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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-08-11
OBSERVATIONS,

Oak Grove is very popular for hold
ing family picnlcs. Nearly every day,
if you chance to pass by you can see
families preparing to take their dinner
under The shade. But in the face of
all its popularity, it is certainly not
the nice, clean appearing grove of
former years, and the many conven-
fences for the comfort and enjoyment
of pleasure seekers have gone to ruin.
Seats and tables have been broken
down, swings destroyed, and the sur
roundings in general show the effects
of the bowling gang of young men
and boys who make the grove rem
devious to carry on their gambling
games, and other ungentlemanly con-
duct.
The captive Spanish officers are at
Annapolis, where every kindness is
being shown them by the authorities
and the public. Captain Eulate, Of
the Vizcaya, is reported crazy. He
is also reported to have shot 40 men,
bers of his crew, for deserting their
guns under fire. His ship visited
New York before the outbreak OF
hostilities and when he sailed away
he made courtly Spanish bow and
said F.: 81 go, but I shall return.
Until then, farewell" The circum-
stances surrounding his second visit
are not exactly what he had anticipat-
ed, and he has probably learned some
thing about the Schley tricks of the
American navy.
A Maine soldier writes home that
an Arkansas guard was chinning the
Name sentry, who was pacing his
parallel beat. "S'near as l can see,
there amt much difference atween
we uns and you uns, 'cept that we
uns reckon and you uns guess.
"That's abeut all, neignbor," replied
the Maine man, 'cept that we can
guess darn site Detter than you can
reckon"
An authority states that there are
eight classes of people who are a
detri ment to a town First, those
who go out of town to do their trad
ing. Second, those who oppose i'm
provements. Third, those who prefer
quiet town to one of push and busl-
| ness. Fourth, to those who think
they can do business slyly and with
out advertising. Fifth, those who de-
ride public spirited men. Seventh,
those who oppose any public enter
prise that does not appear to benefit
them. Eighth, those who seek to
lnjure the credit of any individual.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-08-11
Schedule of Trains to Eaglesmere.

Train on P. & R. leaving Blooms
burg at 7.3o a. m. connects at Halls
at 1923, reaching Eaglesmere at
1920 p. m.
Train leaving Bloomsbury at $40
p. m. connects at Halls at 5.25 p.
M, reaching Eaglesmere at 7.I5
p. IN. II
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CHRISTIAN +. KNAPP,
FIRE INSURANCE.,
BLOOMSRIrpC pA

FIRE INSURANCE.,
BLOOMSBURY. PA.
Home, of N. Y; Merchants of Newark.
N. j.; Clinton, N. Y; ;Peoples', N. Y; ReaA.
ing, Pa German American ms Co., New
York; Greenwich Insurance Co., New Yorkl
Jersey City Fire Ins. Co., Jersey City, n. ].
These old corporations are we'll seasoned
by age and fire tested, and have nevez yet
had a loss settled by any court of law. Thelx
assets are all invested in solid securities sak
liable to the hazard of FIRE only.
Losses promptly and honestly adjusted and
paid rs soon as determined, by Christian y.
Knapp, Special Agent and Adjuster, Bloome-
burg, Pa.
The people Of Columbia county shouIa
patronize the agency where losses, il any,
are settled and paid by one of their own
citizens.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-08-11

Men, women and children who are
troubled with sores, humors, pimples,
etc, may find permanent relief in
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-22

@The Democratic party of Elko
county, in covention assembled do
hereby declare:
"That we heartily endorse the plat
form OF principles adopted by the
Democratic State Convention at
Reno, Sep. 9, 1898.
HThat we hereby pledge the nom.
inees Of this convention to county
Offices to honestly, efficiently and eco-
nomically administer the county and
local government.
@That we hereby declare our unal-
terable opposition to the further con-
tinuance of corporate influence in
State and county political affairs and
we hereby denounce the Silver party,
80 called, Of this State and county as
a party completely controlled and
dominated by corporate influences,
and particularly by the Southern Pa
citic r. r. Corpration of Ky. and Cal.
"That we pledge the legislative
nominees OF this convention to the
support Of a Democratic United
States Senator who is neither under
the control of nor the hireling Of the
Southern Pacific r. r. Corporation"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-22
Democratic
.---- State Platform.

