WASHINGTON.
■Vom our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 1898.
Next to boodle, Boss Hanna
rates Mr. McKinley as a Republi
can vote-getter in the present cam
paign. • Consequently, he has de
cided that Mr. McKinley shall take
a swing through the East, in order
to arouse the voters in that section.
Like the western trip, the eastern
trip is to be scheduled as strictly
non-partisan, but that did not pre
vent Mr. McKinley begging sup
port for the administration in al
most every speech he made, and it
will not prevent him doing the
same thing in the East. It may
be possible, of course, that Mr.
McKinley has made votes for his
party among the crowds that have
turned out to greet him on his trip
to and from Omaha, but, judging
from the effect of similar trips by
other Presidents, it is not probable.
There are a number of good reasons
lor crowds turning out io see the
President, entirely aside from polit
ical considerations—respect for his
official position, admiration of his
personal qualities, and last, but by
no means least, idle curiosity. That
all of these reasons added to the
number of persons who turned out
to see Mr. McKinley in the West is
certain, and it is equally certain,
that thty will do the same in the
East; but there is nothing in the
sight to show that the whole busi
ness will enable the Republicans to
carry a single Congressional dis
trict that they would not have car
ried had Mr. McKinley remained
in Washington and attended to his
duties.
Democratic expectation of wrest
ing the control of the House away
from the Republicans is not based
upon visionary hopes, but upon fig
ures carefully prepared to show how
each Congressional district in the
country will vote on the Btli of No
vember. According to those fig
ures, there are sixty one districts
which may go either way by very
small majorities. An attache of
the t)emocratic Congressional Cam
paign Committee, who came within
three of estimating the result of the
Congressional election of '96, esti
mates that 41 of these doubtful dis
tricts will be carried by the Repub
licans, and 20 by the Democrats.
Should this estimate, which is ultra
conservative, turn out to be correct,
the next House would contain 170
Republicans and 187 Anti-Republi
cans, Democrats and Populists com
bined. This estimate leaves out
conditions in Pennsylvania and
New York, which may result in
sending the Anti-Republican ma
jority as high as 40, because those
conditions are contingent, and may
be changed before election.
Secretary Alger received a hurry
call from Pingree, and has gone to
Michigan to see what he can do to
save the Republicans of the State
from the defeat which Pingree fears
they are going to get.
The War Department is still ex
tending all the protection it can to
officers appointed from civil life,
who are under suspicion or who
have been proven to be inefficient
or negligent. Advantage was taken
of the absence of Mr. McKinley,
who held up a similar order several
weeks ago, to order the honorable
discharge from the service of Lieut.
Col. Rush Huidekoper, the horse
doctor, who was chief surgeon at
Camp Thomas, Chickamauga Park,
and whose administration of medi
cal affairs in that camp was so
openly criticised by officers and
men. It was believed to have been
Mr. McKinley's intention, when he
prevented this man's honorable dis
charge, that he should appear before
the Dodge Commission. Why he
did not, is probably known to Sec
retary Alger and other War De
partment officials, if not to Mr.
McKinley. Capt. James G. Blaine,
the young man who made such dis
graceful exhibitions of himself and
his jags at Honolulu and at Manilla
that he was ordered home, turned
up in Washington last week, and
he, also, is to be given an " honor
able " discharge. Chaplain Mcln
tyre, of the battleship Oregon, must
be a friendless, poor devil, or that
court-martial sentence, dismissing
him from the service, would be set
aside, and he would get an honora
ble discharge.
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Secretary Long has made public
the report of the board of naval of
ficers, presided over by Commander
Wainwright, locating the ships that
participated in the destruction of
Cervera's fleet. The report does
not differ materially from the re
ports made by the Captains of the
ships, and will not change any
body's mind as to who is entitled to
credit for that brilliant victory.
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A great big bluff is being put
by the administration by the pre
tence that Judge Day is making ex
traordinary efforts to compel the
Spanish Commissioners to hurry up
their end of the negotiations, at
Paris. It is dollars to ginger cakes
that Judge Day is doing nothing of
the sort. Mo matter how anxious
the Spanish Commissioners should
be to reach an agreement on the
treaty of peace, they would not be
able to do so before the Congres
sional election, as it was a part 'of
Judge Day's private instructions to
prevent an agreement being reached
before that time. Should the Span
ish Commissioners wish to protract
the negotiations after election, Judge
Day may put the screws on them,
but he isn't doing so now, for fear
that the treaty might add to the
probabilities of Republican defeat.
DAT IS NAMED.
Pennsylvania's Population Is Called Upon
to Offer Devotions for Our Glorious Vic
tories on Land and Sea.
Governor Hastings issued the fol
lowing proclamation Friday last:
"The people of Pennsylvania, to
gether with their fellow citizens
througnout the land, have great cause
at this time for rejoicing and thanks
giving. A foreign power, by the bar
barous and inhuman treatment of its
own subjects, had shocked the civilz
ed world. The American people
reached the point where they would
no longer permit humanity to be so
cruelly outraged almost under the
shadow of their own flag.
