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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-06
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-06

Albany. May 6.-The following decisions were
handed down to-day by the Third Appellate DIVE
Gdon:
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
Sheen TiCks.

Every one who has sheep knows the
tick, the worst pest of this animal, that
does serious harm to the young lambs
without suspicion of the cause to the
shepherd. This reddish brown creature
is wingless fly and a very greedy blood
sucker. A dozen of them ON a lamb will
quickly suck the little one dry. 1t is to
be looked after at the time of shearing,
when these insects go for shelter to the
lambs. It is found mostly where the
animal cannot reach it-on its head,
buried in the skin, sucking the blood.
Its skin is tough, and it is not easily
crushed with less than blow of ham
mer. In small flocks it is not much of q
job to go through, with pair of
small scissors to cut the ticks in two,
but where the flock is over a score it
will be necessary to dip the lambs
Exchange.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
Ills and Remedies.

Lord Byron, in his reported conversa-
tons with the Countess of Blessington,
remarked to her that medical men do
not sufficiently attend to idiosyncrasies,
on which SO much depends, and often
hurry to the grave one patient by a
treatment that has succeeded in anoth-
er. The moment they ascertain dis
ease to be the same as one they have
known they conclude the same remedies
that cured the first must remove those
OF the second, not making allowances
for the peouliarities of temperament,
habits and disposition, which last has
great influence on maladies." " These re-
marks are simple exaggerations of feel.
ing and fact. Byron was no more enam-
ored of the medical profession than he
was of professors of divinity, but he
was an acute observer, and it was inter-
esting to read his views respecting
1diosyncrasies. He judged rightly, very
rightly, of their Importance in oonnec-
'tion with the practice of medicine.
New York Ledger.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05

exported and of cigarettes so,581, ,4o3
packages. These are only the main
exports. They show what may be
done with the exhaustless soil and
climate of the island when its people
were in condition OF virtual slavery
under Spanish rule.
The mineral resources of Cuba are
OF great variety. American capital
and enterprise was being attracted to
their development before the present
revolt broke out.
1t IS singular that Cuba has great
claims as a pastoral country. Her
pastures are broad and rich, and a
century ago raised more cattle and
horses. The island, with these natur-
al pastures, was just beginning to
raise fine Durham and Devonshire
stock when ten year war desolated the
country and put stop to the industry.
The millions of acres of free land in
Cuba are ready for the agriculturist,
the cattle, sheep and hog raiser, the
cotton and fruit grower, the miner
and the reducing plant, and even for
the silk grower and manufacturer.
Once independent. immigrants will
be attracted to Cuba In great, num-
bers. American capital, labor and
enterprise will go there, and in time
become an influential factor in pro-
gress and orderly government.
Havana will become the second port
on the Atlantic side of the Western
MISUNDERSTANDING Post
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
COST OF SABLES.
How tho Price Advances After tho Skin
Leaves Siberia.

How tho Price Advances After the Skin
Leaves Siberia.
Up In the great watershed dividing
Siberia and Mongolia lives peculiar
race Of people, half Chinese, half Tib-
etans. Few Europeans have ever seen
them. In fact, with the exception of one
or two enterprising explorers or geo.
graphical enthusiasts who have crossed
the Altai range, European eyes have
never gazed upon the aboriginal Syots
of northern Mongolia.
Sable hunting in tho Siberian noun.
tains and northern Mongolia is confined
almost exclusively to the Syots and 9th
er native races, and it would surprise
good many fur dealers in England to
know the prices which are paid by the
Siberian traders to these poor aborigines
for the skins they collect.
The Siberian trader, knowing his
market, makes periodical journeys into
Mongolia. 1t is safe to say he does not
take kopek Of money with him, but he
drags behind him we'll stuffed caravan
loaded with tea, tobacco, gunpowder
and shot, strings of beads for the WON.
en- and roughly made moccasins for the
men. In due course he will come across
Syot enoampment.
The trader sits on his wagon and bar
ters cheerfully. With the eye of con-
noisseur and with fingers rendered deft
by long practice he sees and feels the
smooth, warm skins of the little ami
mails.
This small black one-well, a two
ounce packet of tobacco Is enough for
that; that large black one-a handful
Of shot and an equal quantity of gun
powder; packet of tea for lovely
skin with long black stripe down the
oenter; this one, fine skin, but lit
tie bit hurt by the shot entering the
blackwell, say a string of beads for
that.
In their original undressed state it is
safe to say that the skins do not cost
the Siberian trader much more than
few pence each ON the average. AS the
poor sable travels farther westward,
however, he gets dearer and dearer. In
Tomsk one can buy very good sable
for something like or 9 rubles, about
1Ss. In Omsk few are sold under 10 ru-
.bles-Gl Is. In Moscow 100 per cent
goes on. In. st. Petersburg no one ex-
cept the middle class or functionary
would wear sable under e5. In Paris
and London a real Siberian sable skin
will fetch anything up to ego, but tho
imitation sables of the present day have
done much to depreciate this wonderful
trade.-London Mail.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05

