j v*l *nakes the food pure, | wholesome and delicious. mi &akiHo POWDER Abaolutely Pure ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., NEW YORK. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, FA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1898. Entered at the Post Office at Dloonislmrg, Pa. an OTomd class matter, March 1,-ISSS. OUR OFFERS FOR 1898- We are able to offer our subscribers some special inducements for advance payments for 1898. THE COLUMBIAN, and New York World, three times a week, $1.65. COLUMBIAN and Philadelphia JVcckly Times 1 45. COLUMBIAN and JDemoresfs Maga zine, 1.75. COLUMBIAN and Farm News, 100 Subscribe now, and get the benefit of these reduced rates. tf. BRIE!' MENTION. Abi Y People TOU Know. Miss Anr * Rcber, of I.ewisburg, visited friends in to over Sunday M JYH. Ia" >, cx-Countv Commissioner of W 111 town on Wednesday. W tif Tamaqua spent Sunday in ' s the juest of John Kenyon on Streei P. (. lirnglcof Buck Horn and E L. j Applt.ian, ot Welliversville, were among I our cders this week. j R;ph Philli is is attending the annual a ' meemg of tiie i'hotugraphcrs of the State at H Bell.onte this week. ' Ms. James \V. Lewis, of Ilollidaysburg, Blai County, arrived in town last week 011 a vis to her mother Mrs. Thomas Vannalta on/ron Street Misses Cora Kunkle and Caroline Kash n r, of Bloomsbttrg spent Sunday in this city a guests of Mbs 1 11* Peifer, Mill Street. —"Danville News." Miss Mary Marks, formerly manager of (he Western Union Telegraph office at this place, but now tilling a like position in New Jersey, is visiting friends in town. Legal advertisements on page 7. The Ladies Exchange sale on Saturday morning as usual in Clark's basement. The Btyfogle tract of land in Mon tour township was sold to Elmer Runvon for SB3O. Rev. James Hunter, of Northum berland, conducted the last Sunday morning and evening services in the Methodist Church. T- Leases that will collect the rent for the whole year if tenant leaves before expiration of term, also notices to quit, for sale at this office. tf. Qua \ to ail appearances, has for gotten his Bloomsburg friends, at least the outcome ot the postoffice fight looks that way. Don't Tobaoco Bpit and Smoke Tour Life Away. If you want to quit tobacco using easily and forever, be inaue well, strong, magnetic, lull of ucw life and vigor, tulto Ko-To-lluc, tlie wonder-worker, that multc3 weak men strong. Manv gain ten pounds in ten days Over 400,000 cured. Buy No-To-Bao of your druggist, under guarantee to cure, 00c or $1 00. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad. Bterl'ng Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. ! Gold Fish * I We have placed ourselves in I position to supply our customers g with something which is so in- I structive, entertaining and beau- I tiful, that people wonder why they did not get them long ago. We refer to Bold Fish and Aquaria. We have eyerytlnng you need to start one. Gold Pish, 20c. each. Fancy Gold Fish, BCJand 73c. 'ea Globes, 23c to $9. Aquariums' Fitted Out. 60c to sl6. See them in our window. IW. ?. SUSSM PJI.:C-.J Coocsito P. 0. Pharmacist, The Lenten season began yester day, Ash Wednesday. Special ser vices will be held in St. Paul's Episco pal Church from now till Easter. Now that McKinley has named O. B. Mellick for postmaster, the ap pointment of the letter carriers for the free delivery service should not be far distant. J. P. Welsh, Principal of the State Normal School attended the banquet given to President McKinley by the I University of Pennsylvania at Phila \ delphia on Monday. The ex-High School base ball team ! has organized lor the coming season. ! This club is composed of first class i material, and will make things inter l esting for any amateur team in this section. The extensive improvements going on in Townsend's Clothing Store are not yet completed. When done we shall give an extended account of this house, which is one of Bloomsburg's 1 leading business places. Many members of the Gun Club of this place attended a live bird tourna ment at Cambra on Tuesday. We were unable to obtain the score. The honors were carried off by Stroh, of Pittston. The thirty-first annual ball of the Friendship Fire Company was held in Evans' Hall, Tuesday evening, and was well attended. The Bloomsburg Orchestra, under the direction of M. B. Riffo, furnished the music. Alfred McHenry, one of Benton's most successful merchants, has pur chased the E. C. Wells property on Fifth Street. It is said that R. T. Smith & Son of Benton have bought the McHenry store in Benton. Gidding & Co's. new department store presents a fine and imposing ap pearance with its new white front of over sixty teet. A large arch has been cut between the clothing store and the shoe store, and the force of clerks has been increased. Isaac G. Purselt, a life long resident ;of Hemlock township died