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BOGUS RAW OYSTERS.
Vben Seasoned Nald Not to bo Distin
guished from the Reul Bloalve.
The municipal authorities of Paris
are engaged in the suppression of an
altogether novel form of food adultera
tion which is assuming phenomenal
proportions. Real oysters are expen
sive in Paris, and so, with the object
of suiting slender purses, artificial oys
ters on the half shell have been in
dented, which are sold at 20 cents a
dozen, and they are so cleverly made
and look so nice and fresh that, once
lemon juice or vinegar has been added,
they cannot be distinguished from the
real article, especially when white
vine is taken in connection therewith.
The only genuine thing about these
oysters is the shell, the manufacturers
buying second-hand shells at a small
cost, and fastening the spurious oyster
in place with a tasteless paste. The
municipal laboratory has not yet pro
claimed the ingredients of which these
bogus oysters are composed, but has
announced that they are of a harm
ful character.—New York Tribune.
Garrett P. Servlss.
It is safe to say that no American
lecturer now before the public has a
Bore decided magnetism in manner
and matter than Mr. Garrett P. Serviss.
president of the department of astron
omy in Brooklyn Institute. His
warmth of enthusiasm, breadth of
knowledge, glow of coloring in descrip
tion, raise the auditor into the realm of
poetic feeling. In his chosen field he
conveys a vivid idea of the vast ex
panse of interstellar space, of the
grouping of the nebulae, colored and
double stars, and the Milky Way. All
GARRETT P. SERVISS.
his lectures are replete with photo
graphic reproductions of the heavenly
bodies, made with the largest of mod
ern instruments. "A Ride with a
Comet" transports the awed listener
through fields of astronomical splen
dor. Mr. Serviss is equally fascinating
when leading his audience over a tour
of the planet on which we live. All
the points of interest in Europe under
the charms of his camera and the be
witching allurements of his narrative
style, come out with the clearness of
a noonday landscape
Boston's Clerical Romany.
William Dean Howells and other em
inent Bostonians are given as author
ity for the statement that there is in
the capital of Massachusetts a certain
clergyman of widespread fame, who,
unknown to the world at large, is a
Romany. Every summer this reverend
gentleman cannot resist joining some
gypsy band and roaming from place to
place as his kindred have done since
within the memory of man. Little do
the good man's congregation dream
that, while they picture him as se
dately journeying abroad, he is sitting
beside gypsy camp fires and chattering
the wild Romany tongue, to all intents
and purposes a vagrant. But, as Mr.
Howell's pointed out, none ever heard
it said that this preacher preached any
the worse for his wild, free life over
road and prairie. Indeed, the increased
vigor and eloquence of his sermons
Immediately after each successive an
nual 'vacation' have long been matters
of comment in Boston."—Washington
Star.
Itnsk!n*i Idea on the lllcycle.
Ruskin's view of the bicycle were ex
pressed several years ago in a letter
published, which has recently been
brought to public attention, and con
tains the following:
"I not only object, but am quite pre
pared to spend all my best 'bad lang
uage' in reprobation of bi-, tri- and 4-,
5-, 6- or 7-cycles and every other con
trivance and invention for supersed
ing human feet on God's ground.
"To wulk, to run, to leap and to
dance are the virtues of the human
body; and neither to stride on stilts,
wriggle on wheel 3, ror dangle on
ropes, and nothing in the training of
the human mind with the body will
ever supersede the apointed God's ways
of slow walking and hard working."
The Boy from the Family Flat.
Teacher —Willi#, that is not the way
to spell "emperor." You should not
cud the word with an "e-r." If you
will notice, all titles denoting power
and. greatness—at least most of them
—end with "o-r."
Willie —Oh, I see! Just like "Jani
tor." —Indianapolis Journal.
Possibilities.
Pere —You're a naughty boy, Tom
my.
Tommy—Well, I'm not half so
naughty as I could be.—New York
World.
A Quencher.
"Yes," he said, "when I was young,
I was eagerly sought after."
"What reward was offered?" asked
the sweet, young girl.—New York
Journal,
AND THE BLOW ALMOST jX-
For It Meant Twenty Tears of Labor
Thrown Away.
Representative Eddy of Minnesota,
Is a man who makes a friend of his
, pipe. It Is his companion when alone. He
i dreams over It, philosophizes over it,
' and it is a sort of condiment to aid in
j the digestion of the books he reads.
