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No Cholera In or Near AIex.aar,..

WARRINGTON. July 15.-In reply to his cable
gram Of inquiry sent yesterday. Surgeon Gen.
eral Wyman OF the Marine Hospital service
to-day received message from United States
Consul Ewing at Alexandria saying. There
10 absolutely no cholera in or in the vicinity OF
Alexandria,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-16
SUING WAIT WHITMdN'S ISTA7E.
His Former Hou-eheeper Says $500 arc
Due Her fOr Her Ss rvices.

Due Her nr Her Services.
PHILADELPHIA. July l5.-Suit is about to be
begun IN Camden by Mr.. Mary o. Davis
formerly housekeepsr for tho late Walt Whit
man. against the estate OF the Good Gray
Poet" for S5.4U0. The claim is for money ad-
vanced to the old poet for mark citing. nursing
and housekeeping SERVICES, Mrs. Dnvis pre-
ton. administrator Of the estate. but It was dis
allowed.
Tho attorney for the estate characterzes tho
claim AS the hascst ingratitude. Hc says tho
woman has no claim whatever against the
enc go. esSrs 'en o rn LIZ 10 ner aha
will
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FlIein Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH. July IA fire at midnight de-
Nroyed George NeurItter's block on Third
hLe"' corner II Marshall. Five stores and
sr'rn families were hnrnsd out Tho
Nal oss of tho tenants will cAcenI tl5.OOU.
aE Hcnrittor estimates his loss at Sz5O0L
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aor,u,,y Wounded Two nroth.r..

KNOXVILLE. July 15.-Near Clinton. Ander.
son county. yesterday Freeman and Nose Coz.
brothers, were shot and moftally wounded
while at work In u field. by George Bests. No
cause can TO assigned for the double murder.
posse is now searching for BeatS.
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An Avp.a, to Br Made 10 Mgr. snsoiu.

LOUISVILLE, July l5-Priests hero are about
10 appeal to Mgr. Satolli because Bishop Nc
nskeyannounceda competitive examination
10Y rich arsh and then appointed his secre-
tary to the lace
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-16

Tste the catskil Limited every Saturday. via New
York Central and Otis Bieyating Railway. Fastest
sine 70 the mountains
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FRESNO. Cal, July lathe Fresno Milling
CompRny's works were DESTROYED by nro this
morning. LOSS SlOUOO0
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh.
being constitutional disease, requires
a constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the di-
sease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have SO much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure. Send for list of Test.
monials. Address,
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
SSrSold by Druggists, 7sc. I'm.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
What a Pig Will Do

From the Denver City sun.
"Even pig will turn up its nose at
tobacco" says writer in a woman's S
journal True enough, and, by the
same token, pig has no use for ice
cream, and it does not like music, and
it would rather have bundle of straw
in its pen than picture from the
brush of Rembrandt. People cannot
be expected to regulate their likes and
dislikes in accordance with the tastes
of pigs. Tobacco is harmful in the
shape of cigarettes or candidates ci-
gars, but the ladies must use better
arguments than the above if they
would have its use discontinued.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
That Wicked Office Boy.
HE MANAGED TO SETTLE UP AN OLD
SCORE WITH THE TYPEWRITER.

