THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. ESTABLISHED 18M. tf&f tfoIuinMa Jifmorrat, tSTABulSHKD 1837. CONSOLIDATED 1MB. PUULISUKD 1VKHY THUHSDAY MOHNINU M Hloomsburg, the County seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. J SO. 8. ELWELL EDITOR. URO. C. HOAX, Foriman. Tkm9; Inside tdecovicty tl.on a yeartn ad- ance; II. SO If not paid lu advance Outilde tie county, a year, strictly In advauM. All communications should be addressed to TUB COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburg, Pa. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY lS, 1S97. Eastings Wants a Change, Governor Gives Hit Views on the Distribu tion of the School Fund. The views of Governor Hastings on the treasury situation and appropria tions, with special reference to the school appropriation, were emphati cally expressed in an address of wel come at the convention of the State association of school directors in the supreme court room. "I see some members of the legislature in this meeting," said the governor, "and I want to take advantage of the oppor tunity to say to them that the state of Pennsylvania is big enough and rich enough to provide liberally for the education of every child within its borders. "The present system of distribu ting the school appropriation of $5, 500,000," added the governor, "is not fair to the real interests involved. The number of taxables is not the proper basis. Eacli school house with its appliances cost about as much, whether attended by ten or fifty pupils. If the state appropriation was increased to $6,000,000 a year I would suggest that one-third of that amount should be divided on the number of school houses or teachers, one-third accord ing to the number of school children and the other third, possibly, as at present, on the number of taxables. The country boys and girls should be given the same advantages as those of the citj. I believe that every town ship should have a high school. That is the law in Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania should not be behind that state." The association convened Wednes ' day. H. H. Hubbert, of Philadelphia, chairman of the executive committee, responded to the governor's address. State Superintendent Schaeffer fol lowed with an address on "School Administration." D. F. Fortney, of Bellefonte, opened a discussion on the "Operation of the Compulsory Education Attendance Law," in which many directors took part. There was a large attendance at the evening session. The exercises opened with a discussion of "Should There be a State University?" Pro fessor Robert Ellis Thompson and George E. Wagner, of Philadelphia, were the principal speakers. The question "Should the State Control and Publish School Text Books?" was discussed by William McGeorge, Jr., I. A. Cleaver and M. G. Brum baugh. Building a Capitol. The "Central bimetallic league" of Reading submits a proposition to the general assembly relative to provision for rebuilding the capitol. It proposes that the "artisans" to work on the building be employed by the public buildings commission as agents of the state and these be paid by "voucher issued by the commonwealth solely for the erection of the capitol, and being made receivable by the state treasurer in taxes and all other debts aue and payable to the state, would at once be exchangeable as a commercial tender, at least for all business within the state boundary "lines." It proposes that materials be paid for in the same way. Admitting that this could be done, we do not see what would be accom plished thereby. As the "vouchet" would be at once redeemable by the Btate, the treasury would have to be prepared with a redemption fund pro vided by taxation. Of course it is not intended that the "voucher" shall be redeemed but shall continue " ex changeable as a commercial tender" until worn to pieces, that is a different matter. But the scheme could not be con sidered for a moment. The constitu tion of the United States prohibits a state from "emitting bills of credit" or "making anything but gold and sil ver coin a tender in payment of debts." Our esteemed Reading bimetallists must resolve again. Or get the con stitution changed. Ex. The Democrats-of Steelton, near Harrisburg, are very jubilant over the election of a Democratic Mayor, it being one of the ReDublican strong. holds of the county. The fight has Deen Ditteny waged ever since the primaries were held. A Fixed Committee There will be no surprise at the make up of the so-called treasury in vestigating committee. The best ability of the officers appointing the committee was exerted to produce something over which Senator Quay could not quibble. Indeed it is safe to guess that any danger of quibbling from the Beaver senator was shrewdly avoided by such action as would pro vide against that prior to the naming of the committee. There will be no investigation. Of course, what we have said does not apply to the Democratic members. Messrs. Lennon and Kerr may be earnest and adroit enough but they will be so completely overshadowed by the majority that any efforts they make to discover will be fruitless. We question if the Wanamaker or combine people themselves had any earnest feeling in this matter. They seem to have studiously pursued plans to avoid Democratic assistance from the first. The bluster they made a lew weeks ago about