THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. ESTABLISHED I860. ilU Columbia gfmorrat, STABu18QED 1837. CONSOLIDATED 1S6. fUBLISllED XVKRY THl'HSDAY MOKNINO M Bloomsburg, tbe county seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. J CO. E. ELWELL EDITOR. "D. J. TA9KEK, LOCAL ElUTOK. iEO. C KUAN, FORBMAX. Tims; Inside the county fi.ooayearln ad vance; f t-50 If not paid lu advance Outside t o oounty, f 1.S8 a year, strictly In advance. ill communications should be addressed to THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburg, Pa. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1S97. A CORREOTIOB. The Republican in speaking of Czar Reed's rules in the Democratic con vention forgot to mention that the only democrat in Congress who voted to sustain those rules was the Hon. C. R. Buckalew. Sentinel. A sufficient and complete answer to the above gratuitously false statement of the Sentinel, is, First, a reference to the Congressional Record, vol. 21 part 2, 51st, Congress 1st session, under the date of Feby. 12, 1890, page 1233, where the proceedings and vote will be found to which Mr. Buckalew refers in the speech follow ing, and where he, solitary and alone voted "No," on Approval of the Journal: and Second, that portion of the speech itself, same volume, pages 1237-8, in which the subject ot the amendments to the rules is discussed. And we call attention to his indignant denunciation of Speaker Reed for his arbitrary and unheard of ruling. "Mr. Buckalew. Mr. Speaker, I have felt some desire to place upon the records of our debate, certain views which I hold upon the two main questions involved in these proposed amendments of the Rules ot the House, namely, the question of ascer taining a quorum under the constitu tion in this House and upon the ques tion of dilatory motions. . Now, Sir, on the 29th of January, when a motion was made to take up an election case in this House, 1 voted against the motion because the minority of the committee on elections were not prepared to consider it. The subject of rules was also then in pro cess of consideration. I voted against taking that case up, and as it turned out I did so alone. Immediately afterwards, there not being a majority of the whole House voting on that motion immediately afterwards the speaker took his leap in the dark, into a region hitherto untrodden by any speaker of this house a proceed ing the outcome of which no human being can now foretell. He determined that he would vote (for that is the sub stantial result ) he would vote for the non-voting members of the House ; he would place their names on the record without their consent. The next morning on a motion to approve that Journal and upon a motion for the previous question to stop all debate upon the approval, I voted "No," So likewise in the last three days upon the question ot the approval of the Journal I have voted "No." These votes will stand upon the record forever as a protest against the action of the Speaker of this House. They require no explanation and no defense ; but I refer to them for the purpose of indicating my posi tion upon this question of making a quorum. I hold that this power is to be resorted to only upon extraordinary occasions j not upon usual ones. On the other hand, I hold that the mem bers of this House have that right under the Constitution and the law of the House, and that when the Speaker violates that right his conduct instead of being approved should be strongly condemned. It has not yet, at least formally, received the approval of a majority of all the members of this House. In brief and this will conclude my remarks on this point I consider this power to demand a ' majority vote of the House on a bill or on ordering the previous question a defensive power, a protective power, to be resorted to by members to defend their right to debate bills, and when they seek to protect their people as far as they can against grievous and profligate laws. It is not to be used as an aggressive power or upon slight occasions of offense." Wheat took a great jump last week and went up to the skies. This was caused by the speculators, and ' rise in price was not exnectert tn h permanent. The standard price of wneat is iiKeiv to De in the neighbor hood of a dollar a bushel, though on Tuesday it went down to 91 cents in the Chicago Exchange. There is a shortage in the European crop and this will make a demand for American wheat that will keep the price up to a fair figure. THE PREFERENCE TICKET- Communicated. The preference ticket at the dele gate election was not an instruction under the party Rules, for several good and sufficient reasons : 1. Because instructions under the Rules are plainly and expressly con fined to the selection or nomination of candidates. 2. Because on its face it did not profess to be such, nor carry any inti mation even of an order, command or duection to the delegates. 