4 olumbiait. ESTABLISHED 1866. (TotutuMa Dcmofrat, ESTABLISHED 18S7. CONSOLIDATED 1869. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING moriuisburK. ibe County seat of Columbia County, I'ennsylvanla. ,-TEO. B. ELWELL EDITOK. D. J. TASKEH, LOCAL EDITOR. GEO. C. ROAN, FOREMAN. TMRMS;—lnside tbe county SI.OO a year In ail • ance; I'.RO It not paid In advance Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly In advance. All communications should bo addressed to THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburg, Pa. THURSDAY, AUGUST LL, 1898. DEMOCRATIC) STATE TICKET. GOVERNOR, GEORGE A. JENKS. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, WILLIAM A. SOWDEN. SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, CAPT. PATRICK DELACEY. JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT, WILLIAM F. TRICKET, CALVIN M. BOWER. CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE, J. M. WEILER, FRANK P. IAMS. "I have been a Republican since iB6O but our party now stinks in the nostrils of any decent man. If the people are willing to uphold this cor ruption and dishonesty, God save the country ! —Ex-Postmaster General John Wanamaker." HERRING APPOINTED JUDGE- Oil Wednesday afternoon word was received here that Governor Hastings had appointed Grant Her ring Esq., President Judge of this district. He will continue in office Until the first Monday in January next. The Judicial situation is now as follows : Robert R. Little is the Deir■ • r.it.c candidate in Columbia county ; nobody seems to know what the situation is in Montour, nor whether the conferees named by Judge Ikcler will serve, or a new candidate with new conferees be ap pointed. The Republicans of Mon tour have instructed for James Scarlet, and the conferees of Columbia will support Chas. C. Evans of Berwick, with the pros pect of a deadlock there. Chas. L. Hawley of Scranton has been nomi nated by the Prohibitionists, and is making speeches through the dis trict, and Grant Herring now holds h the Governor's commission as Judge. If this is not sufficiently complicated, a few lawyers might be named by nomination papers. The conference of the Republican party in the Seventeenth Congression al District, will meet at the Montour House, Danville, Pa., on Thursday, August 25th, to select a nominee for Congress. The candidates are Carl Jennings, of Sullivan county ; John Packer Haas, ot Northumberland county ; W. H. Woodin, of this coun ty and ex-Deputy Revenue Collector Gauger, of Montour. In the confer ence Northumberland county has five votes, Columbia four, Montour three and Sullivan two. C. E. Geyer. Esq., who was chairman of the Republican con vention held May 16, last, and who by resolution then passed was au thorized to appoint Judicial con ferees to meet with the conferees of Montour county to nominate a can didate for Judge of the 26th Judicial District, has appointed \V. D. Beckley aud J. U. Kurtz as li Columbia's conferees. H. A. McKillip County Chair man has issued a call for a conven tion for Monday August 15, for the purpose of nominating candidates for Assembly and county surveyor. It will be seen from this that the coming convention will have noth ing to do with the J udgeship. That matter is in the hands of the confer ees appointed by the authority of the May convention. K The Lycoming County Republican i Committee on Saturday elected Howard Lyon, Chairman and William If R.'Deeme/ Secretary. The commit tee then idjourned to meet again on August r6th to nominate a candidate for Judge, in pursuance of a resolution I ot the county convention. This reso lution recited among other things, that the Republican party of Lycom- H ing county favored a non-partisan judiciary and that no nomination for Judge should be made by the conven tion, but the county committee should") p. convene and nominate a candidate immediately after the Democratic I county convention which occurs on the 16th of this month. The Demo te crats will choose Judge Metzger. The Republicans will probably endorse his I candidacy. Don't be Deceived. The ring organs are scenting dan ger early, and are becoming frantic in their appeals for support this year. They have hitched the machine be hind the McKinley band wagon, hop ing to hoodwink the people into a "vote of confidence" indiscriminately. Listen to one of them : Work for McKinley this year in Pennsylvania ; work for him every where. He deserves united support at the polls just as he is receiving unit ed support now in his admirable con duct of the war. The practical way to show this support is by a vote of confidence, and this vote will be taken in November. Strengtnen McKin ley's hands, so that he may the better impress our foreign opponents with the weight of hL representations and demands. The inconsistency of this silly twaddle is equaled by its falsity, while it deceives nobody. If President Mc- Kinley is "receiving the united sup port of the whole country," and Pennsylvania must necessarily be in cluded, there can be no earthly rea son why the people of this state should re-elect a gang of iniquitous ringsters who have robbed the state and wast ed the people's substance in order to show their support of McKinley. Of ♦his fact the staunchest McKinley Re publicans in the state are fully aware, and are preparing to vote accordingly. They realize this to be the year of "overpowering" home questions, and that the whole campaign hinges on state issues. If the charges made, not by Democrats alone, but by lead ing Republicans, of robbery of the treasury, theft of hard earned taxes, the capital burned under suspicious circumstances, and iniquitous meas ures, inimical to the rights of the peo ple, be not strong enough to constitute home issues, when will there be charges strong enough ? Will it be the next year, or the year after, or when every political avenue in state, county and township is blocked by the machine, and its boodlers demand tribute from every householder ? These are the burning questions that make up the home issues, and the now presents the opportunity of sett ling them. The war question will take care of ilsei! The people, north, south, east