THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. WINE SPOILED BY AGE. Cfcnaipnsjne Itrrntnra I'nflt to Orlnla It SUorot Atvur In C ellar Too l.onir. "There Is such n thing nn a wine be tog too old," wM a member of the board of trade, reports the New Orlenns Timea-Democrat. "1 hncl thnt Illustrat ed t tn.v house the other day under either Interesting circumstances, liack to 1843 Uen. John M. Lewis, who was lien sheriit and afterward mayor of Btw Orlenns, gave my uncle a basket mt four-year-old champagne. My uncle afterward moved north, taking that and other wifies with him, and on his death, In the early en's, the basket was till Intact. There had possibly been some agreement about opening It at a certain time, and, at any rate, the ehnm Pgre remained In the family cellar un touched and only lost month my cousin, now In New York, broke the lot and rat me down four bottles. I was natu rally curious to know how the old wine would look and taste, and n few days go, on the occasion of a little annlver ary at our house, I opened one of the bottles. I had considerable difficulty fat removing the cork without breaking H but It finally gave way. There was not a vestige of pop and the wine ran ant perfectly dead and limpid. It was pale amber In color and had a faint, pleasant bouquet, but the imprisoned gaa that hod once given It We and sparkle was gone forever. It was Inter acting as a relic, but not fit to drink, and tome friends who ore connoisseurs said that It had evidently been deteriorating since 1970. It's a great pity ray north ern, relatives held It In too much venera tion to sample it about that time." TO STOP BLEEDING. Boetrlcltr Now Declared to Be the Moat Efllcacloas Metuare Employed, The arresting of bleeding in surgical operations has always been one of the difficulties in certain cases, and the elec bio current has been used before this with a view to bringing about that con dition of heat which is necessary in or der to cause the blood to clot and so aet as a block to the mouth of bleeding easels, arresting hemorrhage. This, indeed, has resulted in the utili sation of the electrio cautery, as it is called, in. certain operations, the plat inum wire at a red or almost white heat ereen supplanting the knife, because It barns through the tissues and at the une time prevents the-wound bleeding to any great extent. This effect of heat was, Indeed, known to our ances tors, who used red-hot irons or boiling pitch to sear the surface of the flesh rfter their operations, thus causing an immense amount of suffering to the pa tient, before the days of chloroform. A new adaptation of this use of elee trlclty for the purpose of stopping bleeding has been devised by inclos ing a platinum wire in a pair of forceps or other instrument, the wire being in sulated in a bed of burnt pipe clay, and aa soon aa the bleeding vessel is seized by the forceps and compressed in the ordinary way an electric current is turned on, whose effect is so great that the tissues and the walls of the blood vessels are all agglutinated, bo that the blood is no longer able to pass. WOOD EMITS SWEET TONES. A Sooth American Tree from Which the Native Make In struments. A Chicogoan recently returned from protracted visit to South America relates that the Indiana in Ecuador, L'eru and Bolivia make an excellent mu sical instrument out of the wood of tbehormaguiUa,atreetha.t growsabun lantly in those countries. The Instru ment is on the principle of the wellr known xylophone, only that under neath euch piece they construct a sounding box of the same wood, varying "a size to the note to be augmented And sustained. Some of these instru ments arc mounted on stands and have is many as 43 tones. These large In struments are played by four and five operators. The tones are quite unlike :hoso of the xylophoue, as they are not ihort and sharp, but are sustained by She sounding boxes, so that at a short lUtance they give the impression more? f an organ than even a piano. Expert iperators play opera pieces and the '.atest music upon the large instruments ivith most remarkable effect. This in strument is said to be a very old one, tradition dating it back to the days if the incas, being one of the few icmaintng evidences of the old prehis toric civilizations. A party of Peru vians lately traveled through Mexico ith one of these large instruments and Teated quite a sensation among the .nusic-loving Mexicans. French Itoinance of To-Day. People in England are constantly ompluining that French novels are not xhaX they were, says a writer in the Jontemporary. And this is true; the rop Is slighter, and the quality has ab ruptly varied. "Ye cannot gather -grapes of thistles." A few months ago me of the first of Trench novelists told .ne how impossible he found it to lose limself in au Imaginary world while inch ominous rumors fill the streets of Paris. The Intricate Chinese puzzle it fashionable psychology seems, after .ill, a trivial thing compared to the tre mendous issues of reality. And if the mthor feels this, judge of the. senti ments of the reader! The effect of the affaire Dreyfus on literature has been ha sudden disappearance of the ro-man-a-trols, the old provincial theme if the married lady, her husband nnd her lover. After a brilliant renals wince.ufter occupying almost the wholn irea of fiction, this tlx'nie bus subsided, ind If people rend and write novels still, .0 a certain extent, these novels, or at ;ny rate, the best of them, have a whnl 'y different motive, interest, and Intent, FATHER OF MASONARY. Mr. Christian Frederick Knapp, of Blooms burg. Pa. An Almost Unparalleled Record. One of the foremost figures in Ma sonic circles in the United States, and the foremost in Pennsylvania, is Mr. Christian Frederick Knapp, of JJlooins burg. None is better versed in the mysteries of Masonary than Mr. Knapp, whose life has been almost en tirely devoted to furthering the inter ests of that ancient order. Beginning with the first step in Masonary he has held almost every office within its jurisdiction, and, in 1870, received the order of Grand Cross, a distinc tion enjoyed by but 50 living mem bers in any one nation. Socially and fraternally his friends are legion, and during his Masonic career he has been feted and banqueted innumerable times. Many handsome presents of which he has been the recipient be speak in a small measure the esteem in which he is held Masonically. Certainly nothing so fittingly ex presses Mr. Knapp's standing than the title, "The Father of Masonary," by which he is known throughout the length and breadth of the land. Mr. Knapp is of German parentage, being born in the city of Besigheim, Wurt emburg, Germany, October 12, 1822, the son of John Battas Knapp. When he was but a youth his father came to this country and resided in and near Philadelphia until his death. His fath er figured quite prominently in the political fortunes of Europe, acting as an aid-de-camp on Napoleon's staff during the memorable Russan cam paign, befng at the burning of Mos cow, and at the battle of Berdine. Mr. Knapp was well fitted by his father, who was an excellent student, for the prominent part which he has taken during his many years of active work. Prior to establishing himself in the fire insurance business in which he has been engaged for years, he served as deputy revenue collector during Lincoln's administration Mas onically his career began on Septem ber 23, 1851, when he received his first degree in Free Masonary in the Danvilltf lodge No. 224, F. & A. M., the second and third degrees follow-! ing in October and November res pectively. He organized the Wash ington lodge No. 265 of Bloomsburg in January, 1852, resigning from the Danville lodge for that purpose. He was its first junior warden, then worthy master and secretary in quick success ion, the latter position being filled by him until the present day. At this time he was appointed by the right worthy grand master as district deputy grand master for the counties of Union, Snyder, Northumberland, Montour, Columbia and Wyoming. After filling this office for eight years he resigned it. The Mark Master degree in Gir ard Mark lodge, at Philadelphia, was received by him in 1854, those of Most Excellent and Royal Arch de gree in the Catawissa chapter No. 178, and of which he served as district deputy grand high priest for six years. In i860 he obtained a charter for the Bloomsburg chapter No. 218, R.A.W., of which chapter he has served as sec retary since its beginning. He was knighted by Charles Blumenthal, grand master, in Park encampment No. 11, K. T., and appendant order on March 6, 1856; in May, 1856, he received a charter for Crusade com mandery No. 12, K. T., and was the first eminent command er, serving for three years. In May, 1857, he was elected grand captain general; in 1 858, grand generalissimo; in 1859, grand deputy grand commander, and in i860 grand right eminent grand command er of the Grand commandery of Penn sylvania. From 1862 to 18C3, in clusive, he served as grand lecturer of the Knights Templar of Pennsylvania and during 1864 and 1865 he was elected grand division commander of the state. Mr. Knapp took the Council de grees in Palestine council, No. 9, of R. and S. Masters, at Pottstown, on November 21, 1856, but soon resign ed so that he might start a council of S. M. at Bloomsburg. He was made M. P. G. M. of Pennsylvania by Al fred Creigh, LL. D., and in the same year obtained a charter for Mount Moriah council No. 10. When it was organized be became its second offi cer, served four years from 1857 asT. I. G. M., and in i36i was electci. re corder, a position which he has since filled. From 1868 until 1876 and he served as M. P. G. M. of Pennsyl vania, after which he retired. He took the degrees A. A. S. rite from the fourth to the eighteenth, in clusive, in May, 1856, and at the Hairisburg