ART OF DIPLOMACY. EPOCHS IN THE HIaTORY OF AMERI CAN REPRESENTATIVES. The Cuban Qunatlon In tho Days oi Plerco's Great Secretary, William Slarc-j —Other Instances of Ynnkeo Tact ft Dealing With Foreign rowers. (By Thomas Burke Grant.) It is tho common belief in Europe lhat public men in the United States being called to high olflce through the choice of the people are inferior diplo mats to the scions ot aristocracy who are usually trained from youth up wards, and for whose order the diplo matic service Is one of the great per quisites of state. This was the fixed belief of the English foreign office un til the Tories made the mistake ol hoisting their flag in Nicaragua, and taking possession of the port of a tiny American State. They no sooner did this than they were frightened out ol their right minds by the peremptory reminder that there was such a thing as the Monroe Doctrine still In exis tence In this country. Lest we mighl forget the virtues of arbitration thla happy means of adjusting all differ ences was opportunely revived by them, and not only was arbitration meritorious in the case of Venezuela, but a large and comprehensive scheme of general arbitration was so pertina ciously urged that one would suppose .this country would fall apart if It were not successful. Since then Great Britain has been to some extent cured of the erroneous be lief which she formerly entertained about the improvised diplomacy of the United States- But that the belief still holds In oth- De Lome letter and from the Duke ol Veraugua's reference to the President, and we shall have to teacli Spain the same lesson. Even Bonaparte who was more of n democrat than the othei er parts of Europe Is plain from the iq,vereigns of Europe, and whose sale of Louisiana indicated that he was a sincere friend of this country, could not always repress this prevailing feel ing of European court noodles. He once remarked, referring to Chancel lor Livingston, who was hard of hear ing. and to John Armstrong, his suc cessor. who could not talk French, "the United States is represented ai the French Court by deaf and dumb embassies." The opinions Europeans entertained about our Ambassadors ex tended also to the statesman for whom the Ambassador spoke, usually thi Secretary of State. And whenever an ney or Sherman outwitted his dille "fO 91TI aims 3° it-retajaas nnai.iomv tante European brother he was charg ed with using the languago of bounce arid of braggadocia. which the super ior nature of the foreigners did not pretend to quite understand. Thus sweet hypocrisy still parried the stun ning blow; and the practice of thla form of dissimulation was In his view one of the fine points of a diplomacy that Andrew Jackson scotched in his day, but which Cleveland and Oiney, McKinley and Sherman have forevei made impossible in the relations of the United States with the chancellories ol Europe. Correspondence between the Unfted States and European foreign offices will In future be something more than merely elegant phrasing, and no European statesman like Lord Salisbury or the late Lord Granville, will again need five months to answer the strictly business like letter of an American Secretary of State. We have Americanized foreign offices. Among those statesmen who have distinguished themselves in this line In former perilous times are a trio whose achievements present events seem to recall—Clayton, Marcy and Seward. John M. Clayton, the first oi these was General Zaehary Taylor's Secretary of State. It Is to him we are Indebted for the Clayton-Bulwer treaty which was in 1850 intended as a defense of our rights in the Isthmus against the rampant imperialism of Lord Palmerston, who was then the terror of all Europe. It is the habit In certain quarters now to discount the services of Clayton, and to say that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which Mr. Blaine gave notice of our In tention to abrogate, only ties Ameri can bands by recognizing the equal rights of Great Britain In the Nlcara guan Canal. But it must he remembered that when 'the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was signed, the United States was rent with the rival factions of slavery and antl elavery; while England having crush ed Napoleon wa9 preparing to cope with Russia in the Crimean War. or entering upon the fruits of her con quests pi] over the world. Tho ques tion of the annexation of Texas had ftlso occupied the country for a num ber of years, and a war with Mexico had Just been concluded which added 500,000 square miles of territory to the Union with all the vast responsibilities ■nch on undertaking means. Daniel Webster had In a quiet, Informal way arranged the