and west are united in its support, and it is the fear that Penn sylvania may do likewise in home ! matters—unite in one determined effort to redeem the state from the thraldom that has so long disgraced it ; that frightens the organs, and, Caesar, like, they cry out to the peo ple, "Save us or we perish." STATE NEWS —Berks County's 3000 pensioners receive $90,000 every three months. —Laborers are reported to be scarcer in Pittsburg than at any time in recent years. —New wheat is selling for 75 and 80 cents in Berks county. —Tyrone is to have a factory that will turn out 10,000 corncob pipes daily. —Pupils in the Harrisburg public schools will use tablets instead of slates the coming year. —Steelton's Young Men's Christ ian Association will send bibles to the Pennsylvania soldiers at the front. —The Pittsburg Valve Company will continue its work on shells for the Government, regardless of peace prospects. —Pittsburg has invited President McKinley and wife to attend the Knight Templar Conclave in that city in October. The Lehigh's new breaker at Sugar Notch, near Hazleton, is nearly completed, and will soon furnish work to nearly 1500 men. —By the overturning of a car riage en route to the cemetery at Williamsport on Monday, the remains of a child were thrown out and the procession had to start anew from a livery stable. STRAY PARAGRAPHS. —A popular count—discount. —An exchange says : that all pencils are not pushed—some are led. —lf you want all the news, both local and state, try a years' sub scription to THE COLUMBIAN. —Sampson isn't as popular now as he was when he sailed for Cuba. Of course he claimed all the credit for beaching Cervera's fleet. But the people were not quite so easy. They know a hero when they see him, and Schley is worthy of all the honor that can be bestowed up on him. There is considerable dif ference between crusing along the Cuban coast and fighting a first class Spanish squadron at the mouth of Santiago harbor. Had Sampson not displayed such a meagre disposi tion, in this official report, he might still be enjoying the respect of the American people. It was the sel fishness on his part that caused the instant transformation of public opinion, when the facts concerning the great naval victory at Santiago became generally known, V TH£ COLUMBIAN. PA The Spanish Royal Staudaid- The Spanish royal standard is most complicated. The red and yellow of the Spanish flag is said to be derived from this occurrence : In 1378 Charles the Bold dipped his fingers in the blood of Goeflrey, Count of Barcelona, and drew them down the count's golden shield, in token of the appreciation of the latter's bravery. The shield, so marked the arms of Barcelona, which became part of Arragon, and its arms were taken by that kingdom. Now to the royal standard : In the first quarter, or upper left hand part of the flag are the arms of Leon and Castile, the lion and the castle ; the second quarter is taken up, one half by the arms of Arragon, one-half by the arms of Sicily. The upper third of the third quarter (directly un der the first) shows the Austrian colors, the lower two-thirds is divided between the flag of Burgundy and the Black lion of Flanders ; the upper third of the fourth quarter shows the chequers, another Burgundian device, while the lower two-thirds is shared by the red eagle of Antwerp and the golden lion of Brabant, and on the top of all this are two shields, one showing the Portuguese arms, the other the French fleur-de-lis. Con siderable of a flag that. Mew Uniforms- Suits That Will be Made for the National Guardsmen. The state arsenal has received the supply of cloth necessary to uniform the new state troops and has enough on hand to give each man two suits, if it were necessary. New blankets, enough to supply a force as large as the old guard have been received. The consignment of arms, enough to aim half the new guard, have been shipped and are expected daily. Two changes have been made in the equip ment of the tiv jps. No more knap sacks will be issued, the blanket roll taking its place, and no more leather cartridge boxes will be worn, the Mills web belt being supplied instead. Both of these changes are for the better and will be permanent. A tailoring room hn b. en erected in the secc.id floor ul t'u- a.ser—l an hereafter all uniforms will be made there and issued upon requisition in stead of sending nut the cloth as has been done in the past. It is tire pur pose of the arsenal keeper to make uniforms for such officers of the Penn sylvania guard as send in their orders. A Standard of Wealth in Russian Ar menia. In arid and semi-desert regions the question of fuel is pne that taxes the resources and ingenuity of the inhabi tants. The people who live in Russ ian Armenia have solved the question in a way that forms a very striking feature in the views ot all the villages of the plateau. After the grain has been threshed, the remaining straw is piled up in great stacks on the low, flat roofs of the houses and stables, where it will be convenient for use as bedding for the stock. Much of the straw, however, is mixed with the fresh manure as that is taken from the stables from day to day. The mixing is usually done in round beds made by raising a low ridge of earth, using an implement like a hoe for the work. Then square or round cakes of the mixture are made with the hands and plastered on a wall to dry. When dry, these cakes are piled up in conical or pyramidal heaps, which are frequently ten or fifteen feet in height. These piles seem to be hollow, so as to per mit a ftee circulation of air to insure thorough drying. In many cases there is a small opening at the bottom of the stack to allow of its being used as a kennel or chicken house or some thing else of that sort. These dried cakes of dung mixed with straw are almost the sole dependency of the country people for fuel, and, as a consequence, in the semi-desert, the man who possesses a large quantity of this material is considered wealthy and his daughters are desirable matches. Catarrh Cured Fullness in the Head and Ring ing in the Ears Bettor In Every Way Since Taking Hood's B