PROFESSIONAL CAMS,
a u rntrz
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' a' L'
Offiok Kriwl U'OmI, O'.UI P 'uflpllloV.
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llLOOilaUL'KU, PA.
I II. MAIZE
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office. Room No. 3, . Columiiun
building.
HLOOMSIJUUO, PA.
Jan. MMuss, It
Li. FUNIC,
ATTOUNEY-AT-LAW.
ULOOKBID0,rA
UJicotn Sot's llulldlng
j U11N iU CLAUK,
ATTORN E Y-AT-L AW
AMD
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
llLOOHBBCXS, 1'i
0 Bice over Moyer Droa, Drug 8 tore.
(1 W.MILLER,
ATTORNKY-AT-LAW,
jfflceln Brower's balldlng.seeonafloor.room No.l
Bloomsburg, Fa.
6.
FBANK ZKB,
ATTO UN E V-AT-L AW.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
omee corner of centre and Main Street. Clart
miuaing. .
Can be consulted In German.
QEO. E. ELWELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
UwoMfincno, Fa.
UIUCv OU rilDb uuui. iiiiui. iuuu. w
cmman Building,, Main street, below Ex-
cuango Hotel.
pAUL E. WIUT,
Attorney-at-Law.
ifflce In Colxjubum Ddildihh, Third Door.
BLOOMBBURQ, PA.
V. WHITE,
AT O UN E Y-AT-L AW,
B L 0MSBURQ,PA.
OUlce tn -lowers' Building, 2nd floor,
may 1-tf
8 IHOBB. L. B. WIKTSaSTBIH.
KNOKIi WINTEHSTEEN,
Ati.ornoyrt-at-JLaw.
unlet) lu 1st National Bank building, second floor,
streets uioomsourg, ra.
$tftentwn. and Houriict CollecUd.
F.
P. B1LLMEYEH,
(DI8T11IVT ATTOliNEY.)
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
iOluce over Dentlcr's shoo Btore
Bloomsburg, Pa. npr-30.88.
y. Il7 HIIAWN.
ATTORNEY -AT-IjAW.
Catawlsta, Pa.
Offloe.oorneroi Tnlrdand Malnstreeta.
jyj-lOIIAEL F. EYE11LY,
Conveyancer, Collector of Claims.
AND
LEQAL ADVICE IN TUK SETTLEMENT OF
ESTATES. AC
Uromce in Dentlert building with F. P. BUI
meyer, attorney-at-law, front looms, snd floor
UIOomBDurg, ru.
K. HONORAA. ROBBINB.
nmce and residence. West Flr.Btir8el;llVliBi-
. ... i itMivjlu in
T B. McKELVY, M. D.'iw jwtVPhj
I .mrian. north side Main JreWAUov.&rf'
I'
D
R. J. 0. RDTTER,
PHYSICIAN ASTfRiipOj.j
Offloe,
e, NPrtrjMarWUjCl
DR. WM. M. REBER Burgeon and
Physician, ontce corner of Rock and Market
trent,
ESTABLISHED 1870.
J 1). BROWN.
PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON.
Offlce and residence on Third street near Metho
dist church. Diseases or the eye a specialty
J C. REIFdNYDEK, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
omce with Dr. WUUts In Mrs. Knt'a building
EXCHANGE HOTEL.
W. R. TDBBS, PROPRIETOR
BLOOUSBUBO.FA.
OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE
Large and convenient sample rooms. Bath room
hot and cold water; ana all modern convenlences(
T F. HARTMAN
BITHBSBHTB TBI FOLMWINtt
AMERICAN INBURANCE.COM PANIE"
North American of Philadelphia.
Franklin, " "
Pennsylvania, " "
York, of Pennsylvania.
Hanover, of N. Y.
Queens, of London.
North British, of London.
Offloe on vurket Htreat, No. 8, Bloomsburg.
oot.4. 1-
ESTABLISHED 1865
M. P. LUTZ
(Snccessor to Fraas Brownj
COMPiWIS HU-KB8INTBD:
.tna Fire Ins. Co.. of Hartford,,.
Hartford or Hartford
I'boei U of Hartford ....
HDrlnirfleld of Sorlrcrflf id.
Asseti1
$ 9,628,ShH.91
4,T78'4fi 13
S.0V9.9O3.98
Fire Association, Philadelphia ,12,79i8V
Guardian or London so,w3,m7l
I'hn-nli: or London .B.DttWl.49
Lancashire of EnslacdlU. s. branch) i,M?.i6 00
lloyal of England " " 4,8J8,5M.OO
Mutual Uene&t Lite Ins. Co. of New. .
ark, N.J ..ai,8 8S
Losses promptly adjusted and paid at this 'offlce,'
CURE INBURAN h.
CHRISTIAN F. KNAPP, BLOOUBBUItO.PA,
HOME, OF N. T.
MBItcnANTH', OF NEWARK, N. J.
CUNTON, N. V.
PEOPLES' N. Y.
READING, PA. .
GERMAN AMEIHOAN INS. CO..NKW YORK)
GREENWICH INS. CO., NEW YORK. I
JERSEY CITY FJ11K INS. CO., JERSEY
CITY, N. J. ....
These old coRromnoNs are well seasoned by
age and rixi tistbd and have never yet had a
I oaa settled by any court of law. Their assets are
all invested In solid bboubitiib are liable to the
hazard of rim only.
COSSOI TROKITLT BUd HOHBSTLT BdJUBted BAd
paid as soon aa determined by Cubibtum t,
KKirr, sricuL aobnt and aojcbtib BLOOMBBvao.
Pa.
The people of Columbia oounty should patroa.
