THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOA1SBURO, PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
HE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
iTAIlI.I8IIKD 1S37. CoNSOl.lllATK.n
PrHUStlK!) Evkry Tuvrspav MoRNINO,
At Hloomslnirg, the County Scat of
Columbia Countv, Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. ELWELL, E-ditor.
1). . TASKEK. Eocai. Editor.
CEO. C. KOAN, Foreman.
Terms : Inside the county $t.oo a year
nj advance; ft. 50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in
advance.
All communications should 1 e addressed
THE COLUMBIAN,
Uloomsluirg, l'a.
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1900.
The Columbian is for the Dem
ocratic ticket national, state and
county. The names of all candi
dates will be hoisted in due time.
They are omitted lor the present,
because they occupy space without
serving any good purpose so long
before the election.
China's Weakness Her Strength.
The treaty powers of China have
about given up their former notion
that the situation could be handled
with a small army of international
troops, and while busy in collecting
an overwhelming force have taken
to bickering with each other as to
which of them is responsible for
the deplorable state of affairs. It
is now conceded by all that a month
ago, when communication with Pe
kin was cut off completely, twenty
thousand troops could have marched
to Pekin and rescued the foreign
ministers and residents. These
troops could have been supplied by
Japan within a few days, and she
was ready and eager to so supply
them, but couid not do so without
the consent of the other powers in
volved. And while the United
States and England were glad
enough to give such consent, Rus
sio and her ally, France, refused to
. grant consent for reasons obvious
enough to everybody. For years
Russia has been intent upon domi
nating in Manchuria. If Japan had
marched an army to Pekin, the
powers could not well have refused
her the one recompense the Mikado
would have demanded, namely, the
right to control and colonize Corea.
But a Japanese Corea interposed be
tween Russia's strongholds in the
north, and her possessions at Port
Arthur would have killed all chance
of the Russianizing of Manchuria.
Therefore, Russia chose to with
hold consent, and upon he is
thrust the responsibility for the
lives lost in recent massacres.
But the responsibility dates far
ther back, and is shared in part by
every first-class power in Europe.
On July 31st, 1S94, Japan and
China became involved in the war
over their rights in Corea, aud af
ter a short and shirp struggle the
latter nation was whipped into com
plete submission and Japan dictated
a peace whereby China surrendered
the Lia-Tung Peninsula (where the
resistance against the international
troops is now strongest) and all
rights in Corea. But Russia, sup
ported by France and Germany,
forced a revision of this treaty, de
prived Japan of all the fruits of her
victory and Japan had to rest con
tent with the cession of Formosa,
an island that has been in a state of
chronic rebellion for a century.
Had England seen fit to support
Japan in her demand for non-interference,
Russia and her friends
would have had to ke?p their fingers
out of the deal, and China, under
Japan's influence, would have been
able and willing to introduce mod
ern methods of government and
stamp out all fanatical outbursts,
such as the present one. But Brit
ish diplomacy, under the leadership
of Premier Rosebery, retused to in
terfere, and Japan was forced into
disgracetul surrender to the nation
she had conquered.
The result of this exhibition of
antagonism was to mcke clear to
the Chinese the fact that the jeal
ousy of the powers was such that
she was comparatively safe in en
gaging in any step toward the de
struction of foreign influence ; that
she could wage war upon foreigners
and upon progress in any form, and
the powers themselves entertained
such a hearty distrust of each other
that China would have more than
an even chance of getting out of a
scrape like the present one without
much harm. Consequently the
Chinese set quickly to work at form
ing a gigantic army and equipping
it with modern guns, and when the
time came to sttike, they struck
with such an overwhelming effect
that the powers are helpless. Dur
ing the last two years, England
and Germany have permitted the
Chinese to import two million Mau
ser rifles and great stores of other
war equipment, fondly supposing
that these would be used to resist
threatened Russian aggression, but
unfortunately it turns out that
China has seen fit to attempt to
oust all foreign influence.
