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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
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 mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby destroy.
ing the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by build
ing up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing It's work. The pro.
prietors 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 Testi
monials.
Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO,
Toledo, o.
gsS~ Sold by Druggists, 75c. I'm.
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celved, If not already in pots, they
should be potted in four or five inch
pots, as the size OF the plant indicates.
In potting use light rich soil, made up
of good loan, leaf mold and thoroughly
rotted cow manure, and place plenty of
drainage material In the bottom OF the
Dot. Get them low enough in the soil 50
chat they will set secure upon 1t, with
cut, however covering the crown. They
will succeed best in me coolest position
that can be given them in the window.
and in the strongest light during the
dark days of early winter. After the
buds start, care should be taken in
watering not to wet them, as it Is apt to
cause them to decay
The flowers come in all shades of red
from light pink to crimson, pure white.
delicate blue and striped varieties. Deal
ers sell them under various names, such
as "Cheswick Red" dark red; "Holbern
Blue" a light porcelain shade; ALBA
Magnifca," pure white, and "Village
Maid" etc, striped. There are also fern
leaved varieties.
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Had Tried Most Every Place.

She was small girl, but quite large
enough 10 reason and draw logical conclu-
sions In her fathers back yard a swarm
of bees was kept, and they soomed ospo-
cially hostile to tho small girl. Ono day
they stung hor over the eye, and there was
a swollen little face for a whole week.
The next week they stung her on the arm,
and finally her cup of sorrow seemed filled
when she received another sting on her
leg, AS the mother patiently applied the
usual remedies to tho last wound tho little
one sighed and said, "It does seem to me,
mamma as if there was no good place on
a little girl for bee to sting, Syracuse
Post
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
THE CHALLENGE.

J heard to-day upon the street.
Where bcggHrs sang n careless song,
A note, n tone. SO wondrous sweet
THAT I stood silent In the throng.
Rut ah, | saw not those who sang;
I heard not their wild madrigal;
thousand voices round me rang.
And swcetcr still one maidcn's call,
Ior which I'd change the fame of men.
My load unlOoscd, Ike Pilgrims thrall,
I fed my hungry heart again.
I saw my hoyhood home and all
Aud heard the blackbirds. nesting, sing
Their tender songs Of evening!
Clcar. martial call Of buried hosts
How sure thy challenge passed the years
] saw like sCntinCls nj their posts
A myriad forms: the pines like spears
Shot through the after sunsets red;
rh' durkcung fields. the glcan OF panes
Tie murkv dusk star.panopied;
Tue lazy Kline along the lanes;
Inc schoOlhousc dim: the village sDlre: -
The homcbcnt. dusty harvest folks;
The cornhelds famed with sunset FIRE; ,
Aud In our tyrst beneath the oaks !
We heard the blnckbirds, nesting, sing d.
n,,,.,, ..., ~
With ever lowering, unseen hand =,
Are flashed upon our blinded ways "a,
The hidden shrincs we understand. -,
We climb the rugged sleeps Of truth, "
And falter. Lo! thy hClpings bring -
The lesser tu the larger youth! ~
note, tone the huinblcst thing =
Sweeps irresistless all between.
Aui there the now prHys with the then
Wl.,r" once our heaven was lived unseen.
- y where. like pilgrims come again.
We Tear the blackbrds, nesting sing
Thr tender songs Of evening
Edgar L. Wukeman.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
A False Diagnosis.

La Grippe is confounded by many
persons with severe attack of catarrh,
which in some respects resembles the
former, These individuals suffer
severely with pain about the forehead,
eyes and ears, with soreness in throat
and stoppage OF the nasal passages,
and in fact, are incapacitated for work
of any kind for days at time. These
are catarrhal sufferers. Elys Cream
Balm has been used with the best
results in such cases. The remedy
will give instant relief
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
Chinese Primroses.

