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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-20

We accumulate a lot Of wisdom,
good wisdom that we don't have per-
sonal use for, but are entirely willing
to bestow upon the deserving poor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-20

What's the use Of being married IL
you can't boss the job? That's why
there are so many divorces
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-20

There are too many people working
at being specialists who have never
qualified for the job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-20

As general proposition. ideals have
nothing to do with big deals.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Elliott's New Religion.

Charles w. Elliot. president
emeritus of Harvard, in an address
before the Harvard summer school
oil theology prophesied the advent
of new religion.
at will not be bound by dogma
or creed," he said. Its workings
will be simple, but its field of ac-
tion limitless. Its discipline will
be the training in the development
of cooperative good will. 1t will
attack all forms of evil. There will
be no supernatural element; it will
place no reliance OH anything but
the laws of nature. Prevention
will be the watchword and the
skilled surgeon one of its members" I"
The coming religion, he thought,
will be based on the two great COM
mandments. the love of God and
the service of fellow men.
THE new religion" he said,
will not be based upon authority;
the future generation is to be led,
not driven. In the new religion
there will be no personification of
natural objects; there will be no
deification of remarkable human
beings"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
The Season About Closed.
This Years Trout Fishing Was Not Up to
Expectations.

The trout fishing season is almos:.
at an end, and on the whole it could
not be considered very successful
one for the fisherman in this local
ity. True it is. that quite num-
Der of trout were caught by those
who had the patience and persis-
tence to put in day after day along
the streams but there were no
record catches at any time during
the season. Whether it is because
the trout are becoming scarce1 or
more willy is hard to tell. 1t is a
fact that the first half of the season
was spelled by the hard rains and
high water but these reasons could
not be considered during the past
month or so. The best fishing of
the season was on the mountain
streams, and as scores of fishermen
were on these streams day after
day it was only the lucky ones
who made good catches. But the
agony will be over after Saturday,
July 3Ist, and after that fishermen
will have to devote their time to
angling for bass.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
JUDGE EVANS ON ROADS.

The Danville Neaos of Monday
says Judge Evans while i'll this
city Saturday, expressed his opinion
of the public highway between this
city and Bloomsbury, which opinion
was by no means favorable one.
Both Montour and Columbia count
les, it appears, are offenders, and
by the employment of wrong meth
ods in road repairs have succeeded
in producing stretch of highway
so notoriously bad that his Honor
in driving backwards and forwards
between the two towns finds it ex-
pedient to take altogether another
road, leading around through
Frosty valley.
1t all comes from the practice of
hauling broken limestone on the
roads and by net supplying a top
course of finer material as isrequir-
ed in modern road making. Every
summer at some point the same
road is spoiled in this manner. The
theory is that traffic will soon break
mp the stones and wear the road
way smooth, but as a matter OF fact
it doesn't work out in that way.
All drivers AVOID the stones, if
possible. They drive over them, if
necessary, with one wheel and the
other wkeel of the vehicle goes into
the gutter. Thus, an otherwise
good road is made notoriously bad
and it remains so indefinitely.
Judge Evans stated Saturday
that they are beginning to make
arrests for this very thing in Luz
erie county.
At intervals supervisors are re-
quired to pick the loose stones from
the roadway. In view of this,
Judge Evans remarked that it
would be odd, to say the least, il
they were justified in hauling stone
upon the road and leaving them
he exposed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
GREASY AND THE SENATORSHIP

The following interview with
Hon. w. L. Greasy appeared in
the Williamsport SIN:
Representative w. 7. Greasy, of
Columbia county, who was the
orator of the day at the Grangers'
picnic at the Trout Ponds, near
Hughesville, last Saturday, was
asked by Sun reporter after his
address, this question:
I'm view of the announced re-
tirement of Senator Cochran, have
you aspirations in the direction of
the State senate?"
Whats Senator Cochran going
to do anyway" was Mr.. Creasy's S
Tejoinder.
"He has announced that he will
not be candidate for renomina-
ton"
Really, l have thought nothing
about the senatorship so far. 1t is
long way off YET. I've been very
busy. I'm farmer. and when not
at Harrisburg during the sessions
Of the Legislature am kept very
busy al home. l have been build
ing this year and l have really
paid no attention whatever to poll
tics. l do not know what is going
on in that field"
eff you were offered the sena-
torial nomination would you accept
it?"
"Well, as have already said |
have thought nothing about the
senatorship, l really haven't"
"What do your people in Col
umbia county say about it?''
II have not talked to any one
about it. You are the first one who
has mentioned it to me. I've been
too busy with my farm work this
summer to think of politics"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Ballot at Fall Election.
The Constitutional Amendments Each OF Ten
10 be Marked Separately For or
Against.

