THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURfi. PA THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capital 3100,000 Surplus $150,000. 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 Hanking, and Invite YOU to inspect our NEW QUARTERS. 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits OFFI V . V. M. Low, President. James M.Staver, Vice President. DI RECTORS: Innies M. Staver, Fred I keler, H.V. Creasy, (.'linton Herrinp, E.W.M.Low, O. Yoiks, Iiouis Gross, M. EjStackhouse. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, ESTABLISHED tS37. CONSOLIDATED I S69 r jnLisiiED Every Thvrsday Morning, Al Bloomsburg, the County Seat ot Columbia County .Pennsylvania. CEO. E. ELWELL, Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. Terms: Insid t the county if t.oo a year la advance; S 1 . 50 i f not paid in advance. OuVi'le the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in ai't-rce. All communication? should beaddressed THE COLUMBIAN, Ploomsburg, Ta. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1009 CHANGES WROUGHT BY AMEND MENTS. After 1910 the February Election Will Be a Thing of the Past. According to the ballot in the recent election the voters of the state were called upon to vote for ten amendments and a schedule which provided for the carrying in to effect of the amendments. Sum med up, the various amendments revised certain portions of the State Constitution, and had for their purpose the abolition of the Ftbruary elections, land provided that the general or State elections shall be held in November in the even numbered years and the mun icipal elections in the odd number ed years. Amendment seven pro vided that election officers shall be elected biennially but gave to the Legislature the right to determine whether the election officers should te appointed. Virtually all cf the amendments are based upon the same thing, and as outlined by the political leaders mean nothing more than the aboli tion of the February election and the arrangement of the election of officers to conform with that pro position. By the provisions of amendment one it is stipulated that where a vacancy occurs in office two months or more before the November elec-tion-in offices which may be filled by oppointment of the Governor the vacancy shall be filled at that election. Amendment No. 2 provides that the State Treasurer-elect and the Auditor General-elect shall serve three years and that hereafter those elected to these offices shall serve four years. The third amendment provides ;for fixing the term of office of Jus- tices of the Peace and Aldermen at six instead of five years, and the . fourth amendment, which relates to Philadelphia alone, gives the Magistrates a term of six instead ' of five years. The fifth amendment simply fixes that the general, or what is com monly termed the State election, shall be held biennially in the even numbered years on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November instead of annually, and amendment No. 6 abolishes the February election and provides that it be held in the odd-numbered years. Then follows the 7th amendmeut relatiug to the election officers, whether the Legislature be empow ered to decree that they shall be appointed, which was defeated, and mrter that is the 8th amendment which provides that all State offic es shall be elected at the November election in even numbered years D ocs Not Ayer's Sarparilla does net stimulate. It does not make you feel better one day, then as bad as ever the next. It is not a strong drink. K0 reaction after you stop using it. There is not a drop of alcohd in it. Yen have the steady, even gain i!t cc:c fron a sfrong tonic and alterative. we wisn yni woi: . : wnai ur.Ayu i . .. . i . ..,. liars. Do doclavs r?cj...r.'!5J then? E 11 H : Myron I. Low, Vice President. Frank Ikeler, CnsliUr Myron I. Lowi H". V.Hower, Frank Ikeler. and that local officers shall be elec ted on the election day in the odd numbered years. Amendments Nos. 9 and 10 fix the te.m of office of all county of ficers at lour instead of three years, and the schedule to which the voters of the State gave their ap proval decided that in carrying into effect these amendments the terms of office of State officials now fixed at an odd number of years shall be extended one year so as to come in an even numbered year. The term of election officers will be two years, that of assessors, con stables, school directors, council men, supervisors and of all city and county officers will be four years, and that of justices of the peace, aldermen, and magistrates will be six years. County officers elected in 1907 and 1909 will each serve four years, but those elected in 1908 will serve only three years. The February (municipal) elec tion will be held in 1910, as hereto fore, but all electiou officers chosen at that election will serve until the first Monday in December, 191 1. All officers chosen at the Febru ary election, 19 10, to offices the term of which is now four years or the term of which is made four years by the proposed amendments, shall serve until the first Monday in December, 1913. All justices of the peace, alder men and magistrates elected in Feb ruary, 1910, shall serve until the first Monday in December, 1915, and thereafter the terms of all city, ward, borough, and township elec tion officers shall begin on the first Monday of December in odd-numbered years. All city, ward, borough and township officers holding office when