4 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. as- STRONGEST BANK IN THECOUNTY First National Bank, OF IIMOaiSlIUItG, I At Make no mistake, but the Strongest Bank. OFFICERS: J. W. M. LOW, President, J. M. STAVER, Vice President. K. B. TUSTIN, Vice President. E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. W. M. Low, F. Ci. York, Frank Ikeli?r, J. II. Vmtine E. B. Tus'.in, Fred Ikeler, (ieo S. Rnlibins, S. C. Creasy, J. M. Stnver, M. I. Low, I.ouis Clioss, II, V, 1 lower. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED i86b. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT. Esrat.isitKD 1837. Consolidate! 1869 t'uiii.isiiED Every Thursday Morning, At Uloomalmrg, the Comity Seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. F.f.WELL, Editor. I). J. TASKKU, Local Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. rKKMs: Insiilethe county $1.00 a, year in advance; $1.50 if not paid in ajvance. Outside the county, $1,253 year, strictly in Advance. All communications should be addressed THE COLUMBIAN, BloomslmrK, Pa. "THURSDAY. AUGUST 6. 1913. DEATH IN ROENTGEN RAYS- That is a startling story which comes from Menlo Park, telling of the dire effects upon Thomas A. Edison and his assistant of continu ous experiment with the Roentgen or X-rays. It is the testimony of one of the leading physicians of New Jersey that Mr. Kdison's eye sight has been seriously affected, and his assistant, a young man named Dally, has been forced to sut fer the amputation of his lelt arm and all the fingers of his right hand. It is the testimony of Mr. Kdison himself that he has abonded experi ment with the X-rays with which he hoped to produce a fluorescent lamp as he found that the rays were driving him to blindness. This is disheartening information t.i the world, which has been led to nope that the wonderful and inex plicable rays which had the quality of penetrating opaque substances, would effect cures of disease that had baffled all science. It has been asserted that the rays would cure cancer aud internal tumorous aflec tios, yet one of the results of the experiments of young Dally was the development of skin cancer. One of the earliest effects was the with ering of the flesh and dropping out of the hair. Then came sclerosis or hardening of the arteries, numb ness and paralysis of the hands and arms. It is apparent from this that scien tists have much to reckon with in taese recent discoveries of X-rays, uranium, polonium and radium that is yet of a character mysterious, not to say awe inspiring. Professor Curie, the discoverer of radium, declares that if one were the pos sessor of a pound or two of the mysterious substance, aud were to remain in the same room with it a few minutes he would be shrivelled and paralyzed. Possibly experi mentation will develop means for the perfectly safe and valuable use of these discoveries, but nature claims many a victim among those who attempt to drag to light her secrets. Harrisburg Patriot. No Better Than Vandals According to report, the sea lion which has occasioned so much ex citement in various towns along the river has been killed. It was club bed to death at Elmira. Editor Newell, of the Dushore Review has little love for the men who did the killing, as can be seen from the following excerpt from his last is sue: "The escaped 'sea lion.' which was in leallity nothing but a seal with a coat of no marketable value, swam up the Chemung as far as the dam at Elmira. He couldn't get over the dam, and the water was shallow in his rear, and three men in a boat, to say nothing of the dog, blocked his escape. With great courage (?) they club bed the poor animal to death, and dragged his body around town for the curious to gaze at. We cannot understand why some people have an uncontrolable desire to kill every harmless animal that they can get their hands on, and when they can not reach him with a club, to use a rifle. The men who murdered the harmless seal were no better than vandals. We don't know who they were, and if they are subscribers to this paper they are at liberty to pay up and stop. We think mighty little of them." deposit your savings in Court Fitiet Girl of 20. Says Parents Pnould Have Trained Her to Marry at That Age. In an opinion handed down on Thursday. Judge H. Willis Bland, ot the Berks Orphans' Court, not only preaches a sermon to parents upon the training of their children, but es tablishes a precedent that may go far toward settling a very troublesome problem. He plainly states that where parents tail to act with wisdom the Courts must step in and see that the futures of the daughters are not blighted that where a girl has "loved not wisely but too well" there is another course than the one that leads to the brothel. William Rissmiller and Mary Lorah, of Blandon, have