THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURtt, I J. EVANS' SHOE STORE As Christinas flints noiliinr is more piucticnl nor wclctt.iic than A Nice Pair of Regal Shoes for Men. Prices $3.50 and $4.00. Men's Holiday House Slippers, Warm Lined, in Leather, Velvet or Felt. Rubbers for all Members of Family. THE COLUMBIAN. Hl.OOMSHy R(l, PA. THrnsDAY, DKCKMIiKKSI. lins 11$ m'tilt'l I'litim uttt,r, Miivrh I, sss. Happy New Year! Alfred Kitchen of HltUoii town ship was in town on Tuesday. The Suuday School of St. Paul's church held their Chtist tins service on Monday evening- i . Mrs. 'William l'.hve!l, who was . injured by a fall a few weeks ago, ' is again al!e to walk. II. V. Titman who has icsided lie e for the pa-t lour e.its, has decided to return to Shenandoah. James Mills was the lucky holder of the card tint (hew live dollars at. Towns -Mid's on Monday. m . Clinton C. Herring V.., lias been elected a director of the i-'irst 1 National Jl.nik. 1 ! The following letters remain in I the liloonisluug, l'l. postolllcc: 1 Mrs. C. 1). Keller, Mrs. Malvin i Mcliick, Mr. Thomas Nevioiis. . "Hello liill" was plaxed in the Columbia 1 heater on 1 tiesday evening by an excellent company. The audience was small. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McBride of Washington I). C. are visiting relatives here. 1 hey formerly re sided in 151ooiiisburg. Mrs. V. K. ShulU ot Central, accompanied by Dr. V. C. Shaw of Jamison City, went to Williams- port on Tuesday i: r an operation in the hospital. The Rescue Fire Company had a unique Christmas tree at their house on Fifth street. It was trim med with many kinds of vegetables instead of the usual tinsel, and at tracted much attention. T. A. Hacenbuch of Four Oak Farm, Center township, has gone extensively into the dried corn business. ' Last year he cured over a hundred bushels of sweet corn. His product is the best of its kind. At a congregational meeting of the members of the Reformed church Monday night Harvey Leiby was re-elected deacon and trustee, and Jacob Rhodes was re elected elder and trustee, their terms of office h.:ving expired. The Lewisburg Opera House was destroyed by fire on Sunday morn ing. The building was occupied as a theatre, Masonic Hall, offices and stores. The loss is about $50,000. Geo. P. Waller, son of Dr. G. P. Waller of Chadron, Neb. is the guest of Dr. D. J. Waller and family during the holidays. He is taking a medical course in Jefferson College, Philadelphia. Danville has decided to have a Mummers' parade, and arrange ments have bsen made for a big time on Friday. Sheriff C B. lint, and C. K. Randall of Catawissa are among the Judges selected to award the prizes .. Through the aid of a trust fund, the foundation of which was laid by President James Buchanan, who was born in Franklin county, 600 Lancaster families will be supplied with coal. Since President Bu chanan left money for this coal fund other Lancasterians have ad ded to it, and today, it is large enouge to warrant the purchase of 300 tons of fuel. A half-ton will be given to each worthy applicant. This work of distribution is tn the hands of a Lancaster charity so ciety. Mother Gray i Swoot Powder! for Children. Bu,f,iUU uJ by Mother Urav, ""J KM Children' Uww in N' 1 rJ2 Vwm ot nvi.lul tl, IHAtl J" 'fau At all Vnmuttl; asc. Sainl Allen & Oiinsud, URW, r. KARTIIQUAKE KILLS MANY. Italy the Scene ol Death and Devastation. Italy's fateful earthquake region has again suffered a visitation of death and ruin, and tne cost in lives is estimated in thousands. By a series of violent shocks early Monday morning in Sicily and in Calabria-the "toe of the boot"-cities were shattered and in habitants awoke to find their houses falling about them. How inanv are buried in the ruins cannot be even approximated, but the number undoubtedly is fearfully great. Many other thousands are homeless. Missiua, a city of 9 , 1 'no inhabitants, is reported half destroyed. Catania, another seaport city of Sicily, was largely inundated by a tidal wave and there was large loss oi life by drowning. In the harbor over 500 boats were swamped and a number of steamships were wrecked. Two coast villages are reported to