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ron rowNsHrP CONSTABLE.

hereby announce myself as q candidate for Constable of Vaugine Township, subject general election in September next.
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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Thaeher Pulls Out.

ALBANY, Sept. 2T.-Without waiting for
the official notification from the commit
tee appointed by the Buffalo convention
to tell him of his nomination as the DEM
ocratic candidate for Governor of New
York, John Boyd Thacher yesterday
wrote letter declining the nomination.
In it he avowed that it was his purpose
to organize the Democracy of the State
in a contest on local issues. He goes on
to say that as it is apparently the purpose
of the Democratic party TO contest the
election on the sole issue of the free coin
age of silver, it is impossible for him to
make a campaign on that question. he
adds:
There seems TO be no place in the
Democratic party to-day for conservatism.
Men are divided into two classes, each
entertaining views exceedingly intoiera-
bic TO the other. The history of legisla-
ton is that conservatism in the end pre-
walls. believe that the Democratic par
~, when it approaches the responsibility
of legislation, will be true to itself and
the people"
Mr.. Thacher concluded by saying that
he has no sympathy for those who desert
the Democratic party now in its hour of
need. Judge Porter, the nominee for
Lieutenant Governor, has also declined
the nomination, but this is supposed to
be merely ruse to obtain his promotion
TO first place on the ticket.
Senator Hill was asked tonight if he
intended to attend the meeting of the
committee. He remarked that sufficient
unto the day is the matter thereof"
The State committee will probably sub
stitute Elliott Danforth for Thacher at
/ its meeting tomorrow.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Victoria's Reign.

Wednesday marked a new record in
the history of the British throne and the
event was recognized and celebrated
throughout the wide extent of the British
Empire. Queen Victoria was then 50
years and % days an occupant of the
British throne, beating the longest prev
ious reign by one day. Next year sixty
summers will have passed since she sue
ceeded her uncle. William ", and she
herself has commaned that the celebra-
tlon of the length of her rule shall be
postponed until the even number of years
shall be rounded out next summer. The
day of her birth, May a. when she will
be Is, the date of her accession, June 20,
and the date of her coronation, June 2s,
come so near together that the next
Jubilee, a decade after the celebration of
her half century of ruling, will embrace
all these notable events.
OF the preceding occupants of the
British throne, only three have sat as
long as fifty years, and they were Henry
Ill. the Oldest son of John. of Magma
Charta fame, who reigned about fifty
six years; Edward III, about fiify. and
George ILL.,, who was king for more than
fifty-nine years. George Ill. was born
June 4, l73s, succeeded to the throne on
October .. lT60, when he was y, became
permanently insane on his third serious
attack (lsIll, and died January %, 1870,
in his SD year. He reigned. therefore.
In name at least. from October ., l760. to
January q, 1920, or fifty-nine years. three
months and four days,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
The Uses of Money.
n The New York World

From the New York World.
Let us sum up the uses Of money:
First, money is the common medium
of exchange. 1t transfers value. We sell
for money anything we make. We buy
for money anything we want. Money is
good anywhere TO buy anything that is
for sale.
Second. money is the common measure
of value. We do not have to measure out
so much flour for pair of shoes. Money
measures the value of the flour and the
value OF the shoes. 1t makes trading
simple and easy.
Third, money divides value. In wages,
among all those who help to make a
thing. OF twenty people who help to
make pair of shoes, each of the twenty
gets the worth of his labor. not in piece
OF the shoe, but in his share of its money
value.
Fourth, money stores value. 1t Is a
standard of value. We count our savings
in money; we can buy anything for mon
ey at any time when we want il.
These are the chief uses of money
Good money must be good for all these
uses.
Gold is good money because it serves
all these uses. Silver is not as good
money because it does not serve the use
of storer of values. Silver falls or rises
like other things.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Pensioners Dying Rapidly.

