THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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Will Count de Lesseps Name
be Vindicated?
HE BEGAN IT IN 1880
Tho Share Were Subscribed for Three
Time Over- Hie Whole Life Wat
Pledged to Its Success- He Died
Disappointed and Dishonored In
the Eyes of His Countrymen.
When Count Ferdinand de I.rsscps
bRn the Suez Omul, In lSTil), he had
difficulty in raising the suin of I'.imhj,
000 francs, wliicli was ridiculously In
adequate. Whi n, In 1NS0, he opened
the subscription books of the Panama
Canal, It was found that all the shares'
bad been sulim-ribed two or three
times over. Vet he had proved the
Sues Canal to be easily practU-alile,
Stephenson had declared the Sue. Ca
nal uterly Impracticable, while ihe
greatest engineers In France ti:id sus
tained le lesseps In his Judgment
that a sen level Panama canal could
be constructed.
Those two crises show how little
either engineers or Investors know
About how some things are going to
-.-owe out
The money poured In for Tanama be
muse Suez had succeeded It poured
in, and it never cnnie out. Where
nuch of it went to was proved by the
rreat French I'.inama investigation.
The capital which hud been actually
lunk, up to that time, amounted to
(,800,000,000- francs. Of this amount
wo-thirds was actually expended at
Manama. The rest was used In France
o bribe politicians, bankers and news
.tapers. Vq Lesseps probably never wanted
bribe any one, but believed that he
lad; to do so In order to put the canal
'.fcrough. Ills whole life was pledged
the success of this great enterprise.
Us' credit while living, his fame after
9 wns de:id, hung iion It. lie could
ot see it fail.
But It did fall, and l)e Lesseps died
. disappointed and dishonored man.
lie was right In liolievlng that the
anal could and would be dug. lie be
eved in Suez as against Stephenson;
nd as he was not an engineer, he
lust have been a prophet. In the
lagic glass within his iheart he saw
he Suez Canal finished, the ships rid
ig upon it. Nothing could convince
dm that It was impracticable. . lie
aw the Corinthian canal, which he
.lso promoted, in the same way; but
hat was not so much of a feat of
phecy. Later still, he saw In his
iind's eye. the Panama Canal In the
lme way, finished, bearing the
wrld's commerce. lie knew It was
be built, and be felt that the event
vould justify all he did.
What Is now to happen, the building
t a lock canal by the l.'nlted States of
.merica, will vindicate Ie Lesseps aa
wizard, but not as an engineer. I'eo
ie believed in the wizard, and gave
1m money. l!ut not all their money
auld dig the canal as he first planned
i nor even with locks, without the
.prernment assistance which the
"'nlted States would not let France
De Lesseps could not in any event
'wve lived to see the nctnal completion
.1 the I'annma Carnal. He was born
i 180.", and was consequently eighty
jars old when the report of Lieut.
:cLean, of the United States Navy,
i IKS.", showed that It would take
;30,0oo,0oo to build the canal, and
at, with .74,Oi0,MiO spent, less than
.ie-tenth of the excavation had been
ade. It was rather a wonder that
e old man did not die when the ou
irprise in whirh his heart and soul
jre bound up began to flounder.
But he lived on until 1S1M, game to
e last, in spite of paralysis. He died
. tleketof-leave man. for a French
A.urt of justice had condemned him
lNirj fur breach of trust and nial
rsation of funds, and sentuueed him
five years' imprisonment. The sen
ile was never carried out. The ofll-
rs of the law simply never went
ter lie Lesseps, and nobody ever ex-
cted them to.
in his old age Count de Lessepg had
Jten a young wife, a Spaniard, and
-elr Immense family of blooming,
ck-eyert children, who overtlower
. great pony cart every day In the
9ia do Houlogne like a bushol and a
;lf of red apples running- over the
p of a bushel basket, were his joy
id his sustalner in his old age.
Aa it was an American frost that
lally carried off the De Lesseps Pan
na project, perhaps, when tt has An--lied
the canal, the American Govem-
. ant will have money onough left with
lihlch to raise a statue of the Perceur
'l.tthnies at Panama, by way of spon-
tneous expiation. J. K. C.
