Long's Opinion. p Secretary In Hot Wator Aid Hay Bo Officially Censured. The excitement at Washington was |gmented by the statement of Secre ry Long made last week who is loted in all of the papers to the feet that Spain could yiot be held sponsible for the Maine disaster, p severe is the censure that it is pro able that a resolution condemning im for indiscretion will be presented |i Congress. The .diplomatic corps 'ere particularly incensed over this [lip, and it has caused them no little hnbarrassment. The Spanish repre sentatives lost no time making use of lie statement, and cabled it verbatim o the Madrid authorities. Th's has .lso added intensity and ft is plain hat a few more breaks of this kind vould seriously complicate matter, secretary Long gave the information is his private opinion and that on the strength of the official statement of the Spanish authorities. The latter was to the effect that there was no mine beneath the Maine. The opin ion of Spanish veracity in Washing ton is not of the highest order, and for this the Secretary is censured more than for the apparent indiscre tion. Official participation and offi cial responsibility are regarded as two different things, and it promises to become a ticklish matter for the Secre tary to explain away. Of course the more violent jingoes are making the most of it, and thus far they have succeeded in stirring up a hornet's nest. Mothir Has Eosy Chicks, "My mother was pale and could not eat. Sue could hardly get around 13 do her work. She began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and now she has a good appetite and rosy cheeks and is able to do her own work. We would not be without Hood's, since it did her so much good." FLORENCE E. POWELL, Kelley Station, Pa. -■ /< Hood's Pills are the only pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Cure all liver ills. In General Business Conditions Are Better- Greatest Pig Iron Production Ever Known— Finished products in Demand. R. G. Dun & Co's weekly review of trade for last week says : Stories of the most reckless sort, disproved promptly, and many of them betore they are told, affected specula tion in stocks much last week, and at times, this week,- but they have not disturbed the industries and the trade of the country at all. Ingrain, cotton, meat products and petroleum markets have been strong, with gradual increase in the demand for manufactured products. Failures in February have been smaller than in any other month, ex cept three of the previous fifty-two months, with remarkable decrease in the failures for SIOO,OOO and over, though in number and amount the smaller failures show less change than might have been expected, indicating that in good times or bad, a large pro portion is due to causes apart from the general condition of business. The ratio of defaulted liabilities to payments through clearing houses is but $1.71 per SI,OOO, a lower rate than has appeared in the first quarter of any year, except 1880 and 1881, of the past twenty-three. The best evidence of general im provement is the fact that payments through clearing houses for the past week have been 28.0 per cent, larger than in 1892, and outside New York, with its speculative interests, 17.6 per cent. Compared with last year the gain has been 56.2 per cent, for the week and 49 8 per cent, for February. Production of pig iron is the great est ever known, some furnaces having started in the past month but Besse mer billets are so scarce at Chicago that some works are embarrassed, and heavy purchases at Pittsburg have stiffened the price. Foundry at the east is slightly lower, basic pig having been offered in a sharp com petition at about $lO. The demand for finished products covers work far ahead in plates, structural forms, sheets and pipe since the advance in oil and in rails, but bar is weak with increasing use of steei. Wheat has grown stronger, exports continuing at a rate which threatens exhaustion of supply. Failures' for the week have been 251 in the United States against 246 last year and thirty-two in Canada against fifty-nine, last year. Many reopje Oannot Drink coffee ft night It spoils their sleep, You can drink Grain O when you please and sleep like a top. For Grain-0 does not stimulate ; it nour ishes, cheers and feeds, Yet it looks and tastes like the best coffee. For nervous persons, young people and children Grain O is the perfect drink. Made from pure grains. Get a pack age from your grocer to day. Try it in place of coffee. 