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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27
Going Nature One Better.

One of the most important objects
pomologists are striving for is to pro-
duce thornless and seedless fruits,
and from the results already obtained
it is not unlikely that the end will
soon be realized.
Thorns are not in good standing
among fruit growers, because they are
constantly puncturing the best fruits,
and, what is equally important, the
skin of the pickers. The thorns and
prick'es of plants and trees weeks un-
doubtedly intended by nature to pro-
tect them from animals, but that is
no reason why they should be continu-
ed for generation after generation on
the cultivated varlties. The gardener
has no need for them, and, for that
matter, the trees and shrubs have
none either.
Our domesticated pears and apples
were all derived from the thorny, wild
varieties, and pomologlsts have sue
ceeded in ridding them of these
spikes and prickles by careful culture
and selection. Oranges and lemons
have not been cultivated in this coun-
try as successfully as pears and apples,
and many of them are very thorny,
The wild and sour orange trees Of
Florida are bristling with thorns, as
is also the high priced king orange,
one of the best of the mandarlns'
The wild lemon trees of Florida are
So thorny that growers question the
advisability of grating the hne La
France lemons on them.
In Florida, however, the thorns OF
the orange and lemon trees have beer
greatly reduced by selecting buds
from branches with the fewest thorns
and by continuing this process yea'
after year the sharp spikes disappear
In California nearly all of the orange
trees are thornless-not naturally, bu
as the result of cultivation and selec
tion.-Neao York Journal
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27
Finger TIP Brains.
Acuteness Of Touch Among the Blind
Explained.

1t has been reported, states the
microscope, that the gray matter brain
cells of perception have been dissected
out of the finger tips Of the blind.
Standing point up beneath all the
ridges SO plainly seen with magnify
ing glass on the skin of the inside OF
the finger ends are the so called cor
pdscles of Pacini, which are arranged
in the exact semblance of the keys of
a piano, and are said by Meissner to
crepitate and give forth different
sound in every age of each person.
This Pacinian corpuscle, which con-
tains within its lining membranes a
nerve trunk, an artery and vein,
lines all the tactie surfaces of the
body, particularly the inner fingers
and thumb tips.
A medical man recently assisted in
an autopsy on person blind from
birth, and he sought to discover by
scalpel and microscope the secret of
the extraordinarily delicate touch the
blind man had acquired during life.
Sections perhaps a sixteenth of an
inch thick were carefully sliced off the
inner surfaces of the index and middle
fingers of the right hand Under a
high power these showed instead of a
single nerve trunk and artery and vein
of the average man a most complex
and delicate ramification of nerve
filaments, dainty and minute nerve
twlgs IN immense number branching
from the main stem. Through con-
slant use the finger tips of the blind
acquire this unusual development,
with more and more perfect perform
ance of function.-Meao York Mai
aHd Express.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27

There isn't hair on President Nc
Kinley's face, and, according to the
New York Press, he is in the style.
He carries us back to the ante. .bellum
fashion of the White House. With
the exception of Martin Van Buren,
there was never president before
Lincoln who wore a beard. Van Blu
rem had small patches of hair on his
cheeks. General Taylor's hair de-
scended low before his ears, but could
not be called beard. Lincoln was
the first president to wear beard,
and Grant the first to wear mustache
All the presidents since Johnson have
had boards or mustaches, or both
Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison
were bearded like the pard. Arthur
had fine set of side whiskers. Cleve
land wears heavy mustache.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27
Japanese Milltt.

The Massachusetts, Agricultural
Experiment Station has recently in
troduced three new varieties of mil
lets from Japan. Among them is a
variety of barn-yard grass, Panicum
Crus CALHOUN, which, while it differs
in its habits of growth, is botanically
identical with the common barn-yard
grass. The variety from Japan has
been grown for few years at the
Massachusetts, Experiment Station.
Professor Brooks of that station is
very enthusiastic about it and recon-
mends it as fodder crop either for
feeding green or for the silo. AS a
forage plant it may yield ten to twelve
tons of fodder per acre, and when
thinly sown in rows about foot apart,
a yield of fifty to ninety bushels of
seed may be obtained. The Maine
State sounds a warning.
Ordinary barn-yard grass is a coarse
annual, with stems two to four feet
in length, appearing in midsummer,
in low, somewhat damp places or
on cultivated grounds. The ordinary
variety is a very troublesome weed.
Certainly the seed of Panicum Crus
CALHOUN should be bought only oi
reliable dealers, who will be sure to
furnish the seed of the Japanese vari
ETY.. The mischief that would be
wrought by sowing seed OF ordinary
barn-yard grass is self evident.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27
NO ONE DIES.

