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DARE YOU DO 1T ?"

Derrick Dodd, tells the following good
story
1t was a sad looking tramp, with panied
expression of face, that entered a Sutter
street barroom the other day holding in his
hand a small battered red canister. Look
at this he said sorrowfully. Il went into
gun shop and begged for something to eat,
and the mean man handed me this can of
powder. lie said 1 could go shooting-a
starving man go shooting Just think of
it,
well, mizzle ? retorted the bar-keeper,
who had just set up four fancy drinks for
row of customers,
Il pledge you my word, said the vagrant,
holding the can within an inch of the open
stove Pm 50 miserable Pve almost mind
to blow myself up
Dare you to do it, said one of the by
ISLANDERS, winking at the crowd,
The wretched party gave sad, lingering
look at the poured-out liquor, as that he
might meier behold again, and tossed in the
eau.
| lhe yell that the whole crowd gave as they
started for the other side of the street was
heard on Telegraph Hill. When they filed
in about ten minutes after the empty can
did not explode, there were lour empty
glasses on the-counter, the lunch table was
an empty mockery, and the till looked like
a savings bank on the day after really
large deposit.-SlH Francisco Post
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sCOTCH GESrLEwoMGS IN DIFFICULTIES

Amuug the trades most suitable for women
may be mentioned every form of millinery
aud dress making. nil the lighter work Of
linen diapers shops, the lighter work OF
book sellers and print shops, certain branch
es of jewelers. work, house decorators and
china merchants business. Colleges for
nurses, schools of cookery and schools of
art ntedlework afford resources for women
which did not exist fifty years ago. Bat
many more occupations, which used to be
considered the peculiar property of women,
have somehow slipped out of their bands
and passed into those of men who could dig
and lift heavy burdens, cross the seas and
be the pioneers of a new civilization. Not
only worsted and fancy work shops, but what
are called furnishing shops, glove shops toy
sNops, bun houses for the sale of buns, cakes,
e. smaller confectionery, and the retail
trade in tea were formerly regarded to large
extent as belonging to the province of wom-
en-not unirequently OF poor gentlewoman.
Some OF the readers of these observations
may recall old stories of Scotch ladies of
rank-earl's daughters-who, after the fail
ures of the Dlrien expedition and the Jacob.
ite rebellion, stoutly maintained themselves
and their children by making and selling
thread and.by keeping shops of small wares
Other readers, who are admirers of Mrs
Gaskell's writings, will surely think of her
gentle Miss Matty, the late rector's elderly
daughter who, on the failure of Il bank and
its disastrous consequences set herself to pre-
serve her meek modest independence by sci
ling tea in Crawford and, as parting
word the present writer begs to explain thai
she does not intend by any means to imply
that trade asks no distinct qualification aul
no particular training, only that the qualif
cations are less rare, the training is not 81
arduous, and may be acquired later in life -
above all the remuneration to industry anC
prudence is far more certain. If the young
er of the good gentlewomen will but reyiy,
the good precedent, if they will take hear
and cast small prejudices to the winds, thei
latter end may, indeed be better than thei
| beginniug.-Go Words
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ANCIENT PEDESTRIANlSM.

Among the most famous of walking match
es are those recorde, in military history,
where to the obstacles of heavy burdens aud
difficult grounds were added those Of time
and space. The march of the heavily armed
Spartans in 400 b. c.. from LleedHnon to
Marathon, covering $50 miles of almost
roadless country in three days, would have
earned high commendation in an age of
sporting papers The Consul Nero's march
to the Metaurus to surprise the Carthigiui-
ana l2O1 r. o. lasted two days aud night
with tue slightest possible iutermission, the
soldiers taking food from the hands Of the
country people. and eating it as they went.
Hannibal's retreat from Zama upon Car
thage, brought him to Andrumentum,
sixty-tbree miles distant, between dawn
and night-fall, the pursuing Romans accom-
pi-hing the same distance 10 even less time,
Caesars Tenth Legion achieved parallel
feat in GaUl, while in heavy marching or
der. The Bernese Swiss, when summoned
to aid those Of Soleuro in repeliug an inva-
sion, are said to have answered the call so
promptly that the newly baked loaves which
they carried with them were barely cold on
arrival Frederick the Great, on the hottest
day of the terrible summer of 1860, had
kind of race with Marshal Dauu for the oc.
cupation Of an important post, both armies
making such speed that 200 Prussians and
800 Austriaus dropped dead on the line Of
march from sheer exhaustion Frederick's
younger brother, Henry, during the same
war, marched for fifty hours, with only thfee
intervening halts. Napoleon's odd Guard
repeatedly made sixty miles in day during
the great campaign of 1918 and one Of the
Russian regiments in Central Asia is stated
on good authority,to have accomplished sev.
enty-eight. The similar exploits achieved
during the Indian mutiny, of 1857, and the
American civil war of 1SGl-5 are too well
known TO need petition,
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SHAKEsPEARE'S EARLY MARRIED LIFE.

