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rilootnsburg. the county seat ot Columbia
County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. K. KI.W'ELt, Kuitoh.
I). !. TANKKK, LOU A I. KuiTOR.
Gfio. c. KOAN, Fork an.
tm: Inside the county f 1.00 a yeftrln sd
nci; $1.M If not paid In alvnncn Outside
ttte county, (1.85 a year, ntrletly In nrtvnnor.
All communications should bo addressed to
TUB COIAMHIAN.
Ulooiusburg, Pa.
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1899.
POLITICAL CARDS.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
C. A. SMALL,
of Catawissa.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOHN G. HARM AN,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR
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COUNTY TREASURER,
K. SHARPLESS,
of Catawissa.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
V. B. SNYDER,
of Locust Twp.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
JERRV SNYDER,
of Locust Twp.
PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK OF
FOR
THE COURTS,
WILLIAM H. HENRIE,
of Bloomsbu-g.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
J. W. PERRY,
of Sugarloat Twp.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
W. H. FISHER,
from the South Side.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
JOHN N. GORDON,
of 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.
tr The above announcement!) are all subject
to the decision of the Democratic County v:on-
tpumud, 10 oe neia Tuesday, June ISth, 1899.
Prlmai y election, Saturday, June 10, to 7 p. m.
A bill has passed the Legislature
and is now before the Governor
awaiting his signature, increasing
me minimum scnool term to seven
months.
uetore tue bribery investigating
committee, on I uesday, Represent
ative Brown, ot Union county, tes
tified that he had been offered $300
Dy lix-umgressman M. H. Kulo.
of this district, if he would absent
himselt from the first joint meeting
01 me senate and House, and
much larger sum if he would vote
for Quay. Kulp denies this, and
will be given a hearing by the com
mittee to-day.
The editors of the Clearfield He.
publican must feel proud of the fight
tney macie against the Commission
ers ot that county to compel the
latter to open the county books for
publication of matters of interest to
the taxpayers. The Republican
commissioners refused access to the
books for such purposes, but Judge
Gordon sustained the plea of the
jepuiucan and its first search un
covered an error of $4,496.96. The
auditors nave since acknowleged
the error and the Rtpublican neces
sarily takes a very decided jump in
popular estimation. It is not to
say that the discrepancy ,,might not
have been discovered through other
agencies, out 11 is enougn to dem
onstrate that there cannot be too
much publicity of county business
matters tor the good of both offiC'
ials and people. Bellefonte Watch
man. .
It being apparent that the Filipinos
prefer extermination to subjugation
one ot our exchanges makes the
luuuwmg calculation 01 tne cost in
time and in lives, to say nothing of
money :
"Assuming that the FiliDiios
number 8,000,000 all told, and that
our lorces can kill at least 200
J It. 1 1 .
u.ty, u wouia oe 40,000 aays, or
neany 1 10 years, belore the native
population was wiped out. Our own
losses in tne meantime would not
be insignificant. If the daily aver
age were 20 men, including those
who were killed 111 the guerilla war
fare or died from wounds or disease
we would, at the end of 1 10 years
sacrifice the lives of 800,000 Atner
ican soldiers before the Filipinos
naa been exterminated.
This is interesting, although
without practical value, for it is
quite likely that the Filipinos and
Americans would both get tired ot
UU-i exterminating process in a very
Tj years.
(7hy not get tired of it at once ?
The Army Scandal-
When one learns that Eagan tele
graphed to Colonel Smith to accept
a lot of old canned beef that one of
the packing houses had at Liverpool
unsold, there is no longer room for
surprise at the testimony given last
week by Major Shaw, surgeon of
the Third Illinois, as to the sort of
beef the troops had on the voyage
to Porto Rico:
"It was nauseating and stringy,
covered with mold, and sickened the
men. The cause of its condition?
Ptomaines germs which develop
rapidly in dead bodies. The ptom
aines, I think, would develop in a
few minutes when meat of this kind
is taken from the can."
As the mass of irrefutable, irresis
tible evidence accumulates against
General Kagan there must grow up
in the public mind an increased res
pect for the gallant fellows who were
the victims of his maladministration.
Neither regulars nor volunteers
made any outbreak. On shipboard
they threw the meat overborn d; on
land they buried it; and nauseated,
or with empty stomachs, did their
full duty like the splendid soldiers
they were. General Eagan has not
et sailed from San Francisco to be
gin the six years of vacation on full
pay granted by his friend, President
McKinley, and it is to be hoped that
he can be recalled and confronted
before the Court with this new and
shocking testimony. New York
Herald.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Governor Stone is so desirous of
having the present Legislature elect
a unitea estates senator tnat it is 1
not improbable he might be willing
to withdraw his support from Colo
nel Quay.
