THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK UF JtI.OW5IrtJIUItO, PA. THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capital 3100,000 Surplus $160,000. 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 Hanking, p.nd Invite YOU to inspect our NEW QUARTERS. 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits OFFI U E . W . M . Low , President. James M.Staver, Vice President. Dill ECTOHH: James M. .Slaver, Fred 1 keler, H. C. Creasy. Clinton Herrincr, K.W.M.Low, F.O. Yorks, Louis drops, M. E Ktaek house. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1S6G. THi COLUMBIA DET-ICCnAT, K;tabm-!UF.ii 1S57. C'lNSO! IDAIF.n iSfo r:n.ii'fn Kvbrv Tin rsday Morning, At nioamslmrg, t lie County Scat 01 Columliin County, Pennsylvania. 11EO. 1". ET.WKI.L. EniTOB. CEO. C. KO AN . Vorcm an . T'BRMs:Insili I he county ? 1 .00 a year (n ivlvanee; .50 i f not pawl in advance. Outside the county, $1.23 a year, strictly in advance. All communicatioi-s should lieaddrcsscd THE COLUMBIAN, IiloomshurR, Pn. THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1910 DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES TOR REPRESENTATIVE, WILLIAM C. JOHNSTON, of Bloomsburg. MORE AMENDMENTS. State Department Preparing to Ad vertise Changes in Articles In Pennsylvania Constitution. Preparations are in progress at the State Department for advertis ing four amendments to the State Constitution which were passed for the first time by the Legislature. Before being enacted they must be approved by a majority of the vot ers at the next succeeding general Election. The law requires the advertise ment of the amendments in two newspapers in each county for three months prior to the election of next November, at which are to be cho sen the Senators and Representa tives who are to pass on the amend ments in 191 1. If then approved, it will be necessary to advertise them again next year before the fall election. The first of the proposed amend raeuts changes section 26 of article 5 of the Constitution in that por tion which now reads as follows: "And the Geneial Assembly is hereby prohibited from creating other cnurts to exercise the powers vested by this Constitution in the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas aud Orphans' Courts" so that it shall read: "But, notwith standing any provisions of this con stitution, the general Assembly shall have full power to establish tew courts, from time to time, as the same may be needed in any city or county, aud to prescribe the powers and jurisdiction thereof, and to increase the number of Judges in any courts now existing or here after created, or to reorganize the same, or to vest in other courts the jurisdiction theretofore exercised by courts not of record, and to abolish the same wherever it may be deemed necessary for the order ly and efficient administration of justice." The second amendment, if adopt ed, will repeal the provision requir ing the payment of a poll tax as a qualification of the right to vote. The th'rd amendment relates to the Courts of Common Pleas of Al legheny County, and provides that, instead of four separate Courts of Common Pleas, successively num bered, there shall be but one such iTickliai 3ra 3 "Just a little tickling in the throat ! " Is that what troubles you? But it hangs on! Can't get rid of it! Home rem edies don't take hold. You need something stronger a regular medicine, a doctor's medicine. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral contains healing, quieting, and soothing proper ties of the highest order. Ask your doctor about this. No alcohol in this cough medicine. . c. Amr Co., Lowell, Mass. Constipation positively prevents good health. Then why allow it to continue? An active liver Is a great preventive of disease. Ayer' Pills are liver pills. What does your doctor say? E II H : Myron I. Low, Vice President. Frnnk Ikeler, (.'nsliiei Myron I. Iiow, H. V. Mower, Frank 1 keler. court, composed of all the Judges in commission in said courts. Section 8 of article 9 of the Con stitution provides that cities having a debt amounting to 7 per centum upon the assessed valuation of the taxable property therein may be authorized by law to increase the same 3 per centum in the aggregate. The fourth amendment adds the following provision to that section: "Kxccpt that any debt or debts hereinafter incurred bv the city aud county of Philadelphia for the construction aud development of subways for transit purpo-cs, or for the constrt'ction of wharves and docks, or the reclamation of land to be used in the construction