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OFFICERS
E. W.M. Low, President.
Jame M.Staver, Vine President.
DIRECTORS:
James At. Rtaver,
Fred Ikeler,
H. C. Creasy.
Clinton Herring,
E. W.M.Low.
F. G. Yorks,
Louis Gross,
M. E Stack house.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA) DEMOCRAT,
itiTABi.isiir.n 1S37. CoNsoi.inxi kd 1869
.'0BLISI1ED E VBRY THURSDAY MORNING,
A' Bloomsburg, the County Seat 01;
Columbia County .Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. E IWELL. Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Terms; Insidt the county 4 1. 00 a year
li advance; S .501 f not paid in advance.
1 tutgide the county, $ 1. a 5 a year, strictly in
aivanc -.
All ;on-municatior.t should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, L'loomsWg, Ta.
HURSDAV. JULY 1, 1909
THE RIGHT TIME.
It's a long while until the elec
tion and people are net bothering
much about politics, but a great
many people are wondering why it
wouldn t be a good time to show
the bosses and their gang followers
a thing or two in the way of upset
ting calculations.
It wouldn't hurt the State nor
lessen justice a bit, to have two
Democratic judges on the Supreme
court bench. There would still be
n Republican majority of five in
iat body and if that party needed
iy special decision it could be had.
It wouldn't make Pennsylvania
-niocratic to place a Democrat in
large of the Auditor General s or
r;v.e for a term or two, but it would
lessen the power and control of the
bosses and rings to an amazing ex
tent, and thereby give more import
ance and influence to that class of
citizens who pride themselves on
their independence.
It wouldn't injure the credit or
good name of the State a particle to
place an honest Democrat in the
Treasurer's office again, but it
might frighten the manipulators of
Republican conventions into pick
ing cleaner and better men for that
place in the future than the crea
ture they have put up for the repu
table voters to support this fall.
Altogether it is about as good a
time to give the bosses such a
trouncing as would induce them to
be good, for a little while at least.
Watchman.
Souvenir Post Cards are printed
at this office. Half tones supplied.
Dealing In Futures.
Dealing in futures of a variety
not listed in Wall street is at pres
ent occupying justices of the peace
and hunters in Columbia county.
It is estimated that there are sev
eral hundred pelts of noxious ani
mals being held throughout this
county in the hope of an appropri
ation from the next legislature to
meet the bounty offered for killing
such animals. Pinning their faith
on the next Legislature, the men
who have killed noxious animals
have all saved the pelts and have
taken them to the 'Squires' offices,
where the necessary affidavit Is
made and the scalps destroyed.
Then the 'squire files the affidavit
until an appropriation is made. In
the event that none is ever made
then he will be out only the cost of
his blank. If there is an appropri
ation it will net him 25c. for each
scalp, while man who killed the an
imal will get whatever the fee bill
calls for.
Alcohol to Children
Ask your doctor how often he prescribes an alcoholic
stimulant for children. He will probably say, "Very, very
rarely. Children do not need stimulating." Ask him
how often he prescribes a tonic for them. He will prob
ably answer, "Very, very frequently." Then ask him
aDoui ayers non-aiconouc sarsaparwa as a tonic tor the
young. Follow hisadvice. Heknows. J.CAyerCo.,LolIUr7. 3
The first great rule of health "Daily movement of the bowels." Ask your doctor if
this 1 not to. Then ask him about Ayer'i pills. Sold for nearly sixty years.
Paid on Time Deposits
Mvron I. Low. Vice President.
Frank Ikeler, Cannier
M yron T. Low,
H. V.Hower,
Frank Ikeler.
THE ABANDONED CEMETERY.
Among the laws passed at the
last session of the Legislature and
approved by Governor Stuart, es
pecial interest attaches to that gov
erning the disposition that may be
made of abandoned cemeteries.
Under the provisions of that law,
when a cemetery is abandoned a
school board may go into court and,
upon proper showing, have it de
clared a nuisance, obtaining the
land in return for the removal and
care of the bodies interred therein.
In view of the condition into
which the old Reformed-Lutheran
burying ground on Centre and
First street has fallen, this law is
of particular interest locally. Ma
ny of the bodies originally burieJ
there have been transferred to the
new cemetery along Light Street
road. Other graves have materi
ally settled, the land is overgrown
with high grass and bushes of all
varieties, and children, romping
and playing over the abandoned
tract have knocked down and oblit
erated the grave markings. To
such an extent have markings been
knocked down that it was found
impossible to locate the graves of
six Civil War veterans believed to
be buried there when an etlort was
made recently to carry out the res
olutions of the Rosemont cemetery
officers providing for transferring
the bodies to the soldiers circle in
Rosemont cemetery.
About a year ago the local school
board considered purchasing the
ground from the Lutheran and Re
formed congregations, though noth
ing came of it at the time. Mean
while the old cemetery continues
in its forlorn and totally neglected
condition. If the school wishes
the property and of its eventual
value there can be no question
now is the time to secure it, either
through purchase at a reasonable
figure or through proceedings un
der the law referred to above.
