THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
First National Bank,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
E. AV. M. L.)w, President. I
J. M. Stavcr, Vice President.
E. B. Tustin, Vice President.
E. F. Carpenter, Casliier.
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ness upon the basis of
Sound a n d Progressive
Banking, Liberal and Ac
curate Treatment.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1S66.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
VHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1902.
Established 1837. Consolidated 1S69
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At Bloomsburg, the County Seat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. ELWELL, Editor.
I). J. TASKER, Local Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Terms: Inside the county If 1.00 a year
in advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, f 1. 25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should he addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, liloomsl.urR, Ta.
THE BROWNS WERE AHEAD.
Great Majorities for the Republican Nomi
nees Throughout the Entire
State-
The Official Vote Counted.
Complete official returns of the re
cent election show that Governor
elect Pennypacker fell behind the vote
of the two Browns in every county in
the State.
Pennypacker's plurality is 142,340,
while his majority over all the nomi
nees for Governor is 91,956. VV. M.
Brown's plurality is 181,244, and that
of Isaac B. Brown, 204,237. Major
Brown ran ahead of Pennypacker in
every county and also ran ahead of
the other Brown in every county ex
cept Berks, the home of James Nolan,
the Democratic nominee for Secretary
of Internal Affairs, where he fell
eighty-seven behind the western
Brown.
The official returns show that the
Socialist labor party has far out
stripped the Socialist party and polled
almost as many votes as the Prohi
bition nominees. The vote of Dr.
Silas C. Swallow, the Prohibition can
didate for Governor, is a great disap
pointment to the "fighting parson"
and his friends. They were confident
it would exceed his vote of 125.000
for governor four years ago, when in
fact it is less than 24,000 and only a
few votes ahead of his associates on
the ticket.
The official returns were tabulated
Friday at the State Department. The
work was delayed by the failure of
Allegheny and Philadelphia to send
n returns earlier.
The official vote in detail for Gov
ernor follows:
Governor Pennypacker, Republi
can, 592,867; Pattison, Democrat,
436i457s Swallow, Prohibition, 23,
327; Adams, Socialist Labor, 5,157;
Clayton, Socialist, 31,910; Pennypack
er, Citizens', 450; Paltison, Anti-Machine,
9,549; Pattison, Ballot Reform,
4,971; scattering 26.
Lieutenant Governor Brown Re
publican, 605,503; Guthrie, Demo
crat, 410,985; Grurabine, Prohibition,
23.076; Munro, Socialist Labor, 4,
766; Baines, Socialist, 21,232; Brown,
Citizens' 573; Guthrie, Anti-Machine,
8,929; Guthrie, Ballot Reform, 4,914;
scattering 5.
Secretary of Internal Affairs
Brown, Republican, 614,091; Nolan,
Democrat, 396,788; Marquis, Prohi
bition, 22,963; Feehan, Socialist
. Labor, 4,592; Gould, Socialist, 20,
644; Brown, Citizens', 460; Nolan,
Anti-Machine, 8,681s Nolan, Ballot
Reform, 4,754.
Car windows ought to be nailed
down. The car window fiend can't
be tied fast enough to keep him
out of mischief. Iu the winter he
directs the icy blasts against his
neighbor in the rear and gives him
a dangerous chill or a case of pneu
monia; in summer he fills his eyes
with cinders and his clothes with
dust and dirt. The curse of the
American passenger coach is its
miserable windows. They ought
to be tight shut at all times. Ven
tilation ought to be provided from
above and permitted to be regulated
only by trainmen, just as the heat
of the train is regulated in winter
time.
Statement of Condition September 15, '02 .
RESOURCES.
t.onnt .... $294,14447
U. S. IJoiiHs . . , 50,000 00
Hanking House ... . 27,56043
Stocks and Securities . . 183,706.75
Cush & ducfiom Banki& U.S.Tr 109,217.53
Total
$1664,629.18
LIABILITIES.
Capital .
Surplus .
Undivided Prodis
Circulation .
Deposits . ,
Total .'
$ 50, ooo.ro
125,000 00
11,067.24
, 50,000,00
428,561.94
$664,629.18
BTONE AFTER THE JUDGES-
Talk of Applying the Ax Not Only to Superior
and Supreme Courts, But to County
Tribunals at Well.
Governor Stone has appointed the
following Commissioners to inquire
into the physical condition ot Judge
Peter P. Smith, of the Superior Court,
with a view to his retirement under
the act of 1901.
