THE COLUMBIAN.
UlVOOMSBURG, VA.
THURSDAY, ATJilL IS l!X)7
HARRISBURQ LETTER.
Special Correspondence.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 15, 1907.
There appears to be a mania in
the Legislature for increasing tax
es. What the purpose of drawing
such vast sums from the earnings
of the people, is beyond the reach
of conjecture. During the past
four years the vast cost of the con
struetion of the capitol was paid
out of the revenues and during the
entire period of these -xtraordinary
drafts the surplus never fell below
nine or ten millions. In the face
of such facts one would think that
the nresent revenues ar sufficient
for tne maintenance of the govern
ment even on a liberal scale.
There seems to be a well settled
purpose to increase the appropria
tion for the public schools and there
may be wisdom in such action.
Money invested in education is
wisely spent always and by proper
economies m other matters, the
Stite could p'obably pay all the
cost of the maintenance of the pub
lic schools without materially in
creasing the revenues. Of course
the money comes out of the pockets
of the people, just the same, though
tJie corporations make the collec
tions and payments. But the di
rect taxes such as are levied by
iocal authorities for school, road
and other purposes are the burden
some taxes and the lighter they
are the better.
If increased revenues held out
the hope of diminished local tax
ourdens, there would be reason in
searching for new subjects of taxa
tion. As a matter of fact, however,
ihe only promise that can be drawn
from the additional revenues pro
posed is of greater profligacy.
There is a little comfort in the
orospect of an enhanced fund for
the use of the Highway Depart
ment. Seventy-five cents of every
Jollar expended by that depart
ment goes to waste or loot. The
return to the local authorities of a
greater proportion of the personal
nd license taxes is not a very at
:ractive proposition. It would be
oetter to leave those revenues with
the local authorities in tiie begin
ning. THE PROPOSED TAX 1ULLS.
Yet it is proposed to increase the
revenues through ujw subjects of
taxation to a total of upwards of
$15,000,000 a year. Six measures
pending in the General Assembly
are expected to produce this result.
They are Mr. Hitchcock's bill levy
,ug one mill on all corporation as
sets for the benefit of country
roads, counted on for $2,500,000 a
ear; Mr. Kndsley's bill to tax the
:apital stock of manufacturing cor
porations, set dowu asgood for $2,
oo,ooo; Mr. Howard's bill to tax
mthracite coal three cents a ton,
lepeuded on for $2,100,000; Mr.
-reasy's bill taxing express com
ianies, certain to produce $200,000;
tfr. W. S. Reynold's bill Imposing
1 stamp tax of two cents on each
J1.00 worth of stock transferred,
stimated to be good for $2,000,000,
and Mr. Dunmore's bill adding
htee mills to the tax on the capi
at stock of corporations.
The only bill in this group which
vill not add to the burdens of the
eople is the Creasy measure. The
'jcpress companies have been tax
lodgers in Pennsylvania from the
beginning of their existence and
heir rates are already so high that
t will be impossible to surcharge
be tax against the customers. Sen
ior Meek, editor ot the Bellefonte
Watchman and Secietary of the
democratic State Committee, re
cently published in his paper a
Statement of the business of the
Adams Express company and the
amount of taxes it paid. He show
ed that while that company did a
ausiness amounting to $8,905,955.
00, in 210 of its offices within the
State and probably twice that much
in all its offices, it paid the State in
taxes only about $3,170.79. Mr;
Creasy's plan is to compel just pay
mems in the tutnre. I here is no
possible way or recovering the past
deficiency but the express business
can be made to yield at least $200,-
000 a year in the future without
adding to the expenses of shippers
THE KOOSEVBIT HYSTERIA.
The Roosevelt hysteria struck
the House of Representatives at the
initial session last week. The
Roosevelt propaganda is workint
day and night and under ci'?' ia
Ta ft boom is makj-g . ;.isiderable
progress townr5 t inird term. It
bad bn !-.anged to get resolu
'.utln ostensibly endorsing tin
President's corporation policy bin
reallv promoting his Presidential
ambition through the legislature
of several States, simultaneously,
or nearly sc, last week. Iu Ne
braska and Pennsylvania . the
scheme succeeded but in Iowa it
failed dismally, The resolution
Spinous1
The best is Hood's Sarsaparilla. It
is the best because it does the most good.
While it makes the blood pure, fresh
and lively, it tones the stomach td bet
ter digestion, creates an appetite, stimu
lates the kidneys and liver, gives new
brain, nerve and digestive strength.
An uncqualcd list of cures 40,366 tes
timonials in two years proves its merit.
