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ispnbiiflhedon Friday morning of each week At
Rising Sun, Cecil Co., Maryland,
—BY—
E. E. EWING & SONS.
Independent in politics and all other
subjects.
SI.OO A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
Friday, March 25, 1892.
Co-operative Farming.
The day of individual effort is past. The
times and changed conditions are demand
ing co-operative effort. When farm wages
were 40 cents a day wheat 90 a bushel, corn
40 cents, a good cow sl6, calico 10 to 15
cents a yard and other goods at correspond
ing prices, times were better for all, because
all found employment, and production and
distribution went hand in hand. But now
all these conditions have changed and pro
ducers and employers must change to
conform to present conditions. The best
labor deserts the country for the city hoping
to find a more prosperous field, but in this
they fail. Bright young fellows can gel
but $3 and $4 a week in the city and it costs
all of that to support them. The railroads
and other corporations pick out the very
best, and send ten adrift where one is em
ployed. When the country is abandoned
for the city the door is closed behind them
and few are able to return, aud step by step
they sink lower into the depths of want.
The great changes which artificial power
and invention have worked in the last 50
years have destroyed the indiyidual’sability
to compete in price, and in so doing have
multiplied production tenfold which has
thrown labor out of employment. Labor
used to own its tools and create the products
of the land and shop. Artificial power and
invention have taken the tools from labor,
and owning the tools a few own the products
which machinery and artificial power create,
and vast numbers of laborers have no em
ployment. Everything therefore tends to
force labor toward co operation in order
that it too may produce cheap and enjoy a
larger portion of its products. Tiie farmer
has clung to his old methods longer than
any other producer but the time has come
when combinations of speculators have
taken charge of his products, set the price
of them and supply him with tools and
merchandise at their own price. In trying
to stand alone against such formidable
forces, he is being oyerwhelmned. He must
reform his expensive methods anti save
much which now goes to waste. The ex
pense and unayoidabie waste to Conduct one
farm by the present individual method em
ployed, under a proper co-operative system
would do the work of two or three.
Farmers like eyery other class of business
men must study along the lines of co-opera
tive labor and establish their business on
that system or sink to a lower plane of
society and dependence. They caondt stand
alone and resist the fearful odds that are
agaiust them. They may hog their foolish
conceit and say, “Oh, lam independent.
lam capable of attending to my own bus
iness.” He may, if entirely clear of debt,
keep his head above water while he liyes,
if he does not live too loDg, but where will
his children be? The inevitable future his
present condition leads to, ought to be con
sidered and measures taken to prevent the
tenant and wage slavery, degradation and
want present conditions point to for the
next generation.
The idea of the forty acre farm and the
independent farmer, the little farm well
tilled is a bit of pastrol poetry, an idle
dream, that may be realized by one in a
hundred, and for a limited time, but must
soon be swallowed up by the gieat octupus
of capital. The large tract conducted on
true co-operative principles is the only hope
of the farmer to escape the condition of the
European peasant. What American farmer
would live as the French peasant farmer on
a patch of 4 acres cultivated by himself and
wife with hand tools ? And this is what
the small farm and so called independent
farmer leads to. Either this or the renter
under a land lord who owns hundreds of
farms, as in Ireland and England.
G. B. the miserable.
Our friend George Balderston born down
with the weight of the prohibition party of
Cecil which has so long rested on his lone
shoulders is in sore trouble, and makes an
exhibition of himself in the Whig last week
that eclipses the climbing monkey. He
publishes a long article in the Whig filled
with imaginary grievances against the Mid
land Journal, which must have caused
the editor of that paper to chuckle,
over the irony of fate that spurred friend
George to make such a laughing stock of
himself. The only bit of saving grace in
the long aimless article is tlie short editor
ial quoted from the Midland Journal.
There is no sense in the tirade and the
charges it contains are entirely yoid of truth.
