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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-10-29
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An easy way to remove spots oil
paint from glass Is to make a strong
solution Of soda in hot water and wash
the glass with a flannel dipped in this
To remove the finger marks from
vanished furniture rub them with
cloth dampened with sweet oil. To
remove them from oiled furniture use
kerosene oil.
Window screens of japanese cedar
fretwork are in favor; they are used
either in the natural light color OF
finished to resemble olive wood, cher
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A little kerosene IS an excellent
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Apply with soft wooleu cloth. then
wash off with hot water-no soap ip
it--and polish with powdered bath
brick.
When the patent leather on shoes
begins to look shabby, rub on some
sweet oil with piece Of flannel polish
till all the surplus oil is removed, ana
the shoes will look as good as new.
Don't throw away ribbons because
they are soiled. Wash them in suds
made of fine toilet soap and cold wat
er, squeezing them quickly through.
Place them between two cloths and
press with a moderately hot iron.
Slumber rolls of down, also rolls
stuffed with curlcd hair and covered
with good ticking, are offered ready
made for co~ering. They are easily
covered and make a rich accessory In
furnishing by any clever housewife.
f., pieN n
often give a touch of refinement; for
instance, there are the lovely little
porcelain candlesticks, in the form vi
a full blown pink rose, resting on q
spray of green leaves in fine porcelain
Where windows are built low as in
very oldfashioned houses, leaving
considerable space between their tops
and the ceiling, pretty rallied shelves
make a pretty furnishing. They may
be ebonlzed, mahoganized or decorated
to match the woodwork of the room
Very decorative screens, three-solo
In scarlet silk embroideries with lonl
trailing branches of blossoms and
with tropical birds, all in fine silk, are
attracting enthusiastic admiration
They are especially handsome in large
parlors where they light up sombrt
corners most effectively.
The newest iron bedsteads which are
making their appearance are very
decorative, and not unreasonable II
price Besides the brass finish, thes'
bedsteads are finished in enamel eff
feet and all the delicate colors used Il
enameling furniture, and this finish il
associated with ornamentation in brass
knobs, balls, bars and spindles.
Much more pleasing than the ordi.
nary cheap frame for pictures is a
frame made of nicely marked pine
stained by rubbing into it with O
woolen rag bronze-green oil paint
thinned with turpentine. This paint
thus applied, brings out all the beauty
Of the veinage of the wood, giving q
pleasing effect. The frame should be
finished by a narrow FURNISHED gill
beading or molding may be purchased
by the foot at reasonable price.
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p,geons immensely popular, while for
ostrich tips black will be the favorite
color.
The newest hats are not nearly as
overloaded with trimming as they
bade fair to be earlier in the season,
when it seemed as If they would rival
the immense structures of tulle and
flowers and feathers so popular in the
time of Marie Antoinette. 1t is curious
to note how. in these days, common
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that seems about to become ridiculous
hope that the day OF monstrosities is
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or even exaggerated, and we may now
back, and filling in the space between
the hat and the hair is almost uniyer-
sal, but the extreme Partisan tip-tilt-
ing over the eyes has not been adopted
here, and for that reason. perhaps. the
hats are smaller.
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she acquired them. Her watch is thick
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alive with them and they CLEAN brill
liaptly from every part of her attire.
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Connections at Rupert with Philadelphia \.
Reading Railroad for Tamanend TamaQua.|
Milliamsport, Sunhugy, PottsHlla, etc Az,
Northumberland with p. q f. Div. p. X. for|
Harri, burg, Lock EayeI, Emporium Warrer !,
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ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION.
TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURY

Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut Street wharf
and South Street wharf for Atlantic city.
WEEK-DAYs-Express, 800, a. M, 200, 400,
500, p. m. Accom-. 500 a. M, $50 p. m.
SUNDAY-EXpress. 800, 1000 am. Accom-.
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Parlor cars on all express trains.
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Genl Superintendent. Genl Pass. Agt
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-10-29
EARLY AUTUMN MILLINERY.
A Revival of the Ever Popular English
Walking Hat.

