THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
WASHINGTON.
from our Kegular Correspondent.
Washington, Jan. 24th, 1896.
It remained for Senator Wolcott to
strike the first discordant note heard
in Congress in connection with Presi
dent Cleveland's Monroe doctrine
mesaee, and the appointment of the
Venezuelan Boundry Commission,
which he declared to be a menace
rather than a guarantee of peace.
That Mr. Wolcott is a brilliant orator
is conceded by all, but that he is too
shallow ever to become a statesman
was well known before he delivered
that speech attacking Secretary Olney,
President Cleveland and the Monroe
doctrine. Oratory is a gift, while
statesmanship can only be acquired
by deep study and long experience,
with more than the average allowance
of brains to start with. Had Senator
Wolcott confined his remarks to op
posing the Monroe doctrine resolution
this week reported to the Senate by
tthe committee on Foreign Relations
I he would have been in goud company,
(as many of the strongest friends of
the Monroe doctrine consider that
resolution ill timed and badly worded,
but when he tried to jump upon the
administration for its action in patri
otically upholding the Monroe doc
trine, and upon the doctrine itself, he
found himself alone.
Although there are lots of strong
silver men among the democratic
members of the House aud Senate,
with the exception of Representative
Bell, of Colo., who is mote of a popu
list than a democrat, not one of them
took part in the silver conference held
in Washington this week, for the pur
pose of making arrangements tor hold
. ng a national silver convention to
nominate a Presidential ticket. All
of the silver democrats were invited
to participate in this conference, but
regarding it as merely a tail to the
populist kite they declined doing so.
In fact nearly .ill the members of
Congress, even the populists, seem to
have turned the cold shoulder to the
silver conference, which was compos
ed of nearly the same men who at
the last silver conference nominated
Sibley, of Pa., for President.
Col. J. C. Clarke, of Ala., president
of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, is
expressing some very robust political
opinions around Washington just now.
For instance, he says : "The only
chance the democracy has to win is
to put forth a plank in the National
platform declared for silver in unmis
takable terms. No straddles or equivo
cal language will be accepted by the
people. They have been fed on that
sort of stuff long enough. There are
157 electoral votes in the Southern
States that can be carried on a straight
silver platform one that says what it
means and means what it says but
they cannot be had for a gold stand
ed candidate on a single standard
platform. The people are hungry for
a real, live issue and they ought to
have the chance ot being recorded on
this one. If the democrats throw
away this opportunity another such
may not come for many years."
Tim Campbell, who for a consider
able period represented one of the
New York city districts in the House,
and who, when he failed to secure
the Tammany nomination, ran as an
independent democrat and was de
feated by Henry Miner, the Tammany
candidate, has been turned down by
one of the Home Election Committees.
He contested Miner's seat, but the
committee decided against him. Tim
says he'll try again. Personally Tim
is very popular in Washington. He
originated the expression, " What's
the Constitution between friends,"
which was jocularly quoted by Senatoi
Hill the other day.
The departure of Miss Clara Bar
ton, president of the Red Cross
Society, for Armenia, and the report
ing of a resolution expressing sym
. pathy for the Armenians and calling
upon the European powers to give
the protection guaranteed them by
treaty, to the Senate, brought that
matter quite prominently to the front
this week. Although Secretary Olney
does not believe that the Sultan of
Turkey will allow Miss Barton to
enter Armenia for the purpose of dis
tributing money contributed by our
people for the destitute Armenians,
after his recent order against it, he has
instructed Mr. Terrell, our minister to
Turkey, to aid Miss Barton in every
way that he can.
Secretary Olney has furnished Con
gress with all the information in his
possession concerning the Cuban
revolution. The hot heads in Con
gress are still advocating immediate
recognition of Cuban belligerency,
but the conservatives who counsel
moderation for a while longer, are
still holding back.
Speech making is the principal
industry of the Senate just now,
while the House is railroading appro
priation bills, so as to' be ready for an
early adjournment.
Curious,
We are informed that in Nevada
there is a toboggan slide which starts
in an ice palace up in the mountains
and decends into an orange grove.
