1 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. rv STRONGEST BANK Capital 8100,000 Undivided Profits S30.000 First National Bank, OF HLUOMSHUUG, iA, Solicits the Business and Accounts of Farmers and Business Men. A T I. S FACTION GUAR A N T K K I 1!Y A STRONG, CONSERVATIVE AND SAKE MANAGEMENT. Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. OFFR'ERM K. W. Ar. I.ow, Prilent. Jaiiiet M.Staver, Vice President. DIRECTORS E. H M. Low. Hower M. E : F.G York, Jamwi M Staver, ;tar'k!joute. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 186b. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, . .( HU H.r 1837. C'jNSOMIMI F.l 1869 t'M.t.:tF.;i Evfrv Tiu:ks;mv Morning, V I'Vj.vir.si -jr- the County Stat ri" Colutnliir County, f'nnsylvnnia. e. r I.V. ELL. Ki.noi , ' IAN, KORKMAN. ;;:.). c. : I: ' i the county i 1. cc t yeir I 1 1 lvjnr: j -r 1 . 5 ' i f not paid it. advance. t4 theco':nty, 71.25 a year, strictly id U. ;. THE iiu'.ii.r.irji' should l.eaddre&sed ("J 1 1." M HI AN. Bloom sl.urc, Pa. iM'KSPAY JANUARY 14- W'- Congress -.nd the President. In the estimation zens the response of of many citi the House to the wanton insuit of President Roosevelt was too mild and for bearing in its terms. When the President trumpeted to the world his indirect charge that the Con gress of the United States is of such a character that it dreaded the searchings of his secret police the provocation was deep enough to warrant the most vehement reply of which the English language is capable. But it is well that the " "ouse has not been tempted to fol- 7 his example. By laying his . rr.ding message on the table as .....vorthy of consideration the 'f r.ise has administered to their au- i.or the fitting rebuke the occasion demanded. The moderate, re strained and dignified terms of the resolution repelling the attack upon the power of the representatives of the nation were in perfect keeping with the act. The House did not forget what is clue the office of Pres ident and the relations of courtesy that should subsist between the de partments of this Government. This deliberate parliamentary course of the House in defense of the integrity of Congress, so much in contrast with one or two angry scenes during the administration of President Johnson, cannot but be gratifying to all true friends of popular government. If it was a tactical blunder of Roosevelt to perpetrate his assault upon Con gress as his power was drawing to an end, he knew full well that no time wps left for formal impeach ment of a high misdemeanor. In his blind rage he has severed the relations between the legislative and executive departments of the nation, to be resumed only on the inauguration of his good-tempered and prudent su'eessor. He. has succeeded also in affording the proof that whatever may be the shortcomings and faults of Con gress on matters of legislation, it will not submit to wanton imputa tions upon its integrity from any quarter. This is one important service which President Roosevelt has gratuitously done for Congress and the country as his Administra tion draws to a Btormy and violent close. Record. Judge Rice lor Supreme Bench. The Shickshinny actio says: "The Luzerne Couuty Bar Associa tion held a meeting Monday when President Judge Charles E. Rice of the Superior Court was unanimous- lv endorsed for a phce on the Su preme Court bench upon the re tirement of Chief Justice Mitchell The boom for Justice Rice was giv en an enthusiastic start and his friends promise to conduct an ac tive campaign in his interest, be lieving him one of the ablest jurists in the State and exceptionally wel qualified for a seat in the Supreme Court. Tudee Rice by bis ability, at tainments and integrity has brought exceptional honor to the bar of Lu rerne county, and is considered one of the ablest jurists in the State After a terra as district attorney hs was elected judge of the Common Pleas bench in 1880, later re-elect ed and was president judge of Lu IN THE COUNTY Surplus SI5O.O0O. Myron I. Low, Vice President. Frank Ikeler, Cashier, 8. C Creav. Fredlkeler, Myroii I. Low, Louis Grws, Frank Ikeler, zerne county when appointed to the Superior Court bench in 1895 by Governor Hastings, and he is now thief justice of that body." We believe we express the sen timent of the Colcmbia County bar when we say that it would be very gratifying to see Judge Rice on the Supreme Bench. It is well re membered r v the older residents here, that when a your.? ::nn. just 1 after his graduation from college, , he was a member of the Normal School faculty. Such nit 11 as Judge Rice are needed in the high , er courts. He has reached his j present high position through his , own merits, and not because of any political pall. Jobs For Ex-President3. enalor McCrea'y ot Kentucky. Wants Con- grett to Act. To insure against an ex-presi dent of the United States being 'out of a job," Senator McCreary, f Kentucky, will make an effort before the close of the present ses sion of congress to have enacted his bill providing that former execu tives may be appointed as members of international commissions and representatives of the United States at conferences having to do with foreign affairs. The bill has been referred to a ub-committee of the senate com mittee on foreign relations and sev eral meetings have been held