THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA
STRONGEST BANK
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First National Bank,
STATEMENT.
At the Close of Business November 10th, 1904.
RESOURCES,
'.tins, f 312. 13294
S. Uonl, 50,1 00.00
1 her Honda, jK6,ia$.oo
i'. ailing, . 27,100.00
e from Banks amlU. S. Trens. a4.159.71
. .-h anil Kesetve, 129.2S8.31
698,705.96
E. W. M. LOW, President,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED tS6h.
THE COLUMBIA DFMBCRAT,
ESTMll.ISItKP IS37. CoNSOI.I DA I lil) 1869
runi.isiiK.il Kvkry Titi RsnAY Morning,
At r.loomslmr, the County Scat of
C'Urul'i;i County, Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. ELWELL. Editor.
D. J. TASKEK, Local Editor.
CEO. C. LOAN, Eokuman.
Tkums: Inside the county $1.00 a year
fo advance; !j 1 . 50 i f not paid in a Kance.
Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in
AJv.mce.
All co nmunicitions should lc.iddresscd
THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomslmrg, Ta.
THURSDAY, MARCH a, 1905.
Political Announcements.
subject to the rules of the demo
cratic party.
Primary Election, Saturday
June io. Convention Tuesday,
June 13th.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
A. N. YOST
of Bloomiburg.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
ISAAC REICHART
of Scott Township.
UOR TROTIIONOTARY AND CLERK
OF THE COURTS,
C. M. TERWILUGER
of Blooinsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
J. C. RUTTER JR.,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
CHRISTIAN A. SMALL
of Blooinsburg.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
ELISHA RINGROSE
of Center Township.
Subject to the rules ot the Republi
can Party.
Primary Election Saturday, April
75th. Convention, Monday, April
17th.
A BEBUKE TO UN WILLIS Q JdfiORS.
A number of Dauphin County
men, who after having been drawn
for jury service, sought to avoid
their duty, were rebuked by Presi
dent Judge Weiss in court at Harris
burg Monday morning. Alter hear
ing the numerous requests to be
excused the Judge said: "there is
not a semblance of a reason why
any man should be excused The
men are all suitable and yet unwill
ing to serve. The reasons given
don't rise to serious consideration."
The Judge then said that every
court men asked for release who
don't want to serve and find lawyers
who are willing to make motions to
excuse them when there are 110
reasons at all. He ordered all
jurors to hold themselves subject to
call.
It is just the same here. Rarely
is there a court that men drawn do
not seek to shirk their duty, and
they nearly always succeed. Some
time ago a juror was released from
duty on the pretext that he was a
valuable employee, and could not be
spared by bis employer, but instead
of going home where his services
were alleged to be needed he re
mained in town the greater portion
of the week. Every man drawn as
a juror whoeannot present a reason
able excuse ''should be made to
serve.
XT .
iew xoric is to nave a worls
fair in 1909 in honor of the discdW
cry 01 tne Hudson river. T
Dutch Deole. fainilioc haoAnA
an uncle ot President Roosevelt wj
raise lorty million dollars for
purpose. Options on 600 acres
land have been secured.
Surplus
$125,000
LIABILITIES
Onpitnl $100,000.00
Surplus and Trofits (net) 145,392.98
Circulation 49.300.CK
l)eposit . 404,0198
$698,705.96
E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier.
IIOOESAN FINAKG8-
New $100,000 Endowment Fund. $34.
236.18 is Already Raised.
The endowment fund committee
of tie1. n;w Episcopal diocese of
Harrisburg, of which James M
Lamberton, of Harrisburg, is sec
retary. has issued to the clergy aud
laity a statement regarding the
progress of t lie collection of the
kind which it is hoped to bring up
to $100,000.
Thus far $17,464.70 has been
pledged from forty parishes and
missions. The diocese will receive
from the old diocese $16 771.48,
making a total endowment to date
of $34,236.18. Subscriptions may
be made payable in three annual
installments and without interest
A special meeting of the com
mittee was held 111 . Harrisburg,
February 13. Rev. George I.
