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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
Christmas And Ohrysanthepums,

When stately chrysanthemums are
in their prime, Christmas thoughts are
in the air; and the happy combina-
ton of both in Demorest's Magazine
for December makes it an ideal
Christmas number. Page after page of
handsome illustrations depict various
phases of Christmas pleasure, and a
timely article on "The Infant Christ
in Legend and Art" embellished with
numerous and beautiful reproductions
of the Madonnas by modern painters,
gives some curious legends about the
Christ-child, and similar legends about
virgin born saviour that exist in all
the religions of the East. There is a
superbly illustrated paper on the AT
lanta Exposition; stories by Gilbert
Parker and Joseph Hatton are among
the fiction there are Christmas
poems, and lots of suggestions about
Christmas gifts and entertainments,
and every one of the departments is
replete with timely and valuable in
formation. In addition to all this,
there is the beautiful picture of
"Chrysanthemum," perfect repro
duction of the water. color by the emf
nent artist Paul de Longpre, which is
given as a Christmas Supple ment.
Everyone who possesses the lovely
"Yard of Pansies" and "Yard of
Roses needs this 10 complete trio
of pictures that cannot be surpassed
for decorative effect and any one
may obtain it, also December num-
Der Of Demorests, by cutting out this
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The original painting of "Chrysanthe
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to be given to the person who, previ-
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Demorest's Magazine the greatest
number of subscribers. This is an
unprecedented offer, full particulars OF
which are given in the December
number. Demorest's is published for
So year, by the Demorest Publish
ing Company, no Fifth Avenue
New York.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
UNITED EVANGELIOALS.
What Bishop Dubbs Says About the
Prospects Of the Church.

Members of the United Evangeli.
cal church in this city will be interest
ed in knowing that in conversation
with a Harrisburg Patriot interviewer
Bishop Dubbs stated that the Eca'e-
gslishe Zeitschrit5 a German paper
will be issued In Harrisburg about
January 1, About $1o, 900 have been
expended on it but it is now on a
paying basis. The church has pur.
chased the entire plant for $Ia,oo
and all the German publications OF
the church will be issued from the
Harrisburg publishing house.
Bishop Dubs has gone to Nebraska
to officiate at the dedication of sever
al churches. He is very sanguine
about the work of the new church
and says it is advancing rapidly in
every section. He gave list OF
seventeen churches In Eastern and
Central Pennsylvania at the dedica-
ton of which he has personally
officiated during the last several
months. On December IS he will
dedicate church at Schuylkil
Haven on the 22d one at William
sport on the 2oth one at Millersvlllei
January S at Carlisle; January Ia a,
Mauch Chunk January I9, at Johns
town. He said that Albright collegi.
ate institute is growing under the
presidency of Mr.. Esenwein.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
Fall Farm Work.

The fall farm work, under the extra
ordinarily long spell of fine weather,
is nearly all done, and farmers and all
others are ready to welcome several
days rain, which will not be any too
much to soak the dried out earth and
fill the subterranean reservoirs from
which the springs are supplied. AS
long as this droulh continues springs
will keep failing and streams &c,
lower.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
Boy, Bee and Cow.

An exchange says that an humble
boy with a shining pail went singing
gaily down the vale, to where a COW
with brindle tail, on alfalfa did regale.
A humble bee did gaily sail over the
soft and shady vale, to where the boy
with shining pail was milking the
COW with brindle tail. The bee lit
on the cows left ear, her feet flew up
through the atmosphere, and through
the leaves of a cottonwood tree, the
boy scared into eternity.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
SWAN QUARTERS OHUROn.
A Goddess Man Refused II Site, Blu, a
Tide That Beat the Record Settled II.

