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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-01-29
GOLD WEATHER AND CRIME.
Influence Of tho Elements Upon The Temper
OF Men.

alt was noticed IN police court that
the cold wave had produced spasm of
morality in town." says the Kansas
City "Sfar.' "Only few men were
held for investigation and there had
been but one fight; in consequence,
the docket was the lghtest IN the
memory of the court officials. The
cold weather had kept people a, home
and out of mischief Here is a theme
for the philosopher-cold is the hand.
maid of morality. Pack the world in
salt and ice and watch for the milen-
MUM. Shove the planet a little farth-
er from the sun and behold Utopia.
When you come to think of IT,,
weather and conduct go hand in hand
Who would want to see a Thanksgiv-
ing dinner in August or celebrate the
Fourth of July In December The
late Congressman Cummings, when
night editor OF the New York ".S1n., -
used to say that a gloomy, muggy day
was murder weather. 1t made men
feel surly and when they got to drink
ing they were apt to fight. A year or
two ago the annals of the "American
Academy of Political and Social
Science" published the result of a
laborlous investigation on the effect of
weather and drunkenness. The author
concluded that excessive humidity, a
high barometer and clustering gales
increased the number of arrests for
intoxcation. Raise the barometer,
saturate the air, speed up the wind
and clap the resulting drunkards in
the hold-over or build wind breaks
rarity and dessicate the atmosphere
and empty the jails.
"lf generalization may be drawn
from the effects of the cold wave in
Kansas City night before last, what
paradise Greenland and Nova Zembla
must be! The prison at Archangel
should contain only criminals from the
south of Russia, and the Spitzbergen
Sunday School ought to be crowded
week after week. The arctic climate
must be a fine reforming agent. Who
ever heard of any important Eskimo
criminal. The hot blood necessary
to crime is naturally cooled when the
mercury retreats into the thermometer
bulb. Evidently the time is coming
when a refrigerating machine will be
an indispensable piece of equipment
for any jail.
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$Ioo REWARD, $Ioo.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires con.
stiSutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by build
ing up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The pro-
prietors have so much faith in its cura-
tive powers, that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that 1t fails
TO cule. Send for list of testimonials.
Address, F. ]. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, o,
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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TO MAKE THE sUsQUBHANNA
NAVIGABLG.
Navigation Committee Meets at Harrisburg,
and Considers Plan Feasible.

The subject OF converting the Sus-
Quehanna river into anavigable water
way was fully discussed at a meeting
of the Navigation Committee at the
Board of Trade in Harrisburg last
Friday night.
A large number of letters were read
from business men residing along the
Susquehanna river, from points as far
upstream as the junction of the West
and North branches at Sunbury and
down close to where it emptes into
the bay. All Of them expressed un-
reserved approval of the scheme and
urged that no effort be spared to put
it into effect. Many of these gave
gratifying estimates of the amount of
tonnage that would be available from
their respective localities, and in the
discussion of this feature OF the value
to be derived from river navigation,
stress was laid upon the benefit that
would accrue to the public in con-
dltions Of such freight congestions
that now proves such an obstacle to
the shipping of coal from the anthra-
cite fields.
The cost of the improvement OF
the waterway, it was argued by some
Of the speakers, would speedily be
made mp by the business contributed
to the river. An illustration OF this
was cited in the case of the Monon.
gahela, which since 1t was opened has
reaped an enormous income in the
way of freights and tonnage.
QUESTION OF EXPENSE.
Captain Campbell, who is in the
Department of Internal Affairs, and
was formerly engaged in engineering,
said he had been in conversation
with a government engineer who had
made a thorough inspection of the
territory traversed by the Susque-
hanna between the point of junction
and the mouth. The engineer, he
said, had declared as result of his
examination a belief that the conver-
sion of the stream TO navlgable uses
was entirely feasible, and that the
question was merely one of expense.
He did not give this opinion officially,
but as the expression of an expert it
was highly gratifying to those inter-
ested in the plan of making the Sus-
quehanna an artery of commerce.
AS a result of the discussion it was
decided to have made summary of
the reports contained in the letters
from points along the river. These
will be forwarded to Colonel McKen-
zie, Chief OF the Board Of Engineers
of the War Department, with an urgent
request that he take such steps as will
lead Congress to provide for survey
of the river. No time will be lost in
making this representation to the au-
thorities at Washington.
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Dated Label for Canned Goods.

