r i "He That is Warm UiitA'AiiiiiilAiii A i A A A A A A A A AAA "i A A A A A A r.(v ESTABLISHED !8(M. ilUc Columbia gfmorrat, KSTABulSllKP 1S:7. CONSOM OATEH ISMt. i'OBLISMK ) IV'KUY TIUKSDAY MOKNINU HloomsViurtt. tin! t'ounty scat, ol Columbia County, IVnnsylvaiila. GEO. R. KI.WKLL KtilTOK. U. J. TAhKKH, l.Ol'Al. KD1TOH. UKU. C. HOAN, FOKKM AN. Tkrmh : Inslrto tup eour.ty ll.nnn yearln art anci;I.MI If not paid In advance cut side .tie county, 1.IB a year, strictly In advance. All communications should be addressed to TDK COU'MHIAN. Bloomsburg, ra. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1899. Democratic State Ticket. FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT, SAMUEL L. MESTREZAT, of Fayette County. FOR JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT, CHARLES J. REILLY, of Lycoming County. FOR STATE TREASURER, WILLIAM T. CREASY, of Columbia County. DEM00EATI0 COUNTY TICKET- FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, W. H. FISHER, from the South Side. WILLIAM KRICKBAUM, of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, JEREMIAH SNYDER, of Locust Twp. FOR PROTHONO TARY AND Cl.KRK OK THE COURTS, WILLIAM H. HENRIE, of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, J. C. RUTTER, JR., of Bloomsburg. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOHN G. HARMAN, of Bloomsburg. KOR COUNTY AUDITORS, WM. BOGERT, of Scott Twp. G. H. SHARPLESS, of Catawissa. He don't have the wealth of a Chjcsus Nor creases in his pants ; He is just plain old larmer Creasy. But he'll make some one dance. Ex. All exchange is of the opinion that if Diogenes were still living, he could find active employment for his famous lantern at Rennes, searching for an honest man among those who are trying Captain Drey fus. It will be a hard matter for the French Military Court to convince the people that Captain Dreyfus is guilty. They are satisfied of his innocence, and the verdict, even if it should be against him, won't change their opinion. Secretary of War Root announces that political and personal influence will be dispensed with in the elect ion of men for army positions, here after. But his saying so don't make it so by any means. You can just bet that when there are any appointments to be made the political , demagogues and bosses will have a say in it. C. E. Geyer, Esq., the Columbia county delegate to the Republican State Convention, at Harrisbun;, has been appointed a member of the committee for the revision of the party rules governing State Conventions. It is intended to amend the rules so that the dele- , gates will be apportioned by the vote cast at the previous national election. This will give Columbia county two delegates hereafter, in stead of one. Concerning the war in the Phil ippines, President Norton, of Harv ard University, has the following to say: "The cry is already rising, from Maine to Texas, and from Texas to California, 'Stop this fighting in the Philippines. It is a woeful mistake ; it is a crime. By what rights are we murdering the people in the Philippines and de vastating their homes?' Their steadfast resistance to our oppres sion deserves the respect of every freeman. Let the cry rise 'till it thunders in the ears of the Admin istration, stop this fighting ! ' " McKinley doesn't show any dis position to send Miles to replace Gen. Otis, to command the army in the Philippines. The sentiment of the American people demand that this change shall be made, but they are not aware as to the cause of the President's slownens in the matter. It is very easy to explain it. Miles is a Democrat, and Mc Kinley is afraid that if he should make the change, the war in the Philippines would be brought to a speedy conclusion, and Miles be made a presidential possibility in 1900. The Crime cf 1873. It is only claimed now by anti Democrats that we an: just recover ing from a frightful depression which culminated in 1S9O. But even if this recovery will be all that is claimed or pretended the original evils still persist in all their magni tude and venomosity. The silver metal is unrestored; the currency is contracted by all the silver it has been despoiled of, since and includ es 1873; lost work, wages, ecc, can never be restored. The gold monopoly, the banks' consolida tion, the money trust which made the act of 1873 an(l by which the present plague of trusts blights the land is still the dictator in all our affairs; public and private; and if there is a temporary prosperity any where it is not among the people, but the self-preferred creators of the situation and is as insecure even to its holders as it is factitious, like the millions and billions made out of nothing by capitalizing a combine overvalued at $10,000,000 to $60, 000,000. A prosperity whose vouchers are no better 1 ests on bubbles is, in fact, a bubble itself: and the entire wind inflated combination will speedily burst in terrible catastro phy. Morrisville, N. J. Express. STATE NEWS ITEMS. A monster hawk flew into the farm-yard of Edward Hendrix, at Canton, Tuesday, and killed a game rooster. Mrs. Hendrix killed the bird with a hatchet, but not before she was painfully injured. Otto IJergenhagen, aged So years, was found dead Tuesday morning sitting by a window at his home at Wellsboro. After shoot ing himself through the heart, he laid the revolver back on the win dow ledge. An explosion of dynamite, caused by a fire at D. V. Guise's brick works, north of Williamsport, shook the entire city Monday night. The fire destroyed the plant, entail ing a loss of $50,000. It is be