THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. 1 , 1 V; t 1 r ' 'i KSTAHI.ISI1EH lHlifl. tttoc Columbia Scmorrat, JtSTABuWIIED t'ONSOl.TDATKPISfii). PIIIU.1S11EI) 1"KUY l'HIDAY MOHNINH nt illoouis'mrir. tho fount y spat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. KO. K. KLWKI.L KuriOB. UEO. C. KOAN, Fowkmam. Tsatfs: InRlde tho county, $1.00 ft yearln ad- .. at m if nnt. mild In mlvaneo imismo the county, l. yvM, strtotly In advance. All communications should bo addressed to TUB COU'MItlAN, lllooinsburg, Pa. FRIDAY, AVMl. 19, s9.v WRIGHT ELECTED CHAIBMAN. At a meeting of the Democratic State Committee in Harrisburg on Wednesday, Robert E. Wright of Al lentown. was elected chairman. Not- withstAndinu the canvas of T. F. Krr po other nominations were made, and Mr. Wright was elected without op position. Thr legislature has mssed a law providing that oaths may be admin istered bv the uplifted hand instead of kissing the Bible. It has been the nractice in the courts of this district for many years to swear with the up lifted hand. The judges' retirement bill passed finally Tuesday in the house. The vote was 10S to seventy-seven, just four more than necessary. i he meas ure retires judges on full pay who have been in office twenty consecutive years, or thirty years altogether, and have reached the age of seventy. The only justices now eligible to retire under the act are Judges Hare, Fin- letter and Allison, of Philadelphia, and Pershine. of Schuylkill. The bill goes to the Senate. We are opposed to bills of this character, but if they are to be passed, there is no reason why they should not be made app'icable to all Judges , in the state who have served twenty years and reached the age of seventy years. A Judge whose twenty years expired on January ist, and who had attained the age of seventy the day before, goes into retirement with no pay, while the Judge who completes his twenty years the day after this bill is siened bv the Governor, and was seventy years old the day before, can retire on tour thousand Hollars a year. There can be no good reason for such a distinction. If any Judges who have filled these conditions are to be pensioned, all ought to be. If the bill were made retro active ic would include very few Judges now off the bench. We know of none except Judge Elwell, and if his distinguished services for twenty six years are not worthy of recognition on the retired list, there is not a Judge in the State who deserves it. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S TAX RETURN. President Cleveland has filled his income tax blank. In it he included his salary of $50,000 Chief Executive, on which the out has as tax will be $920, deciding to leave it to the proper officers to determine whether the payment of the 2 per cent assessment will be in violation of that provision of the Federal Con stitution which says the compensation of the President shall not be increased nor diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected. As to the payment of the tax, Mr. Cleve land has until the first of July to do it, and as the constitutional question affecting his salary will undoubtedly have been passed on before that time, the President will wait for the dis position of the matter. It is said that Mr. Cleveland is un certain as to whether he should claim Buzzard's Bay or New York City as his place of residence, and that, for this reason, it is not unlikely that he will send in his return to the Deputy collector in Washington. Retrenchment in Wrong Places. After creating a lot of new and use less offices and unnecessarily increas ing the salaries of officers provided for by existing laws, the officials at Hanisburg, including the Legislature, have discovered that retrenchment must be practiced. They don't pro pose to abolish any offices or reduce any salaries, jney win lust ion a half million a year off the school ap propnation, abolish the usual annual encampment of the National Guard and cut down the usual charitable and penal appropriations ten per cent , or more if necessary, and try to worry along This in brief is the programme out lined and agreed to at a recent con ference at the Executive Mansion, participated in by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Treasur er, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Attorney General and the presiding omcers ana chairman of the appro pnation committees of ttw Senate and House. There is just one merit in this agreement, and that is that it is itiways rignr, not 10 appropriate more money than is in sight. The great de merit of the agreement is that it con- 1 . templates retrenchment in the wrong places, and the conference which led to its adoption was held at the wrong time. No one will dispute the necessity of retrenchment. Dull times ami the decisions of the courts have very seriously reduced the Slate revenues since the last Legislature was in ses sion. But this fact was or should have been just as well known on January i as on April 12, and the confetcncc which has decided to place schools, charities, public improvements