1 8 XMAS .A.T EVA6W SHOE STORE As Christmas Hints notliins is more practicnl nor welcome tlisin 1 A Nice Pair of. Regal Shoes for Men. ? Prices $3.50 and $4.00. lj Men's Holiday House Slippers, Warm Lined, ;i in Leather. Velvet or Fi It. Rubbers for all Members of Family. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMS BURG, FA. .' THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, W09. Kntrrrd ai thr fort Ol'irr, Blinnnthurg, l'a. atmrmnAflam iJ'"r, March 1.1 Wh. i The annual ball of the Friend i ship l;ire Company will be held on February 19th. Geo. T'. Var.dcrslice has bought the Albcrtus Welliver farm, for merly owned by Dr. Low. Dr. D. J. Waller attended the meeting of the Electoral College as a Presidential Elector for this dis trict. s a The R. V.. llartinan store and dwelling are advertised for ale by C. C. Peacock, trustee, on Friday, February 5th. The White House Restaurant has again changed hands, R. J. Hnnsingcr having sold to Patrick Daily of Dushore. . . Bishop James II. Dailington will administer the right of corfinnation in St. Paul's Church, on Sunday evening, February 14th. Mother Gray's Sweet Powder tor Children yuctvttfulty urea fcy Slither Gray, Hurt In Iftn Clniarrn'n llmue in Srm fork, Oiri fVtw Uhiwff, Una bitumen, Ti'elhlufj iHnurder. vww and iulau the llotreti and iMMroy Worm. Crrr lot) Imllmmilal. TUry t.rqer full. A. all lirvvvl'f, Anna" HikK. Aaarrm Alien S. Otmttra, URov. A. The following letters are held at the Bloomsburg, Pa., post office: Rev. Eberle W. Thompson. Cards Mr. Prece Kester, Master Karl Pride. A contest is on between F. D. Dentler and L. M. Sleppy for the nomination for Tax Collector for Bloomsbure. at the coming Demo crat: caucus. It is now settled that we shall have another job lot census in 1910. The work is to be done by political understrappers who have a null for partisan service rendered or to be rendered. II . Bruce Clark has sold his en tire stock of goods to the liurd & Rogers Company of Shamokin. The purchasers are conducting a ten days' sale at reduced prices, and at the end of that time will remove the balance to Shamokin. Miss Vinnie Trump, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Trump, was married to Edward Hackard of Bristol, Pa., on Friday, by Rev. J 'P. Thomas at the Reformed Par sonace. They left for their home on Saturday. The center street meat market, A. D. Shuuian, proprietor, is be ing greatly improved by the con struction of a glass front. The door has been placed at the corner. "When completed it will be an up to date shop. Few towns of this size can boast of as good meat markets as Bloomsburg. RETURNED TO THE WEST. Daniel Hirleman and wife of Rush Center, Kansas, have been ) visiting relatives in this county for I the' past three months, and on Monday started back to their home. Mr. Hirleman is a son of the late George Hirleman, of Waller, rind he left home about 32 years j; ago, going first to Illinois, and then to Kansas. He has been engaged j: extensively in farming, raising t';l mostly cattle and wheat. He was ( mayor of bis town for one term, and has held other offices. It is ten years since their last visit here, and their many friends were glad to see them. DAMAGED BY WATER. The bursting of a water pipe in the Hancock building at Danville on Friday night, damaged several hundred dollars' worth of goods in tee uione store. 1 ne break was caused by the freezing of the pipe between the second and third floors, and the water poured down in the center of thy store,' ruining many fancy goods, and a sock of blank ets and other merchandize in the cellar. Fritz, tho Wandering Musician. Those who recall the pleasant memories of the late J. K. Emmet in "Friend Fritz" will d scover much in "Fritz the Wandering Musician" that is reminiscent, though it is declared that the pres ent play is wholly original, and not talcen from past successes. The author is Crano Wilbur and it is said that he need not be ashamed of his work, for there is much of an amusing and cntertaiirng quality in the play. Mr. Hortiz, (the star) is said to display marked ability in the role of Fritz. This will be the attraction at the Colunna Theatre next Monday night, January, iStb, and ought to receive a heartv wel come from the patrons of that house. The prices are only 35, 50, and 75 cents. Choice seats for 50 cents. , . . Looking After County Property. I notice in the Columbian that county commissioners have appor tioned to each one of the board a certain part of the county to be looked after so far as bridges and other property are concerned. That is undoubtedly a most nec essary thing to be done; and now if a report in writing, of all the bridges, where, of what kind and condition is made, so that in a min ute, it can be seen in the commis sioners' office, much good may be accomplished. Because it was no body's business nobody attended to it; and the public property went to decay; "A stitch in time saves nine," and "a penny