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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12
The Superstitious Man.

Scadds-So Prince Picayunski says
he's IN heir apparent. How does that
happen. when he's the youngest son?
Miss ScadIS-Oh, he explained that.
His brother Is the heir 'consumptive.
Puck.
Papa Blunt like to argue with
that young Tomlins.
Sweetest Susan-I hope you find him
loslral, papa.
Why. my child"
Because l think he's the logical
candidate for your son-in-law.''-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
When she scorned me-" shrieked
tie lnriah, Il vowed that she should
nercr 1oo& upon my face again. l
Must keep my VOW"
Accordingly he waved aside the
piNi?ered washbAsin and all was still
Detroit Tribune.
I'm a plain, blunt man. Margaret,
and can frame no honeyed speeches.
VIII You marry me?
I'm little on the plain. blunt or.
der myself. No."-Detroit Free Press.
Il tell you that a juror IN a murder
case has an awful responsibility on
him"
Yes, Indeed. If he goes to sleep he
Is liable to be fined for contempt of
court. York Truth.
$50 you We're at the opera last
nightT'
"Yas." -
"How were the voices?"
Excellent. The way those boys
rendered Opera books--boots Of the
opera left an impression on the audi.
ence that will not soon be forgotten
-RoXbury Gazette.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12
NOTES FROM GOTHAM
SOME OF THE CONTRASTS OF THIS
GREAT CITY.

Educational Intcrests-Bankers'p predic-
tions-The Outcasts in the Parks-Even
the Salvation Army Gets Discouraged
Training the Ioys.
Special New York Letter.
This city may properly be called the
centre of the educational interests of
the country, and tor this reason there
Is keen interest felt in the retirement
OF President Z. Benjamin Andrews, of
Brown University. An attempt has
been made to create the impression
that DR.. Andrews vas forced out of
the presidency of Brown on account Of
his views on the currency. and an ef-
fort has been bade to place him in
the roll of a martyr. 1t Is not believed
that the DR.. desires TO have this i'm
preston go abroad. His views on the
currency are his own and they are said
to be intensely opposed to the gold
standard, but equally opposed to the
free coinage of silver as an independ-
ent proposition by the Nation alone.
DR. Andrews describes himself as a
"bimetallist," and one very impatient
with the operations OF the single stand
ard.
Speaking of the Andrews incident re-
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12
What do the Children Drink2

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
Grain OF 1t is delicious and nourish.
ing and takes the place of coffee. The
more Grain'O you give the children
the more health you distribute through
their systems. Grain-O is made of
pure grains, and tastes like choice
coffee but costs about I the price. All
grocers sell it. I5c and a5c.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12

1t speaks we'll for an article when
the longer it is used the better it is
liked. Such is the case with Ayers
Hair Vigor. People who have been
using it ior years, could not be in
duced to try any other dressing for
their hair, because it gives such per-
feet satisfaction.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12
An Estimate.

"TIow long Is 1t going to take to get
through with this caseT asked the
client, who was under suspicion of
housebrealAng.
We'll" replied the young lawyer
thoughtfully, it'll take me about two
weeks to get through with 1t, but I'm
afraid it's going 10 take you about four
years. .'-Washngton Star.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12
Tired, Nervous, Sleepless

Men and women-how gratefully they
write about Hoods Sarsaparilla. Once
helpless and discouraged, having lost
all faith in medicines, now in good
health and sable to do my own work, "
because Hoods Sarsaparilla has
power to enrich and purify the blood
and make the weak strong-this is
experience of a host of people.
Hoods Pills are the best family
cathartic and liver medicine. Gentle,
reliable, sure. ..
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12
A Marked Woman.

Any woman who wears bird on her
hat now is il marked woman, and but
one feeling animates those who note
her disregard Of popular opinion. AS
a matter Of fact, she had much better
let some lrregularity IN the putting on
of her dress render her conspicuous
than to Haunt dead bird as an orna-
ment.-Boston Herald.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12

The daughter of a North Carolina
"moonshiner" tpied to horsewhip de-
tective who had wounded her father in
the scutiie for his still" She said
afterwards:
II did it because he took the rifle
and shed the red of my pa"
This comes Of reading Steve Crane
in the rough but realistic Tarheel Sec
tiOn.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12
PhtlosOHOphical.

