m has V I V I r i -A OEUVEltA'S MISTAKE. our richest senator. PORTO 1UCAN JAILS. A Statement by Capt Clark of the Battleship Oregon. Tit Spnnlxh Admiral's llent ( hnnce of Krnpe luU Would llnv Deem the Time for Hint to Leave Santiago Harbor. In. a prrnoiinl Interview, in answer to a (jueMion by the editor, Ciipt. Clark gives in the Century the following opin ion of the Spanish admiral's utiatrv: "Assuming thnt the Spanish fleet had to come out (and I for one, hail given up the hope thnt it would do no), it is my judgment thnt Admiral t'crvera should have preferred night to day as the time for the sortie, notwithstand ing the (search-light watch so rigidly maintained ut the entrance. He could have placed ns guides to the channel, along the shore, nnd on the smoke stack or must of the sunken Merrimac, lights screened toward the sen, so that we could not have detected them. Ills best chance would have been to get tip his anchors and begin to move about dusk, when he would have had light enough to see the shore nnd the chan nel marks, timing the moment so that he should dash out just ns darkness fell. We could not then have closed in upon him without great danger to our selves. The firing would huve Lad to be done virtually In the dark, for the search-lights (even supposing that oth ers than the one regularly in use had been turned on) would soon have be come Ineffective, on account of this smoke and from the shattering force of the guns, which probably would have extinguished them. The direction of the enemy could thushave been masked, and as each of our captains would have been concerned with the risk of his ship being rammed or torpedoed, our onslaught would have had a far differ ent result than it actually had when full daylight enabled every command er to see what nil the others (as wW as the enemy) were doing, and exactly what was to be done. It was the dif ference between certainty and uncer tainty. In the daytime we were able to choose our distance from the en- o the I'olltlcilana Refer to Stephen II. Klkins, the Settlor Lawmaker from West Vlralala. Although Stephen B. Elklns, senator from West Virginia, has long since won for himself a national reputation as a politician, little Is known of him as a business man, nnd only those who have come In close contact with him rcnlizo thnt he Is one of the big-rest nnd broad est men in the United States. Senator Klkins began life ns a poor boy with nothing but n college edu cation, and has worked up to It is pres ent financial and political environ ments without aid from any source. Thty Have Been Vastly Improved Under American Rule. A LEADER OF WOMEN. Mrs Celln OrkooiI Peterson and Her Work for Kduentlon In the State of Colorado. ,y mi .,11.,. :l , II.1 KSS II:! A wmmmm '-- STEPlIEN'D. ELK1NS. (Senior United States Senator from West Virginia.) lie is a man of strong personality, is full of Ideas, and as the late .lames ll. lllnine used to siiy, "knows more peo ple than any other man in public life." Mr. Klkins Is also extremely fond of literature, lie reads tliu works of the best uuthors, studies the elastics, uud Interprets the poets, lie reads Latin, Greek, nnd Hebrew in the original, and can quote Tunnyson, Drowning, Lowell und Longfellow by the hour. Mr. Klkins is very fond of walking and takes long tramps daily, ult hough his stables are stocked with some of the finest breed. Ilia country home Is one of the most beautiful cstntes in West Virginia nnd is worth hundreds of thousands of dol lars. It is intdosed by beautiful flower and vegetable gardens and surrounded on every side by magnificent views. Some years ago Mr. Klkins purchased a mountain which Is near his istato for fear some ruthless farmer would destroy one of its views, and mar its beauty by cutting off the trees, ond be turned a country road In order to improve the symmetry of his homestead.. In Washington the Klkins family oc cupy a pnlatial home and are lavish entertainers. Trlsoners Are Well Fed, Hot Com pelted to Clean the Streets and Do other rueful Work IMrt Is No l.nKer Klnar. To improve the condition of the mu nicipal jails and the old government prison has been an important