4 The COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. IcImnMan. if uUnulti g fin or rat, msTAbblMtKD lS'JT. .lOMkM DATED 16C. ribLISUh,' SvKllY Till DAV MOKN1NU 1 Rloo:iiMii'h-, Uic l'ounv seal of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. (it.O. E. KI.WELL Kpitor. IjKO. C. liOAN, VORKM.4N. TRif: I'lild" tlio munly, fl.nn a ypnr In nil. tanw, fi.v if n it imid lu aiiii.ee ouutdo tUo couut jr, tl.as a yrar, strictly In advance All Communications should bo addressed to TUR COUMHIAN, UloouisbdiK, Ta. " TIILKJ-DAV, MAY 2S, iSr6. LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP. J'he above text mav be found amoiij: tlie wise sayings of the ancients I have selected it as a basis tor a few remarks, which may be wise or other wise. The idea intended to be con veyed by it is to carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages of any change we may feel disposed to make in the business, actions or situation of our life. If the advice were always heeded, it ivould save many a future regret. i nis a.ivice is frequently given to young men and maidens, 'when about to make the matrimonial leap. But ihey seldom heed the advire. There is something so fascinating about their ihosen one that they are unwilling to beliee that they are much, if anv, short of oeing an angel. The most of them adhere to that idea through life. Some, however, conclude that their chosen one is not very angelic, or that the angel was a native of'different lo cality from what they had supposed in their wooing days. This is not the subject I had in mind when I com menced, but thought it miuht serve as an i lustration of the wisdom of the text "Loot nefo.-e you leap." I v.-.-us talking with a Republican friend a short time ago. who I believe to be a honest and conscientious as politicians usually are ; but he had been reading up about the corruption and extravagance of Democratic offi cials as lepresented by certain would be reformers, and came to the con clusici. that the people would not stard that kind of thing much longer. He therefore ventured the prediction, that if there was not a change soon, this county would go Republican. The wish I presume was father to the thought. I do not apprehend that there is any real danger of such tPvr taking place. His prediction can only be fulfilled by a goodly number of those who have formerly voted with the Democratic party facing about and voting with their opponents. If there are any who are meditating such a move, my advice would be " look before you leap." See whether there is any probability that you will gain anything by the change. Have the Republicans shown any more disposi Hon to economize than the Democrats? It was a Republican legislature that passed the law. making a needless in crease in the salaries of our county ana municipal officers. It was the Republicans who. at the last session of our legislature, created six needless Judgeships with large salaries attached, knowing that five would fall to the lot of certain needy Republicans out of a job. It was a Republican Congress that passed the law increasing their own Salaries and that of the President, anj tnat law was approved bv a Re publican President. It is needless to say that they acted in open disre gard, if not in actual violation of their official oath. It was the same G. O. P. that wanted to pass a force bill that would enable them to keep themselves in oUce throughout all time, unless per c.a.xe they became so corrupt and tvra -;cal that they would be removed by bullets if ballots proved ineffectual i nose who can remember twenty years back are aware that they have the will when they have the power to manui.ttture election returns to suit themselves. If anyone doubts the foregoing statement, let them look up i-ie records. it t.iey look carefully ity n.ay f,nd a number of things that 1 have rot mentioned. Hut 1 advise, look before you le.'p." When my Republican friend? talk about the desirability of turning down fie Democrats and putting their party m power, I feel very much like sayin; to them, '-Much obliged to you, good folks, but I cannot see that we would gain anything by the change." A