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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-04-20
The Chinese Earthquake.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE KILLED AND

FIFTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE KILLED AND
IMMENSE LOSS OF PROPERTY.
An Oriental mail brings some par
ticulars Of the earthquake in China
Just before Christmas, which has been
cabled in skeleton. 1t proves to have
been of appalling magnitude. Fifteen
thousand people perished in the course
of four days, during which at uncertain
intervals shocks continued. This es-
innate is to some extent supposition
be cause it is scarcely possible, after so
tremendous a visitation, to ascertain
for awhile the exact loss of life. Ho~
many have been injured appears to
defy computation, yet the capital
district of Yunnan is absolutely one
mass of ruins. More than five thousand
persons were killed by the fall of houses
at Lam-or, another Chinese town. The
effect on buildings has been almost as
terrible, with the additional horror of
the earth yearning till frightful chasm
was produced, from which water, red
colored, was elected. The shaking o.
the earth seems to have been followed
by subterranean convulsion of the
most awful kind. Further north, at
Lo-C Chan, where ten thousand met their
doom, the aspect of the country has
Leen completely changed. Large tracts
of land suddenly disappeared in the
course of the visitation and in their
place lakes formed.
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The Lonely Man.

There are 1,4OO,OOO,OOO people liv-
ing on the planet which we inhabit.
And yet there is now and then man
who wonders what the rest of US will
do when be dies. There are other
people in society" who honestly think
that all the world closes its eyes when
they lie down to sleep. There are
men who fear to act according to their
own convictions, because perhaps ten
persons in crowd of 1,400,000,000
will laugh at them. Why, if man
could only realize every moment what
a bustling, busy, fussy, important little
atom he Is in all this great ant hill OF
important, fussy little atoms, every
day he would regard himself less, and
: think still less of the other molecules
in the corral Burdette.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-04-20
Luck Of a Striking Miner.



SHAMoKIN, Pa, April S.-James Bal
ley, of this city, has fallen heir to ST.
100000, left TO him by the death of his
uncle, William Constein Munson, of
Newport England. Bailey has wife
and seven children for to take care Of.
The past four months he has missed
many meal 20 appease the hunger Of
the little ones. He went on strike with
the rest of the Philadelphia and
Reading miners in January, and,
through misunderstanding, did not
secure his place when the strike wa
declared off. Failing to obtain work
at the colleries he was compelled +"
seek aid from the poor district. Yester
day morning he received letter from
an attorney in England informing hi'
of his lucky windfall Bailey reside.
in Newport twenty years ago and was
the deceased uncle's private secretary
Falling in love with comely wings
girl he was married 20 her despite hi
uncle's earnest protest an Il threats "
disinhertapce. After the marriar'
he and the bride bade sdieu to Engla
and sailed for the United Stat.
Arriving in this country and failin.
to secure work in the cities, Bale
came to the coal regions where he has
since resided. When Bailey was az
prised of his uucles legacy he simil,
remarked: "Well, this morning We had
bread and water for breakfast, and for
dinner we'll eat chicken for the first
time in many months" Next week
the ex.coal digger will sail for England
to take possession of his riches. H. is
an intelligent man, aged 3s years and
enjoys good health.
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Oounterfeiting Postal Notes.

The postal note has fallen a prey to
the counterfeiter. 1t was supposed,
when this note was designed, that it
could not be readily initiated. A young
man in the auditors Office in Washing
ton was the first to perpetrate q fraud
with the notes. He changed several
of those that had been Cancelled, and
had them cashed. He was discovered
and punished. Since this there have
been several counterfeits placed in cir
culation, and the manufacturers of
them have not been discovered by the
secret service officers. The govern.
ment is not responsible for the loss or
destruction of the postal note and if
any are lost, like postage stamps, there
is hardly any means of tracing them.
The postal note is quite popular mode
of transmitting money through the
mails, and there should be more safe
guards to prevent it from being coun-
terfeited. = Demorests Monthly TOR
ADriI.
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Spring Medicine.


The necessity of spring medicine is
universally admitted. And the super
iority OF Hoods Sarsaparilla for this
purpose becomes more and more vide
ly known every year. That power to
purify the blood, and those elements
of strength and health which the sys.
tenn Graves, and to which it is 80 sus-
ceptible at this season, are possessed
by this peculiar medicine in pre-
eminent degree. Scrofula. pimples,
boils, or any humor, biliousness, dys-
pepsia, sick headache, catsrrh, rheuma.
tism, or any diseases or affections caused
or promoted by impure blood or low
state of the system, are cured by
Hoods Sarsaparilla. Try the peculiar
medicine.
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Consumption Surely Cured.

