i G THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. LATE SUPPERS- It la Batter Kai Moil era tely Before Go ing to Med. TheoM tradition that to eat anything fm lxfor going to IxhI is sure to pro sine lrulirostion and romler ltMp im pomibla is now hnvpily exploded. It U mot good, a a matter of fact, to tro to fcod with th stomach no loaded that the undigested food will render one wntlefw, but something of a light, pal atbK nature in tha stomach is one of tfc best aids to quietude and rest. Some physicians have declared, indeed, tkat a good deal of the prevalent in omnia is the result of nn unconscious craring of the stomach for food in per asma who have been unduly frightened by the opinion that they must not eat beore going to bed, or who have, like many nervous women, been keeping themselves in a state of semi starvation. Kothing is more agreeable on retiring the night than to take a bowl of hot btoth, like oatmeal gniel or clam soup, It is a positive aid to nervons people, nd induces peaceful slumbers. This fai especially the case on cold winter tight, when the stomach craves warmth as much as any other part of tko body. Even a glass of hot milk Is gratef nl to the palate on such occasions, but a light, well-cooked gruel is better, ad in our climate, during the cold months of winter, should be the retir ing food of every womau who feels the L of food at night. Bow Titles An Prised In Kngland. A correspondent of the London Truth anka what there is in the Anglo-Saxon nature that makes Anglo-Saxons the prize snobs of the world? Other races hare their weaknesses, but this weak jeae they do not share with us. We arte at foreign titles, yet in no coun try are titles so openly sold. We look with lofty disdain at some Italian or Gearmau Oonnt, whose ancestors have been Counts for unnumbered genera tions. Yet we groTel before any loan monger or brewer who has bought a peerage, as though he was little less than an archangel. The latst development of this craze baa been the eagerness which towns are showing to secure a nobleman for their Mayor. I always felt a contempt for the London County Council, since it elected a Peer a its Chairman, entirely nconnected with the metropolis, and utterly unversed in municipal matters. This was the work of men calling theni- 8T0NEWALL AT MANASSAS. Personal Appearance of tha Great Con federate General. Mr, George R. Wendling of Washing ton, in a lecture on Stonewall Jackson, incidentally gives a personal descrip tion of Jackson. "Let ns pause for a moment," he said, "and look at this college profes sor. He is about 5 feet 10 inches in height, with an angular figure and broad shoulders, and so far from being graceful that one would first say he is a clnmsy man ; but if he will nncover his head we shall see a broad, white forehead, betokening in its lines the firm intellect and the powerful will. His eyes are bluish gray and very mild in expression when nndisturbed, but full of volcanic sparks when aroused they say the piercing ey of an eagle. "His clothes are common, with just enough simple braid to show his rank. All through life his external seeming, taken together with the heart, the souL und the brain of him, forms a paradox. Ho mounts his old sorrel horse, and we laugh at him. Stirrups too short, knees projecting upward, heels projecting outward, and chin hugging his breast in sotar truth, an awkward man in his saddle. He wears a cadet cap, and looks from side to side beueath its low rim. Ho is a reticent man ; his air is thoughtful and abstracted. His bear ing is still; he loves to be alone; he consults no one. His lips move often in prayer, and he has a way of looking long aud steadily into the sky. "What sort of a man is this? Shall we sot him down for a hypochondriac driven by fate into short-lived promi nence? Is he anything more than a mere routine professor, ill-balanced when out of his groove? Is it safe to put thousands of men into his hands? We shall see presently; meanwhile it looks doubtful." The lecturer digressed to give what he called the philosophy of the tremen dous conflict, characterizing it as a struggle between two civilizations, one originating at Plymouth Rock and the other at Jamestown. "Nominally," he said, "we were one people, but in fact we were two; we were Old England on American soil, and the problem was to construct ono 19th century American out of two 17th century Englishmen. All honor to the Cavalier and all honor to the Puritan. But there is a new man and one better than either at the door. To-dty there are neither Yankees nor Southerners. The Frontier Forts. The legislature in 1893 passed law authorizing the Uovcrnor to ap point a commission of five persons who should make inquiry as to the location of the forts erected in Penn sylvania prior to i?8t as a defence against the Indians. Capt. John M. Buck ale w of Fishingcreek was ap pointed one of these commissioners and to hiiu was assigned the district between the