"If you should ever go down into
Hyde county, N. c., said membcr
of the Pamlco Sound Sportsmans
club, "and should stop at Swan
Quarter, the quaint county seat, YOU
would see a church perched on top OF
what they called hill. There is a
curious story connected with that
church.
Hyde county has two coasts, the
Pamlico Sound coast and the Atlantic
ocean coast. Half of the county lies
under water from 100 to 200 feet
deep. That water is Pamlico Sound.
The county also includes in its area
that narrow strip Of shifting sand
dunes and scrub grass extending from
Chcomack Banks southeast to Cape
Hatteras and from Cape Hatteras
southwest to Ocracock Inlet, strip
apparently unstable, and in some
places barely stones throw across,
but vet able to defy the Atlantic's
fercest attacks. That is how Hyde
county came to have two coasts.
During the fierce northeast storms
that are frequent there the sound tide
rises sometimes as high as six feet.
"Swan Quarter is in the southeast
corner of the mainland, on the sound.
Several years ago some of the Swan
Quarter citizens resolved to build
church. There was only one spot in the
town that offered site entirely safe
from the tide in time of storm. This
was what is known as hill down
there--a hummock of sand rising a
few feet above its surroundings. This
hill belonged to man who didn't
want any such thing as church, and
who refused to sell it at any price.
The church people did the next best
thing and built their church on ground
which, while not being entirely beyond
reach of the tide, was not in any
particular danger, and to make it
absolutely safe, they set it on piles
that raised it above the highest high
water mark on recoid on that coast
"The church was completed and
ready for occupation. Two nights
before the day the dedication exer-
cises were 10 be held in it there came
terrible storm. Next morning when
the citizens of Swan Quarter went
forth they were amazed. Such tide
as had never been before must nave
risen during the night, for the church
was gone from its high place on the
piles. But, more amazing still, the
tide had risen still higher than that,
SO high that it had carried the church
to the summit Of the hill and then
receded, leaving the church standing
squarely on the hummock, uninjured
in any way. Of course, every one
saw in this the unmistakable hand OF
Providence. 1t alarmed the goddess
owner of the hill, who had refused to
sell it at any price for the sacred
edihce, anc he not only gave the land
to the congregation without money
and without price, but also became a
devout member of it himself and re-
maned one to his dying day. The
church stands today just where it was
carried and left those many years ago;
never since has the fercest storm
that has beaten upon that coast driven
before it tide half so great as was
that memorable and providential one.
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
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 foI
work Of any kind for days at a time
These are catarrhal sufferers. Ely's
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, 1895-12-06
A Girls Essay on Boys.

Boys are men who have not got as
big as their papas. and girls are WON
en- that will be ladies by and by. Man
was made before woman. When God
looked at Adam he said to himself,
swell think | can do better if / try
again. And he made Eve. God
liked Eve SO much better than Adam
that there have been more women
than men. Boys arc a trouble. They
wear out everything but soap, If
had my way half the world would be
girs, the rest dolls. My papa is Sc
nice that | think he must have been
little girl when he was a little boy
Man was made, and on the seventh
day he rested. Woman was then
made, and she never rested since.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06

Few people know that all plants
contain digestive principles. They
cannot absorb their food until it is
digested any more than animals can.
The Mount Lebanon Shakers have
learned the art of extracting and
utilizing these digestive principles,
and it is for this. reason that their
Shaker Digestive Cordial is meeting
with such phenomenal success in the
treatment Of dyspepsia. The Shaker
Digestive Cordial not only contains
focd already digested, but it also con
tains digestive principles which aid
the digestion of other foods that may
be eaten with it. A single 10 cent
sample bottle will be sufficient to de
monstrate its value, and we suggest
that every suffering dyspeptic make a
trial of it. Any druggist can supply it.
Laxol is the best medicine fol
children Doctors recommend it in
place of Castor Oil.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06

A lot of new judgment exemption
notes, with attorneys commission,
and waving everything, just printed
at this Office. Sold single, or in
books of rs and SO. If.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
IT'S a Secret

that many women owe their beauty to DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The reason
beauty of form and face, as well as grace,
radiate from the common center--health-
The best bodily condition results from good
food fresh air, and exercise, coupled with
the judicious use OF the " Prescription" In
ma;denhood, womanhood, and motherhood,
IFS a supporting tonic that's peculiarly ad-
apted TO her needs, regulating, strengthen
ing, and curing, the arrangements Of the
sex.
If there be headache, pain in the back,
bearing-down sensations, or general debility,
or if there be nervous disturbances, nervous
prostration, and sleeplessness, the "Prescrip.
ton reaches the origin of the trouble aud
corrects it. 1t dispels aches and pains,
corrects displacement aud cures catarrhal
inflammation of the lining membranes. Once
used, it is always in favor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
A STORY OF PECULIAR INTEREST TC
WOMEN.

