THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO, i'X THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OFlt&OOMiBIlUKG, PA. THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capital $100,003 Surplus 8150,000. With the Largest Capital and Surplus in the County, a Strong Directorate, Competent Officers and Every Mod ern Facility, we solicit Accounts, Large or Small, and Collections on the Most Liberal Terms Consistent with Sound Banking, and Invite YOU to inspect our NEW QUARTERS. 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits OFFICERS: fi. W.M. Low, President. Jaiue M.iStavcr, Vice President. DIRECTORS! James M. Staver, Fred Ikeler, H. C. Creasy. Clinton Herring, E. W. M. Low, F. O. Vorks, Louis dross, M. E Htackliouse. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED i860. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, 'TAHLISHtD I83?. CNSOt IDA! ED 1 869 bushed Evekv Thursday Morning, V Blojmslurg, the County Seat 01 J Columbia County .Pennsylvania. GEO. E. EI.WEL1.. Editor. GEO. C. ROAN.Forbmak. t'EKMM Inside thecounty $t.ooa year fa advance; .il.5otf not paid in aivance, M'side thecounty, f 1.25 a year, strictly in ,Tnc '. All communications should headdressed THE COLUMBIAN, Uloomsl.urs, Ta TIIUKSDAY, JULY 8, 19011 Hopeful Future in Pennsylvania, The consternation which prevails among the Republicans of Phila delphia justifies the prediction of a Democratic victory next fall even greater than that of 1905 when Mr. Berry had a majority of over 80, 000. The people of the great city appear to have become thoroughly aroused to the iniquities of the ma chine and as it invariably follows the court are taking the side of justice. A cumber of ballet boxes hive already been opened and the mds of the primary returns x sed and the indications now are it the work will be continued to .. ..npletion. That this great State is governed '.' fraud is a shame that ought not 10 be endured by the people. It would hardly be just to say that no Republican State official has been elected in recent years but it is within the limits of reason to de clare that no Republican State offic ial has been elected within a dozen years without the help of fraudu lent ballots, almost if not entirely equal in number, to the majority which he received. It is equally certain that several State officials have been elected by fraud within that period of time and that prepa rations have been made for grcss frauds at the coming election. If the people of Philadelphia and Pittsburg are alert there will be lit tle, if any, fraud in the coming election. Ballot boxes can't be stuffed and returns can't be chang ed if the people are active and en ergetic for an honest vote and just return. Nobody sympathizes with a fool who is buncoed and only contempt follows a fellow who is robbed through his own careless ness. Why shouldn't the crime of btealing an election be treated as severely as that' of stealing some thing else? There is nothing as valuable to a citizen as his vote and yet we let the corrupt politicians cheat us out of it every year. Watchman. Reading Advances Fares. The Reading Company has goue back to its former charge of two and a-half cents a mile for passen ger rates. Since the recent decision of the state Supreme Court on the two-cent fare question, General Passenger Agent Edson J. Weeks announces that the passenger rate effective prior to October i, 1906, would, in a measure be restored be ginning July 1st. The change, however, will only apply to the one-way ticket. For the present round-trip excursion and commuta tion ticxets will be left unchanged. Aycr's Hair Vigpr STOPS FALLING HAIR DESTROYS DANDRUFF Ingredients : Sulahur. Glycerin. Quintn. Sodium ChUrid. CaMcum. Sage. Alcohol. Water. Perfume. Ask your doctor if there is anything injurious here. Ask him also if there is not genuine merit here. (Does not Color the Ifflair Myron I. Low, Vice President. Frank Ikeler, Cashier Myron T. Low, H. V.Hower, Frank Ikeler. May Abolish Superior Court The Slate Bar Association in Session Rec ommends its Abolition. The Pennsylvania Bar Associa tion sitting in session at Bedford Springs last week in discussing the many things of advantage in the dispensing of law in the State, among other thing recommends the abolition of the Superior court. The abolition of that court and the promotion of the judges to the bench of the Supreme court, by an enlargement of that court through a constitutional amendment, was the somewhat startling substance of the report of the committee on constitution of courts in Pennsyl vania, of which Hon. H. M. Mc Clure, of Lewisburg, is chairman. Some of the reasons urged for the abolition of the Superior court are: That its judgments are not decisive of 1 he law and lead to uncertainty and confusion; that its decisions are merely persuasive evidence ot the law and the principles they estab lish may be overthrown after inno cent parties Lave acted upon them; approximately one-third of its de cisions have already been reversed; that its establishment was a depart ure from the simplicity of Pennsyl vania procedure, and that it hin ders and delays the adminisration of justice; that successive appeals from court to court put in the hands of unscrupulous persons the power to fight off the claims of poor liti gants until the ultimate judgment is consumed by the cost of obtain ing it, and that sueh a court is a gainst the precedents and the con sensus of legal opinion in the ma jority of states of the Union. The committee presented an amendment to the constitution to carry this recommendation into effect. Under it the Supreme court is to consist cf fourteen judges who may sit in banc, in two depart ments of seven judges each. It is also recommended that the Su preme court instead of traveling around the state, as at present, sit in one place, preferably at Harris burg, the capital, as is the case with the majority of the Supreme courts of the other states of the union. Notwithstanding the repeated warnings souuded for the nast few weeks by the Philadelphia