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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-04-23

Bemidji should literally patron.
ize the dance, in order that the
unpaid balance may be liqui-
dated.
It is the intention of the com
mittee having charge of the dance
to make the affair a most enjoy
able one. The best of music will
be furnished and every effort
made to give one his moneys
worth of hospitality.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-04-23

Gloves-We have them in
every materia! and size. 1Oc
cotton gloves, feece-lined,
just the thing for rough
work, selling now at, ko
per pair. OC
The SOC Ca fskin and horse
hide kind we are Sc ing now
per pc pa pair :" pi.'e = 39C
Suspenders- Superior qua
lty suspenders in big as
sortment. The 25c and Csc
n va ue suspenders go 19c
The independent., 1907-04-04

things, and the most practical and hui
name of all, that it can do in that
direction.
1t is perhaps now too late to impress
upon the legislature the Importance
of this work, and perhaps the pres
sure for appropriations is SO strong
that it will be unable to accomplish
anything, but it would seem as If this
work is one that ought to impress it
self upon benevolent men and women
as one worthy Of popular and state
support. 1t is just as important to
protect society from the evils of drunk
enness in one way as it is in another,
and no way yet suggested has proven
itself so effective and practical as this
method of curing drug and liquor ine-
briates by scientific treatment.
The independent., 1907-04-04
Subscription $1.OO

granted by the government to invent
ors theoretically in order that they
may have chance to reap a reward
for their skill and enterprise. In prac-
tical operation a reward for invention
goes hardly one time in dozen to the
inventor, who is usually poor man
and unversed In business ways.
Plttsburg is crowded with Million
aires made out of the steel trust. This
steel trust, according to Mr.. Carnegie
owes it's advantages to patent monopo-
lies rather than to tariff favors or
railroad determinations Yet not ono
in dozen of these millionaires ever
invented anything. The inventors ara
better represented by Mr.. Brislin.
whose inventions they acquire for a
song.
This cannot be prevented altogether,
as it would be unjust to inventors to
forbid them to assign patent; but 1t
would be entirely fair to inventor and
assignee, while a manifest advantage
to the public, If the amount of monop-
oily advantage that could be enjoyed
under a patent were to be restricted.
Not one inventor in a thousand but
would feel amply encouraged in his
efforts We're the possible monopoly adj
vantages of patent limited to, say.
100000, while the public would be
saved being sadded with many long
time monopoly exactipns. This is tho
more desirable now that the great in
terests watch the patent files in readi-
ness to buy up In order to suppress
patents that would interfere with their
monopoly or tend to force them to in
stall the improved machinery conteln-
plated by the new device.
The evils OF the patent system could
be eliminated without hurting any le-
gitimate interest. They cannot remain
without doing incalculable harm to the
people Of the Enited States.
The independent., 1907-04-04

'Joan Brislin, seventy-three years
old, blind and we'll known inventor
ded from broken heart. alleged 10
have been brought on by reverses sus-
tained by litigation brought by him to
control his patents MIR. Brisin was
the inventor of the famous BrIslin vim
nae table now In use In rolling mills
throughout the world"
This dispatch from Pittsburg does
not relate the exact nature Of Me-
nrialin's claims. but II calls attention
a. the hunisnsomencss and lneauity IL
our patvns system. Monopollea are
The independent., 1907-04-04
THE PRIMARY LAW.

When candidates for county and
state Offices come to be named this
year and succeeding years, the voters
of Nebraska will go to the polls and
register their preference for candidates
for each Office. The candidate for a
nomination will submit his claims and
make his promises to the man in the
fields, on the street, in the shops, for
the decision OF these men will be final.
The citizen with an ambition to serve
the public in an official capacity will
have to go before the people and con-
vince them of his fitness. Every man
will be boss, his own boss No man
will be the boss in the old sense of con-
trolling the distribution Of offices.
This, in word, is the meaning of the
new direct primary law. The act agreed
upon gives a genuine direct primary.
Very many OF the best friends of di-
better with the party test eliminated,
some claiming that II DISTINGUISHES the
independent voter, but this objection Is
a question OF principle rather than
practice. So long az the president of
the United states is elected by the
people and exerts his present great
powers. government In the United
states must be by parties The only
way citizen can enffanchise himself.
therefore In any ease IL by exerting his
influence In the control OF parties. and
then voting independently at the polls.
There II nothing to prevent this IN the
direct primary law az now paSscd. N
may offend the voter ~ independent
leanings % have 10 announce formally
a party atilllntlou. but he can afforl Ia
oYercome these seruples for the sake
of the influence in public aftaira which
direct nominations give him. After
awhile. when the idea has died down
The independent., 1907-04-04
THE COST OF LAWS.

