4 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. STRONGEST BANK CAPITAL $100,000. First National Bank, MAKE NO MISTAKE BUT DEPOSITYOUR SAV INGS IN THE STRONGEST BANK. OF KICK US : E. V. M. Low, President. J. M. Stawr, Vice President. K. H. Tustin, Vice 1'ivsldont. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier, ' DIltKCTdHSi E. W. M. Low, F. fl. Yorks, Frank lkoler, Joseph Hut tl, E. H. Tustin, Kredlkeler, ieo. H. linbbins, H. V. Creasy, J. M. Stiiver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, II. V. 1 lower. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Established 1837. Consolidated 1869 Published Every Thursday Morning, At Ulootnshurg. the County Seat of Columbia County, I'ennsylvnnia. GEO. E. E LAV ELL, Editor. It. J. TASKEK, Local Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. Tkkmm Inside the county f 1.00 a year la advance; i 1. 50 if not paid in advance. Outside thecounty, $1.25 a year, strictly in Advance. All communications should beaddressed THE COLUMBIAN, Woomslmru, Pa. THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1905. Democratic State Ticket. FOR SI.TKRIOK COl'KT JCIKIK, JOHN R. RAND, of Westmoreland County. FOR STATU TKKASURI-K, V. II. BKRRY, of Delaware County. Democratic County Ticket. FOR FROTHONOTARY AND CI.KRK OF THE COURTS, C. M. TF.RWILLIGKR of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, FRANK W. MILLER of Centralia. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, CHAS. L. POHE, of Catawissa. TERRY A. HESS of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, M. II. RHODES ot Bloomsburg, Fa. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CHRISTIAN A. SMALL of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR, C. L. HIRLEMAN HARRY B. CREASY. BAD EDM AND SO BUM. It is a humiliating condition when the State Food Commiss ioner has to appeal to the public to refrain from di inking liquor, cot on the broad ground of total ab stinence ; but because he has dis covered that great quantities have been sold and are being sold which are so adulterated as to be poison ous. He found a bad condition of affairs and undertook to bring offen ders to justice, but discovered through a decision of the Supreme Court that be had no power in the premises and that his activities must be confined to food and milk. The Legislature is expected to remedy this nutter two years hence. It ought not to be necessary at this time to send out any warning on the subject of intoxicating liquors, whether pure or adulterat ed. The man who at this season indulges even moderately in alcoholic stimulants is unwise, while those who go beyond such limits are taking great risks. There are some and they are very few, being mostly invalids or the aged who are actually bene fited by alcoholic stimulant. There are many who indulge with great uioJcrutioii anu with little if any unfavorable result. If we can be lieve the physicians, most of those who drink at all are injuriously affected, though it may take many years before the damage to vital organs is discovered. Vc are not discussing the question of temper ance or total abstinence, but giving some undoubted facts. Hut, no matter what the ordi nary custom, it is certain that in the heated term, the man who IN THE COUNTY Surplus and Undivided Profits $150,000. introduces alcohol into his stomach is not only making himself more uncomfortable than before, but is taking the risk of permanent in jury to his vitality Soon after drinking a perspiration is apt to give a rather pleasant effect, which soon passes away and n re-action sets in. The unfortunate custom is then to take another drink and another until the subject is ready for sunstroke prostration, and per haps lays the foundation for a seri ous acute attack in the near future or possibly a chronic disease. The only safe way in these days is to drink nothing intoxicating, to take plenty of water if it be pure and cool, but to avoid ice water. In these days physicians are lay ing much stress on the fact that most persons do not drink enough water to satisfy the system. The human body is more than three fourths water, and as there is con stant waste, especially in hot weather, frequent replenishment is necessary. We note one of the great physicians of the country saying that most kidney and ali mentary troubles are due to a lack ot drinking enough pure cool water; that they are generally benefited when such water is used, and that alcohol is under such circumstances nlmost invariably a poison. The Japanese have a proverb to the effect that a man takes a drink then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man. It is worth pondering over during this weather. Philadelphia Inquirer. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. Democratic State Committee Rooms. Harrtsburg, Pa., July 5, 1905. To Democrats of Pennsylvania: In obedience to 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 .1 et on the 24th day of May last, will reconvene at Harrisburg, at 12 o'clock noon, in the Board of Trade rooms on Wednesday, August i6, 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. By the bursting of a boiler of the U. S. gunboat Bennington at San Diego, California, on Friday fifty six men were killed, fifty-four wounded, and twenty-five are miss ing. Some of the survivors say that it has been the talk of the ship for the past six months that the boilers were defective. lhere was carelessness somewhere. 