The Hathaways had lived in Shottery for
forty years prior to Shakespeare's marriage.
The poet, then wholly undistinguished, had
just turned eighteen, while his bride was
nearly twenty-siX, and it is often said now
that she did very wrong to wed this boy
lover. They were married in November,
1882, and their first child, Susanna came
in the following May. Anne Hathaway
must have been wonderful fascinating wo.
man, or Shakespeare would not have loved
her and she must have loved him dearly
as.what woman, indeed, could help it ?--or
she would not have yielded to his passion
There is direct testimony to the beauty of
her person and in the light afforded by his
writings it requires no extraordinary pene.
tration totonjecture that his brilliant mind
sparkling humor, tender fancy, and impe-
tuou5 spirit must have made him in his
youth the very paragon of enchanters. 1t is
not known where they lived during the first
years after their marriage Perhaps in this
cottage at Shottery Perhaps with Hamnet
and Judith Sadler, for whom their twins,
ubIH III lJoD, Ntlt Hdll6u ildluLtl anu J u
dith. Her fathers house assuiedly would
| have been chosen for Anne's refuge, when
presently, in 1886, Shakespeare was obliged
to leave his wife and children, and go away
to London to seek his fortune. He did not
buy New Place till 1897, but it is known
| that in the mean time he came to his native
country once every year. 1t was in STRAIT
ford that his son Hamnet died. in 1886.
Anna aud her children probably had never
left the town. They show her bedstead aud
other bits her furniture, together with
certain homespun sheets ofeveras.ing linen,
that are kept as heirooms to this day, in the
garrct of the Shottery cottage. Here is the
room that must often have welcomed the
poet when he came home from his labors ia
the great city. 1t isa very homely and
humble place, but the sight makes the hear
thrill with 4 strange and inc1mmunicahl,
awe. You can not wish to speak when yo,
are standing there. You are scarcely con-
scious of the low rustling of the leaves out
side, aud the lar-of sleepy murmuring OF tb,
brook, or the faint fragrance of woodbiur
and the maiden's-blush that is waited ia at
the open easement, and that swathes in ma
ture's incense a memory sweeter than itself
--- William Winter, IN H1rpers Magq:hC. .6
May
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~" BLoOMSBURG PA. FRIDAY. APRIL ls 1879
THE MAPLE SUGAR SEASON.

