n.1 l nn jititUJt.i-w3Pmcirr3 A PLANET LIKE OURS. "God helping me," cried Colnnibua, "thongh fair or feral the breeze, I will sail and sail till I find the land beyond the western aeaal" So an eagle might leave its eyrie, bent, though the blue should bar. To fold its wings on the loftiest peak of an undiscovered start And into the vast and void abyss he followed the setting sunt Nor gulfs nor gales could fright his satis tin the wondrous quest was done. But Oh, the weary vigils, the murmuring, torturing days, Till the Pinta's gun, and the shout of "Land!" set the black night ablaeel Till the shore lay fair as Paradise in morning's balm and gold, And a world was won from the conquered deep, and the tale of the ages toldt Uplift the starry Bonner! The best age is begun! We are the heirs of the mariners whose voyage that morn wee done. Measureless lands Columbus gave and rivers through cones that roll, But his rarwtt, noblest bounty was a New World for the Sonll For ho sailed from the Past with it stifling walls, to the Future's open eky. And the ghosts of gloom and fear were laid as the breath of heaven went by; And the pedant's pride and the lordling's scorn were lost, in that vital air, As fovr are lost when sun and wind sweep ocean blue and bare; And Freedom and larger Knowledge dawned clear, the sky to span. The birthright, not of priest or king, but of every child of man I Uplift the New World's Banner to greet the exultant sunt Let its rosy gleams still follow his beams as swift to west they run, Till the wide air rings with shont and hymn to welcome it shining high. And our eagle from lone Eatahdin to Shasta's snow can fly In the light of its stars as fold on fold is flung to the antumn skji Uplift it, Youths and Maidens, with songs and loving cheers; Through triumphs, raptures, it has waved, through agonies and tears. Columbia looks from sea to sea and thrills with joy to know Tier myriad sons, as one, would leap to shield it from a foel Aud you who soon will bo tho State, ami shape each great decree. Oh, vow to lire and die for it, if glorious death must bet The brave of all tho centuries gone this starry Flag have wrought; In dungeons dim, on gory fields, its light and peace were bought; And yo:i who front the fill nro whose days our dreams fulfill On Liberty's immort:il height, oh, plant it firmer still! For it floats for broadest learning; for the soul's supreme relensef For law disdaining license; for righteousness and peace; For valor born of justice, and its amplest scope and plan Makes a queen of every woman, a king of every man! Wliilo forever, like Columbus, o'er Truth's unfuthomed main It pilots to tho hidden isles, a grander realm to gain. Ah! what a mighty trust is ours, the nobleat ever sung, To keep this dinner spotless its kindred stars among Our fleets may throng the oceans onr forts the headlands crown Our mines their treasures lavish for mint and mart and town Rich fields and flocks and lmy looms bring plenty, far and wide And statelier tcuiplcs deck the land than Rome's or Athens' pride And science dare the mysteries of earth and wave and sky Till none with us in nplendor and strength and skill ean vie; Yet, should we reckon Liberty and Manhood less than these, And slight the right of the humblest between our circling seas Should we be false to our sacred past, our fathers' God forgetting. This Banner would lose its luster, our sun be nigh his setting) But the dawn wfll sooner torget tne east, tne naes tneir cod ana nov Than yon forget our radiant Flag and its matchless gifts forego! ; Nayt you will keep it high-advanced with ever brightening sway The Banner whosa light betokens the Lord's diviner day Leading the nations gloriously in Freedom's holy way! No cloud on the field of azure no stain on the rosy bars God bless you, Youths and Maidens, as you guard