In an opinion furnished Secreta-
ry OF the Commonwealth Robert
McAfee, Attorney General Hamp-
ton Todd advises the State depart
ment that the ten proposed amend
ments to the constitution of 1877,
shall be printed on the ballot IN
November merely in the form in
which the sections shall appear as
amendcd-that both the present
form and the proposed form of each
section need not be printed. The
opinion also advises that the ten
propositions shall be printed as sep
arate questions and that the sched
ule tor carrying the amendments
into effect shall be printed as an
additional question, the voters to
vote yes or mo" upon each pro-
posed amendment, and also upon
the schedule.
The opinion of the attorney gen.
eral was sought by McAfee because
this is the first time in the history
OF the Commonwealth that sched-
ule has accompanied amendments
to the constitution. and the point
decided was, therefore, never be-
fore raised. Heretofore, a schedule
has accompanied an entire new con-
stitution. Whenever an existing
constitution has been amended it
has been in such a way that no
schedule has been necessary to car.
ry the amendments into effect. Be
cause of somewhat conflicting con-
structions of the law under similar
circumstances in the past, Secreta-
ry McAfee asked advice upon all
four points mentioned. Attorney
General Todd's decision regarding
what has to be printed will shorten
the amendments upon the ballot
fifty per cent. As adopted by the
legislatures of 1907 and 1909 and
as advertised throughout the State
last year. the amendments recite
the present form of each of the sec
tions, and each section so recited is
followed by the language of that
same section as it is proposed that
it shall read if amended. Secretary
McAfee asked specifically if it is
necessary that the ballot contain
both the section as it is proposed it
shall read if amended. Attorney
General Todd recites numerous pro-
visions of the election laws and the
constitution itself in making his
ruling. Under this opinion any
one wishing to vote Gil the amend.
ments will have to make eleven
crosses in addition to voting for
candidates.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Thinks It Will Be MunSOn.
Secretary Meek Believes WiIIiamsport will
Land Supreme Court Nomination.

Ex-senator P. Gray Meek, Of
Bellefonte, secretary of the Demo-
cratic state committee, made the
following statement at Harrisburg
regarding the candidacy of c. La
Rue Munson for justice of the su-
preme court: II believe that c..
LaRue Munson, of Williamsport,
will be nominated next month as
the party's candidate for justice of
the supreme court" The secreta-
ry made this statement in the course
of general discussion of the ap-
preaching convention and the cam
paign. He explained this view by
saying that inasmuch as Mr.. Mum
son is we'll qualified for the place
and is the only avowed candidate
all the chances favor his winning
the place on the ticket.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Without a Magistrate.

Catawissa is without an acting
Justice of the Peace. E. B. Guie,
one of the Justices of the peace, is
on all extended visit in the West
and will not be home for several
weeks. The other, w. H. Bar
wick, is dead. 1t is likely that such
a condition has never before existed
in this section Of the State. In fact,
no one has ever heard of it. What
can be done in the matter is ques-
ton that is puzzling the wisest,
and it is likely that an opinion will
be asked of the District Attorney
as to what should be done should
occasion require it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29

A. Nevin Pomeroy, Superinten-
dent of the State Department of
Public Printing and Binding, and
editor and publisher of The Frank
lin Repository, at Chambersburg,
has been elected president of the
National Editorial Association,
which has been in session at Seattle,
Wash, during the past week. Mr..
Pomeroy during the past year has
been first vice president of the
association and won his election
simply through his personal popu-
larity. The attendance at the ses-
sions of the association is naturally
made up of a large majority of
Westerners, and prior to the taking
of the vote it had been believed
that a Western man would be
elected.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Food We Eat to be Analysed.
Five Hundred Samples Secured by the Pure
Food Agents in Pennsylvania.

