6 CAPTURE OF A VETERAN. % the Commander In Chief of Hla Head quarters. **Bay, mister, have you seen a moan Itokiu little cuss with a blue suit an brass buttons on hangin raoun here this wwk?" said a tall woman to the clerk at a Lewiston hotel Friday. "Don't know that I have. How mean does he look?" was the reply. "He perteuds to bo a vitran," con tinued the woman regarding tho clerk aver her glasses, "an ginrally about Grand Army time he disappears from hia wife's bed an board an goes off an licks the hull sonthi I want to soohim. I want him to come home." Up the corridors came the sound of laughter. A party of veterans were telling tulos of war. A familiar voice smote npon tho air. The woman's lips closed tightly. "I tell you, comrades, I jes' enjoyed that air fight at Chaucellorsville more'n I did the hull durned muss from fus to las'. You see, Gin'rul Jackson wnsoif on to our lef' a-trampin like tho very devil to outflank the Union lines. That air raarnin my cap'u bo sez to mo, sez he, 'Jake, you take a detachment o' five nan an go aout an see what Stonewall's doinl Ef you suspect—ef you suspect,' sez he—' that there's any kind o' sneakin r beatiu aroun tho bush goin on, you jes' lay low an kyboot for the Union lines.' 'Well, sez I'"— Just then a woman shoved through • . - w<g and liuked her arm in his. 'irds died on his lips. The light of his eyes. A spasm passed countenance that left it n sickly _ the color of the hide of a sour " über. abez," said the woman, "bo you a "'y sn sß' iu ? What made you tako VG a ' r * IOSS au drive here to this A A. R. spree? Hev you been a-driuk in'? Hev you been a-forgettin of your ooni ll>atl dnieut not to lie? Did you tell these gentlemen that as fur as you got to war was to Augusta, an thet you ant so feared ovor there thet you was sick for three weeks? Giu'rul Jackson! You little lyin thing you! Did you tell the Grand Army men that you was drafted an thet they couldn't find you far six weeks where you was a-hidiu in tho woods? "Come home, .Tabez—tho caows and the pigs need you." And the little old man in tho blno onatldWrttf up into the woman's face with a gray, misty, tearful look in his ayes. The glad light that had been in them was gone. His little hit of glory was at an end. Poor old fellow—after all!—Lewistcn :■ (Me.) Journal. BONAPARTE'S DAUGHTER. The PrlncoHS Charlotte Spent Many Happy Months In America. "Queen Julio never joined her hus band, Joseph Bonaparte, the fugitive king of Spain, in this country," writes William Perrino in Tho Ladies' Home Journal, "but lute in 121 their daugh ter, the vivacious young Princess Char lotto, determined to console her father in his oxilo. She arrived at Philadel phia in the ship Ruth and Mary, coin- L manded by Captain Mickle. Tho ship's A. wharf was covered with a crowd anx ■> ions to see her. Only 19 years old, cf highly animated temperament and de lighted at tho ending of tho 10 days' voyage, tho young girl was in an ecstasy of pleasure. She waved her fur bonnet at the persons on the wharf with such careless delight that it fell from her hands ovbr tho ship's rail and into tho river. In her transport of enthusiasm she snatched Captain Micklo's hat from his head, gayly placed it on licr own and saluted her admirers anew. "Joseph was highly pleased with *Gha£lotto, whom ho had not seen since * waftJ, mid tried to give her as much compensation us liajsould for the pleasures of the continental lifo she had left behind. Ke took her to Long Branch and Saratoga, but ho soon discovered that her chief tasto was for painting. At tho old gallery of the Academy of Fino Arts in Philadelphia were exhibit ed several studies and landscapes from her brnsh." * Coal Fortnalion. It will be remarked that tho deposits rfanthracito are found in very moun tainous regions. The difference between thia hard and what are called tho soft coals was explained to mo by the late Professor William B. Rogers. When the contraction of tho earth's surface took place by which the mountain re gions of Pennsylvania und a fow other parts of the carboniferous series were t formed, these mountains were thrown np, turned over and twisted in such a manner as to cause the rantcrinls of vegetable origin of which coal is formed to become coked, or partly coked, under extremo pressure. It is due to that pres sure and accompanying heat that tho anthracite coals aro hard and virtually flee from bitnmeu; while, unuor other conditions, tho bituminous or scmibitu minous coals aro solt and moro friable, containing mure bituminous element. In some other parts of the earth's sur face where coal is fouud tho so called brown ooals and lignites havo not been subjected to tbo measure of heat under pressuro sufficient to convert them into true coal.