UBOR SIRE III III Government Acts When Com fort of Public is Embarassed. A SOCIALISTIC FORMULA It Necessary Troops Do the Work of the Strikers Labor Leaders if Caught Urging Strike Can Be Arrested on the Charge of. Conspiracy. . Whllo the Commonwealth of Aus tralia has met with Indifferent mic css In attempting to make strikes Im possible, through enforced arbitration, it Is worth while tc observe a politico economic paradox in Italy the appli cation of a Socialistic formula by a constitutional monarchy with the same end In view. The Socialistic principle that public rights should never be Infringed or menaced or trespassed upon by Indi vidual claims or by the claims of an aggregation of Individuals has repeat edly been used by successive Govern ments In the peninsula to render aaught what might otherwise have been achieved by strikes. Whether It be desirable or not for a Government to Intervene and prevent a strike which might cause Inconvenience or suffering to large disinterested bodies of citizens, and possibly bloodshed, Is beyond the question. As a matter of fact, the Italian Government Inter venes and hag prepared Itself by legislation so to Intervene whenever tte opportunity offers. The method of procedure Is very simple. Last Summer, when the labor lead ers who Inaugurated the shipping strike at Marseilles attempted to bring about a sympathetic strike In Genoa, they were Informed by the leaders In the latter city that such action would cause their arrest on the charge of conspiracy. The principle applied here was that, although the Government recognizes the right of the Individual to dispose of his labor as he may see fit, a united body of Individuals attempting to dispose of their labor In such a manner as to be come a public menace constitutes a conspiracy. In other Industries and even In pro fessions the Government Is enabled to act more directly. In the Northern railways, operated by the State, the employes are all members of the army. Their grievances, when they have them, may be presented through proper official channels. A small num ber of railway employes attempting to enforce their demands by strik ing would be regarded as deserters from the army and dealt with accord ingly. A large number of strikers would he held accountable as "muti neers." If martial law were to be pro claimed throughout the district where these "desertions" and "mutinies" were taking place, the leaders of them would be liable to be punished for the crime of high treason. In the Southern railways, which, al though subsidized by the Government, are not yet operated by it, the em ployes are reservists, who may at any time be called into the service of the Government, In these industries more remotely removed from the Government di rection or supervision, the Slate may employ another method so that public welfare may not be made to suffer on account of differences between The employer and the employed. A few years ago there was a strike on the street car lines of Home. At another Hrae the bakers struck. In each case, as the parties most directly Interested declined to allow the Government to arbitrate, the Government installed troops as conductors, drivers, and bakers, so that the public should not roffer or even be Inconvenienced whllo employer and employes fought out their differences In their own manner. In the same way the army furnished skilled pressmen and compositors when there was a strike on several Roman papers two years ago. A more interesting problem pre sented itself in 1875, when tho physi cians and attendants In the Itoman hospitals threatened to go on strike. Here was a case that demanded prompt action so that the public charges In the hospitals should not suffer. On the morning of the very day that tho strlko was to take place every physician received a messcugor from tho War Office bearing hlni a commission as Lieutenant, Captain, or Major, "detailed to the hospital of Rome." A General officer placed him self Bt the elbow of each hospital director, and orders to the medical and surgical staff were Issued in army fashion. A strike In these el reu in stances would have caused every phy sician or surgeon taking part In It to be tried by court martial on tho charge of "desertion." Should proc lamation of martial law have been deemed necessary by tho Government the "deserters" would then havo been treated as "traitors." The remarkable' Socialistic demon strations throughout Northern 7taly that occurred last Autumn owed its short durntlon and ludicrous ending to tho fact that tho Government was, according to tho above illustrations, prepared to