THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. Pa. A f(oniipror THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMS15URO, TA. THURSDAY, NOYKMRKR 7. l!M7 K ttrrnl ill It'? V(.( ),"( i, l;ttnjiiir'nir. In, at nml clitM matlrr, Mnreti 1, l.ifc. J. E. Roys and C. V. Fuiiston went to New York this week to at tend the automohile show. J. I,ec Ilarinau has bought the farm formerly belonging to Geo. V. Kressler, on the Light Street road. Krickbaum's majority over Hughes for Associate Judge is 31. Hamuli's majority over Shcatz is 2542- Burglars ransacked the station of the Delaware and Lackawanna rail road at Wyoming, early on Thurs day morning, breaking open money drawers and cases of goods. They carried off considerable booty. For four weeks before Christmas Tiuc Cot.i'M bia n will go intoevery home in Bloomsburg, and for that reason will be an excellent adver tising medium. It will be made specially attractive during that time. St. Margaret's Guild of St. Taul's church will hold a pie and cake sale Wednesday morning before Thauks giving at 10 o'clock in the Parish House. 10-31 5t The frame dwelling house of Augustus Ileydenreich in Madison township near the Vandine Luth eran Church, was destroyed by Jfire last Friday. It is supposed the fire started from a spark falling on the roof from the chimney. Samples of Calendars for lyoS are now ready at this office. Send in your order now. Don't wait until the end of the year when the choicest lots are all gone. The calendars are for sale only, not for free distribution. Ray Ileacock, son of II. E. Ilea cock, died at his home in Washing ton, D. C. last Thursday afternoon His age was nineteen years. They formerly lived m Bloouisburg, and II. E. Ileacock was at one time proprietor of the Columbia Steam laundry. Any 12 Year Old Girl Can make those delicious Lemon, Cho. folate and Custard pics as well as the more experienced cook if she uses "OUR PIE" preparation, which is now sold by nearly all grocers at 10 cents per pack age. Just the proper ingredients in each package. 10-17-41. It is now nearly twenty years since Dr. Sheldon Jackson, of the United States Bureau of Education, obtained from Congress an appro priation to import reindeer from Siberia across the Behring Strait. During the first year sixteen deer were brought over by Dr. Jackson personally. During successive years others were imported, until nearly a thousand had come alto gether. There are today no less than 16,000 domesticated reindeer distributed in herds along the North Alaskan coast. John G. Harman made a splen did fight in the state in liis canvas for the office of State Treasurer, but he was fighting against tremen dous odds, and so-called Independ ent Republicans, under the lash of the machine, and the cry of "loyal ty to party," stuck to the ticket in spite of the exposure ot their lead ers who hold high offices at Ilarris burg, showing them to be either idiots or thieves. Mr. Harman comes out of the conflict smilingly. His big ma jority in his own county, regard less of party, shows in what esteem he is held here. A Township School Closed. The State Board of Health has closed the public schools of East Cameron township, Northumber land county, because the parents of students refused to allow them to be vaccinated. None of the tax payers' children will be permitted to attend the schools again until vaccinated. p EVANS' SHOE STORE FALL SHOES. The assortment of EVANS' Shoes provides a shoe for every need, a style for every taste, a fit for every foot. Until you have seen these new mod els, or better yet, enjoyed the luxury of wearing one of them, you can not real ize what shoe perfection means. You are cordially invited to come in aud see these new fashions. The Progressive. Shoe Store CHAS. M. EVANS. WARNING TO DIRECTORS. Mutt Entorco Health Law. State Health Commissioner Dr. Samuel G. Dixon has sent out a warning, which will be read with interest everywhere throughout the state, to the effect that school di rectors must see to it that the health laws arc observed. Dr. Dix on says they will be rigidly enforc ed "to the end of even cutting off the school appropriations, followed by the prosecution of principal and teachers." He cites the laws com pelling directors to examine as to the s anitation in and about schools; the vaccination law and the execu tion of the outbuilding law. He dues not intend to give more warn ings, but his first action will be to have 'the state appropriation with drawn and the other penalties will follow so the report of the interview sys. Director;! should see that the laws are observed. Points in Good Dressing. A well-shosen veil rray be ex pensive, out enable a last season s hat to do further service when otherwise new headwear would be necessary. Smart small belongings are what enable an economical woman to make her few gowns fit in well for any of the many occa sions where they must serve. To be quite up to date, the walk ing dress should be black or darkly tinted, very well cut, and made after rather severely tailored lines. The hat may have all the color that the suit lacks. No article of a woman's ward robe pays better in effectiveness and lasting