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Tells How to Prepare a Simple Mix-
ture to Overcome Disease.
To relieve the worst forms of Rheu-
matism, take a teaspoonful of the fol-
lowing mixture after each meal and at
* bedtime.
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce ; Compound Kargon, one ounce;
Compound Syrus Sarsaparilla, three
ounces.
These harmless ingredients can be
obtained from our home druggist, and
are easily mixed by shaking them well
Relief is generally felt
from the first few doses.
This prescription forces the clogged-
up, inactive kidneys to filter and strain
from the blood the poisonous waste
matter and uric acid, which causes
Rheumatism. .
As Rheumatism is not only the most
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no donbt be greatly valued by many
sufferers here at home, who should at
* once prepare the mixture to get this
relief.
It is said that a person who would
take this prescription regularly, a dose
or two daily,or even a few times a
week, would never have serious Kid-
ney or Urinary disorders or Rheuma-
tism. :
Cut this out and preserve it. Good
Rheumatism prescriptions which real-
iy relieve, are scarce indeed, and when
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Bloodhounds and Auto.
The several murders and frequent
robberies that have been committed in
Somerset county, without the ‘authori-
ties being able to apprehend the cul-
prits, has prompted a private citizen to
take steps on his own accord.
B. F. Hinemeyer, of Shanksville, last |
week purchased a pair of thoroughbred
bloodhounds from the Mount Penn
Kennels, which he will train at once.
Mr. Hinemeyer also putchased a Max-
well automobile. With this combina-
tion he will tender his services to the
county.. With bloodhounds and an,
automobile, thieves will hereafter be
tracked on short notice.—Somerset
Standard.
Locar Option will have a Fair deal,
remarks the Connellsville Courier.
The bill is in the hands of Representa-
tive Fair, of Westmoreland county.
TaE helper helps, the builder builds,
the booster boosts, and the knocker
knocks. Which are you? Your
country has no recruiting stations for
the enlistments of the latter —Ex.
A .00NSERVATIVE booster is a good
thing ; and ‘might truthfully be termed
the pioneer spirit that places many
bright spots on the country’s map.
Boost the booster, for he’s the booster
that boosts you.—Ex.
Tae town booster deserves your lau-
rels of fame. You may differ with him
in polities, in religion, and many other
things. Bat when you apply the little
hammer to him, you stick your corns
under a pile driver, says an exchange.
Deserted From Army.
Samuel E. Shoemaker, formerly of
Somerset, deserted the regular army
in December and the army officials have
offered a reward of fifty dollars to any
officer or civilian who returns him to
the nearest post.
Shoemaker was a private in Battery
B, Third Field artillery, and was
stationed at Fort Sam Huston, Texas,
from which post he deserted on the 4th
day of last December. The young man
is in the 22nd year of his age.
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It seemed to J. A. Stone, a civil war
veteran, of Kemp, Tex., that a plot ex-
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me, in spite of all remedies, for years.
My weight ran down to 130 pounds.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Below will be found the names of the
various county and district officials.
Unless otherwise indicated, their ad-
dresses are Somerset, Pa.
President Judge—Francis J. Kooser.
Member ot Congress—A. F. Cooper,
Uniontown, Pa.
State Senator—William C. Miller,
Bedford, Pa.
Members of Assembly—W. H. Floto,
‘| Meyersdale ; A. W. Knepper.
Sheriff—Charles H. Weimer.
Prothonotary—J. B, Gerhard.
Register—Bert F. Landis.
Recorder—Norman E. Berkey.
Clerk of Courts—F. A. Harah.
Treasurer—Russell G. Walker.
District Attoiney—John 8. Miller.
Coroner—Dr. H. 8. Kimmell.
Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant-
ner; Rush 8S. McMillen, Rockwood ;
Hiram P. Hay, Berlin. Solicitor—
Charles W. Walker.
Jury Commissioners—George J.
Schrock, M. L. Weighley, Jenners.
" Directors, of the Poor—J. F. Reiman,
William W. Baker, J. C. Dietz, Listie.
Attorney for Directors, H. F. Yost.
Superintendent of Schools—D. W.
Seibert.
County Auditors—Jacob 8. Miller,
Friedens; W. H. H. Banker and Samuel
A. Kretehman, Rockwood.
Chairmen Political Organizations—
Jonas M. Cook, Republican; Alex B.
Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin,
Prohibition. tf.
KNEPPER AND FLOTO.
Somerset County’s Misrepresenta-
tives at Harrisburg—How Their
Actions Are Sized Up by The
Star and Some of Its Ex-
changes. ;
Ever since A. W. Knepper and W. H.
