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You can buy full lines of lace curtains.
scrims, Persian tapestry, table lipens, tow.
els, napkins, &c, at Clark g. Sons.
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We are indebted to Hon. Z. r. Bucka-
lew for . copy Of the Congressional Direc.
tory, and other documents.
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Several parties from town attended the
performances of Louise Pomeroy at the
Danville Opera House last week.
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The peculiar purifying and building up
powers of Hoods sarsaparills make it the
very best medicine to take at this seaspn.
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l. W. Hartman g. Sons have turned thslr
whole attention to Spring Goods. 6ss
their Toe Kid Gloves. Any pair perfect
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Sleighing parties are numbered with the
things that were.
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QUEEN vIcToRIA's CROWN.

oUkkN VlCTORIAS CROWN.
The crown of Queen Victoria consists OF
diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires aud
emeralds, set in silver and gold. It's gross
weight is 80 OF. 5 dwt troy. The number
OF diamonds are $3.50; pearls, 273;
rubies, 8; sapphires, II; emeralds, IL. II
is an old saying Uneasy lies the head that
wears crown. 1t is better to wear the
crown OF perfect health aud peace OF
mind through the curative effects OF Per
rlne's Pure Barley Malt Whiskey. For
sale by G. B. Robbins, Bloomsbury Pa.
THE POPULATION OF BLOOMSBURY
is about 5000, and we would say at least
one-halt are troubled with some affection
OF the throat aud lungs as those complaints
are, according 10 statistics. more numerous
than others. We would advise all not 10
neglect the opportunity TO call on their
druggist and get bottle OF Kemps Bal
sam for the throat and lungs. Price SOC.
and Vi. Trial size free. Sold BY all drag
gists.
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Fun lines of sstines and other wash
dress goods at Clark & Sons.
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Full lines OF Hamburg embroideries,
laces, white goods, &c, at Clark & Sons.
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J. W, Eyer has succeeded his father at
his store on south Main street, having TAX
en- possession March 1st
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RAGLANS AND ULSTERS.

1t is no easy thing to give
you even an idea of the variety
Of Raglans and listers we have
gathered. You should see
them to sense their worth.
Styles you will find nowhere
else. Our special patterns in
Plaids and Checks and Stripes
were made by one of the larg-
est cloth manufacturers in the
world. There are Raglans and
listers for driving, for travelling,
for WALKING. for shonnino.
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Have you seen the ribbon bargains at
Clark & Sons in moirc, grograin and satin.
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Mr.. o. 7. Wilson is building a .verands
at the sidc Of his residence on Main street
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JOHN WANAMAKER.
LOCAL NOTICES.

You will find full lines OF all wool Hen.
rietta cloth In black and colors at II. J.
Clark & Sons.
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1t will not be long until the base ball
season opens.
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Phillips Domestic Bakery will be re
moved to their own rooms on Mopdav.
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The setting hen will soon give notice
that she Is ready for business.
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The Spring Dishes are arriving overy day
at l. w. Hartman g. Sons.
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Children Cry for Pitchers Castsris.

When Baby vAs sick, We gsvs her Cassoria.
When she was Child, abe cried for css.ostA,
When 'he became Mis., she cluns 70 osAsA.
When she had childrsn. sAsEsvs then o.aersa.
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CARDS.
Mr.. A. Wise.

Persons calling for these letters will
please say advertised"
GRoRaR A. CLARK, p. M.
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Young married people will find |. ".
Hartman Il Sons the place to buy Dishes.
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Easter cards are making their appear.
ance
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People are beginning to get ready to
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The ground hog seems to have been
about right
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List OF letters remaining IN P. O., at Ben
ton for month ending Feb. 90, 1888.
]. W. Roberts, A. y. Lsrish Esq, Mrs.
Rose G. Lunger, Miss Myrs Ewes, Lawson
Lewis, Mr. francesca Palazzo, Mr.. Stasik
Andrew, George Msjerszki, Fornosz
Skeris, Mr.. Anton Roolinoilis.
CARDS.
Z. G. Moore.
Persons calling for these letters will
please say advertised"
ELLA z. APPLRHAN, p. NJ.
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Don'tfsil u. hear the lecture by Mrs. Nc.
Laugnln at Opera House Monday night.
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Peaks Of dress goods and
valleys of prices, The store is
aglow with color beyond COM
pare. Some Of the prettiest
fabrics, like headstrong beau
ties, take their own time for
coming out. Tripping and
trooPing in day by day.
The American Challis are no,
quite so wide as the French
(aa inches), and there's a bit Of
cotton in them-in the chain
but you would never suspect
it from tho looks. Beautiful
designs on cream grounds
Billowy and bright as theil
neighbors from Paris, and onl,
2oc a yard. They are to the
all-wool originals very much a:
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Easter day three weeks from mex, Bun.
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BLOOMSBURY.

