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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
WASHINGTON.
from out KeRUlur Corresponaent.
Washington, August 10th, 1896.
Senator Jones, Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,
found himself called upon very early
in the game to pay the penalty of
prominence in a National Campaign.
In addition to having been malicious
ly Led about and misquoted he has
been directly attacked and charged
with mismanaging the campaign. It
isn't Senator Jones that these people
are after injuring, but Bryan and
Sewall, whose prospects are looking
entirely too bright to please their
enemies. As to the misquotation of
his interview concerning the Southern
populists, Senator Jones said before
going to New York, where he will
probably remain until after the
National Committee meeting and
the big Bryan and Sewall notification
meeting, next week : " I did not say
that Mr. Bryan would not accept the
populist nomination, for I have no
authority to say that. I did not say
that as a general rule the southern
populists were not a creditable class.
On the contrary, I said that most of
them were patriotic men who were
working for a cause; that they were
populists because they had believed
they could promote their cause best
through a new party ; and that now
they would .support Bryan, because it
was shown that their patriotic objects
could be attained only through his
election. That is what I said of the
southern populists as a rule. As an
exception I spoke ol the class who
were not creditable. I said there
were some who were populists merely
for their personal advancement ; some
who had become populists through
selfish, and not patriotic motives. I
spoke of these as the exceptional
class who would not support Bryan.
I said that as a rule the populists in
the South would follow the patriotic
course and support Bryan ; that there
were some who, for selfish motives,
would not do r.o, but would perfcr to
have McKinley elected."
The charge of mismanagement
against Senator Jones falls of its own
weight, for the very good reason that
there has been practically nothing to
manage and will not be until the
meeting of the National Committee
in New York City on the nth inst.
when the membership of the execu
tive committee will be announced and
the general plan of the campaign
mapped out and adopted. This
charge was accompanied by a demand
that Senator Gorman's services be
requisitioned. That really explains
one of the main objects of those who
made the charge to upset the ex
tremely cordial relations existing be
tween Senator Jones and Gorman,
thus depriving the National Commit
tee of the advice which Mr. Gorman
load promised to give during the
campaign in lieu of accepting the
chairmanship of the executive com
mittee which was offered him.
The gold democrats of New York
may be quite the patriots they claim
lobe, but since it became known in
Washington that they tried to make a
deal with Mark Ilanna to cast their
votes for the McKinley electoral
ticket in exchange for republican
votes in the New York legislature for
one of their number as Senator to
succeed David B. Hill, they are class
ed as plain, everyday disgruntled
politicians, more bent upon getting
office than upon defending principles.
Unless ail the reports from W. Va.,
are wrong, which is not at all likely,
that state will certainly give Bryan
and Sewall a large majority. Among
the West Virginians :n Washington
this week was Chairman Chilton of
the Democratic State committee. He
says it is only a question of how large
a. majority the state will give the
democratic ticket, as the republicans
are flocking to the support of Bryan
. and free coinage in one county
alone 722 republicans have joined
Bryan and Sewall clubs.
ine size ot tne democratic major
ity in Alabama indicates with unerring
certainty that the most of the popu
lists in the South will return to the
democratic party, thus realizing the
prediction made when Bryan was
nominated. It also increased the
difficulty of Tom Watson putting up
a claim for democratic recognition
which will receive any attention. The
south will be practically solid for
Bryan and Sewall, although Maryland
may be lost on acco'-nt of the money
ed and corporate inlluences of Balti
more being thrown for McKinley and
the gold standard.
AH
TEES
Rev. William Tucker was in Agony
Many Years.
Says He felt as Though He had been Stabbed by a Thousand
knives. He was Stricken Blind and Feared He Would
Lose His Mind. All This in Defiance of the
Best Medical Skill. His Recovery Looked
Upon as a Miracle.
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From the tfew Bra, Qreentburg, Ind.