While Russia must be held pri
marily responsible for the failure to
rescue the foreigners in Pekin from
destruction, all the powers are re
sponsible for creating the condition
of anarchy that made such a rescue
necessary.
WASHINGTON.
ProDMurKeRularCorrespondent.
Washington, July ij, 1900.
Mr. McKinley is again perform
ing Irs speciaky the wobbling act.
He heard the criticism of the coun
try of his absence from his post
and rushed bacn to Washington,
everybody supposed to do some
thing. There has been Cabinet
meetings and Cabinet dinners, but
that is all. Nothing has been done ;
that had not been decided upon be- I
fore Mr. McKinley pulled himself!
away irom the enticing rockers on
that Canton porch. Although it is
the general opinion in Washington
that Congress should be called in
extra session to handle this Chinese
business, Mr. McKinley and his
advisers decided that no extra ses
sion should be called until the
urgency became more pressing.
Because the allied forces in China
have won a temporary success, at
an awful cost of life, including
many Americans, and the Chinese
have sent a message saying that the
foreign ministers in Pekin are alive,
which, by the way, isn't believed
by anybody outside of membets of
the administration, Mr. McKinley
will wobble awhile longer.
The plain truth is that Mr. Mc
Kinley is afraid to do anything un
til he gets a plainer tip on what
public sentiment wants this govern
ment to do. Men interested in
syndicates, which have big conces
sions in China, are urging him to
send a big army to China so that
he can be in a position to prevent
the breaking up of the Chinese em
pire, which would mean the end of
your concessions, while Republican
politicians are cautioning him to
feel his way carefully because a
mistake will make his defeat for re
election more certain than it now
apparently is. lie can't get more
men in the army without authority
from Congress, and he is afraid to
take any more men from Gen. Mac
Arthur, who has already been made
to send men from the Philippines
against his vigorous protest. Con
sequently, unless there is an extra
session ol Congress, the total Amer
ican force in China will not exceed
12,000, and several thousand of
them cannot be got there before the
first of September, no matter how
badly they may be needed. Mean
while, Mr. Mckinley has gone back
to Cauton to wobble at leisure un
sil public opinion shows him what
to do.
There are reasons to bejieve that
a decidedly interesting talk took
place in the dining room of Secre
tary Gage's suburban residence,
where Mr. McKinley, all the mem
bers of the Cabinet who are in
Washington, and Gen. Leonard
Wood, Military Governor of Cuba,
were guests. The subject was Cuba
aud its probable future relations
towards the United States. Gen.
Wood is in Washington for the pur
pose of receiving instructions as to
the method of electing delegates to
the proposed Cuban constitutional
convention, which has been hinted
at inside administration circles, may
start the annexation ball to rolling
by adopting an annexation resolu
tion, or declaring in favor of it. If
such is the administration pro
gramme, the arrangements for the
election of delegates to the conven
tion will probably be such as to en
sure a majority of annexationists.
Gen. Wood will talk about every
thing else in Cuba, but as soon as
you say annexation he is as mum
as a clam.
The Chinese Minister in Wash
ington is about as slick as the slick
est of his race, aud he seems able
to make Secretary Hay accept any
old story , that he chooses to tell
him. His latest, which Mr. Hay
thought important enough to repeat
at a Cabinet meeting, is that the
reason the foreign ministers in
Pekin have not communicated with
their governments is that they are
hid in the houses of Chinese friends
and are afraid that any attempt to
send messages would put the mob
onto their hiding places. The Chi
nese Minister's success in stuffing
the members of the administration
may encourage him to remain in
this country and go on in the gold
brick business if his government
gets kuocked out at home.
The wires have been kept hot
getting word to such Republicans
as Representative Hull, of Iowa,
Chairman of the House Military
Committee, who has been publicly
advocating the calling of an extra
session of Congress, to take the
other tack and fall in behind Mr.
McKinley, in opposition to an ex
tra session.
