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Schley Bryan's Naval Head.
Nebraskan Would Give Him Chance TO Clean
Out Department.

1t is said by friends of w. J.
Bryan that Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley will be offered the Secreta-
ryship of the Navy in case the Ne
braskan is elected President. 1t
would be the first time in history
that any naval officer has received
this position. Heretofore the De-
partment has been run by the Btu
reau of Navigation, and Secretary
of the Navy has not been much
more than a chief clerk who regis
tiers the DEGREES of that bureau.
1t is said that Bryan intends, in
case he becomes President, to make
a clean sweep of this ring and to
inaugurate a new deal all around.
He does not believe it possible to do
that without a practical naval offic-
er at the head of the Department.
Admiral Schley has not been ap-
preached by any representative of
Bryan on this question, and knows
nothing of it. 1t has not been con-.
fided by Bryan to anybody outside
the circle of his most intimate
friends.
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THURSDAY MAY Z, 1908.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION

Democratic State Committee Rooms
Harrisburg, Pa, April I, 1908.
As directed by the Democratic
State Central Committee at a spec
ial meeting held in the Board of
Trade rooms, in this city on We'd
nesday, February 26th, 1908, no.
tice is hereby given that the Demo
cratic State Convention will convene
in the Orpheum Theatre, at Har-
risburg,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20.h, 1908,
at II O'Clock a. N. The business
for which the convention will meet
will be.
To nominate one candidate for
perior Court Judge:
Two candidates for Presidential
...ectors-at-Large,
10 elect in the manner provided
~ the rules of the party: four Del
egates and four Alternates-at-La Large
to the National Democratic Con-
vention;
To certify the nomination of
thirty-two Presidential Electors, as
named by the delegates from the
respective Congressional Districts
of the State,
And to act upon and determine
such other matters, relating to the
welfare and success Of the parry
within the State, as may be brought
before it.
P. GRAY MEEK, Secretary.
GEORGE M. DIMELING, Chairman.
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A fine new line of Wedding in
v,tations just received at this office.
Dangerous Extravaganza Of Congress
(From Leslies Weekly.)

In opposing the Presidents prop.
osition for four more battleships in
the present session of Congress,
Representative Tawney, of Mime
sofa, said that Gin preparation for
war the United States. with all
army of So, 900 men and a navy of
$4,000, is expending this year only
500, 600. 900 less than England,
with all army of 2c4, 900 men and a
navy of I29,o men; only $751;
900, 900 less than Germany. with
her army of Goo, 900 and her navy
Of 62, 900; and we are spending ST.
6S3, 900 more than France, with
her army of $50, 900 men and her
navy of $1,000 men, These are
portentious words for the Republi-
can party which is in control of all
branches of the government. The
man who uttered them is chairman
of the House Appropriations Com
mittee and one of the Republican
leaoers OF that chamber. Moreover,
the appropriations for the army and
navy which he denounced thus
when they were before the House
have been increased since that time.
They are larger than in any year
except during the Civil War and
the Spanish war periods. This i'm
mense outlay in time of profound
peace is, considering the relatively
diminutive size of our army and
navy, discreditable to the Republi-
can party, and may prove danger
Gus to it.
Dr. Miles, Anti Pa In pills rnlinun min,
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lmmensity of Our Gold Industry,
(Walter Hartly Meredith in Leslies
Weekly.)

An eagle, ten-dollar gold piece,
is just abou one inch i'll diameter.
Imagine glittering yellow ribbon
of ten dollar gold pieces, lying edge
to edge, beginning at San Francis
CO and extending eastward through
the Sacramento valley of California
across the lofty Sierra Nevada
Mountains, spanning the great
American desert in Nevada and
Utah, over the prairies of Wyom-
ing and Nebraska, across the green
fields of Iowa and Illinois, over In
diana and Ohio, through the hills
of New York and Massachusetts,,
and out into the Atlantic Ocean,
half way to the British Isles-im-
agine this continuous string of gold
ell Eagles edge to edge, without
break or interruption, over this
vast stretch of land and sea-a dis
tance which consumes at least eight
days in the swiftest express trains
and ocean steamers and you will
be able to form some conception of
the amount of gold that has been
produced in the United States.
1t requires some such Illustration
as this to grasp the immensely of
the gold Industry, to form some
definite idea of the Importance and
magnitude of the gold production
of the North American continent.
The profits from the gold indus
try are magnificent. They are
greater than in any other depart
ment of commercial activity. The
figures of the worlds production
are enormous. In 1907 the output
of the gold mines of the earth
amounted to nearly a half billion
dollars. Of this vast sum about
one-half or more than 5000, ,ooo, 900,
was net profit. No other industry
can make such a showing as this.
This gold was found in America,
in Mexico, in South Africa, in Aus
tralia, and else where.
This huge sum of profits, more
than 5000, 900, 900, was distributed
to scores of thousands of people.
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EXPOSED HYPOCRISY.

