1 E 1CSS Congressional Party Went to Panama Doubting , Return Optimistic. RIGHT MEN AT HEAD Koinnrkablo Progress Already Made (t uu Kurnest Completion uf the Gigantic Task Visitors Prulse the Orgttnlzation of Kvcry Department of Work on tlic Isthmus. Washington, D. C, March 26. ;be atmosphere In Washington dur ias the last few days of the late ausalon of Congress touching the Panama Canal was decidedly pessi mistic Attention had been called to the fact that about $130,000,000 had already been expended or au thorized on the project, and It was admitted that nothing more could bo asserted than a fair beginning had been made. This was not a very ncouraglng situation when It was recalled that the original estimate of the total cost of the canal was $145. 000,000. Surprise Awaiting Them. "Leaving such an atmosphere on March 6, forty-five members of Con gress, representing twenty-seveu States, stepped from the steamship Panama six days later onto the great new dock at Colon, and found them nelves at once In a totally different atmosphere. They had more than half feared they would be met by haggard, disappointed, discouraged men, working despondently under killing conditions upon a project which they felt was foredoomed to fail. Agreeably Disappointed. "No one will pretend that we iioirniJ It nil-" that there mav not lave been faults of administration, defects in plans, errors and injustices ; which wholly escaped our notice. ! But there were some things we , could not help seeing, and that we could not possibly be mistaken about, j We could not help seeing that tha j Quarters provided for the working i force were ample In size and ideal in ! construction. We could not help noting the absence of foul smells, the i presence of clean water, the uninls- takable evidence on every hand of Irreproachable sanitary conditionn. We could not help believing men i - hen they told us that in six months, - year, two years on the Isthmus, j :?'" had not been 111 a day. Wa ild not help seeing steadily earns of dirt trains coming up out . the cuts, and It could hardly havo i ;.'.n by a conspiracy to deceive thut the locomotive engine drivers who handle those trains came to us to complain about being overworked. We could not help hearing the rat-tat-tat of compressed air drills and the frequent boom of dyuamlte blasts. We could not help seeing the scores St steam shovels that are at work, fifty-three In Culebra aloue. "And from all the things that we aw and heard and could not be mis taken about, we were driven to tht conclusion that the situation was Tery much better than one had ex pected to find It. The Canal Zone Is a much pleasanter place to live, climatically, than we had anticipated. ; There was a cool breeze blowing all i the time we were there, night and , day, and covert were necessary every night , even in rooms not directly exposed to a draught. The work lngmen'a quarters were prettier and more comfortable looking than we had expected to find them. The various camps were cleaner than we had believed could be possible. Greater headway has been made in the real work of excavation, and more work Is being done day by day than we had realized. And, most significant perhaps of all, there wad feeling of contentment on the part of the men who are doing the work, a sentiment of confidence in the out come of the gigantic enterprise and a pride in being connected with It that we were totally unprepared to find. To be agreeably disappointed In so many important particulars, is not that warrant enough for at least M reasonable degree of optimism? Canal Will lie Built. "The Panama Canal will be built. Not that anybody ever really believed It would not be built. That the United States of America, having once set its hand to an Impossible task, should turn back, leaving it un completed Is unconceivable. But they probably are those who have honestly doubted whether the canal eould be built within any reasonable limit of time and cost. I believe I am warranted in saying there are at least forty-five members of Con gress who will not be of that number henceforth." Representative Chas. F. Scott, of Kansas, in the New York Herald. Prison for Grain Merchant. Chicago, 111., March 27. George B. McReynolds, formerly a pomlnent member of the Chicago Board ot Trade, was to-day sentenced to an Indeterminate term In the peniten tiary on the charge of removing from bis elevators grain on which ware house receipts had previously been Issued. The sentence may run any where from one to ten years. 