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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-07

DELEG ArEs APPOINTED the regular
meeting OF Golden Light Lodge OF Coed
Temnlars wa. held lat night, ~heu the fol
loving delegates were appointed to attend
Distric; Lodge Of that order, which meets at
Fairfsx c. H.: Messrs j. II Trimyer, Il. II.
Hayden, ] F Birrell, H. NJ. Folrz. James
P.dgett, and Mrs H. NJ. Fcliz. Misses An
rie Lucas Lille Proctor. and Eva Travers.
The meeting will he held Friday, 10 h, and
promises to be largely attended.
Pioneer Lodge No ], at Falls Church, last
nigh; elected the following delegates to the
next session of the District Lodge D b.
Patterson George M. Crossman, w. J.
Smith, and Misses Stella Birch, Ellen Lynch,
Maud Thorne. Edith Kerr and Margie Gar
ner The Ulcers elect for the quarter were
installed and various reports of the officers
submitted. The lodge is in very prosper
Gus condition. having 10Y members in good
standing, and is probably the banner lodge
of the District.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-07

ARE You MADE miserable by Indigestion,
Constipation. Dizziness. Loss of Appetite,
Yellow skin ? Shloh's Vitalizer is positive
curs. Sold by E. 8. Lead5eater & Bro.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-07

Probably no one thing has caused such gener-
al revival of trade st E. s. Leadbeater, & Bros
Drug Store as their giving away to their custom
ers of so many free trial bottles of DR.. King. 3
New Discovery for Consumption. Their trade Is
simply enormous in this very valuable article
f.om the fact that it always cures and never dis
appoints. Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis,
f. roup, and all throat and lung diseases quickly
cured You can test IL before buying by getting
a trial bottle free, large size 81. Every bottle
warranted.
Trial bottles free at E. s. Leadbeater s. Bros.
drug store.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-07

The mcst OF our ailments como from disordere
liver, which Simmons Liver Regulator cures.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-07

TNURNIP SEEDS.
We have jnst received our usual large supply o.
LANDkETH'S TURNIP SEEDS. Prices lower
than ever before.
;v27 E.s. LEADBEATER & BRO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-07

~ CENT DIARRHGA MIXTURE. No cure
lO no pay. Cures cramps, diarrhGs and al
disorders of the bowels. Try it. For sale by
ERNEST L. ALLEN,
iY25 Cor. King and Pitt sts., Alexandra
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-07

We have received an Invitation to attend
the Grange Camp exhibition which com.
mences on Wednesday next.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-07

HHLoRlTE will keep your hands and face
" smooth and cure chaps. For sale by
ian1O ]. d. II. LUNT.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26
Tie n,es.,ns of Childhood.

Blessed be childhood, which brings
down something of heaven into the midst
of our rough earthliness. These 1000
daily births, of which statistics tell us,
represent as it were an effusion OF inno-
cence and freshness, struggling not only
against the death of the race, but against
human corruption and the universal gam
creme of sin. All the good and whole
some feeling which is intertwined with
childhood and the cradle is one Of the
secrets Of the providential government
of the world. Suppress this life giving
dew and human society would be scorched
and devastated by selfish passion. Sup
posing that humanity had been composed
of a thousand millions of immortal be-
ings, whose number could neither in
crease nor diminish, where should we
be and what should we be! A thousand
times more learned, no doubt, but q
thousand times more evil. There would
have been vast accumulation of science,
but all the virtues engendered by suffer-
ing and devotion-that is to say, by the
family and society-would have no exist
ence. And for this there would be no
compensation. Blessed be childhood for
the good that it does, and for the good
which it brings about carelessly and un-
consciously by simply making us love It
and letting itself be loved. What little
of paradise we see still on earth is due to
its presence among us. Without father
hood, without motherhood, think that
love itself would not be enough to prp-
vent men from devouring each other
men, that is to say, such as human pas
sions have made them. The angels have
no need of birth and death as founda-
tions for their life, because their life Is
heavenly.-Amiel's Journal, translated
by Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26

