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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-05
JONAS loves sous
WEEKLY CHATS,
WILKEs-BARRE, PA,
August 9th, 1897.

August 9th, 1897.
More for your money now tb,,
At any other time. Our men,
Outing Shirts, made of good grad.
Domet flannel, usually sold at ,oc.
now go at Ioc.
Mems summer Balbriggan TN.
derwear:
asc. grade now Ioc. ,filss,;
3oc. grade now 23c. wBvs'
SOC. grade now 34c.
Bicycle Hose or Golf Stockings
We've just closed with a manufac.
turer and agreed to accept his en-.
tire sample line of bicycle stock.
ings at practically our own price
The lot is assorted, embracing
Scotch plaids, fancy tops, figures
and come in an endless variety Of
shades and colors. Made to sell for
$I.oo. We close the lot at SOC.
Fancy string necktics, pure silk,
light colors and medium, suitable
for ladies' and mems wear, at each
&c.
Ladies' summer Corsets, thecor,
rect garments for the warm
weather. Cool, comfortable, ligh
as a feather. We sell them at ,Ic.
Ribbons. We just received
large invoice Of ribbons suitable
Tor the thousand and one things to
which the feminine fancy runs in
Ribbondom. No. 60 and 80 MORE
and plain taffetas in all the popu-
lar shades. Useful for trimming
organdies and in fact absolutely
necessary in making up all classes
Of summer costumes. Fully worth
32c, our price this week FAC.
| Plaid Ribbons, Scotch effects,
two colored and var-colored
plaids. No. 20 and 80 range in
price from 3sc. to s5c.
| We've a number OF specials in
our House Furnishing Depart.
ment this week. 500 odd decorated
plates from broken dinner sets
Original price from Sa.oo to $500
per dozen; while the lot is here
your choice at each &c.
Underglazed decorated cups and
saucers only 327 in the lot. Rega'
larly sold at $I.oo per dozen, your
choice for cups and saucers &c,
100 piece beautifully decorated
dinner sets, choice of two decora-
tons at Sc. SO and S8.9S.
10 cakes of laundry soap, iuH
size bars, sold by dealers e for 25c"
this week our price will be 10 lo'
asc.
Headquarters for Mason lni-
proved fruit jars. We've just re-
ceived a full carload OF plnts'
quarts and two quarts to be sou
at low prices.
Sewing Machines. No need 10
pay an agent $50 for a sewing ND
chine. Ours do the work equally
as well. They are high arm per
feet running and are warranted io'
five years. No matter how mncH
you pay you can only buy the Oe'+
Why not get one OF ours at SI7'+'
Boys extra fine Garners AN
Percale waists, beautiful patterns
| .-I frnnt en-
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-05

Get your job work done at the
COLUMBIAN Office.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-05
BROADWAY
-O--
NOW and
THEN

Upon the Mercantile Sea may be
found Aotsam entirely out of the or
dinary:
Under the pressure of pitiless ne.
cessity price tumble like castle built
of the "unsubstantial stuff that dreams
are made oi.9 It's so with us just
now. Even while the broad August
sun laughs its pitiless laugh" our
store is like the shade of the cedar of
Lebanon
Whyi Because our prices bring
content and only content are COOL
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-05

Hoods Pills act easily and prompt
The evening times., 1897-01-25
THE FAIR Will

Unless the indications are all wrong, the
forgers OF the famous pencil viii OF the
late ex-senator Fair have been caught and
Gagged in Chicago. They are reported to
be Edwin Noyes Hill and George F. Mac
donald, two OF the men who assisted the
Bidwells in the great Bank OF England
forgery, by which the gang secured
S2.500,oO0. The confession Of a San
Francisco notary, who attested the forged
Fair will, leaving millions to Mrs. Craven,
disclosed the fact that Macdonald was the
"penman" in the case. Legitimate heirs
will now breathe easier, and very sen
sational and mysterious affair may reach
its end through the trial and punishment
OF two very able but erratic artists. Yet
we shed tear TO think what practical
politicians, or railway wreckers, were
spoiled when these individuals took to
the commission of crimes OF the kind
which are punishable. and punished.
The evening times., 1897-01-25
DOCTORS THE SHAH OF PERSIA.
A New Jersey Physician Who Also
Prescribes for a Vast Harem.

