THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. A HORSE THAT EATS RAW MEAT. Cnrcd of Stealing Klh by Crabs Ton uclous Grip The most extraordinary appetite known In a horse belongs to Billy, a handsome hay, owned by a Arm in San Francisco. Billy's duties are to draw the firm's delivery wagon, and his stand Is on Merchant street, In front of the shop. Here he Is often on exhibition, eating with an apparent relish steak, liver, tripe, and, in short, almost any variety of meat handed him. Sometimes, after having had his fill of oats and hay, he refuses to munch meat, but this seldom occurs. Billy's appetite developed several months ago. No one knew of it until one day he was seen to reach into a butcher cart that was tied Just ahead of him and calmly begin eating a steak. After that he was fed often with the firm's wares, and many a bet has been won and lost on his appetite. The horse formerly varied his carnal meals by purloining fish, but he was cured in a manner that was ludicrous to the spectators, but very painful for the equine phenomenon. He reached Into a fish wagon one day, when his olfactories detected the odor of his favorite smelt, but an active and belligerent crab took offence at the intrusion and promptly fastened to his lower lip. Billy shook his head frantically and whinnied in pain, but the crustacean held on until he was crushed by being banged against the side of the wagon. Since then the horse has kept clear of fish. San Francisco Call. LEGS LOST IN BATTLE. Evidence Tlmt the Soldier was Not Try lug to Avohl the Enemy. "I can tell almost to a certainty to which branch of the service he be longed when I see an old soldier stalk ing around on one leg," said Colonel Lamar Fontaine, of Mississippi, the famous Confederate scout and poet. "If the left leg is missing then I am pretty certain he belonged to the In fantry, and if he is minus the right leg, then I feel safe in betting that ho was a cavalryman. In either case the absence of the leg proves more con clusively than the written record that the man who lost It was fighting like a soldier when wounded. "The reason the Infantryman loses the left leg in battle is this: Infantry men are drilled to place the left foot forward when firing in order to balance the body so that steadier aim can be taken. This naturally acts as a pro tection to the right leg, which, of course, is more or less concealed. Con sequently the bullet of the enemy is much more apt to find lodgement in the left leg than the right. Now, the cav alryman uses a pistol nearly alto gether. It is handier and less cumber some. The pistol is held in the right hand, and this causes the cavalryman, when firing, to place his right foot for ward for support In this way that j side of him is much more likely to suf- i fer than the left. But, as I said, either case is conclusive evidence to me that i the soldiers thus maimed were facing ' the enemy when shot. The loss of the i leg indicates almost to a certainty that ! the sufferer was standing in military j position and not crouching or run ning." St. Louis Republican. REASONING OF A MONKEY. By Frightening a Fruit-Seller, He Secured it Uoud Meal. Monkevs love bv nature tn Imlrnra what they see, and have been known to 1 smoke a pipe, and to pretend to read a ! book that they have seen other people I reading. But sometimes they can do a great deal more than this and show that they can calculate and reason bet ter than many men, says Lang's Ani mal World. A large Abyssinian monkey waa one day being taken around Khartoum by its master and made to perform all sorts of tricks for the amusement of bystanders. Among them was a date seller, who was squatting on the ground beside his fruit. Now the mon key was passionately fond of dates, but being very cunning was careful not to let this appear, and .wont on per forming his tricks as usual, drawing, little by little, nearer to the date-basket as he did so. When he thought he was near enough for his purpose he first pre tended to die, slowly and naturally, and then, after lying for a moment on the ground as stiff as a corpse suddenly bounded up with a scream straight in front of the date-seller's face and stared at him with wild eyes. The man looked back at him spell hound, quite unaware that ono of tti8 monkey's hind feet was in the date basket, clawing up as much fruit as his long toes could hold. By some such trick as this the monkey managed to steal enough food daily to keep him fat and comfortable. Tent in if Water. To test the purity of water, there has been found no better or simpler way than to fill a clean bottle threer fourths full of water to be tested, and dissolve In the water half a teaspoonful of the purest sugar loaf or granulated will answer; cork the bottle and plate it