Denmark's kings for 3S4 years
have all been named Christian or
Frederick. This is not the result of
accident. 1t is the law of Denmark
that Christian must be succeeded by
Frederick and Frederick by Christian.
To attain this and without tine chang
ing of names in case Of death or other
teason every Danish prince, no matter
what other names he may tecelve,
always includes Christian and Freder-
ick among them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05

A veteran of the civil war recently
told us the following: 81 suppose [
got excited with all the war talk, and
when l went to bed got to dream
ing about old Virginia in 1868. We
were marching along a road through
a piece of swampy woods when the
rebels cut loose on us from the thicket.
1t was a beautiful fight, and 1 was
right in the middle of it cheering on
the men. Hold the road,' l shouted,
'Hold the road and shoot low lust
then l got poke in the ribs that
doubled me up like jack knife, and
l woke up to hear the old woman say:
Hold your tongue, you crazy loon,
you'll wake up all the folks in the
house., l turned over on the other
side and the rebels didn't bother me
any more"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
HIS HIGH PRICED EYE.
How a Clever Bunko Game Was Played
on a Son of Sunny Italy.

low CieVer Bunko Game Was Played
on a Son of Sunny Italy.
A well planned scheme was worked
on o down town Italian confectioner
the other night whereby he lost $50.
About p. IN. man who had one good
eye and one glass eye came wandering
along the street and stopped at this
Italians fruit stand. He stopped over
to look at some Of the fruit, when un-
eSpectedly his glass eye fell from its
socket down among the bananas and
oranges
The pretending purchaser at once be-
gan a diligent search for the missing
glass eye. With both hands he clawed
into the fruit, scattering it in all di-
rections. The Italian came forward and
told the stranger to stop. The one eyed
man explained that his glass eye had
dropped down there and that he wanted
to get it.
The Italian became enraged and told
the stranger to come around in the even
ing and he could get the other eye. The
man explained he was stranger and
would not be here in the evening, but
IL ne (the ltallan) found the eye he
should bring it to his hotel, where 500
would be paid to him.
An hour later another man came
along, pretended to make purchase,
and while lingering around in the fruit
suddenly espied the wonderful glass eye.
The man from Italy made grab for it,
but was too late, as his would be Gus
toner already had it. Both claimed the
eye, and quarrel ensueH The Italian
patched matters up by giving the stran-
ger $50 for the eye, thinking he would
get 500 upon returning it and he
would have $50 clear.
He went to the hotel with the eye to
get the 500 that he was told awaited
him there. He found that no such man
had been there and no 500 was loft
there for him. He then saw how he was
worked and notified the police. Pitts
burg Commercial Gazette.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
ATM0SPHERES OF PLANETS.
The Gaseous Envelope Which Surrounds
Venus is Much Like Our Own,