For twenty years or more he has had
one favorite meerschaum pipe. It has
j been his pride and the comfort of his
1 quiet hours. It was a beautiful and cx
. pensive pipe when he got it, and year
after year a deeper richness of color
came upon it, until it came to be just
about as perfect in every respect as a
meerschaum can be. A short time ago
, the amber stem got broken.
| Mr. Eddy took it to a foreigner who
has a shop on a side street in this city
and who was recommended as a re
pairer of broken novelties. The next
day the mender of novelties appeared
with the pipe carefully done up in a
cloth.
I "Ah," he said, "I dona a bea-u-tiful
' repair. It is, ah, so bea-u-tiful lilca
1 new," and as he unwound.the cloth a
1 proud smile played across his dark
face. Then he held the pipe up to its
owner's eyes. A new amber replaced
the broken stem and the pipe was
white and new looking,
i "It was, oh, so dirty. I thought I
cleana it. With alcohol and sandpa
per, very fine sandpaper, I cleana it
bea-u-tifully."
The pipe had been carefully sandpa
pered—very carefully sandpapered.
—Washington Star.
ANTIPATHY AMONG ANIMALS.
I
■ Different Spoclee of Ileaflte Kntortaln a
Dislike for Khcli Other.
The likes and dislikes of animals are
unaccountable. Some horses take a
! violent prejudice against certain men,
| even though they are treated kindly
! and though the man's moral character
is fair. Between the cat and (jog thero
is a violent antipathy, which, however,
is not infrequently displayed by mut
! ual respect, and even affection in ex
' ceptional cases. The elephant, hates
dogs and rats. Cows dislike dogs, and
so do sheep, and, what seems stranger,
are particularly partial to bears. On
the other hand, horses loathe and de
test camels and refuse to be decently
civil to them after long acquaintance.
They even hate the place where cam
els have been, which seems to be car
rying race prejudice to an extreme.
—Hartford Courant.
j Sherman Tensed HI. Physician.
I Once when Gen. Sherman had been
under the care of a physician for some
time, he said:
I "Doctor, I don't seem to be getting
any better, for all your medicine."
! "Well, General," replied the doctor,
jocosely, "perhaps you had better take
Shakespeare's advice, and 'throw phy
sic to the dogs.' "
j "I would, doctor," replied the sick
man, as he turned his head on the pil
low—"I would, but there are a number
, of valuable dogs in this neighborhood."
j —San Francisco Argonaut.
Another Theory AhonttheFly.
j Three times science has revised its
explanation Of how a fly crawls on the
ceiling or a window-pane. Originally
the fly was said to have air pumps on
its feet, but this was disproved when
the insect ran up the side of an ex
hausted glass receiver. It was as
serted next that the fly's feet exuded a
gum, but now the discovery is an
nounced that a tiny drop of water in
stead of gum, combined with capillary
attraction, affords the true answer to
the problem. In other words, the
tickling sensa'tions of a fly are impart
ed by a sort of moist brush on its feet.
: —St. Louis Globe Democrat.
I .
Something Xtemarkable.
I Kansas Villager—We claim to havo
the queerest town in the State.
| Eastern Visitor —In what respect?
It appears to me to be just like hun
dreds of towns back East in its ways,
j "Exactly. That's what makes it
'3O queer—for Kansas." —Indianapolis
j journal. (
•
Capacity Get. There.
I "What is business capacity, Uncle
Bill?"
I "Business capacity is hAving sense
enough to go to the back door when
people won't answer a ring at the
front door." —Chicago Record.
Old Ilut True.
Bills—lt is so late that lam almost
1 afraid to ask the landlady for break
fast.
) Mills—Keep your nerve; none but
' the brave deserves the fare.—Cornell
i Widow.
Perhaps They Do.
I Smith —"What's this 'trough of the
sea' we read about?"
I Jones —"Oh, I guess that is what the
ocean greyhounds drink out of."—Chi
cago News.
BARRED.
— frffljC—
"Move on, kid; yer can't stqjke wid
( us, 'cause yer don't inhale.
THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA.
EDISON, JR., WIZARD.
SON OF THE FAMOUS ELECTRICIAN
TO SHIFT FOR HIMSELF.
Ho is Twenty-One Years Old, and Many
Men of Twice His Age Have Learned in
the Last Few Months to Watch Him
with Much Interest.
Thoma3 A. Edison has need to look
to his laurels. His son and namesake,
sent forth from the shelter of the pa
ternal roof and beyond the influence
of paternal guidance, expects to make
things warm for his father In the line
of electrical research and invention.
