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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
SIGNAL SERVICE.
As Operated by the CaptaiL and
His Bride when They Were
Separated.

The captain had not been long mar
ried when he was ordered into camp.
The long-expected call had come at last.
To be sure, the camp was in plain sight
of the captains residence, which was
some mitigation of the hardship, but
then it was still separation, and to
tighten their terrible condition it was
arranged that the bereaved husband
and wife should signal to each other
often with handkerchiefs, says the Gin
cinnati Enquirer.
1t was on the second day that the
young wife was seated on the porch
reading.
/. "Tell me, Jane," she said, sis Arthur
still signaling?"
"Yes, ma'am," answered the maid.
Then keep waving your handker-
chief. want to finish this novel;"
AT the same moment, in camp, an Off
Ger frem an adjoining company stepped
up to the captain.
II say, old man." he asked, "why do
you keep that man out there all day
waving a handkerchief?"
"Oh, it's merely bit of signal code
practice for him." he answered. "Say,
I've got some good stuff inside"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
GOLF AND SCOTCH WHISKY.
The Growing Favor of the Game Over
Here increases the Sales OF
the Liquor.

"The game Of golf is responsible for
an increase of almost 200 per cent. in
the sale of Scotch whisky in this coun-
try" said liquor dealer. scotch
whisky is as essential to a golf player
as beer to a man at clam bake, and the
growing interest in golf is increasing
the sale of this commodity every year.
''In Scotland, where the game of golf
is said to have first been played, the
standard drink is Scotch whisky. OF
course. the American golfers have to
follow the Scotch fashions, and Scotch
whisky and Soda really delicious and
refreshing beverage-is the favorite
drink in the golf clubs in this country.
"In liquor trade paper, I saw, some
time ago, some figures on this subject.
Before the game of golf became so pop
ular in this country, the annual sale OF
Scotch whisky here was less than 80, 900
gallons. 1t is now said to be some
thing like 10000 gallons year. There
is well-grounded suspicion that good
deal of this whisky is distilled right in
this country and put into bottles bear
ing the labels of a Scotch firm, but l
think 1t would be impossible to prove
this"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
CHARACTER IN HATS.
Amateur Diyinations by Very Strange
Means Now the Fad in
Chicago.

Character reading is the very latest
fashionable diversion of social Chicago.
Not professional character reading. but
amateur divination by society people
themselves. The old style palmistry is
now supplemented by character read
ing by means of a study of persons
handwriting, of his facial lines and ex-
pressions, of his walk, of even the
clothes he wears, says the Chicago
Chronicle.
II can tell more about a woman's
personality by examining her shoes
and hat than by watching her face"
remarked a clever man the other day.
81 always look first at her shoes, then
at her skirt and finally at her hat. The
waist or coat l never remark at all.
Sometimes l am mistaken in the shoes,
because the pair may be new and stiff
and have not had chance to become
part of the individual.
But the hat is never debatable ter
ritory. Its shape, it's trimming, it's
size and the way it is placed on the
head all tell something of the owners
personality. a hat is to me the typical
straw that denotes the outlines of the
wearer's character"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
CHILDREN OF OLD MEN.
seventy Years No Bar to the Acquisi-
tion of Interesting Fam
lilies.

Cases of children being born to men
verging on the three score years and
ten, which are declared by the Psalmist
TO constitute the span of human life, are
by no means so rare as might be imag-
incd. says the New York World.
The present earl of Leicester. one OF
the only peers of the realm who wit
messed Queen Nictoria's coronation,
was II years of age at the time of the
birth of his youngest daughter, whose
eldest sister, aged 40, is already a
grandmother. The famous French Field
Marshal Pelissier, duke of Malakoff,
was 6s when he married, and his only
daughter, recently divorced from the
Polish Count Zambiska, was born a
year later. His fellow field marshals,
Canrobert and Bazaine, likewise mar
ried when they were in the neighbor-
hood of 40, and each left several chill
dren.
The father of Queen Isabella of Spain,
old King Ferdinand, was 6s at the time
of her birth, and 90 when her sister,
the late Duchess de Montpensier. made
her appearance in the world. Ancient
history furnishes many more such in
stances, among the most notable being,
perhaps, those of Cato, King David,
and last, but not least, Father Abra-
ham,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
Lippincott's Magazine for June, 1899.

