THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUROPA. 8 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO, PA. THURSDAY, OC'lOliKK. 17, 1!K)7 WASHINGTON From our Kee'ilar Correspondent. Washington, D. C.Oct, io, 1907. There it, always talk of the estab lishment of new departments of the governments, tnt it is rather a dif ferent matter to ci llu:in actually established. It was a long time and after much talk that the De partment of Commerce and Labor was added to the ciSiiK't. There has been 1 veil lon.or talk and much less in the way ot results in the eflort to establish a Dcpittmeiit of Public Ik.ili'a. lint .111 cilort will be made this winter to add another officer to the cabinet in the person of a Secretary of Transportation. Whether this will be accomplished it is difficult to .-.ay, but the chauce? favor it. The work of the Inter state Commerce Cotr minion has entirely omcvown the physical powers of til-- coumiisioti to cope with it even since the enlargement of the commission il.lf last winter. It may not It. giTirrilly known outside 'if Vfis1i'iit;toii, but the Interstate Cor.iiiicrcv Commission is one of the few and the only im portant bureau of the government that is indep T.Vr.t of :i-i;- depart ment. The Com uiinn was es tablishes :! about l.fteen years ago almost as a sop to the shippers of the count r I.iHe -.;: expected of it and little was accomplished after the decision of the courts that it had not Hie power to enforce its rulings. But with the develop ment of the rate law, the enlarge ment of the cm:ni.'-s:oii and the increasing demr.nd for the govern ment supervision of transportation, the commission ha increased ill importance. It has had so much to do in trie lme of special investi gations ordered by Confess and the President that it has not been able to keep up with what is sup posed to be its wcrk of adjusting railway rates. It has had court trials, cases and hearings all over the United Slates and constantly increasing demands on its services. Its failure to attend to everything at once has tended to discredit it with the general public. If the work of the commission keeps up, as there is every indication it will, there will be abundant employ ment for a regularly organized de partment and this iu turn will be able to cope with the transporta tion problem, as the commission would never be able to do so. The first meeting of the head officers of the Republican National Committee was held iu Washing ton this week. It was an informal meeiing of Harry S. New and El mer Dover, president and secretary respectively, of the committee. They have selected headquarters for the committee iu one of the big office buildings and the pros pect is that the committee will be regularly organized about the time that Congress gets together. There are so many presidential possibilities and near-possibilities in the field that any move of the committee heads is naturally watched with the keenest interest. President Roosevelt is not only the nominal but the very real head of the party and there was some com ment that the work of the commit tee should have been inaugurated while he was away from Washing ton. But both Dover and New are two of his "young men," and close personal friends. They had a thorough understanding with him before he went away and it is a safe assumption that whatever is done will be thoroughly in accord ance with the President's wishes. Same of the opponents of the Taft candidacy are inclined to take the preliminary action of the commit tee as a spghi upon his position iu the party councils, but this is not the case and it is generally expect ed that the committee will take action for a Taft reception 011 his return that will be a striking testi monial to the Secretary of War. The Navy Department which is tmsy outfitting the battleship squad ron for its long trip to the Pacific, has been up against the problem of increase in the price of breadstuff's. There will be about 6,000,000 pounds of eatable9 and drinkables needed by the fleet for the voyage. It is not necessary to go into de tails as to just what this immense store consists of, though the prin dpal item is fresh meat. Buying in such immense quantities, the Navy Department is able to get of course the very bottom prices and the more so that the furnishing of toe supplies is a matter of competi lun th Ito Kind You Kso Always lam. tion. But it has been found that the general increase in prices has affected even these immense pur chases. All the staple articles of food and drink that have to be bought are materially higher than the department has ever had to pay for them before. Even on the meat bought in such quantities there was a general advance of a cent a pound. This indicates the general price sit nation and shows why the house holder who buys in comparatively microscopic quantities, has to piy such a heavy increase. The officers of the fleet feel the added cost of outfitting even more than the gov ernment. The material that the Navy Depa-tment is laying in is what might be called the rough staples in the way of provisions. Everything in the way of delicacies and luxuries, the officers have to pay for out of their own pockets, and being bought in smaller quan tities and privately, the added cost is much greater. V it was announced this week that a new coitiinanUr Ins been assign ed to the Pres:dent's yacht, the Mayflower. She has been for two years under command 01 iieut. 