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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
Spring Styles for Ladies.

Our lady friends who wish to be
properly and fashionably dressed would
do well to glance over the Fashion
Letter in La Mode de Paris" Gal.
bum des Modes or " La Mode" the
favorite fashion journals. This letter
is one CT the best on the subject with
which it deals, explaining particularly
the styles prevailing or coming in
fashion. Ladies would do we'll to pat
ronize these journals, which are not
only reliable, but are now considered
the Standards of Fashion wherever
they are known. The Practical
Lesson on Cutting given each month
in " Album des Modes and " La
Mode de Paris is intended to explain
fully how to make the new styles as
soon as they appear. The series of
lessons has been produced under the
direct supervision of Mr.. A. MDowell
the inventor of the wellknown Garment
Drafting Machine, which has proved
such a boon to thousands of dress
makers, and has made the cutting and
perfect fitting of ladies' garments an
easy task to all. La Mode" is a
good family journal, price $I.5o a
year. ''La Mode de Paris" and Sal
bum des Modes" are intended for more
general use, the subscription for each
being $3.50 year. To every subs
criber for either of these journals who
pays years subscription in advance
will be given a Premium Book on
"Dfessmaking Simplihed," valued at
$500. Failing to obtain these jour
mails from your news agent send for
them direct to A. MDowell & Co.,
4 West I4th Street, New York.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
Reading Railroad Grants Half Fares To
Clergymen'

The Passenger Department of The
Reading Railroad announces that on
and after March Ist, clerical tickets
will be sold to ministers of the gospel
at half rates, upon presentation of
clerical orders" These latter can be
obtained by clergymen, not engaged in
other paying occupations, upon appli-
cation in writing to the ticket agent at
the station nearest their homes.
In extending this recognition to a
class of gentlemen whose benefcient
labors do not USUALLY meet with ade-
quate recompense, the Reading Rail
road furnishes another evidence of the
liberal policy which characterizes its
management.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
The Gro,to Of c.rv.nt...

Within few years the Spanish gov
crnment has placed a commemorative
tablet at the entrance Of the grotto where
Cervantes, the author of "Don Quixote"
and his companions in slavery hid them
selves. 1t is on the side of the hill of
HANNA, about three miles south of AL
giers, in picturesque situation and sur
rounded by an impenetrable thicket.
Cervantes was taken prisoner in 1915
by Barbary corsairs, and fell into the
hands Of the renegade Albanian, Deli
Mani. Certantes and his companions
escaped from deli Mani, but could not
escape from the country. A brother Of
Cervantes was ransomed in 1877, and
promised the captives to send frigate
from Valencia or the Balearic Isles,
which should touch at point of the
shore agreed upon, and rescue them by
force or strategy. 10
The place where they took refuge was
near the seashore. A gardener named
Juan, under the direction of Cervantes,
secretly cut out cave, in which the Is
Christian prisoners hid themselves Juan
watched the neighborhood and allowed
no one to approach the cavern, and an
other slave brought food to the captives,
who dared leave their hiding place only
at night .-.I ~..rI..H. eer
After eight days, during which Ger.
vantes watched tile sea. he saw the frigate
which had come to rescue them. That
evening the frigate approached the land,
but fishermen gave the alarm, and SO
many people assembled that the captain
was obliged to go to sea again. He made
a second attempt little later, but unfor.
tunately was captured. aaf
The day after the frigate was taken the
captives were betrayed. Cervantes was
sent TO the convict prison, and little
later, just as he was about to be sent to
Constantinople, where the possibility Of
rescue would be lost forever, lie was ran.
somed. | '
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
No subterfuges.
CThe Patriot, Harrisburg, Feb. 18th, 1892,
E1itorial)

