'HE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. rtumbian. ESTABLISHED 1B0. Sue Columbia grmoiwt, STABi,ISUED 183T. CONSOLIDATED 1SR9. rUBLlSURJ 1VEKY THVttHDAT MOSXINU Mloouisburg, the county seat of Columbia county, Pennsylvania. OEO. K. KI.WELL EDITOB. 1 .1. TA.KKK, Local Kuitoh. UEO. KOAN'i FOKKHAN. tinifs: Inxldetne county 11.00 yearln ad f nof; i.so it not paid lu aavunt-p outside tu countv, 11.85 a year, strictly in advano. All communications should be addressed to I'llK COLUMBIAN. Bloomsburg, Pa. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1899. POLITICAL CARDS. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, J. K. SHARPLESS, of Catawissa. FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK OF THE COURTS, WILLIAM H. HENRIE, of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, J. W. PERRY, . of Sugarloat Twp. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, V. H. FISHER, from the South Side. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, JOHN N. GORDON, oi Montour. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, A. N. YOST, of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, J. C. RUTTER, JR., of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, DR. T. C. HARTER, of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, W. F. STOHNER, of Bloomsburg. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOHN G. HARMAN, of Bloomsburg. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, C. A. SMALL, of Catawissa. tw The above announcements are all subject to the decision of the Democratic County con- Tennon, to be nem Tuesday, .June van, ikw. Prlmaiy election, Saturday, June lu. a 10 7 p. ni, Last week General Wood, the military governor of Santiago prov ince in Cuba, opened thirty public schools in the territory under his control. These schools are conduct ed on plans similar to the manner of the American public school, and will prove about the best kind of missionary work this country can carry on either in Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines. It is this kind of civilization that must count. The faunbury Daily is urging Hon. S. P. Wolverton for Supreme Court Judge. It says: "He has served with distinction for ten years in the Senate of the State and two terms in congress and he would bring to that body the ability and experience and would add luster and would not detract. It would be the fitting climax to his career as a great lawyer. If he would enter the race with the purpose of winning he could be nominated and the nomination would mean the election." Probing for the Truth The Miles court of inquiry, or dered bv the President, will, we hope, settle the "embalmed " beef scandal. From the composition of the court we do not believe it will use the whitewash brush to shield anyone, but give the facts as proven. The country has the right to know the truth of the matter in controv ersy, and if one-half what is said be true, it is bad enough, and dis graceful to the country. We are informed by a soldier who went out from this county, that the ship he was aboard of was supplied with this beef, and six tons were con demned and thrown overboard. General Miles feels confident the mass of evidence he has collected will prove the truth of his charge. Dcylcstown Dtmocrat. Want to Live Idle- The United States authorities are trying to give the Cuban Insurg ents an opportunity to earn a living I by furnishing them with work on the public improvements in tne dit- ferent towns ana cities, at iair wages. Many have availed them selves of this chance to earn a liv ing, but their former officers go among them and endeavor to dissu ade them from accepting such em ployment. The idea appears to be that they shall keep up their mili ta.y organization, and take to the woods and the jungle in small bod ies and live off the land. They ev idently nrefer that mode of life to any other, and will attempt to keep it up as long as they can. lliese men must be suppressed, not ouly quickly, but with an iron hand. That is not war, and the sooner thes2 men are made to realize the fact the sooner it will run its course. Sprinnogle on Politics. Politics is a dirty, rotten and cor rupt mess of trafficing, and trifling with the people's rights, It is the stock in trade, of corrupt men, of all that is venal, despicable, and de bauchible. It is the highway to legal robbery, justified crime, and questionable fortunes. It condones theft, fraud, and deception, and con demns iustice. righteousness, and the will of the people. It passes laws to protect the guilty, and pun ish the innocent. It honors the thief who steals his miliions, but severely punishes the man who steals a " mess of pottage . ' ' Every attempt to white-wash it with a coat of reformation at the elections only sinks corruption into deeper degra dation. The more