THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. 5 CHAS. ft1. THE COLUMBIAN. Ul.OOMSBURO, TA. THURSDAY, A PHIL 30. 1908 iHlrred nl thK ltt Ofllt, Blmmirhurg, a. a$te:m&clii itmlU-r, Mann , lsss. Mr. E. C. Caswell is visiting friends in Danielsville, Conn. Edward El well has returned to Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., nfter a two weeks' vacation. . Silas Riddle was called home from Lafayette College last week by the illness of his mother. As her con dition was very much improved he returned to Easton on Monday. For headache Dr. Miles' Antl-Taln rills. The members of the Wednesday Club went to Berwick Wednesday nfternoou, and were handsomely entertained by the 1 wentieth Cen tury Club at the home of Mrs. Col. Jackson. . Judge Evans has ordered a spec ial venire of 175 additional jurors for May court at Danville on ac count of the trial of Tcter Dietrick for the murder of "Corkey" Jones. It will be his fourth trial. Next Tuesday is the date for the election of a County Superintend ent by the school directors of the county. The three candidates in the field are the present incumbent, W. W. Evans, Ralph E. Smith, and Prof. Lesher, of Berwick. . - The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Taul's church will hold a reception in the Parish House on Tuesday evening, May sth at 8 o'clock. A silver offering will be taken, and it will be used for new choir vest ments. All members of the parish are invited. Profs. Wilbur and Jenkins went to Lock Haven on Tuesday to at tend a meeting of the Associated Councils of the Royal Arcanum, which was in session that evening. On Wednesday they visited the Lock Haven Normal School. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills relieve pain. ' Judge Lynch of Luzerne county, insists that trie Countv Commis sioners must orovide a house of re fuge for juvenile delinquents. Chief of Police Long, of Wilkes- Jiarre, has under arrest several boys nnuer 10 years of age, charged with crimes such ns hnralarv and at tempts at killing, At the jail the keepers very rightfully refuse to ccept children, and there is no piace tor them. Judge Lynch said on Tuesday: "The County Com missioners have neglected to pro vide a house of refuge, although frequently their attention has been called to the great necessity of the same. Unless they proceed to pro vide a place for these children the Court will try and find what law there is to compel them to do so. This is a public matter and should be taken up publicly. It is an in tolerable condition of affairs, and the County Commissioners are di rectly responsible." Buy at Home. These are the times when the people of Bloomsburg can support the stores of Bloomsburg by buying what they need at home. Of course some of the stores don't let you know that they are in existeuce, ut, aside from the opportunity they have to advertise their wares j you, hunt them up and give them the trade that is going out of town. There are enough groceries and dry Roods bought in Philadelphia and Chicago to support several good wes and now is the time, when business is dull, for you to show your loyalty to the home merchants who must keep open and who al ways (cheerfully supply you with jne httle things that you don't want bother with In your mail order business. Cutout the mail orders rid give them the big things as eil. lthl iifutus tMii Mnd You Hava Always ftgft EVANS' SHOE STORE Ready for Spring Business. Great 1908 Spring line of Shoes and Ox fords. Every Shoe or Oxford in our Spring line will carry with it ALL THE QUALITY it is possible to put into a shoe consistent with price. Prices $1.50 to $6.00 ALL SIZES. THE PROGRESSIVE SHOE STORE 'EVANS. A fine new line of Wedding in vitations just received at thisotfice. Inadequacy of Punishment The inadequacy of our present system of punching offenders to make proper amends to those who have been wronged, in many in stances, is pointed out by the Sia mokin Daily Neus in the following comments on a local case: "A young Shamokiu man who had been befriended by a man and his wife showed his appreciation by stealing money and jewelry from the latter after the death of her husband. The poor woman needed the money badly and the loss was a severe one. At court on Monday the ingrite was sentenced to nine months in jail. Thus has justice taken its course. But the widow is still minus the money, and the rob ber's punishment will not compen sate for the loss. "Justice" is queer at times. It would have seemed more just to have the young fellow set at work and earn enough money to pay back the woman and then serve time. In that way everybody would be satisfied except the crun inal. But the laws of the land are not so framed and we suppose the sentence is about the worst that could be imposed." Successful Mission at Centralia. The special services at Centralia in the Catholic church