4 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. ijpte olumUan. ESTABLISHED 1864. Vfct (TotumWa fifmorrat, J9TABo1SIlKD 1817. CONSOLIDATED 186. FUBLISHED VEBT THUHSDAY MORXINU M Hloomsburg, tbe County seat ot Columbia County, Pennsylvania. 40. B. ELWELL EDITOR. 1 UKO. C. 1(0 AN, FORRMAX. Tan-. Inside the county li.onayearln ad vance; 11.80 If not paid la advance Outside tbe county, $1. Si a rear, strictly in advance. 411 communications sbould be addressed to TUB COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburg, Fa. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1S97. If the United States wants to settle the Cuban war and scrap with Spain, there could never be a better time than now, as there are so many men, who want to serve the country. The woods is full of 'em. Governor Hastings' proposition to erect a new capitol for a half million dollars has been rejected by the House Though the state treasury is depleted the tax pavers must be further burden ed to pay for a building costing sev eral million dollars. What a good thing it is that Presi dent McKinley has no children, says an exchange, for when he gets all those sisters, cousins and aunts' ac commodated in the White House there won't be any room for any more than himself and Mrs. McKinley. Treasurer Haywood, after a month's delay, has resumed the rav- ment of school warrants, and it is thought the entire appropriation will oe distributed by the middle of April. There still remains $1,500,000 tobe distributed, of which $600,000 will go to Philadelphia. One of the first fruits of the sr rail ed gold victory lasi fall is the new tantt law now Deiore congress, which will increase the revenues of the nation nearly $150,000,000 a year, and which the people will have to pay indirectly. Protection to monopolies is the first step towards a return to the promised prosperity, which the new Republican administration is about to take. DE. SWALLOW'S CHARGE3. Dr. Swallow, editor of the Pennsyl vania Methodist at Harrisburg, has stirred up a hornet's nest by the charges made by him concerning the management of state finances. Dr. Swallow is a republican, and every charge made by him affects a republi can official or employee. He says : "That persons have been paid money out of the state treasury who have rendered no service to the state thereafter, and in some cases made no pretense of service, except as politicians serving their party. "That for services rendered the state persons have been asked to sign receipts for two, three and even four times as much money as they actually teceived. "That in the purchase of material and labor for making additions, altera tions,' repairs and refurnishing the capitol building, cellars and grounds, also for the executive mansion, and now for Grace church, the state has lost many thousands of dollars as the result of an unfair system of competi tive bidding. In other words, that the cost to the state has been two, J.ee, four and as high as eight times in some instances as much as it should have been, and that this money went to persons furnishing the materials and labor, and further that at least some of the board of public grounds and buildings custodians have guilty knowledge of these excessive costs. "That the act of 1895 in relation to public buildings and grounds is corrupting in its tendencies, pernicious in its results, and has cost the state at least $100,000 more than the same improvements, etc., should have cost under some other system of manage ment." Dr. Swallow has been arrested and will be tried in the criminal court at Harrisburg for libel. A committee of investigation has been appointed by the legislature, and when summoned before them pr. Swallow refused to name his informant although threat ened with punishment for contempt. He still maintains silence, but claims that he will be able to prove his charges when the proper time comes. Should he do so, it will be a sad commentary on the G. O. P. of Penn sylvania, the party that professes to own all the brains, all the honesty, and all the respectability in the state. But as the state give a republican majority last fall of nearly 300,000, and as the investigation is in the hand's of a republican legislature, it is not likely that the developments will prove anything. Whitewash is cheap now-a-days. Scranton's City Treasurer has re ceived a check from Harrisburg for $45,856, the balance of the former city's school