The Democrats Of Nevada In Con-
ventlon assembled declare as fol-
lows:
We endorse every line, word and
syllable OF the platform adopted by
the Democratic National Convention
at Chicago in 1896, with particular
emphasis upon the resolution adyo.
eating the free and unlimited coinage
OF both gold and silver and without
the aid or consent Of any nation on
the face of the earth. ..
We glory in the achievements of
the Army and Navy, in the late war
with Spain and We commend the
Democratic Congressman in their
course upon the prosecution Of the
war. as patriotic, statesmanlike and
compatible with the honor and dig.
nifty Of our nation.
We agree with Senator Teller, an
ardent ProtectioDest, that the DINGHY
law was formulated and passed, not
for protection of American labor, nor
for the purpose Of revenue for the
government, but exclusively in tho in
terest OF the monopolies and trusts,
which furnished the corruption money
to carry on the Mckinley campaign,
We furthermore declare without
fear of successful contradiction, that
any or all Of the provisions of the in
famous law do not, directly or indi-
rectly benefit. to the amount of q far
thing one hundred actual residents
of Nevada while the entire people Of
the State are additionally taxed in
increased prices OF the necessaries of
life to an amount more than sufficient
to defray the entire expenses of the
State govel nment. And it is with
shame and humiliation that we point
to the fact that this measure so dis.
tresstul to the people Of Nevada was
passed by the aid of our Senators
without which il could never have
become a law.
We demand Home Rule for the
people Of Nevada. Our National
Government inaugurated a bloody
and expensive war to insure Home
Rule for the Cubans, and yet the
Sovereign State of Nevada has for
years, and still is, under more abject
servitude to the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, represented by
non. residents OF the State than we're
ever the Cubans made subservent to
the Spanish Grown. We insist and de-
mand that our State shall be repre-
sented at Washington by actual resi-
dents of Nevada, instead OF by men
whose sole interests in our Common.
wealth consist in ite use to them for
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office seeking purposes and whose
sole contributions to the people of
the State are limited to the money
corruptly used to secure their own
elections.
We recognize the Democratic Ms
the only Silver party in the Nation,
and upon whose success in 1900 de-
I pends the reestablishment Of silver
to its former place in the monetary
system OF the Republic. We regard
all local political organizations, pro.
Tossing to favor bimetallit m. as not
only useless, but absolutely obstruct-
i've to the cause they pretend to fos-
ter. The so-called Silver party of
Nevada Is especially detrimental to
the silver interest. Its State Admin
lstration III the last few years has
been replete with scandals which are
disgrace TO the Commonwealth.
Its continued existence is an insult
to the great Silver party Of the Ma
ton which i'll 1896 poIIed nearly six
millions OF votes for the bi-metallic
couse, and its death would be mourn
ed only by few Office seekers who
have maintained it in the hope Of be-
ing elected to positions which they
could not obtain from any other
party in the State.
We favor the election of United
States Senators by the people. iu-
stead of Legislatures. We believe
that Nevada has suffered more from
the present system than any other
State in the Union and we most earn
estly demand such change as will, to
martial Df 4,
gross frauds and corruption as has
and which is now prevailing in our
Senatorial elections.
The Democratic party Of Nevada is
in favor of utilizing and developing
the natural resources Of the State;
We, therefore advocate a policy of
internal improvements by which the
surplus water of our rivers may be
lmpounded in reservoirs and used in
reclaimlng and irrigating the unoc-
cupied agricultural lands of the State
and opening the same to settlement
and cultivation, thereby inducing
immigration for the development of
the agricultural products of the State
and increase of our population, and
we favor liberal legislation and the
appropriation o. State funds for such
purposes. .:
We demand that our National Gov
ernment hold possession of the Phil.
ippine Islands. SO that the products
and trade Of these islands may be
brought to our shores, as such a pol
icy would result in great profit and
commercial advantages to the Paci-
tic Coast.
We most earnestly advise the Dem
ocrats in every county in the State to
organize and form County Central
Committees and to nominate full leg.
islative tickets unpledged upon the
matter OF U. S. Senator and to adopt
all means OF strengthening the Dem
oCratic party which will in 1900 rep
resent the honest and eincere silver
element in the State.
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-08
Measures of DISTANCE.

