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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Philip V. Weaver Esq. of Hazleton ia
tailed of as democratic candidate for
Register and Recorder of Luzerne county,
No better selection could be made.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

VIM. Giger's vicious horse, upon which
an operation was performed { mention
being made last week died Monday
morning.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

If you haven't tried you'll be
surprised to see how little ice
will keep Puritan Refrigerator
close to zero. The cleanest,
simplest, best Refrigerator.
Uprights, S9.75 to S25'
Sideboards, $I4 to S45.
Ice Chests, $3.50 to $40.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Last year, for the first time the manag-
ers of the Bloomsburg Opera House were
compelled to pay state tax of $50, the
auditor general having directed its collec-
ton. This year the same tax was demand
ed and a case stated has been filed to test
the legality of such tax. The law i'm
poses such fine upon theaters, and the
question to be decided is whether the pub
lie hall improperly callcl an opera house
is theater within the m Ining Of the act.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Well, what has become of the movement
TO open the new Town Hall with approprl-
ate public exercisesf
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Mrs. Nicholas Kindt of Rohrsburg died
on the 10th inst. aged 70 years. She was
buried on Friday last.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Think of a Sad Iron that stays
Kissing hot all day long. Think
of the steps and backaches
saved, and the better a0oyk done.
It's Mrs. Waterman's. S3.25
for family size.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

The Y. M. @. A. of Danville he'd pic
mic at Hess Grove, Rupert Pa, on We'd
nesday.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

The stone crusher, ordered by the Tow
Council, was received and put in opera
tion last week. Power was supplied by
Mr.. Hidlay. Iron street was covered with
the crushed stone, between Second and
Third. The stone Is now being hauled up
on Centre. The crusher does fine work.
The stones are broken to uniform size.
When placed upon the streets they max o
a good road and should last for many
years. Any one desiring to see the mach
inc at work can do so by walking down to
tue field adjoining the cinder pile at Meals
furnace.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Fifty new bedroom suits have been
ordered for the boys dormitory at the Nor
NAL
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25
Good Lawns &C.
Neat Challis &C.

Ioc Chambrays at 7c.
That's the way Cotton Dress
Goods prices are all leaning.
These Striped Ginghams at &C
started the season at 10; those
strong, wear-till-you-are-weary
Seersuckers, brown and white.
are just down from I2H to Ioc.
Here are choice Scotch Cling
hams at ISc from 25c.
Outing stuffs, too; a wonder
full range Of handsome, 1annelIy
patterns at s and IOc.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

1t is told concerning X. j. Burdette that
he once received letter enthusiastically
praislng him as the writer of the verses be-
ginning "Out on the borders of moonshine
land" lie wrote three or four pages OF
grateful acknowledgment, ALTERING the
taste of his correspondent and saying that
he always thought himself that those were
very good verses. He signed his name
then he added
"P. S.-I didn't write those verses.
They were written by my friend, james
Whitcomb Riley"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

A heavy frost is reported on the 2lst at
numerous places, among them ritusville
and Honesdale.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Carry the Mosquito Canopy
with you, if you please. Here's
a $3.50 Turnover Gauze Can
opy-9o inches deep, 9 yards
skirt-that you can slip into the
trunk almost like another dress.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

st. Ignatius Church at Centralia is un
dergoing some repairs.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

The past week has been remarkably
cool. Light overcoats and wraps did not
come amiss.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Old newspapers can be bought at thi
office for 10 cents hundred
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

A rare musical treat is in store for the
people of Bloomsbury next month.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Ent Post will have Camp Fire at Espy
Saturday, July Goth.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Chapter /: Weak, tired, no appetite.
Chapter 2; Took Hoods sarsaparilla.
Chapter 8: Strong, cheerful, hungry.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

The frame work OF j. G. Wells new
house on Fifth street is nearly up.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

A new barn is being erected on the Rup
ert Hotel property.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

Millville is taking steps to organize
fire company.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

The cleansing, antiseptic and healin g
qualities of Or. Sage's Catarrh Remedy are
unequaled.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25

HOW TIMID WOMAN PREVENTED A HOUSE
ROBBERY.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25
A Cure for Constipation aud sick
headache.

