THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA.
A MATTER Or TASTE.
Rays th peacock to th rabhft,
Wlio'i your tailor? tell me, pray:
Vor, good sir. he's cut your coat-tall -In
a moit old-fashioned way. .v-f:
Ijonk nt ni,
Woulri you nee r 2i
Bavs the rabbit to the peacock, -W
"Who's your barber? tell me. pray:
For his shears have shorn your ears, Sir,
In a most old-fashioned way.
Look Bt me,
Would you see
What a stylish ear should be!"
-Esther H. Tiffany, In St. Nicholas.
BEN'S BID.4
"Why don't you raise chickens foi
th market?" auggested Hiram Bassett
tb Tillage storekeeper, to Ben Singer.
Ben was fourteen years old. His
mother had died a short time before
His father was a carpenter by trado
but had been crippled by rheumatism
bo that he could not work. Ben, whc
always looked on Mr. Bassett as 8
friend of undoubted fidelity and great
resources, had been telling the store
keeper how much he wished he could
get some steady work. Mr. Singer's
little stock of money was exhausted;
he had already sold some of his tools
to get the food he and his son needed.
Hen realised that the day was rapidly
coming when there would be no way ol
getting more, unless he managed to dc
something of greater profit than the
odd Jobs he picked up now and then
from the surrounding fanners.
"I'll do It," said Ben, in response tc
Mr. Bassett's suggestion, and, turning
about, trudged home, and all the way
was planning how he might begin.
A week later the "chicken farm." as
Hen called it. was a fact; at least, he
had made a start. In his spare time
he had constructed some coops from
old barrels and a box or two. The pay
lor two days' work he Invested in thre?
dozen eggs, and with the money ob
tained by sorting some vegetables for
the storekeeper bought two hent
.which wre JtiBt about to "set." He
and his father already had five pullets,
and within a couple of weeks more
there were five "clutches" of eggs un
der as many of his hens.
He fed his chickens from the screen
ings he got at a small price from sev
eral of the farmers. The hens man
aged, too, to pick up a good deal ot
food among the bushes and In the tiny
jrirdcn luck of the house. Pen work
ed hard at the Bmall jobs ho was given
round about, and waited with confi
dence for the time when he should be
able to make something from his ven
ture. He vould have felt much happier If
It hadn't been for his father's condi
tion. Mr. Singer did not complain o!
the rheumatism, though it still kept
him confined to his big chair. But
something worried him very much; the
t y could see that. He asked what It
iwas several times, but Mr. Singer's
only reply was that he suffered, he felt
downhearted on account of being so
crippled. He tried to make Ben think
that that was all that distressed him,
Dut the boy could not believe It.
Slowly the flock of chickens grew.
FThe eggs hatched remarkably well.
Fifty downy little balls were soon run
ning In and out of the coops where
their mothers were confined. Fout
more elutches of eggs were under thai
number of new hens, which he had
bought and paid for in instalments ol
iwork. The first days of summer bsw
Ihim with seventy-five young chickens,
eome of them able to scratch for them
selves. It took all he could now make
to keep his father and himself in food
and to provide for his farm, but he was
always on the alert for a job, and wac
as cheerful as he could be, so that the
neighbors all liked to employ him wb.ee
they could.
Ben had told his father of his plan,
and explained that as tew of the far
mers raised chickens, except for theii
own use, he thought there ought to h
a chance to make something by sL k
ping them to Waynesboro, the biggei
town, five miles away. Mr. Slnser was
not altogether confident of the success
of such an experiment, but he sa'd
nothing to discourage the boy, and usic
to sit near the window and watch tht
broods and talk to Ben about them.
July and August went by, and the
young chickens thrived. Only a few
ot them were lost. A prowling 'possum
got several before Ben trapped the
marauder. Cold and rain killed off a
tew more. But the first ot Septembet
came and more than sixty chickens
were the boy's.
Ben planned to sell thirty or forty
in the early autumn and to keep the
remainder till the next summer tc
etock his farm afresh. He Intended to
go into it then on a bigger scale, and
he hoped to realize enough from his
sales to keep him through the winter
with the part of his flock he retained.
One day in September, as he and hit
father eat In the doorway of his cot
tage, Ben noticed a couple of tean
trickle down his father's face. He
jumped up and threw his arms around
his father's neck. He was frightened
and he did not understand what wa
the matter.
Presently Mr. SIngor unclasped the
boy's hands and looked him in the
face.
"Ben," ho said, "I'm afraid we ar
In for hard times yet."