of a system of wharves aud docks, as public improvements, owned or to be owned by said city and coun ty of Philadelphia, and which shall yield to the city and county of Philadelphia current net revenue in excess of the interest on said debt or debts and of the annual in stalments necessary for the cancel lation of said debt or debts, may be excluded in ascertaining the power of the city and county of Philadel phia to become otherwise indebted: provided: that a sinking fund for their cancellation shall be establish ed and maintained," New Martian Canal. Announcement of final proof that the planet Mars is inhabited was made by Professor Percival Lowell, the famous Martian expert and director of the observatory of Flagstaff, Arizona, on Monday. Pioressor Lowell announced that he saw a new canal spring into be ing last summer, showing, he de clared, that it had been just com pleted by the Martians, water had just been turned iuto it and vegea tion had just sprung up in a hith erto uninhabitable part of the great desert which comprises most of the planet's surface. Not only did he see the new can al, but he photographed it. Pre vious photographs of this region, made as late as May, failed to show any trace of the new canal. The fact that it developed betweeu May and September, when it was first observed, Professor Lowell regard ed as positive proof that it was arti ficial, and therefore that living be ings exist on the neighboring plan et. The new canal is 1000 miles long and the strip of vegetation on its banks, revealing its presence to the eye and the camera, is about 20 miles wide. Mecca of Divorce Seekers. Reno, Nevada is actually becom ing flooded with divorce seekers from every section of the United States and even from Europe Hardly a day passes but what the strange faces of new arrivals, among the feminine sex especially, of pros pective divorcees arc seen. The rapidity with whirh those who are seeking relief from disjointed do mestic ties are coming to Nevada is startling. It is estimated that at least fifteen such discontented souls make their advent at Reno each week. There were the other day fifty-six divorce complaints yet untried by the two district judges. One day re cently there were four new com plaints filed aud two decrees grant ed. There is not a desirable cottage for rent in Reno today, as the sup ply does not equal the demand. (the WASHINGTON From our ttegular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, Feb. 26, 1910 No one who has closely studied the operation of a great business but has been impressed with leak age and wastefulness. The gov ernment of the United States is the greatest corporation in the world. It is also the most extravagant and the most wasteful. Any other bu siness corporation, railroad, min ing, or manufacturing, conducted with equal thriftlessness would go to the wall. The only reason why the United States government cor poration has not gone to smash is because it subsists on taxation and has the richest resources in the world to draw from; and this is not all it has the highest tariff of the world and compel.-! all other gov ernments to pay for its support. But notwithstanding these rich re sources, the expenses of the gov ernment ate growing rapidly, until billion annual annrnriations hive become commoni l ice, and it is es timated tliat each vear exne-tises exceed the previous year by at least ten millions of dullnrs. I'.nt whv may not a government be coiiduct- e 1 with the decency and economy that characterizes prosperous busi ness enterprises? Such a govern ment wonid be ideal, and some governments in the wend approach this ideal much more nearly than that of the United States. The civil list of the United States con sists of "not less than four hundred thousand persons. This does not include cither the Army or Navy. They are the clerks, postmasters, the bureau officers, the judies and other officers of the federal courts, the internal and customs revenue officers, etc., etc They all have good salaries, as is proved by the long line of applicants for every vacancy that occurs in the govern ment service, but they are clamor ing for larger salaries aud for pen sions. No government pays its employees as well as does that of the United States. If we had a more permanent government, I mean if the ruling personnel of our government were less shifting through continuous changes by elections; if our national legislators were able to pay less atteulion to pleasing their home constituencies and could devote more of their time to the national government; in short, if