continuing the fight appears to have been only for a little temporary effecf Unless they give some ptoof pretty soon that they mean fight we' must conclude that their reform schemes are made of the same stuff as Quay's and meant sole ly for selfish ends. Patriot. W J. Bryan Wins a Fight. The Courts Twice Decide an Injunction In His Favor. The somewhat celebrated gold bond injunction, in which W. J. Bryan, as plaintiff, sought to restrain the Mayor and City Council, of Lincoln, Neb., from delivering $534,000 refunding bonds, with a gold clause attached, to ex-City Treasurer Stephenson, was on Tuesday decided by the Supreme Court of that state, and Mr. Bryan's position was sustained. Nearly two years ago a proposition to vote bonds was submitted and car ried by a bare majority. The City Council contracted for their purchase with btephenson, who insisted on a gold clause, which was allowed. Mr. Bryan enjoined the sale on the ground that the bonds were illegally carried, and turther that the city char ter prohibited discrimination between gold and currency bonds. uistrict Judge Holmes decided in his favor, and the Citv Council an- pealed. The Supreme Court affirms the decision of the lower Court, laying stress on the fact that the bonds were illegally declared carried, but remain ing silent on the gold clause feature. Smith Must go to Jail. Superior Court Decides Against the Aged lyoiumoia banucr. The iudement of the lower rniirt in the case of E. K. Smith, the defaulting Columbia banker, was affirmed bv the superior court at Whllamsport on luor.aay. Smith was prosecuted a vear atro for receiving deposits, knowing him- seu to De insolvent. He was convicted in the lower court and a special allo catur was granted to review his case in the 'superior court, the principal ground for the appeal being a defect in the summoning of the grand jury to a special term. The affirmation of the case bv the suDerior court remands the defendant to the court of quarter sessions to have the sentence of the court carried into effect. The sen tence was that he Dav a fine of $66.66 and be imprisoned in the Eastern penitentiary for one year and two 1 monms. The court refused the application of J. G. Haymaker, district attorney of Aiiegneny county, made last week for re-areument in the case of W. H House, the defaulting assistant city attorney ot rutsDurg. The court also refused to certify the same to the su preme court. Over a Billion The first "billion dollar concress ' will be left far behind when the total amount carried by the appropriation bills of the present congress is figured up, and the figures will be found to ba far in excess of any expenditures ever voted by a single congress in time of peace. Speaker Reed and the leaders on the appropriations com mittee in the house of representatives are doing all in their power to keep the total down as close to $1,000,000, 000 as possible, but this figure will be exceeded by at least $20,000,000, and possibly by more than $40,000,000. New York Herald. Gallows for a Bich Man. After three years of one of the strongest fights ever made by wealth against the courts, Dr. Arthur Due strow, the great millionaire, was hanged Tuesday afternoon at Union, Mo., for the murder of his young wife and two year old child. The con demned man has had the counsel of the best criminal lawyers that money could procure. Ex Governor John son pleaded for his life, but to no avail. He-died protesting his inno cense. His wealth is estimated at over 3,000,000. He belonged to one of the oldest and best known families in the state. Unworthy Even the Name of Jingoes. "Well-constituted Jingoes usually delight tp pose as exaggerated species of patriots who believe that their na tion is the strongest in war and the wisest in peace of all the peoples of the world. The opponents of the Anglo-American arbitration treaty have shown that, even measured by Jingo standards, their patriotism is pinch beck. A favorite argument of these sham Jingoes against the treaty is that for generations past, and in instance after instance, Great Britain has got the belter of us in diplomacy. The utter falsity of this assertion will appear from the list of arbitrations between the United States and other powers, which Senator Sherman laid before the Senate several days ago. The. list, which by the way is not com plete, includes thirty-eight cases, fif teen of which, or nearly one-balf, were arbitrations between this country and Great Britain. Ot five arbitrations relating to territory between the yevs 1794 and 1827 the decision in one case was waived by mutual consent, and in the other four the awards were favorable to the United States. Of the whole number of thirty-eight cases included in Senator Sherman's list, only five, and none of them important, fell through. Of thirty cases in which awards were canied into effect, only six were decided adversely to the con tentions of the United States. Four cases were submitted to arbitration under the treaty of Washington, of which the most momentous that re lating to the Alabama claims resulted in a verdict against Great Britain. The decisions on the fisheries ami on the civil war claims were unfavorable to our views; but the decision of the German Emperor on the San Juan boundary controversy was entirely in accord with our contention. On the whole the record shows that so far as the