Ever since the exposure of the
Capitol looting by a Democratic
State Treasurer the Republican par
ty managers in Pennsylvania have
been vociferously expressing their
righteous wrath over the betrayal
of trust on the part of the Organi-
zation State officials involved. How
genuine is their indignationl Let
the following excerpt from the plat
form adopted by the Republican
State Convention last week answer
the question::
We believe that the business of all
departments of our State government
under Republican control is being wise
ly and honestly conducted.
The careful limitation of this ex-
preston of confidence to the ode
partments of our State government
under Republican control" is a de-
liberately pointed insult to State
Treasurer Berry, he being the head
of the only department of the State
government not under Republican
control. 1t was Berry who turned
the light on the Capitol thieves 1t
was he who made necessary the re-
pudiation of the detected grafters
in the Republican ranks by the un-
detected grafters. In revenge for
the humiliation his steadfast devo-
tion to duty has put upon the Or
ganization responsible for the plum
dering he is maliciously singled out
from all the other State officials to
be charged by implication with un-
wisely and dishonesty conducting
his Office.
If the leaders Of the Republican
party i'll Pennsylvania were sincere
IN their professions with regard to
the wholesale robbery of the tax.
payers in the Capitol construction
they would have heaped unstnted
praise upon the courageous official
who came to the peoples rescue
even in their State platform. In
common decency they could have
done no less. But they stand be-
fore the voters of Pennsylvania as
self-confessed hypocrites. In their
eagerness to slap the author of their
they have forgotten
caution and publicly stultifed them
selves. Low cunning has blunder-
ed. The sleeps clothing of peni-
.ence no longer disguises the Or
sanization wolf. The people have
n the Republican platform a vivid
X-ray impression of the real atti-
de of the virtuous Republican
party toward the greatest political
rhine in Pennsylvania history.
PliL1, Rsc0rI
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A MAN WHO ACHIEVES.

We take it that the voters of this
district will have little difficulty in
determining their course with re-
spect to voting for Congress this
year. The record of our present
member looks like revelation to
most of us. For years the rule for
the Representative for this district
has been. apparently, to do as little
as possible. The ambition of Mr..
McHenry appears to have been to
achieve as much as possible in the
interest of his constituents. He
has been both industrious and effic-
lent
1t is difficult to measure the ad-
vantage to a constituency of an ef-
fcient and capable Representative
in Congress. The seat of the Ma
tional government is a long ways
distant from the average citizen
even though he resides only few
hours off. We do not get very
close even to the State government
because our local concerns are reg
ulated mainly by our local officials
as they ought to be. But to those
who have business with the Nation
al government, such as soldiers who
have pension interests to look after
and others who are concerned about
postal routes and similar affairs, it
is important to have a Representa-
tive in Congress who has the ability
and understanding as we'll as the
inclination to serve them.
1t is not invidious to say that no
district in the whole country has
been more faithfully and efficiently
served during the present session OF
Congress than this one. Hon. John
G. McHenry has been literally ION
the job" if that phrase is allowa-
BILE. from the beginning. He has
not only been earnest and active in
behalf of his constituents but he
has been exceptionally efficient and
effective. If he had been in the
service for dozen years he could
hardly have done better and YET
with the additional experience he
would have achieved more.
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Souvenir Post Cards are printed
at this Office. Half tones supplied. !
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Have You Got a Flag for Decoration
Day and Fourth of July?

