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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

tura non saltatf-nature never made d
break or pause 1t shows no chasms any.
where in its majestic course.
Man, though, for his convenience or pleas.
ure, or profit, establishes times and sea.
sons. Thus he says the first day of Jan
uary shall be termed the beginning of
New Year, The Romans, with an acute
poetic sense that pervaded all their
work, elected to have the dawn of the year
show in March--the first spring month,
when nature kisses new life into everything
and robes the earth in garments of many
colors.
Man must have his pauses and starting
points. 1t is not so much a question of
sentiment as Of necessity that dates and
seasons be fixed. The success ot business
life depends upon it, and a nation with.
out a chronology is "A people without his
tory. Each year must hold its own events,
nor may one trench upon the other.
Leaving this line of suggestion, one is
led to the thought that these year posts of
mans time offer opportunity for reflection
upon what has been and what may be. Each
New Year day tells not only of the new
BIRTH but also of the year that is sepul
tured. Here are presented in brave con.
trast life and death. As the old passes out
other animate things. "The king is dead; /;
hive the king"
So one lesson after another may be
learned, if one be but willing pupil, What
the memories of the just dead year? What
the sins, the errors, the follies? What
the good one did, and what progress in the
knowledge that is lasting? All! the year is
gone gone to one and all OF us; but the
impression remains. These years one by one
are character builders, each adding to the
other until the mortal changes to the i'm
mortal!
Looking backward, what is the reckon
ing? Whatever most of good, or of i'll, the
New Year is at hand. Let the accounting
be Just, that one may be ADLER to meet
Justly and righteously the things that are
before. One should recall the errors Of
the past, not that he may mourn over them,
but that he may gain strength for future
struggles
Oneneed not give the whole of New Years
day to the forming of good resolutions. Alas!
there be many who do vow overmuch at
such times. The hallway of the New Year,
like thai Of hell, is paved with good inten-
tions One may resolve and resolve again,
and swear Justify i'll confirmation of such
purpose: yet 81 pGsyailingly, because Of the
frailty of his being. he .cts the bcttey part
who reflects, and is not rash in promises
Not the same to all is the history Of the
past year; and not two shall find the New
Year the same in experience. But each
year is for all, and has in abundance riches
of good for every one The year just closed
was lavish in gifts; the new offers plenty as
great 1t is but to look for it fearlessy and
the searcher will be rewarded.
The old was and is not. The new is here
with its portents. A warm heart for the
year Just dead, and a glad hand for the one
that is newly born.
WILLIAM ROSSER COBBE.
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the very morning after you had told Marie,
her dearest friend, that we were to be mar
rled in Il month
"Humph that girl would cry about any.
thing; I've known her to cry when the vii
lain in the play was ki.led-as if villain
could expect anything else in the last act.
But as soon as | saw Dick that morning
knew that he knew it. Why, his necllte
had slipped around under one ear ard his
voice. as he wished me a happy New Year,
was so sad that | felt guilty, though my
conscience told me that | had not encour-
aged him"
You've forgotten how you used to praise
the shape of his head
"As if that meant anything! \ girl only
praises the shape of a mans head when
she cannot find anything else to tlatter him
about. lit means no more than it does
when she tells a small man that he re.
sembles Napoleon. But when | remem-
bered that you had once gone down on the
floor in your new trousers to pick up Dora )
handkerchief knew that | had been cruelty
deceived. So when you reproached me
about Dick, /"
Il remember how badly felt when she
replied to my New Years greeting with the
remark that happinesSfor her was over for
ever. And before | could comfort her Miss
Marie came in and / could only go sadly
away without telling her that l should al
ways be brother to her."
"And poor Dick, | asked him if there
was anything | could do for him; he re-
piled: Yes, but just then the maid came
in with a note for him, and he said he must
go at once-I think he wished to be alone
with his sorrow. Then you came in, and,
instead of sharing my pity for him, you
accused me of flirting with him!"
T-er-don't remember that. But wasp t
it odd that before left you forevs Miss
Marie should come in and teK as that Dora
and Dick We're engaged! I've often won.
dered how it happened that they decided
to console each other"
"And 80 have l. Why, here is Marie now
perhaps she can explain. Sit down, Marie,
do, Tom and | are just going over old
times. Do you remember last New Years
day, and"
"1ndeed do. I've just been to see Dora,
and she was talking about it. She and
Dick quarreled last New Years Eve about
the date of their marriage, and almost
parted forever They think you both must
have guessed it. l remember that Tom
was in the parlor with Dora when ran
In on New Years morning to tell her oil
your engagement. She had been on the
point of asking him to help her to make up
with Dick. And when she told me about it,
! wrote him note telling him that be-
lieved she would forgive him if he came at
once. That note found him at your house
Irene, where he had gone to ask your aid
as peacemaker. Odd, wasn't it?"
ELISA ARMSTRONG.
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RULE ON HEIRS.
'rATE OF LAWSON HUGHES, DECEASED.