What does it cost the state to get a
Given the cost of electing legislators,
Of their salaries and all other legisla-
tive incidentals, divide by the number
of laws passed, and the quotient is the
average cost of each law.
But a different answer is obtained
when we trace individual bills through
the legislative mill. At the beginning
of the present legislative session bill
for the reform of certain legal pro-
ceedings was defeated. 1t was gener.
ally regarded as a worthy and needed
measure. Il could have got it
through" said Representative. e. p.
Brown, it's author, "but I didn't feel
like mortgaging my voice and vote for
the rest of the session in order to do
it, To get the bill passed its cost, in
addition to the direct money cost so
easily figured out, would have been Mr..
Browns support for other bills regard
less of their merit. That is, he would
have bought votes for his bill, paying
for them by his own vote for bills
which he otherwise would not have
favored.
This system receives a frank illustra-
ton in the speech of Representative
Clarke of Omaha, whose special care
this session has been the terminal tax
alton BILL Speaking on the stock yards
bill he said.
81 have not before during this session
taken any part in the discussion Of
these bills because 1 was interested in
something that meant very much to
me and the interests of which 1 did not
desire to jeopardize by antagonizing
any member advocating the postpone
ment of this BILL
That was to say, for the sake of a
perfectly righteous and urgent measure
this representative had felt obliged to
forego his right to be heard on some
other measures.
This is not a criticism of the Ne
of 1t. With public opinion alert. less
log rolling has been required in this
legislature TO get good laws than prob
ably any other in the country. The log
rolling method of passing bills Is unit
versal In state legislatures and Is not
unknown In congress. In the eighty
million dollar pork bin passed by the
last congress was hidden the pay for
not little OF the support necessary 10
the enactment Of some OF the reform
laws of the year before. This system
of passing laws will continue. expensive
as II r.. so long AS the constituents ~
a mcmher care little for his action with
reference to other matters no long as
/ they get their own little "aidetreck"
/ There IN something serious the mat
The independent., 1907-04-04
ASSEMBLY

A year and half ago the Philippine
people were promised that If they
would be good at the end of two years
they should have representative as
sembly to make their laws. The Philip
pine commission has now been in
structed by the president to report
whether the conditions have been met.
In case the answer is in the affirma-
tive. elections will be called for some
time in July, and the first assembly
will meet in September while Secretary
Taft is in Manila. There is little doubt
that the report of the commission will
recommend proceeding with the cleo
tions
This will place the Philippines OH a
political footing very similar to that
of our other colony, Porto Rico. The
Philippine congress will consist of two
bodies, the representative assembly
chosen by the Filipinos, and an upper
chamber comprising the Philippine
commission. This commission consists
of seven members, four Americans and
three Filipinos, all appointed by the
president. The Filipinos will still be in
leading strings, for nothing the repre-
sentative assembly Goes can take effect
without the consent of the upper house,
which is controlled from the United
States. 1t is. this limitation under
which the Porto Ricans chafe. Still
more reason have the F'ilipinos to ask
for more power for the Porto Ricans
are not suffering the tariff Injustice
from which our American senate has
refused to release the Filipinos
European colonizing powers will take
deep interest in this experiment in the
Philippines Most Of them have given
up all attempts to manage tropical de-
tendencies by this method. England,
for example, tends to the belief that
there is no satisfactory stopping place
between the colony governed directly
by the home government, as the Philip
pines have been thus far, and the col
ony given practical control of all but
its foreign affairs, as in the case of
Canada and the Australasian countries.
Englishmen will be slow to believe that
a people in the heat belt can attain to
satisfactory self government, and VIII
expect the United States to be forced
back to the old ground. This expert
ment has not been undertaken as
leap in the dark however. The Fill
pinos have been given increasing innu-
encc in local affairs from the first The
last report of the Philippine bureau of
civil service showed four times as many
Fiipinos as Americans appointed to Of
fetal positions in the period covered Nv
the report. The Philippine assembly is
but one forward step in what has been
steady movement, and the hope if
not the confidence of this country will
be in a gradual progress to a point
where IL can be trusted with the fur
ther authority for which 1t will un-
doGbtedly soon be asking.
The independent., 1907-04-04

There IN something serious the mat
ter with a boy who Is careful OF his
CLOTHES.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
Jamestown Stamps,

Postoffices are being notified of
the series of stamps which the gov
ernment will issue during the Jam
estown exhibition. The stamps
will he of three denominations, one
cent, two cent and hve-cent. The y
will be known as the commemora-
tive series, in honor of the found
ing OF Jamestown in 1907. The is
sue began on the fifteenth of last
month and will continue through
out the exposition, which lasts un-
til the thirtieth of November. AT
ter that date the stamps will be
withdrawn.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
An Old Indian Burial Ground.
Skeletons and Relics Unearthed Near Mon
louisville.

