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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-03
What's In McClure's.

McClure's for January opens the
New Year with an astonishingly
good number, distinguished, as usual
by the clean-cut, vigorous tone of
its articles, and by fiction of mark
ed excellence. MARY Baker G..
Eddy: the Story of Her Life, and
the History of Christian Science"
opens its first installment in a man
ner that practically insures the sue
cess of the serial with the American
public. Its tone is clear, conserv-
ative, and incisive, and it presents
the remarkable story of Mrs. Eddy's
childhood and youth, and the early
influences which nodded ner career
in narrative of absorbing interest.
Carl Schurz has an unusually strong
article describing his first meeting
with Lincoln, and the famons Lin.
ccln- Douglas debate at Quincy,
Illinois. Eugene Wood writes with
irresistible humor of THE Drama
in Our Town" Burton J. Hen.
drick takes up ore of the most
striking social phenomena Of our
times the great Jewish invasion
of New York.
Carl" by Ada Melvin, the
story of a Swedish pioneer child, is
a tale of quite unforgetable and
touching beauty. In THE Man
Who Knew" Perceval Gibbons re-
lates tragedy of the veldts with
great poSer and simplicity. "Re-
molding It." by Lily A. Long, is a
fascinating comedy OF situation.
"The Pot Hunters, by Rex Beach,
a broad western farce about pro-
fessional foot-racer who did" a
Kansas town, is one of the funniest
stories of the year d-Tide, I"
by Margaret Cameron, "A Perjured
Santa Claus" one of Myra Kelly's
most successful East Side tales, and
"On the Night Trail" an exciting
out Of doors story of adventure,
complete the fiction in the number.
Theodocia Garrison's poem,
"The Daughter" will, attract much
notice. "The FOOLS Mother" by
John G.. Neihardt and "In EXtrem.
| is" by George Sterling, are unus'
ually good verse.
Drawings by Horace Taylor and
Frederic Dorr Steele, reproduced in
tint, illustrate The Drama in Our
Town" and Myra Kelly's East Side
story. f. L. Blumenschein, Mart
in Justice, Paul julien Meylan, and
others have done artistic work foi
this number.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-03
Legislative New Year Resolutions.

If a fusion majority had been
sent to the Legislature of 1907 by
all overwhelming vote and a fusion
Speaker had been chosen in the
House this is about what he would
have said upon accepting the gavel:
There are certain kinds of leg
islation that have been demanded
by the people, and, permit me to
add, in my humble judgment too
long denied. Let us not be re-
strained by either corporate or po-
ltical influence from putting such
legislation on the statute books be-
fore we adjourn. Let us
raise higher the standard of our
ideals and serve notice on the pro-
fessional lobbyist that he cannot
ply his trade within these walls.
Let us resolve that legisla
tion of personal, or what has
been styled a commercial, charac-
ter shall have no place upon our
calendars, and that measures to
further or defeat the ambitions OF
any shall rot prejudice better
things. In short, let us work as
one homogeneous whole for the in
terests of the Commonwealth, the
advancement of its educational sys-
tenn, the protection of its health,
the Improvement Of its highways,
the succor of its sick and depend
ent, the integrity of the Treasury,
the extension of its commerce and
the betterment of its morals. "
These words were actually spok-
ell i'll the House at Harrisburg on
Tuesday, not by a reformer, but by
Frank B. McClain, the Machine
chosen Speaker. The program is
one which every decent voter of
whatever party in the Common
wealth will heartily indorse, and
which Mr.. McClain and those
whose support elevated him to the
Speakership have the power to car
ry into effect. Will they do it?
Tie Rec0rd has hopes. The peo-
pie are looking. They have very
recently given the Organization an
object lesson not soon to be forgot
ten, Despite their lapse i'll the No
vember election, their influence has
made its influence felt, and no
doubt has great deaf to do with
the reform policy outlined by
Speeker McClain.
If the Machine performance shall
measure to the Machine promise
in the session Of I9o7-if the Leg
islature shall work as one homo
geneous whole for the best interests
of the Commonwealth "--credit will
be meted out where credit is due.
When the people are given wise
and beneficent laws the political
complexion of the body that makes
them is after all a matter of indif-
ference. The New Year resoiu-
tions of the Organization are fine
Now let it live up to them. -PHiIa.
Record.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-03
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.