employ energetic meas ures In every department of Industry In which a Btrlke was taking place. In this way successive Governments In Italy have protected the public wel fare and maintained public peace, and the only objection ttiat the Social ists can find to a method which, ac cording to their own dletum places the rights of the public above those of the. individual, Is that such a meth od is "exercised with undue harsh ness." This, at any rate, Is the drift of their interpellations In the Cham ber of Deputies after each succeeding1 Btrlke. New York Mall, THE JEW A3 A RACE. Modern European Jew Probably Not Connected With Biblical Jew. That 1,000,000 out of the 10,000,000 Jews now existing may not be Israel ites iu the strict sense of the word, but may represent a large proportion of Slavic, German, nnd Hun intermix ture, was the suggestion mad recent ly by Dr. Maurice Fishberg as the result of his long study of tho anthro pology of the Jews of New York. Tho problem which tho doctor set himself to work out was whether thero was any truth In tho statement generally uccepted by anthropolo gists that the Jews of today are direct descendants of the Israelites of an cient times, nnd that little If any intermixture had taken place between' them and the various peoples among whom they had lived. Dr. Fishberg measured about two thousand persons as to the stature, cephalic Index, eye color, Hnd hair color, and found that by comparing the averages of these several measurements with thoso of the corresponding characters of the Christian races of the countries where the Jews had been born that Jews coming from Kussla, Germany, Poland, Galicla, and Houmanla resembled in typo the Christian inhabitants of theso countries. The possibility of racial Intermix ture Is strengthened by the fact that the Jews have lived In these several countries for mnny hundred years, monuments proving conclusively that they have been In southern Russia for 2,000 years and In Poland for 900. There is one source of difficulty, however, and this is In the matter of eye and hair color. A large propor tion of Jews of all localities are light haired or light eyed or both. But, strange to say, where the Chris tian population is most blonde the Jews are least, as in Lithu ania or northern Russia and Germany. In southern Germany and Russia, on the contrary, where the natives are darker, the Jews are lighter. Dr. Fishberg is not yet able to explain this contradiction One thing Is clear from all this. The modern European Jew Is much more allied by physical characters with the native Christian population than with the races generally looked upon as pure Semitic as the Arabs and the peoples of Palestine. It is very probable, therefore, con cluded Dr. Fishberg, that the modern European Jew is not intimately con nected by blood with the true Semitic Jews of the Biblical times. New York Evening Post. pi; Rev. James Henry Darlington, Former rector of Christ church, Brooklyn, bishop of the Harrlsburg diocese of the Episcopal church. Fighting Fires in China. "I was in Pekin," said a tourist, ' when a fire broke out a few doors triow the house in which I was lodg ing, and at tho fyst alarm I ruthed out and into the burning Ktructure to see what could be saved. I was at oueo arrested, and, later on, discov ered the Chinese way of fighting a fire. "A policeman first required an affi davit of the head of tho boushold to' the effect that he did not deliberately set the house ablaze, and, for this pur pose, took him before an official half a mile away. A second was stationed to see that no one removed any furni ture until the papers had been made out. "After a lapse of forty minutes the firemen arrived. They looked at tho burning house and decided that It wau on lire. After much argument, it wa:i further agreed that it would bo a waste of water to try to put out the flames. After tho name, ago and hab its of the owner had been taken, tuo fire department retired In good order. As the flames were unhindered, tho house burned to the ground, and when tho owner returned he was beaten by his neighbors for endangering their property. 