A slide down hill in life does not
usually have 6uch conditions, for the
temperature of the world is apt to
lower with the fall. From Jfarer,s
Weekly,
TERRIBLE ORDEAL
She Saw Her 'Little Girl Fading Away-A Story
That Will Touch the Heart of
Every Mother.
Some Instances, too, of the Modern Treatment for
Neuralgia It Is a Woman's Disease.
From th Journal, Detroit, ilicK
A Try frrateful mother ii Mrs. A. I ITftrt
nrss, of 6760nndy Avenue, Detroit, for the
wonderful cure which her daughter hu re
reived by the nsa of Dr. Williams' rink
Tills. Paid Mrs. IIrtnes: "Yes, ray daugh
ter's life has been'saved by using Pink Tills,
thanks to a kiud friend who recommended
them to me.
" Blanche was sirk for over three years.
Fhe had the care of the best physicians pro
curable, and no expense or trouble was
snared to pi re her relief. 8he was so thin
that she was fairly skiu and bones, her diges
tion was out of order and she had the most
awful headaches. We gave up all hope of
her recovery. Her long, thin, listless face
made me nearly crary, and we did eve rythinR
in our power to give her strength and induce
her to tuke an interest in anything.
" One day friend told me about IMnk
Pills, and Mr. Jiartness went down town and
cot three boxes. She had taken about one
box, when to my amazement, one morning I
heard her playing on the piano. I could
hardly believe it, for it had been over a year
since the piano had been opened.
"Soon she began to take short rides on her
bicycle, and soon she went singing around the
house, our own happy, hearty, little daughter
once more.
" She thinks nothing of ft spin tin her wheel
over to M t. Clemens or l'ontiac, and is as well
as she ever was.
"1 had a girl living nt our house who was
a great auflerer from impoverished blood, and
who received instant and permanent relief
from the use ot one box ot the puis.
"If this information can be of any use to
help some poor, sick one, it is given with the
greatest of pleasure."
NtXKALGIA NO I.OXOEH TERROR
IZKS WOMEN.
A Story of Twa Women.
From the Evening Time; Buffalo, JV. T.
Women have no longer need to fear that
dread enemy Neuralgia. Science has con-
anered, and woman is relieved of a great bur
en of pain. Prominent among the many
who stand as living testimonials to the new
remedy and its eflicacy in curing uenralgia is
Mrs. l'olinki, a widow lady who lives with
her father, Christ Pteltxer, in a pleasant home
Just bevond Uowanda.
Believing her experience would prove of
wide interest among women, a reporter called
at her house.
Seated in the eosy little parlor, furnished in
true country style, Mrs. Polinski told the re
porter her story.
" I am not a sick woman as you ran readily
aee," sue sam, ana 1 never have been. I do
not like newspaper notoriety and have never
had my name in the papers before. I would
certainly not say a word this time, but I think
it is my duty to tell women what I have
found.
" I used to be troubled with frequent head
aches. They were not serious I think they
must have been neuralgia but thev were
Juki had enough to make it decidedly un
pleasant for me. I was able to work, but in
a sort of a listless fashion.
" I heard ot Pink Pills made by the Dr.
Williams' Company and was persuaded to try
thenv I did so and now all is changed. I
have not had a headache in many mouths and
have such faith in the pills that I do not think
I ever will again. They did me a world of
jrooa ana 1 know tney will uo as much for
other women."
Charles 8. Phelps, the well-known Go
wanda druggist whose place of business is on
Main Street, said to the reporter that he had
Billy's Letter to Ukveland.
A Precocious Youngster Wants -Undo
Jack Set Free."
Visalia, Cal., Jan. 21. Twelve
year old Willie Hammond, nephew of
John Hayes Hammond, the civil
engineer who is under arrest at Pre
toria, Africa, for his supposed implica
tion in the Jameson raid in the
Transvaal, heard his father and other
members of the family anxiously dis
cussing the matter, and conceived a
novel scheme to secure the release of
his uncle. Providing himself with
pen and paper, Willie retreated to the
library, where he evolved the follow
ing somewhat remarkable epistle ad
dressed to the President :
" Visalia, Cal , Jan-. 19. Mr. Cleve
land, Piesident Dear Sir : Will you
please make th; men that have mv
uncle in jail let him go ? I think you
will, won't you ? If you will I will be
very pleased. They might kill him.
