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THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
HOME MADE DESOLATE.
ubud RMIenloa Hla Faithful Wlfe'a
Loadings for tha Ileantlfnl.
Thoy oat side by side and neither had
kid anything for two stations. Finally
the little man broke out:
Beats all what blame crazy things a
woman will do when she gets an idea
into her head.
"Fact. What's she bwm at this
timer asked the other one sympatheti-
eally.
"Why, when I got home last night
he said : 1
" 'Oh, John, there was one of those
old clothes men here to-day, and I sold
him some of your cast off things.'
"After dinner I went up and looked ,
wr my wardrobe. I had a winter stiit
that I bought late in the season last
year, and that wa9 good for another ,
winter, sura. She'd sold that. Then
tfcerft was a light suit of homospnn
hardly worn at all cost me 840. The
oat was in one closet and the waistcoat
and trousers in another. The coat was
gone. Two pp.irs of trousers, one only
needed pressing and the other some lit
tle repairs at the bottom they were
both missing; and a dress waistcoat,
white and soiled a bit I suppose it
nerer occurred to her that it could
be cleaned and two pairs of shoes; one
seeded resoling, the other didn't need
anything but a shine.
"I asked her what she did with the
money, and she said she had spent it.
Sbe had bought two red geranium
plants and a great, homely yellow mas
tiff pup. with feet bigger than mine.
When I came down stairs this morning
she was crying. I asked her what the
matter was. She said the pup had
chewed the tops off both the geraniums
during the night."
AN IMAGINARY ILLNESS.
Keetlle Cnre TroTvil the Physician's
Diagnosis Correct.
Physicians often meet with people
who are carrying around imaginary ail
ments and who really believe them
selves as badly afflicted as they assert.
Some curious cases have boen noted.
A lady had been confined to her bed
Itar many months with an illness which
wholly deprived her of the use of her
lowor limbs. The doctor who attended
her iailod to discover the nature of the
flection, which might ordinarily have
boon attributable to several causes.
Examination, however, revealed noth
ing calculated to throw h light on the
matter, and the medical practitioner,
after patient and exhaustive analysis
and attention, came to the conclusion
that the illness was imaginary.
Although he discreetly kept this opin
ion to himself, proof was eventually
forthcoming as to the accuracy of his
ivw. Being lifted in the sheets out of
her bed one day, while the mattress
was rearranged, the lady surprised her
attendants by suddenly jumping from
taw couch on which she had been tem
porarily placed, with a loud expression
of alarm. It was discovered that she
had been laid upon a needle cushion in
advertently left on the sofa, and that
law sharp points of several needles had
pressed violently into her back. The
contretemps revealed the fact that she
omld stand easily.
Bird Preferences in Fond.
Xxeperiments have shown that birds
void the bright colored caterpill m-s, as
role. And this seems almost to have
become a second nature, for a jackdaw
which had been raised in captivity, and
bad had no experience in judging the
edible qualities of caterpillars, was ob
served to regard th brilliant caterpillar
of the figure-of-eight-moth with suspic
ion and aversion, although it eagerly
devoured dull, plain caterpillars placed
within its reach. When it was driven
bf hunger to attack the other it finally
refused to eat it, giving plain evidences
that there was so-.nething distasteful
about the prey. Philadelphia Press.
What Came of Her Charity.
My next door neighbor is as charita
ble a womau as ever lived, and among
bar pensioners is a colored family, be
tide whom Job's turkey is a bloated
plntocr at. She gave the mother of the
family a two dollar bill one day to pay
the rent. Judge, then, of Lady Bounti
fuTs surprise when that evening a little
pickaninny presented itself at the
kitchen door.
"Please, Miss Lucy," it said, "ma
says can you loan her some bread and
one celery you ain't usin'T We're go
in. to have a burfday pahty, but we
ain't got nothin' to go with the turkey."
Helplea.
In reply to the request for assistence,
the professor said:
"If I could help you, I couldn't help
helping you. It is because I cannot
help you that I cannot help refusing to
help you."
The mendicant darted around the
corner, with terror in his eyes and cries
of "Holpl" in his mouth. Boston
Transcript.
Pleasant to the Visitor.
"Is Mrs. Harkins at home?" asked the
caller.
