THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURCi. PA STRONGEST BANK CAPITAL 8100,000. First National Bank, OF HkucmsisuiiGi, lA. MAKE NO MISTAKE BUT DEPOSIT YOUR SAV INGS IN THE STRONGEST BANK. OK KICK US: V.. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Sluwr, Vine President. K. 15. Tustin, Vice President. K. K. Carpenter, (.'ashler. 1)1 ItKCTOHS: K. V. M. Low, K. (). York", Frank Ikeler, Joseph Itattl, i:. It. Tustin, Film! Ikeler, (ieo. S. Rohbins, W. C. Creasy, J. M Staver, M. I. Low, THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Esi'Mii.tsiiitn 1837. Consolidated 1869 Puhi.ishkd Kvkkv Thursday Mornino, At Hloomslmri:, the County Scat of Columbia Cnunty, Pennsylvania. CEO. E. EI. WELL, Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. ruitMM Inside the county $1.00 a year la nlvance; $l.5oif not paid in advance. Outride thecounty, $ 1.25 a year, strictly in V.lvnnce. Ail communications should be. addressed THE COLUMBIAN, UloomsburR, Ta. THURSDAY, DECEMBER a8, 1905. WASHINGTON. From our Kecular Correspondent. Washington D. C. Dec. 21, 1905. There is going to be a fight on the Panama Car.nl as soon as Con gress gets to work after the holi days. The trouble has come from the President's determination tn, retain Mr. J. B. Bishop, the much discussed ' press agent," not in the service of the Commission, but as a member of that body. Worse even than his appointment on the com mission in place of the late and tin- mer.ted engineer Wallace, is the :t that his salary is to be $7,51 o 1 commissioner aud that he will '.c an extra $2,500 for some r.cial secretarial work, thus mak his salary $10,000, just what ..c was gettirg as "press agent." There is going to be a warm fight on this nomination and several of the senators prcphesy that it will oe defeated. The scheme for federal control of insurance which was going forward with such a vim in Congress has been brought to a sudden halt by some of the older members who le ' ct'tne suspicious of the alacrity with which the insurance compan ies themselves have been agreeing to the plan. It is said that they would not be so willing to be con trolled if they did not see some dis tinct advantages in it for them selves. The senators and represen tatives who recently were foremost in advancing the plan, are now stopping to take another look at it It is pointed out that federal con trol would put the companies much in the same relation to the govern ment as the National Banks and while the banks are supposed to be under the strictest governmental supervision, it does not prevent their failing for large sums with alarming frequency. Federal control would certainly be an advantage to the companies in their in terstate business and it would give them a national standing very beneficial abroad, which they do not now have, though they really almost control the life insurance business both in Great Britain and in Germany. Federal control is likely to come in the end. Some sort of control is very necessary in the light of the recent disclosures iu New York. But it is a safe guess that any bill to this end will be carefully scanned before it pass es Congress to see that there is not a joker concealed in it somewhere that will play into the hands of the insurance managers. The Secretary of the Navy says that he can control I he hazing and fighting tendencies of the Naval Academy if he is given the power of summary dismissal over the ca dets which according to strict in terpretation of the law he does not now have. Cadets are rated as line officers of the Navy and as such they cannot be dismissed except by court martial. But Secretary Bona parte is a rude person with little respect for "brass clothes" and none whatever f.r the so called "code of honor" that has been un earthed in the Academy. His fin gers are itching to get hold of a cadet who dates defy the power of INSTHK COUNTY urplusand Undivided Profits $150,000. Louis Gross, H. V. 1 lower. the authorises and if he does, with the authoiity to carry out his wish es, Secretary Bonaparte will in all probability make such an example of him as will materially discourage the ambitious young men who are now living up to the sacred tradi tions of black eyes and missing teeth inculcated ?.t the Naval school. The Foss bill, if it is passed, will give the Secretary such power, and it looks now ns though the bill would be passed, the disciplining of cadets left to the Secret try instead oj turning the purging of the Academy over to a congressional investigating committee. The American residents of the Isle of Pines have been severely criticised by one of their number now in Washington for their at tempt to organize a territorial gov ernment and to send a delegate to Congress. The critic, Col. T. J. Keenan, President of the American Society of the Isle of Pines says that while he is in general sympa thy with the residents' in their dis taste for Cuban rule, he thiuks they have acted very unwisely iu the way they have forced the issue and run the risk of embroiliug this government with Cuba without any ultimate good to themselves. There are indications that Con gress, through the Senate is dis posed to practice canal building itself for a little while and take the matter out of the hands of the President. The literary secretary or press agent of the Canal as Mr. Bishop has been called, appears to have been the straw that has tipped the scale and changed the Canal status. Mr. Bishop, it will be re membered, as a journalist on the editorial staff of a Republican paper had given the Canal question much study, had written