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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
M.OG..JSBURG, PA.
THURSDAY, FEBUUAHY 20, 11(08,
"ASINGTON
From our Kecular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 17, 1908.
"If ever there was an opportu
nity for Democratic victory this is
it", said a prominent Democratic
Biember of the Senate today.
"Why the Republicans are fighting
like the famous Kilkenny cats.
The President and Taft are deter
mined that their policies shall tri
umph, regardless of the welfare of
the party, and the opposition would
rather split the party wide qpen
than endure anot'uer four years of
Rooseveltism, whether it is admin
istered by Teddy himself, or by
Taft. The latest plan of the anti
Roosevelt crowd is to carry the Re
publican National Convention with
'rotten Borough' delegations from
the South which can be counted on
to vote against Taft and for such
other candidate as will pay the
highest price. These delegations
are almost entirely composed of
negroes who will sell out at the
drop of the hat, but there is no
danger of their selling to the Taft
people because the l ait crown nas
not got the price. Well, we on
this side can look on with entire
equanimity. I hope, indeed that
they will succeed, for the American
people will not stand for that kind
of politics and it will mean the
election of Bryan, "surer than
fate."
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' Senator Stone of Missouri, talk
ing of the professed intentions ol
the Democrats to revise the tariff,
col rm1a. "Did VOU UOtke llOW
' Mr. Cannon treated those members
of the National Manufacturers'
Association who came to Washing
ton to ask Congress to appoint a
tariff commission? They came at
instance of Senator Beveridge.
They were all Republicans who
have enjoyed the benefits of pro-
tection until they have got enough
and they want a little bit of the
tariff wall shaved off. And yet
Cannon treated them with con
tempt. Now what have we to ex
pect if the Republicans v in the
next election. Cannon will be
Speaker again and he will be just
as much of a stand patter as he is
elect a Democratic President if they
want tariff revision, just as they
did in 1902 . This talk of Republi
can tariff revision is all a bluff."
. , .
Senator Aldrich is driving his
financial bill through the Senate
with his usual skill. The Demo
crats are all opposed to it and many
of the Republicans are atrainst it.
but they are afraid of Aldrich to a
man and the Democrats, who con
, stitute only one third of the upper
hniiw arf nmvr1f"Wt to do flnv-
thing without the help of the Re
publicans. The President has an
nounced that he favors the Aldrich
bill and when Aldrich and the
President get together no Republi
can dares raise his voice in protest.
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The anti-Bryan Democrats very
nAorltr -v-M,t-ft a nnr Ifttta wnn
ihe other day. They proposed to
elect Rep. Ryan of Virginia to the
chairmanship of the Democratic
Congressional Committee. It was
a little scheme of Thos. F. Ryan 'of
New York, who is a distant cousin
of Rep. Ryan. Some of the mem
bers of the Senate learned of the
game Mr. Ryan of Interborough
Railway fame was putting up how
ever, and blocked it in the eleven
th hour.
It looks very much as if the
country was going to be burdened
with another and more than ever
' infamous pension bill. This is a
Kidney Disease
Kills.
Thousands Never Suspect Thai
They Have It.
It Is now generally admitted that diseases of the
kidneys and bladder constitute the greatest source
of disease. Cure these and we remove the canst
of nearly all ailments of the Liver. Blood, Stomach
sod Bowels, But the approach of Kidney disease
Issotly and gradual that the first symptoms may
not be noticed. Dere are some of the moet common
, symptoms of this dangerous disease 1
Discolored or dark uriue, sometimes excessive
and of pale color.
Unusual desire to urinate, especially at ulght.
"Brick Dust" deposits, somalUnes containing
albumen and blood.
Swelling around eyes, anklet and abdomen.
Drowsioost and a constant tired feeling.
Pale, hot and dry skin.
Pain in the back, headache, cramps m the legs.
Bowels constipated, digestion Impaired.
Uneumatle palm in the Joints and muscles.
If yon have any of the above symptoms yonr kid
neys need immediate attention, and Dr. David Ken.
neay s favorite Krmeny should be taken at once.