The complete novel in the June issue of
"Lippincotts" is entitled Screen Withes, I"
by Jeanette ii. Walworth. This is n tale of
strong human interest, touching, as it does,
on one of the vital Questions of to-day. The
swapping Of the green withes of convention
and the inevitable awakening are told in a
forceful and interesting way, which is calcu-
lated to arouse the readers deepest sym
pathy.
A truly delightful article on "The Sum.
mer's Birds" by Dr. Charles c. Abbott, will
be found entertaining, as well as useful in
country walks this simmer. "Chemistry in
the Kitchen," by Albert G. Evans; "The
Samoan Feast of Pilaui," by Owen Hall; and
"Flres in Metallferous Mines" by John E.
Bennett, are all excellent and timely papers.
Shorter fiction is well represented by Dora
Read Goodale in "The Opera Glass, " and
by Rollo Ogden in "a Scientific Reader"
Theodore Gallagher contributes story OF
life in miners camp, called 'Father Nc
Grath," and Alice Miriam Roundy writes of
"King McDougal's Kitten"
The verse OF the month is from the pen OF
Margaret Gilman George Geraldine Mey.
| rick, and Eliza Calvert Hall.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
THE SWEEPER TEAM.
A Picturesque Spectacle Thnt Is stin
to BE Seen on City Horse
Car Lines.

The sweeper team, always the pride
of the car stable, is disappearing rap
idly now before the power sweeper of
the electric and cable roads; but when,
on occasion, it does appear on the few
remaining horse-equipped lines of the
city, it is made up in the same fine
style as ever. When the sweeper team
finally goes for good it will trot away
in good form and flying colors, says
the New York Sun.
Thus there was seen the other day on
city street car track over which horse
cars are still running a sweeper team
of eight white horses in perfectly
matched pairs and all good-sized, the
wheel pair big horses and the other
pairs tapering uniformly to the leaders,
but not running down very much, Just
enough to give the big team form and
style. The names of every set of har-
ness were painted red, not glaring
red nor muddy dark red-it was more
pinkish and transparent-and this mar
row band of bright color running
around the black collar of each white
horse looked neither gaudy nor out of
place; it gave the outfit just the proper
touch Of jauntiness.
The horses were all good steppers ana
they moved with a proper pride; the
big team was of course we'll driven. 1t
was not perhaps the greatest team ever
was, but it was something uncommon
slick
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
THE OLDEST JOB YET.
Hiring n Woman to Personntc CoI-
lection Agent in Need of
Heating.

"t Csed to work for collection
agency in one of the northern Cities"
said lady perfumery drummer to a
New Orleans Times-Democrat reporter,
"and my experience was tolerably en-
citing. My duty was to sit at a roll-top
desk in the Office and impersonate the
proprietor. Light work, did you say {!
just you wait. All day long men would
come in red-eyed to lick the boss
where's the fellow that sends out
these blackmailing letters?" was the
usual salutation. Then l would smile
sweetly and say: Tn the proprie-
tress; what can | do for you?' At that
the visitor would look dazed, mutter
things under his breath and walk Off.
Occasionally the real proprietor would
peep through an inside window to see
whether | was still alive, for | must adj
init our letters were calculated to give
u man the homicidal mania.
We'll, things went on all right for
nearly month. Then one day little
wiry chap walked in carrying a thick
cane. Where's the boss| he said.
gave the usual fairy story. Don't be-
lieve a word of it, he replied, still |
can't beat a woman He thought
awhile, and something in his eye made
me feel creepy. III have to take it out
of the fiXtures,' he said, finally, and,
upon my word, he broke up every
blessed thing in the shop. He did it
quickly and Systematically, and you
never saw such an awful ruin! yelled
murder, but ii did no good, and he went
right ahead. AS wind-up he smashed
the chandelier and bade me polite
good-day. When the proprietor came
in he had n fit. 1t was after that went
into the perfumery business. The
work is harder, but it is much less try
ing on ones nerves."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
FRENCHMEN DON'T TRAVEL.
necausc They Have an Innate Horror
of Anything Like ''Rough-
Ing It,"