ABhburton treaty with England, adjusting the boundary be tween New England and Canada. The United States had also for the sake of peace, surrendered the difference be tween the 49th parallel of latitude and 89 degrees, 40 minutes In the north west —which difference would have now entitled us to the rich min ing regions of British Columbia — and it was no mean triumph of Clayton's to even thus withstand England's demands at a time when she had scarcely abandoned her claim to search American vessels, and when Wellington was writing to remind us "You have won nothing yet which gives you a right to demand on prin ciple a territorial concession." No body could then have forseen the mar vellous lmlgratlon and subsequent de- velopment of tho United States ana which now make our undivided pos : i i.s'on of the Canal a necessity to l.;ope; naval connections betweou both shores of the Continent in time of war. Of rourse the treaty was a corn piomlso of undoubted American rights but It was a wlso one under the cir cumstances; for after a war over Tex as tho United States were in no mood to stand up to Lord Palmerston as we are fortunately now able to do in the case of Lord Salisbury. The next statesman who overmas tered the foreigner and who boldly and successfully maintained American lights was William H. Seward. Of Seward's personality and commanding position the people are fully aware. The generation which knew him first as a lender of the Senate and after wards as Lincoln's competitor at the Chicago convention of 1860 are deeply sensible of his masterly genius in the greatest crisis of the Union. The grasp and firmness of the man are re sponsible for three things that have profoundly affected American history. First, the sudden dispatching of tho Russian Fleet to Hampton Roads, when it became known in Washington that Lord Palmerston had troops land ed in Canada, and that the Navy of England, if opportunity afforded would be used in behalf of the Confederates. Second, that stubborn Americanism which triumphed over Lord Lyons in the Trent affair, and afterwards se cured the settlement of the trouble some Alabama claims. Third, the ac quisition of Alaska, which was really written oft by the Emperor of Rus sia as a graceful concession to the Monroe Doctrine, and in reciproca tion of Seward's magnanimous offer to recoup the Czar for the coal burned by the Russian fleet in the darkest hours of its history. Seward was probably the greatest and most feared in Europe of all our great American Secretaries of State. But It Is the Secretaryship of Wil liam L. Marcy in the administration of Pierce that has most Interest at the present time and bears more directly than any other upon those stirring events through which we are now pass ing. The rather flabby foreign policy of Taylor and of Fillmore who preced ed him, greatly angered the masses of the American people. They were tired of a government that did police duty for Spain in Cuba. They want ed to utterly reverse that policy of "scat, scuttle and surrender," which under the Ashburton arrangement, and the whole Oregon boundary upon the saw part of Maine absorbed in Canada protection of which they bad set their hearts given away on the Northwest in the Oregon contention, and having valiantly contended for "Fifty, four forty or fight" they gave the Pierce ticket an overwhelming majority. Marcy who thus became Secretary of State determined at once on driving Spain out of Cuba and England out of Honduras. The circumstances of Marcy's time were in some respects very like tho present. Then, too, the Cubans were in arms for their liberty. The Order of the Lone Star instituted in 1853 to "liberate Cuba from the despotism of Spain" was very like the Cuban League now organized in the United States for the same purpose. Then, too, Spain was busy off-aettlng outrages on American citizens by Spanish claims of filibustering. R is the question of the destruction of the Maine to-day; it was one Involving a vessel called the "Black Warrior" then, that stirred the indignation ot the people. It Is a striking remln isence that there was also a division of opinion between the President and Congress of that period, with the trif ling difference that it was the Presi dent who was then anxious to make war on Spain, and it was Congress that then declined the responsibility. Just as In President McKlnley's case there was also a proposal to place a sum of $10,000,000 at the disposal of the Presi dent as a mark of confidence; and a resolution authorizing a levy of 60,- 000 volunteers to fight in Cuba. Fi nally there was au alignment of the principal European powers which so closely duplicated that of the present Grand