THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA. E FAILS Thieving Agent of Wisconsin Corporation Nearly Got Away With Bundle HOW HE WAS BAMBOOZLED Pcscrt was Had to an InrjVicus r--J Elaborate Ruse The Cc-tcr-F;::s How it was Worked Got tie V,: tims "Goat" and He Confessed. It was a fishy looking storv The local agent of a New York corpora tion out In a Wisconsin town, h;int "ins Its funds daily, reported a robbery. Two men had come Into the office lato at night, when he was m work o:i the books, and at the pflnts of pistols he had yielded up $3,000 of the com pany's funds. Two days later the con fidential traveling agent o' the cor poration dropped Into the town and talked it over with tLe local man in a qiiet way. "In five minutes," he told Tip, "I knew there had never been any robbery. How did I know? In ftinct. The story he told was too weet. There wasn't a flaw in It. It was like a framed-up alibi. You know the best alibi, until you can knock It out, Is the one that Is Invented for the occasion." Queerest of all things, the "victim" bad no bad habits. There was no sign cf extravagance anywhere to contirpi the visitor's Impression that the rob Dory was a myth. Yet he could r.o. gt the conviction out of his mind that the thief wa3 the employee. With tbe tinae of the alleged hold-up fixed by the suspected one. resort was had to an ingenious and elaborate ruse. When it was proposed to the Chief of Police he revolted. "The Third De gree:" He wasn't going to get into trouble with those New York trick?. Our acrnts argued tlie interests of Justice. At last persuasion wen. There was one pol'.ccmr.n who stood ready to assert that .it the hmr the local agent had fixed for the hold up by his two men in buckram he aid another policeman wer-? in front o.' the office where the n.ytl.lcal rnbb.-.-y had occurred. An aTommodatiri-: bartender, slinking home, as he said, from a clandestine rendezvous, hail parsed the spot at the sair.e hour and had seen the policemen. If there had taen a robbery, if there had been any men near the office, they would have been sure to see It come off. Oh, yes. they had looked In the windows and there was no one within; they were fure of that. too. "Hit suppose this scheme doesn't work?" demanded th? Chief of Police. "A f re mess my po licemen will be in:" The confidential r.gent met this quickly: "They will r.ot be under oath. !f ;s.c tr!1; doesn't to through, then the i-ouicrneu can come out and swear to the truth and no harm will be done." The frame-up complete, the victim of the supposititious robbery was tak ( n to Police Headquarter?. Again he 1 created his story, which was taken down by a stenographer. Then the policemen and the bartender, la his presence, related theirs. A conveni ent "judge," who threw in an occa sional question and was deferentially addressed by the skillful inquisitor, lent to the impression upon the mind of the culprit that he was about to be confronted with an accusation of theft Jind that the circumstantial proo! (-gainst him was overwhelming. Next tame a private Interview with the en tvoy from New York, and in exactly seven minutes the two men went to Hie spot where the $5,000, down to the I&6t dollar, had. been hidden by the local agent. Not a threat had been used against him. No torture; no in timidation. He went up and took his dose without a murmur one year in the penitentiary and unless he chances to Identify hlmse'f w ith these lines he does not know how he got his tumble, how nearly he got away with his little pile. Tip in the New York Press. A Rat with Brains. While standing in a large wood shed, one end of which he had par titioned off with narrow slats as a fowlhouse, Mr. X heard a gnawing noise and, looking about him, saw a large brown rat darting away froTi u dog biscuit lying on the floor of the shed. He decided to remain quiet and watch if this thief of his dog bis cult would return. Presently he did. end, slyly glancing et Mr. X as if to say, "Now, you let me alone, and I'll let you