THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURtt, VX THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ULOOJISHUUG, lA. THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capital SI00.000 Surplus 8150,000. With the Largest Capital and Surplus in the County, a Strong Directorate, Competent Officers and Every Mod err. Facility, we solicit Account?. Large or Small, and Collections" on the Most Liberal Terms Consistent with Sound Banking, and Invite YOU to inspect ovir NEW QUARTERS. 2 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits OFFICERS V. M.Low. President. fani-" M.Stavcr. Vice President. DIRECT O K S Myron I. Low, Vico President. Frank Iktler, Cafhier E.W.M.I.ow. Y . G . Y rk. I.oul Gr, M. E ."t.u-k!icn:?. Jam M. Staver, Frt"l I feeler. S. V. 'renv. Clint'Mi Herritiff. Myron I. Low, H. V. Howe:, Frank Ikeler. COLUMBIAN. THE ESTABLISHED 1S66. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, TABLIS.EP !S,;. C"NV'I ITA1EP IJtO bli : Every Ththsdav M-mnc. B'. .'rai'. ur;, :Y.t Our.tT Set 01 C'.u-nbiaCour?y,Pennv'.Tan:. GEO. E. FT.VVrl.L. ErncR. GEO. C. ROAN. roRSVAjf. In- t :o-r.-y :.cC a year i.s:;: -.a? ;;'. in ilvir:. : jur.rv, :.lt a vest. trU:l ;r : ex THE CuLVMHIAN. r.o-5T.;'ur, r- THURSDAY. -EPTF.MEER f. 1 "1" Democratic State Ticket. JCSTICK OF THF. S'.'FKHMK COURT. C. LaRUE MUNSON. cf Lycoming County. Avditos Genera:., J. WOOD CLARK, of Indiana County. State Treasurer, GEORGE W. KIPP, of Bradford County. Democratic County Ticket. Sheriff, W. P. ZAHXER. 7 v ry Commissioner, A. C. HIDLAY. Coroner, ROBERT ERENNEN. Arctic Keeps One Mystery. Fate ol Andree and Companions Still Un explained. With news from Peary, who says he has discovered the North Pole, there remains only or.e explorer who entered the Far North of whose fate nothing is positively known Salomon Auguste Andree. of Sweden, who, with two compan ions, set out for the Pole 12 years Say Census Will Show 100.000.000 Under Flag. Experts Estimate $9,000,000 in Union, With 15.000.000 In Our Insular Possessions. Experts in the Census Bureau, already busy with forecasts of the probable results of the new count of population to be taken next spring, figure out that the enumer ation will show $9, 620,000 people in the United States proper, and that the population of all the States. Territories and insular possessions will make a magnificent aggregate ot Jiore than 100,000,000. Letter Registry Will be Ten Cents. to the Postal Increase Will Add Millions Revenues. An increae of two cents is to be made in the near future tn the fee for the registration of letters and mail packages. ' Announcement of the propped change was made by Postmaster General Hitchcock. The decision to increase the registry fee follow ed an extended inquiry into the registry system by a special com mittee appointed by the postmaster general. It is understood to be Mr. Hitch cock s purpose to take up me reg This estimate is made by men istry system first in considering an whn lm-o fcen rlnw watch on the branches of the costal service for increase of rooulation in the cities reorganization wherever greater ef of the country, on the birth and ficiency and less expenditure may death rate, on immigration statis-1 be effected. tics for the last decade, and are. In his talk with a nutnoer of the therefore, well qualified to make a delegates who attended the recent close mess as to what the result of annual convention of the National balloon. It is believed, tint Andree surely is The Quay Statue Araia. thicken about the statue of Matthew Stanley Quay, Complication; the Pe:::.sylvau:. Karl Bitter, the two years ago. guished without . statesman, w men sculptor, finished I: has since lan a redesta! to stand ... - , . . . , upon, cr an aotdtug piace, wcttc former associates c: the great party leader, before whose frown men used to tremble, have been passing from one to another the burden o: responsibility of settiug it up in a public place. It has just been ship ped by the sculptor to the Governor of the State, who. as ex-of5cio President of the Board cf Public Grounds and Buildings at Harris- burg, might be exr-ected to be the proper person to take charge of it. Carved as a ptculiarly appropri ate adornment of Harrisburg's ex pensive Capitol, itse.t the most splendid monument of political graft in the United State, the effigy of the most famous of all the politic ians concerned in the erection of that Capitol is denied a place in its rotunda, in spite of the Legisla ture's order. "Note so poor to do him reverence, indeed. The pres ent indication is thai Mr. Bitter's work cf art will remain in the freight station at Harrisburg. The lesser authorities at the Capitol do not believe the Governor can or will give orders for its removal. Even trally it mav be sold as junk, for enough money, i; is hoped, to pay the sculptor 5:500 stul owing to him for its making. Eut yesterday the word of Caesar might "Have stood against the world. and now his surviving henchmen are ashamed to set up his counter feit presentment where that world may look upon it. They had better do something with the statue, how ever, to stop the talk about it, which must be very lrntat mens' minds ago in a however, dead. Whatever the fate of Andree and his daring eo-explo:er, his expedi tion established one great fact lor scientists and those aeronauts who shall hereafter attempt to reach the Pole by balloon that is, that at certain times of the year there are trade winds blowing from the south directly over Spitzbergen and flow- g straight for the Pole. Andree ett Dane s Island, 79 degrees and 43 minutes north latitude and 10 degrees 12 minutes east longitude. 