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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-23
NEW YORK POLITICS.
Official Changes That May Result From
the Political Revolution.
Special Albany Letter.

Special Albany Letter.
Everybody here is discussing the
coming political changes. The Repub-
lican victory has been 30 complete that
it is now in the power of the Republic
cans to secure nearly every office un-
der the State government. The burn
ing question is whether the new admin
istration will observe the spirit Of the
civil service law or make a clean
sweep. The Republican boys" are
certainly in favor of turning out every
Democrat who can be reached.
The executive clerks and appointees
of the Governor number about twelve,
and charges are expected in this office.
Gov.-elect Morton has been so promi-
nent as a financier and statesman that
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-23
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WeaknesS of Young Men Curad

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Weakness, Affections of the Ear, Eye, Nose and
Throat, Asthma Deafness, Tumors, cancers,
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gto2.
Enclose Ave 2-cent stamps for symptom blanks
and my book called an Gw Life"
Will pay one thousand dollars In gold to
anyone whom | cannot cure OF EPILEPTIC
COMMISSIONS or FITS.
DIR. L.. GREwER,
OLD PosT-0FFICE BUILDING,
5-l5-1y. Scranton, Pa.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-23
He Probably Saw Her.

did you tell Mr.. Getthere / was not
in?" said Miss Dukkets.
II did, num-" said Bridget.
What did he say?"
He said, Well. tell her to come
down as soon as she is in He's In the
parlor. Rare Bits.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-23

Penelope-Do you notice anything
striking in this room?
staylate-No. Did I lock as though
did?
Penelope-I didn't know but that
you might have heard the clock.-The
Million.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-23

rather experimental in any case.
While the Police Department has kept
down anarchistic sentiment, it has been
by winking at or catering to the vices
that are natural to degraded natures.
Yet European governments have near
ly always pandered to vice as a means
OF diverting the poor and wretched
from uprisings. Tammany has really
dealt with a European problem by
European methods.
The problem is not new The gov
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-23

WTIIT DUIUTE tFttIIIIHIIy 0Hc
rentier sex, every one OF whom should subscribe to
Demoresrs Magazine. IL you are unacqualnted with
Ito merits. send for a specimen copy nree), and
you will admit that seeing these THUMBS has put
Magazine everything to satisfy the literary wants a
the whole family.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
The Magic of Music.

The most curious incidents connected
with memory are of course its entire lapse,
and such cases arc not by any means 50
infrequent as is generally supposed. 1t is
startling enough no doubt TO hear "a fellow
creature asking another fellow creature to
tell him who he is, but such things have
actually happened. Indeed it was only
last year that u case of the kind was en-
gaging the attention of Melbourne physi-
clans a young man, about 80 years of age,
called at the police barracks and demand
ed to be informed as to his own identity.
AT first it was thought that the man was
lunatic, but 1t soon became evident that
his statement as to his memory having
failed him was perfectly genuine. He was
taken into custody and kept in Melbourne
Jail, where he was the object of much at
tention and curiosity on the part of physi-
clans and wardcns.
He persisted in the declaration that he
did not remember anything before the day
on which he visited the police barracks,
and several medical men expressed their
belief in his statement, attributing his
lack of memory to masked epilepsy Curl
ously enough the man ultimately recover
ed his senses" through the music of the
Jail Sunday service. One morning he was
observed listening intently to the singing.
He was questioned about it, and said: Il
seem to have heard that before some
where. What is it?" He did not under
stand when told it was music, but at tho
close of the service DR.. Shields took him
up to the organ, and, having shown him
that the sounds he had heard were pro-
duced by lingering the keys, seated him in
front of the instrument
The man struck several notes unintel-
lightly and then chord or two in har-
mony, and in an instant, with a look OF
pleasure, he commenced selection from
1.-The Creation, " which he played correctly
and well. He used the stops and showed
that he was familiar with the instrument
and in this way, as already indicated, he
gradually recovered his loss of memory
Gentleman'S Magazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
lie Obtained the Ruble.