REMINISCENCE. Thirty-six years ago we were as now entering i:pon a Presidential cam- pa:g' It oeing about the close of James IJuchanan's administration. Our Republican friends took particu lar pains to propagate tiic idea that the Democrats had been very extrav agant in their use of the people's money. "Why," said they, "it costs over sixty millions per year to defray the expenses cf the federal govern ment. This seemed to me a pretty round sum. I had not at that time got to counting my money by the million, hence the seeming magnitude r( (he amount. Well, wc chanced hands at that time, rtul beheld tl e esult. Instead of sixty millions, it cost iMjrht times sixty millions, or. in other words, it cost at that time about two dollars per capita of the popula t:on, and now about eight dollars per capita. c m iv lc'n frim this that those who are nvvst ready to censure others for extravagance, are not always eco nomical when they get their own fingers in the public till. A Voter. The New York Stti quotes from McKinley's record as follows: I he reason of McKinley s silence is not far to seek. He dare not face the following tacts : First McKinley voted to suspend the rules and pass a free silver bill in 1S77. Second In 1S7S he voted for the Bland Silver Dollar bill and supported it. and did much to accomplish its passage against the veto of President Hayes. Third In iSSS, when Chairman of the Platform Committee of the Re publican National Convention, he re ported resolutions denouncing " the policy of the Democratic Administra tion in its efforts to demonetize silver." Fourth In 1S00, when leader of the House, he advocated the passage of the Siierman Saver purchase law and declared : " I want the double standard." Thought he was Orazy. It is such a rare thing for a pension er to refuse his pension that the Gov ernment recently sent an Inspector to Frazer, Pa., to see Samuel Fetters who had refused his pension. Fetters, during the war, contracted a disease w'iic'1 his physicians pronounced c'ironic, and he applied for and received a good sized pensior. This he drew Tegularly until a short time ago, when V health began to im prove, and fini'ly he was completely restored to his former vigor. Then he wrote to the Departmei.t to cease sending the pension. Th s was not done, and when the next pension day came he promptly sent the money back to W.-shington. Thinking Fetters was insane, the Department sent an Inspector to investigate the case, and the result is that his name has been taken off the rolls. This is the second case of the kind in the history of the Pension Department where a soldie: did not believe it was right to accept money unlawfully. PERILOUS KT1W3 GATHERING, The situation in Cuba has reached such an acute stage that events of great interest are of everyday occur rence. Captain (General Weyler is apparently straining every nerve to suppress the truth and is driving the representatives of American news papers out of the island as fast as possi ble. This being true, it is interesting to everybody to know that the news gathering organization of The Phila delphia Press is such that, despite all the efforts of General Weyler. The Press will print daily, full and accu rate dispatches giving all the news of the situation. The Tress never spares expense in fulfilling its contract to print all the news all the time. CEHERAL 1TEVTS. Ex-United State? Serntor William A. Wallace d.ed last Friday in New York Ciiy. An arm! pass is the pri-c oiTcrcd by the Pennsylvania railroad to the farmer on its route who is most successful in beautifying his grounds adjoining the line. Word hs been received from the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at Pittsburg that a commission has been granted for the establish ment of an Orphan's Home at or near Sun bury. Joseph Koliuke, a farmer residing in Dor ranee township, Luzerne County, set fire to. and completely destroyed his handsome home, two burns, and shot himself. 