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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
QUEER POSTAL SERVICE.
states Took Charge of
Its system.

Under the Spanish system the letter
carriers received their pay by charging
from three to five cents, and sometimes
more, for every letter they delivered.
1t took only day or two to have that
system abolished in llanvana, much to
the relief of the merchants. The car
riers were put on salaries equivalent to
that which they were supposed to earn
by ythenssessmeutm method they were per-
mitted to use under the former regime.
The carriers under the Spanish sys-
tenn not only charged for the delivery
of mail matter, but they rihcd letters
freely, and made money by stealing
stamps from mail matter and selling
them. The letters and other grades of
mail matter would be forwarded with
out stamps, and the carrier at the other
end of the route would collect not only
for delivery, but for the stamps that
had been stolen. There was simply an
unparalleled looseness in the conduct
of post office business, and every man
seemed to have license to steal wherever
he could. Even newspapers would be
stolen from bundles and sold for what
ever could be got for them.
Another form of corruption was evil
dent when the salary lists were ex-
amined. There was no scale of salaries.
In one city postmaster would receive
twice the salary that the postmaster OF
a larger city received. Salaries seemed
to be arranged on the pull plan, with
the possibilities of division with the ap-
pointing power afterward. Places that
under the liberal payment of the United
States would rate at $1,000 year were
worth frequently as much as $4,000 9
year.-Ilarper' Weekly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
Refused to Take More Pay.

A writer in Ainslee's Magazine tells
how Irving M. Scott, the man who built
the Oregon, once refused raise in his
salary The firm was then building the
Saginaw for the government. Donahue
was at the legislature much of the time
soon after Scott's arrival. and affairs at
the works were at skies and sevens.
Brodie, the foreman, threatened to leave
and did leave, and Scott, without au-
thority and although only engaged as a
craftsman, took entire charge and di-
rected things for two weeks until Dona-
hue return He introduced system in
to the methods and made affairs run
along so smoothly that Donahue was
pleased and made bin permanent fore
man.
About this time Donahue offered to
increase his wages, but Scott thought
over the matter and declined.
"If / break my years contract with
you, H." he said to Donahue, "I'll have to
take what you give me. prefer to keep
my contract. and when it's up you II
have to pay me what I'm worth. "
Donahue looked aghast. YOU'RE the
first man," he said, "that I've ever
known to refuse raise of pay"
Results justified Scott $ foresight. AT
the end of the year he was re-engaged
and was paid just four times what Don
ahue had offered him.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
LOvable Little Pigs.

While the raising of swine is not ex-
actly poetical occupation, it is said to
be a paying one and one that would be
practicable for woman to engage in.
zone of the most thoroughgoing,
capable business women of the day,
says The Practical Farmer, sis breed
er of fine swine, and she has wen a
reputation that is enviable. She has
made thousands of dollars from the
business and is proud of and enjoys
her work. Poultry and swine breeding
as part of the farm wife's business
ventures forms both happy and profit
able combination. Even the word hap
py,' she says, is we'll placed, for it is a
happy work caring for and owning
handsome sows and pretty, thrifty pigs,
fine shotes and marketable hogs. Little
pigs, she asserts, are as lovable as baby
chicks, and through actual ownership
one takes pride and comfort in watch
ing them grow and looking to the COM
forts and needs Of the entire swine
herd. New York Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
Some Queer Trees.

The breadfruit tree of Ceylon is very
remarkable. It's fruit is baked and eaten
as we eat bread and is equally good and
nutritious. In Barbutu, South Amer
lea, is tree which, by piercing the
trunk, produces milk, with which the
inhabitants feed their children. In the
interior of Africa Is a tree which pro-
duces excellent batter. IT resembles the
American oak and its fruit, from
which the butter is prepared is not un-
like the olive. Park, the great traveller,
declared that the butter surpassed any
made in England from cows milk. At
Sierra Leone is the cream fruit tree, the
fruit of which is quite agreeable in
taste.
At Table Bay, near the Cape of Good
Hope, is small tree the berries of
which make excellent candles. 1t is also
found in the Azores. The vegetable tai
low tree also grows in Sumatra, in AL
geria and in China. In the island of
Chusan large quantities of oil and tai
low are extracted from its fruit which
is gathered in November or December,
when the tree has lost all its leaves.
The bark of a tree in China produces a
beautiful soap Trees Of the sapindus
or soap berry order also grow in the
north of Africa. They are amazingly
prolific, and their fruit contains about
3S per cent of saponin. Ladies Home
.Journal
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
SHERIFFS SALE.