Alliance, If we may so call It. as to be little less than wonderful how almost exactly on the lines of Marcy's day the Cuban question comes up once more in a great international diplo matic problem. There was then as now an abiding desire to stiffen the foreign policy of the country, and Marcy, who sent a naturalized Frenchman as Minister to Madrid, gave Instruction to sound Spain on the delicate subject of pur chasing Cuba. The Secretary of State also took a step then far in advance of to-day. It was that while the United States would do nothing to disturb the relations of Spain with Cuba, the United States "would at the same time much dislike to see Spain make use of the resistance of other powers to assert its supremacy over the island" (See Von Hoists' Constitutional His tory, 1854-61, p. 29). He also sent to Buchanan who was Minister to Eng land, a protest about sending ships of war to our coasts as not being re spectful to this republic; and instruct ed Soule to mnke it plain to Spain, that "while she remains in fact as well a3 in name sovereign of Cuba, she can depend upon our maintaining our duty as a neutral power, however dif ficult it may be." Marcy added that It "was not proposed to acquire Cuba un less the inhabitants were very general ly disposed to concur in the transfer." This was substantially the same po sition taken by John Quincy Adams, by Clay, by Van Buren, Polk, Webster and Calhoun. Marcy also rigidly in sisted lhat no other power than Spain should be permitted to acquire Cuba under any pretense whatever. In 1867 the American Minister at Paris had informed the State Department of the existence of a treaty between Great THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA | Britain, Prance and Spain which guar. j anteed Cuba to Spain. Webster had | formerly declared that the United States would never recognize any such treaty. Marcy now supplemented thU decision by the clear inference or by the positive statement that once Spain's sovereignity became nominal in Cuba, or she refused to sell Cuba for a fair price, we were In duty bound to wrest the island from Spain If we possessed the power "upon the same principle that would Justify one Indi vidual in tearing down the burning house of his neighbor If there were no other way of preventing the flames from destroying his own home." Suddenly, however, both Marcy and the President changed their position on the whole Cuban question. This was on May 31, 1854. The people were exasperated but powerless to give ef fect to their deep convictions. Con gress debated the question during the dog days of June, and adjourned with out taking any definite action on the subject. Thus Spain escaped at that time, and the magnificent opportunity furnished by the Crimean war, In which Great Britain, France and Rus sia were engaged In the following year, found this country divided on the Cuban question. The Southern states were indisposed to exhaust those forces in an attack on Spain which later on they desired to marshall in the defense of slavery. The North was al so equally reluctant to admit or ac quire territory that might easily strengthen the slave-holding Interest In the South. But though local Jealousies thus pre vented the liberation of Cuba, in 1854, the policy of Marcy was well worthy of a country, and It was one which Na poleon's Ministers, with all their in grained acumen and natural sympathy for Spain, wero unable to withstand. The sectional divisions spared Spain a humiliation then, but made it neces sary for Cleveland In 1895 to re-assert the Monroe Doctrine In the case of England in Venezuela and in Nicara gua. A stiff policy is the cure for Europe every time. Kiigland'n w Vaccine Method.. London has jus't recently adopted the calf-lymph for vaccinating pur poses. and has prohibited by stringent regulations all other methods. In fact it was at first proposed to put into op eration the French system which Com pels the young health doctor to take a calf with him when vaccinating and to transfer the vaccine direct from the calf to the child. The new English method provides for preserving the vaccine in glycerine. It seems that vaccination with calf lymph has be come the habitual, if not the universal, practice in most of the Continental towns, and In many cases vaccination with humanised lymph is prohibited. The evidence of bacteriologists shows that the admixture of 50 per cent, solu tion of pure glycerine in sterilized wa ter to calf lymph can be stored for a number of weeks and remain quite ac tive to vaccine. The new method of getting the vac cine lymph is described by a London expert, as follows: "To prepare a sur face for the Insertion of the