THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. 'CHEN A WOMAN FEELS OLDl hi Wh Her Gronlat Orindiol I First Pays Her Kara on tha Car. . Mr. Jones and Mrs. Smith met on nn Illinois Central suburban train, home ward bound from A morning of shop ping. Mrs. Jones is 35 and n mother; - Mrs. Smith 63 and a grandmother, says lb Chicago Inter Ocenn. My dear Mrs. Smith," said Airs. Jones, "how well you nre looking. I declare, you are the youngest-looking woman for your age I know. It seems lb at you have taken off several years awy time I meet you. Have you dis covered the magic fountnin?" "My dear," replied Mrs. Smith, "you mean well and I'm obliged to you, but 1 feel an old, old woman to-day." "Why do you emphasize to-day?" "Well, it's this way: I stur'tcd to tome down town this morning feeling as gay as a girl of 20. At the station I wet my grandson. He's only 13, but he's as big as some men. I suppose the sight of him should have sobered me and made me realize what a landmark I am, but it didn't. And I kept on feel ing young and frisky until the con ductor came along." "What on earth did the conductor have to do with it?" "Why, that boy pulled out his com mutation ticket, handed it to the con ductor, and said, as a matter of course: Two.' Goodness knows I felt old enough when my eldest son paid my fare for the first time, but when a woman gets so aged that her grandson pays her fare she's ancient, sure enough." BANES HAVE USE FOR MONEY. Way In Which Dla Financial Institu tion! Manas to Pay Dividend! to Shareholders. Many people wonder how banks use II the money deposited in them and bow they manage to pay interest there on and yet come out at the end of the year with a big profit on the business, aays the New York Telegram. What they do is trade with the money. To the depositor they pay between one and two per cent., but the money they lend brings them in three, five, six, seven, and even eight per cent. For instance, they give loans on all sorts of securities, such as railway de bentures, government stock, public company shares, dock warrants, bills mt lading, etc They also lend money on the se curity of houses and land, but not to a great extent, as repayments are slow. When a couple of substantial business men or farmers or professional men back a bill the bank often lends without any security at all; but now and again they have heavy and ruinous losses on these loans. All banks, however, have large sums at money constantly lying Idle, for they must keep sufficient cash at the various branches to pay checks, and even to be more or less prepared for panics. Still, the difference between the one or two per cent, they pay and the three or eight they receive on millions of dol lars leaves them an immense profit on the year's business. THE CUBAN GOLD MYTH. There Is Nothing- on the Which May Be Dignified the Name Mine. Inland by If we listen to the voice of the charm er or go to the books on Cuba for our information we shall find that the min eral resources of this island include gold, silver, mercury, lead, antimony, copper, chrome, iron, manganese, pitch, bitumen and even coal; but when we tome to look for practical metallic re sults commensurate with these varied mineral resources we shall be disap pointed, says the Engineering Maga sine. t The gold fiction is the most time hon ored, for the original Spanish settlers expected to find rich gold mines in Cuba. According to their historian much gold was taken from this island st the beginning of the conquest, but it seems probable that most of this was taken from the chiefs or caciques of the Indians and very little from the ground. tl Vfagero Universal, Madrid, 1797, iays: "Some of this metal (gold) is Htill found at Ilolguin." Whenever the existence of gold in Cuba Is discussed this "mine", at Ilolguin is invariably brought forward. It is true that some work has been done at this point a nil A little gold has been extracted, but there has never been any systematic ex )loration, and there is nothing there which may be dignified with the namij oi a mine. Sheey-Shearlnar by Machinery. The fihecp-sheuring experiment that is being tried in Sycamore, 111., is prov ing successful, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A gasoline engine of four horse-power runB ten clippers which shear on an average 1,000 sheep a day. One of the advantages of the -uxperimcnt is tlmt about half a pound more wool is realized from each sheep, The test will bo given to 15,000 sheep, The sheep are sheared, the wool tied and packed In large sacks holding sev iral hundred pounds each and ready far shipment at once. The success met with in this experiment will revolu lionize the sheep-shearing business. New York's Police. The New York police department on Murch 1 had a total membership of 7,204 officers and men, of whom 91 were in the bicycle squad, 60 in the tenement house squad, 164 were detectives, 83 were in the sanitary corps, and nlu were detailed for service in the house of detention. There were also 33 