He mast have been indulging in cider to fit
him for the crazy quilt effusion. If there
was anything to reply to in friend G. B’s.
lugubrious complaint we would freely Ido so,
but it is absolute jargon. What he quotes
from Miß9 Willard’s paper does not con
flict with anything ever published in the
Journal and is pointless a9 to his com
plaint. Her opiniun is that it'would have
been a wise thing for the St. Louis Conven
tion to have placed its destinies under the
white ribbons with Mi9B Willard at the
head of the procession, with school teacher
Dickie, Thomas and St. John next in the
line and G. B. on the flank smiling down
to his boots with joy. They, the conven
tion. didn’t think so. It was mere matter
of cpinion, and the two differed. We pub
lished in our last issue what Miss Willard
thought of the future of the prohibition
party, which was that it had better have its
name changed, which meant disbanding.
Da La Mater said as much sometime ago,
Aud the national organ, The Voice, has
been saying the same between the lines for
a good wbile. But G- B. and a “small
but respectable” class have gazed at the red
lights over the saloon door till they baye
become blind or hyptonized, and can see
nothing else, or hear any thing save lb
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clink of the glasses. They cannot conceive
that conditions and parties have changed.
Experience has taught them nothing. Like
the mad bull charging the flag of the mata
dor? they blindly plunge at the red lights
over the saloon door only to fall victims.
Nearly all the delegates at the Industrial
Convention were prohibitionists and
sensible people and saw that the prohibition
party conld have no place in their declara
tion of purposes, no more than the other
two parties. Like them it is composed of
two distinct elements —the monopoly class
and the plain industrial class. The former
will And its affinity in that element of the
old parties, and the latter will grayilate to
the industrial, producing class, but G. B.
and his “small but respectable” set have
looked upon the red light of the saloon so
: long that they will never be able to com
prehend tbat the political drift has entirely
changed wilbio the last three years. Tbey
bave no conception that the prohibition
parly and its little set of mutual admira
tionists. They are in tho bonrbon stage
when men learn nothing and forget nothing.
If the party should disband we doubt if
, frieod G. B. would ever discover the fact,
but like the honest old honnd which having
holed a rabbit kept barking in (be hole for
i hours after bunny had gone out at the other
end.
i
t The Dower and Danger of Concen
■ trated Capital.
The vast plutocratic corporations aud
I combines will freeze out every man who has
i made a fortune by honest means as soon
> as he comes in their way, and they can
get their clutches on him. This is
’ being done all the time and increasingly by
) the gorged but still greedy plutocracy, lor
' men of more than moderate fortunes are
i being devoured by it every day.
i The rule of the Triumphant Plutocracy
* has entirely changed our old commercial
i status. The man with one hundred thous-
I and or four hundred thousand dollars capi
, tal is no longer lord of himself and indepen
; dent. In any business he goes into he must
, sink himself into a tributary vassal to the
■ plutocracy or it will snuff him out. Strictly
) speaking it is not men that are against him,
r but he is at the mercy of an evil system
i which is constantly increasing in power,
r and after he is dead it is able to make his
i despoiled children beg their bread. Mod
? erately rich men of brains see this inexor
; able tendency and justly dread it. Inlelli
? gent patriots ought to know, if they do not,
i that thy are short sighted fools in trying
I to leave their children large lumps of
e money, and then throw them on the mercy
t of an oligarchy of financial and commercial
t aristocrats who every year decimate the
- ranks of the well conditioned and comfort
e ably circumstanced. There is no securiiy
-for your children and grand children except
l under equal laws that give everybody an
even show. We now live in a time when
s the few are permitted to rob the many by
- grace of legal charters. There conld be no
) hundred-million-dollar men like Gonld.
f Vanderbilt and Rockerfeller were this not
I the case, and the fact that these enormous
; fortunes were piled up by single men, in a
] few years, proves conclusively tbat our
. present system for the distribution of wealth
- >s grossly inequitable, and while it exists no
, man can count his property as stable and
, secure and much less can he affirm with
I certainty as to that of bis children.
s Concentrated and.->rganized capital has in
- creased its power to absorb the wealth
; annually created fiye-fold in five years, and
I is steadily increasing.- The Coming Climax.
The 70 Cent Dollar.
!