1 . 1 t .. 1... :.. 1 . t- . . - voinmaiuier uoiik. out u uc is k1'- lug with the battleship squadron to tlie I'acinc, a new omcer nau 10 ue assigned. He is Karl oglesang, who was with the Presidential par ty 011 the recent trip to Panama and who it is said made a particu larly good impression on the Presi dent then. The command of the Mayflower is more or less a person al appointment with the President so it is evident that Commander ; v oglesang pression. has made a good im It is announced that the Navy Department has had to send an agent abroad to purchase White head torpedoes owing to the fact that the supply of torpedoes in this country was not large enough to meet the demand. As a matter of fact the Department has had an agent abroad for some months try ing to get hold of torpedoes, but Japan has cornered the output of the Whitehead factory for more than a year ahead, and this gov ernment will have to be satisfied with whatever it can pick up. But it is announced that the Newport station will be turning them out in a little while and this will assure us of a supply that cannot be cor nered by any foreign power. Trespass Notices. Card signs ''No Trespassing" for sale at this office. They are print ed in accordance with the late act of 1903. Price 5 cents each, tf Have You a Safety Razor That is Satisfactory ? 7 he Philadelphia Press is making an unheard-of offer of an ever- j half as great as that which is sus ready, twelve-blade safety razor , taiued by the employed, who can and the daily edition of their publi- much less afford to bear it. It cation f value $8.00") for Three would be a vast stride iu the inter- Dollars and Fifty Cents. Pic ture aud description of razor mail ed for the asking and your money returned if you are not satisfied. People who have not shaved themselves for years are taking ad vantage of this fair and generous offer. Why not you ? AN HEIRESS ELOPES. Miss Helen Maloney, daughter of Martin Maloney, a Philadelphia millionaire, has created a scandal by eloping with a young English man named Clarkson. They fled to London where her father is now looking for her. The scandal of it is, aside from the elopement, that she is the wife of Arthur Osborn of Philadelphia, to whom she was married two years ago while he was a student at Princeton. The mar riage was kept secret until n.i escapade caused it to be announced. It is not always the poor working girl who goes wrong. DR. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE If Remedy Breaks no Hearts, Excuses no Crimes. Dr. DavM Kennedy's FAVORITE REM. EDY io not a disguiuod enemy of the human race ; where it cannot help, it does not harm. It is composed of vegetalilu ingre dients aud does not heat or iuilunie the blood but cools and purifies it. Iu all rases of Kidney troubles, Liver complaints, Con stipation of the Bowels, and the delicaU derangements which afflict women, the ac tion of Dr. Kennedy's FAVORITE REM EDY is beyond praise. Thousands of grateful people voluntarily testify to this, in letters to Dr. Kennedyt and with a warmth and fullness of words which mere buxineBS certificates never posseHS. It makes no drunkards cxcuhcs no crimes breaks no hearts. We challenge a triul and are confident of the result. ONE DOLLAR a Bottle. All druggists. Bi'ar in mind the name and address: Dr. David KENNEDY, Rondout. New York. Write for free sam ple bottle and medical booklet full of valu able meoiua auvioe. ueuuou tuis paper. Blood Humors Commonly cftune pimples, bolln, hives, cot emu or suit rheum, or some otlior form of erup tion i but sometimes they exist In the system, indicated by feelings of weakness, languor, loss of appetite, or general ilcMlity, without causing any breaking out. Hood's Sarsaparllla expels them, renovates, strengthens and tones the whole system. This Is the testimony of thousands annually. Accept no substitute, but Insist on baring Hood's Sarsaparilla In usual liquid form or in chocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs. 100 doses 1. From Putnam's Monthly. (October, 1907) In an article contributed to the October number of Putnam's Month ly, Cardinal Gibbons expresses in strong terms his disapproval of the boycott as practised by labor unions, and also urges the workingmen of the country to avoid strikes, and intimidation iu any form. The Cardinal says : "I am persuaded that the system of boycotting, by which members of labor unions are instructed not to patronize certain obnoxious bnsi ness houses, is not only disapproved i,y an impartial . . .' public