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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-12-15

Miss Laura Lykens was last week
admitted to practice law in Oklahoma.
She is the only Indian woman lawyer
in America. Miss Lykens is a half
blood Shawnee and graduated at the
Indian Industrial; School, of Carlisle,
Pa.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-12-15

many democratic Senators. Already
the republicans are saying that Sena-
tor Vest will not be allowed to speak
on his resolution in open session, be-
cause speech in favor of the resolu-
ton will necessarily be against the
ratification of the treaty of peace and
must be made in secret session.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-12-15
Christmas DON is.

Don't give a Christmas present
grudgingly.
Don't go in debt for Christmas
presents.
Don't give with the expectation of
return.
Don't figure out what SO and so are
to give you.
Don't overlook a real friend and
hunt up flash friend instead.
Don't give glft as an "investment.
Don't deposit a gift in a bank of
gratitude and expect 90 per cent
interest on it all the year round.
Don't think you are the only pebble
on the Christmas Beach.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-12-15

Mr.. Mckinley did a clever and
polite act when he invited Gen. los.
Wheeler and his daughter to accom-
pany the Presidential party to the At
lanta Peace Jubilee, next week.
"Fighting Joe' accepted the invita-
ton.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-12-15

Although Representative Sulzer, OF
N. Y, offered resolution providing
tor Congressional investigation of the
conduct of the war, and is member
of the committee on Military Affairs,
to which it was referred, he doesn't
expect favorable action on the resolu-
ton from that Committee, the mem
bers of which are under too many OBJ
legations to Secretary Alger, for per-
sonal favors granted in making army
appointments.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-12-15
BLOOMSBURY DIVISION.

Connections at Rupert with rhiladelI Dla
Reading Railroad for Tamanend, Tan aqua.
northumberland with p. & f. Div. p. a. X. LOT
Harrisburg, Lock gaven, Emporium WaTreR'
Cory and Erie.
Scranton Pa.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
Comment From ST.. Petersburg.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. at is an
nounced that N. Kuril Aiexieff has
been invested with full powers ito pro-
mote the development of the CONNER
cial relations between Russia and Ko-
rea in competition with British and
Japanese influences and to aid in fur
thering the prompt construction Of the
projected Orthodox church at Seoul"
The Novoe Vremya, commenting up
on the respective positions of Mr.. Nc
Leavy Brown and NJ. Alexieff under the
compromise effected by an arrange
ment according to which the two will
work the Korean customs together,
says:
Nobody will regard Mr.. Brown as
the representative Of the British flag
He is a mere official in the service OF
the Korean government, directing the
customs NJ. Alexieff will attend in a
higher sphere. as adviser to the Korear
ministry Of finance"
The Novosti says:
ANY serious conflict between Eng.
land and another power would be GER
tain to excite remonstrances from Greai
Britains Asiatic subjects. The only
course open to Great Britain is fully t'
maintain the status quo in Asia and e
preserve friendly relations with Rus
sia."
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
nIncI, Art in Entlnr.

Although the culinary has in the last
30 years made rapid strides, there is a
certain sameness about dinner-parties
which, to the habitual diner-out, comes
but little short of dull monotony. A
lady in Kensington originated the idea
of giving every year a memorial dinner
on the anniversary of her husbands
death. The dining-room was draped for
the occasion in mauve and black.
The tablecloth was of mauve silk, and
the only decorations used were yiolets.
The ladies were gowned either in black
or mauve, and the footmen were
dressed in black breeches and coats
and mauve silk stockings. On either
side of the hostess sat two black
poodles, excellently clipped after the
approved French fashion, with mauve
colored bows on their necks. The
menu was remarkable for the absence
of any color in the yiands, save mauve,
the rest being either black or white.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
A WONDERFUL AcHIEvEMENT.
The Method by Which Deaf ana
Mind hoy Was Taught