1t is not easy to predict what Is to he
the future of this great boating interest,
We have over twenty thousand miles Of
steam navigation, we have original and
enterprising boat builders, and an enor-
nous travelling public. We have had
In the past phenomenal fleet of steam
boats, particularly on our western rivers,
and yet the business has been greatly de-
pressed, and there are fewer boats afloat
today than twenty years ago. Moreover
and this is the most serious matter of
all-our canals are being abandoned year
by year While Europe spends millions
on canals and waterways, while France
is trying to make every little stream
navigable and England is trying to turn
her interior cities into scaports, we per-
init our canals to fill up or foolishly give
them away to impecunious railroads for
roadbeds. Is it wiser Are we safe in
trusting all our freight business to rail
road corporations? Today we can, if the
need come, send gunboats inland from
the Delaware to New York BAY. If we
permit the railroads to destroy the bust
ness of the canal between our ship yards
and our navy yards, we may be sure
that In every European war office the
fact of our folly is carefully noted for
future reference. Once Great Britain
fought a great battle to destroy the
water route that connects the port of New
York with the back door of New Eng
land. Saratoga was fought to destroy
a vital water route. Fortunately, the
English generals who planned in London
thus to cut the country in two failed and
yet today we are abandoning our canals
and see our great internal steam naviga-
ton system decay without a thought of
the consequences.
On the other hand-for there is
brighter side to every picture-there is a
disposition among the travelling public
to demand larger, finer, and safer boats
everywhere. We are being taught by
English tourists who visit us how to see
our own country. We may complacent-
ly talk of our limited trains and all that.
Every foreigner who visits us asks first
of all for our steamboat routes, because
our lake, river, and sound boats are
known of all the world.-Charles Ber-
nard in Century
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26

A battle does not consist, as many i'm
agine, in grand advance of victorious
lines of attack, sweeping everything be-
fore them, or the helter-skelter flight Of
the unfortunate defeated. The historian
must SO present it in his descriptions,
the artist In his paintings. Even the
writer of an official account must limit
himself to the presentation of such mo-
ments as demand special treatment. or
to such episodes as involve important
and instructive tactical movements. All
those events which are less striking,
which pass more quietly, but which,
nevertheless, contribute to the final re-
suit, cannot be reproduced without too
much expansion. Those incidents which
no account of the battle, official or un-
official, takes any note Of, the thou
sand and one events observed only by the
participants, the innumerable cases In
which the direction and control Of az
fairs glide out of the hands Of the officers
these are the little drops of water that
make the mighty ocean Of battle and de-
termine victory or defeat.-United Ser
vice
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26

One night at a reception at Mrs. Ron
aids while l was perched upon a sofa
watching the brilliant assemblage, fell
into conversation with pleasant gentle
man seated beside me, who was very
curious about America and American
life. told him great deal about
America, and said that Americans In
England would not at once know how to
address people properly. "As for me-"
l said, II am as green as a gooseberry on
this subject; even If supposed you were
one of the nobility should not know
how to address you" A few moments
afterward Mrs. Ronalds said to me: "Mr.
Wilder, that's good thing you've been
saying to the Duke of Teck; you've made
an impression upon his highness." Ire
piled; "Why, haven't met the Duke Of
Teck; the only gentleman I've been talk.
ing to is standing over there" well"
says Mrs. Ronalds, "that is the Duke of
Teck." Gracious! am little enough
fellow by nature, but just then you
might have put me In pint cup.-MaI-
shall p. Wilders Book
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26

