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E. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Stawr, Vice President.
:. IV Tustin, Vice President. K. F. Carpenter, Cashier.
DIUKCToltS:
K. W. M. Low, F. G. York, Frank Ikeler, Joseph IJnttl,
E. U. Tustfn, Fred Ikeler, (iio. S. Unlibiiis, 8. C. Creasy,
J. M. Staver, M. I. Low, Louis (i rows, II. V. llower.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTAHl.ISMKI) i8f6.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Establish f.d 1837. Consoi.ida i ed 1869
Published Kverv Thi'rsdav Morning,
At Uloomsliuru, the County Pent of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. ELWKLL, Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Terms: Inside the county Si. 00 a year
la advance; $1,501! not paid in advance.
Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communication should lie addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, IMoomsl.uru, Ta.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 31, 1905.
Democratic State Ticket.
FoW SUPERIOR COURT JUDGK,
JOHN B. RAND,
of Westmoreland County.
KOR STATIC TREASURER,
W. H. BERRY,
of Delaware County.
Democratic County Ticket.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK
OP THE COUKTS,
C. M. TERWILLIGER
of Blooinsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER;
FRANK W. MILLER
of Centralia.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
CHAS. L. POHE,
of Catawissa.
TERRY A. HESS
of Bloom sburg.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
M. H. RHODES
ot Bloomsburg, l'a.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
CHRISTIAN A. SMALL
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
C. L. HIRLEMAN
HARRY B. CREASY.
IF THE TEUra WERE TOLD.
A Kansas newspaperman gave
notice that for one week he would
tell the truth legardless of conse
quences. A marriage took place
that week, and this is what he
wrote :
"Married, Miss Sylvia Rhode to
James Carnahan, last Sunday even
ing at the Baptist church.' The
bride was a very ordinary town
girl, who doesn't know any more
than a rabbit about cooking, and
never helped her mother three days
in her life. She is not a beauty by
any means, and had a gait like a
fat duck. The groom is an up-to-date
loafer, has been living off the
old folks all his life and don't
amount to shucks, nohow. They
will have a hard life while they live
together."
The editor is still in the hospital.
Kansas City Journal.
Ministers and editors are the most
charitable people on earttt, and
necessarily so lrom their calling.
What would happen to a clergyman
who would tell the truth about
every person whose funeral sermon
he has to prepare? What would
happen to an editor who would
publish the truth about many of
the men who attain high political
position?
Of the dead man who has spent
his life as a private citizen both the
pulpit and the press say of him that
he was a good citizen, a loving .
husband, a kind parent, a'
devoted friend, and so or ad infin-;
Hum, when the exact truth would '
have been that he was tricky in '
business, of no use to his com-1
munity, unkind to his wife, feared
by his children, and without any
personal friends. Because he has
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus and Undivided Profit
8150,030.
money his funeral is attended with
an outward show of mourning and
Ins casket is covered with beautiful
flowers contributed by relatives who
feel m duty I out id to do so.
Fortunately this kind of men are
not numerous, but there are some
of them, and when they die thev
have pst the same nice things said
about theui as those who really de
serve them.
A man attains to some high politi'
cal distinction, either through an
election, or by appointment, it may
be a Governor, a United States
Senator, a Judge, or what not. The
newspapers laud him to the skies;
they speak of his high reputation
as a citizen, t f his distinguished
ability as a statesman or jurist or
diploma', and of the lienor coming
to him a- a well merited reward for
his many virtues and accomplish
ments And yet it may be a fact
generally known and commonly
discussed that he never secured any
preferment in his life except through
a political pull with a corrupt grtng,
or as a reward for his questionable
services to a party boss, or by
polluting the ballot box and de
bauching the voters and other viola
tions of the election law, or by the
purchase of his position with cash.
Unfortunately there are too many
of this kind of men, and fortunately
some of them are hearing the truth
about themselves during their life
time. The lime lights have been
turned on the grafters of Philadel
phia and fearles newspapers are
driving many political robbers out
of business. A fearless press and
pulpit can help to hasten the time
wlun men shall so live that when
they ccme to die good things may
truthfully be said of many more of
them than in these days of greed;
and when men shall secure posi
tions of honor and trust because of
their ability and fitness rather than
by unscrupulous chicanery.
It is an old maxim de mortuis
nihil se'd bonum, "say nothing but
good of the dead." It would be a
better maxim that men should so
live that when they die nothing but
good can be said of them.
Bui ti van For McHenry.
The recent Democratic county
convention of Sullivan county ad
opted the following resolution:
We endorse the official action of
our able and faithful state senator,
Hon. J. Henry Cochran, and sug
gest that he become a candidate for
re-election.
"Realizing that a congressman is
to be elected next year and that the
selection of the right man at the
right lime is of grave importance,
now be it unanimously
"Resolved, that it is the request of
this convention that John G.
