V 8 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURQ. PA. THE COLUMBIAN. lU.OOMSBURO, PA. THURSDAY, 8 KPT KM Iil',11 17, NKW. WASHINGTON From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, Sept. 14, 1908. Although the official social seas on in Washington does not begin until the first clay of January each year the Capital is now emerging from the partial eclipse in which it is obscured each year for about three months. Next week the President will return to the White House, and it cannot be said that the city is ever dull when the flaj; flies over the Executive mansion, the sign that the President is occu pying it. He comes earlier than usual this year and as a consequence people who have been deciding that they must stay away later each year because it was really not smart to precede the President's family to the city, are now hastily rearrang ing their plans so as to get home earlier. The fashionable tailors and milliners who have previously de cided that it was not worth while opening their shops and paying their assistants to sit about and wait until their rich patrons return ed, and who in consequence pasted the signs on their windows that they would not be ready for busi ness until October first or fifteenth are in despair. Things are going to start off with a rush by the mid dle of September, and the patient ones who have stayed right at home through this unusually hot summer are the ones who will sell the bon nets and make the new sheath cos tumes. Of course there will be no official entertaining so that the social season cannot be really said to open yet, but as the so called "smart set" is after all such a small part ot the nation's capitol it is a rather negligible quantity to everybody but its self, the haber dashers and the society reporter. Several Cabinet homes are already opened. There is Secretary Strauss of the Interior Department, for in stance who has been home a week or more after "luxuriating" as he calls it in a house which he built in the woods at a total cost of $450, furnishings included. He occupies a big, Venetian house on a hill over looking the city, and as its exterior is of pink structure it is known as the "pink house in contradistinc tion to the White House. The Secretary who has carriages and an automobile or two prefers to walk every day to the Department, and any morning regardless of the weather he may be seen trudging along Sixteenth street to his office. In the afternoon he drives in the park with his handsome wife look ing even more grey and feeble by comparison with her youthful and healthy appearance. There are to be a number of changes in diplomatic circles this Fall, the most important of all be ;ng that caused by the death of the Baron von Sternberg, the German AtnDassaaor. ine uaroness von Sternberg who is an American was with her husband in Germany at the time of his death, but she will return to Washington to remove her effects from the Embassy here, prior to the arrival of a new Am bassador. The couple will be much uissed in society here for though they were both afflicted, he with a :ancer of the face which made it necessary to wear patches over one -ide of it all the time, and she with in incurable lameness, they were nost hospitable and persons of in- . erest and refinement. The Baron .ss is quite noted as a beauty and .he Ambassador was a warm and ntimate friend of the President. The German Embassy a large, and . ather forbidding looking house has . ilways been one of those impossible buildings which, apparently no imount of skill ar money could make attractive or homelike. When he Von Sternbergs took it the Kaiser .himself proposed a large .State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County. j ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that be is senior partner of the firm of lr. J. Cheney &. Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid., and that liaid firm ill pay the su:n of onr hindred bouars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Fran,k J. Chknkv. Sworn to before ie and subscrib ed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. i&M. A. W. Dlbason, Seal Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, and acts directly on the lood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J, CU)EY & Co.,. Toledo, O. Sold bv all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for co-itipation. sum of money for its decoration end to make it more habitable after its long use as bachelor quarters by the previous Ambassador. How well the money was spent is a mat ter for disagreement. Someone conceived the idea of doing (he in terior throughout in white. A con cession was made in the drawing room to cream colored walls and on these were hung a large number of mirrors and placques in silver I rames, all very valuable as .they we.e antiques, but ineffective in their mrroundings. They were suspended near the high ceiling so that they were useless as mirrors and as they become tarnished in a few days they were seldom seen to advantage and seldom appreciated. The great physical misfortunes of the distinguished couple made them more frequently objects of pity rather than of envy and the necess ity of living in the midst of such costly ugliness must have seemed a gratuitous affliction. The Swedish Minister, Mr. Lag er crantz, after more than a year's absence from his post here is re turning this month. The cause of his absence has been subject for much speculation among the gossips but the fact of his return must allay the rumors that he was persona nor grata at the White House. During the transition period irom the dullness of summer to the awakening of the business and 'Of ficial life of the city the only sen sation has been in the remarkable tests made here by Orville Wright of his flying machine.. This week he has made almost daily flights which are attended by prominent officials and Army officers, aud Tuesday he broke all previous rec ords for heavier than air flying machines when he remained in the air more than an hour and covered forty miles. The exhibitions have been given at the army post known as Fort