THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. it .1 i ,a ft' 1 V : I 1 I Chocolate Colored Vici Kid and Calf Shoes. This is an 1897 line, ' and is the Popular shade for Summer , Shoes. It will pay you to catch on. We have them in Kid and Cloth tops. WCMcKlnney, Clark's Building, ' ; Main' Street. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. Wanted. Position as stenographer and typewriter. C. E. H. 118 Cherry SU Danville, Pa. 4t tuekets wanted. The Methodists want 100 turkeys for the Fair dinner. Last year's pre ferred. Apply to W. R. Rmgrose, Bloomsburg. 3t. 8trangeit Mountain in the World. A jumb'ed mass of granite blocks, some of them fifty feet square, all of them carrying sharp edges and flat surfaces, as though done by the hand of some Titan stone worker, and piled helter skelter in a huge heap 2000 feet high and four miles thick at the base. , Granite blocks of every con ceivable shape and siie, and between them, as they rest unevenly upon one another, dark caverns and passage ways ( chambers as large as those of Lury or Mammoth cave. Not a bust, not a tree in sight, not even the trace of an animal to lend at least the sem blance of life. This, in a few words, is the Black Trevetons of Australia, by all odds the strangest, most unex plainable mountains in the world. This wonderful pile of granite is situated twenty miles back of the coast range of mountains that fringes the edge of Cape York peninsula. The visitor to Cooktown would never suspect their presence. The mariner far out on the ocean cannot see their black caps. The Cooktown blacks deserted their aboriginal haunts about the Trevetons ages ago, and rebuilt their villages high on the eastern slope of Mt. Cook. No amount of money or coaxing will induce them to go back to their old home. . The reason is awe imbedded in supersti tion connected with the black pile. Washington Star. Don't Tobacco Bptt and Smoke Tour life Away, If you waut to quit tobacco using easily tod forever, be niaao well, strong, mKiictic, lull of new life uud vitfor, tuke No-To-Uuc, the wondor-worUcr, that makes weuk men strong. Many Rain ten pounds In ten days. Ovur40.0H) cured. Buy No-To-llau of your druggist, under guarantee to cure, 60c or f l.W). Booklet ana sample maneu ireo. au, titer) 'ng Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. ANNOUNCEMENTS. Wanted. A lot ranging from 25 to 30 acres with good building on. Ad dress P. O. Box 14, Light Street, Pa. 7-i-tf. Opening of new- fall and winter millinery goods in the latest styles, trimmed hats and bonnets, at Miss E. Barkley's, Barton building nearly op posite the old stand. Main St. below Market You can get any piece of music published in Europe or America for one half the regular price, at Thomas' Main St., Bloom. Pipe Organ for Sale- A two manual pipe organ, 19 stops, will be sold cheap, to make room for a larger instrument. Can be seen by calling on Geo. E. Elwell, Bloomsburg. tf The White is still King, but now reigns at Thomas' music store, Main Street, cheaper than ever. In cash or installments. For Sale. A eood slate black board about 10 feet by 3 feet, suitable for school, will be sold cheap. Apply to Geo. E. Elwell, Bloomsburg, Pa. tf. i-i'm 1 in Country school teachers desiring to rent organs during the school term can be accommodated at Thomas' music store. Main St. Bloom. A new lot of general warranty deeds just printed and for sale at thh office. Competition defied in Bloomsburg. Either in Make, Price. Fit, Quantity or Quality of goods to select from of clothing made to order at ready made prices at Maier, Clothier, Tailor, Hat ter and Furnisher. 8-ig-i2t. 'For Rent. Third floor of Colum bian Building, newly papered and painted, water, electric light and steam heat. Apply to Geo. E. Elwell. tf. HOOD'S PILLS cure liver Ills, Bil iousness, Indigestion, Headache, lasy to take, easy to operate. 20o. rebuilt ! A r wdJL ICHOCUT Vicil A FAULT OF TOUNQ MEN. Our Failures arc Due to Ourselves : Never to Other People nor to Our Environments. " A grave fault with a goodly num ber ot young men is a disposition to quarrel with their surroundings, whereas the real tault is not there," writes Edward W. Bok, in " Problems of Young Men," in the October Ladies Home Journal. Young men do not seem clearly to realize that where they are they were intended to be, and for some mighty good pur pose, too. The place where a young man finds himself is exactly where his Creator meant that he should be. Therefore he is capab'e of filling it. God makes no mistakes. But it is meant that we should grow of our own efforts t get strong through the conquering of difficulties. When a young man starts out to live a useful life, and starts out with a right deter mination, an adherence to honorable principles, and a faith in God, no power 011 earth can retard