4 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1S66. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, EiTABLlSIIKD 1837. CONSOLIDATED 1869 Published Every Thursday Mornino, At Woormburg, the County Peat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. EEWELL, Editor. 1). J. TASKEK, Local Editor. GEO. C. KOAN, Foreman. Terms : lnu1e the county ti.oo a year in advance; $1.50 if not paid in alvance. Outside the county, f 1.25 a year, strictly in rdvance. All communication should lie addressed THE COLUMBIAN, llloomsburg, l'a. THURSDAY, Al'KIL 25, 1901. Governor Stone has signed the inti-kidnapping bill, and henceforth he individual who runs off with somebody's child will go to the pen itentiary for life, provided he is caught and convicted. Hanging would be none too good for su:h a crime. The World's Disgrace- The story of the looting of the Chinese by the soldiers of the allied powers was bad enough, but the re velations of outrages upon the Chinese women by these same sold iers, now finding their way into print, arc almost too shocking for belief in this age of boasted civiliza tion. Those who bow to the god of war will have to answer to the great and only God for the deeds of in famy that have followed the invas ion of China. As was the case in the looting, the American troops have been exonerated of participa tion in the terrible crimes commit ted upon the Chinese women. Williamsport Sun. "BALLOT KEFOSM- There can be no thorough ballot reform without the grouping of can didates under the respective offices aud the abolition of the circles. Any bill, such as the Focht bill, which provides for the grouping of candidates, but retains the circle for a straight ticket, cannot be consid ered as a ballot reform bill, nor as a material improvement on the pres ent situation. In fact, it will com plicate the situation more than it is as at present. On the other hand, a bill provid ing for the retention of the party column without the eircla at the top would be some improvement on tbe present condition of affairs. There is no reason, however, why the Bedford bill, or the Guffey bill, in its original shape before being amended by the Senate, should not be ena:ted. The contention that the voters of the State want an op portunity to vote a straight ticket and cannot nmk a ticket made up on the Massachusetts or group sys tem, ignores the facts of the case. Republican voters generally throughout the State, aud to a cer tain extent, Democratic voters, are accustomed to the Crawford County system at their primaries, and this system provides for the grouping of candidates under the respective of fices. To hold that voters can mark itemized tickets made up on the group system at the primaries, but cannot do it at the general election, is too utter an absurdity. The Army on a War looting. Of course tne War Department promptly rejects the recomendulion of Lieu.enant General Miles con cerning enlistments for the army. That it was sound and reasonable and met with general public approval was but the greater reason for turning it down. The idea that a soldier, and particularly the ofiicer nominally commanding the army, can , kn w as much of mili tary affairs as the politicians ot the War Department, is not to be en couraged. General Miles made the' mistake of taking the administration at its word. When it announced that the war in the Philippines was ended, he assumed that it would not need to send any additional troops there an l could begin to carry out the act of Congress for the reorgan ization of the army without more delay. This involved the suggestion that the extraordinary "war power" conterred on the President need not be exercised to the uttermost if the war was over. The official answer comes instantly. The War Depart ment, it is announced, has "decided to continue the work of recruiting the regular army to the maximum strength." For what purpose ? Is all this talk of the pacification of the Philip pines false ? Is the president con templating another expedition to China? Oris he looking forward to the conquest of Cuba? Perhaps it is for ue at home that he expects to need more troops? Evidently ine uiore man imperial powers wlucu lie liKluceil Congress to vote him are not to be relinquished. We may be promised pj.iec, but th 1 army is to uo inaimameu on a war footing. Aud McKiuley and Root aud Corbin are going to ruu it in their owu way. Philadelphia Times. Bill To Remove State Capital To Philadelphia-Representative Voorhe3 has introduced a bill providing