i tl f i i it i ,1 hi ft t le olttmbi;m. ESTABLISHED 164. Jbf Columbia gftnorrat, hTablishkd :r. consolidated im. - rrti.lHD IT GEO. E. EL WELL kVEKV FKIDAT MOKS1NO t BloorosWj. the Countr seat of Columbia county, Penasylvsnla- Tlt; Inside the countr, t:.00 s year Id J ranee; fl.K U tot paid to sdTanc nutalle the county. 11. j-nr. strictly In divine. All communlrv Ions snnctd be addrwd to THE COIXMBIAV. BlootMburg. Pa. FKJDAY, SEPTEMEER il, l9 rEYOCHiTIC TICKET. CHAtC. For Jnd.re ct the supreme court, f EXl'EL GI ST1XE THOMPSON, ot PhlUdetpnls. fir State Tf jurer. FRANK C. OKBl'KS. nt All-heny Counry. Coanty. For Prothoiiitorr and Urk of tic Ccirts. G. V. Wl'ICK. For K-s1.er and Kecopler. C. B. ENT. For county Treasurer. J. R. FOWLER. For County crMwnlesHners. (.. M. IKELER. J. G. SWANK. For Dlstifrt AtornT. THOJv B. HANLT. Fr County Autltor. W. A. DKElSBACH. J. F. HAKKIN. For County 8'irroyor. C H. MOOKE. The report that Secretary Carlisle was to have an operation performed to have a lump removed from his arm was a little premature. Mrs. Carlisle by old fashioned home treatment and rubbing has caused the lump to sub side, and no operation will be per formed. Since the extra session of Con gress, the question is raised, how are the numbers paid, and what amount is allowed for the extra ses sion. The members of the House of Representatives receive $5,000 per year, and members of the Senate $6,coo per year. They are expected to devote ail their time to the work, and do not receive any more pay for an extra session. However, at the ocginning of the present extra Session, a bill has passed appropriating a fee of 10 cents mileage. Henry S Cochran, who has been chief weigh clerk in the mint at Phila delphia for the past 43 years on Satur day last made a confession to having stolen $134,000 worth of gold. The shortage was disvovered a fev days ago, and by means of men in the em ploy of the Secret Service, evidence was soon produced, implicating Coch ran. He had been so long in the em ploy that those who knew him were slow to believe it, until the confession was made. The gold was all recov ered except a few thousand dollarr. which will be made good by the bonds men. His annual salary was $2,000. LEGISLATION. It would seem as if the United States Senate was a body which has no control or government over itself or over its members. It can't vote, it can't make itself vote, and no power exists which can make it vote. Its ex istence therefore is simply as an ob structionist. It is not to legislate, but to prevent legislation. It does not represent the people, it does not represent the states. It stands against the interests of both in many instances. With a few brilliant and able men, it is weak as a body. It has become a public nuisance, and to be - abated as such. Debate is one thing, but there has been no debate, there will be none thin wishy-washy talkee. Shades of Calhoun ajd Webster! TEE 8EHATL Mr. Voorhees is quoted as saying : 'There is no power on the earth or in the heavens above nor in the depths below that will compel the Senate to vote on the repeal bill It will be from now on merely a test of endurance on both sides. We have a substantial majority solid for repeal, and are as confident of the ultimate result as we .have been at any stage of the fight. I shall move for longer sessions at an early day." If that be true, then the Senate of the United States as at present consti tutea or organized is the supreme noirer in this government. The ma jority does not rule, the people do net rule, but half-a-dozen old cranks in the senate do absolutely rule the coun try prevent necessary legislation, ob struct and defy the people. Seventy millions of people have no power over seventy of their servants. We must bring the Senate closer to the people. It must feel the power of the public opinion. Election by the people and tor a shorter term, or the prompt abol ition of the body must be moved for At once. WASHINGTON LETTER. CE5TESS1AL OF THE CAPITOL. NO CHANGE IS THE SILVER SirVATIoN. To Much Talk. 1 (Frrtn out hfgnlxt Corresr,onJ:i.t Washington, Sep:. 