THE' COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. NOTES FI10M GOTHAM SOME OF THE CONTRASTS OF THIS ........ GREAT CITY. Cdnrntloiml Interests llnnkrri Predlr t inns The OiiIciiMs in Hie I'arks-Kven the .Snlrntioti Army Gets Discouraged 1 raining tlio lli. Special New York Letter. This city may properly be called the centre of the cJuiu'Jonal interests of tUv country, and lor this reason there Us a keen iuteruil felt in the retirement o! President H. Donjaiuin Andrews, of Ilmwn University. An attempt tins bivo made to create tho impression that Dr. Andrews was forced out of the presidency of iWown on account of his views on the currency, and an ef fort hAs been bade to place him in the roll of a martyr. It is not blieved that the Dr. deeiros to have this im pnsion go abroud. His views on the currency are his own and they are said to be intensely opjKised to the gold standard, but equally opposed to the fret- coinage of silver as an independ ent proposition by the Nation alone. Dr. Andrews describes himself as a blmetaJlist," and one very impatient e?Vf h the operations of the single stand ord. Speaking of the Andrews incident re- Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews. calls a discussion between several bankers respecting what would be the effect of the Ala-ska gold discoveries on the silver question. Most of them wjr inclined to the belief that the possible production of the new gold coiintry had been greatly exaggerated for the benefit of the transportation Dumpanii. One banker of natioal rep U'tntinn aaid that there could be no possible effect on the monetary situa tion unless the discoveries of gold re-re so stupenduous as almost to take I ii. out of the list of precious metals. He explained the situation by saying: "The ditliculty in expecting any Change in the ratio between gold and siivir from new fields like Alaska is tbn.: the production of gold and silver by weight Is so disproivmionate that It would lake mountains of gold to oii-re up the difference. The gold pro due: ion of lHJi for the whole world If.j than 9,000,00) ounces-. The 1'iii.ed States alone the same your pr.ivrde-d 40,000,000 ounces of silver, and the world's product of the white mi-.?; was over lour times that am ovi . or twenty times as m-uch silver a.i -: ;J, weight for weight. If Alaska bl ;.d prove as much of a gold field a A i. to fc. tU'. c: i v.. I'. fr fib RC- so CI. re iith Africa, tho I'nlted States unJ a!ia put toge'.ber, soiuu.hing alto : improbable, it would help us to .p the gold exports and maintain .-serve, but it would not disturb Sally the relations between goFd liver." s otily within the past few years !ii? handling of bananas has been .. tho name of a distinct trade. us!y it was only a part of the rale, and, like most kinds of the banana was counted on as or its season. The banana sea js "ou" when apples, berries and aative fruits were "off." As time jii, however, the greater familiar ity the banana taught people that Ir. was one of the most excellent and ad-: able of fruits, a steady demand .ip which perUU tho year round, .dans took up the banana and .mended it for Its healthful and shing qualities, and altogether aiiana has come Into high favor. is brieily wiiy the people of the .-J .States will eat this year some i.OOO bunches of bananas, or I'L. ro no the Thi I'n 20.M ro;;hiy one bunch averaging 208 ba-n.-.i i s to every family in the country. As ue from its commercial importance, tht banana trade is interesting for lt IiUi.u-esque features. From the dark tiuod Jamaican or Mexican who cuts tho stalks where they grow through the colored roustabouts and white ban ilera who load and unload the ves sels, the wholcwale and reLall dealers, to the Greek and Italian push-cart merchants who tell the fruit upon our city sueeits, there is a range of thrift and shifuesKiiess, and a variety of hu n;ui.kind that it would be hard to match In any other industry. The boat engaged in the banana trade are properly coasting vessels, light of draft, to accommodate the shallow harboru of the tropics, built t'u- fal: ,-tpeed aiicl uveal carrying