o THCmilTMRIAM
We Take
i Gold and Silver
In payment for
anything we have
In our store.
Would you not
like to turn some
old relic you have
into some thing
that you could use
and enjoy, even if
you did not get
the original cost
for it ?
I1LOGMSBURG, TA.
THE COLUMBIAN,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
J. S. Williams & Son,
BLOOMSBURG PA
Public Sale Criers and
General Auctioneers.
tr KUtPitn vears experience. HatlHtaiitton
tuaranteed. Bent returns of any snle crier In
this section of the mate. Write for terms una
Hates. vor disappoint our patrons. 1-S
General Auctioneer.
When you need a good auctioneer it will
pay you to call on the undersigned. I have
had 13 years experience, I deal fair with my
fellow-bidder, therefore, I am nble to get
you the best returns of any sale crycr in this
section and I charge the least for it. Resi
dence, C. R. Buckalcw farm, Light Street
road. Fo-t ofiice address, liloomsburg, 'a.
Letters' addressed to me will receive prompt
attention. 1 1 -8 if
J. H. Ertwine.
Congress will meet next Monday.
Many varieties of toilet soap from
5c to 25c a cake at Mercer's.
Turkeys sold on our streets yes
terday for ten cents pound. There
appeared to be plenty of them.
Round potatoes, says a rural ex
change, bring five cents more .per
bushel than long ones this Fall.
They can be pared by machinery,
making quite a saving to hotel and
restaurant keepers.
It is said that the 4 cent stamp in
the new series to be issued and sold
during the next year in commem
oration of the Pan-American Exhi
bition at Buffalo, will have as the
central picture, a motor vehicle,
representing the latest form of
transportation.
.
The Messrs Lenahan, attorneys for
Jutz, the twice convicted Luzerne
county wife murderer, 011 Saturday
filed reasons for a new trial. It is
claimed that in charging the jury,
the court presented the theory and
strong features of the prosecution,
and did not charge ou the views of
the defense.
One of the most commodious and
well built barn structures that has
been erected, up along the Fishing-
creek Valley, within the past few
years, is that of O. D. Hagenbuch,
.at Stillwater. It will be remem
bered that the old barp on his
premises was destroyed by fire. All
the debris has been cleared away
and an uninformed person would
not know that any disaster had
occurred.
Interesting Belies-
Jn tearing down an old stable at
Harrwburg, some interesting relics of
the early days of American railroading
were discovered. The stable was built
of some material taken from the road
bed of the Cumberland Valley rail
road. Tiiere were wooden sills with
a strip of iron on the top edge nailed
down to the wood. The iron strips
still show the signs of wear, and one
of them had a vertible "snake head,"
which should have been preserved.
The "snake head" in the old days of
railroading caut-ed lots of trouble. It
was the name given to the end of the
strap which persisted in curling up and
going through the bottom of the cais.
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
'-. SOVl BAMINa EOWPgW CO., NgW VOWK.
Ice in Tbe Pulpit and Who Put it There
lecture by Rev. Dr. 0. F. Flippo.
A rich and rare entertainment in
the Baptist church, Bloomsburg, Ta.,
Monday December 3rd, 1900 at 8
o'clock p. m.
Dr. Flippo is one of our brilliant
men born and reared in the south.
He possesses much of the southern
humor and brightness, together with
sound common sense, and a well
stored mind. The lecture lor next
Monday evening is his best, and I am
anxious that our citizens should see
and hear Dr. Flippo. No money you
invest will pay you better.
J. D. Smith, Pastor.
Below are some of the press com
ments. The Nashville Banner, in comment
ing on Dr. Flippo's visit to that city,
says: "This gentleman has surpassed
all other American lecturers in ming
ling mirth with satire and sentiment,
rendering his lectures both instructive
and entertaining. One can follow the
speaker through his constantly shifting
scenes for two hours, and wish there
were two hours more of such rare
pleasure.
As a popular lecturer Dr. Flippo
has no superior in this country, and
during his visits to this place he has
completely captured the hearts of our
people by his genial disposition, earn
est christian bearing, and thrilling and
instructive lectures. ( ashmgton
The lecture of Rev. Dr. Flippo last
night was a rare treat to all who were
so fortunate as to hear it. The subject
was one that allowed a full scope to
the speaker's varied powers of descrip
tion of both the humorous and path
etic phases of social life. There were
passages of the highest order of ora
tory in this piece of literal y mosaic.
