2 NOTES AND COMMENT. THE STRIKE OF THE EASTERN MILL OPERATORS. L(!(lurn in tho Movement ou Uotli Sltlea —Japan Is a Populous Country—Trioka of Contortionist*—A Huron as Nwi Gatherer. What promisee to result in a pro longed and terrible strike, probably not with disorder and bloodshed, has commenced at New Berford, among the mill operatives of Massachusetts. The strike of these operators is for a matter of sixty cents a week to each of them. The pay. it Is now said, averages bur. six dollars a week ,and the proposal of the owners is to cut these wages to 25.40 a week. Against this reduction the strike is ordered by the organized forces, and a bitter contest has un doubtedly commenced. At this time public opinion apears to be with the operatives, because it is believed that they are'now working for as low wages as it is possible for them to exist on. The local authorities realizing that there would be great suffering result ing from a strike, especially at this time if the year, asked the mil owners to postpone the reduction for the pres f M A. G. Pierce, Leader of the Mill Owners. ent, and it is said that may of the man agers and stockholders were disposed to do so. But there was on e strong minded man, a leading spirit among the owners, and he insisted that the re duction must be made. His influence carried the day, and the strike result ed. In tnis strike at the present time, ab m: 10,000 men are involved. There are fully seventy thousand more in the state who are watching the out-* come 01 this strike and who will be governed by its results. It is true that the stockholders have received the low est dividends this year that they have ever received, but this fact, it is urged, does not warrant them in reducing the wages below the living point. The combination of the operatives is de scribed as being just what might be ex pected, where an attempt is made to live on starvation wages. The tene ments are owned by the companies, and most of them are in a filthy and un healthy condition. It is nothing un usual to see families living in crowded quarters in total disregard of the sim ipliest regulations of health. If the strike is prolonged terrible suffering must follow, for the operatives have no money and the resources of their friends and supporters are limited. Every moment, he it a strike or a political contest must have a leader. The organized strikers have their lead er, and among the mil owners there has arisen a man of Iron nerve and an un yielding determination, who is now de pended upon to keep the weak among his associates firmly set in the decision mot to yield to the demands of the workmen. This man is Andrew Pierce, who is pictured by the press as a hard and unmerciful taskmaster. However, this may be, he is most cordially hated Iby the employees, and If the scenes of disorder continue his life may be in danger. Conflicting storicsareput forth respecting the amount that has been paid in dividends to the stockholder*, and the amount that is earned by the men. From the best obtainable inform ation it is evident that the stockhold ers are not now reaping very rich re turns, but It Is thought that in view of the very large dividends that have been earned in the past, they might con tinue the old prices a while longer eveij it the profits are small. I The census of Japan was taken Dec. II 13th, 1896, and the returns are now / partially aggregated. The population k of the empire exclusive of the island of I Formosa, acquired since the war from I China, is 42,708,204. This makes a re- I spectable aggregate and demonstrates I the power of Japan pretty well. The na tion has benefited so fast in all that f modern civilization can offer, and has added so much to her military and naval equipment, and extended its re sources so much by foreign trade that, despite the fact that China outnumbers it in population 10 to 1 Japan Is thei principle power in asiatic seas. Its in sular situation compete it to depend largely on its r.&vy and in that respect It is fast becoming the England of the Orient. The contortionist is getting in his tricks on rnilroad companies. A few months ago at one of the stations near Jndianapoli3 a man fell on the plat form having caught his heel in a crack. The result was a dislocated hip. Phy sicians including the company sur geon examined him and decided that he wo'iid bo a cripple for life. The rail re. d settled lor $2,700 and his laweyr's leer., and did other things to make him coir.fortable. One day last week a man fell from the platform of a railroad sta tion in Virginia and dislocated hie hip The company investigated the case. The poor fellow was badly hurt, that was plain to the physicians, and they were about to recommend a compromise With the company when up came an i eye witness who declared he 6ay the I man looking for a crack in the plat form. A traveling man recognized him as the Indianapolis unfortunate. The case was Investigated and the man wga found to be a professional contorionist. I It was a bad day for him, he will col-, lert no more Indemnities from rail roads. Sanger, the great English menagerie ma has lately acquired an elephant tha .he Prince of Wales rode In India when he visited that country, early in the 80s. The animal la over 60 years old; It has tusks tour feet long. At the end of each tusk Is a brass ballweigh lng eight pounds. It Is rather an af fectionate beast, no vicious habits but such a wonderful tendency of friend ship that it refuses to eat when