THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
' THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869.
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At Hloomsluirg, the County Scat of
Columbia Coiimv, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EEWELL, Editor.
P. T. TASKKK, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KUAN, 1 oklman.
Terms ! lnsiile the county $1.00 a year
In advance 1 $1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, $1. 25 a year, strictly in
advance.
All communications should he addressed
t o THE COLUMBIAN.
Mloomshurg, Fa.
VIIUKSDAV, AI'KIL 19, 1900.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
P. GRAY MEEK,
of Centre Co.
FOR CONGRESSMEN-AT-LARGE,
N. M. EDWARDS,
of Lvcominj? Co.
HENRY E. GRIMM,
of Bucks Co.
Democratic Candidates.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
A. r. YOUNG,
of Greenwooil Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
(South Side)
C. Z. SCHLICHER,
of Beaver Twp.
FOR SHERIFF,
DANIEL KNORR,
of Locust Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
(North Side)
GEORGE W. STERNER,
of Hemlock Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
R. G. F. KSHINKA,
(North Side)
of Bnarcreek Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
FRED. IKELER,
(North Side)
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
WILLIAM' T. CREASY,
(South Side)
of Catawissa Twp.
Northumberland County Com
missiouers will pay no bounty on
mink or fox scalps hereafter.
A vote will be taken in the United
States Senate on the Ouav case, on
the 24th inst. to determine whether
he is entitled to a seat in that body.
No prediction can be made as to the
result.
Everv soldier who has reached
the age of 62 yors is entitled to
the minimum pension of $6, whether
he is disabled or not, and everv
soldier who has reached the age of
72 is entitled to the maximum pen
sion under the law which is $12 a
month.
Sheriff Gamble of Lycoming
County read the death warrant to
William Hummel, the quadruple
murderer, Monday afternoon. The
prisoner appeared to be entirely
unaffected by the notification. The
execution will take place in the jail
yard on Tuesday June 5th.
Having in his possession a nies
sage of sympathy with the signa
tures yf 28,854 Philadelphia school
boys attached thereto, James Fran
cis Smith, a district messenger boy
of that city, sailed on Thursday for
Africa, and will deliver the message
and have a personal interview with
President Krtiger.
The Montgomery County Cora
missioners have refunded a debt of
$77,000 with bonds at 3J3 per cent.
interest, payable in twenty years.
but with the right to liquidate them
within ten. A bonus of over $2,
000 was paid the county by the new
bondholders. Heretofore the Mont
gomery taxpayers have paid 4 pet
cent, on their lunded liability.
Dewey's announcement that he is
a candidate for the Presidency did
not create the sensation that was
expected. The dominant sentiment
is one of regret that he has been led
into such a blunder. The platform
on which he will stand will be an
nounced soon, but what party he
can get to adopt his platform and
nominate him, does not yet appear.
The selection of John G. Mc
Henry as a delegate to the DeuiO'
cratic National Convention to be
held in Kansas City on July 4th,
was a compliment to Columbia
county, aud an honor to the district
Mr. McIIenry's valuable services to
the party as county chairman, and
111 many other ways, entitled him
to recognition. He has devoted
himself zealously and unselfishly to
the advancement of Democratic
principles, and as one of Pennsyl
vania's representative men in the
National council, the party feels as
sured that whatever his action may
be, it will be right.
Botes From the Pennsylvania Ixoeriment
Station.
Gravity or Aquatic Cream Separator!.
Information has been received at
the Experiment Station that in
many parts of the State where small
dairies are kept, agents are selling
the above named "separators" with
a ciaim that they are equal in effic
iency to centrifugal separators. The
claim made for these devises is that
by diluting the milk in the separ
ator with from one-third to one-
fourth of its bulk of water the vis
cosity is decreased and the fat glob
ules consequently rise easily and
completely to the surface.
This use of dilution is not new,
it having been practiced at least
ten years ago, and however plaus
ible the claims made for it may
appear, they are not confirmed by
actual experiment.
In some trials made at the Cor
nell Experiment Station with three
of these "separators," handled
according to instructions sent with
them, the following results were
obtained on mixed herd milk com
pared with those obtained with a
Cooley creamer without dilution :
Average percentage of fat m skim
milk (corrected for dilution). Many
0OIVS nearly dry. Six trials.
Wheeler's Gravity Separator O.94
Hunt's Imp Vemitaied Cream Seperalor 1.01
Cooley Creamer 1.01
Cows comparatively fresh. Nine
trials.
Wheeler's Gravity Separator 0.79
Hunts Imp. Ventilated Cream Separator 0.9J
Cooley Creamer 0.53
Average of the fifteen trials.
Wheeler's Gravity Separator 0.86
Hunt's Imp. Ventilated Cream Scparotor 0.7J
The same investigator also found
that the average percentage of fat
found on lorty different farms
using shallow pans was 0.30 per
cent, and on thirty farms using
deep setting 0.30 per cent.