Its the agenoy where losses It any are settled and
pall by one of ther own citizens.
PROMPTNESS. KUUITY, FAIR DEALING.
w.n-
HOUSE,
DENTIST,
Bloomsburo, Columbia County, Pa
All styles of work done tn a superior manner, work
warranted aa represented. Tbith Bitjuot
id without Paid by the use pf Gas, and
f roe of ohargewnenarttaclalteath
are Inserted,
Office In Barton's bulldlnp:, Main Btreet,
below Market, rive doors below Klelm's
drug store, first floor.
la be open at all how during l da
not so-ty
Exchange Hotel,
UENTON, PA.
The underslgnrd lias leased this well-known
house, and is prepared to accommodate the publto
wivn an tuu cunveniencva or a nrbiciBBB uoiei.
Jmayt7) UHIBI DPAKE, I ioprfrtor.
GET YOUR JOB PRINTING
DONE AT THE'
COLUMBIAN OFFICE.
0. E. BliWELli, 1 -
J BITTENBENDEB, "rrUteri.
J. R.SMITH&CO.
LIMITED.
MIITOIV, Pa.,
DkAI.SKS IN
PIANOS
By the following well known makers;
Chickcring,
Knnbc,
Weber,
Hallet 91 Davis.
Can also furrali any of the
chenper makes at munuincturere
prices, po not bay a piano be
Fore getting our prices.
.o.
Catalogue and Price Lists
On applicntion.
Sept3-8tf.
Bitten bender & Co.,
WAGON MAKER'S
AND
BLACKSMITH'S SUFI-LIES.
No. 12G & 128 Franklin Ave.,
SCRANTON, PA.
Iron and Steel.
taprllMy.
11 Mill ::i 111.
Business rocn who have tried It And It greatly
to their adv ntngr to have Account Hooks made
to Order, to suit their special nceda. Every kind
of Blank Book, with or without nrlnted headings.
Check Books and Ruled Blanks I make In the besi
manner at honest prices.
Unexcelled facilities for
Numbering, Eytetlng, Perforating,
HtamDlnc. Work for county and
ting, Perforating, I'unchlng ai
Htamping. Work for county and borough nfilces
I'unchln? and
especially solicited.
;iany tiuiieiu.'u. Miscellaneous hook hiduid:
celtaneoui, Itook Illndlnt?
of the highest class. Missing magazines supplied.
Estimates and particulars cheerfully furnished.
J. W, RAEOER,
7 and 9 Market St ,
WILKES-BARRE.
septs-lyu&bro.
A
LBUMS, PnOTOQRAPn, AUTOORAPII AND
Scrap, a large and complete line at J. U.
Mercer
s uiugand Book store, Evans' Block.
A
J. sachets, Pomades, Hair Dyes and Hay Rum
at J. 11. Mercer's Drug and Hook store. Evans'
Block, opposite Episcopal Church.
ALL PROPRIETARY AND PATENT MEDICINES
at J. II, Mercer's Drug and Book store, oppo
site Episcopal Church.
BOOKS, STATIONERY AND WAL,. PAPER, A
tine stock at Mercer's Drug and Book store,
opposite Episcopal Church, Bloomsburg, Pa.
CASTILLE. TOILET AND MEDICATED SOAPS,
a full line at J. II. Mercer's Drug and Book
Store, Upper Main treet.
CtOMBS OF ALL KINDS. WELL SELECTED, AND
i at very low prices at J. H. Mercer's Drug and
Book store, third door above Iron Btreet, Blooms
burg, Pa.
c
IONDENSED MILK, COXL'S, NELSON'S AND
' COOner'R GelntlnH. I'flnlncii. Snm Arrnw Viwt
and all the prepared foods for children and In
valids at Mercer's Drug and Book store, nrsl door
above Hess' Boot and shoo Store, Bloomsburg, Pa.
C UNARY, HEMP, RAPE, MILLET, MAW AND
Mlied seed for the birds, at J. II. Mercer's
Drug and Hook Store, first door below Creasy'a
Grocery store.
FINE WRITING PAPERS. BY BOX, LOOSE OR
In Tablet form, at J. II. Mercer's Drug and
Book store. Bloomsburg, Pa.
NURSING BOTTLES NIPPLES, KUBltKR 1U ,
ties. Ttethtng Rings and all requisites .1 ihe
Nursery that win contribute to the Uby's i appl
ies, at J. U. Mercer's Drug and Book store, two
doors above Evans & Eyer's Clothing store.
PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS AND FAMILY
receipts oarefully prepared at all hours at
Mercer Drug aart Book Store, Bloomsburg, Pa.
'POILET AND INFANT POWDERS, ROUOE,
L Cosnietlo and gold and sliver Diamond Dust,
Btreet, bloomsburg, Pa.
WALL PAPER-MANY
prices at Jiercw'a
KINDS AND MANY
a Drug and Book Sre,
opposite EplsBopal ChuNh, Bloomsburg, Pa.
B8"Jfi;HP. MAKKR ItKM. Oo'.Boi l'a iSSulo'S.?:
ER6IAN BLOOM, Beit Ccitl.ilciBua
.ISar, Skin Our. tnd l:lmiah Kr.dlcaUr known.
, I .Uap fgr trl.l pmokufc Addna. m .bora.
not25n.ctcoly.
PENNEY OOODb
A SPECIALTY.
BOLX AOJMTB FOB
F. F, ADAMS & CO.,
PINE CUT
CHEWING
Alexander Bros. & Co.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
CIGARS, TOBACCO,
CANDIES,
FRUITS AKD NUTS.
SOLE A'OKNTS FOR
BBKRY MAILLAEDS
SECANDIES.-
FRESH EVERY U EEK.
