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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27
Family Festivals.

1t is quite clear that we Americans get far
less enjoyment out of life than we might.
We still suffer from the effects of our Puri-
tancal origin, aud although We msy have
abandoned the theory that pleasure is neces-
sarily a sin, we still cling to the practice OF
eschowing it. We may not Insist As we once
did upon obedience to the eleventh command
ment-"Thou shalt not eat minee pie, add
cd by the Praise God Barebones to the Dec
alogue--but we touch the once forbidden
pastry, or indulge in the innocent pleasure
of which 1t is here taken a. the symbol, too
rarely, and seldom without fear and trom-
bling.
Not content with erasing from tho calen-,
dar all the saints days and holy fess and'
festivals which were so many pleasant and
wholesome reminders that man was not
made for work alone we have reduced our
national holidays to two or three in tie year
at the utmost. The late war, with its many
days of glory, has not apparently lef. US =
single one for perpetual anniversary Of eel
ebration. As for family festivals they seem
to be in a fair way of being abolished alto
gether. This we think an imprudent con-
cossion to the drudgery Of life
We might learn a useful and charming les
son from our foreign friends, and especially
from the Germans. These contrive to make
their homes constant scenes of cheerlulness.
Every domestic event is turned by them in
to an occasion of joyous demonstration.
The celebration of the bat tisms and christ
enings, birthdays and silver and golden we'd
dings, and other family events makes life in
Germany perpetual holiday. This does
not, as some might suspect, render the Ger
man an idle, devil-may-care person. His
prominence in every country as man of in
dustry, enterprise and thrift proves the con-
trary. This exuberance of domestic joy
serves rather to lubricate his energies, and
render him capable of bearing the rubs of
life without wear and tear.
1t is surprising also how much hearty en-
joyment the Germans manage to get for a
small expenditure of money. These family
festivals are made up of but very few articles
purchased in shop or market, but of a great
deal of sentiment of home production.
bouquet of flowers a cake, toy or trinket
is all that costs money, the rest is generously
supplied by affection and goodwill. What
time may be thought by our parsimonious
cslculators wasted in these home festivals
should be rather estimated as gained. The
strength given to the domestic affections, and
the positive increase of social happiness by
this practice of cultivating the innocent
pleasures of home, are sufficient to commend
it. Apart, however, from these, it has the
further advantage of indirectly economizing
time. The spirits are refreshed by these pc
rodical intermissions from work, and the
mind and body so invigorated that they
more than make up by increased willingness
and capacity for labor, for all the time spent
in these innocent and wholesome family fes
tivals.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

SEAsoNABLE HIYTs.-The Scientific Amer,
ican says IF mosquitoes or other blood,
suckers infest our sleeping rooms at night,
we uncork bottle of the oil of pennyroyal
and these animals leave in great haste, nor
will they return so long as the room is load
ed with the fumes of that aromatic herb II
rats enter the cellar a little powdered potash
thrown into their holes or mixed with meal
and scattered in their runways, never fails
to drive them away. Cayenne pepper will
keep the buttery and storeroom free from
ants and eockroaches If mouse makes an
entrance into any part Of your dwelling, sat
urate rag with cayenne in solution, and
stuff it into the hole, which can then be re-
paired with either wood or mortar. No rat
or mouse will eat the rag for the purpose of
opening communication with the depot of
supplies.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

Mrs Stanton thinks that if the women do
not accomplish so much as men, there is
good reason for it. She is not dressed to
work, but to kill. Men do not appreciate
the beauty Of woman's attire. She says
Take man and pin three or four large ta-
ble-cloths about him, fastened back with
elastic and looped up with ribbons; drag all
his own hair to the middle of his head and
tie it tight, and hair-pin on about five pounds
of other hair, and bow of ribbon. Keep
the front locks on pins all night, and let them
tickle his eyes all day; pinch his waist into
a corset, and give him gloves a size too small
and shoes ditto, and hat that will not stay
on without torturing elastic, and frill to
tickle his chin, and a little lace veil to blind
his eyes whenever he goes out to walk, and
he will know what woman's dress is"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