Cumberland (Ma.) Times. .
Admission, 20 cents. Buy a ticket
at once and secure a seat.
Photographs Chean
The undersigned is prepared to fill
orders for photographic views of
houses, street views, etc., in Blooms
burg at low rates. 'Pictures 4x5 at
$1.50 a dozen.
G. Edward Elwell,
Market Street,
tf Bloomsburg.
UNREST AMONG MINERS.
Shamnkln and ' Shenandoah Men
Troubles That May Grow.
Have
Miners in the employ of the Phila
delphia & Reading Coal and Iron
Company, at Shamokin, are up in
arms over what they allege is a non
conformance with the terms of the
great anthracite strike settlement, and
their grievances are to be laid before
officers of the company. Although to
outside appearances they have re
ceived 10 per cent, advance in wages
they have, it is al'eged, not been
advanced at all. Prior to the strike
the miners got $a a day. Now they
get $100 a week with the 10 per
cent, increase. They object to being
forced to work only nine hours a day
instead often as heretofore. In many
particular they .claim the company
dwerirmnates and treats them unfairly.
The following letters are held at
the Bloomsburg, Pa., postofike, .and
will be sent to the dead letter office
Dec. if, 1000. Persons calling for
these letters will please say ''that they
were advertised Nov. a 9, 1900":
Mr. William Greenly, Mrs. Sadie
Wiely.
One cent will be charged on each
letter advertised.
O B. MeiAicit, P. M.
The Pennsj Absorbs the Oentral.
A Philadelphia dispatch says the
Central Railroad of New Jersey has
been absorbed by the Pennsylvania.
Under the constitution of the State of
Pennsylvania touching parallel and
competing lines, the Pennsylvania
cannot absorb the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, as the line runs from
Easton, in this state, to Wilkes-Barre,
Pittston and Scranton, but the prop
erty comes in under the Baltimore &
Ohio management, which is practically
in Pennsylvania control, and by its
acquirement Pennsylvania secures the
best of terminal rights at Jersey City,
Elizabeth and Bound Brook, and in
this is included the entrance of the
Upper Lehigh, Wyoming and. Lacka
wanna coal fields Pennsylvania has
long sought for. The Central has 684
miles ot road, 414 locomotives, 478
passerger cars and 34,450 coal, freight
and miscellaneous cars. .
Lamps, and they are beauties.
Do not fail to see them at Mercer'H
Drug & Book Store.
1
a ton Legal fight Ended. I
Luzerne County's Court House Project Fin
ally Settled.
After ten years of fighting in and
out of the courts the last apparent ob
stacle to the building of the new
courthouse at Wilkesbarre was remov
ed when Mayor Nichols signed the or.
dinance transferring the site for the
new building.
In return the county gives to the
city the present site on the public
square, which will be used for a park.
Work on the new structure will com
mence at once.
Is flietmsd ef fA.a anil
ends. X put onsale this morning 4
solid gold spectacles at $1.85 each.
5 solid gold better quality at $1.50
each.
8 solid gold better quality and heav
ier at $J.as.
3 straight temple solid gold spec
tacles at $.5 50.
I fit these with 1st quality lenses.
No charce for testinc the eve. Thev
should not last long at these prices as j
seme 01 them are regular $5.00 goocis.
These goods are guaranteed as rep
resented. First here, first served.
Geo. W. Hess,
The Optician anJ Jeweler.
China Against The World.
The total arms bearing population
of Europe is less than 35,000,000
men. Add to that 15,000,000 . more
from North America and you still have
less than 50,000,000 capable of bear
ing arms, but for every one of them
China has two. One hundred million
men with which to preserve the an
cient empire! Theie are other re
spects in which China has the world
at a disadvantage. In vitality, endur
ance and intliflerence to discomforts
no people in the world can match the
Chinese, while their ability to subsist
and work on what others would starve
on is notorious. Accustomed to in
sanitary surroundings, they thrive in
camps where others would be decimat
ed by epidemics, while on account of
the cheapness of her labor no other
power can wage war so cheaply as can
China.
Trimmed and untrimmed hats and
bonnets n good styles extremely low
in price at E. Barkley's, 129 West
Main Street. at
A Great Meeting of Stockmen.
That Is What The Pennsylvania Breeders
Will Have at Harristiurg, Dec. 12-13.
