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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
GOT HALF POUND OF FLESH.
California Laborer Thus Collected a
Debt of 1.-TWO Bits" from Fellow.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Because Ramon
Santa Ana, laborer, could not pay
debt of 20 cents to Frank Sanchez,
fellow laborer at Latin. the latter
took at least half pound OF flesh from
him. Santa Ana came to the receiv.
ing hospital for treatment of his left
arm, from which muscle had been
taken.
81 could not pay the two bits when
he came for it yesterday" said Santa
Ana, "and Frank pulled a big knife
from his boot leg and got me. I'll
have pound of flesh. them he said,
and he got big piece-I don't think
1t is pound. though. ! tried to get
away from him, but he was too quick
for me-"
The police are looking for Sanchez.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
LEARN TO
SWIM.

If boys must swim, and they ought
to know how, they ought to be prop.
erly taught not only how to handle
themselves in the water but to be
of service to others in case of neces-
sity. Here is chance for fathers or,
II they do not know how, older broth.
ers or teachers to show the boys and
to guarantee them a good time by
surrounding them with the safe
guards that make swimming a de-
light, and without which it is the
cause of unfeigned terror.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
FR6NkllN'S GENIUS
IN FRANCE.

This age of enlightened electricity
is only beginning to realize the stu
pendous electric imagination of Frank
lin and Faraday, as close reading OF
Kelvin, Maxwell and Lodge shows.
Ono monument, or a dozen, to NJ
Jacques de Romas as inventor OF
lightning rods, assails Franklin's I'M
mortality not in the least. Tip be-
lieVes .he French will fix no foolish
frame-ups, for they know Franklins
genius better than America.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11

nings clothed in trouserings that will
cling affectionately to limb and
spread gracefully over shoe top.
The pegtop has had its day.
London and her pegtop must be rele-
gated to the shelf. so to speak. We
must be original. II America leads
in the conquest of the air, if America
is first to reach the North Pole, why
should not America declare what sort
of pants 1t should wear? That is the
point Our legs have looked long
enough like British legs. Therefore
the pegtop trousers must be dropped
here and now, and another sort of leg
covering for the American man drawn
on from the realm of pure American.
ISM"
Here is outlined what is to be the
future typically American masculine
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
Condemnation of Envy.

Envy is almost the only vice that
is practical at all times and in every
place. the only passion that can never
lie quiet for want Of irritation its eff.
feet therefore, are everywhere discov.
cradle, and its attempts always to be
dreaded.-Dr. Johnson.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11

Senator Depew says that the new
corporation tax amendment is "bomo
proof" 1t recognizes the bomb'proof
position of the corporation bondhold'
er, but lays the less fortunate stock
holder open to harassing fire from
various directions.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
A WIDER EACHlNG

While the famous insurance prose.
cutions are now spoken of lightly, 1t
must be remembered that they
scarced some people into being good
and others so far away that their bad
ness ceased to be annoying.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
JERSEYS SU M M Err
LN-El q

1t is estimated that the summer
hotels of the White Mountains are
worth s5,o00,0OO; of Vermont, the
same; Massachusetts, $4,000 900;
those of the Catskills, s3,OOO,OOO; of
the Adirondacks, $7,OO0,0O0; of Con-
necticut, $4,000 ,O00 and those of New
Jersey over $50000,00O.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11

Pittsburg boasts the biggest flag IN
the world. 1t takes something OF that
kind to be seen more than foot away
in Pittsburg. J
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
one Spree COST
HIN S28O,O00,OOO
Bob Womach Who Sold Cripple
Creek for $500 Dies in
Abject Poverty
GOT TIpSY AND TOLD SECNtT
There was a Rush to the District,
and Others Located Best Mining
Property-claims Where He Found
Gold, Produced Enormous Amount.
TABLOID HISTORY Of MAN
WHO FOUND A BONANZA.

