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in the United States this Bank stands 4 let on the
Koll of Honor in the United States and 10th in
the State of Pennsylvania, making it the Strongest
Bank in the County.
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E. W. M.
LOW.
President,
J. M. BTAVJSU, Vice Pres.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1S66.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
established i837. consoi.idatkd 1 sc9
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At liloomsburg, the County Peat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EI.WELL, Editor.
I). J. TASKKK, Local Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, I outMAN.
Terms: Inside the county $1.00 a year
in advance; ft. 50 if not paid in advance.
Cutside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, KloomsburR, Ta.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 1902.
HON- CHARLES H. DICKERMAN
Of Milton, Pa., Candidate For Congress in
The Sixteenth Dist ict.
Hon. Charles H. Dickerman. of
Milton, the choice of the Northum
berland county Democracy for Con
gress, is a man of broad and liberal
views, with a wide and varied busi
ness experience, enjoying an ex
tended acquaintance with leading
public men, a ripe scholar, keen ob
server and possessed of almost un
erring judgment. He was born at
Harford, Susquehanna county, this
State, in 1843. He was the son of
the late Dr. Clark Dickerman, a
well-known practitioner in that part
of the State. After his graduation
from the public schools and the
Harford Academy, where he dis
tinguished himself in higher mathe
matics, he started out on his own
account to secure a higher education
and fit himself for the responsibili
ties for the active businesscareer he
was destined to enjoy. To enable
him to do this he taught school for
several years with the same marked
success that has attended his efforts
in everything great or small he has
ever undertaken. He entered the
office of his uncle, the late Daniel
Dickinson, ot Binglnmton, N. Y
one ol the leading lawyers of the
Empire State, and began the study
of law. He was never admitted to
the bar, but he acquired a general
knowledge of the la w, which has
proven of great value to him in the
conduct of the large business opera
tions of which he has been the prac
tical head during the past 30 vears.
Upon leaving the office of his'uncle
he became bookkeeper for a large
coal company at Beaver Meadow.
Some years later he engaged in the
coal commission business at Bethle
hem, Pa. He was next made the
manager of the Chapman Slate Com
pany, at Chapman Quarries, Pa.,
and it was in this capacity that his
actual business career began. His
keen perception and practical busi
ness methods soon brought him to 1
me attention ot leading men and
capitalists aud won their acquaint
ancesnipaud confidence. IniSSohe
went to Milton and purchased an
interest in the Milton Car Works,
and became its treneral manner
.The success of this great enterprise
during the twenty years he was at
its head, was phenomenal, and is
a monument to his busiuess skill
ana unerring judgment.
For thirty years Mr. Dickerman
nas Deeu an extensive emplover of
labor, and it has always been his
aim to be brought in personal con
tact with his employes. No man
takes a deeper interest in the wel
fare of the workingmau, and keeps
m closer touch with their conditions
and needs. He has always enjoyed
their confidence and respect, and
not one of the thousands of men
who have been employed in any of
the varied industrial institutions
which Mr. Dickerman has been con
nected during the past quarter of a
century can truthfully claim that he
has not been iustlv'and lihpmllv
dealt with.
This is, in brief, the history of
the life and business career of the
man whom the Northumberland
county Democracy puts forward as
its choice to represent the district in
the National Congress. It is an
honorable career that was carved
E. 13. TUSTIN
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Pres.
E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier
out by its maker, who in his young
years overcame great obstacles u
his determined efforts to fit himself
for an honorable life work. He has
achieved a prominent factor in the
business world because he possessed
the ability and courage and energy
Mr. Dickennan's education, train
ing and experience has not been
confined to a single branch of busi
ness or industry. lie is 111 every
sense a Droaci-gage man. lie is a
close student, a great reader and a
shrewd observer. There are no in
terests that will affect the commer
cial, social or political affairs of the
people of Pennsylvania that he is
not familiar with. If he is nomin
ated and elected, and there is every
indication that he will be, he will
bring to the position a more general
knowledge of the needs of the people
ot the district, which represent ex
tensively agriculture, mining and
manufacturing, and many other in
terests 111 less degree, than any
other man who has before champion
ed their rights in the halls of Con
gress. He is a gentleman of fine
personal bearing, dignified, high-
minded and honorable, a ready de
bater, tactful and discreet. He
would command respect and take
a conspicuous place among the 11a
tional lawmakers.
QUAY'S RETURN-
The Old Man Hastens From the Maine Woods
to Muzzle Cousin Sam.
Taking a liberal supply of bait
and the favorite remedy for snake
bite?, Quay hied himself away two
weeks ago to the Maine woods.
and had it published broadcast that
he would not return until after
September 1, when he would
straightway open the campaign.