Brown was elected chairman in the
place of the Rev. Edward Henry
Eckel, resigned. Rev. Roland S.
Nichols, of St. Paul's church this
town was made a member of the
committee.
A PICTURE OF LUX'.
This has been a remarkable win
ter for coasting. There was no lack
for opportunity. The youth of the
land have enjoyed unusual privil
eges. But how many wrecks might
be counted in the enjoyment of their
sports, and how many fatalities?
How many skated to their death
through treacherous ice one of the
most exhilarating sports known to
youthful enjoyment. How many
hearts have been made sad through
the accidents resulting from indul
gence in these innocent and health
reviving sports? But, who would
deprive the world of youth and
children from enjoying these sports
to their fullest capacity? Theonly
echo of protest might be heard from
the distant hills; "Is it safe?" But,
where is safety ? Where does not
danger lurk ? Who is sure that his
next step is not into a death trap?
We have only drawn a picture of
the great arena of life. All the
world are coasting in every avenue
of life's activites. In every pursuit
of business or pleasure, every indi
vidual is coasting or riding on some
vehicle of disease, down the . steep
decline of life; and at every stage
cf the short route, many wreck and
topple over into eternity. Some are
pushed speedily along by the cruel
blows of assassins, others by bombs
and dynamite, and others by the
cannons' deafening roar, while other
multitudes are hastened on by the
rattle of musketry. Thus the
stream of humanity is coasting 011
to eternity through all the ages to
come, as they have through all the
ages past. Yet who wculd think
to stop business because people in
the best of health are liable to drop
out of the living ranks at any day,
or any hour. The business of the
world will go on, and the vacancy
of the missing filled by others, and
those dropping out are never missed
by the moving mass of the world.
All nature and eternity are not de
pendent upon the innumerable vi
cissitudes of humanity, in solving
the great problem of man's future
destiny. John C. Wenner.
In 1897 the Pennsylvania legis
lature attended the dedication of the
Grant monument in New York.
James Russ of Harrisburg was en
gaged to supply the refreshments
for the trip, and his bill was a little
more than $6,000. The next legis
lature refused to make an appropria
tion to pay it. In 1903 a law was
passed permitting suit to be brought
Russ, accordingly brought suit and
lost. He appealed and the Supreme
Court sent the case back for retrial.
A few days ago a special attorney
for the state confessed judgment for
$4,000 and a bill will be introduced
appropriating the amount. Russ
it is said has collected about $500
by appeals to those who were on
the trip.
IN THECOUNTY
Washington. ,
From our Kccular Correspondent.
Washington, Feb. 28, 1905
Congress is now engaged in the
usual Titautic struggle of crowding
into the last two weeks of the sess
ion all the work that has been neg
lected through the previous months
and the result is a legislative jam
which compels hasty and ill-considered
legislation, the neglect of work
that ought to be done and the care
less perlormance of work thatshould
command the utmost care and pre
cision. Appropriation bills provid
ing millions of dollars are rushed
through the closing hours of a Con
gress with less consideration than
should properly be given to bills
appropriating hundreds and great
policies are intitiated on the assur
ance of a few men that they are
judicious or necessary. The oc
casion of all this is the constant
fear that improper legislation will
be enacted under the spur of local
demand, that members of Congress
unable, or unwilling, to rise above
the petty considerations of their
own political futures, will lout the
national treasury and that under
the lash of agitators legislation
inimical to the interests of the great
corporations will be forced upon
the statutes. The leaders in both
houses of Congress permit, then
fore, a waste of time throughout
the session in order that they may
have the excuse of "lick of time"
for not passing the private bill of
this, that or the other member, in
stead of denouncing the undesired
private measure if it be unworthy,
or of passing the public bill, if
worthy, regardless of the pressure
of lobbyist or capitalist.