work of Uen. Guy V. Henry in l'orto Rico. In October, under Spanish rule, they were as alive with dirt as with prisoners, and under absolutely no sanitnry regula tions. Frequently the Inmates got neither fresh air nor sunlight, but shared the Rnme room nnd lived In Idleness nnd misery. More than oirts town, indeed, repented the story of Cuba. I5ut now, although this house cleaning work Is unfinished still, the jails of Porto Kico have become more like the model similar institutions in the United States. Like most government buildings, the Island penitentiary Is at the cnpitaU San Juan. Here, just outside the south city wall, 300 convicts eat and sleep, like n native family, In one big room. They are not confined in cells, but have their liberty, nnd go anywhere inside the ten-foot wnll. Only three prison ers, who have been sentenced to life Imprisonment for murder, wear a steel ball nnd chain. Murder, too, is the most common crime. Out of the 300 Inmates, more than 200 were convicted on this charge. Ono prisoner, 24 years old, whoso sentence is 30 yenrs, killed three persons. Every twelfth man In the low row of beds Is a guardian over Ms fellows, and may be identified by his yellow stripes nnd a small hand cane. Yet, as a rule, the convicts live quietly, moke no attempts to escape and give the keeper no trouble. Most of them, who are the half-breed native population, neither rend nor write. Only one St. Thomas English negro can be seen in the prison. Two soldiers, convicted of robbery, who were admit ted In December, nre the only Ameri cans. One yenr Is the shortest term of confinement. Back In October nnd November, when the Americans first reached San Juan, Mrs. Celln Osgood Peterson, deputy state superintendent of schools for Col orado, Is a brillinnt woman, who is de voted to the cnuse of education and n writer of note along educational nnd progressive thought lines. Mrs. I'eter non wus appointed entirely upon merit, nnd without liny political pull what ever, she being u democrat, while tin! slate superintendent, Mrs. Gre.nfell, is n republican. Mrs. Peterson Is nn eastern womnn, born In Exeter, Me., and brought up lu mm lis IK -T.gv- X5ff MINISTER TO PORTUGAL. CAPT. CHARLES E. CLARK. (Commander of the Oregon. During- the Battle at Santiago.) President Confers a High Honor I pon One of Iowa's Most Popular Republican Leaders. emy with relation to the danger of be ing torpedoed. As all his ships were supposed to be provided with White head torpedoes, I determined, unless an emergency required it, not to go in side of half a mile, that being the ef fective torpedo range, since our su periority in ordnance and armor would thus have been neutralized. "Considering the courses that were open to Cervera, I Bhould probably, in the circumstances, have done as he did head to the westward, keeping the fleet together in the hope of destroying any vessel which might be able to over take me. Clcnfuegos was bis nearest and natural port, and there he would have been in direct communication with Havana by rail, and, bo to speak, would have been in a Spanish environment. If he had intended to go to Havana, it would have been better to go westward than eastward, for, though the dis tance is somewhat greater, the current would have favored, and there was no additional force to be considered like that at Guaptanamo. To have divided his fleet, part going eastward and part westward, would have been to leave one-half to Admiral Sampson and the other half to Commodore Schley. "There remained one other course. The result of the sortie shows tliut he might have stood a better chance of saving one or two or even more of his ships by the policy of scattering, with un ultimate rendezvous. Only three of our vessels were superior in speed to his vessels, namely, the New York, the Brooklyu and the Oregon possibly the Texas. Even if each of these could have selected nnd pursued n Spanish ship, it Is possible that not wery one of them would hnvu been equal to the task of .'3ssu-v.'ig h!r chosen untagou IbL The arinorcj i'rulsers, the Brook lyn and the ."