light that is shed upon the system of corruption, the darker the page of history, as the book of corruption progresses. Whatever may be the heights of glory to which corruption will ulti mately attain, is not now discern ible, neither desirable. Office is no longer a public trust, but an op portunity for public theft. Office can hardly be regarded any longer as the result of the public franchise, but as the result of boodle and beer. Office is 110 longer an object of honor, but an object for the boodle that is in it. Politics is a bad relig ion for an upright and honorable man. It seems to be a bad religion for the state, judging from the dis tribution of its rewards to its trusted henchmen in every nook and corner. Star Clothing House During the Month of February, will offer Special Reductions in All Winter Goods flust be sold to make room for Spring Goods. WE WILL OFFER BIG BARGAINS IN COATS AND ULSTERS, FOR MEN AND BOYS. Come and see the At Townsend's Star Clothing: House. STORM Home Lift) in Puerto Rico- The native early morning meal is a cup of coffee with milk addic tion to the black coffee habit docs not exist on the island and a piece of bread. Breakfast is served at eleven or twelve o'clock, and is sel dom elaborate, unless guests are 111 the house. Boiled eggs, bread and coflee satisfy the ordinary man, but the hungry man eats his garlicky beefsteak in addition. 1 Dinner is the meal of the day, ! and is eaten between six and seven o'clock. This is the native's only j full heavy meal, and this fact may ; account for his ability to eat a quan tity of food which leaves the aver age American a victim to indiges tion and remorse. The positions of honor at a din ner table are. among the older and non-travelled residents, in the fol lowing order : the head of the table to the most distinguished guest ; the rest, in the order of their rank and importance, ranged around to the right, the host occupying the last seat after his guests. The women sit at the left of the table, all together. Among the more cul tured classes the host occupies the head, the hostess the foot, the places of honor being the seats to the right and left of the host. The evenings in the home for instance, of an alcalde, the mayor of a town are spent around the centre of the marble-topped table, lazily rocking to and fro in the big chairs. The men smoke their cigar ettesthe women never smoke and a flow of small-talk, filled with simple jokes and sallies, consti tutes the eutire evening's amuse ment. Where they have pianos, the daughters exhibit their limited skill on instruments which are jangled and out of tune. One never cf naval and military heroes were sees a book or a magazine 111 tnese A War Epigram Luncheon Certainly this is a new idea in luncheons. It originated in the mind of a Lynchburg, Va., woman Per haps the best designation is a war epi- gram luncheon, the intellectual feature J of the affair being the repetition by 1 eaeh guest of some historic mot of the ; recent conflict with Spain. Among the apt quotations from t'.ie utteiances these: houses, though in two or three of the larger cities there are many lit erary men. Reading is not a strong point of the island population. Harper's Weekly. Washington's Old Home It is an interesting fact not gener ally known, that the farm, first laid out and planted under the keen, calm, discerning eye which could as quickly read the possibilities of a piece of ground as the hidden mean ing of a state paper, still nearly sup ports Mount Vernon. Dairy and iarm products are daily shipped to the cities of Washington and Alex andria, and cut flowers from the con servatory, a recent and successful enterprise, to greater distances-slips and shoots have even been sent to France. This is in the true Wash ington spirit of economy. Ii any thing could have pleased the Gener al more than to be told that after his death the home he had so loved would be tenderly cared for and cherished as a memorial to him by the people he had loved even better it would have been to know further that the place would be financially self-supporting.-Froin' 'The Restora tion of Mount Vernon," in De mor es? s Magazine for March. General John M. rainier, now residing in an Illinois town, is re ported to be in destitute circum stances. Owing to the labors of his many friends, in his behalf, he has been granted a pension of $50 per month. He was a Major Gen eral in Sherman's army, at the time of its memorable march to the sea. During his life he has been Gov ernor, State Senator, and a candi date for President. However, his wealth, of which he had considera ble, has all vanished, and he is now in want. Horrors of the Loper Hospital Inscribed. The beneficial societies frequently have occassion to discuss the ques tion as to whether a member in ar rears is entitled to the benefits al