ca pacity. Most ot thoia belong to the different firms that Import the fruit and carry irom liu.liuO to 30,000 bunches ot each trip. Tins mans from 2,000 00U to 4.000,001) :unar.as in evc-ry cargo. The perUhablu nature of their load re quires quick won; !u loading and un loading those boats, and there Is no more lively or interesting scene thun a banana vessel taking ou or discharg ing cargo. Stories from the Klondike district, of the proweeas and ferocity of the mcaquitoea, have evidently stirred up tho pride of New Jersey and the ad jacent region of Governor's Island, for from the former comes a story of a wo man leaving her baby in a hammock for au hour and coming back to find it covered with mosquitoes and dead. From Governor's Island comes a story of a private aoldler who was bitten be hind the ear, while on dress parade and bled bo profusely that he fell in a. faint from hie wound, which was af- forwards dressed by the surgeon, who pi-onouneed it dangerous. If there are. tiiy bigger mosquito stories than theia they have not yot found their way in to print. Uvery New Yorker Is familiar with the setters In the e-mail parks. There' Is certainly nothing niofe pitable no mure scathing indictment against all the economic systems that the mind of i.;a.:i has devised than a man with a wife and children dependent on hlra vainly seeking employment. Such a run Is rarely seen on the park benches, lie is constantly on the move, until sutil-tdckencd by constant failure he Lctomrs a suicide or a drunkard. Hut who are thae men in the parks? From what ranks of humanity does fiilon Square park draw Its daily bri gade ot net tors? Many of them have been in business. They failed from one cause of another. Sotne of them, afier experiencing a fair degree of prosperity, became Inert, al towed things to drift and at length them toiti drifted into the downward path, losing all ambition and hope. Singu lar us It may seem, a fair proportion of these men do not show traces of i-vef..r,ive drinking. They are merely ?ul!si4ng creatures. They will sit for hours looking at the gitn making scarcely a movement and giving HMle attention to passers-by. They like to Le near other humai beings and thpy roll-.h the noise and din whleh, in.lii.-vrious humanity make in Its ef fort to obtain Its dally bread. The sight of meu and women hastening about their btiirtne.-a sooth's tho fitters and the noise and din is lulling music tiixHi their ears. So nil day long, and through half the night, they sit, contemptible and contentedly, with no sense of accountability to urge them to do their work In the world, and the Inward monitor, that ought to tell them that a lazy man Is one of he most despicable creuturea in the world, as silent as If It had the destiny and disaster of dumbness upon it from the beginning. Many have asked the question, "how flo these men subsist?" Nearly all appear to be the possessors of at least ordinary appetites. Some of them, no doubt, live upon the intlustry of wo men mothers, wives and sisters, and others upon the fruits of crime. Some of these moo are alone in the world, and they dally solve the problem of how .to live. Every morning at 2 3'cloek there Is a distribution of bread at the Vienna bakery. Long before that hour there is a general mustering of this division of the Grand Army of Ouu at the bakery. Ejch one gets a loaf ot bread or some rolls and a glass f milk, in summer, or a cup of coffee in winter. The bread Is more than sufficient for a meal. Tart of It is put in a f iipaciotis pcket and saved to ippe.uo the clamor of appetite durins he enming twenty-four hours, if noth iv.g better happens or offers. Provi .li.nce U kind to the beiiLh warmers. I'rc y.iently t li.y have opportunities tj eat and drink during the day. Probably not one In twenty of these men has railed in any occupation, bus-li.csr-. or profession In which they eu-I'.tavo.-cl to succeed. Those c them who held psi:lons of respectability l:;t tln:n through Inertia. They were ico lx.:y to grasp and hold opportuni ties. Wot many of th&in are harmful. Wickedness of the dangorcus sort da-tn.