MJ! te you xoo0ds, 1! 18 y the © [8 r pat- ng all. NE that a cold i a the % i 3 MACY. tight , the last week of the campaign. i to smile and say: "VOL. XIV. THE PRIMARIES. Sweeping Vietory for Slated Local Option Candidates—Liquor Sell- ers’ Organization Given a Seathing Rebuke. : Shameful Debauchery Disgusted * People and Swelled the Temper- ance Vote—Many Drinkers of Free Whisky Voted for Local Option Candi- dates. No General Factional Fight, but Several Combinations Figured in the Battle—Some Surprises. Last Saturday’s, primary elections will go down into history #8 a series of the best: natured political fights ever pulled off in Somerset county. The _ chief interest centered in the Republi- can contest for the members in the General Assembly, and the issue the battle was fought on was Local Option. Some months ago the soloon-koepers of this sounty effected a powerful or- ganization for the purpose of control- ing the Legislative nominations, and they openly boasted of their ability to win out by means of booze and boodle. Their tactics, however, aroused the ire of the church people and all others who are opposed to saloon domination in Somerset county politics, and as a result the boozing boodlers of Beelze- bub have met their Waterloo. Per- haps we should use another term for their defeat, for anything with “water” to it is much like rubbing salt into their wounds, but “let the galled jades wince.” They have been let alone a blamed sight too long, and for the sa- loon business in Somerset county, we think we see the beginning of the end in last Saturday’s sweeping victory for Local Option. That the booze and boodle business was overdone to such an extent during the last week of the campaign as to disgust all people with a spark of con- science left, and caused them to vote for Local Option candidates, there is little doubt. Men were almost drag- ged into some of the saloons in the county, and all who would drink it were filled to the neck with free whisky and beer. Most of the booze joints were turned into the vilest dens of in- iquity imaginable, and in many cases the maudlin scenes, drunken sputter- ings, mutterings, curses and blasphem- ing were almost unendurable in the ‘ localities where they could be seen and heard. It is a pity indeed that Judge Kooser wasn’t an eye witness to some of the bar room orgies during the If he had been, we feel safe in saying that a good many hotel-keepers in Somerset county might well save themselves the trouble of applying for license, next "year, and would in all probability have their present licenses revoked. Some of the hotel-keepers not only filled their poor dupes with bad liqupr and sent them out to curse and abuse peo- ple striving for office on decent issues, but actually went with them and as- sisted in the dirty work, tanked to the muzzle themselves. Such men are no more fit to have liquor license than the devil would be fit to preside over the Young Men’s Christian Association. It is indeed no wonder that Frank M. Forney and Charley Rishebarger, the two slated candidates of the saloon- keepers, were ashamed to come out openly and tell where they stood: They were ashamed of their gompany, yet did not have the moral" oe to come out on the side of decency and good morals. The only thing Forney ' dared to electioneer on openly was the fact that be had once been County Chairman of the Republican organiza- tion, and that he returned to the right- ful owners all money left over in his hands after the legitimate expenses of a campaign had been paid. He took great credit to himself for not stealing the funds, which caused many people “He deserves no particular credit for merely doing his duty.” And that is the truth. For Assembly there were seven can- didates in the field, as follows: Forney and Rishebarger, who were slated by the saloon-keepers; Knepper and Flo- to, who were slated by the Local Op- tion people,and C. J. Duncan, M. D. Reel and P. L. Livengood, who were not slated by anybody. Of the three unslated candidates, Duncan was rec- ognized as a whisky man, while Reel and Livengood were outspoken for Local Option. Political slates are sometimes popular and sometimes very unpopular, but in the Legislative fight just ended it was a case of the people sticking to the slates, and the unslated candidates had no chance of winning. Knepper and Floto won by large pluralities, and while we do not approve of the manner in which they were slated, we are nevertheless heartily in sympathy with the Local SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.. THURSDAY, APRIL 16. 