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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-07-20
duties as a regular and persistent

duties as regular and persistent
layer.
1t is not, therefore, conducive to egg
production when the hen is deprived
of her natural advantage of scratch
ing. She does best when she is COM
PEELED to scatch and wcrk for her food,
and she will always select the kind
most suitable for her purpose. When
hens are confined in enclosures they
may be fed too much while in con-
dition of idleness. A hopper that is
kept full of food where the hen can
always reach it induces her to desist
from the work of scratching, because
the necessity for SO doing then ceases
and she becomes too fat. Nature
teaches, therefore, that hens should
be SO fed as to compel them to scratch
and work for their food, which keeps
them in health and leads to greater
egg production. Mirror and Farmer.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-07-20
MMA8a@sN. ysNSlNAlNOsya
NM hnAhsNN
SEVERE EXPOSURE

Often results in colds, fevers, rheumatism,
neuralgia and kindred arrangements. We
do not catch cold " if we are in good ,condi-
tion. IL the liver is active, and the system
in consequence doing its duty, we live In full
health and enjoy life rain OF shine" To
break up cold there's nothing so valuable
as DR.. Pierces Pleasant Pellets They keep
the whole system regulated in perfectly
natural way. If we do not feel happy, il we
worry and grumble, if we are morbid, if the
days seem drenry and long if the weather is
bad, If things go awry, it is the liver which
Is at fault. 1t is generally torpid" A
common sense way is to take DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. We generally eat too much,
take insufficient exercise, by means of which
our tissue-changes become indolent and in
complete. Be comfortable-you are COM
Portable when well. You'll be well when you
have taken Pleasant Pellets"
No Constipation follows their use. Put
up sealed in glass - always fresh and re-
liable.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-07-20
KNOWLEDGE
Petersburg

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products TO
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant TO the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because il acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and il is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufaetured by the California Fig syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed ON every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute II offered.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-07-20

DIR. Kilmer's SWAMI Root cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet anl Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton, y. Y.
BIRM INGHAM. Ala, shipped I3, 900 tons ol
pig iron during May.
4 beautiful souvenir spoon
VIII he sent with every bottle of D. H0rsie'3
CertdtH Group Cure. ordered by mail, post
paid, 80 cts. Address, HoXsie, Buffalo, y, y.
Halls Catarrh Care
Is Constitutional Cure. Price 49,,
THE Public Awards the Palm TO Hale's
Honey Of llorehound and Tar for coughs
Pixies Iuothaehe Drops Cure la one minute.
karl's Glover Root. the great blood purifier,
giNve FRESHNESS AMI clelrness 10 ths complex
ION and cures constipation, - cts. ~ cts 81.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-07-20
A nenntiiul souvenir .nnnn

BmMINGHAM. Ala, shipped $4,000 tons ol
ig iron during May.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08

county last week, sitting two days in
each hundred during each of August,
September and October, or six days in
each, for the collection of taxes. This
is one of the tricks of the ''refOrm" tax
law and is intended to take Dickey out
of the city where the bulk of taxes are
paid. He sits six days in little Black
bird as well as in large St. Georges
hundred. He is required to sit as long
in Pencader as in Christiana. But the
worst feature and entirely inexcusable
is that while Dickey is in the country,
no taxes can be paid in Wilmington,
although the county pays 81 900 year
for a clerk or deputy for him. The
Office has but one seal and Dickey
wouldn't put that seal upon a blank
receipt, except for a Democrat, for all
the world. He wouldn't trust his
deputy to issue a 92-cent receipt to a
Republican during his visit to the
country, if his life depended upon it..
He would not strain the law that way
Consequently the thousands of men in
the city who still owe a tax and who
must pay that tax before they can vote
in November, are confined to a few
days in which to pay and qualify to
vote. This month they are given Z
days. That is all until September
when a few more days will be dribbled
out. There are 10000 men in Will
mingtOn who are assessed for poll tax
for 1894. Barely 1000 of these have
paid up and are qualified, and not one
of the rest can get receipt unless he
promises to vote the Democratic ticket
except in the few days during which
Dickey may be there. He does not
even advertise those few days, for fear
that the Republicans and independents
may catch him at home. This is poll
tics
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
]. B. COOPER.
IN "ad." in this paper is
n supposed to help the

IN cad" in this paper is
n supposed to help the
merchant by getting peO-
pie to notice some of his
goods. Some say the peO-
pie don't read these ads"
and that they benefit only
the paper, but somehow the
man who puts in no ads. is
not apt to have much trade,
and so we have a short one
below, and we hope to get
some peoples attention to
it. We have been giving a
list of Bargains, but we have
left off this list, not the Bar
gains, and continue only a
list of some Of the kinds of
goods we sell.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
Shoe Department.

