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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURfL PA.
STRONGEST BANK
Capital
100,000
Undivided Profits
130.000
First National
OF BLUQaiHKUligf LA.
5 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits
OFFIUEUH!
M. Low, President. J. M. Stawr, Vice President.
IV Tustln, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier.
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DIIIECTOHS:
. M.Low, F. (. Yorks, Frank Ikoler, Joseph ttnttl,
Tustln Fn-iUkcler, ' Oco. H. Itol.Uiiff, H. C. Crt'iiny,
Staver, M. F. Low, Louis Gross, H. V. llower.
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. ! communications should be addressed
; HE COLUMBIAN, WoomsUirK, I'a.
THlTIUDAY, JANUARY H,
OUR GREAT TALKER.
Our president has so often shown
his tree disposition to talk and to
ke; ad others from talking whom
he can control, that it is no sur
prise to see him shut up Admiral
Brown son and the other naval offi
cers who have, it sterns, been res
tive under the imperfections of our
iron clads. that the public now
hems of, and that it is tinu to hear
a great deal more of, now that the
.situation has attracted its atten
tion, and will surely receive that of
Congress.
It seems that these imperfections
of our war vessels have been well
v.TAU to the administration, and
urther seems that the president,
. sending out the great Pacific
' v liie Kf,Mi vrr linld. if not
y indiscreet, because cf the un
.vT.ngof the imperfections which
ne might have been sure would
follow. It is this reflection which
inclines us to give ear to the con
clusion that they exist in the seri
ous degree which is intimated. Cer
tainly it would not have been wise
to send out for display to the
Oriental world a fleet fairly open to
severe criticism of its fighting pow
er. We may suspect, therefore,
that whatever its imperfections are,
they are not so serious as to de
tract very greatly from their fight
ing power, though they may be
serious enough to call for radical
k Until we hear, at the hands of
Congress, just what the degree of
trouble is, we may well suspend
judgment about it, but we note
now what seems to he obvious, that
the president has closed the mouths
ism- that they conceive to be well
founded. This he may have clone
because he deemed it inexpedient
that the world at large should be
advised of our warship defects
but if this has been his view, it is
not easy to understand why he
should have sent them off on an
around-the-world cruise.
We prefer to account for the
president's action in accordance
with his well-known disposition to
do all the critical talking for the
nation himself and to seal the lips
of all its other officials to aught but
words of praise for it and its.
Lancaster Jntcligencer,
Prohibition and Local Option.
Just now you hear considerable ,
about local option and mauy look
at the nutter in vauous ways. A j
local option law is sure to put all 1
.saloons out of business; 111 fact, it is
sure that many would continue in
business and legally, at that: Local
option is not prohibition but Is just
what the term implies. Itmakts it
optional with each locality whether
liquor shov.ld be sold or not, the
matter to be de:ided by vote of the
regularly qualified Voters. The
majority in some precincts will be
in favor ot "continuing licenses, -in
others against it. To many minds
the idea of local option and prohi
bition are practically the same.
. .
The State Directors' Department
of the State Kdu:anonal Associa
tion will meet in the 13th Annual
Convention in Assembly Hall, Hih
School B iilding. Harri burg, 011
Th '." lay and Friday, February 13
and 1 .
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
5150,000.
Bank,
THE OUTLOOK.
i Enter New Year
With Encouraging
peels.
Prcs-
There is no doubt that the finan
cial stringency is gradually disap
pearing. In some cities savings
hank depositors who were strickr n
with shakes sixty d..ys ago and
clamored for their money decline to
take it when it is offered them .at
tie expiration of that period, and
are said to be making fresh depos
'its. The reports of the condition
; of the state banks ami trust compa
nies in New York are on the i hole
j distinctly favorable. It is estimat
! ed, moreover, that in January not
I far iioi'i two hundred million dol
lars will be disbursed m interest
and dividends. This should aid
materially in furnishing funds to
do business with. The country is
reasonably entitled to face the New
Year with confidence and courage.