to consider it. While it is likely the measure will be reported from the committee, it is not thought that it will pass the senate. As one of the arguments against the bill it was pointed out in the committee that for at least four ears to come it would apply only to Mr Roosevelt, who already has taken steps in the mapping out of an active future for himself. The preamble to the McCreary bill sug gests Pan-American conferences and conferences at The Hague. It sets forth that proper representa tion of the United States at such conferences calls for such great fa miliarity with and mastery of the questions to be discussed that ex presidents are eminently qualified to represeut the nation. The Great Daily Newspaper. ine rniiaueipnia rress is a true newspaper, not a mere adver tising circular, nor an organ for political powers or private inter ests. It prints daily all the news of the whole world. "The Philadel phia Press" prints the fullest real f 1 a . estate, nnanciai and market re ports. The sporting page is written by the best writers in the sporting world, who are fair and accurate. The daily woman's page is of un- equaled value to all women readers. and "The Philadelphia Press" For um is a department of truth and helpfulness, and is open to all The Philadelphia Press" publish es every day a story of absorbing interest, and an entertaining New York Letter discusses the impor tant questions of the metropolis. ine rnuaoeipnia ress ac knowledges no master, except the people. Its sole purpose is to give the people all the news every day. bample copies will be sent to any address on receipt of a postal. To Divide Catawissa, Warren Eyer, E. F. Carpenter and F. W, Drake who were ap pointed by the Court to examine and report upon the advisability of dividing the borough of Catawissa into 2 election districts will meet for the purpose of the appointment in the town hall at Catawissa on Tuesday, January 26th at 9 o'clock a. m at which time they will hear testimony in favor of, and against the proposition, if there is any, and locate the division line. WASHINGTON From our Kecu'ar Correspondent. Washington, ). C.Jan. 12, 1909 The last days of President Roosevelt's administration are f-ttd t3 be strenuous and stormy. No (oubt his ex, tru i:ce in the wilds of Africa with lions, hippo potami, and rhinoceroses will be peaceful in comparison wii'.i the entertainment that Congress is dis posed to give him between now and the fourth of March. Of cour.e he has brought it all on hinveif. He should not have told the gentle, virtuous Congress thit they handi capped and hobbled the det.ctive bureau because they did not want it to play "follow the leader" with them. It is not good form to put in a Presidential message and scatter through the press to three or four hundred constituencies or Congres sional districts things that are not known outside of Washington or that have been so long known here that they are looked upon as com-mon-plaee and unavai'ah'.e as news. Some members of Congrcs repre senting joh parti s have lashed tl'.emv.vves into a fury of indigna tion find are going ;o wipe from the re:ord the President's plain talk but this of course, will only empha size ami give greater publicity to hi.s strictures. His 11.es.-age to Con gress ard especially t . i part of it has been published in ev-ry paper in the United States and through out the world in all languages and the re-entful fury of those who are hit will simply call further at tention to the deserved rebuke. Not since the day that the Repub lican majority in the House and Senate turned on Andrew Jor.uson has there been such intense feeling against the executive office, but here the comparison ends. Johnson was unpopular, Roosevelt is stronger in almost every Congress ional constituency or district than is the Representative in Congress, it is predicted here that Mr. Taw- tiey w:ll at the nixt Congressioa.il election be defeated through the President's criticism of his misrep resentation with reference to the detective bureau. It is not usual for the Cabinet of a President to be so widely discus sed and apparently made up two months before the day of his inaug uration. As a usual thing ouly after the President is inaugurated is the Cabinet named and then there are some surprises. This after all maybe the case with Mr. Taft's Cabinet but apparently authentica ted announcements are .already made. There is no doubt but that Senator Knox ol Pennsylvania will be Secretary of State in the new Cabinet, ex Governor Herrick of Ohio it is believed will be Secretary 01 the treasury, the present Secre tary of War, Wright, is expected to hold the same place in Mr. Taft's Cabinet, General Meyer, the present Postmaster General, it is thought by many will be Secretary of the Navy. Others believe that Mr. Thompson of New York will be given the Naval portfolio. Hen ry M. Hoyt of Pennsylvania is slated for the Department of Tus- tice or the Attorney General. Frank II. Hit-rhcock for Postmas ter General, James R. Garfield for O C . , . T tIT.-l . 