1908. Option movement, and we intend to run again for Assembly, two yeafs hence, on the same issues we made our last campaign on. Considering the way we were handicapped by having to contend against two slates, we con- sider our vote a very creditable one. We are confident that we can win out in a fair race, which we hope for at some future time, and in the meantime we thank our friends for their loyal support, and have no hard feelings against those who did not vote for us last Saturday. Some of the anti-Penrose fanatics claim that the victory of Knepper and Floto is due to the fact that they are both anti- Penrose men, but that is far from the truth. As many Penrose men as anti-Penrose men voted for them, and we believe more. The Penrose is- sue had nothing to do with their suc- cess, as the vote for Congress plainly indicates. Congressman Cooper is a well-known friend of Senator Penrose, and notwithstanding the fact that his opponent, Chas. F. Hood, made his campaign as an open and avowed enemy of Senator Penrose, Cooper was an easy winner in Somerset county, even though he paid no attention to his campaign in this county, while Hood advertised himself and his anti- Penrose principles very extensively in nearly all the Somerset county news" papers, and in every other way possible. For the county offices, the old de- fupct Scull machine made a desperate effort to land Daniel Keller for Re- corder, A. J. Weimer for Treasurer, J- B. Gerhard for Prothonotary and John E. Weaver for Register of Wills, but succeeded only in landing Gerhard. For the other offices the fight seemed to be a free-for-all, except that the coal companies had slated Rush 8. Me- Millen and Jacob Koontz for Commis- sioners, but succeeded only in landing McMillen. J. A. Berkey, the recognized Republi- can leader of Somerset county, is still in control of the Congressional patron- age of Somerset county, and he will continue to be as big a man at Harris- burg and in the politics of Somerset county as ever. Last Saturdays Re- publican primary has in no way un- horsed him, and people who think it has, are entitled to a few more thinks. At the time of going to,press, the of- ficial vote by districts was not avail- able, but enough is known to tell who the winners are. The full tabulated returns will appear in THRE Star next week. Followiug are the names of the successful Republican candidates: Congress, A. F. Cooper. Assembly, A. W. Knepper and W. H. Floto. Clerk of Courts, F. A. Harah. Clerk of Orphans’ Court, Landis. Prothonotary, J. B. Gerhard. Sheriff, Chas. Weimer. Auditors, W. H. H. Baker and J. 8. Miller. Recorder of Deeds, N. E. Berkey. Commissioners, Rush S. MeMillen and Josiah Specht. The Democrats nominated Hiram P. Hay for Commissioner and 8. A. Kretchman for Auditor. — Bert F. DEATH WAS ON HIS HEELS. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call inthe spring of 1906. - He says: ‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared con- sumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It help- ed me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles I was a well man again. I found out that New Dis- covery is the best remedy for coughs and lung disease in all the world.” Sold under guarantee at E. H. Miller's drug store. §0c. and $1.00. Trial bot- tle free. 5-1 Faulty Replies. A New York paper asked a number of prominent persons what they con- sidered the most important thing for a boy to possess. Four teachers replied, three thus: 1, Boys that study to know, ete. 2, Boys that don’t hate a teacher, etc. 3, Boys that don’t make excuses, etc. Literally, the teacher who uses the relative, “that,” instead of “who,” illus- trated in the foregoing sentences, is probably better qualified to pass judg- ment upon bad boys than upon good grammar, says the Frostburg Mining Journal. A TWENTY YEAR SENTENCE. “I have just completed a twenty year health sentence, imposed by Buck- len’s Arnica Salve, which cured me of bleeding piles just twenty years ago,” writes O. S. Woolever, of LeRaysville, N. Y. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve heals | the worst sores, boils, burns, wounds | and cuts in the shortest time. 25¢. at | E. H, Miller’s drug store. 5-1 Bosrox boasts of a lobster three feet | long. Well, there are others! ae Beer Trust prices go up 30 per cent. | Some day the beef trust will go all the way up. OFTEN an earnest evangelist finds that preaching hell fire gives the sin- ners cold feet quicker than anything else. CARNEGIE says he does not smoke because he cannot afford to do so. Andy will have the sympathy of the oysterless Rockfeller family. SomeBoDpY has discovered that the earth is tilting; and probably it will keep on tilting as long “as Secretary Taft keeps moving around the way he does. MR. “Tarr recently ‘attended five luncheons and four dinners in a single day. We hardly believe the President himself could exceed that for true strenuosity. THE Populists have nominated Mr. Thomas E. Watson again for the Presi- dency ; whether designedly or through force of habit, however, we cannot say with certainty. A Kansas editor says ignorance and soiled whiskers are the parents of anarchy. Which, to say the least, is an impolite way to refer to Emma Gold- man and her husband. Because they cannot do anything themselves, the Democrats in Congress may think they have a right to prevent the Republicans from doing anything. That’s where they are wrong again. Ms. Oris SKINNER says Mr. Lawrence Barrett was very fond of his own voice, and often stood for hours talking aloud to bimself. It is somewhat strange that Mr. Barrett managed to keep out of Congress during his lifetime. Te “THERE is one man in Congress who is so careful to avoid the apperance of evil that he will not accept even an apology,” says the Detroit News. We suppose, however, there is no doubt of his willingness to