THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. LIVE QUESTIONS. A. Pr ?n -f Article Confronted to These Columns by Ailvaticrd Thinkers, Ki MBr.ii I. Skek thk Truth. "Nrw ocr.'iHiuns town n w duties) Time lmiki'M nncii nt Kiioil uncouth; Thry inUNt uiiwnril Btill anil imwnril Who would keep abreast of truth." AH history tenches that the doctrine, "Whatever is, is riKht," in so far from being true that in methods and opinions the, direct contrary niny be said to bo much nearer the truth. Washington's lifo was shortened by faith in bleeding as a panacea. The geuorally accepted prejudice that denied water to the parched lips of a fever patient what un told suffering it bronght upon onr fore fathers I All races in certain stages of their progross have peopled tho invisi ble world with gods who were the magnified images of themselves, with all the vices and passions of primitive man intensified. Any one who question ed the exact truth of this mass of imag ination and tradition was banished or put to death. It was a very mild con travention of the accepted religions be liefs of his time that brought the cup of hemlocks to the lips of the wisest and best of the heathen philosophers. The Christian martyrs were suoceeded by martyrs to Christianity. St. Stephen and John Hubs were alike victims to opinions that nobody now holds. So were Joan of Arc and the Salem witches. Trior to the time of Copernicus it was the general belief that the earth was flat and immovable, and numerous were the thaurios advanced by learned men to account for phenomena that every child now understands. The true expla nation announced by Copernicus and Galileo was condemned by the holy office as "absurd in philosophy and formally heretical because directly con trary to the Holy Scriptures. " Galiloo was forced to recant, and the name of Copernicus remained anathema for three centuries. The divine right of kings was once universally accepted, and in our own time Lovejoy lost his life in Alton, and Garrison and Phillips risked theirs in Boston for daring to question the right of man to enslave his fellow man. The geological conclusions of Sir Charles Lyell in the nineteenth century were condemned by the church, as were the astronomical theories of Galileo in the seventeenth. Franklin's discovery of the identity of lightning and elec tricity was ridiculed by the English sci entists of that day. Stephenson was laughed at when he asserted that his locomotive could draw a train at the rate of 20 miles an hour. We all know now that Galiloo and Lyell, Franklin and Stephenson were right, and the rest of the world was wrong. But we go on just the same condemning or refusing a hearing to the Lyells and Galileos, the Lovejoys and Garrisons of today. Like all our forefathers, we are sure that our creeds and theories represent the abso lute and entire truth. As Bagehot says, "There is no pain so great as the pain of a new idea," and therefore the world shrinks from a new idea as a child shrinks from the surgeon's knife. Every proposal to change the established order is now, as heretofore, condemned, often without a hearing, as fatal to the family, destruc tive of religion or subversive of society. ,We now accept the doctrine that all men, of whatever color, are born free and endowed with certain inalienable rights as expressed in our Declaration of Independence. But for the most part we are satisfied with the mere declara tion that all men are equally entitled to lifo, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness and are impatient of any inquiry as to whether our nresent nnlitien, nnrl social organization really secures this right equally to all men. In this country we have not since the Revolution doubt- ed the truth of Jefferson's dictum thot "a government derives its just powers from the oonsent of the governed, " but in 1832 a proposal to grant to English men their plain political rights was re garded by the conservatives as threaten ing the safety of the kingdom and the continuance of social order. Macaulay's argumeuts iu favor of the reform bill apply with equal force to the conditions of today, and the following from the pen of the famous Dr. Arnold of Rugby embodies a truth of univorsal applica tion. Advocating the passage of the re form bill, he said: "One would think that people who talk against ohange were literally as well as metaphorically blind and really did not see that every thing in themselves and around them is changing every hour by the necessary laws of its being. There is noth ing so revolutionary, because there is nothing so unnatural and so convulsive to society, as the strain to keep things fixed, when all the world is, by the very luw of its creation, in eternal prog ress, and the causo of all the evils of the world may be traced to that natural but most deadly error of human indo lence and corruption that our business is to preserve aud not to improve." It does not by any means follow that every new idea is a good one ; that every proposed change would be an improve ment. But us progress is the law of the universe, it rests with the old order to show why it should be continued. It is therefore tho part of wise men to give careful consideration to new ideas, how ever contrary they muy be to prevalent opinions, bearing in mind the lessons of history that "the stone which the build ers rejected the same is become the head of the comer. " In tho series of articles that will fill these columns for many weeks to come it is arruuged to present to the reador the views of leaders of thought throughout the country on the vital quesrtuus of the day, the questions that bear in their solution the weulaor woe of the present, the progress and prosperity of the future. Such produc tions should be read iu the spirit of St. Paul's ndviro: "Prove nil thing.t. Hold fast that which is good. " Ti! this Mee.ller.t nriticiiiln r.!ir-yirl hrt .explicit ly added tho emit ion whieU it K tho main pnrpnsorf this introductory irtiolo to enforce viz, that the new can receive fair treatment only by re moving so far ns possible (it cannot bo wholly removed) the handicap that is placed upon it by prejudices iu favor of the existing order. Fkkdkrtck M. Cuundkn. St. Louis, December, 1895. NrMBK n II Thk Man Ovt or Employ ment. The unemployed are found iu places where machinery is in use and in places where machinery is not iuuse; where gold is money, whero silver is money and where paper in money j where there is free trade and where thero is protec tion j whero government is corrupt and where government is honest; tinder monarchies and under republics. Neither tho question of machiuory, relied upon by Socialists, nor the question of money, relied upon by Populists, nor the ques tion of good government, relied upon by political reformers genorally, can solve the question of tho unemployed. The most significant figure of our times is the man out of employment. Yesterday he was regarded so far as regarded at nil with alternating contempt and pity. Today he is regarded with con cern. Tomorrow he may be regarded with terror. On your way home tonight some of you will see, coming out from tho shad ow of on alley or building, a man ab ject and unkempt. He will not venture to stop youj ho will walk along with you, and, in snbdned voice and with cringing air, will ask yon for the price of a night's cheap lodging or a cheap snpper. Who is ho? Tho man out of employment. Yon have seen him be fore. He lias called nt your office. Ho has been seen at your kitchen door. You huve seen him in crowds before the bulletin of employment offices. You have seen tho crowd stream all day long into somo factory or office which had advertised "help wanted. " You have seen him wistfully watching more for tunate men who were at work on some building or excavation. Yon have seen him on the country roadside. You have seen him crawling from tho trucks of a railway train. He is known to fame. You can read of him in the newspapers, where he appears in the column of crimes or in the column of suicides. This is the day of "labor problems," and on every such problem there falls the dark shadow of the man out of em ployment. Who keeps wages down? The man out of employment. Who reduced the wages of Pullman's employees? Not Pullman himself, not a greedy corporation, but the man out of employment. Who ordered the great striko of 1894? Not the American Rail way union, nor Debs, but the man out of employment. Who is it that was feared by the strikers? Not tho railway magnates nor the courts, not the in junctions nor the troops, but tho man out of employment. Who broke tho strike? The man out of employment. Whocompels organized laborers to stand together shoulder to shoulder? Not the labor agitator, not tho walking dele gate, but tho man out of employment. Protean in shape, the man out of em ployment is here a tramp, there a hero; hero spiritless, thero proud ; here re vengeful, thero patient ; here a mendi cant, there a martyr. The man out of employment is the constant menace to our civilization. Today the army of the unemployed lurks in the rear. Tomorrow it may be nt the front, barring the way, more terrible than an army with ban ners. Once mustered iuto that army, the man out of employment never mus ters out unless he furnishes a substitute from the ranks of workingmeu. Why are men unemployed? Yesterday society answered, "Becnuse they wish to be. " Today society answers, "We do not know." What shall be done with the unemployed? Yesterday society answered, "We do not care. " Today society merely echoes, "What can we do?" Clarence A. Miller. Los Angeles, December, 1605. Change the feeling in an individual, and his whole method of thinking will be revolutionized ; change the axiom or primary sensation in a science, and the whole structure will have to be recreat ed. The current political economy is founded on tho axiom of individual greed, but let a new axiomatic emotion spring up (as of justice or fair play, in stead of individual greed), and the ba sis of the science will bo altered and will necessitate a new construction. So when people arguo (on politics, mor ality, art, etc.) it will generally be found that they differ at the base; they go out perhaps quite unconsciously from different axioms, and hence they cannot agree. Occasionally, of courso, a strict examination will show that, while agreeing at the buso, one of thorn has made a false step in deduction. In that case his thought does not represent his primary fooling, and when this is point ed out he is forced to alter it This is the commercial age, the oli garchy aud plutocracy of Plato. Honor quite gives place to material wealth ; tho rulers rule not by personal or by hereditary but by property qualifica tions. Parliaments, constitutions nud general "pulaver" are the order of the uay. Wage slavery, usury, mortgages and other ubomiiiatious indicate tho advauco of the mortal process. In the individual man gniu'ti tho end of existence. Car penter's "Cause and Cure of Civiliza tion." Husbandry is the firstborn, but it is not the most favored, trado, because farmers cannot live in the towns, and consequently they havo not much influ ence in making the luws. Wre niwit stand shoulder to shoulder against the drones who govorn us and who produce uothing but laws. Bismarck. GENERAL NEWS. The Delaware . and Hudson col lieries at Wilkes bane will wotk full time until further notice. Nearly 6ooo men are affected. Mrs. Anna R. Aspinwall, has Ity her last will and testament bequeathed $3,500,000, to the Hospital of the 1'iotestant Episcopal Church at Phila delphia, for ill or convalescent poor white female orphan children. John R. Cowen, general counsel of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chosen last Friday to succeed Charles F. Mover as president of