closed one of the most successful missions ever held in this section of the state. It appears from the opinion of the people who attended that no mis sion has ever made so profound an impression and none has had such far reaching effects as this one The confessions that were heard amounted by actual count to 1,601; of these 1,281 were adults, divided as follows: 610 women and 671 men. The men exceeded the women by over sixty. The men out-num bered the women in the number ot Total Abstinence promise cards signed. There were 427 women, and 474 men who voluntarily en rolled themselves under the banner of total abstinence, making over 900 Catholic adults in the town of Centralia who do not touch intoxi cating drinks in any manner. There was another feature of the mission and this was the organization of a Holy Name Society, as a protest against the practice of profane swearing and in order to elevate a reverence for the Holy Name of God. There were about 400 men who indicated their intention to become charter members of this or gauization. These few facts speak louder than any amount of words They are the results of the mission, The services Sunday night were the renewal of vows of baptism. The baptismal font w.js set up on high and eautifnlly decorated with lights and Easter flowers, and after an appropriate sermon all the men stood up and in voice full of earn estness and purpose they solemnly protested their determination to stand bv the wo k of the mission and keep the promises made therein A Defense of the Surgeon The Popular Delusion That Leads to Tlany Deaths. In a recent lecture at the Harv ard Medical School Dr. Maurice II Richardson set forth the absolute need,of resorii.ig to the knife in certain cases. The idea that I he surgeon lacks sensibility and is more or les indiff -rent to human suffer ing and may even perform an opera tiou when not absolutely necessary he declared to be all wrong. He said that the contrary was shown by the fact that the surgeon in con stantly laboring to make his pro fession unnecessary, by preventing the recmrence ot the diseases for which he oper .tes, as well as by endeavoring to cure without resort ing to operation "A popular de lusion that the surgeon is simply looking for an opjort unity to keep busy a I the time," Dr Richardsou added, "results in thousands and thousands of deaths of sufferers who are persuaded by friends not to submit to operation, until it is too late to save the patient." The Poultry Yard, Good sour milk is fine for the little chicks and the big ones, too. Give them some every day. I find beets far superior to any kind of roots. I hang them up bo that the fowls will have to stretch to get them. Sitting hens are lice breeders. This is one reason why the incu bator is to be preferred for .hatch ing chickens. It is not too late to order a setting of eggs in order to introduce some new blood in your flocks. Better do it right away. Hens that are set outdoors in barrel nests will not only do better work but will be less likely to have vermin to contend with. I feed my chickens on boards that are kept clean by scrubbing, and since doing so have not lost a chicken with the gapes. The secret in growing May- hatched chickens is to feed well, provide some shade in the runs, and see that tbe chicks get some green food. The first thing that should be done after removing the pretty, downy chicks and their mother from the nests, is to destroy with fire the old filling in that nest. If the chicks are not growing, scmething is sure to be wrong with the management. Keen them housed from cold winds and damp ness. Chilling lowers their vitality. The first of May is a good tune to set the turkey eggs, as the weather is warmer and there is less danger of the cold, rainy spells that so tell on the April-hatched turkey. A red rag hung to the top ot a four-foot stick in the ground near the coop will give the hawks and the crows a pointer that thev had better keep away ; they are likely to mind it, too. Never fuss with the sitting hen ; let her alone. See that she is con stantly provided with water and food, so that she can help herself at will, and then allow her to do the rest. She knows her business. May Farm Journal. Hints for Growing Chickens. Farm and Fireside's poultry ex pert gives the following sound ad vice: After chickens are hatched, do not feed them for twenty-four hours at least. The yolk of the egg in the chicken's abdomen supplies nourishment for this length of time. To force the chicken to eat may mean serious bowel trouble. Give plenty of fresh water. The first feeds should be given at short intervals every two hours with fresh water. Millet is a fine feed for young chickens. At first scatter it on a newspaper, so they will have no trouble in finding it. In a few'days it can be scattered in clover chaff, and the chicks will en joy scratching