c THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA. WASHINGTON NOTES. For the first time since the civil war guns mounted on the defences of old Fort Washington, which was sup posed to fruard the natlonnl cnpltnl against sea nttnek, soundwl today ns three shots from modern steel elpht Ineh jrmi swept six miles up the Po tomac ltlver toward the city and dropped Into the water jut a little short of the sleepy old town of Alex andria. Tort Washington, twelve miles below Washington, some time after the war was abandoned ns a fort, and since then has been In charge of an orderly sergeant: but In the past flye years the authorities have been expending thousands of dollars con Tertlng It Into a modern fortress, and within a very short time there will be rach a formidable array of guns nnd mortar batteries there that no fleet en tering the river could ever get above It The new emplacements, where eight and ten Inch guns are to be placed, Is on a high blult where the river makes a turn. Opislte, and not over n mile distant, will be Fort Sher idan, which will be supplemental to the main defences. Here the channel is not over 300 yards wide, and nl ready there Is a torpedo system ready to effectually prevent the passage of any ships. Every gun when in ac tion will probably be 200 feet above the water, and commands not only n trweep of twelve miles down the river, but tliu entire channel up to the city, eight miles away. On the opinmite shore will be Fort Sheridan, mounting probably four 12-Inch guus and two or three eights. Fort Washington's bat tery, when completed, will comprise five 8-inch guns, several of the old 15 inch smooth-bore mortars, which ore now In place, nnd capable, it Is be lieved, of sinking any but heavily ar mored' ships, besides the submarine mines to be worked from batteries well protected under the fort. The Say res bill, providing for the taking of the twelfth census, does away with the former separate otllce of Superintendent of the Census by providing that the Commissioner of Labor shall have charge of the work. It also makes the salary of the Com missioner of Labor ?i,000 and gives him the power to appoint nn Assistant Commissioner who will get $4,000 a year. There are to be Ave expert sta tisticians at $3,000 per year each, nnd many other places that the Commis sioner will be at liberty to fill without consulting the wishes of the President of tho Senate. The etiquette between the outgoing and incoming Presidents Is exact and rigid. Mr. McKinley will go to the White House and drive to the Capitol, simply a citizen, sitting by the side of President Cleveland. On the way to the Capitol tho President lifts his hat to the cheering crowds occasionally, although the new man does most of the bowing. Cut coming back he keeps his hat on, having then ex changed places with the simple citi zen who drove down sitting on his left, and returns sitting on his right and President of the United Stales. Oa the return to the White House a luncheon Is given by the outgoing to the Incoming President, at which the first-named is host and the guests nre the members of the two cabinets and their families. When this Is over, the outgoing President takes his leave, the Incoming President escorting him to the door of the mansion. But this may not be the last time ho enters It. On every .ocas ton that an ex-rresident visits Washington his first obligation la to call at the White House. He is immediately received, no matter how mneh engaged the President may be. The head usher acta ns his escort, and be is paid more personal attention than any guest who ever enters the bouse. Not a groat while ago notices were put up In the House wing of the Capi tol prohibiting smoking In the corrl aors, the public offices, statuary hall and the elevators. Employees of the House were specially prohibited from smoking. The doorkeepers and the Capitol police were Instructed to rig idly enforce the order. The members of the House, of course, do not pay the slightest attention to the regulations, and some of the police say that inas much as the order is not signed by any one they do not believe they could rightly arrest a man or boy should he Insist on smoking. "I happened to be tanding at the end of one long corri dor the other day," said a policeman, "and suddenly 1 saw a large body turn into that same corridor and come my way. I thought there was a chance to sail a man down for violating the or ders. He came rocking along, had on unusually big cigar In his mouth, and jwi would have thought it wns a tug boat from the clouds puffed out. I was about to yell 'Smoking Is not allowed In this building, when to my great ns tunlshmcnt I discovered it was Spank er Reed himself. I felt like telling him be was breaking the rules, but on the wond thought concluded he wns too bit; and mighty for me to joke with, w I did not even pretend that I saw aim." "The heating and boiler plant of the State, War and Navy Departments building," said Commander Uaird, U. SL N., superintendent of the building, "though not generally known, Is the largest in tho world. Indeed, there nre rery few heating plants In existence that even approach It In extent or (lower. To run it requires B.000 twin it conl every yeor. By the nrrango aaents in connection with tho coal raults, tho conl goes direct to the fur oaees, where It is consumed with tine liandllng and at very little expense. In this respect the heating plant is also JEsr superior to any other." Senator. 