The latest fad among the old party ma
, chine politicians is a7O cent dollar. This
t altogether depends on what use you make of
l the article. If you want to make a spoon
! of a dollrr it is worth probably about 70
t cents. If you wish to use it as a dollar it
t is worth 100 cents. It all depends on the
, maker. The government takes the hit of
silver and makes the dollar. The silver
smith takes a similar piece in weight and
fineness and makes the spoon. There is
only one firm which makes dollar. That
firm has a monopoly of dollar making, and
, will make none of less than 100 cents,
r There are many makers of silver spoons,
hence the price often varies and is low or
high according to the demand for the raw
material. The government has a monopo
ly of dollar making and if any person in
i fringes on tbat business and attempts to
r make dollars, he is immediately sent to
! tbe penitentiary to learn another trade,
i Sometimes this monopolistic government
: makes dollars out of gold aod out of paper
> but they are all of tbe same price, 100
I cents. This never varies. There are no
- 70 cent dollars because the government
I will not permit anybody to make them. Do
, you see the point? And yet the great daily
I papers which claim to be the light of the
f world publish leng articles about 70 cent
) dollars, and wo send men to congress who
- will make speeches in that august body
. about 70 cent dollars. The plain people
e are becoming ashamed of these papers and
■ congressmen.
t - '- j t, a ~**
e Let’s reason together. Here’s a firm, one
i. of the largest the country over, the world
>, over; it has grown, step by step, through
s the year! to guarantees —and it sells patent
- medicines ! ugh I
e “Thai’s enongh ! ” Wait a little—This
- firm pay tbe newspapers good money (ex
-9 pensive work, this advertising 1) to tel] the
- people that tbey have faith in what they
e sell, so much faith that if they can’t bene
-9 fit or cure you they don’t want your money,
r Their guarantee is not indefinite and rela
-9 live, but definite and ahmlu/e—if the ruedi
i cine doesn’t help, your money is “on call,”
Suppose every sick man and every feeble
r woman tried these medicines and found
- them worthless, who would he the loser,
1 you or tbey ? The medicines are Dr.
> Pierce’s “Golden Medical Disnoyery," Cor
9 blood diseases, and his “Favorite Preserip
• lion,” for woman’s peculiar ills. If tbey
> held toward health, they cost SI.OO a bottle
9 each f If they don’t, they cost nothing !
i —: —
I FOR THE BLOOD,
Weakness, Malaria, Indigestion and
! Biliousness, take
BROWN’S IRON BITTERS.
' It cares quickly. For sale by all dealers to
aaedidne. Get the genuine.
A Railroad Monument.
“Ceremonies upon (lie completion of the
monument erected by the Pennsylvania B
R. Co. at Bordentown, New Jersey, to mark
the first piece of track laid between New
York and Philadelphia, 1831” is the title
of a book, paper bound, giving an interesting
account of this unique monument and no
less unique ceremony. The pamphlet, or
more properly book, contains a history of
the first railroad enterprises in this country,
Which is full of interest when the compari
son is drawn between then and now. Robt.
L. Elevens was the one man in all America
who looking through tbe years to come, told
his incredulous companions the .future of
railroads in this country, before there was a
track laid in all America. Of course be
was set down by tbe wisdom of the time as
crazy and a crank on tbat subject. He had
simply thought it out as aoy competent
mind may do any subject which is to deyelop
in the future.
We are under obligation to Mr. Joseph
T. Richards, Assistant Chief Engineer of
the Pennsylvania R. R. Co., who played an
important part in tbe erection of this rail
road monument, as far, as we are informed,
ever erected. Mr. Richards assisted io the
design, drawings and specification of the
monument, and on Thursday, November
12th, 1891, on tbe 60th anniversary of the
movement of carriages by steam, in the
State of New Jersey. Mr. Richards was
assigned tbe honor by the P. R. R. Co. of
transferring the unique monument he had
i so conspicuous a pait in creating, to the
custody of the United New Jersey Railroad
and Canal Co. There are two monuments,
i one at each end of the section of track laid
on which to make the first experiment with
the locomotive made in England. Mr.
