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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
OLD RESIDENT DEAD.

John zimmerman of Lightstreet
died suddenly at his home after
taking a short walk. He was a
lifelong resident of that village,
and war veteran.
He is survived by his wife and
the following named children: Os'
car, OF Janison City; Mrs: John
Shew, of Light Street William OF
Compton, Illinois Mrs, Maza Dy-
er, of Milton Charles, of Milton
Mrs. Ida Rissel, of Philadelphia.
The following brothers and sisters
also survive James, of Forks ;
Mrs. Sarah Hagenbuch, OF East
street, Bloomsbury. and Mrs.
Guest, of Danville.
The funeral was held on We'd
nesday, in the M. E. church at
Lightstreet.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
DR.. Champin HonOred.

DR.. H. w. Champlin, of Blooms
burg, formerly of Towanda, has
accepted position in large sani-
tarium at Wernersville, Pa, where
he will be in charge of the medical
treatment, minor surgery, and eye
work of the institution. He will
enter upon his duties there the first
of December. Those who were
familiar with the Doctors practice
in this vicinity prior to ten years
ago will not be greatly surprised at
his appointment to such response
bic position. His many Towanda
friends will be pleased to hear of his
good fortune. = Toyanda Reporter
Journal.
During his residence in Blooms
burg, DR.. Champlin and family
have made many warm friends who
will regret their departure from our
town. The Doctor has built up
fine practice here.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
DOGS MUST BE TAGGED.

Every dog must wear a small
brass tag on his or her collar as
proof to the authorities that their
existence is being looked after by
some owner and that they have a
perfect right to live, according to
the law passed by the recent legis-
lature requiring every dog owner in
the State to pay to the county tax
collectors so cents for the privilege
of ownership.
This law has created a great stir
in the country districts and all the
CANNES in the rural districts will
soon have new collars and bright
brass tag with number and name
of county stamped on the center of
the brass, about their necks. Woe
betide any misguided dog who fails
to comply with the law.
The act states that each tax col
lector in the county shall make a
return to the county commissioners
of every dog in his district and to
notify each owner that unless the
license price, so cents, be not paid
in ten days, the constable of that
district will be notified and the ami
NAL killed. Each so cents paid in
to the county treasury will be plac-
ed in a fund from which all DAM
ages will be paid in cases where
sheep are killed by dogs or where
mad dog bites cattle, causing
death. At the end of each year all
money over 5000 remaining in the
treasury will be divided between
the various school districts of the
county, while the $500 will be
withheld by the commissioners for
the dog damage fund.
The law requiring each dog in
the county to be taxed, exclusive
of the cities of the third class, has
been in force for several years, but
the wearing of tags on the collar is
new. Heretofore when the tax
collectors inquired about the own
ership of a dog noticed about the
premises the animal was said to be
tramp" as rule, and as the
law did not provide for the killing
of all unlicensed dogs at that time,
very few CANNES were reported and
taxed by the commissioners. But
the new act providing for the death
of all dogs not licensed has caused
many tags to be sold to dog owners.
The act provides for SO cents to
be paid to the constables for each
dog killed by them, this to be paid
out of the dog damage fund.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
HALLOWE' EN-.

Tonight is Halloween, the time
when spirits are supposed to go
abroad. and do all sorts of so-called
funny stunts. It has been the prac-
tice in years past for boys and girls
and sometimes men who ought to
know better, to array themselves
in costumes such as spirits would
be ashamed to be caught in after
dark, and to go about the town
tearing down fences, defacing build
ings, stealing door mats, gates,
wagons, and everything else in
sight that was movable, OH the sup
position that their acts were really
funny. They did not seem to re-
alize that such conduct is malicious
mischief and larceny just as much
OIL Halloween as at any other time,
and can be prosecuted and punish
ed as such.
Tonight will see large number
of masqueraders, aud they will be
amusing SO long as they do not
comm;, criminal acts. 1t would be
far more enjoyable for everybody if
a procession were formed and a pa
rade given in some sort OF order
by the mummers, than if the even
ing were spent in the disorganized
and disorderly manner that has too
often heretofore prevailed in this
town. Amusement is one thing,
disorderly conduct and malicious
mischief are other things. and those
who indulge in the one should see
that they do not 60 so far over the
line that it becomes the other.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
MAJOR CHAMBERLlN IN TOWN.

After an absence of many years
Major James w. Chamberlin is
visiting Bloomsbury. He is son
of the late John Chamberlin who
was for long time a justice of the
peace in this town. In his Younger
days the Major was clerk in the
McKelvy & Neal store, and later
conducted a tailoring establish
ment in part Of the Hartman store
building. He served in the civil
war, attaining the rank of Major.
Subsequently he was cashier of a
bank at Plymouth. He has also
been in business at Wilkes. Barre,
and for several years past he has
lived at Hampton Roads, Va. He
expects to be here until Christmas.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
NEXT TUESDAYS ELECTIONS.