Another skeleton of an Indian
was found last week on the Mon.
louisville road, not many feet from
the spot of Mondays find. With
the bones were a lot of Indian
beads, twenty brass rings, rudely
fashioned ornamental clay pipe, the
remnants of flint-lock revolver,
with the flint in position, ready to
be struck, and some knives. 1t is
believed that the whole hill nearby
is full of Indian bones. The remains
found are probably of Delaware
Indians, members of the famous
Montour band, with headquarters
at the mouth of Loyalsock creek
and whose hunting grounds ex-
tended as far south as Northumber-
land. The Indian village was call
ed Otsonwakin and was very pros
porous in t742 when the first white
man went through the valley. The
tribe was managed by a half-breed
woman named Catherine Montour,
whose son, Andrew Montour, was
honored by having Montoursville
named after him. The tribe was
small and was eXterminated in a
long, bitter war with tribes of the
Five Nations, whose headquarters
were in the valley where Sunbury
now stands.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
HOw's This A?

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall S
Catarrh Cure.
+. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last IS years,
and believe him perfectly honor
able in all business transactions and
financially able to carry out any
obligations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free.
Price rs cents per bottle. Sold by
all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad.
SCHEDULE IN EFT:

SCHEDULE IN EFT: 'TMBER 2s, 1000
Trains leave EAST D-.OA-. 'RG as follows:
For Nescopeck and wilKes-Lafre, 7.5O, l0:i6 a.
m, 2:l3 (4:2S Nescopeck only) 6:IO p: IN. week.
days.
For Catawissa and sunbury, s:25, 1l:47 a. M,
4:07, 7:25 p. IN. week days; sundays 4'07 p. IN.
For Pittst0n and Scranton as follows 7:50 l0:46
a. m, 2.43, $50 p. m. weekdays.
For Pottsville, Reading and Philadelphia,7 80 q.
ln, d:2S p. m. week days. 80
foc Hazeton, 7'50 l0:i6 a. m, 4.2S, $50 y. m.
week days
y.r Lewisburg, Milton, Willamsport, Lock
raven, remove, and Rldgway IL AZ q. m. week
Gays; Lock Haven only, S:25 a. m, 4;07 p. m;
Tor Williamsport and intermediate stations,
rs, 1l:47 q, m. d:01, 1.25 p. m week days; 4.O7
m sundays.
For Belefonte, Tyrone, rhilipsburg, and Clear
field 1925, 11:47 a. m, week days.
For Harrisburg and intermediate stations625,
ll47 "a. m, 4:O7, T25 p. m. week days; 4:01 p.
IN. Sundays.
For Philadelphia (via Harrisburg), Baltimore
and Washington S,25, li'i7 q. M, 401, 7:25 p. m,
week days; Sundays, 407 p. m.
For Pittsburg (vla Harrsburg) 1928 n. M, d01
7.25 p. IN. week days. 1907 daily; via Lewistown
Junction, S:25, iii1 a. IN. weekdays; via LOCK
Haven. S:25, ili7 a m weekdays.
For further Information apply to Ticket
Agents.
W. w. ATTERBURY, j. X. WOOD,
General Manager. PassT Traffic Mgr
GEO. ". BOYD,
General Passenger Agent
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.

