4 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Capital 9 100,000 STRONGEST BANK First National Bank, OFU&OOafSliURG, JIM. STATEMENT. At the Close of Business November loth, 1904. RESOURCES, '.wna, . 313,13294 1. S. fiotid, J jo.cuo.oo "Her Bonds, 156,15.00 ' litcling, . 27,(00.00 is from Banks and U. S. Treas. 34, 1 59.71 n't Slid Reserve, 129,388.31 $698,705.96 E. W. M. LOW, President, THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Established 1837. Consolidated 1869 Published Every Thursday Morning, At Bloomsburg, the County Seat 01 Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. ELWELL, Editor. D. J. TASKEK, Local Editor. GEO. C. ROAX, Foreman. Tikmsi Inside the county 81.00 a year la advance; $ 1 .50 i f not paid in aivance. Outside thecounty, $1.25 a year, strictly in Advance. All communications should be addressed THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburu, Ta. THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1905. WASHINGTON. From our Repular Correspondent. Washington, Jan. 2, 1905 "As I have repeatedly . recom niendeJ; all the forest work of the Government should be concentrated in the Department of Agriculture, " declared the president in his last message to Congress and in support of the proposition he cited cogent reasons for the concentration of this work in a single Department. In conclusion he adds, "Every admin istrative officer concerned is con vinced of the necessity of the pro posed consolida'ion of forest work n the Department of Agriculture, i ind I myself heve urged it more ' :han once in former messages. Again I commend it to the early and favorable consideration of the Congress. The interests of the Na tion at large and of the West in particular have suffered greatly be cause of the delay." Behind this straightforward re commendation there lies a story which is typical of Republican partisan legislation. The President has, over and over again, pointed out the advantages that would accrue from consolidating the forest work of the Government and Con gress has never heeded his urging. The reason why it has not is known but to a few. It is that Speaker Cannon, the all powerful dictator of legislation in the House, has de terminedly opposed this step, has opposed it because he feared that the movement, although making for better and more economical ad ministration, would displace nine of this political henchmen who now enjoy "jobs" as forest rangers. Of course there are other members of Congress whose satellites enjoy similar preferment but their opposi tion would amount to naught if they were not supported by the omni potent speaker. There are indica tions, however, that the President has discovered the reason for Con gress failurj to act, for he has now placed all forest employees under the protection of the civil service regulations and it remains to be seen what card "Uncle Joe" Can non will play next. The Speaker has been very active of late in circulating reports regard ing the necessity of extreme econo my in this session's appropriations. The several forms of remedial legis lation which the President has pointed out as essential to the wel fare of the nation would call for no increased appropriations, and a session in which it is desired to cur tail legislation carrying appropria tions would prove ideal for the con sideration of such measures but the Republicans at heart care for no legislation which will only further the welfare of the people and it is a safe prediction that in no single in stance will Congress undertake to enact such legislation as has been I recommended by Presideut Roose velt, nor even to lower by a trifle the Dingley tariff schedules. ' , A simple and highly important step recommended by the President Surplus $125,000 LIABILITIES Cnpitnl r . Nirplus and Profits (net) Circulation Deposits $100,000.00 145,392.98 49.300.00 ' 404,0 1 a. 98 $698,705.96 E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier. in previous messages, although not referred to in his last, one that would contribute materially to the economical administration of the Nation's affair's, is the enactment of a law providing a modern and efficient method of arriving at the weight of the mails carried by the various railroads. That the present law is totally inadequate was point' ed out by the Auditor for the Post office, Henry A. Castle who show ed, a vear ago, how the Govern ment might be and probably was, mulcted of thousands of dollars an nually by the present antiquated system. Ul course there is 110 like lihood that such legislation will be enacted, despite the President s re commendation and Mr. Cannon's determinatidn to promote economy The reason why is plain. The rail roads prefer the present system and Representative Overstreet of Indi ana, now chairman of the House committee on Postoffices and Post roads, will permit no bill to be re ported from that committee which will effect an improvement over the present method. Equally of course it is highly improper to mention those little secrets of the House above a whisper, despite the fact that they are true. If Mr. Over street, whose testimony before the McCall committee of last session varied so startlingly from the facts, were asked why no new method of paying the railroads was provided he would blandly explain that his committee had no time to go iuto the subject. Much as opinions may va-y re garding the advisability of further increases in the United States navy, probably few people appreciate the true reason why the recommenda tions of expert naval officers are re jected when new vessels are author ized and plans for battleships which the naval experts regard as a proper size are rejected and those for small er ships authorized. At the head of the Senate committee on Naval affairs sits the most determined and, in some