What a novelty il would have seemed for a
modern doctor to have been a physician to
King Solomon, and looked after the health
OF his thousand wives. Ana not a hit less
no-el is the situation of DR.. William S. Van
neman, born and reared near Salem, N. j.,
and educated at Princeton and the Uniyer-
sity OF Pennsylvania, who is court PHI hysician
10 the shah OF Persia. having under his care
the shah's 500 wives and servants. And IL
one Of the favorite wives should die through
the Doctors negligence-weli. the conse-
quence Is not pleasant TO contemplate.
Dr. Vanneman was born thirty-three years
ago on farm near Salem. Dr Vannemaa
went 10 Persia as a missionary, under the
direction Of the Presbyterian board OF mis-
sions. When the cholera ragged in Persia
Or. vanneman rendered valuable service
This service brought him under the notice
OF some OF the highest officials in the
Turkish empire.
During the summer time the court Of
ficials and their harems pass their time at
Tabriz. Herein 1895 DR.. Vanneman made
the acquaintance of the shah's youngest
son, and on several occasions attended
the prince and the members of his harem.
His skill quickly made the prince his
friend, and when the latter's father was
murdered by a fanatic last May DIR. Van
naman was one OF the first 90 extend sym
pathy. AT the time the prince was named
to succeed his father as shah, instead OF
an elder brother, the new ruler sent for
the American and offered him the position
of court physician.
On August 10 last DR.. Vannerman and
his wife set out from TabTiz, accompany
ing the shah's harem to Teheran. The
caravan consisted of twenty carriages, the
majority Of the few in the land, and 500
horses laden with men, women and chill
dren and baggage. The journey was ex-
pected to take three weeks, the caravan
travelling from twenty-five to thirty miles
daily. Dr. Vanneman and his wife occu-
pied one Of the carriages, and they had
three tents for camping at night. In ddi-
tion to furnishing the physician with a
retinue of ser, ants, the shah gave him
$500 to buy food along the route. A ma
tive Persian accompan MED the caravan as
assistant New York Press
The evening times., 1897-01-25
THE COMMONS BAR.

England, like wise, is in the throes OF q
great moral upheaval. 1t has been dis
covered that the bars connected with the
House OF Commons are no better than
"speakeasies." Easy speech is stranger
to parliamentary eloqUence, besides which,
several members, who are total abstainerS,
protest that they have no use in the world
for such places. Nobody appears to have
authority to act except il be the policeman
on duty, and he refuses, on the ground that
the building belongs to the Queen, and,
if he arrested anybody for running an un-
licensed bar, it would have to be Her
Majesty. This guardian OF the peace very
justly observes: IF you thinks I'm going
to be hard on a lady Of her age, who has
enjoyed this privilege all her life, you
are mistaken" Our own legislators have
enjoyed q like privilege all their lives, but
always under license. Around our shop
there is much liberty and sometimes more
license
The evening times., 1897-01-25

up the notes OF thatmanufacturing corpora
tion, and, being a perfectly worthy spin
ster, she could not resort to the widows
cruise for relief After much suffering and
agony of spirit the combination, ''oid pupil
postofficer' came to her in a
dream. 1t was a $4,000 dream, and, as
rumor has it, would be pretty sure TO win
out as a question OF domestic policy. were
il not that several politicians OF practi-
cality would like to do something for ST.
400. This situation at once places the
President-elect on trial The result will
tell an anxious country who is to be loss
in the White House. viii be Hanna, Will
lam or the Lady? In his political voracity
Hanna is a good deal OF tiger; but. on
the whole, our money goes on the Lady.
The evening times., 1897-01-25
Old Red Hnss Mountain

