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h. Fiurz
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Okkiok Front Room, Oyer Postoffio.
BLOOMBflUHO, PA.
J 11. MAIZE
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
insuhanob ana jiBAt estate agent,
Okfiob. Room No. 2, Columbian
building.
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I Jan. soth 1SS8, tt.
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u. vvlui,
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omoe In Knt'B Uulldlng.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
AMD
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c
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Bloomsburg, Fa.
B.
FKANK ZARK,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Bloomsburg, Fa.
onico corner of Centre una Main streets. Clark a
Uulldlng.
Can be consulted In Gorman.
G
EO. E. ELWELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Ofllcc on second floor, third room of Col-
dmman ijuuuinit, Main street, below &i
chango Hotel.
JpADL E. WIHT,
Attorney-at-Law.
nice In Columbian Bcilowo, Third floor.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
JJ V. WHITE,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
DLOOMSBURQ, PA,
Onico in Wlrts1 Building, 2nd floor,
may 1-tf
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Attorneys-at-Law.
Office lu 1st National Hank building, second floor,
nrstdoortotheleft. Corner ot Main and Market
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(DISTRICT ATTORNEY.)
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
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y. H. RUAWN.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
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omoe.oorner of Third and MalnBtreeU
QUANT- HERRING,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
BLOOMSBURQ, PA.
Offlco oyer Kawllng's Meat Market.
-yj-IOUAEL P. EYEHLY,
' Conveyancer, Collector of Claims.
AND
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Dure, Fa. noW88lr.-
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Bloomsburg, Pa
DR. WM. II. REBER Surgeon and
rnrelclan. Office corner ot Hock and Market
treet.
ESTABLISHED 1870.
J.
J. BROWN.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Offlco and residence on Third street near Metho
dist church. Diseases ot tho eye a specialty.
JQR. J. R. EVANS.
Treatment of Chronio Diseases made a
SPECIALTY.
Office, Third Street,
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J. HESS, D. D. S.,
rnriimtn ot the PblladelDhla Dental CollMro.
Having openea a uenuu uuiro m
LOCKARD'S BUILDING,
corner ot Main and Centre streets,
BLOOMSBURG, A.,
s prepared to receive all patients requli og pro.
cttloual services.
KTI1EU, OAS, AND LOCAL ANAESTHETICS
administered for the painless extraction ot teeth
free ot charge when artlflclal teeth are inserted.
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m n. HOUSE,
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wllstylesof work done In a superior manner .work
warranted as represented. Tbitb Eztbaot
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THE
A Sultan sat by Danube's tide
And sore distressed aloud he cried;
While like the waters to the sea
His tears ran down both fast and free.
A passing stranger said : " My friend,
Why do those tears so fast descend?"
"Alas 1 " he sobbed, "I've lost all hope ;
I've lost my cake of Ivory SoAp.
No more in pride through town I'll go,
With garments clean and white as snow;
A WORD OF WARNING.
There are many white soaps, each represented to be "Just as good as the 1 Ivory' i"
they ARE.NOTf.but like all counterfeits) lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of
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For bdcb4. tid alt Bad den, shirp, or
lonf-itindinf p&lns or wMknepnea of trtry
kind. Virtues of fresh bopi, hemlock and
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it sautnea
every time.
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s for .oo.
Sold .TerrwbeM, or
m&Uod for prlo.
Jwt for tlgnature e tht proprietor,
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:o:-
O. W. BERTSGH,
THE MERCHANT TAILOR.
to:
Cents' Furnishing Qoods.B&ts & C&ps
OF EVERY DESCRIPTIONS
Suits made to order at short notioo
and a fit always guaranteed or no sale.
Call and exatnino the largest and best
seleoted stock of 'goods over shown in
Columbia county.
Btore next door to First National Bank,
MAIN STREET,
Blootnsburs: Pa
WILLIAM HART
BLOOMSBUBG, PENN'A.,
AGENT FOR THK
KEYSTONE DYNAMITE POWDER CO.
manuf actruers of the celebrated Keystone Dyna
mite. This explosive Is glTlng umreraal sstlafac
tlon Quotations cheerfully given.
(Aug 117
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DEALXRS IN
PIAN0S
By the following well known makers;
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Weber,
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Can also furnish any of the
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o
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SULTAN
But in disgrace must move about,
By scornful lingers pointed out."
"Not so," the noble stranger cried;
"I have a piece and will divide;"
And from his coat-tail pocket drew
A cake and broke it fair in two.
Then rose in joy the Sultan gray,
And made that man a Turkish Bey,
With servants kind and Viiicrs sage,
And fifty wives to cheer his age'.
