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nnnecimdchiiir mailer, March 1, 1K8S.
The commission of George M.
lhifilics has not yet been lifted, as
he prefers to await the decision of
the .Supreme Court before taking
it out.
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Frank Schncidman, clerk in
Roy's jewelry store, who has been
ill for the past two weeks, was able
to come down from his home in
ICspy on Tuesday.
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Dr. D. J. Waller has been agreed
upou by the representatives of the
Republican party in this congress
ional district as the candidate for
Presidential Elector for this dis
trict. The following letters remain in
the Bloomsburg, Fa. postoffice:
Mr. I,. G. Hrown. Miss Mary Mar
ttnus, Miss Daisy Reigle; cards:
Mr. Julius Block, Miss Gretchen
Wilscn.
.
James M. Kline, proprietor of
the Central Hotel, has undergone
two operations at the Joseph Ratti
Hospital, the second one being per
formed on Tuesday morning by
Dr. Laplase of Philadelphia. His
condition is serious.
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The jury in the case of Miner
Munson against Harman Breisch
awarded the plaintiff a verdict of.
$225. The suit was brought for
damages for injuries received by a
collision between the wagons of the
parties on a dark r.ight in Catawis
sa township, The plaiutifl alleged
careless driving on the part of the
defendant.
A general break up on the river
was caused by $he rains and conse
quent high water on the river last
Saturday. There was a nine foot
flood at Danville. The water on
the river here was reported to be
14 feet above low water mark. At
T)anville the D. L. & W. tracks
wte uuder three feet of water
from the depot to the stove works,
from Blizzard's Run, stopping
trains most of the day. The water
was over the station floor.
To Break In New Shoes Always Use
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vents Tightness and Blistering, cures
Swollen, Sweating, Aching feet. At
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Yale's Many Lawyers.
The Bar Still Attracts One-Third ol the
University's Graduatos.
The statisticians at Yale have
drawn up a table to show what oc
cupations the graduates of the in
stitution have chosen in the last
century. From the table, says The
New York Sun, it appears that the
ministry has fallen oil greatly as an
attraction.
When the century opened about
39 per cent, of Yale graduates were
ministers. Beginning with i860,
this number took a great fall. Since
1885 the average has been 6 per
cent.
The average for law and medi
cine have remained about the same.
As a rule, 10 per cent, of Yale's
Rradttates are doctors. In law the
figures have been very steadily
about 33 per cent.
In teaching and science the fig
ures have increased very gradually
from about a per cent to 11 per
cent. The strongest upward tend
ency has been that of business.
The fanner has fallen off ever since
the Southern planters ceased to en
ter Yale.
Business now attracts about one
third of the men, and the law about
one-third. The other third is di
ytded between the ministry, science,
teaching, forestry and a few other
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wearing one of them, you can not real
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You are cordially invited to come in
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CHAS. M. EVANS.
What Present Month of February
Holds.
There are seven holidays this
month four Sundays, Lincoln's
and Washington's birthdays and
election day. Leap year lengthens
the mouth but one day.
Of all the months of the year
none has been the victim of royal
almanac makers as has February.
Not only is it cut down to twenty
eight days three years out of every
four, but the mutilation of the
year 1899 and again in 1900 which
failed to be leap years, started the
poor month limping away with only
twenty-eight diys instead of twenty-nine.
February was one of the two
months, January being the other,
introduced into the Roman calandar
by Xtima I'ompilius when he ex
tended the year to twelve of these
periods. Its mme arose from the
practice of a religious expiration
and purification which took place
at the beginning of this month
February, meaning to expiate, to
purify.
Ntima let fall on February the
doom which was unavoidable, for
some one of the months having
three times out of four a day
less than even those which were to
consist of thirty days. That is, he
so arranged it that it should have
only twenty-nine days exceptiug in
leap year, when, by the iutercalcu
lation of a day between the 23rd
and 2 Hh, it was to have thirty
days.
But when Augustus Cresar chese
to add a thirty-first day to the
month he had named Augustus,
that it might not lack in the dig
nity enjoyed by six other months
of the year, he took it away from
February, which could least spare
it, thus reducing it to twenty-eight
days in all ordinary years.
For headache Dr. Miles' Antl-Paln fills.
Trespass Notioes.
Card signs ' "No Trespassing" for
sale at this office. They are print
ed in accordance with the late act
of 1903. Price 5 cents each, tf
.