AT the resurrection of our Lord there
were "about five hundred" Christians, Il Cor.
1850 AT the first feast Of Pentecost they
numbered about three thousand souls at the
end of the first century they were estimated
at about five hundred thousand; under the
first Christian ruler, Constantine the Great
at about ten millions; at the first millennium
"a. d. 1000, nearly fifty millions; at the
first. Reformation, nearly one hundred mil
lions and now, not far from the end of the
second millennium, they number some four
hundred millions.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27
Miscellaneous.
OuT IN THE W0ODS.

"lllprity-hlpw 20 says the little tree-tofd,
whats going to happen to-day2
guess had better get out ot the road
" those children are coming this way
lie stretches his hlnd-lcgs, 50 long and slim,
For flying leap TO a hckory-limO;
Ana then he pops open his ruby-red eyes
Attn funny proceedings, In solemn surprise.
Hop-skp and jump It is Lorry and len
With the rest OF the romping crew;
They're scamperlng over the woods again,
And what are they going to do2
To build bonfire, do declarcl
Is there any mischief they wouldn't daro D
But roasting potatoes Is jolly fun
You eat om scorchcd, ami about half done!
"Cllckety-cl0ck!' says the sausy trcc.toad
what fuss you young ones do make!
wonder II baked potatoes are good2
How long do they have to bako2 ?"
lie turns to the mother on her nest
-Four little 1edgllngs Under her breast
apo you know, madam, about such things?"
Sac shakes her head ana lutters her wings
"Chlckadee-deel don't you wish they would 20?
l am really afraid" says she,
"That some OF those dreadful children know
have got my nest In this tree
It's all very well for you, my dear;
With your long legs you have nothing to fear;
But fancy leaving my darllngs to diet"
slppety slide "There's a copperhead-qulck
Keep Alice and Lorry away -
Len picks up stonc sgd "goes for" a stick
The snake thinks he'd better not stay,
He rapidly wrlggles himself to his den,
And pokes out his tongue at the whole race OF men,
"Two-legged, hideous things | anrm
That only to look at them makes me squlrm."
Plnety-whnl ! what cloud Of smoke,
AS the dancing breeze comes near;
Says the little tree-toad, 81 shall certainly choke
II stop In this atmosphere.
guess had best hop a little bit higher,
For don't quite relish the smell Of that fire.
I'll go and Inquire II Miss Katy-Did's in,
And see what she thinks of this racket and din"
Fiddc-dee-dee! for the toad and the snake
The children care never a whit
They eat their potatoes half-raw, and their cake
They gobble It up every bit.
They jump on the logs where the sunshine is warm
And brown ants and black ants In colonies swarm,
They hang on the saplings, and mcrrlly swing
Backward and forward, like birds on the wing
But dingery-ding IN the midst of the play
The sound Of the dlnnor-bell comes;
IIop-skip-and-Jump they all scamper away,
And nothing is left but the crumbs.
Now the bird ilutters down, and the snake wriggle
out
The pert little tree-toad goes hopping about;
They eat up the scraps, and declare they are good
And bright shines the sun on the merry green wood
-Atdiae.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

There is a lady in New York who will not
permit her children to eat anything of which
Indian meal constitutes an ingredient, for
fear that it will make them savage. 1t must
be the same lady who would notlet her chill
dren eat spinach for fear it would make them
green
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

Some people continue under such gross
and habitual selfdeceptior that the most
blundering observer of human nature can
understand them better than they do them
selves. There are persons who have 80 ac-
customed themselves to all the arts and
tricks of falsehood that to gain plain end
in plain way would be to them as tasteless
and insipid as warm water.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

One day you will be pleased with q friend,
and the next day disappointed in him. 1t
will be so to the end and you must make
up your mind to it, and not quarrel, un-
less for very grave causes. Your friend,
you have found out, is not perfect Nor are
you; and you cannot expect to get much
more than you give. You must look for
much weakness, foolishness, and vanity in
human nature; it is unhappy if you are too
sharp in seeing them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

