WASHINGTON. From our Regular Correspondent. WASHING I ON, Nov. 28th, 1898. General Nelson A. Miles is proba bly the only prominent official 111 Washington who will be really glad to meet General Calixio Garcia, who, with his fellow commissioners, named by the recent Cuban Assembly, to confer with Mr. McKinley on Cuban affairs, is coming to Washington. General Miles took a great fancy to Gatcia when he was in Cuba, during the Santiago campaign, and will give a dinner in his honor, at his club. Members of the administration will be polite to Garcia, but they will not tire themselves throwing bouquets at him or his Cuban colleagues. It is generally understood that General Shafter queered Garcia with the ad ministration. The matter has not been fully decided, but it is thought that Mr. McKinley will refuse to re ceive Garcia and his associates as a comrnssion representing the Cuban Assembly, but may receive them as private citizens and hear what they have to say, or may direct Secretary Day to receive them. The $20,000,000 which we shall have to pay Spain, if our terms for peace and the purchase of the Philip, ines are accepted, is only about one third possibly not one fourth —of the total amount this Government will be called upon to pay. One se .tion of the terms provides that each coun try shall waive all claims that its citi zens have against the other for money damages. That will make this Gov ernment responsible for all damage done to property owned by American citizens in Cuba, during the two last revolutions. Claims against Spain, aggregating more than $25,000,000, are already on file at the Department of State, for this class of damages, and if this Government becomes re sponsible, as many more are certain to be filed. Allowing that these claims would be scaled down one fifth, there would still be left about $40,000,000 for this Government to pay, besides half that amount which it must pay to Spain. There is noth ing in those terms for Americans to do any hurrahing over. Wherever there is a government appropriation there will be schemers devising means for getting some of the money. The probability that the United States will build even more warships in the next fifteen years than it has built in the past fifteen years has resulted in the formation of a shipbuilder's trust, embracing practicahy all of the establishments which are prepared to construct war ships. Inasmuch as there has from the first been an agreement among the shipbuilders as to prices when bidding for Government work, it is a little difficult to understand why they have made this new combine, but certain that it is not in the interests of the Government, as was shown by the action of the combine in virtually compelling the Navy Department to agree to its plans concerning the new monitors, contracts for which were re cently given out. Thoughtful persons are asking if the announcement of the administra tion that its commercial policy in the Philippines would be that of the "open door" equal freedom of trade to all nations—which prevails in all of free trade England's colonies, is not the first step towards the aban donment of a strictly protective tariff by the Republican party. Many think it is. Whatever may be Mr. McKinley's intention, he will find it a source of constant irritation to our own business men and those ot other countries who do business with us to have one commercial policy for the United States and another for our colonies. There are indications in plenty that the end of the investigation conducted by Mr. McKinley's commission into the management of the war is likely to be very different from what its con duct up to election day indicated. The evidence heard, in Washington and elsewhere, since election has not CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED by local applications, as they cannot reach the seat ot the disease. Ca tarrn is a blood or constitutional dis ease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and muc ous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was pre scribed by one ol the best physicians in this coun.ry for years, at d is a reg ular perscription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredents is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.,Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best, im been directed by General Dodge so markedly as it was previous to elec tion, and bits of truth regarding offic tal mismanagement are constantly coming to the sulfate. It is stated on good authority 'hat Mr. McKinley has been convinced tint individuals as well as the system ot the war de pattinent, which e eryoody admits to be faulty, were responsible for much unnecessary suffering and many deaths, and that he wishes the guilty punished. Whether any man of prom inence is punished remains to be seen, but the opinion is daily growing that the Commission will have to report a number of persons as deserving pun ishment. The public wiil not be sat isfied if this list