There will be elections in twelve
States on Tuesday next, In Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Mary
land, Mississippi and Kentucky a
Governor and other State officers
will be chosen; in New Jersey,
Governor only; in New York, two
Associate Justices of the Court of
Appeals; in Pennsylvania, a State
Treasurer, and in Nebraska Rail-
road Commissioner and two Re-
gents of the State University. In
Massachusetts,. Maryland and New
Jersey the political contests are
more than ordinarily spirited. The
Democratic split in Massachusetts,
has not served to diminish the pub
lie interest, although it makes prac-
tically certain the reelection of the
Republican candidate for Governor.
In Maryland the battle between the
parties is made more fierce because
it involves the choice of United
States Senator. In New Jersey
there is fair stand-up fight for the
Governorship unhampered by the
choice of any other State officials,
making an unusually interesting
off-year contest. There are also
specially important municipal cleo
tions in Cleveland and San Francis
CO which are of more than local
significance.
In Pennsylvania the fact that
only one State official is to be chos-
en- on the general ticket will have
its effect in decreasing the outturn
of voters; but not to the usual ex-
tent. The attention of voters has
been focused upon the State Treas
urership by reason OF the scanda-
lous mismanagement of past years,
eliminating in the exposures OF
enormous plundering in the build
ing of the State Capitol. 1t is felt
by thousands of honest voters that
the question of the condemnation
or condonation of the participants
in that six million dollar steal is di-
rectly involved in the result of the
.-Es.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
The Prohibition Candidates.

Several gentlemen from Millville
were in town yesterday to learn
why the name of the Prohibition
candidate for Associate Judge was
not printed on the ballots. The
answer to their inquiry was that
his name did not appear on the Of
fhcial copy sent to the Commission
ers by the department at Harris
burg. Either the papers were not
filed at Harrisburg, or else the can
didate did not receive enough votes
to entitle him to have his name,
printed on the ballot. There was
no fault either with the Commits
sioners or the printer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
DECISION ON INDECENT INSANE.

Judge Evans, recently, at Dan
vile, handed down decision in the
case of the trustees of the state hos
pital for the insane VS.. Danville
and Mahoning Poor Dist. let, of
Montour county, May term, 1907,
assumpsit. By agreement filed in
the case the parties dispensed with
trial by jury and submitted the
decision of the same to the court,
pursuant to the provisions of the
act of April 22, 1874. This was an
action brought to recover for medi-
cal care, maintenance and clothing
rendered Catharine Hahn, an alleg-
ed pauper, committed to the care
and custody of the plaintiff by the
overseers of the poor of the defend
ant poor district. The court finds
that the said Catherine Fahn was
not an INDECENT insane person and
that the hospital for the insane is
entitled to judgment against the
Danville and Mahoning poor dis
trict. The decision is one of much
Importance as it aims to break up
practice pretty generally in vogue
throughout the state--that of COM
hitting persons to the various hos
pitals as INDECENT insane when they
have estates or some one response
bic for their care and keeping.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
RAISING PHEASANTS.

Columbia county has the distlnc-
ton of having the only pheasantry
in the State of Pennsylvania. 1t Is
conducted by Associate Judge FL
mer Yeager, in Roaring Creek
township, who in addition to the
duties OF his office will experiment
with the raising of pheasants.
They have been successfully raised
in Canada for years. but it is bus
iuess which is new in this country
and hence will be watched with in
terest.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION

President Roosevelt has issued
the following proclamation:
Once again the season of the
year has come when, i'll accordance
with the custom of our forefathers
for generations past, the President
appoints a day as the especial occa-
sion for all our people to give praise
and thanksgiving to God.
During the past year we have
been free from famine, from pssti-
lence, from war. We are at peace
with all the rest of mankind. Our
natural resources are at least as
great as those of any other nation.
We believe that in ability to devel-
op and take advantage of these re-
sources the average man of this ma
ton stands at least as high as the
average man of any other. No
where else in the world is there
such an opportunity for free peo-
pie to develop to the fullest extent
all its powers of body, of mind, and
of that which stands above both
body and mind-character.
TEN TALENTS IN OUR CARE.
Much has been given us from on
high and much will rightly be ex-
pected of us in return. Into our
care the ten talents have been en-
trusted; and we are 10 be pardoned
neither if we squander and waste
them, nor yet if we hide them in a
napkin; for they must be fruitful
in our hands. Ever throughout
the ages, at all times and among all
peoples. prosperity has been fraught
with danger, and it behooves us to
beseech the Giver of All Things
that we may not fall into love of
ease and of luxury; that we may
not lose our sense of moral respon-
sibility; that we may not forget our
duty to God and to our neighbor.
ASKS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE
A great democracy like ours,
democracy based upon the princi-
pies of orderly liberty, can be per-
petuated only if in the heart of the
ordinary citizen there dwells keen
sense of righteousness and justice.
We should earnestly pray that this
spirit of righteousness and justice
may grow ever greater in the hearts
of all of us, and that our souls
may be inclined ever more both to-
ward the virtues that tell for gen
tleness and tenderness, for loving
kindness and forbearance one with
another and toward those no less
necessary virtues that make for
manliness and rugged hardihood-
for without these qualities neither
nation nor individual can rise to
the level of greatness.
DAY OF THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER
Now, therefore, I, Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the United
States, 10 set apart Thursday, the
2Sth day of November, as day of
general thanksgiving and prayer,
and on that day l recommend that
the people shall cease from their
daily work, and, in their homes or
in their churches, meet devoutly to
thank the Almighty for the many
and great blessings they have re-
ceived in the past, and to pray that
they may be given the strength so
to order their lives as to receive a
continuance of these blessings in
the future.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
HAD TO REPRINT BALLOTS.

All the ballots for Northumber-
land county had to be reprinted be-
cause in the Prothonotary column
the word Prothonotary only appear
ed at the head, while it should
have read "Prothonotary and Clerk
of the Court of Quarter Sessions.
There were about so, 900 of them,
and they were printed by J. l.
Steele of Shamokin. The error
was in the copy furnished him by
the commissioners.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
DlLLON'S GREEN HOUSES.

A new stack has just been raised
at the boiler room of the Dillon
Green Houses on Normal Hill, to
replace the one blown down by the
wind recently.
The chrysamthemums are now
coming on, and the sales have been
large though the crop is unusually
early this fall. A little later they
will be out in all their glory.
The retail trade has been largely
increased, and there is now on
hand a fine collection of ferns,
palms, and ornamental plants of
many varieties.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
ALUMNI BANQUET.

The annual reunion and banquet
of the Luzerne County Alumni As
sociation of the Bloomsbury State
Normal School will be held this
evening at the Hotel Sterling in
Wilkes Barre, at six O'Clock. DR..
Waller and a number of the pro-
tessors OF the school will be there,
and the Crusade Commandery
Quartette will give some vocal
selections.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
BOYD F. MAIZE MARRIED.

Boyd F. Maize Esq was married
in the Presbyterian church at Ava
lon, Pa, on Tuesday to Miss Edith
r. Behrhorst of that place. A
large number of invited guests were
present. Miss Edith Maize was
maid of honor, and Warren Mar
shall of New York was best man.
After the ceremony delightful re-
ception was held at the brides
home. After a wedding tour, Mr..
and Mrs. Maize will reside in
Bloomsbury.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
Savings Deposits.

The First National Bank is loan
ing out free of cost small, beautiful
steel oxydized banks to persons
who want to take care of their
small savings. These little banks
are periodically brought to the
Bank where they are opened, the
contents taken out and credited to
the owner. BY their use, it is hoped
many people will be induced to save
their money and become bank de.
positors.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
DONATION DAY.

Saturday is Donation Day at the
Joseph Ra.ti Hospital. 1t should
be generously remembered OH that
day. Since its establishment it has
done much good, and many lives
have been saved by operations
which, but for the hospital could
not have been performed for lack
of means to go to distant hospital.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
Arm Amputated.

Charles Barwick of Catawissa,
brakeman on the Philadelphia &
Reading road, fell from box car
at West Milton on Monday after
noon and his right arm was crushed
below the elbow. He was brought
here to the Hospital, where DR..
Bruner and DR.. J. M. Vastine am
putated the arm at the shoulder.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
THANKSGIVING SERVICE.

The Bloomsbury Ministerial
Union has arranged for union
Thanksgiving service. The meet
ing will be held in the Methodist
church at 1880 in the evening, and
the sermon will be preached by
Rev. G. r. Smith, pastor Of the
Baptist church.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31
School Enrolment.