Richards in his presentation address thus
describes the monument;
“After a most careful examination Mr.
Dipps [the old engineer who managed the
engine on the memorable day of its trial in
1831] drove a stake at each end of the sec
tion of track at which points you now see
the two monuments. The larger monument
: needs an explanation, as its manner of con
struction ia a matter of history well worth
, preserving. The foundation stones are the
block npon which the rails were originally
, laid—cut to form a proper bond for mason
i ry. The rail is from tbe original track
forty-two pounds per yard in height bent to
■ form the circle. The joint plates are from
- the original track, as are also the spikes,
, all of which we have gathered from old
: shops and material yards for the purpose—
f the stone blocks placed as supports for tbe
1 rail are arranged without hammer dressing
I to show their original shape,(and the Cube
■ of granite is a fitting mile stone in the his
• lory of the railway.”
’ It is unnecessary to remind our readers
t that Mr. Richards waS a Rising Sun boy,
i baring been raised within three miles of
i the village. He has our thanks |for the
’ book which contains a history so interesiing
i of the early trials and triumphs of the rail
. road dreamers as such men as Stevens were
, termed by the wiseacres of his day. As if
i io make the contrast of the present with the
i past more impressive and striking a large
- colored map ia added to the little volume,
i of the railroad lines of to-day extending
i from the surf beaten shores of the Atlantic
to tbe placid waters of Lake Michigan,
which combine to form the great Pennsyl
vania system.
What is the Evil of To-day P
Here are many millions of people
who never have enough to eat from
one year’s end to aootber. Here are
many millions more with abundance
to spare after having satisfied their
cravings of hunger, but who never
. have enough to wear, and who can
not exchange their surplus food for
wearing apparel at such a rate as to
pay them for making the food
There are millions more employed
and other millions working at a pit
tance which will not pay for decent
shelter, much less for food. There
are mortgages hanging over nine
elevenths of our homes, and our sur
plus food and even our property
itself will not raise them. Why is
all this ? Because property will not
raise mortgages, it will not pay
debts, it will not buy clothes,
It will not buy food ; because labor
will not do any of these things,
either ; because money alone can do
these things, and because it, money,
is so scarce as to be beyond the
reach of the many/ Custom, habit,
education, every business arrange
ment has made money necessary for
the running of the whole machine,
and a sufficiency ot money does not
exist in the reach of the people, and
consequently everything must stop.
—B. B. Turner, in Nat. Economist.
Wouldn’t Support Even Grover
Cleveland on a Silver Platform.
During the afternoon, Mr. Hill, In
an outburst of impatience on being
so frequeutiy asked about Mr. Harter
and his letter, said that since so
, many persons were asking him ques
tions, he would like to know if Mr.
Harter was staunch enough a Demo
crat to support the Democratic can
didate, whoever he might be, on a
1 free silver platform. When Mr.
, Harter was told a few moments later
Mr. Hil’s query, be almost stood
aghast at the bare possibility involv
ed in the question. “Why,” said he,
when he recovered bis breath, “I
wouldn’t support even Grover Cleve
land on a free silver platform. ’’ —
Washington correspondence of Asso
ciated Press,
So there yon bave it. The plu
tocrat end of the democratic party
will split the party wide open before
they trill allow free coinage to have
any plane in their platform- They
have evidently made up their minds
to bulldoze tbe aouth and west or go
over to the republican party. Tbia
element of tbe two old parties has
always been voting together but they
bare concealed tbe fact behind tbe
tariff sham. They must fight in tbe
open in future and their dupes will
no longer be duped.
How Tbey Carried Out Their
Promises.
They refunded the debt, that is,
doubled it. They changed the bonds
from circulating money and made
them higher denomination. Tbey
sold tbe people’s money in a day of
peace for half price. They called in
all option bonds and made them run
a longer time. They paid premiums
enough on bonds to hnye built a
railroad from New York to San Fran
cisco. They discounted the trade
dollar in the hands of the people and
made it of full value to bankers.
