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PITY FOR THE FARMER
Mr. F. Z. H. von Engelken criti-
cises the America, who stand, he de-
clares, at the foot of the list of sub-
scribers to the Liberty Loan. Mr.
von Engelken was once the Director
of the Mint. He is now the head of
a Federal Land Bank. He represents
the administration attitude of mind
toward the farmers of the country.
They are expected to plant increased
acreage of all staple crops, to work
‘harder than they ever have, to pay
higher wager to more inefficient la-
bor, to accept lower prices, for their
produces, and to subscribe hand-
somely to each installment of bonds
which the war will produce. The
farmers of the land voted freely for
Mr. Wilson last November because
he “kept us out of war” and because
he was under virtual pledge to con-
tinue to do so. Being “kept out of
war,” the farmer had an eager cus-
tomer in each of the Allies, and he
received bumper prices for bumper
crops. Now he is menaced by com-
manaecering, threatened with price-
fixing, and scolded because he doesn’t
come across with the coin. Pity the
poor farmer—who evidently evident-
ly has not yet learned to apply the
remedy which is in his own hands,
namely, the vote.
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PLAN TO ELIMINATE “PORK”
In the opinion of Congressman
Henry W. Temple, of Pennsylvania,
the conferees on the river and harbor
bill performed a meritorious service
when they agreed to accept the Sen-
ate amendment creating a commis-
sion to examine into the whole sub-
ject of waterways improvements, and
coordinate the activities along that
line that are now being performed by
different departments of the Govern-
ment. In fact Mr. Temple was the
author of a bill in the 63rd Congress
which provided a commission to do
the same kind of work and report on
the same subjects as the present
body, and he has long been in faver
of that means of solving our river
and harbor problems, and clearing
the annual appropriation bills from
the charge of “pork.”
TO REPUBLICAN VOTERS
It has been’ customary in Somerset
County to re-elect Directors of the
Poor. The man I succeeded, served
two terms. Mr. Dickey’s colleagues
on the board were Jacob Peck and
George F. Kimmell. The former
served two terms, while the latter
served a term as County Commis-
sioner before his election as a Poor
Director. One of my colleagues,
Jacob C. Dietz, is serving his second
term as a Director.
~ Sentiment gathered from numerous
Republicans leads me to believe that
the same courtesy will be shown me
with practical unanimity, and I there-
fore submit my candidacy at the
‘September primary. If nominated
and re-elected I shall endeavor, so
far as it is within my power, to con-
tinue the system put inte effect at
the County Home at the beginning of
my term, which has kept the cost of
maintainaing the institution at less
than one-half what it formerly was.
In other words, instead of drawing
from the county treasury an average
of more than $20,000 a year it shall
be my endeavor to keep the county
appropriation at less than $9,000 a
year, which has been the case for the
years 19,4, 1915 and 1916 as a result
of the new sysem adopted when I
became a member of the Poor House
Board.
Respectfully submitted,
J. J. SNYDER, Friedens, Pa.
CHARTER NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that an ap-
plication will be made to the Governor
of the State of Pennsylvania on
Monday, the 17th day of September,
1917, under the Act of Assembly of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
entitled “An Act to provide for the
incorporation and regulation of cer-
tain Corporations” approved April
29th, 1874, and its supplements, for
the Charter ef an intended Corpor-
ation to be called THE ROCKWOOD
CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY, the
character and object of which is the
operation of a creamery, the purchase
and sale of milk and its products,
and the manufacture and sale of
butter, ice-cream, and other products
of milk and cream, and for these
purposes to have and possess and en-
joy all the rights, benefits and privil-
eges of the said Act of Assembly
and its supplements.
UHL & EALY,
Solicitors.
Get our prices on Job Work.
(Continued from page 1)
James E. Deitz
John H. Baughman
Lester E. Snyder
Herbert G. Wagner
Charles E. Holliday
William Pritts
Ellis Lee
Robert L. Mitchell
Charles C. Klingaman
George M. Phillipi
Homer B. Walker
J. Roy Ringler
George Demmer .
