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: OCIALIST COLUMN
EprreDp BY Louis COHEN.
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| forces, the Christian Conscience fell, |
& and the Judicial Conscience won,
. | much to the chagrin of a multitude |
| of Christians in this county. i i : |
/ i |
Conscience is the prompting of |
¥ | social or group ethics or an admixt- |
ure of these; and generally, these are | :
mic environments. Judge Ruppel’s | ! FE SSON |
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Fupther notice, will be edited by a
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views expressed in this column.
Communications for this column
should be addressed direct to ils
the result of tradi’ion and ecomno-
daily environment has been judicial, | By BE. 0. SELLERS, Director of Even-
and his political enyironment has i |
been capitalistic.
We Socialists regret that Mr. Rup-
pel did not allow his conscience to
prompt him to repudiate the snap
legal nomination he received on the
Editor. Questions regarding So- Socialist ticket when his name was
cialism will be cheerfully answered. written on the Socialist Primary bal-
: = lot. Judge Ruppel does not belieye
: in Socialism, knowing fairly well
what it stands for, yet he allowed his
pame to remain on the Socialist bal-
lot. Probably he had precedent for
his silence and the judicial conscience
prompted him to allow the bulk of
Socialist voters to be deceived into
believing him favorable to Socialism.
National
Bank
OF
MEYERSDALE,
PR.
ing Department The Moody Bible In-
stitute of Chicago.)
LESSON FOR APRIL 13
JACOB AT BETHEL.
LESSON TEXT—Gen. 28:10-22.
GOLDEN TEXT—*I am with thee, and:
will keep thee whithersoever thou goest.”
Gen. 28:15
Esau, like the foolish virgins, be-
came wise after his opportunity had,
passed. Though theré was a partial,
subsequent reformation (28:69) it’
was not real repentance. Jacob was
pbliged to flee from his brother's an-
ger. In order to get him off in safety .
Rebekah prompted Isaac to send |
Call and Examine Our
Equipment
2
ation E Or, was it the working of his Politi- | Jacob to her brother Laban, ostensibly |= ,
s the \ cal Conscience? to seek a wife (27:46), but in reality | ~ a ; as ee i er PA rrr
sleeps |, Leaving entirely aside the rather for a few days,” that he might es: CHURCH SERVICES.
cape Esau’s wrath.
Couch of Stones.
I. The Refuge, vv. 10, 11. Every
wrong act entails retribution. Leav-
ing the luxurious home in Beersheba,
small question of ‘‘wet’’ or “dry”?
ethics, we believe that the great
judges of the future will be the men
and women with a Social Con-
Methodist Episcopal church ser-
vice, Rev. G. A. Neeld pastor—Ser-
vices at10:30 a. m. Sunday school 9:30
a. m. Epworth League at 6:46 p. m.
Spread seme PRAIRIE QUEEN en Your Bread
jein the Large Army of Men and
\.'ctviin who are using
/AYS
| THE JUDICIAL VS THE CHRIST-
IAN CONSCIENCE. science, who will attack précedents Jacob went towards Haran, which 2 i 9: ; . Se .
me TT with all their power and deal her-| name signifies “a parched place.” Out vening Seryico a A 7:30. Subjeet Calne Lb uneen Butter: ne
If Judge Ruppel were to take offi-| culean blows at the mountains of | yonder in the desert at a certain place, Sunday morning. “Politics and Re- nee we started to advertise and tell
be cial cognizance of all the criticism | technicality piled up to protect: cap- not any particular one, this refugee ligion. the people of its goodness.
