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THE CQIAJM&2AN. BLOOMSBURA. PA.
STRONGEST BANK
Capital
8100,000
Undivided Profits
S30.000
First National Bank,
5 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits
O F F I U K U 8 t
J .. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Stavtr, Vice President.
K. H. Tustin, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier.
DI HECTORS:
V. M.Low.
'.. 11. Timlin,
J.M Htaver,
F. O. Yorks,
Fred Ikeler,
M. I. Low,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THMJOLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Establish r.n 1837. Consoiidai f.i 1869
UBi.isiiKii Every Thir-uky Morning,
At Illojmsliurg, the County Scat of
ColumliinCoiinty, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. ELWKLT., Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Tkkms: tnsitle the county $1.00 a year
la a lvalue; l.5uif not paid in advance.
' 'utsidc the county, $ 1. 25 a year, strictly in
Ivanue.
All communication should headdressed
THE UuL'JMBIAN, Hlonmsl.urn, Pa.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1908
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
W. B. SNYDER
of Locust Township.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER
W. P. ZKHNER
of Main Township.
PRIMARY ELECTION NOTICE FOR
THE SPRING PRIMARY.
Election to Be Held Saturday April 1 1 , 1 908
Between the Hour ol 2 P. M. and 8 P.
M., 1908.
""o the voters of Columbia
County:
In accordance with Section
.Tnree, paragraph Four of the Uni
l' riu Primary Election Law notice
... hereby given that the several
political parties in the said county
will vote at the various polling
places in the said county on Satur
day April 11. iqo8, between the
hours of 2 P. M. and 8 P. M.
to nominate candidates at the
Spring Primary Election as follows,
to wit:
One person for Congress.
One person for Representative.
One person for Prothonotary.
One person for Register and Re
corder. One person for County Treasurer.
One person for District Attorney.
3 persons for County Commiss
loners.
3 County Auditors.
One person for Mine Inspector.
2 persons for Delegates to Re
publican State Convention.
2 persons for Delegates and 2 al
ternates to Republican National
Convention from this Congressional
District.
Oue Member of Republican
Standing Committee in each Elec-
tion District in County.
4 delegates' to Democratic State
Convention.
2 Delegates and 2 alternates to
Democratic National Convention
from, this Congressional District.
One Member of Democratic
Standing Committee in each Elec
tion District of Columbia County.
3 Delegates to Prohibition State
Convention.
2 Delegates to Prohibition Nat
ional Convention.
C. L. Pohu
Jerry A. Hess
Elisha Ringrose
County Commissioners.
Attest
A. B.
Black,
Com. Clerk.
Black Sees Party Victory.
Sayt People Are Sick of 0. 0. P. and What
It Breeds.
"The Democrats are in the saddle
not only in York, but in the State
and nation," said Jere S. Black,
chairman of the newly organized
Bryan league, in an address to the
Young Men's Democratic Society
of York.
"The tide has turned mightily.
It has been the experience of all
the years that the tide runs at one
time for the Republicans and then
turns in favor of the Democrats.
The Republicans have been in pow
er so long that the people have had
a chance to judge them. Their
policy has brought evil results and
the people understand the reason."
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
8150,000.
Frank Ikeler,
Geo. 8. Itobbins,
Louis Grows,
Joseph Rattl,
8. C. Creasy,
II. V. Hower.
Tariff Taxes and Republican Editors.
The stand patters in Congress
got quite a shock the other day, we
understand, when the Pennsylvan
ia State Editorial Association un
animously adopted a resolution en
dorsing Representative John O.
McIIenry's bill which provides
that all timber, lumber, bark an 1
wood pulp, imported into this
country from whatever source,
shall be imported froe of customs,
du'.ies ar taxes." Mr. McIIenry
is the capable yound Democratic
member of Congress from the Six
teenth district of Pennsylvania
He regards the tarifTtax on lumber
as about the "crowning atrocity"
of the iniquitous tariff system nncl
during his campaign (or election
pledged himself to attempt the re
peal of tint particular outrage,
lie has reason to feel flattered that
the Editorial Association of his
state has come to his support in
the matter.
The Penn'a State Editorial As
sociation is a non-partisan body-
Probably a considerable majority
of the members are Republicans
and the President of the State Lea
gue of Republican clubs is one of
the secrataries. But the tax on
wood pulp lias enabled the paper t
trust to put such intolerable bur-1
deus upon the publishers of news
papers that they are literally com
pelled to seek relief. It may be
said that they are influenced by
selfish considerations to favoring
this particular reform in the tariff.
