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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02
VOL. 26
The river is frozen over.
Elegant sleighing everywhere.

ne river is frozen over.
Elegant sleighing everywhere.
How do you like our general ap-
pearance, anyhow.
Work on the Court house was stop-
ped by the snow and cold weather.
L. B. Irwin, the Catawissa grocer
and oyster dealer, sold over ten thous-
and shell oysters during Christmas
week.
The license notices are published
this week in the COLUMBIAN and Ne,rs
Item. The Prothonotary will not be
sued this year.
We make our best bow, and wish
you all Happy New Year, even if we
are one day late.
A new heading graces the top of
this page. 1t is very much the style
of the old one, but more condensed.
Ar interesting letter will be found
on the seventh page of this issue from
w. II. JacoDy.
On Saturday last, Geo f. Elwell,
trustee, sold the S. Baldy property in
Catawissa to p. B. Erwin for $4,000.
Real estate in Catawissa is advanc-
ing. Judge Hughes recently sold a
property there, of one hundred feet
front, for $4,000 cash.
With the changes in type, in width
OF column, in form and in size that has
been made in The COLUMBIAN this
week, it has been impossible to get
everything just as it should be. II
there are any imperfections in the pap
er they will be remeded as soon as
discovered.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

A fox hunting party was out on
Friday last and succeeded in captur-
ing one animal alive. The hunters
were ]. H. Mercer. w. F. Bodine, G..
E. Savage, Silos Chamberlin, Thomas
Vannatta and some others. They
started up second fox but some
other hunters bagged the game, as the
report of guns was heard and the
hounds all came running back. There
is evidently great deal of excitement
in fox hunt, judging from the en-
thusiasm with which it is entered into
by many of our sportsmen.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

Lloyd P. Zaner at Jamison City has
fine turnouts in his livery stable. The
sleighing is excellent in that section
and he is ready to accommodate ALL
He. is prepared at all times to take
parties to any section. Those wish
ing to reach Ganoga lake or to cross
over the mountain to Laporte or
other points should call upon him.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

In one of the show windows of the
Lowenberg store there has been a dis
play of hand-painted china for the
past two weeks. Many pieces disap-
peared before Christmas, having been
purchased for gifts. The decoration
was the work Of Miss Regina Lowen-
berg, and it is executed in a most
skillful and artistic manner. Some of
the pieces are limitations of Royal
Worcester, and no one but an expert
could tell the difference. A few ar
ticles are still left, but they will not re-
main long as the exceedingly low
prices for that kind of work will insure
a speedy sale.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

Prothonotary w. H. Snyder closes
his two terms of office with a very
creditable record. He has been at,
tentive to his duties, always courteous
end obliging to all who treated him in
the same way, and always ready to de-
fend his rights. He goes out OF Office
with the best wishes of the bench and
bar. Mr.. Snyder is member of the
bar and will probably follow his pro-
fession.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

Easy expectoration, increased pow
er of the lungs and the enjc,ment of
rest, are the rewards, upon taking DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup, to all consump-
tives.
Cuts, burns and all other wounds,
can be cured in a short time by the
use of Salvation Oil, the greatest cure
on earth for pain. Price IS cents
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

On the first Monday of last term it
was remarked by the Court that on
such day there was no necessity for
the use of a stenographer. Acting up,
on that suggestion Prof Walker makes
no charge against the county for that
day nor will he in the future unless re-
quired by the Court to take notes of
an issue of fact.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

l. Maier's clothing store is illumina-
ted by three very large coal oil lamps,
the tank of each holding thres gallons.
They make his store very brilliant,
and show off his large stock of goods to
great advantage.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

AT the request of number of our
readers we shall resume the publica-
tion of the Bloomsburg Market reports
and correct them weekly. The New
York market reports will also appear
regularly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

The Christmas celebration of the
Sunday school of the Episcopal church
was held last Saturday evening. The
scholars were presented with candies
and fruit, and Christmas tree was ar
ranged in the chancel. The exercises
were of an interesting character.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