for the submission to the qualified voters of the Commonwealth the question of removing the Capital from liar risburg to Philadelphia, the act reading as iollows : "That at the next general election to be held on the Tuesday next fol lowing the first Monday of Novem ber next, to wit, Tuesday Novem ber 5, 1901, there shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the Commonwealth the question of changing the location of the Capitol from the city of Harrisburg to the city of Philadelphia; and that the Secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby instructed and directed to prepare the proper ballot in accord ance with law tor the carrying out of the provisions of this act." Discussing the bill offered, Mr. Voorhees said: "My only thought is that as we are going to spend a great deal of money to improve the present dilapidated buildings of the State Insane Asylum at Harrsburg it would be better to give the present unfinished Capitol building to those in control of the insane located here, and have a Capitol building erected in Philadelphia, where it would better serve the people of the State, as well as the members of the legis lature. In these days of rapid rail road travel the few wiles between Harrisburg and Philadelphia do not mean much difference. On the con trary, with better hotel and other accommodations to be had in Phil adelphia, it would better serve the western and northern sections of the State. "In addition," continued Mr. Voorhees, "I believe that a Capitol building would be erected by the city of Philadelphia and the large interest centered there without any cost whatsoever to the State." Licensing The Drinker- Probably the must remarkable act of legislation enacted in any of the States of the Union this year, says the Wilkes - Barre Record, is the bill pissed by the legislature of Arkansas providing for the issu ing of licenses to liquor drinkers as well as to the liquor sellers. The author of this remarkable bill appears to be a man of considerable ability and made an elaborate argu ment in support ol his measure. He urged that if it is good policy to heavily tax the man who sells liquor, it is equally good policy to tax the man who buys it. All the evils of the "liquor traffic should not be laid at the door of the man who sells the liquor; the man who drinks it contributes as largely to the resuming evils as he who sells it. The bill in question provides that every liquor drinker shall take oat an annual license for which he shall pay the sum of $5, and this license will give him the privilege of purchasing liquor by the drink or otherwise at any licensed house in the State of Arkansas. However this bill may oe regard ed by others, its author certainly is entirely serious aud very much in earnest. That such a law would be exceedingly difficult to euforce will readily be seen and it may well be doubted if it would bring anv considerable amount of money into the State treasury. Great surprise is expressed that the bill has suc ceeded in passing through the leg islature. It is a fact worth noting, however, that stringent legislation for the purpose of minimizing the consumption of liquor is more fre quently found is Southern than in Northern States. If a law like that above referred to could be rigidly enforced there is no doubt that it would be pro luctive of a revolution in the liquor trade. And what a source of rev enue it would be! I tuagine every man in Pennsylvania who drinks liquor compelled to pay $5 for the privilege. The sum total would run into the millions of dollars an nually. The licensed-drinkers would be, in a sense, a .privileged class privileged to purchase all the liquor thev wanted, privileged to become intoxicated, and having duly paid lor the prerogative, they would doubtless claim immunity from prosecution for any acts they might commit. - - - This Ought to be a Democratic Year. This will be a Democratic year in Pennsylvania. The scandals con nected with the present State ad ministration will drive thousands independent voters to the support of the Democratic ticket in all the counties 01" the commonwealth. Con sidering all these facts it" behooves the Democrats to nominate the best men in the party for the various of fices to be filled. Put none but honest men who can command the respect of the best people on the ticket, men who are aljove every and all suspicion. -Froni Selinsgrove Itmes. What Trusia Maj be Expected to Accom plish Here in Germauy and the United States the trust principle in bus ness