have disappeared. The devastation was terrible and widespread. Telegraphic ami tele phonic communications were al most completelv destroyed. Tile earthquake centred in the volcano region which includes Strombo'i and Mt. l'.tna. Ktna is s.ii.l to be -in terrific eruption. Stromboli is upon an island north of Sicily. It is estimated that over 75,000 lives were lost. The Philadelphia Press to Tell of As- ia's Awakening. Beginning Sunday. January 3, "The Philadelphia Press" will be gin publishing Frank G. Carpen ter's letters on "Asia's Awaken ing" and the mighty changes that are taking place in the far Iiast. Since Russia's defeat by Japan, the other side of the globe has become the world's chief news center. In orcer to give "The Philadelphia Press readers all tne news trom the other side of the world, they have sent Mr. Carpenter to investi gate all these matters in the Fast- em countries, and his complete and truthful reports will appear from week to week. He will travel through Tanan. from there into Ko rea, and then overland through Manchuria, into Llmia, auu may later go through Siani, Palestine and Turkey. His letters will be very interesting and should be read by everybody. Make sure you will pet a conv every Sunday and - - ci order your copy in advance from your newsdealer or semi direct to 'The Philadelolna Press." Seven th and Chestnut Streets, Phila delphia. HUNTING WITH DOGS. A petition to the State Legisla ture is being circulated by promi nent citizens of Lycoming county asking for the enactment of a law which will make the hunting of pheasants and other birds with dogs illegal. The sportsmen believe that in a few years the pheasants and many other birds will have been exte -initiated from the Penn sylvania woods unless strict legis lation is enacted to save them. The iintitintr of birds with the aid of dogs is indulged in so extensively that in a patch of woods a few hunters easily kill every bird and the species can in a very slnrt time become iustinct. From the number of signers secured to these petitious already the papers will likely go to Harrisburg bearing the names of thousands of men. INSTRUCTION IN MUSIC. Chas. P. F.lwell announces that he will be pleased to receive all former pupils on violin and piano forte, as well as new ones. Latest and best methods. Terms strictly cash by the lesson or month. Address Hotel Hidlay, Bloomsburg, or call up on Bell 'phone any afternoon between 1 and 2. tf ,1 he Kind Yau Hav Always Bought Sean the Signature ft To Avert Blindness. Blindness is so apalling a calamity to the individual and the mainte nance of persons so cruelly disabled is so heavy a tax upon the commu nity that the public will be startled to learn from State Health Com missioner Dixon that a very large proportion of blindness is prevent able and that there is already on the statute book a law designed to effec' the prevention. An inflammation of the eyes is very common in infanta a few days after birth. If neglected or improperly treated this oft'Mi results in total blindness. Mothers, midwives and nurses are often ignorant of the proper treatment, so that a large proportion ol blindness beginning soon after birth is the result of ignorance and neglect. It is fright ful to contemplate the lifelong mis ery resulting from incompetence in the care of infants Dr. Dixon direct" the attention of health officers all over the State to a law enacted thirteen years ago requiring all midwives and nurses to notify the local health officer immediately of a case of inflamma tion of one or both eyes of an in fant within two weeks after birth. The health officer shall at once in fo m the parents of the danger of this inflammation and give direc tions for proper treatment. Dr. Dixon supplements this by instructing all health officers to in form the miinvife or nurse what to do until th-.? family physician can reach the case, and, if the family has no physician, to urge upon the parents' the necessity cf calling one at once. With this there is a pre scription for a wash that may be applied to the eyes to check the in flammation until a doctor can see the case. More than one-third of the per sons admitted to the Pennsylvania School