him long, seriously interrupt his career or effec tively stop him. He is bound to wtn. Our failures are always due to our selves : never to other people nor to our environments." The Short Potato Crop. There is no disguising the fact that the potato crop is a partial failure in nearly every part of the United States. The cool, wet summer was not favor able to the growth of the tubers ex cept when planted upon high, dry ground, and even in such favored lo calities while the quality was good the yield was small. " There were but a few in a hill" In the Philadelphia wholesale market good white potatoes are now worth 73 to 75 cents per bushel. Poorer qualities bring 60 to 5 cents. At retail there is a sharp advance over wholesale rates. The retailers are quick to find out when potatoes are potatoes. Potatoes are of such universal use, alike on the tables of the rich .and pour, that any scarcity makes a con siderable inroad upon the housewife s market money. What is worse is the fact that among other vegetables there is no adequate substitute ; and there is no source from which this year we may make good a deficiency by im portation, even if we could afford to pay the practically prohibitary duty of 25 cents per bushel of 60 pounds lm posed by the Dingley Tariff Act, Should there be a scarcity of potatoes for seed next year the farmers, whose crops have been a failure this year, will be made to suffer by the operation of a law which is of no benefit when potatoes are plenty, and which is a positive injury to both producer and consumer in seasons of potato famine. Phila. Record. ONE OP TWO WATS. The bladder was created for one purpose, namely, a receptacle for the urine, and as such it is not liable to any form of disease except by one of two ways. The first way is from 1m perfect action of the kidneys. The second way is from careless local treat ment of other diseases. CHIEF CAUSE. Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kidneys is the chief cause of bladder troubles. So the womb, like the blad der, was created for one purpose, and if not doctored too much is not liable to weakness or diseases, except in rare cases. It is situated back of and very close to the bladder, therefore any pain, disease or inconvenience mani fested in the kidneys, back, bladder or urinary passage is often, by mistake, attributed to female weakness or womb trouble of some sort. The error is easily made and may be as easily avoided. To find out correctly, set your urine aside for twenty four hours; a sediment or settling indicates kidney or bladder trouble. The mud and ex traordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidnev, . and bladder remedy, is soon realized. If you need a medicine you should have the best. At druggists fifty cents and one dollar. You may have a sample bottle and pamphlet, both sent free by mail. Mention The Columbian and send your address to Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. Y. 1 he pro prietors of this paper guarantee the genuineness of this offer. Get your job work done at the Columbian office. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. The river dolphin of South America has 222 teeth. At one feast Nero Is said to have spent more than 100,000 in roses. Two young men were frozen to death in Tyrol In the lost weeks of June. A statistical authority asserts that in 1880 there were 2.G32 cheese facto ries. Russia will establish a permanent diplomatic legation In Abyssinia next tall. J. K. Brewer, ot Abilene, Kan.. shipped more than, 7,000,000 eggs in 1896. The flight of a meteor over Kansas City frightened to death an elk that was kspt there. . Zena King, ot Falrland, Mich., kick ed at a hog and ruined it and broke his (eg against a post. Boys of Flint, Mich., got $400 from the County Treasurer during June in bounties on sparrow heads. An umbrella insurance company has just been organised in London. It will insure canes as well as umbrellas. England has the greatest number of lighthouses and lightships one for ev ery fourteen miles of its coastline. Queen Vlstorla has twenty-five state carriages, which are kept In the coach house attached to Buckingham Pal ace. . It is estimated that the lumber of the Miramichl and tributaries, Canada, will this season amount to 112,000,000 feet. The Mansfield (Pa.) Advertiser says that a pure white sparrow has been seen in Mansfield a number of times re cently. In England and Wales the death-rate from typhoid fever has declined from 277 per million in 1876-80 to 135 In 1891-94. Antwerp Is going to have a great cel ebration on the 800th anniversary or Blr Anthony Van Dycks birth, March 22, 1899... The Jubilee visit of the colonial Pre miers has led to the discovery that the Prince of Wales pronounces premier as in French, preml-ay. Samony, the most powerful chief In the French