'"The fifth wheel to wagon is use.
less just now; but when | get that
puncture repaired II will be as good
as ever remarked Byker as he de-
posted his bike in the farmers one.
horse conveyance and then climbed 10
himself.-Puck.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12

new instrumentality for good, the Sal
walton Army, but the vast majority Of
them sink lower and lower in the
scale of human degradation with each
succeeding year. Even the Salvation
Army people look upon the cases Of
most OF these outcasts as hopeless, so
Ear as any reformation in this world is
concerned, and there Is a tendency
among the Army people to turn their
attention TO the younger people who
may be more easily reached and re-
formed. Recently they organized a
junior drum corps to furnish for them
the kind of music which all seem to
think Is a necessary accompaniment
of their religious services. and in 9TH
sr ways they are seeking to lay hold
II the young and lead them in the paths
that they should go.
CHARLES +. FOLLEN.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-08-12

! would say to all: Use your gentl-
est yc'ee at home. Watch it day by
day as a pearl OF great price; for it
VIII be worth more to you in the days
to come than the best pearl in the sea.
a kind voico is joy, like larks song,
to a hearth az home. 1t Is a light that
'ings as well as shines.-Elihu Bur.
ritt.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18
COST OF STOPPING A TROLLEY.
Expense Considerable, But Careful Mo
rorman Can Lower 1t.

There is an old adage to the effect that
what is worth doing at all is worth doing
we'll. Because we cannot see the force
that propels the trolley car we are apt to
forget the humble duties of the motor
man require intelligence. 1t looks as if
he Just turned handle and that was the
end of it, but the real truth of the matter
is something very different. 1t takes just
as much electric power to start car as it
would animal power, and it requires less
current to keep the car moving than to
start it, so that great number of starts
and stops means large consumption of
energy. In the American Electrician
there appears an article in which the &C.
tual figures for these two cases are given.
1t is shown that the cost of one stop on
each trip of car during year on fiji
teen car line may amount to $40, or to
S467 for a 100 car road SO that if these
figures are multiplied by two stops at
each crossing on road operating long
lines the large cost is evident. The
difference between a careful motorman,
who has been we'll instructed, and care
less one may amount to from. three to
eight per cent. of the total energy con-
sumed. 1t is perfectly safe, according to
this authority to say that ten per cent.
of the energy can be saved by more care.
full handling of the controller, while on
most roads at east fifteen per cent. could
be saved without doubt.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

Congressman Mccall of Massachusetts
says in an interview that the paragraph
of the Dingley bill imposing ten per
cent. discriminating duty on foreign
goods coming in from Canada, was SNUG
gled in, and that very few, if any, con-
gressmen knew it was there when they
voted to adopt the conference report. As
the clause cannot possibly benefit any
body but few trunk line railroads, the
place to hunt for the slnuggler is in the
offices of some of these roads, 1t is well
known that some of the American trunk
lines have been working for years to have
the bonding privilege abolished, so as
to freeze out the Canadian Pacific and
Grand Trunk roads, but their purpose
has never found much support either in
Congress or among the people at large. If
they have accomplished it now by trick
we do not believe that they will be able
to hold their advantage long, for there
will surely be strong popular agitation
which will demand the repeal or modif1-
cation of the Objectionable paragraph.
We do not think, however, that in the
light which is being shed upon Congress- S
intentions in passing this act that the
Attorney General will decide that it is
applicable to goods coming through Can
ada in bond. Undoubtedly the language
of the act will permit construction in
either direction, but when it is possible
without absolutely altering the language,
law officers generally construe legislative
acts to give effect as far forth as posi-
BILE to the intent of the legislature. This
act can be construed SO as not to apply to
goods in bond coming through Cana da
from foreign country to the United States
by regarding the words coming in" as
an equivalent to imported. This, in
stead of doing violence to the language
of the act, would really give it the sig
nifcance which the connection seems to
show it was intended to have.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18
JUSTICE FIELD.
providence Journal

From the day when Justice Field of the
Supreme Court began his long career on
the bench, he has always been to great
er or less degree striking figure among
the members of the court. 9his has been
due to his capacity as a jurist primarily.
On that account his completion-but
not conclusion-of a term of service which
is the longest of any justice, is a subject
to which the country can afford to give
special thought. Among men in high
places in the government he has for
some time been the recognized doyen,
not because his public career has been
so prolonged, since the Secretary of State
and Senator Morrill,, for instance, com
menced their long service before the Civil
War, but by reason of his occupancy of
one high post through all the variations
in the tenor of life at Washington, with
out once having been classified at less
representative of the spirit of his country
than he was when President Lincoln ap-
pointed him.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