py eo | and se heaped upon him by the |jtalist interests. They will not fear tarried during the long cold hours of | Church of the Brethren—Preaching ASTES LIKE BUTTER—COSTS LESS
i “ d’?. but backed up b the night. Gathering a few stones as
Dn PY | a rude couch, Jacob slept. There are
an enlightened apd truly democratic) three things to consider about him
public sentiment, they will open the that night: (1) He was lonely, which
way for a true political and industrial | save him time to meditate upon his
democracy. Needless to say they | Jife and his actions; (2) he was in a
will be Socialists. great fear (27:43), which of course
: ° Lid quickened his thoughts as to the ulti-
. mate outcome of these experiences,
HOKARA FOR ECZEMA. and (3) he was certainly weary. What
| a picture, a weary, troubled, sinful
QUICK RELIEF OFTEN FOLLOWS FIRST fugitive whose experience had brought
TREATMENT. COSTS NOTHING IF him to a time and into surroundings
IT FAILS. | wherein he was compelled to think on
+ ‘strong’ statement, leat it? Bus 25, TITS
g. statement, sn Jb! | If only men would think and not
we mean every word it it. Hokara| stifle conscience more of them would
is being used for treating the most throw themselves upon the mercy of
complicated and chronic cases of | a loving father.
eczema, salt rheum, piles, sores, ul-| II. The Revelation, vv. 12-15. Jacob
cers, etc., and it quickly banishes| was not in reality alone. Both God
: and his angels were there in that lone-
| press and citizens of Somerset County,
there would probably be seyeral
thousands of people occnpying cells
for contempt of His Royal Majesty’s
Court. But as ‘Edmund Burke once
remarked, ‘‘you may imprison a
few individuals, but you cannot im-
prison a whole nation’’, and in this
instance, the disapproval of Judge
Ruppel’s action in the License Courb
is well-nigh uniyersal throughout the
county.
It must be particularly painful to
Mr. Ruppel to have his loyal Christ-
jan brethern, with whom he has la-
ei | bored so long and so earnestly figur-
atively heap coals of fire on his head,
for they took his pious professions
at face value and corralled the
10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
School, 9:30 a. m. Christian Workers
Meeting at 6:30 p. m. Bible Class,
Saturday evening, 7:30 p. m. Teacher
Training classes meet Monday evening
7 and 8 o’clock, respectively. Sunday . |
| School Workers’ Meeting, Friday| EY ff ny
evening, 30th inst., at 7:30.
jend for booklet, everyone should read 8
Ask your Grecer, or write us.
WwW J. BARTZEL CO.
Wholesale Mis: ributers RUTTER, ECGS 2nd CHEESE
205 Ferry Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
? | AAA AE A PPALLS PALA SALAS
Evangelical Lutheran church—Rev
| J. A. Yount, pastor. Sunday school
lat 9:30 a. m. Morning service at
(10:30. Luther League at 6:45 p. m.
| Evening service at 7:30. Lenten ser-
vice every Wednesday evening at 7:30
At Grantsville the Holy Commu-
nion will be observed on Easter Sun-
day morning. Preparatory service on
Good Friday evening. Special Eas
ter service by Sunday school and
Gout Church Vote for his candidacy with pimples, blackheads, or any other ly desert place, Ps. 34:7139:7, It church on Easter Monday evening.
t Jo the distinct understanding and im- |of minor skin troubles, leaving the 7 ot an accident that caused Jacob | St. Paul, Wilhelm Ref d ch
Sot Joni 4] " pression on their part, that Mr. Rup- skin in its normal health and color. : " : ’ elm Reformed charge,
sthers 5 . D & Hokara with an | to dream that night. Undoubtedly t is | §. S. Hassler pastor. Regular servi-
ay @ pel would follow in the footsteps Ov1lot confuse ‘Homa Y| dream came from God. Dreams Wer® | ces next Sunday at 10 a.m. Sun-
Oct. ~3m of “dry” precedents, refuse to grant| of the ordinary grease ointments, as| frequently used of God as a means of
day school at 9 a. m. April 6th is Sun-
day school Rally Day. You are in-
vited. Special program and com-
mencement; of school’s trip to Pales-
tine. :
Evangelical church, Rev. L. B. Rit-
tenhouse pastor—Services will be
held next Sunday as follows: Sun-
day school at 2:00 p. m. Preaching
by the pastor at 7:30 p. m.