branches of the Susque hanna. The first volume of the re port of the commissioners is before us. It includes the paper of Capt. lluckalew. His report is especially clear and shows much research and investigation. The Governor made no mistake when he appointed the Captain. The forts in this section that are described in this volume as located in Columbia County are Fort Jenkins on the Jacob Hill farm, in Center twp. now owned by G. W. Creveling estate. This fort was probably the most pretentious and was built in the fall of 1777 or early spring of 1778. Fort Wheeler located near Shew Taper Mill on Fishingcreek in Scott tow nship which was built by Lieut. Moses Van Campen in May 1778. Fort McClure or McClure's fort was situated on the Douglas Hughes farm in Bloomsburg and was con structed by stockading the residence of Mrs. James McClure in 1780 after the destruction of Fort Jenkins by Lieut. Van Campen after his return from captivity. A second volume of plie rest-arches of this commission is to be published. The legislature should go a step further and should appropriate money and authorize this coirmission erect monuments or markers on the sites of these forts. In a recital of the history of Fort Jenkins Capt. Buckalew incorporates the story of a massacre of a family opposite the Fort on the South side of the Susquehanna River in 1779 as related by Mr. C. F. Hill of Hazleton. We do not wish to take issue with Mr. Hill but if his story be true, there were two massacres about the same time within one mile of each other. Benefit Payments-. SupremeiCourt Decision ol Interest Members ol the Golden Eagle. to Trenton, Feb. 21. Among the opinions filed in the supreme court yesterday was one by Justice Garri son, setting a matter that will be of interest to all members of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. B. Smith was a member of Ocean Castle No. 1 1 in good standing and in receipt of week ly benefits on account of illness under a beneficial provision of the castle, which by an error in bookkeeping stopped payment. The court of common pleas established the right of Smith to the arrears of benefits, and the only question was now whether he could maintain this suit in the civil courts without first having had recourse to the tribunals of the association itself. By the sylabus the court holds that the members of fra ternal benevolent associations may lawfully agree, as part of the scheme of the organization, to submit their domestic grievances, in the first in stance, to the internal tribunals of the order ; and, having so agreed, cannot against the protest of the association maintaiu a civil action against it until the condition precedent has been, in legal contemplation, complied with. The judgment below is reversed, the record remitted and a judgment ol non-suit entered. mres itaaicais! Ana now various towns are reveling at the feet of some and in their ateiul w fin.l n An,H- 1 As it is cenerallv known, the editor JPer resident in its neighborhood and Imploring his Lordship to do it the hon eor of allowing himself to be nominated its Mayor. Why? Simply and solely because he m a Lord, for were he a neighboring Jones it would occur to no one to press the post on hlin. Municipalties ought ta consist of men, not only townsmen, bat men who have shown themselves awful townsmen, and if one man more than another ought to be a permanent Maident in a town, it is its Mayor. In Italy, during the middle Ages, a town used to invite some Baron to be its patron. This was because he was a of war and commanded men of and therefore could defend the burghers against their enemies. But Barons are not needed in England to de fend towns against hostile raids, and to elect a nobleman as a decorative Chief Magistrate of a town is the very climax af ramrant snobbery. Ha Needed Air. Ee was sick, or at least said he was, and the other day he entered the office af a well known physician, and sank in to a leathered covered armchair in the ante-room awaiting his turn on the list. At last it came, and the doctor ex amined hi tongue critically, felt of his poise, inquired as t the symptoms of fata illne and then began to look wise. Taking a pad from the table, he wrote a prescription calling for bread pills and distilled water or something of that sort. Then turning in his chair tha physician said : "I cannot see that anything serious is the matter with you. What you need ia plenty of air " The pat'ent sini'ed a broad, bland smile, but said nothing. Take this prescription regularly very night, but above all things get plenty of air. Good, wholesome out door atmosphere, that is what you need mare than anything else." "Ha! ha! ha! I need air, do I?" shout ad the man. "Well, that is funny." Why, what do you meant" inquired tha doctor. "Mean? Why, I am a street car driver." In conclusion the lecturer said: "Summing up his career, the mnse of American history may write: "Here was a man who gave soul, and heart, and