THE COLUMBIAN. BL00MS8UR&, i -X A! 1 DRUM L mm Its Abolition in Russia For War Purpose Follows Example of Other Countries MERELY SENTIMENTAL ADJUNCT Cel. Helstand Points Out that It Be longed to the Old Days of Bright Uniforms and Noisy Phalanxes- ttlie Drummer Boy of Fiction. II 'there has been but little comment Jr. army circles here over the news tOiat the Russian government has Just decided to do away with Its army drummers In time of war. It Is because Russia, instead of introducing an In novation In the art of warfare, has merely followed in the footsteps of many another civilized nation. The United States army, according to offi cers in the service, abolished its drum mers years ago, and there are few countries to-day which continue to maintain a drum and fife corps for purposes of warfare. To be sure, there are drummers in our army to-day, but their services are designed for use in times of peace. So, too, in the Russian army. An order signed the other day by Czar Nicholas provided that Russian drummers hereafter should be trained In marksmanship, so as to be prepared to become active combatants in time of need. These conditions, new to Russia, have prevailed in this and other countries, it Is said, for many .-years. Ever since modern methods egan to be introduced in military tactics it was a foregone conclusion that the drum and the fife must soon er or later go the way of many other antiquated implements. Like the pyramids of neatly piled cannpn balls which decorate the yards of army garrisons throughout the land, they are to-day relics of a past that has played its part in history and is now outgrown. Army men, however, are perhaps Inclined to bestow a little sentiment on the corps of musicians who were once regarded as an indis pensable adjunct to every military or ganization. But from a purely prac tical point of view, they admit that the institution has no longer any rea son for existing. Perhaps, also, the "drummer boy" Cory-book notoriety, who was ever b j relied on to turn the tide of 'tie when his comrades were about i -dy to throw down their arms and ! -'.zi. a hasty retreat, was not quite i : jilcturesqua in reality as might be 4411: posed. The army drummer had his short comings, according to Col. H. O. Hei stand, adjutant-general of the Depart ment of the East, who is stationed on Governor's Island. "For one thing." said the colonel to-day, "the drum required as much care as any rifle. When the weather was at all bad, the sheepskin would :get wet and the next thing you knew your drums were out of commission altogether. "Besides, he only gives his army's whereabouts away. You see, he be longs to the age of bright, gaudy unl forms, helmets, and the like, when men marched out Into the open and sflred volleys at another body of men all drawn up In martial array. But . the time for such things has passed. Nowadays, we wear dull-covered unl forms, for concealment, and every thing Is done on an entirely different principle. "The Russians have only done what .most other countries have done, but 'I would not like to say that they had been backward about making the .change. "From what I know of them, the Russians are good soldiers. I saw a . good deal of them over in China dur ' Ing the Boxter campaign, and they left a very favorable impression." Col. Heistand added that, despite the changes which had been responsi ble for the abolition of the drum and , fife corps, there was still a demand, In time of war, for the bugler. The bugler, he said, served a useful pur pose because he could communicate official orders over a great territory. But the drum and fife no longer fill place In the machinery of warf"re. In most instances, they have been In co porated in the band and arc bow . beard only when the troops are on parade. Endurance of a Guide. An Alpine guide, Philippe Allamand, of Bex, has gained publicity In tha Swiss papers by a marvelous pedes trian achievement. He started on a Monday from Haesch and ascended to rtbe Welsshorn hut, whence ha return ed to the valley to fetch a member of :his party who had been left behind. "There was time for only three hours' wleep after that, and then the Weiss horn had to be climbed. It was in , bad oonditlon, and the ascent took nearly eleven hours. No sooner had !he reached tha top than Allamand fastened down and nroceeded to 7r. matt to Join another party who had engaged him for the Matterhorn. He overtook them In the hunt at four o'cloek on Tuesday mornlns. went un the Matterhorn at once, and did not get back until eleven o'clock on Wed nesday night, having been forty-four hours without sleep, walking . and climbing all the time. Even then he iook only a day's rest before leadln a party up the Dent Blanche. ok n Tin uu S. IIOLM.ES, jr. An Episode That Made film Dispair of His Friend's Ability. "His! Hist!" said Sherlock Holmes, Jr. "What Is it. Sherl?" asked his friend the doctor. "Yonder men with the ruddy complexion and the look of satisfac tion on his countenance do you see him?" "Yes. A friend of yours?" "I never saw him before. He has