THE COLUMBIAN. Bf.OOMSBURG,
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THIS COLUMBIAN,
Blootnsourg, Pa.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9. 1S99.
What Shall We Do With th Philippine?
POLITICAL CARDS.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
J. K. SHARPLESS,
of Catawissa.
FOR
PROTHONOTARV AND CLERK OF j
1
THE COURTS.
WILLIAM H. HENRIE,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
J. W. PERRY,
of Sugarloat TVp.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
W. H. FISHER,
from the South Side.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
JOHN N. GORDON,
of Montour.
FOR REGISTF.R AND RECORDER,
A. N. YOST,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
J. C. RUTTER, JR.,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
DR. T. C. HARTER,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER.
W. F. STOHNER,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOHN G. HARMAN,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
C. A. SMALL,
of Catawissa.
ttr The above announcement are all subject
to tbe decision of the Democratic County con
tention, to be held Tuesday, June 13th, tm.
Prltnai y election, Saturday, June 10, 8 to 7 p. m.
George Dewey is now the Ad
miral of the United States Navy,
an office that has not existed for
nearly twenty years. Admiral
Porter was the last one who had
this title.
The Bar Associatton of Carbon
and Lehigh counties have endorsed
Judge Edwin Albright, of Allen
town, as a candidate for Justice of
the Supreme Court on the Demo
cratic ticket.
A bill has been introduced in the
State Senate which imposes a fine
of five dollars on every qualified
voter who fails to vote, unless he
can prove that he was sick, or ab
sent from the city or county, where
he is a voter.
A bill has been introduced in the
House at Harrisburg, which pro
vides that students of the Normal
Schools to share in the state aid
must be over seventeen years of age
at the time of admission to the
special class in the Art and Science
of teaching.
itr
The Bellefonte Watchman has
been investigating the matter of ex
tra pay and allowances for Judges
of the Supreme and common pleas
courts of the state, and finds that it
cost the state nearly $40,000 last
year for clerk hire for the former
and for extra pay for the latter for
holding court for each other.
THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE
Speaker Farr's eflorts to prevent
an investigation of the bribery
charges in connection with the Mc
Carrell bill have proven a failure.
On a committee ot five he appointed
four Quay men and one auti-Quay
man. This committee organized
and passed a resolution, which vir
tually prevented an investigation.
This the House would not stand,
and on motion of General Koontz,
four more members were added to
the committee. Representative Fow,
of Philadelphia, a Democrat, is
chairman of the committee. On
Tuesday witnesses were heard, and
Peter J. Christe, a Democratic
member from Northumberland
county, testified that he was offered
$1,000 by Ex-Member Moyles, ot
Luzerne county, if he would vote
for the re-consideration of the Mc
Carrell bill, and John Engler, of
Lycoming county, testified that he
was offered $500 by Ex-Senator
Coyle to vote for the McCarrell bill,
and a like sum by Michael J. Cos
tello, if he would vote for its re
consideration, jno evidence was
offered to show for whom these men
were acting, but it is likely that the
committee will get at that before it
adjourns.
The above question seems to be
agitating the public mind at the
present time. It is too deep a prob
lem for me to settle satisfactorily
even to my own mind. Perhaps I
ought not to meddle with it. In my
own opinion it were better if none
of our people were placed in posi
tion that made it necessary to med
dle with it.
It seems to be the universal opin
ion that the inhabitants of those is
lands are incapable of self govern
ment, and there are grave doubts as
to their willingness to be governed
by any outside party, no matter how
beneficent that government might
be.
It has been a Democratic doctrine
as old as the Declaration of Inde
pendence, that "the just right to
govern is derived from the consent
of the governed." According to
that doctrine we would have no
right to force them to submit to our
government. If we do not establish
some kind of government over them
we shall fail to derive any revenue !
from our newly acquired territory,
to reimburse us for the indemnity
we are to pay Spain together with
the other incidental expenses made
necessary by increasing our public
domain.
If they are not capable of self
government, they can hardly be
supposed capable of sharing by rep
resentation in our government. To
tax those people without their being
represented would be a violation of
another time honored maxim of our
people viz: "no taxation without
representation. rerhaps it may
not be considered so heinous an of
fence to thus tax people, when it is
the "other ox being gored."