Consistory the same year from the eighteenth to the thirty-sec-ond, inclusive. In May, 1857, he received a charter for Enoch Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree, a j charter lor the Zerrubabel Council, P. I of Jer., sixteenth degree, and Ever green chapter of Rose Croix, eight- I eenth decree, serving as first officer ; in each of the bodies for a year, and as secretary for twenty years. He was the first illustrious commander-in chief, and acted for 26 years for the Caldwell Consistory, T. P. R. T., thirty-second degree. In 1868 he was , elected an honorary member of the Supreme Council and received the thirty third degree at Cincinnati, Ohio, tnd in 1870 he was elected to the active thirty-third degree and was crowned as such in New York City. For nine years he continued in the active membership and then returned to honary rank. Sir Alfred Creigh, L. L. D., of Phil adelphia, the Chief Intendant General of the United States, by authority of the imperial council of England, con ferred the order of Knights of the Red Cross of Rome and Constantine, Knights of St. John, Viceroy Euscb- cus, Prince Mason and Holy Sepul cher upon Mr. Knapp in 1870, and gave him a charter for Orient Con clave, No. 1 to be held in Bloomsburg; also enrolling his name on the book of the Imperial Council in London, England. In December, 1872, the Grand Council of Pennsylvania was formed at Reading, and he was elect ed Grand Viceroy, which position he filled for three years. In 1875 he was elected grand soverign of t'.ie Grand Council of Pennsylvania, and served a year. The Grand Imperial Council of the United States, being formed in June of that year, Mr. Knapp was elected Grand Senior General of that body; was elected Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Imperial Council for the United States in the City of New York, and in 1877 he was elected Grand Master of that body in Rochester, N. Y. In 1874 he received the order of Grand Cross, at the age of 32 years, the distinction which was enjoyed by but 50 living members in the United States. In June, 1877, he was re-elected as the second officer of the Grand Chapter of Grand Crosses, and in 1879 he was elected Grand Master of the Grand Chapter of Grand Crosses. In 1880 he retired from that position. Such is the almost unparalleled record of ore whose life has .been so closely and prominently linked with Masonry that he has given Blooms burg a prestige which she could never otherwise enjoyed. Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Knapp is almost an octogenarian he is as active as a man many years his junior, and no Masonic festive board, wherever it may be, is complete without the genial presence of him who has made Masonary the power that it is in Pennsylvania. Wil- Iiamsport Grit. National Export Exposition, Philadelphia 1 Reduced Rates Via Pennsylvania Railroad. The National Export Exposition, which opens at Philadelphia on Sep tember 14 and continues until Novem ber 30, will be the most interesting and important event occurring in Philadelphia since the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. In addition to its valuable commercial exhibits it will present many features of popular in. terest and amusement. The United Marine Band, Sousa's Band, the Banda Rosa, Innes' Band, Damrosch's Or chestra, and other celebrated bands will furnish music alternately, and a Midway Plaisance, equal 11 not super ior to the famous World's Fair Mid way at Chicago, and comprising a Chinese Villiage, a Chinese Theatre, acrobats, and customs; an Oriental Villiage, London Ghost Show, Hagen becks Wild Animal Show, Blarney Castle: and many other unique pre sentations, will furnish abundant and diversified amusement. Arrangements have also been made for Mandolin, Guitar, and Banjo Concerts, and for a good chorous from the German Sing ing societies. For this occasrn the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell excursion tickets from all points on its line, to Philadelphia and return, at rate of a fare and a third for the round trip plus price of admission. These tickets will be sold during the continuance of the Exposition and will be good for return passage until November 30. For specific rates and additional information apply to nearest Ticket Agent. 8-24-31. Clement Elected Colonel Lieut. Colonel C. M. Clement of Sunbury was on Thursday night elect ed uoionel ot the Twelfth Regiment, defeating Colonel J. B. Coryell who was a candidate for re election. The election was conducted under the supervision of Gen. J. P. S. Gobin the commander of the brigade. The headquarters of the reciment will now be moved from Williamsport to Sunbury, which fact stirred the resi dents ot the Lumber City into much excitement. The new colonel is one of the leading attorneys of Northum berland county. He was born in Sunbury in 1855 and entered the National Ouards as a private in 1877. By various and successive promotions he rapidly rose to the command of company in 1882. In 1896 he became major and in 1898 was elected Lieut. Colonel and as such served with his reaiment dur ing the Spanish war. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature Old Fashioned Purses. Thoy liavo Come Into Fashion Again and the Homlier the More Popular. Purses carried by women nowadays are in fancy grains and fancy colors, the grain oi the leather giving an ap pearance of shading, while the edges are bound in a plain shade of the same color or in a contrasting color. These purses are all made in the common patterns, with change and bill com partments. There is a revival of an old German purse, which is a big flat top pouch when opened and has a flat top frame of steel in four pieces. The sides of the purse are flat and bound with straight pieces of steel, while the leather forms a bag hanging from these side steels. The end steels are hajf as wide and are hinged to the sidepieces, folding across the top and meeting in the middle with a clasp like a change purse. When opened wide the whole purse is spread out about eight inches long. There is a place for everything and everything in its place in one big bag. Its bulk, when filled with the usual ar ray of memoranda and samples, must be detrimental to its popularity, as it must be held clasp in the hand, and it makes a pretty good handful. The popular purse, however, is of the plainest and homliest type. It is the "finger purse," named from the woman's habit of carrying it with the fingers thrust through the big retaining strap across the front. This purse is made of three plain strips of roughly finished pig skin, making two compart ments in the simplest form. One is gusseted for change and the other is a flat pocket for bills. The flap of both compartments slips through a strap across the front piece. The whole is sewed about the edges with harness stitching, with no attempt at orna mentation. To individualize this purse there are big brass initials, the same as are used in ornamenting brass trimmed sets of harness. These are furnished with retaining pins on the back, which are easily thrust through the leather and pressed down flat. There is something rich about the appearance of these simple purses, and their odd'ty has made them most popular among the young folk. Chicago Times-Herald. Don't Tobacco Spit sud Smoke Tonr Ufc Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be maff ictio. full ot life, nerve and vigor, take N0 T0 Bae, the wonder-worker, that make weak men itrong. All druggists, BOc or II. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co. , Cbicago or New York. Niagara Falls Excursions. Low-Rate Vacation Trips via Pennsylvania Railroad. . September 7 and 2 1 and October 5 and 19 are the dates of the remaining Pennsylvania Railroad popu'ar ten day excursions to Niagara Falls from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Wash ington, and intermediate points. Excursion tickets, good for return passage on any regular train, exclusive of limited express trains, within ten days, will be sold at $10.00 from Phil adelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and all points on the Delaware Division; $11.25 frm Atlantic City; $9.60 from Lancaster; $8.50 from Altoona and Harrisburg ; $6.90 from Sunbury and Wilkes-Barre; $5.75 from William sport; and at proportionate rates from other points. A stop over will be al lowed at Buffalo, Rochester, Canan daigua, and Watkius within the limit returning. A special train of Pullman parlor cars and day coaches will be run with each excursion. An extra charge will be made for parlor car seats. An experienced tourist agent and chaperon will accompany each excur sion. Tickets for a side trip to the Thou sand Islands (Alexandria Bay) will be sold from Rochester in connection with excursions of September 7 and 21, good to return to Rochester or to Canandaigua via Syracuse within 5 days, at rate os $5. 50. Tickets for a side trip to Toronto will be sold at Niagara Falls for $1.00 on September 23. In connection with excursion ol September 7, tickets will be sold to Toronto and return at re duced rates, account Toronto Fair. For pamphlets giving full informa tion and hotels, and for time of con necting trains, apply to nearest ticket agent, or address Geo. W. Boyd, As sistant General Passenger Agent, Broad St. Station, 1 hiladelphia. (3124 Ileauty la Illooil Veep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. discards, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by itirring up the lazy liver und driving all im purities from the body, ik-gin to-day to aiiitm pimples, boils, blotches, blucklieads, ind that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. Vliy Mollis Fly Into Tinmen. Mollis fly npuinbt n flume because their eyes cun bear only n small amount of light. When, therefore, they come near a flume their sight is overpowered nnd their vision confuted, ntirt ns Ihey