4 ||l!e ESTABLISHED 1866. * Columbia gjcmofrat, *STABU.ISnED 1887. CONSOLIDATED 1889. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING liloomsburg, the County seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. ..80. E. ELWELL EniTOit. D. J. TASKER, LOCAL EDITOR. GEO. C. ROAN, FOREMAN. TERMS:— lnside the county SI.OO a year In ad vance; $1.50 If not paid In advance Outside he county, $1.25 a year, strictly In advance. All communications should be addressed to THE COLUMBIAN, liloomsburg, Pa. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1898. Great Britain refused to agree to our proposed international treaty pro hibiting either American or British subjects from hunting seals in the openj sea at present. In return for this the sealing bill passed by our congress, signed by President McKinley and now a law will exactly hit Great Brit ain for her churlish refusal to help us protect the seals. ,It prohibits the im portation into this country of Bering sea sealskins. The greatest market for these skins is the United States, where people have more money than in most countries. Canadians were in the habit of slaughtering wholesale our seals, sending the skins to London and having them dressed and dyed and then selling them to us for the cloaks of American ladies. Now, no matter how many seals they catch, Canadians cannot sell the skins to us. Their best market is cut off, and it serves them right. Plainly But Truly Spoken- At a meeting of Cuban sympathizers in Philadelphia last week to condemn Spain's deceptive offer of autonomy, Col. A. K. McClure came so near the truth as to express tt exactly in regard to that matter when he said that the autonomy which Spain would give the Cubans is "a fraud in nearly every feature." This is true for the reason that this Spanish scheme does not include a single feature of true home rule, and even if it were not object ionable on that account so little reli ance can be placed in the sincerity ol Spanish promises that the Cubans can justifiably reject the offer of terms 1 which they know will not be kept. And in another respect Col. McClure made no mistake when he condemned the course which our government has pursued, and continues to pursue, in not requiring that Spain shall observe the usages of civilized warfare in the hostility she is waging against a people who are exercising the same right to rebel against oppression as was claim ed by our forefathers when they re volted against British tyranny.— Ex. To Advance the Cost of Living, Prosperity is on the way. The price of nails, thread, hose, tinware, rubber, enameled ware, machinery, and bread are to be advanced by the Trusts, while the Dingley tariff wid advance all wearing material in the Spring, or as soon as wool importations are necessitated. Here is a short list of recent combines and organizations of capital to corner the products most in use: 1. Wire nail trust, capital $70,000,- 000. 2. Machinery trust, capital $60,- 000,000. 3. Enameled ironware trust, capital $10,000,000. 4. Beer trust, capital $60,000,000. 5. English thread trust, capital $50,000,000. 6. Cotton hose trust, capital $25,- 000,000. 7. Biscuit trust, capital $30,000,- 000. 8. Tinware stamping trust, capital $25,000,000. 9. Rubber goods trust, capital s?o,- 000,000. It will doubtless be asserted that if manufacturers obtain better prices for their products that better wages will be paid. Does any one believe it ? Wages is the last thing to advance, and 99 times out of 100 only through strikes. While we trust such will not .be the case, in our opinion the next twelve months will see great unrest among labor, and serious trouble through efforts to obtain better re muneration or resist further reductions. —Scran/on Times. Hovel Bill Collecting- A man to whom a small debt is owed has taken a novel way to collect it. After blowing the debtor up on the street in the presence of passers by and street loafers, he accosts him whenever he sees him. If the debtor notices him he credits him with so ma.iy cents for recognition. If he doesn't notice him at all-jt is one cent I credit. After each meeting the credi ' tor sends in a new bill with the proper credits. —Senator Quay says he will not move his home from Beaver. THIS YEAE. This year 1898 commenced on Saturday and of course will close on Saturday—years that are not leap year always commences and end on the same day of the week. There will be six eclipses during the year, three of the sun and three of the moon. Only