l once had an adventure with drosky
driver in st. Petersburg whose tactics
in order to obtain extra payment for driv-
ing me We're moro ingenious than II threat
to hang himself or throw himself into the
Neva. l wanted to give him so kopecs,
and he demanded a ruble, but as l was
determined not to give way he suddenly,
to my amazement, flung himself on his
face on the floor of the open drosky,
joined his hands in an attitude of sup
plication and began to bawl n wild screed
of, to me, then incomprehensiblo Slavonic.
what on earth is he bowling about?"
asked my interpreter. l was informed in
reply that my istrostchik was praying
that the soul of the wicked stranger might
not be consigned to eternal torment for
his cruelty in seeking to reduce humble
drosky driver, his wife and family to a
condition bordering on starvation. The
prayer fetched" me, and gavo him tho
disputed twenty kopecs.-G. 4. Sald, in the
London Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
The Boarding House Mistress.

Mrs. Emma Ewing the principal of the
Chautauqua school of cookery, seems to
think that women do not appreciate the
chances for making money there are in
keeping boardcrs She says keepers of
boarding houses should make more money
than majority of men make at the re-
specttye occupations in which they are en-
gagged The trouble is in many cases
that woman is left to earn her living
and reluctantly decides on opening n
boarding house as the most likely way,
without any special training or aptitude
for the business. Very likely she does not
know one piece of meat from another and
is not herself an especially good cook,
No one thinks of fitting herself to keep
a boarding house, but Mrs. Ewing's expe-
rience should qualify her to make the state
ment that there is money in the business
If woman has energy, intelligence, and
will take pains to qualify herself for tho
position. There is n growing interest ev-
cry day In the subject of good, nutritious,
we'll cooked food, and old housekeepcrs
are finding out that there is right way
and wrong way for even such a prosaio
action as the washing of bread pan or of
dishes in which eggs have been cooked.
For the most part women of intelli-
gence and ability shrink from the cares
of n boarding house as the most unpleas-
ant kind of employment, and yet just these
women are needed to keep first class es-
Establishments. AS far as the city goes there
seem to be two extremes, the boarding
house mistress who knows nothing of
marketing, does not understand what she
can afford and depends too much on serv-
ants, with the inevitable result of losing
Il =. i.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
Maryland Biscuits.

While it is true that we send plum pud-
dings to England and may send Goals to
Newcastle, it is altogether impossible that
the rest of the world should ever send bis
cults to Maryland though this-her recipe
for the samc--she takes pleasure in max
ing known to the rest of the world not
oomfortcd with Maryland biscuits.
Aunt Dnah takes 2 quarts of flour, a
heaping tablespoonful of lard, q table
spoonful of salt, and mixes them to a very
stiff dough, adding the cold water eau
tiously for fear of getting it too soft and
sticky. Then she works and works it on
the bread board till it blisters all over
the dough, not the board-when she breaks
1t off in small pieces, molds it with her
fingers into tiny, shapely forms, picks
them with IA fork and puts them in hot
oven to cook. If the temperature is right,
they will be brown and crisp in 90 min
utes,
This is the way they are Iuado on the
eastern shore, while on the western shore
the process differs only in that they are
beaten vigorously with mallet or po-
tato masher instead of working with the
hands, and though the biscuits from both
sections of the state are delicious there is
perhaps finer flakiness about the beaten
ones.-Neto York Herald
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

A bed cover made Of heavy white linen
sheeting hemstitchcd all around, and
etched in II conventional design with blue
linen floss, with fringe on either bedside
of blue and white floss, simply knottcd
In, would mako bcdsprcad i'm every way
desirable for blue and white room. A
much less expensive and equally attract
i've cover is made of heavy unbleached
cotton shooting Clustering in onp corner
and reaching across the spread Is grace
tul design of wuOdbinc etched in crewcls
of almost every shade of green, brown and
yellow An unobstrusivc red note is sup
piled by an occasional bunch of berries
done i'm that color A deep hem about the
whole cover il feather stitched in yellow
crcwcl, and crcwcls of the varied shades
tied into tho hem on two sides form an at
tractivc fringe. a long, narrow scarf Of
the shceting, similarly etched and finished,
forms the covering for the pillows, and
not the least desirable thing about such
spreads as these is tho ease with which
they can be kept in condition.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
How to Steam the Face.