Jn the meantime his Royel High
ness was supposed to be as inacces
sible to human kind as if he had
become an inhabitant of Mars. But
one or two favorite eunuchs were
to be let into the secret of his where
abouts in order that his Websterian
intellect might have rest aud his
fishing be undisturbed by vulgar
omce seeuers.
If there is anythine that Ouav
dislikes more than criminal actions
that oblige an honest man to plead I
tliA ctit nt r 1 ..,..... : . 1
the statute of
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olhce seekers. Havniff been their
cuiet all his hie he well knows
what a contemptible, hypocritical.
thieving lot they are as a whole.
He doesn't like au office seekpr
He likes men who will bend their
backs to do his dirty bidding, and
instead of asking for office as a re-
ward simply keep on bendinc their
backs until he is ready to invite
them into a place he has prepared
for them and then step dovvu and
out without a whimper when he says sons m the city of Pittsburg who iu
"go." dulge in betting. Possibly, but not
TIIK CAT CAME BACK.
Suddenly he dropped back into
civilization last week all unexpected
and out of breath. He had learned
in some mysterious way, perhaps
in a pipe dream, that his protege,
Cousin Saminy, had taken another
fit; that he had broken loose and
slopped over, making what was al
ready a bad mess a great deal
worse. He lost no time in seeking
his cousin's ear aud gave him,
with variations, the advice he once
gave Governor Beaver: "Dear
Sammy, don't talk, just keep still
and look wise; I'll do all the talk
ing." Pennypacker's break was bad
enough, but to jump in again and
declare that he was sober when he
compared Quay with Shakespeare,
and that after more mature deliber
ation he is satisfied that his Cousin
Matt is greater thau Webster and
Clay is enough to create the suspi
cion that he wants to see Quay's
ticket defeated; and that he is wil
ling to do his full share toward the
result, even to the extent of play
ing the fool and making himself
the laughing stock of the nation.
So bad was this second break that
the Philadelphia J'ress and the In
quirer, both of which have been
trying hard to support the Quay
ticket, never mentioned it. How
ever, if Charles Kmory Smith's
stomach doesn't rebel, and he can
keep up his crow diet a few weeks
more, he will be prepared to say in
the Press that Pennypacker is right:
that when one gets to know a little
of Ins public services Quay is found
to be superior to Webster in intel
lect, greater than Clay in oratory
and manners, and to tower far
above Washington in honesty and
patriotism. As between Pennypack
er and Smith it is the toss of a pen
ny to decide which occupies the
more humiliating position before
the public.
No cue knows better thau Quay
that renuypacker has badly over
done the taffy business. The Old
Man is not a fool and unless he is
in his dotage, he knows as well as
anybody that sensible men are
simply disgusted at any one who
attempts to praise him for anything
except what he is and has been for
a quarter of a century an unscrup
ulous machine boss whose brazen
effrontery has enabled him to main
tain his grip and his freedom in
spite of his political wickedness.
NO CHARM IN MAINE WOODS.
Since Pennvpacker has opened
the campaign Quay has lost all in
terest in the Maine woods. He
brought with him all his bait and
unused snake bite remedy, and will
spend his vacation at Atlantic City
where he can hear what the wild
waves are saying and keep his
thumb on Cousin Sam until the
time comes to send his on his star
ring tour over the state to deliver
speeches carefully written by some
one with more horse sense than he
seems to possess. According to
the reporters Mr. Quay's Sunday
devotions were sadly disturbed and
his Christian spirit sorely tried dur
ing his first Sabbath at the sea
shore, because of Governor Stone's
pig headedness in refusing to allow
eousin sam to act as Governor a
few days in order to get his hand
in. Quay undertook to dictate in
Cousin Sammy's interest, what the
Governor should do in regard to
the troops, sent to prevent disturb
ance in the coal field. He became
so abusive that the Governor told
him he could go to the place where
the worm dieth not and the fire is
not quenched." The disrespect of
the Governor for men of the Daniel
Henry Webster Clay sort is greatly
to be deplored.
quay's $20,000 BKT.
We have heard nothing lately in
reference to the $20,000 which
Quay advertised as having been
placed in a Pittsburg batik to bet
on 1'ennypacker s election. Pos
sibly the Old Man's spiritual ad
viser has persuaded him, inasmuch
as he is the last Buffalo bull on the
plains, a dying oak among saplings,
that he ought to cease from evil
and prepare for his latter end as
the exhorters say. Perhaps he
may have heard of the New York
man whose vote was rejected last
fall because he had wagered two
boxes of cigars on the election.
