THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
HAS KEPT HIS AYOKD.
Bachelor Governor of Kansas Keeps
a Campaign Promise.
tw Kxi'rutlvr Mannlnii Konr Una m.
Mln(rea nnil Kvcrj liiidy J"-eiii
I'leuard Inlqne Tulltlcol
Honmncf.
When it was found luet mm hut that
Uie republicans of Kunsus, by ttoine in
advertence, had iiuminutt-d bachelors
for governor aud lieutenant governor,
a distinct social bliock wasexpi'lieui'ed
in that Mate, aud there was u decided
feeling of surprise elsewhere.
For the pride of Kuna, even more
. hnu her com crop, is her homes and
.ohools, und without when and cliil
.rctt homot) and schools are liiiiuifestl
uiposslble. Furthermore, no mntter
what, may be the feeling in the eatt,
in KaUHua there is u widefpread belief
that a bachelor is only half a man,
who is not doing his duty to the repub
lic. Hence the celibacy of the republican
candidates for governor and lieutenant
governor became a political issue in a
way, chiefly humorous, of course, but
still not without its serious aspects.
Furthermore, the slate had just com
pleted a fine executive mansion, and
the people were disappointed with the
prospect that this should be a mere
bachelor's hnll.
Hence, Hon. Willis J. Ilailey was
moved to promise, or to nt least to inti
. mate, that if he ere elected governor
he would marry and cease to set n bad
example of bachelorhood to the young
men of Kansas and the nation.
In this connection it is deplorable to
be compelled 1 o state, snys the Chicago
Inter Ocean, that in the United States
and Canada there were at least 1.000
women who throw themselves at liov.
Bailey's head and voluntarily ex
presses their desire to share the home
HON. WILLIS J. BAILEY.
(Governor of Kansas, Married In Accord
ance with Campaign Promise.)
provided for him by the people of Kan
sas. Being a gentleman, Gov. Dniley did
not make this melancholy fact known,
and doubtlesB would gladly have con
cealed it. Hut even the most discreet
of secretaries will talk, and the enor
mous increase of obviously feminine
letters arriving at the executive office
could not well be hidden.
Being also a stalwart American man,
Gov. Bailey did nothing with these
epistles save to put them in the fire.
Feeling It to be his man's privilege to
ask, and not to be asked, he paid no at'
tention to them. And in spite of the
pointed remarks of newspaper humor
ists and of the anxiety of the people of
Kansas, he went straight ahead in his
own way, and did not marry until he
was ready, and then married the wom
an st rictly of hi own choosing.
. And being also a sensible American,
he did not marry any of the women
who had not shown themselves pleased
with him or conscious of his existence
until he attained high station. He
ehose a woman whom he had known
for years, who had long been resident
just over the Nebraska border near his
oiwn Nemaha county home. And some
will think that in choosing a widow,
whose experience of married life might
supplement his own inexperience, he
chose wisely.
At any rate, Oov. Bailey was married
June 7. The executive mansion at To
peka now hat a mistress. The fears
of Kansas lest her governor should set
a bad example of celibacy are dis
pelled. And in her joy over the support,
thus given to her cherished institutions
Kansas is probably disposed to forget
even her Teeont griefs over having
too much water at the wrong time in
the wrong places.
Bird Builds Neat of I. nee.
A Mrs. Newton, who lives In Center
street, Geneseo, N, V put two fine lace
collars out on the lawn in front of her
Uouse to dry a few day ago. When
he went to get them an hour later
tdiey were gone. She was sure nobody
stole them, because she was sitting!
betide a window at the front ot the
house at the time and would have
seen anybody entering the yard. The
next day she put another collar out.
and watched. A roblu flew down from
an apple tree near by and carried off
the collar. An investigation was made
and the other collars were found
woven into the Wrd's nest in a crotch
of the apple tree. There was also a
mail lace handkerchief in the net.
The bird that waa doing the "flne-art"
aest building and it mate set up a big
ntcry and peckad acsly at the mun
in the tree when to newt was being
palled down.
Mirrors la Street fnra.
The. platforms of street cars in Den
ver are to be supplied with mirrors, to
eatable the driver, without turning his
kud, to tee the rear platform, so that
k will net trt while paefer U
getting on or off.
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SNArs FOR liX-SEttl ATORS.
Mnnr of Them Are ( onllnnoil on Jnv-
rrnmrnt Vny Hull In Other
l.urrntlvr Work.
