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which will be sold very low.
Considering the advance in these lines, we con-
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7 Cakes Coke Soap, 25 cents.
6 Cakes Water Lily Soap, 25 cts.
5 Pounds Best Rice, 25 cents.
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Lancaster Ginghams, 5 cents.
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Tne 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 will always be kept on hand at
this office.
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suitable for any and all kinds of ad-
vertisements and job printing. Call at
Tne Star office and see our large as-
sortment of specimens. We can show
you cuts of nearly everything that ex-
ists and many things that do not exist.
No matter what kind of a cut you want,
we can supply it o a a very lo low price.
new EDDING Tovitations at Tie
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ELK LICK POSTOF
QUAY CASE
STILL HANGS FIRE
The Senate Still D Debating, But
the Issue Has Been
Shifted.
GOOD FELLOWSHIP THE PLEA
Startling Ballot Frauds Unearthed
in Northampton County, State
Chairman Reeder's Home—Several
Men Under Arrest, With Sensation-
al Disclosures—New Candidates For
Prison Bars.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Harrisburg, March 6.—It is likely
that the Quay case, which has been
dragging along in the United States
senate, will reach a vote in about ten
days or less. There is considerable
uncertainty as to the outcome, as the
conditions upon which Mr. Quay is
now asking admission have changed
materially.
‘When he first asked to be admitted
on the appointment of Governor Stone
Attorney General Elkin presented le-
gal and alleged constitutional reasons
why be cught to be seated. The flimsi-
ness of the argument convinced Mr.
Quay and his friends that he could
not get in on such a basis, and now his
friends are putting his admission on
i grounds of his being a “good fel-
ne
Honstor Turley, of Tennessee, and
Senator Recess, of Vermont, who have
spoken against Mr. Quay, have shown
up the hollowness of Mr. Elkin’s argu-
ment that it is right and perfectly con-
stitutional to admit Mr. Quay on Gov-
ernor Stone's appointment.
GOOD FELLOWSHIP.
The argument of good fellowship
covers a good many things, for in-
stance the influence of the corpora-
tions. The Standard Oil company and
the Sugar trust have been particular-
ly a and per iously active in endeavor-
ing to secure the seating of Mr. Quay.
They are, of course, not interested in
him solely on the score of good fellow-
ship.
“Holding the views I do, I would dis-
regard the cath I have taken were I
to vote to seat Mr. Quay,” said Senator
Ross, of Vermont, in the senate on
Saturday last.
Senator Ross made a brilliant speech
against the seating of Mr. Quay, and
he started off, according to Washing-
ton dispatches, by saying that very
soon after the appointment of Quay by
Governor Stone he received two tele-
grams inquiring if. he would vote to
seat Mr. Quay. He replied to these by
stating that it was a question of a
proper construction of the constitu-
tion. During the summer he had read
and studied a great deal on the subject
and had considered the majority and
minority reports from the committee
on privileges and elections, and had ar-
rived at the conclusions he presented.
In the Pennsylvania case, he said,
the vacancy was complete, while the
legislature was in session. Whether
the governor had the power to fill the
vacancy must be determined by the
constitution. It was the manifest in-
tention of the constitution that sena-
torial representation is to be chosen by
the legislatures of the states, and it
was presumed by the framers of the
constitution that legislatures would
discharge their duties. The constitu-
tion, Mr. Ross said, does not empower
a governor to appoint while a legisla-
ture is in session, but only to fill va-
cancies happening during a recess of
the legislature.
In his argument Mr. Ross made fre-
quent references to the plea of “Mr.
Quay’s attorney” before the commit-
tee on privileges and elections. These
allusions were appreciated by those
who knew that it was John P. Elkin,
attorney general of Pennsylvania, who
argued Mr. Quay’s case beforc the com-
mittee.
Mr. Ross declared that the conten-
tion that a governor had power to fill
a vacancy which the legislature neg-
lected to fill tended to elevate parti-
sanship and put support of a caucus
nominee above duty to state and na-
tion.