Soudan, is reported by French authorities to be dead and to have been succeeded by his son. Admiral Makarof, of the Russian navy, has invented a species of ice plow capable ot breaking through Ice from twelve to even twenty inches thick. Sarah Slddon's patchbox and tooth pick brought in at a recent auction sale, her stiver poeket nutmeg grater $20 and a gold locket with a lock of her hair 835. Tae largest order for carpets ever dvea for a single hotel. It is said, has been given for the new Aetor Hotel, New York, adjoining the Waldorf. It has a thousand rooms. Common Bait that Is used daily in our food is needed in the body. It aids digestion and the assimilation of the food, and helps In the composition of many, ot the tissues. American iron and steel selling In England, American tlnplate in Wales, and now American butter In Australia! Truly .coal may yet be carried to New castle and sold at a profit. It Is estimated that the dally supply of needles for the entire world am ounts to 3,000,000 of varying shapes and sizes, while the United States alone calls for a yearly supply of 300,000,000. When a man loses an ear, by paying from $100 to $125 he can procure anoth er made of specially prepared rubber that can be crumpled without injury and Is carefully painted to resemble the natural organ. A dispatch from Odessa says that the Russian authorities greatly fancy the American rifles, and have ordered, or are about to order, 00,000, following a sample which has an unusually heavy stock and a shorter barrel than the or dinary. In the course of a sermon a negro preacher in Georgia, touching on the subject of earthquakes, said: "Oh, my sinful hearers, a yearthquake is nothln' mo' ner less den dls: Hell done got tired waltln' fer you, en gone ter sleep, en wake up yawnln'!" The attempt to send the children home early by ringing the curfew bell is represented to have been a failure in most ot the towns of Missouri In which it was tried. The town of Law son has recognized the fact and re pealed the law. In other towns it is a dead letter. Uncle Russell Sage has just been beaten In a lawsuit, In which a woman and a 160-acre homestead farm were concerned. The woman stays because she proved she had complied with the law .even to plowing a furrow all around her farm. And there is another furrow In Mr. Sage's cheek now. At Mooresvllle, Ind., a carpenter worklug on an old building once used as the post office found seventy-six let ters and postal cards that had been dropped down under t'.e letter box and had failed to reach their destination. Most of them bore dates of 1874, 1875 and 1876, and some as far back as 1871. Mrs. Allen Lemon is an applicant for divorce at Anderson, Ind. Her case reveals something of a new hereditary mania of which she Is the victim. Her great-grandmother was divorced once, her grandmother once, her mother three times, an aunt twice, a hall-Bister three times and a full sister twice, although she is but twenty-six. When the poor law was first intro duced a Dublin beggar woman whom a gentleman referred to the poorhouse, Bald: "This poor law's a grand thing for the sowls of the glntlemen." "Why so?" "Llekalse now when we axes for alms they only say go to the poor house, but before there was a poor house they used to say 'Go to tha dlvil!'" Of pins It is said that some of the large department stores often order 100 cases at a time. Each case con tains 108 dozen papers and each paper holds 360 pins, so a little use ot the multiplication table will show what an immense thing even the one order means. The yearly output of plus from the largest factory in the United States, It Is claimed, would, If placed end to end, reach three times around the world. A NOVEL EXPERIMENT. Cruellest Working or I'roflt-Shnrlng-Sj.tem In Full Hirer. It Is eight years ago that the Bourne Mills of Fall River began the experi ment of dividing with their help every lx months a certain porportion of the profits In the form of a percentage di vidend on the wages enrned. This per centage has ranged from 2tt to 7 per cent, semi annually, or an average rate of i per cent, on the wages. It is pleasant to observe that the plan has proved a pronounced success. The perfection ot machinery has prac tically established the limits of the op erative to Increase his earnings by his own efforts. It Is just on this point that the lesson of the Bourne Mills Is valuable. It shows that it has induced a spirit of co-operation and of Interest ed watchfulness that had produced re sults. -' How much depends on the latter fac tor ta seen by the statement that M the belts are allowed to run three minutes an hour oft the' loose pulleys in a cot ton factory It means a loss of 6 per cent, of the production, and conse quently 6 per cent ot wages. Thus it is. that a number of title things better