moneys. CHILD STUDY. . Editor cf Columbian : The following from Stuart H. Rowe, Th. D., State Normal School, Man kato, Minn., published in the March No. of Education, contains so much of importance to teachers and parents as to deserve all the space it will occupy in your paper. Wm. Noetlino. The most valuable feature of the child-study movement has been not in me newness ot the line of work or even in the methods employed but in the fact that we are cooperating in it as we never betore have in anything affecting education. Teachers have been studying children and parents have been s'.udyinc children for centu ries. And surely that idea is not a new one. But, whereas previously this teacher studied her children in this State and that teacW in that. VOU VOUrS all alone and T min all alone, and the parents were studying aione, too, at home 5 now, by means of our movement, we are combining our torces and the result is a tre mendous tain. Bv ourselves we all have been making some study of cniidren. ify the cooperation of thou sands of progressive teachers child study has gathered together and weighed our methods and placed prominently before us those that have proved inemseives most practical and most advantageous. It will continue so to do. We owe it to our fllnw. teachers to suread anv methods whirh we have found to yield particularly satisfactory results. Nor can we afford to shut our eyes to this source of Knowledge. As a result of this cooperation it suddenly becomes ouite penerallv known that a considerable percentage 01 our children have imperfect eyes. Suppose you have fifty children in your room. Do you know that per haps a dozen of those boys and girls have some trouble with one eye or the other? Do you know that in several of these cases at least thev may be suffering from severe nervous disorders as a result of the strain upon their eyes and that it is highly proba ble that one or two of them shnnM consult a physician to avoid serious injury t Again, did you know that whereas on entering school only about five per cent of the children have a certain lorm of visual imperfection, called mvonia. on leavinr? the pram mar grades the number frequently reaches tnirty per cent or more ? Now what are we to do about it ? Test them . particularly if you are wondering why iney ao not 00 better work or why they are so nervous. How? Send ten cents to Prof. XV. O. Krohn, Psy chological Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Chamoaicn. Illinois, and ask him to send you Snellen's Test lypes. bee it the children can read them with each eve at the piven dis tances, as they advance toward the card, vou will need for the test of nearsightedness and astigmatism the Test of Vision for Use in Schools, prepared by James W. Queen, 10 10 Chestnut Street. Philadelnhia. The cost for those is twenty-five cents. 1 ne directions which are quite clear will be found on the back of the card. If not understood, however, ask any physician. Until you get these types, test the children's ability to read ing on the black board. If any child cannot read it, find out whether it is the reflection from the black board, which prevents, or visual imperfection. Let him read with one eye and then with the other. Where vou find the visual imperfection evident, urge the parents to have a physician examine and treat the case. Some children read with their books somewhat close to the eyes. Such cases need your tests and probably a physician's. The type used in our school books, according to Doctor Cohn, must not be le 6 than .06 of an inch in heiahr and the small n not less than .01 of an inch wide. The distance between letters must not be less than 01 nf an inch and the distance between lines not less than .1 of an inch. Test your school books and find whether thev are up to this standard or not. borne of our school-rooms are not well lighted. Can vou tell me ev.irrlv what parts of the black board can be seen irom every seat in the room ? Why not divide this black board space into strips of four or five feet and then check off on some maps of the room that you have made just the seats for which that part of the board is useless. See what effect the curtains have, when up or down. So much for the child's sight. In hearing we get similar results, except that the hearing does not keep getting worse through the grades as sight does, and therefore the school cannot be held responsible. Nineteen per cent or, according