THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. THE ELECTRIC MOTOR. 2t U TliVi't'iK the Stcuni iikIiic In Munj In.trtiirr. ex i:ni)1es of the tonjcnoy to re plaoe steim engine by dtvirlc mo tori are iU'.I.v oimlnsr ti public node. Only rvotn:ly l; -,v.ts announced th.it the H.UJ. win l.X' ;'iUVf Works In rh.inJulpliU h:l auh..::ute.l eli-oirlc motjrg t3 drive th m;io.::,fry on tlie main floor of the factory, v;:h it further announcement thi: the in inn.'-rj jiwiioned to Introltic? electric ji.m-er ;n all the departments a noon as .oe luiiomjr of the change nhoul.l be ilem 'iis:rjted. Now the Mary larul S;e.'l Company ha followed suit by deciding to make use of electric motors In place of utearri engines In Its exten nlve works at Sparrows Point. The act ing rupprintendent of the electrical de partment sMtcs that It U the Intention to utlllso cicatrical power a great deal more In the future than In the past In running the motors In the shops and for oth r purposes. All the small engines will be taken out, and the electrical power si)t1tutej. This, the superin tendent claims, will be a saving to the company. In running by steam, he says, the loss conJensatlon In the great number of pipes Is very heavy. The sub stltutlon of eli-ctriclty will do away with about 25 engines, varying from 25 to 50 horse power. The change will be made at once. Tn the case of a large factory where a single engine was employed to drive many machines, It was found by recent experiment that not more than 10 per cent, of the Initial force was made , effective, the remainder being used up In dragging the heavy belts around pul ley and turning shafts that labored In their efforts to resist the strain of the belts. That single engine has now been replaced by several small and high-speed ones aggregating ISO horse power, and the energy Is taken from them In the shape of electricity directly to tru ma chines, each machine being run by a separate motor. All of the overhead network of shafts, wheels and belts has l.een done away with, with the conse quence, aside from the saving of the coal pile, that Instead of a dark and iltrty room the nialn shop has become clean, well-ventilated and well-lighted roora.-New York Evening Poat. Is Mitr Inhabited? There Is one discovery that was made during the last year which seems op posed to th otherwise strongly support ed hypothesis of a close resemblance be tween Mar? and the earth. It relates to Mars' atmosphere. The great English Bpeotroscopist, Hugglns, the famous Italian astronomer Secchl, and more re cently the Indefat'.gabla German obser ver Vogel, have all put on record their belief, based upon studies of the speo trum of Mars, that that planet possesses an atmosphere resembling the earth's, and containing the Important element of aqueous vapor. Vogel, Indeed, -went so far as to say, about ten years ago, that "It Is definitely settled that Mars has an atmosphere whose composition does not differ appreciably from ours, and espe cially the Martian atmosphere must be rich In aqueous vapor." More recent observations ihave appear ed to confirm those of Vogel. But now comes Prof. Campibell, of the Lick Ob servatory, employing some of the most powerful and perfect spectroscopic ap paratus In existence, and shows that, so far as the spectroscope Is able to Inform us, there Is no eivldence whatever of the existence of a Martian atmosphere con taining watery vapor, or even that Mars lias any atmosphere at all! His obser vations, made In June, July and August of 1894. show that the sunlight reflected to us from the surface of Mars under goes no perceptible absorption surround ing the planet, and that the lines in Mars' spectrum which other observers had ascribed to th? absorptive effects of Its atmosphere are really due to absorp tion by the aanoaphere of the earth. Prof. Campbells observations do not entirely dispose of the supposed atmos phere of Mars. They simply Indicate, as he has himself pointed out, a superior limit to the extent of such an atmos phere. He thinks that If Mars had an atmosphere one-fourth as extensive as the earth's, .lie would have detected Its existence. Against the conclusion that Mars has no atmosphere and no aqueous vapor stands the unquestioned existence of the white polar caps of the planet, waxing and waning with the seasons. As to this Prof. Campbell says: "While I believe that rhe polar caps on Mars are conclusive evidence of an atmosphere and aqueous vapor, I do not consider that they exUt In sufficient quantity to be detected by the spectroscope." In other words, Mars does not possess an extensive atmosphere, but It may Slave one about one-quarter as extensive as ours. Does such a fact preclude the supposition that Mars Is a habitable world? Hardly; for although we should die like fl.