4 3 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURd, PA. STRONGEST BANK Capital 8100,000 Undivided Profits $30,000 First National Bank, OF BLttOMHBUKG, IA, 3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits OFFIUERH: . V. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice President. E. H. Tuftln, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier. DIRECTORS: W.M.Low. F. O. York, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Rnttl, . H. Tustln, Kiod Ikeler, (leo. 8. Uol.biu", H. C. Creasy, M taver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, II. V. llower. THE COLUMBIAN. KSTAUUSIIKD 1 866. THE COLUMBIA CfWCCRAT, i'.yj'Alii l-v ki I S 37. C'insoi ii)A'iKl i!i6g ?rni imikm F.vkkv Thursday Morning, At Rln.iinsliurg, the County Seat of Columbia County , Pennsylvania. GF.O. K. F.I.WELL. EniTOR. GEO. C. ROAN, Fokbman. Terms: Insult the county i.oo a year in a Ivance ; noif not paid in alvance, OU'sicle the county, $ 1.25 a yenr, strictly in France A 1 communications should lieaddressed THE COL': V MAN, l'loomsl.iirg, T'a. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1908 THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. (. Special Correspondence.) Washington. D C, Jan. 13, 190S The drawing of rooms in the new Congressional office building was the most important business trans acted by Congress last week. The office building is a magnificent mar ble structure erected for the use of the members at an expense of about $3,000,000. Though not as elabor ate or nearly as gorgeous, it is larg er than the State capital at Harris burg and it may safely be said that it was honestly constructed. It was rumored the other day that 'ure had been a rake-off of $17,- o in the furnishings but Campar is the equipment with that of the ; ;rrisburg building and consider ; the aggregate of the cost of .mishings, one is not inclined to think that there was any grafting at all. The Pennsylvania Demo crats fared fairly well in the allot ment of the rooms, though not quite as well as in ' the assignment of seats in the House. There has been little legislative work performed on the floor of ei ther branch of Congress thus far, though, a vast number of bills have been introduced. In the House about 13,000 measures have been presented and upwards of 4,000 have been offered in the Senate. Committee work has been assidu ously pursued during the time since the re-assembling, however. The Committee on Banking and Cur rency, of which Representative Mc Henry is a member, held almost daily sessions last week. Among the bills which have been under consideration in that body are two introduced by Mr. McHenry. They were first carefully and favorably considered by the minority mem bers of the committee and since they became public property by their introduction in the House have become subjects of much dis cussion. The first of Mr. McIIenry's bills is entitled an aci "to restore public confidence and safeguard the peo ples' savings against loss through bank failures." It provides a gov ernment guarantee of all depositors iu all banks accepting the provis ions of the bill "against loss for any and all moneys which are now and may hereafter be deposited by them in said banks." The National banks shall be entitled to receive tbis guarantee immediately upon making the application, but State banks, savings banks and trust companies operating under State laws must qualify to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury and Comptroller of the Currency, and the State laws made to con form to the requirements of the act. No bank, National or State, accept ing the government guarantee shall at any time use its surplus for the payment of dividends or salaries. When a guaranteed bank shall have sustained a loss to an extent that reduces its surplus below the amount shown by its statement at the time of receiving the govern ment guarantee it shall discontinue dividends and limit expenditures until its surplus is restored and any bank having a surplus of less than one hundred per cent, of its capital "shall add to its surplus fund from its uet profits each year an amount equal to four per cent, of its capital IN THE COUNTY Surplus 8160,000 until its surplus shall equal its cap ital. If a guaranteed bank sustains losses to an amount equal to its surplus the Comptroller shall cause the deficiency to be supplied, tak ing the note of the bank, benrittg six per cent, interest and such se curities as the bank's files affords, and the note shall be paid out of the first net earnings of the bank The fund from which the Comp troller draws for this purpose is ob tained by a tax of one-fifth of rne per cent, of the capital of the bank. When a National or State bank receives assistance from the gov ernment the Secretary of the Treas ury shall place a government bank expert in charge of the affairs of the bank. The interest on the notes given by the banks to the Comptroller goes to the insurance fund. Section forty-one of the Act of 1864 which provides for a tax on the circulation of National banks is repealed as is also section thirteen of the Act of 1900 of similar im port. The act of 1864 provided for a tax of one-half of one per cent, upon the average amount of its notes outstanding and the same amount each on its deposits and capital stock. The tax of one-fifth of one per cent, provided in this bill will serve the purposes of all the taxation of National banks un der previous laws and provide an ample insurance fund to relieve temporarily embarrassed