Washington, D. c. De-. 81, 1906
officials of the Post Office De-
partment are working hard on the
report to Congress, whereon may
be based recommendations for re-
forms and changes in the Post Of
fee generally and the railway mail
service in particular. There is, of
course, immense interests i'll this
subject all over the country owing
to the report that an effort was to
H. made to reduce the post Office
hcit and that one OF the plans in
ltemplation was to remove the
nj pound rule on second class
all matter and advance the charge
his matter to four cents pound.
mis-, Of course, would hit the news
papers all over the country and
might or might not result in a ma
terial increase in the revenues OF
the Post Office Department.
The various publishers associat-
ion have been working against the
plan for an increase in the mail rate
and have used one argument, the
fact that the government pays the
railroad companies much more for
transportation of mail matter than
is paid by the express companies.
Figures were presented in the Post
Office Department this week tend
ing to show that in the course of
the year the Government pays S32,-
900, 900 more TO the railroads than
did the express companies for the
! same service weight for weight.
This is advanced as another reason
why the government should take
I up the question Of AL international
! parcel post. This plan works ex-
ceedingly we'll with Mexico and the
other countries of the international
postal union with which the United
States has parcel post conventions,
and it is claimed that it would lift
great burden off the people of this
country if they could send pages
by mail at home as cheaply as they
can to some points abroad. The
Post Office Department is now
weighing all of the mail that is
transmitted by the railroads, and
it is believed by the time the report
is transmitted to Congress in Feb
ruary that sufficient data will have
accumulated on which to base an
intelligent recommendation.
XXX
One of the most curious incidents
in the foreign diplomatic service in
this country that has ever come to
light was the death in Phoenix
u Ariz., this week, of one Nicholas
. De Rayland, for years private sec
0 retary to the Russian Consul Gen
0 eral at Chicago. The evidence OF
the coroner showed that Nicholas
de Rayland was a woman, but
P Baron Slipenbach, the Russian Con.
wsul General who is in Washington
ncthis week on a visit to the Russian
Baron Rosen declare;
Rxhat he had no idea Of his secre
b,tary's sex during all the time she
b. was in his service. One of the pc
culiar features of the case is thai
Celhe De Rayland woman is reported
THO have defrauded Russians in this
thcountry out of thousands of dollars
svfor the services of an alleged lega
bureau attached to the Russian Con
hasulate and more for the transmission
inof sums to the revolutionists II
kno ussia when this government dit
guarantee the payment ofposta
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orders on that country. 1t is said
further investigation may develop
these transactions into an internat-
ional scandal of some magnitude.
XIX
Sir Mortimer Durand, the British
Ambassador is to leave this country
two months prior to the official
termination Of his mission iiere and
will be succeeded by Prof. James
Bryce the author and political eco
nomist who is well known in the
United States both personally
and by his writings. Now that
the resignation of Ambassador
Durand has been accepted, the
story comes out that his depart
ure was more in the nature Of re-
call by his own government, owing
to stories set afloat in London by
Lady Susan Townley, wife of the
late Counsellor of the British EN-
bassy in this city. Lady Susan
was only in Washington for a brief
space, but she made herself very
well known here as one of tie
sharpest tongued, not to say med
dlesome, women who has ever at-
flicted official life at the capital.
She disliked the Durands intensely,
and lost no opportunity Of referring
to the Ambassador III the most
sighting terms and starting all sorts
Of stories as to differences between
him and President Roosevelt and
other members of the diplomatic
corps. A good deal was known Of
Lady Susan's unbridled tongue
while she was in Washington but
not much attention was paid to it.
On her return to London, however,
her stories were taken most serious
ly, and after a few Of the leading
London papers had severely com,
mented on the supposed unfriendly
relations between the British EN-
bassy and the White House, Sir
Mortimer Durand's resignation, or
his recall followed. 1t is a source
of considerable regret to those who
knew the British Ambassador that
his mission here should have termi.
mated under a cloud with his home
| government. 1t is certainly an un-
usual misunderstanding in British
official life, and one that is regret
ted in Washington, owing to the
fact that the misapprehension had
no basis in fact. The Ambassador
is man of sterling character, high
intelligence and of gentle and sim
pie manners. He is much esteemed
by the President, and by every
body in official life here,
**4
The new director of the Bureau
of American Republics, John Bar
rett, formerly Minister to Siam and
later to Columbia, has in contem-
plation plans for extending the use
fulness of this international bureau,
A big building costing aquarter OF
a million dollars is to be erected in
Washington as a permanent home
of the bureau. The force of clerks
will be largely increased and several
recommendations made by the late
Rio Janiero conference will be
carried out with a view of closer
trade relations between this country
and the republics of South and Cen
trail America.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-03
REDUCED RATES TO HARR1 SBURG AC.
COUNT INAUGURATION GOVERNOR
ELECT STUART.