A party of dozen young men rem
dered some excellent vocal music on
the streets on Christmas night. They
serenaded a number of residences, and
their voices sounded very well on the
midnight air.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

Rev. DIR. ]. H. Hopkins, formerly
of Williamsport, and we'll known by
many here, writes from Troy N, Y,
that he is slowly growing weaker, and
never expects to recover from the
malady with which he is affected.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

T. H. Edgars new planning mill at
Saltwater was completed in sixty days
after the old one was destroyed by
fire. He has increased his capacity
and will soon be in running order, fully
prepared to fill orders for all kinds of
mill work. Hardy is an enterprising
business man.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

H. G.. and W.. II. Housed are manu-
featuring and selling the Wells, Econ
omical Erasers for school black boards.
These erasers are said to be the best
in the market, and the demand for
them is rapidly increasing. School
directors should ascertain the merits
of these goods before buying erasers
for their respective districts.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

Casper Kressler always has sup
ply of ice cream even during the ex-
treme cold weather. He has some
customers who desire it all the year,
and he therefore makes sufficient to
accommodate any who may call.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

The Y. M. c. A. is now getting on
a'permanent basis, and expects soon
to have a hall and reading room where
its members and the public generally
may congregate and receive mutual
benefit.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

Among the Christmas decorations
in the Episcopal church is a quantity
of holly from the south, presented
through the kindness Of Mr.. B. G..
NAPLES.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

There is some talk of banquet on
the occasion Of the installation of
the newly elected officers of the Royal
Arcanum.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

The Bloom Band went to Millville
on Wednesday afternoon. to attend q
concert and supper.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

For scrofula in every form Hoods
Sarsaparilla is radical, reliable rem
edy. 1t has an unequalled record of
cures.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

A. o. Stonge, of Montour township,
was the first person to pay his subscrip-
ton on January I, 1891.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-02

Harman & Hassert are doing a
great business. Their men find con
slant employment, and at good wages.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

DIR. Meredith's Sunday school connected
with the Tompklns Avenue church is one of
the largest in the county, numbering over
1000. With the very large branch school
belonging to the Park Avenue church and
presided over by an assistant pastor, there
is brought under his supervision probably
the greatest number of Sunday school
pupils influenced by any man in the coun-
try.
These circumstances give especial inter
est to his opinions on Sunday school
methods, the more so that the quarters oc-
cupied by his Sunday school-the success
of the Tompkins Avenue church having
compelled it to put up new and imposing
bulldings-are called the most modern, best
arranged and most carefully considered
with respect to their uses of any Sunday
school rooms in the country; they are, in
deed, the last word in Sunday school archi-
lecture.
what is now the approved method" l
found opportunity to ask him few days
ago, ''of housing a Sunday school! Does
experience favor one large room or a con-
siderable number of smaller ones?n
Both he ans wered. 1.-The well regu-
lated modern Sunday school of any size re-
quires the one large room for preliminary
assemblage and the smaller rooms for class
work in the different departments.
I'm our Sunday school we have the large
main hall with anterooms, and about it on
three sides are the classrooms. These are
of half the height only of the. large room,
so that we get two stories or tiers. All the
partitions are arranged to shove up and
down or to one side, and all are on a line
with the eyes of the superintendent. so
that when the school opens everything is
thrown into one great assembling chamber,
without barriers to sight or to hearing
Afterward the partitions are drawn and
each class has full liberty for it's own work,
and the children can ask their questions
aloud instead of whispering.
This separation is absolutely necessary.
for the teachers ought not to have less than
forty five minutes with the older pupils,
while twenty or twenty-five minutes is
enough to tire the little ones.
In my Sunday school we have on one
side, off the main floor, one large room for
the primary department, which includes
what people used to call the infant classes,
that is children who have not yet learned
to read. We throw all these into one great
class and teach them together. They have
rising seats arranged in concentric semi
circles, so that all may see the black boards.
We give them object teaching to interest
them and call out their intelligence, and we
make great use of large colored cards and
pictures"
cat how early an age do you think it pro
fitable for a child to come in?"
MANY mothers bring children of three
and sit with them. l approve of this be
cause the child's mind thus opens from the
very first amid the right surroundings
The Sunday school room seems homelike tt
| it, and there is good deal of value to be at
tached to these first impressions on the con
! seriousness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