The maple sugar DAYS have coma, the
sweetest of the year, when little cakes, and
big ones, too, are sold so awfully dear We
sec the sugar in big brown cakes in some
windows and Ia straw colored cakes in 9th
er windows, and the proprietors Of the
first assure us that the deep brown color is
proof Of its genuineness, and the proprie-
tors of the second say they wouldn't keep
the brown article on any consideration. The
sign in tho shop windows raises suspicion
Genuine maple sugar" This naturally
suggests that some other place keeps maple
sugar that is not genuine. Maple sugar
warranted pure Then there must be quail
tiles not strictly pure Happily, however,
none OF this stuff is kept in Detroit as can
easily be proven by the signs in the win
dows. Every storekeeper in the city will at
once acknowledge that he keeps only the
pure article Many simple persons think,
mised by the name, perhaps, that maple SUI
gar is made from maple trees ia some maa-
ncr or other, but whether the trees are
grown up or not they are not exactly GER
tain. In olden times il must be aduitted
that maple sugar did have its origin in una
pie sap but modern science has made gi-
gantc strides in advance Of these crude old
fashioned ways of our ancestors. At this
time Of the year q long time ago sort of V
was cut on the naples about four feet from
the ground. An upward blow from an AK
under the Y cut a cash in which was iu-
serted the wooden spout, aud then into the
wooden troughs, or perhaps buckets, stcali-
" dripped the sweet ile-blood of the maple.
Then the boy came along with the sled gen
| orally drawn by oxen, who made frantic en-
deayors to drink the sap as they passed the
brimming troughs On the sled was a bar
| rel, which when filled, was taken to the
camp where seethed the steaming caldrous
over the slierce fire. Here the barrel was
| emptied into the large tank which supplied
the big open iron kettles suspended over
the fire. Then came the sugar-of And
with it came the reighboring young men
and maideus to assist 10 eating the rapidly
forming sugar. The sugar-oR was always
a big time. There was great deal of sweet
| talk INDUCED in, of course. If there was still
some snow left it was very useful The thick
boiled sugar was ladled out and poured not
into the cool snow. The result was a waxy
substance that had a sort of remote relations
| ship to the tati'y they give US nowadays
1t was sweeter than sister and stuck closer
than a brother when it got goou reliable
| bold in persons mouth. These were the
good old times when maple sugar sold for
five cents a pound, before we got into the
| improved method of manufacturing it from
brown West India sugar and Lake Huron
sand. However, we still respect the maple
sugar season, and don't dust off t., cake
and bring them to the light Of day except in
early spring, when genuine maple sugar is
made.-Detr0H Free Press
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BIJAll A D0D0.

The other day, when man dropped in on
Biah and wiped the tears from his eyes,
and said that his family was in rags, hungry
and sick, the old gentlemans heart swelled
up and he replied
Go down to my farm and help yourself
take half the crops-take all OF them
Its too good too goodp sighed the weep
ing mau
No. it amt continued Biiah.' Il put in
them crops on purpose for the poor of De-
troit, and you hire a wagon and go down
there and draw of enough to last your fam
lily all wiuter.'
The citizen broke down and sobbed like
child, and Biiah blew his nose with great
violence and said to himsef
WHATS the use of being bald-headed and
big.looted if you can't put pry under a fell
low human being in distress p
The man was gone about an hour, and he
returned without any tears in his eyes. On
the contrary, his face was red, his eyes fash
ed, and he stood before Bjah and yelled:
Pm good mind to rub your ears agin
yer shoulders =
Great cider-m but what has occurred
now 2 gasped the old man.
You sent me down to the farm =
Il did, and told you to draw off all the
crops
And I've drawed EN- and here they
are
The man unrolled paper and exhibited
shryeed old beet, two cabbage leaves,
three or four faded string beans, and pota-
to about the size of buck shot.
you told me to hire wagon and draw
EN- otT?' he went on, throwing the old beet
on the Aoer 4 hired one, and this is the
load you have cost me fifty cents, and I'm
go1d mind TO lick you you are an old
chimpanzee under the fence-an old garter
snake in frog pond-a hyena in a---P
At this point he got 50 mad that he hit
B,jsh on the chin with the beet and rushed
out doors. The old man stood like one in a
trance, aud it was fully three minutes before
il" could gasp oat:
'If gratitude exists in the human heart
then m willing to be called dodop
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CHARLES LAMBS WARNING TO YOUNG
MLN