Have the teakettle boiling for you at a
certain hour. Take a newspaper, fold down
the middle, pin two of the ends behind and
put it over your head like big hood, let
ting it come well over your face in front.
Rub your face thoroughly with any good
cold cream, sit down by the kitchen range,
your paper bag over your head and your
nose as close to the spout of the boiling
kettle as you dare to. Don't tempt fate too
far, or you may burn your face Keep
turning first one check and then the other,
so that all parts of the face may be steamed
equally. Keep this up for 10 or 20 min
utes or until you have porspired freely.
Now don't rub this grease and perspira-
ton off with towel, but take a silver
bladed knife and gently scrape tho debris
away, even as a man scrapes whiskers
from his features
After every bit is removed battle the
face with warm water in which q few
drops of sweet scented benzoin have been
poured. If you are going out doors, dash
the face with cold water to prevent chap
ping, but if you are going to remain at
home rub little cold cream under the
eyes, over the eyebrows and behind the
ears, for these are the quarters in which
the telltale wrinkles first begin to come.
Then go lie down and take "a nap and
wakcn refreshed and as glowing as a IT,
year-old girl.-Hedlh.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
Indian Pilgrimages.

These Indian pill rimagcs are mostly
undertaken in the cold weather, because
the river is then shallow and slow, and
nobody gets drowned unless he is more
than usually Pervcrse. Also when the river
is low great tracts of sand are dry on Ell
ther side Of the water, and on these the
pilgrims can conveniently camp. Accord
ingly, each year about the middle of De-
cember, there flock to Birman fully 200,-
600 persons.
These are not all pilgrims pure and
simple, because even the most religious
pilgrim requires to be fed and clothed
He needs all manner of tinsel trumperies
to deck his children, his wife and his gods
Besides, he must have plenty of sweet
meats, dreadful mawkish compounds Of
butter and milk and sugar, favored with
spice-he needs these to make merry with,
when all the additions are happily over
for the year and every god has been prop
erly propitiatcd. Further he wants no
end of oil to keep his little lamps (reli-
gious and domeStic) going.
1t is curious to note how kerosene and
matches are used in the remotest Indian
village. In order to provide him with
these and several hundred other things
which l cannot now remember, perfect
army of graiasellers, leather workers, wa
ter carriers, jewellers, and in short, men
of every trade that has the remotest hope
of making anything out of the pilgrims,
all crowd to the spot. Round the edge of
this vast heterogeneous mass there hangs
long fringe of beggars. At the head Of
this fringe are Brahmans. These boldly
claim and obtain charity as right. Next
come those who beg merely because that
Is easier than working and less danger
GUS than stealing. After them come a
host of decrepit blind, diseased and do
formed folk whose dreadful sores and pit
liable malformations earn them as good or
a better living than the ablebodied and
industrious are often able to obtain.
Last of all come the lepers, and these
indeed arc miserable objects. Often have
l dropped coin into hand that was q
mere stump, all the fingers having de-
cayed away. All these are willingly fed
and supported by the pilgrims and trad
ers, for India is "A country where charity
Is carried far over the verge of imbecilty.
To give to tho lazy loafer or the fat Brah-
man is quito us mcrtorious as to help tho
sick but industrious artisan or to add q
tritling comfort 10 cheer the wretched lop-
err or helpless cripple. No questions arc
| asked. You need but squat by the roadside
in some frequented place, spread filthy
cloth in front of you and hold out hand
to passorsby to insure a maintenance for
life. Charity is not given to relieve dis
trcss in Others. but to smooth the donors
path to heaven.-Nineteenh Century.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
Handel.

Handcl was very large, weighing over
200 pounds His figure was unwieldy, and
the rolled from side to side as he walked.
His hands were so thick and ponderous
that people wondered how he could play
the harpschOrd or organ at all. His face
was red and coarse, with a long nose,
thick lower lip and full chin with a dim
pie in it, His eyes were prominent and
eyebrows very full. He was monstrous
eater and at times drank heavily. His
conceit was stupendous and he always
entertained the idea that there was no mu
sic to be compared to his own He was
boorish in manners quick in temper, and
when irritated would sometimes give ut
terance to a robust oath in the German
language. His contemporaries said he
looked like a porter The 81. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
The Talent of Effective Dressing.