accept a renomina- tion. Tue Bryan (Tex.) Eagle wants us to imagine how happy the next genera- tion will be, with mosquitoes, flies, rats, knockers and mossbacks exterminated; We dislike to appear pessimistic, bat the next generation is going to have troubles by the side of which ours will seem like trifles. “WHERE the railroads make their most serious blunder is in irritating the public unnesessarily,” says the Norfolk Landmark. And, conversely, where the public makes its most serious blunder is in unnecessarily irritating the railroads. In fact unnecessary ir- ritation, no matter from what quarter, is a blunder, and one that most people make sometimes. “A cow got into the fire engine house, Sunday night, and chewed up most of the hose and ate off the bellrope, while three hogs were found in the Baptist church, Monday afternoon. If Home- town is ever to become a great city, these things must be rendered impos- sible,” says the Banner, a paper pub- lished at Hometown, Pa.,but the things the Banner complains of are a mere nothing in comparison to the undesir- able things in some communities. For example, a preacher once told us that hogs frequently come to his church and partake of the Holy Sacrament. He said he knew they were hogs because they always squealed when asked to pay their portion of the pastor’s salary. On the other hand, the alleged swine communicants were known to deelare that they had only a very common hog for a preacher, and disinterested people in that community thought the alleged swine preacher and his alleged swine parishoners had all spoken the truth. A WOMAN TELLS HOW TO RE- LIEVE RHEUMATIC PAINS. I have been a very great sufferer from the dreadful disease, rheumatism, for a number of years. 1 have tried many medicines, but never got much relief from any of them until two years ago, when I bought a bottle of Cham- berlain’s Pain Balm. I found relief be- fore I had used all of one bottle, but kept on applying it, and soon felt like a different woman. Through my advice many of my friends have tried it and can tell you how wonderfully it has worked.—Mgzs. Saran A. CoLe, 140 S. New St., Dover, Del. = Chamberlain’s | Pain Balm is a liniment. The relief | from pain whieh it affords is alone worth many times its cost. It makes rest and sleep possible. For sale at GRANT MOON IS DEAD. brie Boy who was Shot by a Cam- panion at Kantner Died in a Johnstown Hospital. Grant Moon, aged sixteen years, who was shot on the 24th day of March, at Kantner, by one of his companions, Le- roy Berkebile, died on Monday at a hospital in Johnstown, where he was taken for treatment immediately after his injury. An autopsy developed. the fact that the bullet, which struck young Moon between the eyes, had passed through the skull and lodged at the base of the brain. The body was brought to the home of the unfortunate boy's parents for interment. : Grant Moon was the son of Mrs. Will- iam Suder, who married a second time. Young Berkebile, whose age is seven- teen years, is a don <of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Berkebile. It is said that the boys were boon companions, and the shooting was reported as purely acei- dental. Young Berkebile, however, was arrested on a charge of assault with intent to kill, but later was re- leased under bail in the sum of $1,000. But since the shooting there has been a great deal of talk concerning it, and various stories have been told in opposition to the allegation of accident, and the District Attorney may find it proper to further investigate the mat- ter.—Somerset Standard. HE GOT WHAT HE NEEDED. “Nine years ago it looked as if my time had come,” says Mr. C. Farthing, of Mill Creek, Ind. Ter. “I was so run down that life hung on a very slender thread. It was then my druggist rec- ommended Electric Bitters. I bought. a bottle and I got what I needed— strength. I had one foot in the grave, but Electric Bitters put it back on the turf again, and I've been well ever since.” Sold under guarantee at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 50c. 5-1 THE PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK. Washington, April 15. (Special)— The importance of the control of the Republican National committee in the Presidential canvass becomes more apparent as the fight for the nomina- tion proceeds. The friends of Secre- tary Taft have been using all the forces of the Federal machinery in the South to secure delegates for the Secretary of War, and in doing this they have aroused the opposition of many people who do not countenance those tactics. The result is that practically every Southern state will send two contesting delegations to the Chicago convention, and which of them will be seated in making up the temporary roll depends entirely upon the leaning of the Na- tional committee. At least 200 delegates will be repre- sented in these contests. If the Taft people control the committee, it is safe to assume that Taft delegates will be seated in all cases where there are contests. Delegates so seated will doubtless retain their seats after the convention is organized. If the anti- Taft forces control the committee, then it is equally safe to! assume that anti- Taft delegates will be seated. At