THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURd, PA. STRONGEST BANK Capital 3100,000 Undivided Profits 30.000 irst National Bank, OF K&USliSCHltUItCt, PA. 5 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on SavingsDeposits ' OFFICEItS: K. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Stftver, Vice President. E. II. Tustin, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier, DIRECTORS: j W. M.Low, F. Q. Yorkn, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Ratti, E. H, Tustin, Kietl Ikeler, (leo. H. Robbins, S. C. Creasy, J. M Staver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, II. V. Hower. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Established 1837. Consolidated 1869 Published Every Thursday Morning, At Bloomsburg, the County Seat of Columbi a County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. ELWELL, Editor. CIEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. Terms: Inside the county $i.ooa year In advance; Sl.coif not paid in advance, Outside the county, $ 1. 2 5 a year, strictly in Advance. All communications should he iddres'ed THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomshur, l'a. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1!)07 BEER AND CIGARS BOTH ILLEGAL Candidate Cannot Treat While Seeking Votes Sayt Erie County Court. In a sweeping opinion handed down by Judge Walling, of the court of common pleas, at Erie, it Is declared that Mayor Michael Liep bel, Jr., of that city, is serving ille gally in office, and application will be made to the attorney general to have him ousted all for election cigars and beer. The case is a peculiar one, as a fctture of the opinion is that the .urt holds the giving of cigars or 1 tving of drinks by the candidates his representatives for campaign L. .rposes, is violating the corrupt i-ractices act. The matter has been in litigation for some time and created interest throughout the State. Mr. Liep bel was accused of securing his election through fraud, and charges to this effect were made against him by a number of leading citi zens. During the trial the Mayor bit terly fought the proceedings and it looked for a time as if the opinion would be in his favor; but, contra ry to expectations, the decision confirmed the allegations set forth by the complainant. Stuart Up Against It It is now ten days since the Capi tol Investigating Commission made its final report recommending the criminal and civil prosecution of all the guilty. The Commission named several men as guilty. What action has the Governor or the Attorney General taken since they received the report of the Com mission to prevent the men accused by the Commission from escaping to foreign countries from which they could not be brought back or from placing all their tangible pro perty beyond the hope of recovery by the State ? Meantime the sta tute of limitations is ruuning and soon the criminals will be immune unless prosecutions are begun. It is true that it is said bills of indictment are being prepared, but it is not customary to postpone the arrest of an accused criminal until after he is indicted. Why should it be done in the case of the Capi tol grafters? Are they entitled to more tender consideration than the petty and povery-strickeu thief who gets away with a pair of shoes or a piece of lead pipe ? Ilarrit burs Patriot. Whenever a man seeks for and accepts the nomination of the un scrupulous and corrupt Penrose Machine for a State office he ex pects to comply with its purposes or to betray them. This is the dilemma in which John O. Sheatz has placed himself in 'accepting the Machine nomination for State Treas urer, no matter how good were his original intentions. Why, then, not elect a man to this office who, like William II. Berry, will have no divided allegiance to divert him from watchful care of the public interests? Such a man is John G. Harman ; the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, Phila, Record, IN THE COUNTY Surplus $150,000. Tour State With Traveling Schools Deputy Secretary Mirlin Hat Completed Ar rangements lor Remarkable Agricultu ral Instruction. Deputy Secretars of Agriculture Martin has announced that he has completed his arrangements to put into operation his plan for the crea tioH of traveling schools for the in struction of farmers in horticulture, arbor culture, poultry, farming and dairy work. He hopes to place one in every congressional district in the State. These schools will be large vans which will travel from place to place, equipped with maps, books, diagrams, pamphlets for distribu tion and chemical apparatus for demonstration. They will be model ed upon the New York State plan, the work being done under the farmers' institute division, it being, in fact, farmers' school on wheels. The first four wagons are almost ready and will be placed in the con gressional district comprising Mont gomery, Chester, Adams and Brad ford counties. As rapidly as other wagons are equipped they will be placed. The addresses will be de livered at separate meetings from the wagons their routes being an nounced and advertised before hand. A complete corps of