Bloomsburg. Pa.
TOBACCO
sole agents of the fol
lowing brands of
Cigars.
HENRY CLAY,
LONDRES,
NORMAL,
INDIAN PRINCESS,
SAMSON,
SILVER ASH.
W. SOL mi?W31B
Have received, a largo stock of
CARPB TI3ST C3-S
for the Spring tratloj consisting in part of
Velvets, Body Brussels, Tapestry
Brussel and Ingrains,Smyrna and
Cocoa Rugs, Cocoa Mattings,
and a nice line of
Canton Mattings.
BLOOWSBCRGl, PEM'A.
Ftb, to, lass, ima.
ite
"I tinlicsttatingly mid my
testimony to tho great ben
efits to bo derived from Sim
mons Liver Regulator. I
was nllllctcd for several years
with disordered liver, which
resulted in a severe attack of
Jaundice. I had good medi
cal attendance, hut it failed
to reetoro mo to tho enjoy
ment of my former health.
I then tried tho most ro
nowned physicians of Louis
ville, Ky., but all to no pur
pose, whereupon I was in
duced to try Simmons Liver
Regulator. I found imme.di
ate benefit from its use, and
it ultimately restored mo to
the full enjoyment of health."
A. II. Shirley, Richmond,
Ky . . ."I most cheerfully re
commend it to all who suffer
from bilious attacks or any
d'lKeaso caused by a disar
ratmed otate of tho liver.''. . . .
W. R. Bkrnarh, Kansas
City, iMo.
KOWI ACME
THE BEST BURNINO OIL THAT CAN
BE MADE FROM PETROLEUM.
It gives a brilliant light.
It will not smoke tliecolmncys.
It will not char the wick.
It has a high Ore test.
It will not explode.
It Is pre-eminently a family safety OIL
WE CHALLENGE 0, PARDON
With any other Illuminating oil made.
We Stake Our Reputation,
As refiners, upon tho statement tbat 11 Is
THE BEST OIL
IN THE WORLD.
Ask your dealer for
CROWN ACME.
Trade for Bloomsburg and Vicinity Supplied by
MOVER BROS.,
Bloomsburg, Pa,
seps-ly.
CLOTHING! CLOTHING!
G-. W. BERTSGH,
THE MERCHANT TAILOR.
Mi Furnishing Goods,Hats I C:j:
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Suits made lo order at short notice
and a fitalwajs guaranteed or no sale.
Call and examine the largtst and best
selected stock of goods ever shown in
Columbia county.
Btoro--next door to First National Bank,
MAIN STREET,
Bloomsburg Pa.
FOR STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
cn his put osr iiy anV peiiso.v
THOUSANDS OF ROLLS SOLD ANNUALLY
FOR BUILDINGS OF EVERY
DKMJMPTIO.N,
SEND FOR NEW CIItCULAR. CONTAINING
PRICE LIST AND REFERENCES.
ACENT3 WANTED.
If, EHRET, JR. & CO.
SOLE MANUFACTURERS,
423 Walnut Street. PHIUDELPHIH
aprtl may sept.
$65
A MONTH and BOAHD for 3 brignt
young men oriaaicaun eacu county.
Z1EULEKS CO., Philadelphia,
Pa.
ANY OhDKR
FOK FEsTIVYL.
will be
SUPPLIED W i ru
Tim
LOWEST
Market Prices,
as follows;
ORANGES,
LEMONS,
BANANAS,
PEANUTS,
ENGLISH
walnuts;
cream nuts,
ALMONDS,
POP CORN
BALLS.
BLOOMSEUHG, PA.. FRIDAY, MfAT 4, 1888.
SELECT STORY.
NANNIE.
A STORY OF THF. PENNSYLVANIA COAL
FIELDS.
IIY JOHN K. I1ARRETT.
If you wcro in search of a hero, Tom
Early's shanty is about tho last place
on earth that you would bo likely lo
look for one. it stood perilously close
to the edge of a deep pit caused by
one of those convulsions so common i
tho anthracite, coal fields of Ponnsyl
vanin, and usually known at the "cav-ing-in"
of the mines. An this surface
Npam of Mother Earth ocourred soni
timn afti r Tom E irly had built Inn
home, in what lm considered a desir
able spot, tho little garden that he
Onco took so much pride in, and culti
vated so carefully in his sparo hours,
was demoralized beyond hope of res
toration, and the hnuso lUelt was so
twisted that it was as much unliku the
original plan as it well could be.
Abrupt hilN covored with spruce and
hemlock, that intensified tho deep,
dark green of Nature's picture-frame,
rose sharply up on caoh side of the
narrow valley in which Tom Early,'
home was situated, and in summer
time the place was oh wild and piciur
cque as it was dreary ana disolata lu
winter.
Tow Early, his wifo, and then
daughter Nannie, a gent o girl of fit-u-eit,
who reflected in her sweotnesn of
disposition tho irauiiug of the refined,
unselfish and pure-minded ladies who-e
school she attended at intervals soni'
ditanco dowu tho valloyi were the
only occupaiits of thii primitive dwell,
ing. There liHd been others boy
and giil but Death had found tliein
out as easily in that lonely spot as it
they had lived in a palace, and took
th im one by one away, until Nannie
was the only oliild loft to the devoted
narents, whoso grief was written in
whitening hairs and furrowed cheeks.
And as Death made repeated inroads
in the sanctuary of the little home, and
took its treasure) away, Nannio grew
all the dearer, until fathor and mother
felt that she was more than all the
world to them.
Nannie's chief delight in tho pleas
ant summer afternoons was a roino
along the hanks of the stream, which
ran near theii home, with her faithful
and devoted doe Nero.