Murderers Escape Death in Six Lands
In six European countries capi
tal punishment is not meted out to
murderers, no matter how brutal
the crime may be or how much pre
meditated. These are Russia, Italy,
Switzerland, Portugal, Holland and
Norway. However, exception is
made so far as the lives of the rul
ers and the heirs to the thrones are
concerned.
The Canton of Zug in Switzer
land .imposes the lowest minimum
penalty in the world, three years'
imprisonment for willful homicide,
the maximum punishment being
imprisonment for life.
Of those countries which impose
the death penalty but rarely carry
it out Sweden is the most notable.
Capital punishment is inflicted by
decapitation, but the penalty im
posed for premeditated murder is
almost invariablv commuted to pen
al servitude for life.
Capital punishment is inflicted in
Frauce for premeditated murder,
but the crime is excusable wh?re a
husband has moral grounds for
murdering his wife.
Germany distinguishes between
two kinds of murder one, preme
ditated and intentional, is punish
able by death; the second, inten
tional homicide without delibera
tion, is punishable by penal servi
tude for from five . to fifteen years.
Dueling in Germany is a misde
meanor of a special kind. Who
kills his opponent in a duel is not
charged with murder or man
slaughter, but with dueling, the
punishment for which is detention
in a fortress lor fifteen years.
Spain has a death penalty, but
rarely imposes it, the customary
sentence for premeditated homicide
being penal servitude in chains for
life. A parricide is punished by
being imprisoned in chains "in per
petuity until death."
Hie Kind You Have Always iayk
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HUNT FOIt TITE WHALE.
Little Known Almut tlye Greatest ol
Animals.
Nothing Is too large or too small
to ennipo the notice of man, nnJ noth.
lng can ultimately hope to avoid de
struction, provided "there Is money
In It."
The mnllpst known vertehrate,
a little fish of the lnken of Luzon, Is
a staple article of food, and the great
est of hackhonedvjinlninls, the sulphur-bottom
whale, I3 being syste
matically swept out of existence, by
the most approved methods of de
struction. One Is more than three
billion times as largo as the other,
but neither can escape the all-grasping
and all-powerful hand of man.
The story of tho whale fishery Is an
old one, and a long one, for whaling
has been prosecuted for upward of a
thousand years. At one time or an
other, It has been pursued by every
Important maritime nation and In
ever part of the world whfre whales
were tc be found in Important num
bers. But the enpture of the larger
whales as a regular thing Is undoubt
edly a comparatively modern ocupa
tion, for none of the weapons of
primitive man Indicates that he ever
attacked anything larger than por
poises or the white whale, although
the larger species have been taken oc
casionally. It has been suggested and
tho suggestion is very live
ly correct, that whnlliig had It--Inception
in the dead nnmals cnit i"
on the beach. Thi vast store of o!'
provided by one of these monsters
naturally caused the fishermen t
cast longing eyes on those Hpnn'tir
at a distance, end to actually nttii-k
thm was but a step, although a Io:ik
one, for he was a brave man who fin t
ventured to asall the largest of crea
ture?. The whale fishery may be said to
have traveled in a circle. It began
with shore whaling, and after tho
lanpo of centuries, has returned to
this method under chnnged condi
tions and with modern methods and
appliances.
Stations are being established njl
over the world wherever the condi
tion are favorable. Newfoundland
and the Gulf of St. Lawrence are
already dotted with them. They
have been erected on the Pacific const
and are to be placed on the Ber
mudas. If not already located In the south
ern hemispheres, they soon will be,
and even now humpbacks are taken
off New Zealand with wire' nets.
It Is probable that here again his
tory will repeat Itself, that In a few
years whales will have become io
scarce, that the majority of whalers
will go out of business, and that here
and there whales will slowly begin
to Increase In numbers.
Meanwhile, It la a curious fact that
though whales are so common In
many parts of the world and have
beer, killed In great numbers for
centuries, comparatively little Is
known of them and good pictures and
reliable Information of them are
scarce.
It Is a case where the very size of
the animal makes its study difficult,
and those brought la closest contact,
have neither time nor ability, as a
rule, to avail themselves of their op
portunities, and naturalists have
been obliged to depend on such speci
mens as were washed ashore.
As a result of this the numbers of
alleged species of whales were great
ly multiplied, for each specimen that
came ashore seemed to be just a lit
tle d'fferent from any other that bad
been described, and so a new name
waB bestowed upon it.
And it is only within a few years
that, as the result of many years oi
patient labor, Dr. Frederick William
True, head curator of the department
of biology of the United States Na
tional Museum, has been able to dis
entangle the species found along. out
shores from the web of names in
which they were enveloped, and re
duce them to a few good species.