there were less interest in political scramble for place and if the whole country would send its aolest aud best men to Washington and keep them there in spite of the clamor of unqualified self seekers for their places, then we might in deed hope for a better government, for there is no doubt that it takes several sessions to educate a Con gressman, both as to national needs aud the way to attain them. The biggest undertaking in ecou omy by this government will be launched when Senator Aldrich's bill creating a government commis sion to reduce the enormous uu weidy and expensive government system to business like methods is accomplished. Three Senators and three Members of the House are to be appointed, and Senator Aldrieh says that it is possible to save three hundred millions of dollars ($300, 000,000) a year. He has announc ed what your correspondent has been writing for thirty years that the Uuited States government has outgrown its present business meth ods. Durinr the lifetime nf A. T. Stewart, the great New York mer chant, I wrote often in these letters that if he had the contract of run ning the government, he could do it with one fourth the number of employees and with one fourth the exrense it then cost; and if Senator Aldnch were now permitted to manage it with the thrift that thir ty or forty years ago made his groc ery business in Rhode Island So profitable, there is no doubt that the country would be able to save three hundred millions of dollars a year. But art is long and time is fleeting, and Senator Aldrich's sen sational announcement with sensa tional head-lines in fifteen thousand or more papers in the United States, will cause but momentary interest, and the personnel of the redundant Civil Service will sit tight in its en trenchments and await the deluge, the Revolution. But reforms are realities. They are not visions ot optimists, Gov ernment clerks are no louger ap pointed because of their beauty, or because they are relatives of Sena tors, M. C.'s or Cabinet officers. Civil Service reform is a real pres ence. The personnel of the 400, 000 employees is an improvement on their predecessors of forty years ago. " Pretty girl clerks in stunning gowns and diamonds are much less conspicuous in the corridors of the Treasury Department and Post Of fice Department, than they were in Grant's administration, and the clerk to day can actually write and Mysteries of the Dinlng-Car. "The kitchen of a dining car is a most exaggerated example of the economy of space," says l' M. Graves in the 11 Oman's Home Com panion for March. "Kvery inch is used. Water-tanks are suspended from the ceiling. One wall is lined with the big range and heating ovens, while on the other are storage-boxes, receptacles for pans, pots and other utensils, and h tow of cupboards up under the ceiling. At one end, between the kitchen and the dining-car proper, is a lit tle pantry which serves as a sort of vestibule. That is where the wait ers place their orders and receive dishes. "F.verv sonarate article of food and equipment has its place, r.very comer and nook in the car 1 as a particular function. The silver is in one place, the milk and cheese in another, the meat in another, and so on through the list. Ivvery thirg perishable is kept in a rclrig erator. "Wnile the car is 'in action' the conductor, from his position be tween dining-room and kitchen, keeps his eyes upon the ten tables and endeavors to see that none of the diners is neglected. For all the supplies on the car he is held to strict account. On his 'trip sheet,' as it is called, is put a list of every thing taken on the car when it starts out. A recoiel of all articles sold is entered upon the sheet, and when the car comes 'home' ngiin all that has not been sold must be on hand. "The enninment of a dinintr-car .-j-.-j conforms to standards just as do locomotives, trucks, rails and ties. Dislus are made according to estab lished patterns, each piece of china liavi.'g the company's monogram upon it. The same is true of thi linen, silver, nunti holders every thing. Thus a loss can be easily traced. The waiters are allowed twenty dollars a mont'i for break age. All damage in excess of that, though, they have to pay for, and the cost is divided among them equally." Future Magnitude of the Postal Service. "A member who serves here as long as the Speaker of the House his been in Congress will see the receipts and expenditures of the Postoffici Department as large as the entire expenses of the govern ment today." declared Chairman Weeks, of the Committee on Post offices and