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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-20
4 Comparison of Birth Rates.

There are 3S,00O, 900 people in France,
and during the last five years the in
crease in population has only been 1884,
800. In 55 departments out of total Of
s6 there is actually diminution. 1t is
not due to any high average of deaths,
although infant mortality is higher than
it should be. 1t is due to the small mum
Der of children born. The average birth
rate has fallen to 81 or 22 per 1 900 in
habitants. This is a phenomenally low
rate when contrasted with 3S to 80 in
Germany, 35 or 36 in Italy, 33 in Eng
land and 80 in Switzerland The per-
centage is lower in France than in any
other country; so that there is rapid
increase in rival countries and France
remains stationary. Chicago Herald.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-20
A Medical Decision In 1918.

In 1915 cellar digger having been
stihed at Jena, the medical faculty of
the university decided that the cause
was not the direct action of the devil,
but a deadly gas. Thereupon Professor
Loescher, of the University of Witten-
berg, entered solemn protest, declaring
that the decision of the medical faculty
was "only proof of the lamentallo Ii
cense which has so taken posseyH,pn Of
us, and which if we are not carr tly on
our guard will finally turn a. y from
us the blessing Of God, DR. .ndrew
d. White in Popular Science \ .thly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-20
DIR. M. I. HESS,

Graduate Of the Philadelphia Dental Col
lege Office end floor 'front.' Lockard's Build
ing, corner of Main and Centre Streets,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-20
BLOOM SBURG, PA,

Dentistry in all its branches, Work guar
anteed as represented. Ether and Gas ad-
ministered or ELECTRIC VIBRATOR and Local
Anesthetics used for the painless extraction
of teeth free of charge when artificial teeth
are inserted
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-20
Tho waveriy Oaks.

The great oaks at Waverly, Mass. are
survivals of an oak forest that must
have existed in that region, according to
the geologists and students of trees, as
far back as the Tenth century. They
bear every evidence of great age, and an
elm tree in the neigborhood, now almost
dismantled, with its great limbs lying
on the ground and nearly all of its
branches decayed, is the most venerable
object in the line Of trees that can prob
ably be displayed in New England. 1t
is well worth visit to Waverly Just to
see this venerable elm. 1t is immense in
the size of its trunk, and its dignity in
decay is very impressive. The dozen
oak trees in the neighborhood are of the
sort that attain n very great age and
that maintain their virility unimpaired
We know Of only ono other oak tree
in New England that can be compared
with them. That is located in Ipswich,
and is larger and moro venerable appar-
emily than any of the Wavcrly oaks,
ard that and the Waverly oaks, we are
glad to know, havo been inspected by
the state park commissioners and are
likely to be preserved. 1t is worth ones
while to see and study these majestic
oaks. They are seen to Sres5 advantage
in the winter, when their rugged limbs
are bare and their immense strength is
revealed, and III summer when they are
covered with foliage, they are objects of
wonderful beauty.-Bostoa Herald.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-20
A Monument to Loyola.

Ignatius Loyola's followers have erect
ed a monument to his memory over the
spot where the fortunes of war decided
that Canada should be free British
country. "The Jesuits' Retreat" stands
in the city Of Quebec on the ground
consecrated by the blood Of English sol
diers, and in front of it has been placed
a colossal statue Of the founder of the
order.-Toronto Mail
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-20

The salary and emoluments of tho
Prince of Wales, supposed to be about
$500, 900, would probably be enough for
his private needs were he not put to 80
large an expense in performing royal and
social obligations which should be un-
dertaken by his royal mother. - New
York Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-01-20
Strategy.

Small Boy-Mamma wants yCT to send
her up two barrels of those a. ,es she
was lookin at.
Dealer-All right, sonny.
Say, couldn't you pour the t,o bar
rels into one big barrelY'
Sch? What for?"
"Then she couldn't get it through TIE
door Of the lock closet.!:-Good News.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
POULTRY FARMING.
1t Will Pay IT Managed with Wisdom and
EfnprpY.