You may be a very stern man, but I
think will be kind enough to set my
Uncle Jack free. If you were a little
boy like me you would not like your
uncle in jail and it I were you I would
set him free if it caused war. My
Uncle Jack is a good man, so you will
please get him out. Writs soon, I
am the son of W. H. Hammond. My
papa is County Clerk in Vasalia.
Yours truly,
Lilly Hammond.
TOTS ON THEIR TEAVLS.
Four of Them Journey Alone Across the
Continent.
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Four little traveler:, aged from 7 to
1 a years, grand children of Charles A.
Ahrens, a cigar dealer on Eighth
avenue, New York, arrived there last
Thursday from San Francisco, having
made the journey alone through the
aid of railway and 6teamboat officials.
Their parents died in California and
they started Eastward January 8 on
the lonj; journey over the Southern
Pacific road to New Orleans, thence
by steamer to this city. Fruit, flowers
and sweetmeats were showered upon
them by travelers on the trains.
OF A ilTHE
a large sale for the Pink Pills. "TheT are ft
popular medicine," he added, "and do much
good."
l. w. ireeman, 01 iso. vi main Mrcei,
Springville, N. Y., the well-known and popu
lar photographer, was called upon by an
other Timit reporter w ho learned that he had
likewise heard something about 1'ink I ills
and their eflicacy in curing neuralgia.
1 es, he said, in answer to questions, my
wife was greatly benefited by the use of lr.
Williams' Pink Tills for Pale People. She
does not like newspnper notoriety, and sol
do not like to say much on the subject."
" What was her ailment, Mr. Freeman ? "
" Well, partly neuralgia, but that will do. I
will not enter into details, and what I have
said must suflico. Jut put in your paper for
me that she was greatly benefited; cured by
the pills when doctors tailed and let it go at
that. The remedy was recommended to her
by Mrs. Dean Jones, of this place, who, I un
derstand, was also greatly benefited. 1 will
be pleased to tell anybody who calls all about
the pills."
At Trior's drill? store, Springville, it was
said tlint they sell more of Dr. Williams' Piuk
Pills than anv other patent medicine.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
are not a patent medicine, but ore a thor
oughly scientific preparation, the result of
years of careful study on the'psrtof an emi
nent graduate of if ctiill Medical College,
Montreal, and of F.dinburg University, Scot
land, and they were successfully used by hira
in his everyday practice for years before be
ing offered for general sale. The merit of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills is attested by the
hundreds of marvelous cures they have
wrought in all parts of the country, nnd now
their sale far excexls that of any other pro
prietary medicine. This is thehrst test of the
(act that Dr. Willinms' Pink Pills perform all
their makers claim for them, and in seeking
an effective nerve food which would nourish
without over-stimulating, and would build up
naturally the wasted, flabby aud diseased
nerves, and which would at the same time
give a supply of blood at once purer, richer
and redder, and more capable of carry in;
nutriment and oxygen to every nerve and
muscular fibre of the body. Dr. Williams
struck at the root of all disease, and it is em
inently proper, therefore, to give a list of the
diseases for which this preparation is intvuded,
which wc do herewith :
All diseases arising from a poor and watery
couditinn of the blood, such as pale and sub
low complexion, general muscular weakness,
loss of appetite, depression of spirits, lack of
ambition, aniemia, chlorosis or green sickness,
palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath
on slight exertion, coldness of hands or feet,
swelling of the feet or limbs, pain in the buck,
nervous headache, dizsinets, loss of memorv,
feebleness of will, ringing in the ears, early
decay, all forms of fcnuile weakness, leucor
rhoeu, tardy or irregular periods, suppression,
of menses, hysteria, pnralysis, locomotor
ataxia, rheumatism, sciatica, all diseases de
pending on vitiated humors in the blood,
causing scrofula, swelled glands, fever sores,
rickets, hip-joint diseases, hunchback, ac
quired deformities, decayed bones chronic
erysipelas, catarrh, consumption of the bowels
and luntrs, and also for invigorating the
blood ami system when broken down by over
work, worry, disease, execsfes and indiscre
tions of living, recovery from acute diseases,
such as fevers, etc., loss of vital powers, sper
matorrhea, early decay, premature old age.
