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F. O. Yorks,
Lou in Group,
M. E Stiick!inue.
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Frod I keler,
H. U. Creasy.
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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.
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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.
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Children Cry
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BLEACHED
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Co inch
66 inch
72 inch
70 inch
72 incli
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72 inch
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72 inch
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56 in. unbleached table linens, regular value 25c now 20c
60 in. unbleached table linens, regular value 39c now 32$
60 in. unbleached table linens, regular value 50c now 45c
70 in. unbleached linens, regular value 56c now 49c.
60 in. unbleached linens, regular value 60c now 50c.
64 in. unbleached linens, regular value 75c now 58c!
Ready Made Towels Included in This Sale
Plain all linen huckaback towels 18x36 in. very heavy
regular value 50c.. now 39c a pair.'--
Plain huckaback towels 17x36 in. regular value 30c., now
22 cents apair.
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.
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BLOOMSBURG, - PENN'A
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