"What do you mean, dad?" '
"The house Is only rented," said Mr
Singer, slowly; "they can't take that
but they can take all our furniture and
everything else."
"Why, they belong to ur!"
"So they do, Ben, but the law give
another man the right to sell them anc
take the money they bring If we owt
him money and cannot pay it."
"And we owe somebody money? ,'
thought Dr. James was paid?"
"So he was. But there Is some on
else to whom I owe money a man J
borrowed from when your mother waf
sick. I owe him one hundred dollars
Jle has what they call my note. I
haven't been able to pay him, and now
he says he must have it. He Is entitled
to it right off, find will get as much ol
It as posglble by selling what we have
lie was here to see me about it the
other day, and I tried to get him tc
wait. But ho says he's tired of wait,
ing, and the sheriff will come and sell
us out."
Ben had a fairly good idea now ol
tfc.e situation. He tried to comfort hit
father, but it was of intle avail. Mr,
Hlnger felt his helplessness and the ills
grace keenly, and did not know what
would become of them. Ben worried
over what he had heart! all night lonj?.
h'it Iip could find no way out of thel!
difficulty.
The next day he took ten of his bt
gpst ohiokf-ns to the vllingc store. He
had already arranged with Mr. Bassctl
to have them sent to a commission
merchant at Waynesboro and sold.
After he hnd delivered the chickens
and Mr. Bassett had promised to get
him the money for them as quickly ai
possible, the Idea struck the boy oi
asking the storekeeper about a sheriff !
sale. The thing puzzled him a bit yet
and he indulged a faint hope that, 11
he knew just how it was done, he mtghl
be able to hit upon a way out.
"Mr. Bassett," he Bald, "how does a
sheriff sell you out?"
Perhaps the storekeeper had an idea
of the trouble. But If he did he gave
no sign of It, and tried to explain tc
Ben how such a sale was conducted.
"And the people at the sale," he con
cluded, "offer to buy what is offered,
and the sheriff sells to the one who
makes the highest bid."
Ben asked several questions before
he left. Then he walked slowly home
and all the while in his mind he was
turning over a dimly defined project
which had been suggested to him by
what he bad heard.
A week later Ben received the money
for his chickens three dollars and
eighty cents. He was a proud boy, and
he would have shown his satisfaction
more If It had not been for the impend
ing trouble, which made his father sc
miserable thnt he could not leave hie
bed. Ben bought some fruit for twenty-five
cents, and took It home to him,
but Mr. Singer was feeling so bad that
he ate of It only sparingly.
On a Monday In the early part of the
next month the sheriff, in pursuance ol
formal notice, arrived at the house tc
make a snle to satisfy Mr. Singer's
creditor. Quite a crowd had gathered
about the cottage, and there was not
one who did not sympathize with the
carpenter and his son. Ben's father
was very ill that morning and could
not leave the bed. The sheriff mounted
a box in the yard and began a descrip
tion of the goods to be sold.
It was a pitiful array, after all. A
few tools, a miscellaneous assortment
of cheap furniture, a kitchen stove with
some cooking utensils and china, and
some linen and blankets. But one item
in the lot the chickens the sherlfl
counted on as his drawing card. Hall
a hundred of fine hens and marketable
chickens were cooped in a pen near by
and upon the value of these the county
officer dwelt at length. Then, when he
thought he had the crowd sufficiently
around, he named a starting figure in
default of an actual bid.
"Sixty dollars for this choice lot of
chickens and household goods!" h
cried.
There was no response. He repeated
the announcement, then dropped the
figures to fifty dollars. Still no one
spoke.
The bherlff made some further re
marks about the articles for sale and
tried again at forty dollars. But the
crowd was dumb. No one felt inclined
to buy out the crippled carpenter and
his son.
The sheriff tried again and again,
dropping the figures lower and lower,
and all the time growing more vocifer
ous in the explanation of the bargain
which was offered. He did not like the
Job, for he had been told about the
case by some of the village people, but
he had a duty to perform, and he knew
he must get as much out ot the sale as
he could.
The figures had dropped to ten dol
lars, but silence reigned, except for a
defiant crow from one of the roosters
in the pen.- Mr. Singer's creditor evi
dently had no representative on thd
ground, and even the low price named
was not taken up with.
The sheriff dropped his offer now, a
dollar at a time, but apparently in
vain. It looked as If the sale would
come to nothing.
Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four!
Not a response came from those about.
Three dollars! The sheriff was smil
ing at the ridiculous offer, and was
just about to name two dollars and one
dollar In quick succession, hoping tor
no reply, when a boyish voice, close at
hand, said:
"I bid three dollars!"