lymph, the right side of the animal Is thoroughly scrubbed with soap and hot water, and then shaved over an area extending between the internal edges of the fore and hind limbs and from some tour or five Inches below the spinal ridge to the umbilicus. The shaved area is next washed with soap and hot water, then with a hot solution of boraclc acid and, finally, with plain hot water. It Is afterwards dried with clean, soft cloths. "A number of superficial Incisions, each about one Inch long, are then made in a direction at right angles to the long axis of the body, and about a couple of inches from one another. The Incisions of the several rows are made en echelon. The lancet employ ed for the purpose has a spear-headed blade, this shape being specially rec ommended by M. Chambon. Over each incision a drop of glycerlnated lymph is allowed to fall from a glass lube, and the drop Is rubbed In with the flat portion of the blade of the lan cet, 'ltie process is carried out by one of the laboratory servants, and is a somewhat lengthy one. "When the lymph has dried, the calf is removed from the table and taken uacii lo its stall. "The vaccine material Is always col lected on the sixth day after lnnocu lation. For this purpose the calf has to be placed again on the table. The lymph is drawn up Into a sterilized glass syringe and stored in tubes." Lamcliier and lii.nulty. "It Is a curious fact," said a physl' ciun recently, who was a specialist in nervous diseases, "that, taken as a general rule, all lunatics laugh about twice as much as sane people. "Laughter after a surgical operation Is a symptom dreaded by doctors and nurses. "That queer Impulse to laugh which some people experience in the first mo ment of a sudden calamity is in reality one of the sharpest warnings of Insan ity that any one could receive. "Some people fall into a habit of laughing at their own thought when alone; this should be always strictly checked, as It is an unhealthy sign, and may lead to brain trouble later on." A IVomler. ul Tree. "I know a tree," said the farmer to the learned professor, "what never had a leaf or bud, and yet there's nuts on it." "Astounding, sir, astounding! No such remarkable tree has ever been found by the botanist. What Is It?" "A axle-tree." The man who paints his address on his umbrella Is very likely to be robbed of his good name. v - The merit of Hood's Sarsaparilla Is literally written in blood. It is traced in 'he vital fluid Of millions of the human race. Its positive medicinal merit And curative power is written Upon the hearts, and graven upon The minds of thousands Of people whom it has cured And given good health When there seemed nothing before Them but darkness and despair. It cures all diseases arising From or promoted by impure Blood by its intrinsic merit as The One True Blood Purifier. Party Emblems. It is interesting to note the vari ous emblems adopted by parties in the various countries. Probably the most popular emblem nowadays in England is the primrose of April 19th. On the day of Parnell's death his followers wear a sprig of ivy. Jac obites sport oak leaves 011 Royal Oak day, May 29th, and ever since the birthday of James 111, in 1688, they have worn white roses on Tune 10th. Red carnations are also a Jacobite emblem. In France, Orleanists wear white daisies, and followers of the house of Bourbon ("les Blancs d'Kspage") wear white carnations. The violet was the Bonapartist emblem and many duels were fought over the little blue flower. Admirers of Gen. Boulanger used to wear red carnations always in their buttonholes. Nowadays anti-Semites in Al geria have taken the cornflower as their badge, but in Austria this party always wears a white carna tion. The cornflower was the fav orite of the old Emperor William of Germany, and loyal Germany, and loyal Germans used to wear bunches of it in his honor. Lithographed bonds, stock certifi cates, and checks are furnished at THE COLUMBIAN office. tf. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue ot a writ of Fl. Fa., Issued out. of the Court ot common l'leas of Columbia county. Pa.. and to me directed, there will be exposed to 'public sale at the Court House In Blooms burg, Pa., on SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1898, at two o'clock p. m„ all that certain house and lot ot ground situate on Fifth steeet, in the town ot Bloomsburg, county ot Columbia and state of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to-w!t: Beginning at a corner of an alley on tbe soutb side of Fifth street, thence along said Fifth street to lot of George Klhler j thence along lot of satd George Klhler to Pearle street; thence along said Pearle street to alley aforesaid, and thence along said alley to place ot beginning, whereon Is erected a TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE and outbuildings. Seized, taken Into execution by C. C. Yetter attorney In fact vs. Thomas L. Jones, and to be sold as the property ot Thomas L. Jones. W. W. BLACK, Yost, Atty. Sheriff. S-26-ts. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue ot a writ of alias venditioni exponas issuedout of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County, Penna., and to me directed there will be exposed to sale at the Court llouso In Bloomsburg on SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1898, at 2 o'clock In the afternoon, all that certain messuage, tenement and tract of land situate In the township of Catawtssa. County and state aforesaid, and more particularly described as follows to wit: A valuable (arm situate In C&tawlssa townsblp about one-bait mile from the borough of Catawlssa, adjoining lands of theCa'awlssa Fibre Co., William Bernlnger, zacharlah Krelscher, J. B. Knlttle, Emanuel Hclwlg, Simon Kaup and others, containing EIGHTY ACRES ! more or less. It Is known as the "Tlce Glngles farm." Whereon Is erected a good two-story FRAME DWELLING HOUSE! Bank Barn, .Spring House and all necessary out buildings. The buildings are all In excellent repair. Two small never-falling spring runs flow through tbe farm, there Is an abundant supply of spring water at tbe barn and a tine well and spring at the house. There Is a fine young apple orchard ot choice fruit, a peach orchard, and an abundance of pears, plums and other fruit. There Is also a QUARRY OF BUILDING STONE of superior quality partly opened. Fifty acres ot the land Is In a high state of cultivation, the balance being In timber. The farm Is a most desirable one, being close to market, schools, churches, stores, mills, etc., and not over a mile from the Catawlssa stations on the Pean'a.' Phil. & R. and D. L. & W. Hallroads. The land above described being a portion ot the same tract of land which Wm. McKelvy by Indenture dated the Tib of December, 18T2 con veyed to Charles W. McKelvy, and which said portion was conveyed to I. W. McKelvy by John W. Hoffman Sheriff of said county and reserv ing the right and privilege to enter the land passing on and along the north-east side ot the pond erected to gather water for the paper mill, and the right to keep and maintain a ditch for the purpose of carrying off the surface water that might now Into the aforesaid pond through tho lower end of the garden at the dwelling house, then carry the same through the culvert under the Catawlssa Kallroad. Seized, taken In execution at tbe suit ot Lloyd T. Rider against Mathlas Glngles and to be sold as the property of Mathlas Gln<-les deceased In the hands of his executor, Phu. Sldler. FRKEZK, W. W. BLA K. Sheriff. HARMAN, June .8, 1898. BARELIT, Attys. 5-20-lt. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Daniel Merlcle. late of Hemlock town ship, deceased. The undersigned auditor, appointed by the Or phans' Court of Columbia county, to make dis tribution of said estate, will sit at fits o/Hoe in Bloomsburg, Pa., on ThursdayJune 16.1895, at 10 o'clock a-in., when and where all i>ers(ms hav ing claims against said estate must appear and prove the same, or be debarred from coining in on said estate. W, H. SNYDMR, 5-19-tu. Auditor. CARDSje N. U. FUNK, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Mil. Knf i Building, Court Horn* Alley, BLOOMSBURG, PA. A. L. FRITZ, ATTOENXYAT-LAW, Peat Office Building, 2nd floor, BLOOMSBURG, PAi C. W. MILLER, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Wirt's Building, 2nd floor, BLOOMSBURG. PA. JOHN O. FREEZE. JOIIN a. BARMAN FREEZE & HARMAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Offices: Centre Bt., first door below Opera House GEO. E. EL WELL, ATTORNF.Y-AT-LAW, Columbian Building, 2nd floor, BLOOMSBURG, P.L WM. H MAGILL, ATTOKNEV-AT-LAW. BLOOMSBURG, PA. Office in Lockard's building, Corner Main and Centre Sts. W. H. SNYDER, ATTORNEY—AT—LAW, Office 2nd floor Mrs. Ents building, BLOOMSBURG, PA. ROBERT R. LITTLE, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Colombian Building, 2nd Aoor, BLOOMSBURG, PA, A. N. YOST, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 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. (Office over Alexander 4 Co. Wirt building. G. M. QUICK, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Office over First National Bank. EDWARD J. FLYNN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, * CENTRALIA, PA. i* Office Llddlcot building, Locust avenue. JOHN M. CLARK, ATTORMXEAT-LAW ANnjBKBCB T THE PEACE, Mayer Beoa. Building, I i