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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30
Every Tree is Earning its Living.

1t is a question worthy of grave
consideration, says the Lancaster Ne7o
Era, whether the counties of the
State cannot foster forestry more by
remitting or at least lowering the taxes
on timbered lands. That would, no
doubt, save many a stately woods that
is doomed to fall under the ak before
its time. In recent address before
the Bucks County Science Association,
DIR. Rothrock stated the question IN a
most convincing way. He said that
4" every hour a tree stands it is citi-
zen, earning its living; holding water
for the commonwealth and protecting
the land. Whether on the hillside, in
a forest or alone in the woodlot, it is
earning its living. Any tax that com
pels the cutting off of timber is work
ing harm to the commonwealth. If
taxed at all it should be in a class by
itself. In this state are fully four
thousand square miles of land so steep
that it is being rapidly washed away.
All Of that land is paying nothing now
and should be put into trees. Every
farm has some swampy land that can
be put to no use, or some barn or
outbullding that needs shelter; not
a farm is there but that will be better
for more trees"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30

In Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia
and America, the five great continents,
Shaker medicines are being used by
suffering humanity for the cure OF
sickness and disease.
Never was there such universal
demand never such wonderful results.
Shaker Digestive Cordial, a cure
for indigestion, is prepared from herbs
and roots, and is a natural remedy,
which cures by aiding nature and not
by fighting her.
Shaker Digestive Cordial makes
those fat, who have become thin by
not digesting their food.
1t restores the spirits and the appe,
tite of those who are detected and
tagged out from the wearing effects o.
indigestion.
1t relieves the symptoms of dys
pepsia, and, after using for reason
able time, finally cures the complaint
Sold by druggists. Trial bottle &c
cents.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30

The famous cat of ex-mayor Eb7,
which goes out into the neighboring
fields and captures snakes, which he
drags into the house for the inspec-
ton of the family, has rival in the
same block, tells the Harrisburg teIe-
gyabh. w. l.. Powell, who went
trout fishing the other day at New
vile, and got stuck in the mud, has a
cat which also developed snake
charming propensities Mrs. Powell
was Mortified to see snake two feet
long on the kitchen floor the other
day which the family cat had captur-
ed in the cellar of their residence.
There will be few snakes left at
Cottage Ridge If the two cats are
permitted to get in their work unmo
lested
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30
Trying to Save Holmes.
An Effort 10 Have the Multi Murderer I'm.
prisoned for Life.

Coroner Castor of Indianapolis,
received telegram last week f. n
S. P. Rotan, 6o2 Girard building,
Philadelphia, attorney of H. H.
Holmes, asking him to come at once
to Philadelphia and bring with him
the records of the Pitezel inquest.
The attorney also wired SIS to the
coroner for his time and expenses.
The coroner says that he will probable
go to Philadelphia on Saturday.
The coroner thinks that the tele-
gram means that Holmes intends in
some way to make one more fight for
his life. He thinks that Holmes,
instead of making his high priced con-
fession for the benefit of his wife and
children, made it in order to procure
funds with which to make one more
effort to save himself.
Henry w. Bullock, the Indianapolis
attorney for H. II. Holmes, says that
there is movement on foot to get
the sentence of Holmes changed to
Imprisonment for life. The movement
is being made by Attorney Rotan and
by Mr.. McCaffrey, who represents
Bullock in Philadelphia. He says he
understands that in Pennsylvania they
have board of pardons, of which the
lieutenant governor is president. 1t is
said that the lieutenant governor is
opposed to capital punishment, and
thus the advisers Of Holmes have
hopes of saving their clients life.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30
Readings Relief Association.

The statement of the Philadelphia
& Reading Railroad Relief Association
for the month of March, 1896, shows
payments of benifts aggregating $I7,-
6I8.So. On account of deaths, ST.
I47; on account Of accidents, disable
inents, $h534.4o. Thirteen death
claims were paid, four occurring from
accidents and nine from natural causes.
The total number of new cases re-
ported during the month was 1914.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30
KIDNEY DISEASE
Cured, Says A. J. Spencer, Of
JACKSON, PA.

a. J. Spencer of Jackson, Tioga county,
Pa, writes &C. was troubled with kidney
and urinary complaint for long time. My
family physician gave me various medicines
but they failed to he'll me DR.. Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy was suggested to me and
| bought two bottles. After the first two or
three doses | could see it was helping me.
Before had used the contents of the sec ond
bottle felt like a new man and | have en-
joyed good health ever since"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30
Best Family Medicine.