present both sides claim control of the committee. Both have checked up the members and believe that they are in the majority, but it will be some time before an accurate estimate can be made. That the Taft managers are quite confident that they will have a majority is shown by the fact that wherever the antis secure control of a convention, Taft men hold a rump con- vention and elect a contesting dele- gation. But it has been demonstrated that Knox, Fairbanks, Cannon, and Hughes all have many friends in the South, and that each will get some delegates in that section, while Senator Foraker is expected to have strength wherever the colored Republicans are permitted to voice their preference. ea WHOOPING COUGH. I have used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in my family in cases of whooping cough, and want to tell you that it is the best medicine I have ever used.—W. F. Gaston, Posco, Ga. This remedy is safe and sure. For sale at Miller’s drug store. 5-1 Fruit Diet Makes Clear Complexion. Fruits have a value which we all admit, and, like succulent vegetables, give the proper elements for our blood. A clear skin and bright eyes are the reward of the fruit-and-vegetable de- votee, but do not make the mistake of eating fruits too sweet, says the New Idea Woman’s Magazine for May. An enormous amount of time can be saved in summer by substituting fruits for hot desserts, thus saving the w eary | housewife cooking over a hot stove, without undue sacrifice on the part of | the family, for nothing is more refresh- | | Miller's drug store. 5-1 ing than fresh fruit prettily served. TREES AS CROPS. “It is as sure that forest land can be made to grow successive crops of trees | under proper methods as that plow { land can be made to grow successive crops of wheat,” says the Secretary of Agriculture in the part of his annual report wherein he speaks of the Na- tional Forests. This country which once could boast of forest resources richer than any other nation in the world, has been cutting three times as much timber for a number of years as there is grown, and the consideration of timber as a crop to be carefully harvested has come at a time when many of the virgin forests are already -depleted. Continuing, Secretary Wilson says in part: “Just as American farming has had to develop and is still developing methods adapted to the conditions of each region to make the best use of the agricultural lands, so’ must the forester learn by scientific study and practical trial to make the best use of our timber land. And the best use means, of course, not merely its best use for the growing of trees, but its best use with reference to all interests directly or indirectly affected by it. ‘As time passes, it will doubtless ap- pear that the principles which centuries of experience in older countries have placed at our command can be applied with increasing good results as we grow more familiar with our own special conditions. ‘The issue is sharp- ly between caring for our fqrests by ap- plying a system of known efficiency, or suffering certain loss not only of the forests, but of usable water and soil as well, through the operation of causes as certain to act as are the rivers to run to the sea.” The Forest Service now has adminis- tration over more than 164,000,000 acres of land. This is slightly more than one-fifth of the country’s total forested area; the remainder is in the hands of private owners. Nearly all the timber land of the unappropriated public domain is now in the National Forests. This means that it is being protected against fire, theft, and waste- ful exploitation, that its power to grow wood and store water is being safe- guarded for all time, and that never- theless, its present supply of useful material is open to immediate use whenever it is wanted. The report says: “The timber i in the National Forests, which is the legacy of the growth of centuries, is now in the truest sense public property, administered for the benefit of the people—primarily for the benefit of the people of the west, since they are nearest at hand, but on the whole, for the benefit of every part of the country, since the welfare of every section is interwoven with that of all others. The communities and settlers adjacent to the forests are safe from any fear of monopoly of one of the chief necessities of civilized man.” The Secretary tells interestingly of Low the government manages its timber lands as a trustee. It gives timber away through tree-use permits in small quantities to the actual home-maker, who comes to develop the country, and in large quantities to communities for public purposes. Its system of man- agement is vastly different from that of a landlord. When large quantitias of timber are harvested from the Na- tional Forests, sales are made to the highest bidder, but under such re- strictions as look to the maintenance of a lasting supply answersng to the needs of the locality, to be had without favoritism and without extortionate demand based upon the necessity of the consumer. PLENTY OF TROUBLE is caused by stagnation of the liver and bowels. To get rid of it and head- ache and biliousness and the poison that brings jaundice, take Dr. King’s New Life Pills, the reliable purifiers that do the work without grinding or griping. 