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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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I pnsunipiion?
We are sure you do .
Nobody wants it. But it comes
to many thousands every year.
Itcomes to those who have had
coughs and colds until the
throat Is raw, and the lining
membranes of the lungs are
inflamed. Stop your cough
when it first appears, and you
remove the great danger of
future trouble.
stops coughs of all kinds. It
does so because it is a sooth
Ingand healingremedyof Rreat
power. This makes it the great
est preventive to consumption.
Put one of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
Plasters over your lungs
A wknle Medio!
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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG. PA.
J. S. Williams & Son,
I5I.OOMPBURG PA
Public Sale Criers and
General Auctioneers.
WW Fifteen years experience. Satisfaction
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this section of the state. Write for terms and
dates. ver disappoint our patrons. 1-5
SALES.
Thursday, Feb. 8, 1900.
Charles Heller, executor of the es
tate of Peter Heller, deceased, and
the committee of Eliza Heller, luna
tic, will expose to public sale, on the
premises in Pine township, a lot of
personal property, consisting of
farm implements, live stock, house
hold goods etc. Sale to commence
at 10 a. in.
Feb. 13, 1900. A. P. Girtou
will sell valuable personal property,
on the premises, near the Centre
school house, in Greenwood Twp.
1 bay mare, colt, two good cows,
heifer, bull, lot of shoats, big
wagon, road wagon, harvester,
mower, hay rake, cultivator, heavy
and light harness and numerable
other articles. Sale to commence
at 10 o'clock a. m.
Feb. 21, 1900. E. O. Heller
and Mrs. Oliver Heller, Admrs.,
will sell, at public sale, a property
in Hemlock township. Sale to
commence at 10 o'clock a. in.
The Danville News announces
the engagement of Miss Kate Bar
ret, of Danville, to Mr. John Hen
nessy, of this town. The wedding
is to take place next week.
The district convention of the P.
O. S. of A. comprising 25 camps in
this and Montour counties, will be
I Iyer's 1
held in Danville February 20
t About 125 delegates will attend.
Frank Remaly of Berwick, has
been granted a pension of $6.00 per
month, Mary Housman, Roaring
creek, $8.00 per month and Samuel
. J. Eckman, Millville, an increase
from $6.00 to $8.00 per month.
Rev. A. M. Barnitz, a former
pastor of the Shickshmny M. Iy
Church, and for over fifty years in
the ministry, will soon retire, giv
ing up the pastorate of the West
street Methodist Church at York.
The sudden disappearance of
Alexander Buchanan from his home
at . Centralia on Saturday, h?s
aroused the suspicion of his friends
that he has been appropriating to
" his own use, money, which he was
known to have collected in good
sized amounts, for a firm at Potts
ville. II.. II ! I III I III
Save up your money, boys, for
' we are going to show you the nic
est and bebt line of bicycles this
spring that you ever looked at. It
will only be 'about sixty days until
you will want one, and then you
must 'not fail to call at Mercer's
Drug and Book Store and see the
different makes.
Diaries for 1900 at Mercer's
Drug 'and Book Store.
The Kagle Hotel, a well-known
hostelry, of Shamokin, is now a
heap of ruins, as the result of a fire
earlv Sunday morning. Eighteen
guests were rescued in a thrilling!
manner from second-story windows.
An automobile, the chief feature
of which will be more speed and
less weight than the ones in use at 1
present, is to be placed on the mar-1
ket in the spring by C. S. Schmick, j
01 tatawissa. 1 ne propelling power
is to be steam.
One of our exchanges tells about
1 woman who fell into a mill dam,
and when she was rescued a ten
pound catfish was found entangled
in her wire bustle. Her husband
wanted to s;t her again, but she
would not consent.
Isn't it queer, how many peonle
perfectly familiar with the great j
number of fatalities that are con
tinually resulting from it, will per
sist in trespassing on the railroad
tracks, often taking the track in
preference to a well beaten path.
A representative of a large Phil
ipsburg Iron Company was in town
on Monday looking for laborers.