attented to under a system of profit sharing makes it profitable to the em ployer no less than to the help. In a circular letter to the empoyes Treasurer Chace of the mills, in sum ming up the advantages which have arisen from profits, traces its effects in the difference in the number of sec onds in May, 1889, and, May, 1897, the showing being 78 per cent, less in the latter month, or in another form there were about five times as many sec onds made in May, 1889, before profit sharing began, as in May, 1897. This means also aa Improvement in the gen eral quality. There la another effect, he says: The esprit du corps which, tends to keep belt on fast pulleys in the mill spurs the 'management to ' keep alert in the general conduct of the business. The sharing of profits stirs up the ambition to make profits to share, aa the pay ment ot dividends stimulates the earn ing of dividends. The other advantages to the com pany come under the form ot better discipline, punctually, care of ma chinery, cleanliness, economy ot waste, taking an interest in the success and prosperity of the mills, and ths spirit of co-operation which has characterized the behavior of the operatives. Theie results from the practical working of a profit-sharing system are of Interest not only to spinners, but to luanufacturers in other lines of trade. It is evident that what ever Insures the personal interest of the employe In the business must Insure to the ad. vantage of the employer in some de gree. Boston Commercial Bulletin. Iteetorlng Indeprndenca Ilalt. Work Is now in progress for the al terations of the exteriors of the build ings, which will be greatly changed In appearance. Unsightly brick structures connecting the main part of each wing with the nearest corner building have been removed, and the damaged walls redressed, and the old windows restor ed to their former places. Several other small projecting structures in the rear have' also been demolished. The low wings which now are connected only with the central State House were built about 1813. on the site of two square buildings erected about 1783, and called "Province Hall," because they contain ed the offices of provincial Pennsyl vania. These squart buildings wero connected to the State House by ar cades on either side. Part of the pres ent wings will be demolished, and the remaining portions remodelled by low ering their roofs, and altering the doors, windows, and masonry. Then arcades, through which gllmpaos wttl be had of the trees, lawns and flowers ot Independence Square In the rear, will be built between the remaining portions and the State House, so that the whole will reproduce the "Province Hall" existing at the time of the Revo lution. Very few changes will be made in the outward appearance of the State House, in the centre of the group. The main entrance, now marred by a mod ern arch with wooden pilasters painted to imitate stone, will be removed, and the platn doorway surmounted by a fan-light restorted in all its original simplicity. The heavy oaken doors with square panels, which have been hidden for years under the main stair case, will be replaced in their former positions. During his explorations the architect discovered two old bracket street lant erns with glass sides and wrought-lron tops, and formerly illuminated with lamps burning tallow or sperm oil. Six of these lanterns were fastened into the front walls of the State House, between the windows and door. Four copies of the old lamps are being made, and the six will be placed In the positions formerly occupied by the ancient beacons.. The wood-work, spouting chamneya. and the wooden balustrade along the root nave eitner been replaced or put m penect repair. Harper's Weekly. Mcdltvval Knellih Schools. Probably the oldest English schools were the London schools described by Fitzstephen. who wrote in 1174. He gives Interesting details of the lighter moments of schooltlme. We hear ot scholars who, on certain privileged oc casions, attacked the schoolmaster "in epigrams or other compositions In numbers," using "all that low ribaldry we read of in the ancients," though, one is giaa to near, "without mention ing names. In addition to these elegant exercises they had the more robust sports ot their time. On Shrove Tuesday each boy brought bis fighting cock to school, and they had cock fights all the morn ing In the schoolroom, and after din ner played football in the fields of the suburbs. Every Sunday in Lent there was a sham light, some of the boys being mounted, the reBt on foot. At Easter they played at the waer quin tain, while on summer holidays they practiced at archery, leuping, wrestling and stone throwing, and In wonter slid, skated, and went to bull baits and hog fights. No doubt the London schools had their severer side, and the life wus not