McHenry, of Columbia county, be
come a candidate tor member 01
congress of this district, and if he
does ho, we pledge ourselves col
letivel' and individually to use s II
honorable means to secure his nom
ination and election."
Ayers
Why Is it that Ayer's Hair
Vigor does so many remark
able things? Because it is a
hair food. It feeds the hair,
puts new life into it. The hair
Hair Vigor
cannot keep from growing.
And gradually all the dark,
rich color of early life comes
back to gray hair.
"When I flnt lined Ayer't Hair Vigor my
liHlr win about all nrr. Hut imw II la a like
ru'h Idx'k, and thick a. I could wiali."
Mua, Muhan Kloi-hnhtikn, Tu.cuiuulu,
Ala.
HI. 00 a hollld.
All 'Inirrl.H. l.nwHI. I
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J. !. ATEH !..
Prohibitionists PudjrsB Berry.
It was necessary for the State
Prohibitionists convention to remain
in session for five hours continuous
ly in order to agree on a platform
and select a ticket. The declaration
of principles was adopted after a
number of attempts failed to attach
amendments. It asserts the traffic
in intoxicating beverages is the
most important political issue in
this or any ether State, arraigns
the license system as wrong and de
mands the repeal of all laws gov
erning me same. Allegiance n
pledged to the National Prohibition
party. The. charge is made that
false registration, etc., and uncleau
methods practised by managers of
our State and municipal affairs is
prompted by the saloons.
The accusation is made that the
present management of the Re
publican party, aided bv the Demo
cratic leaders, (it being the party in
power), is responsible for the fact
that Pennsylvania is recognized
throughout the country as the abode
of political gra"t and plunder. Ex
pression is given to the belief that
suffrage should be limited only by
character and mental qualification.
sympathy is extended to Presi
dent Roosevelt in his effort to se
cure peace in the Far East. Legis
lative distribution of appropriations
by swopping votes regardless of in
stitutional merit as a reward of
party fealty or as personal perquis
ites ot legislative members is declar
ed to be the essence of bribery and
embezzlement.
By a vote of 120 to 70. William
H. Berry was nominated for State
reasurer, his opponent being Dr.
Charles W. Huntington of Wil
liamsport. The choice was made
unanimous amid the protests of the
friends of the Williamsporter. Mr.
iserry is also the nominee of the
Democratic party.
An effort failed to nominate John
W. Stewart for Supreme Cou;t
ustice. John D. Gill Esq.. of
( ireenbursr. was placed on the ticket.
instead. I lie latter may not accept
as he is a candidate for the judge
ship of Westmoreland county.
It is being decided to name only
one candidate for the Superior
Court bench, Homer L. Castle of
Pittsburg was selected by acclama
tion.
The State Central committee held
meeting and elected David B.
McCaluiont of Venango county,
as State chairman.
Tbey (Jan't Vote
Young men who voted on ace
last fall must be registered or they
cannot vote in November. Others.
who have paid a State or County
tax within two years may be able
to swear in their votes, if their
names have been overlooked and
are not upon the voting list, but
the voter who cast his first ballot
last year has no possible , chance to
do this. He has never paid a tax
his name will be upon no dupli
cate, consequently he cannot pay
the necessary tax that he is required
to quality has been paid in order to
secure his vote. By failing to regis
ter he practically and effectively
disfranchises himself. Democrats
should remember this and make it
their business to know that the
name of every young Democrat
who voted on age in 1004, is upon
the polling list of 1905. And this
must be attended to before the
evening of September 7th.
The Olear Issue-
The Democrats of Pennsylvania
have now put it up to the members
of all other parties iu Pennsylvania
whether they desire to co-operate
in a combined assault upon graft.
There are 400,000 Democratic
votes that may be counted upon as
sure to be cast for John Stewart to
keep the Supreme court of the State
sweet, clean and free from reproach;
to put an honest, God-fearing man
in the control of the State Treasury
nu i 10 help dig the grave of political
corruption iu the management of
State and municipal allairs.
It is 110 time to act upon questions
of Federal politics or to sit in judg
ment on the motives of men who
ally themselves with the movement
for civic sanitation.
"For graft" or "against graft" is
the only issue. Phila. Record.
Deolines Judicial Nomination
D. Nicholas Schaeffer, a Demo
crat, brother of State Superintend
ent Schaeffer, Thursday afternoon
issued his declination of the Repub
lican nomination for judge, with
the promised indorsement by the
Independent Democrats, offered to
him by the leaders. The latter
are now considering several other
names. This happened at Reading.
Judge Ermentrout is the Demo
cratic nominee for the third term.
OASTOIIIA.
B"ths t The Kind You Have Always
The Kind You Have Always Bcujjit
LOOOMGTIYE i 76IH ANNIVERSARY j
Monday Commemorated First Movement ol
Passengor Train In This Country En
glno Ran on B. & 0. R. R.
