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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Betsy Ross House

The little two story brick struc-
ture at No. 23e Arch street Phia-
delphla known as the Old Flag
House where Betsy Ross designed
the American flag has been pur
chased for the government.
On October 22, 1898, a meeting
was held in the Old Flag House
under the direction of John Quincy
Adams and Charles H. Weisgarber
the American Flag House and
Betsy Ross Memorial Association
was formed and later incorporated e.
The object was to purchase the his
toric dwelling and save it to the
nation. This was accomplished
through the issuance of member
ship certificates at the uniform
price of ten cents and the co-opera-
tion of the people of the entire
country. There are million OF
stockholders of the property living
in every state in the union.
The historic house will be turned
over to the Federal Government
with appropriate ceremonies on
June ID, the anniversary of the
birth of the American flag. Presi-
dent Roosevelt WIFI be invited to
participate in the exercises. The
purchase price of the house was
$500
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DANGER OF SMALLPOX

DR.. Dixon said, 81 realize how
parent will oppose the vaccination
of his child when the mind of such
parent has been filled with blind
prejudice and ignorant superstition.
If this parent could only realize the
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crime he or she commits against
the child by leaving it exposed to
the horrors of smallpox.
"The anti.vaccinationists go into
a community and they say to the
parents: "You have no smallpox
around here now There is no dan.
ger from smallpox, Why then
submit your children to vaccina
tion ?" These men know that
smallpox turks i'll a handshake
that a victim of the inildest form OF
the disease may come into COM
munity that has never known small.
pox, and that the infection thus in
troduced may gu ckly attack an en-,
tire unvaccnated district, carrying
off hundreds Of ch ldren and adults
before the epidemic has been
checked. The very tramp that
comes along the country road and
asks aims of your child may III re-
turn for the little ones kindness in
feet it with deadly smallpox.
These are facts. and, therefore,
the vaccination law is wise when it
requires that unvaccinated children
shall be debarred from school in the
rural district as well as the crowded
city"
1T is not worth the while of our
people to waste their time in argu-
ment with professional anti-vaccin-
ationists. They belong eminently
to that class, who though convinced
against their will are of the same
opinion still. Incontrovertible
figures should convince any reason
able person of the fact that vaccin-
alton is the only known preventive
of smallpox, and that it is the only
weapon which we have to fight the
disease.
"Since compulsory vaccination
was introduced in Prussia epidemics
Of smallpox have been unknown in
that Empire of 81 900, 900 people
In the German Army tor a Ieriod
| Of twelve years following the en-
forcement Of vaccination, only I4S
men were attacked with this disease
while in the French Army during
half the period 56o5 men were
attacked; and in the Austrian army
some 10, 23S men were attacked.
1.-TWO years before the adoption
of this law the deaths from small
poX in Germany were $50 per mill
ion, equalling thousands of deaths.
After that same year the deaths fel
to SO per million in Prussia"
When this campaign of Educat
ion is won, DR.. Dixon said he hop
ed the people of places which have
been opposing the enforcement oi
the vaccination law will realize that
the State Health Department ha:
always and will always work will
one object in view, namely, the
safeguarding of the health of the
people of Pennsylvania.
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Democratic Members Meet
The District to Work Tor Legislation Men
toned in the Call

The Democratic members of the
Legislature met in caucus IN
Philadelphia last week and dis.
cussed plans for their guidance
during the special session. There
was iull attendance of Legislators
and among others present were
National Committeeman James NJ.
Guffey, State Treasurer-elect w.
II. Berry aud City Chairman Chos,
p. Donnelly. Resolutions we're
adopted calling upon the General
Assembly TO enact the following
measures:
Personal registration law for
first, second and.third class cities.
Safeguarding the public moneys
in the State Treasury, and laws ex-
tending the time of limitation for
the prosecution of those charged
with the embt zzlement and misap-
plication Of public funds.
The Governor is asked to include
ballot reform in the measures to be
taken up by the special session,
and if he deems it impossible 10
amend his proclamation, he Is
asked to reconvene the Legislature
Immediately after its adjournment,
the Democratic members pledgiug
themselves to serve without com
pensation.
The caucus also pledged itself to
assist in enacting the other legisla-
ton mentioned i'll the Governor S
proclamation. A committee COM
posed OF Senator Dewalt, Lehigh;
Herbst, Berks; Representative
zimmerman, Montour; FLYNN, Elk;
and Hartman, Columbia, was
appointed to call on Governo r
Pennypacker to urge him to
call on the special session to take
up the matter of ballot reform.
The caucus adjourned to meet i'll
Harrisburg on January IS, the day
the extra session convenes.
Caucus Chairman Grimm, after
consultation with his fellow mem-
bers and the party leaders, appoint.
ed the following committees on
legislative projects, the first named
men, in each case, being chairnan:
Personal Observation-Disclosures
Grimm, Bucks and Danner. North
ampton; and Representative Flynn
Elk; Harman, Columbia. and
o. Brian, Luzerne.
State Treasury Reform-Repre-
sentative Greasy, Columbia; SEN
ators Dewalt, Lehigh; Herbst
Berks; Cochran, Lycoming and
Representative Houcke, Pike.
State Reapportionment - Sena-
tors Hall, Elk; Calpin, Lackawan-
ma Freeland, Greene and Represen-
tatives, Houch, Berks, and Ammer-
man, Montour.
Ballot Reform and Uniform Pri-
mary Law-Seuators H'll, Wayne;
Zern, Carbon and Representatives
Troxell, Lycoming; McNeely,
Greene and Balthaser, Berks.
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Not Quite Correct