Oue bright afternoon this play was
patlicularly full of Z'.st for Nannie, and
her dumb- companion Nero barked
with joy, as the laughing girl led him
a merry chase up and down the path'
and nuns sticks into the water. Unce
she threw a piece of wood with such
force that it crossed tho stream and
landed clear on tho opposite shore.
Nero plunged into the water and wan
swimming rapidly across, in obedience
to the urging of his young Distress,
when Nannio hoard a moan that seem
ed like a stab.
Turninc suddenly around, she saw,a;
group of miners coming nu tho patli
from tho Brisbiu coal bereakcr, carry
ing a litter, upon which a prostrate
man was lying. Instantly tna oolor,
went out of Naunie s cheekp, and th
laughter tied from her voico. There
way a chfud on her sky of joy. Dog
aud fun were forgot'en.
Nannie walked down th path in!
direction of tho group ,of men. hq
were in working-clothe, and whose,
laoes were black trom the cold-dust.
Their appearance awed her, and some
thing whispered to her spirit that, some
one very dear to her was in pain.
"Tell me, loll me,'' she pleaded pa-
monately in a noamo wnisper, as sue
mot the foremost of the group of mi
ners, "who is hurt V
'It is vour father, Nannie," said the
man ; "but I do not think he is hadh
injured. Theru was an explosion f
fire-dimp in tho chamber whern he
.was working, and he is burned nam-
wha' in the tacu ana Dreast, out in
injuries are not serious, and no doubt
a doctor will givn him relief and mak
him feel oilier in a short time."
Nannie uttered a ery or pain on
learning tho sad newn, and with cloup
ed hands bogged to know if her doar
lather was vety much injured by th:
explosion ot tire damp. Iho imner
tried to console her as best, they could
saying they weiv not familiar with all
the detail', but that they hoped tin
caeo was not as bad as it seemed.
The dog Nero, meanwhile, had re
turneu ir.ira tno oppnno siae ot tne
stream with the stick he had been sent
for. and laid it at the feet of hi young
mistress, at the same time looking up
into ber sad faoo and barking merrily,
as much as to say : "Well, I've done
my sha'o ; why don't you play !" Bui
Nannie had no eyes or earn for enjoy
menu A great Horrow had suddenU
overshadowed her, and taking her
p'rtce in i ho path behind tho men win
'were carrying herstrioken fathor home
she moaned piteously, praying fervent
ly at the. same time that God mighi
spare tno mo 01 mm wno was so very
doar to nor.
The strong and rough, but tender
hearted men carried Tom Early to his
bpil room, where tney stayed till tho
doctor camo, and, after an ozamina
tion had been tuaae of the bounded
man's injuries, it was ascertained thai
he was totally blind.
Whon tho doctor, after doing all
that bo could for tho sufferer, wax
about to leave the plaoe, Nannie pluck
ed nervously at his sleeve, and said :
"Doctor, doctor, will ho live t Tell
me, will my poor papa live ! '
ine uootor, wno was a young man
of fine sensibility, was touched to the
heart by the anguish ot soul which
shone through tho large, intelligent
oyes that looked so pleadingly into hix
ana no suaroely knew at nrst what an
swer to make, but finally said :
"Yes, ho will live."
He did not dare to tell her the worst
that her father was blind for over
and he almost oliidod himself for hold
ing this back from her as he saw her
kneeling upon the floor, and tutoring
a lerveni 'Miianif Heaven 1
"Poor Nannie II' whispered tho mi
ners one to another as they left tlio
shanty, and wiped tho tears that could
not b kept book, from thoir oyes
Accueiomea as ineso strong men were
to such scenes, they could not hell
feeling keenly for tho mother and
daughter whoso whnlu support had
been "0 suddenly stricken dowu at his
loll uy one of I ha many subtle aim un
Been aangera that surround the - miner
, at bis task i and they thought it would
bo a meroy if Tom Early, jn'stcad of
being blind1 for life, haabe'en killed
outright, by tho flush.ol firo damji that
robbed him of tho prcolnua boon of
sight whQnjho.slor.nl of deatn swept
through tho chambers of ,thi. black
workshop in which so many mot are
sacrificed.
T lin siinnv nummpr dava wont. liv.
but thoro w8A1.?P.pbjn?Jn Na,nnle''s
lifo. Sho had .learned tbo fjtll extent
of tho calamity that had "befallen 'It. r
dear f athcr,fnd the ipn'Eon of- her ex
istence, in whiptf hope, jviis glowing
but a short. time, agowas joyiesi. No
more, moryy .laughter for..her j no wild
rotpjis along tno banks of tho stream
with Noro i no callfri'g up of i)jo moun
tain echos. Nern himself was pipp
ing, and it seemed as if, the sqpeasjif
his onco merry playmates was, puzzling
hitri.
In timo Tom Early was ablu to be
out again', but now, instead. of "being a
help, he was a burdeu in his blindness
to tho wifo and daughter who wcro so
enderly devoted to him. Nannie ofu n
ook him by tho hand and led him
ilong the river bank, whore ho loved
10 listen to tho musiu of the water turn
tiling over the rocks. At such times
Nannio was sad and silent. Homo
titms sho wept as she 2onteraulatcd'
the face of het father, now to changed,
mil watohi d the mrvous movement"
of his lips as ho sal on a ledgo of rock
imi-ning to uiu s ng 01 uio river.
Alter returning weary and heirtsioU
from one of tlio-e little walks, ami
leading her blind father to his room.