Thomas A. Edison, Jr., is something
of a "wizard" himself. He is twenty
one years old, and many men of twice
his age have learned in the last few
months to watch him with much inter
est.
Tnoif AS A. EDISON, JR.
Thousands of persons to whom the
name of Edison is familiar have never
heard of this youthful scientist, yet he
has had a large part in experiments
and discoveries that have startled the
world. For years he has spent most
of his waking and many of his sleeping
hours in the laboratories of his father,
those incubators of mysterious things
born to amaze. All these matters he
has known from his youth up, and en
ters upon his manhood with a wonder
ful equipment of knowledge. But why
did he not stay with his father? Why
not be a partner instead of a rival?
The explanation calls up a curious
picture. Figuratively speaking, one
bright morning last August, Edison
called the young man to him and spake
thus:
"Thomas, my sou, you know almost
as much as your father, but what you
know will never be of uaa to you un
til you know men. Get out, Thomas,
and study men. Brush up against the
world for a while, and let us see what
you arc made of. You have good
ideas. Work them. Good morning."
So the young man started out, with
a head full of ideas, and a lusty desire
to make himself heard in the world's
noisy traffic. To-day he has an office
in a big building in New York and the
big electrical manufacturing companies
with the long titles and the capital of
many millions are studying this young
man with great care, while pretend
ing that they are not aware of his ex
istence.
This is a very hollow pretence, how
ever, for he has attacked them in their
own strongholds. He has invented a
device which, he says, is only the first
of a series of improved appliances in
various lines of electrical work. It is
an incandescent lamp, similar to the
one now in use to the inexperienced
eye, but possessing, it is said, many
advantages. He calls it the "Edison
Junior," with conscious pride, and
claims for it superiority over all others
in the important details of vacuum and
filament.
To achieve these results the young
man designed his own pump, and says
that with it he can exhaust ten lamps
to a high degree of perfection in less
time than is required by the ordinary
vacuum pumps generally used to ex
haust one lamp. The filament is his
own invention also—a chemical com
bination carbonized at 4,000 degrees
Fahrenheit, making it as near abso
lutely pure carbon, as it is possible to
obtain. Curiously enough, neither the
pump nor the filament has been pat
ented.
"My father's experience has taught
me to steer clear of the Patent Office.
He bas taken out scores of patents,
but he has spent as much money and
time fighting to uphold them, I guess,
as they are worth. I'm going to keep
my ideas to myself. Secrecy is a bet
ter safeguard than a patent any time."
Undoubtedly young Edison believes
in secrecy. The ideas for this lamp
came to him four or five years ago, but
he quietly stored them up against a
rainy day. This having come, he puts
them to excellent use.
Young Edison is highly gratified
with the result of his business venture.
His father, it should be observed, has
• nothing to do with this lamp, yet it is
being manufactured and sold in large
quantities. The young man declined
to say where his financial backing
came from, but as he speaks of travel
lers on their way to South America,
of Pacific coast agencies, and of the
Japanese and Chinese trade, it is to
be presumed that large amounts are
Interred, and the big companies em
plojrfng his respected father must
vtke up.
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A DUtinctlon.
, Stranger—"Are you the religious ed
itor?"
The Editor —"I cannot tell a lie. I
am only the editor of the religious de
partment."—lndianapolis Journal.
A New Sort.
Weary Waulter—What do you con
sider the fiercest cross of dog. Dusty?
Dusty Reers—One between you an'
de fence! —New York Journal.
DOBBANT FAOEB DEATH WITH
WONDEBFUL OALM.
Convicted Murderer of Blanche Lamont
Protests His Innocence To the Last.
When William Henry Theodore
.Durrant died on the gallows at San
Francisco, Friday morning for the
murder of Blanche Lamont, he gave
an exhibition of coolness and nerve
such as has seldom been seen under
similar circumstances. Hopeful almost
to the very last minute that something
would intervene to save him, he walk
ed to the scaffold and made a speech
protesting his innocence, as calmly
and with as distinct enunciation as if
he had been addressing an assemblage
of friends upon some ordinary topic.
His face was pale, his eyes were
red, but his voice was fitm, and he
stood as solidly as a rock while he
proclaimed his innocence and pro
fessed forgiveness to those who, he
said, had hounded him to death.
There was not a hitch or accident
to mar the plans of Warden Hale in
carrying out the sentence. The noose
was adjusted, the trap was sprung, the
stout rope held, and Durrant's dead
body dangled at the end. The neck
was broken by the fall of four feet and
five minutes later the murderer's body
was cut down and placed in the coffin.