-ih thrown out of water If three-fourths of the atmosphere were suddenly withdrawn from the earth, yet It Is plain that beings resembling our selves and our contemporaries in the animal kingdom would require compar atively slight adaptations of struoture to enable thm to live In an atmosphere no more extensive than that which the spectroscope yet allows to the planet Mars. Harper's Weekly. An Odd Temprrance Smdety. The oddeat temperance society In the world is the abstaining commune of Achlyka, In Siberia, all of whose mem bers are strict teetotalers every day In the year except one. Regularly on tha first day of September, ysar after year, all the adult members of the commune assemble In the parish church, and ev ery one takes a solemn vow before the altar to drink no wine, beer or spirits "from the morrow" of the following day for a whole year. The clause "from the morrow" Is ir.trcduced In order to give them a reward for their virtues In the shape of a whole day of drunken carni val. As soon as they leave tha church they begin to Indulge In a horrible Bac chanalian drinking, which continues throughout tru day, until neither man nor woman In the village Is sober. This is naturally followed by considerable physical suffering, and then by mental remorse, whereupon the penitent parish flnters upon l's f.velvemo.ith of model sobriety, and all live like R.?chabltes. The Fire ( lira, The native doctors of India practlco a peculiar system known as "firing." Af flicted persons, u odds what the dlseisa nuy be. are Immediately upon arrival of the family physician, subjected to the torture of Hre. A late report by a medi cal authority declares that there la not one to tho thousand of total population la Bombay and the larger cities general ly, who does not bear trace of the appli cation of the lira curt In tho shape of hideous scars on the hea4, back, stom ach, feet or Umbj. BE 70N THE JURY. A Cnr In TS hlrh Sympathy Was Not Well Applied. "Oni! time, wh?n I and some other 'ir.vyers were engaged In defending is prisoner charged with murder," said the vv ti ran Thomas S.Oratty, "Judge Shope v..s amoi.g those employed on the slda of the prosecution. We made a very vig or ius effort to got our man's head away from the halter, and our chances seem ed fair ptioUKh until Hhope addressed thp Jury. He didn't seem to make much of an impression at first; they listened rather coolly and Indifferently to his ar guments, but all at once a circumstance arose that somehow turned things In his favor. While he was speaking a mes senger boy entered th emirt room and handed him a telegram, which, still con tinuing his address to the Jury, he me chanically, as It were, tore open. Sud denly, as he glanced at :hr message, bis eyes dilated and stared Intently at the words before him. Then his voice fal tered and broke, his breath came and went In short gasps, his chest heaved and Ml with deep emotion, and, turning h!s tearful eyes on the Jury, he said in Almost sobbing tones: " 'Excuse me, gentlemen; I fear I can not go on with my address. I have Just received the mournful news of the death of a dear friend, one who has been of most material benefit to me In my pro fession and whose demise leaves a sor rowful gap that none can ever fill. Ex cuse me, I beg of you; I am utterly un nerved and broken down at this sad ca lamity.' "Some members of the Jury respect fully expressed their regret and kindly urged him to continue his address, and h-? did so. The result was, sir. that he won the entire sympathy of that Jury, and they returned a verdict of guilty against my unfortunate client, who was consequently sent to the penitentiary for J!f. "When the trial was over somebody picked up the telegram that had so op portunely come Into the hands of the able advocate and through which he so successfully wrought upon the feelings of the Jury. It simply contained the favorite expression of a character in on or Charles Reade's novels, the old sol der In 'The Cloister and the Hearth, which expression Is: 'Have courage, friend: the devil Is dead.' "Chicago Inter-Ocean. Why 1'ktldreu Me. At a meeting of teachers In Boston a discussion arose over the characteristic defects of the school children. It. was asserted (hat the girls were more given to