The stupendous and unlawful rail-
road "deap' can only be properly and
efectually assailed by the State author
tiles and in the name Of the State.
1t is mockery and false pretense
to say that private litigant should in
stitute legal proceedings against the
combine" A private person would
not have the legal status, the wealth,
nor the legal facilities for making an
efficient contest The State has stand
ing and priority in her tribunals that
the citizen has not. Besides, the issue
should not be embarrassed nor obscured
by the injection Of any private interests
in the controversy r '.H.. .I
The State may well say and ought
to say that it has no concern with the
conflicting interests, ambitions or riv.
alries of corporations, syndicates, or
individuals. It's concern ought only
to be to uphold the laws, enforce the
Constitution, protect the rights Of all
the people. and to compel the corpoi-
atoms that hold the franchises of the
Commonwealth to obey and conform
to its fundamental law.
There need be and should be NO
subterfuges nor false pretenses in the
matter. If the State authorities do
not act, nobody else can act efficiently
and the monopoly will be given immu.
nifty There can be no shifting of re.
sponsibility. The executive authori.
ties, as all the world can see, are either
with the Constitution or with the mon.
opoly. There is no middle ground and
the people will not be deceived
-fdU. ...... . ..'
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
Twisting the Lions Tail.

From Harper's Weekly. .'sg ~ N
1t is a cheap bid for an Irish cheer
to twist the tail Of the English lion,
and when domestic politics darken, il
is an old trick to cry havoc against
England. But, as Goodwin Smith
showed us during the war, and still re,
minds us from time to time, there are
two Englands, and one Of them was
with us in the most threatening days
o. the great struggle, and is with us
still. The London Clubs and drawing
rooms and society were hostile in feel
ing, but the workmen--even the cot
ton-factory operatives and the great
republican sentiment were friendly.
The vulgar appeal to the old prejudice
"a prejudice which began with the
Revolution, was confirmed by the war
of 1872, and renewed by the civil war
is one which intelligent and patriot
ic Englishmen as well as Americans
will carefully discountenance. Amer
leans who feel that the late British
newspaper outbreak about the Chilian
affair was wholly uncalled-for must re-
member that English, like American
newspapers have an instinct for SEN
sation, and the same willingness to stir
the passions of mob. 1t will, more
over occur to them that our tone in
speaking of English institutions and
society and manners and customs is
not soothing to English pride.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
The London Poor.
SOME STARTLING STATISTICS.

Mary Lowe Dickinson, In Harper's Bazar.
The latest statistics tells us that out
OF London's four to five millions of
people, more than three hundred thous-
and earn less than three shillings a
day per family. Between forty and
forty FIVE thousand Children in the
Board Schools alone 90 to school hun
cry every morning, and rarely know a,
any time what it is to have sufficient
food.
They tell us also that one weeks in
come of the owners of London's ground,
the value of which increases at the rate
OF four millions annually, would pro-
vide a dinner every day in the year for
each one of the forty thousand ill-fed
children, and that London's poor could
be decently housed on the unearned
increment of year.
Facts like these, pictures like this
one before us, naturally make us ques-
tion whether the time is not ripe for
the favored and happy to stop and
consider the problem of the poor.
The same pitiless statis,ician, who
goes on building pyramid of proof
by piling convincing fact on fact, states
that London has over thirty thousand
people who have no home and nc
shelter but that afforded by the four.
penny Doss House and the Casual
Ward.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
JACK AND JILL aceoun,s ahs's are as to s''iS"s So~

the man got into the moon. A com
mon one with us is that he was banished
for having been detected by Moses in
the act of gathering sticks on the Sab
bath. In German legend he commit.
ted the same offence, and was given
the alternative Of being scorched in
the sun or frozen in the moon. In Ice
landic myth the man becomes the two
children familiarly known as Jack and
Jill, who were kidnapped by the moon.
There we see them stand with bucket
or pole across their shoulders, falling
away, one after the other, as the moon
wanes. And so it is that ...
"Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after"
Now, just as sure as the moon wanes,
just SO sure does disease wane under
the influence of S. S. S. The differ
ence being, however, that Jack and
Jill never 60 up the hill any more in
the latter case, the eradication of dis
ease by this medicine being complete
and permanent. N s.'ga s."
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
UNCLE LIPH.s PHILOSOPHY.
A Queer Old Man who Was Never
Worried About Anything.