for the Blind during the I past eight years lost their sight as I the result of the neglect oftieir j yes soon after birth, and this ac ition of Dr. Dixon ought to do much to awaken midwives, nurses and local officers to a sense of the re sponsibilities and the peril ami even inhum tnity of failing to get medi cal attendance immediately for young infants with inflamed eves. Record. Woman's Home Companion for Jan uary. The current issue of this most progressive woman's publication contains two unusual art produc tions. At the Royal Academy last summer, a painting of Christ, en titled "Follow Me," by the hither to unknown painter, proved to be the sensational canvas of the exhi bition. So remarkable was the un usual and spiritual pi:turj that it was at all times completely sur rounded by groups of interested and reverential people, "follow Me is reproduced in America for the first time in the January Woman's Home Companion. Howard Chandler Christy's "The Wooing of Lorna Doone," also in the January Woman's Home Companion, is the first of a series of love scenes from famous novels that are being painted for this magazine by the most celebrated artists of the day. Another attrac tive and unusual art feature con sists of portraits of the "Beauties of a Thousand Years," collected all over the world for Woman's Home Companion by William Armstrong. In addition to the continued stories by Anna Katharine Green, Florence Morse Kiugsley and Jul iet Wilbor Tompkins, there is a story by Anne Warner, entitled "Dan Rabbit, Cupid;" Mane Man ning's "The Scandal of the Bottle Boy;" "The Pride o. a Girl," by Mary Hastings, and a charming baby story, entitled "The Story of a Very Little Person," by Albert White Vorse and Mary Ileaton Vorse. Lucy Green, a seventeen-year- old girl who lauded in Philadelphia one clay not long ago, looking for work, with only five dollars in her pocket, relates her experiences in the Quaker City. hverctt 1. ionilinson, one of the most expert trainers of boys in America, writes on th habits of the Doy. In addition to the many speclial articles, there is contained in this is sue a dozen complete departments, including dressmaking, by Grace Margaret Gould; cooking receipts for mid-winter receptions, by Fan nie Merritt Farmer, and "Problems of the Business Girl," by Anna Steese Richardson. IiXFXUTOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby givon that letters tes tanientary on the estate ot Margaret S. Hves, lute of OratiReville Boro, Colum bia county,' Pa., deceased, have been grunted to J. C. Montgomery, of said boro to whom all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make pay ment, and those having claims or de mands will make known the sume with out delay. J. C. MONTGOMERY, Clinton Hkrrino, Atty. Executor, n-31-bt Orangeville, Pa. II M Latest Universal Language the World is Learning'. NOW USED IN COMMERCE Tornui1 Hullt -n Hope liiiiiic, Science, i:ilirntln nnl (Jovern m nt Would All lie K.i-der If Tin-re Whs it I'lilvcrtml Speech Tim i.'r.tintnnr of Kspcriinto. liver since t)i Tower of Hnbel, na. Moris and men linve been kept apart by 11 harrier of binijuaKes. Thoaa who npeiik the snme laiiKinixn find In It a bond of union iloser even than the tie of rare. The Dutch and Ger mans are far closer of kin to the UtiKllsh, for example, thun the hete rogeneous population of the t'nlted 1 Stales; yet the KiiKllnli-speakliiK "a J tlotis stand together, pract bally, In r 1 1 1 n k nnd tradition, and count, nil others outsiders. Hungary, fighting for her own biir;i!a;", keeps cipart. from Austria In heart. The purt Irion 01 Poland was em pluisi.ed I y t'l'i forc ing of the KukxI.hi und f lerr.iaa tongues upon the Poles, nnd th"i has been a detertnitie.l battle evi :aa point ever since In every Pol! "Ii pro; lii'o. In o.ir own I'niierl S :;t :'.. first thing the emUranl child li lt, learn KiikIIsIi, h"1 Hie pro--i accompanied by a nu-.rveloLs A; conization. War has sonietlme nmde. t!:e 4 CM.-- !l .::...!- ' nn- !;;-. 4 ft (liieror's language dominant ma le Latin a worbl-biai-itn-; 1 Wreck had been In Al xarr.b-r's French, n century :y-o, was tar re widely than any otli. ;- f:i:-.:.ie. Kaglish to-day is the doml-ian biii gui.Re, Hut none l. mil . eiral .a.id All are hard to learn. Tti" hop" '. for laiiKuaKe when 1; conies, mini. ! " ciisv ana must also commend '? If Vi ni'h nation by 1 1 1 1 , In fraw d-.