These results show that the
aquatic separators do not approach
the centrifugal separators in
efficiency and further that they are
more efficient than shallow plans or
deep setting only in the case of
stripper milk. The only con
clusion to be drawn is that a fraud
is being perpetrated upon the farmer
when he is induced to buy a sep
arator of this kiud with the ex-
pectation that he is getting some-1
thing that will separate his cream
as closely as a centrifugal separator,
or any closer than the crock or deep
setting system. Furthermore, :t
should be borne in mind that by the
dilution of the whole milk the skim
milk is very materially reduced in
feeding value, which is a matter of
no small consideration on most
farms in the Commonwealth.
It is to be hoped that Pennsyl
vania farmers will be slow in buy
ing anything that possesses so few
advantages as the "Aquatic Separ
ator." H. Hay ward.
You know tit
about It. The
rush, the
worry, the
xfiAtinf Inn.
You eo about
Ith a sreat
welfiht resting upon
you. You can't throw
iff this feelinff. You
are a slave to your work.
Sleep fails, and you are
on the verge of nervous
exhaustion.
What is to be done?
Take
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SafsaParilia
4 For fifty years it has
been lifting up the dis
couraged, giving rest to
the overworked, and
bringing refreshing sleep
to the depressed.
No other Sarsaparllla
approaches it. In age
and in cures, " Ayer's" is
"the leader of them all."
It was old before other
sarsaparillas were born.
II.M a tottla. All traiilita.
Ayer's Pills aid the ac
tion of Ayer's Sarsapa
rilla. They cure bilious
ness. 21 d. a boi.
' I hare ot.d Ayar's medicines for
mora than 40 years and have said
from the very start that yon made
the best medicines In the world. I
am sure your Sarsaparllla Bared my
life when I first took It 40 years ago.
I am now past 70 and am never
without your medicines."
Fraxk Thomas, P. M
Jan. 24, 18M. Enon, Kansas.
Writ thm Dootor.
If yon bare uy complalut whsteTer
and desire tbe bdt medical advlr yen
can poetlbly receive, write tbe doctor
j. louwm receive a prompt te
ply, without eoit. AddreM
1. C. ATER, Lewell, Mill.
The annual reoorts and auarterlv
bulletins of this station will be sent,
free of charre. on annlication and
inquries on agricultural subjects
1 r . - m ,
answered as lar as possiDie.
Address,
H. P. Armsby, Director,
' State College.
April 1, 1900. Centre Co., Pa.
"The Farm Journal is all sun
shine," writes J. H. Hale, the
great Connecticut fruit man, and
the Columbian thinks so, too.
Get it for the remainder of 1900
and al! of 1901, 1902, 1903 and
1904,, by paying up your subscrip
tion to this paper ; both papers at
tbe price of ours only.
Republican Statu Convention.
Reduced Rates ro Harrltburg via Pennsyl
vania Railruad.
On account of the Republican State
Convention, to be held at Harrisburg,
Pa., Wednesday. April 25, the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company will sell
excursion tickets from all points
on its line in the Stare of Pennsyl
vania, to Harrisburg and return, at
rate of single fare for the round trip
(minimum rate twenty-five cents).
Tickets will be sold on April 34 and
25, and will be good to return until
April 26, inclusive.
Eeported Favorably.
National guardsmen are pleased
with the action of the house committee
on militia in favorably reporting the
bill to increase the appropriation for
the national guard and militia of the
country trom $400,010 to $2,000,000
annually. Of this amount Pennsylv
ania will receive $147,000 annually
from the Federal government.
Hotel Tor Rent
The Park Hotel, at Towanda, Pa.,
is for rent. Possession given April
1st, 1900. Located in the heart of
the town, opposite Court House. For
terms, apply to Geo. E. Elwell,
Ulootnsbtirt!, Pa., or E. V. Elwell,
Towanda, Pa. tf.'
HOOD'S PILLS cure Liver Ills, Bil
iousness, Indigestion, Headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c.
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WASHINGTON.
Prom our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, April 16, 1900.
Senator Jones, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, who
has just returned from New York,
redicules the story that the anti-Bryan
democrats, who are behind Dewey s
candidacy, would get a Dewey dele
gation sent from New York to the
Kansas City convention. He says
that Dewty's candidacy will cut no
figure at ail in connection with the
democratic nomination tor President;
that Col. Bryan will be nominated by
acclamation. And his opinion is
shared by practically all the demo
crats in both branches of Congres. It
is said, although your correspondent
does not vouch for it, that Dewey's
backers have a lot of money to use in
buying the support of country demo
cratic papers, in order to try to make
it appear that there is a strong demo
cratic sentiment in favor ot his nom
ination. There is one draw back to
this scheme that will kill it. The
country democratic editors, although
mostly poor men, are not ior sale. In
fact, the country editors of this country
have a record for incorruptibility that
any class of me 1 might well be proud
of. They are constantly imposed up
on, and give more for nothing than
any set of men on earth; but they very
rarely sell themselves.
Secretary Gage having shown by
the figures sent to the House, in an
swer to a resolution, that the war taxes
can be reduced at least $80,000,000
a year without embarrassing the gov
ernment, the democratic leaders in
tend to try to make the republicans
tell why they will not agree to make
the reduction at this session.
