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SHOES!
Newest Spring Styles
for Men and Women,
That are Worthy of Your Inspection.
W.C. McKINNEY,
No. 8 East Main Street.
THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Weekly Review of Tiade.
R. G. Dun & Company's Review
of Trade in its issue of Saturday says :
Growing accustomed to war possi
bilities, which are mostly far from
probabilities of evil, and finding the
nation moving along steadily in its
industries, people are grasping the
idea that it is throwing away some
months of active and profitable life to
wait until war clouds have passed.
Western prosperity has so greatly
over-balanced timidity of Eastern
capital that actual business done in
creases railroad earnings promise bet
ter for May than a month ago for
April, and payments through clearing
houses for the week in May show a
gain of 36 per cent, over last year
and 7.5 per cent, over 1892, while a
month ago the increase over last year
was 33.6, and compared with 1892,
there was a decrease of 7.2 per cent.
Several large contracts, kept back for
some weeks because of hostilities
have now been placed, and instead of
works closing or reducing force, re
turns show the starting of some works
long idle and increase of force or of
hours at others. Government work
occupies many establishments, but it
counts for little compared with other
demands.
The key of the situation is the pros
perity of the West, which altogether
unprecedented marketing of bread
stuffs has caused with the prospect of
good crops to come. These prospects,
and actual receipts of wheat amoun
ting to 5,876,716 bushels for the
week against 2,439,169 last year, with
advances also in other gram and
cattle, have produced a demand for
rails, cars, car materials, fencing, agri
cultural implements, boots and shoes,
and all textile goods, which was not
anticipated from Eastern indications.
Exports of wheat do not diminish.
The price of May wheat fell cents
on Saturday, rose 7 cents to Tuesday,
and closed cents higher for the
week.
In iron, notwithstanding the great
est output ever known, the demand
has caused some advance in Bessemer
pig, with only a slight decline iu the
price of gray forge at Pittsburg, but
quotations are obtained at
Chicago and Philadelphia. In bars
and sheets the markets are dull, but
at the strongly sustained by
demands for car building, tin plate
•manufacture and other uses. Tin is
sustained at 14.5 cents by large con
sumption and lake copper at 12 cents,
in .spite of American production
amounting to 22,909 tons for the
month, 10 per cent, larger than last
year, with a slight decrease in the pro
duction of foreign mines.
The textile works are doing rather
belter over the cotton mills, in spite
of their over production. Numerous
woolen mills have been pushed to new
activity by government orders, and
prices for a few grades of goods are
better, with a stronger tone in the
market generally, while sales of wool
are small 6,338,900 pounds for the
three weeks past, against 21,963,700
last year.
Failures for the week have been
250 in the United States, against 248
last year, and 29 in Canada, against
37 last year.
LUTHERAN SESQUI-OENTENNIAL,
PHILAUELPHIA
■educed Rates via Pennsylvania Railroad.
For the sesqui-centennial of the
Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, June 2 to
4, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany will sell special excursion tickets
from Jersey Shore, Wilkesbarre, Lew
istown, Mechanicsburg, York, Havre
de Grace, Belvidere, and intermediate
stations to Philadelphia and return at
rate of single fare for the round trip.
(Minimum rate, 25 cents.) Tickets
will be sold June 2, good to return
until June 6, inclusive.
A Jealous Husband's Crime.
Insanely jealous of his wife, Will
iam Barton, of Shauiokin, dragged
her from bed and with a rock mur
derously struck her ou the head
several times. Although dazed and
weakened, Mrs. Barton managed to
escape to the street. Help arrived
and Barton was overpowered and
lodged in jail. His victim is in a
critical condition. — Ashland Local.
V
A
PATRIOTIC IN TONE.
Is the Lottcr Issued by the Archbishops to
tho Catholics.
A letter prepared by the archbis
hops of the Catholic church in the
United States and endorsed by Mgr.
Martinelli, wilt be addressed to tne
clerty and laity ot the country. The
letter bears on the present war with
Spain and is a very patriotic paper.
It is as follows :
"To the clergy aud laity of the
Catholic church of the United States,
greeting :
"The events that have succeeded
the blowing up of the battleship
Maine and the sacrifice of 266 inno
cent victims, the patriotic seamen of
the United States, have culminated
in a war with Spain and our own
country.