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out
for one ofthota
llOV
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on the genuine good.
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Print only 15 cti. Soli by alldruggliti.
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AT MILI.VILI.r. COLUMMA CO. I'A.
JAN1. 11 1889 lit B. II. 1'AIKTER
ESQ. OP TUnilOTVlLI.E I'A.
Mn fnnt in mnrlorn historv so fullv
chnilcngcn our admiration as tiio growth
of tho American' Republic Tho child
of rovolntion, cradled in adversity, yet
proof aaainst tho hato ot Alonarchies,
it has outstripped all its competitors;
defied nil its enemieuj realized all the
expectations of its friends, nnd to day,
in every thing mat makes a is niton
grand and noble, stands without an
equal on earth.
What it teas, is now, ana may yet
be, nro the tbemos of this paper. Nor
is it strango that I should discuss theso
topics beforo a Farmcrrt' Institute. For
of tho men who havo -contributed its
stability,Nationnl grandeur, nnd integ
rity, thoy challongo comparison with
all others. When lis foundation was
lnid in tho blood stained soil of LexinC'
ton, Monmouth, nnd Valley orge, not
one, but a thousand J'utnams rushed
from tho green hills of Now Hampshire
to tho Swamps of South Carolina in
defense of liberty. And when Indo-
pendenco was achieved and this child
republic doffed the swadlini! olothes of
infauoy and demanded a wider field for
its energies, it was tho tonant of the
soil who responded. He leveled the
forest, pushed the (Jar ot Utilization
Westward over the Allcchanios, across
the Ohio, beyond the Mississippi into
the hoart ot tho great JNorth West; and
in the eighty third year of its young
life, with his feet planted, midway, in
tho fertile basin of tho Mississippi, ono
hand rested on the rooky shores ot the
Atlantic, the other touched the golden
sands of the Pacific. Ho had domina
ted the Continent. Hero his work
was not coupled, nor tho power of his
hand staid, when treason demanded
tho surrender of tho fruits of our civili
zation all that was Rood, free, and
Godlike in this government and the
lurid fires of civil war bim.t upon us,
truo to his fame in the past and firm
in his convictions of duty to tho future,
from everylhill top.valloy, nnd plain of
every Commonwealth ot a determined
North from the tall pines of Maine to
tho golden gates of tho Pacific, ho
swept iu regiments, brigades, and
divisions, at tho bugle's blast, into tho
fifteen hundred thousand heroes who
went forth in defenso of liberty and
Union; as brave and gallant an army
as ever shook tho earth with martial
tread singing,
"Wo aro coming rather Abraham,
Three hundred thousand strong."
The farmer has always been tho most
important factor in the growth, mental,
moral, and material, of this government
from the hour ot its conception to the
present moment of its most wonderful
achievement, it is not, however, any
class of citizens, but the nation itself I
would eulogize.
We are nearing the closing years of
the nineteenth ceutury. The bun that
rose upon it in doubt and gloom a
hundred and one years ago, is now go
mar down upon it not as then ou
feeble, struggling band of patriots, but
an enlightened and powerful Repuplio
with out a rival in agriculture, mining,
manufacturing, Science, learning, and
all the graces of a well organized
government on tho Western Continent
and soon to be the supsrior, if indeed,
she is not already, of any on tbo East
ern, lint UH beginning was teoulo.
Thirteen states clnng, most of them,
to the shining shores of tho Atlantic.
Tliey had tho name of states, but only
enfeebled Colonics. Though protected
from Arotio blasts by the unpenetrated
foresU of Maine, thoy yet felt not the
warm; life giving currents of tho Gulf
Stream turning winter into spring as it
brushes its warm breath on tho shores
of Florida. The band of Spain held
the key that opened tho gate to tho
delusive fountain of perpetual youth.
The Alleghanies and tbo Ohio marked
their western boundary. Beyond theso
was the "wilds ot tho west." Threo
million of people still felt tho horrors
of war and the burden of oppresslvo
taxation. Love of liberty was in every
heart, but grim poveity sat enthroned
at every hearth stone. Scienco for
them, had not opened her treasure
house. It was rnascl eagainst the forces
of nature. Toil wih the wooden shire
and tho sledgo hammer won tho vic
tories of tho steam-plow and tho
iliamond-drill. Her rivors flowed as
majostio thou as they do now, but their
utility awaited, till 1807, the brain of
a Stevens; and, her cotton fields till
near tho samo period, tho inventive
genious of a Whitney. Lightuings
Hashed on every hill top, thunders
reverberated in every valloy; but thero
was no shriek ot tho steam whistle,
no click of tho elcctrio telegraph.