papers concerning care witn nreworks, the celebrators seem to have exercised as little caution as ever, for the list of dead and injured in that city is greater than it has been since 1900. In Philadelphia and vicinity nine were killed and over five hundred injured by explosives. This is the record of only one city, and it has been duplicated throughout the) country. Will there ever be a safe and sane Fourth ? Legislative pro hibition is surely needed. It has been talked of for a long time. Every year the week following the national birthday is prolific of sug gestions for.the prevention of such mortality, and then it is forgotten until the next year's list of acci dents stirs up new excitement. Ac tion Dy tne authorities is necessary, not a week before next Fourth of July when all the dealers in fire works shall have purchased their stock, but immediate regulation wnicn snail ettectively rid the day of its needless slaughter. . Souvenir Post Cards are orinted at this office. Half tones supplied. AN ELEGANT DRESSING MAKES HAIR GROW WASHINGTON From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, July 5, 1909. Senator Aldrich with more frank ness perhaps than is characteristic announced his belief, when the cor poration tax proposition came up 1.1 ine oenaie, mat 11 -would e repealed within two years. He ex plained that in his estimation the tariff bill would yield ample reve nue after that time and that the continuation of the corporation tax would prove prejudicial to the pro tective system. In the estimation of many able judges, including no less capable a stateman than Presi dent Taft, the Senator from Rhode Island is wholly mistaken in his prediction. It is the belief of Mr. Taft and a uumber of able judges in both houses of Congress that once the corporation tax is) graven upon the statutes it will' remain there, that the force of public opin ion will be too strong ever to per mit of its repeal. As to whether or not it will prove a menace to the protective system is a question de termined by each man's concep tion of that system. To men of the old school ot Republicanism, like Aldrich, Hale and a host of others, it certainly will, for from their standpoint anything which must t-nd to the lowering of the protective duties constitutes a men ace to protection. To men of the more modern school of Republi canism, like Taft and many mem bers of his cabinet, the salvation of the protective system rests on the gradual lowering of the duties. They argue that the continued maintenance of the existing high rates must inevitably result inJ turning the great volume of con sumers against the tariff and that if this is to be avoided the duties must be gradually lowered. Pres ident Taft and those who espouse his view will not, however, quar rel with Mr. Aldrich's prediction. They are sufficiently thankful to secure the services of the able Re publican leader at this time to get the corporation tax on the statute books and are entirely content to deal with any effort he may make to repeal it, when that time comes. V A majority of the Democratic Senators will vote for the corpora tion tax for the very reason that Mr. Aldrich dislikes it. They share the view of President Taft that once enacted the tax can never he repealed and that it will soon yield so ample a revenue as to make a reduction of the productive du ties imperative. They believe sin cerely that Mr. Aldrich and others of his school have failed to keep pace with the popular sentiment of the country, that they do not real ize the extent of the demand for lower duties, that they attach far too little importance to the popular sentiment that corporations, most of wh.ch are directly or indirectly beneficiaries of the tariff, should contribute their share . to the ex penses of the government. Even now a number of corporations are protesting violently against the eu actment of the Taft tax and the Democrats seem to realize far more keenly than the Republican leaders that one corporation with ample funds to pay telegraph tolls can make a ten times more noisy pro test than one hundred consumers whose enforced contributions to the protected manufacturers have left them wth hardly sufficient ready cash to pay for a ten word tele gram between them. " Nothing but Hobson's choice between the cor poration tax and the income tax would induce the Republican lead ers to vote for the corporation tax at this time. To the Democrats, on the other hand, the corporation tax amounts to half a loaf, for practically all its provisions are contained in the income tax amend ment fathered by Senators Bailey and Cummins. Army officers are greatly rejoiced over the first modification of the ninety-mile ride prescribed by President Roosevelt as a physical test for all field officers. The Sec retary of War has determined to make exceptions in the case of cer tain senior officers of the ordnance department and the engineer corps, and of all officers who have reached the age of sixty-two. These will be required to take the ride but surgeons making the subsequent physical examination will be in structed to be far more lenient with them than with the younger men and officers ot the line. Another change which is confidently ex pected is an equal division of the twent-one-hour period during which the ninety miles must be covered, into three equal parts in stead of, as at present, requiring that one lap of thirty miles be made in six hours. Of course these changes are not particularly radi cal, but they are taken by army officers to indicate that President Talt is disposed to be more reason able in his demands for physical prowess on the part of army officers than was his predecesso". Reverting to the tariff, some in teresting'facts were brought out in the debate regarding the growth of tea in South Carolina. Senator Tillman asked the Senate to im pose a duty of ten cents a pound on this commodity in order that the industry might be further developed iu his State. His motion was de feated by a vcte of 45 to 18, but Senator Smith of Maryland gave