brain, and at last life itself, to his duty as he saw it, and humbly trusted all to God.' I doubt not that when Stonewall Jackson passed behind the veil and saw the things that are and are to be, he said again, as upon his dying bed, 'It is all right !' One day, in the delirium of his illness, he softly mununred: 'Let us cro6s over the river and rest in the shade of the trees,' but the last rational words that fell from his lips were: 'It is all right !' r -1 n 1 . r 1 01 tne jefupiitan, is a native 01 j Miftlin tow nship and has a distinct recollection of men who were in turn personally acquainted with those who t figuted in that locality in those , troublous times. From the lips of I these old men, notably George Yohe and others he gathered the facts of a massacre which we here relate, in the year 1779, probably, a family named Winpigler (as we recollect it) made an effort to settle on what has for more than one hundred years been the B.-own homestead. The family came up from either the lower A Permanent Census Favored. It may be surprising to many per sons to learn that the eleventh census of the United States has not been completed, but promises to be soon. It required seven years to complete the tenth census, and as the eleventh will be completed in two years less time, some improvement has been made, but still it seems to take an unreasonable long time to make a census, and this seems to justify the demand, by many people, for a per manent census bureau ta ae engaged at all time in gathering facts, leaving only the numbering the people and statistics in connection therewith to be gathered at the decennial census. The cost of the latest census up to June 30, 1S95, was $10,531,000, and when printed in books makes 25 vol umes of 22,000 pages. This unique advertisement, with its alluring inducements, is published in last week's Oval LtJgtr. Perhaps the barbers in this city might get a pointer or two by reading it. Here it is: "For a sleek shave or a neat hair cut, go to Abe Gann, the old stand. You don't have to go in a private house, but a nlace rjreDared for the And when the sad and careworn ! counties of Pennsylvania or from New j business. Shop open Wednesday and face and loving heart of Lincoln were 1 Jersey and stopped at the present 1 Saturday evenings. Cigar with every touched by death, and his great spirit ' site of Catawissa. The father, mother ; shave; two cigars with every haircut'' went up to the same God before whom and one son proceeded ahead of the T . V. 1 I lfc 1 1 I . . I remainder of the party by the hill Jackson had so often knelt, and when later on there came the noble soul of stately Lee ; and by and by there came the hero of the Union cause, the great commander. Grant, I doubt not that, one and all, with Sidney Johnson and Hancock and Thomas and McClellan and with a million of brave men who wore here the bine and wore the gray, all looked with clearer eyes over the past and into the future, and beheld a great notion where there had been great States, saw one people where there had been two, and then, with di vine approval, said, with one voice: It is all right!'" road to a cabin that was located in a How Grant Got a Cmtomer. Capt. U. S. Grant used to drive through Southern Wisconsin selling leather. A young German opened a shop at Lancaster. Grant called upon the German. After trying in vain to make the young man understand, he asked a friend to direct him to some one who could talk German. A Mrs. Oox was named. Capt Grant, rein forced by Mrs, Cox, renewed the at tack on the young German, and made a good customer. Mrs. Cox is still living, and delights in talking about the times when she was Gen. Grant's interpreter. Chicago Times-Herald. Accounts Balanced. Tailor Can you pay me the five balers yon owe me? Student No, not to-day. "But I must have the money to pay mxy landlord; I owe him five tbalers." "That's all right You owe him five thalers and I owe you five thalors. That iost makes us even all around. Texas Sittings. . The Obliging Poet. I wish you would put your name down for ten dollars to this (subscrip tion," said the lady to the poet. "Certainly." he said. "I'll put it down for nothing." Then he wrote hi name. -Keep your ten dollars, Mrs, Patkins," he added, as he blotted the signature. "I would not charge the charity for so slight a service." Har per's Bazar. A Perfect Right to. Sandford Say. Wheeler's pretty bad-f- gone on Miss Bloomer. 