4 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. STRONGEST BANK CAPITAL $100,000. First National Bank, OF15I4UOMSHUIIC?, 1A. MAKE NO MISTAKE BUT DEPOSIT YOUR SAV INGS IN THE STRONGEST BANK. OFFICHK.S: K. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Slawr, Vire President. ',. 11. Ttislin, Vice President. K. K. Carpenter, Ciishler, Dill KCTOI5S: K. V. M. Low, F. (i. Yorks, I rnnk Ik. lcr, .losri-li ltattl, K. 15. Tin-tin, Fri'il lUclcr, (ten. S. Itnlibinn, H. C. Creasy, .1. M. Stuver, M. I. Low, Louiw ( iroxH, 1L V. lower. THE COLUMBIAN. estanushkp isr. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, EsTAiii.isiiKn 1 837. Consoi iriAi F.n 1869 PUIII.ISHRI) KVERV Till' RSDAY MoKNING, At Hliiomslmr, l he County Peat of Columliia Cnunty, Pennsylvania. GKO. K. M.WKLL. Editor. t). J. TASKEK, I.ncAi. Editor. c',I-:o. C. KUAN, Eoku.man. Tekms: Insulc l lie county $ 1.00 a year lo advance; $l.;ci not paid in alvancc. Outside the county, ijf 1.85 a year, strictly in Advance. All communications should le ad lresst d THE CDLUMlilAN, I'-loomsl.urn, I'a. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 195. Democratic State Ticket, TOR St'l'KRIOK cocrt judge, JOHN B. RAXD, of Westmoreland County. KOS STATE TREASURER, W. II. BERRY, of Delaware Countv. Democratic County Ticket. FOR PROTUON'OTARY AND CLERK OF THE COURTS, C. M. TERWILLIGER of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND KECORDER, FRANK W. MILLEI. of Centralia. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, CIIAS. L. POHE, of Catawissa. TERRY A. IIESS of Bloomsburg.' FOR COUNTY TREASURER, M. II. RHODES ot Bloomsburg, Pa. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CHRISTIAN A. SMALL of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR, C. L. IIIRLEMAN HARRY B. CREASY. THE SAfETY OF A NATION Is In the Diffusion of lis Wealth. "Rich as Crasus"? Croesus' fortune was a paltry $S, 000,000. John D. Rockefeller's fortune is not less than $500,000,000. But to our story. There are now 10,087 known millionaires (more than one-half of whom 5,027 are in America), their fortunes totaling $9,000,000, 000. Every State and Territory is represented in the list, and one millionaire, an Indian, Melvin Dempsey, is in Alaska. Nearly all of the remaining 5,060 millionaires are in Europe, though Asia has 900, and South America and Africa each have their share. In 1846, Moses Y. Beach printed in the New York Sun a list of New York City's rich men. He gave the names of 1,02.1 possessing $100,- 000 each and of 23 men with 000,000 each. Now only million aires are counted among the rich, and there are 1,300 of iheni in New York City alone. In Austrailia Sir Jervoise Clark has a sheep ranch worth $150,000, 000; anj in South Africa "Abe" Benly is so rich that he gave 80,000, 000 acres of valuable land as a con tribution to the Salvation Army. Among the millionaires of Lon don, Sir Thomas Lipton's $25,000-, 000 is a "small fry when compared with estates such as that of the infant Earl Grosvenor valued con servatively at $8o,ooo,ooo,or of the premier DukeV Norfolk, whose in come is $7,500 a day. We are drawing no morals in this article. Yet one is forced to think profoundly, when he learns that IN THE COUNTY Surplus and Undivided Profits SI50.00O. there arc many very wealthy men including 49 millionaires- in Rns si.i, and not one in Japan save the Mikado liinself. The entire tuition, according to tlic "Tiji Shipo," Tokio's leading financial journal, holds but 441 fortunes of as much as $250,000 each, and these are richest. Our Senator Clark or Mr. Flagler could cither of them buy out the entire 441. And ytt Japan has no paupers. It is a land of people well drilled, of farms well tilled, and of pockets well filled. Their wealt is evenly distributed. On the other hand Russia's itch are lavishly elegant in their manner of living beyond anything mere money has made possible in other lands. Not a duke cr a prince of the blood but indulges in magnifi cent extravagances which make the Occidental gasp with amazement. What has been said of millionaires generally is at least true of those of Russia, judging from the result of Russia's contest with the Japanese, it is that we sorrow, not that these Russians have so much money, but seem to have nolhi.ig else. The Czar has always been called the richest man in the world, and his foitune is set at Si, 200, 000, 000 but Muzaffar, the Shah of Persia, wears a green stone in his turban worth $4,000,000, and whatever Persia herself is worth, is his. Considering the growth in indivi dual wealth siine the days of Moses Beach, we are justified in fearing a developement ot a money power during the ney.t fifty years that will be full of peril. The safety of a nation is in the diffusion of its wealth. Cent Per Cent for July. