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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA
STRONGEST BANK
Capital
$100,000.
Undivided Profits
$30,000.
First National Bank,
SPer Cent. Interest Allowed on SavingsDeposits
OFFICE UH:
1 -.. V. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice Freftldent.
K. 11. TuHtin, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cnshier.
DIRECTORS:
! W. M. Low, F. 0. York, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Rnttl,
r). H. TuHtin, Fred Ikeler, Oeo. P. RobblnB, H. V. Creasy,
J.M Staver, M. I. Low, LouIh Gross, II. V. Hower.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA IDEMOCRAT,
UsTAHi.tsiiF.n 1837. Consolidated 1869
.'URl.ISIIED EVERY THURSDAY MoHMNO,
At Bloomsburg, the County Seat of
ColumliiaCounty, Pennsylvania.
OEO. E. EI. WELL, Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Tkhm: Inside the county $ 1.00 a year
Id advance; Sl.Soif not paid in a.lvance,
Outside tliecounty, $1.25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should beaddressed
THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomslmrfi, Ta.
THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1W7
THE DEMOCRATS' CHOICE.
The nomination by the Harris
burg convention of John G. Har
man as the Democratic candidate
for state treasurer is a choice upon
which Pennsylvanians are to b?
congratulated. As a gentleman
courteously capable and peculiarly
fitted to carry out the duties of the
office so splendidly exemplified by
William II. Berry, no better than
Mr. Harman could have been nam
ed. As the neighbor of Columbia,
of which county Mr. Harman is a
resident, Lycoming sends greeting
and congratulation. As an attor
rny before the courts of Columbia
.. 1 Montour counties, as a lifetime
' : z.-n of Bloomsburg, as a member
he state legislature, there is on
liat which inspires confidence
'. commends praise in the char
r and career of Mr. Harman.
ii is is a candidacy of the sort the
support of which is a high privi
lege. The conditions existing in Penn
sylvania presage Mr. Harman's
election; the capitol graft exposure
and the disclosures made by official
investigation of the same at the
hand of Democratic Treasurer Ber
ry and the saving by hiui of many
thousands of dollars to the people,
make it imperative that a Democrat
be chosen to succeed Mr. Berry,
and as his successor Mr. Harman
combines all the qualities that go
toward insuring a continuation of
the Berry type of administration.
The manifest and significantly ex
pressed displeasure of the Pennsyl
vania veterans at a Republican gov
ernor's disapproval of the Cochran
pension bill is bound also to re
dound substantially to the Demo
cratic candidate.
The Democrats are to be con
gratulated upon their choice;
Bloomsburg is to be congratulated
upon being the home of the candi
date; Mr. Harman is to be congrat
ulated on the outlook.
The platform adopted by the
Harrisburg convention is confined
to state issues, and chiefly to the
very pertinent issues growing out
of the looting of the state treasury
in the cnpitol matter.
This is right. The only person
to be elected is the state treasurer,
and upon this issue alone his elec
tion is to be determined. The sev
eral additional state demands of
the platform, baHot reform, the
right of the people to express sena
torial preference, and the denunci
ation of the merging of railway
competition are solid planks of rea
son and wisdom, so that the plat
form as a whole is profoundly one
of time honored Democratic doc
trine seeking the maintenance of
governmental honesty and economy
of administration.
Williamsport Sun.
All the crooks and pickpockets of
the country will flock to Philadel
phia next week, during the Elk's
convention, to ply their trade. The
police have photographs of 2000 of
them, and will arrest them on sight.
Of course this meaus they must
see them before they can catch
them. People who go to Philadel
phia next week should be careful
where they carry their money.
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Signature
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
8150,000.
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C. July 4, 1907
The announcement that George
E. Roberts, Director of the Mint,
has resigned from the Treasury De
partment to become the head of
the Commercial National Bank, is
news, but is hardly surprising. It
was suspected that when James H.