instructors has been selected for the first wa gons among whom are some of the most learned men in the country. If the plans of Secretary Martin are realized there will be a tour through this and adjacent valleys, as well as every other agricultural section of the State, next spring. NOTIFICATION MEETING. Arrangements for the notification meeting to be held in Bloomsburg, have been made. This will be the opening of the active campaign that is to be waged in behalf ot John G. Harman tn his candidacy for the office of State Treasurer. The formal notification will take place in Bloomsburg, September 1 ith. The meeting will be held in the opera house at 8 o'clock in the evening. The speakers will include Mr. Harman, State Treasurer Wm. H. Berry, Jeremiah Black, the former Democratic candidate for Lieuten ant Governor, and LaRue Munson or Senator Dewalt. Visiting cards and Weddine invi tations at the Columbian office, tf William R. Hearst, the congress man and multi- millionaire news paper man of New York, Chicago and San Francisco, is to deliver the Labor day oration at Scranton on September 2. Mr. Hearst was se cured by S. J. McDonald, president of the Central Labor Union of Scranton. Buy Hair at Auction? At any rate, you seem to be getting rid of it on auction-sale principles: "going, going, g-o-n-el" Stop the auction with Ayer's Hair Vigor. It certainly checks falling hair; no mistake about this. It acts as a regular medicine; makes the scalp healthy. Then you must have healthy hair, for It's nature's way. The beat kind of a testimonial "Sold lor over Bixty years." J&ada byJ.u. Ayer Co., Lowell. Alio Butnuntoiurora o . SARSAPABILLA. iy W J CHEKRV PECTORAL. WASHINGTON From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C. Aug. 22, 1907. Democratic politicians in Wash ington are finding a good deal of quiet enjoyment in the difficulties which tlieir lnentls, the Rcpubli cans are cxpciiencing with the tariff question. Secretary Taft has come out in the speech which is understood to be the platform on which lie wi.l .stand for the 1101111 nation of his part v. for tarilT revi sion to take place after election, or "eighteen months hence," and it is known that President Roosevelt read and approved Mr. Taft's utterance before it was delivered. Moreover, Mr. Taft says that he is convinced that 111 order to win the Republican party must nledtrc it self in its next national platform to this programme and the President is known to hold the same view. These views of the party leaders, however, cause unmitigated atronv to those stanch old protectionists who have always been the bone and sinew of the party, and "Honest John Dalzell," who is sent to Con gress year after year by the Steel Trust, and made a member of the most influential committee of the House, that on Rules, by Speaker cannon, to please the same corpora tions, is eroanine so loudlv that his wail can be heard all the way trom Pittsburg to Washington. Speaker Cannon is also in severe distress because he well realizes that his long record as a "stand patter" naturally unfits him to suc ceed himself as Speaker of a House elected on such a platform as the President and Secretary Taft pro pose. Were it not for the fact that the venerable "General" Grosvenor of Ohio had fallen by the wayside, so to speak ; in other words failed of reelection, his wail of grief would already be piercing the ambient atmosphere all the way from San Fraucisco to the Atlantic coast. V Perhaps Secretary Taft did make a mistake in thus committing him- seit so tar in advance of the nomi nating convention, as in addition to the railroads and the trusts he will now have the protected industries, which have long been the special pets of the Republican party, and in return have furnished the "sinews of war" for each campaign fund against him, and it is not im possible that the combined interests may accomplish his defeat. To hear the eood old-fashioned Republicans, men of the stamp of Vice-President Fairbanks. Senator Aldrich, Senator Foraker, Senator Crane, Senator Knox, Governor Huehes and others, talk amono- themselves about Theodore Roose velt and the Republican party, one is reminded ot that story once fam ous in popular fiction, of the sci entist who so far perfected his sci ence that he created a man, al though he was unable to endow it wun a soul. His creation daveed his footsteps all his life, oroved a veritable nemesis, and when he nnauy, in desperation, took the life he had created, he committed sui cide from remorse. So. sav these Republican leaders, the Republican party created Roosevelt, but he has proved to be a man without a Re publican soul, at least. His poli cies are Democratic, not Republi can, lie has not hesitated to bor. row from Mr. Bryan, or from any other source, anvthin? he regarded as good and he has so far had the people with him as to compel his Republican brethren in Congress to suppoit measures which were in the last degreee repugnant to all mat has hitherto stood for Republi canism. And now, to augment and rehne the aeony of the old-fashion ed Republicans, Mr. Roosevelt seems bound to inflict the party with another man