4 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURA, PA. STRONGEST BANK Capital SIOO.OOD Undivided Profits $30,000 First National Bank, 3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Sayings Deposits O F F I C I : K H : ft. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Btaver, Vice President. E. 15. Tustin, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier. DIRECTORS: "W.M.Low. F. O. Yorks, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Rattl, t'.. It. Tnstin, Fred Ikeler, Geo. 8. Robbing, H. C. Creasy, I. M St aver, M. I. Low, Louis firoes, H. V. llower. THE COLUMBIAN. F.STAHLISI I EI) 1 866. TUS COLUMBIA DEWCCSAT. '"STMII ISIIK.n I 837. C'INSOI.IDAI ED 1S69 '"Hi.H'lKI) EVKKV TllfK-;iAY M'IRNING, U liloimslmry, llie County Seat of Co timbia County, Pennsylvania. CEO. K. EI.WEM., Editor. C.EO.C. KOAN, KoKkMAS. rKM:--lntHf tlie county t.oo a yeat i alvance; 1 . 50 i f not paid in advance. OuUule thecounty, 1.25a year, strictly in A'l 3ommunicaticin! should be.vlilrcssed THE COL'JMB! N'. Uloomsl.urn. I'a. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1907 WHITE HOUSE POLITICS. Representative Burleson, in N. Y. Sun. There is no doubt in my mind that Mr. Roosevelt proposes to be the nominee of the Republican par ty next year. As I see the matter he is bending all his energies and exhausting all the resources of a political cunning without parallel in my experience to compel the Re publicans 10 nominate him by ac clamation. Although he renounc ed all such ambitions after his tri umphant election in 1904, and has since permitted different persons supposed to share his confidence to assert that he still adheres to the , -cisiou proclaimed three years ago, ,.ie fact remains that those closest t him are most insistent that he .tist serve another term whether .ie will or not. Members of the intimate White House circle, fresh from communion with the object of their idoltary, can be heard almost any day explaining that the Presi dent, whatever may be his personal preferences, cannot be allowed to abandon the nation in the hour of its need; that ;he will be forced to sacrifice himself upon the altar of patriotism at the demand of a rev erent and adoring people. Everybody having any sort of ac quaintance with men and things at Washington knows perfectly well that Mr. Roosevelt could put an end to this kind of gabble if he wished to. They are his own fa miliar cuckoos, most of them his personal appointees, all of them his humble and expectant toadies. That they continue to preach the necessity of four more years of Roosevelt is proof enough that the President approves, even if he has not actually inspired, their servile clamor. The President's affectations are transparent enough to those who care to scrutinize them. He pro claims his policies as the augurs of old used to proclaim the oracles but who knows what they mean excepting panic and disaster? If be wanted to punish culprits he could have done so. He could do so yet. If his purpose were to nil lory the individual malefactor and thereby assure the country of pro tection against its spoliators he might easily populate a dozen peni tentiaries within six months. But he doesn't intend or desire any of tnese things. The criminals I mean the known ones are import ant forces in his party or lavish contributors to his campaign fund. To disturb them would be to im peril the apotheosis of iqo8. Even the angel of rescue and salvation needs stage mechanism and a scieiv tific manipulation of the liehts The arrest and indictment of forty or fifty reliable party workers and subscribers might easily paralyze his most ingenious arranzements. If Theodore Roosevelt be not the next Republican President of the United States the enlightened his torian of the future will make it very plain that the deliverance was due entirely to the miraculously quickened conscience and intelli gence ot the American people. The Danville Hospital for the Insane is advertising for 1800 pounds of turkeys for their Thanks giving dinner. IN THE COUNTY Surplus 8100,000. KNOX BOOM FALLS FLABBY. Senator Unable to Arouso Enthusiasm in Home City. Senator P. C. Knox's presiden tial boom seems to have burst so far as his own town and county are concerned if the attitude of the Allegheny county leaders is any indication. Senator Knox has aroused a most violent feeling against him by his demeanor upon his recent visit, and his apparent indifference to the campaign in the county. Ono of the leaders of the Republican County Committee is quoted as saying : "Senator Knox has not contri buted one cent nor a kind word in the Republican campaign in his home town. He has not been ask ed to contribute a cent nor will he be. He has done nothing for the Republicans of Allegheny county in this fight, and can't expect much to be done for him later." The Senator has been in town for a week and will remain until after the election, it is stated by friends, but it is thought by others that he will remain in Pittsburg un til the financial situatiou has becon e easier. Two weeks ago, when a big Re publican meeting was planned for Pittsburg Senator Knox was in vited to speak, but for some un explained reason he was unable to appear. So the Republican Com mittee went into Ohio and secured a Taft boomer for the principal speaker ol the evening. Thus was the Taft boom launched in Alle gheny county in the home city and county of Senator Knox. ARE ENTITLED TO PAY. School Directors Who Attend the Annual Meeting ol County Association. School directors who are faithful to their duties are entitled to pay when they leave their various occu pations and attend the annual meet ings of the