THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. The Etato Frintcr's Tuililing. No more glaring and barefaced rob bery of the S'.atc lunils exists tnan the State printei'i charges' for the priming of the Legislative Jleenrd. We do not refer to the basis of the charge, but the system on which the mechani cal work is done. No publisher of a book, a magazine or a newspaper would dare resort to such extravagance in the matter of unnecessary and wasteful type- j setting. I he State printer s one idea is to stretch out the copy and make it fill just as many columns as possible at so much a column. This method is not onlv wasteful of the public funds, but it decreases from the value of the Jiecord as a work of reference by spin ning out in tiresome paragraphs pages of matter which ought to be tabulated. Look for example at the last batch of badly folded Records that have come to hand, two weeks behind the proceedings, on page 66. There are nearly two pages of com mittees, which are set in single col urns. Had they been set in double columns they would have occupied just half the space. Of course double column composition costs rather more than single, but it would be money in the State treasury to set them double column. There is no need of setting them in columns anyhow. Paragraphs are plain enough. Page 68.' Here are over ten pages of notaries public. Of this space fully one third is taken up with spelling out 1894, so as to make it occupy a whole line and more, as follows : One thousand, eight hundred and ninety four. Let it be remembered that in the Legislative Jiecord all dates are thus drawn out and the State treasury rob bed accordingly. Had this list of no taries gone into a newspaper, complete in every detail, it would not have re quired more than two thirds the type setting. liut the grand robbery of all is the publishing of the last election returns. No less than seventeen pages were de voted to the election for State officers, which is thirty four times the space occupied by the same in any one of the valuable almanacs issued by some of the Pennsylvania newspapers. Not only does it occupy thirty four times too much space, but its long drawn out paragraphs make it most incon venient for reference. Just imagine the folly of giving the detailed return from every one of the sixty seven coun ties in paragraphs, and making them even more obscure by spelling out every figure so as to occupy from six to ten times the space that the much plainer figures themselves would oc cupy. As if this were not enough to out rage all the economies, the very same 17 pages, which in the first place ap pear in connection with the joint ses sion of Senate and House is given again, beginning on page 100 in con nection with another joint session to open, count and publish. There is no necessity for subjecting the State to this expense for type-setting again since the returns are precisely the same as those previously published by by the State printer, beginning on page 79. There is no reason why the business of the State should not be done on ordinary business principles. The fact that the public treasury is by a great many well meaning, and in other re spects honest citizens, considered a legitimate object for private plunder is deplorable to the last degree. And our law makers ought to enforce hon esty whenever they can possibly do so. A far as the Legislative Jiecord is concerned, its printing ought to be done after such rules as could be agreed upon by a commute of honest, intelligent practical printers. Such as could be found among our law makers themselves. It is time the reform were inaugurated. The criticism in this article has no personal reference to the present State printer, (who happens to be a Demo crat,) for he is only following the ex ample of his predecessors of all par ties. When it comes to plundering the public funds both pirties are equally proficient. The Legislative Jiecord could be printed so as to save the State a good deal of money, so as to appear within reasonable time, and so as to make it a compact and valuable work of reference, instead of as now, an ex travagant,' tardy cumbersome and in convenient publication, almost worth less to everybody except as a source of party plunder for whoever happens to get that soti snap, ship. Ex. the State printer- An Elbe Survivor at Home County Commissioner John Vevera. of Clove land, Creotod by His Family. Cleveland, February 11. County Commissioner lohn Vevera. one of the few survivors of the Elbe disaster, arrived home to-day. He was met at the railway station by an immense crowd of friends. Mr. Vevera brought tidings of the drowning of F. W. Holechek, of this city, who was also passenger on the Elbe. This makes seven Cleveland people who lost their lives in the' disaster. The meeting be tween Vevera and his family was most painetic. America is the greatest country on earth," said Mr. Vevera, " and I don't want to leave it attain. I would not take another trip across the Atlantic for all the money in the world." . Hot to be Gangut Again. The President at last appears to have exacted