THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Capital
$100,000
STRONGEST BANK IN THE COUNTY
First National Bank,
OFU&OOMSllUlia, VA.
Make no mistake, but
the Strongest Bank.
OFFICERS:
;. W. M. LOW, President, J. M. STAVER, Vice President.
E. B. TUSTIN, Vice President. E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier
DIRECTORS:
... V. M. Low, Y. Ci. York, rank Ikcler, J. II. Valine
E. B. Tuslin, Kred Ikelrr. Geo S. Hohbins, S. J. Creasy,
J. M. Staver, M. I. low,
THE COLUMBIAN.
tsTAULISIILD 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
EsrAui.isiiKD 1837. Consolidated 1869
I'UHUSIIEI) LVEKV THURSDAY MORNING
At llloomslmrg, the County Scat of
Columbia County, I'ennsylvania.
GEO. E. ELWELL, Editor.
D. J. TASKKR, Local Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Tkkmsi (nsidethe county sfi.oo a year
in advance i $1.50 if not paid in advance.
O'ltsiile the county, $ 1.25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, Ulooms!urR, Ta.
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 19113.
Political Announcements.
Subject to the Rules of the Demo
cratic Party.
Primary Election Saturday, June
6th, 3 to 7 p. M.
FOR SHERIFF
W. W. BLACK,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR SHERIFF
II. F. DIEFFENBA.CH,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR SHERIFF
CHARLES B. ENT,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR SHERIFF
B. F. RICE,
of East Scott.'
State Treasurer Refuses to pay the In
creased Salaries to Judges
An act of the recent legislature
increases the salaries of judges all
over the state. In districts like
Columbia and Montour it is raised
from $4,000 to $5,000. The Gov
ernor has signed the bill, and it
has thus become a law. The State
Treasurer, however, refuses to pay
the increased salaries, because he
believes the act is unconstitutional,
and says he will not pay until the
Attorney General directs him to do
so.
The clause of the constitutiou
which he thinks is violated by the
act is Section 13 of Article 3, which
reads as follows: "No law shall
extend the term of any public
officer, or increase or diminish his
salary or emoluments, after his
election or appointment."
That seems to be as plain as
words can make it, and under that
very section there was a time when
it was held to. mean just what it
says. When some years ago an
increase of the salaries of the ju
diciary was made by law, the
Judges then on the bench did not
draw the increase until they had
been re-elected, while the new
Judges elected just after the pas
sage of the law drew the increased
salary. We are not complaining of
the present increase. Judges
should be well paid, and this in
crease is deserved though some
what tardy. Through the penur
ious treatment of the judiciary by
the legislature, many a good Judge
has spent the best years of his life
011 the bench, and when age or in
firmity compelled him to retire, he
has left the bench with scarcely a
competency to support him in his
declining years. We hope the
present law is constitutional, but if
there is any reason why the plain
mandate of the constitution does
uot apply to this case, we have no
heard it.
The annual meetiug of the Sus
' quehanna, Bloomsburg and Berwick
Railroad Company was held at
Williamsport on Monday. J. Hen
ry Cochran was elected president
and F. H. Eaton of New York, J.
L. Mitchell of Philadelphia, E. R.
Payne ot Williamsport, Seth F.
McCormick of Williamsport and E.
B. Tustiu of Bloomsburg directors.
pi in
000
deposit your savings in
Louis Gross, II. V. Hower,
UHRISTIaN SMr.NOE CHURCH EE
FOSi;D A CHARTER.
1 ne state bunreme Court nn
Monday .sustained the ruling of the
late Judge Arnold of Philadelphia,
in refusing to grant a charter to a
Christian Science church. . The
opinion is in part as follows:
"The appellants are members of
an uniucorDorated soeiL-tv mid Hp
sire to be incorporated as a church
under ttie laws ot the state ot Penn
syivania. uieir application as
presented to the Court below sets
forth that the purposes for which
the said corporation is to be formed
are to establish and maintain a
place for the support ot public wor
ship, and to preach the Gospel ac
cording to the doctrines of Christ
Jesus as found in the Bible and the
Christian Science text books. 'Sci
ence and Health with kev to the
Scriptures,' by Mary Baker G.
