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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16
SEEKERS AFTER nLALTn.

Unfortunates who arc seeking to re-
new their health, are many. So often
have they been deceived by advertise
ments of worthless compounds that
many are discouraged, and refuse to be-
lieve anything they read in the papers,
Therefore, the best advertisement of a
really good medicine is the reputation it
has gained in places where it is being
sold. No other remedy ever discovered
has grown so rapidly in public favor as
that true medicinal tonic called Browns
Iron Bitters. In localities where its ex-
traordinary merits have become fully
known and realized by those who have
been in ill-health, the sale is unprece-
dented. One druggist in our city reports
the sale of 23S bottles in one week. 1t
is, indeed, a wonderful, health giving,
ife-saving preparation. 1t is soothing
and refreshing in its effect,a strength
ems every part of the body, and creates
healthy appetite and digestion, even
when the system is almost destroyed by
the many hurtful cathartics so common.
ly used Reader, beware! duty demands
that you try Browns Iron Bitters if
your healthis poor from any cause-Ejt-
quirer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16
Balky llorses.

Many and varied have been the plans
both Kind and harsh, tried for the cur,
oi balkiness in horses, by partie.
troubled, delayed and provoked in thi.
way Having had considerable expert
ence in the handling of such horses.
have found the following good rene
dy,. 1t is easily and quickly performed
and has never so far as lam aware failed
to cure:
1.-TWO persons are required for the
trial One should hold the reus while
the other fastons short strap or rope
a halter strap, always at hand, answers
the purpose well---just below the fetlock
of fore leg, then going forward he
should pull on the strap until the horse
lifts his feet; continuing to pull, the foot
will be brought forward and set down n
little in advance of the other The horse
thus thrown out of natural position,
will move forward to gain his equilibri-
um. Another pull will cause another
move forward. This may be repeated
several times, or until the horse moves
without having the foot pulled forward.
Usually, the first or second pull will start
him. Three or four such reminders at
most will do the work. When the start
Is made it is generally an easy one.
sometimes, however it has the appear
ance of the horse being in hurry to
get away from the provoking man with
the strap; thereforea a steady hand should
manage the reins. | have never known
horse under this treatment TO kick or
act mean in any other way than to try
to run. When he does start off the hold
on the strap should be given up. After
having gone twenty-five or more yards
the horse should gently be brought to a
stand and the strap removed. Then try
to start him without the strap. If he
does not move off at once apply it gain.
lie will soon tire of being thus annoyed,
and will give you no further trouble in
this way"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16
Good Sheep on the Farm.

A correspondent of the Indiana Farm,
er makes the following sensible remarks
about sheep; All weakly, scrawny lambs
or sheep should be separated from those
in good condition and allowed extra ra-
tions to catch up. Poor, scrawny sheep
never stand much chance in a flock of
TAT, thrifty ones, as they are apt to be
Knocked around and seldom get their
share of food. l am glad to see that
farmers are waking up to their interests
and getting sheep of improved breeds.
The old-fashioned, long horned. coarse
wooled and partially wooled kinds ought
to give place to such as the Cotswoids,
Downs and Merinos. Not only is the
yield OF wool greater, but it is of superb
or quality, and brings a much higher
price As mutton, they are also superior,
both in quality and quantity. Sheep,
ludlclously managed, pay better all
things considered, than any other class
OF stock, while as a general thing they
are less tronble than most other stock.
The price of wool is rather low at pres
ent, but like other things, the business
VIII have its ups and downs
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16
The following method of MAKING bpt.

The following method of making but
ter was pursued by the Pennington
Creamery Company, Pennington, Conn,
IN, IN the !production of prominent lot:
The milk was cooled and prated before
1t came to the creamery, was received
once day, was mixed at once in a re-
celylng vat, thence drawn into deep, open
coolers 8 by 20 inches, and set floating
IN a pool of cold spring water 1t was
SKINNED in twenty four hours, the cream
again mixed in vat and allowed to
stand twenty-four hours and become
slightly acid. 1t was then churned in a
barrel-dash churn, the dashers running
about forty-eight strokes to the minute.
and the butter coming in about forty-five
minutes. The butter was worked by a
lever worker and salted one ounce to the
pound. After standing twenty-four hours
1t was again worked over and packed in
tubs. If our butter has any particular
merit we ascribe it largely to the cows,
which are mostly Guernseys and JERSEYS
and their grades; the Guernseys giving
the color, the Jerseys the dryness, and
both solidity.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

What State is round on both sides and
high in the middle? Ohio.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16
Warm Stables.

