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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
BRUTALITY OF THE TURK.
A CHASTITY Scene That Succeeded a Massa.
ere Of Armenians,

A procession of four or five scaven-
ger carts met us. The first one pass
ed without notice. Over the second
a piece of mating was thrown, and
from under the mating protruded the
hands and feet of dead men. The
third had 70 covering over its CHASTITY
load of four or five bodies, thrown in
doubled and twisted as they Glanced
to fall. The uppermost body was a
horrible spectacle, with only broken
mixture of skin, hair and blood in the
place where the skull had been. In
those carts were more than a score of
bodies of Armenians of the poorer
class, who had been killed, not with
weapons, but by beating with clubs
The Turkish bludgeon men had been
at work on the streets, and the muni-
cipality had placed its carts at their
disposal to remove the evidences of
their crime.
The victims had been battered to
pieces merely because they belonged
to a hated race. The contempt for
their fate shown by the government
officials in thus indecently piling their
corpses like offals in the scavenger
carts and in parading the evidence of
its hartlessness before the eyes of
club bearers who were waiting oppor-
tunity for similar achievements swept
away every trace Of sympathy for the
Turks wronged by the anarchical pro-
ceedings of the Armenians at the
bank.
From the bridge another horrible
sight could be seen. Men were at
work gathering dead bodies of Ar
menians out of the water. Almost
Immediately npon the outbreak at the
bank the Kurdish porters employed
at the custom house on the Stamboul
side of the harbor, more than a mile
from the scene Of disturbance, had
killed all whom they could catch of
their Armenian associates and had
thrown them into the sea. The po-
lice were now having the bodies
dragged from the water in order to be
taken away by the carts, and some of
the wretches were still alive" A
Bystander's Notes of a Massacre" by
WAN Troshine, in Scribner's.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
The Meaning of Style.

The word style, though but a di-
minutive word, assumes to itself more
contradictions and signifcations and
eccentrcities than any monosyllable
in the language is legitimately EMIT
led to. 1t is an arrant little humorist
of word and full of whimwhams.
Though it would seem that the people
of all countries are equally vehement
in the pursuit of this phantom style,
yet IN almost all of them there is a
strange diversity in opinion as to
what constitutes its essence, and every
different class, like the pagan nations,
adores it under "A different form.
In England, for instance, an honest
citizen packs up himself, his family
and his style in buggy and rattles
away on Sunday with his fair partner
blooming beside him like an eastern
bride, and two chubby children squat
ting like Chinese images at his feet
A baronet requires chariot and pair
lord must needs have a barouch'
and four, but a duke-oh 4! a duk,
cannot possibly lumber his style alonl
under a coach and six, and half
score of footmen into the bargain
In China a puissant mandarin load
at least three elephants with style
-P4iAa. Times.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
Primaoy of Ancient Literature.

You do not know the world until
you know the men who have possess
it and tried its wares before ever you
were given your bIiet run upon it.
And there is no equity comparable
with that which is sChooled in the
thoughts that will keep. 1t is such a
schooling that we get from the worlds
literature. The books have disappear
ed which were not genuine-which
spoke things which, if they were
worth saying at all, were not worth
hearing more than once, as well as
the books which spoke permanent
things clumsily and without The gift of
Interpretation. The kind air which
blows from age to age has disposed of
them like vagrant leaves. There was
sap in them for little, but now they
are gone, we do not know where. All
literature that has lasted has this
claim upon us-that it is not dead.
But we cannot be quite SO sure of
any as we are of the ancient literature
that still lives, because none has lived
so long. 1t holds sort of primacy
in the aristocracy of natural selection
Professor Woodrow IN Forum.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
NEW YORK LETTER.

The Bradley-Martin ball is now n
brilliant memory. The personal testi-
mony of many who attended confirms
the published accounts that is was a
great success. Other people achieve
fame by fighting battles, making
speeches, discovering scientific Sc
crets or founding institutions, but the
Bradley Martins have achievd fame
by giving a ball. Their names will
long be known on both sides of the
Atlantic in connection with the affair
A local newspaper correspondent in
writing of the function says: "Some
persons who have estimated the cost
of this ball will be surprised to know
what 1t really did cost. The Martins
themselves expended only about S25..
600. The actual figures will fall he.
low that amount, if anything. When
the cost of all the costumes of every
guest is counted, together with what
was spent in dinners given by guests
before the ball, don't believe the to.
tai cost of the affair to everybody who
attended will foot up more than $780,
O0O."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
The Puff and Its Effects.

