THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
GOWNS WORTH 8EEIN0.
VMab Id.ai of Fmthlon for th. Atttr of
Woman.
IBrSpaolat Arrangement with tha N. Y.San.i
Sklrti nre changing considerably,
ttoth tn the manner of making and in
tb Almenslous.
Skirts nmdo of silk or woolen fabric
aa Brmrccly ever lined now, lnt if nee
anmcy are mounted on n foundation
!klrt cut much the Mine, though not
unite so full ns the outside skirt, nnd
Joined to it only at the belt. Any ma-
taritl that docs rot absolutely require
a foundation N flnipurd with a false
nn ten or twelve inches deep and In
terlined with some stiff material. The
gowns fit the hiim like a rldlnjt habit.
Even If they are very full they are laid
in pleats from the waist to the bottom
ot tnc skirt. The thin gowns ore
trimmed with four spaced flounces, the
top one put on with n gathered head.
One of the most fashionable bodjees
now worn Is the short bolero or zouave
jacket, of which there are many types.
Que made with a tiny pleating of cream
alia muslin Is a delightful finish to a
tight silk or muslin gown. Kelts and
sashes are all intiortant features of
costumes. Closely folded belts as deep
a a corselet are very graceful and
most fit the wearer like a glove. When
made of silk or satin such a belt can be
worn with any gown, mohair, silk or
town. Loosely draped sashes are
cnaralng with muslin gowns on very
alight figures or youthful wearers, and
sro now almost a necessity for com
plete toilet. If only the belt or wish,
collar and bows to correspond, are well
cnosen and made up with taste aud ele
gance, the plainest dress can be con
TCrted Into a toilet fit for any occasion.
The J'olnt of View.
In politics when a man on tho other
side comes over to your way of think
ing ho Is a "liberal-minded reformer."
When one of your porsuaslou goes
over to the other side be Is a "traitor."
When your party holds a conven
tion for nominations it Is a "great man
ifestation of the people asserting their
Hbcrtles." When tho other side nomi
nates It Is only a "distribution of
plums."
When a speaker on your side talks
m. public on the question at Issue be
delivers a "centre shot" or a "learned
and. eloquent setting forth of the great
Issue." When the man on the other
aide has his say he gets off "rank as
sertions and stock fallacies."
A Parrot's Dud Language,
What on earth do you want with a
parrot?"
"I have to have something to remind
mo of my husband while he is away."
KNEW HIS TOUCH.
4
Bridget Aeu. awav wid ve. Donnii
MoCorty, uu' let me sleep 1 It's ye, for
1 know the feol ay tbim pwuiskura.
New York Herald.
Mr
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PINGREE nAS IDEAS.
SAYS THE EFFETE EAST IS BEHIND
THE WEST IN MANY THINGS.
Tlg.ron Laos-nan from the Inventor el
Detroit' Potato Patch... H Be
lieve In Every Man' Bight to IJv a
a Christian Should.
The man who reformed Detroit at
Its mayor, aud now proposes to reform
the state of Michigan, was in New York
the other day. To a reporter Gov,
Plngree said:
"I don't know anything except the
hoe business, aud I don't know very
much about thnt. Still, I've been In It
thirty-one years.
"I started in business wnen I was
about 'i'i years old." be went on. "I
hud ?ifiO, my partner had about $1,000.
We didn't know anything about the
shoe business. Now, the point I want
to reach Is fills: With all my thirty
one years of experience In the busi
ness, If I wanted to start In the shoe
H. 8. PIXCIRER.
business over again, what could I do
with (1.4(H)? What could I do with
$14,1100. or with (140,000? I would need
a million, at the least, to attempt to do
now what 1 did then, nnd the thirty
one years of experience dou't count. It
is to this state of affairs that the
strength of the discontented feeling In
ilio Vi'i'M is due. A few men control
everything nowadays; there's no show
for the young man. The trusts and the
corporations are the people I fight,
and that's why the people support me.
Tho free-silver people tell them that
free silver will help them out. They
will fight, fight like wildcats, for free
silver until they have given It n trial.
If sliver doesn't do What its advocates
promise they'll throw It over aud try
something else. And they'll keep on
trying until they get some help some
where. "The soil Is the source of all wealth,
and it isn't supporting people as it
should. Now, Liverpool sets the price
for all our farm products. The Amer
ican farmer comes into competition
with IndiH and Kussi.a and all starva
tion. There Isn't an American living
In It for him. He works himself to
death nnd only gets 20 cents a day out
of It. He shouldn't be forced to com
pete with the dirty heathen. He
ought to be protected. He wants pro
tection and he Wants more money. He
wants some of the money that the
sharks of Wall street are lighting with
each other for.