Post Roads, in explain ing the estimates for the postal service during 19 11. "He will see the number of em ployes, which now exceeds the forces engaged at Gettysburg by 50 per cent , increased to a million of men," continued Mr. Weeks. Speaking of the problem before the government in the upbuilding of the postal service, Mr. Weeks suggested that if that service were in the nature of a private business those responsible for its success probably would find the right man to manage it and would pay him a salary of $50,003 a year. Regarding the difference between rates ''barged the government for postal service and that charged ex press companies, Mr. Weeks said the requirements of t..e govern ment were much more severe than those of express companies. "The probabilities are that the pay of railroads is substantially near whit it ought to be." said Mr. Weeks. "There are members of the com mittee who believe the pay of some railroads is less and 0:1 others greater than it ought to be." Interrupting, Representative Sims, of Tennessee, said he took exception to the ttatetnent of the Postmaster General that the net annual loss to the government on the rural free delivery service was $28,000,000. Mr. Sims complained of the method by which the Post master General had estimated the revenue derived from the rural free delivery. Embarrassing. "Paw, I want to know what you think the tourtu dimension is." "It's a figure of speech, Tommy. employed to express the idea of the size to which a man feels himself shrinking when the pastor of his church happens to catch nim in the act of making a quick sidestep into a saloon." Chicago Iribuve, spell. Abroad, in consular offices, we no longer have so many pohti cal failures Jx-congressmen, ex judges, f.nd out-of-pockets of all kinds, knowing not the language of the couutry to which they are sent. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A COME NOW Our Semi-Annual Event Emphasizing Marked Economics in Table 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. Wc will tell you wheth. er a cloth is all linen, or cotton and linen mixed. You must not be fooled. Hut whether you buy all linen or cot ton and linen mixtures you'll get the biggest money's worth you ever secured. y ' BLEACHED $6 inch bleached 60 inch bleached 66 inch bleached 72 inch bleached 70 inch bleached 72 inch bleached 98 cents. 72 inch bleached 1.29. 72 inch bleached 72 inch bleached i-59- 72 inch bleached 1.9S. Unbleached Table Linens in. unbleached tabic linens, regular value 25c now c 60 in. unbleached table linens, regular value 39c now 60 in. unbleached table linens, regular value 50c now !i;e 70 in. unbleached linens, regular value 56c now 49c. 60 in. unbleached linens, regular value 60c now 50c! 64 in. unble iched linens, regular value 75c now 58c! Ready Made Towels Included in This Sale Plain all linen huckaback towels 1S.X36 in. very heavy regular value 50c.. now 39c a pair. Plain huckaback towels 17x36 in. regular value 30c , now 22 cents a pair. Regular 30c Turkish bath towels reduced to 22c a pair Regular 50c Turkish bath towels reduced to 44c a p ur Plain huckaback towels 17x32, regular value 20c apiece now 1 8c a pair. Every towel in stoc1- -educed for this sale, and variety is complete. Buy towels now. F, P. PURSEL, DLUUMSBUKU, An Irresistible Bargain $1.75 Value for Only $1.15. ALL FOR only; $1.15 McCALL'S I Is a large, artistic, handsomely illustrated hundred-page I monthly magazine. It contains sixty new Fashion Designs a in each issue. Everv woman npprls if- fnr itc ,m.tn.iiitc fashions, entertaining stories and complete information cn 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. Regular price, 15 cents. DON'T THIS EXTRAORDINARY OFFER Call at our office or address your order to The Columbian, Bloomsburg, Pa s FOR LINENS TABLE LINENS table" linen, regular value 25c now -mc tabic linen, regular value 50c now k,. tabic linen, regular value 75c now ( table linen, regular value 85c now table linen, regular value $1 now s.V double damask, regular value 1.15 nmv double damask, regular value 1.50 nw double damask, regular value 1.5 r,,,-v double damask, regular value 1,75 h, re double damask, regular value 2.25 now PENN'A One Year's Subscription fcr Mcuall's' Magazine Any 15-Cent McCall Pattern you may select One Year's Subscription for The Columbian. MAGAZINE The Columbian ' is the oldest newspaper in the county. It is not sen sational, and what it prints is reliable, and fit to be read by anybody. Regular price $1.00 per year. MISS
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