Washington, d. c. April 80, 1907.
IL Is taken as almost an assured fact
i'm political circles here that VIM. j..
Bryan will be the next Democratic
nominee for the Presidency. OF course
Washington between sessions Is not
the best place I'm the world to gain po-
litical impressions aside from the party
in power. But that seems to be the
way opinion is now pointing. Mr..
Bryan's last statement as to his atti-
tude toward government control of
railroads was very popular one, large
ly because it put him closely i'm line
with President Roosevelt, who is look
ed upon rs the greatest exponent of
corporation curbing. So if Mr.. Bryan
Is the nominee, the lines of distinction
between the parties so far as their atti-
tude toward corporations Is concerned
will be very slight indeed.
There is another story going the
rounds, so remarkable that it can be
given only under the caption of elm
nortant if truer. 1t is that the attitude
Of the administration toward Mr.. Bry-
an has changed nightly, and that he
is looked upon by the administration
rs the next best thing to Roosevelt
republican, for it must be understood
that Republicans these days are chiefly
;,,t, DAn1n,-n1t u,,I nnti-
welt factions. The rumor goes that
Mr.. Bryan Is held in reserve as last
card, and that if the choice of the
President for the nomination is beaten
and a confessed corporation man is
nominated, that the influence of the
President will be thrown toward Mr..
Bryan, not obtrusively, but at the
same time effectively, as he will be
considered the lesser of two evils. Ad-
ditional reason is assigned for this re-
port from the fact that it is not belev-
ed that Mr. Roosevelt will take the
nomination again under any circum-
stances and he thinks that the chances
for his winning if nominated in 1912
would be greater against Democrat
than against Republican. This is n
rather sensational story for anybody to
swallow. But the hot weather is COM
ing on when we will have all sorts of
rumors, and we might just rs well get
in on the ground floor and take the
livliest ones while they are hot.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02

The new immigration commission
appointed toward the close of the last
Congress, has been i'm session i'm Wash.
ihgton this week considering the best
steam lines and most attractive health
resorts from which with their families
to prosecute their inquiries in Europe.
This commission, which will start on
its arduous health resort tour between
the first and the twentieth of May, is
about the greatest Joke that Congress
has ever perpetrated on the Treasury
from which they will draw all their
travelling expenses. After all the in
vestigating and reporting over immi-
grafton that has been done, il would
seem the government was in possession
OF all the facts that could be desired to
act intelligently. But there are few
things that can be so readily made to
conform to the requirements of a pleas
ure trip rs an immigration investiga-
ton. All the time can be spent in
travel, the more diverse the sections
visited the better, and all the report
can be written after one comes home
with the aid of cheap stenographer,
Baedeker's Guide and some back files
of the Immigration Reports. A liter
airy fellow at twenty dollars week
will do it.
XXX
One of the interesting exhibits of
the government at Jamestown will be
II sort of publicity and promotion Bu-
reau for attracting settlers to the newly
opened areas in the west where the
government Is now establishing big ir-
rigated farms, Millions of dollars
have been and are being spent on each
one of these irrigation projects, and
truth to say they offer some of the best
and most attractive farming land to be
had in the world at price next to
nothing at all. The government can
get plenty of alien settlers for these
tracts, but what is wanted is large
leaven of American citizens. So one
of the features of the government ex-
hibit at the jamestown Exposition will
be II lecture hall where talks will be
given booming the new irrigated
country, and where pictures of what
has been done and is being done will
be on exhibition and where all sorts of
information will be disbursed to pro-
spective settlers. 1t is thought that au-
diences will be secured of people from
all over the country and especially
from the south and that it will be one
of the best chances that could be had
for putting the attractions of the new
country before thousands of the right
sort of people from all sections. 1t is
the first time the government has ever
gone into the publicity and promotion
business in this way and the result is
awaited with interest.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
Columbia & Montour Ell. Ry.
TIME TABLE IN EFFECT

June 1 1904, and until Further Notice.
Cars leave Bloom for Espy, Almedia, Lime
Ridge, Berwick and intermediate points as
follows:
A. NJ. $500, $40, 6;ao, 100, 7:4o, S:2o,
9 90, 9:4o, 1920, 1900, II:4o.
Pm. 1870, 100, I:4o, 2 20, 500, 3:4o,
4:ao, 500, $40, Gao, 700, 7;4o, S;ao, 9:oo,
-(o:4o) o:2o *(II;oo)
Leaving depart from Berwick one hour
from time as given above, commencing at
600 a. m.
Leave Bloom for Catawissa A. M. $3.50,
ou5, t7;oo, $500, 900, tIo:oo, trI;oo,
I2:oo.
p. M. 100, tz;co, 500, 400, $500, 600,
t7:oo, 500, 600, 1920, *(II:oo)
Cars returning depart from Catawissa 20
miurtes from time as given above.
First car leaves Market Squareifor Berwick
on Sundays at 100 a. m.
First car for Catawissa Sundays 700 a. m.
First car from Berwick for Bloom Sundays
leaves at $500 a. m
FRS, car leaves Carawissa Sunda at 1880
a. m.
TFrom Power House.
Saturday night only.
tP. X. X. Connection.
VIM. TERwILLIGER,
Superintendent.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
The ClOthcs-Cure.