-Dean William Trickett, of the
Dickinson School of Law, whose
name has been mentioned as a pos
sible Democratic candidate for the
Supreme Court judgeship nomina
tion, says he is not a candidate. He
says any use of his name in that
connection would be not only with
out his authority, but against his
strong protest.
The strike at Caibondale, where
several hundred men recently gave
up work because of grievances with
the company, is still on, aud will
continue until the officials come to
some sort of terms satisfactory to
the strikers.
Joseph Snyder, aged twenty-
nine years, a resident of Shamokin,
while hunting for foxes along with
some comrades Mondav. had his
eft arm blown off by the accidental
discharge of a gun in the hands of
one of the party, who was standing
about tweuty feet away. The trig
ger was sprung by coming in con
tact with some brushes. He. was
taken to the State Hospital, at Ha
zleton, Monday evening. It was
found necessary to amputate his
arm at the shoulder.
If there is one general tendency
against which any town needs to
guard it is narrowness-narrowness
of intellect, narrowness of heart and
narrowness of business relations.
Get out into the wide world and you
are compelled to feel its broadening
influences. If you cannot leave your
native town occasionally, get into
the world of books, allow yourself a
little while each day to read the
thoughts of other men. Yours may
be better thoughts, but let vour
mind rub against the mind of some
other as it were. Let your imagina
tion take you to far distant people,
if you will, there are many to help
you on the way, writers who speak
of what they have seen and do know.
In some way let your life widen
out a little.
The post office department at
Washington has ruled that a writer
his a right to regain possession of a
letter providing he can prove to the
satisfaction of the post master at the
office from which it was sent that he
was the writer of it even it a letter
has arrived at its destination and
before it has been delivered to' the
person to whom it was addressed, it
can be recalled by telegram through
tne mailing office. The reason
assigned is that the United States is
only the agent of the writer of the
letter while it is in transit.
The boards of health in many
places have served notice on milk
dealers that milk tickets must be
sold but once. Some medical au
thorities claim that contagious dis
eases are spread from house to
house by the continual handling
aud passing of the tickets. It is
very often the case that milk tickets
are kept in constant use until they
become so dirty that the printing on
them is undiscernable.
The authorities on diet commend
the free use of spinach at this time
of the year. It contains more iron
to the square inch than the most
renowned ferruginous remedies.
Like a taste for olives, the spinach
habit grows on one, and it is a most
desirable one to acquire.
The Ape of Doath.
SOME QUEER THINGS ABOUT SLEEP.
One ot the most remarkable facts
to be found in the history of sleep j
consists in the utter inability to re- 1
sist its onset 111 cases of extreme
fatigue. Several remarkable in
stances are given in which persons
have continued to walk onwards
while sleep has overcome them, the
automatic centres of the brain evi
dently controlling and stimulating
the muscles when consciousness it
self had been completely abrogated.
It is recorded that at the battle of
the Nile, amidst the roar of cannon
and the fall of wreckage, some of
the over-fatigued boys serving tiie
guns with powder fell asleep on the
deck. Dr. Carpenter gives another
instance of allied kind. In the
course of the Burmese war, the
captain of a frigate actively engaged
in combat fell asleep from sheer ex
haustion, and slept soundly for two
hours within a yard of one of the
biggest guns, which was being act
ively worked during his slumbers.
It is matter of common medical
knowledge that extreme exhaustion
in face of the severest pain will in
duce sleep. Here the imperative
demand of the body a demand
implanted, as we have seen, in the
constitution of our frames asserts
its influence ; and even pain, the
ordinary conqueror of repose, has
in its turn to succumb. One of the
most extraordinary cases in whichv
the overruling power of sleep was
ever exemplified was that of Dam
pens, condemned for treason in Paris
in 1757. He was barbarously tor
tured, but remarked that the depri
vation of sleep had been the great
est torture of all. It was reported
that he slept soundly, even in the
short intervals which elapsed be
tween his periods of torture.
Among the Chinese a form of pun
ishment lor crimes consists in keep
ing the prisoner continually awake,
or arousing him incessantly after
short intervals of repose. Alter the
eighth day of such sleeplessness,
one criminal besought his captors
to put him to death by any means
they could choose or invent, so
great was his pain and torment due
to the absence of " nature's soft
nurse." Persons engaged in me
chanical labor, such as attending a
machine in a factory, have often
fallen asleep despite the plain record
of pains and penalties attending
such dereliction of duty, to say
nothing of the sense of personal
danger, which was plainly kept be
fore their eyes.
WHY WE CAN AWAKE AT A SET TIME.