SS. Philip and James Catholic
church, Rev. J. J. Brady, pastor.—
Mass next Sunday 8:30 and 10:30 a.
2 'm. Vespers and Benedicti :
ing answer thereto. In this the hour | pers 2 spedjetionsk 7:30
| of Jacob's deepest trial God stood at a ;
| the top of the ladder ready to reveal At the A.M E. Zion church Sun-
himself and to succor: see 35:3. There day School at 3:00 p. m. Preaching
is in point of fact a close and a real {at 11 a. m. Christian Endeavor at
| connection between earth and heaven, ' 7:45 p. m.
only a veil intervenes. Jesus is our | :
means of communication between a Brethren Cherehi—H. L. QGongh-
oly God and sinful men. John 14:6, | nour, pastor.— Services both morn-
Heb. 10:19, 20; (3) God. Jehovah in- ing and evening in Meyersdale church.
troduced himself in a most gracious Sunday school and Chri-tian Endeav-
and comforting manner. He it was or at usual hours. All are invited.
it contains no grease, merenry or| revelation, a method that is not need-
load, and is entirely different from | ful now that we have the holy spirit,
anything else on the market. John 76:13. Verily all heaven was at
Although it has wonderful healing Jacols ight Nand, Siepisiiis ?
5 ; e price is ere are three distinguishing fea-
Be : Ee jar — tures about this revelation: (1) The
Lito oi > it a thorough trial in Ladder. This might have been susz-
enoug give 1 =. g 3 gested to Jacob by the nature of the
even the worst cases. Large Sizes 50 | mountainous country over which he
cents and $1.00. | had been or wag passing. A ladder is
Your money returned if Hokara|g means whereby we attain unto the
fails to benefit. higher things; (2) The Angels. They
Sold on guarantee and recommend- | were first ascending, then descending;
ed by S. E. Thorley, The City Drug |
licenses to anyone, or at least re-
fuse quite a number of applicants.
Their rage and disappointment in the
| failure of their leader to apply his
@ religious teachings to practical af-
Ea fairs, and seeing him follow ‘‘wet”
instead of ‘‘dry”’ precedents, is yent-
ing itself in such loving epithets as
<‘Hgpocrite’’, ‘‘Judas’. and similar
pe
“Rough hauling ? ”
“Idon’t mind. Thisis
a Studebaker Wagon’
—that’s why I bought it. I noticed that
men were using the Studebaker where-
ever the work was hard —hauling steel
girders in the city, logs in the woods,
stone in the quarry.”
“My work is hard and I know it. My wagon
is on my payroll and must earn its salary. That's
why | bought a Studebaker. [can't afford to
buy a cheaper one.”
“Get in touch with a Studebaker dealer, he's:
a good man to know.” TE
imes in the Biblical vocabulary,
as well as the anciemt custom of
hanging in effigy.
We are nob at all surprised at Judge
Ruppel’s course, for we have never
been so credulous as to take seri-
ously the declarations of piety of
candidates running on capitalist
tickets for public offices. The Re-
publican and Democratic parties are
agencies of the capitalist interests,
and it is common talk that booze
and cash flowed freely in both capi-
talist camps as the most eloquent
vote-getters with certain portions of
suggesting, in his extremity, Jacob's
Store, local agents. .u | ascending prayer and God's descend-
- JOHNSTOWN NEWS.
