6 MOW 'GENE FIELD GOT CREDIT. Dji Mi fngeneouA Trick He Waii Trusted for a New Pair of Shous. "'Gene Field made this old town tacit when he was here," said an old tfaner to a Denver Times man. "You oarer knew when he would play some gmctical joke on his friends. The story of his pranks with the stuffed aoan, which he threw out of a Tribune window, has often been told, but the little jokes in his life are cherished in tile memory of all who knew him. Of course, the pace made by Field, Skiff, Sothacker and the others was a fast ur>w, and each and all were hopelessly in debt to every merchant in the city. One day Skiff said to Field: 'Gene, vou're looking pretty shabby from your hoot tops down. Why don't you get a new pair of shoes? I'll bet a new hat you can't buy a pair on credit in the town.' "*'S that so?' says 'Gene. 'Well, we' Use and away he went. The crowd followed him and were looking 11 the windows of Alklre's •iihile Gene was working his graft. He tried -in one shoe, and it seemed all right, and then the other, and then he xrose to see how they looked. In the old days the store's floors wore muddy—paved streets were then only a dream —and the crowd outside were surprised to see Field walk about, stamping his feet in all the mud he ronld find. When they were thor oughly dirty he walked to the door and aid: "They'll do, Alkire. Field— Tri bune, and with that he joined the wait ing gang. "Then lie went to Clayton's and got a new hat. which Skiff paid for." Graminatlcnl llrakemen. Apropos of a recent order that brake ceen shail speak grammatically and an official of the Chicago, Wlwaukee and St. Paul Railroad says: "We wish our men to use good lan guage. It makes a great difference with us whether a man uses good grammar or speaks as though he had never attended even a district school. Sn order that there may be no con fusion. we have ordered conductors to tall brakeman to say, 'The next station ••Chicago.' Our brakemen do not make many mistakes in grammar, but we cannot help it if a man is a for signer and makes a mistake in pto xunciation. The trainmen under stand that their services are appreciat ed name when they know how to an nounce stations properly."—New York THbune. A Novel Proposal. "The Youth's Companion" recalls a eharacteristic anecdote of the Rev. Lorenzo Dow, the itinerant Methodist preacher. When he was a widower ho said to the congregation one day at the close of his sermon: "I am a can- Jldate for matrimony, and if there is my woman in this audience who is willing to marry me I would thank her IB ri e..' A woman rose very near the yulpit, and another in a distant part j# the house. Mr. Dow paused a mo nent. then said: "There are two; I chink this one near me rose first; at ury rate, I will have her for my wife." the woman was in good standing and possessed of considerable property. Very soon after this eccentric wooing The became Mrs. Dow. (Jooking School lor ISoyn. Cincinnati wives of the future will be either a very happy or a very un happy class. For Cincinnati men of Ae future will know all about the tioble art of cookery. They will not alk merely about the "pie that mother aae to uiuke" and the doughnuts that rendered Aunt Sarah famous. They will speak of "my ragouts" and "my Jiscuits." For the Cincinnati boys are learning to cook in the high school. They wear caps and aprons, the ooung masculine cooks, in their school jaeencnt kitchen. They are taught the simpler of the chemical processes in wived in cooking.—New York Journal. ltemarktibln Telegraph. Among the most remarkable works 'la Australia is the overland telegraph from Port Darwin to the south of the -optinent, which was completed in 572. Almost the whole 2,000 miles of its length was through uninhabited wuntry—much of it a waterless desert, the wooden poles were prepared at the nearest available places, but some had to he carried 350 miles, while the iron ..alee were taken an average distance if 400 miles by land. Over 2,000 tons if material had to be carried into the jrtarlor, and the total cost was $1,850,- m. Forage Plants. Most people know the tall, striped, fapanesc grass (Eulalia variegata) so argely grown for ornamental purposes. U has rocently been discovered that this grab.