alone," his ratshlp began dragging the biscuit over toward the Mat partition, behind which were the fowls clucking and scratching. He reached the laths and tried to drag the biscuit through them after him. It would not pass, beir.g flat and broad. After some vain struggles with It, the rat vanished, to return with another of his acquaintance. The newcomer he stationed inside the fowlhouse. He himself came out and seized the biscuit by one corner. Ho then began tilting it up on its aide, and the adroit friend poked his head through the slats and steadied it with him. In a few seconds the biscuit was held between them "up and own," and between rat No. l's push ing without and rat No. 2'a pulling from within the barrier the prize was forced triumphantly through the slats. "Since the soap factory was built tn our street the antoleU have not troubled ua at all."Meggendorter Biaeiter. 1 THE HOr Hia Place Can Never Be Filled L-y Any Machine. No Matt;r Whai Its car.Li.itiea. The lii i.se i-e in,:, in the hour of bit ile at i.a-., tj t.i:,i o:i charact .-r-l.-i.cs which I,. '.en, ouly to a brjag tii KAvcd with ruJt'!i. l!i partaKca of thi' hopes ua 1 fears of the cou !iiet. the hv.nu- ?.j Lis rider. If he has l e ii six i:i( nths in the service he k:. ' .s ev ry 1 call. As the col urn wi!ir;s into and waits the hoi.-e ;:io',s neno.'.s with waiting, r..i ! it ti.e wait bo lung will often tn i.ihle r.n 1 sweat. As the call comes to ahaiiie the rider can fiid him wi thing at th bjt with Ir.s tongue to i- t it .v.i'.t: hi.-' tteth. As lie i.:"..' s out I".- will liiher try to get on l.i 'i ; :v Uiii. Th.' lines will carry h ... i -lward. i'.u.l nlUr a minute he w.il l.'y b.ich ills i.us, and one can let I his sieidLii le.uiive ij brave tho wr.n-t mul have d.mu with It as sixm ; '--ii-le. A r.;an seldom cries out w h. - ti i.i the turmoil of battle, and 1: ti. s the same with a horse. Five ;t rs out of six when struck with a a 1 nilet are out of their saddles in .linute. If hit In the breast or tl.uuhler, up grj their hands and they g.t a hiavy fall; if in the leg. f xn 1 or arm they fall forward and roll off. Kvm with a foot cut off by a Jagsd i pit co of shell a horse will not drop. 1 ! ! only when shot in the head or i heart that ho comes down. The horse th?t loses his rider and is unwound ed himself will continue to run with bis sit of fours until some move li.cr.t throws him out. Then he goes c.ill.viin? here and there, neighing with fear and alarm, but will not l.avo tho field. When he has come uyen several riderless steeds they fall in and keep together, and 'the rally of the bugle often will bring th'm into the ranks together. New York Herald. Pocket Mail Scales. A pocket scale for weighing mail matter recently has been awarded a patent to a Philadelphian. Most in struments of this character are usu ally rather bulky and not at all suited for the purposes of stowing away In the pocket; but this device has the advantage of being quite compact. Tl.c principal part being made of thin Fl. et tin .celluloid or similar mate rial, it may be easily carried la the packer. This device consists of an im provement on the well-known Tin- an tie.lyard. and primarily constitu.03 an efficient and convenient wei-hinc; machine, and, incidentally, furnishes a suitable medium for advertising rurposes. Tho inventor accompii.ie3 this by providing a plane surface lor the beam, instead of the ordinary bar. by confining the movable counter poise in a horizontal slot, Instead of by protuberance at the extremity of the long arm, by having a spring clip provided with an eye or a hook at the extremity of each limb at the tin of the short arm to hold the matter to l e weighed, in place of the usual h.iok or pan, and by providing an in dex, which constitutes part of the hsngsr. to correspond with a fixed mark on the surface of the beam to indicate when the same is In equil ibrium In lieu, of the separated means otuinarily employed to that end. Natural Barometers. If the chickweed and scarlet