So you know what will happen If you neglect thesf
j.,,,MjiiiBf A(iKui jsiaiMv, mini wrriuiv, ic
nearly always the outcome. r. David Kennedy's
Favorite Bemedy has cured thousands of kidney
ukw, ana we uave me positive proof, u will curt
yon. Mend to Dr. David Kennedy's Hons, Bondont,
li. Y., for a free sample bottle and metlltal booklet
Urge bottles 11,00, at all druggists.
How Is Your Blood t
It you luck strength, ore nrrvons, haye
no appotltu, don't Bleep well, get tired
enslly, your Mood Is In bad condition.
You cannot be strong wkhont pure, rich
blood. Hood's Fnrapnrllla makes good,
rich blood and keeps It good.
Dyepepela "For six month a my sys
tem was nut of order wltji dynpepnla and
Impure blood. Spirit lota of money In vain,
hut Hood' ISarsnparlllu cured ine. Jos. 8,
Zacba, Genoa, Neb. ,
Had No Appetite-"1 va" troubled
With lypepla and had no appetite. 1 had
a faint f-eliii(t after entlne. My constitution
was all run down, hut UooirsSBrsaparlllahas
fully relieved me-." Flohkncb Stowe,
bnidcrville. Wisconsin.
Weakness-"! bless the day I heard of
Hood's arsiipnrllla, as it cured meof extreme
weakness after vrip. built my husband up
after pneumonia, and cured enema and
hlood-polsotilnir In our children." Mrs, M.
A. Oklworth, Box 4. Emhreevillo. Fa.
I Hood's Sarsnparflls Is sold everywhere.
In the usual liquid, or In tablet form called
8arsatabs. 100 Doses One Dollar. Pre
pared only by O. I. Hood Co.. Lowell, Mass.
bill to pension every widow of every
man who served 90 days or longer
in the Civil War," and to raise the
pensions of all widows from $S to
$12 a month. Speaker Cannon is
back of the bill, which will cost the
country about $12,000,000 a year
in addition to the $151 ,000,000 it
is already spending for pensions,
but tbey say that Mr. Cannon
thinks it will help him to gain the
Republican presidential nomination
and as he does not have to pay the
bill he considers it cheap at the
price. Of course most of the real
widows of the veterans are dead
that is women who were the wives
of veterans during the war, but
this bill gives pensions to all that
host of young women, many of
them of not too envious reputa
tions, who have married old sol-1
diers many years their senior in
order to secure the old mens' pen
sions after their death.
Mr. Bryan has declared in favor
of the guarantee of all deposits in
national banks, these to be secured ,
by a sort of insurance fund to be'
accumulated by a tax on all depos-1
its ' to be paid into the national (
treasury. The Democrats in both j
houses of Congress favor this
scheme and an earnest effort will
be made to add it as an amendment !
to the Aldrich bill, but as the bank
ers are opposed to it.it will proba
bly fail.
The Secretary of War has issued
a general order creating a Division
of Militia in the War Department.
This division will have charge of
all the relations of the militia to I
the regular army, such as joint '
manoeuvers, etc. It is to be in
charge of Colonel E. M. Weaver
who is known to many national 1
guardsmen as the officer who had
charge of the joint manoeuvers of ;
the militia and the Coast Defense
Artillery, last summer. Hitherto,
Colonel Weaver has been assistant
Chief of Artillery.
If Democrats quarrel often it
takes Republicans to quarrel bitter
ly. The' spectacle of Senator For-
ftker denouncing.lhe President, of a
Republican Representative denoun
cing Mr. Foraker and of the Presi
dent putting the Senator from Ohio
in the already over-crowded Ana-'
nias Club are distinctly Republican
and are typical of the brotherly
love which at present characterizes
the Republican party. '
Bloomsburg Souvenir Books, 48
half tone pictures,' 25 cents, at the
Columbian office. tf.
Nobody Wants it.
ONIca or Prothonotarf In Schuylkill County
Cost Begging.
No candidate has filed a petition
on either ticket for the nomination
tor the office of prothonotary in
Schuylkill county and nobody
seems to want the office on accouut
of the meager compensation con
nected with it. The naturalization
law, recently passed by congress,
has cut the fees of the office almost
in half and after paying the two
deputies needed to conduct the of
fice the next prothonotary will have
less than $3,000 a year for himself.