county association of school directors. There are mauy directors who are not able finan cially to attend at their own ex pense of time and money. The act signed by the governor, providing for paying the directors $2 per day for two days and mileage at the rate of three cents per mile while attending these meetings, is there fore a just law. The annual meetings of the coun ty directors are for the purpose of broadening the minds of the direc tors and increasing their usefulness as school managers. The man who does not take enough interest in the schools under his charge to attend the meetings of directors is unfit to serve in that capacity, and the man who is desirous of improving his capacity to perform his duties should be encouraged to do so by having his expenses paid wben he attends the directors' gatherings. HelplHelp! I'm Fallinq Thus cried the hair. And a kind neighbor came to the res cue with a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor. The hair was saved! This was because Ayer's Hair Vigor is a regular hair medicine. Falling hair is caused by a germ, and this medicine completely destroys these germs. Then the healthy scalp gives rich, healthy hair. Thereat kind ol a. testimonial "Sold lor over Blxty yean." Md bv J.U. Ayer Co., t.owall, Mm.. Also iauuieiur'jri v. 9 (UBfUPABILLi. iijropius. llWf O CHKKBY reCTORAl. m WASHINGTON From our Kegular Correspondent. , Washington, D. C, Oct. 31, 1907. On Nov. 16th there will be anew state added to the sisterhood. That is the date the President has set for issuing the Oklahoma proclama tion. It might have been done sooner as the document is now in Washington, but there is a good deal of business waiting to be clean ed up befoie the territorial courts and the date of the proclamation has been set back as far as it can be under the law. It is interesting to note that though the new state will be pro claimed and admitted, there will not be another star added to the flag till next fourth of July. Then there will be a new flag issued with 46 stars in the field instead of the present 45. This is a matter cf custom. New flags will not be issued in all casen, but the stars will be arranged with eight in some of the rows instead of six, preserving the balanced rectangle of the field and making the change only ap preciable to the trained observer. Congress is always well to the front, with new Inventions either when there U a chance to spend money or to add to the convenience of the senators or representatives or both. Ttie latest thing proposed is a central dictating and type writ ing bureau for the new House and Senate office building at the' Capi tol and for such of the members as want to work by the new method from the rooms in the old Capitol building. The scheme is a device of the Sweedish inventor Potilsen, he of wireless telephone fame. It is a machine that will take dictation over a telephone wire at a distance. It is a remarkable and uncanny act ing piece of mechanism. There are two big spools carrying a very fine steel wire. This wire is wound from one spool to the other by a small motor. The dictating is done into an ordinary telephone trans mitter that may be located fifty miles from the machine, but the conversation or letter or whatever is to be recorded is printed in invis ible waves of magnetism on this wire as it passes over an electric needle. All that the Senator has to have on his desk is the telephone transmitter hung over a small disk like a little clock face with an indi cating needle that tells him wheth er his recording wire is running out on the distant machine. When he finishes dictating, the typewriter in the central bureau simply reverses the motor on the recording machine and puts the letter or speech into typewriting and sends it to him completed. There is no clack of a typewriter in his office, no stenog rapher to sit around and listen to conversations witn his visitors and no dirt and muss from shaving down wax records. Dictation from any committee room can thus be taken id the central bureau and there all the work of transcribing is done. The record remains on the wire indefinitely and withstands all sorts of hard usage but can be instantly wiped out by a contrary electric current a fter which the wire is ready for use again. Senator McCumber was at the White House this week with the draft of a bill that he will introduce early in the session.- It provides for chartering corporations by the federal government. It is aimed to meet the demands for federal charters that have been put forth in many quarters. The books of the corporations will be open to the inspection of the Department of Commerce and Labor and the amount of stock and bonds issued will ;be fixed by the Department, based on the actual value of the as sets of the company. Any existing corporation can apply for and se cure a federal charter without reor ganizing. The adoption of the fed eral charter is made optional and not obligatory, but it would act as such a guarantee of stability and proper administration that it is thought it would prove a valuable asset. The President did not ex press himself on the measure, but it is in line with some of his utter ances and is likely to have the sup port of the administration. James Hamilton Lewis was an other of the distinguished callers at the White House. This former rep resentative, he of the radiant whis kers, has worked up a reputation as rather an odd character. But he is an astute politician and a keen observer so that his remarks carry the weight that attaches Irom com ing pretty close to the rank ani file vottr. He is rather a third term man, but what he said emphatical ly was that if President