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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
The Inevitable.


Events have displayed, the worlds his
tory through,
Humanity's favorite trick.
Whatever you say and whatever you
do,
Somebody is going to kick.
when Caesar set out for a liberal
sway,
His own friends attacked him. as
shown in the play;
And the best of intentions but prove
to this day,
That somebody's going to kick.
II you journey in solitude up to the
pole,
And pillow through the icicles thick,
You discover, when homeward SO
- proudly you stroll,
That somebody's going to kick.
II you're poor you're unhappy a.
friends stray afar;
IF rich. what rude comments ypur
pleasure VIII mar:
whoever. whatever. whessvsf you are.
80 A~-~AAR0s. 1890 g 49, EEz5I ESs
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
Success and Happiness

There is always a cloud on his face
because he is constantly expecting that
something ~unfavorable is going to
happen. There is going to be a slump
in business, or he is going to have a
loss, or somebody is stealing from him
or trying to undermine him; or he
is worried about his health, or fears
his children will be sick or go wrong
or be killed, writes Orison SWEET Mar.
den in Success Magazine.
In other words, although he has
achieved quite a remarkable success,
yet he has never really had a happy
day in his life. All his life this man
has been chasing MISUNDERSTANDING
If he could only get a little further on,
a little higher up, if he could only
achieve this or that, he would be hap
py; but he is just as far from it as
when a boy.
1 believe this condition has all come
from the habit of u%nhappiness which
he formed during his hard boyhood,
and which he has never been able to
overcome. He has learned to look
for trouble, to expect it, and he gets it.
1 have been his guest many a time.
He has a beautiful home, a very
charming wife, a most delightful fam
lily; but there is always the same cloud
on his face, the same expression Of
anxiety, of u%nhappiness, of f~oreboding.
He always looks as though he expected
trouble right away.
A little properly directed training in
his boyhood would have changed his
whole career, and he would have been
a happy, joyous, harmonious man, in
stead of being discordant n unhap-
Ply. There is everything in starting
right. What is put into the first Of
life is put into the whole Of life.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-25
MARRIED AT ESPY.

Miss Bessie M. Robson, daugh-
ter of Mrs. J. Boyd Robson, was
married at her home in Espy on
Wednesday, to DR.. John Decker
Butzner of Virginia. Owing to the
recent death of her father, the
wedding was quiet one, only
members of the family and few
invited friends being present.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. H. Z. Harman of West Ber.
wick. After wedding journey to
the south, the young couple will
reside III S ;ranton.
The bride is a graduate of the
Normal School, and of the Poly
clinic Hospital, Philadelphia, where
she took course as trained nurse.
DR.. Butzner graduated at the Uni
versity of Virginia.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-25
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.

An eight year old boy, son of
James P. Whitla Esq, of Sharon,
Pa. was called out of the school
room by stranger one morning
last week, and has not been seen
since. He was kidnapped. His
father offered to pay ransom of
$40, 900, the amount demanded by
the abductors, the latter having
written letter to the father to that
effect.
Detectives and the constabulary
were at once put in motion, and
but for large overdose of what is
called newspaper enterprise,
the criminals would probably have
been apprehended. and the boy
safely at home, ere this.
The city papers have contained
columns each day. going into the
minutest details of every movement
made by Mr.. Whilta and the au-
thorities, and have thus kept the
kidnarpers thoroughly informed at
every step, thus enabling them to
elude capture. 1t is to be regretted
that this style of journalism is SO
prevalent in such cases. 1t has
often happened that newspaper men
have ferreted out crimes, and led to
the apprehension of criminals, but
they have not done it by publishing
daily every clue, and every step
taken.
1t would seem as though the
papers that fill their columns with
such matter, do it for the sake of
making sales for their publication,
by gratifying that morbid desire Of
so much of the public that yearlis
for the sensational, but losing sight
of the fact that they are thereby
putting obstacles in the way of
those who are seeking to appre-
hend the criminals, aud to restore
the lost child to his parents.
LATER. Since writing the above
the Whitla boy has been recovered
by the father, not through the help
of the newspapers, but by paying
the ransom, and by keeping his
movements unknown to the report
ers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-25
CONCERNING A FORMER BLOOMS
BURG LADY.

