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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
A Geographical Game.
a Trip About The Country Answering Ques-
tions With Name.

One day my cousin "a city in
Malnc) said to me, "Le, Us 90 fishing
for "a cape in MaSsachusetts)."
THAT will be hne," l answered,
laying down her new (city in Italy,
hat that l had been admiring, and up
setting a bottle of (city in Germany
in my haste.
"But l am afraid to go without a
(island near England)," said my cou-
sin.
"Lets ask-and-(two capes in
VirginiaJ," | answered.
So | ran across the street for the
two who were to accompany us, while
my cousin fixed up a small lunch, con-
ssting of Islands in the Pacific
OCEAN,, large piece of "a country in
Europe), and a 0own in New Jersey
for each Of us F; and, for joke, she
put in a large (river in Vermont)
1t was beautiful day in "a cape in
New Jersey, and we expected to have
a fine time. I fed Dick, My pet,
ISLANDS off the coast of Africa), and
we started.
To save time, we thought we would
go through the barnyard, and across
lots, but saw large (cape in South
America) sticking out from behind the
barn, and refused to go near old
Brindle; SO we went another way.
As we were passing through the
woods all of a sudden my cousin cried
out "(a cape in North Carolina)l !
there is big (iver in Washington)w y
picked up a piece of broken "a
country i'll Asia) to throw at it while
my cousin eagerly snatched (city in
IrelandD, thinking it was stone. One
of the boys had sense enough to throw
a Getty in Arkansas) at its head, killing
it instantly.
We thought our troubles were over
now, and were laughing and talking
gayly, when we suddenly saw, few
feet from us and coming for us as fast
as its feet would carry it, Qake in
Canada)
This was too much. We turned
our faces toward home and ran her
beautiful new cape, trimmed with Ga
cape in Florida).
We did not stop running until with
in Il (island belonging to Rhode Is
land) of our house, where we SAID "a
cape in Greenland) to our companions
and went in the house to enjoy cup
of (an island near India.)
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
FEATs OF THE CAVALRY HORSE.
Douglas Pluclsy Ride. Through Rain and
Mud to General EwrlI

@""s'"" hdhu ana
Mud to General EwelI.
The one sad feature about the war
Is that the cavalry horse was not test-
ed. In fact the muddy roads. the long
distances required for transportation
made this almost impossible. let
some wonderful feats have been per-
formed by our horsemen to train them
for the campaigns of actual warfare.
General King tells of plucky ride
made in the seventies by Lieut.. James
f. Bell. of the Seventh. just to show
what our mounted soldiers could have
done had the campaign developed.
Bell was ordered to Medora. n little
town at the crossing of the Little Mis-
souri, by the Northern Pacific railway,
where he found important dispatches
fer his brother officer, Lieutenant Gar
lington, then in the fed, and, all alone,
Bell rode away from Medora at sum
rise on an August morning, covered
fifty to fifty-flve miles through the
toughest country In the Northwest by
noon. got fresh mount in Captain
Varnum's camp. and just after sunset
reached Darlington. The distance CO.,
cred was at least one hundred miles.
and the gait was trot or gallop all the
way.
The records of the cavalry regiments
on duty in Arizona or Wyoming dur
ing the Indian campaigns of the last
twenty years furnishes numerous in
stances of long rides of this character.
The annals of the great war have
many more-perhaps the most remark
able being that of Henry Kyd Doug
las. now Adjutant- General of Mary
land but at the time n young officer
selected to bear dispatches for Stone
wall Jackson, through pitchy dark
ness. over river and mountain, from
Harrisonburg in the Shenandoah val
ley, around Massanuttcn mountain.
over the Blue Ridge through Swift
Run gap, then by way of Stannards-
vile, Madison Courthouse, Culpeper,
then "in the field" Douglas started
Just after sundown of an April even
ing. and in a pouring rain splashed
through mud and mire and the black
ness of Erebus over the mountain trail;
exchanged his gallant blooded mare
for big raw-boncd racer some forty
miles from the starting point; used up
mount No. . In iifteen-mlle squirt to
Madison G. H., where he swapped
him for little gray which stumbled
in the mire and darkness after run
of barely n mile, and could not be
induced to rise. The magic of Jack
sons rSme won him mount No. 4, who
carried him nine miles and gave place
to a gaunt roam. The next stage was
the eleven-mile dash to Culpeper,
where, in the faint, cold glimmer of
dawn, the young officer reached Cen
eral Dick Taylor, who steered HIM ON
to Brandy Station and beyond. Just
twenty hours from the start. Doug
las found General Ewell and delivered
his rain-soaked dispatches. He had
covered the entire distance of one
hundred and five miles in less than
twenty hours.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
Criminal Gases Show no Deere use,