We have heard SO much talk throughout the
county of late concerning Mrs. Martha Gates
ofMaine, Broome County, NY, that yesterday
sreporter of the Binghamton Republican inter-
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06

A Connecticut man is trying to
induce Scranton capitalists to start an
egg factory.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06

Lutherans who desire a bishop at
the head OF their church were in con
vention at Lancaster last week.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06

DIR. Pierce's Pellets cure consii ion,
ind dgestion, biiousness, headaches and
kindred ailments.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
TIE KaEiI.n. one year for y2.oo
Or lir r.ortAl for 100.

(oyer $50 different garments are shown each
year, patterns OF all OF which are obtainable by
subscribers at DC. each) Sample copy with pat
tern coupon) sent for lOc.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-19

low stature and with a very nice,
plump figure went into New York
store and asked for her size in
certain brand OF corsets. ''We haven't
any to fit you, said the girl, ''but II you
viii allow yourself to be measured and
fitted by our foreman You can have i
corset free. We are looking for per-
feet figure of just Your short style"
Very few women know about these
different classes of corsets. And. even
II the shopgirl has been informed of
them she does not stop to interpret the
small mystic letters upon the outside CT
the corset box
When the woman has got her styls
of corsets, she can have it cut of If too
long, for fifty cents-a fact not always
known-and for the same amount she
can have it rounded under the arms 10
the right depth: and straps sewed on 70
go over the shoulders
Such a lot more is done for the little
ones these days, When we grown-ups
were small we considered ourselves
happy IL we were able TO feed our i'm.
aginations with Grimm's fairy tales or
the marvels of the Arabian Nights
Now the stories are brought straigh,
home TO the nursery and the school
room, for the children's fancy balls are
as important as any OF the society
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-19

many members Of the next house, and
starts out in the contest well backed.
Born of slave parents at Richmond,
Va, Rev. DIR. Brooks is graduate OF
Lincoln university. He has held several
federal positions, and in 1915 was or
dained to the ministerial work, and as
signed to the pastorate of the Second
Baptist church of Richmond, Va. He
was subsequently assigned to mis-
sionary work at New Orleans, La His
health failing. he resigned his work
there and accepted the pastorate Of the
Nineteenth Street Baptist church OF
Washington. Under his pastorate the
church has gained national reputa-
tioh. The degree of doctor of divinity
was conferred upon him by the Roger
Williams university and the State uni
versity of Kentucky.
Rev. R. c. o. Benjamin, lawyer, edit
or, clergyman, is being named by the
Virginia Leader for the place. The his
tory of Rev. r. c. O. Benjamin is a
unique one. He has filed many posi-
tons in the gift of his people and has
done yeoman service for his party. He
is the author of several books, has
taken part in many legal contests, has
written poetry, edited newspaper and
preached the Gospel He is now prac-
tieing law in Rhode Island, and is the
president of large association which
is interested in the amelioration of the
condition of the colored people His
friends are now urging him for the
chaplaincy and claim that if party serv-
ice commands the place he ought to
have it
There are many other clergymen Of
color throughout the country who are
hoping to receive the place. but, as one
of them put it, 1T is question whether
or not any party has the stamina 10
elect colored man as chaplain of the
house Of representatives
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-19
REV. WALTER b. EBooKs.