Bob Womack discovers gold
on Cripple Greek, COL, In Janu.
ary, 1901.
After years Of prospecting.
picks up a piece Of float rock
which assays $3.50 to the ton.
Soon after uncovers bonanza
vein.
"Goes on a toot" at Colorado
Springs; tells the locality OF
his find. Gold hunters rush to
it and locate the best claims.
Womack's claims do not pan
out. He has TO work for days
wages.
Since then gold worth $780,
100000 has been taken from
mines in the immediate vicinity.
Now Wonack dies a paraly-
tic, dependent on his sister.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11

vacuum airship is said to be un-
der serious consideration by the army
engineers. They should think twice;
there's nothing in it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11

The farmer who sneers at science
in farming generally has to get sci
entific neighbor to endorse his note
at the bank.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
CHEAP M EATS

GOOO.
There is not the slightest scientihc
foundation for the belief that price
means excellency in meats. Some
cheapest, toughest meats are most
nourishing, most favorable to muscu'
lar activity and endurance.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
CAN EAT
CLAM S.

Congress refused United States
Commissioner of Education Browns
request for $4,000 to study certain
phase of child life, but granted S5,oOo
for scientific study of clans.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-11-11
OUR CLOTHES To
Be ALL AMERICAN
Tailors Decide to Break Away
from London Fashions and be
their Own Architects
The PEGTOp HAS GOT TO GO
And from Now on Man Must (Appear
toy Have a Trim Military Figure
We Must Ge Oreinal-The Polar
Ulster.

New York. n. Y.-The pegtop has
got to go.
That grotesque figure. narrow of
ankle and broad OF beam. will soon
be missing from the modish haunts,
and in its place will appear trim
military figure, expansive of chest,
narrow of waist, and with underpin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12
GUHQU/

territory lying between its boundary and the
Paraguay river, and Brazil acquired Bolivias
claim to the Acre region the northeast. The
latter territory being considered the vau-
able Brazil stipulated to pay cash indemnity
OF G2OO0,O00 sterling.
These two treaties were of immense conse-
quence to Bolivia: first, in relieving her from
the old railway and mining entangements;
ond, in securing the construction of the AFRICA
La Paz railway; third, through the loan of Chi
lean credit in internal railway construction and,
fourth, in providing a cash fund of G2,300,000
win which to guarantee or to begin the actual
construction of the trunk lines.
Following the ratification of the treaties ne
gotiations were opened with prominent European
and American capitalists and May 19, 1906,
a contract was signed with the National City
bank and Speyer & Co.. of New York The
tract was signed in La Paz by a representative
of the concessionaires and additional stipulations
were made on May %.
Under article III of the contract the conces-
sionaires oblige themselves within a period of
10 years to construct the following railway sys-
tems
(a) From Oruro to Viacha, with branch to
the river Desaguadero connecting with the africa
line.
(b) From Oruro to Cochabamba
(c) From Oruro to Potosi.
(d) From Potosi to Tupzi, by Caisa and Cata-
gaita.
(e) From Uyun to Potosi.
(D From La Paz to Puerto Pando.
All of these roads are to be one-meter gauge
except the last two mentioned, which, in the dis
cretion of the concessionaires, may be of rs CEN
timeters gauge
The cost of the railways is estimated at e5,-
100000 sterling, including e1,20O,O0O allowed for
the La PaZ-Puerto Pando line.
The concessionaires are authorized to issue
two classes of bonds-first mortgage and second
mortgage, or income bonds. The first mortgage
bonds which are first lien are authorized to
the amount of e3,70O,0OO sterling, bear five per
cent. interest and payable in 20 years. The
interest for 20 years is guaranteed by the gov.
ernment of Bolivia
further issue of additional first mortgage
bonds to the amount of 42,OO0,000 sterling is
authorized in case the sum of &5500.000 proves
insufficient to build the lines These bonds will
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12
HARD TASK FOR HARMON
WILL DEMAND CENTRAL BOARD
TO CONTROL INSTITUTIONS.
Governor to Ask Ohio Legislature to
Pave Way for Change in
Business Methods.