saved is two pence earned." The public expenses are increas Ing.neiessarily.and more care is re quired in the management of the business. More taxes are levied, more roads and bridges are re quired for public convenience; and no complaint will be made when the public work is done by those elected to the office. Alpha Bkta. For several years past the work of the commissioners has been di vided up in the same way as now. Ed. Burglary at Sunbury. A most daring robbery was com mitted in Sunbury Sunday morn ing when C S. Bigony's store was entered and nearly five hundred dollars' worth of goods was stolen. Included 111 the nch haul made by the burglars were sixty revolv ers, one-nan cozen guns, ntie?, kuives and razors. It is thought that the otirglars had a carriage, as about the hour of midnight some one saw a carriage in the vicinity of the store that was robbed. La ter a carriage answering the same description as seen leaving town by the Shamokin road. What makes the robbery an es pecially bold one is the fact that the revolvers stolen were removed from the front part of the store within ten feel of the glass front where the robbers were clearly in view from the street. The goods stolen are valued at from $450 to 1 500. IN CRITICAL CONDITION. Warland Evans, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia tor the past ten days, is still in a very critical condition. Jf 1,011 Haw Alwa),s """ THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. lJA- Your Country Needs You. (We puli'ixli the following ly request.) During the dark days of the re bellion noble men came from farm, hamlet, town and city in answer to their country's call. To-day a trumpet sound, ns loud and as long as then, comes to the Christian, intelligent American woman, to come to her ronntry's rescue. Over a million foreigners are landed each year upon our shores. Notwith standing their ignorance, supersti tion and Old Wot Id ideas, they are soon iuvesled with all the rights of citizenship. In 16 different States six mon.hs after their arrival, They soon become the tools of wily politicians and lawless men, and it lias become almost impossible to piss or enforce righteous laws. To offset this gigantic evil which threatens the life of onr nation, Woman, the great moral power in the home, school and church, must come to the rescue, and to her must be given the ballot. The fundamental principles of a democratic system of Government like that -of the United States are that Everyone who has to obey the law shall have a voice in making it, and that Everyone who has to pay taxes shall have a voice in saying how those taxes shall be spent. To carry out these principles, our country has etven a vote to everyone over 21 years of age, ex cepting criminals, lunatics, idiots, aliens and women. IS IT RIGHT? Is it right that the mother, the sister, the wife, or the daughter should be classed with criminals and lunatics, or treated as aliens from a foreign country? Many women have to pay taxes on real or personal property. Is it right that their money should be taken, and no represen tation given them? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and evan the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it? Is it right that the saloon-keeper, whose hope of gain lies in tempting the brother or son to iudulge in habits that may prove fiis ruin, should have a vote, while the mother, sister, or wife, whose life is thereby made miserable, should be helpless in altering the law? Is it right tnat the inmate of an almhouae should have a vote, while a women who earns her own living, and, it may be, toils hard to main tain her family, is denied it? Is it right that a capable women, who farms her own land, should be thought unfit to use a vote that is given to the most ignorant of her hired men? Is it right that an educated womau who can be trusted to teach a school, cannot be trusted with a vote that is given to the boys she has educated before they have her years of kuowledge? Is it right that women should be considered wise and good enough to be school directors, and ytt are not deemed wise or good enough to vote for school directors? It is right that a woman teacher should be expected to train boys in all the duties of good citizenship, while she herself is denied the su preme privilege of citizenship the ballot? Is it right that a mother who has trained her family in the fear of God, aud who prays daily that they may be delivered from evil, should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blas phemer, the liar, the profligate, the wife-beater, the gambler, and the druukard. Is it right that a womau should be considered a citizen in the tax office and the criminal court aud not at the polls? Is it right that a married woinau who labors as hard as her husband for the home, the property being in his name, if he dies without a will, she only receives a third of the income of that property? If the property is in her