Punxsutawney, Pa, April 8, 1895.
We have large family and we all
take Hoods Sarsaparilla as we regard
it as the best family medicine that
we have ever had. We recommend
it to our friends as the best that can
be obtained. Burt Pennan.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30

Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy
to operate.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30

The Penn Steel Casting and Ma
chine Company Of Chester has received
an order for 500 tons of steel castings
for the Baldwin locomotive works.
which are for sixty locomotives being
built for the Russian government.
This is the largest order that has ever
come to Chester.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30
Voted to Build a $4,000 School.

A special election was held at Sun
bury last week to decide the question
of building a $4,000 central high
school, and those in favor Of the school
won by 237 majority.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30
DR.. DAVID KEKNEDYS
FAVORITE REMEDY

has efecIed many cures alter Physicians had
given up hope. 1t restores the liver to n
healthy condition, and cures the worst cases
of constipation. Ii is certain cure for all
diseases peculiar to females, and affords
great protection from attacks that originate
in change Of life. 1t cures scrofula, salt
rheum, rheumatism, dyspepsia all kidney
bladder and urinary diseases, gravel. diabetes
and Bright's disease In this last disease it
has cured where all else failed. All drug
gists, $I.oo bottle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-30
WON'T ADMIT THE WOMEN.
Scheme for Their Admission to the
Methodist Conference Defeated.

The proposition to admit women
as lay delegates to the General Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Chuch at Cleveland, o., has been
defeated. The vote of the North
Dakota Conference, which has just
been received, was the last to be
taken on the question. With that
vote included in the table the vote is
shown to be 1915 for the admission
of women and 252o against. Accord
ing to provision of the discipline 1t
is necessary for a proposition to
change any of the restrictive rules of
the Church to receive the support of
three-fourths of the members of the
annual conferences voting on the
proposition and two-thirds of the
members of the General Conference.
As the total vote was Io,o44 it
would have been necessary for the
supporters of the amendment to have
cast 1888 ballots to win. They lost
by eighteen votes.
WOMEN DELEGATES ELECTED.
A complication of the question will
be caused by the presence of three
women at the next Methodist Episco-
pal General Conference, who have
been elected as lay delegates and
who will apply for admission to the
Conference. One of these is the wife
of President Bashford, of the Ohio
Wesleyan University, at Delaware,
Ohio. The women may be admitted
on a simple majority vote, it is said,
and if this is done 1t will settle the
whole question in their favor. There
will be large majority in the Confer
ence in favor of the admission of
women.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10
GALA DAYS IN MONTERREY.
Fifty Years Since Sloat Raised the
Stars and Stripes.
Four Days of FOurth-July the Big Day
of the Celebration-The Bear Flag
Raising and the Work
of Fremont.
COPYRIGHT. 1861


Monterey, Cal.-The City of the
Mountain of the King is getting ready
to celebrate in fine, large California
fashion, the 50th anniversary of the
raising of the flag of the republic; and
owing to the commendable foresight
of Commodore Sloat, U. S. N, in hoist
ing the Stars and Stripes on July Z,
1s46, just three days after the glorious
Fourth of that year, the rest of the
country will have to envy Monterey a
four-day celebration, a grand Saturday.
to-Tuesday jamboree with few hours
of Sunday to sleep in.
For that matter California. has had
semi-centennials in plenty during the
past year or so, and will for four years
to come, if the discovery of gold in 1S47,
the argonautic expedition of 1849 and
the admission of the state in 1850 are
not forgotten by the energetic Slopers.
Still, Monterey has rather the best
of 1t. A quiet little town enough now,
she Is historically so important and so
full of memories of stirring days that
her people will welcome the chance of
recalling her once proud prominence
o'S viz SOAOhioi VI CliC
power. Besides there is festive and
Fourth-of-Julyish flavor about the
whole scene that is to be recalled
Capt. Mervine landing his $50 sailors
and marines from the Savannah and the
Cyane and the Levant, lying in the har-
Dor, and marching them to the old GUS
tom house; his reading Sloat's procla-
nation to a gang of greasers who re-
ceived in silence the words they did not
pretend to understand; the hauling up
of the new flag, and the boom of the
salute of 81 guns which followed. This
gives the key to the celebration, oratory
and powder and the Wanting of Cali
fornia's glorious climate and unequaled
products.
In some ways the Bear flag incident
was more picturesque; it was on June
IA that Ezekiel Merritt. Seven-Foot
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10
j. HOSTING THE BEAR FLAG.