cannot distinguish objects they pursue tbe light itself and fly iigninst the fin me. OAb'i'OniA. The Kino You Have Always Bougfli We carry tnek of good vnlur (I nt 1,600,000.00 k IT in M iilHIIU We own nd occupy the tallest mercentlle building In the world. We hve over 1,000,000 customers. Sixteen hundred clerks are constantly engaged filling out-of-town orders. OUR GENERAL CATALOGUE is the book of the people It quotes Wholesale Prices to Everybody, has over 1,000 pages, 16,000 Illustrations, and 60,000 descriptions of articles with prices. It costs 7s cents to print and mail eachcopy. We want you to have one. SEND FIFTEEN CENTS to show your good faith, and we'll send you linilTPniirnV Uf inn O. .muniUUmLni nrtnu 06 Is co-eduratlonnl anil proKronr.lve, providing vmt constitute pleasant, re fiued, Christian home, with tho licut lntcllertun.1 nnd noelol training for prac tical life. Titkcs n pcrsonnl Int'Tcnt In each Ktudont, niiil adjusts methods to need. Location healthful, liuildlnns commodious, grounds liirgi ball Hold, tennis courts, two gymnasiums 17 ten.-hers; 9 regular courxes, with elective studies when desired. Here U(1viiq1hc In Music, Art and Elocution. Home and tuition In regular studies ttliAO 11 year. Discounts to ministers, teachers and two from same family. C'utulojjuo free. Term opens Sept. 4th, J8W. Address Rbt. EDWARD J. GRAY, 0. D., Ptesldsnt, Williamsport, Pa. ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week." Feltst-z Goods .a. Specialty, SOLE AGENTS FOR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco Sole agents for the following brands bt Cigars Henry Clay, Londres, Normal, Indian Princess, Samson, Silver Ash Bloomsburg Pa. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF CARPET, UlATTirce, or OIL CLOTH, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. H. BMMEM ; 2nd Door abov Court House. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. It is leared that the work of Clara Barton as President of the Red Cross, is almost at an end. This has been known among her friends and rela tives, although they have until now preserved the utmost secrecy relative to the letters they had received from her while she was in Cuba. Letters received from Miss Barton by .her nephew, John H. Stafford, of Oxford, her birthplace and home during all her early life, stated that she had re turned from Cuba so broken down in health as to be absolutely un fitted for any more active work at present. She had been not only en gaged in arduous labor during her stay in Cuba, but had been planning in an elaborate way for educational work among the children of that island, and had cherished ambitious hopes in that direction. She intimates that her disappointment in that di rection is far greater than any physi cal suffering that might come to her. Her sister, Mrs. J. H. Stafford, who has been visiting her in New York since her return, writes that Miss Barton has grown old in appearance to an alarming degree since she last met her, a little over a" year ago. Miss Barton herself acknowledges that her work in Cuba during the hot season has been more trying and diffi cult than any that she has ever before engaged in. If the truth was known she is completely broke down, and will go to her home in Washington under the most careful treatment. Later, unless her physician interferes, she will probably return to her old home to recuperate. We terrive trnm 10.000 to Sft.UOO Irtieri every day : is "y 15S .1 , ' 01 f A Hilil.1"'- 5? 1 nimm!tMit4Bi,N. MililiirmmiaH-" U 5 iuii-' Safe a copy FREE, with all charges prepaia. nn Michigsn Ave. and Madison Street lU, Chicago Wa To Care Constipation ForaTCr. Take Cascareta Candy Cuthurtla 10c orZSo. If C. O. O. (all to cure, druggists refund money. James Brandon Dead James Brandon, aged 84 years, died last Saturday morning, at his home at Bethel Hill, Fairmount Twp. Mr. Brandon was an industrious, hon est, well-to-do farmer, who had lived there sixty odd years. He was a faithful Republican and a member of the M. E. Church. He leaves three sons, H. S., of Pittston, and S. G. and D. C, of Fairmount, and seven daughters, Mrs. Wm. Monroe, of Huntington Mills; Mrs. Wm. C. shell, Mrs. J. W. Sax and Mrs. John E. Smith, of Fairmount; Mrs. Sam uel Rosencrans and Mrs. Harvey Wesley, of Ross. He was a man of sterling qualities and will be missed by many friends, neighbors and rela tives. Shickshinny Echo. Ladies Cn Wear Shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to corns and bun ions. It's the greatest comfort dis covery of the age. Cures swollen feet, blisters and callous spots. Al len's Foot-Ease is a certain cure for ingrowing nails, sweating, hot, aching feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c Trial package free by mail. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N Y' 8-3i.4td Besn the "a The Kind You Have Always Bought L-u.j .............
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