4 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Capital 1 100000 STRONGEST BANK First National Bank, OF UXiOOMSHURG, PA. Make no mistake, but the Strongest Bank. OFFICERS: E. W. M. LOW, President, J. M. STAVER, Vice President. E. B. TUSTIN, Vice President. E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier. DIRECTORS: .:. W. M. Low. V. G. York, Frank Ilceler, J. H. Vatine E. B. Tustin, Fred Ikelrr, Ota. S. kobbins, C. Creasy, J. M. Staver, M. I. Ixjw, Louis Gross, II. V. I lower. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Established 1837. Consolidated 1869 Published Every Thursday Morning, At Bloomsburg, the County Seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. ELWELL, Editor. L). J. TASKER, Local Editor. . GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. Tikm: Insulethe county tl.ooa year in advance ; $1.50 if not paid in advance. Oitside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in A J ranee. All communications should be addressed THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburg, Ta. THURSDAY, JULY 23. 1903. THE FORGOTTEN AMENDMENTS- It has been discovered that a couple of amendments to the consti tution that ought to have passed the Legislature during the 'ast ses sion tailed of that result because they were forgotten. They were on the calendar, all right, it appears, had passed the Senate and were favorably reported in tne House Dy the proper committee. But during tne closing nours ci ine session tue House got busy with press muzzlers and other machine measures and forgot all about the amendments. It may be added that it also forgot ill about the constitution. A contemporary states that there was no opposition to the amend ments and therefore it was unable ;o conceive of a reason why they were forgotten. The first of the two proivded that the "discharge of a jury for failure to agree or other necessary cause shall not work an acquittal," and the chances are that there was no opposition to it. But the other is different. It provides for the submission to a vote of the people as a prerequisite to the enactment of any sort of special legislation and might defeat some of the most cherished plans of the machine managers. As a rule when legislation is for gotten it is because the bosses want ed to forget it. The amendments in question had passed the Legisla ture of 1901 without opposition but that is no proof that there was no opposition in 1093. It will be re membered that when the amend ments to the ballot provisions were in the Legislature there was no op position. But subsequently poten tial opposition developed and Gov. Stone tried to kill them with a veto. The chances are that the amend ments in question were forgotten because the bosses wanted them killed. Harrisburg Independent. VOTERS AUTHORIZE LOAN. Berwick will soon have the var ious improvements that the more progressive and public spirited resi dents cf that growing town have long been agitating and clamoring for. The question was submitted 10 the voters on Tuesday, and they expressed their approval by a vote of 400 to 243. The amount of the loan is $60,000, and it will be used for the construction of sewers, the erection of a town hall, and perma nent street improvement. This victory indicates that the .majority of the people of our sister town believe in advancement. They have certainly t?ken a step in the right direction. The future growth, the health and beauty oi the town demand it. To our way of thinking, a man who would cast his vote against the great and altogeth er desirable improvements that Ber wick pro.joses to make is one that would have all mankind look back ward instead of forward. Of course people of a town ought not to be over anxious to encourage in novation in cases of doubtful im provement. But surely improve ment such as Berwick will now make are not of the doubtful kind. The Wheelmen ball team will play Millersburg at that place next Thursday. IN THE COUNTY deposit your savings in DANVILLE WANTS A TROLLEY- The citizens of Danville including the respectable element of all classes are thoroughly impatient at the de lay on the part of those who about a year ago started out so confidently to give us an electric railway. Mil ton, Northumberland. Sunbury, Bloomsburg and Berwick, each hat a trolley and our town as import ant as any of the above, is permitted to take a back seat. The citizens of Danville are not a "self-satisfied tinprogressive lot and they demand to know why their town cannot have a trolley. If conditions obtain here which militate against the success of build ing au electric railway the question might be pertinently asked whether it is not time tor our Board of Trade, which is devoted to the advance ment of the town, to take the matter in hand and labor strenuously and zealously to combat the influences which oppose such an enterprise. It is too late to urp;e that an ex tension of the electric railway from Bloomsburg to Danville and even on to Shamokin or some other point beyond would not be a paying enter prise. Trolley building is the order of the day. Investors are found readily for other lines and they will not be wanting here. As to profits they may be relied upon to take care of themselves. Notwithstand ing the extensive operations in trol ley building the cries of failure are not heard with discouraging fre quency these days. Altogether the advantages arising from a trolley are so various and so marked that no town can afford to be without one. The same applies to the rural communities intersected by the Hue. The trolley long ago demonstrated its value as au agency for enhancing the value of property so that to find a land owner so blind to his own interest as to refuse the right of way gratuitously. Obviously the time for action has come. As above stated it is up to the Board of Trade, which is au organized factor working for the good ot the town. A trolley might prove worth several new industries and indeed, it is a question whether a firm desiring to change its