tho keeper w£o has been with it 25 years is absent for two or three days. Al though this elephant carried the Prince of Wales through Indian Jungles, the English people have not the feeling for it that they had for Jumbo. It is not as large a creature as Jumbo, but its frontal development is greater. Judge Uentor-Barou Rentor, is his title —Is the principle news gatherer of Europe. He has lived lu London since the year 1851, when he begun his work on a large scale for the English news papers. By birth a Prussian, he was in his earlier years a courier, and as ouch carried dispatches from Berlin to the several courts of Europe. This gave him a valuable acquaintance with the officials of high rank, the source of much of the political news of the day. Before this he was a bank clerk and while thus employed he attracted the attention of Prof. Gsues, one of the first, men to introduce the electric telegraph into Germany. Rentor learned telegra phy from the Professor, and became proficient. After resigning his post as courier he had dealings with the tele graph companies, and by means of mounted messengers, conveyed dis patches from points in Prance and Belgium to the wires of the German. When the wires were extended he be gan to gather and supply customers with commercial news, and established agencies for that purpose in different Cities in Eut'ope. The possibilities of supplying the newspapers with speedier and more complete intelligence began ed his services to the London Times. 10 dawn upon him and he in 1858 offer- That paper having a steam yacht of its own to carry dispatches across the chanel to railroad connections at Dover declined Rentor's offer, saying it could get by its own methods a better ar.d cheaper news service than his. At first Rentor was much discouraged, but otily for a little while. He went to the edi tor of the Morning Advertiser and off ered his proposal, which was accepted. Arrangements were made with six oth er English papers, and the business be gun. So many successes were scored that all the London papers except the Times became his cllients, and very soon the Times also subscribed tor Rentor's service. Among his first achievements was the information about Ivlason and Slidell, the confeder ate commissioners being taken by a vessel of our uavy from the British' ship Trent. He also was first to< in form Europe of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Baron Reator hit 3 made a large fortune by means of his foresight and energy. His enterpriso though compares unfavorably with that of the American Associated Press. Prof. Macclcskie, professor of biolo r.v at Princeton university an extensivo writer an scientific subjects, when ques tioned as to his opinion concerning Prof. Scheneck's discoveries concern ing the possibilities of sex selection, said that ho had been expecting some thing of the kind for some time. So said: "•.Modern science has been confornt cd with two very serious problems, namely the increase of the population end the decrease in the supply of food. The latter problem will have to be met and will, indeed, in the near future be so met by the production of food by artificial means. There is no way, then to decrease the population except by the generation of a larger number of human males than females. That ia what Prof. Scheneck's scheme, if suc cessful, will in all probability bring about. This thing has been acomplish ed already in the plant world and in some forms of animal life. It has been found that hemp, when grown in rich- WHDM A Striker's Home, soil, produces the female plant, while in scant soil it produces the male. Working bees will, when fed upon very rich foods, become queens, while sala manders, when fed upon the fragments of their brothers and sisters, will pro duce almost twice the percentage of females as when they are fed upon or dinary foods. On the other hand, the starving of caterpillars has been found to make them of the male sex. "Modern biology has established the fact that there is no fundlmental differ ence between the sexes. The eggs of both sexes will if supple mentation Is for healthy growth. The requires rich food and moves while the male egg requires light food and moves with great rapidity. This is the only dif ference between them." A resident of Brockport, Me., 75 years old, has a penny which was given him when he was a young lad. He hung ho It when it was the only cent to his name, and he hangs on to it yet. As a sailor he has traveled around the world; been shipwrecked and been in a few broils In foreign localities of dis leputc. He has been a miner in Idaho, and suffered all sorts of losses by the toughs and pickpockets, but he never lost the old cent. Considering It is a talieman of fortune he will not ex change It for a gold eagle, but wil keep It as long as he lives and have It burled with him when he departs. "Well," remarked the very progres sive woman, "at last a way is open for us to get deep into politics." "How?" asked her less progressive sister. "Marry a member of the Ohio Legis lature." —Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele traph. . ■ THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMBBURG, PA. DUB'S BEFOBT- Business Increases But Improvement In Prices Disappointing. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says : The first month of the new year has brought rather more increase in business but less improvement in prices than was expected. With pay ments through clearing houses 7.3 per cent, larger than in 1892, and proba bly the largest ever known in any month; with railroad earnings 11.2 per cent, larger than the best of past years, the fact that prices are very low only shows more clearly the increase in quantities of products sold. Nor is there any disposition to re fuse orders, even at present prices. Indeed the compelition of manufact urers seeking orders alone prevents a rise. Most of them have all they can manage, many working night and day, and one great steel concern running on Sunday, but the works not yet filled .with orders are seeking contracts at as low prices as have ever been made, indicating that even these are not entirely unprofitable. The cotton manufacture is in more difficulty than any other, not merely because prices do not much improve, nor as yet the demand for goods, though both are helped by the closing of many mills, but largely because the manufacturers and workers have con sidered too little the rapidly growing production at the south. Ths woolen manufacture is doing well, fine worsted goods having open ed at an advance of twenty per cent, over last year, and the large mills are constantly buying wood, even at cur rent high prices, which implies great confidence in the future, presumably based on larger orders than are pub licly reported. The iron manufacturer is getting larger orders tor finished goods, which crowd many works almost beyond their capacity, although some others are still in the market and keeping prices down. Pig iron is steady, ex cept that Bessemer at Pittsburg is ten cents lower, the output last year be ing officially reported at 9,652,680 tons, and the consumption in this country, unsold stocks considered, 9,625,383 tons, against 9,601,504111 the largest previous year, which was 1895, and 9.394,392 tons in 1892. Failures for the week have been 342 in the United States against 331 last year; thirty-four in Canada against fifty-seven last year. "Only the Best.' 1 Should be your motto when you need a medicine. Do not be induced to take any substitute when you call for Hood's Sarsaparilla. Experience has proved it to be the best. It is an honest medicine, possessing actual and unequalled merit. Be wise and profit by the experience of other people. Hood's Pills are the favorite family cathartic, easy to take, easy to operate. The Penny in Ohurch Oollections, Such an Offering, Except From the Poor, is an Insult to God and His Church. "The important part which the penny plays in the average church offering is known to every one who has ever been interested in church finances," writes Edward W. Bok in the February Ladies' Llorne Journal. "And that it is a part entirely out of proportion to the necessities, is felt and realized by many a church treas urer. Scores of people who could afford to drop a nickel or a dime into the church offering, content them selves by giving a penny. The feel ing is either that the smallest offering 'will do,' or the matter of church finances is not given any thought. There is a failure to realize that a church is the same as any other busi ness institution, and it must have money for its maintenance. "There is such a thing as too liter al an interpretation of the phrase that 'religion is fr#e.' Of course, it is free, and let us hope that it will always be so in this country. But to make reli gion free costs money—and this isn't an Irish bull, either. There are those to whom more than 'the widow's mite' given to the church would mean do ing without some absolute necessity of life. The penny of such a one is the most welcome gift to any church, the most nobie offering which any one can make. But from those who can give more than a penny, and who are giving only the penny, such an offer ing is an insult to God and to His church, and the soonef people see the matter in this hard, true light the better. lam almost tempted to say that the great majority of churches could, with perfect justice, rule out the penny from their offerings. Were this done the nickel would be the pre vailing offering, and to how few per sons, when one stops to consider the question, would such an offering be a hardship or an impossibility ? A year ly offering of two dollars and sixty cents, calculating that one attended church once each Sunday, or twice, with one offering of five cents, would galvanize the church finances of this country." Her Boy was Dying'. How a child was brought back from the brink of the grave to enjoy a healthy, happy childhood. One mother''s advice for parents concerning the health of their children. The boy about whom this strange, true story is told wasted away till he seemed nothing but skin and bones. Then his health turned and he became {at and hearty. The first stage is familiar to many pa rents. The second is of deep interest to all parents or friends of ailing little or.es. Fathers and mothers, who long to have their children healthy and happy cannot fail to sympathise and rejoice with Mr. and Mrs John F. Williams. Their comfortable home, a short distance from Damon, 111., is happy now because of the wonderful events that are told in words eloquent with simple truth and gratitude, by the mother of the boy. "Our Josie was never strong," said Mrs. Williams. " From his birth he was weak and puny. "Two years ago, when he was two years old, he had an attack of lung fever. Dr. N. A. Jones cured this fever, but the child did not recover strength. " He began fading away beneath our eyes. He had no