One of the most interesting
phases connected with sleep is that
iu which a determination, formed
over night, that we should awake
at a certain hour, acts true to the
appointed time. In certain in
stances with which I am acquainted
the idea acts perfectly ; in others it
acts occasionally ; and in other cases
again, it fails completely. The ex
planation of this habit depends on
what one mr,y term a "dominant
idea," or an Uec fixe, as the French
term it. There is something akin
in this waking notion to the " dom
inant idea " with which a hypno
tist may impress his facile subject.
If we substitute for the hypnotist
the individual himself, or mayhap
tne idea ot tne mend who lias been
impressing upon him the necessity
for sounding the reveille at a given
hour in the morning, we can dis
cern the rationale of the action with
a fair degree of clearness. The
domiuant idea in the shape of the
He That Stays
Does the Business."
All the world admires
4 4 staying power. ' ' On this
quality success depends. The
blood is the best friend the
heart has, and 44 faint heart"
never won anything. Hood's
Sarsaparilla is the best friend
the blood ever had; it cleanses
the blood of everythinq.
If you would be strong in the race of
miuuiiu uo tno rjusmesi," you inurt
"stay." Hood'a Sarsaparilla makes
the (struggle easy. It gives clear, 6trong
blood; hence perfect health ensues.
Hives-" Tbe Itching of hives which
imuDiua me inst summer
blotches
me mm summer was terrible;
fame nil over mv br.iiv ii..h'.
Harsaparllia and Hood's Pills cured me
.UAKY iauoTT, a) South Wolf
Baltimore, Md.
bt.,
All Run Down "I was as tired In the
morning us at nibi,t. had no ambition, weuk
and run down. Three bottles of Hood's
Harsaparllia built me up and cured me.
tan eat well and sleep well." Mhh. Chas.
Mou, 418 Madison St., Sandusky, Ohio.
Female Troubles-" I would have wei.
corned death any time as a relief from
catarrh of the womb aud other serious
troubles. The best physicians said my
case was helpless. I stopped taking ever.
tiling eise and took Hood's Sarsaparina.
.110 i-aniB 10 me and I pained until I
J. FlUHVR,
ui imriwuy wen ana tronir " Mm ka
Mood's. Pills urUv.rllU. th. nonlrritatlng ,nl
, -"'r cathSTtlETiuk. with Hood'. Barniijl
Star
Handsomely made,
in the latest s
necessity for awaking at a certain
tune is impressed oil the brain, and
is probably transmitted to those au
tomatic or lower centres which rule
our mechanical acts, which are re
sponsible for the visions of the
night, and which are capable of
carrying out, either in the entire
absence of consciousness or 111 the
exercise of a subconscious condition,
many complex actions. Through
the hours of sleep the dominant
idea remains impressed on these
lower centres. The head of the
business sleeps on while the night
watchman is awake ; and so, prompt
to the time, or shortly before or af
ter it, the desired result is attained,
and the slumbering brain is awak
ened to the full measure of its ac
tivity. From the Ape of Death, by
Dr. Andrew Wilson, F. R. S. E.,
in Harper's Magazine for April.
Interesting Find Of Gold
One of the most interesting of all
Colorado's missing treasures troves is
that for which systematic search has
been quite recently going on in the
neighborhood of the dividing line be
tween Routt and Grand Counties, in
the western pait of the state. In the
stmmer of 1896 a party went into the
Gore Mountains on a hunting trip,
making their head-quarters in a valley
about eight miles from the little town
of Toponas. One of the number shot
a deer one morning, and following
after the animal in the hope of getting
another shot, pushed on until roused
to the fact that he bad become lost
in the wilderness. In his wandering
in search of camp he chanced upon
an outcropping of rock that struck him
as so peculiar that he broke off a few
bits to keep as curious. At the time
no thought was in his mind that this
could be anything of value, bnt some
time later he happened to show the
specimens to a friend ;n Denver, one
experienced in ores, who told him that
the find was nothing less than rich
rusty gold, while an assay revealed
the fact that the queer, gingerbread
looking stnff was worth no less than
seventeen thousand dollars per ton.
Hurrying back to Toponas, the young
man undertook to make his way again
to the wonderful find, but he had taken
little note of his direction in following
the deer, while he cor. Id only gauge
the distance by his capacity of walk
ing. He felt sure that he must recog
nize the neighborhood could he once
reach it; but the Gore Mountains are
made up of the wildest and roughest
country, much of it almost inaccessable
and even though he engaged experi
enced prospectors to assist in the
search, his efforts came to nothing.
Alary E. Stkkney, in April Lippin.
cotts.
School Directors' Convention.