much about it, and was considered by the President mainly on account of his thorough acquaintance with the Canal enter prise. His salary was 10,000, much mure than that of any Sena tor or Member of Congress, but not more than Mr. Bishop had been getting in New York. Dotib'.less a number of Senators are more or less angry with the President fur reasons or prejudices quite unre lated to the Canal, as for example Railroad Rate Legislation, and for various requests and favors never granted. Senators are only human and when one of them going from an executive committee of the Sen ate said, "The President will find that he cannot build the Pananja Canal by reciting the Ten Com maudments," it is not impossible that he may have found the Presi dent's too strict adherence to these Commandments in the way of his own schemes and those of his clients. For Sale- Two $ioc bonds of the Bloomsburg Furniture Company, 5 per cent. Inquire of Geo. K. Klwell, trustee. tf. Ayers You can hardly find a home without Its Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Parents know what it does for children: breaks Cherry Pectoral up a cold in a single night, wards off bronchitis, prevents pneumonia. Physicians ad vise parents to keep iton hand. " The bet cough medlclua money enn bur 1i Ayt.r't ('hurry VeMoral. Kor th rmmtit of chlldreu uoltiuilf could intMtlily lie butter " Jacob bhuu,. Saratoga, Ind. ?!Sfl.KV!..l 00 A 1 1 1rni'i-'liH 1(1 AYBR CO 1 for Throat, Luntfs Ayer's Pills greatly aid the Cherry Pectoral In breaking up a cold MUST VOTE IN KEEKDAHT- Flcilz Show How Townsh'pj Can Acquire Tholr Road Tax Fivm Slat Deputy Attorney (Uneral Flcitz ueciues, in an ouiciai opinion (ie.iv eted to S'.ate Commissioner Hunter that all townships in Pennsylvania denting to receive 15 per cent, of of the ..mount of their road tax tioin the state next year must vote aflirniaiively on this proposition at the coming February election. Mr Fk-itz decides also that under the general supervisor' net, passed by the last legislature, the supervisors must serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed for travel ing expenses; that no supervisor can act as road master, and that the act is general in its terms, ap plies to all second class townships 111 the state, and all local or special laws relating to the management and control of township roads in conflict with this act arc repealed by it. The Deputy Attorney General has also advised Commissioner llnn'.er that, in building roads with state money, he need not confine himself to using any one county's appropriation for the year only. The money appropriated by the legislature was lor a period ol four years, and Deputy Fieitz says that to facilitate matters, Commissioner Hunter may use a county's entire appropriation at once, in his discre tion, but that he must allow no county more than its pro rata shore of all the money. It willb: recall ed that Dauphin county lost its share because of objections to pro posed improvements in Swatara, and Lower Paxton townships. COMPULSORY VAOOIMTIOS. Benton, R. F. D. No. 1, Dec. 21, 1905. We have been asked the question several times since we have taken such a pronounced stand against compulsory vaccination, whether "we believe that vaccination is wrong." By no means is vaccina tion wrong. But compulsory vacci nation is. We were vaccinated when a boy. My wife was vaccinated when a girl, but not successfully, She was again vaccinated when we had our children vaccinated years ago, aud got a very sore arm. We were brought up under the principle that self preservation is the first law of nature ; and that it is just as necessary to take precautionary measures to protect ourselves against contagious epidemics, as against accidents, or any other dangers. That all such precautions are a part aud parcel of the general household economy, as in providing fuel, clothing and all other neces saiy things, for the comfort, health and happiness of the home. All these are things lhat enter into the economy of reason and common sense r.nd should be lelt free for every person, or home circle to deal with as his, or their best judgment may dictate. The idea of compul sory and despotic measures is so repugnant that if people submit to it at all, it is under great protest. We also believe that if a campaign of persuasion had been waged in every community and the people biought to see the desirability and necessity of such a measure for the public need before the schools commenced in the fall, that nearly all the children would have been vaccinated without protest. There is a right way of doing things as well as a wrong way. The people always protest when, forced under the yoke of tyranny. John C. Wenner. The February Election. Speaking generally, the spring elections, in Pennsylvania, are of far more immediate importance to the people than the general election in isovemuer. As President Roose velt said in his Little Rock speech last summer. " It makes very little difference in the eud whether the president of the United States is a Kepuoncan or a Democrat," but it makes every difference that all public officials shall be clean and honest. As a rule, votes cast at the Feb ruary election are much fewer than those polled in November. There should be equal interest in the election next February when we are to choose borough and town ship officers. It is of far greater moment to the citizens of Blooms burg that they shall send the right kind of men to council and to school board to fix our tax rates and to ex pend the money raised by taxation, tuan mat tnis or that man shall be