THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA. ; ft LIVE QUESTIONS. Seirtae of Article Contributed to Thcae Columns by Adrcuced Thinkers. Ncmbf.r VI. Practical Mkasvues to Maintain Sn.F Respecting Manhood. To maintain self respecting manhood should be of purnniotmt injportanco to nu enlightened government, and whilo I nm profoundly convinced that radical and fundamental reforms, which com prehend the ubolition of c1irs privileges and xpncial lrgislntion, are essential to the solution of the great problems which aie now pressing upon tho intelligence and conscience of onr civilization, yet I fully realize that to peaceably accom plish those splendid triumphs for a high er manhood, will require pntieut, cat nest and persistent education and agita tion which will etir to its depth the con science of the people. But this will nec essarily require timo, nnd during this period wise statesmanship no loss than true philanthropy demands that practi cable, palliativo measures be vigorously pushed. One of the most real and im minent perils which face the govern ment today is the gradual loss of hope and the spirit of independence among multitndes of our people, due to adver sity and unjust conditions, which are transforming yearly a large number of our citizons from sturdy, independent, self supporting individuals to objects of charity or tramps. I hold that it ia im possible to too strongly emphiwizo the fact that nuythiug which lowers the es sential manhood or takes an iota from the self respect of the humbler citizens is a very roal injury to the whole peo ple. The unheeded cry for work, which ia the cry of self respecting manhood nnd is the antipodes of an appeal for charitv. is imbittering thousands of American citizens, whilo it is forcing other thousands into environments of moral death ; it is resulting in driving -numbers of men, women and children to drink, crime, snicido and immorality. And these irreparable calamities may, to a certain extent, be averted if our na tion, our states and municipalities awake to the importance of maintaining or restoring the manhood of citizenship nnd holding the loyalty of the people by bands woven of love and wisdom. In view of these facts, any measures of a practicable, common sense char acter which restores self respecting manhood, should receive the cordial support of thoughtful and earnest men and women. Perhaps the most striking illustration of this character which has been introduced in recent years is the famous innovation inaugurated by Mayor Pingree of Detroit. It would seem almost incredible that so practica ble, common sense and reasonable a plan as that outlined by Mr. Pingree should have received the general ridi cule, contempt and opposition which it encountered. It was treated at first as a huge joke or something too absurd and amusing for serious thought, while per sons who were dispensing charity, with out stimulating men and womon to work and regain a grip on life, were being applauded by an unthinking con ventionalism. The result of Mayor Piugree's eminently practicablo meas ures, however, so far exceeded tho most sanguine expectations of those who ap preciated tho wisdom of his plan that New York and many other cities have already inaugurated tho Detroit plan, and perhaps even those who first ridi culed the "Pingree potato patch" may bo interested in the following facts re lating to the magnificent results even when considered from a superficial point of view which have attended the ex periment during tho past two years in Detroit and during the past year in New York city. The winter of 1S93-4 found great numbers of laboring men and women in Detroit, as in every othor city of the Union, vainly seeking work and finally driven to ask for charity, while num bers of persons who had hitherto been self respecting, independent, hardwork ing men, finally abandoning the hope of obtaining employment, became tramps. The mayor of Detroit did not believe the popular cant thnt anybody who de sired work could obtain it. Ho felt con fident that a large percentage of those Who were sinking into the Dead sea of want and becoming hopeless paupers or confirmed tramps were being reduced to these most pitiublo conditions through inability to obtain work, and holding these convictions he determined to put the question to a practical test. Within the area of Dotroit thore wero over 0,000 acres of land lying idlo, much of which was tillable, and Mayor Pin gree and his confreres petitiouod tho holders of this laud to permit those who were willing to work to use it, and in this manner reduce the great outlay which the city and individuals were be ing put to in order to support the starv ing "out of works." The land was promptly secured. Tho next problem was to raise sufficient funds to plow. harrow and, stake off the lots for the ap plicants topurchase seed. Owing to the absurd opposition, the ridicule and con tempt CiJored on every hand to thiswise and common sense proposition, no aid could be expected from the city council, but $3,000 was raised by subscription. 