This is a new feature for us
and our sales from this depart
ment since our opening will in
itself speak for the high merit
and correct prices of the goods.
The room is furnished with the
latest and best appliances for the
shoe business. We secure the
buttons on every pair of button
shoes sold, free of cost, with the
"Wilkens Shoe Button Fastener
which is the best fastener in the
world, and the machine is the
most complete and rapid worker.
We also have the best appliances
for conforming the shoe to fit the
foot, shaping it perfectly for the
accommodation of corns, bun
ions or any ordinary enlarge
ments. You will find our line of
Shoes complete in every detail.
Oxford Ties in Russet and
Black are selling very rapidly.
The prices will surprise you.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
THE AMERICAN
ENCYCLOPAEDIC
DICTIONARY

Seventeen years of work by
the ripest scholars, and more
than $500, 900 we're expended
upon the Encyclopedia Die
tionary. 1t stands to-day the
proudest monument of diction-
ary achievement ever produced
in England.
But it was made for Eng
lishmen-giving especial pro-
minence to information of in
terest to them.
Now this grand work has
been thoroughly Americanized
not a feature of value omitted
not an important word left
out, but with a wealth of mat
ter added that makes it vastly
more valuable to residents in
the Western Hemisphere.
Nearly four thousand Six
h~~Gred large q~arto pages !
Done up in four handsome
cloth-bound volumes, with
marbled edges, and comprising
over 100000 oOOrds.
This is far more than any
other language contains.
We can supply this remark
able work work at
$I.25 the VoLume
or S. for the complete set
about ome-temtA the original
price.
The volumes will be issued
monthly. No. I ready now.
Inferior and inaccurate re-
productions of this great work
have been already offered in
this country. They in NO
way compare with this edition
in value.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
Fancy Groceries.

The best goods Philadelphia or
New York will afford and fresh
every week. Coffee roasting is
an important feature in this de-
partment, we are the only house
south of Wilmington who roast
all their coffees. We roast every
week seven different kinds and
blended them to suit the most
fastidious.
Orders called for every morn
and promptly delivered in Smyrna
ond Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
BOOK NEWS FOR AUGUST

Has a plate-paper portrait
Of Stanley J. Weyman, one of
the most promising of the
young English novelists. No
sign of Summer dullness in
any part of the issue. The IL
lustrations are many, and in
the reading matter the curtain
is raised on the very spirit Of
all the important new Books
OF the month.
With Book News at your
elbow you can choose the sum-
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
CHINA AND GLASS
A CHANGE

On Tuesday night the US
ual stocks of China, Glass,
Silver Ware, Cutlery were in
their places. On Wednesday
morning counters and cases
were full, but every piece was
changed. The stock of Tues
day night gone not to appear
here again. The stock of
Wednesday morning-bright,
beautiful, new.
This means new manage
ment and absolutely new
goods, selected exclusively for
our own sales. The advan-
tage of an entirely new stock
will be apparent. The new
management will command
your favor.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
DRY GOODS
NOTIONS, SHOES
and FANCY GROCERIES.
Dry Goods.

This department is supplied
with a complete line of staples at
lowest figures; and the latest
novelties in
SUMMER DRESS FABRICS,
Crepes, Lawns, JacOnats, Dimi-
ties, Dotted Swiss, Percalles,
Cotton MOires, &c, and the prices
are guaranteed correct.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria'
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
N N9WS Items.

