aturday Qight 0alks Br r. E. DAVISON OOP Q O O O O O OOOD JIM: Vol Nfi MAX'S CIIOICK. Dor. C. OS (I Kings 3: 4-15.) That la mi important tiuur In a young mnn a nt,. wii.-n hl, Htamls oll the llilesnold of Inuiilioo.l to tiiHko choice of ills life worli. vi i.i., has been done lor III in imt purentiil I WPre Co1, K ,I- MrF'Bddeii, who coin care and fducim innl iidvuniiiKes cm! mandp(1 tn' Fifty-third Illlnoia; Col. aecuro, and now has come (lie time I Monro''' ' One Hundred and w hen he must dec l ie ror hlm ir 1'n,r,5r-,nl''d Illinois, who fell durln,-? what his rutiiru co.ime shnll be. I of lnfi k'rm"rf 1th Wheeler; What profession or employment Khali Ml,"n'"' ''' afterward corn he choose? What ill in shall he lake' ' mnd,,1 ,hp "anie reglnient. an I Col. What ambition Khali . ,..s,.r, s(. i Huckner, who rnmniandnd the Seven Whut goal ahull l,e .,et liefoie l,iui I t'-HBlllh Illinois. In addition, Col. Lpon the answer to the..... ji,,,,. depends Ills prospects u;i I usefulm The quality or the youiiR mau can bo pretty accurately determined by tho choice he makes. If ho Is look ing for a 'soft snap" In life, an easy berth, a chance to live by his wits. It will appear In the way ho takes hold of thliiKS nt the stnrt. The way a young man heads when ho starts out for himself . n very cer tain prophecy or w lit re he will bring up You do not have to wait 'till a mill is old to Juils.'" or the nunlity of his manliool. The child l.4 rather of tho man. A Thoroughbred's Choice. Solomon Is a splendid example of a young man muting n whe l,ol:e. Ho showeil his breeding nt tin- start. He demonstrated tlw.t he h;id blue blood 111 his vein nt tlie vety ln plnnlng. At 1!) ycnis it ho was brought to the poi.it of .l.clslcn He Is represented as la. In u deci sion proposed by .he Almighty, "In (ilhoon the Lord it; p. air, I to Solo mon In a trta:n by nliit; and (!od paid, -Ask wlint h shall rive thee.'" filler such circumstances there was opportunity for a va-'t i ji :i : of de sire. He might have aske I for long lire, ho m!?lii h ive l;ed IVr riches, lie might have nsUe.l fc.r health, ho might have a.-l:iil for revenue on his enemies, he might hae asked for regnl Jomlnlon iilmvi; all other ' powers. Many would havi; done so But ho did not. The real quality of ! his young manhood comes out In the ' fact that he asked ror but one thin;; ; wisdom. "C.lve therefoie thy ser- i vant nn undtistan ling heart to Judge j thy people, that 1 may discern ho- i tween good ami bad. I am but a I little child; I know not how to go ! out or come In." And what he asked for, he received. Solomon s one leg acy to men Is riot the memory of his royalty or his riches, but of his wis dom, for that alono truly made him. great. Success No Accident. Success Is not an accident. Tho successful men do not stumble upon prosperity. Wisdom does not come unsought. The Almighty did not put wisdom Into the mind of Solomon without effort on his pert. Ills writ ings show that lie was a man of rare accomplishments, tho accuracy of his Information, the breadth of view, the ample knowledge of nffalrs. the rlpo Judgment, the Instinctive discernment, tho quick and penetra tive glance all show that Solomon was an carnfst seeker for all sorts of wisdom to tho nil of his days. The young man who Intends to bo a success In any and every condition of lifo must know how to plod. Ho must never allow himself to Imagine that he "knows It all." Never a day without learning some new thing. Never a deed without tho consciousness that It could have been done better. He who stops growing begins to die. If he Is ever perfect ly satisfied with his attainments, he is already rtruck with death. Llfo Is not taking passago In a parlor car, where you have nothing to do but enjoy the scenery; it Is more like blasting out that road bed. with bent back and callorsed hands and put ting down the rails over which fu ture generations shall move on to the consummation of the ages. The Balearic mothers hang their chil dren's food on the limbs of trees, and they must go hungry until they caa bring It down with the how. So God lets the vein of gold look through but not lie open upon the rock. He puts the star-depths with In reach of the telescope but not of the caked eye. The secrets of nature are given up to the wit and not to the llstlessness of men. There is no royal road to learning Nay, even In religion Itself It Is evermore true that "the kingdom of heaven suffer eth violence and the violent take it by force." Incidental Advantages. And do not overlook the fact that in choosing wisdom Solomon secured everything that went with it; riches, long life, prosperity and every other Incidental. The greater Includes the less. Ho showed bis wisdom In esk Ing for wisdom, for In getting the fountain he got the stream. In vain doea the rich man lay up riches for many years for his "soul," if he hai not first made certain that he will have a "soul" beyond to-night. The man who sets a worthy goal before himself, on the way to that goal comes Into touch with everything long the way that leads to it, and reaches it at length to find that he has incidentally come into possession of ten thousand things that he would not otherwise have achieved. "Seek first the kingdom of Ood, and His righteousness and all tbes things shall be added unto you." VILLAGE msST00D STILL Population Ha Not Varied One Mnn In Kverjr Forty-live a Colonel, nioomlnftton, 111. I'aradliw, Coins County, a vlllnjte of two hundred and fifty Inhabitants, has many distinc tions, chlofrst of which Is this fart that In proportion to Its population It furnished more colonels to tho