4 THE COLUMB8AN. RLOOAISBURA, PA STRONGEST BANK Capital 3100,000 Undivided Profits S30.00O First National Bank, 3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits OFFICERS: H. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice President. K. 11. Tustin, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier. DIRECTORS: W. M.liow, F. O. Yorks, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Ratti, r . 15, Tustin, Fred Ikeler, Oeo. 8. Robbing, H. C. Creasy, I. M Staver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, II. V. Hower. THE COLUMBIAN. EST.nUSUF.n 1S66. TncaiawaiA democrat. SIAHI 1 S 1 1 K I I837. C'lNSill.lHAI Kl) 1S69 l: H.Ir.iKP KVK'IV Tin'RM'AV Muknim;, U MlrvimslmrK, the County Seat of Oolumliin County , Pennsylvania. t.l'.O. K. EI.WKI.l,, Knn'on. ;'.!.(. C. KOAN, I'okkman. Tiii- mm: Insulc the county :? 1.00 n year In a !vanec ; 1 . 5 o i f not paid in a:lvanci Out sid" the county, 91.25 a year, strictly in advance. All communications shouKl beaJJressed ! mK CCL'JMMAN, i'lonmsl.uru, l'a. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 11)07 PENROSE AND THE SENAT0R5IIIP The political speculators are al ready sending out funny stories a! "MU the approaching contest fur th'. United Slates Scnalorship in this State. A Harrisburg dispatch in a recent issue ot an esteemed Philadelphia contemporary, fur ex ample, contains the amusing misin formation that Senator Penrose is t'-yii- "to pull Representative Dunsmore, of Tioga county, out of the congressional contest, i the Lycoming, Potter, Tioga and Clin ton districts," in order that he may be re-elected to the Legislature and become Speaker of the House of representatives. Penrose needs 1 ?!i a man for Speaker, it is infer- ially added, and he will create .: place for Dunsmore by sending ink B. McClain, of Lancaster, 10m he distrusts, to Congress, to :eed Mr. Cassell, who is no Ion-1 ,;er available. At this distance from the storm centre of Republican politics it looks as if Penrose has a "cinch" 011 the senatorial nomination and that there is little, if any, necessity for him entering Into combinations or con spiracies to accomplish the result. The election of Mr. Sheatz to the office of State Treasurer last fall settled that question beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is not im probable that he would like well enough to have Representative Dunsmore in the chair during the session of the Legislature iu which the senatorial vote will be taken. Dunsmore is faithful to the ma chine, adroit, capable, and has maintained a reputation for re spectability that is rare among ma chine henchmen. Penrose needs such a man for Speaker now just as he needed such a man as the candi date for State Treasurer, last fall. It is the only way he can fool the public and as the public likes to be fookd, it is a wise policy for Pen rose to pursue. But Penrose doesn't ne;d Dunsmore nearly as bad as Dunsmore needs Penrose and if the slippery Tiogan withdraws from the congressional fight in order to become Speaker of the House, it will be on his own account. The probabilities are that Frank McClain will go to Congress as the successor of Cassell,' but he will not be influenced by a desire to make a place for Dunsmore in order to help Penrose. McClain has been casting covetous eyes toward Washington for some years and the indiscretions of Cassell have opened up the way to the realization of his ambition. Even if he returned to Harrisburg, moreover, he wouldn't be in Dnns more's way for the speakership as about the only accuracy in the long drawn out collection of absurdities is the statement that Penrose dis trusts McClain and whether Duns more goes back to the Legislature or not or whether McClain goes to Washington or Harrisburg, the Lmcnster Fong-bird will not preside over the deliberations of the House during the next session. Watchman. Former Judge Frank W. Wheat rn, of Wilkes-Rarre, is being sug gested as a compromise candidate for Congress to keep the zealous followers of ex-Congressman Palm er and Dr. Cobleigh from tearing the Republican party of Luzerne to tatters. IN THE COUNTY Surplus 5150,000. Fatalities la Mines. In this country the mortality iu mines is increasing not only abso hit ly but relatively. It will con timte to increase unless mining com panics and mining officials thall change their methods. As Dr. Holmes, of the Geological Survey, says, the mines are geing deeper, which means more gas, because the coal is under a heavier pressure, and more dithcult ventilation. Have we got to face a constantly-growing