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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-02-26

The remaining copies of the History
OF Columbia County, a book of 600
pages illustrated and bound in cloth
will be closed out at $1.00 each, 25
cents extra by mail. For sale at the
COLUMBIAN Office. Bloomsbury, Pa.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-02-26

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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-02-26

immense building, located on the corner of Broad
and Pearl streets near the Battery. there the
principal officers of the army yet remaining in the
service took leave OF their beloved chief Washing
ton entered the room where they were assembled,
and taking glass OF wine in his hand, said, with
heart full OF love and gratitude II now take leave
otyou. imost devoutly wish that your latter days
may be as prosperous and happy as your former
ones have been glorious and honorable" One by one
they gra'ped his hand, while tears and sobs sthed
their words. He kissed each one, and wept with
them Heroic souls, they had gone through the long
and awful war with dry eyes, but when 1t was over,
and peace separated them, they wept like women
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-02-26

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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-02-26

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Superlntendent's office. scranton, Feb lstIs2
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-02-26

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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
The Mind and the Legs.

Men generally cross their legs when
there is the least pressure on their
minds. You will never find man act
ually engaged in business with his legs
crossed. The limbs at those times are
straighter than at any other, because
the mind and body work together. A
man engaged in auditing accounts will
never cross his legs; neither will man
who is writing an article, or who is
employed in any manner where the
brain is actively engaged when at
work in sitting posture the limbs
naturally extend to the floor in per-
fectly straight line. A man may cross
his legs if he is sitting in an office chair
discussing some business proposition
with business man, but the instant he
becomes really in earnest and perceives
something to be gained, his limbs I'M
cross quick as a flash, he bends forward
toward his neighbor, and begins to use
his hands. That is a phase l believe
you will always observe.
Men often cross their legs at public
meetings because they 60 there to lis
ten or to be entertained. They are not
the factors in the performance, and they
naturally place themselves in the most
comfortable position known to them,
namely, that of leaning well back in
their chairs and crossing their legs. A
man always crosses his legs when he
reads a newspaper, but Is more apt to
lie down when he reads book. He
reads the paper, of course, to inform
himself, but at the same time the peru
sal of its contents is recreation to him,
and his body again seeks its position Of
relaxation.
When man is reading newspaper
and waiting for his breakfast his legs
are always crossed, but as soon as the
breakfast is brought to him he puts the
paper aside, straightens out his legs,
and goes to work-that is, he begins to
eat, his mind now turning on his duties
of the day before him. Men cross their
legs in ballroom but it is far from an
elegant thing to do, and is not done by
those who are brought up in good So
ciety. 1t is your ''three-penny-bit young
man. who crosses his legs at ball,
and, would you believe it, l have seen
young ladies do the same thing.-Deaa-
ger Tribune
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
THEY EXPOSED HER.

Boston Special: In Manchester, N.
H., last night at the house of q. 3. Am
midon, Mrs. Bessie Huston, a medium
of Boston, gave what was called ma
terialzation seance. A pretended spirit
approached a gentleman who made up
the party, and the latter. acting in &C cor
dance with preconceived plan, seized
the outstreched hand, threw his arms
around her body and bore her to the
floor. The form was that of Mrs. Huston
herself. Her husband, who always &C
companies her, pulled ont a club and ap
piled it with vigor upon the head of her
captor. The gas was lighted by those
who were parties to the plan, and Mr..
Huston was seized and the club was tax
en- from him. The lighting of the gas
revealed Mrs. Huston stretched upon the
carpet, where she was held by the man
who had the nerve to trap her. She was
dressed in a sleeveless white garment and
wore a white veil over her head. The
exposure was complete. Chalk and other
materials used in the deceit practised
were discovered. The woman was allow.
ed to return to the cabinet, where she
clothed herself in her evening dress.
Mr.. Ammidon informed the Illusions
that his roof could not shelter frauds an
other night. The veil taken from Mrs.
Huston's head was divided up among the
party as memento of the occasion.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
manitomof pilot.
Complexities OF the Railway Prob
lem.

ANY practical scheme of railroad con-
| troll is likely to be based upon q COM
promise. The different interests in
volved are so conflicting that it will not
do to attempt solution from any one
standpoint exclusively. The direction
which legislation is to take can not be
decided BY mere consideration of COM
plants against the existing system,
whether well-grounded or otherwise.
We must also consider what other sys-
TENS have been tried, and what evils
they have involved; what lines of treat
ment have been undertaken, and how
far it has been found possible to carry
them out. 1t is not question what we
would like to do, so much as what we
actually can do.
The community requires four things
of its railroad system:
1. That it shall afford sufficient facili-
ties to meet the wants of business. In
other words. there must be enterprise in
building new lines, and in keeping the
old ones up to high .tandard of etfici-
ency.
2. That the charges, as a whole,
shall be as reasonable as possible. If
they are higher than those of other
countries, or higher than is necessary
for the support of the railroads, the bus
ness DEVELOPMENT of the community
will be retarded.
8. That there shall not be arbitrary
differences in charges which force bust
ness into unnatural and wasteful chan
hels. or cripple one man for the enrich
ment of another.
4. That there shall be as little waste
of capital as possible, either by corrup
ton, extravaganza, or want of business
skill. This is not quite SO vital a matter
as the other three, but it is one which
we can not afford to leave out of ac-
count
No system of regulation is ever likely
to be devised which shall secure all
these results. Free competition, as we
have tried it in America, produces rapid
construction and low rates, but fosters
discrimination and extravaganza; thus
securing the first and second require
ments, at the sacrifice of the third and
fourth. The French system of regulat-
ed monopoly has just the opposite effect;
it prevents we ste and discrimination,
but development is slow and rates are
high. The third and fourth require
ments are secured at the expense of the
first and second. England enjoys the
first and fourth advantages, at the sacri-
flee of the second and third; Italy has
secured the second and third, but failed
of the first and fourth The Granger
system of regulation sacrificed the first
in the effort to secure the second. Par
tial state ownership, as we shall see, Sc
cures the third, at great risk of sacriic-
ing all the others.-A7thur Z. Hadley,
in Popular Science Monthly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
THE FASTEST CRAFT AFLOAT.

The extraordinary performance of the
new steam yacht Stiletto few DAYS ago
marks perhaps the beginning of an era
III water travel. 1t is claimed that she
can make speed of twenty. eight miles
an hour. The Mary Powell is the swift
est Hudson river steamer. She is
huge boat and seems almost to 90 as fast
as railway train. When she started up
stream the day of the race and found the
impertinent little yacht waiting to banter
her for race, her officers and men
laughed loud and long. But they laughed
the 'other side of their mouths" when a
few minutes later the fussy little craft
shot past the great steamer in tremen.
dous squirt, and kept ahead easily to
Sing Sing. The Mary Powell was kept
ct her highest speed. The yacht was not
put to her best at all, yet she made the
distance of twenty-eight miles in an hour
and seventeen minutes.
The Stiletto is the result of a long
series of experiments in the construction
of boats. The remarkable part about it
is that her builder and designer, N. G,
Herreshotf, of the Herreshoff Manufac-
turing company, Bristol, r. l., is
blind man. But he has somehow seen
more without eyes than any other boat
builder has with two good ones. The
yachts speed is in consequence of inn
provements both in model and machinery.
She is made on the principle of the
greatest power with the least possible
weight. The builder designs her to con-
vey business men to and from their Of
fees with great speed. He also thinks
she would be an excellent steamer for
government torpedo boat, which is no
doubt true.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
Northern and Southern Names of
Rattles.

From General d. II. HIS paper in
the May Century, The Battle of South
Mountain, or Boonsboro'," we quote as
follows: THE conflict of the 18th of
September, 1862. is called the battle of
South Mountain at the North, and the
battle of Boonsboro' at the South. So
many battle-fields of the Civil War bear
double names that we cannot believe
the duplication has been accidental. 1t
is the unusual which impresses. The
troops of the North came mainly from
cities. towns, and villages, and were,
therefore, impressed by some natural
object near the scene of the conflict and
named the battle from it. The soldiers
from the South were chiefly from the
country, and were therefore impressed
by some artificial object near the field
of action. In one section the naming
has been after the handiwork of God; in
the other section it has been after the
handiwork of man. Thus, the first pas
sage of arms is called the battle of Bull
Run at the North, the name of little
stream. At the South it takes the name
of Manassas, from railroad station.
The second battle on the same ground
is called the Second Bull Run by the
North, and the Second Manassas by the
South. Stones defeat is the battle of
Balls Bluff with the Federals, and the
battle OF Leesburg with the Confeder-
ates. The battle called by General Grant
Pittsburg Landing, a natural object, was
named Shiloh, after church, by his
antagonist. Rosecrans called his first
great fight with Bragg the battle of Stone
River, while Bragg named it after Muir
'reesboro', a village. So McClellan's
battle of the Chickahominy. little river.
was with Lee the battle of Cold Harbor,
a tavern. The Federals speak of the
battle of Pea Ridge. of the Ozark range
of mountains, and the Confederates call
it after Elk Horn, country inn. The
Union soldiers called the bloody battle
three days after South Mountain from
the little stream, Antietam, and the
Southern troops named it after the vii
lage of Sharpsburg. Many instances
might be given of this double naming
by the opposing forces. According to
songs of a people have always been writ
ten by non-combatantS The bards who
followed the banners of the feudal lords,
sang of their exploits, and stimulated
them and their retainers to deeds of high
emprise, wore no arnlor and carried no
swords. So, too, the imprisoned ora
tors in 1776 with the thrilling cry, Lib
erty or DEATH never once put them
selves in the way of a death by lead or
steel, by musket-baH or bayonet stab.
The noisy speakers of 1861, who fired
the Northern heart and who fired the
Southern heart, never did any other
kind of firing. One of the most promi-
nent of them frankly admitted that he
preferred a horizontal to vertical
death -
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
Some Suggestions Concerning Rats.

An attempt to catch rats by traps or
by poisoning them suddenly will fail.
Old rats know too much, and can only
be caught by kindness. To destroy
them, give them good meal every day.
Do not put any poison in the food, but
simply prepare dish for them daily,
as free lunch, composed of corn-meal
moistened with milk, into which an egg
and little salt Ito season. have been
beaten. At first they may not touch it,
but keep it before them, making it fresh
daily. They will soon try a little, and
if not injurious their suspicious viii be
allayed. In week or ten days they
will expect it, and every rat on the
place will be at the appointed place for
the treat. Give them plenty of it, so as
to induce all the rats in the neighbour
hood to join in. l. not be in hurry
to poison them. If they eat all the food
give them larger quantity next time.
As soon as they have thrown off all sus-
picion 60 to your druggist, get some
phosphorus paste, or other rat-poison,
mix it with the food, and be sure you
give them enough and something to
spare, so as to induce all to eat. They
will either be killed or become so suspi-
cious of all other food as to leave, and
not rat will remain. Hence, to destroy
rats, take plenty of time, gain their con-
fdence, and finish them when they least
expect it.-FteLd, Farm and !Siocknaon.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
His First and Only Love.

Miss Birdie McGinnis has been pay
ing a great deaf of attention to Tom
Anjerry, student at the University of
Texas. Her affection has been recipro-
Gated very literally by Tom Still
Birdie is not quite sure that Tom is a
safe young man to tie to, so she pro-
ceeds to cross-eXamine the witness, so to
speak.
You still love me as devotedly as
ever, do you, Tomp'
'Why shouldn't l love you, BirdieP
You are my first and only love"
How about that red-headed girl you
went out riding with when you were in
Dallas last week? Is she also your first
and only love?'
No" replied Tom calmly, ''she is not
my first and only love. She is my
second only love"
No sale. All bets off," remarked
Tom as he walked out through the front
gate.-Ieras SUtings.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
A Bell that Belonged to Columbus.

The trustees of the New African
Methodist Episcopal church at Haley
vile, in Cumberland county, N. j..
have received as gift small bell for
the tower o. their little church which is
said to be most remarkable and valu-
able relic. 1t was brought from the is
land of San Andreas by Capt. Elias A.
Newall of the bark Eva A. Fisk, and its
romantic history was related to the cap
tain by the islanders. In the year 1892
when the war between the followers of
the crescent and the cross eliminated
in the capture of Grenada from the in
tidels by Ferdinand, and Isabella trans
formed the famous Alhambra into a
Christian temple, several bells were
cast to hang in the lofty towers to ring
out the time for mathis and vespers.
and among them was the bell which is
now to call the dusky members of the
Haleyville church to prayer-meeting
and Sunday services. On the departure
OF Columbus on his fourth and last
voyage to America it was presented to
the discoverer by Queen Isabella. Co
lumbus gave it to the chapel at Cartha-
gena, on the Spanish Main, where it
again performed its holy mission until
the city was besieged and looted by the
buccaneers in 1897. In dividing the
spoils the bell fell to the share of the
French ship La Rochelle, and was used
on the vessel until, during a furious hur-
ricane, she was wrecked on the island
of San Andreas. A few of the crew
were saved, and the bell was taken
from the wreck to the island, where it
remained until it was obtained by Capt.
Newall and brought to the Jersey coast.
baltimore american
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
instantaneous Photographs.

The friends were standing where the
Catskill hills lay before them in echelon
toward the river, the ridges tapping
over each other and receding in the
distance, a graduation of lines most arts
tically drawn, still further refined by
shades of violet, which always have the
effect upon the contemplative mind of
either religious exaltation or the kind
ling of a sentiment which is in the
young akin 20 the emotion of love.
While the artist was making some
memoranda of these outlines. and Mr..
King was drawing | know not what
auguries of hope from these purple
heights, a young lady seated upon
rock near by-a young lady just step
ping over the border-line of woman
hood-had her eyes also fixed upon
those dreamy distances, with that look
we all know so we'll, betraying that shy
expectancy of life which is unconfessed,
that tendency to maidenly reverie which
1t were cruel to interpret literally. At
the moment she is more interesting than
the Catskiils-the brown hair. the largo
eyes unconscious of anything but the
most natural emotion, the shapely waist
just beginning to respond TO the call
OF the future-it Is pity that we shall
never see her again, and that she has
nothing whatever TO 60 with our jour
new. She also will have her romance;
fate will meet her in the way some day,
and set her pure heart wildly beating,
and she viii know what those purple
distances mean. Happiness, tragedy,
anguish-who can tell what is IN store
for her? | cannot but feel profound
sadness at meeting her in this casual
way and never seeing her again. Who
SAYS that the world is not full of
romance and pathos and regret as we
60 our daily way in itp You meet her
at a railway station; there is the fiutter
of a veil, the CLEAN OF II scarlet bird,
the lifting of Il pair of eyes-she is
gone; she is entering a drawing-room,
and stops a moment and turns away;
SHE is looking from a window as you
pass-it is only a glance out of eternity;
she stands for second upon rock
looking seward; she passes YOU 1t the
church DOORS that all? 1t is dis
covered that instantaneous photographs
can be taken. They are taken all the
time; some of them are never developed,
but | suppose these impressions are
all there on the sensitive plate, and that
the plate is perm, emily affected by the
impressions. The ply OF it is that the
world is SO full CT ,lese undeveloped
knowledges of people worth knowing
and friendships worth making. = Charles
Dudley Warner, IN Harper'S Magazine
for HaU
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
ONLY Half Alive

There are hosts of men and woman who, to
coin a phrase, are only half alive. That is TO
say, they have seldom if ever auv appetite,
are nervous, weak. fidgetty and troubled by
numberlesS small pains and aches. In the
seem mere pigmies. Such persons are usually
fond of frequently dosing themselves, swa-
lowing in the course of the year enough drugs
to stock any apothecary's shop of average di-
mension. This, of course, defeats instead of
furthering the end in view, viz, the recovery
of health and vigor. Were they to seek it from
an unfailing source of vitality, Hos-etter's
Stomach Bitters. how different would be their
case. Then vigor would return to their debili-
tated frames, the glow of health to their wan
cheeks, their trembling uncertain gait would
grow firm and elastic. appetite. that grandest
of all sauces. would give relish for the daily
food, were it ever SO coarse, and refreshing
sleep would crown the tasks of the day.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
CommonlY Called Laziness

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. Il, 1SS4.-In the
summer of 1879, l noticed I was fire.
quently tired. Had diarrhga. Family
physician said I had malaria in stomach.
Bowels would move half dozen times,
If | walked block rapidly. Finally in
August, | became too sick to leave my
bed. Lay in bed six days Had night
sweats, and very yellow tongue Six
bottles of Warmers safe cure cured me.
WILLIAM WALLACE LOUNS-
BERRY, formerly with Nashau Lock
Company.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
An Enterprising, Reliable House.

FL. Hinrichs can always be relied upon,
not only to carry in stock the best of
everything, but to secure the Agency for
such articles as have well known merit
and are popular with the people, thereby
sustaining the reputation of being always
enterprising, and ever reliable. Having
secured the Agency for the celebrated
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump
ton, will sell it on a positive guarantee
1t will surely cure any and every affection
of Throat, Lungs, and Chest, and to show
our confidence, we invite you to call and
get Trial Bottle Free. ]
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13

The Pennsylvania manufactures expect
a big increase in the steel and iron trade
as soon as the labor troubles cease, and
have put their furnaces in order for the
production of 200, 600 tons of rails this
year in excess of present orders. There
is prospect of increased activity in rail
road building.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13
What She Thought They Were.

Il see by the Chronicle Telegraph that
automatic couplers are to be generally
introduced" remarked Amy to the
high school girl last night
Yes, | noticed that myself" replied
Mildred.
What are automatic couplers, Mil
dredP' was Amy's next question.
Il am not positive was the reply,
"but | infer that they are sort of at
tachment to the new marriage license
law, but I'll ask Augustus when he calls
tonight Pittsburg Chronicle Iele-
graph.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13

There is thirteen-year-old negro boy
IN Richmond, Ky, who is perfect little
tiend. The other day he bought a box
OF rat poison, cut it in two, and put one
part in the teakettle of the Deatherape
family. Three persons who drank of
the water were made deathly sick, and
their lives We're saved with difficulty
The week before that he set fire to the
house, and year ago he tried to poi
son the family of clergyman with
whom he lived. He once showed his
wickedness or his sensitiveness by
thrusting red-hot poker into piano.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13

If your blood is impure, you are
liable to take any contagious or infectious
disease that may happen to be in your
neighborhood Avoid al danger by
keeping yourself in health by taking
Warmers safe cure.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-13

A FARMER of Ithaca. N. Y. had to de-
fer the completion of some important le-
gal papers, the other day, because, after
trying for twenty minutes in the lawyers
Office to recollect the full name of his
wife he failed to do SO.