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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13
Military Islamism.

There is about modern Mohammedan-
ism, at least of the military type, moth
ing of the uncertainty and shillyshally
with which modern Christianity is some
times reproached. The prophet under
stood the natural man of Asiatic and
African races perfectly well, and his
mode of procedure is still fully justified
with them. He did not, like some un-
wise fanatics, promise universal victory,
invulnerableness, or anything of the
kind. The followers of the Khalifa are
quite aware that they may be collective
ly defeated and individually killed. But
that does not interfere either with their
certainty of the ultimate success Of their
cause, with their sense of the duty of
Offering conversion, trisute or the sword,
or with their enjoyment of the comfort
able prospects of the martyred believer.
Saturday Review
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13
An Immierant,s Fortune.

Thomas Monahan, an Irish million
aire, who lived in Melbourne for half q
century, died recently. He was one of
the $50 poor Irish immigrants who sailed
for Australia in 1889, and the ship was
in such terrible sanitary condition that
ninety of them died on the voyage,
Monahan shrewdly invested his little
earnings in land about Melbourne, with
the result that blocks for which he paid
$500 in those early days are now worth
e250, 1000 each. His aggregate wealth Is
estimated at e2, 900, 000,-Exchange.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13
Do Not Believe In "A Future Life.

When a gypsy dies that is the end.
Every member of the race has horror
of death, because no gypsy lives who
has faith In a hereafter They cannot
be induced to contemplate it, No genu-
inc gypsy ever accepted Christianity.
Borrow in his many years of Bible and
missionary work among them never
claimed to have converted one. In all
countries, as is true Of goodly number
Of other folk, they occasionally profess
q sort of attachment to the ruling creed.
For instance, we hear of gypsy ex-
horter" in Ohio, and the other day a
good bishop of Delaware was allowed to
christen a gypsy child in a camp. near
Wilmington. But these little hypocri-
sizes are all in the way Of gypsy thrift
Springfield Republican.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13
KANSAS B ALL RIGHT.
A Railroad Travelling Agent Tells . Re
porter About Arkansas valley.

A Railroad Travelling Agent Tells . Re-
porter About Arkansas valley.
Every one who comes to Kansas City
from Kansas these days has his own par
ticular stock of stories to tell about the
wonderful crops in that state Among
the Sunhower pilgrims who landed in the
city Saturday was Charley Barrett, the
good looking and talkative travelling pas
senger agent of the Missouri Pacific. He
had spent four or five days in southern
Kansas, and his mouth was going at the
rate of 500 revolutions a minute about
crops when he was tagged by Times
man on Main street.
wheat" he exclaimed. "You never
saw the likel The farmers down in
southern Kansas had to rent the public
roads to get room enough to stack the
wheat. Wasn't room enough in the fields
to hold the stacks saw one"--
GLOW is the fruit crop?"
"Fruitl You never saw the likel APP
pies as big as cannon balls growing in
clusters as big as haystacks. / saw one
apple that
Don't the trees break DOWN.
"Treesl You never saw the likel The
farmers planted sorghum in the or
chards, and the stalks grew up like tele-
graph poles and supported the limbs. l
saw one stalk of sorghum that was two
feet
GLOW is the broom corn cropT
Broom corn! You never saw the
like! There hasn't been a cloudy day in
southern Kansas for month. Can't
cloud up. The broom corn grew so high
that it kept the clouds swept off the face
of the sky as clean as a new floor. They
will have to cut the corn down if it gets
too dry. SoIhe of the broom corn stalks
are 50 high that
GLOW is the corn cropy'
Corn! You never saw the like! Down
in the Neosho and Fall River and Arkan-
sas bottoms the corn is as high as d
house. They use stepladders to gather
roasting ears"
Aren't stepladders pretty expensiveT
"Expensive Well, l should say so;
| but that isn't the worst of it. The trouble
is that the children climb up into the
cornstalks to hunt for eagles nests, and
sometimes fall out and kill themselves.
| Fourteen funerals in one county last
| week from that cause. l attended all of
them. That is why am so sad. And,
mind YOU. the cornis not more than half
| grown. A man at Arkansas CITY has in
vented machine which he calls The
Solar Corn Harvester and Child Pro-
tector.' It is inflated with gas like bal
loon and floats over the corn tops, and
the occupants reach down and cut off the
ears of corn with n cavalry saber. Every
Kansas farmer has a cavalry saber.
and"-
"Do they make much cider in Kan
sasY"
"Ciderp You never saw the Ekel
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13
To Preserve Dead Bodies.