Nine persons employed by the
Bloomsbury board of health during
the smallpox epidemic sued the
boro the ether day for services.
Justice Williams gave plaintiffs
verdict. The combined amount
was $46I, so with costs. - Er.
The foregoing paragraph is going
the rounds of the newspapers, and
as it is slightly inaccurate we
would like to correct it. There is
Bloomsbury Board Of Health.
But the board does not employ nine
persons, and the nine persons have
not sued the borough for services
during the smallpox epidemic, and
there has been no smallpox epidemic
here, and Justice Williams did not
render verdict for the plaintiffs,
and there is no Justice here by the
name OF Williams, and hence the
combined amount of the verdict an6
costs was not S4oI.5o. Otherwise
the article is quite correct.
CAaToRrA.
Signature !; ZNZzzI
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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1905.
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UPHOLDs VACCINATION.
Or Dixon Calls Attention 10 Danger 10 Pub
lie Health Due 10 Endeavor 10 lncte
Prejudice Against Smallpox Laws.

Again insisting On the enforce
ment of vaccination laws. DR.. Sam
uel G.. Dixon, State Health Com
mis'io says:
while the United States Gov
ernment licenses and holds under
supervision the vaccine farms of the
country in order that Our people
lay have vaccine virus produced
The purest state for protection
lnst the most terrible and loath-
ne disease known to man, aud
lle the Prussian Empire by COM
lSory vaccination has practically
terminated smallpox, the great
State Of Pennsylvania has depend
ed largely on the intelligence of her
people to guard against the disease
by voluntary vaccination,
To the credit of our citizens his
preLaution has been widely TAX
ell, but the IT, 900 recorded cases Of
smallpox that have occurred in
Pennsylvania during the last few
years, and which have given this
State black mark among her sis.
;er Commonwealths, show the need
Of enforcing the laws that have
been passed by our legislatures for
the purpose Of getting our people
vaccinated.
Zone of these laws, the act of
June IS, 1908, provides that our
children in the schools must all be
vaccinated, and that if the parents
of the children refuse to permit
their children and the community
to be thus guarded against small
pox such children shall not be per-
mitted to attend the schools.
"While thousands of school child.
rem throughout the State are being
vaccinated with the consent OF their
parents, who desire to protect their
little ones against the ravages OI
smallpox, ! am ashamed to say that
certain men are going about the
State, seeking tor self advertise,
ment to incite the ignorant against
vaccination and to influence oul
school teachers to become law
breakers. "
ENFORCING THE LAW
DR.. Dixon is greatly encouraged
by the present enforcement of the
vaccination law of the State, which
provides that teachers must refuse
admission to school children who
have not been successfully vaccinat
ed. He knows from the thousand
and thousands of vaccination blank
that are being called for daily .ha
the great mass Of the people o
Pennsylvania are with him in hi
determination to blot out smallpo'
and to save the lives of the people
He knows from the many letters O
encouragement that ne is receiving
daily, that the best public opinio,
throughout the state supports him
Moreover he knows from his eX
perience in fighting smallpox tina
when it breaks out at intervals he:
and there through the state, thu
vaccination is wise and essentia
that it accomplishes what the higl
est medical authorities Of the worl
claim for it.
DANGER OF SMALLPOX
DR.. Dixon said, 81 realize how
parent will oppose the vaccinatio
of his child when the mind of sue
\ parent has been filled with blir
prejudice and ignorant superstition
If this parent could only realize Il
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WHARY'S CHINA STORE

Among the many new things TO
be seen at Whary's China Store
are Dinrer sets, Tea sets, Chocolate
sets, Salad dishes, Orange bowls,
Cerial jars, Jardinieres, and tea cups
and saucers in many designs by the
dozens. 2t
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Sent to Danvllle

Last Monday a man named
Whitevovich was adjudged insane
and Sheriff Black took him to the
Danville Asylum. He lives in
West Berwick, and had been COM
mitted to Jail for violent conduct.
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The Drink Bill.