location would select a town the size of ours that has no trolley or is not on a fair way to obtain one. The Board of Trade has proven their resources in other matters and they should not be long in deciding upon some course ol action which would give our town an electric railway. Dan ville News. Selected Mr. Brugler- The board of directors of the Sunbury National Bank met in Sunbury on Monday and selected lohn H. Brueler. of Danville, as architect for the new buildiug to be erected at tne corner of Fourth and Market streets, in this citv. The selection guarantees a first class up to date building, as Mr. Brugler is an architect of merit and ability. Sunbury Daily. Hair Falls " I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop my hair from falling. One half a bottle cured me." J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, 111. Ayer's Hair Vigor is certainly the most eco nomical preparation of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. It doesn't take much of it to stop falling of the hair, make the hair grow, and restore color to gray hair. ti.M a Mil. All iraulsts. If year druggist cannot supply you. send us on dollar and wa will express you a bottle. Be sure and rive tlie nam or your nearest expretia office. Address, J. C. A VtK CO., Lowell, Mass That Tired Feetlng le a Common Spring Trouble). It's a sign that the blood is deficient In vitality, Just as pimple and other eruptions are eigne that the blood is Impure. It's a warning, too, which only the hazardous fall to heed. Hood's Sarsaparllla and Pills Remove It, give new life, new cour age, strength and animation. They cleanse the blood and dear the complexion. Accept no substitute. - I felt tired all tb time and could not sleep. After taking Hood's Sarsaparllla while I could sleep well and toe tired feeling bad gone. This great medicine has also cured me of scrofula." Mas. C. If. Boot, Ollead, Conn. Hood'e Saraaparllta promise to cure and keeps the promise. Deserting; the Profession. Young Men Seek Business; Girls Turn to Stenography or Matrimony. Great difficulty is being experienced by the various school boards of Betks county in securing enough leach-rs for the coming winter. After the spring examinations it was found that at least fifty schools were without in structors. The directors did consid erable corresponding and vacancies are being slowly filled. Such a condition of affairs was never known .before in Berks county, and it has resulted in considerable speculation as to the cause. From time to time the boards have advanced the salaries, but in spite of this teach ers are scarcer than ever. County Superintendent Professor E. M. Repp, when asksd the carse of the scarcity, said: "Prosperity is to blame for the present condition of affairs. Young men can earn more money in other lines of work. Teach ers may secure good positions as clerks in the larger cities. .Fully fifty former Berks teachers are now in the civil service, mostly as railway mail clerks. The female teachers take up stenography 01 matrimony. Phenomonal Bains and Floods- The year 1903, says an exchange, will be memorable for its phenomenal rains and floods, which have caused loss of life and property over wide areas and in many different sections of the country. The early floods of the Mississippi river produced much alarm from Memphis to New Orleans, washing away levees and damaging extensive agricultural districts. They were fol lowed some weeks later by great storms and floods in Kansas and Iowa, along the upper waters of the Mis souri, with the result of paralyzing in dustry and destroying life on a large scale. Seldom have the incidents of the flood in the Missouri River Valley been paralleled in our history in their tragic effects. Gainsville, Ga., and Pacolet and Clifton, S. C, are more recent sufferers. Their experiences are, if possible, even more dreadful than those of the western towns. Gains ville was struck by a tornado. The other places were washed away by a Hood 60 feet high, caused by a cloud burst, or extraordinarily heavy fall of rain in the mountains where the Paco let river has its source. Cotton mills and the homes of cctton-mill operators were swept away by the sudden rush of water which gave the occupants little chance of escape. A flourishing industry was arrested by the destruc tion of valuable spinning plants. The heavy rainfall extended through West ern North Carolina, Western South Carolira, Northern Georgia, East Tennessee and Southern Virginia, producing notable freshets in many streams. James river in Virginia is reported higher than for several years but heavy rams fell also in the area drained by the Savanna. - Teje des truction of railway bridges was very large in the especially flooded region of North and South Carolina. The whole northern part of the Union was recently covered with a pall of smoke from forest fires. It is known that particles of smoke or fine dust, in the air cause rain, each particle attracting moisture and condensing it upon it self. If the smoke of the extensive forest fires was carried south, where the air was saturated with moisture, the conditions of a phenomenal rain fall were realized. It is not impossi ble that there was a casual connection between the northern haze and the southern floods. Welsh Bros- to Retire From the Circus Business. The Shamokin Dispatch says that the Welsh Bros, have determined to retire from the circus business, offering their twelve cars and all paraphernalia for sale. The Welsh Bros, are at present building a large hotel and theater in the city of Lancaster, to which they will devote their attention. Mid Summer Sale of I PER CENT. REDUCTION ON ALL The Fourth's Expense. American Medicine Comments en the Ac cidonts of Inotpendsnce Day. The American Medicine says editor ially in its issue of July 18. "Jhe expense of the inglorious Fourth has dcen partially epitomized, as best it can, by the Chicago Tribune. In about 200 cities of he United Stales 52 persons were killed and 3,665 injured. The