81 do not believe the present system of
assigning teacher to every Chinese pupil
can be changed; the Chinese cannot be
taught in classes. But the teachers should
be mature women, not young girls. When
a Chinaman makes love to his teacher, in
ninety-nine cases out of hundred It's the
teachers fault. She could have inspired
him and ought to have inspired him with
very different feelings. She needs tact
and-years."
HAS there not been marked advance of
late in Sunday school music?'
Indeed, yes; off in the wilderness some
where there may be schools still singing
Hold the Fort and other such jingle music
matched with nonsense words, but all the
new music is of much higher order. In
our school we use the Laudes, Domino ,
teaching the children the same hymns that
are sung in church and prayer meeting"
The superintendent's position must be
becoming, in the larger schools, of more
and more Importance"
''In no long time the superintendent
will be engaged at high salary to give his
entire time. Then instead of assistant pas
tors we shall have pastors assistants. The
superintendent will be such an assistant,
and if he is, as he ought to be, the best bus.
mess man in the parish, S., 900 or Sc, 900 will
not be too much to pay him. He will work
throughout the week among the congrega-
ton for the Sunday school. The South
church in New Britain, Connecticut, has
salaried superintendent, and the practice
is sure to be followed. City Sunday schools
are becoming great and complicated organ
iZatiOnS." ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

about the other two sides are the Bible
class rooms There are two stories of these,
tWenty-eight in all. The rooms vary in
size accommodating from forty down.
Some of the classes are mixed, in others
the sexes are separated; this IS as circum-
stances dictate, we have no rule. Some of
the classes are taught by men, others by
women; the largest mixed class is taught
very successfully by young man,
The large majority of Sunday school
teachers are women!"
s'No, full half of mine are men; have
just about as many men as women right
through the school.
but before we drop Sunday school archi-
lecture, let me say that the present general
arrangement of Sunday school rooms was
originated by Dutch architect of Akron,
Ohio, whose name was Snyder. He planned
the first modern Sunday school for Louis
Miller, of the Chautauqua association,
when Miller was settled at Akron about
twenty years ago. Snyder's ideas have
been greatly developed and modified, and l
myself have introduced conveniences he
never thought of, but for the main outline
now followed by all progressive city schools
the credit belongs to him.
Many Sunday school workers do not
agree with me. you understand, as to the
ACCESSIBILITY OF keeping the primary de-
partment all in one great class or as to hav-
ing the little ones present with the older
scholars at the opening of the school. Some
would divide them for more individual
teaching, and would have their rooms
wholly separated and would almost make
OF them separate school with separate
administration. But l believe in getting
for short time all pupils together, for the
sake Of the esprit de corps, and to let the lit
tie ones fully realize that they belong to the
great body"
what do you regard as Sunday school
teachers most ess sntial qualifications"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
In SABBATH SCHOOLS
Rev. DR.. Meredith Interestingly
Describes them.
THE LARGEST IN THE COUNTRY
Music Teachers, the International Lessons
and Chinese Pupils Deeply Discussed
by Competent Authority.