The report made out by Internal
Revenue Collector Penman for the
year ending December I, 1905, pre-
sents some very interesting figures
This report indicates that the total
receipts of the district during the
year were SI,56S, ,6I8.I2. The
part of this vast sum paid for beer
stamps and tax collected in this
way amounted to the astonishingly
large sum of 81 oS5, ,693.5o.
The Twelfth internal reve-
uue district embraces the counties
OF Luzerne, Carbon, Wayne, Lack .
awanpa, Susquehanna, Northamp-
ton, Monroe, Pike, Lycoming,
Bradford, Tioga, Potter, Clinton,
Center, Union. Northumberland
Montour, Wyoming, Columbia and
Sullivan. A summary OF Mr.. Pen
mans statement shows the follow
irg collections for the year:
Beer stamps SI,o95,693 SO
Cigar stamps I4o,o83 Il
Tobacco stamps Io2 3IS &C
Special tax stamps I45,975 96
! Collection on lists 2,5o2 SC
Spirit stamps 9I,953 75
Total collections 81, ,568, ,6I8 II
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covers smaller vents and under the
weight of a human being or a horse
breaks and precipitates the victim
into water with temperature far
above the ordinary boiling point.
Again, mere yapor holes are thus
covered. With the concealing crust
broken, the vapors arise and over
power the trapped visitor as they
almost did the horseman on Sulphur
Mountain The crust Is the source
of the myriads of marvelously deli
cate hues on the surface all around
the volcanic section, but il is trap
with death as the waiting fate for
Its prey.
An army officer who has made a
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and marvelously deli
cate hues with {. want of stint that is
the marvel of all who visit the great
canyon. All that she has she has
outpoured to delight her children.
But in exchange for the great pleas
ure she gives in this marvellous
workshop she exacts her price.
From the thousands who visit the
park an occasional victim is select
ed for sacrifice-from one she de-
mands payment for the delight of
all. And the price is high. 1t is
death.
Miss Fannie Weeks, of Washing
ton, an employee of the Treasury De-
partment, is the last victim picked
to pay the forfeit. Without the
slightest warning of. her obligation
to fate, the unfortunate woman was
hurled to a horrible death-paid
with her life for the fortnight's
pleasure of the thousands And
many another has paid the price
before her. Countless ones may be
sacrificed in the days to come.
Up around the sieve-like surface
of the park arise towering rocks to
entertain with their fantastic forms,
awe with their gigantic heights, and
silence with the solemnity of their
age and peace. Beside them snowy
vapors pour out of the earth and
coat the ground with silver, sapphire,
pearl, ruby, opal, and golden hues
as if the spot were paved with
petrified rainbow. Nowhere else in
the world are the beauties and won
ders of inanimate life spread with
the universal variety that nature
plays in at Yellowstone
But the vapors are poison; they
will stupefy quicker than the most
powerful drug that man ever con-
cocted in his pestles. The dazzling
surface of the neighborhood of the
geysers and hot springs is a treach-
erous crust that will plunge person
into the narcotic vapor or the death
dealing water. The discharge of the
geysers and the springs are boiling
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water that will tear the flesh off
bones in a minute or two. With the
fascination Of the grandeur of the
height and jagged shape of the sides,
the famous Yellowstone Falls will
tempt sightseer farther and farther
out on the overhanging lodges; daze
him, and then dash him to death on
the powders hundreds of feet be-
low. Under every handsbreadth of
the beauty lies pitfall.
Miss Weeks, the dispatches say,
stepped back to escape the scalding
spray from a discharge by the Grand
Geyser, broke through the crust Of
deposited mineral matter on the edge
and plunged feet first into the boiling
water in the vent of the geyser. AS
this water has a temperature of 165
degrees Fahrenheit, death was GER
tain to the unfortunate woman the
instant she lost her footing on the
side. When fish may be cooked in
second or so by holding them in