Commissioner of Pensions Murphy, in
his annual report on the operations of the
Pension Bureau, shows that 1854 new
pensioners were added and 3 3,s72 restored
who had been previously dropped, max
Ing a total at 44,2i7. The losses for vari-
Gus reasons aggregated A, ,093. The whole
number of pensioners on the roll June
80, 1896, was 970.673.
The Commissioner states it may now
safely be assured that the roll from this
time on will show steady diminution,
unless Congress should enact still more
liberal provisions. The rate of mortality
of the pensioners, particularly those who
served through the war of the rebellion,
is rapidly increasing.
Disallowances of pensions during the
year amounted TO 7,2s0, most of them be-
ing applications for increases. The
amount disbursed was Sl3s, ,2l4,00O, a de-
crease of Sl,5a2, 600.
The amount appropriated for pension
payments, sl4O0o0.OOO, was found to be
more than sufficient. There was at the
close of the fiscal year an unexpended
balance of 81, $4,000. The Commissioner
dopts She estimates of his predecessor,
Judge Lochren, for lS9S, namely, $780,
100000 for pensions and q, S2s, 600 for 9TH
er expenses.
The act of January ), 1893, increasing
pensions from IS to Sl2 of certain Mexi-
can veterans whose names were then on
the roll, the Commissioner says, does not
make any provisions for the pensions of
others whose names might be subsequent
ly recorded, and he recommends that the
sl2 increase be granted to all Mexican
survivors who are totally disabled. and
in destitute circumstances.
The Commissioner also calls attention
TO the fact that there is no statute provid-
ing pension for the widows of officers
or soldiers who died from causes origi-
mating in the service prior to March 4,
ls6l, during a time of peace. This, he
thinks, is an inequality in the law which
should be reinedied by Congressional ac-
| ton,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
The Split in New York.

BROOKLYN, Sept. 24.-The New York
racy tonight nominated Daniel &. Grif-
fin, of Watertown. by acclamation, for
Governor. Frederick w. Henrichs, of
Kings county, for Lieutenant Governor,
Spencer Clinton, of Buffalo, for Judge OF
the Court of Appeals. and adopted a res
olution indorsing the indianapolis plat
form and ticket. The only name pre-
sented against Mr.. Griffin for Governor
was that of Patrick J. Gleason, who NOV
ed that the nomination of Mr.. Griffin be
made 10y acclamation. During the pro-
ceedings Gen. John NJ. Palmer, the Ma
dent, appeared in the hall and was greet
ed with great applause.
After the nominations had been con-
cluded Gen. Palmer made speech. He
started in by saying that a Senator from
Missouri said il is the duty of a Demo-
crat 10 first vote the ticket and then read
the platform. lie congratulated himself
that he was in the presence of Demo-
Gratis who first read the platform and
then decide whether to vote for the can
didates or not.
He quoted the case of Illinois as hav-
ing been prosperous because the State
had never repudiated its debt. He pre-
dicted that Bryan would be beaten, and
the Populists and the Democrats of the
Chicago convention would be damned to.
gether. He added that all the people OF
this country except the silver mine own
ers and the men who are desperately in
debt, and desiring to pay their debts in
the least possible value, are interested in
preserving the present standard of val
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
The Tyranny of the Desk.

We will suppose that your occupation
is sedentary-that you are chained, so to
speak to the desk in some counting house,
or perhaps to the loom in some vast mill
where you are compelled to labor from
morning till night. Sunday is your only
day of relaxation. You return home
every evening wearied mentally and bod
lily. Your health aud strength begin to
fail. What will most effectually reca-
perate your vital energy? The weight OF
evidence points to no other conclusion
than that Hcstetter's Stomach Bitters is
your safest, most reliable sheet anchor.
Use il persistently, and your system will
soon regain its pristine vigor. Every
function will receive healthful impulse.
There is no remedy to equal the Bitters
for nervousness and want of sleep, dys-
pepsia, constipation and biliousness. 1t
averts and remedies all forms of malarial
disease, and is preventive of rheuma-
tism and neuralgia.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Here's the Record.