Energy.
We have n letter before us from
young man who wants to go into poul-
try farming, and he asks the usual
questions, winding up with: "Does it
pay?" That question is asked thou
sand times year, and the inquirers all
know that poultry farming, like any
other kind of farming, will pay If man
aged right The evidence that it will
pay, that it has paid and that it is pay
ing now is overwhelming. 1t pays the
man who knows how and who has the
requisite energy and business ability.
A prominent firm in this city has with
in q few years worked up a family
trade in fresh eggs of nearly half
million dozen annually. 1t was done
by looking up the men who know how
to get eggs in the winter season. when
fresh eggs are a luxury. A representa-
tive of the firm said to us: I'VE care
nothing for the man who can furnish
eggs only when any fool can furnish
them-when uncared-for hens have a
mind to lay them We are looking for
the man who can send Us eggs when all
his neighbors' hens are frozen up"
They have found quite a number OF
these wide-awake men and are paying
them good prices for their eggs.
We understand they take the years
supply, winter and summer, simply to
hold the winter product We referred
last winter to one OF those men who
lives near Orrville, .. He has few
acres of land and keeps 800 hens. This
grocery firm sent him 500. so for his
February eggs last winter, and from
March 4 to IL, one week, his fowls
shelled out 1870 to l5s eggs per day, just
when they were bringing the tallest
prices.
Oh, yes, poultry-keeping pays the
man who puts brains, energy, skill and
the necessary capital into it. But it
must be made an all-the-year-round
business. If you give the hens vaca-
tion let it be in the summer when eggs
are low and poultry not wanted. The
dairyman who feeds the heads off a
lot of dry cows during the winter never
makes 1t up during the summer, and
the poultryman who lets his hens man.
age the business as they please will
soon require an assignee.
The man who quietly submits to cir
cumstances in any branch of business
is the man who gets left. The man who
makes circumstances is the man who
succeeds. Ohio Farmer.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
FAkM AND GARDEN.
SUNFLOWER SEED.
1t Has Great Possibilities as u Profit


1t Has Great Possibilities as "a Profitable
Farm Crop.
The North Carolina station has tried
experiments with the various kinds of
cultivated sunfowers. B. w. Kilgore
reports (B 30 b. that the average yield
per acre has been about 65 bushels.
The large striped or mammoth Russian
weighed nearly ~ pounds to the
bushel, yielding nearly 22 per cent, or
five and three-fourths pounds of oil.
The black giant or small seed weighed
3a pounds to the bushel, yielding near
ly 81 per cent, or six and two-thirds
pounds of oil. The sunflower has been
grown in Russia as farm crop for
half century. The small black
seeded variety is grown for its oil
which takes the place of all other veg
etable oils in many parts of Russia.
The large striped-seeded sort is used
largely as dainty food by the COM
mon people. The average yield is
about 45 bushels or 1850 pounds per
acre, Sun1ower-seed oil is extracted
in the same II amer as cottonseed oil,
by separating the hulls from the ker-
nels and expressing the oil from the
latter. SunAower seedcake is a highly
nitrogenous cattle food, and is largely
used in Germany and England for that
purpose. The hulls or shells arc more
than half of the seed and are used for
fuel, and the stalks and seed cups are
fed to sheep. Chemical analyses show
that the hulls of both varieties of sun
flower seed contain more protein, fats
and crude fiber and less nitrogen free
extract than cotton seedhulls. which
are just half the seed. This indicates
that they are at least equal, If not su-
perior, to cotton seed hulls as cattle
food. Whole cotton seed weighs 80
pounds to the bnshel, yielding nearly
20 per cent, or five and four-fifths
pounds of oil. Thus sunfower-seed
kernels contain the most oil, and the
other nutrients show that after the oil
is expressed, the sunflower cake is
rather more nutritious than the cot
ton seed cake. which is now largely
used in the south. Agricul-
turist.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09

