THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO, PA-
NO VACATION Fon
TKOimoWX STOKK.
Filleiii liable In Two Weeks To Six
fort;ilt' Is Town's Frond Itcoord
Town Creek, Ala., July 18. Hc-
caiiKi? fifteen, babies have been born
to ix couples hcru In tho last two
Vfi petition hns been made to the
pi''nl authorities at Wiishlngton to j
pi.-i:il iMithorltleg nt WnsthiRton to
h;'.c tlio nume of this village chang
ed to Tuddytown. President Roose
velt bus been notified of the trenien
ri i'.s Inrreaso In tho birth rate. Hero
1.- the record:
V.r. and iMrs. N. E. King, twlna
i. y and u girl.
-. i. and Mrs. Monroe Jeffreys, trlp
; two plrls and a boy.
and Mrs. J. C. Hrackln, trlp
two girls and a boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Terry, two boys.
Mr und Mrs. John Jackson, trlp
iivc all boya.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shumate,
twin boys.
Town Creek has a population of 2 SO.
M'CKICA OX WITNESS STAND.
P. It. It. President Says Low I la ten
Don't Muke Trs."lc.
Philadelphia, July 16. James Mc.
Cren, president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, stood up for the commuter
called to the stand In the com
pany's suit to test the constitution
ality of the two cent a mile law.
which goes Into effect October 1.
lie paid that It Is unjust to make a
person who uses the railroad two,
JAMES MCCREA.
ea or four times a day pay as
j'.i a rate as the man who uses it
cue e or twice a year.
This statement caused the City
Solicitor, J. Howard Oendell, in cross,
examination to ask Mr. McCrea
whether the company would raise the
rate3 on surburban traffic If the new
law Is sustained by the court.
"Yes, that will have to be done,"
replied Mr. McCrea.
He did not say what the extent of
the Increase will be or whether It
will approach the maximum figure
of two cents a mile.
EIGHT KILLED ON BATTLESHIP.
Thirteen Others Terribly Hurt and
Several Are Dying.
Boston, July 17. Swathed in
fin me that flashed from 200 pounds
of powder, twenty-one officers and
men of the United States battleship
Georgia, shortly before noon Monday,
were burned so terribly that six of
them died on the way to Charles
town Navy Yard, two died In the
naval hospital and thirteen were dy
ing or injured so dangerously that
only skilled surgery could save them.
The fearful flare of powder, a swift
burning rather than an explosion,
occurred in the after superimposed
turret In the course of target prac
tice with the eight-inch guns. A
spark fell on one ot two bags of 100
pounds each which a loader was
about to slip Into one ot the guns.
The loader and two other seamen
saw the bag smouldering in time to
throw themselves on their faces and
escape mortal hurt, but none of the
others had time to make a step be
fore the whole turret was a fiery
furnace. In which they were wellnlgh
Incinerated. For a time which none
Of thorn could estimate the twenty
one men were In a flood of flame that
enveloped them from bead to foot.
Those caught In the act of in-breathing
were doomed as surely as if
plunged Into a mass of molten metal.
AH the others were so close to In
stant death it amazed the survivors
any single man ot thera got out of
the place alive. Yet of the thirteen
st 111 living In Chelsea Hospital it was
believed by physicians several would
outlive their Injuries, though science
could not say any man was sure to
recover.
Immediately upon learning the de
tails of the accident, Capt. McCrea
notified Rear-Admiral ThomaB, who
ordered a board to examine Into tho
causes of the accident.
One belief Is thnt a spark from tho
dlnchargo of the after turret guns
floated back Into the turret through
a gun port and settled on the pow
der eaBos. Another theory Is that
thrt spark that caused the trouble
came from the smokestacks of tho
ship, and floated through the gun
porB. That a floating spark caused
the disaster seemed evident to nuvn!
men, but there Is doubt as to whether
It was from a euu or u smokestack,
a u ;. i
FIJKH KLKCTKOCVTlKn.
Xovel Wnjr to Oct Hid of These
Troublesome Insects.
If you can't kill bugs with sticky
flypaper or poisonous powders, try
electricity. This electrocution of In
Bects Is the recommendation of a
New York man, und has been offi
cially approved by societies to pro
Veut cruelty to animals. He has lu-
ELECTROCUTES FLIES,
vented a contrivance entirely effi
cient for this purpose, which Is "Im
ply and durable, with no complicated
mechanism to get out of order. Aa
Ehown In the accompanying Illustra
tion, the Invention embodies a grid
or screen of parallel wires alternate
ly postlvp and negative and charged
with electricity. A fly alighting on
th grid or attempting to walk upon
and touching the adjacent wires will
be electrocued us It were, and fall
dead from the trap. The device la
composed of two bars of wood, be
tween which extend strips of brass.