In the early days before a new
naturo book was issued every other
day and works: of natural history
contained so much of fabulous ior
that a conscientious llbrabrlan might
be puzzled to. decide whether or not
to class them as works of Action, w
And much misinformation In regard
to the leviathans.
Even modern text books give th
length of whales bb anything up to
150 feet, their weight us many tons
and their shape as almost anything.
The extreme length reached by th
sulphur-bottom or "blue whale," th
largest animal that lives, or for thai
matter ever lived, is about 85 feet.
Among the things modern whale
fishing has, done has been to make 11
possible for museums to exhibit these
huge animals so that visitors may ob
tain a correct dea of their size auij
appearance and really know them
better than those who go down to the
sea in t-lps and do business in great
water.
The species now being blotted out
of existence are the humpback, v so
called, not beeauBe he has a hump,
but because he rounds over or bumpi
himself when be dives; the finback,
the greyhound among the whales,
lean and slender, clad in the thinnest
of blubber and Invariably sinking
when shot, and the sulphur-bottom.
The modern whaler is a trim iron
steamer about 90 feet In length and
10 tons burden, capable of making IS
knots an hour and powerful enough
to tow In two whales at once. This
craft, which jan relentlessly pursue
a whale hour after hour, carries only
two men more than an ordinary
wbaleboat It can easily kill and
bring home three whales in a day..
TVAlAi STRKKT OJT SUNDAY.
It it 'an.
Odd Place, Complete!)
Transformed.
Wall street on Sunday Is an od.l
plnce. It Is as different from Wall
street on a market day as Chestnut
utrpet, Phllnde phla, on Sunday, Is
different from any ptreet In New
York any day. So It may easily be
surmised hov very odd Wall street
then g.
W1.1 the clicking of tickers drown
ed In the clang of the chimes of
Trinity and with the streets broker
AROUND THE STATUE
less, tho week day picture Is Indeed
changed. At the head of Wall street
a quiet, sombre gabbed stream of
prions Is entering the splendid old
place of worship.
In contrast a flock of happy young
sters, for the most part children of
the Janitors an., caretakers of the
huge buildings are sliding down the
legs of the statue of George Wash-
CHIMES OP TRINITY.
Ington In front of the Sub-Treasury.
On the pavement, other youngsters,
laughing, whistling and singing, are
rtlllng hoops, roller skating, playing
duck on the rock and "catch." The
curb market Is not In their way. The
traffic policemen are taking a day
off.
In front of several of the skyscrap
ers are seated the Janitors, their
chairs t-lted back against the build-
THE JANITOR'S DAY.
lngs. The Janitors are smoking their
pipes Sometime, their wives may
be seen sitting with them, knitting or
look'-g over the colored supplements.
It is the "home lllfe" of Wall street,
Nc yelling, no "extra "dltlons," no
Jumble of hansoms and delivery wag
ons, no Shoestring Billy, no Red
Bootblack.
In some of the buildings a lawyer
or business man may be seen at some
of the windows doinj some work he
ROLLER SKATING,
coulln't finish the day before. It
Is the only Incongruous bit In the pic
ture of peaceful ness.
Pearl Banks of Ceylon.
Th Pearl banks of Ceylon date
back to the sixth century before
Christ. It Is recorded that Vijaya
tho first Slngalese King of Ceylon, In
the year 650 B. C, presented his
father-in-law, the Panjyan King of
Madura, "a gift of pearls," thus in
dicating a settled fishery for pearls
od the coast of his dominions prior
to the historlo data.
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Goaca In Pixie,
la Dixie almost every third young
ster owns a goat, and many have
pain of them. t Is a common a'ght.
In any of the fashionable streets,
even of large cities, to see well
groomed billies drawing miniature
carriages w th Juvenile drivers.
Many of the guats owned by Southern
children are handsome animals
The greatest cathedral at Cologne,
although completed but a few years
ago, has so deteriorated from factory
emoke that ths body of tho ehureb
will have to be renovated throughout
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Bloomsburg, Pa.
U. 8. Cemetery ta Mexico.
"Though very few people are aware
of tho fact." said an army officer th
otner day, "the United States Gov
ernment owns and maintains a nation
al cemetery In Mexloo. It Is locate!
at ban Conine, near the City of Mexi
co, and was purchased and establish,
ed In the year 1860 for the purpose
of Interring the remains of soldiers
of the United States who dled'qr
were killed in that vicinity during
thwar with Mexloo and aleo for in
terring the bodies of clttiens of the '
United States who have died In that
vicinity since that period."
"inucnes.