the proposed amendments are adopted and whose terms end in 191 1 shall continue in office until the first Monday in December, 191 2. State officers, Congressmen and members of the General Assemhly will be elected at the general elec tion in November of the even-numbered years, and all other officers will be elected at the municipal election in November of the odd numbered years. This provision, however, has no reference to elec tions of Judges of the courts, who may be elected in any year, nor to special elections to fill vacancies. At the general election in 1910 the ballot will be headed by candi dates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Internal Affairs; in 1912 by the presidential electors, the State Treasurer and the Auditor General. All other officers county, city, borough, ward and township will be elected in the odd-numbered years. Odd-numbered senatorial districts will elect Senators in the years of the presidential elections, and even numbered senatorial districts will elect Senators in the years of the gubernatorial elections. Two suffragettes got into a wiuab ble while one of tneir comrades was haranguing a crowd in City Hall Park, New York, last Friday They mussed each others pompa dours, ana ruined their perfectly good hats, and were finally pried apart by a cop. That's all right, girls. It's a great thing to be a "militant suffra gette," and if you keep on pulling each others hair aud shouting "Votes for Women" nobody will be any the worse for it, and you'll all have a hne time. St5mis9ate! vou, - dorter r.hrut i hie ifn J( i,;u-. ih.y inivi soMf h'-.uly '-iv Aik yut:r cwn doctor end find e:-!. WASHINGTON From our Uefiulnr Correspondent. Washington, I). C, Nov. 15, 1909 After a long absence from the White House, the President has made a b-.ief visit to Washington and again departed. Mrs. Tnft has been a tesident of the historic man sion for nearly a fortnight. Many improvements have been made dur ing the summer. The new White House offices connected by a long gallery with the main building and to be used for the first time by President Taft have been enlarged to twice the size as used by cx-Pres-ident Roosevelt. The contractors have worked on these offices day and night with three shifts ot work men in order that they might be completed and ready 011 Mr. Taft's return. The offices extend entirely over the lawn tennis grounds made famous by the late athletic Pre.-i dent aud his kitchen cabinet, a name given by journalism to his compan ions in tennis including Gifford Pinchot, James Garfield, Judge Cooley, the French Ambassador and one or two others. President Taft was received on his arrival by his Cabinet and a delegation from the Chamber of Commerce of Wash ington, lie is probably the only President who has ever been 111 the White House who is not bored by fol de rol ceremony. The Chamber of Commerce is a fifth wheel in Washington. It is an organization quite equal to laun;hing an auto mobile flower parade or a Commit tee to get in the wf.y of the Presi dent aud impede hU resistless rush home to see his wife. Mr. Taft is a patient and amiable man. They would not have dared to get in the way of his predecessor. Speaking of his predecessor the demand for his return is undoubtedly growing. The Pinchot Balliuger Glavis inci dent is calling for Roosevelt. Ti e Cannon, Aldrich, Lahodette, Dolli vcr, Bevcridge, Cummins and Mid die West are calling for Roosevelt. The hunter of Lions, Hippopotami and Elephants will find bigger game here two years hence, there is but little doubt that if Roosevelt had been President the Aldrich Cannon tariff bill would not hav; been whitewashed, aud tl at other half way measures and policies would have failed to receive the ap proving smile and caressing pat. It was said of President Roo;evelt that the members of his Cabinet were mere clerks, that lie used them merely as intermediaries for the ac complishment of his administration policies, though with reference to one Cabinet officer at least this was far from the truth, for, on one oc casion, alter trying 111 vain to gel Secretary Root to the phone know ing that he was at his desk barely four hundred fet distant the Presi dent sent a messeuger for him ask ing an interview, only to receive the answer that the Secretary of btate was busy and could not see him. President Taft's relation to his Cabinet has not been fully de veloped. It has been generally be lieved that having chosen a Cabi net of lawyers, himsjlt a lawyer, his administration will be statute- esqne. That he is disposed to stand by his Cabinet, may be infe red from his conspicuous endorsement of Ballinger in his controversy with Glavis and Pinchot. Now that the installation of the Executive and his Cabinet is com plete soon t3 be followed by the beginning of the Congressional ses sion Washington will once more at tract the attention of the country as the arena of the greatest politi cal activity, or, at least the nuU important in this hemisphere. Dur ing the last ten years great changes have taken place in the setting of the locals of Government. No long er is the visitor disembarked from the trains at the old Sixth Street Pennsylvania station or the New Jersey Avenue Baltiaiore and Ohio station. A new railway union sta tioh unexcelled in grandeur and convenience by any in the world has been completed and is in use Those approaching the Capitol by the main entrance are impressed with the appearance of two new immense rcarble palaces near the