THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA. STRONGEST BANK too, Capital First National Bank, OF H&CiaMSHUIta, PA. STATEMENT. At the Close of Business November loth, 1904. RESOURCES. oans, $311,13194 1. 8. HomK 50.coo.oo ther Bonds, 256,115.00 lildinu, . a7.co0.00 i-i from Hanks and U. S.Treas. 1.1,159.71 . wli and Reserve, ll),l88.3i $698,705.96 E. V. M. LOW, President, THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Kstaui.isiikd 1837. Consolidated 1869 Published Eveky Thursday Morning, At Rloomsliurfj, the County Seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. EI. WELL, Editor. 1). J. TASK!-: i;, Local Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, 1 ok'.mas. Tkkms: Inside the county $1.00 a year to advance; 1.50 if not paid in a.lvance. Outside the county, $1.25 n year, strictly in Advance. All communications should lc addressed THE COLUMBIAN, ltloonisl.ur, Ta. THURSDAY, APRIL 13. 1905. Political Announcements. SUBJECT TO THE RULES OF THE DEMO CRATIC PARTY. Primary Elkction, Saturday June io. Convention Tuesday, June 13th. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, GEOROK K. CLEMENS of Berwick. TOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, FRANK W. MILLER , of Ceutralin. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, THORNTON T. FREEZE of Bloomsburg, Pav FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, A. N. YOST of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, J. C. RUTTER JR., of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, ISAAC REICIIART nf Z.rrtt Tnwnsllin. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, (north side) GEO. W. STERNER of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, (north side) ' WM. BOGERT, of Scott Township. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, (north side) TERRY A. HESS of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, M. II. RHODES ot Bloomsbtfsg, Pa. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, JOHN S. MENSCH of Montour. FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK OF THE COURTS, C. M. TERWILLIGER of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR, C. L. HIRLEMAN of Benton Boro. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CHRISTIAN A. SMALL of Bloomsbur". FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, ELISHA RINGROSE of Center Township. Subject to the rules of the Republi can Party. Primary Election Saturday, April 15th. Convention, Monday, April 17th. us ooo LIABILITIES Capital t Surplus and Profits (net) Circulation Deposits . . f 100,000.00 '45.39 98 49,300.00 404,0198 $ros, 705.96 E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier. ROl'KLFELLEB METHODS UNHOLY. Tims (or Church to Rcbuko Them, Declares Committee. The sub-committee of six promi nent Congregational ministers Ap pointed by the committee on pro test against the acceptance of the Rockefeller gift last week issued a statement giving their reasons win the Ameiican board should return to Mr. Rockefeller his $100,000. The statement says in part: Our protest rests on the convic tion that the church must not stand in a compromising relation to a man who in public thought represents methods that are oppiesuve, danger ous and wrong. We cannot disregard the effect which bis name, in view of facts that are widespread and notorious, unfortunately carries with it. The church stands for leadership in mor al and spiritual progress. It cannot afford to enter into any relation that may weaken or discredit it in the fulfillment of its task. The main question is one of the moral pres tige and power of the church. Though money gained by fraud or force dribble, into our treasuries or pour into it by floods, of itself it can bring only contamination. It is by voluntary relation to the donor that moral responsibility is incurred The church owes it to itself and to the public conscience to acknowl edge responsibility when it volun tarily enters into dealings with a donor who stands oucnlv i ed of a serious offense, which it is our duty to condemn. A Christian corporation has a character which it may not com promise by doubtful alliances. The application of this principle was never so much needed as now. The motives which cuiistrain ns to this appeal are a deep solicitude necause 01 the corpoiate evils that threaten our nation, our sense of the solemn and imperative mission of the church as the moral educa tor of the people and a iealons zi.nl lest its energy and authority be im paired by any seeming compromise witn tne evil it is set to condemn. HFW HIGH 80HO0L LAW. Patted By tho Legislature and Signed By the Governor. The legislature has oassed an art which the governor has signed per mitting cuuaren, residing in school districts in which no public hifjh school is maintained, to attend a high school in some other district, located near their homes, and nrn. viding for the payment of cost of tuition ana school books. Accord ing to the old law, pupils were per mitted to attend a high school in an