-'-w York, might have found that they );nd 'caught Tartars.' They could not have pierced the armor of the Spanish vessels, while the Span ish guns could readily huve pierced theirs. There were no orders to our vessels for such separate action, for neither Admiral Sampson nor anyone else could have anticipated such tac tics. ' It Is a matter of pure conjecture, but I am inclined to think that thu confusion resulting from such a move went would have strongly favored Cer vera. What la In a Watch. The watch curried by thu average roan Is composed of 03 pieces, and its manufacture embraces more than 2,000 distinct and separate operations. Some of the smallest screws are so minute that the unaided eyes cunnot distin guish them from steel filings or specks of dirt The president has appointed John N. Irwin, of Iowa, formerly governor of Idaho, to be United States minister to Portugal in succession to Lawrence Townsend, who has been transferred to Belgium, where he succeeds Bellamy Storer, the new minister to Madrid. W. W. TJoekhill, minister to Greece, has resigned and Arthur Sherburn Hardy, of New Hampshire, succeeds him in Athens. William P. Lord, formerly governor of Oregon, is appointed to the post of minister at Teheran, Persia, va cated by the promotion of Mr. Hardy. Mr. Irwin, the new minister to Por tugal, lives in Keokuk, Io., where he Is very popular. Two years ago he was mentioned prominently ns a candi date for governor of Iowa. Although CEL1A OSGOOD TETERSON. (Deputy State Superintendent of Schools for Colorado.) Med ford, Mass., where she wns grad uated from the high school in 1 S70 us valedictorian. Her parents removed thut ycor to Denver, Col., where she at tended the high school nnd graduated from that institution the following ycor. She began teaching In the fall of the same yenr, and the following year wns appointed a tenehcr In tint Denver public schools, where she has not missed n year, until, in June, 9S. hhe resigned to marry Joseph E. Peterson a merchant of Denver, formerly of Chi cago, in addition to her regulnr duties as tcnoher, she has for the past four years been instructor in methods In the sum mer school nnd In institute work of the stnte. In September, '93, she nc ccpted the position of tencher of meth ods and of United States history in the Denver normal nnd preparatory school, from which position she was called to that of deputy superintendent of pub- lie instruction. Aside from her interest in educa tional matters, Mrs. Peterson has taken an nctlve interest in the Woman's club, of Denver, one of the largest and most influential clubs in the United States, and says thnt she considers it one of the grentest honors of her life to be chosen by thorn to represent Colorado as a speaker at the biennial convention the Federated Clubs of the United States, which met in Denver last sum mer. HARD ON THE CABBIES. GEN. GUT V. HENRY. (Military Governor ef the Island of Porto Rico.) JOHN N. IRWIN. (New United States Minister to Lisbon, Portugal.) born and educated in Ohio, Mr. Irwin hus spent most of his life in Iowa. He started out in life as a lawyer, but abandoned that profession for com merce, in which he has had a long uud successful career. Business, however, did not interfere with his active par ticipation in politics. He hns been honored by election to the mayoralty of Keokuk on u citizens' ticket with out opposition from either pnrtf. President Arthur appointed him gov ernor of Idaho. At that time ho won a national reputation by refusing pay in that olllce. He was later made gov ernor of Arizona by President Har rison. He is SO years old nnd has a wife and two chnrmlrig daughters. the old Spanish warden gave his pris oners an easy life. His 300 inmates then played ball on the roof, took their midday nup and let the carpenter and blacksmith shops get rusty. Then, as the warden spoke no English, a six foot St. Thomas negro murderer al ways welcomed American visitors and acted as an interpreter. He translated the explanations and apologies of the cunulng old keeper and repeated all questions of the callers. And, at the end of every trip through the build' Ings, his visitors wanted to know whut kind of food tho keeper gave the con vlcts. "The