THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. KEEPING ROADS GOOD. jmnteen Rules Recommended by an Engl h Association. The Road Improvement Associa tion, of London, England, recently issued a circular containing 1 7 rules for the guidance of roadmasters in keeping macadam and telford roads in proper repair, as follows : 1. Never allow a hollow, a rut or a puddle to remain on a road, but fill it up at once with chips from the stone heap. s. Always use chips for patching and for all repairs duting the summer season. 3. Never put fresh stones on the road if, by cross-picking and a thor ough use of the rake, the surface can be made smooth, and kept at the proper strength and section. 4. Remember that the rake is the most useful tool in your collection, and it should be kept at hand the whole year round. 5. Do not spread large patches of stune over the whole width of the road, but coat the middle or horse track first, and when this has worn in coat each of the sides in turn. 6. In moderately dry weather and on hard roads always pick up the old surface in ridges six inches apart, and remove all large and projecting stones before applying a new coating. 7. Never spread stones more than one stone deep, but add a second lay er when the first has worn in, if one coat be not enough. 8. Never shoot stones upon the road and crack them where ihev lie, or a smooth surface will be out of the question. 9. Never put a stone upon the road for repairing purposes that will not freely pass in every direction through a two-inch ring, and remember that smaller stones should be used for patching and for nil slight repairs. 10. Recollect that hard stones should be broken to finer guage than soft, but that the two-inch guage is the largest that should be used under any circumstances where no steam roller is employed. 11. Never be without your ring guage ; remember Macadam s advice, that any stone you can not easily put into your mouth shoul ' be broken smaller. 12. Use chips, if possible, for bind ing newly-laid stones together, and lemember that road sweepings, horse droppings, soda or grass and other rubbish, when used for this purpose, will ruin the best road ever construct ed. it. Remember that water-worn or rounded stones should never be used npon steep gradients, or they will fail to bind together. 14. Never allow dust or mud to lie on the surface of the roads, for either of these will double the cost of main tenance. 15. Recollect that dust becomes mud at the first shower, and that mud forms a wet blanket which will keep the road in a filthy condition for weeks at a time, instead of allowing it to dry Revolutionized Prices for Spring. Amazing but Absolutely True Prices just onehalf to double the sales. We know it's unusual. We know it's unprofitable. We've gone all over that, and decided, with Spring just beginning, to Break away from cut and dried methods by Selling for Half Price. Whatever clothes you want for Spring, better buy now. Whatever clothes you want this Summer buy now. Whatever clothes you want next Winter buy now. It just comes to this : ! Finest Overcoats worth $25.00 next October, are $12.50 now. Finest Black Suits worth $30.00, to-day we sell for $15.00. Spring Suits worth $12.00 go for $6.00 ; $8.75 ones $4.38. Spring Overcoats worth $12.00 are $6.00; $7.50 ones $3.75. Boys' Suits ought to bring $8.00, now $4.00 ; $4.00 ones $2.00 Men's Trousers by thousands at just half. We only give a few prices out of many. The city is stirred up over our prices. Nothing has ever been done like it. We're clothing with Wanamaker & Brown's make of Clothing at prices that don't pay for the cloth and work. SAME AS EVER Sixth and Market Sts. WANAMAKER & BROWN Twelfth and Market Sts. WM. H. WANAMAKER PHILADELPHIA in a few hours. 16. Remember that the middle of the road should always be a little high er than the sides, so that rain may run into the side gutters at once. 17. Never allow the water tables, gutters and ditches to clog up, but keep them clear the .whole year through. Every roadmaster and supervisor should cut these rules out and paste them in his everyday hat. To make a good road is one thing and to keep it m good repair is quite another thing. The finest roads in Europe are the result of a splendid repair system, where every defect is promptly cor rected before it has time to cause serious damage to the highway. A False Diagnosis La Grippe is confounded by many persons with a severe attack of catarrh, which in some respects resembles the former. These individuals suffer severely with pain about the forehead, eyes and ears, with soreness in throat and stoppage of the nasal passages, and in fact, are incapacitated for work of any kind for days at a time. These are catarrhal sufferers. Ely's Cream Balm has been used with the best results in such cases. The remedy will give instant relief. Old Heroes of the War. First Defenders Will Once More Journey to Washington. The First Defenders of Pennsyl vania, an organization composed of the five companies of troops that first reached Washington at the beginning of the Civil War, set out last week for Washington over the same route they took thirty-five years ago. The Ringgold Artillery, of Reading: Allen Infantry, ofAUentown; Washington Artillerists and National Light In fantry, of l'ottsville, will rendezvous at Reading and to Harrisburg, where they will be met by the Logan Guards of Lewistown. They will have a reception here by the Governor. In the original five companies there were 530 members, but only 130 of them are now alive, and about 100 are expected to be present on the march. While in Washington they will call upon the President and will go down to Mount Vernon to eat a shad din ner. We're