police matrons. Rash Work on Siberian Railway It is expected that the Siberian rail way will be completed to Irkutsk 1 febmary, 1000. BLOOD AND TOMATOES. Snppnaed Tragedy That Proved to De a Perfectly Harmless ' Affair. Unusual excitement disturbed the quiet of a Philadelphia residence one recent Sunday evening, resulting in the hurried visits of a policeman and two doctors to the house. Just as the man of the house and his wife reached the front step on the way home from church the door was hurriedly thrown open and out rushed the cook, who called for "help!'" When she saw her mistress she declared between sobs that the kitchen range had exploded and that her cousin had been killed. The mistress ran into the kitchen after sending her husband for the doctors and found the place covered with ashes and a young mnn apparently half-dead lying in a chair In front of the range. His head and face were apparently cov ered with Wood, but it was soon discov ered that he was still olive, as he said he was only stunned. The housewife immediately set to work to wash the man s head and fnee to prepare him for the doctors, but she was moved to merriment when she found that the supposed blood was only tomato juice. truth the cousin was not injured nil. The explanation was that the cook had placed a can of tomatoes un- er the grate to melt the sealing on the lid and that the explosion, which scattered the ashes and tomatoes, fol lowed the expansion of the frozen liquid the can. hen the policeman and octors arrived they were told the story and joined in the laugh, which was on the cook and her cousin. LUCREZIA BORGIA. The Prevailing Conception of the Historic Poisoner's Character la False, "All her contemporaries agree in describing her as singularly attractive, with a sweet joyousncss and charm quite peculiar to herself," says "The History of the Popes," by Dr. Ilenry Pastor. " 'She is of middle height and graceful in form, writes Uicolo Ca gnolo of Parma; 'her face is rather long, the nose well cut, hair golden, eyes of no special color, her mouth rather large, the teeth brilliantly white, her neck is slender and fair, the bust ad mirably proportioned. She is always gay and smiling.' Other narrators spe- ially praise her long golden hair. "Unfortunately, we have no trust worthy portrait of this remarkable woman; at the same time we can gather Xroni some medals which were struck at Ferrara during her stay there, a fair notion of her features. The best of those me'dals, designed npparently by iinppino uppl, snows now1 false the prevailing conception of this woman's character, woven out of partisanship and calumny, has been. The little head. with its delicate features, is rather charming than beautiful, the expres- on is maidenly, almost childish, the abundant hair flows down over the shoulders, the large eyes have a far-off look. The character of the face is soft. rresolute and gentle; there is no trace of strong passions and rather It denotes a weak and passive nature, incapable of self-determination." A PARISIAN EGG FORGER. Many of His False Production! Are Purchased for Scientific Collections. A curious account is giver, by a Paris correspondent of the discovery of an egg forger, whose false productions are purchased for scientific collections and by amateurs, says the Lincoln Daily Xews. The man was very clever. A visitor saw him make a penguin egg that could not be distinguished from the real one that served him for a model, lie made the shell of plaster of paris burnt and glazed. The egg was intend ed for a man who furnished eggs for n foreign scientific collection. These imi tations are not difficult, for among the real eggs of most species there are so many varieties that even the most practiced expert could not distinguish all of them. The eggs of the common fly-catcher are very cheap. By chem ical treatment they acquire a b.ulih green shining color, and are then sold at a very high prve as the eggs of the hiin-xnii. i rom common duck fitwnr. fabricated the efrjrs of a falcon, for which 50 or 60 francs are nniil. Tim duck eggs for this purpose are given a suver-green color. IMgeon and wood pigeon eggs are also transformed Into rarer products of middle-sizPfl I,!-,! Nightingales' eggs nre difficult to pro cure and ure therefore very dear. Thcv are Imitated by coloring larks' eggs iron. 1110 eeff forcer n fnr n l. time an assistant in a natural-history muacuiu iii wic provinces. Prophetic. The Taris papers are telling an in teresting story of a newly-elected mem ber of the French senate. M. Bassinet, like many of his colleagues, is a self made mun, and began life as u journey man maaon. In that capacity he was employed to renovate the sculptural fa cade of the Luxembourg palace, when the architect, noting his skill and In dustry, said to him by way of encour agement: "Why, you couldn't lie mak ing a better job of it if it were wour own house." The young workman Biniled, and is said to have answered: "One never knows what the future may bring forth." He had