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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-10
They Knew the Answer.

well, there were only three boys in
school to-day who could answer one
question that the teacher asked us, "
said a proud boy of eight, according
to d writer in the Chicago News.
And hope my boy was one Of The
three" said the proud mother.
well, was" answered Young
Hopeful. "and Sam Harris and Harry
Stone were the other two"
81 am very glad you proved yourself
so good a scholar, my son; it makes
your mother proud of you. What
question did the teacher ask, John.
nie?"
"Who broke the glass in the back
window"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-10
LETTERS BY TELEGRAPH.
Western Union to lnaugurate New
Service.

announcement ;s now made bv
Tho Wes,ern Irn;on TELEGRAPH Com
nanv that il is now prepared to
i,o,J,e Io,o right ,,essaoes at the
Yates cus,omarilv CHARGED for ten
VOID dov MESSAGES It appears
that the Western Union has a
lorce ,reunloved MILEAGE of wire
whicb ;s not earninc ANYTHING.
These wires urst he maintained in
anv evert 70 take care of the repu.
lor dov bre;ness aud il is anpar-
ortlv 40 new idea of the new in.
terests IN the TcIepraph Company
70 Iet the ,ublic have the benefit of
Them THE announcement states
thot a ",na,,;al N;oh, Letter Ser.
vice will he established. The
charoe for This service will be the
standard dav rate for ton words for
The fransn,iss;on Of Gftv words or
less and one 6(th Of such standard
dav rate will he CHARGED for each
gdditional ten words or less"
To he taten at these rates Niqht
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-10
Keep The Money At Home.

An Ohio concern is sending cir
culars here, Offering to furnish an
outfit of printed stationery for
$685., in advance. customer to pay
express charges, which would be
90 to IS cents.
We will duplicate the offer, save
you express charges, will guaran-
tee as good if not better stock, and
you can see just what you are get
ting before you pay for it.
Don't send your money away
from home for printing when you
can get the same thing for less cash
right here. IT,.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-10

The evening came, and the clocks
Of the quarter were still striking ten
as Herminle de Givone, the deceived"
wife, all glittering with diamonds and
rustling with laces, as she had come
from the concert where Ibes. all the
fashion at the moment, had been the
lion of the occasion, stepped from heI
carriage, dismissed the waiting maid
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-10
The Passing of the Deaf and Dumb -

The habit of the ancients was
to put deaf babies to death either
by exposure or by violent means, I"
writes Christine Terhune Herrick
III Uoman'S Home Companion for
March. Down almost to the pre-
sent time deaf infants among saw
ages have been disposed of in this
fashion.
"Our later methods deaf and
dumb schools in which those thus
afflicted are segregated, taught the
sign language and instructed in
trades in which their disability is
not an insuperable drawback-are
known to all of us. For years it
was taken for granted that such
methods of training were the only
ones possible to the deaf-and be-
cause deaf, dumb. At last there
was all effort made abroad, notably
i'll Germany, TO teach speech to the
deaf. The endeavor spread on the
Continent, and despite the prevail
ing conviction that deafness con-
notes dumbness, it wos proved that
the deaf could be taught to speak
The tongue of the dumb was un-
loosed.
For some time the speech teach
ing efforts were confined to those
Of school age and over. The thought
of taking the deaf child at an ge
when he would naturally learn to
talk, were he possessed of all his
faculties, was the inspiration of a
woman, the late Miss Emma Gar
rett, of Philadelphia, who had
known of a few intelligent mothers
who had done this successfully
with their own children.
" How did she come to think of
it?' ! asked her sister Miss Mary
Garrett, who carries on the work
begun by both.
" l believe the Lord put it into
her mind, said Miss Garrett. She
had never beeu especially interested
in philan,h ,hropy, but when her
thoughts were once turned in this
direction, she became enthusiastic
over the work and devoted her life
to it.. -
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-10
ear. English Prices. Z. S. Prices
Increase

These figures are calculated from
official statistics of the British Board
of Trade in the Eleventh Abstract
of Labor Statistics" and from fig
ures in 7Ist Bulletin of the Unit
ed States Bureau of Labor"
The year 1895, which was the
year preceding the enforcement of
the highly protective Dingley tar
if, is taken as the standard year,
the cost of food in each country be-
ing taken as 100. The meaning of
the table is that food which cost 81
in Great Britain in 1896, could not
be duplicated for less than SLOT
in 1906, and that food for which
the American consumer paid 81 in
1896, cost SI.343 in I9o6.-Er-
change.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-10
The international Candle.