It is undeniable that there has been
a sharp curtailment of production
in many industrial branches. But
the prophets who declare that this
will not only continue, but be still
further emphasized, furnish no tan
gible proof to back up their asser
tions. 1 here are nearly ninety
millions of people in the United
States, who must be fed, clothed,
housed and supplied with the ordi
nary necessaries of existence. Am
ple means exist for performing this
task in the multiplicity ot industri
al plants, and the crops, which are
abundant enough to afford provis
ions for the country and leave a
handsome surplus for export. The
latter process is going on a'l the
time. It is a factor whose influence
in bringing in cash from abroad
has been forcibly felt in the past
month, and is likely to be equally
useful in the future
Tnere is no use Fighting Nature,
Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
does nothing of that kind. It acts
tenderly and m sympathy with
what Nature is trying to accom
plish. Do you have trouble with
your digestion, your liver or kid
neys ? Does rheumatism paiu and
rack you ? Is your head thick and
heavy ? It will charm away these
ailments almost ere you are aware.
AU for Parcels Post
L"x;iross Companies Who Do Not
Agree With Demand.
Except
The State Grangers, in express
ing themselves in demand of a par
cels post, have lots of company, for
almost every one, with the excep
tion of the express companies, is in
agreement with that demand, says
the Lock Haven Kxpress. It is ab
surd that this boastful country, al
most alone among civilized nations,
has not extended the functions of
its postoflice to the carriage of size
able parcels and permits the people
to be mulcted for about five prices
whenever they wish to forward a
package with dispatch.
Bronchitis
For over sixty years doctors
I have endorsed Ayer's Cherry Ii
6 Pectoral for coughs, colds, Ij
N weak lungs, bronchitis, con-
i sumntion. You can trust a
medicine the best doctors ap-R
prove. Thsn trust this the next J
time you have a hard cough,
Tho bet-V.Ind of a tontlmonial
"Soli ljr over ulxSy yeurij."
Jttafle by J c Ar-' Co., Lowell, mu..
ss.u',:tiLU.
PILLS.
:i Aiders
iwu viqor.
V.'lh MIDltcrtUI W publish
Hti,o formulas ofu.l cur r.islioii ss,
. - mWW .-T-WmSW-llJi
Ayer's Pills koep tha bowols regular.
All vegetable and e3nt,y laxt'v
WeakLungsl
WASHINGTON
From our Keculnr Correspondent.
Washington, D. C.Jan. 2. 1908
In his Boston speech, Secretary
Taft very clearly defined, the differ
ence between himself and Mr. iiry
an. Mr. Taft emphatically a.lvo
cated government control of r.iil
roads as the one antidote for gov
ernment ownership which Mr.
Bryan regards as the only satisfac
tory ultimate solution of the rail
road pro! 'lent. Mr. Taft has frank
ly .committed himself on every pub
lic question. Mr. Bryan Ins made
his views very clear, but tio one of
the other candidates has adopted
this manly course. Governor
Hughes is slated to make a speech
at the Union League Club in Chi
cago and his friends nre hoping he
will summon up sufficient courage
to declare himself 0.1 such subjects
as the trusts, the tariff, the rail
roads, etc. The fact is that the
Governor is trying to ride two
horses going in opposite directions.
II is entire strength in New York
rests on the fact that h;s oi l friends
and associates regard him as oppos
ed to the Roosevelt policies and his
strength outside of Ne.v York, in
so tar as he has any strength, tests
011 the belief that he is in sympa
thy uhh those policies. Mr.
Hughes cannot see Iuw to commit
him-clf wiihout forfeiting his
strength in 1 11c place :k tbe other.
