THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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THE COLUMBIAN.
Ul.OOMSBURO, TA.
THURSDAY, A PHIL 30. 1908
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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