THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA.
THEC0LUMB1AN.
ESTAIiUSHKI) 1866.
HE COLUMBIA (DEMOCRAT,
liTABUSHED I837. CoNSOUDATKn 189.
Pi'bushrd Kvkry Thursday Moknio,
At ltloomsliurg, the County Seat of
Columbia Coumv, cnntylvania.
r.KO. K. KI.WKi.I., Kt.noR.
1). J. TASKKK, l.o':t. Khitor.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1901.
Democratic Caucus.
There will be a meeting of the
Democratic voters of Bloorusburg
in the Town Hall, Friday January
18, 7:30 p. m. for the purpose of
nominating candidates for the
township offices. Let there be a
large attendance.
1 John G. IIakma.
2 John Gross.
3 J. K. HlTTEN BENDER.
4 Chas. J ones.
Committeemen.
M. S. Quay was elected United
States Senator on Tuesday. He had
a majority of two in the Senate
through the treichery of .Senator
Washburn, and ten in the House
through six Republicans going nack
tn their anti-Quay pledges. This
result was made possible through
the action of five D.-mocrats in vote
ing to elect Marshall Speaker, and
thus giving the organization of the
House to Quay men. These traitors
have been expelled from the party
by the other Democratic members.
A Bational Dirorca Law Would Eid
Bigamy.
You ask me what reforms should
the new century bring in the matter
of the divorce law should we not
have a uniform and just national
divorce law ? After considering all
points I find the question merits an
emphatic affirmative. The present
condition of affairs with reference
to divorce is deplorable. We have
now 45 States, all of which (except
ing South Carolina, in which di
vorces are not granted) have legis
lated differently upon this branch
of the law of domestic relations.
The legislation would not be so
injurious in its consequences if the
divorces authorized were confined
to cases where both parties to the
marriage actually resided witnin the
State where the oroceedinirs wer
instituted, so that actual service of
process might be made within the
jurisdiction of the State court.
Such a decree, process having been
peisonallv served on the defendant
within the State, is valid every
where. A uniform and just national de
vorce law would work a real reform.
To enable Congress to pass such a
law it would be necessary to amend
the Federal Constitution so as to
grant to the national government
power to legislate with reference to
divorce.
In conformity with the method of
amendment which has heretofore
been followed, Congress might
itself, by a two thirds vote in each
house, prepare and propose amend
ments, which proposed amendments
would become law upon their rati
fication by the Legislatures of three
fourths of the States. The difficulty
of the task involved in procuring
the consent of three-lourths of the
States to their deprivation of juris
diction in this important part of the
law of domestic relations is, how
ever, discouraging to the average
reformer.
The marriage law should also be
a national instead of an exclusive
State concen:. At present a man
may marry in each of the forty-five
States, and if allowed to return to
the State where he first married he
cannot be punished there for the
bigamies. To reach him he must
be indicted in another State and
then extradited by the Governor of
that State, so that he may be tried
there. And bigamous cohabitation
within the United States could be
made a criminal offense, cognizant
by the Federal authorities, so as to
punish a party who. having com
mitted bigamy in Catiada or any
other foreign country, lives in this
country with the spurious wife.
As a result of such national legis
lation there would be few bigamists
in the country, and many here now
might find good cause to migrate to
other climes. Judge David Mc
Adam, New York Supreme Court.
A Hypocritical Pretense
It is not much that need be said
about the efforts of northern Rep
ublicans to create race bitterness
throughout the South on account
of laws that limit the ballot, in a
number of those States, to those
who can read and write. The ob
ject and the hypocrisy of the moves
in this work are both apparent.
Here in Pennsylvania, where the
negro vote is showing signs of dis
satisfaction with Republican treat
ment, they are expected to be lined
up solidly again for whatever that
party demands.by the cry that their
race is to be disfranchised through
out the South, where Democracy
is in the control. The individual
who conies to the front in Congress
iu this effort, is the Representative
from the D.iuphin district, M. K.
Olmstead, and he has a double
purpose in view. The one is to
keep the colored vote of the State
solid for the party that it has so
long clung to and from which it
has received so little recognition.
The other is to insure its sympathy
and support for himself, an aspirant
for the Republican nomination for
Governor.
These are the actuating motives
that move Mr. Olmstead. They
are as apparent as the snn on a
cloudless day. If he were opposed
to the disfranchisement of any cit
izen, or objected to wiougs that are
perpetrated by stultifying the pow
er of the billot he would find plen
ty to do right here at home in cor
recting those wrongs.
The difference between the wrong
done to the man who is prevented
from voting by reason of the lack
of qualification and that committed
against the citizen who is qualified
and casts a ballot that is miscounted
thrown out, or made nugatory by
reason of fraudulent votes that are
allowed to be cast against it, is so
small that we doubt if even these
Republican bellowers for universal
sultrage in the South, could distin
guish it. And right here in Penn
sylvania, through the aid of im
ported repeaters, intimidation, false
counting methods by which the
Republican machine profits, there
are more white men practically
disfranchised every election, than
there are negroes prevented from
voting in all the States of the South
put together.