1-- - NEW YORK LETTER. The Bradley-Martin ball is now n brilliant momory. The personal tost! mouy of many who attended confirms tho published accounts that Is was n great success. Other people achieve fame by fighting battles, making speeches, discovering scientific se crets or founding Institutions, but the Bradley-Martins have nchlevd fame by giving a ball. Their names will long bo known on both sides of the Atlantic in connection with the affair. A local newspaper corrcsiwmdent In writing of the function says: "Some persons who have estimated the cost of this ball will bo surprised to know what It really did cost The Martins themselves exiH'tided only about $!!.", 000. Tho actual figures will fall Inf low that amount, If anything. When the cost of all the costumes of every guest Is counted, together with what was spent In dinners given by guests before the ball, I don't believe the to tal cost of the affair to everylxMly who nt tended will foot up more than $ 100,- 000." MRS. BRADLEY MARTIN. Everybody knows thnt it took money to give the ball, but it Is not generally known that it took nerve on the part of many of the women to at tend It. There was hnrdly a woman of great wealth in New York known to be going to the ball, from Mrs. Mar tin down, who did not receive before the ball at loost one hitter threatening her life if sImj attended, it. Mrs. Mar tin received a dozen. Two of them were written In a retl liquid of some sort, which the writer said was blood, but which seemed to be paint. Some of these letters informed her that her house was to be blown to pieces on the afternoon of the IniII. Others warned her that a bomb would be thrown into lwir carriage on the way to the Waldorf, while another told of a plot to blow up the ballroom. A force of detectives was watching the Martin house day and night. Every time Mrs. Mnrtln left her house up to the time she left It to go to the ball detectives followed her. Mr. Boldt, proprietor of the Wnl dorf, received nearly a score of let ters threatening his hotel and his guests. Between 800 and 400 of the guests at the ball sat for their photographs nt Gilbert's studio from 7 o'clock Wed nesday evening until 8 o'clock Thurs day morning. At one time there were ns many ns 150 men and women, at tired In the costumes of centuries ago, in tho gallery awaiting their turns. Not once during the night wns there a lull, and Mr. Gilbert and twenty-six assistants were kept constantly at work. The salary of the Mayor of New York is $10,000, the salary of the Mayor of Brooklyn is $10,000, and the salary of tho Mayor of Long Island Is $2,500, Brooklyn Aldermen and New York Aldermen receive the same sal ary, $2,000 each. The Mayor's secre tary In Brooklyn gets $3,000, nnd in New York $5,000. The Brooklyn sec retary has only official matters to at tend to. The Presidents of the Union League Club have nenrly all attained distinc tion In public life. John Jay was made Minister to Austria; Hamilton Fish was Governor, Senator and Secretary of State; William M. Evarts was Senator and Secretary of State; Chauncey M. Depew refused a tender of the State Department from Harri son, and is now regarded as a likely selection ns Ambassador to England. The present President, General Torter, Is supposed to be slated for Ambassa dor to France; Joseph H. Choate was President of the State Constitutional Convention and candidate for Sena tor. The Presidency of this club may, therefore, be regarded ns a political stepping stone. Should Mr. Depew go as Ambnssador to England he will be obliged to re sign his profitable and influential po sition ns President of the New York Central Railroad, and naturally there Is nlready much gossip as to his suc cessor In thnt position. Among those who hnve been suggested are Samuel Spencer, President of the Southern Hallway, and II. Walter Webb, who Is now Third Vice President of the Cen tral and in charge of tho operation of tho road. Mr. Webb is a brother of Dr. Seward Webb, President of tho Wagner Palace Car Company, and n half brother of Genernl A. S. Webb, President of the College of New York. Cyrus Thorp. ' ill