1t Is Gift beyond compare for a girl
to have the talent of gowning herself eff
fectively without an unwise expenditure
Of money for too costly fabrics or of time
and energy in designing and completing
her raimont. 1t is nm undeniable fact that
clothes are almost as important to II wom-
ans happiness and have almost as great
an influence on her future as her personal
attributes While, however, it is impossible
for womanly woman not to caro- for her
outward appearance, and although the
feminine toilet viewed in every detail
gives a tolerahly clear and trustworthy
Idea of the wearer's refinement or the lack
of it, excess in the matter of personal
adornment is moro rcprehensibe morally
and almost AS unattractive as slovenliness
or want of proper pride.
Both faults testify to obiQuity of char
actor. 1t would be amusing if it were not
sad to study vain woman when arraycd
In gowns and bonnets that give evidence
of an excessive expenditure and exertion.
Her suppressed restlcssness, her evident
fear that some one will miss the fine effect
of her display and her conscious and con
tinual arrangement of hair, drapery and
ornaments all betray such weakness as Is
pitiful to witness. On the other hand, n
carelcssly and unbecomingly dressed WON
an shocks our sense of fitness and creates
a feeling almost of repulsion. a graceful
woman in beautiful gown, with absolute
Inconsistencies, is thing of beauty and
a joy forever. "-Ne,O York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
Milk-Giving Male Animals.

sion of ornithology and mammalogy in
connection with the agricultural depart
ment at Washington, once made some in
teresting observations on the milk giving
faculty of the males of a western species
of rabbit called Baird's hare. Tho publ
cation of these odd facts revived an old ac-
count of a he goat which regularly gave
milk. According to the famed st. Fran
els Xavier, in the year 1916 in the island
of Amboya, ne found "a he goat giving
suck to his young kids with his own milk.
He had one breast, which gave every day
as much milk as would fill basin" (size OF
basin not mentioned). "This, " the sanity
Jesuit wrote, Il saw with my own ewes 4"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
Oldest Inhabited Dwelling in Britain.

The oldest inhabited dwelling in
the British isles is Dunvegan castle,
i'll the highlands of Scotland, the
romantic seat of Macleod of Mac
leod, as Scott calls it in a note to the
Lord Of the Isles. 1T looks, says
Boswell in his account of Johnson 5
visit thither, "as if it had been let
down from heaven by the four cor
ners to be the residence of a chief. 4"
1t has been added to, century after
century, and is now huge and mass
i've structure, built on precipitous
pile of rock, rising sheer out of the
ocean, with walls nine feet thick,
battlemented towers, dungeons dark
and drear, arrow loopholes and an
impregnable keep.
1t has, III fact, been fortified
against the incursions of pirates and
other foes, who from the olden days
"a thousand years ago-when the
primeval tower first rose out of the
waters of the Atlantic, might be eX
pected to arrive by sea on evil pur-
pose bent. Until about a hundred
years ago absolutely the only mode
of ingress on egless was by means of
a small postern door in the rock
overhanging the sea. A narrow
stretch of land lies all round the
west side, and beyond that the noun
tains rise in dark, yet everchanging
haautv -yood WorI1
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
/, MISCELLANY.
Old Times, Old Friends, Old Lave.

There are no days like the good old days
The days when we were youthful;
When humankind were pure of mind
And speech and deeds were truthful;
Before love for sordd gold
Became mans ruling passion,
And before each dame and maid became
Slaves to the tyrant Fashion.
There are no girls like the good old girls
Against the world I'd stake EN-
AS buxom and smart and clean Of heart
As the Lord knew how to make 'em.
They were rich i'm spirit and common sense,
piety all supportin';
They could bake and brew and had taught school
too,
And they made the keest courtln'
There are no boys like the good old boys
When they were boys together;
When the grass was sweet to the bare brown feet
That dimpled the laughing heather;
When the pewee sang to the summer dawn
OF the bee in the billowy clover,
Or down by the mill the whppoorwill
Echoed his night song over.
There is no love like the good old love
The love that mother gave us.
We are old old men, yet we pine again
For that precious grace-G God save us
SO we dream and dream of the good old times,
And our hearts grow tenderer, fonder,
OF heaven far OF yonder. Eugene Fed,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
Alligator as Food.