The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
Live Stock breeders' Association will he held
at Ilarrisburg, December 12-13, 1900. A
splem id program has been prepared, includ
ing addresses and discussious by such men as
Dr C. I). Smcad, the veterinary editor of
the "National Stockman and Fanner"; Prof.
W. II. Caldwell, Secretary of the American
Guernsey Cattle Club; Frank A. Converse,
Superintendent of Live Stock at the Fun
American Kxpositinn; I'rof. J. Fremont
Hickman, of the Ohio Experiment Station;
and lion. Mortimer Levering, Secretary of
the American Shropshire Association. All
of these men will discuss matters of vital in
terest to breeders their subjects covering a
wide range. Dr. Siuead will speak of dis
eases of sheep and cattle, especially ot lamb
and calf cholera, stomach worms in sheep,
nnd abortion 111 cattle. Messrs. Caldwell and
Converse will talk about breeding dairy cat
tle, I'rof. Hickman of feedii g, and also of
silage; and Dr. 1-eonard Pearson, State Vet
erinarian of I'ennsylvania, wiil discuss the
treatment of milk fever in cattle. There are
only a few of the topics prepared, but they
nre a specimen of what the breeders who
attend may expect to enjoy. Horse, swine
and poult.iv interests will not be neglected.
An effort is b.-aig made to have the secre
taries of the various breeders' associations
present, so that brecdois may meet the "men
from headquarters." Kepresentalives of the
I'enn'a Experiment Station will be on hand
also, to meet the people who are interested
in their work. If you are inteiested ia im
proved live stock, in belter fairs, in a great
Stale Fair fur I'ennsylvania, come to the
meeting. Special railroad rales from Penn
sylvania points, on card orders east of Pitts
burg, and ceititicates west of Pittsburg F'or
luriher particulars apply to t. S. Hayard,
Secretary, East End, Pittsburg, Pa.
Cron-iled Out.
"Have you called on 1'enelope since
she got back'"
"Yes, but I'll have to go again."
"Why?"
"She got started first in telling her
summer experiences and i didn't get
a word In edgewise about what I'd
been doing all summer." Chicago
Itecord.
Wants to Hear F.verj t hlnir.
Mrs. Hoon They say that Mrs.
Swiftsmith is greatly troubled with in
somnia. Mr. Hoon Yes; I understand thai
she discovered the fact a week ngothat
her husband talks in his sleep, and she
hasn't slent a wink since fur fear of
! minding something. Tlt-IJits.
M ilks Illiu I p.
Wife (midnight) Ooo! Wool
Wake up! There's a untn trying to
get In.
Huwbnnd (sleepily) Nonsense! (io
to sleep.
Wife (us a lust resort) Maybe he's
got n bill?
Husband Whoop! Where's my
gun? X. Y. Weekly.
Afii-r Hi Itrjectlori.
He Well, 1 Muppose that I have inude
a fool of myself?
She That rtninrk greutly embar
rasses me.
' He Indeed! How so?
SIus Uucuuse ' It would be equally
Impolite to agree with you or contra
dict you. Town Topics.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
I. W. Hartman & Son.
IT
Is as easy to do business the
right way as it is the wrong
way. Practical sense, experi
ence, and a disposition to be
fair and square, will outwear
any other business method ever
invented.
Man and woman appreciate
goodness. No man or woman
ever bought an unsatisfactory
article at a store and then or
thenafter went back to repeat
the transaction. We try to
guard against all such results.
HARTMAN.
SILK WAISTS. The only
good line of these goods in
Rloomsburg is at our store. We
have a complete assortment, of
black and colors, in corded,
stitched and plaited effects, at
less prices than you can buy the
silk and have them made. It
don't cost anything to see these,
except the trouble of asking
prices. $3.25 to $5.95.
BLANKETS. If you want
the best value in Blankets, to
be found in this country, you
cannot afford to buy without
looking carefully at the large
assortment we have. We have
had --other people compare our
quality and size with other
goods and are not afraid of any
honest comparison, rnces run
from 50c. to $7.50.
I. W. HARTMAN & SON, Bloomsburg, Pa
An OlMrrvIng nlnt.
Rmirltinjf up to his mother one day,
Tommy said:
"Ma. haven't I been n pood boy since
I be,irnn gorg to Sunday school?"
"Yes, my lumb," answered the moth
er, fondly.
"Aud you trust ma now, don't
you, ina?"
"Yes, darling."
