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AT DAWN OF DAY.
Pf Unbroken silence, brilliant eastern tides,
Ef* without a stirring leaf.
$ • Incenpo from celestial chalices.
Afloat in midair brief,
_ Giving to mortul. Right and Rons©
i New beauties, rich nnd rare,
} ;' To tho thoughtful mind a moment
k ' For reverent praise and prayer.
Praise for our grout Creator,
}}•/ Prayer for our wayworn hours,
Hope for fulfilled promises, .
• Trust in benignant powers. ;
• Hid awe inspiring eilenco, f
As night shades pass uwny,
New life in alow procession
Proclaims the dawn ofiluy.
—Clark W. Bryan in Good Housekeeping.
TOBACCO PIPES.
A Medical Authority That Says Clay Is
Preferable to Wood.
If tobacco smoking is justifiable at all
em hygienic grounds, says The Lancet,
it is generally conceded that the pipe is
the least injurious means. But tobacco
pipes differ considerably in material
and shapes, both of which must bo im
portant factors in determining tho char
acter of the smoke. Thus thero are the
clay, tho meerschaum and the various
wooden pipes, the brier, cherry or my
all. Next to the tobacco, therefore,
which should always be puro and free
bom added flavoring, an expedient
which is resorted to far too commonly
nowadays, probably in many iustanoos
tn cover an inferior quality of tobacco,
the best kiud of pipo is a point to bo
considered. Even assuming that he is
■nokiug good tobacco, the smoker knows
• -v different in character tho smoke is
'rawu from a clay or a wooden
There is probably a scientiflo ex
.on of this fact which mußt havo
oearing on the noxious or innocu
jbaracter of the smoke associated
tb other products of combustion.
A soft clay is invariably cool smok
g bcrauso the acid oils obtained on
je destructive distillation of tho tobao
jo are absorbed instead of collecting in
a little pool, which must eventually
either by the volatilization or by me
chanical conveyance reach the mouth.
A particular pipe "smokes hot" not
necessarily because tho temperature of
the smoko is high, but because it favors
the passage by one of these means of
the oils into the mouth. Meerschaum is
another porous material. Again, an old
wooden pipe or brier, so dear to invet
erate smokers, becomes "smooth smok
ing" because tho pores of the wood
widen and so absorb, as is the case with
elay or meersohaum, a largo proportion
of the tobaoco oil.
Thus an old pipe "sweats," as it is
termed—that is, the oil intrudes into
the expanded pores of the wooden bowl
and at length exudes. Similarly a hook
ahaped pipe must be better than a pipe
the howl of which is on tho same level
with tho month, for tho simplo reason
that in the former a considerable quan
tity of the oil is kept back in the U
ahaped part of tho pipe, while in tho
latter tho oil travels easily down tho
■tern. Ebonite stems are in general ob
jectionable because they commonly spoil
the true flavor of tobacco smoke. This
is most probably due to the sulphur of
the ebonite combining with the volatile
oils in the smoke. Wo know instances
where ebonite stems havo produced dis
tinctly objectionable symptoms in tho
throat, most probably for tho reason
just given.
Bono or real amber makes a much
more. satisfactory stem, or tho pipes
should bo of wood throughout. Amber
substitutes, and especially celluloid,
should be discarded entirely as danger
ous, while tho flavor of camphor which
these iuvariably communicate to tho
smoke forms a very unpleasant combi
nation. Pipes of special construction
cannot be regarded with much favor,
such as those which are said to be hy
gienic uud usually contain a so called
nicotine absorber. Those smokers who
/ -J" l! r,e i such auxiliary attachnicuts had
*it all. As a matter of
WtowKKfa-yields little uicotino in the
smoko produced on its partial combus
tion. It is mainly to oils of a tarry and
acrid character that the toxio symptoms
of tobacco smoking are duo.
Ills ami Remedies.
