8 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMsBURO, Pa. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSDURG, PA. THURSDAY, SW'l.ai, 1W7 MAY ITEA1) GUILTY. Bolore Indictment and Save Costs. Following i,; l! ,. . i.V-.tance of an act of Assembly jiassi.il by the Leg islature of 1907: "Whenever any person ischarg ed with thf r'irnission of nnj' crime and such person is willing to enter a plea of emltv, no bill of in .lictuieut shall be sent to a Grand lury, but the Court of the proper county r.i r.v.y :i thereof shall impose sentence for such offense." The author of this law is Charles I. Landis, p- Judge of the Courts of Lauca.il.er county. In his connection with the trial of criminal cases he saw the need of relief for frieruless criminals guilty of petty thefts, nnd. ou the other hand, saw that a great saving would be effected to the counties of the common s .1th Iu ncuu ..11 li e counties Crimi nal Courts aie held once every three months. If a person should be arrested for a pilly theft or oth er offense the week following a Quarter Sessions Court he would be detained iu prison awaiting trial three mouths at the expense of the county. When the cr.se was called for trial mouths later that person usually pleaded guilt y, and his sen tence of a few months dated from the day it was pronounced. Under Judge Landis' law a per son arrested can, if lie desires, be taken into Court at once; his plea of guilty can be entered and his sentence begins at once, and he will in many instances, have 'served his term before the next Court begins. The county is slaved the expense of maintaining the prisoner await ing trial, and there is a further big saving in witness1 Jus and consta bles' costs that usually attach to a case returned to Court. In Lancas ter county iu the last three months 37 defendants pleaded guilty with out awatiiL ihc action of the Grand Jury ROADS ARE POOR. Better Public Highways and the Antiquated Toll Ca!e Must Drop Out. Although much, progress has been made in building roadways throughout the Keystone state, the system is a long way still from be ing ideal. The state highway com missioner in an address last week stated that Pennsylvania has 98, 300 miles of township roads. On file at Harrisburg are applications for the improvement of 31,082 miles of the Commonwealth's roads. Sci entific roadways to the extent of 233 miles are finished, while 265 miles of these roads are under con tract. The total of good roads fin ished, or to be finished in a short time, is 572 miles. Thus it may be seen that we are a long way from anything like a complete system of good roads. That moss-covered relic the toll gate is still to be found on many ot the pikes, but it is doomed to extinction, through the roads being placed in the hands of the township authorities. In several states there are no longer any toll roads. Iu Missouri at pres ent much activity in road building, three solid macadam state roads be ing under construction between Kansas City and St. Louis. There is still some talk of building a na tional highway extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but no defi nite steps hive as yet been taken. Pennsylvania will have to get a move on if she wishes to cut any figure as a good roads state. Do Parents Take Enough Interest in Schools ? The opening of the schools for another year prompts the press throughout the State to devote con siderable attention to school work and many good suggestions are be ing made. The following excel lent hints to parents are from the WestChester Vitiate Record; "How many parents take a really active interest in what their children are doing at school ? Not a perfuncto ry, half-hearted questioning about the routine of the school room, but genuine, sympathetic interest in the details of the lesyons. a friendly heart-to-heart discussion of the day's work. If you do not, why not? You can see readily enough, can you xvA, Low Mich an interest would lend a new charm to the dnties of the school room tor your boy or girl, how it would dovetail with the work of the teacher in a really effective way ? The teacher is not the oni tiding factor in school work. The parent has his or ner part as well tu perform. ' o y . c. 7: : .r 1 z u. . Utn th t'l Y'U Hatejiwaw Bought Bad Blood la tlio cause of all humors, eruption, hoils, pimples, prrofulous Pores, rezrma or call rheiitn, as well ns of rhi-nmn tism, catarrh and oilier troubles. The greatest blood remedy for all these troubles, proved by Its unequaled record of cures, Is Hood's Sarsaparflla In usual liquid form or in chocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs. 