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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-03-15
DON'T NEGLECT A COUGH
TO CoNsUndPTIvEs.

or Cold. when Q5 cents will buy bottle OF Dr. Fra
Tiers Cough syrup at any drug store. IL has
wrought complete change In the Cough Medicines
IL nlpaSant as honey and nMaXS cures.
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For cheap nice casimeres for boys wear
sold by the yard at David Lowenberg's.
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A lot with good house, barn and out
buildings for rent iu Bloomsbury Apply
to VIM. Krickhaum. mar s Sw#
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P. S. Bates, ieweler and matchmaker makes
speciality of repairing. All work done by
him is sure to give perfect satisfaction.
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Extra Good Kentucky Jeans for % cents al
|, W. Hartman's.
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McKinneys Shoe Store below Cour
House.
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For Spring suit made up in citysyle 60
to David Lowenberg's.
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Pleasant as honey, the old folks like 1t the
young people like it and the babies cry for
tive mean DR.. Frazier's Cough Syrup.tf
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BLOOMSBURY STATE NORMAL SCH00L
SIXTH NORMAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
Bloomsbury, Columbia County, Pennsylvania



~
Prep Elementary
Adjunct Courses l.
he sa Cc
| Im0SW I,PrIhm Hoard
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Lutz Il Sloan have Just received large
assortment of Embroderies cheap.
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An extra cheap piece Of all wool cassi
mere at l. w. Hartman's next weeS.
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In the matter OF the) In the Court Of Common Plea
Estate OF Margaret OF Columbia county.
Fortuer lunatic.

Estate OF Margaret OF Columbia county.
FortIer lunatic.
eeaI
Citation to show cause why certain sale OF real es-
tate made by said lunatic should not be rescinded
THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
To William Fortner. husband OF said Margaret
Fortner. William Parker and Mary T. his wife, Pierce
Lunger and Ann his wife. and william r. Dem0tt,
guardian ad ntem OF Emma Fortner and Clark Fort
ner:
At the instance Of James Masters and Conrad
KreatDer, Committee OF Margaret Fortner, lunatic
and Aspy J. Layton and Rebecca Layton his wife
representing that OH the 10th day of April A. d.
isf7 said Margaret Fortner by deed Did grant bar
gain and sell unto the said Rebecca Iaylon certain
tract OF land situate In the township Of Madison In
said county OF Columbia and state OF Pennsylvania
containg forty mine acres and one hundred and fifty
six perches more or less In fee simple with the APP
purtenances And on the said 10th day of April, A..
d.. 1871. the said Aspy j. Layton and Rebecca his
wife by their deed acknowledged the same day,
granted, bargained and sold unto the said Margaret
Forner all that certain house and lot OF ground sit
uate In the Borough OF Muncy, Lycomtng county
and state OF Pennsylvania containing $3.50 square
feet with the appurtenances in lee simple the said
deeds being made TO exchange the said lands. That
since the making Of said deeds the said Margaret
Fortner has been found by inqnlstlon taken on the
18th day OF December last lunatic and TO have been
Il lunatfc for Is years last past without lucid In
tervas.
| Therefore you and each or you laying aside all
business and excuses whatsoever, are hereby cited
| TO appear before our Court or Common Pleas al
BloOmsburg In and for said county the first Monday
| OF May next to show cause why decree for the re
scindlng Of the aforesaid deeds and reconveyanc
OF the said lands should not be made, If such pro
ce euing shall not be disadvanageous TO the estate
| OF the said Margaret Fortner upon such terms o.
| shall be equitable and Just.
Witness the Honorable William Elwell Presiden
Judge OF our said Court at Bioomsburg, this nine
| ' &. FRANK zARR.
| march /, Ts-iw Proth'y.
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MARRIAGES.

,tWINNER-CoFFMAN.-on the Tth inst at Blooms
burg by Rev. Stuart Mitchell, David Winner To sar
ah A. co nman. oil OF Bloomsburg.
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Admission free at McKinney's.
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Deaths.