—Edward Atkinson in Cen tury. Where the Ticket Went. In an elevated station on a rainy day, just before reaching tho ticket chopper's box, a woman dropped her ticket. It dis appeared as oompictcly as though tho bad never had it. She looked around on the floor, but it was nowhere to be seen. It was very strange. "Look in your umbrella," said tho ticket chopper. Who carried an umbrella, which was closed, but not rolled up. She turned it with the handle, end down and tbo ticket dropped out on the floor. She smiled as she picked it up and put -t in the box. Tho ticket chopper said vothing. Ho had soon this huppou be iae.—New York Sun. ORIGIN OF THE BICYCLE. It May He Traced as Far Hack as the Seventeenth Century. In St. Nicholas Frank H. Yizetolly has told "The Story of the Wheel," tracing the evolution of the bicycle. Mr. Vizetelly says: It has been often said that "to traco the origin of the bicycle wo must go back to the beginning of tho century," and as this has not been denied it is probably truo. I shall try to show that tho bicycle grew from experiments in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that the celerifere, first inventod in IC9O, was the earliest form of the "safety" of today. The first attempts to ride wheels date back as far as the fifteenth century. True, tho machines then made wore crude, clumsy and im perfect, yet they deserve mention, for they were a distinct step in the history of the wheel. The first of theso was a heavy carriage driven by means of ropes attached to and wound round its axle tree. To the other end of the ropes a polo was tied, and this pole was used as a lever in front of the vehicle, and by this means it was slowly drawn for ward. Little was done in the century fol lowing, yet in tho "Memoirs of Henry Fetherstono" it is told that a Jesuit missionary named Ricius, who was travoling down tho Ganges, having missed a boat that plied at regular in tervals between points he was to visit in his journey, made up for lost timo by building a small carriage propelled by levers. Because so few details aro told, the truth of tho author's account has been doubted or discredited by many. In one of England's older churches — St. Giles' at Stoke Pogis—is a window of stained glass on which may bo seen a chorob astride of a hobby horse, or wooden "wheel." At the sides, in sep arate panels, as if to fix the dato of the design, stand two young men attired in Puritan dress, ouo playing the violin, the other, with hands in his pockets, smoking a pipe. Is it from this design that the first thought of the hobby horse of other days was taken? Before the Royal Academy of Sciences, in 1693, Ozauam read a paper describ ing a vehicle driven by the pedaling <>f a footman, who stood in a box behind and rested his hands on a bar lovcl with his chin attached to the back of an awning above the rider in the convey ance. This may prove that Fether stone's account was not untrue. Oza nam's vehicle was followed by another, built on a somewhat similar plan, by an Englishman named Ovenden about 1761, for a description of tho machine then appeared in The Universal Maga zine. The vehicle was said to he "tho best that has hitherto been invented." The distance covered "with ease" by this rudo vehicle is stated to have been six miles an hour; with a "peculiar exertion," nine or ten miles. The steer ing was dono with a pair of reins. IN THE FOCUS. Is This the lieaKon Our Actors Like tho Center of the Stage? Perhaps the fondness of certain actors today for the center of the stage is a survival from the time when no other position was adequately lighted. In tho early days of this century, before the introduction of gas, the footlights con sisted of half a dozen or moro oil lamps, and the point where their rays converg ed was very properly known as tho "fo cus." Here all important passages of tho piece had to be delivered, since else where tho accompanying play of feature was not assuredly visible. It is told that when one of Keau's admirers com plimented him at supper aftor a per formance of "Othello," saying that in tho great scene with lago he almost thought tho tragedian would strangle the villain, Kean answered: "Confound the fellow. He was trying to get me out of tho focus." Under tho electric light the face of the aotor can now be seen clearly in the most, remote corner of the stage.