100 doers $1 Will Obey Two-Cent Law. Pennty, Reading and B. h 0. Announce New Schsdule of Fares. Following the announcement that no change would be made in the present commutation rates for Octo ber, officials of both the Pennsylva nia and Reading have stated that all single fare rates would be reduc ed to two cents a mile on October to conform with the new rate law which becomes effective that day. The present excursion rates, which, in this section at least, have been on the basis of two cents per mile for some time will be continued, but as the rates will be on a parity with the single fare the only advan tage in their purchase will be one of convenience. No change of limitation as to time on these tickets will be made for, as one official expressed it, "We do not intend to issue excur sion tickets good for next year." Although the rates on these tickets are generally on the basis of two cents a mi'.e, some adjustment will have to be made to some points, as in some instances the present ex cursion rate is from two to ten cents iu excess of the round trip fare on an actual two-cents-a-mile basis. Manager of Passenger Traffic D. B. Martin, of the Baltimore & Ohio has also announced that on October 1st agents of the company within the State of Pennsylvania will place in effect a new passenger tariff con forming with the new act. In do ing this, however, no change will be made in the present commuta tion fares for the mouth of October. Steam Road to Electrify. Southern Pacific Let . Contract to Carry San Francisco Commuters, San Francisco commuters who live across the bay are soon to trav el on electric cars on the Southern Pacific system. The company has awarded a contract for $900,000 to build a power house at Fruitvale to be the central station for Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and Fruitville lines. The expenditures for over head work and for substations will amount to $2,000,000. The con tracts were let in New York by A. H. Babcock, electrical engineer for the Southern. The Southern Pacific does the largest suburban business of any railroad in the world. The cars will be run in solid trains, with an electrical motor at each end of the train, the power to be delivered by overhead trolley. Each car will have a seating capac ity of eighty persons. It is stated that the necessity for electrification came by reason of a great increase in suburban trafic, which crept up from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 a month after the Sau Francisco fire. Three new ferry steamers are being built. Montgomery, Lycoming county, expects to secure an abundance of cheap electric power. A coterie of New York capitalists are negotiat ing for the purchase of the Muncy Dam in the West Branch of the Susquehanna, and if the deal is made an extensive power plant will be erected just below the dam along the old canal. All the old indus trial plauts at Montgomery and a good many new ones will be sup plied with cheap power. PATIENCE and HOPE It is not reasonable to as sume that nny chronic mal adyeven though attended by no dangerous symptoms can be cured at once. And atv rtrnnnrfttinn Bnl.1 in Art j L - t ... " j this nmv well be distrusted. .jijlBut it u tho experienuo of lUluuigvill WillU 111 uir the laud for ovtr 30 years. HOPE that a persevering use of DR. KENNEDY'S Is wording to directions, will sooureliovo and (Itimateiy cure canes of Fever uud Anue, tUliimsuexs, liheuniatism, Debility of the Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys and Bladder, and S disorders uriiiiug from an impure state if the Blood, whou no other medicine or treatment has been of any permanent bene fit. Bufferem may properly be reminded that Dr. David Keuuedy's Favorite ltemedy B no speculative preparation, phieed upon iho market to fill the pocltots of a proprietor rho is ignorant of the first principles of medicine, but a prescription uhciI with uni form success by Dr. Kennedy long before be ever dreamed of making it putilio. Wrltotolr. David Kennedy' Bonn, Kondnot. TT, t , for free anm)ile bottle .net meillcul boukluk tv irir r " v im 1 Wife duiuus (i.w, 11 u uruuui. "The Whited Sepulchre," the Tale of Peine. Editors of magazines which pub lish novelettes do not, as a rule, find life a bed of roses, for really good specimens of this type of story are hard to find. When a writer has a plot suitable for a novelette. in nine cases out of ten he can just as easily elaborate it into a longer story and will insist upon doing so. occasionally, However, one is se cured that is of the requisite length about 40,000 words and that possesses all the