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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26

A man with uplifted hands and
surging to and fro on the top railing
of the West Market street bridge,
crossing the Susquehanna river at
Wilkes Barre was the thrilling sight
which attracted several persons walk
ing on the river bank about 10 o';lock
Monday morning. In second or
two more the man had jumped from
the railing into the waters below, a
distance of forty feet. Before boat
could be procured the man went down
for the last time and the body was
carried down stream. The name o.
the suicide is not known.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26
CREPONS.

We can not say too much in regard
to these as for beauty in shades and
combination, and quality and price
they are indispensable. We are show
ing them in black for skirts, at 100,
Las and IT'S and for waists in all
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26

Wheat went up to sixty three cents
in the Chicago Board of Trade on
Monday.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26

The religious garb bill will become
a law. 1t will be amended so as to
put the penalty on school boards
employing teachers who wear religious
garbs, instead of on the teachers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26

An editor of Bristol, Conn, com
mitted suicide on Monday. He wa
probably making money too fast, anC
couldn't stand prosperity.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26
GENERAL NEWS.

A new Democratic daily is to be
started in Chicago, with capitol of
$1,000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26

We have no doubt that Aprl's intentions are good
While she shows amenabe disposition to stop and sit down
on old Winter lap occasionally she will get here by and by
and bring weather with her In the mean time come out
between the showers and what have to make life worth
living.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26
GLOVES.

GLOVES.
Our department in this respect is
the most complete in town, and we ale
now showing the finest line of gloves,
Mems, Boys, Ladies and Misses in
kid, Isle thread, silk chamois and dog
skin, for Mems street wear we have
ever offered to the public. Our ladies'
silk gloves 60 with guarantee, which
it will pay you to look at. We are
making special drive on Mems Dog
Skin gloves for street wear, as they go
now for 7sc the pair.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26
DRESS STUFFS.

1t is almost impossible, for want of
advertising space to go into details,
but if you want to see the hnest line
we have ever shown, we are anxious 20
show it to you. Some exclusive styles
in just dress patterns in the latest
weaves.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26
GROCERIES.

Home dried fruits of all kinds and
the finest California evaporated pears,
peaches and apricots on the market:
Canned goods of the finest quality and
at any price you may want.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26
HOSIERY.

We are selling the Y. d. Hosiery
double sole, high spliced heel and the
best stocking that we can buy. These
are absolutely fast black.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-26

You will want shirt waists for morn
ings and these are the most useful
things for that purpose we can show,
and the price is very reasonable, only
Ioc per yard, Sc inches wide.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19
PIG FEEDING.

Practical Conclusions Drawn From Ex-
perimeots at the Wisconsin Experim ent
Station.
''All things considered, the hog has
been the most profitable animal on
western farms, and no small part of
the wealth of the western states is due
to this one animal. Corn is and has
been the most universal food for swine
in this section, and SO it is to Indian
corn that we are indebted for the
benefits accruinG from the hog. No
other plant furnishes so much avail
able food to the acre. Or food that is SO
we'll relished by the hog, as corn.
With millions of acres of land dcvot ed
to corn-Growing, and q large part of
this corn being fed to hogs, it is
no wonder we have come to regard
corn made for the hog and the hog
for corn. To one who first acquaints
himself with the situation it might
appear that all the farmer has to do to
increase his income is to plant more
corn and raise more hogs, but the iu-
Vestigator will soon find that were the
market open to all that could be raised,
there seems limit to the pork produc
ton of any farm or locality, for nu-
merous difficulties beset this vocation
Pigs are born only to meet an early
death; hog cholera ncvastates large
areas, passing from point to point with
great rapidity, clearing everything be-
fore it, leaving the farms not only
without swine, but SO inoculated with
the disease that all the business in that
section must be held in allegiance for a
year or more. Farmers are constantly
complaining that their hogs become
too fne-boned, md get but Temporary
relief by sending off to breeders
for coorse-boned sires. These facts
show that as now handled on
the average farm at the west, the hog
is in an abnormal condition and
that degeneration is constantly going
on, or, popularity stated, stock runs
out The difficulties in the way do
not end with the troubles named, but
follow the hog even after death, into
the park barrel. Foreigners claim that
our pork is diseased, and place an en-
barge upon it. Home consumption is
decreasing not because our people think
the pork is diseased in itself necessa-
rily. but because the meat is SO excess
slvely fat that there arises a strong
aversion against it in the minds Of
most people. AS people in the lower
classes in life get ahead in the world
they give up pork for more expensive
meat. Not only, then, have we to con-
slider the questions of hog feeding from
the standpoint of feeder and breeder.
but the opinion and wish of the con-
sumner must receive attention, if this
industry, of such great magnitude, is
to continue on a sound basis.
That with proper care the form, size
and bone of the hog can be
well maintained, and eren odvaoced,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19