Failure of United States senators to
necure reelection need no longer nave
terrors for the straight party man,
snvt the Providence Journal. The
practice, which has greatly Increased
in recent years, of continuing on the
government pny roll senators unfor
tunate enough to lose the confidence
of their states holds out hopes for
every man to whom the thought of re
tirement to private life in abhor
rent. The theory upon which an adminis
tration continues to avnil itself of the
HON. WILLIAM E. CHANDLER
(Chairman of the Spanish Treaty Claims
Commission.)
services of the men whose states have
deeidrd to supplant them is sound
enough. Service in the Benate often
develops the usefulness of a man to his
country as well us to his party, and va
cancies in other branches of the public
service arc often best filled by men
with at lenst six years' experience in
the upper house of congress. But the
practice is susceptible of abuses, and it
is at times indulged in at the expense
of abler men for no better reason than
a willingness to take care of men who
linve outlived their usefulness und
would better be suffered to retire to
the private life to which they had been
relegated.
There are at present ten ex-senators
filling prominent government posi
tions and at least two ex-representn-tives,
John M. Allen, of Mississippi,
who is a member of the United States
commission to the St. Louis fair, and
Teter Morris, of Minnesota, one of the
sugar-beet leaders, who has been re
cently translated to the federal dis
trict bench. Of the former senators,
William K. Chandler, of New Hamp
shire, is chairman of the Spanish
treaty claims commission; Thurston,
of Nebraska; Carter, of Montnna; Mc
Bride, of Oregon, republicans; and
Lindsay, of Kentucky, a democrat, are
members of the St. Louis fair commis
sion. Pasco, of Florida, a democrat, is
n member of the old isthmian canal
commission. Gray, of Delaware, is a
Delaware judge, who also served on the
nnthraeite coal strike commission.
Pritchard, of North Cnrolinn, has been
appointed on the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, and ex-Senator
Turner, of Washington, a populist, has
been seleoted, with Senator Lodge and
Secretary Root, to represent the Unit
ed States on the Alaskan, boundary
coinmiMion. Ex-Senator White, of
Louisiana, has since February, 1894,
been an associate justice of the su
preme court of the United States.
Still another candidate for such
preferment is ex-Senator Jones, of Ar
kansas, chairman of the democratic
national committee, whose political ca
reer is ended, but who, it is generally
understood, will be taken care of by
republican friends by appointment on
the new canal commission which must
shortly be organized.
PAMPERED PET DOGS.
Parlalan Ladlea Clothe Them In Motor
Coatumea When Ther Take
Theia AutonioblllnK.
The pampered pet dogs of Taris are
not now considered strictly fashion
able unless they wear motor costumes
DOa IN MOTOR COSTUME.
(A Parisian Fad Which Is Unique, Even
If It Is Billy.)
when accompanying their owners) out
riding. Therefore, when Fido accom
panies his mistress out motoring he is
as carefully protected from wind, dust
and weather as she is hcrelf, particu
larly clever and natty being what, for
want, oi a oeuer name, one must call
his motoring goggles. Bet dogs are
often very delicate, and motoring must
prove anything but a pleasure to many
of them, the mora so that canine eyes
are quite as sensitive as those of or
dinary human beings.
Bo Careful.
In finding fault, It is very easy to
be untruthful and unfair. Atchison
Glob.
WELL ORGANIZED.,
New Department of Commerce Run
on Business Principles.
Important Transfers to Tnke I'lnee
July 1 Secretnrr forleljou
I'lnn to CoiiKoIlilute Two
Dlaburalnv Olllcea,
On the 1st of July the bureau of
for"lgn commerce! ol the department
of state, which lias charge of the col
lection, publication and. distribution
of the commercial reports of consular
officers, will be transferred to the de
partment of coiumeice and labor, and
consolidated with the bureau of statis
tics, which is to be transferred from
the treusury to the new department.
The collection of the reports will be
made through the consular officers,
under the direction of the secretary of
state, through whom the reports will
be transmitted, to the secretary of com
merce and labor. The two departments
are expected to work in harmoniousco
operation, as the functions of each are
clearly defined and there is full agree
ment between tlitui. Mr. James C.
Monnghnn, who hus been chosen by
Secretary Cortelyou to edit the re
ports under the supervision of Mr.
Austin, chief of the bureau of statis
tics, is a professor in the commercial
department of the University of Wis
consin, and nnsconsul at Mnnheirn. Ger
many, from July 17, lhS.'i. to March !M,
lS'JO, and at the important industrial !
center of Saxony Chemnitz f roni
May 5, lsn.1, to March 1)1, l'.ioo, so t hat
he has had- exceptional experience in
consular work. While consul at
Chemnitz he was a frequent contribu
tor to consular reports on a great
variety of subjects, and wrote n valu
able series of articles on the technicul
and trade schools of Germany.
Mr. Frederic F.mory, who. since
April, 1SU4. has had charge of th'iB and
other branches of the work as chief of
the bureau of foreign commerce
(known until July 1, 1S97, as the
bureau of statistics), will remain in
GEORGE B. CORTELYOU.