other desirable qualities, and when it is, there is much editorial rejoicing thereat. Such a novelette is that in the Octo ber Lippincott's " The Whited Sepulchre" by Will Levington Comfort. Its scene is laid in the illfated city of Saint Pierre, Mar tinique, at the time of the eruption of Mont Pelee. Constable, the hero, is a wealthy geologist, who has come there for the twofold pur pose of visiting his sweet-heart and of studying the volcano. When dan ger threatens he tries to remove the girl to a place of safety, but her mother believes his fears to be groundless, so she interposes an ob jection. As a result they are still within the danger zone when the crash comes. The description of the eruption, and of the shambles which the place becomes after the catastrophe, forms a bit of descrip tive writing of which neither Kip ling nor any other writer need be ashamed. It is quite as graphic and soul stirring as the account of the eruption of Vesuvius in Bulwer Lytton's famous novel, "The Last Days of Pompeii." Other notable stories in this issue of Lippincott s are "The Swan Song " by George L. Knapp ; "Osla Whale Hunting" by Edith Rick ert, author of "The Reaper" and "The Golden Hawk"; "The Martyr" by Owen Oliver; "Her College Visit" by Robert Sterling Blair ; "Miss Carmichael and the Janitor" by Adele Marie Shaw "Fat Fallon" by Alfred Damon Runyon, and "Pluck versus Dip lomacy" by H. B. Dean. Edward Stratton Holloway contributes a pleasing paper on "Modern Litera ture and Modern Life," and there are other essays on various subjects by Mary Moss, frred G. Blakeslee, George L. Knapp, Edwin L. Sabin, and Louise Satterthwaite. There are also several charming bits of verse, and the usual department of humor, "Walnuts and Wine." Al together, it is a banner number. Of Interest to School-Teachers. In the October Lippincotfs there is a story called "Miss Carmichael and the Janitor," by Adele Marie Shaw, which should be of especial interest to school teachers and, in fact, to all who have anything to do with our public school system. The tale describes the encounter be tween a spunky young schoolmarm and a man with a "pull" a regret table state of affairs which has many a counterpart in real life, though not always with such start ling results. Another feature which should attract the attention af ped agogues is Fred G. Blakeslee's pa per on "Military Training in the Public Schools." The novelette in this issue is an exceptionally fine oue. It is called "A Whited Sep ulchre," and the plot is based on suudry happenings in Martinque at the time of the eruption of Mont Pelee. The author is Will Leving ton Comfort, who in his capacity of press correspondent was accord ed an excellent opportunity of studying at first and the conditions about which he writes. In addi tion to the foregoing, there are half a dozen other clever short stories. four or five essays on timely top ics, some really good poetry, and the usual department of humor. "Walnuts and Wine." Altogeth er, those who buy the October Lip pincott' s will find it a very satisfac tory investment. PENNSYLVANIA BAILBOAD. W Ik AT RfllLTOftJ, PA. OCTOBER 1 TO 4. 1907. EXCURSION TICKETS To Milton will be sold on October r, a, 3, and 4, good to return un til October 5, inclusive, from Bellefonte, Lock Haven, East Blooms- Durg, Mt. Manuel, Miiiersburg, Middleburg and intermediate statious J. R. WOOD, Passenger Traffic Manoger. Onrlbahll's Red Shirt. The most popular uniform of Its day perhaps of any day In Kuro po was tho Oarlbaldlnn shirt, whose prosaic origin was little suspected by Its (idorers. In ft note to Mr, Trevelyans' "Oarlbaldi'g Defence o the Roman Republic" this origin I explained by Admiral Wlnnlngton Ingram, who was In Montevideo In 1S4C, when and where the uniform was first assumed: "Its adoption was caused by the necessity of cloth Ing ns economically ns possible tho newly raised Garlbaldtnn Legion. A liberal offer having been tnnde to the Government to sell at reduced prlcei a stock of red woollen shirts that had been Intended for the Duenoa Ayres market now closed through the blockade It waa thought too good a chnnre to be neglected and the purchase was therefore effected, These goods had been Intended to bo worn by those employed In the salnderos, or great slaughtering and salting establishments for cattle at Knsenada and other places In the Argentine provinces as they made good winter clothing, while by their color they disguised In a measure the bloody work the men had la hand." T. P. Weoky. Freak Names In Chlcngt. Tho new directory of Chicago shows nn increase In freak names Otie man Is named