No one dies of Pulmonary disease,
who takes ST" in time. Twenty pei
cent-one IN five-die of Pulmonary
diseases-Colds, Grip, Pneumonia
Consumption, who could be saved by
the timely use of "77"-Dr. Humph,
reys' famous Specific.
Since "77" came into general use
the fatality has decreased and it only
remains for its adoption as national
remedy, to rob our climate of it:
terrors.
For sale by all druggists. a5c.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27
Sick stomach means sick man (or

Sick stomach means sick man (or
woman).
Why not be well7
Sick stomach comes from poor food,
poor nourishment means poor health,
poor comfort. Shaker Digestive Cor
dial means health and well stomach.
If we could examine our stomach
we would understand why it is that
so little will put it out of order.
But, unless we are doctors, we
never see our stomach. We only feel
it. We would feel it less if we took
Shaker Digestive Cordial.
Shaker Digestive Cordial makes
your stomach digest all the nourlshine
food you eat, relieves all the symptoms
of indigestion, acts as tonic aho
soon makes you we'll and strong again
The more you take, the less yoy
will feel Of your stomach.
At druggists. Trial bottle 10 cents
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27

DYING MAN GRAsPs AT A STRAW
"Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart has
done so much for me, that l feel |
owe it to suffering humanity to give
testimony. For years | had smother
ing spells, pains IN my left side, and
swelled ankles. When / took the
first dose of DR.. Agnew's Heart Cure,
my friends thought l was dying, it
gave me almost instant relief, and SIX
bottles entirely cured me."-Mrs. F.
l.. Lumsden, Scranton, Pa.
Sold by c. A. Klein.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27
GET INSTANT RELIEF FROM PILES.

GET INSTANT RELIEF FROM PILES.
This most irritating disease relieved
in ten minutes by using DR.. Agnew's
Ointment, and a cure in from three to
six nights. Thousands testify of its
goodness. Good for Eczema, Salt
Rheum, and all skin diseases. If
you are without faith, one application
will convince. IS cents.
Sold by G. A. Klein.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27
LITTLE BRAvEs-Old time a gu

LITTLE BRAvEs-Old time quar-
ter-a-box "Purgers" are quitting the
field in whole battallons. DR.. Ag-
news Liver Pills at 10 cents a via
are driving them out at all points.
Because they act gently, more effec'
lively, never pain, and are easy to
take. Sick Headache succumbs to
one dose.
Sold by c. A. Klein.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27

According to the report of Secre-
tary Coburn of the Kansas board OF
agriculture, last years crop of corn in
that state represented $Sa, 700, 900 +;
oats, $S,Sa7,ooo; wheat, ;$ao,7o
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27

Just try a Ioc. box of Cascarets, the
finest liver and bowel regulator ever
made. Ally.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27

Clark's View, Pa, March 81, 1897.
i was weak and nervous and could
scarcely walk across the. room. l saw
SO many testimonials written by peo-
pie who had taken Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla that | determined to try it.
took in all about six bottles and
have been able to do my work ever
since. Mrs. T. H. Myers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27

Hoods Pills are the favorite family
cathartic and liver medicine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27

Daily, except Sunday. Daily. Flag station
Pullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars run on
through trains between Sunbury, Williamsport
and Washington and between Harrisburg P1tts!
burg and the west. -
For further information apply to TICKET
Agents.
j. B. HUTCHINSON. ]. r. WOOD,
Gen'L Manager. Gen. Pass Agt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06
MIDwINTER FAIR OR WHAT?

The Business Mems club will not run
the Midwinter Fair this time. Smoth-
err time perhaps. 1t will require ST.
200 to open the ball successfully and
insure it against failure. Space has
already been taken to the amount Of
$3.50 and there seems to be no reason
why the thing should not be put
through. The other $3.50 of space is
certain to be taken, once the fair is
absolutely undertaken, for the proper
ton of those who take stock in a ven
ture OF this kind in advance of its
complete organization is seldom more
than fifty or sixty per cent of the
whole. AS the matter now stands it
is for the exhibitors themselves to or
ganize the Midwinter and put it in
to the hands of the committee chosen
by themselves, or there will be none
held. The meeting held this after
noon will determine that. A splendid
opportunity to put the city before the
state will be lost if this Midwinter fair
is not held. But good words butter
no parsnips, and nothing but money
talks in deciding n project of this
kind. That it will pay has already
been demonstrated. That it will pay
this winter better than last is rea-
sOnably certain, because the city is
that its real business lies more in the
direction of helping such things on
their feet and backing those engaged
in them, than in undertaking to man
age them itself. AS the promoters of
all that will help San Antonio rather
than the manager of any particular
is the role of the club. All
the same, that Midwinter should be
held
Winter shows his face in the vast
but not soon enough to in
sure Il successful season for an ice pal
ale in st. Paul. The bank failures
there will keep it warm for the rest
Of the season.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