to other results, twenty -five per cent of school child ren are deaf to a certain, degree in one ear or both. That means one out of every four in yorr school and mine. Of these, too, less than ten per cent are incurable. There may be in your class of filty at least eight or ten boys with defective hearing who rar ht be cured in corrpaiallvely few mi mtes by a physic' in. Most of the affections of the ear are easi'y cured. Does o.ie of your boys keep his mouth Ojjen habitually, is he troubled with catarrh ? Test his ears. Does he obey all commands a moment behind the rest of the class, finding out first what the rest are doing? Test his eais. Better yet test all your class. It may be that a child, one of whose ears is defective, is sitting in such a part of the room as to place his good ear at a disadvantage. How shall we test ? First blindfold him so he will judge from his sense of hearing alone and then ask him to listen to the ticking of your watch with one ear covered. Try him in a room where you can have absolute quiet, and find out at what distance he can hear your watch with each ear. Test yourself and a friend or two with it to see how far it should be heard and judge accordingly as to the child's ability. The so-called dull or stupid people especially need our test and the number of cases al ready found by this method is well up in the thousands. "But," you object, "I know my children. I can tell whether they are deaf or blind." Don't be sure ot that. The experiment has been tried and the boast proved an empty one ; and that, too, in our own state. Even where serious defects were found in sight and hearing, the teacher had not been aware of them and child-study literature abounds with testimonials of the surprise of different teachers when the secret of a child's backward ness was found to be in these imper fections. Let me illustrate by an actual case. In a town not far from here a child was kept almost Jive years in the hrst two grades. He was regard ed stupid. The principal knew about him, but had never studied him. To ward the close of the fifth year the principal saw the little boy in a store handling a toy watch. He immediate ly pulled out his own watch and ask ed the child how he would like one that would tick. The child could not hear it, unless placed very near his ear. He took the boy to a physician who quickly removed the adenoid growths which had affected his hear ing and the boy went home charged to tell no one. In a few days the principal's own son who was in the same class came home and told his father how Willie was improving, that he was the smartest boy in the class. That boy had lost nearly five years because he could not hear. The principal closed the letter describing the case as follows, "The dunce-cap worn so long by little Willie has now been transferred to your humble ser vant." CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK. Abolish the Fee System, The Legislature will render a valu able service if it enact a law that will wholly abolish the fee system of com pensating county officials. There are a number of measures already under consideration that are intended to readjust the system, and Representa tive French has introduced a bill that provides for its entire abolition, offer ing as a substitute payment by fixed salaries. No readjustment of fees will correct the evils that have grown out of the system and the only way to absolutely cotrect its defects is to abolish it altogether. The prohibition of special legisla tion necessitates the passage of a law that w.ll embrace the whole State. This may result in a slight change in the salaries of the officials in those counties where the lee system is no longer in force. But the counties can readily be divided into classes, with fair salaries for the officials of each class, and an equitable division in this way would provide a salary list that will dispense even justice everywhere. In several of the counties of the State, with a population ot less than 150,000, the office of Prothonotary is worth from $5,000 to $7,000, that of Recorder ot Deeds from $6,000 to $10,000, that of Register of Wills from $5,000 to $6,500, and that of District Attorney from $6,000 to $7,500. These incomes are far be yond a just compensation, and, under a law providing even liberal salanes, could be cut down one third. A public official is entitled to no Why Do people bay Hood's Barsaparilla In preference