Eliphalet Duncan, or "Uncle Liph." as
he was familiarly called by his relatives
and friends, possessed what lie termed
"philosophizin' mind" which stood him
in good stead on many occasions, says
Youths Companion.
"What's the sense o. worritin' over
etl,ings that y lIappened?" he used to
ay. "Jest view 'ein over careful an
you'll allus find they've got side you
kin dwell on an take some comfort
uutn it,"
lie had his share of dscomforts and
trials, but he was "well to do" man,
md some of his less fortunate neighbors
said that "if they were rs forehanded as
Uncle Liph, 'twould come easier to bear
up under things" ..... ....
He had lived In one house ever since
his marriage, when a very young man,
but when he was about so years old the
old house was getting so dilapidated that
he had a new one built on lot of land
which commanded better view of the
hills. lie also built q new barn, whicl,
was well stored with hay and grain.
Much new furniture was bought and
Uncle Liph and his wife, with their one
unmarried daughter, were to move over
to the "new place" in October.
The last Of September the Duncan
family, together with many friends.
went to the county fair, which was held
eight or nine miles away.
Late in the afternoon boy arrived at
the fair and announced to Uncle Lph
with Mortified gasps that his new barn
had caught fire, nobody knew how, and
the only neighbor who had stayed at
home had been making fruitless attempts
to put out the flames. ....- .rr.-. .
When the Duncan family arrived at
| the site of what was to have been their
new home in q week or two the barn had
been entirely destroyed and the house
was rapidly burning. ...,.r. .aT
The next morning a farmer driving
slowly past the scene of the conGagration
espied Uncle Liph seated on the stone
wall, in Eliminating attitude. He
turned around as he heard the sound of
wheels, and said slowly, I'm viewin' my
ruins, ye sect"
"Well," said his friend, with some
energy, am bound to say, Uncle Liph,
ef was in your shoes, l sh'd find it con-
sidduble of stump to philosophize over
this mess"
"Ye-es, drawled the afflicted Elipha-
let, "tis more difficult n usu'l, but, he
added, frightening little, Its all fer
the best, in course; an then, jest see
what complete job 'tis there amt any
thin left wuth speakin of except ashes /;
an ye know allus was great hand t.
like things finished up, without any
shilly shallyin' or half way work"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
Merit Wins.

We desire to say to our citizens, that for
years we have been selling Dr. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, DIR. Kings New
Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Elec-
tric Bitters, and have never handled reme-
DIES that sell as we'll, or that have given such
universal satisfaction. We do not hesitate
ready to refund the purchase price, If salts
.emedies have won their great popularity
purely on their merits. c. A. Klein, drug
sist.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Use Bulls Head Horse and Cattle
Powder in cases of general debility
among your animals. Price IS cents
per package of I 1b. full weight. q.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
DIR. Meeker's Medicines are pure and

DIR. Meeker's Medicines are pure and
a sure cure for whatever they claim.
Lung tonic for colds. Speedy relief
for pains, internal and external.
Blackberry CORDIAL for bowel com
plants, for young and old. Every
bottle guaranteed. For sale by all
druggists. Manufactured by H. c. Il
]. A. Olmstead. Williamsport, Pa.
All put up in IS and 50 cts bottles.
6-I9-I yr.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
$4,000 Reward

for a recipe that will enable us TO make
WoLFFs ACME BLACKING Mt such price
that q retailer can proftably sell it at fOc. a
bottle. This offer is open until Jan. lst 1893.
WOLFF q RANDOLPH, Philadelphia.
, 1892-04-20
A SPLENDID OFFER.

TIE price Of THE WEEKLY OLYMPIA
TRIBUNE, the official paper Of the county, is
one dollar per year with a chance of secur-
inga fine $500 parlor pipe organ ~ inches in
length, 7616 inches in height, % inches in
depth and Of elegant design and
sweet tone. There is not handsomer
parlor pipe organ made at any price.
It is simply natchless. Subscribe
for The WEEKLY TRIBUNE and you
may get the organ. Last year THE
The TRIBUNE gave away a fine Singer sew
ing machine by the same method. THE
WEEKLY TRIBUNE has the largest circula-
tion in the county and is BY all odds the
newsiest weekly in this part of the country.
During the coming state and presidential
campaign, both THE DAILY and WEEKLY
TRIBUNE will be faithful epitome of the
news Of the day from all sections Of the
state and country. It is the only news
paper west of Seattle and Tacoma receiving
and printing the Associated Press dispatch
es. Subscribers 70 The DAILY TRIBUNE re-
ceiYe free accident policy, the details Of
which will be found on the first page of the
daily. Subscribers for one years WEEKLY
TRIBUNE have an opportunity to secure the
splendid $500 organ. Subscribe to the week
ly and send it to your friends in the east.
# you do not take THE DAILY or WEEKLY
TRIBUNE you will not get the news.
, 1892-04-20
ReattY,s Pianos ANA organs.