1415 for Print of Washington. London, March !7. At Sotheby's a print of. George Washington, from the original picture in Philadelphia, was sold at autlon for 9146. I NtGnO CASHIER Mt'KDEKKU. President and Vice President of Bank Arretted for the Crime. New Orleans, March 26. Edward Howell, a negro, cashier of the People's Bank of Hnttleshurg, Miss., wns assassinated last Tuesday, being shot to death Just ns he was entering lila home at Yellow Pino, a suburb of the town. Joseph Pet t u and Jo seph Williams, both negroes, and president and vice-president of the bank, were arrested for complicity In the assassination. Howell, who was S3 years of ago, had risen from a laborer In a turpentine camp and had become one of the wealthiest ne groes In Mississippi. He was greatly esteemed, especially by the whites, giving much time to keeping the ne groes in obedience to tho law. Mine. Kminu Harnett. The noted Prima Donna, who is suing her husband Julian Story, the well-known artist, for divorce, nam ing in her allegations several society women of Philadelphia. HANGED HEU DAUGHTER. Akron Woman Then Tried to Com mit Suicide. Akron, Ohio, March 23. In tho absence of other members of her family, Mrs. James R. Hemphill strangled her daughter. Helen, agod 9 years, by hanging her. She then secreted the body In a box. When Mr. Hemphill returned from work he found, the house locked, and after getting Inside he found Mrs. Hemphill In the act of hanging her self to a bedpost. After he cut hor down she declared that she had sent the little girl to heaven, where sho thought she also ought to go. The woman had shown no signs of in sanity previously. She has been a prominent church worker. INDIAN XVHSE OX TRIAL. Counsel Say She Was Insane When She Poisoned Her Little Charge. Carmel, N. Y., March 27. The trial of Jennie Burch, the young In dian nurse, who Is charged with the murder of Willian Winship, the child she was employed to care for, was opened here before Supreme Court Justice Mills. It is alleged that the girl administered poison to the child in a peach and then tried to kill herself. The girl's mother and sev eral other relatives were In court to-day. Counsel for the girl said they would prove that she was Insane. Funeral Service By 'Phone. Auburn, Me., March 27. It being Impossible for a minister to visit their home because of diphtheria there, Mr. and Mrs. Pliny W. Sturtevant, of Auburn, had funeral services held over the telephone. Warren, their two-year-old son, died Saturday of diphtheria. A little girl was taken ill of the same disease, preventing fumigation of the house and the removal of the qua rantine A. J. Marsh, pastor of the Court Street Free Baptists Church, offici ated by telephone at this novel fu neral. The prayer and consoling remarks of the minister could be heard plainly by the heartbroken parents, and did much to comfort them. Bombs Used in School Revolt. St. Petersburg, March 27. The High School of Sciences, on Vaslli Island, was the scene of several bomb explosions which, fortunately, brought no serious casualties. The explosions were caused by members of the senior and junior classes, whom the faculty were about to ex pel bodily for offenses against disci pline. Several cupboards contain lng apparatus for chemical research were blown to splinters and the In struments hurled out over the heads of the class. Prairie Fire Sweeps Texas. San Antonio, Texas, Mar. 28. Prairie fires have swept over millions of acres of land In the western and southwestern counties of Texas. In the Pecos country there has been a fire spreading over the lands for more than a week. It is believed to have been gen erally extinguished by recent rains, and the cattlemen are of the opinion that new grass will be valuable be fore any bad effect comes from the burning. THE COLUMBIAN, in hi or in Covering Minor Happen Ings from all Over the Globe. HOME AND FOREIGN Compiled and Condensed for the Busy Reader A Complete Record of European -Despatches and Im portant Events from Everywhere Boiled Down for Hasty Perusal, Senator Foraker opened the war over the next Republican Presiden tial nomination In Ohio by proposing a primary election In that State to decide on the candidacy of himself and Secretary Taft. Assemblyman Walnwrlght's bill providing for an Investigation Into National affairs was killed by the Senate Finance Committee at Albany. Hahnemann Hospital physicians In Philadelphia used skin grafting In the hope of saving a woman 106 years old, badly injured by burns. Senator Whytu, of Maryland, was openly embraced by a woman client acquitted of murder charge. Morgan J. O'Brien, Peter B. Olney and Dr. Leopold Putzel were ap pointed a commission in lunacy to puss on the mental condition of Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White. James Bryce was the guest at a reception given by the New York Chamber of Commerce. Students of Princeton presented a loving cup to Grover Cleveland to mark his seventieth birthday. The new conservative natlonr.l party of Cuba, declared Itself for aa American protectorate and notified the American Governor of tho party's formation. Should Harry K. Thaw be declared Insane, It was pointed out that the hardest blow possible would fa'l on Evelyn Neablt Thaw, hi3 wife, whose marriage to him might be an nulled. Plans were said to ho perfected for the appointment of a Western inter state traffic cornmlsFioner to solva the present problem In tho railroaJ situation. William H. Imes, of Chicago, had his leg broken in n wrestling match with his daughter, a college athlati and basketball player. Another clash developed anions the lawyers defending Harry K. Thaw over the filling of affidavits tending to prove, the present sanity of the slayer of Stanford White. Major Louis L. Seaman said Eng land was waging a campaign here against the Belgian