-, is splendid forage for horßes, which are very fond of it, and will eat it In preference to almost any other kind of food. The growing of it for for ,ge purposes is being largely discussed ta agricultural circles; and if it should •jome into use, our Euglish fields will ha enriched with a new crop, whose ap pearance in full growth should be very beautiful. Four Renowned Sinter*. California has added many to the list jf renowned woman, and among them re the Klumpke sisters. There are tour of them —Dorothea, who is one of the chief workers of the Paris Obser vatory; Anna, a portrait painter in 9oston; Augusta, a physician in Paris, tnd. Julia, one of the most brilliant pupils of Ysaye, the violinist.—lndlan vpolls News. Brown-Jones —He Is wedded to his bottle. Jones-Brown—Yes, he calls it his spirit wife. -Truth, SA"ED BY THEIR WHEELBARROWS. Fir trd >n Them Until thn Water Sub allied and Then Wheeled Theui Hunk. "Speaking about storms," said Capt. William Dunbar Jenkins of the Aran sas Pas Harbor Company, "one hears all sorts of stories about the cyclones which have from time to time ravaged the Gulf coast. It was In 1886 that a very severe storm blew in the vicinity of Roclcport, and It was during the blow that several miles of the sand and shell embankment reared by Col. Uriah Lott, the builder of the San An tonio and Aransas Pass road, was washed into the bay. Col. Lott em ployed a large number of Mexicans, and many of these poor fellows were camped on the embankment. When morning dawned, after the cyclone, Bcores of them were missing and it was thought drowned. "As a matter of fact and considera ble surprise, not a single Mexican lost his life. For days afterward they could be seen coming across the sand marsh, each man wheeling his wheel barrow. When the men realized that they were doomed to risk a watery grave, every son-of-a-gun of them grasped his wheelbarrow and floated away in it. The barrows all grounded as the water subsided, and the Mexi cans made for the coast, and in the di rection of what remained of the em bankment. Work was not again re sumed on the roadbed, but large sec tions of the work are still noticeable along the bay coast."—New Orleans Times Democrat. Siberia's Snow Flowers. Travelers in Siberia tell of the won derful flower that grows there, and which blooms only in January, when the winter is at its height. The blos som has something of the characteris tics of a "morning-glory," lasting only a single day. The flower, when it opens, is star-shaped, its petals of the same length as the leaves, and about half an inch in width. On the third day the extremities of the anthers, which are five In number, show min ute, glistening specks, veritable vege table diamonds, about the size of a pin's head —these are the seed of the flower. A Russian nobleman named Anthoskoff took a number of the seeds to St. Petersburg. They were placed in a pot of snow and frozen earth. On the coldest day of the following Janu ary the miraculous flower burst through its icy covering and displayed Its beauties to the wondering scien tists. The plant has been very appro priately named "the snow flower." Too Muny Iluleg. ! The teacher who gives her pupils "simple rules" outside of the authori ties for determining questions which confront them, and particularly gram matical questions, is apt to find that her rules disastrously fail to fit all cases. One time the county superintendent of schools was questioning the pupils of a country school. He wrote on the blackboard the sentence, "The fly has wings," and asked a class what part of ■ speech each word was. They passed the "the" without serious trouble. ! "What part of speech is 'fly?' " asked the superintendent. j "Adverb," shouted all the class in unlßon. j "What! 'Ply' an adverb?" I "Yessir!" shouted the children with great positiveness. i "What makes you think it is an adverb?" | " 'Cause teacher told us that all words that end in 'ly- are adverbs!" — Youth's Companion. Much Sweeter Than Sugar. The newly discovered chemical sub stance, sugarine, or benzol-sulfinid, is likely to have an important influence upon coihmerce in several directions. Unlike saccharine, which never became very popular, sugarine contains none of the obnoxious para acid. It is a chem . ically pure substance, 600 times as . sweet as sugar, and yet obtainable at one-twelfth the cost. With Intent to Deceive. ! "Pilkinghorn Is a man of his word, isn't he?" | "Ye-e-s. I don't believe Pilking | horn would tell a downright lie, but l I've seen him eat a ten cent luncheon of doughnuts and coffee and then come out of the restaurant picking ; his teeth, as if he had been filling up with a porterhouse steak."