Miss Margaret Laubach, former
ly of Bloomsbury, but for some
years past residing in Philadelphia,
was married to Mr.. Harry E. Wood
man in November, 1907, in New
York city. He is President of the
Franklin Trust Company, of Phil
adelphia, President of the Union
Railway Supply Company, with
Offices in the Real Estate Trust
Company building, Broad and
Chestnut streets, and is extensively
engaged in the construction of gas
and electric light plants, and is one
of the owners of the gas plant at
Lewistown, Pa.
Mr.. Woodman is a member of
the following clubs: Union League,
Art Club, Columbia Club, Yacht
Club, and the Quaker City Motor
Club. He is also President of the
Good Roads Company.
Their residence is at 1900 Spruce
street, Philadelphia. Mrs. Wood
man has many friends here who
will be glad to learn of her happi-
ness and prosperity.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-25
APRIL SECOND ARBOR DAY.
Governor Stuart Urges Planting Of Trees All
Over State.

Governor Stuart has issued the
following Arbor day proclamation:
The annual observance of Ar
Dor day has fostered public senti-
ment in favor of the preservation
of the forests. their protection from
fire and other enemies, and their
intelligent Use for commercial, in
dustrial and other purposes. 1t has
emphasized in the public mind the
value of trees-for shade, for fruit,
for timber. for holding the soil and
conserving the streams. 1t has
made the rising generation familiar
with the best methods of planting
trees, and for promoting their
growth. 1t has led to the beautify-
ing of the public parks and the
grounds about homes and school
houses.
"The custom of observing Ar
Dor day, which is now almost uni
versal throughout the civilized
world, should be encouraged and
perpetuated. Wise Legislative en-
actment has made it the duty of
the chief executive to name one or
more days as Arbor days for the
State of Pennsylvania.
Therefore. in furtherance of
this laudable custom, and by au-
thority of law, I, Edwin S. Stuart,
Governor of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, do hereby issue this
my proclamation. designating Fri
day, April 2, and Friday, April %,
1909, as Arbor days throughout
the Commonwealth.
1.-TWO days have been designated
so that every section of the State
may find a day for tree planting
suited to its climatic conditions. "
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-25
GELB'S OPENING.

The opening Of Gelb's store in
its new location, the Clark building,
last Thursday, was largely attend
ed. The store was crowded all day
and evening. The goods are attrac-
lively arranged, and he is showing
a very fine line Of millinery,
women's and misses suits and
coats, lingerie, waists, and a gen.
eral assortment of desirable goods.
Mr.. Gelb's progress since he came
here. shows him to be an up-to-date
business man.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-25
FROM JAMES MAGEE.

A postal received from Mr.. Ma
gee at this Office yesterday says: "I
am writing this on the deck of the
steamer. and it is rolling so, 1 can
hardly keep my seat. have not
lost meal since l left home.'
1t was mailed March 10th. but
the post mark is indistinct. AS it
has Panama postage stamp on it.,
we judge that he was in that vicin-
ity at the time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-25
PROPOSED NEW FISH LAW.

