6 "RATIONAL CAPITAL. SENATOR WALCOTT MAKES REPORT ON COMMISSIONS WORK. Ollßteiinlnl of the Navy—Fatlieri of tlie Haute—Unity tteporti From Consult— As Interest log Volume on the Nntlon sl Capital lfi-lug Compiled, Senator Wolcott who was at the head of the Commission appointed by the President to arrange for an inter national bi-metallic conference, and who with his fellow commissioners spent six months in France and Eng land endeavoring to bring about some Agreement on the subject made a report to the Senate, and announced his In tentions of resigning. The Senator, who although a Republican is a pro a-oiunced Silver man, still has strong hopes of the success of the commission which he undertook, and in his speech, he declared that the commissioners were sustained at every point by the President. Of the Secretary of the Treasury he does not speck in the same terms. He complained that the work of the commission was handicapped by the attitude of Mr. Gage, and by nu merous interviews and reports which tended to discredit bimetallism, and which were promptly cabled to Eng-j land. He attacks the currency bill Senator Wolcott, which Mr. Gage is supporting, and pre dicted its defeat before it reached the Senate. In the course of his address Senator Wallcott indicated that in his opinion it would be necessary to change the ratio for the coinage from 16 to 1, to 20 to 1. The utterances of tho Senator has awakened renewed interest in the currency question which is ab sorbing even more attention than the Hawaiin annexation question or the appropriations. The Navy department was created in 1798. Just 100 years ago, Benjnnan Stoddard was appointed Secretary. Trouble with France had become so threatening that war was expected and Washington was made Lieutenant gen eral, with Hamilton as Major General. The United States frigate Contellation had just captured a French frigate, whose guns are still preserved in the Watervliet arsenal. They bear the in scription "Republique," Francais Lan une." (French Republic, the first year) and are among the curiosities of Ameri can warfare. John Adams was Presi dent! and Philadelphia was the National Capital, but Washington had been laid out and preparatioijs for removal were In progress. The principle Editor in the country was Noah Webster of New York who published the Minerva, which eventually was emerged into the Connecticutt Advertiser and has con tinned until the present day. Hugh Gaine was another publisher who did well to circulate from 300 to 400 Copies of his daily Gazette, being editor com positer, pressman and folder as well as occasionally a carrier. Washington Irving was a school boy of fifteen, but even then had a literary ta3te which in two years found development in print. Ten years later he had his Knicker bocker history ready for the press, and ever since then Father Knickerbocker has been the popular psuedonym for the metropolis. If the theories of Professor See, of the Lowell observatory, be true our star system is unique in the great star fam ily of worlds, and the generally exac cepted nebular hypothesis is essentially erroneous. It is to America that the old world turns to receive the latest, and many eminent astronomers think the most reasonable enunication re garding the nebular theory, which was first exploited a hundred years ago by the great French inventor Laplace. Professor See who is, now in Washing ton, presenting his researches at the Haval Observatory, is a very young man but has devoted himself almost ex clusively to astronomical studies since his undergraduating day at the Miss our State university. There has been in the attic of the agricultural department building a morgue of former secretaries and other distinguished citizens. Under a stair way, bidden from the light and covered ■with dust, is a collection of life-size plaster casts, all rapidly becoming more or less delapitated. In this art gallery were recognized three copies of Jere Rusk in Plaster of Paris two copies of J. Sterling Morton, one or two ladies and several citizens whose names me not associated with their plaster relics in the lumber room. The janitors aud messengers of the department are not under instructions to dust this art gal lery; and its futur e is problematical the work is probably that of an old time genius who for years was employ ed as a modeler In the national Museum and in the agricultural departmenl. This former employee was a wonderful artist in hie way, especially in hie still life production. He could reproduce fruits of all kinds in such natural form that even expert pomologists were fool ed Into attempting to masticate them, hut like ether men of genius, this par ticular individual could not withstand the temptation of John Barioycor.o, and when last