and the National (uaid on short commons should have been held before a new office was created, a salary raised or a dollar appropriated for an unnecessary purpose. The important interests that concern the public should have been provided for first and at the expense of the necessary economy in all other directions. And what was clearly necessary in the way of economy should have been determined at the very out set. As it is, the new officials and the hmher salaries will be paid at the ex pense of the public improvements, education, charities and defense. This, if the people are properly awake to their own best interests, they will con demn in unmeasured terms. It can not be said that legislator and State officials have sinned in the matter of official extravagance in the face of declining revenues without light and knowledge. The Times and other journals called attention to the pro posed raid of the boodlers upon the State treasury at the very beginning of the session, and warned the Lejns lature that the day of reckoning would follow very shortly. There can be no plea of ignorance filed in abatement of the existing crisis in the finances of the State, as there can be no just de fence of a policy of retrenchment which reduces school and charitable appropriations while providing a lavish increase in the amount appropriated for official salaries, limts. The Boom in Oil. Producers of crude petroleum, who have been sighing for " dollar oil since the early months of 1800, have had their wishes more than fulfilled, Since January 1 the price of oil has advanced from oe cents to $2 per barrel, and nobody would be surprised if the market should to morrow open considerably above that figure. Since 1876, when crude oil fluctuated rapid ly between $1.80 and 53.80 per barrel there has been no such sudden jump as has taken place within the past two weeks. At this time there is no basis upon which to fix a probable limit for the advance, for the $2 mark, which was regarded us a maximum a few days ago, is no longer considered as a stopping point. There are well in formed oil operators who declare that $3 is not an improbable price. Whether this be witin the range of possibility or not, there is no question that greater activity is being displayed in oil operations at present than in many previous years. The statistical pooition of oil reveals the cause of the rise in price and the tremendous activity in exploration that has been stimulated thereby. At the opening of this month the stock of Pennslvania oil was less than 5,000,000 barrels ; one year ago it was about 11,000,000 barrels, and the year before it was 16,000,000 barrels. The drain upon stocks has been so heavy of late that the stored supply has been reduced to a point that makes it merely a nominal factor in the trade. An authority regarded sufficiently competent to be quoted by the American Manufacturer estimates the gross stock of crude oil in the entire country at 3,623,844 barrels, of which 1,510,73? barrels are sedi ment and surplus, leaving the total amount of merchantable oil at only 1,103,109 barrels. As this is less than the amount consumed in two weeks, the narrowness of the margin between the output and the consumption is plainly apparent. Ten years ago there was a stock of 36,000,000 barrels in the Appalachian oil field, which em braces Pennsylvania, New lork, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio. The future course of the oil market depends upon the developments cf the next week or two. If the tremen dous activity in drilling new wells should open a big producer the rise in prices would be promptly checked, at least for a time. Just where strike is to be looked lor is entirely conjectural j but everybody interested in oil will watch the news from the oil fields with intense interest during the next few days. Record. There is much homeliness, but " more truth than poetry " in the fol lowing paragraph. Those to whom it refers will be kind enough to cut it out and paste it in their hats. " Whenever you hear ot a man finding fault with his local papers open them up and ten to one he has no advertisement in them ; five to one he never gives them a job of printing to do ; three to one he does not take the papers ; two to one that, if he is a subscriber, he is a delinquent : even odds that he never does anything in any way that will assist the publishers to run their papers, and four to one that if the papers are good ones and full of life, he is the most eager to see them when they coine out. Then he goes to a saloon to borrow and read one of them 1 spends ten cents on his drink, and says he is too poor to sub scribe for a paper." Fishermen Ought To Protest. Every reputable fisherman in tho State ought to enter his objections to the proposed bill legalizing the use of ' fish baskets in the streams of tha State. Its adoption would put an and to one of the most royal of sports and confine fishing to the few who though mercenary and greedy motives are cady and willing to depopulate the streams of their finny inhabitants for that is what would result from