From the Baltimore Herald
The Office bov and the blonde type
writer had quarreled. 1t was over a
trivial matter, to be sure, but never
theless they we're on the outs.
Both seemed spltefully revengeful,
and when one day the Office boy play
ed off sick and went to the base ball
game the typewriter made known to
the employer the youths sporting pro-
clivities. This, as might be expected,
caused trouble, and the wrath of the
Office boy against the young lady with
nimble fingers increased more and
more. Days passed, and the lad plan
ned and dreamed of schemes to "get
back" at his fair tormentor, who stood
so well in the graces of the employer.
Now on every typewriter there is a
small gong which rings when the end
of the line is reached The Office boy
knew this, and as he watched the
prettily tapered fingers throw back the
carriage at each tap of the bell he
smiled with fiendsh glee.
1t was late in the afternoon. The
young lady was industriously tapping
the keys to finish the FIRMS correspon-
dence, She had reached the last let
ter, and remarked to the Office boy
that her best young man was going
to take her to the theatre that evening.
Hence her hurry. This only made
the Office boy smile all the more, for
he knew that his time had come. His
eyes seemed to say, "Revenge is sweet
The young lady slipped the piece of
paper into the machine and began at
a lightning speed to write from her
notes
The youth watched the carriage
sliding to and fro. He took from his
pocket rusty nail and, as the type
writer wrote on unconsciously, he tap.
ped the bell lightly with the nail. The
young lady, never thinking, pushed the
paper up another line and went on.
Again the boy tapped the bell and
again the young lady turned the mach
inc. This was kept up until the maid
en- had written all there was to write.
A small figure had sneaked easily
out Of the door. The blonde with
drew the sheet from the machine. She
looked at it and looked again and saw
before her letter written something
after the fashion of the latter-day step.
ladder poetry. Not single line was
properly written. The girl grew
thoughtful. She seemed to remember
that the bell had rung trihe oftener
than usual. She looked about the
room and then she remembered that
the Office boy had once upon time
gone to base ball game and had re-
marked subsequently that he would
get even.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
The Thirteen Supersti tion.

10 Is said this strange superstition
extends away back to the time Of King
Arthur. When the good British king
founded the famous Round Table, he
requested Merlin, the enchanter, to ar
range the seats. Merlin arranged one
set to represent the apostles; twelve
were for the faithful adherents of Jesui
Christ and the thirteenth for the traito
Judas. The first were never occupied
save by the knights distinguished 70
their achievements, and when a deatl
occurred among them the seat rcmaine,
vacant until knight, surprising hir
in heroic and war-like attainmeats
should be considered worthy to fill tn
place. If an unworthy knight sougl
the vacant chair he was repelled =
some magic power. The thirteen
seat was never occupied but once. z.
story goes that naughty and insole
Saracen knight sat down upon it az
was Immediately swallowed up by tt
earth. Ever after IL was known as ~
"perilous seat" and, brave as the ce
brated knights of the Round Table al 1
said to have been, not one ever had .l,
courage 10 sit on the thirteenth che N
and the superstition against it still saf
wives. u
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
The Hand Of Fate,

From the Chicago Tribune.
"Mary Jane" exclaimed the editor
of the Bluegrass Vindicator, rushing
hurriedly into the house, "put me up
a little lunch as quick as you can
Where's my valise p
"In mercy's name, what is the mat.
ter, Jared p
"Matter ?" he shouted diving into
the bureau drawer for clean shirts and
other things necessary for journey,
"nothing's the matter, only wrote
last night that we noticed Colonel
Allgore riding about the city this morn
at comfortable jog and 1t came out
in the paper this morning comfortable
jag! I start for the Worlds Fair,
Mary Jane, in ten minutes if I'm still
alive p
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
Advice to Pretty Girls.

Here is some good advice for our
charming eldest daughter. If l were
you, my dear
l wouldn't turn my head TO look
after fine dresses or impertinent men.
l wouldn't forget to sew the braid
around the bottom of my skirt or the
button on my shoe.
l wouldn't conclude that every
man who said something pleasant to
me had fallen in love with me.
l would not, when could only
have one dress, choose conspicuous
one.
l would not, because was tired
and nervous, give snappy, ill-natured
replies to questions asked me by those
who really cared for me.
/ would not permit any girl friend
to complain to me Of her mother; it
is like listening to blasphemy.
l would not tell my private affairs
to my most intimate girl friend.
! would not grow weary in we'll
doing-indeed, / would keep on en-
couraging myself by trying to live up
to my ideal of woman and the very
fact Of my tying so hard would make
me achieve that which I wished
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
To Be Buried Alive.
MIND READER SEYMOUR TO SPEND OVER
THREE MONTHS UNDER GROUND.