sacrifice o( human life in order to provide our coal ? England, France, Belgium and Prussia have extensive coal mines Kngland, of course, having the greatest in the world. In all these countries the death rate is much lower than in this country ; and what is of still greater importance, it is steadilv declining. What can )e done there can be done here. Shall we say that means of protect ing life which are employed with success in Europe are too much trouble or cost too much for us ? Dr. Holmes visited a Belgian mine and although lie went as the accredited representative of the United Slates, he was obliged to strip to the skin and change his clothes. This made sure that he did not carry matches into the mine. That is the sort of care that is taken to save hundreds of men from the folly or the recklessness of one. Yet in this country men even carry naked lamps into mines. Probably there is a notice prohibiting it and the company feels its responsibility is at au end when it has tacked up such a warning; if the men do not obey it, that is their lookout. But suppose that 499 of them obey and one man does not ? It is the busi ness of the mine operators and of the State officials who are employed to supervise mining to see that the regulations are obeyed. It is idle to pretend that the fatalities in our mines are inevitable. If the death rate in Europe can be kept down to little more than one man in a thousand it is unpardonable that it should be more than three men in a thousand here last year. Four terrible disasters this month will make the ratio for 1907 worse than that for 1906. Ex. State Reservation. A I3,ooo-acre tract has just been purchased to be added to the state reservations. These lands, for most part, are in Abbott and Stewardson townships, Potter county, though portions of the same break over into Lycoming county, and these too, will probably be acquired. The lands were purchased from James B. Weed & Co., ol Binghamton, N. Y. They are contiguous to the old Coudersport pike, and out of them flow such famous trout streams as Silas Run, Lebo Branch, Manor Fork and Red Run. The purchase price was at the rate of $2 au acre. Why Refer to Doctors Because we make medicines for them. We tell them all about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and they prescribe it for coughs, colds, bronchitis, con sumption. They trust it. Then you can afford to trust it. Ask your own doctor. The best kind ol a testimonial "Sold lor over elxty yeara." H&d t7 T. y. - y Co., Lowell, JKlMi, flyers aiiu uaTiumoiurera or SARSAPARILU. PILLS. HAIR VIGOR. W hnvt no (sored! We publlah tiiu formula of kll our uiedioinea. MM , Ayer's Pills greatly aid the Chorry Pectoral in breaking up a cold. i . 1 S Local Option Movement Nou-Partlsaa Thirty Million ol Country' Population Today Ltve Under Anti-Liquor Lawi. The Philadelphia Press in an ed itorial says: The spirit of prohibi tion, like the soul of John Brown, goes marching on. State after .'tale has joined the column of "drv Commonwealths. At the present tin e more than 30,000,000 of the country s population arc living tin .1 a 1 ! iter unu-iiquor laws. in some stales the new statutes not onlv for bid the sale of intoxicating liquors but punish the persons who drink them. One of the amazing fea tures about this onward progress of the temperance crusade is the easy victory U has won in mauv places. Southern states have been especially .active in their efforts to suppress retail liquor-selling. But ....11 ... ... a siui more remarKabie tiling is that while more than a third of the nation's people are now iu the pro hibition fold the movement lacks I'.uu.-uui p,iH;eui liiiercsi. as a political agency the Prohibition par ty cannot claim a tenth ot the vo'es whicli were eat against the com merce in strong dunk Democrats of the south an i Republicans of the west have lined up under the same temperance banner, but on all other issues they follow their regular par ty standards. Jl tins were not ihe case the fact that so tnanv states have given big majorizes for prohi bition would inject a new clement of great uncertainty into the next national campaign. As it is, the two dominant parties have accept ed prohibition as a common cause in various states, while they will continue to fight out other issues ah.ng the old lii.es. Anent the Democratic National Con vention. In selecting a place for the na tional convention the Democratic national committee was pretty even ly divided between Denver and Louisville until the committeemen who had voted for Chicago gave heir