G THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMS BURG, PA. ALBERT J. HOPKINS. Bis Friends Want Him to Be Speak er Reed's Successor. lnlrr(ln Life History of an Illtnula C'onnrrmiilnn Who llaa Spares of Friend Anions; Ilia Congrri.lonal Collenitnea. Albert J. TTopklns wo s born on a farm nor far from Cortland In lc Knlb coun ty, 111. Ilia father, Cyrus It. Hopkins, w one of the pionecrH of the comity. The future congressman did chores around the farm just t lie same as any Other farmer's boy. He grew to be tall ad angular and redheaded and to hnve ft constantly present desire to be n law. jt. When he was 17 years old he was ent to Sycamore to prepare for college. The next year he was admitted to col lege at Hillsdale, Mich., where later he graduated. As he was leaving college he found Jmself at a parting of the ways. His ambition to be a lawyer had been nur tured all the years, but on his gradua tion he was offered the prineipalshlp of an academy In Maine. The offer opened the door to immediate honor and suc cess, but his heart was true to his first lore. A few weeks later he was sitting in the musty atmosphere of the law af Bce of C. J. Metzler, in Aurora, with a volume of niackstone equnlly musty be fore him. He had devoted some time to the study of law before, and after a lit tle more than a year h,e was admitted to the bar. Some quality In him recommended him to Judge Turks at the opening of the Greeley campaign. Parks was out to fight Greeley and he needed help. Re enlisted young Hopkins as his lieu tenant. He had heard Hopkins in a trial before a justice of the peace and tilted his style of talking. "I want you to make a speech, a good strong speech," said Parks. He did. He made a speech so vigor ous, so strong and so logical that it made him a candidate for state's attor ney, and that fall he was elected to that office. John C. Sherwin was elected con gressman for the Aurora district in 1884. ALBERT J. HOPKINS. (Representative In Congress from the Aurora District. In 1886 Hopkins was put forward to de feat him. He accomplished this, but the nomination went to Keuben 11 wood, of De Ealb. Hopkins, however, had made the light, and had made it so well that when Ellwood died before the end of his term Hopkins was elected to 811 the vacancy. He has been reelected six times. On the floor in debate Congressman Hopkins is regarded as strong, alert, quick, clear, logical and convincing. He has a fine presence. The lanky, red headed young lawyer from Aurora hns become one of the most polished and at tractive figures in the house. He al ways commands attention when he speaks, and when he is speaking he holds it. More than once he has demon strated the power that is in his speech. When Chairman Dingley, of the ways and means committee, died the Illinois delegation presented the name of Con gressman Hopkins for the place, but by right of seniority it went to Payne, of Xew lork. If Mr. Hopkins should become speak sr of the house his succession to the place would be hailed with delight by me social side or Washington. Mrs. Hopkins, who was Miss Emma Stolp, of Aurora, is endowed with the ch such she i wife of manner and the happy disposit become a leader of society, and would be in the capital as the the speuker. Her daughter Fannie made her debut in Washington last season. Che Hopkins family live in the Willard in Washington. Renillna; a Tlionaunil Mile. "You read a thousand milcH," is the calculation of a clever individual fond f details. The eyes of the overage, busy man, in reading alone, travels 1,000 niles, which Is equivalent to nn "ocu lar trip," a third of the distance across :ur continent. Even the busiest man probably travels with his eyes 10 miles if type yearly, and there are doubtless ;tiany readers who travel six times the '(stance. If you rend a yellow-bucked novel your eyeB have traversed from a ile to a mile and a half of type. The -busiest pen cannot keep up with this ace. With ordinary use, your pen has ot traveled over two miles during an verage lifetime. Perhaps a Kipling or i Zola, if he live to be 60 or thereabouts, tag journeyed 120 miles with his pen; !ut is, he has not traveled as far as .rom New York to Albany. Royalty on the Svalea. The queen of Italy, says a gossip, .veighs 176 pounds; Queen Victoria, 171 .tounds; the queen of Spain, 147 lounds; the queen of Belgium, .ounds; the German empsess, 143 130 lounds; the queen of Portugal, 133 ounds, and the cxarina, 120 pounds. Shopping aa a Profeaalon. Shopping haB become a profession in merlca. Women live on the pereent ge allowed them by the big shops in rvhlch they spend the money of ladies who employ them. ACTING