Communications received by the
Chinese Minister indicate consider
able alarm among the Chinese resi
dents of our large cities. They
fear that Americans will try to
avenge the murder of Americans in
China by niassacreing them. It
is, of course, a groundless fear. -
ENGLISH JEVERSES.
Three Days' Severe Fighting
With Heavy Loss.
PRETORIA IS AGAIN CUT OFF.
""M Captnr a iilr Trnln nnd
One llnnilr Ml IHtihlniMlrra Hen
rrnl llron1iviod Thinks He la
on I'rvsldont Slrm'a Trull.
LONDON, July UL-TUc- Daily Ex
rp Iihd the follnn-iiiK from MiuliuJo
dorp. doted Momliiv, Juy 23:
"There lma been oevt-re tiithting ilnr
ItiK the lust throe day, tmil the Boers
have Inflicted henry losses tiion the
British nt Drrdrponrt. Six hundred wo
men nnd children from Pretoria, imlud
lnjf Mine. Knitter, Botha nnd Meyer,
bare nrrived at Bnrhertoii,"
Oetiernl Broadwood reports to the war
otliee from IIouin:lnilt that he follow
ed n Boer commando from July 10.
There was n ahnrp pniritiroment nt Pnl
mirfvntriu on July 10. The British had
tive casualties, and eittht dead Boers
were found.
Broadwood anks thnt tienenil Knox
fend him sttpplie for iUH men nnd horses
to pursue the enemy. Hp believes thnt
President Hfpyn ami (ieueriil De Wet
are with this commando.
The rnilwny nnd telearaph lines to
Honincfprult have beeu cut.
General Kelly-Kenny reports from
Bloemfontein that a supply truin with
100 hiehlnnders has been enptured by a
large forre of Boers who are moving on
HoniuKsprult. He also states that com
munication with Pretoria h been cut.
The war office hat received the follow
ing dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated
Pretoria, July 22:
"Methuen continued his march after
the occupation of Heckpoort and engag
ed the rear guard of the enemy uear
Zaudsfontein on July 20. Our losses
were one killed and one wounded. On
July 21 he again attacked and complete
ly dispersed the enemy's forces at Oli
phant's nek, indicting heiiTy loss. Our
casunlties were slight.
'Hustentmrg has been relieved, and
Methuen and Baden-Powell have joined
hands. Hamilton secured on July 21 u
strong position at Stitzniy. We had
three killed and many wounded."
The Loudon morning papers feel compelled-to
recognize (Jeneral De Wet's
clever Htrntegy in bathing' all efforts to
catch him, while constantly harassing
the HritWU lines of communication.
Only the scantiest details have been
allowed to come through. Apparently
when ulghtfull stopped the engagement
with Colonel Broadwood Genernl De
Wet's forces divided into smull parties,
one of which cut the railway and cap
tured the highbinders, the Boers after
ward reuniting at Khenoster river.
The latest advices from Pretoria an
nounce that General Stevenson' brigade
has occupied Klnuds river nnd that Gen
eral Hamilton bus occupied Doom krual.
Typewriter Telcitrnphr.
CHICAGO, July 2.1.-Telegraphy by
the use of typewriters in pluc-e of the
ordinary clicking keys and receivers fa
miliar in telegruph office bus been made
possible by two Chicago men, Zalmon
G. Scholes and Alfred C. Gilmore. They
have devised a mechanism by which
message written with ordinary spelling
on h machine that bus a keyboard ex
actly like the keybourd of the ordinary
typewriter will be printed if truimmlt
ted over a telegraph wire by nnother
typewriter in the otlice to which it Is sent
hundreds of miles away. The instru
ments have been tested over a circuit of
205 miles of wire belongiug to the Cen
tral Union Telephone company, connect
ing Bloomlugton, Springfield nnd Peoria.
A Youthful Dnriilnr.