Semple, William Ide and 30 other Amer
lean settlers took possession of Sonoma
and raised the flag of the Californian
republican oblong of cloth on which
a caricature of bear was stained in
berry juice. That Bear flag is to the
Society of California Pioneers the most
precious of its relics. 1t affronted the
Spanish air less than a month, being
hauled down on July II, after the flag
patriots had heard of the Monterey in
cident
The hero of the Monterey celebration
will be Fremont, the Pathfinder, and
not Sloat, the actual raiser of the flag.
That can't be helped. Sloat was a
lantern jawed. smooth-shaven sailor of
the old school, who obeyed his orders
hesitantly because they were unusual.
Fremont was of the bearded, energetic,
modern type SO common in the war of
the secession. He came over the noun
tains in 1S45 upon his third expedition,
leading a peaceful force of explorers
and surveyors with private instruc-
tions. as he says, "if needed, to foil
England by carrying the war then i'm
minent with Mexico into its territory of
California. At the fitting moment that
territory was seized and held by the
United States"
A considerable number of historians
say that Fremont never had any private
instructions at all, or at least, any valid
ones. But a little matter of that sort
would never have troubled John C.
Fremont's party went by way of Salt
Lake, giving it's present name to Hum
bodt river, and in December, 1845,
turned up in Suffers fort, where gold
was soon after to be discovered. Early
in 1916 the explorer went to Monterey,
called on Don Jose Castro, the Spanish
hero and general, and on other promi-
nent provincials. He wintered in San
Jose with the Mexicans' consent and in
March resumed his explorations, when
he was met by Spanish officer, Lieut..
Chavez, who ordered his party out OF
the territory. Fremont was not quit
ter. He fortified a camp on Hawks
peak. of the Gavilan. ran up the Amer
lean flag and kept it up there three
DAYS. Later, he avoided fight with
superior force of Mexicans by drawing
off north towards Oregon. Six hum
dred miles north of Suffers fort he was
overtaken by messages from Lieut.. A.
II. Gillespie, and turned back with the
famous Kit Carson and ten other scouts
to meet Gillespie.
Here comes into the story announcer
quarrel of the historians. The accept
ed account is that Gillespie brought to
Fremont a well-memorized verbal mes
sage which, considered in the light OF
"previous knowledge" made it PLAIN 70
Fremont tbEt "at last the time mao
come when England must not get e
foothold; that we must be first. was
, to act. discreetly but positively"
tt was less trouble to Fremont 10 De
nositive than to be discreet. Hence ne
! was a man beloved of his fellows.
The same night Talmath Indians ac-
tackled the little party, and killed three
of the men. Rejoining the main expedi.
t;on. Fremont went. south again, raloeo
yancherias for stores, wrote to Capt.
Montgomery of the U. 8. 8. Portsmouth
a. San Francisco for arms and ammuni-
tion. drove the Mexicans out OF sauce
Ito and gave the name to the do,uen
Cate. On the Fourth of July he celeDra-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10

VI tna1 week Dick had never once been
OUT. Ihe Kitchen commented severely
on this point. 1t savored more of the,
man In possession" than anything
else he had done.
He's been sent, and he's got to stop"
was the cooks verdict. "And mistress
is making the best of a bad job by treat
ing him as a gentleman guest I've al
ways understood that the poor master
left her comf'able off, and I can't nm
derstand how she's lost her money. I
suppose it's mine or something.
Thank goodness! I've got all nv littIe
savings wrapped up in stocking and
locked in my box!"
Seven days had gone = the seventh
night had come, and still Ethel re-
NAMED obdurate. But she paid. her
mother noticed, considerable attention
to her toilet. and wore her prettiest
dresses.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10
A LODGER's cRAFTINESS.
New Plan to Deceive Innocent Landladies
Until Money Is Procurable.

