8 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURQ, PA. THE COLUMBIAN. UI.O0..1SBUR.G, PA. THURSDAY, PKI'TEMHKR 3, l!H)S Items of Interest The swan is the longest-lived of birds. Nuts form the principal diet of the Sotualt soldier. The Maoris of New Zealand now number 42,000 odd. Sugar is now being manufactured from wcod in California. Honeycombs 18 feet high are built by the giant bees of India. Native trees are used as telegraph poles 111 parts of Java. Brazil is about to spend ten mil lion dollars tor railroads. The average yearly milk yield per cow is 400 gallons. The pygmies of Africa are rarely heavier than 90 pounds. The largest orchard in the world is in California. The average number of Alpine accidents has trebled m 15 years. Korea, with a population of ao,- 000,000, consumes 840,000,000 ci garettes yearly. A great deal of the Oriental to bacco trade is controlled by a British-American concern. The tobacco industry of France is a Government monopoly yielding $93,000,000 per year. Hamburg has more firemen in proportion to her size than any oth er city in the world. The sum of $550 has been paid for a single specimen of the Anti niacus butterfly. Vessels move faster through deep water with the same amount of power. On the largest tobacco farm in the world, a 25, ooo-acre affair, near Amsterdam, Ga., is grown about a third of all the Sumatra tobacco used for cigar wrappers in the United States. A potato that is said to be disease-proof has been introduced in France from Uruguay, To Reforest Watersheds. Secretary Wilson Thinks This Nation's Most Pressing Need. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has returned from an extended trip through the Western States, where, in the mountain region, he investi gated the forestry situation. He says that the great problem that is being studied is the reforesting of the water-sheds in order to preserve the mountain streams. "The question of getting enough wood in most of the States east of the divide," he added, "cannot be determined by planting in time to meet the requirements of the peo ple, but the growing of something ;u the water-sheds should be at tended to, and that is being closely studied by the Department of Ag--iculture. Colorado is the greatest beet sugar producing State. There vere 200,000 tons produced there last year. But, because of the fact that they have not the water to provide the irrigation needed, two f the factories there wili not run :his year. This is what we have en fearing, and a method of get ring something to grow on the .vater-sheds is a pressing need. "It is out of the question to re orest the water-sheds of the coun try with a spade. There is too nuch to do. The work must be lone in some wholesale manner, md to this the department is giving its earnest attention." ' Died After Operation. Mrs. Charles Fruit of Millville lied last Saturday afternoon, after mdergoing an operation at the 1'oseph Ratti Hospital. The oper tion was a last resort to save her ife, but failed. Her husband and 1 dauehter survive. The funeral vas held at her home in Millville q Tuesday morning. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County. S3. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of 1?. J. Cheney & Co., doing business n the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm vill pay the sum of one hundred DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured hy the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscrib ed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. Glrason, Seal Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in .ernally, and acts directly on the )lood aud mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CH3NKY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con Trolley Rumors. A Line From Witiiamport l Wilkes-Barr May be Built. ' Mention has been made in the press of a trolley line from Wil liamsport to Wilkes-Barre running through Muncy. A gasoline motor line between Bloomsburg and Mill ville, which is actually under con struction, will form the main con necting link between the Columbia aud Montour traction line. It is expected that the Wyoming Valley Traction line will in the near fu ture be extended from Nauticoke to Berwick which will give a con tinuous trolley connection from Wilkes Barre to Bloomsburg. This gasoline motor car line will be ex tended from Millville to Muncy via Exchange, Coinly, Turbotville aud the Muncy hills. The above route would cut off about twenty miles in the route from Williatnsport to Bloomsburg. For the successful operation of a motor line a level road