The officer looked down on the
speaker and saw Ben. The boy held up
three one-dollar notes In his hand. The
sheriff smiled. More than one man in
the crowd felt like cheering the bidder.
But the officer knew he could not ac
cept the offer at once.
"Three dollars I am bid!" he cried.
"Who bids four?"
No one spoke.
"Three dollars and a half then?"
Every one was silent, and the buss
gestton of three dollars and a quarter
likewise went uuanswered. Three dol
lurs was the one bid offered, and, after
one expostulation, the sheriff took the
oner.
Ben handed the money to the sheriff,
who congratulated him on his purchase
with an earnestness he had seldom felt
on occasions of this kind, and there
was not one of the farmers who did not
come forward and speak a kindly word
of praise and encouragement to the
boy.
But Ben was listening td little of all
thla; he slipped away to his father, who
could only strain the boy to him while
tr.e tears streamed down his face.
The chicken farm was saved, and It
proved a success. A year later, when
Mr. Singer was once more working
stenriily, and his rheumatism was gone,
r.bi creditor was paid in full the amount
borrowed from him, and the proceeds
from Pen's chicken farm did not a llt-
iie to make up tne sum required.
Xxnaimuer Cuttlnirs.
The only way to keep newspaper
scraps is to pasto them into a book.
Kxpor.ure to the air yellows them end
makes them so brittle that In a few
yenrs, sometimes within a few months
they are destroyed. Never use mucl-
laiio for pasting. Some kinds may an
MYiT admlrublv. but mnnv hnvo mi tn
eriM'.icnt which will darken the paper
to umr. uio printing win become lllegi
U.e. The Urx paste for ordinary pur
notpa la tmu'.e from flour or cornstarun
A New lituu.
"George Washington must have been
a awiul tired man," said Jack.
Tiled? Why?" atiked his father.
"It says here he couldn't lie," said
Jutii, lefi'.nUig to liia book. "When I'm
tlicd I can lie down."
STATE NICKNAMES.
Pennsylvania is called the Keystone
State.
Kentucky is known as the Corn
cracker State, from a game bird en
joying the same name which was
formerly found in most parts of the
State. It is also called the Blue
Grass State.
Delaware has been called the Blue
Hen State.
Ohio was early called the Buckeye
State.
New York was long ago denomi
nated the Empire Slate.
Iowa almost from the day of its
admission has been called the Hawk-
eye State. Hawkeye was the name
of a noted Indian chief.
Michigan is known as the Wolver
ine State.
Tennesseeans are Butternuts, from
the color of the clothing worn by the
Tcnne-sce volunteers during the civil
war.
Wisconsin was early dubbed the
Badger State.
1 exas is called the Lone Star State
from the single star in the arms of
the Commonwealth.
Indiana is called the Hoosier State.
Maine is called the Pine Tree State.
Nevada has two nicknames the
Silver State and the Saj;e Brush State.
Georgians are Buzzards, from a
State law protecting these birds.
North Carohnains are called Tar
heels, from a leading industry.
Marylanders are Craw-Thumpers,
a slang name for the lobster.
South Carolina is the Palmetto
State.
Delaware people are called Musk-
rats.
The people of Oregon are Webfeet.
West Virginians are Panhandleites.
Texans are Becfheads.
New Yorkers are Knickerbockers.
Nevadans arc Sage Hens.
Kansans are Jayhawkers.
THE OLDEST FAMILY.
The Mikado hat a Lin,) ol Ancestors 2.500
YcsiS Long.
Not many people know how far
back the lines of the old families of
various countries run. It is a necu
liarly interesting topic, however, for
the reason that those generally thought
to be of the most ancient lineacre are
really comparatively mushrooms as
regards ancestry.
Out of the four hundred barons in
the British House of Lords, all of whom
are popularly considered to be pos
sessed of ancient lines of descent, only
about a dozen actually date back six
hundred years.
Of all families in the British Isles.
the oldest is the Mar family of Scot
land, which can trace its lines into the
dim past of 1093.
Other famous old European families
are the Campbells. ofArirvle. 11 00:
the family of Talleyrand, 1100 ; the
family of Bismarck, 11 70; and the
Grosvenor family, the Dukes of West
minster, 1066. In a;( the Austrian
house of Hapsburg had its beginning,
ana in S04 the House of Bourbon.
But in caiefully preserved lines of
ancestors some of the other nations
of the world overshadow Europe.
rar oiaer tnan any European house
is the line of Mahomet, dating back
to 570.