KASE.-In Benrsn on the 9TH inst, Mrs. Anna
Ksse, aged 6s years. . months and IS days.
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A large assortment of new Silk Ties, lace
Ties and bows at Lutz 4 Sloan's.
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Boot headquarters at McKinney's.
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Rubbers at McKinney's.
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x LA Nh NOi ks, r.lL a. r4tLv4sxsmpli -
~ tos -~Ae 81 tas "a 5sslAs v tius.
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All that certain lot or ground situate In the town
OF Espy, columbia county Pennsy lvanla, bounded
and described as follows on the north by Main
street east by lot OF NJ. e. McCoIlum south by al
ley aud west by Daniel Keller, being a. :. feet front
and l7s'i ie't IN depth, whereon ave erected TWO
two story dwelling houses.
Seized, taken into execution and 10 be sold as the
property UI AlOnZO Dodge.
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ALSO,

AL that tract or parcel OF land situate In Scott
township, Columbia county. Pennsylvania, bounded
on the east by land OF John kelchncr, lying be-
tween the Pcnnsl lvania canal and the Susquehanna
river ana rnInins TO point the west at or n ar
the aqueduct abovs Espy, con aiming about seven
acres, more or less
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All that certain lot OF ground situate In Locust
township. Columbia county Pennsylvania, describe /
as follows, tu-wit: Bounded the north by by land
OF Augustus Strauser the east by land OF solomon
Rider. on the south by land OF william Beach and on
the west by land OF Samuel schuyler, containing
100 acres more or less, Which Is erected dwell
ing house, barn and out-buildings.
Seize, taken In execution, and TO be sold as the
property OF James kostenbauaer.
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ALSO,

Al that certain lot q ground situate iu the town
OF ioomsIurg, Columbia county, Pa, described as
follows, to Wit; Bounded On the north by Ridge al.
ley, on the west by Centre street. on the south b,
second street, ana on the east by land OF L. H. sharp
less containing 20 feet front and gllN feet In depth
on which ore erected twoslory frame store hous,,
barn and outouldlngs.
Seized taken into execution, and TO be sold as IN,
property OF Ii, c. Hover.
TERMs.-cash on day CT sale otherwise propert,
70 lie re-sold.
JOHN W. HOFFMAN,
So" "S sheriff.
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All that certain lot or piece OF land situate In the
Town OF bloomsbury, Columbia county, Pennsyya-
MIA, described as follows, to-wt. Lot No. IL marx
ed in general plan OF Bloomsbury, bounded on the
north by an alley, the west by land OF John Nc
Cor lex, on the south by Canal street, and on the
east by land OF Jonathan Chromas, containing SO
feet front and llS feet in depth on which are erected
q dwelling house and ou--bhldings.
Seized taken into execution, and TO be sold the
propertY OF Tobias Henry.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03
BEACON SFIELD AND HIS

A Boston man and aesthetic daughter are
spending the summer in this city. Last
euening they were sitting on the front piaz-
"a, when the father requested his laughter
to read him the evening paper.
"What shall read about?" queried the
Boston girl, as she. opened the paper.
Read the European news,o responded
the father.
The Boston girl began: sit is rumored
that Beaconsfield will not accept the decor
alton of the''-, and then she blushed a deep
deep red, and stopped.
"Proceed," said the father after a pause.
81 cannot" returned the Boston girl.
blushing still deeper.
"Why not?" quered the father in some
surprise.
Because do not like to- replied the.
Boston girl, painfully.
"Nensense," exclaimed the father sternly:
"read the item, | tell you"
The Boston girl caught up the paper in
desperation, stared at it in a stony manner,
attempted to speak and tainted dead away.
When she had been restored, and the ex-.
element had subsidized. the father took the
paper out behind the house, turned to the
dreadful item, and read
1t is rurnored that Beaconsfield will not
accept the decoration of the Garter.-Roch-
land Courier.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03
RESPECTABLE DRINKING.