ballots to Denver and nnde that the convention city. The selec tion is not above criticism by the easterners. The city is so far to the westward of the centre of popu lation that most of the delegates will have to travel a fatiguing dis tance to reach it. Other things being equal, perhaps Louisville would have been a -rood selection. The date selected July 7 was unexpected also. There had been some talk of holding the conven tion before the Republicans meet at Chicago. Iu most American cities the weather is intensely hot about July 7, but Denver, which is ele vated almost six thousand feet above the level of the sea, with snow capped mountains nearby, and with a perfect climate, may not be ex cessively hot about that time. Be sides, the large purse raised by Denver, and the city's other efforts to get the convention, doubtless in fluenced the committee in making the selection. Whether the whole of the purse of $100,000 will be needed is another matter, and one that needs no discussion. The money will not be wasted for the sake of spending it. As to whether a date before or after the Republican convention should have been selected, there is nothing to make either time more desirable than the other. If it be argued that in the first case the campaign would be too long, it may be answered that the cam paign is on now. If objections be made to publication of Democratic issues after the adoption of a Re publican platform, it may be said that the Republican issues have al ready been published in the presi dent's message and are already be fore the country. There is nothing new for the Republican convention to declare for. Lock Haven Demo crat. An Important Decision. Railroad Not Obliged to Run on Schodule Time. A case has just been decided by the New York Supieme Court, which holds that a musician, who boards a train two hours late and arrives at his destination two hours and twenty minutes late, and there by is unable to keep his engage ment, cannot recover from the car rier his loss occasioned thereby, though he may have made known to the carrier's agent his engage ment, and may have been told that the train would arrive on time. The carrier's obligation to run its train in conformity to schedule is not an absolute and unconditional one, and the mere takinir of a ticket does not of itself wove a contract or impose the duty to have a train ready to start as scheduled. Fur thermore, a ticket aent cannot make a special contract that a train win arrive on time. Bertha IhB Kind Yuu Have Always Wagos Must Fall, Says Erie's liuai Givo Warning That Gonoral Reduction In fries ot Labor It Inevitable. Frederick 1). Underwood, ptesi deiit of the Krie Railroad Company, declares thai Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federatiou of La bor, was reckoning without his host when he said, as quoted, that the wages of organized labor "would not have to come down along with the prices of raw mate rials in the present general busiucss and financial depresMjn." "The inexorable law of supply and demand, which is the basis of political economy," said Mr. Un derwood, "will make itself felt iu the case of organized labor, as well as in all other branches of business, Mr. Gompers, notwithstanding. In case an attempt is made to hold up the present abnormally high price of labor, when the earnings of rail roads aud industrial corporations do nut warrant it, the alternative will be to shut down. "Labor has been at a premium for the last four yetrs, and it has been less efficient than ever before. All-classes of emnloves have noint- ed to the heavy earnings and in ' consequence have received their share in the shape of higher wages. Xow a change has come. Earnings arc falling ofT and employes will re ceive a lower wage. This they should do without protest, as they had the precedent that when earn ings were improved their wages were advanced." Mr. Underwood added that the drop in the cost of living gives the wage-earner under a reduced scale of wages the same purchasii.,; pow er he had in the past. January Woman's Home Companion. The Woman'' s Home Companion forjaruary is a notable number from the standpoint of illustrations. In addition to Flagg's striking cover design, there is a full-page repro- luclion 0; Yv . Baliour Ker s paint ing, "I'orgotteu. It represents a winter farm scene, the house and barn in the distance, and the old family horse standing drearily by the pasture bars, ankle deep in the falling snow forgotten. Dr. Hale's Monthly Talk is on the subject of "New Year's Witch es." Jack Londou contributes