The tax on blankets, on clothing,
on tools, ixplements of manufac
ture and husbandry, is quite as
burdensome and just as iniquitous.
The Pennsylvania editors to be con
sistent ought to have attacked the
other outrages as well as that which
affected themselves. But it's im
polite to "look a gift horse in the
mouth," and we can afford to be
satisfied for the present with this
step in the right direction.
We have no idea, however, that
thes action of the Pennsylvania
State Editorial Association will
have any influence on the action of
Congress. It may move Speaker
Cannon to picturesque profanity
and embarrass some of the Penn
sylvania Republican Representativ
es in Congress who will need the
support of the papers when they
come before the people for re-election
next fall. But tbe Republican
majority will not do anything that
will impair the control of the trusts
in the industrial lite of the country.
The useless tax on lumber makes
it more difficult for industrious
mechanics to get homes of their
own and the tax on bark adds
something to the price of shoes.
But all such taxes put money in
the treasuries of the trusts, and the
trusts in turn make up the corrup
tion funds of the Republican party
Ex.
A fine new line of Wedding in
vitations just received at thisotfice
Hammer blows, steadily ap
plied, break the hardest rock.
Couehlna:, day after day, jars
and tears the throat and lungs
until the healthy tissues give
way. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
stops the coughing, and heals
the torn membranes.
The beet kind ol a testimonial
"Sold lot oTr alzty yoaxa."
, by J. O. Ayr Co., law;U,
Mto mwufutimr
tiers
8AR8APAMLLA.
PILLS.
HAIR VIQOt.
WllmMHmtil W publllk
covory. Cure) thet with Ayer's Pills
The Jar of
Coughing
Cause of Industrial Paralysis.
In a speech before the Ohio so
ciety of New York, the other night
Senatot Eoraker declared that '.here
are today "approximately 320,000
freight cars and 8, 000 locomotives
standing idle, representing an in
vestment of more than $400,000,000
and there are more than 30,000 un
employed train men, discharged
train crews of the idle equipment."
That is a sad state of alTiirs, "a
serious s tuation," as the distin
guished Senator observed, "Yet,"
he added siguificnntly, "we should
know the cause if we would find
a remedy." If there were a Demo
cratic administration in Washing
ton, he would have no trouble in
discovering the cause. The implied
threat ag:iinst the tariff would be
ample to satisfy Foraker.
Strangely enough, however, un
der existing conditions he is unable
to find the cause and ascribes it to
a wrong source. There has been
overtrading, overexpansion of cred
it, ovei capitalization of new organi
zations, high prires of labor, of
stocks and of niateria's, he says.
But the sinister effect of muck-raking
has been the dominating cause
of the trouble. By muck-raking
he means the efforts of President
Roosevelt to bring the "malefactors
of great wealth" into obedience to
the laws. No doubt the excesses
in trading, in capitalization, in ex
pansion of credits and high prices
have had something to do with the
matter. But enforcing the law
eqjally against all men never has
nor never wiil work harm.
We can point out to Senator
Foraker the exact causes of the
wretched industrial and commercial
condition to which he refers. It is
the excessive and unequal tax bur
dens which have been put upon the
people by his party during the past
dozen years. The Dingley tariff
bill has robbed the productive
energy of the country to the ex
tent of a thousand million dollars a
year to create millionaires like the
Thaws aud the Harrinians and
Rockefellers, who squander it iu
vice or other forms of selfishness.
That is the evil which both Forak
er aud Roosevelt refuse to see
thougu it is so plain that "he who
rUns mav
read. fh remedy is
equally plain
Remove the cause
and the cure follows. Watchman.
Our
Flag Now
Contains
Forty-Six
Stars.
This is evidence of a new State
haviugbeeu admitted to the Union,
Oklahoma. A little late to cele
brate this occasion, but a good flag
with forty six stars is a splendid
asset for future celebrations.
7 he Philadelphia Press offers a flag
three by five feet, stripes sewed,
not painted, fast colors, Forty-six
Stars, with t'ue Daily Press one
year for Three Dollars and Fifty
Cents. The flag alone retails for
Two Dollars.
A special arrangement direct
with the manufacturers of the flag,
they require ready cash, permits
this fair, liberal offer Send your
order direct to "The Press" or
hand to your postmaster or news
dealer.