Floto have been elected to represent
Somerset county in the General As-
sembly at Harrisburg, there has been
much speculation as to what they
would do when confronted by certain
problems that all legislators have to
| face. Willthey or will they ‘mof go
‘into the caucus to nominate. a candi-
date for U. 8. Senator? If they do go
into the caucus, will they support the
caucus nominee, or some one else, or
nobody when the ballotting takes place
for the final election, in the House?
Whom will they support in the caucus
for Speaker of the House? And whom
will they support for Speaker when the
ballotting takes place for his election?
All these questions were freely com-
mented upon in their season, and
various predictions were made by those
attempting to answer them.
The answers to the questions enu-
merated have been given by the actions
of Knepper and Floto, and those actions
are now a matter of history. As those
gentlemen are our public servants,
their actions are alike open to praise or
criticism, and we believe we voice the
sentiment of a very large majority of
the people of Somerset county when
we say that never before in the history
of Somerset county have her people
been represented, or rather misrepre-
sented by two such general legislative
nonentities and incompetents to cred-
itably fill the office to which they were
elected, as Amos Wobble Knepper and
Wm. Hobbleé Floto. Every day we hear
some of the most intelligent people
who helped to nominate them express
regret that they ever allowed organized
effort to get away with their better
personal judgment at the primary and
cause them to vote for two such sorry
miefits as the public servants aforesaid.
They were nominated solely on the
Local Option issue, but somehow Amos
and William got it into their heads
that they were nominated and elected
principally to unhorse Senator Penrose
and the Republican State organization.
How or why they ever got such a fool
notion into their addle-brained pates
would indeed be hard to figure out, as
it is a well-known fact that more Pen-
rosé men voted for them at the Repub-
lican primary than any other kind, and
at no time during the primary cam-
paign did either Knepper or Floto pub-
licly declare againet the re-election
of Boise Penrose to the United States
Senate. It was known, of course, to
some of their supporters. that they had
decided Anti-Penrose leanings, but
that matter was kept as quiet as pos-
sible during the primary campaign, as
Amos and William knew very well
that they could not be nominated if
they made much ngise about their an-
tagonism to Penrose. Therefore, they
confided the secret to a few of their
most trusty friends, while they induced
as many Penrose people as possible
into voting for them, by declaring to
them that the Local Option issue was
the only real issue of the Campaign,
which in reality was the truth.
I'o the Local Option issue and to the
) 1¢ endorsement alone
do Knepper and Floto owe their nomi-
nation and election. Nine-tenths of
the pedple who voted for them, cared
but little whether Amos and William
were for Penrose or against him. Most
of the @nti-Penrose People conceded
that Penrose would have no opposition
worthy of the name when it came to
the elegtion of U.S. Senator, and the
Penrosé people knew that Penrose was
not in the least in need of the votes of
Kneppér and Floto. Therefore, all
that was expected of Knepper and
Floto by a very large majority of the
people who helped to nominate and
elect them, was that they remain firm
on the gide of Local Option, support the
bill in its interest when presented for
passage, and in all other matters use at
least good horse sense and discretion.
In the latter requirements they have
thus fdr proven themselves a signal
failure, and have shown themselves
wofully lacking in that resourcefulness
80 very necessary to become influential
and energetic members of the Assem-
bly. They made the mistake to tack
onto an insignificant and ridiculous ag-
gregation of kickers lacking real issues,
lacking generalship, lacking brains.
They merely relegated themselves to
legislative oblivion, and Somerset
county might as well be represented in
the Assembly by two wooden men as
by Knepper and Floto. Let us review
their course to date.
In the first place, they went into the
Republican caucus held for the nomi-
nation of a candidate for U.S. Senator
and a candidate for Speaker of the
House, and the only wonder is that
they had sense enough to go into the
eaucus. But they didn’t have sense
enough to vote for the only real candi-
date for U, 8. Senator, the Hon. Boies
Penrose. They preferred to vote for
John O. Bheatz, a mere decoy candi-
date and staunch friend of Senator
Penrose. They didn’t have sense
enough to see that Sheatz was merely
set up as a decoy by Senator Penrose
to get a few fools into the caucus that
otherwise would have tried to kick up
a rumpus outside and unite. all the
enemies of Penrose and ‘the Republi-
ean party on some fusion candidate for
U.S. Senator. It was a shrewd and
justifiable move on the part of Penrose
and his friend Sheatz, and all such
suckers as Knepper and Floto swallow-
ed bait, hook. sinkers and all.
Of course, nobody denies the right or
had any particular objection to Amos
and William voting for Sheatz. But,
when they entered the caucus, they
should have made up their minds to
support the caucus nominee when the
time (ame to ballot for his election, for
the reason that such a course is the
only fair and logical one to follow. If
they did not want to be governed by
the selection of the majority of the
caucus, then they should have refused
to go into the caucus. When the bal-
lotting took place for the election of U.
