THR COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURfi. PA
THE COLUMBIAN.
BI.OOMSBURG, FA.
Til U USD AY, MAY 2, M7
Mtrred at the font Offltx, llloumUmrg, I'a.
a Kcnnd clam matter, Marcn 1, lSBh.
Moore & Achenbach intend to
change the Midway into a skating
link.
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Mrs. Judge Elwell is having her
liouse repainted and generally re
paired. Johu M. Garnian, Ksq., was in
lowuyesterday toattend the funeral
of Mrs. H. W. Sloan.
Mrs. Agnes Smith is laying new
concrete pavements in front of her
Third street properties.
And still no steps have been
takeu by the council to clean up the
paved portion of Mam street.
Rev. S- B. Kshoo has resigned as
rector of Christ church, Berwick,
and will leave there soon, lie has
done a good work there.
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Paper napkins and doilies at the
Columbian office. tf.
The Christian congregation has
decided to use brick in the erection
tf their new church on the corner
cf West and Fourth streets.
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Miss Winifred Whitney who was
operated upon at the hospital for
appendicitis, is reported to be pro
gressing very satisfactorily.
At a meeting of the executive
committee of the Agricultural So
ciety last Saturday, the purses for
the races were fixed at $4100,
which is more than was ever before
offered.
Her Is Relief lor Women.
If you have pains In the back, Urinary, Blad-f-r
or Kidney trruule. and wsnt a certain,
DVanant, herb cure for woman's Ills, try Moth
er ttray's Austrullan lat H Is a sufe and nev
eMatlini mouthly rexulator At "rugirtat or
j mal SO cents. Sample package FHKK. Ad
Areas, The Mother oray Co., Lelloy, N. Y.
Yesterday was anything but a
pleasant May day. The ther
mometer stood at 46 at 7 a. m. and
it was a cloudy and a cool day
hroughout. The last day of April
kowever, was an ideal summer day.
Souvenir Post Cards are printed
t this office. Half tones supplied.
tf.
It now transpires that the fire at
Espy last week was started by
three boys who built a fire near the
barn of G. M. Tustiu, and when
this communicated with the straw
in the barn the boys were frighten
ed, and ran home. Since then they
lave told the story.
The refusal of the Opera House
for the commencement exercises of
the High School will prevent the
usual exercises of the week. It is
likely that the oratorical contest
nd the commencement exercises
will be held in one of the churches,
or in the Normal Auditorium.
The following letters are held at
the Bloomsburg Post Office : Miss
Ida Grit, (2) Dr. Grover, Mr. W.
E. Hilborn, Mrs. C. A. Schrey,
Jas. V. Washburn. , Cards, Mr.
Raymond Kashner, ' Miss Lillie
Laubach, Miss Catherine Maurer,
Miss Ada Rudge, Mrs. Clyde
Smith.
Everybody seems to be doing
something in the way ol improve
ments this spring. Masons, paint
ers, paper hangers and carpenters,
and all kinds of mechanics are as
busy as bees, and it is almost itn
Dossihle to secure them unless en-
pa peri lone in advance. This is a
. n o
good sign.
Envelopes
75,000 Envelopes carried in
stock at the Columbian Office.
The line includes drug envelopes,
pay, coin, baronial, commercial
sizes, number 6, 6y, tyi, 9, 10
and 11, catalog, &c. Prices range
from $1.50 per 1000 printed, up to
$5.00. Largest stock In the coun
ty to select from.
EVANS' SHOEJTORE.
Why not have the best?
40 SI vies of beautiful Oxfords
iuid Shoes to Select From.
EASTER
Patent Leather, Vici Kid,
Patent Colt, Gun Metal,
ritiCES, 1.00 to 1.00
Styles and workmanship Supreme,
The Progressive Shoe Store
Cl3.cis.3C. Evans
MAY REFER PENSION BILL TO
THE VOTERS.
Appropriates $5,754,000.
It It Become Law Amounts Given to Chirl
ties Must Bo Cut 73 Per Cent.
