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LEGISLATIVE WORK
The following bills were passed on
Vetlnesday of last week :
The house concurred in the senate
intendment to the bill providing that
lone but citizens of the United States
,hall be employed in the erection of
hit public work. The senate amend
ments provide that the provisions of
Jie act shall not apply to any public
rork on which the cost thereof is mot
'.n whole or part by assessment for
xncfits. The house also concurred
in the report of the conference com
tnittee on the Woods bill requiring
municipalities to purchase txisting
plants of water companies.
The bill repealing the act of 1S78
relative to the division of counties
passed finally on a special order. The
bill creating the office of cataloguer
in, the state library at a salary of
$1,500, which was defeated Tuesday,
was reconsidered after a long debate
and then laid aside for further con
sideration. There is strong opposition
to the measure from both sides of the
house and the indications are that it
will be defeated if it is aalled up.
The Flinn road bill giving counties
the right to construct county roads
and to levy a tax for their maintenance
passed finally after much debate.
The measure provides that the recom
mendation of the county commission
era shall first be passed upon by the
grand jury and approved by the court
before the roads can be improved.
This is the first of the score or more
road bills introduced in this legisla
ture to pass finally. All the other
measures of this character were either
defeated or killed by committee.
Senator l'linn's bill has passed the
senate and now goes to the governor.
The Smiley bill providing for county
convention of delegates from each
township to take into consideration
the improvement of the public roads
in the respective counties is on tne
calendar for third reading under th
head of postponed bills. Owing to
the passage of the Flinn bill Mr.
Smiley's proposition will hardly pass,
The bill allowing school authorities
to throw open the yards of school
houses in the large cities for the use of
the school children for recreation
purposes was called up out of its
order and passed finally without a dis
sewing vote. These bills were also
passed finally. Providing for the
manner of ascertaining, determining,
awarding and paying compensation
and damages in all cases where munici
palities may hereatter be authorized
by law to take, use and appropriate
private property for the purpose of
making, enlarging and maintaining
public parks within the corporate
limits of such municipalities; pro
viding the manner in which foreign
railway companies are required to pay
their bonus into the state treasury ;
providing for the abatement of nui
sance in cities of the third class ; to
regulate and license lodging houses in
cities; to provide for the annual
election of a superintendent and
resident physician of the Warren
insane hospital ; to promote healthi
ness and cleanliness in and about
public schools ; to prohibit the erection
of temporary structures for fishing in
streams and lake3 of the state, except
Lake Erie ; requiring recorders of
deeds to certify to the auditor general
certain information relative to the
limited partnership associations and
joint stock associations and providing
for the payment of recorders for their
services t requiring that stipulations in
building contracts shall be recorded
in. the prothonotary's office in which
the law lies; to cede jurisdiction to
the United States over certain public
roads within the national park at
Gettysburg ; for the prevention of
blindness ; imposing a duty on mid
wives, nurses and other persons having
;he care of infants and fixing a penalty
lor neglect thereof ; to prohibit illicit
conveyance cf articles into and from
ihe Pennsylvania industrial reforma
tory at Huntingdon ; creating the
office of county controller in counties
having more than 150,000 inhabitants
and abolishing the office of county
auditor in such counties j providing
for the employment and compensation
of clerks to the several miners' examin
ing boards ; to enable citizens charter
ed under the laws of this state and
authorized to hold real estate to hold
and convey title which had been held
by aliens and corporations authorized
by law ; providing for the incorpora
tion and maintenance of societies for
the improvement of streets and public
places.
IN THE SENATE.
House bill to prevent exhibitions of
physical or mental deformities in
certain public places passed finally
and went to the governor.
These house bills passed finally as
amended and were returned to the
house for concurrence : "Amending the
act for the protection of the public
health ; appropriating $349,900 to the
soldiers orphan schools , appropriat
ing $71,000 to the state asylum for
the chronic insane; appropriating
511,75a for the expenses of the house
elections committee during the session
of 1893; Norristown hospital for tlie
insane, $45,000 ; Midnight mission of
Philadelphia, $3,000.