Beginning July 1st, a new unit OF
electric illumination, to be called the
international candle, Is to be adopted
by France. England and the United
States. The American standard can.
die is to be reduced one and six-tenths
per cent. in order to make it uniform
with the English candle and the BOu-
gle Decimale Of France. The value OF
the Hefner, the German unit, is nine
tenths that OF the new candle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-10

A fine new line of Wedding in
just received at this Office
The wageworker., 1910-05-13
Not Anxious For IL Himself.

At the storming of fort. when
scaling ladders had been placed. an
Irish private. with one foot on the
young officer stepped before him, say
ing:
"Oficers first. my lad. Follow me.
for this is where Victoria crosses are
earned"
The private followed close behind
him. but on reaching the top a round
shot carried the officers head away.
and his body fell back.
Pat. grasping the ladder and swing
ing aside as if to allow those behind
him to pass. shouted. "Begorrah. now.
is there any more of yez below that's
anxious for the Victoria cross ?'-Lon-
don Globe.
A Short Lived island.
In 1867 new shoal was discovered
in the group of the Tonga or Friendly
islands. In 1877 smoke was seen
over the shoal. In 1885 the shoal had
become "a volcanic island more than
two miles long and 24O feet high. and
a fierce eruption was taking place
within it. In 1886 the island had be-
the next year it's highest point was 1926
feet above sea level. In 1889 its
height had diminished one-half. and
the ocean close around it was more
than u mile deep. In 1892 the island
rose only about twenty-six feet above
sea level, and finally. in 1898, under
the action of the waves. it's complete
disappearance was reported. - New
York Pross.
Verdi and His Admirer.
Verdi was once travelling in the
same railway carriage with General
Tournon. They got into conversation.
which soon turned on the subject Of
music, and the general. who did not
know his companion. expressed en-
thusiastic preference for that of Italy.
Il can hardly go so far with you.
replied the other. For me. art has
no frontiers, and l give German mu.
sic the preference over Italian"
'Indeed. SIR said the general testi'
ly. .For my part. l would give all
the German operas in the world fol
one act of .Rigoletto."
'You really must. excuse me from
following you any further on this
ground" replied the composer. blush
ing little. Il am Verdi"
Quick Change.
A.-When | was In the east I me-
with many begging dervishes.
B.-I thought they called them howl
| ing dervisEes:
A.-That's what they become whel
you don't give them anything.-Meg
gendorfer Batter.
The wageworker., 1910-05-13

A federal judge enjoined Nebraska
strikers from sending letters through
the mails.
Scores Of times federal judges have
enjoined men from asking their fellows
to quit injuring the whole body of la
Dor.
A federal judge enjoined railroad
men fom quitting their employment,
thus forcing them into voluntary servi--
tude
United States federal judges have
more power than the king Of England,
and have exercised authority that the
czar Of Russia would hesitate to exer-
cise Federal judges can set aside state
law, federal laws, and perhaps the laws
Of God We expect to see one try evc't
the latter some Of these days. A SOW
ereign state is helpless before federal
judge, often appointed for political ac
tivity or corporation purposes, and not
for judicial ability. And federal judg d
are appointed for life, and are respon
sible to DO one but themselves.
The wageworker., 1910-05-13
THE INJUNCTION HITS HOME
BOuERMAKERS AT HAVELOCK COVERED BY BLANKET
RESTRAINING ORDER ISSUED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE

The federal injunction has come t.
Lincoln, and wage earners in this AMI
the neighboring city of Havelock are
now made aware of what government
by injunction" really means.
Wednesday afternoon, on application
of the attorneys of the Burlington &
Missouri River Railway Federal Judge
Il. G. Munger issued blanket injunc-
ton against the striking Boilermakers
of Havelock and Lincoln, restraining
them from about everything imagin
able, including congregating upon the
streets ''leading to" the shops. The in
junction states that the striker must
not congregate upon the streets lead
ing to the shops for the purpose OF
threatening, intimidating, ETC., but
it is cinch that the mere congregating
will be construed as contempt of court.
The terms of the injunction grant d
are by no means as drastic as the attor
neys for the company sought to obtain.
Judge Munger refused to grant the
injunction until the defendant union
had been notified, so notice was made
out by the Burlington lawyers and
copy put into the hands of a special
Burlington officer named Smith, who
served it upon President Jonas about
A o. clock. Jonas couldn't see anything
official about the document, it bearing
no seal, and no evidence of having been
issued by any court officer. Smith came
back to Lincoln however, and reported
what he had done, and Judge Munger
Immediately issued the writ.
The order of Judge Munger puts the
members of the union under the follow
ing inhibitions:
From compelling or inducing or at
tempting to compel or induce by
threats, intimidation, force or violence
of any of the said plaintiffs s employees
to fail or refuse to work for it or to
leave its service.
From preventing or attempting to
prevent any person or persons by
threats, intimidation, force or violence,
from freely entering into or continuing
in the said plaintiff s service.
From congregating upon or about
the plaintiffs premises or the streets,
approaches and places adjacent or
leading to said premises for the pur-
pose of intimidating it's employees or
preventing or hindering them from full
filing their duties as such employees or
for the purpose of or in such manner
The wageworker., 1910-05-13
THE FULToNs. /.
Popular Players Given Warm Welcome
Back to Lincoln

The Fulton Stock Co. headed by
Mrs. Enid Jack son-F ton and jess B.
Fulton, opened up the summer season
at the Oliver last Monday evening, and
was greeted by the largest audience
ever assembled in Lincoln to see a
stock company performance. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fulton were given a reception
that must have warmed the cookies Of
their hearts. It is unnecessary to say
anything about Mr. and Mrs. Fulton, or
the company supporting them. Two
more popular players never appeared III
Lincolr theatres, and it is quite certain
that the summer season at the Oliver
will be as successful financially as the
Fulton engagements are always sue
cessful socially and artistically.
The wageworker., 1910-05-13
China's National Tree.

The tung or wood oil tree is worth
ily named the national tree of China.
1t is stately in appearance. with
smooth green bark and wideSpreading
branches. atfording fine shade. 1t
bears fruit resembling sheilbark
hickory nut. but as large as small
orange. Each nut contains three tri-
angular seeds similar to small Brazil
nuts. The oil is pressed from these
seeds. and the refuse is used as fer
tilizer. The oil is used principally for
polishing woodwork and dressing
leather. Considerable quantities are
exported. The wood Of the tung tree
is used for making musical instru-
ments. fine boxes and the framework
Of small houses. 1t is free from raw
ages Of insects.-New York Tribune.
The Perfect Silence.
There is no sensation in the world
like that which comes over you when
walking through Il dense grove of red
woods. Their trunks rise hundreds of
feet into the air and are lost in the
dense roof of foliage like the columns
of an Egyptian temple grown to super
is no underbrush. but only ferns Of
size and shape that suggest pre-
historic period and fallen trunks that
have lain unrotting for 5000 years.
There is no sunlight and no birds sing.
If storm arises. it is an hour be-
fore drop reaches the ground. Here
all is as it was since creation, and
there is no time. 1t is the perfect
silence--EXchange.
A Question Of Hearing.
The burly farmer strobe anxiously
into the postotice.
"Have you got any letter for Mike
Hover" he asked.
The new postmaster looked him up
and down.
"For who?" he snapped.
mike Hover repeated the farmer.
The postmaster turned aside.
81 don't understand" he returned
stiff1y.
Don't understand-' roared the ap-
plicant. Cant you understand plain
English? l asked If you've got any
letter for Mike Howe"
'Well, haven't!" snorted the post
master. Neither have l letter for
anybody elses cow. Get outv-Lon-
don Scraps.
The Attraction.
"You say you are i'll love with Miss
Raggs?"
II am sure l am.'
"But can. see anything attractive
about her.
."Nei.her can see it. But it's in
| the bank. oil Erht.'
The wageworker., 1910-05-13