To Wellington Hughes OF Cambria, Luzerne
County, Pa, Hannah Lee and Lewis Lee, OF Nu-
Clara Hughes, Hattie Hughes, Ida Hughes and
John Hughes, of Mill Grove, Columbia County.
Pa, Clinton Hughes, OF Watsontown, Northum-
berlahd County Pa Oliver Hughes, OF Ottowa,
Kansas, John b. Hughes, Cozad, Dawson Coun-
ty, Nebraska. Sophia Arthur and Calvin Arthur
or Cozad, Dawson County, Nebraska, lineal de-
and to all other persons Interested, Greeting
You and each OF you are hereby cited TO be and
appear before the Judges OF our Orphans Court
TO be held at Bloomsbury on the first Monday
OF February, 1900, next, at 8 o'clock D IN then
and there TO accept or refuse TO take the real
estate or said Lawson Hughes. deceased, at the
appraised valuation put upon 1t by the inquest,
duly .warded by the said Court, and returned
by the commissioners, or show cause why it
shall not be sold, And hereof fail not
w. ". BLACK, SHERIFF..
Per A. Is. BLACK, Deputy. l2-2l-4t
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In the splenCc. of the morning, eer the
stars have vanished quite,
When the earth awaits her bridal In her
robes of spotless white
And the millions watch impatient while
the holy bells they hear,
From the orient. old in story, comes again
the glad New Year.
The old year passes slowly, like vision
Of the night,
with its ever-shaded sorrows and It's pleas
ures dlmly bright,
In It's footsteps all around us lie n peoples
tears impearld,
And It's dark and silent passage is the Joy
of all the world;
Let the bells that ring its going greet the
infant New Years birth,
May its dawn proclaim an era that shall
brighten all the earth;
Let every land beneath the sun from trou-
Bile find release,
And read upon its brow the Sign of uni
versal peace.
Columbia greets the New Year with well
come fair to see.
And brighter glow the stars that gem the
banner of the free;
To the future that 1t brings us, to the days
that come apaCe,
We trust the mighty destiny that doth in
vest our race
In the huSheS OF It's daWning we can see
a Erander fame
Than that whose halo gllds day our coun-
trys deathless name;
In the brightness and the beauty of the
years initial morn
Beneath the flag our fathers gave newer
day IS born.
Hail the years auspicious dawning! let all
strife and cavil cease,
May every sword be buried meath the
blended bloom of peace.
May every son Of freedom stand erect to-
day and hear
With lifted soul the chimes that ring the
morning of the year;
From far Alaska's whitened coast to where
the waving pines
Their shadows shed where nobly stood the
serrled battle lines,
From Names immortal surges with their
legends still untold
TO where the Sacramento cleaves a para
disc of gold.
Ring out, O chimes, your gladness, let re-
joicing rule the land.
God holds the New Years blessings in the
hollow Of His hand;
He hath guarded well our country from
the days of long ago
! When knelt the Pilgrim Fathers In the
New Years fleecy snow
/ Each year hath brought us grandeur, and
the one before us now
| VIII set another star of fame upon Colum-
| bias brow;
| Behold with added glory now the nation
| doth appear
In the bright and matchless splendor OF
the dawnlng of the year.
1t dawns for every mortal on the land and
on the sea,
! Its light is shed on every path that leads
| to liberty;
The sunlight of its morning falls alike or
hut and spire
And kindles in the heart of man a new
and holy fire;
| Lo! 1t marches to the anthem that the
Choir Immortal sings,
And every tongue may prophesy the bless
ings that it brings;
From east to west, from north TO south
throughout our country dear
Let the proudest and the humblest gree
the dawning of the year.
r. c. HARBAUGH.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

MOTHER GRAY's SWEET POWDERS FOR
CHILDREN Successfully used by Mother
Gray, nurse in the Chidren's Home in New
York, cure fcverishness, bad stomach, teeth
ing disorders, move and regulate the bowels
and destroy worms. Over 10000 testimon-
ials They never fail. At all druggists, 25c.
Sample free. Address, Allen S. Olmsted,
lie Roy, n. Y. IL 2Id4t.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
A Natural Mistake.