"Luke,' he said. "they say your voice
is smoother and your tongue more elo-
qaent than any mans on the place. Go
down and see what he wants"
"You eclipsed my eloquence yester-
day afternoon" said !, sareastically;
but | went.
Finding the fresh young man from
the east was my friend, the stranger
became more communicative. dc said
that never in all his life had he allowed
such address without seeking satisfac-
tion. He simply wanted the fresh
young man to appear and defend him
sslf, rs he had sworn to shoot him on
sight. Then he cut piece from
great plug of tobacco and quietly put
it in his mouth. His manner almost
overawed me- 1t was so devoid OF blus-
ter, so matter-of fact and withal SO de-
termined.
You don't mean to say that you will
bring your battery to bear on him" l
gasped.
Il mean to shoot him!" he answered
pleasantly, and went on. that inas-
much as the young man from the east
had whipped many better man be-
fore breakfast" he saw no reason why
he should hide or go out OF the way OF
his evenings amusement. The opera
tors all along the line could swear to
the abuse he had received, and he gave
the fresh young man from the east just
five minutes to come out and show him.
SELF Otherwise he should find 1t neces-
sary to invade the office and blow the
roof off young Greene's head.
have seen angry men before, but
the saints defend me from such another
sight. The old mountain mans face
WAS the color of putty, but his eyes
were blazing, and every fiber OF his be-
ing shook with suppressed wrath.
was mute, and could do nothing
save carry my paralyzing intelligence
upstairs. He is regular fire eater,
Johnny! Gives you just five minutes to
get down! His own life is Of no conse-
quencc. but he must and will take
yours!' Upon hearing which the young
man had total collapse, and on his
knees begged and prayed me to pacify
the man waiting for him below.
My mind was made up that nothing
short of blood would wind up the affair,
and had no desire to see again, much
less try to conciliate the wrath OF the
old mountaineer.
But my frequent passing to and fro,
and the excitement Of the fresh young
man. had attracted the attention OF
the night manager, who had just come
on duty. He volunteered to go down
and have q look at the fire eater, and
reported: HE is the toughest of his
gang. l know him by sight Dead
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
BRAIN WORK PAYS.
The Farmer Who Leads Is the One That
Nakas TIM Mouav

The Farmer Who Leads Is the One That
Makes the Money.
Too many of us get into rut and
stay there. We plant and sow and reap
this year just us we have ever DONE We
do not strike out into new paths, and
il we get into new way it is after
some one else has pointed it out and
perhaps picked all the flowers that
bloomed along its sides. Very often a
little thought will lead us into more
profitable ways, and in these times the
farmer finds it necessary, absolutely
necessary, to get out of the old ruts.
Some years ago friend of ours plowed
up ten acres of new land and planted
it in cucumbers. His neighbors laughed
at him. He made pickles OF the cucum-
bers and sold the crop for 81, 900. Next
year every body around him planted Gu
cumbers and made nothing. Another
friend in anoth err section grew an acre
and half of onions. He thought he
would try it, never having tried it be-
fore. His crop was about 500 bushels,
which he sold for 81. 10 per bushel. The
next year all his neighbors grew onions,
but as it happened the price was very
low We know farmer who this year
planted 270 acres of sweet corn and
made profitable thing of it. We look
for about rybody who hears of it 70
go to raising sweet corn next year,
when down will come the price. We
need to study how to make changes in
our work and how to make them be-
fore other people. But we should be
careful about entering upon a branch
of production when it is likely that ev-
cry ybody else will take it up.-Farmers'
VOica
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
IS are degraded lilies.

RUsHEs are degraded lilies.
SoAPsUDs are excellent manure.
CORN can be fed cattle without shuck-
ing.
THE fat in a cheese determines its
market value.
IT does not pay to raise calf from a
poor or ordinary cow.
STRAW and oil cake meal form good
substitute for good hay
CABBAGE not fully ripe will winter
better than that matured.
Cows should be allowed as much pure
water as they will drink.
SEEDLEss apples are said to have been
produced at Columbus, Ore.
ENGLAND is officially reported free
of the foot-and-mouth disease.
A MoDERATE-sized, highly-cultivated
farm is the most profitable.
CREAM should invariably be removed
from the milk before it is sour.
To MAKE your fruit sell we'll, it must
be carefully picked and packed.
1T is well to consider the mutton as
first and the wool as only secondary.
THE strawberry will adapt itself to
and bear some fruit on almost any soil.
A COAT Of manure is one of the best
mulches for anything Of tender char
acter.
SHEEP thrive better II kept in the
open air as long as the weather will
permit.
MILK which shows less than three per
cent. Of fat is not profitable for cheese
making.
ONLY use milk from healthy cows,
and not until at least five days after
calying.
MILK readily absorbs odors, hence it
is important that all the surroundings
be pure.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
Discovery of n New Grain.