Lord Byron, iu his reported conversa
tions with the Couutoss of Blessington,
remarked to her that "medical men do
not sufficiently attend to idiosyncrasies,
on which so much depends, and often
hnrry to tho grave one patient by a
treatment that has succeeded in anoth
er. The moment they ascertain a dis
ease to he the same as 0110 they have
known they conclude the same remedies
that cured tho first must remove those
of the second, not making allowances
for tho peculiarities of temperament,
habits and disposition, which last has a
great influence on maladies." Those re
marks are simple exaggerations of feel
ing and fact. Byrcn was no more enam
ored of tho medical profession than ho
was of professors of divinity, but he
was an acute obsorver, and it was inter
esting to read hie views respecting
idiosyncrasies. He judged rightly, very
rightly, of tboir importance in connec
tion with the practice of medicine.—
New York Ledger.
ShalceKfMuirtt's Autograph.
The rarest autographs in the world
are probably Shakespeare's, fculy seven
are olaimed to exist—three signatures
to his will (two of which are doubtful),
two to conveyances of property, one in
the folio cditiou of Ms plays (doubtful)
ami ono in a translation of Montaigne.
This last is in tho British musouin uud
cost over 800 guineas.
The largest gasometer in the world is
at East Greenwich. When full, it con
tains 12,000,000 cubic feet of gas. It
weighs 2,200 tons, is ISO feet high, 800
feet in diameter, requires 1,200 tons of
coal to fill it with gas and cost nearly
£40,000.
Gunpowder was iuvontod by Itoger
Bacon, an Englishman who lived in
the thirteenth century, but Germany'
claims the merit for several who lived
about 80 years after Bacon's decease, ; j
COST OF SABLES.
Bow tho Price Advances After the Skin
Leaves Siberia.
Up in tho great watershed dividing
Siberia and Mongolia lives a peculiar
raoe of people, half Chinese, half Tib
otans. Few Europenus have ever seen
them. In fact, with the exception of one
or two enterprising explorers or geo
pruphioul enthusiasts who havo crossed
the Altai range, European eyes have
never gnzed upon the aboriginal Syots
of northern Mongolia.
Sable hunting in tho Siberian moun
tains and northern Mongolia is confined
almost exclusively to tho Syots and oth
er native races, and it would surprise a
good many fur dealers in England to
know the prices which are paid by the
Siberiun traders to these poor aborigines
for the skins they collect.
Tho Siberian trader, knowing his
market, makes periodical journeys into
Mongolia. It is safe to say he does not
take a kopek of money with him, but he
drags behind him a well stuffed caravan
loaded with tea, tobacco, gunpowder
and shot, strings of beads for tho wom
en and roughly made mocoasins for tho
men. In duo course ho will come acrosß
a Syot enoampmcut.
Tho trader sits on his wagon and bar
ters cheerfully. With the eye of a con
noisseur and with flngors rendered deft
by long practice he sees and feels the
smooth, warm skins of the little ani
mals.
This small black one—well, a two
ounce packet of tobacco is enough for
that; that largo black one—a handful
of shot and an equal quantity of gun
powder; a paoket of tea for a lovely
skin with a long black Btripo down the
oenter; this one, a flno skin, but a lit
tle bit hurt by the shot entering tho
back—well, say a string of beads for
that.
In thoir original undressed state it is
safe to say that the skins do not cost
the Siberian trader much more than a
few .pence each on the average. As the
poor sable travels farther westward,
however, ho gets dearer and dearer. In
Tomsk one can buy a very good sable
for something liko 5 or 0 rubles, about
18s. In Omsk few are sold under 10 ru
bles—£l Is. In Moscow 100 per cent
goes on. In. St. Petersburg no one ex
cept the middle class or a functionary
would wear a sable under £5. In Paris
and London a real Siberian sable skin
will fetch anything up to £2O, but the
imitation sables of the present day havo
done much to depreciate this wonderful
trade.—London Mail.
HIS HIGH PRICED EYE.
How a Clever Ilunko Game Woe Flayed
on a Son of Sunny Italy.
A well planned scheme was worked
on a down town Italian confectioner
the other night whereby he lost SSO.
About 2 p. m. a man who had one good
eye and one glass eye came wandering
along tho street and stopped at this
Italian's fruit stand. Ho stooped over
to look at some of the fruit, when un
expectedly his glass eye fell from its
socket down among the bananas and
oranges.
The pretending purchasor at onco bo
gan a diligent search for tho missing
glass eye. With both hands he clawed
into the fruit, scattering it in all di
rections. The Italian came forward and
told tho stranger to stop. Tho one eyed
man explained that his glass eye had
dropped down there and that ho wanted
to get it.