The Method by which "A Deaf ana
Mind hoy Was Taught.
William 4. Ellis writes a paper for
The st. Nicholas on "Helen Keller and
Tommy Stringer," telling how the we'll
known blind girl secured means for the
education of little boy similarly af-
hicted. BY personal appeals to the pub
Dc Helen raised a sufficient sum to send
little Tommy Stringer to the kinder
garten for the blind at Jamaica Plain,
Mass. Mr.. Ellis says of his education in
this institution;
"Thither, on April 10. 1891, came
Baby Tom," as Helen called this five
year-old child. II was a pitiful spec
tacle that greeted his Boston friends
when the boy was brought 60 the kin
dergarten. His life had been spent
mostly in bed Git was the easiest place
TO care for him), and he could not
walk at all. nor even stand with con-
fidence. OF signs for Indicating his
wants he had none. He was rs little
beast, tearing and destroying his own
clothes. and all else destructible that
vas within his reach. His temper and
stubbornness were fearful.
To the appalling task of giving the
first rays of light to this child, Helen
and her teacher set themselves, until Il
permanent instructor could be secured.
With almost inconceivable patience and
love, kind friends began the education
OF this untutored mind. The lessons of
discipline, regular habits, and obe-
dience had to precede and accompany
the teaching of manual speech.
How could this child, who had not
the remotest conception OF any sort of
language, be taught to talk?
The method simply stated, was this:
Every time that bread was given him
the letters "b-r-e-a-d" were formed i'm
the manual alphabet on the boys own
fingers, and also in his hand, by the
fingers of his teacher. Again and again
this was repeated thousands Of times
1t was slow work. The mind had lain
too long without knowledge 70 receive
easily the idea of speech. Even after
the teachers were sure that Tom under
stood the definite connection between
the word bread" and those finger mo-
tions. he refused to use his knowledge
because of his strange perversty. Az
last, after nine months of teaching and
waiting. the little fingers voluntarily
spelled 'b-r-e-a-d," and the beginning
had been made.
Other words soon followed, and ere
long the mystery Of speech was com
pretended. Tom took his place il
the kindergarten classes and learned
all that was taught the other boys
Reading, writing, arithmetic, gym
nastics and other studies were un
dertaken; and to-day, in almost al
respects, save such as are entirely de
pendent upon eye and ear, he is as wei
educated as the average boy Of hi
| years.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
THREATENING kHARruM.
French Expeditions Arrive There and
Regiment Is Ordered From England.

French Expeditions Arrive There ana n
Regiment Is Ordered From England.
CAIRO, Jan. "a battalion OF the
Cameron Highlanders has been ordered
to be in readiness to ascend the Nile
fortnight hence.
The Cairo correspondent OF The Daily
Mail says that it is believed French ex-
petitions have arrived quite close to
Khartum. According to the same au-
thority the British force will be COM
manded by Major General Sir Francis
Grenfell.
The Rome correspondent Of The Daily
Mail says:
Il learn from private sources that the
Italian foreign Office has received infor-
nation that Emperor Menelik has sum-
moned the Abyssnians to arms in sup
port Of French enterprises Ia equatorial
Africa and especially the plans of the
Russian Count Leontieff. governor Of
the equatorial provinces Of Abyssinia.
"Menelik himself is setting out at the
head of an army, and It is believed the
movement masks an expedition against
the Anglophile Ras Mangascia, whose
province, Tigre. the negus wishes to an
mex. / also hear that Menelik, calcu-
lating upon the remissness Of the Ital-
ian government, purposes an advance
toward the coast"
The Daily Mail, commenting editorial
ly on the foregoing dispatches from
Rome and Cairo, suggests that the
Marchand expedition has gone beyond
Fashoda and reached Khartum. 1T is
impossible" says The Daily Mail, for
the expedition to have found its way
there, and it can only. have arrived in
alliance with the khalifa. thus creating
a very serious situation"
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
LIeHrNINe.s STRANGE FREAK
How 1t Tore n Scottish Army Omcer's
Clothing to Fragments.

Clothing to Fragments.
A most remarkable example of the
terrible effects of a lightning stroke
is described IN the London Graphic.
Maj. Jameson, formerly of the Scot
tish Rifles, accompanied by his father
and mother, went into a meadow to
pick mushrooms. Mai. jameson was
some distance in front. and there was
h single clap of thunder and flash of
lightning, which frightened Mrs. jane
son, and she and her husband went into
wood and returned TO the house, ex-
pecting that Maj. jameson would fol-
low.
About half an hour later Maj. Jane
son was found by a game keeper, ~
ing on his face in the field quite dead.
Around him, in a radius of several yards.
were his clothes and boots, which had
been torn and scattered about in an
extraordinary manner. The lightning
appeared to have struck Maj. Jane
son on the right side OF the head, tear
'ng the cap he was wearing TO pieces,
and burning his hair off, 1t then
passed inside his collar, down the front
Of his body and both legs, into his boots,
which were torn to atoms, and then
passed into the ground. tearing hole
about IS inches in circumference and
thpee inches deep.
The deceased mans collar was torn
into 100 pieces, none larger than six
pence, the front OF his jacket was rent
into ribbons, and the jacket and under
TEST literally torn 10 shreds, and the
lnickerboclSers he was wearing were
stripped Off and scattered on the
ground Maj. Jameson's stockings and
CATERS were similarly torn in pieces
and on the boots the lightning had re-
markable effect.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
From Poverty to a Title.