A traveller in Florida says that on be-
ing asked how far certain place was a
native replied: "Waal, | reckon hit s
bout two whoops. P'r'ps hit may be
some furder, he continued refectively,
"but low hit ain more Il two whoops
an a holler.'' In Arkansas they will tell
you it is two looks and a go by, mean
ing you are to pass two houses and find
your destination just beyond the next.
In other parts of the west, it is said,
the natives measure distances in
"chaws' of plug and will tell you your
destination is about 1.-TWO chaws' away.
The Scottish way is to say, It's far
cry" meaning it is about as far as one
can shout, while in many cases distance
is measured in time, the German
"stunde" doubtless having its origin
thus.
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evenings good cheer. Twish the doctor
had kept his Internal fancies and his IN
canny toast to himself f."
The next days hunt promised to be as
empty of results as was its predecessors.
With the dusk three had returned to
camp with royal appetites as the sole
capture of the day, and the guide was
rushing up a supper, encouraged by
running fire of adjuration. At length
all was ready, and they drew up chairs
The doctor had not yet shown up, but
he was slayer as sportsman and al
ways the last man home. They knew be
had gone over to blind which he had
thrown up near promising lick at an
inlet of the lake. He had sailed the lick
some days before and had since noted
sure signs of moose. Against the judg
ment of the guide, who secuted his abil-
ity to fool moose by blind in the To-
cation which he had chosen, the doctor
had sworn that if he took one at all he
would take him there, and his patience
and repeated failure was joke of the
camp. Probably he had waited until
darkness had fairly shut in before Civ
ing up his vigil and even then was
stumbling homeward through the
gloom.
Still, while the boys variously ac-
counted for his delay, they grew more
and more uneasy, and at length the Ian
terms were lighted and they started in a
body for the lick. No man voiced his
thought or his expectation or spoke
word until we reached the blind.
And there we found him, dead and
half crushed under the weight of
moose of 700 pounds. The signs about
told the story. The tracks were not two
hours old, and showed that the hulking
deer had come to drink and then had
turned to browse along the fringe of
tapping water. The doctor had taken
side shot which, in the failing and de-
ceptive light, had not been sure and the
moose had charged him furiously, a sec
ond shot failing to stop him. Beaten
down and scattered was the blind, and
behind it hunter and hunted had fought
out their battle to the death of both. A
broken antler told the fury Of the on
slaught and splintered rife stock the
desperation Of the defense. York
Sun
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-08

The private records of the great Eng
lish families show how often vast polit-
ical events have grown out of individu-
al quarrels or friendships
One of the oldest examples of these
huge oak growths from little acorns is
found in the life of Lord Brougham
With all of his knowledge and talent
Brougham was eccentric and slovenly
in his personal habits.
While he was a young and compare
lively unknown barrister he was asked
to dinner at which the prince regent
presided. Mr.. Brougham's hands needed
washing. The regents keen eyes rested
ON them. He beckoned to waiter and
gave an order which the man heard
with a scared face, and then going out
he speedily returned with a ever full of
water, soap and towel.
He carried them to Brougham, pre-
senting them with the prince regent S
compliments. The barrister instantly
Withdrew and never afterward referred
to the insult.
Years later, when the prince, now
king, tried to divorce his wife, Broug-
ham, as her defender, SO vehemently
sustained her cause that she triumphed
The kings name was not mentioned
during the trial, though the nation knew
that he was secretly the prosecutor
Brougham in his speech declared that
he saw in the distance the nameless per
seoutor of his innocent client, quoting
with terrific effect Milton S words:
The other shape
If shape it might be called, a black it
stood as night,
Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell
And shook dreadful dart; what seem'd his
head
The likeness of a ldngly crown had on.
George " felt seriously this savage
attack. The nation sided with the queen,
and her defender had paid his debt with
interest. YOUTH Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-08
RIP VAN WINKLE.
Jefferson Discovers Something Tncongru.
ous Ahont His Calehrated PLAY