Via Pennsylvania Railroad. Tickets
sold January IA and 10, good returning
until January l6, inclusive, from all
stations in Pennsylvania. Consult
nearest Ticket Agent.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-03

The Office that seeks the man
isn't nearly so persistent as the
creditor on the same mission.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-03
Death of Gustav Hahn.

Gustav Hahn died last week
Wednesday morning at his home in
Wilkes Barre aged 76 years. Mr..
Hahn was stricken Christmas night
with apoplexy from which he never
rallied. He was born in Ger
many and came to Luzerne county
when still a young man. Ap-
pointed United States Commission
ers by President Lincoln he con-
tinued in that Office until his death.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-01-03

orders on that country. 1t is said
further investigation may develop
these transactions into an Internal
ional scandal Of some magnitude.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-15

NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features Of the Days Dealing in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York, Jan. 1i.-Thcrc WAS some
carly aggrcsSiv" demand for stocks today
which caused Il show Of strength for u
time. The bull element tried to work up
an advance in 4 handful OF speculative
favorites. but the later market showed a
decline of interest The market lapscd in
to dul1ncSs after the working off the or
ders accumulated in commission houses
over Sunday. The later sag in the mar
kct was partly due to a disappointment
over the volume of these Accommodations
ard little prornise Of a growth of outside
interest in the market sufficient to sus-
tain campaign for a rise in prices. The
carly strength centerCd largely in the
western railroad stocks with Southern
Pacific and st. Paul the most conspicuous
features. Southern Pacific was the sub
Jcct OF some rumorS about the Stock EN-
change of an intended further increase in
the dividend rate.
The early carrying rates on Americans
IN connection with the stock market were
high. but there was some recession in the
rates before the day ended. In .hc Iata
reaction ther" was evidently some re-
currencc of influence from the fears of
unwieldly capital issues still to be placed
in the market Chicago & Northwestern
was conspicuous in the break OF I1lmors
of an early issue of new stock. Canadian
Pacific also was again affected by rumors
Of an early issue Of row stock.
Money continued t. work easier i'm this
market. Sub-treaSury operations ara
Welding large amount to the banks
the Gain of the new bank week already
amounting to si,2S7.0c0 The market closed
under the influence of the late reacfinn
and generally below the level of Satur-
days closing
Bonds were firm. Total sales. par value
s2.41z.G1 United States bonds were IN
changed on call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-15
Making the Ohio NaviuabIe.

The Ohio river will lH made nayira-
bic even il it takes rs lams and locks
to do it, said the IT, S. government.
much higglinE Ivy tic different sections,
OF tn" country affected by the Sug-
EeStcd improvements has resulted in
seriously hampcring the purpose Of
Congress. according to J. r. Schmidt
who tells about Making the Obi,
NaNigable" in the Technical World
Magazine for December. But the an
preparation by Congress of over a mil
lion dollars for the construction of ore
dam alone, the Fernbanl dam near
cincinnati, finally gave definite shane
to the work of making the river ma zig
able for 500 miles. The work on this
dam is about half-done, and five other
dams are partially completed II, i,
Importance and national character of
this work may be better Understand
when it is known that Pittsburg coal
shipped down the Ohio last year was
destined for Japan. to he used by the.
Mikado's fleet in its fight against Rus
sla. The Ohio is the natural highway
of commerce from the East to the Mid
die West. but has heretofore been navi-
gable for only four months in the
year When the Fernbank dam is
completed, the river will be navigabIe
as far down as Cincinnati all the year
round. With the improved river it is
estimated that the cost of transporta-
ton will be reduced about one-half.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-15
Boston Stock Market.
New York Produce Market.