AS long as you make drinking respecta-
bic, drinking customs will prevail and the
plowshare of death, drawn by terrible dis
aster, will 60 on turning up the whole CONT
nent, from end to end, with the long, deep,
awful burrows of d%runkards' graves.
There is no home so beautiful but it NAV
be devastated by the awful curse. 1t throws
it's jargon into the sweetest harmony. What
was it that silenced Sheridan's voice and
scattered the golden scepter with which he
sWayed parliaments and courts? What foul
spirits turned the rythm of Robert Burns
into a tuneless babble? What brought down
the majestic form of one who awed the
American Senate with eloquece, and after a
while carried him dead drunk from the office
OF Secretary of State? What was it that
swamped the noble spirit Of one of the he
roes OF the last war, until one night, in a
drunken fit, he reeled from the deck of a
western steamer and was drowned? There
was one whose voice we all loved to hear,
Lie was one Of the most classic orators of the
country. People wondered why a man of
so pure a heart and so excellent a life should
have such a sad countenance always. They
kew not his wife was a sot.-T. De,pitt Iak
mage.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03
TO CRYSTALLINE GRASSES.

Pulverize a pound of the best white alum.
and dissolve it over a slow fire in a quart of
pure, soft water. Do not let it boil. and he
careful to keep everything out of the solu-
ton hat would possibly stain it. A new
earthern BOWL is the best dish for the pur-
pose; when the alum is dissolved. let the
solution cool down to blood heat mean
while arrange your grasses in the bowl and
pour the solution over them !; cover up and
SET away for twenty-four hours. Then take
them out carefully, dry them in the sun four
or five hours, and put them in the vase pre-
pared for them. If you form the grasses in
to a bouquet before crystallizing them, pro-
cure a glazed earthen jar. suspend the bou-
quet from a stick laid across the top of the
jar take care that the tops of the grasses are
not cent or doubled over, and then pour on
the solution.
what remains of the alum water may be
re-heated, tinged blue, or purple, or scarlet,
oy a few drops of dye, and used as before.
The same preparation is suitable for ALI
kinds of plants.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03
WRITING HIS NAME.

Among the candidates for appointment
to a vacancy on the police force of an Irish
town was one Patrick Murphy, whose ap-
pearanee before the mayor was hailed with
cries of cant WRITE" The mayor said
he was only there to take down the names
of applicants, who would come a fortnight
later for examination. A friend set Muir
ply in a fair round hand the copy "Patrick
Murphy" and kept him practising at it as
%siduously. When the eventful day arrived.
"Take that pen,'' said the Mayor, and write
write your name. AS Pat took I'D the
pen exclamations arose, "Pat's a-writing:
he's got a quill in his fist ~ ''Small good
will it do him; he cam write wild it," All
we've dumbfounded when Murphy recorded
his name III a bold round hand, and the
Mayor declared ''That'll do )" but one of
them shouted, "Ask him to write somebody
else's name, Yer Homer" Z" Write my name
Murphy" said the Mayor. Write Yer
Honer's name - exclaimed Pat. "Me COM
mit.forgery, and goin' into the police [
daren't do it, Yer Honor"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03

n"''' children are generally very happy.
hey suffer very little. They have yerv
lltt'e care, very little foresight, very little
lear' very little selftorment; and, on the
whole, child-life, even under untayorable
conditions, as a rule is a happy lite. And
1,'eil' as general thing, are happy more
''an unhappy, until they come to majority,
ana oegln to be independent and complex
actors III the great sphere of social life ::
from That point on it will be found that. as
men grow more various and wider cultured.
happiness degenerates. Yet more. the most
unhappy people in the world are the most
cultivated people, the most thoughtful peo-
PIE the most refined and sensitive people !:
ana the capacity OF suffering, as a matter of
iact' not IN every case, but as q rule, in
creases with general development.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03

onshlre. Exeter, Littikus, Numbers, Strono-
N.Y. Jupiter, Judges, Ruth, ETC., as the
names Of books of the Old Testament, was
apparently in earnest. So also was the 9TH
er lad who, full of what Strauss would have
called ''the stern common sense of ordinary
mankind" said that he did not knew what
Il miricle was that if he saw the sun shin
ing overhead at midnight he should call it
the moon; that it he We're told it was the
sun he should say it was Il lie and that if
the school examiner in person declared
positively that it was the sun, he should
say that the school examiner was very
drunk.0
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~
AT SUNSET.
is just the close of day.