New YORK, Feb. 10, 1S91.-[Special cor
espondence of The HERALD. The Rev.
DR.. r. r. Meredith is an authority on the
modern Sunday school Perhaps he is the
most generally recognized authority in the
country. His commanding influence in
Sunday school work dates back from a
dozen or fifteen years. In Boston his
weekly exposition of the international les
sons, filled fremont Temple winter after
winter every Saturday afternoon. When
he left the Hub two or three years ago for
Brooklyn large offers were made him to
remain and devote himself to that work al
together.
Since he became pastor of the Tompkins
avenue Congregational church, in the city
OF churches, great audiences of Sunday
school workers have gathered every Tues
day evening to hear his discussion of the
lesson for the succeeding Sunday. With
out regard for UNCONVENTIONAL lines, people
of all creeds and of both sexes fill his enor-
nous normal class, which thus becomes,
probably, the most forceful agency in the
country for the training of Sunday school
teachers; Methodists, Presbyterians, Bap-
fists alike finding matter of interest in his
clear-cut, luminous and intensely practical
Christology. Question and answer fly fast,
and persons specially interested in Sunday
school work often come long distances, even
from other states, to attend.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
Uncle Sam No Ones Accomplioe

People who desire to conceal their where
aboutS had better not send letters under
cover for remailing to postmasters. Such
epistles, before being forwarded, are always
endorsed; Received from - (name of
postofiice) with request to postmaster to
mail" MIR. Mexican, postmaster at
Pittsburg, says: eve have made it a rule
to do this, SO that it will be impossible TO
use the mails for fraudulent purposes.
Anyway, if that Endorsement was not on
it the letter would bear lie on its face. as
it would be stamped as mailed at Pitts
burg, when in reality it was mailed some
other place. Only the other day got a
letter from Chicago which contained an
envelope addressed to a lady at Chicago.
The request came with 1t that mail il
from Pittsburg. ] did so, but that indorse-
ment was on it, and if the writer thought
he was misleading any one he was mis-
taken"
And a Pittsburg carrier thus tells how
the rule works:
81 know one particular instance where
some one is being fooled. / deliver a letter
to a lady on my route occasionally which
has been mailed from Chicago, with the
statement printed on the front that it wa,
sent from Pittsburg, Pa. The lady one day
asked me the meaning of the Endorsement,
and told her. She grew very excited and
said:
"'You see my husband is trying to fool
me. He tells me that he has to be in Chi.
cago about four days every two weeks, and
he claims he is writing to me from that
place, and here he never leaves Pittsburg.
will keep all these letters and get even
with him some day."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

AS soon as you discover any falling of
the hair or grayness always use Halls Hair
Remover to tone up the secretions and pre-
vent badness or grayuess.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
END OF A LONG SEARCH.
A Sister and Brother Meet After Year.
of SeDaratiOn

A Sister and Brother Meet After Year.
of Separation.
James c. McNealus, night editor of the
Press News association in New York, has
recently found sister from whom he had
not heard for twenty-three years, and the
circumstances are as strange as those usu-
ally employed by the novelist.
When James G. and Mary McNealus
were and years old respectively their
mother died, and a few years later they
found different homes. James went to the
far west, and for some cause which they
have never been able to discover the letters
of both went astFay-at any rate were
never delivered-and as the young woman
had entered convent school and the young
man was in Texas they completely lost
trace of each other.
He married in Texas, but after a few
years his wife died, and as soon as conve-
nient he visited the old neighborhood in
Ulster county, n. Y, where former adj
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
WHOPPERS
SOME
Stories Overheard in the Demo-
cratic Cloak Room.
SCREW WORMS OF LOUISIANA
Strange and Remarkable Animals that Abound
I'm the Observation-Disclosures
Flies and Grasshoppers.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is, 91.-[Special
correspondence of The HERALD. Il
dropped into the Democratic cloak room of
the House the other day. There was q
bright fire in the little CRATE. The apart
ment was warm and comfortable. Seated
near the CRATE were four or five Democratic
Congressman, lolling in easy chairs, rub
bling their legs and enjoying the bright glow
of the Goals Among them were Hon. Sam
uel Matthews Robertson, of Baton Rouge,
and the Hon. Littleton Wilde Moore, of La
Grange, Texas. Robertson is manly
young fellow, with regular features, a
clear complexion and an eagle eye. He has
pursued many deer through the swamps
of Louisiana and has won a national repu-
tation as bear hunter. He succeeded his
father as a member of Congress three years
ago. Moore is tall gentleman, with blue
eyes, sandy hair, rudy complexion and a
hchen growth upon his chin. He is a con-
ventional Texan in attire, manner and con-
versation. He served in the Confederate
army, and had been on the bench in Texas
Tor years before he entered Congress.
Robertson was telling bear story when
l entered the room. He lamented the ap-
pearanee of the screw worm in his section
of Louisiana this year. He has lately been
hunting in the eros tete country, on the
border of the Atchafaylaya swamp. His
party had run down an enormous bear, and
finally killed it. The animal seemed to have
a magnificent pelt As usual there, they
slipped rope around its upper jaw, tied
the rope to the tail of swamp pony and
dragged bruin into camp. When they came
to skin the beast, they found the hide ut
terly worthless. The body was perforated
with screw worms. Not morsel of the
meat could be eaten. Even the paws, which
areregarded as great delicacy in the south
were valueless.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
seriousness