They raised their own salaries and
withdrew the people’s money so that
prices aud wages were decreased
more than one-half. They loaned to
themselves for nothing, and legislat
ed the people into the hands of shy
lock to pay at tbe rate of 10 per
cent interest. They thus legislated
twenty billions of debt. They called
the farmer intelligent and as soon as
he began to comprehend, called him
an anarchist- They demonetized
silver. Through bougbten control of
tbe finance they gambled in the
stocks of the entire nation. They
refused the people money in order to
suject and control the nation. They
bought over half the newspapers of
the United States and sold American
blood, bone and sinew to England in
• order to gather in the wreck. They
declared a boycott against a news
paper which dared to publish the
truth. They have sent against jus
tice the hirelings of tbe grog shop
and of the mojey power, and in less
than thirty years made millions of
paupers, aod degraded the church.
These charges are things of record
and can’t be denied. They were all
accoraplisbed by enactment of laws.
The republican party was in power
through all this period. How can it
escape conviction tried uoder this
indictment ?—New Era, Almond,
n. y.
Signs of a Union of Parties.
Notwithstanding the strenuous
efforts made by both old party
papers and managers to force tariff
to crowd out every question in the
Presidential canvass, the over
whelmning force of public sentiment
is forcing the financial question to
the first place. The signs every day
and every where more strongly show
the steadily weakening influence the
chronic tariff humbug has on tbe
popular mind.
When the “debate” on tariff was
commenced in the House it was
greeted by empty galleries and seats
in the chamber- The monopoly
daily papers oatchiog these unmis
takable symptoms of public disgust,
are now busily bulldozing tbe polit
ical machines oi both parties to be
sure to have the conventions soon to
be called, for the purpose of choosing
, delegates to the natioal conventions
to pass strong anti-silver coinage
resolutions. If the tariff through
sheer force of public sentiment is rel
egated to a Second place in these im
portant clap trap party “pronuncca
mentoeß,’‘ and the finance question
is placed at the front, the old parties
will not be able to divide on their
old time lines. In the eastern and
middle stales the two old party ma
chines will be unavoidably united on
the anti-money plank, and in the
west and south the disruption will be
complete, and the outlook strongly
suggest tbat the machine part of the
old parties will unite on one set of
electors, while placing two tickets in
the field as a blind.
Tbe Women in tbe Wilmington
Conference.
This year the women bave con
quered tbe conference and the vote
on tbe Neely the
second restrictive rule of the Disci
pline, providing for the election ot
delegates to the General Conference,
shall have added to it the words,
“and said lay delegates may be men
or carried by nine
majority, the vote being 6$ to 59.
Tbe vote was first taken on Monday
morning stood 63 for and 56 against,
but several of the preachers who
were out were given the privilege of
recording their votes when they re
turned. Five of the absentees voted
for the admission of women and
three against. The vote was an
oounced with applause. Last year
the opponents of women ss lay dele
gates carried the conference by 13
majority, the vote being 78 to 65 Io
this instance 13 was an unlucky
□umber, for the yerdict of last year,
which it represented, was reversed.
Everybody realized tbat much time
bad already been taken from regular
conference work, and that which yet
remains is precious, so there was no
attempt at discussion. The toll was
not even called, so tbat each man’s
vote would be recorded, but the vote
was simply taken by counting. Rev.
T. B. Neely, one of the presiding
elders of the Philadelphia Conference
and tbe author of the amendment,
was last week elected a represents
tive in tbe General Conference,
where he will have an opportunity
to urge the adoption of his amend
ment. Philadelphia Conference
voted against tbe amendment —105
to 101. Its vote last year on the
woman question was 120 to 98
against.
Two Valuable Friends.
1. A physician cannot be always
had. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Spriins,
Bruises and Burns occur often and
sometimes when least expeoted. Keep
handy the friend of many households
and the destroyer of all pain, the
famous red flag oil, 25 cents.
3 Mny a prepiouf ljie eould be
saved that is being racked to death
with that terrible fiugh. Secure a
good night’s real by investing 25 cents 1
for a bottle of pan tina, the great
remedy for coughs, colds and consump
tion- Trial bottles of pan-tina free at
E, T- Reynolds' drug store.