the Stripes and Stars! EDNA DEAN PROCTOR. COLUMBUS DAY. P Practical Suggestion! on tho I'ropor Ob erranco of tho Anniversary. CTOBER 21 will be a gala day from one end to the other of tho United States-, and it is but prop er that it should be so, for is it not Columbus Day, and will it not commemorate the discovery of a world which in the comparatively 6hort time of four centuries has emerged from the blackness of the forest and the ignor ance of the savage into the blazing sun of prosperity and the noontido of intelli gence? Now that the official programme for the uniform popular celebration of Co lumbus Day has been published, the question of the participation by this community in the national exercises be comes a live issue. It goes without saying that the people of this locality will not be backward in evidencing their patriotism by an appro priate celebration of the memorable day, and a few suggestions as to the best method of executing this com mendable design may not be amiss at this time. In the first place, it should be borne in mind that it is intended that the school children should be the principal partici pants in the exercises. The pupil are to be at their places in school at 0 o'clock as usual. It is desirable that business be entirely suspended so that tho relatives of the pupils may also be present. Printed programmes should be provided when possible, and the ex ercises will of course be subject to the limitations of the scholars, but every thing which may be done should tend to the ccatMl ideas of Columbus' achievement and the remarkable prog ress of the country uuiW the impetus of education. Appropriate patriotiu deco ratiuns are nttoetuary, and allegorical tableaux will add u4y to ti effeut iveness and enjoyment of Umi Mcevdoefl. Music is also desirKble. Iu the afternoon comes the citizens' celobration, but, oa in the morning ex ercises, the school children should take the most prominent part. Of course in the country Uistriot thi will not bo tho caso. and the afternoon should be de voted to games for the young people and social gatherings for their elders, though every house should bo decorated with the national colors. Iu the towns the afternoon should be devoted to some sort of formal celobration, in which all of the civio und military organizations should bo invited to participate. have reached the' reviewing stand and saluted the flag will add much to the "life and color" of tho scene. A mass meeting of the citizens should follow during the day, when tho best orators of the locality, and the most elo quent of the declaimers among the children say one from each school might deliver addresses appropriate to the occasion. The topics of these speeches will readily suggest them selves, but it must be borne in mind that anything relating to Columbus will be more interesting than anything else on such an occasion. The flag salute, the ode and the patriotic songs should be executed by the children without a hitch, and for this reason a great deal of preliminary work will have to be done by them. Upon the school teachers will devolve the greatest portion of this labor. Each teacher should at once, if it has not al ready been done, present the matter of the celebration of Columbus Day to his pupils, and it should be laid before the young people in such a manner that each will be anxious to contribute as much as possible to the success of the fifrfilr. EnthuainjiTn itt whn.t ia WAntnl ! and needed, for without it failure must , result. Let each teacher select commit tees on reception, on decorations, on ex ercises, on printing, on newspapers, on arrangements and on finance. The principal must be actually if not nom inally tho directing spirit of each com mittee. At the morning exercises at the schools the veterans should have charge of the flag and should also act as