"Then what mnkes you keep the
mince pie locked up In the pantry the
Vine at ever?" Collier's Weekly.
Rli Llteratoor."
"My I What a splendid librnry your
husband lina, Mrs. Flashington. It
must have taken him years and years
to pet nil those 'books together."
"Oh, no. We moved into u house
two years npo that had book shelves
built all around one room, nnd he
done It In about three weeks." Chi
cago Times-Herald.
llarcaln Dor Incident.
First Hargnin Hunter Here, that's
mine, nuidam; I saw it first.
Second Hargnin Hunter Don't you
dnre push me In that rude manner
you you ill-bred-Clerk
Ladies, you will find the pu
gilistic parlor on the second floor, front.
Next customer, please! Ohio Ftate
Journal.
Rheumatism.
Nobody know all about it;
and nothing, now known, will
always cure it.
Doctors try Scott's Emul
sion of Cod Live v Oil, when
they think it is caused by im
perfect digestion of food.
You can do the same.
It may or may not be caused
by the failure of stomach and
bowels to Io their work. If
it is, vou will cure it; if not,
vou will do no harm.
The way, to cure a disease
is to stop its cause, and help
the body get back to its habit
of health.
When Scott's Emulsion of
Cod Liver Oil docs that, it
cures; when it don't, it don't
cure. It never docs harm.
The genuine has
this picture on it, take
no other.
If you have not
tried it, send for free
sample, its agreeable
tastu will surprise,
you.
SCOTT & BOWNIC,
Chemists.
409 Pearl St., N. Y,
50c, aud $1.00; all druggists.
! I. W. Hartman & Son.
IS
To be or not to be. No half
way methods, nothing but the
highest order of goods at the
lowest minimum prices. Goods
selected with an eye single
to vour requirements. The
goods that suit and wear
well. The kind of dry
goods and furnishings that when
well bought are sought for
again. That's our method. It's
as much to your welfare as it is
to our success.
HARTMAN.
HOSIERY. We have only
fast colors in everything we
sell. A better assortment of
stockings of all kinds than we
have had for many a day.
Ladies' black stockings, 10 to
15c
Ladies' colored stockings, 15
to 50c.
Men's black socks, 10 to 25c.
Men's colored socks, 5 to 25c.
Children's black stockings, 10
to 39c.
Infant's black stockings, 10 to
25c;
Infant's black stockings, 15
to 25c.
PILLOW COVERS. It is
not too late to get them ready
for Christmas, if you start them
soon, but don't put off much
longer or there will be some one
disappointed. The new colors
and patterns are here in large
variety. 25c. to 50c.
WEEN A PAPOOSE DIES.
Its Spirit l ThotiKbt y the Motlief
to Freunrnt Its I'lorrn
In Life.
The Indian mother, when her bnby
dies, does not believe that swift angels
bear It into the sunshine of the spirit
land; but she has a beautiful dream to
solace her bereavement. The cruel
empty places which everywhere meet
the white mother's eye are unknown
to her, for to her tender fancy a little
spirit-child fills them.
It Is not uncommon, says the author
of Little Folks of Many Lands, to sea
in Mexico, or in Cnnnda n pair of elab
orate tiny moccasins above a little In
dinn grave. A mother's fingers have
made them, a mother's hand has hung
them there, to help a baby's feet over
the long, rough road that stretches be
tween his father's wigwam and the
Great Chief's happy bunting-grounds.
Indinns believe that a baby's spirit
cannot reach the spirit-land until the
child, if living, would have been old
enough and strong enough to walk.
Until that time the little spirit hovers
about its mother. And often it grows
tired oh, so very tired! so the tender
mother carries a papoose's eradle on
her back that the bnby spirit may ride
and rest when it will.
The cradle is filled with the softest
feathers for spirits rest more com
fortably upon feathers, hard things
bruise them and all papoose's old toys
dangle from its hood, for dead papoose
may like to piny even as living papoose
did. 1
Ilia I'uIiiIcmI Rerun rL.
"I frequently hear you say that
money talks," she remarked.
"Yes, it is an olrl saying, and a true
one," he replied, "bi'it unfortunately
while money talks all that talks Is not
money."
"Why do you suy 'unfortunately?'"
she asked.
"Hecanse If it were so," he answered,
"I would be married to a fabulous
fortune." Chicago Host.
I.noklnw for Information.
