THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. A PRESIDENT'S LOVE. ANDREW JOHNSON'S COURTSHIP OF MISS SARAH WORD SIM Rejected tha Future Chief MagHtrati tor Snddler. II was not IIIIterat Oi when Young, bat to the Contrary ytm Bxeeptlunalljr Intalltgent. Thrw-nunrtors of a wntury ngo, Ic tM little village of Laurens, In th State of South Carolina, thore llvei and labored at the tailor trnlo a jemng nmu who was dittlned toploj aa important part tn the affair ol ttato Nation. Of bumble origin and baring had practically no educational advantages, be had In bis charavtai tfc elements of true manhood, and by force of brain power and ability at tained the blghext position of honot and trust In th Republic Andrew Johnson left his home Id north Carolina by reason of some trouble with bla employer, and wenl ta the then ultra-exclusive and arlttto ctatic village of Laurens. He bad nc Influential family connections, and was aa poor as the traditional church motwie, bla worldly posseHslons con stating only of the clothes he wore. Tc on acquainted with the social condl Moos of the ante-bellum South, the difficulties Im.idi.ut to obtaining recog nition by a man handicapped asJobu aaat was can be readily Inmgined. The ateiiing worth, of the young tailor, however, made itself felt, and de manded the admiration and respoel aoon accorded him by those who were wont to consider one not to the man or born deserving of but condescend tar notice. Johnson's stay at Laureus marked a important epoch in his life. It there that lie met bis first love, Mas Surah Word, a charming young woman of education and relluemeut, who saw tn the modest and retiring young Journeyman tailor, n roan of character and strength and promise. Johnson's regard for Miss Word wat mciprocated, and the young people ntered into an engngenieut to marry. Tney were thrown constantly In each other's society, and the future Treat tent of the United States once asglnt d, his fiancee in laying, stuffing and quilting a quilt. The Irresistible tendency that young men in love have to carve their sweet hearts' names on everything movable and immovable In their immediate vi cinity was not wanting In Johnson. On the Iwttoui of an old split-bottomed chair he engraved the Inscrip tion W.-1820." It is needless to any that it was the chair in which Miss Word was accustomed to sit on the porch of her home. Having satisfactorily adjusted the trouble with his former employer Id North Carolina, Johnson decided to ntarn and resume bis place. Before leaving Laurens, as a token of his of tectiouate regard, he gave to MIse Word bis dearest possession, the note with which be bad worked at aia trade. This act shows the tender simplicity of the young tailor. He had bo false prldo about the matter. He was leaving the woman he loved fot an indefinite time, and not ashamed of hia lowly calling, gave her something that would bo a constant reminder of Mm and bis work. After leaving lAnrens differences arose between Mum Word and Johnson, and their engagement was terminated, but the tailor's goose was never returned. Miss Word rejected the tailor and married William Hance, a saddler. The tailor became President of the Dnited States. Johnson's biographers have all main tained that in early life he was un couth, illiterate and Ignorant, with no refinement nor grace of manner. It haa been stated that he could neither mad nor write, and that his wife tanght him both after marriage. This error has become so firmly fixed that It la generally accepted as an historic fact, and school children are told the romantic story of how a man who af tarward became President was taught tn read and write by a wife who was ambitious for his advancement This lory may be a beautiful objoct les son on the grand possibilities of Amer ican youth, but It baa the fatal defect of being untrue. When Johnson lived in Laurens he could both read and write, and was considered a young man of considerable Intelligence. Miss Word, to whom t3 was engaged, la authority for t'jo statement that she received many uotes and letters from him. and that he wrote a good busi ness hand. She has also frequently said that he was a man of more than ordinary Intelligence, of elegant ad dress and a brilliant conversational iat National Magazine. Song Bird for Market In Italy. Dr. Carl Luudmriuer. president of the Vienna Society for thu Proteetlou of Animuls, says that In the large cities of Italy "huge piles of nightin gales, larks, finches, and, of late, oven swallows," ore seen on the market stalls. These little creaturoa are caught by the wholesale In fowlers' nets during the fall of the year, when the birds are migrating to the south. Matrimonial Ilualueaa Ruining. First Preacher Doing much In the wedding trado now? Second Preacher Yes; busluess In good. People get married this year who never got married before. Truth. Miss Mobile Well, Martha, how Is your husband now? Martha Po'ly, miss, po'ly. He's got the exclamatory rheuinutlsm. Miss Mobile You meuu Inflamma tory rheumatism, Martha. 