Dr. J. V. Shoemaker of Philadel
phia, who was recently appointed on
a similar commission in Judge Mit
chell's case; Dr. A. G. Fell of Wilkes
barre, and Dr. V. K. Dolan, of
Scranton, Justice Smith's family phy
sician. The entire judicial list of the State
will be carefully inquired into by
Governor Stone, with a view to ap
pointing a Commission of medical in
quiry into such conditions as may
make such action necessary.
Judge Smith has been suffering
from nervous debility for over a year,
and it appears has been only nomi
nally attending to the duties of his
office. His presence on the bench
has been sporadic, and Governor
Stone believes that during the past
year his attendance upon the sessions
and the scant attention given his
duties because of his ill health, bring
his case within the scope of the act.
THE OOVERNOR'S OWN MEASURE.
The provisions of the act upon
this point reads that the Governor
shall appoint a Commission of In
quiry whenever any Judge, "by reason
of physical or mental disability, ap
pears to be incapacitated for perform
ing his judicial functions and duties."
Governor Stone had a hand tn
framing the Judges' retirement act,
which was introduced in the House
at the last session by John Harrison,
Republican, of Philadelphia, and it
may, therefore, be considered an Ad
ministration measure. For that rea
son he is anxious to see that its pro
visions are carried out, so far as he is
concerned.
Justice Smith's term will expire in
1906, and should he retire for, under
the act, the Judge himself is allowed
the discretion of resigning from the
bench he will receive half pay, or
$3.75 a year, for the three years of
his term that remain.
Judge John B. Livingston, ot Lan
caster, who has been in ill health ever
since his election to. the bench, may
retire, under the povisions of this act
as it is understood he has not been in
condition to attend to his duty in the
Lancaster County Courts for over a
year.
There is also talk of Chief Justice
McCollum, of the Supreme Court, be
ing regarded as coming under the pro
visions of the retirement law.
aT THE DOUBT MOOSE-
Court was in session for a few
minutes on Thursday. Hon. Robt.
R. Little and both of his Associates
were on the bench.
George Labar appointed consta
ble of Fishingcreek township.
Estate of Samuel Knorr. Excep
tions to auditor's report. Argu
ment. Rose Gillaspy vs. L. E. Agnew.
Petition for interpleader. Granted.
The County Commissioners were
granted leave to file a copy of the
bond of the issue of 1894 to No. 40,
May session, 1894.
Coffins with uitro-glycerlne at
tachments are in a fair way to be
come fashionable in various parts ot
the country, The ghouls who
make a business of grave robbing
have been rampant recently and
strange, indeed, are the devices
being used to outwit them. Elec
tric bells and automatic signals
have been connected with coffin
lids that warning might be given
when they were disturbed. It re
maius to a bereaved widower, how
ever, to effectually guard his wife's
body. He consulted with the ceme
tery trustees, who finally consented
to allow him to use a mechauism
by which, if the casket is reopened,
nitro-glycerine will explode and
kill the desperadoes without injury
to the coffin itself.
THE UNIVERSE, AND SPAOE.
The above topic is not often writ
ten upon for the public prints.
Probably the subject is too far
reaching to be comprehended by
the reading public. So far as the
university of space is concerned',
with the host of heavenly bodies
that make midnight so glorious,
stud about which the poet .wrote,
"Little star, little star; How I won
der what you are' ' etc, we do not
propose to say anything about; for
it i so little that wc can know
about. They belong to the realm
of infinity, and the finite mind can
not comprehend infinity; hence we
dismiss this part of thesubj:ct, and
speculate about things a little
nearer home. Yes, speculate, for
we canuot know definitely, even
about that.
Ot the Solar System, which is
but a small speck of the university
of space, people have gained a pro
found fund of useful knowledge.
The solar system is a very interest
ing and useful study. And though
much has been learned about it,
and yet but comparatively little is
known about our planetary system.
Of course, astronomers are perfectly
familiar with the laws of attraction
aud gravitation and ot the centrip
etal and centrifugal forces, and all
the laws governing all the orbs in
their revolutions, yet notwithstand
ing, there is a hundred fold in the
dark, and that may perhaps never
come to light, to satisfy the insati
able thirst of the inquiring mind
toward which every energy is bent
to solve the mysteries of the planets.
The question so often asked; "Are
they inhabited," may never be
auswered.
From astronomy we learn that
the sun is 8So,ooo miles in diameter
and about 95, 000. 000 miles distant
foom the earth. The moon is about
240,000 miles distant from the
earth. The interesting point under
consideration, is, the dimension of
the sun iu the vastness of his body.
We are perfectly aware that but
the fewest number can comprehend
the fullness of the idea.