the. water of any of the hot springs
or geysers, the heat is great enough
to parboil the flesh of human being
in time so short that it would be
hardly enough for rescuers to get
a safe foothold themselves and drag
the victim of natures revenge out of
the hole.
81 do not understand how Miss
Weeks could have slipped on the
side of the vent of the geyser," said
Washington man, who was in one
of the first exploring parties of the
region, last week. Il think that she
must have been stupefied by the
Tapor and in semiconscious state
fallen into the water The narcotic
effect of the vapor is strong enough
to overcome any human being or
animal in little while There is
only one animal in all the park that
can go near the steam without suf-
fering as If he had been drugged-a
small, more or less tame, wolf The
chemicals in the steam, alkali, arse
mic. boracic acid, and what not, will
saturate the system and paralyze
one in minute or two"
Years and years ago a horseman
in an exploring party tried TO ride
up the side of Sulphur Mountain, or
Crater Hill, as that part Of the park
is sometimes called. but his horses
foot crashed through the crust that
had formed on the sides from the
mineral substances in the water of
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the Kill, and from the newly made
opening arose sulphurous vapor
that drove the rider to flee for his
life Even then, quickly as he NOV
ed, he had n close call.
The waters of the geysers and
springs, coming from unfathCmable
distances down in the earth, bring
ND with them either silica or cal
cerous deposits, and, as the vapor
arises in the air and the waters pour
over the sides of the opening or fall
back on the ground, they leave the
solids coated in crust on the round
ed edges of the hole or on the sur
face of the surrounding land for
great distances. Often this coating
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the earth, is gradually turned into
steam, and exploding with immense
force, is driven from the ground in
a column $50 feet high and fifteen to
twenty feet III diameter, approx
mately once a minute.
Excelsior, the most powerful gey-
ser in existence, has swelled the vol
ume of Firehole river, the outlet of
the waters in that basin, until Wis
itors thought the size OF the stream
doubled, and bridges were washed
away Sometimes in the discharge
of that geyser white-aot stones are
vomited up and fall in every diree-
ton for some distance around the
mouth 1t is considered dangerous
by the guides to go within several
feet of Excelsior. Its walls through
out their twenty or thirty feet are
scarlet, rose, green, and yellow. and
bewilder with the beauty of the
changing combination of color. But
Death turks in the path of those
who venture near. fascinated by the
dazzling array of hues.
Sulphur mountain glistens with a
golden wall of brilliancy that early
men looked for only in future life.
: or, perhaps, in some fabulous city
IN the mysterious East. From dis
lance the eminence is a spot in
dreamland; close at hand 1t is a
monster, veritable Chinese dragon
with its yellow skin, for the gold is
sulphur, and from springs around the
sides and the base arise deadly
fumes. Near. the famous Mammoth
Hot Springs. from which the boil
Ing waters bubble over the edges
and down gigantic terraces to leave
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thorough examination of the park,
says:
1.-THE crust between the springs is
treacherous to the foot. 1t is i'm
possible to get about without soak
ing ones shoes in hot water In
one place there is steaming stream
over a hundred yards long. and SO
near the surface that the water may
be heard as it rumbles along
Into the hidden caverns of Old
Faithful one of the larger geysers,
flow, perhaps, a quarter of million
gallons per hour. This is large
stream, but it is a mere trifie COM
pared with the entire outflow OF
water throughout the park
All this water sinks down to the
superheated depths Of the interior of
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Y Yellowstone Park, the
greatest natural labor
atory of beauty in the
world. nature lavishes
her rugged grandeur
El Nuevo mexicano., 1905-09-02
Reunion de los conisionados de Santa