The number of criminal cases that
come before the Quarter Sessions
courts of Pennsylvania show no de-
crease. The penalties of the law have
tempering effect, but do not lesson or
suppress evil Guc'>.
The question OF the eXpediency of
long or short sentences severe or mild
punlshments is of interest. Tudge
Rerkers of Bucks county has for years
been a terror to the criminal classes
by reason OF his attitude In dealing
trmly with all bold Offenders against
the public peace. His course has
evidently had salutary effect. as
Bucks county has not been troubled
with the amount of lawlessness that
has burdened Other sections. Judge
Hcmphill of Chester county is also a
believer in dealing firmly with the
criminal classes, and recently SEN
fenced two burglars to ten years each
in the pententiary-the limit of the
law. Both of these had previously
served long terms in prison, and in
pronouncing sentence Judge Hemp
hill said: "The community will be
safer with you both in Jail 1t appears
that they have to keep you, no matter
where you are"
In nutshell the Court recognized
that with some people crime is a
chronic distcmper, and prison is the
only hospital for the treatment and
restraint of that disease. There are
instances, it is true, when charity may
prove eflicacious, but where the offend
ers are hardened against all appreca-
tlon of moral laws, and who contlnu-
ally abuse the license of liberty by
preying upon their fellows, the course
of Judges Yerkes and Hemphill will
meet public approval.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
The Phil pines.

The animus of the proposed acqui-
sitions of the PHILIPPINE Islands is al
ready coming to the front in Congress.
Chairman Cannon, of the House appro-
priation committee who has resolutely
opposed large expenditures for military
establishment of the nation is necessa-
ry, and that the money required should
be voted ungrudgingly by Congress.
This is the first step in creating a
large standing army, and, if the plan
be successful, it will be followed by the
pllllng up of taxes, tor the money must
come from somewhere, and, in this
country there is but one resource, the
tax payers, and at last labor. Even the
suggestion of larger standing army is
a blow in all the face OF all our tradi-
tions and public policy since the found
ing of the Republic. We have reached
the turn of the road in our political
destinies, and the people must be ex-
ceptionally careful lest our form Of
government may be gradually changed.
A lareg standing army is one of the
most dangerous engines in the hands
of demagogues and would.be conspir-
ators. Watch them!
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
NEWS READINGS IN DAWSON.
EnterprIsing Man Makes $500 Reading to
the Miners.

A novel story is told by the Portland
Oregonian about the way The news OF
the blowing up of the Maine was re-
ceived in Dawson City. An enterprls-
ing Yankee got hold of the first copy
of a newspaper containing the account.
He made arrangements for getting the
news abroad in this business like FASH
ion:
Renting vacant saloon building, he
caused bulletins to be issued giving an
inklng of the character of the news
that had been received, most judicious-
ly worded, and announcing that the
full account would be read in public in
the evening in the mammoth one story
log edificc next the Blue Ruin dive on
Birthstone street; admission two pen
nywelGhts of gold. ranging in value
from $3.50 to SI.15.
Al the appointed time the miners
gathered to hear the news. and two
hundred or more of them tossed their
gold dust into the door keepers scales
and crowded inside. The reading was
satisfactory, if the news was not, and
there was no grumbllnS about the In
vestment. No less than $500 and prob
ably much more, was realized from
that idea. The reader was a liberal Sort
of chap. spd he read the other news ia
the paper merely us a courtesy to tho
assembly.
This practice grew as the nation
neared war and after the war began.
and it Is a frequent occurrence for a
public reading of important news to be
given in Dawson ut so much per head
for permission. And the cooped up men
pay for nothing more cheerfully than
war news. Their llberality in this mat
ter is sometimes taken advantage OF,
and stale stuff palmed Off for news. and
even the Dawson City public Is dis
eliminating in this particular. and is
strongly disposed to resent the swim
die
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10