BLOOM SBUKG.
Fine Cabinet portraits only
S.. doz. Life size Crayons only
$1,000. Viewing, copying and
charging. Instant process
used. r.
See our new dress goods and cloths,
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HEADQUARTERS CAPT. GEORGE STowK PosT
No 274, DEPT Pa. G. A. II.

No. 274, DEPT Pa. G. A. X.
TIoNEsTA, Nov. 14th 1887.
This certifes that MIR. J. F. Hicks gave
an entertainment here Saturday, Nov. 18th,
"Views OF the War" His apparatus is
first class and the views are from photo.
graphs on the spot. II Is no catch penny
concern and the public here were pleased
with it. The entertainment at the Court
House here, benefit Of Stowe Post was well
attended and the exhibition gave good sat-
isfaction. Comrade Hicks was there him.
self and is fluent and ready speaker Il
adds much to the entertainment.
SAMUEL d. IRVINE,
State Adjt., Stowe Post G. A. r.
Opera House. Bloomsburg. Friday,
March 9th.
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CHILDREN's DRESSES.

More pretty and simple de-
signs for Children's Dresses
than we ever saw in our lot
before. All are original in de-
sign, new and suitable for
ehllaren. They are not wo-
mems dresses cut down.
Prices commence as near to
nothing as may be-say 81,
then So, 81, and up to SIS.
Children's Jackets and Coats.
Everything you are likely to
ask for, and a full line of sizes.
We are especially strong in
novelties. Fully one hundred
distinct styles in domestic
goods. The pick Of the best
manufacturers output, Flan-
nels, Wide Vale Diagonals,
odd effects in various fabrics.
Prices almost as you please,
So, $3.50, 81, and up to $50.
Boys kits and overcoats.
Whatever your thought turns
to. Twenty styles of Blouse
Suits-Piques, Linens, Ducks
Flannels, etc. AS low as 81. 50
as high as So.
Fifty kinds of One-piece
kits, and 100 kinds Of Two,
piece Kits; many entirely new
styles and shapes.
Boys Spring Kilt Overcoats
80 styles. $3.50 to SIS,
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coRRAcT RAILRoAD TIaR TABLE,

Trains on the p. X K. X leave Rupert As
follows:
NORTH. SOUTH.
1891 a. m. 1l:00 q. m.
1887 p. m. 6:04 p. m.
Trains on the d. L. & W. r. r. leave Bioomsburp
as follows:
NORTH. SOUTH.
7:l2 q. m. 6:32 q. m.
11:0l q. m 1905 p m.
224 p. m. 4:1S p. m.
6:36 p. m. 9:47 p. m.
O.
Trains on the N. q W. b. Railway pass Bloom
Ferry as follows t-Elt
NORTH. SOUTH.
1O:46 a. m. l1:49 a. m.
e26 p. m. 439 p. N.
NORTH. So. %. a.s SOUTH.
1915 am $3.50 pm
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Only the briefest mention
of the thousand and one new
and beautiful things in our
Women's and Children S
Dresses and Wraps.
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Linen Lawns. The cool,
sheer, neat stuffs that were SO
liked by the ladies' lang syne.
Still liked. Try as they might
spinners' and weavers' wit has
not been able to turn out a
better fabric of that sort, all
things considered.
Last year only white grounds:
now half a dozen colors as
well. On all Of them the cute,
sateeny fgures-sprays, leaves,
buds, dots, dashes, and odd
shapes.
White grounds with colored
hgures-blue, red, black, vio-
let--22, 80, and 35c. \ ~
Green, blue, and pink
grounds, white figures, 4oc.
Black grounds, white figures
- and 4oc.
All "a inches. Plain white,
"a to "a inches, rs to Csc.
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WANAMAKER s.