1t is more fun to see man read a
puff of himself in newspaper than to
see fat man step on banana peel.
The narrow minded man reads it
seven or eight times and then goes
around and steals-appropriates-
what copies he can. The kind heart
ed man goes home and reads it to his
wife, then pays up his dues to the
paper. The successful business man
makes money by it; Immediately
starts to find the editor and then the
two men leave the sanctum and silent
ly and thoughtfully down the street
together, the business man taking
sugar in his and they both eat a Glove
or two and all life is sweeter, and
peace settled down on their hearts for
the moment. Such is the experience
of seed that falls upon different SOIL
-Er.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04

Laxol is not a mixture of drugs. 1t
is nothing but Castor Oil made pala-
table.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
BASE BALL NOTES.

The National Base Ball League
held its first meeting In Baltimore last
week commencing on Thursday. We
will give the proceedings of this meet
ing in our notes next week.
1t is quite likely that Amos Rusie
will remain out of the game this year
again. 1t is too bad that the differ
ences existing between Rusie and the
New York Club cannot be adjusted
as some clubs could make good use
of the great pitchers services.
We pick the New Yorks out this
year as penpant winners. Just keep
your eyes on the giants this season,
for they are going to stay within reach
of the flag from the time the season
opens.
Pennant winning teams are by no
means money makers, this fact has
been demonstrated very clearly at
Baltimore, where the attendance has
dropped off fifty per cent, on account
of the Orioles flying the flag three
times in succession.
There will be no great change in
the make up of the Philies this year.
They will be as they always have been,
nearer the top of the second division
than the first when the fall of 'o7
arrives.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
Wages In 1900.

What we call the ''workingmen,"
"the mechanic" had no existence as
classes. Labor was performed almost
exclusively in the south by slaves, and
in the north very largely by men and
women who for the time being were
no better than slaves. All over the
free states were thousands of Irish
men, Scotchmen, Englishmen, Ger
mans, who, in return for transporta-
ton from the old world to the new,
had bound themselves by indenture to
serve the captain of the ship that
brought them over. Soldiers in the
army received So a month Farm
hands IN New England were givel. 81
a month and found their own clothes.
Unskilled labors toiled IL hours per
day for 50 cents. Workmen on the
turnpikes then branching out IN every
direction were housed in rude sheds,
fed coarse food and given 81 per
month from November to May and
Sc from May to November. When
the road from the Genesee river to
Buffalo was under construction in
1912, though the region through which
it went was the frontier, men were
hired in plenty for $I2 per month in
cash and their board, lodgings and a
daily allowance of whisky.-John B.
McMaster in atlantic.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04

Send for copy Of Tasker's Beautuui
Song "Gone Forever. The very lales.
Pronounced by critics to be the pre',.l,t
est song ever written. Price 40 cts ~
music stores ,or sen. upon receiPl !"
price by David J. Tasker, Bloomsoat's'
Pa. IT,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04