ift -s, -. lteaentful. "I have a good father," said the young man, "ono who, I am sure, al ways tried to do Ids duty. I have only one thing with which to reproach him." "What is that?" "Human nnturo Is human nature, nnd I must tnko It for granted that ho Is no exception to a universal rule. I don't think I can ever forgive him for the manner in which he used to go around and bore bis friends with the smart things I said when I was a baby." Washington Star. i . ' BASE BALL NOTES. The National Base Ball League held its first meeting in Baltimore last wek commencing on Thursday. We will give the proceedings of this meet ing m our notes next week. It is quite likely that Amos Rusie will remain out of the game this year again. It is too bad that the differ ences existing between Rusie and the New York Club cannot be adjusted as some clubs could make good use ol the great pitcher s services. We pick the New Yorks out this year as pennant winners. Just keep your eyes on the giants this season, for they are going to stay within reach of the ilag from the time the season opens. Pennant winning teams are by no means money makers, this fact has been demonstrated very clearly at Baltimore, where the attendance has dropped off fifty per cent, on account of the Orioles flying the flag three times in succession. There will be no great change in the make up of the Phillies this year. They will be as they always have been, nearer the top of the second division than the first when the fall of '97 arrives. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, 1 Lucas County. f ss Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm ol r. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed m my presence, this 0th clay of Dec ember, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON, HAL j Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Tills are the best. im. Wages In 1800. What we call the "workingmen," "the mechanic," had no existence as classes. Labor was performed almost exclusively in the south by slaves, and in the north very largely by men and women who for the time being were no better than slaves. All over the free states were thousands of Irish men, Scotchmen, Englishmen, Ger mans, who, in return for transporta tion from the old world to the new, had bound themselves by indenture to serve the captain of the ship that brought them over. Soldiers in the army received $3 a month Farm hands in New England were given $4 a month and found their own clothes. Unskilled labors toiled 12 hours per day for 50 cents. Workmen on the turnpikes then branching out in every direction were housed in rude sheds, fed coarse food and given $4 per month from November to May and $0 from May to November. When the road from the Genesee river to Buffalo was under construction in 1 8 1 2, though the region through which it went was the frontier, men were hired in plenty for $12 per month in cash and their board, lodgings and a daily allowance of whisky. John B. Mc Master m Atlantic. Primacy of Ancient Literature. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possess- lt and tried its wares before ever you were given your biief run upon it. And there is no equity comparable with that which is schooled in the thoughts that will keep. It is such a schooling that we get from the world's literature. The books have disappear ed which were not genuine which spoke things which, if they were worth saying at all, were not worth hearing more than once, as well as the books which spoke permanent things clumsily and without the gift of interpretation. The kind air which blows from age to age has disposed of them like vagrant leaves. There was sap in them for a little, but now they are gone, we do not know where. All literature that has lasted has this claim upon us that it is not dead. But we cannot be quite so sure of any as we are of the ancient literature that still lives, because none has lived so long. It holds a sort of primacy in the aristocracy of natural selection. Professor Woodrow in Forum. Sceptics Turn Believers and are Cured. "YYhen I read that Dr. Ag new's Catarrhal Powder could relieve Catarrh in 10 minutes I was far fiom being convinced. I tried it a single puff through the blower afforded instant relief, stopped pain over the eyes and cleansed the nasal passages. To day I am free from catarrh." B. L. Egan's, (Easton, Pa.,) experience has been that of thousands of others and may be yours. Sold by C. A. Kleim. BRUTALITY OF TllE TtJKK. A Ghastly Scene That Succeeded a Massa cre of Armenian, A procession of four or five scaven ger carts met us. The first one pass ed without notice. Over the second a piece of matting was thrown, and from under the matting protruded the hands and feet of dead men. The third had r.o covering over its ghastly load of four