The good roads movement is grow
ing general in all the states,i it is catch
ing on in some parts Of Texas, but
San Antonio has not caught it to any
appreciable extent as yet. WI On the
movement is Invested of it's trim
mings, and the several states and
counties and districts get down to
business upon the most practicable
basis, then it will be seen that the en-
plOyment Of the state and county con-
Victs upon the public highways, as
well as within municipal limits. is
The only practicable measure. These
wards of the penal powers are al
ready in the states, they have to be
cared for by the state, there is a
strong objection to their coming into
competition with the free labor Of the
states, the roads need their work, their
is no objection anywhere to their do,
ing the work, it will give good roads
quicker and cheaper than in any 9th
" way. therefore it should be general
IL adopted without delay.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Bryan had a dumb sense of the un'
fitness of things when he heStitated
over accepting that offer to lecture at
thousand dollars a shot. The mon
ey was all right, but there was some
thing that he could not understand
that was holding him back. He has
found at last what it is, and it has
made him as uneasy as pig under
gate. He finds the discomfort Of try
ing to drive a square peg into a round
hole. Bryan is the prince of parti-
sans, and his contract calls for non
partisan lectures. That's what.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

The southern ports are going to have
a fight for the grain trade that goes
out of American seaports. The rail-
roads centering in Boston, New York
and Philadelphia have been pushing
shippers into the southern ports with
their extra terminal charges until
they see the trade in danger OF being
lost, absorbed by the roads with a
southern terminii at which no such
charges are levied. Now however
these northern roads are taking the
back track, and through rebates max
ing good the terminus exactions. The
result is that grain vessels are load
ing in New York direct from the Yves
tern shipping points under continu-
Gus bill of lading. If this becomes
general there must be reduction on
the part of the southern carrying COM
panies to offset this rebate, or the
grain of the west that should natural
ly be shipped from gulf ports will take
the older and longer route to the sea
board. The fight is on and a bitter
one it is going to be, for the empire of
commerce is a grand one and is worth
disputing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Secretary Herbert declines to have
the Naval cadets at Washington for
the inauguration. Herbert has not
been reconstructed and thinks that
only Democratic presidents are emit
tied to recognition. Poor fellow, he
was probably built that way and can
not help. Like man like master, is the
old proverb.
France has had a good deal to say
about United States and Cuba. Now
that one of her citizens has been Jail
ed. brutally treated. then summarily
dismissed without explanation it is in
order to see how she relisheS the dose.
France is not much of Republic any
way.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

1t is not convenient to name the date
at which the bad times will cease and
the good times materialize. In fact
the line Of demarkatiOn is not drawn
here as sharply as between the old
year and the new one, for the grada-
ton is more slow, less abrupt and
shaded off imperceptibly. The foun-
dation for the change was laid howev-
er when the policy that has wrought
havoc with the industries of the ma
ton was voted out of existence and
the opposition policy voted in. The
fruits of this change will not appear
in an hour, n month or year. First
the blade. then the ear. after that the
full corn on the ear.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

California is in earnest about that
funding bill, and will exert every pos
sible energy to defeat it. She wants
to see the mortgage on those. Pacific
roads foreclOsed and the roads taken
possession of by the government, in
order that the government may oper-
ate them. This is the opportunity for
which those who believe in the COVER
ment ownership of railroads have been
waiting. and never will be a more
oppOrtune time for making the eXper-
iment 1t may unsettle some things
and it may settle others.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

There is little doubt that congress
will take less dish in forcing inter
ventiOn in Cuba than it inclined to take
at the opening of the session, There
are not enuugh good Presbyterians in
that body. a stronger belief in the
perseverance of the saints is what is
needed in this discussion. The perse-
verance of the sinners is apparent
enough, and Cleveland's stubbornness
is worth Il ton of argument.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06
MAYORS OFFICE.