Washington and his associates had
no such intention. Not for a moment
did they let party spirit dominate their
action. The contention of the minori-
ty was anomalous and startling. There
had never been an occasion where a
legislature failed to elect a senator
that the cause of the failure had not
been a determination of a faction to
elect a particular, partisan candidate.
MORE ELECTICN FRAUDS.
It would seem that as soon as elec-
tion fraud workers are detected and
punished in one part of the state the
machine manages to bring a fresh crop
to the surface in another part. The
latest sensational arrests come from
Northampton county, the home of Gen-
eral Frank Reeder, the Republican ma-
chine’s state chairman. Reeder’s prin-
cipal lieutenant in Northampton coun-
ty, and in his home city of Easton,
Henry G. Seip, census supervisor for
the Northampton district, is under ar-
rest for fraudulent vouching at last
week's election, together with a col-
ored preacher and several others,
charged with the most flagrant ballot
frauds ever known in that section of
the state.
The Philadelphia North American,
which ha iven unusual prominence
to these cas sted in their ex-
posure, says in an interview with
James F. Woodring, district attorney:
“There is no possible doubt that the
men arrested in the Itirst ward of
Easton are all guilty as charged,” re-
marked the district attorney. “That
the work was done for Reeder is a mat-
ter of common knowledge. They have
tried to get me to let up on these cases,
but I have refused positively to make
any compromise. George Coffin came
to see me, and I also saw Harry Seip,
who is a friend of mine. I told Harry
he ought to have thought of his friend-
ship for me before he perjured himself
on vouchers for illegal voters.”
All of the guilty parties have been
arrested and are under bail, and the
prosecuting authorities declare that
the next batch of men to go to prison
for ballot crime will be from North-
ampton county.
- ~~ feoil
Tre announcement of Hon. Jos. E.
Thropp, for Congress, will be found
under the proper head. Mr. Thropp is
high up in Republican circles; he is a
recognized authority on some of the
important issues of the day; he is in
touch with the powers that be; and is
altogether fitted for a very successful
second term in the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington. His first
term, together with an unusually large
fund of general informaticn gathered
during many years of - active industrial
life, qualifies him for an excellent
representative in the Fifty-seventh
Cangress.— Tyrone Times, :
"FICE, P PA. THU RS
il SHORTAG
Star”
ments”
Auditors
Last week Tne
tion of its readers to the shortage of
littie over two months ago, owing the
county $2,482.01. At this writing the
amount due the county from the afore-
said Scull Ring treasurer is still unpaid,
and you can rely upon it that the Scull
ting will beat the county out of the
whole amount if it can be done. But
Te Star will assure the ringsters that
they are not going to be given a chance
to plead the statute of limitation, as
their commander-in-chief, Mr. Quay,
did when he was hauled up before court
on the charge of using public money in
| his own private business affairs. Oh,
no, ye political buzzards, Tae Star will
bring action cgainst you long before
the time comes when you ean get out!
of the hole you are in by pleading the
statute of limitations, and don’t you |
forget it. You can squirm all you
please, but Tne Star will make you
come to time, just the same.
No doubt the Scull ring could now
digest a book of George Kimmel’s due
bills, which single due bill in 1898, dur-
ing the Republican primary campaign,
was displayed in fac simile on the loeal
page of the Scull paper. “Timmie,”
why are you not displaying the due bill
now? It would make a nice contrast
along side of that $2,482.01 shortage.
Upon examination of the auditors’
report, our readers will find that the
udvertising of the treasurer’s
blunder, cost the county $64.58.
linm Winters is only the scape goat of
his attorney, whose business it was to
advise the freasarer,
The attorney of Mr. Winters was
red W. Biesecker, Esq. and it looks
very much as though “Ireddie” was
only after a fat job of printing for the
two Scull ring organs, regardless of |
the legality of the sale, which was ad-
vertised and held at a time when it was
not lawful to have the sale or to adver-
tise it.
bill, which of course the Scull ring sane-
tioned, although the sale was illegal,
the court setting it aside
1t is the opinion of able attorneys
that the present treasurer, Peter Dum- |
bauld. can sell unseated lands only for
Ix all candor and the kindest t toaling
we ask Mr. Reynolds if he does not
think, on a little reflection, that it is!
pretty presumptuous for him to ask the
Republicans to send him to Congress.