Nannie's mother called her aside one
d.iv, and with tears' in her eyes told
her all their money was gone. The
little thai had been laid aside from the
f'tigal father's earnings had been spent
for doctor's bills, medicine, store bills.
etc., and now there was nothiug left
In '"or despair the poor, tired mother
laid the case before Nannie, who, it
seemed, had suddenly grown old and
wise before her time.
Nannie listened attentively. This
was a new phase of sorrow with which
she had not hitherto been acquainted,
and when her mother had done apeak
mg tho girl said :
"Mamma, 1 wish I was a boy.
'Why do you wish that, my Nan.
nie V
"Because then 1 could go to work in
the coal-breaker, and earn 6omo mono
for yon and poor pspa. Do you think
they would let a girl work in the coal
breaker at picking slate 1"
"No, my dear, tljat s impo-siblo ;
tnd Airs, fairly Bhookher head sorrow
fully.
Nannies mind was made up, how
ever. That night she tried on the suit
of working clothes that hor brothei
used to wear in the coal breaker before
h" died, and was overjoyed to find
that it fitted her. Sho contemplated
herself in the mirror to see how much
she cotil I look like a slate-picker, and
whs pleased with tho result.
.Next morning at dawn, while father
and mother were sleeping soundly,
Nannie was up and away to the Bris
biu coal-breaker, where she obtained
work as a slate-picker. As she took1
her place in the dusty screen-room.
among an armv of boys, sho felt ex
ceedingly strange, and kept thinking
"I wonder if they know I am a girl,"
out as the day wore on, and she be
came accustomed to the n6versit.ua1 inn
her mind was occupied 'with othui
thoughts.
The screen-room of tho Brisbin coal
breaker was a big black, grimey work
shop in whioh about two hundied boys
were employed picking the slate, or
hale, frpm the broken anthracite that
came rushing down tho chutes from the
ppnderous machinery at tho too of the
ah 'ping floor, into winch I he great
boulders ot coal were dumped from the
oafs in which .hey were hoisted, out of
the mine.
It is in th's way that the anlhricit'
s elea'o d and made p-ady for those
cheerful fires that gladden our homes
But it is at a great sacrifice to tho boy
hood of the co il regions, which in often
dwarfed, mentally and phvically, bv
the cru-htng influences of the screen
room.
'Ihe work of the bos is superintend
ed by an. individual generally an old
man wno is ouiieit a "craoKer-ooss,
Irom tho fact that tho bovs call the
uoal-br.aker a "oraoker," because the
coal is "craoked there.
There aro thousands of boys employ
ed as slate-pickers in lb" Pennsylvania
coal-breakers, many of them beginning
tnis work at the tender ago ot six or
seven years, aud their life forms
sombro phase ot tho anthracite indus
try, liut with all tho hardships ol
their ualliug the slate pickers are some
times merry, mischievous lot, and ever
ready for fun or folly, so that the po
sition of "cracker boss'' is by no means
a sin oure.
Nannie, who was refenod to by the
other slate-pickers as "the new bov,"
was quiet aud downcast. She soon
learned how to sort out tho dull slato
from tho anthracite, hut it made her
ting, rs bleed. Still sho bore the or
deal bravely, tor she telt that she was
working for her blind father and her
grief-stnoken mother.
Her .quietness did uot suit some of
the other slate pickeis, who had a re-
pugnanoe to any ono sh iwmg lb
slightest tondenoy toward what they
caned ooi'ic "good. for this reason
a decided current of an'.ipatby was set
ting in against her, ot which sho was
.all unconscious.
Such sneers as "Tho now hoy is go
ing to bo an angel," and "l'wig his
whispered through tli screen-room.
Nannie tried to bo indifferent, to
these remarks, but sho could not re
strain tho tears that rushed to her eyes,
and when tho others saw tbat her
cheeks were wet, thero was a broad
grin, that attracted tho attention of lho
oraeker-boss, and made jiiin, crack Ins
whip rather cniphatoally.
The most experienced slato-pickirs
leu mat ine "new boy a tears weru
duo to tho fact that his fingers were
bleeding, from contact with tho coal,
this being ono of the first ordeals of
the screen-room. Thoy were right in
supposing that Nannie's lingers bled
but this was uot the cause of her tears,
ringers, at first and for some time
will bloed at the woik of picking slate,
for tho broken anthracite is as sharj
as glass, and It takes somo timo to
mike, the little fingers of the children
callous to it keen edge. When the
groat steel jawed rolls are turning and
thundering, aiid the usky struams of
broken coal rush swiftly dowu tho
several chutes of tho screeu-room,
thero is not much timo for caution on
his own behalf on the part of the
slato picker who would avoid a rap of
tho cracker-boss's switch across the
knuckles.
When tho dinner-hour arrived, and
tho great noisy breaker, that had been
lull ot sound and action all lho foro
noon, liko a panting giant, brought its
intriad wheels and forces to a tempor
ary stand-still. Nannio realized for the
first timo how badly lacerated her
bleeding fingers were.
In her eagerness to put her plan into
xecutlon sho had not thought of tak-
ng any dinner with hor on leaving tho
ioiiso in the morning, but she did not
feel thu doprivation vory keenly, bo-
oause her mind was occupied with
wondering what her father and mother
would' think of her nhseucu from homo.
Tho cracker-boss having left the
screen-room for tho purposo of enjoy
ing uib own iiinun in peace anu quiet
ness, tho slato-pickcrs wcro soon up to
all sorts of mitohicf.
Ono uoisy, overgrown youth, who
was known among his companions hv
tho soubriquet of "Scatters,"' approach-
d Nannie and said :
"Hello, Sorefiugers ; slate-pickin'
makes you tired, don't it 1 Hurts yor
lingois and makes yon cry, oh 1''
"No, it doesn t,' said Nannie, quietly.