If you want Autographed bonds
certificates of stock, checks, drafts
diplomas, or any thing in that line
ne COLUMBIAN office can furnish
them. See samples.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
Both Done Noble. 1"

According to the St. Louis cores.
pondent of the Chicago Rcc0rH, The
Lord Mayor of St. Louis, "Onkle
Henry" Zeigenheim, is an old and
interesting person. A giant in stature,
good natured disposition, shrewd mind
and unboundec ambition, he has lifted
himself into prominence by his force
Of chara ter. Almost entirely with
out education, he Is proud of his
illiteracy and boasts OF his "plain
ways, which OF course takes with
certain classes of people and gives
him great influence among voters of
similar condition. 81 could hire
plenty of people to write speeches for
me-" he says, shut | won't do it.
What | say comes from the heart,
and mean it. l don't have to pay
no money for fine Words" and he ex.
empliies the principle. "They all
done noble," he declared, in a recent
speech OF welcome to the returning
soldiers. Both the army and the
navy done noble, and Dewey he went
the whole hog before breakfast. Re.
Gently he won the applause of "the
plain people" by declining to wear a
dress suit at the great annual ball. y
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
SINGULAR STATEMENT.
From Mrs. Rank to Mrs. Pinkham.

The following letter to Mrs. Pink
East Susquehanna Ave, Philadelphia,
Pa, is q remarkable statement of re-
lief from utter discouragement. She
says:
81 never can find words with which
to thank you for what Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has done
for me.
"Some years ago had womb trouble
and doctored for a long time, not see
ing any improvement. At times I
would feel well enough, and other
times was miserable. So it went on
until last October, felt something
terrible creeping over me, I knew not
what, but kept getting worse. l can
hardly explain my feelings at that
time. I was SO depressed In spirits
that did not wish to live, although L
had everything to live for. Had hys-
terra, was very nervous; could not
sleep and was not safe to be left
alone.
Indeed, thought would lose my
mind. No one knows what endured.
Il continued this way until the last
OF February, when L saw in paper o
testimonial of lady whose case was
similar to mine, and who had been
cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound. 1 determined to try it.
and felt better after the first dose. I
continued taking it, and to-day am a
well woman, and can say from my
heart, THANK God for such a medi-
cine'"
Mrs. Pinkham invites all suffering
women to write to her at Lynn, Mass,
for advice. All such letters are seen
and answered by women only.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10

The hardshell preachers homily,
"Men is scarce and wimmen's plenty"
isn't founded on fact. There's a short
age of women in this great republic.
In the whole country there are 5,427-
667 bachelors and only 2,a244o4
spinsters. The shortage is not confined
to the new and more sparsley settled
districts of the West. Right here in
old Pennsylvania there are 56a, ,S43
bachelors and only 33I,a57 spinsters.
These are figures that the minated
men should view with alarm. Think OF
it! 23I,586 more manageable men
than unmarried women in our State.
Women don't be in hurry select one
worth having.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
a Travelling Postoffice

