State Foreiti
thev am gradually disapp f.arino
under the blows of the woods-
. MAN'S AXE.
The state forestry commission re
cently appointed by the governor has
a wide and important work before it,
the magnitude of which is doubtless
fully appreciated by the gentlemen
directed to consider the best way out
of a serious situation, and if they dis
cover some plan during the process of
inquiry and investigation that will
serve to restore wasted tcnitory they
will solve a problem that has long had
the earnest force of public pressure
back of it, a pressure in the form of
public necessity.
It has been some years since arbor
days were established as an avenue
through which to repair the great loss
es annually suffered by the work of
denudation carried on by the lumber
interests, and the Pennsylvania State
Forestry association has been an in
valuable auxiliary as an agent bent
upon acquainting the public of the
psrmaneut loss sustained in the gencr
al destruction of the once unrivaled
forests that covered the northern and
western central counties ; but the re
sults from these two sources have been
feeble at best, and the state concludes
at last by legislation to arrive at the
core of the trouble through a forestry
commission. This is a wise course to
pursue. As a beginning it must event
ually provide a sure foundation for
future legislative action, and, the light
turned on, the present condition of
the timber sections means truth in
all its forceful nakedness.
The Forestry commission will find
a remarkable condition, for instance
in Shuylkill, Luzerne, Lackawanna
and Carbon counties, from whose
mountain sides the standing timber
long since disappeared to be used in
the mines as supports. Nothing has
been done to restore by growth the
supply so taken, largely from the fact
that the native wood were exhausted
and no recreation was possible.
In other sections like those found
in Clearfield, Clinton, Jefferson, Elk,
Lycoming, Cameron and contiguous
counties, where the axe and lumber
man found virgin timber kingdoms
fifty years ago, the despoliation has
been of such a character as to cause
much alarm even among the residents
of the territory covered. For the first
time this year the city of Lock Haven,
once a thriving centre of the lumber
interests, finds itself with a scant sup
ply of logs for its mills, and in fact the
great boom is practically closed.
Williarasport has been the recognized
head and front of the Susquehanna
lumber trade, the mills there sending
annually to market hundreds of mill
ions of feet of finished and unfinished
lumber, but the supply has been dwind
ling down until there is no longer
scarcely a respectable showing.
Investigation will introduce facts to
the commission showing that Pennsyl
vania's once inexhaustible supply of
timber has really such a thing as a
limit, and that the time has come to
save the pine and hemlock wherever
the course of salvation can be judi
ciously pursued. Only as far back as
the year 1874, when John DuBois
penetrated the wilderness from Drift
wood alo ig Bennett's Branch Lick, he
found fifty miles of close growth in
pine and hemlock as straight as an ar
row. To-day there is hardly a stick
left worth cutting, and his claim that
the timber stretch was inexhaustible
comes as a warning cry to care for
that which remains.
If the commission can stop the pot
hunter from firing up the woods, and
kindred to him the very many who
cultivate the huckleberry and black
berry by burning over extensive areas
yearly in order to have furious crops
at the expense of the young timber
shoots, they will eliminate the cause
of much of the waste and destruction
in state forests. If in addition to this
the commission can induce the various
corporations, companies and owners
of timber tracks to set out again young
trees in the place of those taken away,
Mime day the virgin forests will return,
but never again in the primitive purity
the settlers found them a half century
ago.1
$100 Bewasd, $100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh,
being a constitutional disease, requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the di
sease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure. Send for list of Testi
monials. Address,
F. J. Chenby & Co., Toledo, O.
ISold by Druggists, 75c. int.
The new central station for electric
lighting will be opened in Japan this
summer. The power in each case will
be furnished by Pelton water wheels.
All the equipment will be constructed
in Japan.
The Pennsjlratia Railroad it the World!
Tair.
A GLIMPSE AT ITS INTkRESTlNO TREAS
fRKS. Of more real interest to the average
visitor to the World' Fair than all the
confusing array of locomotives, cars,
ships, wagons, bicycles, and veloci
pedes in the great Transportation
Building is the compact yet compre
hensive exhibit which the Pennsylva.
nia Railroad Company makes in its
own beautiful little model railway
station. What with signal tower, over
head foot bridge, automatic switches,
tracks, ballast, and ditches just out
side its doors, and the original "John
Bull" locomotive, the oldest in Amer
ica, with its train of antique cars, and
the colossal iron vehicles upon which
the hugh Krupp guns were conveyed
from Baltimore to the Exposition
standing in the shadow of its walls, it
presents to the passer-by an appear
ance so distinctly characteristic that a
caret ul inspection of the treasureis of
the interior is almost inevitable.