He was particularly desirous of
securing moulders, for which he
offered $2.50 per day. Work ia
the 'shops of that place appears to
be very plentiful.
Fortune has smiled upon Terry
Coates, who for the past eight years
has been an inmate ot tlie bcranton
poor house. By the death of a sis-
tpr nt Trnv. Npi Vnrl. ho i nmv
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the possessor of an estate worth
from $10,000 to $15,000. lie was
a resident of Danville about a score
of years ago.
The committee appointed by the 1
Episcopal Diocesan Convention of
Central Pennsylvania, to report
lines for the division of the diocese, j
held a meeting at Williamsport on ;
Tuesday and decided to report six !
lines of division to the Diocesan
Convention to be held at Scranton,
May 15th.
Hon. F. W. Gunster, senior ad
dition law judge of Lackawanna
County died at his residence in
Scranton Tuesday afternoon. He
was born in Prussia and came to
America when only a child. He
was the first district attorney ot
Lackawanna County. He is sur
vived by a wife and six children.
Monday. Tanuarv 22nd was the
one-hundredth anniversary of the
creation of Adams County, and in
recognition of the event, the Gettys-
ourg compiler grew to twice its
usual size. The extra naes. or
supplement, contained an extended
account 01 tne early settlers ot the
County together with much other
interesting reading matter.
The work of laying the track on
the electric railway running be
tween Centralia and Ashland, is
now going ou, and as soon as com
pleted, the road will be balanced up.
It is now fully expected that the
line will rJe in operation by the first
of April. The power for the line
will be supplied from the station of
the Shamokin Mt. Carmel Rail
way Company at Greenridge.
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"What is home without a news
paper," asks an exchange. We are
compelled to give the same answer
as the Sullivan County Review,
Don't know. We never saw one
to our certain knowledge. They
are we believe pretty scarce in Col
umbia Comity. If anyone will send
us the "address of a. family in this
county, who do not receive one
newspaper we will attempt to do a
little missionary work.
Farm Journal is the oldest farm
monthly published. But it is not
old and moss grown ; it is bristling
and brimming over with good
things. You should know it. Here's
a chance. Pay up your subscnp
Hon to the Columbian one year
ahead, and we will send it nearly
five years, the remainder of 1900.
and all of 1901, 1902, 1903, and
1904 : both papers at the price of
one.
Eound, Gagged and Bobbed.
The home of Thomas and Mrs.
Lvle, above Danville was entered by
two masked men, Monday evening
just as supper was being partaken of.
The aged people were bounj and
gagged, and the house searched. The
marauders, after finding $22 in an
upstairs drawer, returned to the dining
room and threatened to kill their
victims if they refused to make known
the hiding place of their money. Mrs.
Lyle was pleading for mercy when a
neignbor entered the room. She was
seized, bound ana gaggeo, alter which
the burglars left the house.
For Rent
Proctor Inn, well furnished, from
Feb. 1 st 1900. Rent cheap. Apply
to G. E. Elwell or A. L. f ntz, Blooms
burg, Pa. tf
STiTE NEWS ITEMS.
Alexander Buchanan, of Cen
tralia, a collector for a Pottsvillc
firm, disappeared last Friday and
his friends fear he has met with
foul play.
The manufacturing town of
Burnham, near Lewistown, is very
much puzzled over the mysterious
disappearance of Mabel Aurand, an
18-year-old. school girl of that place.
The Soldiers' and Saiiors' Mon
ument erected in Easton's Public
Square by the county at a cost of
$14,500 was completed Tuesday,
and will be dedicated May 10th.
The palatial residence of
Charles R. Harris, inventor of the
wire buckle suspender, was des
troyed by fire at Williamsport
Thurday night. Loss, $50,000.
Two strange little children ap
peared in East Waverly a few days
ago. They are about three and
five years old, respectively, and are
unable to state anything about their
parents or home.