Chinese old families and Tewish old
families abound, all with lines of de
scent that even the hautrhtiest British
peer would be willing to give his rent
roil to possess. But there is one
house which goes back so far that be
yond doubt or cavil it is the very old
est in the world.
This is the family of the Mikado of
Japan. In unbroken line Mikaao has
followed Mikado for more than two
thousand five hundred years. During
all these centuries the line has been
kept perfectly, and son has succeeded
son without an exception.
The present ruler of Taoan is the
one hundred and twenty-second of the
line. To emphasize fully the enor
mous weight of years of this lineage,
it snouia ue stated that the Mikado s
family is older than five of the seven
great religions that Max Mueller men
tions as possessing Bibles.
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BLOOM
LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.
Capital Stock, $30,000.
Plotted property is in tbe coming business centre of the
town. It includes also part of the factory district, and has uo
equal in desirability for residence purposes.
CHOICE LOTS are offered at values that will be doubled
in a short time.
No such opportunity can bo had elsewhere to make money.
Lots secured on SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS-
Maps of the town and of plotted property furnished on ap
plication.
Call upon or write to the Secretary, or J. S. Woods, Sales
Agent, or any member of the Board of Directors.
BOARD OF
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C. W. Neal, A. G.
Dr. H. w. McReynolds,
ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO.
DEALERS IN
Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, Fruits and Nuts
SOLE AGENTS FOR
Henry Mailtard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week.
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F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco
Bole agents for the following tirands of Cigars-
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Bloomsburg Pa.
fVidej Iow hud
For the finest and best stoves, tinware, roofinc, spouting
and general job work, go to V. W. Watts, on Iron street.
Buildings heated by steam, 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.
SHOES
We buy right and sell right.
OUR SUCCESS IS BASED ON THIS FACT.
Honest trading has won us hosts of customers but we want more.
We are selling good shoes, so good you ought to see
them. Drop in and we will make it pay you.
Cohner Iron and Main Sts.
W. H. floore.
IK YOU ARE IN NEED OF
CARPET, IJlATTirVO,
or Oil, CLOTH,
YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT
W. M. "BBDWEM
2nd Door above Oonrt House
A large lot of Window Curtains in stock.
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s but it guarantees it It means that
this plaster ia the very best of its m
kind. The Red Cross Society use E
it in their humane work. It ia for
every ailment in which a plaster is
employed. Examine when you buy.
- JOHNSON ft JOHNSON,
Manufacturing Chemists, New York.
Those who once
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lor ii. mis au
mixlure makes
Lite flavor of cof
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SB U RCS
DIRECTORS.
J. L Dillon.
Brigos, Dr. I. W. Willits,
N. U. Funk.
Good WoA,
Bloom sbursf, Pa.
SHOES
Something New !
Fred Kumer's improved Ar
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kinds of cement work. Prices
low and all work gmwanteed.
All orders by mail promptly
attended to.
P. O. Box 374.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Removed !
SCHUYLER'S
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Fine PHOTO
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McKillip Bros.,
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The best are
the cheapest.
THE MARKETS.
BLOOMSBURG MARKETS.
CORMCTID WIIILT. 1IT1IL fBICII.
Butter per lb $ ,32
Eggs per dozen i3
Lard per lb... , 08
Ham per pound uj
Pork, whole, per pound ,06
Beef, quarter, per pound .... .07
Wheat per bushel ,80
Oats " ' 23
Rye " " 50
Wheat flour per bbl 4.00
Hay per ton 12 to $14
Potatoes per bushel, .40
Turnips " " 25
Onions " " .40
Sweet potatoes per peck 35 to .30
Tallow per lb a I
Shoulder " " 10
Side meat" " 10
Vinegar, per qt ,07
Dried apples per lb .05
Dried cherries, pitted .10
Raspberries..... ,12
Cow Hides per lb .3!
Steer " " os
CalfSkin 80
Sheep pelts , ,75,
Shelled corn per bus .50
Corn meal, cwt 2.00
Bran, '. i.0o
Chop " i.oo
Middlings " 1.00
Chickens per lb new ,w
" " "old 10
Turkey3 " " . .uj
Gccse " " 10
Ducks " " 08
COAL.
No. 6, delivered a.40
" 4 and s " 3.50
" 6 at yard 2.25
" 4 and 5 at yard 3 25
Bring tho Babies.
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n-22-iy.
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HLOOMSUURG, PA.
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Not one part but every
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Office ami residence, 410 Main St.,
y.jo iy. BLOOMSDUKG, l'-V
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