1 was held In durance vile for two hours, and then fined 35 cents." Lost Language. A monument to a lost language Is to bo found In the village of St. Paul, near Penzance, In Cornwall, and it Is believed to bo the only monument In existence which markB the death of a vcnlshed tonguo. It commemorates the death of the last woman who spoko in the Cornish languago, and was erected by a Frenchman. It Is a granite obelisk about seven feet high and Is built Into the church yard wall, the front facing the high way, where It is plainly discernible by all who pass that way. The upper part is in the form of a Maltese cross. The inscription reads as fol lows: "Here Ueth Interred Dorothy Pentreath, who dlid in 1777, said to have been the last person who con versed In the ancient Cornish, the peculiar language of this country from the earliest records till it expired In1 the 18tb century In parish of St. Paul" TV f.t, ,. A. THE COLUMBIAN, PHILADELPHIA MUMMfcKa. Thousands Expended Yearly For Cos tumes Worn by the Members. "Peter Moran, captain of the Rod Onion Shooters' Club, was taken to the Jefferson Hospital during the New Year's parade. He fainted after marching three miles under the weight of his costume, which was carried .by eighty-seven pages and was of such imposing dimensions that the captain could not turn in broad street." Nowadays, from two to three thou sand mummers are In tho consolidat ed parade, and the money prizes have grown to a total of nearly ten thou sand dollars. Upper-class Philadel phia has condescended to find diver sion In this pageant, so the mummers march up on Uroad street, nnd pass a reviewing stand at the city hall, Just like any commonplace demonstration. The first prize attainable for the finest club display Is five hundred dol lars. Last year the Thomas Clements Club members and their friends spent more than twenty thousand dollars In the effort to capture the "champion ship." It was their proud lioast that "not a suit In the line had ever been on the street before." Capt. Duffy was presented by this club. In his wake trailed cavaliers, more nion archs, harlequins, and strings of cour tiers whose trains weighed down pages by the score. When you con sider that other clubs were out to surpass the "Clements" and that the decision for first place gave the judges some headaches, It Is conser vative to declare that this Philadel phia show deserves more than local attention. Last year the clubs In line had more than one hundred thousand dollars' worth of costumes to display. How can these wage earners sustain the breaking strain year after year? Partisan pride does miracles of fi nance. The most prominent clubs en roll their members by hundreds. Ev ery man of them contributes through the year his assessment of one or two dollars a month, and without any vio lent effort the war chest In furnished with a fund of Beveral thousand dol lars. The political leaders of the dis trict go Into their pockets for sub scriptions, which are as bread scat tered on the waters. The shopkeep ers of the neighborhood are ready to add their bit to the bulwarking of local prestige, and so from many sources the revenues of the Shooters' Club filter In. As for the eager and vainglorious captains, such a one has been known to slap a mortgage on his house or shop to rally a desperate finish for the king with the biggest, longest, finest setting. Ralph D. Paine In Outing. Miss Sadie Julia Gompers, Daughter of Samuel Gompers, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, has made her debut in the concert field. Although not yet out of her teens, Miss Gompers has created a most favorable impression. Her voice said to have naturally sweet and sympathetic qualities, was developed in the public schools of Washington, and by Dr. John W. Bis choff, teacher and choirmaster, of that city. Engineers Bearings in Fog. "When I was a guard," said Mr. Richard Bell, M. P., yesterday, "I could sit In my van with my eyes shut and tell where the train was at any moment. Working one section continuously one gets to learn the rythmic song of the road and how It varies at each signal box, station, curve, gradient, tunnel und bridge. "The sixth sense, which Is more than mere hearing, Is of the utmost value to a driver during fog. Denied the use of his eyes, he still does not 'lose his way' when he Is on a famil iar road "A driver cannot learn a new road when he Is stoking, which should oc cupy all his time. IIo should always be allowed to travel ih third man 011 the footplate, unfettered by work, nnd In two or three days, iy keeping his eyes and ears open, he would learn the road." London Daily Mail. The Revival In Wales According to all accounts, one of the most remarkable religious re vivals of modern times is sweeping over the mining districts of South Wales. Thousands of worklngmen have professed a change of heart, and many who were formerly profane, i Intemperate and licentious have sud ' denly become quiet, modest, and rev erent In their demeanor, models of sobriety and right living. So radical has been the transformation among multitudes