MARK TAPLeY.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25
Notice.

51l 9th street northwest, Washington ID.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14
A PROSPEROUS CITY.

The Gazette, in a local paragraph an
nouncing the filming of a number OF Joint
keepers gives the Wichita EAGLE a text
for a column editorial, the main drift of
which corresponds with the idea of the
Gazette that where business and prosperity
abounds, there also will a certain proper
ton of vice abound. We dissent, how
ever, from the main point attempted to be
made by the EAGLE, and that Is that be-
cause prohibition does not absolutely stop
the sale of intOXicants it is therefore "A
failure. If the church and all moral
agencies were to lie down vice would soon
be in the ascendancy.-kansas City
Gazette.
That is very unfairly begging the
question, and when next we take up the
cudgel in defence of your motor iously
wicked town the editor of the Gazette
will be older than he il. Who said any
anything about a desire TO see
the church and other moral
agencies abandoned? The very
thing that we sharply and definitely pro-
tested against was the assumption that
human laws were all that are necessary
and that they were being forced in to
take the place of the church and of the
moral agencies.
As to the political phase Of the ques-
ton, prohibition is not a Republican
tenet and is not so held to be outside of
a score or so of Kansas officeholders who
make the assertion the loudest when
they are the fullest.
The only place where the National Re-
publican party, as such, has supreme
control, and where it directly rules a
municipality, is Washington City,
the town for whose govern
ment a Republican congress and
a Repub lean president stands directly
responsible. From the report of Presi-
dent Douglas, of the District commits
sion made to President Harrison, on the
first of the present month, we see that
there were collected for licenses last year
in Washington City, the sum of $780,
SS5. IS. There is Republican rule for you,
whose head is the president
of the United States and who is a men,
Der in good standing of the same church
of our carrot-topped friend at the mouth
of the Kaw, which president and which
member of the church personally de-
clares himself to be in favor of a high
license as a temperance measure in pre-
ference to total prohibition.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14
IT LOOKS GOOD.
From the Kansas City Gazette.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
The Philadelphia Press, speaking of
the financial situation, says the worst is
past. Light is near. Gold imports have
begun. This always means easier money
and higher prices. They have even COM
menced in the face of a great need for
gold abroad, and vast holdings of our
stocks and bonds, which m ght come in
stead. In short, England is through sell
ing americans" From go to 20 we
built ZOO miles a wear, 20 to 80 4, $50
miles, 80 to 80 1900 miles This doub-
ling each decade points to at least II 900
miles year at this rate of increase for
ten years to come. For three years past,
we are short on railroad buildings. The
south has big cotton crop, good corn
yield, and digs more wealth out of the
ground every hour of the 81. Here are
$4,000, 900 people, under-supplied in all
that life needs, who in the next ten years
are going to raise toward the
northern level of comfort" The rail-
roads never had so much to do both
ways. We are done moving crops to the
seaboard alone. There are not cars
enough to carry the great tide of manu-
facturers to and fro. The biggest iron
out put of rhe world has been kept up
in price simply by building and
house-building, without new railroads,
and yet no one of the three for two year
has been at the past level Of flush years.
This country saves 81, 900, 0000 900 a year
and salts it down. 1t is the only country
in the world which has no big national
and local debt to absorb savings. Both
decrease. The Press says:
1--WE have no market abroad for our
manufactures. For the first time in our
history the treaty-making power is max
ing one. Suppose, by spring, as things
begin TO clear, there appears the grow
ing demand of new market in Cuba, in
Mexico, in Brazil and the like? Are we
not certain to see a sudden expansion and
a demand for capital in new enterprises
to extend and expand this new trape?
The truth is, the two countries which
are the least hurt by the great London
panic of 1890 are France and the United
States. France, because ii spends less
than it produces; the United States be-
cause it producet more than it can spend.
France cannot expand. Its patch Is full
of truck now and hoed every inch. Ours
we have only begun to develop, and the
is about to open before us in
the next decade. We are incliued to
thing that the after history of the great
Barring panic will be that it was the op-
portunity for the United Ssates TO step
into the greet world trade hitherto held
by England. All points this way, and
when to our expansion within we add
without-what country this
will be.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14
PAYING DEBTS.
From the St. Joe Ballot