Hon. Daniel F. Beatty, the great organ
and piano manufacturer, is building and
shipping more organs and pianos than
ever. In 1870 Mr.. Beatty left home a pen
niless plow boy, and BY his indomitable
will ne has worked his way up SO as to sell
SO far, nearly 100000 Of Beatty's organs
and pianos since 1870. Nothing seems to
dishearten him; obstacles in his way that
would have wrecked any ordinary man for
ever, he turns to an advertisement and
struments, as is well known, are very pop
ular and are to be found in all parts Of the
world. We are informed that during the
next ten years he intends to sell 200 600
more Of his make, that means a business
of $40, ,00o, 900 if we average them at S1OO
each. 1t is already the largest business of
the kind in existence. Send to Daniel It.
Beatty, Washington, New Jersey, for cata-
logue.
, 1892-04-20
Chamges in Willapa TRarbor.


The south channel into Willapa harbor
has recently shoaled and contracted to such
an extent as to make navigation danger
Gus II consequence ms 2 Of VIII which l al the buoys
The north channel has shifted 1N miles, to
the northward. The outer buoy (P. S. cam J
of the north channel has been moved to a
position in 48 feet Of water, from which
Willapa bay light bears NE. by N, dis
tant ~ miles. The course from this buoy
from II to 10 feet Of water. AT the North
Cove entrance new red buoy, No 2, has
been placed in 10 feet of water to mark the
western end Of Jenny Ford spit, Willapa
bay light bearing w. e NJ, distant 9-10
miles. Oft Nema sands a new black can
buoy, No. O, has been placed in 8 feet of wa
ter to mark q shoal to the northward of
Nema sands, Goose point bearing NE. by
g. distant 2 1-10 miles,
, 1892-04-20
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that phenomenal success Of illustrated
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The Graphic Co., Dearborn and Harrison
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every town in the United States.
, 1892-04-20
RuckIsm,s Arntca Sarva

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is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
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, 1892-04-20
BartOn's Handbook.

If you want to know all about the state
of Washington, its constitution, its re-
sources and the names of state and county
officers, with a great deal of other valuable
information, purchase Barton's Handbook
for 1891 and 1892-price, $1.00.
, 1892-04-20
Cheap Rates.

For cheapest rates to st. Paul, Milwau-
kee, Kansas City, Chicago and all points
East and South, apply to ]. G. Perciyal,
agent Union Pacific r. r. n24tf,
, 1892-04-20
T,OOk HArai

Have you tried Davis Best Flour, made
at our home mills2 If not, just try sack.
Telephone No 98.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-02-19
OPEN HANDED MR.. FIELD.
A Generous Act of a Good Man
Told Here for the First Time.

A Generous Act Of a Good Man
Told Here for the First Time.
1t was in Cyrus W. Field Office, says
the New York Press. A matronly
looking woman OF As entered. She
told Mr.. Field that she was Instantly
related to him. She was born in Stock
bridge, Mass, and her father was O.
second cousin to Mr.. Fields father.
She showed him letters that establish
ed her identity beyond doubt.
"Now what can l do for your" said
Mr.. Field.
"Well, sir" she said, "my husband
is dead and Ihave big family. I've
got mortgage on my little farm in
Massachusetts and-and l need little
money"
"Big family, eh-how many chill.
dren?"
"Six," was the reply.
"Well, like to helpa person when
ever can, like to help my relatives
first of ALL Now, I'll tell you what
I'll do. I'll give your children $1OO
each and you $500. Will that help
you2"
"0h, yes" said she trembling, as
the tears rolled down her cheeks.
CAL right, then" said MIR. Field and
he wrote out check for 81, 100 and
handed it to her, at the same time in
Producing one of his clerks to 90 with
her to the bank to see that she got
the money.
u don't know how to thank you,"
said the woman.
"Never mind that" said Mr.. Field.
go and get the money. Don't spend
it foolishly. When you get your
mortgage fixed write and tell me how
you are getting on. Good day"
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-02-19
NOT TO HIS LIKING.
How Charley Criticized Smoking
Jacket Intended For Himself