Representative Barchficld of Penn
sylvania, the manager of that inde
finable something referred to out of
compliment to Senator Knox, as
the knox boom, has 1 een 111 New
York recently an ! returns to Wash
ington with the .nui.'mr.ceme -t that
"Some of the gang who don't vote
are yelling for Hughes, but I find
that nil the boys who will do the
volirg are lining up for old man
Cannon, of Illinois." Kvidently
Mr. Barchfield his some little bills
up his sleeve which lie hopes the
Speaker will allow to go through
at this session ot Congress. Inci
dentally, Mr. Barchfield attempts
to quote the President as for Knox,
a somewhat silly attempt in view
of the energetic manner in which
Mr. Roosevelt is working to secure
the nomination of Secretary Taft.
The hardest blow the incipient
Cannon boom has received was de
livered by Representative Town
send of Michigan who has been an
ardent Cannon man in Washington
but who, on going home and find
ing the way the wind was blowing
in his district, came out in a strong
interview announcing that he was
for Taft.
'I
People in the East would like to
hear more from Governor Johnson
of Minnesota. The Governor came
to Washington recently and at a
banquet made a speech which ex-
cited great
adniiratiou au I en t ful
siasm and
some ot the people in
this section are wondering if the
Democracy has not some finer pres
idential timber in the Minnesota
governor than they have realized
heretofore. The boom of Judge
Grey, of Delaware does not seem
to take any hold on the imagination
of the people. It is hard to say
why it dees net flourish but it is
probably due to the general belief
that Mr. Bryan has the call in the
next national convention What
ever may be thought of Judge
Grey's boom, there is no doubt but
that he commands t'e respect and
regard of the people who know
him best.
-The Navy war, precipitated by
the President's decision to place a
navy surgeon in command of the
naval hospital ship, Relief, go.-s
r.ienilyou with every prospect of
some action by Congress. It is
generally expected that Congress
wi 1 pa-s a law proaibitmg the plac
noiuug tne piac-
i.,.i i,n,l .J- iln
lusz of any naval v
command of an officer who is not a
sailor and it is assumed that it is
because the President is a are of
t!;H fact that he hesitates to issue
the order whiJi would place Sur
geon Stokes in command of the
Relief.
There is also some prospect of
an investigation into matters of ua -
val construction by Congress. It
is asserted by the experts that the
armor belt has been placed so low
on the modern naval vessels that it
is almost entirely under water and
in support of tins argument are
shown pictures ot the
Connecticut as she sailed out of
Hampton Roads on her way to the
t rr . I ... ,1 .. U . . .
I acme. i nese pictiucs uu . suuw
the armor belt almost entirely sn.t-
merged. Another fact which is'
not stated, however, is that i;i
times of peace naval vessels become
loaded down with a great quantity
of paraphernalia which would be
discarded in war. Extensive awn- ,
nigs, superstructures, launches,
etc, arc carried on the decks.
Wlien a ship clears for action this
stuff is c ist overboard. The launch
are" turned adrift to be picked up
later, or allowed to sink and, too, it
is not likely that naval vessels
about to go into action would be as
heavily laden with coal as were the
ships starting on their long cruise
to the Pacific. Of course with all
this, truck overboaid the ships
would sit much higher in the water
than they can with it on board.
The New Years reception at the
White House was an unusually
brilliant function, despite the low
ering skies. The President, re
freshed by his little rest at Pine
Kr.ot, where he tramped the hills
and dales with his two younger
bovs, seemed exceptionally happy
and greeted the brilliantly uniform
ed diplomats and army officers and
the somberly gowned judges of the
Supreme Court each with some fe
licitous remaik asd good wish.
For .several hours the President
stood in line and shook hands with
several thousand people. From
now on social Washington will be
11 gayely, as the White House din
ers mid receptions follow i.v:h
oiner in muck succession.
Indicted for Fraud.
Soars, Roebuck & Co. Charged With Fraud
ulent Uso cf Mails.
Scars, Roebuck &. Co , the Chi
cago mail order house, must stand
ial in the federal court at l)es
Moines, says the Leader of that
city, on charges of using the bnited
States mails to defraud. An in
dictment containing three counts
was returned against the firm by
the federal grand jury. The pen
alty upon conviction will be a fine
of $500 on each count.