licen upending his vacation in Can ada." "Wonderful. Really, your pow ers as a deductr seem to be growing. Gut perhaps somebody who knows him has tJj you?" "No. As I have said I never saw him before. I have spoken to no one but yourself concerning htm." "Is there anything peculiar about the tan one gets in Canada?" "No. A man who fishes In north ern Wisconsin or Michigan may ac quire the same degree of reddish ness In the immediate vicinity of the countenance that one gets while en thusiastically yanking four-pound bass from Canadian waters." "I can't see anything else about him that would stamp him as one who has Just returned from the great dominion. Perhaps you will be god enough, Holmes, to Inform me how you have made your deduc tion In this case?" "My dear Whatson, you are really very stupid. You should have no ticed it. I am tempted to give up trying to tpach you to be a deducer. Did you not see, when he asked the druggist for a Btamp, a moment ago, that be pulled a handful of Canadian dimes from his pocket?" With a gasp the doctor fell back In silent admiration, while the great detective sauntered on down Clark street, trying to discover whether the reports that there was gambling In town were true or not. Chicago Record-Herald. LED TO BE DRIVEN. Uoin' to marry wldder Jones, be ye? tan t see what the inducement Is. She drove her last husband to drink. Yep. '1 hat's Jest it. In Time for the Train. "Am I In time for the overland limited?" gasped the man with the valise, hurrying up to the ticket seller's window in the railway sta tion at Drearyhurst. "Yes ,slr." "When Is it due?" "In five minutes." "I want a ticket to Kansas City." "All right, sir." The stranger bought his ticket and sat down to wait. Presently a train whizzed by at the rate of i.fty miles an hour. "What train was that?" he asked. "The overland limited." "Doesn't it stop here?" "No, sir." "Great Scott! Why didn't you tell me?" "Great Scott! Why didn't you ask me, sir?" said the ticket seller. No Itewt For the Druggist. A boy with no respect for pro priety got a druggist out of bed at midnight, a few nights ago. "I want a bottle of magnesia," announced the youngster, "and. aav. do you give anything for the empty i bottle?" "Yes, 5 cents," growled the drug man, grudgingly serving the article. Then he went back to bed. About half an hour later the bell rang again. When the druggist got to the door there stood the lad. "Here's that bottle, mister," said he. "Glv us the n'pence." Barnyard Talk. First Rooster "Bless me if the old hen Isn't eating tacks." Second Rooster "Yes, I believe she la to lay a carpet.'' n,,i,f ., j vi .... wuB. 19 WW RUIUCUIIUI IUI I the preservation of our forests?" I . "Oh. what's the u.e?" an.werd ! Senator . SorgSum, impatiently. "Tree cant vote." One on the Oat. An tnw.i orfitt.. i-.-j In his paper that If the rain didn't stop before long, everything In the ground would be peeping out. An ticatlon, went out In the back yard and dumped another load of) rock on the grave of the family eat. An Old Grandfather. Little Girl I've got' a . fattier and a muvver and a grandfather.! Kindly Stranger And bowold is your grandfather? LittU Olrl I don't know,pul wa'T bad him a long tlma. V SHERIFF'S SALK. By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias issued out of the Court of Common Plena of Columbia County, Pennsylva nia, and to me directed, there will be sold at public sale nt the Court House, in the bheriff's Office at Bloomsburg, county and state aforesaid, on SATURDAY, JUNK 5th, 1909, at 2 o'clock, P. M. the following de scribed real estate: TRACT NO. ONE:-All that piece, parcel and tract of land situate in Scott Township, Columbia County, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginningat stone corner, in the pub lic road, leading from Espy to Light street; thence south in said road nine degrees east fifty six perches to a stone comer in said road: thence bv land of Sarah Snyder south twenty-nine and one-fourth degrees, east, forty nine and nine tenths perches to a stone corner; thence south sixty and three-fourths de grees west, six perches to a stone cor ner; thence south twenty-nine degrees and one-fourth east, thirty-three perches to a stone corner; thence by land of C. W, Kline south seventy-seven and one half degrees east, sev'entv-six and six tenths rods to a stone, formerly pine corner; thence north seventy-six degrees east, eighty-one and five-tenths rods to a stone corner in the public road, leading from Espy to residence of Ellis Ring rose; thence by centre of said road and land of siid Ellis Ringrose, north twenty-nine and three-fourths degrees west, one hundred and sixty-four and four tenths rods to a stone corner; thence ncrth seventy-six degrees east, forty three and nine-tenth rods to a stone corner; thence north twelve and one- fourth degrees west, nine nnd nine- tenths rods to a Btone corner in the pub lic road Icadinsr from the resident nf Joseph Heekman to Win, j. Hidlav's; thence in centre of saui road and land of Wm. T. Hidlav. south seventy-seven and one-fourth