of miners that the whole atmosphere of that Industry, It Is said, appears to have been changed. The movement, which seems to have been of spontaneous character and without organization thus far, is so deep and wide-spread and Is attend ed with such remarkable results, that competent observers are predicting j Its spread over all the British Isles. I BLOOMSBURG, j Loit Peddler Was Slain For Money, He Disappeared in 1897 In Bedford County. From Bedford county comes the story that old Isaac Goldman, a pack peddler, of AHoona, who mys teriously disappeared eight years ago, while on one of his regular trips through the farming districts of Bedford county, was murdered, and that recently a man, while un der the influence of liquor, boasted of having been one of the three men who murdered the old peddler for his money. Goldman was last heard of in the vicinity of Pavia, Union township, across the Blair county line. There wvre hints of murder at the time, Lut no evidence. The recent story has renewed the hope that the criminals will not escape justice. When the story spread throughout Bedlord, word was sent to Mrs. Goldman, the widow, who still lives at Altoona. She offered a reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of the murder ers, and once again the mysterious disappearance is being investigated. The man who admitted implication in the crime, is a member of what ' is called in Union township the j "Dutch Cowboys." They are not desirable citizens, and no one will teU of their doings for fear of per 1 soual violence. According to re ' ports, the confessed murderer said that he and the others buried the body three times on a lonely moun tain, out of the way of the traveling public. It is said that before Gold man disappeared, another peddler, familiar in that section, also failed to reappear irom one of his trips, because he also had been murdered for his money. Cars for Japanese Government. Order lor Fivt Hundred Given Berwick Plant. The Berwick department of the American Car and Foundry Com pany has received an order of 500 cars for the Japanese government. The cars are a hurry order, for delivery in July or August. The material will be assembled immedi ately and work will be in progress in a very short time. The cars are steel underframes with upper construction of wood. The latter part will be constructed at Bloomsburg department and if the cars are not turned out as rap idly as necessary this order will be divided between Bloomsburg and Milton. The order was placed by the New York ageucy of the Japanese government and followed closely the naval battle between Admirals Togo and Rojestvensky. Its place ment was apparently waiting results of that battle as many orders have since been placed in the market for railway equipment and other con tracts for Japanese government. Thus this memorable battle in the world's history is being brought home in its results by the order which ha been placed in the local department. ASBURY PARK BOOKLET. Descriptive Publication Issued by the Penn sylvania Railroad Company on Account of the Meeting ol the National Education al Association. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany has just issued an attractive booklet descriptive of Asbury Park. The publication is designed to pre sent the attractions and claims of Asbury Park as a Summer seaside resort, Hnd also to announce the re duced rate arrangement ou account of the meeting of the National Edu cational Association, which will be held at Asbury Park July 3 to 7. Persons desiring information con cerning this popular resort may ob tain a copy of the booklet by en closing two cents in postage stamps to Geo. W. Boyd, General Passen ger Agent, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pa. 12 Fggs 13 Chicks- From Lancaster comes the story that a lady living in close proximity to that city, quite recently purchas ed 12 eggs at one of the stores and put them under a batching hen, and when the three weeks had ex pired the old lieu presented the ladv with 13 young chicks, one more than she had eggs. This is an un usual occurrence, but can be ac counted for, as one of the eggs had a double yolk. DEATH FROM POISON. Six-year-old Paul Smith, son of Russel Smith of Willianisport, died Saturday night after eating heart ily of strawberry shortcake. Other members of the family who ate of the shortcake were made ill. It is believed the strawberries in the cake were poisoned by a pow der blowing from an adjoining field where it had been used to kill potato bugs. PA. ACROSS COUNTRY. The slfrtm of the times point to an enor mous Increase of intelligent