Millard F. Bowman
Elmer Dennis Shroyer
Joseph M. Korne
Charles L. Maust
Robert Murray
John D. Domer
William Franklin Kelly
John K. Koztosky
Charles E. Deaner
Earl Clarence Wagner
Roy Russel Critchfield
William Henry Lenhart
Edward Steward Pyle
Charles A. Wiltrout
Oscar Edward Mull
George Carter ’
CG. G. C. Shipley
Clyde Bowlin
Wiilis Shoemaker
J loyd Robert Vought
Pveea 'W. Phillippi -
Fdwar I Lee Dively
Charles C. Foor
William C. Frazier
Milton B. Knepper
Wasil Opelak
Albert Milton Ohler
William A. Raupach
Andy Olenyak
Harvey J. Deal
Benjamin Horrison Beal
Frank Edward Carlitz
William Zufall Baker
Charles W. Davis
Clyde E. Bowser
Elmer Harrison Faidly
George N. Nedrow
Elmer J. Felton
James D. Critchfield
Sozow Kornitz
‘Homer Jacob Shaulis
Harry Younkin
Leonard B. Crow
John O. Yutzy
John M. Masy
Frank Vruzyck
Mike Wosny
James Brant Rugg
Cyrus C. Housel
John C. Cochrane
Edward C. Cochrane
Edward B. Leydig
Mark A. Topper
Albert H. Menhorn
Henry L. Keidel
| Jessie. W. Baker
Edgar P. Barclay
Augustus McKensie
Clarence E. Berkley
Fred Luther Deihl.
Joe Bertonceneni
John Krupa 4
Robert William Hahn
Elmer H. Catchell”
David M. Baker
Orrie V. Emerick 3
Cleveland J. Lindeman
John D. Peck
George E. Kaiser
Milton C. Marker
Michael Urban
William Turke
Joseph Ohler
Fred W. Ross
John W. Barron
William Peter Speicher
Benjamin J. Mayhugh
John D. McNair
Adam U. Hahn
Joe Hand
Peter F. Deist
Earnest Roy Miller
Lawson V. Troutman
Samuel D. Cramer
Archie Kennedy
Robert McCormick
Isaac L. Coughenour
Harvey M. Trent
Lancelot Coughenour
Milton Roy Griffith
Harry S. Wolfersberger
Albert A. Lane
Russel Roy Galler
Thomas G. Arnold
Martin Earl Tressler
Failed to Report
Tom Jackson
George H. Green
Earl N. Speicher
Harry Alvin Menser
Frank Polentis
J. Zowoikeski
Robert Miner
Claud C. Emerick
George Philip Wagner
Otho Roy Kunkle
John R. Miller
John Henry Shoemaker
Frank Tamosirocki
Charles S. Krisssing
Thomas G. Arnold
Churngold Butterine, better and
cheaper than butter,
at Donges Meat Market
Pittsburg Gazette Times — Says
son-in-law to father-in-law: “If I
permit you to keep my wife for the
period of the war, un you suppo:t
her in the manner {2 which she is
arcustomed 7”
Just received a Carload or Fertilizer
at P, J. Cover & Son.
WOULD PROVIDE
FOR DEPENDENTS
Washington, Aug. 29--(Special cor-
respondance)—Miss Jeanette Ran-
kin, Repwesentative from Montana,
has demonstrated in many ways that
she has at heart the welfare of the
women and children of the country.
The most recent evidence of that fact
is contained in a bill which she has
introduced providing for payments
by the Federal Government to the
dependent families of soldiers of a-
mounts ranging from $30 to a mother
or wife with no children to $75 to a
wife with more than two dependent
children. Anticipating the filing of
claims under her bill against the Gov-
ernment Miss Rankin proposes to
clothe the Secretary of War with
final authority to settle“all such cases.
Five million dollars is to be appro-
priated to carry the act into effect,
and supplemental estimates are to be
furnished each year by the Secretary
of war. If passed, the act will take
efféct on September 1st next.
PROTECTING THE
PUBLIC INTEREST
. The adoption by the Senate of the
“amendment to the food control bill
prohibiting any agent or employee
of the Government from making
governmental contracts with a firm
in which he may have a pecuniary in-
terest was due largely to the force-
ful remarks in its favor by Senator
Hiram W. Johnson, of California.