guards of honor to the schools on the march to the reviewing stand. The peculiar approprt nteness of the veterans being the special patrons of the school celebration is nr pareut. Money and the active co-opera tion of the citizens at large are absolute' ly necessary to the success of the cele bration, and these should and probably will be promptly forthcoming. Only the general outlines of exercises suggested in tho official programme are here given. These may be enlarged or contracted to conform to the wishes und possibilities of the oelebrauta. Tho Wife of Colutalma. What about Mrs. Columbns? She ought to figure somehow in the celobra tkm, although there is no picture of her extant. HU was a Miss Palestrello, of Lisbon, aud became tho wife of Colum bus in 1470. Her father was a navigator, and from old Palestrello s charts Colum bus got his first ideas about a western passage to the Indies. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. In All Kwcn'lnl lVlntt Mnrt U Btartllnffly Uko th l:rth. The first fight of Mars through on cbsjrvatory telescope is almost terrify ing, even for a poison of good nerves. It i as if on a saw the whole earth, with it icy jo!c., ns a solid globo, floating overhead. Ouo distiuguishos clearly the dark blue seas and the brilliant beaming, many lined dry land and on thi the dry beds of a multitude of Uktw, bays, gulfs, streams and canals, these latter either parallel to ench other or crossing one another at right angles. As you continue to look you note tho variations of color and light shade and furtliAr that the outlines on ouo edge of tho dine pass out of right, while on tho other tho landscape expands ; you seo that Mar rovolves on its axis and the enils of the axis are the frozon poles, as x ith ns. Thur is a further resemblance iu tho ii'dimitionof the axis, which pro vides that ou this planet also the son ro:m follow each other in regular suc cession. The ice crust at the poles dii.iini 4ues in summer, affording demon rtrntion not only that Murs is influenced by the sun's rays precisely as we are, but also that the air and water are iden tical with ours. In fact, the meteorol ogy of Mars is now being reduced to a sri miJrt. Judfring th two plnnets by superfi cial rluraotcristies, however, ono must admit a condition implying a higher da-free-of devohvMneut in Mars. Tho OD.itiuciits of the earth, seen from a dis tance, present a very toi-n appearance, and occupy scarcely third of its snr f we, wliilu Mars is girdled on both sides of the equator by one continuous main land, intersected by a network of canals and rivers, tho land occupying approxi mately thruo-fourths of the wholo area of the planet and the water only one fourth, as u coiisbquonco of which it may be tlmt its atmosphere is less clonded and vapor than onr. Peculiarly chnracto.-istic is the arrangement in which tho geological nature of Mars has kid out the stridulus (canals ?). All our streams, without exceptions, are tortuous, and all increase iu width as they near tho occau. On Mars, ou the contrary, the streams flow in straight liuos and are of uniform width from sourco to mouth. These streams, from 70 to 100 kilometres up nit, have their banks so well defined as to suggest tho idea that they are subject to intelligent regulation. It is hardly possible to conceive that two parallel canals, inter sected at right angles by a third, as in Orphir land can be tho work of ele mentary .forces of nature. The ques tion suggests itself again by the two canals which flow from ocean to ocean through the Island Hellas, crossing each other at right angles in the center. Not less questionable is the origin of the groat blue Lnko of the Sun in the center of Keppler land, with its throe retilinear canals connecting it with the ocean. JLver and ever the question occurs : Is it possible that the