From the st. Joe Ballot
If there is no people on the earth who
can plunge in debt faster and further
than Americans when they set their
heads about it, there is none who can pay
debts faster than they when they make
up their minds to the work. In the last
decade, our national bonded debt was re-
duced from 81, 709, 993, 100 to Sill, 313, ITO
"a decrease of S90s, 679. 600. In the
same period the bonded debts of the states
were reduced from S254, 900. 212 to S194,
500, 37l-a decrease of over $50, 00O, 900.
The debts of counties increased from
sl06. 767. GAG to $3.50, 734. 957-an increase
of S23, 967 600; and the debts of cities and
towns from 1864, 915, 412 to S720, 665. 551
an increase OF $50, $50, 000 The float
ing debts of states were increased from
81 ,514, 800 to $43. 1896, 21s; the floating
debts of counties were reduced from Sls,-
$685. 500 to S14, 95S, ISL; and the floating
debts of cities and towns were reduced
from $50, 579, 1929 to S25, 2S4. 235. Taking
all this indebtedness together-natiOnal,
state, county and municipal-it is seen
that there has been a reduction from So,
s27, 526,S17 to S1,s41, 1853, 325-the de-
crease having been at the rate Of about
SOS, 0O0, GOO year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14
BURLINGAME,S LOSS.

A fire occurred the other night at
Burlingame, Usage county, Kansas,
which destroyed the Bratton House.
The Bratton House was a little old fash
Toned frame hotel built in the fifties, on
the Santa Fe trail, which afterwards be-
came the principal avenue of the town.
Its value at the time of the fire probably
did not exceed couple of thousands of
dollars, but the modest old home-li1e
inn shines out brightly in the memory
of many an old time Kansan. Number
less shining chapters of the living, many
touching tale of the dead could
be written by those who have
partaken of the generous boun-
ties and cheer of that humble
caravansary, once recognized as the best
hotel in southern Kansas, all the territory
south of the Kaw river then being known
as southern Kansas. The great overland
stages running from Independence and
Westport, Mo-, TO Santa Fe, \. NJ, and
drawn by six mules and accompanied by
outriders, all stopped for meals at the
Bratton House. as did the jerkies and
stages plying between Lawrence and
Emporia and between Topeka and the
lower Neosho valley. Horses, mules.
drivers and passengers were all sure OF a
square meal" and a clean, comfortable
bed at the Bratton House. Rebecca
Jane Bratton, the landlady,
whose kind face and motherlv
manners are steadfastly linked to every
pleasant memory of the hospitable old
hosiery, is still living. having buried
her husband, her daughter and several
grown suns. Her life has indeed proved
a melodrama of adversely. The glare of
an unexpected flame which lit up the
skirting tree-line and of the hills of the
old town, last Saturday night, left in its
dull, cold and dead ashes all that re-
manned of the more ancient. the historic
and the loved Burlingame of the early
Kansas days.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14
For the Eagle.
L'ARGENT.