BY virtue of a writ OF Lev. Fa., issued out OF
the Court OF CONN on Pleas of Columbia Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, and TO me directed, there VIII
be exposed to public sale, at the Court House,
in Bloomsbury, Pa, on
SATURDAY, JULY IS, 1899,
at two o'clock in the afternoon, the following
described real estate, to wit:
All that certain mcssuage, tenement ana tracC
OF land lying and being in the Town OF Blooms
burg, County OF Columbia and State OF Penn
sylvania described in the recorded deed of con
veyance as follows, to wit: Beginning In the
westward line of Magee avenue, now being
opened, one hundred twenty six feet, north
wardly, from the north line of sixth street, ex-
tended, and one hundred ninety feet westward
ly from the west line OF Leonard street, now
opened, forty feet wide thence along said Ma
gee avenue northwestwardly fourteen feet
thence southwestwardly, at right angles, TO
Magee avenue, seventy feet, to line OF land OF
McKelvy & Neal; thence by same parallel to
Magee avenue, enthusiastically, fourteen feet /;
thence ENTHUSIASTICALLY, by other land Of James
Magee, 3D. seventy feet, to the place of begin
ming, whereon is erected two-story
BRICK DWELLING HOUSE.
Seized, taken in execution, at the suit Of
Anglo American savings Loan Association vs.
James Magee, I'd, and NJ. B. Ritter, and to be
sold as the property Of James Magee, "a, and
NJ. b. Ritter, with notice to terre tenant.
W. w. BLACK,
HERRING, Atty. sheriff.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
He Was Clean.

The advantage Of a trained nurse Is
that she knows not only what to do,
but what not to do, since unnecessary
attentions merely exhaust the patient.
The point is illustrated by the follow
ing story from an old Cape newspaper
of the time of the Zulu war. when
kindly but uninstructed ladies rushed
off in embarrassing numbers to give
their services at the military hospitals.
"What can l do for you, my poor
fellow ?" asked one of the gentle nurses
of a sufferer
"Nothing. thank you, miss. "
"Not anythingr' said the charming
visitor persuasively.
~ don't think so, )" murmured the
wounded man wearily.
"At least" she said mildly but firm
ly, ~ can wash your face" She fetch
ed the necessary materials and secured
Mr.. Atkins rueful countenance.
"Therep' she announced. 'Now you
will feel nice and clean"
~ ought to, miss, said the soldier,
with a faint smile. you're the ninth
lady who's washed my face this morn
ingI'
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
An Unfortunate Participle.

A recent discussion at dinner table,
whether gotten or got were the
preferable participle, received a practi-
cal solution, at least for the telegraphic
service, from an experience related of a
college professor who preferred "got-
ten" He had telegraphed to his wife
"Have gotten tickets for the theater to-
night. Meet me there.
The telegraph operator rendered this
into "Have got ten tickets" etc.
Mrs Professor was delighted with the
opportunity of entertaining her friends
and accordingly made up a party of
eight besides herself, whose greetings to
the professor at the rendezvous were
probably more cordial than his feeling
until matters were explained He now
makes an exception to his customary
use of "gotten."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
A Swift Bird.

The Mexican road runner has only
two short legs, but he can beat horse,
a hound or an electric carriage and give
them a handicap start.
Speed is not his only recommenda-
tion. He eats as he runs, or rather as
the things run away from him. Snakes
are the principal part of his diet, big
and little. His crop is as elastic as his
legs are swift, and when he wants to
prepare for long journey he coils up a
rattler or two inside of his neck and
sets out across the Mexican desert with
swiftness that makes it look like a
bunch of dust on record breaking tour
around the world.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
FIRE SERVICE IN ENGLAND.
yhe Force Employed In London Is
Only Half ns Large as That
of Paris.

The British towns seem to have the
smallest number of paid tiremen of any
cities in Europe and America, says Mu-
nicipal Affairs. The London fire brig
ade has about SEQ men, about the same
number as Berlin, which has only a
fourth of the population, and less than
0ne-half the size of the Paris corps.
Glasgow has but 100 men to 100000 pop
uiation; Leeds but 33 to ,000 people,
and Sheffield % men to population OF
$4,000. Liverpool Bristol, Cardiff,
Norwich, Bromley and other towns
have no separately organized fire de-
partment, the work of suppressing fires
being performed by the regular police
force. The expenditures for fire protec-
Iion are on similarly unimportant
scale. Thus Leeds spends less than
$4,000 year, and Sheffield less than
$4,000 year; Preston, with poPula-
tion of 113, ,OOO, reports only $500 spent
for it's fire brigade, and Norwich, with
100000 population, only $3.50 year. A
few towns, however, show somewhat
hrger range of expenditures. Glasgow
and Liverpool each annually eXpend in
the neighborhood of S7j 000-a bout ten
rents per capita-and proportonate
amounts are expended by Edinburgh,
Dublin, Belfast and Stafford. The Lon
don brigade costs about $950,000. or 20
cents per capita. But even these excep-
sional instances are below the per cap
ita expenditures for fire protection in
other European cities of the same size.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
THE REPORTORIAL SCOOP.
How II WAS Worked on a st. Louis
Scribe by "a COnscienceicss
Contemporary.