The doubt in mans mind, when
he buys can of preserved food, as to
how long it may have been since the
canning was done will be dispelled if
a bill introduced in the New York
legislature becomes law. 1t Itrequlres
every manufacturer of canned goods,
excepting canned condensed milk or
cream, to print plainly upon the label
the exact date of the canning. Can
ned goods without such label may not
be sold under a penalty of $500 to
wholesale and $50 to retail dealer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-01-29

Washington with full power from Pre-
sdent Castro TO effect any reasonable
settlement Of the claims of the Euro
pean powers. On arriving Mr.. Bowen
was met with the information tnat he
was expected to treat with Great
Britain, Germany and ltaly 5, ,parately
and that every move in the dellbera-
tions must be referred to the home
governments, conditions most dis.
couraging to those who hope for
speedy settlement of the difficulties.
The position of Germany, especially
since the second bombardment Of San
Carlos, is regarded with grave sus.
picion by the Officials Of the State
Department which promises to use its
good offices to the full limit to faclli-
tate Mr.. Bowen's negotiations.
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Excursion Rates,

Taking effect January Ist, 1903
the Lackawanna Railroad Co. will
sell excursion tickets to nearly all
stations on their line. This will
be another improvement that will
be appreciated by the travelling
public, the tickets will be good for
thirty days including date of sale.
stopover will not be allowed. I.I4t
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-01-29

Senate would await the passage of an
administration measure by the House
before taking further action. Now
thatIthe House committee has adopted
the Attorney Generals recommenda-
tons and completed Its bill, it is an
nounced that the Judiciary committee
is about to bring in a bill of its own.
Moreover the bull creating a Depart
ment of Commerce with a view to
permitting it to so amend the measure
by defining the duties and powers of
the proposed bureau of corporations,
as to carry into effect the recommen-
dation of Mr.. Knox with regard TO a
commission which should have super
vision of those companies doing an
interstate business
XXX
There is gave suspicion that all Of
these measures have been introduced
with a view to complicatng the sltua.
tion and making an agreement with
the House impossible. 1t is possible
that the bill introduced yesterday,
governing interstate commerce, re-
bates, etc, may be passed, merely to
satisfy the President, as 1t is under
stood that such measure is favored
by more influential railroads who S &c
in its provisions a possible increase of
profits, but it is not regarded as prob.
able by those in a position to know
that other or effective legislation will
be passed by republican Congress.
XXX
While no especially important legis-
latlon has been enacted by the House
during the past week that body has
applied Itself diligently to the passage
of appropriation bills, has passed two
and has several others ready for con-
sideration. The Philippine currency
bill which provides for what is popular
ly termed "mongrel gold standard"
for the islands is now under consider
alton and will doubtless pass today.
XXX
Minister Bowen has arrived in
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WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, January IS, 1903.

Washington, January IS, 1903,
Senator Quay assisted by the unan.
imous vote of the democrats IN the
Senate, out generalled Senator Bever-
idge and his republican supporters
yesterday and forced test vote on
the Statehood bill, thereby demonstra-
ting the falseness of Mr.. Beveridge
claim that Mr. Quay and the demo.
Gratis were hlbustering. The vote
came on a motion to go into execu-
tive session for further consideration
Of the Cuban treaty.
On Tuesday Senator Quay gave no
tice that he would be compelled by
the dllatory tactics of the republicans
to insist that the Senate remain in
continuous session until the Statehood
bill was disposed OF or a date set for
the vote. On Wednesday as soon as
the routine business was disposed of
he moved that the Statehood bill be
laid before the Senate. Senator
Beveridge made no objections and
Senator Burnham began a long speech
against time. Thus the first clash
was avoided. Throughout the day
however, there was an atmosphere Of
suppressed excitement in the Capitol
and it was felt that clash would oc-
cur before night. About a p. m.
Senator Burnham asked to be excused
from continuing until today and
Senator Cullom moved an executive
session. Immediately Mr.. Quay de-
manded the yeas and nays and the
test vote was accomplished. The re-
suit 81 nays, a7 yeas and eleven pairs
XXX
The significance of this vote lies in
the fact that Mr.. Quay has proved that
he represents majority of the Senate
and that on fair vote statehood will
be granted to the three territories.
Fllibustering by the majority is held
in such dlSrepute that it is now be-
lieved that the republicans will no long
er hold out and Mr. Quayis confident
that Oklahoma, Arizona and New
Mexico will become states before the
4th of March. The republicans are
talking of a compromise but after
demonstrating that he has a majority
of ten votes Senator Quay declares
that he has no intention of comDro-
missing and will stand out for the pas
sage of the Omnibus Statehood bill.
XXX
The course pursued by the Senate
with regard to antitrust legislation is
regarded with grave suspicion by all
true friends of trust control. Just as
the House sub committee had com
pleted an antitrust bill which had re.
ceived the approval of the democratic
members of the committee and which
was drawn along the lines outlined by
the Attorney General, it was an
nounced that three antitrust measures
were about to make their appearance
in the Senate. One of these was. IN
fact introduced yesterday. 1t comes
from the committee on Interstate
Commerce and deals with those recon
mendations Of the Attorney General af-
fecting transportation rebates, etc.
XXX
1t was announced some time ago
that the Judiciary committee OF the
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PHILADELPHIA & READING
RAILWAY.
In effect November 16, 1902
paAIN- LEANE H(