These house bills passed without
amendments and were sent to the
governor for his consideration : Au
thorizing the taking of one acre
instead of one-half acre of public
burial places under certain circum
stances for purposes of common school
education ; providing for daily pay
cf judges for making return of town
ship elections ; authorizing directors
of the poor in counties having farm
lands in connection with county alms
houses to lease the lands for oil and
gas purposes.
The governor has approved the
bill making an appropriation for the
payment of inauguration expenses.
The house bill limiting the forfeiture
of policies in life insurance companies
ana regulating tne issuing 01 saw
policies was passed finally unamended
and was tent to the governor.
Deafness cannot be Oared
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion ot tne ear.
There is only one way to cure Deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed Deaf
ness is the result, and unless the in
flammation can be .taken out and
this tube restored to its normal con
dition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever ; nine cases out of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an
inflamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (cause by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
BeTSold by Druggists, 75c. im.
TOR JUDGE RICE.
The Bar of Luzerne County, at a
full meeting called for the purpose on
4th June, 1895, unanimously adopted
the following address to the Governor:
To the Honorable Daniel J.
Hastings, Governor of Pennsyl
vania :
The members of the Bar of Luzerne
County respectfully commend the
Honorable Charles E. Rice for ap
pointment as one of the Judges of the
Appellate Court, and herein set forth
the reasons that seem to them sum
cient to justify their action.
Judge Rice has served as President
Judge of Luzerne County, continuous
ly since January 1, 1880, and the
record of his conduct and judgment
affords the best and most conclusive
evidence of his fitness for a higher
place. He has shown himself to be a
wise and upright udge, filling the
scriptural standard, " quick to hear,
slow to speak, and slow to wrath."
He has known no creed, party, rank,
station, influence nor prejudice, but
has jucged 'the people righteously
without fear or favor. He is in the
prime of vigorous manhood, has great
capacity and disposition to work, is
possessed of a judicial temper that
enables him to hear and consider
before deciding, and of rare ability to
justify his judgments in opinions of re
markable clearness and strength. Of
Judge Rice there is but one opinion
where he is known. Other ludces.
lawyers and his fellow citizens regard
him as a conspicuously able, impartial
and upright judge. He is a Republi
can, twice elected in a Democratic
county, but no one has ever had reason
to know from any ludicial action to
what party he belongs. We suggest
that the great anthracite counties, in
which a peculiar business is carried
on, that furnishes much and important
litigation not understandable by
judges unlearned in its technicalities,
but in which Judge Rice has had
large experience, ought to have repre
sentation on the Dench ot the new
court, and that he is peculiarly fitted
for the place. The Appellate Court
will, as we believe, be useful to the
State just to the extent that it com
mands the respect and confidence of
the bar and people, therefore no con
sideration save that of fitness for the
place should properly be entertained
in selecting the first judges. Upon
this basis we present with confidence
the name of the Honorable Charles
E. Rice, believing that he is without
a superior among the Common Pleas
Judges of the State, and that his
appointment will meet the approval of
the bench, bar and people, and add
dignity, learning and Btrength to the
Appellate Court.
" A friend in need is a friend indeed."
A friend advised me to try Ely's
Cream Balm and after using it six
weeks I believe myself cured of
catarrh. It is a most valuable reme
dy. Joseph Stewart, 624 Grand
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
My son was afflicted with catarrh, I
induced him to try Ely's Cream Balm
and the disagreeable catarrhal smell
all left him. He appears as well as
any one. J. C. Olmstead, Areola, III
Pi ice of Cream Balm is fifty cents
A Minister's Experience With Uourt
Disease.
Rev. L. W. Showers, Elderton, Pa
"tor many years my greatest enemy
has been organic heart disease. From
uneasiness aDout the heart, with pal
pitation, it had developed into thump
ing, fluttering, and choking sensations.
Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart gave
instant relief. A few bottles have rid
me of almost every symptom of heart
disease. It is a wonder-worker." Sold
by Win. !, Rishton. 6 15-iy.
THE COLUMBIAN,
TEE EOSSED LEGISLATURE.
It is not altogether a Quiy legisla
ture. The other bosses divide with
him the control of the legislature, but
there is little difference between the
subserviency of any of these.