These elumberiuggianU awoko in 1830
and 1814. Mountains of wealth, as a
distinguished wtiter has said, "Shut up
in liod H grantto sates set with lime
locks" refueod to reveal her seoreis till
the approach of the locomotive.
Only the pack mule, on an Indian
(nil, dared cross tho Alleghaniss.
Westmorland Countv iu our own grand
old Commonwealth was tho limits of
her western civilization. No mills,
factories, or furnaces. No Commerce,
no navy nothing to export, nothing
to defend. But the National heart
beats grew stronger. New blood thrill
ed her young life. Inrention loanod
hor its energies. Forges, spindles, and
wheels echoed tbo hum of industry on
every hill-top, in every valloy. With
two narrow boundaries she grasped tho
hands of Florida and Louisiana on tho
south securing tho key to tho Mississ
ippi and then turned her face westward,
Texas lay in tho lino of hor conquest
and she welcomed her to tho Sister
hood of States. Tho axe of tho pio
neer still filled tho forest. On tho
clearing, besides tho log cabin, roso
tho littlo school and tho
spirelees church. And in thoir work
followed an irrepressible civilization
railroads, canals, mills, furnaoes, fao
torica, villiagcs, towns,oilUs, and broad
acres of golden grain, jt teas the
tread of empire, 8Ql oame nn the
world stood amazed at tho fruits of
seventy four years of Constitutional
government. Now 33,000,000 people
tho best fed, and tho best olothed iu
tho world thirty-sir Sovereign Com
monwealths, all in tho Zone of tbo
strongest and most progressive people
on Eiitb, with linked hands strotohing
their sinew arms from ooean to ooean,
and all living under ono organtio law
the wisest, freest, and best over devised
by tho brain of man of railroads
81,220 miles about tho combined
mllago of Asia, Soutli America;
Australia, Africa, and Central America
in 1880 telegraph lines more than
thoso of tho oldest country of Europe
cotton crop 3,050,000 balos manufac
tures not what thoy might havo been
because unprotected against tho pauper
labor of Europo, but awaiting a hotter
day under a wiso protcotivo system
whioh opened up wnoio mines ot
wealth which hitherto had been un
touched because fifty cents in England
nnd Belgium in woolen, cotton and
other fabrics, discounts a dollar and a
quarter in freo Amorica. But wo havo
grown strong nnd self reliant. Our
graliaries wero overflowing and might
have delighted tho oyes of tho eons ot
Jacob. There oame the first great test
of our freo institutions which tried tho
vory ligaments of government, the civil
conflict of 18G1, tho most cxhaustivo
of modern times. This we sustained
in spito of foreign hato, tin Union of
thirtv-six states was restored to its
proud position in tho gallery of nations,
and two as bravo ana gallant armies
as ever trod fho earth returned, amid
tho npplaudits of Christcndom,to peco-
nil vocations as it nothing had occurcu.
since then a now era has dawned
and the nation has awoko to new lifo
and new energy. It is a significant
fact, eavs a wtiter, that tho vast region
ijoyond the Mississippi has been px
plored and settled almost wholly with'
in tho last thirty-five years, and. at
least threo fourths of it sinco tho close
of our civil war. Never before did wo
mako suoh strides in material develop
ment. Scarcely had tho roar of artil
lery died away among tho hills of old
Virginia till the golden Bpiko was
riveted that united tho Central and
Union Pacific railways spanning tho
continent with iron bands. Busy
bumming cities havo settled all along
their track. Forests havo been trans
formed into blooming gardens, and
mines of nntold wealth forced to yield
their spcrets. The locomotivo and
steam engine have broken tho seats of
secrecy stamped upon them since tho
dawn of Creation, and manufactures
havo lit up oyery plain, hill and valloy
faom Maino to California, and from tho
Lakes to tho Gulf; and now tho music
of toil hum its notes throughout every
inch of our broad domain. Science too
has been lavish of her gifts, nnd inven
tion lias conquered the forces of nature.