-ir.ds enorsry. It would be interesting to follow the fate of the Grand Army j: Outs. Occasionally energy has a second birth with sotne of tbo mem bers, and they again become active, if not useful. Not ewry active man is useful. Some drift far away, carried by the tide of humanity. Others keqp n the ranks until they become decrepit with age and are passed into the poor house. Some of those men have indeed been reached and a low reformed by that Junior Drum Corps of the Salvation Army. new instrumentality for good, the Sal vuilon Army, but the vast majority of them sink lower and lower in the sile of human degradation with each iueeeeding year. Even the Salvation Army people look upon the cases of most of these outcasts as hopeless, so far as any reformation in this world is concerned, and there Is a tendency among the Army people to turn their attention to the younger people who may be more easily reached end re f oi med. Uecontly they organized a Junior drum corps to furnish for them the kind of music which all seem to think Is a necessary accompanyment of their religious services, and in oth sr ways they are seeking to lay bold :f the young and lead them in the paths that they should go. CHARLES F. FGLL1SN. A Outer Itosciie, The passengers on a Tenth street trolley ear, gays the Philadelphia Rec ord, were treated to an unusual sight one morning. As the car was bowling along in the vicinity of Parish street, a couple ot sjwrrowsi one in chase of the other, a woo pod down in front of the c.r. The pursued, by a quick flank movement, eluded Ha tormentor by darting under the roof of the front platform, and before the motormaa Unew what v.a up, the bird had perch ed on his hand which gripped the lev tr. Thero it sart contentedly, wtoile the passengers craned their necks to get a view of the odd spectacle. The spar row didn't seoia to mind the fact that tl.H motorman's hand was constantly turning around as he manipulated his b vtr, and, after riding on Its queer rercli for fully a block, chirped Its t....:Uiij u:id Hew away. I would gay to all: Use your gentl v. vo'.-o at home. Watch it day by d:iy as a pearl of great price; for It will be worth mure to you in tho days to come than the best pearl in the sea, A kind volco is Joy, like a lark's song, to a hearth at home. It Is a light that lings a well as shines. Ellhu Bur ritu . . - HUMOR OF THE INDIANS. It Rum to t'anntlral Jnknn ami t No Alwny AirHnti. " 'Most everylwdy Imagine that rh North American Indmn Is a soloiim Dud dlsnlrled lndlvlilu.il." said rh. ex. ! winy otlWr, a be leaned gracefully linos. Hi his chnlr ami lazily puffed wny nt hU afternoon clirar. "Hefoiv I met n redskin I don't know how ninny times I hud beard it ninertml that a n race they Wero dewtHufe of humor n a patent otilce report of n graven liiw iiKC r'.nt when I grt netnialntvd win); the nboTlKin.il In his natKe wild. t found that this wns a mistake. "Th Indian ts a burn humorist There ltu't the xllghteMt doubt of that The grent trouble Is, however, that hU btmior rum chiefly to practical Jke. I rvmeiibT one time inei rlng (nr rather discovering a few roiVs ilxtnnt) a blf Indian, when I was out walking alutie ubnut two miles from camp. "Well, he discovered me ubout Mia Mine Unie, and tli( liHimto he did so he M out a'terrlfk' wr.r-whoop, began fluiirMiliig hU tomahawk, and stnited for me on "a un. He oimoed me until I keeled over from exhaustion, and t'.MMi histoid of pcalplng niu as t na turally expected he would fntii his pi-evhiiw actions, he uasis-ted lilt to my fwt, w-lth ii liriml grin on his face, and gruu-ted: 'L'gh, Injun only yell for fun. Too liad wuiv white mail. Injun don't want nealp. Waut chew terback er.' "The w1i !e ruceedlnn it se.'imul wa only his humorous method of striking a xtinngw for u chew of tobacco. If I had hud Something to xtrlku back with It might not har qult so funny for him but unfortunately I liad lft my weaoous in Miup. "And again, I remember the time a lot of Iridla'ns, who hud bum fooling nrouud on the warpntli, we're forvthl to Apltnlatt and surrender their game toMinernl Mile.' iMiiinuii(l t the liua Ridge Agency, and ttie Inst thing the humoi-oiM vuases did before turning In Jhelr shooimg-lroas was to load every old musket of the lot half wuy to tho luuR'.lo with slugs and nails and m-rup lion, and other bric-a-brue of the sort, mid then hang around at a safe dls t.'