at his | home in Buckhorn on Saturday last j at the advanced age of eighty-three j years. The funeral occurred on | Monday. He was the grandfather of I F. P. Pursel. | The Republican , Benton Argus • and Catawissa News Item were se lected by the Commissioners on Sat urday as the papers to publish the County Statement. The other county papers, excepting the Daily and Sentinel will use supplements, Soto Simetaro, the Japanese Fan tacist, appeared at the Normal School Tuesday evening, the event being the anniversary of the Calliepian Literary Society. While some of his tricks were quite clever, the performance on the whole was considered ordinary but entertaining. A company of young people are busy rehearsing for the beautiful dra ma "The Golden Gulch," which is to be rendered in the Opera House next week for the benefit of the Cubans. This is certainly a worthy object, and the young people should be greeted by a full house. The following letters are advertised Feb. 22, 1898. Mrs. Mary E. Ande, Mrs. Sherman Creveling, Mr. Uaniei Hahn, Miss Kate Hickey, Mr. Her bert Kelchner, Miss Ida Schankwei ler. Will be sent to the dead letter office March 8, 1898. JAMES rf. MERCER, P. M. A branch of the Co-operative Savings and Loan Association of Baltimore, Maryland, has been organ ized in Bloomsburg. The officers are : W. S. Moyer, President ; P. S. Harman and Joseph G. Wells, Vice Presidents ; J. H. Mercer, Sec retary and Treasurer ; and J. G. Har man, Attorney. "The Heart of Chicago," which was produced at the Grand last night to an enthusiastic audience, is certain ly the masterpiece of its author. Lincoln J. Carter, who also wrote and staged "The Fast Mail," "The Tor nado" and other successful plays. With the skill ol a true playwright he has woven a strong vein of comedy into what is essentially a melodrama, and he has mounted it with magnifi cent special scenery and properties. All that remained to insure its succesi was a competent cast and it is but necessary to add that the company is one of the strongest ever appearing in one of Carter's productions. The ex citing climaxes were applauded to the echo last night, and the curtain went up after each act. The specialties, including a novel roller skating act, were very pleasing. "The Heart of Chicago" will be on the bpards dur ing the remainder of the week with Saturday matinee, and deserves crowd ed houses at each performance. —Wheeling Feb'y nth. At the Bloomsburg Opera House March the 4 th, 1898. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. Falsehood Rebuked. Communicated. The editor of the Sentinel in last week's issue tries to make the voters of Bloom Poor District believe that Mr. Hagenbuch and I tried to rob the district. I admit doing several days carpenter work for the district at the same wages I received from other parties. At the auditors' settlement tbe auditors refused to allow me any pay because the law did not allow a director to furnish work or material for the district, whereupon they sur charged Mr. O. T. Wilson with several loads of manure he sold the district. I held that the district re ceived value for my labor also for the manure, therefore Mr Wilson and I were entitled to our pay. Mr. Vanderslice being a warm friend of Mr. Wilson's and an enemy of mine never says a word about him but charges me with robbing and de frauding the district, which he knows is not true. It will be interesting for the dear tax payers of the county to watch and see what the Sentinel has to say about the surcharges of Mr. Krickbaum as County Commissioner. No doubt it will make a difference whose ox is gored. I hope the honest Sentinel will have the courage to hew to the line and let the chips tall where they belong. Tne Superior Court has just handed down an opinion affirming the lower Court in the Sheriff McHenry Janitor case whereby Commissioner Krickbaum puts the dear taxpayers of the county in the hole for several hun dred dollars. No doubt the Sentinel will now jump on the neck of the Superior Court with both feet like it always does on our County Court for doing its duty. Mr. Vanderslice also says that the C. A. Kleim and appeal case were settled on record against the wish of Kleim, Wilson and himself as Atty. for Kleim who wanted Mr. Hagen buch and me to consent to settle the same, to which we consented to save costs for the district. If the settle ments are not satisfactory I am will ing io have satisfaction stricken off and both cases opened. The Sentinel also says that Mr. Hagenbuch and I were elected last week with beer and boodle. This is another baie faced falsehood. The only beer and boodle that I heard of being used was handled by the Editor and Proprietor of the Sentinel up in Sugailoaf township the day before the election electioneering for the Prohi bition candidate. The instructions were given to vocers to vote for Cox in Greenwood and