For the purpose of making a
thorough test of the Murphy pure
food law Commissioner James Foust
of the dairy and food bureau, states
that two of the special agents of
the bureau have purchased over
500 samples of food, which will be
submitted to State chemists for an
alytical examination, all of them
coming under the jurisdiction of
the Murphy law.
The majority of the samples were
purch sed from dealers in Western
and Central Pennsylvania counties.
They were delivered to DR.. William
Frear, chemist, State College, and
to Professor Charles II. La Wall
and Professor James A. Evans, Of
fetal chemists, with the request
that the reports should be filed
with the bureau at the earliest pos
sible date. Preliminary reports re-
ceived indicate that canned goods
with hardly an exception, are
found to be free from adulteration
and chemical preservatives, show
ing a gratifying percentage of abso
lutte purity. A number of samples
of pickles and baking powders were
also purchased by these agents fol
analysis and found to contain alum
which is contrary to the new law.
AS a result the parties who SOLD
such illegal TODD products will be
prosecuted.
Immediately after the complete
and official reports of Chemist:
Frear, La Wall and Evans are flee
at the bureau prosecutions will be
directed to be brought without de
lay. Commissioner Foust has an
nounced to the trade and public
that it is his intention to enforce
the new law in it's entirety ant
fairly and impartially in order tha
the consumer may be properly pro
tected.
Among the samples of food pro
ducts obtained by Agents Banzhof
and Seller, were the following:
Baking powders, pickles. catsup
spices of different kinds, confec
tions, flavoring extracts, honey
jelly. jams, mustard. prepared
evaporatcd milk, syrups, sugar
vinegar, oysters, olive oil, preserves
meat products, nutmegs, cocoa, ce'
real productions, chocolate, fish
canned fruits and vegetables, can
ned meats, -four and, in general
nearly every article found in gro
Gerry store that comes within the
provisions of the new law.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Senate May Lose Tillman.
South Carolinan's Condition Such as to
Alarm Friends.

The shrill voice of Senator Ben
jamin Ryan Tillman. of South
Carolina, may never be heard in
the Senate chamber again. Senator
Tillman is i'll at his farm home
near Trenton, S. c.. where he has
been for three weeks, and friends
say his condition is so bad that
there is little likelihood that he
will be strong enough to return to
Washington to vote on the tariff
bill. The rumor that he contem-
plates resigning his seat is revived,
but Mr.. Tillman refuses to confirm
or deny the rumor.
Senator Tillman has not fully
recovered from the attack of partial
paralysis which seized him last
summe-. Attic ugh the paralysis
has not returned, a general debility
from nervousness has made his life
unhappy for months.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
The Capitol Grafters.

Ore year and four months to a
day elapsed between the conviction
of the capitol grafters and the affir-
nation yesterday of the Judgment
of the trial court by the superior
court. Seven months less four DAYS
have passed since the convicts were
sentenced to two years in the peni
tentiary. Since then two OF them
have died, but not one of them has
been locked up.
Their right of appeal is now ex-
hausted, unless the able lawyers
who defended them are able to find
that some constitutional question is
involved, but probably no one will
be much surprised to hear that
some justice of the supreme court
has granted an allocatur that will
take the case before the supreme
court, involving another delay of
several months at least.
We do not imagine that any dis
interested man, lawyer or layman,
who read Judge Kunkel's exhaust
i've and lucid review of the case de-
nying the convicts new trial, be-
lieves that they have any real
ground; for appeal. But men in
such position as Snyder and Shit
maker now are, always fight for
delay i'll the hope that something
may happen to their advantage. 1t
is one of the great wrongs of our
administration of the law, that men
with money and influence can Sc
cure almost interminable delays af-
ter conviction and sentence. The
encouragement they receive from
appellate courts is one Of the chief
causes of lamentable loss of con-
idence by the people in the impair
tial administration of justice.
With the cases of the capitol
grafters fresh in mind are the voters
of Pennsylvania going to elect to
the supreme court man selected
by the boss of the machine which
made the capitol grating easy; the
machine that protected and defend
ed the thieves as long as protection
and defense were possible
--HaryiSbnrg Patriot.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Deserted Her Child.
The Hazleton Sentinel saws:

The Hazleton Sentinel says:
Mrs. Clifton War;, who was de-
serted by her husband and who
tried to abandon her child in this
city, by leaving it with the family
of Rev. Gingrich, is now wanted
by the authorities on the charge of
abandoning a child in Bloomsbury.
Her husband having deserted her,
she left her baby at the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
War;, of that town.
Mrs. War; is under indictment
in this county and is out on bail
She gave her name as Mrs. Hartzel
when she was arrested in this city.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
ELWELL'S CONCERT, THEATRE,
AND DANCE ORCHESTRA.

Any number of pieces furnished
for any occasion.
SEASON IyoS-o9.
Columbia Theatre.
Midway Dance Hall and Summer
Garden
Knight Templar Dance, Masonic
Temple.
Midway Club Dances.
High School Commencement
Week.
Elks and Wheelmen Banquets.
Store Openings, ETC., etc.
For terms address,
CHAS. p. ELWELL,
Manager and Director,
Bloomsbury, Pa
If.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
A. G. &. +. Co.'S Stock.
Big Advance Justified BY Corporations Pros
porous Condition.

The financial editor Of the Phila-
delplia Press gives the following
regarding the advance of A. c.
and +. Cos stock. There should
be no surprise over the strength of
stocks like American Car and
Foundry. The orders for new
equipment being placed by the
railroads very much exceed similar
orders for nearly three years. Rail
roads, since the middle of 1907,
had placed scarcely any orders
whatever for cars, rails and locomo-
tlves until a few months ago. Now
they are all in the market. 1t seems
evident frcm the orders being given
for new cars that the official state
ment that about 10000 freight
cars in the United States are still
idle is somewhat misleading.
Among those idle cars must be
great number which will never go
back into service Tor the good
reason that they are the old and
wornout, or nearly wornout cars.
When the hard times came along
and a railroad found it didn't need
all its cars it weeded out the poor
ones. Railroad people are authority
for the statement that many Of
these SO called idle cars should be
stricken from the list entirely.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children

Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
in the Children's Home IN New York,
Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate
the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over
10, 900 testimonials. 7hey ueVer fail. At
all Druggists 25c. Sample Free. Ad-
dress, Allen 5. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
A Method of Eradicating the Wild
Onion.

The Office of Farm Management,
United States Department of Agri-
culture, has now ready for distrib-
ution circular giving a detailed
discussion of the wild onion problem
and outlining plan whereby the
pest can be eXterminated. This
circular will be sent free to any
person requesting it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Will Have New Home.

The Towanda Printing Company,
publisher of The Towanda Daily
Review and The Weekly Reporter
Journal, has purchased the Ontario
Block, business building in the
central part of Towanda, and will
remodel the ground floor of the
same for use as publishing house.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Strange, Indeed!

1t is one of the things beyond
human comprehension and under
standing why industrious, promis-
ing men should be stricken down
in the full vigor of useful life,
and so many vicious, drunken
loafers are permitted to live to
humiliate their friends and become
a nuisance to the public.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
SLIGHT FIRE.

In answer to an alarm lung III
from Box 2I yesterday morning at
ten o'clock, the fire companies
turned out to find slight fire in a
cabin below the Carpet Mill. A
stream was turned on the blaze
which was extinguished in short
time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29

Miss May Sharpless, of town,
has been spending a few days with
Mrs. Hartman Wendall at Wayne,
together with two other ladies'.
All four were classmates at the
Normal School in the class of 1884.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29

The work of changing the wires
of the Bell Telephone Co. from
overhead to underground in the
business section is now going on.
A gang of twenty Italians is doing
the digging.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29

Mr.. and Mrs. H. f. Keller re-
turned from their auto trip to
Washington, d. c. on Tuesday
night. The run was over 100
miles without an accident.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29