instances the most potent of Senators. He is Mr. Eugene H'-le of Maine. Unfortunately for the navy there are two ship yards in Maine and, still more unfortun ately, they cannot build large battle ships. Therefore, each Congress must always provide for a few small ships for the construction of which these small shipyards can compete, in so far as there is any competition among the builders of battleships, despite the recommendations of the naval experts aud their insistence that there is no room for the small bottleship in modern warfare. Seldom has a more deplorable spectacle been presented to the American people than that exhibit ed by the great State of New York which will next month have foisted upon it as United States Senator either the representative of the New York Central railroad, Chauncey M. Depew, who has for six years played the"metoo" part to "Tom" Piatt, the "Easy Boss" as perefctly as Mr Piatt played it to Roscoe Conklin, or the creature of Governor Benja mine P. Odell, whose administra tion has been a stench in nostrils of New Yorkers to such an extent that Mr. Odell's candidate for gov ernor ran 50,000 votes behind his ticket and would have inevitably been defeated but for the great Roosevelt landslide. With such men sent to the Senate from the greatest State in the Union is it sur prising that the Senate stands in the way of all legislation which might really benefit the people? 1 William MacAvov tnrlav Tunkhannock, where he will spend a lew ciays with friends. While there he will be the cuest at a hah. quet tendered him by Capt. New- Derry 01 me L,aiayette, Capt. Rey nolds of the U. P. and Capt. Tit man of the Bloomsburg foot ball eleven.-, all of whom reside in that vicinity and are intimate lriends of Mr. MacAvoy. Hazleton Sentinel. IN THECOUNTY New Tear to Bring Groat Prosperity. Prospects Art That Business In 1 S03 Will Broak All Records. The several financial reviews in dicate that 1904 has been a year of very great prosperity. The Pre.si dent's message, with its recom mendations as to the tariff and con trol of the public corporations, has been very favorably commented up on by the business interests, and no fear 19 expressed that extreme opinions on either side will prevail in Congressional enactment. The great corn and cctton crops have made the West and S"Uth prosperous and comfortable, and the labor situation in the manufact uring districts of the North and East is most satisfactory. The banking interests in all sections re port excellent results for the year. The insurance business, except for the Baltimore fire, has never been more prosperous. The Life part of it is mauifested by the early report of the New York Life Com pnny. President McCall states that the New Year has produced the largest business ever reported by any similar company. The policy holders are nearly one million in number and the insurance in force approximates two billions in amount. The last quarter of the year added nearly one hundred and thirt millions of applkat:ons tor new iusurance in total exceeding five hundred millions for the year. The company's policy reserve securities include government, State, municipal and railroad bonds to the extent of $290,000,000. No stocks of auy kind are held as in vestments, and no bond on the list in default of interest. The com pany, during the sixty years of its existence, has paid in claims to policy-holders over four hundred and fifty million dollars. The enormous exports of the fis cal year, $1,460,829,000 and the ad vance orders in the steel and iron trade all indicate that 1905 will be a record year unless labor troubles, which are not looked for now, arise to change the situation. 8iz Bayings to Remember Out of a large number of quota tions selected by its readers the Woman's Home Companion for Jan uary prints the following as the six most helpful mottoes for the New year. They are worth remember ing: "There is something better than making a living; making a life." "Our success in life depends up on our will to do. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." "Great principles are in small actions. If we fail in our present circumstances to live nobly, we need not imagine we should have done better on a grander scale. De velop great character in simple duties and in inconspicuous trials. "To be of good cheer in case of disappointment; exercise greater charity toward the erring, and make more allowance for the opin ions of people whose views differ from mine; to smile more and frown less." "To be honest: to be kind; to earn a little, and to spend a little less; to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence; to renounce, when that shall be neces sary, and not be embittered; to keep a tew tnends, and these without capitulation; above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy." Different form of Grip. A prominent physical! of the State says that the grippe now pre valent differs materially from that of last year, which affected the bowels largely, in that the present amiction ravages the throat and head Ayers Losing your hair? Coming out by the combful? And doing nothing? No sense in that! Why don't you use Ayer's Hair Vigor and Hair Vigor promptly stop the falling? Your hair will begin to grow, too, and all dandruff will dis appear. Could you reason-' ably expect anything better? " Aysr'a Hair Vigor (treat iiioctia with rn. Mr Imlr fulling out vary badly, Imt the Hair VlKr inmiail It anil now my lialr It all rlglit."