4 THE COLUMBIAN. l.STAIiUSMI.n iSW. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, EsTAnl.ISIIK.lt IS37. CllNSOt IIUTKI) 1869. rVllI.ISIIMl I'". VICKY TllUKSIlAV MoRMNO, At Hloomsluin;, the County Sont of Columbia Counlv, iVnnsvlvntiia. CKO. K. Kl.WKi.L, Editor. I). J. TASKKK. I.ocai. Kditor. lil.O. C. KUAN, 1 OKKMAN. Tkrms : Inside Uie county $1. no a year in advance j ! 1.50 if mil paid in alvuncc. Outsiilu the count y, t. 25 a year, strictly in advance. All communications sWiU Ik addressed THE COLUMBIAN, lilooinsluir, l'a. THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1900" Democratic State Ticket. FOR AUDITOR C.KNF.R At., P. GRAY MEEK, of Centre Co. FOR C'ONV.R KSSM F.N-AT-t.A RGK, N. M. I'D WARDS, of Lycoming Co. HENRY E. GRIMM, of Bucks Co. Democratic Candidates. FOR REPRESENTATIVE, WILLIAM T. CREASY, (South Side) of Catawissa Twp. FOR REPRESENTATIVE, (South Side) C. Z. SCHLICUER, of Beaver Twp. FOR SHERIFF. DANIEL KNORR, of Locust Twp. FOR REPRESENTATIVE, (North Side) GEORGE W. STERNER, of Hemlock Twp. FOR REPRESENTATIVE, R. G. F. KSHINK.A, (North Side) of Briarcreek Twp. FOR REPRESENTATIVE, FRED. IK.ELER, (North Side) of Bloomsburg. FOR REPRESENTATIVE, A. P. YOUNG, of Greenwood Twp. The latest pension scheme said to be backed by the Grand Army, is to abolish the pension officials and the soldier's homes and pay every old soldier a uniform pension of$i a day during life. It is claimed that such a plan while greatly to the benefit of the soldiers, would effect a large saving to the government treasury The drug people want the reve nue stamp duty taken off their pro ducts. The bankers are moving to having it taken off of checks, the lawyers think it ought to be taken off legal documents and the insur ance people off of policies. The only classes who don't seem to care a continental about it are the tele graph and express companies, and they hustled around and bought up the federal courts and saddled their share of the war tax on their pat rons, so they can afford to be indif ferent about it. Our Growth la Population. We Have ai Many Peoplo as Live in Great Britain and France Combined. There were but 5,300,000 people in America when this century opened. France had five times as many people; Germany, and even Austria, had four times America's population; Italy had three times as many, and so had Great Britain. Even Spain had double our number of people, and little Portugal was almost our rival in numbers. We have more people now than any European nation except Russia, which alone leads us. We have as many people as live in all Great Britain and France combined. We have one-half more people than Ger many. We have, practically, 75,000, 000 people in the United States, and 10,000,000 more in our new possess ions. May Ladies' Home Journal. Tbe Eicbcst Woman's Story- How Hetty Green, the famous fin ancier, who enjoys the distinction of being the richest woman in America, has made and kept her millions will be told for the first tine in tne June Ladies' Home Journal. In view of Mrs. Green's vast wealth, so great that she herself cannot exactly compute ir, the story of her home life will also be especially int;resting, by reason of its extreme simplicity. In the article Mrs. Gr;en tells how she has bought and sold railroads and towns, and how she has compelled political man agers to do her bidding showing the enormous power of money in these golden days. Her daily life, too, is interesting, lor early and late she is at her task of watching her wealth and eagerly adding to it, being a stranger to almost any other recreation. Sev eral pictures of the woman with mil lions, made expressly for the article, will gjve it additional interest. WASHINGTON. From our Metrulai Corronpomlntit. Washington, April 30, 1900. There is little doubt of the liability of Mr. McKinley and Secretary Root to impeachment for their open viola tion ot law in paying two salaries to favored army ollicers in Cuba, and they would be likely to get it if Con gress had a democratic tnajoiity. Sec retary Root s answer to the Senate Resolution asking for information is a petlifoggying di.cutiu-nt from start to finish. It tells only a part of the truth, which is often much worse than telling a lie, but even then it contains a practical acknowledgement of viola tion of law by the executive branch of the government, in the citation of acts of Congress in 1S49 and 1853 author izing extra compensation for army of ficers who perforomed civil duties in Mexico and California. This Con gress would have done the same for officers in Cuba, had the necessity for such action been brought to its atten tion by the War Department; but that does not excuse the violation of law on the part of the President and the Secretary of War. In citing acts of Congress as a precedent Mr. Root shows that he knows that Congress alone has the authority which the ex ecutive branch of the government has in this case usurped. And that isn't the only ugly thing about Mr. Root's answer. 