Peerless Sateens (iaHc) are
to the best French Sateens
(37Hc.)
With Challis at 2oc and
Sateens at IaHc that you must
be wise and look at twice to
know they are not Of the blood
royal therell be no lack Of
buyers.
Best Challis, soft and foamy,
finest wool, perfect weaving,
precise printing, 80 inches
wide, SO and 6oc. 4p4H
"Heroine" Plaids. Strong
minded Not a bit. But fun
of solid, substantial goodness.
Big squares and little penncd
in with broad and narrow clus-
ter stripes. Mainly in modest,
quiet shades. IS styles. 40 in..
75c.
The 50 inch Black Serge
Foules are now 65 and 7sc.
You've paid much more fos
them.
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See our new dress goods and cloths.
Clark & Son.
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4. c. Bundy, practical auctioneer; over
20 years experience, in crying farm prop
erty. Store goods and hotel furniture a
specially Postoffice address, bloomsbury,
residence on Little Fishingcreek, at slate
quarry. feb SOW.
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Opera House. Bloc
March 9th.
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THR COLUMBIAN AND DEMOCRAT, BIOOMSBURG OOLUMBIl

Easter day three weeks from next Bun.
day.
People are beginning to get ready TO
move.
Easter cards are making their appear.
ance.
The setting hen will soon give notice
that she Is ready for business.
Phillips Domestic Bakery will be re-
moved to their own rooms on Monday.
The ground hog seems to have been
about right.
1t will not be long until the base ball
season opens.
Sleighing parties are numbered with the
things that were.
Mr.. o. T. Wilson is building q .verands
at the sidc OF his residence on Main street
Don'tfsil 70. hear the lecture by Mrs. Nc.
Laugnlfn at Opera House Monday night.
~
We are indehtpd IN Hon ~ u p,oLn
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[For THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
A RAILROAD COMMISSION A
t.'-s u NECESSITY. &. ~f

EDITOR FARMER:-In our former ar.
ticles we have shown that the indus.
tries OF the country are unduly taxed
by the excessive transportation rates
OF the railroad companies; and that
this as accomplished through the
agency of a trust or combination
known as the "Associated Railways"
whereby they mutually agree to place
their entire traffic under the control of
a single manager with uniform freight,
and passenger rates, and thus destroy
all competition. Morally this is rob
berry, legally it is unlawful. It has
been ruled "that competition is the
life of trade is not the language of the
street alone, it is a proverb in law.
that all contracts in restraint of trade.
where the operation thereof is general,
are void for the reason that their en-.
forcement would be injurious to the
public good. It follows that whatever
destroys, or relaxes competition in
trade is injurious or fatal to it * :
The law favors trade and it's first aim
is TO promote the public interest;
also, the true inquiry is, is it
the natural tendency of such a con-
tract to injuriously affect the public
interests p The rule is that agree
ments which in their necessary opera
ton upon the action of the parties to
them, tend to restrain their rivalry
and competition, and thus result in
disadvantage to the public, are against
the principles of sound public policy,
and are void" Also, "that it is no
answer that competition was not, in
fact, destroyed, or, that prices were not
u~nreasonably advanced. Courts will
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no human being in sight but those
who were employed in laying the
thread like track behind the engineers
who first penetrated into the vast
silent wilderness. Now that State of
Minnesota has a larger population
than North Carolina, and has grown
from 5000 only in 1850 up to nearly
a million and a half at the present.
Let us stop q moment here and com
pare the agricultural products of these
two States, as an example of the mu-
tual relation Of agriculture and rail
roads.
The agricultural products of the
two States in 1886 were as follows:
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GIVE THE HEN A CHANCE.