If it is crime to openly and frank
ly disfranchi.se ignorance in the
South, through constitutional
amendments, what would you call
the sneaking, law defying disfran
chisement of the tens of thousands
intelligent white men ot Pennsyl
vania, who are nullified everv elec
tion through the fraudulent practices
that are endorsed and gloried in by
the Republican party?
It is in their methods at home
. .
ana ineir pretenses 01 demanding
fair play for those whom they
would make believe are wronged
by other States, that the Pennsyl
vania Republicans demonstrate
their hypocrisy. Belief onte Watch
man, WASHINGTON.
From our Kejular Correspondent.
Washington Jan. 14, 1901
Mr. McKinley lias the grip, and
if he is half as badly frightened as
the leaders of his Jiarty are he is not
to be envied. It isn't Mr. Mc
Kinley's present condition that
has frightened the republicans, but
the possibilities it calls to their
minds. When Teddy was given
the second place on the ticket it
was with not any idea that he would
ever be President. That is whv
even Mr. McKinlev's s'.itrht illness
alarms them. Thev know the p-rin
is treacherous.
Some of the Senators worked
themselves up into quite an angry
mood during the debate on the
canteen amendment of the Armv
bill which has been before the Senate
all the week, and unparliamentary
language has several times been
usea. xt is a tempest in a teapot,
which has been encouraged because
the men responsible for the bill
would rather have the "canteen"
than the big standing army talked
aoout. ine senate voted against
the "canteen."
The S6o,ooo.ooo River and Har.
bor bill was taken up by the House
aim auer a comparatively short de
bate passed without serious opposi
tion. The "pork" was well distrib
uted. Representative Otev. of Va..
amused the House and at the same
time told some plain truths concern
ing tue objects aimed at by the
Olmsted and Shattuck resolutions
for investigations of the suppress
ion ot suurage in the South. He
said: "The logical end of all snrh
agitations is negro domination in
me noutn. it means the reinstalla
tion of carpet bagger agents of the
demon of darkness and corruption.
It means the coming of a buzzard
gluttoned with carrion. It means
the descendants of those who thirty
five years ago, fastened their talons
in the prostrate body of the South,
like those pitiless birds who fed
upon the vitals of Prometheus
when his helpless form was chained
to a rock. Yes, it means the re
turn of those buzzards, gluttoned
with carrion that are to-day follow
ing the calling of their diabolical
daddies in Cuba, the Philippine
Islands, and iu Porto Rico, who
exude such an odor that a mosquito
shuns them. Yes, they are so mean
'But to err fl the time is criminal or
idiotic. Don't ccr.iir.ut the rr.ic'.aUt of
neglcciir.g -our Hood. 7het imp-jriiics
manifest thertsct-jes in eri-pticns or tvhen
disordered co.idUiorji of sicmach, fedrts,
U-ver or lxrvcls cppe.tr, fa '? 11x4' s Csr
saparilta. It tvill tr.tfte pt-.rc, L-ve !cd,
nd put you in good health.
3(ccd SaUapai!&
that the yellow fever germs die in
their presence. They ar; so loath
some that the small-pox microbes flv
from them, and if a snake bite one of
them it kills the snake. As for the
Shattuck resolution, it seems that
neither that nor the Olmsted reso
lution, will pass. They will not
pass until the fishworm swallows
the whale, not until the snail out
runs the hare, not until Dutchmen
stop drinking beer, and not until
the billy goat butts from the rear."
Representative Champ Clark thus
paid his respects to the I-am-bet-ler-than-thou
element: "Yes, the
mugwumps or jtigwumps, as Sam
Jones calls them, these fine-haired
people who are too good so dis-
charge their politica
stav at home in id
1 duties. Thev
idleness and the
hoodlum discharges not only his
own political duty, but that of the
fine-haired citizen."
Solicitor General Richards made an
open slur at ex-President Harrison
in his argument before the Suprem
Court this week on the cases invoh e
ing the constitutionality of Mr. Mc
Kinley's Colonial policy, that dis
gusted many persons. Mr. Harri
son is a private citizen who has
held the highest position within the
gift of the American people, and
is entitled to respect, and it certain
ly was not respectful for Mr Rich
ards to refer to Mr. Harrison's re
cently expressed opinion in opposi
tion to the McKinley policy in such
language as "a distinguished lawyer
and statesman affects to believe,"
etc. It was a gratuitous insult to Mr.
Harrison, which shows how resent
ful the McKinleyites are toward
members of their own party who
dare to oppose their imperial policy.
It is not probable that Mr. Richards
acted without the approval of his
superiors in ofhee, Attorney General
Griggs and President McKinley.