15 and 25c. 3 3 4td. A TAME GULL CHASE An Ungrateful lllrd Tlmt RhCupeU Frinn Itn Protector. I have good casee to remember my first Introduction to a sea-bird. I was baking a summer's walk on the cliffs, when 1 noticed a bird, with its wings outspread to preserve its balance, mak ing it way painfully towards a ohelter- Ing bush. There is nothing to my mind quite so piteous ae a crippled bird, and It needed but little compassion and cu riosity to prompt me to try and do something for my feathered friend. But it was easier said than done. Ac custmoed as ail sea-birds are to fly off screaming their hoarse sea-call of warning, it was scarcely to be expect ed that a lame gull would stand still to be caught. After a long chase, which nearly end ed in my tumbling over the cliff-side, 1 succeeded in catching the bird. Its thanks it expressed by making sundry lunges at any available part of my per son that happened to be soft. But 1 think it became grateful, lor the num ber of fißh that gull succeedod in eat ing during Its period of convalescence was enough to make a fishmonger's mouth water. Being forced to keep still owing to its leg being bound up In splints, and one of Its wings band aged, the voracious bird must have re garded its Injuries much in the same light that a schoolboy regards a cold. It certainly stuffed, morning, noon and night, eating any fish that wa3 brought to its temporary prison. One morning, three weeks after I ob tained my patient, I took it out for an airing. Thanks 'to considerable wash ing and cleaning the bird's feathers were like the snow for whiteness, and the large supplies of fish had greatly increased its strength. What happen ed will conclusively pr>iv e that gulls are by no means gullible. It lay so quiet and cozily in my arms that I re laxed my attention, and was actually thinking of the best way to begin to train it to be a civilized bird, when, without the least warning, the gull gave me a parting dig with its beak. At least, that was the fir3t impression that struck me when I found myself "gulled." With a hop, skip and a Jump, that ungrateful bird quickly qut a con siderable space between us. Talk about a. wild goose chase! why, a tame gull chase is infinitely more endless. I fin ally landed in a gorse bush half way down a gentle slope that led to the beach. lam still wai:ing for my "kind ness" and the gull to flutter bac" again; for does not the poet say: Each kindness shown to birds or men Is sure to "flutter back again. Lout nil Ky V'tliout l'nlit. "A Springfield oculist tells a cusious story which illustrates, how the total destruction of a nerve sometimes saves much pain in an accident. A boy came into his office one day and asked him to remiove seme dust' that had got into one of his eyes. The doctor looked at the organ and was startled to find that the eyeball was broken in and totally destroyed. The boy said* that he had been walking on the street and a wagon passed clone to him. He felt some dust get into his eye, he said, and not being able to get it out went to the oculist. The dust did not hurt him, bu he couldn't see very well. The oculist made a thorough examination of the eye and inside the eyeball found the knot, which had come off the end of a whiplash. It was found that the driver of the wagon had cracked a long whip so that the knot struck the boy in tha eye, imbedding the knot in the ball, where it broke off. The boy at the ttmfe felt no other sensation than what a speck of dust cr a cir.der might have made.