crust of a planet wnose demuty is only seven-tenths less than that of the earth can be so yielding that the streams at their origin encoun ter no impediment to their direct coursoj? Or have they really been regulated by the inhabitants of Mars an engineering leat presenting, perhaps, lew serious dif ficulties f But what most excites our astonish ment in connection with these canals is that almost every one of them is double, i. a., it has its parallol canal along side ui it, out visiuio at intervals only. This has thoroughly perplexed all in vestigators. The earth has nothing an alogous to aid us to a solution. On thia account the return of Mars is looked to with considerable interest The im provement in optical instruments within the past decade may probably help to solve the riddle, or what is perhaps still more probable, may present more rid dles for solution. Wostermann's Mo-nut's-hofte. TNihjr foe. About throe miles from town I over took a woman carrying a heavy bundle iu her arms, bhe was barefooted, wore a man's straw hat, and it was easy enough to identify her as a moun taineer s wife. I brought my horse to a walk and offered to take the bundle on the saddle before me. It's Baby Sue," she remarked as she passed it up. "Ah, a baby I Well, I'll be careful of her. How old is she ?" "Going on two years." ' " She is pretty heavy for such a long walk." "I've done walked over ten miles with her already; but I felt I had to do it. Jim, he's waitiug for her." 'And who is Jim ?" " My man, sir. They's done got him in jail for moonshiuing, and the Lord only knows when he will be free. I jest kuowed he'd 'bout die if ho couldn't l.uvo one last look at Sue." The child was wrapped up in a faded old shaw l and had a veil over her face. She lay like a log in my arms, and I supposed she was fast asleep. I bad iiai-iod her a mile or more before I i-airied the veil to get a peep at her face. One ghmce told me that she was dead. ' Why, woniun, your baby is dead 1" I crhid, as I made the discovery. Yes, bir ; dono died last night," the wom.is re died. "And you " "I've got to take her to the jail and Jot. Jim son hu. Poro ole Jim I He done lured Baby Sue like his own life, tie'd mi rr forgivo me if ha didn't see ii.r afora ttlio was buried." She wiped tho tears away as sho w.V.ked beside the horse, lookisg up iiuw arid then at the bundle in my arms, n I vu itidn't iipeak again until the jail a .-.m j-.-avhed. Then tho took the little J. -Ai iody from my arms, tenderly ki se I the cold face, and said : L.ird Mesa ye for your kiudnoss, i'-i-jiug-.'r '. Jim's ia ht-re, and when he ..iiiy s-uio, I I reckon ha won't imm '.io lium u l'.tit they do to him. Pore .v.io ! iVrc old Jim I" FHILLIPS'. 1 The shade of a parasol is a very acceptable thing in the summer months, but the reputa,:on of Philips cafe aud Bakery cannot be thrown m the shade at any time the year round- Bread and cakes fresh every day. We are sole agents for Tenneifs fine candies : Ice Cream always: Ca tering for parties t and iced dings a specialty. Special terms to regular boarders in the Cafe. M.M. PHILLIPS & SON. BLOOMSnURG, PA. AND SHORTHAND INSTITUTE noiV-'.pe"lntr. ''' ninifn ! il Law. 'frnoirrnphv. T) iM'-wrtilui:. I7mimnhli, Arithmetic, slid all hrinu'lii'g liMUIliK tout lir ontrli business ffluctt tint), A i. v""'!' Hiiluilo. . prepar ing I's pint Is for success In iilne. 'J'c-ms ni'iilcmre. Nn cliurir- (or situations. Write for catalogue. N. A. Miller, I'rt-s't Kliul m, N. Y. Jiflf Boils, BW- j3 Hea3s, j FACT. '. .in.:. : r.. u t .s Ullin. n.. 13 UU., It'll .ii.otm. TH B .srH.iiiily rnmitf b? ttuit rrtmiirfcMbl tirepur- i;..u.Er.UUIJXrjlHr3S7I3 BLOCS IXilOB: I'.ir tho Brolly curd ( NrrofuJs, Worfr.itiij, Morourial 1hmuh, roiti.in, Eryiipolws vital dxuaT. nd every il.diraitinTi of i: twr i.nifHl blood, St. Ll2l:r'i $:ii Curctar I Ui K ruuiuUy tlm' rua alwiyx Im rvlitsj apoa. lraircist t wll it. THE SELLERS MEDICINE CO. . . .f it-rrnuiiH , SR. BAMUKM 'S ELEGTRIG BELT UTEST f ATtlTS HIT IMPIOVEMMTS. WITH IlIITII NAIIITII SVmRSQIY. VI tl r without Btrlltip HI WitbM rtMltlng from evurtkiMl of feral, mtrf fore, xiaag r IftdlserttUa, j tvxusU vihkustlon, drftiot, loaa, !