Ey the way, speaking of the Su
preme Court, the nomination of
Dick" Harlan, a son of Justice
Harlan, who has been mentioned
as entertaining doubts of the con
stitutionality of the McKinley col
onial policy, if not actually believ
ing it to be unconstitutional, to an
important judicial position in Porto
Rico, which is now before the Sen
ate., has caused much talk, especial
ly in view of the fact that Mr. Mc
Kiuley refused to give "Dick"
Harlan a judical position in the
District of Columbia, for which he
was an applicant. Mr. McKinley
may not have made this appoint
ment to make sure of the vote of
Jusiice Harlan on the pending cas
es, but the fact that it has been
made at this time has naturally bred
gossip along that line. This isn't
a pleasant sort of a suspicion to en
tertain, but
The House bv a maioritv of fit
knocked out the committee Reap
portionment bill and passed the
Burleigh bill, which adds 29 mem
bers to the House makine the total
membership after March 3, 1903.
386, the additional members being
apportionid to 18 states, on a ratio
of 194.182 of population for each
Representative.
Students' Lecture Course.
The second number of the Stu.
dents' Lecture Course falls upon this
Saturday evening, January 19.
The Katharine Ridzewav Concert
Co. is one of the strongest, best
balanced anil most popular organiza
tions before the public this vear.
Each member of the company is an
artist. Miss Katharine Ridgeway is
said by all her hearers to be a wonder
fully pleasing and entertaining reciter,
and Mr. U. S. Kerr as Basso charms
all audiences.
The music lovinc public, of Blooms.
burg and vicinity have here an op
portunity of an evening's pleasure not
often afforded any small community.
Tickets for the three remaining
numbers of the course have been
placed at 90c, single admission for
any one entertainment 50c.
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- Married.
Maust Wilson. At the M. E.
parsonage, Eyers Grove, January, ad,
1901, by Rev. David'Y. Brouse, W.
H. Maust to Elmira J. Wilson, both
of Swenoda, Pa.
Ever Miller At the M. E.
parsonage, Eyers Grove, January, iath
1901. by Rev. David Y. Brouse. S.
M. Eyer to Adda M. Miller, both of
r-yers urove, fa.
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hoes!
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Our 23 years' ex
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right shoe for service.
Full line of
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BLOOMSBURO, PA
mr aitivtt Tr
WE NOW HAVE
Clearing Out Sale
SURPRISE
BLOOMSBURO, PENN'A.
pecialSalefj
Muslin riadeup Sheets,
Sheetings, 44 Pillow Cases,
Ginghams, Embroideries,
Remnants of All Kinds
o
The big sale is ended, but close upon its heels there
follows this other sale, more important from a money
saving standpoint. True, some of the lots ate not
as large, but we have priced the goods so they are
bound to make this store a busy place through this dull
month. Good picking for those who come during next
week.
MUSLINS.
The goods are high, but
we bought them at the low
price, so we decided to let
you benefit from it.
10 Yds. fine unbleached
muslin, 49c.
10 Yds. best fine un
bleached muslin, 62c.
Heavy unbleached mus
lin at 6c per yard.
10 Yds. bleached muslin,
good quality, 59c.
10 Yds. best bleached
muslin, at 75c.
SHEETINGS.
9- 4 unbleached sheeting,
at 22c. :
10- 4 unbleached sheet
ing, at 25c.
Good qualit bleached
sheeting, at 22c
Best 9-4 bleached sheet
ing, at 29c.
Best 10-4 bleached sheet
ing, at 32c.
MADE UP SHEETS.
Bleached sheets, made ot
good sheeting, 52c.
Bleached sheets, made
of best 9-4 sheeting, 64c.
Bleached sheets, made of
best 10-4 sheeting, 75c.
Hemstitched sheets.made
of best sheeting, 90c.
. Hemstitched sheets.made
of best sheeting, 98c.
, wuic in aim see our prices on jaaies and misses
At Tooley
CHRISTMAS
Oranges, bananas, sweet pota
toes, nuts, pecans and cranberries.
Also plum pudding and fruit
cake. Call and see us.
" TOOLEY & CO.
For Sale.
Three town lots on Ninth street
above Catharine, 33 feet front each,
and running back to the canal. Will
be sold on easy terms. Inquire at
this office. lo-d tf.
The largest line of juveuile books
and prices right at Mercer's Drug i
& Book Store.
TT ATTfl YS I .
of
OF-
PILLOW CASES-Mada Up.
Pillow cases, made of
good muslin, 42 in., 11c.
Pillow cases, made of
best muslin, 42 ins., I2$c.
Pillow cases, made of
best muslin, 45 ins., 15c.
Hemstitched cases, made
ot best muslin, 4S ins., 25c.
APEON GINGHAM.
We put on sale one case
of apron ginghams that
count the same as Lancas
ter gingham, fast colors at
Sc per yard.
EMBROIDERIES.
These embroideries are
in 4, 5 and 6 yard lengths.
We think we are safe in
saying they are 40 per cent
less than any embroidery
we have ever offered for
sale in this store.
COUNTERPANES.
We have two numbers
counterpanes we call spec
ial attention to because
they are the cheapest we
have ever offered. They
are both hemmed ready to
put right on your bed.
Lot 1 at 98c and Lot 2 at
$1.25.
REMNANTS. LADIES'
CORSET WAISTS:
F. P. PURS EL.
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AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
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