Once inside, you enter immediately
into a study of transportation history
in the United States on the kinder
garten or object lesson basis, and by
means of models, ranging from the
old Conestoga wagon, through a series
of curiously fashioned cars, up to the
standard locomotives and passenger
coaches of to-day, you secure a most
effective idea of railroad progress.
Nor do the models here shown have to
do with vehicles only. In the cases
which line the walls of the cool, white
interior are also to be seen models of
track of all periods, various systems of
signals in use at different times, and
even tickets and time tables, not for
getting conductors' punches and lan
ters. In the way of models, the post of
honor is given to a magnificent repro
duction of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company's new double deck ferry
boat "Washington," which plies be
tween New York and Jersey City, a
model complete in every detail, even
to the electric lighting and the rub
ber mats at the doors. Maps, in re
lief, of a most interesting and instruc
tive character are numerous, not the
least important being one four feet
wide by twelve feet long, showing at
once the old Portage, the new Portage,
and the present road of the company
over the Alleghenies, all arranged to a
scale, and giving a better notion of
that wonderful feat of engineering, the
i-Iorse shoe Curve, than cau even be
had by a trip over it.
To furnish a comprehensive idea of
the magnitude of the Pennsylvania
Railroad system no better method
could have been adopted than that
which is here presented in the shape
of a perspective map, thirty-three feel
long, showing the position of each
train in motion on the system at 6 P.
M. on Columbia Day, October 21st,
1892. the passenger trains being indi
cated by tiny gilt locomotives, and the
freight trains by similar locomotives
colored blue. In addition to all this
there is case after case of photographs,
posters, letters, bills, and other docu
ments, all more or less interesting, and
a number of wax figures, clothed in
the uniforms of the Pennsylvania's
working staff of employes, from bag
gage porters to conductors.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla cures liver com
plaint, rheumatism, and all diseases of
the blood.
Half Rates to the World's Fair by the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
In order to afford an opportunity to
the public to visit the World's Fair,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has decided to run a series of popular
excursions from Washington and Balti
more and other eastern cities to Chi
cago. The round trip from Washing
ton and Baltimore will be $17.00, and
proportionate rates, a single fare for
the round trip, will prevail from other
stations.
.This arrangement applies to all prin
cipal stations on the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad, the Northern Cen
tral Railway between Baltimore and
Elmira, Philadelphia and Erie Rail
road between Williamsport and Re
novo. and principal stations on the
mam line and branches between Har
risburg and Pittsburg.
The parties will be carried on spec
ial trains composed of the newest and
best standard passenger coaches, con
taining all modern conveniences.
The special trains will leave Wash
ington 10.15, Baltimore 11.20 A. M.,
York 1. 15 P.M., Harrisburg 3.25 P.
M., Altoona 7.40 P. M., and, stopping
at principal intermediate stations, ar
rive in Chicago 5 20 the next after
noon. The first excursion is fixed for July
26th, others are fixed for August 2d,
1 2th and 23d., The return coupons
of these tickets will be good within
ten days, and will be accepted for
passage only on trains leaving Chicago
at 3.15 P. M. and 11.30 P. M.
Identifying Him.
Gummy Poor Paddock has lost
three thousand dollars betting on the
races.
Gargoyle Paddock ? I don't think
I know him, do I ?
Gummey Perhaps not, but he's the
man who picks out the probable win
ners for the daily Blogun. Judge.
Sensationalism and Cowardice. I
The two chief tvils which afflict our
business interest are sensationalism
and cowardice. Eliminate the sensa
tional features from bank aul business
failures and give the precise truth, and
eliminate the cowardice tlut makes
tens of thousands each a panic in him
self, and there would be a speedy re
action in substantial values.
Some of the newspapers yesterday
announced under the most conspicu
ous and panic-inspiring headlines, that
half a dozen banks had closed in Kan
sas and that several had suspended in
Colorado. Of course, there can be
no stability in financial operations in
either Kansas or Colorado and no
safety to any banking institution, but
they bear no relation whatever to the
great business interests of the country.
Kansas has a wildly agrarian Gover
nor, Legislature and State officers.
