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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-09-24
Hoods Jdrsaparill0
md Pills

cure dyspepsia, strengthen and tone all
the digestive organs, and build up the
whole system.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
OLD MAIDS TO ROOSEVELT.
"He is Not the Mother OF Large Family.
Says One.

A convention of the Old Maids of
Northern New York state was held at
Pittsford N. Y. on Friday. Miss
Amelia Hlgginsop, the president, in
her opening address, said:
"The president believes in the rear
ing of large families. He has a right
TO his opinion, but when he places
childlessness in the same category
with criminal acts he goes to far.
The president is the father of what
we Americans would call large
family. He is not the mother of a
large family. (Applause,) We have
heard nothing about race suicide
from the mothers of America, and we
never shall. Let the president Crap
pie with the trusts, tariff and the
coming election. They are more in
his line. He can safely leave the
question of children in the hands OF
the women of this great Republic"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
D0INGS IN COURT.

Mondays session of Court was only
bret one, and the attendance was
very light. The Judges were all on
the bench.
Petition for appraisement in estate
of M. W. McHenry, late Of Saltwater.
The Court appointed E. B. Beishline
and VIM. Miller as appraisers.
Estate of Elizabeth Welllver, late
of Benton township, deceased. Peti-
ton for specific performance of con-
tract, and order to make deed, etc.
The prayer of the petioner was grant
ed and deed ordered made.
Petition of Nathan Stetler for the
adoption of Reuben II. Davis was
then taken up. This matter has beer
in Court before and is being hotly
contested between the parents on
both the father and mothers side.
c. c. Evans appeared for the petit
toner, and Fred Ikeler and T. J.
Vandersice represented the respon-
dent, Joshua P. DAVIS. Nathan Sidler
AMI wife, Reuben Sldler, Geo w.
Miller, DR.. L. J. Adams, VIM. S. Ash,
A. 3. Croop, Harry Knorr, Joseph
Slider, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Adams
and Mrs f. K. Adams testified for
Mr.. Stetler.
The respondents called Mrs.
Joshua J. DAVIS, Miss Grace Brad
bury, VIM. Oman, Mrs Henry Get
ling, Samuel Davis and DIR. II. V.
Hover.
In re Geo. W. Foster, a person of
known Incorporate habits.
Now, April 20, 1903, it's adjuiged
that George w. Foster, OF the Town
OF Bloomsburg, is person of intcm-
perate habits, and all dealers in intoxi.
eating liquors are hereby notified that
they shall not furnish to the said Fos-
ter by sale, gift or otherwise, either
directly or indirectly, any Intoxicating
liquor; and further, il is directed that
the Sheriff serve copy of this notice
on all liquor licensees of this town.
By THE COURT.
The above order was granted at the
request OF Mr.. Foster who personally
appeared at the residence of Judge
Little.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
"60T TIME" NATIONAL AIR.
Chicago Professor Says the Song Harmonizes
Yankee Spirit.

"'Hot Time in the Old Town. "
declares Prof George Eduard, OF the
German department of Northwestern
University OF Chicago, SIS bound to
become the national air of the United
States.
"Both the music and the words are
in perfect harmony with the Yankee
spirit, al d when the people want to
express themselves and can't think Of
anything else to sing, they break out
spontaneously with 'Hot Time.
They've sung it all around the world.
"rhe charge up San Juan Hill was
made to its music, and the band
played it when the United States
soldiers entered Peklng, aui today
they are singing it IN the Philippines. !"
Prof Eduard made these ate
ments to his German class on Satur.
day.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
IT TAKES TIME TO LEARN.

To learn any trade and learn it
we'll takes time. Boys never give
this matter any consideration, until
after they have worked at a trade
tor probably year or more. Then
the work grows monotouous, the
time required to master the bust
ness is too extended and the salary
is too small, SO they decide to quit.
They go from one trade to another,
until middle age overtakes them,
then they decide to spend the re-
mainder of their lives as day labor
ers. The boys make a tremendous
mistake. 1t is as one of our ex-
changes says, the boys who learn
to be mechanics in this generation
will be the captains of industry in
the next. Parents who do not see
to 1t that their boys stay at their
trades the necessary time to master
them in every detail are doing their
boys untold harm, Apprentices dc
not get high wages because they
waste material and require the time
of the high-priced foreman in the
business, to teach them the trade
1t takes years of patient study, hard
work and CALLING and sometime:
humiliating sacrifices to learn to be
a doctor, lawyer, a civil engineer
a druggist or merchant. So it take:
time to become a printer, carpenter
machinist or what not. Boys, think
it over and take time by the fore.
lock by learning some trade we'll.
1t will make you the man of the
future.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
THE MINIMUM SALARY QUESTION
As Settled BY the Legislature.