of his own stripe in William Howard Taft. Truly, in these days of progression, the way of the Republican is hard. Democrats in the national cani- tal are greatly interested in the ob vious fact that the President and Secretary Taft have come to the conclusion that William J. Bryau will again be the Democratic stand ard bearer, and they assert that the attention which Mr. Taft mid to Mr. Bryan in his keynote speech demonstrates that they regard the "Peerless Leader" as truly a formidable oppouent. Mr. Taft de voted a goodly portion of his speech at coiuniDU9 to an attempt to show that Kooseveltism was not Brvan Ism, although he was compelled to - - j admit that many of his and Mr, Roosevelt's policies sounded singu larly like the scheme originally pro pounded by the brilliant Nebraskan It is a bit of inside history, that while 111 Mr. Tatt's speech as print Bean the Kind Yuu'Have Always Bought Signature of ed he declared that the .' cheiuc of licenses for all corporations doing an interstate business originated with .Secretary Garfield when he was Commissioner of Corporations and afterwards was adopted by Mr. Bryan, Mr. Taft did not say that at Columbus. He so wrote when he prepared the advance copies of his speech, but at the eleventh hour he found that Mr. Garfield did not originate the scheme and he noti fied the papers to change the text of his speech, but in most instances it was loo late, as it was already in type. The Standard Oil Company di rectors have just issued a statement in which they appeal for sympathy against the "persecution" which they are .suffering at the hands of the present administration, which is the first Republican administra tion which ever had the nerve to prosecute the great octopus. Among other things, their statement, al though it does not actually state a falsehood, is so worded as to con vey the impression that the report of the Commissioner of Corpora tions on the Standard was issued in order to increase the fine im posed by Judge Landis. The facts are that the report of the Commis sioner, although ready before, was withheld from publication until after Judge Landis had pronounced sentence, in order that there might be 110 appearance of trying to in fluence the court improperly. The intimation of the Standard direc tors is characteristic of the work of the high-priced press bureau which this corporation is now maintain ing and which lias tried so sedu lously to deceive the people into the belief that to the unselfish effort of the Standard is due the re duction in the price of oil which has taken place within the memory of present day consumers. It does not seem likely, however, that the most clever press work can arouse much sympathy for the Standard Oil Company. A Magazine Worth Getting Acquaint ed With The publishers of Lippincotf s Magazine report a most gratifying increase in its circulation during the past summer though the sum mer months are a season when the circulation of periodicals usually shows a falling off. Lipptncotfs good showing is probably due to the exceptional quality of the fic tion which has appeared in it of late. The September number shows no let-up in the efforts its publish ers are making to please the public. It opens with a novelette which is sure to attract attention both for its own intrinsic merit and on ac count of the author, Carolyn Wells. Miss Wells has won an enviable reputation for her humorous work, and now proves that she can write serious fiction just as well as that of a more frivolous type. The novelette is entitled "A Chain of Evidence," and the plot is based on murder mystery which we be- ieave to be unique in fiction, al though scientists affirm that the possibilities thereof are by no means exaggerated. How the mystery is solved and the criminal entrapped forms a narrative that is so absorb- ngly interesting that the reader will feel genuine regret when he comes to the end. A notable contribution among the shorter stories is Elsie Singmaster's The Lone Courting of Henry Kumerant," a Pennsylvania-Ger man story in which humor and pathos are adroitly commingled. Captain L'oyd Buchanan s offering is a tragic sketch of the Boer War, entitled "The Reporter Who Made a Story." "You," by Prince Vladimir Vaniatsky, is a love story of singular sweetness and charm. The Passing," by Jane Belfield, is an emotional monotone of rare beauty. Of its kind, it is perfect. "The Girl from Tres Posos," by Elliott Flower, is a tale of love and adventure in the Southwest. May Harris's "The Sophisticated Mr. Lettredge" is fresh, dainty, and mirth-provoking. Two essays 01 exceptional quality are "Queen Dolly," by La Salle Corbell Pickett, and "Shelley," by George L. Knapp. Other brief essays are "As to Child Labor Agitation," by George Allan England ; "Pessimism in Modern Fiction," by Sarah D. Up ham ; and "The Animal Story," by E. L. Sabin. Some tuneful verse and the usual complement of jests, jingles, and anecdotes, complete the number. Before that cough turns It has proved its W Ml W II 1 V. Ai t -f"- -r-rS. ' ADVANCE STYLES. Fall Suits Fall Hats :w STOKE. Knox Hats. 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