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"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!
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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.
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“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.
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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- |
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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.
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CEAMBERLAIN’S COUGH
EDY AIDS NATURE.
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conscience tells them are wrong. Per- |
which]
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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
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