"Whatever may have been the in
dividual opinions ot Americans prior
to the declaration of war, there can
now be no two opinions as to the
duty of every loyal American citizen.
A resort to arms was determined up
on by the chief executive of the
nation, with the advice of both houses
of congress, and after consultation
with his cabinet officers, but not until
every effort had been exhausted to
bring about an honorable and peace
ful solution of our difficulties with
Spain. The patient calmness of
President McKmley during the time
that intervened between the destruc
tion of the Maine and declaration are
beyond all praise and should com
mand the admiration of every true
American. We, the members of the
Catnolic church, are true Americans
and as such are loyal to our country
and our flag and obedient to the high
est decrees and the supreme authority
of the nation.
"We are not engaged in a war of
section against section, or state
against state, but we are united as
one man against a foreign enemy and
a common foe. If; as we are taught
by our holy church, love of country is
next to love of God, a duty imposed
upon us by all laws, human or divine,
then it is our duty to labor and to
pray for the temporal and spiritual
well being of the brave soldiets who
are battling for our beloved country.
"To this end we direct that on and
after the receipt of this circular, and
until the close of this war, every priest
shall, in his daily mass, pray for the
restoration of peace by the glorious
victory of our flag. We also direct
that prayers for the brave soldiers and
sailors that fall in battle be said every
day after a mass. The prayers shall
be said aloud with the people, and
shall be one our Father, and one hail
Mary and the deprofundis.
"We pray that God may bless and
preserve our country in this great
crisis and speedily bring victory,
honor and peace to all oui^people."
Lippmcott's Magazine for June. 1893.
The complete novel in the Jnne
issue of Jippincott's, "Mere Folly,"
is of somewhat unusual length for the
Magazine, and of a high order of
merit. Its well-known author, Maria
Louise Pool, has done nothing better,
either in story-telling or character
drawing. The two heroines are
strongly contrasted, and the hero's
vacillations between them make most
of the plot.
W. Bert Foster tells the tale of
"The Man who hung on" to a dead
Western town and its newspaper, and
found his account therein.
Henry Holcomb Bennett's article,
"In Time of Peace," is of special in
terest just now, for it describes the
National Guard and the high degree
of efficiency to wnich it has been
raised of late.
"Klondike and Climatic Reflec
tions," by Felix L. Oswald, is another
timely paper. Walter Cotgrave writes
of "Gastronomic Germany," Law
rence Irwell of Suicide in India," and
George R. Frysinger of "Robins."
Richard Malcolm Johnston expresses
his dread of "Dogs ahd Railroad Con
ductors."
"The Terrors of Authorship" are
set forth by Elmer E. Behton. A
second article on "Charles Lamb and
Robert Lloyd," containing more of
Lamb's hitherto unpublished letters,
is supplied by E. V. Lucas.
The poetry of the number is by
Marion Manville Pope, Grace Duf
field Goodwin, Laura H. Earle, and
Carrie Blake Morgan.
7ry the COL UMBIAN a year.
THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
In Marching Order.
The outfit of any infantry soldier
in the United States army 011 active
service, which must be carried on
campaign, is as follows:
Two blankets, 10 pounds.
One rubber puucho, 2 pounds.
One-half shelter tent, 2 pounds.
One overcoat, 6 pounds.
Oue pair shoes, 2 pounds.
One cake soap, 3.50 ounces.
One pair trousers, 3 pounds.
One shirt, 1 pound.
One pair drawers, 14.54 ounces.
One pair socks, 3.45 ounces.
One towel, 2.40 ounces.
One blanket bag, 2 pounds.
Haversack and rations, 9 pounds.
Rifle, bayonet, field belt, scab
bard, 12.5 pounds.
Canteen filled, and cup, 4.5
pounds.
Ammunition, 100 rounds, 6
pounds.
Total, 64.5 pounds.
This does not include the weight
of the clothing and incidentals, as
pocket knife, pipe, tobacco, money,
etc., which would make the total
nearer 70 pounds.
This would make a fairly good
load for a pack mule. By the terms
of a recent order from the provis
ional corps headquarters at Chicka
mauga, the men in the ranks are to
be relieved of as much as possible.
The knapsack, blanket, overcoat,
canvas suit, change of undercloth
ing, soap and towels, etc., are to be
carried on a wagon, two of which
will be furnished to each company.