pim pernel expand their tiny petals, rain n;ed not be expected for a few hours, sa; s a writer. Bees work with re doubled energy just before a rain. If IUj flies are unusually persistent cither in the house or around the stock theer is rain in the air. The ciicket sings at the approach of cold weather. Squirrels store a large sup ply of nuts, the husks of corn are un usually thick and the buds of decidu ous trees have a firmer protecting cot If a severe winter is at hand. If the poplar or quaking aep leaves turn up the under side rain will soon follow. If the camphor bottle becomes cliy it is going to storm. When It cleir's tettled weather may be expected. This Idea has seemingly been utilized iti the manufacture of barometers. The main trouble is, they Eeldom foretell tbe change until about the time arrives. Last, but not least, the rheumatics can always tell in their bones whin a norm is approaching, and of this prognostication the octo genarian of to day Is as firm an advo cate as were his forefathers. Astronomy In It is now nearlf French astronomers measure "an arc of the East. 200 years since went to Peru to meridian." Thf: purpose of such area Is to furnish data for calculating the size and shape of the earth. The arc in Peru wus about 220 miles in length, arid with the exception of a short arc In South Africa, it is the only one ever measured in the southern hemis phere. This year a commission head ed by army officers has .been sent from France to remeasuro the arc In Peru. The rerueasurement is re garded as of great scientific impor tance on account of the advance, that have been made since the fir! measure was taken. ... J .tfj SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of n writ of Fieri Fnci.ns is sued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County. Pennsylvania, and to nie directed, there will be sold at i'uo,ie sue at me Mientt s office, in the N-ouii House at Bioomsburg. countvand state aforesaid, on ' SATURDAY, NOV. roth, i00y, 1 at 10 o'clock A. M., the folio scribed real estate: ing de j All that certain piece or parcel of land , situate in the Borough of Berwick, Col j umbia County. Pennsylvania, bounded ' and described as follows, to wit; Situ ated on south side of Fourth street be tween Walnut and Chestnut street-, tie- insr lot number six in Gilbert Fowler plot of lots bounded on the south by 1' litre: street, north bv Fourth street, east formerly by F. K. Brockway now 1 Laura A. G;irr. and on the west former ly by lot of H. W. Bower now J. W, Sit ler, said lot leintT fortv-nine and one half feet wide on Fourth street and on hundred and eighty-one and one-half feet deep, whereon is erected a large TWO STORY DOUBLE FRAME DWELLING HOUSE and outbuildings. Beinirsame premises 1 conveyed to Flmer E. Garr by Heed id ' L H. Fowler and wife dated October ith, H)4 and recorded in Deed Book No. ;6 at FaKe 43- Seized. taKen into execution at the . suit of I. H. Fowler now to the use of ! Nelson W. Bloss vs. Klmer K. Garr, ! and to be sold as the propertv of Klmer : E. Garr. CHARLES B. William E. Eltnes. Attorney. ENT, Sheriff. lo-jS-4t. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a writ of Levari Facial j issued out of the Court of Common Pleas , of Columbia County, Pennsylvania, and j to me directed, there will beoid nt pub ; lie sale at the Sheriff's office, iu the j Court House at Bloomsburj;, county and : state aforesaid, on I SATURDAY NOV. 27th, 1909, I at 10 o'clock a. m. the following de scribed real estate : ! All that certain town 1 t situated in , the Borough of West Berwick. Columbia j County and State of Pennsylvania, on t the east side i.t La Salie street. Being ; b't Number Two. in Section Thirteen, of the Berwick Land Improvement Comp'.nv's Addition to Berwick. Being bounded by lot Number Three, of Ster lir.g Dickson on the north; on the east ' by an alley: on the south by lot Number i One; and on the West bv La Salle street. ', , being forty feet in width on La Saiie ; street and one hundred and torty feet iu 1 i depth. ; Being part of the same premises con- 'veyid by George S. Fleckenstein and ; L, zz e r .eckenstine, h'.s vvite, to Mary 1 A. Pettit by deed dated January list, I 1002. recorded iu the of'ce for the re cording of deeds, etc., in and for Co!