THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ItLUUMHIIUllQf PA. THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capital 3100,000 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 Hanking, and Invite YOU to inspect our NEW QUARTERS. 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits O F F I !:. W.M.T.ow.rrosliU'iit. James M .Stave r, Vict' Prt'diiU'iil 1)1 ni".CTO.KS: J:inii' M. Slaver, FitiI I Ut'lt r, S. (.'. ( 'ri'!iy . ( 'lintoii 1 1Tri nr. E. V. M. I,..w. F. . Yoi ks, T.i ti 1 s ( J ross, M. K Stnckhoiic, THE COLUMBIAN. KST..1U.1SIIKD iS66. TH2 CQIUV3IA DEMOCRAT, Consoi in.vi Fl iS6a TiifRSti.w Mokmmi, At lllo.-imsluir-, t lie County Soat 01 Columbia Co inly .Pennsylvania. f.F.O. 1". l.T.W 11.1.. P.PITOK. ",1.U. C. R.) N. J'OKSMAN. "i'i'.rm (nsiil c ' V, e county : i.oo a yea1 i a Ivanoo ; i.if not )ail in advance t On' -i i 1 Ik countv ,l.2;a year, strictly in aJv.nce. All communiciti.ins should he.nMrcsscd THE COI. VM HI AN, Hlormislmr, Pa. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, Pi( DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR KKTRKSKNTATIVK, WILLIAM C. JOHNSTON, of Bloomsburg. MUST HAVE ATTENTION. All State Roads Must Be Looked Af. ter This Spring. Supervisors, in whose townships state highways pass, are being ad vised by the State Highway De partment to pay particular atten tion to the roads this spring if they desire them not to disintegrate. They must have proper repairs or the money spent on them will be lost. In an interview with a state engineer some facts relative to the care of macadam were learned. In the first place it may not be gener- j ally understood that although built with state aid, the care and preser- j vatijn of a state highway devolves I wholly on the township through I which it passes. In too many in-j The stalwart Republicans are stances, after a highway has been ! throwing up their bands in holy secured the view taken seems to be; horror because of the unheard at that it is going to last forever, t-'inpt of some Republican members whereas, the engineer says, to pro-, of Congress to fight "party" meas tect a piece of macadam and make ures. These "insurgents" have the road lasting, constant attention i been cursed by the bigots through isnecessary. Otherwise what might out the country; have been called be a fine and permanent improve-; all sorts of names; tliey have even merit will speedily go to pieces, i been threatened with expulsion bringing a very poor return for all ' from the party, the money invested. The first re- These men are the real patriots piirs. th; engineer says, should bej of the Republican forces. Whether put on the highway six months af-; or not they side with the Demo ter it is thrown open to travel. crats, we admire them. They are Thereafter at the end of every year i few in number, but they have the repairs should be made. I strength and courage to revolt ' j against the organization, and to To Protect the Skunk. j fight for what they think is right, i but their lack of subservience is Th d.,mv wfc.vi, w i.,..f.- I shocking to the G. O. P. had the reputation of being an un- oesiraDie citizen ot the animal king dom, is hailed as a noble and useful animal by a measure which is to come up for a hearing before the Committee on Fisheries and Game. If House Bill No. 1062 becomes a law, anybody who kills a skunk may be fined from $5 to $500 and sent to jail a period of one month to one year. Farmers are divided over the skunk. One view of the animal is that it kills chickens and that it doesn't use proper kind of sachet powder. The other view is that it is death on field mice and its prin cipal food is upon the May beetle, which is very destructive to young orchards, raspberry and strawberry vines. Why TSake fnyrtf!!9thipa,e' easii? tired' Iack 'our usuaI vigor and strength." 