This will take about 17 pounds
off the shoulders of the tramping
soldiers, leaving some 47 pounds,
which is an awful burden to bear
under the tropical sun, where every
pound pulls down with double the
force of actual weight.
Memorial Day Number of the Lcdger-I
The Memorial Day number of
that ever popular weekly, the New
York Ledger, presents a combina
tion of pictorial and literary attrac
tions that make a strong appeal to
patriotic readers. A beautiful picture
of a returned veteran clasping in
his arms his little granddaughter,
forms the cover. A large double
page picture of the Oregon and her
commander, Captain Charles F.
Clark, and her senior officers, is
given on the centre pages. The
harbor of Havana and the cele
brated Morro Castle, the fortress
and dungeon of the Spaniards, and
a historical and descriptive article,
with illustrations, fills another at
tractive page. An eloquent descrip
tion of the battle of Lake Erie, by
the celebrated American historian,
George Bancroft,a timely and inter
esting republicatkm from an early
number of the Ledger, gives an ac
count of one of the greatest naval
victories in our annals. This num
ber of the Ledger calls attention to
the inventor of the monitor, Theo
dore R. Timby, LL. D., of Phila
delphia, one of these public bene
factors who somehow or another
has hitherto failed to receive the
honor and just recognition of his
countrymen for an invention which
saved the country in an hour of ex
treme peril, and revolutionized
naval warfare throughout the world.
Work for Tax Payers-
A number of tax payers are com
plaining of no work and no money to
pay their taxes. For all such an effort
will be made to give sufficient work
fot the amount of taxes. All in ar
rears will please call upon the tax col
lector and obtain a statement of the
whole amount of taxes unpaid and
present such statement to the Com
missioner of Highway, who will take
the name and give work as soon as
possible. Such statement must be
presented to Commissioner of High
ways before the first of June 1898.
W. O. HOLMES,
Pres. Town Council.
There is considerable complaint
being made by persons driving horses
that wheelmen do not turn out and
give the driver half the road. This
act of stubborness and utter disregard
of the old road law, on the part of the
cyclers will cause accidents and law
suits. The principle of being fair to
all is one that needs to be exercised
both by drivers and wheelmen, and
when it becomes necessary to pass
each other on a narrow road, each
one, if he desires to be fair and courte
ous, should turn out and give half the
road to the person passing.
Colorado Springs boasts of being
the quietest town in the country. No
church bells are rung there and no
whistles are blown. A local paper ad
mits that the dogs bark in Colorado
Springs, as they do everywhere else,
but it adds that "when they run about
they make no noise with their feet in
the sandy soil." ,
In the palace of the senate in the
Capitol of Rome a number of mediae
val frescoes were discovered recently
by workmen who weie tearing down
a partition wall. The colors are
bright and the picture? well preserved.
STRAY PARAGRAPHS.
—Railroad men are displaying their
patriotism by flaging their trains.
—Friendly advice to France.-Keep
hands oft, and don't hunt trouble.
—Strange that a man may not be
half a man until he has a better half.
—Don't ever imagine that the
clothes make the man—they are all
put on.
—lt is a conceded fact that Spain
has the largest sub-marine fleet of any
nation on earth.
—Did you ever notice how often
people call on the telephone girls with
out asking their permission.
—Spain should have a little more
sand and not compel Uncle Sam to
do all the chasing, and all the fighting,
too.
—The weather man has an easy
time of it at present. All he has to
do is to predict rain every day and he
has a sure thing.
—The disposition to regard the
war as an excuse for giving incompe
tent men military commissions is not
only reprehensible, it is treasonable.
—New Orleans is doing its share
in crowding the Spanish off the West
ern continent having changed the
name of Spain Street to Dewey
Avenue.
—Where is there a town in which
the free delivery system gives better
satisfaction than it does in Blooms
burg. The carriers were well select
ed. They are hustlers and their work
is well done.
John Wanamaker, from whom all
great mercantile firms learned their
lessons in advertising, says : "I
never in my life used such a thing as
a poster or dodger or hand bill. My
plan for twenty years has been to buy
so much space in a newspaper and fill
it up as I wanted. I would not give
an advertisement in a newspaper of
500 circulation for 5,00 c dodgers or
posters. I lay aside the profits on a
particular line of goods for advertising
purposes. At first I laid aside $3,000;
last year I spent $40,000. I have
done better this year and shall in
crease the sum as the profits warrant
it. I owe my success to newspapers
and to them I freely give a certain
profit of my yearly business."