FLOUH-Rcceipts. Sill; exports, 49,;
sales $40; steady but quiet.
WHEAT-Rcccipts. 5000; experts ISL.
Oc$; sales 100000 futures, 1900 spot; spot
steady; No. red, 1914 nominal cleva tor;
No. red. S0lEz b afloat; No. 1 northern
Duluth S'% + q b aflOat; Nd 2 hard Win
ter. St3a o afioat.
CORN-Receipts. 109cI0: exports. 201,J16;
spot easy; No. .. So elevator and 1874 o b
afoat: No. yellow. %: No. . white, :,0l,
OATS--R~cciptS, T. OH: exports. 4ij;
SPOT iirm: mixed oats. 26T32 lbs. 50: nat
rral white 30dt33 lbs. i0lGMi2; clipped
while, $50, 20 lbs, 4OK@H
BkEF-Firmcr; family. 15M1...0: mess,
1850; city extra india mess, 20.J0I 800
packet. l0G'12.
I.ARIj-Eirm: western prime 9.JOG9.6O.
PORK-Steady.
BIITTER-Ncak: receipts. 1861 street
price, extra creamery. 2S,HSE. Official
prices: Creamery common TO extra. 20n
~: do. held common to extra 19Gt211a
state dairy common to tirStS, 2Hi26 reno
waited common 20 extra, 16l2M 23la; west
EN- factory common to firstS. 11i.M 20lk
western imitation creamery ntsts. 2lO22.
EGGS-Steahy; receipts, 1850; state. Pa.
and nearby fame" selected white, 32n%i,
do. choice 80; mixed extra, 81.
pOTATOES-Steady; Bermuda. per Dbl.
3ma.25: Name, per bag. 15oM1.Go; state.
western and Jersey. Per sack. 1.25el.5o;
sweet POTATOES, Vinelan1, per bb!.. 2..0f5
8; other Jersey 1.aa.2IO.
81 'GAR-Rar'. ouiot: fair refining. 3;
Centrifugal. 81 test, 81: molasscs sugar,
o., rellred steady.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-15
Our Greatly Enhanced Iron Trade.

Looking to the future and to what we
may reasonably expect. with the accel-
Grating rate of production and conSump-
ton per capita. and considering it on the
basis of the great increase of population,
the future presents figures almost start
ling in their magnitude. They are not.
however. more startling thar would have
been prediction ten years ago that our
iron output of 1906 would he 25.NOO6N tons
or prediction at that time that in this
year we would be mining i25.OOr.HN tons
or ccal Should coal production per cap
tia continue at the same rate of increase
for tho next sixteen years as it has dur
iEg the last sixteen, or since 1890 We
would In 1872 have an output of about
900 tons year, or if the rate
should continue for ten years as for the
last six We would have about !Na.Ot1 600
tons as our output for 1916 Since 1890
the production of iron per capita has
ahout doubled. a close estimate for 1905
making the per capita production this
year 662 pounds against 500 pouncs in 1870
Continued at the same rate for the next
sixteen years this would give us a pro-
duction per capita in 1870 of over go
pounds. or with population at that time
of about 1lS.oo.nO an output then of 20
100000 tons. 1t is hardly conceivable that
such enormous figures will be reached
for with increasing magnitude and with
increasing cost bv reason of the Gu
hancenent throughout the world in tho
value of iron ores the tendency NAV be
to some decline in the percentage of in
crease in production. If the rate IT
growth Should continue to increase for
ter years a. the same average as since
1900. we would in 1916 have total output
of about 10000 tons. and in 1872? largely
over 10000 00O tons. We may not reach
these figures within these periods, bu.
Judging by what We have been doing the
last eight or ten years and allowing for
some decline in the percentage of growth.
1T seems reasonably safe to figure on an
output of at least 80 o0n tons ten years
from now. This means the doubling of
our entire iron trade. hnt as we I1av..
very ,rearly doubled II in the last six
years it is not unreasonahle row to look
in ten vears.-American Monthly Review
of Reviews.
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Boston Americans Have
Promising Youngster.
Tom Railing, Twir|er, Secured
From Dallas Club.
Lou criger Wants More Pay For
Playing With Boston.

