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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-08-30
DREW TWO PENSIONS.
And Now He is in Uncle Sans Clutches.

Theodore Snyder, aged sixty years,
was taken to Willamsport from Texas
a few days since, under guard of
two Mnited States marshals. Snyder
is charged with receiving a double
pension. He admits getting the
money, but pleads extenuating circum-
stances. While receiving twelve dol
lars per month for services in the
Nlnety-third Pennsylvania Infantry, a
friend in the Indian Territory advised
him to apply for an increase. As he
could neither read or write, Snyder
let the friend do the corresponding.
The fellow applied for a new pension
for Snyder as a soldier of the One
Hundred and Fifty-second Heavy Ar
tillery. Six dollars per month was al
lowed In the meantime Snyder re-
turned to Pennsylvania and three
times collected the double pension,
twice at Tyrone and once at Lewis
town. He discovered his condition
and fled IN 1898, and the detectives
ran him down at Galveston a month
ago.
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THE WORLDS OLDEST BRIDE
An Eastern Woman Who Is Almost
II Centenarian becomes
Bride.

At the age of 0S years a woman of
Waterloo, N Y, lately took upon her
self the vows of matrimony and Is
proud Of the fact that she is probably
the Oldest bride in the world. In 1882
she was first married TO Thomas Pres
ton, with whom she lived happily for
many years, and at the age of 6S be-
came u wiLow. In 1873 she was wooed
and won by Albert Brainerd. The
union was not altogether happy one,
but the husband put an end to his
wife's misery about year ago by
dying, Then Samuel Decker appeared
upon the scene, and Immediately fell
in love with the gay and festive
widow, and a few days ago the Rev.
Pulaski Smith, of the Magee Baptist
church, drove up to the little brown
dwelling. There was a simple but
touching ceremony in the parlor. The
Widow Brainerd was again bride.
When the clergyman had gone Sam
uel Decker went out to work in the
garden He was working there the
next day when a correspondent of a
New York paper called. The bride
called him in. When he learned Of the
mission he FASTENED to put on his Sun
day clothes. When asked about her
health the bride said:
81 have rheumatic some but other
wise I'm purity smart"
The bridegroom said that he, too,
was smart"
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places, and not only a smattering of

places, and not only a smattering of
these languages but easy converse.
t'onal felicity in them. The acquire
ment OF these languages will enable
the scholar to speak one more lang
uage, Italian, almost without study,
and not until we insist upon this
equipment as a sine nou for consular
appointment will we be able to COM
pete with the austute, debonair, and
versatile agents sent out by other
countries.
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The Quaker City.

The population of the city OF Phlla-
delphia according to the official count
of the returns of the twelfth census
announced is as follows; Philadelphia
CITY, 1,a9s,697 in 1900 against, 1896
o64 in 1890. These figures show tor
the city as a whole an increase In
population of s46,733 or 1857 pei
cent. from 1890 to 1900. The pop
ulation in 1890 was 4hI7o, showing
an increase of roo,794, or 1888 per
cent from 1880 to 1890.
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Gossip may be friendly anG neigh
borly. | like the word because it
conveys a suggestion of good news or
good comment, but is no longer gos-
sip when it ceases to deal with pleas
ant happenings and loving wishes, and
becomes critical or censorious. or
lapses into slander. The most un-
worthy talk IN the world is that which
is carried on in whispers and semi
condolences, and which retails the un-
fortunate errors of people whom we
know. Never to say an unkind thing,
never to imply an unfrlendly thing
even by our silence are rules which
we should make ana to which we
should scrupulously adhere.-MARGA-
RET f. SANCsrER, in the September
Ladies' HOme /oHrnaL
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Backache Cured

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Il write to
thank you for the good Lydia f. Pink
ham'sVegetable Compound has done me.
IL is the only medicine l have found
that helped me. / doctored with one
of the best physicians in the city Of
New York, but received no benefit. 1
had been ailing for about sixteen years,
was so weak and nervous that / could
hardly walk had continued pain in my
back and was troubled with leucorrhea.
Menses were irregular and painful.
Words cannot express the benefit have
derived from the use of your medicine
l heartily fecommend it to all suffering
women. - Mrs. MARY BARsHIN6KR,
Windsor, Pa.
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knowledge of the Bible will refine,
enlarge and elevate the vocabu-
larry of any one, and the girl who
studies her Bible daily and reads
Shakespeare, Scott, Macaulay and
Ruskin, will be better talker than
she who limits her reading to the daily
newspaper, or the latest agreeable
book. Dickens, Thackeray, William
Black, Blackmore, Barrie, Crockett,
Mrs. Oliphant and George Eliot, are
all helpful to those who would be
good, bright, varied and entertaining
takers, because in all these authors
you continually find wholesome
thoughts expressed IN forceful and
strenuous English, and bit by bit you
receive OF the wealth these masters
of English have so carefully bestowed
upon their work.-September LaateS'
Home /OnrNaI
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The successful borrower always
keeps in touch with the public.
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PHILADELPHIA & READIN
RAILROAD.