'Exclam atory" Is to cry out. Martha (with solemn conviction) "That's it, mum; that's It! He don't do nothing but bullerl Northern Cbrostian Advocate. THE KINO OF GREECE ASCENDED THE THRONE WHEN f BOY OF SEVENTEEN YEAR3. The Greeks Hare Desired Him to A Ixl I cat and Allow Prince Conntantlno t ' Reign Instead The Second Son, Sallni George, a Strong Character. Three and thirty years ngo a pic turesque scene was enacted In tin Danish capital. A deputation ol Greeks we ought to call them Hel tones, but we do not a deputation ol Greeks demanded au audience ol Frederick VII. the old King of Detv mark, and asked leave to offer theii coiintry'a crown to his great-nephew: George of ScWeswIg-HolHteln. Foi reply the monarch turned to the hand some stripling who stood expectant bj and bade Win take his place beside him on the dais, saluting him as hit brother sovereign. Four month! passed, and the youth of seveuteet was proclaimed King at Athens, Eng land, France and Ruasla being hit sponsors. Boy In years though h might be, the Impatient Greeks as serted he was man enough for thftn, and before the end of the month thej declared htm of age, finally placing tin reins of government In bis hands on the Inst day of October, 1N03. Four teen days more were then told off, and the aged Frederick died, leaving hli own throne free for King Christian the father of the new Greek King, this forming perhops the solitary in stance of a son being an older sover eign than bis parent. Having watched him carefully through the first four years of hit rolgn, Russia, by a clever stroke of policy, which caused some etir at the time, secured the young monarch'i band for one of her Grandduchesses, Olga Constantlnovana, her fatally con sidering that the imperial brlfle'e value was greatly Increased by the fact that she was only fifteen years oi age at the time of her marriage. King George, who did everything early In life, became a father when he wa only twenty-two, and within eleven months his little bride had presented him with a second son, the magnifi cent young giant, George, hero of the present hour. The gift of a series of stalwart Princes was hailed with aa much satisfaction as the Ionian Is lands, that other present which the Prince from the north bestowed upon his new subjects. Their King was a Lutheran, a foreigner,, and not skilled in their native tongue; but his boys were born on the soli, and there was a promise that not only should they be Orthodox, but that the first lisping of their baby mouths should be Greek. In consideration of this, as time passed they almost, never quite, con sented to forgive their sovereign fot being a stranger. They have de manded that he should abdicate In fa vor of his son a score of times In as many years, it Is true; still, when he replied that; he would do so with pleasure, but that It would be to the detriment of all concerned, they have gone home In pence, consenting to put up for a little longer with the man who has increased the area of their country by one-third and won for them a leading place among the secondary Powers of Europe. Should the King abdicate bis suc cessor would of course be the Duke of Sparta, more commonly known in Athens aa Prince Constantlnos. Many people, not perhaps excludlug the Crown Trince himself, would prefer the Athleticos Prlnkyes, George. However, even Greece, who passes ber days In doing strange things, would hardly venture on such an innovation as that. Moreover, you cannot be both Nelson and a King, and sailor George means to be Nelson, find a Na poleon where he may. In alluding to a preference for the younger brother It is by no means Insinuated that the Crown Prince is unpopular. He Is ad mired, liked and respected, as he well deserves, but he is somewhat silent and retiring. King George, a true constitutional sovereign, wants to follow rather than to lead his people, but be will not fol low to their destruction. As haa hap pened before, he will pull his team up on the edge of the precipice If they will let him. The Crown Prince, far sighted, level-headed and wary, Is one degree more cautious than bis father, aud will advise keeping a little, just a little, further away froui the abyss. Prince George, who is neither Greek nor Russian, but an ancient Viking, pure and simple, looks impatiently at his seniors and tugs at the lace on his sleeve, yearning as did his forbears to seize on some Normandy or so mo An glia or to take his Long Serpent up any aud evry navigable river within his reach, and what, he would say, is beyond tbo reach of a man with a stout heart and a strong arm? Prince Nicholas and Prince Andreas ask only to be allowed to go wherever George will take them. Pall Mall Gazette. inflective Lubricant. Oliver