-j i:ree, related to its own spe.--h. I There have been a Rood m.iny nt- ei-pts at it. There is no reason, really, why men should refuse n I practicable world-lanifiiaco, and tbe j machinery of the schools In evo;y j 1;: n l of Importance coul ! ensily ho rut at Its service If eai h government v,;s willing. There is nothing ab surd In the notion except somehow we all think It absurd, and laugh at It. Ksperanto, of course, Is a language built on hope. Anybody who kriow.i Latin, French, Spanish or Italian run understand the name, "One Who Hopes," that far. That Is the beau ty cf the new speech It consists of some two thousand root words, chos en on the basis of their use by the largest number of nations. Any one who knows his own language well Is already In possession, so the Kspr autlsts maintain, of something like half the vocabulary of roots. If he Knows one Teutonic language and one Latin one, he will recognize old friends In two-thirds of the root words. I'nllke any language that has struggled with human stubborn ness In Its growth. Esperanto has no Irregularities and almost no Inflec tions, and can be learned in from two to six weeks. Its grammar can ho learned In half an hour. Sir Wil liam Ramsay, a believer In It, aj sorts, "It is almost Incredible that the whole essential grammar of a language can be given In a para graph; but It is quite true." Here Is a sample of Its simplicity. Lvery noun ends in o, every adjec tive ends In a, every adverb in e, with no exceptions. Kvery letter Is al ways sounded and In one way only. Such a thing as an irregular verb Is not. known. Every plural ends In J (English y). The pronouns all end In 1, and add n for the objective and a to become possessive thus ml, I, iula, mine, niln, me. "Slmpla, Ileksebla, belsona, vQro Iniornuela en glaj elemer.toj, la lin j;ro Esperanto prezentas, al la mondo iviliz.lta la solo veran solvon do lin er') Internacia; car, tie faclla por hor.ioj memulta lnstruttaj, Esperan to estas komprenota sen peno de la perionj hone edukitaj." Count Tolstoy believes in the new 'at'.guage. He says that In two r.'iiirs he was able to read It. Max Muller, the great philologist, was an " Ksperantlst." The grammar of Esperanto has boon translated into twenty-eight languages and dialects. It has only twenty-four pages, Including quite a large vocabulary. It Is not, however, hoped that Es peranto will become the only lan guage. It Is meant to be a second language learned by every one who wishes to communicate with those of other nationalities. Already it has been used lu commerce, as an es peranto order, with an accompanying grammar "key" enclosed, printed In the language of the foreign firm ad dressed, can easily be deciphered and filled. One little point will touch every on who has ever struggled with pre. no.dtlons. In Esperanto all prepo sitions, govern the nominative; un I "If it be necessary to employ some preposition, and it is not quite evi dent from the sense which it should be, the preposition Jo is used, which I-. tis no definite meaning." The ancient Greeks, one has a hazy idea, bad something like thin, but all other languages have gon'j floundering along miserable without It. Mid-Winter Styles In Dress. "If you are planning to have a new winter gown after the holi days," writes Grace Margaret Gould in Woman's Jotne Compan ion for January, "there are one or two things I want to call your at tention to in regard to materials anp trimmings. All the new fab rics have a .sheen tfftct, whether they are wool or silk. Fine cash mere, which has such a wonderful luster, is reliable and a fashionable material. The chiffon broadcloths are still the vogue, and wool satin and Henrietta cloth are desirable materials. It is unwise to select, even for a winter gown, too heavy 11 material. The new style of dress demands light-weight fabrics, much plain tucked net matching the ma terial of the gown in color is used, and the nialine nets braided are newer than the filets. For a gown which you wish to wear in the ev ening or for informal social alTairs there is nothing better than the lovely new crepes, which are so soft and shimmery. Messaline and salin are still being much worn. "In the way of colors, all of the shades of gray are in high favor and are to be recommended bee use of their neutral inconspicuous color. 