heard from was serving one o* his periodical terms in ihe district work house. The United States began on the first of January the publication daily of ex tracts from the reports received from our consuls all over the world. The daily publication has been received with a great deal of pleasure by the various trades and business concerns Interested In pushing American com merce into hitherto untried fields. But this extension of the publication of con sular reports calls renewed attention to the difference in the method prevailing in the United States and in Foreign countries. The English Consular ser vice, like that of America is expected to gather all sorts of information which might be valuable in the promotion of trade, -but the reports when they reach the secretary of state for foreign affairs are regarded as confidential communi cations. Copies are circulated, it is true, to heads of firms interested in the peculiar line of industry upoh which the report is made, but they are not distributed in pamphlet form as in the country. Each report is sent out read and returned and the fact of its receipt by the firm which may be interested is noted on the document. Reports made by our counsuls, which are sent as a matter of courtesy to the English au thorities, are treated in the same man ner, and whenever they show that an opportunity exists for the extens.on of trade tne Englishmen attemps to jump in first and to wrest the opportunity away from the United States. Becausa of the fact that the English merchant gives three or four times as long a period of credit as Americans he is of ten successful in his effort. What is alleged to be another, and this the fourth attempt at suicide, that has taken place within a very short time, is the shooting whether accident al or otherwise, of Mrs. Lucile Lane, daughter of former Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, The statement has beer, made that the shootulg was entirely ac cidental, but there are many facts con nected with it which indicate that it was not. Mr. Lane, husband of tho lady, was formerly an employee of tho Treasury department, having been ap pointed to a position from which an old soldier was removed to give hiin a place. The old 6oldier soon after com mitted suicide, and when the trouble came between Blackburn and Carlisle, oyer the currency question, Lan e lost his place, and has since been agent of a gun manufactory. At the sad death of Miss Leila Her bert, daughter of the former Secretary of the Navy, people shook their heads and remarked, "There will be three more." This was on the 21st of December. Five days later her intimate friend. 'Miss Annie Virginia Wells, a social favorite, the daughter of one of Wash ngto.n"s best known attorneys, wa3 dead. She was ill and despondent, as Miss Herbert had been, and the latter's death so preyed upon her that she found a revolver in the dead of night and took her life. The self-inflicted wound was In the same region and quite similar to that suffered by Mrs. Lane. Both deeds were committed alter the hour of 12. January 7, but seven days after tho first of the series, Miss Mary Waits, daughter of the ex-Governor of Color ado, sought to end her melancholy ex istence by drinking poinon, but she was found in time tnd prompt medicai at tendance saved her life. Mrs. Lane's attempted suicide recalls tho fact that this pretty young matron during the Cleveland administration was one of the most prominent figures in the younger set of Washington so ciety. She was, perhaps, even better known here than in her native State, Kentucky, where her childhood was passed. Her debut was made in this city during the height of her father's popularity as Senator, and was one of the notable social events of that season. She was feted, wined and dined suffic iently to have turned the head of any girl. Scientists are interested in the recent report of the witnessing at sea of an enormous water spout, which as de scribed by those fortunate enough to see it must have been a wonderful ex hibition of the force of nature. So called water spouts are caused by dif ferent causes, but the generally accept ed view is that two powerful currents of air coming from opposite directions, iorms what we call a whirlwhind, and sucks up the water from old ocean sometimes elevating it to a great Irn A Waterspout at Sea. height. The latest reports of the recent waterspout, witnessed at sda by the crew and passengers of an ocean steamer, indicate that this was of a different character, and that it is at tributable to other causes. The illus tration herewith given in from a de scription by one who witnessed the re markable sight, and by scientists is be lieved to have been caused by nothing less than volcanic action at the bottom of the sea- Philadelphia holds the first place on Ihe record for furnishing fathers of the house. "There was first, William D. Keliey, "Pig Iron Kciley" a most ami able and sweet spoken congressman, with a voice as rich and pleasing as his attitude was unswerving on tariff matters. Then Samuel J. Randall 'Who was returned to Congress for many years. Courtly Charles O'Nell, and aftor him Gen. Alfred C. Hormer, Hen ry Bingham, of Philadelphia, is also gradually getting there, lie is now serving his tenth term, Bland, of Miss ouri, and Cannon of Illinois, are serv ing their twelfth terms, Maine does very well in keeping the same men in seats In the house. Speaker Reed is now la las eleventh term. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. Warning Notes Calling tho; Wicked to Ro pontance. The sweetest flower of the gospel is charity. Some guns kick ; revenge is one of them. The dullest man has in him some thing original. It is sin. The man is usually in the right who owns himself in the wrong. In religious controversy ferocity is not the only sign of fidelity. For a certain class cf minds, infidel ity is the hall mark of genius. The waters of Lethe drown the past the blood of Jesus cleanses it. He who casts stones at .others, makes of himself a target for their return. For an epitaph : "He believed in a free gospel ; it never cost him a cent. "Christianity is all very well, but a man must live." Yes, to all eternity. The confession of past folly may be only the profession of present wisdom. The thing that makes pessimism is tailure to find in men what angels possess. Take care of Number One, but take care it is the right one—the soul, not the body. Who would refuse the offer of eternal life, if he could put a mort gage on it ? Encyclopedias have to be re-written every ten years; the old Bible is still up to date. The mind, like the lens, may be concave and scatter brain power or convex and concentrate it. The statements of those who have been cured by Hood's Sarsapaiilla prove the great merit of this medi cine. Get only HooJ's. Wealthy, But LA Want, An Aged Recluse Found Perishing From Cold and Hunger—Worth SSG.GCO and Owns 300 Acres. Sole owner of 300 broad acres of the most valuable land in the country, and $50,000 in cash to her credit in the banks, Mrs. Elizabeth Winnard, an aged recluse, who has lived all her life near Burr's Mills, eight miles west of Dover, 0., was found lying almost in the fire and in an unconsci ous condition and almost dead for lack of the bare necessities of life. She is about 70 years old, and since she inherited the farm, many years ago, she has lived alone on the big farm, caring for many head of cattle and horses and doing whatever farm work there was to be done. Her penury and the misery and squalor in which she lived have been a source of comment the whole country over. It is supposed that she got up dur ing the night to tend the fire and be came unconscious from exhaustion and cold. She must have lain on the floor scantily clad for 12 hours at least. In the event of her death there is much speculation as to what disposi tion will be made of her vast fortune, as she has no immediate relatives living. When bilious or costive, eat a Cas caret, candy catharic, cure guaranteed, ioc, 25c. 4- 1-1 . Two SicLa of the Shield- What a cheery view Governer Hastings gave of the material prosper ity of Pennsylvania in his speech at the banquet in Philadelphia on Tues day evening. "We possess fully one tenth the value of all the farm lands in all the States of the Union," he said, we produce two thirds of all the coal and three-fourths of all the steel consumed in the United States ; and Philadelphia, itself, produced nearly one-fourth of the total quantity of woolen goods, one-fifth of all the textiles and almost one-halt of all the carpets made in America." Yet we have been there and are so busy doing these things, the Governor might have added, we have permitted our state and municipal governments to fall into the hands of combtnes of selfish and spoils-seeking ringsters and jobbers, who rule them on the most debasing principles known to a free people anywhere. In contrast with the material prosperity of the State, look at conditions at Harris burg during the last session of our incapable and corrupt Legislature. If our cities are prosperous, see at what cost in reckless taxation, profligate expenditure and government by machine oligarchies. The shield has two sides. The material prosperity of the Common wealth has been mustered by the in telligence'and conscience of the State sacrificing its obligations to maintain honest and efficient government, and allowing the administration of State and cities to fall into the hands of conspiracies intent on plunder and power. "I'll fares