KAlLNOhb.
TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURG
For New YORK, Philadelphia, Reading Potts
ville Tamaqua weekdays 10 il:3O a. h' n oc -
For Williamsport, weekdays, 7.2O a. M, 1886
!" For Danvllle and Milton, weekdays,7.s a. m.
''iSc For Catawssa weekdays 7.2O saS, ii.sO a. M,
iHSo For Rupert Rpp T'W co. IsOa m 1920
''I%; For P Baitlmore, Washington and the West via
B, q o. X. r., through trains leave Reading Iel-
minal, Philadelphia S.2O, 7.55, li.26 q, m, S46,
7.2T, D. m. Sundays $50, 7.55 ll.26 a, M;
$40 7.27, p, m, Additional trains from "a ana ma
Chestnut street station, weekdays, l'S5, o'9l
s 23 p. m. sundays, 1.35, S.2S p m.
TRAINS FOR BLOUMsBURG
Leave New York via Philadelphia 7.3O a
M, and via Easton g.1Oa. m,
Leave Philadelphia l0.2l a. m.
Leave Reading 1918 p. m.
Leave Pottsville l230p. m.
Leave Tamaqua 49 p, M,
Leave WIIliamsport weekdays O.13 n, SAG p
Leave Catawlssa weekdays, zoo, ,s.2C9.lOa. m
lie Leave Rupert, weekdays, 7.Os, s.2S. 9ls i1.4C
"' me- '''v ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION.
In effect June 80, 1900.
Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street whari
and South street wharf.
For ATLANTIC CITY-Weekdays.- Express
2.cO 800, $40 sixty minutes, 400, 30 600 SIX.
| ty minutes), $40 (south ST., 500, Il5, $40
| u, m. Accommodation, o. H. Hl., oio NouulH
| St, 300, $50 p. m, days-EXpress, Z3O
| 500 &. 80, 900, 1000, II. 90 a. m, 800 p. m.
| Leave ATLANTIC CITY, Weekdays Express
(645, Mondays only, 100, 7.45 i755 from Massa-
| chusetts Ave) $50 sixty minute), 900, TO- l5
LOO a. M, $50, 1870, $50, 730 $50, $50 p. m.
| Accommodation 4 20, 7.05 o. m, $50 p. m
Sundays-E -EXpress-S,45 a. III. ,3,3o, 4SOh.0O, g. co,
G.8O, 700 30, 90, 9,8Op, m. Accommodation
| 7.l5 a. M, 1872 p. m.
| Parlor cars on all express trains.
| For CAPE MAN-WeekdayS-S, IS, Bib m
2.l5, al. 10, b5s0 p. IN. sundays s.i5, sl5 a. m.
$40 p. m.
| For OCEAN CITY-Weekdays- 9,l5 a. m
dl 80, c4,20, $50 p m. sundays, $40, 9,l5 a, m
| 800 p. m.
| For SEA ISLE CITY-We Weekdays-9l5 IS a. M
2,l5, c4.20 $50 p, M sundays-S,45 a. M, 90 pm
South ST., 400 p, M; South St., 30 p. m
C South ST., 415 D. M, South ST., l,45 p, IN,
Sl.O0 Excursions Atlantic City. 90 a. m. dai,
| ly, additional, sunday 7.30 a, m,
! For Cape May, ocean city and Sea Isle, sun
days 100 m, additional Ocean City, only
Thursday, 700 a, m.
/ NEW YORK AND ATLANTIC CITY EXPRESS
Leaves NEW YORK liberty StreeD B. 40 p m
Leaves ATLANTIC CITY, $50 a m.
Detailed time tables at ticket offices.
|. A. SWEIGARD, EDISON j. WEEKS,
| Gen'l Supt, Genl Pass Agt.
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KIDNEY TROUBLES OF WOMEN
Miss Frcderick's Letters Show How She
Relied on Mrs. Pinkham and Was
Cured,


