THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. LIVE QUESTIONS. A Period if Articles Contributed by Advanced Thinker. FUNDAMENTAL LIVE QUESTIONS. A "livoij.ii'Ki icni" jirri iita nn fih'ft or tVury com ormi.jt lhi:i:s cmut.HiiI to Fo ci;. 1 CNtMl HiV V. hll ll Illivy lo llitfTlTW.'ll jiro ititfl f oil. In ho far only ti It con ci rns iut'.iul lif 1m it ft livr qwsrioti. J.lfo in V li lt. VP frel it tO if ! PVtltilMlt Puinctliinjj with a purposo, un activity Moving townnl mi end. I In man life wo J'ccoffiiizo us tin incaniato jmrpysc uml Will, rrurliintf toward nn ial end in mental development and character. Live cnnrtioiw eoneern liberty. Tlvy miHo Ixx'ausc huinan life requires a cr laiu frn de.m in reaching its nul rf de velopment or end, and because this free dom in Furietrls iiiterferel wil lH'V liat Timl olistneleH and other human wills. I'rom these conditions ariso social fric tion, opposition, effort, enlt rprise, achievement, the idea of liberty, and out of fill these rights and duties. The pur pose, of lifn, iu its instinct for greater freedom, demands tho removal of ob tacles, or the BtivjifctU to ovirooiuo them, or the transcendent vision and su perior force to harmonise them. Fundamental live questions are thoo Which include, tho end na well as the prosent conditions of existence. They do Hot stop with surfaces. They do not heed tho boundaries of individual selfishness. Thoy do not limit themselves to those agitations which present questions mere ly of more wages, merely of more capl- ,.,Ug s W. O. TOPH. tedistio powqr in exploitation, merely of partisan domination in soeiivl legisla tion, tnerely of sectarian supremacy in moral and spiritual development. They aak first of all, What is the true end and aim of life? and then seek to present conditions which may euablo lives to attain to that end. This v as thoaim of our forefathers in defining t.'ieir views, as they sought to establish and organize the American re public. Iu seeking for those rights which ware, by the very nature of man, in alienable, they were obliged to consider the end and aim of his life, and they stated it in our celebrated Declaration of American Independence. Man's chief right they emphasized as the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness." Life was the acting subject, liberty the required condition, happiness the end. But time changes even our view of the ends of life, and consequently our statement of fundamental live ques tions. Since the French philosophers there have come Darwiu and Haeckel. Since the mental atmosphere out of which were evolved our Declaration of Independence and tho French "bill of righw" two documents which show tho same psychic parentage there has surrounded us tho mental atmosphero of evolution, and philosophers now talk of the rights of man to his develop tuont, the rights of mail in growth and the duties of society in removing ob structions to that growth. Social theories must adapt themselves to this change The ages ore not sta tionary. Tho live questions of today must use the language of the last decade of the nineteenth century. They must base their arguments on its conclu sions. The end of man is not happiness. It is development, growth, individual evolution, and, th liberty at present demanded is liberation f roin that social economio bondage which curtails, and even threatens to destroy, individual freedom and development Iu this new relation tho word "liberty" attains to its true meaning. It is no longer capri cionsness, no longer a mere individual impulse. It is philosophical in its bear ing and relations. It includes duties as well as rights. Does any one doubt the philosophical change or the new social requirements? Let him ask, What is happiness? Is it not more than animal gratification? If more, what more? Happiness we may define as the sensation we feel when vital forces within us move in harmony to their legitimate ends in ,expraion. It is the sense widen accompanies the proc ess toward the end and not the end in itself. The delightful sensation of har mony in music, as compared with the mere noise of one monotonously