—Chicago Tribune. Shipping: lteH. Live bees are sometimes shipped on 1 ice, so as to keep them dormant dur ing the journey. This is particularly | the case with bumble-bees, which have been taken to New Zealand, j where they are useful In fertilising the red clover which has been intro duced into the colony. The Wiixly City. He—Why do the Chicago girls have ouch large feet? Him—Umph! Why does a sloop have a keel? He —So she can stand up in the wind. Him —There you are!— Truth. Her Criticism. * Mistress —"Well, Norah, how did you enjoy the scenery?" Norah (who has just returned from i a week's outing on the Maine coast) — I "To shpake plainly, mum, th' scenery s not so tlligant as it looks."—Judge. In Limerick. "She is that stingy," said Bridget to her caller, "if I wrap up the least bit of lay for the folks at home, sure she misses it at once." "Fwy," asked the visitor, "don't ye , take it out ov the bottom av the can?" THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. BEST OF HUNTING DOGS. Tlie l!eagl<f In the Future to be the ftports mnii'i Delight. Beagles are useful little hounds, and not at all common in this country, although bound to be in the near fu ture, that is, where hunting is a sport. The beagle may be kept with littlo trouble at no very great outlay. This in itself is one of the reasons that they are the hunting dog of the future. You must have three couple at least, but to take a fair average, five couple Is the best, and with this number one may have many a stirring run. Indeed, there is no member of the canine spe cies with which so much may be done as the beagle. He is a very clever dog; bh qualities are patience, reflection and endurance; invariably the pack hunt in a lump, and seldom straggle away from their companions. The great thing is to let him have his own way. He understands far better than you do the twists and the doubles, the shift and dodges, to which the hare resorts when pursued. When it is purposed to take the beagles out hunting on the following day, they should be fed about 1 o'clock, and then be shut up until they are wanted. The start should not be de layed a moment later than 10:30 o'clock. The sooner you are at work the better, as, if your beagles have been fed at the proper hour on the pre ceding day they will be quite ready for their work. Judiciously handled, many a day of most delightful amusement may be obtained with a few couple of beagles, but do not, on any pretense whatever, allow people on horseback.—Chicago Inter-Ccean. ECCENTRICITIES OF A CAT. Alwayn Ascends In the Elevator When Willing to Visit an Upper Floor. A slender black cat In the Boston Postofiice building has developed a number of traits that make her a most interesting study. She is fearless and Independent, and yet quiet and tame as a lady's pet. She has a number of places in the building to visit, partic ularly on the third floor, where there is a young lady whom she likes to call upon at frequent intervals, and instead of running up and down the stairs, as other cats naturally would do, she takes an elevator. With an air of Im posing dignity, she takes up a position among the rest of the passengers wait ing for the elevator and when she gets on board the elevator she looks earnest ly through the door as the elevator as cends. Lacking means to signify where she intends to get off she re mains in the car until it stops at her desired destination, and even force, unless it is irresistible, cannot make her leave the el evator till it reaches the floor where she wants to go. The elevator men know her habits so well that if she hapens to be the only passenger going up they generally offer her the third floor first. As she returne from a visit, she again avails herself of the elevator service, whether she wishes to go up or down for it is a matter of course with her to complete her round in the upper part of the building while she is up that way. ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER. An Instrument Which Will Crop tlio Head in Short Order. You may have your hair cut by elec tricity now. David Seide, of Hartford, Conn., has just patented a little instru ment which will do the trick in a few twinklings without the use of scissors or of the flame which is sometimes used as a substitute in up-to-date bar ber shops. It is a compact metal tool, consist ing in part of a comb. Of course, the tonsorial artist must always use a comu in this sort of work, inasmuch as it gives him a gauge for making the hairs of equal length as they are drawn through the teeth. The instrument in question is con nected with a little battery by a couple of wires. When he wishes to adminis ter a hair cut, the barber presses his thumb upon a certain part of the tool, thus completing a circuit. The elec tricity instantly heats white hot a platinum wire which runs the length of the comb. Then all that is required is that the operator shall comb the hair of the customer with a few grace ful waves of the little appliance, the incandescent wire burning it off at the proper length.—New York Journal. The Church Maid. The up-to-date churches now employ a church maid. One who enters a Banctuary in New York nowadays may see a slender figure in a plain black gown, with white cape and apron, moving around among the pews. She is, perhaps, dusting the hymnal 3, ar ranging the cassocks or putting notices in the racks. She will, however, come forward, answer your questions, direct you to the sexton, tell you the minis ter's hours, or advise you to whom you should apply for other information than she may bo able to give. It is a part of her duty to remain respectfully near visitors, for strangers have been known to "lift" anything that strikes their fancy and walk off with it. i tie maid also cares for the minister's study and gives to the edifice many touches of which the janitor is incapable. The church maid has her hands full.— Pittsburg Dispatch. Tompion—"Was Docke mucu of a fighter when he was in the army?" Hammer —"No, hardly that. In fact, he managed to keep out of battle alto gether. Hut, then, you know, he was full of fight before he got to the front, and he has been full of it ever since the war was over. In the anture of things, a fellow muist have a rest some time or other,"—Boston Transcript. Is Orime Decreasing? Warden Wright, of the Western penitentiary, is quoted in an interview to the general effect that crime in that prison district has decreased steadily during the past four years. He bases this declaration on the fact that the prison record shows an unin terrupted falling oft in the number of convicts, from year to year, during the time stated. Obviously, the warden is nothing if not an optimist, which is the more to be wondered at be cause of the nature of his calling. If anybody sees more of the seamy side ot human nature than the superintend ent ot a state prison, he is yet to be heard from. And perhaps it is Warden Wright's pronounced optimism, in this particular, that will prompt the people of more pessimistic bent to challenge the all-around accuracy of his conclusions. His good faith isn't involved, because that is above ques tion. Nevertheless, when we consider the increase of population in this prison district, with its large proportion of foreigners whose lawlessness is so much in evidence in the courts of the commonwealth, and above all the pinch of the hard times from which the country has but just found relief, it is at least surprising to be told that there are fewer penitentiary prisoners each year—not relatively, but abso lutely. Does it mean less crime ? Warden Wright is sure that it does, and he credits this condition of things to the common educational facilities that are elevating the average stand ard ofintelligence. In support of this view he cites the prison records show ing a proportionately greater number of negro convicts imprisoned since '94, which he explains as being due to an influx of ignorant colored people from the southern states. Let us hope that the warden is reasoning correctly, from right pre mises. . It's a nice thing to think that the rank and file of humanity here abouts has come to the conclusion that honesty is the best policy, even it the moral considerations are to cut no figure. Still, there is the knowledge that the tendency of all modern law making is to let up on the offender to the uttermost limit consistent with the safety of society, and some times a bit more. Compare the criminal codes of one or two centuries gone with that cf today, and the idea will be made plain. It is civilization. Then the criminal himself may be no better, but as Warden Wright argues, he is a heap cleverer. Finally the de monstration made by the Riverside Record is hardly comprehensive enough to prove a permanent moral uplift in the community. It may be chargeable to local or transient condi tions that have no connection with the close approach of the millenium. That there are fewer prisoners in the penitentiary is beyond doubt. But that there are as many convicts as there ought to be is still a wide open question.