8. Senator, after the candidate had
been duly and fairly nominated by a
cancus in which Knepper and Floto
participated, the two Somerset county
members played the baby act by not
voting, when they had nothing to gain,
but many things to lose for their con-
stituents by following such a course.
In the matter of selecting a Speaker
of the House, ambling, rambling Amos
and weary Willie took quite a different
course, making their conduct, upon the
whole, quite hard to explain. In the
caucus they voted for McClain for
Speaker, who lost to Representative
Cox, an out and out whisky man. How-
ever, as soon as Mr, Cox was the cau-
cus nominee for Speaker, the two Local
Option members from Somerset county
stuck to him like ticks to a dog's back,
and they voted for him when the roll
was called for his election. Now, if
they could support an out and out
whiskey man like Cox for Speaker,
why did they play the baby act on vot-
ing fora U. 8. Senator? Their fool
course has branded them as nothing
but two very thick-headed fools, and as
such only can they be regarded by
most of their fellow legislators and the
intelligent portion of their constituents.
They were created accordingly, too, in
the making up of the various House
committees. Following is what some
of the other county papers have to say
on that score:
The Meyersdale Commercial says—
“Our Somerset county representatives
have been placed upon the following
committees: Floto—Mines and Min-
ing, Pensions and Gratuities, Retrernch-
ment and Reform. Knepper—Iron and
Coal, Centennial, Constitutional Re-
form, Compare Bills and Appropri-
ations. That’s better than they had a
right to expect.”
The committees named, all except |
one, are very unimportant ones, but |
we agree with the Commercial
Knepper and Floto got more in the wa
of pl nittees than they had
hat
The Meyersdale Republican says:
“Senator Miller, of this district, voted
for Hon. Boies Penrose for’ United
States Senator and with the regular
Republicans in all other matters. Re-
sult—he is chairman of the Law and
Order Committee, a member of the Ap-
propriation, Education, Finance, Pub-
lic Roads and Highways, Federal
Relations, New Counties and County
Seats and Game and Fish Committees.
Four of these are the most important
of allthe committees. That’s oneside.
Floto and Kepper, our representatives
in the House, didn’t vote at all for U.
8. Senator, and in the oganization voted
with the insurgents. Result—Mem-
bers of half a dozen unimportant com-
mittees, only on one really important
committee, no chairmanships. That’s
the other side. If Floto and Knepper
were the cnly ones interested, it would
not be so bad, but it is Somerset coun-
ty that pays the penalty.” And every
word the Republican says on this topic
is true.
And this is the way the Confluence
News manhandles “Uncle Amos” and
“Me-too- Willie :” ‘
“Perhaps we're mistaken—hope we
are, but it looks to the News as if our
representatives at Harrisburg were
in wrong with the powers that be. A
casual examination of the legislative
committees makes it appear as if the
members from Somerset county had
been decently but effectively buried,
and there is a reason for this. They
went to Harrisburg with the avowed
intention of stripping the senatorial
toga from the shoulders of Senator
Penrose, and they failed in their pur-
pose, because the people of Pennsyl-
vania would not hear to it. As aresult,
the Senator still retains possession of
his clothes, and our representatives are
in bad odor with the committee on state
plums. They can still vote, of course,
on bills as they come before the House
for enactment, but in as far as having
an active part in shaping legislation, or
in getting some substantial recognition
for Somerset county, they might as
well be at home playing “flinch” or
knitting coverlets for some Old Ladies’
Home.” .
Tke News is eminently right in all it
has to say on the subjeet under discus-
sion, and it is equally true that Somer-
set county is today represented in the
Legislature by the two weakest mem-
bers ever sent there since our county
was formed. Neither one of them has
brains or tact enough to represent a
backwoods township, much less a great
industrial county like Somerset. and if
the “Frosty Sons of Thunder” send any
more such legislative timber to Har-
risburg as Knepper and Floto, our
county will'be held up to ridicule and
scorn by all the balance of the state.
These truths are as unpleasant to us
as they will be to Amos and William,
but we can’t help that, and the truth
may as well be told.