A Job Pat Liked.
A Philadelphia man is responsible
for the following tale : "1 met the
other day an old irishman, who used
to be a papermill roustabout when I
knew him, and, as he was in his work
ing clothes, I said ; 'Well, Mike, have
vou a job !' 'Oi hov,' he replied, 'an'
be th' same token I hov a dom foine
wan, too.' 'What are you doing ? I
asked again. 'Oi hov a job tearing
down a Protestant church, and, be
gorra, Oim getting paid fur it."
China's Dense Population.
China's 1,300,000 square miles sup
port a population of 383,000,000,
which is an average of 392 persons to
the square mile. Shantung is one of
the most densely populated provinces
in the Chinese empire. The average
population per square mile is 557.
Human Heart Statistics.
The human heart is six inches in
length, four inches in diameter and
beats on an average seventy times per
runute, 4200 an hour, 100,800 times
a day, and 36,792,000 times in the
course of the year, so that the heart of
an ordinary man eighty years of age
has beaten 3,000,000 times.
It is noticeable that snub-nosed
people never make much of a stir in
the world. The reason must be that
they can't poke them into other peo
ple's business.
It is claimed that women give up
piano playing and singing as soon as
they get married. They don't, that
is a canard started by some wornen to
encourage matrimony.
It seems sometimes as though the
more good luck emblems you wear
the worse luck you have.
James Knorr has moved from
Fifth street to his property on East
street.
J. W. Prosser has broken ground
for a new residence on the Sloan
land, on Market street opposite T.
M. Dawson's.
The post office will be closed 011
Memorial Day front to o'clock to
5 p. m. There will be but one mail
delivery by the carriers, but the
latter will be at the office from 5 to
7.30 to wait on the public.
CHEERS GREET SOLDIERS:
•he Fighting 09th and the Ninth Get
Housing Cheer*.
New York, May 25.—Two more New
Tork regiments departed yesterday for
he front. The gallant Blxty-ninth, the
irlde of every citizen, whether Celtic
10m or not, and the Ninth, composed
if men who will be heard from In ac
lon, now are speeding southward as
ast as steam can carry them.
Both regiments passed through the
ilty on their way to the cars and never,
ilnoe the days of '6l, were such cheers
icard or crowds seen. Flags were ev
iryivhere and people were simply pack
id into solid blocks of humanity all
ilong the line of march of both regi
nents.
Olaim He Was Murdered-
A brother and the wife of Herman
Hett, the drover who died at the Mary
M. Packer Hospital, were in town to
day. Hett was hurt by falling from a
moving freight train above Blooms
burg last November and brought here
for treatment. At first it was thought
he was suffering from delirium tremens
and had fallen from the train while in
one of these fits. He died a few days
afterwards and the body was shipped
to his home in Syracuse, N. Y., and
nothing more was heard of the case
until to-day, when the wife and
brother came to town and declared
that he had been murdered. They
claim a post mortem was held at
Syiacuse and a large crack was foupd
in the skull evidently dealt by a
coupling pin or some other blunt in
strument. The case will be thorough
ly investigated.—Sunbury Daily.
THE
BROADWAY
VALUES !
We wish to emphasize the
word VALUE, and define its
true meaning as it is employed
in this announcement. The
principle upon which this busi
ness is built is value-giving—
the best quality and the great
est quantity for the lowest price.
Such has been our method of
winning the confidence of the
public, and such will always be
our plan of holding that confi
dence.
New patterns in Silkaline, yard
wide, ioc.
Tri-color silk bows, 20c ea
Misses' fine ribbed black hose,
2 pair for 25c.
Ladies' white ribbed vests, wing
sleeves, 2 for 25c.
Telescope traveling cases, 45c
to 95c ea.
Kid hair curlers, 3,4, 5, 8c bunch
Double handle curling irons, 3c
each.
New line of side combs, 5c to
1 *c pair.
Wide velveteen dress facing,
5 yds., 14c piece.
White handled knives and forks
60c set.
Colored crayons, 4c per box of
6 colors.
Hammocks, 48c and 98c ea
46 in. bleached pillow case mus
lin, ioc yd.
Yard wide hemp carpet, yd
Roman punch or sherbet cups,
emerald, 5c ea.