Having frequently asked his father to buy
him jackkniie, and receiving for final
answer, 'If you speak to me on that subject
again, I'll whale YOU" he went straightway
to his mother, crying as if his heart would
break, and said: 81 cant never be as good
as George Washington with such dad as
Pye got"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

Everybody now a-days is a Gladly or gentle
man." A st, Louis paper recently informed
its readers that "two gentleman and lady
left for the penitentiary last night
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

Beecher says that "none of his photo
graphs do him justice" And it is deuced-
ly lucky thing that they don't.-C0w'ier
Journal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

One of the sadest things about human ma
ture is, that man may guide others in the
path of life without walking in it himself
that he may be pilot and yet castaway.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

Superstition changes mau to a beast, ia
naticism makes him wild beast, and des-
potism a beast of burden.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

We seldom repent of speaking little, very
often of speaking too much. A vulgar and
trite maxim, which all the world knows, but
one which all the world does not practice.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

The gibbet is species of Aattery to the
human race. Three or four persons are
hung from time to time to make the rest be-
lieve they are virtuous.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

The opinions of the msanthrophical rest
upon this partial basis-that they adopt the
bad faith of a few as evidence of the worth
lessness of all.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

There ars few wild beasts more to be
dreaded than communicative man with
nothing to communicate.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

TN THE MATTER OF THE REAL
i Estate OF Philip Miller late Of Centre township
Columbia county, deceased.
RUE on heirs 10 accept or refuse The Real Estate at
the valuation or saOv cause Why tie same should
not be soh
The Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania 20 BENJAMIN
Miller, Harriet Brelsch, Mary Ann Glnges Regina
Wolyerton, Henry d. kn0rr, committee Of the per
son and estate OF Levi Miller, a lunalc, children OF
said Phillip Miller, deceased, and Mary
Alice Hopper and Cyrus Webb grand children Of
sad Philip Miller deceased. You and each Of YOU
ore hereby commanded 20 DO and appear before the
Orphans Court OF said county 10 be held az Blooms
dg DudGg on tne eth day OF september A. D., ISIS then
OF said Philip Miller, deceased, at the appraised
value, or show cause why the same shOnd not be
sold. by the Court u. FRANK ZAItR.
Blo0mSDurg July IL, l6lo.-0t. Clerk.
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AN AND DEMOCRAT. BLOOMsBURG. COLUMBIA COUNTY. PA.
WHAT KNOW ABOUT yEGErINE
seuvu BOSTON, May Q, 1s7C

teuyu BOSTON, May v, 1870.
n. r. srrvBNs, ESQ.
DeAr Mr-1 nave had considerable experience with
hC Vpdaf1NI. For dyspepsia, general debility and
itepue blood, the Nsss1lrs "a superior to anything
rhhh have eyH a-eS. commenced to take NEGs-
auout the nidils u tsnt winter, and, after using
few bUttles, ssufey ers I'd me OF dyspepsia, and
by Blood never ves 10 AZ good CONDITION as at the
res~pt uae. hvM aHors NE pleasure 20 give any
tlrther parweulafs relative ~ what know about
Wits good nedictne " shJ ons who will call or ad-
dress NC st my residence, s,s Athens street.
Very respectfully,
MONROE PARKER,
see Athens street.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

The most delicate, the most sensible of all
pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure
of others.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27
RELIABLE EVIDENCE.

IT. II. p
Dear Sir-I Will most checrfully add my testimony
TO the great number you have already received In
favor OF your great and good medicine VEGErNE, for
do hot think enough can be said in Its praise for
was troubled over thirty years with that dreadful
disease, Catarrh, and had such bad coughing spells
that IL would seem as though could never breath
any more, and VEGETISE has cured me; and do
feel TO thank God all the time that there is good
medicine as VEGErINE and also think It one Of the
best medicines for coughs and weak sinking feel
ings at the stomach, and advise everybody to take
the VEGETiNE for can assure them 1t is one of the
best medicines that ever was MRS. l.. GORE,
Corner Magazine and Walnut Streets Cambridge,
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EASTWARD.