"Physically, Madame," returned the
educated butler, "she is. As an abstract
question the fact cannot be denied ; but
in your relation to your aesiro to see
hor, I cannot say definitely until I have
ascertained Mrs. Flarkin's wishes in the
matter. Pray be seated, until I have
received advices from above." Har
per's Bazar.
Prevarication.
Mother You've been into that jam
again T
Truthful Son No'm, I haven't. I'll
declare I haven't I
And he chuckled at the thought that
hi mother had not accused him of put
ting the jam into him.
. A Matter of Aooent.
Sapsmith The first thing the phren
ologist said when he began to examine
my cwanlum was: "What a head I
Gdmshaw Are yon sure he did not
aty: "What, a headf Truth.
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Is the Wail of thev j
Nerves for Foocf.
People with Weak, Flabby Nerves are the Ones who
Suffer. They may be Relieved by Building up
their Nerves with a Nourishing Nerve Food. '
An Interesting Interview
sician and a Case
.JVom the Journal,
" Whnt a wpnk-knepd Individual."
The person rcfi-rrpd to ctirl, indeed, look
limk' n down, dispirited, and lifolrss.
' What ia the mutter with him ? "
" I K-aroely know. IlurtiiR the cool
WMthiT he aeema to be ill ritrht und to hnve
mm- life and a little ambition; but the mo
ment the hot weather coiuta he simply wilt!
down und seetni to have neither strength nor
virility."
Tlint explained the oase. The man was in a
gciiei-iill.r run-down condition with not
enough reserve force to resiat the enervatinr
effects of the season. IT in Derves were weak,
tuntriing as wt say. The food he ate only
partially reiaforoed bis strength. The result
was, he had constantly drawn on hii reserve
force so long that his nerves finally rebelled
and sounded the fronf for him to stop. If
the signal be heeded and he take steps to re
i'renh and build up his nervous system, he
will recover; if not and the strain goes on,
nothing can save him.
" If such a esse be taken in time will the
use of good, wholesome food and plenty f
rest restore the patient ? "
"If the patient have a naturally strong
eonstitution it possibly may, otherwise, no.
What is needed ia a food which is specially
adapted for the nerves. Something which
contains the elements that fro to make nervaut
force. It must be a food, not a tonic; a
ttrriwth-givtr, not a ttimulant."
" is there anything specially adapted to
tliiR purpose T "
"There are a good many things recom
mended for this purpose. But the trouble
with nearly all of tfiem is, they are only
tonics or stimulants. They apparently ben
efit, but it is onjy for a time; then the patient
Is worse than before. But there is one food
for the nerves, I am happy to say, In which I
have the greatest confidence, which is in re
nlityn food. It contains just those vitalizing
principles which impart new nerve force; it
luildt up the nerves, and by imparting to
them new strength gradually coaxes them
bock to a normal, healthy condition. They
are fortified against the hot weather, the man
recovers his energy, his force, and he walks
with an elastic step. lie drives his work with
a will, where before it drove hira. HU spirits
rise, and everything looks bright to him.
This food is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People, which are now known and used the
world over in North and South America,
England and the English provinces, Canada,
India, So. Africa, France. They are to widely
known and their excellent eftect in nerve
building ao much talked about both here and
abroad, that it is not necessary for me to en
large further on the subject. But I can as
sure you the medical profession everywhere
ure very glad indeed to avail themselves of
this nerve food, so scientifically compounded,
and that they use it very largely in their
practice."
This was a conversation recently had be.
tween our reporter and a noted local phvsi
ciun, whose opinion is very highly regarded in
medical circles, and it furnishes a clue fur
thousands who are suffering during these
summer months from weakened nervous
force.
To show the results of this nerve food on a
special case, to prove the points above made.
our reporter made the following interview :
Henry Gehrke is a thrifty and prosperous
Oerman farmer living four miles south of
liullion, In this (Adair) county. Mo. Mr.
Gehrke has a valuable farm and he has been
a resident otthe county for years. He is very
well-known hereabout and well respected
wherever he is known. Last week a reporter
of the Journal stopped at Mr. Oehrke's and
while there became much interested in Mrs.