two of them are of any interest in this locality. The dates of the eclipses are : Partial eclipse of the moon, January 7, visible ; total eclipse ol the sun, January 22, in visible in North America ; partial eclipse of the moon, July 3, invisible ; annualar eclipse of the sun, July 18, visible in the South Pacific ; partial eclipse of the sun, December 13, visible in the Southern Ocean ; total eclipse of the moon, December 23, visible in this country. Both the eclipses visible here occur at a favor able time for observation. The holidays of the year will fall on the following days of the week : New Years on Saturday ; Washing ton's birthday on Tuesday ; Decora tion Day on Monday ; July 4th on Monday ; Labor day on Monday, September 3 ; election day on Tues day, November 8, the very latest date on which it can possibly fall ; Thanks giving on the 29th of the same month, and Christmas on Sunday. The church seasons, or the most important ones, fall as follows : Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, will be on February 24. The penitential season will close on Palm Sunday, Aprd 3, when Holy Week commences, closing the following Sunday, April 10, which will be Easter Sunday. Last year Easter came about a week later. Ascension Day is May 19, Whit Sunday May 29, and Trinity Sunday June 5, when the flowers will fill the fields and gardens. August is the only month in the year which will bring five changes in the moon. The moon will be full on the first and last days of the month, therefore it sholud be a month of plenty of moonlight, which vacation ists will greatly appreciate. Commencing February 15th, Venus will be the evening star until Decem ber 1. She will attain great brilliancy during the spring and summer. LTATti NfIWS, —Joel Davidson, of Mahoning Valley, has been missing since Dec ember 21. Foul play is suspected. —Centre County farmers will try to grow peaches. More .lian 10,000 trees have been planted during the past six months. —The returns from the triennial assessments show 57,141 taxables in Berks Couuty. —A $450,000 syndicate has as sumed control of the rm'k business of Scranton, absorbing all the smaller dealers. —Joseph Baker, aged 72, Friday evening at Pittsburg married Anna Gray, aged 70. Both live at New Kensington, Pa. This is the third time the groom has been married, and is the fourth experienc; for the bride. The old people were acquaint ances when they were children, but got separated and had not met for fifty years until one day last spring. —Mahanoy City will vote at the February election on a proposition to increase the borough's indebtedness SBO,OOO, the funds to be used for street paving. —The Pennsylvania railroad com pany has placed an order for 100,000 tons of steel rails with five different companies, as follows : Pennsylvania steel company and Cambria iron com pany 25,000 tons each; Carnegie steel company, 30,000 tons ; Lacka wanna iron company, 5,000 tons, and the Illinois steel company, 15,000 tons. The rails will be of the 100 pound standard size, and will be used in building new lines and replacing old rails. The size of the order is gratifying to the steel industry, as the company's corresponding order of last year was only for 40,000 tons. Superior Oourt Changes. Plan to Do Away With the Sessions in Williamsport and Scranton. It has just come to light that the committee of the State Bar associa tion, which met at Lancaster on Dec. 29, has under consideration a bill to be introduced at the next session of the legislature, modifying and chang ing the act creating the superior court. This bill is intended to increase the jurisdiction of the court, so that it can hear all cases involving sums up to $ r,500, instead of $ 1,000 as at present. The bill also provides that the court meet at the same places that the su preme court does, which will not make it necessary for the superior court judges to meet in Scranton and Wil liamsport. This last amendment will I be very vigorously opposed and may be abandoned. It begins to look as though Spain will not be contented until war is de clared with this country. Consul General Lee, who is at Havana has been given authority to call for any war ships, whenever he deems it necessary to save American interests on the Island. "'-'E COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA. THE BAB ASSOCIATION. There is much activity in the several Counties of the State, among the Bar Associations. The requirements for admission to the Bar are