Seymour, the mind reader, accom-
panied by his son, Arthur, is on his
way to Chicago, where he is to attempt
test that will, if successful, make
him famous the world over. He per-
formed some wonderful feats in the
streets of Williamsport a few months
ago. For example, he found knife
hidden in a cell at the police station
by a Sun reporter, driving to the
building b indfolded. AT Chicago he
is to be buried alive, after the alleged
manner of the East Indians, who say
they can suspend animation for any
period by swallowing their tongues
and controlling the heart and mind.
"My coffin has gone on ahead" said
Mr.. Seymour. at was made in Syra-
cuse and is fac simile Of the one in
which General Grants remains now
lie. 1t cost $1,000. 1t is made in
three sections, one fitting inside the
other. | will be buried six feet deep
In the coffin. Signals will be arranged
SO that if things don't go right l can
communicate with the soldiers on the
outside who will guard the grave.
Directly after l am buried a crop
Of barley will be sowed over the grave.
/ will remain buried until the germs
sprout, grow, ripen and are harvested.
Then the disinterment will take place.
| will not come back to earth until
Sept. "a. I am positive that | can
do it and the scientific men who are
assisting me to conduct the expert
ment are beginning to think SO too"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
PIGEONS ON BOARD SHIP.
Carried Out Of Sight Of Land, They Soon
Become Tame Pets.

Carried Out Of Sight Of Land, They Soon
Become Tame Pets.
On the return of the training ship
Portsmouth to the Brooklyn navy
yard from a voyage to the Mediter-
ranean she had a large number of
pigeons aboard. The birds were of the
common variety and lived in coop on
the hurricane deck near the forecastle.
The boys had procured them at some
port whilc the vessel was still cruising
about. One day at sea, when all traces
of land were lost, the birds were re.
leased from their prison. The crew
gathered on deck TO see what they
would do Some thought they would
not leave the ship; others expected to
see them take their bearings and then,
like carrier pigeons, fly landward. AL
were mistaken, says the Youths Com
:panion, for after Joyous sail over the
blue ocean they returned to their cage
and settled down to everyday life.
They became tame at once and fond Of
the sea men and boys, who fed them
from their hands. They constantly
fitted about the decks, at times even
causing annoyance by walking about
the gangway under the busy sailors
feet. At other times they would perch
in the rigging seemingly content with
their nautical lives In port they would
fly ashore, but always returned at
night to roost In their coop. When at
last the orders were given TO hoist an
chors for home many Of the pigeons
were out on their daily fly. The sails
were spread and the big ship was
waited away. The boys and sailors all
felt very sorry for the disappointment
the birds would meet that evening
when they returned and found the
ship had sailed. But before night,
when the land like tiny green speck
faded from sight In the twilight, there
was suddenly iutter in the rigging
and the missing birds dropped down
and entered their cage. The hearts Of
all the homeward bound ships COM
pany rejoiced. Upon their arrival in
Brooklyn the pigeons showed them
selves as much at home in the air
around the great bridge and over New
York city as in any foreign port.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
How the End Will Come.
DON'T GET scARED--THE EARTH's GOOD
FOR 10000, 900 YEARS YET.

M. Camille Flanmarion saws that
In all probability our planet will die a
natural death. That death will be the
consequence Of the extinction of the
sun in twenty million years or more
perhaps thirty--since its condensation
in relatively moderate rate will give
1t on one hand 1900, 900 years of
existence, while, on the other hand,
the inevitable fall of meteors into the
sun may double this number. Even
If you suppose the duration of the sun
to be prolonged to forty million years,
1t Is still incontestable that the radia-
tion from the sun cools it, and that
the temperature of all bodies tends to
an equilibrium. Then the earth and
all the other planets of our system will
cease to be the abode of life. They
will be erased from the great book and
will revolve, black cemeteries, around
an extinguished sun.
Will these planets continue to exist
even then Yes, probably, in the
case of Jupiter and perhaps Saturn.
No, beyond a doubt, for the small
bodies such as the earth, Venus, Mars,
Mercury and the moon. Already the
moon appears to have preceded US to
wards the final desert. Mars is much
further advanced than the earth to-
ward the same destiny. Venus young.
er than us, will doubtless survive us.
These little worlds lose their elements
of vitality much faster than the sun
loses its heat. From century to cen.
tury, from year to year, from day to
day, from hour to hour, the surface of
the earth is transformed. On the one
hand the continents are crumbling away
and being covered by the sea, which
insensibly and by slow degrees tends
to invade and submerge the entire
globe on the other hand the amount
of water on the surface of the globe is
diminishing A careful and reason
able calculation shows that by the act
ion of el lasure alone all the land on
our planet will be covered by water in
10000, 900 years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21