from the bond buyers the condition that the gold fur the payment of the bonds shall not come from the Treasury, either directly or indirectly, through any subterfuge. This assures us that he has his eyes opened to the trick performed on the government by the New York buyers of the November loan. That was 4 mean a piece of business as could have been invented, and the President probably felt justified in calling in the foreign banltcrs and leaving out the other crowd. Kpringfleld Jirpub lican. $100 Reward, $100. The reader 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 known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direct ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, 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 testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. fsTSold by Druggists, 75c. im. Lippincott'8 Magazine For March, 1895. The complete novel in the March issue of JAppincott's is " A Tame Surrender," by Captain Charles King. Departing from this author's usual field, the purely military, it deals with the Chicago strike, the riots and their suppression, and the loves of a United States lieutenant and a high-minded young lady who works a typewriter. It is her " tame surrender," after long resistance, which gives the tule its title. The other stories, all very short, are " Fulfilment," by Elizabeth Knowlton Carter, " The Luck of the Atkinses," by Margaret B. Yeates, and " One of the Wanted," by B. B. Two brief scientific articles are supplied by George J. Varney, " Electric Locomotives on Steam Roads," and " The Story of the Gravels," by Harvey B. Bashore. " A Glimpse of Cuba," by James Knapp Reeve, is a vivid and readable sketch. Isabel F. Hancood writes of " Furs in Russia," and W. D. Mc Crackan on " A Question of Cos tume." Prof. William Cranston Lawton dis cusses " the Artist s Compensations, Prof. H. II. Boyeson furnishes " A Youthful Reminiscence," and C. W. Lucas, as " Doolittle," writes " An Open Letter" to Mrs. Grundy. 1 he poetry of the number is by Prof, friaries G. D. Roberts and Richard Burton. " There is Danger in Delay." Since 1861 I have been a great sufferer from catarrh. I tried Ely's Cream Balm and to all appearance am cured, 1 erribie neaaacnes trom which I had long suffered are gone. W. J. Hitchcock, Late Major U. S. Vol. and A. A. Gen , Buffalo, N. Y. Ely's Cream Balm has completely cured me of catarrh when everything else failed. Many acquaintances have used it with excellent results. Alfred W. Stevens, Caldwell, Ohio. Price of Cream Balm u fifty cents. Over 200 bills for State aid have been referred to the appropriation committee, and they are not all in. The total amount asked for reaches 30,000,000. This sum will be largely increased before the close ot tne ses sion. 1 ne total revenues ior me uci two years will be about $19,000,000. As the general appropriation bill carries 16,000,000, and the mainte nance and care of the indigent insane will cost $r,ooo.ooo more, it will be seen that about $12,000,000 will have to be squeezed into $2,000,000, says the Harrisburg Telegraph. The Silver Lining. Such a winter as this is a destroyer of microbes and miasm, a promoter of good health and abundant crops. Lsastwise that is the philosophic view those who already have a sufficient supply of both can well afford to take of it.-Louisville limes. Thelibsolutely farewell news from the blizzard brings the astonishing information that the Delaware peach crop is a failure. iVo York World. Heart Disease Relieved in 30 Minutes. Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart gives perfect relief in all cases of Or ganic or Sympathetic Heart Disease in 30 minutes, and speedily effects a cure. It is a peerless remedy for Pal pitation, Shortness of Breath, Smoth ering Spells, Pain in Left Side and all symptoms of a Diseased Heart. One dose convinces. Sold by W. S. Rish ton. 6 s-iy- Children Cri'for Pitcher's Castorla. METHODS OF PKIMAKY BEADING. X. Tho Peabody Method. LY WILt.tAM NOKTL1NO. This, method published in 1878 by Elizabeth Peabody and her sister, Mrs. Horace Mann, begins with the so called long vowel sounds. As her reason for beginning with the lonjr, or Roman vowel sounds, Miss Peabody gives the following : "If we pronounce the' vowel characters as their Latin inventors did, and the Con tinental nations now generally do namely: a, as in art, whe'her short or long ; e, as in ebb, when short, and when long, as in fete ; i, as in ink, when short, and when long, as in marine ; o, as in no ; and u, as in the final of J'eru (no yu); also the letters c and g, hard it will be found a fact, that the largest number of the syllables heard in English are phono graphic, and a very large number of whole words besides. "It was suggested to me by Dr. Kraitsir, that 1 should take a volume of any book, and count the times that each of the vowels, and c and g, were sounded as the Romans sounded them, and how many times they were sound ed otherwise, and thus see whether it was (as he said) that these Roman sounds were the most frequent, even in the English language. I did so on the third chapter