Greevey & Snyder, of Wil
liamsport have secured the contract
to plaster the new addition to the
State Hospital, at Danville. It will
require 20,000 yards or plastering
and 50,000 square feet of cement
flooring to complete the work,
which will take about three months
ti.ne to do it in,
While Kazimir Dudnew was
showing a gun to a number of friends
in Duryea on Monday the weapon
went off and Mrs. Dudnew was kill
ed by the contents. The husband
was arrested, but was released
under $500 bail. The man is heart
broken over the awful affair and
refuses to be consoled.
Our Jerseytown Hews budget-
The Democrats of Madison Tap.
held their caucus on Saturday last.
It was the largest turnout far years;
over one hundred persons were in
attendance. The fight was for su
pervisor. The following named
persons were nominated : For audi
tor, Wm. Maus ; tax collector, D.
N. Williams ; supervisors, P. D.
Workheiser, C. O. Maust ; school
directors, J. A. Essick, Samuel
Mordan ; poor overseers, W. B.
Mericle, Thomas Mordan ; judge
of election, Lewis Kreamer ; in
spector, I. N. Mausteller.
The citizens of Jerseytown have
organized a band, and have their
instruments. They are making
good music for so .short a time.
They expect to go to New York in
the near future.
Mr. Robert Lee was seen wend
ing his way toward the flats on
Sunday evening. Robert knows
where he is welcomed.
Harrison Cottier, who had his
leg amputated some time ago, is
getting along nicely.
Mr. E. J. Bowman visited the
Jerseytown school one day last
week and made a speech for the
children, which they all enjoyed
very much.
Evan Kreamer and family are
visiting Wilkes-Barre friends this
week.
John Pegg has opened up a livery
stable at this place. He has fine
turnouts. Give him a trial.
What Jerseytown needs most at
present is a shoemaker and a sad
ler, as we have been without either
for several years. Only first-class
mechanics need apply.
The boardwalk at this place is
getting in a very dilapidated con
dition. The committee intends
calling a meeting in the near future
to try and raise funds to remodel it.
Lewis Kreamer made a flying
trip to Ritterville on Sunday last.
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Enow it.'
How To Find Out.
Fill a bottle or common glass with your
water and let It stand twenty-four hours; a
sediment or set
tling Indicates an
unhealthy condi
tion of the kid
neys; if It stains
your linen It is
evidence of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass it or pain In
the back is also
convincing proof that the kidneys and blad
der are out of order.
What to Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every
wish In curing rheumatism, pain in the
back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part
of the urinary passage. It corrects Inability
to hold water and scalding pain in passing
It, or bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
during the day, and to get up many times
during the night. The mild and the extra
ordinary effect of Swamp-Root Is soon
realized. It stands the highest for its won
derful cures of the most distressing cases.
If you need a medicine you should have the
best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes.
You may nave a sample bottle of this
wonderful discovery
and a book that tells 1
more about It, both sent
absolutely free by mail,
address Dr. Kilmer b
Horn, of Swamp-Hot.
Co., Blnghamton, N. Y. When writing men
tion reading this generous offer In this paper.
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SALE.
This sale of these goods, at this price,
lOJc, means a saying to every man and ev
ery woman who buys these goods while they
are selling at this price 19ic.
More Business !
That's What We
Want.
1 9lc. Sale.
Figures Don't Lie.
25c jet dress trimmings for lqc
25c silk gimp trimmings for itjjc
25c photo frames for Igjc
25c shirt waist 8'its for lac
25c hair brushes for 19k
25c cloths brushes for lqc
25c tooth brushes for '. Igjc
25c pompadour combs for igjc
25c b Its for Itjjc
25c neckties for 1 9 Ac
(KOK HOYS, MEN AND WOMEN. )
25c suspenders for 19)0
25c ladies' embroidered handkfs for iqJc
25c purses for Igjc t
25c fascinators for iqjc
25c children's leggings for loe
$3.75 82jc saved. $2 92$
If you need 40c worth you'll save 14JC
The Editor's Calling and Work.