As it costs as much to campaign for
this office as any other county job,
the candidates are evidently scared
Off.
OASVORXA,'
Bean th lt)8 Kind Von Havs always Bought
The MOST
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What Liquor Costs.
Thsrs Wat An Increased Consumption ol
Beer and Spirits In 1907.
The saying that figures can't lie
is so familiar as to be trite togeth
er with its corollary that liars can
figure. It is, however, manifest
that false deductions may be reach
ed by glancing superficially eveu at
figures which are authentic. Thus
the statement is put out y the
Federal Commission of Internal
Revenue showing that during the
past fiscal year the American peo
ple consume 160,000,000 more gal
lons of beer than in any preceding
twelve months, and that their pur
chases of distilled spirits were also
larger by more than seven million
gallons than for the year ending
June 30, 1905. The first and most
natural thought suggested by this
showing is that drunkenness must
be on the increase. Yet as a mat
ter of plain facts, nearly all intelli
gent observers will agree that the
contrary is the case. It is always
to be remembered that the popula
tion of the United States is rapidly
growing especially since we have
acquired the habit ot taking within
our gates a million or so immi
grants yearly. That alone would
account largely for the reported in
crease in the consumption of moder
ately or strongly alcholic beverag
es. But without attempting to
minimize the evils wrought by the
excessive use of intoxicants, it is
obvious that the so-called "temper
ance question" is being gradually
and on the whole effectually, dealt
with by public sentiment. Total
abstinence on the part of their em
ployes is now required by numer
ous railroad corporations; in most
forms of business the knowledge
that any responsible worker falls
into even .cccasional inebriety is
deemed cauie for his dismissal; the
intoxitation . which in the "good
old days" was not regarded as ser
iously marring the standing of a
"gentleman" is now utider the ban
in all decent society. Although
the national drink bill may still
be a good deal too big, drunken
ness is assuredly tar less prevalent
than it was even a single genera
tion ago.
.
Facts of Interest
A recent visit of continental royalty
to London cost King Edward $250,000.
A letter addressed to "The man who
wears the tallest hat in Bristol," has
been correctly delivered in that Fng
lish city.
It Is estimated that the Kaflira in the
diamond mines, at Kimbei'ley, South
Africa, steal 11.250,000 wortU of dia
monds in a year.
As a result of recent accidents to va
rious navies the British warships will
have their magazines coiled with re
fri' eratlng machinery.
The rice flour cracker of China la by
far the whitest biscuit product in the
world. In comparison witlt it the
whitest American biscuit looks dingy.
Herr Mauser has itiveutift what he
oouslders an improvement on bis well
known rifle by which it reloads itself
automatically from a cartridge cham
ber. A portable army outfit for water
sterilizing was turned over to the Unit
ed States government In August. It
ha a capacity under test of 400 gallons
of water per hour.
It is estimated that there are 2,500,
000 dogs lu Great Britain.
The output of all the vineyards of
the world Is rstlniated to be 3,554,416,
000 gallons.
Mexicans resemble the Japanese la
that the vast majority of them eat no
butter of auy kind.
Annie Louis Cary, the greatest of
American contraltos during her opera
tie career, has J use passed the sl xty
flfth anniversary of her birthday.
The second of its kind In the coun
try is the picturesque temple of wor
ship which 7,000 Greeks at Lowell,
Muss., have built, it being a (100,000
structure with a brilliant golden dome
and two goldeu turret. M ,
That the St. Louis balloon carnival
and recent demonstrations abroad Cave
shown that dirigible balioous are indis
pensable to the army Is tlte belief of
Major Edgar Russell, temporarily Id
charge of the Signal Corps. It is said
that for this reosou Secretary Taft's re
port will ask Congress to appropriate a
substantial sum for beginning the con
struction of the United States' aerial
fleet.
