THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURtt, P-V
STRONGEST BANK
Capital
5100,000
Undivided Profits
$30,000
First National Bank,
3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on SavingsDcposils
OFFICEK8:
K. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Stav-r, Vlrp President.
I :. It. Tustin, Vice President. K. V. Carpenter, Cashier,
1)1 KECTOItH:
0 NV.M.Low, F. G. Ynrks, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Haiti,
r'.. It. Tustin, Fredlkeler, Geo. 8. KnliliiuH, 8. C. Creasy,
J.M Staver, M.I. IjOW, Louis Gross, It. V. Hower.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED t866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
TJIUUSDAY, SKI'T. lit, l'.)D7
STADI.lSIIRn I837. C0NSOI.IIA I Fl) lSf9
I'UIILISHto'KVERY TlU'RSIMY MoKNING,
t Rlojmsburg, the County Siat of
Columhi a County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. Et.WEEL, Eihtor.
GEO. C. ROAN, KoKkMAN.
TR.mm Inside the county $1.00 a year
lu advance; $1.5011 not paid in advance.
Outside tliecounty, $1.25 a year, strictly in
A avnce.
All communications should iie.iddressed
THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburj;, Ta.
HARMAN AND SAFETY.
Mr Sheaf, was nominated for
State Treasurer by the men who
have f r a generation h-l1 the
Treasury for political purposes.
They nominated him because he
had a better reputation than some
other uieiubers of the Organization,
and it was necessary to conciliate
the good will of the decent people.
But he would not have been nomi
nated if lie had not been a loyal
member of the Organization, and a
man of whom the party bosses en
tertained no fears. He was put up
to help the Organization recover its
e-tige and its control of the State
. ids.
To years ago the people defeat
1 the Republican candidate be
use the Enterprise Bank disclos
i..es showed what the Organization
was doing with the State funds.
The present Organization is exactly
the same as tjie one of two years
ago; there are the same men and
the same methods and the same
purposes. If there were reason for
defeating the Organization then
there is just as much reason now.
There is very much more, be
cause since the Enterprise Bank
collapsed and Plummer was defeat
ed we have had the gigantic steal
ing in the Capitol construction laid
bare. The Organization has been
shown to be much worse than it
was supposed to be, at least by Re
publicans. The Capitol disclosures
afford two convincing reasons for
the defeat of the Organization.
One is that the conduct of Republi
can State Treasurers proves that
the safety and good management
of the public funds demands that
they should be in the custody of a
man who is not the beneficiary of,
or on good terms with, the Repub
lican Otganization. Pennsylvania
taxpayers need a watch-dog of the
Treasury, and no man picked out
by the Organization will do the
work of one. In the second place,
the prosecution of the Capitol
thieves will depend in great meas
ure upon the demand of the people.
The election of Harman will be a
mandate for their relentless prose
cution, and the Republican party
will not dare to disobey the man
date. The victory of the Organiza
tion will be accepted by the party
leaders as a condonation of the fi
nancial sins of the party, and there
will be no effective pursuit of the
grafters. Phila. Jtecora.
Railroaders Fear Car Famine.
Despite the fact that a large
number of new freight cars have
been delivered to the railroads dur
ing the past year, another shortage
of freight equipment is expected to
take place this fall. Following a
series of meetings held recently it
was announced by the railroads that
they were in fairly good shape to
handle traffic that is c::pcctcJ
fall and winter. Before taking final
action in awarding contracts for
new equipment lor 1908 delivery,
o tu.-iivery,
icrai of the
cut .'-pedal
..er.s to :oe
the Pennsylvania and sev
other large lailroads sent
agent;: to Ui large th'u
what the prospects were for the
next vcar. They were ii.foi
that t-.cspiin- Mivncsa for i;o' J A ItiS&i&tSi'ZSZi"'"""-
would be unusually heavy, p.ud it '. g Jn - sarsapabilla. I
iSintaLf 'Tcd th3taCar Sbrtage AlCrScSvPaioBAi.1
wi an,e p ace. Km fiirnir -inun mm mmmmm uje J
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
$150,000.
A SCURVY FALSE PRETENSE.
Mr. Sheatz, the Republican ma
chine candidate for State Treasurer
is ostentatiously vehement in de
nouncing the capital grafters.