DANBUBY. Conn., July 24-By bit
own confession 12-yenr-old Charlie Kel
ley of Lee, Mass., is the wost boy who
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A A A rVi
Slow
growth
of hair
comes
from lack
of hair
food. The
hair has
no life.
It is starved. It keeps
coming out, gets
thinner and thinner,
bald spots appear,
then actual baldness.
The only qood hair
rood
you
can
buy
is
I t
feeds
the roots, stops
starvation, and the
hair grows thick and
long. It cures dan
druff also. Keep a
bottle of it on your
dressing table.
It always restores
color to faded or gray
hair. Mind, we say
" always."
Sl.OOabcttU. All druggists.
"I rave found your Hnlr Vigor
to Ihj the tet remetlv I have fever
trU-d for tiio luir. ly lutir was
falling out very tmil, to I ihmiifht
I would try a bottle of it. I had
r
usd only one bottle, ant my hair
to
pea iuning out, uuu 11 uuw
NAKOV J. MOUNTCASTI.E,
July 28, 1M,
Yonkeri.JJ.Y.
Writ (ku Dootop.
He will 1,'uit yon hit hook on The
Hair unj Auk him any qu-
tl-m yuu wuli ah'ui your tiair. Yoa
will receive a tirumpl tnir fra.
Addret. Vu. J. C. AYKIt,
Lowall. Mai.
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wars
STAR CLOTHING HOUSE!
FOR
BTIILM ClAEMENfS,
READY TO WEAR,
OK
Hade to Your Measure,
TOOT
All the latest novelties for spring wear, in hats,
caps, shirts, underwear and neckwear, can always
be found at
Townsend's Star Clothing House.
e,rt lrn lino me liniiti Of tUe UatiOUfy
police. For over two weeks Lnubury has
been alarmed by a series of hold daylight
burnlurics, and the police have been
keeuiuR a sharp lookout tor the burglar,
but when a bis; pollueman appeared in
the police station leading a little tow
headed boy who wore a shirt waist, knee
trousers and cap it did not seem possible
he could be the one who hud committed
all the bui'tfluricH that had bullied the po
lice. 1'niba.aandor Draper Ilraliine.
MILFORH, Mass.. July 2o. General
William F. Prupur of Ilopednle has sunt
to Washington a Utter tendering hli
resignation as I'uited States embassador
to Italy. OenaioJ Draper made no state
ment as to the reasons he has for taking
this step other than that his business at
Ropedale demands his entire attention,
lie refuses to speak of the matter in de
tuil until a reply la received from Wash
ingtop. The Interests of General Dra
per In Hopedale engage about 3,000
hands.
Hallronal Ilobbera Canirht.
WILKE9BAKRH, Pn., July 25.-IUU-road
detectives stationed at Wilkesbarre,
WUliamsport, Elmira and Rochester have
just succeeded in sunning down a pang
that have been systematically robbing
the railroads for nearly two years past.
Within the lust year large quantities ot
brass valued at thoueuds of dollars have
been stolen from the Pennsylvania. Le
high Valley, Delaware and Hudson, Lack
awanna nnd Central Hailroud of New
Jersey.
Torpedo Pont Dftlroycr Launched.
RICHMOND. July 25.-The torpedo
boat destroyer Dale was successfully
launched nt the yards of the William II.
Trigs company here yesterday. I'eoplc
cheered, flags, handkerchiefs and para
sols were waved, aud u band played
"The Star Spangled llanner" and
"Dixie" when Miss Mary Hasell Wil
son of I'hiludulphiu, the fair sponsor,
broke the bottle of wine over the prow
of the boat. Probably 5.IHH) people wit
nessed the event.
A World Itevord Broken.
CLEVELAND. July 25. - Another
world's record was made yesterday nt
the Gleuville truck, when the black geld
ing Coney, by McKinney, paced the sec
ond heut of a race in 2:02. This is the
fastest mile ever paced by a horse in
hopples. Frank Rogash has hold the
record for three years ut 2:U4Vi. It wits
also the fastest mile ever paced on the
Gleuville truck.