banks. Mr. Mclienry's other bill is "to provide currency to meet conditions of financial panic and commercial and crop moving emergencies." It provides for the issue of Treasury notes to the limit of one thousand million dollars. These notes are to be distributed among national, state and saving banks and trust compa nies in equal ratio to their capital $o the amount of sixty per cent, of the total issue, the forty per cent, to remain in the treasury as an emergency fund. The banks shall give as security a first lieu collateral note and other property approved by the secretary of the Treasury of market value in excess of the amount of currency drawn to the extent of thirty per cent, and no bank will be permitted to draw more than an amount of these notes to equal sixty per cent, of its capi tal stock aud surplus. For the use of this currency the government shall charge an interest rate of two per cent, per annum for the first eight months and two per cent, a mouth for each succeeding month thereafter. Both these measures are in the hands of the House Committee on Banking and Currency where they are receiving the most earnest con sideration. They are reckoned as among the most carefully thought out measures which have been in troduced on the subject and it is safe to say that if any measure Iramed by a Democrat had a chance, one or both of them would be en acted. G. D. H. This is one reason why Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is so valua ble in consumption. It stops the wear and tear of useless coughing. But it does more it controls the inflammation, quiets the fever, soothes, heals. Ask your doctor about this. The beat kind of a testimonial "Sold lor oyer atxty year." Xadaby J. C. Ayr Co., Lftwoll. Also iuuufuturoru ut W SAHSAPARILU. yers PILLS. HAIK VIUOR. W taavt do laereta I Wa publUh the formula or all our madlolau. Hasten recovery by keeping the bowels regular with Ayer's Pills. It Quiets the Cough I A LOOKING FOR A NEW SENATOR. The Philadelnhia newsnatvrs ar casting about for a man to take the piace or senator Penrose, that is, of course, provided he loses his job wneti next ne comes before the leg islature for re-election. Severn men prominent in this section have been mentioned for the honor. The Philadelphia Record believes mai ex senator Minon r. Wolver ton, or Hon. Grant Herrin? would fill the ticket admirably, while the iorm American believes James :cariet or Congressman Benjamin K. Focht, of Lewisburg, would render this State distinguished ser vice iu the senate. The Record also names in the list of men whom it deems fully com petent to fill the nosh inn. Hon John G. McIJenry and Hon. W 1. Creasy. The Defenseless Position of the Re publican Party. The Republican national nlat form adopted at Chicago June 22. 1004, celebrates the beneficialelTect ot Republican policies iiixm btisi ness in a tone the bo.istfuliiess of which now reads like hitler irony : We then (1807) found the country, tif:er four years of Demo cratic rule, in evil plight, oppressed with mistortunc and doubtful of future. . . . Labor was un employed, business was sunk in the depression which had succeeded the panic of 1893, hope was faint and confidence h is gone. Confidence returned to business. and with confidence an unexampled prosperity. I he confidence has been all but wrecked and the unexampled pros perity has been halted by one in sistent and perpetual voice. The Rough Bider has tidden clown busi ness. What William McKinley built up his successor has torn down. "We have every rieht." the Re publicans said in 1904, "to con gratulate ourselves upon the work since then (1897) accomplished." Can they congratulate themselves upon the disaster spread over the United States by Theodore Roose velt i How will the Republican party, so long the spoiled child of good fortune, take up its new role of apologist for the calamities bezotten of an inaptitude and a blindness imnerto supposed to be peculiarly Democratic iNew York Sun, Rep. During the year 1907 122 persons were committed to the Columbia county jail. m . Bogus Breakfast Foods. Thirteen Samples Were Found to be Mil branded, Dr. William Frear, of Pennsylva nia State Colleee. was nt Harris- burg, Saturday, in conference with uairy ana rood Commissioner Foust with reference to reports of exami nations made by him upon sixty two different brands of breakfast foods. It was decided to institute pro ceedings in the case of five different brands bought in Berks, three in Blair, two iu Luzerne, one each in Dauphin, Columbia and Krie coun ties, makinsr a total of thir cases. Action in these cases is taken because of the violation of the Act of June 1, 1907. on misbranding, which reads: "If the package con taining it, or its label, shall bear any statement, design or devise, re garding the ingredients or the sub stances contained therein, which statement, design or devise shall be false or misleading in auy particu lar." Notice will be served in due form upon the dealers from whom these breakfast foods were purchased. If they possess proper guarantees from guarantors, residents in Pennsylva nia, the latter will be proceeded against, and if the guarantors are residents in other States of the Union inlormatiou concerning the facts in the case will be filed with the United States Department of Agriculture for action under the national tood act. In some of the samples condemn ed the articles were misbranded by extremely misleading claims, such as the contents ot the narkao- which weighed a few ounces, were equal in food