Mr. Steadman'a Mistake.
Edmund Clarence Stendman, the
eteran author, while on n visit to
ranee, stopped one day on a. -ouni-y
road to admire the surrounding
mntry. As he stood gazing medtta
vely over the fields he noticed that
ivaral peasants who passed him on
nt road bowed ami took off their hats
him. Mr. Stendman was at first
srprlsed at their salutes in his hon
f. and wondered for whom these po
le peasants mistook him; but as they
re repeats by peasant after peas
nt, be finally concluded that his
aputatiou had penetrated farther
ian he had ventured to suppose. Ai
t moved away from the spot he hap
ned to glance behind him. lie had
ten standing la front of a statue ol
Ua Ylrjfln. Harper's Weekly.
HIGHER CRITICISM OF 8NAKES.
Many Popular Misconceptions Regard.
Ing Their Lives.
It is natural that from time immem
orial a creature so repulsive and so in
comprehensible as the snake should
have given excuse for many of the
Weirdest and most absurd myths.
There Is tho story of the "hoop snake"
the fellow who takes his tall in his
( mouth, rolls hooplike over the ground
with the rapidity of a whirlwind till
he fetches up against the Invariable
cotlonwood tree, which begins to fade
within the hour, nnd In less than a
day stands charred and black, poison
ed by the frightful venom sent into
the bark. No snake of the hoop snake
species is known outside of mythical
science. Similarly mythical Is the
"milk snake." When of an evening the
farmer finds the output of a herd
short by thirty or forty quarts, he says
that the milk snake has been around.
Tho reptile he describes ns but three
feet long with a proportionate girth,
and yet this diminutive animal is
charged with having stored something
like half a can of milk. Many popu
lar misconceptions regarding the lives
of snakes are still prevalent. Tho set
ting of the sun, for example, has noth
ing to do with the death of a snake.
When a snake is decapitated it Is
dead nt once. The tall will remain
sensitive and will wriggle for several
hours after death, but the movement
is purely spasmodic and ceases in
time without reference to the position
of the sun. Another popular fallacy
is that a rattlesnake will commit sui
cide when hopelessly cornered by
sinking its own fangs into its sides.
No poisonous snake Is susceptible to
the poison of Its own kind. Two cobras
In a fight know this. Neither reptile
tries to strike the other. The combat
is a live swallowing match. Another
mistaken notion Is partly based on
fact the only fact which seems to
Impute to a snake any of the higher
motives. A blacksnake, the story has
it, will open its mouth to swallow Its
young In time of danger. It is true
the black racer will swallow its young
when threatened, but there is no re
cord that the little ones ever see day
light again. Instead, the mother "es
peaceful, much In the manner of hay
ing enjoyed a good meal the most un
natural of all cannibals, the consumer
of her own flesh and blood, and but
another example of the rare and loath
some creatures that make up an un
canny world by themselves. Mo
Clure's Magazine.
Picture of Panama.
Panama is, historically, the oldest
portion of the western hemisphere. It
is but nine degrees north of the equa
tor and Is fertile beyond description.
E"ery tropical fruit grows wild. Its
only exports are bananas and a little
mahogany. While a large part of the
Inhabitants live upon rice, and thou
sands of acres of rice lands exist,
nearly all the rice consumed is Import
ed. The population does not increase,
says the Portland Oregonian, nor does
Panama wax In riches.
The people in their habits resemble
the Chinese. They are cleanly in their
persons and bathe frequently, but
their surroundings are so filthy that
but for the ubiquitous buzzard exist
ence would be Intolerable. The Jews
absorb most of the commercial trans
actions. Many Chinese are establish
ed along the line of the railroad nnd
the canal who are married to the na
tive women and are for the most part
excessive users of opium. The only
labor to be dependended upon is that
of negroes brought under contract
from Jamaica. These man are steady,
temperate, nnd compare favorably
with any labor in the world. Gold Is
always at a premium of several thou
sand per cent. There Is plenty of
paper which no one will touch, nnd
the medium of exchange Is silver,
more or less debased. For trading;
purposes it, however, passes current at
about 40 per cent, of its face value In
gold. This puts n premium upon most
articles of import and depreciates the
value of the country's products.