adjoining district, providing the school directors of the district in which the high school was located, were willing to receive pupils from outlying districts and that such pupils either pav their own tnitinn or that they arrange with the di rectors ot their own districts for such payment. By the new law the pavment is made ohlitratnrv nn - - o -" - J ' the school boards of the district in which no high school is located. Sprout Good Roads Bill- The conference committts of the house and senate held a meeting Thursday and it was agreed to re port a measure apportioning the cost of roads between townships, counties and state as follows: The township and county to each bear one-eighth of the expense and the state three-fourths. The committee was composed of Roberts, God charles and Calpin for the Senate, and McLane, Hunter and Wayne for the House. This is considered a great victory for the interior dis tricts. Under the late law the bulk of the state aid was going to the richer eastern counties because the poorer districts did not feel able to put up the one-sixth. Under the proposed bill the townships will pay but oue-ei$rhth of the cost of improvement. IN THE COUNTY WASHINGTON. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, April 6, 1005. The election of Judge E. Dunne as Mayor of Chicago by a plurality of nearly 25,000 votes is hailed by Democrats in Washington as the tinning of the tide which they declare will now sweep the country and result in electing a Democratic majority to the next House of Rep resentatives and eventually, a Democrat ict successor to President Roosevelt. The significance ofjudge Dunue's victory is emphasized by the f ict that his opponent, John Maynard Harlan, was an excep tionally clean man and the further tact that Chicago gave a Republican majority to President Roosevelt in the election of last fall. Judge Dunne's election constitutes, more over, an economic as well as a po litical victory for the Democrats as it insures the municipal ownership of the Chicago street railway system, a 1 olicv tint has long been contested by the Republicans and which the De mocrats hope to push into far wider fields. V "Public ownership of public util ities" a-i the slogan of the Demo cratic campaign in Chicago, has long been advocated by Wiliiam J. Hiyan a'ld other prominent Demo crats a id is now and always will be strtnnius'y opposed by the Repub licans who believe in the policy of farming out all pubb'c utilities to private individuals and corporations which charge the public extortion ate prices, make inordinate profiis and create vast fortunes which the Republicans point to with pride as evidence of ' unparalleled prosper ity." So vast a city as ChicBgo will, in the estimation of the Dem ocratic politicians and economists, furnish a magnificent object lesson to the entire country and will quick ly demonstrate the advantages which will accrue to the public and to the munici ulity from adminis tering those th ngs which by their nature, are essentially uatural mon opolies. If municipalities can profitably and equitably conduct their iroi eJ highways, argue the Democratic economists, then States can with equal profit and equity administer their ironed highways, commonly called the railroads, and one of the most gigantic monopo lies in the country must inevitably te destroyed as the result of an ed ucated public opiniou. It is generally held in Washing ton thru President Roosevelt, with an unusually keen insight, has per ceived the evils of privately owned railways but that he seeks to remedy the evils which result therefrom bv homeopathic methods, so to speak, by legislation which will render the railway owners powerless to practice extortion but which will not inter fere with private ownership. The Democrats in Congress, appreciat ing that half a loaf is infinitely bet ter than no bread are prepared to support the President's recommen dations with regard to railway leg islation in every detail but they have little faith that the President can prevail on the Senators and Rep resentatives of his own party to heed his recommendations at the expense of their friends who now enjoy the privileges of railway monopoly. With the pretended purpose of devising equitable railway legisla tion along the lines urged by the President, the Senate committee on Interstate Commerce will begin holding sessions on the 17th of this month and hearings will be granted to every one who claims to be inter ested in the subject until a mass of testimony far too great for any one to digest, or even read, will be ac cumulated. That anv satisfactory results will be attained is gravely doubted by Democratic members of the Senate. It is pointed out that Ayers When the nerves are weak everything goes wrong. You are tired all the time, easily irritable. Your cheeks are II Sarsaparilla ?ale and your blood is thin, our doctor says you are threatened with a nervous breakdown. He orders this grand old family medicine. " For more than SO yeara I have uteri Ayor'i StirimHrUlu In my family. It I n jamiil toniu at all tlniBH. and a woiulrfiil niiMlirinu fur Im pure uluuu.' 