Erie Mall West Niagara Express West, Elmlra
Mail West and Day Express East make close connec-
ton at Northumberland with L. a. b. r. X. trains for
Wilkes Barre and Scranton.
Erie Mall West, Niagara Express West ana Elmira
Mail West make close connection at Williamsport
with N. @. H. w. trains North.
Erie Mall East and West, Niagara Express West,
Fast Line West and Day Express East make close
connection at LOCK Haven with II. e. V. X. r., trains
Erie Mail East and West connect at Eric with
trains on l. $. a. NJ. 3. X. r. at CORY with .. q. A.
v. X. H.. at Emporium with b. N. Y. q r. Il. H., and
al Drftwood with A. v. H. r.
Parlor Cars will run between Philadelphia and
Willlansport on Niagara Express West, Fast Line
West, Philadelphia Express East and Day Express
East Sleeping cars on all night trains.
VIM. A. BALDWIN,
Jan. s,Tb-u General Supt
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DYSPEPSIA.

sfMPTOMs-want OF appetite, rising OF food and
wind from the stomach ncidity of the stomach, heart
burn dryness ana vhitene.s u the tongue In the
morning, sense of distensio Tn the stomach and
boweiA someMnes rambling and pain costiveness,
which 10 occasionally interrupted By diarrha pale.
hess u VIZ urine. The mouth ~ olaafny, or has a
sour OF bitter taste. Other frequent symptoms are
watsrbrsah pAlpitation u the heart, headache and
disorders Of the senses seeing double etc. There
IA general debility, lAnguor aud aversion ~ motion
detection Of ths sprts, disturbed sleep, and fright
fu dreams
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27
PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD.
Philadelphia 4 Erie r. R. Division.
SUMNER TIME TABLE.

ON and after SUNDAY, MAY 23d, 1875,
~ the trains on the Philadelphia Eric Rail
Road Division Will run as follows;
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Aye 8
HairVigor,
For restoring to Gray Hair its
natural Vitality and Color.

A dressing
which is at
once agreeable,
healthy an d
efectual 70 r
preserving the
hair. II soon
restores faded
or gray hair
to its original
color, NTH tho
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

gtoSS ana JreShnesS OF youth- LINN
hair is thickoned, falling hair checked,
and badness often, though not always,
cured by it's use. Nothing can restore
tho hair where the follicles arc de-
stroyed, or the glands atrophied and
decayed; but such as remain can be
saved by this application, and stinu-
lated into activity, so that new
growth Of hair is produced. Instead
of fouling tho hair with q pasty ,edi-
ment il will keep it clean and vigorous.
It's occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling of, and
consequently prevent badness. The
restoration Of vitality it gives to the
scalp arrests and prevents the forma-
ton Of dandruff, which is often so un-
cleanly and offensive. Free from those
deleterious substances which make
some preparations dangerous and inju-
rious to the hair, the Vigor can only
benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for a HAIR DRESSING,
nothing else can be found so desirable.
Containing neither oil nor dye, it does
not soil white cambria, and yet lasts
long on the hair, giving it rich, glossy
lustre, and grateful perfume.
Prepared by DR.. J. c, Aver & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
LOWELL. MASS.
Anrtl 1G-shyI
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-08-27

ID LANK HOTES,wit or withgut exemption
I'D Tor sale at tho COLUMBIAN OineA
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-05-20