1 just -W him putting a ring on her ringer. Merton Yhat of it? A man has a right to ring his bicycle bell, hasn't he? -Truth. AmuuMg the Amateur. EtU (in the wings) Why do you elooution'.ista call jouxLf readers? You don't read. Anita Why do you call yourself a auger? You don't sing. Her Krror. ' "I see that you have been buying a bicycle," he casually remarked, as they sat side by side on the sofa. "Yes." "Cash or instalment?" "Two dollars a week," she admitted. And thus it was she unknowingly c .used him to postpone his propositi for nearly a year. Indianapolis Journal. j The Archer FUh. The archer fish has a natural blow gun. This animal possesses the curious property of being able to shoot drops of water from its mouth with extraordi nary accuracy to considerable distance. A fly or small insect passing over the water has very little chance of escape from the deadly aim of the archer fish. Nashville American. Ought to H11 tha Mill. "We have no use for bear stories, said the editor. Our readers demand something spioy." "Well," said the man with the manu script, "this story is about a cinnamon bear." ! small clearing that is now included in the orchard field on the Brown farm I and about two hundred or two hun j dred and fifty yards south of the j buildings. The other members of i the party with some furniture followed j on from Catawissa the next day. I When they came to a point of the hill j overlooking the Miftlin flats, they saw , the cabin in flames and divining the : cause they at once retraced their I steps to Catawissa. After the lapse of a few days a party was organized to 1 go up to make an investigation. They ; found the father and mother dead I and scalped near the site of the cabin , and the body of the boy scalped and j lying just on the edge of the woods, j He had evidently made an effort to ! escape but was overtaken and killed, j Their bodies were gathered together : and buried in one grave and rude stones placed at the head and foot to j mark the site. The writer has a dis tinct recollection of seeing this grave and the stones marking us location. They were maintained in place until the introduction of the modern mow ing machine when they were not re placed when they fell down, as they interfered very much with the opera tion of the mower over that ground. This same band of Indians passed the night alter the massacre in a cabin near where the Jacob Yohe mill was located while the owner of the cabin occupied a cave or potato hole in the bank some distance from the cabin. luring the niht he stealthily crawled up to a window and peeping in saw the Indians lying upon the floor. Our old informant George Yohe was ac- I ipiainted with this man who thus es j taped the cruel tomahawk. This story being related to us in all its minutest details we have always re lied upon its accuracy and have adopted it as true, pub Ik an. o o "Knocks Out All Others." The Large Piece and High Grade of "Battle Ax" has injured 9 y the sale of other brands of higher C r prices and smaller pieces. Don t a allow the dealer to impose on you i by saying they are "just as good" as "Battle Ax' for he is anxious to work off Ills unsalable stock, Stakl Reserve Fund Life Association. Ed-.vari 2. Harper, Founder. aU- .a, k t FIFTEEN YEARS COMPLETED ANNUAL MEETING AND EErOP.7. Tha Lugest d Stresgal I&lm! Fricira Li!, hw t::- m ia lis World. 6q,(inn,ooo of frw noilneM in 1895. oH,66o,ooo of BuiiiKua til l-'orit. 4.084,07s ot llealh Claims paid in 1895. 13,000,1100 01 lralh Claim paid kiucc HasliicaabecufT. 189S SHOWS lylwmsburg Kit- George Smith, or Lawall'a Idea vf lt. God kI" u (xoel Nut such as lu'lla to aluep. But awurd on thlgK and braw with purpona kultl And let our hl ot Stat to harbor sweep, Har purt all up, her batUa lanterua lit, Aud bar Whad tbuudar tatfeartui -.r thatf leapt LoweU. Big George," as he is called on account of his size, a Columbia colored hod carrier, fell thirty feet Saturday and landed on his head, without sustaining the least in jury. He had taken a load of mortar to the third floor of a building and while distributing the mortar the ele vator descended. Not noticing this. Smith stepped into the shaft and dropped thirty feet, landing on his head. A Noma's Story. SHE RELATES THE EXPERIENCE OF HER DAUGHTER. Sick Front Childhood GItb p Bf FhrUU-She at Laat Rrgalaa Her Health. From the Herald. TUunilU, Fa. Learning that the daugkler of Mr. J. J. Moore, who Htm near Titutrille, had been u Bering with ilia peculiar to her aez for a number of yean and had been fully reatored to health, a reporter of tha Herald wai de tailed to investigate the case. Tha reporter accordingly drove out to the Moore renidence and on inquiring recording her daughter's health, Mrs. Moore aid: " Yes. tt is true, djt daughter who is now eighteen years old has betn in poor health from chiMhood. About a year ago her m n ses bejran to come but were Tery irregular a-i'l finally stopped altogether for three or four months. ' Later, in March of this year, she became very tick ; her color all left tier and she was as pale as a chewt. ne was taken with a cough, with bleeding of the nose and severe hemorrhacs. ('he became so weak that she could not leare her bed. Her cough, became mare and more a jTrarated cad it looked as if consumption would toon take her awy. " Local physicians were consult td, nomcr ous putent medicines were ui, but she con tinued to get worse and was hnally riven np by the phrsicians. who said she could