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OFFICERS!
w w. M. T.nw. President. J. M. Staver, Vice President
R. H. Tustln. Vice President.
Frank Ikeler, Cashier,
JDIHECTOKS:
0 W.M.Low,
. B. Tustln,
J. M Staver,
F. G. Yorks,
Fred Ikeler,
M. I. Low,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED iS6f.
THF COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
i:srABi.isiiKn 1837. Consolidated 1869
r'UBi.isiiEn Evekv Thursday Morning,
At Bloomsburg. the County Seat of
ColumbiaCounty, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. ET.W'ELL, Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN.Koriman.
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Outside thecounty, $ 1. i 5 a year, Urictly in
.vance.
All communication!" should beaddresscd
HIE COLUMBIAN, Kloomsliurg, I'a
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 108.
WILL NOMINATE KNOX.
Washington, May 19. Lieut.
Gov. Robert S. Murphy of Penn
sylvania, will present the name of
Senator P. C. Knox, Pennsylvania's
candidate, to the Republican Na
tional Convention at Chicago. Mr.
Murphy 1ms beeu invited to per
form this office for Senator Knox
and has accepted the honor. He is
one of the best orators iu the state
and the friends of the Pennsylvania
senator are well pleased at the se
lection. Mr. Murphy is a son of Francis
Murphy, the great temperance ad-
oate and is recognized as one of
ablest speakers that ever stump
.1 the Keystone State. His home
at Johnstown where he is a leader
the local bar. In 1906 when
governor Stuart canvassed the
state Mr. Murphy, as the candidate
for lieutenant governor was a mem
ber of the governor's campaigning
party and he wou a reputation as a
stump speaker. He has a fine pres
ence and a wondeiful voice and it
is certain that every delegate in the
hall at Chicago will be able to hear
him distinctly.
It is probable that had Charles
Emery Smith, the editor of the
Philadelphia Press, lived he would
have had the honor of nominating
Knox, for he and the senator were
close friends and Mr. Smith's ora
tory is known from one end of the
country to the other. But in Mr.
Murphy will be found the ability to
perlorm the duty in a very accepta
ble manner and it is believed by bis
friends that his nominating speech
will rank well with the nominating
speeches of Ingersoll, Conkling
and others who have swayed Re
publican national conventions.
Doubtful States in 1908.
(From Leslie's Weekly.)
Let the Republican campaign
managers remember that the ma
jorities in New York in 1896, 1900,
and 1904 were abnormal, and could
not be repeated in 19C8 even under
the best possible conditions for the
party. Previous to 1896 the State
had been swining from one party
to the other, in successive presiden
tial campaigns, for over a quarter
of a century. Connecticut and In
diana had been very uncertain in
those days also, while New Jersey
had usually been Democratic. Let
them also bear in mind that in
1892, in Mr. Cleveland's second
election, not only did New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, and Indi
ana go Democratic, but the Demo
crats carried such stalwart Repub
lican States as Illinois and Wiscon
sin, while the swing of six hnndred
votes lrom the Republican to the
Democratic side would have given
Ohio to that party. Cleveland se
cured one of Ohio's electoral votes.
And the Republican candidate of
that year, General Harrison, was a
native of Ohio and a resident of
Indiana.
A Pennsylvania law of 1820 pro
vides that a vehicle must give one
following and at a more rapid pace,
one-half the traveled portion ot the
road, under a penalty of $20. The
penalty and costs were recently col
lected from a farmer near Erie who
refused to give half the road to an
auto following him.
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
$100,000.
M. I. Low, Vice President.
Frank Ikeler, H. V. Creasy,
Geo. 8. Robbing, H. V.JUower,
Louis Gross,
M. E Stackbouse.
Only One Ex-President
The only living American ex
president celebrated his seventy
first birthday last month. Grover
Cleveland has been a private citizen
for eleven years. Benjamin Harri
sou died eight years after his re
tirement, but President Arthur sur
vived less than 20 months. Mr.
