WASHINGTON. From our lingular Correspondent. WASHINGTON, NQV. 20th, 1898. Each week since our Commission ers demanded the Philippine Islands friends of the administration have in formed the public that an ultimatum had been spent to Spain that would end the business, but the business isn't ended, and the answer submitted by the Spanish Commissioners last week, is every bit as unsatisfactory as their first. There has been quite enough talk about ultimatums ; it is now high time to actually send one. The Peace Commission has been sil ting seven weeks and absolutely noth ing has been settled. It is time for this government to show whether it or the influence of the Spanish bond holders is the strongest. There isn't the slightest doubt in the world that the delay has been caused by the bondholders, who want to come in somewhere in the game. * * • There was a pointer as to the prob able time that Gen. Fitz Lee's corps will go to Cuba in Mr. McKmley's answer to the delegation of Savannah businessmen who invited him to come to their city and review Gen. Lee's troops, when he goes to the Peace Jubilee, at Atlanta. He told them he would be in Atlanta Dec. 14, and would gladly come to Savannah and review Lee's troops, if they were not sent to Cuba before then. It was ev ident to his hearers that he thought Lee's corps would be in Cuba before then—so evident that they asked him if he could not come to Savannah be fore going to Atlanta. He told tiiem he could not. But plans as to send ing troops to Cuba have been changed so often tbat they are as likely to be changed again as to be carried out. * . * * Senator Caffrey, of Louisiana, says he will oppose the ratification by the Senate of a treaty annexing the Phil ippine islands, but upon one condition would gladly support it—that all the negroes be deported to those islands and never be allowed to return to the United States. Mr. Caffrey said: "If the South could be rid of the negro problem, it would prosper beyond the dream of man. With its great nat ural advantages, of climate and of soil, with its coal and iron hidden away in its mountains and with the vast inducements for capital which it would offer, if the negro problem was settled, it would take a great stride forward." • • The presence of Boss Piatt and Representative Odell, chairman of the New York State Republican Com mittee, at the same Washington hotel, last week, was hardly accidental. Mr. Odell is a candidate for the Senate, and although Boss Piatt has appar ently sanctioned Chauncey Depew's senatorial aspirations, this Washing ton meeting has added to the number of those who believe that Odeli is the man Piatt wishes to have for his col league in the Senate, or that they are setting up the pins for a dark horse. • * * Senator Morrill, of Vermont, came very near to sizing up the situation in connection with the high jinks—beg pardon. High Joint Commission, that is trying to agree upon a treaty that will smooth out all the kinks between this country and Canada, when he said : " The trouble with the situation is that Canada has nothihg to give. She had her houses all painted new by the agreement of 1854101864. Now they have grown weatherbeaten and dingy ; she wants them to have a new coat of paint." * * Those Republicans who talk about the recent election having been an overwhelming endorsement of their party are merely indulging in pipe dreams. There was nothing over whelming about the election. On the contrary, it was only by the skin of their teeth, as the saying is, that the Republicans escaped defeat. It was such a close shave that a change of 300 votes, distributed among eight Congressional districts, would have put the Republicans in a minority in State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) ss Lucas County. ) Frank J. Cheney makes oatn that he is the senior partner of the firm of F J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dot .ars for each and every case of ca tarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in mvpresence, this sixth day of De cember, A. D. 1896 . A. W. GLEASON, J SEAL V i — Y— ■* Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.,Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75 c. Hall's Family Pills are the best, im the next House, instead of a major ity. It should not be forgotten, either, that the Republican majority in the next House will be forty less than their majority in me present House. 