not re cover, an) all hopes for her geciing up again were lost. " My son one dav chanced to pick np a book telhnr of Pink Pills for Pale People. and taking it h"me he handed it to his slater with the remark, 'here is aoinething for pale people.' ?he reaa it taroun canriiiy. ana mim ing it might possibly benefit her 1 procured a bi at the drug stre of Mr. T. W. Eeuting, of Titusville, and after she had need tnem only three days we noticed a market! im provement in ber condition, and after taking the contents of two or three boxes, she had entirely recovered, and is now the pictura of health. "Her cough has entirely left her, lhe has rosy cheeks and her mentes now are regular, and the is a stout, hrulthv girl and all from the us of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pal People. "1 do not hesitate in giving Pink Pills the antire credit, and have frequently recom mended them to my neighbors, some of whom report equally a good results. My hii.-ban'i. who has been bad with kid ey difficulty fur near'y twenty-five yean, found it necessary ta get up a nuniHer of times during the niht. has been tuinz Pink Pills if late, and after only a few days finds the dif -culty almost entirely removed." (sjigued.) L-tvisa Moors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this third day of December, A. D.. Jos. T. CHA4g, JWrry Public Pr. Williams' Pink Pills eonta.n, in a con densed form, all the elements net'euary to give new life and richnexa to tha blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing spe cific tor s'Ji'h di.i"ei as locomotor ataxia, par tial paralyns, ft. Vitas' dance, acaaoa, neu ralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effect of la grippe. pa.pitaten of tha heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forma of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealer, or will be sens post paid on receipt of price, SO cents a boi or Six boxes for R.JO they are never sold ia bull or by th 1.0 i, by addressing lit. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. -AM I MCI. ? A MR IN RROM HET, AM lNtHKAUK IM XK r Hl tf.PL.VSi AN INCRKAHK IN INCOnK, AM IMltt.ANr: IM Ht'hlN KHS IM FORCE, OVHR 103.800 HhSIU K. l H I.NTtHEsThU, The Annual Meeting of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association was hehl in the Association's Building, corner Broadway & Duane St., New York City, on "Wednesday, Jan uary 22nd, and was attended by a large and representative gathering of policy holders who listened with keen interest to the masterly Annual Report of President Burnham. Many policy holders evidently regarded this a3 a favorable opportunity to meet face to face the new chief executive officer of the Association, President Frederick A. Burnham, the man whose grasp of life insurance, whose keeu executive ability and strong individuality have enabled him to take up the work laid dewu in deaih by the founder ofth? institution, the late Ed ward B. Harper, and make of the administration of his office of President, not an echo or copy of that of his predecessor, but a piece of finished work, characteristic of a man of independent views, and worthy to follow the work which had carried the Association to a position never attained in the same length of time by any life insurance organization in the world. It is rare, indeed, that a great institution like this passes, without check to its prosperity, through a change in the executive chief, for it is rare indeed that a chief like the late Mr. Harper finds so able a successor as President Burnham. The record of the year 1S05 speaks for itself, and shows the following gratifying results. The GROsfS ASSETS have increased during the year from So.oofi.llo.D'J to S5.GG1.707.S2. The NET SURPLUS over liabilities shows a NET GAIN for the year of $300,329.43, and now amounts to 3,5S2,50fl.3i lhe irsCOMh. from all sources shows a earn for the year of 031,541.07, and amounts to 5,575,231.50. DEATH CLAIMS to the anient of 4,0S4,074 02 were paid during the vear, an increase over the previous year of 1,013,50001. The BUSINESS IN FORCE shows a gain for the year of 15,203,205, and now amounts to $308,059,371. Counting three hundred working days in the year the daily average income for 1S05 is 51S.5S4.27; the daily average i 1 1 .1 1 . .X . 1 w a . -wA payments ior ueatn claims, 5 is,UoL'. ''., and the daily avrag gain in business in force within a fraction of $51,000. CiTPersoni desiring insuroacs, an a'-nv, or aiv othcf iafjrmition conceruinj th TU.U. RESERVE FUND LIKE ASSOCIATION may a ply to E. B. LUDWIG, Sttjpt., 53 Downing Illock, ERIE, VA 1 as ea tu va v.7 I.. a -rr 7 - t, - Vhr pe 1 0 -i soo. a rod lir Mnes han you can ma 2EST VOVSH WIRE FEKGt; OH FJ.RT3 FOR 13 TO 20 CENTS A ROD? Hcrsanijti. Dull etronj, nlfn, Iano .iu.ai xignt. a man 'J boy esn mi. rcm Jtoto Orocfs 5?jy. ClyerSuatvlei. iiiustrati Citaiocuej Fna.r KITS -LMAi PSilTHTJ j.O-Ot'
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