repeat ed note, illustrates the sensation of hap piness. The individual man is an or- Cio whole. Each faculty and organ iU note potentially attuned to every other. They can play tunes cf hanuony or they can make only a discordant noiso. The bounding child represents orgauio physical harmony. Tho enjoy xueut of the man is the harmony of the physical and the mental The change from childhood to adult years reveals a change in the perception of life's ends. Rarmuuy is our consciousness of the union of sounds to an end music. Hap piness is ouf oonsoiousnesa of the union of vital forces to an end development Growth is the true end of man ; happi wss, the accompaniment But not only is individual man an or ganks whole ; society is the same that UL nnrmal society. There is social hap piness as well as individual happiness, and both come by the same means and are obt dieut -to tike same law. The in dividual cannot stand alone. Nine-tenths of himself is submerged in tho octal organism. The most of himself U keyed to the vilmitlons of social condition, mid (cnivi'jy n note an he fud prudently strike that is not priuful. Most men rae not really hnppy. Hard work is tho vwi t ;n r L. the they drink to dull tho linuntnig visions of their leal pelves. Vh;:t means social vnresl? It is the so cial discord nri-hitf from Individual celf Mttii'sa. It. is the d"tu;'iiiting i:illii"!ico of social warfare in predatory trade in place of social co-operntlou in produc tion and distribution. What can harmonize social forces nnd neutral izo tho power of m lflshnoMi? ria'.nly a clearer perception of tho etuis of life, the perception that ends are higher and more nntheritiilivo in their Oeiaauds thiiu mi iuik, tho perception of true six'lal end In jro of material menus to nu end, Yhir.,o often misrep resent themselves to their possessor as ends. Tho unrest and unhappinegfl of tho world are the source of fecial dis cord ninotig economio forces. No cue is happy in the best sense vt the word. The cars of both tho slayer and the slain are pierced with noise. The rich man trembles before the poor man's gestures of pain. Doth clo-ws wasto their ener gies. Both havo disobeyed tho laws of harmony. Both have naturally been im pelled to exereiso their strength, but tho conditions which surrounded them were different, and the philosophy of neither was broad enough to enable him to com prehend tho position vt the other or to dream that together they could shape tho conditions: of lifo to meet its ends and bring happiness to both. When tho world perceives the true social eid of man in development, then will this per ception disarm selfish impulse and social forces gradually fall into harmony to that tune of order which tho "nKirning sfcirs sang together," and which unseu tieut, material forces have continued to sing to this day. W. O. Todd. Kansas City, Kan. THE EARTH CORNERED. We have heard much of Into years of corners in most all of tho commodities of life, but tho announcement by a seri ous and competent writer that the earth is cornered is a sensational statement that ought to challenge tho "Senous Seuity" and prolonged meditation of all. Mr. J. J. McCaun of St. Louis has published a book with tho above name, and he proceeds to prove that his seem ingly romantic title is a sad nnd sober fact. He mikes his appeal to statistics and other facts, and I shall subjoin a few of them, for they arc iertinent and present one of the gravest problems of the age. There aro in the United States CO, 000,000 l;u:dli ss people. Theso are com pelled wri k 1 y week to pay for tho priv ilege of living on the earth, a condition that is as unnatural as if jcy should pay for brcuthl:ig the r.:r or l.u.king in the sunshine. And yet ov.r land area is not overpopulated. It could support 20 times as many people in plenty. On the one hand wo havo unfilled land, on tho other idlo people who are willing to work. With this state cf affairs the fol lowing statement, taken at random from the book, is significant: "All wealth comes from and all work is done on land only, and it is tho primary bank cf all riches and tho sole employer of all