— Everett Press.
—-—
Wien Mr. Reynolds first considered
himself a Republican a little over a
year ago. it was charged by Democrats
and Republicans that he only turned
for office, we did not believe it then.
Jut things are different now.—FEverett
Press.
-. i
Tue election in Everett, where the
potent influence of the new Republi-
can convert and attempted boss, has
not much power, as well as in the
neighboring townships, went solidly
Republican by their old-time majori-
ties. Mr. Thropp’s friends are true Re-
publieans and stick to the ticket.—FEe¢-
erelt I’ress.
—-
“Wierever our flag is raised, there is
the spirit of 1776, which is that a man
has rights because he is a man. The
question of ‘expansion is simple. We
are not at any parting of the ways. If
the extension of our principle
tended too far.”—Father Stafford at
the meeting of the Loyal Legion, Wash-
ington, D. C., February 22nd.
It must have been a deep mortifica-
tion to Col. Bryan, although it may
have opened his eyes,swhen the South
Carolina House of Representatives, af-
ter listening intently to his eloquent
address, voted down, by a heavy ma-
jority, resolutions of sympathy for the
Filipinos. On the expansion question,
Mr. Bryan finds the South an “enemies’
country,” says an exchange.
. ee .
Tune pomp arfd boom with which Mr.
Reynold’s candidacy was launched—on
paper—was formidable enough to have
downed all opposition. But what has
become of it? In the language of Mr.
Reynolds’ former plum dispenser, it
has suddenly gone into “innocuous des-
uetude,” and it requires a mighty sight
of whistling for the few promoters to
keep up their fast waning courage.—
Saxton Herald, : :
DAY,
Ex-Treasurer Winters, the creature of |
the Scull ring, who went out of office a |
sales of |
unseated lands in 1898, which was a!
In this |
unseated land matter, however, Wil- |
But the tax-payers footed the |
means |
right and justice, they cannot be ex-
Hi
—_——
WINTERS STILL OWES THE COUNTY 82,482.01 NEITHER HE
NOR HIS BONDSMEN HAVE YET PAID ThE DEBT.
The Debt § AN Never Be Pa Paid if the Scull |
Ring Can Beat the County, But “The
Will See About It.
GULL RING RESPONSIBLE FOR ILLEGAL TAK SALES WHICH
CAUSE A LOGS OF ABOUT 84,000 10 THE COUNTY.
sea
A Few More Important Things
Not Mentioned in Those “Drastic Com-
That the
Mush-B
ained
Borrowed From
the Scull Ring.
Star called the atten- | 1898 and 1899 taxes, and that the taxes
And this
for 1896 and 1897 are lost.
loss will amount to about $4,000.
Just about the time this bogus sale
of unseated lands was being advertised
by the two Scull papers, the old Herald
nearly wore its press out criticising the
County Commissioners on the triennial
assessment. “Timmie” and “Freddie”
would have saved the county money
by minding their own business and let-
ting the Commissioners alone,
Ex-Treasurer Winters is not only $2,-
482.01 short in his accounts, which
neither he nor his bondsmen have yet
paid, but his blunder in advertising a
bogus unseated land sale, upon the ad-
vice of Fred W. Biesecker, in 1898, cost
this county about $4,000.
Isn’t this a glorious record for the
Scull Ring? Do the people of Somerset
county want any more Scull Ring man-
agement of the public cash box? If
they do, they will pay dearly for it by
means of increased taxation. Scull
| ring treasurers and begus unseated
land sales are no doubt profitable to
the Somerset Herald and its Meyers-
ale organette, but they are expensive
luxuries to the farmers, laborers, me-
chanics and business men of Somerset
county who pay the freight in the shape
of unjust taxation. Peter Dumbauld,
the present anti-Ring treasurer, was
elected none to soon, but he can be re-
lied upon to save the county from
further outrage in the oflice of Treas-
urer.
The bondsmen of Ex-Treasurer Win-
ters are Noah Biesecker, Ex-Associate
Judge; Wendell Winters, father of
Wm. Winters; Wm. H. Miller,ex-mem-
ber of the Legislature, and John H.