a large dog at one of the Scranton
hotels became very much attached to one
of the boarders. He got in the habit of
following this man in his leisure walks
up town, and the boarder liked to have
him along. But on a rainy day the dog
didn't see the man start out, and the lat
ter had got around the corner before the
dog caught sight of him. The big dog
was SO tickled when he saw that his old
companion was not far away that he
dashed up and rubbed his great wet side
against the gentleman's good clothes.
That was form of boisterous familiari-
ty not to be put up with, and the man
spoke harshly to the dog and drove him
back. The dogs sensitive nature resent
ed this unkind treatment, for from that
day to this the man has never been able
to get the dog TO walk out with him, al
though he has done everything he could
think of to win back the dogs friend
ship. He followed the man once, but he
did it much against his will and only
after his owner had ordered him to. 1t
was thought the spell had been broken,
but it hadn't, and he has refused to ac-
company the man except when his mas
ter has commanded him to.
Another illustration of the dogs intel
ligence is told by the same gentleman.
The dogs owner and he were in the
reading room one day when the dog
strobe in and lay down on the carpet. 81
won't mention his name or make any
motions" said the landlord to his board
er, referring to the dog, "but I'll say
something to you in an ordinary tone,
and see if he will notice It," Then the
landlord added: 81 think his place is
behind the desk in front of the safe, in
stead of in this room" The dog seemed
to pay no attention to what had been
said, but he got up right away, walked
slowly through the long hall, pushed the
gate open back of the desk and lay down
in front of the esafe.-Scranton Special to
New York Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26

An American visiting English clubs is
sure to be surprised at the number of
titles he hears. Besides the nobility
nearly every one seems to have q special
handle to his name. Colonels are not
quite as numerous as in Kentucky or
Georgia, but for captains and majors we
can't hold a candle to them. But it was
reserved for me, an American, TO knock
them out" on rank in most unexpected
manner, An old waiter--an eX-soldier--
at the Savage, called me Marshall several
times one evening, and was reprimanded
by one of the members for addressing a
guest by his first name. His namew
exclaimed the old fellow, looking aston
ished-and then turning said, "Why,
your honor, l thought marshal his
rankP General Grant prophesied that
should be n general, but the old waiter
went him one better, and the title stuck
to me for awhile, too.--Marshall p.
Wilder's Book
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26
Wash Your Hands.

Cases of infection that could be ac-
counted for in no other way have been
explained by the fingers as a vehicle. In
handling money, especially of paper,
door knobs, banisters, car straps and a
hundred other things that every one
must frequently touch there are chances
innumerable of picking up germs of
typhoid. .scarlatina, diphtheria, smallpox,
etc, Yet some persons actually put such
things in their mouths, if not too large!
Before eating, or touching that which is
to be eaten the hands should be imme-
diately and scrupulously washed. We
hear much about general cleanliness as
next to godliness. 1t may be added
that here, in particular, it is also ahead
of health and safety, The Jews made
no mistake in that Except they washed
they ate not" 1t was sanitary ordi-
nance, as well as am ordinance of de-
cency.-Sanitary Era.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26

In connection with the Portland we'd
ding presents, a not unamusing story was
current in London. A well known and
popular gentleman, on arriving at his
club from the theatre, discovered that
he had unwittingly annexed pair OF
costly opera glasses in dainty blue vel
vet case. He at once instructed the hall
porter to restore them TO the owner, who
resided at certain number in Grosvenor
crescent. The servant, however, left
them by mistake at the same number in
Grosvenor place, where they were re-
garded in the light of very handsome
and most appropriate wedding present.
The owner became uneasy, but the por-
ter was sure he had made no mistake,
and the mystery remained unsolved un-
til the lady in question accidentally saw
her glasses on the ledge Of an opera box
occupied by ducal party. An explana-
tion then ensued, and the matter was
amicably settled without the intaxyea-
tion of the lawyers. World.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26

