THE COLUMBIAN,
BLOOMSBURG,
PA.
MY PHILOSOPHY.
ullin arcy thHt a jwxn
Who does about the best he can
la plenty Rood enough to suit i
This lower mundane Institute,
:o matter f t his dally walk
j Fdl.J"ct fer bis belabor' tnlk,
And rrltlo mind of ev'ry whim
Jest all Kel up and go for him.
It's norhiiral enoui;h, I ruoss,
When some Rets more and some Rets lest,
Fer them that's on the Bllmmest Bid
To claim it ain't a fair divide,
And I've knowed some to lay In wait
And pet up soon and sot up late
To ketch some fellow they would hate
Fer goln at a faster gait.
The f!?ns Is bad when folks commence
A-flndin fault with I'rovldence
An'i r.alkin 'cause the world don't shake
Ax i-v'ry prancln step they take.
No man Is great till he can see
How less than little he would be
Ef stripped to self, and stark and bare
Ho hung his sign out everywhere.
My doctrln' Is to lay aside
Contentions and be satlHtled;
Jest do your best, and praise or blame
That fullers that count Jest the same.
I've alius noticed Ki'eat success
Is mixed with trouble, more or less.
And It's the man who does the best
That Bits more kicks than all the rest
James Whltcomb Ulley.
STORY OF A STATESMAN.
He was a dashing young Congress
man, who came to Washington on the
tidal wave from one of the districts
in the Souiu. But he had not been at
the Capital more than six months be
fore tuose who had known him at
homo and came here on business
scarcely recognized him as the same
man. A great change had come over
Al&ernone Smith lirownleo, M. C. At
home he hud never amounted to much,
eucially. He came of very poor pa
rents "white trash" the colored ver
t.ict said though his relations had
;iever been Indicted by the grand Jury.
Jar. iirownlee's pedigree, however, be
gan with Mr. Brownlee, and what he
lacked in aristocracy of blood he made
up by his prodigious hustling abilities.
(With his keen energy ami upward ten
dency of mind, he had the good for
tune to combine an affable disposition,
an accommodating manner, a pleasant
smile and a certain good address.
When he entered the race for Con
gress, none imagined for a minute
'that he hnd the slightest prospect ot
success; but the average political wea
ther prophet has a dangerous tendency
to pin his faith to the infallibility, ot
bis own opinions and standing pat
upon them; and that is why it hap
pens so ofien that young men like Mr.
Brownlee beat out an old race horse
and go to Congress on a tidal ware.
Unlike the ravens who croaked his
doom, Mr. Brownlee did some char
acteristic hustling, snatched the nom
ination from a tired old campaigner
and was elected.
When he reached Washington, ho
wore the conventional soft black hat
and long black skirt coat, a Southern
Idea of a Prince Albert; but before he
had been here six months he looked
like a copy of the latest edition of one
of Jim Bell's Broadway swells, with
a silk hat, black cutaway coat and
gray trousers. And that's why his
constlturents scarcely recognized him.
It's strange how these things hap
pen in Washington. The rich and
thoroughbred Miss Daisy Vernon,
who had smiled with icy scorn upon
the suits of a dozen society men cast
ing themselves at her feet, together
with their fortunes and pedigrees, felt
her heart dissolve beneath the In
sidious attention of Mr. Brownlee, M.
C. There may have been something
In that M. C, a mistaken idea, per
chance, that a man who is sent to
Congress must be the cock of the walk.
Jn his district an idea that some per
sons have and that, altogether, the
suit of a member of the Hodse, who
combined as many attractive qualities
as her Brownlee, was preferable to that
of any other mortal.
And so, to cut things short, after
& dashing courtship, they were mar
ried at one of the fashionable
churches, with a great display of
pomp, the attendance of her distin
guished relatives, and his Congres
sional frierfds, members of the press,
etc. Then, after a brilliant reception,
they departed on their bridal trip, but
not to Brownlee's home. On the con
trary, he purchased tickets over arall
road that look him in a diametrically
opposite direction, just as far from his
district as he could go.
The trip came to an end and then
Brownli's find his wife returned to
Washineton, 'installing, themselves at
ouo of the leading hotels. Brownlee
had nen enough of the world to dis
cover tho secret of making an Impres
sion In Eociety. With the aid of his
wifs'3 social standing and his 15,000
ineoir.e. the way was open to him, and
he made the best of his chances. He
was received everwhere with open
ar::n, and If one man ever hit it rich
it was that &anio energetic young mem
be.' cf Ooncress.