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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-01-29

The charge of Representative Less
Ter of the House committee on Naval
Affairs, that he has been offered a
bribe of $4,000 by a representative OF
the HoIIan Submarine Boat Com
pany has created considerable inter
est in naval circles and the charge is
now being made the subject of a
secret investigation by the Naval
Affairs Committee.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-01-29
Lippincott's Magazine for February.
THE PRosPECToR IN PARADISE.

THE PROSPECTOR IN PARADISE.
Ly Warman tells the following
story in the February LitbineoHs'
A miner died natural death and
went s.raightway to his reward. He
was not the first Troanduyker to die
a natural death, but he was, so far as
the narrator had been able to ascer-
tain, the only one to land with his
outfit on the Shining Shore. When
this pioneer prospector had been
there i long, long while, another
miner knocked for admission.
"You can't come in" said the good
man at the gate. "We have one
miner here now, and he has ruined
the streets. Turn a corner suddenly
on the way to choir practice and
you'll fall into prospect hole. Be-
sides, he is ever dissatisfied. No
matter how good the claim, he will
abandon it and go grubbing in another
place. No, you can't come in"
"Now, see here, Pete" said the
applicant, "Im no parachute jumper,
an l don't want to take no chances
on a long drop. You let me in, and
I'll not only agree to work myself,
but III undertake to git that duck out
o'these diggin's inside OF an hour.
You don't know me. I'm miner all
right, but don't do no work. I'm
the walkin' boss, see"
"All right" said Peter, turning the
key slowly, "but if you fail, you CO."
The newcomer peered down the
shaft where the restless prospector
was working and coughed. He picked
up pearl and let it fall on the miners
wing, and the miner looked up
"What have you got p asked the
man at the top.
-Four walls of solid gold," replied
the prospector.
"How long have you been on the
creek-that is, in the camp?"
"Bout hundred years, l Judge. u
"Say," said the walking boss,
crouching close to the shaft and shad-
ing his mouth with one hand, shave
you heard of the new diggin's In
Hades ?"
No-what's il like ?"
"Well, I've seen them bottling the
pure quill-just dipping it up in the
ravlnes and passing it through a
funnel and carrying it away to cool.
It's hot country, you know"
"Are you a miner ?"
81 am
sis that straight goods you are
giving me3"
"It is, oh benighted brother, and
could say more, only my time here is
limited"
In precisely thirty. eight minutes
from the advent of the newcomer the
prospector was out and the walking
boss had jumped his claim.
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w EEDS

Consumption is a human
weed 1ourishing best in weak
lungs. Like other weeds it's
easily destroyed while young;
when old, sometimes i'm
possible.
Strengthen the lungs as you
would weak land and the
weeds will disappear.
The best lung fertilizer is
SCOTS Emulsion. Salt pork
is good too, but it is very hard
to digest.
The time to treat consump-
ton is when you begin trying
to hide it from yourself.
Others see it, you won't.
Don't wait until you can't
deceive yourself any longer.
Begin with the first thought
to take SCOTS Emulsion. If
it isn't really consumption so
much the better; you will soon
forget it and be better for the
treatment. IF it is consump-
ton you can't expect to be
cured at once, but if you will
begin in time and will be
rigidly regular in your treat
ment you will win.
SCOTS Emulsion, fresh air,
rest all you can, eat all you
can, that's the treatment and
that's the best treatment.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-01-29
RAILROAD TIME TARLT
LACKAWANNA RAILROAD.