Heavy oil or vinegar cruets,
emerald, 15c ea.
Large syrup cans, 6 different
styles, 15c ea.
Table casters, pink, blue, white
and yellow, 25c ea.
Lamp globes, all sizes, 6 for 25c
Agency for Butterick Fashions.
June styles now ready.
Respectfully Submitted to the
Jasli Trade Only by
THE HIM m STORE,
Moyer's Now Building, Main Street,
BLOOMSBURG.
"SHOES.
Hood Value,
Best Styles.
Popular Prices.
Are the essential features of our care
fully selected Shoe Stock. Our 26
years experience and spot cash
buying enables us to furnish you
with the best there is for the
money.
Our line of
UNDFRWEAR
and
HOSIERY
is complete.
W. H. Moore.
COR. SECOND AND IRON STS.
Bloomsburg.
GET YOUR
JOB PRINTING
DONE AT THE
COLUMBIAN OFFICE
JONAS LONG'S SONS'
WEEKLY CHATS.
WILKES-BARRE, PA.,
Thursday, May 26th, 1898.,
GREAT
Half-Yearly Sale
OF riUSLIN AND
CAHBRIC
..UNDERWEAR..
Consisting of thousands of the
choicest, daintiest and well made
garments from an eminent manu
facturer at ABOUT HALF PRICE.
Never before have prices been so
low to meet the demands of women
who welcome money-saving oppor
tunities. All the garments are
fresh, pure and clean; carefully
made, properly finished. Rare
designs in Corset Covers; exclusive
ideas in night gown; Chemises in
the ordinary and full skirt lengths ;
Drawers perfect in cut with sweep
ing frills liberally trimmea; every
thing is just like home-made, the
most elaborate styles, priced
amazingly cheap and ruled by
good taste in the making of every
lot. DO NOT MISS IT.
Drawers—Fine quality muslin
Drawers, yoke bands, with deep
hemmed tucks, 12c.
Corset Covers, made of Cambric,
trimmed with neat embroider)', V,
square and high neck, i2J^c.
Drawers, trimmed with deep
cambric ruffle, deep hem and
tucks, yoke band and large full
sizes, 19c.
Corset Covers, trimmed with fine
embroidery, low and V neck, made
of fine cambric, 19c.
Skirts, trimmed with cambric
ruffle and tucks, 29c.
Drawers, with deep ruffle of
embroidery and lace, hem and
tucks, 29c.
Corset Covers, of fine quality
cambric, trimmed with fine em
broidery and inserting, 29c.
Night Gowns, trimmed with in
serting, yoke and tucks, with deep
embroidery and ruffle, high, V and
Empire style, 39c.
Skirts, cambric ruffle, trimmed
with tucks and deep hem, 39c.
Drawers trimmed with % lawn
ruffle and inserting, also lace and
embroidery trimmed, 39c.
Corset Covers with rows of
tucks and inserting, trimmed with
fine embroidery, 39c.
Skirts, with lawn hemstitched
ruffle and deep ruffle of cm
broidery, 49c.
Night Gowns, trimmed with fine
embroidery, inserting and lace,
49c.
Drawers, deep embroidery ruffle
and tucks, lace and inserting,
umbrella shape, 49c.
Corset Covers, trimmed with
fine lace, embroidery, tucks and
inserting, 49c.
Night Gowns, trimmed with
embroidery, lace and inserting,
99c.
Skirts, deep embroidery ruffle,
trimmed with Point de Paris lace
and tucks, 59c.
Drawers, made of cambric, trim
med with deep inserting and em
broidery ; also lace inserting and
beading, 59c.
Night Gowns, trimmed with
rows of inserting, lace embroidery,
79c.
Skirts, with deep cambric in
serting and tucks; also Torchon
Lace and Inserting, 79c.
No such chance has ever before
been offered to women of Wilkes-
Barre and vicinity to buy the
handsomest undergarments you've
ever, worn at a positive giving of
three pieces for the price usually
asked for one. Is this an induce
ment? It certainly should be;
thousands of women, wise in know
ing what is good underwear, will
thank the good fortune that has
brought them such elegancies so
low, and will be quick to supply
their summer needs. LARGEST,
FINEST, CHEAPEST, UNDER
GARMENT COLLECTION
EVER OFFIiRED IN THIS
CITY.