of VVaverly, from the beginning to the words, primary ob jects of study' and counted' the num ber of tinvjs that the ambiguous let ters occur, and found that the letter a occurs 244 times, and has the Italian sound in every instance but 38 times ; e occuirs 340 times, and . has the Italian sound in every instance but 1 8; m occurs 58 times, and only 20 limes as in tne kntrlish alphabet, lliec occurs 81 times, and has the hard sound except in 27 instances. The g occurs si times, and has the hard sound in every instance but 12. The y occurs 35 times, and has the Italian sound in every instance but a. Indeed I found g was hard, even before e and , in the case of every Saxon word ; and that all the soft g's, which aie not many, were derived from the Norman-French. In further explanation, Miss Pea body says : "I then set myself to find what words in Lnglish there were, written entirely with the Roman sounding letters'; and to my surprise, found enough to fill a primary spell ing-book, while most of the syllables of the rest of the words in the language yielded, on analysis, the same sounds. It immediately occurred to me to be gin to teach children to read by these words, whose analysis would always yield them the Roman sounds ; and reserve, till afterwards, the other words (which are exceptions to be learned by rote, as now all words are). " In order to fix the phonographic law perfectly, we first give some ele mental syllables of two and three let ters, which the children can probably read off at sight, not spelling them ; and afterwards, some columns of words, which can doubtless be read at sight very soon. But, as it is bad to read words without, at the same time, recognizing their meaning, it is better to make object lessons of each word, thus : Pronounce the word, and then ask the children to make some sen tences with the word in it (which is altogether the best way of teaching the definitions of words). : The following are some of the ele mental syllables given the chi dren after they have learned the sounds of all the letters Roman sounds, mi, me, ma, mo, mu, my. P". bi, fi. ki, Rl. Pe, be, fe, ke, pa, po, pu, py ba, bo, bu, by fa, ka, fo, ko, fu, -fy ku, ky 6 "I kli, kle, kla, klo, klu, cli, cle, cla, clo, clu, kly cly Next came words of one syllable, the terminal sound being the same in all of those grouped together. Ex amples : it, bit, fit, hit, kit, lit, nit, mit ; dip, lip, nip, pip, rip ; ill, bill, fill, hill, kill, mill ; din, fin, pin, tin, win ; twig, swig, trig t hiss, kiss, miss ; tick, wick, stick: list, mist, wist : kink. link, mink ; &c Then follow words that end in ing, imp, ell, et, ed, en, ar, art, ark, aft, ant, est, ass, ast, owe, old, ness, less, ect, ug, ut, nug, ump, un, uck, ull, out, ound, eat, ame, age, ief, ield, ace, ale, aid, ail, ain, ood, ock, ool, 00m, oon i &c. By examining the foregoing words and syllables', it will readily be observ ed that children who . have learned the Roman vowel sounds and the hard sounds of 0 and g, can almost without help pronounce any of them and, consequently, words in which they occur. In speaking of the advantages of their mode of classifying words and syllables, the authors say, that more than one thousand English words end in al ; more than two hundred each in el, en, ant ; nearly four hundred each in ent, ly; more than thirteen hundred in ness; more than two hun dred add less; and numerous words end in ing. The authors claim for their method that it teaches children to read Eng lish, according to the phonographic classification of words, and is the best for their minds ; because it gives scientific method and appreciation of law as their practical experience." In favor of this method it can safe ly be said that it does not blunt the NO SECRET 1!J THIS "WOMAN'S CASE. Mrs. Campbell TYIslirs Her Letter Pnb llshod so that the Truth May lo Known. Curi'-iAt to era lit lf Anrm Of the thousands of loiters received from women all over the world by Mrs. l'ltikliam. not one is (liven to tho public unless, by the wish of the writer. Tims ab solute confidence It '4v csiauiifiico ue '.Wv twecn Mrs. ' fiWrrTX I'lnkhara ICivMA. and her army of patlsnts; and sho freely so licit a let ter from any wo man, rich or poor. who l.i In 111 health or ailing. In tho case of Mary E. Campbell, of Albion, Nobis Co., Ind., her suffering was 10 severe, her relief so suddenly real ized, and her frratitm'e so great, that she wishes the circumstances published, In the hope that others may be benefited thereby. She says: " My physician told me I had dropsy and falling of the womb. My stomach and bowels were so bloated 1 could not get a full breath. My face and hands were bloated badly. 1 had that dreadful bearing-down pain, backache, palpitation of the heart, and nervousness. "One of my physicians told me I had something growing in my stcmach; and the medicine that I took gave me relief only for a short time. I thought I must die. 1 began to take Lydla K. l'inkham's Vegetable Compound, and It worked like a ehantt. After taking the first bottle I could walk across the street, now I am well. I advise all my friends to take it." Mary K.Campbei r. AIM"- ' children's intelligence , by requiring them to memorize ready-made rules, but, instead, to cultivate their powers of observation, by making their own discoveries. The best method is the one that best exercises all the powers of the mind, and thus helps all instruc tion in whatever branches. 