United States are concerned arbi trations have resulted favorably not only in the large majority but in the mpre important of the cases submitted. Instead of getting the better of us, Great Britain has, with very few ex ceptions, come off second best in her controversies with this country. The obstructionists who have stoop ed to the denigration of their country in order to find arguments against the pending Anglo-American arbitration treaty are unworthy even the name of Jingoes." Retord. Each has Bis Torment. A Preacher Talks on "Hell' and Draws a Picture. " Hell " was one of the topics of Rev. C. II. Eaton's morning sermon at the Church of the Divine Paternity, New York, on Sunday. He said that the hell pictured by the early philoso phers, painters and writers was but a mild sketch of the real hell. The various forms of immoralities produce certain conditions in the soul and con signed the individual into a hell self made worse a thousand-fold than any hell ever written or printed. Drunk enness, lewdness and other vile habits all resulted in personal hells for those who transgressed the divine laws. The Universalist church, Dr. Eaton said, was not built upon any false ideas of sentimentality. Hell was a condition. "The demons of hel' walk up and down our avenues and streets," said the doctor. "They are in our very drawing rooms, waiting for the chance to entice us. Dr. Eaton said that intemperance, lewdness and the opium habit were evils more common to-day than ever before in the history of the world. Each urchin had his hell. Each was suffering thetortuies of damnation, the pains of which were rendered doubly cruel by the iner consciousness that each had been self-dammed. The object of hell, Dr. Eaton said, was reformation, so that the child of God might be reclaimed. It is said that people in love do lots of making up without quarreling, and lots of quarreling after marriage without making up. Art tht MMngn of Sent, the Telegraph System u( the human body. Nerves extuiil from the brain to every part of the body and reach every organ. Nerves ure like fire good servants but turd nutate rs. Nerves are fed by the blood and are therefore like It In character. Nerves will be weak and exhausted If the blood la thin, pale and Impure. Nerves will surely be strong and steady If the blood Is rich, red and vigorous. Nerves And a true friend In Hood's Sarsapa rilla because It makes rlcb, red blood. Nerves do their work naturally and well, the bruin Is unclouded, there are no neuralgic pains, appetite and diges tion are good, wheu you take HI dTs Sarsaparilla The One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. 11. rrapwd only by C. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Sin, j mil- the best family eathartle llOOa 8 FlIlS and Uver stimulant, 'au JOHN H. xQWH Merchant iS muHsanmBBB SUITS FROM S18.00. la John N. Gordon, Wm- Krickbaum and Neoamiah Kitchen , Commissioners, of Columbia County. Whereas, there is now pending in the Court of Common Pleas of Colum bia County an appeal from the settle ment of the County Auditors for the year 1895, in which it is alleged that the County Commissioners for that year, to wit, 1895, overpaid J. B. Mc Henry, sheriff of said county, the sum of $33 1.60 for boarding prisoners, over and above the amount allowed by law. And Whereas the County Auditors for the year 1896 have surcharged the County Commissioners of that year, to wit, 1896, with the sum of $187.00, being the amount alleged to have been overpaid the said sheriff for the board ing of prisoners from January 1st, 1896 to May 1 st, 1896. And Whereas the County Auditors for the year 1896 have surcharged said Commissioners with the sum of $6.90 alleged to have been improperly paid by them to the said sheriff for drawing talismen. And Whereas the said County Auditors have also surcharged the said Commissioners for the year 1896 with the sum of $28.00, alleged to have been improperly paid by said Com missioners to the said sheriff for draw ing jurors and filling jury wheel. And Whereas, in order to correct and amend such alleged improper pay ments, if the same are improper, the County Commissioners for 1896 re tained and withheld from the said sheriff the sum of $580.00, being the amount due the said sheriff for board ing prisoners from May 1st, 1896, to December 31st, 1896; said -sum so retained being $26.50 in excess of the sum alleged to have been improperly paid said sheriff, as aforesaid. o:c therefore, you are. hereby noti fied not to pay to the said J. B. Mc Henry, sheriff, or to anyone lor him, the sum of $580.00, so as aforesaid retained, without first retaining and deducting therefrom the following sums ; provided the same are deter mined to have been improperly paid to said sheriff: Over payment for boarding during 1895 $331 60 Over payment for boarding, January 1, 1896, to May 1, 1896 187 00 Payment for drawing jurors and filling jury wheel .... 