To THE EDIroR:- Please inform
your readers that ! have a positive
remedy for the above named disease.
BY its timely use thousands of hopeless
pases have been permanently cured. !
shall be glad to send two bottles of
my remedy free to any of your readers
who have consumption, If they will
send me their express AMI postoffice
address. Respectfully, T. A. Slocum,
M, c., 1sl Pearl St., N. Y (25nov6m.
1t is impossible for anybody to write
a great deal snd not tread over the
ground somebody else has gone over
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Our New York Letter.
NEW YoRK, Thursday.


DEAR Nh. EDITOR:
The brightest and quaintest idea is
the one the new publication Dress is
advocating, "All ladies should wear
pantaloons." Do you agree with it 7
At any rate, your male readers should
know of the N. Y. Standard Pants Co.
of &C University Place, New York
City, who are making to order fine,
woolen pants for So, and send them to
customers by mail. They send to any
address on receipt of 6 cents IN stamps
25 samples of cloth to choose from.
full set OF measurement blanks, fine
linen so inch tape measure free and a
lot of other valuable points. They al
ways guarantee satisfaction or refund
the money. Tell every reader to try
them. All New York is wild over
these 80 pants. Everybody is wear
ing them.
Yours truly,
| Ro0apUFr
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mOnV.

mony.
Rev II NJ Pickens. President of the
Methodist Protestant Church Of South
Carolina, writes from Greenville:
about four years ago WINS attacked
with what the physicians pronounced
neuralgia rheumatism, accompanied with
erysipelas Ny appetite failed mo entirely.
and had an interInltting pulse and very
irregular pulsations of the heart A Ter.
rible pain soon came into my chest and
shoulders. and became so helpless that
could attend 10 no business at all The
pains were movable, aud would sometimes
pass from one part Of my body to another
Finally the etysipelas broke out on my lett
hand and arm. and produced much swell
ing. ] was Tor eighteen months afflicted
In this way. and Of course used great
many kinds Of medicines. but nothing gays
me relief Friends finally persuaded ns
to try Swift's Specific ! noticed decides
improvement while taking the first hottls
] continued its use until had taken about
ops dozen bottles. when ] found mysolf
sound and we'll again, with no sign Of dis
ease left except stiffness in my hand.
result OF the erysipeas While taking
the medicine gained on an average two
pounds OF tiesh per week ! think S \
. valuabls medicine, and | frequently
recommend It 10 my friends"
Write to the SWIFT SrKcIric CO,
Atlanta, Oa, for a Treatise ON Blood and
ekis Diseases, uailsd fss to anysns."
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A carpenter is an unreasonable fell |
low. lie objects to plain board, and
yet he don't like board until it has
been planed.
There is native light in every man,
discovering to HIM the first lines Of
duty IN his common notions of good
and. evil.
The only drawback to the absolute
perfection of boys first watch s that
1t doesn't need winding up every fifteen
minutes.
The latest monopoly is the estate
Pencil Trust" Pretty soon our Trust
in God will be Incorporated and held
at fancy prices.
Show are collections to-day?" asked
man of big collector. "Slow, very
slow; can't even collect my thoughts"
was the reply.
A Putnam county youth was re-
Gently married to girl who refused
him eighteen times. He now wishes
he hadn't asked but seventeen times.
A contemplative life has more the
appearance of life of piety than any
other; but it is the divine plan to
bring faith into activity and exercise
A South Carolina paper tells of q
farmer in that state who has been at
the plow sixty-eight years. 1t is time
to call the old man to dinner.
have heard of men who knew more
than they could tell, but never met
one. If man has genuine idea, he
can make himself understood.
Charles Dickens, Jr, asserts that
to HIM Niagara Falls is place of alb
ject terror. How would he feel in the
neighborhood of John L. Sullivan?
Caller TO little Bobby) "Bobby,
what makes your eyes so bright 2"
Bobby (after little thought): 81
dess it's tase l hain't had 'em very
long"
Judge What sort of man was it
whom you. saw commit the ASSAULT
Coustable-Shure, yer honor, he was
a small, insignificant craythur,-abou,
yer own size, yer honor.
"Now how must do with this wed
ding cake to dream on it ?" asked a
gushing damsel of a matter-of-fa fact
young man. "Just eat it /; that's ALL
was the reply.
DIR. Lyman Beecher once replied to
an inquiry of DR.. Hawes: "How are
you getting on ?" "First-rate first
rate ever since l stopped trying to
run this world"
''In literature there seems to be a
man constantly catching our IDEAS y
said writer. EYES," some one re-
joined, ''and the trouble is that he
catches them before you do"
German Professor Ito young Ameri-
CAM: "You don't musht make yourself
drouble to speak Cherman by me; when
you spheak English l know your
meannes ferry VEIL"
"Msbel, have something to say that
will astonish you" "What is it,
Harry "Pm going away 30,
Harry you are always getting up
some nice surprises for me-"
The coolest winds are those that
herald spring, the darkest hour is that
before the dawn, the greatest crooks
are those that never swing, the finest
watch is that we have in pawn.
81 never think of autumn without
feeling sigh,' he said as he passed
the Grand Circus Park. Nor /, either, y
answered the other. 'State and county
taxes come due in the fall !"
An Englishman came to New York
and put up sign, Established 1904"
and rather prided himself on the an-
tiquity of his establishment. The next
day his Yankee rival across the way
bnrlesqued his sign in this way /:
Established yesterday. No old goods
on hand"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-04-20
Took a Skip.