For a winter blooming house plant
:here Is probably no other that will give
such unbounded satisfaction in the ma
Jor;y of houses as the Chinese fringed
primroses. They bloom persistently for
months Qn fact, VIII bloom themselves
to death, and may as well be thrown
away as soon as their beauty is pasD i;
are not troubled with any OF the insects
CT diseases that affect so many house
plants, and are easily managed when
once understood. They are grown from
seel, and to have them in flower in MID
winter this Is usually sJwn in May
Good plants may be secured Of the for
lists and dealers in the fail, however, ana
with the majority of amateurs this Is
the safer method OF procuring them, as
mos: Of the difficulties of cultivation are
met with In the earlier stages of the life
OF the plant When the plants are re-
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30

A genial bachelor OF Brooklyn, whose
locks were whitened with the frosts OF
some 80 winters, was favorlte with
the children in the neighborhood of his
residence, where they often listened to
his pleasant stories. During brief III
ness one of his young friends, Htie
girl of six or seven summers, called to
pay her respects. She found him Alone
and was greatly surprised to aearn' on
inquiry, that he had no wife.
She was much distressed at his for
lorn condition, and with sad counte-
nance she left his apartments and has
tened to her mother, to whom she ex-
claimed, in tones OF sympathetic emo
ton: Mamma, Mr.. R has no wife,
and he says he never had one, lie must
have been born so."-Earper's Bazaar.
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TO RAISE DROWNED BODIES.
DYNAMITE AND ELECTRICITY TO BRING
A CORPSE TO THE TOP.

A St. Lewis inventor has patented
a device for the raising of drowned
bodies from the beds of rivers and
lakes, which has been applied with
marked success in many places in the
West during the present summer.
The old plan was to fire cannon
over the surface of the water near
where the drowned body is supposed
to lie, the conclusion causing the
body to rise. The apparatus of the
St. Louis man utilizes from four to
eight sticks of dynamite in a machine
box connected by fine wire to the
electric battery on the shore, from
which is communicated the spark that
fires the heavy charge resting on the
river bed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
READlNG
81 \ RAILROAD SYSTEM
TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURY
In effect May, IL, 1895.

For New York, Philadelphia, Reading Potts.
vile, Tamaqua weekdays l1.55 a. m.
For Nilliamsport, weekdays, 735 a. M, 1893 p,
m,
For Danvllle and Milton, weekdays, 7.S5 a. M,
3l5.
For Catawissa weekdays 7.a5, ll.55 a. M, 2.2O,
500. 633, p. m.
For Rupert weekdays7.a5, ll,55 a, m, 1920, s.25
500, 6.33, p. IN.
For Baltimore, Washington and the west via
q. & o. II. r., through trains leave Reading Ter
minal, Philadelphia, S2O 7.55, i1.26 a. m, 3.46
7.27, p. m. SUNDAYS $40. 7.55 ll.26 a. m. 4,
3.46, 7.2T p. m. Additional trains from "a and
Chestnut street station, weekdays, 1875, 63l
s.23 p. m. sundays, las, S2S p. m.
TRAINS FOR BLOUMsBURG
Leave New York via Philadelphia 500 a
m, and via EastoD NO q. m,
Leave Philadelphia 1000 a. m.
Leave Reading ll.50 a. IN.
Leave Pott sville IL. 80 p. m.
Leave Tamaqua !. 80 a, NJ,
Leave Williamsport weekdays 1910 q m, 4.30 p.
m.
Leave Catawissa weekdays, 700, $40 a. m. l.9O,
327, 6.l5.
Leave Rupert, weekdays, 7.Os, s.27. a. M, 1905
l.37, 1856, 6.23.
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Brief Notes.

Nearly one-third Of American Evan.
gelical Christendom is Baptist
The 40, ora, 1903 members of church.
eS in the United States are gathered
into r43 denominational folds.
Free tobacco and free tea are
among The attractions offered in con
nection with religious services on the
other side Of the Atlantic.
The Christian Endeavor Conven-
tion was the largest Christian gather.
ing the world has ever seen. Fifty
thousand delegates we're expected,
but nearly seventy thousand people
came. The Convention Of 1896 will
be held in Jersey City.
The first national encampment Of
the United Boys Brigades Of America,
is announced for Highland Park, Ill.
Aug. 22 to go.
In England they have a Baptist
Missionaries Literature Association.
One society regularly supplies twenty
periodicals to foreign missionaries.
The Buddhist and Shinto priests in
Japan have established "Societies ol
Buddhist Endeavor" to resist the
rapid spread of Christianity.
O.Y. PC. u, Our Young Peoples
Christian Union. Under this title the
United Presbyterians will hold their
seventh dcnominational young peoples
convention at Columbus, o., Aug. 2I.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
FORATLANTIC CITY.