"You folks In the East don't appre
ciate the Westerners' position because
yon can't realize it. You dou't keep
your eyes on the people who work
with their hands. This country can't
pull together until things are evened
up. Our farms are mortgaged, aud
they are not even worth foreclosing on,
they bave depreciated so. Oats are
eight cents a bushel and coal is (1.25
more than It was a year ago. We
barn corn. We have got to have
a market, and we want to be protected.
Either tbe other Industries have got
to come down to the farmer or the far
mer must be raised up to them, or
something's going to bust. I don't
blame any man for making all the
money he can, but for God's sake, let
him give some one else a chance, too,
when he can."
Mr. ringree switched off here and
began to talk of street cars and cheap
faros, one of his pet subjects. "New
York is away behind the times In
street cars," he said. "This prejudice
against trolley cars is all an ailment
thai Detroit has passed through and
gotten well of. They don't kill peo
plo out our way. In Brooklyn they do,
yon say? That Is because the corpor
ations don't care whether they kill
anybody or not so long as they can col
luut five-cent fares. Make them carel
Jump on them, by Harry, and hart
them a little! Then they won't kill
people so much. Now the street car
franchises ought to pay all the taxes
for the city of New York. Refuse the
frandhlse until they agree to put the
faro down to two cents. Every time
you ride you save thre cents. There's
your year's taxes in a month almost,
Th road will be repaid by the increas
ed number of passengers.
"New York; has too many crowded
spots. More street car lines would
break them up. The Health Board,
with the police back of It, lias full
power to drive the people out of tho
trcwdod districts, and make them give
up crawling together like a lot of
water bugs. Then your trolley lines,
with two-cent fares, take them away
out to purer air and cheaper, better
homes, where they can live like Chris-
"Well, Uncle ltasbury, how did you
like thu sermon?"
"It was a pow'rful aermon, M&rse
John."
"What was It about)"
"It was 'bout de lulr'ele of seven
thousand loaves an' five thousand
Ashen beln' fed to de twelve 'poutleg."
KILLING WEB) IN TEXAS,
Grast Between the Tracks Grows Six Peel
High In Two Weeks.
In this section of the countrv it is
hard to realize the conditions that
prevail in certain parts of the West in
regard to the obstruction of railroad
lines by the growth of grass and weeds
on the right ol way of railroads. The
superintendent of the Gulf, Colorado
St Santa Fe Railroad Company, writ
ing from Texas on this subject to the
Railroad Gazette, who is in charge of
1 200 miles of roadbed in that State.
says that the necessity for obtaining
some adequate means of destroying
tnese growths will be appreciated
when it is known that until lately it
has cost his company $50 per mile of
track per annum to keep it clear.
The most troublesome vegetation met
with, he says, is known as the " John
son grass,"' which docs not grow out
side ol the Gulf States. Tin's cn-.iss
was originally brought from Venezuela
I t . a.
ana piantea 111 southern districts tor
the purpose of nrovidinir fodder for
a o
cattle, inasmuch as it crows ranidlv
and is very difficult to kill. Its roots
are as large as a man s finger, and
they go down to a depth of 15 ' fect
if they do not find water nearer the
surface. Generally, however, in the
DiacK utias ana coast lands or Texas
the roots run from one to three feet
into the ground, and grow as thick as
they can lie. Moreover, this rrass
grows as high as six feet, and after it
has been cut to the surface of the
ground will be nearly ready to head
again in two weeks. Various methods
of destroying these weeds have been
. ' . .
tried, among others thoroughly sprink
ling tha grass with common sea water
obtained from the ocean, but this
metnou lias not proved successful.
Grass burners have also been experi
mented with, but so far no standard
type has been arrived at. Electric
weed destroyers have also been tried,
Dut with only partial success. The
most effective means vet discovered
, . m j -
consists in sprinkling over the area to
uc cieareu a poisonous solution which
kills all vegetation with which it comes
in contact. The exact composition
01 mis solution the superintendent
roove reierred to docs not disclose.
He claims, however, that the cost of
maintaining the right of way tree from
weeds will be reduced bv its use to
one-fifth its present amount.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla is not a secret
preparation. Any physician may
have the formula on application. The
secret of its success as a medicine
lies in its extraordinary power to
cleanse the blood of impurities and
cure the most deep seated cases of
blood disease.
The Presidential Outlook.
