4 THE COLUMBIAN, Ike Columbian. 7 KSTABUSUBD 188. tfftc (Columbia grraafrat, -(TABiJSIlEl wn. CONSOLIDATED ISM. rOKLISHK.J VKKY Till KI)AY MOKMNU bloomsburif, the fount.r "Pat. ol Columbia ('numr. l'ennsvlvanla. OK'). K. Kl.WELL Kuitoh. 1. J. TAMKKK, LOCAL KuiTOR. Q&O. V. KUAN, FOHIMAN. THKii-Inilrtc thp .our.?r H.noa yearln ad rtncfl; fl.M It not paid In ailvnucn Outside th county, !.! a year, strictly In advati,'. All communications should be addri-sHi'd to TUB C'OU'MIHAN. Hlouinsburif, Pa. THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1899. POLITICAL CARDS. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, M. A. BIBBY, of Catawissa. IOR COUNTY TREASURER, WILSON YEACER, of Locust Twp. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, W. B. SNYDER, of Locust Twp, FOR COUNTY TREASURER, JERRY SNYDER, of Locust Twp. I'ROTIIONOTARY AND CLERK OF THE COURTS, C. M. TERWILLIGER, of Bloomsburg. FOR FOR IHOTHONOTARY AND CLERK OF THE COURTS, WILLIAM H. HENRIE, of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR, VM. BOC1ERT, of Scott Twp. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, CLINTON K. DEWITT, of Benton Borough. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, WILLIAM KRICKBAUM, of Bloomsburg. 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, W. F. STOHNER, of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, DR. T. C. HARTER, of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, A. N. YOST, of Bloomsburg. FOR REG'STER AND RECORDER, J. C. RUTTER, JR., of Bloomsburg. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, C. A. SMALL, of Catawissa. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOHN G. HARMAN, of Bloomsburg. t" The above announcements are all subject w me uttcimon 01 i.ne iiHiuocrduo uount.y (in vention, to be heli Tuesday, June lath. 1HU. Primal y election, Saturday, June 10. 8 to 7 p. in. There was no celebration of Dew ey Day in Spain. The $20,000,000 agreed upon to be paid to Spain for the Philippine Islands has been handed over to the Spanish Government, by the Sec retary of the Treasury. It is announced that Mrs. Geo. W. Childs, widow of the late well known editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, will marry Gen. Joseph Whaeler in Washington this month. This is the season of the year when the man who has been eating onions insists on buttonholing his friends and breathing the sweet perfume directly in their breath. The odor of onions at first is not so bad, but when coining second handed, it is quite different. Trailing arbutus parties are pop ular nowadays, but they say the pretty spring flower is not as. num erous on our hill sides as it once was. This is due to the fact that many who gather it from year to year are not careful, and tear out the roots, thus gradually destroying the plant. The proper way is to clip it with a pair of scissors, leav ing all the root intact. Had this been done in the past the woods to day would have been luxuriant with the coveted flower. There is little or no change in the Philippine Island situation. Aguinaldo has twice sent agents with a flag of truce to the camp of Gen. Otis with a plea for cessation of hostilities, but their tonus were not satisfactory. General Otis will accept nothing but an unconditional surrender. It is believed that the insurgents are about ready to throw themselves on the mercy of the Americans. Au early settlement of lifflculties and ending of the war is looked for. OBSERVATIONS. A German firm has decided to put beer tablets on the market. It is claimed by the makers that a small tablet dropped into a glass of water will turn it into beer, as fresh as if just drawn. The next thing in order is the invention of a tablet wherewith to make the glass of water. One year ago the residents of our coast cities were trembling with Ereat terror over the bugaboo of a Spanish fleet and were waiting for a special session of the legislature to erect gunboats for them with which to drive off the expected in vaders. Their ridiculous panic re sulted in depriving them of a sum mer's growth, injured the resort business and made them roundly ridiculed all over the country. The house in which Abraham Lincoln died is owned by the Gov ernment, and is maintained for free visitation. The Government did not buy it until long after some re verent citizens had fitted it up on a lease lrom the owner, who, by the way, had occupied a prominent place years ago as one of the de fendants of Wirz, a Rebel prison- keeper, who at the time the object of general detestation, and whom the man referred