The height of the arrogance and
impudence of bossship is reached
when one man can prevent or halt
needed legislation which is moreover
commanded by the constitution.
There can be no more convincing il
lustration of the vitiated condition of
politics and the low standard of legis
lation in this state than the exercise
of the boss power by one man, who
for private reasons prevented the pas
sage of an apportionment bill, who
had a pait of the legislature under his
thumb and who did his utmost to
control a majority against the passage
of the law which the constitution
makes mandatory.
There was not in the recent fight
on apportionment much intention or
desire to serve the people. It was
only a fig'.it between bosses and those
who are ambitious to be bosses. Any
apportionment made was bound to be
partisan and factional. But even un
der such circumstances it would be on
the side of decency to have obeyed
the constitution.
It would be still more for decency
it the apportionment fight should des
troy the power of all the bosses,
Patriot.
SAVED MRS. RENNIE'S LIFE.
Mrs. Jennie Rennie ot Virgil, NT. Y.,
had been sick for a vear or more with
overflow of the gall and ulcers of the
stomach. Her physician told her she
could not live. Mrs. Rennie's mother
had found such benefit from the use
of Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite
Remedy, that she persuaded her
daughter to use it, which she did, with
the result that it cured her of these
diseases, and she says she was never
as well as now. 2t.
A Deserted Wife's Rights
On Monday last at Harrisburg the
supreme court handed down an inter
esting opinion in the case of Margaret
Kerr against the Pennsylvania Rail
road Co.
In this case the question was raised
as to whether a married woman who
has been deserted by her husband can
maintain an action, in her own name
to recover damages for the death of
their minor child. It is alleged in
the statement filed that the death of
the plaintiffs minor son was caused
by ihi negligence of the defendant,
that she is the only person entitled to
recover for his death, as her husband,
the father of the boy, had deserted
her and her son more than eight years
before the commencement of the suit,
and through drunkenness and profli
gacy has failed and refused to provide
in any way for either of them.
Justice rell, who writes the opinion,
says :
There can be no donbt of the
power of the p'aintiff to sue withoi t
joining her husband to recover any
claim due her in her own right. Ihe
act of May 4, 1855, conferred upon
her the common law, right and duties
of her husband in relation to their
child She could have placed him at
work and have received his wages,
and was bound to the reciprocal
duties of maintenance and education.
Her legal relation to her son was
the same as if her husband had been
dead. It is out of this relation that
the right to recover in an action for
the death ot a child grows. The
measure of damages is the pecuniary
loss sustained, and the loss arises
because of the right of the parent to
the child's earnings until he is of age,
or of the expectation of pecuniary ad
vantage after the minority of the child
because of the continued existence ot
the family relation. The father here
had forfeited all right to his sons
earnings; the mother alone was en
titled to them. She alone could sue
for and recover them. The pecuniary
loss resulting from the child s death
was wholly hers. If the father had
not been living at the time of the
son's death, the wife's right to main
tain this action could not be question
ed ; if she had not been living at that
time it is doubtful whether he could
have recovered, because the family
relation between him and his son had
ceased to exist and he had forfeited
all right to bis son's earnings.
In this case the wife alone has a
claim upon which a recovery in dam
ages can be sustained. Her right
should not be defeated by the miscon
duct of her husband. Upon the trial
she will have to establish her right to
maintain the action in r.er own name
or fail. In the absence of her hus
band, or of notice to him, his right to
participate in the distribution of the
fund recovered cannot be finally deter
mined against him. Whatever right
he has may be preserved by the court
controlling the distribution until ne
shall hav e had a hearing."
A Rule of the House.
Fat Old Lady I'd like that corset,
but I c::n t pay icr it all to day.
Saleswoman That's all right,
ma am ; we generally sell these sizes
on the instalment plan. From
Judge.
Children Cry fo
PJtcher's Caetorla.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
fASHION NOttB.
It la a remarkable spring ft bMj
tlful ribbons.
1 Bridal trousseaux are not aa exten
sive as they once wwe.
The newest chic coat In Paris la of
blue-dye J chamois skin.
