THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. THE DEAL) BABE. Tmt nlirkt. R T dear Kibe, lay dead, In i.x.'iiv 1 knelt ml said : ii ii vl : h i! Iiuvi! 1 ilcmc, IT ill what Wt'l I .fliTKl .-ll I IleO, Thiit Tliou slum U si take awny from mo My lit lie son T ' t'pon tho tlnnnnil ii'clrM lives i:, mi the git Hint V miillriK thrives, Thy v. nun mete bettor spent I liy Mimiilii'st thou lake my llule ionT v i rhi.u.d'fit lli 'uveut liiy wrath upon Tula liiiioc-nl?" Ijit nlifht, as tny dear babe lay (lead, i. fin.- mine eves the vision sprend 1)1 Hum,, thai mi;i I Imve bcon : l,i.fiiikil Hot, truei strife, l-ur.o.iKii c, a waetod Hie Hum ml wllli siu t i hn, wiih toft niin'o in the air. I saw uiiot. ei visum ibere: A Miepherd I" whose Ksop A l..t.e iamb 111) llttl" child in worlilly wImioiii uiidetlled, Luy last asleep 1 Lust night, as my dear babe lay dead, la ih'e two im-utau -s I read A wImIoiu ti.ant : A d. iieimh my nriiii ie chlldloss uow, 1 am content-to i.liu 1 bow ho kuoweth best. Chicago Ktoorc. Till': rosT MISTRESS. Working hours were over In the r.rwit White canyon. Mary Verner ljuiled down the little window of the iKist office of which she was the mls- Ui8, ewept the contents oi me nar row counter Into a drawer which she locked; then pinning a broad leaved lint above the brown curls that cluster ed about her brow she passed out ot her log cabin Into the fresh, sweet, evening air. As she reached the low fence which ran before her house a hurried foot :.tep sounded through the gathering ijoom, and a man's voice said: "Is that you, Mary, my girl? You look llule more than a ghost under the shadow of those bushes." The girl young and slender and graceful as a fawn ran out Into the lcnelv road. ."You've kept your promise, dearest, ;ind come to see me," she cried as -ho threw herself into the arms of her lover. Reuben Halse kissed the red lips so frankly offered him before he spoke. "Yes, Mary, I've kept my promise, but I've come to say 'Good-by.' " " 'Good-by good-by?' You're going away? You're going to leave me your sweetheart your wife that Is to be?" She clasped her arms closely, about him and trembled like a leaf. "My dear little girl, don't cry don't grieve. You've been my sweetheart, faithful a"nd true, but we can never marry." The strong man's voice broke and died Into silence. "Go on. Tell me the worst," Bob bed the girl in his arms. "Listen, dear. You know that late ly things have gone wrong with me. The bit of money I've saved for our wedding in the fall was stolen, and then the cabin I'd built for you down by the Blue Pools was burnt. Still there was the farm stock and your little purse of savings left, but the drought has killed the stock, and oh, Mary, how can I tell you?" Mary drew apart from her lover and steadied her trembling form against the garden fence. "Some one has robbed you of the money I gave you. Oh my poor boy!" She stretched forth her pitying hands toward tho man before her, who only bowed his head and shuffled his feet in the thick white dust. "Tell me, Reuben; tell me how It happened. Ah, surely you are not thinking I shall blame you for such a misfortune!" and once more she crept to his side. IJut Reuben thrust her from him. " 'Twas no misfortune. 'Twas a crime. Y'our little savings, those few coins you've starved and scraped to keep, lie there." He pointed with his lean, brown hand down the canyon to where, amid a dense mass of foliage, a few lights twinkled. Mary staggered. "Down there? At Ffolliott's?" "Aye, lass at Ffolliott's! I lost it nil at faro last night." For a moment no sound but the evening breeze whispering among th'e creepers and bushes and the harsh note of a night bird broke the silence. Then a woman's voice, tender and low and full of tears, murmured, "Rube, dear Rube, I forgive you." Reuben Halse flung his arms above his head and gave a bitter cry. "Don t, Mary, don t! I'd rather you would strike me." The stars twinkled their diamond eyes on the man and the girl as they said farewell, for Reuben had settled to leave the canyon last night. "Bill Rodfern, One Eyed Sammy and Joe the Portuguese are going too. Wo're all broke and may as well starve out there," and he waved his band toward the wide forest land ot Ari zona, "as In this canyon here. Don't sob so, my girl. You'll break my heart. I'm not worth a tear from your pretty eyes or a choke in your white throat. But, Mary, you might pray for me sometimes, and when you're married to a good chap as don't go to Efolllott's and neglect his farm for the tables and the bar think of me, who loved you, but was not worthy to have you." One kiss on her brow, then a clat ter of galloping hoofs, and Mary Ver ner was free to go back Into her log cabin and sob out her heart till the dawn. Reuben Halse and his companions had been gone from the Great White canyon for a week. Mary's cheeks, never very full of color, had grown pale and heavy, and blue lines be neath her large eyes told of sleepless nlKhts and many tears. Yet Paul Harding, Beauty Paul, as 1. 