In a Pinch use Allen's Foot-Ease.
A powder to shake into your shoes. It
cures hot, tired, aching, swollen, sweat
ing feet atid makes walking easy. Takes
the sting out of corns and bunions. All
druggists 25cts. Don't accept any sub
stitute. Two Men Will Hang.
Luzerne county will have two
hangings on the same day. Tues
day Governor Stuart fixed Aug.
10 tor the executions of Stanley
Nazarko of Pittston and Thomas
Willis of Scranton, two men con
fined in the county lail convicted
of first degree murder. Nazarko
was convicted of killing his com
mon law wife in a saloon at Pitt
ston several months ago. The
woman bad left him after a quarrel
and went to live with another man.
On the night of the murder he in
duced her to return to his home
with him. On the way home they
stopped at a saloon, had some
drinks and the quarrel was renew
ed. Nazarko pulled a revolver and
killed her. Thomas Willis is the
young colored man who was con
victed of the murder of aged Cam
eron Cool at West Pittston. Mr.
Cool was a well known horseman
and had employed Willis, who
came from Baltimore, as a hostler.
The latter went to the barn where
Mr. Cool had a room and killed
him while in the act of robbing the
old man. He was captured in Bal
timore, brought back tried and
convicted of the murder.
WASHINGTON
From our Kegular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C, June aS, 1909
At what has been generally term
ed the most important conference
of the Taft administration, all the
Republican leaders in Congress
gathered in the library of the White
House, formally approved the draft
of the corporation tax amendment
prepared by Attorney . Genera
Wickersham to carry out the pro
visions of the Taft proposition
Once more Republican discipline
has triumphed. Individual opin
ions have been subordinated to the
party leaders and in both houses of
Congress a united front will be pre
sented to the common foe, the
Democratic minority. To the
Democrats in both houses this situ
ation is the occasion of serious dis
appoint nrcnt. With a sufficient
number of progressive Republicans
espousing the Democratic propost
tion of an income tax to make, with
the Democratic Senators, a majori
ty of the upper house, they saw
victory almost within their grasp
only to have snatc'ied away by one
more remarka jle demonstration of
Republican discipline. Some of
the Democratic statesmen declare
that the moral of the situation will
not be lost on them, that this obvi
ous demonstration of the manner
in which victory may be gained
even in the eleventh hour by a will
ingness to subordinate individual
views and preferences to the party
weal will be converted into a salu
tary lesson for all the members of
the minority.
Bitter as is the disappointment of
those Democrats, who, with heart
and soul, have striven to secure the
enactment of an income tax it is a
safe prediction that when time
shall have mellowed their disap
pointment they will realize that
evvn in defeat they have gained no
small part of the victory. The in
come tax which they proposed con
tained all that is embodied in the
corporation tax amendment father
ed by President Taft and in addi
tion thereto provision for a similar
tax on the incomes of individuals
when tbey exceed $5,000 a year.
It has been estimated by the federal
actuaries that the proposed income
tax would raise a revenue of $70,
000,000 a year. The tax on cor
porations will probably bring in to
the federal treasury $30,000,000 a
year. It is, therefore, no exagger
ation to say that the Democrats
have won three-sevenths of a vic
tory, especially as it is by their
method that the $30,000,000 of rev
enue is to be collected. Another
point which is clearer to the man
in the Press Gallery than to the
Democratic Senators on the floor is
that the Republican organization
in the Senate has been forced into
an attitude wholly repugnant to its
innate ideas; has, through Demo
cratic skill and the conduct of a
few progressive Republicans, suf
fered actual defeat, and has been
compelled to espouse the cause af a
President whose views in many re
spects are far more Democratic
than they are Republican. The
spectacle of Nelson W. Aldrich,
senior Senator from Rhode Island,
and Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of
the House, warmly applauding
President Taft as he explained at
the White House conference the
beauties of the corporation tax
scheme because it would enable the
federal authorities to investigate
the conduct and internal tiffairs of
all corporations, was one which
would have afforded intense delight
to the Democrats in the Senate,
and in fact all over the country,
could they have witnessed it.
So many and such inaccurate re
ports concerning the provisions of
the corporation tax amendment
have found their way into public
print that a brief statement of what
it actually contains may not be out
of place here It imposes a tax of
two per cent on the net earuings of
all corporations including state and
national banks, but with certain
exemptions. The first $5,000 of
the net earnings of all corporations
shall be exempt. Corporations
having a bonded indebtedness may
deduct from their net earnings the
amount required to pay the inter
est on bonds to the amount of their
capital stock; that is to say, a cor
poration with a capital stock of
$100,000, and outstanding bonds
to the amount of $150,000, may de
duct the amount needed to pay the
interest on $100,000 worth of bonds,
but not the amount necessary to
pay the interest on the $50,000 worth
of bonds in excess of their capital
stock. In the case of national
banks the amount of the taxes they
pay on their circulation will be de
ducted from the amount of income
tax they are required to pay. All
corporetions, large and small, must
submit each year to the collector of
internal revenue, a sworn state
ment of their gross receipts, oper
ating expenses, any interest that
they may bi required to pay on
bonds, or other indebtedness, and
net earnings, and in any instance
where the Secretary of the Treas
ury suspects an attempt to evade
the law, he shall designate lederai
inspectors to make a complete in
vestigation of the books of such
corporation. The knowledee of
the internal affairs of corporations
which this law will altord to the
federal government, and through
it to the public, is cbvious.