Zimmerman, deceased. The bond is
$15,000, and it is entered in the Record-
er’s oftice in “Bond and Commission
Record” Vol. 7, page, 205. Our article
of last week gave I'red Biesecker as
one of the bondsmen, but that wv a
typographical error. Noah Biesecker
was the man meant.
Why is the shortage not made good?
Are the bondsmen trying to get their
business affairs in such shape that noth-
| ing can be made by suing them? The
| Commissioners should demand im-
mediate payment.
ger in delay.
There may be dan-
“PENNSYLVANIA,” says a Republicar
contemporary, “has decided to restore
100,000 acres of forest at the headwa-
ters of its rivers. One intelliger:t poli-
tician interested in forestry is worth
| more than all the mouthing dema-
gogues in the country.” In other words,
one intelligent politician interested in
forest trees is worth more than all the
Hoy interested in plum trees.—Louis-
ville Courier Journal.
—— ——-—
No more sensible words than these of
Ex-Secretary of War Alger have been
uttered regarding this country’s atti-
tude in the British-Boer war: “The
war in South Africa is none of our con-
cern, and we should keep our hands off.
When we had trouble with Spain,
Great Britain had no pro or anti-Span-
ish meetings. She attended to her own
business, and if she did anything be-
yond that, it was to give notice to other
nations by implication to let us alone.”
The Bryans and the Masons should re-
strain their impetuosity.
gy
Lvcrrer Syirin is becoming greatly
exercised over the coming Repub-
lican primary. He is evidently
afraid that our county chairman
will make out a slate and deny
the Republicans of Somerset county
the right to express their preference at
the polls, as was done a few years ago
| by a Scullion who was at that time
chairman of the county organization.
Don’t be alarmed, Lucifer, for Chair-
man Berkey is a fair-minded, upright
official, and there will be a primary in
due time. Butall the bellowing an old
steer calf like you ean do will not hur-
ry Mr. Berkey in the least.
—————
Ix to-day’s Herald is the announce-
ment of Hon. Jos. E. Thropp for Con-
gress. Mr. Thropp at present repre-
sents the Twentieth Pennsylvania con-
gressional district. He is admitted to
be a man of more than ordinary force
and ability, and having large business
interests is especially fitted for the
work of a member of a national econ-
gress, In addition to his acknowledged
qualifications for the place, he has the
advantage of the custom that has here-
tofore prevailed conceding at least a
second term to members of Congress
| i teaser :
| from this district, all of which mak
him a very formidable candidate.— |
That Were
| the gang .
tation with three
companies over a contemplated inno-
These roads—the Atchison,
MARCH 8, 1900.
Tyrone Herald.
—— o
Ix the town of Bedford, where John
M. Reynolds resides, and where the
normal Republican majority is about
20, the Democrats captured nearly ev-
erything in sight by large majorities, at
the last borough election. In Hynd-
man, the home of the Bulletin, an out
and out Reynolds paper, the Democrats
elected seven out of twelve candidates
for borough offices. The normal Repub-
lican majority in Hyndman is about 50.
The returns of Bedford and Hyndman
do not show up well for Reynolds and
his howlers. If they have any influ-
ence as Republicans, the two towns
aforesaid should have gone Republican.
Even Miller, one of the Bulletin’s pets,
was one of the defeated Republican | | 3 =
{ Company, which controls 5000 acres of
candidates in Hyndman. Miller is a
Reynolds-Quay heeler, and he wants to
be a Legislative candidate, but the way
the people of Hyndman sat down upon
him at the borough election, seems to
indicate that Reynoldsism does not pass
for Republicanism in Hyndman, and
neither should it.
ee a
Hox. Josernt E. Tnrore, now repre-
senting this district in the House of
Representatives, in Washington, D. C.,
announces himself in this week’s paper
as a candidate for re-nomination. Tt is
the general feeling among the Repub-
licans of this county that he should
have the endorsement of the Republi- |
cans of the district for a second term. |
It has been the custom, from time im-
memorial, to give a second nomination
| to a Representative who has proven
| faithful and useful.
tend that Mr. Thropp has not made a |
No one will con-
model Congressman. He is active
energetic and intelligent, always ready
and prompt to perform any service for
his constituents, no matter how much
inconvenience he may be put to, while
his votes have always been for clean
legislation. He has already become
popular in Washington, where his dig-
nified bearing and agreeable manners
have won him hosts of friends amcog
the leading men of the land. We may
well be proud of our member and we
predict that he will make a name for
himself in Congress. He should be en-
dorsed by the party in this county.—
Holidaysbu: 9 Register.