-' ; umbia County, Pennsylvania, in Deed : Book No. 73. page 1. On which is erect i ed a I TWO AND A HALF STORY ' i FRAME DWELLING HOUSE. I and out buildings. I Seized, taken into execution at the suit of Harry T. Stodd.irt. Receiver for . ; tbe Eastern Union Building and Loan 1 . Society of Philadelphia. Pa", vs. Hiram J j W. Pettit and Mary A. Pettit real own- , i ers. with notice to all terre-tenants and 1 ' to be sold as the property of Hiram W I Pettit a 1 Mary n. Pettit CHARLES B. James L. Evans, Attorney. "shr? . - - T T. DIVORCE NOTICE. Tillie Harley ") In the Court of Com mon Pleas of Columbia County. Pennsylvania. No. igt September Term, 1909. John Harley To John Harley above cited case. Respondent in the You are hereby notified, in pursuance of the order of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Columbia and state of Pennsylvania, ta be and ap pear in said Court on or before the First Monday of December, 1900, being the fcth day of said month, to answer petition heretofore preferred by the hbellant, Tillie Harley. your wife, and show cause, tf any you have, why the said Tillie Harley should not be divorced from the bonds of matrimony entered into with you, agreeably to the Act of Assembly in such cases made and pro vided. Hereof fail not, under the penalty of having the said petition heard and a de cree of divorce granted against you in your absence. CHARLES B. EXT, Sheriff. C. A. Small. Attorney. n-4-5t. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Estate of fusan Markle. Dtceased The undersigned, Auditor appointed ' by the Orphans' Court of Columbia ! county to make distribution of the bal ance inthe hands of M. A. Markle and David Markle, administrators of said estate, to and among the parties entitled thereto, will sit at his office in Biooms burg, Pa at No. 44 Main Street in said town, on Wednesday, Nov. loth, 1909 at 10 o'clock A. M. to perform the duties of his appointment, when and where ah parties interested win appear i debarred from coming in on said fund, WM. C. JOHNSTON, -2-4t. Auditor. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. The undersigned, an auditor anjioint- ed by the Oprhans' Court of Columbia county to make distribution of the bal. aneein the hands of Frank Ikeler, Esq., Trustee in partition in the estate f Delilah Cramer, late of the Town of Bioomsburg, deceased, will sit at his office in Farmers' National Bank build jng in the Town of Bioomsburg. on Thursday November nth, 1909, at 10 o'clock A. M. at which time and place all parties in interest may appear. CHRISTIAN A. SMALL. 'o-ai-4t. Auditor. SHKRIFP'S vSALK. By virtue of a writ of Levari Faci.n issued out ff the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County, Pennsylvania, and to me directed, there will l-o sold at pub- lie sale at the Sheriff's office, in the Court House nt Bioomsburg. count v a:id , state aforcsa d. on SATURDAY, NOV. ioth. 1909, - at lo e'eb ck A. M., the following de- MHOcd rea. estate : All that sertain lot of ground situate in the said Town i.f Biootv.sburg, in Nea!'s Addition te said town, lying north ol East Fifth street ami south f E st Third street, and more particularly bounded and described ns follows, to w:t Begmnimt at c point on the north of East F iurth street at the intersection of Lot No. 25 with The Bioomsburg Land ' Improvement Co. Line. thence westward ly along the northern lineof East Fourth ; street one hundred and smy-four and seven-tenths feet to eastern hue of lot No. 2, thence northwardly along line of said lot No. 2$. one hundred und eighty I four feet to an nliey. thence t stwardiy : along southern lineof said ailev to line of j land of said Bioomsburg Land Improve j merit Company, the. ice southeastwardiv , along line ot