A traveller in the Himalayan noun
tain region has discovered that the
natives of that country cultivate a
grain hitherto unknown in civilized
agricultural operations, which has
something the look of wheat. but has
very much longer ears, and which has
peculiar inward curve. The shiny,
brown grain, unlike wheat, is, on the
other hand, much smaller than wheat
grains should be for so large an ear.
But the interest is that cereal of this
character should yield such heavy crops
in 80 high an altitude, where the sea-
sons are nece ssarily short and the tenn
perature low The natives call the
grain kownee. 1t would be well to
look after this kownee grain in connec-
ton with onr higher northwestern
agricultural interests. 1t would seem
that such plant might succeed even
in southern Alaska, where turnips, po-
tatoes and similar cold country vege.
tables are known to succeed fairly well.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09

guide the two middle horses. just
back of the place where the checks
branch off, buckle two other checks
which will guide the two outside horses
of the team, passing through their
hame rings in the usual way and over
the back of the middle horse which is
next to him. That is the checks Of one
line will attach to rings aaa of the
brides and those of the other to rings
b b b b SO that pulling either line will
turn all of the horses The length to
make the outside (extra) checks can be
estimated pretty closely and they can
be made longer or shorter as may be
needed to work properly by means of
the buckle. A single pair of lines with
''jockey sticks" on the two outside
horses could be used, though that is an
awkward way and rather uncomfort-
able arrangement for the horses.-Or-
ange Judd Farmer.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
THE TWlCE.TOLD TALE.

When We ars gone and known no more on
Garth.
Still peace shall dwell where once we lived
and died,
0iad hearts shall beat and swell with deep
pure pride,
Nor times rude sway shut up the sounds OF
mirth.
All then why grieve, O soul since change must
come.
And brows SO fair must pale and dark lines
show
All soon shall sleep meath mounds of cold
white snow,
And at deaths clear, sharp call, each voice
grow dumb
Change waits on oil. the king, the serf, the
clown:
The bard whose song not ags can dim or
stale;
None mono is free from the dark Tollman' 3
frown
Where rolls the tide Of Styx tno wild false
tale),
Yet past the flood, II tn 1u dost trust in One
The Sea CT God and Man. Thy way is won.
w. X Palmer, In Springfield (Mass) Repub'
lican.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
SOutache Embroidery.

This claims to be somewhat novel,
inasmuch as it is not braiding, but a
mixture Of narrow cotton braid with
fancy stitches, which may be as numer-
GUS as the fancy Of the worker ca n
desire; it may be done, Of course, in
wooden or silk braid. Ordinary braid
ing patterns and some conventional
flowers and Mountmellick designs can
be used in soutache work, but very
intricate pattern is unsuitable. There
are various ways of sewing down the
braid. Some people use fancy stitches,
others run it down with what is called
sole de cotton, very fine, strong cot
ton, which can be had to match the
braid and washes we'll. Soutache en-
broidery is very useful for ornamenting
tea and sideboard cloths, laundry bags,
brush, comb and night-dress sachets,
children's dresses, aprons, sunshades,
etc.-in short, any articles that 90 to
the wash and which lend themselves
to such decoration.-St Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
HAIL FROM THAT TOWN."

few upstairs, the very spirit Of mis-
chief in me.
Johnny" said I. ellis Royal Nibs 10
waiting below to set you a-leakingr"
I never saw man change counten-
ance SO quickly. Dismay was written
all over him, and instead Of rushing
downstairs in the bold and warlike
manner he affected, he asked my ad-
vice.
''Provide yourself with good horse
pistol. crawl downstairs, and get the
drop on him." said l, readily, making
another effort to restrain my mirth.
He stepped back, and the color left
his very lips as he confessed: Luke, I
never handled weapon in all my lifel'
was staggered. A vision of the per-
sonification of quiet determination
waiting below flashed before me, and
demanded: "What in - brings you
out here?"
II don't know" he said, in o stifed
voice.
8 "What do you suppose you are going
to dor"
II don't know" he said again. "Un-
less you will intercede for me-"
''Intercede? With that man? You
don't know what You ask He'll make
you fghti"
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
supERsrlTlous RAILRoADERs.
The Effect Which Accidents Have on EN-
gineers aud Firemen.