gentlemen would like to know what kind of food the prisoners get,,' then repeated the negro in Spanish. "Tell them I give the best of every' thing," said the smiling warden. "He says he gives the best of every thing," translated the negro with a grin, "but he never does." However, under the administration of the new wardeu the negro makes no complaint. As soon as Maximiliano Luzunaris, the keeper appointed in December, took charge, the whole building and grounds were cleaned, scrubbed nnd put In a sanitary con dition. Nor do the inmates now leud the same shiftless life. In the shop may be found carpenters, blacksmiths, tailors, shoemakers, cooks, laundry' men, and every kind of tradesmen Thy have made the needed tables, chairs, keep the white canvas suits in repair, and run a model prison. Every day more than a hundred men, un der a strict police guard, clean the streets of San Junn. Half that number have been employed, too, In the sani tnry work under Capt. L. P. Davidson- Outside of work hours many prison ers find time to knit stockings, which easily sell to visitorH ns a souvenir, Since January nn evening school ha given the prisoners Instruction In read ing and writing. An optional course In English nlso hns been introduced ri a Porto Tilcnn Interpreter. In thiB school work the men seem to take nn Interest nnd show a desire to learn, especially In the English clash. Illvb Living; In Japan. In Japan a man can live like a gentle man on $300 a year. This sum will pay the rant of a house, the wages of two errant, and supply plenty of food. Aluminum Five-Cent Pieces. It Is reported thnt experiments hnve been carried on at the United States mint In Philadelphia for nearly a year with a view of ascertaining the fitness of aluminum for minor coins. Some 10,000 blanks of the size of the nickel five-cent piece have been delivered at the mint for this purpose,' It may be mentioned thnt congress some time ago appointed a commission of experts to investigate nnd report upon this sub ject, and the experiments above re f erred to are being carried on under the direction of its members. leant (fc . FARE. M t!i 53 JJ (It THE TAXAMETER. Measures Distances and Amount of Fares.) 1 i I'tn.nn ,, i iiri" 7i , "tTTj m iTji uMio TT'lLuiiiiT' 1 1 ' t i u i , . : . iiinJ j 11 .. '"iiiiimijilliiiiiiiiiiili-iiiiiiiiii miiiiiii uTiiM'iiniiiii ml 11 I .'egefoblcfrcparationfor As similating thgToodandRcguta ling (licStomochs andBowels of IVrimotesTteesUon.Chccrful- ness andltesuContalns neither Oprom.Morpuine nor Mineral. Not Nakc otic. Ill HA JmJtm SmJ ALxJmnm JhCaralMS4m firmStrJ- Hyr riarv. Ancrfcct Itcmcdv forConslipa lion. Sour Stomach.Diarrhoca, Worms .Convulsions Tevcrisn ncss and Loss of Sleep. nsnnsnnsansBBsnn ansnnsnnnBSSsnnn Tax Simile Signature of JTEW YORK. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of M TV AW hjp Kind 1 1 exact copror vmAEPta. You Have Always Bought. ni CATARRH Fine PHOTO- OLD'MHEAO The Taxametcr, Recently Introduced In Europe, Does Away with Overcharging. The taxameter cab was bound to come to London. Other capitals hnve preceded England's In the employment of nn instrument wliicn win mnrn xne revolutions of tho wheel nnd register the mileage so that the passenger may read it and reckon his fare accordingly. The SO cabs whose drivers are pro claimed by their white beaver hats may raise a smile from comrades of dingier headgear; but, even among cabmen, the laugh is at last with those wno win the most custom. Already the taxameter cab has a secured popu larity; and the experience of its driver is not a wholly dismal one in the mat ter of "tips." An exra sixpence is not always denied him. The truth is Ask your Druggist lor a generous 10 CENT TRIAWSIZE. Ely's Cream Balm contains no cocaine, mercury nor any oilier injurious druif. 