Live wires connect with a source of
elect rlcley of bu Sclent power to
effect the electrocution of insects.
Th common house fly is readily at
trncted to anything bright or shiny,
avoiding dark and dull objecta.
Hence It may be found advisable to
plue the traps near a window.
OhPTlmo Smokers.
Although the present universal
habit of smoking Is of comparatively
recent date, the use ot tobacco waa
carried on to a great excess when
it was first introduced. The old
time citizens smoked even in church.
All such offenders were solemnly ex
communicated by Urban VIII. In
1624 an again by InnooentXII. in
1690, when the practice seems to
have extended to Rome Itself. There
was William Breedonfl too, vicar of
Thornton, England, "a profound
divine and absolutely the most po
lite person for nativities in that
age," of whom the astrologer Lilly
says that "when he had no tobacco
he would cut the bell ropes and
smoke them." Prohibitions of the
custom were frequent. "Item, you
shall not utter," enjoins an alehouse
licence of the time ot James I., "nor
willingly suffer to be uttered, drunke
or taken, any tobacco within your
house, cellar or other place there
unto belonging."
The rules of Chlgwell school
(1629) provided that the master
must be "no puffer of tobacco" and
Charles II. sent a letter to the Uni
versity of Cambridge forbidding the
members to wear periwigs, smoke
tobacco or read their sermona. A
writer has recorded a visit to an
Essex church about 1830, on which
he saw not only pipes stowed away
in various nooks ready for uae on
the following Sunday, but also spit
toons in many of the pews.
Carrying Out Death Sentence.
A correspondent is desirous to
know which is the moat common
form employed in the carrying out
of the death sentence. The prob
ability U that most people, If asked,
would at once say the 'gallows; yet
this is far from being the case, says
the London Chronicle.
The favorite mode appears to be
the guillotine, which is employed
publicly in France, Belgium, Den
mark, Hanover and two cantons of
Switzerland; and privately In Bava
ria, and Saxony.
The cheery gallows comes next in
the running and Is favored publicly
In Austria, Portugal and Russia, and
privately in Oreat Britain and the
United States of America.
Death by the sword obtains In
fifteen caDtons In Switzerland, In
China, and Russia publicly; and in
Prussia privately. Ecudor, Olden
burg and Russia have adopted the
musket, all publicly; while in China
they have strangulation by the cord,
and In Spain the garrote both pub
lic;; and in Brunswick death by the
uxo, and by the electric chair In
New York.
In Italy there Is no capital punish
ment. Fertile England.
Save grapes, tobacco, olives, and
some other fruits we can grow In
England all that can be grown in
France with as good certainty, and
o'ten in better quality. From our
counties come beets that all the
cuttle breeders In the world clamor
for. Incomparable shire horses are
nt 111 bred In the Cambridgeshire
centers set up by Henry VIII. Scot
laud and all over the north are tar
mem whose peculiar knowledge, ex
tending from tubers to trees, is, as
one may say, a gift of the soil. Yet
Roland, which Is over civilised, Is
ti.it yet half colonized. National
Hevlow.
ALASKAN IKX38 HALF WOLF.
Invaluable to the Inhabitant- Serve
ns Draught Animals.
The native Alaska dog Is known ns
the "huBkle" or 'mnlamoot' and Is a
mongrel one-half timber wolf. Bays
a writer In Leslie's Weekly. He tins
ClinracterlRtlcs which especially fit
him for his work ho is heavy, set,
with a thick coat of long hair, Im
pervious to cold, tind with JiiBt
enough wolf In his nature to make
him restless, eager to go, and with a
sufficient mixture of dog to temper a
fierceness and treachery which
might, and sometimes does, become
dangerous.
it Is a rare occurrence for them
to bite a human being, but they will
fight among themselves on the slight
est provocation, and It Is not an un
common sight for half a dozen
"huskies" to hold a pitched battle.
A bucket of cold water will generally
put them to flight, but In the major
ity of cases the miners pay no atten
tion to tho melee and nllow the dogs
to fight It out.
