THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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OFFICERS:
E. W. M.' LOW, President, J. M. STAVER, Vice President.
E. 13. TUSTIN, Vice President. E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
VV. M. l ow,
E. B. Tustin,
J. M. Staver,
F. C. York-),
Fred Ikeler,
M. I. Low,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869
Published Kvkkv I iiursday mornino,
At Bloomslmrg, the County Seat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. ELWELL, Editor.
1. J. TASKF.R, Local Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
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THE COLUMBIAN, r.Ioomsburg, To.
THURSDAY, JULY 9. 1903.
The State Editorial Association Resolves
to Unitedly Tight the Libel Bill-
The annual outing of the- Penn
sylvania State Editorial Association
was held at Atlantic City recently.
Of the editors of the State over one
hundred were in attendance. A
mong other matters to which the
Association gave its attention was
the Salus-Grady libel bill, to ac
complish the passage ot which
Governor Pennypacker backed by
the Republican State ring, put
forth every effort. Of this vicious
act the editors said:
As an association of editors
of Pennsylvania at this our
first meeting since the enactment
of that most vicious and crime-covering
act, the Salus-Grady Libel
Bill, a measure passed in violation
of constitutional requirements, and
approved by the Governor iti defi
ance of the appeali and protests of
both the people and the press of
the State, for the evil purpose of
degrading the newspapers and pro
tecting public thieves and official
wrongdoers, we take this opportu
nity to express our condemnation
of, and pledge our earnest and con
tiuuous opposition to both the man
ner of its passage and the pernicious
nurpose of its enactment.
And as this Association was
treated in part to "promote and
protect the iuterests of the press,"
and as their interests are now ser
iously menaced by the Grady-Salus
Libel Law, in that said law need
lessly and unjustly creates oppor
tunities for damage suits against the
newspapers of this State, whether
they have libeled or not; Therefore
be it.
Resolved, by the Pennsylvania
State Editorial Association, in con
vention assembled, that the news
papers of the State should join in
defense of any paper made defend
ant in action brought through op
portunities created by the Grady
Salus Libel Law and contest such
action to the court of last resort in
order conclusively to test the con
stitutionality of said law; and be it
further.
Resolved, That earnest effort to
secure the repeal of said Grady
Salus Libel Law by the next Legis
lature be made by a committee of
this Association acting alone or in
conjunction with similar committees
of other organizations; and be it still
further.
Resolved, That expense involved
in defending actions brought under
said law, and in securing its repeal,
be provided for by a fund created
for these purposes.
On motion a committee of five
were appointed.
The president appointed the
committee, as follows': Dietrick La
made, Pennsylvania Grit, William
sport; P. Gray Meek, Watchman,
Bellefoute; P. C. Boyle, Derrick,
Oil City; B. F. Meyers, Star-Independent,
Ilarrisburg; E. B. McKee,
Review, Towanda.
H. H. Rutter, son of Dr. J. C.
Rutterof town, who for more than
six years past has been the editor
and proprietor of the Muncy Demo
crat, has sold the paper and plant
to M. G. Peters, a practical news
paper man of Philadelphia. The
Democrat is one of our best weekly
exchanges.
Surplus
$125,000
deposit your savings in
Frank Ikeirr,
Gen. S. Kolibina,
Louis Gross,
J. II. Valine
S. C. Creasjr,
II. V. I lower.
HEWSPAPEK "ROASTERS-"
Unprofessional, Unprofitable and Should be
Discouraged.
A Herbert Spencer can outline a
code of moral and ethical conduct
based on the laws of nature that all
mankind can follow with impunity,
but he who would attempt to com
pile a complete code of ethics for the
newspaper profession applicable to
all localities will fail in his under
taking, as the writers of many ex
cellent articles along this line in
previous issues of "The American
Press" have intimated, and truth
fully, that the policy of newspaper,
and a country newspaper especially,
is necessarily governed by environ
ment. Yet there are rules of con
duct that have a worldwide appli
cation verities governing the pro
fession that are as broad as civiliza
tion itself and, failing to observe
this code, no newspaper man can
hope to reach a dizzy height in the
profession. '
First among the sins of news
paper men, and a failing common
among country editors, are the petty
quarrels among themselves. If there
is anything that stifles the country
newspaper and warps the judgment
of its editor more than quarrelling
with a contemporary I have failed
to observe accurately. But I am
positive that there is not. It seems to
me that these little "scraps" among
editors are purely a disregard for
the dignity of their calling and a
gross violation of the ethics of the
profession, if we are to place journ
alism in the category of the profes
sions, and today more than at any
stage of the world's progress is the
newspaper given a place among the
callings of dignity.