1 lis body was found in the ruins burned to a crisp. Domestic troubles are said to be the cause of the deed. Cyclones a-e doing deadly work in the West. Ten persons were killed and many injured by one near Cuthric, Otilahama last Friday. Kilit cyclones have occurred with in a radiu. of lifty miles, and within a period of five duy. Hon. W. C. Whitney says he is not a presidential candidate. Not rhat t am afraid of defeat, but business considciatiuns comnel me at t!ii time to keep out of politics. The Walsontown boot and s'loe company have just received a laruc contract for shoes for tlu; L'nilcd Stales navy. Woik on the same will be commenced at once, nnd it will give woik to Hie regular force and a large number ol outsulcis, or extra sin nakeis. This work, as heretofore, must be first-class and subject to a rigid examination. The Ohio legislature has follow 1 1111 llie theatrical high h it law with anothiv adopt ing the electrical chair III excutions, and a III rd making it a misdemeanor to offer to treat a man in a saloon. A cave-in occurred on the L.ound on which Ilai mini's circus was showing at ll.ile ton which together with the inclemency of the weather resulted in only a short per formance being civen. The village of U inpahanock in Schuylkill County will soon exist only in the memory of the former inhabitants. Th'! ground upon which the town is located is sinking nnd many of the families are moving away, TI13 Shenandoah branch of the riiiludelphia and Heading Kail Road it also endangered, A TEAORER SUrS. Miss VcLcan Securci Ju lj-'rnl fcr $260. a cowngiiam rowvr.inr case 1 Miss Bridget McLean was the pro secutrix in a case against the Cony rgham School District befoie Squiie I.aughlin last week. She brought suit to. recover $2(10, the amount due her which was deducted from her salary each month while she was teacher of t ie Dark Coiner School. M. M. Burke, of Shenandoah, was at torney for Miss McLean, and W. A. Marr, of Ashland, represented th defendants. The Justice's office was well filled witn spectators. The teacher was the fust witness. She said her salary was fixed at $6? ter month ; this amount was paid her for four months wnen without notice, her salary was reduced to $40. which amount she refused to accept. T. W. Raudenbush, secretary o the board, was sworn. He produced books to show that no salary was at tached to the position of that teacher He said that $65 was paid her for lo.ir months, and then because so many people were complaininj her salary was reduced and the orders thereafter made out for $40 which she refused to accept. Michael 1 iirhe, director, sworn Said that the teacher was elected $65 per month for nine months 5 the board never authorized her salary to be reduced, and that it was done by the secretary alone ; that the same reductions were made with the teacher in that position last year but he was not allowed to see the auditors report, and he didn't know whether the deductions were recorded or not. J. J. O'Connor, president of the School Board was sworn. He said the teacher was employed to teach for a nine month term at a salary of $65 per month. On cross examination by Mr. Marr he was asked it Miss McLean was not giving him a " divvy" of $J5 each month. Sir. Burk advis ed the witness not to answer the question, saying that it was not perti nent 1 0 the case. Mr. Marr insisted on an answer to the question, and ap pealed to the Justice. The Justice ruled in the negative, saying that the , witness could not be compelled to incriminate himself, whereupon Mr. Marr grew angry and left the office. Mr. Burke asked for judgment and the amount was granted. BOYS TV" HO SET FIFTY FRE3. Arrest of Two Pyroman'acj Wbo Have Caused a Loss of $2,000,000. The Boston police on Thursday night arrested William H. Daley, aged 20, and William T. Reed, aged 18, both of Cambridge, charged with being incendiaries. The boys have confessed to setting 'more than fifty hres in Cambridge and Somerville since last September. The aggregate loss on these fires was more than a million dollars. Daley has also confessed to setting fire to the Holton Dugbee lumber yards in Cambridge two years ago weich caused a loss cf $1,000,000. The latest of this remarkable series of incendiary fires which have baffled the police of Cambridge, Boston, and the state force for months occured on last Tuesday night, when the Charles D. Place