The diameter of the moon's orbit
is about 480,000 miles about one
half the diameter of the sun. We
presume that everybody tinder
stands what we mean by the word,
"orbit." To the naked eye the
moon looks as far distant as the
sun. To illustrate our idea of the
dimensions of the sun, we will sup
pose that the outer surface of the
sun, or shell, envelopes the earth,
every portion of the sun shell to be
equally distant from all points cf
me eartn, torming a canopy like
the blue sky, we would find the
distance to any point of the sunls
shell, covering us, like the heavens,
to be 440,000 miles. The moon
could revolve in its orbit arouud
the earth and still be 200,000 miles
distant from the aforesaid sun sur
face, or shell. To the naked eye
this would seem like the universe
itself.
Or, to put it in another form;
Suppose then, that the centre of
the sun occupied the centre of the
earth, his body would extend from
all points of the centre, in every
direction as far as to the moon and
as much farther beyond as the dis
tance from the earth to the moon.
These statements are not the work
of imagination or fancy, though we
had to imagine the position ' ot the
sun, other than his location, to
illustrate the vastness of his dimen
sion. If science is approximately
correct the sun in vastness, is a
body in size as we have here illus
trated. ' Now since so many school pupils
and people in general never study
astronomy, we wrote this article
for their reflection and benefit.
Whenever one strives, in his flight,
to soar on the wings of his intel
lectual efforts, in pursuit of knowl
edge, there is no limit to the field
of exploration ; and as soon as he
gets away from this mundane
sphere, he gets lost in thought,
amazement and wonder. J. C. W.
Dragged Beneath Qui Fell Through
Into the River, Brakeman Swam to
Pier, Where He Clung for Life.
When the freight train on which
Harry Harmon was running as brake
man stopped on the bridge spanning
the river between Northumberland
and Sunbury on Friday, Harmon
noticed that something was wrong
with the brake rigging of a car.
He was under the car when the
train started, and was dragged a con.
siderable distance before he fell
through the bridge into the river.
He still had strength enough, a!
though seriously injured, to swim to
a pier, where he clung until his com
rades came to his rescue.
At a meeting of the directors of
the La Oraude Gold Mining Com
panv held Thursdav evening last
W. M. Perrine of Philadelphia was
elected president, Jas. C. Brown
vice president and C. B. Robbius
secretary and treasurer.
Jill Stuffed Up
That's tho condition of many Buffcrera
from catarrh, especially in tho morning.
Great difficulty io experienced in clear
ing the head and throat. ,
No wonder catarrh cr.us?s headache,
impairs tho taste, nmo'.l nr.d hearing,
pollutes tho breath, deranges the stom
ach and auVctd thu appall j.
To catarrh, treatment must bo
constitutional nlterntivu and tonic.
"I was afnictcd with catarrh. I took
mndlrlnt'i of dliTeront kinds. Rlvlm each
a fair trlr.l; tut crn1ur.lly crew worse until
I could hardly hear, taste or smell. I then
concluded to try Mood's Sarsaparllls, and
after taking five bottlei I was cured and
have nut hod any return of the disease
since." Ecokxc 'oiwks, Lebanon, Kan.
Hood's Sarsaparitta
Cures catarrh it soothes and strength
ena the mucous membrane and builds
up the whole system.
THE ST&T AT A GLAKOE.
The Pennsylvania railroad
company are relaying their tracks
between Milton and Watsontown
with ninqty-pouud steel rails.
While reading a newspaper,
Frank Shouch, a well-known meat
dealer of Wilkes-Barre, dropped
dead Monday morning. Heart
disease was the cause of death.
The tailors throughout the
state have started a movoment for
appealing to the next legislature to
pass a law so that they can attach
salaries for bills due them on wear
ing apparel.
A silk factory that will em
ploy 1 200 men and women will be
erected at New Castle, Pa., by a
company of New York manufact
ures and importers. J. P. Sherrock,
representing the company, is look
ing for a site. The plant will cost
$500,000 and will be the largest in
the State.
Ten head of cattle belonging
to Anthony Mallen, residing near
Susquehanna, were poisoned by
eating Paris green mixed with salt
which had been strewn over his
pasture land by some enemy.
Lock , Haven and vicinity is
greatly agitated over the reported
discovery of oil in a well being
drilled in that vicinity, and stock
has taken quite an advance, the
holders of the same seeing large
fortunes before them. Arrange
ments are being' made for putting
down several more wells. It is to
be hoped that the anticipations of
those interested will not be blight
ed and that a prosperous oil field
may be opened iu that county.