The Philadelphia Press and other
leading educators are exultant over
the legislative enactment regarding
the Teachers Salary Question. !"
Right here let me say, the teachers
salary has been too low. But now
it will be higher. But will the
raise not prove a great and positive
injustice to very many Of the tax
payers in our rural districts No
one will begrudge good teacher a
good salary. But can any honest
man, no matter what his profession,
position, or condition in life, Justify
an enactment by law that requires
any district to pay, or sacrifice more
of its property for the education of
its children than other districts are
obliged to sacrifice, or to pay for
the education of their children /?
Now l believe in a system that
works fairness, justice and equality
to all our citizens regardless OF 10.
cation and circumstances Had
the legislature really had the tax
payers interest at heart as we'll as
the teachers they would have dis
tributed the state appropriation
equally among the teachere en-
ployed, and the salary question
would have been settled once for
all, and in fairness for all, and in
justice to all. But the same dis
satisfaction will still exist for the
reason that the wealthy and popu-
lous districts, with light tax, or a
or ? mill levy will be able to paw
500 or $50 per month salary easier
than the rural districts can paw S2s
per month, which will be both the
minimum and the maximum salary
for the rural districts. fail to see
how any fair minded citizen can
put his foot on the neck of the
weak and help the strong. NV
sympathies have always been with
the oppressed and opposed to the
oppressor. But this principle /
find has never been popular with
the well to do and wealthy com
munities. The latest Statistical
Report of the Superintendent OF
Public Instruction in my possession,
is for the year 1896 ;hence l cannot
be SO accurate in my statements
here, but in connection with my
statements, / here give statistics,
as furnished by the Superintendent
OF Public Instruction at the Eighth
Annual Convention, Directors De-
partment of State Educational AS
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
Young Mems Christian Association Pro
gress Abroad.

The Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton IN Europe and other continents
is showing enterprise and growth. At
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1890 mem.
Ders have enrolled, besides 1900 boys
between twelve and seventeen years
of age in the junior branch, and 1900
members in the soldiers department.
The Secretary, M. Ricard, has been
advanced TO succeed III. Biering as
secretary OF the National Committee,
and he in turn has been succeeded by
M. Buch. The Associations IN Europe
are not new. Many in Switzerland
and Germany are celebrating their
fiftieth anniversaries. The new Sec
retary at Rome, Italy, is M. Ferreri,
who has been trained in the Associa-
lions of London, Berlin, Geneva and
Paris. The national conference of
Associations in Finland meets at
Sordavala in June. The first ami
versares of two railroad Associations
IN Finland have been celebrated.
-Four others have been organized.
One is in Torneo, the most northern
town in Finland in Lapland. Nor.
way has been holding a four days
training course for Association secre-
tarles, with fifty men in attendance
from all parts of the country. Sir
John Kennaway has officially recog-
nlzed the army work in England In
sending substantial contribution
towards its support, ne said, 81 am
persuade that our army can derive
nothing but benefit from the Assocla-
tlon." Eight Associations have been
formed among the soldiers of Ger
many. There are now forty four
Associations in the city of Berlin,
giving special attention to young men
coming to settle in the city. The
Wilhelm Strasse Association of Ber-
lin has 1000 members, and every
Sunday afternoon GOO to 100 men
are present at its building. The
building at Tientsln, China, has been
sold for $1,000, and the proceeds
will be used in the erection of another
building IN better location. Changed
conditions resulting from the war have
compelled this action. A University
Association building has been erected
at Marking, China, costing $2,5o
the git of Mr.. w. w. Cooper, of
Kenosha, Wisconsin; and at Singa-
pore an Association has been formed.
In this city thousands speak the Eng
hsh language. The organization there
IS supported largely by England aud
Wales.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
April % Odd Fellows Day at Milton.