Mr. Johnson declared the. principal
involved was one that has come dewn
to us from Moses, namely that a
trustee shall not so manage his trust
as to benefit himself. “It has been
the law of every civilization,” assert-
ed Senator Johnson, “and the very
basis of morals and ethics ever since
there were any rules of any laws up-
on this earth.” ‘
INCLUDES OCCUPATIONAL
> DISEASES
Representative John G. Cooper, of
‘| Ohio, sees no reason why persons in
the employ of the Government who
may be disabled by occupational dis-
ease in the service should be discrim-
inated against in the matter of com-
pensation while the man who meets
with an accident is granted financial
relief by the United States. The
present law on the subject, in the
opinion of Mr. Cooper, should be
amended so as to include everybody
in the Federal service, whether by
accident or in any other way, and i
a bill ‘should be presented to"
House with that object in view the
earnest support of Mr. Cooper can be
relied upon.
Davenport Times—Empty benches
will buy no meal tickets for husky
professional baseball players who
ought to be helping with the war
anyway.
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Winter and Summer Sun. }
The sun is nearer to the earth in
winter than it is in summer. It is not!
distance that determines the amount of
heat that we get from the sun, but the
length of time the sun is above the
horizon and the direction in which his
rays strike us. In summer, although
much farther from us, the sun is daily
above the horizon much longer than
when he is nearest, at the winter sol-
stice, and this continued action pro:
duces the summer heat. In addition to
this is to be reckoned the fact that
in summer the force of the sun's rays
is more perpendicular to the earth’s
surface, while in the winter they are
oblique. In the case of the perpendicu-
lar ray the heat stays, while in that of
the oblique ray it “glances off,” so to
speak.
What the Death Mask Shows.
The value of a plaster cast as a por-
trait of the dead or living face cannot
for a moment be questioned: It must
of necessity be absolutely true to na-
ture. It cannot flatter; it cannot cari-
cature. It shows the subject as he
was or is, not only as others saw him
in the actual flesh, but as he saw him-
self. And in the case of the death
mask particularly it shows the subject
often as he permitted no one but him-
self to see himself. He does not pose;
he does not “try to look pleasant.” In
his mask he is seen, as it were, with
his mask off,
Creed of Epicures.
When St. Paul addressed “epicu-
reans and stoics” (Acts xvii, 18) at
Athens the philosophy of life was prac-
tically reduced to the teaching of these
two antagonistic schools.
Pleasure and not absolute truth was
the end at which Epicurus aimed. His
system degenerated into mere mate-
rialism, and in this form epicureanism
was the popular philosophy at the be-
ginning of the Christian era.
Pop's Definition.
“Tommie, do you know what a pre-
varicator is?”
“Yes’'m. Pop told me.”
“Well, what is a prevaricator?”
“Pop says a prevaricator is a man
who tells you he’s glad he’s married.”—
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Human Nature.
“De man who admits dat he kin be
scared,” said Uncle Eben, “generally
puts up a better fight dan de man dat’s
allus bluffin’ bout what a hero he ia.”—
What Makes a Car Old.
The life of the bearings of a car de-
termines the usefulness of the entire
machine. A car with badly worn bear-
ings is an old car, even though it may
have traveled less than 10,000 miles,
whereas one which has seen 100,000
miles of use and still has its bearings
in good condition is, comparatively
speaking, a new machine.
Wear on bearings is determined by
four conditions—the load which that
bearing carries, the speed at which the
bearing surfaces move over each other,
the nature of those surfaces and their
ability to resist wear and the lubrica-
tion which these surfaces receive and
its ability to prevent the formation of
the destructive heat of friction.
The matter of load becomes a mat-
"ter of size, for with a given load it is
but natural that with a large surface
over which to distribute the pressure
the load on each square inch of bear-
ing surface will- be less. This means
that the life of bearings will, in gen-
eral, be in proportion to their size.—
Leslie’s Weekly.
Essentials of Song Voice.
Many good singers only think their
songs. These fall short of the powers
they might attain. The" listeners hear
the music, but they are not thrilled.”