public Interest in health: to a new generation with purer, stronger blood and therefore more active. PmVt'T UTH1Y1T Hnu body. No phys ically robuat, hcnlthy person ever succumbed to grip, consump tion, malaria or any otlirr germ disease. Hut with a weakened sys tem we all have to fight the germs of disease. Our blood is often in a fer tile condition for the growth of bacteria the genus of disease because our atom la disordered or our liver is tor pid in cither case our blood does not get the proper nourishment. A torpid liver means a stagnation of the blood and an accumulation of oisons which urnishes a weak spot for bacteria to enter. To enrich the blood and increase the red Mood corpuscles, Dr. Pierce years ago found a vegetable componnd, which he called Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery, that would quickly cure the bad symp toms by increasing the red blood corpus cles and thereby feeding the nerves on rich blood. This " Medical Discovery " also acts upon the digestion and assimilation of fond, so that the blood get ita proper elements from the products of digestion. Feed the lunga, stomach and heart on rich red blood and you have surely a healthy body which will throw off the germs of disease which lurk everywhere. Get as near nature's way as you can. A medicine made entirely from botanical extracts and which does not contain alcohol is the safest. Dr. Pierct'a Golden Medical Discovery contains neither slcobol nor narcotics. $33 To f acifio Ooast. Tickets will be on sale from Chi cago, via the Chicago, Union Pacif ic and North Western Line, during the autumn months at this low rate. Correspondingly low rates from other points. Daily and personally conducted excursions in Pullman Tourist sleeping cars through without change to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, only $7.00 for double berth. Full par ticulars on application to W. B. Kniskern, P. T. M., C. & N. W. Ry., Chicago. 8ick Wives and Daughters. You have often seen them with pale faces, poor appetite, head and back ache, symptoms common to the sex. Fathers and Mothers, lose no time in securing Dr. David Kennedy's Favoiite Remedy. It will cost only one dollar and is much cheaper than sickness. Write to Dr. David Kennedy's Sons, Rondout, N. Y., for a free sample bottle. A brick manufacturer must have the eanh in his business. Life. The poet's exclamation: "O Life ! I feel thee bounding in my veins," is a joyous one. Persons that can rarely or never make it, in honesty to themselves, are among the most unfortunate. They do not live, but exist; for to live implies more than to lie. To live is to lie well and strong to arise feeling equal to the ordinary duties of tlie clay, ami to retire not overcome by ihem to feel life bounding in the veins. A medicine that has made thousands of people, men and women, well and strong, has accomplished a great work, bestowing the richest blessings, and that medicine is Hood's Sarsaparilla. The weak, run-riown, or dehiliated, from any cause, should not fail to take it. It builds up the whole system, changes existence into life, and makes life more abounding. We ore glad to say these words in its favor to the readers of our columns. No man fails for lack of talent. The thing thai floors him is lack ol purpose. The farmer's Wife is very careful about her churn, fehe scalds it thoroughly after using, and gives it a sun bath to sweeten it. the knows that if her churn is sour it will taint the butler that is made in it. "I he stomueh is a churn. In the stomach and digestive and nutritive tracts are performed processes which are ex actly akin to the churning of butter. Is it not apparent then that if this stomach churn is "soui'' it sours all which is put into it? The evil cf a foul stomach is not the had taste in the mouth and the foul breath caui-ed by it, but the corruption of the pure cunent of the blood and the- dissemination of disease throughout the body. iJr. Tierce's (iolden Medical Discovery makes the sour siomach sweet. It does lor the stomach what the washing and sun bath do for the churn absolutely removes every tainting or corrupting dement. "Golden Medical Discovciy" contains no alcohol, whisky or oilier intoxicant and no narcotic. HUMPHREYS' Veterinary Specifics euro diseases of Horses, Cattlo, Slioep, Dogs, Hogg and Poultry by notiuj? directly ou the sick pahto without loss of time. J'c.llSpTr,.,ROAT' 'v. EpUooile. wm WOHMS. Dot., GruU. E.E.K'OIOIIS, CoM.. InrWnia. Inflam.4 culms (Luus. Heuro.l'neuiiiuuia. ,nlUme, P'PMP Brllvarhft, Wlu4-Dlown utnus j Diarrhea, Dv.eulery. "wo, G.G. Prevents MI8CAIIRUGR. "wui ii KIDNEY BLADDER DISORDERS. cFBtf Wo. Men 1 stable Cats, Ten Speolfles, Book, to., (7 At drusgUts, or tent prepaid on reoelpt of prloa. Humphrey.