'This enabled the committee appointed r' to carry on the work in a limited way, and 075 families were given portions of laud to till, although the applicants who desired to thus earn a livelihood were 1m gwiater in number than the coiumit tbfwero able to oocommodutu. The val ue of the crop raised by the favored families amounted to between f 12,000 and l,vlo mote than the amount in vested, if he minimum value of the orop be considered, or, over $10,000 more tbui the ontluy, if the maximum Value of file hurvest bo considered. But, above and beyond the mere mone tary considerations, this experiment was vastly mnreimportant in that (1) it dtrtiioiistroed that a large percentage of thoso who were forcod to ask for charity were fhgor to earn a livelihood. (2) It has proved a mnfininVcnt aprieullnrnl sducatiuu for those permitted to oaru thoir year's food. (3) It infused hope in to the hearts nnd ln'mies of nearly n thousand citizens of Detroit during tho memorablo year in which tho plan was inaugurated. (4) It set nn exnmplo for thoughtful, earnest ami conscientious Workers whereby practical palliativo measures could bo carried into execution to maintain self respecting manhood, promote industry and materially rodnoo tho draft on charity, which has of lute become appallingly largo in tho great cities. The experiment was such a pro nounced success thnt last year(lS95) the coramou council of Detroit appro priated $5,000 to aid in tho work, which enabled the committeo to accomniodato over 1,500 applicants for lots. Twelve hundred and fifty-eight of tho.io had been on the books of the city poor com mission. Tho crops harvested, accord inn; to the report of the committee recently rendered to the common council of Do troit, was as follows, with prices which tho committee regard ns a conservative estimate for the average price. Thirty thousand dollars is in the judgment of the committee a fair estimate of tho output: Potato., 61,840 tumhrl nt 40 con til ISl.THO Boans, l.UUUbuHholsatll.fiO l.frJO Turnip. 8,000 bushels nt 80 cunts tun) Beets, l.UOU bushels at UO ci-ntH 1H0 Corn, 400 bushels at 85 cents 1W CnbbiiRn, 4,flC8 heads at 8 cents 140 8(1U:u1iih, 400, earn 0 cents 10 Pumpkins, 600, each 8 cunts 40 Total . 71'-. From r?port of committee rendered to tlio common council of Detroit Nov. S3, lv.ij. Thus, we see, ns a result of tho second year's experiment, with nu appropria tion of $3,000, crops have been raised nnd successfully harvested by persons who would otherwiso havo teen depend ent upon publio charity amounting from about $27,708 to $30,000, or u profit of between $20,000 and $25,000 over nnd above expenses, while, ca has been observed, the financial aspect is in reality the least important The committee in their report ob serve that "no difficulty was experi enced in getting people totako lots, and it was even necessary for want of suffi cient land to rofuso some who upplied. It is nn error to suppose that because people are poor and needy they refuse to help themsolves whore an opportunity offers. From the experience of tho com mittee such is seldom the cose." Another favorablo result is found in the fact that several of those who havo successfully tilled the various lots have now secured small farms for market gardening and are commencing life auow with renewed hope. Other cities have followed the Detroit plan, but space prevents me noticing any, save that conducted in New York during the past year in a limited way by the Society For the Improvement of tho Condition of the Poor. The society se cured 800 acres of vacant lots in Lon;r Island City, employed competent gar deners to instruct the 80 families which the funds of the society were enabled to accommodate, and as a result the follow ing crop was harvested, according to tho figures giveu in the New York World, from authentic sources : Potatoes, buHhelH.6,2!a CubbftRon, hoads.,0,97 Beans, bushels... ,1,200 Tomatoes, crates. 0.0 Peas, bushels 817 Corn, ears 1,'AO Turnips, bushels. . 900 Carrots, bushels.. 40 The vnlne of tho crop in dollars nnd cents was $4,000 more than the outlay, but here again the benefits to tho indi vidual and the state wore far greater than anymore dollar and cent computa tion. $400 One family alone cleared over on the tract allotted them nnd now propose to farm independently next year. When the season opened, the fam ily were $200 in debt and nothing to hope for before them ; when the crops were harvertod, they had $200 in the bank. This case illustrates a fact cf great importnuco for soeiul reformers, as does this important nnd practical palli ative means to mnintuin and sustain self respecting manhood. B. O. Flower, Boston. Number VIL TrtE Kind op Litera ture People Want. j Too many writers seem not to be aware of tho fact that people want j clear, direct and definite discussions and statements of facts. Indeed good literature is very much like a well dressed man whose clothes nro at once so simple and becoming that you never notico how ho is dressed. So the be.it literature is so simple and straightfor ward that it loses itsolf in the thought it contains. Good literature is also nonpartisan. We must have parties and pnrtisnns. Those are always more or less useful. We have an able aud progressivo press