Col. Pat. Donan, the famous orator
of the Great West and past master of
journalism, thus portrays the life of
the country editor:
"Work, work, work! The editor in
his dingy, ink-grimed den, finds his
work, like a woman's never done. He
has to write politics, elections, relig
ion, history, statistics, business, fin
ance, railroads, steamboats, improve
ments and disimprovements. He has
to write distinguished arrivals, stray
mules, notices, crops, weather, mar
kets, crimes and rascalities, wherein
is embraced much of the politics of the
day. He has to write personal notices
often of numbskulls and nobodies
births, deaths, marriages and other
calamities, removals, sales, trades,
exchanges and failures, preeminently
conspicuous among which come most I
of the statesmen and statesmanship of '
these latter days. He has to write I
puffs , of new exchanges and new ad-1
vertisers, puffs of muddle-headed
speakers, and nimble-footed dancers, I
puffs of reopened theatres, barrooms i
and churches, puffs of sermons, bal-1
lads, bishops, and puffs of people that 1
puff him. He has to write descriptions
of balls, picnics, concerts, revivals and
smashups, extravaganzas or barbecues,
rallies, reunions and mass meetings j
dissertations on fashions, essays on
morality, and criticisms on the follies
of the day, and subscribers who do
not pay. j
"Daily and hourly he must run the
whole gamut of emotions, and tear the 1
last feeling and sentiment to tatters.
He must be glad to hear this, and
pained to hear that; delighted to meet
such a one , and distressed to know
of accident to another 5 overjoyed at
this arrival, and sad to mention that
departure; pleased to state one thing,
and grieved to announce another 1
shocked at this, and enraptured at
that; sympathizing here, congratula
ting there! mourning to day, rejoicing
to-morrowj and now jingling a merry
wedding strain.
"He must be ever ready to enter
tain his elderly lemaie constituents
with information in regard to the prices
of butter and eggs, cure for measles,
crotrp and chicken cholera, the con
dition of the heathen, and the pros,
pects of charity of church festivals.
'And, worse than all, at the bidding
of any and every mob of inebriated
partisans and jobbing hucksters known
as a convention, he must unceasingly
blow and puff political toad-frogs and
lesser vermin into majestic lions of
statecraft, and transform stupid and
thievish nonentities into colossal
giants of wisdom, learning, eloquence
,
I. W. Hartman & Son, Bloomsburg, Pa.
I I. W. Hartman & Son.
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28I PER CENT. SAVED.
It would
one who would
ertlieicss', it wouiu oe so.
FEBRUARY 1st TO 7th-, INCLUSIVE.
Hore Business !
That's What We'll
Get.
19C. Sale.
Figures Don't Lie.
5 25c, 39c, 50c 5
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Bloomsburg, Pa.
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50 and 39c Tarn O'Shanters for Ig$c
39 and 25c baby caps foi loc
29c children's gingham dresses for 19IC
If a bank gave security and paid interest
at the rate of this saving, a farmer would try
to sell everything he owns and bank the
cash. Town people, likewise.
and virtue.
;'Alas, alas! if there glow no holy,
patriotic fire upon his altar ot daily
sacrifice, if he be not illumined and
consecrated with pure and heroic
ambition to advance the weltare of
his country and his neonle. if over all
his. work exalted love of liberty and j
right and ardent desire to serve his j
age cast not tneir sacrea nalo, h's
labor is but illpaid slavery, and his
life a weary failure ."
Increasing Medical Efficiency.
The requirement of the State Medi
cal council with respect to a full four
years' medical course as a prerequisite
to a license to practice is in the line
of increased medical efficiency. No
one will question that the public de
serves this protection at the hands of
the medical council, and that the
state where medical efficiency is most
safely guarded represents a higher
level of social organization than those
states where the bars are down. At
the same time, it must strike the
average observer that the present 1
situation in Pennsylvania is to a slight '
extent ludicrously paradoxical, when
the law, as enforced, allows quackery
to flourish while the conditions ad
mitting to regular practice grow strict- i
er as the standards are raised.