(jeurke'e aeoonnt of the benefit she had not
PR0T0T THE TREES.
The Arbor Lays Designated.
Governor Hastings Issues the Annual
Proclamation.
Friday, Arril ioth, and Friday,
24th have been designated in a proc
lamation issued by Governor Hastings
as Aruor Days. llie selection of I
either of these days is left to the
choice of the people in the various
sections of the Commonwealth, to the
end that that day may be selected
which is deemed most favorable on
account of climatic conditions.
The proclamation states that al
though Pennsylvania was once wholly
covered with a dense growth of valua
ble timber, to-day scarcely one-fourth
of the area remains ; that the timber
supply has fallen off to such an extent
that the Commonwealth is unable to
produce the timber required for its
own inhabitants. Of the recions
which, when timbered, were a source
of wealth to their owners and to the
State, not less than 2,500,000 acres
are unfit for agricultural purposes.
Most ot this vast area has little or
no mineral wealth, and is now an un
sightly and practically abandoned ter
ritory. Fires sweep over it year after
year, destroying the younger growth
and burning out the fertility of the
soil, so that this arex is passing in to
the condition of a desert, becomim?
poorer each successive year. j
Governor Hastings says it is not
only possible, but also practicable, to J
restore trie luteals upon tnis desert
waste, which would be producing a
crop of great value to the State, and
would restore the fertility of the soil,
would save our rivers and streams to
the beneficial influences of the forests,
and aid in furnishing home3 and sup
port to the doubling population in
the Commonwealth in the generations
to come.
"As it was once a necessity to re
move trees in order to obtain ground
to plant grain," adds Governor Hast
ings, and for other purposes of civili
with a Prominent Pliy-
in Point Cited.
JCirktville, Mo,
lonir iince
long since experienced from the nse of TV.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. (She
said she wanted everybody to know whnt a
great medicine these pills are, but aa so ninny
people are praising them now-a-dnys, the
modestly doubted whether her testimony
could add anything to what othera had al
ready said of them. Her only reason for
talking for publication about Pink Pills was
that the people of Adair and neiirhlorinii
counties might be convinced, if any doubted.
that oft-published testimonials concerning
Pink Pill were genuine statements from the
lips of persons who have been benefited by
the use of them. Creaking of her own in
teresting experience, Mrs. Gehrke said :
" A little ever a rear aeo I was completely
broken down. I had been taking medicine
from a doctor hut craw worse and worse un
til I could scarcely go about at all. The
least exertion or the mere bending of my
body weuld cause ma to have smothering
spells, and the suffering was terrible. I
thought it was caused by my heart. When
everything else had failed to relieve me and
I had given up all hopes of ever being any
thing but a helpless invalid, I chanced to
read some testimonials in the Farm, Firld
andFireridt . also in the Chicago Inter-Ocran
and the suffering of the people who made
the atatementa were to nearly like the suf
fering I had endured that when I read that
they were so greatly benefited by the use of
Dr. AVilliamarPink Pilla for Pale People, I
did not hesitate to go at once and purchase
two boxea. I took them according to di
rections and before the first box was used I
felt a good bit bcttT. Really the first dre
convinced me that it wna a great remedy.
Before the two boxea wcro used up I sent
my husband after three more boxes, so I
would not be without them. When I had
used these three boxes I felt like a diflereut
woman and thought I waa almost cured.
"Since that time I have been taking them
whenever I began to feel badly. V hen I
began taking fr. Williama' Pink Pilla for
Pale People, I weighed only 113 pounds and
after I had been using the medicine for aliout
eix months I weighed 122 pounds. I have
had a good appetite ever since I commenced
taking Pink Pilla and instead of mincing
along, picking such food as I could eat even
with an effort, I eat most anything that
comas on the table. I am not the invalid I
was. I do not have to be waited upon now
aa if I was a helpless child, but I work all
the time, doing the housework and ironing
and working in the garden without that
dreadful feeling which comes over a person
when they are afraid they are going to have
one of those apella that I used to nave.
"Work don't hurt me any more. I hon
estly believe that had it not been for lr.