And now comes Wharton Barker of
Philadelphia and explains the awful sag
in the white metal by fixing the response
bllity, in part, on the effort of Mr.. Pres
ton, our director of the Mint, to still
further discredit silver by asserting that
sooner or later the United States will
have to dispose of the silver it purchased
under the Bland and Sherman acts and
pocket the loss, and that in his opinion
silver will fall to forty cents" Most
likely, Mr.. Preston has told the truth and
shamed the silver advocate of the Quaker
City.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Moses P. Handy, Commissioner to the
Paris Exposition, who has recently made
tour of the Middle West, says there are
evidences on every hand that good times
have come to that section.
The Cincinnati Historical Society has
been enriched by valuable collection of
copper implements which are supposed to
have been made by the early aborigines.
The collection comprises sixteen pieces OF
different designs, well wrought, OF SOLID
copper. They were found in cave near
Lake Superior.
An official report shows. that there are
issued yearly in the theaters of Paris
1850, 900 deadhead tickets.
In imitation of Duse many actresses are
totally abandoning make up on the stage.
She never uses 1T.
Sir Wilfred Laurier has been appointed
a Grand Officer of the French Legion of
Honor.
Mr.. E. A. Fitzgerald, the English
mountaineer, who has beeni performing
some brilliant feats of climbing in the
Andes, is lying i'll at Valparaiso with
typhoid fever.
The Librarian OF St. Pauls, London,
has in his keeping very many interesting
documents, among others a deed of gift
from King Ethelbert of a farm in Kent,
which he made over to ST. Paul's at
time when the Cathedral was but an in
significant structure of wood. The rent
from the land is received to this day.
Prof. Schneider, Professor of Political
Economy at the Berlin University, has
been elected rector of the university for
the coming academical year. In view of
cialism of the chair, his election is re-
garded as proof of the intention of the
university to maintain it's academical in
dependence.
The late Mr. A. j. Mundella told a
striking story of his own experience in
manufacturing life. Twice. he said, in
his experience, the firm with which he
was connected had to break up their
machinery for old iron, at a cost repre-
senting fortune. And it was solely by
this bold and versatile enterprise that
they were able to live.
To heighten the splendor of the fetes to
be given In st. Petersburg during the
visit of M. Felix Faure, the director of
the imperial theaters is preparing
otOSAui e1o oAAO AAOdeCl OC
Hermitage. The court opens this thea
ter only for very important occasions 1t
holds not more than 500 spectators, being
constructed on the model of the Roman
theater at Vicenza, the masterpiece Of
Palladio.
In Russia child ten years Of age can
not go away from home to school without
a passport.
The barking of dog on the earth can
be distinctly heard by a balloonist at an
elevation of four miles.
A memorial tablet and medallion have
just been affixed at the Superior Normal
School in the Rue d Ulm, Paris, On the
wall of the building used by the late NJ
Pasteur as laboratory for number of
years. The tablet is of black marble with
gold lettering. The medallion of bronze
is framed in a wreath of oak and laurel
leaves carved in rose marble.
Nearly 10000 tons of corks are needed
for the bottled beer and aerated waters
consumed annually in Britain.
The memorial to be erected in Wash
ington to Hahnemann by the American
Institute of Homeopathy only awaits the
concession by Congress of a site. 1t is
the joint work of @. H. Niehaus and J.
E. Harder.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18
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The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

EEAccording to information received by
the Navy Department, Great Britain is to
augment her present strong fleet of war
ships on the North American station by
the addition of one of her most powerful
battleships and several cruisers and tor
pedo boat destroyers of recent construc-
ton. The ships are to join the station
this fall and will probably be scattered
between Halifax on the North and the
West Indies on the South. The largest
and most formidable of the class will be
the Renown, battleship said to be OF
about the same fighting qualities as the
battleship Iowa. All of the ships in
Guiding the battleship, are of compare.
lively light draught and capable of enter
ng any of the ports between Boston and
the Virginia capes.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

A load of anxiety is likely to be lifted
from the British authorities by the action
of the ameer Of Afghanistan in issuing a
drman forbidding his subjects to join the
rebels against the Indian government.
This attitude on the part of the ameer is
all important, for had he encouraged the
rebellion it would have injected relig-
ious flavor into the affair which might
have eliminated in Mohammedan up
rising all along the border-a consum-
nation certainly not to be wished by
Great Britain.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

1t is well to remember that the Cana
dian government insists on retaining
each alternate mining claim in the Klon-
dixie and also on collecting heavy royal
ties on the gold it permits miners to take
out. But little gold in sight is ever
allowed to escape John Bulls rapacious
nav and that is dependency adopts the
same methods should not be a matter f
great surprise. Like father, like son-in
many cases.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18
CURRENT COMMENT.
REvIvING INDUSTRY.
. (Boston POST