How Charley Criticized a Smoking
Jacket Intended For Himself.
A tired little woman was shopping
one day last week at the counter OF
one OF our large clothing houses, and
a cross-looking man with her was try
ing on a smoking jacket under her d.
rections.
"Do you think Jack would like this
one, Charlie?' she asked, then she
said in an aside to the salesman,
"Jack is my brother"
"He's an ungrateful dog if he
doesn't" growled the impatient
model, who was her husband, as any
body with hall an eye could see.
at is very cheap" she said, land
not lined with satin all through.
Would you wear it?"
"Would /? Just try me. Do you
suppose that any man that had ap-
probation wouldn't be glad to get
such d garment" and he picked up
the disputed fabric in his thumb and
finger.
Hes just your size, and it fits you
splendidly. But l intend to spend
more money on a smoking coat; this
is so cheap"
"More money? Why you have
everything requisite, good cloth, fine
fit; what more do you want? That's
enough for q smoking coat for any
man living"
ayes, 1 suppose SO. Well dear, I'll
take it. And you need not wait any
longer" and she smiled sweetly as
great load was lifted off her
mind
Outside her husband meets q
chum.
"Great scheme, Fred. I've just been
fitted for q smoking jacket that my
wife is going to send to her brother. l
wouldn't be seen dead in the thing,
but it will suit him all right. Got it
cheap, too, which is another advan-
tage,"
Meanwhile the wife was saying TO
the salesman in the clothing
store:
"If you'll be kind enough to keep it
until the day before Christmas l will
have it sent up then. My husband
will be so surprised when he finds it
was fer him!" - Detroit Free
Press,
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-02-19

denly as if it had been struck a
blow.
"What do you mean, Queenie9 Has
any one come between us? Good
Godw
She moves to the door that divides
the drawing room from the little din
ing room and opens it very softly.
There is an odor of tobacco about
the room, and Reggy Vale lies
back IN an armchair enjoying an ante.
prandial nap and snoring slightly.
eyes," she says, pointing to him,
"some one has-my husband"
She crosses the room on tiptoe and,
bending her fair head over tho back OF
his chair, kisses him lightly on the
forehead.
When she goes back to the drawing
room it is empty.
4 4 n
Every one knows how Cis Lorrimer,
late OF the Crimson Cuirassiers, got
into the Mounted Infantry in Egypt
and was killed at the Ghazi Dhru
Wells business.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-02-19
THE MESSENGERS FRIEND.
How He Relieved Tired Boy of an
Uncomfortable Load.

How He Relieved a Tired Boy of an
Uncomfortable Load.
A very small boy was crossing
Lafayette square, the most beautiful
of Washington's parks, one Sunday
morning. He wore the blue uniform
of the district messenger boys and
was Juggling with both hands a basket
containing some ported palms and
roses which doubtless were to decorate
rich dinner table.
He was a pathetic figure that little
chap, and every one in the park was
noticing him, says Caroline Z. Pepper
in Wide Awake. 1t was such a warm
morning for December and the energy
which he might have had if there had
been snow on the ground became Ian
guor and listlessness. He at last set
the big basket down and looked at it
helplessly.
"Tired out, are you my boy?" came
friendly voice from behind him, and
the messenger glanced up at q distin-
guished-looking man.
Tired out?" the question was re.
peated.
Eyes, sir"
"Have you to go far?
eyes, sir"
"Well, am going your way;I can
help you a Bit" and the gentleman
picked up the basket and carried it
some distance, the little chap trudg.
ing at his side. AS they walked along
the small boy grew confidential, told
who he was and where he lived, and
finally, in burst OF good comrade-
ship, asked his companion where he
lived.
Just across the street from where
met you," was the answer, as the
gentleman slipped a coin in the boys
hand, "in that white house opposite
Lafayette park"
For it was the occupant of the
White Houp>, the President OF the
United States, who was carrying the
flower boys basket.