4 |Jk | ; olumbrcn. ESTABLISHED 1866. ®Uf (fotoraftia gnuocrat, ESTABLISHED 1837. CONSOLIDATED 18(19. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING Hloomsburt;, the County seat ot Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. EL WELL EDITOR. D. J. TASKED, LOCAI. EDITOR. GEO. 0. ROAN, FOREMAN. TERMS;— lnside the county JL.OO a yearln ad vance; $1.50 If not paid lu advance Outside the county, $1.35 a year, strictly in advance. All communications should be addressed to THE COLUMBIAN. Bloomsbui'E, Pa. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, IS9B. Dr. Silas C. Swallow, late Prohibi ;ion candidal e for Governor, and edi tor of the Harrisburg Commonwealth, has secured a new trial in the libel suit brought in the Dauphin county criminal courts by John C. Delaney, and others. Five bills of indictment have been presented by the gtand jury, which found true bills against United States Senator M. S. Quay, his son Richard R. Quay, and Ex-State Treasurer, Benjamin J. Haywood, for "conspir acies and executed conspiracies" and against Ex-Treasurer Haywood for loaning public money and entering in to an agreement to loan public mon eys in his capacity as State Treasurer. The defendants will appear before Judge Gordon to-day to be arraigned and plead to the indictments. Wanamaker savs he will continue to wage his war against Quay, and has issued a vigorous statement in refer ence to the announcement made by Senator Quay of his candidacy for re election to the United States Senate. He says the recent election is a most significant rebuke and defeat ot Sena ator Quay and all he represents. His candidate for Governor received a mi nority of votes cast for that office, and is only elected because the opposition was not solidified upon a single candi date. Colonel Stone is not the choice of the majority of the voters of Penn sylvania. Significant above all is the result of the election of members of the General Assembly. The next Leg islature will be composed of 25 < mem bers; ot these at least 153 are expressly commissioned by the people and pledg ed to vote against Senator Quay, and not more than 90 can in any contin gency justfy a vote for his re-election. Wanamaker meets Quay on his offer of $lO,OOO for the convictiop of any bribery in Senatorial fight and goes him one better, by offering $20,000 for the same object.— Ex. INTRICACIES OF THE BALLOT. An Effort to be Made to Have it Conform More to the Australian System. The intricacies of the present ballot system have made it most unpopular, even with the politicians. The Penn sylvania Ballot Reform Association, which has been loud in its protests against it, is now preparing a number of suggestions to be presented at the next Legislature. These suggestions involve the abolition of the party col umn, which will, it is believed, afford greater secrecy, as the man who "cuts" his ballot will not be so easily detected. Another suggestion is the provision that the voter shall be absolutely alone when he marks his ballot. The purport of the suggestions will be to secure a system akin to the Ahs tralian system, under which the candi dates' names are printed in groups under the caption of the office for which they contest. The association realizes that the people of Pennsylvania de mand an absolutely fair, safe and secret ballot, but what effect the suggestions to the Legislature will have is a matter of conjecture. Governor-elect Stone favors a simplified ballot, and it is said will reccomend a change from the present system in his first message to the Assembly. Harvesting tae "Fruits", The Sugar Trust has the honor and the glory of harvesting the "first fruits of empire," It has bought the entire sugar crop —250,000 tons—of ournew Hawaiian possessions. It will use this purchase in destroying the independent refiners. As the Sugar Trust was the most potent advocate of Hawaiian annexation,it is fitting that it should reap the rewards of its patriotism. Sugar and leprosy are the only con sederable Hawaiian products. Now that the sugar has been appropriated there.remains only the leprosy. Who will harvest that ?— N. F. World. The big fight between the one time champion, James J. Corbett, and Tom Sharkey, the sailor boy, I is over, and Sharkey is the victor, j by reason of a foul which Corbett made in the ninth round. It was j witnessed by one of the largest crowds that ever congregated to witness a fight. During the nine rounds that were fought, Sharkey proved his superiority over his op ponent, and had the best of the J bout from beginning to end. ... TO BUILD MORE OARS. ••Pennsy" Will Order at Least 1.000. Pennsylvania officials think they see a car famine approaching and are making preparations for it. Already this year the company's rolling stock has been increased by about 5,000 cars, most of which are of the box variety. Now the com pany is contemplating the construc tion of 2,000 more cars. Of the building of 1,000 