There is a man in Denver who has an
idea that the country ought to give up
the present method of disposing of dead
bodies and adopt one which he suggests.
He does not advocate cremation, nor
anything else which, SO far as is known,
appears to have been suggested by any
other person. His scheme is to freeze
the dead body in water, take the block
of ice in which the body has been frozen
and carry it to the north and deposit it
on the shores of one of the Arctic seas.
He says that he has already made some
favorable progress, and that an English
syndicate is considering the establish
ment of an international cemetery on
the shores of Baffin's bay, where he says
that future generations may go to find
Ghe faces of their ancestors of the Nine
teenth century as natural as life.-New
York Sun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13
A Snake youdous a Chicken.

A farmer in the upper portion of this
county was aroused one night not long
since by the squalling of a hen on her
roost In cluster of vines near the house.
Going out, the hen was apparently trans
flxed with fright and helpless in her
movements. A large snake was found
near by with eyes evidently set upon his
prey. The hen continued her squalls
without moving, as if in nightmare,
till the snake was killed, when she fell
from her perch, recovering and flying
away, but has since been in a droop.-
Dalton (Ga) Argus.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

| went to the bottom of the Grand
canyon of the Colorado last winter and
am one of the few men who ever at
tempted the descent. / went there to
examine a mine said to exist In the bot
tom Of the canyon. have been all
through the Rockies from Montana to
Central America and know what a
chasm is, but the sight of that abyss
took my breath away. From the top to
the bottom it is full 5000 feet. Over
mile below you can see the river tearing
through the gorge, but not sound can
be heard, it is so far away. From one
bank to the other it is apparently not
over quarter of a mile, but as matter
Of fact 1t is fully nineteen miles. My
guide told me l would never be able to
reach the bottom, but was determined
to go and | went, 1t was terrible
climb and it took us eight hours to reach
the bottom. 1t is certainly the most
desolate place in the world. There is no
living thing down there-no insects, rep
tiles nor animals of any kind, Every
thing is absolutely dead. The mining
prospect was worthless. Before the sun
was up the next morning we were on
our way out, and it took us until IL
O'Clock that night TO climb the wall OF
the canyou.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

The forty-third annual report of the
commissioners in lunacy for Great Bri.
tain contains interesting figures. On
New Years day last there were in the
kingdom 81 $40 insane persons. Various
causes of insanity are set forth in table
covering 13G,479 cases. OF these 1868
persons lost their reason from domestic
trouble, 5000 from adverse circum-
stances" S,27S from overwork and
worry, 8,769 from religious excitement,
and 1890 from intemperance, The in
fuence of heredity was ascertained in
28,0o3 cases, and congenital defect in
B SSI
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13
A Twin Watermelon.

Aleck West, colored, we believe, is en-
titled to the ginger cake for the greatest
curiosity this season in the way of a
watermelon. He exhibits two perfect
melons joined together Both melons
were fully developed and the meat was
juicy and sweet-just like an ordinary
melon. Aleck states that he first noticed
that the runners from the vine grew
double, They moved Bide by side and
the result was the double melon. 1t was
certainly curiosity y.-GreensborO (Ga.I
Journal
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

An extraordinary statement was made
the other day by a man from Miyagai-
ken. He stated that in Sendai, since
the 18th and 12th ult., the people have
been much troubled with kind Of poi
sonous butterfly. To touch one of them
causes the flesh to itch, and If scratched
to swell and remain swollen for a very
long time. In daylight, he says, they do
not make their appearance, but at twi-
light they swarm into the houses. With
the approval of the authorities fires are
now burned at the entrances of houses
and yards to attract the insects and de-
stroy them.-Mainichi Shimbun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

1t is proposed by the Chickamauga
Memorial association that the ground on
which the celebrated battle of Chicka-
mauga was fought be bought by the asso-
citation and converted for all time into "A
national park, This project will be
pushed at the annual reunion of the
Army of the Cumberland, when it is
held at Chattanooga on Sept 10, Efforts
are being made to secure the attendance
at this reunion of members of the Con-
federate army who fought in the battle
of Chickamauga.- Exchange.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13
A Bachelor Until He Was 1Os.