1). C. Holt, Wesl Haven, i onn. 01. 00 a bottle. j. r. ayrii iu. All itnifv'Ntn. a? LowHI lli. K.top i;io nowoia regular with A Pills, just one pTll each night. 1 Avnr;a there are tight Republicans to five Democrats on the committee and even if Senator Culloni, the one Re publican who is likely to vote for the interests of the people, were to cast his ballot with the Democrats, the committee wotild be tied and nothing could be accomplished. Moreover, there is never any likeli hood of the adoption of legislation by the Senate when it is reported favorably "from a committee only by a coalition of one or two Republi cans with the entire Democratic membership. Senator Hausbrotigli, Republican of North Dakota, is out with an in terview in which he declares that tariff revision by the next Congress is dead. In explanation of this statement, the Senator says that he does not doubt that the President will recommend tariff readjustment, but that he is confident his recom mendations will avail nothing. Mr. Hansbrough points out that all revenue bills must originate in the House and that the House is in the grasp of "an oligarchy of 'stand patters' ", and that Secretary Shaw, who is an arch "stand patter" him self, has, by an interpretation placed on the drawback clause of the Ding ley law, satisfied the demands of those manufacturers who have wearied of having to pay duty on their raw materials and who, in the absence of the Secretary's ruling, would have insisted on the opening of the tariff question in the hope of procuring some relief for them selves. The ruling of the Secretary of the Treasury to which the Senator particularly objects allows wheat millers to import Canadian wheat, mix it with American wheat and manufacture the mixture into flour for export, and when this flour is exported to secure the return of the duty they paid on the wheat when they imported it. The Din; ley law provides for such rebates, or drawbacks, when the imported material can be identified in the manulactured and exported article, but there is no possible way for the Treasury officials to determine how much imported flour there is iu a given quanity of flour except by the affidavit of the miller which may, or may not. be fraudulent. If the Canadian wheat was radical ly different from American wheat such identification might be possi ble, but in view of the tact that hard wheat is grown on both sides of the Canadian line and that the most expert cannot tell whether a given sample comes from a farm north or a farm south cf the line, the Senator's point seems to be well taken. Incidentally, the Secretary's ruling lus caused a depreciation of the price of wheat of Irom 6 to 10 cents a bushel, which was precisely what the millers wanted. LOWER 000ET AFFIRMED. Hard-Fought Caso of Sarah C. Cromlcy vs. Pennsylvania R. R. Co. Litigation in the hard-fought case of Sarah C. Cromley vs. the Penn sylvania Railroad Company, it would seem, is at last ended and the plaintiff will receive the damages awarded. The Supreme Court sitting at Philadelphia, on Monday, handed down an opinion in the case affirming the lower court The case was tried last November the jury returning a verdict of $7428 damages. The case of Sarah C. Cromley vs. the Pennsylvania Railioad Com pany has gone on record as one of the hardest fought cases ever tried in Montour county. The facts will easily be recalled. In 1901 Joseph is. Cromley and hve-years-old son of Limestoneville were struck by the Buffalo Flyer while crossing the Pennsylvania track at Watsontown. Mr. Cromley, his son and both horses were instantly killed. The case was brought up No vember 11, 1903 whereupon Judge Little entered a compulsory non suit on the ground ot contributory neg ligence. Upon his refusal to strike off the compulsory non-suit an ap peal was taken to the Supreme Court, which body returned ( it for trial. The case was placed on trial on November 14th last before Judge White of Indiana County specially presiding. The case was one of un usual interest and attracted much attention throughout the neighbor ing counties. The iury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $7428. After the verdict the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company took an appeal to the Supreme Court. The case was argued on the second Monday in February by James Scarlet and Edward S. Gearhart for the plaintiff and H. M. Hinckley and I. X. Grier for the defendant. . In a Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, Shake Into your Simon Allcn'B Foot-Kaso, a powdur- It cured 1,'orun, bunions, Painful, Biimrilng, Hot Swollen loet. At all Drug'Blg una ouoe Biorea, yo. a-sj tit, Town'send's We Offer You a Chance of a 15.00 SUIT FREE. With every 50 cents worth you buy we give you a guess on the number of beans in the glass jar in our window. The ladies can guess as well as the men. 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