On the whole, Brownlee deserved It,
lis hnd no Influential friends to thank
for his rise In the world; no family
lin:i-n"e had stood back of him to
dirr-st his efforts; no money had been
us: I to buy him a seat in Congress.
Ho hid jurt invested what mother wit
nature had endowed him with, and
whn fortune, In her timid way, had
I: necked at his door, as she is said to
do at every man's door once in a life
time, he had said, "Come in!" in his
Irjiteit tone3.
And he was honest and sincere. He
hr.d not deceived Miss Vernon aboul
b'.a pedigro. She had taken him for
better cr worse, and the fault was
her3 If she should feel disappointed.
Prownlee wa3 a good working member
t.f Congress. He made friends rapidly
v.'ith the leaders, and watched thai
thay never lost sight of him a slngM
tfny. All this young man wanted was
c;;pcrtunlty. He would rise to the.
c;o?.slon, for that he vouched.
Tie EQs'.son came to an end. The
cVKtlon was near at hand, and every
r.i":-!:ber hastened home to look after
b.i f:n:3. It was the hardest strug
gle cf hl3 life to decide upon a course
cf rction with regard to his arlsto
wifo. Take her home? Leave
h:r h?re? He suggested the Utter
CMTJ"1,
"I have been thinking a great deal
It." remarked Mrs. Brownlee.
"I till sk I shall accompany you. Yoi)
know, dear, I have never recn your
Papa and your mamma. 1 have form
ed my own ideas of theui aud am real
anxious to see them. They must be
Jdst charming people to have a sou
like my Ally."
'Ally" is what tlie always called
him. But there waa no music In the
B-jund of the sweel diminutive as she
uttered it on this fateful luorulng af
ter breakfast. Brownlee had a head
ache and was not ns rerponntve to hie
wife's affectionate caressed as usual.
-Well, I'm not ashamed of 'em any
how," he replied in des-ptratlon.
They packed their things and loft
town the next evening.
If Mrs. Brownlee, in her buoyant
trustfulness, anticipated scenes of
greeting in which mingled residence
on the banks of Lake Couno, as de
scribed by Claude Melnotte, with the
other details of romantic stage Illu
sions, which beguile the sense of a girl
who has seen only the fashionable side
of life, her anticipations were some
what dampened when they stepped off
the train in the dark and found them
selves on a platform where some rougbj
looking men were lounging about un
der the canopy of a projecting roof that
was sheltering them from a drearj)
rainfall.
They seemed to recognize the mem
ber of Congress, despite his disguise,
for he wore a fashionable overcoat and)
a closely rolled umbrella, though he .
had exchanged his silk hat for a der-
by. After some whispering the knot
of loungers gravitated toward them.
"Dog my cats, Bill!" called one, "if
this ain't Smith Brownlee. Hello,
Smith; got back, have yo'?" slapping
him on the back. "My, but yo' look :
putty! Come 'ere, Jim, look at 'Im.
Would ye know 'im if yo' met 'im on j
a dark road? Say, Smith, yo must a ;
struck it rich when we sent yo' to,
Congress? When yo' loft yar yo' j
didn't have an overcoat to yo' back, an !
I'll leave it to the crowd, now did !
ee?"
Smith tried to take It as a Joke, I
He laughed softly, and introduced his
wife in the Ill-lighted waiting room, i
whither tho delegation of his constlru- '
ents had followed.
They removed their hats and stared ;
at the lady like a lot of bumpkins; but '
this diversion continued only until the
most loud spoken constituent could
think of saying something that
was intended for a compliment to Mrs.
Brownlee, but which rlcochetted upon
her husband in the form of another
rude sally at the metamorphosis of ,
his condition, when they all "haw-haw- j
ed" in chorus.
Mrs. Brownlee was beginning to feel
shocked. The smell of the coal oil
made her 111, and she pinched her hus- j
band's arm as a Blgnal to break away,
and hie to the bosom ot his family.
Brownlee cursed himself and the
crowd, and for the first time in his
life felt sorry that he ever married.
Outwardly, however, he gave no token
of his chagrin, but smiled and crack
ed Jokes and clutched at every straw
that promised him relief from the mer
ciless persiflage of his Ill-bred con
stituents. He finally managed to get
his wife and himself into a foul-smelling
country 'bus that carried passen
gers, and a hoarse shout that sounded
half derisive to the well-trained per
ceptive faculties of Mrs. Brownlee
went up from the platform through
the darkness and rain as they drove
away.