notice that at the proper time he would move to amend the bill by providing for a bounty of ten cents a pound r.n tea grown in this count ry, and in the course of his remarks he pointed out that at the present time South Carolina pro luces more tea each year than was grown in the island of Ceylon in 1875, and yet Ceylon now grows a suffi cient amount to supply the entire demand of the U. S. The Oleomargarine Law. The following statement from Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust will be read with interest: "Considerable agitation has recent ly been aroused owing to reported violations of the Oleomargarine Law in a certain section of the State. As Dairy and Food Com missioner, I desire to 5ay that whenever and wherever violations of the Oleomargarine or other Pure Food Laws are discovered by this Bureau, or reported to it, they are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The Oleomargarine Law, like the Liquor and other similar laws, is extremely difficult to en force, and while violations occur now, and always have occurred, it is the purpose cf this Bureau to re duce violations to a minimum and to punish to the maximum every violator of the provisions of the law. To this end I solicit infor mation that will enable this Bu reau to locate any violations of the Oleomargarine Law that may occur in any part of the State. I his is particularly solicited from dairymen, and especially from the public press, which has much to do with the formation of public sen timent. While public sentiment is strong against wrong-dcing gen erally, and properly so, it is unfor tunate that public sentiment in cer tain parts of the State is more or less opposed to the enforcement of the Oleomargarine Law, and for this reason in its fight for observ ance of the law this bureau in vites the co-operation and support of every organization and every in dividual iu the Commenwealth. The following extracts from the records of this office show the ac tivity of the Bureau from the date of approval of the Oleomargarine uw, May 29th, 1 901, so far as those counties in this section of the State are concerned in which vio lations of the law most frequently occur and where public sentiment makes them most difficult to sup press: In the counties referred to viz: Allegheny, Beaver, Favette. Lawrence, Mercer, Washington and Westmoreland during the years 1901 and 1902 'Commission ers Welles and Cope terminated 133 cases, and turned into the State Treasury $5,273.49 in fines and costs; during the years 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906 Commissioner Warren terminated 102 cases, and paid into the state Treasury $23, 687.50 in fines and costs; during the years 1907, 190S and iqoo to June 15th Commissioner Foust ter minal ed 330 cases, and paid into the State Treasury xx, 420.28. In addition there are 33 Injunction Cases pending in the courts of Alle gheny County, 13 Contempt C ises pending in the Superior Court for violating the orders of the Court, and 50 First and Second Offense Cases for trial; with a large num ber of cases before the Aldermen and many others in preparation." Soaping the Farmers. A man giving the name of L. S. Burns, has been swindling the farmers of Wyoming county out of considerable money through the sale of soap, offering valuable pre miums, which never materialize. The man is supposed to be a resi dent of Wilkes-Barre and cleims to represent the Woodbury Soap Co., of New York, and delivers two dozen cakes of toilet soap and upon payment ot $10.00 or more down to furnish 200 bars of laundry soap which the farmer is to cut in half and deliver to his neighbors as sam ples. Burns promises to give the premiums for so doing in the shape of dishes, clocks, chairs and many other articles. Burns is described as about 55 years of age; weight 170 pounds; height nearly 6 feet: complexion dark; eyes peculiar and teeth incased with gold. . Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A New Spring Suits! Spring Suits have arrived! There's mngic in that simple an nouncement for where's the woman who is not all eyes to see the new garment fashions i The Sew Spring Soils Are Low Priced. A most remarkable feature about these handsome new models is their extremely low prices. Your spring outfit will give you a bet ter service a much finer appear ance and yet cost you a small price. Catering to every taste we've gathered an assortment of choicest correct styles. Prices $10 to $35. Spring Suits 1 7 rr. Regularly $20 00 p jJ Suits of hard twisted serge and striped worsted in black, blue, green, tan and gray. 36 inch hip less coats; slashed back, patch pockets, self button trimming, full sat'in lined; satin collar and cuffs; Skirt is Demi-Princess with self covered buttons down the front. All sizesup to 42. SUIT at $12 75 Of shadow stripe chiffon panama in navy blue, elect blue, green, tan, ashes of roses and gray. Coat 40 inches long, semi-fitting hipless cutaway front forming points on the sides, new small sleeves, lined throughout with satin; gorsd flare skirt with trimming of straps and self covered buttons. SUIT at $26.50 A 4 button cutaway coat 40 inches long of striped worsted, slashed back and sides, inlaid bengaline silk collar; large flap pockets, trimmed with but tons, lined with taffeta silk; plain 1 1 gore demi-Prineess skirt, At S6.00 to $14.00 Junior Suits for the little Misses in sizes it, 13, 15 and 17 years. Made of shadow stripe pan ama and fine serge in navy blue, gray and green, semi fitting hipless coats, gored and pleated skirt. SUIT at $27.00 A strictly tailored suit of French Serge; 4 button cutaway; single breasted (just a slight cut away effect;) lined with taffeta silk; new small sleeves; Demi Princess Skirt with inverted plait at sides. SUITS at $20.00 Of chiffon panama in blue, green and black; graceful semi-fitting hipless coat 36 inches long, single breasted, new small sleeves and trimmed with satin piping; gored flounce skirt. F. P. PURSEL. BLOOMSBURG, JUST A REMINDER! 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