in a warm position for two days. If in twenty-four or forty-eight hours the water becomes cloudy or milky, it is unfit tor domestic use. I.Hi'.e Irom Leave. The beautiful lace known as Fayal lace Is made from the fibres in the leaves of the bitter-aloe grown in the Azores, or Western Islands a relative of the common century-plant. . This lace is manufactured by women, but the necessary skill is so rarely at tained that there are but twenty-five persons on the islands who can make it. Harper's Round Table. CAR HORSES HARD TO GET. Since Electricity XV na Introduced the Market C linnnnl Have llecn Cloned. , One of the most curious effects ot the general replacing of horses by electricity and cable traction for draw- I lng street cars Is being experienced by one cf the extensive car lines, in New York city which still uses horses. The i Sun says one would suppose that, since the only lines in the whole country ' which continue to use horses now form but a very small percentage of those which used them five years ago, these lines would have a much wider range of choice, and could get horses of a grade superior to the general run of those which used to be offered to them. Itomarkable as It may seem, this is the exact opposite of the truth. The New York city line referred to runs in direct competition with the cable lines of the upper west side, and its managers, who recently purchased It, determined as soon as they came into possession to place upon It a su perior lot of horses, and in this way Improve its running until mechanical propulsion could be introduced. Orders were sent out to buy the needed horses. Much to the surprise of the managers, it was discovered that there were al most no street-car horses of any kind to be bought. The explanation of this situation lies in the fact that since the demand for street-car horses almost ceased, the trade machinery by which they were gathered has fallen into disuse. A few years ago the street-car horses were one of the most important features of the i horse market. They were animals of a standard grade and of almost stable price, and every part of the country contributed its quota. The street-car horse had to bo big and able, and sound of limb and wind, but It might be of any age. Few lasted Ions enough in the service to make the question of a few years more or less of any con- I sequence. The demand was constant. I nnd tbp nripA novflr vnrlnH in Vuf ' iofk more man zrom aoout 912a to upon getting this price and getting it promptly, and as a consequence every horse which would answer the purpose was a safe investment at a little small er price, and a clean profit of $10 a horse w-ns regarded as a fair margin in handling them. Horses of .all sorts, which lacked the qualities of speed, beauty or youth, but possessed the other requirements, were quickly sorted out from the markets of the whole country, and every big dealer was always able to gather droves of car horses as fast as the companies needed them. The trolley has superseded the car horse, and car horses are no longer quoted as staples in the market. The companies which still use them are obliged to go out and search the marts and buy them one by one, instead of simply sending out an order for 100 or 200 of 500 and getting them readily. DEPEW TAKES TO THE WHEEL. The Frealdent or the New York Central Surrender to the Blnycln Craie. There was a subdued air of excite ment around the Grand Central Sta tion. The atmosphere was strongly tainted with a smell of iodine and lini ment. Telegraph instruments clicked noisily all the day, and It wasn't long before it was known from one end of the line to the other that the president had taken to riding a wheel. That Chauncey SI. Depew, after sixty-three years of total abstinence, suddenly should bo on a violent and prolonged bicycle tear was too much. One glance at Mr. Depew as he sat in his office confirmed the report that he is at least an enthusiastic wheelman. Sundry scratches Bhowed that all had not been smooth sailing on the start, but the contour of his face showed a remark able resemblance to the bicycle face of a veteran. A year ago Mr. Depew was the stout est opponent of the bill compelling railroads to carry bicycles as baggage, Now he is a convert to the silent stoed. He glories in the victory of the Bicycle Baggage bill, and says, with a chuckle, "It was a great victory for us wheel men." Mr. Depew caught the bicycle fover at Newport, It was a sudden and violent attack. He learned to ride with remarkable ease, and announced that he would keep at It for all time: He smilingly sutd that he was not a candidate for a ride on a silver blcclo from Nice to Naples, adding: "I hard ly think two trips to Europe in a year would be advisable." He wouldn't dis cuss makes, century