Columbus, O.-Gov. Judson Harmon
state institution management. He
will greet the general assembly with
demand for legislative action that
will pave the way for one central
board of control for all the eleomosy-
nary and penal institutions in Ohio.
He will urge business reform upon
the Ohio lawmakers such as has been
adopted and is now in successful oper-
alton in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
The governor does not expect an
easy task. In committing himself to
policy of reform in the handling of
state institutions he foresees the hard
est struggle, perhaps, of his entire ad-
ministration. Attempts of former gov
ernors, notably Gov. Bushnell, to re-
organize the methods of institution
management were throttled in their
incipiency. The politicians of both
parties jumped on the proposal with
hobnailed boots. They dashed about
the statehouse crying murder, police,
help.
L ue very lued Ol ulSIuTDluB SyS-
tenn under which these politicians
waxed fat was characterized as mon
strous. Hitherto the party patriots
have been successful in throttling any
changes in methods that have been
employed for more than quarter of a
century. Gov. Harmon, however, be-
lieves the times have changed. At
any rate he has determined to make
an aggressive fight before the legisla-
ture for centralized control of all in
stitutions.
The present idea of the governor is
the enactment of law that will wipe
out all existing boards of trustees and
provide in their place one bipartisan
board of four members with full au
thority in the management of all in.
stitutions. The proposed law, it will
be suggested to the general assembly
should be so framed that men of the
widest knowledge and business ability
could be induced to accept places Oh
the board.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12
MUTE ABLE TO HEAR SERMON
Goes to Church a scoffer, but Pro-
fesses Christianity and Throws
Away Ear Trumpet.

Sandusky, O.-Charles Cleaveland,
"a years old, contractor, long deaf,
recovered his hearing under unusual
circumstances. His wife and daugh-
ter had asked him time and again to
profess Christianity, but Cleaveland
would not heed their prayers. Finally
Sunday evening he consented to ac-
company them to the Methodist
church. The fact that he would oc-
cupy pew was communicated 10 the
pastor, Rev. NJ. l.. Herford, who told
him to leave his ear trumpet at home.
He did, and was surprised when the
minister began to preach to find that
he was hearing every word spoken.
He finally went forward as the serv.
ices were about to close and professed
religion. He has put his trumpet aside
permanently
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12
A STOUT THING

Miss Burden not devoid of good sense but
she had brooded over her neghbor's treatment of
her until it seemed both intolerabe and lawless 1t
certain spring of water and of rights in a certain
path, and disagreement over these had led to
other differences, small and large, until the main
issue seemed hopelessly confused.
Finally Miss Burden resolved to consult law
yer, to ascertain If there might not be comforting
relief for her feelings in lawsuit. When
ans evaporation reaches the point where she is
ready to resort to the law, she is to be dreaded
and Miss Burden went to Lawyer Fairman's Office
with long and spirited story of her wrongs.
Unfortunately for her plan, these wrongs were
rather of word than of deed, and rather of fancy
than of record What the neighbor wanted to do
to do at some future time, did not greatly impress
Mr.. Fairman. He gently suggested to the angry
client that her mood was unjustiied by what had
actually happened and concluded his advice with
some words which she never forgot.
Don't go to law, my dear lady, until you have
facts to take with you. Law by itself is a
poor friend; but facts stout thng-a facts a
stout thing"
The country lawyers wisdom is sound ,philoso-
ply for every day in the year. Fancy gives birth
to long train of children good and bad. and they
ness and a grasp life too gentle to be control
ling. Set them in line of battle and Master Fact
will scatter them all like dry leaves-for in deed
and in truth a fact is a stout thing!-Youth's Com
panion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12
OHIO WHEAT DOING NICELY
Vember Shows Good Average
of Grain.