bed is need ed, and this can be secured at much less cost than if the road was to be operated by steam and electricity. The idea looks good, the promoters are sanguine of success in their un dertaking, and it is to be hoped that no unlookcd for obstacles will be encountered in the carrying out of their plans. Let the motorcar line come by all means. It is to Muncy's advantage. Muncy Lumi nary. Apple Recipes. As to Baking A Rich Pudding Sliced and Baked. Few know how to cook apples properly. They must be served hot, because the cold baked apple is to the stomach like a piece of lead. An apple baked today is unfit to serve tomorrow. Their cooking re quires basting and watching care fully like a piece of meat. The whole apple should be baked in the skin. There is no particular harm in eating the skin and the best fla vor is next to it. To bake apples, wash and core, put in a granite or porcelain pan, fill with sugar, add a half cup of water and bake slowly until soft. Baste once or twice and serve hot. Mrs. Hetty-Lilly's recipe for ap ple pudding: One pound of baked apples strained, six ounces of but ter added while hot, one-half pound of sugar, the rind and juice of two lemons. When cold add six eggs well beaten and bake in a rich crust. Sliced and baked. Core but do not pare and cut into thin slices. Put a layer in the baking dish and sprinkle with sugar, then another layer of apples, etc., and have last a layer of sugar. Cover the pan and bake ten minutes. Then remove the cover and bake ten minutes longer. Serve with meat as a com pote. The Women of Sumatra. The treatment given the married women of the Island of Sumatra would suggest a wives' paradise. As soon as the marriage ceremony Is performed the husband makes his worldly posses sions over to his wife and thence forth devotes his energies to accu mulating a greater fortune. Divorce is practicably unknown, and one cyni cal writer has suggested that this may be because husband and wife do not live In the same bouse, each having separate home. Then there Is the period of widowhood, which Is prac tlcularly hard to endure because rf the very happy lot of the wife. Con sequently the widow's veil, called there the "oriamme," is especially manufactured of the lightest possible material, its toxture being as fine as muslin, with the result that the most gentle of breezes soon tear It to pieces. Thus within a very short space does the widow find herself free to marry, and but few months elapse before she has found same one to con sole her and has again bound herself with the golden bonds of matrimony. For Dry and Dandruffy Hair. When the hair Is dry and dandruffy the following lotion, used every other night, will be found beneficial: To four ounces of rose water add half a 3ram each of sulphur glycerin and borax. This will clear the scalp of dandruff and prepare It for the new growth of hair. While the head Is In the abnormal condition Indicated by the presence of dandruff the hair will ae ther be glossy nor of a good color, nor will there be a healthy growth if new hair. There need be no anx iety over the falling of the hair unless It falls to excess provided new hair keeps on appearing, but no aead of hair Is so rich and luxuriant '.hat It can stand Indefinitely ba ng lepleted even by one hair a day If :hcre Is no corresponding gain to Balance tho loi-s. Sweet Oil for Furniture. Tlr.ser marks on varnished furni ture are removed by rubbing them with a piece of ri? .dipped ti Fret ill. Afterward polish with a dry cloth. OABTOHI. Raanth cf Ilia Kind You Haw alwars Bought a i.rkat i;Di itAxcK race. A Rrcorri-Tlrcnklnu; lOtc Ahing tte Ohl Hnntft Kc Trail. When we come to talk Rhotit mod rrn endurance rnces for sport or for ef. the present rider run scarce ly hold a candle to K. X. Aubrey, who used to do some gretit stunts on the roof of a nronoho. In 1S50 he made t. bet that he could cover the distance from Santa Fe, N. M., to In dependence, Mo., over the old trail In eight days. It Is 765 miles be tween the t two points as the freight caravans travelled It, and by that loute on a wager of $1,000 Aubrey was to ride. He Micceeded In winning, making his destination, the Jones House la Independence, three hours before the -rplratlon of tht.t time. During this his tirnt ride he killed a number of horses, the death of one when with in twerty-tlve miles of Council Grove, compelling him to walk to that place, carrying his saddle on his back where he obtained another ani mal. This feat of Aubrt-y was regarded ns the greatest tide ever made by anyone in ancient or modern times and he became the