"There is no punishment too se
vere for them," he declared in his
speech at Emaus on Saturday, and
in his Williams' Grove speech he
was even more explicit. But he
was spoking in a Pickwickian
s?nse. He knows that his election
means 110 punishment rather than
severe punishment. He under
stands that Penrose never would
have consented to his nomination
if he favored the punishment of the
looters and that Gumshoe Andrews
would betray him if he had the
slightest notion that he favors the
punishment of those pets of the ma
chine. John O. Sheatz is literally the
product of the Penrose machine.
A more servile tool o! the machine
has never occupied a seat in the
Legislature. He was permitted to
dodge the vote on tonic bills which
the machine favored and to vote
against others. But such indul
gence was only allowed when there
was no doubt of a safe majority.
On the "press muzzier," and the
bill to take the authority of filling
vacancies on the election boards out
of the hands of the courts and lodg
ing it in the County Commmission
ers, he voted with 'the gang and on
the Kingston water snake and other
notoriously vicious measures he lin
ed up with Rip and Call and Salus
and Sheru. His nomination for
State Treasurer is his recompense
for such servile work.
Mr. Sheatz is also fond of refer
ring to his work in increasing the
appropriation for the public schools
from $11,000,000 to $15,000,000.
As a matter of fact he had very lit
tle to with that and during his two
previous sessions in the Legislature
made no suggestion of an increase
in the school appropriation. The
country members, led by William
T. Creasy, have been urging an in
crease of the school fund for sever
al years but got neither sympathy
nor support from the city men.
Last fall the matter was made an
issue in the campaign and yet the
Republican majority reluctantly
yielded to the demands of the
countrymen. Sheatz is indulging
in a rather scurvy false pretense in
this matter. Bellefonte Watchman,
Prisoners in Penitentiary.
Sheriff Ent took five prisoners to
the penitentiary in Philadelphia
last Thursday. His assistants were
Coudy Laugdou, of Centralia; Chas.
Ross, of Berwick; A. C. Creasy, of
Centre. The prisoners were : Nich
olas Gedro, sentenced for 4 years;
Tony Brace, seutenced tor 3 years;
James LaCrosse, seutenced for 2
years; Fortunaudo Calabro, sen
tenced for 5 years, and Antonio
Calabro, sentenced for 2 years and
6 months.
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WASHINGTON
from ("ir Kcul ii C urosl ' lunt .
Washington, I). C. Sept. t 2, 1007.
It is just possible that the anti
Oriental riot in Vancouver will not
be an evil at all for the United
Stales. The rough element o
aiiC'itiver, and the rough clement
is large, arose on Sunday it'mht
and chased the (nitntals to cover,
Hindoos. J;i;v.ii' :-e and Chinese
alike. The 111 L ! 11 1 waste the Ori
cutal quaiUi, and altogether the
damage was more extensive than
the restaurant viols in San Francis
co and much more violent than the
exclusion of the Japanese children
from the California schools. One
of the worst features of the case
from a Japanese standpoint was that
the Mayor of Vancouver refused
cither to apol-gize or to pay an in
demnity. He probably will do both
before he gets through, for the
British authorities are keen to
smooth over the matter.
The place where the affair touch
es the United States is that the out
break is so similar to the race an
tagonism displayed in California.
But the situation is entirely differ
ent in that there are no strained
relations between the governments
of Great Britain and Japan. The
two countries are bound by a strong
oilensive and defensive alliance,
and are naturally anxious to keep
tneir subjects Irom pulling each
other's hair. The British authori
ties did all that they could to in
flame the Japanese when the trou
ble was on with this country in
aClifomia. But since the British
Columbia outbreak there has been
every enort to minimize matters
and smooth the thing over. The
Japanese government also has taken
thejconcilliutory attitude and there
as been h'.tl'..' printed about the
outbreak in the vernacular press of
Japan.