Columbus, O.-Though the weather
has been rather dry since the
sowing of wheat for the harvest of
1910, the November crop report for
Ohio shows that the young wheat is
doing fairly well. The condition now
is estimated to be SO per cent of a
full average. Since the first of the
month good rains have fallen and the
weather being warm, marked improve
ment has no doubt been made since
the data on which this estimate was
made were secured. The acreage for
1910 is 1,721 ,O30 acres.
The corn yield for 1910 is not given
in bushels. 1t is estimated that the
crop will prove 80 per cent of full
average. Cloverseed is ranked as
very poor and those fortunate enough
to have fair yield of this will nc
doubt get high prices for it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12
WARNING TO OHIO DRUGGISTS
Pharmacists Cautioned Not to Refill
Prescriptions for Liquor Unless
Doctor Orders.

Columbus, O.-The state board of
pharmacy has just issued cir.
cular warning to all druggists against
statements which are attributed to
Cleveland wholesale liquor dealers,
The druggists have been informed, it
is charged, that under supreme court
ruling prescriptions for liquor need
not be cancelled and can be refilled
as often as desired.
The state board in its warnings an
nounces that druggists will be prcse-
cuted if a prescription is filled more
than once without an order from a
physician.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12
Buys Site for Bar Mill.

Youngstown, O.-The Carnegie Co
has officially announced the pur-
chase of 265 acres of land opposite
the village OF Girard, where it will To-
cate merchant bar mills with ca
pacity of 10000 tons of finished bars
per month.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12

bear six per cent. interest and the in
terest will not be guaranteed by the
government. The second-mortgage or
income bonds run for 25 years, bear
five per cent. interest and are a Sec
ond lien on the roads.
Under an agreement made in Lon
don in 1907 by the Antofagasta and
Bolivia Railway Company, which is a
British corporation, and Speyer &
Co., the Antofagasta Railway Com
pany agreed to guarantee the inter
est on the line from Oruro to Viacha
and in addition to make payment
to the concessionaires for majority
of the lines stock. This agreement
made necessary the law, mentioned
above, signed by President Monies
on December l, 1908. The purpose
of this agreement is to make the new
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12

Chardon, o.-There's a big potato
crop in Geauga county this fall. Thou.
sands of bushels are being shipped to
Cleveland Thousands of bushels are
also being shipred to Pittsburg.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12

tIuII paIu III Il large measure the expenses OF gov
ernment and with the loss of this revenue the
state was forced into consideration of the eco
nomic development of the country in other lines
than gold and silver production alone.
The settled part of Bolivia was then and is
to large extent yet that high table-land, one of
the most spacious and elevated plateaux to be
found on the globe which lies between the west.
ern and the eastern Andes This table-land ex.
tends from about the Argentine border in the
south into Peru the northwest, and is from
so to 150 miles in width
On the Chilean border the western Cordillera
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12


to Bolivia is railways. This need was recognized
to certain extent prior to the war with Chile.
AS far back as June 1862 the national assembly
authorized the president to enter into contracts
for the building of railways, and in 1868 con-
cession was granted to citizen of the United
States to build railway from Cobij to Potosi
with 4 government guaranty of seven per cent.
on the capital invested. In addition, the conces-
sion carried a grant of land one league on each
tside of the line. number of other concessions
/were made in 1862 1873, 1874 1877, 1878 and 1879
In 1904 the Bolivian national office of mmi-
grafton and statistics issued volume of nearly
400 pages containing the acts, DEGREES and con-
cessions in aid of railways, covering the years
1850 to 1904. Every effort was made by the gov
ernment during this period to induce capital to
invest in railway construction in the country.
Perhaps nowhere else in the world were such in
ducements held out by any country to secure the
end sought by Bolivia. following the termina-
ton of the with Chile. These inducements
were offers of land mines, exemption from taxa
ton and customs duties, government guarantees
financial aid and exclusive privileges. But unfor
tunatey for Bolivia the offers were not made in
the right quarter. In its eagerness to secure re-
suits, concessions were granted to and contracts
made with the most irresponsible parties. in
many mere adventurers without capital or
influence. The net result was naturally to retard
rather than to help railroad construction.
In 1904 all that Bolivia had to show in rail-
ways as result of 40 years legislation and in
Vulnerable contracts the Guaqui and the
Antofagasta roads The former gave an outlet
from La Paz to Lake Titicaca whence passengers
and freight were transported across the lake by
boat to the Peruvian port of Puno and thence by
the Peruvian railway to Nollendo on the Pacific.
The total length of the road from Alto of La
Paz to Guaqui on Lake Titicaca was 81 kilometers
(54 mes). The gauge meter 1891
inches) and the rails weighed 18 Kilograms per
meter-about IL pounds per foot.
The Antofagasta Boliyias first railway, had a
total meage of 925 kilometers (573 miles), a
gauge of rs centimeters (29.53 inches) and rails
weighing 17.40 Kilograms per meter, or about
II pounds per foot.
1t was not until 20 years after the outbreak oi
the war with Chile and 20 years after the signing
of the agreement of April A. 1884, which marked
the close of that war. although 1t did not con
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12