Hayes lived 12 years and Grant
eight years. John Adams, however,
survived for 25 years, Filtnore 21,
Madison and John Quincy Adams
each 19, and Jefferson 17 years. In
1868 there were three ex-presidents
still living Fillmore, Pierce and
Buchanan but since 1875 there
have never been more than two
alive at the same time, and for the
greater part of the period there has
been but one.
Dr. Allied' Anti-Fain Tills relieve pain.
New Locomotives.
The Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Railroad has placed an or
der for 49 engines with the Ameri
can Locomotive Company. The
total cost of these will be approxi
mately $1,000,000. The locomo
tives will be of various patterns,
but all are to be built on the latest
models of railroad mechanical engi
neering. It is understood that the
Scranton branch of the American
Locomotive Company will receive
its full share of the new work, and
that the shops at the Cliff works
are making preparations to begin
to undertake their share of this uu
precedentedly large contract.
No Raise Until Fall
The persistent rumors that the
railroad companies were contem
plating a general raise of 10 per
cent, on their freight tates brought
an announcement that no such an
increase would be made this sum
mer. In the fall, the Pennsylvania,
Reading and Trunk Line officials
announce, the much-rumored raise
will be made in order to secure in
creased revenue on account of "the
increased cost of operation, high
price of labor and general advance
in prices of railroad commodities."
A fine new line of Wedding in
vitations just received at this office.
The Lackawanna Electric Shoe
Polishing Company, of Scranton,
with a capital stock of $50,000, was
chartered Saturday at Dover, Del.,
under the laws of that State. The
purpose of the company is to man
ufacture and sell a mechanical shoe
polishing machine. The incorpo
rators are Frank P. Christian, John
A. Hudson and W. H. Schrader.all
of Scranton. A person desiring a
shine drops a nickel in the slot, and
his shoes, after he puts his feet into
a receptacle made for the purpose,
are quickly and artistically cleaned
and polished, it is said.
For the
Children
To succeed these days you
must have plenty of erit, cour
age, strength. How Is It with
the children? Are they thin,
pale, delicate? Do not forget
Ayer's Sarsaparllla. You
know it makes the blood pVire
and rich, and builds up the
general health In every way.
The children cannot jximIMt have booi health
rent hit eim.tlpatlnn by rWIiik iiimll l"''f
dotu of Ayer' hue. All yi-getnUle.tugarcuaUd.
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9 HAIR VluOB.
f iOVQ Aouecuire.
tw O CHEMKY PECTORAL.
We have no seereta I We pnblleh
the formulae of all our medioinee.
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WASHINGTON
From our Kegular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C, May 18, 1908.
There has been a surprising
amount of Johnson talk in Wash
ingtou and wherever he has gone
the Minnesota Governor has been
Ihe center of a group of politicians
since he came here to attend the
natural resources convention. It is
even rumored that there is a move
ment on foot among the governors
to start a sort of gubernatorial
Johnson movement, to have the
whole thing carefully organized
and then, at what they deem the
psychological moment, to come out
strongly for the handsome young
Governor of Minnesota. Of course
as soon as this program is made
public there will develop strong op
position from the Bryan strong
holds and it is entirely possible the
movement will die abornin , but
that it is being seriously discussed
here in Washington there is no
doubt.
The Republicans have once more
given a notable exhibition of party
discipline by suppressing the
Brownsville debaie tor this session
Senator Culberson jumped into the
ortecn aud tnec to force a vote be
fore adjournment, but he was pow
erless against the almost solid Re
publican opposition, led by Mr.
Foraker himself who, only a few
days ago, was swearing by all the
gods of war that the Senate should
not adjourn without voting on his
resolution restoring the discharged
negroes to the army. Just what
happened to Mr. Poraker is. not
known, but of course he was in the
hopeless minority and it is probable
that the Republican leaders laid
down the law to him so emphati
cally that he was powerless to do
otherwise, especially as he still
hopes to come back to the Senate
for another term.