1 o blow about such an " en dorsement as tliat is simply to exhibit gall. * ♦ Senator Faulkner says it is by no means certain that the Republicans will control the West Virginia Legis lature that will elect his successor. The result will depend upon the offic ial count in a number of districts, and Mr. Faulkner expresses confidence in Democratic control of the Legislature. ♦ * Although Representative Gro&venor and other friends of the administration have been industriously denying that there was any lack of harmony be tween JCzar Reed and the administra tion, or that the:e was any intention on the part of the administration to try to prevent Reed's election as the Speaker of the next House, there are other facts, such as the public statements respectively made by Boss Hanna, and by Representative Ding ley, who was made Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee by Reed, and who is Reed's man, which offset tiiose denials. The two statements are directly opposed to each other. Dingley says no revenue legislation of importance is needed and that there will be none by Con gress. By many who make a study oi the intricate undercurrents of po litic these two opposite statements are regarded as the first guns in a fight between Reed and the adminis tration. * * * No federal troops are to be sent into either North or South Carolina as a result of the race troubles in those states. The administration has decided to confine its interference in those States to trying to get evidence to have any parties who have inter fered with any Federal official in the performance of his official duties in dicted by the Federal grand juries connected with the L T . S. Courts in (he two States. Cornelius Smith, who ran as an in dependent candidate for Judge in Lackawanna county, will contest the election of Judge Gunster, who ran upon the Democratic and Republican tickets for the same office. Judge Gunster received 13,487 votes and Smith received 7,113. The contest is based upon the Act of Assembly, of 1896, which provides that "upon the official ballot to be voted for at any election the name of any candidate shall not appear more than once by certificate of nomination or more than once by nomination papers." This was one of the foolish laws passed by the Republican legislature of 1896, and may be the means of depriving a faithful and upright Judge of the of fice to which he has been elected by a large majority of the voters. Lehigh Valley's Vaudeville. An exchange is responsible for the following: "The Lehigh Valley is constructing a novelty in cats. It is a theatrical car, to be introduced on its through trains. There will be a stage, with footlights, trap door, scenery, curtain and thunder and lightning and paper snow. A tank will also be there for specul occasions and thrilling scenes of lailroad wrecks and hairbreadth es capes to reassure the travelers. There will be continuous performances be tween New York and Buffalo, with a galaxy of soubrettes. leading ladies and funny men always on hand. A passage on this swell vaudeville car will cost $2 beyond the usual rate." To Elevate Morals. , A curious plan for elevating Georgia morals has been formulated by a well known citizen of Atlanta. He pro poses that each county shall decide by vote on January 1, of each year, who the worst man in each county is, and the man receiving the highest number of votes shall on the enusuing February Ibe hanged. It is claimed for the plan that it would induce bad men to migrate, and that the "com plimentary vote" received by those who had just begun to be bad, but were not generally recognized as such, would tend to create a desire within them to be enrolled among the well behaved: The World's Greatert Crop. The average man, if asked what is the most important crop of the world would unhesitatingly say, "Wheat." This is true in the United States, but far from the case in the world as a whole. The first place must be given the potato. Of all the staple crops of the world, the potato takes tne first place, the annual crop being more than 4,coo,oO',ooo bushels, against 2,500,- 000,000 bushels of wheat and 2,600,- 0-0,000 bushels of corn. Ofthe total potato crop, Europe produces fully • seven eights, and one-half times as much as of wheat, and all the cereals I together are but 50 percent, more.