THE COLUMBIAN, B LOOMS BURQ, Pa. FURS Form of Ballot to be Voted Tuesday, November 5th, 1907. To vote a straight party ticket, mark a cross (X) n the square opposite the name of the party of your choice in the first column. A cross mark in the square opposite the name of any candidate indicates a vote for that candidate. The voter may insert in the blank space at the bottom of each group, the name of any person whose name is not printed on the ballot for whom ho desires to vote. Republican Democratic Prohibition Socialist THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSHURO, PA. THURSDAY, OC'IOBKR. 31, MOT WASHINGTON From our Hcu?nr Corrt; otulent. Washington, D. C. Oct. 24, 1907. Naturally all interest this week has been centered iu the Treasury Department. The panic iu New York 1ms forced Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou to go to the sceue of tl.e trouble and the govern ment has come to the assistance of the market with immense deposits of funds. Just how extensive this help has been the Treasury will not say, but the estimate is that it amounts to $20,000,000 or $25,000, 000. Nothing less than this would be of much use to the New York banks and more than this would trench upon the available working funds of the government. But it is said that this large amount could be spared without causing the gov ernment any inconvenience. It is rather remarkable that Sec retary Cortelyou went into office with the statement that he propos ed to divorce the Treasury com pletely from Wall Street and that there would be no more "accomo dation" extended to the market when it was in distress. It so hap pened, perhaps it was made to so happen, that the Secretary has been in office less than a month when there was a bad flurry in the "Street," and he came to the front just as other secretaries had done with financial assistauce. Howev er, there was a rather clear under standing between the head of the Department and the financial pow ers that this sort of help could not be depended on and there has been a cessation of it for some months. The present crisis, however, is not an ordinary stock panic but has struck some of the biggest savings institutions and is in danger of working great hardship to the peo ple who can least afford to suffer. So the assistance of the government has been extended again and prob ably will effectually tide over the crisis. This only makes it plainer, though the additional assurance was never needed, that our financial system is at fault and will have to be wholly regenerated. The Knick erbocker Trust Company and the other trust companies that have been hard hit in the money panic were institutions outside the asso ciation of "clearing house banks." There was no help extended to them when the crash came and they suffered accordingly. This will mean that the Trust Companies will have to get inside the circle of the clearing house banks when the ! crisis is over. It will also mean that ihey will be compelled to keep, up their reserves to a higher point j tnan they have been compelled to under the present law. It prob ably also will mean that there will be a closer federal supervision of trust companies as well as banks. But most of all it wdl mean that the subject of currency reform will have to be seriously considered when Congress meets. This sub ject has been before Congress time and again, but it has always been put off till a more convenient sea son. If the bill tht was before the last House had become a law and banks had been allowed to is sue additional note circulation un der a specifically higher tax, the trouble iu New York need not have o a. m :? xixa. 1 lb mu Kiiu uu nm Always wurnt STATE TREASURER (Mark One.) John O. Slieatz Ru publican John (1. I:nnan Democratic Matthew H. 8tevenson..Prohihition Samuel Chirk Socialist happened. It would seem that this elastic currency would do much to tide over the periods of stringen cy. There was plenty of money in New York on the day of the worst pinch as was shown by the fact that the call money sharks got in their work and call money was loaned at 70 and even 90 per cent. There was one pool of $4,000,000 formed in the Stock Exchange to loan at such rates. 0( course bank circulation and call money are two different things, but a bank circu lation that can be expanded in times of stress would do much to relieve the situation and make the other evil unnecessary. The government has been taking much more than a platonic interest in the balloon races at St. Louis. Gen. Allen of the Signal Corps has gone there to watch the perform ances of the airships and the small balloon corps of the government has been put at the disposal of the aeronauts to help them in making the occasion a success. How great a success it was is shown by the fact that St. Louis went balloon mad and there was a crowd estimat ed at 300,000 to see the aerial rac ers get away. It was the greatest aero meet that has been held in this ccuntry if not in the whole world, and the aid that has been extended it by the government shows how , keenly the army is