Congress has passed the bill provid-
ing for au extension of the life. saving
service on the coasts to the months of
May and August. This leaves only
June and July as the holiday period.
Renewed reports of irretrievabIe
damage to corn in Kansas, Nebraska
and Iowa caused further advance of
&c. per bushel in all options yesterday.
Wheat followed corn with rise of Ia
lie, and futures of oats advanced
bale.
The United States depends on Japan
for about forty million and on China
for about torty-fve million pounds of
tea per annum If the war should cut
off these supplies our tea drinkers will
have to go back to clover leaves and
sassafras root. During our own civil
war there were sections of the South
in which 'store tea" was considered a
rare luxury.
Il know an old soldier who had chronic
diarrhea of long standing to have been
permanently cured by taking Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrh@ Remedy.
says Edward Shumpik, a prominent drug
gist of Minneapolis, MINI. II have sold
the remedy in this city for over seven years
and consider it superior to any other medi-
cine now on the market for bowel COM
plants" 25 and so cent bottles of this
remedy for sale by j. w. Clifton.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08

mer reading without hesitation
and without danger of mis-
take.
Book News is $4,000 a year.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08

During July and august
qOe qOiU do U4hOlSteramg aOOrk
at cost.
Some of the choicest pat
terms of Furniture Covering in
the Upholstery store are at
less than half prices.
Put this and that together.
Was there ever a more fav-
vorable time to have the old
Furniture recovered?
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
Wat1@441&kSx'S

Philadelphia. August 6, 1894.
Store closes Saturdays at I
O'Clock.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
HIGH GRADE BICYCLES s55.

Examine them. If you are
not Bicycle-wise bring some
one who is. There's nothing
hidden. See if it isn't the
usual $Ioo Machine of to-day
just as the Continental at
SIS is the regular $I25 or $50
grade.
JOHN WANAMAKFR.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08

Hoods Pills are hand made. and perfect
proportion and appearance 25c. box.
Smyrna times., 1894-08-08

Wilmington Democrats are much
agitated over the fact that Colonel
Moore, the new postmaster, is de-
termined to run the Office on business
principles and that both be and the
department at Washington are de-
termined to carry out the civil service
saw, which forbids the discharge of an
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
Special Favors and Their Ourtailpent.

The favored high protectionist, no
matter what his politics or whether
his favored industry he located in the
north or south, is apt to Dutch, whine
and rebel whenever for the general
good and for the sake of equity it be-
comes necessary to somewhat curtrail
his benefits Splitting the solid
South" is what Republicans call with.
holding bounties from those of the
south who want Of course to monopo-
lie the sugar making industry by con-
trolling the output and regulating the
prices. All the rebelling sugar-makers
Of the south want of course is the
continued monopoly that the Republi.
cans offer not only 10 them, but to all
our arrogant and highly protected in
dustries. If the issue OF protecting
the few to the injury of the many
will not split the solid south, then she
is, indeed, politically impregnable. 1t
is said the Louisiana sugar planters
want protection and monopoly of the
sugar business a great deal worse
than they want solid south or any
thing else within the gift Of the
Democratic party. And, hoping for
this special advantage, without regard
to what sugar may cost the boarding
house keeper it is said they have
already ceased to be Democrats, and
will hereafter affiliate with the party
that favors the highest kind of high
protection for the classes. AS for the
masses they can kind of look after
themselves, and by attending to their
own business they will have enough
to do, especially if they keep out Of
debt and pay for their sugar, coal,
iron, &c, at the high protective rates
that our sympathetic home producers
exact from them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
The Widowed Farmer.
BY RoBLrY d. STEVENSON.


Since Hammer died the sun don't shine SC
bright,
The stars don't twinkle near so keen at night
The church bell Sunday mornin' amt ,h,
cheer
II had when she was here,
Since Hammer died.
The very chickens misses Hammers care,
And go round with a sorter lonesome air
There ain't no kind Of JOY about the place
Without her smilin' face,
Since Hammer died.
The garden tools hangs in the apple trees,
The hossweeds are akllin' of the peas
There's no one here to hoe the ,aters now.
Er feed the hogs an COW,
Since Hammer died.
/ s'pose, OF course, I'd orter be resigned,
But when 60 out in the shed and find
The AK she chop ped the wood with all ,hes'
years.
/ wet it with my tears,
Since Hammer died.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
Keeping Woodwork Clean.