to any other, in tact almost to the exclusion of all others? ISecsiiuis They know from actual use that Hood's Is the best, i. e., It cures when others fail. Hood's Barsaparilla is still made under the personal supervision of the educated pharmacists who originated it. The question of best is just as positively decided in favor of Hood's as the question of comparative sales. Another thing: Every advertisement of Hood's SarsapariUa la true, is honest. IntoO'd SarsapariUa Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists, . Preparedonty byC. I. Hood t Co., Lowell, Mass. flOOd 8 FlllS with Uood't Barsaparilla. IOHN a TQWHSBNB. ) SUITS FROM S18.00. larger compensation than would be paid by a private business concern for equal responsibilities and similar duties. Whenever the compensation becomes higher than this it makes the office a matter of sale, and the excess is recognized as a reward for political service, for which the people should never be called upon to pay. rhila. Times. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. 11 th Orphan' Court of Columbia county. Pa. Estate of Benaga rarker, tale oftaOl county, deceased. Th undersigned aitdttitr, appoint hy laid Court to mak distribution oflheoalnuvremaln. ing In th hand of the ejrecntirr of ald estate, hereby glre notic that h will meet all parti interested, fur the purione of hi appointment at the opice of h. 8. Wlnterten, K1 , In th toirn of Womiimrg, Penna , on tridag, April litft, .4.0. 1W, at 0 n'clork a.m., when awl where said partieare reiulred to prov their claim or be debarred from partictjiatingln the distribution of sain fund. U. it. QUICK, U-ltMC. Auditor. PARTITION NOTICE. In the matter of tit partition of the estate of James Johnson, deceased. To TlUlam Jolinmn, .Tenvvtown, Columbia County, I'a. : Klrhard .lohnson, Mlllvllle, Col mnlilii county, I'a, : Silas .tniinsnn. Hughes, burtr, Pa. ; John Johnson. Wntsontown. I'a. j lane Johnson Intermarried wl'h Jnnry Crnlir, Opps I'. ()., Lycoming County. I'a. ; AHre John son Intermarried with Oeorge Ilure, Strawberry HKIge. I'a. ; and the following grand-children of Henry Johnson, deceased, who was a son of James Johnson, deceased, viz. : (feorfe John- s in, Mooresburg, I'a. ; John Johnson. ; Iteglna Johnson Intermarried Willi Mills, Danville, Pa. Vou are hereby notified that In pursunnoo of an order of Orphans' Court of Columbia County, a writ of partition hastssued from said Cowl to the Sheriff of aald countv, ret urnable the first Monday of May, A. P. 1n:C, and that the Inquest will meet for tho purpose of making Partition of the real estate of said decedent on Monrtav, the -Sth day of April, A. 1). 1SK, between tho hours of A. M and 4 P. M., on the premises of lames Johnson, deceased. In Madison township, Columbia county, Pa., at which time and place you can attend If you see proper. SNYDER, Atty. J. It. McTIENRY, 3-18-IU flierUT. ORPHANS' COURT SALE OF VALUABLE Real Estate. In pursuance of an order of the Orphans' Court, of Columbia county, Pa., the undersigned executor of last will and testament of George Bower, late of Brlarcreek township In the said county deceased, will sell at public sale on the premises on THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1897, at two o'clock In the afternoon of Bald day, the following described reul estate, to-wlt : No. 1. A tract of land situate In Brtarcreelc township, Columbia county, Pa .adjoining lands of David Klsner, David Shaffer, James Evans and others, containing THIRTY ACRES, and fourteen perches. No. I AU tbe right, title and Interest of the said decedent in the undivided one-halt of a tract of land situate In said Brlarcreek town ship, In said county, adjoining lands of William Tohe, William Gtrton, llenry Martt, Ephralm Evans and others, containing 18 acres, more or less, whereon are erected a frame DWELLING HOUSE, barn, and out-bulldlngs. No. a. All the right, title and interest ot the said decedent In the undivided one-half of a tract ot land situate In Bald township ot Briar creek, In said county, adjoining lands ot Wll- Ham Evans, James, Lemons, John Fester and John Doak, containing 30 ACRES, more or less. TERMS OF SALE. Ten per cent, ot the pur chase money to be paid at the striking down ot the property, nttoea per cent, at the confirma tion ot sale, and the remaining three-fourths In one year from said sale, together with Interest thereon from confirmation nisi. Purchaser to pay tor