3. Because it was of uncertain and doubtful application to any existing or proposed rule (as will be presently shown) and therefore unfitted for en forcement in any definite form. 4. Lastly. Because it was not only irregular and unauthorized, but as a vote to control the convention or any of its members, would be in plain denial of undoubted convention power to change or amend the rules accord ing to its discretion by a two thirds vote. By rule the ticket at primary or delegate elections is to contain the names of candidates in slip ticket form, and by common understanding and usage, nothing else. If other matters are to be intruded upon it, tne intrusion should be ordered by some competent authority and in some proper form. But beyond question, an addition to the regular ticket, wholly unauthor ized by any convention or even a Standing Committee, which should have for its object the overthrow or curtailment of a convention power, clearly established by Rule, would be unlawful under party law, and would be null and void. These views do not question the right or privilege ot members of the party to vote unofficially and separate ly at a delegate election, for any pro per object they may desire, and sub mit their vote to the convention as a petition or request if it shall relate to a change ot Rule ; nor do they ques tion the right or propriety of making a change of Rules an issue in the selection of delegates as was done at the late election in Bloomsburg, when delegates opposed to the Crawford County plan ot nomination were chosen in every one of the four dis tncts of the town. And of course the committee who prepared the new Rules had a right as members of the party, to publish their propositions of change and transmit them to the con vention for consideration. Of course the new rules should have been published thirty days in stead of eight before the delegate election, in order to be fairly consid ered, and debated and understood, by the people and the convention before action upon them, and the preference ticket thrust into the delegate election should have been fair, intelligible and well understood by all persons invited to vote thereon. But it was not fair, nor intelligible and well understood by all. For it did rot state a choice between majority and plurality nomi nations, in fact the material word plurality is entirely absent : the words "for nomination by delegates was widely understood to be an ap proval of the over-representation of small districts in convention, and the expression highest-vote was confound ed by many with majority vote which is the highest whenever the rule for it is applied. The voters were not lawyers and the ticket if not cunningly devised to mislead them was well calculated to that end, especially in view of the short notice of new Rule changes and lack of opportunity for explanation and debate. Honest. But Cute Yankee. There is a funny case of interna tional honesty down in A.izona, just on the line between that territory and Mexico, says the Washington Times. A Yankee farmer lives there, one Amasa Barrow by name, and it is his business to raise chicken?. Chicken feed is cheap in Mexico and chickens bring fine prices in Arizona, but to raise fowls in Mexico and bring them across the boundary, or to buy the feed and bring it across, would involve the payment of a considerable duty, which would eat the profits about as fast as the hens could eat the corn. As tor smuggling, that was not to be thought of. Amasa is a Yankee, and he is so honest that his neighbors say he wouldn't take advantage of a man in a horse trade. But he is also full of Yankee ingenuity, and after deep cog itation he built a long, slim hencoop, one-half of it in Arizona and the other in Mexico. On the line there is a gate. Over the lire there are barns containing feed. At feeding time the gate is opened, and the chicken fan cier shoos his flock into Mexico, where they eat their meal. Then he shoos them back to the protection of the American flag, where they digest this Mexican grain, lay their eggs and carry on their family affiairs. Mr. Barrow saves about 50 j r cent, on his grain, and makes about iat much on his chickens, and if thei is any smuggling done it is done by ''e in nocent and irresponsible biddies. ARMY OF rOTOMAU MEMORIES OF THE PAST RECALLED BY HEROES OF MANY BATTLES. Tli National Kiirampnivnt nt llnflhlo 1'rr lilnt McKlnley's Summer Ontlng Hlatorlr Interest la the Locality Choten At Snratoga. Very naturally and very properly, the meetings of tbe veteran Army of tbe 1'ot o mac, and of tbe Grand Army of the Republic tbts month, baa attracted unusual attention. It la more thau thirty-six years alDra tbe war began and tbe boy who war born that year. Is now so far as age Is concerned, eligible for election to tbe highest office In tbe land. The