But the fact remains that racial
prejudice 1 ; al the !otlom of the
trouble in each country. The peo
ple of British Columbia are just as
much set against the Orientals and
cheap Oriental labor as are the peo
ple of Oregon and California aud
the British government will have
to negotiate an exclusion treaty
with Japan for the benefit of the
Northwest Territory before the
matter is settled. This is the sort
of a treaty that the United States
has been trying to negotiate with
Japan and over which there has
been so much trouble. If Japan
now negotiates such a tieaty with
Great Britain, it will have to do the
same for the United States. Like
wise if Great Britain does not se
cure such a treaty, it will mean
trouble between Canada and the
mother country. Relations between
England and Canada have been
straiued several times iu the pat
few years. The preferential tariff
has not sufficed to keep up the
trade of England and Canada. The
Newfoundland fishing controversy
with the United States is a continu
al open sore, and the settlement of
the Alaskan boundary question a
few years back came near causing
an open break between Canada aud
England. So the feelings of the
Canadians are none too cordial to
the "Mother Country," and the
Japanese treaty will have to be
concluded to keep them quiet. Ja
pan will not want to negotiate an
exclusion treaty. It will be a sore
thing for national pride and an ad
mission of iuferiority that Japan
will be loath to make. At the same
tima, the treaty will be negotiated
because it suits Japan's policy to do
so now. But it will add to the co
vert animosity against its paper ally
and when the time conies, as it will
in the course of a few years, for
Japan to make her move in India,
she will do it with all the more av
idity that she feels she has a grudge
to pay off in the bargain. Then
the British Empire will find to its
cost that it has been supping with
a party with whom according to
tradition oue should use a long
spoon.
During this week the North Car
olina rate cae has been going on in
Washington before a special master
who has been taking testimony. It
has not been a particularly inter
esting hearing from a public stand
point, involving the cost of railroad
operating and the difference between
interstate and intrastate expenses,
But one mU-rcstimr matter flashed
up in the course of a wrangle be
tween counsel. Ex-Representative
Woodward, who is attorney for the
state, declared that the Southern
railroad had kept a special man
here iu Washington to lobby for it
all through the sessions of Con
gress, and has paid him a regular
salary of 3,000 a year. Capt
Thorn, counsel for the railroad, de
clared loudly that this was a slan
der and defied Mr. Woodward to
prove it. This brought almost an
audible laugh Lom all the old tim
ers aud especially from the newspa
per men who attended the hearing.
It is a tiotorious fact that all the
railroads and all the special inter
ests keep men heie en a retaining
fee to lobby for them whenever
there is any legislation that they
want or do n it want before Con
gress. The practice is well known
and admitted. The only point 011
which Capt. Thorn's denial proba
bly was correct was that the South
ern paid a man Jj.mm.i year for
that sort of a job The men the
railroads and other big interests
need here in Washington are not to
be had for $3,000 salaries. In this
much the Captain's denial proba
bly was correct.
Postmaster General von Meyer
has been talking shop to his friends
and constituents up in New Eng
land. He is a gentleman who has
spent very little time in Washing
ton. In fact the people in the de
partments have scarcely had a
chance to get acquainted with him.
But he has picked up several no
tions about running the Post-office
Department, and being a very ad
hesive gentleman, is apt to stick to
them. For one thing, he is strong
ly in favor of a parcels post. This
is a thing that the country has long
needed aud that it would have had
many years ago had it not been for
the express companies. They ob
ject to tlie government earning
parcels cheaply for the public when
they can tax that same public
heavily for the service. He is also
strongly in favor of postal savings
banks, and this is a thing even
more to the advantage especially of
rural communities. The savings
bank has grown and prospered im
mensely 111 this country in the past
lew years, and it is claimed that
postal banks not only would ex
tend th; savings system but would
scarcely interfere at all with the
savings banks already established.
The rural free delivery is another
thing that Mr. von Meyer has much
at heart, and he has plans for its
extension that probably will please
the rural communities when they
are divulged and will make the
next Congress sit up and take no
tice when he asks tor the appro
priation to carry them out.
NO TREATING.
Candidate! Cannot Set Up Orinki and
Smokes.
Commenting on the decision of
Judge Walling, ot Erie county, in
regard to the corrupt practices act,
the Pottsville Miners r Journal says:
The court in Erie county has rul
ed that the giving of cigars or buy
ing of drinks by the candidate or
his representatives for campaign
purposes is violating the corrupt
practices act. This sweeping opin
ion was handed down in a case
against the mayor of Erie, who, it
is claimed, is serving in that office
illegally. Steps are under way to
have him ousted from office, be
cause, among other alleged acts is
the charge that he treated voters to
cigars and beer. The termination
of this case will be watched with
much interest because of its bearing
upon the corrupt practices act. The
decision that the money spent for
cigars and drink was clearly illegal,
may have the effect of caudidates
for office and their friends to exer
cise greater care in conforming to
the provisions of the corrupt prac
tices act."