Beware of evil habits. Easily learned,
they are tue most difficult to overcome. At
first, slender as the spiders most attenuated
threa1,' they chicken round us into, cords by
which are bound iuto most utter helpless
ness. No slavery for one moment can be
compared to that Of the man who is the SER
want OF ms lu'ts aud victim of pernicious
habits Withstand beginnings, therefore,
y Hear the confession of one
of the finest Of the English essayests who un-
happily knew from experience only too we'll
the degradation which he cries to you outof
his depths: the waters have gone over me.
But out Of the black depths, could L be
heard, | would cry out to all those who have
ser foot in the perlous flood. Gould the
youth to whom the flavor of his first wine is
delicious as the opening scenes of life, or
the entering upon some newly discovered
paradise, look into my desoation, and be
made to understand what a dreary thing it
is when a man shalt feel himself going
down precipice with open eyes and pas
sive will; to see his destruction and have no
power to stop it,and yet to feel it all the way
emanating from himself; to perceive all
goodness emptied out of him, and yet not
to be able to fix q time when it was other
wise to bear out the pteous spectacle of
his own sef-ruin; could he see my feversh
eye, feverish with last nights drinking, and
feverishly looking for this nights repetition
of the folly; could be feel the body of death
out of which l cry daily with feebler and
feeber outcry to be delivered, it were enough
to make him dash the sparkling beverage to
the earth in all the pride of its mantling
temprtion,'
Alasl poor Lamb may thy words to-day
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Much Of the meat sold in London as
rhine English beef is American. American
beef sent over in relrigerators is just as good
As Engiish-many think it better. \ one
of the first clubs in London recently there
were served an English and an American
,irioin of beet, aud no one could tell the
Ference. Hungarian and Bohemian beef,
tor, is coming into the London market at ?
cents pound, and much game, especially
pheasants, from Bohemia.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-04-18

A HIT AND A MIs5!-A young lady was
sitting with gallant captain 10 charm
ingly decorated recess. On her knee was
diminutye niece, placed there pour es con.
veuances. In the adjoining room, with the
door open, were the rest Of the company.
Says the little niece, in a jealous and very
audible voice, 'Auutie, kiss me, too Any
one can imagine what had just happened,
you should say twice, Ethel dear, two is not
grammar, was the immediate rejoinder,
Clever girl, that,
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A Coon SToRY.---I am inclined to think
the following an excellent story. What do
you say
Mrs Muriel took great intererest in parish
Affairs. Last year she promised to assist in
decorating the parish church. One illumin-
ated text she thought would look well over
the chancel screen, and she requested her
husband to bring it from town. As might
have been expected he forgot the text, and
wired to his wife for particulars To the
surprise OF all the telegraph clerks this mes
sage came flashing over the wires Unto
us a child is born, nine feet long by two feet
Droad.''
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

BAPTIST CHURCH.
SSg61daiy Serylaes-i0'i a. m. and GH pm
TEtaayN rTaysr yNea2gEyory wednesday evening at ca
GgcE a,,s free. The public are Invited to attend.
SIR. MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH.
euntster-Rev. .. D. ;. Marclay.
sunday 'cryces-lOH a. IN. and 7hp m.
,reT Sri', Mee'ing|Etefy wednesday evening at ~
Si',tS Ssi'St" free. Norows rented. Al are welcome.
PREsBYTEEtAN CHURCH.
aiiuisicr-Pev. stuart Nil 2hcll.
sunday Scrylces-lOH Il. III and 6N p, IN.
Sr'! r".aE Mee,lnTgEtery Wednesday evening a, ch
s,,l Sel.s free. Nopews rented. Strangers welcome.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Presiding Eldcr-Rey. w. Evans.
Nmlster-Rev. NJ. h. SmySer.
sunday SCrvlcos-lOk and GH p. m.
1a Sa3Ei i9ss Monday evening at GH O'Clock.
Young Mems PRAYER Meeting-Every TUESDAY
iiT Ge1eTTai i prayer m Mcetng-Every Thursday evening
O'Clock. -
Corner OF Third and Iron streets.
rastor-Rey. ". Il. Krebs. ,
Resiiehce-Corner lth and Calharine slreets'
sunday Services--loh a. M ana D. H.
sunday School, a. m.
priynr Mecting-Saturday, p. m.
All are invited There is always room.
ST. PhULs CHURCH
sunday SlSd6 ss'ryyi6es|ioi1 a. M, ~ p. m.
sunday SCHOOL, q. m,
First SUNDAY In the month, Holy Communion, 80.
services rreparatory to Communion on Friday
ayenInp before the ST sunday IN each month";
y pa,ys rented; but everybody welcome.
EVASGEICAL CHURCH.
Presiding Elder-Rev. a. L. Reescr
NpiSter-Rcv. George Hunter. .,,..,.,,,
sunday service-2 p. M, In the iron street Chuch'
prnt er Ncetinr-Everv sabbath at p. m.
Allare invited. All are welcome
TuE CHURCH or CHRIST ,,,
ht,cts I'm .thr little Brick church on the hill, :
known as the Welsh Baptist Church-On ROCK sVfeeO
east Of Iron. - r ,i,, ,,.,,. a r
REGULAR meeting for worship, every Loru 5 ua! AZ
seats eats Tree and the public cordially invited to
attend
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-04-18

THE GREATEST BLEssNG-A simple, pure,
harmless remedy that cures every time, and
prevents disease by keeping the blood pure,
stomach regular, kidneys aud liver active, is
the greatest blessing ever conferred upon man.
Hop Biters is that remedy, and its proprietors
are being blessed ty thousands who have been
saved aud cured by it. Win you Try .itg See
another column,
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Suffer not disappointment by employing too
many "cures but for the disease of Inf,ncy
use DIR, Bulls Baby Syrup which never disap-
points, and costs only 25 cents bottle
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"See here, Mister" said lad of seven
summers who was driven up tree by a
dog If you don't take that dog away III
eat up all your apples p
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Headache, Pain in the Should
ers, Cough, Dizziness, Sour Stom-
ach, Eruptions, Bad Taste in the
Mouth, Palpitation of the Heart,
Pain the region Of the Kidneys,
and a thousand other painful symp-
toms are the ofIsprings Of dyspepsia,
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NENL BlGE 8Llil!

Parsons Purgativc Pills make New Rich Blood
and Will completely change the blood I'm the enllIe
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Old Jack Mills, engineer on the Madison

Old Jack Mills, engineer on the Madison
and Indianapolis Railroad, is noted for
his irritability and bluffness. He has al
ways claimed that "any pesky fool who
persists in gittin' run ovc1 ought to get
run over" One day last week, as Jack
was driving his engine near Columbus. at
the rate Of thirty miles an hour, he saw
approaching the track on a country road
a two-horsc wagon, with man and wom-
an as occupants. He did not dream o
danger, ior the wagon was at some dis
tancc from the track, with plenty of
time for the train to sweep past But
suddenly the driver of the wagon stood
straight up, and whipped his horses into
u run-directly into the jaws of death.
Jack s hand was half thrown up to whistle
down brakes. He hesitated, muttercd
"D-u the fool!" and lot his engine drive.
On flew the farmer and on flew the tram.
It was stirring race, but neck -to-neck
ono, for the engine struck the wagon be-
tween the wheels, knocked it to thou
and spiintcrs, killed man and woman, and
mutilated the horses so that both died.
The passengers sprung out to find Jack
swearing like trooper. He was still in
towering passion, but while looking at
the wreck his eye caught sight OF tiny
pair Of baby shoes clutched in the wom-
ans hand. A flood of tears leaped from
his eyes. He staggered up against his
! engine, and sObbed: "Just look at them
little shoes, Charley. I-1-didnt mind
so much runnin' over that id drunken
fool who tried to cross ahead of Us, and
couldn't, but the little, Charlie, the little
kid that's waitin' for them, that's too
rough!'
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Caution Against Lightning.

People generally suppose that there is
no danger to be appzehended from light
ming until there have been sharp reports
of thunder quickly following the flash,
and Indicating near explosion Of the
electric fluid.
Such is not the case. Two little girls
were killed in the upper part of the city
by the same bolt. There had been but
ono report of thunder before, and that
from distance. The little girls were
frightened and ran under tree. The
very next discharge from the clouds de
sccnded the tree and instantly killed both
of them.
When the celebrated James Otis, of
Massachusetts, the great orator of the
Revolution, was killed, 1t is said that but
single bolt fell from the clouds during
the shower. He had often expressed a
wish for sudden death, and had re-
marked that whenever his time should
come, he should prefer to be struck dead,
instantaneously, by lightning. One day
he was standing in his front door watch
ing small cloud which had arisen from
which rain drops had begun to tall. There
was single flash and he lay lifeless on
the floor, in accordance with his often
expressed preference.
1t is not safe at any time during a
thunder shower to stand by an open win,
dow Or door, or to take shelter under a
trec.~-Lez1ger