" WWIkIH5 IIHt.
There will be a revival on a some
what larger scale of the ever popular
English walking hat, with indented
crown and possibly a closer brim than
formerly. Another small walking hat
will have a tall cylinder crown, curl
ing out slightly at the top, and a very
narrow brim, curling closely at the
sides. Only medium large hats Will
be worn. None of the huge picture
hats that have so long been the bane
of the theatregoer will be seen. Birds
of Paradise, plumes of cocks tails and
ostrich plumes will be used in abund-
ance, while artificial flowers will be
retained, just to peep out beneath the
brims of hats. The craze for gray will
make the wings and tails of doves and
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-10-29
TIRED SALESWOMEN.
EMPLOYERS SHOULD BE MORE
CON6lDERATE.

interesting Statement by Young Lady
in Brooklyn.
In the vast retail establishments of
large cities, many women are en-
ployed as saleswomen.
Men formerly held the positions that
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-10-29

To Make Nice ButtermiIk Biscuits.
A quart of flour, a teaspoonful OF
lard, teaspoonful Of soda and one of
salt; thick milk for soft dough. Roll
half an inch thick, cut out and bake
IN quick oven. .l!AlIs.sl .stSlls .Al..ss
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7 Daily, except sunday. Daily.
Pullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars run on
through trains between Sunbury, Wiliamsport
and Erie, between Sunbury and Philadelphia
and Washington and between Harrisburg, Pitts.
burg and the west.
Agents.
S NJ. PROVOST, j. R. WOOD,
Gen'. Manager. Gen. Pass, Agt.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
SOME GOLD CONTRADICTIONS
NOW YOU SEE IT AND NOW
YOU DON'T.
Consistency Not an Essential For a
Gold Bug Argument.

There never was q political subject in de-
bate in which the advocates of one side
SO perSiStently contradicted themselves
and stultitied their own arguments, as the
supporters of the gold standard are doing
in this campaign. Here are few of the
contradictions:
The Republican platform declares for
bimetallism; the whole subject of bimetal-
lism is built on fact, which few leading
monometallists have ever disputed, that
gold is increasing in value. Yet in this
campaign Republican speakers and Re-
publican newspapers are denying the one
point upon which the Republican plank OF
international bimetallism is ~founded-the
rising value of gold
They say that mine owners will make
fifty cents profit on every silver dollar; they
also say that the silver dollar will be only
a fifty-cent dollar. Now If the dollar Is
to be worth 100 cents to the mine owner,
which it must be for him to make fifty
cents profit, it must also be worth 100 cents
to the next man.
That by law you cannot add cent to the
value of anything; yet by free silver law
they say that the prices of all the necessa-
ries of life will be doubled, and that by a
protection law they can raise the prices of
1dClOIy pIOuuClS dLu IdlSc w ages DIS we'll.
That a free silver law will initiate the vol
ume of the currency, and in the next
breath they say that free silver law will
drive all the gold out of the country and
contract the volume Of currency by $780,
600 900.
That it is overproduction and nothing
and the next minute they say that it ISM t
hnt 10 fact that tho
ployes of factories don't make enough
money to buy as much -four as they want.
That you cannot ignore the law of sup
ply and demand, and then they say that
an unlimited demand, an enormous increase
in the demand for silver as coin, will not
raise the price Of silver.
That the gold standard is the only stand
ard, and their platform says that it is so
bad they will not keep it minute longer
than they have to.
That under free silver we shall not be
able to buy foreign goods, and then they
say that the whole trouble with America
is that we are buying too much of foreign
product
That the mine owners have raised an
enormous silver trust fund with which to
fool the country, and then say that the
wretched Democrats haven't got enough
money with which to buy banners or pay
rent for headquarters. or send out ltera-
ture.
That everything would be doubled II,
price except wages, and then they say that
wages depend upon prices, and ask the
workingmen to vote for protection because
that means higher prices. and higher
prices mean higher wages.
That they want an honest dollar" but
that the silver dollar will not be an honest
dollar until foreigners say it Isl and yet
they say they (the Republicans are the
only judges Of what an honest dollar" is
These are only few. Almost every gold
| argument put forward to date has been
contradicted fatty by other gold argu-
ments.-H. johnson In N. Y. News.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
TREASON AND REVOLUTION.
TWO ASTOUNDING GOLD-BUG
ADMISSIONS.
Make Threats Against Sclf.Goy.
ernment.
Chicago Sentinel.)