lieved that an incendiary applied the torch Mrs. Frank Williams, of Potts- vine, while putting coal on a fire unwittingly threw her pet cat, which had fallen asleep in the scuttle, into the stove. The feline was horribly burned', but managed to crawl out and make a wild dash through the house before it fell dead. A proposition has been sub mitted by the Pottstovvn Iron Com pany to its stockholders to raise by subscription $1 ,000,000 for the early erection of a large open hearth steel plant and the placing of its blast furnace in connection for re sumption. The latter has been idle for about seven years. Abraham Keller, of Reading, aged 78 years, has employed coun sel to bring an action in ejectment against his son, Valentine, to re cover possession of a farm in Alesco township, Berks county. The father deeded the farm to the son, but recently they had a fall out, now he is desirous of regaining the title to the land. John and George Fry, broth ers, of Snow Shoe, were held in $500 bail each, Monday, charged with stealing cattle from farmers and selling them to unsuspecting butchers. It is alleged that eight persons are concerned in the thefts. Farmers have been missing cattle for the past several years but it was not until recently that a clue was found. This led to the Fry broth ers arrest. iWhile working in a manhole of the telephone underground con ducts, at Williamsport, Monday af ternoon, George V. Huffman, Jr., was suffocated, and Joseph Diets was overcome by gas, which had escaped from an adjacent sewer. A passer-by heard Diets groaning and gave the alarm. Several rescuers were overcome by the gas, and the men were gotten out with great difficulty. The residents of Iluntsville, eight miles from Wilkesbarre, have oeen muca exercised ot late over the presence ot many wild cats that come from the mountain seven miles away. Tuesday as a young farmer named josepn ruiier was passing through a com held his dog was at tacked by a big cat. Fuller tried to pull the clog away, when a second wild cat leaped at him. His clothes were badly torn and his flesh laccr ated before he could drive off the animal. The dog succeeded in kill ing the first cat. The price ot beet is steadily ad vancing and the indications are that it will go still higher. Purchasers of porter house, or surloin steak, have to pay 18c per pound, round steak, 1 6c, rib roasts, 15c., veal steak, 20c., veal chops, 15c, and ham, suceo, is and 20c. mere is an old fable, which says, " the cow jumped over the moon," and these prices lead us to believe that the bovine will attempt to go over the earth's satellite the second time. ft Thousands are "cot J" in that they do not understand the glow of health. This implies disordered kidneys, liver, bowels, blood or brain. Hood' s Sarsaparitla gives all who take it the warmth of per fect health. Get Hood" s because THEN AND NOW The harvest is past, the summer is not quite ended, at least the warm weather is still with us. But the sound of the steam thresher is abroad in the land. Some of us can remember when the old thresh ing machine we knew anything about was the poverty club, the music of which could be heard far and near from the time harvest was gathered until late the following winter. The first threshing machine that I knew anything about, was brought into the neighborhood where I lived by a couple of strangers, about sixty-five years ago. They did up the threshing in a hurry for the farmers. It was regarded as a very dangerous thing for women and children to be about. I was only allowed to view it from a dis tance. For the neighboring farm ers formed a syndicate and bought the concern, and for a time had a monopoly of the threshing. Some may be under the impres sion that syndicates and monopo lies are a modern invention, but such is not the case; they are nearly as old as history. Most of your readers can remember hearing or reading of one Alexander, who at tempted to monopolize the world, and thought he had done so. If he were living now, he would out build Vaudcrbilt and outroek Rock efeller. The threshing monopoly was of short duration. Soon almost every fanner had a machine standing in his barn. The increase in the num ber of machines and the various im provements took the wind out of the monopolistic sails. The steamers are at present the cham pion threshers, but they are too nu merous to form a monopoly. The difference in our mode of threshing then and now, is not the only thing in which great changes have taken place. When I was a boy, grain was always cut by hand, the grain cradle, or what has some times been styled the Armstrong reaper. There was a few old men who did not take kindly to new fashions, that still cut some of their grain with the sickle. The changes that have taken place between then and now, have come about gradu ally. Had they come suddenly, they would almost have taken our breath. If the old man bending over his sickle, had seen a self binder coining into his field, it would not have been necessary to. tell him to get out of the way. He would very hastily have put at least one fence between him and that huge monster. Harvesting has been made much easier by the introduction of ma chinery, but it has lost some of the charm of ye olden time. men it was a very common thing to see from three to six men with cradles cutting down the grain, and a goodly number of boys and girls following with rakes, raking up and binding the sheaves ready for shock mg. Racing was then in order, to see which could rake and bind the sheaf the quickest, the boys not un