administration in the Congo preparatory to seizing the country herself. FOREIGN NEWS. Saad el Dowleb. Persian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has resumed at tendance in the Assembly. General Hernandez, of Venezuela, is quoted as declaring that he will start a revolution and one that will not fall. The Russian Duma, by a large ma jority, passed a resolution in favor of abolishing drumhead court niar tials, but the Premier declared it was not yet possible to rule the couu try under ordinary laws. Four thousand peasants are marching on Bucharest, the capita! of Roumanla, where a state ot slego has been proclaimed. Mexico is taking the lead In ar ranging for peace Between Nicaragua and Honduras and Salvador. , To insure prompt reparation for the murder of Dr. Mauchamp by riotous Moors, the French govern ment ordered troops in Algeria to seize the town of Oudja, Morocco. General Plcquart, French Minister of War, told the Chamber that re ports of torturo in the disciplinary battalions of the army in Afrloa were exaggerated, and the Deputies re jected a motion for an Investiga tion. Count Arco has succeeded in ob taining wireless telephone messages at a distance of two miles. Horace Raynor was condemned to death for the murdur of William Whltely In London. Intervention by the United States and Mexico to end the Central American war Is mooted In Wash ington: Plans by the Vlckers Company for gas engines that would make com tng war ships funnelless greatly In terested naval architects, say a cable from London. A cable from Parts tells of the great activity In aeronautic cir cles and how M. Santos-Dumont on his first test of Bird of Prey No. 3 broke its left wing. Defeating the Honduran army at Maralta, the Nlcaraguan forces cap tured Senor Barahona, Honduran Minister of War, and General Leo Christmas, an American adventurer. SPORTING NEWS. The New York State Racing Com' mission's annual report shows that In twelve years the racing assocla Hons have paid $1,494,263 taxos, which has been contributed to the agricultural associations of the State. BLOOMSBURO, PA. R. C. Watson, Jr., ol West brook, and Harold Sands, of the Lome Club, qualified for the final of the South ern Cross Cup in the twelfth annual golf tournament of the Falmotto Club,, at Aiken, S. C. J. C. McCoy will make a long bal loon trlpln an effort to win the Lalud cup. Jay Gould retained his title r.s court tennis champion of AlkvIci by defeating Joshua crane, J.. cf Allan R. Hawley, of the Aern Club of America, and A. N. Chandler, of the Philadelphia Aero Club, made a balloon trip from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. F. A. Forsythe's Montgomery von the $10,000 Dery at New Orleans. Temaceo was second and Yankee girl not plnced. Columbia's rrew will be trained for the Poughkecpsle race on the Hudson River. TORE OUT HOUSE'S TONGUE. Cruel Italian Escapes With n Finn cf $100 Unless Grand Jury Acts. Nev York, March 28. Because his horse was unequal to tho task of pulling a wagon filled with Junk out of a mudholo In the Silver Lake district of Belleville, N. J., Joseph Giordana of 26 Lako Street, Belle ville, beat and kicked tho animal, and then seizins Its tongue tore It out by the roots. Then he led the Buffering horse to Its stable. William J. Curtin, an agent for tha S. P. C. A., heard of the cusu. Ho had the horse shot, and then ar rested Giordana. Justice of thu Peace Hopwood of ISloomfleld fined the Italian $100 and costs. ThU was paid by Glordana's son. Tho at tention of the Grand Jury will ba called to the case. FARMER FAIRBANKS' WOE. Vice President's Corn Crop Tied Uji By Car Congestion. Washington, March 27. Vies President Fairbanks called on tin President to pay his respects. H? stated In reply to a question as hi left that the railroad situation con tinued bad, so far as the congestion of traffic was concerned. He stated that ho had been unable to get corn from hiu farm to market, and that his brother, who has a taim in Central Illinois, is malting tha same complaint. Honduras Capital Falls. Washington, D. C, March 27. Senor Corea received this cabin gram directly from President Zelaya, of Nicaragua: "Our army has taken Teguci galpa." The Minister believes that peaca will now be effected if Guatemala and Salvador remain neutral and do not render aid to President Bonll'a. of Honduras. Otherwise, he expects tho war to go on. Unofficial despatches also brought news of the occupation of Teguci galpa, tho Honduras capital, by ths Nicaraguans. It is not expected they will attempt to hold it long, but that upon peace making It will ba evacuated. Advices received at the State De partment from South America are that President Bonllla, of Honduras, whom Nlcaraguan reports describe'! as fleeing from the country after a crushing defeat, has reorganized his army and Is prepared to fight to the last. In Favor of Vegeturlana New Haven, Conn., March 26 Professor Irving Fischer, of Yalo, has completed endurance tests by which he finds that a diet without flesh food Is more conducive to en durance that a diet of meat. The tests were holding out the arms as long as possible, deep knee bending and leg raising with