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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO, PA,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ULOO..ISIJUKG, PA.
THURSDAY, 1'KimUAllY 27, 1908,
THINKS WE LIVE TOO HIGH.
Botton Woman Sayt Luxury It the Evil of
the Age.
It is wages versus large ideas and
not the increased cost of provisions
that make the average householder
find it difficult to make both ends
meet today, Mrs. Kllen H. Richards
of Boston recently said in a lecture
upon the "Cost of Living and How
to Control It" at the Teachers
College in New York. She told of
a man whose wife learned to talk
about his salary instead of his
wages. "When we had wages,"
she said, "there was no difficulty
in living within them, but with a
salary we spent everything."
"People spend more money than
they used to," said Mrs. Richards,
"and one reason is that we have
more useful things, like the bath
room, and it is well to be sanitary.
They say the cost of living within
the past thirty years has increased
40 or 50 per cent, but I contend
that it is not so. It is our idea of
living that has increased.
"There has been a great change
in what we women think we need,
in the price of hats and gloves and
gowns. Our grandmothers wo
men of comfortable means felt
that they were doing well when
they had three gowns, and a little
farther back the men might have
had one fine suit of clothes, but
they did not think it was necessary
to have one for the morning, one
for the afternoon and one for the
evening.
"If you divide your income so
that food will cost one-fourth, rent
another and operating expenses
one-fourth more, there will be left
one-fourth for the 'region of choice.'
There is nothing that makes one
feel so poverty stricken as not to be
able to do something that we really
wish. With money for the region
of choice, we get what we most
wish it may be books, travel or
even handsome gowns but some
thing that we really desire. If a
family lives up to its entire income,
there is nothing to draw upon in
case of need, though I class phy
sicians, medicines, dentists and
travel for health as fines that we
have to pay for neglect of nature's
laws.
"The average family having an
income of $2,000 or $3,000, unless
there is an arrangement to save
something for the future or some
thing very much wanted, spends it
all. The woman's largest expen
ses are usually sundries. Men have
temptations to spend, but not as the
women do, with the market, the
bargain counter and the house for
which to provide, though most
houses have three times too much
in them. Women are not always
wise spenders."
- To Resume on Mifflin Bridge.
Work on the ill-fated Mifflinville
bridge will be resumed on April 1
providing, of course, that the wea
ther does not remain intensely
cold. This was the statement made
by Guy Webster, president of the
York Bridge company, the con
tractor. Nearly fitty carloads of material
have been received from the York
Bridge company's factory at York,
and has been unloaded and stored
alongside the river bank. This is in
part new work, and the broken and
twisted parts which were sent back
to the factory for repairs.
There remains about fifteen more
carloads of material,- which inclu
des the rebuilt "traveler," and
dynamos, which are yet to come.
As soon as this arrives, the work of
putting it together will be com-iuenced.
HOPS
PATIENCE and
HOPE
It ia not rensonaWo to as
sumo thut any chronic mul.
oily even though attended
by no duncrous symptoms
can ho cured at once. And
any pn'purnliou Buiil to do
this muy wull bo distrusted.
Hut it is tho experience of
intelligent poojilo nil ovi-r
tho land for over 30 years,
thut a persevering uso of
DR. KENNEDY'S
FAVORITE REMEDY
ccordinu to direct ions, will soon relieve and
iltimately euro cases of Fever and Anne,
Biliousness, Iiheumutism, Debility of tho
jtomaeh, UowoIh, Kidneys and liladder, nud
ill disorders urging from an impure state
f tho Blood, when no other medicine or
reatmeut has been of nny permanent bone,
it. Bufferers may proiierly be reminded
iat Dr. David Kennody's Favorite Jtemedy
no speculative preparation, lilaced upon
be marko to fill tho pockets of a proprietor
ho is ignorant of the first principles of
inedicine, but a prescription used with uni
form success by Dr. Kennedy long before,
lie ever dreamed of nuikiug it public.
Write to Dr. Duvltt Kinm-fly' Hons, Knudoat, N.
., fur free wimple bottle and medical booklet.
irgB bottlea $1.00, tt all druajwU
Your Duty is to be Well.
, Cut yoa cannot be well if yon noRlect
taking Hood a Sarsaparilln when you know
you should tako it. Impure blood, poor
npnetitc, headache, nervousness, ttlat tired
feeling - by these and other signs your sys
tem demands Hood s. Get a bottle today.
ClOW Of Henlth "My blond verr
our Mnce titkine Hood s tnrRparlll I
ecn and eal
Mrs. A. A.
live more color in my face, slec
weil, and work is n pleasure,
Howard, Taunton. Mis.
In Worst Form-" I had catarrh In the
worst form and wm adrlHod to try flood s
Knrxnpnrilla. I took seven bottles and am
tiow In Rood hoHlth, 1 hope everyone who
has cnliirrh will trivo Hood's a fair trial.1'
Whs. William Mxtcalf, 1'arkerford, Pa.