PORTLAND, Or, Jan. S.-Clarence
Danvers Davenport, a young English
man who has been leading a hand to
mouth existence here since August, has
become a baronet. He received a cable-
gram announcing the death of his uncle,
Sir Richard Danvers Of Danvers Court,
Lincolnshire, England, and informing
him that he had succeeded to the estate
and title. Money for the trip to Eng
land was telegraphed him by American
agents of the estate. and he left to take
possession of his inheritance. Daven-
port drifted into Portland last autumn.
He had been in Chicago, San Francisco
and a number of other American cities.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
Fahe dynamite For EIi Shaw.

CAMDEN, N. j., Jan. 3.--Prosecutor
Jenkins yesterday had an expert exam
inc into a supposed dynamite bomb re-
ceived by Eli Shaw, the accused MUIR
derer Of his mother and grandmother.
The contents Of the package were pro-
nounced to be a common dry battery
stuffed with manganese dioxide and
sal ammoniac, a harmless combination.
Mr.. Jenkins states his belief that the
package was sent to arouse public SYM
pathy for Shaw. He adds that he has
no doubt Shaw expected its receipt and
pretended to be much frightened.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
MAYeRY DESPERATE.
The Imprisoned Embezzler Makes Vain
Attempt at Suicide.


SAVANNAH, Jan. 3.-P. II. Maybry,
the embezzling agent of the Southern
Express company at Brunswick, who
was captured near here Saturday has
attempted suicide in his cell in the police
station. Maybry was found lying in a
pool of blood on the floor, his clothing
soaked and his hands and face red with
blood. He was unconscious and was at
first thought to be dead. He had opened
an artery in his wrist with penknife.
He was taken to the City hospital,
where he is kept under close guard. The
physicians say he will recover in a day
or two.
Before he became too weak to move
Maybry smeared his open hand with his
blood and stamped the impression of the
hand on the wall of his cell. Under
meath he wrote in blood with his finger,
Southern Express company, Dec. 20,
1897" the date he committed the rob-
berry, and below that he drew a skull
and crossbones in blood.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
CHINESE QUICK CALCULATOR.
Mathematics in the Shop of Coll
OrRdO CuriO Dealer.


Mathematics in the shop of n COL
OrRdO CuriO Dealer.
Charlie Chan, a Chinese curio dealer
of Colorado Springs, Col, is a mathe-
maticianwhose ability to solve the most
intricate of problems with almost
lightning capacity, by use Of a Chinese
abacus, has just come to light, says the
Boston Transcript. Some eastern tour
lists made purchases of Chan the other
day aggregating S3s9.s2. These pur-
chases ranged from cents to S35. The
Chinaman took his rack and before the
tourists were aware he was counting
had the correct result.
This excited the purchasers to ask
questions about the mode Of calcula-
tion, and to give Chan sums to do. The
party found that the merchant from the
orient had marvellous talent in hand
ling figures. College professors were
told of the prodigy, and to satisfy them
selves went to his shop to put him to a
test. Problems, ponderous and in
tricate. were given TO him, but he
proved equal to them all and displayed
a dexterity in handling his beads and
an accuracy in computation that caused
the professors to pronounce him a
wonder. Chan is regarded as the
wealthiest Chinaman in Colorado and is
a successful business man of 35years Of
age He proudly traces his ancestry
back for 1000 years. His musical talent
is also remarkable.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
HnndbiiIs AT HercuInneum.

It is probably the general impression
that posters and handbills are modern
Inventions, but il has just been discov-
ered that the ancient Romans practiced
this method of advertising. In digging
Mt Herculaneum there was brought to
light a pillar covered with bills, one on
top Of another The paste used 10 stick
them was made Of gum arabic. The
bills, when separated and examined
were found TO be programmes and an
nouncements of public meetings, and
even election proclamations.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
49, rhnt Grom TInten.

This is the asofar, which grows in the
southern districts of Nubia. It yields a
gum known to dealers as gedaref, OF
senaar gum. DR.. Schweinfurt tells us
that when the wind blows among its
branches it produces a soundyery much
like that of a flute. These musical
properties are due to the fact that the
base Of the thorns, with which its
branches are plentifully provided, is
perforated by an insect in search Of the
sticky sap. The wind blowing in these
little holes transforms the thorns into
miniature flutes.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
A Curiour superstItion.