for it. Give millet until the chickens are large enough to eat wheat. Thrashing screen ings, such as weed seed, cheat and small cracked grains of wheat, will be desirable food for them. Never feed sloppy foods. Keep plenty of dry, coarse sand in the scratching or exercising pen. Instead of beef scraps curded milk may be fed. Scald the milk, and the curd and whey will sepa rate. Drain it by hanging up in a muslin sack, and when it is suffic iently dry crumble it to the chicks. Above all, don't turn the young chickens out in the early morning dews. They will bedrabble them selves and take the gapes or some bowel disease. Have good shelter for them on rainy days, and make the coops rat proof. Be careful also to see that the coops are spac ious. POULTRY POINTS. Sell off the roosters now. Don't forget that chickens all need pure, fresh water where they can get it all the time. Share the skim milk with the hens. They will make as good use of it as any creature on the farm. Count the chickens every night. Sometimes they will wander a bit too far away, and need to be hunted up. Coarse food is out of place for the little chicks. Make their rations all us fine aj you can. Their throats are small. Do you keep an egg record ? Be gin now, if you never have done so before. Set down the number you get every day. Dogs that chase hens ought to be shut away from them. They will worry the hens and keep them from laying, as they otherwise would. Remember that the mother hen that is shut up in a coop is a pris oner, and give her the best care you can, so that when her season for caring for the little fellows Is over she will be in condition to begin work right away. Sometimes they will begin to lay before they are re leased. That shows that they have been well cared for. E. L. Vincent in the April 10th farm and Fireside. The Summons of Spring. Some day it conies the subtle announcement of the spring. We may not have responded to the first bluebird, the first robin, the first rain; ,none of these has appealed. But suddenly spring is thrilling within our soul. We want to go barefoot. Children art going barefoot. Their feet and legs singularly white after the mouths of confinement, they are gleefully scampering upon the smooth, hard asphalt of the city's pave, and, peeling shoes and stockings, are braving the police man in the parks. And in the country ah, in the country 1 Here exists the real luxurious- ness of barefoot state. Once dis carded, shoes and stockings are not resumed again until frost. Small and soft ar the feet exposed, say, along in April; small and soft and white and exceedingly tender. Ev ery little pebble hurts, and one must tread gingerly, with sundry scrcwings of the features and many an "Ouch 1" There can be no offense more egregious than at this time to, step with shod foot upon somebody's naked toes. "Lookout! Get off, darn you !" Oh, the sensation of lightness and buoyancy which upbears one in accord with the summons of the season ! And (in the country) the sensation of the lush, cool soil against, the sole, when the sappy moisture is drunk in by all those pores, long denied, and ascends to vivify the entire being, and when the mud "squshes" up between the wriggling, happy toes; and the bliss of the June road, where the warm dust lies like a velvet pad, so com forting ! How a kid lad or lass can run barefoot ! How he, or she, wants to run ! How he, or she, must run 1 Bless my heart ! This zest to "go barefoot" typifies spring universal, when it is in nature to burst bonds, to revel in youth, and to be thankful for life. Edwin L. Sabin in May Lifincott's." QUEER CTBAN JUSTICE. Criminal Law That Surprise Ameri cans Autocratic Police. The Cuban Idea of Justice is a pe culiar thing, although it doesn't -dif fer very much from thai In othar Latin American countrlta, and one of the things the Americans want most to do U to revise the penal code. But there appears to bo no demand for It just now and tee chances for any changes ueem small. Not many months ago one of the courts In Havana rendore.l two ver dicts on the same day. One man was sentenced for stealing a niule and for falsely registering him as his own. He got six years for steal ing the mule and eight years for making the false registration, a to tal of fourteen years In prison. On the same day the court sen tenced a man for killing his mis trees. It was a peculiarly brutal crime. The man and woman hal separated. They met after a couple ot months on the street and the man rxfrgid the woman to return to htm. She refused. Re became violent an-1 xhe ran, turning into the first r.pen door way. There he overtook ner, stab bed her repeatedly, several times after life must have passed away, and was then arrested. He got two years in the penitentiary. And according to the statutes the Judge did nothing illegal. The man was proved to be "obsecado," or