box factory was burned, causing a loss of $75,000. The boys were seen that night by a little girl who gave so accurate a des cription of them that their arrest was made easy. Their method in every case was to throw a small piece of lighted candle into a building and es cape on bicycles. Both boys belong to respectable families. The interior of the City Hotel has been materially changed by improve ments made in the office. The screens have been taken off the win dows and a partition has been erect ed which separates the office from the barroom. This is a decided im provement. Do people buy Hood's Siu'Hnparilla In preference to gny other, In fact almoet to the exclusion of all others? Thoy know from actual ubo that Hood's Is the best, 1. e., it cures when others fall. Hood's Sarsaparilla is still made under the neruonal sunervlHlnn nf tlm prtnrntnH pharmacists who originated it. 1 nn question 01 bt'st 1h just as positively docldod in f AVor of IIonri'H&M t hn nnoat mn of comparative sales. Another thing: Every advertisement ot Hood's Sarsaparilla in true, is honoet. Hood Sarsaparilla Is the Ono True Wood 1'uriller. Alhtniguisl- tl. I'roparedonly byC. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Muss. nm are me ouiy puis 10 mho Whv iiuuu o rius wiumooa'isarsttpulua, IQHH MtjiWlliill fetPT SUITS 9 WRNiiftMAlW&WAttJilii'ils, j TtiOUiibKS FROISiaOI BLOOMSBURG PA. FROM S5.QO. Lippincott's Magiziao for June, 1896 The complete novel in the June issue of .;!' s is "From Clue to Climax," by W ill N. Harben. It is a tale of murder and hypnotism, in which an extremely able dectective and a physician of the new school join forces to clear the innocent ?nd run the guilty to earth. "A Fellow-Feeling" is by Edith Bower, perhaps the only author who can write readable stories about the coal region. II. C. Stickncy, in "Timely," tells some "ways that are dark" among the Chinese of San Francisco. "The F.nd of a Career," as briefly described by Harry Irving Horton, was that of a male flirt I. J. Wistar supplies an instructive article on "Criminal Jurisprudence." Owen Hall discusses the prospects and conditions of "Naval Warfare in 1S06," giving the facts and figures as to the world's various navies, and con cluding that Great Britain is likely to hold her own. Concerning the "Feigning of Death by Animals," Dr. James W'cir, as a result of special microscopic studies, presents facts that are largely new. Dr. Charley C. Abbott offers some observations on "The Changeful Skies." Fb'h Dirkson writes on the "Youthful Reading of Literary Men," illiam Trowbridge Lamed makes some remarks "Alter Seeing a Poor Play." "Woman in Business" is dis cussed by Mary E. J. Kelley. A second article on General and Mrs. Washington, by Anne Hollings worth Wharton, deals with their official life. Like its predeccsscrr, it is abun dantly illustrated. The poetry of the number is by Carlotta Perry, Grace F. Pennypacker and Charles G. D. Roberts. Arctio Exploration. The report that Doctor Nar.sen had dis covered the North Pole and was on hi; homeward iournev has been refuted by intel licence from L'stVansk, the point from which the rumor cime, to the ellect that nothing has been heard there of the explorer. This intelligence is from a Russian official, who was sent by the governor of Yakutsk to make iiiiiiuies 1 lie steamer mdward, which returned to Kngland last year after leaving the Jackson party, which is engaged in the exploration ot iran.josel J.anil, is to leave again for the Arctic seas next month, and will carry letters for Doctor Nansen, on the chance of fullin 111 with him north ot J-ranz- Josef Land. Ilerr Andree, the Swede, who con'emplates a balloon voyage to the role. expects to have his balloon and balloon-house ready by the last ot this month, lie will start from Spitsbergen. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. 2.tr uf WilUixm Ltrht Sr.t late vj Centre Toin T'ie vfi'li'rt-'rjn d nwtUar afjiointnl bi the Orphans" Court nf C'-luiitbht County, to retttrt atwrwutton ui thr uuuxnve in ttte tut mm tir m (( him berk Jr., ml miniftrntor of said rotate, will tit at his ujthv iit !t!H.iitifirg, nn Saturttctf, Jnuf Vi, ISM, at 10 o'clock in tfie juretioon, wlirn and ir fa-re ait wMim havuta vlatms a'jains iff etiale ? '.