28 co Payment for drawing talismen 6 90 $533 5 You are further notified that the said ex-Commissioners, to wit, J. G. Swank, G. M. Ikeler and W. H. Utt, will inside of 60 days from the date of filling the said report of the County Auditors for the year 1 896, enter an appeal in the Court of Common Pleas of said county, appealing from the surcharges above set forth. J. G. Swank, G. M. Ikeler, W. H. Utt. Tours to California via Pennsylvania Railroad. The next California tour ot the Pennsylvania Railroad will leave New York and Philadelphia by special train of Pullman palace cars Febru ary 34, visiting the great Mammoth Cave and stopping at New Orleans during the Mardi Gras Carnival. Four weeks will be allowed on the Pacific Coast, and two days will be spent on the return trip at Colorado Springs and the Garden of the Gods. Stops will also be made at Salt Lake City, Denver, and Omaha. This is one of the most delightful and complete tours ever planned. Tickets, including railroad trans portation, Pullman accommodations (one double berth), meals en route, carriage drives, and hotel accommoda tions going and return, and transporta tion in California, will be sold at rate of $350 from all stations on the Penn sylvania Railroad System east of Pitts burg. Apply to ticket agents, Tourist Agent, 1 196 Broadway, New York, or Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Sta tion, Philadelphia. at. Do You Panoe To-Night? Shake into your Shoes Allen's Foot Ease, a powder that makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures Corns, Chil blains and Sweating Feet. At drug gists and Shoe Stores 15c. Sample FREE. Address Allen S Olmsted, Le Koy, N. Y. a-4-8t.d. . r CORNER MAIN & MARKET Sts, BLOOMSBURG PA. ... Early Spring Buying ... Every house wife and every maiden has spring sewing to do. They want to get their muslin garments out of the way. "We are now showing the requisite article necessary for them to use in this way. Muslin, laces, embroideries, inserting etc; all of them entirely new, and just now on account of dull times prices are very tempting. COATS. COATS. COATS. We have divided oar Coat them as follows : Lot No. 1 Lot No. 2 Lot No 3 all this year's goods Come early before they are all gone. Emh. Inserting and Lace3. All of these are entirely new, and prettier and daintier than ever. They improve on them every year. Every year they are prettier and less expen sive. They are in the centre aisle ready for your inspection. Cambric emb. in almost endless varitty ic. to 56c. the yd. Guipure cmb , special lots at rare bargains. 6c, 10c, 14c. and 25c. the yard. These are worth fully more. Nansook emb. in rare and exclusive patterns, with narrow edges, trimmings to match. For making Baby dresses especially. Sets of Swiss emb., 3 or 4 different widths in same design. m Inserting to match. Full line of Torchon hand made laces, all .vidths, with inserlings to match. Machine made torchon laces, with trimmings to match, in different qual ities. White G:ods. We are showing by far the most extensive line of white goods ever shown in Bloomsburg. All of them new and extremely pretty. We anti cipated your wants in these goods and here they" are in profusion for your picking. Long cloths, nansooks, plain and checked from 6c. to 45c. the yd. Special values in checked nansooks at 10c. and 12 Jc. the yard. Dimities, plain, striped and checked, 8c to 35c. the yd. Puss! & BLOOMSBURQ, PA. Mot Mere . Foot Covers but easy, comfortable, stylish shoes. That's what up-to-date men want. That's what we sell, and we don't draw heavily on pocket books either. Fitting feet is our specialty, and we assure perfect comfort to every patron. We carry the largest stock of boots, shoes and rubbers in the county, and all new and fresh and bright Every size, every shape, and prices not too high nor to low. yjff n (mm s IS Dropsy Cured with One Bottle. A great cure and a great testimony. "For ten years I suffered greatly from Heart Disease, Fluttering of the Heart and Smothering Spells, made my life a torment. I was confined to my bed. Dropsy set in. My physician told me to prepare for the worst. I tried Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart One dose gave great relief, one bottle cured the Dropsy and my heart." Mrs. James Adams, Syracuse, N. Y, Sold by C. A. Kleim. SEND. mm Hatter, TROUSERS FROM 05.OO. stock into 3 lots and will sell $1.00 $2.00 $.5.00 Special values in these at ice to 15c Percales for waists in light and duck effects. C:ats at Less Than Half. AH coats we have left we will sell for less than half price, and they are rare bargains if you want any. LOTS OF BARGAINS IN DEESS GCOES. Muslins. We still offer you this useful article at ridiculous prices. Unbleached muslin of good quality, 20 yds. $1.00. , Hill muslin, bleached, 36 in wide, 6Jc the yd. Pepperell R. muslin, unbleached, 7c. the yd. 9-4 sheeting, unbleached, 15c the yard. Worth fully J more. Jardinieres. We will snow you a line of Jardi Yijies in great variety at prices under any thing you ever heard of. They were bought cheap and will be sold cheap. Dishes. We are closing out three or four decorations in Johnson Brcs. and Wm. Greenly's semi porcelain, English, warranted not to craze, at prices that should tempt you. 100 piece Dinner Set, $9.75, thought cheap at $ 1 2 00, the old price. ico piece dinner set. $12.00. 112 piece dinner set, $14.00. Extremely cheap at former prices $14 00 and $i6.co. HaEjnoE, a a a Try Grain-0 1 Try Grain-0 ! Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without in jury as well as an adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN O hag that rich seal browp of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. J the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers. a 4 4td.
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