COMMANDER. Cant. Johnaon, of Cincinnati, Will !) the Head of the Urnnd Arair In til September. The executive committee of the nn- tionul council of administration of the Grand Army of the Kcpublic has failed to elect a successor to the late Jumcs A. Sexton, commander-in-chief of the grand army. There was a dendlock on the names of Col. V. C. Johnson, of Cincinnati, and Gen. John C. Itlack, of Illinois. CoJ. Johnson will continue to act as acting conmiiitidor-ln-eliiof until the encampment in September, when a commander will be chosen. William Christie Johnson entered the array at the age of 19 by enlisting as a COL. W. C. JOHNSON. (Acting Commander In Chief of the Grand Army.) private in the Eighty-ninth Ohio vol unteer infantry, the regiment in which Senator J. B. Foraker served. Mr. Johnson was born in Clermont county, 0., March 10, 1843. He served as a private with his regiment in Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee, and in 1864 took part with it in the march from Atlanta to the sea and from Savannah back toward Washington as far as Goldsboro, N. C, where in March, 1865, he was ordered to report to Lieut. Col. Putnam, commanding the Forty-second regiment. United States colored troops, for assignment ns second lieu tenant. His commission as such was dated May 10, 1865, and he served in that capacity until he was mustered out, January 31, 1866. Mr. Johnson has long been identified with O. A. It. work and hasbeen commander of his post, be sides holding staff positions in the state department. During the national en campment held in Cincinnati last year Capt. Johnson, ns he is generally styled, earned the thanks of thousands of comrades by his intelligent thought- fulness in providing for the comfort of visitors. He served as chairman of the committee on public oomforts. At that encampment he was unanimouselr elected vice commander in chief. In business he is a hardware merchant. He holds a membership in the com- mandery of the state of Ohio military order of the Loyal League of the United States. AN EXPENSIVE BLUNDER. Kanaaa Cltr Railroad Man Threw Awajr a Car Load of "Sand" Full of Gold Ore. Several months ago a Kansas City (Mo.) company bought a car load of crushed ore in Mexico. Advices were duly received that the ore had been shipped 20 tons of it. The smelting company politely asked the local agent of the railroad company when the ore would arrive. The local agent said he had never heard of it. The smelting company then appealed to the general agent of the road. The general agent gave it up. Along the line the question was passed until it reached an official ini i.Vy (J! I I ,'C ' A COSTLY MISTAKE. (Gold Ore Dumped to Fid Up a Railroad HilH of Way .) who stnrted onto trnccr for the carload of ore. A tracer is a document on which every agent, train conductor nud every other person who bus had any thing to do with the shipment must say whence he took it and where he laid it down. From the mine in Mexico the car of ore was traced from junction point to junction point until it wns well within the railroad company's locul yards at Kansas City, and thence to a side track by the roundhouse mid Into the possession of the master me.' chauic. i A car load of crushed gold ore looks like a lot of course yellow sand, and this particular car load has been knocked about and disrespected as a car or com mon sand should be. When the otileials were notified that the tracer had chased the car Into the master mechanic's track ! they sent him a note asking him about the disposition of the car, giving its number. The master mechunio turned the note over and indorsed it on the back: "The car contained a bad quality of sand. Some of it I used in the sand boxes of the engines, but it was not serviceable, so 1 had It scattered along the right of way." The railroad com pany paid the smelting company $180 m ton for the "bad sand. TOO SPANISH FOR HER. The Trlbnlnitlona of an Army Kara Who Didn't t'nderatnnd the I.on inniie In Cuba. An army nurse but lately Returned from Cuba to Washington declares that never again will she go to n country whose language she cannot understand, reports the Washington Post. It was before hostilities had come to a definite end that she was startled one day by (lie unexpected visit of her Cuban laun dress. The woman was Intensely ex cited. Anxiety snt on her brow and sorrow dwelt in her eyes. She gesticu lated and she talked. The nurse knew I not a word of what she said, but the pantomime filled her with terror. The Cuban's hands seemed to speak of an, at tack on the hospital of wounded men butchered and nursescuttoribbons. The nurse was frantic. She must know' the worst. In the