( nijxur untl prove ttte name vr lie atOarrea from ivmlny in on aaid fmul. II. A. MCKILLIP, 5 3'-3. Auditor. The "TWIN COMET" and"LITTLE GIANT" Lawn Sprinklers, BEST MADE. Unique, Efficient, Labor Sav ing. Will sprinkle 4 times greater area than any other Sprinklers made. Highest Award at tho Chicago Ezp-sition. CiiHhe Keen In oiwrattim at iwMrtii 07m Kill tnr a thin iHiir,coriwr 3rd unit Market W uuintiittry. Sendfor circulais giving testimonials and prices. E. Stebbins Mfg. Co., SO.B SI A XCFA CTCRKRS, Springfield, Mass. JAceucy for UIuouimIhuv at the COLUMBIAN oniee. mi-ain. Removed ! SCHUYLER'S HARDWARE, TO MAIN and IRONISTS. R. T0.WH: Nature Arrayed in Her Brightest Garb Finds a parallel in every section of the store. There's a bright crisp newness about the stock very pleasing to prospective buyers. Couple this with the extreme moderation of our prices and have a two fold incentive. IK-rp nro snmo sp-.i signal tip selections which have received you marching orders They'll move downwards the next few days to the music of double quick time. Groceries We offer you this week a good thing in coffee. A fine Mulberry Java coffee; nothing equal to it on the market. A little higher in price but fully worth it. 45c. lb. Loose clear starch, finest we ever sA', worth at least 8c. the lb, but here 5c. lb., or 6 lbs. 25c. Fearless Brand Columbia River Salmon, worth any where but here 18c. the can. Here ou get it 2 cans 25c. Imported Swiss cheese, finest on the market, 30c. This week Neufchatel chees?, 5c. Ginger Ale and No Tox, or vYild Cherry Thospliate, el.'ant fur sum mer drink, 10c. the bottle. Underwear Special Just received a case of women's shaped Jersey ribbed vests, unbleach ed, low neck and no sleeves, made of line moca yarn. We tempt you with these at uc. A Silk Special Two dozen sty'es of rich wash silks for waists, all pretty designs, width 20 nches. Ought to be 35 and 40c. For this occasion 28 and 35c. Black Goods Special A lot of plain mohairs, very popular just now for separate skirts. Raven's wing, black and rich lustre, width 38 inches, price 50c. to $1.00. French Serge Special Seven shades, all this season's im portation, pure wool, warp and filling, width 4S in. Worth in a regular way 75c; a choice of this lot at 50c. CCgThis store will close at noon on Saturday, Decoration day HI.OOMSUURG, PA, I! The only big show TW THE.EREAT JOHN BDimOI AKD fEllIS IE Enormous Shows Combined Bloomsburg, HONDAY, JUNE 1st. Pallia Crand Free Parade More than a Mile in Length, Daily "i 10 Presenting more horses, kin,,. yJ,u.. , ybiwuiiqutujuy WANTED-A MAN In each county for erne yenr to liliv hii.1 sunt'i ln lend ttLrent us a iiuimi. u,...., rulurumva. Kiklos.' nmui. TUB Hatter. Wash Goods Special. 35 styles of dainty dimities full 30 inches wide, perfectly fast colors, ex clusive styles; got a 25c. value, the price is 15c. Percales that sell at wholesale at 5$c. go for 5c. and the best American made blue calico at the same price 5c. Shirt Waist Special. About 50 of them. All the newest and best designs, made of the best materials, laundried collars and cuffs. Compare them with any waist at 65c. This lot may go at 48c. Umbrella Special Fast black (lioria silk, paragon frame, 26 inch, handsome assortment of natural stick handles. Cost you 111 a regular way, $1.25. We are goin to give you the pick of them at 98c. Bed Spread Special Full.double bed size, in fact extra large, extra heavy and, hemmed. You've paid $1.25 for no better. These are yours for 98c. A Kid Glove Special Only a few dozen left. All the standard shades, 7 hook length, per fect fit, perfect kid. The only wrong thing ''.bout them is the price. They are the $1.00 kind for 75c. A Hosiery Special Assorted lots of women's hose, full regular made, fast blacks, with white feet, and tan shades. Actually were 25c. Trice on this lot 15c. 1 CeiBII! coming this year. a. m , r,f ,,;.. .1 ...:i.t u I ttSu b p. H. iioDrs open 1 iiour eiriicf. GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE COLUMBIAN OFfJCE
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