Saraataba Tnt tlinewho tirrfer nwlMn
In tablet fnrin, Hofxl's nrwumrUl. In uow put up
in ehocolMml tnllit called Surantahs, as woll nn
In the Uftun) liquid form. .Sftrnat.lm hnvn Monti
rally t)i same curative properties aft the lifjuul
rnrm, lwslc!o accuracy 01 dose, convenience, cn-on-
OtllT
there being no loss by evaporation
Vr,
are, or leakage,
il ry ornvKlsTs
C. I. llood Co,
druKKlsts or sent by in.. .
.Uowell. .,1 ass.
Guaran'TKED under the Food and
was introduced all right, but a
motion to lay it on the table carried
by an overwhelming majority.
But the lobsters of the Pennsyl
vania Legislature took the bait with
an alacrity that was surprising.
Two years ago when the railroad
rate bill was pending in Congress
and the president "was sweating
blood-' in his anxiety to get it
through, Mr. Creasy introduced a
resolution instructing the Pennsyl
vania Senators and requesting her
Representatives in Congress to sup
port the measure. The resolution
was adopted unanimously on the
impulse but immediately afterward
uuder order from the Boas Man
sion or the Broad Street station the
vote was reconsidered and the reso
lution defeated. Representative
Hitchcock was among those who
took the dose of crow on that occa
sion and he has probably been suf
fering with indigestion ever since.
At all events he introduced the
resolution last week and supported
it with u speech so sycophantic as
to Create nausea.
So Pennsylvania stands pledged
to Roosevelt and his policies and
practices. This is interesting though
more or less perplexing. In other
words we are left in doubt as to
whether it was his attempt to
"electioneer" the Vatican in order
to get an American Cardinal who
would prost'tute the Catholic
church to the base uses of Roose
veltism, his efforts to get trust
funds for the purpose of political
corruption through Harriman, his
promotion of a White Hons? em
ploye for dragging a helpless wo
man through the mud and mire, or
his creation of an Ananias Club
that has been endorsed. But some
thing in relation to Teddy has been
endorsed unequivocally and until
Penrose takes a lew of the recreants
by the nose, it will stay endorsed.
DEFECT IN THE PRIMARY ELEC
TION LAW.
Chairman Charles P. Donnelly
of the Democratic State Committee,
was iu Harrisburg on Tuesday of
last week for the purpose of calling
the attention of Senators and Rep
resentatives in the Legislature to
some fatal defects in the Primary
electiou law enacted at the special
session last year which the Lydnck
bill now pending fails to correct.
The existing law provides for hold
ing State conventions to nominate
State tickets but requires that they
be held within a week from the
date of the June primary elections.
The returns of those elections are
to be made on Tuesday following
aud are to be canvassed on Wed
nesday. That leaves only Thurs
day and Friday to get ready for a
State convention which it is physi
cally impossible to do. The Ly
dnck bill makes no change in this
provision of the law and Chairman
Donnelly tried to get that fault cor
rected.
Mr. Donnelly discussed no other
subject of legislation during bis stay
at the State capitol but some of the
hysterical newspaper correspondents
tortured the incident into an effort
to help the Republican machine
defeat an absurd bill in relation to
voting for candidates for United
Stat .s Senator at the primary elec
tions. Section 3 of Article 1 of the
60 Years Old
and gfinorally jilayecl out, when I com
meiioed to oho Dr. David Kennedy's Fa
vorite) Remedy," writes S. I. Young, of
Ilirum, Ohio. "For yenrs I have suffered
with infUmmntion and uonxtunt pain in the
bluddur and kidneys, and have gradually
grown worse and expected at any time that
jmsHing urine ly nature's effort would cease,
liesirtus I have had rlinumatio pain in every
niUHrle and joint, and have suffered in
tensely, but I mimt say I have not ia five
years felt as w"' il do now. Have im
proved daily siuee I began the use of
Dr.David Kennedy's
FAVORITE REMEDY
About a week ago I gave a man afflicted
with bladder trouble, some Favorite Item
edy, and to-day he said : 'That is a great
mediciue ; J am better already,' and be
drove eight miles to get a bottle of It."
Vou may have a fro iample bottle of Dr. David
Kennedy'! Favorite Itumudy, the Croat Kidney,
Liver and Wood medicine, and a booklet containing
valuable medical advice for limply writing to th. Dr.
David Kennedy's Mom, ltondout, N. V. Meutloa
tuif paper. Urge bottle U.oo. All druggltt.
THE COLUMBIAN,
redlBcBime
Mr. 3. F, Dee, M Mould htreel. Monnham,
Mass,, tays: "In '.'I years experience I have never
humors anil as a general blood ptirlneri It euros
scrofula, ecrema i has no equal as general
spring medicine,
It gives Die genuine nulihlM.
Hon to say this.