Warden Hale allowed all possible
time for the supreme court at Wash
ington to take some action. Finally
when word was flashed across the con
tinent that the supreme court had
declined to interfere, the warden
ordered the program of the day to be
carried out. At 10.34 o'clock Durrant,
accompanied by Father Lagan, ap
peared at the door of the execution
room. He was followed by his father,
a friend, Warden Hale and the guards.
The father and his friend walked
around the gallows to the front while
Durrant and his keepers climbed to
the gallows platform. Instantly on
arriving at the gallows, Durrant's legs
and arms were pinioned and the rope
was placed about his neck. The hang
man was about to adjust the black
cap when Durrant announced his
desire to speak. Permission was given
and the doomed murderer spoke as
follows:
"I desire to say that although I am
art innocent man, innocent of every
crime that has oeen charged against
me, 1 bear no animosity toward those
that have persecuted me, not even
the press of San Francisco, which
hounded me to the grave. If any man
thinks I am going to spring a sensa
tion—l am not except it is a_ sensa
tion that I am an innocent man
brought to the grave by my persecu
tors. But I forgive them all. They
will get their justice from the great
God who is master of us all, and there
I also expect to get justice that is the
justice of an innocent man.
"Whether or not the perpetrators of
the crime of which I am charged are
discovered, will make no difference to
me now, but I say this day will be a
shame to the great state of California.
I forgive everybody who has perse
cuted me, an innocent man whose
hands have never been stained with
blood, and I go to meet my God with
forgiveness for all men."
Durrant had scarcely ceased speak
ing when the black cap was placed
over his face. At the same instant
hangman Lunt raised his hand, the
trap was sprung, and with a rattle
Durrant's body shot through the open
ing. There was a sound as of a stout
rope drawn taut, the body swayed to
and fro for a moment and then be
came motionless.
What Everybody Knows,
Or ought to know, is that health and
even life itself depends upon the con
dition of the blood. Feeding, as it
does, all the organs of the body, it
must be rich and pure in order to give
proper nourishment. Hood's Sarsapa
rilla makes the blood pure, rich and
nourishing, and in this way strengthens
the nerves, creates an appetite, tones
the stomach and builds up the health.
Hood's Sarsaparilla wards off colds,
pneumonia and fevers, which are pre
valent at this ttme.
Last year the Unbed States pro
duced 15,465,000 bushels of buck
wheat, most of which was consumed
at home. There are accordiug to
test about 4,600 cakes in one bushel,
making a total of 70,000,000,000
cakes in the whole crop.
CKIN DISEASES RELIEVED 3T
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as CENTS.
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and disfiguring diseases as r.czcr.ia, Salt Rheum,
Tetter, Barbers' Itch, Sen!J Head, Ulcers,
Blotches. It cures ail eruptions of the skin and
makes it soft and white.—p.
Sold by C. A. Kleim.
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THE HO LI DAY SEASON.
For Christmas, 18p7, we have a large line of goods suit
able for gifts to gentlemen. It includes
Meerchaum Pipes,
Beautiful designs in great variety.
Meerchaum Cigar Holders, Briarwood Pipes,
Cigars, fine grades, in boxes of
25, 50 and 100.
We also have a large assortment ot CONFECTIONERY in nice boxes
and in bulk. Sunday Schools preparing for Christmas festivals should get our
prices.
ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO.
Bloomsburq Pa.
IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF
CARPET, MATT UNTO,
ot- OS IT. CLOTH,
YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT
W. EL BIRO WEE'S
2nd Door above Court, House.
A large lot of Window Curtains in stock.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, lsued
out of the Court of Common l'leas of Columbia
county. Pa., and to me directed, there will bo
exposed to public sale at the Court House, In
Bloomsburg, on
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1898,
at 2 o'clock In the afternoon, all that certain
lot or piece of land situate In East Bloomsburg,
Columbia county, and State of Pennsylvania,
bounded and described as follows, to-wlt: Be
ginning at a stone corner of canal street and
lot of Mathtas Kindt, and running thence along
said lot northwardly one hundred and sixty feet,
more or less, to Kldge alley; thence along said
alley eaatwardly forty feet to lot of M. Kindt
aforesaid, and thence along said lot southward,
ly one hundred and sixty feet, more or less, to
the place of beginning. It being the same
premises which George Barreter and Caroline
Barretcr by deed dated November 19. 1830, and
recorded In the olllce for the recording of deeds,
&c., In and for Columbia county, in Deed Book,
No. 41, pages 371, 4c., granted and conveyed un
to Charles C. Kesty, party hereto, on which Is
erected a two-story
DWELLING HOUSE,
and outbuilding.