runs, sprockets, saddles or other data dear to a wheel man's heart, and explained apologeti cally, "I am only a beginner. When everything gets in working order I will be ready to debate with any one." New York Tribune. The Cheerful Idiot. "Are you aware," salr the garrulous boarder, "that oxtail soup was the in vention of the French refuEees, who used to beg the oxtails because they hay no money to buy soup bones?" "In other words," said the Cheerful Idiot, "they were reduced to the last extremity." Indianapolis Journal. When a man attain meets a former love, he always finds some cause for self-congratulation. Puck. Whut lie Felt Like. "I have proposed to seven girla this summer already," said Timmlnn, "and I haven't been able to get accepted once. Dinged if I am not beginning to feel like one of my poems." Indian apolis Journal. Iu Hard Luck. Mrs. Mulcahy And so your cow is sick? Mrs. Burke She is, and it makes it hard for mesllf and the children. We have no milk at all; I have to sell It. Boston Transcript. MEWS PROM THE KLONDIKE. Harry Bush, ol Bellclonto, Relate Some Interesting Incidents. Harry Bush, ol Ilcllcfonte, whore turned irom Dawson L.ity sonic months ago and who is now the guest of his Uncle, John S. Tomb, in Jersey Shore, relates some very interesting indidents concerning his trip, and the customs of the newly settled country. etc. "The great trouble at present," says Mr. Bush, "is that the majority of the people who will go to the gold fields in the spring are under the im pression that they will be able to find gold with much less difficulty than they really will. The very best claims were all taken up before the news o: the rich finds were made known." From a friend at Seattle, Mr. Bush learned that an English company was making preparations to stait a stage line from Edmundtown. This will save a great deal of time, as the line will be a swift one. The stations will be located 14 miles apart and it is expected that it will take but one hour to go from one to the other. "It is novel way which the miners have for paying for their liquor, continued Mr. Bush. "For a glass of poor whisky the miner lays his bag of dust on the bar, and all the dust that can be taken up in one pinch of the bar tender's thumb and first finger is con sidered the equivalent to the price of a drink. This small amount of dust is worth from $1 to $1.25. Money is spent with great freedom in the dance halls. Besides paying the proprietor a dollar s worth ot dust for lite privil ege of dancing. I have often seen miners bid as high as $40 for the hand of a favorite dancer in a short dance." One of the exciting adventures Mr. 1 isusn re ares is 01 rne lime mar ne an d(lentially fcU int0 a gold pan and .:.,.! .1 .t. . I wan cauicu uunu me aidi U3iciil ui about a mile at an extremely rapid rate. He fortunately escaped without i serious injury. Mr. iiusli will auain visit the Klondike region in company with a young Philadelphian and will start from Seattle the first part of March. He thinks this is the very best time of the year to make the inurncv, as the crust on the snow is I or. surucieni sirengm 10 Dear me r cr . ... 1. . 1 1 horses and sleds. Bush and his friend will devote their time to re locating claims in the Canadian terri tory. In this territory disputes are settled in an amicable manner by the 1 commissioneis, while on the American side there is more shooting going on. Mr. Bush will return to his home in Bellefonte in a few days. Monthly Liabilities Show Large Decrease Unexpected Drop In Wheat In the Face of Big Foreign Domand. R. G. Dunn & Co's. weekly review of trade in its Saturday issue says : The monthly report of failures shows defaulted liabilities of $11,610, 195 in November against $12,700, 856 last year. Because of three large failures for $3,250,000 not due to present conditions the aggregate in November was only $1,050,000 less than last year, and except for these would have been smaller than in August, September or October. It is the season for waiting in most industries, but at least one other furnace has gone into blast, and the lowest price of Bessemer at Pittsburg after purchase of 30,000 tons is $10.15 Per ton w'tn $9-5 for gray forge. Eastern holders are sometimes impatient and yet sure that January will bring a large demand and mean while the award of ship plate contracts to eastern firms gives them important help, though the demand for bars is slow at the east and at Pittsburg, but is really strong at Chicago for agricul tural and railway supplies. Nothing appears in the cotton manufacture and the lower price of cotton still hinders the buying of goods. Lower prices than have ever been known are quoted for print cloths, and also for some grades of prints, and the average of cotton goods