includes only a few scape-goats in the persons of minor officials. The two men who were di tectly in charge and who were respon sible for every order sent out by the War Department are Secretary Alger and Adjutant General Corbin. and if they escape punishment, it will be ridiculous to punish any of their subordinates. Mr Andrew Carnegie, the multi millionaire steel maker, who finds the country in which he made his money not good enough to live in, and who is said to have taken out British citi zenship papers several years ago, in Scotland, where he lives about three fourths of his time, was raging around Washington last week, 011 the Philip pine question, to an extent that has caused many to believe that he has big money invested in Spanish bonds. That is the only logicil explanation of his wild fool talk about hoping that Americans will be shot down when they try to take possession of the Philippines, etc. Bedtime. A physician of courtly old-school manners used to give prescriptions marked respectively for early bedtime and for late bedtime. A discussion arose the other day between several friends as to what constituted early and late bedtime. Some of the la dies maintained that ten o'clock was the limit between the two, others that early bedtime lasted until eleven and a few who believed in beauty sleep pleaded that early bedtime be gan at eight and ended at half past nine o'clock. So many people are engaged all day, and the dinner hour is necessar ily, in city life, deferred to so late an hour, that families do not break up from their quiet evenirgs until after ten. Society pushes its hours later and later, and the votaries of fashion come near having no bedtime at all, snatching their rest when they can between one gay rout and other. The invalid and the aged and the child must perforce retire early. For those study going persons who regulate their lives by rule, and who habitually rise at an early hour and breakfast punc tually at seven o'clock, ten is certainly a good bedtime hour. Brain-workers would find their account in seeking the repose of the couch and the darkened and silent rhamber, with preferably opaque curtains to exclude the light of the moon and street lamp alike, at ten o'clock. A long sleep rests the mind as well as the body, and prepares one for the work of the next dav, whatever it may be. Far better than an opiate or a narcotic is the habit of seeking the pillow at an early hour, and quietly lying still, with closed eyes and re- j laxed limbs, until sleep, gentlv wooed, comes with its healing touch and sottly weaves its spells of balm. The good doctor probably meant by early bedtime any hour between eight and half ; ast nine and midnight. Growing children cannot too care fully be enjoined to get plenty of sleep. The boy or girl who has les sons to learn must waken early after a good night's rest, and this i insured only by punctuality in retiring. Eight o'clock is a good bedtime for all young people under fifteen, and should be insisted upon by parents.—Harp ers Bazar. i i.u isuma Here. Some people are never satisfied The millionaire wants to be a multi millionaire; the physician who has a paying practice works on to increase jit at the expense of his strugling j brothers; the leading soprano in the I church choir sulks and pouts out her I pretty hps if the poor little girl who j hasn't missed a service in years is al j lowed to sing three words by herself; the merchant is ever on the alert to I bait away the trade that he knows his I competitor has a right to; the lawyer J lies once and finds it so pleasant that he keeps telling more every day: and so it goes. But there is only one thing in the world that we have ever wanted to feast our eves on; when that is re alized we will be ready to yield up the ghost, for the milennium will surely have come. It is the sight of a foot race, open to all our delinquents, from their homes to th s office, to see which one will get nts arrears paid up first. Prison Missionary—"Why do you not attempt to reform?" Convict—"l would, madam, but for one obstacle: I am not at liberty to do so." THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA. Taxed Wor. Thim IV e Vr .. In tlio riitlipplno Islands all males over twenty-one years of age must pay a poll tax that equals ahout four pounds of our money, and the women must pay three pounds. A man must pay a license to sell coco.!nuts from liis own trees or Indigo 01 his own raising. Every an!: ' of furniture that cosis half a Hovoieign is taged. The curtain never goes up at the theatre unless $2 is paid to the government, and for every act of slaughtering his own animals, clipping his own sheep or felling his own trees, the Philip pine farmer must pay a fee to the government. There is exacted gov ernment tribute for getting married and for being buried, and at every step and turn of his life the tax col lector holds out his hand to him, and it is not a demand that can lie refused. No wonder Spain wishes to keep a possession that yields such a return; no wonder also, that the last sixty years have developed seventeen rebel lions in the Philippines.