3 was called in the canyon, thought lie had never seen Mary look so love ly as he clattered up to the door of the K2t office one morning and asked the vijimg postmistress if there was any- l'.lng for him. H,) watched, with his handsome dark i es, her small, white fingers go t'n-ough the letters lying on the coun hv before her. Out she finally shook her head, -vr.tiiine for you to-day." v'oi Paul seemed loath to go. He nod lila lone, tawny mustache, Jlng 'l his spurred boots upon the floor ' mntinued to stare through the manhole window at the girl as she ,;;tiou about iier usual business. "Anything I can do for you?" she asked lilm presently. "No," Paul said slowly, taking ip every detail or tne gin s ngure, ciau n a cotton frock of genuine Dine. "Hut might I speak to you one minute privately?" "You can say what you've got to say where you are." Ho stared silently, first at his boots :ind as his eyes wandered up they lit in the snowy shelves of bright and simple utensils nnd shining saucepans A-hlch lined the walls. "How differently you keep your place from what a man's shanty is!" Hut she staid his compliments. "You live down by the Blue Pools, don't you?" "Yes, next to Reuben Halse till his place was burnt out and came to my shanty. I saw Rube three days back." "You saw Rube?" Mary clasped her hands above her heart. "Yes. He nnd his chums passed through Long Tom's ranch. I've been out there this two months past help' ing him brand and count the cattle. Rube told me that you and he had parted and the reason why. He ask ed me to look after you a bit. You poo, we've been good pals, and I'd like to do him a turn now he's gone under, i You will let me look after you now i ihd again, won't you, for Rube's i sake?" The handsome cowboy, straight as x dart, tall and strong as a giant, clad n the picturesque rough clothes of lis calling, bent like a reed before the lny blue clad figure of the post office alstress, who laid a slender white land In his great palm and lifted her , violet eyes to his dark ones. "Surely, Paul Harding, for Rube's ake, you may look after me when I an't look after myself." i With that soft glance burning Into lis brain and those gentle words puli ng in his ears Beauty Paul swung limself into his peaked saddle and icnt his horse full speed down the hill :o Ffnlltott's saloon. It was for Rube's sake that the fol 'owlng Sunday Paul dressed himself n his best, brought a little two-wheel-id cart gay with bells and bright col rs to Mary's door and asked her to irlve out with him. The day was fair, and Beauty Paul amused her with stories of Rube, and vhen they came to an end he told her f his own home In the heart of a ;reen county in England. He made ter laugh with his tales of college life ind shudder with his descriptions of .he campaign in Egypt which he had ;one through. Only he did not tell her iow he, an English gentleman and allant officer, came to be loafing and lrlnklng and gambling away his days ind his health in Great White can on. Paul Harding degraded as he .vas and lacking in his reverence for vomen at least had too much respect for the little postmistress to tell her that black page in his life. The day was an entire success, but it left a bitter after taste in Mary's mouth when she heard the next morn ing that Paul had spent the night at Ffolliott's drinking and brawling till dawn. ' The next Sunday Mary shut herself within her log cabin, and neither the blue sky nor the gay cart and smart ly capriclsoned hose nor Beauty Paul himself could wheedle her out She would not be seen, she said sternly, ; with one of Flolliott's lot. She, how over, relented, and forgave him on his promise to amend for her sake. I As weeks and months went by and 1 the green of the canyon changed to I red and gold Paul found that if he was to "look after" Mary he had to give up the saloon. And indeed for a space Ffolliott's knew him not till one October morn ing his allowance the money which bought his family freedom from bis disgraceful presence arrived from England. For the next week Ffol liott's was a pandemonium, with the Beauty as a presiding demon. Mary heard of