the Com pany. A case of faith cure and which is well authenticated comes from West Pittston. A trio of clergymen have been holding services at that place, and were followed ftom Scranton, where they had been formerly holding meetings by a young man named Charles Miller. They set forth the doctrine that any one suffering from any disease or affliction can be cured if their taith was strong enough, and if they pray with fervency and sincerity. Young Miller for years had absolutely no use ot his lett arm on account of piralysis. After prayer by himself and the clergy the arm was restored and is now as sound and useful as before he was stricken with paralysis. , Judge Bechtel overruled the excep tions filed by the Girard Estate against the cranting of licenses to tenants on their estate who had signed an agreement not to sell liquor. The licenses will be granted in all cases save where there are other reasons assigned in the remonstnnces such as selling to minors, selling on Sunday etc. To Change the Trout Season. A number of local anglers, of Allen- town will have a law introduced at the next session of the Legislature to change the trout season, which now extends from April 15 to July 15. It is proposed to make the season from May 1st., to August 1st. It is con tended that trout have not a chance to get fat by April 15th , and that the weather is not favorable to trout fish ing so early. The change is approved by Superintendent Creveling of the State Fishery. By the explosion of a boiler at the works of the Hollidaysburg Iron and Nail Company five men were killed, and twenty-three injured. Hugh Dempsey Pardoned. Hugh Dempsey, the Homestead labor leader, imprisoned for con spiracy in connection with the alleged attempt to poison non union men, is among those who will be granted a pardon by the governor. A bicyclists' accident insurance company has just been organized in Westfield, Mass. It proposes to in sure bicycle riders against all manner of accidents met with while riding their machines. The Jury in the case of James Mausel et al. vs. Ex-Sheriff Fulmer the appeal from the report of the auditors of Lycoming County for 1894 rendered a verdict surcharging the defendant with $130.33. The Plaintiff claimed that he should Le surcharged with $2,304.62. The fiercest, most stubborn and most destructive fire that has visited Philadelphia in years broke out at 3.20 Sunday morning in the cellar of the Hazletme building, 1416 and 1418 Chestnut street, and before it had been subdued the Hazletine building and the American .Baptist publication society's building, at 1420 and 1422 Chestnut street were destroyed, and the dry goods store of Homer Le Boutillier & Co., 1412 and 1414 Chestnut street, was badly damaged and the rear of the Hotel Lafayette, which faces on Broad street, was damaged to the extent of $75,000. The approximate total loss by the fire is $1,075,000, the greater part of which is covered by insurance. The cause of the fire is not definitely known. The Oommon People.' As Abraham Lincoln called them, do not care to argue about their ail ments. What they want is a medi cine that will cure them. The simple, honest statement, " I know that Hood's Sarsaparilla cured me," is the best argument in favor of this medi cine, and this is what many thousands voluntarily say. Hood's Pills are the best after-din-aer pills, assist digestion, cure head nche. 25c. What it Costs to btop a Train It costs $25 a day to run a passenger train for ten hours, a Valley official recently stated, and $30 a day for a freight train. The difference is part ly due to the fourth brakeman neces sary on the freight and to the extra coal used. At this rate it costs 83 cents to allow the holder of a ten cent ticket to alight at a Hag station. going to school Do the children go to school ? And are they joyous and happy ? Is school-life a pleasure ? Aud is progress being made ? Or is the opposite true ? Does the close of each day bring a headache ? There is no appetite and sleep is imperfect. The color gradually leaves the checks and only a little effort is followed by exhaustion. To continue school means to come to the end of the year with broken health. What is the best thing to do ? Take of Cod-liver Oil, with hypophosphites. The cod-liver oil nourishes the body and makes red corpuscles for the blood. The hypophosphites are tonics to the nervous system, giving i 1 ..v.. j ; .1.. j j .e. 1 1 I 1 . : uicauu iujuvny uurmg uieaayana rciresning sleep at nignc. j Don't let you child get thin and worry along. Give Scott's Emulsion; insist on a generous amount of out-door exercise; and the vigor of youth will return. V ct- " ' bottle. SCOTTA BOWNB, Chemists, New York. A6KP0R THE BftKLET ON "LIGHT" AND GIVES BEST IIGHT IN THE WoftlB AEiyTEC 5TE ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tcfcacco. Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Maillard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. IFtstitz Goods jl. Sfecx-a-lty. 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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 Agent, or any member of the Board of Directors. BOAKD OF DIRECTORS. B. F. Sharpless; J. L Dillon. C. W. Neal, A. G. Briggs, Dr. I. W. Willits, Dr. II. W. McReynolds, N. Ij. Funk. SPridejj Iow and For the finest and best stoves, tinware, roofing, spouting and general job work, go to W. W. Watts, on Iron street. Buildings heated by steam, hot air or hot water in a satisfac tory manner. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty. I have the exclusive control of the Thatcher steam, hot water and hot air heaters for this territory, which is acknowl edged to be the best heater on the market. All work guaran teed. 1 W. W. WATTS, IRON STREET. Rloomsburg. Pn. ' ' lo-ar-iy N. U. Funk, Sec C. H. Campbell, Treas. 1 1-19- Good Worlr. FOUR MiGAIlf FOR THE HOME. 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