To the School Vlreclort of Colum'Ha County ;
Gentlemen:--In pursuance o; the forty-third
section ot the ct of May nth, IBM, you are
hereby notltled to meet la convention, at the
Court House, In Bloomsburg, Pa., on the flrBt
Tuesday In May, A. D. 1-99, ac 1-80 p. m.t being
tbe second day of the month, and select, viva
vck by a majority ot the whole number of di
rectors present, one person of literary and set
entltlo acquirements, and of skill and experi
ence In the art of leachiug, as county superin
tendent, tor three succeeding years ; and certify
mo result to the State superintendent, at liar
rldburgi cs required by tbe thirty-ninth and
foi-tlctn section of said Act.
JOHN K. UILLEU,
County Superintendent of Columbia County
March 30iw. at
BLOOMSKURG ELECTRIC LIGHT &
POWER CO.
Bloombbuho, Pa., Marcn SO, 1899.
A spxclal meeting of the stockholders of the
Bloomshurg Klecirlo Uifht and Power Com-
K any will be lieM at the omce of Mr. R. U.
lulien, President, No. Mitt Arch street, Phila
delphia, Pa., on the 6th day ot June, lfttfU, be
tween the hours of V p. ra. ana 5 p. in., for tbe
Surpose of ratifying tbe action of tbe Pres
ent and Secretary In exeoutlng a certain bond
and mortgage, bearing date Che first day of
Junnury, A. I). 191, recorded In the orhoe of tbe
Henorder ot Deeds, In and for the County ot
Columbia, In Mortgage Book No. Utt, at page No.
7 1 and for the transaction of such other bust
dbhs as may properly come bet re the meeting,
lot 1 II. M. FRANCIS, Secretary,
Clothing House.
A BIG DRIVE. AN ELEGANT
All-Wool Spring Overcoat,
ysss $5.00
At Townsend's Star Clothing House.
VALUES!
We wish to emphasize the word value, and define its true
meaning, as it is employed in this announcement. The princi
ple upon which this business is built is value giving the best
quality and the greatest quantity for the lowest price, consistent
with modern merchandising. Such has been our method of win
ning the confidence of the public, and such will always be our
plan of holding that confidence.
Spring Silk
A Furor.
Not one bit too strong an ex
pression. I he showing has
created a furor among the
women of this town. They ap
preciate newness, correctness,
prettiness and extreme values.
A lot of sash silks, in neat,
pretty plaids, at 50c.
24-inch wide dark ground,
neat figure China, 50c.
Taffeta, in all the spring col
orings, at 75c.
In striped dots and new spring
effects we have never had so
many, or such a pretty lot.
rnces, from 75 c. to $1.60. A
great many special patterns, in
4-yd lengths, for waists.
Ladies'
Shirt Waists.
We show the Munson shirt
waists. We have them again
this season, because there is no
waist made as nice, or that fit.
so wen. it ts a satisfaction to
sell them. We have them from
9S0 to $1.75.
Shoes.
You know this store. You
know the perfection of fit and
style of the Armstrong shoes.
Our spring order has just been
opened and put on sale the
grade we sold before at $2.75.
We bought a lot this spring.
The quality and the new spring
shapes we will sell at $2.29.
F. P.
SPECIAL SALE!
Now is the time to get bargains. During the next 30
days we will give you many goods at and below 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 land
children. In this line our stock is large. Trices low.
Ladies' Fur Collarettes, from $2.00 up.
Our sales in Shoes increases daily. Ladies' Fine Shoes, from
79c. up. Gents' Fine Shoes, from 98c. up. Good Calicoes, 3c
Good Muslin, 3jc. 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 McHENRY, Manager
Our $2.25 shoe we will sell you
at $1.75.
Children and misses' shoes.
We sell the Bay State Shoes.
There is no shoe that will wear
equal to them for the price you
pay for them.
Hose.
We make two offers in chil
dren's hose this week. One lot
is worth 25c a pair, but we will
sell them this week and next at
19c. Another lot would be
at 20c a pair, but they go for
2 pair for 25c These are new
goods, and the colors are fast
The New Cottons.
Organdies, satteens, figures
dimities every fabric fixed bj
fashion as correct is included
in the showing.
25c organdies at I2jc.
10c. lawns at 8c.
Neck Dressings.
We thought our last year's
stock of women's neckwear
grand. It was for last year,
but these neckwear now surpass
themselves with each succeed
ing season. You musn't miss
this collection.
Gloves for Easter.
Easter is the time every lady
should have a new pair of
gloves, if nothing else. Our
stock would supply a great many
of them with gloves, in any of
the new spring shades. Price,
75c, $1.00 and $1.25.
Pursel