and industry prevails to a greater extent than in any other countries of the world. We know how it is in the United States, but it is well to re call what has been done in the trust line in Germany, Two years ago our consul general at Berlin report ed that "every chimney is smoking and every wheel is turning," and explaining the causes as lie saw them of such industrial prosperity he declared in this official report to the State Department: ' The 200 trusts and syndicates which were in existence in Germany at the beginn ing of 1S9Q are increasing in num ber day by day until there is scarce ly a single important product of manufacture of which the output, price and conditions of sale are not governed by a combination or under standing between producers." The belief was general that these trusts and syndicates were establish ing permaucnt conditions in Ger man industry, and everything look ed bright for the future. It was promised there would be no periods of over production, panic and de pression, and that the trusts em bodied a panacea for industrial de pression. How is it now ? The United States is fairlv booming on the high tide of prosperity, but Germany is in the slough of despond. The break down which commenced a year ago still continues, and even in an ag gravated form. The Berliner Tage blalt of the last week describes in dustrial conditions as so bad that charitable efforts are powerless to cope with the situation. Cases of reduced production and dismissals of working people are so numerous as no longer to attract notice. It is safe to say, says an Associated Press dispatch from Berlin, that 25 per cent, of the working people are cither idle or insufficiently employ ed; prices in many industries are so depressed that there is difficulty- in meeting the bare cost of operation: "mauy factories have closed, and in others the hours of labor have been reduced, while workers crowd to the gates of the factories seekitig employment." Another dispatch from the same point says that the gteat Krupp iron aud steel works have already dismissed 4.000 em ployees, and are about to discharge 5,000 more, and it is added: 'The industrial depression continues. According to a recent estimate, one fourth of the workers in Berlin are very insufficiently employed or totally idle. The distress of many is acute. 1 here is no prospect ot improvement." et two years ago it was the Ger man boast that the industrial com binations were the salvation of busi ness, and a guard against industrial depression. It appears in reality that they have stimulated matters to the overproduction point, with results that recall what happened in the United States in 1S73 and 1893. e do not believe these great com binations in manufacturers and busi ness can produce permanent condi tions of prosperity and solid indus trial growth in any country. They antagonize the fundamental princi ples, throw conservatism to the winds and seek by combination and extortion to filch dividends on vast volumes of securities in which there is more wind and water than reality. Germany's two last years proves it. Pittsburg J'ost. Why Buchanan Never Marridd. The Image of His Dead Fiancee Never Faded from His Heart. 'Mr. Buchanan, who was the first bacnelor elected to the Presidency, was sixty-five years of age when elected, and had deliberately given himslelf to a life of celibacy," writes William Perrine, in the May Ladies" Jom Journal. "In the days when he was a young lawyer of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he had loved Miss Coleman, a beautiful daughter of a citizen of that town. Thev had been engaged to be married when one day he was surprised to receive lrom her a request to release her from the promise. According to Mr. George Ticknor Curtis the separation origi nated in a misunderstanding on the part ot the lady, who was unusually sensitive, over some small matter exagerated by giddy and indiscreet tongues. Soon after the estrange ment she was sent to Philadelphia, and there died suddenly. Through out the rest of his life, or for nearly half a century, Mr. Buchanan is not known to have revealed to anybody the circumstances of this romantic tragedy. He would only say that it had changed his hopes and plans, and had led him more deeply than ever into politics as a distraction lrom his grief. In his old age, long after he had retired per manently to private life, he called at tention to a package containing, he said, the papers and relics which would explain the causo of his youth ful soi row, and