Young Poet Ito friend)-Well, Charley,
I've sworn off.
Friend enthusiastically heartily
glad OF it, old boy; and all your friends will
feel the same. Let's go and have drink.
Young Poet-Didn't / just tell you had
sworn off drinking?
Friend disappointed didn't say
you had sworn off drinking. | supposed
you had sworn off writing poetry. Good
bye-N. Y. Tribune
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
ELECTION NOTICE.

The regular annual meeting OF the Stockhold-
ers OF the First National Bank or Bloomsburg
for the election or Directors for the ensuing
year Will be held at the office OF the said Bank
on Tuesday, January 9Th 1900, between the
hours of a. IN. and II o'clock noon.
l2-l4 A. L. b. TUSTIN, Cashier.
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ou till another wear

'I shall not see you till another year
Has dawned," he said
Oh. tickle maid she turned not pale with
fear
She laughed instead.
This seems tragic lay, TIL we remember
It occurred the thirty-ilrst day of Decem-
Der.
m. y. Truth.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

A farmer, way out in Oregon, writing to
the publishers of Horse Book, advertised in
this issue, says 81 haye read a number of
books on the horse; some of them were
large and of high price, but Bicycle Horse
Book did me more real good than any of
them" The price is so cents, free by all;
address the publishers Wilmer Atkinson
Co., Philadelphia
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
None to Turn Over,

81 thought you were going to turn over
a new leaf, john" she said.
II was" he replied, but ! find can't"
"Why not?"
There won't be any new leaves until
spring. Post
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

There is a class of people who are injured
by the use of coffee. Recently there has
been placed in all the grocery stores new
preparation called GKAlN-O, made of pure
grains, that takes the place of coffee. The
most delicate stomach receives it without
distress, and but few can tell it from coffee.
1t does not cost over ! as much. Children
may drink it with great benefit. 15c. and 25c
per package. Try it. Ask for GRAlN-O.
The lard manufacturer can be truly said to
have a fat job.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
The New Year.

Loves harmonies flow toward him full and
sweet;
Sins wild, discordant cries are past him
hurled.
With sad. glad heart and brave reluctant
feet
He steps upon the threshold of the world
Judge,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
The truly finished artist must be the dead
one.

Heart terrors vanish in 80 minutes under
the magical wand of DIR. Agnew's Cure for
the Heart. heart specific, and no case too
acute to be dispelled and absolute good
health restored. Mrs. Roadhouse, Of Will
lscrof, o., writes: "Cold sweats would
stand out on me like beads, so intense were
the attacks of heart disease. DIR Agnew's
Cure for the heart cured me, and to-day |
know nothing of the ,errors of this trouble. "
Sold by c. A. Klein. 90
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
Merely an Official Form,

He wished me a happy New Year;
The words would have tickled me but
! knew from his bearing austere
was booked for a salary cut.
-('nicaC go Record,
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WANTED SEVERAL BRIGHT AND
HONEST persons to represent us as mana.
gers in this and close by counties. Salary
5000 year and expenses. Straight, bona
fdc, no more, no less salary. Position per-
manent. Our references, any bank, in any
own It is mainly office work conducted at
home. Reference. Enclose self.addressed
stamped envelope. THE DOMINION COM
PANY, Dept. g. Chicago. o.2S-i6t
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j;6eN@Y {! Year:
81 Il 4r&Ey:,., rE.
II Esss:.sSa 4 ~ G)\-D

y TINE there are no
rests as i'll music.
fine was in tho
without-a beginning,
and time will be
ever and forever. On
and on and on it goes
in harmonious per
fectness, knowing no
age and making no
record of days. Ma.
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we quarreled this day one year ago."
Remember! | think | dol" cried his
wife. "Why, the cards were ordered when
it happened, and | didn't know whether
could have your name taken out and Dicks
inserted, in case | changed my mind
"ln case | changed mine, you mean, dear.
Strange that | never suspected how much
poor Dora cared for me until that day"
I'm sure she had concealed it very we'll
the way she ran after Dick, as if he ever
had eyes for anybody but me! He never
tod his love, but a woman : intuition was
"A synonym of vanity, dear. OF course.
| couldn't help knowing that she cared
for me when met her in the boarding
house parlor, with her eyes full of tears, on
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever be mag
letic. full OF life, nerve and vigor, take MOTTO.
Sac, the wonder.worlSer that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guaran.
ICED Booklet and sample free Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago o" New York.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

Some mems prospects are so fine that they
are hardly visible.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

New Years resolutions are being taken
out Of camphor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
A New Year Declaration.

