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oninry. Pennsylvania
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I. J. .lAMION, AsstCTAXT Editor.
(iEU. C. I'.OAN, Fonmi.x.
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FRIDAY, JULY io. 1S94.
TIE DE3I0CSATI0 STATE TICKET.
FOR GCVEKNOR.
WILLIAM M. SIXGERLY,
of Philadelphia.
10 A. U II TFA' ANT-GOVERNOR,
JOHX S. R1LLIXG,
of trie.
FOR Al'DITOR-GENERAL,
DAVID F. MAG EE,
of Lancaster.
FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS,
W. W. GREENLAND,
of Clarion.
FOR rOV.RFSS-AT-LARr.F,
JOSEPH C. EUCHER,
of Union.
HANNIBAL K. SLOAN,
of Indiana.
A splinter of a stone recently tell
off the White House. Disintegration
of the material or stone of which the
house is built is thought to be the
cause. Another overhauling is now
likely to follow. There's been enough
money spent on the inside and out
side of that house to build an ever
lasting house fit for a foreign potent'
ate whose salary is twice that of our
President.
War between China and Japan is
now about ripe according to news
paper reports. Japan is the aggressor
with 10,000 troops already in Corea,
and with large reinforcements availa
ble. The exact cause of the present
trouble in heatherdom we have yet
to learn. But if Christians violate all
sense of honor at times in church and
State affairs we may reasonably ex
pect the heathen to do likewise.
The Pension Bill giving to the de
fenders of this Government 150
million dollars passed the Democratic
Senate without a quibble. This may
be accounted for by the fact that
there are about as many Democratic
pensioners to-day as there are those
who still belong to the Republican
party. The Republican party's great
mistake was that it did not pension
the soldiers during the many years it
had the chance. Jsow the honors are
divided.
We now have 356 Congressmen
and 88 Senators in each others way
more or less. One-third of this num
ber, within easy reach of their con
stituents by direct vote, would be the
wisest kind of wise economy, and it
would have a mighty influence in
hastening pure legislation, and also in
retarding the impure kind. In falling
over each other in their anxiety to
earn their $5,000 salary and to make
a record, they often pull the wrong
string to suit tneir constituents. What
this country needs is fewer Congress
men at 55,000 a year and perquisites,
THe weak attempt to intimidate il
not to kill Yice President Wickes, of
the Pullman Company, by sending
him a bottle charged with explosives
through the hands of a weak-minded
individual should have been traced
up and punished. If labor wants
sympathy, this is not the way to
create it in America. However well
such anarchic plans may work abroad
this country is too young and too fond
of law and order to either sanction or
approve of this wild manner of re
dressing real or imaginary wrongs.
Let us be thankful, as patriots ought
to be, for the continuance and perma
nence of the righteous influence of
the founders of this God-blest Gov
ernment. The political attitude of thcA'a
tional Record of Danville is not fully
comprehended, it seems. Concerning
the misconstruction recently put upon
it the editor says in his last issui :
"The old rot of a politician who
informed one of our friends that the
Record was an Anarchist paper ought
to spend a few days in school. We
would like to meet the dupe upon the
difference between Anarchism and
Populism. The Populist believes in
settling all difference between capital
and labor at the ballot-box by con
stitutional method. The Anarchists,
just reverse by bloodshed, incendi
arism and revolution. Don't you see,
you ignoramus ? It is the gold ring
the Populists are after, which is the
cause of all the present distress."
No Griping, no Nausea, no Pain,
when De Witt's Little Early Risers are
taken. Small Pill. Safe Pill. Best PilL
W. S. Rishton, Druggist. tf.
The Sovereign's Power Powerless.
Notwithstanding the great preten
sion of Grand Master Sovereign, as to
a universal strike, not more than 5.0:0
trades-union members took kindly to
his call to quit work. All the way
from 500.000 to a million was his biz
estimate. The plan of course com
prehended the calling out of every
laboring man m the country if possible.
Ti he trouble is there is too much de
moralizing politics and too many
divergent ideas in the labor movement
itself for anything like harmony or a
universal response to the cail of or
ganized labor leaders. And, besides,
:t is not j'ist every poor man with a
family to support who can afford to
quit his wotk, either to lie idle or to
go to plundering or begging for a living
The idea of plunder and arson is
foreign to the true American. But
yet, on the other hand, it must be ad
mitted that to stnke without arbitrary
action against the employer and also
against those who would take all
places vacated, would be worse than
useless, it would be self-robbery on
the part of the striker.