The grandfather of Mr.. Walls, now
living near Athens, never married till
his l03d year. His wife was just 20.
They lived happily together. at was
no unusual sight, says The Athens
Chronicle, "to see the old man, at the
age of 1870, plowing in the field. But he
was taken sick when in his 13Sth year
and lived but few months. Atlanta
Constitution.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

And now the superiuity of rain this
year is given as a reason for the nom
success of large dozen seaside hotels.
As matter Of fact, there are too many
such establishments from Maine 10 Cali
fornia, and by no means enough people
70 Ego round"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

A well of water on farm near Har-
monyville, Chester county, Pa, suddenly
"fell out" while the farmers wife was
drawing water few days ago, Then
the walls of the well abruptly collapsed.
It is suspected that an underground lake
or river drew away the water.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

The American rage for baseball is af-
ter all weak compared to the British
craze for cricket. At the last match be-
tween the two greatest of the county
elevens, Surrey and Nottingham, which
took three days to play, nearly 10000
people went to see it and Surveys vic
tory. The batting of Lockwood and
Abel, who together made 159 in Surveys
second inning, was SO important toward
winning the match that the collection
taken up for their benefit amounted to
e42, e5 of which was in penny pieces.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

A brass ring was sent from Germany
10 a New Yorker the other day which
was seized by the customs officers. The
tax due to the government was three
cents, and IL cost the United States some
thing like SIS TO collect that sum.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

OF the $4,000 tons of wire fencing an
nually imported into the Argentine Re
public 1t is said that Belgium furnishes
half, Great Britain about a quarter and
France somewhat less.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

Clinton A. Snowden, of Tacoma, saw
bees going and coming from hollow
tree. He built a fire, smoked out the
bees and cut down the tree TO get the
honey. He found great lot OF it; but,
better still, large quantity of gold was
In the hollow trunk. 1t had evidently
been deposited there by nature, and the
wise men out there think that 1t was
gradually washed up every year by the
flow Of sap, and in course Of time accu-
mulated into solid mass" Mr. Snow
den got over $1,000 for the gold,-New
York Sun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

On Aug A, 1885, Charles E. Burnes
and Nathan Hubbard left Linkville, Ore,
on n prospecting tour to find the Lost
Cabin" in the mountains. For years the
Lost Cabin has been one of the tradi-
tions of that section, and many a search
has been made for it and the gold that is
supposed to be waiting for the finder
Nothing was again heard of the two
men until a few weeks ago, when a cat
tie herder found their camp and their
skeletons in dense wilderness near Dia-
mond lake, fifty miles from Fort Kla-
math. The skeletons were found near
together, wrapped in their blankets and
clothed. Their guns stood against a tree
near by. A small sum of money was in
one of the mems pockets, and a watch,
so that it seemed certain that they had
not been murdered and robbed. A diary
and postal card addressed to Burnes'
mother served to identify them. The
diary was carried to Aug. 81, 1886, SC
the men had been dead nearly three
years. But how they died will probably
be one of the mysteries of the Diamond
Lake region.-Chicago Herald.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

Mrs. Stephen Danforth of Manchester
by-the-Sea, is another victim of the to-
bacco habit She learned TO smoke in
Virginia, where she was born, and
though she does her own work and looks
after her husband, who is old and in
firm, she is rarely without a lighted pipe
In her mouth, She smokes twelve pipe
fuls daily. Mrs. Danforth will be 81
years old ON her next birthday.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

The American Iron and Steel associa-
ton report that the production of pig
iron in the first six months of 1889 waa
larger than in any preceding six months
In the history OF the American iron
trade.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13
The Goldfish Panks.