A fine new line of Wedding in
vitations just received at tbisorfice.
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Jealous Man Killed Rival.
jShamokin Stirred by Another Murder.
Northumberland county is being
stirred with the news that another
murder has been committed within
its borders.
Jealous for some time past be
cause Michael Morad paid atten
tion to his sweethaart, Michael
Bordner, of Shamokiu, on Sunday
armed himself with a revolver, en
tered the former's home and shot
Morad through the head, killing
him.
Bordner later packed his clothes
at a boarding house to escape to
New York. Friends of Morad
learned of the crime and captured
Bordner as he was about to leave.
Mystery now veils the case. It
is claimed that the shooting was
accidental, and yet two bullets were
discharged into the victim s head.
The case was heard Monday by a
justice and Bordner was held for
court.
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The New Shapes in Soft and Stiff Hats
designed by America's leading makers,
Stetson, Knox, Melville, are all here.
$1.50
OWN
BUYING TIME FOR
Thrifty Housewives
Right at this time when good housewives are buying
Furniture and Kitchen Ware, our extra values will make
this store the mecca for nearly all of them.
Now just a word as to this Furniture. We only ask
that you look all around compare ours with other stock
and we feel confident of your verdict "I CAN DO BET
TER AT PURSEL'S."
And the Kitchen Helps we can only mention a few
in the space of course, but if you have a need in that line
come here. We will save you money every time.
Furniture.
Rocking Chairs 1.50 to
15.00.
Parlor and Library Ta
bles 1.50 to 22.50.
Buffets 20.00 to 39.50.
Side Boards 10.00 to 35.00
China Closets 20.00 to 40
Extension Tables 5.00 to
35-00.
Dining Chairs 4.50 to
25.00 a Set.
Couches 6.75 to 39.00,
Chiffoniers 6.00 to 22.50.
Bed Room Suits 16.50 to
$too.
White Enameled and
Brass Beds 5.00 to 35.00.
Kitchen Helps
A full and complete line
of the justly celebrated Et
dleweiss cooking ware 10c
to 1.50.
Rochester Nickle ware in
Chafing dishes, tea aud eof
fee pots, syrup jugs and
what not all guaranteed.
Scrub Brushes 10c to 25c
White Wash Brushes 25
to 50c.
Wisp Brooms 10 to 25c.
F, P.
BLOOMSBURG,
Cut off that cough
Expect
W1? and prevent
The world's 8tanii?a T
Medicine for 7 c
of your dregsJit sad keep It
Everything
That's New
in Men's pnd Vraif Mon's
Wear for this autumn is here now
for your inspection. Never be
fore had we ouch a varied aah'jrt
nient of styles and fabrics to
show you in
FALL SUITS
$10.00 to $25.00
Nor were we ever able to offer
you such splendid value as we
do this season.
..Fall Overcoats..
AND
.-.RAIN COATS.'.
$10 to $40
to 54.00.
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Kitchen Helps
Floor Brushes 1.00 to 1.50
Wall Brushes 60c.
Stove Brushes 15 to 25c.
Washing Machines 7.50
to 9.50.
Clothes Wringers 1.75 to
3.50.
Carpet Sweepers 1.75 to
2.75.
Cedar Wash Tubs, (three
sizes) 90c, 1.35 and 1.75.
Painted Pine wash tubs
75 to 90c.
Galvanized wash tubs 80,
90 and 1 .00.
Wash Boards 1 5 to 40c.
Wood Scrub Buckets 20c
Galvanized Buckets, 10
qt. size 20c, 12 qt. size 25c
Fibre water buckets 35c.
Heavy Tin water buck
ets, 12 qt. size 40c, 14 qt.
50c,
Enameled water buckets
38 to 90c
Heavy Tin Wash Boilers
(with lid) No. 8 for 1.25 and
No. 9 for 1.35.
Heavy Tin Washjioilcrs,
copper bottom, Nc. 8 for
1.35 and No. 9 for 1.50.
All copper Wash Boilers $3
PENN'A.
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pncumoTiisr
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