I've been to Red Hoss Mountain, where
Field once dwelt and wrote;
I've seen the Place de Casey, but Casey's
table dhote
Is gone, and SO is Casey. A solitary pine
The fires have spared now shadows the
Gosh-all HemlOck mine.
There's not a cabin standing, SO that a
man may say,
"The conversazzhyony in this abode held
sway"
Aye, everything has perished, save earth,
and sky, and space;
The bard of Red Hoss Mountain is gone
to his own place.
The trees that made the forest have fallen
one by one,
Until old Red Hoss Mountain lies bare be-
meath the sun.
Yet in the deathlike stiffness that hangs
upon the air
1 love to sit and fancy 1 feel his presence
there.
The mines are all abandoned, the rain
washed trails are dim.
these trails with him?
And where are all the actors he staged
here long ago,
When magpies, like "winged shadows,
Were fluttering to and fro?''
Sweet soul! He knew heartache, if e'en
robin cried.
Then how he must have suffered when
Martha's baby died.
When strong, rough men stood weeping
who had not iwept for years,
With Marthas heart nigh breaking and
Sorry Tom in tears.
The brook that sang SO "loneSomelike and
loitered ON its way
Is singing just as softly and lonesomelike
today. EiS
One pine above the Hemlock, and Just one
willow wecpS
Down in the ragged canyon, where Mar
thas yaunket sleeps
-CY WARMAN, in New York Sun.
The evening times., 1897-01-25

Itappears that Jones, lieutenant governor
of Ohio, is to be United States senator for
a short term by appointment OF Gov Bush
nell. 1t was Jones for whom Mr.. Foraker
promised to do something when he took the
lieutenant governorship and helped to make
the election of Bushnell more certain And
now Foraker reminds Bushnell that the best
way to do in politics is to keep your word
This seems to bowl Mr.. Hanna out of ii for
the present, though. of course, all the Cdbi-
net places are still at his disposal, and lie
will run the Cabinet, and the Senate, and
the House, and the judiciary, as formerly.
Bushnell appears to have given Hanna the
stony stare when they came together to
talk about the Ohio Senatorship. Bushnell
said to Hanna that he would remember that
the national chairman was a candidate,
however.
The evening times., 1897-01-25
A DESERVING CHARITY.

The United Hebrew Charities sorganization
OF New York has published an urgent APP
peal, in the newspapers of that city, for
outside help in the effort to relieve wide
spread distress among the thousands of
poor Russian ana Polish Jews who have
been forced upon this country by the
cruel policy of their home government
rt is perhaps the first time iu our history
that Jewish charity ever has felt com
PEELED 10 go be eyond its own circle in con-
nection with charitable work among its
coreliHonists. But i'm the present case
there have been at least 10000 fresh and
utterly destitute objects for charity brought
TO its door within a short time, and the
tide still flows in at a disheartening rate.
The United Hebrew Charities needs from
$4,000 to $4,000 per month for its
most pressing relief work, while its in
come from all sources does not average
over $4,000 per month. The New York
press generally urges benevolent people
OF all creeds to help this worthy cause.
The evening times., 1897-01-25
Tad LincOln'S Pistol.

Here Is an extract from an article by
Leslie J. Perry, in the February Harper
on "LinCUln's Home Life in Washing
tom" Mr.. Carpenter says that on the
evening of his denomination Lincoln gave
Mr.. John Hay and himself a serious lc-
count OF having seen a double image of
himself in a mirror on the day of his
nomination at Chicago, exactly alike,
except one Lincoln was paIer than the
other While this singular vision made
but little impression on the President,
Mr.. Noah Brooks asserts that Mrs. Lin
coin feared il was an omen that her
husband would not live through his sec
ond term. The following telegram will
confirm the conviction that both believed
somewhat in dreams and omens:
Executive Mansion Washington.
June 8, 1853.
Mrs. Lincoln, Philadelphia, Pa:
Think you had better put Tad's pistol
away. l had an ugly dream about him.
A LINCOLN.
Tad's pistol was immedi ateIy put
away"
The evening times., 1897-01-25
BELIEFS OF A NOVELIST