Newest things lu boas are of narrow
ribbon looped on a foundation.
Dove-colored cloth coats, with pull
ed tlecvcs of the tame shade of Bilk,
are new.
Women wear now the wide lacs col
lars that used to be monopolized by iw
flints.
Old-fashioned straw "flails," trim
med with falling lace, will bo among
summer hats.
Double berthas of pink or blu em
broidery are effective on girls' whlt
nainsook frocks.
Black lace shoulder capes are among
those conspicuously exhibited at the
shops, and are very stylish.
Crush collars of open embroidery,
through which ribbon Is drawn and
tied, are a novelty on fine nightgowns.
Lace beading run through; with reiy
narrow black satin ribbon Is a favor
ite garniture for girls' light cotton
dresses.
La France rosos, lilles-of-the-Talley
and bows of Dresden ribbon are used
In trimming stylish brown straw
shape for young girls.
Among odd combinations In vogue
this season are lavender and very
faint green; bleuet and yellow; green
and pink; corn-color and old-rose;
Nile and wisteria-pink.
jersey fronts and vests are seen;
with the new sailor suits for boys.
The natty suits consist of a short
Jacket and long trousers, and are made
of dark blue or red serge, of striped
denim or of twilled cotton materials.
The black and white combination U
very fashionable this year, striped s-pfli
checked materials In this blending
coming: in for muoh favor. At a re
cent sale a splendid quality of black
and-whlte checked wah silk, twenty-
three Inches In width, was sold for
twenty-five cents a yard.
Au Afternoon Gown.
Virtue of Tomato Lsavas.
A statement comes from South Am
erica that a singular property of to
mato leaves has been discovered by a
fruit grower. Having cut down some
tomato vines, be used them as a mulch
around his peach trees. He soon dis
covered that the curcullo, which was
destroying his fruit, had abandoned the
trees surrounded by tomaito vines,
which proved a perfect protection, not
only against the curcullo, but against
other noxious insects. He found, also,
by steeping in water some fresh, leaves
of the tomato, and sprinkling the in
fusion upon other plants, the innum
erable insects which covered them
-were driven away. Some gardeners
have tried the remedy, some by acof
dent and others by Intention, and
their successes were remarkable. One
gentleman had bis apple trees ravaged
by the curcullo until last year, when
he secured a splendid crop. He knows
no cause for his exemption from tie
curcullo, except the tomato plants that
were grown for the first time among
his trees.
The Cranberry a, a Home Plant.
The common cranberry is a most at
tractive plant when properly cultivat
ed in pots, and can endure a good deal
of neglect which would be fatal to
other plants. It only needs to be kept
cool and moist. A compost of muck
and sand is the proper material for
potting it in. Although usually re
garded as aquatic in its nature, it will
not do to have the soil saturated with
water. What it requires is that water
should be within reach of its roots, and
that the soil shall be one through
which water can rise readily by cap
illary attraction. Let the pot stand
in about n Inch of water and it will
thrive better than in any greater
deptb. The cranberry roots readily
from cuttings, or it can be propagat
ed by bending down the sprays and
covering them with the moist com
post. It is beautiful at all times of
the year, and especially so after the
fruit commences to ripen. Its red
berries will remnin on the vine for a
long time and are highly ornamental.
Woman'! Work In Mimic.
At the Cotton States and Interna
tional Exhibition, to be opened at At
lanta, Go,, on September 1, great prom
inence is to be given to women's work
in the musical field. A women's build
ing of beautiful design is to be erected.
One of the rooms, spacious and appro
priately decorated, is to be devoted ex
clusively to music. It is intended to
display in It as many photographs as
can be obtained or women composers,
lingers and instrumentalists. Musical
literature will be provided for tho pe
rusal of visitors. Compositions by wo
men will be made a special feature.
NweetmeaU at Mcala.
Though the craving for sweets is a
natural one, and, perhaps, not harmful
if gratified in moderation at the pro
per time, parents should see to It that
sweetmeats are not nibbled between
meals, but eaten as a part ot the din
ner or luncheon. . , , ,
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promptly. Snors on Sixth Street,
West of Woolen Mill. 10-26 ly.
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