NJ. Bonvalto, the distinguished ex-
piorer, is constantly eXhorting his fell
low-countrymen to travel, and his APP
peals are once more leading to re-
view of the reasons which render the
average Gaul so averse to adventure
beyond his own frontier, says the Lon
don Telegraph. How does it happen,
it is asked, that so few, even of the
younger generation of Frenchmen, dis
play any inclination to see the world,
although at their age, many Anglo
SaXons have already been round it?
Two main explanations for these
stay-at-home propensities are volun-
teered. One is that people in France
rarely trouble themselves to learn for
eign languages, so that they are like
fish out of water when they go abroad.
Another is that they are absolutely ig-
norant of the practical side of travel
and have little idea of the articles that
they require or of the best mode OF
fitting themselves out for long jour
ney. In short, they are not handy or
enterprising and have horror of any
thing in the shape of "roughipg it,
as the saying goes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
BARRELS OF SAMPLES.
Over Two Hundred Thousand Sample Bot
ties Sent Free by Mail.

By special arrangement with the manufac.
turers of that justly famous Kidney medi.
cine, DIR. David Kennedy's Favorite Rene
dy, the readers Of the COLUMBIAN are ena.
bled to obtain trial bottle and pamphlet of
valuable medical advice absolutely free, by
simply sending their full name and postoffice
address to the DIR. DAVID KENNEDY
CORPORATION, Rondout, N. V, and
mentioning this paper.
OF course this involves enormous ex-
pense to the manufacturers, but they have
received so many grateful letters from those
who have been benefited and cured of the
various diseases of the kidneys, liver, blad-
der and blood, rheumatism, dyspepsia and
chronic constipation, and all weaknesses pc.
cular to women, that they willingly send
trial bottles to all sufferers.
Upon investigation it was found that OIL
per cent. Of those who had used the trial
bottle had received such benefit from it that
they purchased large sized bottles of their
druggists.
1t matters not how sick you are or how
many physicians have failed to help you,
send for a trial bottle of this great medicine
it costs you but postal card, and benefit
and cure will most certainly be the result.
Put some urine in glass tumbler and let
it stand "a hours if it has sediment or if
it is pale or discolored, milky or cloudy,
stringy or ropy, your kidndys or bladder are
in bad condition. DIR. David Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy speedily cures such danger
Gus symptoms as pain in the back, inability
to hold urine, burning scalding pain in
passing it, frequent desire to urinate, espec-
tally at night, the staining of linen by your
urine and all the unpleasant and dangerous
effects on the system produced by the use of
whiskey, wine or beer. DIR. David Kenne-
dy's Favorte Remedy is sold at all drug
stores at SI.oo for large bottle; six bottles
for $500.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
The Length OF Human Life

According to NJ. /. Holl Schooling, of
Brussels, says Cosmos, there is an old
rule for finding the length of mans
lie II the present age lies between
IL and Sc years. This is the rule: Sub
tract the present age from Sc and divide
the remainder by 2; the result will give
the number Of years you have yet to
live. This old rule was discovered by
the mathematician De Moivre, who emf
grated to England from France in 1865
and became a member of the Royal So
ciety. The curves given by Mr.. School
ing are interesting to examine. A first
diagram shows the chance that every
man has of living one year longer than
his present age. At birth this chance
is to 1; at 5 years, 1ls to /; at 10, 5l2
to !; at is, BAT; at 20, 207; at 25, 1856;
at 30, 100; at 35, OF; at 40, 7s. etc. Mr..
Schooling affirms from his calculations
that of 1000 individuals of 60 years, 500
will live to be 70, 100 to so years and
II to 90; while of 1000 nonagenarians.
will reach their hundredth year. We
may add that for men of 65, the average
expectation of life Is 10 1-3 years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
ADDS PI TO HIS LUNCH.
The Tardy ssburbnpite's Notifying
Struggle with the Restless
Paper Parcel.

