1 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. FA. ESTABLISHED ISM. ilxt CatumMa Jfmorrat, KSTABiilHIl KO 1H.17. CONSOLtDATKn 1S. l'UHLI.SHK.) 1VKKY TIUHSDAY MOKNINU lilooianburjr, the County seat, of Columbia I'oiint.jr, Pennsylvania. GEO. R. K I. WELL EDITOR. 1). J. tank Kit, Local Editor jyjUEO. KOAN, FORKMAN. Thm Intlrte thn county il.on n yenrln art f Mico: II. W If not paid In Brtvance outside Ho county, 1." a year, MrtrMy in ailvanof. AU oouiiuuuloullousNhould bo alilretpd to T11K COLUMBIAN. Btooiusburg, Pa. VIIURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1899- It is said that an automobile trust .is forming in New York, with a capital of $200,000,000. The Pennsylvania Railroad di rectors held a special meeting at Philadelphia on Thursday of last week, at which time the usual semi annual dividend of two and one half per cent., payable on and after Nov. 59, was declared. The expenditures fcr the army for the last fiscal year amounted to $71,570,026. This includes the reg ular army, volunteer army, dis bandment of Cuban army, extra pny to volunteers and regulars, in war with Spain. We observe that Judge Olmstead, of Potter county has directed that all men convicted of selling liquor illegally, shall be compelled to work out the fine of $500.00 at cracking stone on the road at $1.00 per day. This punishment will no doubt keep the liquor sellers within the limit of the law. It is predicts . that President Mc Kinley, will in his annual message, in regard to the Cuban question, take the position foreshadowed in an interview bv General Fitzhugh Lee, favoring the continuance of protection, and defeiring the setting up of an independent government on the island. And now the Methodist ministers of Chicago are charging President McKinley with having used various liquors at the banquet recently giv en in his honor at the fall festival in that city. The President is a Methodist and the clergymen of the windy city declare that he has violated the vows of the church, and that he should be disciplined for so doing. Gen. Joe Wheeler says hi is de lighted with the Philippine Islands. He has little doubt that a little push and energy will crush the Aguiual- do insurgents this fall. Out of 9,000,000 people he does not think Aguinaldo has more than 20,000 soldiers, and in a square fight 5,000 Americans would tear them to pieces. A good many people are wondering why they don t do it, and end the war. By the decision of Referee George Siler, at the end of the twenty-five round bout at Coney Island Fri day night, between James T. Jeffries, the vanquisher of "Bob" Fitzsim mous, and the sailor pugilist Tom Sharkey, Jeffries retains the heavy weight championship of the world It was the fiercest affair of the kind that has ever taken place and was witnessed by a tremendous crowd. In the first two and last three rounds Jeffries had the better of the argument, during the other twenty rounds Sharkey forced the fighting and landed on his opponent hard and often. The election returns from the rural districts of this county were very slow in coming in Tuesday night. Both parties' headquarters were connected by telephone but for some reason or other it was al most impossible to gain any inform ation concerning the vote until Wednesday morning, consequently many of the party leaders spent a restless night. Wednesday morn ing, however, the returns began to come in, which, by the way, was very satisfactory to Democrats. Had some of the other counties stood by Creasy so nobly as did old Columbia, Baruett's name would not now be heralded as the coming custodian of Pennsylvania's Treas ury. To succeed the late Daniel Er mentrout in Congress the Democrats have nominated Captain Henry D. Green. The Philadelphia limes finds matter for congratulation in this nomination and says of the nominee: "He has served with distinction in both' branches of our Legislature, and was amoug the ablest and most influential of the Democratic Senators during his long term in that body. lie is one of the youngest of the men in the Democratic party in the State who have gained distinction by emi nently deserving it, and we regard his nomination at this time as a hopeful promise of better condi tions and better mastery in the De mocracy of Pennsylvania." Captain Green was elected on Tuesday by a large majority. STATE NEWS ITEMS. Frank March, aged 20, while attempting to board a freight train at Plymouth, was thrown under the wheels and killed. While James Teifer, of Hern don, was hunting in the woods near his home