Drugs Act, June 30, 1900. Xo. 324.
constitution of the United States
declares "the Senate of the United
States shall be composed of two
Senators fro n each State, chosen
by the Legislature thereof." Any
other system of selecting Senators
in Congress would be subversive of
that constitution and invalid and
that being the case it is not likely
that Chairman Donnelly or any
other sane Democrat would bother
with it. The Democrats in the
Legislature voted for the bill simply
as a matter of form; it may be said
that they had little if any interest
in it.
The friends of Chairman Donnel
ly in the Legislature congratulated
him during his visit to the capitol
on his appointment to the office of
City Commissioner of Philadelphia
by the unanimous vote of the Board
of Judges Under the constitution
of the State it was necessary to ap
point a Democrat or City Party
man. Mr. Donnelly was not a can
didate for the office and hid no de
s;re for it. In fact he accepted the
appointment reluctantly but in obe
dience to a sense of duty. Never
theless his selection under the cir
cumstances was a high tribute to
his efficiency in the office and to his
personal integrity.
THE GRAFT INVESTIGATION. j
The capitol probers snent most of
last week in New York where they j
got little information beyond the
fact that one sub-contractor testified
that lis agreed to pay Architect
Huston ten per cent, of any money
he received from the State for in
troducing him to Contractor San
derson. During the only session
held in Harrisburg last week it was
discovered that the contract uoder
which Congressman Cassell's com
pany made the steel filing cases has
been lost or stolen. Anyway it can't
be found iu aay of the departments.
It is believed that the document
would have proved valuable evi
dence iu the event of criminal pro
ceeding after the pending inquiry is
completed.
Business was rushed through both
branches of the Legislature last
week aud if the same measure cf
industry is maintained tD the end,
it is safe to say that the calendars
will be cleared by the time fixed by
the House for final adjournment.
In that event the only thing that
would stand in the way of adjourn
ment would be the capitol graft in
vestigation. It is practically cer
tain that more than the five weeks
from this time until the 16th of May
will be required to complete the in
vestigation and everybody realizes
that the report of the commission
ought to be made public at once.
For that reason the final adjourn
ment may not occur until near the
first of June. G. D. H.
Vagrant Cur Bites Danville Boy.
A vagrant dog of very treacher
ous disposition is causing some un
easiness In the vicinity of Ferry
street, between Center and Cham
bers streets. A few days ago he
bit a boy named Andrew Murray,
who is suffering considerably from
the effects of the wound. Several
persons are said to have narrowly
escaped being bitten by the dog,
which without the least provocation
is in the habit of snapping at the
passerby. The cur will be "very
apt to pay the penalty of his treach'
ery with his life one of these days,
Thus far, however, he has manag
ed to escape although several par1
ties are looking for him.
The above is from the Danville
News, and we observe that in
Bloomsburg the tramp curs, male
and female, are perambulatiug the
town, committing all sorts of nui
sances, in all places, blocking up
and holding possession of the side'
walks, and obliging pedestrians to
give way to them tor fear of dam
age or dirt. Have not our citizens
submitted long enough to the ob
scenitv of these dirty dogs and to
their cbtrusivenes?? Is the partly
new Town Council going to follow
m the steps of their good-for-noth
ing predecessors?
We beg the ladies to take up the
cudgels and drive the dogs ott the
streets.
Inquirer.
i Ilwrfaa
BLOOMSBURQ, PA.
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
Continued from First I'aye.
the past. I can say with Whitt'et:
"The of nioiiiory will not hIwi
J In ears are npi-n huh;
And vlgilH with the imt they keep
Agulimt my feeble will."
-And now with that seutiment and
the knowledge of my memory still
cood, I desire to turn the slate and
see how much gloom and sadness
appears in these latter days; in the
closing up of old hemes and the tor
getting of the friends who once oc
cupied them. In mv daily walks
as I puss I call to memory many of
them, rhe Mckelvy home, now
occupied by .the First National
Bank, post office and other othces;
the Win. Neal home, now occupied
by the magnificent Masonic 1 em
pie; the A. J. Sloan home, now oc
cupied by Mrs. Cleveland; the Ja
cob Kyer mansion, now owned by
A. Z. Schoch; the Israel Wells
home, now owned by Mrs. Reber;
j the J. J. Browcr home, now owned
by J. M. Robbms; the F.lisha II.
Biggs home, now o:cupied by Mrs.
R R. Little's new house; the L. B.
Rupert home, now owHed by John
G. Freeze; the Morris Sloan home,
now a part of K. B. Tustin's lawn;
the Jesse Shannon home, now occu
pied by former Commissioner Fish
er; the Joseph Sharpless and Dr.
Ramsey home, now owned by Dr.