New Plan to Deceive Innocent Landladies
Until Money Is Procurable.
He was much in his landlady's debt,
had to make a weeks trip out of town
and needed his money for travelling ex-
penses. He went away, leaving note
in which he promised to settle as soon
as he returned. He came back to the
city two days before his monthly check
was due, and he was "brQke."
He knew that to face the landlady
without money would be to invite un-
pleasantness and strained relations
would follow. He had not money
enough to go to hotel, and he sought
relief In Craft.
He went home at an hour after she
had retired, let himself in with latch
key and tip-toed softly to his room.
She attended divine service each morn
ing, as he knew well. He slept the sleep
of the tired, If not the just. When she
had gone out in the morning he made
his own bed, smoothed out the covers
nicely, made change of garb and went
out. She VOTED not of 1t. And so he
did the next night, too.
Then, on the third day, having re-
ceived the expected check, he went
boldly in at MONDAY, as II fresh from q
long Journey, paid his just debt, and
was welcomed home as good dodgers
should be.
"Great strategy" said.
"Great." he said. eff I'd been in the
war I'd have come out major general
at least."-N. Y. Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10
a FABLE.
The sduIrrel, Owl and Mice. Also the Re-
ll"rSE fiacfIons of q BlueiaY.

Sn9 squirrel, owl anu HAACO' AASO SAAO As0
'''"N Elections of Bluejay.
It was in late summer and the owl sat
upon a branch looking very wise and
doing nothing, while the squirrel
busted himself with the nuts lying
about on the ground, gathering them
expeditiously and slowing them away
in hollows and holes.
Winter came by and by and with its
sharp cold and deep snow, but still the
owl sat upon the branch looking wise
and doing nothing. The squirrel jeeredi
at him, thinking that the owl must be
hungry and starving, because the BIRD
had not been provident one. Each day
the squirrel grew fatter, but the o",
did not change, which the squirrel
thought to be due to the feathers STUCK
out by the owl in his false pride.
When it was at last between fall ana
spring time, the blue jay one day saw the
wise owl leave its perch on the brancn
and seize the fat, provident squirrel Dy
the neck and eat him, after which the
owl returned to the branch, and SAL
upon it, looking wiser than ever, ana the
biue law wondered If 1t was better to be
provident like the squirrel, wise like the
owl, or lucky like the mice that tnere'
after ate of the squirrels store.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10

!. READING THE PROCLAMATION.
this government does not, under exist
ing circumstances, intend to interfere
between Mexico and California, it
would vigorously interpose to prevent
the latter from becoming British or
French colony"
These existing circumstances"
ceased to exist when the Mexican war
began.
First and last, there were four flag
raisings in California. Commodore
Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, United
States naval commander in the Pacific,
raised it in 1912, having heard false
news of the outbreak of war. He apol-
ogized and took it all back. Fremont
raised it over Mount Hawk and didn't
apologize. The Sonoma irrepressibles
had fun with theirs, and were unno-
ticed in the rush of events. But the
Sloat raising was the final and official
one. Hence Monterey's prospective
joy.
The Bear flag semi-centennial was
held June IS, the 14th being Sunday.
Harvey Patterfield, of Napa; Benjamin
Ewell, of Sonoma, and Henry Beason, OF
Mendocina, the only survivors of the
little party of SO original bear fiaggers,
were there, and right in the middle OF
the programme they reraised the pre-
cious original flag with accompanl-
ment of huge enthusiasm. There will
be more survivors and native sons in
Monterey next week. j. r. JONES.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10