"In the struggle which followed,
God's guiding hand was abundantly
manifested. The people answered as
one man to the country's call. Our
army and navy executed with unpar
alleled valor the will of the Nation.
Our victories by sea and on land were
signal triumphs for civilization and
free government.
"Pennsylvania's surviving soldiers
have returned to their homes, bringing
renewed proofs of their devotion to
the flag. Where opportunity came,
they won the laurels always coveted
by the American soldier, and where
opportunity came not, their devotion
and steadfastness were deserving of
equal praise.
"The people of the Commonwealth,
in accordance with the sentiment of
the hour, desiring to make public
manifestation of their appreciation of
the services and sacrifices of those
who so nobly sustained the Nation's
honor, will hold in tht m lltfti
delphia on the 26th and 27th days of
October a Peace Jubilee, and it has
been deemed meet and proper that,
one of the aforesaid days be set apart*'
as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
•'Now, therefore, I, Daniel H. Hast
ings, Governor of the said Common
wealth, do, by virtue of the Act of the
General Assembly, approved the 23d
day of June, A. D. 1897, authorizing
the Chief Executive to appoint days
of thanksgiving and prayer or other
religious observances, issue this, my
proclamation designating and setting
apart Thursday,the twenty-seventh day
of October, Anno Domini, one thou
sand eight hundred and ninety-eight,
as a special day of thanksgiving and
prayer to Almighty God.
And I do recommend that our usual
places of worship be filled with God
fearing, thankful and patriotic wor
shippers praying that the influence of
the day's observance may find fruition
in years to come in that rectitude of
life, that devotion to home and
country, and that performance of
every private and public duty which
shall be well pleasing to Him, to the
end that the future shall know noth
ing but peace and that the results ot
the war may prove a permanent bless
ing to our land and to the cause of
advancing civilization.
Given under my hand and the great
seal of the State at the city of Harris
burg, this twentieth day of October,
in the year of Our Lord one thou
sand, eight hundred and ninety-eight,
and of the Commonwealth, the one
hundred and twenty-second.
(Signed) DANIEL HASTINGS.
DAVID MARTIN,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by
local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused hf an
inflamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rum
bling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, deafness is
the result, and unless the inflamma
tion can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed con
dition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars
for any case of deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA.
All Pactions Together.
Nearly all the best known leaders
of the Bryan Democrats, the Palmer
and Buckner Democrats and the
McKinley Democrats of i S;6 were
present at the great Democratic
consultation ir. Philadelphia last
Friday. Absolutely all are for
Jenks and the whole ticket.
As Mr. Guffey said at that meet
ing, the party Was never more com
pletely united and the Republican
party was never more dangerously
divided.
The leaders of the latter realize
this, though they refuse to acknowl
edge it. And the Swallow managers
fully comprehend that whatever
strength he is to show in the count
must come from the Republicans,
for he will get practically 110 Demo
cratic v.otes. Their bluffs to the
contrary deceive nobody, not even
themselves. x
The one urgent need is to get out
the Democratic vote. That effect
ed, victory will be certain. The
full Democratic vote alone will elect,
and it is becoming daily more ap
parent that the Democratic ticket
will have the support also of many
thousands of Republicans who feel
that their votes will be worse than
thrown away if given to Swallow
and who will, under no circum
stances, support Stone.
Prosperous Farmer-
D. F. Yoliey, a prosperous farm
er of Wapwallopeu township and
also a reader of the Record of the
Times , was in this city on Tuesday
and made a call at the Record office.
Mr. Yohey's farm comprises 180
acres in a high state of cultivation
and this year he has been rewarded
with a bountiful harvest. He gar
nered large crops of rye, wheat and
oats, and next week will begin
threshing the same. Already he
has husked 1,500 bushels of corn
and when finished expects to have
2,000 bushels in his cribs. His
orchard also did well aud 200
bushels of apples will be a small es
timate of the yield. Mr. Yohey
also had a large crop of potatoes,
and with five cows yielding ten gal
lons of milk a day, a crop of buck
wheat ready to grind, new sausage,
spare ribs, chime, etc., still on the
foot Mr. Yohey will undoubtedly
pass the winter all right. Who
wouldn't be a farmer ?
Mr. Yohey was reared in Coluni-
County and follows closely the
marvels produced by his old neigh
bors, Barney Case, Joseph Van
Sickle and Joseph Fausey, as re
corded by the snake editor. — Wilkes-
Bar re Record.
There is a demand on the part of
the people to know who is responsible
for the death and suffering in the
army, and this demand also contem
plates the punishment of the guilty
men. For this reason a Democratic
Congress must be elected. The peo
ple owe this to the soldiers, and
should not fail to do their duty in the
fall elections.— Chicago Democrat.
VOTE THE STRAIGHT
DEMOCRATIC TICKET\
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM.
Borrows—"Say, old man, can
you—" Foxie—"How cleaver and
witty you are!" "Hey! What!" "O!
don't deny it. You saw I was going to
ask you for five dollars, and you just
anticipated me. Very well, I'll go
elsn where."
