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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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