Mrs. Volkavitch, the wife of the
murderer who was hanged at Wilkes
barre Tuesday, of last week eloped
Friday night with butcher named
Tradesky. They went to Pittsburg
where they will be married, The
polish people of Wilkesbarre are in
dignant at the woman's conduct.
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LLI !! .!!!!!,.!! IT
vf AI!!!!l!:S::|: A!lS:|:
VOL 2

Do you feel dull. languid, low-spiritcd, life
less, and indescribably miserable both rhysi-
cally and mentally; experience sense of
fullucss or bloating after eating, or Of gone
ness" or emptiness of stomach in the morn
ing, tongue coated, bitter or bad taste i'
mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frpquen
headaches, blurred eyesight, " floating specks
before the eyes. nervous prostrauon or cN-
hauation. irlitability or temper. bot btiSh"s,
alternating with chilly sensations. sharp,
feet, drowsiness after meals, wakeluiless, or
disturbed and unrefreshing sleep, constant,
indcscribablo feeling of dread. or of impend-
ing caiantya
II you have all, or any considerable number
of these symptoms, you are suffering from
that most common of American muladcs-
Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated
with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The more
complicated your disease has become, the
greater the number and diversity of syrnp-
toms. No matter what stage it has rcnChed,
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
will subdue it, If taken according to drec-
tions for reasonable length of time. II not
cured, complications multiply and Conenulp-
ton of the Lungs, skin Diseases, Heart Disease,
Rheumatism, Kidney Disease, or other grave
maladies are quite liable TO set in and, sooner
or later. induce IL fatal termination.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
cOvcry acts powerfully upon the Liver, and
through that great blood purifying. organ,
purites, from whatever cause arising. 1t is
equally etiicacious in acting lipon tho Kid
neys, and other excret0ry organs, cleansing,
strengthening, and healing their diseases. As
an appetizing, restorative tonic It promotes
digestion and nutrition, thereby b,iding up
both flesh and strength. In malarin districts,
this wonderful medicine has gnined great
celebrity in curing Fever and Ague, Chs and
Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred diseases.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
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STATIONS.

Connections at Rupert with Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad for Tamanend, Tamaqua, Will
Transport, sunbury, Pottsyllle, etc. AT Northum-
berland with 2. & L. DIV 2. r. r. for Harrisburg,
Lock Haven, Emporium, Warren, CORY and Erie.
". +. HALSTEAD, Gen. Man.,
Scranton, Pa
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AN AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.
SOME DOCTORS