that upholds the various party opinions of the day, and this is well and good, but it does not follow thut tho literature of political papers must be partisan. To take a concrete illustration: Two pa pers, one advocuting free trade aud tho other protection, can deal with candor, fairness and directness in discussing the merits and dements of their respective systems, and however they disagree tl y can always be luminous and suave. Exaggeration is easy and cheap, aud it is always easier physically to guess at a fact than to verify it. But in the finul adjustment of anturs the facts stand supreme and detormiue tho des tiny of issues and of men. It is a gen erally admitted fact that the journalism thut contributes to the solid progress of the oountry is that which builds on sober ways and honest progress. In this way every Journal becomes a power, a center of moral energy, whose in fluence is felt fur nnd wide. This is tho kind of writing people want. Reading is usually dono in the quiet hours when men disapprove of rancor and narrow partisanship. Here it is that tho fair and ninnful spirit makes its successful uppeal to all reasonable men, and this is tho opportunity for him who has a message to deliver it with effect. J. W. C. GEN. ALGER'S FORE8IGHT. How the Michigan Millionaire And Poll tlclan Mad Ills Fortune. turiTh11 tteighf vvhhe ! displayed in buying tip Umber lands in Northern Michigan just after the war. He had little capital and most of his purchases were made with borrowed money. The winters of 1867 and 1808 he spent In a log camp in the woods with his family, in order to get a fnll insight into the details of the lumber business. He first introduced railroads to go in to the logging business and finally built a lumber railroad of his own. He has seen some of his pine lands double in value in a single week, and owned sa much timber that he could make con- ; tracts for 50,000,000 feet of logs time. He also owns timber land in Cal- i ifornia. JAPAN'S NAVAL 8TRENGTH. New Battle Shi pi Dulldlnf and Swift Torpedo Ilouta Ordered. Japan's prospects as a naval power continue bright. The programme of the Government at present includes the bnilding of four new battle ships the largest being of 15,000 tons nine pro tected cruisers, four torpedo catchers and ninety torpedo boats. The battle ships and cruisers alone will have a total displacement of 125,000 tons. The former are to do 17.5 knots. They are to be armed with four thirty-centimetre guns each, en barbette, and twelve fifteen-centimetre, quick - firors, besides thirty guns of smaller calibre. The cruisers are to be of 7,500 tons each, with a speed of 21 knots. Their arma ment will consist of two twenty three centimetre guns, ten fifteen-centimetre quick-firers, and some smaller pieces. The torpedo boats are to do SI knots and the torpedo catchers 40. ABOUT PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE. Mrs. Sarah Grand is described as a tall, slender woman, with big, blue gray eyes, whose habitual expression is one of sadness rather than vivacity. Her hair is brown and waving, and it is dressed in a way peculiarly becoming to her oval face, being drawn back and hold in one loose curl at the nape of the neck. Mrs. Grand is a charming host ess and possesses that "excellent thing" a low, well modulated voice. It is said of Mme. Ristori that no foreign actress ever excited so much sincere admiration among French people as she did. Dumas declared that to see her act was worth all the lessons in elo cution in the world, and the last lines de Musset ever wrote were dedicated to Adelaide Ristori a fragment that was found on his writing table after his death. Joseph Jefferson is an especial favor ite with college girls. His audiences on the occasions when he lectures at one of the women's colleges are very enthu siastic and demonstrative. At Smith, the rather conservative girls fairly raved over their distinguished visitor. They greeted him with applause and waving of handkerchiefs, and dismissed him in the same way; each class sunt him em blematic flowers. Though there are now four Duchesses of Marlborough, the mother of the young Duke is not and never has been ono of them. Her husband succeeded to the title after the divorce decree be tween them had become absolute, keep ing her Lady Blandford. The four are, therefore, Consuelo, the reigning and latest Duchess ; Lillian, also Lady Beres ford: "Fannv' Duchess." the mother of the late Duke. Lord Randolr,h Churchill, and six sisters all married ta peers, and "Jane, Duchess," a venerable woman, wife of the sixth Duke, who i still living. Mrs. Craigie, "John Oliver Hobbes," the English novelist of American birth, confesses to a fondness for dress. "I like beautiful gowns just as I like beau tiful surroundings of any sort," she says. She also sensibly thinks that lim ited means need not preclude taste of and becoming dress. "It does not cost any more to dress in good taste and a due regard to neatness than it does to wear gowns in a slovenly way," is her dictum. A Tiny Cycler. The smallest bicycle ridea in the coun try is claimed by Kan Francisco. Her name is Valentine Larook Cornwell. She