Seized, taken Into execution at the suit of
Fannie Kcitroth vs. Charles c. Kesty and Tlllle
E. Kesty, his wife, and to be sold as the proper
ty of Charles C. Kesty and Tlllle E. Kesty, his
wife.
BAKKLXY, Atty. W. W. BLACK,
Sheriff.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Ellas McUcnry, late of Benton Borough,
deceased.
Notice la hereby given that letters testamentaw
on the estate, of Ellas 31cHi nry, lata of Benton
Borough, Columbia County, Pa., deceased, have
betn granted to M. T. McJlenn/, to whom all P6T
sons indebted to said estate are requested to make
payment, and those having claims or demands
will make known the same i*ith< ut delay.
Fritz, Atty. M. T. Mcllenry,
l-0-o£* Executor.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
KsUite of John Zaner, late of Ftshlngcreek town
ship, deceased.
Notice is herein! glaen that letters testamentary
on the rotate of John Zaner, late of Ftshlngcreek
township, Columbia county, Pa ., deceased, have
been granted to Lloyd Zaner and William Chris
man, to XT Ik mi all persons indebted to said estate
are rei/uested to make payment, and those hartxwj
claims or demands xoltl make kuotcn the same
without delay. LLOYD ZANKR,
WILLIAM CUtItSAA .V.
13-23.C1. Beecutors.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
In re-estate of Mary Drtesbech, late of Fishing
creek township, Columbia county, Pa., deed.
The undersigned auditor, appointed by the Or
phans' Court of Columbia county, to distribute
the balance In the hands of the administrator of
Mary Driesbach. late of Fishingci'eek township,
1n satd county, deceased, to and among the jturtles
legally entitled thereto, will sit at his office in the
town of litoomsfmrg. Pa., on Friday, the 'Mth day
of January, IMW, at 10 o'clock a.m., when otul
where, ull persons having claims against the saUl
estate will appear and prove the s .me or be. for
ever debarred jrom coming In on said fund.
1-tMt W. A. EVERT, Auditor.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of E. J. Cole, deceased.
27 ie undersigned auditor, appointed by the Or
phans' Court of Columbia county, ig make dis
tribution of the funds In the hands eg the admin
intra tor, to and among the parties lr gaily entitled,
thereto, will meet the parties interested tor Ul9
purpose of his appointment at his ojfflce in tlut
town of Dloomsburg, Pa., on Saturday, the aStti
day of January, A. D. IH9S, at 10 o'clock in Uto
forenoon of said day, when and where alt persons
are required to present their claims against tte
estate oj said deceased or be debarred Jrom coming
in for a share thereof,
1-6 41. W. A. EVERT, Auditor.
RULE ON HEIRS.
Estate of La Vina Stout, deceased.
To Fannv Rider, SUlckshlnny, I'd., Sarah Stott,
BOinctimed culled Lula Evans, New York City;
Ellle stout. New York City, lineal descendenta
of said I.avlna Stout, deceased, and to all other
persons interested, erecting : Y'ou and each of
you arc hereby cited to be and appear before
the Judges of our Orphans' court to be held at
Bloomsburg, on the Bret Monday of February
next, then and there to accept or reruse to take
the real estate of said Lavlna Stout, deceased,
ut the appraised valuatlou put upon It by In
(tucst, duly awarded by the said Court, and re
turned by the Sheriff, or show cause why It
shall not be sold. W. W. BLACK,
Sheriff,
l-6-4t. Sheriff's office, Bloomsburg, Pa.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
Exceptions to acknowledgment of Sheriff's
deed by 11. W. Jury, Cosmopolitan Building and
Loan Association vs. Emma Neybard et aL
In tho Court of common Pleas of Columbia
Couuiy.
The undersigned auditor, appointed by said
Court to pass upon satd exceptions and mako
distribution of the fund at lslng from the Sher
iff's sale ot the premises, will meet the parties
Interested for hearing and the performance of
his duties, at his olllco In the Town ot Blooms
burg, on Friday, the SStli day of January, ISStf,
at 1U o'clock In the forenoon ; at which time and
place all parties Interested are required to pre
sent their claims, or he torevor deoarred Irom
coming In upon the satd rund
CHARLES a. BARKLKY,
1-1-98 .It. Ayltor.
7yr me COL UMB IAN afyear.