Among the superstitions Of the Sem
eca Indians was one most beautiful one.
When a young maiden died they i'm
prisoned a young bird until it first be-
gan to try its powers Of song, and then.
loading it with caresses and messages.
they loosed its bonds over her grave. in
the belief that it would not fold its
wings nor close its eyes until it had
flown to the spirit land and delivered its
precious burden OF affection to the
loved and lost one.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
nIiners Drowned Like nats.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Jan. S.-A dis
patch from Guanajuta, Mexico, says
that the San Puerta ceal mine near
there was suddenly flooded with water
from an underground river, and 30 min
ers were drowned. The men were at
work in one Of the lower levels of the
mine. There was no suspicion that an
underground river existed anywhere
within the vicinity of the mine, although
that portion of the level was exceed
ingly damp.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
PROFESSIONS IN THE WEST.
In the Good old Days Man Had
Several.


In the Good old Days Man Had
Several.
In the life of a modern business com
munity a man must beware of too much
wisdom, says the Chautauquan. The
specialist is the man who succeeds and
having once set his hand to an occupa-
tion one dare never leave IL under pen
alty,of failure in what he has chosen as
his life work. In the west all this was
different. Versatility was a necessity.
The successful man must know how TO
do many things. The gleanings Of any
one field of activity were too small to
afford a living Of themselves. This fact
was accepted by the citizens Of the
country, sometimes with grim humor
which marked the west.
A young lawyer in a western town
had out a sign which read: John
Jones, attorney-at-law. Real estate and
insurance. Collections promptly attend
ed to at all hours of the day or night.
Good Ohio cider for sale at five cents a
glass" A storekeeper had on his win
dow the legend: 'Wal paper and mar
riage licenses" thus announcing two
commodities for which there was a
very small demand. One Of the prom
inent citizens of such a town was q
gambler, farmer, a fighter and a
school teacher all in one. There seemed
to the minds of the inhabitants of the
country nothing incongruous in this
mixing up Of occupations, it being
taken for granted that q man would
endeavor to make q living in the ways
for which he seemed best fitted.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
BRITAIN BEGINS WAR
Rumor That She Has Fired
Upon a Russian Ship.
ENGLISH ADMIRAL THE ACCRESSOR.
England Wants China to Declare Port
Arthur Free Port-Daiiy Graphic
Denies Any Russo-German
Entente In China.

LONDON, Jan. "A sensation has
been caused by a rumor from Ply
mouth that the English admiral has
fired on a Russian man-of-war in Chi
nese waters. Nothing Is known of the
matter at the foreign office or the ad-
miralty.
The morning papers publish also the
statement that England is pressing
China to declare Port Arthur a free
port 1t is supposed that the presence
Of British warships there is intended to
insure freedom of access for trading
vessels.
The Daily Graphic claims to have
authority for the assertion that no
agreement exists between Russia and
Germany with regard to China; that
Germany occupied Kiao Chau without
Russia's cogni1ance and that the occu-
patton annoyed the advisers Of the czar.
A dispatch to The Times from Pekng
says,
THE arrangements with Russia for
the guaraneee loan are actively proceed
ing, and, when completed, the Russians
on the plea of supervising the collection
of the land tax, will obtain the right to
enter every yamen in the empire
The st. Petersburg correspondent Of
The Times says:
'Tt is reported that China has given
consent to Russian surveys for rail-
way to Port Arthur as a branch of the
Russian Transmanchuria railway and
not a mere extension of the Chinese
Tientsin railway. 1t is also stipulated
that the route is to avoid Mukden, the
capital city of the Chinese dynasty"
Mukden is the capital Of the province
of Leaotong, Manchuria and is about
$50 miles northeast of Pekin. 1t was
the last residence Of the Manchu SOW
ereigns before their conquest Of China
and is the place where the early em-
perors Of the reigning dynasty are bur-
led
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
Earth rremors In New Hampshire.