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. Democratic Slate Committee Rcoms. Harrishukg, Pa., July 5, 1905. To Democrats of Pennsylvania: In obedience lo the instructions of the Democratic State Committee and as required by Rule VI., of the rules governing the Democratic Organization of the State, notice is hereby given that the Delegates to the Democratic State Convention, which met on the 24th day of May last, will reconvene at Hmisburg, at 12 o'clock noon, in the Board of Trade rooms on Wednesday, August 16, 1905, for the purpose of placing in nom ination One candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court. And to transact such other busi ness as may properly come before it, in the interest and welfare of the Democratic Party. P. G. Meek, J. K. P. Hall, Secretary. Chairman Confederate Fly Stars and Stripes- A Richmond dispatch says: For the first time in the historv of the institution, Lee Camp, the Confed erate Soldiers' home, near this city, flung to the breeze from its flag staff the Stars aud Stripes in honor of the Fourth. Ayers You can depend on Ayer's Hair Vigor to restore color to your gray hair, every tifTie. Follow directions and It never fails to do this work. It stops Hair Vigor fallingof the hairalso. There's great satisfaction in knowing you are not going to be disap pointed. Isn't that so? " My linlr fit'li'il until it wttft uhmit white. It took Jiint on hotilo of A vt r ' linlr Vigor tu rtortt It to ttit former flnrk, rich oolor. Your Hntr Vigor eortitlnly tJoti what you Httliu fur H." A. M. lliHiUAN, KuukUiglitiiii, ti. C. 91.00 a bottle. A II fl rni'i lHti. ,T. r. A VFIt ro. for i ,fiwM, M;im. ' AN UI3T0R10U AUDRESS- On the occasion of the banquet tendered to Col. J. G. Freeze by the bar of Columbia and Montour counties, the remarks of the Colonel following his introduction were of such general historic interest that they are reproduced in full. Col. Freeze sa;d : I wish I had such command of the English language as would enable me to make you entirely conscious of the profound feeling of happiness I nave in receiving at your hands the testimonial you have granted me this evening. I am not able to do that, but I can assure yon that so long as I remember anything I shall remember this night and this occas ion; and I trust that in your further t-r.igress through life you may be able to carry with you a conscious ness and recollection of the happi ness you have given to me. I will not, Mr. President, upon this occasion endeavor to give my friends who arc before me here a direct disquisition upon the law. I do not propose to ask them to read Ulackstotic through once a vear and to take Chitty's Pleading to bed with them and study the discrim inations and distinctions between trespass and trespass on the case. But I propose, in reply to a wotd that occurs in the invitation that was given to me, to give you a sort of histotical recollection of the bench ind bar of forty vears ago. I think perhaps to the younger gentlemen who are here before me all of them probably born after the time of which I speak that sort of recollec tion will be more interestiiiff than nything else that I could say. As has been already said bv the gentleman who presides at this ban quet, my connection with the bar o! Columbia County began 57 years ago, 011 the 19th clay of April, 1S4S. When we remember that the county of Columbia is 92 years old, it is a curious fact which I think I can state to you that, with one single exception, I have seen on the liench every man who has ever presided in the Courts of Columbia County. When the county was erected in 1813, the Hon. Seth Chapman, a gentleman of the bar of J. tucks county previously, had been com missioned as a Judge of the County of Notthutnb rland, of which Co lumbia was then a part: and he was upon the bench when Columbia County was erected, and became of course the first President Judire of our Couits. He remained upon the bench until 1833, when he retired, and the Honorable Ellis Lewis subsequently a Justice of the Sup reme Couit and Chief Justice of tin-: same body went upon the bench of that district, and, of course, in the same way. presided over the county of Columbia. Judge Lewis I need not say to you gentlemen, was one of the ablest lawyers that ever sat upn this bench, or perhaps as able a lawyer as ever practiced law or was a member ot any bar in the State of Pennsylvania. He was followed b Judge Don- nel of Northumberland, who re mained upon the bench but about fourteen months when, unfortunate ly, he sickened and died March 18, 1844. He was followed immediately by the Hon. Joseph B. Anthony of Ly coming county. Judge Anthony remained on the bench for a con siderable time, and at the end ot his terra of some five or six years he died in 1851, he wassucceeded, through a change in the district, by Judge Conynghani of Luzerne county. We begin to remember him. He was succeeded after a little while by Judge Warreu J. Wood ward of Luzerne; 9iid after a short time when Woodward took a nom ination for the bench at Reading, Berks county, by Aaron K. Peck ham of Wyoming county. And he was succeeded subsequently by Judge P.lwell. Of we all know something. He remained upon the bench here for more than twenty-five years, and it is au honor to the people of Columbia county to the btr and to everybody else that from the day he came upon the bench until he left it there was never a minute that anybody thought of running for Judge against Judge IUwell. He was elected to the bench in this dis trict three times without opposition, as much ot a credit to us as it was to him. But I had the honor of some ac quaintance with Judge Elwell be fore he came upon the bench here and I had the honor of going as one of the committee of the Bar of Co lumbia county to Sullivan county, where on that occasion he was try ing causes before another very dis tinguished gentleman, Hon. David Wilmot, to ask him to become candidate of the people of