Culm Banks Will Soon Disappear.
. That the washing of culm banks
is a highly profitable undertaking
is realized by the coal companies,
aud it is highly probable that with
in the next few years none of tbe
immense piles ol black mine refuse
which now disfigure the landscape
of tbe coal regions will be in exist
ence. For some time the different
corporations have been "washing"
the banks, extracting the coal from
the worthless culm and shipping
the dusty diamonds to market real
izing thousands of dollars on mat
ter which had long been regarded
as useless. ,
The latest banks to be subjected
to the twentieth century treatment
are those of an abandoned colliery
near Locust Gap. The Reading is
making preparations to wash them
at tne i,ocust uap wastiery, and a
back switch is now being placed
from the backs to the operation.
Work on this will have been com
pleted by the middle of February,
when "lokey" will be placed in
service, hauling the culm to the
scene of reclamation.
These banks are rich in their de
posits of anthracite and the com
par.y will clear a goodly sum of
money on the work.
It is understood that huge Cam
eron banks will be washed out and
the product shipped to market.
The Royal Oak banks will be sub
jected to similar treatment. At Mt.
Carmel the Pennsylvania colliery's
banks have nearly all been washed.
the breaker running night and day
in order to complete the task.
suite
Bfcaatue
of
.BTOX
,lrn Kind Yon Haw AlwysBWflt
Kisses Full of Germs.
Schuylkill Haven Women Want the Men to
Have Thoir Moustaches Cut Off.
One unexpected result of the
lecture on tuberculosis in Schuyl
kill couHty last week by Professor
Anders, of the Medico-Chirurgieal
College, Philadelphia, has been a
movement started by young women
in Schuylkill Haven to form au
anti-kissing j-ociety.
Prof. Anders in his lecture spoke
strongly on the dinger of the trans
mission of the tuberculosis germ
by kissing.
Somebody followed this up by
sending to prominent young men of
the county a magazine article 01 the
current month, containing a state
ment that a celebrated doctor found
germs of hall a dozen different di
seases on the lips of a young lady
upon examining her with a miscro
scope after she had been kissed by
a young man with a moustache.
This discovery and the emphasis
placed by Professor Anders on the
dangers of the transmission of the
tuberculosis germ have decided the
women to request all the young
men with whom they have influence
to have their moustaches cut off.
One citizen who was very promi
nent in Prof. Anders' meeting, has
already been notified by his wife
that he will not be allowed to kiss
her until he removes the hirsute
adornment on his upper lip.
Big Order fo Rails.
Pennsylvania Railroad to Have 55,000 Tom
Rolled By New Process.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany recently placed orders witn
steel manufacturers for 55,000 tons
of rails to be delivered during 1908.
These, in addition to 30,000 tons
leftover from 1907, will give the
company 85,000 tons for use during
the year.
These rails will be rolled under
entirely new specifications. Most
mportant of these is the placing
more upon tne manufacturer tne
responsibility for the character of
the rail produced. Considerable
latitude is to be allowed in the
methods of manufacture so long as
the result is a sound rail. The
company has devised tests ot a
character so exacting that it is
made very much to the interest of
the manufacturers to discard all
material of the soundness of which
there is any doubt.
In the placing of orders the
Pennsylvania Railroad invites the
teel manufacturers to undertake
to fill part of the allotment with
rails made by the open hearth pro
cess. It is desired to ascertain more
clearly the actual difference in ser
vice as between the open hearth
and the Bessemer product.
Creasy's Pluck.
The pluck of that staunch Demo
cratic representative, W. T. Creasy
is to be commended aud admired.
After rendering valuable service to
his constituents and the State for a
number of years in the Legislature
he had concluded to retire. He
had always been an object of hatred
to the Republicin gangsters who
fattened on the spoils of the btate.
The Philadelphia machine had ar
ranged to defeat him this year if it
could be done. This coming to the
knowledge of Mr. Creasy he has
reconsidered his intention to with
draw his candidacy this year and
he will run. As he is certain of
election, the gangsters are to be
thanked for their intention to de
feat him. which will have the ef
fect of retaining so honest and use
ful a member iu the Legislature.
Will Divide Her Millions.