Eckles died there would be some
prominent man chosen from the
Treasury to take his place. The
fact that Roberts was his successor
in the Tieasury makes his choice
the more natural . He will not only
be th? head of the Commercial JN a
tional Bank, but will soon be the
head of the Continental National,
which is to consolidate with the
Commercial. His promotion is
merely another striking illustration
of the fact that the Treasury De
partment is the best of the govern
ment departments as a stepping-
stone to preferment in private com
mercial life. Nearly every Secre
tary of the Treasury and other high
officer has gone from his govern
ment place to some responsible and
well-paying position in the financial
world outside. Of the younger
men who have been so promoted,
Eckles himself was a striking illus
tration. Frank Vanderlip, first pri
vate secretary to the Secretaiy of
the Treasury, then Assistant Sec
retary and finally the Vice-Presi
dent of the City Bank of New York
and the recognized mouthpiece of
Wall street, is another remarkable
example. But even more remark
able though less widely known is
Milton E. Aues, a few years ago a
messenger in the Treasury Depart
ment, and rising through all the
customary grades to graduate into
the vice-presidency of the Riggs
National Bank of Washington, one
of the most powerful financial in
stitutions of the country because of
its location and close connection
with t the Treasury Department.
Yes, the Treasury is an excellent
place to get into and a better place
to leave, if one can leave it as so
many of the higher officials do.
The Government is making a
noise as though it might be pre
liminary to a prosecution of the
Smelter Trust. The Smelter Trust
is the richest of the trusts aside
from the Standard Oil Company.
Just how much evidence against it
has been gathered by the Govern
ment investigators is impossible to
say. But if one has lived in a
mining country in the past decade,
there will not be much question
that there is evidence enough
against the trust if it can only be
dug up. The Smelting Trust is so
powerful that it can dictate terms
to the railroads and does just as
the btardard Oil Company in gain
ing its first supremacy in the oil
business. With the railroads at its
mercy, it can, of course, dictate to
the miners and even down as far as
HelplHelp!
I'm Fallma
Thus cried the hair. And a
kind neighbor came to the res
cue with a bottle of Ayer's
Hair Vigor. The hair was
saved! This was because
Ayer's Hair Vigor is a regular
hair medicine. Falling hair is
caused by a germ, and this
medicine completely 'destroys
these germs. Then the healthy
scalp gives rich, healthy hair.
Theeet bind of a testimonial
" Sold lor over sixty years."
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Had by J. C Aynr Co., Lowsll,
9 SARSAPABILLA.
fy J CHERRV PECTORAL.
the city of Mexico it has killed off
almost all competition and the
mines have to sell their ore to the
trustor not sell it all. It has not
done so well or so i'l in Canada,
for thi Canadian government has
not much love for trusts, especially
American trusts, and it has not
been allowed to get a foothold there.
It will be interesting to sec what
sort of evidence the Bureau of Cor
porations has been able to produce
against it. The Bureau, by the
way, has the investigation of most
corporate interests that the Gov
ernment wants to prosecute and
has recently appointed a number of
field investigators who may or may
not prove the sort of men who are
needed for the work. It was rather
amusing when ''Jimmy" Garfield,
now the Secretary of the Interior,
was the head of the Bureau of Cor
porations to see the sort of men he
selected for the semi-detective work
that was required in preparing Gov
ernment cases. There were some
good technical men in the Bureau
who did the most of the work and
got little of the credit. But the
real favorites of the Commissioner
were what was known in the De
partment of Commerce and Labor
as "the Ph. D's." These were
regular doctors of philosophy, good
men in a way and graduates from
some of the best universities of the
country. The Commissioner was
himelf a college man and he
thought that a man had to be a
college graduate. Of course a num
ber of these college investigators
proved to be as ignorant and inno
cent as babies when they were sent
into the field. One of the most in
teresting illustrations was a "Ph.