name and she dies, he has a life estate in all she possessed. Is it right that women teachers, stenographers, clerks, cooks, etc., doing their work as well and the same work as a man, should re ceive from $10 to $25 less each month because they are women, while he receives that much more because he is a man? Women school teachers receive from $400 to $500 less each year because of their sex. Thus the disability of disfranchisement costs over 80,000 women from $400 to $572 each per annum. That the sole cause for this difference in wages for the kind aud quality of labor is worn eu's disfranchisement is shown by the fact that in four States where women vote their wages are the same as men for the same work and it is illegal to make any distinction in salaries of any person in the public service on account of sex. Do you want to pay such a price THE OLDEST W IN 7 K 1 Mr. Isaac Brock, HQ ISAAC) BROCK, a citizen of McLennan county, Tcxa, has lived for 119 yearn. For many year he reniiled at Bosque Falls, eighteen miles west of Waco, but now lives with hla son-in-law at Valley Mills, Texas. Some time ago, by request, Tncle Isaac came to Waco and sat for his picture, holding in his hand a stick cut from the grave of General Andrew Jackson. Mr. Brock is a dignified old gentleman, showing few signs of decrepitude. His family Bible Is still preserved, and it shows that the date of his birth was written 119 years ago. Ask your Druggist from your hard toll each year be cause of your sex? Is it right thai a wife is consid ered a man's propertv, just as real estate, onlv in a higher degree? That in 37 States a married uioth or lm no right to her own chil dren? In 16 States a wife has no right to her own earnings outside of the home. In eight States a woman has no right to her own property after marriage. In seven States there is no law compelling a man to support his wife and family. Ts it rkMit for a woman to use everv law earned by the ' hard toil of suffragists, viz.: the privilege of makiug a will, to hold property, etc.. to refuse to help to make the world better for the coming womau? George William Curtis says: A woman may vote as a stock holder upon a railroad from one end of the country to the other But if she sells her stock aud buys a house with the money, she has no voice in the laying out of the road before her door, which her house is taxed to keep and pay for. Why, in the name of good sense, if a responsible human being may vote upon specific industrial pro jects, may she not vote upon the industrial regulation of the State?" The Allegheny County Equal Rights Association, auxiliary to the Pennsylvania Woman's Suf frage Association is laboring to right these wrongs and urges every man or women who endorses these principles to join the association. They hold meetings quarterly in the parlors of the Young Women's Christian Association, Fifth street, Pittsburg, (across from Home's stores). Please send your name aud address. Proposed Amendment JOINT RESOLUTION, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Be it resolved, etc., That the fol lowing is proposed as an amend ment to the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of Arti-le XVIII thereof: . amendment: That Section 1, Article VIII of the Constitution of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania, which reads as follows: Section 1. Every male citizen, twenty-one years of nge, possessing Escaped the Many Winters By Using 71 'I Attribute my? 1 . ,t tl Extreme uun Age to the Use n of Pe'ru-na." Years Old Last Birthday. Born before the United States were formed. Saw 22 presidents elected. Pe-ru-na has protected bint from all sudden changes. Veteran of four wars. Shod a horse when 99 years old. Always conquered the grip with Pe-ru-na. Witness In a land suit at the age of 110 years. Believes Pe-ru-na the greatest remedy of the age for catarrhal troubles. for a Free Peruna the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections. I. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. II. He shall have resided in the state one year, (or, if having pre viously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen ot the state, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six months) imme diately preceding the election. III. He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to voie at least two mouths immediately preceding the election. IV. If twenty-two years of age or upwards, he shall have paid, within two years, a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months, and paid at least one month before the election: Be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section I. Every citizen, twenty-one years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections: I. He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. II. He or she shall have resided in the state one year, (or, if having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the state he or she shall have