(Head of Department of Commerce, Now
Ready for Work.)
the state department as chief of the
new bureau of that department to be
created July 1, under section 11 of the
department of commerce act, which
provides that a person with the rank
of chief of bureau shall be designated
by the secretary of state "to formulate,
under his direction, for the Instruction
of consular officers, the requests of the
secretary of commerce and labor; and
to prepare from the dispatches of con
sular officers, for transmission to the
secretary of commerce and labor, such
information as pertains to the work
of the department of commerce and la
bor." Besides these functions the new
bureau of the state department, which
Is to be known as the bureau of trnde
relations, will have other duties, such
ns the collection and transmission of
consular reports on special subjects,
other than commercial, for various
branches of the government service,
and the compiling of information for
t lie use of the department of state tn
the consideration of questions arising
in our foreign intercourse. ;
Secretary Cortelyou hus determined
to consolidate the office of disbursing
clerk, department of labor, with the
disbursting office of the departmentof
commerce and labor from July 1 next,
when the department of labor will be
come n bureau of the new department.
This course will simplify the work of
accounting to the officers of the treas
ury, at the disbursements on account
of Ihe department of labor will be in
cluded in the accounts of the disburst
ing office of the department of com
merce and labor, d.olng away with one
Ret of accounts in the secretary's office,
the auditor's office, the treasury in
Washington and the subtreusury lu
New York. The services of the dis
bursing clerk of the department of la
bor will be icquired in connection with
the examination of the vouchers for
expenditures in the department, be
fore they are pent to the secretary's of
fice for audit and payment.
The commission of statistical work
recently appointed by Secretary Cor
telyou has unanimously recommended
that the statistics of cities of 30,000
population and over, authorized to be
collected, by the dcpurtiuent of labor
under the net of congress approved
July 1, 1898, bo transferred to the oen
sus office as early after July 1 next as
possible.
Secretary Cortelyou has npproved
this recommendation and has an
nounced his intention to Issue an order
In accordance therewith on or about
the 1st of July.
Expert Medical Opinion.
An eminent phyalcan declares thut
no young person should be permitted,
to drink tea or coffee until he or she
has attained the ago of 18 years. In
the youug those beverage unduly ex
W2
cite the nervous system, and have an
Injurious elleot upon tU digestive or-
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PROF. BELL RESIGNS.
I.envrit n(loiml ieorphle Society
to Devote llliimelf to 1'rrfrc
tlnna of Alrahlpa.
l'rof. Alexander Graham Hell has re
ligned the presidency of the National
lieogrnphlc Society of Washington to
lake effect upon the election of his
successor next fall. He has been presi
dent of the society since the denth of
his father-in-law, Gardiner G. Hub
bnrd, the founder Mid first president of
the society.
I'rof. Bell has been greatly interested
In the progress of the society, which,
now numbers many members in every
state of the union. One of the most de
lightful features in the society's work
has been the meetings of the board of
ALEXANDER GRAHAM HELL.
(Scientist AVho Will Devote His Life to
Study of Aeronautics.)
mnnngers nt the residence of the presi
dent, where they had talked over the
geographic work to be done and the
participation which the society should)
lake in it.
A benutiful home for the society Is
now approaching completion in Wash
ington. It was built by Mrs. Hubbard,
l'rof. Bell and his family, and is a
memorial to Mr. Hubbard, whose de
voted labors in behalf of the society
started it on its prosperous career.
Wliile l'rof. Bell Is much interested
In geographic progress, this branch,
of study has not been included in his
special scientific researches, and it is
his desire that a geographic specialist
be placed at the head of the society.
Be intends to devote much of his tlmo
to the study of aerial navigation, and
will continue bis experiments with th
Ultc-flying machine he has invented at
his summer home in New England dur
ing the coming months.
DECIDED TO GET RICH.
Senator Klktna Flnnnrlnl Sntrem the
Iteanlt of a Iteternil nation
Formed 1 enra Alio,
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, who re
cently made $.10,000,000 in a Wall street
operation, and who is one of tho
wealthiest men in the United States
senate, nearly paid the penalty of bis
life when a young man for the crime of
poverty. It was during the bush
wucking period at the close of thft
civil war. when bands of marauders
overran Missouri and the southwest
ern states in the guise of soldiers. El
kins, snys the Chicago Journal, was
then operating a carbine and horwein
that vicinity in a purely legitimate
manner, and one.' day was captured by
a plundering gang. He held up his
hands and was searched, but proved to
have but 60 cents. This flagrant lack
of money very properly angered the
captors, and they moved, seconded,
HON, STEFIIEN B. ELKINS.