The MoCullough Iron Company
Files an Answer.
The McCullough Iron Company,
by Messrs Bernard Carter, Robert
G. Tbackery and A. T. Freedley, its
attorneys, filed an answer on Mouday
in tbe United States Circuit Court,
in Baltimore to tbe bill of tbe Fidelity
Insurance, Trust and Safe Deposit
Company of Philadelphia, trustee
under tbe will of Deiaplaine Mc-
Daniel, in which the complainant
asked for the appointment of a
receiver to wind up the affairs of the
company. The answer alleges tbat
the bill was filed at the instigation
ol Joseph L. McDaniel, president of
the iron company, against the wishes
and protest of the large majority of
stock holders, and which majority, he
knew, were intending to elect a suc
cessor in his place in April 1892.
The iron company, it is stated, has
always been flourishing and prosper
ous, has distributed iu dividends
amougst its stockholders $1,075,000,
and has always promptly met its
obligations.
if contemplated changes are made
or if tbe price of steel billets and
sheets advances, or if the present
condition of the iron market improves
there is no reason why the mills
should not be operated at a substan
tial profit- Aa a matter of fact, the
general business of the company last
year was operated at a profit, and
the reason tbat there is an apparent
loss of S4OOO was caused by the fact
that 832,000 was expended in better
meats, improvements, new boilers
' and permanent buildings, aud $7,500
of this was charged directly against
tbe profits of the works.
The answer denies that the Mc-
Cullough Iron Company is not in a
position to compete with other cor
, porations manufacturing the same
line of goods, and tbat is not now
conducted with success or benefit to
its stockholders the business for
which it was corporated. On tbe
contrary, it is averred that the
Minquas Mill alone made a manu
facturing profit $21,000 last year, and
f that the North East and Octoraro
Mills made a manufacturing profit of
SB,OOO and that the apparent loss of
$4,000 'to the total business for the
year was caused by the expenditures
for the permanent improvements
above named. Dividends amounting
to $30,225 have also been declared
since 1885 upon the stock of the Mc-
Daniel & Harvey Company a sub
sidiary company as herein after
stated in the seventh paragraph of
this answer. And the alterations
and ohanges which are in contem
plation of construction will result in
still further increasing the profitable
business of this company.
The defendant avers that tbe state
ment of the complainant as to the
reduction of the surplus, and also
tbe statement as to this of the said
Joseph L. McDaniel, upon which tbe
bill is founded, arc misleading. In
the first place, the surplus upon
which the complainant so greatly
relies was created in great part in
the year 1885 by a oredit from the
McDaniel & Harvey Company of
$l2B 900, aud surplus thus created,
now objects to a similar credit made
upon precisely the same basis. In
the next place, the period of time
taken is iar too short an interval to
determine the nature of the general
prosperity of tbe company. Thus, in
1878 the company was without any
surplus and owed $300,000 exclusive
of its capital stock, and had this
complainant taken the year 1878 as a
starting point for its computation
whereby to determine the present
condition of tbe company, the result
would have been shown that this de.
fendant is to-day over $300,000 better
off than it was at that date, and that
it has, in addition, enormously in.
creased its business, and has further
paid and distributed amongst its
stockholders $325,000 as dividends
since that date.
The defendant company put
valuation on its mill property of
$450,617; stock on hand, $131,146.13,
and bills receiveable, &c., $60,710 85;
a total of $642,473 98, aod an excess
over liabilities of $524,454.44. The
capital stock of the company is $450,
000; therefore, it is claimed there is
an actual surplus, after payment in
full of tbe capital stock, of $74,454,-
44, and that the company is not in
solvent.