The Meyersdale contingency in the
“Flood City’’ are well at this wri‘- |
ing and prospering. Among those |
who we see frequently are Frank |
Cober, who located here about eigh- |
teen years ago, and has become one
: : i ildi ntractors in | | Farm Wagons Trucks Dump Wagons
main, Kring a oo any ring conenon nT BR tn ied” Cor FEI Teves EE
ast campaign. wou erefore ’ ’
follow £ > economic interests be- | Mill» and at present employs more Jacehs Th as EEnliater 30,000 VO CES! ‘Suc out Dealer or will
hind the candidates would result in than fifty carpenters and mill hands. | 4; gp oe wv. 1622. Jacob |AND MANY ARE THE VOICES OF MEY- or Bute
the old-time political methods of Lingliehi Br awakened ad the asses i re! Lio aa ERSD:LE PEOPLE. STUDEBAKER South Bend, Ind.
getting back their money with heavy a ei what or] moved, but the revelation remained. ‘Thirty thousand voices What a NIWMIRES aod cri HES, rahe ORTLAND, ORE.
ingenuity.
truly be termed a tgelf-made’’ man,
‘having come here with nothing more
than business, and mechanical ability
and an indomitable will and energy
to succeed, and in this he has tri”
umphed. Paul Gross, who for some
The presence, the keeping a Be grand chorus! And that’s the num-
guidance and the ultimately nishe | ber of American men and women
cob i) ro Singd Boer | who are publicly praising Doan’s Kid-
with this that he ex- ney Pills for relief from backache,
2 kidney and bladder ills. They say
it to friends. They tell it in the home
papers. Meyersdale people are in
interest, no matter who was elected;
and capitalist politicians often get
it back during License Court week.
Voting for the ‘‘good man’’, but
approving the ‘‘bad” capitalist sys-
tem has always had the same result,
because the good man, no matter
NI NNTP et ANd Tl lA tld NN ANNAN AEN Nd Sd NA NLNT NA NANI A ed ef TANS
J. 8. WENGERD
pm, Ps. 111:10,” see
nts il how great a reformer, must go along years conducted the Oly Dene Sore he words “gate of |this chorus. Here’s a Meyersdale J
A IL 5 3 ts 1/R Meyersdale, is now head Of One pegye signifies the gate to a | case. : ;
88 4 . with the bad interests, as a genera’); (he jargest drug establishmevrts 10 dn lik e i SELLS
lependent t rule, ifthe upholds capitalism. And|’’ CF oN een Pittsburgh and popu oud, ety; ee | Me John]. Bouser, 3) Broadway,
i if judges sometimes do refuse licenses to be found betwken Piitaturg have the promise of an encamping | neyersdale, Pa., says: ‘‘Doan’s Kid- No. 1 Roofing Slate,
about / 3 : '| philadelphia. It is located on | host ever about us, Ps. 84:7, 2; Kings a > URSINA, PA Steel Rooti
a WH when they owe their election to cap- Washington street; opposite the Penn 6:16,17. Jacob went a step further, ney Pills are not a new remedy to ENA; FR. teel Roofing,
ks Co. A italist interests, they serve those in-| oe isi gy ee 5 Lown | he arose, signifying action. It is not me, for I have used them several Opposite Postoffice. Felt Nails,
A, 3 terests faithfully in other ways; as,| _.. Valley Drug company. Here enough to have a vision. Godly fear times during the past two years Valleys,
i instance the outrageous action of drugs, druggists’ and physicians’ sup- is always accompanied by action. Tak- | and they have given me great re- Rid 7 ah a
Judge Porter of Newcastle, in the Toe iG ii a at large scale ing of the thing at hand, a stone, lief. I was troubled a great deal by The Home of Ni ce (l ean ging
ee strike against the Steel Trust. P g »| Jacob erected a memorial, and pour- kidney complaint and dull, nagging y Spouting.
We are not inclined to take Judge
Ruppel’s apology to his temperance
and as issthe case with others, the
business is prospering.
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ing oil (consecration) upon it, he
called the name of that place Bethel,
the house of God. In like manner
backaches. Sometimes I had pairs
in my sides and loins and this cor-
vinced me that my kidneys were
Groceries.
| Write for Prices}
¢riends very seriously, as, being
“Impractical Socialists’’, we believe
that any lawyer of the peculiar abil-
ity and shrewdness of Judge Ruppel,
could have written just as able an
i opififon on the other side, else how
cod he be considered a good lawyer?