IN Africa and Europe, and has been the
guest of the crowned beads of Europe.
He numbers among his friends the
most able men Of both races, and, al
though past three score years and ten,
he is forceful and eloquent speaker.
He has been a priest in Washington for
twenty-six years. and his friends have
great confidence that he viii be the
chaplain Of the next house.
Rev. DIR. ]. T. Jennifer, who Is also
favorably named, is the pastor OF the
Metropolitan A. NJ. E. church, of Wash
ington, and he has filed some of the
best positions in the gift of his church.
The degree of doctor Of divinity was
conferred upon him by Wilberface
university, in 1878. He was secretary
of the Arkansas conference for eight
years, and wrote brief history Of
African Methodism in Arkansas and In
the Indian territory. While at Little
Rock he was a member of the examin-
ing committee of the public schools,
and succeeded In getting colored teach
ers appointed in those schools. In 1851
he was transferred to the New Eng
land conference by Biship Turner, and
was stationed at the Charles Street
church in Boston. He served the Bos.
ton church for six years He is an odd
fellow and belongs to the masonic
order. He now officiates as the pastor
of the Metropolitan A. NJ. E. church. of
Washington, the largest congregation
in the African NJ. E. connection.
Rev. Walter n. Brooks, d. D., pastor
of the Nineteenth Street Baptist
church, isalso candidate for the Office.
He has the largest congregation among
the colored people in Washington. He
has among his audience frequently
members of congress, and his sermons
are always of high order. All Of the
colored Baptist preachers are Tor him,
and he will be supported by the MEM
bers Of the Baptist Ministers union,
which is composed of all the preachers
Of that denomination in Virginia,
Maryland and tho District of Columbia.
He enjoys the personal acquaintance OF
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the chaplaincy Of the next house. These
candidates are making aggressive fights
for the place, and the colored ministers
everywhere seem anxious to invoke
Divine blessings upon the sessions of
the ensuing congress. The contest
promises to be more spirited than that
over any other question to be settled in
connection with the organization of the
Fifty-fourth congress.
The colored republicans claim that
they contributed big share to the re-
suit of the election, and as the speaker
ship, the sergeant-at-arms and the
clerkship will go to the dominant race,
the colored contingent is claiming the
chaplaincy. But as the candidates for
this place among the colored republic
ans seem as numberless as the sands
upon the seashore, and as it is with
some of them a question of: ''If don't
you shant, )" there is possibility that
this contest viii end as many contests
for offices have among the colored poll
ticises-in victory for the enemy.
Washington alone has four aspirants
for the place, including Rev. q q g
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-19
HISTORY OF THEM
About Betrothal Luncheons and
Napoleon Gowns.
Eomo Hints rs to Stays-Fancy Balls foA
Little People and Their Elders
The Pocket as . Fin dc
Steele Novelty.
IcoPYRIGHr. 1881

The betrothal luncheon is capable OF
being made wonderfully pretty affair.
At one OF the most elaborate OF the
season given In honor OF q newly en-
gagged girl few days ago the flower
decorations were all of maiden-hair
ferns and violets. The heart-shaped
tables were beds of the delicate,
feathery green that means innocence,
with the modest, sweet-scented posies
thrusting their heads up here and there
coyly.
The beautiful blonde guest Of honor
wore MORE gauze in a dainty shade OF
pale violet that fitted in charmingly
with the occasion
Is it because OF mime. Sans-Gene'
that the Napoleon gown is suddenly in
such high favor?
Neither cause is 1t, nor effect; but
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-19