— George B. Waldron, in Ale C/ure's. THE tjOLUMBIAW. BLOOMSBURO. PA. THE VOTING MACHINE The adoption of machine labor in places of mantt tl labor in many pur suits and industries where us use has long been deemed impossib'e or im practicable is another evidence that the world is fust n • itrng what may be termed the macuiue age when no trade, art, industry, or work now done by hand, will be exempt from its domina tion. Many failures extending through many years seemed to forbid its use in setting type and to prove that this most difficult of tasks would never be successfully accomplished. But it has been, and in all the large newspaper and job offices of the country the type setting machine is at work. Voting machines are the latest suc cessful achievement in mechanism and without much doubt their use will in time be universally adopted. Their use in Rochester at a 'ecent election was most satisfactory. Twenty min utes after the polls closed the full re sult of the voting was known in that city. Fraud was made impossible in the casting and counting of the ballots and voters had not the least difficulty in casting their ballots. This promises a reform of the most practical value. There is no doubt the time is convng when inventive genius will minimize the work ot the ward heeler. It seems that it has come now, and New York has made the experiment on a very large scale by testing voting machines in a large and important city. The ballot law of Pennsylvania is a cumbersome piece of insincere patchwork, costly and dissapointing. A machine in it self cannot lie or cheat. It is auto matic, and it records without feeling and reports without a bribe or remorse. It will be interesting to read the final result of machine ballot boxes in a nojed city of a great state. The machine and the method of using it are described as follows: The voting machine does all the work of canvassers and tally clerks. All the voter has to do is to move a handle over a face that looks like the switchboard of a telephone central of fice, and when he leaves the booth the apparatus clicks and his vote is not only recorded but is added on to the total. When the machine is locked at the end of the day it has automati cally added up the vote of every can didate. The machines in Rochester worked perfectly, and there will be a bill in troduced into the Legislature direct ing the use of the machine all over the state, In Rochester, which is a city of 133,000 people, there were 73 stand ard voting machines employed, and the result was that the total vote of Ro chester was known in just 37 minutes after the polls closed. This time was required to get the totals of the 73 machines together and add them. In Syracuse, which has 40,000 less pop ulation than Rochester, the return was not complete until midnight.' There are as many stupid men in Rochester as anywhere else, but wtth the voting machine the dullest voter could not get mixed up. The voter cannot lose his vote by voting for two candidates for the same offLe, the most frequent blunder noticed when ordinary ballots are counted. There are no springs in the mechan ism, so there is nothing likely to get out of order; not one of the 73 ma chines used at Rochester failed to do the work expected of it. There is a little lever before each name on the face of the machine, and the voter picks out his ticket by shift ing these from perpendicular to hori zontal. If he chooses to vote a straight ticket he merely moves a handle over AN OPERATION AVOIDED. Mrs. Rosa Gaum Writes to Mrs. Piukham About It. She Says: LEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I take pleas ure iu writing you a few lines to in form you of the good your Vegetable Compound has done me. I cannot thank you enough for what your medi cine has done for me; it has, indeed, helped me wonderfully. „ For years I was trou bled with an ovarian tumor, each year grow- y \ u ing worse, un- I 1 \\K was compelled T /!./ to consult with Ml] a physician. \ iHL nothingcould NH® be done for mo but to go under an operation In speaking with a friend of mine about it, she recommended Lydia E. I'inkham's Vegetable Compound, say ing she knew it would cure me. I then sent for your medicine, and after tak ing three bottles of it, the tumor dis appeared. Oh! you do not know how much good your medicine has dope me. I shall recommend it to all suffer ing women.—Mrs. ROSA GAUM, 720 Vail St., Los Angeles, Cal. The great and unvarying success of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com | pound in relieving every derangement j of the female organs, demonstrates 1 it to be the modern safeguard of wo man's happiness and bodily strength. More than a million women have been benefited by it. Every woman who needs advice i about her health is invited to write to I Mrs. Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass. the party emblem at the head ot the column, and when the machine regis ters it records a vote for everv candi date under that emblem. Moving the levers does not record the vote, so there is a I the opportunity for correc tion that one could desire. It is only when the man inside the booth opens the curtains to leave that his vote is counted as indicattd by the levers. The totals of the votes cast can only be read when the machine is locked against voting. The voting can only be done when the curtains that hide the voters are closely drawn, and as he steps back the little levers all fly to perpendicular again, and there is nothing by which a man can tell how the man ahead of htm voted. If a voter wants to vote a nearly straight ticket he does not have to in dicate every candidate on his list. He merely moves the handle of the party emblem under which most of his can dates are ranged and then moves the individual levers for the exceptions, and the wisa machine counts them and cancels the corresponding names on the party ticket. All the inspect ors have to do is to see that the man who entered the booth is a legally registered voter and the machine does the rest. Better off in Heaven- When a girl of 16 is seen upon the streets she has a cute way of tossing her head as though she owned the earth and WAS going to the mi idle of the next block to get it. After she is x S the world she owns is about as faraway as the world's fair was to the most of us, and at twenty she gives up all hope of ever getting it at all. By the time she is 25 she has a faint, vague sincer ity in the world, and the thing for her to do is to get a position and something useful. After a while she gets married to a man who isn't at all the sort of a man she diearned of. Then she con cludes she will be better oft" in heaven. Biliousness Is caused by torpid liver, which prevents dlges. tion and permits food to ferment and putrify In the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache, Hood's insomina, nervousness, and, If not relieved, bilious fever _ I I or blood poisoning, flood's 111 Pills stimulate the stomach, ■ ■■■ nJ rouse the liver, cure headache, dizziness, con stipation, etc. 25 cents. Sold hy all druggists. The only PIUs to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Dr. Humphreys' Specifics act directly upon tho disease, without exciting disorder in other parts of tho system. They Cure the Sick. HO. CORES. TRICES 1— Fevers, Congestions, Inflammations. .23 2 —Worms, Worm Fever, Worm Colic... .'25 3—Teething, Colic,Crying,Wakefulness .23 4—Diarrhea, of Children or Adults 23 7—Coughs. Colds, Bronchitis 23 H— \ruralgln. Toothache, Faceache 23 o—Headache. Sick Headache, Vertigo.. .23 10—D vspepala. Indigestion, Weak Stomach.2s 11—Suppressed or Painful Periods 25 12—'Whites, Too Profuse Periods .25 13—Croup, Laryngitis, Hoarseness .25 14—Salt Rheum. Erysipelas.Eruptions.. .25 15—Rheumatism. Rheumatic Pains 25 16—Malaria, Chills, Fever and Ague 25 19—Catarrh, Influenza, Cold In the Head .25 20—Whooplng-Coug 25 27—Kidney Diseases 25 2H—.Nervous Debility 1.00 30—I'rinary Weakness. Wetting Bed... .25 77—<*rlp, Hay Fever 25 Dr. Humphreys' Manual of all Diseases at your Druggists or Mailed Free. Sola by druggists, or sent on receipt of price. Humphreys' Med. Co., Cor. William & John Sts., New York. WEST) Cattle hides and all ■H EsTO tm. m kinds of skins whole El R M til'or ROBES&RUGS. B" H fly vf&O Soft, lijjht, mot It -OSS EH&r JuVJ I >ro ° r * Oct our tail circular. Wo make Trislon,coon and galloway fur coats and robes. If your dealer do.it keep them get catalogue from us. ,Wo also do Taxidermy ana llcod Mounting. . CPOSBY FRISIAN FUR CO., 110 MILL, STIUSKT, COCUESTER, N\ V. 11-21-4t-d ■k Chichester's English Diamond Ilrud. PENNYROYAL PILLS I Original aud Only Genuine. A .tL'A nsrc, always reliable, laoiks auk A\ y-AM lfrnjcßiit for Chichester a Rnglish Dia-fW\\ • 1 r:,i llrand in Kod and Gold nieUlllo\\nlr uh —-^■^y >o,rs ' *alad with bloa ribbon. Tako Yfi' flaGblnoolhtn Refuse dangerous substitu- V I*l Aft ions and imitations. At l)rsggiata,rwnd4*. I U JJf In stamps for partlcnlars, testimonials aud \• 0•' Belief for Ladles," Utter, by rrtnrn A fr Mali. 10.000 TeatioMOlala. Nams Paper. > ChlohestorCacmUml Ca.MadUon Place. Sold by ail Local brugAUU. PHILADA.. l'A* 11-KMtd. THE DEVELOPMENT of notwitbsianding the late fi nancial and business depression. HAS BEEN PHENOMINAL. Its permanence and prosperity are now as sured. The Bloomsburg I-and Improvement Com pany now offers for sale the most desirable lots for residences and business purposes to be had in this town, at moderate prices and upon easy terms. ASMALL PAYMENT down and small monthly payments thereafter will secure a lot. Those purchasers desiring to build, and own their own homes the company will as sist by advancing the money there on. WHY PAY RENT when you can own your