The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-05-11


an anti Breckenridge man. Since COM
ing events sometimes cast their shad-
ows before we apprehend that the
auntles Of his district are laying a
plan for the coloners defeat. In
matters such as the colonel has lately
been interested in the aunties are apt
to take lively interest for or against
fellow.
So much is said of our Presidents
right along, for better or for worse,
that any school child could tell you a,
once who he is but on the other hand
so little is said of the man who would
fill his place IN case of death, the
Vice-President, that about every other
man you may choose to ask the name
Of the Vice President Of the United
States wants little time to think,
if indeed he can answer correctly when
you give him time.
A safe field for bachelors is in the
city Of Mongolia which lies close to
the borders of Russian Siberia. Its
little chilly there, but of course this
fact makes no difference to bachelors.
Maiwatchin is the euphonious name of
this delectable spot that is peopled
only by men. The Chinese women of
the vicinity are forbidden to pass the
wall of Kalkan or enter into Mongolia.
AS to who does the cooking, washing,
&c, our informant sayeth not.
Just as electric car lines are now
competing with large and powerful
railroads that once had monopoly of
passenger and freight traffic, so we
find small telegraphic lines are now
being built in different parts of the
State, which in time may prove quite
rival to the Western Uuion Tele-
graph Company. If they are built for
the purpose of competition they will
compete to the general advantage of
the public; but if they are built only
to sell to the highest bidder, we can
pretty near guess who will buy them
out.
The next thing on program before
Congress that is likely to consume as
much time as did the debate on the
tariff bill is the reading of the whole
bill by paragraphs for amendment.
This slow work was to commence at
1 o'clock on the 2sth ult.; but it is
indeed, to say when It will be
finished, as objection will likely be in.
terposed by manufacturers, at every
step, through hired Representatives
who are engaged to watch individual
upon which there is high
protective tariff.
Coal-dealers are beginning to rather
anticipate a coal famine as the result
of idle mines. The relations between
capital and labor are too close for the
one to be seriously affected and not
the other. Capital without labor is
useless responsibility and labor without
capital is worse than useless, it is
disastrous, both to the employer and
the employed. Capital, being always
organized for seltdefense and labor
claiming the same right, is what causes
reductions of wages upon the one
hand and demand for better share of
profits that labor earns upon the other.
Hiram S. Maxim now says that
aerial navigation is certainty of the
immediate future whether he succeeds
in demonstrating the fact or whether
some one else demonstrates it. He
rather expects himself, no doubt, to
demonstrate it to the satisfaction of
the most skeptical, and to the utter
dismay of our railroads which are
still largely monopolizing passenger
and freight traffic on terra .ttrnsd, and
growing from one degree of fabulous
wealth to an insolent demand for the
earth. We have often dreamed that
the Almighty would head off our rail
readers yet in some way, and it is
possible that Mr.. Maxim's scientific
idea is heaven-born for this purpose.
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.