The democrats of the House made
a good fight against the Porto Rico
bill, but as they could not prevent
republicans swallowing their publicly
announced convictions they lacked a
fjw votes and could not defeat it. The
abomination has been signed by Mr,
McKinley and the responsibility of the
republican party for it is now com
plete.
The action of the Senate Comnrt-
tee on Elections in deciding by a un
aniinous vote that Senator Clark, of
Montana, was not entitled to the sen
he holds, is considered more of a con
demnation of Montana political meth
ods than of Mr. Clark personally.
Senator Pettus spoke the thoughts of
many of his colleagues when he said:
I have more respect for Mr. Clark
than I have for those who have been
houuding him. I do not think the
use of $100,000 or more in electing
Mr. Clark was warranted, but at the
same time I have no doubt that Mr.
Daly will spend at least $125,000 in
prosecuting the case. I want to say,
also, that I do not beiieve Mr. Clark
was personally cognizant of the man
ner in which the money was used."
Mr. Clark says he intends to get vin
dicated, but that is all he will say at
this time. There is little or no doubt
that the Senate will endorse the re
port of the committee, if Mr. Clark's
resignation does not make a vote un
necessary. Had the report been to
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expel Mr. Clark, a two-third vote
would have been required to adopt it,
but as it simply declares him not en
titled to a seat a majority vote will
adopt it. There is a possibility that
Mr. Clark may forestall action by
resigning and seeking a reelection.
Representative Catchings, of Miss.,
is one of the democrats who thinks
that the ticket may be Bryan and
Dewey. Speaking of that probability
he said: "I feel sure that Dewey
would take the Vice Presidential nom
ination, and think that is what he is
working for. He certainly must ap
preciate the fact that he cannot get
the nomination for President from
Bryan, whose selection is absolutely
assured. At present no one is named
for second place who would command
as many votes as Dewey, and, in fact,
no one is suggested whose name is
universally accepted. Bryan and
Dewey can defeat Mr. McKinley
without any question."
Representative Talbert, of S. C,
has a habit of saying pertinent things
which are sometimes irreverent. For
instance, when Representative Steele,
of Ind., who had boasted of being a
farmer, said, in answer to a qudstion
by Representative Richardson, of
Tenn., that he raised "corn and wheat,
cattle and hops," Mr. Talbert threw
the House into laughter by adding:
"The gentleman will also raise hell in
Indiana."
Senator-elect Blackburn sizes up
the political outlook thusly: "In my
Congressional experience of 25 years
I have never known a Congress in the
control ot either party that made as
many political blunders. If we can't
wipe out the republicans in Novem
ber on the blunders made thus far by
the Fifty-sixth Congress we ought to
go out of business. They have made
up the issues of imperialism, militarism
and trusts exactly to our liking. In
deed, if they had deliberately started
in to make a good job of it for us
they could not have done better.
Having these facts in mind I feel cer
tain that the republican managers will
hasten the close of .the session, and
welcome the day when they can breath
easy again so far as Congress is con
cerned. For this season I do not be
lieve any effort will be made to force
the ship subsidy bill through. The
republicans are not looking for more
trouble, unless they have gone crazy;
and I don't believe they have."
I SI!?S !
fEMUISIONl
5 is a food medicine for the S
baby that is thin and not
well nourished and for the
mother whose milk does
not nourish the babv.
It is equally good for the
boy or girl who is thin and
Kale and not well nourished
y their food; also for the
anaemic or consumptive
adult that is losing flesh
and strength.
In fact, for all conditions V
$ of wasting, it is the food
V medicine that will nourish V
H and build up the body and S
Vgive new life and energy w
S when all other means fail.
J Should be taken In summer at
V well as winter,
5 Soc. and t -oo, all druggbu.
3 SCOTT & DOWN E, Chembu, N.w York.
F. P. PURSEL.
LADIES'
Tailor-Made Suits Reduced
We will sell, this week
and next, our $12.00 and
$12.50 Tailor-Made Suits at
$10.00.
LACE
CURTAINS!
We will continue our
Lace Curtain Sale two weeks
longer.
F. P. Pursel.
Our New Spring Values.
We have just received, for the spring trade, the very latest
styles in Dress Goods, Waist Silks, Trimmings, .Ribbons, Laces.
In fact, all the latest style Dress Goods and Fancy Notions in the
market.
LADIES' SPRING SUITS Ladies' and Misses' Spring
Jackets. Latest styles, right prices.
SHOES! SHQES ! Great values, nobbv styles, small prices.
Our sales on shoes still increase. We are up to date at all times
in this department. i
SHIRT WAISTS AND SEPARATE SKIRTS.-It will
pay vou to see the styles and learn prices.
LADIES' WRAPPERS. We keep a complete line.
nave you seen our great sewing machine ? We are handling
one of the best on the market. Up to date in every respect and
price lowest. If you expect to buy, it will pay you to see our
' make of machine and learn our prices.
IN OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT. We are at the
I front in fine groceries, fancy Chinaware. In dinner and chamber
j sets our sales are increasing every day.
You will Una it will always pay to trade with us. Our aim
has ever beeu to give you latest styles-and best prices.
Bloomsburg Store Co., Limited.
Corner Main and Centre. ALFRED McHENRY, Mgr.
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