There is aason to believe that TIC
flesh of a young boiled alligator Is
barely distinguishable from veal, says
Longman's Magazine. 1t is probably
cleaner and more tender than much
of the meat Of the animals that are
usually consumed as food on the con
tinent or in the east end Of London
have never desired to taste the flesh
of alligators cooked or uncooked.
But in India / have seen the Sontals
and other casteless natives greedily
devour the flesh of an alligator with
out waiting to cook it. The flesh
was very pale in color and probably
was much superior to the flesh of
snakes and rats and such like vermin
which form the ordinary food of the
predatory Sontal when hunting in
his native woods.
1t does not fall to his lot very often
to be able to circumvent and slay and
eat a large alligator He more fire.
quently comes upon small alligators,
and they go to swell the contents of
his cooking pots. If, however, he is
so lucky as to meet a sahib who has
shot large alligator, say about six
feet long, he eagerly falls upon the
unwonted delicacy without waiting
to cook livery much as we read in
books of African adventure that the
natives devour the carcasses of the
large game animals that the English
sportsmen do not want for their own
followers
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
Once in Awhile.

once in awhile the sun shines out,
And the arching skies are a perfect blue;
once in awhile, mid clouds of doubt,
Faiths fairest stars come peepng through,
Our paths lead down by the meadows fair
Where the sweetest blossoms nod and smile
And we lay aside our cross of care
once in awhile.
Once I'm awhile within our own
We feel the hand of a steadfast friendi
Once in awhile we hear a tone
OF love with the hearts own voice to blend.
And the dearest of all our dreams come true,
And on LIES way is a golden mile
Each thirsting flower is kissed with dew.
Once in awhile.
Once In awhile, in the desert sand,
We find spot of the fairest green;
Once in awhile from where we stand
The hills of Paradise are seen.
And perfect joy in our hearts we hold.
Joy that the world cannot defle;
We trade earth's dross for the purest gold,
once in awhile. Youth's Companion
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
Trust the Children,

Trust the children. Never doubt them.
Build u wall of love about them;
After sowing seeds of duty,
Trust them for the flowers of beauty.
Trust the children. Don't suspect them
Let your confidence direct them,
At the hearth or in the wildwood
Meet them on the plane of childhood.
Trust the little ones Remember
May is not like chill December;
Let not words of rage or madness
Check their happy notes of gladness.
Trust the little ones, you guide them;
And, above all, ne'er deride them
Should they trip, or should they blunder,
Lest you snap loves cords asunder.
Trust the children. Let them treasure
Mothers faith in boundless measures;
Fathers love in them confiding,
Then no secrets they'll be hiding.
Trust the children Just as he did
Who for such once sweetly pleaded
Trust and guide, but never doubt them.
Build a wall of love about them.
-Ner FORK Ledge
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
THE HOUSEHOLD.
POppyland-Land Express.

The first train starts at 6 p. NJ.
For the land where the Poppy grows;
The mother dear is the engineer,
And the passenger laughs and crows.
The palace.car is the mothers arms,
The whistle, a low, sweet strain.
The passenger winks and mods and blinks
And goes to sleep in the train.
AtsP. NJ. the next train starts
For the Poppy.laud afar;
The summons clear, falls on the ear
" All aboard for the sleeping car"
" But what is the fare to Poppyland?
Ihope 1t is not dear"
The fare is this--a hug and kiss,
And tits paid to the engineer.
So asked of him who children took
On his knees in kindness great,
/" Take charge. pray, of the train each day
That leaves between ands."
i" Keep watch DER the passeu gers" thus pray,
:" For to me they are very DEAR
And special ward o gracious Lordl
Der the gentle engineer" -BV90io Ners