Mrs. S. H. Conklin writes from Mt.
Carmel, Conn.
Enclosed please find check for
bills of May I'd and Iath. l repeat
the qualification l expressed before as
to the convenience, the economy and
the real artistic beauty the National
Lead Company's Pure White Lead
Tinting Colors have proved to me in
using them. 1t would seem as if the
old way of trying to produce the de,
sired shade Of color by mixing many
colors together with much labor and
guess-work must be abandoned in
favor of your economical, sure and
easy method. My painters wish to in
troduce their use in an adjoining town,
and want couple of your books as
guides"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
Night as Well Have Been Closed.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
The bride of year was bemoaning
her fate. Her husband did not seem
to care for her as he did once. Be-
side, he drank too much whisky and
spent his evenings away from home.
The woman who listened to the COM
plant was not very sympathetic.
"You married him with your eyes
open," said she.
"Yes," sobbed the other, "p-b- but
we always turned lown the gas when
We were courting."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
Midsummer Novelties in Ladies' Hats.

Plain or elaborate, toilette can
hardly become success without an
accompanying hat which will harmon
ize and add to it the indispensable
finishing touch. But the selection of
the latter is problem of considerable
study, for one must bear in mind the
circumstances for which a costume is
intended and accordingly choose the
most appropriate head-gear. One
must also consult the possibilities of
ones purse, and most important of all,
one is compelled to remain mean.
while within the proper boundaries OF
the latest styles. When we come to
the latter, however, what a bewilder-
ing embarrassment of riches confront
us For the choice may extend from
the plain tailor toque to the complica-
ted garden hat made of some sheer
material, in other words, it may in
clude the whole range of the milliners'
creations delicate tinted straws !;
poems of lace and flowers or OF mater.
ial similar to that of the costume ten
MS and yachting caps Casino bonnets
and the infinite variety of bridal hats.
One of the characteristic features of
the Mcdowell Fashion Journals is that
they generally represent hat Of the
latest fashion with each costume, for
the double purpose of giving millinery
novelties and Of illustrating the intim-
ate relation between toilette and the
head-gear. The most popular of these
Fashion Magazines are "La Mode
de Paris "Paris Album Of Fashion,"
"I'he French Dressmaker'' and "La
Mode" The former two cost $3.50
each, a year, or IS cents copy. "The
French Dressmaker" is $500 per an
mum. or 80 cents copy. LA Mode"
costs only $3.50 a year, or IS cents
copy, and is intended to become the
home fashion journal par excellence,
If you are unable to procure any of
these magazines at your newsdealer,
do not accept any substitute, but apply
directly to Messrs. A. Mcdowell &
Co., West I4th Street, New York.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
MAKING CLEO.
How Uncle Sam Watches IL and How II
Is Made.