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REV. WILLIAM TUCKER, P1ERCEVILLF, INDIANA
talked all over Decatur
wn nuMiclr
and Ripley counties for some time before the
Aw hrn pent n reporter to Pierceville to
fully investigate the Tucker mutter. The
Turners are prominent people nnd are ull
well-to-do farmers. The Itev. William
Tucker, subject of all the talk, was pleased
to allow us an interview. Mr.. Tucker
looked well and healthy, although he is
Beventy-five years old, and forty years ago
he begun preaching in the faith -or the Free
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mtpuKiK. x uio is 111s siury ua 11c iuiu 111c
reporter :
I was born and reared on a farm and be
gan preaching at an eariy age. i was al
ways sunjeet to rneumatisni, even wncn
quite young. Pains, sharp and acute, would
shoot across my body, causing me much suf
fering. The doctors pronounced it then a
spinal disease. The pains kept getting worse
all the 'time from day to day as the years
rolled round, and I experienced many years
suffering.
"Although I much regretted to, I was
compelled to retire altogether from my
work in the religious cause. The pains
would first start from my spine and limbs,
but afterward begun shooting from all parts
of the body and it seemed as though a thous
and knives were sticking me. After these
pains would first come on, my entire body
would suddenly grow cold, I would be iiuml:
all over anil all my muscles would be asleep
I would then turn suddenly blind. I often
lay in this condition for hours, and generally
1 was conscious and knew what was going
on, hut the suttering was intense aim nil
bearable. No words can describe it.
Frequently, in going ubout my pluce or
when I woulu be uwuy from home, these
spells would come on me "and for some time
I would be entirely blind and my mind
would be affected. My family was uneasy
and feared my mind would Income impaired.
I con suit 1 several physicians at greens
burg, but they said my case was hopeless, as
the disease was incurable. I went to other
cities for treatment. A prominent doctor of
Toledo, Ohio, dismissed me as incurable and
I gave up in despair. I tried many patent
medicines but none of them did the least
good. Finally I saw in the Arm t.ra. an
article about Pr. 'Williams' Fink Pills. 1
had no faith in them, for nothing did me any
good, but I tried thein as a lat resort. The
first box helped me at once and I kept on
taking them. I began taking them in May,
'H4. I have taken over a dozen boxes now
and I feel perfectly well in every respect and
feel that I am permanently cured. I could
never sleep before, as the pains would come
suddenly on me in the night and I would
become numb. Many a time I've walked
the floor in agony the entire night. I can
sleep perfectly sound now, and my appetite
is better than ever before, and I weigh more
than for many years. I feel that 1 own my
life to the Pink Pills."
Itev. Tucker assured us that we need not
doubt a word of his testimony for his family
will vie with him in-every word he spoke.
Pr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the
elements necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves.
They are sold in boxes (never in loose form,
by the dozen or hundred) at 50 cents a box,
or six boxes for $2.50, and may bo had ot all
druggists or directly by mail from Dr. Wil
liams' Medicine Company, Schenectady,
N. Y.
UNUSED STAMPS.
How Uncle Sam Redeems Envelopes That
Aro Spoiled or Misdirected.
One of the most interesting branches
of the postil service is that which is
devoted to the redeeming of stamped
envelopes which have been misdi
rected. A person of an observing
turn can spend a very profitable half
hour there any time listening to the
stories told by the men and women
of how they came to spoil so much
valuable stationery. Indeed, it is a
remarkable thing how so many en
velopes get misdirected, many large
firms returning them in lots of sev
eral thousand at a time. The clerks
who have to count them say that it
is all gross carelessness, and they
point to the way in which the envel
opes are returned some Dack to
back and others folded and twisted
in every possible shape. All this
means extra work to the clerks, who
have very little spare time on their
hands.
these stamps have to come out of the
regular supply, as the department at
Washington will not recognize any
demand until the misdirected envel
opes have been counted.
A Boy King of India,
Rules Over 2,000,000 People.
Little King Alfonso, ol Spain is
not the only boy monarch in the
world. There's another lad whose
kingdom is in the heart of the great
Himalaya Mountains in Northern
India and called Nepal. This prov
ince covers over 54,000 square miles
quite a bit of country for a boy to
look after.