Mrs. Micawber, il" David Copperfeld,"
when about to sail with her alway impe-
cunious husband for Australia announces
that she wishes that husband to take his
stand upon the vessels prov and firmly
say: "This country have come to con-
quer! Have you honors2 Have you
richeS Have you posts of profitable pc
cuniary emolument? Let them be brought
forward. They are mine" Fiction is
always behind reality, and no fancied
Micawber ever carried his eifrontery so
far as many instances, well authentic.
ated, in actual life. When, for instance,
the Hungarian general, Klapka, had been
invited by some agent of Mr.. Stewards
to serve in our army during the civil
war, he wrote to Gen. Mcclellan, giving
his terms. Those terms were that he
should be paid 500, 900 in cash; that his
annual salary should be $25 900; that lie
should serve as Gen. McClellan's chief of
staff for a short time, until familiar with
English, and should then take McClel-
lan's place at the head of the American
army. There was nothing uneXampled
about this. Wemeek and patient Ameri-
cans are constantly in the position of be-
ing lectured on manners by foreigners so
Ill bred that, were they Americans, they
would never have a second invitation
into well bred company; on pronuncia-
ton and language by persons unable to
make themselves heard before an audi
ence; on the graces of literature and art
by orators who cannot even dispose of
their own arms and legs without the
greatest discomfort. Long suffering as
we are by nature, Americans have had
so much put upon them in these ways
that the revenge taken in Europe by
Barnum and Buffalo Bill seems hardly
too severe an international retribution.-
I. W. ii. in Harper's Bazaar.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26
A Wire with IA History.

a bit of wire was introduced into our
conversation at the club. 1t was silent,
uncommunicative bit of copper, about
sixteenth of an inch thick and four
inches long Most any hardware mer-
chant would give you similar bit of
wire, because its value would be so little
he could not reckon price for it. But
this particular piece, Mr.. Vail (whose
father co-operated with Morse in invent
ing the telegraph) carries in his pocket
book as carefully as if it were gold,
many times more weighty. 1t is
passive, plant substance-an inanimate
bit of copper, but it gave the first cleo
trio thrill that has brought the inhabit-
ants of the world close together, con.
quered time, and annihilated distance
1t is bit of the first three miles of wire
ever used for telegraphy. 1t is piece
from the experimental line constructed
by Morse and Vail, ST., when they were
testing their inventions. Only little of
this wire, Mr., Vail, Jr., informed me,
has been preserved. After it was taken
down from the experimental line, his
father used part of it as a trellis for vines
Oh no iiOiV P'iNil' aiI VI II may ildNt
been used in the construction of the line
between the capital and Baltimore, but
if so it was lost track of. 1t was from
the trellis that the mementoes were re-
covered. 81 think l got less than six
feet of it, said Mr. Vail. "After teleg-
raphy became a wonder of the world
we began to appreciate the value of such
memento, and we saved what we could
of the original three mile wire. have
given pieces to few persons who have
been especially interested In it, and some
was arranged on "a card, with a photo
graph of the original instrument, now at
the National museum, that was sent to
the Paris exposition. Washington Cor.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26
Paper Pencils.

One of the difficulties which have stood
in the way Of the substitution of paper
pulp for wood in the manufacture Of pen
ellis has been the toughness Of the paper
covering, and its consequent resistance
to the action of knife. BY new pro-
cess which has been patented, the mole
cular cohesion of the paper is modifisd
in such manner that It can be cut an
easily as cedar wood. The paper Is first
of all made into tubes, and quantity OF
them are placed in frame at the lower
end of a cylinder. The substance which
is to be used as marking material is
placed in the cylinder while in a plastic
condition, and sufficient pressure Is then
applied to force 1t into the hollow centers
of the paper tubes. After the compile
tion of the process the pencils are grad
ually dried at increasing temperatures
during period of six days, and they
are then plunged into a vessel OF molten
parafline wax, which has the effect Of
modifying the texture of paper pulp as
described. - Manufactures and Indus
triaa
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26

There are people in this world SO good
that they make you tired. You meet
them most often in good places, and they
are quite apt to keep people away from
the good places instead of drawing them
there. The good Bishop Middleton, who
had studied the thing carefully, has said;
'Virtue itself ofTends when coupled with
forbidding manners" Virtue ought not
to do that, and such a coupling makes it
all the worse for virtue. There is no rea-
son WHY yirtuous young man should
look like an undertaken, and why a sinful
chap should be fascinating, Things are
wrong this way, The good young man
should be charming with wit and wisdom,
and mconsciously he will mark his way
in the world with sweetness and light
and gladness, and let virtue havca better
time than sin can ever have.-New Or
ieans Heayline.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26
CURES FOR INSOMNIA.