The man in the suburbs had his lunch
neatly tied in a square paper parcel
which did not look it's function. He
started from the house in orderly pre-
cision, says the Chicago Chronicle, but
had barely turned the corner when he
stubbed his toe and dropped the unsus.
picious bundle to the sidewalk, split.
ting the yellow paper and depositing
sandwiches and cake on the ground.
Then the train whistle sounded its
warning note, and in despair the tor
tured suburbanite crammed cake and
bread promiscuously into his pockets
and started on a run for the station.
He caught the last platform of the last
car and hurriedly sank intoa seat When
the conductor asked for his ticket he
managed TO extract the small paste
board without showing the contents of
one pocket, but tugging deep into the
other for his handkerchief to wipe his
heated brow, out flew GRUMPY bread
and stringy ham and cake that looked
as if the frosting had been nibbled by
mice. The passengers smiled. They
could not have been human and done
otherwise. But the man made no al
lowances for uncomfortable risibilities.
He glared at the offending men and
women, savagely thrust back the bread
and battered cake into his pocket and
enveloped his burning countenance in
the cooling pages of the morning paper.
But there was a look of flint in his
eye that spoke the finish of the home.
concoctpd lnpcbeop
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
Do song-BIrds Predict stormst

A writer in the Monthly Weather Re-
view AYERS that for a considerable time
in advance of great storm song birds
cease their music, and that this may
be taken as an indication of the storms
approach. For 48 hours before the be-
ginning of a series OF severe storms
in northern Illinois last summer not
n sound was heard from the throats
of the thousands of birds which inhabit
that part of the country, and whose mu-
sic, In fair weather. Is one of the charms
al the district.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
We inia1e rne roreigncr.

From Plymouth to Calais there is 4
chain of decayed seaports and idle ship
yards--a chain of rotten wharves, tum-
Sle-down piers, shipless harbors and
old sailors, says II. Phelps Whitmarsh.
in Atlantic. All speak eloquently Of
great carrying trade, of great foreign
shipping interest, of Il great marine
power-that was. The foreigner. when
he looks at all this for the first time,
and realizes what has been lost, stands
aghast, and finds himself wondering
whether the high estimate set upon the
American people as an energetic busi-
ness nation is not, after all, an unmer-
tied one.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
Jury Llst-For June Term, 1899.

SPECIAL COURT, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1899, =
Benton boro.--Clark Fidler.
Berwick--Henry T. Traugh, Louis J.
Townsend, w. II. Martz, Chas. Brader, John
l. Jones, Chas llippensteel.
Bloomsburg-ChaIles Terwiliger, Ale
Derr, Vim. L. Meyer, John Mourey, Eli
Jones.
Briarcreek- S Ash.
Catawissa boro --E. b. Guie, ID. f. Feg-
ley, Chas. Z. Smith.
Catawissa twp VIM. Wilmer.
Centralia-John Hnckle, NJ. J. McDon-
nell.
Centre-John Coleman, Charles Greasy.
Franklin--Frank Kern.
Fishingcreek- A. Eveland.
Jackson-Charles Coleman.
Madison--Erastus Hendershott.
Main--Clark Beagle,
Mifflin--Rder w. Smith, Daniel A. Hess,
Mt. Pleasant Whitenight, Henry
Crawford.
Pine--Robert Hileman.
Roaringcreek--Wm. Beaver.
Scott. T. Grimes.
Sugarloaf-James Pennington, Edward J.
Albertson, Geo. w. Roberts.
TRIAL LIST FOR JUNE TERM,
Susan Cooper VS.. Margaret Averal ct. al.
Susan Cooper VS., Daniel Miller.
William Hoffman, Admir-. VS.. William
Hopper and Mary Hopper.
Howard Snyder VS.. James Magee end.
Charles ID Hamlin VS.. Norman L Hamlin.
David Shuman VS.. Lehigh & Wilkes Barre
Coal Co.
David Shuman VS.. Lehgh & Wilkes Barre
Coal Co.
David Shuman VS.. The Cross Creek Coal
Co.
David Shuman VS.. Charles M Dodson &
Co.
David Shuman VS.. Geo. II Meyers & Co.
William c Sponsler VS.. William Walp,
Admir-. et al.
7 B Robinson VS.. Benjamin Karns ct. al.
Frank Pursel VS. John X Grotz.
Anglo American & l. Association VS..
James Magee end.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life AVN,

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic full OF life, nerve and vigor, take No.To
Bac, the wonder-worlSer that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC or u. Cure guaran-
teed. Booklet and sample free Address
sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
Aids the Circulation.

Nine tons of pennies are taken from
Che London slot machines each week,
the firm which runs the "mutoscope-
,vHaging $500 alone.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25

and tender little juicelets for the chill
dren, are all right, but papa and "the
boys" want good, big, juicy steak,
roast or chop when business or school
duties are over, and we can cater to
them all. Our stock Of prime meats is
unexcelled for quality, and we send
them home in fine shape.
j. T.. KEIFER.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
Postal Cards.