frequently coming in second best. A stout, healthy girl, with plenty ot bone and muscle, was then re garded as a prize worth looking af ter. Hut things have changed ine large gin is ratner at a ais count now, as she cannot play the organ or piano, or engage in any other fashionable frivolty, better than her smaller sister or neighbor, Thinks Alt So. amta axKR Will .offer, during the month of August, Scrre P3a.enoieiially Big Baxgrains I CLOTH Al FI1IH GOOD ' If you are going to the Seashore to hear ' What Are the Wild Waves Saying,' do not forget that you want A NICE SOFT SHIRT AND A CRUSH HAT. We have them just in. Just the thing to travel in. CAPS, STAR and it takes more calico to make her a gown. I am of the opinion that the girls of the present day would be quite as well off, and perhaps, better, if they would occasionally take up some useful outdoor employment, instead of turning summersets in a gymnasium. And they would not lower themselves 111 the estimation of anv young man worth having, by showing that they could make themselves useful as well as orna mental. Some of the best women that I have ever known, I have seen working in the fields, making themselves a helpmeet in fact as well as in name. So far as I know they have not injured their health or reputation by so doing. Ou) Timer. IIow Are Your Klrtnry. f Tir. nntitat'ftnnrrYfruii PMlnonrp :ill klclnev Ills. Sam. pie free. Add. btiTliiitf ReiuudyCo., Chicago or N. Y. World's Bicycle Championship. And $200,00 In Gold to be Raced tor by Starbuck and Chuch, at Williamsport on Labor Day. The Y. M. C. A. Wheel Club is prepaiing for a mammoth race meet at Athletic Park, Williamsport, Pa., on the afternoon of Labor Day. The star attraction will be a great professional championship race between Charles Church, of Philadelphia, and J. Frank Starbuck, Willow Grove. This race is creating intense interest in every section of the country, as Starbuck holds the professional record of the world at five miles, standing start, and has defeated Linton, Michael, and the best men of this country, and also of Spain, France and Italy. Church is known as the "unpaced king," and has never been defeated in a pursuit race. He has beaten McDufne, But ler, Coulter, Titus, McEachern and many other noted professionals. Over $600 in prizes are offered. All of the crack amateurs ot tne btate are also entered. Thousands of people are going to Williamsport on this day, as all railroads are selling excursion tickets. W. 0- T- TJ- County Convention. This being the twenty-fifth Anni versary year of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union. Appro priate Crusade Exercises will be ob served at the convention to be held at Rohrsburg, Sept. 7th and 8uY Prayer is also asked for Friday September 1, that the Father's choicest blessing may be poured out upon us at that time. Col. Co. Supt. ok W. C. T. U., E. W. oastouia. Bean the Ihe Kind Have Always BuugB Signature f Queen Quality SHOES For Women -$3.00.- Style, Fit, Wear. None Better. W. C. McKINNEY, No. 8 East Main St. 2E0TOI1E MID-SUMHER STYLES IN : HATS 1 AM s SHUTS- AT TOWNSEND'S CLOTHING AUGUST FURNITUR Our August Furniture touchcil upon in the papers. Bed Room Furniture and Sideboards In the Favorite Wood. You can have a white enameled bed and choose a bureau and wash stand that will go with it nicely. These prices iu&t to hint. Bed room furniture at Bed room furniture at Bed room furniture at Sideboards at $10 Sideboauls at 12 Men's Shirts and Collars. The white unlaundered shirts have been selling fast, but we have all sizes left. It is little wonder they sell so fast. The bargain was remarkable. They are made by one of the best makers to sell at 75c. It is out and out good fortune that makes them 49c. Dress Goods. Choice and pretty stuffs cheap. Every one of these of. ferings spell the word bargain. When you may obtain 42c goods at 23c, and 85c goods at 374c, well it is surely a bargain harvest time, isn't it ? Big Reductions in Summer Skirts. The summer skirts are ready to take their leave now. Just to give them one great forward push out of the door these Wednesday we will have F. P. OUR MIDSUMnER Clearing Sale nighty Bargains, Cut Prices, Begin with us on Summer Goods from July nth. Now is your time to save money on Shirt Waists, Dimities, Organdies, PERCALES, LAWNS, &c. Do not miss this opportunity, offer you during the next month, before you buy. Corner Main and Centre.; 9. Han HOUSE. Xews has scarcely becen scarcely' $14 95 that will be $17 00. 10 00 that will be 20 00. 21 50 that will be 2.5 00. 00 that will be $12 50. 35 that will be 15 00. prices have been cut like this : $2 75 skirts, now 2 00 ; $4 25 skirts at $3 00 ; $2 50 skirts at $1 50. Muslin Sheetings And Calico. The best indigo blue calicoes wecanbuy.at 5c; good bleached muslin, 10 yds for 49c; bleached muslin, equal to the Hill's, 10 yds for 59c; unbleached mus lin, 10 yds for 39c; best un bleached muslin, 10 yds for 50c; 10-4 sheeting, unbleached, at 1 2jc ; 1 sc ginghams reduced to ioc per yd. Teas and Coffees. We are agents for Chase & Sanborn's teas and coffees, and can safely say they are the best goods you can buy. They own and co'ntrol their own planta tions, so you always find their teas and coffees the same grade of goods. These coffees sell from 1 5c to 40c a pound. Teas, trom 00c to 1 00 a pound. a fresh lot of watermelons Pursel. it NEWS We will have great values to See the goods, get the prices Bloomsburg Store Co., Limited. ALFRED Mc HENRY, Manager
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