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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA.
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Another opportunity to buy at prices even
lower than last year's forced sale on account of
settling a partner's interest.
The sewers and makers have disappointed us in
making Clothing promptly. The season has been back
ward. Between the two
We have enormous stocks, and in order to make
quick sale, will sell at Half Price.
$32.00 Overcoats,
25.00 "
20.oo 44
Thousands Good Warm Suits and Overcoats, $5.oo
WANAIY1AKER & BROWN
Notwithstanding the very
low prices the rule is still
in force to pay Railroad
fare on very moderate pur
chases. WASHINGTON. '
From our HoralnrCorreapondont.
Washington, Dec. 30th, 1S9J.
Sptaker Reed's muzzles are in
prime working order. He rnmu.leit
the members ot the Ways and Means
committee and compelled them to
report two bills prepared by liim ; one
increasing the tariff upon wool,
woolens and lumber to 60 per oent of
what it wtts in the McKinley law,
and raising the tariff upon everything
else, excepting sugar, 15 per cent
above present rates, and the other
providing dor the issue of three pei
cent coin bonds to replenish the gold
reserve whenever the Secretary of the
Treasury leems it necessary, .and of
$50,000,000 in three per cent ,3 year
Treasury certificates, or so much
thereof as the Secretary of the Treas
ury may need from time to time. He
muzzled the objecting republicans
who wanted the bills submitted to a
caucus before being reported to the
House, aind lastly he muzzled the
House and had his bills passed, not
withstanding that the democrats did
all the pretesting they could under
the Reed rules, against the railroading
of such important legislation through
the House without debate. When
one of his own party went to Mr.
Reed and csked that a reasonable
time be allowed for debate oct the
bills before they were passed Mr.
Reed dismissed him by saying sharply:
" The Houce isn't a debating society."
In tact, for all practical purposes
there is no Hous' Its powers have
all been usurped by Mr. Reed and its
only important duties are to obey his
orders.
But there ere neither Reed rules
nor methods in the Senate, to which
these bills have now gone, and the
country may count upon their being
thoroughly debtted before they are
acted upon. It is doubtful whether
either of them ccn pass the Senate at
all, and certain that neither can get
through without being materially
amended.
The President this week formally
declined to accept he ram Katahdin,
built by the Bath Iron Works, because
ot the failure of the vessel to make
the speed stipu'ated in the contract.
The rejection is merely a technical
one, as the .a Iminietration and the
naval officers are entirely satisfied
with the boat and Jcnow that the
failure to reach the required speed
was no fault of the builders who mere
ly followed the government plans in
the construction of the vessel. It
would have set a precedent which
might make trouble in the future to
accept the vessel after its failure to
make the speed named in the con
tract, so it was deemed best to refuse
to accept. But the administration's
influence will be used to get the joint
resolution authorizing the President
to accept the Katahdin, which has
already teen introduced, adopted by
Congress, so there is little doubt that
the Katahdin will soon be a part of
Uncle Sam's navy.
In creating three Election com
mittees to bounce those democrats
whose seats are being contested by
republicans and to give those republi
cans who are holding seats which are
contested by democrats a valid title
to their seats, Mr. Reed overlooked
one thing that is already making
trouble. The committee on Elections
has but one room, and each of the
three committees claim the right to
use it.
The union printers are not so glad
about the extension of the Civil
Service rules to the Government
Printing Office as they were. Already
four non union printers have secured
$20.oo $25.oo Suits,
15.oo 20.oo
lO.oo I6.00
Sixth and Market Ninth and Chestnut
LI H. WANAMAKER
Twelfth and Market Streets
pisitions in the building by parsing
the required examination, and there
will be others, until their number grows
so great that the office will have to be
classed as non union.
The report, although not yet offici
ally confirmed, that Russia had offer
ed to lo.nn the U. S. $400,000,000 in
gold, without interest, has probably
created greater cowfrtemation among
the European gold kings who have
been squeezing enormous profits out
of the United States under our present
bad financial system than did Presi
dent Cleveland's bold announcement
in behalf of the Monroe doctrine.