is but three years old and can man age her wheel, which was made spe cially for her, with as much skill as any veteran. It took her all of two weeks to grasp the principles of equilibrium. She says it came to her suddenly, and throwing aside the hands that steadied her she commenced to cut figures of 8 and grapevines on her own book. Her little red knlckerbocker suit is tailor made a sailor waist, trimmed with white and a jaunty little red cap, completes one of the cutest little figures seen on the bou levards and drives around Ban Fran cisco. Mothars nd Iother-ln-I.w. Is it not a fact that a wife and her mother have more privileges than the husband and his mother? In nine mar riages out of ten the wife's mother lives In the same house and enjoys all the comforts of the family. Would the wife care to have her husband's mother living with them? Not much. Again : The wife goes shopping with her mother, attends theatre, visits, etc. in fact she enjoys the same liberty that were hers before marriage. Supposo the husband were to do all these things, Wo can imagine how the wife voald Ob ject. Yet what is fair for one ought to be fair for the other. ! What is the why and wherefore of all this anyhow? ( Alma Tadvma's ArtUtlo Thumb. ' Alma Tadema, when asked by an ar dent young admirer for a sight of the tool with whioh he had modelled his beautiful Venus, showed the muscle of bis broad thunO. what is milk The mast perfect food in the world is milk Nature has provided that the youngest and most tender child shall t,,. t,:a tnriA T nn'llr tltprp is crpiiprnns siinnlvof oil. or fat. This exists in the form drops. They are so small that it takes hours for them to rise to the surface, as cream. We say, "milk is an emul sion," because the oil is in this finely divided condition. ScotH 5nvufsioru of Cod-liver Oil with the livrxmhosphites, has the cod-liver oil in tlirsefmo irlobiilcs. thus n,,A rria r, a i,rr.1 1 no A rA 5 n 1 1 1 when prepared in this manner. In fact, it is well adapted to young children. The hypophosphites give strength to the nervous system and needed material to growing bone. Learn from nature : take cod-liver oil only as an emulsion. so eta. and $i a bottle. SCOTT A BOWNK, Chonilsts, New York. A6K FOR THl! 53)KLT ON "LIGHT AND Ran) i!VE5 BEST UGHT IN THE ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tobacco. Candies, Fruits and Huts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Halliard's Fine Candies. Fresh Eyery Week. lEtTltf-S GOOZ33 .A. SP,ECI.XjT1T. SOLE AGENTS FOR F .F. Adams & Co's Fine Solo agents for the following brands of Cigars- Haary Clay, Londras, Normal, Indian Princess, Samson, Silver As Bloomsburg Pa. &T0P: AT And see the largest collection bought before the advance in our early buying. Uar tail and winter underwear and hosiery is now on our counters at prices never heard of before. Cor.:iErv Ir.DN and Maix Sts. 'A handful of dirt ful of shame." Keep your house clean with SAPOLIO D. F. Sharpless, Tres. B LOOM LAND IMPEOVEMEHT COMPANY. Capital Stock, $30,000. Plotted property is in the town. It includes also part ot equal in desirability tor residence purposes. CilUlUJi ljUlb are ottered in a short time. No such opportunitv can be had elsewhere to make money. Lots secured on SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS Maps of the town and of plotted property furnished on ar plication. Call upon or write to the becretary. or J. 8. Wood3, Kales Agent, or any member of the BOARD OF B. F. Sharpless: C. W. Neal, A. G. Dr. II. W. McReynolds, ffceji Iow bud ror the nnest and best stoves, tinware, rooting-, spouting and general job work, go to Buildings heated by steam, kot tory manner. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty. I have the exclusive control of the Thatcher steam, hot water and hot air heaters for l li- 1 il . eagea 10 De me Desi neater on teed. IRON STREET. of minute globules, or tiny makllltr it ail emulsion. liOVS invalids rmi take cotl-liver oil W6MS AEoiyTEiyMTE Cut Chewing Tobacco W. H. MOORE'S of shoes in the county. All prices. You cret the benefit of W. H. floore. may be a house N. U. Funk, Sec. C. II. Campbell, Treas SBUR coming business centre of the tue factory district, and has no at values that will be doublet Board of Directors. DIRECTORS. J. Dillon. Briggs, Dr. I. W. Willits N. L. Funk. II-IQ- Gfood Wofk. w. W. Watts, on Iron street air or hot water in a satisfac this territory, which is acknowl .1 1 i All . me mantei. mi wont guaran W. W. WATTS, nioomsburg Pn. 10-a-ly ?) Popuub Magazises j FOR THE HCHE. 'for ml uovs GIRL? r.H,.,t".-.tMSl-- 1 FRANK LESLIE'S OOPULAR & MONTHLY Contitno each Mnnth Original Water Color t:rnntlaDlrce t 128 Ouarto Pane ol Heading Matter i IOO New and High -elate Illustra tion! More Literary Matter and llluitra- tlcn than any otner mairazina in America. 23 eta. $Ja Year. Frank Leslie's Pleasant Honrs FOR DOYS AND CIRLS. A Tlrlifhl. XVholpome. Jnvr-nllo Monthly. Fully tilumnite'd. Tim hurt writer for young pOOplO ooilinnill to ll. iu'ib. i ? a jronr. SERB ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburg, Pa. CUB RATKB. 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