Mayors Office.
San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 4th, 1897.
Bids will be received by the city
clerk and opened by the undersigned
at II o'clock, January 9th, 1897, for
moving back to proper line two hcus-
es on East Elmira street. Time and
information to be given by city engin-
eer
City of San Antonio reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
HENRY ELMENDORF,
List. Mayor.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

1t appears to be the general opin-
ion that the appropriations asked for
the A. & NJ. college by President Ross
at the hands Of the last legislature,
should be granted. There is no use in
having a state institution and so ty-
ing up the hands of the executive as
to cripple its work. You might as
we'll build stable for your fatting
cattle. tie them up in it and then re-
fuse them the necessary food.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Delaware is now fighting the battle
for good government, against all the
corruptions of the Democratic party.
The Republicans are not unmindful
of the danger and there is a fight
ahead that will bring the state into
notoriety, no matter which way the
victory turns. Control of the state
is the stake.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

There is Il bitter fight among the
pie pleaders in both Wisconsin and
Minnesota over cabinet positions, with
the probability that both states will
ret left. This will not help Grant of
Texas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

The Zulus are mlus, They are like
a small boy in church, no sooner down
than they are up John Bull is Civ
ing them another Christmas and
Christian licking, but they will not
stay licked.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Gen. Aguirre turns up from the
tomb in which Weyler had put him
in time to whip Spanish column. If
only Maceo would follow suit the lib
erty loving people of this country
would be suited to.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

The grand old hero who sleeps his
last sleep, who has fought his last
battle, whom no sound shall awaken
to glory again." in his quiet bed over
looking the Hudson will have his
monument dedicated in April. New
York is getting ready to crown Grants
memory with all the honors possible.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Black, governor-elect of New York,
seems to be very white man. II
he proves to be the independent and
manly executive that his inaugural
promises he will be man for the hour
Of Greater Gotham.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

sound silver man is not a misno-
mer. There are two kinds of them,
but not two of kind. The Bryan
kind is sound, all sound; and then
there are the real bimetalists,, sound
in their views as TO silver.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

II Congressman Robertson knows
what he is talking about as to Cuba,
and he has just returned, that coun-
try is more oppressed of Spain than
ever these American colonies were by
Great Britain. Sabe!
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Texas children are not exposed to
the danger of freezing to death before
they reach home from a neighbOr. For
this much in the way of weather clerk
benefits it is in order to give thanks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

There appears to be a strong drift
ing of the actors in legitimate drama
into the vaudeville ranks Is this to
he taken as an intimation that the
tastes of the thetre-goers runs to leg
performances?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Those Cuban filibusters have the
courage of their convictions and will
Eight famine as we'll as face the fire
of the Spaniards, their prisons and
their slow death tOrtures. Such friends
Cuba needs.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Robinson says that Harry Delgado
was not implicated in any operations
against Spain, That arrest was arbi-
trary and the trial by the civil author
tiles a farce, the verdict predetermin-
ed by Weyler.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Money, of Mississippi, has had the
sense to make his tour in Cuba, do 1t
secretly and hold his tongue. What
he will say about his travels and
what he saw, after he returns to
Washington is another thing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

What will Weyler do when he gets
back to Spain? What will Spain dc
when it gets back to Weyler? There
are no indications that the fatted calf
will be killed to welcome the wolf of
Cuba.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

1t is as idle as it is impracticable to
look for fruit on the tree whose seed
has just been cast into the ground.
Time is needed for termination,
-.
growth, maturity, blossom, bud, fruit
and ripeness of fruit. The prosperity
seed of this nation was only sOwn last
November, it is too soon for fruit.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Corbett feels better than he has in
two years. now that Bob Fitzsimmons
has actually faced the stake holder
and put Cuban intelligence that they
ticles. jim may not feel so good after
the fight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

ly, agriculturally and industrially and
the strike is ever more ready to mate
rialize under these conditions. This
time the marine engineers thrcateR
to do the act
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

New York state has long wondered
if any good thing could come out of
Troy. Her governor-elect is likely to
answer that question.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

There is a strong affinity between
Ireland and Italy. While this is known
il was not thought that Italy
would organize land slide just be-
cause the Emerald Isle got one up, but
she has done it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Spain is getting so that she hates
to hear any news from Cuba, and
makes it so hot for the Spanish papers
thatp rint Cuban intelligence that they
have withdrawn their correspondents
The old ostrich.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Cornelius Bliss in New York rakes
his critics and says that this is not the
time to perpetuate party feuds ana
embarass the administration so soon
to take it's seat. Bliss is butte.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06

Bradley's resignation is going the
rounds. The people will resign them
selves to that resignation if it is talk
ed of much more. This is a thing
that wants doing, if done at all, and
not talking about.