Wide publicity has been given lately
to the reported discovery by the United
States fish commissioner steamer Alba
tross of the extensive codhshing banks
off San Diego. The journals of the
southern coast towns have been much
impressed with the importance of the
discovery, and have had much TO say
about it. Old fishermen, who know well
the habits of the cod, have been 10th to
believe that the fish could be found in
any great numbers in such warm water
and such an exposed position as desig-
mated, in the region OF st, Nicholas Isl
and. Evidently there is something wrong
about the announcement. As far as the
banks and shoals are concerned, these
"discoveries' have been marked on
coast survey charts for the past thirty
five years. The coast survey vessels
have often sounded in the locality men
toned, and there has been more or less
fishing done by them, but never has
there been any cod found. The currents
there are very strong, and any vessel of
size can remain near the banks only
with much difficulty. That the reported
cod banks near Cape Lookout, on the
upper coast, will prove of value is con
sidered very likely, for there are many
of the surroundings that fishermen CON
slider most favorable to the cod.-San
Francisco Bulletin.
Fruit Growing Out of the Rocks.
| A hardy apple tree, loaded with ripe,
luscious fruit, growing from the crevices
of a rock, is a curiosity which has at,
tracted the attention of visitors 10 Fair
mount park through the Callowhil
street entrance this summer. The tree
which is very large, shoots up from the
crevice of the rocks blasted TO form the
pool for the pumping at the Fairmoun
water works.
The apples ON the tree are the beauti
full rosy checked, yellow variety, anC
from their quality and size 1t would ap
pear that there was some rich source o
sustenance, though none is visible from
any point Of view, the roots being plain
ly seen clingiug 70 tho rocky walls
shooting in one crevice and out of an
other. Hundreds of small boys try, da
after day, 70 procure specimens Of th
fruit, but the isolated position of In
tree has thus far saved it from thei
raids.-Philadelphia Times.
A New York physician tried an expert
ment with DR., Brown-Sequard's elid
upon cat with perfect success, Tn
doctor stupefled the cat with half poun
of ether and then applied the elixir hypc
dermically, and in a moment the cat wa
dancing around the room, the stupor G
the ether having entirely disappeared.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-09-13

This is about the way that the average
American woman dresses to spend the
day in the Paris exposition. The fash
ionable begin to go there Immediately
after breakfast, and take luncheon and
dinner there, attend the concerts and
spectacles from hour to hour, taking in
all the Oriental departments, seeing the
Eastern dancers, and getting long rest
in the afternoon by taking a wheeled
chair and hiring small boy TO roll them
about IN a leisurely fashion among the
palms and flowers la the horticultural
lepartment,-Paris Letter,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-09
HARD ON THE DETECTIVES.

The death of Newton Watt, who was
convicted with Henry Schwartz and SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life for com
pliclty in the murder of Kellogg Nichols
the express agent on the Rock Island rail
road near Morris two or three years ago, is
likely to revive in no very gentle form
the hostile criticism of the detective bus
mess inaugurated 10y Gov Palmer during
his political canvass last summer. The
previous irreprOaChable character of Watt,
his kindhearted, harmless, almosl feminine
disposition and bearing, rendered ii from
the start impossible, in the estimation of
his friends, that he could have had any
part in that hideous crime. His story In
regard to it was from the beginning to end
a probable and consistent one, maintaining
his entire innoCense, and while he adhered
TO that to his death no evidence at his trial
in the slightest degree impeached It, ex-
Cept as was trumped up by the detectives,
who, stimulated by the promise reward of
100000 TO make case, who of all men
were the last witnesses that ought to have
been believed
Watt died less than two years after his
imprisonment, at less than 26 years of age,
from a complaint brought on by anxiety,
grief and prison confinement, and his body
was taken to his former home at Oakland
near Chicago for burial, where, on Wednes-
day, large concourse of former neighbo.s
and friends attended his funeral But the
noticeable incident on the occasion was
the sermon of the Rev. j. NJ. Caldwell, pas,
tor of the Oakland Methodist church. Re
marking that the circumstances of the case
before him justified a departure from the
ordinary line of funeral discourses, he
reviewed the evidence that led to the con.
viction of the deceased, showing that
there was not scintills to indicate his
guilt except such as was furnished by the
detectives; and then he went for that pro
fession" with a vigor that Gov. Palmer
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-09
THE INAUGURAL.