at the time no political aspirations, but all the same he now sits as senator In the building he helped to adorn. A Young Eseontlva. Earl Beauchamp is one of the young est men who have in recent years been appointed to a colonial governorship; lie is not quite 27 years of uge. Ever Notice Itt The stars on the United States coin age ere six-pointed, while the United States flag carries five-pointed stars. Another Hew Swindle. The 'travelling crayon portrait agents have sprung a new gag upon the innocent and unsuspecting householders in this vicinity, which, in a majority of cases, has worked to perfection. The agent carries with him a box, containing a num ber of envelopes, which, he says, contains blanks and numbers. The scheme is carried on much in the nature of a lottery. The fakir in forms his victims that there are but few numbers in the lot, and requests the person to draw an envelope. Of course, every draw contains a number, and the lucky (?) person is informed that they are entitled to a crayon portrait absolutely free of all charge. The balance of the scheme is identical with former ones. The portrait will not be given unless an extortionate price is paid for a frame. The original pictures are never returned, and the agents leave for pastures new. The Two-Cent Stamp Issue During the year 1898 the United States bureau of engraving ' and printing issued 2,500,000,000 of the common red two-cent stamps, enough to go almost twice around the earth. Stacked one upon an other, they would pile up 1 50 miles beyond the atmosphere, equal in weight to two of our big locomo tives and would make a blanket to keep the frost off the city of Wash ington. If these stamps worked in relays, each taking the letters as far as allowed by the postal regula tions, the letter would be carried to the most remote star. Will Cost $400 a Mile It is estimated by an exchange that the bicycle side paths to be erected in the various counties of Pennsylvania will cost $400 a mile, which, would mean an annual ex penditure of $5,000 to construct twelve and a half miles of a path in a country. The paths are expected to be raised twelve to eighteen inches above the road level. The minimum width must be three feet and the maximum six feet. A Seedless Orange. Not content with having produced a hybrid orange that is likely to thrive in a comparatively northern climate, the United States depart ment of agriculture is now engaged in evoluting an orange that shall be seedless, and whose peel will come away as readily as the skin of & banana. This, too, it is said, will be able to withstand considerable degree of frost. Mast Attend Sessions. The Pennsylvania school law provides that a school director who shall neglect to attend any two reg ular sessions unless detained by sickness or prevented by absence from the district, the directors pres ent shall have power to declare his seat in the board vacant, and to ap point another in his stead. Here's a preacher for you! When Dr. Croughton of Atlanta denounc ed the lynching of Sam Hose he was threatened with injury, and now he has preached another sermon in which he states: "I want to say that I am not afraid of every howl ing devil in Georgia and in hell. I am master of my pulpit and if you don't like it you may go out. And, furthermore, if I am to be boycotted because I stand up for the maj'estv of the law in Georgia, let it come." Hero's a chance for some of our bright active boys. Uncle Sam is asking for a number of them between the ages of eighteen aud twenty five to enter the revenue marine service as cadets. The cadets receive upon entrance .500 per year and rations, and at the end of two years they are appointed second lieutenants in the revenue marine service. A letter addressed to the civil service com mission win give all tlie necessary lnlormation. Our trainmen, hereabouts, it isn't likely, will ever be called upon to comply with an order like the follow ing which has just been issued by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad All trainmen must keep them selves perfectly cleau. and excludes loud neckties, tan shoes, and button hole bouquets, and requires clean collars, carefully brushed clothes and shining black shoes. It- is a strange fact that when a strong, healthy man whose ordinary tone of voice can be heard on the street a half a block distant, gets on the witness stand in court, he grows so weak and debilitated that he can scarcely be heard by the court and jury. At almost every term of court many witnesses have to be asked to speak louder. It has become quite a fad in some localities to furnish free lunches at vendues. Wherever the new pract ice is observed large crowds are the result. Topics of the Day. The leading article of the Tune Demoresfs about "Puff-Balls" is a re markably interesting account of the not generally known characteristics of nis very common tungus. 