" The room above the primary depart.
ment belongs to the juvenile department.
Children are transferred to this Just as
soon as they can read. They remain in it
until they are about twelve or thirteen
years old. The Juvenile department occu-
pies one room only. but it is divided into
thirty five different classes under as many
teachers. 1t is the aim to keep the classes
small so that each pupil may get individual
attention. Some classes include as many
as twelve children but the most not above
nine For my part, l think eight about the
best number.
''The room is furnished with thirty-five
tables and each class gathers with the
teacher about one of these.
'sThe floor of the main Sunday school hall
is given to the intermediate department,
broken into seventy-four classes of young
people form tw elve to seventeen or eigh-
teen years old. This alsois furnished with
tables supplied with maps, reference books,
etc., and about these sit classes and teach
ers.
''All the work Of the Sunday school Ii
brary is attended to outside the season.! We
do not allow any running about of librari-
ans to distract attention.
Zone side of the Sunday school hall
opens, as l said, upon the anterooms, and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

The judge described how the grasshopper
generated its species. 1t finds bed of
muck, sits down in it like a dog on his
launches, plants its fore feet in the mud
and deposits its eggs. VIXEN the egg is
Matched the insects appear in swarms, feed
upon everything around them, and, as soon
as their wings are strong enough to fly, rise
in the air and are borne away by the wind.
Moore said that the Comanches esteemed
the grasshopper as rare delicacy. A shout
of JOY went up from these Indians when
ever cloud of the insects settled upon the
prairie. In a trice, a great ring of fire was
set around them. The flames drove them
to common centre. There they were piled
upon each other like pyramid and persisted
in the heat. The fire baked them and the
savages sat around the heap and ate them
very much as gourmands eat prawns. In
fact, a baked grasshopper somewhat resem
bles prawn.
For oyer an hour did these distinguished
yet natural naturalists naturally entertain
visitors TO the cloak room. The visitors sat
with open mouths eagerly drinking in the
information. There was occasionally an in
credulous smile and an expression of aston
ishment. All, however, revolted when the
Texan began to tell snake stories, He as
serted that there are in Texas what are
known as glass snakes. They are found on
the bottom lands and look like jointed
beads of glass. When struck with WHIP
the joints fall apart. AS soon as the assail
ant disappears, however, each joint crawls
back to its place and falls into line, making
connections with snap. The snake is then
again in trim and ready for business.
This remarkable snake story was supple
mented by one still more remarkable. The
judge asserted that while he was out on q
prairie one day he saw snake fifteen feet
long chasing its tail around in a circle, in
much the same manner dog plays with its
narrative. Finally the snake caught the
end of its tail and began to swallow it. 1,
continued the operation until it swallowed
itself out of sight.
Here news was received that the great
political screw worm, known as the force
bill, had been plugged with the silver bill
in the Senate, and the party adjourned
highly edited and greatly refreshed.
AMOS j. CUMMINGS.