Everybody knows that it took
generally known that it took nerve on
the part of many of the women to at
tend it. There was hardly a woman
of great wealth in New York known
to be going to the ball, from Mrs. Mar
tin down, who did not receive before
the ball at least one letter threatening
her life if she attended it. Mrs. Mar.
tin received n dozen. Two of them
We're written in red liquid of some
sort, which the writer said was blood,
but which seemed to be paint. Some
of these letters informed her that her
house was to be blown to pieces on
the afternoon of the ball. Others
warned her that a bomb would be
thrown into her carriage on the way
to the Waldorf, while another told of
plot to blow up the ballroom. A
force of detectives was watching the
Martin house day and night. Every
time Mrs. Martin left her house up to
the time she left it to go to the ball
detectives followed her.
Mr.. Boldt, proprietor of the Wal
dorf, received nearly score of let
ters threatening his hotel and his
guests.
Between 800 and 400 of the guests
at the ball sat for their photographs
at Gilbert's studio from o'clock We'd
nesday evening until o'clock Thurs
day morning. At one time there were
as many as $50 men and women, at.
tired in the costumes of centuries ago,
in the gallery awaiting their turns.
Not once during the night was there
a lull and Mr. Gilbert and twenty-six
assistants We're kept constantly at
work.
The salary of the Mayor of New
York is $4,000, the salary of the
Mayor Of Brooklyn is $4,000, and the
salary Of the Mayor of Long Island is
$500, Brooklyn Aldermen and New
York Aldermen receive the same sal.
ary, $4,000 each. The Mayors secre-
tary in Brooklyn gets $1,000, and in
New York $1,000. The Brooklyn Sec
retary has only official matters to at
tend to.
The Presidents of the Union League
Club have nearly all attained dstinc-
tion in public life. John Jay was made
Minister to Austria; Hamilton Fish
was Governor, Senator and Secretary
of State; William M. Evarts was
Senator and Secretary of State;
Chauncey M. Depew refused tender
of the State Department from Harri-
son, and Is now regarded as a likely
selection as Ambassador to England.
The present President, General Porter
is supposed to be slated for Ambassa-
dor to France; Joseph II. Choate was
President of the State Constitutional
Convention and candidate for Sena-
tor. The Presidency of this club may,
therefore, be regarded as a political
stepping stone.
Should Mr.. Depew go as Ambassador
to England he will be obliged to re-
sign his profitable and influential po-
sition as President of the New York
Central Railroad and naturally there
! is already much gossip as to his sue
cessor in that position. Among those
who have been suggested are Samuel
Spencer, President Of the Southern
Railway, and III. Walter Webb, who is
now Third Vice President of the Cen
trail and in charge Of the operation of
the road. Mr.. Webb is brother of
Dr. Seward Webb, President Of the
Wagner Palace Car Company, and a
half brother Of General A. S. Webb,
President of the College of New York.
CYRUS THoRP.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04

SCEPTICs TURN BELIEVERS AND ARE
CURED.-"When l read that DIR. Ag-
news Catarrhal Powder could relieve
Catarrh in 10 minutes ! was far Fl ON
being convinced. / tried it-a single
puff through the blower afforded
instant relief, stopped pain over the
eyes and cleansed the nasal passages.
To, day | am free from catarrh." B.
l.. Egan's, (Easton, Pa.,) experience
has been that of thousands of others
and may be yours.
Sold by c. A. Klein.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
There is a Glass of People

Who are injured by the use of coffee.
Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores a new preparation
called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains
that takes the place of coffee. The
most delicate stomach receives it with.
out distress. and but few can tell it
from coffee. 1t does not cost over t
as much. Children may drink it with
great benefit. I5cts. and a5cts. pc
dackage. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04

The Shakers have made a great hit
Their Digestive Cordial is said to be
the most successful remedy for sto-
mach troubles ever introduced. 1t
Immediately relieves all pain and dis
tress after eating, builds up the feeble
system and makes the weak strong.
The fact is, foods properly digested
are better than so-called tonics. The
Cordial not only contains food already
digested, but is digester of other
foods. Food that is not digested does
more harm than good. People who
use the Cordial insure the digestion
of what food they eat and in this way
get the benefit of it and grow strong.
The little pamphlets which the
Shakers have sent druggists for free
distribution, contain much interesting
information on the subject of dys-
pepsia.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
ResentfuI.

81 have good father" said the
young man, ''one who, l am sure, al
ways tried to do his duty. have only
one thing with which to reproach
him."
What Is that"
Human nature is human nature
and must take it for granted that he
Is no exception to a universal rule. I
don't think / can ever forgive him for
the manner in which he used to go
around and bore his friends with the
smart things l said when / was a
baby."-Washington Star.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
Do You Dance Tonight?

Shake into your Shoes Aliens toot
Ease, powder that makes tight o'
new shoes easy. Cures Corns, Gnu
blains and Sweating Feet. At drug
glsts and Shoe Stores s5c. Samps
FREE. Address Allen S. Olms!eo'
lie Roy, N. Y. 2-4-St.d.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-03-04
STATE OF OHIO, CRY OF TOLEDO, }

LUCAS COUNTY. %
FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm OF
f. ]. CHENEY & Co., doing business
in the City of Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said firm will
pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for each and every case
of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9th day of Dec
ember, A. d. 1886.
-, A. w. GLEASON,
49, Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O..
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best. I'm.
Evening journal., 1897-10-19
VIM. B. SHARP
81 GO.
Fourth and Market Sis.

