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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.
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"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.
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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
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