Already an agent of the Rothschilds
has been to Washington to assure
Secretary Carlisle of their willingness
to furnish all the gold thi3 government
might need, notwithstanding their
assertion right after the Monroe doc
trine message was published that
American securities of all forts had
been put on the black list. Of course
there is no probability that this gov
ernment will accept Russia's offer,
but it was none the less a very friendly
and gracious act on the part of Russia,
and it furnishes the administration
with a-weapon that will inspire fear in
the minds of the European gold kings,
who know by experience what Russia
can do in the financial line in opposi
tion to them. Russia has not only
made itself independent of the afore
sr.id European money kings, but while
doing it has accum ovulated $800,000
000 in gold. More than half of this
gold, for which Russia has no particular
use, is deposited in European banks
outside of Russia. That is the gold
that she is willing to loan us. Its
withdrawal from Europe would be a
knockdown blow for the gold kings.
How's ThisJ
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of CatanH that
can not be cured by Hill's Catarrh
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.,
Toledo, O.
We the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last is years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, (J.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the b'ood
and mucous surfaces of the system
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists. Testimonials free.
Hall's Family Pills are the best, im
Senator Quay has introduced a bill
providing for the establishment of sav
ings banks at the various postothce
money order stations throughout the
country. Ihe plan is to have deposits
" "" 'i '." ciiumina-
tions of the cents and decimal fractions
of a dollar, but not to exceed $10.
Interest to be paid at the rate of two
per cent., but no interest is to be paid
on a deposit over $500. The record
will be kept by a system of stamps,
which are to be recorded by pasting
on cards of convenient size, which, on
presentation will entitle the holder to
the amount of money represented by
the stamps. The payments shall be
made at any money order office where
the cards are presented.
Will Suo For Damages.
It is said that the Selinsgrove per
sons who were hurt in the sleighing
party accident at Kreamer station
crossing last winter, will bring suits
for damage! against the Pennsylvania
Katiroaa company.
$15.oo
lO.oo
8.oo
it
Kotos from the Pennsylvania Experiment
Station.
Care of Wood Land.
There have been several severe
wind storms during the summer and
early fall, and an unusnal number of
trees have been blown down. Even a
casual observer must have noticed two
things about these trees: first, that
they were almost entirely our red and
black oaks, and second, that they
were more or less rotten at the heart.
Closely examined, many of them
show along their trunks defective
spots which indicate the decay within.
But it is often quite a surprise that
trees that appear as though they
would keep on growing for many years
longer should so easily topple over iit
a stonu. The red and black. oaks are
much more subject to disease, and
hence to early failure and destruction
than are any others, but, in large
measure, the difficulty arises from the
fact that, in our valley woodlands es
pecially, the oaks are almost all from
sprout growth. Very few are from
seed. Sprouts are of deceptive value
because they grow very rapidly for a
few years aad overtop or crowd out
everything else. But they soon
change in growth rate and will never
make trees of full size. They not only
fail to develop a strong independent
root system, but are peculiarly liable
to become diseased. This comes pri
marily from the old stump, and natur
ally is exerted along and up the centre
of the trunk, slowly destroying the
heart wood. Owing to the greater
ease and quickness of the early growth
of the red and black oaks, and the
frequent culling out of the white oaks
for various purposes, our valley wood
lands are, unconsciously, undergoing a
marked change in varieties of trees;
the poorer kinds being left in very
large proportions.
1 here are many places where, for
various reasons, it seems desirable to
keep up a bit of woodland. To have
the best and most productive it is nec
essary to exercise some care in the
varieties of trees, and this can scarcely
be done without some labor. Some
kinds, like the pines, make fair head
way by natural seeding, where condi
tions are favorable; but the white oaks
do not as a rule. Their acorns are
too easily destroyed, and the seed
lings require some protection.
It is possible, however, to secure
them by planting acorns directly in
the woodland wherever the trees are
not too thick. In the fall and early
winter is the best time to do this, us
ing some heavy tool to make an open
, ing in the ground or among the rocks
sufficient to allow covering the acorn
and thus prevent not freezing, but
the rapid thawing after freezing, as
well as the drying out, which are so
fatal to those which germinate on the
surface. The 'spring will answer for
this very well, provided the acorns
have been kept slightly moist by bury
ing them in the ground. A few days
exposure 10 a ury aimospnere, no
matter how cool, is sufficient to de
stroy their vitality.
A reasonable amount of care in
planting and of subsequent protection
win enaoie any one to slowly restore
his oak woodlands and make them
much more productive than they
now are. W. A. Buckhout.