deception than the boys, and the boys were rougher and had more careless and dirty habits than the girls. Also, that the Inclination of the girts to deception arose largely from vanity. This sug gests a line of thought that may be worth consideration. Why do children lie? At the outset the child has no set tled Idea of tihe right and wrong of tha truth and the He. It Is simply easier and more natural to tell tho truth, but It sees no wrong in the other course. It re sents being deceived as a personal In Jury and not as a moral wrong. How, then, do children come to lie? . - Probably the first effective force that acts, logically at least, is fear. Lying from fear must be met by loving kind ness and confidence. The child must feel protected and trusted, safe In the truth. Tho next motive may be called, for the present purpose, vanity. It begins Its work before the child can talk and Is cultivated by all the art of tha inconsid erate parent. Praise and show are the outward objects, whKle the negative or internal force comes from the shame ovr Inferiority and possibly an Indispo sition to yield, or stubbornness. Other forms are pride and a spirit of rivalry; a desire to excel, a love of leadership. Greed Is a very low, animal motive that leads SO some lying. Its Inner and low er force la In the appetite, In a desire to possess; neratlvely, a lack of generosity, of sympathy. Its outward source springs from need; It Is born of depriva tion. Another fruitful source of lylna Is Imitation. Their parents and mates use the conventional lies before them without explanation even before an explanation could be understood and the dividing line Is Indistinct. Besides this, unfortu nately and criminally, the parents lie to the children and permit others to do so. They do this to "save trouble." Milwau kee Journal. "Jluiruy" I.ogue. A Horn Criminal. Mary Logue, the terrified wife of a drunkard and the penitent mother of a thief, is likely to become famous all over the world. She is dead, but a letter left by her Is one of the most remarkable contributions to the pathology of crime found In the annals. This poor mother acknowledges herself responsible for her son's moral perversity. He has lived a life of wrong-doing, and his mother as cribes It to ante-natal Influences. She says: "I found It very hard to get any mon ey from my husband for our bread and meat. At last It got so hard that the only way I could get his money was by waiting until he was asleep at night and picking his pockets. Many and many a night have I got up when he was asleep In the bed by my side and like a thief gone through his pockets and taken what money I found there. Then he had a hot temper, and I was always afraid when I was picking his pockets he would awake and find me doing It. Thus I went through all the brain sensa tions of a daring burglar, even such as I am informed you have become. Shortly after that you were born, and I firmly belleva you came Into the world a thief owing to that crime-like, though neces ary practice of mine." Whs signs herseflf "your affectionate mother." The Intelligence, gentleness and alTectlonatf-ness sIio.vn by the letter are proof conclusive that In her a good woman was wrecked. Her warning will be little heeded; there is small hope of a very general reformation; but the let ter suggests gravo consideration In pen ology. If prevention of such causes may iiot be had, tho consequences may have to be met by perhaps less severe punish ment but an extension of the scope of Institutions for the care of hereditary crlinlnala.-Seattle Post-In tolllgencer. Ilinnm We Kat. Thera were 17,664,714 bunches of ba nanas consumed In the United States last year. Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras and Colombia, supply neat of the fruit, and Us transportation has become an import unt lum in the business of various steamship companies. It Is within the cay memory of peopla of mldJlo age V. lit n a banana was a ureat rarity. But now, unquenfllinably, the consumption of this one tropical fruit la this country baa become large enough to affect to some extent the deinsnj upon the wheat supply. , . , MCDERS GAMES ALL OLD. (Tn Ah Still P'njlng Those Invented hf the Anetents Lung Ago. Pew of 'the hundreds of new frames 't are Invented vry f?&r become ;uir!ar. They may b' seen In any toy lor by the icore l.rv.