OF all woodwork that with the high
earnish polish is the most difficult to
keep looking well-it is so easy to mar
II and so difficult to repair, writes
lanes Thomson In the Ladies' Home
Journal. When dents and scratches
do not 90 entirely through the polish
they may sometimes be removed by
rubbing over with l!nseed oil and rot
ten stone, using a small piece Of fiat
felt TO do the rubbing. Care, however,
should be used so as not TO rub too
hard
Hardwood floors, IL polished with
shellac or vGrnish, may be first wash
ri with soap and water, and then thor
Oughly rubbed with cloth. wet
with oil and turpentlne or kerO-
sene and water; this will make them
look as well as when new. Floors
finished by the waxen method Of our
ancestors may be revived by the use
of turpenine
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
sINelN1 MOUNT AIN.
Nevada Has n Musical Wonder. whose
sweet sfrains Pnzrled Prospectnrs


In the Truckee mining districts,
down the Truckee river near Pyramid
lake. Is situated Nevada's musical
mountain. This mountain was first
discovered by the white settlers in
1863. al which time there was some
excitement In regard to the mines
found in IT'S negbborhcOd The dis.
coyerers were a party of prospectors
from the Comstock
Tney had pitched themselves at the
foot OF the mountain. and for few
evenings thought themselves bewitch.
ed. Each evening. a little after dark.
when the air WAS calm and all was
quiet n mysterious concert began. Out
from the face of the big mountain
were waited soft strains that seemed
10 cause the whole atmosphere 10
quiver as they foated over the camp.
The music then appeared 80 pass over
until 1t was far, far away and almost
lost IN the distance, when, beginning
WITH 'inkl'ng as Of many little silver
bells. there would BE- fresh gust of
sweet notes from the mountain.
During the daylight bOurs little Of
the mysterious music was heard. and
ii was soon settled that II was not
caused by the wind. A spring near
which the explorers had pitched their
ten; afforded the only good camping
grounds In the ne{ghborhood, and as
each new party Of proSpectors arrived
at the SPOT rhe wonder grew.
Some Piute Indians who came along
and clmpcd at the spring were found
to be acquainted with the peculiar
musical character OF the mountain.
They called It the singing Noun
tain"
Some Of the men collected in the
camp became more interested in the
mountain than in prospecting. and
gave most OF tbeH time to an invest.
cation Of the mysteries of the musical
sounds heard to proceed from 1t. They
found that the whole face OF the noun
tain was covered with thin flakes OF
Il hard crystalline rock There were
great beds Of these fakes. The inves.
tigatOrs concluded that the musical
sounds heard proceeded from this
loose material. huge drifts of which
seemed 20 be gradually working their
way down the steep face of the noun
tain
At ali events, the strains heard at
the foot Of the mountain in the even.
.ug's stiffness seemed TO be produced
by the uniting and bl0nding Of the
myriads Of bell-like tinklings proceed.
,nz from the immense beds OF slaty
debris creeping, glaCier-like, down the
slope.
This solution q the mystery of the
musical mountain IS the only one
worthy Of notice. As no mines Of value
were found the district was soon de
serted and has since seldom beeD visit.
"a. Therefore few, except the oNd-dme
prospcctOrs. knew much about the
singing mountain.-Virginia Enter.
prise.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05

How nehrmann became Lioa-Tnmer.
Mr.. Mehrmann, who is perhaps as
high an authority on the subject Of
Wild-beast tanning as there Is says that
the only special qualities he knows of
hat are requisite to the tanner, are q
perfect freedom from nervousness and
an ineXhaustfble patience: and be
holds that almost any man who viii
take the necessary time and trouble
can become one. Five years ago he
himself was engaged in business in
Germany. and had never so much as
thought of entering q lions cage. He
knew nothing about wild beasts ex-
cept what he had picked up in a gen.
oral way from his brother-in-law, Carl
Hagenbeck. He had never had any
fondness for the society of tigers or
lions. and If any one had predicted
that FIVE years later he would be one
OF the most skillful tanners in tire
world. he would have considered the
man crazy. But he suffered busi.
ness failure and was questioning what
he should do.
Why don't you become a lion
tamerP' said Carl Hagenbeck 20 him
one day. AN intelligent man like
you ought surely to be able 10 manage
animals as well as the thick-headed
fellows who work for me-"
Mr.. Mehrmann thought 1t over, and
decided that he would act on Hagen
beck's suggestion.
A few weeks later a new consigD-
ment of lions and tigers arrived p,
Hamburg. directly from Aria and
Africa, where they had been but re-
Gently caught. None Of them was a.
much as a year old. Unless auinah
are taken at less than three years
they cannot be trained. But with these
cubs Mr.. Mehrmann had no more diff
fculty than the most experienced
tanner would have had. He entered
their cages every day, and az the end
Of a few months had made them un
dprstand that he was their MASTER
McGure's Magazine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
Sinking an Arte.ian Milk Wen.