New York World, DEM
Mr.. Bryan was Populist four years
ago. BY his own public admission at
Mount Vernon, H., on the 18th of March
last. as certified to under oath by twelve
citizens of that place, he voted for Wea-
yer. the Populist candidate for President
in lss2. and against Cleveland, the candi-
date of the Democracy.
There has been no more significant
niece of political news printed since the
Chicago nomination than this announce
meut. made exclusively in the World on
Tuesday. II is most extraordinary that
the fact has not been sooner revealed.
Had if been known at the time of the
Chicago convention il is doubtful If even
that body would have nominated Mr..
Bryan even in response to his crown-oi-
thorns speech.
The purpose and the method of the dis
closure leave no room for doubt as to its
nesfect truth. Ii was made in an afil-
dayit by twelve of Mr.. Bryan's friends,
| 10 relieve him from the charge made 10y
another of his auditors in March last,
who said that Mr.. Bryan then proclaim
ed that he .'was not a Democrat" These
men aver that he did say in substance
that IF the policy carried out 10y Presi-
dent Cleveland is Democracy, then / am
not Democrat" This is absolutely
PARTY disloyalty. A good many Demo-
Gratis did not approve Of all Of Mr.. Cleve-
lands policv. But the twelve citizens
continue:
..In answer TO the question, "Did you
s'vote for Cleveland?' he answered; No
s.the Democrats of Nebraska supported
..the Populist ticket, so as to take away
1.-THE state from the Republicans, and ac-
"cording TO that understanding l voted
'for the Populist electors
This is explicit 1t is an admission
that in the great contest four years ago
between Democracy and Republicanism
Mr. BRYAN voted for James b. Weaver
the Populist candidate, who received j.
I22,0O0 votes
Who was Weaver? A former Republic
can congressman from Iowa, who nevel
supported a Democratic measure or voteC
for Democratic candidate
And for what did Mr.. Weaver stand il
that campaign? He stood upon the oma
ha platform, which declared:
"Q) For irredeemable legal-tende
paper money, issued % the amount o
$50 per capita by the government, TO b
distributed" on the Farmers Allianc'
"sub-treasury system or in payment.fo
public improvements % for free anS
UNLIMITED coinage Of silver at 10 to l; l3
''for government ownership and opera
''tion of railroads, telegraph and tele
"phone lines, which could only be secur
s'ed by confiscation.
These and other vagaries and danger
Gus lunacies made up the Populist plat
form of 1892, " hich Mr.. Bryan indorseS
ty voting for Mr. Weaver. He was eiec
n ted to congress by Populist votes. HI
tried to get in the Senate by Populist in
fluence, upon the distinct understanding
that the Populist convention would nom
mate him also. This was done, and h'
has received his official notification o
that nomination.
If Mr.. Bryan is not politician an'
Populist, what is he?
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
On The Crime of '73.~

The Cincinnati Post publishes a letter
from Senator Sherman emanating from
the National Republican Campaign Com
mittee, defending the position his party
took in the so-called "Crime of I'd" Mr..
Sherman declares:
81 have never been able to see what
motive could have existed for secrecy in
this matter There was no indication
whatever of the fall of silver. and no one
could foresee that it was destined to rap
idly decline in price. No one asked 10
have the dollar coined. and no one was
opposed to its diseontinuance.
''To prove that there was no secrecy
aud not leave the matter to argument or
inference copies OF the bill were sent To
experts all over the country, asking their
opinion, and answers were received and
laid before the Congress in printed form,
in which the discontinuance of the silver
dollar was thoroughly discussed.
The bin was reprinted thirteen times,
and extra copies were printed for dis
tribution. II was conned over, amended
and debated almost as copiously as any
measure ever considered in Congress, and
no man in either house proposed to re-
tain the old silver dollar. The fact that
it was omitted from our coins was re-
ierred TO in debate.'
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Negro Roughly Treated.