Contracts payable in gold are illegal
and communistic revolution is in the
air inspired by a crazed Populist ad
ministration. Who can aid a Kansas
bank or send money to that State un
der any circumstances short of imper
ious necessity ? The same logic cuts
Colorado off from financial support. It
was her revolutionary si ver conven
tion and the blatant demagoguery of
her Governor that made the Colorado
banks suspend.
Several important banking houses
and banks have been forced to sus
pension by the present stringency, but
in the case of every legitimate bank
ing institution, it was not insolvency
but the inability to realize fur cash
that forced the closing of doors to pro
tect assets and creditors. The other
bank failures, as a rule, were only the
inevitable collapse of institutions with
out capital or integrity. Yet these
failures, which do not affect legitimate
banks or legitimate business or legiti
mate values in any way, are heralded
in the most sensational manner by
many public journals, and every possi
ble aid thus given to gamblers whose
profession is to cheat honest investors
by the depression of values.
Sensationalism would be harmless
beyond the contempt it invites upon
its authors, but for the cowardice that
shrivels up common sense with many
who have money. The best of divi
dend paying stocks are now purchasa
ble at the lowest rates for years ; but
the cowardice that is cherished by
thousands makes them hoard their
money. They draw it out of banks
and lock it up in boxes. They know
that the banks are safe, but others are
afflicted with cowardice and lock up
their money, and they do it without
reasoning on the subject. By and by,
when the securities they could
buy to-day at the lowest prices shall
have advanced twenty, thirty or forty
per cent., they will rush in and make
investments ; and when the banks and
the business public will have no need
for their surplus money, they will un
lock their boxes and deposit it again
Cowardice is the root of all our
financial troubles to day. There is no
reason for distrust and least of all for
panic. The shipment of gold has
ceased ; our exports of breadstuffs has
been the largest within the last six
weeks of any like period in the past ;
there is abundance of money in the
country for all legtimate wants ; the
people of all business channels, out
side of the petty silver States, are
more solidly solvent than at any time
in the last decade, and cowardice
alone halts the return to honest values
and general prosperity. Let sensa
tionalism and cowardice be sent to the
rear; let us trust our country, our
government and ourselves, and pros
perity will be speedily restored.
Times.
Are Tou Nervous.
Are you all tired out, do you have that
tired feeling or sick headache ? You
can be relieved of all these symptoms
by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which
gives nerve, mental and bodily strength
and thoroughly purifies the blood. It
also creates a good appetite, cures in
digestion, heartburn and dyspepsia.
Hood's Pills are easy to take, easy
in action and sure in effect. 25 cents
a box.
The first aluminum sea going vessel
is under construction in the dock
yards of the" Loire, France. It is a cutter
and its total weight is 2,500 tons. If
constructed of the ordinary materials
it would weigh 4,500 tons.
The Parisian Tramway Company,
which some months ago placed elec
tric street cars, operated by storage
batteries, on one of its lines, is so well
pleased with the result that all its
horse cars on this line have been with
drawn. I have been troubled with chronic
catarrh for years. Ely's Cream Balm
is the only remedy among the many
that I have used that affords me re
lief. E. H. Willare, Druggist, Joliet,
111.
I have been troubled with catarrh
for ten years and have tried a number
of remedies, but found no relief until
I purchased a bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm. I consider it the most reliable
preparation for catarrh and cold in
the head. Geo. E. Crandall, P. M.,
Quonochawntaug, R. I.
Sixty per cent, of the earthquakes
occur during the winter months.
$20, $iz and
-2
:: $8.50
.V.v York clotliin maker was hard up for cash.
We Lought all his Men's Suits (made to sell
for $20, $15 and $12) at a price that enables tis
to olicr them at $8.50 per Suit.
We are selling: Boys' $5.00 Knee Pant
Suits for $2.50. Hundreds to pick from. This
was another clean-out
BROWNING, KING & CO.
910-912 Chestnut Street
WARREN A. RECD. Opposite Fort Of tie, Philadelphia
A Chinese Courtship.
HOW JOHN CHINAMAN PAVES THE WAV
TO MATRIMONY.
In his own flowery kingdom the
heathen Chinese who desires to be
come a benedict docs not dream of
approaching his desired bride until he
has heard what her father has to say.
The interview with papa on these oc
casions is largely occupied by a pro
longed haggle over the amount the
suitor is to give until the bargain is
adjusted to mutual satisfaction.
Then the suitor, highly perfumed
with asafetida, which is the smart
scent among the Chinese, as it was
among the Carthaginians calls on the
bride's mother, and is introduced to
the bride, whom it must be under
stood he has not yet seen. The visit
consists largely of bowing, scraping,
flourishing the hands, cringing in every
posture, every kind of ceremonial and
very little conversion.