—l,oudou Tid ITits. i h t Intrn isliod ('oil >. The wife of a London embassy at tache enjoys relating the following experience: "During the time when Colonel Cody was making his trium phant tour of Europe she was one night seated at a banquet next to the Belgian consul. Early in the course of conversation he asked: "Madame, you haf undoubtedly been to see ze gr-rnnd Bouf-falo-beel?' Puzzled by the apparently unfamiliar name, she said: 'Pardon me. but whom did you mean?' 'Vy, Houf-falo-beel. ze famous Bout-falo-beel. zat gr-reat countryman of yours. You must know heem.' It was only after some thought, says the lady, that she recognized the tvell known showman's name in this dis guise, and comprehended that the good Belgian thought htm one of America's most eminent names, to be mentioned in the same breath with U .ngiouanl Li ujotn—Dut;o.t Fieo Press. Oil(1 < urntiie Treatment. A Transvaal doctor is credited with the discovery of a new curative treat ment. He asserts that he can cure persons of small pox, fevers, diphthe ria and many other maladies by simp ly wrapping them in milk sheets. The patuiu ii,id on a mattress covered with blankets, and is placed in a sheet just large enough to envelop the body. The sheet has been saturated iu a pint and a half of warm milk, and is applied to the body without wringing. After lying still for an hour thus swathfsl, the pufient Is sponged with warm water, or put Into a warm hath for a few minutes to re move the milk. The treatment Is based on the germ absorbing power of milk, and the idea of it is said to have been suggested by the fact that milk absorbs poisonous germs front a bucket iu which it has been standing. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Tin- I'rtncn of Wales' .Joke A good story Is told about the prince and is well vouched for. In the eight ies, when the Radicals were more than ever, clamorous and active, a young lord said to him: "Sir, have you ever thought of the possibility of this becoming a repub lic. and your losing your title and in come?" "Yes. I have," said the prince. "And have you thought of what you would do?" the young lord persisted. "\ by. ye... said ine prince, "there would always be a cWince to lecture In America."—Providence Journal. KeUNim KII(IIInil. "No, George, don't ask me. 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Rdson's.... 9.84 3.44 7.47 8.4( 6 02 10.88 5.20 12.01 .Cole's Cr'k. 9.87 8.47 7.51 8.41 658 10.82 5.18 11.58 ..LaUbSCtl.. 9.47 8.57 8.01 9.0( 6*43 10.28 5.03 11.46 ...Central... 9.67 4.07 8.11 9.2! 540 10.20 5.00 11.80 .Jam.City.. 10.00 4.10|8.16 9.8! amampmpm ampmpmam I.BAVI ABHIVI RAILROAD TIME TABLE DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN RAILROAD BLOOMSBURG DIVISION. In Effect August Ist, 1808. BTATIUAB. EAsT. A.M. P.M. A.M. r.K. NOKTHUMBBKLAND 825 1.80 10 00 8 80 Cameron 8 88 8 08 Chulaeky 648 b 0? Danville - 8511 2 12 10 21 6 18 Catawlßßa TOB 226 10 32 6 * Bloomsburg 11l 2 36 10 41 6 39 Sapy 128 2 42 10 46 648 Lime Klilge 730 2 48 652 Willow Grove 'B4 2 52 6 56 Brlarcreea - 7 38 TOO Berwick.. 75 1 3 01 11 04 7 06 Beach 713 307 .... 712 Illck's Ferry Bui 318 . . 725 | KtllCKslllnuy 814 524 11 30 I 87 ' 334 ... 1 4H I Nantlcoke 835 842 11 48 7 56 I Avondale 3.40 3 46 3 0V Plymouth 845 351 1162 806 1 Plymouth junction son 8 65 ail ! Kingston 887 402 12 10 818 1 Bennett 001 4 06 8 21 I Forty Fort 008 410 ... 824 I Wyoming 908 4 16 IS 08 S 28 i West Plttston 912 4 21 a 82 I Busquehanna Ave 915 4 24 IS 14 8 .6 Plttston 919 4 29 IS 17 b 40 I Durvea.....™ 9*B 4 34 a 44 | Lackawanna 926 437 ...... a4B Tavlor ~,,••••••••••••• ••••• * 4d .... no I iellevvie 938 450 •••• 905 A.M P.M. P.M. P. * STATIONS. WEST. A.M. A.M. P.M.P.M. SCKANTON .. 600 10 05 155 540 Bellevue. 805 Taylor 6lO 19 15 203 550 Lackawanna 618 10 28 2105 58 Duryea 622 10 26 218 60S Plttston 98 10 41 2 17 606 Susquehanna Ave 682 10 85 220 610 West Plttston..™ 686 10 89 224 614 Wyoming 641 10 44 229 619 Forty Fort 6 48 Bennett 6to 10 52 836 630 Kingston' '6 10 66 542 656 Plymouth Junction 700 .... 847 Plymouth 701 1105 S!2 648 Avondale 709 .... 557 647 Nantlcoke 714 1113 802 oto Hunlock's 720 1119 310 658 Shlokshlnny 781 1180 a 24 710 Hick's Ferry. 744 11 48 8:15 725 Beach Haven 753 1148 842 788 Berwick 800 11 54 849 73 8 Brfarcrcek Boa 856 ™..i willow Grove.™ 81 0 19 04 859 749 Lime Ridge 814 12 C 9 404 768 Espy 821 1815 411 600 Bloomsburg 828 18 22 417 867 Rupert 884 18 27 428 818 oatawlssa 840 IS 32 42S 818 Danville 855 18 47 444 881 Cnulaeky 449 ... Cameron 908 12 67 454 8 4 NOBTnPMDEKLAND. 920 110 508 9 0 A.M. P M. P. M. P.M Connections at Rupert with Philadelphia 4 Reading Railroad for Tamenend." Tamaqua Wllllameport, Bunhury, Pottsvlile, etc At Northumberland with P. A E. Dlv. p. ft R. for Barrleburg, Lock Gaven, Emporium Warden. Corry and Erie. W. F. HALLBTEAD, Gen. Man., Soranton, I'a. 3