cars there is 110 question and the con tract will probably be let at once. President Thomson has issued the order. From all parts of the "Pennsy's" great system and lrom many west ern roads there conies a daily cry foi cars, which at present it is al most impossible to respond to. Throughout Pennsylvania and the states west the shortage probably runs as high as ten per cent. 011 the supply needed to keep up with the demands of shippers. Within the next two weeks the corn and wheat j crops will be rushing things and . this shortage will be greatly in creased. There will be few quarrels as to rates then, as shippers will think only of getting their goods to destinations and will give their business to the road able to take care of it promptly. A well known railroad man is of the opinion that before Christ mas there will be a record breaking car famine all over the country, which will effect the Pennsylvania as much, if not more, than some of the other roads. It is doubtful if the new cars can be furnished in time to help the company out on the predicted rush. The new cars are of different varieties,ranging in size from 60,000 pounds to 100,000 pound capacity. The mean is 90,000 pounds. W- 0. T-"u. NOTES- Our former State President, Mrs. Anna M. Hammer, speaks before the Teachers' Institute 011 Thursday and Friday, Dec. Ist and 2d, 011 "Scientific Instruction." The In stitute is to he held at the Normal Auditorium. Mr. Hall, of Buffalo, N. Y., will spend one week in Bloomsburg, be ginning Dec. sth and continuing until the 12th. The Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union had a very suc cessful supper last Thursday even ing at the home of Mrs. George Hughes. Part of the proceeds go to paying one month's room rent and a dozen of new chairs, as there are not seats enough to accommo date our enthusiastic young people. They have 43 members now. L. T. L. meets every Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. W. C. T. U. every Tuesday afternoon. Next Tuesday we will have a finely con ducted Mother's Meeting by Mrs. B. C. Conner, one of our pastor's wives- Ladies, if you have never heard Mrs. Conner come next Tues day. All mothers will be delighted and receive valuable aid. Gospel temperance meeting svery Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The public are invited. Regular meeting of the Y's Mon day evening. It is a social meet ing. A fine program was given at the last meeting by the county sup erintendent of flower mission work, Miss May Sharpless. PRESS SUPT. ORGAN RECITAL. An organ recital was given in St. Paul's church on Tuesday evening, by Rev. William H. Butts of Williams port Mr. Butts was formerly in charge of the music department at the Normal School. Since he resigned that position to enter the ministry he has had several years experience on the organ, in New York city, and is an accomplished performer. The following program was rendered in a manner that greatly pleased his lis teners : PART 1. 1. Calkin. Harvest Festival March. 2. Gounod. The Redemption. a. March to Calvary. b. From Thy Love as a Father. c. Unfold Ye Portals Everlasting. 3. Wagner. Meistersinger. Walter's Prize Song. Tannhnuser. a. The Evening Star. b. The Pilgrim's Chorus. PART 11. 1. A. Thomas. Gavotte Mignon. 2. Gaul. The Holy City. a. Introduction to Part I. b. No Shadows Yonder. j c. Great and Marvellous. 13. Mendelssohn. Elijah. He is watching over Israel, j Midsummer Night's Dream. Wedding March. 4. Handel. The Messiah. Hallelujah Chorus. Lithographed bonds, stock certifi ; cates, and checks are furnished at, j THE COLUMBIAN office. tf. THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. STONE WINS BY 120,404. Had 478,534 Votes to Jouks' 358,130 and Swallow's 133,854. The official figures of the vote on the State ticket have been received Irom forty four of the sixty-seven counties, including Philadelphia, Allegheny and all the other larger counties. Adding the unofficial footings of the official returns of the other twenty-three counties Stone has an apparent plural ity in the State of 120,404 over Jenks in a total vote of 970,5 18 for the three leading candidates. This total is divid ed as follows: Stone, 478,534; Jenks, 358,130; Swallow, 133,854. The pluralities for the other Repub lican State candidates will exceed that of Stone. For Judges of Superior Court, although Trickett (IJem.), runs con siderably ahead of his ticket the two Republican candidates, William VV. Porter and William 1). Porter, are elected by very large majorities. Wil liam D. Porter runs benind his name sake, but in Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties alone he has 111,383 more votes than Trickett. The Thanksgiving we celebrate at the close of every harvest season, it is said, owes something to the religious rites of ancient nations. The oldest of these is the Jewish feast of tabernacles. This festival occurred annually at the end of the harvest. The