S A RESULT of having lost it's Pacific
seaboard province of Antofagasta, follow
ing the war with Chile in 1879, Bolivia
found itself shut off from the sea and de-
pendent upon its neighbors for an outlet
to the great world.
Great as was the blow to national
pride, for the Bolivians felt the loss of
Antofagasta more keenly than even the
French that of the Rhine provinces, and
serious as was the loss to the national
treasury of the revenues derived from
the rich nitrate fields of the lost province
yet the blow was perhaps less heavy than
the Bolivians themselves then thought
II chang ID nl,tirnl,.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12

must come 10 SIOD,
knowing that that block is occupied
by another train.
The energy mentioned above is elec-
tricity, the current being obtained
from battery near each post. The
rails of each block are made as if all
of one piece by connecting the joints
with wire. The extreme ends are then
connected and thus circuit is formed
in which the current flows. When no
train is in the block, the mechanism
operated by the current pulls the arm
down and holds it there. When a
train enters the block the wheels and
aXles, combined with the rails, form
shorter circuit, the energy that held
the arm down is withdrawn and up it
swings to horizontal position.
Each block is Independent of all
other blocks. When the last wheels
of train leave it, the current re-
sumes its flow and the signal arm
at the entrance is pulled down to the
proceed" position. But before the
hind wheels have finished doing this.
the front wheels of the locomotive
have entered the next block and
caused the arm there to rise to the
stop
For single track line the auto
matte arrangement is the same, but
there is a signal at each end of the
block. To prevent two trains on a
single track line entering block at
the same time from opposite ends, be-
fore the entrance to single track
block is reached the train sets a stop
signal at the far end of that block,
and as it enters it sets the entrance
signal to stop just as is done on
double track. Half mile or more
before reaching the entrance signal of
each block the engineer comes to
what is called the distant" which
tells him how the other or "home"
signal is set.
AS the automatic signal is con-
structed, it cannot show ''go ahead"
unless the entire combination of rails.
wire, current, magnet, ETC., is work
ing perfectly. If wire parts, rail
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12

lines serve feeders to the Antofagasta line in
stead of playing the part of competing lines, as
would have been the case had the original pro-
gram of construction been carried out.
The Oruro to Potosi line of the original plan
would partly parallel the Antofagasta line. 1t is
very probable that complete merger of the in
terests of the Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway
Company and the American concessionares will
be made
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12

clusively settle all tte questions arising
therefrom, that on October 90 1904, at San
tiago, plenipotentiaries of the two countries
signed the treaty of peace and friendship
which put final end to all disputes between
Bolivia and Chile and secured in addition
concessions to the former.
In the preceding year, 1903, was signed
the treaty of Rio de Janeiro with Brazil.
Under this treaty an exchange of territories
between the two countries was effected Bo.
lVia acquired on the southeast the strip of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-11-12

breaks, a battery
fails, a switch point
opens the slightest,
t h e combination
fails and the re
leased arm re-
sumes the hori'
zontal position. So,
when the engineer
sees the stop sig
nal, he knows that
there may be q
train on the block
an open switch, OF
a broken rail OF
signaling pa
fnt,tC