THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capital 8100,000 , Surplus 8150,000. With the Largest Capital and Surplus in the County, a Strong Directorate, Competent Officers and Every Mod ern Facility, we solicit 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 O F F I C "E. W.M.IiOW.PreHltlent. James M .Stnver, ice President. T)I RECTORS: K. W. M. Low, F. O. Yorks, Lou in Group, M. E Stiick!inue. James M. Ktaver, Frod I keler, H. U. Creasy. Clinton Herring, THE COLUMBIAN. KSTABLIStlED 1S66. THE COLUMBIA DEMCCRAT, KiTUlUSIIKH 187. ClINSOl IDA1ED 1869 P jiiLisiiED Evekv Thursday Morning, At Bloomsliurg, the County Sent 01 ColumliicCoumy (Pennsylvania. GEO. F.. r.tAVKl.L, Ennon. GEO. C. ROAN. Foreman. Tkrm .1: Inswle the county fl.ooa year In advance; S l . 5 o i f not paid in advance. Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in advance. All communications should leaddressed THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomslurg, Ta. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1910 DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR REPRESENTATIVE, WILLIAM C. JOHNSTON, of Bloomsburg. Tire Tale a Day Nursery Tells. From the New York American A canvas of a day nurseries by a representative of the American re veals the fact that thousands of wives have been compelled by the recent appalling rise iu food prices to turn over to public institutious the care of their little children and join their husbands iu the wage struggle for the means of life. For example, fifteeu mothers mostly young women who had be fore marriage been stenographers or saleswomen were fresii appli cants on a single day this week at the nursery at St. Mark's place. Atnoug the fifteen came oue young married woman not quite eighteen years of age, bringing her two-mouths-old baby. "My hus band is kind and good to me," she said, "but I also must work in order to exist. Hts salary won't support us now with food so high The institution in St. Mark's place is already overcrowded and cannot accommodate new appli cants. It cares for three times os mauy babies as it did a few mouths ago. The case is similar with all other like institutions in the city. Such facts t-hould not be dismiss ed as a casual item of journalistic pathos. They are portentous. They iudicate a condition of affairs that must be speedily remedied unless we are content to step down the declivity of social decadence. Our race has always taken it for granted that a fair standard of liv ing for a man must include the liv ing of his wife'.and iufant children. It would seem fairly evident that what we have to deal with is no passing distemper or sociological skin disease. The evil is organic and vital. What does all our civilization amount to but an effort of organiz ed intelligence to ease the strain of hunger and cold ? And what is prosperity but the increasing of the purchasing power of a day's work ? The predominant political interest of 1910 is to increase the purchas ing power of a day's work. And on this issue political for tunes at Washington, at Albany and elsewhere will be made or lost. AVER'S HAIR VIGOR Ayer' Hair Vigor is composed of sulphur, nlycerln oulnln nHiM AYER'S HAIR VIGOR Does not: Color the Hair E 11 H : Myron I. Low, Vice President. Frank Ikeler, Cashier Myron T. Low, II. V.Howrr. Frank Ikeler. A NEW VIEW OF IT. Judge Carman of Luzerne Conn ty is reported as having granted a large number of new liquor licen ses and when doing so as saying that all new implications will be granted unless remonstrances are filed against them. lie is further quoted as saying that the responsi bility for new licenses lies with the people, who can control them if they will. This is a new view on the sub ject, and quite different from the generally accepted one. Most peo ple feem to be laboring under the impression that courts have some responsibility in the matter, and that it is their duty to protect the public even when the latter may appear to be indifferent. At least it is presumed that Judges will re quire new applicants to show the ueces.-ity 0i their houses, though no one iu particular is kicking. The public have some rights which the courts are expected to prolect without being forced to do so. Want Roosevelt to Help Qut. With Roosevelt iu the field for Congress on the platform that if elected he will be a candidate for Speaker, some of the astute Repub licans think they have solved the problem of how to hold the next House of Representatives for their party. They argue that if Roose velt is to be Speaker the people of the Middle West, who threaten to turn the country over to the Demo crats, wih relent and join in the rush to get their candidates into Congress. Sr.ch is the scheme at the present time. While Colonel Roosevelt has announced that he would net go to Congress, yet he might be persuaded for the sake of the party and for Taft to prevent the administration from receiving a rebuff that would probably be used against it during the next three years Mr. Cocks, who represents the First New York District in Con gress, is well known in Pennsyl vania and is a manager of Swarth m. ire College. Mr. Cocks says that while some plans were made for Colonel Roosevelt upon his return, they did not contemplate his going to Congress, at least to the lower branch of that body. There is a hint that the Colonel would seek the place now held by Mr. Depew as Senator from New York. Not knowing just what the present con test may lead to. Mr. Cocks is