Brownlee told the 'bus driver to
stop at the hotel. He did; but the
owner was tearing down that part of
the building where the rooms for
guests were located to rebuild, he said
"agin court time," and there was no
place there for them. So there was
nothing to do but what Brownlee. in
the most desperate calculation of his
chances had never contemplated even
as a last resort stop at his home.
"Daisy," said he In a hoarse voice,
as the 'bus splashed through the mire
of the road; "Daisy" softly taking her
hand in his "are you prepared to
make a sacrifice for me; greater, I
hope, than any I shall ever ask you ta
make for me again in all our lives."
She said "yea" wearily, with her
head swaying loosely on her shoulders
like a sick child's. "What do you ask
me?"
"That you will not hate and despise
me when I Introduce you to my fatties
and mother," he said tendefly.
"They are poor, then?" she asked In
the same weary tone.
"They are the commonest people In
the State. They are so common that
when everybody in town had the
cholera it passed them by as hot worth
noticing."
"My!" she exclaimed, "how did you
ever get into Congress?"
"By my own efforts and not with
the help of anybody in the world. I
Just simply hustled for it." i
"Well," she said, "let it come." '
What she meant by "let it come" is
something that must be left to the
solution of the reader, but the resign
ed tone in whloh she uttered that dic
tum implied that as nothing worse
than meeting the commonest people
in the state could come to her, it was
as well to let it come then as any
time.
The parental Brownleea lived In a
plain, yellow, frame house, colonial In
style, in that it shot upward on four
sides like a big box, but without any
ornate adornments under the eaves
and without even a veranda, except a
small one that afforded a view ot the
cabbage patch and a pig sty in the
farther perspective at the back of the
house.
Brownlee's mother smoked a corn
cob pipe and had whiskers. Brown
lee's father ate his supper in his shirt
sleeves and wore cowhide boots out
tide of his pants while he was eating
It. The wonder was that he didn't go
to bed with them. The furniture was
wcant, and they rented the house. That
Is, they rented it, but Brownlee, M. C,
paid the rent.
The greeting that the Brownlees,
first edition, extended to the Brown
lee, second edition, was cordial to de
monstratlvencBS. The maternal Brown
ie was something of a cook,
and Boon had a repast steaming on the
table. It wasn't a bad supper, but
Mm. Brownlee didn't have her Wash
lj;:cn appetite with her, and her
slight headache had grown worse, and
she asked to be Hhown to her room.
The room had no comforts except a
patched carpet, a pine bedstead and an
upright packing box with a curtain
drawn around it tor a waslmtand and.
a portable mirror of the species often
scon at cheap auction stores.
And this was what her Lake Como
illusion had shrunk to!
When she arose the next morning
her headache had not abated. The
smell of fried pork and coffee that
struck her olfactories whllo she was
dressing was too much for her deli
cate nerves, and Bhe never wished her
self farther away from the house of
her husband's parents than at that
moment. She sipped a little coffee
find then withdrew again to her rootuv
Just to be alone. When Brownlee, M.
C, entered she was lying on the bed,
fully dressed, weeping.
What passed between them in the
Interview that took place is a matter
of conjecture. The result became evi
dent when the 'bus drove up to the
Brownlee mansion that evening, and
Mr. and Mrs. Brownlee, the younger
got in and rode to the depot. Brown
lee saw his wife safely aboard the
Pullman car, and then stood on the
platform and watched the train dis
appear in the distance. The same set
or rufilan constituents who greeted
him on his arrival were occupying
their accustomed place on the plat
form, and Indulged in their favorite
pastime of heaving fossilized Jokes at
their representative in Congress.
Brownlee swallowed it all in good part
and then turned his back to the sta
tion and sauntered toward the paren
tal mansion with the weary step of a
man who had a load on his conscience.
But that did not deter Brownlee
from getting out and hustling. If he
had worked like a Trojan the first
time for his nomination, he threw his
energy of double dose of Trojsn devtf
tlon into his efforts now. All the
voters In the district did not know
what the loafers at the stAtion knew
and what Brownlee himself knew, that
he came of the commonest stock of
white blood "In the State." They per
haps didn't care. Brownlee had been
a good member, and he could talk like
a threshing machine, and his genial
manners carried the day. and the re
sult of it was that he was renominat
ed and elected, and went back to
Washington to finish his unexpired
term of service In the House.