Aug, BLOOMSBURG PA. J. H. MAT7H, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TTFFUEFCE AXE SEAL ESTATE ACEEC. Office in Lockard's Building. BLOOMSBURG, PA. B. FRANK ZARR, ATTOXKXP-AX-LAW, Clark'* Building, cor. Main and Carta Bta* BLOOMSBURG, Pa. WCan be conmltrd in Gun—. W. H. RHAWN, ATTO RNXY-AT-LAW, Office, earner of Third and Mada ftadv CATAWISSA, PA. DR. J. C. RUTTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, North Market Street, BLOOMSBURG, PA. J. S. JOHN, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and residence, 410 Main St., 3-70-iv BLOOMSBURG, PA J. HOWARD PATTERSON* ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rooms 4 and 5- Peacock bldg. Telephone 1463. BLOOMSBURG, PA. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO DISEASES or CHILMM H. BIERMAN, 2,1. D. HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SUHBROII OFFICE HOCRfI: OOloe ft Residence, Ith St., Until 8 A. U., 1 to 8 and 7toB p. m. BLOOMSI'.UHG, PA S. B. ARMENT, M. D. Office and Residence No. i 3. West Fifth St DISEASES OF THE THKOAT AND NOSIA SPECIALTY (8 to 10 A.M. BLOOMSBUBS OFFICE nouns.-< 2 to 4 P.M. L 7 to 9 P. M. PA. DR. ANDREW GRAVDON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Office and residence In Prof. Waller's Horn*. # MARKET STREET # TELEPHONE. HENRY W. CHAMPLIN, M. D. Office over Farmer's National Bank. Hours 10 to 12 A. M., 3tosand 7toBP.M Residence, 218 Third St. TELEPHONE. DR. F. W. REDEKER, PHYSICIAN AND SUHGEON, Office and Residence, Centre St., between ttfe and 6tli Sts. Diseases of the ear, nose and throat a specialty. BLOOMSBURG, FA. 18 to 10 a. m. OFFICE nouns: 41 to 3 p. m. 17 to 9 p. m. J. J. BROWN, M. D., Market Street. BLOOMSBURG, PA. THE EYE A SPECIALTY. Eyes treated, tested, fitted with gluacu and Artificial Eyes supplied. Hours 10 to 4. Telephone t'onmeutn DR. M. J. HESS, DENTISTRY IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, Crown and bridge work —A— SPECIALTY, Corner Main and Centre Si rects, BLOOMSBURG, PA, DR. W. H. HOUSE, SURGEON DENTIST, Office, Barton's Building, Main below Markv BLOOMSBURG, Pa. All styles of work done in a superior maimer, and all work warranted as represented. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, by the use of Gas, and free of charge whsa artificial teeth are inserted. WTo be open all hours during the day. DR. C. S. VAN HORN, DENTIST.— Office corner of East and Mam street!, on posite Town Hall. Office hours 8:30 to 12 a. m ; 2 to 5 p. m. BLOOMSBURG, PA. C. WATSON McKELVY, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT. (Successor to B. F. Hartman Represents twelve of the strongest coeuMß> lea In the world, among which are: CASH TOTAL eranee „ ... ...... CAPITAL. ASSETS. OTBB 4LS. Franklin of Phlla.. *400,000 {3,186,52* n.UMn Penn'a. Phlla 400,000 3,828,n0 unS Queen, of N. Y.. . 800,000 8,5,81B MS Westchester, N. Y. 800,000 1,788,307 'SSIfS', N. America, Phlla. 3,000,000 9,730,689 OFFICE IN I. w. MCKELVT'S BTOAR. WLosses promptly adjusted and pal& M. P. LUTZ & SON, (SUCCESSORS TO FREAB BROWN) INSURANCE AND REAL ESTAT* AGENTS AND BROKERS. N. W. Corner Main and Centre. Strwta, BLOOMSBURG, PA. —O— Represent Seventeen as goodCompa®. ies as there are in the World and AFL losses promptly adjusted and said at their Office. CHRISTIAN F. KNAPP, FIRS INSURANCE., BLOOMSBURG, PA. Home, of N. Y.; Merchanti of Newuk. N. J.; Clinton, N. Y.;Peoples', N.Y.;Rul ing, Pa ; German American Ins. Co., NME York; Greenwich Insurance Co., New Ycsfci Jersey City Fire Ins. Co., Jersey City, N. J. These old corporations are well by age and fire tested, and have never yet had a loss settled by any court of law. THDB assets are all invested in solid securities and liable to the hazard of fire only. Losses promptly and honestly adjusted aaf paid as soon as determined, by Christian T. Knapp, Special Agent and Adjuster, Blooms! burg, Pa. The people of Columbia county -hnnld patronize the agency where losses, if a are settled and paid by one of thtlr own citizens. CENTRAL HOTEL, B. Stohner, Prop. C. F. Stohner, Assistant BLOOMSBURG, PA. Large and convenient sample rooms. Hot and cold water, and all modern convenience*. The hotel has been lately refurnished. CITY HOTEL, W. A. Hartzel, Prop. Peter F. Reldy.fManag No. 121 West Main Street, BLOOMSBURG, PA. STLarge and convenient sample rooms.bth rooms, hot and cold water, and modem con ven.ences Bar stocked with best wine and liquors. First-class livery attached. EXCHANGE HOTEL, " G. SNYDER, Proprietor, (Opposite the Court House x BLOOMSBURG, PA. Large and convenient sample rooms Path rooms, hot and cold water, and all mod*, conveniences uer * 7
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