';VVha a' I Not make vou crvi''
drawled Scatters. "Woll that's rich
ness. Didn't wo nil soo vou woepin'
and snivelliu', an ain't ther two chutes
of cry-juice now, down asido o' ver
mriy nose, wheer tho weeps rant"
'liut it wasn t my soro fingers that
niado me cry," said Nanniu : "I was
thinking of my poor papa and mamma.''
"Oh, boys, hear that r shouted Scat
ters, in great glee, and adding with
coarse irony "Ho was thinkin' of papa
ana mamma. L,ook at tho babby I
Say. Johnny, wheer's yer nttssin bot-
-lo I"
A great sob was Nannie's only on
iwcr to this insulting talk. But Scat
ters was not to be put oil in that way.
Ho had no more sympathy in his
na'uo than a oat, and h-3 laughed out-
Uht at Nannio s disoomhture, and
with a sneer shouted :
"Say, bos ; tho greenhorn hain't got
no dinner. Didn t pay the storo bill
last week, mebbe."
lhis made Naunte cry.
"Oh, dry up, you old crv-babv."
said Scatters, seizing her by both arms
and swinging her around so violently
that sue leu heavily on the tioor ot the
screen-room, and uttered a cry of pain.
Then Scatters, who was the bul v of
the breaker, kickod her in the side.
As he, did so a hardy little slato-pick
r, named am Uarroll, rushed upon
him, and seizing him by the collar,
said :
"You sha'n't strike tho new boy any
more, Bcattera 1
"Oh, indeed, Sammie 1 you get out
ot my way, or 1 11 pulyerizo you, ' re
plied Scatters, with raised hst.
"No, you dassent," said Sam plucklly
and his heroic conduct roused tho bet
ter nature ot the entire screen room in
behalf ot tho "now bov" and against
Scatters, who, seeing that ho was at a
llsadvantage, contented himself bv
threatening to bo reveDged on Sam
Uarroll some other time.
But Sara said he was not afraid of
him, and then getting his diunor pail
he. tried to divide its contents with
Nannie, who, although very grateful lo
her little triend, was compelled to de
lino his kindnoHS, because she could
not eat a morsel just then.
I'resentlv tho dinner hour was up,
and the great machinery of the screen
room began turning onco more.
nam uarinu, wiioio place was near
tho opposite side of tho room from
where Nannie worked, rose and ran
across bo as to be in time at his task
before tho cracker-boss returned : but
in doing so ho ventured too near the
aelitnery, his foot slipped and he fell
m between the sharp steel teeth of the
neraendons rolls that broke the coal.
and that were now revolving slowlv.
Nearly overv hoy in the room wit-
nesed this horrible sight, and all were
paralyzed with loar.
Nannio alone, of tho entiro number
if slato-pickers, rushed, to the re
of Sara Carroll.
As sho approaohed lho rolls, the
'thorn, seoing her peril, shouted
'Stand back I stand back 1" but sho
lid not hed them. Her bravo soul
was kindled with tho desiro to savo
the life of her little benefactor, and
sho had no thought of her own.
The grim and fearful rolls, with
Sam Carroll in thoir grip, moved slow
lv around, nnd m tho hope of extrioat
ing tho boy, Nannio caught him In
itio coat collar, and pulled witli all her
might.
before sho was aware of the great
peril, alio louud horselt drawn into tin-
dread machine by nu irresistible force
l hero was a tumult in her brain liko
ihe roar of the sea, but onlv for an in
siant. Then camo chaos, darkness
and silence.
Tho machinery ni tho broaker was
brought to a standstill, and Sam Car
roll and tho "now boy" woro taken
from tho blood-stained rolls. Carroll
was qutto doad, and terribly mangled
Nannie had both arms broken, and
was so badly crushed otherwise that it
was thought sho could not survivo hor
Injuries.
No ono in tho broaker knew her
name or where her home was. In tho
course of a litllo time, however, she
rallied sutliciently to say :
"I'm Tom Early's Nannio. Tako me
home.'
Everybody knew Tom Eatly, but
even then fow realized that tho crush
littlo slate-picker, who had been
wounded unto death, was his daughter
Naunie. lho truth dawned on thosi
piesenl, however, hon tho littlo slate
pickers cap fell off, aud the long abuu
data, glossy black hair of tho beautiful
child who had sacrificed ber lifo for
others, fell across her face.
Nannie was yet alive and conscious
when they earned her homo and lai
her on the bed in tho back room of her
father's shanty. Her father and moth
or wpre stunned with grief as the
took their places by the bedsido.
"Paps, mimma," sho said, with
supreme effort, "I am dying. Won'i
you lorgivo your Nannio T 1 went to
work in tho breaker in boy's clothes,
because I knew thoy wouldn t let
girl work them."
un, Nannie, Nannio v tho poor
father moaned, as ho softly stroked
hor shining hair across tho pillow, Hu
oould say no raoro. '1 he poor inot'ei
wept bitterly, and sobbed as if her
heart would break.
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COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Vol 1.11, NO
"You worked for me," said Nannie,
faintly "why not I for you t Kiss
me, papa, and say you lorgivo your
Nannie 1"
What wonder was it that tho poor
blind miner oonld not speak. He
heard Nannio whisper something about
tho darkness setting In i his hand bo
camo conscious of n convulsive tremor
npon tho pillow, and he knew that all
was over. Nannies soul had gone up
out of thu blackness of the coal dust to
tho groat white throno of God.
Beats The Telephone.
EI.lfcllA ORAY'S LATEST INVENTION.