- Mod loin t Oo Cor. WUIIam ami Jobs treets. Mew York. tr BOOK MAILED FREE, ft It & 1 A Bold, Bad Book Agent. One day an enterprising agent who had informed himself, ap proached a Mr. .Smith with the in terested suggestion: "Now, Mr. Smith, I know that to-day is your wedding anniversary. Don't you want to give Mrs. Smith a handsome Bible as an anniversary present? I can let yon have to day a beautiful fifteen-dollar Bible for five dollars. After some discussion Mr. Smith took the Bible. Just here the plot thickens. The book-agent pocketed the proceeds, then prompt ly ran up to Mr. Smith's house, called for Mrs. Smith, and asked if she wouldn't like to make her hus baad a present of a fine Bible ou this anniversary. He said that, as he was anxious to dispose of all his books belore going to Cleveland at six o'clock, he would sacrifice a beautiful fifteen-dollar Bible for five dollars. After some hesitation Mrs. Smith bought the Bible. When Mr. Smith reached home that evening and presented bis wife with a large package containing an anniversary gift she went into the next room and produced its mate. Tableau ! Smith vowed ven geance with all the heat of a warm disposition. However, there was a fine festal supper waiting, so he contented himself for the present with a telephonic appeal to one Lewis Johnson, a nearby friend. "Lewis," he urged, "I want you to hurry down to the station and stop a book-agent who is goiug to Cleveland at six o'clock. I must see him before he leaves town. You just hold him till I can finish sup per and get there." Then he gave a brief description of the man and rushed back to his supper. The good Lewis bopped on a passing car and swept down upon the book-agent just as the traia pulled in. "See here," he explained, ' Smith says that he must see you and that you arc to wait over a train for him." "Sorry; I'd like to oblige him, but it is impossible. I'm due iu Cleveland at eight-thirty and have got to be there. But I know what Mr. Smith wants. He was think ing of buying a Bible of mine for his wife's anniversary present. It's really a handsome book, wnich I usually sell for fifteen-dollars, but as it is the last one I have, I offered it to him for five dollars (producing the Bible). "He was to let me know if he wanted it. Couldn't you take it to him, as I can't possi bly wait? He'd oe disappointed not to have it, I know." The obliging Lewis thereupon hastily produced five dollars for the agent, acquired the Bible, and with the best intentions in the world trotted back to the Smiths with the book. Second tableau ! Fortunately their sense of humor saved the sit uation, and with chastened spirits they display all three books of Holy Writ to the iniated. June Lipfen cott's. Sew Tenant Law- An important measure, which af fects the relation between landlords and tenants, is the Marsteller act, which has recently become a law. It provides that where a tenant shall hold possession of real estate within this commonwealth either by license or lease, oral or written, for any time less than one year, or by the month for an undetermined time and the immediate landlord of such real estate shall desire to re gain possession thereof from such tenant or occupant he shall serve upon the tenant or adult member of his family a notice in writing, demanding that he require such tenant or occupants to deliver to him the possession of the premises so held within thirty days from the day of service thereof; provided that this act shall not be construed as authorizing the dispossession of a tenant uctore the expiration his or her lease or license. of Liquora Not Food. Accordinc to a decision of the Supreme Court the sale of adulter atea wines or liquors is not a viola tion of the pure food laws. The opinion was handed down by Chief Justice Mitchell and reversed the opinion of the Superior Court which had sustained a finding of the Com mon Pleas Court of Crawford coun ty in which a hotel keeper was con victed of selling adulterated black berry brandy. The conviction was secured under the Act to Provide Against the Adulteration of Food. The Pure Food Department has 500 fcimilar cases pending all over the State, but they will now be dropped. Had the Supreme Court upheld the lower Ccurts, the State would have collected $2 As it is, it has collected 6o.ooo fines m Hquor cases in the past two years none of which will be turned to those who paid them.
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