The barn is no place for a hen. She
has no more right there than have the
hogs in the hen house. She will pick
up a part of her living, it is true, by
having the run of stock barns, but the
i%ncongruity of the practice as con
trasted with neatness, and tidy, whole
some husbandry, is enough to make
the Ole shivers run down the spine
OF the neat farmer. The truism, "a
place for everything and everything
in its place." car have no more "pat"
Illustration than when applied to the
ubiquitous hen. She is all right when
kept in her place, but all wrong out
OF her place. But in her place, she is
finally only right with sufficient terri
tory. BY the generosity of her owner
is measured the degree of her useful
nes and the good of her existence.
Unless the farmer is willing to prac-
tice large generosity in the way of
small things, he had better not NEEDLE
with fowls, for any other curse will
only end in perplexity and vexation
of spirit. 81. - iaz4s51
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POINTS OF INTEREST FROM
THE WHITEViLLE SECTION
WHITEv1LLE, N. O., Aug. 8, 'SS.

WHITEv1LLE, N. O., Aug. 8, 'SS.
Col. l.. l.. PoLK.-Dear SRI
have $45 in notes on hand for Bust
less Agency, and l think l will get
$50 or SIS more. Our Alliance is the
youngest in the county. 1 am glad to
see the ladies, writing through the
esteemed columns of your paper. Katie
Moore (be she Miss or Madame) is
certainly deserving of praise for her
(wo)manly u~tterances. Many others
have written, and l am glad to see it.
l wish to endorse what has been said
in favor of the "no-fence law" lind
that Ihave better cattle by fencing
them in than by fencing them out. In
regard to your remarks on "You are
going into politics." it is the same
here as elsewhere, and all of the ineli
gible classes are kicking because an
effort is being made to unite the ALI
ance in Columbus county for Alliance
men for County and State Offices.
They say we are not capable of making
laws to govern ourselves. AS a legal
arm OF this town, who is~a candidate
for State Senator said, Il am by the
farmer like the negro preacher was by
the devil. While we've got him down
lets keep him down, for fear we might
not be able to get him down
when we want him down. It is
needless to say that he will not get
there" One thing more and I'll close.
L want to raise my voice in favor of
the barb wire fence. 1t is the cheap
est and most durable fence on earth.
1t does not rust, and the barbs get
sharper with age; costs little more
than rails; never gets down; can't be
burned, nor climbed over. Mine cost
an average of 4 cents per yard (for
everything to put up. r. W. hope and
believe the Business Agency will be a
great thing, and I predict not less than
$500, o08. 90 can be raised easily. Keep
on sticking it to trusts, pools, combina-
tions, railroads and all other forms of
public ~rascality.
Fraternally,
Ell. Cook, Sec'y.
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the six New England States is valued
per tax assessment for 1920, 600, 900
than that of the whole thirteen
Southern States; fourteen Western
States show a value of nearly three
times as much as the thirteen South
ern States; while the single State of
Ohio has two-thirds the valuation of
all the thirteen Southern States; and
Ohio and Illinois together surpass all
these in the value of their real estate.
The n State Of Maine, a rocky,
swampy, cold, icy, locality, covered
several months in the year with three
to five feet of snow, has a value for
assessment of it's real estate of Sl73,-
856,242 against $l0l, 7O9,326 for
North Carolina; while that magnificent
agricultural State, Kentucky, is valued
only one-ffth more than Connecticut,
of which it is said, with at least a
semblance of truth, that it's pastures
are so stony that the Sleeps noses
have to be ground to a point to enable
the animals to get at the grass.
: Let us now compare, the value of
the farm products. Here is the aver
age product of corn per acre in the
Southern States and the New Eng
land States, and the money value Of
it for, 1886:
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For THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
PRESIDENT ALEXANDER'S AD-
DRESS.