The bill appropriating $5,754,
000 for five quarterly payments
for pensions for veterans of the
Civil War residing in Pennsylvania
may be submitted to the voters at
the November election this year.
By this means legislators expect to
shift responsibility for its defeat
upon the people.
There are scarcely a score of
members of both houses who favor
the peusion bill, but they are afraid
to say so. It was introduced by
Senator Cochran, of Lycoming, a
Democrat, who said that it would
cost between $800,000 and $1,000,
000 a year to comply with its pro
visions. With this understanding
it passed the Senate. An investiga
tion of the Federal pension roll
showed that it would cost the State
nearly $5,000,000 a year.
To
smother the bill in the House
Ap
propriation Committee, or to report
negatively would give offense to
all the old soldiers in the .State and
their friends. It was finally de
cided to send it back to the Senate,
with the necessary increase in the
appropriation.
Since it was reported leading
legislators have learned that, if it
becomes a law, the Governor will
have to cut down all the hospital
appropriations 75 percent, and veto
bills for the relief of local taxation,
even if the Senate concurs in the
revenue measures which the House
has passed.
This alarmed the country mem
bers, and a conference was held, at
which the subject of sidetracking
the pension bill was discussed. It
was sueeested that it should be
amended to apply to veterans hav
ing an income of less than $600 a
year. This It was argued, would
very materially reduce the number
of those who could apply for pen
sions. Then it was proposed that
the subject of granting pensions to
Civil War veterans should be sue
mitted to the voters at the next
November election. It was argued
that the burden of the proposed
pensions would fall upon the local
taxpayer, as less money could be
appropriated for schools and roads,
and as bills to relieve them from
local taxes would have to be sacri
Seed.
Besides, it was pointed out that
the question of granting pensious
to old soldiers was not an issue in
the last fall campaign, and mem
bers of the Legislature had no
means of knowing whether such a
bill would meet with the approval
of their constituents. Many of
those who were present at the con
ference are satisfied that if the
question is voted on it will be de
feated, and the proposition to sub
mit it to the people uext November
was regarded with favor.
Another conference will be held
this week, at which the subject will
be taken up again and a plan for
obtaining a referendum vote on this
one matter proposed.
A Certain Curt for Aching Feet.
Shake Into your shoes Allen's Foot-Haso, a
powder. It cures Tired, Aching, Callous, Sweat
ing, Swollen feet. At all DrufirlBts and Shoe
Stores, 5o. Sample KHW5. Address, Allen M.
Olmuted, He Hoy, W Y. b-iit.
"There is nothing new under
the sun," quoted the Wise Guy.
"No ; not even the man who op
poses anything new," added the
Simple Mug.
Baseball Season Now Open.
The great American game, bass
ball, is now in full swing. Base
ball fans know that The Philadel
phia Press is the authority on spott
ing newa of all kinds, and games
are fully reported in The Press
every day. Keep posted ou base
ball and read The Philadelphia
Daily and Sunday Press,
H. W. CKAMPLIN M.D.
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT.
Particular attention to examining and treat'
ing children's eyes.
Kiit Building IJIoomsburg, Po.
Fortune From a Ten Acre Farm.
A Bctki Courtly Man's Romarkahle Success,
After tilling the soil for more
than a quarter of a century and
making it yield abundant crops,
Dvaid K. Kauffinan, a well-known
fanner of Riverside, Berks county,
has retired from business. During
all this time Mr. Kauffmau tilled a
small tract of land within the city
limits and brought it up to a state
of fertility that was marvelous. On
ten acres he raised crops that
brought him an annual income of
$10,000. When he purchased the
place he had very little money and
knew very little about farming.
He read books on truck raising
and got down to hard work. He
learned rapidly and made money
from the start. He leased the
truck farm at first, but so rapid
was his success that in 1887 he
purchased it for $10,000. He was
compelled to borrow the money,
but within a few years paid it off.