Grated as classical to be mere rubbish,
and he thought Catullus largely rub
Dish. The duke replied that Catullus
had brought tears to the eyes OF this
same Macaulay by his pleading Lesbian
elepy. and he showed the passage
wherein the matchless essayist con-
fessed the fact. The young Croesus
Welded the point in his graceful way
but remarked that Macaulay would
have found an onion act in the same
way.
There is one Latin author, however,
whom George Vanderbilt does admire,
and two of whose poems he pronounces
inimitab bic. That author is Horace.
Mr. Vanderbilt is an accomplished
Horation, and his favorites are the
'Ofons Bandusial ~ and ''Vitas hinnu-
leo me similis Chloe" He likewise
admires the Latinity of the scholars
who made the circle of Lorenzo de
Medici SO brilliant, and deems modern
Latinity, particularly that of the Flor
entine intellectual renaissance, as
worthy of study as that of the Angus
tan age.
Mr. Vanderbilt is honorary member
of two Dante societies. While he
knows Alighieri as well as any scholar,
his preference is for Tasso. Mr.. Van
derbilt writes Italian as well as he does
English, and carries on quite cores
pondence in that language with various
Roman scholars. In German literature
his reading has been mostly confined to
the philosophical writer's and to the
historians. There are very few au-
thoritative works in any language in
the department of history with which
this young man is not acquainted. OF
all historians he deems Livy easily first.
In English literature he is naturally
at home. Shelley is his favorite poet.
Milton and Chaucer he places next. It
NAV surprise the devotees Of Shakes
peare societies that this prince among
scholars does not worship the Bard OF
Avon with the unrestrained idolatry
now in vogue He does not consider
even Hamlet equal TO the Faust OF
Goethe, while none of the English
poets masterpieces are thought by him
to be equal to the loftier performances
of the Greek tragedians. Mr.. Wander
bilt has read pretty nearly everything
that Thackeray and Scott wrote. The
elder Dumas he thinks one Of the
greatest romancers of any age. {,
The most singular characteristic of
George Vanderbilt is that with all his
intellectual attainments he is not
bookworm. He does not by any means
pass the most of his time among his
books. He hunts, fishes, rides, and
lately has begun to give dinners and. to
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-19

torted translation It VIII interest stu
dents to learn that his standpoint is
partially with the Hegelians of the
right He does not, however, accept
Spencer's dicta of the unl1nowable, al
though perceiving the relatively of per-
ception and, necessarily, the instability
of the homogeneous. Mr.. Spencer's
reconciliation of science and religion is
to Mr. Vanderbilt no reconciliation at
all and could end only in the skepticism
of Renan.
1t is to Plato, however. .he scholar
of the plutocracy gives his first ale
glance. Mr.. Vanderbilt makes all his
philosophic memoranda in Greek. The
early Greek philosophers have always
been specially interesting to him, and
their alleged puerilities he maintains
TO be no puerilities at all, in view of the
aspect of the philosophic problem in
the time of .Anaximander when being,
instead of knowing, was assumed to be
the starting point of the philosophical
instauration.
TO man thus disposed, Kant can
not fail to be fascinating. Mr.. Van
derbilt is an accomplished Kantian
scholar. although. singularly enough,
he dissents from Fichte's exposition of
The masters teachings These predi-
iections have thus led kim towards the
historical school in ethics and econem-
les, and his Sympathies with Schneider
have ned to the charge that George w.
Vanderbilt is a socialist. But Mr. Van
nerbilt has replied that the historical
school is purely ethical An economics
view OF the philosophy of history leads
TO socialism An ethical view leads
necessarily TO religion.
Such. in brief, is Mr.. Vanderbilt's in
tellectual standpoint "a standpoint
which has given him much prominence
In Germany where people do not know,
apparently, that this quiet student is
Americas greatest bachelor million
Rire.
For that sort of work TO which the
term classical literature is applied, Mr..
Vanderbilt has scapt respect. although
he possesses a superb edition of the
s.i-ds alleged 10 have once been owned
by Scallger himself. He shocked the
late Prof. Merriam, by asserting that
the poems Of MoschuS. Theocritus and
even Catullus and Propatius can have
but pathological interest. He deems
Tibullus Rome's greatest elegiast. but
he makes conditioned qualification in
favor OF the 'miser, Catulle. desinas
ineptne" II is related that he once
had talk with the duke of Argyll or
the subject of tolerating Catullus in
the Cambridge course. Mr.. Vanderbilt
mentioned that Macaulay had pro
pQupced much of the, literature toll