Wendell Holmes kept on hand a llttlo pile of autograph extracts from his writings, and, when a visitor had reached the extreme limit of a call, yet aeemod unaware of tho (act, the doctor would kindly hand him one of tbeso extracts, courteously asking him to keep it as a keepsake. "They cau't stop after that however tough," ho said, "I call the extracts 'lubricant; It greases the way to send them off." He wu Nearer to It. Two Irishmen digging In a ditch. One was tall, the other short. The llttlo fellow was digging away ludustrioutdy, whllo the big one looked on. The foro nmu uubraided him for his Idleness. "Ain't you ashamed to let that little fellow do all the work?" "Sure'g he'a Bearer to It," was the apt reply. Weired Plaint of La Mancha. Starting from the Argamasilla be fore daylight our little mule had trudg ed during eight hours the denuded in hospitable plain of La Mancha where the unchecked cold blasts from the Sierras hold wild riot in the winter, and which was now lying prostrate under the furious caresses of the sun, says a writer in Scrifiner's i her parch ed soil bursting now and anon with dull sounds like the moans of a crea ture in pain.. When we became aware of the proximity of the high way we were looking for, it was by some ruins, inevitable comcomitants of this land of the dead. Before these silent, melancholy remains and in the absence of the living, one can feel the presence of the dead. Tis as if the past centuries were walking by the side of the traveler, keeping him company and little imagination is needed to people again this great ar tery of human communications thrown across the undented country by the Romans with Iberians, Goths and moors, with Spaniards of the time when Spain was the most powerful country of the civilized world and see Isabella, Charles V., the somber Phillip, speeding on in all the splendid paraphernalia of royalty, and with their retinue of haughty Castilians. What a sense of the swing of history one has in such places, and before the eternity of nature how ephemeral nad inconsequental human life seems 1 What We Inherit We are not to blame for. We cannot be held responsible for the disposi tions and tendencies which we derive from our ancestors, nor are we re sponsible for the germs of disease which may manifest themselves in our blood as a heritage from former genera tions. But we are responsible if we allow these germs to develop into serious diseases which will impair our usefulness and destroy our happiness. We are responsible if we transmit to our decendants the disease germs which it is possible for us to eradicate by the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla, the one true blood purifier. This medi cine has power to make rich, red blood and establish perfect health in place of disease. Bow Nature Builds Kockeries. The fact is, the rockery, to be a success, must be an evolution instead of a creation. Attempt to construct one after any set plan and you are sure to fail with it. The most satis factory one I ever saw was one that made itself, so to speak. The stones of which it was composed were hauled in winter and dumped down carelessly in a great heap. In spring the owner looked them over and came to the conclusion that it would be impossible for him to arrange them in a more picturesque manner, and he had the good sense not to attempt it. He worked earth in between them and planted wild vines and ferns there, and his rockery was a success. If possible, a rockery should be located in a secluded portion of the grounds. Rockeries as Nature makes them are generally in secluded nooks, where all kinds of wild things feel at home, and we shonld try to carry out as com pletely as possible the idea of the wildness which prevails in Nature's haunts to domesticate wildness, so to speak. This cannot be done satis factorily where the grounds are close to the street. If the grounds are too small to allow you to give the rockery a place at some distance from the house, and you feel that you must have one, plant trees or shrubs so as to give it an air of partial seclusion at least. Ladies' Home Journal. An eminent Norwegian scientist has been conducting an investigation of the bakehouses of his country in connection with an exhaustive study of bread from the grain to the loaf on the table. He finds much to criticise and condemn in the places he has visited and points out that they are most important spots for stringent municipal regulation. It will be re called in this connection that the in spection of the bakeshops in this city by the Ladies' Health Protective asso ciation brought to light many danger ous conditions in these places. They are radicating centers in 'every neigh borhood where they exist, and every part of them should be as chemically and sanitarily clean as the antisepti cally washed marble kneading board of the modern well conducted private kitchen. The health and personal habits of the employees are two more significant matters to be considered, as the European investigator indicates, and these should, he thinks, be under the most strict civic observation and control. New York Post, Head Relief in io Minutes. Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder gives al most instant relief and permanently cures Catarrh, Hay Fever, Colds, Headache, Sore Throat, Tonsilitis, and Catarrhal Deafness. One short pull of the powder clears and cleanses the nasal passages. It is painless and delightful to use. Sold by C. A. Kleim. A Novel Barometer, It has taken a clever Frenchman to discover a kind of barometer which mav be safely called unique. An En glish journal says that it is nothing more nor less than the figure of a general made of ginger bread. He buwj one every year and takes it home and hangs it by a string on a nai!. Gingerbread, as every one knows, is easily affected by changes in the at mosphere. The slightest moisture renders it soft, while in dry weather it grows hard and tough. Every morning on going out the Frenchman asks his servant, " What docs the general say ? " and the man applies his thumb to the ginger bread figure. Perhaps he may reply : " The general feels soft. He would advise you taking an umbrella." On the other hand, if the gingerbread is hard and unyielding to the touch, it is safe to go forth in one's best attire, urn brellaless and confident. The Frenchman declares that the general has never yet proved unwor thy of the confidence placed in him, and would advise all whose purse will not allow them to purchase a baromc ter or aneroid, to see what the local baker can do for them in the ginger bread line. Harper's Round Table. The Earth's Fires. Edison says that before the world's supply of coal is exhausted we shall surely not be dependent upon it for fuel ; in fact, fuel of any kind will be superfluous. It is said that he be lieves that the fires of the interior of the earth will be utilized in the future for the carrying on of every industry requiring steam power. Volcanoes, geysers, natural fountains of boiling water in Iceland, as well as earth quake shocks, are all proof that fierce subterranean fires are raging miles beneath our feet. Edison's belief is that immense pipes may be forced through the earth's crust, which would allow a great volume of steam com pressed below us to force its way to the surface. This would furnish pow er to huge electromotors, which would, in turn, generate electricity to be used in storage batteries. All vehicles for travel could be supplied with these, and little recharging sta tions, with feed wires, could be erect ed in the streets. The power would be so cheap that it would do away with the use of horses. Furthermore, the farmer could have rows of pipes beneath the ground and cause it to produce rare exotic plants and finer fruits than the hothouse system. Machines would be worked without coal and the atmos phere, consequently, be purified from its gas and smoke. The homes of the poor would be automatically heat ed and lighted, with little expense. The People are Convinced When they read the testimonials of cures by Hood's Sarsaparilla. They are written by honest men and women, and are plain, straightforward state ments of fact. The people have con fidence in Hood's Sarsaparilla because thev know it actually and nermanent- ly cures, even when other medicines tail. Hood's Pills are the onlv nills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Easy and yet efficient. Sowing Spring Wheat American Cultivator is authority for the following : The advance in price of wheat last fall did not come quick enough to enable farmers who are used to grow ing winter wheat to largely increase their acreage. It is natural, therefore, th'.t some of these should think of feeding as much as they can with spring wheat. But we think in any state east of the great chain of lakes, especially where winter wheat suc ceeds well, that it is a mistake to try to grow the spring variety. Some farmers in western New York more than ao years ago tried to grow spring wheat so as to escape the midge that attacked winter wheat. The spring wheat uniformly failed, not, however, from the midge, but because hot, dry weather made the plant grow thin on the ground and poorly headed. To make spring wheat a success it has to be got in the ground very early. It is often sown in the mud on tall plow ed land and harrowed in so soon as frost is out of the ground. This suc ceeds wherever one or two severe frosts can be depended on to lighten the soil above the seed, with good growing weather following. In wes tern New York and also farther east cold, wet weather lasts too long in spring, and when that is past the weather is too hot and dry for the spring wheat crop. Pill-Pricf. The days of 25 cents a box for pills are numbered. Dr. Ag new's Liver Pills at ten cents a vial are surer, safer and pleasanter to take. Cure Constipation, Sick and Nervous Headaches. Dizziness, Lassitude, Heartburn, Dyspepsia, Loss of Appe tite and all troubles arising from liver disorder. Sold by C. A. Kleim. The Dietetic and ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candiea. Fresh Every Week. 3P3LiT2sr-2 Goods .a. GipiEzci-iyr-sr. SOLE AGENTS FOR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Sole agents for the Honry Clay, Londrcs, Normal, Indian Princoss, Samson, Silver Ash Bloomsburg Pa. fli6e$ Iow kqd For the finest and best stoves, tinware, roofinp. spoutin? and general job work, go to W. W. Watts, on Iron street. 