ted in Sonoma and organized four COM
panies of American settlers. Thus the
Bear flag men were taken under the
shelter of Uncle Sans bigger banner,
after having played it alone for 20 days,
though some say they had an under
standing with Fremont all the time.
All this while, fighting was going on
in Mexico, but there was no telegraph
IN those days. Sloat had lain with his
ship in Mazatlan awaiting news. Sir
George Seymour with the British ship
Collingwood, was in San Bias Sloat
feared that the Collingwood would
reach Monterey before him and some
how interfere with the plans of the
government; so the moment he heard
the news of fighting at Matamoras he
crowded on all sail for Monterey, which
he reached on July 2. That he did not
raise the United States flag until five
days later, while Fremont had done so
good many days earlier, is the reason
why Sloat is not popular hero in Cali
fornia and Fremont is. Still, Monterey
has kindly feeling for Sloat, and it's
people take pride in showing visitors
where the march of the marines from
the water side took place.
Probably no region so splendid and
valuable was ever captured with so lit
tie opposition. There was a little fight
ing after the 18th of July. Sloat refused
the offered services of Fremont's Bear
Flag battalion, but Commodore Stock
ton, succeeding him, promptly accepted
a like offer, and six months later it was
to Fremont that the Spanish Californi-
ans surrendered, receiving uncondition-
al pardon and full rights of citizenship.
The fear of British interference was
not unfounded. On July Z, the very
day that the flag was raised, Gov. Pho
Pico issued to Father Mcnamara a
grant of 13,50O.0OO acres of land-a
strip from the Sierra t.evada noun
tains to the sea and from San Francisco
to Los Angeles-for British colony of
1900 families, each of which was to
have $4,000 acres of land! The consent
of the Mexican authorities TO this
wasteful grant was gained on the ex-
press plea that 1t was the only way to
keep the Yankees out. But of course
the grant ceased on July to be more
than waste paper.
Britain couldn't have had California
anyhow. On October II, 1845, Secre-
tary of State Buchanan wrote to Consul
Larkin at Monterey: whilst 1 repeat
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10
II.


DICK Waterbury had been with the
Ileidings a week, and still showed nc
Ighs OF departing from his resolution.
ne mad soon made himself at home;
ne mad broken the ice over the dinner
"a, gole during the first night of his stay
MIS- Fielding and her daughter had
opened the ball by treating him with
4igia politeness; but Dick had pre-.
"uued not to notice their manner, and
;e'''ed on SO gayly that he effectually
dispersed the cold barrier which the
~ au'eS had attempted to place between
yourselves and their self-invited guest
"i'er dinner he regaled them with
Sonnc songs, anecdotes and news of the
suy which had failed to penetrate to the
,aS'nesses Of Market Norbury. So very
SFeeable did he make himself, indeed,
T Sua /. by bedtime he had quite won Mrs.
relng over to his side. Ethel kept
$ jr close to her mother all the even.
n ,us' he noticed, and would neither play
nor sing, although she could do both
~" 9ry nicely. On the following day his
asnes arrived, and on the third day
s,y''er! addressed to him in bold mas
tSis ,n 1. hand He appeared to pertise
on NJ" ,eCter with much interest, and the
i H. ne wrote in reply he delivered tc
~ H. housemaid with special instruc-
~ mat it was to be posted before
NJ. r NJ, at which hour the Market
bo Injury mail cart was dispatched. The
nus Yuseinald told the cook that, for
q n IN possession, the new conner wrote
~--Se-y elegant hand. This letter, too,
Cona addressed to that low place, Friar's
stpI.oy The time Dick had been located
on t ieSsant View seven days, he was quite
viii iendly nay, intimate - terms
Eve.u MS hostess and her daughter.
al ~ morning when he met the latter
pOrtno,. breakfast table (seizing an OPP
no l'y' OF course, when Mrs. Field
"Wen Tss not presently he had asked:
head : and Ethel had shaken her
most o ,sry determinedly, and made the
which :, the the exceedingly dimpled chin,
Mr. only represented one-third of
foury's. During the whole
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10

Mrs. Chafie Ito teacher)-How Is 10
that my son Johnnie never gets .
prize?
Teacher can't give him any prize
because he is always lazy.
Mrs. Chaffie-Don't you think, then,
that he ought to get prize for perse-
verance.-Texas Sitter.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10

II leSh ~~~
You naturally lose
flesh in the summer
and running down is so
easy. You get a little
weaker each day with
OFT hardly noticing 1t.
Thereisloss Of appetite,
headache, weakness Of
the muscles, disturbed
sleep, weakness Of
memory, and these are
the beginning Of nerv-
ous prostration. Iron
and tones and bitters
may afford some tenn
porary relief, but what
you need is a food for
body, brain and nerves.
ScoU5 Emulsion
of Cod-liver Oh with
the Hypophosphites,
furnishes just the nour-
ishment needed for
those who are run down
and pale and thin and
weak. IF you lose flesh
In summer take Scott S
Emulsion now. Don't
wait till fall or winter
before beginning.
For sale at 50 cts. and 500 by all druggistA
marh 6.tf-96