baud to Break the Awful Spell.
] was much interested in the notes
from Dr. Ford's lecture in the Herald of
Health, and wish that every woman as
well as every nurse in the land could
read them. Those of us who are at the
heads Of households may some time need
all the knowledge we can get upon the
subject of insomnia. The trouble grows
more common every year, especially in
America, where we are apt to live upon
"nerve' in all times of trial or excite
ment.
There is no doubt that personal mag
netism is one of the best medicines for
Insomnia, the will of the nurse subju-
eating and calming that of the patient.
Two very unhappy cases have come un-
der my own personal supervision. One
was my husband, who became SO wretch
cd that he would sleep about two hours
and then get up to walk all over the
place, and often for miles into the coun-
try. One night began talking to him
when he awakened, and finding that my
voice quieted him, kept on, repeating
poetry, and finally mixing my sentences
up in a dreadful way, | was so sleepy
myself. But he went to sleep, too, and
did not awaken until near morning. 1t
was remarkable, for he had not slept so
much at night for two years. That day
| learned to repeat Paris Rom, knowing
that my husband was very fond of it.
So when he got wakeful the next night
had something to say over to him, and
to my delight, he fell asleep before was
half through the poem. And so we kept
up our midnight conversations for three
months, telling all the fairy stories, the
gossipy incidents, and repeating all the
poems | knew. And little by little, so
soon as he began to sleep every night, he
was cured, and now a cannon fired in
the room would hardly awaken him.
The other case was Of lady with
whom | spent year. | begged her to
try the Dalsarte movements of the body
-limbering herself, and swinging about
until she began to feel drowsy. When
she would grow restless in the night,
she would arise and try the same exer-
else. 1t finally cured her. after year
of faithful practice. Her trouble was
more physical, while my husbands was
mental lie grew to depend upon me
li,c child, and If / happened to be
away from the house, he could not sleep.
So soon as person SO afflicted begins to
sleep well, the general health improves
and sleep is more easily induced, AS
Dr. Ford says, there is knack of put
ting one to sleep, and each daughter of
the family ought especially to learn the
secret, if possible, for SO much of the
comfort and well being of humanity de-
pends upon women.-Mrs. George W.
Ogilvie in Herald of Health
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26
Man Changes Little.

Horaces rustic waited for the river to
run down. If he could have waited long
enough he might have seen its last drop
roll by. But human nature is always
the same. If one of those who died when
the world was young should return to it
now he would not know its cities and
their customs; but he would know its
children and their ways, its mothers and
their hopes, its lovers and their vows.
He would not know the old PHILOSOPHERS
by their new names, or the old sciences
under the modern developments; but he
would know the human heart and its
ideals as he would know the midnight
sky and its consultations.
We are told that ours will one day be
a dead planet moving with other dead
planets around cold and darkened sun.
That will not matter II love Is immortal.
A wandering angel, curious of such
things, would find amid the ruins OF our
civilization here and there an infants
toy, a marriage ring, a sculptured cross,
"These are tokens" he would say, "of
eternity, not of time. They can teach
Us nothing new I'm heayen."-New Or
lsans Pieayuue.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26
All Stu and the Gasmau,

Admiral Porter held state dinner in
Washington and All Sin, Chinese SER
want, was assigned to duty in attendance
at the door. In his country visitors
rank is indicated by the size of the card,
and huge yellow one means the pres
ence of prince. The small bits of paste
board received but scant courtesy from
All Sin, but when the gas collector pre-
sented his bill the Celestials demeanor
underwent a change. The long yellow
slip captured ALI Sin, and with profound
salaams he bowed the astonished gasnan
into the presence of the amazed family
and irate head OF the navy.-Chicago
Tfn1aa
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-26
The Keeper,

Astranger, just arrived at a city board
ing house, whose table and boarders he
found not at all 70 bis liking, fell into
conversation with quiet looking lady
who sat near him In the dining room.
II say, madam" said he softly, "have
you been a prisoner long In this-this
menagerieT
"H'm!" said the lady; "'prisoner' isn't
exactly the word In my case. You see,
Pm the landlady, and it's me that feeds
the animals!"-Youth's Companion.