as to induce or coerce by threats, vio-
lence, or intimidation any of the said
plaintiffs employees to leave it's service
or any person to refuse to enter it's ser
vice.
From congregating upon or about
the plaintiffs premises or the side
walk, street, alleys or approaches adj
joining or adjacent to or leading to said
premises and from picketing in
threatening manner the said plaintiff s
places of business or the home or board
ing houses or residences Of the said
paintiff's s employees.
From interfering with the said plain
tiff's employees in going to and from
their work.
From going singly or collectively tc
the homes Of the said plaintiffs s en-
ployes for the purpose Of intimidating
or threatening them to leave it's serv.
ice
From doing any of the aforesaid Or
any other acts for the purpose Of COM
pelling and inducing or attempting to
compel or induce the plaintiff by
threats, intimidations, force or violence
against it's will OR the will of it's Off
GERS, to employ or to discharge any per-
son or persons whomsoever, and espc-
cially to employ members Of said un-
ions or discharge persons who. are not
members of said unions.
From combining, associating, agree
ing, mutually undertaking, concerting
together or with other persons for the
purpose of doing or causing to- be done
any of the aforesaid prohibited acts
From the threats, intimidations, per-
suasion, force or violence, compelling
or attempting to compel or induce any
of the apprentices in the employ of the
said plaintiff to break their contracts
and leave the employ Of the said plain
tiff
From interfering by intimidation,
threats or violence with any person or
persons having or attempting to trans
act business with the plaintiff.
From hindering, impeding or inter-
fering by intimidation, threats or vic.
lence the said plaintiff or it's employees
in the transaction and conduct Of its
business.
There are 146 striking boilermakers
and a separate notice will have to be
served on each one. The WORK of serv-
ing the notices began Thursday morn
ing.
The wageworker., 1910-05-13

federal bench about three years ago.
Prior to assuming his duties as a fed
eral judge he had no experience in {
judicial capacity. He practiced law in
Lincoln for number Of years, and was
chairman Of Elmer j. Burkett' cam
paign committee when that gentleman
was candidate for congress; he also
helped to manage the senatorial CAM
paigns of the senior senator. There was
already one federal judge in this dis
trict, also named Munger, but special
law was put through congress creating
an additional judgeship for this dis
trict, and 7. G.. Munger secured the ap
pointment.
A few years ago the other Judgo
Munger, whose headquarters are in
Omaha, issued an injunction against
the striking packing house men il
which they were restrained from even
using the United States mail or from
meeting in groups of more than two to
discuss anything whatever. That in.
junction was prepared by the packing
house attorneys and the hearing give4l
:
the defendants
To date no one has taken enough in
terest in the Greeks and Italian lab
orers at the Havelock shops, herded
like cattle in foul shacks and fed SINH
lar to hogs when the pork market is
down to $3.50, TO enjoin the company
from maintaining such disease breeding
places. Nor has any one sought to ell.
join the Burlington from endangering
public health by system Of herdiny
inside the shop limits of lot Of hum
ans recruited from the slums Of cre<i-
ton. Judge Munger's s refusal to issue
the injunction until the defendants
were notified looks whole lot like !,
"gand- stand" play The morning
journal says:
Following the principle laid down
by the republican national platform il
1908, Judge Munger declined to grant
the order without notice to the defen-
dants." This notice consisted in send.
ing a Burlington special officer II,
Havelock and handing Pesident Jona;
a piece Of paper containing words to
the effect that an application for an in
junction had been made.
The hearing on the writ is set for
9:30 a. M, Wednesday, May 18.
1t will be interesting in this connec-
ton to recall some Of the injunctions
that have been granted in labor dis
putes.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania en-
Joined Methodist minister from meet
ing with and praying for striking min
ers.
A federal judge enjoined striking
miners from walking the public higll-
ways of a state.
The wageworker., 1910-05-13

The application for the injunction
was backed up by several affdavits al
leging assault and intimidation. Fred
Hugg swears that he was assaulted by
a striker named Mancho and beaten up.
He also says he has been called lot
of vile names. Michael Warga testifes
that he was assaulted. DR.. Ballard, the
company physician, says he took an in
jured carpenter named Diss to his Of
fee, and that while he was attending
the mans injuries crowd of strikers
gathered around and made a lot Of re-
marks about I'D scabs." E. L.
McCorkle, formerly a memoer Of the
Lincoln police force and now a special
officer employed by the Burlington,
swears that he heard threats, saw pick
citing, etc. DR.. Lucas, one Of the shop
foremen, also swears to the same
things. Lucas is member OF the Have
lock school board, and it is charged
that in his eagerness to help out the
company he was the cause of securing
an employment certificate by four
teen years old, who went into the boiler
shops and took place as rivet heatct
at the munifcent wage of cents per
hour. AS the boy had not completed
the course prescribed by law state
official ordered him out, and the strik-
ing boilermakers Immediately sent him
to school and paid his mother the wag.;
he was to have earned. The employ
ment certificate was given the lad on
the ground that his mother depended
upon his work for her support.
Anna Borner swears that her husband
was forced to quit wok through fear
of being assaulted; also that she had
been roundly cursed by one of the
strikers.
A few days ago Superintendent Ack-
erman declared that the striking EN-
ployes were behaving like gentlemer.,
and that they had done nothing to
cause trouble.
President Jonas says that the injunc-
tion will be obeyed to the letter, bu.
he is of the opinion that it will be un-
Willingly violated for the reason thai
no one can tell what motive will he
attributed to striker who may happen
to walk the streets. The terms of the
injunction are sweeping, and every
body knows that federal judge is not
limited in his powers.
Judge T. G. Munger, who granted
the injunction, was appointed to til.
The wageworker., 1910-05-13
LINCoLN's FEDERAL UNION.