Alas, no resolutions fair
Shall on the scroll appear;
I'll but endeavoi to repair
The ones | broke last year.
-Atanh.nstra Star.
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I'll, aI,,n...', National s.,E.
ELECTION NOTICE.

meeting of the stockholders OF the Farm
ers National Bank OF Bloomsturg, for the cleo
tion OF board OF directors for the ensuing
year, will be held IN the directors room of the
Bank, on the second Tuesday of January, A. ID.
1900 between the hours OF two and four o'clock
p, m. A. II. BLOOM,
l2-7-1t CASHIER.
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Deuuty Us DIood Deep.

Clean blood means clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm.
Danish pmples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Uascarets,--bcauty for ten cents. All drug.
yists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 2jc, Soc.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

The man who knows the ropes doesn't
smoke Christmas cigars.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
WANTED. SEVERAL BRIGHT AND

There isn't spark of truth in paste
diamond.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

Coldeck-What was the difference, 90,
old boy, between you and me at ll:30 last
night?
'99-Give 'up
Coldeck-Well you were drawing 10
close and was drawing to a fiush.-Chi-
cago Chronicle
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

Now doth ye plumber indulge in frozen
pipe dreams.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take CascaretS Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
II c. g. y. fail to cure. druggists refund money
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-12-28
NEW YEARS RETROSPECT.
1t Shows That jealousy Sometimes
Rests on Thin Foundation.

on Az ELL, well, so this is New
\NN Years day" said Mr.. Spoon
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Now, then, pay your bills gracefully,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-02-09
BANDED NOT TO MARRY.
Club OF Twelve Boston Young Mer
Who Decide to Encourage
Hache1Orhood.

With the greatest secrecy an anti
matrimonial club was recently formed
IN Boston. with Il membership of lust
". Tie secre; was too much for one OF
TWO OF the young men. and now neuriA
all about the unholy compact is known
" is proposed to dine annually as lone.
as the men hold together. and shuuC
one OF them be married he must p;v, .
tarewell dinner costing not less tbGr
Zen dollurs plate. and az much more
MAN That us he cares TO afford. IN =, n
the other members. and must also nav
Unto the general treasury for the no.
emulation Of club fund the sum ot
%S'n as slight forfeit" for his trca,cp
10 the cause in taking unto himself {,
wife. Eventually. IL all but one npm.
Der became married. the rcmairirr
bachelor would pocket the contr ibu.
lions OF the others. amounting 10 81. 500
and interest accruing from time to
time. beEides which he would meai,-
while enjoy many excellent Dime RS.
The members Of The Club Of Twelve,
o. u Is called. were DESTROYS OF keep.
ing their plan secret, fearing that II /,
became generally known society miph,
receive them less cordially than Of
yore. Such result has not yet become
apparent, Indeed, matchmaking
1nammas laugh at the whole affair,
Ajnting that these VOWS Of celibacy
must represent some cases Of disnn-
pHtnted love.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-02-09
THE NEWSPAPER Law.

All Subscribers Should Read the
Following Law aud Avoid Trouble.
l.. All subscribers who do not
give express notice to the contrary
are considered wishing to continue
their subscription.
2. II subscribers order the discon-
tinuance Of their periodical tile pub
Usher may continue to send it -ntll
all aTrearages are paid.
8. Ii subscribers refuse or neglect
to take their periodicals. from the
office to which they are directed, they
are responsible until they have set.
tied their bills and ordered them dis.
continued. "
4. Subscribers moving to othe
places without informing the pub
Usher, and the papers are sent to the
former address, they are held re-
ponsihle. -..s ,..r,....
B. The courts have decided that
refusing to take periodicals from the
office or removing and leaving them
uncalled for. is prinIa facie evidence
of intended fraud. "
6. If subscribers pay in advance
they are bound to give notice at the
end of the time they do not wish to
continue taking it, and the subscriber
will be responsible until an express
notice with all arrearages are sent to
the publisher. q.
z. The latest postal laws are such
that newspaper publishers can arrest
anyone for fraud who take a paper
and refuses to pay for it.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-02-09
KEEPING WHISKY FROM REDS.
It II Now Almost Impossible to Snug
gle LiQoOr IatO the Gadian
Territory.