1t is just the close of day.
The west shone in scarlet splendor. and
the dimpled cloud-ships lay serenely clust-
cred IN sun-kissed argosies over the peaceful
vale, where all was sweet TRANQUILITY.
The robin was chanting his vesper song.
and the roses dropped indolently in the
balmy breeze, and seemed to a realm of de.
liciOus visions.
at this heaven -fraught hour / wandered
down a woodland avenue with a girl whose
beauty is beyond description. Her large
black eyes looked fondly into mine as we sat
on a fallen tree. Oh, heavenly moment.
could feel her warm breath on NV cbeel,
for our lips almost touched. She asked me
in taltering accents:
Were you ever in love?'
"Never till now,"I replied.
And then she looked at me most LOVINGLY
and drew her closer to my bosom and was
just kissing her for the second time when
the vision broke, aud l paid the dentist and
lett. 1t was my first experience with nitrous
oxide gas.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03
CROSS QUESTIONS ANE CROOKED AN
SWERS,

The absurd heterogeneous at times pro-
posed by examiners in boaru-schools often
produce ludicrous answers indeed the clev-
crest children would seem to be those who
instead Of answering the examiners accord
ing to their folly, dodge them humorously,
and reply as though they were dealing with
mere ~propounders of connundrums. A
clockmaker's daughter, called upon to ex-
plain the meaning OF 1.-THE devil and all his
works. said that his "worls' meant his in
side. A boy Of g%enious was asked what he
understood by poor in SPIRIT" replied:
'Them as nave little gin left in their bottle"
Conscience having been described as "a
Inward MONITOR the inspector called up
on an intelligent pupil to say what moni-
tor was, when the youth replied: "a hiron-
clad" Such answers as Turkey is the
capital Of Norfolk" 'Tureen is the capital
of Chiner," would pass in a buriesque as
jokes. The boy. however, who gave ,'Dey-
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03

What to him was love or hope? What to
am was JOY or care? He stepped on a plug
OF Irish soap the girl had lett on, the ton
most stair, and his feet flew out like wild,
1lerce things, and he struck each stair with
a sound like drum; and the girl below with
the scrubbing things laughed like a fiend to
see him come.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03

WHEN a man casually sits down on A
large bumble bees nest, reason urges him
to sit there till he has squashed the ANNA
ton out OF the vindictive occupants. but IN
stinct warns him to keep an important en-
gagement elsewhere. This is one of those
occasions when instinct invariably gets the
better of reason. Kansas City Mail.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03

AN editor is described as a man who is H.
aole TO errors IN grammar, typographical
errors and lapses OF memory, and has sever
al thousand people watching to catch him
t1pping-a man of sorrow and acquainted
with grief; poorly clad, poorly estimated,
yet envled by some of the great men he has
made.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03
G GOLDEN
we stand at life's west windows,
Ana think Of the days that ere gone
Remembering the coming sunset,

AND think Of the days that are gone
Remembering the coming sunset,
Wetoo must remember the morn;
but the sun will set, the day will close,
And an end will come to all our woes
blunt people often say sharp things.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There
are moments when, whatever be the atsi-
tude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
We all have to go through a great Zeal
IN our lite time, if we would do any good
OF be in any way worthy. In this as in
many other things, tear of encounterine;
and those who are bravest in bearing are
Tor most part the least troubled in the end
by the bother of minor things.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03