.trce. tt see tho fun when u bonfire wax uiude of t!ve guns tis was Uio usuui rule in xueli ttis. "Hut, lue-ktly for the soldiers, they discovered the trick In time, and the expected fun failed to pan out. Still we must take rti will for the deed, and this little Incident goes tp how, Mint as a practical Joker the wily alxvrljrlnal Is not to be lightly gueezed ait." The Siiperntltloim Mint. Scndds So Prince PlcnyunsUl says lie's an heir apparent. How does llmt 1kMHi'U. when he's the youngest huV MImm Siaid.Vr-Oh. he explained that. Ills brother I.s the kelr 'consumptive. Puc.'t. I'n pa Itlunt I like to argue with tl nt young TouiIIus. fwi-ctest Susnu I hope you flud lilm logl.1 cl, papa. "Wl.y. my chHd," iJe-uuo I think he's the logical candidate for your sou-ludaw." (J'.v eland Plain Dealer. When she scorned me," shrieked tlie inui.ih. "I vowed that idle should ne.er leek upon my fuce again. I IKlLst keep my vow." Accordingly he waved aside the pilfered washbasin and all wns still. Detroit Tribune. "I'm a plain, blunt man. Margaret, and can frame' no honeyed speeches. Will you marry me'.'" "I'm a little on the plain, blunt or der myself. No." Detroit Free Press. "I tell you that a Juror In a murder case bus on awful responsibility on Win." 'Yes, Indeed. If he goes to sleep ho Is liable to be fined for contempt of court." New York Truth. "So you were at the oiera last night?" "Yes." ' i "How were tho rolces?" "Excellent. The way those boys rendered 'Opera books bos of the oHra' left an Impression on the audi ence fhnt will not soon be forgotten," Hoxbury Gazette. Slings mid Arrow, The giants who frighten us most often turn out to be common-sUed men on stilts. Ram's Horn. A woman's Idea of politeness Is to nver accept an invitation without first protesting that it would bo an Im position. Atchison Glob. "How did you happen to become Mich a pfftmounced vegetarian?" ask ed the oldest Inhabitant. "All my sub scribers paid that way." replied the country editor. Yonkers Statesman. "I never saw so much stupidity," said the colonel from Kentucky. "I went Into a saloon In Boston and call ed for a little whisk, and they huuded nie a small broom." New York Jour nal. t . Contaminated. The daughter of a North Carolina "moonshluer" tided to horsewhip a do tectlve who had wounded her father In the scuffle for lus "still." She said afterwards: "I did It because he took the rifle ami she'd the red of my pa!" This comes of reading Steve Orane In the rough but realistic Tarheel sec tion. Atlanta Constitution, An Katlinute. "Now long is It going to take to got through with this case?" asked the client, who was under suspicion of hoiixobrciiling, "Well," replied the young lawyer thoughtfully, "It'll take me about two weeks to get through with it, but I'm afraid It's going to take you about four years." Washington Star. A Marked Woman. Any woman who w;ears a bird on her fiat now Is a marked woiimu, and but one feeling anlmutes those who nolo her dlsregurd of popular opinion. As a matter of fact, she had much better let None Irregularity in the putting on of her dress render her conspicuous thun to Haunt a dead bird as au urua mint. Boston Herald. IMilloeutuuhioHl. "The fifth wheel to a wagon Is uss less Just now; but wheu I get that puncture repaired It will bo as good as ever," remarked Byker, as he de posited his blko In the farmer's one horse conveyance and theu climbed la ANDY CUREC0n5TIPAT10H 10 2S SO lJi 1 B mM4 1 MfVTiTMniBT , r T T I DC AT I1TPT V rTTltJlllITrPn to cure unTfiiof fntntlrnllnn. rmrnrrN re lh Meil I.umi AUJUbU ILL I UUAllnlU liUU i ..... ertn or rrlnchul rnn.p mm nitnral malls. Mm 1mt hnnktM fr. Ail. KTKKMMI IIFIKIV What brings release from dirt and grease? Why don't you know? SAPOLIO STOVE NAPTHA, the Cheapest and Best Fuel on the market. With it you can run a Vapor