Williama' Pink Pilla I would now be in my
grave. I atill have whnt the doctor calls bil
ious colic but the Pink Pilla have made me
much better and the spells are not ao frequent
and are nothing like as painful as before I be
gan to use them. I would not be without the
Pink Pills for that disease alone under any
circumstances to say nothing of the other dis
eases for which they are especially recom
mended. I tuke pleasure in telling my neigh
bors the benefits I hnve received from f)r. Wil
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and know
of several who hnve taken my advice and
have been greatly benefited by tlierr.."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
contain all the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves. They are sold in boxes
(never in loose form, by the dozen or hundred)
at 60 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and
may be had of all druggists or directly by mail
from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, ScJio
nectady, U. Y.
zation, it appears that this necessity
produced a tree destroying instinct
which should be counteracted as
speedily as possible. This is the first
generation in the Commonwealth ever
brought face to face with the dangers
and disasters of a timberless country.
"To change the current of national
thought from the tree destroying to
the tree protecting policy, to add to
the beauty of our mountains and val
leys, to ornament the grounds of our
free schools and other educational in
stitutions, to add comfort to the trav
eler on our public highways, to pre
serve the snores ana nanks of our
rivers and smaller streams, are objects
worthy of the intelligent attention of
our citizens."
" I have never had a day's sickness
in my life," said a middle-aged man
the other day.
" What a comfort it would be,"
sighs some poor invalid, "to be in his
place for a year or two." Yet half of
the invalids we see might be just as
Healthy as he, if they would only tak
proper care ot themselves, eat proper
tood and digest it.
Its so strange that such simple
things are overlooked by those who
want health.
Food makes health.
It makes strength and strength
wards off sicknessr The man who
had never been sick was strong be
cause he always digested his food,
and you could become the same bv
helping your stomach to work as well
as his.
It will make you strong and healthy
by making the food you eat make
you fat.
Druggists sell it. Trial bottle
cents.
10
Drug envelopes, Nos. 1, 2 and 3
nianilla, white ot colored, coin envel
opes, and shipping tags, with or with
out strings, always in stock at this
office. tf.
READ THE COLUMBIAN.
WEATHERLY EXCITED.
A Beautiful Buck Der Chat'd Through
The Streets By a pack of Dogs.
It is not often that the town of
Weatherly furnishes a sensation or
seen an event out of the ordinary.
The good people of that well govern
ed borough are content to plod along
in an even tenor, and care naught for
their wicked neighbors, their emotions
and their sensations. Once in a
while the lethargy is broken by a fire
or a burglar but until yesterday
mountain game never played any
particular part in program, and it is
now the talk of the town. A big
buck deer and a pack of hounds are
responsible for the commotion. As
they went chasing through the streets
many people rushed to their doors
and get a glimpse of the flying rem
nant of the genus cervus. It was a
beautiful sight to see the animal in
his mad run, head erect, holding in
graceful position the forked antlers
and his beautiful enrved body, while
ten yelping hounds followed in futile
endeavor to catch him.
It seems that a few stray dogs
started the deer on Lroad Mountain
and the latter took a course toward
the valley. On the way up the
ravine, several mountain settlements
were passed and the number of dogs
multiplied as the' chase progressed.
Along the ridge he led the hounds,
leaping leisurely over stream and
ledge, disappearing for a moment,
then into view, until the junction at
Lizard creek was reached. Here the
horned animal took the mountain
again skirting the summit while the
dogs gave tongue incessantly. As he
approached Weatherly he again de
scended, and entered the town at the
eastern end. The baying of the dogs
attracted attention before they reach
ed the borough, and many people
were already out wondering what the
matter was. To their utter astonish
ment they saw the large buck coming
up the street galloping gracefully.
Each leap seemed to increase the dis
tance between him and his pursuers.
The barking excited other dogs who
took up the chase afresh, and they
added to the anxiety of the frightened
deer. Before they cleared the town
limits the pack of hounds increased
to about twenty-five, and their vicifer
ous howls created more excitement
than the fire bells ever did. The
chase continued out towards Quakake
where the deer again took the moun
tains and disappeared in its fastnesses.
It was indeed a break in the mono
tary of life in Weatherly, and the in
cident will be long remembered by a'l
who witnessed it. Hazleton Sentinel.