If differences between nations may
be settled by arbitration, and warfare
be thus averted, why not thus settle
differences between labor and capital ?
If capital is too greedy after getting
its chartered rights and special privi
leges to remember that "the laborer is
worthy of his hire," and enough of i t
at least to raise and educate a family
respectably and comfortably, then
labor should have representatives in
Congress and the legislatures to look
after the annulment of those chartered
and protected rights and privileges of
capital, and to see to it that there are
some deserved rights and privileges
also extended to labor as well as to
capital. Until labor has true and
taithful representatives standing up
for them like men, and who are not
afraid of ridicule or contempt in the
halls of legislation, she must expect to
rely upon the mercy and generosity of
capital made rich and haughty fre
quently through the poor man's labor.
For one we are not willing to admit
that representatives above the price
and bribe offered by capital cannot be
found for the halls of Congress and
the State Legislatures. If the out
come of the present strife does not
develop such characters and represen
tatives we shall be much disappointed.
Capital takes care to have its rights
and privileges legalized, and so must
labor, it it ever hopes to hold its own
against the highly protected classes.
In a country like this, where the vest
ed power is always in the hands cf the
majority, and the laboring classes al
ways making up that majority, where
is the policy or where the excuse or
justification tor arson, murder, or
bomb-throwing. The God who gave
us this best government on earth ex
pects its greatest blessing to all to be
wrought out through the peacetul and
quiet instrumentality of the ballot and
not through the bullet.
TEE STRENGTH OP 0EQA5IZED
LABOR.
The liberal wages paid railroad men
and their generous contribution to
ward a sustenance fund to bridge over
strikes, &c, gives them more avail
able cash in their treasury than is at
hand in any other labor organization
in the country. The report of their
financial weakness is wrong. The as
sociation had been industriously ac
cumulating money for over a year p: c
ceding the recent strike. Their re
ceipts for the month of June was over
$10,000 which came from the single
source of dues paid in. And one
day's receipts in the month of July
loots up to about $1,000. Hence to
suppose that the railroad men are
without money is all a mistake. Were
they all to obey orders and come out
together and stay out for a single
month, there is no estimating the
great loss to railroads that would re
sult from it.
And now Senator Don Cameron is
credited with a Presidential buzz in
his political head-gear. But as the bar
rel will not supplant personal magnet
ism, both Cameron and bhcrman are
nowhere compared with Reed in this
respect. For Reed is a magnet among
men. However, the innocent bee
should be permitted to buzz just as
long as it can make music that magni
fies and, in a harmless way, elevates
the love-sick aspirant. Old Simon
used to say ' thumbs up," but he
never ran tor President.
Whatever mistakes Debs, the labor
strike leader, may have made in his
various wild assertions he is not wide
of the mark in concluding that "a
three months continued strike would
bankrupt every railroad running into
Chicago." It is indeed quite possible
for employees to ruin employers, es
pecially where the employers have
more valuable property than they can
pretend to guard, as s the case with
all railroads. It is just impossible to
completely guard it where destruction
is determined upon along its entire
line.
If it be true, as Senator Hill siva.
that the agitation for an income tax
is but a bid for Populist votes, then,
we should like to inquire, what sort of
a bid is he maVinor hv hnldintr alnnf
a j 9
from this popular idea, even to the
extent of standing in with his avowed
political enemies.
GOOD EOADS.
This theme, which as vet is on'v
lightly entertained in thi? section as an
impracticable cranky notion atritated
by Coxey, is after all a broad, deep,
arid quite worthy one S. much so
that papers and magazines of no mean
pretension are giving it earnest con
siperation and elucidation. The very
good roads of the older countries will
no doubt eventually supplant our
wagon-breaking and horse killing Am
erican roads. And what belter in
vestment could le made of any super
fluous funds in the State or national
treasuries? What appropriation of
such funds that the mind can con
ceive of would be more universal or so
far reaching in its beneficial effects to
man and beast of this country. If it
is true, as we have often thought, that
the great bulk of money apptopriatcd
for so-called public purposes and ben
efits, is after all gotten through false
representation and in the interest of a
class or a tew, it surely would not be
so with money spent upon public
thoroughfares. Why not spend State
and National money on continental
thoroughfares as well and freely as up
on water thoroughtares rivers, har
bors, &c ? Rivers and harbors have
received State and National appropri
ation as far back as we can remember,
while the great bulk of travel and
transportation after all is done over
land as best it can be and at the ex
pense of the impoverished farmer and
gain of railroads. Because much
public money is wasted annually
through the river and harbor bill by
the vain attempt to make navigable
certain insignificant water ways or
streams which the God of nature
never intended should be navigable
foi anything larger than a raft or ba
teau, is no logical arguments against
good continental roads, which are the
common property of all mankind.even
including the bicyclers who pay taxes
as well as those who don't.