dress turned back, displaying two
prettily-rounded arms, feather buster
in hand, she was whisking the dust
of some rare pieces of old china
Larry, here Is an old friend Of
yours" Jim announced. Treat him
we'll, for he sails for Egypt tomorrow,
never to return. Eli be back in q min
ute
lie vanished, and there, inside tho
ner, grayer. but with the old kindly
smile on his lips that she remembered
SO we'll. Startled out of her self-pos
session, Larry stood with her buster
suspended over era mas hundred
year-old teapot.
II sail for Egypt Tomorrow" said
the professor, taking u few steps INTO
the room, land I may never return.
Won't you wish me godspeed, Larry?"
Crash went gran'ma's priceless tea
pot in a dozen pieces on the polished
floor, and the next thing Larry knew
she was crying.
The professor approached her.
Are you crying because I am going
away or because you have broken the
teapot:' asked the visitor.
Both cried Larry, with con-
vulsive sob. which was smothercd in
the folds Of the professors coat, as the
arms of that 'sestimab Bile gentleman''
closed around her.
''How about your prophetic soul?''
Jim asked, later on. Il thought YOU
called him a fossil!'
$50 did," answered the young lady,
quite abashed, ''but I also said I was
getting up collection of fossils, and
recognized the fact that he was too
fine a specimen to lose. Don't you re.
member?'--Bow Bells.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19
ERE AND THERE.

Are there any cracks in the poul-
try house? There certainly ought not
to be when winter comes on.
The better education Of the agri.
cultural classes will be tho ultimate
antidote for agricultural depression.
1T is the heavy horse that is bring.
ing the best price these days. Our
faitl, IN the draft horse has never wav-
cred.
HI Up the poor, ragged hens to get
on their winter suits by the addition
of little oil meal or fresh meat TO
their daily ration.
Wheat is not yet cheap enough to
feed to a poor quality of stock. No
food is cheap enough to feed to sucl,
stock proitab1y.
Feed literally, but not wastefully.
Good preparation by grinding, if grain,
or cutting, if fodder and stalks. in the
ensilage cutter, is a most economical
proceeding.
Don't keep your boys out of tho
public free school next year to hoe or
pick four-cent cotton. Educate them,
and they will know better than Ia
raise it at such price when they grow
up.
Tho government crop report for
November indicates = corn crop, for the
entire country amounting to 200. OO0,-
600 bushels for 1894. against 1:G1o. 1885,
900 bushels last year.
1T makes no difference to the farm.
or whether it is overprotluction UNI
derconsunption: whether i: is his ina.
bility to sell or other peoples inability
to buy. But he wants something done
that will make a difference between
prices of products they are and Us
they ought to be.-Ear'n and Ranch.
"A correspondent of the Irish Farm
ing World says that winter calving
cows give fully one-third more milk
within their milking season than cows
calving in the spring." and assigns as
the reason, the fact that the "winter
calver, during the most Important
months OF CESSATION, is on good grass;
while the spring calver, as rule, has
been badly fed for nearly i've months
before cAlvlp3."
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19