the general use of fish baskets. lhe Scranton Republican very properly remarks that the State, in regulating hunting and fishing, looks upon both as sport rather than means of livelihood. With this idea in view the State Fish Commission was established, and along this line its work of restocking streams with fish has been conducted during recent years. To legalize the wholesale trapping of fish in baskets would stultify this principle and reduce the fish commis sion to the standard of a Stale depatt- ment operating in the interests of a few " sportsmen " with money-making-proclivities. A vigorous set ot resolutions pro testing against the proposed law was adopted by the 1 ennsylvania Hsli Protective Association at a recent meeting in Philadelphia. Uthers should follow. Ex. TO SHUT OUT THE FLOODS. Major Raymond Outlines Plans for the Great Undertaking. The report of Major Raymond, the Government engineer in Philadelphia, on the feasibility of a plan to prevent damage from floods in the valley of the west branch of the Susquehanna River, has been received. He says the task is entirely practical. The work will require a large expenditure of money, and this, it is said, will have to be paid by residents of the Valley. The Williamsport Board of Trade will take active measures in acting upon Major Raymond's sug gestions, and other town3 will probably be invited to co operate. Harper's Bazar- Harpers Bazar includes in its several departments everything inter esting to women and valuable in the domestic circle. The wisest economy dictates a subscription to this brilliant weekly paper, as in fashion alone its readers save during a single year many times its price. The woman who takes Harper's Jiazar is prepared lor every occasion, ceremonious or informal. Superb Religio Educational Fine Art ublication. "The earthly footsteps of the Man of Galilee," piously traced with note book, pencil and cam era, has created quite a stir in TTl 1 1 mi . T 1 T iauu. xiie ixraaon iNews has ordered 4U,(.kju copies or the No. 1 Portfolio alone. These folios each contain 16 beautiful views also an eight colored map in all portfolios. The collection of 384 photo graphs was made by the cele brated landscape photographer, hi. M. Jiain. lhe descript ive matter was written by Kev John H. Vincent, D. D., L. L. D., and Kev. James V. Lee, D. D., after 3 separate tours of the Holy Land. An opportu nity is thus given to make a delightful tour through Pales tine without leaving home. bringing a far oft' country and time near to us. How to Secure these Splendid Portfo lios : For every cash purchase and 10 cents additional, you will hfi given one 01 these beautiful portfolios, and thus continue uutil you have secured the en tire series 01 1:1 numbers. "We guarantee to furnish customers with the entire se ries as wanted. We carry a large line of Wall Paper at lowest prices, and wish it dis tinctly understood the above portfolio offer does not lessen the purchasing power of your dollar with us. William H. Slate, BOOKS, STATIONERY AND WALL FAfER. Exchange Block. n PUR Because upon the purity of the Blood depends the health of every organ and tissue of the Body. If the Blood is thin and impure there is weakness, Nervousness, That Tired Feel InlOOd Makes Pure Blood That is why tho Cures by Hood's Sarsaparllla arc permanent. They do not rest upon the Insecure support of temporary stimulant, opiate or nerve a compound, but upon tho solid founda tion of vitalized, enriched aud purtfed blood. Head this: Tho euro of Olive Carl by Hood's Sarsuparilla has few equals in medical history. The testimonial was first published two years ago, and a late letter from her mother says uiivo con tinues In good health and " Wc arc satisfied her remarkable euro by Hood's Sarsnparilla was permanent." Briefly stated tbe case was this: wnen Olive was 8 years old she had the whoop ing cough and measles, followed by in tense pains in every joint in her body, like rheumatism. Physicians were puz- tied, but after a consultation, pronounced the disease some form of Constitutional Scrofula. " When we began to use Hood's Barsapa rllla, she could not be moved without crying out with pain, and we were com- SUITS FROM S18.00. Wo lmvA nr dmibt that 3 ivy -JOHN R. TOWH aaaaaaavaaaaBBaaaBvaaaiaBaaaaasBBaai While she shows a lamentable disposition to stop and sit down on old Winter's lap occasionally, she will get here by and by t 1 t V ! il. 1. T vl 1 rv ex rtv a An 4 and bnnT some weamer wuu nei . iu mo menu who vm between the showers and see what we have to make life worth living. DRESS STUFFS. T i almost lmrjossible. for want of advertising space to go into rletails, but if you want to see me nnesi unc we have ever shown, we are anxious to show it to you. Some exclusive styles in just dress patterns in me laicsi weaves. CLOVES. Our department in this respect is the most comolete in town, and we aie now showinp; the finest line of gloves, Men's, Boy's, Ladies' and Misses in kid, lisle thread, silk chamois and dog skin, for Men's street wear we have ever offered to the public. Our ladies' silk gloves