THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURtt, PA, STRONGEST BANK Capital SIOO.OOO Undivided Profits $30,000 First National Bank, 3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits O F F I C K U 8 : M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice President, li. Tustin, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier. DIRECTORS: i:. v, K w . M. Low, TiiNtin, St aver, F. O. Yorks, Fred I keler, M. I. Low, J. M THE COLUMBIAN. KSTAnUSlIKI) 1S66. THE COLUMBIA DSWCCIUT, r.sr.m isiikd 1837. CoNSOI IDA I ep 18(19 r'V ll.KIIKI) F.VF.KY TllfRSIlW MoRMNO, At l!lo.nnlurg, the County Sent of Co uml.in County, Pennsylvania. i;i.O. li. KIAVKI.I.. KnnoR. (II'.O. C. KOAN, l'OKKMAN. Tkkmm lniU- the county 11.00 a year t i alvance; 1 .50 i f not paid in advance. 1 Viuule t lie county, 1. 25 .1 year, strictly in !v iTce. A 1 communications should benldressed THK. COL'JMIU.W, Hlo.inisl.tiri:, Pa TinTIJH.Y, NOVKM15KU 14, 11.07 THE BOOK TRUST. A Harrisburg special snys: "Pennsylvania's annual apt.ii cona tion of $7,500,000 for schools, in dependent of what counties and cities expend individually, was at tacked in a speech there recently by Matthew II. Stevenson, Prohi bitionist candidate for state treas urer. He declared the state out lay has jumped perceptibly since the American Book trust was form ed, and intimated that disclosures interesting as the state capitol ex posures might follow an inquiry i"to where and how the millions M e state gives are spent. Steven- n charged that thousands of dol ors of this money are expended in .o:mous purchases from the book . .1st, and men of utter unfitness re clamoring for the unsalaried po sitions on school boards. Why, Stevenson asked, are these unsala ried jobs so sought after ? I know a school director iu a small Wash ington county town who has re ceived from the book trust enough books to start a college. They did not cost him a cent. Another school director, living back twelve miles from the railroad in an old shack of a home, has a new $t2 Webster's dictionary resting on a highly polished stand, the whole worth about $25. It was a present from the book trust." Dead Letter Office Swampei Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral DeGraw is a sad and almost discouraged man. Ever since he has occupied his present post, in which he has charge of the Dead Letter Office, he has had an ambi tion to bring the business of that office up to date. With this end in view he has kept the clerks of the office under steady and heavy pres' sure week in and week out, com' pelling them to work themselves almost to shadows. rindmg the clerks could not realize his ambition, work hard as they might, he added to the force the clerks from two other sections of his office that had been abolish ed. Then he began to see daylight and glowed with the re-awakened hope that soon the dead letters of each day would be disposed of in one way or another before the day was done. Lower and lower the accumulated piles of misdirected mail grew, and finally Friday they were reduced to a point where it seemed that the next day would see the office with no work undis posed of. Mr. DeGraw went home that night proud of his great achieve ment, for never before in the his tory of the Dead Letter Office had any Fourth Assistant Postmaster General came so near catching up with the mistakes of the letter writing public. But. there was such a difference Saturday morning. Shortly after Mr. DeGraw took his seat at his desk Colonel James Rankin oung, of Philadelphia. chief of the Dead Letter Office, re ported that the New York city post office had forwarded it one awful consignment of 40,000 pieces of misdirected mail. Mr. DeGraw bus abandoned hope of ever getting the business of the office up to date. IN THE COUNTY Surplus $150,000. Frank I keler, Geo. S. RobMns, I ou is Gross, Joseph Rattl, 8. C. Creasy, II. V. Hower. OLD SCHEME TO BE REVIVED. The Tittsburg Post is authority for the statement that in the next Legislature another effort will be made to pass a measure providing for the borrowing of $50,000,000 to be expended in the building of roads bv the state. In the recent session it was proposed to borrow $2s;, 000,000. William Flinn, of Pittsburg, was the father of the measure, and an enthusiastic mem ber of the legislature upon his re turn from the Good Roads eonven tion at Tittsburg moved that the sum to be borrowed be increased to $-.0,000,000. The whole affair cre ated such a storm of indignation that the measure could not Le pass ed. Atid now the Post informs its readers that the schemers will try apaiu. With a friendly Highway department having sso.ooo.ooo to handle such a Highway depart nieut tor instance, as placed 135 employes on the salary list without warrant of law and undisturbed by anybody there would be rich pick ings lor tne boss contractors and others. The result of such foolish and unnecessary borrowing would be a scandal worse than the capitol grafting. The Post is informed of the in tentions of the schemers, and its words must be accepted as a warn ing. Jiut it will uever be an easy matter to so amend the constitution as to give the Highway department and the preferred contractors $50, 000,000 to spend. President to Urge Paper Duty Re- peal. Convinced That the Wood Pulp Trust Should Be Deprived ol Tariff Protection. For the two reasons that the Paper Trust is raising its prices to an exorbitant figure and that lie desires to conserve the American