No more striking instance of ill
considered legislation has been fur
nished in recent years than is pre
sented by the naval appropriation
bill of this session. Early in the
session Republicans as well as
Democrats declared that the con
dition of the nation's finances would
not permit of the construction of
more great battleships at enormous
cost, and it was generally accepted
that none, or at most only one,
would be authorized at this session
of Congress. The President, how
ever, who is determined to have his
"big stick" policy carried out, has
demanded that not less than three
big battleships be authorized and
the House this week passed a bill
providing for two, all that the
President really expected. Now
the Senate committee 011 naval
affairs has determined to follow the
lead of the House, not because it
believes that the country can afford
to, or ought to, build two ships,
but because the time is so limited
that greatest expedition can be ef
fected by accepting the house bill
and refraining from crossing the
will of the President.
Fortunately the Senate does not
expire with the Congress and for
that reason the San Domingo treaty
wiil not be rushed through while
the hands of the big Senate clock
are turned back in a ludicrous at
tempt to establish the fact that the
hour of 12 o'clock noon on March
4, has not arrived. Senator Bacon,
the leading Democrat on the com
mittee on Foreign Relations, has
given notice that the San Doiningan
treaty cannot be ratified at this
session of Congress and the time is
so short that no difficulty will be
experienced in preventing the ap
proval of the convention. Instead,
the treaty, or protocol, will be con
sidered during the special session
of the Senate which invariably fol
lows a presidential inauguration
aud which is held for the purpose
of confirming the cabinet and other
nominations which the newly inau
gurated President always sends to
the Senate.
Rarely has the Sena te seemed
prepared to judge of a great problem
Ayers
Give nature three helps, and
nearly every case of con
sumption will recover. Fresh
air, most important of all.
Cherry
Pectoral
Nourishing food comes next.
Then, a medicine to control
the cough and heal the lungs.
Ask any good doctor.
" I first ni.d Ay.r'i dhurry Pwitoral M ve.n
afro. I have eon terrible ne of lung du
it eurea by it. I am never without it."
ALUMUT i. Hamilton, Marietta, Ohio.
nti.,m.. fi.oo.
All .trtiiiif Itita.
for 1
T. C. ATIR im.,
T.owrlt, Miiatt.
Consumption
Health demands daily action of the
bowels. Aid nature with Ayer's Pills,
so nearly on its merits as in the
case of the San Domingan treaty.
There are no party lines on this
convention. A few rock-ribbed
Republicans, staunch supporters of
the Administration, would be wil
ling to vote for ratification without
due consideration, but many Re
publican and all Democratic Senat
ors will insist on full and free dis
cussion ol the policy which the San
Domingan pact would inaugurate
before they will cast an affirmative
vote therefor. While the discus
sion of the San Domingan treaty
will, of course, be in secret session,
it is tensouable to assume that the
Washington correspondents will
secure fairly accurate reports of the
debate and it promises to furnish
some instructive and interesting
reading.
The Swayne impeachment case
is drawing to a close and will prob
ably be disposed of this week.
The testimony and closing argu
ments, in fact, will .ill be disposed
ot on Friday, nlthough the final
v te of the Senate niny be defer
red urtil later. The evidence sub
iniue 1 seems clearly to hive estab
lished the unfitness of tlu d.fendait
for a place on the federal bench,
but it has hirdly proven dishonesty
or other charge which might be
termed either a "high crime" or a
"misdemeanor" and consequently
the chances are all for acquittal of
the accused jurist. One of the
lessons of this caie has been the
necessity of a process whereby a
judge may be removed without at
taching the stigma which must
inevitably follow impeachment.
All hope of railway rate legisla
tion for this session of Congress has
been abandoned, due largely to the
philandering tactics of the "Honor
able" Steven B. Elkins, the chair
man of the Senate committee of
Inter-state Commerce. Mr. Elkins
is a prominent railway man who
contributed upwards of $80,000 to
the campaign fund which resulted
in electing him to the United States
Senate and his conception of his
duty is not in the line of any cur
tailment of the profits now paid
him by his various railway invest
ments. There does seem, how
ever, to be good reason to expect
some adequate legislation of this
chaacter at the special session of
Congress which President Roose
velt purposes to call next October,
whether Mr. Elkins committee re
commends it or not. Senators Cul
lom and Dolliver (Repuolicans)
have acted with the Democrats on
Senator Elkins' Committee, but
even this combination was impotent
before the powetful influence of the
West Virginia ".statesman."