results than handsome fur, only, for real service, she would better choose mink than chinchilla or ermine. A long coat that covers and pro tects the dress, and that is in itself an adornment as well as a garment for service, is a necessity for every woman who makes any pretense to good dressing. The wise woman whose conveyance is street car or train rejoices in a cloak that looks suitable on the way, yet is pretty enough to pass muster at the theater. Souvenir Post Cards are printed at this ofhee. Half tones supplied. Origin of the Potato-bug. From Leslie's Wtekly. The original potato-bug lived somewhere in the highlands of Cen tral America. From him descended the great grandfather of the insect in question the striped black-and-white creature which still inhabits the coast of the Caribbean Sea This ms2ct never saw a potato plant; it lived on the wild sand-bur lhis plant is distantly related to cultivated potato; but until com paratively lately (as such terms are understood in discussions of evolu tion), no "potato-bug" has been anything but a sand-bur bug. When the Spaniards invaded Mexico, in 1519, they introduced horses, and as the conquerors went north the sand-bur plants multipli ed in regious where they had never been seen before, and the sand-bur beetle followed them. From these migratory beetles descended the present Colorado beetle, which was first recognized as a new species in the seventeenth or eighteenth cen tury; but even up to 1823 it still lived on the wild sand-bur, and was not abundant or troublesome. With the western movement of civiliza tion, however, the sand-bur beetle and Irish potatoes were brought in contact, and it was not long before the beetle decided in favor of the potato-stalks as against the fare furnished by the sand-bur. He began to be a potato-bug, and so rapidly did he thrive upon his new nourishment that inside of forty years he was known and execrated everywhere in the United States. H. W. C tAMPLI H NI.D. EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT. radicular attention to examining and treat ing chitdiun'a eyes. Ent Bulldln Bloomsburg, J 'a 1500 Tons of Food for Fleet. Two Ships to Carry tha Provisions on Long Journey. At the Brooklyn Navy Yard the machinery has been set in motion by which the food supply for 15,- 000 officers and enlisted men who are to start fur the Pacific next month in the fleet of battleships, torpedo boats and auxiliaries will be stowed away in the holds of the supply ships Glacier and Culgoa, which are to carry all the provis ions for the ships. Approximately 3,000,000 pounds, or 1500 tons of food will be taken. Many articles of food now served out to the enlisted men, the old time sailor never dreamed of being able to eat at sea, such as condens ed milk, canned peaches and pears, nuts, jellies, chocolate aud othct sweets. Besides the 500,000 pounds of flour that the Glacier is to carry, she will have 65,000 pounds of frankfurter sausage and 20,000 pounds of bologna sausage. Six thousand dozen eggs, to be issued at Trinidad, will also be taken on board as well as 250,000 pounds of potatoes. Fourteen thousand pounds of smoking and 4000 pounJs of plug tobacco, togtther with 37000 cigars and .27,000 cigarettes, will accom modate the wants of the smokers. The 500,000 pounds of fresh beef, the chickens, mutton and other perishable articles will not be tak en on board until the last moment. The Culgoa will take the same amount of stores as the Glacier. Both ships will take their coal on board this week. Gaiety, Masic and "The Toymakers." Good music and plenty of fun are great factors in the success of an opera and this new musical ab surdity is brim full of both. Old and young look for amusement in this dull world but it is seldom iouna in sucn quantity as in tins opera of "The Toymakers." It is a great combination ol cheery, clean sport and bright songs full of melody and swing that catch the audience immediately on the rising of the curtain and keep it in great good humor. Everyone remembers that famous book "Quincy Adams Sawyer" and the success it made through the country as a play. It depicted in an original manner the customs and character of New England people and was called "the best New England story ever written," with great justice to its clever author, Charles Ielton Pid gin, who has added another to his list of successful books. He also wrote the play for "The Toy makers" and about twenty-six new songs that are gems of good taste and gaiety. Blake and Bennett of Boston wrote the music which is a guarantee of high class work that should be a model for all comic operas. The scenic equipment is most elaborate, both costumes and scenery having been designed for "The Jollities" who give "The Toymakers" at the Opera House on Thursday Nov. 21 for one night only. The great secret of this gay opera lies in the fact that the great audieuce entirely forgets itself and gives itself up to love and laughter of the rarest kind. It is highly amused from rise to fall of the cur tain and that is the stern demand of an audience in these days. The pretty scenes are laid in an old English town this time, at a pictu resque inn and in that