Held Ofllee 1' tiller Lincoln.
WHLLNGTON, Vt., July l'I.-non.
L. K. Chittendeu, register of the treas
ury under the Lincoln administration,
died here yesterday. He wan 77 years
old.
10 Day Excursion Prom Fishingcreek Val
ley to Atlantic Oity,
Thursday, August 23. 1900. Via B & S.
and P. & R. Railway.
Special coaches will run through
fiom Jamison City to Philadelphia.
Leave Jamison City, 5:40 a. m., Ben
ton 6.08 a. m., Orangeville 6:40 a. m.
Trice of excursion ticket from Jami
son City $5.00, from Benton $4.75,
trom Orangeville $4 50. Similar rates
from intermediate stations. Stop off
allowed at Philadelphia in either di
rection within time limit ot the ticket.
Tickets can be purchased from B.
& S. Ticket Agents, and from Con
ductor of B. & S. train morning of the
excursion.
T-ckets roust be used on the above
train and date to Philadelphia, and
cn any day within time limit of ticket.
A representativi of the Railway
Company will to with this JExcursion
and will take pleasure in giving pas
jengers information relative to Hotels
and points of interest 111 Philadelphia
and Atlantic City.
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The following letters are held at
the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoflice, and
will be sent to the dead letter office
Aug. 7, 1900. Persons calling for
these letters will please say "that they
were advertised July 24, 1900" :
Mr. D. O. Heller, Mr. U'tiliam
Martin, Miss Margaret McK.ee, Mrs.
R. L. Neal. Miss Alice M. Otto,
Harr Whitenite.
One cent will be charged on each
letter advertised.
O. B. Mellick, P. M.
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Keeping You Posted.
One of the
our advertising
constantly informed of the!
store's doing. Changes take
place here that you should know
about; changes of much import
ance to those who would have
the newest and best. The out
put and income of merchandise
is constant, and you miss many
a bright trading chance if you
are not a constant, careful read
er of our ads.
SUMMEE SILKS.
Light, filmy fabrics, just
suited for hot .weather
wear. Washable, too,
which adds much to the
economy. Price, 35c.
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.
You know the kind of
Undermuslin sold here ;
the goodness of materials,
the fulness of sizes, the
worthiness of every gar
ment right through, know
ing these things, these
items will interest you :
Night Robe, reduced to 42c
Skirts, from 55c to $5.00
Drawers, reduced to 19c
FURNITURE OF ALL HINDS
We've planned to make
this a very special Furni
ture opportunity, and just
at a time you need it. Our
prices have been low, but
from July 25 to August 10
we will give a 10 per cent,
discount on all Furniture.
F.
rtfltffr,
QfiaiiwdirsGm
For Sale By
W. .ZEE. MOORE,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
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main objects of
is to keep you
shoes.
Five special lots very
good styles, very tempting
prices. Kindly read about
them :
Lot 1. Boys' Shoes, worth
$1.50 and $2.00 a
pair. Not all sizes.
Reduced to $1.00. :
Lot 2. Ladies' Shoes, that
sold at $2.25, re- i
duced to $1.39.
The best Shoe to
wear you can find.
Lot 3. Ladies' Shoes, that
sold at $3.50. Not
all sizes, but good
style. Reduced to
$1.79.
Lot 4. Men's Shoes, that
sold at $2.25. All
sizes, and the best
made Shoe you
can find. Reduced
to $1.48.
Lot 5. Babies Shoes,
worth 5oc,reduced
to 25c.
P. PURSEL.
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FOR GENTLEMEN
NAME ANOlPRICE ON EVERVPAIBJ 1
The Crossett Shoe
EXTREME STYLE AT POPULAR PRICE IN DBt&IW
frll FT ONE SHOULD LOOK rOB flT.DUfiABUJTHI;
I AND STYLE. YOU FIND ALLTHLot IN THE,!
crossett Shoe.