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? " Aytr'n Ifnlr Vlf."r U a tot;it mirce with m. My Imlr nun t;,llliu; nut very Imilly, l.nt the ITftir Vl'ir .t.iti"i it m.il now lit v hull- u II right." W. (;. l.ixirUK'N, I.lmlbuy, ( ul. f 00 a hiilllo. .i.ii. A v Kit fn., V il''.'ni''"i'"'iii r foT w 'i"iii'ii'i"i: -'"'" l Thin Hair AH UNLIMITED POWER. "With the formation of the American Beet Trust a few years ago, the whole vast produce trade of the country suddenly found itself conlronted by a condition under which an irresponsible and intang ible power was able to assess what ever charges it pleased for a service once performed free," says Charles Iv Russell in the first installment of "The Greatest Trust in the World," "Kerybody's Magazine for Febru ary." "The Trust steadily adjust ed the screw on the railroads and squeezed out an enormous pud wnolly fraudulent tribute. The refrigerator-car charges began to as sume extraordinary proportions. On a carload of fruit from Michigan to Chi -ago, for instance, the Trust's exactions were often as great as the total freight bill. Operations were extended in all directions. It com pelled the railioads to do its bidding in all particulars. It blacklisted dealers that complained. It com pelled the shipment in its own cars and Pt its own tates of products that might have easily gone in ordinary cars. It compelled the railroads to pay mileage rates for hauling its cars, whether the cars were full or empty. It multiplied its cars, its lines, and its operations. It went into poultry, live and dressed, and absorbed that market. It began to tamper with the trade in dairy pro ducts. Wherever its operations ex tended, the consumer began at once to feel the baleful influence of its presence: the producer became the victim of'an elaborate and perfect system by which he was alternately encouraged to extensive production and confronted with ruin by an arbitrary and a forced reduction of prices. "Under this system, which, of course, took advantage of and shap ed itself by the aid of natural con ditions, agricultural industries greatly changed. A large part of the middle West ceased to be acorn selling and became a corn-feeding region. Cattle fattening became the principal interest. Almost every farmer became .1 borrower at his local bank to carry on these operations. For a few years the busiutss thrived, the profits were good. Then the Trust arbitrarily forced down the price of cattle; thousands of stockmen were ruined, banks failed, farm mortgages multi plied, and a blight fell upon the whele cattle-raising region." Lia.BIf.IIT OF AUTO JJ&IVEB3. Automobilists are liable under the law for damages which may re sult from runaways caused by horses becoming frightened at their machines. So declares the Indiana Supreme Court. A case appealed to that tribunal was decided a few daysago and judgment of the lower court awarding damages to a man who had been injured in a runaway was affirmed. This is the way the court puts it and it is interesting to automobilists generally because the courts of one State are governed by decisions of the higher courts of other States : "It cannot be said as matter of law that appellants were guilty of negligence for using an automobile in a public highway. The law does not denounce motor carriages, as such, on the public ways. For as long as they are constructed and propelled in a manner consistent with the use of the highways and are calculated to subserve the public as a beneficial means of transporta tion with reasonable safety to travelers by ordinary modes they have an equal right with other vehicles in common use to occupy the streets and roads. Because ncvel and unusual in appearance and for that reason likely to fright en horses unaccustomed to see them is no reason for prohibiting their use. But appellants, in operating on the highway a novel wheeled conveyance of uncommon appear ance and noise owed to the plaintiff and other travelers the duty to care fully control and drive the same along so as to avoid causing need less injury. This duty required appellants to take into account the character of their machine, its gen eral appearance, the loud puffing noise sent forth while goir.g, its new use in the vicinity and its tendency to frighten horses. When the defendants saw that plaintiff's horse had become frightened at 'the rapid approach of the strange, noisy carriage, and that the plaintiff , was in danger, which was reasonably certain to increase by the nearer approach of the motor, and from which it was plain he could not extricate himself except by defend ant stopping or slowing down until plaintiff could reach the cross street, it was the highest moral, as well as legal, duty of the defendants to stop and remove .the: plaintiff's peril. ' OASTOrtlA. Bean tht me me mpb m nave Always Bought 7 .77 .r. :. - TIPS. Year after year the custom of "tips" is discussed in the news papers, and talked about by every body who is subjected to this sys tem of extortion, a:id yet year after year thj practice seems to be on the increase instead of diminishing. It is a custom with