be side himself, and the crime was "paslonal." But had the wotr-an killed the man she would probably have been sent up for 11 fa or possi bly sent to the garrote. The policeman of Havana Is an autocrat. He can do Just about as tie pleases, and any resistance what ever of his authority Is a serious matter. There is a standing sen tence for striking or even pushing a cop around. It Is now one year, four months and seven days. It used to be two years, eight months and fourteen days. It was so fixed on the books of law and was unaltera ble. The policeman makes an ar rest. If he is resisted by his pris oner he can file charges to that ef fect and the prisoner must prove his innocence. The theory that one la guilty until proved lnn.vent runs through the whole thing. An American here awoke one night to find a burglar In his room. Ho got up to chuse him out A fight ensued In which the Amer-.cm shot the burglar in tba 'eg. The police came and the American whs arrested for shooting the thief. Th'.s American has Influence, but it tnuk all he could muster to keep out of Jail, and the case was not finally sot tied until he had paid tbe burglar $5,000 for that damaged log. Under the law the American had no right to shoot, and by so doing he was guilty of attempted homicide. It Is very difficult for Americans com ing to Cuba to understand the sys tem and they often get Into trouble. Another odd thing happens when there Is a fire. The fire department Is, of course, called out and, the police follow along. The police ar rest the owner of the establlshmeut whloh Is burning aad hold him until be proves entire Innocence. It la said that this Is on the theory that whenever there la a fire the owner ot the property must have, started It Clipt Prices in Your Favor. MANY LINES REDUCED. $20.00 Tailored Suits Dip Fronts . $15.00 50c Priestley's Black Mohair, Bright and Crisp . . 374c 50c Plaid Dress Goods 35c $1.20 Black Taffeta Silk, yd wide . . 95c 45c White French Lawn Fine and Sheer . 20c Best Apron Ginghams 7c Seamed Bleached Sheets regular 65c now . 40c Covert and Cloth Jack ets . . $3.72 $1.00 Colored all Wool Dress Taffetas . 85c THE CLARK STORE BIG OFFER To All Our Subscribers The Great AMERICAN FARMER Indianapolis, Indiana. The Leading Agricultural Journal ot the Nation. Edited by an Able Corps of Writers. The American Farmer is the only Literary Farm Journal pnV lished. 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The one hundred and twenty-five odd miles along the New Jersey coast line from Long Branch to Cape May presents the greatest pleasuring section in the United Upon the bluffs of the northern end and the gently shelving sands of the southern end are located forty re sorts which entertain during the spring and summer season millions of pleasure seekers. At no time in the year is this section more delight ful than during the spring and early summer months. One who has not seen them at this season would marvel at their delights. The great pine belt, which extends through the center of New Jersey, fills the air with life giving ozone, v hich combined with the salty tang of the sea and the open air exercise possible at all times, is ex hilarating and tonic to the highest degree. Long Branch, with its beautiful cottage-neighbors, West End, Hollywood, and Elberon ; Deal and Allenhurst, largely devoted to cottage life ; Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, attracting thousands yearly; Avon, Belmar, Como, Spring Lake, and Sea Girt, are a galaxy of attractive places upon the bluffs where "the country meets the sea." Then the Barnegat Bay section, where Point Pleas ant, Sea Side Park, Island Heights, Barnegat City, and Beach Haven, with other smaller places nearby, welcome the summer sojourner. Atlantic City, with its seven miles of beach and drives, and its charming suburbs, leads the island resorts, separated from the main land by the great salt marshes. Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Avalon, and Stone Har bor ; Anglesea, Wildwood, Holly Beach, and Wildwood Crest also have a large summer population. And Cape May, with its new million dollar hotel and its wonderful improvements makes a fitting climax and holds a high place among the forty beaches. The Pennsylvania Railroad is the direct route to all of these resorts from all sections of the country. Its splendid train service makes each of them neighbor to all the rest and to the world at large. 4-lJ-tt $12.48 Prince Chap Suits Pleated Skirts , $9.96 $1 00 Broad Cloths, Black and Colors . 80c $1.00 Colored Taffeta Silks, 27 in. wide . 85c $1.75 Herringbone Crav enette, Priestley's price . . $1.2$ 15c Printed Voiles . 11c Yard Wide Hill Muslin 10c 45c Striped and Plaid Linen Suitings , 40c $1.00 Black Voile . 85c All Dress Trimmings -at Big Reduction in price.
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