Senate and the House wings of the Capitol. These are the office build ings for Senators and Representa tives in Congress and are connected with the Senate aud House by un derground galleries traversed bv automobiles. For elegance, luxurv and solid splendor the congress of tne united Mates are unequal. ed by any legislative body in the world. A heating plant costing a million aim a nait ot dollars situat ed nearly a half a mile from the Capitol furnishes warmth. light aud purified atmosphere to these office palaces and to the Congressional Library. In the last year as it will be remembered the salaries of mem hers have been increased from $5,- 000 10 7,000 and they may now, by an adroit use of their new lux urious offices and an economical use of sandwiches save some money. There are restsurauts in the base ment under the Senate and lower House atid it has been the custom to let to cafe managers outside tif the capitol the concessions for sup plying our law makers with the meals they desire to take in the Capitol. It has just been announc ed after a number of failures in this business that the last restaurant manager in charge of the Senate cafe has declined to accept the con cession again and it is said that hereafter the Government itself will look after the menus and the sup plying and preparation of the food. That is to fay that an appropriation will he made by Congress for that purpose and among the spoils of office will he the appointment of managers, cooks, waiters and other attaches of this post. No one said whether or not the appointments will fall under the civil service and whether a man to properly cater to .1 dyspoptic Senate must know the Binomial Theorem aud quadratics but at any rate Congress is going to look after it in one way or anoth er. The trouble all along has been the exceeding simplicity of the ap petites of most of the Senators. While it was necessary to maintain a menu a foot long in order to sat isfy the eye of the legislators, their appetites are as a ru'e satisfied with a glass of milk and a pie-e of pie and the restaurant, therefore, is a business failure. This It An Easy Test. Sprinkle Allen's Foot-Ease in one shoe and not in the other, and notice the dif ference. Just the thing to use when rub bers or overshoes become necessary, and your shoes seem to pinch, sold livery where, 2c. Don't accept any substitute. 2t. FISH BASKET LAW. Chief Warden Crisswell Will Recom mend Abolition of Permits Be cause of Abuse. The eradication of all fish baskets by a repeal of the fish basket law will be recommended by Chief War den Crisswell, of the Department of Fisheries, in his annual report to the Board of Fish Commissioners when it meets in December. Ciisswell does n.t intend to sim ply work for the curtailment of the privileges of the fish basket opera tor or to recommend a drastic re vision of the law, but it is his in tenticn to try and make the de struction of the fish basket complete in every form In outlining his reasons for this action the warden says a repeal of the law would be most humane. Fishermen, he adds, are being detected and fined for flagrant dis regard for th law all over the State. WORKS AGAINST THE POOR. They are as a rule so poor that they cannot afford to pay the fines imposed upou'thetn and when they do the blow falls heavier upon their families than it does upon' tliein. More suftering has been entailed among the women and children of these defendants than one would care to admit without a careful study of the conditions. A majority of the fishermen op erating fish baskets, the warden said, are either too illiterate to comprehend the full meaning of the law or else violate the law deliber ately, relying upon a number of plausible excuses to aid them in evading the usual fine. EXTERMINATES THE EEL. The fish baskets at the present are so constructed that they are certain to clear the waters of the State of all migratory species of eels. The preseut law periniis slats in the bottom of fish baskets to be three-eighths of an iuch apart, which leaves such a narrow space that the baskets retain almost ev erything that flows into them down to the size of an angle worm. Geueral reports from all over the State show that the eels that are being caught are extremely small this season, being known among the fishermen as the noodle or whipcracker. They are so small that it requires from tin to sixteen of them to weigh a pound after having been dressed. OPERATE IN TROUT STREAM?. Crisswell also says the majority of fishermen are scarcely coutent to place their baskets in the larger rivers inhabited by trout, but per sist in installing them in small trout streams and then claim there are no trout in the immediate vicinity of the fish baskets. It was thought by the warden at first that the law requiring fish baskets to be provided with reason able openings in the wing walls in addition to prohibiting their use in smaller trout streams would prove satisfactory, but it has been found that less attention has been paid to the provisions than ever. The best way to get rid o: the evils resulting from the use of fish baskets, said Crisswell, is simply to repeal the law which has made them legal. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S -CASTORI A F. P. PUR WILL IN ROBBINS ON OR H IS November 27th. F. P. PTOSEL, BLOOMSBURG, PA. -. rmrTT1r1rilrnw al,M , nrmr mm "(-.. nln. mn An Irresistible Bargain. $1.75 Value for Only $1.15. 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