Find the key ope the lid. Of the coffin so deep
And give out the unused the high piled silver heap
To the men, who have given their help to the great
To propel and advance the great ship OF state.
But It's sailing along on a storm troubled sea,
And the people drink deep OF the bitterest lee,
Drink the dregs OF poverty brought by the drain
On the pocket. the rich men ill not up again
And the rich on the pulse of the market close keep
A firm finger. TO watch for its fall or its leap;
And they care not nor answer humanity's cry
From the weight Of the mortgages piling up high.
And all hope seemed the faint -iridescencep OF
dreams.
TIL at last comes light with clear silvery beams;
And voice prays the congress, SAY now, and say
whenl
You'll three hundred millions OF dollars give men.''
And so sharply that three hundred millions does
ring,
From the lips of the great Kansas SILVER Bill King,
he has brought them TO listen. and Try to redress
And relieve the great west Of its money distress.
And we know he will guard all our interests well.
OF the faith. Of his fr lends. all the future will te
He has worked from good motive, and not for the
fame.
And behold he has gained most honorable name
On his oar OF the ship all his strength he has lent
And it never has broken, although it has sent
Through political waters full many a
In his efforts the rights Of his people TO save.
And we must have money, TO fill our great need,
With sixty odd millions of people to feed
And the men, who are shackled, by debt. must be
Ere the sunshine shall fall on our greatest pros
perity.
Oh, Goddess OF Liberty list 10 our prayer,
The only free thing is country's pure air;
Give greenbacks In plenty, and silver coined free
lis our right It's our might IT'S our lands lib
erty.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14
sUNFLowER SIMMER.

Whoop Tomlinson is out for Senator In
gals reelection. He has been snubbed by
the Alliance
Senator Ingalls, wrote letter of
thanks" TO Grover Cleveland tor the
Acres letter
Farmer Funston is doing most Of the
smiling for the Kansas congressional del
egation, this session.
Now that the Alliance is in power, the
bottom of the quart strawberry box will
probably be pushed up another inch.
Luther Challis would walk around a
block to miss Senator ingalls,, where he
would walk two blocks to meet Senator
Plumb.
Il feel distinguished, said a man yes
terday; Il am the only man in town who
hasn't been mentioned for the United
States senate"
As soon as the Alliance representatives
get to Washington the farmers will quit
buying writing paper. The fly leaves of
Congressional Records will be good
enough.
Senator Plumb's silver bill is said to
have been drawn up with the help of
banker ST. John, of New York. Plumb is
a banker himself So much for the bills
feasibility
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14
THE PROPORTION OF SERMONS THAT
ARE REMEMBERED.

Canon Farrar in December Forum
/ have listened 10 many eloquent,
many striking, many admirable sermons.
l have forgotten, suppose. some five or
six thousand sermons-forgotten all
about them so completely that they have
not4eft a trace in the memory, though
at the time they may have had their in
finitesimal influence for good on the life
of every day. But of the remainder
there were some which left deeper and
indeed lifelong impressions. OF one Of
them. heard when l was boy Of four
teen, remember nothing but the man
ner in which, for all time, il impressed
the text itself upon my recollection.
That text was: "As the grass growing
upon the housetops, which withereth
afore it be plucked up, whereof the
mower filleth not his hand, neither he
that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom +"
Perhaps a sermon can produce no better
effect than to burn into the brain the
force, or the imagery, of particular
text. remember how much longed,
after hearing that sermon, that my life
might never be represented by such an
image Of utter uselessness-the rank.
coarse grass upon the thatch, which the
mower and the reaper alike desplse.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14

Kansas Democrats who depend upon
the Kansas City Times and the st. Louis
Republic for their political information,
know very little about what is going on
on the Democratic side in the country.
The Little Majah" of the Republic is
poor authority in political matters, as will
he found out in good season by Kansas
Democrats Topeka Democrat.
There is much truth in the foregoing,
but it would be much more forceful if it
were not inspired by the attitude of the
papers referred to in regard to the presi-
Dental nomination. Both the doctor
and the majah are ardent disciples of the
Williams street fat-riot.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14

The Hoisington Dispatch tells of a
German farmer, living north of that
town, who was in town Tuesday with two
loads of wheat. Upon inquiry it learned
from the grain dealer that this man last
year purchased 800 acres of land with
his wheat crop and $50 acres this year
with his wheat crop, paying $4,000 for
the land bought this year. The Dispatch
says the farmers Of Barton county are
getting in good shape and out few of
them are complaining. If Kansas could
add to her population goodly number
of such thrifty farmers as the one men
toned, with fair seasons her fertile lands
would all soon blossom as the rose and
the waste places all soon be built up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14
THE CENSUS AND CITY POPULA
TIONS.