25c. at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 5-1 Business Interests. A well known exchange hits the nail squarely on the head when it says: The “interests of busiuess!” Great thing, isn’t it? It runs polities, legis- latures and even church. It shapes public opinion and fixes moral sstand- ards. It opens mouths and shuts them up; it commands influence and stifles influence. It makes the utterances of churchmen more “liberal” and compels good (?) men to do things which their haps “interests of business,” after all, stands for that “love of money” Be- | fore one can adopt | others, nowadays, he must first know what “interests” influenced the |ions? opin- FEW KNOW. Simple Home-Made Treatment Said To Overcome Rheumatism. When an eminent authority aa- nounced'in the Scranton (Pa.) Times that he had found a new way to treat that dread American disease, Rheuma- tism, with just common, every-day drugs found in any drug store, the physicians were slow indeed to attach much importance to his claims. This was only a few months ago. Today nearly every newspaper in the countrys even the metropolitan dailies, is an- nouncing it and the splendid results achieved. It is so simple that any one can prepare it at home at small cost. It is made up as follows: Get from any good ‘prescription pharmacy, Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Com- pound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Mix by shaking in a bottle and take im teaspoonful doses after each meal and at bedtime. These are all simple in- gredients, making an absolutely harm- less home remedy at little cost Rheumatism, as every one knows, is a sympton of deranged kidneys. It is a condition produced by the failure of the kidneys to properly filter or strain from the blood the uric acid and other matter which, if not eradicated, either in the urine or through the skin pores, remains in the blood. decomposes and forms about the joints and muscles, causing the untold suffering and de- formity of rheumatism. This prescription is said to be a splendid healing, cleansing and invig- orating tonic to the kidneys, and gives almost immediate relief in all forms of bladder and urinary troubles and back- ache. He also warns people in a lead- ing New York paper against the dis- criminate use of many patent medi- cines. Ship Siberian Timber Eight Thou- sand Miles. An Australian corporation has just received a concession from the Russian Government to take out thirty million feet of timber a year from a forest in Siberia, nine hundred miles from Vla- divostok, to be delivered in Melbourne, Australia, approximately eight thou- sand miles away, and nearly three times the distance from New York te Sam Francisco. It is likely that no lumbering opera- tion of recent years more strongly il- lustrates the pinch in the timber sup- ply in all parts of the world. In the news of the concession, told in am American lumber journal, is the sug- gestion of the difficulty that all coun- tries may have to encounter in getting the wood which they need in the future. Every year timber cruisers are going further and further afield and cutting trees which, in former times of abundance, they passed be- cause of the inaccessibility of the *for- est, In taking out the Siberian timber, the Melbourne lumbermen will have te ship the entire year’s cut in July, Ap- gust, September and October, for dur- ing the remainder of the year there is no open water at the point of shipment. What makes this unusual feature of transporting bulky legs 8,000 miles quite feasible is that such unmanufac- tured stock is admitted free, while there is a heavy duty on all manufac- tured wood brought.into Australia, the duty on lumber, for: instance, being nearly $5.00 a thousand board feet. At Melbourne, a new mill is being erected to manufacture these logs into dressed stock, such as flooring, ceiling and other products, as well as into lumber. These Siberian operations differ from the lumbering methods in the United States, in that in this country it is possible and customary to have new mills conveniently near the place of production, though, with the continu- ally decreasing supply, the larger mills often find it profitable to haul their timber by trams and railroads many miles away .from their saws. Forest experts in’ this country say that the hope of the United States for a steady supply of timber lies in the applicatiom of forestry to all timber lands, private and public, and the careful study of the economical and better utilization of product. Even so, a severe shortages in twenty to twenty-five years must ba expected. >— CEAMBERLAIN’S COUGH EDY AIDS NATURE. REM- conscience tells them are wrong. Per- | which] | is said to be “the root of all evil?” the opinions of | Medicines that aid nature are always most effectual. Chamberlain’s Cough | Remedy acts on this plan. Tt allays the cough, relieves the lungs, aids ex- pectoration, opens the secretions, an aids nature in restoring the system | a healthy condition. Thousands testified to its superior excellence. Fg sale at Miller's drug store. 2-1 | da C0 EJ r
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