1 Silent Oannoa Galls There is a gun in the British Navy, a twenty-two ton Armstrong, which hurls a solid shot a distance of twelve miles, the highest point in the arc described by the shot being 17,000 feet above the earth's sutface. The discharge of the gun cannot be heard at the place where the ball strikes, but it rends the air somewhat at the starting point. At present four Legislatures are considering bills against the big theatre hat. Here's another argument for less frequent legislative sessions. Boston Jerald. The Japanese are marching on while the peace envoys, under the distinguished American diplomat, are returning home. All is serene at Tokio and all is imbecility at Pekin. Washington News. What can you expect of the finan cial question ?" asks James S. Clark son, " with a gold President, a silver Senate and a greenback House ?" The question is well put. Spring field Jiepublican. It seems a little facetious to say there is nothing wrong with the ice crop this season. We only remark it for the benefit of those who generally cry for cooling draughts in summer. Now is the time to secure the cooling ingredient of the summer draught. The farm of Senator Warren, of Wyoming, is as large as the State of Rhode Island, and there are on it 2,000 horses, 15,000 cattle and 130,000 sheep. Millionaire " Honesty, my son, is always the best policy." His Son " Well, maybe it is, father, but still you've done pretty well." Jioston J'ost. When Nature puts fetters upon com merce they are called hardships. When human fatuity imposes them they are called protective blessings. J'hila. Jiecord. CHARTER NOTICE. Notice Is h-el)V given that nn application will be nmrtn to the (lovornnr of the Slate ol I'ennsvlvanlfl. Monilnv, tli air.li dar of Febru ary, A P., HH5, bv W. It. Cununlpgs, Oeorue W. Verdv, Anna L. Churchill, Henry c. Churchill, Hobe'rt Klllot t and Charles W. Frnntz, under Act of Assembly f the Commnnwetlth of Pennsylvania... entitled, "An Act to pro vide for the Incorporation and regulation of certntn corporations approved April 8Wt.li, A. D., 1H74," and the several supplements there to, for the Charter of an Intended corporation to be called the Cummlngs Verdy company, tho character and obeot. of which Is "the manu facturing of cheuflng gum andotherconfectlonB and niarketlngthe products." And for t liese pur poses to have, possess and enjov, all the rights, benefits and privileges of the suld Act of Assem bly and Its suupleineuts. C. O. BARK LEY, C. W. JttlLI.KU, Solicitors. 8-1-U ADMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE. Satatt of Lucy J. Broekway, late of Bloomsburo, dwawJ. Notice Is hereby given that letters of admin istration 011 tho estate of Lucy J. Ilrookway, iateof Uloimisburg, deceased, have been grant ed to the undersigned administratrix to whom all persons Indebted to suld estate are request ed to make paym' nts, and Mioso having claims or demands will make Ituowu the same without l-'slKt0 ALICE BUOJKWAY KA8IINRH, Administratrix. GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE COLUMBIAN OFFICE ram - mm PROFESSIONAL CARDS.K- N. U. FUNK, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Mr Ent'l Building, Court House Alley, BLOOMSBURG, PA. A. L. FRITZ, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Post Office Building, 2nd floor, BLOOMSBURG, PA. C. W. MILLER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Wirt's Building, and floor, BLOOMSBURG, PA. John o. raaszi. Jont o. barman FREEZE & HARM AN, ATTOHNEYS AND COCNSELLOHS AT LAW, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Offices: Centre St., first door below Opera House GEO. E. 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Ether and Gas ad ministered or electric vibrator and Local Anaesthetics used for the painless extraction of teeth free of charge when artificial teeth are inserted' Lockard's Building, and floor, Corner Main and Centre. Dr. W. H. HOUSE, SURGEON DENTIST, Office, Barton's Building, Wain below Market BLOOMSBURG, Pa. All styles of work done in a superior manaet and all work warranted as represented. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, by the use of Gas, and free of charge muiinai leetn are inserted. fsTTo be open all hours during the day. DR. C. S. VAN HORN, DENTIST. Office corner of East and Main streets, otx posite Town Hall. Offlce hours 8:30 to 12 a. m ; 8 to 5 p. m. BLOOMSBURG, PA. . . ; ) C. WATSON McKELVY, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT, , (Successor to B. P. Hartman tea In tue world, among which are: vmpmmm CABB TOTAL . BUBPLVfl Franklin of Phlla.. VwE&iSi! N. America, Phlla. 8,000,000 9,730,tl8 S,at,rn Office in i. w. McKelyt's Stobi. WLosses promptly adjusted and paid. M. P. 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