lowed those in good standing. The Supreme Court in a recent decision says "that societies are liable to pay benefits either in part or whole as long as a member is carried on the .membership rolls even if he has been declared out of benefits. Also that the members of a defunct so ciety are individually liable for all obligations incurred before the society was disbanded. There is still no change in the Senatorial fight, and the deadlock remains unbroken. The three fac tions, into which the legslators are divided, intend, judging from ap pearances, to stand firm, and will not change their attitude. Some of the tactics resorted to by a few of the Quay men, now and then, make the " Old Man " just a little suspicious, and he is compelled to go to them, and in the language of an exchange, the luke-warm ad herents in question are compelled to make " wish-I-may-die " declara tions that they are all devotion to the machine. A correspondent of one of the city Dailies who paid a visit to the leper hospital at Manila, describes it thusly: "We were shown to a bed on which lay the worst case in the institution. Smail ihat heap seemed; too small for human being ! The cover was part ly removed and we beheld in all its huleousness the delorrned body. Great ulcers rising in knots upon his face, his limbs and his body, gave him the appearance of a gnarled and knotted stump. "His hair was partly gone; his toes had all been eaten away; the stumps of his fingers clutched at the coverlet; and his leaden eye, staring lrom out their sunken sockets, gaze fixed and lusterless, giving no evidence that Heir to $300,000,000. . John D. Rockefeller, Jr., aged twenty-three years, started in busi ness life at New York on Tuesday bv being elected a director of the Delaware, Lackawanna cc V estern Railroad. He is the only son and heir to a fortune that will exceed $300,000,000. When he was 13 years old, his father offered him a penny for ev ery fence boaid he would nail up on the estate at Forest Park, near Cleveland. Young Rockefeller put up 13 boards, and was paid 13 cents, which he put m bank. This money was invested and the amount the youth ultimately received from it was $10,000. Young Rockefeller was gradua ted from Brown University. He has never touched alcoholic liquors, nor used tobacco. He is naturally religious. a soul dwelt within that dwarfed and decrepit mass. "We turned away from the horrible sight and our eyes fell upon the wast ed body of an old man, whose twisted and blighted figure had assumed an unearthly shape. The bones project ing from out the flesh, the blotched and rotting skin clinging to the blanch ed frame, the lacerated fingers held out in supp.ication for money, the sunken jaws working while tie gave utterance to a deep gultcral sound which meant to say that he was poor, the idiotic face-all created feelings of the most horrible awe. Heaven knows he was poor both in worldly thing! and all that there was in life God gives to ordinary mortals! Twenty years of a living death and has converted a man into the most shocking creature of which imagination can conceive." Twenty-five insane patients in the State Asylum at Harrisburg are to be transferred to the Cumberland County Home. Strong Today Because Hood's Sarsaparilla Built Up His System Child Wat Weak, Had Night Sweats and Poor Appetite. "Our youritfeal child was in a bad con dition. One phyBlclan Bald the trouble was malaria and another thought it came from the stomach and liver. Meantime the child kept growing weaker, tie bad night sweats, poor appetite and various other troubles. We worried along tor two yearn, and then we determined to try Hood'i Sarsaparilla, and lrom the first day we noticed a change in our little boy. We kept on until he bad taken about three bottles. Today be is a strong, hearty child. We have always bad to keep him Indoors in winter, bat last winter be was out with other children and we found no traoe ot the old trouble returning." Alfred Harsbbkrqkr, 70 Washington Avenue, Altoona, Pa. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the best in taet the One True Blood Purifier. Bold by all drusgLU. in six for s Hnnri'c PI1U do no mB6 la 01 IIUUU S fills grip,. D,UggisU. 280. "Excuse me, sir; I have to report that the ship has been blown up and is sinking." Bill Anthony. 