Our flag now contains iorty-six
stars, new State being admitted
to the Union, and everybody needs
new flag. You can get one, a
fine hand-sewed, fast colors, forty
six stars, with The PHilaaeLphia
Press, daily, one year, both for
$3.50. The flag alone is worth
$500. BY special arrangement di
rect with the manufacturer, Tile
Press has secured limited mum Der
of these flags and offers them to its
subscribers at this exceptionally
low price. Send check for So. so
today to Tie PAiladeLphia Press,
Circulation Department, Seventh
and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia,
and get both flag and the great
metropolitan newspaper. Or, hand
your order to your postmaster or
newsdealer.
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THE ESSENCE OF MEANNESS.

Only those who watch with keen
interest can measure accurately the
mean impulses of the pigmies who
control the Republican majority in
the present Congress. We are in
fuenced to this observation by an
incident that has been brought to
our notice by one who "has been
on the job" so to speak, during
the present session. 1t will be re-
membered that during the special
session of the Legislature in 1906,
and to some extent during the reg
ular session of 1907, the Republi-
can leaders made it a rule to allow
no Democrat to initiate any import
ant legislation. Whenever a Dem
ocrat would offer a bill of that sort
1t would be s-:othered in committee
and a Republican would present a
similar measure or one substantially
the same, which would be consider
ed. But the matter was attributed
to the picayune spirit which domi-
mated the majority and dismissed.
In Washington, during the pres
ent session of Congress, however,
the same spirit has been revealed.
One conspicuous case will serve to
illustrate this point. Early in the
session, or to be eXect, on the I2th
day of December, 1907, Representa-
tive William B. Wilson, of Tioga
county, introduced a general wild
ows' pension bill providing for
Hat rate of $I2 a month for all
widows of honorably discharged
soldiers who had served ninety days
or longer during the Civil war.
The bill was held in committee
about month and then reported
out, not as Mr.. Wilson's bill, but
as the product of the committee. 1t
is substantially, almost literally,
the measure introduced by Mr..
Wilson. But Mr.. Wilson is Dem
ocrat who happened to be elected in
a Republican district and it wouldn't
do to have his name associated with
so popular measure. 1t might
help him to a reelection.
Representative John G. McHenry
has made very similar experience
during the present session. He
was among the first to attack cur
rency legislation and early in the
session introduced two bills, one
providing for emergency currency
and the other proposed to guarantee
bank deposits. Both were referred
to committee and buried. But sub
Mr.. Fowler, chairman of
the House Committee on Banking
and Currency, introduced a bill
embodying one of Mr.. McHenry's
ideas and Mr.. Aldrich, chairman of
the Senate Committee on Finance,
introduced a bill expressing the
other, while McHenry's bills were
Other Democratic
Representatives have had similar
experiences and the plain inference
is that the purpose was to prevent
Democrats from getting credit for
initiating pupular legislation. This
is peanut politics carried to the linn
1t. 1t is the very essence of mean
ness. - Watchman.
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Picketing Unlawful.
New York Supreme Court Upholds Injunc.
tion Restraining II.

The right of an employer to en-
join picketing by strikers is upheld
by the special term of the Supreme
Court of New York in New York
Central Iron Works Company VS..
Brennan, los N. Y Supp. 500. In
this case, it appeared that the strik-
ers had pickets on the employers
premises, and as the employees who
had taken the place of the strikers
who were on picket duty were 60
ing to and from their work the
pickets would call them "scabs,"
reproach them for working for the
employer, thus depriving the pick
cts of their bread, and threaten
them with death if they entered the
premises.
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$I3,424. IS |
Paid out during month 5000 4S |
Balance ON hand S 8,4I7.s7
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DR.. Miles Anti-Pain Pills relieve pain,
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THE COUNTY'S MONEY.