The Reading company will
follow the example of the Pennsyl
vania road and grant a ten per cent
increase to all employes at present
drawing less than $200 per month.
The increase will date from the
first of November aud will affect
over 18,000 men. The Jersey
Central road will grant a similar
increase affecting nearly 8000 men
within a few days.
TAX ON 0HEI8TMA8 PRESENTS-
No Free Entry into the Philippines this Year,
t Heretofore.
For the first time since the in
surrection in the Philippines there
will be no free entry of Christmas
presents into the Philippines for
soldiers and civilian employes.
This decision was reached at a
meeting of the cabinet several days
ago, when it was decided that the
law as passed by Congress for the
imposition of duties on imports into
the Philippines would not admit Of
any change by the executive of the
United States.
There are 17,000 soldiers now in
the Philippines and it has been
customary heretofore to permit
relatives and friends to send them
Christmas boxes each year, they
being transported tree on govern
ment transports and admitted at
Manila free of all duty.
Secretary Root was very anxious
that some way be found to continue
the custom inaugurated by Presi
dent McKinley, but the decision of
the cabinet was that under the
present law the duty caunot be
waived.
In the opinion of the officers of
the war department the entry of
presents into the United States
from soldiers and officials in the
Philippines free of duty will also be
prohibited.
Of course, the decision will not
prevent the sending of Christmas
boxes, but they will be subject to
the same system of inspection by
the custom officials in Manila as
any other merchandise and any
dutiable articles will be held for
the payment of duty.
Decision Affecting Teamsters
A Pennsylvania court holds that a
driver of a wagon with all curtains
down to keep out the rain was guilty
of contributory negligence because he
only glanced out once in approaching
a cross street to see whether a car
was coming. The court declares it is
a driver's duty to be on the lookout
for an approaching car, and, when on
the street, to continue to look until
the track is reached. .
Towosend's
CORN CONTEST!
We will give away a
$10.00 SUIT
of CLOTHES to the Farmer liaising the
Six Largest Ears of Corn
Corn to be raised in Columbia County. This
ofTer will remain open until December the 1st when
Judges will decide the contest.
Our line of winter goods is now
S in. Call and
you buy. Prices always right at
Townsend's
T8-3REE
Economic Arguments.
One is devoted to some special offerings in
Outer Garments.
Another emphasizes the economy of buying
Furs in this shop.
The third argument tells you about the very ex
ceptional value in Thanksgiving Linens.
You should read them all and profit by the hints
contained therein.
The Winter Garment Selling.
Seldom has this store been in such a position to offer the
buying public stylish and in every way satisfactory garments at
such tempting prices.
Ladies' all .wool Cassimere Ladies Monte Carlo Coats
Walking Skirts 3.98, worth 7.52. made of fine all wool Kersey,
i: J lit. ..Ml 1
4.98.
ir.oo, 11.50 and 12.00 Ladies'
Tailored suits reduced to 7.98.
Some Rare Fur Selling.
The Fur equipment is most complete. The' wanted shapes
in Scarfs and Boas are here and at all prices that you can well
afford to pay. Prices $1.00 each to $22.00.
A Thanksgiving Sale of Linens.
There's much replenishing of the Linens at this time of the
year. There is nothing makes your Thanksgiving Table look so
pretty as handsome linen. This store's stock of linen is hard to
beat when it comes to quality and price. Prices 25 cents per yd.
to $2.50 per yard. r J
We carry a good assortment of pattern Table Cloths with
Napkins to match. Prices $5.00 a set to $12.00.
Blankets and Comforts.
This cold weather coming will make you want some of these
goods. This stock never was bigger and we never had better values.
Comforts 98c. each to $5.50. Blankets 49c. a pair to $9.00.
This store will have the largest and best assortment of Christmas
goods ready for you to look at after November 27th.
F. P. Pursel.
Harried.
Kramer Summers: On Oct. 21,
1901, by Rev. J. W. Bentz at the
Evangelical parsonage, Mr. W. A.
Kramer to Miss Emma J. Summers,
both of Bloomsburg, Pa.
IIess-Hagenbuch On Nov. 15,
at the home of the bride, by Rev.
A. Houtz, Mr. Coriel Hess of Van
Camp and Miss Eva T. Hagenbuch
of near Orangeville.
see them before
J
Ladies' 27m. half fitting back
coat, trimmed with velvet, lined
with good satteen, black and
colors. Price 10.00.
TAILOE-MADE SUITS.
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 lrom. His
place of business is the third floor of
the Columbian building. 4L
Try Tua Columbian a year.