The Italian became enraged and told
the strangor to come around in tho even
ing and he could get the other eye. Tho
man explained he was a stranger and
would not be hero in the evening, but
if ho (tho Italian) found tho eye he
should bring it to his hotel, whore SIOO
would be paid to him.
An hour later another man came
along, pretended to mnke a purchase,
and while fingering around in tho fruit
suddenly espied tho wonderful glass eye.
Tho man from Italy mado a grab for it,
but was too late, as his would be cus
tomer already had it. Both claimed the
eye, and a quarrel ensnoji. Tho Italiun
patched matters up by giving the stran
ger SOO for the eye, thinking he would
get SIOO upon returning it and he
would havo SSO clear.
Ho went to the hotel with the eye to
get the SIOO that 110 was told awaited
him thore. Ho found that no such man
had been thore and no SIOO was loft
there for him. Ho then saw how he was
worked and notified tho police.—Pitts
burg Commercial-Gazette.
—
Sheop Ticks.
Every ono who has sheep knows the
tick, tho worst post of this animal, that
does serious harm to the young lambs
without suspicion of the cause to tho
shepherd. This reddish brown creature
is a wingless fly and a very greedy blood
sucker. A dozen of them on a lamb will
quickly suck the littlo one dry. It is to
bo looked after at the time of shearing,
when theso insects go for shelter to the
lambs. It is found mostly where tho
animal cannot reach it—on its head,
buried in the skin, sucking tho blood.
Its skin is tougb, and it is not easily
crushed with less than a blow of a ham
mer.. In small flocks it is not much of a
job to go through, with a pair of
small scissors to cut tho ticks in two,
but where the flock is over a score it
will be neoossary to dip the lambs.—
Exchange.
The Count's Mistake.
"So Gwendolyn is not to marry the
count after all?"
"No, poor man. He tried to tell her
that her singing was somothing that
made ono glad to live, and his pronun
ciation was so broken that sho thought
ho said it inado one (Jad to leave, and
then sho requested him to leave."—ln
dianapolis Journal.
Te.tSne Him.
Bagley—Do you recollect that $5 I
let you have about a year ago?
Brace—Perfectly.
Bagley—That's good. I see your
tnomory is all right. llow's your eye
sight?— Harlem Life.
THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMS BURG, PA.
BWEET LIFE ENDED.
A Patient Sufferer Gone to Her Eternal
Home.
After many months of illness, Miss
Mary Gussie Benscoter, daughter of
Rev. C. L. and Mrs. Benscoter, ex
pired at the East Main Street M. E.
parsonage this morning at 9 o'clock.
The estimable young lady was aged
20 years.
Miss Benscoter took a two years'
course in the ladies' seminary at Bir
mingham, Pa., then attended the high
school at Altoona for two years, 3nd
spent two years in Dickinson semi
nary, Williamsport, in which institu
tion she graduated in Jtine, 1897. It
was while attending the latter institu
tion that the young lady became ill.
After arriving home in this city, she
was compelled to go to bed. Her
health gradually failing, on October
20 she was taken to the M. E. hospit
al, Philadelphia, where she submitted
to an operation on October 30. She
remained under treatment in that in
stitution until January 27, 1898,
when her case being considered hope
less she was brought to her home in
this city. From the time of her arriv
al home, the invalid endured intense
suffering, her life ebbing slowly but
surely each succeeding day until she
yielded it to Him who gave it. She
was conscious until the last.
Miss Benscoter's life was a daily
demonstration of the strong christian
faith which buoyed the young woman
up in all her sufferings. She was
possessed of many admirable traits.
At the early age of 8 years she was
converted, and from that time until
the close of her earthly career she
gave repeated manifestations of the
Chnstlife that was imbedded in her
being. She was very ambitious, which
quality revealed itself in the energetic
efforts she put forth to acquire her
studies, tier scholarly mind and
Christian fortitude in the last days of
her life were apparent in the conver
sations with her parents, to whom she
spoke unreservedly and with a yearn
ing earnestness of the time when she
would be permitted to enter the
pearly gates. In health, her actions
exhaled kindness and love ; in the
sick room her utterances gave
glimpses of the bright hope that
strengthens true Christian character
when completely resigned and sub
missive to the will of the Heavenly
Father. Her sweet life will never be
forgotten by those who were nearest
to her.