Sugailoaf and for Sharpless in Scott and Bloom, but the voters in Bloom said "nit" we do not en dorse rump conventions presided over by Vanderslice and Wilson and any person who accepts a nomination at their hands we will say to him what the owner said to his Billy sheep "you got in bad company and we will let you slide." It is not too late for the Sentinel to profit by the Resolution which I pie sented and was passed in a Democra tic caucus several years ago denounc ing the Sentinel's course in reducing the Democratic majorities in the County. M. H. RHODES. A meeting was held in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, Monday evening, and pre liminary steps taken to produce the cantatta, "The Shepherd Boy," in the near future. An effort will be made to have a chorus of eighty voices. It will be rendered under the direction of F. N. Turner. The O. U. A. M. held a smoker in their hall in the Lockard building, Tuesday evening. There was quite a large attendance of members. The music was furnished by Hower, Goss and Wall. All had a good time. Persistent Coughs A oough which seems to hang on in spite of all the remedies which you have applied certainly needs energetic and sensible treatment. Foa twenty-five years that stand ard preparation of cod-liver oil, SCOTT'S EMULSION has proved its effectiveness in cur ing the trying affections of the throat and lungs, and this is the reason whyi the cod-liver oil, par tially digested, strengthens and f vitalizes the whole sys tem; the hypophosphites act as a tonic to the mind and nerves, and the glycerine soothes and neals the irritation. Can you think of any combi nation so effective as this? Be eure you get SCOTT'S Emulsion. See that the man and fish are on the wrapper. 50c. and SI.OO, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNB. Chemists, New York. A LIVING WITNESS. Mrs. Hoffman Describes How She Wrote to Mrs. Pinkh4m for Advice, and Is Now Well. DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: —Before using your Vegetable Compound I was a great sufferer. I have been sick for months, was troubled with severe pain in both Bides of abdomen, sore feeling —in lower part of bow els, also suffered <, with dizziness, could not sleep. 1 etter describ replied tell followed your direc tions, and cannot praise your medicine enough for what it has done for me. Many thanks to you for your advice. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has cured me, and I will recom mend it to my friends. —Mrs. FLORENCE R. HOFFMAN, 512 Roland St., Canton, O. The condition described by Mrs. Hoff man will appeal to many women, yet lots of sick women struggle on with their daily tasks disregarding the urgent warnings until overtaken by actual collapse. The present Mrs. Pinkham's experi ence in treating female ills is unparal leled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometimes past has had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter as many as a hundred thousand ailing women during a single year. J. E. ROYS. drop in and look over our mag nificent assortment of WATCHES. We have them in ALL SIZES, including EVERY STYLE. A good nickle watch for $2.50. A eolid gold watch for $19.00. Over one hundred watches to choose from. J. E. ROYS. A written guarantee goes with every watch. The Oatawissa Road- Reading Company Sending Traffic Over That Branch--Shamokin Division Suffers. The Catawissa branch of the P. & R. railway is rapidly swallowing up all the traffic heretofore transported over the Shamokin division, and this form er important branch is rapidly becom ing a mere side issue in the great Reading system. The latest rumor, and an apparently well founded one, is that within a very short time the local freights now running between Tamaqua and Newberry will be great ly reduced. Instead of six, as now, there will be but two after this week. A change will be made in the schedule at that time. This will necessitate the laying off of several crews. These changes may be made this week. It is also said that the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company will begin the work ofdouDle tracking their road from Tamaqua to Buck Mountain on the 26th of this month. BTATE NEWS ITEMS —Jacob B. Shuman is a County Commissioner in Lancaster at the age of 84. —John K. Thomas fell down the Stevens shaft at Pittston on Saturday and was instantly killed. —All the Mechanicsburg industrial establishments are running full time with their complement of hands. —Thieves hauled away s6oco worth of clothing from the store of Phillip Coffee at Tamaqua, Saturday morn ing. CASTORIA THE KIND YOU HAVE ALWAYS BOUGHT Eai tho /% ij:,. CLARKS'. We call your attention this week to our line of BLACK DRESS GOODS in all the leading weaves and styles of the coming season. This Black Dress Goods Stock is second to none for quality, style and price. We buy no tricky black goods ; none but the best makes find room here. Our line of the famous PRIESTLEY'S BLACK GOODS is now complete, and we claim they are the best black goods made, and so conceded by the trade. None but the best Aus tralian wools are used. All yarn dyed goods. The finish is perfect. We invite you to examine this showing of Black Dress Materials. We think an inspection will repay you. We here mention four items, but come, see the goods. 