honestly admit that they can't cure
Rheumatism and Neuralgia. Others
say they can but-don't Ath.lo-
pho.ros says nothing but = cures.
That's the secret Of its success.
Years of trial have proved it to be
aquick, safe, sure cure.
Concord, N. H., SEPT. O. 1887
In my own family Athlophoroe Was used
a. q last resort, the user having suffered
from rheumatism for years and having
been treated for the disease by different
physicians In this State and Maesachu.
eetts without even temporary relief
Upon my Recommendation scores of peo.
pie have used this remedy with the same
results claimed for H. @. H. WILSON.
Dubuque Iowa, Jan. 8, 1879
Athlophoros has completely cured me Of
nervous headache. and feel thankful for
all the good II has done me.
Mrs. LouIsE CHERRY.
as- Send cents for the beautiful colored pic.
ture, Moorish Maiden"
THEATHL0P co. ne Wall ST. k.K
nov,sp n yooems
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-04-20
CURES ALL KlJMORS,

from common Blotch, or Eruption, to the
worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, Feyer-sores,"
Scaly or Rough Skin, In short, oil diseases
powerful, purifying, and invigorating medi-
cine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under
its benign influence. Especially has It mani
Erysipelas Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Scrof-
ulous Sores and SwellinRs, Hip Joint Disease,
"white Swellings," Goitre. or Thick Neck,
stamps for large Treatise, with colored
plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same amount
for Treatise on Scrofulous Affections.
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Pennsylvania Railroad.
Philadelphia & Erie R. R. Divis.
ion, and Northern Central
Railway.
---HxI--
lf TIME TABLE.
IIMEIABIr.


- 'n'0' FED RAsTwABD, isSSi PIs'N' ''A'' 'UN'O'
$40 q. M, Sea Shore Express daily except
sunday, for Harrisburg and stations.
arriving at Philadelphia 3.1bP. M; New York,
ssS M Baiti%oTe 20 r. washington 9sl Inf on
shore points. Through passenger coach to
daily except sunday for Harrisburg and inferno
Sss s.nISias sss M tsIaT sslsl%S,s ssS
through to Phiiadsiphia and Baltimore.
for Harrisburg and all intermediate stations, arriv
ing a. pnadelphia ase a; m New Sosk m sie a; m.
Harrisburg for Philadelphia and New York. on sun
days through sleeping car WIN be run; on this
a. m.
$50 a m:mEris % Mail daily except Monday 1,
mss !. NJ saiti@Sfe SIS a. N, & Washington, $50
this train 10 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton, and through passenger coachesto Philadel-
phfa ana Baltimore.
WESTWARD.
5lOa. m.-Erie Mail daily except sunday, 10
Erie an all intermediate stations ana Uanandai
qua and intermediate stations, Rochester, Bu1a-
loand Niagara Falls, With through Pullman Pal
ace cars and passenger coaches to Erie and Roch
ester.
G5s-News Express daily except sunday foI
ock Haven and intermediate stations.
l2. SO p. m.-Niagara Express daily except sun
" for Kane and ldintermediate stations and Can
uaigua ana principal intermediate stations,
Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls with
through passenger coaches to Kane and Rochester
and Parlor car to Wiliiamsport.
$50 p. m Fast Line daily except sundaDfor Re
novo and intermediate stations, and Hlmira, Wat
kins and intermediate stations with through pas
senger coaches to Remove and Watkins.
eco a. m; sunday mail for Remove and interme-
diate station"
THROUGH TRAINS FOR SUHBlRY FROM THE
EAST AND SOUTH.
Sunday mail leaves Philadelphia 4.s0 o. m
Harrisburg 7.40 arriving at SuDbury geo a. m. with
through sleeping car from Philadelphia TO VII
Transport.
News Express leaves Philadelphia 4.30 a. m.
Harrisburg, $40 a. m. daily except sunday
| arriving at sunbury 9.bs. a. m.
Niagara Express leaves
Phladelphia, 40 a. m. Baltimore Z so a. m daily
| except sunday arriving at Sunbury, 1879 D. M,
| with through Parlor car from Philadelphia
| and through passenger coaches from Phiiadel-
Fast Line leaves New YORK 500 a. M Philadel.
| phia IL so a. M Washington, Q. so a. m. Balti-
more, l0.45 m daily except sunday arriving at
| Sunoury, $50 p: m, with through passenger
| coaches from Philadelphia and Baltimore
Erie Mail leavesN York s.0Op M; /; Philadel-
phia, II .25 p. Washington, 1000 p. m. Balti-
more, go p. mr. daily except Saturday arriving
| at Sunbufy $40 a. m, with through Pullman
| Sleeping cars from Philadelphia, Washington and
baltimore and through passenger coaches from
Philaaephia.
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CONSIIMPTION,