it, and refused to speak to or look at him. Then it was that he flung himself before her one day and prayed her to save him from that from which he was powerless to save himself from drink and dice and bad companions. And she did what other good women have done before her and will do again. She placed her hand in his, and with her heart full of Rubo Halse she promised to marry Paul for his soul's sake. All through that long, bitter winter she held to her promise. At Christ i mas he broke from her control, and she did not speak to him for days, but she ended by forgiving. When he was with Mary, he vowed to reform, not to set foot in Ffolliott's again, never to taste another drop of whis key nor look again at a card. But once beyond the sound of her low voice, the touch of her small hand, and his resolutions melted like the winter snows. The eve of their mariage day arriv ed and with it Paul's allowance from England. The occasion and the op portunity suggested a carouse, and Paul Informed the "boys" he would be standing treat at Ffolliott's that night for the last time. The bar was soon crowded, for the Beauty was Just the song singing, yarn telling, whiskey drinking scamp who would be popular among the wild crew, especially as he ttood treat so long as the bartender would stand him. Paul was full of llcuor. He had drunk Mary's health with every man a the place, and he was also full of luck for once in a way. A pile of gold lay before him on the table, and ho was Just proposing another round in Mary's honor when big Bill Kea fern strode in and was greeted with shout ot "Hello, Bill! You back? What luck, pard?" "Luck, my lads? I leave luck to fools and deadbeats. I've boon work ing, and thank God I've worked for something. I've put my sweat and muscle Into the ground, and I ve struck ore. None ot your dust or pockets, but a vein as broad as an ox's back and as long as a river, and so I've come back with Rube ' Paul looked up with a start. His nn oath, ns ho struck the table and made the money Jingle. i "Had bad luck, eh?" said Bill. "Sorry for you." 1 "Keep your sorrow to yourself and your partner, Reuben Halse." "Come, come," said Hill good hu moredry, "hnve a drink. I'm stand ing treat, and, ns to Rube, here's his health and Mary's." "I'm standing treat!" shouted Paul, springing up. "Have a drink wltli me!" And with this he flung his liquor In Bill's face and made a rush at him. A pistol flashed, a pale blue puff ot smoke died in the hot ntr, and Beauty) Paul lay stone dead on Ffolllott'a floor. Some of them went up to the post office to break the news to Mary, There was a lleht in the window, and ... It .V... T..h. .ho .IfMn. I II J IV 111 v J Dn TV liUUU OUU V7 divwusj talking. Quietly and with bowed heads they Teft the cottage and re turned to Ffolliott's without fulfilling their mission. Next day a rough and read Jury, having considered all the circumstan ces of the case and with due appreci ation of Bill Redfern's prowess as si dead shot, decided that Paul had courted on purpose a certain death, and they returned a verdict of "sui cide wile of unsound mind." Chicago Times. Blood Diseases Biich rtfl Scrofula nnd Anrrrmn, Skin Eruptions and Polo or Sallow Complexions, aro ppccuuy cured by Scott's Emulsion iSWBIII 1 11 tTI P Hi Hi IHr the Cream of CoJ-livcr Oil. No other rem edy bo quickly nnd effectively enriches and purifies tho blood and gives nourishment to tho whole eystem. It is pleasant to take and easy on tho stomach. Thin, Emaciated Persona all Buffering from Wasting Diseases Stored to health by Scott's Emulsion. Bo Buro you get tho bottlo with our trademark on it. Refuso cheap substitutes! reset Siii J for pamphlet on Stat ft Emuhion. FREE. Soott A. Bowne, N. Y. All druggists. BO cents and SI. I - SIS V ALEXANDER BROTHERS- & CO. DEALERS IN t'p to Date Suggestions. If one-twentieth part of the ingen ious proposals and suggestions sub mitted to the Examining Committee in connection with the proposed uni versal exhibition in Paris in 1900 are carried out the show will be a fearful and wonderful affair, Bays the Paris edition of the New York Herald. Here are a few of them: A railway from the Place de la Con corde to the first platform of the Eiffel Tower. A triumphal arch 600 feet high at the bottom of the Champs Elyseee. Exhibition ot French clergy from the date of Clovls I. to the present day. A boll of 200 tons weight A voyage round the world, to be completed between the Place de la Concorde and Auteull. A captive balloon to draw a car all round Paris. Luminous cataract from the top of the Eiffel Tower. A mountain 100 metres higher than the Eiffel Tower, with a cafe and the atre on the top. A Venice street on the Seine, from the Place de la Concorde to Auteull. A mine 1,600 feet deep, another 3,000 feet deep, with cafes, concerts, etc., at the bottom. Electric sun in the Champ de Mars, A serious offer has been made by, MM. Armalln and Flammarlon to con struct an accurate reproduction of the moon, on a scale ot 1,350,000, with a captive balloon, in which the public can travel round it. Want of space precludes the publi cation of some hundreds of other proposals. Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. FiBUitfT Goods j S2?ECX-A.rr"Z". SOLE AGENTS FOR F.F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco Sole agents tor the following brands ot Cigars- Hoary Clay, Londros, Normal, Indian Princoss, Samson, Silver Ash Bloomsburg Pa. ILook Merc Do you want a 5?iSj(o ? Do you want an OtGH ? Do you want a Do you want any kind of a MUSICAL, IN STRUMENT ? Do you want SHEET MUSIC? If so, do not send your mon ey away from home, but deal with a reliable dealer rieht ... . . . here, who will right, if there wronjj. For anything in this line the place to go is to mate unrigs is anything "The best is, aye, the cheapest. Avoid imitations of and substi tutes for SAPOLIO Ware-rooms, Main Street, be low Market. B. F. Sharpless, Pres. Making Inrk OaK. It is stated in the Moniteur Indus trlel that the dark oak employed in decorative woodwork is prepared by submitting the wood for a certain length of time to th'e action of am monlacal vapors, the latter rapidly. Imparting the dark tint which is in so much request. The operation consists simply In arranging the material that Is to be rendered of a dark color in a tight room into which no light pene trates. For the treatment of small pieces a large box whose Joints are closed with strips of paper glued to tha places whence the vapor might es cape, suffices for the purpose, while, for larger pieces a hermetically closed room Is essential. Into the box, or room, are put several flat vessels, con taining liquid ammonia, they being placed upon the floor so that the va por may fill the space and give tho tanning of the oak a very dark brown color, which will not be altered if a little of the wood be removed from the surface. The liquid is not allowed to touch the wood, and the depth and richness of the color will depend upon the quality of the ammonia that is em ployed and the length ot tlmo of tho exposure to its fumes. BLOOMSBURG LAUD IMPEOYEMEHT COMPANY. Capital Stock, $30,000. Plotted property is in the coming business centre of the town, it includes also pjirt oi tne iactory district, auu nas no equal in desirability for residence purposes. -r m sisi . .1. 'Ill 1 111 (JliUlUIi 1A IS are ottered at values tnat win ue douoied in a short time. No such opportunity can be had elsewhere to make money. Lots secured on SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS Maps of the town and of plotted property furnished on ap- ilication. Call upon or write to the Secretary, or J. S. "Woods, Sales :gcnt, or any member of the Board of Directors. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Killed an Atnerlnan F.agia. Hal Reid. a young farmer, living la the Kaw Valley, six miles west of Kansas City, Kan., came to the city with an American eagle which he had killed. It was the first eagle that has been killed in Wyandotte County for some years. It measured seventy-eight inches from tip to tip of its wings. Mr, Held was Btanding near his home ono afternoon when he 6aw the bird fly ing across a field and alighting in tree. He had never before seen such a bird, and his curiosity to find out what it was prompted him to shoot it. He ran up, expecting to find it dead but it had only been wounded in the breast, and on his approach It made a vicious attack on him. He succeed ed. however, with his gun and his boots in killing It Half an hour after' wards Mr. Reid says its mate flew across the field. Tho bird will bo mounted. Kansas City Star. eyes bashed, and he seemed to grow sober in a moment as the situation n-esented itself. Here was ho drunk in a gambling hell on the eve of his .rarrlace with Mary, and Rube had ccme back. "What did you say?" he muttered "I said Rube and I had come back. Put don't let me disturb the game." "The game is up!" cried Paul, with N. U. Funk, Sec. C. II. Campbell, Treas. E. A. RAWLIINCS, bfcALKR IM All Kinds of Meat. Beef, Veal, Lamb. Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon, Tongues, Bclogna, &c. Free Delivery to all parts of the town. CENTRE STREET, C. H. REICE'S OLD STAND. BLOOMSBURC, PA. Bring The Babies. Instantaneous) Procentt I'wed. Strictly first class guaranteed photo graphs, crayons and copies at reason able prices. We use exclusively the Collodion Aristotype papers, thus se curing greater beauty of finish and permanency 01 results. OAl'WtLL, MARKET SQUARE CALLERYj. 5-n-iyr. Over Uartman's Store. B. F. SiiARPLEes; J. LJ Dillox. C. W. Neal, A. G. Bsiggs, Dr. I. W. Willits, Dr. II. W. McReyxolds, N. u. vusk. 11-19- THE MARKETS. BLOOMSBURG MARKETS. Spring Curry Comb .24 .28 .12 I ciock oprinp mnuc. ruu ns a urusn. i- its every urvc. Tne I'erfcct Comb. I scil bv V. b. Aniiy nnd bv llnrnum and ugh Circuses, and Leading Horsemen of the World. your Dealer lor It. hample mailed post paid 2C cents. fi-c nur nimii- on Hip hnnclio. KI'UINO Cl'liUI COMB CO., 101 Ufijetto SL.South Iknd, Inillua. 1I-H-2I!! A & 8 Oxy Perf jjj? 1'orcpaugli u" Ask your EE) THE POSITIVE CURE. 3 ELY UlilTUEKS, 60 Wrron BU Ucw York. IMre 60 cta.1 vMt Kloctrto Skin Cleanser. By its tonic influence upon the heart Mood vessels and general circulation, electricity tends to maintain the nor mal nutrition In the skin as wen In other tissues. It Is, therefore, large ly employed to Improve the complex Ion. Prof. John V. Shoemaker tells us, in a variety of caBes that are not ac tually disease, hut are on the border line, and probably due to faulty nu trition. Among the detects thus treat ed are the dull muddy complexion of many faces, the yellowness due to disordered liver, the oillnesa result ing from relaxed sebaceous ducts, tho redness of the nose due to sluggish circulations, papules, tubercles and varicose veins, dryness and roughness of the skin and pigmented spots and patches, Including freckles. on Iram Derr's land, near A. J. Derr's store, Jackson towhip, Pa. A Woman's Reason. "But, Emma, how can you prefer the plain and shabbily-dressed Jullui to my elegant and handsome brother?'' "That is quite simple; your brother 13 in love with himself, and Julius vlth me." Exchange. Trying Account lor tha Meeves. These balloon sleeves evidently coma of a desire to widen woman's Bphw, Boston Transcript , , . , ,j Angles, Plastering Mil i h cut t: bills, We have saw-mills on this tract running daily, and have there on hand and can cut timber &c. at any time. Bhlngloa,No1,all5 and 8 In. eolncted,ft.M)M No Lull Sand ttla. best nluo, ti.MM I'lttHN'iinif hull. 4 ft, Until, M " " S ft innif. si.tfi M Hemlock, common sizes., H.00 M For special orders and for Terms tc , write or call at office of Cfffl k WELLS, Bloomsburg. Fa. NOTICE. Farmers and Fruit Growers. COKRSCTID WI1ILT. BBTAIL MICIS. Butter per lb $ Lggs per dozen Iard per lb , Ham tier pound 1'ork, whole, per pound 07 to .08 Beef, quarter, per pound, . . . 06 to .08 Wheat per bushel 7 Oats " -4S Rye " " S Wheat flour per bbl 2-5 Hay per ton 14 00 to 10.00 Potatoes per bushel -IS Turnips " ' -S Onions " " i Sweet potatoes per peck 25 to .30 .o .10 .10 .07 S .12 .U .03 .02 Tallow per lb ... . Shoulder " ' Side meat " " Vinegar, per qt , Dned apples per lb. . Dried cherries, pitted Rispberries Cow Hides per lb. . . Steer Calf Skin 40 to .50 Sheep pelts 00 Hefore ordering tor sprint "t send tor our I Shelled com per bus -7S Corn meal, cwt t oa cut ilnyue, HhleU wo will mull Kkkk ou appU. CIU101I Annies at 10fl." oerWO: Pears. Plums and CIihi -i lea ul $18 to f'JS iwr wo Teaches ul to liuuper 1,000, elc, etc. A0.aje.1s The Rochsster Nursery Co., KOL'llMTIK, N. Y. 1-H5-4U d. mm Bran, Chon Middlings " ...... Chickens per lb new . , " " old. Turkeys " " Geese " " Ducks " " , 1.10 i-S 1. 10 .10 .10 .u .10 .10 Coal. CAN I OBTAIN A PATENT t Rronipt answer and an bont opinion, write to 1 1 N N V- (., who bave bad nearly Bftr Tears' eiDeriunoe In the tmteut business. Coiuniuniea tlons strictly oontldentlal. A Handbook ut In. formation ooncuruuiK rntenta and bow to ob tain loein sent iree. Also a catalogue ox nieonau. leal and scluntlfto books sent free. I'atents taken turuuub Munn ft Co. receive special notloelntbe Ketentllle Ainorit'nii. and iuus are rvuuuut wiueiy oeioreine punuo out oust to taa Inventor. This splendid Issued weekly, eleuantly Illustrated, bas by I lamest circulation of auy scientific) work lu tb iirlil. CI a year. Maniple copies sent free, llulldlnu Edition, monthly, tl.ju a year, bins-la copies, vi- cents. Kvery number contains beau. tilul plates, in colors, ana photOKraphs of new muses, witn plans, enaonim imnuurs to snow mcttt ilesiu n uud secure contracts. 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