Seventy-five years ago last Mon
day the first movement of a pass
enger train was made in this country
by the first locomotive built here.
While this was not the initial loco
motive, it was the first that was
able to bring about resul's. The
vear previous an Enulish-biiilt
locomotive was brought to this
country for the Delaware & Hudson
Canal Company to be used 'n trans
porting coal.
The locomotive used by the Balti
more & Ohio Railroad Company
was built to overcome the commer
cial advantages New York and
Philadelphia had gained through
the operation of the Erie Canal,
the Baltimore idea being to offset
this with a rail line connecting the
Ohio with the navigable waters of
the Chesapeake Bay. Incidentally,
of course, Baltimore was to profit
by becoming the terminus of the
railway. This is where Peter. Coop
er ca:ne in.
Mr. Cooper wasn't a man of
mechanical attainment ; had no
especial aptitude in such direction
and certainly no experience. Never
theless, not :nly was he the inspirer !
of the first locomotive built to and 1
actually accomplish the first practi
cal movement by steam on rails in
America, but the indomitable push
er agaiust obstacles until he down
ed every one of them and became
the father of steam operated roads
on the Continent. The least per
sistent of his opponents were by no
means the Baltimoreans themselves.
The original engine, Peter Coop
er, was sent arouud from New Yoik
to Baltimore bv sailing vessel.
Tuerc were no wheels when it ar
rived, but little things like these
could not stay Cooper, who speed
'H arranged with Ross Winans,
i then assistant to Chief Engineer
Knight, of the Baltimore & Ohio,
for the missing means of locomo
tion. A platform had also to be
fixed upon with which to support
the engine, and, in turn, to be sup
ported by the four-flanged car
wheels from the company's stock.
There was a good deal to he done
to get this first of locomotives to
gether and in shape to run. The
railroad people had no faith in it or
hod any one else to speak of, save
Cooper. When nally the trial
trip was essayed and the old thing
balked there were many to say " I
told you so ; " but Cooper laughed,
declared it was not his intention to
build a stationary engine and would
keep on until he got one to move,
and he did.
Its memorable first trip was made
from Baltimore to ELicott's Mills,
among the distinguished guests
being Charles Carroll of Carrollton,
the last surviving signer of lhe
Declaration ot Independence. This
much heralded innovation of old
time methods was followed
the succeeding m o r u i n g
by the first railroad advertisement
ever appearing in an American
uewspaper, the Baltimore and Ohio
announcing in the Baltimore
journals to the effect that a "brigade
of cars" would run three times a
day each way from Baltimore to
Ellicott's Mills, passage 25 cents.
Iu those days passengers were not
ticketed, but carried on way bills
about as freight is to-day.
Cooper's tiny "Tom Thumb"
with car attached, on that 28th of
August, seventy-five years ago,
made the run without a break in an
hour and a quarter, and the return
trip m fifty-seven minutes. One
horse was its computed power, and
the weight in entirety it drew was
four and a half tons, the average
speed, twelve miles an hour.
F. Reighard Dropped Dead
Benjamin F. Reighard of Mid-
dleburg died suddenly at Ocean
Grove last Saturday evening. He
was there spending several days in
company with his wife, and showed
no signs of illness though he had
not been very robust for some time
past. For many years he resided
in Light Street where he and his
brother were engaged in the mer
cantile business. Benjamin moved
to Middleburg and opened a store
and George remained in Light
Street where be died about eleven
years ago. The deceased was an
uncle of S. R. Bidleman and his
age was seventy-nine years. He is
survived by his wife but uo children.
The funeral takes place tomorrow
at Miffiiubrug.
Before that coucrh turns
turns
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PAU HATS
It matters not whether you
want the newest in soft or stiff
hats for Fall we have them.
Styles for the smartest dress
er. Styles for the more con
servative dresser or for those
who want not so much style,
but quality.
We endeavor to fit you with
what you want. Come try on
one of our FALL HATS.
TO WW
A CBance Today at
More Wash Dress Stuffs.
25c. Dress Ginghams at 15c.
Mostly stripes, but a few plaids in the lot.
Some Scotch Zephyrs among them.
25c. Organdies at 19c,
12jc, Organdies at 8c.
Pretty as the .lowers they arc so full of. They
make the daintiest of frocks, and at these
prices should move out in a jilly.
20c. Mohair Lustre at 15c.
For Dresses and Waists, one of the lest wool
stufjs we've had all season.
25c. Silk Gauze at 18c.
15c. Silk Gauze at 12Jc
We will have to privc first place for coolness to
the flimsy stufl. Mijrhty pretty, too. $oth
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 'Mi inches wirlo nt,l
usually
rrnf
It is,
F. P. PURSEL.
BLOOMSBURG. - PENNA.
into a
into a serious
Ask your druggist for it.
B
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"una Lim fi
in fact, of extra quality. .
throat or lung trouble, stop it with
res
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years. StOId?