(West Virginia Senntor Who Decided to
Get Rich Tears Ago.)
and unanimously voted that the pris
oner should be shot. The sentiments
of Mr. Klkins were not consulted, but
in order to make the game amusing it
was agreed that he he given) a little
start in order that the gang, should
have some target practice. As a mov
ing target Elkins proved a success
Throwing himself fiat along his horse
he dug his spurs Into the beast's ribs
und listened to the bullets sing above
his head. It was in that moment he
fully realized the dungers of poverty,
nnd rcsohed, If he got out with his life
to devote the rest of it to getting the
best of Wall street. He has done so
ever since.
An Aaelant Claim Settled.
Mrs. George A. Graves, of Ogden,
Utah, hus just received a cheok from
the United Mates government for J'J50
in settlement of a claim that had been
pending 105 years. The elaira was for
the capture and destruction by Hi
Frenoh, about me year ithh, of a,
schooner belonging1 to Capt. Robert A.
Fatten, of Gardiner, Me. The claim wm
for $1,8(0, and there are seven heir
Han la Full of Mlerobea.
Scientists are becoming familiar
with microbes. Thay sey the hunvaa
body is full of them, and thut when
they are healthy and lively the human
body is in good condition. W hen t)i
microbes bucoiue ill or lasy, the human.
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DEALERS IN'
Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Confec
tionery and Nuts.
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Henry Millard's Fiue Candies. Fresh Ever "Week.
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Sole Agents for JUPITER, KING OSCAR, COLUMBIAN
WRITTEN GUARANTEE, Etc. Also F. F. Adams & Co's
Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco-
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IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF
CARPET, MATTING,
oi OIL. CLOTH,
YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT
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a Doors above Court Hoaso.
A large lot of Window Curtains in stock.
Reduced Bates to the Seashore-
Annual Low-Rate Excursions to Atlantic City,
.1. n ..i nn j
;., via ranniyivama naliroaa.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
panv has arraneeJ for four low-rate
ten-day excursions for the present sea
son trom worth iJend. Irov. Be e-
fonte, Williamsport, Mocanaqua. Sun-
bury, Shenandoah, Dauphin, and
principal intermediate stations (in
cluding stations on branch roads), to
Aiiarmr. i.itv. i:ane Mau I irnn niu
j , ;- J J W ,
Sea Isle Citv. Avalon. Antrlesea. WilrL.i
wooa, or nouy beach, on Thursdays,
juiy 9 ana 23, August 0 and 20, 1903.
Excursion tickets, good to return
by regular trains within ten days, will
be sold at very low rates. Tickets
to Atlantic City will be sold via the
Delaware River Bridge Route, the
only all-rail line, or via Market Street
Wharf, Philadelphia.
Stop over can be had at Philadel
phia, either going or returning, within
limit of ticket. For information in
regard to specific rates and time of
trains consult hand bills, or apply to
agents, or E. S. Harrar, Division Tick
et Agent, Williamsport, Pa. 2t.
Reduced Rates to Saratoga. N- T-
On account of the Imperial Coun
cil, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine of North America,
to be held at Saratoga, N. Y., July 7
to 10, inclusive, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell round-trip
tickets to Saratoga from all stations
on its lines, on July 6 and 7, good to
return until July 20, inclusive, at rate
of a single fare for the round trip. A
stop-over will be allowed at Philadel
phia and Baltimore on tickets reading
via those points within final limit of
July 7 e;oing and July 20 returning,
on deposit of tickets with station
agent immediately on arrival.
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The Markets.
BLOOMSBURG MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY, RETAIL PRICES.
Butter, per pound x6
EgC. per dozen 20
Lard, per pound,.,, 15
Ham, per pound ,.it to 16
Beef (quarter), per pound 6 to 8
Wheat, per bushel 1 00
Oats, do 4o
Rye, do 60
Flour per bbl 4.00 to 4 40
nuy, per ion is 00
Potatoes,
per bushel.,
80
4?
1 urnips,
do
Tallow, per pound 06
Shoulder, do
12
Hncon, do
Vineear, per ot ci
r' , . ,...
iJneu apples, per pound 65
-w niues, do
3
hteer do do
Calf skin
05
80
el
Jiicep peilS yj
Shelled Corn. Dcr liiichel Kri
Corn meal, cwt ......!!!..'...'.". 2 00
Bran, cwt , 2o
rn, .....
... twl
Middlings, cwt ,
Chickens, spring, per pair,..
old.,
Turkeys do
Geese, do
Ducks, do
Number 6, delivered ... ' ... a to
COAL.
n onu 5 delivered c 50
do 6, at yard
do 4 and 5, at yard....'.V.'"".". .
TAILOR-MADE 8UITS-
N. S. Tingley has accepted the
agency for Remark TTllmon x, rvv
of Chicago, merchant tailors, and is
iuy to supply made-to-measure
clothing at prices lower than dan 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. 4k
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Try Tun Columbian a year.
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