The United States government has .
wonderful antipathy toward he intro
'tluction of whisky into the IudIan ter
'ritory, and necessarily. afterwrrd. into
the Indians. II IL an old sto'y of the
love of an Indinn tor whisky it sur
passes all other love. An Indian with
IL pint of fire water under his breech
clout is an element that Cisiurbs the
natural serenity of the beautiful In
dian territory scenery; he Lungs for
Scalps. which passion the government
has long endeavored to stamp out.
But whisky occasionally gets into the
Indian territory. There are 100 many
railroads running through it to keep
whisky away altogether. The man who
: takes the seductive fluid !rto that
country. even most innccently TO cure
his own snake bites. Iuns risk that
liz not 10 be Gisregarded. The country
is full of United States marsnals and
their deputies and possemen. 4 United
States rarshal's posselCan HIS a nose
for whisky longer than that D! Cyrano
De Bergcrac. There are fees ard things
connected with finding whisky in the
Indian territory. And yet there can
be no doubt that the adjustment of
whisky from the Indian territory is Il
good thing and has saved many a white
mans back hair.
Passengers going through Indian ter
ritory have had their valiscs opened
and their whisky taken from them
end their bodies thrown into iniI BIZ ore
now. The only safe way tn import
whisky into that country is IN ones
own comfortable and imrenc'iab!e in
sides. Otherwise it may be found. and
then there is trouble. a respectable
American citizen recently had his va
lise rnvished by n United S;;!es dep
uty marshal in the Creek nation and
. half rint of whisky cost him nearly
$2C0 before he was safe and Tree.
On the Choctaw railroad recently an
assignment of whisky was discovered
by shrewd deputy marshal. The ex-
press company landed n trucI. load of
cases marked "cOd liver oil" from the
express car one day. One of The cases
came down heavily and broke. a
small brown stream issued from it's
cracks. Everyone smelled it. The dep
uty marshars nose was no kerner than
the others. A half dozen boxes on the
truck were so alike that the marshal
broke all open and five jugs If whisky
fell TO his lot. Each of these nc broke
with crack Of his heel and th' hungry
sand drank the brown fluid up. Sur
rounding the sacrifice were grouped
lean white men. whose jaw. drooled
for the liqnor that the sand licked up,
and blanket Indians would have given
moccasin colored pony for sip.
When you 20 to Indian territory leave
your flask behind. because otherwise
you nre likely to go to Jail. Red men
and red liquor cannot mix without
trouble.-Kansas City Stor.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-02-09
STA TE OF NEVADA, }
COUNTY NJ kLKo. 0s'
ATlnITOp.s nECI0E

AUDITORS OFFICE,
fLKo. Dec. 81, 1893.
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners Of ELko county, New;
GENTLEMEN:-We Ia rewlth submit
our QaI teIly Report OF the Finances
OF the county for the quarter ending
Dec. 81, 500.
Respectfully submitted,
G.. A. WATKINS, Auditor.
j. A. MCBRIDE. 7 treasurer. ..
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-02-09

RECEIPTS F. ON ALL SOURCES.
Balance III IRE asury Sept.
81, 1898. ....$15, 400 "
Gel eraI lIcehs+s... 1922 IS ...
Pei Prop lax 1893. l.O6lOI
Fees c"l'ud by Co
officers ......... Sill 40 ....
Gaining licenses. 800 ~ -.
Irregular SOURCES. lUI 90
Poll tax, 1898. 500. 1,737 %
Elko SPECIAL school
funh ........... 401 q
Property lax, 1893, 58,027 OIL
State tch"ol ap- .-
portionment .. ......
Total. ...... s64,65O SO
Total Receipts. .S79,84l SIS
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-02-09
JOINT STATEMENT
OF TIRE
Auditor and Treasurer of
ElkO County

For tho Quarter Ending Dec. 81. 1893