We believe the time is at hand
when the old fashioned toll-gates, with
their extortionate privileges in the in
terest of corporate power and cor
porate cunning, should be abolished ;
and that the idle and superfluous funds
of the States and also the nation
should be liberally invested in making
and maintaining good roads for the
common good of the good subjects
that may be found struggling for
financial life in the rural districts. We
have not exhausted this subject by
any means.
For instance, Mrs. Chas. Rogers, of
Bay City, Mich., accidentally spilled
scalding water over her little boy. She
promptly applied De Witt's Witch Hazel
Salve, giving instant relief. Its
wonderful good salve for burns, bruises,
sores, and a sure cure for Piles. W.
S. Rishton, Druggist. tf.
If the Great Eastern was the largest
vessel the Minneapolis has proven
herselt to be the fastest in the world,
Hitherto the Columbia bore the
honors in point of time-making. The
Minneapolis is a triple-screw cruiser
that can skim along at the rate of a
little more than a6i miles an hour.
That will do for boat-riding. The
Government's offer of a bonus besides
the contract price for building her
has no doubt proved a great incentive
to make her get along. The bonus
paid is $400,000. And what the
entire contract netted is their private
business we suppose. Somebody is
getting rich through Uncle Sam right
alons.
Though the Chinese government
officials are trying to suppress the
terrible truth, reliable report, direct
from Canton, says that in this city
alone 40,000 deaths lave occurred
from cholera which is spreading
throughout the Chinese empire. We
have often wondered whether a little
Christianity and cleanliness would
not rid heathendom of its terrible
plagues.
The pathetic song of Debs :
'If I am so goon to be done for,
Oli wnat was I begun for ?"
Mr. A J Davenport
Impure Blood
Caused Urge Boils my tmrm mm4 iitk,
I m told to tali Hood'i Buri&partlla luHhius
j-Jood's
Sarsa
parilla ly, and after using 8
bottle was trss from
Gures
all motions. I am dm-
tectly cured and to ex-
celknt health. J. DAvaitrouT, Milton, N. J.
Hood's Plllo are purely vegetable and da
tot purf, pain or (rip. Try box. SSo.
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Lippincott'i Magazine for August, 1894.
The complete novel in the August
number of Ujpincott'$ is " Sweet
heart Manette," by Maurice Thomp
son. The scene is laid at Bay St.
Louis, on the Gulf of Mexico, and
the charming heroine has a quartette
of lovers, and no little difficulty in de
ciding between them. This well-known
author has done no better work.
Louise Stockton's tale, ' A Mess of
Pottage," is concluded. Other short
stories are " At the Rough-and-Tum-ble
Landing," by Prof. Charles G. D.
Roberts ; " A Military Manoeuvre,"
by Kate Lee Ashley ; The Everlastin'
Buzzards' Sit," by Charles Mcllvaine ;
and " An In Memoriam of the Keys,"
by Johanna Staats.
Thomas Stinson Jarvis contributes
an acute and suggestive essay on
" Feminine Phases," and Charles
Henry Webb discusses " Uncared for
Cats " in a humanely humorous vein.
Mrs. M. E. W. Sherwood supplies
interesting reminiscences of Washing
ton before the War." Mary Elizabeth
Blake writes on " Muscles and Mor
als," George Grantham Bain on
"Newspaper 'Faking'," and Will
Clemens on " Chinese Shops " and
their peculiar signs.
The poetry of the' number is by
Margaret Oilman George, Dora Reed
Goodale, Fannie Bent Dillingham,
and Professor John B. Tabb.
All the talk in the world will not
convince vou so quickly as one trial of
De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for Scalds.