Always Prolse-"I flrt took Hood's Snr
Muwriiln 13 years niro, and always speak In
favor of It." 11. C'owullu 237 ferry Street,
Lowell, Mass.
Hood's Sarsapnrlila Is sold everywhere.
In the usual liquid, or in tablet form called
Sarsatabs. 100 Dodos One Dollar. Ire-
pared only by C. I. Hood Co. Lowell, Mass.
Russia and Sweden May Fight
Relations between Sweden and
Russia are decidedly strained be
cause Russia insists upon being re
leased from an agreement made
when Sweden surrendered Finland
that no naval stations or fortifica
tions slion'd be established on the
Finnish shores adjaceut to Sweden
The part taken by Russia in the
Norwegian integrity treaty and its
attitude on the Baltic "closed-sea"
question also have irritated Sweden
greatly.
War is feared in Sweden because
Russia for some time has been pre
paring to establish a naval station
on the western shores of Aland Is
land, 25 miles from the Swedish
coast, where for more than a year
a large contingent of troops and
several torpedo boats have had
headquarters and Russian officers
have been making surveys and
soundings.
It is believed in some quarters
that Germany will adopt drastic
measures against Denmark if the
latter refuses to join Germany and
Russia against Sweden in the ef
forts to make the Baltic a closed
sea.
A Tragedy of Niagara.
The story of Niagara is full of
strange tragedies. One of the most
dramatic of tbem, says the Boston
Transcript, is as follows: A hun
dred yards above the brink of the
American falls a rock ten feet
square projects for a foot above the
water in midstream. One morning
the inhabitants awoke and s.;w a
man sitting on it. The noise of the
rapids prevented verbal communica
tion. They did not, do not and
never will know how he got there.
He stayed there thirty-six hours.
The people telegraphed to Buffalo,
and the railway company sent one
excursion train after another for
thirty-six hours to see the man on
the rock. They painted signs and
stuck them up for the man to read,
saying, "We will save you." Two
hundred yards above there is a
bridge. From this by ropes they
floated rafts with provisions to him.
At the end of his stay a big raft
came for him to get on. What they
were going to do with him if they
got him in this seething rapid is
not known. He tried and failed
and went over the fall.
The March Woman's Home Companion
The March number of the Woman's
Home Companion again captures pub
lic notice with its charming cover pic
ture of a Japanese girl one of the
daintiest magazine covers that has ap
peared in years. This issue is the
Spring Fashion Number, and for it
Grace Margaret Gould, the fashion ed-
tor, lias prepared many delightful pag
es, illustrating in detail the advance
spring styles.
Dr. Edward Everett Halo contributes
a charming talk on "Home Reading."
Kellogg Dili-land, the author of "The
Red Reign," lias an article of absorbing
interest, entitled "Women of the Re
volt," containing somo heart-rending
anecdotes of the part that certain brave
women have pluytd in the Russian
Revolution.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson writes on
The Mental Growth of Rabies," a re
freshingly bright article, and Irving
Racheller, Francis Lyude, Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps and many others con
tribute fiction. The usual departments,
presided over by Margaret Ji. Kangster,
Fannio Merritt Farmer, Anna Hteese
Richardson and others, are helpful and
attractive. The whole number is beau
tifully illustrated.
O i X? O STL 3 u. .
5earstho s? Kind YoU Have Always Sought
nature S J ,
of
If Yon Have a Boy Ponder.
In American secondary schools in
the year 1906 there were 925,000
pupils 742,000 at the public high
schools and only 183,000 at private
schools of all kinds. Many thou
sands of these latter were in the
preparatory department of the num
erous small colleges all over the
land, but largely in the South and
West. The majority were in the
private schools in the large cities.
The Roman Catholic Church is
more energetic than any other de
nomination in the private educa
tion of the children of its member
ship. In superior education (colleges
and universities nominally for aca
demic study, but largely given over
to technical instruction) there were
51,000 iu State institutions and 97,
000 at other than State institutions.
In professional schools (law, medi
cine, theology, engineering, find the
like, usually in connection with an
academic institution) there wire
11,000 students at State and 21,000
at other than State institutions.
There were also 69,000 pupils of
normal schools (all but 10,000 at
them in State-supported institu
tions), and there were about 4C0,
000 attending art, music, business,
industrial, and trade schools, in
cluding those at Indian schools and
those for the deaf, bliud, and other
unfortunates.
It appears from these official
figures that about nine per cent, of
the primary scholars, uuder twenty
per cent, of the secondary scholars,
and over seventy per cent, of uni
versity and professional students
are educated at private cost. Pri
vate education of children iu pri
mary schools is generally secured
through preference, while superior
education at private expense is a
necessity except in those States
where public universities are esta
blished ; and at the latter only tui
tion is free, and other expenses
about the same as at endowed insti
tutions. At many non-State col
leges and universities scholarships
and other stndeut aid are provided,
so that for many the expense is no
greater than at the State institu
tions. Secondary education is in a differ
ent category from either of the
other branches. In most rural dis
tricts it must be at private cost,
and while iu cities it is usually op
tional, instruction at private cost is
often desirable if the expense can
be afforded. This sort of educa
tion comes at the crucial time in a
boy's life a time when pregnant
idealism is his chief mental char
acteristic, and when he needs the
most patient, tender, and intelli
gent care. Yet for some unknown
reason this is the period when Loys
are likely to receive the least atten
tion from their parents. Joseph
M. ROGERS in March Ltppmcotts.
Vegetation on Mars.