sentiment, not co:r.meiid it- but tliat it does scif to the more thoughtful and conservative portion of the guilds themselves. Every man is free in deed to select the establishment with which he wishes to deal, and iu purchasing from one in prefer ence to another he is not violating justice. But the case is altered when, by a mandate of the society, ue is debarred trom btiin trom a particular firm. Such a prohibi tion assails the liberty of the pur chaser and the rights of the seller, and is an unwarrantable invasion of the commercial privileges guaran teed by the government to business concerns. If such a social ostra cism were generally in vogue, a process of retaliation would natur ally follow, the current of mercan tile intercourse would be checked, every center of population would be divided into hostile camps, and the good feeling which ought to prevail in every community would be seriously impaired. "Live and let live " is a wise maxim, dictated alike by the law of trade and by Christian charity. Experience has shown that strikes are a drastic, and at best a very questionable, remedy for the red ress of the laborers' grievances. They paralyze industry, they often foment fierce passions, and lead to the destruction of property ; and above all they result in inflicting grievous injury on the laborer him self by keeping him in enforced idleness, during which time his mind is clouded by discontent while brooding over his situation, and his family not infrequently suffer from the want of the necessaries of life. The loss inflicted by strikes on the employers is not much more than est ot peace, and of the laboring classes, if the policy of arbitration, which is now gaining favor for the settlement of international quarrels, were also availed of for the adjust ment of disputes betweeu capital and labor. Many blessings would result from the adoption of this method ; for while strikes, as the name implies, are aggressive and destructive, arbitration is concilia tory and constructive. The result in the former case 13 determined by the weight of the purse, in the lat ter by the weight of the argument. After Cannon Ball. The Delaware & Hudson Rail road is to acquire control of the Wilkes-Barre and Ilazleton Rail road, the third railroad which runs from Wilkes-Barre to Ilazleton, and is something over thirty miles in length. The purpose of the company, it is believed, is to build an extension from Ilazleton to its coal properties in Schuylkill county and to con vert the third rail into a steam line, thus affording a means of trans porting coal to Wilkes-Barre, where direct connection could be made with the Pennsylvania system and the Pennsylvania division of the Delaware & Hudson Company. Souvenir Post Cards are printed at this oflice. Half tones supplied. NOTICE. Under at'd by virtue of an Act ot As sembly of April 19, 1901 P. L. 80. a special meeting of the members of St. Paul's church, Bloomsburg, is hereby called by order of the Vestry, to vote upon an increase of the number of Ves trymen from seven to eleven; and if the increase is carried, then to elect four persons to the Vestry, to hold oflice till the next annual election of Vestrymen The said called meeting to be held in ' the church at eiht o'clock in the even ing of Wednesday, Nov. 6th. 1907. Tames W. Diggles, Rector. John G. Freere, Senior Warden John R. Townseud, Junior " J. G, Wils, Secretary. 10-17 3t. MKXICO'S "DEVIL TltEE." Ienth for All Who Heat Within Iff rntcftil Slindow. BocniiBO of tho many fatal acci dents thnt have occurred under n Iihst tree thut grows In tho Ha clendita ranch, In tho Zamora dis trict, Mlchoacan, peasants of the re gion nro growing more and more su pnrntltloiis about Its supposed fatal omen, and they begin to call It "ar bol innldito" (cursed tree). Tho tree is supposed to be over scventy-fivo years old, and is said to hnve been planted by a man who, bcranso of his enormous crimes and M forgctfulness of the divine law, was swallowed up by the earth. A pedestrian who went under It for shado on a hot summer dny was bit ten by n snake and died In two hours. Three men, on different orenHlotis, sought shelter from rain under Its In 10. dies, and were struck by light ning. A woman who was hanging clothes to dry from the trunk of the tree was attacked and killed by a billy gont that came from nobody knows where, and that was never seen again. Two years ago a llttln boy was riding a burro and inno cently led his animal to the tree. The hurro threw him off and kicked htm to death. Clilneso Etiquette. Very curious are some of the rules of etiquette observed by Chinamen. Kinllo Hard, who has written 11 book on the subject of Chinese life, says that in nliio cases out of ton, how ever, tho form of etiquette hns re placed tho substance. With the Chi nese n refusal or unpleasant truth must be expressed evaRlvoly. It Is n fixed rule that one must speak ot himself and of all belonging to him In the humblest of terms and use the most