hospital wos an officer very ill with typhoid fever. She knew he understood Spanish. Only in a mat ter of life and death would she disturb him, but. this was obviously n matter of life or death. She led the Cuban woman to the bedside and there the story was repeated. The officer listened Intently. The nurse held her breath. The Cumin ceased. The sick man turned his head on the pillows. "She says," he whispered feebly, "she says the stripes In your pink shirt waist have run, and she doesn't know what to do with it." That same nurse confesses to having been desperntely homesick down In Cuba, "It gave me the blues," she said, "not to be able to make even the children un derstand me, and one day, one indigo day, a great big sleek cat walked Into my room. I was so glad to find some thing that could understand me. " 'Kitty, kitty, kitty!' I said. The cat didn't turn its head. " 'Pussy' pussy! I said. The cat took no notice. The cat the very cat spoke Spanish. It was more than I could bear. I couldn't even call a cat," OFFERS TO A QUEEN. People Who Wanted to Cnre Pray for Her Majcatr of llelarlani. and The queen of Belgium did not lack sympathy in her recent illness, for, in addition to the most patriotic expres sions from her subjects, telegrams and letters came piling Into the Belgian court from all quarters, says the Bos ton Transcript. Perhaps the most original communications were from England. An Englishman addressed a letter to Princess Clementine offering to for ward some remarkable device which had cured him of broncho-pneumonlu, inclosing a photograph which showed into what a healthy specimen of hu manity ho hnd since developed. An other, believing her majesty's illness due to cancer, sent a triple-weight let ter describing several cures for this dis ease. A third suid his valise was packed and he was only waiting a telegraphic call, when he would go at his own ex pense, and guaranteed a cure within 24 hours. There were also several letters from clergymen offering to" go to Laeken to pray for the queen's recovery, averring that on a similar occasion they had saved the prince of Wales' life by inter mediation. INHERITED HEALTH. There Are Men Who Are Self-Made Physically aa Well Financially. There is, it is true, as great an in equality in the inheritance of health as lu the heirship of wealth or brains, says the North American Review. Some are born with a fortune of vigor and sound ness so large that not a lifetime of eager squandering will leave them poor and others enter the world paupers of need bo dire that no charity from medicine can ever raise them to comfort; but most of us have just that mediocre leg- uey of vitality which renders us uudis- tingulshnble units in the mass. It lies in the hands of each to Improve or waste that property as ho chooses, for there are selfmade men physically as well as financially; those who, be cause of ancestral wastefulness, have only a sixpence of health and turn it into a fortune; and there arc spend thrifts of health who come to as sor rowful cose as spendthrifts of gold. The body Is a realm w here a wise and frugal ruler brings happiness ns Burely as a foolish one insures distress, and wisdom here, as elsewhere, lies in learn ing and obeying natural laws. FREAK CLUBS. Red-IIeaded Men and Uyapeptlca In New York City Kuch Have an Oritanlaatlon, New York has a new feature in clubs. It is the "Dyspeptic club," and the test of eligibility for membership is a doc tor's certificate thut the applicant is suffering from a weak stomach. The object of the club is to promote "cheerfulness" among dyspeptics a much-needed quality and, further, to furnish to the members the latest re suits of science In treating Indigestion. In Vienna there is a "Ited-llalred club," and to prevent fraudulent ad missions every candidate is obliged to souse his head thoroughly in hot water and sodu before the committee. In the same city there is a "Lazy club," no member of which does anything for a living. The Parisian head cooks of eminence In their profession hnve formed an us sociutiou known as the "Culinary acad emy." The members of this Institution number 30, and meet once a month, when they discuss at length 'various matters concerning their art, compare notes, invent new dishes and touch up eld ones. DAVID B. HENDERSON. Iowa Congressman Who Would Not Object to flrlnir praker of the Itonae of Itcpreaentntlvea. David Bremncr Henderson was born at Old Deer, Scotland, March 14, 1840. His parents brought him to America and to the state of Illinois In 1840. Three years later, In 1849, they moved to Iowa and settled on a farm not fur from Dubuque. Young Henderson at tended the common school