Leave Philadelphia. Chestnut Street wharf
and South Street wharf for Atlantic City.
WEEE-DAYs-Express SEQ, 300, l045 a. M,
Saturdays only 30), 200, 3,00 3.40, 400, Abb,
$50 p. m. Sl00 Excursion train 200 a. m.
SUNDAY-Express. 7.3), 500, $40, 900, 1000 a.
M 4.45 p. m. Ac' commodation, OO a. m. ana
445 p. m. 500 Excursion train a m.
Returning leave Atlantic City, depot, corner
Atlantic and Arkansas Avenues.
WERK-DAYs-Express, Mondays only, 645,)
700 745, s.l5, Q 90, lois a. m. 8 IL, 436, $50,
1870, o. 80 D. m. Accommodation, 30, 500 am.
4.S2 p. m. si.00 Excursion train from foot OF
Mississippi Ave, 500 p. m.
Sunday-Express 3.30, 400, 500, 500, $50. 200
z. 80 500, 8. 80 p. m. Accommodation, 7l5 a. m.
EOS p. m. Sl.O0 Excursion train from foot OF
Mississippi Ave. $40 p. m.
Parlor cars on all Express trains.
l. A. sWEIGARD. q. G. HANCOCK,
Gen'l superintendent. Genl Pass. Agt
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
Convincing.

A hustling advertising canvnsscr repre-
sontlng metropolitan journal called upon
Mr.. Smith, the we'll known merchant tho
other day, and after referring several times
to his paper as the most wonderful jour
nalistio success of the century requested
an order.
"Your paper may have a large circula-
tion, but again it may be practically worth
less rs an advertising medium"
quite the contrary, my dear sir, in
sisted the agent 1.-The paper l represent
Is the greatest medium on earth. Why,
my dear man, lady in Brooklyn found a
purse containing 500. She advertised in
our columns for the owner, and next morn
ing had to summon ten policemen to keep
the crowd in check Truth.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
A Minister'S Experience With Heart
Disease

Rev. l., w. Showers, Elderton, Pa.
"For many years my greatest enemy
has been organic heart disease. From
uneasiness about the heart, with pal.
pitation, it had developed into thump-
ing, fluttering, and choking sensations.
DR.. Agnews Cure for the Heart gave
instant relief. A few bottles have rid
me of almost every symptom of heart
disease. 1t is wonder-worker." Sold
by VIM. >. Rlshton. 6-I5-Iy.
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where, inquired the tourist, "if may
ask does your majesty get your taste for
good living9"
"In our neck" retorted the barbaric
monarch promptly.
OF the courtiers, those who laughed with
conspicuous zeal were at once raised to
knightly rank and adorned with the Cross
of the Shirt Waist while those who to the
number of three or four, had to be pounded
ON tho back TO save thom from choking to
death were ennobled. Detroit Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
BegInning to Feel at Home.

Senior Partner-I think this now clerk
is getting used to our ways, don't your
Junior Partnor-I think so. He was go
minutes late this morning brooklyn
Life
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
No Comparison.

Cleverton-Do you regard an engage
ment as serious as marriageP
Dashaway-Moro so, old man. The
most serious thing ever did was to be-
come engaged to three girls at tho same
time-Brooklyn Life.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30

First Tourist (grandly)-While in Eu-
rope last summer went through Wales.
Second Tourist from Chicago)-How
much did his princelets have in his clothesS
Truth,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-30
He Silent,

"The place was robbed last night"
"Indeed What was takenY'
"Nearly everything. In fact, the only
thing not disturbed was the watchman, +"
-Tit- RitS
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And Sometimes Makes n Bull of It.
The difference between parson and
a broker is that the latter deals III
futures for six days and the parson
tells him about them on the seventl.-''
New York Herald.
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PRETTY
AND ATTRACTIVE WOMEN.
Their Good Looks Not Secret.

tspECtAL TO OUR LADY HrADERs.l
No matter to what country she belongs,
or whether she be black or white, as .
woman she desires TO look we'll.
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Scranton(r 4 H)lv
Pittston =" ="
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-04
HE KNEW WHAT HE WANTED
wbv a Smart Clerk Couldn't Sell an Extra
Collar.