Snow HILL, Nd, September 26.-Chris
Green, ,eolored, was nearly beaten to death
here last night by crowd OF indignant
citizens. The negro had been selling
pictures in the town, and he spoke in an
impudent manner to woman on the
street. She told several persons Of the
insult The report spread. and late at
night a crowd went to the house where
he was stopping, battered down the door
and dragged him out with a rope about
his waist 4 desperate attempt was
made to lynch him, but this was preven-
ted. The crowd then began beating
the man with whips and clubs. Dozens
of times he was knocked down and trod
upon. Finally he was struck by a large
club and fell to the gronnd apparently
dead. The crowd then dispersed. He
became conscious later and crawled out
of town.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
How Money Stores Value.

From the New York World.
liza man is prudent he tries 10 spend
less than he earns. He tries TO save. A
man begins to have wealth as soon as he
begins to save. A country is prosperous
when all its people together spend less
than they earn.
A farmer who grows hay can not save
hay; il will spoil after a year or so. II
he raises cattle he can not save cattle;
they will die. \ milkman can not save
milk; it will spoil in a day or two. 4
shoemaker can not save shoes; a tailor
can not save clothes, they viii go out of
style or will rot.
Any worker who makes things does
not want TO save the thing he makes. He
wants to sell this for money and "save
money"
He may use this saved money to buy
other things which he will keep, or he
may keep the money itself. or he may
lend il to another man or through a
bank. sad get it back later when he
wants il for something else.
He knows that al any time money will
buy what he wants when he wants it.
The hay or leather or shoes, so long as
they can be kept. are likely to fall in val
ne from year 10 year. Money, good
money. remains standard. 1t does not
fall iu value as other things do. Money
that falls in value is not good money.
Thus money is used also 10 store value.
1t is 2 standard of value.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Mckinley First Vote.

From a Speech TO First Voters.
/ recall, young men, my first vote. With
what thrill of pride | exercised for the
first time the full prerogative of citizen
ship, have not realized greater pride
since / felt that l had some part in the
government. The period and circnm-
stances when l east my first vote may
have made deeper impression upon me
than it otherwise you'd. but / recall it
now after thirty-two years with sensa-
tions of joy and satisfaction. Applause. }
In the crisis of war, on the very field of
conflict, my first vote was cast for Abra-
ham Lincoln. (Great cheering) 1t is TO
me priceless memory. What glorious
privilege to have been permitted TO vote
for a candidate for President whose SER
vices 10 his country in the greatest peril
OF its life rank with the services of Wash
ington, the father of his country. zap
plause.l Priceless memory to me that |
could vote for the martyr of liberty, the
emancipation of race and the saviour OF
the only free government among men.
(Great cheering
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Hanna on the Outlook.

Chairman Mark a. Hanna, of the Re-
publican National Committee, arrived in
New York Thursday.
MIR. Hanna said: "Well, the situation
is all right and getting better all the time.
The free silver disease is curing itself as
the people come to their sober second
thought. l have no anxiety whatever
about the result. My stay here will
probably extend over ten days.
THE sound money advocates are hold
ing large meetings regardless of party,
and many converts are being made. We
have over 800 speakers talking sound
money in Central, Western and North
western States. The demand for sound
money literature in the Central Western
States is large, and think that it is an
excellent sign by which to judge the
ideas of the people.
Il see no reason To be discouraged with
the outlook in the Central Western
States"
Chairman Hanna will go thoroughly
over the work of the campaign in the
Southern States before he makes his final
departure for Chicago, H., where he is
to remain until the close of the battle.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
News Items.