DR.. Johnson Stoney's name has
long been associated. with a theory
that the composition of the atmos-
phere of a planet, and, indeed, the
question whether it shall have an at
mosphere or not, depends upon the
size of the planet, which determines
the force of gravity at its surface.
1t is more particularly with refer
ence to the moon that the theory has
usually been presented Stripped of
its scientific phraseology, DIR. Stoney's
view is that the gravitational force of
the moon, which is only about one
sixth as great as the earth's, is not
strong enough to prevent the indeh-
mite expansion of such gases as form
the earth's atmosphere, and that con-
sequently If the moon ever had a gas
eous envelope these gases were pro-
badly long ago dissipated in space.
Water vapor upon the moon would be
as truant as gas. Hence the moon
has lost by evaporation into space,
its seas as well as its atmosphere.
The latest conclusions to which DR..
Stoney's Investigations have led him,
and which are set forth very fully in
the transactions of the Royal
Society of Dublin" are thus summed
up by Nature
Limiting the inquiry to tempera-
ture of 6I degrees Centigrade below
zero, DIR. Stoney applies the theory to
all of the members of the solar sys-
tenn, with the following results From
the moon, all gases having a vapor
density less than SO will escape with a
greater promptness than hydrogen
and helium do from the earth.
Hence the present airless and water
less condition of our satellite. 1t may
be said here, parenthetically, that DR..
Stoney's theory accounts for the alb
sence of free hydrogen and helium
from our atmosphere, these gases both
being too active in their molecular to
be kept in check by the earth's gravi-
rational force. On Mercury water
cannot exist, while nitrogen and oxy-
gen would gradually dribble away.
The conditions of Venus resemble
those of the earth but the case of
Mars is OF exceptional interest. DIR.
Stoney says that it is legitimate to
infer that on this planet water cannot
remain. The atmosphere of Mars he
thinks to consist mainly of nitrogen,
argon and carbon dioxde. Upon
this view there can be no vegetation,
as we understand the term, upon the
planet, and its SHOWS, frost and fog do
not arise from the same cause as on
the earth. Jupiter is able to imprison
all gases known to chemists but
whether the more distant members of
our system can retain hydrogen is
doubtful. Helium and the denser
gases probably float in their atmos-
phere but the lighter gases are
gathered about the sun, the velocity
which their "molecules" can acquire
enabling them to escape from plane
tary control, but still being insufficient
to liberate them from the gravitation-
al influence of the sun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
AT DAWN OF DAY.

! Unbrolen silence, brilliant eastern slxies,
Without a stirring leaf.
Incense from celestial chalices.
Afloat In midair brief,
Giving to mortal sight and sense
New beauties, rtch md rare,
TO the thoughtful mind moment
For reverent praise and prayer.
Praise for our great Creator, 60
Prayer for our wayworn hours,
Hope for fulfilled promises, ;.a..-
Trust in benignant powers. ''"t.T.
Mid awe inspiring silence, o.
As night shades pass away, .,,'s :.
New life in slow procession
Proclaims the dawn of say.
Clark W. Bryan in Good Housekeeping.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
The Richest Island.

The island of Cuba has about the
same area as the State of Penn
sylvania. From east to west it is
probably twice the length of Penn
sylvania, but its average width is
much less, not more than SO miles.
1t is a common saying there is no
space on earth the equal in size to
Cuba that can begin to compare with
her in the production of those things
that are useful to man. Antonio
Morales, a noted authority, has pre-
pared table showing the variety and
Quantities of the staples that can be
raised on tract of thirty-three acres
in Cuba. A farm of that size in one
year produces thousands of pounds of
sugar, coffee, tobacco, cocoa, (choco-
late), cotton, indigo, corn, rice, sage,
bananas and yucca. The choicest
lands in California-noted for the
variety and quantity of their products
Cannot approach the soil of Cuba
In this respect.
Pennsylvania supports a population
of between five and six millions and
is increasing rapidly. Cuba with
good government. it is believed,
could support in plenty a population
of 10000, 900. Her natural resour-
ces are infinite in variety. OF her
area only 10 per cent is under cult
vation. The land not reclaimed from
state of nature is 7 per cent of the
whole.
The commerce of Cuba before
the war indicates the possibilities of
the island under free and orderly
government. In 1893 Cuba export
ed 7IS, 2o4 tons of sugar and produc-
ed Sr5,So4 tons. Its exports of
molasses to the United States alone
IN that year were 1854 hogsheads.
Of rum the exports were o,3o8 pipes
In 1903 the Cuban exports of leaf
tobacco were 227,s65 bales. Of
manufactured cigars I47,365,ooo were
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
TOWN CAVED IN.
Hundred and Fifty Houses Wrecked at
Duryea.
Buildings Sink Through the Earth. Two
Miners Supposed to Have Perished.