1- . o . vvuauu iuc uicsciji oecreiary is ex pected to retain his position as the head of the Agricultural Depart meut. Mr. Loeb, the private secre- tary of President Roosevelt who has been the scapegoat of so many of his impetuous chief's "impro prieties" is so persistently men tioned for this or that Cabinet posi tion that he would seem to have a cinch on something. It is now said he will be Secretary of Commerce and Labor in the place of Mr. Straus, the capable and modest Jew. There would seem to be every reason why President elect Taft would wish to retain the present Secretary of the Navy, Mr. New berry at the head of the Navy De partment. He is throughly in sym pathy with the Roosevelt policy for the regeneration of the Naval es tablishment, a regeneration ana logous to that which has been so successiuuy ana protitably inaug urated in the army. Mr. Newberry is a comparatively young man. He has had experience at sea. His long apprenticeship as assistant Secre- 70 Years with Coughs We have had nearly seventy years cf experience with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. That makes us have j?reat con fidence in it for coughs, colds, bronchitis, weak throats, and weak lungs. Ask your own doctor what experience he has had with it. He knows. He can advise you wisely. Keep in close touch with your family physician. No alcohol in this cough medicine. TXTAw Co. . Lowell, Mass. Be well; be strong. You cannot if your bowel are constipated. The bet laxative U Ayer'i Pills, all vegetable. A&k your doctor If he agree with u. Do a he tayt. tary of the Navy, the position once held by Presi lent Roosevelt has peculiarly qualified and fitted him for the further work in reformation which this department so urgently needs. Why should he be displaced and an unknown and untried man s-ib-titutd? r Without a war tn sea and land the improvements that l ave been made in the arny and navy during the seven years of Roosevelt may never be fully known. Both arms of the sen-ice ae without doubt more fit a-d efficient than at any time within their history and the idea of the President to promote efficient and capable officers and to eliminate from the service in:om petent, intemperate, mentally stu pid and physically unfit the oese, pot bellied and knock kneed men is certainly iu the interest of the service but more emphatically in the interest of the country. Of course thi s process is not agreeable to some of the officers, their wives and families but they shou'd not, where th? country is involve 1, be consi it-red. Pulling f.e'.h and other surgery is not an agreeable opera tion to the subject or even to the spectator, b:it it is necessary and indispensable to health and !:fe Only a small minority of men suc ceed in liw. in medrtrie or in any profession. The law of the survival of the fittest humiuely works to eliminate the incompetent but in the army and navy in pas: regimes the officers have been .kept in the service and promoted according to seniority thus eliminating those incentives to effort and those re wards to talent or to genius that are so essential to excellence in human effort and human attachment. Yorke and Adams in Ponies. Playing the Direct from their successful Cir cle Theatre, New York engage ment, B. E. Forrester, will present Yorke & Adams, the celebrated comedians in the musical comedy, "Playing the Ponies" at the Co lumbia Theatre next Saturday, January 16th, and promises that there will be something doing all the time and that the patrons of the Columbia Theatre will in no way, rrgretan evening spent with Yorke & Adams. Aaron Hoffman, is re sponsible fir the book and lyrics and the music is the work of Morse and Madden, the well known com posers. No expense has been spared to equip this organization and Yorke and Adams, who are recog nized comedians and second to none iu their particular line are support ed by a company of fifty people. Frank Smithson, the fatuous pro ducer has executed some marvel ous effects and the numbers areex tcuted by a bevy of beautiful girls who really can and do sing. The first act takes place at Sheepshead Bay Race Track, and is an exact reproduction of that famous race course. The second act takes place at the famous Luna Park in Coney Island. This scene shows the "Tower", "The Famous Sh-ot the Chutes' ' and "The Beautiful Japanese Gardens." Over 3,000 electric lights are used 1 1 lllumina I - 1 iv. . 11c UUlll 111 finer tnj rrt-Aof TVi& 1 . :.. is the great race be ' 1-1 ----- tween the famous horses Diablo and Lady Love. No effort has been spared to make this the greatest in musical comedy. Popular prices Seats now on sale. Joe. Hortiz will appear at the Columbia Theatre nezt Monday nigntin the musical comedy drama entitled "Fritz, the Wandering Musician". Mr. Hortiz who ispos sessed of a clear and well cultiva ted voice renders several of his di verting song specialties, and his appearance in the new play is said to be a pronounced success. The play is modeled along the line of entertainments which the late J. K. Iiramet used to give. Judging irom wnat we can hear. Mr. Hor tiz is provided with a role which is entirely congenial to his talents, and he gives to the character of "Fritz" all that it calls for. Seen ery, mechanical effects and actors of note, have all been placed in this production, which is said to be one of the strongest and most sat isfactory plays put out this season. Prices, 35, 50 and 75 cents. Choice seats for 50 cents. DO YOUR HOPPIMG PURSEL'S. A GREAT VARIETY OF GOODS SUITABLE FOR HOUSEHOLD USE F. P. 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