of his town and the Upper Iowa university at Fay ette. Thereafter he studied law in the office of Bissel & Shirns, at Dubuque, and was admitted to the bar In the fall of 1865. . He remained at work om the farm, however, until 21 years of age, and In DAVID B. HENDERSON. (Representative In Congress from the Third Iowa District.) September, 1861, enlisted in the union army as a private in company C, Twelfth regiment, Iowa volunteer In funtry. , He was soon elected and com missioned first lieutenant of that com pany, and served with it until dis charged from the service, owing to a wound in the leg, February 16, 1863. In May, 1S63, Mr. Henderson was ap pointed commissioner of the board of enrollment for the Third congressional district of Iowa, and served as such un til June, 1864, when he reentered the army as colonel of the Forty-sixth Iowa Infantry, ne then remained in the field until the close of the war. Upon his return home In November, 1S65, Col. Henderson was appointed in ternal revenue collector for the Third, or Dubuque district, of Iowa, which po sition he held until June, 1869, when he resigned to enter upon the practice of law, and almost immediately was ap pointed United States district attorney for the northern division of the Iowa district, serving two years, then re signing. Afterwards the law firm of Henderson, Ilurd, Daniels & Kiesel was formed, and soon became known, large ly through the ability of its senior member, as one of the strongest legal combinations in the state. Mr. Henderson was first elected to congress in 1883 from the Third dis trict, and hat served in the house ever since. Mr. Henderson is a republican leader of influence, whose advice is frequently acted upon in the councils of his party. For years Col. Henderson hns been on the committee on rules, which has considered every question brought be fore the house, from a public building to the declaration of war. This has resulted in taking him oil the floor most of the time, but it has also given him a close acquaintance with general legis lation of all kinds, and, coupled with his position aa chairman of the ju diciary committee, has made him an an thority on parliamentary law. LAWRENCE TOWNSEND. Our New Minister to llelirlimi la Diplomat of Experience and a Model Gentleman. Lawrence Townsend, who has been transferred from the American mission at Lisbon to that at Brussels, is the youngest son of Henry C. Townsend, lawyer of Philadelphia. He was born in Philadelphia August 13, 1800, and in 1877 entered the University of Penn- LAWRENCE TOWNSEND. (New United States Minister to Ilrussels, ttoitfium.) Bylvnniu, but left college ut tlie close of liia junor yeur on account of fuiliujf lieulth resultiiiK from un iicchlunt. .For this reason olho lie traveled extensive ly ubroitd, tint afterwurd purchased und iimiiiic;ed for some time it, large runcli in Mesa county, Col. In 1K93 President Clevelund iipitointeil Mr. TownBcud, although he und all his family are republicans, secretary of the United States legation at Vienna, where ho served tinder Minister Jlart lott Tripp, just appointed the American member of the Samoa n joint commis sion. Mr. Townsend for several months acted as charge d'affaires. In June, 1807, Tresldent McKinley ap pointed Mr. Townsend, who was stiii on duty at Vienna, envoy extroordinary and minister plenipotentiary to l'ortu gal, from which place be is now trans ferred to a similar position at Jirusseis, with nn increase In his salary of from !7,500 to $10,000. Mr. Townsend mar ried Miss llanna, whom he met at Nice, In southern France, while sojourning there soon after leaving college. The Girl ot To day will be the woman of tO'tnorrow. She does not Know it, perhaps her mother does not fully understand it, but between the "to-day" when she is a dirl and the "to-morrow when she will be a woman iiki "It 3 napjiu(9 oiiu nPAiTn jvrs in rno nm a nee. If she Is to be a full-breasted, strong, healthy woman sne must develop rightly now. She is at a crisis. She needs more strength, more blood to it over. Or. Williams PinK for Pale People are the one medicine that will dive her the strength and make the new blood. Our new book. PLAIN TALKS TO WOMEN, explains why these pills are of special benefit to grow ing girls. A copy will be sent to any address. free on request. MIm Frankle llutlmwuy, offMxteenth Street, Holland, Mich., tulrt i "I am 21 yearn old, ml W I wm pale and weak and did not finln under the doctor's rare. Other treatment brought no heller renult and by the time 1 was nineteen yeur old I wni no weak I could nut walk acrons the floor. 