Ex, another Ek, and there are two Amens. Among the queer names are Szyszklnwlcx and Cyzsa. There are 8.64 9 John sons, not lt.cludlng 464 Johnstons, and 4.877 Smiths. There Is only one Cat In Chicago, but there are Ave Lions, two Elks, five of the name ot Moose and a whole army of Foxes Woman's Home Companion for October. The Woman's Home Companion for October is primarily a Fashion Number, not that the other regu lar departments are slighted in the least, nor that the fiction is in any way below the excellent standard the Woman's Home Companion has set for itself. Grace Margaret Gould, the Fashion Editor, has done more than any other one per son to make this October issue in teresting and helpful, contributing, as she does, page after page of at tractive and practical designs for Fall and Winter costumes. A par ticularly novel ana nelp.ul page gives photographic illustrations of the newest silks, fabrics and trim mings ; anotner snows tue new hats, going into detail as to shapes and colors. There are still others of waists and lingerie. Two of the many good articles deserve special mention Jack Lon don's "Riding the South Sea Surf," an animated description of that "Royal Sport for the Natural Kings of Earth," and Anna Steese Richardson's "The Influence of Women on Business." Mrs. Rich ardson, herself a most successful business woman, is telling the hard truths connected with woman's en trance into the field of business, in a series of three remarkable articles, of which this is the second, on 'The Woman in Business." There are good stories by An thony Hope. Zona Gale. Herbert D. Ward, Elliott Flower and others. Dr. Edward Everett Hale contributes a delightful talk on "The Division of Time," and the Editor has some pungent things to say about "Your Grocer." The cover of this issue is the third-prize winner in the recent prize cover contest, a charming painting by Hermann C. Wall. Stove for Sale. Good heating stove for sale. Has been used but little. Price reason able. Inquire at 335 Center street. EARLY CLOSING. Most of the merchants of Blooms- burg have agreed to close their stores on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings of each week until November 1st, except during fair week. GEO. W. BOYD, General Passenger Agent. XXXXXXXXX$ 9 Extraoiiiaiy Aiiiiouiiccincnt ! Genuine Clean Sweep Sale Is Now Drawing Crowds FROM MILES AROUND. Overshadowing All Previous Efforts. Come and See 'Hr K. jr a Lf m)7 QOCCR&eOA TO . VV. BLACK DIAMOND WHISKEY Fine quality. Full measure. Fair price. Full guarantee. A. P. WARD & CO., Sole Propr's., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. NOW l5 THr TIMr of year wlieu you think of cleaning iiuuhu, hiho 01 cleaning up the ruu bish and foul mutter willed Immn. cunnihited about your premises, to guard airuitiMt ic ever give the Hecond thought to the 01a ouiu-in unsanitary Plumbing Fixtures which breed disease right in vourown hmiua. Tf vmi ti.1,.1. ofinitalliug New Fixtukks I am ready to quote you gont irlcee o n STA NDA RD SA NITA li Y MFO. CO' S Eiuimrl anntta. nil full guaranteed. All Jobbing of Plu mblng and Heating rnimpiijr Aitenaea to. P. M. REIjLXY. 438 Centre St. Bell 'Phone For the Satisfactory Kind in Up-to-date Styles, go to CapwelPs Studio, (Over Hartmat ' Store) BLOOMSBURG PA. WHY WE LAUGH. "A Little Nonsense Ar07o and 7 hen, Is Relished by the Wisest Men." Judge's Quarterly, $1.00 a year Judge's Library, $1.00 a year Sis Hopkins' Hon., $1.00 a year On receipt of Twentv Cents. X2f Will PntDf vrsMi no or three months trial subserinti witty, and humorous journals, " wwcKiy or juage Address Judge Company 225 Fourth Avenue 0XKX0000 5COO 0 the Excitement. $ Martman & Son m Ky W WE ARE SHOWING f NEW' FALL SHOES For Women. These cool nights and fresh breezes remind us that it's time to lay theVxfords away and get into shoes once more. We have many new, lasts and attractive features' in the John Kelly FALL LINE FOR WOMEN $3, $3.50 and $4 Make yourselection.before Jsizes are broken. W. H. MOORE, Comer Main and Iron Sts., BLOOM SB UKG, PA. mm Our Pianos are the leaders. Our lines in clude the following makes : ClIAS. M. Stieff, . Henry F. Miller, Brewer & Pryor, Kohler & Campbell, and Radel. IN ORGANS we handle the Estey, Miller.I1.Lehr & Co., AND BOWLBY. This Store has the agency Jor SINGER HIGH ARM SE W ING MACHINES and VICTOR TALKING MACHINES. WASH MACHINES Helby, 1900, Queen, Key stone, Majestic. , J.SALTZER, Music Rooms No. 105 West Main Street, Below Market. BLOOMSBURG, PA or for One Dollar will add for the same period of time. New York 3-21
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