LEGISLATIVE CLERICAL ERRORS -
By All error in enrolling the tax bill,
that one of Mr. Fulkerson's amend
ments requiring the rapitation tax of
81 to be paid III lawful money of the
United States, though defeated in the
Senate, was lett in the bill, and it was
so signed by the Governor without
reading. In another section OF the tax
bill the clerk put it every merchant
shall pay specific tax for the privil-
eye of Purchasing in the State, while
it should have read selling in the
State. 1t appears that when the
Finance Committee determined to
place the tax Oh purchases instead of
on sales, the clerk of the committee
was ordered to insert purchasing in
place Of selling in the old tax-bill, and
thus the error was brought about. =
Several legal gentlemen, including
members of the General Assembly,
says the Richmond 'Dispoteh,' have
been investigating the sun ct, and are
inclined to believe that very serious
consequences may result from the
General Assembly falling to say what
it intended. The Auditor Of Public
Accounts, in his instructions. to revenue
officers, will construe the law to mean
that the tax shall be levied equally
upon goods purchased in and out OF
the State.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-05-20
WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA.
Thursday Rornszg, May sotA, 1878.

An excited meeting of the Erie
railroad directors was held 10 New
YorK, The special committee, con-
sisting of President Jewett, John Tay-
,sr johnson aud Ex-Governor Morgan,
appointed to make q report to the
stockholders on the condition OF tbs
road. presented long series OF fg-
srss about which considerable dis
cussion arose owing to rumors afoat
that the company could not pay its
June interest 1t was decided by the
mtetiug to telegraph to London that
acme arrangement would be made in
regard to the payment of the June in
terest. II regard to the proposition to
raise money by sale Of the company
coal lands the report stated that q
mortage for half million dollars had
already been made on their lands on a
long time loan. President Jewett de-
slined to give the figures of the main
part Of the report, but said they would
b. furnished for publication III the
course of time.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-05-20
NEWSPAPER PosrAGE.-The Post

NEWSPAPER PosrAGE.-The Post
master General has issued the follow
ing order amending section 103 of the
regulations Of the Postoffice Depart
ment by striking out the words, Sand
the Subscription must be for not less
than three months" in the seventh and
eighth lines, 80 as to read as follows !:
''Section 1913. A regular subscriber is
a person who has actually paid, or
undertaken to pay a subscription price
for newspaper, magazine or other
periodical, or for whom such payment
has been made or undertaken to be
made by some other person. But in
the latter case such payment must have
been made or undertaken with the
consent, or at the previous request of
the person to whom such newspaper,
magazine or periodical is sent. A per.
son to whom any such publication is
sent without his consent or request is
not regular subscriber within the
meaning of the law, and double tran
sient rates of postage must be charged
and collected on such publications be-
fore delivery" In foot note addressed
to postmasters the Postmaster General
says:-eP ostmasters will observe that
by this amendment of the l03d section
of the regulations, persons, who are
subscribers to newspapers or periodicals
as defined in the regulations, are to be
regarded as regular subscribers within
the amendment of the postal laws.
without regard to the length of time of
their subscription. - Washington Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-05-20
REAPPEARANCE nr THE GRAssul

REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRISTOPHER.
The Chicago Tribune Of Wednesday
has reports from Kansas and Missouri
showing that the inevitable grasshopper
has already appeared in multit"dinous
numbers in some portions Of those
States This year he comes, according
to report, reduced in size, even to the
deminutive proportions of the flea, and
ranging from that to the size of a com,
mon house dy. His number does not
seem to have been diminished, but, on
the contrary, be is as solid to the
square foot as during their raid of last
season, and his capacity for destruction
is fully as great as when his bodily
bulk accorded with the general idea
Of the averaging hopper. DISPATCHES
report this troublesome pest as already
swarrning and increasing from Missouri
to the Rocky Mountains. The Tribune
says further north. Nebraska and
Minnesota, it is thought that the mis-
sion of the grasshonper is finished, and
that the farmers will have an oppor-
tunity to recover their lost ground.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-05-20


VIM. Russell, a widower, aged
thirty years, living at Newbury, Mass,
quarreled with younger brother in
his fathers house and his mother, aged
sixty, interfering he seized shoeknife
and nearly severed her head from her
body, killing her instantly. He then
attacked The father and would have
killed him but for the interference of
the neighbors. The younger brother
and father were both badly wounded
the former, it is thought, fatally. 1t is
supposed the murderer is insane. He
was lodged in jail