appetite, vomited a great deal, coughed continually, his limbs be came withered. "He became painfully weak and ema ciated. We waited for his death. " At this time a boarder named Asa Rob inson suggested that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People would dothe child good. " They had cured Mr. Robinson of rheumatism and he believed in them. jj /QANDY CATHARTIC ] ; 25 50 6 1 ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED I? cure ""J"""."' o ''inlpat!on. Cxxcxrffi arc tlie Meal l.xxn.l : ' y ind sonuM r w ." s s :;r! "The best is, aye, the cheapest." Avoid imitations of and substi tutes for STOVE NAPTHA, the Cheapest and Best Fuel on the market. With it you can run a Vapor Stove for one-hall cent per hour. Give us a call and be convinced. W. O. Holmes, Bloomsburg. Pa. Eshleman & Wolf, " L. E. Wharey, '* W. F. Hartman, " McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR THE COMINC YEAR. Some Notable Features: CHAS. A. DANA'S These reminiscences contain more unpublished war history than any other book except the Government publications. Mr Dana was REMINISCENCES lntlmatelyassoelatedwlthLlr.com. Stanton, Grant, Sherman and the other great men of the Civil War. He had the conddence of the President and Ills great. War Secretary, and he wnssent on many private missions to make Im portant lnvesilgatloas In the army. Lincoln called him "The Eyes of the Government at the Pronto Everywhere through these memoirs are bits of Secret History and Fresh Recollections or Ureal Hen. These Reminiscences will be illustrated with many Rare and Unpublished War l'hotmranh, rrom the Government collection, which now contains over 8,000 negatives of almost priceless value. The Christmas MoClokk's contained a complete Shori S(orx Pimvum x-rni rre by Kudyard Kipling entitled " Thk Tomb of His Anckstoks," ci u x AKIJ JvlrlAND the tale of a clouded Tiger, an officer In the Indian army, and ctap TT7C v. dafmd a rebellious tribe. We have in hand also a Sew Lallan, a o ' vjvim iM t'tJP.IVlb powerful, grim, moving song of War Ships. It will he superbly Illustrated. Mr lilDllnir will he a frequent contributor. F B ANTHONY HOPE'S th ® B e quel to"I7i Prisoner of Ztnaa." In splundkl Invention, In character}*, in dramatic situations it NEW ZENDA NOVEL and most stlrrln: novel that Anthony Lope has , Rudyard Klpllny, Rottert liarr, William Allen While, Tan Ma- QROPT QTHDIT'C r> \r claren, Octave Thanet, Stephen Crane, and many others, the best oi UKlilo JL> 1 story writers In the world, will contribute to McCLUKE'S dur- PPFA'T AiTTUAnp lng the coming year. Vjtf.UA 1 AU 1 HUKb EDISON'S LATEST T he result of eight years'con stant labor. 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My husband bought three boxes of the pills. We began giving Josie one-third of a pill three times a day. "In three days the child was brighter His appetite was better. He began to show interest in toys and was less fretful. "We increased the dose, giving him half a pill at a time. Fie gained every day in weight and appetite. 44 At the end of this treatment, after tak ing three boxes, he was a new boy. "He was happy, hearty, enjoying life with his little companions. "I have no doubt that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People saved him from an early grave." Mrs. Williams made affidavit to the truth of her statement before David Crisp, a Notary Public. Dr. A. A. McCabe examined the child and made oath before Notary Mort Brooks, that he is now physically sound and well. The evidence is completed by Dr. N. A. Jones, who made affidavit before No tary George Rupp, that the child had been in the condition described by Mrs. Wil liams, as the result of catarrhal pneumonia. The action of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People on the blood and nervous system, in eliminating poisons and furnish ing materials for new tissues, makes them a sure remedy for wasting diseases and the long train of evils arising from disordered blood and nerves. All druggists sell the pills; one box for 50 cents; six boxes for &.50. Fine PHOTO GRAPHS and CRAYONS at McKillip Bros., Bloomsburg. The bestf are the cheapest. j7e. keifer, Successor to E. A. RAWiLINGS, DF.ALKR IN All Kinds of Meat. Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon, Tongues, Bologna, &c. Free Delivery to all parts of the town. CENTRE STREET, BLOOMSBURC, PA. JSTTelephone connection. THE MARKETS. BLOOMSBURG MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. RETAIL PRIORS Butter per lb $ .so Eggs per dozen .22 Lard per lb 07 Hani per pound .jo Pork, whole, per pound .06 Beef, quarter, per pound,... .07 Wheat per bushel . 1 00 Oats " " 30 Rye " " 50 Wheat flour per bbl 5,00 Hay per ton 12 tp sl4" Potatoes per bushel, new,.... .80 Turnips " " .25 Onions " " 100 Sweet potatoes per peck .35 Tallow per lb .05 Shoulder " " .08 Side meat " " ,c 8 Vinegar, per qt 03 Dried apples per lb .05 Dried cherries, pitted Raspberries ~2 Cow Hides per lb *1 Steer " CalfSkin ,80 Sheep pelts 73 Shelled corn per bus .50 Corn meal, cwt 1.30 Bran, " Chop " Middlings " .83 Chickens per lb new 08 " " "old 08 Turkeys " " I2 i Geese " " Ducks " " | -c j, COAL. No. 6, delivered a.60 " 4 and s " 3.85 "6 at yard a.33 " 4 and 5 at yard 3.60 The LeadingConsenratory of Amarioa CARL FABLTEN, Director. .LLTLRL Founded t n I&S3 bj tOVfl* B. Tourjd^J— TrlTrON * Af full information. FRANK W. HALK, General Manager. " NEW DINING ROOnS. 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