Meyer, on high ground just outside of the city. The flights have been successful without ex ception and it is supposed he will give the official test soon. No More Bugs. .An Effective Method ol Destroying Them. Dr. H. A. Surface, state econo mic zoologist, who is known thro ughout Pennsylvania by his relent less crusade on the San Jose scale, the codling moth, etc., has now de clared war on the "climex lectular ius." Perhaps you may not know what the "climex lectularius" is, but the chances are that the general public knows the insect under the name of a common bug that infests the couch of slumber and arouses the sleeper with sundry bites the livelong night, and. is known as the moat deliberate sleep destroyer in existence. In other words to put it plainly the "climex lectularius" Is the common, ordinary bed bug, and Dr. Surface is after him with a gun, or rather a destroyer that des troys. He recently received a let ter from a man in Lancaster who asked how to destroy bed bugs. "You may think that is a sing ular request," said Dr. .Surface, "but it is one .that is frequently re ceived here a request for some method of destroying these pests. I tell them all to fumigate their homes with Prussic acid gas. All that is necessary to kill the bugs, and not only bugs, but rats and mice and other vermin, is to pour water into a vessel (avoid using nietal)and drop the cyanide of po tassium or Prussic acid in the water in a paper bag and leave the room. The mixture will do the rest. Use an ounce of cyanide io four ounces of water, and you can do the trick. But you must not stay in the room while the remedy is working. Get out of the room as quickly as pos sible and stay out for about forty minutes. Then open the doors and windows for at least fifteen minutes before again occupying ,the room, and my word for it there will be no more bugs or vermin of any kind in that room. "The comfort to many persons during the summer time would pay many times the cost of tumigatiou, and many would be glad to under take it if they were only certain they could succeed with safety, but if the directions that I am now send ing out over the state aire carefully followed there can be no danger. Only care must be taken that the fumes of the mixture are not in haled. The bed bug must go, and that is the most effectual way of driving it out of existence' Low Water. Reoorts from the towns in Vort county bordering on the Susque- nanna river are to tne enect that the water at present is only about five inches aboye the low water marfc of 1803. At places the river ca he waded, and rocks are expos ed that no one living had ever seen. . Amui & ,iie Km Vtiii Have Always BfiUght 3 naive it WIRELESS RAYS A MENACE TO HEALTH. V.'lil Prolinlily Oiuisp Some MyMv rlotis DIkohnp Like the X-Kays 1)1.1. London, England. It Is now as serted that wlreleHS telegraphy may turn out to be a menace to health of the human race. itaxlng bis alarming suggestion on the fact that the Admiralty Is now ending messages to the British fleet at sea by means of a wireless tele graphic apparatus erected at the iNuvy Headquarters In Whitehall, a well-known scientist says: "This means that ether waves are being let loose In one of the densest parts of London, In my opinion a most dangerous experiment, consid ering the totally unsuspected re sults produced by X-rays, which aro only another form of ether waves, upon people coming into frequent contact with them. "With this ' ylrelPKS system once lr. use the people not only of Ixn don. but of all England, will be con tinually subjected to these myste rious and little understood ether dis turbances, with possibly calamitous results In the shape of some fearful and obHeure disease akin to that caused by X-rays;" Professor Sir William Crookes, when consulted on the subject. Im mediately admitted the possibility of the wireless rays being injurious. "Marcanl rays and X-rays," he said, "are both vibrations of ether. The X-Kays did not produce any In jurious effect for some years, and the fact that they were at all dan Korous was not suspected. Personal ly, though I have worked with the X-rays from the beginning, I have escaped harm. It Is possible that the wireless rays may have an ill ef fect upon people constantly subjected to them, though I have not heard of a case yet." A professor at King's College said: "It Is so uncertain at present In what way the X-rays generate skin dist-a.se that I should not care to Rfllrm that wireless rays have no such effect. For a considerable time no one imagined the X-rays to be harmful aJd then several bad cases occurred. It is impossible to be sure that the Marconi waves are not Injurious, when we know that tho X-ray ether waves are so dangerous. It cannot be denied that another set of ether waves might have their own special action upon the human system. It might be undiscovered for years. Experiment alone can determine whether these wireless rays are harmless or not." VIFK GOT TKK MOXKY. 'Come On" Was Wise, and liunco Men Were Ituncocri. Wichita, Kan. J. J. Savage, a ranch owner of Amarillo, Texas, came to this city to bet $3,500 on a "fixed" horserace. He has fled back to Tex as with his own money and $500 be longing to the four men who tried to fleece him. He brought a draft here to wager on the race. After Savage cashed the draft the bunco men gave him $500 of their own money to wager, thinking to con vince him that the deal was all right. Before the wager was made a friend gave the Texan a tip, however, and he and his wife hired a motor car, drove from the city to Welling ton, and took a train home. Mrs, Savage took charge of her husband's $3,600 and the bunco men's $500. IS $20,000,000 WASTKDT Experts Say Government's Ohio Itlvcr Dams Are Had. Pittsburg, Pa. The most of the $20,000,000 which has already been expended by the government In mak ing the six dams below Pittsburg, In the Ohio River, has been practically thrown away. Is the contention of rlvermen, aud there Is a fight on In the matter between river Interests and the engineers in charge of the government -work. It appears that the government dams have been so