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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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OUR SUCCESS IS BASED ON THIS FACT.
Honest trading lias won us hosts
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Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores a new preparation
called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains
that takes the place of coffea. The
most delicate stomach receives it with
out distress, and but few can tell it
from coffee. It does not cost over J
as much. Children may drink it with
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