\ Nation that IL Noted for Thrittiness and
sBusincss Enterprise.
Tho stal~vart vigor of the German
race Of to-day might we'll DC obvious
to the most superficial observer coming
from other lands. And many arc of
opinion that the f;ivora bic causes
which have brought this about arc
likely to tell with undirninished force
in the future. Only the other day an
EnglisI paper noted with ''surprisc'' a
series of sta tistics. from which the I'M
welcome facts sllone forth, that where
US the average English boy was heav-
Ter than the German at an early age.
the difference in weight between them
gradually decreased until at manhood
the average weight was in favor of the
German.
But the army has done more than
this. In other countries often CEN
ter Of decentralization. in Germany the
army has been source Of physical and
moral clca nlineSS-mOrul in the sense
that it has compelled these elements 10
do and obey, which in other countries
form and remain the scum, of the pop
ulation. 1t is to no small extent this
military ira aiming. from which the Ger
mans arc falsely said to fly to other
countries. which makes them such Il
successful competitor in every walk Of
life. 1t has imbued them with Il sense
OF order. Il capacity for work.
mus Wherever tue German clerk. the
workingu,an. is found among the
English-spcakingr race. he is invuria bly,
recogniza bic by his thrift and above
all by his freedom from the browning
Anglo-SaNon vices of drunkenness and
betting. It is mistake to think that
the German works for low wages: lie
is as anxious for high wages any
Celt or ngio-SaXon: but his superior
training, largely that of the school of
the army. has disciplined him to work
and wait patiently for better times.
Thus, particularly the better educated
classes. have become rivals to England
IN commerce. manufactures. and even in
shipping cnterprisc.-Sidn Whitman.
in Chautauquan.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19
HOME HINTS ANo HELPS.

Good Pottage: Boil ten cents
worth of fat beef flank one hour in two
| quarts of water. Salt and boil an llot;r
! longer; then add carrots. cabbage,
| turnips, onions and potatoes. one pars-
| nip cut fine, one satisfy cut fine. one
stalk Of celery cut fhc and cook one
observation-disclosures
Grape Catsup: Simmer three quarts
of grapes till they are soft, then press
them Through eolander. add two
pounds OF brown sugar. Il pint of vine
gar, two even tablespoonfuls each OF
spoonful each of salt and cayenne pep
per. BOIL till the mixture thiclxens,
when it is ready for the bottles.-S. y.
Observer.
Pork Outlets with Pickle: Put the
outlets into hot spider. turn them
often. When half done lit will require
twenty-five or thirty minutes to cook
them), take them up and dip in fine
bread crumbs seasoned with salt and
pepper. and lay them back in the pan
to brown on both sides. When done.
place on a hot platter. Dredge little
flour into the gravy, stir until 1t be-
comes brown, add a gill of boiling
water, let it boil up. add a tablespoon
full of piccalilly and when very hot
pour over the outlets and serye.-Bos-
ton budget.
Baked Marmalade Pudding: 1nere-
dients required, three sponge cakes,
one egg, one pint of milk little GIN
ger and mar1nalade. First cut the
sponge cakes in halves lenethwise,
spread some marmalade on each piece,
and lay them in a pie-<lish. Beat up
the egg in the milk aud pour II oyer
the sponge cakes, etc. Crate sus-
pic1on OF nutmeg and ginger over the
whole, and bake for an hour slowly.
This pudding is very good served hot,
Il ! 1>@ H. 49,.
and sent to table with a little whipped
cream piled on it.-Leeds Mercury.
baked Apples: Either sweet Or sour
fruit may be used, selecting specimens
of the same size and kind. If sweet,
little hot water should be poured about
them when they are set in the oven: if
sour, either a little sugar should be
added to the water, or the cores should
be removed and the cavities filed with
sugar. Bake in 4 moderate oven till
entirely soft. turning the dish from
time to time. So that they will bake
evenly. Lift the cooked fruit care
fully into the dish from which It is to
which makes an agreeable sirup.-
Good housekeeping.
-Ereslau of Beef: Chop scrap and
broken pieces of cold roast beef very
fine and add half the quantity of finely
chopped ham. tongue or cold sausage.
Season with salt and pepper, and when
thoroughly mixed stir in one beat ten
egg, into which has been shredded /,
level tablespoonful of butter, provided
there was but little fat in either of the
meats. Wet 4 bowl with cold wa ter
and press this mixture into il to give
it solidity. Turn it out upon Il pan
covered with buttered paper, brush it
over with egg, sprinkle with fine bread
or era clSer crumbs, brown in the oven
and serve hot or cold.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19
HE WAS MISTAKEN.
She Was Not the Person II0 Originally
Thought She Was.