constructed that the water eddies Immediately below the dams, making sand bars, which :are far more dangerous to shipping than were conditions in tho river be fore the dams were built. HOKSN Hl'JUUKl) TO DOCTOR. WIso Anlniul Knew What to Do When It Got Colic. Bloomlngton, Ind. The most sen Bible horse of local ' record was found here when the family animal of Samuel Johnson became sick with colic, and of Its own accord made Its way to the veterinary eight blocks .away. Dr. Sweeny heard a noise In his yard and he found the Johnson Jkorse reeling In pain. He treated the animal and sent it home. To Trace Shells by Telescopes. Wasuington, D. C. One hundred observation telescopes are to be pur chased by the Ordnance Department of the army. They are to be used In coast Artillery practice to watch the fall of shots. Return AVave of Immigrants. Washington, D. C. Immigration omcials scatter a few bits of Infor mation which tend to lessen the pessl mlum stirred by the news that 600, 000 Europeans have already booked Viwaza bark to America. NOT A tlousi:l.i:ss :K. I'ncts Norm to Indcntc Tlmt l! t. Fit M tier Awny Tlmn V.wt. The horseless BgD that hss been ro t'crsistently predicted Is not iiiithIv siow In coming; the facts seem to l.i dlcate thnt It Is farther away than ever and perhaps may never come. People must be riding a great deal more than they ever rode before. The automobile Industry In tbls country has quadrupled in value iu the Inst three years and has devel oped at even a greater rate In the number of machines manufactured. But the statistics of horseflesh kepp on expanding. There were more than fourteen million horses in this country In 1897, but according to the figures for the year Just closed there aro 19.746,000 horses In the United States at the present time. This Is a gain of nearly 40 percent, in a decade, a much larger one than the human element can show In spite of our large and continuous Importa tions. As mechanical rivals multi ply he rises In the scale of dignified personality. The last horse will probably take his leave at about the same timo as the last man. Boston Transcript. Squeaky Shoes in Demand. Small automatic pumps, very In geniously contrived, spirited air in between the layers ot the soles ot each finished pair of shoes. "That beats me,'' said the visitor. "I never saw air put In shoe soles before. Pneumatic like that, are they very springy?" "No, they're noisy," answered the foreman ot the Lynn factory. "These shoes are for the export trade. They go to Africa. A native African judges the white mans shoes by their Bqueak. The louder the squeak, the finer the article. In fact, the native won't wear a non squeaking, silent shoe. It Is wind between the soles that make shoes squeak. Put In enough and your footgear will be as noisy as two pigs under a fence." A Flrclesj House. To demonstrate his 'alth In the .ractlcabillty of electricity for all domestl. purposes, an officii. of an Illinois electrical company has re cently built a hoiia at CarroIlTon, 111., without a chimney or any other means ot making ust of Are. The house is heated by steam and the cooking done by electricity, both supplied by the beat, light and pow. er company with which the gentle man Is connected. This construc tion marks the beginning of an ef fort to obtain customers for current to be used in the kitchen, and a special rate has been flxid for that kind of service. A Bit of Forestry. "Do you know how to tell a hard wood tree from a soft wood tree?" said a forester. "I'll tell you how to do It, and the rule holds good not only here among our familiar pines and walnuts, but in the Antipodes, among the strangest banyans, bao babs and what-nots. Soft wood trees have needle leaves, slim, narrow, al most uniform In breadth. If you don't believe me, consult the pine, the spruce or the fir. Hard wood trees have broad leaves of various shape the oak, the ebony, the wal nr.t, the mahogany and so on." Every Bird a Weathercock. "Where's the wind?" scoffed the sailor. "Why, look at the birds they'll tell you. Don't you know that every bird's a weathercock? Stop molstenln your finger and boldln' it up," he went on, in a tone of disgust "The practice ain't hardly cleanly. Look at the birds Is all you got to Jo, for every bird sets with its head always straight at the wind. Every live bird in a tree la as reliable a weathercock as them dead birds on the spires what is so much considered in this here Lenten season.' Why Go to Bed? It seems to me we make a mistake in prescribing special hours for go ing to bed and getting up. Why should we thus gorgt ourseives with slumber? Why should we not fol low the examplo of the dorr and take an occasional nap when we have noth ing better to do? Why should we go to bed when we don't feel sleepy? Why should we not take forty winks when Inclined thereto? It strikes me there la too much method and regularity about our somnUerous ar rungemeuu. Lonuon Graphic. Xolselcsii Europe. Railway whistles inflict torture on so many people 'hat the efforts abroad to check ttr plague have won approval from the people. Austria has introduced a system of dumb sig naling to start and stop the trains. lV.Kldm is trying . compressed uir whistles instead of steam, and Ger many experiments with boms. Statues to Ministers, Considering hew great a part the ministers of all our denominations have played in the national life for at least ten centuries, It is simply astounding to find how few are the statues tbt have been raised to them In iiibllc places during the past five hundred years or so. Sunday Strand. Hardest to Fight. Gossips are almost invariably ureal liars,' "but," asks the Howard I'ourant with unexp vted candor, ' iMrt you ever hear a story about l'jur?plf that wasn't partly tru?" Alexander Brothers & Co., Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, and Confectionery. 0 Fine Candies. Freeh Evory Week, j?E!T2tf"r OOOD3 A. SPECIALTY. HAVE YOU SMOKED A ROYAL BUCK or JEWEL CIGAR? ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THEM. ALEXANDER BROS. & CO,, Bloomsburp, pa. 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