D. who was sent out to Kansas
during the investigation of the
Staudard Oil Company. He .stayed
in the Kansas field for two mouths
and did not send a line of informa
tion to the Department. Then he
wrote a report and this is what it
was: "The price of axle grease
was raised in this territory today
half a cent a pound." That was
all. He is still in the service of
the Bureau of Corporations, but
they have him sitting in a nice
padded chair in Washington and
not doing field work.
There is more interest in the
pending summons of John D.
Rockafelkr before Judge Landis in
Chicago than depends on the mere
imposition of a fine against tne
Standard Oil Company. The Gov
ernment has been interested in the
first place to see whether Judge
Landis could make good his deter
mination to summon the richest
man in the world. Now it appears
that he can, rather to the discom
fort of said "richest man." But
there is more back of it. Judge
Landis will nominally ask certain
questions preparatory to imposing
a fine on the Standard. But these
questions will have great bearing
also on the suit of the Government
to be brought in St. Louis this
month for the dissolution of the
trust. There is little question
that the Government will win this
suit, but whether the victory will
be of any more practical effect than
any of the other victories of the
Government over the oil trust, is a
serious question.
This week was the anniversary
of the battle of Santiago. But it
was not celebrated in Washington,
as was the anniversary of Dewey's
victory in Manila Bay. It has been
nine years since Cervera's fleet was
destroyed on the south coast of
Cuba aud as Admiral Schley's dis
patch at the time said, there was
Glory enough to go around."
But there was so much heart-burn
ing and bitterness alter the battle
and it came so near blasting a lot
of naval reputations as well as dis
rupting a lot of naval friendships.
that the day is not kept as a holi
day in Washington.
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There are but two issues in this
year's campaign in Pennsylvania !
that interest the people, and they i
are the honest conduct of the state '
government aud the revision of the '
present iniquitous tax system.
This isn't a year to save the tariff
or make "sound money" a cam
paign slogan. Those are issues of j
a presidential contest. The battle j
in Pennsylvania is one of the peo-1
pie against the gratters. It is in '
no sense a political fight. Party I
issues arp nnt invnlvm-l Tim m
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pie made no mistake when they
elected Berry two years ago, and
they will make no mistake if they
elect Harman to succeed him and
continue his good work. The cap
itol job isn't the only thing about
the state government that needs
investigating. Milton Record,
Jesse R. Grant, son of General
U. S. Grant," is a possibility as a
Presidential candidate on the De
mocratic ticket next year.
Souvenir Post Cards are printed
at this office. Half tones supplied.
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EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY BILL.
Every Employer ot Labor Should be Ac
quainted Wilh the Measure.
The emploers' liability act,
which has been signed by the Gov
ernor will cause employers to take
extraordinary precaution to safe
guard their employes. The act is
as follows:
"In all the actions brought to re
cover from the employer tor injury
suffered by his employes the neg
ligence ot a fellow servant of the
employer shall not be a defense
where the injury was caused cr
contributed to by any of the fol
lowing causes, namely:
"Any defect in the works, plant
or machinery of which the em
ployer could have had knowledge
by the exercise of ordinary care,
the neglect of any person engaged
as superintendent, manager, fore
man or any other person in charge
or control of the works, plant or
or machinery, the negligence of
any person to whose orders the em
ploye was bound to conform, and
did conform, by reason of his hav
ing conformed thereto the injury
or death resulted, the at of any 1
fellow-servant done in obedience '
to the rules, instructions or orders
given by the employer or any other
person who has authority to direct
the doing, of said act.
"The manager, superintendent,
foreman or other person in charge
or control of the works or any part
of the works shall under this act
be held as the agent of the em
ployer in all suits for damages for
death or injury suffered by em
ployes. Low Prices and Hard Times.
Jasper in Leslie's Weekly.
Are we deliberately inviting an
era of low prices and the hard times
that tnav be expected as their con
comitant ? It looks like it. This
seems to be what the people want.