1 1 is argument that the reg ular allowance of an annual sum from the Cuban revenues does not consti tute a second salary for the officers named is faicical, but his failure to name all the olhcers who are known to have had an "allowance" is worse. It is too much to expect anything ap proaching a thorough investigation of War Department expenditures in Cuba, from a Republican Congress, but steps will be taken by others to get at the truth and make it known to the people of the country. Mr. McKinley is unquestionably the man who engineered the plans which resulted in the refusal of the Senate by a vote 61 33 to 32 to seat Mr. Quay. Mr. McKinley has had it in for Quay for just about four years and has been patiently awaiting a chance to get even. In order to throw Quay and his friends off the scent, Boss Hanna allowed himself to be counted as a Quay man until the day of the vote, when it was announc ed that he was paired against Quay. It would be interesting to know how Mr. McKinley induced Senators Aid rich and Beveridge, both Quay men, to absent themselves without pairs. Their votes would have seated Quay. Mr. McKinley may, huwever, find his triumph a dearly bought one. as Mat Quay is about as relentless an enemy as my politician could possibly have following his trail awaiting an oppor tunity to strike. Admiral Dewey will not make a statement of his attitude toward im portant public quesiions, unless he changes his mind, but will ask the Kansas City convention to nominate him tor President solely on his record. That shos how guileless, in a politi cal way, the dear old boy is. Think of the absurdity of a great party nominating a man for President with out knowing he stood upon a single one of the great issues upon which the campaign will be fought. Only a man like Dewey could think such a thing possible. Notwithstanding the public declaration of almost every prominent democrat in the country that Col. Bryan's nomination was a certainty, and the failure of a single democratic state leader to advocate the nomina tion of Dewey, the Admiral still be lieves that he will be nominated. A hearing was granted by the select committee of the House which has charge of the bill to a delegation in favor of the bill appropriating $5,000,. 000 towards the holding of a World's Fair at St. Louis in 1903 to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Pur chase. The delegation included gov ernors ot the States within the Louisi ana Purchase and a number of prom inent citizens of St. Louis. Ex-Representative Lewis, of Wash ington, sized up the political situation out his way thusly: 4,Col. Bryan will receive the unanimous vote of the delegation for the state of Washing ton, at Kansas City, and I am con fident he will get the electoral votes of the State. My belief that he will carry the state, in spite of the existing strong sentiment tor expansion, is based on stronger sentiment in opposi tion to trusts and the faith the people have in bimetallism. I believe the same thing will apply to all the Pacific states, except Oregon." The men who have been 6low)y but surely pushing a scheme to loot the United States Treasury by means of contracts with the Post Office De partment for pneumatic tube service in the large cities were given a hard throw down this week when the House by a vote of 87 to 50 struck out that portion of the Post Office appropria tion carrying $75,000 to pay for ex- THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Many a school girl is said to be lazy and shiftless when she doesn't deserve least bit of it. She can't study, easily falls asleep, is nervous and tired all the time. And what can you ex pect? Her brain is being fed with impure blood and her whole system is suffering from poisoning. Such girls are wonder fully helped and greatly changed, by taking irariiii Hundreds of thousands of schoolgirls have taken I it during the past 50 years. Many of these girls now have homes of their own. They remember what cured them, and now they give the same medi cine to their own children. You can afford to trust a Sarsaparilla that has been tested for half a century. SI.M kettle. AU nrriiU. If your bowels are consti pated take Ayer's Pills. You can't have good health unless you have daily action of the bowels. U cm. a km. - One box ef Ayer'e FUla cured mj dyipepsla." ilD. Cabdwill, Jan. 1U, 1899. Bath, N. Y. Writ Ihm D mo tor. If Ton bare any eonipleiat whatever est aealre the best medical aevlce yoa cea aotilhly receive, write the doctor al, without eoat. Addreai freely. Tea will receive a prompt re - urn. .1. v. ai tit, itoweii, nate. V V V J isting pneumatic tube service and to extend the same during the coming fiscal year. That action was brought about bv the public statement of Rep resentative Moody, of Mass., 1 that these men had been bribing and try ing to bribe members of Congress with stock in tneir company, which existtd solely for what it could get through Congressional legislation. Suspected of Many Crimes- Tho Two Gallaghers May Have To Answer In Threo Courts. If Frank and John Gallagher, the two young men arrtsted at New Phil adelphia last week by Coal and Iron Policemen Walters and committed to jail at Mauch Chunk on a charge of breaking into and robbing the Jersey Central station at Lansford, are as bad as the Coal and Iron police suspect them to be, they are not likely to en joy their liberty again until they culti vate the acquaintance ol the officials of Carbon, Columbia and Schuylkill county prisons. When the young men were taken into custody