—Springfield Republican. ltrfi Ftirly. A gtrl in Oneonta, this State, broke off her engagement on the eve of the ceremony because she found a cigar in the pocket of the bridal suit of her young man, who had promised her to give up smoking. Most women are willing to wait till after the wedding before going through a man's pockets. —New York Press. ~ ' \ The Ohleitt Pecrenn, The oidest peeress alive at the pres ent date is Jane, I.ady Carew, grand mother of the present lord. She was daughter of Major Anthony Ciffe, o? New"Croas, Ireland: was born In 1798. and in 1816 married the first lord Carew. She Is in good health and the full possession , cf her faculties, can converse agreeably, and still enjoys a gacne of bezlque, and she now belongs to the increasnig army of centenarians. -Tit-Bits. Weil-.1111 a YnrleUm In Kentucky. The marriage of a young lady well known in Paducah, in upper Kentucky, a few days ago. had some very unique features. The bridesmaids were all of as different size, age. type and appear ance as possible to get them. The groom Is a Presbyterian and the bride an Episcopalian. They were married, however, in a Methodist church by a Baptist minister. The bride kissed all the groomsmen and the groom all the bridesmaids, and the groomsmen and bridesmaids all kissed each other.— Paducah Sun. Cnllla I'. Huntington. Everybody knows how Collls P. Hun tington became what he is, and what he was before his riee. His story and the story of his three associates, all dead, is pestively trite. But he has been powerful and reat so long that nobody remembers him as - anything else. And he looks what he is. This calm, bewhlskerea, ox-oyed and ner ous face ehows that he has a past. His tall, quick, elastic frame reveala the strength and health of an iron con stitution. There is just th e slightest tendency in his head to bend forward when he walks, but the plain blgck gold-headed cane he carries is a habit, n.ot a necessity. Ho dresses nearly al ways In black. His coat Is the lengthy senatorial frock. His necktie Is the plain, old-fashioned cravat. In his shirt la a tiny gold stud, and on the littlo finger of his left hand is a small ring. Except this and a plain watfch chain, he seemß to possess no Jewelry. He is never shabby, but be Is never fashionable. The most flamboyant ar ticle of attire he ever wears Is a seaJ trimmed overcoat, likewise black. He appears bo have no modldh tastes. Even the marriage of bis daughter to a titled foreigner did not lure him to social functions. t - THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. pSICASTORIfI The Kind You Have BearS the Fac " simile Signature Qp Promote s Digfestion,Cheer ful ness and Rest.Contains neither _/7 Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. // /7 J .>?- Not Narcotic. C/ut&^McJUM f/tarm of Old VrSANUILBIUaR AxJmtnm * \ g§L. WRAPPER Wnjfttd - 1 VE&Z&nr. ) OF EVERY ROTTI F Worms,Convulsions.Feverish- * * l—<l—<• ness and Loss OF SLEEP. ——— il THE KIND NIW YORK. MIWMMMI YOU HAYE \ EXACT copy PF wbapfeb. ALWAYS BOUGHT. *" ' ,1 nvtiCd'h. r THC CtNTA J „ COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE TOWN LOTS. Tho undersigned administrator c. t. a. of Catharlno Weaver deceased ; also attorney in fact for tho lid s of Catharine Weaver deceas ed ; and the committee of Margaret Weaver will sell at public auction, at the Court Ilousc In Bloomsburg on SATURDAY. MARCH i 9 th, 1898, at a o'clock p. m. all that certain lot of ground situate la the Town of Bloomsburg, on Market Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, bounded as follows: Beginning at a corner on Market Street on Hue of land of 11. C. llariman, thence aloog said Btreet south twenty-live de grees tlfty-slx minutes west seventy-three and seventy one-hundredths fe6t ton corner of lot of F. r>. Dcntler, tlienco along snld lot south sixty-tour degrees fourteen minutes west one hundred ninety-two and thirty-nine one hundredth feet to an alley, t hence along said alley north twenty-live degrees west seventy two and eighty one hundredth feet to lot of 11. C. Ilartman aforesaid, thence along said lot north sixty-three degrees flfty-clght minutes east one hundred ninety-one and seventeen one-hundredth feet to Market street, the place of beginning, whereon Is erected a dwelling house, and barn. Tills Is one of the most desir able building lots In Bloomsburg. TERMS OF BALE: Ten per cent, on day of sale; oalance of one-fourth on July Ist., 1898, and the remaining three fourths on April Ist., lew. C. W. FUNSTON, Administrator c. t.. a. of Catharine Weaver dee'd and attorney in fact for heirs of Catharine Wea -1 ver dee'd. GEO. E. ELWELL, Committee of Margaret Weaver. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a writ of Fl. Fa. Issued out of the Court of Common l'loasor Columbia county and to me directed there will be exposed to public sale at the court bou3e lu Bloomsburg, Fa., on SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1898, at two o'clock p. m. the following described real estate situate in Main township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to-wlt: Bounded upon the north by land of William Harmony, east by land of 8 c. Beagle, south by land of J. W. John and Mary Bankus and west by land or David Jobn. con taining twenty-four acres of land more or less, upon which Is erected a frame dwelling house and stable. Seized, and taken Into execution on the suit of Catharine Decker vs. Wm. and John Har mony and to be sold as the property of John Harmony. CHRIS.MAN. W. W. BLACK, Att'y. Sheriff, SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, Issued out of the Court of Common Pleas or Columbia county, Pa„ and to me directed, will be exposed to public sale at the Court House, lu Bloomt burg, on SATURDAY. MARCH 26, 1898, at 2 o'clock p m., all that certain piece or parcel of land situate In the town of Bloomsburg, Col umbia county, Pa., bounded and described as follows, viz.: Beginning at a point In the west lino of 1 ind of E, c. Caswell, ono hundred and thirty and a half feet south of sixth street: thence along satd line south twonty-four de grees and forty-live minutes, east one hundred und eighty aud live-tenth feet to a post, twenty five feet from the center of tract of the most northerly Biding of the Bloomsburg and Sulli van Railroad; thence by land of said Railroad by a right curve with a radius of three hundred and seventy-eight feet for a distance of two hundred and slxty-slx feet to a post; thence parallel with said sixth street, north sixty-four degrees and forty minutes, east one hundred and ninety feet to the plnce of beglnnlog. Selxed, taken Into execution at the suitor E. it. Ikeler, assignee, vs. Bernetta Moars et al., and to be sold as the property of Keystono Foundry and Machine Co. W. V. BLACK, Ikeler & Ikeler, Sheriff Attorneys- 3-3-is. PUBLIC SALE —OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. of Lavina stout, in Brlarcrcek township, Colum bia county, Pa., deceased, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1898, at 10 o'clock a. tn., on the premises, all that cer talu piece or parcel of land In said township, beginning at a stone In the public road, thence by same south fifty-two and three-fourth de grees, west thirty-eight and four-tenth perches to stone; thence south one and one-fourth de grees. cast eighty-four and seven-tenth perches to a stone; thence north sixty degrees, east forty-seven and six-tenth perches to a stone ; thence north eight and one-half degrees, west olghty-nve perches to a stone, the place of be - ginning, containing TWENTY ACRES AND FORTY TWO PERCHES of land, neat measure, on which aro erected a DWELLING HOUSE, barn and outbuilding, lino orchard, well wa tered. TERMS OF SALE: 1100 on striking down of property. S2O on confirmation, balance In six months from confirmation with Interest to be secured by bond and mortgage on premises. Deed to be delivered on confirmation. O. B. JACKSON. Trustee. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE -OF VALUABLR REAL ESTATE Pursuant to an order of the Orphans' Court of Columbia county, the undersigned Administra tor of Mary C. Gruver, deceased, will expose to sate. the following described real estate: VALUABLE HOUSE AND LOT, situate In the Town of Bloomsburg, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, hounded and described as follows, to-wlt: Beginning at a point on the south-east side of Third street. In said Town, twenty-live and one-sixteenth feet west from line of lot or lands of the Catholic church and running thence westwardly along said Third street thirty-five feet, more or less, to an alley; thence southwardly along said alley to line of land of 8. U. Shlve on the rear of the premises hereby convoyed; thence along the same eastwardly thlrty-flve feet, more or less, to line of land of the Catholic church aforesaid; thence northwardly by the same to the place of beginning, containing twenty and fifteen six teenths perches of land, more or less, on which are erected a two-story FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, AND STABLE. Sale to be held on the promises on TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1898, at 2 o'clock p. m. Conditions made known on day of sole. JOHN M. GAIIMAN, Ikeler A Ikelor, Attys. Administrator. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Estate of E. J. Cole, deceased. ' nl\J a * rsf V ne< * Auditor, appointed by the CuHr }<y Columbia County, to make il, on . Of J ha fwda in the hands of the l to ( }!} a mno, 'U the parties loyally JfJn thereto, will meet the parties interested, 4,ti 'n )UriJOi ¥ r his appointment, at his office in the Town of Bloomslmrg, Pa. on Saturday the lWi day of March A. D. 1898 at \Q o'clock in the forenoon of said day, when and inhere all persons are requested to present their claims against the estate of said deceased or be forever debarred from coming in for a share thereof. W. A. EVERT, Auditor. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Estate of J. R. Evans, late of Bloomsburg, Pa., deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary mi t/ie estate of J. H. Kvans, late of Bloomsburg, Pa., deceased, have been granted to Andrew L. Fritz, to whom all persons indebted to said estate are ret/vested to make payment, and those having claims or demands will make known the same \ without delay, ANDREW L. FRITZ, £-10-61. Executor. CARDSJe- N. U. FUNK, ATTORH*T-AT-lAW, Ua Knt't Building, Court Horn* Alley, BLOOMSBURG, PA. A. L. FRITZ, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Poet Office Building, 2nd door, BLOOMSBURG, PA, C. W. MILLER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Wirt's Building, 2nd floor, BLOOMSBURG, PA. John o. muz*. John a. habman FREEZE & HARMAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, BLOOMSBURG, PA. omces: Centre St., first door below Opera Bouse GEO. E. ELWELL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Columbian building, 2nd door, BLOOMSBURG, P.A. WM. H MAGILL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. BLOOMSBURG, PA. Office in Peacock's building, Market Square. W. H. SNYDER, ATTORNEY- \T-LAW, Office 2nd floor Mrs. Enls building, BLOOMSBURG, PA. ROBERT R. LITTLE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Columbian Building, 2nd floor, BLOOMSBURG, PA. A. N. YOST, ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W Wirt Building, Court House Square. BLOOMSBURG, PA. H. A. McKILLIP. ATTORNEY—AT—LAW. Columbian Building, 2nd Floor. BLOOMSBURG, PA. RALPH R. JOHN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hartman Building, Market Square, Bloomsburg, Pa. IKELER & IKELER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office back of Farmers' National Bank. BLOOMSBURG, PA. R. RUSH ZARR, —Attorney-At-Law. — BLOOMSBURG, PA. Office in Clark's Block, corner of and and Centre Streets, I-12.'94 W. A. EVERT, Attorney-At-Law. BLOOMSBURG, PA. (omce over Alexander A Co. Wirt building. G. M. QUICK, ATTO RNLV-AT -LAW, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Office over First National Bank. EDWARD J. FLYNN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, CENTRALIA, PA. rw-Offlce Llddlcot building, Locust avenue. JOHN M. CLARK, ATTORMXY-ATHLAW AHRJUIO OF THE TRACE, Idojtt Bn. BriHht Sad ffiuur, BLOOMSBURG, PA. J. IL MAIZE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TMYITRATB AM REAL ESTATE A<mk Office in Lockard's Building. BLOOMSBURG, PA. B. FRANK ZARR, ATTORXIY-ATLAW, Clark's