Other singers have’feeling, but they
fail to display will. Their voices nec-
essarily lack fiber and are too soft and
sentimental. Su > singing suggests
merely passive sympathy ard not the
desire to*help actively.
Good, honest sentiment and the ring
of good will, implying action, are want-
ed in geod music. There is no appeal
in the song voice that only wills. The
voice of authority and domination is
not pleasing. The essentials of the
song voice embrace all the singer's
powers, faculties and attributes. They
include not only will, but also thought
and - feeling, and that voice is lacking
which fails to combine all three of
these elements.—Exchange.
The Cabbage Butterfly.
The most destructive enemy of the
cabbage and related crops !s the cab-
bage butterfly. This lays its eggs upon
a cabbage leaf. The eggs hatch into
green caterpillars, and these. eat the
leaves. In 1883, says the Journal of
Heredity, an ichneumon fly was im-
ported from Europe to keep the cab-
bage butterfly in check. The fly lays
its eggs in the body of the caterpillar;
the larvae which hatch from these eggs
eat the caterpillar’s insides, cut their
way out through the empty skin and
spin cocoons from which the flies
emerge,
“It is interestinggto note,” adds the
Journal of Heredity, “that the parasite
is in turn preyed upon by a super-
parasite, a little chalcis fly, ‘and so on
down ad infinitum,’ no doubt.”
Korea Eats Rice With a Spoon.
While China and Japan take rice
with chopsticks, Korea eats hers with
a spoon. Prediction js that the next
step will usher in the broad fork.
“Whence comes this peculiarity?” asks
the Korea Magazine. “One reason is
that in the Analects of Confucius a rec-
ord exists that the master ate his mil-
let not with chopsticks, but with a
spoon. Every saying that pertains to
Confucius is reverently regarded in
‘i Korea, and the people of that land
‘| would rather follow the master than
|| present day custom.”—East and West
News.
The Servian Swineherd.
In any Servian village there is only
one swineherd, and he leads all the
pigs of the community. In the morn-
ing he goes through the streets blow-
ing his horn, and the pigs come out of
their own accord and fall in behind
him and.follow him to the pasture. At
night he brings them home, and they
disperse to their sties in the same or-
derly way as they pass the houses to
which they belong. They require no
attention and no singling out.
Southern Mangrove.
The rhizophora mangle, the southern
mangrove, is most curious in propaga-
tion. The seed sends forth a shoot that
really comes through the seed and
grows to a foot long. It then falls
away and strikes, root end down, in
the mud and is at once a plant.
She Got the Idea.
He—I say, Dolly, may I take your
photograph? You look so pretty that I
feel I could eat you! She—Oh, I see;
that’s why you want me on a plate, eh?
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Bites and Stings.
In case of a sting of any kind
the first thing to do, of course,
is to remove the sting. This can
best be done with the point of a
knife or needle, but care should
be taken not to break the skin
for fear of infection. Then the
next best thing, perhaps, is to
apply ammonia water or soda
water to the affected parts.
In case of bites, as well as of
stings when the gting is remov-
ed, as a rule a paste of com-
mon baking soda applied to the
affected parts or these bathed in
ammonia water is all that is neec-
essary. Where the poisonous ef-
fect is severe, however, send for
a doctor. In the meantime the
patient should lie down and keep
quiet.
An application of a 50 per cent
solution of a saturate solution of
potassium permanganate which
you get at the drug store is very
efficient for insect poisons and
for the poisons of plants, too,
such as poison ivy and sumac.
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The Fall
Had Methuselah practiced the
Barker system for a hundred years
or 50, he might still be living to tell
the story of the flood which brought
fame to Father Noah.
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Notice to Water Consumers.
The time of year is at hand whes
water usually becomes more or less
limited in quantity. Therefore the
Sand Spring Water Co., hereby call
their patrons attention to the neces-
sity of seeing that all forms of waste
1s prevented on their premises.
The Supt. will visit every consum-
er’s premises once each month during
the remainder of 1917 and is author-
ized by the company to ‘shut all
water off when waste is insisted
upon.
Persons using hose without pay-
ing for same will be charged for at
the usual rate $3.00 per year. If not
paid water will be shut off.
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