—"The Conventions of the Drama," by Brander Matthews, in Soribner'a. The Silk Cotton Tree. The most remarkable tree on the island of New Providonco is without question a specimen of tho silk cotton (Bombax ceiba) situated near tho poutoftice and prison. Growing from its trunk are half a dozen buttresslike extensions, as if to make a flrm footing for its great spread of branches of 116 feet. A little boy to whom I showed a photograph of it expressed its appearance very well when ho said tho spaces between the buttresses would make flue horse stalls. Tho pods which grow on the treo con tain a soft, silky material which the natives sometimes use for stuffing pil lows. There aro moro of these trees, but none so largo or old as this one, and we heard no estimate of its age. It is a near relative of tho monkey tamarind. Between this bombax and tho library is an avenue of Spanish laurel, a mem ber of tho fig family—untidy and inele gant trees, with a growth of roots hang ing from their branches which never reach the ground. Ail these trees bear fruit, but the figs are small and unfit for oating.—E. G. Cummiugs in Popu lar Science Monthly. It Killed Him. "I should fancy the laundry husinoss was about as easy as auy to start." " What makes you think so?" "Ail yon have to do is to lay in a supply of 6taroh." "Yes." "Well, that'll starch you all right." Three days after tbero was a burial. —London Tit-Bits. Woman'* Woe. It was torriblo. The tempest bent the sea into a horrid fury, the waves were mountain high and they swept over the frail craft oeaselessly. s "My flesh creeps I" he crijuw/t V "My complexion runs!" shrieked toie. For it is the lot of woajou to suffer nost.—Detroit Journal. V' ■ THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. 6 ARM AN KESFB HIS PLAOE. Nanticoko Statesman Elected State Chair, man Without Opposition. The next State Democratic conven tion will be held in Altoona, June 29. This was settled at a meeting in Har risbtirg of the State committee. John M. Gartrun of Nanticoke was re elected chairman without opposition. The meeting was held behind closed doors and lasted (our hours. The Philadelphia contest was referred to a sub-committee after a lively skir mish. The committee reported un animously in favor of the Gordon- Delahunty committee as against the friends of city chairman Thomas J. Ryan, and the report was adopted by a vote of 58 to 12. The Ryan peo ple gave notice that they will carry the contest into Philadelphia courts. The Union county contest was de cided in favor of B. O. Brown, whose seat was contested by Thomas C. Barber. Resolutions were adopted reaffirming the principles of the Chi cago and Reading platforms, congrat ulating Bryan for his "masterly leader ship" in support of the principles of a "glorious cause," ratifying the action of the Reading convention in electing Col. Guffey of Pittsburg, on the nat ional committee in place of William F. Harrity, of Philadelphia, and urg ing the national committee to recog nize Col. Guffey at once; expressing sorrow at tiie death of the heroes of the Maine disaster, criticizing the national administration for "peace at any price vacillation, and for failure to make demand for reparation for loss sustained by the country by reas on of the destruction of the battle ship;" endorsing the action of the Democratic senators and congressmen in their efforts to obtain recognition of the Republic of < luba ; deprecating President McKinley's delay in execu ting the decrees of Congress in the Spanish-American controversy; de manding a vigorous prosecution of the war if Spain refuses to evacuate Cuba, condemning the existing cor ruption and extravagance, urging all citizens regardless of politics to aid in driving from public service those who have degraded and coirupted it. Lippincott's Mugasina For May, 1898. The complete novel in the May issue of I.ippincotfs is "The Uncall ed," by the colored poet, Paul Laur ence Dunbar. Though understood to be his first essay in extended fiction, it is an extremely strong and thor oughly readable story. The scene