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' The annual Reports and quarterly
Bulletins of the Station will be sent,
free of charge, on application, and in
quiries on agricultural subjects ans
wered so far as possible.
Address,
II. P. Armsuy, Director,
State College, Centre Co., Pa.
An Uniqno Structure.
Hcpburnvills Turni Out to the Dedication 0!
Church Built by ths Labor of
One Man. ,
There was dedicated on Sunday
afternoon at Hcpburnville, seven
miles north of Williamsport, as unique
a Presbyterian church as exists any
where in Pennsylvania. It is a beau
tiful structure and the walls were not
only laid by one man, but he hewed
out the stones from great boulders on
Brobst mountain. He labored more
than six years, never drawing pay for
his work, and when he died recently
he bequeathed his unpaid wages to
the church. This heroic stone mason
was George Taylor. In the church
he reared is a pretty memorial window
erected by a grateful congregation for
the aged and untiring builder. It is
called the Lycoming Centre Presby
terian church.
The congregation is composed
mainly of well-to-do-farmers and their
families. The church is sixty by
thirty-eight feet, with a square tower
sixty feet high.
About a year ago, when he had
just finished the tower and his long
labor seemed about to end, Taylor
grew ill. His hammer and chisel
were laid aside and they were never
again taken up by him. He was
about seventy years old and died of
cancer. When Taylor died a will
was found in which the story of his
devotion to the church was made
complete. All his wages, amounting
to many hundred dollars, were be
queathed to theTongrcgation. There
remained a small debt which was
practically wiped out by those who
gathered in the pretty house of wor
ship to see it dedicated.
Is it " overwork " that has filled this
country with nervous dyspeptics ?
that takes the flesh off their bones,
the vitality from their blood, and
makes them ffeble, emaciated and
inefficient ? No. It is bad cooking,
overeating of indigestible stuff, and
other health destroying habits.
The remedy is an artificially digest
ed food such as the Shaker Digestive
Cordial. Instead of irritating the
already inflamed stomach the Cordial
gives it a chance to rest by nourishing
the system itself and digesting other
food taken with it. So flesh and
strength return. Is not the idea ration,
al? The Cordial is palatable and
relieves immediately. No money
risked to decide on its value. A 10
cent trial bottle does that.
Laxol is the best medicine for
children. Doctors recommend it in
place of Castor Oil.
IOS-OOLD.
Nantucket is famous for auctions.
They are held in the public square.
Meat auctions, furniHire auctions.
There are few things one cannot buy
at auction if one bides one's time.
Whenever an old home is broken up
or a resident leaves the island, I e 1111
wanted effects are closed out at
auction for whatever they will bring.
At the last one I attended a re
frigerator was put up.
"Too late. The season's over,"
shouted some one in the crowd.
" But there'll be another, and per
haps a hot one,-' said the auctioneer.
" But one may die before that,"
said the other.
Well," replied the auctioneer, " if
you die you'll be sorry that you hadn't
bought a refrigerator and taken it
along with you 1" From the ' Editor's
Drawer,' in Jlarper't Marazine for
January.
Fay of Railroad Men-
According to the report of the rail
ways ot this state to the internal
affair department for the last fiscal
year the total number of employes on
the Pennsylvania road is 51,872.
ineir compensation amounted to
$39-346.$74i an average daily pay ot
$1.85. lhere was a tailing off of
a3.93 employes from the various
roads. The Philadelphia and Read
ing employ 15,5 jo men, their total
yearly compensation being $7,491,965,
an average ot $1 82 daily. The total
number of employes on the eight
largest roads in the state was 134,119,
the yearly compensation being I76,
816,483.
The publicity given to the cure of
Nathan Baker, of Lewisburg, from
acute inflammatory rheumatism, by
acniatier, tne neaier, is enough to
hodoo Baker and his hotel business.
It's a Curious Woman
who can't have confidence in Dr. Tierce's
Kavoiile Prescription. Hete is a tonic for
tired-out womanhood, a remedy for all its
peculiar ills and ailments and if it doesn't
help you, there's nothing to pay.
hat morecan you ask for, in a medicine?
Ihe " I'rescnplion " will build no.
stren ;ilien, and invigorate the entire female
system It regulates and promotes all the
proper functions, improves digestion, enriches
the blood, dispels aches and pains, brings
reiiesnmg siecp, aim restores health and
vigor. In "female complaints" of every
sum aim in an cnronic weaknesses and
derangements, it's the surest remedy.