Judge Ruppel’s on that he
God would have us to take of the
common things of our every-day life
and erect a holy memorial “out of
them to the honor and glory of his
name. ’Twas not alone the.place of
vision, but also of prayer, and true
prayer involves work.
This lesson is a wonderful revela-
tion of the love, grace and patience of
‘I suffered habitually from con-
stipation, Doan’s Regulets relieved
and strengthened the bowels so that
they have been regular ever since.”’
—E. Dayis, Grocer, Sulphur Springs,
Texas. ad
disordered. A Hearing Doan’s Kidney
Pills thighly recommended, I com-
menced® using them and it was not
long before they brought relief I
recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills as
a remedy of great merit for kidney
disorders.”
For sale by all dealers.
We have just added
to our list
Sugar Leaf Sweet Potatoes and.
Post Tavern Special.
THEY ARE BOTH WINNERS.
as they are extremely
low on anything you
need in this line and
can save you money if
you order early so I can
get it with the Spring
eee pees:
Price 50
was following the law or rather, pret WILLS, God watching over and dealing With | cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, shipments.
edent, (which may or na) ot be the . TE oné of his erring children. Jacob had |New York, sole agents for the Garden Tools, Poultry Net- :
law), is rather ‘soph istical. Prece-| The will of Oyrus Musser, late of | forfeited his home by his folly. Note | United States. ’ Meversd ale, Pa
‘8 gent js a series of cunmingly con- Windber, was probated. He left the | his surpriseful expression, «Surely the | Remember the name—Doan’s—and ting, Screen Doors and | Feu. 154 EP, No ] ’
i structed judicial decisions, usually sam of $25 to each of his children, as | Lord Was in this place and I knew it take no other. ad . .F. D. No. 2
Screens for Windows.
not.”
Another great lesson is that of the
close connection of God and of heaven
with men and affairs here on this
earth, man’s nearness to God. Divine
revelation and human humbling are
follows: H. Platt Musser, of Los An-
geles, Oal.; Harriet, wife of W. A.
Fisher, of Seattle, Wash.; and Ada
L., wife of Daniel B. Bingner and
Albert H. Musser, of Berlin, Albert
H. Musser and Justice of the Peace, | always closely connected. Jacob rec
Robert CO. Heffley, are appointed ex- | ognized the divine revelation, and be-
ecutors. The will was dated March | lieved in the promise and purpose of
7th, 1613, and witnessed by Daniel | Jehovah, another evidence of his su-
B. Bingner, and Robert O. Heffley. periority over Esau. Jacob, it is evi-
® dent, had a desire to have some part
a built up to protéct the Big Interests.
01d precedents are overthrown and
new ones built up constantly. That
is largely the business of what is
known as corporation law, in which
i Judge Ruppel is very well versed.
Cg Had he felt so inclined, he could
1 have attempted to pile another stone
on the structure of ‘‘dry’’ precedent,
and squared his actions with his
Christian Conscience.
if] . 3 «ls . . in God's plan, and though unworthy,
4 But according to his opinion, it| Feel languid, weak,
Always Reliable
Relief from the ailments caused
by disordered stomach, torpid
liver, irregular bowels is given
—quickly, safely, and assur-
cdly—Dby the tried and reliable
BEECHAM’S
Will have some
Choice Seed Potatoes
in a few days.
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in three days, otherwise on logy.
ing the institution fee paid sha¥ E
Fresh Fish and Oysters
on Friday.
be refunded.
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\& run down? | py discipline was brought into a large
V8 coos that Judge Ruppel has|Headache? Stomach “off? A good | place in that plan. God has a plan Ice Cream
| also a Judicial Conseience and in the
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Fa 11 oq
Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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