18, 1893 One hundred years ago to-day the corner stone of a building which many eminent foreigners have pronounced to be the most beautiful and imposing structure in the world was laid in this city in the presence ot a few hundre 1 people. That building was the Capi tol, and to day a mighty host estimat ed ct from 150.000 to Joa.ooo people assembled around the statue of Georse Washington, which sits roaies tica'iy facinz the rising sun unon the nlateau east of the Canitol. to do hon. ! or to the centennial anniversary of that momentous occasion Congress made the day a legal holiday and at tended in a body. President Cleve land as chairman of ceremonies made a short speech in his happiest vein, intro ducing Hon. William Wirt Henry, of Virginia, a descendent of Patrick Henry, whose oration was an epic of patriotism entirely worthy of the oc casion : Vice President Stevenson ' spoke for the Senate ; Speaker Crisp for the House and Justice Brown of the Supreme Court, tor the Judiciary. A trained chorus of 1500 voices sang patriotic songs, the last of which "America" was joined in by the en tire audience, and it was truly sublime. There is no material change in the silver situation in the Senate. Sena tor Vorhees has given notice that he will shortly try to force a vot by pro longing the sessions. Meanwhile the Senator will rontmne i.-. taiv far an.l i against repeal. I The attempt of some of the weak I kneed democrats in the House fortu-) natcly for the future of the party they J are few in number, -who fear the J wrath of the republicans and advise 1 delay whenever a move is made to- i wards carrying out the promises of the democratic national platform, to have the impression go out, if they do not openly charge that the House committee on election of President and Vice President and Representa tives in CongTess, in deciding to report the Tucker bill for the repeal of the r j , , 1 , . cucrai c.ect.on laws, naa not treated inc cnairiuan 01 mai coraruiliee Ker resemauvc men 01 rew lorK who is now at the bedside of his mother 1 who is dangerously il!, with proper courtesy. Here are the facts: Mr. Fitch was anxious to get the biil re ported to the House at the earliest moment, and when he was called away from Washington by his mother's ill ness he went to Sneaker Cristi and re. quested him to send for Represent!-1 tive Tucker, of Virginia, the orr.r.A ' democrat on the committee, and to ask him to see that there was no delay in getting the biil before the Ilcusi. This the Speaker did, and f:.i:. ;':.i time until now Mr. Tucker, a; a-ti:.g chairman of the committee, has had the advice of Speaker Crisp u;on hii every act, and m addition he has had telegrams from Mr. Fitch telling him to push things. That the bill is not already before the House is not the fault of the committee, but cf the ab sent democrats If the House is to do anything promptly a quorum of democrats must be in their seats every day, and, in view of the large demo cratic majority, it ought not to be dif ficult to keep them there. The repub licans have shown that thev propose taking advantage to the utmost of the too liberal rules of the House to block legislation whenever there is not quorum of democrats on the floor. The report that President Cleveland was encouraging democrats to stay away from the House in order to pre vent this bill being taken up is a vil lainous libel brought out solely for the purpose of creating dissension in dem ocratic ranks. Representative Wilson, chairman of the House Ways and Means commit tee, says lots of nonsense is being talked about the intentions of that committee and about manufacturers being afraid to continue at work lest the new tariff should ruin them etc Now, as a matter of fact, anj manu facturer can ascertain by addressing chairman Wilson or any democratic member of the committee the repub licans on the committee also know it, but they would be tempted in order to make political capital to suppress or distort the facts that the commit tee proposes to give ample time to every industry before the new tariff goe3 into effect for eveiy manufactur er to dispose of stock on hand and to make his arrangements to meet the new and lowered duties. The demo crats have no desire to ruin anybody ; their aim is to make a tariff that will confer the greatest good on the ereat- esi numoer, anu in uoing so it will, 01 course, be necessary to make such changes as will wipe out for the future