On account of the above the
Philadelphia & Reading Railway will
sell special excursion tickets to Mil
ton at the low rate of single fare for
the round trip, with minimum of IS
cents, from Newberry, Mt. Carmel,
D9nville, Bloomsburg, Catawissa and
intermediate ticket stations. These
tickets will be good going and return
ing on all trans April 2Sth. Special
train will leave Milton at II.oo p. M.
for Pottsgrove, Mooresburg, Maus-
dale, Bloom Street, Danville, Rupert,
Bloomsburg and Catawissa. Excur-
sion fare from Danvile AZ cents,
from Bloomsburg and Catawissa IS
cents.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
The 0rphanage.

Work will soon be begun on the
new Odd Fellows Orphanage, near
Snydertown, to accommodate FAC
children in place of the present one,
which accommodates but GO, and
which is to be turned into an aged
Odd Fellows Home. The new Or
phanage is to be built of brick and
stone and is to cost about $4,000,
The grounds are already secured, the
plans have been adopted and is ex-
pected to complete the building with
IN the present year. AT present there
are GO children in the home.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23

sociation, at Harrisburg" and pub
lished in the April numbe- of the
School journal, 1908.
The following is the Supern-
tendent's statement of districts that
received more state appropriation
than they paid in teachers wages.
"McSherrystown boro., Adams
county, state appropriation $To45.-
20. Teachers wages S6o2. So"
The 1896 Report assigns schools
to this district, hence an appropria-
ton of S542 90 to each school, or
S346.55 paid in teachers wages.
For a 7 month term would average
about $50 per month.
adams Co. Union school $500.
10, wages paid 25375." Report
1896, schools I. For a 7 months
term an average of S36.25 per
month.
Armstrong county, Rey urn
boro., appropriation SI5SS.45,
wages paid SSS3.75. No Reyburn
boro. reported in 1895. AS the list
is too long Tor our space will only
add a few. plymouth twp. in
ILuzerne county, received an appro-
priation OF S7265. 65 and in wages
S6S25. co." In the year 1896 this
district reported 20 schools, and
paid in wages S235 per school, or
for 7 month term about $33 per
month.
Derry township in Miflin
county received an appropriation of
S5922 o5 and paid in wages S3II7.-
So. In the year 1896 this dis
trict reported 70 schools, hence this
district paid in wages SIo6 per
school, and for a 7 months term
S2S per month.
Now Benton township, Columbia
county has 7 schools, and paid
salary Of SIS per month for
number of years back, but Benton
township is obliged to levy as much
or more tax as it receives from the
stale to pay even that salary. And
many other districts in Columbia
county must still go deeper into
their pockets than Benton town.
ship to raise the needed funds to
keep our schools in operation.
Superintendent Scheffer's state
ment i'll the School /oHIwaI is
revelation. The result of the last
legislation will prove more disas-
trous to our rural districts than the
way it was before, If all districts
will be obliged to levy as much tax
tor school purposes as they receive
from the state appropriation the
wealthy districts will monopolize
all the best teachers, and the
country districts will be intellect
ually starved as heretofore. Now
since the new condition exists let
the farmers press more than ever
the necessity Of equalization of tax
alton. If the principles OF our
school system were based upon the
principles of the Good Roads
BILL" or "Sproul BILL" our public
school system would be faultless
and perfect. And we could and
should pay our teachers royal
wages. To base our school system
on just and equitable principles
should largely be engaged in by
our teachers and school directors of
all our rural districts.
J. c. WENNER.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23

ESTABLISHED 1887. CONSOLIDATED 1860
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MoRNING,
At Bloomsbury the County Seat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. L. ELWELL, EDITOR.
ID. J. TASKER, LOCAL EDITOR.
GEO. c. ROAM, FOREMAN.
Terms inside the county ST.oo year
in advance; Sl.so if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, SL25 year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsbury, Pa.
THURSDAY, APRIL %, 1903.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23

Since the discontinuance of
passenger traffic on the S. B. &
B. Railroad between Orangeville
and Millville Junction, which oc-
Cured last Wednesday, the mail
communication between Blooms
burg and Millville is via Northum-
terland and Watsoptown.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-04-23
Political Announcements

Subject to the Rules of the Demo
cratic Party.
Primary Election Saturday, Jun
9th, 3 10 7 p. NJ.
FOR SHERIFF
H. f. DIEFFENBACH,
of Bloomsbury.
FOR SHERIFF
CHARLES B. ENT,
Of Bloomsbury.
FOR SHERIFF.
w. w. BLACK,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR SHERIFF
B. F. RICE,
of East Scott.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-01
SINGERS GIVEN PRIZES
sCHwEIZER CLUB SAENGERBUND, OF
CHICAGO, WON FIRST.
Second Awarded to the GruetIi Maen-
nerchOr of Same City-Next Saen-
gerfest at Hamilton, o.

