THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OFBLUUHHllUKa, THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capital 5100,000 Surplus 8150,000. With the Largest Capital and Surplus in the County, a Strong Directorate, Competent Officers and Every Mod ern Facility, we solicit Account.", Large or Small, and Collections on the Most Liberal Terms Consistent with Sound Funking, ?.nd Invite YOU to inspect our NEW QUARTERS . 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits OF KICKKS: V. XV. M . Tiow , President . James M .Sliivt r, Vice I'l'i'sideiit . D r n k cto us Myron I. Low, Vice President. Frank I kck-r, Cashier E.W. M. T-ow, K.(i. York-. Ij(ui(lroH, tunu s M. Stavt-r, Fri'il TUelev, S. ('. ( 'reiisy. ( 'linton t .'criiiifr, MvronJ. Low H, V. 1 lower, Flunk I kclcr. WASHINGTON BIQ RED CROSS STAMP SALE. THE COLUMBIAN. K--.T . ,' ISIIT'.I) iS'l'ift. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, i' t ,ltl IStM- 1' I 1.IMIHI I At r.'.l.MJ ' ( fl 11 Ml 1m I' ' in , 1 e Count O'Un'.v, J'enns i' vi H l Sf 9 : i( i;mm;, Siat ol r.K.o. i'. l.i CKO. CI' I :ise 1 III 1 K'Ml flU'5 If il'i cm:::! dvi c . Al: cm:iiii iv.c; T ' I !. CC'l.'.' 1 ! . V.! noR. N. l'oi; v an . t'n the county tj l.eo a vcar c ' i f nit pai 'I i ii :i 1 vancc. ! v . 1 . 2 5 a vi.1'-, s'.riitl) in ; iinis slim:'.: I't A.l.!;essol WAN, 1Vi -1'iir'. l'n. TKUItsnAY. dkckmbki; ;u. l'.": TAFT HAS PENSION' PLAN. Wants to Provide for Retirement of Worn Or.t Employees. Pensions for superannuated per sons in the Government service have been prnctically agreed upon by President Taft and the members tf bis Cabinet. They will use every effort t3 prevail on Congress to adopt some sort of a measure which will permit tbe retirement on part pay of the employees who have been found useless. There are sev eral bills before Congress providing for this. About 2,000 of the 170,000 per sons in the classified service are eligible for retirement. An approp riation from Congress is necessary to retire these employees. Follow ing this, a certain sum is to be de ducted annually from the pay of people iu the Government service. This fund will, after about thirty years, pay all of the annuities of retired clerks and others who have reached the age of seventy. Before that time is reached about S2,ooo, 000 will be required annually. The Democratic Program. Now Auto Law Goes Into Effect Jan. 1. A letter of instruction lor all ap plicants for automobile licenses under the net of 1909 has been pu pated at the State Highway He-p-irtment, and copies are being suit to persons who ask for tags for 1910 or for information so that the now I law may go into operation without 'difficulty on the fust of the year The new law was passed by the Legislature in its closing hours, after considerable debate, ami while speed provisions became effective , at once the icgulations concerning ' tags were held over until January 1. This law grades the prices of licen ses. 1'onuerly people paid $3 for each machine; now they pay ac cording to horse power, as follows: tflP f,.r r,M 1 , ,fr i, ' -.Mineral lands and t 1. 1 1 - " ' sites. 1 he iiu c mi iMit; less man 20. .All cars must bear tags and in addition chauffeurs must wear badges, which cost $2 each. There is no charge for an ow.ier running a car, but 110 one under 18 can operate one within the State, except by special license. The new bill also contains a pro vision aimed at chauffeurs taking trips without consent of owners, which is punishable by $100 line or a year in jail, or both. The same penalty is made fcr running a car without a tag or without its own tag. Persons who run cars while intoxicated will be punishable by a fine of from $100 to $300, accord ing to the damage they do. Non-residents of the State are given advantage of reciprocity clauses in the new bill, but they must come from a State which ac cords similar privileges to Pennsyl vanians and residents of other States. Every application for a license must be sworn to before a notary public and t'.-e tags and badges are furnished without extra charge. State Appropriations. Champ Clark, of Mississippi, the Democratic leader of the House of State Treasury payments have Representatives has defined the ; run almost $1, 100,000 ahead of the stand to be taken by the party at I receipts so far this month because this session. He says, "The pro-1 of the heavy demands for payment gram of the Democrats in the j of quarterly appropriations to char House is to keep down the amount ; ities and hospitals and expenses of of the appropriation bills and to 'State government. The total of vote against sV!p subsidy." j payments will be almost a record "The Ilctl'-e leaders are rushinsr i breaker for tliw tn.