the enormous prohts which ha-'e been legislated into the pockets of certain favored classes of manufacturers at the expense of the people. The public hearings on the tariff will close this week, and the democratic members of the committee will then devote their whole time to the preparation of the biiL The State Convention, Tuesday at Hamsburg adopted new rules govern ing the democratic party. We will publish them in full in our next issue, THE FARMERS AND THE CRISIS. When, bv rearon of unfavorable conditions, nearly half of the lopula tioti is deprived in vhole or i i it power to 1 -.k-Ii-. c of the v -art ' of those engage.! in manufact .ir;:.g in dustrie. the wiio'e commercial ami industrial .r! 1 sj:Vrs ft cm pr.r? ').., the exchanges b.-come dciancd ; hoarding ensues, monetary stringency follows : mills, factories and furnaces close ; operatives, ceasing to earn. lose their power to purchase of tr.c products of their own labor as well a the labor of others : and the circle o! declining activity constantly widens. Such are the conditions now exist in;:, and they are largely if not almost wholly due. primarily to the loss of the power on the part of some 45 I er cent, of the people to purchase of other than the ver.est necessar.es As the prices of farm products have fallen, so has declined the purchasing power of that great body of producers constituting nearly half the working force of the nation, and so has waned the prosperity of all. At the Liking of the census of 1S70. $2 per tent, of all the males following regular vocations were engaged in ag riculture, and this was approximately the proportion of the people living upon the farm; but by 18S0, owing to the growth of manufactures, the proportion had been reduced below 49 i-er cent., and is now probably about 45 per cent. For more than fifteen years. 1878 to 1893, all the great primary agricul tural staples have been declining in price, although there have been jeri ods when the price of some one was hi.sh for a limited tune. I his is more notably true as respects secondary products, especially meats and lard; ut the trend of the whole scale has been constantly downward, and the general price level at the end of each year was lower than at its beginning, In the meantime, there has been no material reduction in the cost of pro duction, the self-binder, the gang plough, mower, hay tedder, and hay loader, and all other great improve ments in agricultural machinery, hav ing come into use prior to 187S. Subsequent modifications and im provements have been in the direc- tion of t facij.;t m operation cost. While i.,,!,.. ,-,, -,f ;,i - , . im;it;ini.-r,ts. such I i . j : reduction lessen ins o has r.ot the cost I as.iiltu III of production on the farm, as new machines h?.ve often d'solared thofe . CIC ,,1 " Proyab:e finrs Iar::e enovgn io warrant the 'virchae of fill lines ot : e l mnchiner. the cot of .';en lessened farms consti cent, cf the production ten -1:' c-.-tutir'.- less .ertt'v c...'v a '. r. :er cu.t:vrt o: tr- grei'utc saving from such economies has Lc-en s'.igut, and lias j.rot al !v Lec:i fully offset by the p :c:e-:s:vc':y incrcisinj use of commercial fertiliz ers, which have Leen found n.c-.'.rary in all the r'-cion east of the Mississip pi : not to increase the fertility of the land, but arr.p'y to prevent further de terioration. Whiie the cost of producing cannot have been lessened as much as five per cent, since 1 S75, prices for the staple products of the farm averaged 82 percent, greater during the fi.e years ending with 1875 than now. This is especially true as respects the five staples : corn, wheat, oats, hay, and cotton, which employ 195,000, 000 out of the 206,000,000 acres now devoted to staple crops. 1 he following table shows in ten year averages the gold value per acre of the product of the five staples : viue of o Acre's pr xlucl Value or ao Acre product Value ot an Acre't product ltftS-SJ 8.81 07 7.S Value ot au Acn-'a product 8-3 . 