quite such a round ot dissipation as it reads. THE BROADWAY NEW GOODS are coming in thick and fast this week. These cool nights and mornings suggest a change from the lighter to warmer clothing. Our stocks of win ter underwear and hosiery and many other cool weather lines will arrive this week and be placed on sale at our popular low prices. NOTE THE LIST AT OUR POPULAR PRICES. Nickle plated fire pokers, 6c ea Table oilcloth, c yd Iron glue, 4, 5c Dottle Enameline stove polish, 4, 8c box Scrubbing brushes, 4, 6, 7, 10c ea Dust pans, 6c ea Large dippers, 3c ea Tin pot covers, 3, 4c ea Sponge cake pans, 4, 5c ea Tin preserving kettles, 8, 10, 14c ea 16 in. leather satchels, 05c ea Large feather dusters, 20c ea Small " " 8c ea Painted tin cuspidors, 8c ea SEE 0172 NEW LINE OF FLCOU OILCLOTHS AND LINOLEUM. 1 yard wide, 1 J yards wide, 20c yard 30c " 40, So. 56c " Linoleum, 73c " " Hemp carpet. 12 c yd Quilting cotton, 10, 12, 15c bat Misses' mackintoshes, $3.00 ea tarn o shanters, 24, 40, 45c ea School umbrellas, 45c ea Heavy gray flannel for skirts, 18, 19, 23. 3. 48c, tack nammers, 4c ea Rubber balls, 3. 4c ea Wooden tooth picks, 500 in a box, 3c box. Buggy whips, 10. 1 a, 16. 10c ea Combs and brush cases with mirror, oc each. Respectfully Submitted to the Sash Trade Only by TH2 MR M STORE, Moyor's New Building, Main Street, BLOOMSBURG. Yes, they are High Grade wheels at a price within your reach. The work manship and material is equal to the usual $75 bicycles, but we are selling them for $35 CASH, thus saving you a nice little sum. We constantly have a few second handed wheels at a low price. Do you want nice pair of wood handle bars ? We have them for only $1-50. In repair work we guarantee satisfaction, and ask you to try us. Bloomsburg Cycle Co., 4-i-6m. Rear ol post Office J. E. KEIFER, Successor'ta E. A. RAWLINGS, DIALER IN All Kinds of Meat. Beef, Veal, Lamb; Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon, Tongues, Bologna, &c. Free Delivery to all parts of the town. CENTRE STREET, BLOOMSBURG, PA. "Telephone connection. LEARN TELEGRAPHY Splendid opportunity for yonnc men. Sltiutlont paying good ulitry secured. Addreaa FlSK. TELEGRAPH SCUOOI Lebanon, fennoe (M6-10t 4 S 1 SUBSCRIBE FOR TIIK COLUMBIAN LOHQ'S SONS' WEEKLY CHATS. Wilkes-Barre, IX September 30th, 1897, Our Fall Exhibition of La6W IIKi juiasca vium ana Wraps mc iiiwoi 1 vpiDiiiuuivc Ot Jn ihown hereabouts ; choice stvtn race and beauty and a tone of icnness is written in strong :haracters upon every garment "his season surpasses all previout rfforts, and our prices are moderate tnough to suit anybody. We tell you of three choice ferns for children's wear. We iah we could show you the gar rents, but our cuts fairly illustrate heir beauties. The first ii a handsome line of Eiderdown short Coats, sizes 2 to 8 years, prettly trimmed with Angora Fur and lined with Csn. ton Flansel Note the nnwt , littl harlr effect. We nftVr fh. serviceable little garments at $1.75. Our daintv two- toned boucle coats, lizes 2 to 8 years, prettily trimmed with black braid pre icnt a cunning effect rhen seen on the fittle tots. Special tare has been taken ! to give the collar a J tailor made effect. Lhir price is $2.25. The next b 1 jaunty little Coat made of grain mot. tied material, sites t B ir.iF. U pire back a nd front, neatly trim med with braid. Price for this beautiful garment is $4.25. HOSIERY. One has no idea of the beauti ful effects ia Ladies' Hosiery unless they have seen our lines. Among the prettiest of Ira ported Goodi are the new con ceptions in Fancy lisle thread. Richilien Ribbed colors are greens, browns and blacks, all prettily finished with fancy em- at ! Utnrr broiderea Doors, me pru-c us them within your reach, 50c. Our novelties in all Scotch plan Hnoicrv and Scotch olaid with black boots are in great demand. Many stores charge 75c to $100 for them ; we sell them at the low price of 50c. For evening wear we are offering a rich line of Silk and Lisle TUmtA HncUm in Plicate shades of pink, blue, yellow, cream and white, with prices ranging " 25c to $1.00. GLOVES .... We want yo to know our $1 Glove. We've a specialtyat that price-it compares favor ably with the ordinary $'-2 and $i.S k,' ehown. Think of it hn..r.hnrnfl ftloVeS With wwa wvw - nf fanrv white and bla rows embroidery backs on colors re presenting all the newest ' of tan, brown, ox blood and the staples white and black. velvety to the touch and pe"eCt fitting. DRESS TRBUI1INGS. This is a season of Braids, Jet Fronts and applique trimmings' and our stockis a thoroughly re preventative one. Among the choice things shown are the new .Military braid ornaments f dress fronts. They come in designs and xnge from $9C t0' $S 2S per set. W - - 1 l t , Cot. w. MuhBtouOeitb&V a
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