Deceased is survived by her par
ents, her brother, Warren E., and her
sister, Helen Clarinda. The funeral
ivill take place Saturday afternoon.
Services will be conducted in the
East Main Street M. E. Church. The
remains will be exposed to view at
the house from 9:30 a. m. until time
of service. Interment will be made
in Highland cemetery. The time of
the services will be announced later.
—Lockhavcn Democrat.
The deceased had friends in Blooms
burg, whose inimacy with her in life
causes them to very much regret her
taking off.
PILES—ITCHING, BLIND AND BLEED
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The Richest Island.
The island of Cuba has about the
same area as the State of Penn
sylvania. From east to west it is
probably twice the length of Penn
sylvania, but its average width is
much less, not mote than 80 miles.
It is a common saying there is 110
space on earth the equal in size to
Cuba that can begin to compare with
her in the production of those things
that are useful to man. Antonio
Morales, a noted authority, has pre
pared a table showing the variety and
quantities of the staples that can be
raised on a tract of thirty-three acres
in Cuba. A farm of that size in one
year produces thousands of pounds of
sugar, coffee, tobacco, cocoa, (choco
late), cotton, indigo, corn, rice, sage,
bananas and yucca. The choicest
lands in California—noted for the
vaiiety and quantity of their products
—cannot approach the soil of Cuba
in this respect.
Pennsylvania supports a population
of between five and six millions and
is increasing rapidly. Cuba with
good government, it is believed,
could support in plenty a population
of 10,000,000. Her natural resour
ces are infinite in variety. Of her
area only 10 per cent is under culti
vation. The land not reclaimed from
a state of nature is 7 per cent of the
whole.
The commerce of Cuba before
the war Indicates the possibilities of
the island under free and orderly
government. In 1893 Cuba export
ed 718,204 tons of sugar and produc
ed 8x5,894 tons. Its exports of
molasses to the United States alone
in that year were 7,654 hogsheads.
Of rum the exports were 9,308 pipes
In 1803 the Cuban exports of leaf
tobacco were 227,565 bales. Of
manufactured cigars 147,365,000 were
exported and of cigarettes'39,sßl, 493
packages. These are only the main
exports. They show what may be
done with the exhaustless soil and
climate of the island when its people
were in a condition ot virtual slavery
under Spanish rule.
The mineral resources of Cuba are
of great variety. American capital
and enterprise was being attracted to
their development before the present
revolt broke out.
It ;s singular that Cuba has great
claims as a pastoral country. Her
pastures are broad and rich, and a
century ago raised more cattle and
horses. The island, with these natur
al pastures, was just beginning to
raise fine Durham and Devonshire
stock when ten year war desolated the
country and put a stop to the industry.
The millions of acres of free land in
Cuba are ready for the agriculturist,
the cattle, sheep and hog raiser, the
cotton and fruit grower, the miner
and the reducing plant, and even for
the silk grower manufacturer.
Once independent, immigrants will
be attracted to Cuba in great, num
bers. American capital, labor and
enterprise will go there, and in time
become an influential factor in pro
gress and orderly government.
Havana will become the second port
on the Atlantic side of the Western
hemisphere— Pittsburg Post.
ATMOSPHERES OF PLANETS-
The Gaseous Envelope Which Surrounds
Venus is Much Like Our Own.
Dr. Johnson Stoney's name has
long been associated, with a theory
that the composition of the atmos
phere of a planet, and, indeed, the
question whether it shall have an at
mosphere or not, depends upon the
size of the planet, which determines
the force of gravity at its surface.
It is more particularly with a refer
ence to the moon that the theory has
usually been presented. Stripped of
its scientific phraseology, Dr. Stoney's
view is that the gravitational force of
| the mocn, which only about one
sixth as great as the earth's, is not
strong enough to prevent the indefi
nite expansion of such gases as form
the earth's atmosphere, and that con
sequently if the moon ever had a gas
eous envelope these gases were pro
bably long ago dissipated in space.