Mrs A. (before the full-length por
trait of a girl) Oh, if I only knew the
painter of thisl
Artist (stepping forwurd joyfully)
Permit me, madam, to introduce my
self as the puinter.
Mrs. A. What extraordinary good
luck! Now you will tell me won't
you the address of the dressmaker
who made this girl's frock? Tit-Hits.
Vice Veraa.
Jakes It's peculiar how completely
a married man seems to drop his bach
elor friends and acquaintances.
Smirks It isn't that, dear boy.
Jakes What is it, then?
Smirks He always keeps his friends
for the firBt year, but then he usunlly
commences to talk about "baby," and
they drop him. Ally Sloper.
WANTED ACTIVE ma v nr. r.nnn
character, tu duliyur nnd collect in I'eniisyl
vaiua fur old established iiia-mfacturin';
wholesale house. $900 a year, sure pay.
Honesty mure than experience requited.
Our rclerence, any bunk, i. any city. Ku
dosed sell-inldrised stamped envelope.
Mni.iifnctuirrn, '1 liirj l'loor, 334 Dearborn
M, Chicago. 10-25-161.
ADXlINii-fRAiWR'S NOTICE
IBTATK 01' KMZtllKTH V0(.T, I.T OF LOCCST
T .WMltir, l)CSSKU.
Notice Is herebir nlwu that lutttv of HilinlL
1ki rr; 1 1 hi ui. Uie ct:iie in li.l.uti.-tii Vimt.wiUow
in iitiiiiiiiii ji..,i iui or L i'iiH fuuusliip, uoi
uii.Ijiu Cuutitj , i-u , Uim eonptf, U ivc been hi ant
ed 10 w. I), dtiin hi, or Huiiiu'Min, Ha , to whom
nil persons I ml, iii,eu to nam entato are leiitmiit
ultiiiuuko payment, aud llnibe liavlnu claims
or UhuukU mil uiuko knuwn iim same Willi
out ili-luy to WM. 1). OHM AN,
-'rio 811 West them must..
Josh O. Fuuszk. Any., hU uuokln,
Moamsburg, Pit, (wet) l'a.
I. W. HartmanJcSon,
. SO
t Much to be had, so little risk
?ZZ,J V"y latest
i.ic.uiuua, i ics, rcai worth
worth really more, costs rcalb
less. Consolation to us itio
faction to you. We can't L
more than make it to your inter.
est 10 patronize ttm store. V
U.. .... 1 . "
nave uutic so 1 n remains
1 or you 10 aci. 25 per cent to
50 per cent, more people have
learned the'advantagc gained at
mis store uunng mo past veir
v xi 1 1011 .'
HARTMAN
T A nr-rTn it
jvv,rvivio. nave vou seen
our $10.00 Ladies' Jackets 5 A
lady on Saturday last told us
sue naa looked all over town
and found our garments the
uest values to be had. She
bought one of those new shape
and pleased herself and friends
CHILDREN'S JACKETS.
This line of Children's Jackets
is not a lot of old goods at old
prices, but is an entirely new
line, at lower prices than we
have ever given. Compare our
goods and prices with anything
you find. Our prices for new
goods : Woven cloth, start at
ji.oS, run to $10.00.
DOLLS Undressed dolls are
ready for early buvcis. Kid
body dolls, 15c to $2.50.
STANDARD PATTERNS
will help you to be properly fit
tea m an Kinas or clothing.
will ilwiyi
Utt a stuemont
In ordar to provt
it true. w
(tit plsln facts about tha etsy.
styllah, comfortabl Hnmirit Shoi
badilM Fact tStunl. A at Fromun.
ll pays ua io hava a woman (tad
The
Herrick
Shoe
exactly aa It laadvartlaad a parfaet
ahoa, but without tha fancy profit
that a woman axpacta to pay. Thraa
trades and each on a ia guaramaed
Ji.ao J.uo J.su.
Oxforda. SO canta par palrlaathan
abora prlcea.
SftcUl Xetkt.Xamt and Prut
lastijr itamftd oh tf if ft'trjr ike.
SUM) ONLY 11V
W. II. MOOKK.
School
Shoes
Will Soon be Needed.
Our 23 years' ex
perience enables us to
select for you the
right shoe for service.
Full line of
. W. L. DOUGLAS'
Fall and Winter Shoes
for men now in stock.
W. H. MOORE,
Cor. Main and Iron Stu.
BLOOMSBURG
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