The Department of Agriculture is send
to the farmers and dairymen of the State.
The document was prepared by State
Chemist Cochran, of West Chester, who
recommends that the use of colOring mat
ters be prohibited until their influence
on the human organs has been investi-
gated.
Everybody will want to vote this fall
and every body who wants 10 vote must
be qualified. Therefore pay your taxes.
They must be paid at least thirty days
before election or, prior % October ,. 1t
is necessary to have paid State or Coun-
ty tax within two years, and those who
owe should be sure and pay them before
October s. Don't neglect this.
Only 800 persons in l,O)o,O0O according
to medical authority, die from old age,
while 100 succumb to gout, ls,4O0 TO
measles, 200 to apoplexy, 1000 to erysip-
elias, 100 to consumption. 5000 to scarlet
fever. 25.Oo) to whooping cough. 30, 900 to
typhoid and typhus and 1908 to rheuma-
tism. The averages vary according to To-
cality, but these are considered pretty ac.
curate as regards the population of the
globe as a whole.
Members of the Nansen expedition say
that so tired did they become of seeing
the same faces and hearing the same
voices day after day in the course of III,
slow drift Northward that i'm the end
feeling of irritation was produced. Al
times this irritability became well nigh
insupportable, and the men would sc
off on long walks across the ice, eaci
man by himself and carefully avoiding
his fellows.
The Pittsburg Daily News is just abou
six months old. II is Republican eve
ming newspaper of eight pages, neatly
printed, and served by mail or carrier n
one cent copy, or s. year. The Dai
ly News aims to be a paper for the home
and it spares neither labor nor expense
to cater to the family circle. 1t claims L
have been phenomenally successful in it,
efforss. II is the only ii tsburg dali,
with page devoted entirely to women.
If you have not seen il you can get 4
sample of it by mail free OF charge.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Wheat and Silver.

One of Mr.. Bryan's strong points In his
appeal to the Western farmers is that the
low price of wheat is caused by the de-
monetization of silver. To be sure. wheat
was higher in 1872 or in 1881 than it had
been in 1870, but facts are unimportant
in connection with "the crime of 1877
Wheat has unquestionably fallen in price,
and so has silver; therefore, five initiate
the price of silver, the price of wheat
must rise
Ifthe decline of wheat has been due to
the decline of silver. how does it happen
that the price of wheat is now rising;
while that of silver is still going down ?
In the last week of August. the price of
| December wheat in Chicago was 50 cents
bushel. on Saturday last il was 81
cents, an advance of IA cents, or more
than p per cent in five weeks. At the
former date the price of bar silver in
New York was 67l cents an ounce, and on
Saturday it was 65s cents, decline OF 2
| per cent.
Clearly the prices of both commodities
are regulated in the same way, by the
worlds supply and demand We pro-
duce in this country more wheat than we
consume, and the price at which we can
sell the surplus abroad determines the
price it will command at home. When
the foreign demand is small-or the sup
ply from other countries abundant
wheat declines; when exports increase,
/ nriceS rise again.
| Even the most confiding Populist mnst
perceive that the recent upward move
ment in the grain market has not been
brought about by free coinage or by the
promise Of il. Silver has not shared in
the advance, as it Should have done by
the Populist theory, because there has
been no increased demand for it, and a
bushel of wheat will buy actually more
silver to-day-as well as more iron or
steel or aluminum-than when it was
selling at a dollar. And with the rise in
wheat, the quotations of Bryan stock de-
cline-Philadelph Times.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Couldn't Dig the Woman Out.

WILLIAMSBURG, Pa, Sept "a force
of telegraph linemen were outwitted by
a determined woman here to-day. The
men were out to change the location of a
pole that stood on the premises of Mrs.
Charles Gibson, when Mrs. Gibson enter
ed protest. When the men had dug
the hole for the pole Mrs. Gibson slid in-
to the hole, and no amount of coaxing or
threatening could get her out.
policeman was called, but the wo-
man was on her own property, and was
in nowise disturbing the peace, so the
officer could not molest her. The line
men attempted to frighten her out by
digging about her with heavy bars but
Mrs. Gibson remained firm and the men
went away without accomplishing the
work of moving the pole.
After the men had gone Mrs. Gibson
hurried into her garden and uprooted a
small plum tree. This she planted on
the spot where the new pole was to be plac-
ed. city ordinance provides that nc
tree or shrub shall be despoiled by corpo.
rations in the erection of poles. and thus
it looks as though Mrs. Gibson would
win.