-mtli everything to get the appropriation measures uirougii and that subject , ed $Soo,ooo with nay men t of al aim tne snip subsidy proposition j most $r,yoo,ooo. It is expected seem to be about the only two ; that receipts will pick up in Jauua things that are to be taken up. Wejryor the general balance will go are opposed to the ship subsidy j pretty close to the $4,000,000 mark, bill. We favor a river and harbor! Mil. I Iook for adjournment of Congress 111 AdhI. j From our Keculnr Correspondent. Washington, 1). C, Dec. 27, 1909 Congress has adjourned for a Christmas vacation after a brief and uneventful pre-holiday session. Hut little legislation has been en acted and only one appropriation bill, that for the District of Colum bia, has been passed. This approp riation is considerably less than that for the past year and there is promise that the other appropria tions will show a proportionate re duction. There is much talk of economy at the While House, at the Capitol and iu the depa tments, but in the national, as in family affairs, mi economical program is difficult and it will genet ally be found in the end that both the family and the na'.ion have lived up to their income and all they can borrow. j As was expected, there will be a I j congressional investigation of what 1 I is now known as the 1. ;ii"ger -Pin- ' jelot feud. Mr. llallinger has ie j j quested such an investigation in a jloiinal letter to Senator Jones of j ; the Stale of Washington, stating i ; in bis letter that the investigation' I should embrace the forest service,' meaning Pinch, t, inasmuch as he (Ballinger) believes that the p.-r mcious activity of certain of its of ficers has lv.cn thesoutceof inspira tion of these charges. In an executive session of Senate, Senator Gore, the blind Sen itor from O.ikl hoina, offered a resolu tion providing for an in vesi igation and directing that a coniinitiee of eight senators, whom lie named, with a like number of nuinb.-is nf the Hons-.-, should conduct an in -1 vestigation of the general Land 1 Office and the Forest Seiviee with respect to stone, timber, coal and ! water power ' for planting sues. i lie Senators named bv Mr. 'Gore were Nelson of Minnesota; Dolliver of Iowa; Lodge of Massa chusetts; Bristow of Kansas; Root I of New York; Tillman of South I Carolina; Stone of Missouri; and Owen ot Oklahoma. If these sena tors shall be appointed and a com paratively strong committee of the House shall be nam. d to act with them, there can be no doubt of an investigation that will go to the bottom of this question, a question of great interest to all the people of tlu United States, concerning as it does all that remains of the splendid natural resources of the best endowed country 011 this planet. Tnere is important significance in the news that became public this morning that the President will in a special message, after Christinas, indicate that no necessity exists for changing the Sherman Anti trust law cealing with combiinlions in restraint cf trade. The President is counter-marching on this propo sition and taking n view of the question opposed to that of his pre decessor. It is said that the Piii. ! dent has been inflnen-o.l in nvt.. ing at his new conclusion by the attitude manifested toward the law courts by Gompers, Miichell mid others, since their conviction for contempt of court. During the past few weeks the New York Custom House has at tracted almost as much attention as the Congress of the Tnitorl Pennsylvania Next to New York With Total Output of 3,250,000. May Nicaragua. The embarrassment in Nicaragua lias practically terminated as far as this government is concerned. Jose Santos Zelaya has left the count ry and is now in Mexico. His acts have been repudiated by his successor, and the insurgents, though still restless, have practi cally ceased hostilities. It has been reported that Zelaya has made the statement that he now considers it advisable for the Unit ed States and Mexico to take a hand iu matters and assist in the federation of all of the Central American republics. States. Mr. I.oeb. Kcosevolt's Int.. Thus far receipts have aggregat-1 secretary, as Commissioner of Ctis ioius, 11. ir, uceu a veritable bull 111 that china shop, overturning the scales of the sugar trust and rip ping up steamer trunks and s;atter ing the landing piers of the great steamers with Parisian hats, lin gerie, gowns, jewelry, hisoery, and other sacred stuff with his sacreli ttious horns. It is believed that the general public regards smuggling uy ptivatc persons, especially if The Selinsgrove Times doesn't h--.ve any feat of Congressman Focht before it'3 eye. It says: "Congressman Ben Focht, of this district, is demanding a certain V 1 , ,.''.'' "j.eciauy u 's pork ri.n 1 r. . portion of the goods of the pork barrel to be used in deepening the waterway in ins district. You have often heard the saying that it costs a dollar to send a penny to the foreign missions, and it is the same way at vVashiugton. It costs a dollar to send a cent through a Congressional channel, and when Ben gets feeding the suckers along the Susquehanna and Juniata he can use the proportion of two dol lars to a cent. Many a budding playwright finds it as hard to get an audience with the public as with the President. Weak Throat Weak Lungs Cold after cold; cough after cough! Troubled with this takins-co'.d habit? lietter hrenlc if im W ! -- - S IIMtb glWUl confidence m Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for this work. No Mn,!!.!- 11. ? 1 . . . - mtuiuiit: xhc u ier weaK tnroats and weak lungs. Ask your doctor for his oninir.n. Hp knmvc r.K,f u IIis approval is variable. Follow his advice at all times. hi A.-u H-nmrw-'Vi r-v iir. Alu'aVF keep US':; : I. u; tne l:t:t !.