to considered un fairly dealt with. "Two years ago," savs "The Boston Transcript," "a Maine lum bering party, not being able to find the ccnventional ereen ash for planking their shad, had recourse to a green rock maple slab. The heat started the sap in the wood, which bubbled and hissed about the fish, imparting its delicate flavor to the dish when ready to be served, and lo! it was discovered that a new table delicacy had been added to the world's cuisine. Now there is no more green-ash planked shad for the Maine people, but sugar maple every time. BIATE NEW8 ITEMS. Before daylight Tuesday morning a match was applied to the Reading Iron Company's new anthracite blast furnace. The furnace is the largest in Eastern Pennsylvania and two years were required to build it. The capac ity is 2000 tons weekly. The body of Mrs. Sophia Rup pert was on Sunday found in the river below Wnliamsport. Several weeks ago Mrs. Ruppert disap peared from the Williamsport alms house, where she had been staying, and all trace of her was lost. She was mentally unbalanced. - Phoenixville is suffering from a scarcity of skilled and unskilled labor, and some of the industrial plants there are greatly hampered. The new silk mill needs 200 or 300 operators at once, and can only get 75. There is also a scarcity of labor in the hosiery mills and in some departments of the iron and steel works of the town. Wilkesbai re's new court house will be of the French Renaissance style of architecture, three stories alike and all four sides alike. The courtrooms are on the third floor and the building will oe equipped with every conveni ence. By a vote of two to one the commissioners decided to accept the plans of S. J. Osterling of Pittsburg. The sale of the Wilkes-Barre & Wyoming Valley Traction Co's. line lo a New York and Boston syndicate was made public last week. The stock was sold at $41 per share, the par value being $100. The capital stock is five million dollars and the road has been paying one per cent, on this. The amount realized was $2,050,000 which is about twice what the road cost. William Koons, 62 years of age, attempted to commit suicide by jump ing out of a third story window of the Peters House, Allsntown where he was stopping. He was seriously injured One ot his legs was fractured in three places and his thigh broken. He had told people at the hotel that he had considerable trouble and had several married children who reside in Phila delphia. He is a tinsmith by trade and has been living in the vicinity off and on for several years. Foul play is suspected in the death of John Martin, the P. & R railroad man, who was found dead on the hillside at Port Clinton, a few days ago. Martin had been missing since March i'i, on which day he had received his pay for February. That evening he told his mother he had few little bills to pay, he having drawn about $45. It is supposed that parties knowing that Martin had his pay his pocket, struck and killed him, and then pulled his body behind the clump of bushes in ordei to hide their crime In his pockets were found but fifteen cents. His watch and keys were un disturbed. Even though Captain Coghlan's little speech at the New York banquet did create German ill feeling toward us, it was a pretty sensible jingle for all. WHY FARM? One Man Give Hit Reanont For Avoiding the City. A contributor to one ot the leading agricultural publications gives his reasons for being a farmer. He says: I am thankful that I am a farmer, and am glad to be known as such in whatever gathering I may happen to be. Why, dear young man, there is no more honorable or happy occupation on God's beautitul earth than that of a farmer, and to look down on the man simply because he gets his bread and butter by tilling the soil shows a lack of proper education. To own a farm and properly till it is indeed some thing one may be proud of. To have good animals to feed and look after is a pleasure that no one can enjoy as can the farmer, and the man who pos sesses a farm carefully worked and stocked with animals has nothing to be ashamed of if lie is an honest, up right man. Indeed, I know of no oc cupation that I would choose in pref erence to farming, and in my younger days I had the opportunity to try sev eral. The farmer is his own employer. He does not have to go or come at the sound of a bell or whistle. He may set out trees and shrubs about his home, making it as attractive and pleasant as his taste dictates. No home can be made more delightful and homelike than tiie farm home under the hands of the tasty farmer and his