which is ScrOfula or the Lungs, is arrested
and cured by this remedy, If. taken In the
velous power over this terribly fatal disease
when first Offering this now word-famed rem
Of calling It his CoNsuMpTIoN CURE" but
abandoned that name as too restrictive for
q medicine which, from its wonderful COM
bination of tonic, or strenR nRthenng, Alternative
or blood-cleansng, anti-bilous, pectoral, and
nutritive properties, Is unequaled, not only
as a remedy for Consumption, but for all
Chronic Diseases of the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-04-14

is full of dangerous shoals, rea hes and
bends, and navigation in the night
time at low water is on impossi.
bility. Consequently We had to
anchor near the mouth of the river
over night--a night | sEail no!
forget in Il hurry. The country about
the Ganges Heita is one mass OF Jun.
g e from which issue great armies OF
Indian mos luitoeS. My friend, thJ
much abused American mosquito, is Il
civilized, Christian institution after the
heather monsters who board vessels
unfortunate enough to be caught on
the Hooghly River ut low water!
However, eIrly in the morning we
got out into deep salt water, and very
pleasant was the light, fresh breeze
filled with oceanic ozone, after Inc thick,
clammy atmosphere of Calcutta. BY
the way, Calcutta is simply unbearabld
to Europeans during one half the year,
and the vice-regal court, with all tho
paraphernalia of government, Is re,
moved, during the heated term, t.
Simultaneously thousand miles away
in the Himalaya Mountains.
On the second day from Calcutta wa
were off Pooree, where is located thu
notorious temple of .Iuggernaut. Therd
is still kept the terrible siXteen-wheelcl
car, which once n year drags Mr.. jug
gernaut through the streets OF tho
town. Formerly hundreds of fanatics
would throw themselves under the
wheels of the heavy car and be crashed
to death, but this is now prevented by
ln | Il,
er did not go into Pooree. and dav
later VIC passed the city of Nizagapa-
tam, from whence We get the finest
kind of tortOse-shell. Right back OF
this place are the famous diamond
mines of Golconda, where have been
found the greatest gems in the world.
y little over four days from tbe time
We left the Iiooghly. We cast anchor
off Madras, an important city CONTRA
ing population OF four hundred thous-
and people. Those of us who wished
to go ashore na6 to trust ourselves to
| the mercles of peculiar Il nd OF nolt,
| the planls of which are Selced together
| by stout cocOanut fiber.
Outside Madras there is always q
| heavy, cnoppy surf, and through this
we (the Hebrew and myself had to be
pulled bv crew of u dozen totally
| naked natives. Not only so, but, al
though there is long pier at which
freight is landed by the lighters we
were beached on the sand. However,
"all's well that ends WELL" and we
landed with dry clothes.
Madras is spread over considerable
ground, being about as extensive rs
Philadelphia. 1t was o~o OF the first
towns founded by the East India Com
rany CG3~) but comparatively few
Europeans reside there not five thou
sand. Tho fact is, they cannot stand
the climate, and, while doing business
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farm will be sorcly tried next summer,
and the white horse will become driv-
cling idiot in his effort to distinguish
this from that. Indeed, if the New
\ ork man is permitted to retain his
hold oven upon the red nose he will
have cause to lie grateful. There will
be literal "blaze" Of glory among the
womeh about Easter
! mentioned lately that boas were
fashionable, not only for ordinary wear
but for ali manner of occas ons, and
see the fancy has already made prog
ress. The other evening ] sat opposite
to lady at dinner, whose neck was
encircled by a thick fur boa, worn OsA
tensibly on account of severe cold,
but which tooi to be the outcome Of
the latest fashionable fad. The effect
is pleasing, | must say, especially az
our eyes have grown so accustomed
this season to fur on evening gowns,
but | scarcely think the craze healthy
one. One cannot always wear q boa, and
surely this means an epidemic OF sore
Threats. POngee scarf-ncckticS of great
length are a development of the boa
notion, and bid fair to be very popular
as summer neck adornments. They can
be worn i'll all colors, according to the
fancy or the dress of the wearcr, ans
look very well when tied in loose bow
beneath the chin, with the ends tue ed
into the bodice.
Two more current costumes are
sketched in my final picture, not alone
for the illustration of fashion, but
partly because the wpRrerS, when | saw