b;en lovers for sev eral years and affianced since last September. Miss Lorah is but 20 years of age, and, her parents contend, "too young and not sufficiently ac quainted with household duties to marry." though she has incurred an obligation to do so. Rissmiller is 23, and earns $3 a day in the Blandon rolling mill. When, after numerous entreaties, Allen Lorah, the girl's father, refused to sign the application tor a marriage license, a petition was presented to Judge Bland asking him to appoint a guardian who could give the necessary consent. The Judge has appointed William H. Boyer as the guardian, and filed an opinion that can be studied with profit by many parents. In it he says: "This is one of a type of cases which has come before this Court ol late with deplorable and, indeed, pain ful frequency. It is a case hard to deal with because it involves the question of the Court's interference in a matter which nature and law commit primarily to the domestic au thority of parents. "Some parents seem to think that the whole circle of their duty to their children embraces nothing but the supply of their physical needs, and that if they clothe them.feed them and house them they have performed their whole duty. They seem to be tin aware of the fact that all the value and beauty of life have their seat and source in the soul, and that while the supply of the physical wants of child ren is necessary to the maintenance of their bodies, the nurture of true cultivation of their spiritual life ar.d character is the highest duty and most sacred function of the parent. "There is a significent statement in the answer filed by the father in this case, and strongly persuasive, as evi dence that the petitioner here has not received that home training to which she was entitled. The answer says that she is too young and not suffi ciently acquainted with household dut ies to enter the bonds of matrimony.' In a little more than a month she will be 20 years of age, and in another year she will attain her majority, when she will be free to marry when and whom she pleases. If she has not yet been trained in the performance of the duties of housekeeping, when is "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for thirty years. It is elegant for hair dressing and for keeping the hair from splitting at the ends." J. A. Gruenenfelder, Grantfork, 111. Hair-splitting splits friendships. If the hair splitting is done on your own head, it loses friends for you, for every hair of your head is a friend. Ayer's Hair Vigor in advance will prevent the splitting. If the splitting has begun, it will stop it. $1.00 belli. All ssf fists. If your druRelut cannot supply you, end us one dollar and we will eipres you a bottle. He sure and r-lve the name of your nearest ex press office. Address. J. C. A Vkll CO., Lowell, Mass. n raur .-. -vin" Hair Splits Jill Humors Arc impure matters which the skin, liver, kidneys and other organs can not take erne of without help, thcro is such an accumulutiun ot them. They litter tho whole- system. riraplcs, boils, eczema and other eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired feeling, bilious turns, fits of indiges tion, dull headaches and many other troubles are due to them. Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills Itcmnvo all humors, overcome all their effects, strengthen, tone and invlgorato the whole system. "I had salt rheum on my bands so that I could not work. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and It dro?e out the humor. I continued Its us till the fores disappeared." Mrs. Ira O. Brown, Rumford Falls, Me. Hood's Sarsaparilla promises to cure and keeps the promise. she to be taught it, and why lias the instruction been so long delayed ? The petitioner is p large and, ap. parenily, a strong, healthy girl, and there is no reason disclosed why she should not have been taught in the ordinary duties of housekeeping. A large portion of the women marry under 21 years of age, and there is no good reason why a girl of that age should not be thoroughly trained in everything necessary to the proper management of a home. This volun tary declaration of the father implies a neglect, which may have extended to her moral interests. Of all men living, William Rismiller is the one who ought to marry the petitioner, and if he does not, who will ? As I am charged with the duty n the premises of doing what, in my opinion, would be best for the pe titioner, and as it is my opinion that she will be best served by opening the way for her to marriage, I will grant the prayer of the petitioner." y. M- 0. A- Man in Summer Otnferencjs. The second season of the Young Men's Christian Association Confer ence at Silver Bay, Lake George, has just opened with over two hundred present. There were present at its