assistants. The wages that the city man re ceives often seems to the farmer to be large, but when he comes to pay for house rent, fuel, light and other ne cessaries, what a small part is left 1 Only a short time ago a man who as been iti business for a long, term of years in the city told me he ought not to have left the farm To compare the average city man's surroundings with those of a well- kept farm is enough to convince me that the farm is the better place in which to rear a family, and that it may be made the pleasanter home. The green fields and woods may be enjoyed to the fullest extent we hear the sweet songs of the birds while at our work, and there is pleasure, in looking after the domestic animals and seeing them grow. The field work, although at times somewhat hard, is, on the whole, agreeable, and, ndeed, fascinating 5 never monoton ous, as are many kinds of mechani cal work. Such pleasant evenings as may be enjoyed on the farm after our day s work is done 1 Isn't there a great degree of satisfaction in pro ducing what we need to live on ? Wholesome fruits and vegetables can be grown that cannot be had in the city usually, because when they reach the consumer in the city they are not fresh. Give me the eood old farm after all. A neat swindle is being worked with great success in nearby towns, and our residents are duly cau tioned. A woman book aeent ap pears in town and goes from house to house, leaving books lor exami nation, xsext day a man calls to see if the books are wanted. A few days later the woman aeent again appears, and on being told that the man had taken away the sample books she weeps copiously, says the villain has been collecting her books all over town, pleads pov erty and so on, and accepts the pronered compensation. The United States is the only great nation whose postal receipts fall below its expenditures for the service "Courage and Strength in Times of 'Danger' Ifead the warning between the lines. What is that warn ing It is of the danger from the accumulation of badness in the blood, caused by the usual heavy living of the Winter months. Spring is the clearing, cleansing time of the year; the forerunner of the brightness and beauty of glorious summer. Follow the principle that Nature lays down. Start in at once and purify your blood with that great snecilic, llood'i Sarsaparilla. It never ditiappointg, Cl'ltJ-" Sixteen weeks ot grip mude mo weak, but after all else (ailed Hood's Sar snnarllla cured me. Later I overworked and dyspepsia and canker In moutli and stomach bothered uie. 1 took the Harsapa rllla pualn and It completely restored rue.' AIRS. KI.IZABFTH 1'OMAN, HXelcr, IS. H. Rheumatism -"Myself and a friend both HUlfered fruni severe uttaeks of rheu matism. Hood's SarsapurlllH cured both, We would not be without It." WM. 11 Lekter, (15 Leonard St., Fall Klver, Mass. I lead and Cask - " For one year pain In my back and head prevented my house. hold duties. I took Hood's Kursaparllla and am a well woman. It also cured the Krlp In our fumily." Mas. Mattik ukndkiimun, Cor, First and Franklin Ave.,(!oluiubus,Ind. Jooil'c iHlU cure llvw IIU. tlie non-trrlUtlntf and ouiy cathartic o un noou mrt Hpurnm, 1 i- v . ; 1 - i '.: ! '; tl 0$& Are marvels of cheapness to all who see 'i Star Clothing Drink GrainO. after you have concluded that you ougnt not to drink coffee. It is not a medicine but doctors order it, because is nealthful, invigorating and appe tising. . It is made from nnri irraina id has that rich seal brown color id tastes liks the finest crades of offee and costs about 4- as much. Children thrive on it because it is a genuine food drink containing nothing ut nourishment. 15 and 25c. at gro cers. A.11-..A STEAT PARAGRAPHS. Electric fans are now in season. Isn't it tunny how a live wire will kill senses. Tongues arc very often speak easies, without a license. Love is a game between two hearts and both are bound to beat. There is no disputing the fact that lightning has a striking appear ance. The girl who looks as pretty as a picture must owe some ot it to her irame. Practice doesn't always make perfect, at least not in the case of some doctors. The Filipinos have about learned by this time that the way to surrender is to surrender. Many people are of the opinion that there will be great openings for Americans in the Philippines when hostilities have ceased. About the only openings will be holes in the ground. Some of our fishermen have been sadly disappointed the past week. They were of the opinion that ill they had to do was to bait a hook,, throw it in the water