A Huge Claim.
Frussla has been brought face to
face with a claim for $20,000,000, which
Is said to be supported by necessary
documents, duly authenticated by the
Russian Department of State archives.
The persons concerned are the two
Counts Muennich, descendants of the
Russian field marshal, Count Muen
nich, to whom Frederick the Great
gave an estate in 1741, Count Meun
nich refused it, and it was transfer
red to his son who died shortly after
returning to Russia from abroad,
whither be had accompanied his ex
iled father. Before leaving Prussia
he obtained from Frederick n written
promise to pay him 312,000 "Albert
thalers." The money was never paid
and now his descendents are making
a claim for it, plus compound interest.
New Jungle Fashion,
According to the Electrical World
telegraph wire belts have recently
been added to the costume of fashion
able Lust African belles. The tele
graph authorities discovered the new
fashion. They found great difficulty
In maintaining lines through the for
ests. One of their society reporters,
technically known ns a linoman, while
"covering" a native lawn fete in tho
Jungle, noted the new fashion, and
upon questioning some of the social
leaders was Informed that It was the
custom for the young men to present
their partners with these belts as
trophies. Now the company has made
the tribal chiefs responsible for the
telegraph lines In their territory, and
the young chiefs have lo buy the belts
t so much per pound.
the Mates of a Merchant
man Are Not Polite.
FICTION AND THE FACTS
-
Majority of Complaints and Tales of
Abuse From Supieriors Untrue
Where Sailors Are Badly Trented
it Is Mostly Their Own Fault, Few
Use Their Own Name.
There Is porbnps no human being
of whom so much Is written and so
little truth told as the sailor. Of late
years the novelists have made a mar
tyr of "Poor Jack." They have re
counted tales of horrible brutality In
the merchant marine service. To
read this fiction Is to learn that the
decks of the ship ran with blood; that
the mates vied with one another In
murder; that the lamblike tars were
treated to capstan bars, marllnspikes,
belaying pins and rope ends before
and after meals.
All this makes good rending, yet
tho great majority of such tales are
either highly colored or nlmolutely
untrue. In nine cases out of ten, when
Bailors are badly treated it is their
own fault. There are some good sail
ors, but (hey are mighty scarce. The
toughest men that wear shoes go to
seu. They ship fresh from homes
they have made desolate and from all
manner of questionable pasts. Few
of them dare ship under their own
names. As a usual thing they go
aboard fighting drunk, and the mates
have no alternative but to lick them
Into shape.
A Glasgow bark that shipped a new
Crew hum Iflnr wppk wont fti fipa frnm
the upper bay, and before the Hook
was reached the mates had to beat
every new hand all over tho decks to
get them to turn to. The owner of
twelve American shins said vesterdav
thnr tho nntv tm..i,.i.io Qmor, ,
that the only tractable seaman he ever
met was perched on a pedestal in
front of the Sailors' Snug Harbor on
Staten Island and was carved, not
born. Yet it Is hard to shake the
faith of landsmen who had read the
popular tales of the st. . Only the
other day, at the graduation exercises
aboard the scholarship St. Mary's, a
well-known citizen drew a picture of
how the average sailor Is maltreated
by devilish mates.
That same day at the British Con
sulate, close to the Battery, where the
brimming harbor laps the seawall, a
poor Jack with a rich cargo of rum
safely stowed away, was pleading the
cause of temperance in the behavior
of mates in general, but one second
mate In particular. This tar was not
quite as trim and yachty looking as
tho one who used to turn out with a
cheery Aye, aye, sir!" nboard the Im
maculate "Pinafore." He had red
hair, a pockmarked face and a
wrong font eye, and his greasy cap
was catheaded on his port ear In such
a way as to give him the appearance
of being a very bad man. He had evi
dently run afoul of a number of
"coaling" stations during his cruise
in search of the consulate, and his
remarks lost nothing In flavor even
after he was warned that there were
womeu within earshot.
All that the clerks could unwind at
first from his yarn was that there was
a mate, and that this particular mate
was well, pretty much everything
that is impossible. Finally the vice
consul asked him what was his speci
fic complaint against the mate. Drop
ping his topgallant oaths for the mo
ment, the sailor said:
"He was ruel, that's what."