decrees west, one hun dred nnd sixty nnd eight-tenths perches 1 10 H sionc corner in t le nu ic road. the. place of beginning, containing ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY EIGHT ACRES AND TWENTY FIVE PERCHES of land, being a farm in good state of cultivation, upon which is erected a TWO-STORY BRICK DWELL ING HOUSE, bank barn and out buildings, fruit trees and running water. A ridge of lime stone suitable for a quarry is also upon the premises. TRACT NO. TVO:-All that niece parcel and tract of land situate in" the village of Espy, county and slate afore said, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginningat the corner of Market and Second Streets, on the westerly side of Market Street; thence westwnrdly along Second Street eightv-two and one-half feet to corner of lot of Ebenezer Case "No. 54," thence southwardly along line of said lot one hundred and seventy three and one-fourth feet to an ulley; thence along said alley eastwardly eighty-two and one-half feet to Market Street aforesaid, thence northwardly along said Street, one hundred and seventy-three and one-fourth feet to Second Street, the place of beginning, improved with a TWO-STORY FRAME DWELL ING HOUSE AND BARN, out buildings and fruit trees. Seized, taken into execution at the suit of George B. Markle, Trustee, vs. C. L. Pohc, Administrator of Wm. C. Robinson, deceased, Lau'a Robinson, and Charles Schug, Terre-Tenant. and to be sold as the property of Wm. C. Robinson, deceased. CHARLES B. ENT. J. Q. Creveling, Sheriff. Attorney. IN RE APPLICATION OF THE BLOOMSBURG LITERARY IN STITUTE FOR AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER AND CHANGE OF NAME. Notice is hereby given that a petition was presented to the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County on the isth day of May, A. D.. 1009, by the Blooms burg Literary Institute to make the fol lowing amendments to its charter, to wit; Amending the name, style and title of the corporation from "The Bloomsburg Literary Institute" to the "Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School of the Sixth District"; increas ing the number of trustees from nine to eighteen; changing the time of the An nual Stockholders Meeting from the first Saturday to first Monday in Mav; designating the officers of the corpora tion as President, Vice-President, Sec rctary and Treasurer: the m I mode of election and appointment of ustees; increasing the quorum of the j Board of Trustees from five to seven; fixing the capital stock at 30,400,00. di I vided into 1007 shares, prohibiting divi- dends upon the capital stock of the cor poration and enlarging the purposes and scope of the institution; whereupon the luuuniujj imeriocuiory uecree was en tered, to-wit: And now May uth. iqogj the forego ing petition having been presented nnd read, and it appearing to the Court that due notice of this application and these proceedings were given to the Auditor General, on the 5th day of May 1909. and the court upon consideration there of being of the opinion that the said amendments and change of name of said corporation win be lawful, hern-fir ) .. .1 1 . . ' , "? ZIZI? communitv S,0 ??. ? lth. lhe. wq"ents of the Constitution or the laws of the Com monwealth, it is therefore ordered that said petition or writing be filed in the office of the Prothonotary of the court, ana notice thereof be inserted in two I iiewspanerg onnted in kauI rnnntv far i !orth at aP" $TyZX June, 1009. at 10 o'clock, A. M . in con- fortuity with the nraver nf th t,t; unless sufficient reason be shown why the same should not be done. BLOOMSBURG LITERARY INSTITUTE. 5-i3-4t. per N. U. Funk, Solicitor. t" m Fimu in j 4 sut T.OOO Profil.P... IUri,. n.M....iT7r,""''"ion,n7 nu'ieunolKeal "V iiuirdien, ma Ilea iritl w mw EE I' Ul ?OUT C07r Bo Pi. BrU LwiMt Fin Dtikn. I .-J t.i' alJ? ?,,!' 4-15-I0t fBENGII GAVEDWLLERS Two Million Modern Troglodytes, Mostly Peasants, In the Republic. "There are no fewnr than 2,000,000 cave dwellers In France," writes a traveler. "Whether you travel north, south, cast or west, you will find these curious imitations of the homes of primitive man. They stretth for fully seventy miles along the valley of the Loire, from Blols to Saumur, and as the train proceeds you can catch n glimpse from time to time, of their picturesque entrances, surrounded by flowers and verdure. As likely as not you will see the inhabitants standing or sitting In front of their mysterious looking caverns, and unless you have learned the contrary, you will be in. dined to Imagine that they possess some of the characteristics of the troglodytes of old, and that their homes are mere dens. Not so, as yod will find on visiting them. "They are nearly all well-to-do peasants, owners perhaps of some of thfl vineyards that deck the slopes on all sides, and their habitations are, as a rule, both healthy and comfortably furnished. These singular houses era remarkably cool In summer, without being in the leaat damp, while in win ter they can be warmed much more easily and better than ordinary apart