Building, cor. Mara and Ccatm stx, BLOOMSBURG, fa "Can be consulted in German. w. H. RHAWN, ATTORNXY-AT-LAW, Office, corner of Third and Main StndL CATAWISSA, PA. DR. J. C. RUTTER, PHYSICIAN AMD SURGEON, Office, North Market SUM, BLOOMSBURG. PA. J. S. JOHN, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and residence, 410 Main St., 3-70- iy : BLCOMSBUFG, PA J. HOWARD PATTERSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Second floor Columbian Telephone 1463. BLOOMSBURG, SFICIAL ATTENTION TO DISEASES OF OLIUM H. BIERMAN, M. D. HOM4EOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGMB OFFICE HOURS: Office A Residence, 4th fat. Until () A.M., 1 to 2 and 7to 8 F. ii. BLOOMSBURG, FA S. B. ARMENT, M. D. Office and Residence No. 18. West FUth St ILTF/MS CP IPE TDROAT AND NOSB SPECIALTY (8 to 10 A.M. BLOOMBBUMB OFFICL HOURS. <2 to 4 P. M. (7 to P. M. PA. DR. ANDREW GRAYDON. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, BLOOMSBURG, PA. omce and residence In Prof. Waller's unst. * MARKET STREET TELEPHONE. HENRY W. CHAMPLIN, M. D. Office over Farmer's National Bank. Hours to to 12 A. M., 3 to 5 and j toBP.M Residence, 218 Third St. TELEPHONE. DR. F. W. REDEKER. PH\ BICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence, Centre St., between 4th and tsth Sts. Diseases of tho ear, nose and throat a specialty. BLOOM SBVRG. PA. 18 to 10 a m. OFFICE HOURS: -J 1 to 8 p. m. (7 to 9 p. m. J. J. BROWN, M. D., Market Street. BLOOMSBUSO, P*. THE EYE A SPECIALTY. Eyes treated, tested, fitted with gb.net and Artificial Eyes supplied Hours 10 to 4. Telephone Con r ecctoa DR. M. J. HESS DENTISTRY IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, Crown and bridge work —A SPECIALTY, Corner Main and Centre Streets, BLOOMSBURG, PA., DR. W. H. HOUSE SURGEON DENTIST, Office, Barton's Building, Main below Mark* BLOOMSBURG, PA. All styles of work done in a superior manner, and all work warranted as represented. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, by the use of Gas, and free of charge what artificial teeth are inserted. WTo be open all hours during the day, DR. C. S. VAN HORN. —DENTIST.— Office corner of East and Main streets, on posite Town Hall. Office hours 8:80 to 12 a. m ; 2 to 5 p. m. BLOOMSBURG, PA. • C. WATSON McKELVY, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT. (Successor to B. P. Hartman Represents twelve of the strongest conu. les in the world, among which are: CABH TOTAL SU&PLOI Franklin of Phila.. 'ASSfrAyjES.'°g 4 Penn a. Phlla 400,000 8A96.n0 MSK 1 N- Y. 500,000 3,588,916 I N iPM I Westchester, N.T. 800,000 1,768,807 w..v * N. America, Phlla. 8,000,000 9,730/1)89 BAMS OFFICE IK I. w. MCKRLVT'S STOBB. WLosses promptly adjusted and paM. M. P. LUTZ & SON, (SUCCESSORS TO PREAB BROWN) INSURANCE AND REAL ESTAT* AGENTS AND BROKERS N. W. Corner Main and Centre. Streets, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Represent Seventeen as good Compu / ies as there are in the World and all f losses promptly adjusted and paid I at their Office. CHRISTIAN F. KNAPP, FIRE INSURANCE, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Home, of N. Y.; Merchants of Newark, N. J.; Clinton, N. Y.;Peoples', N. Y.; Read ing. Pa ; German American Ins. Co., New York; Greenwich Insurance Co., New York) Jersey City Fire Ins. Co., Jersey City, N. J. These old corporations are well seasoned by age and fire tested, and have never yet had a loss settled by any court of law. Tlwfc assets are all invested in solid securities. w4 liable to the hazard of fire only. Losses promptly and honestly adjusted aad paid as soon as determined, by Christ (as W. Knapp, Special Agent and Adjuster, llluiim burg, Pa. The people of Columbia county shoard patronize the agency where losses, if say, are settled and paid by one of their owa citizens. CENTRAL HOTEL, B. Stohner, Prop. C. F. Stobner, BLOOMSBURG, PA. l arge and convenient sample rooms. and cold water, and all modem The hotel has been lately refurnishe^^^^^^^^^H CITY HOTEDfjj^^^^^H 121 West nI.UOMHI^fI WLarpe hot and 7
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