A new fish bill is before the leg
islature. 1t was drafted at meet
ing of lot of fishermen held few
months ago at Allentown. 1t is a
fair, rational bill, and its passage
would be welcomed by all true
sportsmen.
1t classes as game fishes all the
trout and salmon family, black
bass, Oswego green or yellow bass,
crappie, grass, strawberry or calico
bass, white bass, rock bass, blue
pike, pike perch, pickerel, pike,
muscallonge, etc, except bass or
rock fish.
1t classes as food fishes all white
fish, herring, shad, alewife, stur-
geon. striped bass or rock fish, and
classes as common fishes all other
fishes found in the waters of this
commonwealth, inclnding "bait
fish," which is held to cover the
small fishes of all species excepting
those classed as game fishes.
1t permits the catching of COM
mon fishes at all times of the year
with rod, hook and line or hand
line; the catching of game or food
fishes in the open season by the
same means; defines rod, hook
and line or hand-line" to cover
bobs and tip-ups' and limits hand
lines to five hooks, and designates
rod, hook and line or hand-line"
as the manner and method and not
prescribing or limiting the number
to be used; permits the taking of
bait fish by any means except ex-
plosives or poisons.
II makes the trout season April
18th to July 3Ist, limits the num-
Der to be caught to 40 and does
away with the size limit.
1t makes the season for other
game fish June 18th to January 81
st, limits the catch of black bass to
IS, pickerel and pike to 20. Sus-
quehanna salmon to IS and mus
callonge to 5, per day, and does
away with the size limit.
No persons shall be liable to any
penalty for violations unless the fish
have actually been illegally caught,
taken or killed, or had in posses
sion. and permits an appeal from
the Justices decision.
1t compels the hatcheries to re-
tain one-half the fish produced un-
til they are ~ inches in length.
and the remainder until they are
3 inches in length, before distribut-
ing them.
1t permits the use of hoop nets
of any mesh for catching all but
game fishes during the months Of
March, April, May, September,
October and November.
Permits outline or nighttime
fishing from 5 o'clock p. m. to 8
O. clock the next morning, and
prohibits the use of gig or spear
for taking any kind of fish.
1t permits the use of dip-nets
that do not span over eight feet for
catching fish during the same
months that the use of hoop nets
is permitted.
1t says nothing about eel walls,
nor does it permit setting hooks for
eels in waters inhabited by brook
trout, but Representative Greasy
has introduced an amendment per-
mitting this latter time honored
custom.
There are numerous other pro-
visions relating to the enforcement
of the law and the penalties for the
violation of the law are about the
same as under the old law.
1t will no doubt be amended by
the Fishery Commission represent
atives until its sponsor will not rec
ognize it, but nevertheless it is the
nearest to a sensible fish law that
has yet been presented to the leg
;slature.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-25
LAFAYETTE CLUB COMING.

The Lafayette College Glee and
Mandolin Club will give concert
in the Normal Auditorium on Tues
day, March goth, at S:I5p. IN. A
large number of Bloomsbury ladies
have consented to act as patrones-
ses, and a big audience will greet
the Lafayette students.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14
MINSTREL SHOW
At OPERA HOUSE
RICHARDS AND PRlNGLES' GREAT
COMPANY OF FUN MAKERS
TONIGHT VAUDEVILLE SUS-
PENDED TILL TOMORROW.

Richards and Pringles great mn
stfel show will exhibit at the popular
Cairo opera house tonight. Prices %,
80 and rs cents, Watch for the big
parade at midday. This aggregation is
ranked high among the top-notchers in
the minstrel field, and this year the
company is augmented by several able
comedians not identified with the out
fiji before For many seasons Richards
and Pringles' MINISTRIES have been rec
ognized as a model company, and they
come to Cairo on the present engaga.
ment with all new songs and new
jokes, with a reputation envicd by
many cf the so-called leading minstrel
troupes touring the United States to-
day A better show for the money can
not be seen anywhere else, and an cX-
cellcnt entertainment is assured to-
night.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14
NEW RAILROAD WATER TANKS
Concrete Towers Are TO Be Placed on
Hartman Line in
Mexico.

Work on the Cananea, Yaqui River
e. Pacific railroad is not only develop
ing rapidly along lines of road eXten-
sion, but in the building of the neces-
sary stations, roundhouses tanks and
other accessories. At Empalme, five
miles north Of Guaymas, Carl Leon
erdt, the Los Angeles contractor. has
completed a water tank which is the
first of its peculiar kind in the world,
and revolutionizes the old style Of
wooden and steel tanks for railroad
purposes,
The new tank is built entirely of
concrete is no feet in height and
has diameter of 30 feet. one of the
novel features of the tank lies in the
fact that it is not elevated on high
frame, as usual, but is built on a
huge concrete slab, giving it a reser.
yoir capacity of 100000 gallons.
1t was built first as an experiment,
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14
OLD RESIDENT
DIED YESTERDAY
MICHAEL kOBLER PASSED AWAY
LAST EVENING AT HOME OF
MRS. c. r. MILLER HIS pAUGH-
TER-WAS 70 YEARS OLD.

