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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-05-11
you will know It again. Then drop il
into the pistol and put In Q second

you will know Il again. Then drop IL
into the pistol and put in second
wad." ~ ~.
at is done, said the inarsbont.
, "You know that the weapon is good,
and that it is we'll loaded," !" Robert
Houdin continued. "Hsve yop no
scruples in aiming at me, even If !
authorize you :" s--.
"No,n answered the Arab; II want
to kill you s5 ,.. ~ !
The Frenchman took a pear and
thrust IL on the point Of knife. Then
going few PAGES from the Arab be
bade him take aim at the heart. The
marabout fred and the marked bullet
was seen in the pear. -, b. q ~,
The magician does not explaiD the
secret of this trick. Probably he made
use of a device familiar to all Who
have studied. conjuring. After the
powder and wad were rsmmed home,
and while the Arab was engaged 10
marking the bullet, the Frenchman
had slipped into the pistol little tube
the lower. end of which was closed.
Into this tube the marabout dropped
the bullet, and as he thrust down the
wad with the ram-rod, the tube fitting
snugly to the ram-rod, and polished on
the outside to resemble it, was with.
drawn at the end of the stick without
attracting attention, thus giving Rob.
ert Hondin possession of the marked
ball. -...-. al .... --.- 49,. 4.
The third and last of the French.
mans special feats for the Algerians
although no doubt most effective when
performed before them il less easy to
decribe. A young Arab was asked tc
step upon q table, where he was cover
ed with an extinguisher. This ex'
tinguisher was then brought down to
the footlights, when it was found to bt
empty. The young man had vanished
So Mortified were the assembled AL
gerians at this most mysterious disap
pearance that they jumped, to theil
feet and began to fly from tie theatre
in terror despite the utmost endeavol
Of some of the calmer chiefs to contrO
them. At the door they found, to thei
still greater surprise, the young Arab
none the worse for his temporary van
ishing, and wholly unable or unwilling
to explain what had happened to him
Nor does Robert Houdin explain tn
secret of this trick. And we bad bes
follow his example. Perhaps some o
the readers of this paper, voluntary ap
prentices, in the art and mysteries o
magic, may be able to suggest an ez
planation.-Harper's Young People
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"And so that tootb.pick holder lie
six centsfp vi
"Only six, madam
"How very cutel"
ayes, 1t H." o..
"And it is imported"
ut is" .t.., .....I
How very, very charmingl This is
the same one l saw yesterday, is i'll"
"Oh, certainly"
"Dear me, bat wish could make
up my mind to take It or not. You
see, we may move in the spring. and il
we moved you know"
81 want about SIS worth Of dishes"
interrupted Mr.. Bowser.
"Yes, sir, in just moment"
"How many of these loothpiok hold
ers have you got7"
"Only FIVE"
"Pll take the lot; and now come and
wait on me. want twelve cups and
saucers, twenty-four plates, three, OF
four platters, two turreens and fish
platter" )"
The lady turned about and killed me
dead with one long look. Then she
looked at the back of Mr.. Bowser's
neck and tried TO murder him, but he
would not fall. Then she returned and
killed me over again, gave her should
ers a twist and walked out of the store.
She had barely departed when q
fresh arrival asked our clerk, busy
though he was, to show her some tea.
spoous.
Madame said Mr.. Bowser, edo
you wish to buy some spoons7'
"Perhaps'
| "D, you know whether you do or
nol?"
"Wby-I--I will look at them"
Every well; you sit down and wait
until | am through buying. l came to
buy, know what l want, and shall pay
cash down.
| was killed again, and if looks
could have crushed Mr.. Bowser he'd
have been mangled corpse in ten
seconds. We were only thirteen min.
utes buying the dishes, and as we go'
out ami reached the car Mr.. Bowse'
SAID:
"Mrs. Bowser, when you come dow'
town do you go fooling around the
stores and obstructing doorways anc
crosswalk- like the women we have
seen to day?'
Ill gus IS l do -. VI
sand end by buying four cent?
worth of something9" ft..a.. .e
'Yes: it is the custom" .- ...
"And it would have taken you thre'
weeks to buy what we bought IN tw'
Ihoursi" .str-.. .-. .a
'Yes, SIR" ,.as... r
| "Then Ill write this very day to al
idiot asylum and see if l can squeez
lyou in! It's no wonder every othe
home in Detroit is full of scandal, an'
every other husband wants divorce!
l-Detrot Free Press.
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ROBIN REDBREASr.
BY JOHN SUTTON.
For the COLUMBIAN.

FOR the COLUMBIAN.
Robin redbreast on the tree,
Sing little song for rue,
Let some sweet and Joyful note,
Marble In your little throat.
"Pheet," he said, and turned his eye,
As II 70 AJAX the reason why,
Can such little, tiny thing
Pleasure 10 you great ones bring?
Yes, said, I love the birds,
And though they cannot know my words,
love TO see them on the wing,
love 60 listen while they sing
And though their lines seem Incomplete,
Not measured by poetic feet,
There is a sweetness In their tone,
That does belong to birds alone.
lie turned his head from side TO side
And plumed his wings with birdly pride,
Then dropped some notes so soft and ow,
AS only little brides know.
Then rising higher In his song,
He piped and whlstled loud and long,
He twittered, chirped and sweetly trilled,
And all the earth with music nlled.
thanked the birdie for his treat
And hoped thai we again would meet,
bid him come another day,
Then Robin red breast new away.
Now II the birds can give us Joy,
Why may not every girl and boy9
Their better education show,
And drop some pleasure as h'ygo.
April 80. isss
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Gold BY The Ksg.
HOW THE PRECIOUS METAL is SENT ovLR
TO EUROPE.

"What are you going to do with all
that gold'' asked an inquisitive person
of George Wilson, the cashier at the
Assay Office, as three men dragged and
pushed low, heavy, four-wheeled cart
out of the great vault where $90,0O0,-
900 of Uncle Sans treasures are stored
in the form of bars and bricks. 90
the cart that the men were tugging
and straining with were two wooden
boxes or trays, about the length and
breadth OF starch box, but not more
than three or four inches in depth.
Each box contained some twenty bars
of gold. The bars were about four
and half inches long, but varied in,
width from an inoh to three inches
while in thickness they also differed
from quarter of sn inoh TO an inch.
THAT" said the cashier, as he look
ed toward the cart with q contsmptu-
Gus glance, 'oh that's little lot we
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-05-11
sIs.n,l1'g !i' and la.la'. Agency.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
MI. r.. LUTZ
(successor to Freas Brown
AGENT AND BROKER
EIRE INsUkAN t.

EIRE INsUkAN t.
CHRISTIAN " gNArp. BLooNsBURa. PA.
asRcaGNTs;, OF NEWARK. N. ].
CLINTON, N. Y.
PEOPLES N. Y.
READING, PA. - 49,.
GERMAN AMERICAN ms. co, NEW YORK.
GREENWICH ms. co, NEW YORK.
JERSEY CITY FIRE ms CO., JERSEY
CITY, N. j.
These ORD CORPORATIONS, are We'll seasoned oy
age and FIRE TEsTED and have never yet had q
loss settled by any court OF law. Their assets are
all invested In SOLID sxouRIrIEs are liable 10 the
hazard OF FIRE only.
Losses PROMPTLY aud HONESTLY adjusted and
paid as soon as deter mined BY CHsIs1lAE y
ksAPP, SPECIAL AGENT AND ADIUsrER BLoohsBuHS
Pa.
The people OF Columbia county should patron;
ize the agency where Losses II any are settled and
paii by one OF ther own cltizens
PROMPTNESs. EQUITY, FAIR DEALING.
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Dude-Miss, will you allow me to ac-
company you?
Indignant female Sir, do you think
for moment
Dude-Me think Good gwacious,
do look as if | conld think?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-05-11

Buttermilk Mullins Beat two eggs
well into quart of buttermilk, str in
quart of flour, or enough to make
thick batter, and lastly add teaspoon.
full each of salt and soda. Bake in
well. creased tins in hot oven.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-05-11

Mary-George, if die, promise ne
o ne thing.
George-What is it, Mary
That you will marry Emma Will
kins"
"Why, l thought you hated her,
Mary"
81 do, George, want to get even
with her."
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NO ONE NEED
Remain
A DysPEpTIc.

81 have been suffering for
over two years with Dyspep-
sia. For the last year /
could not take a drink of cold
water nor eat any meat with
out vomiting it up. My life
was a misery. | had had re-
commended Simmons Liver
Regulator, of which l am
now taking the second bottle,
and the fact is that words
cannot express the relief
feel. My appetite is very
good, and | digest everything
thoroughly. | sleep well now,
and ! used to be very restless.
| am fleshing up fast; good
strong food and Simmons
Liver Regulator have done it
all. l write this in hopes of
benefiting some one who has
suffered as did, and would
take oath TO these statements
if desired"
E. s. BALLoU, Syracuse, Neb.
, 1888-09-22
4 Chinese opium Story.

Since the introduction of opium into
China millions and tens of millions nave
given themselves up to its use, it's vic
tins being found in all the ranks and
conditions of life, among the old, the
middle aged, the young, and even chill
dren. But a case of an infant becoming
a victim to it's pernicious influence has
just come to our knowledge. A man and
his wife had been in the habit of taking
opium for years, and one of their chief de-
lights was in indulging themselves over
the pipe / n each others company, each TAX
ing alternate whiffs. One day the woman
gave birth to a boy, and all the household
was in an e~cstatic state of joyfulness. But
before long the baby began to show signs
of illness, and although a physician was
sent for they could not discover the cause
of its symptoms. Every effort was made
to save the child, but he only grew worse
and worse until his parents ave him up
for lost.
In despair they took their pipe to
solace themselves, and behold as they
pulled at the pipe the smoke was waited
to the child's nostrils, and, giving a
sneeze, he instantly revived and began to
cry. Upon inhaling more of the smoke
he changed his crying into laughing and
became exceedingly lively. After that he
was all right as long as he inhaled the
smoke ut regular periods of the day.
One day, however, his parents neglected
to give him the accustomed dose of smoke
and before they were aware he died
Chicago Times.
, 1888-09-22
Search for Old watches.

There are a great many funny things
attending the rise of the "Jenkinses." I
mean those people who nave advanced in
material wealth without adding a whit to
their literary or social position. They are
Dragging of an ancestry they never had,
and are at O loss to establish themselves
as members of the old families. Just now
there is a search for old gold watches,
which will be paraded as family %heirlooms,
handed down by this or that distinguished
R~oundhead, or Mayfower pilgrim. The
old Johnson watches, made on Church
street, Liverpool, are among those most
eagerly sought by the man who wants to
trade money for lineage. Few of them
are left, and in Baltimore an especial mar
ket has been established, and large sums
are paid for them. Money is a great deal
plentier than blue blood, and the exchange
is willingly made by those who have
lately acquired the shekels .-Watchmaker
in Globe Democrat.
, 1888-09-22
Burmese .'Pickled Tea"

The Indian Forester publishes the diary of
an expedition which recently assembled the
Chindwin river, in Upper Burmah. The
writer describes a village called Kawya, on
the river, where the people are wholly de-
voted to the cultivation of tea, and which
may be considered as the southern limit of
the tea plant in this region. Before planting
the ground Il is cleared of all underground, but
high trees, even those of the densest foliage,
are left standing. The seedlings, which are
usually raised indoors, are planted out in
rows at the beginning of the rains, and the
first pickings take place when the plant is 8
or 4 years old. When it grows too large it is
cut down., and three or four new stems shoot
out from the stool The leaves are plucked
and Immediately stepped in boiling water for
a short time; they are then taken out,
strained, thoroughly kneaded with the hands,
and pressed into bamboo baskets, when they
are ready for market, and fetch locally four
rupees per 100 pounds.
This 'pickled tea, =" as it is called by Euro
peans, lepet being the Burmese name, is
hoated down the river in baskets or hollow
bamboos, which are carefully kept below the
surface of the water to preserve the quality
OF their contents. Lepet is a favorite among
the Burmese, who mix salt, sesamum oil and
other ingredients with it. To the ordinary
European its taste is as bad as its smell,
which is saying a good deal. The soil along
the Chindwin is eminently suitable for tea
cultivation; the plant grows wild on all the
hills and attains enormous dimensions. One
tree which was found neglected in a corner
measured eighteen inches in girth at one foot
from the ground, and was fully twenty feet
high.-Chicago Times.
, 1888-09-22

Oh ASub opOah EtdNlOnSs
The wonderful increase of the public debt
of European states within the Last few years
suggests the question, whittier will this ten
dency lead themF' In 1870 the total indebted.
ness was SIS, 900, OO0, 900. This has been in
creased to the amount of S23, 600, OOO, 900 in
1886. In sixteen years, therefore, the public
IS. 900 .0OO. 600. During
this period the reduction of interest has been
going on just as it has done in the United
States. England is now arranging to reduce
her interest from 3 to 81 per cent. and the
other European governments are attempting
to reduce the rate of interest from 8 and 6 TO
8, 4, and ~ per cent.
The immense reduction of interest, how
ever, does not seem to benefit the people, for
the governments take advantage of it to in
crease their total Indebtedness. Here we are
paying off the debt and reducing the interest
at the same time; in Europe they are reduc-
ing the rate of interest, but are increasing
the nominal capital of the debt, SO that no
reduction of taxes can take place. The total
annual interest Upon European Indebtedness
is about 5000, DOC, 900, while the total annual
expenditures of the war and navy depart
ments Of the same government reaches the
enormous sum of 5000, 000, 200. The European
powers are all of them troubled with financial
difficulties. They are immensely in debt;
yet the political situation is such as to re-
quire increased They cannot
go to war because they have not the financial
credit to extend their Indebtedness; and the
question now is; "How can this intricate
.tuation be Observation-Disclosures Times
Tar.
, 1888-09-22

y physician tells me that chewing gum
is practice in which grown people should
not indulge and which parents should not
tolerate in children. as it worse than
chewing tobacco?" I asked. "a thou
sand times was the reply. "a girl
will do enough chewing on n cents
worth of gum to masticate her food for II
whole week. The hinges of the jaw are
made for the ordinary work of an ordi-
nary life and they won't stand any more.
Chewing gum is something like drinking
Mhi-kZ-one nip calls for another and
n craunch begets anotheT. II CNCfUCs
the nerves which lie about the jaws to a
kind of perpetual motion, which doesn't
cease until their strength is exhausted.
We haven't been chewing quite long
enough 10 see its ill effect, but our
lr-s are made like the jaws of other peo-
PIE, and We might learn a n and use
ful lesson from history. Chicago Tri-
irfnC.
, 1888-09-22
THE PLEASURES OF aANcHlNa.
Life in the Cattle Country-Clouds OF
nusquftoes-In a Rain.

Life in the Cattle Country-CIouds OF
Musquftoes-In q Rain.
For bedding, each man has two or three
pairs or blankets, and a tarpaulin or small
wagon sheet. Usually, two or three sleep to-
gether. Even in June the nights are gener-
ally cool and pleasant, and it is chilly In the
early mornings; although this is not always
80, and when the weather stays hot and mus
quitoes are plenty, the hours of darkness,
even in midsummer, seem painfully long. In
the Bad Lands proper we are not often both
cred very seriously by these winged pests;
but in the low bottoms of the Big Missouri,
and besidS many of the reedy ponds and
great sloughs out on the prairie, they are a
perfect scourge. During the very hot nights,
when they are specially active, the bed
clothes make a man feel absolutely smoth-
cred, and yet his only chance for sleep is to
wrap himself tightly up, head and all; and
even then some of the pests force their way in
At sunset l have seen the mosquitoes rise
up from the land like a dense cloud, to make
the hot, sitting night one long ~torture; the
horses would neither lie down nor Craze,
travelling restlessly to and fro tin daybreak,
their bodies streaked and bloody, and the in
sects settling on them SO as to make them all
one color, a uniform gray; while the men,
after a few hours tossing about in the vain
attempt to sleep, rose, built a fire. of damp
sage Drush, and thus endured the misery as
best they could until it was light enough to
work But If the weather is fine, a man will
never sleep better nor more pleasantly than
In the open air after a hard days work on
the round up; nor will an ordinary shower
or gust of wind disturb him in the least, for
he simply draws the tarpaulin over his head
and goes on sleeping.
But now and then we nave a wind storm
that might better be called a whirlwind, and
has to be met very differently; and two or
three days or nights of rain insure the wet
ting of the blankets, and, therefore, SILVER
ing discomfort on the part of the would-be
sleeper. For two or three hours all goes
we'll, and it is rather soothing to listen to the
steady patter of the great rain drops on the
canvas. But then it will be found that a
corner has been left open through which the
water can get in, or else the %tarpaulin will
begin to leak somewhere, or perhaps the
water will have collected in a hollow under
meath and have begun to soak through. Soon
a little stream trickles in, and every effort to
remedy matters merely results in a change
for the worse. To move out of the way in
sures getting wet in a fresh spot, and the best
course is to lie still and oecept the evils that
have come with what fortitude one can.
Even thus the first night d man can sleep
pretty we'll; but If the rain continues, a
second night, when the blankets are already
damp, and when the water comes through
more easily, is apt to- be most unpleasant
Theodore Roosevelt in The Century.
, 1888-09-22
Tho ontnut of Our Mines

1t is "A very imposing showing that the
bureau Of mining statistics makes in its
report of the production of metals in the
United States for 1887. The aggregate
value Of the output of IL mines is set
down at $538, O56, 345-fgures whose
significance eau only be fully grasped by
comparing them with values in other de-
partments of production 1t is difficult
To estimate the amount of labor that
went to the making Of this enormous
total. The census of 1880 ranked as
miners some 234, 2Ss persons, not includ-
ing 7,340 oil well operators, and not
counting at all those engaged in the care
of mining machinery. 1t would prob
ably be safe to put at $50, 600 the number
of those who are now directly engaged
in all departments of mining industry,
and such a calculation may at least serve
rs a basis for determining the productive
value of the army of laborers thus en-
ployed.-The Epoch.
, 1888-09-22

1t is rather in others and for others that
the modern civilized man breads pain. He
finds it harder to knowthat other men are
suffering the pains of cold or hunger in
Kansas or Ireland or India; or that "pris-
oners of poverty" are working for pit
tances in the great cities; or that laboring
men are driven to work sixteen hours a
day; or that criminals are tortured or mis-
treated in the chain gang; or that "politi-
calls" are driven to insanity in the Russian
state prisons. He resents and Furnishes
cruelty to animals where his great-grand-
father, perhaps, thought nothing of send
ing a slave to the whipping post. He re-
volts even against harshness in just
punishment, and desires to alleviate some
of the horrors of hanging. If he ignores
a case of cruelty, it is from lack of ON
n%iscience; let him know about it, and the
world shall know his feelings about it.
Wilberforce and Copley might go on for
years telling E%nglishmen of the horrors
of the middle passage and of all the vii
lainies of the slave trade; and still the
slave ships sailed out from Liverpool, and
the slave trade was represented in parlia-
ment. Cruelty in moro recent times lives
by stealth and bushes to find itself ia
nous in the newspaper pillory.-The
Century.
, 1888-09-22
INC GothIe AIphnprt Going.

Those who are obliged frequently to
refer to German books are especially in
terested in the movement to introduce
the Roman in place of the Gothic alpha
bet. Since 1856 the society which is agi-
tating this matter has nearly doubled in
numbers. On its lists are now over 4,436
names, including members of all profess
sions, teachers. physicians, booksellers
and merchants. In 1886, out of 6,913
books on artistic, scientific. mercantile
and industrial subjects, 1916 were printed
with the Roman etters.-Science.
, 1888-09-22
The rlg Headed rassenger.

A correspondent wants to know why
railway companies do not arrange to have
all passengers go OUT ut IN -v+etsA1a1
enter at the rear end of q car. He doesn't
know the perversity of the average pas
senger, or he wouldn't ask this question.
If a railway company should try to en-
force such a rule it would meet with the
pig headed opposition of nearly half the
passengers in every car. Americans, in
~dividually, are a bright people, but in a
crowd they act as though they were not.
New York Tribune.
, 1888-09-22

We desire to say to our citizens that for
years we haye been selling DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption, DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters and have neve
handled remedies that sell as well or that
have given such universal satisfaction.
We do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time aud we stand ready to refund
the purchase price if satisfactory results
do not follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity purely
on their merits. DIR. w. n. Hunt, drug
pist.
, 1888-09-22
AN INDIAN LOVE SONG.

His winter home tho bear forsaEes
The red deer swims the shining lakes,
Up foaming falls the salmon leaps,
The wild sheep halts on dizzy sleeps,
The swans are n%orthward flying.
With laughing voice the rivers run,
Their pillows flashing in the sun;
1t is the moon of s%prouting grass,
A thousand warm sweet breezes pass,
Through lofty pine tops signing.
With bounding steps the antelope
Springs lightly down the mountain slope;
To yerdant plains the bison hies,
The eagle mounts the morning skies,
And all the birds are mating.
With life and joy all things are bright,
Come forth, my Lowell my souls delight,
Thy wigwam's folds throw wide apart,
For thee, oh dear and tender heart,
Thy lover true is waiting.
e. NJ. Allen in American Magazine
, 1888-09-22

Formerly all tho streets in Merida were
distinguished in a manner peculiar to Yucca
tan by images of birds or beasts set up at the
corners, and many still retain the ancient
sign; for example, the street upon which we
are4iving is called La Gale del Flamingo,
because of q huge red famingo painted on
the corner HOUSE,. Another is known as the
street OF the Elephant, and the representa-
tion OF it is an exaggerated animal, with
curved trunk and n body as big as a barrel.
There is the street of the Old Woman, and
on its corner is the caricature Of an aged
female, with huge spectacles astride her
nose. The street Of the Two Faces has a
double faced human head; and there are
others equally striking. The reason for this
kindergarten SOFT of nomenclature was be-
cause when the streets were named the great
mass of inhabitants were Indians who could
not read, and Therefore printed signs YOU
have been no use to them, but the picture of
a bull, q iamingo or an elephant they could
not mistake. -.-Yucatan Cor. Manchester
Union.