or five bodies, thrown in doubled and twisted as they chanced to fall. The uppermost body was a horrible spectacle, with only a broken mixture of skin, hair and blood in the place where the skull had been. In those carts were more than a score of bodies of Armenians of the poorer class, who had been killed, not with weapons, but by beating with clubs. The Turkish bludgeon men had been at work on the streets, and the muni cipality had placed its carts at their disposal to remove the evidences of their crime. The victims had been battered to pieces merely because they belonged to a hated race. 1 he contempt for their fate shown by the government officials in thus indecently piling their corpses like offals in the scavenger carts and in parading the evidence of its hartlessness before the eyes of club bearers who were waiting oppor tunity for similar achievements swept away every trace of sympathy for the Turks wronged by the anarchical pro ceedings of the Armenians at the bank. From the bridge another horrible sight could be seen. Men were at work gathering dead bodies of Ar menians out of the water. Almost immediately npon the outbreak at the bank the Kurdish porters employed at the custom house on the Stamboul side of the harbor, more than a mile from the scene of disturbance, had killed all whom they could catch of their Armenian associates and had thrown them into the sea. The po lice were now having the bodies dragged from the water in order to be taken away by the carts, and some of the wretches were still alive. " A Bystander's Notes of a Massacre," by Yvan Troshine, in Scribner's. The Puff and Its Effects- " It is more fun to see a man read a puff of himself in a newspaper than to see a fat man step on a banana peel. The narrow minded man reads it seven or eight times and then goes around and steals appropriates what copies he can. The kind heart ed man goes home and reads it to his wife, then pays up his dues to the paper, lhe successlul businessman makes money by it ; immediately starts to find the editor and then the two men leave the sanctum and silent ly and thoughtfully down the street together, the business man taking sugar in his and they both eat a clove or two and all life is sweeter, and peace settled down on their hearts for the moment. Such is the experience of seed that falls upon different soil. Ex. The Shakers have made a great hit. Their Digestive Cordial is said to be the most successful remedy for sto mach troubles ever introduced. It immediately relieves all pain and dis tress after eating, builds up the feeble system and makes the weak strong. The fact is, foods properly digested are better than so-called tonics. The Cordial not only contains food already digested, but is a digester of other foods. Food that is not digested does more harm than good. People who use the Cordial insure the digestion of what food they" eat and in this way get the benefit of it and grow strong. lhe little pamphlets which the Shakers have sent druggists for free distribution, contain much interesting information on the subject of dys pepsia. ' Laxol is not a mixture of drugs. It is nothing but Castor Oil made pala table. The Meaning of Style The word style, though but a di minutive word, assumes to itself more contradictions and significations and eccentricities than- any monosyllable in the language is legitimately entit led to. It is an arrant little humorist of a word and full of whimwhams. Though it would seem that the people of all countries are equally vehement in the pursuit of this phantom style, yet 111 almost all of them there is a strange diversity in opinion as to what constitutes its essence, and every different class, like the pagan nations, adores it under a different form. In England, for instance, an honest citizen packs up himself, his family and his style in a buipry and rattles away on Sunday with his fair partner blooming beside him like an eastern bride, and two chubby children squat ting like Chinese images at his feet, A baronet requires a chariot and pair, a lorn must needs nave a Darouche and four, but a duke oh I a duke cannot possibly lumber his style along under a coach and six, and half a score of footmen into the bargain In China a puissant mandarin loads at least three elephants with style Pu'a. Timet. Important Notice! The only genuine Baker's Chocolate," celebrated for more than a century as a de. licious, nutritious, and flesh-forming bever age, is put up in Blue Wrappers and Yel low Labels. Be sure that the Yellow Label and our Trade-Mark arc- on every package. WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass. HtllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIMMIMI H ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. 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