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OFBWOMSDUKG, I A.
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OFFICERS:
R. W.M. Low, President.
Junes M.Staver, Vice President.
DIRECTORS?
James M. Staver,
Fred Ikeler,
H. V. Creasy.
Clinton Herring,
E. W.M.Low.
F. G. Yorkd,
Louis Grow,
M. E tackhouge.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED t866.
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Kit ABListim 1837. Consolidated 1869
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ColumbiaCounty Pennsylvania.
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HUK.SDAV, JULY 15, 1909
Bryan Will Go Abroad.
Plant Australian ard English Lecture Tour,
Friends Say.
William J. Bryan is contemplat
ing another foreign lecture tour.
He will leave America in a short
time, his intimate friends say, to
spend three years abroad. He told
newspaper men that a carefully
planned trip through Australia and
England is now being arranged for
Hm, and he was enthusiastic in
mimenting upon the field for his
Hires which exists in those two
untries. He is getting all his af
.irs in readiness for this tour, and
f -.ople close to Mr. Bryan say that
i. will leave America for Austra
lia lite this summer.
He will go to Sydney and remain
there for several days. His trip
will include all the large cities of
Australia and he will spend almost
two years in that country and the
other English-speaking islands of
the Pacific. Then he will go to
England and tour the whole of
Great Britain.
Several of his lectures are now
being translated into French and
German, to enable the Nebraska
orator to spend a few weeks in
France and Germany. He plans
to return to America in the summer
of 191 2, and there may be another
gigantic reception for him in New
York at that time.
-New Pennsylvania Law.
Pennsylvania has recently placed
herself in line with other states in
the matter of progressive legisla
tion affecting the horse. An act
went into effect May 6, making it
unlawful to offer for sale or to sell
diseased, lame, or worn out horses.
Provisions are made for its enforce
ments by policemen, constables, or
agents cf any anti-cruelty society
incorporated in the state. This
law was secured by the united ef
forts of the societies in Pennsylva
uia, working through the Federat
ed Humane societies of which
Thomas S. Carlisle is secretary.
The first prosecution and convic
tion under the new law was made
May 12 by an agent of Pennsylva
nia S. P. C. A.
Out ot 472 employees at the
immigration Station at Ellis Island,
New York Harbour, more than
one fourth have been found to be
below the standard of efficiency,
according to an announcement
made Tuesday at the Department
of Commerce and labor. Of these,
some will be dismissed, some
reduced and others reprimanded
and warned.
Weak Throat
Cold after cold; cough after cough! Troubled with this
taking-cold habit? Better break it up. We have great
confidence in Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for this work. No
medicine like it for weak throats and weak lungs. Ask
4 your doctor for his opinion. He knows all about it.
i His aDDroval is valuable. Follow hU advlrp f all timpc
I No alcohol in this cough medicine. J.C.AyerCo.,Lowcll,MaJ.
Always keep a goot! laxat f vc in the house. Take a de when yourcoldfirstcomeson. What
is the best laxative for this? Ayer's Fills. Ask your doctor his opinion. Let him decide.
Myron I. Low, Vice President.
Frank Ikeler, Caauier
Myron T. Low,
H. V.Hower,
Frank Ikeler.
Crops Menaced by Lack of Rain.
Secretary of Agriculture Issues a Warning to
Farmers.
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
A. L- Martin has uttered a serious
warning to farmers on account of
the drought conditions which are
prevalent all over the State to a
greater or less extent.
"This has been fine harvest
weather recently," said Mr. Mar
tin, hut it has been corrispond
ingly bad for crops not yet ready
for the harvest.
"Corn and potatoes are at pres'
ent in the greatest danger from
lack of rain. I want to give this
warning to the farmers: Cultivate
your crops in time of drought. No
matter how busy you are with the
harvest run your cultivator through
your corn and potatoes and keep
it up.
SYSTEMATIC CULTIVATION'.
Mr. Martin explained that this
systematic cultivation is the only
safeguard against drouth which is
available to the farmer who lacks
an irrigation scheme which a 1
Pennsylvania farmers do lack.
Coutiuued breaking up of the hard
crust on top of the ground tends to
draw moisture Irom below and
spreads it among the roots.
In some sections of the State,
says Mr. Martin, who spent last
week on the northern tier, the
drought which has prevailed here
for the past fortnight has lasted for
six weeks. This is especially true
of counties in the valley of the
North branch of the Susquehanna
river.
The wheat crop has been har
vested in good shape and is an av
erage crop all over the Common
wealth. Hay is not so good in
yield, but the quality is excellent,
a ton of this year's timothy being
worth half as much again as in a
rainy year.
RECEIVED COMPLAINTS.