glory of the great Hebrew festival has long since pass ed away, but the fundamental prin ciple—that every one should equally rejoice in the fruits of the current harvest, together with the whole J people of the land "before the Lord" —has entered into the har vest observances of Christian lands. Greece, in the months of August and September of each year, after the harvest had been gathered, cel ebrated the great feast known as Eleusinia, or the feast to Demeter of the beautiful robe. Deineter, the great earth-mother, was the goddess of cornfields and harvests. The Romans celebrated a harvest festival called the Cerealia. Com ing nearer to our own harvest festi val is the English harvest-home. This was celebrated usually in Sep tember when the moon was full and was usually a day of boisterous merit. The Pilgrim fathers remem bered this festival and expressed their thankfulness for their first har vest by a feast. "Our Thanksgiv ing of to-day has taken some part from each of these different festi vals. It has taken the time of the Indian meeting ; its charity is gain ed from the Jewish feast of taber nacles ; it has copied the festivals of Demeter and Ceres, in giving ; thanks for the crops ; its mirth and festivity has a flavor of the English harvest-home festival; and its spirit of thankfulness and religious ador ation was given to it by our Pilgrim fore-fathers. .Old Elder Brewster was certainly inspited when he made his now famous prophecy 011 that November day, 1621, and how we 1 it has been fulfilled : '' Blessed will it be for us, blessed for this land, for this vast continent ! nay, from generation to generation to generation will the blessing descend. Generations to come shall look back to this hour and these scenes of agonizing trial, this day of small things, and say : "Here was our beginning as a people. These were our fathers. Through their trials we inherit our blessings. Their faith is our faith ; their hope our hope ; their God our God." Chestnuts for Winter Use. A good plan for storing chestnuts for winter use is to place a small quanti ty of salt in the bags with the nuts. They will then become soft and sweet, and any worms which happen to be among them will be driven out. The bags will become covered with sweat caused by the salt, but this will not impair the quality of the nuts in the slightest degree. This plan is follow ed by many persons and is consider ed one of the best. Strong, steady nerves Are needed for success Everywhere. Nerves Depend simply, solely, Upon the blood. Pure, rich, nourishing Blood feeds the ncrvc3 And makes them strong. 1 he great nerve tonic i 3 Mood's Sarsaparillaj Because it makes The blood rich and Pure, giving it power To feed the nerves. Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures nervousness, Dyspepsia, rheumatism, Catarrh, scrofula, And all forms of Impure blood, SUBSCRIBE FOR THE COLUMBIAN TheCombinationofGood* Qualities JL AND LITTLE PROFITS j 'S W ' la ' WC Sre ' oo ' < ' a tt er - 'jp/ Vfj|flA WINTER STOCK ilaßr t> e found second to none for W q ua,it y and price. 1-^^Er °iif ur * s £° m p' e t e ' |^|i\ Up with a handsome Sine of fl |i FOR eoysi cxiiLiD^EiiNr At Townsend's Star Clothing House. JAPANESE TEA- The Parish House was never so beautifully decorated as on Thursday evening last, when an entertainment was givea by the Woman's Auxiliary. One could almost imagine himself in the Orient as he stood among the Japanese umbrellas, fans, lanterns and pictutes, and drank delicious tea, charmingly served by young ladies ar rayed in elegant costumes of Japanese pattern. Besides the dainty refresh ments, the aud : ence was entertained ■ with two vocal solos sung by Mrs. ! Hawley, a recitation by Miss Minnie Ent, a vocal solo by Miss Edith Maize 1 and an instrumental piece by Miss Maude Runyon. The whole attair was well conceived, and carried out delightfully. The only criticism that can be made is that the attendance i was not nearly as large as it ought to | have been. OPERA BOUSE. At the Opera House, next Monday evening, Manager Coffman presents the ever popular comedian, song writer and composer, Mr. D. Marion, ac companied bv his own company. i he company engaged by Mr. Mar ion this season is one of the strongest and best all around vaudeville and burlesque organizations in existence, he having exetcised great care and judgment in selecting each individual act, and the result has been very gratifying both from an artistic anil front a financial point of view. Mr. Dave Marion has contributed many clever parodies and songs, but this year he piomised to out do him self, and realizing that this is an age of "coon"' melodies, has written sever al funny parodies, on some of the most popular hits of the day. The other members are all artists in their line. The performance concludes with the roaring and laughable burlesque, which was especially written for this company by Dave Marion, entitled, "In town." UNOLE TOM'S