BLOOMSBURY DIVISION.
In effect Jan. 26, 1901
srArlONS. EAST.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-18
To the TraveIer in Mexico.
Modern NIeNicnN


Bring along your good clothes
Drafts are dangerous mile and half
in the air.
Meals are invariably served in courses,
one dish at a time.
Coachmen, chambermen and walters all
expect a small tip.
Don't buy rubber plantation of a man
on the street. Gold bricks come cheaper.
Don't forget TO shake hands with your
Mexican friend, both at meeting and
parting.
Don't find fault with the morals OF the
natives if YOU go to the bull-fight on
Sunday
Take it easy for day OF two in this
altitude. There is not as much oxygen
here as at sea level.
You will need warm clothing every
day in the year IN the City of Mexico.
1t is always cool in the evening.
Don't pay big prices for antiquities
sold on the curbstone The Indians make
them fresh every day. and they are used
to working cheap.
Remember that Spanish is the language
OF the country and that If you'd waiter
or hack driver does not understand you,
You are at fault. not he.
Don't be afraid to come to Mexico for
fear that Mexican chile dishes viii burn
out your palate. French cooking prevails
in all the better-class restaurants.
You can't convince the MeXtCanS that
they don't know how to make coffee
They have been burning 1t In the roasting
for several centuries. and the present
generation prefers it black and strong.
Politeness and procrasunatiOn are equal
IL contagious i'm Mexico Don be sur,
long enough TO become acclimated has
adopted many of the little mannerisms
OF the country.
Don't expect an appointment always
to be kept to the minute If your MeXi-
can friends should rush past n dozen ac-
quaintances on the street without stop
ping to shake hands they would think
he had lost his mind as well as his
manners
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-18
GENUINE PUBLIC SPIRIT.

IT IS GOOD 70 see the friendly spirit
l that is being manifested between
the railroad companies seeking depot
and trackage franchises and the people
who are opposing the granting or those
franchises There is no disposition TO
be churlish about the matter. Through
their representatives the railroads an
nounced that they would be willing 70
make any and all reasonable cOnces-
sions to the directors, and the latter
met the advances so made with state
ments that they would not demand any
imoossibilities.
This is the proper spirit, the spirit
that must be shown If the city is to
&C forward at the rapid rate all of US
believe to be possible. 1t may be set
down as a safe proposition, speaking
generally. that no great Improvement
was ever brought about that didn't in
jure somebody to a greater or less ex-
tent. All that is possible, all that can
be possible, is to bring about the great
est good to the greatest number. This
is true OF laws. Of public improve
ments, of everything calculated to ad-
vance the interests of a nation. a city
or a state.
There is not the slightest reason for
doubling that if the proposition to
grant the oregon short Line and the
Rio Grande roads the franchises they
ask were submitted to a. vote of the
people tomorrow it would be carried
by a large majority. This for the rea-
son that a great majority Of the people
win be immensely benefited, directly
and indirectly, by the building of new
shops, the enlargement Of old ones and
the erection Of new and handsome de-
pots to replace the inadequate and
Unsightly old ones.
The Herald is well aware Of the fact
that some residents on the west side
of the city may sustain some damage
as a result of the work. We have no
criticism to make Of those citizens for
standing out for what they conceive 70
be their rights. They are acting strict
" within their legal prerogatives and
their prerogatives as good citizens
when they come forward and ask a
full measure Of protection. 1t cannot
be said that their objections are petty
or picayunish, and their just rights
should be guarded
This will doubtless be done. The
council viii grant the franchises, and
it should grant them. but the railroad
companies will do their share also
/ They will see to it that no one is un-
rea sOnabIy injured And the citizens
who are Inconvenience should be Will
! ing to bear with that for the sake OF
the good which win come to all, them
/ selves included, from Affirmative action
/ by the council.