The Republicans have tried to
sidetrack the Rayntr resolution
providing that a court of inquiry
shall be granted to Colonel Stew
art, whom the President has order
ed to Fort Grant, Arizona where,
as one army officer expressed it,
"He has nothing to command but
tarantulas." The Republican ma
jority referred the resolution to the
committee on Military Affairs where
they hope to keep it until adjourn
ment, but Mr. Rayner has not giv
en up the fight and he will do ev
erything possible to secure prompt
action by the committee. The case
of Colonel Stewart is a peculiar
one. He seems to have displayed
an extraordinary capacity for quar
reling with all his subordinates aud
with civilians, but Mr. Rayner's
contention is that he at least de
serves to have the charges brought
before a court of inquiry or before
a court martial, before he is pun
ished, while the President contends
that were it possible for officers to
appeal to a Senator and get a court
of inquiry whenever ordered to a
post they dislike it would disrupt
the discipline of the army.
The natural resources convention
which the President has brought
together at the White House was
probably the most notable in the
nation's history and the distin
guished men of both parties who
participated in the sessions are
mast hopeful that it will result in
genuine benefit to the country. Ex
traordinarily enough, the purpose
of the conference, the conservation
of the natural resources of the
country, is wholly Democratic
rather than Republican, but then
Mr. Roosevelt has never hesi
tated to appropriate any good idea
which Democrats evolved. The
Republican policy nas been to con
fer these resources on their political
favorites, precisely as they favcr
special interests by the tariff. How
ever, the question is assuming such
vast proportions that loyal Demo
crats feel that they cannot permit
partisan bias to diminish the earn
estness with which they apply
themselves to the problems whi:h
the President proposes for their
consideration.
Speaking of party discipline, the
Republicans have apparently got
ten together behind Secretary Taft
and it now seems probable that no
other name will be presented to the
Chicago convention. Many of the
party leaders who were most oppos
ed to the nomination of the Secre
tary a short time ago are now work
ing energetically for harmony at
Chicago. It has long been recog
nized as the keynote of Republican
success that the members of that
party bury all personal preferences
I had almost said convictions and
labor for the success of their candi
OABVOXII.
Bauith
Bfcaatai
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dates, when chosen, and well wish
ers of tire Democracy hope that this
year the same may be true of their
party.
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There are many public men in
Washington who regard the visit
of the American fleet to Japan with
grave concern, and the reports from
ths Pacific coast, where the sailors
are being treated with extraordina
ry consideration and hospitality, do
not diminish the apprehension. It
is pointed out that the officers and
men will start across the Pacific af
ter an experience as well calculated
to make them egotistical, not to
say cocky, as any that could possi
bly be devised. Under these cir
cumstances they will, it is feared,
be in no humor to take any affronts,
even though they come from whol
ly Irresponsible sources, aud yet
should they become enraged at any
incident iu Japan the most unto
ward results might ensue. There
are many Republicans who believe
that theil'resident made a mistake
in accepting the invitation of Japan
and all will breathe easier when the
visit to Nippon is a closed incident.
rilE CONDORS OF CAUFOItXlA.
rent lltizziml KIiir of tho Pnc-iflo
Slopo 1 ecoinlng Kxtlnct.
One night In tL.. '80s a heifer from
he Murletta ranch Ir Southern Cali
fornia was killed ) a mountain lion
hat lived In the rantnuKses buck In
he Kan Dernanrilno range, says a
writer In tho Centurv Magazine.
10111 cur cnrr.p the not 2;!y we no-
Iced several buzzard, on a dead p'.no
p the hlllalde. One ot the laticl.o-
os pointed to n loue t-pcrk Hnatin.;
u tlie Biuni.icr sky. "KI113 of t.-M
X'.nvdsi.'' he said. An jour Ir.t.r
he u;Hck had Increased In size, mih!
jo pointed to another speck JiM
wtliln the sorpo of vljiou. The next
ay t!i old ilextcr.n took me up lute
rroyo cud I coi.nUc 17 buzzards
nd two other bird? that seemed
v.Ich the size of a buzzard, feastlnR
jn t!:o iT.:c:i!W af the hclfor. 1 was
nifrr-sted in the big birds, but tho
.i!y Information I received was a
esiure tack toward tho uljjhebt peak
f the range.