A reporter named Jones on daily in
st. Louis was detailed to interview the
governor of another state, who had
slipped into the city on secret political
mission, says the San Francisco Argo-
maui. lie learned to his disgust that
Jackson, the star reporter of rival
sheet, also proposed to call in an hour
Acting on inspiration, he sent up card
bearing Jackson's name and was
promptly admitted. When he had
learned all he wanted he asked, with
gross intentional impudence, whether
the information was really true.
The governor turned purple. "D'y'
question my word?' he asked.
''Oh, don't get gay!" replied Jones
airily; common governors cut no ice
with my Office"
The old man foamed at the mouth.
.'You insolent scoundrel,' he roared,
"get out of my room!" That was ex-
actly what Jones wanted and he went.
Presently Jackson showed up. Hero,
boy" he said, pompously, take my
card to the governor" When the old
man looked at the pasteboard he nearly
expired. "The blankety-blanked in
famous villain." he spluttered. II
never heard of such blankety- -blanked
efrronery in my life! Tell that mis-
creant if he or anybody else from his
internal paper comes up here I'll Kill
'em!" The word was carried to Jack
son, who went away raving. Next day
she paper intimated the governor was
in town on bender. Jones paper had
u capital interview and big scoop
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13

Hicks appreciated the shrewd as well
as the humorous sayings of the Cornish
country folk. There dwelt not far from
his abode dairywoman and her hus-
band who had begun life in very
small way with one COW, and who, by
industry and thrift, had acquired quite
a number
"How is it," said Hicks to her one
day, "that you have got on so well,
Mrs. p. 2"
"Well, you see, Mr. Hicks" she re-
piled, "most people be allus thinking
of what they do want, but l and my
old man, we be allus thinking of what
we can do without
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
Dressed For the Jury.

Pretty women on trial have habit
of dressing SO as to impress the jury,
but the highest type of this art was
naturally left for development in Paris,
where toilets are composed for the
occasion. An example Of the art was
in evidence at the trial of Nine. Bian-
chini, who was accused Of having dis
posed of her husband in an unlawful
way. "Her costume, says "A chronicler,
"was the essence of outraged dignity
and resignation, and at the same time
of elegance, due to her position as a
mondaine Parisienne, She naturally
was all in black, with mantle close
fitting at the waist and high collet de
mongolie. The severity of the low hat,
with its ostrich plumes, was relieved
by her jaunty way of symbolizing her
confidence in the triumph of innocence
in that the left brim was turned up,
sheltering "A little bunch of peacock
tips"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
A DayyIinu Array.

The hotel clerk tcld the following
story: Charles i. Davis, the actor, 9th
erwise known as calvin Joslin, was
in the lobby of the st. Charles, in New
Orleans, when man from Chicago
stepped in front of him and looked over
his head in search of an acquaintance
that he supposed was in the hotel lobby.
Davis, mistaking the Chicago mans
purpose, remarked: "Ahl | see You ad-
mire my diamonds. This one'-indicat-
ing the stone on his shirt bosom-"cost
me So, 600. These" e"-showing his cuff
buttons-"cost me 50, 500 each, and my
wife has trunkful up in our room. ]"
The Chicago man did not say much,
but that evening, by arrangement with
the head waiter, Davis was placed at
supper alone at a table where there
were several vacant chairs Presently
several men, all commercial travellers,
entered the dining room, and each one
had large cut glass fruit dish fastened
on his breast while glass prisms hung
pendent from each coat and vest button.
Soberly marching to Davis table, the
seven men took the vacant seats, and
the Chicago man entertained the actor
with: "Ah, / see you admire our dia-
monds This one"--pointing to the
| fruit dish-''cost lie $3, 600, 900.
These indicating the prisms-"cost
$3.50, 900 each, and we have three car
loads like them at the depot waiting to
be side tracked" Davis not only chang
ed his table, hut went to another hotel.
Louisville Courier Journal
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13

No street in the world is more plas
tered with advertising than Broadway,
New York. Even to those recognizing
that fact the amount does not appear
startling until it is put into figures.
The combined length of the two sides Of
Broadway from the Battery to Central
park is SO, 500 feet. The amount of ad-
vertising on the buildings and in shop
windows is such that it would take a
man between eight and ten days Of
eight hours each to read his way up one
side and down the other
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
Wrinkles.