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Hot Weather and Perspiration.
Natjre Sell Great Store by Swelling Makes
It Possible for Men lo Live In
Summer.
Perspiration is nature's way of
making a man feel comfortable in
hot weather, yet the people who
perspire freely consider themselves
uncomfortable. Through perspi
ration alone man is enabled to live
in a daily temperature in the hot
regions, or in the steel mills or like
places. Through perspiration the
surface of the body is kept two de
grees cooler than the temperature
of the blood and internal organs.
Nature evidently sets great store
by the sweating process. To this
end a writer in the New York
Evening Mail tells us she has equip
ped the skin of the body with some
2,300,000 glands; and on the palms
of the hands and the soles of the
feet, where they are the most nu
merous, they run as high as 2,700
to the inch Tne minute spiral tub
ing in the skin of a single individual
through which perspiration u ef
fected would constitute, if all of it
were joined together, a duct about
two and a half miles long, or 400
times the length of the intestines.
This tubing conveys to the surface
of the body every day water, solid
matter and carbonic acid gas to the
amount of two pounds avordupois
and this often so insensibly that
the individual will not be conscious
of the slightest skin moisture. If
the day be warm and the individual
indulge in rather violent exercise,
nature will outdo itself. Take a
fifteen-mile walk at a comfortable
gait, and at the end of the day you
may find yourself four pounds un
der weight. Men of rotund habit
have lost six or eight pounds in a
single afternoon's tennis and the
annals of protracted ring fights
show a reduction in weight several
pounds in excess of that. Insensi
ble perspiration is a! blessing, a ne
cessity, even a condition of life.
The process becomes an affliction
when the individual gives off mois
ture too rapidly for instantaneous
evaporation; or when the atmos
phere is so charged with humidity
that its power to take up moisture
from the skin is reduced; or when
the breeze is so languid and the air
so nearly stagnant that the saturat
ed particles do not move off fast
enough to allow other particles of
air to complete the work.-
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Durham Dead.
Israel W. Durham, state senator.
and Republican political leader of
Philadelphia, died in Atlantic City
on Monday, from a paralytic
stroke. He had been a politician
for many years, and he was in pol
itics for what he could make out
of it. and he made a lot of monev
out of it With McNichol, and
the Vares, and Penrose he con
trolled Philadelphia politics and
practically dominated the state.
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.
Plymouth Gets New Bridge.
Judge Ferris has made an order
confirming absolutely the report of
reviewers for the erection of a
bridge by Luzerne county, crossing
tne river between Plymouth and
ttreslau. This report was con
firmed nisi by the court on March
13 and referred to the next grand
jury. The recent grand jury ap
proved the report and now it is
confirmed absolutely and will be
sent to the county commissioners
to carry out its provisions and recommendations.
Chlldron Ory
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i ance and yet cost you a small
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Regularly $20 00 I 'j
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down the front. All sizes up to 42.
SUIT at $12.75 Of shadow stripe chiffon panama in
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forming points on the sides, new small sleeves, lined
throughout with satin; gored flare skirt with trimming of
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At $6.00 to $14.00 Junior Suits for the little Misses in
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BLOOMSBURG, - PENN'A.
JUST A REMINDER!
Here is a list of some of the printed goods and blank stock
that can be obtained at the
(JoMmbiam Printing Eom
Perhaps it may remind you of something you need.
FMlfli'T ADFC Al1 sizet Commercial, Professional, Jnsur.
kkhjlk& ance, Baronial, Pay, Coin,
UP fl TTM1C Letter Heaas. Note Heads, Bill 1 leans, State
AiLiniiliUl ments, in many grades and sizes.
CARDS
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All DlVIVlJ Books. Plain Receipts, with or without stub, Note
Books, Scales Books, Order Books, Etc.
HflNH RTTTI Printed in a"y size from u
AlnUi DlLilit dodger, up to a full Sheet Poster.
BOOKS AND
PAMPHLETS
MISCELLANEOUS t
Our Stock Includes :
Cut Cards, all sizes, Shipping Tags
Round Corner Cards, Manila Tag Board.
Card Board in Sheets, Bond Papers
white and colors, Ledger Papers,
Name Cards for all Cover Papers
Secret Societies, Book Pacers '
Window Cards. Pers.
Folders for Programs, Menus, Dances, Societies and all
special events.
Lithographed Bonds and Stock Certificates Supplied.
Wedding Invitations and Announcements, Printed or
Engraved.
Visitors are Always Welcome. No Obligation to Purchase.
We Do All Kinds offrinting'
Columbian Printing House,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Business, Visiting, Announcement, Admission,
Ball Tickets, Etc.
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SAMPLES OF THESE AND
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