The reopening of cotton mills in this
section of the country, after being shut
down for longer or shorter time this
summer, is a gratifying circumstance.
Some of the Fall River mills started up
yesterday, and one at Providence, while
others at Methuen and Salem are expect
ed soon to do so. One or two wooden
mills are also reported as resuming work.
These signs of returning prosperity are
peculiarly encouraging for the reason that
they are accompanied by the statement
that the cause is an increased demand
for the manufactured products. 1t shows
that the wave of good times which start
ed from the West and South has reached
this part of the country.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

Brlsben Walkers university, which he
calls the Cosmopolitan University. The
purpose of this institution is TO direct
people how to pursue course of study in
any particular department, and its work
VIII be carried on largely by correspond
ence. Mr.. Walker expects that the uni
versity scheme will boom his magazin e,
the Cosmopolitan, to such an extent that
the latter's receipts will be sufficient to
provide for the expenses OF his educational
institution. We should place more conf
dence in his university if it was
not SO closely allied with his magazine.
Is is difficult to avoid the suspicion
that the "booming''of the magazine is to
be quite as prominent purpose of the
university as the diffusion of knowledge
among the people.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

1t looks as though Mexico, which the
silyerites used to point to with delight as
an example of the beneficial effects of free
coinage, might prove before long most
melancholy warning of the evils of that
policy.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

1t is reported that the Count of Turin
entered upon the field of battle with his
trousers turned up over his patent leather
shoes. Like the sanguinary Ex-Governor
OF Colorado, Waite, he was evidently pre-
pared to wade through blood
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

The maxim of every motorman should
be Use the brake as little as possible
and drift as much as possible" The EN-.
understanding the mechanism they
handle would result in saving to the
trolley companies, even though a higher
salary were paid the men, and at the
same time add much comfort to the pas
Sengers
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

The wave of prosperity which began to
sweep over the West some weeks ago, is
evidently spreading East Shut down
mills are opening again, and the wages
of many manufacturing establishments
are being raised.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18
AUCTION SALES.
AUCTION SALES.
By f. O. BAILEY & CO., Aucti0neers
Wooden Buildings, Machinery,
Tools, ETC., at Auction.

T,HE Buildings, corner of Franklin and Com
Il mercial Streets, formerly occupied by quinn m
& Co., boiler makers and machlnlSts, VIII 5e
of whom it may concern, on Thursday, Aug. 18Th,
at 10 O'Clock a. m. Also at the same time ai 40
place, machinery and fixtures formerly ns a;,al
said business. Under these are included boilers,
horizontal engine about 20 horse power, large
plate palmer, eager, drill machine, lathes hand
shears, forges large wooden crane, o anvlls'
blowers, fiange punchers, shafting, etc, etc. :,
Buildings and all property to be removed
from premises as soon as possible after sale:
JOHN F. A. MERRILL, IS Exchange ST., or F.
O. BAILEY g. CO., Auctioneers. aug16d1
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

While experts differ as to the size of the
wheat crop nearly all are agreed that
this years crop will yield the farmer
more money than that of any since 1891 !;
and that it will bs the largest in bushels
of any year since that time is also COM
monty predicted.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

Chicago's chief of police says poker is
not a gambling game. Poker has been
called study of temperaments, but it is
quite as expensive as gambling, as con-
temporary observes.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST is.

The most sensible of the silver apostles
seems to be Senator Stewart who says
that it is not good time to talk silver.
The most of them keep right on talking.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

Wheat continues to go up and silver
down. 1t looks almost as if the form er
might COUP enough to satisfy Altgeld
who says its price ought to be $1.5O a
hHshel
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

ER. C. Joiner. Allen P. O., Hillsdale Co.,
Mich, says: Nothing gave my rheu-
matism such quick relief as DR.. Thomas
Electric OIL"
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18

1t is definitely announced that Presi-
lent Andrews Of Brown University has
accepted the presidency of John
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-18
FINANCIAL.
PORTLAND & RUMFORD FALLS RY.

NOTICE is hereby given that as provided in
N the trust mortgage given by the Portland
& Rumfora Falls railway to the Old Colony
Trust company OF Boston, Mass. dated Oct 4,
1892. Said railway will pay at the Office OF Kid
der. Peabody & Co.. 11s Devonshre street,
Boston, Mass, or at the Portland Trust Co. in
Portland, Me-. on and after the first day of
October, 1897. upon presentation and surrender
thereof. with interest due thereon to said first
day of October, all bonds issued and now. out
standing under and secured by said mortgage
with premium OF s per cent on the principal
thereof. ALI future interest on any such
bonds ceases with coupons due October1 1877.
ip accordance with the terms OF said mortgage.
or. at the option OF the holder, the above bonds
will be paid at any time prior to Oct l, 1897,
at LOS and interest to date of payment, at the
Offices specified above.
r. c. BRADFORD, Treasurer.
Portland, Me-. July 81, 1897.