Monday morning, his gun was accidentally discharged, blow ing his left arm off. He is in a crit ical condition. Hazleton has at last landed the plush factory that it has been work ing for, the necessary papers bind ing the company and the board of trade being signed. Male labor will be employed. While hunting on the moun tains, near his home, Kdwin Kuhn, of Stevens' Point, Susquehanna county, was so badly injured by the premature discharge of his gun that death resulted in a few hours. He was unmarried and aged 22 years. Frederick Miller, aged 23, drank two ounces of carlolic acid Monday and will die. After care fully dressing himself, Miller walked to the residence of an acquaintance. There he is alleged to have taken a bottle from his pocket and swal lowed its contents before any one could interfere. Beside a stranger who was found by a brakeman lying asleep between the tracks in the Pennsyl vania Railroad yards at William sport Sunday night, was found a satchel full of money, mostly in bills. When aroused the fellow ap peared ill at ease, seized the satchel and hurried awav to the station, just in time to board a train for the north. ' Mrs. Eliza Carey, aged 82 years, was possibly fatally injured at her home at West Chester Mon day night by falling down a flight of steps into her back yard. At the hospital it was found that she had sustained a fracture of the skull. Mrs. Carey's son, John L. Carey, was killed last week by a trolley, and her husband's dead body was found in the Delaware, at Philadelphia, a couple of years ago, with every indication of his having been murdered. Philip Stuft, a well known farmer of Luzerne county, died Monday morning from the effects of a dose of Paris green, taken with suicidal intent. Stuft on Sat urday night entered a room where his wife was waiting, and holding up a glass, containing a peculiar looking liquid, said : " Here goes," and drank it. Mrs. Stuft tried to knock the glass from his hand, but failed, until her husband had drained nearly all of its contents. When a physician arrived he found at least a teaspoonful of poison in the glass. An avalanche of culm, at the Lawrence colliery, Ashland, on Saturday, entombed four miners. A gang of men worked faithfully until Monday, when the bodies were recovered and removed to the grief-stricken homes of their rela tives. Three of the victims, Geo. and Jos. Botshes, and Michael Bo misky, were found lying together, and appearances indicated that they had clung together until the culm had done its deadly work. There were very few bruises on them and it was evident that they had been smothered to death. Three hours later the body of Anthony Drabig was found beneath heavy rocks. His death must have been instant, as 1iis head and body were badly crushed. It doesn't appear to be generally known, says the Hazleton Plain Speaker, that when a man draws a check to his own order he needn't put a two cent stamp 011 it. If you, for instance, want to get out some money on your own account, all you need to do is to change your check so that it reads like a receipt. Write " received of" in front of the bank's name, cross out the words pay to the order of," and then fill in the spaces with the amount of money required and sign as usual, and you have there a check that is legal without a stamp. The gov ernment decided that this could be done last August, but it gave no great publicity to its decision, and probably not one private person or business house in ten has heard of the matter. Edward Cressinger, who is con fined in the Northumberland County jail, for the murder of 16 year old Daisy Smith and whose execution had been fixed for the 15th of this month, has been granted a respite to December 5th. The Board of Pardons is the only thing that can save him from the gallows. Cres singer, when asked whether he would like to have a spiritual adviser replied: "Not until the Board of Pardons has disposed of my case." Noxious animals killed in -Pennsylvania are paid for as follows: Wild cats, $2.00; fox, red or gray, $1.00; minks, 50 cents. "The testis the Cheapest ft Experience teaches that good clothes 'wear longest, good food gives best nutrition, and a good medicine that cures disease is naturally the best and cheapest. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best medi cine money can buy, because it cures when all others fail. Poor Health "Had poor health for years, pains in shoulders, back and hips, 'with const nt headache, nervousness And no Appetite. Used Hood's Sarsaparilla. gained strength And can tvork hard all day; tat heartily and sleep quell. I took it because it helped my husband to whom it gave strength." Mrs. E. J. Giffets, Moose Lake, Minn. JlQcdA SaUafiatitL Jlood't flll.ur llvar lilt; tli noti Irrttatlnir and only c.th.rtie to tk. with llood t SnurTilC Notes from tha Pannsyluania Experiment Station. TOBACCO EXPERIMENTS. A report upon a portion of the results of the tobacco experiments, conducted under the joint auspices of the Pennsylvania State College Experiment Station, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, and the Tobacco Growers' Societies of Lancaster and Bradford counties, prepared by Dr. William Frear, un der whose care the scientific super vision of the work was placed, has just been sent to press. The re port deals with the field results of fertilizer experiments made at Don egal and Rocky Spring, in Lan caster county, and Wysox, in Brad ford county, the soils of these re spective localities being typical of the Lancaster county limestone to bacco soils and the alluvial soils of the river valley of the north branch of the Susquehanna river. The investigations at the several points were continued from three to five years. The results indicate clearly that artificial fertilizers into which humus-producing materials, such as cotton seed meal, linseed meal, horn meal, etc., enter largely, are superior to stable manure in their effect upon both the quantity ana tne quality of the tobacco leaf: the results, too, were more uniform than with stable manure, whicli. even with the best of care, is quite variable in its quality. Experi ments lurther indicate that phos phoric acid in a highly soluble form should be always supplied ; that present in the form of cotton-seed meal or other vegetable matter, or in the form of basic slag phosphate, proving too slowly available for the use of this rapidly growing crop. Potash, supplied in the form of double carbonate of potash and magnesia, a potash salt prepared by the German Potash Syndicate, and which is procurable from their agents in this country, gave con 1 1 . siaeraDiy superior results over those obtained with the sulfate of potash, the latter being the form in which potash is usually supplied in the commercial tobacco fertilizers now on sale in America. A new series of experiments has been start ed to determine whether potash car bonate, as supplied by wood ashes or cotton-seed hull ashes, cannot as effectively and more economically replace the double carbonate. It was found better to supply part of the nitrogen in a more soluble form than that in which it occurs in the cottonseed meal; for this purpose, sulfate of ammonia was de cidedly superior to nitrate of soda, Tobacco growers are cautioued that the application of these arti ficial mixtures in small quantities to a crop for whose chief fertilizing stable manure is used, will not re suit in the favorable product that follows the use of these mixtures alone. It was found that especially 111 dry seasons, when stable manure is supposed to be chiefly effective, these artificial mixtures establish Common Sense vs. Absurd Assertions. The people want light, not darkness, Bargains, Not Buncombe. TOW Good Goods at TOWNSEND'S. Bargains in Hen's Suits, Cheviots, Cassimeres, Diagonals. Hats, Shirts, Underwear, Always Correct, AT TOW Mll'S STAR CI, their superiority. The Annual Reports and Quart erly Bulletins of the station will be sent free of charge, on application, as long as the supply last, and inquiries on agriculural subjects an swered as far as possible. Address, H. P. Armsby, Director, State College, Centre Co., Pa. Nov. 1, 1899. The Maltreated Store Oletks. "The reputation which some large stores get for being disoblig ing to their customers, or having uncivil clerks, could, in the ma jority of cases, be traced directly back to the shoppers themselves, writes Ldward Bok, of " System less Shopping," in the November Ladies Home Journal. " I make no claim of perfection for the clerks who stand behind the counters of our great stores when women shop. They are only common mortals, full of faults. But considering what they are called upon to go through and endure at the hands of thoughtless women, the constant wonder is that they are so civil and obliging. If the truth could be known it would be found that they suffer far more than thev inflict suf fering. If the roll could be called of hard-working, innocent girls, who have lost their positions be cause of ill-founded complaints made by ' influential ' customers, whose accounts the firm could not