"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM ii have a
yellow, muddy complexion, feel tired
and have bearing down pains. Menses
have not appeared for three months
sometimes am troubled with a white
discharge. Also have kidney and blad-
der trouble.
have been this way for long time,
and feel so miserable thought would
write to you and see if you could do me
any good. - Miss EDNA FREDERICK,
Troy, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1899.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Il have used
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound according to directions, and can
say have not felt so well for years as
| do at present. Before taking your
medicine II more miserable person you
never saw. l could not eat or sleep,
and did not care to talk with any one
Now feel so well / cannot be grateful
enough to you for what you have done
for me. Miss EDNA FREDERICK, Troy,
Ohio, Sept. 10, 1899.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
BOTH.
FURNACE
AND COFFIN
CONDEMNED

open cemetery Is absolutely inodor-
GUS" Sir Seymour Haden reports
from experiments carried on for II
years in the burial OF animals that
bodies buried four feet deep require
more than four years for their com
piete dissolution; three feet deep. three
years, two feet deep. two years; n
foot. one year; while bodies not buried,
but simply covered with a foot OF earth
disappeared, all save their bones, In
leas than a year; but In all cases with
out injuring the purity OF earth or
air. The Prussian government has
also made u notable contribution to
u knowledge on this important part
OF the subject. In iS72-73 a secret
commission was issued by 1t to ascer-
tain the condition of the dead In tho
battlefields Of the Vosges. Two years.
or ~therenbouts. having elapsed since
those battles were fought, II was fear
ed. as many dead bodies were known
to have been only supericially buried.
that epidemic disease might result.
What the commissioners found. how
ever, entirely d~issipated any such
fears, In cases In which as many rs
eight hundred bodies, In the hurry in
cident to rapid military movements,
had been thrust into one shallow exca-
walton, these bodies, 1t was found. had
already disappeared. their bones and
accouterments alone being left. But
to this disappearance there was a re-
markable exception; the bodies of Of
ficers, having been buried In mackin-
toshes tthe action OF which resembled
that of c%ofins) had not 80 disappear
ed" Against the testimony OF Sir
Henry Thompson, the writer quotes
the authority Of Koch and Klein to
show that the bacilli Of anthrax being
aerobic. or dependent on air, are. when
buried four and "a half feet, incapable
Of reproduction. The rest Of the pa
per is occupied with the argument that
cremation, by making exhumation i'm
possible, prevents the detection OF MUIR
ders.
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METHODS
OFBURIAL

A writer In the Quarterly Review
makes a powerful attack on the eth
les Of cremation" He regards II as
an improper corrective ~ the mis-
chievous practice OF interment in
vaults and collins. lie says: Little
or no difficulty appears to have at
tended the ready and efficient disposal
OF the dead till towards the close OF
Charles the Seconds reign. Not only
was the strong ~cofin-the fons ut origo
mali-till then unknown. but the
palmer sort of men were content to
be carried to their graves in the open
chests or Golfers which were kept in
every parish church for the occasion
and only employed to convey the body
from the house OF death TO that other
house which hath been appointed for
all living" after which the chests were
returned to their accustomed place,
which was usually a niche in the
church wall. Arrived at the grave the
body, enveloped at one time in coarse
linen kept together by bone pins. and
afterwards in woollen, was removed
from It's temporary case and buried"
Resolution Of the body by the agency
of the earth to which we commit It.,
is affirmed by the writer to be the nat
ural and %innocuous method. Earth
Is the most potent d~isinfectant
known" The common impression
that g%raveyards pollute the air is
emphatically contradicted. Nothing
worse than carbonic acid carbon diox-
ide) and water are ever given off from
the surface of burial grounds. and
these only in quantities so small as
to be even less than are naturally
present in the superintendent atmos-
phere; and, further. that even this lit
tie is at once taken up by vegetation
and returned to the air. not IA a source
Of peril to the health. but as n neces-
sary increment OF atmospheric re-
newal." The two hundred disused
burial grounds in London now used as
recreation grounds and health resorts
are cited as proof. The air OF the
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
People Name the Candidates
When they Register.