Even very young women are seen
with strongly marked wrinkles in the
forehead which they have acquired
through contracting the brows. A friend
tells me that these wrinkles will disap-
pear under the following treatment:
Bind the forehead at night with a
compress of new linen soaked in mix
ture of equal parts of alcohol and white
of egg. Allow the compress to remain
ON all night and continue the treat
ment until the wrinkles have disappear
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13

TRY ALIENS FooT EAsE-A pow
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
Taking IL Walk.

Justice-What have you to say in an
swer to the charge of stealing this
mans plank walky
The Accused-I took it by advice Of
my physician, yer honor. He told me
to take a long walk every day. This
was the first long walk saw today, and
of course l took it. A man can't afford
to employ doctor unless he takes his
advice.
Justice--The court, however. will
give you advice for nothing-three
months rest. You will take it in the
house of correction. Boston Tran
script.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
Not So Had as That.

"What would you say" asked the
fair theosophist, "if l should tell you
that was born in Egypt 5000 years
ago2"
"Why, I should certainly say you
don't look it. - Brooklyn Life.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
A Brain Twister For Robert.

A discouraged editor asked the fol-
lowing question: "If Bob Ingersoll in
sists that there is no hell, will he state
what becomes Of the man who takes the
paper three or four years without pay
ing for it and then tells the postmaster
that he does not want it itr"-Hawkins
vile (Ga. Dispatch.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

ESTATE OF CHARLES wHITMIRE, LATE OF GEM
TIRE TOWNSHIP, DECEASED.
Notice Is hereby given that letters OF admin
istration on the estate OF Charles Whitmire'
ceased, have been granted to George NJ Whit.
mlre, residing in said township, to whom aln
persons indebted TO said estate are requested to.
make payment, and those having claims or de-
mands will make known the same without de-
lay 10 GEORGE NJ. WHITMIRE,
6-22.6t Administrator.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13

A generation ago there were only
two colleges in the United States
drawing interest on funds reaching
100000. Now Chicago college
asks an addition to its endowment Of
100000 900 in a single year, although
1t already has productive funds
amounting to $5,Soo,ooo. A single
individual within a comparatively few
years has bestowed upon it $7,4a6,-
900. Harvard's interest bearing funds
last year were $S,963,o53; Yale's, $4,-
100000; Coumbia's, So. 500, 900, Cor
nell's, S6,446,S1S; Girard's, $Is,o4S,-
I46, and Iceland Stanford, Jr's, $3,-
100000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
A Faithful Dog.

The Paris Figaro relates touch
ing souvenir of the poet de Musset, as
mentioned by the poets governess,
Nine. Adele Colin Martellet, who has
Just published her memoirs. The poet
had small dog named Mario. After
the poet died, the dog, supposing him
absent, continued to await his return
at the same hour every evening for pc
riod of seven years, when it also died.
Mime. Martellet's husband took the dog
to Auteuil to be buried, and found some
workmen engaged In digging out new
street. The faithful dog was buried by
she men, and the street in which the
animals remains were laid is called the
Rue de Musset.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13

1t is asserted that women are on the
whole cooler and more self possessed
than men in cases of disasters at sea.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13

Invention by the Marquis of LOrne.
The marquis of Lorne has taken out a
patent for brake to be.applied 10 the
hack wheel of a bicycle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13

Korea is exactly the size of Kansas,
81, 900 square miles.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
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The oasis., 1899-01-07

Journal Miner: Speaking in Phoe- nix of the sale of the Hull group of mines by James Shirley, Professor George A. Treadwell, who is interest ed in the Cliff copper mines near the United Verde mines, said that he was much pleased to learn of MT. Shirley's success. Mir. Shirleys mission to New York was to dispose of the Cliff mines also. and since he has been successful in selling the United Verde extension mines, Professor Treadwell believes that the sale Of the Cliff mines will follow. MT. Shirley recently also closed out very large deal for copper mines in Sonora.
 Republican: William Lakeman says: 1 have been prospecting in southern Arizona and 1 found plenty of water aud had no trouble in work ing in places where 1t has been inn possible to work for any great length of time for some years. The tanks contain a great deal of water for the use of prospectOrs, and l look to see some rich finds made in the desert regions of Yuma county. l heard of several strikes before l left but did not learn any particulars. would not be surprised if few more mines like the King of Arizona gold mine are discovered this winter and spring.
The oasis., 1899-01-07
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