His wife sat in the gallery one day
unseen by him when a great debate
was on. Brownlee had prepared him
self for the master effort of his life.
He had got the consent of the leader
on his side to make a speech. He at
tracted little attention as he arose and!
with his genial smile glanced over the
House, drew a deep breath and launch
ed forth. But by and by he warmed
to his subject, and here and there a
Biember on the other side interrupted
him. Then Brownlee's genius flashed
forth in all its originality. Several
members who had tried to trip him
up found themselves mercilessly im
paled upon the flery shafts of Brown
lee's sharp retorts, and held up to the
ridicule of the House, while Brownlee
smiled In that fetching wy of his
that made him resemble an expert
conjurer when he contemplates the
astonishment of the deluded victims
of his craftiness.
Before he sat down Brownlee had
scored a triumph that insured him a
place on one of the big committees In
the House when the next Congress
should organize.
One of the doorkeepers handed him
a note. He was receiving the con
gratulations of his side of the House,
and he did not open it for several min
utes, holding it almost forgotten in his
closed hand. When he opened it he
read:
"Dear Ally, I am ready to beg
your pardon now any time. Come.
Am heartbroken. DAISY."
Washington Post.
Bis Fad Restored His Health.
It Is odd what turns the collecting
mania will take. There Is a man In
New York who never goes to the the
atre, but has lor twenty-flve years col
lected the programmes ot each New
York playhouse weekly. Not only that,
but he has clipped from each Tues
day's papers the criticisms of the
new plays. All this vast Quantity of
data he has carefully preserved. It Is
odd how he started In the quest of tha
theatre programmes and data of the
drama. In 1870 he was In very bad
health. Ills doctor told him that he
must exercise more. So he decided
that he would walk around to the dif
ferent theatres and ask for a program
me. The walking he found of benefit
to his health, and it Is an interesting
fact that in twenty-flve years he has
not missed a day to make his rounds
of the playhouses. He is a very shy
old man, and as he has grown older
his walks have been lengthened out,
since new theatres have sprung up all
over New York at considerable dis
tances apart New York Letter.
Indiana Oil and Gat.
Much interest is manifested through,
out the Indiana gas belt over the pro
position to dig deep wells for oil
or gas. Capitalists will drill the well
without the assurance of either gas,
oil or water, but with hopes of strik
ing a vein. Major Doxey believes that
after passing through the hard rock at
the base of the porous Trenton, a flow
of gas greater than ever before dis
covered in Indiana will be found. Ha
is satisfied that natural gas and oil
are in different stratas, separated by.
hard rock. Jt salt water Is encoun
tered, a pump will be applied, and, if
necessary, ie salt water will be
pumped for a month or more, Instan
ces being or. record where the best oil
fields have been discovered after the
salt water had been pumped out.
Major Doxey Is also of the belief that
the Indiana gas field is similar to that
in Pennsylvania, where the strongest
flow Is obtained In the second strata
of Trenton stone. It Is bis firm belief
that the Madison county gas belt will
yet become one of the greatest oil
fields in the United States.
Horn of the Tulip.
Holland has never completely re
covered from the tulip (ever ot tha
seventeenth century. At Haarlem they
are holding the seventeenth quinquen
nial exhibition of bulb plants, hya
cinths, narcissi, and tulips, wlhcb. aro
again becoming popular In Burope.
Among the flowers Is an almost Mack
tulip.
If a man has a great Idea of htmoolt
It Is certain to be the only idea he
ever will toT.j
What is an Emulsion?
Milk is a true Emulsion, and as milk or cream is
easier to digest and assimilate than butter, so is the
milk or cream of Cod-liver Oil easier to digest and as
similate than raw Oil. This is why Scott's Emulsion ia
much more useful and effective than the natural Oil ;
why it accomplishes so much in arresting waste and
building up the body.
But it is much more than ordinary fat food. It has
other constituents that have wonderful healing and
strengthening power, and in addition we add the Hypo
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element in overcoming decreased vitality or loss of
flesh. These are the reasons why Scott's Emulsion is
benefiting to-day hundreds of thousands of consump
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both to physicians and parents.
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Eggs per dozen
Lard per lb ,
Ham per pound
Pork, whole, per pound
Beef, quarter, per pound . 07
Wheat per bushel
Oats " "
Rye " "
Wheat flour per bbl
Hay per ton 12 00 to
Potatoes per bushel
Turnips "
Onions " "
Sweet potatoes per peck 15
Tallow per lb. .
Shoulder " "
Side meat " "
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