Two months ago he sold the farm
to the Reading Realty Company
for $26,000. When he first started
he planted fifteen rows of onions,
and a year ago he planted more
than an acre of them. He planted
from 700 to 1300 heads of cabbage
and last year raised 13000 heads.
A considerable part of his income
was realized from the sale of vege
table plants. He sold 20,000 cab
bage plants each spring and from
4000 to 5000 tomato plants each
year. Most of them were shipped
to other cities. Early tomato plants
sbld at 2s cents a dozen. Mr.
Kauffmau's seed bills alone amount
ed to about $200 a year. His most
profitable crops were lettuce, beets.
onions and rhubarb, all of which
he raised by the acre. HoYse rad
ish was another profitable crop.
Besides he sold from sixty the sev
cnty-five bushels of sauerkraut a
year. Mr. Kauffmau thus express
ed his views on farming: "My ad
vice to a young man is to go into
the truck business. He needs but
litt'e experience at the start. In
starting a truck patch the first
thing to be considered is whether
the sou is adapted for the purpose.
The ideal sou for growing vege
tables is a sandy bottom underlaid
with a heavy loam. If the soil is
adapted to the business the next
thing to be considered is the loca
tion. It should be along a south
ern slope. Again, it should not be
too far from a market. Besides
many a sale can be made if your
customers know that your truck
farm is near the city. Mr. Kauff-
man has twenty-five cows and con
ducted a milk route for twenty
years. He worked hard and accu
mulated a snug fortune.
Seal Hunting on the Ice Floes of the
North.
One of the most perilous of the
world's vocations, but one in which
an army of from five to seven thou
sand men take part, is the seal
hunt, as it is called. The scene
of the hunt is the ice fields which
drift southward in the spring of
each year from the Arctic regions,
and a bleaker or more desolate re
gion could scarcely be found than
this great icy waste. The prey of
the seal hunters, however, is of
enough value to tempt them to
brave the rigors and dangers, for
the hair seal which is their quest
is of especial value. Not only is
its coat valuable, but the blubber
of the young yields an oil much
prized for different purposes.
The Arctic current which sweeps
southward through the ocean along
the coasts of Labrador and New
foundland carries with it a variety
of animal life, being one of the
great feeding grounds for deep-sea
fish such as cod and mackerel
The low temperature of the wat
ers, and the fact that for such a
large portion of the year great
masses of ice dritt upon them,
ranging from the glaciar berg to
the floe, render the Arctic current
a fit habitat not only for many
varieties of fish, but the seal refer
red to. The ice floes form the
cradle of the young, where they
are cared for by the mothers dur
ing the first few weeks of their ex
istence. The fine pelt which forms
the coat of these young seals is es
pecially prized by the seal hunters,
for the reason that it can be manu
factured into leather which is uti
lized extensively for making
trunks, boots, as well as book bind
ings. The oil referred to com
mands a high price, being used for
illumination, for lubrication, and
for the manufacture of fine toilet
soaps. Scientific American,
I Give Honor to Whom it is Due.
Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite
Remedy, of Rondout N. Y., cured
me of Bright's disease and Gravel.
Four of the best physicians had
failed to relieve me. I have re
commended it to scores of people
with like success, and know it will
cure all who try it: Mrs. E. P.
Mizner, Burg Hill, O. Price
$i.oj, all druggists; 6 bottles $5.00.
P. R. R. TO OBSERVE SUNDAY.
Slow Freights on all Divisions tf That Rail
road Will Bs Slopped on Sabbath
to Give Men a Rest.
If the plans of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company do not go wrong,
there will be no more slow freight
run over the Sunbury division on
Sundays. The company will in
the future make an effort to ob
serve the Sabbath as much as pos
sible. It is considered that the heavy
movement of freight which con
fronted the company during the
winter months, is about over and
has decreased so that it is thought
the freight can be closed down
Sundays without delaying the
movement to any great extent.
No heavy business is foreseen and
it is expected that an order closing
the freight movement on Sundays
will be issued in a few days.
When this order is issued it
would mean that all slow freight
would stop, permitting the men in
the yards to have a holiday.