which he preserved evidently with the idea of revealing them before his death. But when he died, and his will was read, it was found that he he had directed that the package should be burned without being opened, and his injunction was obeyed." Spring Cleaning You are made awnro of the neces sity fr cloanninjr your blood In the aprinf by humor, eruptions and other outward signs of Impurity. Or that dull headache, billons, nau seonn, nervous condition and that tired feeling are duo to the same cause weak, thin, Impure, tired blood. America's Greatest Spring Medi cine is Hood's Sarsnparilla. It makes the blood rich and pure, cures scrofula and salt rheum, gives a clear, healthy complexion, good appe tite, sweet sleep, sound health. For cleansing the blood the best medicine money can buy is Hood's Sarsaparilla It is Peculiar to Itself. tirtw Fat While ltrlr-,l. Frederick Palmer, (tie war corre spondent, who accompanied the relief expedition of the allies to 1'tkirifl-, ay a he carried a Dottle of ale all the way from Tientsin to the Chinese cap ital, thinking how welcome it would be to a friend when he crawled out etf his bomb-proof, emaciated and fam ished. "What he did," writes Talnier, "was to offer me beer and to ask why the relieving column had been" o long in coming. He has gained ten pounds since I saw him lust, ltice and liorse meat seera to be fattcuing." X. Y. Herald. WANTED TRUSTWORTHY MEN and women to travel and advertise for old etnblished house of solid financial standing. Salary $"Sa year and exenscs, all payable in cash. No canvassing required. Uive teferenccs and enclose self addressed stamped envelope. Address Manager, 355 Caxton Kldg., Chicago. 4-25-161 SHERIFF'S SALE. V.T virtue ot sundir writs of Ft. Fa., and Alia Fi. Fa , Issued out of tne Court ol Common Pleas of Columbia County, l'a., and to me di rected, there will be exposed to public sale, at the Court House, In Uloomsburg, county and state aforesaid, on SATURDAY, MAY nth, 1901, at ten o'click a. m., the following described property, to wit : All those two certain messuages, or tene. inents, and tracts of land, situate In Colum bia County, Pennsylvania, The first train, situate In the Borough of Catawlssa, bounded and described as fol lows, 'owlt: Beijlnulntf at a stone. In line of lands of George Zorr, deceased, and running fr m thence by lands now ot William Bemlng er (known as th Urlst Mill Tract), and mnnlng from thence by the sme south two and a quar ter degrees west, ten perches to the north end of the county bridge over Catawlssa Creek; thence through the centre of said bridge south thirty -eight degrets east, fifteen perches to the Intersection of a public read leading to Ashland; thence by said road south eight and a quarter degrees west, nine and two-tenths perches to a point In the centre of said road. In line of lands ofMru.Berger; thenoe by said line south eighty one and a half degrees wet,tweuty-'hree and a half perches to a post, originally a spruce tree, thence by land ot Jonathan Fortaer north fifty eight and a half degrees west, s!xtj-four perches to originally a maple, on the souih side of Catawlssa Creek; thence s .utn eighty-two aud a half degrees east, crossing said Catawlssa creek, and running by a public road, le idtng downt'atawlssa Creek to the To wn of Catawlssa, forty-four p-rchea to a point in said public road ; thence by land of Wni. Long and hind be longing to the estate of George Zarr, deceased, north seventy-four and a half degrees east, thirty-nine perches to the place of beginning, containing 9 ACRES AND 3S PERCHES (be the same more or,less), on which are erected A TAPER MILL, DWELLING HOUSES, BARN'S, STABLES and other outbuildings. There Is a chemlcul fibre m'.U, ground wood mill, and paper mill, and the appurtenances. Including the waters of said creek, to supply the mill with water power, 4c. The second lot, or parcel of land, situate In the Township of Catawlssa, boucdd and de- I scribed as follows, to wit : Beginning at a I post, In Hue of lands ot Jonathan Fortner, a corner of a lot ot ground b-lnnglng to Mrs. Berger, and running from thence by the same north elghty-threo and a half degrees east, seven and a half perches; thence by the same north seventy.two and a half degrees east .nine teen and a half perches to the south post ot a rate; thence by laud of Mathlas Glngles south Oftecn and a quarter degrees west, nineteen and a half perches to a chestnut tree; thence by the same south twenty-five degrees west, eight perches to a post : thence