Collar.
A lilv-white, blonde young man en-
tered well-known haberdasher's
few days ago to purchase some collars.
After examining the various Styles
from the low-water mark to the twenty
eight-story fiat, he selected two at
twenty cents each.
They are three for fifty cents, said
the clerk.
well, give me two.
"Retter take three for half dollar.
replied the clerk,
81 only want two"
.sYes. but two cost forty cents, and
YOU get three for fifty-one for dime
See?" said the clerk.
"Can buy two?" anxiously inquired
the blonde young man. u only "an'
two"
"Of course; but you save ten cents by
taking three" said the clerk. III
inst wrap up three for half dollar
Look kere, know what want
You wrap up two collars
But, sir"
81 want two collars, and have forty
cents to pay for them, and
"You lose a dime-three for fifty.
insisted the clerk, as he reluctantly
wrapped up the neckwear.
II don't care rap howled tne
blonde Young man in rage. Il know
wbat I waut-two collars, beer ana
a nickel to paw my street car fare
home See? Now, can get two collars
for forty cents or not?' and the BLONDE
Young man foamed at the mouth In ms
righteous indignation.
He got the two collars. The clerk
.wooned. He hadn't thought OF the
sbeer and the street car."-St. LOUIS
Republic.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-04

happy as they disposed OF the last
lingering crumbs. When they saw
their old employer, some Of them hung
their heads. Not so Johnny. He
smiled at Mr.. Bradley with all the
guilelessness of innocent youth.
"Bhys, we've had yer bite" said the
widow, .'yez'll 20 straight back to
the packin' yard now m kape on wild
yer work as long as Mr. Bradley wants
yez"
bows looked sheepishly at one another
except Johnny. who still regarded
his employer blandly. :,
"Are yez a-goin' to do it?" persisted
the widow.
Johnny laughed outright Per
haps," he replied.
Mr.. Bradley rose. II don't want any
perhaps about it," he said. III you
do return, it will be on your old
wages. and I shall dock the pay OF
every single one of you for this fore
noon. Understand that. Now you may
no or MOTT is quite immaterial TO
me-" ~
"We'll co." said Johnny. cheerfully'
| Without more words, but with q
wave of his hand to the widow as ne
left, he led his followers back whence
they came with as much apparent sat
isfaction, and with an air as self-pos'
sessed, as though he had won in the
strike. From that @'me, as long a.
they were needed ir the yard, they
all worked like beavef.A
AS soon as they were out OF hearing
Mr.. Bradley turned to the widow ane
laughed.
Mrs. Donavan, you are q general!
he declared. II have seen the grea
American Pie serve in many emergen
cies, but this is the first time eve
heard of it as mediator between cap
ital and labor!'
, AS he paid for his lunch and lei
: the steps, Widow Donovan murmure'
, to herself as she entered her mouse
: "Och! but it's meself can twisht thir
' all on me fnger-bhys and men, too
| wild pois, the crathurs- Faix' don
begrudge the price of thin pois, naithe
3 I-Misther Bradley's dacint man, an
= his wife knows good turnover VINE
; abe sees it,"-Youth's Companion.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-04
HAD HIS NERVES SHAKEN.
Tho Victim of tho Joke Probably heaooe
Straight for q Drug store.

The Victim of tho Joke Probably Headed
Straight for Drug store.
Isaw a young man light long Hun.
oar;an cigar the other evening and
throw himself back in chair to enjoy
the smoke and conversation, says
correspondent. The Hungarian cigar
is something like Pittsburgh TOBY
only it is twice as long as the Pitts
burgh article, and before you ge'
through with it is also twice as strong.
The young man was more Interested
In the conversation than in the cigar,
apparently, for he laid the latter down
on the edge of the table moment as
he talked. The waggish gentleman
next to him slyly took the cigar ana
cut off about three inches OF the
fire and began to smoke it, replacing
the body of the weed. When the
Young man got through with his story,
at which all the rest laughed extrav'
aoantly, he picked up the cigar again
and pulled at it. His face wore puz.
zled look as he glanced at the END ana
saw it had apparently never oeen
LIGHTED, But he struck match and
| lighted III dIdlus hlpCh - A~''
laid it down to answer the pleasantries'
whereupon the man on the other sue
! drew his knife and neatly cut the hre
end off and dropped it in the cuspldor
The expression on the face OF the story
teller when he picked up that cigar
and again assayed to smoke was some
thing to funny to describe. he gave
| -. 4hraa v;1orous PULLS at it, theI
stopped and looked at the fresh enc
while the other fellows were interest
ed in almost anything else at that mo
ment As soon as the wouid-o'
smoker saw that his cigar had no
been lighted he turned little pale
showed his unemptied glass aside ant
with a hasty apology and story OF al
alleged forgotten engagement ooi.e 49,
for the street, amid the demonlaca
olee of the cruel men left behind
Thus doth conscience make coward
of rs all.-N. Y. Herald.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-04
Afternoon Tea.