everywhere being insisted upon, and preliminary education, and increased terms of study are required. A higher standard of ethics is made the requisite of ad mission, and personal and social as well as professional demeanor are be coming to be among those things wiiich a lawyer is expected and re quired to possess. The honor of the body of the Bar, as a profession, and 'not as a mere business, much less as a trade to be followed, is raising the personnel of the members, and in dress and de meanor on the street as well as in the Court, is expected, and the members are rising to the occaston. Much of this is no doubt owing to the exertions and meetings of'.he State Bar Associa tions where the members of the Ba. of different counties come together, compare notes and also compare themselves with each other, with their carriage, demeanor, manners, language conversation and deportment, and naturally attempt to follow the very best examples of dignity and propriety. Members of the most important of the learned professions, their duties to themselves, society, the state, and to the administration of civil and criminal law forces them to a very high position, which they should strive to adequately fill and to adorn. It is mainly the lawyers who fill the high est civil offices, the Presidency, the Senate, Congress, the foreign ministers, the Consuls; and it should be their pride to be prepared for a call to the highest places. Every member of the Bar of Columbia County ought to be a mem ber of the Bar Association, attend its meetings, take part in the business, and give it personal, professional and social position. The regular meeting is at 7 P. M., on each Monday evening of the second week of each regular term of Court, at the Library room, in the Court House. Let us have a meeting of the mem bers of the Bar. THE PRESIDENT. COLUMBIA COUNTY PBOHIBITION CONFENENOE. Notice is hereby given to the Pro hibition County Committeemen and to all Prohibition workers of Colum bia county to meet in conference at the office of M. P. Lutz & Son, Bloomsburg, Pa., on Tuesday, January 25, 1898, at 3 o'clock p. n. to pre pare for lhe campaign of 1898. The County Committee will at this time have before them the fixing of the time and place for holding next j County Convention, perfecting the organization of our party as provided under the new rules adopted at last County Convention, and other busi ness of great importance. Let every committeeman be on hand. The committeemen of North and South Sugarloaf, East and West Greenwood. Millville Borough, East and West Scott and the Town of Bloomsburg comprising the Bloom Poor District will nominate a candi date for the office of Director of the Poor for said District. The following committees will each organize and outline their work for the campaign, viz: Finance, Meeting , Organization, Literature, Publication, Voting Places. Law, Music. Topics of gteat interest to all will be discussed. All Pro'niDitionists are invited to be present. W. B. CUMMINGS, County Chairman. C. B. LUTZ, Secretary. Arrangements are being made for Hon. William J. Bryan to visit Scranton on or about February 14th. A committee to make the detail ar rangements has been named but the work is in charge of the entire County Committee. Mr. Bryan will speak at the Lyceum and a street parade will mark his entrance to the city. Poisoned Blood Disagreeable Itohlng Spread All Over His Body-Sleep Disturbed- Hood's Sarsaparilla Drove Out the Poison and Cured. "I have been poisoned every Buromor for years. Laßt summer the poison came out on me worse than ever before. I would frequently be awakened during the night by the Itching. I would scratch myself, but instead of being relieved the trouble spread to different parts of my body. I tried various remedies which people recommended to me, but none of them ever helped me. I mado up my mind the poison could not be cured un til my blood wag pure and then I decided to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. While tak ing the fir3t bottle I felt relieved from tho itching. I kept on taking the medicine and it has entirely cured me. X am now on my fourth bottle and I can sleep soundly at night." WILLIAM RAN, 3128 Westmont Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Best—ln fact the One True Blood Purlller. All druggists. $1; six for |S. Get only Hood's. Hnnrl' Pil1 #ure llTer ,llßi eMT riOOU S flllS take, easy to operate.. SEE THE - BIG REDUCTION - INMEBQEANT TAMLQBINB, FOR 10 DAYS. $16.00 