"In what way was he cruel?" In
quired the faithful representative of
King Edward.
"Why," explained the unfortunate
mariner, "that beer-swilllug rullian
said I warn't no gentleman. I wouldn't
have minded it had he said it private
like, but he upa with it afore the
whole watch. I want you to"
"Did this beer-swilling ruffian lay
hands on you? Beat you, I mean."
"That slouch lay hands on me!"
shouted poor Jack, exploding with a
volume of bon mots picked up per
haps in the sinks of Calcutta or
among the cubby holes of Tilbury.
"Lay hands on me! I'd like to see
him!" And he shifted his cap to the
northeast corner of his head and
raised his starboard flipper in a way
to make a mate tremble.
"What you say doesn't constitute an
assault on the part of the mate," re
marked the vice-consul. "We can do
nothing for yoa."
"That's how us friendless sailors
are abused," roared the Jiuk tar In a !
rage. "D'ye know what Bailor foik
Why
sez when anybody talks Consul? 'Go!1'1 USKU lo tBl w"" n 8Pon rrom a
round the corner,' we sez, 'an' you'll pIate and drlnk from a E,ass' wl,h a
see three or four scarecrows a-settin' i dinner napkin tucked under cnln
on the pavement under the British the whlle' Tlie Cae8ar h"d Pet
coat-of-arms. That's the British Con-1 B?08e 8ome tlme back' Cats and dogs,
sul,' we sez" of course, are common on board ship.
With that' the Badly abused son of'16. Krencl? war8lllI Marceau had a
the sea lurched adrift in a seaway. I ba"taul cock n,amed I,ol"anKe'- as pot.
and by a wonderful feat of pedestrian-!r'h'ch 2?weJ wllenever the guns
Ism managed to make his exit without ?red' The German Wllhelra
carrying away the combings of the bnd a ?,ray Btork and tl,e l'nltt
door. To a crony who had been await- S,tl,te8 (,,!lca,11 Jliad a plg' I)ove.
Ing his coming he said: "There ain't P'08' blackbirds, and peacocks are
no law for the sailor man. Why, that PPuIar w'th seamen, and the
soft-pated up there didn't Beem "lfortunite Almirante Oquendo of
to mind my beln' called out of my SpBln !,ad T a pa.lr of "'owarles as
name. Korry I didn't lay It on the pet8St mes G"et'e
mate at sea and take my chance."
And he hlocoughed himself Into the1 We prefer to llTe ln a 8maU t0WI
nearest saloon. N, Y. Mail and Ex- wl,ero a11 the PeoPle sympathize with
pre8g- you in trouble, and If you haven't any
j trouble will hunt up some for you.
She Understood It. Formosa (Kan.) New F.rn.
Sportsman (wishing for fresh fields
to conquer) I should like to try my
hand at big game,
Fir lenormus Yes. 1 sunnos vou
find It very hard to hit these little
birds! Punch.
8ATIRE ON AN ACTOR.
The Advance Agent Tells a Story That
la Not an Advertisement.
"Satire is almost always wasted on
actors," said the old advance agent,
as reported by the Chlcngo "Tribune."
"As a rule, they are so deeply lm-
wm? ;,rcnse Mof ow" IT
perlatlve abilities that they take
everything written about them In the
most serious possible fashion.
"Some years ago I was stranded on
the Pacific coast. 1 wanted to got
back to Chicago the worst way possi
ble, and finally, through a lucky acci
dent, I lctrnod that Harney Ferguson,
the Irish comedian, who was just
about to start East, was In need of
an ndvanre agent. The Job promised
transportation and spending money nt
least, and I was glad to get It.
Nothing Interesting happened until
wo struck Trinidad, Col. Trlndad Is
R small town, but there happened to
be n young man working on one of
the papers there more for the benefit
of his lungs than of his pocketbook.
He was an experienced dramatic
critic, and he came to see my star.
"At that period of his career Mr.