Nothing urged in its nlnce bv a dealer
though it may be better for him to sell, can
be, ' just ns good " for you to buy Send
lor a tree pamphlet. Address World's Dis
pensary Medical AstAciation, Uuffalo, N. Y.
xr. rierce s l'ellets cure constipation
.,:iDr. i.:ii , ,
yuta, Luuuuauess, uiuigesiion and neaaaches,
n dove
You Must Feed the Nerves, not Strain
Them; Build Them up, not Stimu
late Them; Coax Them,
not Drive Them.
Ordinary Foods do not Supply Sufficient or Proper
Nourishment for Wasted Nerves They Hust
be Carefully Treated on Scientific
Principles.
THE CASE OF A PARALYTIC WHOSE
HE WAS
From th; Oourtcr-Ilerahl, Saginaw, IticK
Do yntl HP those two men walking up Ihe
street ? One has a vigorous, firm, elastic Mop,
hi head well up, his eye bright a picture
of a sound and Dcrfcet man. The other is
!.., 1,1. knees weak and unstea.lv. a listless
air nlxiut his whole make-up. lie bus the
appearance of one who is broken In bealthand
who lias to whip himself to every task. The
li (Terence between these two men is a di (Terence
of nerve power. With nerve rower comes en
ergy, enterprise, force, vigor ill things which
make existence enjoyable; tithnut it the
muscles cannot net, tho bruin cannot think.
Hear in mind that life is nerv power, mid if
you wish to keep it you must fei-d the ncrws.
l)o not simply atimulate them, hut coax them
feed them. G1t them' the food, which will
renew their life and make them sound and
healthy, that they may ward off disease.
Probably paralysis is the nearest disease to
nerve-death that we know, and we therefore
cite A case of it below, to show That a certain
famous nerve-building preparation can do to
feed and absolutely restore almost hopelessly
wasted nerves.
There are but few in the Saginaw Valley
but who have known personally or made the
acquaintance indirectly of W. H. Dawson, G1H
Union Avenue, Saginaw, Mich., West Side.
It is here that the hand of sickness has fallen
heavily ami caused a man to become w idely
known and extremely pitied.
It is the blind of fate that often nips in the
bud that which nature lias started with the
greatest prediction for the future. I'ntil
three years njjo W. 11. Dawson bus know n
but little of sii'kness and pain Hut the lat
few years have brought w ith them untold suf
fering. With many doctors taxing their
brains for something that niiirht heneltt, nil
remedies known to the scientific medicine
man were applied and without u vail. The pa
tient meanwhile hided unit became worse but
still liiieered to fulfill wonderful mission
which will be the cause of less siidcrim? iimonir
bis fellow creatures. It was thut unseen hand
directing all things who permitted this one
man to live in misery so that the world might
beeome enlightened.
To hear the pitiful storv of one who has
n tiered w ho could not move a iniucle for one
hole year and who is now convalescent
through the aid of a wonderful medium tnk'lit
lead one to believe that miracles are per
formed in this day and aire. They are, but
not as in times of old. Tills time it is throUL'h
the hand of man that life is restored.
" Until the full of '92." suid Mr. Dawson, in
reporter, " I was as hearty ami as full of life
and vigor as any young man could hope to be,
in fact sickness was then unknown to mc.
About this time I was taken nick will. In
fjippe and after having two relapses my spine
leeame affected. This trouble irrew worse
.iiiii.v nun in .iinrcnoi M I was completely
paralyzed from inv wuist down. Huvim? taken
everything my doctors could prescribe without
any effects. I decided to go to the Indiana
Mate I nst it ut at Indianapolis hoping to re
ceive at least some benefit from their special
ists. I was there for a ueriod of fen months
during which time I was taken sick with
arlct fever which left me in a worse eon.
ditioa than ever before.
Pullman Oompirtment Chr through to
the Golden (Jato via Pennsylvania
Bail road.
But few years have nasseil since the
idea of running a train through to the
Pacitic Co.ist, without change of cars,
was regarded as impracticable and im
probable. That this could be done,
and in the vcy best manner, too, was
demonstrated by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company with its personally
conducted Golden Gate tours; but not
satisfied to let the matter rest here.
that company h;s decided to run a
through Pullman compartment car
in connection with this season s touts
to the Pacific Coast, leaving New
York February 12 and March 11.