and the fish would take hold. There are tricks in all trades and fishing is no exception. The Bright Star in the firmanent has appeared in the Corona Rheumatism Cure, which posi tively cure all rheumatic affections, by killing the microbe which causes the dreaded disease. This new scien tific remedy is advertised in another part of the paper, and can be obtain ed from your local druggist. The Company's reputation and many tes timonials in its favor will be a great "Ray of Hope to any suffering from this trouble. OASTOIIIA. Bean tu ) The Kind Yea Have Always Buujjlt Signature of WAVERLY FOR BOYS. To see this Shoe is to buy it. It you buy it once you will buy it again. Up to date in style, fit and finish. These Shoes in stock at W. H. Moore?s. Con. Second and Iedn Sts. SHOES Bloomsburg, Pa. Values That Eclipse Them AH High Grade Goods at Low Prices. OUR ALL-WOOL SUITS AT LOTS AT TOWNSEND'S F. P. Women,s$2 Shoes At $1.29 a Pair. This latest offerintr of the Shoe Department is remarkable. The assortment comprises the very newest and most anoroved shapes for spring wear. Goods that it purchased in a regular way would command R2.00. They are in Polish and Button, and the price, $1.29 a pair. fluslin Underwear A p-reat opportunity for fruo-al women to replenish the sunnlv of undermuslin is presented to- day. w e snapped up a lot of these high grade underwear last week, and offer them this week at one-fourth less than regular price. Ladies night robes at 65c, worth 85c; skirts, with full hemstitched ruffle, at 85c, worth i 10; ladies drawers, worth 35c, at 28c. Special Black Taffeta Silk. 24 inch wide, regular $1 qual ity, at 75c. One 36 inch wide silk, we could not buy to sell for less than $1 50 per yard, we will sea tnis week at ?i 15. Dress Goods. Every wantable kind of ma terial is included in this dress goods stock. We spend months and months of attention tn mW. ing this stock of goods, which tasnion has decreed as correct. Grey cheviot, 50 inches wide, good weight, for tailor-made suits, 00 a yard ; 8 pieces of neat.mixed effects.regular price, 56c, we will sell at 40c per yard; heavy cheviots, in herring bone and plain effects, at 59c the regular 75c quality. Porch Rockers. You will want to be comfort able this summer, and possibly, F..P. SPECIAL SALE! o Now is the timft tr o-f Inrirn'ne tU j. . 1 : fc days we will give you many aa iiuw Do not miss tbsn ennninl oloo 1 r ,r A i ply of pretty Coats, Capes and 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. nnf 8rfw rheS i"creas?s dail'. Ladies' Fine Shoes, from &A?fr r . Fle Shoes-froi 98c. up. Good Calicoes, 3c Good Muslin 3ic Our stock of Underwear is complete. We JS Leather brand Stockings for ladiesmisses and boys. Corsets, for 24c. up. , 1U1fG?fery PePartment 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 yof bu? Bloomsburg Store Co., Limited. ' Corner Main and Centre.; ALFREKMcHENRY. Manager $3.75, $5, $5.98 OF BARGAINS- House Pursel. don't want to pay much to make yourself that wav. Our porch rockers will do it," and the $1 50 kind we will sell you at $1.29, the $2 kind, at $1 49. Bed-Room Furniture. We h andle the line manufac tured at our home factory. Mark the word exclusively, for no one else in town can get these goods. There is no line in the state better. The way we buy these goods, and the saving in freight, packing and hauling, we can save you at least from $5 to 1 8 a suit. Look around, come to our store, and we will prove it to you. Women's Tailor-Hade Suits There is not a suit in this stock that isn't well made. There isn't one that is not right up to date, in cut, style and fin ish. If the skirt is not the right length we have it made to fit you before you take it out of our store, so you don't have to go home and get a dressmaker to fix it for you. Price, from $5 to $22. Special Offer In Our Grocery Department. One gallon cans of apples at 25c, worth 35c; Tandem peas, worth 1 8c, two cans for 25 c. Ev ery kind of VanCamp's soups at ioc a can; gallon cans of maple syrup, from one of the maple camps in York State, for $1 25 per gallon; the best tomatoes that are canned, 2 cans for 25c. Oranges, lemons and bananas. We ace agents for the best cof fees and teas in the world Chase & Sanborn's. We sel these coffees from i2jc to 40c a lb; teas, from 40c to $ 1 a lb. Pursel o"""3- . "uiuiy mc next 30 goods at and below cost. Wool 15. iress IjrOOdS, ITOm 50C. tO XO WTa 1, J..t 3... j J ,v, nan; just icueiveu new sup Fur Collarettes for ladies Fur . i; iV i 1 . ; I Co , f -1 5 V i.i 1
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