is remarkably low. The wheat market has deceived everybody, dropping in the face of an enormous foreign demand, just when an advance might reasonably have been anticipated. The western re ceipts, 6,882,425 bushels, against 2,964,621 last year, and for five weeks 33,962,529 bushels, against 2.87 1,456 last year, are just now more impressive in the market than the Atlantic exports, which have heen 4,187,472 bushels, flour included, for the week, against 2,079.457 last year, and for five weeks 17,617,471 bushels, against 9,817,153 for the same weeks last year. Failures for the week have been 306 in the United States against 397 iast year, mcl twenty-eight in Canada against fifty-fivs last year. What do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee Have you tried the new food drink caMed drain 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 25c. ESPECIALLY FREQUENT IN Hi&H ALTITUDES. 0!svj i! filaj fca Oyerssma in Any Slimes. TYom tf Chittain, Pueblo, CoU While the Kocky Mountain region Is Justly filmed for its salubrious cllmnto, and Is becoming more and more the moeca toward which pilgrims are traveling from all parts of the world that thev may fill their weaken ed lump with its lifr-RiviiiR air, yet thurc are ailments in that climate as in any other, one of the chief of which is sleeplessness. This is duo to the rarity of the air which on some constitutions is too stimulating to t lie nerves. In some, coses patients are com pelled to remove for a time to tho sea level to escape the high uervous strain. As sleep lessneos is not an uncommon accompaniment to eertain nervous conditions (in any clim ate) the story of a woman of l'ticblo, Col., may point a moral to others, who have hod a similar affliction. The woman came to Pueblo thirty years ago, when the town wai a frontier settle ment, and ludiaus were by no means un usual visitors, hands of Ute's often pnssinf through on their way from tho niouutaius down to the plains to hunt buffaloes. She had been in good health, until a few years ago when at each recurring spring time she became debilitated, weak and lan guid. Her strcnirtli left her, she was listless and lifeless. This, too, in spite of the stimu lating effects of the high altitude. The most serious difficulty, however, waa sleeplessness, which she could not cure. The long weary watches of the night told on her health and she dreaded the approach of night. This lack of sleep weakened her strength and brought on extreme iicrvousncus, until she was a physical wreck. ,As sho could not well take the long Jour ney necessary to a change of climnte, she sou edit for some nervo restorative, that would buiid up tho uervous system, and thus ena flPiSflT.TrrPf.Y filTflRflNTFFTl ,0 tan ,n mm w vuA.i.Ai uuw te. nerer ataand hnoklet free. Ad. STVItMM; r.KUKIiY C "Ste curs cons A fair face cannot atone for an untidy house." Use SAPOL O STOVE NAPTHA, the Cheapest and Best Fuel on the market. With it you can run a Vapor Stove for one-hali cent per hour. Give us a call and be convinced. W. O. Holmes, Eshleman & Wolf, L. E. Wharey, W. F. Hartman, e LITERARY NOTES. Mrs- HcKinley Bestows Favors. The wife of the President has given special permission to John Philip Sousa, "The March King," to dedi cate to her his new composition, just finished, and which will be called The Lady of the White House." Mrs. McKinley forwarded her per mission last week to the editor of The Ladies Home Journal, which will publish the Sousa composition complete in its next issue. This maga zine has also received for the same number a new and large portrait of Mrs. McKinley, taken a few days ago in the white House conservatory. This is the second photograph which the Presidents wife has allowed to be taken within ten years, the first por trait taken of her since 1887 having also gone to The Ladies? Home Journal which published it in its last October number, causing the entire edition of that issue to be exhausted. An Actress as an Author. Clara Morris, the emotional actress, writing a series of short stories is based upon incidents in her own life. The first of these, called "Tohn Hickey, Coachman," is to be publish ed in the January Ladies' Home Journal, and shows all the marks of an experienced story-writer. Yet it is the actress' first story. Mark Twain's Now Story. Mark Twain's new humorous story, which he is now writing in Vienna, is to go to The Ladies Home Journal, which magazine has also secured F. Marion Crawford's new story, which is a tale of the unreal, with the strik ingly uncanny title of "The Dead Smile." Gold brick swindles are not as numerous these days. Possibly the beats are saving up for a rush on the unwary in the spring. ble her to get that sleep and rest without which she could not lontj endure the. strain. She