Altogether it seems to me, that
we have got a difficult problem on
our hands. We may learn that it
is not wise to buy pigeons on the
wing and catch them ourselves.
It is claimed bv some, that if all
would agree and stand by the ad
ministration, there would be no dif
ficulty in meeting and satisfactorily
disposing ot all questions tnat may
arise in dealing with our new po
sessions. That may or may not be
the case. One thing iscertain. We
have not yet arrived at that mental
condition tnat enables us all to see
eye to eye. People never have been,
perhaps never will be so constituted
that they will all see things from
the same stand point. v hen our
government purchased the Louisi
ana territory ot t ranee there was
considerable of fault found by some
of our people. Later on when Tex
as was annexed to our manor, with
a nice section from Mexico, it took
a long time for some of our people
to get reconciled to the idea of our
accumulating such a vast amount of
territory. Some even died without
being convinced that it was the
proper thing to do.
The person who doubts the wis
dom of those transactions, would be
regarded as a fit subject for a lunatic
asylum. But those additions to our
public domain, were composed of
territory contiguous to our own
We did not have to cross the Pacific
ocean to reach our new possessions
we did not nave to increase our
army or our navy, in order to pro
tect or care lor them.
Just what will be the result of
our speculation in real estate, it
seems to me will be somewhat diffi
cult to determine. I have made up
my mind to wait until dividends are
declared, before I make any calcu
lations as to what my share will be.
One of The Firm.
STATE NEWS-
A small son of Mr. and Mrs. Bar
rett, of Williarnsport, died from the
result of scalds received by upsetting
a pan of scalding water which the
motner had placed on the edge of a 1
table.
The Topton Furnace, at Reading,
which has been idle for more than two I
years, will be put in operation, it is
expected, in a very short time, in view
of the great improvement in the iron
business.
Christian Strohl, aged 1 1 years,
onlv son of a widow, attempted to
board a moving Lehiizh Valley coal
ttain at Weathcrly Monday morning
and fell beneath the car wheels. Botn
legs were severed.
Gold watches and jewelry valued
at $1500, including; more than a hun
dred diamonds and about ihe same
number of pearls, were stolen Sunday
night from the residence of Howard
Drake, on College Hill, Easton.
President McKinley last week
signed the bill appropriating $125,000
for a public building at wilkes-Barre.
Congressman Williams has the satis
faction of knowing that he succeeded
in getting this appropriation after all
his predecessors had failed.
Germania Hall, a large public
building in the heart of Wilkes-Barre,
was destroyed by fire Monday after
noon. The loss is $20,000 with only
4.000 insurance.
The building was used for theatrical
purposes and a place of meeting for
lodges.
A milk trust, for the purpose o
controlling the sale of milk in Wiil-
lamsport, is being formed in that
place. A number 01 prominent dairy
men are in the scheme and an attempt
is to be made to force all dairymen in
that section to sell the:r milk whole
sale to the trust.
There seems to be money in
honey if a farmer knows how to han
dle it. A Bradford county man has
103 swarms of bees. From 63 swarms
he sold about 4,000 pounds of honey
last year. From his best swarm he
secured 201 pounds, and from the
best ten 1,101 pounds. The average
price from the entire lot was 9 cents
a pound.
OBSERVATIONS.
Tennesee will soon erect a statue to
Sam Davis, the Confederate spy, who
died as bravely as did Nathan Hale
during the Revolution. Sam Davis
was a 19 year -old trooper in the sec
ond Kentucky Cavalry. He was cap
tured with very important papers on
his person. He was offered his life if
he would reveal the name of tne per
son from whom he had obtained them.
He replied "If I had a thousand lives
I would lose them all before I would
betray a friend." He was promptly
executed, but died without semb
lance of fear.
Everyone has heard of the won
derful South Carolina decoction, 10
cents' worth of whirh will make a man
drunk as a lord the night before,
hich condition he can continue in
definitely by simply shaking his head
the morning after, but a Kansas boy
at Manilla has discovered something
new in this line about which he dis
courses as follows: "The natives make
a kind of drink which they use and a
fellojv can get enough for 10 cents to
make him howling drunk; but the
worst part ot the game is that every
time he takes a drink of water for a
week after he is drunk all over again.''