One of the latest chapters in Elizabeth
stuart Phelps autobiography is given over
| TO confession of faith. She speaks OF the
ethical purposes which have characterized
most Of her stories, and attacks Mr.. How
ellis objections to New England art based
on the belief that the extreme morality OF
New Englanders interferes with their es-
thetic perceptions.
Mrs. Phelps Wards creed is as follows
81 believe in the life everlasting, W hich is
sure to be; and that 1t is the first duty Of
Christian faith to present that life in form
more attractive to the majority ofmeD than
the life that BOW is.
II believe in women, and in their rig ght to
their own best possibilities in every depart.
ment of life.
II believe that the methods OF dress prac-
ticed among wome n are marked hindr ance
to the realization Of these possibilities, and
that they should be scorned or persuaded
out of society
II believe that the miseries consequent on
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors are so great as to command imperi-
ousIy the attention OF all dedicated lives;
and that while the abolition OF American
slavery was numerically first the aboH-
tion of the liquor traffic is not morally sec
ond.
IL believe that the urgent protest against
vivsection which marks our immediate
day, and the whole plea for lessening the
niseries Of animals as endured at the hands
of men constitute the next great moral
question which is to be put to the intelli
gent conscience, and that only the edu-
Gated conscience can properly reply To it.
~ believe that the condition OF our
common and statute laws is behind our
age TO an extent unperceived by all but a
few OF our social reformers; that wrongs
mediaeval in character, and practically
resulting in great abuses and much un-
recorded suffering, are still to be found
at the doors OF our legal system and that
they will remain there till the fated
fanatic of this undeyeloped cause arises
to demolish them.
II am uncertain whether | ought to add
that 1 believe in the homeopathic system
OF therapeutics. / am often told by skep-
teal friends that / hold this belief on a
par with the Christian religion, and / am
not altogether inclined To deny the sardonic
impeachment When our bodies cease 10
be drugged into disease and sin, it is my
personal impression that our souls will
begin to stand fair chance; perhaps not
much before
The evening times., 1897-01-25
JOKES OF OUR OWN

He held a Ia nd
1t was a lovely hand
IL had a fortune in il.
And yet he couldn't win it,
For he didn't understand
Playing a poker hand.
There are men, said the Cactus Phi
losopher, so enterprising that they do
business in a dead calm. Now / know
a man who advertised for intending suicides
so that he could get them TO buy pistols
from his hardware store"
They must have had full house al the
minstrel show last night" said Chappiton.
They did" said Van Bibber, Ianguidly.
Even the Jokes Were standing Jokes"
Unless you can do something TO redeem
YOURSELF" said the rich man to his son,
in d voice Of doom, "your children will
never get a start in life'
That's true" said the son. mournfully
Even my life insurance policy is in soak"
4 frost is going To strike this town."
said the Weather Bureau; and for once the
mercury tumbled to that tip.
What was the motto, George" she said,
That 70 your fame and fortune led?"
Was it from Franklinor from John
Wanamaker or Solomon"
well, no" he said, lit was not they
Who pointed out TO me the way.
The words that causedmy mind TO soar
Are 411-44"
An after-dbnner speech: Il say, old man,
you haven't got the price about you, have
your
The evening times., 1897-01-25
ACQUAINTANCES OF YOURS