Roosevelt ran again, William Jennings Bryan would not. Conversely if Rdose velt did not run, Bryan would take the Democratic nomination and would draw a good deal of- the strength that would otherwise go to swell the Roosevelt vote. President Roosevelt is very well satisfied with the way in which Secretary of the Treasury Cortel you handled the government end of the recent money panic in New York. Government funds to the extent, it is said , of $25,000,000 were deposited with the national banks and this action did much to restore public confidence and te lieve the money stringency which was really the chief cause of the panic. But the action of theSec retary of the Treasury has not met with such warm approval from a number of observers. It is report ed that Representative T. W. Sims of Tennessee is preparing a resolu tion for a thorough inquiry into this us of government funds. He claims that the action was without warrant in law and predicts that a? soon as the government support is withdrawn the market will go back and the panic be renewed. Mr Cortelyou also made a good many enemies in the South at the time of the panic by refusing the same aid to the southern planters that he extended to the New York banks. Mr. Burleson of Texas called on him at that time and pointed out that many of the big cotton men of the South were being forced by the banks to sacrifice their cotton be cause the banks needed the money and would not hold the cotton as collateral in the warehouses as they had been in the habit of doing. He wanted a few millions of govern ment money deposited with the na tional banks in the South the same as in the North. But the Secreta ry (-aid that he did not see his way clear to do this. Progress in the Panama Canal Zone. Thanks to the capable officials now in charge, the work of con structing the Panama Canal is be ing pushed forward energetically and efficiently, and conditions on the Isthmus are steadily improving. This greatest of modern-engineering feats possesses many interesting features, some of which are pre sented in a double-page of photo graphs in the current issue of Les lie's Weekly. These show scenes observed recently by Miss Gertrude Beeks, of the welfare department of the National Civic federation, who made an inspection tour in the Canal zone, by order of Secretary I aft. This is an automobile num ber, and it contains a variety of matter according with its title, in cluding a neat cover drawing in colors by Victor Perard; an article by Mrs. C. R. Miller, on automo- bihng m Hawaii; a contribution by William P. S. Earle, on the graft ing chauffeur; and notes and com ments on "The Man in the Auto." Among the illustrations are a pho tograph of England's famous meg alithic structure Stonehenge; views of the disastrous effects of the powder-mill explosion at Fontanet. Ind.; snap-shots of football games; a picture of the Pilgrims' dinner in New York, at which the Bishop of London was a guest of honor; the photo contests, and the usual the atrical page. Harriet Quiniby con tributes an article on the doings and sayings of the people of the stage. The collection of utterances of notable men is a particularly good one, and the prediction of a Moslem "holy war ' will be read with interest. The editor of the mining department discusses the liquidation in copper stocks, and the financial editor reviews the late declines in the stock market in an optimistic vein. Dont Feed Him. Tramps Have No Legitimate Excuse lor Living. There is little excuse for the ex istence of tramps in this section, and the men who are bumming about the country, out of employ ment, are doing so from choice rather than from necessity. Farm ers have been complaining of scar city or help; contractors in many lties cannot procure a sufficient number of men to carry out their construction work. The railroads are short cf help, and in fact there are openings for all who want work. The able bodied man who goes beg ging from town to town, few of which species have made their ap pearance in this section of late, should be reminded of this fact rather than encouraged in their idle course by gifts from those whose bounty they ask. Before that cough turns into a serious throat or lung trouble, stop it witn Jdayinie's Expectorairait fiSE? It has proved its real value during 75 years, sOlcly ..... Ask your druggist for it TOilflSllB We presume you want to be as up-to-date with your dress as the other fellow, even if you do not pay as much for your clothing as he does. We pay the greatest attention to our medium priced goods just the same as we do to the best grade of goods we buy. You will be sure to find the style correct even in our cheapest Clothing, Overcoats, Rain Coats, Top Coats wn? Fn U VSVU 0J CORNER. 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 $100. White Enameled and Brass Beds 5.00 to 35.00. Kitchen Helps A full and complete line of tthe justly celebrated Ei dleweisscooking ware 10c to 1.50. Rochester Nickle ware in Chafing dishes, tea and cof- lee 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, re rn v 3 IS UNJ ES Kitchen Helps Floor Brushes 1.00 to 1.50 Wall Brushes 60c.1 Stove Brushes 15 to 25 c. Washing Machines 7.50 to 9.50. Clothes Wringers 1.75 to 3.5o. 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 15 to 40c. Wood Scrub Buckets 20c Galvanized Backets, 10 qt. size 20c, 12 qt. size 25c Fibre water buckets 35c. Heavy Tin water buck ets, 12 qt. size 405., 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 Wash Boilers, copper bottom, No. 8 for 1.35 and No. 9 for 1.50. All copper Wash Boilers $3 PURSEL. PENN'A. 2&-
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