Mountains no longer offer obstacles to
engineering skill. Rivers are spanned
in a day. Tho harvester gathers tho
wheat in the morning. Good houso
wives prepare it for supper. Tho old
oinal boat and the eraigraut train over
tho plain aro relics of tho past. In
seven days, by tho former, goods wero
transported from Philadelphia to Pitts
burg. Now by steam thoy leave Now
York on Monday morning, and in seven
days aro in the hands of consumers in
San Francisco. We havo outstripped
the world in patents, annually issuing
four times as many as tho country that
gave us birth. At a late Electric expo
sition in France fivo gold medals wero
offered for tho most noted inventions
and discoveries. How many camo to
Araericat Only five. Education hero,
too, is abreast of tho tim.'S. Our freo
school system is tho glory ol our Re
public, whilo wo havo colleges and
universities, all over tho land, with
proffessors earnest, devoted, and as
eminent for their scholarship as any in
Germany. From these are issuing an
nually a stream of young men and
women who, if thoy aro lea skilled in
the subtle refinements of Philosophy,
havo less of its blighting infidelity.
To sum up tho past and tho present;
Tho sun of 1776 roso in gloom. It
now shines upon a great and prosper
ous Republic. Once we wero an in-
tant, now a giant. Then thirteen
dependent Colonies, now thirty-eight,
Sovereign and independent states all
directod by oar Constitution and all
bound together with inseperablo ties;
crowned with tho sheaves of plenty,
blessed witli peace, hands and hearts
united in love and fraternity and linked
in tho bonds of union across a coili-
nent In 177G three millions; 1801,
thirty-three million: and now 1889,
sivty-three million po pie!
But what of our future! Patrick
Henry said, "I know of no way of
judging of tho futuro but by the past."
Tho strength of the giant oak lies
wrapped iii the little acorn. Tho boy
is father to the man. To solvo ono olo
ment of our destined supreraooy wo
have but to look at tbo vastness of our
territory. An ablo writer says; "It
may surpnso some to bo told thnt if
our llepublio were petitioned off it
would form seventeen states as largo
as Spain; or thirty-one each as largo as
Italy; or sixty-four, each as largo as
tMiglnnd or Wales: or that you can
tako a map of six of tho leading pow
ers of Europo France, Germany, Aus
tria, Great Britain and Ireland, and
Italy, attaching as an annex Switzer
land, Portugal, Spain, Greece. Holland
and Denmark, and lay them all down
on the map of tho United States West
of tho city of Now York, and you will
cover littlo more thau one third of tbo
territory. What an Empire!" Or as
Gladstono says "tho greatest continu
ous empire ver established by man.
Now for some facts and figures start
ling but none tho less truo. The threo
crowning elements in our supremacy,
presont and prospective, are in our un-
equaled agricultural, mining, and
manufacturing resources. A bnof
consideration of eaoh will close this
papr. The same writer puts it forcibly
when ho says: "Has it over occurred
to you to ask how tho Empire of China
Hiipports a population of 850,000,0001
we know thoy aro not a oommerotal
or manufacturing poople. Tho con-
clnsioi) is, that they derive their support
maiuiy iron; mo sou. now on What
do they do this! Her area is littlo less
man t,'iuu,uuu square miles. Tho area
covered by mountains is about 300,000
Bquaro.mlles. Taku anothorr 100,000
tor her barron plains, and tho oalcu a
tion shows her arablo laud to bo about
1,000,000 equaro milos. Off this hor
swarming minions support themselves
and the government. ' Wo boast that
in 1880 wo fed a nonulatiou of AO.OilO.
000 and cent to the hungry firesides of
Kuropo, of all kinds of cereals, 383,000
000 bushels. Nothing about it ta
boast of. On what did wo do it. By
our last census the area of land in the
United States, leaving out Alaska, is
about 2,970,000 squaro railoa. Of this
1,500,000 aro arable. On this wo pro
duced that great crop of 1879. But
wo cultivated only about G,$,00Q
square miles, or 105.0Q0.000 aoroa.
This is only one niutu of tho whole.
8, 1889.
Now uso your mathematics. Multiply
tho population and tho exports each by
nlno and you havo tho astounding fig
ures 450,000,000 for tho first, nnd
2,557,000,000. That is, if tho plow
fiharo wero to run over all, wo could
sustain a population of 450,000,000
souls, nnd ship 2,557,000,000 bushels to
starving Europe, lint, hear what tho
statistician, Atkinson says. Instead of
this 50,000,000 which wo now sustain
ono hundred million could bo supported
without increasing the area of a singio
farm, or adding one to their number
by merely bringing onr products. up to
our average standard of reasonably
good agriculture." Multiply again by
two and you have tho sustenance for
900,000,000 people nnd a surplus of
5,114,000,000 bnshols for famished
months abroad. Think, then, of tbo
marvelous possibilities of our soil, my
farmer friends. Take theso facts homo
with you, and ponder them well.
Bnt thero is still greater wealth
under tho soil. Twenty years ago but
ono Nation, England, led us in mining.