1 hen your digestion must be poor, your blood thin, your nerves weak. You need a tonic and alterative. You need Ayer s Sarsaparilla, the only Sarsaparilla entirely free from alcohol. We believe your doctor would endorse ?teiTentn' nr we wou nt make them. Ask him and find out. Follow his advice. rctt,Tn ,;.;; aj.. Pills aa Km - '- Vf" Wil! ctrta,n"' C'y'incre Jour co'nhdlln mis as a family laxative. . Liver pills. All vegetable. Ask your doctor I V E II H : Myron I. Low, Vice President . Frank Jluler, Caslilor Mvrnn I. Low, H'. V.lfowor, Frank I keler. Sentiment in Politics. My son, it is all light to be sen timental about your mother, or , your best girl, or your school, or ' your home, but never be sentimen t tal about yorr political party. Frown, Jones and Smith wore j sentimentalists in politics. For sentimental reasons they voted the regular ticket of a glorious old par ty that has kept the I'nited States on her feet for fifty years, when j sue nas no: nceu on tier Knees. Aided by the votes of Jones, Hrown and Smith, the party ma chine put men in municipal offiice who were extravagant and neg lectful. Taxyr1 were therefore high. Accordingly high were the rents ! that Jones, Brown and Smith had ,. . 1 he party machine sent men to ; the State Capital and ash.ngton j . u1v..uK.Jl iuC iiinu, mi- , railroads and Wall Street, who j were the owners and proprietors of j the part3- machine. I Living was therefore almost cost j ly enough to be regarded as a lux i ury, and Jones, Brown and Smith felt large callous spots growing on I their necks from the pressure of ; the yoke. That was years ago, and the cal ' lous spots are thicker to-day than i ever before. I To-day Jones has it in for the Trusts something fierce. Brown would rather denounce the railroads than eat. Smith declares that vVall Street is a vampire. Next fall Jones, Brown and Smith will go to the polls and vote the regular ticket as usual. Loyalty is a noble quality, ray son; but loyalty to a party tbat is disloyal to you is sentimental torn iyrot. Newark Evening News. The Insurgents. $34.87 Per Capita Share. The Treasury Department esti mates the population of the United States at 89,883,000 and announces the money in circulation on March 1. as $3.i34.09i.250f which if equally divided would give every man, woman and child $34.87. There is in circulation to-day $48.3I5.244 more than there was a year ago. With all this row being stirred up about the high cost of living, the farmer, the packer, the retailer, the consumer, and the Lord only knows who else, have been blamed for it. Now say, has that blooming tariff been forgotten so soon ? AlcohoS? rice in Aver's yoir doctor about them. WASHINGTON From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, Mar. 1 1, 1910. At every session of Congress, just about the time the naval bill comes up for consideration in the House and in the Senate, with its appro priations for additional battleships, or "Dreadnaughts'', as they are now called, there are wars and ru mors of wan. The synchronism of appropriations for b..ttle ships and the war rumors is suggestive. As usual, there is now further talk about an attempt to arouse excite ment with refitince to the alleged preparation of Japan to control the Pacific Ocean. "The peace of the world for the next live or even ten years lies entirely with the American State Department. It pivots upon the Far East, aiul Ja pan has played her hand. It is for the United States to reach the .'.nal decision." These are the words alleged to have been uttered by an embassador with refcrenc. to certain naval movements planned by the Japan War College against the I'nited States in case of war. These plans, it is said, were dis covered by a secret agent stationed at Tokio, and sent to the Washing ton ambissulor. It is alleged that the situation is becoming intense. That the Secretary of the Navy has recommended the building of two additional battle ships of the largest size and that th 2 chairman of the Senate committee, as is usual with him, is opposed to these ships, is not alleged, but is an actual fact. The chairman of the Senate com mittee does not believe that there is any probability of. war; he is op posed to the great expense of build- , ni! additional war shins a' the tv- 'peiiseof over ten million dollars! each. The cost of building, how- cver is only a t of t)e ' nse- The Cx;,ense of keeping a powerful avv , coilllli ss nil. in.imi-, rml ed, provisioned and in manv other ways equipped, is enormous, and the cost would paralyze Japan, Ger many and other countries which kee their navies afloat at much less expense than we do. The Japanese are an insular people like the British, but they are even more insular than the British, for while the latter have a geographical in sularity and are born, as it were, to the water, the Japanese have a mul tiplied insularity, for their country is divided into many islands and