1 hat it has nedicinal Qualities, and that it serves occasionally as an excellent breakfast for the camper who has strayed away irom the commissary department, are among the many interesting facts set forth. An excellent collection of photographs of the various puff-balls nome are given. This is but one of several collect ions of pictures in this number which are 01 rare interest. The illustrations for "In the Land the Leatherstocking Tales." cive Of an extended glimpse of that beautiful country made famous by Fenimore Cooper's tin tiling stories. tfoth pathetic and humorous is the page of pen and ink sketches by the late Michael Ancelo Woolf. There is also a sympathetically told biography of this Noted Artist and Picturesque Man oy Kate Jordan, who had the good fortune to number Mr. Woolf among her friends. An important feature to women. which appears for the first time in this number of Demoresfs, is the "Paris fashion Supplement." a full-Dace cos tume designed in Paris especially for Demoresfs Magazine. Other fashion features worth con sidering in this number are the nase of hats, beautifully illustrated, and the most recent edicts as to style in mourning. The latter article is bv a well-known New York society woman. Among the variety of good fiction in this number of Demoresfs is a briskly told dialogue bv Margaret Sut ton Briscoe. Besides the amount of literary matter furnished, equal to that of any purely literary magazine, Demo resfs furnishes this issue over half a hundred new Paris fashion designs. Railroad Changes Hands. A syndicate composed of S. D. Townsend, of Philadelphia, and other capitalists, has purchased the William- sport and North Branch Railroad. The deal was announced to the stock holders at the annual meeting at Hunhesville. The road forms the connecting link between the Lehigh Valley at Satterheld and Reading at Hall's Station. B. J. Welsh, the for mer superintendent, has been elected president. Try Allen's Foot-Ease -A pow. der to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen, nervous and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet, blis- J ters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it to day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial package free. Address, Allen S. Olmstead, LeRoy, N. Y. (11 Tyrone's council having refused to accept the contract of the Home Electric Light Company for illuminat ing the streets of that place, the cur rent has been shut off and the streets are now in darkness at night. Tyrone has been paying $75 per light per year in the past and they offered a compn mise on $70 per light to the company, which was flatly refused. Give the Children a Drink called Grain-O. It is a delicious, ap petizing, nourishing food drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all gro cers and liked by all who have used it because when properly prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but is free from all its injurious properties. Grain-0 aids digestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a stimulant but a health builder, and children, as well as adults, can drink it with great bene fit. Costs about as much as coffee. 15 and 35c. 3 2 4'd The following are the legal holi days in Pennsylvania this year: 52 Saturday afternoons! which equal 26 whole days, New Year's Day, Election day 111 February, Lincoln's birthday, Washington's birthday, Good Friday, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Election day in November, Thanks giving day, Christmas. Aact to these holidays 52 Sundays and we have a total of 90 days, leaving but 275 of the 365 days of the year which the law recognizes as legal business days. In the new pamphlet of postal laws jut received, a clause in the chapter defining first class matter states specifically that all printed assessments with amounts hand stamped or written thereon will be regarded as first class. Formerly "handstamped" wns regarded as printed and passed as second class matter. Ueuuty la Illood Deep. Clean blood menns a clean skin. No beauty without it. CasenreU, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by tirriiiu uu tlie lazv liver and driviim all im purities from the body. Hegin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satiHiaction guaranteed, we, zoc, ouc The Secret of Health The health of the whole body depends upon the blood and nerves. Therefore the medicine that expels impurities from the blood and supplies the necessary materials for rapidly rebuilding wasted nerve tissues, reaches the root of many serious diseases. It is these virtues that have given Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People their wonderful power to concjuer disease. and caused the miraculous cures that have startled the scientific world. Thousands of ' cases have demonstrated that this remedy is ah unfailinr specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of the grip, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Frank Trifiksr, a prominent farmer, of Versailles, Indiana. Ills nntiglitrr, Lucy, 1 now fifteen yrsr old ; throe rrsn nirohp l.pgon tllnif. The roy color In hrr cheek s-nve wsr to a nnlnn, and