Jefferson Discovers Something Tncongru-
GUS About His Celebrated Play.
Joe jefferson calls attention to an in
teresting fact regarding Rip Van Win
kle. He says:
"There is one incongruity in Rip Van
Wrinkle which is seldom criticised.
Possibly none of you ever noticed it.
Indeed, will confess that until recent
ly the fact never occurred to me with
any force. Well, you could never guess,
SO will tell you. 1t is this: Rip Van
Wrinkle is the only person in the play
who speaks English with slightly
broken Dutch accent. All Of the other
characters are obliged to content them
selves with ordinary English.
lit heightens the effect for Rip to
speak as he does in broken accents, but
if all the other characters were to at
tempt dialect there would be such a
variety of accent that the effect would
be homogeneous and ridiculous. All the
feeling and sentiment of the play would
be lost in this polyglot attempt at dia-
lect.
Several years ago man engaged to
play Nick Vedder came on at rehearsal
and commenced to talk in the broadcast
low Dutch accent. I stopped him at
once, but in his own defense he ex-
claimed:
"'But Nick Vedder would talk that
way, wouldn't he, if Rip Van Wrinkle
did?'
eyes, replied, he would, but you
mustn't And no doubt the man
thought me very unreasonable. But this
only illustrates the point that many
things apparently illogical must be done
on the stage to secure effect by inspir-
ing the imagination. Absolute realism
would be fatal. Under certain condi-
tions it is the necessity of dramatic art
to make the impossible seem real. y
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-08
ALMOST CANE TO BLOWS.

An Incident Illustrative of Chicago Lam
guage and Theatrical Tempers.
The other morning there dropped in
to the gallery Of photographer who
has long made speciality of taking the
pictures of theatrical celebrities big
Gtrapping western man who came to see
his friend, the photographer. The young
woman behind the counter, who knew
the caller, had just been reading in a
newspaper savage roast Of his ma
tive city of Chicago. She handed the
paper to the westerner to read, expect
ing to get some amusement out of his
comments. The Chioagoan was in the
midst Of his reading, bristling with
wrath, when the husband of we'll
known actress entered the room. A
framed portrait Of the actress, taken
several years ago, stood on an easel in a
corner. The husband walked up to the
picture, and after contemplating it for
few minutes said:
my wife is certainly a remarkable
woman. That picture was taken all Of
five years ago, yet she is younger look
ing and handsomer today than it is. -
Just then the westerner finished the
Chicago story.
"Well, / don't think he exclaimed
loudly and emphatically, throwing the
paper down upon the counter.
"What right have you, sir, to think
anything about itP'' demanded the ac-
tress' husband angrily.
"Who gave you control over my
thinker retorted the astonished west
erner.
"Think what you please to yourself,
but you shan't insult my wife, sir"
shouted the husband
Your wife? Where is she? Are you
lunatic?''
"No, sir, but you are big bully"
cried the husband, dancing with wrath.
The little woman behind the counter,
who had been convulsed with laughter,
tried to explain the mistake, but the in
dignant husband refused to listen.
Nothing but an apology would satisfy
him, and he made dramatic exit from
the gallery, saying that the westerner
would "hear from him again. He
went home and wrote a letter to the
photographer saying that be had been
insulted and threatening to withdraw
his wife's custom if the apology was
not forthcoming, The photographer was
obliged to write several letters before
he could calm the troubled waters.
Meantime the Chicagoan went home.
firm in the conviction that he had mar
rowly escaped hitting a crazy man.
New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-08
TRY Holding Your Breath.