In 1880 wo passed her by threo per
cent, and every year only widons tho
gap. To day our raining operations
aro more oxtenslvo than all those of
Ab'io, Africa, Continental Europe, South
America, Mexico, and Canada. Be
tween 1870 and 1880 we produced of
precious metals, $730,000,000. Half
the gold and silver in tho world's
market comes from tho mines of
America. Look at tho univirsality
of our valuable ores and minerals.
Twenty-thrco states of tho Union, it
is said contain iron. Ono of them
enough to meet the world's demands
for hundreds, if not thousands, of
years. Uur coal measures aro witn
out limit, and moro easily mined than
tho deep mines of England. The sta
tistics of 1830, then tho greatest in
crease between 1870 and 1880. Hero
aro about tho figures :
lav. itou.
ron oro.tons.4.000.000. 9.50O.0O0 Increase 10 per ct.
copper " n,too. ai.soo " eo "
Petroleum, gal. a,ooo,ooo. 8CO,ooo,ooo " so fold.
It is said that iu twenty years one
western State mined over 438,000,-
000 of precious minerals. That was
Novada when famous Comstock Lodo
with its twelvo small holes in a moun
tain side, yielded $37,000,000 in ono
year. All the wealth, says a writer,
of tho corn fields of Pennsylvania,
New York, New England, Wisconsin,
Miehigan and Minnesota, in that year
1877, scarcely equaled it. It is claim
ed, by good authoritrity, that tho min
eral out put west of tho Mississippi for
isao was i,ouu,uuu,uuu. a sum equal
to almost one half of the agricultural
yield of tho cntiro United States. This
is not all. Tho area of our wt-stern
coal fields is somothing like 200,000
Bquaro miles, and, with the exception
of Minnesota, coal there is found in
overy western Stato and territory iron
in nil of them. Missouri has it in
every county. Minnesota, Nebraska,
and the Indian .territory alone havo
no lead, but 500 square miles in Miss
ouri are lead producing, in tbo year
1877 yielding over 70000000 lbs. All
havo copper excepting two, Nebraska
nnd Kansas. Salt deposits, too, in the
west are inexhaustible. Also sulphur.
Ono mountain in Idaho contains it
three per ct. pure, whilo Louisaca has
n bed almost as 'big, 112 feet thick.
Sulphate of soda aro found n lakes in
Wyoming about ninety per ct. pure,
and from eight to ten feet in the vein.
How about tiui tornwal, wo havo
been told, must supply the world. No
need to put it on tho "freo list" if tbo
United States geologist for Montana is
correct, who says that tin bearing
rocks aro found thero which can be
quarried from tho surface, veins more
than hfty feet thick surpassing the
famous English mine, and which, he
thinks, will never bo exhausted. Tar
iff "reformers" should look at this fact
n arranging their schedules.
In theso two departments then,
Agriculture and Mining, wo lead tho
world. But thero is another in which
we lead it. That is manufacturing.
From 1870 to 1880 the manufacturers
of Franco inoreascd 225,000,000, of
Germany S430.000.000, of England
igfiao.OOO.OOO, while thoso ot our coun
try increased ovor 1,000,000,000.
Tho eulogy ot that "grand old man
of England is pertinent right hero.
She the U. S.1 will probably become
what wo are now, tbo bead-servant in
too great household of tho world, the
employer of all employed, because her
services will bo the most and ablest.
Wo aro that to-day Mr. Gladstono.
In this department of our industries
tho elements of our superiority lie,
1st in tho superabundance ot oar
raw material, especially coal. Every
year adds to the cost of coal in Eng
land becauso of tho depth of her
mines. Here its production on ao
count of the competition in labor and
in other directions, is annually less ox
potiBlvo. Think ot England having to
uiuna tut, uv.edu. uuwv ujucb, iui uvery
1 r . . . 1. . . l. . . i 1 ,
, . 1, -nnnn onnn
uieui ouuuii vimv mie spina, wnuo uero
wo grow tho cotton and bavo in abund
nnce all the requisite for its manufao
ttiro. See what is beginning to tako
place in a now South, in Alabama,
rennessee, Virginia and IN orth Uaro
lina. Thero cotton, coal and iron have
craved for voire, tho inspiring touch
of homo enterprise and capital in their
development. It was tho plea of
common sense ana pride. Now
.
thoss States aro beginning to bo lit up
with mills, taotories, and forges, whioh
throaten serious competition to tho
iron masters and other manufacturers
of Pittsburg whioh has tho advantago
of natural gas- Why should thoy buy
abroad what thoy can manufacture at
homo for nearly tho samo cost, and
time givo employment to their own
laborers at a remuneration, too, which
puts out ot sight the degradation of
:uo pauper muor 01 1'-uroptiT 1 believo
11 r. . ..