The mining town of Duryea, near
Wilkesbarre, was the scene of dis
astrous cave-in shortly before noon on
Friday and two men are thought to
have perished. For some time past
the surface over the old workings of
the Halstead mine has been settling
and Friday morning it went down
with loud crash. Over $50 houses
were wrecked. They rocked to and
fro for few seconds and then began
to settle in the earth.
Men, women and children rushed
in terror from their homes. In many
cases the houses were so twisted that
the doors could not, be opened and
such occupants as were penned in
their homes were in state of terror
until Others came to their assistance
and chopped open means OF egress.
The land involved in the settling is
over the old working of the Halstead
colliery of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Company, and is from
one-half to three-quarters of square
mile in area.
When the cave-in occurred there
were seven men at work in the rhine.
They were Fred Hensel, James
Hardy, Thomas Robson, Henry
Hudelson, Charles Carey, David
Emanuel and Thomas X. Williams.
All were rescued with the exception
OF Emanuel and Williams. 1t is be-
lleved they have perished. The loss
will reach $4,000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05

APoPLExY.-Dr. Agnew's Cure for
the Heart is equally effective in
apoplectic symptoms. If you have
unpleasant dizziness, lightness or sud-
den rush Of blood to the head, take
precautions against recurrence. This
great remedy will remove the cause.
The press of the land has daily long
list of sudden deaths which would not
be chronicled if DIR. Agnew's Cure for
the Heart were used.-49.
Sold by c. A. Klein.
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SWEET LIFE ENDED.
A Patient Sufferer Gone to Her Eternal
Home.

After many months of illness, Miss
Mary Gussie Benscoter, daughter OF
Rev. C.. L. and Mrs. Benscoter, ex-
pired at the East Main Street M. E.
parsonage this morning at 9 o'clock.
The estinable young lady was aged
20 years.
Miss Benscoter took a two years.
course in the ladies' seminary at Bir-
mingham, Pa, then attended the high
school at Altoona for two years, and
spent two years in Dickinson semi
nary, Williamsport, in which institu-
ton she graduated in June, 1897. 1t
was while attending the latter institu-
ton that the young lady became ill.
After arriving home in this city, she
was compelled to go to bed. Her
health gradually failing, on October
20 she was taken to the M. E. hospit-
al, Philadelphia, where she submitted
to an operation on October 80. She
remained under treatment in that in
stitution unit! January a7, 1898,
when her case being considered hope
less she was brought to her home in
this city. From the time of her arriv-
al home, the invalid endured intense
suffering, her life ebbing slowly but
surely each succeeding day until she
yielded it to Him who gave it. She
was conscious until the last.
Miss Benscoter's life was a daily
demonstration of the strong christian
faith which buoyed the young woman
up in all her sufferings. She was
possessed of many admirable traits.
At the early age of 8 years she was
converted, and from that time until
the close of her earthly career she
gave repeated manifestations of the
Chrstlife that was imbedded in her
being. She was very ambitious, which
quality revealed itself in the energetic
efforts she put forth to acquire her
studies. Her scholarly mind and
Christian fortitude in the last days OF
her life were apparent in the CONVEX
sations with her parents, to whom she
spoke unreservedly and with yearn-
ing earnestness of the time when she
would be permitted to enter the
pearly gates. In health, her actions
exhaled kindness and love in the
sick room her utterances gave
glimpses of the bright hope that
strengthens true Christian character
when completely resigned and sub
missive to the will of the Heavenly
Father. Her sweet life will never be
forgotten by those who were nearest
to her.
Deceased is survived by her par
ents, her brother, Warren E., and her
sister, Helen Clarinda. The funeral
will take place Saturday afternoon.
Services will be conducted in the
East Main Street M. E. Church. The
remains will be exposed to view at
the house from o:3o a. m. until time
of service. Interment will be made
in Highland cemetery. The time of
the services will be announced later.
DemOcrak
The deceased had friends in Blooms
burg, whose inimacy with her in life
causes them to very much regret her
taking off.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05

PILEs-ITCHING, BLIND AND BLEED,
ING-CURED in three to six nights.
DR.. Agnew's Ointment is peerless in
curing. One application gives instant
relief 1t cures all itching and irri-
tating skin diseases, Chahng, Eczema,
etc. IS cents.-5I.
Sold by c. A. Klein.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
The Counts Mistake.