hero of the In cipient border town. Independence, where he was feted and made the lion of the day. His fame spread throughout the entire West, Includ ing California, where he waa well l;nown. Although people marvelled much nt the wonderful endurance of the I man and the remarkable time In which he had made the trip, still Au brey himself was not at all satisfied with It. He determined to break that record, and the following season made nnother wager of $5,000 la pold that he would do It. He ac complished bis record-brtaklng dash aorcss the p'.ans In the marvellous timf ot only five days and thirteen hourj. His objective point was the same hotel to which ie had ridden on his former trip. On this ride when he reached that hostelry he was perfect, ly exhausted and In falntlii- condi tion, his horse quivering from head to foot and wnlte with foam. Au brey was lifted from the bad- of the nnlmol by his friends and carried Into his room In the house, where he lay in a complet . btupor tor two days. Six horses, which previous to starting trom Santa Fe had been stationed at distances varying from twenty-five tt fifty miles along the route fell dead under him, so terribly fast had lie forced them on. He possessed a beautiful mare, iellie, a favorite anmlal, noted for speed and enduraice, but she expired at the end of the first 150 miles. On his last great trip he rode day and night, stopping only long enough to leap from his tired animal and spring on to a fresh one. He made more tnan two hundred miles every twenty four hours, and all the sleep he took aggregated but three hours during the entire five days. Diet for Sleeplessness. Dr. William Stevens xays that In somnia Is not a Jlsease itself,, but the effect of an unhealthy condition of body or mind. When the cause Is removed the insomnia may be ex pected to disappear. Every physician has had stubborn cases ot It which would not yield to any treatment, and for which a change of air or of scene may be necessary. But such cases as these should hot occur, and do occur only when the sufferer has neglected pre cautions that should have been tak en wnen the trouble first made It self manifest. Insomnia results from causes which can be removed if attended to in season. The most common cause is tound In the digestive organs either unsuitable food causing soni n!a as a feature of indigestion, or In sufficient food causing the patient to be kept awake by hunger. There are few things which can be universally recommended as diet .or sleeplessness, since what will agree with one man will disagree with another. But two things which may almost always be recommended are lettuce and celery. London Globe. On the Ocean Itottom. Sitting inside a submarine on the ocean bottom you would be no more conscious ot the enormous water r -fssure without than If you were going to sleep In your own bed. ou might remain tweuty-four hours un der water without coming up, using only the natural air supplied by the boat without feeling the least un comfortable. If you wished, you might remain down four or five days, tapping the air tank, as you needed a tresh supply of air. In tho mean time you would bunk over the torpe does and tenure yourself by letting our Imagination loose ' to your heart's content., or you might read by electric Ugh'., or play cards or dominoes or checkers, the cook serv ing you with coffee or canned things that can be heated on an electric fur. nace. St. Nicholas. lleu's Had Tolnts. "1 have been hearing of the busy bee until 1 am tired of It," says Drake Watson. "A bee works dur ing the summer and then rests all winter nKe a plasterer. And a bee has bad habits. Go Into a vineyard and you will und bee drunkards Around bursted njrapes. The drunk ard bees sip the Juice until they be come full, and then fall to the ground and sleep off their debauch; a drunk, ard bee knows enough not to go borne with a Jag. ' W AMOXO THi: CI-OIDS. .S?ve of the Novel tfxpcrlenres F.n countered by Halloonlits. Palloonlng, (.ellghtful as it In In emit- or Its aspects, Is not all beer nr.d skit tics. Capt. Charles De I'. Chandler, winner of tho Lahm Cup and one of the contestants In the re cent International race, sas that h j and his companions, In the course of their long flight, were fired at thirty times by farmers. Tho bal loons frightened their chickens. Some of the shots struck the Wal loon but did no damage because of the long range. Poultry even at night scetd to have a sense of the passage of the balloon, making an outcry cf alnrm which could be heard by tht aeronauts. The moonlight which prevailed during the rare prod .iced beautiful effects by Its htnlng on masses of clouds below tho vo;-.ngors. All scientific records for low temperature were broken during the flights from St. Louis. One Instrument which reached an al titude of nine miles recorded a tem perature of 111 degrees below zero, the lowest natural degree of cold of which scientists have any knowl edge. Leslie's Weekly. A Peculiar Name. There Is a post hamlet In Cass County, Missouri, with nothing pe culiar about It except its name, and that Is Peculiar. Its origin, accord ing to local traditions was as fol lows: When the settlement had become sufficiently populous to need a post office, one of the prominent citizens sent a petition to Washington to have one established. In due course the petition was granted and he was ask ed to suggest a name that would please the people. He replied, "The people are not particular so long as the name Is peculiar." Thereupon the postofilce was christened Peculiar, and the name has never been changed. Going to a Fire in a Missouri Town. When the editor starts to run to a fire at night and .uns Into a tree in the middle of the walk, and boards fly up and bruise his shins, comes to a Biidden step off from eight to ten Inches, which sends hlra sprawling Into a pond of water and mud where a sidewalk ought to be, stumbles over a sudden raise In the walk, falls and smashes his nose on a broken board and then sprains his ankle by stepping In a hole whre a board Isn't, he begins to wake up and take Interest. Wayne Country Journal LITERARY INSTITUTE and STATE NORMAL SCHOOL Bloomsburg, Pa. 1908-1909. New Science Hall, costinir 7s - 000 Laboratory Methods Good Gymnasium New Library - and Recreation Rooms Well-Drilled Model Schocl, with ample accom modations New Athletic Field Remodeled Kitchen Equipment improvea Uiniug-Koom Service Free Tuition to Prosnective Teach- ers Healthful Location 33 Pass enger trains daily all Term opens Sept. 8, 1908 Classes begin Wed nesday, Sept. 9th. For various courses and tates see catalogue. Address D. J. Waller, Jr., Principal. WIDOWS' APPRAISEMENTS. Notice is hereby tiven that the follow. ing Widows' Appraisements will be pre sented to the Orphans' Court of Colum bia County, on Monday, September 38th. A. D. 100S by the Clerk of said Court and confirmed ni si, and unless excep- 110ns arts niuu iu same wunin lour days they will be confirmed finally. Estate of Joseph Buck, late of Mon tour township, deceased, realty $100.00. Estate of Wm. U. Parker, late of Greenwood township, deceased, person alty $300.00. Estate of W. Clark Richart. late of Hloorasburg, deceased, personalty $300. Estate of W. E. Mausteller, late of Catawissa Borough, deceased, personalty $18.10; realty $225.00, Estate of Jeremiah K. Fowler, late of Bloomsburg, deceased, personalty $300. Estate of C. C. Kellogg, late of deceased, personalty $115.75. Estate of George E. Lewis, late ot Bloomsburg, deceased, personalty $227. Estate of Daniel Sterner, late of Bloomsburg- deceased, realty $300.00. Estate of James McHale. late of Cen tralia Borough, deceased, realty $300. Estate of Steward A. Ash, late of Briar Creek township, deceased, person alty $300.00, Estate of Michael Bubis, late of Cony nghara township, deceased, personalty $300.00. Estate of Jacob S. Webb, late of Pine township, deceased,' personalty $95,25; realty $204.75. Estate of William B. Litwhiler, late of Locust township, deceased, personalty $300, 00. C. M. TERWILLIGER. Clerk's Office. Clerk O. C. Bloomsburg, Pa,, Sept. a, 1008. IN THE ORPHANS' COURT OF THE COUNTY OF COLUMBIA Htlatf 0 Janus NcUale, itnvattd. Notice is hereby given that Honora McHale, widow of decedent, has pre sented to and filed in said Court her pe tition with the return and inventory and appraisement of the real estate of said decedent elected to be retained and set anide to her under the Act of June 4th, 1883, and that the same will be approv ed by the Court on the 4th Monday of September. 1908, unless exceptions thereto be filed before that time. EDWARD J. FLYNN, 8-3o-3t. Attorney for Petitioner. Alexander Brothers & Co., DEALERS IN Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, and Confectionery. Fine Candies. Fresh Evory Week. 2?;ETT"jr 00003 A. SPECIALTY. HAVE YOU SMOKED A ROYAL BUCK or JEWEL CIGAR? ASK YOUR DEALER EOR THEM. ALEXANDER BROS. & CO., Bloomsburg, p. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF Carpets, Rugs, Hatting and Draperies, Oil Cloth and Window Curtains You Will Find a Nice Line at W. M. BBQ WER BLOOMSBURG, PENN'A. ( ( m&9 WHY WE LAUGH. 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