DETROIT, Aug. 31.-The Schweizer Club
Saengerbund, Of Chicago, was tonight
awarded first prize in the fourth saengerfest
of the Swiss-American Saengerbund of the
Central States. Turner Hall was crowded
to its utmost capacity this evening when the
judges announced their decisions in yester
days singing competition and conferred the
wreaths. which were the prizes. Gruetli
Mannerchor, of Chicago. was given second
place by the judges, and the other competi-
tors and their positions were as follows:
Helvetia Maennerchor, of Columbus, o.,
third; Gemichterchor. of Cleveland, and
Helvetia Maennerchor, of Allegheny, tied for
fourth; Schweizer Maennerchor, of Cleve-
land, and Heivetia MaennerchOr, of Cleve-
land, tied for fifth; Schweizer Maennerchor,
of Hamilton, o., sixth; Schweizer Maenner-
Choir, of Cincinnati, and AlpenrOeSli Mixed
Choir, Of Canton, o., tied for seventh; Hell
vetia Maennerchor. of Buffalo, eighth. and
Gruetli Maennerchor, of Akron, o., ninth.
After the announcement by the judges the
floor of the concert hall was cleared, and
a ball, which brought the Saengerfest to a
close.
At the business meeting held to-day it was
decided to hold the next saengerfest in 1905
at Hamilton, o. The reports of the officers
showed the organization to be in flourish
ing condition. AT the close of the business
session the singers boarded the steamer
Sappho for a trip to the St. Clair flats. re-
turning just in time for the night session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-01
A HOPELESS DEGENERATE.
Gone Are the Days of the Big, Lus-
ciOus, OId-Fashioned MuskmeIon.


The conviction of the average citizen con-
corning the muskmelon is that it is a hope
less degenerate among the cucurbitacae.
The difference between the muskmelon as
we remember IL and as we find il is too
great to admit Of comparison. 1t is meas
ureable only by the standard of contrast
The householder who depends upon the as
surances of his green grocer that he will
to him, finds his confidence betrayed. What
he gets is a CHASTITY parody Of the succu-
lent and palatable muskmelon of old. When
he goes to the market himself and essays
to pick out his fruit by the familiar signs
and tokens which were once the bases of
inerrant judgment he fares no better. One
cannot pick out good melons from a collec-
teaches that some are worse than others
but in dealing with assemblages of fruit
of which none is good the most one can
expect is to select those least bad
What has become of the muskmelon of
old-the large, oblate spheroid, colored
between olive green and ochre. deep
tracery of coarse netting? From such one
who knew a good melon when he saw il
could pick out the best with unfailing &C
curacy. On the table a fine specimen of
this variety of fruit was enough for a small
family, and a single segment coinciding
with one of the natural divisions of the
rind was a more ample portion than half.
or even both halves, of one of the shrunken
parodies now offered US. If the old-fash-
toned melons still come to market they
must be carefully guarded from the public
notice One never sees them any more
and the most diligent search fails to show
that they are still raised anywhere. The
high priced restaurants do not get them,
the exclusive hotels know them not and
one never sees them on the most luxurious
private tables. They have joined the mas
todon. the great aux and the dodo in ex-
tinction. But there is nothing mythical
about them. One does not have to be very
old to remember muskmelons which in size
bore about the same relation to those now
sold as the earth bears TO the moon, which
when ripe were luscious and satisfying and
OF which one segment usually suffi-
cient and two feast. They were very
tangible facts as lately as fifteen years ago,
and that they have passed away is sincere
ly TO be deplored. Their shrunken, unde-
veloped tasteless, indigestible. impossible
successors are caricatures of the muskmel-
ons of our boyish recollection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-01
SPOKE FOR THE PRESIDENT.