The report of County Treasurer
Rhoads for April shows that he re-
ceived SII,2So,4o
balance from March 2,I43.95
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ESTABLISHED 1887. CONSOLIDATED 1869
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MoRNING,
At Bloomsbury, the County Seat Of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. f. ELWELL. EDITOR.
GEO. G. Roam, FOREMAN.
Term s;--lnside the county SI.oo year
In advance; Si.Soif not paid IN advance.
Outside the county, Si.25a year, strictly IN
advance.
All communications should he addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, bloomsbury, Pa.
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THURSDAY MAY Z, 1908.
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ENVOYFR0M GREECE
{. A. coRoMILAS is FIRST RESI-
DENT MINISTER.
Important Addition to Uncis Sans
Foreign Colony" in Washington
Diplomats Tact in Compll-
mentlng Women.

Washfngton.-Perhaps the most in
toresting newcomer of the season In
official circles at the American capital
Is Lambros A. Coromilas, the lately
arrived minister from Greece. Aside
from the impressive personality of the
envoy selected by King George and
the significance of his mission here,
there is the further circumstance that
the new arrival from Athens is the
first resident minister ever sent to this
country by Greece and constitutes an
important addition to Uncle Sans Of
fetal foreign colony" which now in
cludes the representatives of 80 diff
ferent nations.
Although Greece has just sent, for
the first time, an accredited agent, to
be stationed at our seat of govern
ment, diplomatic relations were in
augurated long ago between this re-
public and the little kingdom on the
Mediterranean, and, indeed, the Unit
ed States has, for years past, been rep
resented in Greece by a minister who
draws salary of $4,000 per year 1t
has constituted one of the few excep-
tions to the rule that Uncle Sam will
not delegate proxy to any capital
where the government does not return
the compliment in kind by stationing
an envoy at Washington
Various influences have impelled the
Grecian authorities to seek closer re-
lations with the government of the
United States. One of these Is the
rapid growth of Greek population in
the United States. and the advent of
which has brought some problems, as
witness the padrone system. whereby
great numbers of Greek boys are re-
puted to be held in virtual slavery in
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certain business establishments, etc
an evil the government is even now
taking action against Then, too, the
trade of Greece with the United States
is increasing enormously, especially
in the matter of imports from the
United States to the European domain,
and SO King George thought it expe-
dent to have at Washington a rep
resentative to facilitate further com
mercial relations between the two
countries. Finally, Greece desired to
make substantial recognition of the
mission which this nation has so long
maintained at Athens.
Minister Coromilas is a man of the
highest education. He is ex-president
of the Grecian archaeological society,
has the degree of Phi. d. from the uni
versity of Tuebingen, Germany, and
studied in Paris at the school of po-
litical science.
He speaks English, If not exactly
fiuently, at least readily enough to
make himself understood and a short
residence here will doubtless enable
him to supplement his present precise
and scholarly English with a knowl-
edge of our language fully equal to
his present mastery of French and
German.
AS might be expected of a scholarly
native of Greece, Mr.. Coromilas is
more than fond of history and that he
takes the deepest interest in modern
as well as ancient history will not APP
pear surprising when it is explained
that he is the great-grandson Of the
famous Greek patriot Coromilas. who
in the Greek war for independence in
1921 was captured by the Turks at
the battle of Camatirou and left i'm
paled for three days while efforts were
made to compel him to divulge infor-
nation regarding the movements of
the revolutionists.
Minister Coromilas has himself had
some wartime adventures. having
been captured by the Turks during the
eastern Roumelian trouble in 1856.
That the newly arrived Greek states
man is diplomat in the true sense of
the word may be appreciated from his
tactful chowcr;ng Of compliments up
on American women. He not only de-
cla-es American women wholly charm
ing, but maintains that there never
existed greater resemblance between
tire women O. Two different races than
between tco-o cg the United States
and The additionally beautiful Grecian
E0nc- o. lie E<escxsaaic period Fur
thar1nu-es 10 eSzazadz5 that the fea-
sx-x1 o. the 1lAcrl America beauty
surpaz5 fhuse uf her ancient TRIAL
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LETTER ADDRESSED IN FLAGS.
Signal Code Inscription Puzzled the
Postal Officials.