youngest among the mem bera of tbe Veteran associations, are at least fifty years of site, and even these must have entered the army at a very early age, and not then at the begin ning of tbe war. Probably tbe average age of the living veterans Is not far from sixty-five years. The natural mortality among one thousand men of that advanced age must In the nature of things be very great. The mortality among tbe veterans must therefore be If, T. S. Clarkson. Commander of tbe O. A. R. considerably greater, for tbe reason that the exposure of army life, Its hardships and tbe wounds from which so many of them suffer, all add to the In crease in the rate of mortality. It Is safe to say that during tbe next ten years a very large percentage of those now living will have answered tbe last roll call on earth. Tbe appreciation of this fact ie caus ing a much more lively interest than usual to be taken in the assembling of these survivors of the great conflict. Kin there is an added Interest in the S:ate of New York, berauxe both tbe O. A. R. encampment, and the reunion of the Army of the Potomac, are, this year, held within its borders, and both are to be attended by the President of the United States, who Is a comrade, and a member of both organizations. The object of the Army of the Poto mac society is declared to be to "cher ish tbe memories and associations of the Army of the Potomac; to strength en the ties of fraternal followsblp ami sympathy formed from companionship In that army; to perpetuate the name tnd tame of those who have fallen eltb cr on the field of battle or In tbe lino of duty with that army; to collect and preserve the record of its great achieve menu, its numerous and well-contested battles, its campaigns, marches and skirmishes." The meeting of the Army of the Po tomac, took place in Troy, on the 20th and 21st, and tt Is unnecessary to say anything in praise of the appearance or these heroes, whose courage, patriot ism and fortitude, rescued the Nation from the wreck of war. They assem bled in their corps meetings, transact ed tbe little business that there was for them to do, and then all but the more feeble joined in the parade which fol lowed, and which, on account of the enfeebled condition of so many of tbe veterans, was made as short as poaai ble. President McKlnley and his party, wno nave been enjoying a delightful ouung at Point Bluff, on Lake Cham plain, arrived In Troy on the first day of tbe reunion, and remained until late at night, and be participated In all the observances of the occasion. The ad drees of welcome by Governor Black, whose home is in Troy, and tbe reply by the President, were made In the largest ball In the city, and this was not nan large enough to permit all wno fl eel red to be present. The city at tbe headwaters of tbe Hudson, was of course, dressed In holl day attire, and tbe balls where the meetings of tbe society were held were decorated in a manner befitting tbe oc casion, in the parade, the veterans were escorted by tbe local military companies, and the local G. A. R. posts ana otner veteran organizations united in entertaining tbe visitors and keDt "open bouse" in tbe most approved and Hospitable manner. LMloDp Is needed by poor, tired mothers, over worked and burdened with care, debili tated and run down because of poor, tbiu and impoverished blood. Help is needed by the nervous sufferer, the men and women tortured with rheumatism, neu ralgia, dyspepsia, scrofula, catarrh. Help Comes Quickly When Hood's Sarsaparilla begins to en rich, purify and vitalize the blood, and sends it in a healing, nourishing, invig orating stream to the nerves, muscles and organs of the body. Hood's Baraaparilla builds up tbe weak and broken down sys tem, and cures all blood diseases, because Mood Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. It. Prepared only byC. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. JO JU o t 'HIS with Hood's Sursaparllla. IQHH R. TQWKSIHD8) Merchant fX . mime.jt natter, SUITS FROM S18.00. Of broader scope is tbe meeting of tbe O. A. R. at Buffalo, and it Is prob able that it will be many years be fore the National encampment will be again held in the State of New York. Dy the time it again gets around for the Empire State to have the meeting, the ranks ot the veterans will bave be come much thinner than they are at present, and tbe encampments will be far less In number nf attendance, al though It Is probable that they will hold for the survivors even more of Interest than they do to-day. The at tendance at Buffalo is estimated to ex ceed 100,000 persons. A royal welcome was extended to the President, and the people of tbe city have left nothing that would contribute to the comfort and happiness of the visiting veterans. A great wave of pa triotic impulse is created by these meet ings of the men who fought the ene mies of tbe