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 water and hot air heaters for this territory, which is acknowl edged to be the best heater on teed. IRON STREET. SHOES We buy right and sell right. OUR SUCCESS IS BASED ON THIS FACT. Honest trading haa won us hosts "TT- 1: ve are seinng gooa snoes, so good you ought to see them. Drop in and we will make it pay you. Conner Iron and Main Sts. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF CARPET, MATTING, or OIL CLOTH, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. H. BIOWEE'S 2nd Door above Court IIouno. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. TflE NOOSB OF PATE. IT WAS THAT WHICH LED SCOTT JACK SON TO THE SCAFFOLD. Less than four vears aero Smtt Jackson, who was hanced in Ken- tucky recently for the murder of reari uryan, was under arrest m Jer sey City, charged with embezzling $25,000 from a railway freight office in which he was employed. Jackson turned state's evidence and implicat ed a fellow employee named Letts, who was sent to the penitentiary, while Jackson himself was released. At the trial the attorney represent ing; Letts, naid his resrects to th in. former in terms which seem singularly propnetic in tne light of recent events. Said he : " Todav the arm of the prosecutor may be sufficient to protect you against the punishment you so well deserve, but while you are enjoying immunity from the laws of our state you must remember that mere is a higher law than the statute 01 in ew jersey. " There is a stronger nowpr ih the arm of the prosecutor. There is a law of retribution. Sooner or later, somewhere and at some time, that law of retribution, merciless and inex orable, will overtake you, and you, will then receive the just punishment which you now evade." Justice, they say, travels with a leaden heel, but the criminal who slipped through her fingers in New Jersey in 1893 slipped through a hangman's trap in Kentucky four years later. Retribution is as certain as it is slow. Ciicago Times-Herald. Just try a 10c. box of Cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. 4 j.iy Hygienic Gazette For July 1896, ay: Waitbr IUkf.r & Company, of Dorchester, Mas., have given year of study to the aklllful preparation of cocoa and chocolate, and have devised machinery and syj. . - it ikolr mntlimlft nf treatment. lthpreKv K ICIIIS gjciuiim iw ....... , -.-j purity, palatability.and highest nutrient characteristics are retained. Their preparations are known the world over, and have received the highest Indorsements from the medical practitioner, the nurse, and tho intelligent house keeper and caterer." Consumers should ask for and be sure that they get the genuine goods, made at Dorchester, Mass. WALTER BAKER A CO., Limited. Cut Chewing Tobacco following brands of Clgara Good Wofk. the market. All work guaran W. W. WATTS, Rloomsburga Pa. KM5-IJ SHOES of customers but we want more. 1 . W. H. floore. Snake Into Tour Shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smart ing feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certaia cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it to day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Oo-operative Applause. One night Sarah Bernhart was play ing Fedora " to a crowded house. The poison scene, as usual, elicited a tempest of applause from the audi ence, but ere the clapping of hands and the stamping of feet had com pletely died away, loud peals of laughter burst forth from the upper part of the theater. The sober mind ed people in the boxes and stalls gazen reproachfully at the boisterous " gods," but in a moment they, too, began to laugh, for in the front row of the balcony, and in full view of all, stood two one armed men, who, un conscious ot the amusement wlucn they caused, were energetically co operating to prolong the applause by clapping their remaining hands to gether Pearson's Weekly. Tiles Itching, Blind and Bleed ingCured in three to six nights. Dr. Agnew's Ointment is peerless m curing. One application gives instant relief. It cures all itching and irri tating skin diseases, Chafing, Eczema etc. 35 cents. Sold by C. A. Kleim.
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