2:30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon ly 11, 1S97. His balloon rose out ot the varvinz undercurrents ud swung about like a carrier pig eon sighting its wav. Then it set- d down and hoated ct: due north before a stiff breeze that carried it an even speed of about 22 miles an hour. Forty-six hours later, or at 12:30 :lock oa July 13. Andree dis tched by carrier pigeou to the Aftonbladet, Stockholm, this mes- T A ' "July 13. 12:30 T. M.. S2.2 de crees nortn latitude, 15.5 degrees east longitude. Good progress to ward the north. Ail goes we'd on oard. This message is the third y carrier pigeon. Andree." His companions were ba'.Ioouists and civil engineers. Nils Strindberg ing second master at the Free Uuiversitv of Stockholm and Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frankel a civil gineer and member of thj Swe dish Academy of Science. .an accurate enumeration wi.l be. The census of 1000 gave the popu lation fot the United States proper as 73.607,225, so that if the esti mate of the showing of the new census as given above be accepted as approximately correct, toe in crease in the ten-year period will be about 1 .000.000. Follow ing the new census, uuder the law a new apportionment of the House of Representatives will be necessary. If the present minimum of population in a Congressional district, which is 101 000, i adher ed to in making the new apportion ment, the membership of the House will be increase J from 3S7 10 465, taking it tor granted that next year's census will show a total pop ulation of So.62o.o:-o. A House consisting of 45 nttiubtrs would. it is generally agreed, be altogether unwieldy. To keep the membership down to 400, the basis ot represen tation would have to be lifted trom iQ4,oooto 22s, 000. But even on this basis the States of Pennsylva nia. New York, Illinois, Missouri, Oklaaoma and Texas wou.d gain at least one member of the House, and New York. Pennsylvania and Texas rrobatlv wou.d ga:u two members each. Association of First class Postmast ers at Toledo, Mr. Hitchcock learn ed they were almost unanimously of the opinion that an increase in the registry fee from S to 10 cents would not be opposed when it is understood that the g--ernment . 1 1 1 is losing several million uouars through the present system. By law, the postmaster general is authorized to mase registry lee as high as 20 cent. In 1S74 it was reduced from 15 to S cents, but in creased to 10 cents in 1S75. It was reduced from 10 to 8 cents in 1S93. The registry service is the most expensive ot any rendered oy uie department, owing to vhe precau tions taken to insure correct deliv- erv ana ansoiuiesaiety in tne trans mission cf registered articles. State Stind-iy School Workers in October. Meet Rettiming Prosperity. Evidenced by Railroad Business. The return of prosperity to the railroads of the country is evidenc ed in reports just published of the gross earnings of 25 roads for the first half of August. For the first time since the panic of 1907 the aggregate weekly gross earnings exceeded the high records reached m August, 1907. For the second week in August the 25 roads reported gross earnings of $, 545, 724, an increase ot over 6 per cent, over the same period ot August, 1907, when the gross earn ings re. chea the record figure ot $3:835.314. The earnings for the last week ot August have not been computed, but on the basis of the increase for the second week railroad men be lieve that the high record cf Au gust. 1907, of i3.S53.9S7. will be eclipsed and a new record set. The total for August, 1907 was North Pole Again Discovered. Pear Rurns Succeijful i-cr tae second time wiiain nvc davs the worll was startled on Tuesdav bv a message from the North stiting thai the Pole had been discovered. Th's time the word came from Commander Robert E. Peary. U S. N , who has at last attained hi goal after twenty-six vears of ef fort. He reached the Pole on April s-.xta ot tuts year, arout a year a:ter Dr. Cok. It is a remarica1 ie coincidence that after long centuries of fruitless efforts to reach the top of the earth two messages should be telegraph ed to the world almost simultan eously announcing success. It. is still more gratifying to realize that both the authors of these messages are Americans. All doubt as to the authenticity of Dr. Cook's discovery should now be dissolved, after a thorough com parisou of his records with those of Commander Pearv shall have been made. Both explorers will teach New York this month. The universal press is now filled with lone accounts civen by the discoverers, and with editorials lauding their braverv and perse verence; Royalty is paving homage; the whole world is