John. I could lengthen this out
several sheets, but will close by an
nouncing to the public the closing
of the Judge Elwell home on Third
street. Perhaps there is no closing
of homes iu this place that comes to
me with more sadness than this one,
being just opposite from where I
have lived for over forty years, only
separated in the rear by an alley.
Persons, with myself, were surpris
ed when Judge Klwell purchased
this home, supposing him to desire
a more prominent location in ac
cordance with his public position.
But I soon learned of his quiet and
retiring disposition, and in later
years was convinced that his selec
tion of a home was a wise one. It
became an ideal spot for him. When
after the spring courts were held he
could be seen almost daily .in his
garden cultivating eaily vegetables
and flowers, with an enjoyable ride
iu the evening behind his big black
horse. The home is now offered
for sale, thus ending the former
home of one of Columbia county's
greatest jurists. These are sad
things to contemplate in our latter
times. They will come to every
family in Bloomsburg.
I. W. HART MAN.
VOGEL'S MINSTRELS.
The scenery and stage settings
used in John W. Vogel's Big City
Minstrels, which comes to the
Grand Opera House on Monday,
April 22nd is said to be the most
elaborate and expensive ever used
for a similar purpose; the setting is
called the Oriental Palace, a befit
ting title, because of the appropriate
costumes, and the numerous and
powerful calcium and electrical ef
fects used thereon. This is the
only setting of the kind in use by a
minstrel organization, as the cost of
same prohibits the average mana
ger from investing the amount of
capital required.
Constitutional Convention.
' a
The house has finally passed the
bill for a constitutional convention,
the vote standing 136 for to eigh
teen against. The bill now goes
to the senate for their approval.
There seems to be considerable
sentiment in the state in favor of
the bill. It will mean the election
of three delegates from each sena
torial district in the state, who will
meet at Harrisburg and proceed to
frame a new constitution for the
state. After their work is finished,
the constitution as it comes from
their hands will have to be adver
tised and voted on by the people,
and is liable to fail, when the work
would be in vain, and we would
still be doing business under the
old constitntion. A proposition to
hold a constitutional couventiou
was voted down in 1892 by an over
whelming majority.
OABTOIIIA.
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GREAT SEMI-ANNUAL
SURPLUS STOCK SALE
Our 2nd surplus stock sale
will eclipse all previous ones,
both as to price reduction and
the enormous stocks of fine
merchandise.
NOW GOING ON.
DOCTORS SAY
WHISKEY
Is the lett stimulant we have.
They mean, of course, pure whiskey.
It in invaluable In many eases. There
Hceius t he no adequate substitute for it
Some people drink too much. Some
eat too much; some smoke too much.
For those who need it there U nothing
better than
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BLACK DIAMOND WHISKEY
Properly nirod, rich, smooth llnvor;:b
Holutely pure. Price moderate.
13 N. Washington St.,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
NOW IS THE TIME
of year when you think of cleaning
house, also of cleaning up the rub
bish and foul matter which has ac
cumulated about your premises, to
guard against sickness, but do you
ever give the second thought to the
old built-in unsanitary Plumbing
Fixtures which breed disease right
in your own houses. If you tlnuk
of Installing
P"Tbw Fixtures
I am ready to quote you good prices
on STANDARD SANITARY
MFQ. CO'S Enamel Quods, all fully
guaranteed.
All Jobbing of Plumbing and Heating
Promptly Attended to.
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hoto;
For the Satisfactory
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Styles, go to
CapwelFs Studio,
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BLOOMSBURG. PA.
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WHY WE LAUGH.
"A Little Nonsense Now ami 1 hen,
Is Relished by the Wisest Men."
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Judge's Library, $1.00 a year
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witty, and humorous journals, or for One Dollar will add
Leslie's Weekly or Judge for the same period of time.
Address
Judge Company
225 Fourth Avenue
3-21
W. L. Douglas Shoes
FOR MEN
are worn by more men than
anv other shoe made.
Come in and let us fit you
with a pair.
PRICE,
$3, S3.50 and $4
W. H. MOORE,
Corner Main ami Iron Sis.,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Our Pianos
are the leaders. Our lines in-
elude the following makes :
ClIAS. M. Stieff,
Henry F. Miller,
Brewer & Prvor, Kohler &
Campbell, and Radel.
IN ORGANS we handle the
Estey, Miller.H.Lehr & Co.,
AND BOWLBY.
This Store has the agency or
SINGER HIGH ARM SE IV
ING MACHINES and
VICTOR TALKING
MACHINES.
WASH MACHINES
Helby, 1900, Queen, Key
stone, Majestic.
J. SALTZEtf ,
Music Rooms No. 105 West Main
'Street, Below Market.
BLOOMSBURG, PA
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