The lover does not speak one word
to his intended, and seldom glances
toward her. Usually singing and
dancing girls come in and furnish
diversion. He remains in her presence
for two hours or longer, during the
whole of which time he does not get
a moment alone with his intended, or
even a fair look at her face for it is
not etiquette for him to scrutinize her
too closely. When he has gone he
sends a present. It is a good omen
if he sends a gift of eggshells painted
every kind of color.
All his visits are conducted on the
same plan. He does not get a direct
and lull view of her face until they
have "gone away," that is, until she
has been brought in her palanquin to
his house. There is some compensa
tion in the fact that if he does not
like her appearance he can send her
back home. But this would cause
such a scandal and be such an insult
to the family that, as a rule, the ques
tion of looks is thoroughly inquired in
to by go-between of the fair sex be
fore any serious formal step is taken
in the matter. Chicago 2'imee.
A lady, whose hair came out with
every combing was induced to give
Ayer's Hair Vigor a faithful trial. She
did so, and not only was the loss of
hair checked, but a new and vigorous
growth soon succeeded that which had
gone.
The number of rods in the retina,
supposed to be the ultimate of light,
is estimated at 30,000,000.
Deserving Praise.
We desire to say to our citizens,
that for years we have been selling
Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, Dr. King's New Life Pills,
Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric
Bitters, and have never handled re
medies that sell as well, or that have
given such universal satisfaction. We
do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time, and we stand ready to re
fund the purchase price, if satisfactory
results do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popular
ity purely on their merits. C. A.
Kletm Druggist.
The average strength of a horse is
seven and a half times greater than
that of a man.
T JF7"!-. n WhT l Strictly Pur
W IT V V White Lead the best
paint t Because it
v?;!l outjast all other paints, give a
handsomer finish, better protection to
the v.Tci, and the first cost will be less.
If Barytcs and other adulterants of
nrhit e lend zrs "just as good" aa
Strictly Pure White Lead, why are all
the r.Culteratcd white leads always
branded Pure, or
" Strictly Pure
White Lead ?
This Bcrytc3 is e heavy white powder
(tjr.-und atone), having the appearance
ci white had, vorthless as a paint,
costing only about a cent a pound, and
J? oily used to cheapen the mixture.
V.'hat shocirty in to cloth, Barytes is
to aaint. Bo careful to use only an old
and itaadard braaj of whits lead the
John T. Lewis & Bros.
io strictly pure, "Old Dutch" process,
and established by a lifetime of use.
For colors use National Lead Co.'s
Pure White Lead Tinting Colors with
Strictly Pure White Lead.
For eslo by the moat reliable dealers la
palnU everywhere.
If you are going to paint, it will pay you
to send to ua Tor a book containing Informa
tion that may eave you many a dollar it will
sqly coat you poatul card to do ao.
JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS. CO.,
Philadelphia,
$!2 Suits
Fine PHOTO
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McKillip Bros.,
Bloomsburg.
The best are
the cheapest.
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and carpenter work promptly
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hn Builder's Supplies.
Inside Hardwood finishes a
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Persons of limited means w! o
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01 WORLD'S HIR BEVERAGE.
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The proper drink for both table, and t1renlilw
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ange, pear, cherry, apple.'banuna and pineapple
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PAViE LEAVES BANGKOK
Eastern Division of the French
Fleet Sails for Siam.
CHINA EXPRESSES HER INDIGNATION
The Brport That Franre Had Notified the
Powers That She Intended to Bloekadu
the Mamas Csaet Prematare I.atln
Union Eiolndes tha S 1-fl Franc ftllrar
Pleca from Circulation Other New.
Hakokok, July 20. M. Pavte, French
Minister liesiilent, started down the river
yesterday on the warship Inconstant, ac
companied by the warships Latin and
Comrte. All In quiet in this city. . 041
Saiooj, July 28. Tha division of tha
Far East of the French fltet, which is com
manded by Admiral Humann, has sailed
for the Gulf of Slam. The merohant Tea
sels lying off Bangkok probably will receive
Uuie before the blockade to leave the
Menum river and put out to sea.
I'ARis, July 26. At the Cabinet council
held at Marley-le-Hol, which PresldentCar
not presided over, the deliberation s wer
entirely devoted to the Siamese question.
After the counoll rose a semi-offloiiil
statement of the proceedings was issued.