Columbia county for the honor of the bench in this district. We had a consid erable interview with him in the evening, and he told us that he would consider the subject and give us an answer next morning. When me met him he said: "Gentlemen, I have concluded to accept that nomination and to be a candidate for Judge in your district, upon one single condition, and that condition is that I shall not be required to come into Columliia county, to write a letter, or to say a wotd in favor of my election. I leave it with you." And we assured him that we did not ask him to do any thing except to consent. The con vention was held some time after that and Judge Elwell received all the votes ol the delegates of Co lumbia, except three, which were given to a personal friend; and the next time he was nominated, and the thir'd time he was nominated, there was nobody against him. That, gentlemen, gives us a little idea ot the manner in which matters of that sort were accomplished and done a good many years ago. There were no contests. There were no difficulties whatever; and the gentle men who were put upon the bench were of first quality of lawyers in the the State of Pennsylvania. I was a candidate for admission to the har of Columbia county, after having served my apprentice ship as a student in the office of Joshua W. Comlv of Danville, in the vear 1848, on the 10th day of April, aud have therefore completed inv 57th year of practice. It is a very, very long time. All the gentlemen who were at that time members of the bar of Columbia county have passed off to the Grand Assize; and so far as the bar of that time is concerned, substantially I stand a1om Let me name a few of them to you: George A. Frick, John Cooper, John G. Montgomery, Legr.nide Bancroft, Joshua W. Comly, Wil liam G. Hurley, James Pleasants, Morrison E. Jackson, Mr. Buck alow, Edward Baldv, Robert F. Clark, Mr. Leidy, Mr. Rhoades; all these then members of the bar of Columbia county. And I would be exceedingly glad if they were ail members yet, and if Muulour county was still a part of us. During the time especially that Judge Ehvell was upon the bench, as has been already said, there were more heavy and large ami important cases tried in ibis county than in any other county in the .State of Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Large inteiests in coal lands and other matters passed through his hands and under his judgment. The Cameron Will Case, which in its time was a very important one, was brought from the county in which it originated, here to be tried before l.iin. I have seen the leading members of the bar of Pennsylvania here trying causes be fore him; and when they came here, it is not too much to say for him as the presiding officer 01 this Court that they met a man whose judg ment and knowledge of the law was equal to that of the best man that ever came before him. Let me for a moment (for I have already made a list of tjiem upon one of my papers here) give you an idea of the gentlemen who were here and practiced before hit:i. I have seen here in this Court May- nard and Lynn of Lycoming, and Packer and Wolvertou of North umberland, and Hughes and the Ryans and Bartholomew and Judge Marr and the kaerchers and h. B. Gowen and Georg. F. Baer. 1 hae seen Hendrick B. Wright, Hani- son Wright, Chief Justice Wood ward, Governor Hoyt, Atty. Gen 1 Palmer. I have seen George M Dallas, F. Carroll Brewster, Judge Parry, Judge Jeremiah S. Black, and many other men here in practice before him. They were the Golden Days of the practice of the law in the county of Columbia. When I came to the bar in the Court House almost immediately adjoining the building in which we are now assembled and having this magnificent banquet, there before Judge Anthony, when I was ad mitted the oath of cfiice was admin istered to me by that old veteran of whom we all remember something, Jacob Eyerly, Prothonotary of this Court from 1830 to 1836 by ap pointment, and from 1839 to 1863, 24 years by election by the people. I do not know, gentlemen, that I can give you much further informa tion upon the subjects that I hrve been speaking to you about, but I think they are new to you generally, and therefore I have thought it ex pedient and proper to say someth ing about them. Among the other cases that we Continued on 8th page 1st Column. 4 Get it Townsend's Clearing Sale Friday and aiurday. sV Two A Vigorous Shirt Pretty Suits that were 5.50, now 4.75. Cotton Voile Waists trimmed with lace inser tion, full plaited skirt, crushed girdle. White Lawn Suits were 5.00, now 4.25. Waist trimmed with lace insertion and em broidered medallions. Tucked skirt and crushed girdle. Suits that were 6.75, now 5.75. Organdie Suit with lace insertion, trimmed waist ann double flounced skirt. 2.48 for the 3.00 Suits. Suit of figured lawn, tucked gore strap trimmed skirts. 2.25 Neat Gingham Suits, now I.49. Both figured and striped effects, waist Good, full plain skirt. Mohair Luster Suits, were 4.00. now 2.98. Seen in green, blue or tan, plaited throughout. BLOOMSBURG, Cut off that cough p ana prevent bronchitis and The world's Standard Throat and Lung Medicine for 75 years. of your druggist and-keep it Days. Sale of Waist Suits. yoke waists and Box plaited PENNA. with ctoraTvt pneumonia: consumotion. always ready in the house.
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