Most every day and every
week brings notices from the
manufacturers of The phe-
nomenal advance in the price
of wool. We have anticipated
your wants by buying largely
when the prices were at the
lowest notch, and we arc in a
position to give you the best
qualities and assortment Of
goods at the lowest prices.
While they last we shall
offer Blankets at The old low
figures such as a large size
White Wool filled for So so
per pair, mill price to-day
$3.50 Large .ize fine Wool
California Blankets for $3.50,
worth to day SIS 90. Large
size fine Wool California
Blankets for S3.o5, worth
to-day 5000. This is a re.
markable blanket for the
money.
A fine quality all-wool, red
medicated dye Blanket for
$4 IS and you will pay SO 90
for this grade very soon.
Luzerne Hygienea Under.
wear contains all the medicinal
or sanitary qualities found in
other makes and at a much
lower price. These goods are
made IS per cent of the finest
wool mixed with the best quail,
ity Sea Island Cotton, produc.
ing the greatest wearing and
incest feeling u nderwear made.
They come in white, natural
gray and scarlet for men anc
women, all at the old prices
soc, ST., $I25 and $3.50 pei
garment.
In Dress Goods there's q
variety of beautiful stuffs--
plain grounds with satin finish
in block patterns of self colors
are very effective and hand
some they are 40 inches wide
in navy, red, green, brown
china blue and heliotrope-al
soc. per yard.
Chlngeable novelties are
very beautiful in blue, greens
garnets at 37Ac. per yard
81 inches WIDE.
Evening journal., 1897-10-19
WON THE SUSQUEHANBA CUP.

STATE OFFICIALS INVESTIGATING
A HIGHWAY ROBBERY -DREDG-
ERS REPORT A SCARCITY OF
OYSTERS.
Ellxton, Oct. 19.-The Susquehanna
cup was sailed for Saturday on the Sus-
quehanna river. of Perryville, this
county, the only two boats to enter the
contest being White Wings, owned by
Captain Evan White, of Perryville. and
Beulah Gilbert, of Havre de Grace
owned by Captain Lewis Wilson. Each
of these boats have won in the past two
contests, White Wings in 1895 and Beu-
lah Gilbert in 1896. The course Satur-
day was a triangular one, from Point
Concord to a black buoy a mile to the
southward, then eastward one mile
around a stakeboat and back to tn,
starting point White Wings finished
at 5.25 and the Beulah Gilbert at $50
The cup was donated in 1896 by H. Ar
thur Stump, of Baltimore; ]. Franl
Boyd, of Havre de Grace, and Jefferson
NJ Boyd. of Perryville, Md.
Sheriff Harvey II. Mackey anC
States Attorney w. S. Evans are inves
tigating the highway robbery of Alex
"H"oi Nicbbs VI h'dl dll iiil, WIN
was attacked by masked men on Satur
day night and relieved of $425. Tit
authorities have clue and expect t,
have the guilty parties this week
Oyster dredgers on the Chesapeake
bay and its tributaries report a scarcit!
of oysters. The Choptank scrapers re
port the oysters more plentiful in tina
river than in the bay but say that the.
have not made a large growth durinl
! the season.
Evening journal., 1897-10-19
THOMAS FOSTERS REVOLVER.
IT GOT HIM IN HANDOUTS AND
JAIL FOR THE NOVEMBER TERM.

Constable Porter, of Christiana hun
dred, arrived in town last night, bring
ing one Thomas Foster, a tall colored
man, who would make two of the gen.
ial officer of the law, in whose charge
he was. Realizing this and the fact that
he was coming in an open carriage, the
constable brought his son along to pre-
vent any questionable maneuvers along
the road.
Foster is said to have attacked An
drew White, at Ogletown, and, in the
fight that ensued, drew his revolver
and attempted to shoot, but was pre-
vented from doing this by the crowd
that had collected. Foster was arrested
and taken before Justice of the Peace
George w. Currinder, at Christiana,
who fixed the amount of bail at $780,
which amount Foster could not furnish,
The prisoner was a farmer and stock
man for Robert j. Morrison, at Ogle-
town.
Evening journal., 1897-10-19
NEW CASTLE NEWS NOTES.