Triumphs of Modern Surgery-
That awesome bundle of potential
mysteries we call the body is made
the subject, in the March McClure's,
of an absorbing article on modern
surgery by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
This writer owns the happy faculty
of seeing a thing "by and large,"
of grasping the esseutial facts aud
telling them vividly, with dramatic
force. He reduces technicalities to
their lowest terms, and makes a sur
gical process as interesting and as
compelling as a tale of war. The
triumphs of this most modern of
sciences are elucidated in the lan
guage of every-day. Here is the
story of the gastric ulcer, an ail
ment as serious when cured as in the
virulent stage, for as he explains,
in healing it causes a contraction of
the stomach's wall, narrowing that
organ's exit to the point of useless
uess. "In serious cases the method
of treatment has been to cut out the
ulcer or scar a complicated and
dangerous resource because of the
proximity of tha solar plexus, which
(as everyone knows, since Mr. Fitz-
sunmons operated npon Mr. Corbet
at Carson City, for the removal of
a championship belt) is a nerve cen
ter highly susceptible to shock.
' 'Several years ago a German sur
geon, named Wolfer, contrived an
operation which is nothing more nor
less than a skillful plumbing device.
He cut a ho'e in the stomach in
front of the ulcer, clipped off the
smoller intestine, and spliced thr
the two together, leaving the ulcer
to take care of itself. This process
short-circuited the food route. The
ulcer, relieved of irritation from the
passing over of food, soon healed:
the resultant contraction didn't
matter because the old exit was now
out of commission, aud the system
of plumbing properly took its place
among recognized usctul opera
tions.
Reduction iu Poor Tax.
At a regular meeting of the
Directors of the Bloom Poor Dis
trict, held at Alms bouse Saturday
evening, it was decided to reduce
the tax rate for the ensuing year
from four mills to three mills.
Bttrt th. ) l18 Kind You Have Always
WE SHOW RfiAWY
FASHIONABLE
FABRICS
And there isn't the slightest doubt
that you could easily and quickly
find some thing that you would
be glad to call yours.
There are other reasons than
variety too.
Price is one of them.
And price is a point that pros
pective customers cannot know
too much about.
A good suit costs
&1S.OO Here.
From that, dollar by dollar the
prices advance, and up dollar by
dollar also go the values.
Glad to show you any time.
TOWM
Final Clean up of
Winter Underwear.
Misses' and Boys' Fleeced Kibbed (gray) Skiits,
Pants and Drawers Size 18 were 12c. now 10c.
Size 20 were 15c. now 12 J c. Size 22 were 18c.
now 15c. Size 21 were 20c. now 18c, Sizes 20
and 28 were 25c. now 20c. Sizes 28 and 30 were
28 and 30c. now 25c. Size 3 1 were 35c. now 30c.
Women's Underwear.
Silver gray or white, tine wool, vests and draw
ers, were 1.50 now 1.35. Two-thirds wool were
1.00 now 89c. Wool sizes were 1.15 now 1.01.
Men's Underwear.
Natural Wool pants and drawers were 1.00 and
1.50, now 89c. and 1.35. Medium weight pants
and drawers were 1.00 now 89c. 50c. shirts and
drawers now 42 cents.
Combination Suits.
Were 2.00 now 1.00. Were 1.50 now 1.35.
Were 1.75 now 1.58. Were 50c. 75c. and 1.00
now 44c. G8c. and 89c.
Cotton Fleeced Underwear.
Women's Cotton Fleeced Underwear that have
been 25c and 50c. now are 20c. and 12c. Out
sizes that were 30c and 55c. are now 25c. and 50c.
Little Tots Not Forgotten
In this sale. Were 35c. to 1.00 now 31c. and
89 cents. Were 10c. to 85c. now 3Gc. to 7Gc.
F. P.
BLOOMSBURG,
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