the land, to hasten ing ills a prey, where wealth accumu lates and men decay." Rejection of civic duties is the evidence of decay, —Ex. O TOK.IA. Tiiofio- /) Ths Kind You llavo Always Bought, 5. MISUELLANEOUS ITEM. The youngest mayor in the United States is Ernest N. Thompson, mayor of Hepler, Kan. His age is 22. Frozen milk is shipped in hermeti cally sealed kegs from Denmark to England. In a frozen state milk con tinues fresh for about 20 days. In Berwick, Me., lightning melted a wire from which hung a canary's cage. The cage dropped, the jar caused the door to open, and the bird escaped. Fiddlers are scarce in the Klondike region. John Kavanagh, an itinerant musician from Porta Costa, Cal., earns $35 a night fiddiing for the Klondike miners. Miss Alice Whiting, of South Han over, Mass., was riding home from an excursion behind a spirited nag, when the animal kicked her in the mouth and knocked out 13 of her teeth. Edward M. Jackson, of Caldwell, N. J., was hitching up his horse, when the animal suddenly switched its tail around, striking Mr. Jackson in the right eye and destroying the sight. A device to prevent snoring has been invented by Mr. S. Anderson, a Chicago carpenter. It is a little pad, which is kept in the mouth, and con nects with a strap to prevent its being swallowed. A fine of seven dollars was the punishment awarded to a clergyman in Hamilton, Mo., for swearing on the street. When the offender heard the verdict he audibly called the magis trate "a darned fool." Breakfast was delayed in a house hold at Newport News, and the head of the family went to the kitchen to discover the cause. He saw a tramp gorging himself with the food and keeping the cook quiet by displaying a revolver. Otto Meyer, of Ramapo, N. J., weighed 414 pounds. He thought it time to reduce his bulk. He went to a doctor, who agreed to take off 100 pounds of flesh at one dollar a pound. The doctor soaked him, steamed him and massaged him, and Otto gained 15 pounds in a month. A certain cure for drunkenness, it is said, has been discovered by F. W. D. Evelyn, of San Francisco. The remedy is horses' blood, which, af'er being chemically treated, is applied to the patient by inoculation. In chronic cases the treatment requires nine weeks. How to Treat the Mothur-in-Law. Wise advice is given on "The Mother-in-Law in the Home" in the February Ladies' Home Journal. The writer details the proper course lor the mother-in-law to pursue in order to make her presence in the home of her son a delight, and directs the daughter-in-law as to her duties in the case. 'lhe advice carefully followed will make the mother-in-law a wel come acquisition to the family. The article will commend itself for its com mon-sense. Period of Infection. According to the rules of the Penn sylvania State Board of Health, the period of infectiousness of contagious diseases is considered to terminate as follows: Smallpox—Six weeks from the com mencement of disease, if every scab has fallen off. Chickenpox—Three weeks from the commencement of disease, if every scab has fallen off. Scarlet fever—Six weeks from the commencement of disease, if peeling has ceased and there is no sore nose. Diphtheria—Six weeks from the commencement of disease, if sore throat and other signs of the disease have ceased. Measles—Three weeks from the commencement of disease, if all rash and cough have ceased. Mumps—Three weeks from the commencement of disease, if all swell ing has subsided. Typhus—Four weeks from the com mencement of disease, if strength is re-established. Typhoid—Six weeks from the com mencement of disease, if strength is re established. Whooping cough—Six weeks from the commencement of disease, it all cough has ceased. lEUEYtS n 10 UMTES. 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Li | THE HOLIDAY SEASON.| For Christmas, 1807, we have a large line of goods able forgg i ts 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 of CONFECTIONERY in nice boxes and in bulk. Sunday Schools preparing for Christmas festivals should get our * prices. ALEXANDER BROTHERS, & CO. Bloomsburg Pa. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF € A SC. FIG T, MAT T WG, m- Oils CLOTH, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. IEL BEOWEM'S 2nd Door above Oonrt HonhC. t A largo lot of Window Curtains in stock. rh, r A YEAR FOR — 9§t 00: DEfIOREST'S - J ® ■ - - FAMSI Y The subscription price of DEMOREST'S 1 „ is rednood to SI.OO a year. 1 iAOAZINE, DEMOKEST'S FAMILY MAGAZINE IS MORE THAN A FASHION MAGAZINE, although it gives the very latest home and 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 the 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 of the day, and is abreast of the times in everything, —Art, Literature, Science, Society Affairs, Fiction, Household Matters, Sports, etc, —a single number frequently containing from 200 to 300 fine engravings, making it the MOST COMPLETE AND MOST PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED of the GREAT MONTHLIES. DEMOKEST'S MAGAZINE Fashion Department is in every way far ahead of that con tained in any other publication. Subscribers are entitled each month to patterns of the latest fashions in womans' attire AT NO COST TO. TIIEM other than that necessary for postage and wrapping, NO BETTER CHRISTMAS GIFT than a year's subscription to DEMOKEST'S MAGAZINE can be made. By subscribing AT ONCE you can get the magazine at the reduced price, and will also receive the handsome 25-cent Xmas Number with its beautiful panel picture supplement. Remit $1 00 by money order, registered letter or check to the DEFOREST PUBLISHING CO., HO Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. GREAT SPECIAL CLUSBING OFFER FOR PROMPT SUBSCRIPTIONS. r ONLY $1.75 FOR "j THE COLUMBIAN I J and Demorest's Family Magazine. , t Send your subscriptions to this office. J JURY LIST FOR FEBRUARY GRAND JURORS. Beaver—Peter Kneght. Benton Twp—C. E. Albertson. Briarcreek —Lloyd Knorr. Bloom—Frank Cavanee, John B. Gruber, John Tracy. Conyngham—Michael Whynn. Greenwood —L. J. Buck, Jos. Ileacock. Jackson—J. F. Derr, Jasper Fritz, J. B. Richie. Main —Lloyd Kennedy. Montour—Arthur Roberts. Mt. Pleasant —Jos. Patterson. Orange—W. A. Lemon, A. B. Herring. Pine—Benj. Gordner, Wesley Baker, Benj. Applcgatc. Scott— lf. E. Hippenstecl. Sugarloaf—H. J. Hess, Frank Getz, E. J. Drum. TRAVERSE JURORS—FIRST WEEK. Beaver—lLL. Miller. Benton—G. B. Crossley, Chas. F. Mann. Benton Twp—W. W. Hess. Berwick —O. H. Barnard, Jas. W. Evans, L. J. Fuller. 8100m —John Armstrong, Chas. A. Cox, Henry Hower, A. H. Kitchen, Matthew Mc- Reynolds, Geo. G. Sloan. Briarcreek—J. P. Freas. Catawissa—D. E. Billig, Stephen Baldy, W R. Long, W. H. Pfahler. Catawissa Twp.—James Keefer. Centralis--Morion Hanley, David E.Kel ler, C. G. Murphy. Centre —Sam Harman. Conyngham—Henry Whitaker. Fishingcreek Jacob Hummel, G. W. Hess, Clarence Yost Franklin—Daniel Drum. Greenwood —Lloyd Yeager. Jackson —J. W. Knause. Main—Lloyd Dalious. Orange—Jeremiah Comstock,J. P. Ilouck, D. F. Mordan. Scott —Phillip Fritz, Wm. Hummel TRAVERSE JURORS —SECOND WEEK. Benton Twp —A. A. Colley, John Lau bach, Ira J. Thomas. Berwick—Wm. Carey, C. IT. Fritz, IT.. M. Kirkendall. Bloom—Philip Crawford, Thos. Geddis, Edward Holmes, C. F. Stohner, W. B. Laubach. Briarcreek—J C. Spooncnberp. Catawissa—j. D. Bodinc, T. P. Chrrlng ton, J. F. Fisher, John Kline, Daiiel S. Pensyl, J. K. SharpLss. Centralia—A. B. Fortner, Cleveland —Jacob Carol, Jacob E, John* son, Simon Leiby. I Conyngham—James Donner, J. C. Men j singer. hishingcrcek—John W. liogart, Amos j Dr .slier, E. M. Laubach, Daniel McHenry. j Hemlock—G. li. Hosier, j Locust—M. L. Kaup. j Millville—Thos. Wright, j Mifflin—W. Hess. | Mt. Pleasant—R. I!. Fey be it. Pine—Benj. Lee, Alem li. Johnson, i Scott—Win. E. Grimes. I =s SHERIFF'S SALE. | By virtue ot a writ of Levari Facias, lsued out ot the Court of common Pleas of Columbia county, l'a., and to me directed, there will bo ( exposed to public sale at the Court House, In Bloomsburg, on j MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1898, ' at 2 o'clock In the afternoon, all that certain 1 lot or piece of land situate In East Bloomsburg. 1 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 Matlitas Kindt, and running thence along said lot northwardly one hundred and sixty feet, , more or less, to Kldge alley; thence along said I alloy eastwardly forty feet to lot ot 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 Barrcter and Caroline Barrcter by deed dated November 19, 1888, and recorded In tho ofllee for the recording of deeds, &e., m and for Columbia county, In Deed Book, No. 41, pages OT, Ac., granted and conveyed un to Charles C. Kesty, party hereto, on which la erected a two-story DWELLING HOUSE, and outbuilding. Seized, taken Into execution at the suit of Fannie Kckrnth vs. Charles C. Kesty and TllUo E. Kesty, his wife, and to be sold as the proper ty or Charles C. Kesty and TllUo E. Kesty, his wife. BAKKI.BY, Atty. W. W. BLACK, Sheriff. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Ellas McHenry, late of Eenlon Borough, deceased. Sottce Is hereby gfcen that letters testamentary 011 the estate, of Ettas Me Ut nry, tats of Denton Borough, Columbia County, Pa., deceased, h<we been granted to M. T. McHenry, to whom all per sons Indebted to said estate are requested to make payment. and those having claims or demand* will make known the same without delay. Fritz, Atty. M. T. McHenry, l-O-Ot* Executor.
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