Complaints have been received
from some sections that paris green
is sola this year at much higher
prices than formerly, but that the
stuff is so adulterated that it doesn't
poison potato bugs.
"If that is true," said Mr. Mar
tin, "let the farmers who have
been swindled send the department
of agriculture samples of the adul
teratea poison. we have our
chemist for just such work and if
the adulteration is proved a fine or
imprisonment for the guilty manu
facturer or merchant will follow.
In sending such samples the Tann
er should be careful to keep an ac
curate record of the brand and the
place and time at which it was pur
chased." The Demand for Jig Saw Puzzles.
The demand for jig saw puzzles
in:reases every week. Every Sun
day The Philadelphia Press awards
200 of these fascinating games to
solvers of the puzzles printed in
The Sunday edition of The Phila
delphta Press. Hundreds of keen
witted readers have expressed their
appreciation of the amusement
these puzzles afford and write that
they mean to try to solve the puz
rles every Sunday. Interesting to
grown-ups as well as the little ones
Get lhe Press early next Sunday.
Souvenir Post Cards are printed
at this office. Half tones supplied.
Weak Lungs I
WASHINGTON
From our Kegular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C, July 12, 1909
The Senate has made such rapid
progress in its consideration of the
tariff bill that it now looks as if fi
nal adjournment would Le reached
by July 24, which by a somewhat
curious coincidence is the date on
which the Dingley bill was signed,
after a special session which con
vened on March 15, the same date
as saw the beginning of this session.
Senator Aldrich. chairman of the
Finance Committee, is having pre
pared a tabulated comparison of
the House and Senate bills, by
which he hopes to show that the
increases made in lhe upper house
have been neither as numerout nor
as great as is popularly supposed.
It is true that there have been a
number of decreases from the bill
as oiiginally reported from the Fi
nance Committee, many of which,
because they were effected with lit
tle debate, attracted comparatively
little attention. Despite this fact,
however, even a casual study of
the measure as reported to the Sen
ate from the committee of the
whole shows an appalling number
of increases which even the inge
nuity of Mr. Aldrich will find it
difficult to explain, and which arc
certain to merit and to receive the
censure of the great army of con
sumers. The one feature of the Senate
bill cn which the leaders are rely
ing to mitigate popular censure is
the substitution of the tax on in
heritances, together with the adop
tion by a unamimous vote of the
joint resolution submitting to the
several states a constitutional a
mendment authorizing Congress to
impose a tax on individual iucomes.
Great as is the disappointment to
the Democratic leaders over the
failure of an income tax this ses
sion, they are, like true philoso
phers, finding no small degree of
comfort in the fact that President
Taft has permitted it to become
known that the special tax which
he prefers above all others is a
graduated income tax. In view of
the fact that this has long been one
of the chief planks in the Demo
cratic platform, it is strikingly il
lustrative of th 2 influence exerted
by the minority and of the adapta
bility of the majority that this con
stitutional amendment is now given
its first real impetus by a Republi
can President and such staunch ad
herents of old-school Republican
ism as Nelson W. Aldrich and his
associates on the Finance Commit
tee. It was perhaps to be expect
ed of a President so wedded to the
law and who enjoyed so long and
eminent an experience on the bench
as Judge Taft that he should re
gardless of bis views of that decis
ion of the Supreme Court which
pronounced unconstitutional the in
come tax ef the Wilson bill, hesi
tate to promote the reeuactmeut of
a similar law. It must be taken
into consideration in judging of his
course that the more pronounced
was his conviction . that the
court erred in its former decision,
the more loath would he be again
to present to it the same cause for
adjudication. Like all great law
yers his respect for the Supreme
Court of the United States at least
approaches the sacrisant, and be
lieving as he probably did that the
Supreme Court would be compelled
to reverse its former decision, or
else purely as a matter of consis
tency again to err, he was loath to
place it in that position. By means
of a constitutional amendment he is
convinced that the greatest tribu
nal in the land can be saved from
that embarrassing position, and it
is an earnest of his sincerity that
he has so iar won over to his view
that conservative of conservatives,
Senator Root of New York, that
Mr. Root in public debate pledged
himself to work and vote for the
adoption of the constitutional a
mendment by his own State which
has generally! been assumed least
likely to approve it.