Stove for one-hall cent per hour. Give us a call and be convinced. W. O. Holmes, Eshleman & Wolf, L. E. Wharey, W. F. Hartman, PRACTICAL MEN TO THE FRONT. Mechanics Have Attained to Distinguished Positions in Recent Years. The master men of Victoria's reign have been, says the Review of Re views, not the politicians and states men, the soldiers and sailors, the poets and artists they have been the engineers, the shipbuilders, the elec tricians, the men who have yoked the thunderbolts of Jupiter to the hammer of Vulcan and have usurped the au thority of Neptune over the waves, at the same time they have outstripped the herald Mercury by the spread of their dispatches. The steam engine, the steam ship and the electric wire have in Co years effected a more revolutionary change in the concep tions of distance than all the millenni ums that have passed since the stone age. When the queen ascended the throne the United States were six times farther away than they are to day. India was 40 days distant, in stead of 16 ; Australia six months, instead of six weeks. While this shrinkage has been made a practical reality for all manner of brute sub stances, a much more rapid and total conquest of space and time has been effected in the exchange of thought and knowledge. The cables have enabled us to beat the sun, to deliver messages in London hours by the clock before they started from India. To-day all news of importance is practically reported simultaneously all over the whole world. Our steam ships bridge every sea, our cables link every continent, and commerce, that spider of the planet, is weaving all the nations of the world into one vast web, and the home and nest and central abode of that spider is the country and capital of our queen. Tired, Nervous, Sleepless Men and women how gratefully they write about Hood's Sarsaparilla. Once helpless and discouraged, having lost all faith in medicines, now in good health and "able to do my own work," because Hood's Sarsaparilla has power to enrich and purify the blood and make the weak strong this is experience of a host of people. Hood's Pills are the best family cathartic and liver medicine. Gentle, reliable, sure. Bands Off the People's Money, Those who are anxious to reform the currency through the agency of a commission and by goldbug methods had better let the people's money alone. It would not be improved by the tinkering it would get from Wall street retormers. "Taking the government out of the banking business" is one of the pro posed reforms, which means that the right of issuing paper money shall be taken from the government and hand ed over to the banks. The experience of more than thirty years has taught the people that they have lost nothing by allowing the government to issue circulating notes, but rather that by so doing they have secured the best and safest currency that was ever circulated in this country. On the other hand their recollection of the losses they sustained when the banks issued a!l the paper money con vinces them that it is best for their interest that the government should CATHARTIC Al ' CRUGGI5T5 to., ( hlrarn. Wnntrral. ;r-w- - -9'-1 Bloomsburg, Pa. remain in the banking busines, or in other words should continue the safe and convenient paper currency known as greenbacks. With that kind of money in their pockets the people never lost a dollar from depreciation. The retirement of the greenbacks is intended chiefly for the benefit of banking institutions. Such a reform would cost the people from $10,000, 000 to $15,000,000 a year in interest on the bonds required to sustain the bank circulation, with no profit except to the banks. Therefore it is best for the people that the government should continue in the banking business, if the issuing of paper money constitutes such business, and the public in terest be promoted by the currency tinkers keeping their hands off the people's money. T.v. It speaks well for an article when the longer it is used the better it is liked. Such is the case with Ayer's Hair Vigor. Feople who have been using it lor years, could not be in duced to try