10 a woman, even the prospect of
new and pretty apparel Is positively
inyigorating, the selection is another
most bracing proceeding. while the
actual wearing of the clothes COM
plctes a certain cure for depression.
Lady's Pictorial.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
PHILADELPHIA & READING
RAILWAY.
In effect Nov. II, 1904.
TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURG

In effect Nov. II, 1904.
TRAINS LEAVE BLOoMSBURG
For New York, PhiladeIpnIa, reading, Potts
vile, Tamaqua, weekdays % via West Milton;
1880 m, via East Mahanoy; 329 m via West
For Willlamsport, weekdays, 727 m s.2o
For Danvllle and Milton, weekdays, 1927 m
For Catawissa weekdays 7.27, l1'2s m
For Rupert weekdays 7.27, ii.2s a, m. 12 20
s.29, 700, p. m.
TRAINS FOR BLOOMSBURG,
Leave New York via Philadelphia s.O5 a
m. and via Easton g.l0a. N.
LeavePhiladelphia i0.2ls. m.
Leave Reading 1915 p. m.
LeavePottsvillel2.65p p. IN.
LeaveTamaquei .49p, M,
Leave Wliliamsport xeekdayslO.OG o m, 4.90
Leave Cstawissa weekdays, 6.3e. $40 a. m.
Leave Rupert, weekdays, 6.44, s.2s, l1.4o a.
m. 1888, $40 6.2l p. m.
ATLANTIC CITY X r.
From Chestnut Street Ferry.
Vor South st. see timetables at stations.
WEEKDAYS.
ATLANTIC CITY. ATLANTIC CITY. CAPE MAY
AND
1880 q. IN. Lei. 400 p. m. EXP. OCEAN CITY
y;OO a. m. Exp VoO Mlnutesl $50 a. 10.
i1:20 a. m. EXP. 5:0U p. IN. EXP. 4:Ib n m
200 p. m. EXP. 500 p. m. Lei 500 D. m.
7;l5 p. m Exp. -, - -,
SUNDAYS. s.so a. m
ATLANTIC CITY ATLANTIC CITY. CAPEMAY
OCEAN CITY
500 q. m. Lcl.' 500 ID. m. Lcl- AND sEA ISLE
800 a. m. Exp. 7:l5 p. m. EXP. CITY
1000 a. m. Evp. S:45 an.
Detailed time tables at ticket Offices, 18th and
Chestnut St.s., S34 Chestnut st, zoos Chestnut
St., 500 South 3rd st., 1862 Market st., and at
Stations.
union Transfer Company Will call for and
check baggage from hotels and residences.
A. T. DICE, EPSON J. WEEKS,
Gen'l Supt. Gen'l Pass. Agt
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
HUMPHREYS

Veterinary Specifies cure diseases
of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Hogs and
Poultry by acting directly on the SICK PARTS
without loss of time
A. A. lFEVERS, Congestions, Snfamma.
CURES tiOns. Lung Fever. Miik Fever.
d. u. }sPRAINs, Lameness. Injuries.
CURES rheumatism.
&C. SORE THROAT. auinsy, Epi1oo,ic.
aGnns O. Is WORMS. Bots, Grub..
Il. Il. Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Iunamed
CURES Lungs. .PieurO-Pneumonis.
EF; G2LICs Bellyache: wind-BIown.
G.G. Prevents MISCARRIAGE.
annHs MiM KIDNEY a. BLADDER DISORDERS.
Ii lsKIN DISEASES. Mango. Ersptions.
CURES Ulcers, Grease, Farcy.
J. K.lBAD CONDITION, Staring Coat,
CURES Indigestion. Stomach staggers.
6oc. each Stable Case, Ten Specifies Book, &C., a.
At druggists. or sent prepaid ON receipt OF price.
Humphreys Medicine Co., Cor William and John
Streets. New York.
II BOOK MAILED FREE.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02

Trains No. 81 and 22 mixed, second:class,
I Daily except Sunday. Daily Sunday
only. Flag stop. W. G. SNYDER, Supt
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-02
Supervisors Blanks.

We have printed a supply of
blanks for Supervisors under the
new law, and will keep them in
stock. They include order books,
tax notices, and daily road reports.
Samples sent on application. If.