1.-THE Minnesota primary-elect!on
system marks a new era in politics.
and Is a revolution not even second to
the Australian ballot
Thus said Senator Washburn of Min
nesota. after he had watched the re-
suits of the new direct, concurrent pri-
mary-election law, Used for the first
time In Hennepin county, Minnesota,
on Sept. Is last.
Ever since the public has been oper-
ating under a convention system 1t
has always been urged that II the peo-
pie would only take an interest in the
primaries and the there
would not be so many mistakes in the
selection of candidates. II this is true.
then the most successful primary re-
form is one that will bring out the to-
tai vote. BY the plan of holding a con-
current primary on registration day,
Hennepin county brought out more
votes at the primary election than it
did at the previous general election,
the percentage being 10 in favor of
the primary law. Therefore, from that
standpoint alone, it was a success.
After the law vas enacted by the
Minnesota Legislature and before its
actual test the principle found such
favor that 1t was made part OF Wis
consin's Republican platform, entered
into the party operation Of Oregon,
is being officially inquired into in In
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
C~hristianity Gainlsg.

At the recent church congress in
England the bishop of Ripon congrat-
ulated his audience that. during the
century 10Y ending, the adherents of
Christianity had increased from 2OO,-
000, 900 to 800, 600, 900, and that Chris
tian nations now WELD sovereign in
fiuence over SOC. OO0, 900 out of 1,400, 600.
900 of the earth's population. but, says
the Episcopal Recorder, those who be-
lieve In the necessity of the new birth
of individual souls and their personal
union with Christ will find but little
ground for encouragement in the state
ment, as they ask how many OF that
vast multitude Of adherents are true
members of Christ.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
GOOD MEN in POLITICS

people into the belief that they were
direct primaries.
Ono of these senators has q pro-
posed act ready providing that each
party committee can order direct pri-
maries on any day, 20 be operated un-
der its personal supervision. That 10
the way they will pretend to do away
with the 'evir Of the present law.
which permits n man to vote either
ticket"
There Is no doubt, as Mr.. Day indi-
Gates, that many OF the politicians are
quietly fighting the present law. but 80
well did the law take with the masses.
that while the politicians have striven
to secure an organization to repeal It.
the prospective Legislators are afraid
Of the public protest that would fol-
low, and instead of a repeal. the law
will in all probability be extended over
the entire state.
In regard to the charge Of cumber-
someness made against the law by ma
chine politicians, its author says: AT
first IL was urged that the law was
cumbersome and It's machinery impos-
sible Of application. Ii would require
a ticket twelve feet long, not over
twenty votes could be polled in an
hour; the vote could not be counted in
a week, and he law was unconstitu-
ticnal. All these assertions have been
tested by actual trial and have bean
shown to be totally without founda-
ton.
THE ticket was eighteen inches
long. the voters voted more rapidly
than at general elections and the count
was accomplished in a few hours. Ger
tain alleged improvements have been
suggested.
at has been suggested that a voter
be forced to make affidavit as to his
party and receive but one ballot. That
makes a public ballot and would keep
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
Author OF the Law Talks.

Oscar +. G.. Day, author of the con-
current primary law. is a newspaper
man by profession, being editor Of the
Minneapolis Tribune. In an article
in that paper the day after the prima-
ries. Sept. 10, he said: Every man
who has been even remotely identified
with professional politics in the past
was defeated. Three Of the best alder
manic candidates nominated avowed
that they never would have encoun-
tered the cumbersome processes and
devious strategy OF a convention, but
would 60 before the people under the
new primary law.
1T has brought out a class of men
for candidates that would never run
before, and the success of these men
will bring out a larger number of their
kind at the next primary.
There were polled on this one pri-
mary election 81, 1920 votes. and without
most the limit Of 400 votes allowed by
law to a precinct.
out In the country, where they had
never turned out to caucuses, the farm
ers hitched up their teams and drove
to town and nearly the entire country
vote was polled.
by combining registration and pri-
mary the expense to the people is not
greatly increased and the $40 which
each candidate pays the county audit
or helps to meet the bills"
Two state senators have laws
framed to present to the next legisla-
ture which they claim are 'modihca-
tons and improvements upon the
Minnesota direct primary law. They
are copies of other laws, all Of them
fake in their nature, which were
passed in different states to delude
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
The Minnesota Primary Law Increases
their Number.