The Somerset Herald is as yet the
only paper that has tried to justify
Knepper and Floto in their official ca-
reer thus far, claiming they fulfilled a
pledge by not voting for Senator Pen-
rose. Will the Herald please tell us
when, where and how Knepper and
Floto ever made such a pledge to the
voters of Somerset county? If they
ever made such a pledge, they were too
cowardly to make it in the public
prints.
where all men could see where they
stood. If they ever made such a
pledge it was made only to certain vot-
ers, on the quiet, after the manner of
the gum-shoe politician or the sneak
in the dark. Anyway, in what manner
are Knepper and Floto better than
Senator Penrose? “Bill” Floto is as
good a judge of whisky as Senator Pen-
rose, but]in what respect ishe any bet-
ter? And what has Amos Knepper
ever done that brands him as a better
man than Senator Penrose, or a fit and
proper person to pose as a great moral
reformer? Uncle Amos is not a bad
man, we will admit, but he has never
shown that Senator Penrose is a bad
man, either. And neither have any of
the other anti-Penrose howlers ever
shown anything of the kind. If senator
Penrose is good enough to stand high
in the councils of such men as Presi-
dent Roosevelt and many of the other
great and good men of this country, as
was amply demonstrated during the
last Republican national campaign, he
surely ought to be good enough to
represent Pennsylvania in the Senate
of the United States and to merit the
support of such men as “Mosey” Knep-
per and “Bill” Floto.
The Herald’s defense of Knepper and
Floto is not made in good faith, but
| merely to gain some political advan- |
If the |
tage through and by deception.
Herald wanted to do so, it could truth-
of two defunct Scull ring
I went to Harrisburg at
the Legislatu make
Senator Penro
votes of our two representatives in ex-
change for the dumping of Hon, J. A.
Berkey from the Republican State
committee, and other considerations.
But they found the Senator opposed
to any kind of a sale or deal for the
votes of two representatives who are
only asses wherever you hitch them
up in a legislative harness. Hence the
continued railing at Penrose by the old
Scull family organ.
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ADDISON’S LATEST SENSATION,
That the minister of one of the most
prominent churches is the aristocratie
old town of Addison is a disbeliever ia
dancing, is shown by his action takem
upon receiving an invitation to one of
the leading social functions of the
Yuletide season held on New Year's
evening, by a number of the young
yolks of that place. The affair was
held by the most prominent people of
Addison, with a deacon of the church
as chairman of the dance committee.
Invitations were issued to the social
set of the little town, including the
minister. On receiving his invitation,
the minister immediately wrote the
young deacon, asking for his resigna-
tion. The young man being one of the
leaders of the social element in the
town, at once complied with the re-
quest of his pastor, the resignation
being readily accepted by the latter.
On learning of the commotion that the
dance had caused, and of the resigna-
tion of the deacon, the young members,
and many of the older members of the
church congregation, taking a stand
with the deacon, also withdrew their
letters from the church, and as a re-
sult the congregation is reduced to one
of a few members. The young people
of Addison were very prominent in the
church, and were always ready to take
an active part in any work along for
the good of the church and its various
societies. Their loss from the church
is being keenly felt by the remaining
members. The affair has caused quite
a stir in the church, and in the social
circles at Addison.—Rockwood Leader.
The Addison minister referred to in
the foregoing news item, must at least
be given credit for sincerity and eonsist-
ency. The rules of his church evi-
dently prohibit dancing, or he would
not have demanded the resignation of
the deacon. The great trouble with
many church members lies in the fact
that they subscribe to the rules, creed
and teachings of the various churches
they unite with, but apparently do so
with considerable mental reservation
or secret determination to profess cer-
tain things and then live a life and do
things that give the lie direct to what
they profess and subscribe to before
God and man when they join church.
Thus they make of themselves self-
convicted hypocrites. Of course, to
many preachers such a course of du-
plicity makes little or no difference, so
long as the ministerial salary is paid
with reasonable promptness and liber-
ality, and for that reason church
membership has pretty generally come
to be regarded as a farce and a thing
of mere policy. When people are un-
willing to live and act in accordance
with the discipline, rules, usages and
teachings of the churches of which they
are members, they should quit playing
the hypocrite, and drop their mem-
bership. The preacher in this
case, is evidently acting in support of
his church rules and teachings, and in
so doing is entitled to credit for acting
in accordance with his profession. By
his course he gives proof that he is not
a mere parasite on society, of the kind
that stands ready to condone or in-
dulge anything, for fear that to do
otherwise might lose him a few dimes
or shillings from his income. And that
is more than can besaid for some
preachers, and a good many of them,
too.
Burglar’s Wounds Prove Fatdl
Joseph Anderson, of DuBois, Pa., the
burglar who some weeks ago tried to
rob a store at Summit Mills and was
shot by a concealed shotgun that was
so arranged as to be discharged when
the cash drawer was pulled open, died
of his wound in the Memorial Hospital,
at Johnstown, Pa., last Thursday. It
was not only a case of “didn’t ‘know ‘it
was loaded,” but also a ease of “didn’t
know itfwas there.”
WASHINGTON ONCE GAVE UP
to three doctors; was kept in bed for
five weeks. Blood poison from a spi-
der’s bite caused large, deep sores to
cover his leg. The doctors failed, then
“Bucklen’s Arnica Salvel completely
cured me,” writes John Washington, of
Bosqueville, Tex. For eczema, boils,
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