The bitter family feud over the
$60,000,000 estate left by William
Weightman, which has estranged
the chemist's daughter, Mrs. Anna
M. Weightman Walker, the sole
legatee, from her relatives, is end
ed. Mrs Walker, on the eve of
her marriage to Frederic Courtland
Penfield, writer and diplomat, has
announced that she intends to dis
tribute a large portion of the estate
among her neices and nephews.
The foundation for this immense
fortune was 'laid by William
Weightman during the civil war
throueh the sale of quinine. He
was a member of the firm of Pow'
ers and Weightman, wholesale
druggists.
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Scmi-AiiiiOiil Sale
of Furniture and Linens for all Purposes
This half-yearly special saving opportunity in high,
grade Furniture and Tabic and Household Linens never
fails to win an enthusiastic response from Housekeepers
far and near. It is one of our most important Sales and
its nv;rit has been tested and proved time and time again.
Unlike other Sales conducted by some stores, this event
does not merely offer a limited few of special items as i
bait to get customers in and then sell them regular priced
goods but it embraces our entire regular lines of Furni
ture and Linens, and these stocks are marked at reduced
prices throughout. Choose what you will in either Depart
ment and make a substantial, bona fide saving on every
purchase. These few items arc an index to the reductions
now offered in Furniture. This Sale Began Feb'y 4th.
Extraordinary
Furniture Values!
Pay us 90c on the dollar
for anything in this ample
stock of Furniture. Don't
want it right awav ? Very
well, come in and pick out
what you want and pay us
a deposit on it and we will
store it for you.
BED ROOM SUITS
of Plain and Quartered
Golden Oak.
$16.65 from $18.50
20.25 from 22,50
22 50 from 25.00
29.25 from 32.50
3375 from 37.50
49.50 from 55.00
63.00 from 70,00
BUREAUS DRESSERS
$ 6.9X from $ 7.75
9.00 from 10.00
11.25 from 12.50
16.20 from 18.00
31.50 from 35.00
36.00 from 40.00
F, P. PURSEL.
BLOOMSBURG, - PENN'A.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
Bulletin. ....
TOT
THE EASE OF TRAVEL TO-DAYJ
It has just turned a century since the first boat was pro
pelled by steam. There was not a complete locomotive in
existence then nor a mile of railroad track. But the pendu
lum of time has swung rapidly forward within the last two
generations. The railroad, the telegraph, and the telephone
have revolutionized the commerce and the industry of the
world and have made neighbors of remote people. .
First of all in this work of upbuilding, expansion, and.
development comes the railroad. It is the medium of ex
change, the agency of transfer, and wherever it has gone
prosperity has followed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has built thousands of miles
of track and equipped it with the best rolling stock. It has
constructed or absorbed branch lines and consolidated them
with its main stem, thus bringing industrial and manufacture
ing interests in direct touch with all the centres of trade and
affording the people the facilities of travel in all directions.
Travel is no longer a dread, it is a pleasure. Comfortable
cars by day or night drawn by the best type of locomotives
over a Jroadbed maintained at the highest degree of excel
lence, eliminate as far as possible the annoyances of travel
and make it recreative rather than burdensome. Tickets are
sold at the lowest rates consistent with good management
and under conditions most accommodating to the passenger.
The schedules of the trains are designed to meet the wishes
and requirements of the greatest number of travelers, and
the equipment, both as to vehicles and employes, is kept at
the highest state of efficiency.
It is the object of the management to encourage travel
by making it easy. Interchange is the life of the social sys
tem. Travel is a tonic to tbe tired the lens of observation
to all.
The Pennsylvania Railroad sells tickets good for a mile
as well as for a trip around the world. It will plan a trip for
you or provide the tickets for one of your own selection.
It is a fine thing to have a great transportation agency
like the Pennsylvania Railroad at your command.
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at Reduced Piiccs
PRINCESS DRESSERS
$1169 from Si 2.08
13.50 from 15.00
20.25 from 22.50 1
27.00 from 30.00
1
CHIFFONIERS I
Golden Oak.
$ 5 40 from $ 6.00
9.90 from 1 i.ooi
11.25 from 12.56'
18.00 from 20.00
Bird's-Eye Maple,
$20 25 from 22.50
22.50 from 25.00
Mahogany.
514.40 from $16.00
2475 from 27.50
BRASS AND
IRON BEDSTEADS
$ 4 95 from 5.50
6.30 from 7.00
8.10 from 9.00
11.25 from 12,50
15.75 from 17.50
2665 from 28.50
35.10 from 39.00
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