Thankful It's No Worse. A medical joujnal seriously states that when milk is drawn from the cow by a clean method, cooled rapidly, and delivered within twelve hours, it only contains 100,000 bacteria to the cubic centimeter compared with mill ions under other circumstances. This reminds us of a good woman, who was once told that the authorities of her church had, in revising the creed, decided to lower the sentence of the condemned from eternity to a period of only 1,000,000 years in hell. "Bless my soul !" she exclaimed, "how thank ful we should be." Great results demand bold strokes. We must double our sales or cut down the work of thousands who look to us for it. Unless we sell twice as much, we've goods enough for the whole season. That's why- Notwithstanding the prices, we're paying Railroad Fare on purchases of moderate amount, as usual. FACTS ABOUT OCR COINAGE. Money Making Regan In This Country Two Hundred and Eighty-Four Years Ago. The earliest coinage of America was made in 1613 for the Virginia company at Somer's islands, now call ed the Bermudas. In 1645 the as sembly of Virginia provided by law for the coinage of copper pieces, but the law was not carried into effect. The earliest regular colonial coinage was in Massachusetts, in pursuance of an order of the general court, pass ed May 27, 1652. The coins, 12 pence, 6-pence, and 3. pence pieces, were soon afterward "put into circula tion. There was a Massachusetts 2-penny piece. One variety of the Massachusetts coinage had what is termed " a pine tree," another " a willow" and the third "an oak." The first coinage of that colony was the " pine tree shilling," of 1650 1 the 2-penny and i-pcnny pieces were coined in 165-. In 1 7 85 the con gress of the confederation adopted the plan presented by Thomas Jeffer son for the national coinage, and in 1786 decided upon the names and characters of the coins. In 1787 a contract was made with James Jarvis for 300 of the copper coins authoriz ed by congress. These were coined at New Haven and bore the date of 1787. In 1792 a code ot laws was enacted for the established and regu lation of the mint, which was estab lished in 1793. The first issue of cents from the mint in Philadelphia was in 1893. The regular issue of the half-dime was in 1794, but a half dime styled the "Martha Washing ton was coined, in 1792 as an experi mental or pattern piece. The hrst issue of silver dollars was in 1794, and of dimes in 1696. The first golden coinage in eagles and half eagles was in 1795. N. Y. Dispatch. $10,000 Damages Against a Preacher Miss Hannah Julia Selby has been given a verdict by the jury in common pleas court for $10,000 in her suit against Rev. Robert E. Hill, for breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiffs home is at Oakleigh, Her- monhill, Snaresbrook, England. Rev. Hill was formerly pastor of the First Baptist church at Ashtabula, but re signed by reason of this trouble and married a young lady, whose home was in this county. He has recently been in charge of a church at Racine, this state. Nail Works to Eesume. Notice has been posted at the nail works of the F. & G. Brooks Iron Company, stating that the works will be ready to resume in full on Monday morning, April 13. The puddlers I will be paid $2.75 per ton, the price to take effect on that date. The 1 puddle department has been idle for twelve weeks, the men having refused to work for less than $2.75 per ton. A Notable Woman. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was eleven years old her only brother died. Althoutrh his dauchters were dear to him, Judge Cady had a greater feeling of pride and hope in his boy. As he sat by his dead, little Elizabeth crept into the room and getting up on his knee laid her head against his beating heart and waited till he spoke. Pres ently he said, "Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy 1" Throwing her arms around his neck sue saw, -i will try to do all my brodicr did." And she kept her wordj she studied, she won prizes in Greek, and stood at the head of her classes in the pcademy, expecting to fill her brother's alace in her father's heart. The father, watching her, at last told her that she should have been a boy, thinking that would be compliment enough. Then it was that she realized that the world at that day did not look upon talent or merit per se, but asked whether it was found in a boy or girl ; and she rebelled at that injustice, and has never ceased doing so. Until she was fifteen she was a faithful student at the academy, being the only girl in a class of boys in mathematics and languages. She spent many of her leisure hours in her father's office, and here she used to hear the old Scotch women narrate their woes ; for their husbands had brought from the old world the feudal ideas of women and property. She used to beg her father to help them, and he would take down the book and show her the laws. The students in the office, seeing her discomfort, would point out the worst of thtse laws, till she would cry with grief and mortification. She began reading these laws for herself, marking each one as she read, and thus increased her abhorrence of their injustice. Her father told her that when she was grown up she could go down to Albany, tell the legislators about the sufferings of these Scotch women, get them to pass new laws, and then these would be dead. He told her this as he would have told a fairy-tale ; and yet he foreshadowed the dream of her life and outlined that which to her, later, seemed her line of duty. Many years after, when his fairy tale had become a real truth, he was the greatest op poser to her public career. Many women can stand for principle when the men of the family help to