quaint shop of an old toymaker who dwells there with his merry crew and makes a wonderful doll that he brings to life by electricity. Daisy Dane, the belle of the village, slips into the place of the lovely doll aud proceeds to astonish the inventor and the audience with her audaci ous, lively feats which produce the queerest situations one could imagine. To sum up, it is a strong, healthy play of vigorous action and spirited music. Appointed U. S. Attorney. Charles B. Witmer, of Sunbury, Republican leader ot Northumber land county, former marshal of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Saturday received his commission as United States Attorney from President Roosevelt to succeed S. M. McCarrell, recently appoint ed a Judge of the Dauphin County Court. Mr. Witmer' s official residence for the present is Harrisburg, which will no doubt later be changed to Sunbury. The district reaches from the Allegheny mountains to the Delaware river and from New York to Maryland, comprising thirty-four counties, including Col umbia. OASTOIIIA. Bean the j? m m m nm 'ma's Prop Timber. Scientists Planning (or Its Preservation. The cost of every ton of anthra cite is increased eight Jetits by the expense of the mine timbers. To supply these timbers requires each year the product of approximately 150,000 acres of forest, limber is used for cross-ties for tram-roads in the main haulage ways, as wooden rollers, and as props. A "set" of gangway timber consists of two legs, commonly nine or ten feet long and averaging about thirteen inches in diameter, and a collar, six to seven feet long. These sets are placed on an average at inter vals of five feet; one gangway fre quently contains 1,000 sets; and ten gangways to a colliery is not an unusual number. The average life of the timber is . hardly above two years, torty-five percent, of the timbers are destroy ed by decay, while breakage, wear, and insects destroy the remainder. By peeling the timbers and proper ly seasoning them, and especially by giving them a treatment in oils or chemical salts, their length of service is materially increased. In an industry where the cost of timber is so large an item it is im portant to know what method of preservative treatment will give the greatest service at the least ex pense. To determine this, experi ments were conducted in the sea soning and treating of mine tim bers, principally pine, oak and chestnut. The last two woods were investigate I largely to deter mine their suitability for planting in the anthracite region as a source of supply of mine timbers. The results show that peeled timber is superior in durability to impeded timber, and if it is peeled and sea soned for from two to four months in the woods there is an additional saving in freight and in yard room at the mines. Peeling costs from ten to twenty-five cents per set. With creosote at nine cents a gal lon, cine props can be treated with a brush at a cost of one and one half cents a cubic foqt, or forty cents per set. If a timber checks, however, an opening is made through the portion protected by creosote, and decay sets in. By the use of closed cylinders a very thor ough treatment is secured, but at an average cost ot between $3 and $4 per set of mine timbers. A method of treatment less expensive than by the closed cylinders, and yet which secures a penetration of creosote adequate to meet most con ditions, is by the open tank. A fine new line of Wedding in vltations just received at this otfice t 3t. New Route to Pole. Captain Amundson to Try Again In 1910 Captain Raold Amundsen, the Norwegian Arctic explorer, who is visiting , in Washington, said that he would make another attempt to reach the North Pole in loto. "My head is full of plans for ray next expedition," he said, "none ot which has been fully worked out or finally decided upon. 1 have determined, however, to make my next trip through the Behring strait, rather than by the eastern route selected by Commander Peary, It is probable that I shall also take with me about the same number of men seven and possibly stay for the same length of time in the froz en North." Captain Amundsen spent three years in the North and definitely located the magnetic pole. He al so succeeded in navieatme the northwestern passage. He did not have much faith in the attempt which is to be made by Walter Wellinan to reach the North Pole by means of a balloon. Wellman may attempt a balloon trip to the pole," commented Cap, tain Amundsen, "but I would not accompany him. Balloons and air ships are uncertain under normal conditions, and I see no prospect for their successful use in the Arc tic regions where snowstorm and ice ana atmospheric depressions abound on every hand. I am afraid any balloon expedition will be an ill-fated one." Captain Amundsen thinks that Commander Peary is "without doubt the best explorer now en gaged in the search of the North Pole." The White House Cook Book and the daily edition of The Phila. delphia Press for six days a week, one year, a value of $5.00 for Three Dollars and Fittv Cents. The White House Cook Book coutains six hundred pages, beauti fully illustrated, bound in enamel ed cloth, recipes practical, the mer it of each fully established. They are economical and explicit. The daily Press one year and the Cook Book both for practically the price of the one $3.50. DO IT Do not put it off, but ro to the CLARK STORE ?r.d se lect your new Fall Suit. Their styles are the very latest. The materials the latest, good qualities but lowest prices. That New Coat, a line double the size usually shown. As. one customer remarked, "when will you sell them all," but then she bought as others have and will do. Prices and qualities always go together. Children's Coats a big line, come and see them, all styles. 