There comes, IN the life of every
man who cannot afford IL, a time of
burning unreSj. when he Is oyerpow-
cred by an uncomfortable desire 10
live in the country, writes Robert J.
BtErdette in The ladies' Home POUR
nal A railroad man, who doesn't
know for the life Of him which end OF
ghe piow you hitch the horses to. is
rfways longing 70 go on a farm; a sue
cessful merchant, VINO vaguely knows
that you dig potatoes, although by
thai he rather understands that you
mine them, as you de coal; bankers,
after a certain time Of life, for a cheap
1.-THE place, not TOO far out of town,
vNhere he can sink an artesian milk
well and raise his own bananas, OF
which he is very fond. And / once
kuew an able and eminent lecturer
who had lectured on The Pyramids,
Their Cause and Effect" for twenty
years, and who was far more afraid
0f horse than a tramp Is Of work,
and who thought that cows shed their
horns every spring, from which source
he brass bands renewed their supply
Of instruments. Well, that man left
the platform at last and invested the
spoils of many successful lecture tours
In O stock farm, We cannot help IL;
out of the dust we came; back to the
soil we are drawn. We are children
of the earth, and we do love TO creep
back into the mother-arms, and get
our faces down close to the sweet
old mother-heart, when the shadows
begin 10 grow long, when the days of
second childhood come upon US, and
the time draws near when she will
take us into her arms for the last time
and hush us to sleep on her cool
breast
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
Explained At Last.

He-"Why do you women always be-
gin novel at the end instead of the
beginningT'-
She-"In the first place, we don't do
anything Of the kind. In the second
place. ii we did II would be because
the end Of the book is where the mar.
rage COnfes in, and we naturally want
to get the disagreeable part of .the
story disposed Of, 40 we are free to
enjoy the lovemaking. g."-Gncinnati
Tribune
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
Mrs. sherwood's Quaint idea.

Mrs. John Sherwood, not being able
70 send expensive presents to the we'd
dln.s of her friends, has a quaint idea
Of her own. She will write upon parch-
mcl-l some original lines apropos TO
The occasion, tie them daintily with
white ribbons and send it, with gra-
c.ous words of congratulation. One
Of last falls brides has had one sent
to her framed. and she thinks as much
Of II as If 1t had been a parure of dia-
mOnlS
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05

One word describes it" perfec
ton" We refer to DeWitt's Witc h
Hazel Salve cures obstinate sores,
burns, skin diseases and is a we'll
known cure for piles.-W. S. Rishton
Druggist. If.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
French schools to BE Glenn.

Scientific cleanliness and health are
30 De promoted in France Boiled water
[, drink. school rooms cleaned with
damp cloths instead of dry busters
aHl brooms, and an antiseptic cleans
IT,. once a week, are the orders given
rs the projects OF the French educa-
yianal departments Of the various
s.lLlls
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05

All the talk in the world will not
convince you so quickly as one trial of
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for Scalds.
Burns, Bruises, Skin Affections and
Plles.-W. S. Rishton, Druggist. If.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
use.

81 don't see what business a kicker
has on earth said the irritable man.
"Oh'" replied the philosopher "he is
very useful"
allow"
'iie makes you appreciate the peo-
pie who are good-natured.p
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
WHATS GIn "a Name.

"Ih's is a beautiful moonlight scene
you l.ye here, isn't itf"
Miss Brushes-"l win see In just a
MoMeui. when | find the little book
iaat | keep the names in,"-Chicago
lnpTOeean.