'laupe. which has an undertone of I dull green, is extremely fashion able, but the woman of pale com plexion should avoid it unless it is brightened up with a touch cf some color which she knows is particu larly becoming to her. Mole, ele phant and London smoke are all good gray shades. Catawba, dregs of wine, wistaria nnd amethyst are fashionable shades, and hunter's green is also in demand. In regard to the bines, which are apt to be so universally becoming, there are a number of fashionable shades. lucre is a tint known as Kdison I blue, which reminds one of Alice blue, but is darker. The blues with either a tint of green or tin undertone of gray are also good style. Not in a long time has black t een considered as smart as it is this year." Closing Out Sale ! Throngs of people day and night are taking advantage of this opportunity to get bargains. No fake sale, but a genuine clean-up of every thing in the store. " 1 The Clark Store, bloomsburg i 1 PEHSYLVMH MIMOJE Bulletin. THE STEEL COACH-A TRAVEL SAFEGUARD. The Pennsylvania Railroad now has in operation on its " lines east of Pittsburgh over two hundred passenger coaches dining cars, baggage cars, and mail cars of the new all-steel' type. The solid steel framework of these cars, designed to re sist shock and minimize the dangers of collision, is further strengthened'by the steel sheathing enclosing the body of the car. In fact, everything about the coach is steel, save the window frames, the cushions of the seats and the flooring. Such little woodwork as enters into the make-up of the coach" the plush with which the car seats are covered and the hair with which they are stuffed is treated to a fireproofing pro . cess, whilst the floors are cement, thus rendering the coach at once practically indestructible and thoroughly fireproof It is built like a battleship, ' The new coach is longer than the standard car generally in use on the railroads of this country, and has a comforta ble seating capacity of sixty to ninety people according to the style of the coach. The unusual weight of the coaches give to them a solidity that greatly increases the comfort of the passenger, The seats are adjusted to a more convenient space and angle, the coaches are all lighted with electricity and amply ventilated in winter as well as summer by new and thoroughly tested methods. 4 The interior finish of the coach is plain though pleasing to the eye. The absence of ornamentation enhances the idea of strength and at the same time assures absolute cleanliness and thorough sanitation. Steel cars are now in use on the principal trains between New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and on the Main Line between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The number of cars is constantly being increased as the finished product comes from the shops. The Pennsylvania Railroad's equipment is recognized as the Standard of America. I2-17-24W TIKIS. OLE, OF ALASKA, MEMBER OF LIS. COMER Wfll J'nown on the Pacific Slope, it.. Washington Address is IJ12 Qth SL, A'. W Washington, D. C. Mi: y if ml CONGRESSMAN THOS. CALE. Hon. Tim. Kale, who was elertod t 'ungress from Alaska. Is well known 01 1 be Pacific slope, where be has resided His Washington address is l.iVI tb SU I.'. , Washington, !.('. Washington, D. d Pcruna Drug Co., -Columbus, Ohio. (icntleme.i: I i 3n cheerfully recom mend I'eruna as a very efficient rem edy (or coughs und colds. Thomas Cule. lion. C, Slmnp, Congressman fro. Virginia, writes: "I have used yourvaJ liable remedy, I'eruna, with beneflcdm'. results, and can unhesitatingly rcoom mend your remedy as an invigorating tonic and an effective and permanen. cure for catarrh." Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative Ask your Druggist for a Fre I'eruna Almanac for 1909. r lv !' 4', !i
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