Union, and established tha. doctrine of our Indevtslble character nt the point of the bayonet, and It is especially gratifying to the old soldiers to look over the country that their val or saved, and behold not only no foo. but to see those lately in arms vleiag with them, in cultivating the arts ot peace. There were strong advocates of thf proposition to hold the next National Knnampment in a city south of Ma son and Dixon's line, and the discus sion of the subject has brought out more fully than ever before the great fact that the animosities of tbe war have nearly all died out, and we are in fact, as well as in name, one people, and all loyal to one flag. To the student of history this, re markable fact almost passes compre hension. Where in the hls-.ory of the post can such a fact be found as tbe cementing together again of the bonds tetveea the States that were severed by the war? Hut we are a peculiar ; .ple. We have created more wealth in tbe pait thirty years, than ever be tore lr fll the history of tha mm try, and our people have intermingled and intermarried. People from the Sunny 1 oath bave come into the North, and liai'3 made fortunes, while Northern capital and enterprise has done much to develop tbe resources of the South. The stormy period that preceeded the war, is a memory only to tbe oldest Inhabitant, and tbe new generations which have come on tbe stage of ac tion, have neither knowledge or inter est in the affairs which lead to tbe great conflict. We are making history at too rapid a pace to permit our peo ple to bold postmortem examinations continually. Tbe past is behind us, and there let it remain. But the memory of tbe heroes who wrought for God and country wim deeds of heroic grandeur, will endure, long after the forces ot nature have beaten down the proudest monuments which art can rear to honor them The choice of Point Bluff as the President's summer borne has natur ally attracted unusual Interest to this part of tbe country, and certainly no other section has recieved more at tention than this. Every foot of ground In this vicinity Is rich In his toric memories. It was In this valley that the revolutionary patrols rallied In their mighty strength which was born of he Justice of their cause, and at Bennington battle in this very month of August repulsed the haughty foe. As Gettysburg was the turning point in tbe war of the Rebellion, so Bennington was tbe beginning of the end of British control in America. Sar atoga, Bemls Heights, and Orlskany, were subsequent events which gave tbe triumph to Patriot's cause, and made of the declaration of Independence tbe most momeatuous act In all tbe history of the world, save only tbe birth of tbe Savior of men. It has been said that the one act which stimulated the em battled farmers at Bennington battle, and the one which alone brought vic tory to their tattered banners, was the widely published threat of the British commander to turn loose upon the pa triots, their wives and families, the savage allies of tbe King's forces. This Inhuman proposition shocked the bet ter sentiment in the Mother Country, and aroused tbe patriots of America to that height of indignation and desper ation which made them invincible in battle. In choosing this delightful section of the country in which to spend hie sun mer vacation, the President has awal ened now Interest in the precious mei r Dries which cluster around Bennlngto 1, Ticonderoga, Fort Edward and Sari toga. And he leaves them only to mingle with his battle-scarred com rades In their reunion at Troy and Buffalo. There has been nothing slow about Saratoga, and would not have been even if tbe Presidential party bad not been there, or in the Immediate vicini ty. Tbe races, the drives, the bops and for many the club, where the betting has at times been fast and furious, holds for many attractions which can not be resisted. But very soon tbe sea son will be on the wane. People who make Saratoga gay are Inseparably con nected with tbe races. It is dliflcult to see how people can be so carried away with the excitement of tbe track as Don't Tobacco Spit and Buiokt Your Lilt Away. If you want to quit tobacco usiug easily and forever, bemutle well, Btroug, magnetic, full of new life and vlifor, take No-To-Buo, the wouder-worker, tluit mulces weuk men Biron?. Many guilt ten pounds In ten davs. Over 400, Jou cured. Buy No-To-Uao of your ilru''iHt, under guarantee to cure, 600 or !.it). Booklet and eumplo umileil free. Ad. b:Mu'r.i Remedy Co., Chicago or Now York. CORNER MAIN & MARKET Sts. I TROUSERS BLOOMSBURG PA. Why are we What is the In times like these it gain that don't go a begging. Values, and ha ones at that, alone possess the power to interest. Most anything may be braved to get your right ful share of what we offer this week. Read the Record and Black Dress Goods You are surely aware of our