is laid mainly in a small Ohio town ; the hero is a youth of the humblest origin, who is forced into the ministry and works his way out of it. "No. 87,617 Colt," by George Brydges Rodney, recounts the experi ences of a small party of Americans in Cuba during a former insurrection. Theodore Gallagher describes one phase of a very wild Western town in "The Election at Cayote." Both are stirring tales. "Woman's Work and Wages" are discussed by Eleanor Whiting, who claims that matrimony is the most ap propriate and profitable business for women in general, and that they had better net attempt direct wage-earn ing. This highly conservative position she defends by an array of facts and arguments. Dr. Charles C. Abbott has a brief paper on "Blunders in Bird-Nesting," meaning those of the birds. James Weir, Jr., writes on "The Faculty of Computing in Animals," and William S. Walsh inquires, "Do Animals Drink ?" He replies that they do, on some occasions, and become in toxicated like their betters. The ways of "The Indian Afoot," and his extraordinary abilities as a pedestrian, are set forth by William Trowbridge Lamed. By "The Sacred Flowei" Marvin Dana means the Rose. "Peop!e-in-Law" form the subject of a little essay by Alan Cam eron. Frank G. Carpenter deals with "The Book-Loves of Statesmen"-*-/**, some of them. "The Literature of Tapan" is briefly discussed by Joslyn Z. Smith. The poetry of the number is by Florence Radcliffe, Grace F. Penny packer, and Lee Fairchild. I - -Lrxruruxru-L -LO_n -LfX _ i. i. -i. i. uuuim- i Heart Spasms 11 DR. AGKSW'S Cure for the Henri a | Worrderful Life-Saver. 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JVAereas, by a joint resolution of Congress, approved 011 the 20th day of April, 1898, entitled "Joint reso lution for the recognition of the in dependence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, to withdraw its land and naval forc es from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing tlie President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect," and Whereas, by an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for tem porarily increasing the military es tablishment of the United States in time of war and for other purposes," approved April 22, 1898, the Presi dent is authorized, in order to raise a volunteer army, to issue his proc lamation calling for volunteers to serve in the army of the United States. Now, therefore, I, William Mc- Kinley, by virtue of the power vest ed in me by the Constitution and the laws, and deeming sufficient oc casion to exist, have thought fit to call for and hereby do call for vol unteers to the aggregate number of 125,000 in order to carry into effect the purpose of the said resolution ; the same to be apportioned as far as practicable among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia, according to population, and to serve for two years unless sooner discharged. The details for thisAjbject will be immediately com municated to the proper authorities through the War Department. 11l witness whereof, I have here unto set inj' hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 23rd day of April, A, D. 1898, and of the Independence of the United States the 122 nd. (Seal) WILLIAM MCKINLEY. By the President. John Sherman, Sec. of State. 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Relatives in Sedalia tried to break the will, but the court has just handed down a decision sustaining it, and so Mrs. Morris, who is a charming, in tellectual woman, will pass her remain ing days in comfort. Few women have had such a strange experience. When young Allison came with the love song on his lips in the springtime of life Lucille had pledged her troth to another—Professor L. Morris. In vain did Chester plead. The young girl frankly confessed that she loved him, but her sense of honor was so high that she would not break her engagement with the professor. Allison, under the influence of her faith and truth, finally acknowledged that she was right. So they parted tearfully—she to contract a loveless marriage, he to deaden the pain in his heart in the quest for wealth. Years swept on, and last summer these two met again at an Eastern summer resort. She was free. Three years before a court had broken the bonds that united her to Protessor Morris. She was still beautiful. 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