Let us for one moment imagine
two lawyers, two doctors or two
merchants engaged in a foolish little
war of words and branding each
other with the appellations of
"grafter." "shyster," etc., assome
editors are continually doing. How
long would their supply of dignity
last, and how long would the pub
lic repose in them the dignity due
all men engaged in honorable call
ings ? Whenever I pick up an ex
change and see a "roast" directed
at some other member of the craft I
at once conclude that here is an
editor who is wasting his energy on
the desert air and making a consum
mate ass of himself besides. And
isn't this about what the average
person thinks about it ?
The same principle, in my opinion
applies to attacks on private citizens
or even those in public station.
Just as soon as a man becomes an
apologist he is surrendering, and
just as soon as a man starts to pur
sue the course of malicious "roasts"
just as sure is his paper in a state
of decadence. No newspaper can(
be in a healthy condition when its
editor is in an unhealthy frame of
mind, and an editor in a healthy
frame of mind is and an editor who
is broad minded, optimistic, gener
ous, fearless and free from malice
Your Hair
'Two years ago my hair was
falling out badly. I purchased
bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor, and
soon my hair stopped coming out."
Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, 111.
Perhaps your mother
had thin hair, but that is
no reason why you must
go through life with half
starved hair. If you want
long, thick hair, feed it
with Ayer's Hair Vigor,
and make it rich, dark,
and heavy.
11.00 a bolllt. All dnwlrt.
If your Urufrgint canuot minply you,
end ua one dollar and we will express
you a bottle, lie sure ami L-ive the name
of your nerwt uprinH oilli'e. Address,
J. li. A YEK CO., Lowell, Mu.
IN THE COUNTY
Peculiar
To Itself
In what it is and what it doc9 con
taining the best blood-purifying,
alterative and tonic substances and
effecting the most radical and per
manent cures of all humors and nil
eruptions, relieving weak, tired,
languid feelings, and building up
the whole system is true only of
Hood's Sarsaparilla
No other medicine acts like it ;
no other medicine has done so
much real, substantial good, no
other medicine has restored health
and strength at bo little cost.
"I was troubled with mrofula and name
Bear losing- my eyesight. For four months I
could not see to do anythlnf. After taking
two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla I eould see
tewalk. and when I had taken eight bottles 1
could see as well as erer." 8vsil A. Hairs
ok, Withers, N. C.
Hood's Sarsaparilla promises to
cure and keeps the promise.
Not alone are out and out "roasts"
to be discouraged, but all iudiscreet
hints and jabs of any description.
Little sarcasms and semihumorou
squibs directed at individuals may
appeal to the vulgar sensibilities of
a certain element, but that element
of right thinking people to whom
the newspaper that wishes to attain
any standing must devote itself, as
a rule, has no time for matter of
this nature.
Newspaper men of a combative
nature often charge their brethren
of more conservative views with
weakness and a cringing fear ot ex
pressing themselves lest they suffer
a pecuniary loss, and rarely are
these charges true. Instead the
latter class have a deep sense of
duty they owe the public and their
profession. There are few editors
in this laud who will not speak out
fearlessly and honestly when mat
ters of grave public concern demand
it. And when they do speak their
utterances fall with far heavier
weight than those who are continu
ally harping on the wrongs of so
ciety and jabbing at public men and
private individuals.
There is a something inexplicably
grand in the feeling that you are
laboring in a community where you
have the good will of all not alone
your patrons, but your brothers in
the calling. Evolution in its on
ward march has not left the news
paper by the wayside, but has, on
the other hand, placed it in front of
the caravan of progress, and no
editor need flatter himself that any
thing but fair, impartial utterances,
constant vigilance in working for
the best interests of those about him
and kindly words for those in his
calling will meet with lasting suc
cess. By Daniel Wheaton, editor
Franklin (Minn.) Tribune.