a now era Is breaking upon this sec
tion, and that under tho Atu,erioan,
and not tho Cobden idea, thev will
soon swing into tho line of manufac
turing Statos. I say, God Speod the
davl
Our 2nd element of suproraaoy ia in
our machinery and in tho Biioorior in.
vontivo talent of tho American mecha
nic Hear tho testimony of a few dis
interested witnesses. Of us tho Me.
ouanioai uoriu 01 London saysi "The
Uuitod States has the best maohinory
mm youiB ,u VUB worm. Aim uor-
beit bpenoert "Beyond question in re-
spoot of meohanioal appliances, tho
........ v..a - uuau u, a i, uuuuo.
A'ranoo, too, mrougn an ogonU
sbiiv uero uy per Alinister ftl
uqujmorce, aims, uer testimony to Uo
naiuuwivub wi'u sue says iua,i i no
Bupenonty 01 our maouuiery and tools
THE COLUMBIAN, VOL, XXIII.NOO
COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, VOL. Lll, NO 44
llos in tho lino of dinger to tho indus
tries of Kuropo. Superior tools, su
perior genius, and you have superior
mechanics. Tho valuo 01 our mono
factored products in 1880 exceeded
thoso of our agriculture by $1,812,000.
Steam nnd electricity have locked tho
nations in friendly commerce. Tho
markets of tho world nro open to us.
It is said that wo are almost at tbo
door of competition with Sheffield in
steels, Manchester in low grades of
cotton tcxtilos, Birmingham in electro
plate, and Geneva in watchci. Wo
must havo tho trade of South Ameri
ca. The bullet Bent by tho hand of a
mad assassin only delayed it. Bnt
look nt '.ho heathen world with its
1,000,000,000 population, 200,000,000
of them littlo above tho beast, Thoy
aro all to bo clothed, fed, educated,
nnd lifted up to n higher plain of so
cial existence Civilization must do
this. From the millions of equatorial
Africa comes tho Macedonian cry:
''como o or and help us." Asia longs
to bo Bet freo from the prison houso of
her ignornnco and degradation. It
will como. W hero more cheeruuy,
wl'ero more effectively than from
America? H'';hcr wants to the crea
tive act of civilization. With tho
missionary's bible must go tho plow,
tho harvester tho stoam engine And
they aro. 500 of tho first American
make, wont to ono of these countries
in a singio year. Will not these, and
similiar necessities, follow tho footsteps
of Livingstono and istanleyT Why
hot India take, in ono year, of America
$12,000,000 worth of iron manufac
tures, and of cotton fabrics $100,000,
000 as sho has of England! America
must and toilhorasn these golden
opportunities. To conclude with her
ngrioulture, mining and manufactur
ing in their infancy, yet all three lead
ing the nations, what do yon ask, will
bo her future! Washed by two
ocoans, lapped North by the lakes,
South hy tho gulf, safe from foreign
invasion, in the belt of God's most di
versified gifts to man, holding in gra
nite vaults twenty-fivo times tho con
dreto wealth and power of Europe,
obedient to one organio law, over it
waving an untarnished flag tho flag
of Bunker Hill, tho flag of Lundy's
Lano, tho flag of glorious Gettysburg,
and now the nag of sixty-two million
people, intelligent, virtuous, brave, and
bound in our holy purpose, tho uplift
ing oj man, and wo trust in our invio
lable union tho union of hearts, tho
union of hands, and tho union of
States! What, must be her future!
Free, unequaleil, christianized Ameri
ca! God speed it.
Worth Telling Again-
AN 0I.D STORV WITH A UEI.IOIITFUL
TOUCH OF HUMANITY
IN IT.
Twenty years has passed sinco a
certain Bath sea captain, entering the
port at Now York, telegraphed his
wilo at liath to 10m him at tho metro
polis prepared for a sea voyage. Ac
cordingly a day or two afier tho ar
rival of the message saw tho wifo em
barked upon tho through train from
liatb to iiaston. accompanied by an in
fant child Bcarccly two years old.
This car was shunted on to the end
of tho Portland train at Brunswick,
and, leaving the child asleep, the Cap
tain s wile seized the opportunity to
fill tho baby's bottlo with milk iu tho
depot restaurant. Whilo tho mother
was intent upon her errand tho train
slipped quietly out of tho station, and
when tho. mother emerged from tho
restaurant door it was fast disappear
ing under tho Spring Street bridco.