Ferguson's chief dramatic feat was to
sit In a large easy chair, with an Irish
make up on, and hold a humorous con
versation with tho soubrette of the
company. When the proper moment
camo Mr. Ferguson, being busily en
gaged In the debate the soubrette
coyly set fire to the paper sole of one
of his shoes. Never even glancing at
the threatening conflagration, Mr.
Ferguson reached Into n capacious In
Bide pocket and pulled out a loaded
bottle of seltzer water. Still, without
looking at the fire, which by this time
had reached magnificent proportion,
Mr. Ferguson turned on the stream
and extinguished the flame, all the
tlme keePln8 P ,n rapid-fire conver-
satIon-
"Thls DrilIInt outburst of wit and
h"mor was always good for a hearty
lauBh ,n ,he niinlng district.
I "The young Eastern dramatic critic.
however, fell afoul of my star after
the following fashion:
" 'Sir Henry Irving lias his own In
dividual methods of producing a dra
matic effect; Mr. Richard Mansfield
has bis; but it has remained for Mr.
Barney Ferguson to make a seltzer
bottle the hero of a farce comedy.'
"When I read thnt in the paper the
next morning I trembled for my Job.
As I walked into the hotel dining
room Mr. Barney Ferguson was al
ready reading the paper. I snt down
at the same table. Presently the
great man looked up.
"'Did you see what they said about
mo In the paper this morning?" he
asked.
" 'I did,' I said, looking as sorrow
ful as possible.
" 'You see, they compare me with
Sir Henry Irving and Richard Mans
field, don't you?" he said, looking as
proud ns n peacock. 'You'd better go
out and buy me half a dozen more
Beltzer bottles.' "
Meat Killed by Dynamite.
"A new use has been found for dyna
mite," said a butcher, "and maybe, be
fore long, we will be eating dynamite
killed beef. At the weekly meeting of
my society Inst night a member told
of some experiments with dynamite
that he had seen In a Western slaugh
ter house. These experiments had
been successful, nnd had proved that
a thimbleful of dynamite, exploded on
a steer's or cow's forehead would kill
It more quickly than tho usual 'knock
ing In the head' method.
"Our brother said that three steers
had been placed side by side and
about two feet apart. On the fore
head of each a primer of dynamite
with an electrical fuse had been
fastened, and these primers had all
been connected with a common battery.
A touch of a stud on the battery had
set off tho dynamite, and the steers
without a struggle, without a groan,
without a violent movement bad
fallen back, stone dead. It was a fine
and impressive sight, the speaker
said, and he hoped to seo tho day
when all the meat of tho world would
be dynamite-killed." Philadelphia
Recod.
Bluejackets' Strange Pets.
At the review before the King of
Malta, the pet donkey of the Bac
chante, we are told, marched in front
of the men. A donkey is a rather
bulky sort of pet, but probably no
more troublesome than the pet deer
3f the Terrible. The privilege of keep
ing pets is very much appreciated by
bluejackets, who lavish their spare
time and some of their spare cash on
strange animals. The Centurion (savs
je Court Circular) once had a monkey
Just out of the City of Mecca, Ma
homet was born in the year 574. la
Pointed out the hill where, It Is said.
Abraham went to offer up Isaac, lq
ear 187 before Christ.
b:J3
T.et go or 'die. 'Dint's the alternative
of the shipwrecked man with the money
buns. A great, nianv people have a like
nltcrnntlve In-fore idem. Business men
eoinn to a point, where the doctor lolls
them that thev must "let go or die."
Probnblv he advised a sen vovnge or
mountain air. There's nn obstinate
r.ioifh t.hnt, won't l shaken off. I he
lnuif urn weak and perhaps bleeding.
There Is emaciation and other symptoms
of disease, which If unskilfully or improp'
nrlv Irenteil terminate III consumption.
Thousands of men nnd women In n like
condition have found complete ticnnn
by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medl
cal Biscoverv.
"It irlvrs mr pleasure to send yon this
testimonial so that sumo oilier ir miffi-ror
mnv lie snvrd. ns I wiis, by 1 r. Tierce's
inlilen Meillril lUm-nvei y," writes Oco. A.
Thomiwon. of Sheldon Ave., ClmtliRtn. (Int..
Cnnnrta. "I hml a couifh f-r years. extM-elor-flff.fl
frrpnl ili.nl. mid was slowly falllnif.