Humphreys' Specifics.
"Seventy-seven" is no better
than any of the other thirty-five
Specifics prepared by Dr. Hum
phreys; for Women s and Children s
Diseases, for Dystwpsia and Weak
Stomach, for Headache, Sick Head
ache and Vertigo, for Rheumatism
and Lumbago, for Bladder and Kid
ney Troubles, for Malaria, Chills
and Fever and for the thousand and
one ills that are liable to occur in
the family. Send for Dr. Hum
phreys' Manual, 144 pages, teem
ing with information on the care of
the sick and the cure of disease
with Humphreys' Specifics, sent
free.
:tumphreys' 'Homoo. Medlc'ne to., Cor. Wil
liam and John HiruHls, New York.
Burning Coal Ashes.
The secret of burning coal ashes
has been revealed. John Ellmore
the Altoona cobbler, declares that
it is not his process, but it certain
ly works, to a more or less extent
and it seems to make no difference
whether the process that has now
been given to the public is the
Ellmore process or some other.
The formula as revealed, is sim
ply this:
Common salt, one pound.
Oxalic acid, two ounces.
Water, one gallon.
Take three parts of coal ashes to
one part of coal, mix the coal and
ashes thoroughly together, moisten
the mixture with the solution of
salt and oxalic acid, and put it on
top of a hot, clear coal fire.
It certainly burns. We have
tried it, and we know whereof we
speak.
The experimeuter will discover
that there is more or less of
"knack" about it. The coal and
ashes must not be too wet or too
dry. If too large a quantity is put
on the fire at one time it dries out
and becomes just ashes again, and
puts the fire out.
Understand, the ashes depend
for combustion on a certain gas
formed by the acid and salt when
suddenly heated. This gas burns
with a fierce flame, that burns with
it the coal ashes, leaving behind
only a small quantity of fine pow
der.
But after all is said and done,
the discovery, at present, does not
amount to much. In the first place
you must have a splendid coal Are
as a base. This takes at least two
pails of coal. Then, you must have
three pails 01 coal ashes, and we
do not know how many pails of
coal the ashes represent. Then
you must have another pail of coal
There you have at least three pails
of good coal, to say nothing about
the ashes. The oxalic acid and
salt do not cost much. You mix
it and that takes time, and gets
you all coal and ash dust. Then
you must sprinkle it and mix some
more. By the time you have
got the, fire burning briskly
with your coal ashes you discover
that you have spent about an hours
time in fooling around, have soiled
your hands and clothes, have a
dirty mess left to clean up, and
have a fire that will last all day,
anyhow. But would not the three
pails of coal kept that fire all day,
anyhow. Generally speaking, it
would. In other words, all you
have accomplished is to burn to a
fine powder some ashes that other
wise would have been thrown onto
a heap in the back yard.
As we remarked at the begin
ning, this thing is in its infancy,
but you might just as well count
on spending the usual amount for
coal. You will have to in the end.
Man must live by the sweat of his
brow. Nature is a hard task-mistress,
and you seldom get some
thing for nothing. Dushore Re
view, OASTOXIXA.
Bun tht 1119 Kinl1 1m Hav9 lwa,S
That Easter Outfit
Can be found in our
SUITS OF ALL KINDS $10.00 to $30.00.
COATS $3.50 to $8.75. WAISTS $1.00 to $8.00
SKIRTS $4.00 to $12.00.
TRIMMED HATS NOW READY
FLOOR RUGS, FINE LINE.
THE CLARK STORE.
Alexander Brothers & Co.,
Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Confec
tionery and Nuts.
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Fins Candies. Fresh Every Week.
Z'EirxTr Goods a. Specialty.
SOLE AGENTS FOR
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COLUMBIAN, ETC.
Also F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco.
ALEXANDER BROS. & CO., Bloomsburg, Pa.
IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF
Carpets, Rugs, Matting and
Draperies, Oil Cloth and
Window Curtains
You Will Find a Nice Line at
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