the first letter of his impo: taut series of first-hand impressions for which the Woman s Home Companion sent him around the world ; it is the record of a marvelous adventure among the lepers of Molokai. In the Jan uary number begins a series of pro grams aud selections of the music of today of the great music-loving nations. The January program, which is American, is supplement ed by the music and words of two songs by Clayton Johns, hints as to the making of a program, by Madame Nordica, and instructions as to the rendering of each piece on the program by the composers themselves. Among the fiction Is au import ant installment of Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' great novel, Though Life Us Do Part;" "The Adjusted Honeymoon," by Anne Warner ; "A Lesson in Conse quence, by Mary wilhelmina Hastings; "Rose Mary, a Quaker love story by Carrie Hunt Latta, aud "The Lamps of Psyche," by Zona Gale, author of the new pop ular novel, "The Loves of Peleas and Ettarre." An interesting feature of this issue of the Companion is a new de partment entitled "Teens and Twenties," conducted by Lucy Norman. The horticultural auth ority, Samuel Armstrong Hamil ton, contributes a valuable article on "Plants for the Winter Win dow." Anna Stcese Richardson's department for The Girl Who Earns Her Own Living is as valu able as ever, as is Mrs Saugster's Home Page. A new departure is a study of Three Important Successful Tlays, by Annie Peacock. . New Anaesthetic Discovered. Announcement of the discovery of a new anaesthetic will soon be made by the Rockefeller Institute tor Medical Research. It is noth ing else than common epsom salts, or, to give its scientific name, sul phate of magnesia. Its greater value is that it per mits any scrt of an operation with out any danger to the heart. CHRISTMAS In This Store Will We have the largest lines in ITOMSDAY - GttODS that we have ever shown. All our goods are USEFUL PRESENTS! Nothing in this store that will not be appreciated. YOU WILL FIND our goods as cheap as any relia ble goods shown. Mff PH Special Display of Xmas Rockers The greatest line of Rockers we havs ever shown and probably more of thein than was ever gathered together at any one time in this section. We picked and pruned from two of the largest manufacturers in the business and to make a long story short, there isn't any better and very few as good. 'Twill do your eyes good to see them. They make such splendid gifts. Children's Rockers a host of them, 75 cents to $2.75. MISSION FURNITURE. Mission, Weather and Golden Oak MorrisJChairs, broad arms complete with Velour, Corduroy and Leather cushions $5 to $15 Mission Rockers with broad arms and panel backs solid wood seats $4.75 to $6.75. Mission Rockers with leather seats and panel and inlaid backs $7.00 to $13. Mission Rockers with leather upholstering on back and seat, $8.00 to $15. Mission Arm Chairs and Rockers complete with loose leather cushion $10 to $15.00. Golden Oak Saddle Seat Rocking Chair, panel back and shaped arms from 1.75 to $11.50. Wisconsin roll seat Rock ers iu Golden Oak and Ma hogany finish, the very pic ture of comfort, bolted and riveted built for service, $2.50 to $10.00 Elegant Mahogany Rock ers and corner shairs same with plain veneered seats, others upholstered in leath er or green hair cloth $4.00 to $14.00. Polished Golden Oak Rockers luxurious leather seats high and low panel F. P. BLOOM5BURG, Cut off that cough Jaync's Cxpectora and prevent Aa 1 hc world 8undtxd Threat Lur.y be Big This Season. B? Fi ? ed or upholstered backs, $3 to $15.00. Antwerp Oak Rockers back and seat shaped arms, splendid, upholstered in plain and embossed Mexican lcather,$i4, $14.50 and $15.00. Mission Screens filled with plain burlap and heavy tapestry, also wood panels, $5.00 to $9.50. Mission Library Tablesj drawers and shelf, for mag azinesplain and quarter ed oak stock. $5.00 to $10.. Mission Writing Desk (for men) complete with pigeon holes and drawers, $10.00 to $16.50. Mission magazine and book shelves, $1.93 to $6.00 Mission weathered oak hanging hall racks with beveled plate mirror $3.75. Women's Mission Desk Chairs $3.00 to $3.50. Mission Card Tables leather or green felt tops, close folding, $3.gS. Umbrella Racks, Tabour ettes, Dinner Gongs, Smok ing Sets, Pipe Racks, Foot Stools, and numerous other items in Mission Furniture that go to make up the perfect Den. POiSEL. - , PENN'A. um......,.....,. r with nt DneumoniJ? y .. . - GU of your droggfe and keep h tlwiyf tnAj b a how.
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