going ahead with his fight for re nomination and has enlisted the services of Representative J. Hamp ton Moore, of Philadelphia. If necessity should arise Mr. Cocks will go lack to his farm and permit Colonel Roosevelt to be nominated iu his place. This matter cannot be settled until June, when Colonel Roosevelt will arrive in this coun try. What the Goat Did. A girl graduate thus described the manner in which a goat butted a boy out of the yard : He hurled the precious end of his anatomy against the boy's afterwards with an earnestness and volocity which, backed by the ponderosity of the goat's avoirdupois, imported a mo mentum that was not relaxed until he had landed on terra firma be yond thi pale of the goat's jurisdiction. s railing flair TREASURY TAN OLE. Treasurer Declares That He Will Act Only on Decision of Supreme Court The COrresnonHpliro lulnrPti finu emor Stuart and Attorney General Todd in reference to the State treasurership, in which the attorney general advised the governor that the latter Could nrmoint a snrcpMnr to the late John A. Stober, State treasurer-elect, who never took the oath of office, has created a great deal of comment on capitol hill. The State department was elated, holding that the attorney general's opinion was exactly in accord with that expressed by that department when the matter was firs', mention ed after Mr. Stobet's dentil, and there wc-re others who held that the attorney general could make no other decision under the constitu tion, which gives the governor the right to appoint. One thiug is certain : The mat ter will have to be settled finally by the supreme court before State Treasurer Sheatz will a .:t. ntul an other thiug equally certain is that 1 reasurer aneatz will not take t lie initiative in a proceeding in court, that he will leave for the gover nor's appointee to do through the attorney general, and it is under stood that the attorney general is ready and willing to undertake the legal task. In proof of Mr. Sheatz'j position he issued the following statement. announcing that further he will not talk. "You have asked nie what T have to say about the opinion given by t lie attorney general to the gover nor as to his authority in the at pointment of my successor. Ul course, you know very well that no individual oninion ran nns. sibly settle any question of this im portance. 1 ne supreme CvHitt of Pennsylvania is the unlv tribunal that can decide the question of whether a vacancy exists or not in the office of the treasury after 12 o clock on May 2nd. I understand that the stiDreme court, in nil nrnli. ability, would not consider this question nntu mat tune does arrive as no concrete Question can be nre- sented to them before then. I am told, however, that the supreme court might permit this case to be brought bef-re them almost im- j i r. . mediately alter 12 o clock noon ot May second, and an early decision rendered. ' Until this decision is handed down the Question will liavp to remain unsettled, but under no circumstances will I enter into any contest to told this office one hour beyond the time for which the people commissioned me to safe guard their funds, neither will I permit anv on; to euter unon the duties ol this office until the sup reme court lias passed upon the question of authority to qualify a man to become the custodian of the millions of dollars of State moneys for which I am bonded to the ex- tert of $500,000. "I wis elee'ed by the people to be their State treasurer from the first Monday in May, 1908, for two vears. or until mv successor bad duly qualified. This latter clause was part of my oath of office and is also embodied in my commission, and I shall respect it to its fullest extent. ' Government to Lodge Farm Seekers UnwiUiuz that a record-hrrat na endurance test should be held with the approval of the Government, Secretary Ballineer has adnntoH a novel plan for the allotment of the 40-acre iarms at Yuma, Cab, dur ing the first of March. I he necessity for the plan aroe fr,m the anxiety of claimants to be the first on the SDot when the allot. ments were made. The Secretary was informed Monday by telegraph that more than 200 men and worn- men had already formed in line be fore the Land Office i n Los Amrplpa so as to be the first on hand on March 1, when the allotments were scheduled to be made. In accordance with the new ar rangement, the Secretary baa nt-H. ered that a hall or a base ball park, large enough to accommodate ah wno aestre to participate in the allotmeut, be engaged in Los Angeles for March 1. To those assembled in this hall or park by 9 a. m. on that day, cards will bs distributed by the ageuts of the Government. On these the names, age, height and post office address of each honieseeker must be written. At cny time betweeu March 1 and March 10 the applicant may appear at the Land Office in Los Angeles, and upon being identified by the card may make application for any of the 172 farms that the Government is to give away. An opportunity will be given to those who file on the same farm to de cide among themselves which shall have the land. If this is not Hone the Government officials will de cide the lucky person by lot. EGGS IN COMPETITION. High Prices Here Have Caused Im portation of Foreign Eggs. A great deal has been said of late about hen fruit, and the millions of dollars that the hen adds annual ly to the wealth of the United States, and the "cornering" or storing of eggs by the packing trusts, to squeeze the