hold up their hands, but few have bravery enough to fight out the principle in their own homes. From "Notable Women" in Demurest 's Masrazine for April. Tired people are tired because they have exhausted their strength. The only way for them to get strong is to eat proper food. But eating is not all. Strength comes from food, after digestion. Di gestion is made easy with Shaker Digestive Cordial. l'eople who get too tired, die. Life is strength. Food is the maker of strength. Food is not food until it is digested. Tired, pale, thin, exhausted, sick sufferers from indigestion, can be cured by the use of Shaker Digestive Cordial. It will revive their spent energies, refresh and invigorate them, create new courage, endurance and strength, all by helping their stomachs to digest their food. It aids nature, and this is the best of it. It gives immediate relief and, with perseverence, permanently cures. Sold by druggists. Trial bottle 10 cents. Put a Fortune in the Plate. One of the largest Easter collections ever realized in New York city was taken on Sunday in the Calvary Prot estant Episcopal church, at Twenty first street and Fourth avenue. The plate collection, which was for the benefit of the endowment fund, amounted to $42,000. Previous to this, however, a check for $20,000 and one for $50 had- been received, making a total offering for Easter of $62,050. KIDNEY DISEASE Cured, Says A. J. Sponccr, ot JACKSON, PA. A. J. Spencer of Jackson, Tiopa county, To., writes: " I was tioiibled with kidney nnd miliary complaint for a long time. My family physician gave mo various medicines hut they failed to help me. Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy was suggested to me and 1 bought two bottles. After the first two or three doses 1 tculd see it was helping me Before I had used the contents of the second bottle I felt like a new man and I have en joyed good health ever since." DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY has elfecled many cures after physicians had given up hope. It restores the liver to a healthy condition, and cures the worst cases of constipation. It is a certain cure for all diseases peculiar to females, and affords great protection from attacks that originate in change of life. It cures scrofula, salt rheum, rheumatism, dypepsia all kidney, bladder and urinary diseases, gravel, diabetes and llright's disease. In this last disease it hag cured where all else failed. All drUL'. gists, $1.00 a bottle. m 1 The coming; Artist to paint a popular subject. You get 5H 02. of "Battle Ax" for 10 cents. You only get 35 02. of other brands of no better quality for JO cents. In other words, if you buy "Battle Ax" you get 2 02. more of high grade tobacco for the same money. Can you afford to resist this fact? We say NO unless you have IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF CAEFDT, MATTING, or OIL CLOTH, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. M. BK0WIM 2nd Door above Court House. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. A selfish world. No matter how things go, the poor always suffer. I Yes j the nabods who own railroads ! don't think anything of running over M .-. 1 A J .1 a iuui man s nurse. An (I lie man who can afford to own a horse runs down the roor fellow on a 1,w-vrl . and the fellow on the bicycle runs dawn the poor chap who has to walk; and the man who walks stumbles against the poor fellow who goes on crutches; and the fellow on crutches spends most of his time jamming his sticks down on other people's corns. So don't be too uncharitable with the money-grabbers, for, remember had all a chance, each might be the big gest, slippery rubber-grabber of them all. This is a selfish world. Keep Out Husband's Pockets. Mrs. John Fawcett went to a closet last week to take some change out of her husband's coat pocket. She had just inserted her hand when she was stricken with paralysis and her hand became helpless. She raised the other to remove the first hand, when that, too, lost its power, and she collapsed. Mrs. Fawcett is only 19 years old. She was married last December, and was a bride in a big Salvation Army wedding. That's why they enjey their COFFF.R. Any grocer can tell you why customer! keep coming back for HEIiLIO'ti. Onlr le. . pwkn . g ForallBiuoujand Nanvoua SOT ftp LuiiAsBs. tney funiy me M,xi Hinrin nnit niw. IIl-..ti.u IX action to the entire system. finf nv!3rrjri nr. n r- CONSTIPATION and PIMPLES. T-ltly I RESTORE LOST MANHOOD '"". na miaaie-aired men who uffer (rem error ul youlli, lut n vitality, lmrotcncy, bcinln.il wcJf nesi.Kleet, strictures, weakness of body anil mind, an be thoroughly end permanently enred by my new method ol treatment. None other like It. Imriixitlui. 1 ....... , . Consultation ami htu.u fro. im DRi SMITH, Lock box 635, Phila. Pa.' n-aa-iy.-i. & co. WRIlfFI 1 who knows enough "Money to Burn. Fine PHOTO GRAPHS and ry. n. t - (R A V I) iSI o f i x A vnj ex McKillip Bros., Bloomsburg. The best are the cheapest. r a r For a short lime Ralph G. Phillips, the photographer, is making one liie size photo graph, value $5.00, and thirteen cabinet photographs all for $3.00. All work guaranteed. Ralph G. Phillips, Ground Floor Gallery, Opposlto Central Dole BLOOMSBURG, PA, 7-13-1 TO An a- DESIGN PATENTS. Vi. 1 . - . TOl 4UB.. A. . I ; ii vu i"V"? Bna r"' Handbook write to '"""""'i '" securing imtcnui in America. fi .yJ','!U'.""ak"1,,"t,,y'i' broutdit before toe public by u notice given free of charge ui the w!,X,t llr?11"!, "J? of nJ "Inttne pappr In the World, h iltim id It iii.-.,,j u i ' ,,.in,.,, t inau i i Kiiouiii lu. .r r... V. montin. Aildreiw, MIINN CO., .. T 1. 1.IIUOUL It. WGI'KIV. 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