deed. Purchaser win be required to give bond with good and approved security tor t ie faithful payment of the purchase money according to the above conditions. JAMES BOWER, Zarr ft Freeie, att'ys. Executor, s-18-vr-ts. You'd Show Good Taste If you selected your paper from our stock. Fine wall paper is like fine clothes al ways noticed and admired. We couple beauty and novelty of design wun a quality ot paper which is seldom equalled. All we ask is your eyes, our stock will do the rest. )! Room Mouldings to match all papers. WILLIAM H. SLATE, EZ33AN3Z HOTEL SLS. COMER MAIN & MARKET Sts. I TROUSERS BLOOMSBURG PA. FROM 05.OO, Oping if Our Sprint Dress Goods. Spring Dress Goods;. We are showing by far the most in teresting assortment of Dress Goods we have ever put on sale. They are interesting to you who are contem plating the purchase of the new dress. Goods that are all right, made by the best manufacturers.and all the height of style. Here they are in profusion and rare values, everyone of them, 23c. to $1.50 the yard. Ladies' Ssparat9 Skirts and Suits. It is becoming more and more the fad, and a very rood one it is, to buy your skirts and Spring Suits already made. Why not ? When you can buy them about as cheap as you can the material alone and save the trouble of making. They are a'l well made, from the best of material and by ex perienced tailors. It will pay you to examine them. $1.87 to $io.co. Laiics' Muslh Underwear. You know the kind we sell. That which is made correct in every panic ular. We would not have it if it was not. We buy it from the Wm Burns Co., which in itself is a guarantee that it is perfection. The material is the best, the workmanship the finest, and the garments are all full width and full length. When you see the goods you will be astonished at the prices we can sell them at. Don't pay you to make them yourself. Ccrset Covers, njc to 50c. Wight Eebes, 40c to $1.40. Exira good value on the 50c ones. Skirts, 28c to $1.50. The $1.00 skirt is special value. Piirsel & BLOOMSBURG, Not Mere . . . Foot Covers . but easy, comfortable, stylisbshoes. That's wbat up-to-date men want. That's what we sell,, and we don t draw heavily on pocket books either. Fitting feet is wIS ecial ?nd we assure perfect comfort to ever patron. We carry the largest stock of boots, shoes and rubbers n the county, and all new and fresh and bright Every size, evert shape, and prices not too high nor to low. 7 I 1 W. W. BUDLONG, Hills Grove, R. I., Buys all kinds of raw Furs, Skins, Beeswax, Live Poultry and living wild animals of all kinds. Price list of Furs W'next Retuns Iel haDd 8t0ck- Inferior accor5ing to quality excess 7 gd3 reCeived A11 furs 8hou1 sent by Bear, Kisher Otter Heaver Silver Fox Crosi Ked Gray Woli Wolverine t.'5co $28.00 7-oo io.oo 7oo 10.00 9 00 12.00 40.00 100.00 7-oo 14.00 '5 a.oo 1.00 I,J0 a.oo 2.50 400 8.00 Sn! l 7Z 7xM ycu want Botes, &o. Prices reasonable. JOT Hatter. Drawers, 8cto$i.0o. The 38c ones are rare bargains. Children's Dresses, 28c to 75c. Night robes, 40c. " , Drawers, 15c to 28c. Srocories. Just received a new invoice of gro ceries. We sell only the best goods we can buy, and will offer these goods for quick turning, at prices that can not be equaled in town for the quality of the goods. No trash or cheap truck, but good goods at little money. Prunes, nice, fresh and good value, 5 11.3. 25 c. Prunes, fresh, large meaty goods, loc. quality, 7c. the lb. Head Rice, no cracked or broken stuff, worth at least J again as much, , S lb. 25c. Rolled oats' none better, A No. 1 quality, 12 lbs. 25c. Raisins, fat and juicy, 7c. the 10c. quality, 4 lbs. 25c. Soup beans, nice large ones, 5 qts. 25c. Remember 2 lbs. to the qt. Large, fine lima beans, 4 qts. 25c Mackerel, nice fat fish, average weight 1J lbs., 2 fur 25c. COFFEE. We handle none but the best of cof fee. Chase & Sanborn's in bulk, and Levering's in package goods. Note the following prices: Leverinu, 16c. the th. Rio coffee, 20c. the lb. Reduced from 25c. Can't be equaled in town for the money. A better Rio at 25c- 30c. quality. Extra Golden Rio, 28c. Pefection Blend, 30c. Equal to any 35c. or 38c. coffee in town. Harman, - PA. . . Lynx Wild Cat Marten Skunk Raccoon, Common Music Rat Badger Deer Mink a.oo .50 3.00 7S 2.00 .So .20 1. 00 7S 1.00 i 2.5 .80 9.00 1. 00 2. so 1. 00 $ 1.50 1. 10 2.00 mad tato Suga, Overc:ats, Capes, Class of work best P
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