interested in aerial navigation. The perform ance of the long distance balloon racers was interesting of course, but the point in which the army is particularly interested Is the per formance of the dirigible balloons. Gen. Allen wants to build one of these for the Signal Service and at the coming session of Congress an appropriation of $100,000 is to be asked for the work. It will cost about $60,000 to build the ship and the remainder will be useful in ac cessories. This government is the last of the great powers to enter the field of aerial navigation, but the strides that have been made abroad indicate that we cannot longer neglect this work. The six months period for the weighing of the mails has just about elapsed, and it was announc ed at the convention of postmasters held iu Washington this week that the work was reaching a satisfacto ry conclusion. The magnitude of the job will be appreciated when it is understood that every piece of mail carried iu the United States has been weighed and its class tab ulated. It was not known when this work started whether it could be carried out, but it has been done and there will be available tor Con- GRAVEL CURED (Philadelphia, Penn., Item.) A healthier, heartier, hnppicr man than John J. Ni'ill, of 2137 North Hth St., Fhilu. rti'lphu, could not be found in a day's search. The f.ii't that he Is still alive is a constant wondor to hin friends. Several years ai,'0 he began to snffer In doscribublu miseries from stone iu the blad. dor. An eminent physician in Philadelphia told him that a surgical operation was nec essary. Bo much did ho dread the result, for if unsuccessful it meant death, that ha put oil the evil day as long as possible. While In this frame of mind, he heard of DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY Although disheartened, he bought a bottle of it, and within a month had experienced beneficial results, and before be bad finished the third bottle, the gravel was completely dissolved and bis sufferings at an end. Mr. Noill feels that he owes a lusting debt of gratitude to Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, madeatRondout.N.Y., and fordia. orders of the bladder and urinary organs. Be aavs s "it will effort a cure if one is possible." Favorite Remedy is prescribed with uiu failing succohs for rheumatism, dyspepsia constipation, and nerve troubles in which it hns cured many that were considered be. yocd the aid of medicine. All druggist, ft. Catarrh Is a Constitutional Disease It originates in impure blood and requires constitutional treatment, acting through, and purifying the blood, for its radical and permanent cure. The greatest constitutional remedy is Hood's Sarsaparilla In usual liquid form or in chocolated tab lets known as Sarsatabs. 1(X) doses $1. Nasal and other local forms of catarrh are promptly relieved by Antiseplets or Catarrlets, 60c, druggists or mail. C. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. gress when it meets such a com plete lot of data on the subject of the mails as has never before been available when it came to fixing the compensation to be given the rail roads for transporting them. The Pension office has just re ported a decrease of over 18,000 in the number of peusioners for the year. This is the greatest decrease in any one year since there has been a pension list. It makes the total number of pensioners 961,371, the smallest number since 1893. It will be a long time at this rate be fore the pension list is wiped out and before that time comes we probably will have gotten into some other war and helped to swell it again. But it at least shows that for the time being, the movement is in the right direction. Fun in a Toyshop. "Once on a time" the mother of our Richard Mansfield who was Mine. Rudersdorf the singer, made a great hit in England singing in an opera called "Dolly" taken from the German of "The Toymaker of Nuremberg" and now that prince of wit and humor, Charles F. Pid gin, who lives in Massachusetts and is Chief of their dry Statistics Bu reau, has adapted it in a story, call ing it simply "The Toymakers." The scenes are laid in an English village in a beautiful old inn and the interior of a quaint toyshop, in wnicn dwells an eccentric maker of dolls and toys. He owns a wonder ful doll and bnugs her to life by electricity and then the fun begins. JNothing imagined could be so full of queer and amusing scenes and amazing complications that ensue. It sets the whole town and the big audience into a gale of hilarious mirth that only ceases after the cur tain falls on the most refreshing entertainment on the stage. "The Jollities" live up to their reputation as a lot ot clean entertainers who know to sing, dance and play with skill and refinement. Beautiful scenery and costumes designed for Ihe I oy makers" area pleasure to the eye and attest to the sound judgment of the managers, Charles Atkinson and James Thatcher, who always put out a rattling good show of first class artists. Every one who can buy, beg or borrow the book is reading it iu this town. It is published