nhe herame rap idly thin. An the grew weaker lie became tha victim of nervous prontrstiou. Moat of the time she wns confined to the bed ana was almost ou tha verge of going- Into Ht. Vltne' dance. "Kliiully the doctor told lie to give her f)r. William' Pink Pill fnr rale People. fld he wan treating a Imtlarcime with them and they were curing the patient. We hegnn giving the pills at once, and the next day we could eee arhange for the hotter In her. The doctor told us to keep giving her t he medicine. We gave her one pill after each meal until ilia was well. We Iwitan giving her the medicine last Augimt, nnd she took the taatdose In October, having used otght boxes, ftha linnw entirely well aud has not been sick a day sine. We think the cure almont miraculous." Frank TrrktH, Mrs. Frank Tucker. subscribed ana sworn to before me H April 28th, 1897. Versatlleti'Indlana, Dr. William' Pink Pill for Pl People r sold by all drugglats or snt, potpaid, by the Dr. Willi. m Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.,aa Mctlpt of price, ja cents par box, 6 box, $a.y. ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, Fruits and Huts SOLE AGENTS FOR ' Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. I?.tTT"2 Goods j. Si'Ecija.aiiTTZ". SOLE AGENTS FOR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobticco Sole agents tor the following brands of Cigars Henry Clay, Loadres, Normal, Indian Frincess, Samson, Silver Asfc Bloomsburg Pa. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF CARPET, MATTOG, or OIL CLOTH, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT . W. M. BEO WEI'S' 2nd Door above Conrt Ilonsc A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. When you want to look on the bright side of things, use SAPOLIO No-To-Bao for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco batilt cure, mnkes wealt men strong, biood pure. 60c, (1. All druggists. The wages at all the limestone quarries north of Reading have been advanced to $1.25 a day. Several months ago the quarrymen received but qo cents. Wages have advanced in every industry in that vicinity. Supreme Court Sustains tne Foot-a3e Trade-mark. Tustice Lauehin. in SuDreme Conri. Mf CJ 7 "1 Buffalo, has ordered a nermanent in. - t junction, with costs, and a full account- -.. . 1-, ing 01 saies, 10 issue against raul is. Hudson, the manufactures nf th fnnt powder called "Dr. Clark's Foot Pow der," and also against a retail dealer in Brooklyn, restraining them Irom maKing or seams? tne nr. Clark s root Powder, which ia declared, in the de- cision of the Court, an imitation and infringement of "Foot-Ease," the pow der to shake into your shoes for tired aching feet, now so largely advertised and sold all over the countrv. Allen S. Olmestead, of LeRoy, N. Y. is the owner of the trade-mark "Foot-Ease," and he is the first individual who ever advertised a foot powder extensively over the country. He will send a sam ple free to anyone who writes him for it. The decision in this case upholds his trade-mark and renders all parties liable who fraudently attempt to profit by the extensive "Foot-Ease advertising, in placing upon the mark et a 6purious and similar appearing preparation, labeled and put up In envelopes and boxes like Foot-Ease. Similar suits will be brought against others who are now infringing on the Foot-Ease trade-mark and common law rights. TORIA, Basra th Basra tha j l"9 MM) YOU Haw Always iiw King You Haw Always Bougft 5 in . 1 this 2tb day of April, lMff. von Johnson, JutHet of tht Part. From Ihttitpublican, VtrtaUlu, Ind. Edurate Tour Uowel With Cuacaret. .nCa'2dy f att"",ttc. cure constipation forever 10c. 25c. If C. C. C. full, druBKlsii refund mWjt ' A boy accompanied his father to ; church last night, and when the coi j lection was taken up the youngster closely watched the performance. When the collectors made their returns the boy said to his father: "Halt of them got in for nothing!"Atchisoa Globe. A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT Ely's cream balm has completetf cured me of catarrh when everything else failed. Alfred W. Stephens. Caldwell, Ohio. Ely's cream balm works like a. charm; it has cured me of the mosc obstinate case of cold in the heatV I would not be without it. Fred'fc Fries, 283 Hart St., Brooklyn, N. V..' A ioc. tral size or the 50c. size of Ely's Cream Balm will be mailed. Kept by druggists. Ely Brothers, SS Warren St., New York. Grain-O Brings Relief To live coffee drinker. Coffee drinking is s habit that is universally indulged ia and almost as universally injurious. Have you tried Grain-O ? It is al most like coffee but the effects xre just the opposite. Coffee upsets tdc stomach, ruins the digestion, effect the heart and disturbs the whole nerv ous system. Grain-O tones up the stomach, aids digestiion and strength ens the nerves. 15 and 25c per pack--aSe- 5 5 4td CASTOR I A . For Infanti and Children The Kind You Have Always Bottft Bears the Signature of
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