Eddy.
"The application was referred to
the Hon. Dituner Beeber as master,
who reported that an examination
of Mrs. Eddy's book showed that
the church which it was proposed
to organize, was not mere v to in
culcate a creed, or to establish a
form of worship, but was also in
tended for a treatment and cure of
disease through the healers, which
it is to train and constitute. That
the method to be pursued by these
healers in curing the sick, is simply
and solely by inaudible nraver.
whether in the presence of the sick
or at a distance, beine immaterial.
"That to aualifv for the practice
of healing disease according to this
method nothing was necessary ex
cept the study of the system taught
in Mrs. iaay s book; no knowledge
of anatomy, physiology, pathology
or hygiene beine reauired. The
fundamental principle of the teach
ing of Mrs. Eddy being that what
is termed disease, had no real ex
istence. That 'sickness, sin and
death are unknown to truth, and
should not be recognized bv man
as reality.'
"According to the testimony she
teaches that inflammation, tuhereu-
losis, hemorrhage and decomposi
tion are beliets and not real facts.
The master points out that this
theory is directly opposite to the
general spirit ana purpose of the
laws of Pennsylvania, with regard
to the public health and the treat
ment of disease.
"That the quarantine and inspec
tion laws, and the enactments de
signed to prevent contagion and in-
iection are an based upon the
theory that disease is a realitv. and
that it exists without reference to
the condition of mind of its sub
jects.
"The master reaches the conclu.
sion that 'it would be injurious to
the community to incorporate n
group of citizens who would teach
me aoctrine mat tnere is no such
thing as a contagious disease, or
any disease, and practice the art of
curing wnat are called contagious
diseases in the manner above des
cribed.' Tired Out
" I was very poorly and could
hardly get about the house. I was
tired out all the time. Then I tried
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and it only
took two bottles to make me feel
perfectly well." Mrs. N. S. Swin
ney, Princeton, Mo.
Tired when you go to
bed, tired when you get
up. tired all the time,
why? Your blood is im-
?ure, that's the reason,
ou are living on the
border line of nerve ex
haustion. Take Ayer's
SarsaparMla and be
quickly cured,
Aik your doctor wht ha thlnki of Ayer'i
S;iriarm. lie knuwi all HtxmttliU xntlid
old family mtxlli-liin. Follow lilt dvUs and
w will beiattuftnil.
J. 0. Atbb Co., Lowell, Has.
"lie further refers to the estab
lished policy of the Common wealth
which in the interest of the public
good, requires certain qualifications
in persons who presume- to treat
and cure disease, and he tersely
adds. ' v hat the good of the com
niunity requires under the law as it
exists ought not to be imperiled by
the incorporation of a group of cit
izens whose fundamental doctrine
is, that the public good requires 110
such thing.' He therefore recom
mended that the application for the
charter be refused.
"It was the duty of the Court
below to refuse the charter if 'n the
exercise of sound legal discretion
he found its purpo?e, in whole or
part,- included anything injurious
to the community.
"Can it be said that there was an
abuse of discretion in the finding in
this case ? We are not to consider
the matter from either a theological
or metaphysical standpoint, but
only 111 its practical aspects.
"It is not a question as to how
far prayer for the recovery of the
sick may be efficacious. The com
mon faith of mankind relies not
only upon prayer, but upon the use
ot means which knowledge and ex
perience have shown to be efficient.
And when the results of this
knowledge and experience have
been crystallyzed Into legislative
enactniemts, declarative of what the
good of the community requires in
the treatment of disease, anything
in opposition thereto may fairly be
taken as injurious to' the commu
nity. Our laws recognize disease as a
grim reality, to be met and grap
pled with as such. To secure the
safety and protect the health of the
public fiom the acts of incompetent
persons the law prescribes the
qualifications of those who shall be
allowed to attempt the cure of heal
ing of disease. It is not for the
purpose of compelling the use of
any particular remedies, or of anv
remedies at all.
"It is only designed to secure
competent service for those who de
sire to obtain medical attendance.