More than 1000 different kinds of
postal cards have been issued during
the last 26 years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-25
soldiery of France ma ,;ermanx.

Twenty-Five years ago France was
able to put as many soldiers In the field
as Germany. To-day 1t falls short by
about 100000 men,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
WIND CITY is GONE.
scourGe of Scurvy 0epopu1ates an
Alaskan Mining Settlement.

Alaskan Mining Settlement.
The news was brought to Seattle,
Wash, by the steamer City of Topeka
that Wind City, on the Wind river, the
third south branch of the Peel, was a
scuryy camp during the winter and that
score of miners have pcrished. 1t was
late in January when the last report was
received from the pest camp by miners
crossing the Rocky Mountains on the
way to Dawson. These finally got
through with the news. They did not
have q list of the dead, but the following
were not expected to live when the mes
senger left: DR.. J. B. Mason, Chicago;
W. c. Ouch, San Francisco; DIR. Martin
dentist, Chicago; Edward Harris,
Mitchell.
All were very sick with the dread arc
tic disease. Harris had TO have a leg
amputated from freezing, and Mitchell
was suffering from broken leg The
miners were the only ones left in Wind
City. They sent out an Indian to secure
assistance. He said the men were unable
to care for themselves, and that none ex-
pected TO live.
Wind City was started last September,
when about seventy-five miners who had
been trying to reach Dawson over the
Edmonton trail gathered there and built
winter quarters. A number OF substan-
tia cabins went up, and when winter
settled down Wind City became lively
place The whirl of social affairs was
varied and interesting. For four months
the miners at Wind City had just as good
a time as tie miners in any other part of
AIaSka Nnfhinv wont serioVslv wrong
until one morning several of the Ini:4ers
were struck down with the scrrvy. They
were followed by several others. The
pestilence seemed . strike the camp all
at once. Soon ha'f of the seventyiiye
people there were stricken with the dis
ease. Then came the undoing of Wind
City. Those of the miners who could
move loaded their sleds and turned their
cabins over to the less fortunate. With
words of good cheer all round, parties set
off, one by one, eyel the snow and ice.
Death helped TO dcpopulate Wind City
The scurvy seemed to be particularly
fatal The medicine which Mr.. Mason
had was soon exhausted and when he
was stricken down himself he had moth
ing left to take. There were no yegeta
bles in the camp and no source from
which fresh ones could be secured. There
is graveyard at Wind City where the
bodieS OF fifteen or twenty men lie in
testim ony of the terrible price some had
10 pay for gold. In the outlying cabins
several dead men have nothing but frozen
blankets for their collins. They died af-
ter all the well men left the camp, and
there is no one to bury them.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12

Told In a Few Linen.

Mr. Fife and daughter killed by train
at Clinton, Mass.
Judge refused to quash indictments
against WardneF rioters.
Jasper Temple, Tompkinsville, KY,
killed by man named Atkins.
Eight persons were injured in a wreck
on the r. & W, near Renfrew, Pa.
Steamer Rio de Janeiro brought $453,-
900 of opium to Frisco from Hong Kong.
Solomon bernstein, Railway, N. J., had
smoonshine still" in fine residence.
Captured by the oft:cers.
Arthur Hauser, now in Mexico, Is
wanted in Toledo. lie is said to have six
wives,
The posse which has been trailing the
train robbers in Montana has given up
the chase.
While drilling a gas well at Chatham,
Ohio, an arrow point was found at the
depth Of 1852 feet.
yanderbilts have secured control Of the
Boston and Albany Railroad, which gives
them an opening into New England.
Frank Cook. colored, swung to eternity
in Birmingham, Ala. Killed conductor.
British gunboat Buzzard near st.
Johns, y. f., damaged by running into an
iceberg.
Thos. z. Cane, Washington, was ap-
pointed deputy comptroller OF the cur
rency.
The 400 girls of the Richmond, Va,
cigar. factory Who vent ON strike have
returned to cork.
Five hr.adred employees Of the Maryland
Steel Company, Baltimore, are striking
for nine hours a day.
Charles Stalnaker, West Union, w.
Va, attempted suicide because Mrs. Min
ME Eagan, married woman, had refused
him kiss.