- ttbltltr, tltp di, IftBf ur, rbcuoMllii. klluf, llr m4 ltddar mb iftiHtt, Uni bck, lumbago, trUtloa, itstraj 111-bMlik, He. Thia rlaalrU bait WBUlna Wa4trfnl lsasraaiata at ar all Ultra. a.od gWea a urrBl that la laatMtly fait by tha wrr rwa forfeit ft. 000.00, i will aara u sr th abv dUa 1 or bt. Tbouaaads baa baa anra4 by thia tvarvaloua tiiraollno aftar all otliar raotadtaa falUd. 4 (1t baav drt-laof last tmati lata la tMa a4 artrv at bar atata. nur powarfal linprsvad K I. KIT KIT HI K"KrOstT 11 tba traataat baaa aTar art trad waak aii: mKI WIT HALL BbLTH. lUalla aad Vlvaroaa Straalh UL'AHtSTRKB liMu M lU t H, Band for Urg UluaUatad aajablaia, aaiad, fraa aw MfT f No. 310 Broadway. NtW VOKK. During Odt. 11 to 15. Fcr H M ml Ctaytw KEMP'S GALLERY. 0 We will make one Doz. of our best Cabinets, one 14x17 beautiful Crayon Portrait, all for $3.00. Our $1 00 per Doz. Cabinets can't be beat. All Size TINTYPES. Our Gallery is located on Main St., over Schuyler's Hardware Store next St. Elmo Hotel Bloomsbnrg, Pa. Remember our Branch Photo Wagon and 'lent on Fair Ground. Prices same as Home Gallery. Jn'Xi's theology has eight hells. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Kta to of liiekM Colt, decerned. Notice is hereby given that letters testament ary 011 the estate of Kzeklel cole, deceased, have been p-nnted to II. II. (irotz, to whom all persons Indi bled to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims or de mauds w 111 make known the same without de lay. 11. ll.O HOT, Kxccutor. ty esa 1. ym .n-rf ir ..- ! ('.! I.SvTsHII.K TUBULAR f 'i tAtl. Kuurfiirul wtii-tHHll u. iit-tl!uu .n. 1. fruur..na. dUiawi f. Illw in, Sea lrd, urt. Has received a fine lot of SILVBRWAHB, CUT GLASS, eind DECORATED CHIUAJ ee tle iplhy ill $ Window Special attention given to the repairing of Watches and Clocks. EYES TESTEI JtOlEE OF CHARGE WHEN GLASSES AEE PURCHASED. & IB. 10BMNS DEALER IN Foreign and Domestic WINES AND LIQUORS. Bloomshurq. Pa. "Vcll rcd, Soon Wed," Girls Who Vse arc u5cltly Married. Try it in Your Nest XXonsc-dcaning. ALEXANDER RROTIIERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. iFiE.asris"' Goods .a. Specialty. SOLE AGENTS FOR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco 8 Jle agents for the following brands of Clgan: Henry Clay, Lonclres, Nonr.s.1, kdiaa Princess, Samson, Silver Ash Bloomsburg Pa.' DULL WITH" YOU T j! IStAn -Antidote toRvDullness. di.ln. Thiu"i:-.. ot ou.-t.- , lityinu V.ulel I'uiat, JLiumlluu, l'a., bceoa.i Ri-tiuuay o: TRY IT WITH CUSTOMERS. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF CARPET, MATTING, or OI. I, CJLOTII, ' YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. H. BMOWEM'S Poor aliov Court IIoiibh. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. LOST StflARHOOD! Cri-.-tr' 1'rcnch raetly.ta GrantfA cure BiiUcrvouid'iicaf. r.i'.rh a. Yf.l vSr if 3"ri,'n i ov"r Nf HBPOnt AND ATTBd CIS. nclie, X,'':r(i ni, Lort MmihtJ, Lci:in:i!e, a'.l (!raip a.-d loti of pewrr i.i either n x, c.icsc! by f ver.rxert':iMi 01 youikruljnJiicreiirn, ) ii 'i i.'irraitlv leij to In. limity, CoruirU'T. ai I:-f..u.it-f. iVcs, lt.o i packtuc. Win ever i (rvcr ws tivt n wrtin gmrsn'ot tj cu.-t ur ru'jui r.1 Vy ratil u u.vJ0;-m. KJZiSi I.Z:ZVf C.Tsloit. it. yz 1 w A FEW CHOICE Til n I'M r ii 1 nfi 1 n r 1 11 n vi ri u jli 1'. I For Sale Cheap Thfvo birds p.re jmre )rtJ will ecorc from eighty to ninety jioints. W. B. GERMAN, Millville, l'a.
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