This statement waa that, in conformity
with the unaiilmoua vote of the Senate
and the Chamber of Deputies, the govern
ment had taken such measures to safe
guard the Interests and dignity of Franca
as were considered from hmm's reply to
the French ultimatum to have been ren
dered necessary.
The reports yesterday that tho French
Government bod notiiied the various
powers of its intention to blocknde the
coast of Slum were premature. No such
notification has been officially addressed to
the powers.
Lord Dufferln, the British Ambassador,
and M. Develle, Minister of Foreign Af
fairs, will hold auother conference per
sumably, on the question of the territorial
demands made by France upon Siam.
Tien-Thin, July 23. The Chinese gov
ernment has received the news of France's
territorial demands upod Siam with
amazement and Indignation. That France
should lay claim to country up to the 2;Jd
parallel is regarded as an intrusion upon
the rights of China, for at Peklu the con
tention is that both banks of the Mekong, to
a point well south of the 23d parallel are
Chinese possessions.
The Mandarin party, which is bitterly
anti-French, is trying to force the govern
ment to interfere.
Washington, July 25. So far as the
State Department is Informed there are
no American citizens residing in Siam
except about a score of missionaries. It is .
not believed to be necessary to take any
special measures for their protection.
The United States has uo diplomatic
representative in Siam and the consul
general tit Bangkok; Mr. Boyd, is in thia
country at present, leaving the office in
charge of his son, the vice consul.
If the welfare of our missionaries should
be threatened, which is unlikely, they con
without doubt secure protection upon ap
plication to the minister of some other
nation, as will be the case with the French
residents.
The commercial interests of the United
States in Siam are insignificant, the ex
port being very few and the imports being
made up of teak wood used in ship build
ing and some trifles of oriental and Jlay
layneslan decorative work.
Fatal Dynamite Explosion Near Havre.
Paris, July 26. Four explosions shat
ter the Ablon dynamite factory in Hon
fleur, near Havre, late yesterday afternoon.
All hands were at work when the explos
ion occurred. Nine men are known to have
been killed, twenty men were wounded
severely and others were hurt seriously.
Several bodies are believed to be under the
burning ruins.
To Exclude the 1 1-S Fra.no SUverpleoe.
Paris, July 26. France, Italy, Switzer
land, Belgium and Greece have agreed to
exclude the 2 1-2 franc sllverpiece from
the international circulation of the Latin
Union.
DESTITUTION IN DENTEB.
Fifteen Thousand Teople In Need of Aid.
Scarcity of Relief Fundi.
DxitviR, July 26. Up to date 8,700
men have registered as out of employment
and the list is steadily Increasing. Means
are being taken to furnish employment and
provide food for the hungry and destitute.
Dean Feck and Rev. Tho. Uizell, who
have been foremost in this work, announce
that on account of the scarcity ot the re
lief funds they cannot continue to feed the
hungry longer than to-morrow.
Meetings are held nightly to provide)
means for aid In which Denver's most
prominent people take part. It is estimated
that 13,000 persons, men, women and
children are in need of immediate aid.
Food is being distributed at the various
missions to-day.
It is developed that the destitution is
growing.
Blgned the Scale.
Antoir, O., July 20. At a conference)
between officers of the Akron Iron com
pany and representatives of the Amalga
mated Association held here, that company
signed the scale of wages submitted by the
association. It is the one agreed to by
Jones & Laughlin of the American Iron tic
bteel company.
Convicts as Itoad Boiler.
Saranac Lake, N. Y., July 24. State
Engineer Schenck says the plan of work
ing convicts on the roads is a eood one.
and that admirable work has been done
during the puMt week. The experiment is
unuer ine state engineer's direction.
Actor Curtla' Trial to Heglo July 31.
San Francisco, July 21. The case of
M. B. Curtis, charged with killing Police
Officer Grant, called for trial in the Super
ior court yesterday, was by mutual consent
continued until July 81. This will be
Curtis' third trial.
Mo Hank Failure at Vernon, Tex.
Washington, July 24. The statemei
made public yesterday that the First Nt
Uonal Bank of Vernon, Tex., had failed
proves to be erroneous. The First National
Bank of Russell, Kan., baa failed.
Dr. BrlsTC Declines the Offer.
San Diioo, Cal., July 21. Rev. Char! is
A. Briggs, who waa deposed by the Presby
terian General Assembly, has declined at)
offer of a testimonial ot $50,000 which
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