said Bioomsburg Land 1m 1 provement Company to place of begin ning. This tract embraces lots No. 2;, . .... j ana 27 on saiu pian. na hereon are erected j FOUR (4) GREENI'OUSES ! AND BOILER HOUSE. Seized, taken into execution at the ' suit of Matthew McReynolds Executor : I of Evelina R. B. McReynolds vs. James T. Davis M. Edith Davis and Clem R. j i Weiss. Mortgagors. John W. Davis, Stewart E. Reynolds and The Davis Brothers Company Corporation under 1 j t,J 'awrs of Pennsylvania terre-tenants, j and to be sold as the propertv of J .nies ; T. Davis, ... Edith Davis and Clem K. 1 1 Weiss. Mortgagors. Join W. Davi , j Stewart E. Reynolds and The Davis Brothers Company Corporation under j the laws of Pennsylvania terre-tenants, i CHARLES B. ENT, , , Sheriff. T. J. anderslice, Attorney. lo-2S-4t. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of sundry writs of Fieri Fa- I cias issued out of the Cjnrt of Common ( I'leas of Columbia County. I'ennsvlva r.ia, and to me directed, there will le suij a. public saie at the Sheriff's office. ! in the Court House at Bioomsburg, : county and state aforesaid, on SATURDAY, NOV. 20th, i9oy, at 10 o'clock A. M., the following de- ' scribed real estate : All that certain piece and parcel of ground situated in the Borough of Cata Nvissa, Columbia Countv, Pcnnsvlvania. ' bounded and described as follows, to : i wit : Beginning at ? of X,rs- Hamilton F a fence post, corner I ishir's lot. on the 1 souT.11 side ot fcast Ma:n street twenty feet distant from the center line of s;iid : street, thence by the lot of Mrs. Ham;'.. 1 ton Fisher five and ilfty-three and a hilf (5-53) decrees wot one hundred and seventy-six and three-tenth feet to line i of Harry A. Harman, thence by the said ! Harry A. Harman north forty-two aad i one half degrees west twenty-four and ' two-tenths feet to the line of Sarah Fredericks lot. thence by the said Sarah r Fredericks north fifty-five and one-half I degrees west cue hundred and ten t-tt ' to a stake, thenct; by the same north : twenty-nine degrees east, fifty-four feet 10 i:ie soutn side ot bast Main street twenty feet from the ceuter street, thence along the s saw! street tweutv feet dist center line thereof south sixty and one- ' Il.lir I iort.,G ivikt f,r... h,. f.... .V... !pla,-e ot' beginning. ' Containing nine . ..muu. ,.-...1 vi .III Bill', Ul" i the same more or less. Whereon 18 erected a TWO AND ONE-HALF STORY ! FRAME DWELLING HOUSE ! and outbuild'ngs. j seized, taken into execution at the 1 suits of L. C. Mensch. attorney, vs. J. C. Fox, and Franklin Shoe Company vs. J. C. Fox, and to be sold as the prop erty of J. C. Fox. CHARLES B. ENT. L. C. Mensch. Sheriff. A. L. Fritz, lo-23-4t. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias issued out of the Court of Common Pleas I of Columbia County. Pennsylvania, and to me directed, there will be sold at nub. i lie sale at the Sheriff's Office, in rhe 1 Court House at Bioomsburg, county and j state aforesaid, on SATURDAY, NOY. 27th, 1909, at 10 o'clock a. m.. the following de scribed real estate : All that ceatain town lot situated in the Borough of West Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, west of Monroe street, bein lot Number Tnvo Section Seven of the Berwick Land Improve ment Company's addition to Berwick. Pa., being bounded cn the north by lot Number three, Section seven, one hun dred and forty feet; on the east by Mon 'Vc "'Jfei lorryieei; on me st V umber.ne" Section Seven roe street, torty leet; on the south by lot Number One, Section Seven one hun dred and forty feet, and on the west by an alley forty feet to the place of begin ning. Being part of the same premises conveyed by Freas Fowler and wite to George E. Sponsler by deed dated Aug ust 21st, 1903, recorded in the office tor the recording of deeds, etc., in and for Columbia County in Deed Book No. 53, pae 451, and by said Sponsler to Mar garet A. Kendriek by deed dated May r ,.-v . " v.. . . I"?, "'V Nvitli. Un which is erected a TWO AND A HALF STORY FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, and out bujldings. Seized, taken into execution at the suit of Harry T. Stoddart, Receiver for the Eastern Union Building and Loan Society of Philadelphia, Pa, vs. Law rence Kendriek (now deceased) Marga ret A, Kendriek ONvner and The LTuited States Lumber and Supply Company terre-tenant, and to be sold as the prop erty of Lawrence Kendriek (now de ceased) Margaret A. Kendriek and The United-States Lumber and Supply Com pany. CHARLES B. ENT, Sheriff. James L. Evans, Attorney. ll-4-4t. ! ; ; ! , AYegclablc Preparation for As simila t infl llic Food and ttcg ula -Lug the Stomachs and Dowels of Promotes DigMlion.Chmfur nessarklRest.Contains neillicr Opium.Morphine norHincraL 'OTJAllCOTIC. Atx.SmMi ' Aprrfocl Remedy forConstipa tlon , Sour Stonwh, Diarrhoea nnd Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature cf NEW YORK. ft II si '9m mm mmr 4 1 EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER J ijljlllM if BIG OFFER To All Our Subscribers The Great Indianapolis, Indiana. The Leading Agricultural Journal ot the Nation. Edited by an Able Corps of Writers. :r line of said , . The American Farmer is the only Literary Farm Journal pub iouth side of lisned. It fills a position of its own and has taken the leading ant from the Dlace in the homes nf rural iwnnlo it, : e . tt .. R . - - states, it rrives t.:e farmer and ' about aside from the humdrum w ; Every Issue Contains an Original Poem by SOLON G00DE WE MAKE THE EXCEPTIONAL OFFER OF Two for the Price of One: THE COLUMBIAN The Oldest County Paper and THE American Farmer BOTH ONE YEAR FOR $I.OO This unparalleled offer is all old ones who pay Sample COoies free r ' all arrears Address : THE COLUMBIAN, Eggs is Eggs. The Danville Morning Xews dis courses thusly on the subject of hen fruit. "Oh classic hen, the poet now Will lay for thee, I ween. Sueh feeble little lay as thou Hast made ean nenree be seen. Our heartH will bleei ere long, I know. lne bard now gets in trim tor well he ki own ynu cannot throw A single egg at him. It's all off. The die is cast. The epicure iu moderate circumstances must now eschew his succulent goblet of milk punch and the sooth ing sherry flip and cast all visions of the puffy waffle into outer dark uess. No longer may the wrinkled omelette tickle the thorax of mere man aad shed its goldeu ray across the breakfast table to gladden the hearts of the kiddies. For, !o, the plump and motherly heu, the origi- CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Hie Kind You Have Always Bought , For Infants and Children The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years 11 TMI MUTMIII MMMNf, NCW TONH ClTT. 3 M mJ T A Alii MWWW UP CAN FAMER 4U t.uj occuuii w me united his fimiiw cnma;n - - ----- T .'Vli'V tllllJ' LIJ I ink of routine duties. made to all new subscribers, and and renew within thirty days. Bioomsburg Pa. nator of a thcusand pantry confec tions, has scratched the barnyard gravel in a fit of distemper and gone on a strike. A Danville housewife visited the market Thursday morning iu search cf an egs. She didn't get it, for the simple reason that none were for sale. A scarcity of eggs prevails all over this sectiou'. At places where they can be obtained they are sell ing at 38 cents aud upwards. There seems to be no apparent relief in sight rnd the situation is conceded by the merchants to be one of the 'worst ever.' " Bioomsburg Souvenir Books, 48 half tone pictures, ascents, at the Columbian office. tf. A I.I. THE HOOD tiCAI.ITIKS of Kly' t ream Halm, solid, me found In Liquid Cream ltalm, which Is intended for use in atomizers. Tlmt it in a wonder lul remedy for Nasal Catarrh Is proved by an ever-increasing nmss of testimo ny. It does not dry out nor rofp the tender nir-pasnagen. It allay tho ln namnmliou and goes straight to the root of the disease. Obstlnute old owen have yielded in a few weeks. All druggists, "00., Including npraviug tube, or inuiled by Kly Bros., 5ti War ren (Street, New Pork,