” spirit has but to be given opportunity An’ when he starts fer heavenly race, It’s ten to one he’ll miss the road an’ strik the other place! — Atlanta Constitution. : : | in order to dislodge corruption from all conspirators who are endeavoring to do by violence, after election, what they | are entitled to the hearty backing of all | When a generous and touching notice about | {ime in one of the saloons of the town. Jou, forewarn her to neglect to send | Ic is not tooccupy an obscure corner to fifteen cei —®ditor. It would | wateh the habitues of the place unob- overwhelm him. Money 1s A corrujting what we wants is your heartfelt thanks. Then his | up for | The | how—but somehow.—Co- As a poor, onlucky feller he wuz purty hard Couldn’t raise a tune in meetin’, or a dollar An’ thedrydrouth kilt the crap off ever’ He wuz jest the most well-meanin’est o’ But we allars struck warm weather when he An’ thar!’ never wuz a jingle o’ the dollars the Lord jest | An’ kep’ the mules a-kickin’ when that fel- glory—along the STATE SCHOCL DIRECTORS. Program for Their Fifth Annual Convention to be Held at Harrisburg. Following is program for the Fifth annual convention of the Penn- sylvania State Association of School Directors, to be lield in the hall of the House of Representatives, at Harris- burg, on February 14 and 15. the Wed ay—Opening prayer, Rev. George ‘hambers, D. D., Harrisburg; Address of welcome, Maj. J. A. Fritchie, Harrisburg; Response, Chairman exec- i committee, Wm. Field Shay, ident’s address, H. ; Greetings to 5 Stone; Use and Prof. A. Reist Rutt, superintendent of publie schools, Milton ; Wm. Wynkoop, Newton,Bucks county; ; Address, Hon. superintendent Announcements Sarnment, session—The director as a education, Superintendent A. MM, Allegheny What k hools ought Penn- sylvania to have? President W. Atherton, Pennsylvania State Col- lege; Adjournment. Thursd Jones, Ns The centr: Pres directors, Ge abuse of frec xt ooks. Diser Henry Houck, of public instru of committees; Evening Ge pty in Ha factor | Samuel Co.; George Rev. Philip L. Montgomery county; of distriet schools, —Prayer, ion Pr. H. H. Lon gsdorfl, Dickinson, Cum- berland co Julia Cope Col- | linus, Have ord, Dele aware county ; Dis- hool boards teachers, Sa- Twitmeyer, Macnamee, The import- ance, use and object of the State school directors’ convention, Tr A. Cleaver, | Ardmore, ( ; Hon. Robert | L. Meyers, and or Dis- cussion ; Adjournment. Afternoon session—“Do the schools of the Commonwealth meet our educa- tional needs?” Principal J. P. Welch, cussion, “Tlie relation of s | to the people and t~ the perintendent Ge” je W. Bethlehem; . Prof. R. 8S. Staffors, Chester county; ester ec Cumber State normal school, Bloomsburg; S.J. | Garner, Hatboro, Montgomery county ; Address and question box, Dr. N. C. Schaeffer, in- struction ; islation; superintendent public Report of committee on leg- Report of committee on reso- lutions; Report of BOIADILNS < on nom- ination and election Ad- journment. Persons wishing to attend the direct- ors’ convention may secure card orders for reduced rates on the Pennsylvania railroad by addressing the Rev. E. S. Hassler, at Keim, Pa., who is corre- sponding secretary of the State associa- tion. of officers. oe A New Temperance Plan. In Milford, a town of 3,000 inhabit- ants, the unusual sight of nearly all” the prominent citizens, church leaders and temperance asdvoeates in roles of habitual frequenters of the saloons of the town may be seen now. This nhe result of a novel crusade against the drink habit that hasbeen instituted On occasions the good people of New Milford have risen in their might and smote the demon of intemperance mighty blows. Each time the crusade has been apparently successful, but many of (he saloon- keepers have returned to their voeca- tions, and justices of thé peace have dealt out senter:ces for drunken- ness and disorder right and left, in the is there. numberless the usual manner, within’ a few weeks after the crusades have apparently succeeded. : The latest plan is a novel one. Nearly every prominent citizen of the town has agreed to spend all his leisure served, but is to be oné of the most prominent Hs sin tE saloon. In this manner he Sw “bled to ob: serve wh : rmetOP€ town are, at (heir favorite ps are, and Lhe parties tions of the saloon are. They i tacle of well-dressed, we! citizens in the bar rooms dg calculated to have an elevating effect on the regu- lar frequenters of the places. The temperance men are not to at- tempt to take people from the saloons against their: wishes and ‘the natural desire of the proprietors. They are to make themselves as conspicuous as possible in front of the bar. Their ap- pearance of respectability, their good clothes, and pockets full of money are | to be talking arguments against the habit of spending money for liquor. | The results ¢f this novel reform are | being watched for with interest.—Balti- | more American. — Be Comfortable, Devote your energies to | | | . being com- | | you when you run for oflice, and lie | fortable. Nothing will aid you so much about your pigeon-toed daughter's | as simplicity. Don’t try to follow all tacky wedding, and blow about your | the fads invented by fool_. In the first big-footed sons when they get a $4 a { place, get a comfortable place to live week job, and weep over yourshriveled | in, Get a good cellar. Get a good cis- soul when it is released from its miser- | tern. Fix your water. pipes so they | won't freeze. Fix yourself so that you | can be warm in winter and reasonably cool in the summer Have things “handy” arcund the Give up | | | | | Ve Lire: | house. your membership in literary and card { | clubs and devote your attention to your own affairs. If you can’t find enough to keep you b it is a sign you don’t look for it cl Globe. —— A Detroit Tale. The Detroit following tisement: “Lovers, and after this elegant glass water set to married by me. All ma the most artistic way \ Free Press Dakota ma quotes the rimonial adver- Notice.—On v present an lor lamp, or a bridal couples rying done in >ither in private chromo, all or public. Honewey couples married at any hour of the day or night, and pursuers Ck off the scent. Re- duced rates to those I have married before. A red lantern hangs in front of e | my door on Prairie street at night. Neo 2 { deg kept. Night bell directly under the lanter.” “Moses Dopp, J, P.?
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