The wolf nature manifests Itself
In their thieving propensities, and all
food must bo "cached" out of their
reach. A hungry "huskle" will open
a box of canned beef with ease by
biting through tho tin. He will lie
before the door of a tent or cabin,
pretending to be asleep, when In
reality ho Is waiting for a chance to
ransack the klthchen
One day I taw a miner's dinner
wrecked by his own dog, a splendid
Lis. wolllah fellow, who overturned
a pot of beans, and In the most un
concerned manner walked off with
the hot bacon In his mouth.
No matter whnt depredations they
may commit, severe punishment, so
pa to cripple or kill them, 13 out of
the question on account of their
great value In tho transportation of
supplies. Tt Is on Inferior dog that Is
not worth $40, and many of them,
say their masters, nre not for sale.
Two good docs can h:n:l n man
forty or fifty miles a day on a good
trail or carry from K00 to GOO pounds
of freight about 20 miles In 0 hours.
Weather ForcriiMs No Joke.
A large majority of the residents
of the inland cities look upon tho
lorecnsts of the United States
Weather liureuu in a spirit of fore
bearance If not of levity. They ac
cept the jokes of the paragraphers
about the unreliability of the predic
tions ns practically true und if called
upon to pass a serious opinion on
the bureau would in most enses de
cide that It was primarily designed
to furnish sinecure jobs to nrmy offi
cers for whom no belter employment
could be found. At the ocean and
lake ports, however, where millions
of dollars are Invested in shipping, a
different view is held. Instances are
too numerous In which the heeded
warning of the weather observer bus
averted the loss or damage of ships
and cargoes of exceedingly large val
ue. Here it Is recognized that the
forecasts are not invariably correct
and the officials themselves make no
pretense that they are, but in the
main they strike bo near the truth
that the man who has life and
wealth that Is subject to menace by
weather conditions cannot and does
not take chances. No shipping in
surance is so cheap aB the freo ad
vice furnlBhed by Uncle Sam. Rail
roads, too, appreciate the value ot the
weather service especially In the
Northwest during the blizzard sea
son and in the Southwest during the
Spring freshets. At these seasons
transportation officials keep a close
watch on the bulletins of the bureau
and gauge the movements of their
trains accordingly. The losses thus
avoided frequently are sufficient to
put the balance on the right side of
the ledger.
Utilizing Pine Stumps.
The denuding of the American
foests is leading to many odd re
sources to supply the deficiency. The
government recently announced that
owing to the rapid manner In which
forests are being mowed down to
socuro wood pulp for paper making
a small army of exports were at
work, hunting for some abundant
material like swamp or prairie grass
that would be suitable for paper
making. Long ago the supply of wal
nut lumber for furniture was prac
tically exhausted and oak has large
ly taken its place. For some time the
turpentine makers have been puz
zled to find raw material to meet the
growing demands of their trade
whtch threatened to make serious
Inroads on the pine forests. The
trees were being used much faster
than they could be grown and this
meant disaster. Then attention was
turned to the refuse of the forests
already used and experiments were
made which demonstrated that the
stumps of the pine trees, which hud
orlgnlally been passed over as not
worth the trouble of digging out,
were saturated with raw turpentine.
These stumps immediately took on
u commercial value which will tar
nish small fortunes to the men who
own them. In some cases the Inter
esting question has been raised as to
whether the stumps were a part of
the original timber right sold by he
furmer to the turpentine maker or
reverted to the owner of the land
after the trees had been cut.
Rapid Trestle lSulldlng.
The rapid reconstruction of a
trestle was rocently carried on at
Galveston, Texas. Fire destroyed
4 00 feet of the long railroad trestle
which extends from tho mulnlund to
the city and stopped traffic. The con
Htrnctlon froces und materials were
Immediately started to the work, and
l.y midnight of the same day tho
trestle was sufficiently repaired to
allow traffic to be resumed.
WEAPONS ARK DESTROTTTD.
An Unwritten Law, Hawed on Super
stition, of Royal Houses.
For obvious reasons it was nat
ural that the Spunlsh police should
be anxious to secure the bomb which
CM not explode when thrown at tin)
royal couple. There was a reason
behind the desire to nip In the 1; id
chance of further damage. There
In an unwritten law In the reign: i,j
houses of Europe, says the London
Standard, that all rollcs of attempts
upon royal lives, as well as the In
struments used for treating t'J'J
wounds caused in such attempts,
shall bo destroyed. There was a
solemn assembly In Geneva of Aus-tro-
Hungarian officials to witness
the destruction of the Instruments
which caused the death of the Em
press Elizabeth and of the surgical
pjst-niortcm examination.