Boston. Jan. 14.-Tom Railing, the
new pitcher secured by the Boston Am
orleans from the Dallas, Tex, club, has
been so successful against major league
clubs in exhibition games that it looks
as if Manager Chick Stahl had pick
ed up youngster that might be de-
VelOped into a firSt-claSS man.
Railing is "A years old. is 5 feet 10
inches in height and weighs 40 pounds.
He started his baseball career in Deca-
tur, Ind, his home, and in 1903 joined
the Dallas club, for which he pitched 30
games, winning %. He also played
utility man that season, taking part ir
65 games and hitting for .295. He de-
fcated the Chicago White SoX that sea-
son and pitched in to l game
against Cleveland.
He was again with Dallas in 1904,
and i'm the spring of that year was
beaten by the st. Louis Browns to l.
He was with the Dallas club until July
p, when he returned home on account
joined the Lima Independent team and
won IA games out of 16.
In 1905 Railing returned to Dallas,
but was compelled to leave the South.
as he could not stand the climate. His
release was sold to Milwaukee in Au-
gust of that year, but he refused to
play for Joe Cantillon as the salary
offered was not satisfactory.
He trained with the Danville club in
the spring of 1906, but as that club
could not afford to pay the Dallas club
the sum asked for his release he was
Obliged to return to Decatur. While
with Danville he held the Chicago Ma
tionals to one hit. but lost the game b.
a score of l to 0. He also shut out
indianapolis to 0 and held that club
to two hits. AS he was unable to get
away from Dallas he finished last sea-
son at his home. and won 20 games out
of 35, hitting for 1893.
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Mayan Civilization.

Reading the engravings on the tenn
pies and pyramids themselves, note
worthy for their ferocious subjects and
brutal expression, one concludes that
this strange lost race rivaled Rome I'M
der Nero in making fine art of cruel
ty. Their campaigns of conquest and
defense as portrayed by their sculptors
were short sharp and sanguinary. No
pity appears TO have been shown to the
vanquished. nor any quarter, and what
could not be pillaged was destroyed.
This undoubtedly explains the number
of devastated cities rebuilt, and new
tombs or temples erected after each
war.
While meager evidences of metal
lurgy have been discovered-no foun
dries or FORCES among them-the Magyar
weapons OF finely carved and tempered
stone and iron-hard wood We're vastly
superior to anything welded by their
contemporaries on the north. The dress
of the mobiles. both men and women,
consisted. so far as evidenced. of loose
flowing tunics and a sort of toga dyed
rather brilliantly. according to Indian
predictions. The hair was worn
short, cut in Il fringe on the forehead.
and to wear a beard was sign of
serviIity. or worse. There is incidental
evidence that squirting. curiously
enough, was fashionable. mothers in
surfing their daughters the habit by
suffering d tuft of hair to trail over
their eyes.
Among many interesting stelae pic
tured by the psychologists is one show
ing an erect human figure in facsimile
Wearing an elaborate headdress. with
fantastic ornaments and exaggerated
feathers, this craven image bears in
one hand a scepter tipped with feathers
and in the other shield. There are
the usual fringcd cape, heavy collar
and a large medallion, under which is
seen a rich mantle reaching almost to
the feet, garters, buckles and shoes or
sandals. Under an inscription are
some symbolic decorations, and toward
the lower extremity are two vivid hui
man profiles. Under one inscription is
4 figure with monstrOus head, resting
on stool. which appears t" he en-
blaZoned. Clearly th.; Impressive bas
relief belonged to temple of the sun,
the sun apparently being Mayan
deity, so far as one can judge of their
religion.
Other panels show the heads of tigers
ranged around throned human figures
deliberately carved. AS these heads
still preserve a scmblance of coloring
when seen under the glass. as do num-
erous carved serpcnts depicted crawl
ing over human victims, the Magyar
sculptOrs and artists must nave been
versed in the chemistry of pigments
Besides pictures Of martial and
sacriticial life, of monarchs and the ma
ti0nal observanccs of this vanished
race. it's everyday pursuits are shown
in many instances. Here a man is
tlling the soil. there another bartering
fer trinkets. and 50 on. When all
these stelac arc deciphered it is imag-
ined that an adequate history of the
people will be unfoldcd.-Craftsman.