Is Made.
Hidden away In dark and cobwebby
corner beneath the roof of the treasury
at Washington is room filed with q
mysterious assemblage of queer-look-
ing apparatus which has the aspect OF
an nlchemists laboratory. Yet the
work done there hn TO do not with the
making of gold or vital elixir, bpt
with the analysis of food and drink,
says the Kansas City Journal. II is
the chemical division of the internal
revenue bureau, and one Of the mat
ters it has in charge is the detection
OF fraud in the sale of oleomargarine
for butter.
IL seems star tling 10 learn that the
consumption of oleomargarine in this
country has doubled in the last five
years. The people of the United States
eat four million pounds Of It every
month, or twenty-four thousand tons
annually Nearly all of II is put up by
the great meat packers of Chicago,
Cincinnati. New York, Providence and
Kansas City The manufacture of IL
is lawful but It is not permitted to
masquerade as butter in the market.
Suspected samples are pounced upon
by revenue agents and submitted to
chemical tests.
Three-fourths of the hotels and
nearly all of the restaurants and
boardinghouses in the United States
use oleomargarine. For their purposes
this artificial product is excellently
adapted. Whereas butter quickly
spoils, oleomargarine always looks
nice and remains fresh indefinitely.
Some of it which has been kept at the
treasury for three years is as good as
ever to-day. 1t is better In flavor
than any except first-rate butter. Peo-
pie who buy rancid butter for cooking
would do much better TO purchase oleo-
margarine. The best of the latter is
not cheap, costing as much as twenty
five cents a pound, thus approaching
ordinary grades of butter in price.
The peculiar flavor of butter is due
to the presence of forty-fve per cent.
of fatty acid. These acids are volatile
and rapidly decompose, hence the
rapidity with the substance spoils.
Oleomargarine contains very little of
such destructible material. 1t is made
from beef fat, which is removed from
the animal in the process of slaughter
ing, washed and placed in cold-water
bath. NeSt the fat is cut into small
pieces by machine and cooked until
the liquid portion has separated from
the tissues.
The liquid fat is settled until per-
fectly clear. Then it is pressed to ex-
tract the stearine, leaving pure
"oleo oil,' which, churned together
with milk and butter, becomes oleo-
margarine. The fat being almost
tasteless, butter is put in to give the
requisite flavor, the best oleomargarine
having twenty per cent. of the finest
hrtfor
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
Money Conditions the Only Cause,

The present financial revulsion is
entirely exceptional in the history of
our country. We have had panics
and seasons of severe financial and in
dustrial depression but they have al.
ways come from entirely different
causes than are potent now. We have
had revulsions logically following the
imitation Of values we have had re-
vulsions coming from inadequate
money we have had revulsions from
failure of our chief products but the
present revulsion comes from none of
these causes.
The people of the country are now
more generally solvent than at any
time in the past our harvests have
been bountiful our industries we're
generally employed until the money
disturbance came, and there is abun-
dance of money in the country. With
such favorable conditions, how could
the panic Gomez One cause, and
one cause alone, has brought our pres
ent disastrous depression, and that is
the loss of confidence in the credit of
the nation. National credit is the
foundation of all individual and busi-
mss credit, and when public credit
was impaired private credit could not
escape the blow
1t is purely and simply money re-
vulsion. Commerce, industry and
trade were all in the most favorable
conditions, but we blindly degraded
our money, sapped the vitals of pub.
lie credit, and finally the storm broke
upon us. 1t began by foreign distrust
of our insane silver policy that sent
millions OF American securities back
upon us to drain our gold. There
were logical reasons for halting new
foreign investments in our securities
in the severe liquidation resulting from
the South American and Australian
disasters but the general distrust of
our silver policy forced tens of millions
of our securities home to be converted
into gold.
With distrust developed abroad and
draining us of gold at the rate of a
million day, distrust steadily extend
ed into every channel of our varied
business affairs, money sought safety
IN boarding, values were depressed
until panic ruled, and we are now con-
fronted with the severest monetary de-
preston with the country solvent, its
products bountiful and money abun-
dant, solely because there is general
distrust of our financial policy.
The one distinguishing feature of
the present financial revulsion is in the
fact that it can be remedied promptly
by restoring public confidence in public
credit. Other revulsions require years
to recover from them. Broken credit
must be restored; deficient products
must be supplied by new harvests ;
but we now need only confidence in
the financial system of the government
to revive business and restore values.
The source of the evil is exceptional ;
IT is easily remedied, and we should
soon emerge from our present paraly-
Sis into enduring prosperity Times.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-07-21
A Victim of the Glass.

From the Detroit Free fress.
The woman was vain, excessively
vain, but she was pretty, and possibly
felt in her own heart that would ex-
cuse her. Whether it would or not,
she was at a reception one night and a
stranger was there also.
"My, that's a pretty woman" he
said as she passed.
"Yes," responded the person with
him, "but she is the victim of the
glass"
"You don't mean to say she drinks1
What pity"
"Oh, no mean the looking glass.