Brick Pomeroy in Advanced
Thought says: “Tbe New York
Press is edited by a man who is a
corker on financial intelligence. In ,
a late issue he talks to tbe working -
men against tbe silver dollar aDd 1
says i ‘You will have to take the 1
silver dollar for your wages no mat- \
ter if you get $3.00 a day.’ ” ,
Tbe whole country appears to be ]
laughing at the editors of the daily ‘
press for their lunatic exhibitions on 1
financial matters. <
Republican newspapers keep tell
ing the democrats if they pass a free
coinage bill it will lose to tbat party j
several States, naming New York, -
New Jersey and other States. These '
papers at the same time claim the 1
States as sure for their party. But 1
tbe most peculiar part of this advice
is tbat tbey don’t keep quiet aDd let
the dewoprnts rqoh to defeat.
La Grippe Again.
During the epidemic of la grippe
last season Dr. King’s New Discovery ■
for consumption, coughs and colds, 1
proved to be the best remedy. Reports ,
from the maDy who used it confirm
this atateinent. They were not only
quiokly relieved, but the disease left no
bad after results. We ask you to give
this remedy trial aod we guarantee
that you will be satisfied with results,
or the purchase price will be refunded.
It has no equal in la grippe, or any
throat, chest or lung trouble. Trial
bottles free at L. It. Kirk’s drug store.
Large bottles SQ and f i.OQ
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STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER,
PHILADELPHIA.
Spring Announcement
concerning
CARPETS AND MATTIN3S.
Our new Spring stock of Floor Coverings of all descrip
tions is now displayed in wonderful variety, at lower prices
than have ever before been known in the history of the carpet
trade. There is, however, at this time a slight upward ten
dency noted in manufacturers’ prices. In the interest of our
patrons, we therefore advise early selection.
We keep constantly in stock full lines of
Axminster Carpets, All-Wool Ingrain Carpets,
At $1.60 per yard and upwards. At 60 oents per yard and upwards.
Wilton Carpets, Art Squares, all sizes,
At $1.75 per yard and upwards. At 85 cents per square yard.
Brussels Carpets, Oil Cloths,
At 90 oents per yard and upwards. At 36 otSl per y d ' and n P*ards.
Velvet Carnets, Ttraw Wattin * 8
A'®' OOPer yard and upwards.
Moquette Carpets, Russ and Hassocks,
At SI.OO per yard and upwards. All kinds at all prices.
Tapestry Brussels Carpets, Linoleums,
At SO cents per yard and upwards. At 50 cts. ner sq. yd. and upwa rds
It is not practicable to send samples of carpets, but if our
patrons will advise us regarding sizes of rooms, kinds of car
pets desired, and some idea of decorations, we can fill their
order to full satisfaction.
STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER,
Market St., Eighth St., Filbert St.,
PHILADELPHIA.
Off to the Philada. Markets.
It requires almost daily buying to keep the stock re
plenished, notwithstanding the dull time of year for business.
Five two-horse wagon loads of boxes, &c., &c., unload
ed yesterday; more to arrive today.
After returning from the city you will again hear from
us as many new goods will follow.
In the meantime do not forget do not forget the Carpet
and Straw Matting stock, nor that unsurpassed assortment
of Wall Paper strictly new for spring and summer of 1892.
New Queens ware and Glassware just placed to posi
tions.
E. R. BUFFINGTON.
Dress Goods! Dress Goods I
Dress Goods!
As the time is nearly here for Spring Dress Goods we
wish to inform our patrons thrt we have the latest novelties
in Dress Fabrics and have them at a price to interest every
body, from 25c to $1.35 per yard, all the late shades and pat
terns. While we have many novelties, no pains have been
sparek in selecting our standard or plain dress goods; they
are very handsome, and prices are a trifle off to what they
have been so we feel confident we will have no trouble in
suiting all.
Our stock of Dress Trimmings is also very large and is
in harmony with our Dress Goods. We think the shades of
Dress Goods and the Trimmings used are prettier this year
than ever, or else it is our line that we are taking as a basis
that is fooling us if they are not.
As you move from place to place you may have some
trouble fitting your old curtains to the windows. We have
the patent shade fixture which will fit any window and can
be put up in two minutes, thus saving much time and pa
tience. Also have a very fine line of Curtains. Should you
need any call on
WHIIIIiTI 1 MM,
RISING SUN, MD.