they had in their possess ion, and were ottering for sale, good stolen from the Jersey Central station at Lansford. A subsequent search of their clothing is also said to have brought to light articles stolen from the Pennsylvania station at St. Clair. The fact that they hail from Centralia, or claim to reside there, suggests the fact that the Lehigh Valley station at that place was recently robbed also, and the officers think tney know some thing about it. The belief now ;s that they are part of a gang of burglars who have com mittee the series of robberies of rail way stations throughout the region recently and they hope to collect evidence enough against them to con vict them here and in Columbia county, after Carbon gets through with them. Ashland Advocate. Terrible Accidunt at Plymouth Mine. A frightful accident occurred at Plymouth Monday afternoon at No. 3 breaker, of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company, in which John Bur nett, aged Co years, was suffocated, and Andrew Conrad, John Meloditz and Richard Corcoran badly squeezed. The men were drafting coal from the pockets beneath the breaker, when the whole structure gave way, burying them under tons ol coal. A number of slate pickers were caught in the rush, but they all managed to scram ble to the top before being suffocated. Lest Chance. The Ian chance to get the Farm Journal for nearly five years is nearly ended. We have only six more left under the piesent contract. These will go to the first six people who coin;-ly with the terms, namely, old 'subscribers who pay all arrearages to date, and a year in advance from now; and new subscribers who pay a year in advance. If you want it, don't wail another day. tl i 4 .t!ZXV i 1 nX irf-i a fin I READY ml CLO iriade to Your Measure, 5 GO TO T .9 ciewocc? All the latest novelties for spring wear, in hats, H caps, shirts, underwear and neckwear, can always be found at Townsend's Star Clothing House. rrteuiw imij ,1 .. - 'tfi n bu Ministers Are Well Treated- Congregations as a Rule Are Charitable, Patient, Appreciative and Responsive. "No man has more reason to be grateful to his public than a minister, for I know no servant who is more kindly treated," writes Ian Maclaren of "Is the Minister an Idler?" in the May Ladies' Home Journal. "While there are no doubt, in so large a body as the Christian Church, censorious hearers and ill-mannered congrega tions, just as there are lazy and can tankerous ministers, yet the average congregation is charitable in its judg ment of its minister, patient under his failings, keenly appreciative of any good work he does, and most respon sive to all his good offices. There are not many substantial complaints which a sane-minded and good tempered minister can bring against the aver age congregation, but he has some limes a grudge against his friends which he does not express, but which often rankles in his heart. It is not anything they say nor anything they do; it is the quiet and perhaps uncon scious assumption on their part that he has not enough work to do, or that he has a considerable quantity of time at his disposal." The plum tree will now bear pro lifically since there is no one to shake it. TRYING f I can't take plain cod-liver 5 oil. Doctor says, try it. lie S micht as well tell me to melt lard or butter and try to take j them. It is too rich and J , 1 will upset the stomach. But i 1 you can take milk or cream, ' so you- can take J , ! Scott's Emulsion S It is like cream t but willi f feed and nourish when cream 1 TT III IIU.I UUUIVI UMU VIHI dren will thrive and grow fat on it when their ordinary 1 food does not nourish them. Persons have been known to gain a pound a day when taking an ounce of Scott's Emulsion. It gets the digestive machinery in worWng J order so that the ordinary food is properly digested and assimilated. joe. nd fi.no, all druRgiMS. SCOTT 6i BOWNb, Chemisu, New York. oes! Do You Know We have the Largest Stock ol Shoes in the County ? Yon will make a mis take if you fail to eee our lines before doing your shoe buvins- W. H. Tioore, Co::. Second and lr.ON Sts. Kloomsburg. Va tf ifrr fkttfi 1 Vr "' fcANai 1 le h at w m mi! VOW- TO WEAR, -0 - eiii mia eTMmUMt I , F. P. PURSEL. LADIES' Tailor-Made Suits Reduced We will sell, this week and next, our $12.00 and $12.50 TailorMade Suits at $10.00. LACE CURTAINS! We will continue our Lace Curtain Sale two weeks longer. R 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! SHOES ! Great values. nobbv styles, small prices. Our sales on shoes still increase. We are up to date at all times in this department. SHIRT WAISTS AND SEPARATE SKIRTS.-It wi pay you to see the styles and learn prices. LADIES' WRAPPERS. We keep a complete line. Have you seen our great sewing machine ? We are handling one of the best on the market. Up to date' in every respect anu 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 front in line groceries, fancy piinaware. In dinner and cha"lbcr sets our sales are increasing every day. You will find it will always pay to trade with us. Our a1111 has ever been to give you latest styles and best prices. Bloomsburg Store Co., Limits Corner Main and Centre. ALFRED McIIENRY. M' 11m wtob r iieej u, , n
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