Some Things That Modorn Astronomers Think
They Have Discovered.
Once in seventeen years Mars
makes a close approach to our earthy
and scientists have an opportunity
to guess again. Professor Lowell
in an article on "The Planet Mars"
in McClure's gives an account of
the observations made last July, at
Flagstaff, Ari. He says:
"It used to be thought that the
dark blue-green patches on Mars
were seas and oceans after the man
ner of our own. Generations of
astronomers were brought up on
these Martian seas. But as the
planet came to be more closely ex
amined phenomena were observed
which contradicted this idea. W.
II. Pickering took the first step in
revolutionizing the old theories,
but even he stopped short of the
truth, for, while abolishing many
of the Martia, he yet concluded
that there were two seas in the
planet. In 1894 and subsequently
it was determined by observations
at Flagstaff Hhat there were no
bodies of water there at all, that
what had been taken for seas were
in fact great tracts of vegetation,
whose hue and character changed
with varying seasons on the planet's
year.
"But the recent great advance in
our knowledge of Mars is not entire
ly due, as the general reader might
suppose, to the discovery of these
canals and the wonderful system
they constitute. It is only through
what we have lately learned in re
gard to the general constitution."
More Widows for Pensions.
Not satisfied with the liberal pro
visions of the widows' pension bill,
recently passed by the Houe and
providing lor an annual addition of
$12,000,000 to the nation s pension
charges, the Senate committee has
still further broadened the provis
ions of the measure, so that if pass
ed as reported to the Senate the
annual increase iii the pension ap
propriations will be about $15,000,
000. Practically all restrictions which
were contained in the bill as passed
by the House have been removed
by the Senate committee. Widows
of old soldiers who remarried are
admitted to the pension rolls, and
every other limitation of a similar
character is eliminated. There is
very little doubt the bill as changed
will be passed by the Senate, as
Congress is in a most liberal mood
toward the old soldiers and their
widows and other dependents or
ex-dependents ever known, even 111
a Presidential year. The President
has expressed his intention of sign
ing the bill when it comes to him.
Stay On the Farm.
Contrasting the certainties of ob
taining a livelihood on the farm
with the uncertainties in this re
spect existing in city life, as at
present is most clearly demonstrat
ed, the Washington Observer urges
young meu and young women to
stay on the farm, as farm life is no
longer the islated life it once was
with its present mail, telephone,
trolley road and railroad facilities,
and it concludes by saying: "It is
rather remarkable that so many
lathers and mothers are willing to
see their sons and daughters go to
the towns to make their liviugs
when the chances for the future
welfare of their offspring is so
much better on tne farm. If these
hills and valleys of Washington
county ever fail to bring forth their
annual crops and contain a well-to-do
and home-loving people, it will
not be through the impoverishment
of the soil, but it will be because
the towns and cities have robbed
the fields of their best products
the strongest and fairest of the
country's sons and daughters."
Wreck of the Maine.
The Diarie Espanol, the organ of
the ultra Spanish element, of Ha
vana, iu a leading editorial in a re
cent issue, referring to the special
celebration of Americans of the
tenth anniversary of the blowing
up of the battleship Maine, says:
"They commemorate the blacklist
blot on American history, the
world including honest Americans,
believing that the ship was blown
up by direct orders from the War
department for the purpose of justi
fication iu the plan to despoil Spain
of Cuba."
The paper adduces as "convinc
ing proof," that the officers of the
Maine attended the funeral of the
victims in full dress uniform, which
showed that they must have sent
their uniforms ashore "in antici
pation of an explosion," and alleg
es that the reason the wreck has
not been raised is that it would
conclusively demonstrate that the
explosion was in a magazine.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
In the maUer of the eetate of Rait J.Pope, late
of Die Town of Bloomaburg, in die County
Of Columbia, ana Stale of Pennsylvania,
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed, an Auditor appointed by the Or
phans' Court of Columbia county, to
make distribution of the funds, in the
hands of W. C. Johnston, Executor of
said deceased, as shown by his first and
final account, filed in said Orphan's
Court, to and among the parties legally
entitled thereto, will sit at his office in
the Mover Huilding, on Main Street, in
the Town of Bloomsburg aforesaid, on
i-riuay, tne 27th clay of March, 1908, at
q a. m. of said day. to perform the duties
ot ins appointment, and when and where
all persons interested in said estate may
appear and present their claims or be
forever after debarred from coming in
upon the said fund.
a-27-ta. CLINTON HERRING,
Auditor.
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