removed there from and returned, then six months) immediately preceding the election. III. He or she shall have resid ed in the election district where he or she shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. IV. If twenty-two years of age or upwards, be or she shall have paid, within two years a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months, and paid at least one month before the election. Jimmy Conuors, who succeeded George Cohan in "Running for Office" and was the original boy in "Foxy Grandpa" will be see 1 here on Saturday, Janary 16th at the Columbia Theatre with Yorke and Adams, in the musical comely "Playing the Ponies", by Aaron Hoffman, author of "Bankers and Brokers". The numbers for this popular production were staged by Frank Smithson, who staged the "Orchid"' and other well known Broadway successes. AMERICA Terrors of 'e-ru-na. IN speaking of his good health and treme old age, Mr. Brock savsl "After a man has lived in the' as long as I have, he ought to bay found out ft great many things by perlonce. I think I hare done so. "One of the things I have fouot out to my entire satisfaction Is tun proper thing for ailments that mix due directly to the effects of tin climate. For 119 years I have wltm stood the changeable climate sg the United States. "1 have always been a very healtsjr; man, but, of course, subject to the after Hons which are due to sudden chaagw In the ell mate and temperature. "As for Dr. llartman's remedy, Pe-ru-na, I have found It to be tht best, If not the only reliable remedy tor these affections. It has beer my standby for many years, andl attribute my good health and cjc treme old age to this remedy. "It exactly meets all my require ments. It protects me from the erll ef fects of sudden changes; it gives rof strength ; it kerps my blood in good cir culation. I have come to rely upon I almost entirely for tho many llttfc things for which I need medicine. "When epidemics of la grippe first be gan to make their appearance in tht country 1 was a sufferer from this dis ease. had several long sieges with the grip. A t first I did not know that Pe-ru-na was a remedy for this disease. When I heard that la grippe was epidemic catarrh I tried Pe-ru-na for la grippe an4 found It to be Just the thing." In a later letter, Mr. Brock writes: "I am well and feeling as well a I have for years. I would not be without Foruna." Tfours truly, A letter dated July 3, 1906, written for Mr. Brock by bis wife, Sarah J. Brock, states: " "Lasr winter I had Just gotten up out of a spell of sickness, wham I commenced taking Peruna. 1 think It Improved my health vejy much. " In a postscript, Mrs. Brock adds: "B receives a great many letters inquiring about what Peruna will do. I do not answer them all, as I think they asm ! get bottle and try it." Almanac for 1909 The Potato Crop for 1908. 220,000 Bushels Less'Than Preceding Year Qtality Not Up To Standard. The potato crop for 1908 is said to be 264, 600. coo bushels 220,000 less than the year preceding, while the quality of the yield is far be low the previous year. If the po tatoes were all good the quantity ' will not supply the home demand, since it is only about three bushels per capita, and out of that seed must come for the next crop. This will mean high prices for one of the staple foods of the workingman, as the tariff on potatoes is so high as to permit the home farmers and re tailers to charge a big price for their product, and prevent compe tition. No other country report ing the potato crop makes such a poor showing as the United States, only about eighty bushels to the acre, against 200 and more bushels by Great Britain, Germany and other countries. It is' strange that we do not grow enough potatoes to supply our home demand. The cause of this small yield which seems to be growing smaller from year to year, is said to be due more to planting poor seed than to any other one cause. The smaller yield in 1908 than 1907 was due to a more unfavorable season, but the steadily declining yield must be due to other than climatic condi tions.and seed seems to be the most probable cause. Doubtless it is true that seed is planted which is not desirable for other uses, when, in fact, the best specimens should be planted. Not the largest, butN the smoothest, shapeliest and most nearly ideal specimens. It is doubtless true that those who are now growing good crops of pota toes do not care to see all others do ing the same, being satisfied with conditions as they are. But "the greatest good to the greatest num ber" is the sentiment which shohld prevail. INSTRUCTION IN MUS C. Chas. P. Elwell announces that he will be pleased to receive all former pupils on violin and piano- ( txte, as well as new ones. Latest and best methods. Terms strictly cash by the lesson or month. Address Hotel Hidlay, Bloomsburg, or call up on Bell 'phone any afternoon between 1 ' and 2. tf
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