EXETER, N. H., Jan 3.-Vibrations
of the earth, following a long noise as
If of a great explosion a long way OF,
awoke inhabitants of this town yester-
day morning. The noise was two or
three seconds long and the tremblings
of the ground much longer. Houses
were shaken, windows ratified and
much commotion indoors was caused,
sufficient in most cases to awaken the
soundest sleepers. Similar reports come
from other towns above here.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
The Clipperton incident.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jam 3.-The
American flag that is reported 70 have
been hauled down by the Mexican ma
rines at Clipperton island is one that
was taken from this city by Paul r.
Henning, an employee of the Oceanic
Phosphate company. 1t was hoisted
above the coral rim by Henning and
two other San Franciscans, Joseph f.
Moore and Charles A. Johnson by di-
rection Of the company that has for
several years been marketing the phos-
pilates. The American claimants VIII
ask their government to protect their
rfubfa
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
Ranld Prorre.. Of n Church.

BOSTON, Jan. 3.-The First church Of
Christ (ScientisO Of this city has
achieved the remarkable distinction of
taking into membership in the past u
months nearly 1000 persons. OF this
number more than 1,4OO We're admitted
in July last. and nearly 2,40O with the
new year. The total membership Is now
about 10000, and it is said TO be the
largest individual church in the United
States Of any denomination.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
BURNING WOMEN.
Satisfying the Savage Human In
stinct of Cruelty.


stinct of Cruelty.
The horrible punishment of burning
women alive seems to have existed in
Saxon, England, but perhaps only iD
the case of slaves, says the Athenaeum.
Under the Norman rulers, any woman,
bond or free, who killed her husband,
was burned alive, and the same punish-
ment for this crime, and also for high
treason, and even for coming and other
minor offenses, continued or arose from
time to time through the second and
third periods until It was abolished by
act of parliament in 1890, the last actual
execution of this kind having, however,
taken place six years earlier. The whip
ping of women for various offenses con-
tinued even later; public whipping
was not abandoned until 1917, and cases
of private whipping occurred rs late as
1920.
There can be no doubt, we think, that
The savage human instinct OF cruelty
had something to do with the barbarous
punishments above mentioned. As the
old Roman public longed for the
carnage of the circus, as the Spanish
populace crowded to the auto-da-fe in
the fourishing days of the inquisition.
so the lower (perhaps not only the low
er) strata Of English nationality took
delight in witnessing tortures which.
in all probability. were devised and
kept up partly for their entertainment.
Mr.. Cleveland tells us that Judge
Jeffreys, in sentencing a woman to be
whipped, is reported to have said;
"Hangman, charge you TO pay par
ticular attention to this lady. Scourge
her till her blood runs down. II is
Christmas time, a cold time for madam
to strip; see that YOU burn her shoul-
ders thoroughly"
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
rnrl.er nrdars a CrnI.er.

LONDON, Jan. 3.-According TO a dis
patch to The Times from Constantine
pie, an imperial trade has been issued
instructing the admiralty TO apply to
the Elswick works (Baron William
Armstrong's) for estimates on specifca-
tions of a first class armored cruiser.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
An rnrlneer AsphysIated.

FALL RIVER, Mass. Jan. S.-Timo-
thy Shay, an engineer at the Fail River
Gas works, was overcome by gas while
in the cellar and died later from the
effects Of the accident. lie leaves a
large family.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
wnlnntt After MoCoY.

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Tom O'Rourke
after his return from Chicago posted
with The Police Gazette a certified
check for $1,000 as a guarantee for a
match he wishes to arrange between
Joe Walcott and Kid Mccoy. O'Rourke
says. ANY time Mccoy feels inclined
to do business he can cover the $4,000
which have posted, and he will find me
an easy man 10 make an agreement
with
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
pestruelire zinc In nrooklyp.

NEW YORK, Jan. S.-Fire destroyed
the five story brick building at 1855 At
cupied by Arthur Thompson as a mat
tress and furniture upholstery manu-
factory. The loss on this building and
contents amounted to $4,000. The ad-
joining building and contents were dam
aged to the extent of $1,000.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
Firht stn1 In prnrress.

LONDON, Jan. S.-AIr. George Barnes.
secretary Of the Amalgamated Society Of
Engineers, in the course Of a speech at
Lambeth. London, this evening. de-
clared that the men had plenty of funds
and intended to continue the fight.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03

Chester; George Russell, the colored
fighter of New Castle, win try TO stop
Billy Diggs, of Pittsburg; Midget Glynn
of Wilmington, will also try conclu-
sions with I'D. Lenny.
Evening journal., 1898-01-03
Portuguese Parliament opened.

LISBON. Jan. Skiing Carlos person.
ally opened the cortes. The speech from
the throne promised a budget surplus
and declared the governments inten-
ton to convert the external debt and to
conclude various international CONNER
cial conventions.