The present population of Nepal is
some 2,000,000 Indians known chief
ly as Gurkhas. The capital of this
kingdom in the hills of Khatnumdu,
which is 560 miles from Calcutta,
and might be in Mars so far as reach
ing it excepting afoot, is concerned.
Here in this curious old city of
Khatnumdu, 4500 feet above the sea,
lives the junior king, in a splendid
palace, with a retinue of servants as
the Czar's and a court as magnificent
as the Emperor William's.
The name of this little-known boy
king and now draw in a long breath
is Maharaj Adhiraj Prithwi Bir
Hikram or Bahadur Sail Saheb Baha
dur Sumshere Jung. Is it any wonder
that a little chap 17 years of age
should look worn out and tired after
carrying that terrible name about
with him since he was an infant ?
In the land of the Indian boy king
it is considered worse than murder to
kill a cow, and when such a crime has
been committed the offender has
always been beheaded in the presence
of the populace. The Gurkhas wor
ship the most hideous idols ever seen,
their great war god being one of the
most terrible images in all India a
country where queer idols abound.
There are some 20,000 slaves in the
kingdom of Nepal. The people, both
in and out of bondage, are not a happy
race. They dress like Europeans,
but they are completely shut out from
the rest of the world, and the boy
king or more properly speaking, his
prime minister, is cruel, barbaric and
selfish to a degree unheard of else
where 111 these enlightened days.
Nepal is a great agricultural country.
Millions of bushels of wheat are sent
out from this mountain kingdom every
year to consumers in Southern India.
Young Sah Sumshere Jung, as the
boy king is called for short has plenty
of wealth at his command, but there
is little that he can do with his vast
stores of gold.
Think It Over.
Have you ever heard of a medicine
with such a record of cures as 1 Iood's
Sarsaparilla ? Don't you know that
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the One True
Blood I'u r.fn'r, has proved, over and
over again, that it has power to cure,
even after all other remedies fail ?
If you have impure blood you may
take Hood's Sarsaparilla with the ut
most confidence that it will do you
good.
Hood's Tills assibt digestion. 25
cents.
After meals you should hive simply
a feeling of comfort and satisfaction.
You should not feel any special indi
cations that -digestion is going on. If
you do, you have digestion, which
means o-digestion. This may be
the beginning of so many dangerous
diseases, that it is best to take it in
hand at once and treat it with Shaker
Digestive Cordial. For you know
that indigestion makes poison, which
causes pain and sickness. And that
Shaker Digestive Cordial helps di
gestion and cures indigestion. Shaker
Digestive Cordial does this by pro
viding the digestive materials in which
the sick stomach is wanting. It also
tones up and strengthens the digestive
organs and makes them perfectly
, healthy. This is the rationale of Us
J method of cure, as the doctors would
The envelopes are redeemed in all , sav- SolJ by druggists, price 10 cents
cases possible, many packages being to i-o per bottle.
received which have obviously not
been misdirected. For instance, if a
firm goes out ot existence and has a
quantity of envelopes left over, the
chances are that a marking brush will
be drawn over the edges instead of a
few pen scratches being made on
each envelope. There are many ways
in which envelopes can be spoiled for
business purposes, and if a list of all
the peculiar cases were made it would
fill a book. One man recently brought
a boxful over which he had spilled a
bottle of ink, while another had a
large quantity that had been badly
damaged by lire, and a third appear
ed with a lot that he claimed had
been gnawed by mice.
The Government, of course, loses
l"mtlimf in lliie ti-Tncopfinn: Tt Vil
! been already paid for the envelopes
and printing, and it redeems only the
face value of the stamps. The New
Yoik office makes payment not in
Vacation Time
Is at hand and is gladly welcomed by
all, especially those whose duties in
life have caused them to greitly run
down their system to meet the re
quirements, physical and mental,
forced upon them. With these and
others, it is important, whether at
home, at the seashore or in the country,
that some thought be given to diet,
and as further assistance to Nature, a
good building-up medicine like Hood's
Sarsaparilla had best be resorted to.