The custom Is based to a certain
extent upon superstition, but more
solidly upon the determination
to prevent the rollcs from falll.ig
Into the hands of exhibitors of such
traglctrilles.
The custom In this matter once
waa to grind to pieces the weapon
which had been employed. Wh?n,
howevor, tho dagger was Bocurud
w ith which the pritst Mm tin Mer'ro
attempted to murder Queen Isabella
of Spain, rather more than half a
century ago, tho blade was found to
ba of Buch finely tempered steel thnt
It resisted every efTort of file and
stone.
Something like a panic was caused
when tho news got nbroad; the
R tmlsh peasuntu Imagined that
there must be magic In tho bludo.
So u cabinet was specially summonod
to deel with tho crisis, and It waa
determined to submit the steel to
tho Influence ot uclda. This proving
successful, all implements used for
the like foul purpose have under
gone the like trentment knives,
swords, daggers, revolvers and, pre
sumably, bombs.
It was cruel Irony that the bombs
thrown at the young king und queen
of Spain should be hurled by a man
secreted In the only house In II id
rld owned by Queen Christina. T.Ij,
at first sight. Is surprising. Nd,-o-leon
III., In the terror which Orsl.n's
attempt Inspired, bid for safety by
buying up the houses fuclnj; ho
Tullerles, so that bombs should not
le flung thence by his enemies.
It U from places whose position
should guarantee their safety that
danper comes. Only a miracle pro
vented Alexander II. from being
blown to atoms in bis own winter
palace. The Grand Duke Serge was
assassinated outside the law courts
at St. Petersburg; Gen. Bobri'.:ot
was slain when entering the senr.te;
M. Plehve was struck dead with his
secret police all around him; the
king and queen of Servia portaged
In their own palace.
Useful Cheese Cutter.
A new Idea in cheese cutters for
use in grocery stores has been pat
ented by an Indiana man. In the
majority of cheese cutters at pre
sent, employed the cutting blade ex
tends, the entire width of the cheese
on the cutter. The operator Is thus
CUTS ANY SIZE SLICE.
compelled to cut the length of the
choese, and where the quantity re
quired is small the cut is naturally
very thin.
This objection Is overcome In the
cutter shown here, as the cutting
knife extends only one-halt the width
of the cheese. The top of the tablo
moves freely, the knife being station
ary and pivotal to a frame at the
bock. An arrangement for Indicat
ing the size of the cut is secured to
the" front ot the table. The ease
with which a pound or two of choese
can be sliced off will be apparent at
once. In fact, the dividing mechan
ism is so accurate that it is un
necessary to rewelgh the cut, as is
generally done.
C'oMtly Wallpaper Desljjii.
A new design in fm cy wall paper
patterns come from Kansas City;
also a way to utilize cancelled tucks.
A firm has had all its offices pupered
with old checks, placed neatly edge
to edge. The face figures of the
checks vary from $30,000 to $1,000
and the total for one room Is $8,000,
000. As a gilt moulding runs around
the edges of each check-panel, the
general effect rather pleasing.
Liable to Discharge.
M. Bovot, the director of tho post
office at Lausanne, has addressed a
circular to the postal employes in the
town warning them that In future
toothache will not be considered an
excuse for absence from work. They
must either get the tooth out or
but out themuulvta.
iiio Kind You Havo Always
In uso for over 30 years,
and
Ly-z- soiinl supervision plnoo Hs Infancy,
CUCAXfc Allow no one to deceive tou In t Id.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-pood" arc luit
Experiment Hint trillo with and endanger tlio health of
Infants nnd Children Kxpcrlenco against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castorift Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops mid Soothing Syrups. It Is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphliio nor other Narcotio
substance. Its ago Is Its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Fevcrlshncss. It cures Diarrhoea and 'Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates tho
Stomach and Dowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Sears the
The KM You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
TMI eiNTHUH COMMNV. TT
Mil i. .t..M i i .i . .'.
Tho lo.'chs like i;:.trii.;i Muck
caterpillaiH. clii:r to slim rncda that
protruded above tho v.u'.or l:i tho
aquurlum.