Curiously enough, every one is
anxious that the low prices shall
not affect him or his business. Each
would like to buy from every one
else as cheaply as he can, and sell
to every one else at the highest fig
ure. The cattle rangers denounce
the so-called beef trust whenever
the latter reduces the price of cat
tle. But when the so-called beef
trust raises the price of meat, the
public denounces it for increasing
the cost of living. Producers of o:l
demand that the Standard Oil shall
pay liberal prices for the natural
product, while everyone who has a
monopoly brick to throw aims it at
the Standard Oil and demands low
er prices for all its commodities.
Workingmen whi'e joining in the
clamor for lower prices are at the
same time combining to demand
higher wages. Railroad employes
insist on shorter hours and more
pay, while Congress and the Legis
latures are uniting in a crusade for
two-cent fares, lower freight rates,
and higher taxes on all the railways
own or earn.
The people who denounce trusts
and combinations are foremost in
organizing combinations and trusts
Pit .....
or ineir own. workingmen 111
their unions, milkmen, coal-dealers,
icemen, dentists, doctors, near
ly all classes of merchants, dealers,
aud professional men, have agree
ments to maintain prices or fees,
yet every one of these agreements
is as much a violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law as an agreement
between the railways or between
any line ot manufactures to main
tain rates or prices.
A story is told of a Bradford
county politician (the sharp and
shifty kind) who was urged by his
wife to hoe the gardeu. He couldn't
think of any very good reason, so
he went at it. Soon he came in
with a silver quarter he said he had
fouud. He washed it, put it in his
pocket and went back. In a few
minutes he showed up with another
coin, this time a half dollar. He
said there must be a buried treas
ure in that gardeu. Then he un
earthed a couple of dimes and
another quarter. Being very tired,
he announced his intention of tak
ing a nap, and duly went to sleep.
When he awoke his wife had a dan
gerous and steely glint in her eye,
but the garden was all hoed. It is
mistrusted that she hoed while he
slept, and that she had failed to
find any buried treasure.
Visiting cards and Wedding invi
ations at the Columbian office, tf
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July Clearance Sale
AT PURSELS
We have on sale thousands of yards of bright, new
Summer Dress Goods at bargain prices. Right in the very
heart of the wash fabric season, when the demand is at its
height, we have slaughtered prices in a way that makes
your buying elsewhere an extravagance. But bless you we
have a regular feast of bargains all over the store. Read
every item here quoted they are all interesting.
We have divided this vast
quantity into five different
lots for your quick choos
ing. We do advise you to
come early.
Lot 1 Including Lawns
in dots and stripes splen
did colorings. 5c the yard.
Lot 2 Thin dress mate
rials in Lawns, Voiles, etc.
Regularly 15 to 25c the yd.
Good variety won't last
long 9c a yd.
Lot 3 Cotton Foulards,
highly mercerized and silky
all new Foulard styles.
Some stripes and dots. Reg.
ulary 25 c. On sale for 16c
the yard.
Lot 4 Printed- Mulls
the prettiest and sheerest
Mulls on the market. Flor
al and stripe designs in all
the beautiful colorings.
Regularly 25c. Now 19c yd
Lot 5 These exquisite
Cotton and Silk Novelties
that were 39 and 500 are
now 32JC the yard.
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BLOOMSBURG,
Cut off that cough
ana prevent Dnenmnnl'r
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Let of Ladies' Dress Skirts
We have gone through
the entire stock and placed
on sale one hundred Skirts
in Panamas, Mohairs, Chev.
iots, all styles, just half
price.
$6.50 Skirts $3.25
5,5o " 2.75
3-88 ' 1.99
LOT OF SPECIAL
EMBROIDERY
Suitable for Lawn, Mus
lin and Cambric. From
the narrowest edgings to
the 9 inch flouncings, in
sertion to match. Divided
in three lots.
Lot 1, 5 cents a yard
Lot 2, 10 cents a yard
Lot 3, 19 cents a yard
PURSEL.
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