groups of islands, compelling a sea faring life, which to great extent is followed by the women and even by the children of Japan. As sail ors the Japanese are naturally our superiors. There is no cause, and really very little prospect of war between this country and Japan. The sugges tion of war would he ridiculous if it were not lor the fact of our pos session of those troublesome Phil ippine Islands. Japan cannot wage an aggressive war on this country except through that possession. If we can succeed in holding Hawaii no Japanese navy can menace our Pacific litoral. No war ships can venture five or six thousand miles with only the starting supply of coal. Our defensive position, ow ing to our wide water fronts on the Pacific and Atlantic Ocems, is very strong, and of course will be much stronger when we are able to more quickly assemble our war ships by means of the Panama Canal. It is said that the plans of the Japanese for the Russian war were completed a year and a half before actual hostilities began: The re sult at the s:at of war proved their enectiveness. The secret agent ferred to has the plans which la- pan is said to have prepared against the United States. It is, of course, figured out by Japan that the cam paign is to be a naval one, and mainly defensive, for Japan has quite as many ports to defend as has the United States, and Japa nese ports are much more accessi ble to attack except when defended by ships, than are the ports of the United States, for the majority of our ports are on the Atlantic and Gulf litorals, while only a few are on the Pacific shores. According to the plans, the .United States would first lose the Philippines, and then later Hawaii would be captured. It is the pastime of war officers all over the world to plan campaigns. What else can the high ly educated young officers from the military and naval academies of their respective countries do in "piping times of peace," but plan? The greatest naval and military geniuses have planned, but a siu gle defeat or miscarriage of the most perfect pian by the ablest plauners, will make another plan necessary and that plan is frequent ly retreat and confusion. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR I A COURT BARS GROGGERIES. Severe Strictures on Tendencies of Saloons In Luzerne. In Court nt 'ilkes-Harre last Monday Judge Fuller declined to grant liquor licenses to any new applicants. Old houses received their licenses, but over 100 new ap plicants were turned down. The Judge said that simply lie cause a man lost a leg in an acci dent was no reason why h.- should be granted a license. Neither was lie entitled to one because he had to children to support. Furthermore, His Honor claimed a hotel or saloon was not intended to lie a gathering place for boon companions, but a place where the traveling pablic could be accomino- j tlatcd. Hence it was not necessary j to fill tip any neighborhood with , saloons in order to accominod ite j the people living in that ncighboi-; r, t . tt,o ir.,..Arl IIWWVI. Ill IV III , U.iUM , lll.l 1IUIIUI said: "Cer tain communities of labor-j ing men, with large families de-; pending upon wages too small for j h;;re existence, arc tilled with grog- ' geries, which debauch the men, ' crush the women, debase the child ren and disturb the peace. And this situation will surely go from bid to worse, beyond redemption' or rectification, until the slate is j wiped clean for a fresh start." Millionaire Says "System" Robbery. , is The spectacle of a millionaire telling his he..rers that be made his millions by robbing the people, tint all monopolists do, but that he had begun to recover his conscience and was going to devote his wealth to muting 'lc system whicu made it possiiiio, was me unique entertain ment provided by the City Club of Chicago at a luncheon last week The speaker was Joseph Pels of Philadelphia, head of a naphtha soap company bearing his name. He said he was a disciple of Henry George and would always remain a "single taxer." "We can't get rich in a lifetime nowadays," Mr. Pels said, "under the present system of things, unless we do so by robbing the people. I have made my money that way, and my firm is still doing it,. You are all doing it. Every one of your self-made millionaires has done it. However, I want to say I have be gun to recover my conscience, and I am going to devote