Federal armies during tho civil war then any other place, no less than alx beliiR credited to the village. One of these, Pol. True, was Inter a Drlgadler-tJeneral. The others ; 1 ort r- wno roaiiH-d at raracllne when the war broke out, but left there to tako command of one of the Ken tucky regiments In the Confederal army, Is numbered among tho brave soldiers contributed by tho Coles County village. Tho remarkable feature of this contribution to tho commissioned forces of the armies Is tho fact that Paradise Is, as stated, a village of but two hundred s;nl fifty souls, and It has not Increased in population since the war. "I'aradlse Is without railroad com munication with the outstdo world, ami can point to a stage line as Its only means of passenger transporta tion. Indceed It Is th same village to-day as It was when the news came that Fort Sumpter had been fired upon. Crown a trifle older and ft tflflo more sleepy us the vr-q My" rolled by. giving the business which once made it a thriving centre to tho towns adjacent, anil more favored by the gods and the railroads, the little town goes on Its way as quietly as It did a half cent iry ago. Ill Ilfil.AK TICKI.FI 1 1 1 : IE FOOT. CrMckvinan'x lie of .Irking Kolibeil Him of Ills Loot). Youngstowii. O. Five pretty pink tootsies peeping out from 'neath tho coverlets US Mrs. .lohn Ltetan, to.ised In her sleep caught the eye of a bold buiT.hir a, h. was tiptoeing through the room. He was on his way to the window with $r.OO In money and a bunch of Jewelry all tied up in a bag. Hut on seeing Mrs. Kouan's t'alnty foot protruding from under the bed clothing: the burglar stopped, lie tittered. "Such a Joke It would be; yes, I'll do It." he chortled, and carefully placed his bag of swag on the tloor. Slowly crawling In the semi-darkness of the room, he reached a point whore he could reach tho dainty tootsies. Then with his finger he reached up and tickled Mrs. Houan's pink little toes. She sat up In bed and found herself staring Into the face of a masked man. Her shrieks awakened her husband and frighten ed the burglar so he fled. He left his booty behind. BIG SFKl.NO lllHST FOKTH. Gushes Suddenly on Farm Wlierw Water Is llutlly Needed. I'lalnfleld, Ind. Scarcity of water for his live stock had always been a drawback to Charles Oursler, a farm er near here, who did not Increase his total number of herd for that reason. Now a flowing stream Is furnishing water for fifty head of stock. Tho spring appeared suddenly In the mid dle of the field, bursting through die of the Held, bursting through the ground where there was not the least there has been a steady flow of wa ter and there is no Indication of the newly arrived oasis disappearing. Its origin Is a mystery. A similar spring has appeared about five miles east of this one, and the explanation of Its origin Is as hard to find as tho one on the Our Bier farm. MOXKY IX FIG Sgi'KAIA. Formerly Wasted at Stock Yards But Now Have Commercial Yulue. Chicago. An Inventive genius has discovered that there is money in a pig's squeal. So that which P. D. Armour tali wan the only thing that went to waste at the stock yards now has a commercial value. A man carrying a camera and a machine for making phonograph re cords presented himself recently at the stock yard.n and asked permission to tafce some pictures for use in a five-tent theatre to illstrate a pic torial slide entitled "A Day at the Stock Yards." 1 "I will first taka a set of moving pictures," he said, "and then get a record for tho phonograph." IIo then caught squeals of hogs as they were hoisted to death. Woman Aged iW, Ha 1 Children. Chippewa Falls, Wis. A visitor here from Waupon was Mrs. Cath erine Marbone, who is, perhaps, the champion mother in Wisconsin. Mrs. Marbone is only thirty-nine years old, has been married nluoteen years and had eighteen children, ono born each year. She has been married twice, the first time when she was seventeen years old. Twelve chlliren blessed her first marriage anj alx her second. Sell 1'earl for Nine Hundred Dollars, Petersburg, Ind. Garry Callahan, pearl Usher, who found a valuablo pearl lu White river In front of his home, sold the pearl to a Mt. Carmel buyer for $900. THE COLUMBIAN. . . . PRINTING . . . MUCH of the work that is done in this office is of kinds that can be done by hand only. Nine-tenths of all job printing done in any country office must be done by hand. It can't be done with a machine. This office is fully equipped to do all kinds of print ing at the lowest prices consistent with good work. A Large Stock is Carried in ENVELOPES, LETTER HEADS, NOTE HEaDS, BILL HEADS, STATEMENTS, SHIPPING TAGS, BUSINESS CARDS, VISITING CARDS, INVITA TIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, CARD BOARD, BOOK PAPERS, COVER PAPERS, &c. And Everything in the Printing Line If you have been a customer of ours, you know; the character of our work. If not, wo shall be glad to fill a trial order. Among other things in our line are Dodgers, Posters, Sale Bills, Pamphlets, Books, Re ceipts, Orders, Check Books, Ruled Work, Half tones, Line Cuts, Engraved Work, Stock Certifi cates, Bonds, &c, &c. No trouble to show goods and give estimates. The Columbian Printing House, GEO. E. ELWELL, Proprietor. Entrance First Floor, through Roys' Jewelry Store. Next to Bloomsburg National Bank. BLOOMSBURG, PA. BLOOMSBUPO. p. LACKAWANNA RAILROAD. .'THE ROAD OF ANTHRACITE. If you contemplate spending t lie Sum mer luonllis in Florida or California, call upon our local ticket agent lor particulars. Profcsiuiuil Curdft. II. A. 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