IIY THE TELA UTOfl RAP A MAN CAN ES
CAPE ALL THE HORRORS OF THE "llKL
LO" MACHINE A NEW TELEPHONE
SWITCH HOARD TUB CASK OF ORAY
VERSUS HELI-
Professor Elisha Gray, of Highland
Park, has just completed an invention
carcely less wonderful and valuablo
than the telephone, of which he was
i Iho thu inventor, butot which ho was
lefrauded. "Within a few days,"said
the Professor thu other day, "1 shall
givo a private lest of tuy now; tuletilo
graph an invention which will largely
supplant tho telephone. I havo already
tested it to my satisfaction, over and
over again, and on Saturday I shall
give an exhibition to some gentlemen
from the East. I havo just taker, it to
pieces to make somo slight alterations
or 1 would show it to you now.
"iiy this invention you can sit down
in our oflico in Chicago, take a pencil
in your hand, write a message to me,
and as your pencil moves a pencil here
in my laboratory moves simultaneous
ly and forms the sauio letters - and
words in tho baiuo way. W hat you
write in Chicago is lnstantlv reproduce
ed hero in fac-siinile. You may write in
any language; write in short hand if
you like, uso a code or cipher, no mat
ter, a fac-similo is produced here. If
you wish to draw a picture it is the
same tho picture is reproduced here.
The artist of your paper can, by this
lovice, telegraph bis inclines ot a rail
way wreck or other occurrences, just as
reporter telegraphs his description
in words, lho two pencils movo syn
chronously, and thoro is no reason why
a circuit ot uvo hundred miles cannot
bo worked as easily as one ot ten miles.
r nis telautograph will supplant the
telephone for many purposes. It can
bo worked in exohanges, just as the
telephone is, or by private iro. It
as many advantages, too. It is
noiseless and devoid of many annoyan
ces so common to tho telephone.. It
will be much lessatrected by induction.
There will bo no trouble in catching
words or syllables, letters, or figures,
no misunderstandings will result. Be
sides, it leaves a record at both ends of
tho wire, and there can bo no dispute
about what was said. For all comtner
uial transactions this would bo, an in
valuablo feature. Jnoroenng goods,
or sales of stock or grain, or in trans
mitting names or address its superiority
over tho telephone is obvious l'or
desultory conversations, it is true, it
ii . , ; , c ,.: r --.
wouiii uoi oe so rapiu oi wording, ior
the reason that ono oaunot writo as
fast as he can talk, but, on tho other
hand, it would save many of the delays
aud annoyances incident' to telephonic
communication.
When oue person wishes to oounnun-
ioate with another by tho telautograph
he pushes a button, which rings an an
nunciator in the exchange, or in thu of
fice of the poison with whom ho wishes
to converse. Then tho first partv
takes his pencil from its liuldi r aud
this may bo pen or pencil and .writes
his message, bo adds a cross, or aii
other simple token, .that he has finished
when tho second party takes down a
ponoil and writes a reply. Thus a
conversation can be carried on easily
-tnd quickly, and when it is finished
another simple word say the telegra
phic signal "30" will indicato .the
eud. Both parties havo lull recoul of
tho conversation, and each possesses
tho others aijtograpn.
"lu writing, continued the rroles-
sor, " your pen or pencil is attached to
two small wins, aud thesd wiics regit
ate tho cm routs which coutrol the pen
cil at tho other end of the wire. You
hardly know they aie there, aud can
wiilo with as initoh facill'y as if thty
were absent.
Can this invention be used to ad
vantage commercially."
le. It will not cost more than ilf
or $20, and is easily kept in order. 1
havo tried it again and again, and it
works moro perfeotly than tho telu
hone, and is much lcs ltahl to have
its u-efnlnesa interfered with by induc
tion." But this is uot tho only great inven
tion Professor Grey baa in hand. Ho
has jiistcorapleted an automatic switch
board tor telophono exchanges by
whioh the user of a telephone or telau
graph can put himself in communica
tion with any other instrument. To
do this he has simply to touch a button
a o nam number ot times correspond
ing to tho number of tho other instru
ment. If tho wire leading to tha- in
strument is already in uso ho is inform
od of the fact by the ringing of a
bell, and ho then watts a tow minutes
as ho is now so often compelled to do,
ana then pushes th3 button again
Bv this invention ono person in an ex-
ol.ango can do tho work of thirty or
forty under tho present system, the
duties of thu ono boiug merely to keep
tho automatic apparatus in order.
An Eloouio Light Invention.
Hitherto it lias not been possible
without the aid of a dynamo to uso
electricity for illuminating purposes,
but dames II, ISlason, a young Kuglish
man residing in this country, having
.ubstituted a battory for a dynamo,
claims mat by reason oi ins improve
inent, nny ono desirous of olectrio ill
umination may now havo it at a small
percentage of the cost imposed under
tho dynamo system. Tho inventor
claims that a battery of twenty five
cells would furnish a three story house
wun ten iignis, an burning at once
five-hours nightly for two weoks, nnd
that tho cost of this would bo just the
same as gas while the light would be
brtler. Smoo stored electricity has
bcecn utilized as a motor, thero is reu
son to believe that it may vet ba made
lo servo tho purposo ot an illtimiiiant,
Ten cents an aero was all a farm of
954 acres brought recently in Greene
county, am., wnen sold under moil.
i gago.
I All Sorts of Paragraphs.
Tho dirt on a politician's hands most
always rubs onto tho legislation ho
handles.
Mr. Joseph Jefferson Is lho rlohrst
American actor. Ho Is said to be worth
3750,000.
A man bearing the rcmnrkablonamo
of Bloomer Blizzard died recently in
Nowburg, N. .
Tho first seven story building over
put up in Alabama will shoitly bo
erected at Montgomery.