In certain diseases the individual
affected may be the only one to
suffer for lack of proper attention,
but in other tvpes, of a contagious
or infectious nature, they may be
such as to endanger the whole com
munity, and here it is the policy of
the law to assume control and re
quire the use of the most effective
known means to overcome and
stamp out disease which otherwise
would become epidemic.
"In such cases failure to treat,
or an attempt to treat, by those uot
possessing the lawful qualifications
are equally violative of the policy
of the law. It may be said that
the wisdom or the folly of depend
ing upon ihe power of inaudible
prayer alone in the cure of disease
is for the parties who invoke such
a remedy. But this is not wholly
true. 'For none of us liveth to
himself, and no man dieth to him
self,' and the consequence of leav
ing disease to run unchecked in the
community is so serious that sound
public policy forbids it. v
"Neither the law, nor reason,
has any objection to the offering of
prayer for the recovery of the sick.
But in many cases both law and
common sense require . the use of
other means which have been given
us for the healing of sickness and
the cure of disease. There is ample
room for the office of prayer in
seeking for the blessing of restored
health, even when we have faith
fully and conscientiously used all
the means known to the science and
art of medicine.
"The findings of fact by the
learned master and the conclusions
of law therefrom and the opinion of
the Court below, in which they are
summarized and approved, vindi
cate the action taken.
"Under the well defined policy
of the law of Pennsylvania as at
present existing we are satisfied
that there was no abuse of sound
legal discretion in refusing the ap
plication for a charter.
"The appeal is quashed and the
order refusing to approve the char
ter is affirmed."
Forest fires have been raging on
the surrounding hills and mountains
during the past week and
much valuable timber has been
destroyed. On Thursday night last
a stiff south western breeze carried
the smoke from the Catawissa
mountain to Bloomsburg until it
became so thick that many people
not knowing from whence it came
were greatly alarmed. Groups of
people gathered on Normal hill and
at the head of Centre Street and
watched the progress of the Sre.
Miss Ida Rinker has won the
Morning J'ress free trip to Atlantic
City, offered to the most popular
school teacher in Columbia county.
The contest was a jug handled one
from the outset. Miss Rinker had
998 votes more than her next near
est contestant.
Spring Medicine
There Is no other season when good
medicine Is so much noedod as in the
Spring.
The blood Is Impure, weak and
impoverished a condition Indicated
by pimples and other eruptions on tho
face and body, by deficient vitality,
loss of appetite, lack of strength, and
want of animation.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Make the blood pure, vigorous and
rich, create appetite, give vitality,
strength and animation, and cure
all eruptions. Have tho whole family
bogin to take them today.
" Hood's Sarsaparilla has been used In
our fatally for sons time, and always with
Rood results. Last spring I was all run
down and got a bottle of it, and as usual
rooelrod great benefit." Miss Biulah
Botce, Stows, Vt.
Hood's Sarsaparilla promises to
ure and keeps ths promise.
THE STATE IN BRIEF.
Phillip M. Erinentrout, aged 68,
secretary of a fire insurance company
of Reading, one of the most extensive
real estate dealers of that city, and
prominent in the Roy.l Arcanum of
the state, died on Monday.
In an opinion handed down on
Monday in the wage case of Ansley
against the Dunmote Lumber Co.,
Judge Edwards of Scranton, reversed
the proceedings before the alderman
because he permitted the defendant
to plead by telephone. There is
nothing in the law, the judge says, to
warrant a party appearing at a trial
by telephone.
In speaking of the "Church of
the Future" in his sermon to a large
congregation in the Pilgrim's Congre
gational chuich at Pottsville on Sun
day Rev. George VV. Brownback said
that the sermons must be made pun
gent and sparkling like newspapers.
"Pious platitudes must go out of
the window," he continued. "The
clergy will have to eat ginger and
wake up earlier in the morning. The
church today tails to supply cardinal
wants such as financial aid after ill
ness, burial expenses, life insurance,
etc."