CABIN. Al. W. Martin's big scenic produc tion "Uncle Tom's Cabin" with the famous minstrel star, Milt. G. Barlow, as "Uncle Tom," will be seen at the Opera House, Dec. i. The company travel in their own special train of cars; carry $lO,OOO worth of scenery, besides hotses, bur 10s, donkeys, ten Shetland ponies, twelve man-eating bloodhounds, and in order to present a perfect render ing, a company oi artists of the high est reputation has been selected, with the greatest rare for their particular fitness for the personification of the various characters of the drama, mak ing this by far the best company ever organized, or now traveling, and the only first-class "Uncle Tom's Cabin", company that will visit here this sea son. Opera House, Dec. 1. Printer's Maohinery for Sale- Any printer in need of any of the following, will do well to correspond with us. We have for sale, in good condition, a Carleton, Caps & Co., Stereotype outfit complete; a Her cules Stapling Machine, a small Washington hand press. Address. TIIE COLUMBIAN, tf Bloomsburg, Pa. * If you want lithographed bonds certificates of stock, checks, drafts diplomas, or any thing in that line the COLUMBIAN office can furnish them. See samples. The F. P. Pfirsel Store is a Different Store. Pew save money through buying at lowest prices. Scarcely anybody does, unless it is terribly necessary. The tendency is to take advantage of low prices to buy line things that are thereby brought within reach. Trashy and gow gaw things show their true meanness when you get them in use. We have bought liner things to take their place. We don't sell these goods lor less than they are worth, but we save enough through our better mode of gathering to make prices on the comparable things look wonderfully less. And the oddest feature ot our method is that we sell the many exclusive things as reasonably as we sell the few tilings that other stores are in competition with. These (acts are worth remembering at this time when purchases are often made carelessly. Dress Goods. Our Dress Goods stock is too large. It must be lowered by the first of January. There is only one way to do this, and that is to lower the prices. 56c Dress Goods, neat, pretty mixed, 45c. 35c Dress Goods, plain and mix;d, 28c. 85c. Dress Goods, plain and mixed, 58c. Coats and Capes. A crisp air has re-doubled the demand for Coats and Capes. I The snappy styles, the unusual gathering of all that's new and good, coupled with the little price, has trebled the interest here. S5-OQ Cape we offer this week at $3.98. $7.00 Cape we offer this week at 55.00. $8.50 Coats we offer this week at $7.00. Children's Shoes. We carry Bay State Shoes in children and miss, and we can safely say that there is no make of Shoes that will give you as much wear. Special offer this week: Miss Shoes, u to 2, worth $1,50, at $1.25. Boys' Shoes, 11 to 2, worth F. P. Pursel. SPECIAL SALE! o Now is the time to get bargains. During the next 30 days we will give you many goods at and below cost. Wool Dress Goods that was 25c, now 15c. Dress Goods, from 50c. to 30. Do not miss these special sales. We have just received new sup ply of pretty Coats, Capes and Fur Collarettes for ladies. Fur sets for children. Tailor-Made Suits, from $5.00 U p. Ladies Coats, Capes, Separate 'kirts. Coats for misses and children. In this line our stock is large. Prices low. Ladies' Fur Collarettes, from $2.00 up. Our sales in Shoes-increases daily. Ladies' Fine Shoes, from 79c. up. Gents' Fine Shoes, from 98c. up. Good Calicoes, 3c. Good Muslin, Our stock of Underwear is complete. We handle the celebrated Leather brand Stockings for ladies, misses and boys. Corsets, for 24c. up. Our Grocery Department is improving daily—adding new goods at better prices! Our whole stock is complete and always right. It will pay you to see our goods before you buy. Bloomsburg Stars Co., Limits! Corner Main and Centre Sts. ALFRED McHENRY, M'G'R J S1 .40, at $1.25. Ladies' Spring Heel, light 1 1 calf, 3 to 6, at §1.65. I Furniture. i 1 Manufacturer needed the 1 money. A chance for us and ■ j for you. So fine an assortment 1 of tasteful designs in Bed Room 1 Suits at so low a price is new to this town. Consider yourself . fortunate to he asked to share in the saving. These prices can't stay long: 3 piece sets, $1495 16.00, 17.50, 21.50, 27.50 and 32.50. I Fine Golden Oak Table, high ly polished, nice size for in your parlor, $2.65. Oak Extension Tables, §3.50, 5.00, 6.50 to 10.00. Mattress and Springs at lower prices than you can get them anywhere and the best makes we can buy. Glove Sale. A bargain—a real selling un der value. That's the story concerning Gloves to day. The maker is the man who loses, but his loss helps him to quick adjustment of his business. Here's the Gloves: $l.OO quality of Kid Gloves, at 750. 50c. quality of Cashmere Gloves, 25c. 25c. quality of Cashmere Gloves, 15c.
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