Yeurs later as my Interest In birds
rcw I could got comparatively little
nformntlon about thla "king of the
uzzards," or California Condor
Cathartes callforlanus), for not
many people had ever aeon the bird,
and very few had first hand Informa
tion aa to ltfl nesting habits.
The report ttiat It was rapidly fol
lowing the great fcuk and that the
species would soon become extinct
Was not without some foundation,
for the California condor has a range
more restricted than any other bird
of prey. In the early part of the
last century It waa reported fairly
ommon as far north as the Colum
bia rlvor region, but now It seems to
lave entirely disappeared from that
locality. Once It was reported In
Utah, and Dr. Elliott Couos saw It
In Arizona In 1865. With the ex-
epttan of a record !n southern Ore-
on, the habitat of the California
condor now seoms to be the regloa
nora Monterey county, Cal., south
through the mountains of the east
coast range and the extension of the
San Bernandlno range Into Lowor
alifornla. . There Is no record ot tho
bird In Mexico.
It Is not surprising that collectors
ave searched the mountains and
that museums are willing to pay big
prices tor the eggs, for after a cor
respondence of several years W. Lee
Chambers has found!" that there are
ony 41 California condor eggs (26
first class and 15 second class) In the
various museums and private collec
tions ot the world, while there are
bout 70 eggs of the great auk,
which Is now extinct. There are
only half a dozen of the birds In cap
tivity, and that number is not likely
to be Increased to any extent at pres
ent As to Fiction.
There's no doubt, of course, as to
the superiority of fiction which pic
tures life as It should be over fic
tion which merely pictures life as
It Is. The rub comes in the unfor
tunate circumstance of there being
so few of us vho really know what
lifo should be too few, Indeed, to
fill up the chinks in the advertising
pages, not to mention the body ct the
magazine.
A Conditional Gift.
The gods knew what they were
tbout when they made health a con
ditional gift to mankind. For It
It were absolute and Inalienable,
human folly would have a distin
guished opportunity the less, and
by that much be hampered In Its ap
pointed work ot fostering and pro
moting trrde and industry.
The man who can sculpture a
stumbling block into a stepping
stone has don more than most sculp
tors ever accomplish.
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SUBSTANTIAL
Lowering of Suit Prices!
Today we commence a period of Suit Selling destined
to be the best iu the department's history. To get quickly
to the bottom of the matter, these few facts are told.
Within a very short time the space occupied by these suits
will be taken for advance summer garments. This low
price method is taken to get what Spring Suits remain out
in time to accommodate the new arrivals.
The following prices will prove interesting to the
woman who has yet to purchase her Spring Suit.
10.00 SUITS FOR 7.50.
Latest styles stripes and plain colors. Sale Price $7.50.
12.00 SUITS FOR 9.98.
Blue and brown, self striped Panama, Trince Chap Style.
Sale Price $9 98.
H.OO SUITS FOIl 10.00.
Worsteds and self stripe Panama, Prince Chap and Cuta
way style. Sale Price $10.00.
17.50 SUITS FOlt 15.50.
Excellent quality of Chiffon Panama, blues, browns and
black. Jacket 27 inches, J fitting back with dip front.worth
$20.00. Sizes 14 to 40. Sale Price $15.50.
18.00 and 20.00 SUITS FOlt 12.98.
Sizes 14 to 36 every suit a new creation.
22.50 and 23.00 SUITS FOlt 1G.00
Elegant materials and tailorings blues, brown and
greens. Many of the best models. Sale Price $16.00.
25.00 SUITS FOlt 17.50.
Excellent assortment, most all sizes in this lot. Best
styles included. High grade handsome materials.
32.00 and 35.00 SUITS FOR 25.00.
The newest creations. Some of them copies of fine im
ported models, fine quality of fabrics good color variety.
Sale Price $25.00.
F. P.
BLOOMSBURG,
We Have Ten Styles of
Envelopes and Paper to Match
FOR
Invitations, Acceptances, Regrets,
Announcements, &C.
Full size Wedding with two Envelopes, downto
Billet-doux size with Card to Fit.
Twenty-Four Styles of Type
FOR CARDS AND INVITATIONS.
We Do All Kinds of Printing
Columbian Printing House,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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