IHE editor OF the Newport Local, admits
ting thai the office should seek the man ami
not the man the office, wants to know WIN
some good fat office does't look him up. He
says his office hours are any time the Office
wants to see him.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03

u AN Is NOT a happy creature on the whole:
: d lll'ie remarkable that happiness
"nore purely and simply the lower
you are, and evaporates more and
"e nisher you go up. AS q matter of
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03
-qHR HON CIRCLE.
FOR 4 SWING IN THE OLD
ELM TREE.

er swing in the old elm tree
o"~ . breath from the clover fclds'
;,o tbe state of q palace hall
"a 'e the spices that India yields
:, q again in the old-tlme way
w. ,ra meadows and pastures lskneW,
- AND the valleys, the rocks and the trees,
lHo .ho goods where the wild-fi overs grew;
- 10 once more in the thick, SOFT grass
with fine sweet winds brushing by,
,ror,d outside and a heart ut peace,
And above the summers sky;
r. watch the clouds in their shifting lights
49,, the mists on the dist. mt hills,
I'D dreams to the music of rtist!ing leaves
,nd the voices of dancing rills:
r.. uode once more in lhe cooling stream
1hst wound by the roadside below,
Whore the laurel bloomed, and the eglantine
And the nuiden-hair used to grow;
M tneel again in the little church
Where prayed with Il childish trust
rrs the haunting doubts Of Il later time
Had touched it with moth and rust;
M sleep once more meath the moss-grown roof;
MY spirit would find again
The %long-lost chord of that happy time
And take up the glad refrain,
nv heart grows sick and my eyes are dim
For q sight of familiar things;
The grassy nook and the old elm tree
Would more than the throne of kings.
All me, how the years have stretched between!
What chances and changes they We wrought!
Whist gains and what losses, what hopes and
what fears,
How little of promise they've brought!
Elisabeth A, Davis, in Christian Union.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-03
A FRENCH BETTING STORY.

AN officer numed Vcrdier was celebrated
in his garrison for winning all his bets. None
OF his comrades could boast of ever having
been successful, and so at last no one cared
to bet with him. One day Verdier was trans
terred to another regiment, but the frame of
his peculiar luck had already spread before
him. After a supper rendered him by his
comrades on the evening of his arrival, when
champagne had made its appearance, Gen.
B-called out:
SIS it really true, Verdier, that you win
every bet"
EYES General"
"But how iii the deuce do you do 2"
ooh, very simply. 1 am a phsiognomist,
and bet only when Pm sure"
You are a physiognomist? Well, what,
for instance, can you find to read in my
face?
II can see,' said Verdier, promptly,
/" that the old wound in your side has brok-
en- OUT
Nonsense" Numbered out the General.
"But-."
"No, but, after | assure you, sir"
"Perhaps you do not like to speak oft
perhaps a duel"
"Diable! You won't believe me? What
will you bet?"
"Anytlling you please, general"
Five hundred francs"
"The gentlemen present are the witness
With these words the general proceeded
without more ado, to divest himself of his
coat and shirt, when q close scrutiny by all
present revealed the fact that there was no
trace of a wound by a sword or ball.
"You have lost your bet, Verdier 70
the general, resuming his garments.
81 have, indeed, lost this once. Men may
err sometimes. Here are 500 francs.
With a chuckle the general put the money
in his pocket. After he had reached home,
he at once wrote to his old chum, the gem
eral in command of Verdier's regiment:
Dear friend the story OF Veraier's luck
is all humbug. He has just made a bet Of
500 francs that | had a wound in my side,
and of course he LOST
The answer came back:
"Your naiyete is truly charming. Your
500 francs cost NE 1000, which
bet me, on the day of his leaving,
chat he would make you, IN the first even
Of meeting, take off your shirt in the
presence OF your fellow officers, and that
YOU. Yourself. would inform me of the fact.n
I'D acc nuLcrInMc hnN nPnnwEn AM