SUITS NOW $13.00, Made to your measure at TOWNSEND'S, MERCHANT TAILOR. LITEEABY NOTE Success in '•Striking" Titles. The value of a striking title fo an article or story is understood by no American periodical so well as The Ladies' Home Journal, writes a New York correspondent. It has made its tit,le famous by their uniqueness. Its "Side-Talks With Girls." "Heart to Heart Talks" and "Unknown Wives of Well-Known Men" have been ridi culed and paraphrased from one end of the country to the other. But it has all been grist for the Philadelphia periodical. Just now the title of "The Inner Experiences of a Cabinet Mem ber's Wife" is attracting attention. Julia Magruder's new love-story is given the title of "A Heaven-Kissing Hill"—taken from Shakespeare, really, but who but the Journal would have thought of it ? Marion Crawford's new story is called "The Dead Smile" —a title good enough to seil any story. "The Men I Never Married" is tack ed to a new series. "The Man Under Thirty-five" made the reputation of Lilian Bell in this magizine. "My Literary Passions," under which Mr. Howells wrote in the Journal, served at once to attract attention. Julian Hawthorne sends a strong story to the magazine, but with a poor title. It is immediately rechristened "There are no Wolves in Ireland." Yet each title adopted by this clever magazine fits the story and is really the best caption for it. "A Minister of the World" started that story on its succes. "Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him" was an inimitable title for Mrs. Beecher's memoirs of her husband. "The Gentle man Who is Going to Die" is the caption for a forthcoming story by Claxa Morris. Talk about cleverness in titles, what magazine is such a pa t master in the art as is The Ladies' Home Jour nail And a newspaper man knows how difficult this art of title-making is. But nothing is so valu able in attracting the eye of the public. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Estate of James Johnson, Deceased. The undersigned Auditor, appointed by the Orphans' Court of Columbia county, to make distribution of the funds In the hands of the administrator, to and among the parties legally entitled thereto, will sit at the office of Vv. 11. Snyder, Esq., In Bloomsburg, l'a., on Monday, January 84,1899, at 10 o'clock a. m., to perform the duties of his appointment, when and where all parties having claims against said funds, must nppear and prove the same, or be deba.i ed Horn any share thereor. 12-30-4t, G. M. QUICK, Auditor. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of writ of alias PI. Fa. and Vend- Ex., Issued out of the Coui: of Common pleas o ( Columbia county, Pa., and to me directed, there win bo exposed to public sale at the Court House lu Bloomsburg, on SATURDAY, FEB'Y 12, 1898, at 2 o'clock p. m., all that certain piece, parcel or lot of grouud, situate In the town of Blooms burg, Columbia couDty and state of Pennsyl vania, at the south-east corner of Ninth street and an extension of Iron street, thence along said Ninth street notch stxty-tlve degrees and ntty m'hutes, east three hundred leet to lands lately laid out and sold by O. A. Jacoby and his administrators; thence by Bame south twenty eight degrees arid Ave minutes, east one hun" d"ed and twenty-eight and one-tenth feet, tlienco westward'y parallel with Ninth street three hundred seven and one-fourth feet to Iron street aforesaid, thence by same north twenty-four digrees and twenty minutes, west one hundred and twenty-eight feet to the place of beginning, whereon are erected a TWO-STORY BRICK BUILDING used for manufactr ng purposes, and out buildings. Belted, taken into execution at the suit of F. J. Richard, Trustee, vs. The Bloomsburg Manufacturing Company, and F. W. Jcnes vs. Tho Bloomsburg Manufacturing Company, and to be sold as the pippeily of The Bloomsburg Manufacturing company. Waller, W. W. BT • CK, Sheriff. Herring, Attys. 