Tbe Harvest of Republicanism.
Strikes here strikes there, strikes
everywhere; lynch law and bloody
race riots in the Republican State
of Delaware; graft and grab in the
Postoffice Department; loot and
plumber of the taxpayers by lavish
appropriations of the people's
money and extravagant and corrupt
administration. Such are the con
ditions which have supervened up
on the grant of unlimited power to
a political party which believes in
a loose construction of the constitu
tion that enables the government to
exercise powers expressly reserved
by the constitution to the several
States and the people thereof. Un
til the country shall return to the
same conservative policy of a strict
construction and rigid observance
of the fundamental law of the Re
public there can be neither industrial
peace nor social tranquility. From
the Harrisburg Patriot.
Tires, inner tubes, cements, bells,
pedals, toe clips, grips, pumps, sad
dles, &c. at Mercer's Drug 1 and
Book Store.
Tracklesg Trolley for Freeland'
A number of Freeland citizens have
organized a new company to be known
as the Freeland Electric Coach Co.,
which is virtually a branch of the
Trackless Trolley Co., of Scranton.
A charter has been granted and an
organization effectep with the follow
ing officers: President Hugh Malloy,
Vice President Albert Goeppert, Sec
retary S. J. Neuberger, Treasurer M.
Schwabe, Board of Directors Hugh
Malloy, v Goeppert, S. J. Neuberg
er, M. Schwabe, A. Oswald of Free
land and Harry W. Davis of Wilm
ington, Delaware.
The company was organized for the
purpose of transporting passengers be
tween townsjon the North Side. The
right of way has been secured through
Hazle aud Foster townships.
It is said that the new line will be
the first of its kind to be operated in
America and that Freeland was given
flattering inducements by the origina
tors to adopt the system as an expen.
ment. A line will be run to Upper
benign, st. Johns tckley, Sandy Run
and other towns.
THE STATE AT A QLAHOE.
The Girardvillc school district is
in a very bad financial shape and can
see no way out of it. The teachers
have not been paid for the last three
months, and are clamoring for their
money.
The Tottsville High School
Alumni, numbering about 1000 mem
bers, have started a movement which
they hope will provide Pottsville with
a handsome new public library. They
already have 800 volumes, and have
asked Andrew Carnegie for an en
endowmcnt. Governor Pennypacker on Mon
day made the following appointment
inents: Members of the State Board
of Health, Dr. Charles E. Harvey,
Philadelphia, and M. A. Embeck,
Boiling Springs j Pott Warden, Phila
delphia, William R. Tucker, Phila
delphia; member State Quarantine
Board, J. L. Forwood, Delaware.
Miss Nellie Price, of Mahanoy
City, night operator in the telephone
exchange at that place, is suffering
from a very sore neck, the result of a
bite by a bed bug, and it is feared
that blood poison will develop. Miss
Price was bitten one morning last
week when she lay down on a couch
m the office to take a rest after her
night's work.
Wcrk is about to begih on the
new Odd Fellows' orphanage at Sny-
dertown, near Sunburj. It will ac
commodate 250 children and the
estimated cost i s $30,000. The
structure will be biick and stone.
The building is expected to be ready
for occupancy within one year and
inmates will be admitted from over a
dozen counties in this part of the
state.
Those in charge of the Natalie
colliery, near Shimokin, are taking
account of stock, and people who
know say the working will soon be
leased and in operation, The stock
taking is under the supervision of the
receivers of the Shamokin Coal Co.,
the Pittsburg Trust Co., who are now
in command. They want the inven
tory m their hands in Pittsburg as
soon as possible, and there is every
reason to believe the rich workings,
so long idle through schemes and
schemers, will soon DJ; in operation
again. The colliery employs one
thousand.