my 'swag1 I like to call it that, for that's what it is to doing away with the cur se-d system which makes it possible. If any of your millionaires feel the same way about it, for God's sake let's cross hands on it. I will be an oddity. It is unusual, though for a man who has made his money by robbing the people through a monopoly to be called a curiosity. It is also a curiosity to find a man, after nearly 50 years of monopoly inongering, to admit it and under go a change of heart. But I am sincere. Uncle Sam After Flies. A concerted country-wide attack is to be made on the housefly this year, according to Chief Ktitomolo gist Howard, who testified recently before a congressional committee. When spring begins, hundreds of scientists, aided by laborers, drugs and chemicals and mechanical kill ers will try to drive the household pest out of existence. Dr. Howard says the campaign will be opened in the country distrhts and the de partment will issue a farmers' bul letin giving advice as to the ills the flies are responsible for and how to re-ieradicate th?m. Dr. Howard says the importance of congressional legislation to pro tect the United States from the in troduction of foreign insects and parasite pests entering with plants and nursery stock. Frenchman Flew in Wind. In a cross, choppy wind of about 20 miles an hour which caught his biplane at 'the start and tipped it from side to side like a boat in a rolliug sea, Louis Paulban, the French aviator, made a daring flight at the Jamaica race track Sunday afternoon, with over 5000 to witness it. He was in the air for eight minutes and ten seconds and covered about six miles. Ambulance Hit by Car. While hastening to answer a hurry call Sunday afternoon, the ambulance of the Medico-Chirurgi-cal Hospital was run down by a trolley car in Philadelphia and bad ly damaged. The driver and two physicians were injured, though not seriously, and one of the horses received a deep cut in a leg. r . "A maid's best dress is bashful ness," an up the state paper says. That may be, but custom requires that she wear more than that. COME NOW Onr Setni-Annual Event Emphasizing Marked Econom in Table Linens and Allied Linens. Come. tome. Select your linens. This is a linen buying time ise it's money saving time. There is safety as well because as savings in buying linens here. We will tell you wheth. er a cloth is all linen, or cotton and linen mixed. Von must not be fooled. Hut whether you buy all linen or cot. ton ami linen mixtures worth von ever secured. BLEACHED TABLE LINENS $fi inch bleached table linen, regular value 25c now 20c 60 inch bleached table linen, regular value 50c now 45c 06 inch bleached t.iMc linen, regular value 75c now (190 i inch bleached table linen, regular value 85c now 70 70 inch bleached table linen, regular value $r now Jmjc -2 inch bleached double damask, regular value t.15 now yS cents. - : 1. 1.1 1 1 1 ...1.1 . -. 1. 1 , - 2). men uie.iciieu uou.iie uouuie 1 72 -39- 72 inch bleached double inch bleached double 1.59 72 inch bleached double l.yS Unbleached 50 in. unbleached table linens, regular value 25c now 60 in. unbleached table linens, regular value 3yc now 32.1 60 in. unbleached table linens, regular value oc now' 45c 70 in. unbleached linens, regular value $6 now 49c. 3o in. unbleached linens, regular value 60c now 500. 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 3ye 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 pair! Plain huckaback towels 17x32, regular value 20c apiece now i8e a pair. 1 Every towel in stock reduced for this sale, and variety is complete. Huy towels now. F, P. PURSEL, BLOOMSBURG, - PENN'A An Irresistible Bargain. $1.75 Value for Only $1.5. ALL FOR only; I Any I5 - $1.15 McCALUS 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. Regular price, 15 cents. DON'T 1 THIS EXTRAORDINARY OFFER Call at our office or.address yourjorder to The Columbian, Bloomsburg. Pa FOR LINENS ICS you 11 get the biggest money's tiamaK. resruiar value t.:n inm- uamask - . resrti ar value t j damask, regular vaJue 1 5y now damask, regular value 1,7 j n I- . V ... damask, regular value 2.25 now Table Linens One Year's Subscription for McCall's Magazine Cent McCa!! Pattern you may select One Year's Subscription for The Columbian. 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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