$50 Gwendolyn is not to marry the
count after all?''
"No, poor man. He tried to tell her
that her singing was something that
made one glad to live, and his pronun-
citation was so broken that she thought
he said it made one glad to leave, and
then she requested him to leave. In
dianapolis journal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05

The rarest autographs in the world
are probably Shakespeare's. Only seven
are claimed to exist--three signatures
to his will 1.-TWO of which are doubtfuD,
two to conveyances Of property, one in
the folio edition of ;s::is plays (doubtfuD
and one in translation Of Montaigne.
This last is in the British museum and
cost over 800 guineas.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05
TestinG Him.

Bagley-Do you recollect that s5 I
let you have about year ago?
Brace-Perfectly.
Bagley--That's good. I SEQ your
memory is all right How's your eys-
ightI-Harlem Life
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05

The largest gasometer in the world is
at East Greenwich. When full. it con-
tains 10, 900, 900 cubic feet of gas. 1t
weighs 2,200 tons, is 1870 feet high, 800
feet in diameter, requires 1900 tons of
coal 20 Ill is with gas and cost nearly
e40, 600.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-05

Gunpowder was invonted by Roger
Bacon, an Englishman who lived in
the thirteenth century, but Germany
claims the merit for several who lived
about 30 years after Bacon deoease,
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-06-03
A CAMEL'S TWO AvERsIoNs.
rho biE unRninIy Animal Hates
BLACK Ciothes md Does Not
Want to lie Touched,

Camel very frequently wear muzzlc,
male OF rope. and this leads 10 n mis-.
conception. says n writer in London
Sketch. IL Is merely to prevent them
s~natchiug at the trees along the way.
side. and not on account Of viciouspcss
Tor they arc the kindcst md most hu-
mane OF animals. and. I feel convinced.
npuld not find IL in their hearts In hurt
. fly. They are, moreover. not hnIf en-
o11ccited and overbcaring ma they
look.
Two great dislikcs they have. Ono
IL 70 people wearing black clothes and
the other to being jostlcd in the streets,
or even touched.
] once went 10 cnll on n beautiful
white camel, and. us ~ was SUNDAY
! put on n black coat. The camel ,opke ed
NJ me. edged away. and finally turned
his back n nc.
Not understanding. 7 insisted on mt.
ting him, whercupon he repeated tho
Fnfne antics and gave n deep prowl
hnd the driver explained thu, n camel
detests tombcr rnimcni, probably he.
cause he becomes accustomed TO ,hc
bournouscs OF the Arabs.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-06-03
GEEMANs GO TO THE OPERA.
They Are Mors Discriminating Crit
les ThAa the Ersaoh and
Dramas Are

The opera begins in Dresden at seven
o'clock and closes at ten. writes Lillian
Bell from Berlin to the Ladies' Home
Journal. The best seats arc absurdly
cheap, and whole families, whole
schools, whole communities, l should
say, go there together. Coming straight
from Paris, from the theatrical. viva
cious, enthusiastic French audiences.
this first German audience seemed seri-
Gus. thoughtful. npp%recintive, but I'M
enthusiastic. They use more Judgment
about applause than the French. They
never interrupt a scene, or even n mu-
steal phrase, with. misplaced applause.
Their appreciation is slow, but hearty.
and always worthily disposed. The
French are given to exaggernting an
emotion and to applauding IN eccen-
tricity. Even their subtlety is over
done. The German drama is cleaner.
the family tie is made much CT, sent.
ment is encouraged instead Cf bvi@u.
ridiculed as it too often is in America.
but the German point of view of Nuv.-
cans is quite rs much distorted rs tn
French. That statement H. severe b.!
true. It would be utterly iwrossib,e
for the American girl to he more en-
quisitely 'misunderstood Ithnn by
French and German men.