1-50-ts SHERIFFS SALE. By virtue of a writ of AUas Leva' 1 Facias, Is sued out of the Court of common Pleas of Co lumbia county, Pa., and to me directed, will be exposed to public sale at the Court House, In Bloomsburg, on SATURDAY, FEB'Y 12, 1898, at two o'clock p. m., all that certain messuage, tenement and tract of land, lying and belug In, on the north-west corner of Catharine street, In the town of Bloomsburg, bounded and described as follows, to-wlt: Beginning at a corner of Eight and Catharine streets, north twenty-five degrees and nrty-slx minutes, west Beventy foot to a stone corner of lot of C. W. Miller, thence along same south sixty-two degrees and fifteen minutes, west thirty foot to a stone cor ner of lot of F. G. Yorks, thence along same south twenty-four degrees and llfty-slx min utes, east seventy feet to Eighth street, theuce along said Eighth street north slxty-slx degrees and thirty minutes, east thirty feet to the place of beginning. Seized, taken Into execution at the suit of the Anglo American Savings and Loan Association vs. Hattle L. Webb and J. Nelson Webb, and to be sold as the property of Hattle L. Webb and J. Nelson Webb. Little tc Tustln, W. W. BLACK, Attorneys. BherlfT. 1-kO-ts The Great Clearing Sale One week devoted to the rapid movement of accumulated stock in all departments. Every item must find an anxious buyer, and every buyer must see the unparalleled money having. Two Great Features of the Sale s Saves money for the public. Moves stock for the merchant Dress Goods. In measuring our goods for stock taking, we have taken full bolts, broken bolts, dress lengths, and remnants out of our great line of Dress Goods, from 25c to $1 25, and put them in four lots. We did not consider the cost, but what price will move them. Lot No, 1, 23c, worth 25c to 40c. " "2, 25c, " 35 to 50c. " "3. 29c, " 4° to 7S C " "4, 58c, " 80 to $1.25 Ladies' Coats. Not one of the hundred up to-date garments escape the price pruning knife. Profits go a gleaming, and cost is lost sight of. There is just this about it, the stock is going to be reduced, aud we invite every woman in the community who has the most remote idea of making a coat purchase this season to be first on the grouud. Blankets. If you want a pair of blankets, Jnow is the time to buy them. VVe cannot replace them for the price we offer them next fall, Dut we don't want the care of them through the summer. So thev go at these prices. . Lot No. 1, @ $2.49, worth $3.50. " " 2. @ 3-9 8 , " S-oo " " 3> @ 498, " 6 50. riuslins. 10 yds. Hill muslin, 47c. Unbleached muslin, equal to Ap pleton A., at 4c yd. Best quality unbleached muslin, 20 yds. for SI.OO. Lancaster Ginghams, staples, 4jc y. F, P. PURSEL. JONES & WALTLER are still doing BUSINESS at the old stand, 50 West Main Street, Bloomsburg, = = Pa. Watch this space next week. WIDOW'S APPRAISEMENTS. The following Widow's Appraisement a will bo presented to tno Orphans Court of Columbia County Feby. 7th. WW and continued nisi, and unless exceptions are tiled within four days will be continued finally. John Neyhard, Personalty SICO.OO. llenry Bote, Personalty $300.00. _ Ti Richard Edwards, Personalty $102.0j Realty $197.40. Matlilas Heller, Personalty SBOO.OO. Jacob H. Creasy, Personulty SIOO.OO. Parson Edwards. Personalty sauo.oo. Est. of William Pfahler, lata of Cleveland twp. deceased, Personalty, $300.00. Est. of Daniel Fritz, late of Sugarloaf twp. deceased, Personalty SBOO.OO W. H. HINRIE, CONTINUED Hosiery. 50 dozen heavy ribbed hose, one of the best make in the market, good for mis r es and boys. We have never sold them for less than 15c. This lot we will sell for lie a pair. Underwear. 30 dozen men's natural wool shirts and drawers, GO per cent wool ; goods we cannot sell for less tliau 'sc next fall, now go at our salt for 44c. Our assortment of ladies' and children's underwear, union suits, vestp and drawers, in dif ferent lots will be found the best value we have ever offered. Groceries. Our grocery department is full of the best things to eat that we cau buy, and we sell them as low if not lower than any store in town for the qual ity of goods. Arbuckle's and Levering's coffee, IOC a lb. Chase & Sanborn's coffee, loose, @ talc lb. Prunes, the kind you buy for 8c else where, @ 5c lb. Tinware. We have a big lot of t-nware that must be closed at once, so we throw them in three lois and let them go. It is next th'-ig to giving them away but they go at these prices. Lot No. 1 @ 3c. Lot No. 2 @ sc. Lot No. 3 @ ioc. NOTICE. Notice Is hereby given that the following: ac counts have been filed In the Common Pleas ot Columbia County, and will bo presented 10 the said court on the nrst Monday ot Februan, A. I) 1898, and continued nisi, and unless excep tions art tiled within tour days thercalier. wfil bo confirmed absolute. 1. The flrst and llnal account of Ellas Krebs, committee of Lavlna Dewitt. W. H. HENRIE, Bloomsburg, Pa., Jan. , 1888. Froth y. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE COLUMBIAN
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