She Was Not tho Person He Originally
Thought She Was.
"Miss Jackson he began. as he re-
moted his hat and scraped his foot as
they met on the street. II dun had de
happy facility to meet up wild you dc
oddcr night a t the cake walk
Yes. sah, she loftily replied.
What fust distracted my attenshun
to yo' was yo'r purtiness," he contin-
| ned. II was de gineral opinyun dat
yo' was de ,andson,est gal in dc hall.
| In fact, yo' outshone de shiniest of dat
| vast aygregashun of sinners"
She bowed her thanks.
what next distracted my atten-
shun was yor clothes and style One
glance prognosticated dc fact dat 20
two eagles 'lnong a lot of crows. Docs
yo' anticipate de suit Of clothes I had
on dat night? Made to order an cost
me scben dollars. Coattails had de
| rcglar New York droop, an dat cell
luloid collah just frowned all de mash
crs down. More dan one hundred pu=-
sons called me a swell
She bowed again.
Perhaps yo percOlated the remem-
brancc dat ] squoze yo'r hand. Miss
jackson, an yo' must have observed
dat it was my intcnshun to ambulate
few remarks when interrupted by
dat VERY common and undistin-
guishcd pusson known as--
My husband. sah!" she icily inter
rupted.
''Fc' dc Lawd, Miss jackson. but go
hain't dun married to Moses Phil
Eps?'"
1.-Two weeks ago, sab.
An yo' hain't Miss jackson nc
moo
mo mo, sa,,-''
''Hu! ScIse me. please. Reckon
made a mistake. l see now wi,ar it
was. got yo' mixed up with Evangc-
line Thompson. dat purity. stylish young
lady dat wss de belle OBJ dc occasion
an called 10th de undisguised aamira
ton Of the gigantic assemblagc. Yes.
l reckolect yo'. Yo' was walking around
on the elbow of Moses Phillips an poo
pie was sayin' dat yo' had bomba-
zine dress dat blouged to yo'r grand
u,uddcr, and dat Moses dun had Il par
o trousers made out OF u bla nl1et. Good
day. Mrs. Phillips. Scusc my bcin mis-.
took. wentworth Times.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19

Dotted Muslin and Silk Portteres for tho
Modern Woman.

Dotted Muslin md Silk Portieres for the
Modern Woman.
If the revival Of old ia shions keep on
one may soon expect to be sleeping in
a four-post bedstead. since already the
canopies known to our gra ndmothers
are quite the thing. Nothing can be
prettier in a country house than a room
in which all the accessories are OF sheer
muslin. finished only with a ruffle.
While heavy bed curtains may be I'M
healthy, there can be no possible OBJ
lection to the airy canopy of dotted
muslin that may be freshcncd up as
often as the owner wishes, and which
imparts such an inviting air to a prct ty
bed.
Anyone who can use a hammer or
canopy. \ rod or pole of wood, such
as is sold for hanging porticres,
is braced to the wall by two pieces
of wood. A brass ball finishes the
end. n long rutflcd piece of dotted
muslin is thrown over the rod and is
drawn dow at each side, where it is
held in place by ribbon bows fastened
to hook set in the wall.
Another simple way Of suspcnding a
canopy is by a nickel chain suspended
from a hook in the ceiling, at the end
OF which is a large ring. The canopy
was made of blue and white hcchima
crepe. which is drawn through the ring,
then back over the headboard OF the
bed. falling down at the sides where it
isfastened to the headboard by roscttes
of blue ribbon.
Another lovely canopy was of pale
green null lined with white, caught up
by large rosettc. The bed was an
old-fashioned one, which had been
given n coat of green enamel and
touched up with gold.
ChecSeclOth makes pref drape
it falls in soft folds and can be found
in many desirable light tints.-S. Y.
Advertiser
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19
FARMER AND PLANTER
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.