value to five pounds of beef, or a number of loaves of bread; that the starch in these foods had been thorouehlv convert. ed into soluble sugar, whereas, in point ot tact, most of it had not been fo converted: that all the In. digestible portions of the food had neen removed, when in fact all, or nearly all, of the bran still remain ed therein; that the foods were su perior as brain and nerve foods to all others, when in point of fact they contained virtually what is present in graham bread. OASTOIIIA. BaantU The Kind You Have Always Bought fUfutwt of Dr. Dixon's Views. Point on Which Patrom and School Author Itiet Oilen Differ. The school authorities this year find themselves confronted with the same difficulty in getting the peo pie to fully understand the provis ions of the school law relating to diptheria and other contagtous dis eases that has embarrassed them year after year in the past. In many cases it nppears that when diphtheria breaks out in the family the children that are not ll are hustled off to another house- say, the residence of grandparents or ot other relatives, the impression being that living, as they then do, apart from the infected household they will be permitted to attend school. The patron is probably aware of the provision of the school law. which requires the authorities to exclude a child exposed todiphthe ria or other contagions disease from school for thirty days after rtcov ery of the person list afflicted in the household. The law specifically states that no child belonging to or residing with the family of any per son or residing in the same house in which any person may be located who is sulTenng from diphtheria, scarlet fever, dinhtheretic croup, membraneous croup, &c, shall be permitted to attend nny public, pri vate, parochial, Sunday or other school and ail school principals, .Sunday school superintendents or other persons in charge of such schools are required to exclude any and all such children from sand schools, such exclusion to continue for a period of thirty days follow- ng the discharge by recovery or death cf the person last afflicted iu said house or family and the thor ough disinfection of the premises. While the above section of the law seems explicit enough it does seem to leave some misunderstand ing in the minds of a few people whether a child removed from the parental home on the outbreak of communicable disease and kept aloof trom the infected household may not be permitted to attend school. That no mistake might be made in interpreting the law in this rela tion last year the question involved was submitted to State Health Crm missioner Dr. Dixon, who in reply settled the disputed point for all time. Dr. Dixon made it clear that a child exposed to contagion by liv ing in a family in which a case of diphtheria or other disease develops, even though removed to another household free from infection, un der the law cannot be permitted to attend school until the expiration of thirty days after the child has beeu removed. A fine new line of Wedding in vitatious just received at this office. Pennsylvania's Death Rate. There were 10,180 death3 from violence in Pennsylvania during the year 1907, according to records col lected by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State Department of Health. This gives a rate of 146 9 per 100,000 of population. These deaths were distributed among the principal forms of vio lence as follows : Suicides, 780 ; fractures, 537 ; burns and scalds, S47 ; drowning, 155 ; accidental gunshot wounds, 149 ; injuries in mines, 983 ; railroad accidents, 2,387 ; homicide, 365. Of the total suicides, 605 were males aud 175 females. Of the vari ous forms of suicide, 254 were by firearms, 183 by poisou and 150 by hanging. Seven suicides were less than 15 years of age, the youngest being 12 years. The suicide rate per 100,000 of population was 11. 2. Railroad accidents contributed the largest number of violent deaths. Of this number 228 deaths were the result of street car in juries and 2,159 from steam rail roads. The rate per 100,000 of population was 34.4. One homicide occurred for each day in the year. The rate per 100,000 of population being 5,3. The following letters are held at the Bloomsburg postoffice: Mr. rrank Achenbach, Mr. William Bitler, Mr. Geo. Phillips, Mrs. Martha Richardson, Mr. George Williams. Cards, Master Clyde Becher, Mrs. H. H. Brown, Pedro B. Castro, Mr. Gerald C. Conner, Mrs. Nancy 11. Gardner, Mr. Will iam Linnert, Mr. Ernest Young(2), nig. 20 PER CENT WINTER SUITS AND OVERCOATS. CORNER. Pursers Clearance Sales. The greatest line of Rockers we have ever shown and probably more of the in 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 Chairs, 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 in 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 chairs 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. BLOOMSBURG, Cut off that COtiorh 0 W - am urevrne a ironchitii ind The world' RtnAmA nri. i . ZUGTJ ON 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 $15.00. Mission Screens filled with plain burlap and heavy tapestry, also wood panels, $5.00 to $9.50. Mission Library Tables, drawers and shelf, for mag azines plain and quarter ed oak stock, $5.00 to $10. Mission Writing Desk (for men) complete with pigeon holes and drawers, $10.00 to S1G.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. - PENN'A. with - - - nneiimnnis- -whwwib rnnmnt.:.. ft rf yw droej km, H tfep mfc h
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