Burns, Bruises, Skin Affections and
Piles W. S. Rishton, Druggist, tf.
CANDIDATES' CARDS.
The following persons announce tbemselves
as candidates for the offices named, subject to
tlie rules of tUe Democratic party.
For Congress,
CHARLES R. BUCKALEW,
of Bloomsburg.
For State Senator, (24th District,)
J. HENRY COCHRAN,
of Lycoming County.
For Sheriff,
J. W. HOFFMAN,
of Orange township.
For Sheriff,
J. B. McHENRY,
of Benton.
For Sheriff,
W. W. BLACK,
of Greenwood Township.
For Representative,
E. MTEWKSBURY,
of Catawissa township.
For Representative,
Wm. T. CREASY,
of Catawissa township.
For Representative,
ANDREW L. FRITZ,
(North Side.)
For Sheriff,
G. W. HIRLEMAN,
of Benton.
CHARTER NOTICE,
Notice U hereby given that on Monday, the
rub day ot Aueut, 1HV4, an application will be
made by F. J. Richard, J. L. Richardson, George
U. Hoy, Ueoiye J. Richard and John F. Rich
ardH, to the Governor of the State of Pennsyl
vania, under an act entitled " an act to provide
for the Incorporation aud regulation ot certain
corporations," approved April W, 1874, and the
supplements thereto, for the charter of an In
tended corporation, to be called the Blooms
burg Manufacturing Company, the character
and object whereof Is the manufacture of art!,
clea from brans, copper or steel or any other
metal or metals, or any article of commerce
from meUtl or wood or both. And for these par
post's to have and enjoy all the rights, benefits
and privileges ot the said act or assembly and
lu supp'emeula.
U B. WALLKK,
t-avtt. Solicitor.
CORNER MAIN & MARKET 5ts.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
DO YOU NEED ANY ?
You must not forget we are closing out all of our
summer goods now at prices away down. Don't think
because it Is cool now we will not have any more hot
weather. Hicks says the latter part of July will bring
us hotter weather ihau ever. Better be prepared for
it.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN OUR SHOES ?
All sizes from $o.o(), $4.50, etc., all to $1.25.
Another lot at $1.00. It will pay you to examine
them. Ladies' Oxford Ties we are selling at $1.00 ;
they were $1.50. Misses' are now SOc; they were
$1.00. Best made and will give satisfaction.
Grocery Department.
We have just unloaded a car load of salt, and
have it in all grades and sizes of bags, extremely
cheap. It will pay you to examine it and prices be
fore you buy. Don't forget we carry a full line of
dishes and glassware, glasses all prices and designs
very neat. "We also carry a full line of groceries too
numerous to mention, for picnics and hot weather, to
prevent cooking.
Pursel & Harman, &
BLOOMSBURG, PA
Snyder & Magee Co. Lim.
4th and Market Sts.
dlekriqg $kle.
Our buyer has just returned from the markets where he
has completed purchases of goods suitable for the fall trade.
And in order to make room for same we have decided to sell
our entire
Summer Stocls:
-AT-
Here are a few of the wonderful bargains we will offer dur-
ing the next two weeks :
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82 inch, part wool challies,
24 " cotton "
24
summer calicoes,
twilled delaine.
i
:5G
Tartan plaids,
former price 25c.
" figured lawn " " 20c,
00 " satin stripe mull " " 15c,
50 pieces staple checks for aprons,
former price (5c,
50 ' i)G inch bleached muslin
former price fie,
40 pieces 3G inch unbleached muslin,
former nrit'e 7r.
In addition to the foregoing we will offer special bargains in
silks, worsted dress goods, satins, pongees, organdies, brocade
&c, fcc.
Every week we are opening new departments. Our latest U
for toilet articles, which will be found complete with every arti
cle requisite. Soaps, oils, combs, brushes, and the celebrated
" Lady Jane Grey " perfumes.
To see our table linen stock ia to be convinced that it is the
largest in the State. All we ask is a visit to our store. No
visitor ia forced to buy.
Snyder & Magee Co., Limited,
FIT! iSJ UWl STREETS.
HATTER.
TROUSERS
FROM S5.00. I
11 a
Bloomsburg, Pa.
former price 23c
" " 7c,
now 10c.
" :!e.
4c.
" ric.
ti
15c
xmvt wool!
12ic.
12ic.
10c.
4c.
4ic.
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