The postoffice department at Wash
ipgton have decided to make a new
experiment in the rural free delivery
system. Some time ago a resident of
Westminster, Md, wrote to the de-
partment offering to build such a
postoffice, to be drawn by two horses,
and to establish a system between
Westminster and the surrounding
villages, covering a distance of 30
miles, for $I,375 a year. The plan
has been accepted.
The wagon will be similar to the
postoffice wagons in use in the clteis
The postman will start from West
minister in the morning and visit a
number of small towns in the vicinity,
collecting and delivering mail en-
route. Any farmer living within two
miles of the road along which the
wagon passes will be allowed to place
a letter box at the roadside, IN which
his mail can be deposited by the
carrier, and from which the carrier
will take the outgoing mail. At several
small places where there is no post
office number of boxes will be put
up, which will practically form an auto
matte postoffice.
The inventor of the scheme will act
as postmaster, and will sell stamps,
money orders, etc, stamp letters and
assort them for the mails. While driv-
ing out in the morning he will assert
the mail for the delivery, and when
returning he will prepare it to be
placed on the train. He expects to
barely make expenses, but the gov
ernment will pay him a royalty on all
similar wagons should the scheme be
put In general operation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10

"The geese are flying over," which
means that we are in for hard, cold
winter. At least, this is an old super
stition, and geese are very convenient
things to tase prophecy on, because
if it should turn out to be incorrect
the fault can easily be put to the
credit of the geese, without fear of
their coming back to argue the ques-
tion. However, if the geese know
their business this year and the old
time weather prophets should be right,
we may look forward to some very
cold weather very soon.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, =,
Lucas County.


Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm of
F, ]. Cheney & Co., doing business
in the City of Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum OF one hundred dol
.ars for each and every case of ca
tarrh that cannot be cured by the use
of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in mypresence, this sixth day of De-
cember, A. d. 1896.
r~, A. w. GLEASON,
loc' Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best. I'm
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10

\ shoemaker has a card IN his win.
dow reading: "Any respectable man,
woman, or child can have a Ift in this
store"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10

The sacrtd fires of India have not all
been extinguished. The most ancient,
which still exists, was consecrated IL
centuries ago in commemoration of the
voyage made by the Parsees when they
emigrated from Persia to India. The
fire is fed five times every twenty-four
hours with sandalwood and other fra
grant materials, combined with very
dry fuel. This fire, in the village Of
Oodwada, near Bulsar, is visited by
Parsees in large numbers during the
months allotted to the presiding gen
ius Of fire.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10

Mr.. Gotrox-But you are a poor
man, and my daughter has been ac-
customed to every conceivable luxury.
Do you think she could stand such q
change?
Impecunious Lover-Certainly sir.
Just see how readily those rich Rough
Riders took to hard tack and bacon.
Judge.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-11-10

Connections at Rupert with Philadelphia q
Reading Railroad FOR Tamanend, Tamaaua
northumberland with =. g. f. Div. p. q X. for
Harrisburg, Lock Eaven, Emporium warren,
Cory and Erie.
W. F. HALLsTEAD. Gen. Man.,
Scranton, Pa,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-29

The yielding of the Spanish peace COM
missioners on the question of the Cuban
debt disposes of one of the most trouble
some points III the case and brings the nego-
tiations almost within sight of the end In
the bankrupt and Impoverished condition of
Spain every question that has d financial
aspect is of great Importance and the
Cuban debt is so large that the question
of getting rid of it was of vital conse-
quence The Spanish commissioners made a
very determined and stubborn fight on the
point, and only yielded at last when they
found that it was hopeless. Fortunately our
commissioners were able to take their stand
on the declaration of Congress that the
United States would not assume sovereign
ty over Cuva and that responsibility for
the debt could only go with sovereignty
With that argument and the fact that the
protocol required the Spaniards to relin-
quish sovereignty and evacuate Cuba with
out any conditions whatever. our commits
sioners were able to maintain their position
against the adroit, determined and long con-
tinued efforts of the other side. The final
surrender of the Spanish commissioners on
a point on which they laid so much stress
advances the negotiation very materially
With Porto Rico already in our possession,
the Cuban debt question. disposed of and the
unconditional evacuation of the island
agreed upon there is nothing left to be
settled but the Philippines question. That
may prove difficult to settle, or it may
prove easier than is generally expected The
secret regarding President McKinley's in
tentons and his instructions to the commits
sioners has been well kept and the public
is in absolute ignorance as to what demand
they will make. If they accompany their de-
mald with q statement that it is final and
unalterable the Spanish commissioners will
be apt TO conclude, since the struggle re-
garding the Cuban debt, that the uAmeri-
cans mean what they say and that it is
useless to waste time trying to accomplish
the impossible or resist the inevitable. The
time since the commission met on Oct.
has been spent in diplomatic fencing and
in the contest over the Cuban debt, the re-
suit being a victory for the Americans at
every point The commissioners on both
sides now understand each other, and nego-
tiations regarding the Philippines ought to
proceed rapidly to an early conclusion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-29