labor." Again, we aro brought face to face with tho fact that of tho 71,000,000 souls in tho country 10,000,000 aro comfortable, iu pinching frugality and settled despondency ure 60,000,000, and 11,000,000 very poor and destitute. In 1S0 there were 1,449 homicides in this country. For 11 months in 1895 there wire 7,000. All other crimes in creased with even a greater ratio and in sanity is rapidly multiplying. Of the upward of 8,000 families as sisted by tho Provident association in 6t, Louis in 1895 over 70 per cent want ed work and could not get it. These aro sad chronicles, but every one wants the truth. The facts must bo faced manfully, as they furnish tho basis of solution. There are in certain quarters feeble and fruitless attempts to overlook the situation, but this spirit is manifestly unfair and puerile and do serves the pity of all sensible men. There are some grave wrongs, and we can and must right them. Those who refuse to come to the light give evidence that thoy are afraid of investigation. The times are post for dodging real is sues or for wholesalo denunciation, but every day is ripe for earnest, clear and forcible presentation of fact and argu ment. "The Earth Cornered" is a thought provoking and fact arraying book. J. V. Caldwell, THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQ UER ON MONEY. The question of bimetallism was dis cussed in the house of commons recently, and during the discussion, as reported in the Loudon Standard of March 18, the chancellor of the exchequer said, among other things: "I have no sympathy with the confi dence with which some persons not al ways the best informed persons lay down tho law on one side and the other in this matter. You may hear mono metallists speak of bimetallinU as if they must necessarily be lunatics or idiots, and as if the whole theory which they hold must be so impossible and wrong that it is useless to argue against it On the other hand, yon may hear bimetal HsU who cannot believe that any one ran oppose their favorite theory, except on the ground of some selfish interest in connection with tho existing system of currency in Great Britain." Those are weighty and wise words and should catiao extremists to consider their own methods. We havo a good illustra tion of tho chancellor's words in tho appropriation of the phrase ' 'sound mon ey" by the monometallista They com mit the common folly iu debuto of as suming the very question in dispute. Every serious man is in some doubt as to what sound money Is. Every thought ful man wants sound money. It is not a question of sound or unsound money that is in debute, fur all want sound money. It is simply the question, "'What is sound money?" . Why Ouo Teds Chilly Wlitu Lying Ilown. The reason is simply this. Nature takes the time when one is lying ilown to give the heart rest, nml that organ consequently makes ten strokes less a minute than when one is i 1 upright posture. Multiply that Ly sixty minutes, and it is six hurulrci strokes Therefore in ci;;1it limits spent in lying clown the heart is saved nearly five thousand stokes, and as the heart imips six ounces of blood with each stroke it lifts thirty thou sand ounces less ofblood in a night of eight hours spent in bed than when one is in an upright position. As the blood flows so much more slowly through the veins when one is lying down, one must supply them with extra coverings the warmth usually furnished bv circulation. Liver alls Mko biliousness, dyspepsia, liciulni'lip, consti pation, sour stomach, Inilip'stion nro promptly curoil by Hood's Tills. They do their work easily niul thoroughly. Best after dinner pills. 