57 10.00 1S7S-W) u.v U.ST altogether Corn ItM Wheat lil Oaca M.tl Buy IS M 10.10 13JM Cotton 2J.01 law If, as IS probable, the revenue derived from the cultivation of each acre of the staples named has not since 1885 been m excess of the cost of production, then it is readily seen that the workers among the 30, 000,000 who inhabit the farms of the United States have for eight years re ceived no more than laborers' wages, and could purchase but the barest necessaries. As prices now current are 2 1 per cent below the average of 1886 to 1890, it follows that the pro- ducts of the farm are now sold below the cost of production, and that the farmer is wholly without purchasing power other than such as results from his wages as a common laborer. As 206,000,000 acres are now em ployed in growing staple crops, it fol lows that the power of the farmer to purchase is this year $1,563,000,000 less than it would be if he was receiv ing the prices of 1866-70 for his great staples. Were prices now equal to the average of those obtained from 1876101880, the purchasing power of the farmers would this year be augmented by $768,000,000. Even with prices as low as those prevailing from 1 836 to 1890, the farmers of the United States would have $358,000, 000 added to their debt-paying and purchasing power In 1893; and like A GREAT StAXT CHILDREN have been cured of scrofnla an 1 Jr di"i-a.s a f$ W'.l' tli. I .nl of fclOWTl fOCpll-, 1'V lk'lip ..rj'.i ioal Discovery . Every di ordir that can he rcaihi i thronsrh the MW, ykd ! to purifvi:!s pi;"..;;u. 1 es, it bund p iCVw.ric JU and Jtppncrth ; not merely j it ruecm liver oils. A scrot ulcus con- dition of the blood in vits Catarrh, Bronchi- tis and Consumption. V.Vre all exposed to the crriiis cf consump tion, grip, or mnUria yet only the weak ones suffer. YThcn you're weak, tired out. and de bilitated, or when pimples and blotches appear heed the warninar in time. 1 he Dicov- ery " sets all the organs into healthy action especially the liver, for that s the point of entrance tor tnese perms, then if the Mood is pure, thv'll be thrown oa. 1 hopes no risk. If it fails to benefit or cure in all cases of impure blood or inactive liver, your money is returned. The key to the situation if yon miSer from Ca tarrh, yoall find in Dr. Sage's Remedy. No mat ter how bad your case may bo, the proprietors of the medicine promise to pay $500 if they can't cure you. You're cured, or you're paid. advances on the other products of the farm would create an ample fund for building and general improvement. thus employing more labor. Doublsn? the present price of wheat would probably add the price of six or eight days' labor to the cost of the year's supply of bread for the average family : but with wheat at an average ot $1 a bushel at the larm markets, and other farm products at proportionate prices there would be r.o idle mills, and the earner of wages would have that easily procured ard constant work which would assu.e him the continuous ability to buy bread. Would not that be far better than existing conditions and bread unattainable though low in pnee ? Mi. Is and furnaces are idle, and op eratives unable to buy bread, because a large part of the 30.000.000 inhabit ing t;ie farms have lobt their purchas 'v piwer : the 1 u:th.a:-;ii' power has Leen !ost h cause the products of the bclov-the coi.t of production, farm products bring inadequate prices be cause, primarily, of the existence dur ing recent years of a cultivated acr: age in excess of the world's require ments ; and there aie those who be- 1 l:e.e tiiat the depressing inriuence of tus excessive acreage upon prices lia been intensified and augmented by rr.ethods employed upon the Produce Exchanges. When we reflect that had the 460, ooo.coo bushels of wheat exported i ince July 1, 1S91, brought but fifteen cents more a bushel the corn export ed ten cents more, and the cotton expor ted only four mills more a pound, fully $100,000,000 less in gold would have gone abroad, end many millions less in American securities have been sent back, we can understand that the purchasing power of the farmer would have been enhanced by several hun dred millions, as life as advances would have been secured on all simi lar products sold at home. Such an addition to the farmer's power to purchase would have kept the mills and furnaces employed ; the operatives, having constant work at high wages, would be able to buy bread ; and their power to purchase of the products of their own labor, as well as of the products of the labor of others, would be vastly