At the charity entertainment on Sat
urday night about $65-erOugh to buy
fifty quarter-tOns of coal for distressed
families-was cleared.
Edward l. Rogers, the local artist and
writer. has been engaged by the viii
mington Sun, which is expected to rise
on Thursday morning Mr.. Rogers viii
also work New Castle.
At the NJ. f. Church revival services
last night there was some special sing
ing. 4iSS
Evening journal., 1897-10-19
WANT TEAMS AVERAGING SEW.
ENTY-FIVE POUNDS.

The New Castle Juniors football
team is now ready to challenge any
team in Wilmington that can train
down to a seventy-five pound average,
especially the Hickory. of Wilmington.
All communications relative to a game
at New Castle will be received by Cap
tain John II. Graham. No. 73 South
Third street, New Castle.
Evening journal., 1897-10-19
DEATH on MR. CHRIsTY.

James w. Christy, formerly proprie-
tor of the Market Street Hotel, and at
one time a foreman in the Triton Cot
ton Mills, died last evening at his home
in New Castle, on Second street, after a
long illness. Deceased was stricken
with pulmonary consumption several
months ago and wasted away until dur
ing the last few days of his illness he
could be lifted from bed by his faithful
wife. Mrs. Christy was a daughter OF
the late Joseph Neher. Funeral services
will be held on Thursday morning at
o'clock, with interment at St. Peters.
Evening journal., 1897-10-19
MORRIS GOODEN A WRECK.

Morris Gooden, who has been recon-
mended to the Board of PardOns for re-
lease from New Castle Jail on account
Of an ineapacitating illness, was walk
ing about the corridors until late last
night. The physicians have urged that
he be allowed plenty of exercise. GoOden
walked on a crutch and a cane and pre-
sented a general dilapidated appear
ance.
Evening journal., 1897-10-19

TURE OF 1891.
Douglass NJ. Mccoy, one of the best
known citizens of New Castle county,
dropped dead in the road at his farm,
below New Castle, this morning.
Mr.. Mccoy arose early this morning
when a threshing machine and all the
hands necessary to operate il arrived TO
thresh his wheat and he was superin-
tending the work, which was well under
way by 8 o'clock.
About $50 o'clock Mr.. Mccoy rode
down the lane with some men ON the
water cart and, in the road found a
market farmer broken down and help
less. Mr.. Mccoy sent the water cart on
and stopped to help the man in dis
tress. They found it necessary to lift the
wagon over to one side and both caught
hold of the rear axle and lifted. Mr.
Mccoy uttered a sharp cry Of pain anC
fell backward in the road
Help soon came, but it was found
that life was extinct and he was ten
derly carried to the bouse. Dr. Black
who was summoned from New Castle
found that death had resulted from the
bursting of blood vessel.
Deceased was 60 years old and un-
married. He represented New Castle
hundred in the General Assembly anC
made creditable record. He is a mem
Der of the grand jury of New Castle
county While in the Legislature Mr.
Mccoy was often mistaken for eX-Con
gressman Willis, whom he resembelC
in personal appearance
Mr.. Mccoy was a successful farme
and member of New Castle Presbyter
ian Church. superintendent Davi,
Mccoy, of the county almshouse, is
brother, as are also ]. Frank Mccoy, o
Wilmington, and William H. Mccoy, o
New Castle county. Another brother
a minister at Gap, Pa.
Evening journal., 1897-10-19
sTERN IERSEY JUsTTCE.

Bridgeton, n. j., Oct. 19.-In the
criminal courts yesterday Judge Hoag-
land sentenced William Davis TO eigh-
teen months in the state prison for in
decent exposure; Jacob Bloom ard
Winfield Johnson to two yeass, and
Samuel Bloom to one year, FOR larceny,
Albert Biggs was given six months in
Jail and Jacob Stuller was fined SIS,
both having pleaded guilty 20 selling
liquor illegally in Millvile.
Evening journal., 1897-10-19
FOOTBALL TEAM AT CAMDEN.

The Columbia A. c. football team
will go to Camden-its first trip away
from home-next Saturday to play the
spry eleven of the Emerson A. A. OF
that place. In the absence of Captain
COuntiss, Lancaster will have charge of
the New Castle players. Constable or
some other wiry half-back will be Sc
cured in Countiss' place,
Evening journal., 1897-10-19

Goods advertised for years are GER
tain to have merit or they would not be
popular. Substitutes are usually "un-
known quantities. The moral is OBJ
vious. Get what you ask for-take
nothing else.