The Eject Which Accidehts HAVE oi' D'
gineers and Firemen.
OF the superstition of sailors, fishfolk
and others we have all heard, but that
such distinguishing characteristic
should have attached itself to railway
men does not appear to be generaiiy
known. 1t savors somewhat oil the
anomalous that such pre-eminently
practical class of men should be the
victims of credulity regarding the SUI
pernatural. Such, however, is the case.
l recently had occasion to interview
prominent railway official, and in the
course of the conversation that ensued
that gentleman incidentally alluded to
two collisions which had lately oc-
Cured in the neighborhood, following
up his remarks with the announce
ment that the local men would be in
state of subdued excitement and
'flurry' till third mishap took place.
Such is the superstition of the railway
man. Upon expressing considerable
astonishment l was assured that this
kind of thing was notorious among
railway men in general, and in this
particular instance it was known that
the circumstances Of the two previous
accidents were the chief topics among
the workmen in all departments, who
were also counting on the possibilities
of third disaster.
Curiously enough touch OF realism
was lent to the information just i'm
parted by the explanation that the
~ fyv0 o.
ferred to was due to the driver OF one
Of the engines, reliable servant noted
for his alertness and precision, with an
honorable record of some forty years
service who was, it was bslieTca, SO
disturbed over the 'omens" OF the first
occurrence and so engrossed with what
he felt would be two other catastro-
Plies that he committed the slight er-
ror of Judgment which caused his loco
motive to crash into another coming in
an opposite direction. The statement
is given as the conviction of one who
has spent upward Of a quarter OF CEN
tury among railway men of all classes
and who has known the driver alluded
to for long period OF years. So came
about second collision. Surely su
perstition could go no further than
this.
But here is tragic sequel-a sequel
which, unfortunately will in all prob
ability do much to strengthen the rep
rehensible belief of these men. Two
days after the interview above men
toned, within fifteen minutes drive
from the scene of the second collision,
an express mail failed to take the
points, portion Of the train with the
tender Of the engine was violently
thrown across the rails and one poor
stoker killed. This is what the rail
way men will term their third mis-
hap. There's the third they say;
and now perhaps they will breathe
freely for a season.-London Tid-Bits.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
The Cost of Eggs In winter.

If large amount of feed is given the
hens. and they do not lay, each egg
will be costly, hence the feeding is not
so much matter of economy in price
as economy in lessening expenses by se-
curing greater production. If pound
of meat costing ten cents will promote
the laying OF two or three eggs, it is
cheaper than grain at any price II no
eggs are obtained. 1t is very plain,
therefore, that the cheapest food to use
is that which will make the hens lay,
and thisis also regulated by the warmth
Of the poultry house.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
BIRTH RATE AMONG NEGROES.
Increase in Negro Babies Shown by the
Last Census Report.

Increase in Negro Babies Shown by the
Last Census Report.
According to figures furnished by the
census office it is found that the total
colored population under 10 years of
age at the census Of 1890 was 2, 1855, ,00O
Referring to the census of 1880 we find
that the total colored population under
10 years of age at that census was 2, 1884,
900. In other words the colored popu-
lation from 1880 to 1890 contributed to
the population Of 1890 only 1000 more
than the colored population contrib
uted by births from 1870 to 1880. AS
we know, the total colored population
at the census of 1880 was considerably
greater than the colored population at
the census Of 1870, still the increase due
to births was substantially no greater
This remarkable showing can only be
explained on one basis-namely:
marked falling off in the birth rate
during the decade 1sS0-1s90
For fear that some careless person
may say that this simply indicates
defective enumeration at the census of
1890 we would call attention to the fact
that it is not possible in an enumera-
tion to omit more persons at one age
period than at another, and therefore
the proportion of children under 10
years Of age at each census to the total
enumerated at that census would indi-
cate the relative birth rate and would
be entirely free from any consequences
due to defective enumeration, and in
the case of colored people would also
not be disturbed by immigration. Re-
ferring to the various censuses we find
that this percentage Of population less
than 10 years Of age to the total popu.
lo tiop xvac ms fO11Ous.