the subject ly ing on his back. Forty-nino persons were examined, including students, physicians, nurses and college instructors. Professor Fischer says: "The result indicates that the non flesh eaters have far greater endur ance than those accustomed to the ordinary American diet." Mercy For Capt. Cochran. Washington, March 27. The President has approved the recom mendation of Secretary Taft that Clemency be shown in tho case of Capt. W. B. Cochran, Twenty-fourth Infantry, who was sentenced to dis missal in the Philippines for drunk enness on duty. He has mitigated the sentence to the loss of fifty flies. The result Is to reduce the Cap tain's number from 275 to 325 in tho list of Captains, making it impro bable that, in the ordinary course ot events, he can ever rise above the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Paul Morton's Salt Block Burned. Hutchinson, Kan., March 27. The Morton salt block, the largest in the world, owned chiefly by Joy Moi- ton and Paul Morton, ex-Secretary of the Navy, was destroyed by lira. The loss Included a new $250,000 addition to the plant and a vast quantity of refined salt, and may reach $1,000,000. Kpldouiic on tho Georgia. Newport News, Va., March 27. 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It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAY3 Bears the The Kind You Me Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. VMS CtNTOUR eOMMMV. TV MVKKM aTft' It,!. TO OITV. MAY COURT JURYMEN. (IHA.NIi JUKOKH. Michael Olil, CutiiwUsii township. Churli's Moi'ilun, Mt. l'lcasaut. Charles K. Slinc, Cleveland. William Klino, liontoii lloro. Martin L. Wnrmnnl, Herwick. Toll li 'or I ict. HlooniMliiirc. l)avi(l Keller, Orange Boro. C. v.. 1 orks SumirloHf. Harry Wright, Convngluun. J.'O. Ikeler, Orange twp. itoncrt Harder, jterwick. Clnrk Itogart, I'iiic. JixNnn Chris: inn, Tine. J. N. Conner, Centre. John V. Fortiier, Centrnlia. in. t ollman, ISlooniHburg. l eter J. Dclmer, t ntawifsu lioro. A. F. Hnrtnmn, Culiuvissa lloro. Charles K. Hull. Berwick. John Harp, Mt. lMcusant. li. i Wukelieltl, Berwick. Charles H. Urciweli. 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Meuscli, Catawlssa twp. Elias Geiger, Montour. Clarence F. Redline, Miftilu. OABTOIIIA. Bsarithe ' Haw 1 6Mt, aifsMwe Signature of . Would License Railways. President t Remedy for Prosant MUtrtst el Stock Market. President Roosevelt is more firm ly convinced than ever that the best way to restore public confidence in railroad securities which will en able the roads to dispose of their stocks and bonds to raise funds with which to increase their facilities, and to stop the attacks of the State Legislatures upon transportation lines is to enact a Federal license law. No statement of his position on this question will be issued by Pres sident Roosevelt, but from this time on he will confer with railroad offic'als, the Govenors of States, and other persons familiar with railroad matters, and when he reaches a conclusion on some speci fic branch of the comprehensive plan the President is working out he will announce it in a public ad dress or in his annual message to congress. The President 's study ing this question, and it may be a week or two before be reaches any definate conclusion or it may not be until Congress meets. There is not likely to be an extra session of Congress to embody his ideas in legislation. What a splendid type of tireless activity is the sun as the psalmist describes it issuing ;like "a bride groom from his chamber and re joicing like a strong man to run a race." Every man ought to rise in the morning refreshed by slum ber and renewed by rest, eager for the struggle of the day. But how rarely this is so. Most people rise still unrefreshed, and dreading the strain of the day's labors. The cause of this is deficient vitality and behind this lies a deficient sup ply of pure, rich blood, and an ade quate nourishment of the body. There is nothing that will give a man strength and energy, as will Dr, Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery. It does this by increasing the quantity and quality of the blood supply. This nourishes the nerves, feeds the brain, builds up enfeebled organs, and gives that seuse of strength and power which makes the struggle of life a joy. The "good feeling' which follows the use of "Golden Medical Discov ery" is not due to stimulation as it cautains no alcohol. The Ingred ients are plainly stated on the bottle wrapper. It c;oes not "brace-up" the body, but builds it up into a condition of sound and vigorous health. Supervisors' Blanks We have printed a supply of blanks for Supervisors under the new law, and will keep them in stock. They include order books, tax notices, and daily ro-d reports. Samples sent on application, tf. CAMERAS without pain. Inconvenience, or leaving hom MO KN1KK NO FLASTKH HO VAiM Tha MASOlf HKTHOD. t ndoned at th hfaw ilun.l Mm1icI OongntM.tia pronounol bjr prtxalnMa Yurk phyttaUnstolwtliaunlr ImnniuMiiitotii. HaDit tur fna booklet, luvawiiaut to-ilaj. Uaatat Oom not wait. V;r jiv prA.. r otcsrer aww Cane w lAitltute, Uroadwaf e. )w K-JL i
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