Was losliiir llesh every day. lst In wrltrlit
fmm ir-0 pounds down to li'S. My flesh (tot
soft and I had nil si ti-llirl ll. II III Hot sa.V All)'
tldnif to any one tint made up my mind that.
th end was not rar on. niw iay my wne
vnm rifldliii In I hi- ' Common Sense Medical
Adviser' alsiut l'r. l'lerei-'a Unldeu Medical
lllscovt-rv. and I said, thnl sounds more like
common aunse than anything rise that I had
heard. I at once hoiitrlit a laittle of your
famoua remedy and Ix-fore I had taken half
of one Imttle 1 felt lietter. Took thlrtoen
Kittle and It made a new man of me. I
salnrd sixteen pound and never have had a
eoiisli alnee. I feel ulcndld lul lvc " the
credit U) your medicine."
Given away. Tho People's
Common Sense Medical Ad
visor la sent free on receipt
of atampH to pay expense of
mailing nnlu. The tsmk con
tains 101 pairea. ovvr 70U lllus
tratlona ann several colored
nlatea. Send SI one-rent
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atampa for the paper-hound
iinu a a i
hook, or 31 stamp for
cloth hound. Address
K. V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y
WTte I)r ri,rrp'" Tleasant I'elleta
Wf.,alvl enre onu, 10111 siomaen ami
Vca constipation anil ao help to cure
nearly every disease of man
kind. They retrulatc. tone up and lnvlirorata
Stomach, l.lver and Rowela.
EOPREME COURT BI8LE-
Hiitorie Book on Which Distinguished Men
Take Oath ol Allegiance.
Kept securely tinder lock and key
in the sunrenie court room at Wash
ington there is a small Oxford
nude around winch cluster many
notable and historic incidents. It
was printed at Oxford in 1799, first
came into the court's servic in
1808, and is believed to be one of
the 20,000 imported by Congress a
few years before. During its court
career of nearly a century this vol
ume has been called into service
every day ou which the august
tribunal has held session.
The great constitutional lawyers
of the formative period of our gov
ernment, as a prerequisite of their
admission to practice before this
learned body, kissed its material
face.
Besides these great legal lights,
every associate and chief justice,
with the exception of Chief Justice
Chase, who had a Bible of his own,
and every lawyer, except Daniel
Webster, sworn to practice before
the supreme court bar, has taken
his oath cf allegiance on this little
book.
It is a tradition of the court that
when Daniel Webster came before
this high tribunal in his first argu
ment iu the defense of the chartered
rights of his alma mater, Dart
mouth college against the legislative
attacks of New Hampshire, by some
strange inadvertence the oath was
not administered. The tradition
goes further, intitnatinsr that th
judges were so impressed by the
eloquence of his appeal, which
stands out to-day as a classic in
legal lore, that they either forgot
or dared not mention his dereliction.
It is no wonder that this little
Bible is so carefully preserved, en.
deared as it is with the memories
of America's greatest statesmen and
jurists. When a president is to be
sworn the clerk of the court usually
purchases a new Bible, and after
the certificate has beeu affixed he
presents it to tne first lady of the
land. Leslie's Weekly,
He Was Kept Busy.
The ouly business roan we ever
met who kept busy without adver
tising, says an exchange, was an
Arkansas grocer who was afflicted
with the seven year itch and carried
a Waterbury watch. When he was
not scratching, he was winding his
watch.
HUMPHREYS'
ft , ; " v 'ivuj uu mo
$ifle parts without dibturbiug the rest of
the system.
Ao. 1 for Fevers.
No. 2 Worms.
No. 3 ' Toothing.
No. 4 " Diarrhea.
No. 7 " Coughs.
.No. 8 " Neuralgia.
No. 0 " Hoaduches.
No. 10 Dyspepsia.
No. 11 " Suppressed Periods.
No. la " Whites.
No. 13 " Croup.
No. 14 " The Skin.
No. 15 " Ithouiutttism.
No. 10 " Mulurio,
No. 19 ' Cnturrh.
No. 20 ' Whooping Cough.
No. 87 " The Kidneys.