V
The Navy Department is about
to undertake a series of experiments
which will be attended with the ut
most interest, although every effort
will be made to guard the results
from publicity. To an extent hard
ly conceivable to the uninitiated
the whole system of ordnance, in
eluding projectiles, armor resist
ance, torpedo attack, and a large
part of the science of balistics is
purely theoretical, being built up
from a series of experiments with
minimum sizes and distances from
which are calculated the effects, in
creased in arithmetical ratio. For
instance, the experts fire a two
hundred pound projectile at a six-
inch armor plate, at a given veloc
ity, and from' the results they cal
culate by rule of three, what effect
a thonsand pound projectile, fired
at a proportionately reduced veloc
ity, at a twelve-inch armor plate,
would have. With a materially in
creased appropriation, secured at
the last session ol Congress, exper
iments arc to be made with full
sized projectiles, at actual war dis
tances, and at actual thicknesses of
armor plate. For instance, a tar
get covered with twelve-inch plate
will be subjected to the fire of a
twelve-inch gun, at distances of
three, four or five miks, which will
closely approximate actual battle
conditions and serve to prove the
accuracy, or the reverse, of the
mathematical calcnlat oris which
heretofore have been the sole gu'de
of the ordnance experts. Experi
ments will be unde, also, to deter
mine the actual explosive force of
twelve-inch shells against given
thicknesses of armor plate.
The North Atlantic Fleet.
Skirting the inner tip of Cape
Cod there lies in the harbor of
Ptovincetowu and nearby waters
the largest and moat notable fleet
of warships ever assembled for
active duty under the Stars and
Stripes. Every vessel of the half
hundred is in readiness for practice
maneuvers which will tax the in
genuity and skill of the foremost
naval minds of the couu'.ry for the
next month.
The vessels, including battle
ships, cruisers, torpedo boats, sub
marines, refrigerator ships, tenders
and supply ships, numbering 54
are drawn up in two parallel lines
extending around Race Point along
the cape of Truro, four miles
below, standing at the head of the
line being Rear Admiral Schroed
er's flagship, the Connecticut. On
board the vessels are 15,000 men.
Shore leave was granted Sunday,
as it will be every Sunday for the
coming month during the niaueu
vers, when the fleets will return to
Proviucetown for the week end.
Ensign J. Boyd Rutter is as
signed to duty on the Wisconsin
battleship, one of this fleet.
Judge Clothes Jury.
Realizing that it was very un
comfortable for jurors to sit during
a trial in a hot, sultry Court room.
Judge Harris, in the criminal ses
sion of the Superior Court . sitting
in Boston on Tuesday ordered 12
alpaca coats for the jury. His
Honor wore a thin, light-weight
coat and felt none too comfortable,
though an electric fan was perched
on the bench. Now and then he
turned to the jury and saw its
members mopping their brows with
handkerchiefs and nervously
twitching in their seats while the
evidence was being put in. The
Judge called Court Officer Paine to
the bench and told him to get 1 2
alpaca coats for the members of
the panel. His Honor paid for the
coats.
As the jurors arrived after the
recess they were taken into a room
and given a light coat to put on in
place of their own coats and waist
coats. All the jurors appreciated
the kindness and consideration of
the Judge and when Court came iu
after 2 o'clock, the jurors were
sitting in the jury box each wear
ing his new coat and a smile.
Shippers May Use Paper Cases.
Faced by the assured extinction
of box lumber within a few years
at most, representatives of big
shipping interests appeared before
the meeting of the Southern Class
ification Committee Tuesday to se
cure specifications under whhh
they will be allowed to ship goods
in cases and boxes made of paper
pulp. Thomas W. Ross, of Cleve
land, the principal speaker, quoted
figures to show that shippers with
in a few years would be left with
out means of packing their goods
unless some new method similar to
th .t proposed is adopted. Permis
sion to use the paper boxes which
are made from old newspapers and
such other waste products as can
be turned into pulp has been
granted and the present meeting
will specify the exact weight and
other details necessary to protect
shippers against loss.
Pennsylvania Prosperous.
Pennsylvania is in the position
of being "practically out of debt,
the only State in the Union so sit
uated. This was demonstrated at
the meeting of the Sinking Fund
Commission Tuesday, when it was
shown that the net debt of the
State is $2,684,614 and to pay this
there was in the sinking fund $2,
666,379, the net State debt being
figured at $18,237.
In the next few months there
will be due the sinking fund $26,
486, and that wipes out the State
debt.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
C A SXO.R.I A
New Spring Suits!
Spring Suits have arrived!
There's magic in that simple an
nouncement for where's the
woman who is not all eyes to see
the new garment fashions ?
TI19 New Spring Soils Are Low Priced.
A most remarkable feature about
these handsome new models is
their extremely lew 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 (t,- cn
Regularly $2000 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 satin lined; satin collar
and cuffs; Skirt is Demi-Princess with self covered buttons
'down the front. All sizes up 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: gored 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 11 gore demi-Princess
skirt.
At $6.00 to $14.00 Junior Suits for the little Misses in
sizes 11, 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.
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