at home and better credit and higher hon
ors than ever abroad, there is even more
reason why the people should indorse Nc
Kinley's administration now than why they
should have elected him two years ago.
But the same influences that opposed his
election are opposing his Endorsement. The
party that was defeated two years ago on
a platform of free silver and opposition
to the enforcement of law comes before
the people again. advocating the same
principles, with the addition of opposition
to the conduct of the war and to national
expansion. Not content with attacking the
honor and credit OF the Nation through its
currency, they propose 10 unite with it's
foreign enemies in defaming its armies be-
lttling its victories and preventing it, if
possible. from prcHting by the results of
the war. There were abundant reasons for
the defeat of this anti-progressive and anti
American party two years ago. but the rea-
sons are more numerous and stronger now
than they were then.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-29
AN ANTI-AMERICAN PARTY.

Two years ago such thing as a foreign
war was not dreamed of. Our relations
with Spain were still entirely friendly,
without any indication or apparent danger
that they would become otherwise The
campaign which was soon to result in the
election of Mckinley had been conducted
without reference to the Cuban war. 1t
had been one of the most earnest and ex
citing campaigns of recent years. the main
contentious on the Republican side being
protection for American industries and
sound money, and on the Democratic side
for free silver at 16 to l and overthrowing
the power of the courts. No campaign
since the war had so stirred the conscience
of the country or so aroused the business
men and conservative element in defense
of sound principles of finance and govern
ment The election of Mckinley was
garded by all thoughtful people as a provi-
Dental deliverance from great peril and
a splendid victory for right principles
The situation to-day Is precisely as it
was when Mckinley was elected. except
that a foreign war has been carried to a
successful conclusion under circumstances
rejecting great honor on the American
name and great credit on the admnistra-
ton. From the beginning TO the end of the
war the people rallied magnificently to the
support of the President, and while his
civil policy was winning triumphs in the
business and commercial world our army
and navy were winning victories on land
and sea. With greater prosperity than ever
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-29

The rising tide of patriotism is a sure
sign of a great Republican Undergraduates
News. I O.
The Democrats have nothing to make
a fight on in this campaign. They are on
the wrong side of every issue.-Orleans Elk
aminer.
Sitting on store boxes and deriding the
administration and the party in power does
not make prosperity.-Sale Republican
Leader.
A majority of the voters of this country
know a good thing when they see it; that's
why they are going to keep the Republic
ans in control of the House---Goshen I1mes
1t is remarkable what a demagogue a
man can sometimes make of himself. In Il
speech made in Terre Haute Thursday Sen
sary to secure peace and prosperity
Nothing would tend SO much toward these
ends as for Democrats to do less talking.
Anderson Herald.
OF the thirteen hundred men in the One
Observation-Disclosures Indiana Regiment
which was largely recruited in this district
a recent poll showed that over one thou
free-silver leaders in the Senate strangled
the measure passed in the House over Dem
Ocratic opposition permitting the soldiers
to vote in the field for members OF Con-
gress.-Peru Republican.
President Mckinley will have many ex-
tremely difficult questions to solve during
the next two years. The proper solution of
them is a matter of vital Importance to the
America people. He ought, therefore, to
have the support and cooperation of all
patriotic citizens, together with a Congress
which will assist and not unnecessarily OBJ
struct him in the great work which the
people have intrusted him to accomplish.
-Steuben Republican,