-n ri.mes and par ir gaina, ga.ni -s of cards ntid games f bia.ll, games for yotinw and for old. Thv are a metatv.ih oly slu-lii, for not one if rhem will tver take the pl.u., of the Md stand-bys of Infan-y and boyhood. iCven t'n tvajne of nuwi. of them will neVor be h?ard of by the majority of Vmerlctn buys and (firls. This Is -the locle of history. It seema an easy mejfter to Invent a game; the Ixvit games are .o simple yet i popular game was never yet In vend m. liv. ry one of them has grown, and tho beet of them have be n growing for hun lrods -of years. Foientiflc men tell us h-at all soi'is of queer creatures once liv ed on this eirA rreait litards, wl'ta -vines; sea monsters, half whale, half i..jl, and rhlnocorws larger than ele phants. All 'those have died away, be cause they were -not flbted to live, while .hose animals that were fit for life have $one on growing bel.trj,- and bet'ter, till lome i'ha horse, for Instance we could iot do without. It is Just so wl'jh games. PhNK? live !at are fit to live, and the rwt dl. , Our best games form a s)rt of arls wracy; 'their pedigree run back to very ancl-n: tltn?s and no modern upstart an compete wJrh them. Take baseball in 1 cricket, for instance probably the most popular out?door ga.nn.-s of modern :im s i:he one" In our own country, the other In England. They are first cousins nd their hold on American and English ooys Is In all probability due to the fact that they each unite two strong lines of desoemt that of tho bat and ball games to which tetnnils, lacrosse, hockey, cro tiuV., and, more distantly, billiards, also bcling, and that of the goal games, such as tag, puss-ln-'tlhe-corn'er, I spy, and dozens of others. All rhe nations we know anything about had bat and ball games age ago. Nobody Invented the bat and ball; they grew up wkth our civ ilisation from tho time when little sav ages used to knock about a pebble or a fruit with a srtlck. So with the goal games 'they have always been popular. Their name Is sJttll legion. The goal part (that Is, the running from base to base) la a much more Important part of the game In baseball than It Is In cricket, and for hls reason we Americans are Justified In looking upon baseball as the better game, all other things being equal To be sure, neither buseba.ll nor cricket Is the game It was 300 years ago, butt both have grown, not changed. . Any one whj chooses may trace tha growth of cricket from the year 1300. It is not so easy to trace the pedigree of baseball, for. Just as vHah a great many American families, there Is a break in the record back In colonial times. It Is known to have been played by the In dians. It Is a .thoroughly American game, and no one loves It less becausa some people claim round.rs as Its an cestor and others rejeot the claim -with scorn. - As for Indoor games, we may prove their j nobility In Just the same way. Cheas comes down to ua from the an cient Hindoos, by way of Persia. Check ers were played In K-j it, and then In Greece and Rome. Cards made their appearance In Europe In 1.150, and the Chinese say that tlvey usM them two centuries earlier than this. Ten pins was certainly played In the 'thirteenth century, and probably much earlier. All these have grown, but they have not changed their nature. Lawn tennis Is only an offshoot of the old game of court tennis, said to have been brought Into Gaul by Roman sol diers and still played. Again only a growth, not a new device. There Is hal ma only a variation of the old pyramid came of checkers. How about parchesl? Th pompous tHle, "A Royal Game of India," Inscribed on the old parchesl board Is often thought to have been only, an advertising dodge, but It was quite true. Parchesl, called by the Hindoos paohes. Is widely played In Asiatic countries, and Che Spa,r.lah explorers .ven found the Aztecs playing It under the name of patolll. In Mexico, whither it may have been carried across the Pacific. Thfrsa and many other Instances are worth thinking over deeply for they teach a lesson. If any one Is tired of the old games and wants something a little different, let him alter the old in the dl reotlon of growth raither than try to In vent somechlrur quite different. The most successful Inventors of games have followed this rule. Indeed, It Is more than a rule It Is a law of nature. You might as well try to please the human palai-.e with food made out of sand and sawdust ai to force boy or man to get enjoyment out of a game that does not contain the old, well-tried game ele ments. New York World. About Suffrage Women, A North Dakota woman writes tha following letter to the Woman's Journal: "I know from yeans of experience some thing about the Injustice of the