increased ; gold would be abundant, confidence unimpaired, and prosperity still be the rule. With prices of farm prod trots edaki such as to afford fair remuneration for the labor and capital employed in production, as they presently must be by reason of the elimination of the world's acreage excess, the purchases of the 30,000,000 upon our farms will help to keep every spindle busy ; la bor in the towns will at least for a time, be well employed ; hoarding W1;1 cease, commence win pe restored, money become abundant, and an area of prosperity will result from the op eration of that natural law which is the ultimate arbiter in determining the price of nearly every product of laoor. $an. The republicans of Carbon county have nominated Horace Heydt for President Judge to succeed the late Judge Dreher. He is a native of Ik-rlcs county, but has practiced at the Mauch Chunk bar since 1834. There was a Conven;ion of Hun garians held at Pittsburg, Monday, representing New York, Sew Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and Virginia. The Convention had for its object the moral and intellectu al advancement of Hungarians in the United States. HRV its ? . sid m y I J W W Ys Y V 8 r'k fv niT.ini any way I 1 , I Bj r 1 1 k 1 an article that U beyoud question. We handle the l'est mkrs of Shoes for Children- DOYS need nn Innpr wear cirls' shoes a wc o - CI . . have a line made especially ior tlir am.ill Tlova. Ladies who' wear Spring lleeled Shot find a good assortment at will the store of W. C. EcKlSHEY. H. J. Clark's Building, Main street. THE BKPUELICAS RET02X ", In the platform adopted by the Re- J jblican State convention, there are . a lew mings wnicn seem ro mc 10 con vey erroneous ideas. 1 st. They say swiftly upon the heels of Democratic success in iS;j has followed national distress. Now the men composing that con vention are not very young, indeed, they should be able to remember that a similar financial panic swept over our country in 1S73. shortly after the re election of General Grant. But no intelligent person charged that trouble to the election of Grant It was then as now, the result of an unwise finan cial policy which had been adopted by the Republican party. Their lu dicrous attempts to shift the blame for their own misdeeds upon other.s shoulders reminds one of the antics of an ape on the roof of a burning bui d ing set on fire by its own mischief. It may excite laughter among intelligent men, but it will not relieve them from the censure and odium which of right belong to them. 2nd. The charge that the Demc cratic administration had appointed officers in charge of the Interior de partment at Washington who are hos tile to the surviving veterans. I am at a loss to know just how 10 characterize that charge. Webster defines the word lie as a false statement uttered to deceive. The above charge seems to n.e to come within that definition. The fact that commissioner Lochren is himself a surviving veteran isasuiric ient refutation of that charge. But I will add that I have met with no Democrat who is opposed to giving worthy veterans a fa:r pension for their services on the the battle field. But Democrats, honest Republicans and veterans do emphatically object to uujust discriminations in granting 1 pensions and in tne amount erantcd. : And they object to pensioning camp fo-iovvcrs, ocserters and county jump-, ers. A.i r.cnest men will oyiect to using the pension bureau for partisan purposes, as we have reason W sup-: r.rjSe? has been the case un.ler .1 former administration. Their demand fo; the enactment and entorcement of immi gration laws whtch shall effectually prohibit the importation of ignorant and undesirable immigrants is all iigh only that it comes a little late from the party that more than anv other is re sponsible for the great influx of that undesirable class. ' Now a few words in regard to their style of reducing taxation by malting liberal appropriations, and I close this communication. They claim to have thus reduced their pledges to reduce taxation. The wide awake taxpayer will conclude, that they might just as well have left their pledges unredeemed. Those boys seem to be of the opinion, that the state is a wealthy institution not dependent upon the taxpayers for its resources, and