selected to represent them in con gress. It is up to every good citizen who wants the business of the nnhlir conducted in the interest ot all the ' people, to see that his right to vote Is assured by the entry of his name on the assessor's list. Bean tlx y Hie Kind You Have Always Bousjil "CORRUPT AND CONTENTED " In the January Litfincott 's there is an arrestive paper on present-day Finance by a well-known capitalist who hides under the mm tie guerre "W L." In this the author speaks as lollows : The investigation of several great Life Insurance Companies has be come matter of universal interest, for the revelations point to germane conditions in other financial organi zations as well The public is mani festly am zed by the, to them, as tounding abuses of the resources of these great corporations to the ad vantage of tl.o.e in positions of trust connected therewith ; but do the financiers of the age share this surprise? Probably not, for their intimate association with the sources from which large sums of money are constantly derived has familiarized them with the abuses that pervade the financial manage ment of manv ot our great corpora tions. This does not imply neces sarily that fun. Is are stolen, or that the courses adopted must be con strued as criminal, but, as evinced in the development incidental to the investigation of the affairs of the Insurance Companies referred to, the interests of the real owners of these great properties have been disregarded in a shameful manner. With a full knowledge of such facts, the average stockholder does not make the least effort to rectify the evil. Recently the writer had a discussion wit'.i a friend regard ing the relative merits of the man agement of two great Railroad Com panies, and contended that the com pany iu which he was interested was managed with scrupulous honesty, while the company in which his friend had a holding of thousands of shares was conducted notoriously to the advantage of the chiefs of its departments. The friend admitted the facts, but said : You have your company man aged honestly aud have not had a dividend for years, while we have never failed to receive dividends annually. Now I should rather be robbed and get a dividend, than have your honest management and get nothing." This one sentence presents the view of very many stockholders ; thev are satisfied so long as they receive, a fair return for their in vestment, and do not bother them selves about details of management forgetting that seme day their neglect may result in loss or even ruin. This " so long-as-I-get-a-share" feeling of contentment 0:1 the part of the stockholders helps largely to encourage carlessness in the conduct of the affairs of all companies. WeediDg Out Unfit Senators One wholesome result of the cam paign against graft, which seems to run like an infection from state to state throughout the union, is a prospective improvement in the quality of the membership of the United .States Senate. Knox has already taken the seat of (Juay from Pennsylvania, and Penrose has made himself a future impossibility. Piatt and Depew, ol New ork, and Dryden, of New Jersey, by a curious turn of events, have been made to stand up and under oath testify o their own unfitness. They may not resign, but their day of influence and usefulness is past. Other and better men are sure to succeed them. Death and the process of the courts have removed Mitchell, of Oregon and Burton, of Kansas. There are 30 senators whose terms expire in 1907. This gives to the awakened conscience of the country an immediate opportunity of making itself felt, both in the reward of faithful service and the rebuke of dement. Senator Allee, of Delaware, is in this list, as well as Dryden, of New Jersey. There is a sting of truth in the declaration that the United States Senate has become "a club of mil lionaires." Of late years the sen atorial millionaires have steadily legislated in the interest of million aires aud monopolies. It is time that the states not the corpora tionsshall have representatives to speak for them on the floor of the United States Senate. The weed ing out process already so effective ly begun, should be pushed until the Senate is restored to its old-time vigor aud repute. Ex. J A YlVF' the standard cough and cold cure for over . A 75 years now comes also in a CVnCr'TAn A rVTT Convenient to c"y with you. Don't CArnL I I JIA X I be without it. Ask your druegbt. Townsend's We give PALHER'S CELEBRAT ED PERFUHE With Each Ocent Tie purchased is TOWM Knox Hats. th JUST A FEW HINTS AS TO GIFTS Furs rank high anion"; the liner sort of gifts. These fine linens make acceptable gifts. Handkerchiefs, thousands of them, and they never miss lire. China, a great display from Ihe common white iron stone up to the famous Haviland. You can buy as you want or in sets. Furniture, it helps make the home, and the home makes the Christinas. Globe-Wernicke "Elastic Book Cases." We are sole agents for these. Kitchen ware, enameled and the celebrated Ro chester nicklc ware, Coats and Tailored Suits. The very largest as sortment. Blankets or Comforts, just the kind you want. P. S. If we say "all wool" when selling a blanket it is all wool. Bric-a-Brac and odd Decorated China. Shoes, Gloves or good Warm underwear always a line assortment. Dress Goods, the largest stock to choose from in the county. F. P. BLOOMSBURG, a bottle of week. Ad ler's Gloves. PURSEL. - PENNA. 25c SEME'S be without it. Ask your druggist. d lAv 1006 ALMANAC i'KbE. Write to Dr. D. Jyoe & Son, I'biMeMiia.
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