go with a guarantee, which it will pay you to look at. We are making a special drive on Men's Dog Skin gloves for street wear, as they go now for 75c the pair. CREPONS. w ran not aav too much in regard to these as for beauty in shades and combination, and quality and price they are unsurpassable. We are show ing them in biacK ior sKins, ai i.w, 1 .1 anrt IK and (ciT WistS 111 all - I J PUBSEL & EOT 0 TUB Of all Is Found in ing, and you are in the condi tion which invites disease. If the Blood is pure and healthy, you have sweet sleep, nerve strength, mental vigor, a good appetite, and perfect digestion. polled to cnt her hair, m the could not bear tha weight of it. At flrit the change for the better wu very gradual; the palm seemed to be less frequent and the swell ing in aome of the Joints subsided after using about one bottle. Then improve ment was more rapid and one night she surprised us greatly by telling us that we need not prop her up In bed a we bad one for several months, and next night she surprised us still more by rolling over across the bed. From that time on Improvement was Very Rapid and she soon began to creep about the bouse and then to walk on crutches. Now she generally uses but one cratch, the dis ease having left one leg crooked, and I fear It will remain so. We frel that to Hood's I Barsaparllla we owe our child's life. alces Pm I enclose the photograph of my daugh ter and I think it is a picture ot perfect health. When I think how near she was to death's door I cannot feel thankful enough for her recovery." Mrb. J. A. Carl, Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania. The greater Includes the less. Buchacure as the above must convince you that Hood's Barsaparllla is a wonderful blood purifier. Give it a trial this spring. CORNER MAIN & MARKET Sts, I TROUSERS BLOOMSBURG, PA. I FROM S5.QO. Annl's intentions are good. colors plain and figured al 35 and 60 cents. PERCALS. Vqu will want shirt waists for morn ings and these are the most useful things for that purpose we can show, and the price is very reasonable, only roc per yard, 36 inches wide. HOSIERY. sri sellinor the Y. D. Hosiery double sole, high spliced heel and the best stocking that we can ouy. 1 nese are absolutely fast black. SHOES. Your bovs will want a shoe this spring and our "Bay State" shoes can not be equaled in town or any wnere else for the money. They will out wear any shoe made.'- GROCERIES. Home dried fruits of all kinds and the finest California evaporated pears, peaches and apricots on the market. Canned goods of the finest quality and at any price you may want. MAMMAI. Bloomsburg; Pa; buos papilla " I can't eat, I have no appetite," la tha, complaint of many people just now. This is because the blood is in a sluggish and! impure condition. Vitalize and enrich it by taking Hood's Barsaparllla, and you will soon be hungry all the time beoauM your blood will demand propel suste nance from good food. Nervous Dyspepsia. " I suffered with what the doctors called nervous dyspepsia. I could hardly walk and could hardly keep anything on my stomach. I doctored for six or seven yeara but tbe different medicines did not dome any good and I grew steadily worse. I would have sick headache for three days and nights causing me such agony that it seemed as though I would rather die than live. I was told to try Hood's Sarsapatllla SBood and did so. When I had finished tho third bottle I was so much better that I could eat things that I had not dared to eat be fore for years. I have taken six bottles and feel like a different person." Maa. Simon Deckeb, Buggies, Pennsylvania. " Refreshing sleep has been given me by Hood's Barsaparllla and I now rest well and do not feel tired In tha morning as I used to." John Cbaio. SomervUlt, 1 mm HATTER. your attention to our line of JEWELRY, WATCHES, SILVERWARE, GLASSES, ETC. We Blow Our Own Horn only to at'ract your attention. Then we want to invite you to visit us it is immaterial whether or not you want to purchase anything. W e are show ing a fine line of silver and glass ware. Blowing Your Own Horn is all right when there is no one else to blow it for you. Whoever sells fircKriacs orrvwla r lnw nrices can de pend upon his customers to blow his horn for him. J his is my policy m the sale of jewelry, watches, silverwar glasses, &c. J. G. WELLS, BLOOMSBURG, pHHh ELECTION NOTICE. a Y. .lla an A ft Ctt AH A K rem in j w tur lutiniuuo w ,V euiUiy, uaatwd Ihu 1H day ot Aurll, lv luHtltuto kuU Huttd Normal betiool ol the bUUJ imuriuLi win uo umu mi iun uidv Miiy,beluKMay, IHW5, b?iweou the 1)0UI; a kuu o iu tut niiriiuuu ui miu j -ol the Normal Holnxl in tUa Doriuiuiry, lu tjw - ... . .... nr uri.t..!. tliiii, fotir lemons will be elecivd Trustees on the lrioi luo Hwokuolders to serve for a period of tureo years ; at the Baine time tour persons will nominated w the Superintendent of fum o in struction, from whom ha may appoint two Trustees ou the part ol the Bute to serve for a period ol three years. JOHN M. CLABK, i-lt-it. Secretary- Calling i
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