We call attention to this subject once
more, because, to the great mass of our
readers in the North and West it is of
special interest at the present time
Reading and thinking farmers admit
that it pays to furnish warm stables for
their live stock. Unfortunately they do
not all put their theory into practice.
This class of farmers will be interest
ed in, and, we hope, benefited by the ex-
perience of correspondent of the Jour
nal OF 1griculture. He says that on the
farm where he was raised, six cows were
kept they were well fed but poorly shell
tered; the family had to buy butter in
winter. In time a new barn with warm
stables was built; the same number of
persons remained in the family; only
three cows were kept and butter was
sold during the summer and winter Al
ter stating these facts the writer adds;
''it was the warm stabling, aud that
alone that wrought the change"
We quote this as practical illustra-
tion of the truth Of the proposition that
warm stables not only promote the com
fcrt of the animals kept therein but also
lar gely increase the profits of their own
and Garden.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

Women haven't many rights; but
they've no end of privileges.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

are unsurpassed bg any other Native Wine. Being
the pure juice OF the Grape. produced under Mr.
Speer's own personal supervision, It's purity and
genulntnesS are guranteed. The youngest child
may partake OF It's generous qualities and the weak
est invalid use II 10 advantage IL Is particularly
6enlhcal TO the aged and deblitated, and suited to
the various ailments that AFFECT the weaker sex II
In every respect "a WINE TO BE RELIED ON,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

The Japanes. Nest Egg Gourd is a
novelty which is likely to become very
popular The vine is pretty and rapid
climber, while the gourds so closely re
semble the genuine articles in size, form
and color that they all answer the pur-
pose OF nest eggs in the best possible
manner.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

Erie Mail west and Lock Haven Express Eas
make close connections at Northumberlanl
with /. & b. H. X. trains for Wilkesbarre and
scranton,
Erie Mail West Niagara Express West ana Fast
Line West make close connection at Wlamsport
with n. q. H. W. trains north.
Niagara Express West and Day Express Fast
make close connection at Lock Uayen with f. q 4
X. X. trains.
Erie Mail East and West connect at Erie wifi,
trains on l.. S. q NJ =. r. X. at CORY with Il
Pa W. r. r.; at Emporium with B. N Y.SP R X
and at Driftwood with A. V. X. II. "
Parlor cars will run between Phla lelphia ano
Wtllamsport on Niagara Express west, and DAY ~
press East. Sleeping cars on all night trains
ROBERT NELSON
General Supt.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY
IN COMPANY.
on and after January lIth, ISL, trains win leave
Sunbury as follows y
NoRTHwARD.
Northern Express $50 a. n., arrive Elmira 1890 nm
Arrive ut Canandaigua 325 D. n
Rochester 44O
" Niagara. ~
Niagara Express Les p. IN. arrive E'inra G. % n IN
arrive Canandalgua So, '""'
Rochester gl5
l." Niagara 125Jam
Fast line 6lO p IN arrive Elmra iiOS D IN
Natklhs ll5jp pm
SOUTHWARK.
Southern Express 1872 a. IN. arrive Harrsb'g 815a IN
arrive Philadelphia 1856
New York 1895
Baltimore 1lu
. 80 washington 9,U2 a IN
Pacific Express 1000 IN arrive Harrls6'g igGn D H.
arrive Philadelphia 345 p m
New York Gas
" Baltimore 620
Washington 752
Day Express l,5O IN arrive Harrisburg 3.ispm
" Philadelphia G45 -
% New York $50 "
" Baltimore gas
Washington 1.52
Rrie Mail LOO a. m. arrive Harrisburg 3Ota.r
Philadelphia T.3J
New York O.3l "
Baltimore 80
washington gU2
L. p. FARMER General Passenger A;c t.
FRANK THOMSON, General Manas r.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

The grape crop along the Hudson riv-
er the past season, was one of the largest
ever secured. Individual growers shipped
from fifty to sixty tons each and the to-
tai sales amounted to several thousand
tons
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16
TO Nervous sutferers-Ths ares. Eurorear
Remedy.

DR.. J. b. SIMPSONS SPECIFIC MEDICINE.
DR.. j. b, simpsons Specific Medicine Is a positive
cure for oyerwork OF hody or brain or excess OF
kind, such as weakness and all diseases resulting
from Nervous Debility, lrrtabty Mental ,nxiety,
Langnor, Lasstude, Depression OF Spirits and func-
tional arrangements OF the nervous system gen
orally Pains In the
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

Names seem to have lost their signif
canoe. Christian Johnson is under ar.
rest in Detroit, Michigan, on the charge
of burglary. and Christian Angel for re
fusing to support his family.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

Men are getting so scarce in England
that even scarecrows receive some at.
tention from the village maidens.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16
IA IL ROAD TINE TABLE
WINTER TIME TABLE.

II DENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. puit
i DELPHIA & ERfE r. X. DIVISION. Liza
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-15
A Big Hennery.

A correspondent of the New England
Fiyme,. describes the hennery on the
estate of Mr.. John W. Brooks, at Eat
Milton, Mass, and the mechanical
arrangements for Matching and rearing
chickens:
The buildings consist of four ranges
of coops, each ITO feet long by fifteen
wide. The southern side is provided
with large windows occupying nearly
half the front side Of the building, and
also with sliding wooden ventilators,
which can be all thrown open or closed
together by al of a simple attach
ment of wire running the whole length
of the building. There is room for
1000 hens. The incubator used is
heated by a couple of lamps at one end;
the eggs are in trays under a tank of
hot water, and the temperature is regu-
lated by a metallic rod over the eggs,
which, by its contraction or expansion,
breaks or completes an electric circuit,
which acting on a clock work escape
ment gives power enough to open or
close the v~entilators. The machine is
bulky and expensive, but it doe" very
good work, having Matched from seventy
to eighty per cent. of the eggs placed in
it. 1t holds $50 eggs at a time. The
chicks, as fast as Matched, are placed
in small paper boxes lined with flannel
and kept warm till they dry off, when
they are ready for the artificial mothers.
These "mothers" are of wood, lined
with soft cloth for feathers, and their
life's blood is warm water circulating
from a heater. The chicks, however,
take kindly to this sort of treatment,
and huddle together under the pipes as
tenderly as under the mothers wing
they are fastened in at night by a doc,
Of wire netting, and allowed to run, after
a few weeks, in fine weather, out OIL
doors in yards facing the south, in trout
Of the coops.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-15
UnmplipSt Man in the World.

Of O Chinese dwarf who arrived re-
Gently in New York, a Herald reporter
says: Che NAH, who is celebrated as the
homelicst man e~xtant, is a native OF
Ningpo, China, where he was born
forty-four years ago. His exact height
is two feet, which leaves q difference
between himself and his fellow-coun-
tryman, Chang, of exactly seventy-two
inches-of course in the latter's favor.
For some eight months these two whims
of nature travelled through Europe to-
gether, drawing large crowds wherever
they went. This is the dwarf's first
visit to America. TO look at he is a re-
markable specimen of human nature,
and, Judging by his face and hair, has
more the appearance of a Japanese than
a Chinaman. He grows a thick goatee
and we'll cultivated mustache. The top
of his head is somewhat bald, but it is
we'll fringed by long, jet black hair. His
face is round and full and his eyes be-
token determination. Both his hands
and feet are small even for SO diminu-
tive a person. Under the armpits and
cross the chest he measures within a
fraction of his height, while a No. 5
hat fits him loosely and his boots
measure barely five inches in length.
The length of his legs is eleven inches.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-15
Deeds of Peculiar AtrOcity.

There occurred on Saturday and
Sunday nights, gays a recent issue OF
the New York Erening Post, two cpl.
sodes 10 peculiarly shocking that the
heart almost stands still in the pres.
ence of their atrocity and horror. Pat.
rick Quinlan, an umbrella maker, shot
his mother last night in the head and
arm with a revolver. She is likely to
die, and thus to atone for her otfense
against her son, which was that of re.
fusing to give him money with which
to buy drink. A similar, if less fright.
full, crime was that of Rosa Smith, who
on Saturday night broke her mothers
leg with a chair because she interfered
to prevent the dutiful daughter from
assaulting her father. We have unhap.
PLY seen of late years too many proofs
of q weakening of the obligation
to honor their fathers and mothers, or,
indeed, anybody or anything else Oh
the part of the younger members Of the
community, and that, it may be added,
in no one social grade. But that such
impiety should 60 the length Of the in
Fiction of grievous bodily hurt, and,
yet further, to assassination, seems al:
most incredible. One cannot we'll read
,, of such things without wishing to fol
low the familiar precedent Of old Rome,
This was furnished at a time when nc
punishment was set down in the stat
utes for the crime Of parricide. Sucl
a crime was deemed impossible. Bnt
when ct last a miscreant appeared who
was capable Ct committing it, he was
forthwith sewn mp in a sackan pitched
| into the Tiber.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-15
Female Executions in Russia.
Perofskaia is the first woman

Sophia Perofskaja is the first woman
ever judicially hanged in Russia, and,
in fact, the only woman executed in the
cars dominions since 1719, in which
year q governess named Mary Hamilton
had her head publicly cut off-proba-
bly, with a sword = at st. Petersburg,
for having made away with her three
illegitimate children. Twenty-Five
years after that event Elizabeth,
daughter of Peter the Great, abolished
the punishment of death, and it has
never been reintroduced into the Rus
sian criminal code since. Hence,
when any one commits n more than
usually atrocious crime in Russia, In
order that the death punishment may
be awarded, the criminal must be tried
by q military tribunal, as was done IN
the case of all the Nihllists who have
been tried during the last three years,
or else by q special high court of JUS
tice like the courts which tried Solovleti
for firing at the late czar in St. Peters
burg (April, 1879, and the persons who
ultimately succeeded in taking his life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-15
Making Charcoal.

The manner of making charcoal is
everywhere the same and is described
as follows: A convenient spot in the
midst of a timber forest is selected, and
a compact conical shaped mound, about
nine feet high, is formed o. two lengths
of wood placed perpendicular with an
inclination to the center. The pile is then
covered with several inches of sod and
loan and made perfectly air-tight. Fire
is introduced through air holes made
around the base Of the mound, and
allowed to smolder for twenty days, or
until al watery matter has been expelled
by heat. During the process Of combus-
ton constant watchfulness and care are
necessary to prevent the admission OF air
enough to ignite the wood. The result
of the burning of six cords of wood is
100 to $50 bushels of charcoal. Dead
timber, caused by forest fires or age,
will not make charcoal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-15
The Skein we Wind.
II you and I, to-day,
Cbo,,11 o{op op5 lou

Should stop ard lay
Our life-work down, and let our hands hl
where they will
Fall down to lie quite still
And ifsome other hand should come, and stoops
to find
The threads we carried, so that it could wind
Beginning where we stopped; if it should come
to keep
Our life-work going; Geek
To carry on the good design
Distinctiyely made yours, or mine,
What would it find7
Some work we must be doing, trueo false;
Some threads we wind; some purpose 30 exalts
Itself that we look up to it, or down,
AS toa crown
TO bow before, and we weave threads
Of different lengths and thickness-some mere
slreds-
And wind them round
Till all the skcin Of life is bound,
Sometimes forgetting at the task
o ask
The value of the threads, or choose
Strong stuff to use.
No hand but winds some thread;
1t cannot stand quite still till it is dead
But what it spins and winds a little skein.
God made each hand for work-not toil-stain
Is required, but every hand
Spins, though but ropes Of sare.;
If love should come,
STOPPING above when we are DONE
.- sHWLLa
TO find bright threads
That we have held, that it may spin them longer
find but shreds
hat break when touched, how cold,
Sad, shivering, portionless, the hands will hold
The broken strands and know
Fresh cause for woe.
George KlAugle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-15
Lemons for SMALLPOX.

An Ironton (O.) physician treated
himself for smallpox with lemon juice,
and reports the process and results as
follows I squeezed all the juice l pos
sibly could out of one lemon into the
glass, to which 1 added about two ia
blespoons Of water, and drank it. I
then opened the rind and sucked the
balance of the juice. In about twenty
minutes T took another lemon, and used
it in the same manner In a short time
I felt very cold, as if I was lying in close
proximity o a large mass of snow or ice.
My pulse had dropped to sixty. | shut
my eyes to see if the unpleasant visions
were gone. I not only found they were
gone, but by placing my hand upon my
head, I found the pox on my head had
gone also. My head was bathed with
grumous.like fluid which had exuded
from the pox. 1t stained the napkin I
hal applied to wipe it off. 1t seemed
as if each had given up it's contents and
wllted down to a level with the surface.
The same had taken place with those
upon my face. My beard was glued to-
gether with the same kind of fluid.
Those upon my neck had not bursted,
but had shrunk away and diminished in
size considerably. 1 laid down and slept
two hours comfortably. I awoke, 1
presume, from cold, although I had
plenty of cover over me and the fire was
still burning in the CRATE. I felt SO well
pleased that I took a little more lemon
juice. 7 kept my pulse at from sixty to
sixty-sevcn for thirty-s:X hours, when all
erllptions and elevations had disap-
peared from my skin. I then bid good
bye to lemon juice and smallpox. So
strongly nm I convinced in the power of
lemon juice to abort any and every case
of smallpox, if administered as 1 adj
mipistcrcd it to myself, that I look upon
it as a specific of as mach certainty and
power in smallpox as q%uinine is in in
termittent fever. l therefore publish
my experiment, hoping every physician
having a case of smallpox will give it a
fair trial and report the result to me.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-15
Interesting Facts About The Electric
Light.

The London Graphic contains an Illus
trated account of the Swan electric light
which Will prove to be of especial inter-
est to people residing i'm the country or
in places where's flow of water sufficient
to turn a s..1all turbine wheel can be se-
cured. After the cost Of the lamp and its
Accomplishments no other outlay is
necessary. The experiments made by
Mr.. Swan himself at Cragside, in Eng
land, were with his perfected lamp,
which makes use of a continuous carbon
conductor inclosed in a glass bulb her
metically sealed. At a distance of three
quarters of a mile the overflow of a pond
was used to propel a six-horse power
turbine wheel, and produced the cleo
tricity, which is carried to the house
over a double row of copper wires.
The lamp itself is said to be exceed
ingly simple, and may be hung from
the ceiling, placed in q bracket on a
side wall or in the porcelain body of an
old oil or kerosene lamp of the style so
much used at present. It consists of q
glass bulb about three inches in diane.
ter, from which a cylindrical arm ex-
tends. Two platinum wires connected
with the intermediate carbon conductor
pass through this arm and into the bulb
and are Theoretically sealed by fusion OF
the glass around them on entrance into
the glass wall Of the lamp. The carbon
filament is a special feature of*he lamp.
and is wonderfully thin and elastic"
looking, in the engraving given of it,
like a piece of Topped wire. Since the
air is exhausted from the well the car
bon does not decompose, in fact it be-
comes harder from continued usage.
The carbon thus used by Mr.. Swan IN
his experiments has lasted uninserrupt,
eddy since last October. It is claimed
for the system that the light can be 40.
solutely divided without sacrifice. OF
economy, forty-ive of them being IN
use at Cragside, each lamp giving q
light equal to that of three ordinary
lamps and the current being turned on
or off by small switches inserted in the