laws, 'specially with reference to the rights of property. Ten years ago I came wltil my husband to the wilds of Pakota and tcok up my abode In a sod shanty, and wont to work with him to build up a new home on the prairies, 15 miles from town r ra. lroad. During the eight years fol lowing I worked Indoors and out, to ave the extra expense of hired help; ought prairie Area spring and fall, un til rady to drop with exhaustion, to save our property from destruction; work ;d half the night at times, from midnight till morning, helping to make smudges' to keep the frost away from he ripening grain; faoed blizzards that strong men did not dare to combat. In order to reach the barn and feed and water tho famishing stonk, while my nusband was caught and detained In town by the storm; cooked faeh summer and fall for harvesters and threshers; made and sold hundreds of pounds of butter; raised chickens and sent bushels of eggis to market each year, and In fact did everything and economized In every way as only a farmer's wife can, to help tide over the bad years of drouth and frost, and save our land from the reedy ma-v of the mortgage company, which would certainly have d-voured a part of It had It nv been for this help. All this time I endured all the Incon veniences connate,-: with rhe making of l new home, together with tho dangers Mid privations of plons r life. And now I huvi the supreme satisfaction of know ng tlvat my husband own a wh lj sec tlon of fln. erclle land In this beautiful now Northwest, free from dev., while In Uw I do not possess a sdnulw f Jot, nor n I say to whom It shall belong when I am gone. W ar chtUl-M." vt pjlfHililLlil IPEJJ : largest" piece of GOOD TOBACCO ever sold for 10. CENTS 'Where dirt gathers, waste rules." Great saving results from the use of SAPOLIO B. F. Sharpless, Pres. N. U. CBLOOMSBURCO LAUD IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. Capital Stock, $30,000. Plotted property is in the town. It includes also part of equal in aesiraoiucy ior residence purposes. CHOICE LOTS are offered at values that will be doubled 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 plication. Call upon or write to the Secretary, or J. S. Woods, Sales A A 1 Ail 1- I M --v .a-gem, or any memDer 01 me lioara oi .Directors. (3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. B. F. Sharpless; C. W. Neal, A. G. JJr. 1. W. McKeynolds, Do your walls need papering ? If so, call on William S. j&ate, Exchange Hotel Blcg., and see for what a small amount you can have it done. Our stock is the largest and most carefully selected in town. The prices suit the hard times. William II. Slate, BOOKS, STATIONERY AN It WALL I'Al'ER. " Funk, Sec, C. H. Campbell, Treas coming business centre of the the factory district, and has no J. L Dillon. Briggs, De. I. W. Willits N. Tj. Funk. 11-19- I have purchased a new line of watches, chains and jewelry, silverware, fcc. Also a beautiful line oi sterling sil ver novelties. Don't fail to come and examine before pur chasing elsewhere. I keep first-class goods and sell same at prices that can't be under sold on same quality of good I have a full line of material and all latest devises in mach inery to repair, also competent workmen. Fine hand engraving done. J. G. Wells, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry BLOOMSBURG PA. Crown AcntQg Tho best burning oil that can be maclo from potro leum. It gives a brilliant lifcht. It will not smoke the chimneys. It will not char the wick. It lias high fire test. It will not xplode. It Is pre-eminently a' family safety oil. We Challenge Comparison with any other illuminating oil made. We stake our Reputation, as Refiners upon the statement that it is The Best Oil IN THE WORLD. ASK YOUR DEALER FOR. Crown - Acme -:o: HIE ATLANTIC REFINING CO., BLOOMSBURG STATION, BLOOM SLUFG, TA THE MARKETS. BLOOMSBURG MARKETS. C0KRICT1D WIIILT. BITAIL PRICVf. Butter per lb $ ,22 Eggs per dozen .16 Lard per lb , Ham per pound Fork, whole, per pound Beef, quarter, per pound. . y 07 Wheat per bushel. Oats " " ""! .06 to .10 .80 4S .6$ 3.8S 8.00 .40 S 1. 00 to .30 i .it .10 .07 .05 .i .14 3i OS .80 75 75 t.oo 1.20 ias 5 .10 IS .10 .10 Rye " " Wheat flour per bbl Hay per ton Potatoes per bushel Turnips " " Onions " " Sweet potatoes per peck 25 Tallow per lb Shoulder " " Side meat " " Vinegar, per qt Dried apples per lb Dried cherries, pitted Raspberries Cow Hides per lb Steer " " ' Calf Skin Sheep pelts Shelled corn per bus. 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