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Brprorp borough elected Democrats
to the two principal offices—those of
tax collector and chief burgess. The
other offices were about evenly divided
between the two parties. The borough
on a party vote is Republican, taking
the inspectors as a test—by 20 majority.
Yet they lost the chief burgess by 98
and the tax collector by 79—in both
instances excellent men were on the
Republican ticket. Mr. Reynolds should
not have permitted such a slaughter of
good Republicans. If he is of any ad-
vantage to the party he ought to have
shown it by holding the vote in his own
borcugh. And yet with this new lead-
er, Bedford Republicans suffer a disas-
trous defeat. The truth is, Mr. Rey-
nolds has not brought any strength to
the party, only weakness. Ile did not
bring one recruit in all Bedford county.
He came as a lone fisherman. Think
of it, a man who was a leading Demo-
erat for thirty years and most of that
period the leader and boss—leaves the
party, and with a blowing of trumpets
and beating of gongs, announces his
change of beart,and yet it does not
bring with him one convert. What
good did Reynolds coming into the
party do it? Will anyone answer? The
harm he has done everjone knows.—
Everett Press.
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Tuere are some soft-pated would-
be Republicans down in Bedford
2ounty that have some very «
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much shouting for
renegade Democrat, who wants the
Republicans of this district to send
him to Congress. These party wreck-
ers think Thropp has no right fo be a
candidate. Why? Because when Mr.
Thropp was the regular Republican
nominee, two years ago, the Bedford
county bolters voted for Walters, the
Democratic candidate. Because they
were traitors in the Republican party,
they now think they ought to be re-
warded for their treachery. They think
a life-long, honorable Republican like
Mr. Thropp ought to stand back for
Reynolds, a renegade Democrat, and
let such a man and his fool friends run
the party. But we hardly think the
true Republicans of Bedford county
will allow the bolters to rule them. The
Reynolds shouters should be kicked
out of the Republican ranks for disloy-
alty to the party. Men who vote for
Democrats for the important oflice of
Congress have no right to expect to
run the Republican party, forsuch men
are not Republicans, and they should
not be allowed to vote at Republican
primaries.
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Tur Division of Forestry is in consul-
important railway
vation in American railway methods.
Topeka &
Santa Fe, the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul, and the Zanesville & Ohio—
are considering raising tie ‘and pole
timber on a large scale on their now
non-utilized right-of-way lands. Oth-
er large western roads are also inter-
ested. This action is due chiefly to the
failing of the natural supply of this
material in all but the newer portions
of the United States. About one mil-
lion acres of timber are consumed an-
nually by railroads in building and re-
pairing, and, at the present rate of tim-
ber depletion, the increased cost of
such material will soon be a serious
factor in railroad economy. The Santa
Fe line has already done some experi- | 1
mental planting, and the results have | prised and
done much to stimulate interest. This
road planted 1,280 acres in catalpas fif-
teen years ago. The total expense was
$128,000; but it is estimated by the
3:1 aging
Reynolds, J 10 0 Satzor. =
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railroad officials that in ten years more
the tract will have produced $2,560.000
worth of poles, ties, and posts. Having
| become convinced of the necessity of
| growing their own timber, the railroads
naturally wish to take advantage of
| the assistance offered by the Govern-
ment to tree planters—which consists
of expert advice, and of the working
plans for planting, based on personal
examination. The object of the Gov-
ernment is to demonstrate the value of
tree plantations to land owners, espec-
ially those in the treeless regions of
the West.