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Attractively racked la Haadsonu Hutu Fair Boxes
Vtof ssslsle BiSfS hat rabfes tsa any otkM tki, hit. solS'ft II BOS'iuttsf
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ttm sctioa avails sms sms somlott u.r wh.t po.it, las sod, mf sttt ,
TltETOUTWEAaTHIEB OlDtNAIT KINDS. WHICH MEANS
THIS! TIMES IHE SEIV1CB OF USUAL 60 CENT SORTS
COMPOMTJtBL wpniw aaada for sua.
a Utah umn " am umrt w,kU, sun Low aw Sites ooM
Thar aaake laasaaaalva tfilta avary Baa, jraatb ar boy will alaaUjr raealva
BEWES FOTTEB. Dapl. , 87 Ltaeela Straat. Basioa, Maea.
was!) S Dos Sennas Ocas sis Cuaauli.4 lot 10s. sattsfs, lartnutlTS
SMSlll. m.OC ISWloPlMOttlUr." itU SMUu IMS BIJIll0Sl
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Does a Cat Bring Bad Luck?
There is no locality in the world
which is above attaching some sup
erstition to the poor old cat. Man,
whatever his color or creed or con
dition, seems unable , to prevent
himself from believing that the fe
line is a lucky or unlucky object.
These superstitions go back as
far as history. In Egypt, for 111
stance, even In its remotest days,
the cat was an object of veneration,
Temples were erected to it and sac
rifices made in its honor. When
the household cat died every mem
I ber of the household was required
to shave off Jjis or her eyebrows,
j For thousands of years this idoli
zation of the feline continued. Ev
en at the time of the invasion of
the Persion King, Cambyses, it is
related that the victory was won
by htm in his various battles be
cause his soldiers drove cats in
front of them. The Egyptians,
. fearful of harming the animals,
1 practically ran away.
I In modern times, while there is
nothing akin to worship, there are
some very curious ideas as to the
influence the cat casts upon affairs
of the human life.
In Massachusetts it "brings good
luck" to throw a dead black cat
over the left shoulder and turn
around twice.
In Alabama the. spirit of au old
maid after death takes possession
ot some black cat. lu the same
State to cut off the end of a black
cat's tail and bury it under the
doorstep is to keep sickness out of
the family.
In Iowa is found the superstition
that if a farmer kills a cat some of
his stock will die.
In Canada, Michigan and eastern
Kansas a cat of three colors brings
luck and in the last named place is
regarded as a protection against
fires. A "smutty" nosed cat brings
wealth to its owner.
"Up in Maine" it means poverty
to own a white cat.
In Ohio, if a neighbor's cat com
es listening around your house it
means news-carrying and you may
know that the neighbors are gossip
tng about you. '
In Labrador it -means visitors
when the cat scratches the door
post.
The cat also runs a weather bu
reau. 1
A cat "bawling" is a sign of
rain in Newfoundland.,
A cat eating grass indicates rain
in Maine, Michigan and Massachu
setts. . In Alabama a cat washing its
face means rain. In New England
this statement is limited to ablu
tions on the part of the cat before
breakfast or in the parlor.
That putting a coal black cat un
der a bushel measure when it is
raining will make the rain stop is
a belief entertained in Maryland.
It is a general belief that a cat
should never be left alone with a
sleeping child, as the cat "may
suck the child's breath."
In Ohio is found the belief that
playing with a cat will make a child
stupid.
In New England it is regarded
as unsafe to have a cat in the room
during a thunderstorm.
In Maine it is believed that in
the tip of every cat's tail are three
hairs of the devil which accounts
for the cat's disposition to prowl.
saassisasssasa f
Dr. Miles' Anti-Fain Pills relieve pain.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
BttaU of Ala York; Vtoeatt,
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed, appointed an Auditor by the Or
phans' Court of Columbia county, on
exceptions to the second and final ac
count of Asa Yorks. late of said county,
deceased; and also to BiaVe distribution
of the estate in the bands of his Execu
tors, will sit to perform the duties of hia
appointment, at his office in the town of
Bloomsburg, on Thursday, February
aoth, 1908. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon,
when and where all persona having
claims against the estate, or interest
therein, must appear and present the
same, or be forever debarred from com
ing in on the said fund.
JOHN G. FREEZE,
X Auditor.
Fred Ikeler, Att'y for Executors.
A. L. Fritz for the Heirs.
Wm. Chrisman for Exceptions. 1-16-ta
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Early buyers are invited to in
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