-W. V. LoiiSlJON, Llmlaay, Cal. f 1.N boftle. j. (,, 4vKit c.o Alldriigflita. foi awiSiaaaiail Thin Hair VALUE OF ONE VOTE- How It May Chanae the Policy ol the Government. An old story, said to have origi nated with the immortal Tom Cor win, of Ohio, is recalled to illustrate the value of a single vote. A Rhode Island farmer of 1811 on his way to the polls, was too late to vote because he stopped to rescue one of his pigs which was wedged 111 a fence corner. He was a Federa list and opposed to the war. A Republican, or war man, was elect ed to the legislature from his dis trict by one vote. The legislature elected by one vote a war senator whose one vote in the United States senate in 1812 confirmed the nomi nation of Jackson as major general of the United States armv. General Jackson became the idol of the country, wa9 elected president, kick ed all the whigs out of office, with drew all moneys from national de positories and kept the country in constant hot water, all through one Rhode Island faimer who thought more of his pig than his vote. THE CIGARETTE LAW. How It it Generally Evaded Throughout tho Country. The anti-cigarette law passed by a recent Legislature is practically a dead letter, while, pradoxicallv, it has also done some good. Dealers, with a few exceptions, have dis continued the sale of cigarettes to boys of tender age, but they con tinue to sell them tobacco along with which goes a pack of cigar ette paper, and now they roll their own cigarettes with all the skill and precision of a veteran. The anti-cigarette law is known as the Zern law the bill having been pre sented to the Senate by Senator J G. Zern, of Lehightou. Almost all the boys take a quiet little puff of the cigaiette on the side almost all the boys own their own cigarette paper, and as long as tne dealers are allowed to furnish them with tobacco you can make up your mind that thev will smoke, aud some girls smoke, too, it is whispered. TREAT THE EDITOR RIGHT. The Miltonian of Milton, very truthfully says : Every man in every town during the course of his life time has 'o ask a favor of an editor n-t an exception to this rule. A man may escape a doctor, keep clear of the court, but once in his life at least, every man has to go to the newspaper to have a certain piece put in a death notice,1 a marriage notice, etc., to have a cer tain piece kept out or to have his name printed ia, or omitted from some item. It is therefore to your interest to treat the editor fairly He desires to be fair; he would rather do the right than the wrong thing, but it you g've him a kick a dent of it may be found in the top of your own hat some day and you will never know how it got tnere. Don t think you are lm mun ; don't think that Providence has especially favored you. Your time will come, aud when it does it will be a fine investment if you have a friend in the editor s office Pawnee Bill's Buffalo Ranch- Pawnee Bill, the showman, has a buffalo ranch south of Pawnee UKianoma, and has at the preseut time a bunch ot fat young buffalo which he will kill and ship to the East for the holidays. He expects to realize close to $30,000 from his sales this season, as the average price will be $1.25 per pound. The hides will bring him $75 to $150 according to size. His ranch lies in the heart of the buffalo range of the 70s, where the growth of the buffalo grass is the heaviest. He proposes to try the experiment of crossing the buffalo with Galloway cattle. If successful he expects to nave an animal of a much more kindly disposition than the buffalo The Day of Strikes Nearly Over. "I firmly believe that the day of the strike is over," said T. V. Powderly, former head of the Knights of Labor. "I don't mean by that there is never to be another strike," he continued, "but I do mean that each year will see fewer causes for strikes aud that, as a natural result the strike will be a thing of the past as a means of bringing employers and working men to amicable relations. "I know of nothing so encourag ing as the recent conferences be tween capitalists aud laboring men. They have talked things over in many controversies during the past year or so, aud with the invariable result, that a peaceful solution of the problem in hand has come." Beware ot the " something for nothing " advertisements that ap pear in many papers. ' Townsend's WE PUT ON SALE TO TDJL.HT f MEN'S HEAVY FLEECE LINED UNDERWEAR THAT WE haIve BEEN RETAILING AT $1.00 THE SET. OUR PRICE ON THIS LOT 75 THE SUIT; WHILE THEY LAST. ALL SIZES FROM 34 to 44. TOfflM We Start Our January Clearing Sale This Way! Comforts. 3.00 and 3.50, now 2.65 and 2.98. Children's Coats 3.98 to 5.00 at 1.98, 5.00 to 7.50 at 2.98, 10.00 coats' now 3.98. Misses Skirts 1.50 to 1.98 at 1.00. Ladies' Skirts 5.00 to 6.50 at 3.98, and 4.50 to 7.00. Skirts for 3.95. Ladies' Waists. 1.00 to 6.50, now 89c to 5.29. Bleached Tluslin 10 yds 50c. 10 yds 62c. 10 yds 69c. 10 yds 75c. (the 75c is equal to Hill's.) Skirts.' Remnants at F. P. BLOOMSBURG, To Reduce the Justices. There has been considerable talk about the proposed bill to be intro duced at the next session of the legislature for the regulation of the office of jusice of the peace. Repre sentatives Reese and Holcomb of Luzerne county, who are fathering the bill, feel confident that the time la .now ripe for a remedy in the Cents SEND'S Unbleached Muslin. 10 yds 49c. 10 yds 60c. 10 yds 65c. PepperellR. Womens' Suits Just Half Price 8.00 to 27.50 suits now 4.00 to 13.75. Blankets 11-4 all wool, white, were 5.00 and 7.00, now 4.50 to 6.25, 59c cotton blankets at 49 cents. ' Outing Flannel 14c ones now 11 1-2, 8c ones now 6 1-2.. 1 Outing Gowns Men's 50c and 1.00 now 45c and 89c. Ladies' gowns 65c at 50c. Remnant Prices. PURSEL. PENNA. present system of the minor judici ary, i It is the intention of those in charge of the bill to secure a magis trate for every 25,000 population, pay him an annual salary and pro vide him with a marshal to serve writs. All money taken in is to be turned over to the county treasurer and by this means tbey believe they can save the county each year thou sands of dollars.
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