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Tue famous Johnstown flood of May
31, 1889, will probably soon be recalled
to the public by an attempt to reforest
a large portion of the Conemaugh wa-
tershed to prevent further damage
from freshets. The Johnstown Water
mountain land, has asked the Division
of Forestry to devise a plan by which
the area can be re-covered with timber
and the too rapid run-off of the rainfall
prevented. The reg peculiarly
liable to freshets, owing to its geologie-
al character and the removal of its tim-
ber. The now historic catastrophe,
which swept away $10,000,650 in proper-
ty and half as many lives as the battle
of Gettysburg, was but an exaggerated
instance of many similar floods. This
tendency has been increased by logging
off the timber and clearing numercus
farms, so that the rainfall flows quic
from the surface, causing high water at
e and the drying up of springs
later. The Johnstown Water Company
has bought up many of these farms and
torn down their buildings, and now
wishes to expedite their return to the
forest. The tract is in a sandstone re-
gion, much broken, with valleys aver-
50 feet in depth. The timber
consists of hemlock, oak, locust, and
ash, with some beech and poplar. The
openings are from 20 to 50 acres. As
soon as the weather permits, J. W.
Toumey, Superintendent of Tree Plant-
ing. and another working-plan expert
of the Division of Forestry, will ex-
amine the region and decide on a plan
of reforestation. In the clearings, tree
planting will be required. An attempt
will probably be made to increase the
stand over the whole area by skillfully
assisting natural reproduction. Pro-
tection from fire and cattle will also be
required. The expense will be shared
by the Government and the Water
Company, the former furnishing the ex-
pert work and, possibly, some of the
material for planting.
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Wages in the Mines.
Announcement has been made of a
coming advance in wages to 8,000 min-
ers in the Clearfield and (tambria dis-
tricts, to take effect April 1. Of late
the advances to the miners in the up-
per and central districts of the State
have been numerous, until what was
once the most deplorable trade in Penn-
sylvania will rank again with the profit-
able occupations. When the hard times
were on, and the mines could put out
in two days more coal than could be
used in a week, the plight of the coal
miners was distressing. Some of the
unfortunates were but a little removed
from starvation, and it is not likely that
any other craft ever s in the United
States more trying day
But with the return of prosperity the
condition of the miner has improved,
and with better wages comes steadier
work, until there is not much left to
complain of. With the needs of the do-
mestic markets and the demand that
is springing up for export coal, the
miner has occasion to look forward to
a fairly long term of fatness. And
should the foreign trade be built up
until it assumes the same proportions
that iron and manufactured products
have taken in the markets of the old
% there is hope that the miner
rain see the hardships that
B..the panic that follow-
burg Times.
To the as Tire
Ni eles to add
thatthe advance in miners’ !
g
been too long coming. The miners al
over the country should have had an
inerease in wages long ago. The wages
of iron workers and other trades that
are kindred to the coal trade have been
advanced many moons ago, but the
miner has been kept in the background,
waiting and suffering, wanting and in
some instances almost starving. But a
brighter era seems at last to be dawn-
ing for the men who delve in the bow-
els of the earth. We predict that they
will see very prosperous times for the
next few years at least, and if they do,
they should make the best of their ad-
vantge.
Less money should pass over
the beer counter, and more should be
invested in town lots and in homes.
We can point out a number of men in
thistyicinity who have done nothing
but mine coal for a number of years,
but who nevertheless of n comfortable
homes and have bank “accounts. How
did it all come about? It eame about
by taking advantage of gocd times
when good times were here—by econo-
my and proper living, by sobriety and
absence at the beer saloons, e te., ete.
Fortune knocks at every man’s door
at some time or other, but there are so
many men at the beer saloon
tune knocks that they neve d it out.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,
which, if taken at its flood, leads on to
fortune,” while the beer glass, if taken
at its flood, leads “over the hills to the
poor house,” or to a state of affairs
even worse.
when for-
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Meyersdale Items.
March 6th.—The Shaw miners went
out on a strike, March 5th. They
are striking for an advance of 5 cents
en due them
ofte r mines
which they claim ha
for over five
crowd,
ople were
ited wit
The
VOrs O
ing, and
at work to
st of next month,
v !
i the carpenters are now hs
complete it by the fir