The Time for Building
Up the system is at this season. The
cold weather has made unusual drains
upon the vital forces. The blood has
become impoverished and impure,
and all the functions of the body suffer
in consequence. Hood's Sarsaparilla
is the great builder, because it is the
One True Elood Purifier and nerve
tonic.
Hood's Pills become the favorite
cathartic with all who use them. All
druggists. 25 c.
A Babe on the Waters.
The Shamokin Herald says : With
its little face all aglow with pleasure,
a babe floated down the creek in a
raisin box at Mt. Carmel Friday
morning coming no one knows where,
and landed into the arms of a kind
hearted farmer who refused to give
his name, but took the little one to
his home, which he said is near Elys
burg. The babe is apparently eight weeks
old and is perfectly healthy. Discard
ed by some unhappy mother who pro
bably desired to rid herself of her off
spring because its advent had been
unwelcomed this little one had been
placed in a box that had been care
fully prepared for it, and put into the
dirty waters of the creek to go where
it might. But fate had been kind
to the little outcast.
The farmer noticed several boys
watching the box as it floated down
the creek, and wondering as to its
contents, started ' an investigation,
which resulted in his lifting the babe
out of its nest, where it had lain com
fortably taking its morning meal from
a bottle. The farmer said he had
but, one child, a daughter 23 years
old, and as the infant was a boy he
would adopt it.
He refused to give his name, but
with the child carefully wrapped in an
old overcoat, which he had in his
wagon, started for his home in Elys
burg. "There is danger in delay,"
Since 1861 I have been a great
sufferer from catarrh. I tried Ely's
Cream Balm and to all appearances
am cured. Terrible headaches from
which I had long suffered are gone.
W. J. Hitchcock, late Major U.
S. Vol. and A. A. Gen., Buffalo, N.
Y.
Ely's Cream Balm has completely
cured me of catarrh when everything
else failed. Many acquaintances
have used it with excellent results.
Alfred W. Stevens, Caldwell, Ohio.
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Mutual Reserve Fund
Edward B. Harper, Founder. Frederick A. Eurnham, Prddcr.t.
FIFTEEN YEARS COMPLETED
ANNUAL" MEETING AND REPORT.
It: Largest ni Strop. Hm Mm Lit: Inc. C::-
:::::: in 4s World.
A69,uoo,oooarNeni nnslntsH iti 1893.
.aH,66o,no of HtiKiiitrHM In Forte.
4,084,073 ot IivmiIi Clnltim paid In 1895.
lj,ooo,uo 01 Heath CialniM paid wmca; HusliitsabtKun.
189s 8HOWB AM IK CM AMI-: IN RKOSH AHHETH,
AIM 1!N CMI-: A UK IN Ksl'.T HI'HPU'81
AN INCKKANK IN INCO.MK.
AN IN CM. KAtiK IN lit'MlNKHH IN FORCE.
ovkk. 105,800 ntinuKHH i nti;ii:nti.i.
The Annual Meeting of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Association was held in the Association's Building, cornet
Broadway &Duane St., New York Citj, 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 ot President Burnham.
M.any policy holders evidently regarded this as 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 keen executive ability and
strong individuality have enabled him to take up the work laid
dewn in. death by the founder of tin 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 w
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 1895 speaks for itself, and shows the
following gratifying results.
The GROSS ASSETS have increased during the year
from $5,530,115.99 to $5,0.01,707,82.
The NET SURPLUS over liabilities &hows a NET GAIN
for the year of $;500,329.4:i, and now amounts to $3,582,509.32.
The INCOME from all sources shows a gain for the vear
of $031,511.97, and amounts to $5,575,281.50.
DEATH CLAIMS to the amount of $1,084,074.92 were
paid during the year, an increase over the previous year of
$1,013,500.91.
The BUSINESS IN FORCE shows again for the year
of $15,293,205, and now amounts to $308,059,371.
Counting three hundred working days in the year the
daily average income for 1895 is $18,584.27; the-daily average
payments for death claims, $13,052.25, and the daily av'ago
gain in business in force within a fraction of $51,000.
G-iJTersons desiring insurance, an agency, or any oilier information concerning the 1U"
TUAL RESERVE FUND LIKE ASSOCIATION may apply to
E. B. EOBWIQ, Bu&U
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