Representative William NJ. Springer
points out in the December Forum that
the population of the United States has
increased between 1880 and 1890 from
$4,000, 900 to "a 600, 900, or about 26 per
cent. Deducting the urban population.
the increase of rural population is found
TO be on Y 8 per cent, while the increase
of the urban population is more than 81
per cent. This classification of urban
population includes only cities of 1900
inhabitants and upward, it would un-
doubleday appear that the rural popula-
ton had decreased during the decade,
while the total increase would be in the
cities. This general tesult has been
brought about notwithstanding the i'm
mense increase in population in the rural
districts in extreme western states, such
as the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Arkansas and Texas.
Table showing the increase of the total
population of several states and the in
of tho f.itv r,orIllatiop.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14

The principle of Uncle Dan Anthony's
search and seizure theory is just now be-
ing applied to his own private business,
to his very great discontinue. The
postmaster at Leavenworth has instituted
a censorship over the columns of the
Times, and the appearance therein of
anything that bears the suspicion of be-
ing in any way connected with lottery
of any sort, is enough to warrant the ex-
clusion of the Times from the mails. 1t
is very tough, but really, our very dear
relation mentioned above has got a
mighty small little kick acomin' to him
on the account stated. At any rate the
Bandana club of that town will hardly
circulate petitions in the Times behalf.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14

A circular has been sent out from
department headquarters of the Kansas
". r.. c., to all the posts in the state
asking that donations of clothing, bed
ding and other housekeeping parapher-
inmates of the Soldiers Homes to be
presented as Christmas gifts. All such
donations will be received by the local
posts and forwarded in time to reach the
Homes 10y Christmas. This is a most
worthy undertaking and should be
iberally responded to.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14
how A BOSTON FELLOW VIEWS IT.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
1t is simply disgusting to the person of
average intelligence, to see with what
persistency the government officials try to
deceive the people. The last statement
of Secretary Window is simply an insult
to every American citizen, when he says
that he has paid out during the last few
months and added to the circulation of
the country over 500, 900. There Is
hardly person in the land but knows
that this represents the sum taken from
g., 900, 900 people, by way of tariff taxes,
and returned by the secretary into the
pockets of less than 100, 900 individuals,
and the greater portion of 1t into the
pockets of less than l 900 bondholders, in
pa ment of bonds not yet due, with
large premiums added, while the circu
lation of the country has not in reality
been increased one dollar. But then the
amount received from the people. by the
government by way of tariff taxes, is
only drop in the bucket, to that re-
ceived by the manufacturers.
Jay Gould made, during the last cam
paign, the shortest and most effective
speech on the tariff of any one, when he
said that the man who had been wear
ing two coats would, since the passage of
the Mckinley bill, have to be content
with one, and this is protection in nut
shell.
This being true, our manufactures
would only employ one-half as many
workmen as before, and would also con-
sumo only one-half as much of the raw
materials, and while one-half of the
workmen would be idle. the other half
would not he able to obtain over one
half as much wages as before, on ac-
count OF the increased competition
among the laborers seeking employment.
Apply this rule now to every industry in
the land affected by the tariff and see if
protection tends in any way to make a
home market for the products of the
farm. As has been shown it decreases
the purchasing power Of the people and
the business of the whole country to an
amount equal to the tariff levied. A
system of taxation that depriveS one
half of the laborers of the country of the
means of subsisten and forces the other
half to work for half pay, will not tend
to enable them to buy more of the pro-
ducts of the farm, or very greatly en-
large our home markets"
Truly yours, r. II. LOCKWOOD.