The address of Capt. Alexander
will no doubt be read with the very
greatest interest by all classes of our
people, whether Alliance men, me-
chanics, merchants. manufacturers or
professional men. 1t deserves to be
read, studied and digested by all
classes, because it has no uncertain
sound, and is, upon the whole, the
clearest, most unprejudiced and bust
ness-like presentation of III condition
and it's causes that this writer has
seen. The politicians of our day, as a
rule, don't seer to grasp the wants or
needs of the people, but their sole am
bition seems to be to get Office by ap-
pealing to the prejudices and ignor-
ance of the people. This has been the
only politics of the Republicans in
North Carolina, and they have been
met too often TO our shame let it be
sadly by u Democratic leaders with
the same methods Of -electioneering,
&c. Let these methods be abandoned
and let our politicians study the .prac-
tical wants and needs of the people, as
they are presented in Capt. Ale1an-
der's address, in which, as has been
said, the condition of the country is
clearly. set forth. The remedies as sug-
gested may or may not be the best
that can be found, but it is certain
that no relief will be found until the
people are educated on these matters.
The tariff question is now being very
generally discussed and consequently
more generally understood by the
people. Let them also consider the
great danger that threatens them
from railroad combinations, trusts and
combines and the banking system.
The Alliance is taking hold of these
matters in a very business-like way,
striving to reach the root of the evil.
They seem to realize the folly of try
ing to get to the heart of the evil by
the pruning process. They see and
know that that can never be done, for
as one evil springs up and is pruned
of, two more takes it's place; so that
the doctrine MI. Alexander seems to
be trying to teach is the Importance
of going to the very root of the evil,
and it must be apparent to- every
reader of his address that he has tried
to present these matters with fairness
to all and malice to none. Whatever
benefits the farmer, benefits all classes.
There is, or should be-. no conflict be
tween the farmer and the merchant.
The merchant who is trying to do an
honest, legitimate business cannot
long succeed while he has for his Gus
toners a community of farmers, bur-
dened and overtaxed by the iniquitous
tariff, the huge trust combines that
can raise the price of jute bagging
five cents per yard or almost SO per
cent. in 80 days, sugar trust, &c.
Therefore this writer, though a
merchant, believes that the Alliance,
with such leaders as Capt. Alexander,
is destined to become q great power
in North Carolina productive of much
good, which will not simply be con
fined to the farmer, but to all classes
OF industries, MERCHANT.
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-tk $751; Hh.. ~
The Robeline, (La.) Reporter thus
refers to a much needed species of
legislation, and such q law would be a
good thing in other States:
Hon. Joseph Henry has introduced
a bill In the Legislature, making it
equivalent to getting goods under false
pretenses for a man to hire to another
to make a crop, either by the month
or for part of the crop, and then get
money or goods on the faith of such
employment, and leave before his time
was up without paying for such goods
or money. The bill also makes it a
crime, for the third party to hire any
one SO engaged before they have set
tied with first employer.
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Agriculture is necessarily the fun
damental industry of mankind. 1t
provides food and clothing, without
which human existence would be i'm
possible. BY the first it supports life
and enables men to engage in the
various industries which supply the
secondary wants of mankind; the
provision of suitable clothing, shelter
from the weather, and all these various
arts which appertain to civilized life.
1t is the parent Of manufacturing IN
dustries. At the first, when mankind
were divided into two classes of agri:
culturlsts, viz: tillers of the soil and
shepherds, there were the rudimentary
industries of wool spinners and weav-
ers, and the manufacture of clothing,
typiied by the aprons of fig leaves;
an art which has grown during thou
sands of years of evolution of artistic
skill, into the magnificent industry,
which is based upon the chief staple
of Southern agriculture. Without
an advanced agriculture, in which
the mechanic and the chemist com
to the help of the farmer, manufac-
lures. and commerce would remain in
their ancient rude state, and the farm
ers' dwelling itself would be-as some
OF US here present may we'll remember
1t once was-itself the seat of the
most necessary manufacturing arts.
But the progress of agriculture gen
crates a vast progeny of mechanical
and scientific arts, the growth of which
at the present is exemplifed in the
vast network of railroads which cover
the face of our broad land; the great
ships which burrows the ocean; the
mines, foundries, mills, factories and
other great industrial establishments
which not only make market for our
products, but which fix their value.
Agriculture is the parent of our great
railroad system. The railroads are built
primarily to carry the farmers pro-
ducts to market. There have been
cases in which railroads have pene-
trated into the silent uninhabited
wastes of the West, where no present
purpose existed for them. But they
were made for the service of agricul-
ture which waited upon them for the
facilities of reaching these fertile lands,
and OF carrying away the vast loads of
produce which sprang as by magic
from these broad green prairies. /
well remember thirty years ago, when
assisting to locate the first railroad
which crossed the Mississippi to the
Missouri, working on the broad ex-
panse of treeless prairie upon which
the horizon rested all around us, with