No. 30 The Bladder.
No. 77 " La Grippe.
In small bottles nt
, . 4 . ; 1 "ov ui mn Tent
pocket. At Druggists or mailed, 85o. eaeh.
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RAILROAD NOTES
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Rates via Pennsylvania Railroid.
For the benefit of persons desir
ing to attend the Union County
Fair, to be held at Brook Park,
near I.ewisburg, Pa., September
2( 27, 2S and 29, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell excur
sion tickets from Kast Bloomsburg,
and intermediate points, to Brook
Park, on September 26, 27, 28 and
29, valid to return 0:1 day of issue
only, at rate of single fare for the
round trip ( no rate less than
twenty cents).
Special trains will be run on
Thursday, .September 28, and on
Friday, September 29, as follows:
Leave Mifilinburg 12:00 noon,
Vicksburg 12:08 p. M., Biehl 12:13
p. M. ; arrive Brook Park 12:18
r. M. Returning, leave Brook Park
on September 28 for Coburn, on
September 29 for Glen Iron and
intermediate stations at 5:45 P. M.
Special trains will also be run on
Thursday and Friday, September
28 and 29, between Lewisburg and
Brook Park every half hour from
9:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. 2t
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A COMMON SENSE VIEW
In his sermon last SunJav. in a
Moravian church at Bethlehem, the
pastor preached most earnestly for
"the abolition of senseless nranlrc
which are permitted to degrade and
desecrate the wedding day, and are
an outrageous imposition tinon the
bridal couple."
There are certain harmless cus
toms, such as throwing rice and
old shoes as the bridal couple
leaves Heme, provided this is not
overdone, but to coiudcI the connle
to ride through town in a cab be
decked with ribbons and signs and
old shoes, with an accomnaniment
of tin horns, is subjecting a mod
est ana sensitive girl to a most of-
lensive and trying ordeal from
which she should be protected.
A few years atro while on our
way to Philadelphia, as the train
approached a certain station below
Harrisburg, a large crowd was ob
served on the platform, and there
was a din of horns, cow-bells ami
tin pans. A ycung married couple
were about to start on their n-ed.
ding journey, and this was an es
cort of their friends. Several
young men followed them on the
train with illuminated banners on
which were inscribed. "We're itmt
married." "She's my sweetheart,
I'm her Joe." "What would lov
ey do if dovey should die?" and
numerous other similar funny
things. They took seats near their
victims, and one of the young men
went through the train loudlv an.
nouueing that there was a bride
and groom in the car ahead and
inviting everyone to go in and have
a look at them. 'Most everybody
did. The bride was evul.-ntl.r
girl of refinement, and though she
seemed ready to collapse from ner
vous prostration, this tliino- -io
kept up until Philadelphia was
rcacneu, ami tne last we saw of
them they were gbing out through
Bioad street station, the banners
and horns preceding them. The
groom at one time showwl fitrhr
but the tormenters were too many
ior nun, and he was forced to sub
mit.
This of course was an evao-omr.
ed case, but in most instances the
practice ot making monkeys out ol
newly married couples is carried to
excess, and while it may seem fun
ny to those who do it, it is very
unpleasant for the victims, unless,
perchance the bride happens to be
a brazen-faced
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such publicity.
iMewly married counlps
have some rights that nt,r
are bound to respect.
Health Precautious-.
Circular letters are hpincr cn
out by State Health Commissioner
uixon to an local health and school
authorities throughout
vauia calling their attention to the
tumpuisory vaccination law of 1895.
This act remiirps ivnnn
charge of public, private, parochial.
w.uuuay mm omer scnools to refuse
admission to any child to the schools
unuer tneir charge or supervision,
except upon a certifirat 1...
a physician setting forth that said
child has been successfully vacci
nated or that it has previously had
Dr. Dixon warn ;rlirvn1 tan-
and principals that they are res-
j'uusioie, not 10 tne school directors,
but to the health anth
state for the enforcement of the law
nud that no action of the school di
rectors can supersede the require-
tnonto rC 1, 1
ui law.
Greene Consnl.ria r
hanging tenaciously at 24 and a
fraction in th curbstone sales o 1
Wall street.