reputation for Black Dress Goods. AVe arc positive vre have bargains here that you will find hard work to replace when they are gone, and that can't be equaled anywhere eke. All wool oO in. wide Serge, extra fiue quality, 50c the yd. Can't replace at leas than 7oc. All wool Henrietta, 44 in. wide, at 50 and SOc the yard. Ve lay special stress on the SOc. quality. It can't be matched anywhere else at $1.00. Suitings. "We are offering while they last, all wool Suitings, !3G in. wide, nt 23c the yard. Summer Dress Goods. What we have left in this iiuc, vianuicc, uniu?, cic, you can have at your own price. Shoes. We offer Ladies a rare bar gain in Shoes this week that it will pay them to investigate. BLOOMSBURG. PA. Viewing the Parade. they are, but the fact is before us and every year the same aceneg are re peated. It is not the men alone that have given themselves up to this form of dissipation, but ladies, who at home move in what are considered the "best circles," Some of these are - skillful and ingenious in their methods, but one Is hardly prepared to hear of their as sociating with stable boys and riders, ta order that they may get points to guide them in the placing of their bets. But such Is actually the fact. Ladies of "high degree" are known to continually gather information from these very questionable sources, and then go to the track and use it to win large stakes from the bookmakers. The craze for gambling Is at its fullest height at Saratoga, and here it feeds Itself fat. Almost every one seems to be "In it," If that expression Is per mlssable. The identification of the ladles with the sport, has done more to draw the young men to it than any one can possibly imagine, and many a "broken" young dude, who later on may turn up a defaulter or a forger, can trace bis enslavement to the fair lady who first encouraged him to "take a flyer." F. C. ROBINSON. Cascarets stimulate liver, kidnevs and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or j gripe, ioc. 4-i-iy KNtabllelicd i8to. PHILADA. MUSICAL ACADEMY, 1617 spruce mi., Plillada, pa. KH U. ZKCKWKK, DlKKCTOR. Private aud class lessons in all brandies ot Muslu. Mend for Illustrated catalogues Klviuif lull luformatlon. 1,131 pupil tu uttendauve last season. B-ll'-lld SUBSCRIBE FOR THE COLUMBIAN FROM S5.00. Thronged ? Attraction ? is only the unusual hnr. then Run the Bisk. In this lot, not quite all pizes, may be yours though, laced and buttoned. They go while thev last at $1.00. Were 1 50 2.00, 2.50, $3.00. Domestics. They are bound to go up in price, but we alwayo try to look out for our patrons and are now offering you bargains in them you can't refuse. Light aud dark Standard Calicoes, -lc the yard. Always sell at (c Nice fine unbleached muslin 3G in. wide, extra quality, 20 yds. $1.00. details at 7c. Light Lawn Wrappers and Light Striped Merrimack Cal ico Wrappers, 75c. Best Blue Calico, 5c. Apron Ginghams, 4c. We still offer you 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT on Muslin Underwear. i FLOUR. Did vou ever trv CFRES FLOUR ? If you have not, we'll try and have you, as it is the best Spring Wheat Flour on the market. We are selling it at what a ear load would cost us now. Give it a trial. NOTICE IN PARTITION. Brlale of Larhia Slant, Oettatrd. To Fanny, Intel married with Jacob 1tlJer, Shlckshlnny, 'a. ; ahula, lntermnled with James Shult., brlarcreek township. Columbia county, l'a.; guardian ot Kalpli Fenstamnker, ml nor child of Dura Ke usta maker deceased; A. K. Kenstamaker, Brlarereek township aforesaid ; sarah Mout, aoiiieilin' oiled I.wla Evans, New 1 nrk City ; ktlle Hioul, New York City, mid Kills Wout, Bilarcreek township Columbia county, Pa. Vou are hereby not tiled thai In pursuance ot an order ot the Orphans' court of Columbia county, a writ of pnrtlilon has Issued from hs a Court to the sherirr of snld county, ruturunhl" on the fourth Monday of bepteinbur, A. 1. 1M. and that the Inipiegt will meet for the purpose of making paiiltlon nf the real estate of said decedent on the premises Id Mrlnreroek town ahlp, lolumbln eounty. Pa,, on Katurday, Sec tember IHih, ISUT, at 10 o'doek a. ui., at which time and place you can attend If "ii ee nroper. J. 11. MullKXta. 8-iMt. flierllT. No More GREASY LAM'S Can be Handled with Eld tJlorea j tone- non-exrlosiVe: PiUnttdla tha UnHte Statu ana PrlnetoalCetiaMf el tha Worla. twiSler eopy et "NaiaroufMarakM Price, $4.00 of your dealer, or dellrewi free oa receipt of price bj ROSE MANUFACTURING CO. 311-19 N. THIHD IT, PHILADELPHIA. CAUTION 1 eee! '". WiSH WAUltUil I othr,aatlie"NEVEItOUTM!tM eiUvlama that Is auaraaUae te eosHluhietayHit noMyrafuadea'), null alrae fro sraaaa jmtm karoMna anS tfcal Is abaoluUI; wow-aipleewe. M.Vm. GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT TH-i COLUMBIAN OIT1C a mm MM mrW Sir t&
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers