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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23

The treatment OF many thousande OF cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the lnvaids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y,
has afforded vast experience in nicely adapt
ing and thoroughly testing remedies for the
Or. Pierce's TavOriie Prescription
is the outgrowth, or result, OF this great and
niais, received from patients and from physi-
clans who have tested it In the more aggia-
waited and obstinate cpses which had ba.ied
remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of
suffering women. IL is not recommended as q
"oure-all," but as a most perfect Specific for
woman's peculiar ailments
As a powerful, invigornting tonic,
1t imparts strength to the whole system,
particular. For overworked. aPPvnans PPworns out" y
"run-down," debilitated teachers, millners,
dressnakers, seanstresscs, "shop- girls" house
generally, DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is the greatest earthly boon, being urcquacd
as an appetizing cordial and restorative t9nc:
nervtne, "Favorite Prescription is une-
qualed ana is invaluable in aliaying and sub
Sg nervous edS,aps, rrta5iSy d ex
other distressing, nervous symptoms COM
monty attendant upon functional and organic
sleep. and relieves mental anxiety and de-
spondency.
i. ssfsH TsvnrsH Rirs:orES
compounded BY an experienced and skillful
physician, and adapted to woman's delicate
organization. 1t is purely vegetable in its
effects in any condition Of the system. For
morning sickness, or nausea, from whatever
cause arising, weak stomach, Indigestion, dys-
pepsia and kindred symptoms, its USE in small
"FavOrite PfescriPti on >, is a posi-.
tive cure for the most complicated and OBJ
stinate cases OF leucorrhea, excessive flowing.
painful menstruaton, unnatural suppressions,
prolapels, or. falling OF the womb, weak back,
" "feInale weakness" anteversion, retroversion,
bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion,
Inflammation and liberation of the womb, in
dammation. pain and tenderness in oyaries.
accompanied with internal heat"
As regulator and promoter OF func.
nonal ',, acton at that critical period Of change
seription " is perfectly safe remedial agent,
and can produce only good results. 1t is
equally efficacious and valuable in its effects
when taken for those disorders and derange-
period. known as " The Change Of Life"
"FavOrite Prescription,ow - when taken
In CONNECTION with the use of DR.. Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxative
!iver Pills., cures Liver. Kidney and Bladder
diseasea. Their combined use also removes
blood taints, and abolishes cancerous and
Ea%orise s PscseripfioSy c III sys'en Is the onlv
medicine for women, sold by druggists under
2 positive guarantee, from the manu-
facturers that It will give satisfaction in every
tee has been printed on the bottle-wiapper,
Large bottles 200 doses) s1.OO, or six
:, For large, Illustrated Treatise on Diseases of
cents in stamps, Address,
Worlds Dispsnsay Medical Association,
883 Main ST., BUFFALO,, N. Y.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
Sylvia Dubois Dead.
THE NEGREss WHO LIVED ONE HUNDRED
AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.

A dispatch to the Philadelphia
Times says, Sylvia Dubois, the fsmous
negress of the Sour Land Mountain, in
New Jersey was one of the victims of
the blizzard. She died some time dur
ing the week in her cabin, probably
from the effects of the cold. She was
l22 years old beyond doubt. She was
born in the valley below Sour Land.
and was the slave of mau named
Dubois for years. Then she was sold
to a man who kept hotel at Great
Bend, Pa. There she became famed
for her feats of strength and for the
prize fight in which she engaged. She
bOasted that she was never beaten and
had knocked out scores of the strong
eat men. One day she got angry at
her mistress and nearly killed her, Sh
picked up her child and fled across the
Susquehanna and tramped all the way
to Sour Land Mountain, where she
lived the rest of her life. Her fond.
ness for fighting, for liquor and her
profanity soon made her notorious
All her children died but Elizabeth,
the youngest. She has remained witt
her mother and is 80 years old. Sh.
iDherits all her m 'ther's puglistic PROV
ess and has mam.d many men. OF
late years Sylvia and her daughte,
have existed by making semi annual
trips through the adjacent counties,
They got clothes, provisions and coal
enough to keep them in the meantime
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23

There was well to do Irishman' mp
on OLallon street, near Biddle market
in st. Louis, who found himself about
to pass away. His name was Malo
ney. He sent for his old friend,
O'Connor, to come and make his will.
Everything was in readiness and the
dying man said I:
"Put down $500 for masses up at
St. Laurence OToole's for the repose
of my soul. ."
The man scratched away, and then
Mr.. O'Connor said
"What mkt, Mr.. Malouey 2"
Put down $500 for the Little Sis
tiers of the Poor. Have ye that down,
Mr.. OConnor
81 have, Mr.. Maloney? 2"
"Put down $3.50 for St. Louis Or
phan asylum"
"What mkt, Mr.. Maloney =
"Put down $1,000 for me brother
Pat. He don't made it, but it's all the
same. can't carry it wild me-"
"Wbat mkt, Mr. Maloney 7"
So the work went on solemnly and
slowly, the dying man bringing himself
up with an effort to the task, and Mr..
O'Connor stopping now and then to
draw his finger across his nose and
sniff sympathetically. Finally the
dying man said family:
81 think that's all / have to will"
O'Connor footed up the items,
looked at the balance in the little bank
book, and said
"No, Mr.. Maloney, there's ten dol
lars yit.'
The dying man lay absorbed in
thought for few moments. and then
said
"O'Connor put down that ten dol
lars to spend with the byes at me
funeral"
O'Connor began to write then he
stopped, looked toward the bed with
puzzled expression, and asked soft
ly:
"Mr. Maloney, shall / put it down
to spind going to the funeral or COM
in back 7"
The dying man lay very quiet for a
few moments. as he studied the prob
lem, and then with an effort replied :
"OCornor, put down $40 TO spend
goin TO the funeral, for then III be
wid ye."-lS. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23


Every steamer which enters or leaves
New York should be provided with the
necessary ice boxes and other accommo-
dations for keeping the remains of passen-
gers who die en- route, and the latter
should be conveyed to port and deliN cred
to those who have the right to dispose of
them. Even if the passenger dies ON the
first day out, his remains should be kept.
The running time of the majority Of
steamers plying between New York and
England or France, is seven or eight days.
Some of the German lines require from
from twelve to fifteen days, but their oh
legations to land their passengers dead or
alive, are just as great as thoseof the conf
panies which make quicker time.
/ could cite number of narrowing
cases, which show the inhtmanity of the
custom of burial at sea, but every reader
can form a notion of how he would feel
If informed that his mother, brother or
sister, whom he awaited on the pier, had
died on the vessel and had been wrapped
in n winding sheet and dropped into the
engulfng waters. Coupled with the hor-
ror of such news is the aggravated con-
soieusness that the captain and his officers
have overstepped the bounds of duty in
thus disposing. of the remains OF one
whom the bereft person would rather see
dead than not at all. There is an in
tensely gloomy sentiment in the fact that
our friends-those whom we most love
and cherish--are filling nameless graves.
And it is beyond reconciliation to think
of them anchored to the bottom of the
deep, the bait of marine scavengers.-
Leon Mead in The Epoch.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
sunday In the French Can,ta,.

All Paris works on Sunday; the shops
are open and much of the city work goes
on MS usual, The city has $50 wagons
and 1000 horses collecting the garbage.
So that by 8 O'Clock in the morning the
whole oity is clean. The wagons have
immense revolving brushes fastened to
them, and men, and even women, wash
the streets with quantities of clear water.
You can cross a street the year round
without soiling your shoes.
| think You have TO be out In the streets
OF Paris at all hours TO really know it.
The women among the working classes
wear such picturesque caps, run after
every woman see and fix her cap with
my eye, and then hasten home and try to
make one like it--but they are always so
stiffiy starched cannot succeed in giving
mine just the right air, Iwish I GOULD
buy every cap see. ee.--Elizabeth Sourse In
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
Nasal Voices, oatarrh and False Teeth"
A prominent English woman says
the American women all have high,
sbril1. nasal voicea md false teeth

A prominent English woman says
the American women all have high,
shrill, nasal voices and false teeth.
Americans don't like the constant
twitting they get about this nasal
twang, and yet it is q fact caused by
our dry stimulating atmosphere, and
the universal presence of catarrhal
difficulties.
But why should 50 many of our wo
men have false teeth
That is more of poser to the Eng
lish. It is quite impossible to account
for it except on the theory of deranged
stomach action caused by imprudeDce
in eating and by want of regular exer-
else.
Both conditions are unnatural.
Catarrhal troubles everywhere pre-
vail and end in cough and consump-
ton, which are promoted by mal-nutri.
ton induced by deranged stomach
action. The condition is modern
one, one unknown to our ancestors
who prevented the catarrh, cold, cough
ahd consumption by abundant and
regular use of what is now known as
Warmers Log Cabin Cough and Con-
sumption Remedy and Log Cabin Sar.
saparilla, two old fashioned standard
remedies handed down from our ances-
tors, and now exclusively put forth un
der the strongest guarantees Of purity
and efficacy by the world-famed max
ers Of Warmers safe cure. These two
remedies plentifully used as the spring
and summer seasons advance give a
positive assurance of freedom, both
from catarrh and those dreadful and ii
neglected, inevitable consequences,
pneumonia, lung troubles and consump-
ton, which so generally and fatally
prevail among our people.
Comrade Eli Fisher, of Salem, Henry
Co., iowa, served four years in the late
war and contracted a disease called
consumption by the doctors. He had
frequent hemorrhages. After usipg
Warmers Log Cabin Cough and Con-
sumption remedy, he says, under date
of Jan 10Th, 1883: 81 do not bleed
at the lungs any more, my cough does
not bother me, and do not have any
more smothering SPELLS Warmers
Log Cabin Rose Cream cured his wife
of catarrh and she is ''souud and well.
Of course we do not like to have our
women called nose takers and false
teeth owners, but these conditions can
be readily overcome in the manner in
dioated.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
Actres.ss or the stasa.

on the stage actresses may bs roughly
divided into two classes, one composed Of
those who Try to carry It's glamor into
their daily lives, who never allow any one
unless II is their maid 70 see them until
they are f'made up, 4" and 10 further help
art assist nature receive their visitors IN a
darkened drawing room or In boudoir
They fiatter themselves that In this way
they preserve their reputation for beauty,
brayely ignoring the fact that what pleases
the eye in the perspective shocks It in
proximity. The other class delight in
showing their utter disregard for personal
appearance, and revel In freedom from
wigs and whitewash.-New York Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23

Ponds Extract is used and recon-
mended by leading physicians in both
Europe and America. We may add
also that Ponds Extract was the only
proprietary medicine accepted by the
French Medical College (appointed to
examine applications) and received ad-
mittance to the Exposition at Paris. Ii
is invaluable tor Inflammation, Hem
ovhages and all kinds of pain.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
A Watohman's Extraord mary Adventure

A singular, and at the same time
serio- comic, accident happened TO
Paris watehman named Parnot on Sun
day night. Parnot was employed near
the Camps-d-- Mars to look after some
buildings which were in course of con
struction, and in order to keep himself
walm during the night he put som
planks over cauldron of boiling bitu
men, and, covering himself careful up,
went to sleep on them. During the
night the planks gave way by degrees.
aud the man slid gently into the btu
men. Under normal conditions he
ought to have been boiled, but the biz
umen was just beginning to feel the
effects OF the frost, and 30 the watch
man was saved from horrible death,
Unluckily however, the bitumen before
thoroughly freezing bad adhered to
Parnot's clothes and flesh, and about
o'clock in the morning he was awak-
ened by cold which seemed to have
entered the marrow of bis bones. On
endeavoring to get up he found him
self glued to bed Of adamant, and
shouted energetically for help. His
cries attracted some matutinal maraud-
ers who were prowling around the
locality for plunder, and thee
worthless instead of helping the unfor
tunate man out of his bituminous bed
eased him of his watch, purse con
tanning a small sum of money, and biz
knife, after which they INDUCED in un
reasonable .chaf as to bis inability L
''rise with the lark" and finally lef
him to his fate. Parnot was nearl,
frozen TO death when the workmeI
arrived and extricated him from hi
perilous position. He had to be ad
mitted to the hospital as an urgen
case, for not only were his feet frozeI
but he had seriously injured himself il
his energetic but Intellectual endeavor
TO rise.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
How a Locomotlve wrsers I,.e,,.

OF all the accidents most feared by rail-
road engineers, and one of frequent oc-
currence, is that Of the breaking OF q driv-
ing rod while the engine is running at a
high rate of speed. How 1t can occur, as
Il often does, and those in the cab escape
with their lives IL always considered
miracle. The minute the heavy bar, OF
rod, as it is commonly called, breaks, or
the crank pin which fastens the END to the
driving wheel gives way, the massive
battering aud smashing everything that II
comes In contact with. Old engineers can
relate some very interesting experiences OF
this hisd.--Albaay Exprs6s.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
Happier Days.

The father of a family becoming an
noy,d at the fault-fnding of his chill
dren over their food, exclaimed in a
rage one day at dinner "You chill
dren are iutolerable Won turn up you
noses at every thing. When | was a
boy l was often glad enough to gei
dry bread to eat" "Poor papa" said
Rose, the pet of the family, II am SO
glad you are having such nice time
now living with mama and u.s."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
Consumption Surely Cured.

To THE EpITom- Please inform
your readers that | have a positiv.
remedv for the above named disease
By its timely use thousands of hopeless
cases have been permanently cured. !
shall be glad 10 send two bottles OF
my remedy free TO any of your reader
who have consumption, if they will
send me their express an1 post Jtfic
address. Respectfully, 7, A. SIocum
NJ. c., lSl Pearl St., N. Y (25nov6m
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
That Tired Feeling

Afflicts nearly every one in the spring,
The system having become accustomed
to the brscing air of winter, is weak
ened by the warm days of the chang
ing season, aud readily yields to at
tacks of disease. Hoods Sarsaparilla
is Just the medicine needed. 1t tones
and builds up every part of the body,
and also expels all impurities from the
blood. Try il this season.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
An Unpropitious Moment

Book Agent Ito little boy)-Sonuy,
is your ma in (?
Little Boy--Yes, she's in but l
guess you don't want to talk litera-
chure to her now.
Book Agent-Why not9
Little Boy--Cause dinners been
ready halt an hour and pa amt got
home yit.
Hasty departure CT agent.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23

LosT.--"I don't know where, cant
tell when, ] don't see how-sonething
of great value to me, and for the re-
turn of which | shall be truely thank
fol. viz good appetite
FOUND "IIeallh and strength, purt
blood, an appetite like that of a wolf,
regular digestion, all by taking that
popular and peculiar medicine, Hoods
Sarsapalilla. ] want every body to Try
il this seascB.' IL is sold by all drug
gists. One hnndTed dcses one dollar
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23

'What do you want?' he inquired
of the man who held the subscription
book, "One dollar "And what fort
"To Bury policeman" The sport
fshed out SIS bill and handed 1t Il
the man. BURY fve,' he said.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
STATIONS.

Connections at Rupert with Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad for Tamanend, Tamaqua, WILL
Transport, sunbury. Pottsville, ltc. AT Northum-
berand with r. & K. Div. +. II. X. for Harrisburg,
Lock Haven, Emporium, Warren, CORY and Erie.
". F. HALSTEAD, Gen. Man.,
Scranton, Pa
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-23
Hospitable to the End.

A DYING FRESHMAN WHO COULD NOT FOR.
GET THE BOYS.
, 1888-04-17

The Burman is n rather peculiar feeder,
not being very nice in his selection or
preparation of food. He is not, however,
so varied n caterer, nor does he take in
such Il large selection, as his near relation
the Chinaman. The Burman draws the
line at rats and mice, which delicacies
form no portion of his daily fare. He is
forbidden by his religion to shed the blood
of any animal for food purposes alone,
although he may and does catch fish, and
eats them. His conscience finds n salve
in the fact that after the fish are caught
they are left to die; he will not bleed
them, although he may often give them a
sly knock on the head to accelerate their
decease. He may keep cattle, hogs,
chickens, ETC., and, being of a kind aud
humane disposition, he feeds them well,
keeping them in good condition, but he
does not do so to replenish his larder. He
uses the milk Of the cows, often of the
tame long horned buffalo or of goats, for
his family or for sale; he will also eat the
eggs of fowls.-San Francisco Chronicle.
, 1888-04-17

"Would you rather have my card ormy
photograph"
Two young men who had been discuss
ing a bottle of wine in an uptown picture
gallery were preparing to part.
"Your card will do; l don't a to put
you to so much trouble
"No trouble at all. If YOU like I'll put
my portrait OF the back of the card.n
He thereupon drew from his pocket n
small rubber stamp and imprinted on the
back OF his card n very creditable likeness
of himself.
An inquisitive reporter, who overheard
the dialogue, took pains the next day to
learn to what extent the fad had gone.
He found that there are several concerns
in the city where portrait stamps are
made, similar in style TO the rubber
stamps, containing ones name and ap-
pended to it a pocket lead pencil. These
stamps cost from SO to So each, and are
from one to three inches square. All the
stamp makers require is n tintype por-
trait of the customer and n money order.
The stamps wear well and are much af-
fected by young clerks and East side bust
ness men.-New York Mail and Express.
, 1888-04-17

A small man, with n gray mustache, n
SLOUGH hat over his blue eyes, and q walk
no longer as clipper rs it once was, is
recognized by few people here when he
makes his occasional visits from Wash.
ington. He is Gen. Pleasonton, whom
many think one of the greatest cavalry
commanders of the war, and who I'M
doubtedly fought and won, perhaps, the
greatest cavalry engagement of the con-
test between the states. 1t was at Brandy
Station, where eighty regiments of horse
men commended on one field with no in
fantry or artillery nearer than ten miles
away. Sometimes the battle flags of the
c~ontending generals were not further sep
arated than the two sides of Broadway.
Pleasonton, Fitzpatrick and Custer were
in n single group. Detecting a crucial
point in the opposing line, Pleasonton
cried: "Custer, go right in therel' Gus
ter's mounted band at once struck up
''The Star Spangled Banner" " and in ten
minutes he had carried the position. Gus
ter and Fitzpatrick are dead. Pleasonton,
barely 80 years of age, seems to be out of
gear with the world.-Cor. New York
World.
, 1888-04-17

The most intensely fascinating and by
far the most dangerous way of hunting
the Bengal tigers is the way most of the
natives do it. They collect in throngs of
hundreds and go to the woods, with half
bred bull and terrier dogs, rifles of 40
caliber and innumerable spears, and drive
the tigers out of their jungles. The vicious
dogs go in and hound them and snarl and
howl threateningly. The tigers are grad
ually driven from point to point by the
bowling dogs and shrieking natives, and
are finally worked into n gigantic and
strong netting nine or ten feet high and
with interstices seven or eight inches
square. Then the chetties, as these queer
natives are called, range themselves along
the sides, and when the tigers 1unge at
them they are met at every point by
cleaning spears. Such bowling and
snarling, combined with the shouts of the
natives, sounds like the wailiug of the
damned. The native women are on band,
too, and lend their aid. and when the
government officers join in the European
ladies are perched conveniently in trees,
to lend n bit of life TO the scenc.-San
Francisco Examiner.
, 1888-04-17

THE Philadelphia Press has just won a
libel suit of nearly five years duration,
in which an important principle was in
volved. A mar by the name of Stewart
opened in Philadelphia what professed
to be a school for the instruction of
clerks, statesmen and reporters, claiming
to be a teacher of short hand and type
writing. The city editor of the Press
detailed a reporter to visit the school
and ascertain its character. The next
day an interview with Stewart was pub
lished, and on this he brought suit,
claiming 1t was libel because it ex-
posed him to ridicule and was calcu-
lated to iniure him in his business as
teacher. The defense was that the pub
lished matter was a just and true ac-
count of the interview. The case finally
reached the supreme court Of the state,
where Judgment was rendered for the de
PENDANT. The court held hat as the
plaintiff had held himself out to the
world as a teacher and guide of youth and
was SeeklnR 10 atlTdCl Iueu 10 MS place,
this action, gave him a quasi public
character, and it was in the strict line of
the duty of the Press to seek the informa-
ton it obtained and give it to the public.
If that information tended to show that
the plaintiff was a charlatan and
his system an imposture, the more
need that the public, and especially
parents and guardians, should be
informed oft 1t was virtually declared
by this decision hat it is the right of a
newspaper in Pennsylvania to expose any
one who, assuming a quasi public char
acter, it believes to b.. intending to deceive
and impose upon the public, the motive
of tuch exposure being wholly to protect
the public. There can be no question as
to the soundness of this position, and if
generally accepted would be beneficial in
charging the scope of newspaper investi
cation.
, 1888-04-17
JNO. r. CARROLL. Editor.

MATTHEW ARNOLD, the English critic
n essaylst, died suddenly IN England
yesterday.
MIR. Arnold, who was born IN lS22'
came oil a race OF scholars He has long
held a conspicuous place IN the world oil
letters though his poetry which Is char,
acterized by chasteness OF thought and
purity oil language Is suited 10 the critical
rather than the popular taste. On MS
recent visit TO TINS country he 1aiieq 70
receive the distinguished attention which
he had reason TO expect ana nc ieit the
country with his views oil our institutions
rauicailS changeu. a RECENT humoer Vi
the 4N'Heeeeam century contained an ar,
ticle on America IRON the pen OF Arnold
"hloh received s7'ere anu "luesprcau