1896.
The car, which will be the very best
that the Pullman Company can sup
ply, will contain nine inclosed com
partments two drawing rooms and
seven state rooms and will be at
tached to the special train at Jersey
City and run through to San Diego,
Cal., on the first tour, and San Fran
cisco on the second.
This will b-i the first car of its kind
to bi run on a transcontinental train,
and that it will be thoroughly appre
ciate i in the tours is evidenced by the
tact mat already several ot the com
partments have been reserved.
Application for space or itineraries
giving all information should be made
to Tourist Agent, 1 196 Utoadway,
New York, or Room 411. Broad
Street Station, Philadelphia.
For The Wife and Children-
Among the bills introduced in con.
gress this session is one amending the
statutes so as to provide that if any
pensioner, being insolvent, shall de
sert his wife or minor children, and a
court shall adjudge him guilty of de
sertion, one nait ot the pension due
him and coming due him shall be
paid to the deserted wife or the guard
ian of the minor children.
Owing to the finding of a larire
i'"3" i-" in me near vicinity
Brandonville will sojn become a town
oi prominence,
FOOD ' FHH
NERVES WERE SO NOURISHED THAT
CURED.
"As soon as I was able I wn removed to
Saginaw for my friends could not see any im
provement under this treatment, and beside
the expense was entirely too great for me to
entertain thnuKhts of stayin
I 't he most annoying period
"K i "err lonsrcr.
of my existence
as iveil ii ter my return io aglnaw, I
sometimes prayed that my worthies life might
he takeu away, that my sintering mmlit l
ended and that the care I was toothers niiirhl
be brought to a dose. I did Dot then drvaru
that (iod had vet n mission forme to fnllill.
That work wliich I enn now put all my soul
into with which my being is thrilling, is pro-
claiming to sick
and sufTering humanity the
wonders ol
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They
hnve given me new lift
1 It wa
was in April of MM that friend told ml
of the Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and asked mo
to try them. I had no faith in anything, in
fact my life was now burdensome and 1 huled
to take anything that might chance to prolong
it. 1 was at length persuaded and the pills wera
obtained. When 1 began taking them I ai
pale, weak, helpless and almost without life
as before stated, was completely paralyzru
from my waist down, my limbs were simply
bones and skin with no life or feeling in them
and had been so for one year, lie fore the flirt
box was used I could move my toes a little and ,
could begin to feel new life all through me.
This was encouraging and I continued to use
these marvelous pellets.
" In two months time I could move my
limbs about on the bed and bv the time nn
othcr month bad seen ine swallow this medi
cine, to w hich I owe my life, 1 w as nble to get
out of bed alone. It has been just about on
year since I learned of Pr. 'Williams' Pink:
I'ills and during that time I have made such
marked improvement that I gladly proclaim
w hat they have done for m to all the world
and ask you fellow sufferers to try them and
receive new life. My life, my all, I owe to
Ir. Williams' Pink Pills.
" I am now comparatively fleshy with good
color and high spirits, and every day bnnrs.
new strength und more happy life throii);h
the continued use of l'r. Williams' Pink
Pills." W. II. DAWSON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th.'
day of May, 1WC. P. J. KVANS,
Notary in und for Pnginaw Co., Mi-h.
The foregoing is but one of many wonder
ful cures that have been credited to Dr. WiT
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Diseases
which heretofore have been supposed to lie in
curable, such as locomotor ataxia und paral
ysis succumb to this wonderful medicine as
readily as the most trilling ailments. In many
eases the reported cures have been investi
gated by the leading newspapers and verified
in every possible manner and in no case ha
the least semblance of fraud been discov
ered. Their fume has spread to the fur ends ot
civilization and there is hardly a drug store
in ihis country or abroad w here they cannot '
be found.
Dr. Williams' Tink Pills contain in a con
densed form, all the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves. They arc an unfailing spc
cilie for nieh diseases as locomotor ataxia,
partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica,
neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, tho
lifter effect of hi grippe, palpitation of the heart,
pale mid sallow complex ions, ull forms of
weakness either in malcor female. Pink Pills
are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post
paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box. or
six boxes for jr'S.fiO (they are never sold in
bulk or by the 1(0), by uddressiug Dr. Wil
liums' Medicine Company, Schtuectudy. N. Y.
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