forests. President Roosevelt has premised that he would in his mes sage to Congress next month re commend that the tariff on press paper, wood pulp and the wood that goes into the manufacture of paper, be removed. The President also promised that he will have the Department of Justice take immedi ate steps to ascertain whether the Paper Trust is violating the Anti Trust laws. If the President succeeds in hav ing the paper tariff abolished this will be the first time that the Gov ernment has ever struck at a Trust by depriving it of the benefit of the protective tariff, the thing that makes most of the great and greedy combines possible. r m ' Rhode Island, which has 400 persona to the siiuare mile, is the most densely pojmla'ed state in the Union. There are only seven other states with more than 100 to the square mile. Rhode Island leads not only in density of population, but in increase in density Then tell him about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Tell him how it cured your hard cough. Tell him why you always keep it in the house. Tell him to ask his doctor about it. Doc tors use a great deal of it for throat and lung troubles. The boat kind of a tistimonial " Sold lor over ixty years." Muds by J. II. yw Ot.. I.nwII, Y.t.n RAHSAPARILLA. PIl.l.S. All VlliOl!. V'a lutvn no nrt I V. publlt tli forinuik ol all our m.d.oinoa. Ono of Ayer's filla nt bedtime will hasten recovery, uemiy inonvtn Have Yowl a Friend? LESSON FOR DEMOCRATS. In the campaign just ended there is a lesson which the Democrats of Pennsylvania should s'ttdy careful ly. It is the utter and absolute in sincerity of so called independent Republicans. The average Repub lican is a bitter and bigoted parti san. There aie exceptions, of course, for they are necessary to prove the rule, but the vast major ity of Republicans who profess le forms are simply disappointed place hunters who make a false pr tense of reform in the hope that it will accelerate their progress into office and promcte selfish and usually ab surd ambitions, ihe recent cam paigu revealed these facts clearly. Two years ago these so called independent Republicans joined with the Democrats in the support of a Democrat for State Treasurer. It was claimed by those concerned in the government that they were influenced bv purely patriotic mo tives but that mav be doubted for a year later tluy came like huck sters demanding a price for their wares. We must have the head of the ticket, they said inferenti.illy, or else we will return to the ma chine and everlastingly destroy all chances of perm r.n nt reform for years to ccuie. Their demands were allowed and a fight for the place ensued resulting in the nearly half which met defeat going back to the machine. This year there being but one office to fill and no chance for dealing, the other half went b::ck without even a ceremonial farewell. The lesson to Democrats is to make no future combinations with selfish and sordid hypocrites pro fessing reform. Men of the Mali Ion N. Kline type, for example, have no conception of unselfish pa triotism. They have an inordinate and insatiable thirst for office and like the Republicans of New York in the recent campaign would com bine with any gang of crot.ks or plunderers who would promise them reward for their recreancy in the shape of office. Mr. Kline and those of his kind would gladly fol low Durham, McXichol and Pen rose if there were a prospect of a share of the plunder at the end of the journey. Pcllcfonte Watchman, 1 What Will Congress Do? Prices of all kinds ot necessaries of life continue to advance and are readily approaching the point that is inaccessible to most families. Kven men of moderate means are forced to gravely consider the ques tion of supplying the table. It used to be said that American mechanics had meat at every meal while those in Europe were fortunate if they got meat at their Sunday dinner. There is danger of the European cuisine being forced upon us be cause of the excessive prices of necessaries. We must have vege tables, bread, shoes and raiment whether we have meat or not and we are being compelled to a choice in the matter. All the high prices are not the result of tariff taxation but most of them are ascribable to that evil. Tariff taxation increases the cost of production in every line. Farm implements, tools, stable equipment and everything else used on the farm are increased in cost by tariff taxa tion. The producer fixes the prices of farm commodities by the cost of production and the consumer pays the price at the last analysis. As Mr. Havemyer, president of the sugar trust testified, the tanlt is the mother of trusts and trusts are the agents through which exorbi tant prices are fixed and forced upon the people. Congress will meet three weeks from next Monday and if the ma jority of that body is so inclined a revision of the tariff that will reme dy the evil may be completed by the middle of January. It will not be necessary to resort to free trade. In fact that would neither be de sirable, nor possible, for tariff taxa tion is necessary to meet the fixed charges ol the government. But there can be such a modification of the tariff schedules, within that time, as to bring prices to a just level without impairing the fair profits of the producer. Will the coming Congress perform this ser vice tor the people? lUllefonte Watchman. How to Make Money. If you have an hour to spare each day, write to the Circulation De partment of The