ments. The health of the modern troglodyte is, as a rule, excellent, r..;d It is not uncommon to flui centenar ians among them. This, however, U by no means surprising when we con sider that their homes are not only healthful to live in, but are also ci;;i fortably furnished and fitted up. "In the majority of ca?es these ro-:!c houses were not excavated for the special purpose of being Inhabited, but with the object of obtaining stone for the building of houses. At Rochet t;r bon there Is a rock dwelling carved out of a single block of stone, nnd t:.e Ingenious owner, In addition to m?k lng a two-story villa therefrom, has provided himself with a root garden, from which a fine view of the valley can be obtained. A similar house ex ists at Bourre, In which locality the disused quarries are said to date from this days of the Romans." WHERE WOMEN FIRST VOTED. Equal Suffrage Had Its Origin In New Jersey In 1776. The renewed agitation for equal suffrage recalls the almost forgotten fact that In New Jersey was first ex tended to women the right of suffrage on the same terms as to men. On the second day of July, 177S (two days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence), says the Detroit Free Press, the first con stitution convention of New Jersey, in session at Burlington for the purpose of revising the old Colonial charter, struck out of the suffrage clause the words "male freeholders" and insert ed the words "all inhabitants." It then read "All inhabitants worth 50." On this property qualification wom en voted "in increasing numbers" un til 1807. Only those few women could vote who owned $250 worth of property, and these were almost all federalists. That party continued to control the State until 1807, when for the first time the Democratic party obtained a majority in the Legislature. The Democrats at once proceeded to disfranchise the white women and free negroes by an act which, it is said, was clearly unconstitutional, but which never was contested. In 1844 a new constitution removed any ques tion on the subject by using the words "white male citizen." INDOOR WALKING. Surprising Figures Disclosed by a Ho tel Keeper's Pedometer. How far do you walk in a day? Not in the street, not even outdoors, but in your bouse or place of business? It is a safe bet that few busy persons could come within a mile of telling. The manager of one of the largest hotels In New York decided some time ago to find out exactly how much Indoor walking he did, so ho bought a pedometer and carried It with him on his daily rounds. He seldom walks up or down a stairway, uslns the elevators for perpendicular travel, but be does visit every part of his building at least once a day. The pedometer experiment con vinced him after a week's trial that his walking about the hotel alor.e amounted to from eight to eleven miles a day. Now let some active housekeeper who does part of her own work apply the same tc.3t. How many miles a day would her little clock register? Ocean's Toll In Soil. One of the most startling facts com ing to the American public from the latest report of the Secretary of Agri culture is that the rivers of the Unit ed States are annually pouring into the ocean not less than one billion tons of sediment, and that this Im mense volume of waste consists of tu most valuable elements of the soil, the very richest material, as tho Secretary calls it. "the cream of the roll." At a moderate appraisal the annual loss exceeds all the land taxes of the whole country, and this loss Is steadily Increasing Instead of decreas Irg. This does not take into account '.he coarse detritus wfiieh la piuhod '"nn the sides of the larjrer strca:us fl'tn we havo to tajce Into account, be s i'hh tho Boll impoverishment, tint tt.o sediment pollute the waters that curry it, endangering the Uvai of tnono who are compelled to use tiem, and reducing tnclr varus for rcanafac i turlng and other domestic purposss. The Independent. fc fry j 1 lO-MMni rii I fl KWBBHBBBlBBBBlBBsBBiBy AYcgcfable Preparation for As similating ftcFoodandRcgula ting the Stomachs andBowels of Promotes Dedtion.Cheerful ness andResi-Conlalas nciilur Opitim.Morplune norltincfaL NotXarcotic. JU .fmutm A perfect Remedy forConstipa Tlon, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Fevcrish ness nnd Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature or NEW VOHK. be: 7W !P' - ft'0 lit EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. "iliil". 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In the ease of medicines the law provides that cer tain drugs shall be mentioned on the labels, if they are Ingredients of the preparations. Ely's Cream Halm, the well-known family remedy for cold in head hay fever and nasal catarrh, doesn't contain a single injurious drug, so the makers have to simply to print the fuct that It complies lully with alt the requirements of the law. CASTOR I A Tor Infants and Children. His Kind You Have Always Bcsgtt Bears tbe 3linatur of AW hjr Use For Over ' mm mm TMI
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