own home ? Factory Sites Given Away. Maps of the town and our plotted prop erty furnished on application. Bloomsburg Land Improvement Company. J. S. WOODS, N. U. FUNK, Sales Agent. Secretary. io-6-6mos. When angiy —don't grind your teeth — 2 Put between them. 2 • Pemember the name j • v when you buy again, f Demorest's |T FAMILY Magazine $ 1 22 A EAR ® Tlt e scription price of Is reduced to ijtl.oo a Year. nnmnfaot'c contains more matter, artistic, scientific, so uemoresi S c i a i an{ | practical, titan any other one mag azine contains. It is u magazine for the whole family. It gives as much general matter as an exclusively literary magazine. It treats household topics as fully as a strictly domestic journal ... It gives as much interesting matter lor young people as a strictly young peop.e s pub lication! 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ORGANS, From $50.00 and Upwards | We sell on the installment plan. Pianos, 825.00 down and 810.00 per month. Or gans, 810.00 down, 85.00 per month. Lib eral discount for cash. Sheet Music, at one 1 half price. Musical merchandise of all kinds. 1 j We handle Genuine Singer High Arm SEWING MACHINES, 85.00 down and 83.00 per month. We also handle the Demorest Sewing Machine, from 8:9.50 and upwards. Sewing Machine Needles and Oil for all makes of Sewing Machines. Best makes of WASH MACHINES, FROM $4.00 UP TO $9.00. J. SALTZER. l iS" Music Rooms—No. 115 West Main St., below Market, Bloomsburg, Fa. 31011-3 SOUTH. II K S R. It. NORTH ARBIVR. LEAVE am a.m. pm p.m. STATIONS, amipm pmiara 7.10 It. IB U. 30 8.15 Bloomsbu'g. 8.84 -A 40 0 45;6.10 7.0S 11.40 0.80 2.10 '• P. AH. 6.86 2.42 6.47] 7.03 11.87 0.84 8.95 " Main St.. 8.38 8.4'. 8.50, 0.53 11.87 0.12 1 50 Paper Mill. 848 2.34 7.t1|f.87 6.50 11.83 0.08 1.45 ..Light ft. 8.5 i 2.58,7.05 0.50 6 40 11.13 5.52 1.80 Orangevll'e. 9.0213.10|7.14 7.10 1 6.28 11.0 5.48 1.00 .Forks... 9.10 8.20,7.24 7.35 0.25 It. oo 5.44 12.53 ...Zancr'S... 8.14 3.24:7.28 7.41 6.1 10.65 5.87 12.46 .Stillwater . 8.20 3.30|7.33 8.00 808 10.45 5.27 12.3 ...Benton.... 9.30 5.40|7.48 8.80 6.04 10 40 5 28 12.10 ...Edaon'P.... 9.34 3.44 7.47 8.40 6 (12 10.8815.20 12.06 .Cole's Cr'k. 9.37 3.47(7.51 8.46 663 10.32 5.13 11.58 ..LaUbaCh.. 9.47 3.57; 8.01 9.00 5,43 10.2315.03 11.45 ...Central... 9.t7 4.07 8.11 9.25 841 10.8015.00111.30 .Jam.City.. 10.00 4.10k15 9.35 am a m p m p m ampmpmam | LEAVE ABBIVB RAILROAD TIME TABLE DELAWARE, LACKAVVANNA & WESTERN RAILROAD. BLOOMSBURG DIVISION. In Effect August Ist, 189. oTA ilONtt. KAT A.M. P.M. A.M. P.|, NOKTQUMBXBLANI) 25 1.60 10 00 5 50 BB ®O3. cuuiaeky o o? liauvllle - 10 - 1 18 Catawlssa JfJJ 280 }0 82 6 28 Kaoerl •09 9 31 lu 3o 638 Bloomsburg ~ 71* 286 10 41 639 Kgny 723 242 1 0 4, fi J5 Lime ttldge 780 2 48 6 62 Willow Grove 2 52 to bt Brl'ircrei'K 7 38 7 0C : Berwick 751 8 01 11 04 7 ot Beach Haven...™ ■ !3 8 U. 12. Hick's I'erry 801 318 . . 72t SblcKßblnuy 814 924 11 30 7 87 llunlock's Ji, 384 ... ,49 Nantlcoke 835 3.8 1145 , 5t Avon dale 3.40 340 ... . 80' Plymouth 845 3 51 11 53 8 00 Plymouth Junction 8 50 3 65 s li Kingston 857 402 I*lo 8 18 Bennett 90i 4 on 8 81 Forty Fort <>S 410 ... 824 Wyoming " 4 18 18 08 8 28 West Plttston 9 18 4 21 s 82 Busauehanna Ave 916 4 24 12 14 86 Plttston 318 4 12 17 8 40 Diftyea. 923 4 34 544 Lackawanna 9S(i 487 . 848 Taylor - 4 45 85 Hnllpvue "** 4 "9 •••• 9 0<• 80RANTON.' "42 4 55 12*3 • C STATIONS. YVBS'I'I i.M. A.M. P. M.P. ST. 6OO 10 05 155 640 Bellevue .. 805 .... Tavlor 810 1015 2 l>3 550 Lackawanna 618 10 88 210 558 Duryea 822 10 26 213 602 Plttston 828 10 41 2 17 6(6 Susquehanna Ave 832 10 35 220 6lu West Plttston 6SB 10 39 224 614 Wyoming 641 10 4. 229 619 Forty Fort 6 48 Bennett Bto 10 52 236 6so Kingston' sro 10 56 942 6SO Plymouth Junction 700 ... 247 Plymouth 704 11 05 962 643 Avondale 709 257 047 Nantlcoke 714 11 13 802 OfO Huniock'a 720 11 19 310 658 Bhlckshlnny 781 11 30 884 7io Hick's Ferry 744 11 43 835 725 Beach Haven - 753 11 48 348 732 Berwick 800 11 54 849 78 8 Brlarcreek 806 ... 355 Willow Grove 810 12 04 859 74V Lime Ridge 814 12 09 404 758 1 Espy 821 12 15 411 600 Bloomsburg 828 13 22 417 807 Rupert.. 834 12 27 423 618 ' Oatawlssa 840 12 32 <29 818 Danville 865 12 47 442 831 Cnulasky 449 ... Cameron 905 12 67 454 8 4 NOETHUBBKBLAND. 920 110 508 9 0 A.M. P M T. M . V Connections at Rupert wltb Philadelphia t Reading Railroad tor Tamanend, Tamanua Wllllamsport, sunbury, Pottsvllle, etc Al Northumberland with P. A E. Dlv. P. & R. tor Harrlsburg, Lock Haven, Emporium Warrei, ICorry and Brie. W. F. HALLSTEAD. Gen. Man., scranton, Pa. 3
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