Water vapor upon the moon would be
as tru!tnt as a gas. Hence the moon
has lost, by evaporation into space,
its seas as well as its atmosphere.
The latest conclusions to which Dr.
Stoney's investigations have led him,
and which are set forth very fully in
the "Transactions of the Royal
Society of Dublin," are thus summed
up by Nature :
Limiting the inquiry to a tempera
ture of 61 degrees Centigrade below
zero, Dr. Stoney applies the theory to
all of the members of the solar sys
tem, with the following results : From
the moon, all gases having a vapor
density less than 39 will escape with a
greater promptness than hydrogen
and helium do from the earth.
Hence the present airless and water
less condition of our satellite. It may
be said here, parenthetically, that Dr.
Stoney's theory accounts for the ab
sence of free hydrogen and helium
from our atmosphere, these gases both
being too active in their molecular to
be kept in check by the earth's gravi
tational force. On Mercury water
cannot exist, while nitrogen and oxy
gen would gradually dribble away.
The conditions of Venus resemble
those of the earth ; but the case of
Mars is ot exceptional interest. Dr.
Stoney says that it is legitimate to
infer that on this planet water cannot
remain. The atmosphere of Mars he
thinks to consist mainly of nitrogen,
argon and carbon dioxide. Upon
this view there can be no vegetation,
as we understanil the term, upon the
planet, and its snows, frost and fog do
not arise from the same cause as on
the earth. Jupiter is able to imprison
all gases known to chemists ; but
whether the more distant members of
our system can retain hydrogen is
doubtful. Helium and the denser
gases probably float in their atmos
phere ; but the lighter gases are
gathered about the sun, the velocity
which their "molecules" can acquire
enabling them to escape from plane
tary control, but still being insufficient
to liberate them from the gravitation
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TOWN CAVED IN.
Hundred and fifty Houses Wrecked at
Duryea-
Buildings Sink Through the Earth. Two
Minors Supposed to Have Perished.
The mining town of Duryea, near
Wilkesbarre, was the scene of a dis
astrous cave-in shortly before noon on
Friday and two men are thought to
have perished. For some time past
the surface over the old workings of
the Halstead mine has been settling
and Friday morning it went down
with a loud crash. Over 150 houses
were wrecked. They rocked to and
fro for a few seconds and then began
to settle in the earth.
Men, women and children rushed
in terror from their homes. In many
cases the houses were so twisted that
the doors could not be opened and
such occupants as were penned in
their homes were in a state of terror
until others came to their assistance
and chopped open a means ot egress.
The land involved in the settling is
over the old working of the Halstead
colliery of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Company, and is from
one-half to three-quarters of a square
mile in area.
When the cave-in occurred there
were seven men at work in the nine.
They were Fred Hensel, James
Hardy, '1 homas Robson, Henry
Hudelson, Charles Carey, David
Emanuel and Thomas R. Williams.
All were rescued with the exception
of Emanuel and Williams. It is be
lieved they have perished. The loss
will reach sSo,cco.
OASTORIA.
Bears the The Kind You Ham Always Bougft
A veteran of the civil war recently
told lis the following: "I suppose I
got excited with all the war talk, and
when I went to bed I got to dream
ing about old Virginia in 1863. We
were marching along a road through
a piece of swampy woods when the
rebels cut loose on us from the thicket
It was a beautiful fight, and I was
right in the middle of it cheering on
the men. 'Hold the road,' I shouted,
'Hold the road and shoot low.' Just
then I got a poke in the ribs that
doubled me up like a jack knife, and
; I woke up to hear the old woman say:
i 'Hold your tongue, you crazy loon,
you'll wake up all the folks in the
I house.' I turned over on the other
side and the rebels didn't bother me
any more."
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The press of the land has daily a long
list of sudden deaths which would not
be chronicled if Dr. Agnew's Cure for
the Heart were used.—49.
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Denmark's kings for 384 years
have all been named Christian or
Frederick. This is not the result of
accident. It is the law of Denmark
that Chiistian must be succeeded by
Frederick and Frederick by Christian.
To attain this and without the chang
ing of names in case of death or other
teason every Danish prince, no matter
what other names- lie may teceive,
always includes Christian and .Freder
ick among them.
OASTORIA.
tllß /t The Kind You Have Always Boujtf