11 is quicKiy ADSoro-ed. uives ueiiernionce. It opens and cleanses the Nasnl HussiiKes. AHuvb Id lamination. Ileals and Protects the Membrane. Restores t" Senses ot Tnste snd Smell. Full Hlzs 00c.; liiul Stze H e s nrnirirlsts or nv mnti. ELY HKOTHKKS, 5rt Warren Street.Now ioik LIVERITA THE UP-TO-DATE LITTLE LIVER PILL CURES Biliousness. Constipation, Dyspepsia. Sick-Headache and Liver Complaint. SU&AR COATaD. aaais 100 PILLS 25 CTS. Sold by all drag-gtsta or sent oj mail. NcrvlU Mctlcal C, CMcifl Kn. hni contains 15 Dills. Sold by Mover Bros., druKKlsis, Uloonisbuiv. l'enna. 4-13-uu Quick Communication Facilitates Business. Usa tha LOCAL TELEPHONE and Communicate. Direct with persons in Berwick, Cata- wissa, uanvuie, Kiverjiue, Rupert, Willow Grove, Almedia, Lightstreet, Lime Ridge, Miffltnville, Millville, Rohrsbnrg, Nsscopeck, Orangeville, Stillwater and Benton. Also long distance lines to nearly all the towns in the different States. Rates reason able. Local exchange over Postoffice. CENTRAL PENNA. TELEPHONE A. SUPPLY JOHN KENY0N, Manager. Q3. CRAYONS at R. B. GROTZ, Bloomsburg. The best are the cheapest. Indicates Wonirn Who Blilne Shoes. In Paris and other lnrfre towns in France, female bootblacks are increas ing In number. They wenr a peculiar piiib, not unlike thut of sisters, of mercy, which rentiers their appearance neat nnd attractive. Not a few among them to attend to their work with gloved hands. When Moses Was Pudilllna. Egyptian bouts more than 4,500 years old huve been exhumed from the banks of the Nile In perfectly good condition. They are of cedar and float as jauntily as if they biU been paddled but yester- - that whereas without a register of dis- tunce the pessimist pussenger gives more than his fare in the fcur that he may otherwise be underpaying and thus provoking a dispute, the optimist passenger, who always gives himself the advantage, minimizes the distance ond imugines that he is doing the bene factor when, in fact, he is paying only what is strictly due. To both these classes the taxameter will be an in structor; and the cabman, if he loses in one case, will gain in another. For the really needy person who is obliged to take a cab, and for the country cousin, the advantage and security given by the registration of distance are nn obvious gain; and the cabroifn will Increase his custom from a cIiibs whose confidence the taxameter has come to restore. These are considera tions which ought to abate the hos tility with which the Introduction of the tuxumeter has been greeted by the uorntn i union. You can save money on Pianos and Or gans. ou will always find the largest stock, best makes and lowest ptices. PIANOS, From $175.00 and Upwards. ORGANS, From $50.00 and Upwards We sell on the installment plan, l'ianos $25.00 down and $10.00 per month. Or' oans, 10.00 down. (.00 per month. Lib' eral discount for cash. Sheet Music, at one' half price. Musical merchandise of kinds. We handle Genuine Singer High Arm SEWING MACHINES, $5.00 down and ifi.oo per month. We also handle the Demorest Sewing Machine, from V.g.50 and upwards. Sewing Machine Needles and Oil for all makes of Sewing Machines, liesl makes of WASH MACHINES. FROM $4.00 UP TO $9.00. J. SALTZER. tiT Music Rooms No. 115 West Main St.j below Market, Bloomsburg, Ts. 3ml 1.3 TID-BITS FOR MA' HONEY1 and tender little juicelets for the chil dren, arc all right, but papa and "the boys" want' a good, big, juicy steak, roast or chop when business or school duties are over, and we can cater to them all. Our stock of prime treats is unexcelled for quality, and we send them home in fine shape. J. E. KE1FER. THiOiARKpyrsr" BLOOMSBURG MARKETS. 00BBI0TSD WIIILT. BSTAIL fBIOM. Butter per lb $ Eggs per dozen. Lard per lb Ham per pound Pork, whole, per pound Beef, quarter, per pound .... wheat per bushel Oats " " Rye " " Wheat flour per bbl . . .09 .11 ,06 .07 9 40 5 4.0Q Hay per ton 9 to $10 Potatoes per bushel, . , Turnips " " Onions " " Sweet potatoes per peck 1 allow per lb. Shoulder " " , Side meat " " Vinegar, per nt. , , Uried apples per lb Dried cherries, pitted Raspberries Cow Hides per lb Steer " " Calf Skin Sheep pelts Shelled corn per bus Corn meal, cwt Bran, " Chon Middlings " , Chickens per lb new " "old Turkeys " " Geese " Ducks " " COAL. No. 6, delivered , , , , 4 and s " 6 at yard 4 and s at yard. it .90 1 CO .40 S .09 .c8 5 .0$ .it .it Si OS .80 7S .60 LIS I. OO I. OO 1.00 .II .II . .14 .08 t.6o Iryihe COLUMBIAN a year.
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