loss of pro perty by fire, moreover, amounted to $400,625. It appears that the cele bration this year was of an exception aily destructive character. The dead ly toy pistol injured 559 persons, but gunpowder as it is used in homemade bombs and fireworks is a still greater, source of danger, claiming 768 victims. Firearm?, carelessly handled, injured 562 persors, probably as many as are hurt in hunting accidents during an entire year. Skyrockets caused 206 injuries, cannan 319, and runaways 81, while ''fireworks," unclassified, brought disaster to no less than 1,170. In addition, at the present writing up wards of 90 deaths from tetanus have been reported. "We wish that the expense of money spent for firecrackers, fireworks, bombs, toy pistols, etc., could be esti mated, and that all the deaths subse quently from cetanus, etc., might be culled out of and related to the 3,665 injuries reported and the thousands of minor injuries treated at home and not available for slastical purposes. Will this cruel and morbid nonsense be allowed to go on forever?" THE FOURTH OF JULY SACRIFICE. It is fifteen days since the Fourth of July, but reports are still coming in of deaths resulting from wounds received on that d?y. The Chicago "Tribune," which has kept account of this matter, stated on Saturday that 52 persons were known to have been killed on the Fourth and that 162 deaths have occurred since from lockjaw following injuries received on the national holi day, making a total of 214 victims of the Fourth of July. This is a large total, but large as it is it cannot includj all the fatalities resulting from the celebration of the Fourth of July. From some of the largest cities no reports hive been made and it is unreasonable to sup pose that they escaped with no fatal ities. Then, also, the two deaths that occurred in this city Saturday from tetanus could not have been known to the "Tribune" when it made up its list. Taking all things into considera tion it is reasonable to suppose that at least 250 people have died as the result of Fourth of July injuries. This is a fearful sacrifice to make the celebration of a national holiday. And it becomes all the more horrible when its uselessness is considered. The parents and guardians wnose thoughtlessness and heedlessness are responsible for most of this slaughter should ask themselves whether it is worth the while. But parental re morse alone will not remedy the evil. The laws now on the statute books against the sale and use of firearms must be strenghtened. This year's list of Fourth of July casualties, which is larger than ever known before, rbould arouse public opinion to the need of energetic action. Philadel phia Press. , The rains of the last few days have spoiled the fishing along the Susquehanna, and bass fishermen are wondering how sport will be the rest of the month. CASTOR I A for Id f ants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature TOWNSEND'S CLOTHIUG FOE 2 WIBIEIKZS .A.T TOWNSEND'S Get Acquainted with our Shoe Department. A STORE BY ITSELF. FOR ONE WEEK. Beginning Wednesday, July 22nd. We will give 10 Discount off every shoe in stock. Infants' 25c, 50c, 60c, 75c, 85c. All the best shapes and colors. Little Gents' 8 to 13J. 85c to $1.50. Wear Resisters. Misses' and Children's. Sandals and Oxfords in Kid and Patent Leather. 50c. to $1.50. Boys' and Youths'. $1.00,1.10, 1.25,1.35, 1.40, 1.50, 1.60, 1.75, and 2.00. All leathers. Men's Work Shoes. All Styles. All Prices. Men's Dress Shoes. From $1.39 up. Good styles and plenty of 'em. Specials : The Bostonian 3.50. The H. M. 275 The Resilia 5.00 10 DISCOUNT FOR ONE WEEK. F. P. Judge McCarthy Dead. Judge Henry J. McCarthy, of Common Pleas Court No. 3, died at his home in Philadelphia on Tuesday after a week's illness, of nervcus exhaustion. His death was unexpected. Judge McCarthy was fifty-eight years old. He was elected in 1892, as a Democrat. Judge McCarthy was bora in Philadelphia. When quite young he began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He was active in Democratic politics, and, in 1895, upon the organisation of the Superor Court, Governor Hastings appointed him astheDemo cratic member of that branch of the judiciary. In 1898 he was appoint ed Judge of Common Pleas Court No. 3, to succeed Judge James Gay Gordon, and was elected to the office the following year for the full term. Judge McCarthy was an active Mason and clubman. It is asserted that the longest lived people are those who make breakfast their chief meal. Clothing Children's. 50c, 65c, 75c, 85c. 1.00 and 1.25. Orthopaedic toes included. Misses'. 8octoi.75. This includes the famous "Lenox" line. Women's Oxfords. 1.25 to 3.50. Prevailing Styles. Women's Shoes. Beginning at 1.25. A frequent remark "You have the best assortment of 2.00 shoes in town." American Girl Shoes. 14 styles for women, 2.50. All Leathers. Every pair warranted. "Patrician" or Women. $3.50. The best shoe ever. PURSEL. I Will Get Free Transportation. G. A. R. posts have received a' communication from Adjutant Gener al Thomas G. Stewart, notifying them of legislation of interest to honorably discharged Pennsylvania soldiers who served during the war for the sup pression of the Rebellion. The mea sure provides that the State shall fur nish transportation free of charge to all surviving members of the battles of Shiloh, Mauchatcie and Missionary Ridge and the Andersonville prisoners to go to these places and witness the dedication ot monuments. There are in this vicinity a number of surviving honorably discharged soldieis of the above named battles. The dates for the dedications of these monuments have not been fixed yet, but they will likely occur !n October or November of the present year. Those entitled to transportation are asked to com municate with Thomas J. Stewart, adjutant general, Harrisburg, Pa., giv ing their names, residence, date of en listment and date of discharge, and command in wh.ch they served. 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