Mrs. George Wallace, who lost
her memory five months ago and dis
appeared, was on Monday reunited
with her children at Sayre, Pa., where
they have been with relatives since
their home was broken up in Wilkes
Barre. Mrs. Wallace, who is a wealthy
widow of Wilkes-Barre, disappeared
November 21. On Thanksgiving
Day she appealed to Mrs. John Stern
of 629 Sumner street, Newark, N. J.,
for shelter. Then she became Mrs.
Stern's servant.
No recollection of her past life, her
home or her children came to her,
the says, until about ten days ago.
Suddenly she realized the fact that
she had been living in a strange world
for five months.
Mrs. Wallpce does not remember
why she went to Newark, what oc
curred there, or where she was be
tween November 21 and Thanks
giving day.
She attributes hei loss of memory
to itl health and worry over the set
tlement of her husband's estate.
AN ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY
Our show lovers will be delighted
to know that an effort is on foot to
arrange for the appearance in Blooms
burg on May 20th, of Dumont's Mins
trels, and give one of their inimitable
performances which delight Philadel
phians throughout the fall and winter
season. As a rule Dumont's Mins
trels never travel or leave their cozy
Opera House, but as their local
friends finally induced them to give a
performance in each city, other re
quests quickly followed until the week
was taken up by admirers."
It is the purpose to have the show
as an Elk benefit and if the Lodge de
cides in favor of the proposition as it
in all probability will when it meets
to-night, the entire company will be
here, including Frank Dumont, Hugh
ey Dougherty, Vic Richards, Charles
Turner, Alf F.- Gibson, John E. Mur
phy, James McCool, J. M. Kane,
Joseph F. Hortiz, J. M. Woods, Ed
win Goldrick, J. E. Dempsey, Joseph
Perry, R. P. Lilley, J. A. Armstrong
and a full chorus of solo musicians,
and the finest singers ever heard in
minstrelsy. Added to this is Jordan
and White, a pair of eccentric dan
cers who have delighted the patrons
of Dumont's throughout the season.
William J. Mills, the character change
artist, will be seen in his mysterious
transformations in full view of the
audience, changing entire costume
from male to female and vice versa,
even changing shoes and hosiery.
This will positively be the best mins
trel performance ever given in town
and should be greeted by an over
flowing audience.
A two per cent, dividend, pay
able on or after May 25, has been
declared by the Greene Consoli
dated Copper Company.
Townsend's,
Townsend's.
1
Some
Special
FOR THIS WEEK.
50c. Silk Ginghams at 39c.
The same quality of Silk Gingham that we have sold
all season at 50c per yd. we will sell this week at 39c.
28c Mercerized Ginghams 17c
These Mercerized Ginghams have been good selling
goods all Season at 28c but this lot was bought at a very
low price to clean up the mill for this Season, so we sell
them this week at 17 cents.
$1.00 Shirt Waists at 89c.
We have these Waists in White Lawn and Linen Color-
Ckr I Y r ' aim an T-. 1 Jl Ty 1 1 . .
I A" v.- kcu, rront 4 in. bias Tucks with
- "pitching and cluster of small Tucks. Back Tucked
Shirt Waist sleeves, price this week 89c.
2 Numbers in Counterpanes
Good size White Honey Comb Counterpanes nicely
hemmed would be good value at 85c., this week 69c. V
Large Heavy White Honey Comb Counterpart, nicely
hemmed, worth $1.50 at $1.19. v c, mtciy
12 1-2 & 15c Lawns ioyds 6oc
This lot of Lawns are fully worth i2jc and ice This
tteemror6oVceSsem10ne,1Iin Md
F. P. PURSEL.
Postmasters R. S. Bowman, of
Berwick, and C. F,. Geyer, of Cat
awissa, have received an increase in
salary of $100 a year. The former's
yearly piy now is $2300 and the
latter's $1500. The salary of post
master Brown remains as it was
$2400 a year.
THE
PLACE
TO BUY
YOUR
SPRING
Clothing
IS
Values
A. II. Genari. Henry J. Casey
and Howard Cook took the Civil
wService examination for clerk and
George Fornwald for carrier before
l. fed. Lewis, clerk of the local
commission, at the Y. M. C A
yesterday.