While the husband of Mrs. Miles
O'Rourke, 01 Woodward township,
Clearfield county, was absent, a
stranger called at the house and ask
ed Mis. O'Rourke for something to
eat. She was preparing coffee at the
stove when the man struck her on the
back of the head, leaving her semi
conscious. He then bound her in a
chair and demanded where the family
kept i's money. "
At first she refused to divulge the
hiding place. The man lighted a
lamp and applied the flame to her
feet. The pain caused her to point
out the place where the money was
hidden. The sum was a trifle over
$2000.
In his hurry to get away from the
house the robber dropped a part of
the money, which Mrs, O'Rourke
picked up and placed in the bosom of
her dress. The man missed it and
returned, prepared to torture her
further. A noise outside of the house
frightened him and he lett hastily.
The authorities have offered a reward
of $500 for information that will lead
to the arrest of the thief.
Colonel George A. Bayard, one
of the oldest citizens of Belletonte,
and who served through the Civil war
as major of the 148th regiment, was
struck by a freight train on the Penn
sylvania railroad at Bellefonte on
Tuesday and instantly killed. He
was it years old.
Andrew Iludock, aged 35, of
Freeland, treasurer of the Pennsylva
nia Slovak Catholic Union, vas found
dead on Tuesday in his butcher
wagon as the horse attached to the
vehicle came into the limits of the
town from Sandy Run. There was a
bullet hole in Hudock's temple and a
revolver was found along therosdside.
The coroner in making an investiga
tion to determine whether Hudock
died by his own hand or was murder
ed. Hon. James Gay Gordon of Phi
ladelphia passed through town on
Tuesday morning in company with
James Scarlet Esq. on his way up
Fishing Creek to fash for trout.
Judge Gordon is one of the best
known Democrats in Pennsylvania,
and has long been prominent in
politics.. He was- a candidate for
the nomination for Governor several
years ago, and filled the. offices of
State Senator, and Judge in Phila
delphia. -w
The latest advices this morniug
are that the Pope is still living,
though he may die any minute.
Si 1
CASTOR I A
Tor Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the Slfrf---
Signature of taffiUcU44
Townsend's,
Townsend's.
EXTRAORDINARY
SALE OF MUSLINS
FOR ONE WEEK.
In the face of the heavy advance in the price of cotton
we are offering you in this sale muslins that we could not
duplicate at the prices we are selling them to you.
Don't confuse these muslins with the usual ones offer
ed at such sales. We did not buy CHEAP MUSLINS
to sell at this time. They are all STANDARD makes
and the kind we sell tbe ' year round, and this store is
noted for the good quality of the muslin it sells. We
stake our reputation on our Annual Muslin Sale. You
cannot afford to miss it.
A good bleached muslin
worth 7c. the yard,
10 yards 50c.
A good weighty bleached
muslin with no starch,
worth 8c. tbe yard,
10 yards 65c.
A good, fine bleached
muslin, same grade as
Hill's, the kind you use
for making underwear,
10 yards 75c.
It always comes handy
in the house we mean
calico. Best indigo blue
during this sale,
10 varda 49c.
Extra good quality counterpanes, full
size, hemmed, ready to user Real value,
$1.50. Sale price, $1.19.
F. P. PURSEL.
The Fourth was a quiet day in
Bloomsburg. Many oi our people
attended the celebrations at Milton,
Wilkesbarre and Benton, and the
town after noon, wheu the stores
closed, took ou a Sunday appear
auce. Tbe excursion train over the
P. & R. from Milton arrived here
at 12.45 and the Berwick people
were taken up on the trolley.
(aau
THE
PLACE
TO BUY
YOUR
SPRING
Clothing
IS
Unbleached muslin, fine
and soft.worth 0c. the yard,
10 yards 45c.
Good, fine unbleached
muslin, the threads are fine
and round, worth 7c,
10 yards 50c
Unbleached muslin, fine
and heavy, about the same
quality as Appleton A.,
worth 8c. the yard,
10 yards COc.
Beet quality of un
bleached muslin, worth. 9c.
the yard,
- 10 yards 08c.
The dapper young salesman
entered the editor's sanctum carry
ing in his hand a fine polished oak
cabinet. "I want to interest you
in a talking machine," said the
salesman. "Got one," said the
editor. "What kiud?" The best
kind." "Where did you get it?"
"Married it;" and there was no
room for further argument.