opening days as many as were in at tendance during the entire month last year. The opening address of the Conference was delivered Friday evening last by Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston, of New York City. The presiding ofncsr of the sessions is Mr. F. H. Andrews, of New Jersey. Among the prominent men who are to deliver addresses are Dr. W. F. McDowell, Prof. E. I. Bosworth, Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston, of New York, and Dr. Robert Johnston, of Ontario, who speak during the evening hours only. In the morning, Bibb training classes are conducted by Edwin F. See, of Brooklyn, and Dr. Johnston. A series of institutes for Association members for the discur. sion of principles and plans of their work are held at ten o'clock and are addressed by general secretaries and business men. The afternoons are given up to recreation. Everything is informal here, and the men here are out fur tun and frolic as well as for training and attendance at religious services, and they get it. During the Conference time a hve weeks' training course for general 'secretaries will be conducted by Dr. L. L. Doggett and others. From August 27th to Sep tember 2d, a Conference tor older boys leading in the Boys' Departments, directed by Edgar M. Robinson, will be held. Delegates frntn as far west as Wisconsin will attend this confer ence. The entire Silver Bay Hotel, which is capable of entertaining, with the cottages, 600 guests, is controlled by the Young Men's Christian Associa tion of the East and Canada, for a va cation and Conference retort. Gen eral Secretaries of Associations have been and are still recruiting their members for this gathering. It is one of the most popular summer features of the organization. Ottntralia Bad Man Captured- A wild eyed Italian who has been terrorizing Centralia was arrested Friday night by constable Condy Langan. On Thursday uight the fellow, Dommic Domnio, entered Tretter's saloon and after getting several drinks refused to pay. Tretter and his son-iu-law, Joseph Gustnia, attempted to force him to settle when Deunnio pulled a razor and drove them out. He then left but came back again Friday night and renewed the trouble, threatened to bum the place down and whirled his razor around three Mount Car niel men waiting for the car. Con stable Langan was summoned but the fellow escaped and was later caught in the swamp west of Cen tralia by Langan and Bernard Cane. Before Squire Black the fellow was held in $3000 bail but he couldn't furnish it. He was brought to Bloomsburg on Saturday, and lock ed up. TOWNSEND'S Mid Summer Sale of Clothing PER CENT. REDUCTION ON ALL The Fast Disappearing Buff.dc- The thought is almost pathetic when one conns to fully realize that in all this broad land ot ours there is scarcely a thousand head of the ma jestic buffalo left. Once the fertile plains of the Far West were covered by roving herds as far as th eye could reach. But thirst for blood, or so-called sport, was too strong in man to be resisted, and the big game hunters (gentlemen butch ers) began to shoot the brown-coated beasts merely to brag of how many they could kill in one day. Thou sands were slaughtered in this man-" ner, many for the pelt, a 'urge number for the meat, for it is stated that buf falo hump iu most toothsome; and yet still as many were shot down merely for wanton sport, so that tcday only a few private herds and the Govern ment's protected herd of about sixty in the Yellowstone Park are what is left of this majestic animal. Austin Corbin, the late president of the Long Island Railroad Company, had quite a pretentious herd, which upon his death, became the gift to Bronx Park, N. Y. Major Gordon Lillie ("Pawnee Bill") is the proud possessor of the largest herd of buffalo in the United States, or, in fact in the world. Some years ago he purchased the famous Casey herd and at once removed them to his ranch near Guthrie, Okla homa. It is his intention to have a ranch, and so far has been most fortu nate in his undertaking. He has made quite a study of the subject and has been able to overcome a great many difficulties that beset those who in time past have tried to raise buf falo. One of the greatest drawbacks, as well as one of the most mystifying facts concerning the breeding of buf falo, is that nearly all the calves are males. Some of the finest specimet s of these early bovines of the American Continent will be exhibited when Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West exhibits at Bloomsburg Saturday, August Sth, and it is said that among other features of this great organiza tion hundreds cf cowboys, scouts, Indians' Cossack?, Arabs, Mexicans, Vaqueros, Rough Riders and a con gress of mounted heroes will unite in presenting actual happenings in events that have