El cuerpo de comision. dos de condado Sc
reuni6 el martes las dos de la tarde en- sus
aposentos en- la cara de corte en- session es-
pecial Sc hallaban presentes ell presidente
Arthur Seligman, primer dlstrito Santa F6;
Comisionado A. L.Kendall, segundo distrito,
Cerrillos; comsionado Jose Inez Roybal,
tercer distrito, Nambe; el procurador de dis
trito e. G. Abbott, y ell escribano Marcos
Castillo. La junta fue con el fin de discutir
las condolences y el deber impuesto sobre el
cuerpo para levar una tasacion de So por
cada $100 de propiedad tasable por ell presen-
to afio, parte de liquidation de los juicios te-
nidos por Bird s. Coler Elverton r. Chap.
man, de acuerdo con ell mandate expedido
por ell juez McFfe, de la corte del primer dis
trito judicial, Agosto 20, 1905. I'm numero
de contribuyentes y duehos de propiedad
atendieron q la junta y ell licencIado Abbott
les explic6 la accion de los comisionados en-
el asunto.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1905-09-02
ENL-ACE.


Ell lines a las siete de la mahana Sc cele-
bro en- la catedral de esta ciudad el enlace
de la bella sefiorita Sofia Fischer con ell
apreciable joyen Miguel Martinez.
Sirvieron de padrinos ell Sr Santiago Sc
ma y Da. Julia Quintana de Sena, su aprecia-
BILE esposa.
La bendicion nupcial fue dada por el Muy
Rvdo. Sr Vicario Fourchegu. Por encon-
trarse de luto la sehorita Sofia no hubo md
sica en- esta ceremonial.
Un gran numero de parientes amigos de
eIso psouIeu 81 uoIsIousssId selIBd sBqng
monia.
Despues todos pasaron para la casa resi-
dencia de la novia, donde Don Genovevo
Sandoval su estimable esposa Doha Caro-
lima, habian preparado un exquisite lunch, !
donde Sc brind6 mas de una vez por la fu-
tura prosperidad de los nuevos desposados,
Numerosos v elegantes fueron los obseQu1os
que recibi6 la novia de sus padrinos, parien-
tes amigos. Entire estos nos recordam0s
de un juego de tocador presente de los pa
drinos I'm par de fIorera1, la sehora John
w. Conway. Tn juego de CRYSTAL para el
aqua, las senoritas Mabel Rebeca Conway.
I'm juego para el te, ell Sr Genovevo San
uOVdl eSpoSd, un 6IdH nuHiCIo W paws
tasas, jarritas de cristal y Jarrones artis-
ticos, demasiado numerosos para recor-
darnos de todos.
Ell Sr Genovevo Sandova1 Y Da. Carolina,
su esposa merecen mucho credito por la ma
nera con que hicieron las veces de padres
de Sofia, y ella Sc debe sentir orgullosa de
tener en- este mundo unos protectores tan
buenos desinteresados.
Que Dios colme de felecidades 81 nuevo
hogar cristiano, son nuestros ardientes de-
seos.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1905-09-02

La nueva ley de licencias para ma
trimonios requiere a los escribanos dc
pruebas de clavar tres copias de la
ley en- lugares conspfcuos on cada
precinto Ell Nuevo Mexicanoha i'm
primido la ley aseadamente en- carton
grueso y Sc halla list0 para llenal
ordenes en- Ingles 8 Espafiol so cen
tavos por cada cartel. Escribanos de
pruebas deben mandar sus 6rdenes
inmediatamente porque la ley tomt
efecto ell dia IA de Abril, 1905
El Nuevo mexicano., 1905-09-02

Encarnacion B. de Moroga, es el
nombre de una seflora que lego Tri.
nidad Colo, la tarde del LINES de la
semana pasada, y al salir del CAIRO del
ferrocarril, en- la estaci6n, de Santa
Fe, tuvo la mala suerte de que le roba-
ran su portamoneda que guardaba un
prendedor de corbata del valor de
$500, un anillo, del costo de $15. 90; un
par de arracadas, valuadas en- 1900; y
Ia suma de $3.50 en- effective, dando
un total, todo 10 robado de $50.50. La
sonora que nos referimos, venfa de
Roswell, N. M, y es esposa del Sr.
Abraham Moroga, que no ha mucho
lego Trinidad, con ell fin de radicar-
Sc v establecer un taller de barberfa
Sc ignora quienes fueron los agiles
|discfpulos de Caco
El Nuevo mexicano., 1905-09-02
Su atento Servidor,
EsTEBAN Sanchez.

Ell lobo pidi6 al leon que 10 nom bra
Sc alcalde de las ovejas, y fue en- per
soma enderezar la s1plica al leon, en-
tanto que 81 zorro apoyaba su peticion
cerca de la leona.
Pero el leon dijo:
El lobo tiene mala reputation, y no
quiero echar sobre mi tai responsabi.
lidad, convocar6 q las fieras, y ellasdi-
ran 10 que piensen del lobo.
Reuni6se la asamblea de fieras: ma
die dispuso encontra del lobo, y Sc re-
solvio otorgar 81 nombramiento.
Solo las ovejas no fueron consulta-
das, Sc divide invitarlas Ia asam-
blea
Tolstoy.