28 cents. All druircists. Pills Prepared by 0. I. Hood ti Co., Lowell, Mass. The only Till to tako with Hood's Sarsapurllla. i ne vrown does not make tho king, but it shows 2 that be is the king. So the Hod 3 Cross on Johnson's Heixaponna 9 W risTEn does not confer excellence, (3 eiiL ii guaran ieei iu n means uiiu this plaster is the very best of its kind. The Bed Cross Society use it in their humane work. It is for every ailment in which a plaster is employed. Examine when you buy. JOHNSON A JOHNSON, Grocers can tell you wliv those waobuy seellg s Verji coming back for it. titru'igc though how long it takes people to try a new thing. tf used as an , admixture to ordinary cof- lee maK.es a delicious drink. For Your Frotoction we roslflvely state that Hits remedy eoes not contain Murvury or any otuer Injurious drUit. ICI.Y'S CREAM BALM Cleanses tlm IJusul Passages, Allays In flammation, lieals the sorts. Protects the Membrane from folds, Kestores the Senses of Taste and Smell. IT WILL" CUKE. 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We say, "milk is an emul sion," because the oil is in tliis fiuely divided condition. of Cod-liver Oil with the hypo-phosphites, has the eod-livcr oil in these fine globules, thus making it an cmulsiom Boys and girls, as well as delicate invalids, can take cod-liver oil when' prepared in this manner. Iu 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. 5o cU. and $i a bottla. SCOTT & UOWNK, Chemists, New York. ALEXANDER MOTHERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Totacco, Candies, Fruits and ITut; SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. SOLE AGENTS I OR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco Sole agents for the following brands of Cigars- Hr.ry Giay, Loadros, Normal, Indian rrincoss, Saaison, Silver As Bloomsburg Pa. SHOES I Our Spring Styles cf Sh:s$ are r early all. 25 years experience in shoe buying puts us in the lront rank ot shoe dealers. Comfort, style and durability are combined in our shoes Cj '.i.t,:: Ihon and Main Sts. fridej Iow ar,d Good Work. . For the finest and best stoves, tinware, roofing, spouting and general job work, go to W. W. Watts, on Iron street. Buildings heated by st-am, hot air or hot water in a satisfac tory manner. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty. I have the exclusive control of the Thatcher steam, hot water and hot air heaters for this territory, which is acknowl edged to be the best heater on the market. All work guaran teed. W. W. WATTS, IRON STREET. Hloouisburir. Pn. CITY HOTEL, W. A. nurtzel, Prop. Peter F. Heldy, Manager No. 121 West Main Street, liLOOMSliURG, FA. CiTLnige nnd convenient sample rooms llath rooms, hot and told water, and al modern conveniences. l!ar stocked with bes w ines and liquors. First-class livery attached Greatest Clothing Event ever occurred The oldest established woolen milL and makers of the Best woolen goods in the U S. Genuine Edward Harris We bought entire stock of cloth Made it in Clothing Will sell at fifty cents on the .dollar. 50 cents on the $ 1 .00 Suits $7.75 to $20.00 Last opportunity to get this reliable make of cloth. Notwithstanding the prices, we're paying SAME AS EVER Railroad Fare on purchases of moderate amount, as usual. WANAMAKER & BROWN, Sixth and Market Sts. WM. H. WANAMAKER, TwCmh.dMrkrtSts. - PHILADELPHIA iz W. H. floore. The Leading Consenralory of America iam. I akltch. Director. Founded! n 18U bj ml K. Toorj6e. mm (ton: Send (or Proipccttu giving full information. r Fit ank W. Hale, General Mrjacef. hfluef" - ' 0V I no Feet (' J1". ( fci ;' t- in-'- '"': :); DC' Ca Mf. Hvet airain? 2K You'll 1ic Rome dny. l'cforc' SO IV- 3 ) lling, loo, if you don't tal;c enre 'J of those fid. Sonic of the newest, most ilcsirnljlc tliitinb' ill wet weather shoes arc here. .Bloomsburg t : THE MARKET. BLOOMSHUKG MARKETS. COHRXCTID WISILT. KIT All TBICVB. Butter per lb $ ,22 Kg;s per dozen. . ,12 Lard per lb .10 Hani per pound .12 J Pork, whole, per pound .06 Beef, quarter, per pound , , , , .07 Wheat per bushel .80 Oats ' 28 Rye " " 50 Wheat flour per bbl 4.00 Hay per ton 12 to $14 Potatoes per bushel .25 Turnips " " 25 Onions " " .40 Sweet potatoes per peck 25 to .33 Tallow per lb .4 J Shoulder " " u Side meat " " 07 Vinegar, per qt ,07 Dried apples per lb .05 Dried cherries, pitted .10 Rispberries ,ia Cow Hides per lb .,1 Steer ' " ' CalfSkin So Sheep pelts Shelled corn per bus ,.0 Corn meal, cwt 2 00 Bran, , Chop " i.00 Middlings " 1 00 Chickens per lb new ... " "old 12 Turkeys " " i.t Geese ' J Ducks " " o3 COAL. 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