made history for the world at large. Belief for Lockjaw. A correspondent of the Scientific American says: let onyone who has a case of lockjaw take a quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour it on the wound, no matter where it is, and relief will follow in less than a minute. Nothing better can be applied to a severe cut or bruise than cold turpen tine. It will give certain relief almost instantly. Turpentine is also a sover eign remedy for croup. Saturate and place the flannel on the throat and chest, and in each case three or four drops may be taken inwardly on a lump of sngar. Bank lor Ringtown- Riugtown, in the Catawissa val ley, is to have a bank. A charter has been applied for, and the pro motors are the Dupont powder firm, who recently purchased the plant of the Shenandoah Powder Co. The town has a population of one thous and, and the bank will prove a de cided advantage to the business interests. CASTOR I A for Infanta and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought ignature of Ztjfi&L cuiOT'Hiiisrca- TOWNSEND'S. Honesty and Worthiness arc Closely Linked in This Ten Days Sale of ReIiable Linens- The achievement of gathering together such an array 6f good reliable linens, at such economical prices should be appreciated. The importance of this, to the housewives of Bloomsburg and vicinity is one that can not be under estimated. There is nothing that appeals so strongly to the heart of a home loving woman as dainty linens. She will be more than enthusiastic when she beholds these. The possibilities that are here presented, to be able to replenish the linen closet at such frugal prices, are in : spiring, they should not be missed. Never have we felt so near satisfied with the linens we have gathered. It is the ' finest array of the designer's and weaver's art to be seen anywhere, and neither you nor I have known better values. Here's just a few specimens from the broad variety. Unbleached Table Linens. Thews are all good linena but we call your special attention to the third item in the list. It is a rare bargain. :io values at H)c the yard 40c values at 30c the yard 50c values at 42Jc the yard 75c values at G2Jc the yard 8oc values at 70c the yard Others at same reductions up to 1 1.10 the yard. NAPKINS. Many of these will match the table linen. All of them are the same reliable linens,t little prices. Tf Unbleached Napkins. 1.40 napkins at 1.19 1.50 napkins at 1.15 2.00nupkin8 at. 1.05 2.50 napkins at 2.00 Bleached Napkins. 1.89 napkins at 2.00 napkins at 2.75 napkins at 2.08 napkins at 3.85 napkins at 1.50 1.U3 2.25 2.05 3.25 10 Discount on all Wool Goods. F. P. PURSEL. Goal in Salem Township One year ago, says the Berwick Independent, it was predicted that coal would be tound on the Varner property in Salem township. Coal bearing slate has been found in large quantities and a very combustible kind of anthracite coal has been un covered. The matter has attract ed attention and a state geologist visited the locality and examined the workings and the out put. The Pennsylvania Company has entered into an agreement with Mr. Varner aud with the owners of the sur rounding land in which they under take to bore for coal on their re spective farms and to allow the in terested parties to examine the cores produced through the use of the diamond drill. The prospect ing right extends over a period of one year. The Pennsylvania Coal Company has installed a diamond drill and operations will begin as soon as the other necessarv machin ery arrives. Box papers from 10c. to 50c. at Mercer's Drug and Book Store. Bleached Table Linens. Like the unbleached linens you will And these a rare bargain, not goods bought for this sale, but the same quality of good re liable linens we always sell. We call special attention to the second item in the liat. 45c values at 85c the yard 00c values at 4Sc the yard 75c values at l5o the yard 60o values at 80c the vard This is mercerized. (Vic values at 58c tho yard 85o values at 75c the yard 1.00 values at 87J cents Others at same reductions up to 2.75 the yard. Towels and Toweling. Just a few items to show you the saving you will make in purchasing one of the every day necessities of the home Best cotton twilled toweling, 4c the yard, worth tic. An all linen toweling, 10c the yard, worth 12Je. Heavier all linen toweling, 12Jo tho yard, worth 15c. Large hemstitched all linen towel 25c each, worth 30c. Large hemmed towel, 12ic worth 18c. Other towels at like reductions Bargains e in Women's Shoes. To Close Out Odds and Ends. 36 pairs 300 shoes at 2.00. 40 pairs 2.50 shoes at 1.75. 60 pairs 2.00 shoes at 1.50. 80 pairs 1.50 to 3.00 shoes at I.OO. NOT ALL SIZES IN ANY ONE KIND. W. H. MOORE, Cor. Main and Iron Sta. JBLOOMSTiUFG, PA.
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