If the digestion is poor, liver derang
ed and frequent headaches seem to
be the rule, Hood's will change all
this and enable everyone to return to
their home and business in a refreshed
state of mind and bodily health.
It seems that bicyclers will never
learn to keep to the right of the road.
Accidents happen daily through care
lessness and neglect of this long
established rule of the highway. Es
pecially in towns is a strict observance
of the law necessary to safety. Wheel
men riding up street should keep to
right and likewise those riding down.
In small towns where the streets are
not crowded with vehicles a wheel
man can easily avoid teams. The
accidents art usually the result of
two wheels colliding.
lather Matthew's Mission.
The accounts of Father Matthew's
mission from 1838 to 1842 read like
a fable. lie made teetotalers as the
great powers make soldiers by the
million only much faster, and if there
had been any staying power in the
business the liquor question would
huve been settled out of hand. Where
ever he went a veritable fury of sac
rifice appears to have siezed the peo
pie of Ireland, though the estimated
number of converts must be discount
ed by the equal fury of exaggeration
which siezed the chroniclers of his
progress. Thus in 1839 he is said to
have administered 30,000 pledges in
one clay at Clonmel and trom 100,000
to 150,000 in two days at Limerick,
Unless pledges were taken by accla
mation it would be physically impossi
ble to administer one quarter the
number stated.
In 1840 he is said to have added
745,000 to the ranks, or an average
of over 2,000 per diem for every day
in the year, and by 1 84 1 the number
ot total abstainers in Ireland was
reckoned at 4,647,000, or considera
bly more than the entire adult popula
tion. Any one may believe it who
likes, but whatever the exact truth
may be it is certain that this homely
village priest did for a time meet with
a success beside which the united
efforts of all the other advocates
temperance before and after him fade
into insignificance. In three years he
actually reduced the consumption
spirits in Ireland from ' 10,815,000
gallons to 5,290,000 gallons and prac
tically abolished drunkenness. Xa
tional Review.
cash, but in postage stamps, and
The Bible is still the most widely
circulated book of any volume pub
lished. The American Bible Society
reports that it distributed 1,750,000
copies of the Scripture last year.
Within the eighty years of its exist
ence the society has issued the enor
mous number of 61,705,841 copies.
A Ooffiu was Assured Him.
A boy had smoked 1,200 cigarettes
and saved the pictures, and then
wrote the firm, asking them what they
would send rum 111 exchange for them
The answer came by return mail
"Smoke 1,200 more and we'll seni
you a coffin."
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FIFTEEN YEARS COMPLETED
ANNUAL MEETINGIAND REFORT.'
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StoH,o6f,owo of llufiiticitH In Force.
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The Annual Meeting of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Association was held in the Association's Building, eoruoi
Broadway &Duane St., New York City, on Wednesday, Jan
uary 22ud, and was attended by a large and representative
gathering of policy holders who listened with keen interest to
the masterly Annual Report of President Burnharn.
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Many policy holders evidently regarded this as a lavorame
opportunity to meet face to face the new chief executive officer
of the Association, President Frederick A. Burnharn, the man
whose grasp of life insurance, whose keen executive ability and
strong individuality have enabled him to take up the work laid
down in death by the founder ot th-i institution, the late .to
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 01
time Dy any ine insurance organization in me wunu.
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 Burnharn.
The record of the year 1895 sneaks for itself, and shows tne
following gratifying results.
The GROSS ASSETS have increased during tne yu
from $5,530,115.99 to $5,601,707,82. k TXT
The NET SURPLUS over liabilities shows a NET GAIN
for the year of $30G,329.43, and now amounts to $3,582,509X.
The INUUMiJ from all sources shows a gain ior tue
of $031,541.97, and amounts to $5,575,281.50.
DEATH CLAIMS to the amount of $4,034,074.92 were
paid during the year, an increase over the previous year oi
$1,013,560.91.
The BUSINESS IN FORCE shows a gain lor tne ye.
of $15,293,205, and now amounts to $308,059,371.
kins' aavs in i
8,584.27; the daily average
2.25, and the daily av"p
gain in business in force within a fraction of $51,000. (U
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