— Ex. Bead In His Stable Yard. Tragic End to the Lilo of Former Stato Printer Meyers. Edwin K. Meyers, former State Printer, was found dead Friday morn ing in the stable yard at his home, three miles from Harrisburg, having met a tragic death. A gash across the forehead and a bruise over the left eye indicate that he died from a frac tured skull or concussion of the brain. It is supposed he fell from his carriage a short distance from home, and was dragged to the place where the body was found. Mr. Meyers was 39 years of age, and is survived by his wite and three children. He was colonel of the Uni formed Rank, Knights of Pythias. His father is B. F. Meyers, proprietor of the Harrisburg Star Independent. "fitz 1 ' Was Barred Out- Some time ago Marion (Ind) Lodge of Elks elected and initiated Robert Fitzsimmons the prize fighter, to membership, which so angered the State deputy that he suspended the lodge which action was endorsed by Grand Exalted Ruler IJetweiler, of Harrisburg. Mr. Detweiler was re cently informed that Fitzsimmons had left the lodge, and those instrumental in electing him had keen expelled. He reinstated the lodge last Saturday. TETTER essm PKIN DISEASES RELIEVED El? ONE APPLICATION OF OrJlgnew'soifei 33 CENTG. It is a marvellous cure for nil such disgusting i.nd disfiguring diseases as F.rsema, Salt Rheum, Tetter, Barbers' Itch, Scald Head, Ulcers, Blotches. It cures all erup'.ioru: of tie akin makes it soft and white.— S old by C. A. Kleim. C~!& "A perfect type of the highest order of excellence In manufactnre." }^f" vj Walter Baker & Co.'s JimBREAKFAST COCOA| m jSS I • y- V tj TO ' A Absolutely Pure —Delicious —Nutritious. 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DEMORKST'S FAMILY MAGAZINE IS MOIIE THAN A FASHION MAGAZINE, although it gives the very latest home anil foreign fashions each month ; this is only one of its many valuable features. It has something for each member of the family, for every department of the household, and its varied contents are of Ihe highest grade, making it, pre-eminently, THE FAMILY .MAGAZINE OF THE WORLD. It furnishes the best thoughts of the most in teresting and most progressive writers ot the day, and is abreast of the times in everything, —Art, Literature, Science, Society Affairs, Fiction, Household Matters, Sporetc, a single number frequently containing from 200 to 300 fine engravings, making it the MOST COMPLETE AND MOST PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED of the GREAT MONTHLIES. DEMOKKST'S MAGAZINE Fashion Department is in every way far ahead of that con tained in any other publication. are entitled each month to patterns of the latest fashions in womaiis' mure AT NO COST TO THEM other than that necessary for postage and wrapping. NO BETTER CHRISTMAS GIFT than n year's subscription to DEMOREST'S MAGAZINE can be made. By subsc i >ing AT ONCL you can get the magazine at the reduced price, and will also receive the nandsome 25-ccnt Xmas Number with its beautiful panel picture supplement. I v Remit $i oo by money order, registered letter or check to the DEMOREST PUBLISHING CO., 110 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. GREAT SPECIAL CLUBBING OFFER FOR PROMPT SUBSCRIPTIONS. r ONLY $1.75 FOR THE COLUMBIAN I | and Dcmorest'B Family Magazine. { I Send your subscriptions to this office. J SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, lsued out of the court of Common Picas of Columbia county. Pa., and io me directed, there will bo exposed to public sale at the Court House, In Bloomsburg, on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1898, at 8 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 Mathlas Kindt, and running thence along said lot northwardly one hundred and sixty feet, more or less, to Ridge alley; thenee 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 Barreter by deed dated November ID. 188ti, and recorded In the ofllee for the recording of deeds' &c., in and for Columbia county, in Deed Book, No. 41, pages 371, Sc., 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 ol Fannie Eckroth vs. Charles C. Kesty and TUllc E. Kesty, his wife, and to be sold as the proper ty 01 Charles C. Kesty and TUUe E. Kesty, his wife. BAKKLEY, Atty. W. W. BLA(SK, Sheriff. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Eshite of Elian Mc Henry, late of Denton Borough, deceased. Xottos is hereby given that letters testamentary on the estate of Ellas McHt nry % late of Benton Borough, Columbia County, Pa., deceased, hare been granted to M. T. McHcnry, to whom all P*£ m sons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment. aud those, having claims or demands will make known the same with* iit delay. Fritz, Atty. 31. T. 31c I lea rib 1-MJ # Executor. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Estate of John Zur.er, late, of Flshlngereeti town ship, deceased. Xottce is hereby given that letters . on the estate of John Zaner, late of Flshingci eek township, Columbia county. Pa , been granted to Lloyd /oner and wUlUiin (mis man, to whom aUpersons indebted to *aid **tate are re'pu-su d to make, payment, and those, ''(icing claims w demands win make jto/uicn the same without del.in. LLOI D Z.ihKll, " WILLI Ail CHRISM AS, IS-88.&. Executors, AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Inre-eatale of Mary Drlesbcch, late r Fishing creek township, Columbia county, /'<i , (leva. The under signed auditor, appointed bp the Or phans' Court of Odwnbta county, to distribute the balance in the hands of the administrator of Mary Drlesbach. late of Fishingtreek tuirnship, in said county, deceased, to and among 'heparties legally entitled thereto, will sit at htsqfk'Gin the town of Rloomsbnrg, Fa.% on triday, the &th day of January. IHNS, at 10 o'clock a.m., totoni tyul where all persons having claims against the said estate will appear and prove the s. me or be for ever debarred jrom com ing in on said Juna. If. A. EVERT, Auditor. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Estate of K J. Cole, deceased The undersigned auditor, appointed by the Or phans' Court of Columbia county, tgrnakcdlx trl'nuiou of the funds In the hands oj the admin Istralor, to and among Ihe parlies legally entitled thereto, irtll meet the parties interested roc ths purpose t>f his appointment at his office in the town if Dtoomstmrg, Pa., on Saturday, the SKk dag of January, A. I). 189S, at 10 o'clock IHthe forenoon of sunt dag, when and where all persons are required to present their rtatms against the estate of said deceased or be debarred from coming in for a share thereof. j.(i 4t, If. A. KVtSRT, Auditor. RULE ON HEIRS. Estate of Lavtna Stout, deceased. To Fanny Klder, Shlckshlnny, Fa., Sarah Stout, sometimes called I.ula Evans, New York City; Kille stout. New York City, lineal descendenU n'r said I.avlna Stout, deceased, and to all other nersons Interested, Greeting: You and each of vou are hereby cited to be and appear before the Judgesof our Orphans' court to he held at. Bloomsburg, on the rtist Monday of February next then and there to accept or retuse to take the real estate of said Lavtna Stout, deceased, at the appraised valuation put upon It by lu (itiest, duly awarded by the said Court, and re iitned by the Sheriff, or show cause why it shall not be sold. \Y. W. BLACK, Sbeilff, l-6-lt. Sheriff's ofßce, Bloomsburg, Pa. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Exceptions to acknowledgment, of Sheriff's deed by B. W. Jury, cosmopolitan Building and Loan Association vs. Emma Neyhard et al. In the court of common Pleas of Columbia county. The undersigned auditor, appointed by said Court to pass upou said exceptions and tuake distribution ot thn fund ailslng from the Sher iff's sale ot the premises, will meet the parties interested forbearing and the porfot mance of his duties, at his office Iji the Town ot Blooms burg, on Friday, the 2Sth day ot January, lKfe, at in o'clock In the forenoon ; at which time and place all parlies Interested are required to pro sent, thelrclulms, or be torover debarred from coining In upon the said fund CHAKLES O. BARKLEV, l-l-'9B 3t. Auditor. i 7yrme COL VMB 1.4 N a year.
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