discriminations that are hard to explain. A "tip" is defined to be a gift bestowed up on one who has rendered a service, ar.d is in addition to the regular price charged for such service. In certain lines the tip is not only ex pected, but if not given is demand ed, if not in words, by actions. One goes to a city hotel or a summer re sort, where he is charged a high price for board and room. He will soon find that if he wants a good seat in the dining room he must fee the head waiter. If he wants his meals served satisfactorily he must tip the waiter and he will probably be giveu a different table each meal so that all the waiters may get a crack at his purse. He goes into the barber shop where the price of a shave is twenty cents, and is ex pected to throw in an extra dime to the employee who shaves him. He rides in a parlor car, and is consid ered mean if he does not hand a dime or a quarter as he gets off, to the porter who has rendered no service to him whatever except to sell him his ticket. Where extra service of any sort is rendered, it is perfectly proper to pay for it: we are speaking only of the ordinary services which are supposed to be included in the charges made. Why is it that the employees of hotels, railroads, barber shops, res taurants, etc., are given tips while no one ever thinks of paying a store clerk an extra fee? It is because the wealthy classes, mostly those who have acquired it suddenly, are fond of displaying their money and use it 111 the expectation that they will thus cut a wider swathe, and so have established a custom which makes it almost impossible to get any attention or assistance from the classes named without paying extra tor it. That this is all wrong every body admits, and yet everybody goes on doing it because they can't help themselves. It is only a sys tem of graft on a small scale, to get money from others which has not been earned. And the whole country seems to be so permeated with graft on stupendous scales that it can scarcely be hoped that the comparatively insignificant matter of tips will ever be obliterated from the list of schemes whereby certain classes are continually getting some thing for nothing. Mrs- Jemima P. Brittain. Mrs. Jemima P. Brittain, relict of the late Rev. Alem Brittain, died at her home on First street last week Wednesday night, at the ad vanced age of ninety-three years. Last November she injured her hip bone by a fall, and has been an invalid ever since. She was a most estimable christian lady. The funeral was held on Saturday afternoon in the M. E. chuich, and besides many relatives and fneuds it was attended by twelve Methodist ministers. The remains were taken to Berwick for burial. Millrille Trolley, Work on this line is being rapid ly pushed, and contractor Regan expects to have the track laid in two months. If all goes well, the road will be carrying passengers by fair time, but it will keep them hustling to do it. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue ot a writ ot fl fa Issued out ot the Court of Common Pleas ot Columbia county, and to mo directed, there will he exposed to pubilo sale at the Court House In Bloomsburg, Pa., on SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1905, at two o'clock p. m. All that certain lot ot land situate on the north westerly corner of Falrvlew avenue and Mercer struct In Michael's addition to the Bor ough of West Berwick, lu tbe county ot Co lumbia aud stato of Pennsylvania, bounded and desorlbed as follows to wit: On tho east by Morcor struct, on the south by Falrvlew avenue and on tlio north by llrtualn street, being forty five feet In width and ono hundred and sixty feet In depth, containing TtfOI) squar) feet ot land and being numbered and designated as lot No. ail Mloliael's nillltlon 'o West Berwick, PennHj lvuhla, whereon Is erected a small FRAME BLACKSMITH SHOP. He l.od, taken In execution at the suit of 1). A. Michael vh. .J. K. Morrell and to be sold as tho property of J. K. Morrell. W. W. BLACK, Cms. P. Evavs, Atty Sheriff. Get Townsend's All Straw Hats l2 3.00 Straws 1.50 2.00 " 1.00 1. 00 " .50 50 " .25 25 " 15 to wms EtWS iTr.:aijiAiua:xiZscisagig: A Chance Today at More Wash Dress Stuffs. 25c. Dress Ginghams at 15c. I 1 1 1 i . mostly stripes, out a lew plaids in the lot. Some Scotch Zephyrs among them. 25c. Organdies at 19c. 12jc. Organdies at 8c. Pretty as the flowers they are so full of. They make the daintiest of frocks, and at these prices should move out in a jiffy. 20c. Mohair Lustre at 15c. For Dresses and Waists, one of the best wool stuffs we've had all season. 25c. Silk Gauze at 18c. 15c. Silk Gauze at 12jc We will have to give first place for coolness to the flimsy stuft. Mighty pretty, too. Both dotted and plain. 15c. Cotton Taffeta 12c. 15c. Mousaline 12c. Both in cool, soft colors, the kind that are serviceable. Plenty, if you come early. 25c. India Linens, 18c. It is inches wide and worth the 25c. we usually get, It is, in fact, of extra quality. F. P. BLOOMSBURG, Cut off that cough ana prevent ronchltis and The world's Standard Th ivieuicine ior y$ years. it of your druggist and keep it PRICE r - . . . PURSEL. - PENNA. with nt pneumor ennsnmntinn. - UUIIL always ready in the house.
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