Hagerly sho explained tbo situation to
the sympathizing group ot railroad
men who gathered around. Baby and
purse, containing all her money and
ticket, were in the tast disappearing
train. A hurried council followed,
and a plan was instantly formed.
Old No. 23, "Tho Brunswick," was
side-tracked, waiting the passage of
tho train just gone. Undo Thomp
son, tho station baggage matter at
that time, ran hastily to this engine
asked her aid to overtake tho flying
train. The genial Charles, ever ready
to aid tho cause ot any female 111 dis
tress, volunteered to catch the robber.
Hastily filling the firebox with wood
trom tho tender while ihompson was
assisting tho woman to mount tho on
giue, with a command to the switch
man to "givo us tho main hue. with
hand upon tho throttle, No. 23 flew
quickly over tho switches and com
menccd her run,
An empty engino chasing a heavy
tram up "Oak Hill grade," which ox
tends four miles straight away from
Brunswick, has an easy task, and bo
fore thev had covered moro than half
of that distance they could seo tho ob
ject ot their pursuit.
To sound his whistle, calling the
attention of tho train men to tho chase,
ami thereby stop tbo tram, was not
part ot tho programme, fearing that
ho might run over them should they
Buuueuiy stop, oo quietly
runuing
along, tho roar of tho train doadeniug
tho pursuit, ho is soon immediately be-
h'1" them. Then his tender for they
arQ running backward rubs against
. r r . . 1
1,10 rear piauorm 01 me train, and
while tho engineer holds her thero
J-nompson assiBts the woman over tho
tender, down upon the platform of
the car containing tho babv. Etill fast
asleep, tho mother clasping tightly tho
Dome 01 milk. Wavtrley Jilaga
An Exchango Bavs if morohauls
think advertisements nro not read by
1110 people, inst let bira advertise
givo something away and see how
soon his stook is exhausted. Adver
tisomeuts aro always read by tho
people, for they aro on tho lookout for
bargains, and when one is offcied they
aro not siow 10 tako advantage 01 it.
It has just been discovered that the
shrowdest New York bootblacks aim
to become tho owners of several oom
pieto uootuiacKing outnts. i liev can
not, of courso, uso all of these them
selves, but thoy loaso them to other
boys, charging usurious rales therefor.
it ho rents his brushes to ono bov an
his box nnd foot-rent to another ho o
nets from each one-quarter of his dailv
I earnings, ji no ren,ia mo wnoio con
pern to erne my, that boy must
give
litra, half of his gains evory day.
Not
Infrequently tho thriftiest, of the
youngsters make as much as $10
per
1 day by this scheme
Frrp' tndl Motion.
TUB CL'NNlHfl CONTRIVANCE OP . A NKW
TOItK ORNlUS TO RUN
I'ORBVEIt.
A city man who had bcon Informed
that thero was n pleco of mechanism
purporting to bo a perpetual motion
in oxistonoo at Jjyons, wayno county,
made n visit to tbo town a day or two
ago to satisfy hts curiosity on tho sub
ject. On his return no saiti: "x can
not say, '1 oame, 1 saw, 1 conquered,
lor to tell you tho troth I was nnnblo
to discover how tho machine docs
what I saw it do, but thero is some
triok about it I am satisfied. Still as
mechanloal curiosity tho conlnvanco
ought to pay in a dime musenm. 1
went down to Lyons nnd after a littlo
searoh found David Jennings, a man
about 40 years old, tho inventor of tho
motor, or whatever you would call it.
I madn known mv wish to see his ma
chine, and after a littlo parloy be con
sonted to givo mo n view of it, pre
facing his consent oy stating tnai, it
wn taken ansrt and would havo to bo
connected beforo it would work. Wo
went to his houso, in tho yard back of
hioli stands a workshop containing
tho motor. Every tioor of tho shop
was locked, and as its owner produced
kov to tho front door ho aavisea mo
that I could go in the back-way with
less trouble than by tho front, as I
would havo to climb a ladder in tho
latter case. Ho opened the back door
from tho inside and I was ushered in
to a room twenty feet Bquaro, fitted tip
like a carpenter shop, with various
tools lving around. Tho apparatus I
camo to seo was attached to a bench
and consisted of a chain about hvo
feet long mado of a peouliarily shaped
links that oould not easily be describ
ed without a drawing. Ono of tho
links w.13 out of plaoo and tho inven
tor proceeded to put it in order.