There is little use talking, when 1T comes
to doing business in the matter of the Dis
trict offices under the new administration;
Col. Myron F. Parker, of f street tsouth
side, between Fourteenth and Fifteenthl is
going to be the man. He is all right with
Mckinley, and especially is he very close
to Senator Proctor, of Vermont, with
whom he goes fishing. Col. Parker has
been able in the past to have and to hold
personally for himself almost anything
that he has wanted in Washington, and he
has not applied for anything in recent years;
this makes him all the stronger in the matter
of giving out patronage, just to oblige
Mckinley and his other friends here in the
District Office hours, from 10 to 4.
Don't ring.
The evening times., 1897-01-25
TRY OUR ROCK & RYE. soc PULL
W9NpEAuA W1Np Ea 1S47 14th st. NV.
RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
A Campaign of Education for One
Man Who Went Up Against 1t.

a gentleman who is usually a home-k keep
ing man, but who was induced To enter the
race for minor office early in the Cam
paign, was giving his experience outside
of meeting the other day, says the Atlanta
Constitution. He said: NO, / shall never
run for office again, not II l know il. For
three weeks after | took the stump | did
not see my family, and during my absence
ut that time a fellow who was shipping
watermelOns for me pocketed tile returns
for four carloads and skipped the country;
a tramp rode away on one ofmy best horses;
my wife invested 5000 in bicycles; my
youngest daughter ran away and married
"a fellow for me to support, and all Of our
mutual relatives came to congratulate my
wife on the honor which had been Con-
ferrcd upon me and incidentally TO spend
the summer Those three weeks cost me
in round numbers S4O0, 10 say nothing Of
the sOn-in-law, who threatens to be perIna-
nent, and the office for which l was
striving is worth just $500 a year. won't
he elected, however, and I'm - glad Of
it. But this has been campaign of educa-
ton TO me, for in it | have learned just
how much Of fool really was
The evening times., 1897-01-25
IN THE WINGS

Weber and Fields Own Company in
cludes Hope Booth, the young woman
who has been attracting large amount
of feyerish attention from the chappies
over in New York for the last two weeks,
with her Artistic Model" sketch.
There is little story about her coming
To- Washington this week which will, per-
haps, illustrate how much she is liked
over in New York. Yesterdays New
York papers, as well as our own, had large
notices of her appearance. 1t was posi-
lively stated in the New York stories that
she is to appear at Pastors for another
week, this particular week; that it was
also positively stated in the Washington
papers that she is to appear here. Tony
Pastor was 10th to give her up. The thing
was not decided until some time Saturday.
Weber and Fields gave up Sam Bernard,
who is a first-cIass card himself, to Pas
tor for the week. and also agreed to pay
Bernard's salary and Hopes $3.50 as well.
Miss Booth has not yet been seen in per
son in town, buth ,ba ggage is here, and
the orchestra it t5eing instructed for her
sketch, and Mr. fBalauf says he is as sure
of her as he is thai the Lyceum will have
crowded house tonight. As for the crowd,
already the front rows are well sold to ell
derly gentlemen, who need wigs.
Miss Booth hasIdone Paris with great sue
cess. She has rifafaged London house
herself. She has caused more or less
fUrore in New York She is said to have
very pretty figure, She sends out series
of most fetching photographs, and in other
ways she was Wen worth Manager Kernan's
earnest efforts.
The evening times., 1897-01-25
odd Items From Everywhere.

Odd Items From Everywhere.
There are now 500 cotton mills in the
South.
The worlds railway capital is $50 600,
1000.
1t requires 10000 tons OF paper to make
the postal cards used in the United States
each year.
A gas well with pressure OF about $40
pounds has just been struck west Of An
derSon, Ind.
The TAX roll of Elko, the most prosperous
county in the State OF Nevada, amounts
to S4,29S,6S5.
Mexico produced % ,9s3, 500 pounds of
coffee last year, the yield Of more than
90 100000 trees
Fourteen churches in Ishpeming, Mich,
have been advertised for sale because Of
delinquent sewer taxes.
The assessed value of farms in the United
States in $50 was over SIC, ,OOO, 900 900,
and in 800 over $13 600 100000.
The total capital represented by the roads
in this country in the hands OF receivers
on June 30. S95, was $2,439. .144 SOB
Canada exported 81 t46, ,s99 worth of
green, dried and canned apples last year.
The United States took one tenth Of the
whole amount.
Between 1880 aad 1890 the number of
owning farmers in the New England States
diminished 34,I16, and the tenant farm
crs increased ,264-
Within two years 81 200 600 OF Indiana's
debt has been liquidated- There yet re-
mains about $4,000. 900 of funded debt
with no floating debt. =
The evening times., 1897-01-25
Billy Mason and His Family.