The small boy and his matbles
will be in evidence before long.
Star Clothing House.
A BIG DRIVE. AN ELEGANT
All-Wool Spring Overcoat,
Handsomely made, tf F 0Ov
in the latest style, for SUxJ
At Townsend's Star Clothing House.
Some member of the South Da
kota Legislature, who has probably
had a back subscription bill to pay,
introduced a bill making a subscrip
tion claim invalid unless the pub
lisher can produce a written order
by tha delinquent covering the time
unpaid. Very likely this member
subscribed about like three-fourths
of the subscribers of country papers
do, that is, he simply told the edi
tor to "to send me your paper,'
when they met driving through the
country, or in town, just as it hap
pened. mere is nothing wrong
with the custom, and in spite of
legislation, honest men would ex
pect to pay for a paper as long as
they continued taking it. The pro
posed measure, it it could have any
legal status at all, would be resorted
to solely by the tricky class of peo
pie, and even they might find it
difficult to convince judge or iury
that their verbal order did not cover
the time they received and made
use of the paper
An exchange says: "Farmers in
the adjoining valleys report the re
turu of many birds, an indication of
the approach of spring, It is pre
dieted that no more rough weather
will be experienced in this section
of the state for the remainder of the
season. ,
That section must be especially
favored. We in this region have
yet to hear the melodious notes of
any members of the feathered choir.
However, a continuation of the
pleasant weather of the past few
days will bring the pretty songsters.
Batcahty. 1
Local newspapers should warn their :
business men against a rascal who is '
operating, according to reporis. as fol
lows: He goes into a store and claims
to nave the same name as the propn
etar, and is afraid that things will get
mixed up, as he is going into business
there. In case of goods being deliv- (
ered there by mistake, will the nier-1
chant please take charge of them un-1
til he comes for them. The stranger j
then goes to a wholesaler and orders
a big bill of goods, usually jewelry. 1
The goods are sent. The sharper
comes along and takes them away.
As the good-natured merchant has re
ceived the goods and allowed them to
pass from his hands, he has to pay for
them.
Give tbe Children a l)rink
called Grain-O. It is a delicious, ap
petizing, nourishing food drink to take
the place of coffee. Sold by all gro
cers and liked by all who have used it
because when properly prepared it
tastes like the finest coffee but is free
from all its injurious properties.
Grain-0 aids digestion and strengthens
the nerves. It is not a stimulant but
a health builder, and children, as well
as adults, can drink it with great bene
fit. Costs about i as much as coffee.
15 and 25c. 32 4td
The Eoyal Arcanum
The Royal Arcanum business for
1898 is something stupendous in fra
ternal insurance. The total receipts
for widows and orphans fund duiing
the year was $50,163,47184. The
total payment to widows and orphans
tor the year was $49,164,288.22. Since
August 1 st, last, an emergency fund
was put in operation and each year
$100,000 is laid aside and invested
for the use of that fund and for no
other purpose.
Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to
treatment by Elv's Cream Balm, which
is agreeably aromatic. It is received
through the nostrils, cleanses and
heals the whole surface over which it
diffuses itself. To test it a 10c trial
size or the large, for 50 cents, is mail
ed by Ely Brot.iers, 56 warren St,
N. Y. Druggists keep it. A remedy
for Nasal Latarrh which is drying or
exciting to the diseased membrane
should not be used. Cream Balm
" Trust Not to
Appearances. " recognized as a specific
That which seems hard to
bear may be a great blessing.
Let us take a lesson from the
rough weather of Spring. It
is doing good despite appear
ances. Cleanse the system
thoroughly; rout out all
impurities from the blood
with that greatest specific,
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Instead of sleepless nights, with con
sequent irritnblenesa and an undone,
tired feeling, you will have a tone and a
bracing air that will enable you to enter
into every day's work with pleasure.
Ueinember, Hood's ticrcr dinupiiomta.
8cr0fu!a Bunches -"An oia-ratlun
helped my son temporarily for scrofula
bundle on bit neck, but Hood's Sarsapa
rilla caused them to disappear entirely."
Men. Lewis a. Carfektkb, til Wadswortb
Street, Hartford, Conn.