Philadelphia Press, 1 1 1 l 1 e- . rnuacieipnia. state wnat paper you read this in and they will send you a handsome book of advice that will tell you how to make more money ior a nttie woric you can perforin, easier than anything you ever tried before in your lite. You can verify this statement for, the price of a postal card. DO IT TO DAYNOW. Automobiles and Seared Horsos. The all pervading automobile has contributed an entirely new form ot activity and interest to life. It has brought with it many advan tages and some drawbacks. The reckless drivers ot motor cars have led to the attempts, not always wise to regulate and restrain the move ment of automobiles on the high ways. In Indiana the Legislature has endeavored to give those riding on or behind horses some protection from automobiles. It passed a law providing that the driver of an au tomobile on meeting anyone riding, driving or leading animals shalstop his automobile "upon request or signal by putting up the hand from any such jiersou or persons so rid ing, leading or driving. A case arose where an automobile met a nervous horse drawing a buguy containing two girls. One of the eirls was driving and giving her whole mind and both hands to the vain attempt to control tlu fright ened horse. The other girl signaled the driver of the automobile to stop. He did not stop. The result was disastrous, and the question arose, was the automobile liable to the penalties for disregarding the auto ni'. bile signaling law ? The lower court thought he was not, because the one driving the horse made no signal. The Su preme Court reversed this decision, and held that the nutomohilist vio lated the law when he did not slop on the signal of the other girl in the buguy. In the judgment of the Court those who are riding in a conveyance, though not holding the leius, are "driving" in the popular use of the term. This is an in stance where a Court reads sense into a law which the framers of the act unintentionally left out. The signal is the thing, not the partici lar person who gives it. The driver of a frightened horse is incapacitat ed from signaling very much, whereas a passenger is free to wave both arms, and instinctively does so if there is any chance of checking thereby the cause of the horse's alarm. We have 110 such law in this State, yet most drivers of automo- biles will not disregard signals to ton. Usually he will not wait for a signal if he sees that his irachine is likely to cause a runaway. He will avoid causing any such catas trophe if he can, but if, like the 1 man in Indiana, he speeds ahead regardless of consequences and in different to the signals he would doubtless find that the victims of his recklessness are not remediless, even though the statutes of the State are silent on that point. Ex. Bloomsburg Souvenir Books, 48 half tone pictures, 25 cents, ot the Columbian office. tf. Exposition Deep in "Hole." Owes at Least $1,000,000 More Than As sets Are Worth. The Jamestown Exposition owes at least $1,000,000 more than its assets are worth, and the directors are seriously worried over what to do about it. The suggestion that the Exposition be reopened next year is still before a committee of the directors, and a report will be made at a special meeting of the directors on November 15. A financial statement of the Ex position shows liabilities of $2,400, 000, as follows: Due the Government on the $t, 000,000 loan, $900,000; due 011 the Exposition first mortgage bonds, $400,000; due on current liabilities, $668,000; due on stock subscrip tions to Exposition, $432,000. The assets include $600,000, esti mated value of the sewerage, etc., and $500,000 in unpaid stock sub scriptions collectable, which would leave a debit of something over $1,000,000, if the assets are realized upon as estimated. Federal Judge Waddill has de clined to enjoin the disposition of the $200,000 unnegotiated bonds of the Exposition $41x1,000 bond is sue, on the ground that there was no nesessity at this time for such an injunction. Ihis leaves the Bankers' Committee, on whose hands the $200,000 in bonds re main, to negotiate or dispose of them. The Court held that John Monk, who has a claim of $17,000 agaiust the Exposition, and who sought to enjoin the disposition of the $200, 000 in bonds, is sufficieutly pro tected. Get it .m. SXIML-ILXOMM JLr.J. SNAPPY ATTIRE If you're seeking something in the line of garments--a little more nobby a little more individual than the average clothier shows, you'll find it here. We are proud of our line of SUITS, Overcoats and Rain Goals. It proves to us that our selections were just right. TOWNSEND'S corn: 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 'the justly celebrated Ei dleweisscooking ware 10c to 1.50. Rochester Nickle ware in Chafing dishes, tea and cof 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 ayne'3 Lxpectora w and prevent ronchitit and The world't Standard Throat and Medicine for 7 c yean. of your droggi and keep H 11 Wurtlfl MP ..ri Kitchen Helps Floor Brushes 1.00 to 1.50 Wall Brushes 6oc.l Stove Brushes 15 to 25c Washing Machines 7.50 to 9 50. Clothes Wringers 1.7 s 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. bo. 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 Wash Boilers, copper bottom, No. 8 for 1.35 and No. 9 for 1.50. All copper Wash Boilers $3 PURSEL. - PENN'A. with pneumoai consumption. tSreyt b the heese 1 I 1 W V II ) 1 1
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