that an appropriation from that place is a gratuity. Now it seems almost a pity to dis turb their innocent credulity, but as some innocent parties may chance to rMn thir nlatfnrm anr mni nU -. " VWIIVtUUV, that these Repub leans have really done something for the people's bene-' nt, 11 may De proper to say, that every oouar appropriated lor any purpose, comes from the people, and that the producing class bears a large share of the burden. C. ITr. J. A. irherlcr "While Seiing"rv1y Country I was taken til wltb spins! disease Bud rheu matism. Wbtn I returned boms my trouble as sUU with dm, and I was confined to my bed, unable to help myseU lor 93 mottUia. Alter tukUif seres bottles of Hood's burMfarilU I M wM sod bars not slnoe been trsublod lui my old eomvlsints. My wife was m 111 health, suffering with besdscbe, fUrilneai audi dya pepskv She took rwo bottles of Hood's Oarsaparllla ad Ssels Ilk st hw weaas.H jAXEa WiiBaLaa, loco Dmalon BL. BalUmors, lt Meed's Pllla an rbe best after-dinner PUla, aaUt dlsejUno. cuts heftrtaolta. Try a boa. Don't Get Yourself in a Box BY BUYING SHOES OF AN TTMPPPTATM hlTAT TTV A w A AW A A Jou CAU 1 afford to run c.m't when wc cau supply you with H 1 - FOR . Dvspepma. Indigestion AM) Stomach Troubles TAKE MEREDITH'S DIAMOND CLUB! PURE RYE W ! rfmtl tlimulmnl mnd Unit. CktmicmUy Purr mnd InttrtU Fkriicimu. S-ld .t all r-mrrittt. MEREDITH'S PULMONARY PURE MALT AMD BRONCHIAL COMPLAINTS. X XL Q.W. MEREDITH 4 CO., SU fprMm, f rrrraBraen, ia,m KAtT UVBKPOCUOiUO. i Mpt. 8. I JT. I 3 Pimm ana Ml .1 iif.fej pa -.7kiui N! ::i.tn' M-a wa? tli.il tin-! iv; s uii.i.iiiL' Lev u :.: r the suu. V'.m It r ttrcs .ifl. Ws ud Me:ia ar rorieTTiMl. llt ai f irti't-s iivht lA'lure wt-t" hi.i'U I '' f r J a bo ia! U-' : n ' Watches. Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware &c, Ia'irt we were s1"lnt siflal dUen'int. dur lr - Aucut lu i.-Jr to n iUK'f oir f':; '!! v.o r"" s ri-1n? Kr'.Uiti-r n ronimu Him ,iiH. II ymi a'; In t'-l or .n yt rj r? in (nir ltii li will ;ay vou to .'iu- on.--. I v -ht-i j- h Mil II ii- n! Slatloi.erv nri'l '-hool 1 hu;i!lt-. Wt-uljslv our Ferviuul Btienflon lu ana ui ik a -ci;'i'y 01 is"-- flock, and Jewelry reralrtntf. HESS BROS, JEWELEK8 ASD STATION EKS, Sign of big watch, Main St. . Bloomsbiirg, Pa. GRAND JURORS. FOR SEPTEMBER TERM. bloom K. C. Ent. C. T. Hendershott, C- b Rtprllnir. BenioQ LtAyett Keeler, Jasper Lewi. Berwick Boyd M. niultli. Brtarcreelc A. B. Croop. A. B. Lynn. Coutralla Andrew Konnej. C'onyngtiam eive Boyer. Fntukllo Danli l rbwder. lin-enwood B. F. Eves, C. B- I'nger. Hemlock I. F. Emmet. Jicluou- Mosea havaire I.oi-iut J. W. Adams. Madison Cyrus U art line. Main Ellas Hbuman. Mimiln Aloert Hess. 1 L, . II...... U l- orauj-Hiram Bowmu. u. c. Heart', c hu. Zt-DM comer. TRAVERSE JURORS. FIRST WEEK. Woom J. O. BarWlcy. John ( naniberlln. Benton I. K. Patterson. Ii-rivi:k Jumes w. Evans, John Goul l, W K. Vloliael, W. A. Markle. Urtr-rvrk O. F. Vrrl. 4'aiawis.ia J. J. Cornelius. t.vunr A. 0. 1'reoKF, uorv Kuckle. conrnfham Kobert Oatitl'-M, Emanuel Le ran. James Mouser. George Miller. FisUliigoiwH J. M. Buckalew, Joseph Mey ers. Frankl!n-Albrt Artier. ;r-i-u'virtd Tlieodow christian, (ieorje Pe ters n. J K. Welllvor. Hemlock Abraham OoUler. William Out Juiksou Boyd i ole. li. F. FrtU. 1j.usl -Samuel Wilier, j-adison l ilab Welllver. Miniln 1. O. Bond, Keutien Krer. Montour David Monser, J s-Menaoh. lf. il"a.int Taylor Heasle. Orunife Auios NeyUarU Mn-I. 0. Potter. Ko.itt J. B. Ammerman. Sugarloal WUenu Fenulngton. SECOND WEEK. Bloom-W. 11. Cook. Wm. Crawloiil, W. Kliodess Z. K. slmlti. I. M. ruoeniiik-r, I'baa. H. Tliouiaa, ilcor-e Vi-nly, Thomaa Webb. heiiton-S. li. O'Hrtcn. Berwick B. F.I Crispin. Jr., W. F. Lowrey, Thomas Laurer, oeorve uwen. ma, Freas FowtiT. Catuwlvia W. T. Cb.u. tkliine'k. creasy. Hamilton ! toiler. ient-r laalah Bower. J. L. Wolverton. central! JoUu Bakley. Oretiowood 1. b. lkeler. llt uilock M. J. WUIteultfUt. Juckaou Z. A. Uutt, Calvin Derr, W Kuuum). I.ociiMt C. H. W- Fox. Mailtiton J. A. DIUllne, Elmer McBrlde. Minilii-i'UHiles lienrUaru John Mostell' r A. w . iuyder. . Jku Plea-taut Wobert Howell. Hoott M. C. Mocollum, J. M. Shew. Huinuloat-Elljab Uees I 1-
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