The unsettled condition of public
opinion, and the utter demolition of
party lines renders the political situa
fon extremely interesting. There ap
pears to be an incomputable un
known quantity which cannot be con
fidently relied upon by any political
organization. The claims set up by
any parly are as uncertain as any wild
i,oose chase. The fact that McKin
lcyism as twice repudiated by the
people, and that the administrations
of Harrison and Cleveland were also
repudiated and discredited, the natur
al inference is, that the people will
not return to the leadership of those
representing the above factions who
have only betrayed and disappointed
them. Each in turn had the oppor
tunity of running the government in
he interest of the people, but each
failed in turn to satisfy the people.
All catered to the interest of pluto
cracy. The question now is, will the
people again trust those who betrayed
them and give them another lease of
corruption and robbery ? The proba
bility is, that they will not. Notwith
standing the opposition of leading
newspapers to Bryan and democracy,
those newspapers have no more in
fluence with the rank and file of the
people than a mouse has with a cat.
The people propose to do their own
voting, let the newspapers talk and
threaten as they may. Hundreds of
publishers will learn in the near future
that the people will serve them as
they have served corrupt political
bosses ; and give them a wide berth.
Bolting democrats all over the
county will learn the same sad lesson.
Because those men and newspapers
have always led and drove the people,
and now that they have bid defiance
to them and refuse to longer follow
their lead they turn their backs upon
them and with might and main endea
vor to deliver them into the camp of
the enemy, like Arnold tried to de
liver the army of Washington to the
Brittish. But we believe that their
attempt will prove as futile as Ar
noM's did. Of course, Judas betray
ed his Lord and Master for thirty
pieces of silver ; but, the single cold
standard men, to betray the people,
ask the price of thirty pieces of gold.
The philosopher who said that the
pen 1s mightier than the sword wisn't
acquainted with our American girls.
The fellow who can mish a nen eets a
smile or two, but the sword, with a
few brass buttons thrown in, carries
off the palm and the girl.
TOOLE SAM'8 COINAGE-
Facts and Figures Furnished by a Coiner
In the United States Mini In
Philadelphia.
These statistics about United States
coinage have been corrected for the
Philadelphia Record by Coiner W. E.
Morgan of the Philadelphia Mint :
The gold eagle weighs 358 grains.
The $5 gold piece weighs 120
grains.
The trade dollar weighs 420 grains.
The $ao gold piece weighs 516
grains.
The 10-ccnt piece weighs 38.58
grains.
The jo-cent piece weighs 77.16
grains.
The bronze cent piece weighs 48
grains.
The gold dollar coin weighs 25.8
grains. t
The cent nickel piece weighs 72
grains.
The half-cent copper weighs 84
grains.
The silver 5-cent piece weighs 19-2
grains.
1 he 2-cent bronze piece weighs 96
grains.
The common quarter of silver
weighs 96.45 grains.
The 3-cent silver piece weighs
11.52 grains.
The 5-cent nickel piece weighs
77.16 grains.
The fineness of our gold coins is
about 90 per cent.
The old-fashioned copper cent
weighs 168 grains.
The quarter eagle, or $2.50 gold
piece weighs 64.5 grains.
The cent nickel piece, now dis
continued, weighs 30 grains.
The standard dollar weighs 412-1-2
grains j the half-dollar 192.9 grains.
The nickel 5-cent is exactly four
fifths of an inch in diameter.
The 2-cent bronze piece is compos
ed of 95 per cent copper and 5 per
cent of tin and zinc.
The i-ccnt bronze piece is compos
cd of 95 per cent of copper and 5 per
cent ot tin and zinc.
The silver half dollar was authoriz
ed April 2, 1792, and coinage was
begun in 1794.
The 10-cent silver piece was au
thorized by Congress in 1792, and its
coi iage was begun in 1796.
The nickel cent was authorized
February 21, 1857, and its coinage
was begun the same year.
The $5 gold piece was first coined
in 1795, by virtue of an act of Con
gress passed April 2, 1792.
The first regular silver coinage to
be passed out in the order of business
was in October, 1792.
The $20 gold piece was authorized
by act of Congress, March 3, 1849,
and its coinage was begun in 1850.
The $io'gold piece was authorized
by act of Congress, April 2, 1792, and
its coinage was begun in 1794.
The quarter eagle, or $2.50 in gold,
was authorized April 1, 1792., and its
coinage was begun in 1796.
The silver quarter was authorized
by act of Congress in 1792, April 2,
and coinage was begun in 1796.
The bronzy cent was issued in ac
cordance with a law passed in 1857,
and its coinage was begun in 1864.
The cent takes its name from the
Latin word " centum" a hundred,
this coin being a hundredth of a
dollar.
A copper half-cent is among the
numerous coins authorized by Con
gress, the law to this effect being
passed in 1792, and coinage begun
the following year.
The first purchase of copper to be
used in tne United States coinage
was in 1792, September 11, six
pounds.