exnlled language In referring to tlie person or property of another. Whether two mandarins or two beg gars meet and accost each other this Is n sample of their conversation: "What is your honorable name?" "Your insignificant brother's name is Wang." "Whero Is your noble dwelling?" "Tho hovel In which 1 hldo myself Is In ," designating tho place. "How mnny precious sons have you?" "I have only five stupid little pigs." A Chinaman, wearing his finest gown of silk, called at a house where be happened to disturb a rat which was regaling itself out of a Jar of oil standing on a beam over the door. In Its sudden fright the rat upset the oil over the luckless visitor, ruining his fine raiment. While the man was still pale with rage his host appeared and after the customary greetings the visitor accounted for his appear ance In this wise: "As I was enter ing your honorable dwelling I frightened your honorable rat; while it was trying to escape it upset your honorable Jar of oil over my poor and Insignificant clothing. This explains the contemptible condition in which I find myself in your honorable presence." Look Toward the East. For a long time it has been de clared that those whose heads point ed toward the north while they slept enjoyed better rest than those whose feet were planted In that direction. Now a savant gravely declares that the position of one's desk largely In fluences his capability, and that to do one's best work the seat must face the west. It Is asserted In all gravity that those who face the south lose at least one-third of their capability, and a seat facing the east Is only less hurt ful than one which faces the north. The originator of the theory de clares that he stumbled upon the so lution by finding himself unable to work in a new library until the po sition of his desk had been changed, and that he has verified the correct ness of his claim by experiment with a score of his friends. In the course of time the compass will become as essential to the landsman as to the mariner. New York Herald. A Museum Record of Voices. The British Museum is collecting records of voices. The phonographs of the museum are designed to pre serve for future generations the voices of famous people of our time; but the Vienna Academy of Sciences is going further, and seeks phono grams of languages and dialects for the comparative study of languages. Already Its collection Includes popular songs of gypsies and Arab tans, favorite airs of red Indian tribes, the idioms of negroes and Ma lays, and so so. It Is sending out special voice hunting expeditions every year, and IU agents are now scouring Australia, Roumania, Istrla and other localities. IU latest plan Is to phonograph the voices of ani mals for scientific study. Exchange. Longest Submarine Tunnel. Much attention has been attracted to the opening of the new subway tunnel under Boston Harbor, but the longest tunnel under water Is In England, where there Is a tunnel un der the River Severn four miles six hundred and twenty-four yards long, of which two and one-halt miles are actually under water. The proposed tunnel under the English Channel will be twenty three miles In length, and the latest project Is the construction of a tun nel to connect France with England, which would be thirty-three miles In length and would He at a depth of Ave hundred feet below the bottom of tho Channel. The longest subma rine tunnel actually In course of con struction Is that connecting the Islands of Sicily with the Italian mainland, which will be eight and one-half miles long. 0000 oooooooc Genuine Clean Sweep Sale Is Now Drawing Crowds 0 FROM RlILliS AKUUWU. 0 Overshadowing All Come and See X , VV. BUCK DIAMOND WHISKEY Fine quality. Full measure. Fair price. Full guarantee. A. P. WARD & CO., Sole Propr's. , Wilkes-Barre, Pa. IMOU tu r timt w fe i i If, i or year when you think of cleaning uouse, &iho oi meaning up the rub bish mid foul mnttor u-,i, .ii i.au ac cumulated about your premises, to guaru against sicKuetss, but do you ever give the second thought to the old built-in unsanitary Plumbing Fixtures which breed disease right in vour own hmiuoH If v,u fi.ii.L- of installing New Fixtures I am ready to quote you good prices o ii STANDA RD SA Nil A It Y MFQ. CO1 S Enamel Goods, all fully guaranteed. All Jobbing of Plumbing and Heating Promptly Attended to. P. M. 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H. MOORE, Comer Main and Iron Sis., BLOOMSBURG, PA. Our Pianos are the leaders. Our l!nc ,'n. elude the following makes : Chas. M. Stieff, Henry F. Miller. Brewer & Pryor, Koiiler & Campbell, and Radel. IN ORGANS we handle the Estey, Miller.H.Lehr & Co., AND BOWLBY. This Store has the agency Jor SINGER HIGH ARM SE W- , ING MACHINES and VICTOR TALKING ' MA CHINES. ! WASH MACHINES Helby, 1900, Queen, Key. stone, Majestic. J.SALTZEtf, Music Rooms No. 105 West Main , Street, Below Market. BL O OMSB UR G, PA pany New York J
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