They a;t directly on the blood, supplying to
the blood its life-giviii'j qualities by assisting
it to absorb oxygen, Unit great supporter ot
all organic life. m
Pink Pills are sold by all dealers or will
be sent post raid on receipt of price (50 cents
a box or six boxes for $'.50 they are never
sold in bulk or by the l(K') by addressing Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Got tbe Clothes, But Lost the Bride.
The couise of true love does not
run smooth among the, Polish popula
tion at Mocanaqua. A young man,
whose name we could not spell if we
knew it had made all the preliminary
arrangements for his marriage with a
Polish girl of sixteen. The wedding
day was set for Mondav. A side of
beef hadbeen ordered of Mr. Bens
coter and to wash it down forty
dollars worth of beer had been en
giged. The groom, as is the custom
among these people, had furnished
the bride with her trosseau. After
receiving the outfit she changed her
mind and on Friday ran away leaving
the groom in utter dismay. He deter
mined not to be beaten and learning
that she was at Nanticoke went up
Saturday afternoon. Finding her with
the wedding clothes on, he proceeded
to strip her on the spot. He did not
regard the job complete until he had
secured all that had been given her
even to the shoes and stockings. The
girl was left with less clothing than a
ballet dancer and had she not been
among friends would have been in a
sorry plight. The young man return
ed to Mocanaqua Saturday night with
a big bundle of the finery under each
arm. As soon as he finds some one
to fit the clothes the wedding festivi
tes will proceed, Mountain Echo.
You're aa Easy Prey, 1
with your flesh reduced below a healthy
standard, for Consumption and olher Scrofu
lous and dangerous diseases. And it's for
just this condition that Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is especially valuable.
If you're thini er than you ought to be,
whether from wasting diseases, defective
nutrition, or whatever cause, the " Pis
covery" will surely bring you up to the
healthy standard, Hy restoring the normal
action of the deranged organs and functions,
it arouses every natural source and means
of nourishment. As a strength-restorer and
flesh-builder, nothing like this medicine is
known to medical science. Filthy Cod liver
oil and all its disguised compounds can't
compare with it.
Dr. Pierce's Tcllets cure constipation,
indigestion, or dyspepsia, biliousness and
headaches.
Advertising For Tanners,
While waiting at a country station I
became acquainted with quite an in
telligent, nicely dressed gentleman
who belonged to that class which, ac
cording to the funny newspaper, is the
natural mark for the confidence man.
During our conversation he learned
that I was connected with the adver
tising department of the press.
" I believe in advertising," he re
marked, " and practice it, as also do
several of my neighbors."
The possibility of a farmer advertis
ing had never occurred to me, and
upon expressing a curiosity to know
in what manner a farmer could adver
tise, he said : '
" I live in one of the best counties
in Michigan, where I own and till h
large farm. In addition to raising all
kinds ot grain I raise both cattle and
hogs. I live within convenient dis
tance of four railroad stations, each
having a number of grain buyers and
stock dealers. When I conclude that
I am ready to sell my stuff I insert a
local in three or four local papers
published at those villages stating the
amount and quality and, if stock,
when it will be ready to go. Then,
instead of being compelled to go from
one dealer to another in order to re
ccive a fair price, they come to me ;
and by mail or personally, put a price
on it. The buyers know my methods,
and also know that other dealers are
after me, and as a consequence bid
the highest price they can afford. I
always get the prices going and my
little outlay in advertising pays me.
Then, another thing : If I want to
buy a milk cow what is the use of my
riding all over the country, inquiring
from Tom, Dick and Harry for the
desired article and spending four or
five dollars' worth of valuable time
when fifty cents invested in an aflver
tisenient in the local paper will bring
such a throng of eager sellers as to
give my premises the appearance of a
county fairground ?" 'inters' Ink.