1 wait terribly emnolHted and my skin had loit all color. The doctor pronounced the dlenie Hnfemla. One of my frlendmd vlHd me to try lr. Williams' I'lnk IMIls for Pale People. 1 bought a box and before 1 had taken all of thepllli I found that they were doing me good. Appetite Increased and the healthy color bevnii to show lu my cheeks and llpn. I continued to uae the pills until 1 hod taken fif teen boxes and'found myself permanently cured. Hlnce then 1 have hnd no return of my old trouble and outinot remember when I wee so strong and healthy now. I know that Dr. Williams' I'lnk Pill, for l'nle People saved my life, and 1 believe that no other medlolne could have done Ik" Fhankik HatBaw&y. Ottawa Timt; UoUanO, Mich. Look for the full name on the package. At druggists or direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., SchenecUdy, N. Y. 50c per box. 6 boxes $2.50. ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. SEALERS IN Cigars, Totacco, Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Freeh Every Week. IFx-iTiT-sz Goods .a. Specialty, SOLE AGENTS FOR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Solo agents tor the Henry Clay, Londros, Normal, Indian Princess, Samson, Silver Ash Bloomsburg Pa. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF CARPET, JJlATTIIVCi, oiOIL .OTII, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. ' m. BEOWEM 2nd Door above Court HoubC. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. When you want bright side APOLIO No-To-Iiao for Fifty Cent. Guaranteed tobnui'O huuit cure, tnaltes weak mea strong, bloou pure. Wo, (1. All Ui uugists. Fish stories in Connecticut are re stricted by law, which penalizes the catching of more than 30 trout in one day. Thoroughly Satisfied. "I suf fered from neuralgia and pains in my side, and seeing Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised as a good medicine I pro cured six bottles. The first bottle gave me relief. I continued taking the medicine and am satisfied with the good results. It has cured me." Mrs. T. Wandell. 33 Second Av., Corry, Pa. Hood's Pills cure nausea, headache. Against Dock-Tailed Horses English horsemen have taken a stand against dock-tailed horses. At some of the races during the coming season the entrances must be long tailed, and the rule will be enforced in the future. The Prince of Wales is said to be at the head of the move ment, and will seal the doom of this most criel and inhuman treatment of the noblest ot all brutes. You ark making a great mistake in not sending for a ten cent trial size of Ely's Cream Balm. It is a specific for catarrh and cold in the head. We mail it, or the 50 cent size. Druggists all keep it. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N. Y. Catarrh caused difficulty in speak ing and to a great extent loss of hear ing. By the use of Ely's Cream Balm dropping of the mucous has ceased, voice and hearing have greatly im proved J. W. Davidson, Att'y at Law, Monmouth, 111. OA8TOXIXA, Bean tU The Hind You Have Always Bought TfV v . . tide Pills Cut Chewing Tobacco following brands of Cigars' to look on the of things, use The State of Texas is about 75,000 square miles larger in area than Spain now is. Educate Tour Bowels With CatcareU. Candy Onthnrtic, cure conatlpntion forever. 10c, 25c. K C. C. C. fall, drugKistb refund money. National Peace Jubilee Washington. Roducod Rates via Pennsylvania Railroai. On account ot the National Peace Jubilee, to be held at Washington D. C, May 23, 24, and 25, the Pennsyk vania Railroad Company has arranged to sell excursion tickets from all stat ions to Washington at rate of single fare for the round trip, except that the rates from New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore will be $8.00, $5.00, and $2.00 respectively, with propor tionate rates from intermediate and adjacent points. Tickets will be sold May 22 and 23 good to return within ten days from date of sale when properly validated by the agent at Washington. n-2t. Does Ooffea Agree With You? If not, drink Grain-0 made front pure grains. A lady writes: "The first time I used Grain-0 I did not like it but after using it for one week nothing would induce me to go back to coflee." It nourishes and feeds the system. The children can drink it lreely vilii great benefit. It is the strengthening substance ot pure grains. Get a pack age to-day from your grocer. 15c. and 25c. 4-27-41-0 . " Every woman is an aristocrat at heart," said the youngest boarder. " Yes," said the Cneerful Idiot," she hates to think of herself as classel with the plain people." O BMTlth 8BStu of ITOniA. 1he Kind You Haw Always Bm0t I . ..I l.!.'CL. ''! ! 7 I T" A i .m
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