consumer. To "protect" the "American farm er" there is a duty of five cents a dozen on foreign eggs and the ship ping charges are about four cents a dozen. Notwithstanding these disadvantages, owing to the out rageous prices the packing trust have bren enabled to put 011 hen fruit, for the first time in five years Kuropean egs's nre now be ing imported into this country. The foreign eggs nre nil shipped by b:okers from Hull, Kngland, but were gathered origimlly from Austria, France and Germany. All the foreign eggs are coited on the outside o the shell with a se cret compound of paraffin to pre serve them. The coating is almost transparent, but it is so noticeable that foreign eggs may be readily distinguished by its presence from the domestic. The cuating is not removed, so that the public in buy ing the eggs in the grocery stores wiil know if it is getting foreign or domestic product. The dealers say that the London and other European markets are flooded with eggs and the extremely low prices abroad enable the shippers to pay the nine cents for duty and freight and make a profit in New York, even at the prices now prevailing. Dealers who are handling the Lu ropean eggs say that the foreign preserving maintains a fresher flav or than is obtained by the Anieri can plan of keeping the eggs in ice. Coal Production in Pennsylvania. From the reports received, the increase in production of coal in the United States in 1909 over 1908 was between eight and ten per cent. , which would indicate a total production of from 440,000,000 to 450,000 000 short tous, but does not reach the high-water produc tion of 1907. Exclusive of the out-p-.it from Sullivan county, the ship ments of anthracite from the mines in Pennsylvania during the eleven months ending November o, 1900, amounted to ,56,194.447 long tons, against 58,837,076 long tous for the same period in 1908. It is es timated that the shipments in De cember will amount to s.sso.000 long tons. To the shipments should ba added the usual percentage for local trade and colliery consump tion and the production of Sullivan c ninty, which would bring the to- t il production of Pennsylvania an thracite in 1909 to approximately 71,150,000 long tons, or ubout 79, 700,000 short tons, and the bitumi nous production will have amount ed to between 360.000.000 and 370 000,000 short tons. The larger production from the anthracite mines in Pennsylvania in 1908 was caused by a stimulat ed activity due to an apprehension of a suspension on April 1. iqoo. when the wage agreement would terminate. This activity continued through the first three mouths of 1909, were the largest m the his tory of the trade. With the re newal of the wage scale in April, which was in fact a continuance of the awaids of the anthracite strike commission for the period of three years, production fell off, aud the shipments ot the Summer mouths of 1909 were much less than in either 1907 or 1908. To Pension Young Widows. Yourg widows are coming in for their share of Uncle Sam's generos ity iu the shape of pensions. The present pension law grauts annuities only to the widows of soldiers of the Civil War who were married before June 27, 1890. Many of the old soldiers took helpmates after that date. There are now between 20.000 and 25,000 of them, and the pres sure has come to be so strong that r. looks as if it would not be with stood for a great while, the Seuate Committee on Pensions having de cided to take up the question. It is considered pronable that a favorable report will be made. The House Committee also has agreed to con sider the subject. If the bill should become a law. it would add from two millions to four millions of dollars to the pen sion roll. There is a special provis ion in the bill requiring that iu order to become a beneficiary under its terms any widow must have lived with her soldier-husband for at least three years. - Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTORIA COME NOW Our SemiAnnual Event Emphasizing Marked Economics in Tabic Linens and Allied Linens. Come. Select your linens. This is a linen buying- time because it's money saving time. There is safety as well as savings in buying linens here. We will tell you wheth er a cloth is all linen, or cotton and linen mixed. You must not be fooled. But whether you buy all linen or cot ton and linen mixtures you'll get the biggest money's worth you ever secured. 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Regular 30c Turkish bath towels reduced to 22c a pair Regular 50c Turkish bath towels reduced to 44c apir Plain huckaback towels 17x32, regular value 20c apiece now i8e a pair. r ' Every towel in stock reduced for this sale, and variety is complete. Buy towels now. P.P. PURSEL, BLOOMSBURG, - PENN'A An Irresistible Bargain. $1.75 Value for Only $1.15. ALL FOR only; $1.15 McCALL'S MAGAZINE Is a large, artistic, handsomely illustrated hundred-page monthly magazine. It contains sixty new Fashion Designs in each issue. Every woman needs it for its up-to-date fashions, entertaining stories and complete information on all home and personal topics. Over one million subscrib ers. Acknowledged the best Home and Fashion Magazine. Regular price, 5 cents a copy Worth double. McCall Patterns So simple you cannot mis understand them. Absolute ly accurate. In style, irre proachable. You may select, free, any McCall Pattern you desire from the first number of the magazine which reach es you. 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