42 in. all wool Priestley Poplins, 80c yd., worth to day SI.OO a yd. 48 in. Black Mohair, 59c yd., 46 in. Drap D'ete, $l5O yd., worth $175. 50 in. all wool Cassimere Serge, 50c yd., worth 62^0. LINENS. We call your attention to our Linen Department where you will find complete lines of table linens in all grades of bleached and unbleached. Towels in all grades, Napkins, Doylies, Towelingo by the yard, Lunch Cloths, Pattern Table Linens. Linen Sets, etc. Prices are in the buyers favor not withstanding the former tone of the market. See the 72c Bleached Damask ; the towels at 29c pair; Turkish towels at 25c pair; toweling at yd.; plaid linens for cushion covers. Silverware, Roger's Make, in knives, forks, teaspoons, tablespoons, etc., at prices lower than usual for these high grade goods. Sheets and Pillow Oases, torn and hemmed, made of best muslins, about as cheap as you would buy the muslin. See the goods, and we think you will be convinced it will not pay to make them. Pur Baby Carriage Robes at reduced prices. Wool Undershirts at reduced prices. Press Skirts at reduced prices. Try our Skirt, all lined, at $1.49. Eiderdown House Sacques reduced in price. Percales, yard wide, all grades. All Black Brocade Sateens, i=£c yd. 20 yds. Muslin for 88c. Press Trimmings all kinds. H. J. CLARK &. SON^ I W.IARTMAW & SO! LAST WEEK OF SPECIAL LINEN SALE—Closing on Monday night, 28th. (We repeat prices for those who have not been here.) COUNTERPANES. Was $2.25, now $1.95. " i-95. " i-59- " 1.50, " 1.29. " 1.00, " 87c. " 75 c -> " £9C " 59c., " 48c. TABLE LINENS. Was SI.OO, now 84c. yd. *' 75 c -> " 62c. " " 50c., •' 44c. 39c., " 32c. " " 25c., " 22c. " " 19c., " 16c. " NAPKINS. Was $2.75, now $2.39 doz. " 2.00, " 1.75 " " i-7S. " 15° " " 1.00, " 85c. " " s°c. " 39c. " Ladies' misses' and children's coats at still greater reduction. Careful buyers can make big interest by buying for another season. (Don't forget the linen sale at above prices will close Monday evening next, the 28th.) I. W. HARTMAN & SON. EVERYTHING HUST BE SOLI). To move the remainder of our stock we have still cut prices lower. Your opportunity of buying goods of all kinds less than cost. We must vacate the store room, the time is short, the GOODS MUST BE SOLD, and we have made prices that should move them rapidly. We mention below a few items : DREHS Goons. All our dress goods that have been 50c. now go at >jc. yd. Hii.K POPI.iNH that sold (or SI.OO yd., now jsc. yd. lIKOAIICI.OTHg that sold (or f 1.00 and $1,115, LOW 65c. yd. HII.KB that sold (or $1.40 yd. now 90c. yd. $1.25 yd. now 75c. yd. 3iic. yd. now 10c. yd. BATIR (CM that sold (or 40 and 25c. yd. now 13c. yd. 14 and lc. yd. now 9c. yd. ORGANDIES. French goods:.that sold (or 85c. yd. now 15c. yd. Lawns that sold (or 12 and 14c. now 5 and Sc. yd. DRESS GINGHAMS that sold (or 12XC. yd. now go at sc. yd. ulllc mixed Dress Ginghams, that was 85c. yd., now 15c. yd. Crowley's sewing needles, 2c. paper, cortlcelll (100 yd.) sewing silk, 6c. spool, ''ortlcelll wash Fllo and Twist, 85c. doz. All silk baby ribbon ilbbon, 2 yds. (or lc. 200 yd. spools basting cotton, 3 spools (or lc. LHATHER BEETS at 10c. Worth double and more. LADIES' LINEN COLLARS, 5c piece Ladles' cuffs, sc. pair. SILVERWARE. Rogers' 1817 make Ac., at half price. UNDERWEAR. 25c. Ladles' vests and pants, now xsc. 50c. ladles' vests and pants, now 35C. 50c. men's shirts and pants, now 30C 25c. children's shirts and pants, now |BC Cotton Hannels, Cretonnes,4c. at reduced prices Now is your time. Lots of other bargains for you. Come and see. H. W. SLOAN. Et.TY. limr Harneei. Mee, 116.00. Wagon t Send for £xffe,*free K , mi.. .... ..vr; d ** for * c ' uk, " " ■ ™ ELKHART CABIUQE AND HARNESS MFD. 00. W. B. PBATT See*7, ELKHART* Cfß, TABLE COVERS. Was $3 00, now $2.25 " 1.00, (with fringe), now 50c Towels, sheets and pillow cases all reduced in the same proportion. New embroideries for muslin wear at 5, 8, 10, New line of striped, plaid and plain ribbons just opened this week for neck ties. New percales, 10 and yd. New ginghams, 3c. to 25c. New white dress goods, sc. to 35c. New India linens, Bc. to 35c. New silkaline, 10 and i2^c. New line of silks for waists and dress trimmings. t Corsets In large sizes at 35c, worth 75c. 82 In. French Ginghams, 10c. yd. Best light Calico, Bc. yd ' 86 In. Sea Island Percales, Bc. yd. 1 VELVETS striped silk velvets suitable (or waists, 4c„ that was SI.OO and $1.25 y