The case was carried to court and
the judge sustained the disfran
chisement on the ground that the
law prohibiting betting is based on
good sense; that the man who bets
on the result 01 an election is
tempted to bribe voters, and that
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ut""'K 13 UUl it Y1V.10U3 SPCClCS Ol
gambling
Ol course on one familiar with
Mr. Quay would for a moment sus
pect that he could be induced to
bribe anybody, nor would he be
guilty of violating the law by
gambling, but for some reason the
matter 01 tue 4,20,000 which he is
just dying to bet, is very quiet at
Piesent. Perhaps he has read the
order of Supt. of Police McAluse
declaring that he will arrest all cer-
likely, he has read the election laws
of Pennsylvania which declare:
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11 auy person snail make any
wager or bet. upon the result of anv
election within this comnrouwealth,
My Hair
'I had a very severe sickness
that took off all my hair. I pur
chased a bottle of Aver's Hair
Vigor and it broueht all mv hair
back again."
w. u. guinn, Marseilles, 111.
One thing is certain.
Ayer's Hair Vigor makes
the hair grew. This is
because it is a hair food.
It feeds the hair and the
hairgrows, that's all there
is to it.. It stops falling
of the hair, too, and al
ways restores color to
gray hair.
(1.00 a bollli. All drusjUU.
If your ttrnKuiHt m 11110 1 upiily you.
send us one dollar Bin I we will expresg
yuti a Ixutle. liu aura and give the name
of your nearest express olllee. A dd rem,
J. 1 . A 1 tic to., ixiwell, Man.
Disfigured Skin
Wasted muscle and decaying bones.
Whnt havoc I
Prrofuto, let alone, Is capable of nil that,
and more.
It Is commonly marked by bunches In
llio nrck, Innnmiiintlon.i in the eye3, dys
pepsia, catarrh, anil pncrnl debility.
It Is always radicully und permanently
curcu ny
Hood's SarsaparUlct
Wfclch expels all humors, enres all erup
tions, mid builds up the whole tystein,
wnciiiiT young or 010,
inii-.l'irVltli iMir3"iivor tilt: tl'c ikiii Irrliiifing i!ut
only cutliwtl'i to tnko wltiT Hiioil'i Bnrnptrlll,-C
or shall offer to make any such bet
or wager either by verbal proclama
tion thereof, or by any written or
printed advertisement, challenge or
invite any person or persons to make
such bet or wager, upon conviction
thereof he or they shall forfeit and
pay three times the amount so bet
or offered to be bet.
It shall be the duty ot every
Judge, Sheriff, Mayor, Alderman,
Justice of the Peace or Constable
knowing of any person having of
fended against this act to commence
proceedings against the person so
offending, and it shall be the duty
of grand juries of respective count
les within this commonwealth to
make a presentment of all such of
fenders comirfg within their know
ledge."
The law also makes it the duty
of those in charge of the poor to
bring action in cases of a wager and
collect the money for the benefit of
the poor. Now since their attention
is called to it, no doubt all the
Pittsburg judges, and other officers.
named in the act, will tumble over
one another to perform their sworn
duty and bring proceedings to col
lect $60,000 from the Hon. Matthew
Stanley Quay, United States Senat
or from Pennsylvania, for violating
the statute law of the common
wealth. The statute of limitations
runs two years against this offense
aud hence that favorite method of
defense on his part cannot be re
sorted to if the Pittsburg officers are
in a hurry to do their duty.
This is the man whose proxy the
Pittsburg reformers consider worthy
of a place at the head of their ticket
Familiar as they are with his record;
knowing as they do of his double
dealing and general political crook
edness for twenty-five years, they
make themselves simply ridiculous
by endorsing him when they are
trying to rid themselves of the very
ills which his machine made possible
A reform that picks out the pn
vates of the spoilsmen's brigade for
punishment aud promotes the com
manoing general is a travesty on
good sense. Andrew J. Palm.
DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE-
The Democratic Congressional
Conference will be held at Laporte,
Sullivan county, on Thursday,
August 14th. There are in all
sixteen Conferees, representing
Hon. A. L. Fritz, of Columbia,
Alexander Billmeyer, Esq., of
Montour, and Hon. C. H. Dick
erman, ot Northumberland.
While all of these have not as
yet been selected, there will be the
following persons among them, viz:
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY.
W. P. StCllmach, Esq., Shamo-
kin, Pa.
John F. Gibbous, Esq., Mt. Car-
mel, Pa.
Herbert W. Cummines. Esq..
Sunbury, Pa.
MONTOUR COUNTY.
James F. Ellis, Esq., Exchange,
Pa.
W. A. Sechler. Esq.. Danville.
Pa.
Edward Peters, Esq.. Danville.
Pa.
George J. Cotner, Esq.. Straw
berry Ridge, Pa. .
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
John G. McIIenry, Esq., Ben
ton, Pa.
John G. Harman. Esq.. Blooms-
burg, Pa.