at length found this in l)r. Williams' l'iiik Pills for Tale People. Sho said to the reporter : bv the time 1 bad taken one box ot these pills, I not only felt stronger but to my surprise found that I could sleep. " 1 have taken four boxes now nnd can take a long nap during the day and sleep soundly all tii-'ht, "The medicine not only tnkes away that wenry depressed feeling but creates a buoy, ancy nnd exhilaration tlmt does not pass away when one stops taking the pills. ' I am forty-nine years old anu about thirty years ago I began to be troubled with gather ings in my head. The trouble continued until I was unnble to hear a sound through my right ear and my left ear was bndly afiecteif. I had no idea that the pills would benefit my ears but they evidently.did us my hearing is very much improved. " I eoiiBider Dr. Williams' Pink Tills for Palo People a wonderful medicine. The address of the woman is: Mrs. II. L. Graham, 214 I;. 4th St., Pueblo, Col. TATK of OlI.OKAlK), ( CorNTY OK PtrEHl.n, I rtiittiicrihed and swum to before me thlf Cthday of July, 18W. Gkoiiok W. fln.l., (HEAL) Xotart I'ublir. All the elements necessary to give new life nnd richness to the blood nnd restore shut tered nerves are contained in lr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They are sold in boxes (never in looso form, by the down or hundred) nt fiO cents a box, or six boxes for $i..T0, nnd may be had of all druggists or directly by mail from Dr. Williams' Medi cine Co., Schenectady, V. ATIURTIC ALL DRUGGISTS "wof itlps!lon. Canrsrfts are the Menl I.nsa crip or irripr.iHit rnuse citsy inttaral results, O.. rhiraim. II. mtrp.il. rn.. nrir York. S.im SI 9 Bloomsburg, Pa. A Eealistio Stage Stab. A Boy' Knife Penetrates His Tot Sister's Brain. While Mrs. Amos Long was indus triously sewing in her home at Natalie Triday her daughter Mary, aged years, playing at her feet, John Long, aged 18, entered, and, exhibiting a knife, playfully walked to his mother's side to illustrate how he saw a man stabbed during a theatrical perform ance. Long's sister rose as he gave a thrust backward, the blade entering her face above the nose. She fell to the floor and Mrs. Long had difficulty in withdrawing the knife. Dr. Bartho was summoned and found the lobe of the brain had been penetrated. He removed one eye, and if the child by a bare chance lives, she will be blind. Itchino, Burning Skin Diseases Relieved in a day. Eczema, Salt Sheum, Barber's Itch, and all erup tions of the skin quickly relieved and speedily cured Dy Dr. Agnew's Oint ment. It will give instant comfort in cases of Itching, Bleeding or Blind Piles, and will cure in from three to six nights. 35 cents. 47. Sold by C. A. Kleim. Chicago seems to be the first city proposing to make extensive use of the motor cycle for business purposes. Horses are the worst enemy to asphalt streets. It is not the wagon, not even the huge trucks, that grind the streets to pieces, but the hammering of iron hoofs. If the motor cycle tiuck which has been invented is really successful, then every street in every city can be paved witU asphalt. The wheels of great trucks can be covered with rubber, and they will glide easily and swiftly along, propelled by the motor inside of or beneath them. Then dust, noise, the uncleanliness attendant upon stables and horses in a city, will all be done away. All this is easily possible and practicable. ' t a 0 t S) Fine PHOTO GRAPHS and CRAYONS at McKillip Bros., Bloomsburg. The best are the cheapest. THE MARKETS. BLOOMSBURG MARKETS. CORRIOTID W1IILT. BITAIL f StCll, Butter per lb ..$ i8 Eggs per dozen ' Lard per lb... , ' Ham per pound ' J0 Pork, whole, per pound Beef, quarter, per pound .... 07 Wheat per bushel , A Oats " -tt Rye " " '.' l Wheat flour per bbl s'0 Hay per ton ia t0 j(. Potatoes per bushel, new,. ... go Turnips " Onions " " '8 Sweet potatoes per peck , Tallow per lb Shoulder " " "... 3S Side meat " " Vinegar, per qt 0j Dried apples per lb 0- Dried cherries, pitted l2 Rispberries Cow Hides per lb .i Steer " ; CalfSkin yQ Sheep pelts. ....". .je Shelled corn per bus 50 Corn meal, cwt " ,8S Chop I Middlings " jL Chickens per lb new ,10 old Cq Turkeys " " i Geese " " Ducks " " !c8 COAL. No. 6, delivered t.fio " 4 and s j'gj " 6 at yard 2 .3 " 4 and 5 at yard 3 60 The Leading Consarralory of America s-ARu f ahltbn, Director. roudedtaltttibr 0O3T Send lor Pmpecta Wt"l-ivin full Frank W. Hal.. giving full informatioa. Frank W. Hal, General Manatee NEW DINING ROOriS. A LARGE mul well furnished dining room has been opened by Uippu IIIDIWri onthe second floor of his "niiltl AUItiiflU, r e , . taurant. Meals will be served at the regular dining hours for 25c. nnd they can also be obtained at any time. 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