Philadelphia letter addressed
with reproductions of international
code signal flags has been bothering
the postal officials in this city for sew
eral days, as no one could read what
the code meant. The name of the per-
son for whom it was intended, as well
as the entire address on the envelope,
was a series of printed flags of many
designs and colors, pasted on the en-
velope, which to the landlubber meant
little, but to any seaman the flags were
brimful of significance.
No one could tell what the flags
meant until it was sent up to the Office
of United States local inspectors of
vessels. who deciphered the code cas-
lily, each flag meaning a separate let
ter. The address was Miss Eva
Sable, 1860 East Seventeen street,
Cleveland, o." The letter was then
hurried off, the cause of the delay be-
ing apparent, as the postmaster at
Cleveland is likely to discover.
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Imported Boxes for Domestic Cheese
Come in Already Labeled.
Copyright by walden Fawcett

New York.-Two thousand imported
empty Camembert cheese boxes and
boxes bearing the names Of other
French cheese are on their way to join
their destined cheeses in this country.
The titled boxes have arrived, and the
authorities. out Of respect to their aris-
tocracy. allowed them to be landed
without delay or extra formality.
The boxes passed expeditously
through the custom-house, after paying
duty on printed matter on their 1000
paper labels, and another duty on i'm
ported boxes covering the ret Of
them. Then they FASTENED by freight
train to join their appointed mates up.
state-domestic cheese, rich enough,
it is said, to be anxious to acquire a
foreign title.
Cheese experts say that the mar
riage of high-sounding foreign boxes
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WANT THE MISSOURI DEEPENEp.
Convention at Sioux City. Ia, Asks
100000 Of Congress.

Sioux City, Ia.-An appropriation Of
100000 for the establishment of a
12-foot channel in the Missouri river
from st. Louis to Sioux City will be
asked of congress as a result of the
first annual convention of the Missouri
river navigation congress. held here
recently.
Governors and congressman from
seven states bordering on the MissQu-
ri river attended the convention. 1t
was the voice of the convention that
the Missouri river as well as the Mis-
sissippi should be made navigable as
soon as congress can see its way clear
to spend that much money. Il was
the sentiment of the convention that
the deepening of the Missouri river
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HEN STEALS A DIAMOND.
Aristoeratic Fowl Loses Its Life as a
Penalty.

Mitchell, s. D.-While walking
through the long row of coops at the
state poultry show A. H. Belts, grain
man, stopped before one in which a
friendly hen of the Buff Orpington va
riety stuck out its head. Mr.. Belts
tapped the bird on the side of its head,
and the sparkle Of a diamond ring
which he was wearing attracted the
eye of the hen. Quick as fash its
bill struck the brilliant. and in sec
ond. the hen had transferred the dia-
mond from the setting to its craw.
Mr.. Belts hurried over to Secretary
Scallin and wanted to know If the hen
was for sale, and explained his
anxiety. The owner was not present
and the secretary could not say
Warm water was poured down the
throat of the chicken and it became
sick. but did not give up the diamond
Later it died, and after little surgical
operation the diamond was secured.
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NEW YORK CAMEMBERT.

and plain cheeses of American make
has been going ON for years. The i'm
portation of empty boxes and labels
is thriving industry. 1t has grown
up SO little disturbed, the cheese deal
ers say. that now the importers do not
bother to bring in the boxes and the
labels in separate parcels. but send
them through all pasted together and
ready to, use, which saves the inland
makers Of imported cheese lot Of
trouble.
The Use Of labels made IN France
and boxes as well seems to lie in the
fact that the domestic boxmakers are
not up to initiating the peculiar type
and finish of the foreign boxes. Many
dealers say that their domestic cheeses
when put up in the imported boxes
absolutely cannot be told from the
imported brands, at least not by any.
body but the makers. However, the
government knows who fills the boxes,
and doubtless will see to the Ameri-
canization Of the labels.
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Eat Purse in Fishers. Net.

Winona, Minn.-Ffshermen while
SEEMING lake Winona pulled in their
net to find that all 1t held was mans
pocketbook. The purse contained
notes and certificates of deposit in
various banks. in all amounting to
$500. 1t also contained about $40 in
money and a mileage book. The owner,
R. C. Stevenson. local merchant, was
notified of the find and claimed his
property. 1t developed that Steven
son. while canoeing on the lake last
Fourth of July, was thrown into the
water and almost drowned ard in his
frantic efforts to save himself lost
the pocketbook.