any other dressing for their hair, because it gives such per fect satisfaction. Aa Evening Discussion. "I don't take any gre't account o' the proverbs an axioms an so on that's printed in the magazines nowadays," remarked Mrs. Philander Peasley to her husband as she laid down the last number ol a monthly publication. "I've been a studyin over a volume ot 'em that some man has writ here, an I wonder that folks'll publish sech stuff ! You can make 'em mean one thing or 'nother, jest accordin as you see fit. Now here's one on 'em, 'It is as unfortnit to seize the wrong chance to do or say a thing as 'tis to let the right one pass by.' "Now I'd like to be told how folks would come out ef they was to be sca't at both sides like that ! What I'd like is the old fashioned proverbs. There ain't any two ways o' taking them, an gettin misled. " 'Make hay while the sun shines!' Now, ain't that clear ? 'Haste makes waste.' What's truer'n that, I'd like to know ? There ain't one of them old sayin's but what's true as preachin, howsumever you take'em. They can't be turned an twisted round to mean anythin a body pleases!" "Do you recall one about 'A thing ain't lost when you know where 'tis?' " inquired Captain Peasley in his usual shrill quaver. "I should say I did," replied his wife promptly, "an many's the time I've heard it." "Well," said the captain, with a suggestion of a laugh in his trembling old voice, "I had a cook once thet quoted thet to me when the teakittle was washed overboard, an all the cups an saucers, but we did n't seem to be able to find 'em, Sary." "I reckon you've set up about long enough this evenin," said Mrs. Peas ley dryly, and shs bundled the captain off to bed with considerable haste. Youth's Companion, What do the Children Drink ? . Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called Grain O ? It is delicious and nourish ing and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and tastes like choice coffee but costs about the price. All grocers sell it. 15c and 35c. Fine PHOTO GRAPHS and CRAYONS at McKillip Bros., Bloomsburg. The best are the cheapest. THE MARKETS. BLOOMSEURG MARKETS. COHHICTBD W1IILT. BITAIL PMCBI. Butter per lb $ Eggs per dozen Lard per lb , "0. Ham per pound (J Pork, whole, per pound "i0$ Beef, quarter, per pound, . . . 0. Wheat per bushel j'0q Oats " " Rye " " .,o Wheat flour per bbl 4 8 Hay per ton i2 to $14 Potatoes per bushel, new 7q Turnips " " ,i Onions ' " ,0J Sweet potatoes per peck 30 Tallow per lb 0, Shoulder " " "... )03 Side meat " " c8 Vinegar, per qt Dried apples per lb .05 Dried cherries, pitted It Raspberries ") u Cow Hides per lb 4 Steer " " ' CalfSkin Sheep pelts Shelled corn per bus Corn meal, cwt ,r0 Bran, Chop " ,gj Middlings " rc Chickens per lb new n " "old 10 Turkeys " " ,ji Geese " " ' ,$ Ducks " " o8 COAL. No. 6, delivered j.fio " 4 and s " 3.85 " 6 at yard a.3j " 4 and s at yard 3.60 The Leading Conjerratotj of America vaki. r amltsn, uueclor, Fouul I in 1&33 br $0 mm .1 tl00tir,v full Tt1 Send for Proipecta Riving full information. Fawk W. Hal, Gtneral Manafef. NEW DINING ROOHS. A LARGE and well furnished dining room lias been opened lv UIDDV HTlDHUn ontiit second floor of his nAnltl AUKAflU, res. taurant. Meals will le served nt the regular dining hours for 25c. and they can also be obtained at any lime. The table will be sup plied with the delicacies of the season and the service will be first-class. Entrance Ij doer between Bstaurant aa Malfalera's gricery store. PATENTS Caveats and Trade Marks obimned. and 11 Patent, busluesH conducted for MoDKlUTK r it LS OUHOFFirKISOPPOSITHTriK C. 8. PAT ENT OFFICE. We liuve uo nub-agencies, 1 Business direct, none can transact patent busl ness In less time and at. Less cost tliau those re niote from Washington. Send model, drawing or photo, with desertp tloa. We advise If patentable or not, free cuanre. Our fee not due till patent is secured A book, "HowtoObtuln Patents," with reier enceg to aotual clients In your State.county, 0 town soul free. Address C. A. SNOW co Washington, I). C. 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