The dollar gold piece was author
ized by act of Congress, March 3,
1849, and its coinage was begun in
the same year.
The general fineness of our silver
coins is 90 per cent.
Moses Brown of Boston has the
credit of making the first deposit of
gold bullion to be coined. In 1795
he deposited $5,276.72.
"In God we trust first appeared
on the copper 2-cent issue of 1864,
and is the first use of the word "God"
in any government act.
" Five years ago, 1 was taken so ill
with rheumatism that I was unable to
do any work," writes Peter Christen
sen, Sherwood, Wis. "I took three
boxes of Ayer s Pills and was entirely
cured. Since that time, I always
keep them in the house." They are
easy to take.
What is a Railway Sleeper ?
A sleeper is that in which the sleep
er sleeps. A sleeper is that on which
the sleeper runs while the sleeper
sleeps. I heretore, while the sleeper
sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper cat
ries the sleeper over the sleeper under
the sleeper until the sleeper which
carries the sleeper jumps the sleeper
and wakes the sleeper in the sleeper
by striking the sleeper under the
sleeper on the sleeper, and there is no
longer any sleeper sleeping in the
sleeper on the sleeper.
If VOU want to invest vnnr mnnpu
in safe advertising do it in the
V,OLUMUIAN.
PI I
"A Good
Lay your foundation with
BattSi Ax." It is the comer
sjtotte of economy. It is the oft
ttJbacco that is both Bl6 arw
30d. There is no better. There
fi is no, c4icr 5-cent
Tty it and see
You
will realize that "they
.well who live cleanly,"
if you use
To Tax the Churches.
A Bill to be Introduced in the Legislature for
That Purpose.
A movement is on foot that will
create a furore in Pennsylvania. A
measure is to be introduced providing
for the taxation of church property.
J. Carson Mercer, county commis
sioner of Allegheny, is having prepared
a bill to be introduced at the next
session of the legislature providing
that hereafter all church property shall
be subject to taxation the same as
any other property. Commissioner
Mercer will also bring the matter be
fore the annual convention of the
county commissioners of the state,
which will be held in Reading proba
bly next month.
Heretofore church property in
Pennsylvania has been exempt from
taxation for any purpose. The hold
ings of churches of all denominations,
however, have increased to such
enormous proportions that it is now
proposed to tax them. It is contend
ed that the properties of immense
values held by rich congregations
should be taxed because, otherwise,
it is a discrimination against the small
property owner, who is a member of
the small congregation and has his
taxes increased' because the more
valuable properties are exempted.
Don't think that your liver needs
treating if you are bilious. It don't.
It's your stomach. That is, your
stomach is really what causes the
biliousness. It has put your liver
out of order.
See what's the matter with your
stomach.
Sick stomach poisons liver and then
there's trouble. Shaker Digestive
Cordial cures stomach and then all's
well. That's the case in a nutshell.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is no
secret. Formula's on every bottle.
But its the simple honest way its
made, the honest Shaker herbs and
other ingredients of which it's compos
ed, that make it so efficacious.
Any real case of indigestion and
biliousness can be cured with a few
bottles of Shaker Digestiye Cordial.
Try it.
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to
$1.00 per bottle.
The world is full of people who
want to win by trickery and have the
reputation of being pillars of principle
at the same time.
"The man who has no business of
his own," says the Manayunk Philoso
pher," usually finds time to take an
active interest in his neighbor's.
Foundation."
plug as large.
for yourself
live
L
. FOR PEESJIDENT,
WILLIAM J. BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
ARTHUR SEVVALI ,
of Maine.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
FOR CONGRESS,
ANDREW L. FRITZ,
Subject to the decision of the Con
gressional Conference.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
JOHN N. GORDON,
of Montour township.
WILLIAM KRICKBAUM
of Bloomsburg.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE
JAMES T. FOX,
of Catawissa.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK OK
THE COURTS,
WILLIAM II. HENRIE,
of Catawissa Boro.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
G. S. FLECKENSTINE,
of Orange Township.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOHN G. HARNIAN,
of Bloomsburg.
for representative, (North Sidt)
Wm. CIIRISMAN,
of Bloomsburg,
WILLIAM T. CREASY,
South Side.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDEK,
CHARLES B. ENT,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
W. F. STOHNER,
of Bloomsburg.
BOYD TRESCOTT,
of Millvillc.
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR,
CHAS. H. MOORE,
of Bloomsburg.
It is said that there is no insert
that will eat either root or stalk of
buckwheat, and sowing it on any
piece 01 ground two years 111 succes
sion will kill the wire worms by fi
nishing them nothing to eat.
Major Thaddeus S. Clarkson has
been elected by acclamation Commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of
the Republic.
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