by The C. M. Clark Publishing Co., who also put out Mr. Pidgin's great book "Quincy Adams Sawyer" of national tame. Read "The Toymakers" before you see the play if possible. "The Toymakers" will be pre sented at the Grand Opera House Thursday evening, November a 1st. Columbia county has beeu highly honored in the naming of one of its citizens, Hon. John G. Harman for the only State office to be filled, this year, that of State Treasurer, and ihe Democracy of old Democratic Columbia county would be unfaith ful to their duty and unfaithful to the party if they did not roll up a big majority for the nominee of the party. Let the full Democratic vote be polled, not only for Har man, but for the whole ticket. ASSOCIATE JUDGE (Mark One.) (Jeorge Maixhall Hughes, Republican William Krlckbaum Democratic COUNTY SURVEYOR (Mark One.) Hoycl Treacott Democratic Chicago now Hears of Drop in Prices of Food. Commission Mon There Look lor Cheaper Buttor and Eggs as Well as Moat. Chicago housewives at last have received long-delayed tidings of a general reduction in the cost of liv ing. Relaxation from the strain of high prices in foodstuffs, which soon undergo a reduction approx mately 10 per cent., was the fore cast made by local jobbers and merchants Tuesday. Predictions credited to Edward A. Cudahy, of Omaha, ' who said his company had reduced its prices 10 per cent., inspired Chicago deal ers to voice expressions calculated to cheer the average consumer In some instances reductions are look ed for within a few days, but there is no general move just now to put lower prices into effect. With the proposed cut in meat comes the announcement that the price of butter soon will be out of the luxury class, where it long has been placed. According to Daniel Coyne of the commission firm of Coyne Brothers, butter now selling at 262 cents wholesale will reach 25 cents before the end of the week. Eggs also, according to Mr. Coyne, soon will recede from their present wholesale price of 25 cents a dozen. Local packers express no surprise at the prediction made by Mr. Cudahy, some declaring that the general decrease in the price of meat may exceed 10 per cent. Louis F. Swift, president of Swift & Co., points to a drop of 25 cents in cattle in the week as an indica tion that retailers should sell cheap er. Vote the Democratic ticket straight. September's Coal Trade. Big Increase in Tonnage Increase ot Nine Million Ton Over 1906. Black Diamond says the state ment has just been issued showing that the production of anthracite for September was 5,442,334 tons, compared with 4,527,886 tons for the corresponding month a year ago. This shows an increase of 914,448 tons. The production of anthracite to date is 49,645,616 tons as compared with 40,295,646 tons for the corresponding period of a year ago. I his gives an increase of 9.349.970 tons. Regardless of this satisfactory increase for the month of September of this enor mous increase for the first nine months of the year, it is now known that the production of anthracite does not meet all of the require ments and that stocks on hand have actually been reduced since the first of September. It is recalled that prior to that time the showing was that it had beem impossible for the companies to collect the usual amount of stocks before the end of the summer. This light amount of coal in storage and the extraordi nary demand at the present did not promise an abundance of coal for the coming winter. This empha sized by the statement that steam users are taking to anthracite coal more than ever to get away from the bothersome smoke ordinal ce in various cities. The movement to New England points has beeu as heavy as the railroads and boats would permit and the same is true to the movement up the lakes. The shipments to western inland mar kets have been so heavy that the box cars could not be provided and some of the companies have been using open cars which have been sent as far west as Toledo and Detroit. Mailable kinds sold here and we tell yam jmt what jqxl are buying. We stand back of our Furs, Bigger variety than ever, ouccr.eson TO I . W. 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These cool nights and fresh breezes remind us that it's time to lay the oxfords away and get into shoes once more. We have many new lasts and attractive features in the John Kelly FAIX LINE FOR WOMEN $3, $3.50 and $4 Make your selection before sizes are broken. W. H. MOORE, Corner Main and Iron Sts., BLOOM SB URG, PA. :a2 Visiting cards and Wedding invi tations at the Columbian office, tf 11 ARTAtAf & SON s ) Our Pianos are tbe leaders. Our lines in clude the following makes : Chas. M. Stieff, Henry F. Miller, Brewer & Prvor, Kohler & Campbell, and Radel. IN ORGANS we handle tbe Estey, Miller.H.Leiir & Co., AND BOWLBY. This Store has tte agency Jor SINGER HIGH ARM SE W ING MACHINES and VICTOR TALKING MA CHINES. WASH MACHINES Helby, 1900, Queen, Key stone, Majestic. J.SALTZER, Music Rooms No. 105 West Main Street, He low Market L O OMSB UR G, PA m M W
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