afford to lose, it would be a roll of disgrace to American shoppers. The girls behind the counter are human although from the actions of some women we might believe otherwise human in their faults, but also in their finer feelings. Very often they represent better families, better breeding, than that which is revealed to them from the other side of the counter." As we have already stated, we want the news. If you have visit ors, let us know who they are and where they came from; if anything happens in your vicinity let us know about it; if there is a party at your house, tell us about it; if you get married, let us know; if you know anything, let us know about it. You will always find us ready to "notice" one as another, patrons or otherwise, friends or foes. Our object is to give the news. WANTED SEVERAL BRIGHT AND HONEST persons to represent u as mana gers in this and close by counties. Salary $900 a year and expenses. Straight, bona fide, no more, no lets salary. Position per manent. Our references, any bank, in any '.own. It is mainly oltice work conducted at home. Reference. Enclose self-addressed tamped envelope. The Dominion Com I'ANY, Dept. 3, Chicago. 9-sS-l6t Queen Quality For Women $3.00. Style, Fit, Wear. None Better. W. C. McKINNEY, No. 8 East Main St. MSEftD'S Low Prices. Fair TOWNSEND'S. Bargains in Overcoats, Kerseys, Beavers, Chinchillas. F. P. PURSEL. As in a Looking Glass. Faithfully do our ads mirror our merchandise. As the goods are, so are they reflected here. Careful are we not to over-emphasize the merits of a single article. Equally cateful to impress you with the fact that intrinsic, value and absolutely right prices should go together. An absolutely right price must of necessity be a low one. Long-sleeved profits make high prices, hence, high prices are not right. You find the old " live and let live " principle in full force here at all times. No fairer principle was ever cemented into the foundation of any business. Now We Hold Up the flirror. November Garments Selling All things in the world works toward a climax. The climax of cloak selling is reached in November This garment stock of ours is filled with perfections. You can ill afford to pass it bv. The $12 00 coat is a seller. If you see it you will want it. It is made of all wool Kersey. The trimming is stitching, fly front, and lined with a heavy satin. If you want a cheap coat we can sell you a last-year's style at $2 49. Warm Winter Underwear. November holds the record for underwear selling. We are stocked with good, dependable underwear, as to make this No vember selling memorable. Women's underwear wc start at 25c. It is ribbed, nicely fleeced, and trimmed with pearl buttons. If you want a better quality, we have them, at 50c. The all wool $1 00 combination suits, from 49c to $2 40. Hen's Underwear. If you want to pay 50c for your underwear we think we are safe in saying that our line is not equaled. We show (5) different grades. Lonesome Lots Bargain in every best sense F. P. TOIMJA1L YALUES! In black serges, whip cords, brilli antines, &c, just received. Have you seen the stylish Ladies' and Gent's Fine Shoes at $2.50, worth $3.00 ? We have to offer you great bargains in Ladies' and Misses' Coats, Tailor-Made Suits, Collarettes, Golf Capes, Plush Capes, &c. We have many new bargains to offer you since our visit to the city last week. It will always pay you to give us a call. Fresh Groceries received almost daily. Corner Main and Centre. Dealing to All. TOWNSEND'S. Boys' Suits, Worsteds, Diagonals and Serges. of the word. Each lot empha sized by itself to give it proper prominence. If in need of any of the- following, take good ad vice, buy. A lot of dress goods at 36c A lot of dress goods at 49c. A lot of misses' hose at 10c. The Kid Glove Collection. We're proud of it. Got abso lute faith in the quality of the makes, in the durability of the skins. As to price, be you the judge. First lot, in all colors, at 75c. Second lot, in all colors. $1 00 P. Centimeri, in all colors, at $1 25. Some Bedding Specials. Means just what we say special ! Special in every way. Two items of blankets, one bedspread item, and one item of sheets. When these are gone there'll be no more at these prices. Worth reading about : All cotton blankets, colored and white, 49c. White blankets, 10-4, 75 per cent, wool, $3 00. Large size bedspread, hemmed, 98c. Good quality 9-4 sheets, hemmed, 50c. Purse! Ml nousE Bloonisburg Store Co., Limited. ALFRED McHENRY, Manager
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