WANTED D--Trustworthy man or woY
an in each county to advertise, recei
orders and manage business for N,
York Mail Order House. Srs 90 W. eek
position permanent; no investm ent
quired. Previous experience not ess,
tial to engaging. Spare time valuabs
Enclose self addressed envelope for {,
particulars. ADDRESS, CLARKE Cs
Wholesale Dept, 1903 PARK AVE, M
YORK. s-I3-Iot.
WANTED. Statesmen to represent
in the sale of our Hil
Grade Goods. Don't delay, apply
once. Steady employment; liberal tern
Experience not necessary.
ALLEN NURSURY CO.. ROCHESTER, N. :
5I3-4mos.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29

Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fairchild of
Bridgeport, Conn. are the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. p. l.. Writ.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Descriptions:

Two story and attic, brick
and frame. l3 rooms. LOl
about 66 by 2l2 feet.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-07-29
Locations:

West Third Street between
Jefferson and West Streets.
The Washington herald., 1909-10-18
DEPARTURE OF THE SWALLOWS.

Tho rain-drcrs rlash and the dead leaves fan
On srire and cornice and mold;
Inc swallows gather. and twittCr and call
we must follow the sumner. come one cone all.
For the winter is now 50 cold.
Just listen a while 70 the wordy war
As 10 whittier the way shall tend
SAYS one; i know the skies are fair
And myriad insects float in air
Where the ruins Of Athens stand.
And every year when the brown leaves fall
In niche Of the Parthenon
I build my nest on the cornicsd wall
In the trough Of a Devastating bah
From the Turks bcscging gun.
SAYS another: MY coy home I Al
On Smyrna grsnde cafe
Where over the threshold HadHi Sit
And smoke their PIPES and their coffee SIP.
Dreaming the hours away.
Another says: 7 prefer the nave
OF rempia in Baalhec:
There my little ones lie where the palm trees v,re
And. perching near on the architrave.
| Ill each open beak."
All says the last, Il build rny nest
Far up the Niles green shore.
Where Memnon raised HIS stony crest
And turns to Tho sun he leaves his reEt.
But Streets him with song no more.
In HIS ample neck IS a niche 81 wide.
And Withal deep and free.
thousand swallows their nests can hide.
And thousand little ones rear beside
Then cone to the Nile with me"
They 80, they 50 to the river and pinip
To ruined city and town,
meg leave me alone With the cold again.
Ds s..' me TOMB where my Joys have lain,
With hope like the swallows hovn.
-Theophiio Gautier.
The Washington herald., 1909-10-18
Washington symphony Orchestra.

Announcement is made that a series
OF concerts viii be given during the
present season by the reorganized Wash
ington symphony Orchestra. AT pub
lie hearing last spring it was demon
strated by Prof. Rakemann. the con-
dvctor that the orchestra is deserving Of
the hearty support Of citizens OF Wash
ington.
The plea at one time advanced that
Washington did not contain a sufficient
number Of lovers Of high-grade music
to warrant the launching Of such an
enterprise in the expectation OF it's being
supported entirely by the proceeds OF
performances, Is one which no longer
holds good. II. indeed. II was ever justi-
fed. Classical music is not a fad. nor
IS II an art that can be enjoyed and
understood only by the few. The idea
that it requires Ions training and rigid
courses of study to appreciate such mu-
sic is a popular fallacy that undoubtedly
grew out OF inexperience. When one
once hears a symphony. he is all eager
ness TO hear it again and again. so that
all one has to do in order 20 become
equipped for receiving enjoyment from
high-grade r.usic is to become familiar
with it. And there is but one way 10 do
this. and that is by the means OF the
orchestra.
Boston. Philadelphia New York. Chi
cago' and Pittsburg are all ahead of
in this regard. Private sup
port has in some instances battled against
public Indifference. but in the end the
artistic side has won. and in the cities
named the orchestras are beloved institu-
tons
To make the Washington symphony Or
,hestra famous and self-supporting IS
within the power OF the local public. and
n giving It their substantial cooperation
hey not only contribute TO local pride.
put derive education and enjoyment at
he same time.