NEW YORK, Aug. 31-The fourth In
ternational Congress OF Actuaries met In
this city to-day. The delegates include men
from several foreign countries. Secretary
of Commerce and Labor George B. Cortel-
you. who is an honorary member, was dele
gated by the President to open the session
and delivered address. The session will
continue for a week In concluding his
address Mr.. Cortelyou said:
II am glad indeed TO greet you. not only
as the representative OF the government
but OF the Department OF Commerce. and
Labor which is fortunate in particinati1e
at the beginning OF its career In so renre.
sentative and noteworthy a meeting as This
congress. The officials of the new depart
ment VIII watch your proceedings with
great interest, for the more fully we study
the scope OF the law which created IT. the
more clearly appear the points at which
our work touches the interests which YOU
represent.
you have chosen wisely In your desie-
nation Of these meetings as a congress.
They are In the broadcast sense represent
ative-representative of the thought and
progress OF the nations whose delegates
you have assembled. From your discussions
and deliberations will come new PRINCIPLES
and new methods in the science to which
YOU are devoted but greater and more benef-
icient than these will be the silent in
fuences that spring from the good fellow
ship and better understanding fostered in
the friendly meeting of representatives OF
many OF the worlds great powers"
A letter from President Roosevelt ex-
pressing regret at his inability TO be pres
sent, was read and after a brief address
by President Pierson and a discussion of
papers on the Improvement in longevity
an adjournment was taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-01
ANTICS OF "SMART SET
DUTY OF THE CHURCH, AS THE REV.
DIR. BABBITT VIEWS 1T.
He Thinks Preachers Should Inaugu-
rate n Crusade Against So
Called Fashionable Class.

NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-In a sermon at the
Church of the Epiphany on 1.-The Sins and
Follies of Fashion" the Rev. Dean Rich
mond Babbitt has made argument
for Christian earnestness and dignity as a
corrective to the abuses of fashion in vari-
Gus circles of society, and criticised severely
many of the reported doings of the So
called smart set in America.
81 am more and more convinced" he said
that we of the clergy must preach clearly
pointedly, as forcefully possible, the sins
and follieS of the times, dwell less on the
exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and
more on the exodus OF Christian virtues
keeper of Christian morals and public
opinion to the extent of our social abilities
and influence, and it is just as necessary for
each OF us to carry out reforms in our
selves and neighbors, If possible, as it would
be to reform the entire Nation, which is
impossible.
''There are many ways to look at the
selfish, waSteful, indecorous, baleful and
often inane class Of the so-called smart
Set who seem to make a crusade to get
their peculiar social antics in the news
papers, as enthusiasts impale butterflies for
exhibition in museum. The senseless class
in the public initiate them, the sober-think-
ing class have plying contempt for them,
the earnest Christians blush for them. the
patriotic American abhors them, ar lie
genuine aristocracy of America and h je
laugh at them. Their example is pestiIent
to democratic America. Their antics are
standard reprehensible at the bar OF Chris
tian morals, their lives, with all their false
glitter and brilliant frippery, are a per-
sonal degradation to themselves, and make
a rapid descent into the Avernus of the
senses where lie buried all the best and
choicest of human aspirations"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-01
ARMY OF THE PHILIPPINES.
Reunion OF Men who Fought I'm the
Eastern Archipelago.

ST. PAUL. Mimi, Aug. Sl.-Men who
have fought in the Philippine islands for
Uncle Sam gathered in ST. Paul to-day
from all parts of the United States as
delegates to the fourth annual convention
of the Army of the Philippines.
The business sessions of the convention
are held in the Senate chamber of the State
house The first session was held this
afternoon 1t was devoted mainly to or
SANITATION of committees. Gen. Irving Hs lie
presided. There is a disposition to intro
duce legislation favor!ng federation with
the Spanish war veterans, not with the
intention of losing the identity of the Ar
my Of the Philippines, but 10 preserve sepa-
rate identities and yet be closely re-
lated as to be one in a national sense. The
matter was preached at the meeting to-
day but il was not given free discussion
because General Hale said the meeting was
not sufficiently organized for the consid-
GRAFTON of such subjects.
Tonight the members of the association
were rendered a reception in the rooms Of
. the Commercial Club where a special en-
tertainment was prepared for them.
Tomorrow morning the soldiers will Sc
lect the next place of meeting ST Louis
has the preference. Wednesday the election
of officers will be held and aside from these
two important features General Hale says
nothing of unusual Importance will be
transacted.