They vorJ torpid, m though hyp
notized, but when tho dyulor put
one on his flni;or It fc II tj work aa
buislly as a Quriitartu iao.'quUo. It
could be seen swelling nr.d flushing.
-That'll do, you little ruscal."
And the dealer removed the leech
hurriedly, then tdsheJ.
"Mite Is an extinct trudo," he said
"like that of the armorer or the
sundial maker, and I can't make a
living out of It any more. Hut In
the past why, great Scott. In Iho
past leeches were so much used by
doctors that a doctor used to be
called a leech.
"I usod to Bell to one hospital In
this town 50,000 leeches a year.
That hospital now takes fifty or sixty
yearly. I had on my books 200 doc
tors, each of whom I bu polled reg
ulurly every morning' with a dozen
leeches. They carried them about In
little pocket cose, as they now
carry hypodermic syringes.
"My father had a leech farm for
yean. He raised the HunRarlan
speckled leech that's the best In
a New Jersey pond out Mattawan
way. He did fair. He got an annual
crop of 25.000.
"Leeches are no longer used be
cause bleeding Is no longer believed
In.
Indln'llubber Trws In ltnly.
The India-Rubber tree grows freely
In gardens In South Italy as an or
namental shrub, and we hear that
steps are being taken to make an In
dustrial business of growing It. The
idea is due to Professor Bozzl, of
the Palermo Botanical Garden, who
exhibited specimens at Milan, con
taining as much as 85 per cent, ot
rubber. It Is a plant which will do
with dry weather, but flourishes
more with irrigation; and as most
of the cultivated land of Italy Is
Irrigated It should do well If tho
climate is warm enough.
"A Sociologist" writes in the Chi
cago "Tribune;" "I once lived in
good health for several weeks on an
expenditure of three cents a day."
The gentleman neglects, however,
to state who paid his board bill.
George B. Shaw declares that ho la
a vegetarian because ho doos not
wish to eat his fellow creatures. Tt
It satisfaction enough for him wh'.-n
he skins them in his criticisms.
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Law Regulates FeRilina; iitull's.
An act passed 1y the eiit-r 1! as
sembly at its last session and aj)
proved by the governor on the ;8th
ilay of Ma' 1907 makes some im
portant changes in the law regu
lating the sale 01' feeding stuffs
wiMiin the .State. It provides that
wheat aud rye bran and middlings
or any mixture thereof, except
when sold at the mill where made,
must be accompanied by the name
and address of the manufacturer
and a guarantee that the same is
pure. Mixed feeds, except chop
made by grinding whole grain, and
all condimental feeds must be ac
companied by the name and address
of the manufacturer and a state
ment of the several ingredients of
which the mixture is composed.
The minimum penalty for violating
any of the provisions of the feeding
stuffs law is raised from $50.00 to
$100.00.
An act to regulate the sale of
Patis green, providing for the col
lection and analysis cf samples of
the same and punishment of frauds
in the manufacture and sale there
of, was also passed which was ap
proved by the governor on the 29th
day of May 1907.
Tne secretary of agriculture who
is charged with the enforcement of
these acts will be glad to send cop
ies of the same to any person who
will write for them.
Timely and Variable Suggestions.
Many people, especially women
who lead closely con Sued domestic
lives, suffer from what in general
terms is called "nervousness."
Among all forms of treatment none
has even approached in success the
intelligent use of Dr. David Ken
nedy's Favorite Remedy, of Roud
out, N. Y., which promotes au
easy and natural action of the di
gestive organs and imparts tone to
the nervous system.
e
Casey "Afther all. there's nothing
thot beats a good woife." JCiloy (who
bus Just had a scrap with his; "Ax
cept a flood husband."
The worries of u weuk uiidxiuk moth
er are only begun with the birth of her
child, lly day her work is constantly
Interniiited and at nk'lit her rest is
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broken by the wailiiur of the peevish,
ptinv infant. l)r I'ieree'a Knvonta
Prescription makes weak women st rout?
and sick women well. It HMens all
the burdens of nmU-i nity, giving to
mothers strength nnd vijjor, which
tlipy inipuit to their ehildivn. In
tibotit forty years of practice Dr. l'ierce
and his associate Htntf of physicians
have trea;ed and cured more than half
11 million sutlering women. Sick women
are invited to consult Dr. l'ierce by let
ter free of charjju. All correspondence
is strictly private. Address Dr. U. V.
Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, Hullalo, X. Y.
in a:i Its cUma.
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