MRS. LUCY GOODWIN
Suffered four years with female trou
bles. She now writes to Mrs. Pinkham
of her complete reoovery. Head her
letter:
DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I wish you to
publish what Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, Sanative Wash
and Liver Pills
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B for four years
al *° suffered
' ' A - ; with nervous
J prostration, faint,
• all-gone feelings, palpita
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When I commenced taking your med
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before I hod used half a bottle I was
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I have taken three bottles of Lydla
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
used one package of Sanative Wash,
and am cured of all my troubles. I feel
like a new woman. I can do all kinds
of housework and feel stronger than I
ever did in my life. Inow weigh 131 X
pounds. Before using your medicine I
weighed only 108 pounds.
Surely It is the grandest medicine for
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and be well. Your medicine has
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Holly, W. Va.
I Ne'er be* M bapyy-gOt
mellow.
The lad who affeeta much and minces,
Turns out the "dead weight" of the
household;
And the one who grumbles and winces.
Has not In his make-up the true gold.
Ned took the first prise, being grounded
In grammar, and that la the reason;
Fred's gun at hla practice oft sounded,
80 he bagged the moat game of the sea
son.
And the clerk who specially studied
The wants of the house thut employed
him.
Was advanced, while an elder who worried
Ills ofT-bours a way went below him.
Oh, boys! whether dull or quite clever—
Whether rich or poor Is your station-
Delve on with high purpose, and never
Forget you're the hope of the nation I
George Bancroft Griffith.
"Licking** a Royal Highness.
During her majesty's residence at
Osborne, about forty-flve years ago,
her children were accustomed to ram
ble along the seashore. Now, It so
happened that on one occasion the
young Prince of Wales met a boy who
hod been gathering sea shells. The
young prince, presuming upon his high
position, thought himself privileged to
do what he pleased with Impunity, so
without any notice upset the basket
of shells. The poor lad was very In
dignant and said:
"You do that again and I'll lick
you."
"Put the shells Into the basket and
you will see If I don't," said the
prince.
The shells were returned to the bas
ket
"Now, touch them again, If you
dare," said the boy. Whereupon the
prince again npset the basket and
shells. The boy then pitched Into him
und gave him such a licking that few
princes ever had. His lip was cut
open, his nose knocked considerably
out of Its perpendicular, and his eyes
0* a adlor tHWdh mtjfß* IMve well
become the champion of a prize ring.
His disfigured face oonld .net long
be concealed from his royal mother.
She inquired the cause. The prince
was silent, but at last confessed the
truth. The poor boy was ordered be
fore the queen. He was asked to tell
the story. He did so In a very straight
forward mannef. At Its conclusion,
turning to her child, the queen said:
"Yon have been richly served, sir.
Had you not been pnnished sufficiently
already, I should have punished you
myself. Wlicu yon commit a like of
fense, I trust you will always receive a
similar punishment."
She commanded the parents of the
poor boy to her presence the following
morning. They came, and the result
of tihe Interview was that her majesty
told them that she had made arrange
ments for educating and providing for
their son, and she hoped he would
make good use of tffe advantages
which would be placed within his
reach.—Manchester, Eng., Guardian.
Hurdock si a Vegetable.
What Is even regarded as a vile weed
can, with a little stretch of imagina
tion, be turned into an ornamental
plant or delicious vegetable. This Is
especially the case with the common
burdock, Lappa major. Schoolboys
all know It from gathering the burrs
and compressing them Into a ball, they
being held together by the curved
points of the floral Involucre. This Is
all they know about It It is difficult
to see anything more to be despised
in the burdock leaf than In the leaf of
the rhubarb. It appears that It Is
largely used In China for food. But It
Is stated that If the stalks be cut
down before the flowers expand, and
then be boiled, the taste Is relished
equally with asparagus. The leaves,
when young, are boiled aud eaten, as
we eat spinach. In Japan it la In uni
versal use. Thousands of acres are
devoted to Its culture. But In this
case the root Is the object. It requires
deep soil to get the roots to the best
advantage. The common name In
Ohlna Is gobbo—a name, however,
which need not replace our common
one of burdock.
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Mexican gypsies can forcteH th
weather accurately. Of course they
trade on the knowledge, but how do
you suppose they often get It? Why,
simply by watching spiders, which
generally alter their webs every twen
ty-four houra In summer the boys
and girls will find It Interesting to
watch the little arachnids. If you see
them at work bright and early In the
morning, be sure of a clear day; and
If they make the terminating moments
of their webs unusually long expect
fine weather for at least a week. If
they are very busy between six and
seven o'clock In the evening, look for
a loyely night oil If they spin away
while It Is raining, have no doubt but
the sun will soon shine. If they de
stroy their webs and crawl away to
hide, conclude that continued storms
are cergUu.-Obfqpgo Record. „
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THE DEVELOPMENT
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nancial and business depression.
HAS BEEN PHENOMINAL.
Its permanence and prosperity are now as
sured.
The Bloomsburg Land Improvement Com
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tots for residences and business purposes to
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ASMALL PAYMENT
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Those purchasers desiring to build, and
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WHY PAY RENT
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Factory Sites Given Away.
Maps of the town and our plotted prop,
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