'Suspend judgment." Sigsbee. "We will make Spanish the court language of hades." Evans. "Remember the Maine." Schley. "Don't hamper me with instructions; I'm not afraid of the entire Spanish fleet with my ship." Clark. "To hell with breakfast; let's finish 'em now." A gunner on board one of the vessels. "Shafter is fighting, not writing." Corbin. "Don't cheer now: those poor devils are dying. Phillip. "I want to make a public acknow ledgement that I believe in God the Father Almighty." Philip. "The Maine is avenged." Wain wright. "Don't get between my guns and the enemv." Dewey. "I have cot them now; they wiil never get home." Schley. There must be no more recalls; iron will break at last." Hobson. "Don't mind me boys; go on fight ing." Allen Capron. "Don't Swear; shoot." Colonel Wood. "Take that for the Maine." Sigs bee. "Expect to take the place as soon as I can move. Reinforcements will not reach me." Shafter. "War is not a picnic." Hamilton Fish. "Who would not sample tor a new star in the flag?" O'Neill. "Afraid I'll strain my guns at long range; I'll close in." Wainwright. There were twenty questions and ten women present. One bright wom an guessed eight, and a white marble bust of Dewey was awarded her, wrapped carefully in red, blue and white paper. After luncheon the guests were in- vited to a Queen Anne hall, where there was a large national flag suspended under the chandelier. They all in one group sang "America" in the most patriotic manner, and after the first verse was sung a button was pressed in the quickest manner and this flag unfolded, and ten dainty little flags fell souvenirs which were promptly picked up by each guest and waved enthusiastically while the second verse ot " America " was sung. SOME CUT PRICES FOR THIS WEEK. Dress Goods in Unmatchable Values. The story to day is of a little lot of aristocratic Btuffa of superior quality, mostly mixed goods, that have received Dot ice 10 quit, intrinsically uiey are worm every peuuy 01 yesieruajr u price, which this morning are cut in halt, ror instance we nave picked out a lot of Dress Goods we sold for 50c and 50c, and they are the best value ever offered at this store, we will sell at 28c. Anothpr lot reduced to 41c, worth G5c and 75c. Don't miss this chance. Calico. One case of silver grey Calico, the best made, all good styles, we will sell 10 yds tor 45c. A lot of Heavy Sheeting worth 8c, we will tell at Gic One case of Bleached Muslin good weight and not a lot of starch or lime in it, the kind that would retail for 7c, we will sell it as long as it lasts 10 yds. for 47c. 10 yds of good fine Unbleached Muslin for 84c. Table Linen. An unusual Linen chance for thrifty housewives this week. It consists of a 52 inch Unbleached Damaek at 25c, goods we will not be able to offer again for less than 35c a yd. 72 in wide Bleached Damask, every thread linen, good pattern worth at least $1.00 a yd., will go this week at 75c. Napkins to match the Linen. Ladies' and Misses' Coats. Our stock of Coats must be closed. We are telling $10 CO Coats for $5.00 or $7 00 Coats for $3.50. that is the reductions we have made all through our stock. Come while we have a nice acsortmeut to pick from. We still have a few of last years styles that cost from $7.00 to $10.00, will close at $2.00. F. P. Pursel. SPECIAL SALE! Important to Mothers. The manufacturers of Castoria have been compelled to spend hun dreds of thousands ot dollars to famil iarize the public with the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. This has been necessitated by reason of pirates coun terfeiting the Castoria trade-mark, i This counterfeiting is a crime not only against the proprietors ot castoria, but against the growing generation. All persons should be careful to see that Castoria bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, if they would guard the health of their children. Parents and mothers, in particular, ought to carefully examine the Cas toria advertisements which have been appearing in this paper, and to remem ber that the wrapper of every bottle of genuine Castoria bears the fac simile signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, under whose supervision it has been manufactured continuously lor over thirty years. Fhila. Bulletin. Now is the time to get bargains. During davs we will jrive vou many sroods at and below the next 30 cost. Wool Dress Goods that was 25c, now 15c. Dress Goods, from 50c. to 30. Do not miss these special sales. We have just received new sup ply of pretty Coats, Capes and Fur Collarettes for ladies. Fur sets for children. Ladies' Tailor-Made Suits, from $5.00 up. Ladies' Coats, Capes, Separate Skirts. Coats for misses and children. In this line our stock is large. Prices low. Ladies' Fur Collarettes, from $2.00 up. Our sales in Shoes increases daily. Ladies' Fine Shoes, from 79c. up. Lients fine bnoes, irom 98c. up. uoou VJalicoes, 3c. Good I Muslin, 3 Jc. Our stock of Underwear is complete. We handle the celebrated Leather brand Stockings for ladies, misses and boys. Corsets, for 24c. up. Our Grocery Department is improving daily adding new goods at better prices. Our whole stock is complete and prices always right. It will pay you to see our goods before you buy. Bloomsburg Store Co., Limited. Corner Main and Centre. ALFRED McIIENRY, Manager
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