congratulating America and praising her two no ble sons, Peary and Cook. To Tear Uut Hill by Dynamite. Immense Blasts Will be Set oft at Northum berland Classification Yards. ?4D,6oi,877. The first two weeks cf August, 19-09, totalled 513,102, 707, as against $17,659,770 tor the first two weeks of August, 1907. On this basis a new record of rail road prosperity for the month of itating to the state-1 ASU51 ls exPecieQ 10 esiaoiin .Veti' York 7ima. ed mwirig.jirn s J L.' L J 1 It May Be frnizu "A hard chill, pain through the e'vest, difficult breathing. Then fever, with great prostn-tion." If this should be your experience, send for vour doctcr. You may have pneumonia! If your do:tcr cannct come at once, j give Ayer s Cherry ectoral. hen he comes, tell him exactly what you have done. Then do as he says. No alcohol in this coush medicine. TX7A keep the bowels in good conjmon. One ot Aver Fills at bedtime will caute an increased flow of bile, anil produce a gentle laxative effect the day following. Preparations are being made in the work of the classification yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad above Northumberland to blast away a bill, which must be levelled to form part of the yards. This will be one of the biggest engineering feats on the work and thousands of tons of dirt and rock will be torn out and carted to different points of the yard to be used as filling. well diggers are now sinking holes in the hillside, about twenty feet aparr. These holes are about five inches in diameter, and go about 30 feet into the earth. Two rows of them are being dug. and one row is to be exploded at a time. The ground for the greater part of the depth is mostly shale. When these blasts are set oS thev will be heard for miles around, and enormous clouds of dirt will be thrown into the air, making a sight that will be well worth witnessing. After the first discharge tbe ground will be carted away with the numerous teams that are being used in the work. The second blast will tear oat a great part of ! the remainder of the hill. Forty-Fifth Annual Convention to be Held at Harrisburg Strong Program Prepared. Unless all signs fail the coming State Convention of the Peunsvlva nia istate sxtDDatu rcuooi .Associa tion to be held in Harrisburg, Oc tcber 13, 14 r.nd 15 wi.l tar exceed in numbers, ir.terest and euihusi- .ism all former meetings cf the as sociation. The past year has been one of intense activity along Sunday school lines in every county throughout the State. Statistics recently gath ered show marvelous growths in Teacher Training. Home Depart ment Work and Organized Adult Bible Classes. The magazine writer who said that Sunday senooi is on the decline certainly did not get his information from Pennsylvania. The program prepared for the state Convention is a strong one and contains the names of Governor Edwin S. Stuart, Bishop James Henry Darlington, Hon. John Wau- amaker, Mr. H. J. Heinz. W C. Pearce, Chicago; Rev. David James Burrell. D. D., New York; Mrs. Mary Foster Eryner, Chicago; Dr. Joseph Clark (Timothy Standby), Columbus: Mrs. Cillah i-oster Stev ens, Alton. III.; Mr. E. C. Foster. Detroit: Mrs. Maud Junkm Bald win. Indianapolis; Mr. Dave Por ter. New York: Prof. E. O. Excell, Chicago; Rev. Floyd Tomkins, Phil adelphia, and otters. The special features of the con vention will be a halt cay session for Elementary Grade workers; a Teacher Training Conference, a Home Department Conference, a Temperance Teaching Conference, a Missionary Teaching Conference.. an Organized Adult Eible Class Rally Conference and mass meetin 1 T" f- a parade or u. a. a. men. ciass delegations will come from many sections of the State to participate s.ooo meu will be in line with bands and banners. All railroads will sell reduced rate tickets Programs for the convention and other printed matter can be obtain ed by writing to W. G. Landes, General Secretary, 701-2 Wiiher- spoon BUg., Philadelphia, Pa. . m 1 Postal Receipts Will Increase. Experts cf the Post OtSce De partment estimate that the proposed increase cf the registry tee trom to iocents will result in au increase of about $ t ,000,000 a year in the receipts of the Department. This estimate is made on the assumption that the volume of the registry business will not decrease under the higher rate. Even if the busi ness should decrease, a saving would be made, because it now is being operated at a serious loss. The Government itself, in its various departments, sends an im mense amount of registered mail which, of course, is carried free. If the proposed fee of ten cents were applied to all Government registry matter the additional increase would ammount to nearly $650,000 annually. CHIIcJron Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTORIA Special Sale OF LINENS AND Furniture This Week AT F.P.PUR BLOOMSBURG, PA. iTrsg . eH. j l-:mm lt.il JUST A REMINDER! Here is a list of some of the printed goods and blank stock that can be obtained at the Columbian Printing Mouse Perhaps it may remind you of something you need. FMn?T ADFQ All sizes, Commercial, Professional, Insur. LMuUVrfil) ance. 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