In the course of his speech at Detroit re-.
Gently, Senator John NJ. Palmer said as re.
ported in the New York World, a gold bug
paper:
FOR MYSELF WOULD PREFER TO
LIVE UNDER A RIGHTEOUS MONAR-
CHY RATHER THAN SUBMIT TO SUCH
PRINCIPLES AS THOSE DECLARED
BY THE CHICAGO CONVENTION"
1t is lucky for Senator Palmer that he
Is living under a government that permits
free speech; otherwise his remark would
be considered reasonable and hostile to the
government under which he holds high
office, and to which he owes allegiance.
Senator Palmer should not be permitted
to hold his place In the United States sem
ate single day.
When he says he prefers monarchy
rather than to submit to the Chicago plat
stitution. He should be impeached as soon
as the senate meets. A senator was once
expelled for similar but far less fragrant
Offense.
But this is not the only instance where
the fange of the plutocrats have been
shown at the possibility of the rule Of the
common people and not the money power;
Recently the chairman Of the Republican
county committee for New York city, Mr..
Edward Lauterbach, characterized the
men who formulated and are supporting
the Democratic national platform as
devils and anarchists, and described the
platform itself Infamous communists
tic and socialistic." He concluded thus:
II T IS A BLOODLESS FIGHT. NO
BLOOD WILL BE SHED-AT LEAST
NOT YET. BUT IF THEY ATTEMPT
TO SUBvERT YOUR SUPREME COURT,
IF THEY SHOULD SUCCEED, BY ANY
CHANCE, IN FOISTING UPON YOU
THESE HORRIBLE DOCTRINES-AN-
ARCHISTIC, SOCIALISTIC AND COM
MUNISTIC-WHICH THAT PLATFORM
ADOPTED BY THIS POPULISTIC
BROOD CONTAINS, WE WILL NOT
ABIDE BY THAT DECISION"
Possibly it did not occur to this pluto
cratic henchman that the above sentiment
is not only anarchistic. but reasonable
from whatever point 1t is viewed.
Yet both Senator Palmer and Mr.. Laut-
erbach Xpressed-perhaps in an unguard.
ed moment-the covert opinions Of the
gold bugs and the plutocrats. They are
really fighting against self government.
They all prefer monarchial form Of gov
ernment, only they dare not admit it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28

women of many nations, some lively in
temperament and apt in appreciation, and
others dull of apprehension and stoical in
mind. and yet he seems to make all feel
and understand the force of his arguments,
the power of his mental energy and the
magnetism of his great mind. Men go to
his meetings to scott. they listen to his
pathetic appeals in favor of the down trod-
den masses, and as he proceeds with his
cause they forget their purpose and find
themselves applauding what they had
come to condemn. If he is elected, as we
believe he will be. 1t will not be his fault if
there is not change in the land for the
better. With him in the White House the
schemes of rotten politicians will receive
no quarter. Salary grabs and private ap-
propriations will have no chance. If he is
not elected the fight will go on; we have
it from his own lips that there will be no
truce with Wall street, no cessation Of the
war upon trusts and rObbing corporations
until they are suppressed. All our read
ers should do their part, therefore. to help
this gallant soldier of the poor, who, is
fighting single handed against the syndi-
Gates and moneyed powers of New York
and London, and the rotten. time serving
gold bug cuckoos of Cleveland and Car
Isle. Let no sophistry, therefore, lead
you aside from your purpose. Remember
that you have grown old relying upon pres
idential promises of good times coming
when they and their hirelings enjoy the
spoils. For 16 years you have been alter
nately trying the Republican and Demo-
cratic governments without any better
ment in your condition. Year by year the
burdens grow heavier, your purse lighter,
and your poverty increases, while the rich
rascals flourish and grow fat upon your
misery. Now you have chance to change
your condition for the better, it could not
be worse, and you have a man to lead you
to victory whom the nation should be
proud of. Will you desert him in the hour
Of trial? Will you allow the money chang
ers and syndicates to cruelty him as they
did of old the Savior? If you do, we pray
God you may never have it in your power
to betray another friend of humanity.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
TO THE VOTERS OF THE STATE
OF MINNESOTA.