by the same south nineteen degrees west.sU and six-tenths perches to a post ; theuco by the same south forty-three degrees west, nine aud a half perches to a corner of a lot or tract of land known as the Foundry Lot, now owncl by Sam uel J. Frederick ; thence by tald lot north for-ty-ulne degrees weat, nineteen perches to a post. In line cf land of Jonathan Fortner; thence by said line north D re and a half de grees east, thirty-tour perches to the place of beginning, containing 5 ACRES AND 13 PERCHES (be the same more or less;, on which Is formed and constructed a dam or baMu for the purpose of gathering fresh or clear water for the afore said paper mill. HeUed, taken la execution, at the suits of Matilda Hughes, surviving executor and trust, e of the estate ot liougluss Hughes, deceased, vs. The Catawlssa Fibre Company, Limited, terre tenant ; WUhelinlua Met ready vs Cata ;aa Fibre Co., Ltd. ; The App.etoo WoUiD Mills vs. The Catawlssa Fibre Co., Limited, and Travers Broth-rs: Company vs. The catawlssa Fibre Company, Limited, and to be soli as the prop erty ut the catawlssa Fibre Company, Limited, U-rre tenant, and tha Catawlssa Fibre com pany, Limited. ,W. 11. Ham-K, DANIEL KNOl'.H, C. A. Small, Attya, Sheriff. Townserid's CLOTHING HOUSE. SPRIHCI OFFER I WE iUVK DECIDED TO GIVE A FREE EXCURSION To The Buffalo Exposition. Every purchase of one dollar's worth of goods, bought atTownsend's Clothing Store, will give the buyer a chance to go to Buffalo free. We will commence on Saturday, the 27th, to give out tickets with goods sold from that date. ON flAY THE 31st we will present the lucky customer with a free ticket to Buffalo for five days, at TOWiSEGWS CLOTHING STORE. THE KID CLOVE Section. THE WASH GOODS SALE. THE WHITE GOODS Section. SPECIAL MEN'S WEAR OFFERINGS. THE MUSLIN UNDER WEAR SPEG'LS Eli Glcvcs. To pass lightly this chance at Kid Glove buy ing is to miss an opportun ity to buy good gloves at less than their normal val ue. Pay you to read : $1 25 Kid Gloves sold this week at $i oo. 1 50 centerweave gloves sold this week at $i 35. A Sals of YTash Go:is. They came our way at nipped prices. We bought them and pass them along, and the "price nip" is still there. You'll see it when you come to investigate. 6c Lawns and Dimities at 5c. isjc Lawns and Dimities at ioc. 15c. Lawns and Dimities at I2jc. Usa Dsrcv Curtain Right on the v ,'erv edjre of the season, too. These values you may be able to match later on, but we doubt it. $5 00 Derby Curtains at $4 50. $7 50 Derby Curtains at $6 00. Sale cf lien's Fwnlshlrgs. Up to date men,- who like up to date furnishings, will appreciate these items at vV - HANDLE A PAN IS BY THE ff NpANDLE. vvFI -jJJlr Handiest arid Best Route between, oS$WWW the PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION i 'VSggjr m2 NEW YORK is the iK-yvr5 j For Information. Rate, etc., addrewt 411 Muswtv, i uiiN t., lurrno. 101 oy t.. eMieaao. IOMTM 4 OUVI T., CT. LOUIS. IICHtNtl PIACI, N. 1. T. C. CLARKC. T. W. LCC. B. D. CALDWELL, Gtn'l &up.tintwidint. O.n'l fuungir Ag't Trartig Manag.r. Centre of Attraction. All sections of this store are attractive to the prospective buyer, but this week we em- phasize special attraction in special stocks. These trade bringers are worth looking in- to. Part of the big spring equipmen t and every item of exceptional value. It is such bargain giving as this that ' adds to the natural activity of the selling and broadens this ' business into larger useful- ness. these prices. They'll buy them, too. Few men are above saving money on their personal purchases. A lot of men's plain col ored neckties, made of the best silk, 25c and 50c. Men's laundned colored shirts, good value at 60c. This week at 45c. Men's Bostonian Shoes that a regular dealer would ask you $4 25, we can sell you at $3 50. Unicmnslln Specials. Wouldn't be here if they weren't special. Just picked from the new spring stock and priced to make a week of extra heavy selling. $1 15 and 1 25 ladies' white skirts reduced until May 1st to gSc. 65c ladies' niht ro!es reJuc'J to 49c. Hotter choose from this let of la.-e curtains before il is too Uie.anJ don't be afiaid to look ahead a little. Lace curtain prices are not always this low level. Only the honest sorts of cur tains here. Don't forget that, please. 35c. a pair, woith 50c. 560. ' 75c " " $1.00 $1.00 " " 1. 25 .to " 1 5 1.25 " 1.50 1.39 ' " 1.75 1.40 ' ' 1.75 2.9S 3.75 4.25 ' " sJ F. P. PURSEL. I Tbt HANDIEST AND BEST WAY TO
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