Ehe Farmers OF tho South are Beginning;
to Sec Where tho Profit Lies.
So much has. time and again, been
said upon the subject, that to say rnote
would seem to he supcrfiuoas. 1t is by
Zine upon line, prccept upon precept,"
that lasting impressions are made.
Already the farmers of the south are
practicine diversified farming to a
much greater extent thon ever before,
and it is to the constant urging and ex-
horting and coaxing of the agricultut-
al press. more than to anything else,
that the credit is due. Those farmers
who are divcrsifying their farming
most we find are the most prosperous
Those who have no bacon, nor lard,
For molasses to buy. do not feel
tho grinding pressure Of low
price cotton anything like re
much as those who have to buy
these things. The farmers who,
while supplying their own wants with
the above-namcd necessaries, have also
raised surplus to sell las they almost
invariably do when they diversity, can
now snap their fingers in the pallid face
OF King Cotton, and tell him to keep on
declining until death releases linn from
the environments of earth, for auyht
they care.
Farming, from u business standpoint.
is simple thing. 1t simply means to
be successful. If you raise ali, or nearly
all that you and your family eat, you
surely will not have to buy much in the
way of groceries. If, while you arc
fattening two hogs for your own Ia rider,
yon just put in two more to consume
your ovcrplus of grain, slops. etc, you
will be long on pork, and able to lay
by few dollars for a nucleus. If YOU
look we'll after your little herd of cat
tie, you will have one OF two beef
steers to sell in the fall, and this will
be an addition to Your little hoard.
The same may be said of potatoes
raise a surplus to sell. Raise lots of
TO town to sell whenever you go.
An acre or two in broom corn will
not cost much labor to cultivate, and
Will pay we'll for the time you spend
on it. If you live in n locality where
you have few acres of moist bottom
land, plant patch of ribbon canc,
and make IL supply of the incest
On a two-acrc patch OF cane you
should make from 100 to $50 gall
Ions of Zero. (Sirnp from which no
sugar is taken.) You can readily sell
all You have over your own home sup
ply, for from sixty cents to seventy
five cents per gallon, which will give
you good profit on its cost.
Ills IS Che sort OF farming that Will
keep ''all hands pleased" who follow
it up. Our forefathers farmed after
this style, and were. us rule. as hap
ply as lords. In our time. the southern
farmer has strayed away from the land
marks of true l,usbandry, lu,.ed by the,
at one time, high price of a single
product. To-day he is suffering in the
flesh for his folly: but he is repenting
and coming around to the correct Or
thodox doctrine. Then let lis rejoice
and be thankful for his future hopeful
outlook, and continue TO be pleased,
and strive to disseminate the true gos-
pei of diversified agriculture TIL all
the farmers of the south have been
cOnverted.-Texas, Farm and Ranch
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19

Why senator Reagan Feared Let Ills
Constituent See a Isa throon,.

Why senator Reagan Feared to Let ills
Constituent See a Bathroom.
An amusing anecdote is told by the
Washington capital on the genial cN-
Senator Reagan of Texas. \ short
time before he left tho senate one of
his longhaired, slouch-ha con>tit u
ents, with voice like Il fog horn
(Which he used freely in all polit-
zeal meetings, came to sec Judge Eca-
gan. The Texas statesman had then
been in the senate number of years.
The hole in the creek and the lucid
waters of the nill-pond had almost
faded from his memory. lie had
learned to en- joy the marble ba tht BIS.
the silver spigots, the dainty perfume.
the mental service of the f1unkicS. He
went sight seeing with his influential
fellow citizen, but after consilera bic
exertion got away from him to re-
fresh himself with his usual luxurious
senatorial bath. AS he entered the
bathroom he is reported to have said
TO the attendant:
You sec that long haired man going
down the corridor? I had to tell him.
this was a committee room. where ! had
important business to transact. If he
comes back for me before YOU get
through with me, for Gods sake don't
let him stick his nose inside this door!
If he finds out how we spend money on
marble bath-tubs, cologne. and all this
sort of thing. I'll never write senator
before my name again Us long as Texas
is one of the United States
The attendant guarded the door with
the fidelity of a Ccrbcrus. The long
haired constituent returned to the
Lone Star state ignorant of the fact
that a goodly part Of the money that
he and his fellow-citizens paid for
taxes went to rub down the hide of
Judge Reagan with alcohol aud
colognc.-CkicaE 20 Post
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-19
Ter On

HERE W as SO
III u c h t q l X
a y Ou t Pro f.
6 h G s n ey be-
fore he arrived
that Larry dc
clared herself
sick of the sub
ject.