The modern quick moving elevator,
when it sinks suddenly, gives many
persons an unpleasant, qualmish feeling
Into well filed elevator in big shop
ping store the other day stepped from
one of the floors two women.
"Do you know" said one Of them to
the other, "that if you hold your breath
going down in an elevator you don't
have that unpleasant feeling; you dom
feel it at all. "
OF course nobody in the elevator lis
tened Intentionally, but nobody could
help hearing what she said. Converse
ton instantly ceased, and every body
drew long breath. The elevator shot
downward in silence.
"Ground foorl" said the elevator
man as he threw back the door, and the
women streamed out from the car upon
the floor, talking now gayly, and there
was one at least who said that the plan
was effective. New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-08
paudet and Animals.

Daudet had lurking kindness for
sinners. He pitied them, for he could
not see how in the long run they could
succeed in anything. But the self right
eous were more offensive to him. I
think he was right in saying that men
and women who pass for having never
sinned are unpleasant companions, and,
from the day Of Judgment standard,
perhaps the worst sinners of all. The
sensibility shown in Jack and other
works did not extend to animals. Dau-
det, though cigalier, was deaf to the
chirp of grasshopper and cricket. Birds
have no place in his rural sketches. He
could not understand the touching
beauty of the ''last friend" at the poor
mans funeral. Animals were simply
brutes to Daudet At best they were
warnings to human beings not to live
merely to eat, sleep and leave posterity
behind them. They sometimes were
vices incarnate. Such were the fox, the
serpent, the scorpion. What a selfish,
heartless thing the ant wasl 1t had a
head if you WILL but it was the sort Of
head that organizes labor in sooty fac
tory towns. The dog was the beastliest
beast of any Daudet fled from every
drawing room where he saw lapdog.
Paris Letter in London Truth.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-08
NEW YoRks GROWTH.
The City Has Never Halted Since 1t "
First Fairly Started.

The City Has Never Halted Since 1t Was
First Fairly Started.
Ernest Ingersoll writes paper on the
Greater New York, entitled Reasoning
Out Metropolis. for ST. Nicholas.
Mr.. Ingersoll says:
The people of New York, Brooklyn,
Staten Island and certain nearby north
ern towns resolved to join themselves
together into one city, which is now the
Greater New York 1t embraces BAL
square miles of territory and includes
population of nearly 8, 400, 900.
Besides these at least another million
dwell on the New Jersey side of the
Hudson river, quite as near and as
closely identified with the great city on
Manhattan Island as are those of the
northern and eastern suburbs. This
makes population of nearly 4, 800, 000
which may be said to belong to New
York, making it not only by far the
largest center Of human life and inter
ests in America, but, excepting only
London, the most populous spot on the
globe.
How has it happened that this vast
city has grown up where it stands?
Why did not the American metropolis
arise somewhere else? Is it's position all
an accident, or does history show sound
reasons for its situation? The earliest
settlement here was merely a trading
station that gradually became small
seaport, like dozen others along the
coast. Before the year 1900 these were
so nearly alike that he would have been
wise prophet who truly foretold which
would thrive. Indeed many men Of that
day firmly believed that Newport and
Annapolis were to be the two great
American seaports.
Great cities arise at the points where
the greatest number of people find it
convenient to meet at first for business
and later for pleasure. You cannot force
a city to grow in an unnatural or insult
able situation, and it is no easier to pre-
vent city from growing in its proper
place. But the conditions that change
village into big town and expand the
town into city or metropolis are not
the same in different parts of the globe
and vary with the march of the cen
turtles; SO that now many an ancient
world market, like Nineveh or Mem
phis, has totally disappeared, while
towns like Berlin have lately increased
with amazing rapidity, after long his
tory as small and insignificant places.
AS for New York, it has never halted
or gone backward for moment since
it was fairly started on its career in
1923