The anomaly and paradox, it is '
true, ate not confined to Pennsylvania. ,
Other states equally enlightened have
exhibited the farclal proceeding w'.iere-1
by restraints are put about the men of
science, while osteopathy and other
preposterous systems that have no
standing in the world of science, and
above all, Christian Science, which is
merely galvanized ignorance, flourish,
ana without let or hindrance. Newton
cut a large hole in his study door for
his favorite cat, and a smaller hole to
accommodate the kittens. Under ex
isting laws today in Pennsylvania, :he
medical council narrows the entrance
to the professional practitioner, while
other doors swing widely to the cranks
of all degrees and no degrees, with
whom constructive murder rather thaa
healing is organized into fine art,' ob
scured by texts; and bolstered up by
bad psychology and worse physiology.
Coroners will not act, district attor
neys talk of "persecution" and medi
cal oranizations draw in their horns.
The condition is as serious as it is
anomalous. The medical council
doubtless has its hands full at present,
but its duty in the premises is clear.
The people of Pennsylvania not only
aeserve protection from the incompe
tent student of recognized systems,
but from the glaring fraud that haunts
an absence of system, a denial oi
I. W. Hartman & Son.
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not be polite to say that any
contradict these facts, even will
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fully or unintentionally, misrepresenting. Nev-
More Business!
That's Why You
See These
Prices.
1 9lc. Sale.
Figures Don't Lie.
25c cashmere glover for ijc
25c sterling silver novelties for K)c
25c bottle cologne for icjc
25c men's half hose for
25c red table damask for lyjc
25c unbleached table linen for Ijc
2;c fancy-tidies for Jojc
25c dress goods (500 yards) for 1 fjjc
25c hose supporters for i9c
25c ladies' ribbed vests for igc
25c ladies' ribbed drawers for . lijjo
25c ribbons, satin and tafftta for...,
25c children's wool hose for lyijc
25c fancy percaline for lyjc
25c mittens for )c
t'j TS 82$c avl 2-92!i
If you buy a dollar's worth of these goods
you'll save 2Sc.
knowledge, as the banner of its cause.
The gravity of the problem is appre
hended in other states. New York ex
pects to be able to meet the issue witii
needed legislation this winter. Un
fortunately, there can be no legisla
tion secured here until 1901, but the
present laws might be given a fair
test, and careful preparations made to
secure proper legislation when the
time comes, if the present statutes
are found inadequate to meet the
situation. To continue to ignore a
state of affairs so full of menace to
public as well as individual health,
while drawing tighter the tests for
those admittedly equipped, is not the
part of wisdom. Press.
MUSICAL 00LLEUE-
The Musical College, Freeburg,
Snyder county, Pa., is recognized as
one of the foremost schools of music.
$33 W'N pay for six weeks, instructions
and board. Spring term will begia
May 7. For catalogue address.
3 Henry B. Moyer, Director.
The following letters are held at
the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoffice, anJ
will be sent to the dead letter office
Feb. 13, 1900. Persons calling for
these letters will please say " that thef
were advertised January 30, 1900 . f.
Benson Barber, F. C. Lidke, Mr.
Daniel Pursel. Cards. Kimber
Strauser.
One cent will be charged on each
letter advertised,
O. B. Mellick, P. M.
Botel Por Eent.
The Park Hotel, at Towanda, Fa.,
is for rent. Possession given April
1 st, 1900. Located in the heart of
the town, opposite Court Hqusc Fot
terms, apply to Geo. IS. Elwell,
Bloomsburg, Pa., or E. V. Elwell,
Towanda, Pa. tf.
S. K. Bidleman is prepared to show
new patterns of wall paper for 1900,
at the lowest prices. He has the
agency for the only wall paper factory
that is not included in the Trust.
a-i-tf
The bread which received the fin'
and second premiums at the ColumbU
county fair in 1898 and 1899 wai
baked from tae Leader flour man
tactured by Ikeler & Fleckenstine.
11-30 smos
Ladies' and geut's pocket booto
good styles and good quality
Mercer's Drug and Book Store
HOOD'S PILLS cure Liver III.
lousneas, Indigestion, Headacn
Kaay to tako, oasy to operate. 2