If asked the question " Have you
got a stomach ?'' it would be safe on
general principles, to answer " Yes."
But, if you are sure cf it; that is, if
you ever feel any distress after eating
or any pains of whatever description
in the region of the stomach, you have
got something more than an ordinary
stomach ; in other words, you have
got a diseased stomach. The stomach
is a powerful muscle, and the proper
remedy for a tired muscle is rest. Try
the Shaker Digestive Cordial, for this
product not only contains digested
food, which will nourish the system
without any work on the part f the
diseased organs, but it aids the d -gestion
of other foods as well. Yi u
can test its value in your ca?e for the
trilling sum of 10 cents. Sample
bottles at this price are carried by a 1
druggists.
Laxol is the best medicine for
children. Doctors recommend it in
place of Castor Oil.
Seleotirg a Bishop.
More than a thousond members ol
the Mennonite church gathered at
Lititz, Eancanter county, last week
to select a Bishop. This is done in a
peculiar manner, the clergymen and
bishops being chosen by lot. In this
case there was a vacancy in the office
of Bishop in the Hammtfr Creek dis
trict and there were three candidates
for it. After lengthy religious services,
three Bibles were placed on the pul
pit. In one was a slip of paper and
the candidate drawing that book is
declared to be the Bishop. The
choice fell on Rev. Christian Risser,
and he was then installed into the
high office.
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, $20.oo $25.oo Suits, $15.oo
25.oo 44 15.oo 20.oo 44 IO.00
20.oo 44 .. IO.00 I6.00 44 8.00
Thousands Good Warm Suits and Overcoats, $5.oo
Notwithstanding the very
low prices the rule is still
In force to pay Railroad
fare on very moderate purchases.
ACOOD THING -
A Great Big" Piece for0.
10 Cents- 1
He got his License.
George Dobcrneck, cf Indiana
county, applied for a brewery license
and was refused. He took his case
to the Superior Court and that body
granted him his license. The Couit
holds : "It is well settled that the dis
cretion vested in the Court of Quarter
Sessions under the Act of July 0, 1S91
to grant or refuse licenses for the sale
of vinous and spiritous, malt or brewed
liquors by wholesale, will not justify
the arbitrary grant or refusal of such
license, but that it is a judicial discre
tion to be exercised for legal reasons
and in a judicial manner. How far
such discretion, when exercised in
reference to cases such as the one at
the bar, is reviewable, is clearly stated
in the lucid opinion of Justice Mitchell
in the recent case of Mark Gama's
appeal, 169 Pennsylvania State Re
ports, page 43", from which it appears
that there must be a judicial hearing
and that if the license is refused the
refusal must be for a legal reasDn."
Clearfield Kefublieaii.
Rev. S. J. Morris D. D., pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church of
Bridgeville, Delaware, announces that
he will preach on "The Order of Free
Masons.". He says that in the course
of his sermon he will give passwords,
signs, grips and Secret symbols of the
order, notwithstanding that he is not
a member.
WANAiOTAKER
Sixth and Market Ninth and Chestnut
WM. H. WANAMAKER
, Twelfth and Market Streets
PUSH IT ALONG
TOE A. GREATER AMERICA-
Wants a Combination of All tiie Western
Hemisphere Nations.
In an impassioned and jingo letter
to the New Haven Journal and
Ceurier, January 2 2, Professor Totten,
late of Yale and the United States
army, comes ' down to sublunary
things and advocates the immediate
call of Pan-American Congress
to include every sovereignty that
now holds a foot of land in the
Western hemisphere, the purpose
being to draw up a declaration
of the independence
America from all future
of Greater
uninterested
control.
He is very bitter against the Davis
resolution, and itemizes his proposi
tion with great force. He thinks a
congress of the nations is now the
only righteous way out of the present
situation.
Parties wishing their letters to go
in a hurry should always write " in
haste " on the lower left hand corner
of the envelope. When these magic
words appear on the envelope every
body connected with the postal ser
vice jumps around lively. The car
driver whips his horses into a brisk
trot, the postmaster dances a jig and
the route agent rushes forward and
tells the engineer to pull the throttle
wide open and let her go. Exchange,
& BROWN