Michael Kobler, another of the
Oldest residents of Cairo, died last
event-s at 6 O'Clock at the home OF
his DAUGHTER, Mrs Charles f. Miller
on Commercial avenue He had been
Ill about two weeks,
MIR, Kober was born in Alsace
Germany, July Is, 1881 and came to
this country in 1853, locating in
Cairo the following year He was a
tailor and was until 1871 employed
by Peter Neff and John Antrim, In
that year he formed a partnership
with Phillip Lehnirg, the partnership
being dissolved in 1878 when he en-
gagged in business by himself.
He is survived by his daughters,
Mrs. Charles f. Miller of this city
with whom he made his homo, and
Mrs Henry Kolb of Paducah. Ky.
The funeral arrangements will be
announced later
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14
s~s
rue Spiritual Line.

A good story is told of very Sc
date doctor of divinity When return
ing by train from a church congress
a fellow passenger undertook to draw
aim into conversation, and so far sue
ceeded that the reverend gentleman
asked him to what profession he hap.
pened to belong.
Oh said the layman, cheerfully
I'm in the cotton line
"Oh, indeed" replied the clergy.
man. urbanely; there is good deal
Of business going on in that branch
just now, ! understand"
First class said the layman, with
a cunning smile And may ask
what is your line?"
o. said the clergyman. patronizing.
~, with the nearest approach to a
joke he was ever known to perpe.
trate. I'm in the spiritual line"
"Blest If | didn't think So ex-
claimed his companion, knowingly:
and putting one hand on the doctor
knee, he leaned forward eagerly and
added. with an indescrible wink, but
say. what a price you have got gin
up to?'-Lindou Tit-Bits.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14
TEN DAYS OF WOE
THAT AWFUL PERIOD WHEN BA-
BY MUST BE NAMED.
Writer Pleads That at Least Year
Be Allowed Parents for That I'm.
portant eedng-Rela-
tives' UnkindneSs.

The Modes and Persians were an
unyieldng and an arbitrary people
but il is not recorded that they had
such an inhuman law as this, a regu-
lation requiring that the baby must be
named within ten days The name
must be filed with the board OF health
within that period. II cannot be
changed without proceedings so din
cult and yeXatious that most people
will prefer to leave tie name as it
stands or will change ii without legal
sanction.
Surely no one should be obliged to
name his baby in less than a year. Not
only the board of health, but DOCTORS
nurses, friends and relatives especial
~ relatives should be forbidden IN.
der pain of temporary ostracism from
asking that embarrassing question;
Well, what are you going to name
the baby?" If you don't name him or
her as soon as it is born they are
scaI ely able to disguise their pity for
you. The doctor, perhaps, Is not TO
be blamed as much as the others,
The law prods him on, He has got
to get 1t on the books within ten days.
If he doesn't he will not be thought a
punctliOus inquisitOr The board of
health will have its eye on him. But
for the others there Is no such excuse
Their action is contra bonos mores,
and quite objectionable. Their inQuir-
les are oppressive and unjust They
know not charity nor the rudiments
thereof They do not have the first
conception of the torture which the
haggard parent has endured.
First of all, there's the dictionary.
It's long enouet-thc lord knows. But
no one realizes how few good names it
contains until he has attempted To get
one out OF ii. He thumbs il for weeks
or months together Always with the
same result lie flies to the family
EenealoSy aud the genealogies of all
the collateral branches. Result no bet.
ter! He calls in his friends. even
him He becomes a subject of nolan,
Choly ana hopeless pesslmist. But
this is not all. Possibly a boy Is ex'
peoted--and after great tribulaton a
boys name is selected-but the baby
turns ont a girl Or vice versa
The process must begin all over
again, with the knowledge of what
was accomplished in months must
now be done in days-in ten days!
The parent may escape nervous pros
tration but who will doubt that his
vital forces have been impaired? And
who should be surprised that names
selected under such duress and intim.
jdation don't always stand? Yet folks
are surprised when change is made.
Clearly the law is villainous, and the
manners of our friends and relatives
are beyond description New York
Globe.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14
INDIA STRICTLY UP-T0-DATE
High Praise Accorded Modern Carr
Recently Installed on Railroad
Lines There.