ignation OF Office, In a proportional
number of ballots, the theory being
that no name should have the advan-
tage OF appearing at the top on all the
ballots. Should other parties enter the
contest the number of tickets would be
increased. one ticket for each party 60
ing to every voter.
No "Cut-and-Drled- system.
Each voter marks one ballot only,
returning both ballots pinned togeth-
er as he received them to the Judge.
who places them in the box. Later
the crosses on the marked ballot are
credited to the respective candidates
and the unmarked ballot Is returned
to the city clerk. IL a voter blunder-
ingly marks both ballots, only the one
containing the greater number OF
marks is counted. As a result Of the
first primaries held in Minneapolis un-
der the law, a much higher class OF
men became the duly nominated can
didates than ever before. Men who
had refused steadily to be drawn into
the "leg pulling quagmire Of old
style primaries and conventions now
came to the front and accepted can
didacy. A most significant develop
nent was the fact that every profess
sional office-seeker whose name APP
peared on the ballot was rejected-a
contamination that never could have
been achieved under machine rule.
In forty-eight hours everybody
knows who is nominated for every Of
fee in the county.
Affords Better Nominees.
Perhaps the most significant COM
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30

mission wharf, Near the end of March,
1900, when the car was opened, all
seemed to be In a perfectly healthy
condition. On the conclusion of the
fishing for brood cod In the fall Of
1893 fourteen cod Weighing from four
to six pounds. taken with hand-lines
of Nomans Land or Nantucket, were
inadvertently left in the well OF the
Grampus and not discovered until
April, 1900. These fish were placed In
the well not later than November Is.
possibly some days before. During
this time they had not been fed and
had only such food as came through
the holes In the well. When released
in Gloucester harbor on April l6 they
were found to be lively and strong.
although somewhat emaciated, and II
was noticed that their backs and sides
were much darker than normal, while
the belly was unusually light colored.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
imported Raisins Are High.

Imported raisins will be high this
Christmas, owing TO a considerable
shortage in the Malaga crop. A great
storm on September Is swept over the
famous Malaga raisin district doing
great damage not only to the grapes
still on the vines, but to those that had
been cut and dried. This heavy storm
was followed by a succession Of cloudy
and rainy days, which made is i'm
possible for the grapes to dry properly.
and besides rendered worthless a large
quantity OF grapes that were still on
the vines. 1t is now estimated that
the raison crop is short fully 30 per
cent.-Washington letter Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
Pictures of Tunnel Work.


Wherever excavations are being
made for the underground rapid tran
sit road a lot OF spectators may be
found watching the workmen as In.
tently as IL they expected to see an en-
CINE come out of the hole. The photo
graphers who are busy around each OF
these excavations are the targets for
all sorts of questions. The photo
graphsers who are busy around each OF
these excavations are the targets for
all sorts OF questions. The photographs
are to play an important part In the
records Of the underground. When
the set is completed they will give
practically a biograph history Of the
construction OF the road. Each sec.
ton Of the street and the adjoining
buildings are photographed before the
work Is begun. When the excavations
have been made frequent photographs
are taken showing the progress of the
work. These will prove valuable rec
ords for the contractors IL any damage
suits should be brought against them.
II has been suggested that when the
rapid transit road Is completed copies
of this big set OF photographs be
mounted In one large album and pre-
served as part of the city records. 1t
will be the most complete pictorial his
tory of a big work ever made.-New
York Sun.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
Airing sleeping Rooms.

Too little attention ia given to the
proper airing OF sleeping rooms and
to the v~entilating qualities OF bed GOV.
ers. C~omfortables that are almost
alright should never be used. and at
the best these cotton stuffed covers are
a menace TO health. Properly, moth
ing should be used about a bed which
cannot be washed. Bedclothes should
be spread upon chairs, singly. in the
light and air for at least two hours
every morning, and a draught should
meanwhile be allowed To sweep
through the room. Pillows shoGld re-
celve a good kneading, and be left d.
rectly before the open window In the
u and air.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-30
REPUBLICAN SPECIMEN BALLOT.

away from the polls hundreds of men
who, while not absolutely afraid that
their employers would discharge them
for being of opposite politics, would
rather remain away from the polls and
not run any risks.
1T has been suggested that one reg
istration day be for democratic voters,
another day for republican.
THE same objection applies to that.
Soth these plans would u down the
vote and give the party bosses oppor-
tunity to get a list Of the party voters
and whip employers into line"
JOHN TALMAN.