Emperor Frclerick, of Prussia, has
given 40,uiJ marks ior tno rcnoi oi
Hood sufferers in Germany.
Evangelist Moody is now in Load-
ville, endeavoriug to inject soito ro
ligion into that wicked city.
Tho evil men do lives after them,"
but lho root of ovil they hoard ls( gen
erally squandered by the heirs.
Louis Kossuth is still living at Turin
with his sister in good health and btiBy
with his autobiography.
Ex-Senator Bruco has gono to Kan
sas to visit his ninety-six years old
mother. Sho used to be a slave in Vir
ginia.
Mrs. Katharine Chaeo is expected to
return irom Franco to Washington this
month, bringing her daughter with
her.
Tho proposed marriago of Frinco
Alexander and Princess Victoria is still
tho subject of vital disoussion in Ger
many. Bishop Whitehead, (Episcopal,) of
PitUburg, deprecates tho uso of flowers
at funerals and in the church on Easter
day.
You havo no right to feed a dog so
long as you have not the money to
provide your family with good papers
and books.
In a recent fight between Silas
Banks and throu Monroo brothers in
Wirt .couuty, W. INTa., tho Monroea,
were all killed.
Mrs. Nancy Caloy, colored womaui
of E isltin, Conn., has boon taking snuff
for 90 venrs and is still alive'at'tho ago
of 105.'
When a rich rasoal escapes because
of a technical Haw in tho indictment,
it usually means something more than
carelessness.
Sir John Lubbock, iu his lecturo on
'Savages," BayB that tho negroes never
kissed until they were taught by tho
whito people.
Mr. Patrick O'Brien, an Irish mem
ber of parliment, has been sentenced
to imprisonment for three months for
a political speech.
Somo men get huffy at trifles Hero's
a fellow in Chicago ho wants a di
vorce from his wifo just because sho
kisces her pug dog.
Miss Graco Arlie, a beautiful white
girl at Toledo, had typhoid fever aud
whou she recovered her skin was as
black as that of a negro.
Tho value of mineral oils exported
from the United States during' March
was Si, 110,039, against 83,534,942 for
the satno month last year.
Geoige Miller, who died in Lancas
ter county, l'a., lho other day, at tho
age of 75, had attended 3,700 funerals
and made that number of coffins.
Sinco tho winter season began, Flor
ida is said to havo received $0,000,000
from Northern tourists. This is .bet
ter than raising cotton, or evon oranges.
Senor Galindez, lho wealthy mer
chant who was recently kidnapped at
his estate in Cuba, by bandits has been
released cn tho payment of $17,000 in
gold.
There aro 1,400,000,000 pooplo liv
ing on the' planet which wo Inhabit.
And yet there is now and then a- man
who wonders what the) rett of us will
lo when Ire dies.
Gen. Boulanger is accused of favor
ing his candidate for tho chamber 'of
Lieputics in various departments,
hough hu publicly repudiated all re-
ponsibilitits tor the use of his name.
Isaac Taylor and his wife, who live
naar Cadiz, O., aro .a remarkable old
ouplo. 1 ho husband is 94 and tho
wife 88, and both havo been membtra
if the M. E. church for seventy years.
Twenty-five years ago only fifteen
women woro emplojcd in tho wholo
country as editors, while nt present
hero are 200 employed in active lour-
nalistio work in New York city alono.
Ths will of Jacob Sharp leaves every
thing to his wifo but $20,000 in minor
bequests. After Mib. Sharps death
tho property goes to his daughters,
Mary Ann belmes and oarah Ami
Stevens.
Tho friends of Gov. Hill, of New
York, speak of sending him at tho
head of tho State delegation to tho
Democratic National Convention to
present Cleveland's name for the Pre
sidential nomination.
Notice has been posted in the Penn
sylvania Railroad shops at Columbia
to the effect tbat 'line lioirrs will 'here
after constitute a day's labor instead
ot tiu. All men paid by tho hour aro
affected by the reduction.
Polygamy Passing Away.
THE PRACTICE OPENLY DENOUNCED
HY
I.EADINO MORMON CHURCHMEN.
Salt Lake City correspondenco Chicago Ttrnes.
Thu feature of thu animal conference
of tho Mormon (Jhnrcb, whioh has just
elood. was an epistle signed by Wit-
lord Wood'ull in behalf of the twelvo
iosIIcs, whioli differed materially in
tonu from similar pipers issued by his
predecessor, it exhorted the people to
lead puio lives, being simply such an
epistle as any bishop or pastor of a
Christian congregation might present
to his Hook, lho late president, John
lalor, used thesu epistles to advocato
polygamy, but President Woodruff
lias ignored tho subject, evidently de
termined to keep the church in line with
thu movement to abolish tho plural
wifo system. During the ooufereuco a .
young older from tho country namtd
ClawBon, spoke In favor of polygamy.
Ever since deep indignation has been
expressed by tho public, aud interviews
witu leading Mormons prove that thoy
aro as deeply chagrined by tho young
man's reckless and unauthorized utter,
uncus as others. Tho elder is opculy
ceus irud and his advocacy of poly
gamy denounced by prominent church
men. The sensation which Clawsoq's ut
'.eiances caused and tho earnestness
with which his discourse is condemn
ed and repudiated go far to prove
that (ho Mormons aro sincere in their
declarations in tho prcs and on tho
witness sland that thoy havo abando
ned polygamy. The absence of any
mention of it in Mr. Woodruff's episllo
favorably commcutid on by tho masses
of Moinions aud by tho gentiles, who
begin to believe tbat the saints aro
sinciroiii their professions, especially
aa there is no ewduico of a pel) gam
ous marriage having taken place fcr
more than a year.
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