They were at an afternoon tea, and
each held in her delicately gloved
hand a cup of amber fluid, which she
slipped daintiiy with a souvenir spoon.
BuLtheir technical knowledge OF the
tea would have made tea experts
hair stand on end. II like Fedora
hest one of them was saying sweetly.
$40 you?" said the other; now pre-
fer Solong, because there is no nico-
tine in it."
..Talking of tea brands" asked a so
ciety bride flutteringly, Il just aoore
Booho; it's made in China, you know
..Well. afternoon tea is good enough
for me-" warbled a society bud who
didn't know anything but real knowl
edge, and wouldn't bother her way
head with tea kinks. But the hostess
who had served Formosa, and Souc,
hong, and Bohea sighed to think o.
the ignorance that sometimes existec
in social circles.-Detroit Free Press
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-04
PiTH AND POINT.

i
All! to what g7ilfs single devia-
ton from the TRACK OF human duties
lead.-Byron.
-.'They say old Smith never sub
scribed for a news paper" Never.
"Where is he now?" "Blowin' out the
gas in some otel.'--Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
81 think I'll build wing to my
house." said the new settler in Kansas
Better not" replied the old settler,
'this is the cyclone telt. "-Pittsourgh
Chronicle.
Women will be famed az well as
mani" she exclaimed, as she threw
down the book. ''Yes," responded old
Cynicus, "for untold ages."-Boston
| Commonwealth.
YES" said Mr.. Shopper, II bought
this dress at the bargain counter, but
! am not sure that it was not the shop
keeper who made the bargain. "-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Bore -"Oh, excuse me; Ididn't
know you were so busy or ! wouldn't
have dropped in. When is your busiest
time?r The Editor-'When anybody
calls.-N. Y. Press.
-Watts-''So you don't believe that
the good die young?" Potts-''That
used to worry me good deal when
was boy, but know better now. =
indianapolis Journal.
The Old Lady-"Would John be a
good catch for Mary?" The Old Man
"Splendid. He's in the football bust
ness and his life is insured for $40, 900. !"
Atlanta Constitution.
This military life is pretty hard,
said the Chinese warrior, but from all
I hear I guess l can thank my lucky
, stars that I'm not an American FOOT
/ ball. Washington Star.
-Grocer--'Well. my little boy, what
will Won have?" Fifteen cents worth
l of molasses." Grocer las he hands the
: pitcher over the counter)-"Where is
t your money!" "In the pitcher. put
r it there, SO as to be sure not to lose it. u
i Crypt.
j -Pruyn-"Does the term loan ex'
hibition' mean that all the pictures
here are loaned?" Brusch-"1 do not
so understand IL. tAlhh ~ AAAS~N.~
rather that the few good pictures here
feel very lonesome. Kate Fields
. Washington.
The Editor Waits.-We hear
great deal nowadays about woman
- superiority over men and that the for
= mer is as able to do mans work as he
- is himself, but up to the hour OF going
:, to press we haven't heard of any O
= our lady friends crowding their hus
a bands away from the sawbuck ant
saving wood themselves.-Galion sun
~ Review.
a He Drank Moonshine.-The deput.
n marshal with the moonshiner in TOW
ID took him into saloon. do you take
"a your liquor straight?" he asked pleas
20 antly. That's purity question to b
"a akin me-" responded the moonshiner
v. 81 don't see why?" was the marshal
v. surprised rejoinder. "Well, amt yo'
in rot me here fer takin' it crooked?
p. said the moonshiner, and the marsha
I'd paid for two extra drinks.-Detro'
IN Free Press.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-04
The First Word.

Miss Summit wouldn't be sur
nr;sed If Mr.. Yearner proposed to mo
soon. The other day he made me
present of a beautiful dog.
Miss Palisade-What has that 70 o'
with it?
Miss Summit-He said he hoped Ia
Get it back some day.-Detroit Free
Press.