The inaugural address of President Har.
rison Is certainly notable deliverance
While he says what he thinks and has nc
afterthoughts or reserves, the speech is al
most . counterpart of President Cleveland's
December message, in that the governing
theme of the whole Is the tariff.
There Is no possible installing his mean.
ing. President Harrison plants himself
and his party squarely on the protective
policy. The platform of the Chicago con.
vention, with all it implies, is heartily
taken in, without any of the hating or
hesitation of Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, or
the timid, tinkering, dickering republican
senate He is for protection for the sake
of protection, pure and simple; commit
ting his perty so decidedly TO that issue
that the opposite side cannot help but take
it up In the naked form of Its presentation
and make II the governing Issue on which
parties in this country must divide, until
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-09
White Caps

UTICA, III, March S.-Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
Reynolds represented Udca at Harrison's
Inauguration.
Hogs and cattle roam the streets now at
their own tree will with none to modest OF
make them afraid.
Prof Gee has organized large choir of
boys and girls AT the Catholic church.
They are making great progress.
Michael Hansen was seriously hurt
Tuesday. He was exercising Ole Nelson's
horse, when the animal became fractions
and threw Mr.. Hansen on the roadway and
then kicked and stamped him. Besides
numerous bruises his left leg was broken
doubel compound fracture.
w II Highly, Sam and Abe Cartwright,
Jake Norton, T Il Wheeler, Bill Hallett,
p Hiand, s j Hager, sam Grove, CT
Gardner, N Cary, g w Esmond, and a
number of others organized fox hunt on
Monday. The fox was started north of
the Hager place, and afte. an exciting
chase was run to earth three miles from
the starting plaCe.-Gdzette.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-09

never equalled. Newton Watt" he said,
was convicted solely on the testimony of
professional criminals and professional
detectives, and the one is synonymous of
the other. These professional detectives
lie to catch person, as they say. They
live lie, and are lie, and will tell a lie 10
carry point, and few men possessed of
their reason and who will look at the thing
In It's right light but will believe that they
Will swear TO lie TO carry their point II Is
by their ability and willingness to live and
tell lie that they carry on their profession
Don't you know that they will swear to
that same lie as quickly as they would live
II and tell IT,"
Proceeding In this vein at some length,
the Rev. gentleman closed by relating how
he himself had been bounded by detec-
tiyes to compel him to hire them to watch
his own house against the incursions of
thieves and BURGERS the story serving to
give still greater emphasis TO the remark
he started out with, that the professional
detective is synonymous with the profess
sional criminal"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-09

DEER PARK, March $50 mellow is the
sunlight and so numerous the flight of wild
fowl northward bound, that many, cherish
ing hope that spring is really here, feel
Consoled over the almost impossible condi>
ton of the roads.
X. Reynolds, our worthy town collector,
has finished making his rounds.
Charles Eaton 10 nursing severely
sprained ankle. We hope to seen him on
the 90 soon.
Miss o. Aussem Of Ottawa, has been the
guest of Deer Park friends
Frank FOllett who has been quite sick,
has resumed his studies at the o. II. s.
Morris Degen was lately in our town
buying cattle.
Mollie O'COnor is on the sick list
Our mail carrier makes his trip with few
complaints against the muddy roads.
Charles Mccullough and Ed. O'Conor
attended the Catholic Fair at Ottawa last
week. Charlie returned heart-whole. but
there Is some fears entertained concerning
Ed.
Our worthy school master has departed
amid signs and tears, has left behind an
aching void.
"a feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain;
And resembles sorrow only,
As the mist resembles the rain"
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