Tho Bombay G. Bengal and Contra:
India railroads have introduced new
kind of car. built with corridor run.
ming from end to end of the coach
Every compartment has a powerful
electric fan. entirely under the control
of the passenger. and three electric
lamps. one small light being separate
ly switched, SO that it may be kept
burning all night, if desired, without
inconvenience.
If the party extend beyond the ac
commodation of single compart
ment. the sliding door connecting il
with the adjoining compartment car
be left open and the two Compart
ments thrown into one There is an
electric bell. enabling the attendant
tn be summoned at any hour Of the
day or night At either end of the
coach there is commOdious bath.
room. This is a roomy cabin. with a
good bath sunk in the floor. an abun
dant equipment of mirrors. and all
toilet and sanitary conveniences
American tourists who have FUSED
these new cars speak in the highest
praise OF them.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14
persian minister's Reception.

Those who are acquainted with the
Persian minister TO Washington can
enjoy real treat by calling at his at
home" days Etiquette permits WON.
en- To drop in on bachelor minister
when that minister is an Oriental OF
hospitable intentions. Gen. Morteza
Khan lives in fine style in the aristo-
cratic West end, and for the present
the former Florence Breedon OF Bog.
ton, now the wife of Mira Khan Per.
sian consul general, is actins as hos
tess in the Persian legation. Recep
ton days are made known by quaint
invitation, sometimes in Persian script
and often in verse. Morteza Khan Ii
man of letters an well as genia
host The lower floor of the legation
is ready for receptions and several
Persian students furnish the most al
ments. The refreshments are another
attraction. Tea which perfumes the
entire room is served in tall silver
goblets, and with it comes combined
cake and candy made of Persian
honey Conserved fruit and nuts high
~ Speed and perfumed, with cakes
hard as rock, but tasty when one can
manage to break of a piece. are eat.
en- with a frozen fruit punch
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14
Alumni Day.

do You remember the night we nut
a COW in the Crock professors Toom?"
yes. And when we lampblacked tie
bust of Aeneus?'
Sure. And the cold winter evening
we turned the bell upside down and
filled it with water?"
"Ah, those were great days, How q
your boy getting along? DO You think
the students of to-day are as studious
and progressive as we used to be-"
Then the gray-haircd gentlemen be
gan to discuss the moral influence of
modern college lilc.-P Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14

IN addition 10 Jne WORK Just com
nleted for the new railroad, the Los
ANGELES contractor will build the
bridges over the larger rivers which
must be crossed in Mexico, These are
to be REINFORCED concrete The largest
will be over the Yaqui river, and will
be l,216 feet long, with 16 spans Of
about 20 feet each.
Other bridges will be over the Sina-
loa, the Pixatla the Moscarita and the
Preside rivers. These bridges are TO
be among the most substantial OF
their kind ever constructed.-Los An
geles Times
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14

President Walsh of tho Ohio Yves
leyan university, sees the policy q
college education for culture gaining
faster than the idea Of education fol
efficiency. Many think it is just m,
reverse But why shouldn't the tive
go hand in nd?-Boston Herald
They certainly shcIld, and cduca
tion is defective which does not ally
then in some way. we shall zee few
or intellectual frcigh. cars on the side
tracks when there Is a Zest for Ell
ci ucy inspired in oar youth along
W tn the desire for knowledge and cul
ture New York llorald
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14

and tests made have been so satisfac-
tory that others of a similar charac-
ter and even larger size. will be
built on the Hartman line running
down the west coast of Mexico to
Guadalaiara. In addition to the water
tank. Mr. Leonardo has completed two
large concrete smokestacks in the
same district. One of these is $50 feet
high and eight feet in diameter.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-14

Cynthia Stop this instant, Hiram!
Don't you see there are a hundred
people watching you kiss me up
here?
Hiram What do care. Gym.
;hia? Amt this here the observation
lower?