The indictment is based on three
cases in which it is alleged the com-1
pany misrepresented articles listed
for sale in it.s catalogues, which1
were sent through the mails. Be-!
sides the catalogues, it is claimed
that the concern used letters, circu
lars, pamphlets, order blanks and
letter heads to deceive and defraud
its customers.
The first count charges that on
June :3th the company devised a
scheme to obtain money by false
pretenses from Dr. C. F. Spring,
231 Ltica builamg, Des Moines.
On that date a letter was mailed to
him in which the following state
ments were made:
"All our paints contain white
1
ad made in our own great paint
factory under the supervision of the
finest paint experts. They have
given universal satisfaction, and we
are able to place over them our
most liberal guarantee, which 3-011
are doubtless familiar with."
As a matter of fact, so the in
dictment sets dut, Sears, Roebuck
& Co. did not manufacture paint in
its own factory. Its paint was not
of the highest grade and was not
equal to any ready mixed paint on
the market, regardless ot price, as
advertised in its catalogue. Fur
thermore, the paint did not contain
white lead, so the indictment
charges.
K. 11. Miles, rural route No. 1,
Des Moines, is the victim named
in the other two counts of the in
dictment. On May 25 Mr. Miles
ordered a ling advertised in the
Sears, Roebuck cc Co. catalogue to
contain lour pearls ana lour sap
phires. The ring that he received
did not contain either pearls or sap
phires and was materially inferior
in quality to the ones described in
the catalogue.
On May 6 Mr. Miles ordered an
other ring advertised to contain
twelve pearls and two rubies. The
ring he received contained neitlui
pearls or rubies. Both the cata
iogues and the rings were sent
,""-. . , T
leged misrepresentation a violation
ihroiifli the iimi s. makiiisr the a
01 me ieuerai statutes regarding
the use of the mails.
THE 'BEST CHEF
uses a White House Cook Book be
cause he knows the recipes are
practical and that the merit of eauh
is fully established, economical and
wr.liivr Tt i tbf niott enmnlnlo
1 aud popnlar work of the killd 0n
m. ,1,rir(.f This book retail fnr
2 O0j some store!5 ci,arge $2.5o.
lhe ptiiaJephia Press will mail
the Daih edition o the paper oue
r an(l ti,ecook hook all charges
paid for .o. This Means
the Book and Paper, daily one tntirtX
jor practicauy tie cost c 1lt
nafier W rite to-day.
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I3efon
that
cough turns
V 7 . .
in mm.
It ha
proved
Adc
rwamram.
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TOMiSEiD'S
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PurseFs Clearance Sales.
The greatest line of Rockers we have ever shown and
probably more of them 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 Morris C.hairs,
broad arms complete with
Velour, Corduroy and
Leather cushions $5 to $15
Mission Rockers w 1 1 h
broad arms and panel backs
solid wood seats $475 to
$0.7$.
Mission Rockers w i t h
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 Si 5.00.
Golden Oak Saddle Seat
Rocking Chair, panel back
and shaped arms from 1.75
to $11.50.
Wisconsin roll seat Rock
ers in Golden Oak and Ma
hogany finish, the very pic
ture of comfort, bolted and
riveted built for service,
$2.50 to Siooo
Elegant Mahogany Rock
ers and corner chairs same
with plain veneered seats,
others uphclstered in leath
er or green hair cloth 4.00
to $14,00.
Polished Golden Oak
Rockers luxurious leather
seats high and low panel
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BLOOMS BURG,
into
: serious
throat
or
'41 1
-is real value during
your druggist for it
75
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ed or upholstered backs, $3
to $15.00.
Antwerp Oak Rockers
back and seat shaped
arms, splendid, upholstered
in plain and embossed
Mexican leather,$i4, $14.50
and 81 5.00.
Mission Screens filled with
plain burlap and heavy
tapestry, also wood panels,
S 5. 00 to $9.50.
Mission Library Tables,
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,
io. 00 to $16.50.
Mission magazine and
book shelves, $1.98 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, $3.98.
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.
PURSEL.
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