Sheriff W. W. Black. Blooms-
burg, Pa.
SULLIVAN COUNTY.
E. J. Mullen, Esq., Laporte, Pa.
J. H. Stackhouse. Esq., Eaeles
Mere, Pa.
Frank Magargel, Esq., Sones-
town. Pa.
D. F. McCarty. Esq.. Eatella.
Elkland Twp., Pa.
Licensed to Wed.
Peter S. Slusser of Mifflinville and
Miss Bessie Irene Hosier of Beaver
Valley.
Lucas Heddings and Miss, Anna
VanLyon, both of Pine township.
Christian Henricks of Locust town
ship and Miss Clara E. Nibleck of
Shamokin.
Ambrose Shuman and Miss Cora
Shuman, both of Catawissa.
Thomas Collins and Miss Mary E.
Nash, both of Centralia.
George M. Mellick of Danville and
Miss Laura Edith Welliver of Derry
township, Montour county.
Leases, 3c each,
Notices to quit, 10c
sale at this office.
30c a dozen.
a dozen. For
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IN 5T0CK.fi
ALL CLOTHING
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REDUCED
Call and See
The Bargains We Offer.
THE CLOTHIER
rrrzi iw.s
IF1- IP. PTJRSEL.
HOUSE
HOLD LINENS.
WAITE
BED
SPREADS.
The August Sale
In buying Dry Goods
prudent people always consult what they believe to be
their truest economy.
In the sale of the above
to your economy. These special linens are now at their
best and this is the one chance' of a six months to re
plenish the home with these
than you are in the habit of
prices. Kindly investigate.
Bleached Damasks.
The Bleached Damasks start
at 20 cents.
60c all linen damask 62 inches
wide at 49 cents.
75c all linen damask 62 inches
wide at 65 cents.
8;c all linen damask 72 inches
wide at 69 cents.
9Sc all linen damask 72 inches
wide at 78 cents. '
1. 10 all linen damask 72 inches
wide at 89 cents.
1.4S all linen damask 72 inches
wide at 1.20.
1.75 all linen damask 72 inches
wide at 1.50.
2.35 all linen damask 72 inches
wide at 1.85.
Pillow Slips.
45x36 pillow slips I2ic
45x36 Utica pillow slips 16c.
45x36 " hem'ched p. slips 25c.
Bed Spreads.
We make this the bed spread
chance of the year. Can't al
ways divide profits with you
but we do it now.
1.25 bed spread at 95c
275 ' 2.39
2.00 " " " 1.75
The Sale of Towels and Kitchen Crashes.
Plain cotton and linen Towelings ; handsome trlass towel
ings, all bought for this event.
towelings at 1 1 cents: and so you
Wfc U1VE A M.Y CATCHER TO
F. P.
The French actress, Sarah Bern
hardt, is despondent, and says: "I
am an old, worn out woman. My
days are over. It would be merci
ful if death would spare me the
bitterness of conscious decrepi
tude." The trouble with Sarah is
that she drained the cup of life to
its very drop in her younger days.
Now when age has ovei taken her,
she looks back over the past and
finds little to commend and much
to regret. It is always so.
IIN PRICE.
IN PRICE.
SHEETS,
PILLOW
SLIPS.
Begins This Week.
as in buying anvtliins else.
emphasized items we cater
needfuls at lower mices
paying; yes much lower
Table Damasks.
Bleached or Unbleached.
Every wanted grade, every want-v
ed width, and prices cut to the
very narrowest profi'c. Look
ahead people will appreciate
this chance.
Unbleached table Linen
25c Unbleached table linen at
20 cents.
45c Unbleached table linen at
39 cents.
50c Unbleached table linen at
44 cents.
56c Unbleached table linen at
45 cents.
90c Unbleached table linen at
70 cents.
1. 00 Unbleached table linen at
89 cents.
Sheets and Pillow Slips.
They are ready to use, and at
these prices they cost you but
very little more than the mat
erials. An economy of labor as
well as price.
81x90 sheets at 51c.
81x90 " anchor brand at 08c!
90x90 " 75c
8 1x90 hemstitched sheets.anchor
brand at 85 cents.
90x90 hemstitched sheets.anchor
brand at 95 cents.
10 cent towelings at 8i 12 cent
will find them reduced.
EACH CUSTOMER THIS WKFK
PURSEL.
Silk tassels and pencils for pro
grams for fcale at this office. tf
TAILOR-MADE EDITS.
N. S. Tingley has accepted the
agency for Reinach, Ullman & Co.
of Chicago, merchant, tailors, and is
ready to supply made-to measure
clothing at prices lower than can be
obtained elsewhere. He has a large
line of samples to select from. His
place of business is the third floor of
the Columbian building.