0 Every Department of the CLARK STORE is now filled with the newest goods for the season. All Welcome. THE CLARK STORE. LYMAN H. HOWE'S MOVING PICTURES NORMAL AUDITORIUM, Thursday Evening, Nov. 14th, Under the Auspices of the School. The Crowning Triumph in Moving Picture Two Hours of EVERYTHING Admission, - 25 and 35 Cents DIAGRAM AT BTDLEMAN'S BOOK STORE. Anthracite Centennial Wyoming Valley to Celebrate Lite ol Coal for Domestic Purposei. The Wyoming Valley Historica and Geological Society has ar ranged for the celebration on Feb ruary 11, 1908, of the one hund redth anniversary of the first burn ing of anthracite coal 111 a commer cial grate. It has been decided to strike off a medal commemorating the event. Coal was first successfully burned in a grate by Judge Jesse Fell iu the old Fell tavern in Wilkes-Barre, aud the room where the experiment took place is still preserved. The out croppings ot " stone coai in tne valley were abundant, but no one thought of turning the new discov ery to domestic use until Judge Fell conceived the idea that it could be done. He constructed iu the open hearth of the mam room of the old Fell tavern a grate of iron bars, imbed ded in brick work, and made the experiment. There was a fine draught up the big chimney and soon the coal was red hot, and the experiment was a success. DIVORCE NOTICE. To Peter Barneo, late of the Borough of Berwick, Columbia County, Whereas Addio Barneo, your wife has filed a libel in the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County, of December Term, 1306, praying a divorce against you. Now you are hereby notified and required to appear in said Court on or before Monday the second day of De cember, A. D.. 1007, to answer the com plaints of the said Addie Barneo, and in default ot such appearance you will be liable to have a divorce granted in your absence. CHARLES B, ENT. l-7-4t. Sheriff. It ;is estimated that $5,000,000 Is spent each summer by American tour ists iu Cauada,'' KingHtou is almost dally visited by hundreds of American xcursionists, adding a considerable sum each season to the Inoome of the merchants, hotels, steamboats and rail roads of that district. JERSEYS I Combination and Golden Lad FOR SALE -2 Cows, 3 Heifers and 1 2 Bulls. 8. E. NIVIN, Landenburg, Pa. 5-23-iy NOW! World Travel. Superstitions About liable. "You mothers," said a college gtrt disdainfully, "have tho silliest super stitions about your babies. For my graduating thesis I am compUln,-j the baby superstitions of the world" mothers. They're tho most ludicrous things. Listen: ' "In Russia they think a baby and a kitten can't thrive In the sam house. They kill the kitten aa soon as the baby comes. 1 "In Spain they won't let a baby under three see its reflection In mirror. Otherwise they think It win grow up vain, proud and cruel. "In Romania babies all wear bio ribbons around the left anklo to ward off ovil spirits. "In Hungary they think that 11 yoa dress a girl baby in red she will turn out bad. "In India it is good luck for a batty to fall out of bed. "Irish babies keep strands of wo men's hair in their cradles to on. tect them from sickness." Costly Walls of Panama. When the Spaniards built the dty of Panama to be the great port ot their Pacifies commerce they not around it walla which they expected to sare them from raid era of aA sorts. Although these walla wcra built by natives forced to work al most for nothing, they cost says Mr. Forbes-Lindsay, not less than 111, 000.000. The King of Spain, the story me. looked wearily and long one day out of the westerly windows of his pal ace. One of his Minstrels Inquired the reason for his apparent nnxlnhr. 'I am looking," said (lie King, "tor those ooBtly walls of Punama. They ought to be visible evu at this dis tance." Dandelion Salad. Six boiled potatoVs sliced, 1 onion chopped, 2 large dandelions cut up. M cup vinegar, Vicup nieltod butter, pepper and salt to taste. Mix all to gether. Stone Acts as Weather Qulde. A small stone has been lodged la the British museum which is some what of a mystery. It has been nam ed the "semakuir." It comes from Finland and the Finns are said to tell the weather by It. The stone change its appearance through absorbing the moisture In the air preceding rain, when It becomes black. Valuable Relict Stolen. Relics of St. Etistacho have benn stolen from the Church ot St. Ru-. tache, Paris. The relics consist r,f one of the saint's bones, a tooth, tiri'J Bono bones of the saluX'3 wify lt- two children. , NEW!
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