-;.;:: : ; i.'k 1 nieti'dne. . C. A tier Co. . I.niDi'l! Kin?. .1 .i-jtit-e. lal:uaclor.ehen yourcolJiiistcomtson. What 3 Pills. Ail; yov.r Jotter his opinion. Let liiin decide. there is a general feelimr that every woman has a right to buy what she likes any where and that it is an interference with a natural right to make her pay for it a sec ond time when she attempts to in troduce it into her own so-called free country, but Mr. Loeb, no doubt, has the law and the dots on thousands of elegant globe trotters, who have long been in the habit cf outfitting themselves in Paris and London instead of patriotically paying the higher prices in their home shops. There is no doubt that the custom House is the great est of all monopolies in restraiut of trade. If all countries would abol ish their custom houses, their war navies might not rust to the water's edge. The hundreds of thousands who have used them will be glad to know that the combined pocket diary 19 lo-iuemorauduin bojk and calendar for 1910 & 1911, with other handy information issued by C. A. Snow & Co. of Washington, D. C, is ready and will be sent to any address on receipt 01 two cents postage. Write to C. A. Snow & Co., Washington, D. C. A total distribution of 3,250.000 Red Cross Christinas stamps in the State of Pennsylvania was reported by J. Byron Deacon, executive sec retary of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. Out of this total, which places Pennsylvania second in rank of all the States in the Union in the num ber of stamps distributed, only be ing surpassed by New York. Orders from Philadelphia airtrreirated I.- 250,000. The sale will be continued until New Year's. . . . . State Owns Many Trees. The policy of the State growing its own trees to carry out the con servation work on State forestry : reservations has been the means of! saving considerable inotu-y to the! I'orestrv Commission this year and 1 the good effects will be noticed next year .is well. j Some years ago the State estab-; lished a r.urserv for experimental ' purposes at Mont Alto and it jworktd so well that additional j nurseries were established at Green- I wood Furnace, Huntingdon Conn-i I ty; Asaph, Tioga County, and at ! points in Bedford, Centre and i Franklin Counties Asa result of the cate given to nursery woik the I'orestrv Com mission will have i.Soo.ooo oungi trees of its own glowing to set out ' in the Spring The planting will ; b." (bin.' in various areas where : trees ate needed and it is reckoned j by Commissioner Conklin that about 2 71 10 pines will be required : prr acre to 1S00 of the hardwoods, j The trees are one, two and three 1 years old and are now being selected j Monie idea 01 me extent ot tne Sta e nurseries can be gained from the statement that 2,294,000 are at Mont Alto; 2,012.000 at Asaph; 1,362,000, at Gn.cn wood, and about 70,000 at the rest. They in clude all varieties indigenous to Pennsylvania. . May Have Big Aerial Surprise. One night last week the wires were busy reporting an airship sighted in various New Kngland cities, including Boston, Williman tic, and Wor ester. It cruised about over the towns, carrying a searchlight forward, ami red tail lights astern It was later found to be the aeroplane of Wallace K. Tillinghast, ot Worcester, concern ing which there has been so much mystery, never havinu been seen in daylight. Some time ago he claimed to have flown from Worcester to New York and Boston during the night. He now asserts that when the public sees his demonstrations, his stat;inent will be credited. It is p tssible that he may make the other aviators open their eyes wide ly when he decides to bring out his machine in daylight. a Fake Bank Examiners at Work. Fake bank examiners are opera ting in different parts .f the United States to an extent which has brought them to the official notice of the Comptroller of the Currency. It is held by Comptroller Lawrence L. Murry that the men attempt to play the part of an examiner for the purpose of obtaining informa tion as to the location and strength of bank vaults preparatory to forcing them. Until Friday the re ports of men impersonating exam iners of banks have been hazy, when there came intelligence of operations so bold that the case will be reported to the Secret Ser vice division for investigation. Army Canteens for Guardsmen. A general order has been issued from the Adjutant General's De partment for the National Guard of Pennsylvania to be equipped before the Spring inspection wi:h the United States Army style of can teen. The order states that the canteens will be shipped within a short time and that the canteens now in usi should be returned oa the State Arsenal. This issue is to line with the previous orders to equip the Guard similar to the reg ular army. New Railway for State. A charter has been issued to the Pittsburg and Great Lakes Con necting Railway, of Pittsburg, to build a line between Portersville and Kllwood City, in the western part of the Stat?. The company has a capital of $120,000. . Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTORIA CHRISTMAS Shopping is Under Way! Foresighted people are doing their Christmas shopping NOW--before the rush begins and when the best selections are to be had. You will benefit by following their example. Make out your list TO DAY bring it here, and later on you'll be thankful that vou acted on this suggestion. We are ready to solve each of your gift-problems with rare sat isfaction and economy. This store has become a veritable won derland of toys, dolls and beauti ful gift things forfolk of all ages. Our Christmas displays this year surpass anything ever attempted in this city before. F. P. 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