eve are growing in numbers as well
as in grace" reports President George
Bush Of the local Federal Union. The
local meets every Tuesday evening, and
scarcely meeting is held without an
addition to the membership. There has
already been a slight increase in the
wage paid to building laborers, and
there is another one in sight just rs
soon as the work of ogan1zation is COM
pleted.
The wageworker., 1910-05-13

Union men should keep away from,
the sample shoe stores. They are us
ually fakes, and their stock the culls
and seconds. Only once in a long while
is a union label on any Of their dump
stuff
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-01
TURN PEARY down
House Committee Refuses t
Honor Pole Discoverer.
Representative Macon Openly HInts
He Has Doubts Whether Naval
Officer Found "Top Of
the World"

Washington.-Dr Frederick A.
Cook no doubt has gotten much solace
out Of the fact that the subcommittee
OF the house naval committee has re-
fused to bestow a reward upon Com
mander Robert e. Peary.
The house committee wants proof.
Peary has refused to submit It for the
reason that 1t would interfere with his
lectures and magazine articles Evi.
IDENTIFY Peary thinks more of the
money he can make by writing and
lecturing than he does of a reward be-
slowed by congress. so there the mat
ter rests Representative Macon of
Arkansas was the chief objector to
comforting congressional honor upon
Peary until the commander produces
the proof of his claim that he found
the north pole.
81 confess that / am exceedingly
skeptical about Mr.. Peary's ever hav-
ing discovered the POLE" declared Mr..
Macon before the committee, land
am going to protest against any honor
being conferred upon him by congress
until he has established beyond rea-
sonable doubt that he did discover 1t.
and 1t must be established In the open
and not in the dark" He expressed
himself as being Indignant at the
thought of being called upon as a
representative of the American people
to confer high honor upon any one
Of its citizens in the dark" All legis-
lation by congress. he said. ought to
be open and above board.
f. L.
attention to one discrepancy" In Mr..
Peary's story. This was the speed
which the explorer declared he made
from the time Capt. Bartlett left him
until he reached the pole. Mr.. Peary
said that for five days he made 26.4
miles per day; but. Mr.. Macon said.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-04-01
Diagram of Peary's Route.

this appeared very singular in view
of the fact that the Peary party had
made but 9.06 miles per day up to the
time Bartlett left.
"The astonishing part of Mr.. Peary's
statement" said Mr.. Macon, ''is the
number of miles he travelled every
day after Bartlett left him and when
no white man was with him as wit
ness. his only companion being his
negro valet and four Eskimos. His
greatest marches. singularly, were all
north of the Bartlett camp From that
time forward. going to the pole and
returning to Cape Columbia. he claims
to have made an average of 26.4 miles
miles per day on his way back from
the pole to Bartlett's camp and 28.6
miles per day from Bartlett's camp to
Cape Columbia.
Mr.. Macon declared that Mr.. Peary's
own statements showed that he
equaled this speed but twice during
the entire journey to the pole. The
first day he started from land he made
26 miles in IA hours of forced march
which Mr.. Peary has told us was
about the limit of human endurance"
Mr.. Macon quoted Lieut.. Shackleton.
Gen. Greedy and others to show that
ten or twelve miles per day. or slight
iy more, perhaps. is considered the
limit of human endurance, travelling
over polar seas"
The only member Of the committee
who did not vote to defer action on
the bill was Representative Engle.
bright of California. who said he was
convinced that Mr.. Peary had discov.
cred the pole and that the committee
had sufficient proofs before 1t.
Representative Bates of Pennsyl.
vania. heretofore considered sup
porter of Peary. offered the resolution,
which was adopted. declaring that the
committee must have further proof
before proceeding.