In domestic life, writes Major Handy,
Mr.. Mason is at his best. His family is his
idol. He has q sweet wife and seven chill
dren, and nothing hutneceSsity tempts him
ever to leave their society. In Washington
he used to drive about town In one horse
vehicle into which the whole family was
crowded, whatever might be the fathers
business and destination. Mason himself
held the reins, one of the children piled the
whip, and the turnout, as a whole, looked
like that OF cOstermonger out for hol.
day. When he made a speech mother and
children always filled a front bench in
the members gallery OF the House. When
one of his sons died the father was heart.
broken, Years passed before he recovered
his ola form. At Springfield during the Sen
atorial struggle his wife was never out of
his reach.
The evening times., 1897-01-25

1t is reported that Mr. Hanna has finally
given up the idea of controlling the Idaho
Senatorshipsituation. About the first money
that he paid out as national chairman in
the last campaign was $4,000, which was
sent to Senator shoup. It was not paid TO
get the electoral vote of Idaho. But this
money, with other money that followed it,.
was TO be paid out where 1t would do the
most good in controlling the legislature
against Dubois Senator Shoup has lately
been expressing the warmth of mis- friend
ship for Dubois, and that has been hope
full sign for Dubois, and il Mr.. Hanna is now
giving it up that is also a sign that there
are still things in the world that money
won't do.
The evening times., 1897-01-25
ADJUSTMENTS.
ARBITRATION TREATY.

Washington ID. c.. Jan. 1 g. 1897
Friends OF the Arbitration Treaty now
pending In the United States Senate are in
vited TO meet at the Grand Opera House,
Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth street,
on TUESDAY, the 18th instant. at a D. m,
for the purpose of publicly attcsting their
appreciation OF the great principle Of arbi-
stration embodied in said treaty. The Hon.
Gardiner q. Hubbard viii preside, and brief
addresses VIII be delivered by leading citf
Zens.
(Signed) John W Foster
Melville W. Fuller
John Hay.
George Truesdeli.
John r Hurst.
Henry r SatterIee
Samuel H. Greene
b. l. whitman
ID j. Stafford.
Beriah wilkins
w j. BOardman
Crosby s Moves
Henry f. Pel1ew.
A T. BrittOn.
Myron n Parker
tnarfes j bell.
Teunis > Hamlin.
A letter Will be read from his emInence,
Cardinal Gibbons, and the following VIII
speak:
The Hon John W Foster
The Hon. Gardiner q. Hubbard.
DIR. MaCkaySmlth.
President Whitman
The Rev Father Stafford
The Hon. John b. Henderson.
Mr. Justice Brewer.
Thomas Nelson Page
Item
The evening times., 1897-01-25
American Philanthropy,

The aggregate amount of money given by
private individuals to American educat tional
and religious institutions, to charities, Ii
braries, hospitals, museums, etc. duEng
1896, as collated by the Chicago Tribune,
was S33 ,67o,1 20. This shows gain of ST.,
0oo, 600 over 1895, and S13, 900 900 over
1894. 1t is 3 wonderful showing, and It
only tells small part Of the whole story
of the giving of the year; for it takes no ac-
count of gifts less than ST 900. Colleges
received one-half OF the whole sum, or $16,-
600 900. and the charities came next, re-
ceiving SIC. 200, 900.