In the peculiar condition Of the present
political campaign we deem it proper to
issue this address to the people of this
state.
A careful canvass of the situation has
demonstrated conclusively to our minds
that Mr.. Bryan will receive the electoral
vote of this state: that Mr.. Lind and his
associates the ticket will be elected to
the respective offices for which they are
candidates of the state Of Minnesota. If
the metropolitan daily press would fully
and fairly publish the news it would not be
necessary for us to take this means of ex-
planning the situation, but there has been
waged by our opponents campaign of
Misrepresentation, and the people OF each
community have been kept in the dark
as to the condition in the other commune
ties, and while it has been observed that
the friends of free silver are in E'ery in
stance satisfied with the work being done
in their own county, they are inclined -
think that the cause has not advanced as
much in other districts.
The truth is that the people everywhere
have made this cause their own, and there
is county in the state of Minnesota in
which the free silver vote will not largely
exceed the former total vote Of the opposi-
ton to the Republican party. When it is
remembered, therefore, that four years ago
in this state the Republican party had had
at least 10000 votes less than one-half the
vote Of the state, it will be seen how GER
tain the reform forces are of carrying the
state this fall
We have nothing but words of praise for
the patriotic conduct of the people Of Min
nesota in this contest When our victory
is secured the credit will belong to them
alone.
We wish to take this means of warning
the voters of this state against the ma
chinations Of the old rings which have so
long dominated the policies of both the
Republican and Democratic parties here
The old bosses having lost control Of the
Democratic party have grown Desperate;
their policy is rule or ruin" and now real
izing the probable election of Mr.. John Lind
to the office of governor, they have deter
mined to resort to any and all means to
defeat him. ISLANDERS against his charac-
ter and opinions are being circulated
unde rthe guise of 'confidentiar' communi-
cations. Men are hired to circulate
amongst people of particular national
tiles ISLANDERS and falsehoods against him,
and the attempt is being boldly though Sc
cretly made to set nationality against ma
tionality, men Of one religion against
those of another.
Nothing is sacred to the rule or ruin
men," and sooner than lose their selfish
control of the machinery Of state govern
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
(Hon. Arthur Cough, in Chippewa Fal

(Hon. Arthur Cough, in Chippewa Falls,
Wis, Sentinel)
We have seen Bryan, heard Bryan, and
talked with Bryan, and in our opinion VIM.
J. Bryan Is the greatest American of the
age He is one Of those individuals whom
Providence in its isdom sends upon the
earth at rare intervals to war against ty-
ranny and fight the battle of the people
without fee or reward. OF such were
Moses and Aaron, Judas Maccabees, Ly-
curgus, Solon, Caius Gracious, Reinzi.
and Daniel OConnell. Like these great men
Mr. Bryan's magnetism is in his earnest
ness. He has a grievance and puts it be-
fore the world with force and vigor that
is irresistible. He sees the masses suffer
through the effect Of bad laws; their pow
erty appeals to his generous heart, and he
goes forth to right their wrong without
calculating upon either the labor which
he will have to undergo, or the resistance
he will have to overcome Therein lies
mis- power. He Is not an orator in the
scholastic sense. He is not stump speaker
in the common acceptation of the word.
He is simply a man gifted with large
power of expression, full knowledge of
his subject, and he speaks from his heart.
There is no sameness in his discourse, for
general purpose, they are as varied as
the human countenance, and his delivery is
grave or gay, as the subject requires. We
have heard nearly all the great speakers
of this country that have been before the
people for the last 30 years, and we have
heard all the great orators of England and
Ireland from O'Connell to Gladstone With
your BlatneS and COnklins, and Germans
and Vilas's, Mr.. Bryan has little in COM
mon. He does not saw the air in bombast,
nor roar and stamp like a bad bull in a
paddock. The force and depth Of his
thoughts are expressed with natural emo
tions, and the listener is never panied be-
cause he feels that the speaker is suffering
for lack of ideas, or lack of words in which
to clothe them. Daniel O'Connell is the
man of all others whom we think Bryan
most resembles in his manner. In his die
ton, and in his force and energy of his
expression. O'Connelrs manner was natu-
raj, so Is Bryan's; O'Connells diction al
ways suited his subject, so does Bryan's.
There are no superfiuous words thrown in
for ornament or anectation in the
speeches Of OConnell; there are none in
Bryan's. At the Auditorium in st. Paul
last Saturday night he spoke for nearly
two hours, and on scanning his speech in
the papers the next morning we could not
single out a word or phrase that could be
altered or omitted without marring the
text. In earnestness and vigor. and in that
magnetic power which the true orator pos
sesses and by which he sways the hearts
Of his audience from grave to gay,
from Joy to sorrow. from love to hatred.
we should hold them equal. O'Connell had
Of course an Irish audience. and he was an
Irishman himself, and knew how to rouse
his hearers to frenzy in their hatred Of
tyranny and oppression. Mr.. Bryan has
the same subject for his theme, but his
audience is always made up Of men and
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-28
ASK THEM THIS.

HOW IS THE GOLD STANDARD TO
BENEFIT THE WORKINGMEN, BUSI-
NESS MEN AND FARMERS?
WE HAVE AN ALLEGED GOLD
STANDARD NOW-WHY DON'T WE
HAVE GOOD TINES?
IF WAGES ARE ONLY 81 CENTS A
DAY FOREARM LABORERs IN FREE
SILVER MEXICO. WHY ARE THEY on
LY FIVE CENTS A DAY IN GOLD
STANDARD EGYPT.