Catarrh "I bave had no return of tbe
catarrti which troubled me for yean, since
Hood's Sarsaparilla cured me." Mb. Joe
Martin, Washington 8t., Ogdensburg, N. V.
DysneDftia - " Nothing relieved me of
my dysiiepsia until 1 took Mood's Sarsapa
rilla. It cured me and I can eat three good
meals every day. I give It to my children
every spring." Fiud Poehi.kr, 437 South
Petina Street, Indianapolis, Ind.
fwcd& SaUabaUGa
llood'i fills cur lUsr llli. th non Irritating snd
' . only thTtl to ukwtth fluuj'i tu'rtajiarlllfc
IS
Among the bills introduced in the
Legislature was one presented by Mr
Vaughn, of Lackawanna, last week,
legalizing prize fighting in Luzerne
county. Several attempts have been
made recently to conduct prize fights
in that county, but the authorities
have interfered every time. The lov.
ers of the sport now hope to get
ahead of the authorities by legislative
action. The bill will be vigorously
opposed.
DIED.
Ever. Died near Rohrsburg on
Feb. 22, Mrs. Mary Lenon Eyer, aged
28 years, 9 months and 7 days.
lieu my 1 Itluud Deep.
Clean blood 'means a clean akin. No
toxin v without it. Caacarets. Candy Catbar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up tbe lazy liver and driving alf im
purities Horn me oouv. jiegiu vo-uuy 10
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, autistactiou guaranteed, luo, iac, ouc.
Now the Postoffice Department
has decided all dutiable articles, ex
cept books, must be excluded from
the mails. Importers will feel the
results of this order very much.
The habit of ordering goods from
samples received by mail will be
broken up.
fain ji, j w una 1011 nm wwari bqujh
TWO OF THE
Biggest offers we HaveMade
o0 pieces of Imported Organdies, some of
the same lot advertised so largely by "Wanamaker
in January. They had never been sold before
that time for less than '25c. We will Fell them,
beginning Wednesday morning, March 1st, at
12ic. the yard. This is not a lot of odds and
ends. You will not find a bad pattern in the lot.
This ia a chance to save some money, and tbe
first on the ground will get the plums.
We put on pale Wednesday morning the
largest lot of Table Liaen we have ever offered.
We have hunted the market in New York and
Philadelphia, and we have no hesitation in say
ing that we can show you the best goods for the
least money we have ever had on our counters.
Bleached Damask from 22c. the yard to $2.00.
We call special attention to a lot of Bleached
Damask, all linen, 72 inches wide, that we will
sell during this sale at 49c. Unbleached goods,
frani 25c. to 7oc. the yard. In Unbleached Liuen
we will sell during this sale a lot of Barnsley Linen,
goods that we could not buy to day to sell for
less than 70c. It will go in this sale for 49c.
GG inches wiJe and every thread linen.
DRESS GOODS.
Just a word about them. They are tumbling
in daily. Are you interested in knowing just
what is correct for. Spring wear ? Then come and
feast your eyes on these new beauties. Thi3
Dress Goods Section is a veritable School of
Fashion, but we charge nothing for the tuition.
Laces and Embroidery.
Nothing so entertainingly beautiful as these
new Laces and Embroidery has ever visited this
town, except, perhaps, the Cotton Dress Goods .
beauties which they are intended to embelbh and
adorn.
Such a varied assortment of Laces and Erabroid;
ery beauty you caunot fail of being suited.
F. P, Pursel.
SPECIAL SALE!
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.
Ladies' Tailor-Made Suits, from ;.oo uo.
. Ladies' Coats, Capes, Separate Skirts. Coats for rriisses and
children. In this line our stock is larcre. Prices low.
Ladies' Fur Collarettes, from $2.00 up.
Our sales in Shoes increases daily. Ladies' Fine Shoes, from
79c. up. Uents tune bhoes, from 98c. up. Good Calicoes, 3a
Good Muslin, 3 Jc. Our stock of Underwear is complete. We
handle the celebrated Leather brand Stockings for ladies, misses
ana Doys. corsets, tor 24c. up.
Our Grocery Department is improving daily adding new
goods at better prices. Our whole stock is complete and prices
always right. It will pay you to see our goods before you buy.
Bloomsburg Store Co., Limited.
Corner.Main and Centre. ALFRED McIIENRY, Manager