When that was done the contrivance
was ready for exhibition. Tho chain
ran over threo rollers tbat formed a
vertical triangle, ono side of which
was perpendicular. Tho chain was so
constructed that in running botween
tho rollers that were vertioal tho links
had a movement by which they closed
together bo that in tho spaco of a foot
there would bo one or two more links
than in tho same distanco when tho
links wero extended. There would
consequently be a groater weight in
tho vortical lino iu an equal distance
than in any other place in tho obain.
It was on this dilterenco in weignt
that Mr. Jennings said the power of
tho machine dopunded. One of tho
pulleys over which tho chain ran was
connected with a brake-wheel by
which the mi tion ot tbo chain could
bo stopped by applying tho brake.
After tho chain was connected and tho
brake taken off, tho chain began to
run around tho pulleys as though it
had an inherent motion. The pulleys
over whioh it ran were set on rollers
that reduced tho friction to the mini
mum, but the force of tho maihmo was
only a trifle, as I could stop it with
my lingers. Tho cnain seeraeu to
carry itself around tho triangle con
tinuously; but 1 noticed mat .lonnings
would not lot mo take hold of the
brake, and I half suspooted that it had
omething to do with tho constant
motion of the chain, which, apparently
moved in debance of the laws ot grav
ity. If I had been allowed to closely
cxamtno tho whole ining 1 am sausnea
that I could have discovered the secret
of its action. I admit that it is a well
contrived devico to catch tho eye apd
deceive tho unskillful into tho belief
that it is perpetual motion. Jennings
told mo that ho had spent $50,000 on
tho invention, and had been working
at it for twenty-ono years. The mo
chino ho has in Lyons is the 102d ono
o has built, and ho is not sausnea
with it.
"If von ask Jennings for an expia
tion of tho working of tho contrivanoe,
his answers are not clear. Ho talks
about tho 'surplus power' in tho
double chain' and the 'mechanical con
struction of tho links' in a way that
makes me think he is not informed on
tho laws of mechanics or is trying to
deceive the visitor by tho ue of jar
gon that sounds learned but me ins
htng. ' Jiochestor lJost-J!J.epre$s.
The four daughters of the Chief
Justice of tho United States in society
are the most artistically gowned belles
of tho season. At Mrs. Jleyelaod s
drawing room Miss Grace, a petite and
blonde strongly resembling her father,
wore an art gown of old pink bro
cade heavily braided with gold thread.
it consisted of a straight, lull Mexi
can skirt, laid in plaits, and short Mex
ican jacket with vest nnd foil sleeves
in white crepo du chine. Miss Maud,
who is very retiring, prefers sombre
hues and plainer styles by way of con
trast. Miss Alary lias all her toilettes
after tho styles of the Empress Joseph
ine. Sho has a nnmber of theso in
different shades and all very elegant
iu cut and material. This young Tady
bears a striking resemblance to the
beautiful and affectionato Empress.
She has jet black hair, cut short,
which clusters about her head in most
classic and beautiful curls. Tho
youngest of tho society quartette of
tho Chief Justices family, Mildred, has
a particular fondness lor tho Direotoiro
gowns, which are very becoming.
The Chiof Justico h vory proud of his
daughters and society is full of admir
ation lor tbem, Thoir first season in
tho social whirl of Washington has
been a pleasant triumph.
The Troubled Bamoan Islands.
The Samonii, or Navigator Islands,
aro a' group in tho raciho Ocean be
tween latitudo 13 degrees 13 seconds
and 14 degrees 30 seconds south aud
longitude 108 degrees and 173 de
grees west, comprising nine inhabited
isiuuus, wuu Boverni iiueis. Aoeioiai
area is 1,125 square miles, and the
population is 36.800. Tho soil is rich
and the surface densly wooded. Tho
products oorapriso ooooauut oil,arrow
root, cotton, castor beans, ginger, coffee,
tortoiso shell and vegetables. The in
habitants aro superior in bodily ami
raonlal endowments to those of many
other parts of Polynesia, They aro
Christians and mostly Presbyterians.
Tho country, by treaty, is under tho
protection of the United States. Tho
ports aro Apia, tho capital, and Pango
Pnngo. Troy Press.
Happy and Hungry.
For over five years I was a constant
suffer with that most terrible nnd an
nouymous disease, dispepsia. After
paying out hundreds of dollars, tbo
only medlcino I found that would do
mo any good wai Sulphur Bittors.
Six bottles cured me, Now I can eat
well and am happy nnd hungry.
Kinion. Feb. 1.2t.
A married man in Pennsylvania can
uo longer borrow money trom his wtf
witli impunity it is staled, as tho Su
preme Court has deoided that tho
marriod persons' property act of 1887
gives tho wito the right to take hor
husband's property in execution and
without his content.