At the regular monthly meeting
of the Bloom School Board the re-
port of Principal Sterner showed an
enrolment of 1918 pupils in the
schools.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-10-31

w. H. Brewer now occupies his
new property on Normal Hill, re-
Gently purchased by him from the
Misses Brown.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18

face. From doorknobs 70 dome the
building stands as a monument of po-
litical infamy
The amazing thing to an outsider is
that Pennsylvania at its last election
with the facts known of its electorate
elected triumphantly to state Office
men of the Republican party which
had been responsible for the states
scandal, and returned to power in
Philadelphia the same gang that had
robbed the city almost as mercilessly
as the capitol gang had robbed the
state. And in both the city and the
state, a Republican president who
prides himself on the square DEAL"
who ostensibly abhors corruption in
public life, did his utmost to secure
the election Of the gang candidates.
As a horrible example of what DEM
ocratic government should not be,
Pennsylvania and her chief city have
contributed much to public enlighten-
ment; but after this revelation it is
to be hoped no Pennsylvania news
paper will ever again refer to the
crimes of San Francisco or the wick
edness of the west without apoiogiz-
ing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18
THE BACHELORS Wall.
Detroit Free Press.)

Detroit Free Press.)
These nights are mighty hard on me,
l have to entertain till day
A lot of married men who're free,
Because their wives have gone away.
And married men who're left alone
Are worse than single men, by far;
At least the ones that / have known.
Have proved conclusively they are.
A single man will homeWard go
At l a. m or even 2;
But when a mans wife cannot know,
A decent hour will never do.
He will not let you catch your car,
He thinks with him you ought to stay
The worst Of night hawks really are
The men whose wives have gone away
All autumn and all winter through,
He stays at home at night to read;
But when he's bid his wife adieu
And for the summer he is freed,
He turns unto his single friends,
And keeps them out till break of day;
With him the evening never ends,
At least while WHEY is away.
The summer may be full of cheer,
For many; but all single men
Will gladly see 1t disappear.
When they can settle down again.
This single blessedness, l swear,
Has many joys in glad array;
But. On; / bid you TO beware
OF married men with wives away.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18

fer from "A Lady of Quality, In
which a woman kills her assailant
with the butt of her riding whip, and
hides his body under a sofa. Here the
woman strikes the mortal blow with
bottle and pulls table over the
corpse. The borrowed matter is han
died very well, and the audience is
soberly impressed by the good girl S
predicament at being falsely accused
of the murder by the bad girl. But
the curtain must needs go down on a
gunplay climax. So the rustic lover is
brought in to rescue the heroine from
two detectives. He seizes a pair Of
empty theatrical pistols, and gets the
drop" on these men, who throw up
their hands: but Immediately one cries:
Why, them guns amt loaded
But these are" the rustic remarks,
wrenching from each officer his wea-
pom.
Under cover of this second and du-
pick drop" the rescuer backs out of
the room with the falsely accused girl.
That is the sort of bosh that doesn't
thrill the rabble, as a plain, Logical So
luton does; but 1t amuses them-they
take it for good fun-and in this in
stance they roared with laughter while
they applauded.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18
SCIENCE AND FIRST LOVE.

DIR. Sir James CritchtOn-BrOwne,
psychologist, psychologist and neurolo-
gist of renown, attempted to give the
International School congress In Lor-
don an explanation Of the tender pas
sion Of first love. He said that while
the subject was probably too problem
atical and out of date in these mater
ial days to merit serious consideration,
it did exist, this tender passion, and
it was traceable to two scientific
causes. The first cause, the doctor said,
was "a species of cerebral commotion,"
and the second "the stirring of some
hitherto dormant association centers by
an appropriate affinitive impression"
That definition may suit the scien-
lists who have lived so long they have
their youth, but men who are still
young enough to retain memory of the
girl who gave their boyhoods heart
the hutters, know that the doctor hasn't
come within miles OF a comprehensive
accounting for the passion. Cerebral
commotion" is too mild for the intel
lectual cataclysm this girl produced,
and "the stirring Of some hitherto DOR
mant association centers" is utterly
inadequate as description of the emo
tional tumult it is intended to depict.
You may remember even yet, the
hypnotic spell her eyes cast when she
happened to turn them your way, the
thrill that went through yoG when her
hand touched yours ever so gently.
How the days were too short when you
had the ineffable privilege of seeing
her home from school, and the summers
too long when her folks took her away
on vacation and you had to stay home
and work Just the hint of a pink
dress down the street was enough to
make shivers Of delight travel through
you, and the sound of her voice had
the most beautiful tones of the harp
back in the discard.
Cerebral commotion" indeed! And
stirring of some hitherto dormant as
ISOLATION centers by an appropriate af-
fnitive impression!" Why, the old fos-
sill can never have known anything
about loves young dream, the joy OF
buying ice cream as a sacrifice to Her
the agony of seeing some other fellow
not half so attractive or worthy, sitting
by Her side at the theatre.
Dr. Sir James Crichton-Browne may
be all right as a psychologist and psy-
biologist and neurologist, but when il
comes to telling just what the tender
passion of young loves dream is. any
callow American boy of twenty-one can
give the doctor a handicap of three
laps in a half-mile dash and beat hin
out.