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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
A Wise Rule of Court.

The Judge of Lycomlng county has
just made an order requiring the
Grand Jury to meet one week before
the regular quarter sessions court
begins. This practic is intended to
facilitate the work of the court, besides
saving much expense to the county.
The district attorney is able to have
his work completely In hand, wit
nesses are not held so long to wait
the action of the Grand jury and the
jury meets without any of the attend.
ant confusion on court weeks. While
this is new procedure in Lycoming
it has been tried elsewhere. In Brad
ford county, for instance, the Grand
jury sits two weeks in advance of the
court, and there are several other
counties where this is the rule. 1t is
stated that there is a very general
agreement that it is marked improve
ment on the old method.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
A PICNIC BREAKFAST.
odd Predicnment Which BefeII n
Household Through n serv-
ants Misdeeds.

Convivial servants are ANYTHING but
treasures. as one housekeeper found
to her sorrow the other day, relates
the Baltimore News. This housekeep-
er has large family for which to
care, and so the news brought her
by a policeman at two o'clock one
morning recently that her trusted
colored henchman had been arrested
for fighting and was now languishing
in the station house was by no means
welcome.
1t didn't make so much difference
about the man himself-he rightly
deserved his fate-the housekeeper
said, but it d.d make a difference that
he had the keys of the buffet and of
the refrigerator in his pocket, and
that there would not be anything like
knives and forks enough to 90 around
at breakfast, nor any butter or cream
at all.
At seven q. m. n member of the fam
lily went to the station house to see
what could be done for the iniquitous
Abraham, and in the meanwhile those
OF the household who were obliged
to breakfast early took turns at using
the two knives and three forks that
were all of the table equipment not
locked up.
1t was q real picnic breakfast,
"Please lend me your knife" being the
remark oftenest heard, except certain
eXpletives, but it wasn't voted sue
cess until the repentant henchman
appeared with his keys, purified by
good-sized fine, and opened the doors
of the closets
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04

that was carried when the vessel was
in the slave trade, and was cruising
about the West Indies as pirate.
With fair wind the Vigilant makes
the 40-mile trip in little more than
three hours, and it can stand any sort
of weather.
p. C. Pentheny, of st. Croix, owns the
vessel and leases it for mail-carrying.
He is proud of the fact thatno schoon-
er has ever beaten his boat. He got it
from his father, who, in turn, bought
it from an old native, whose father had
used it with an English master in the
slave trade.
The slaves were carried in the hold
where the mail is thrown now. The
vessel is $50 years old, and has had it's
back broken twice. This ceremony oc-
ours every time ship is condemned as
pirate or SLAYER. The last sentence
of the Vigilant wa $ passed in 1923. The
vessel was run ashore, where it's keel
was split in two. 1t was repaired and
put in service again, and is now as good
as ever.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04

An eastern man who has just re-
turned from Cuba was impressed by
two things during his stay in Havana
the strength of the coffee that is
served and the vast quantities of soda
biscuits of American manufacture
consumed by the natives. at took
me some time to get accustomed to
the coffee" he said. "At first / used
to water it, but gradually L fell into
the Cubans' way of drinking it, and
learned to like the strong, aromatic
flavor. Our own coffee now tastes
weak and insipid to me. The poorer
classes of Cubans will make u meal
1rom coffee and soda biscuits
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
Must Not Drink.
Bill Passed Forbidding School Teachers ia
use Intoxicants.

A recent act of the state legislature
forbids the using of alcoholic drinks
by school teachers. No certificates
may be issued to persons who use
either alcohol or opium. In some
parts OF Pennsylvania nearly everybody
drinks beer, but the governor says no
exceptions will be made and every-
where the glass and the school are to
be separated.
This law was made at the sugges-
tion of the state educational authorizes.
1t is a part of the school curriculum
OF the state to teach that alcoholic
liquors are injurious and the educa.
tlonal officials have found that pupils
aie little affected by words of temper
ance from the lips Of teacher they
know to be a tippler. They have
found that drinking teacher, be ever
SO moderate in his indulgences is a
very bad example.
The substance of the law referred
to is as follows:
That after the first Monday of June
one thousand, nine hundred and two,
no teacher in this commonwealth shall
receive from county, city or borough
superintendent, certificate as a
teacher who has not a fair knowledge
of photography, English grammar,
mental and written arithmetic, history
OF the United States, the theory OF
teaching, and civil government, in
Guiding state and local, and elementary
algebra, nor shall such certificate be
given to any person who is in the hab.
1t OF using, as beverage, any intoxi-
eating drinks, or habitually takes
opium; and all certificates given to
teachers shall set forth the branches
in which those holding them have
been found proficient and indicate
by suitable marks the degrees of that
proficiency.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
RANGE OF BIG GUNS.
What Some of Uncle Sans Immense
New CannOns Are Capable
of Doing.

1t is evident that few besides ord
nance experts know the effective
range of one of the modern breech-
loading rifles, says the New York
Tribune. Proof of this lies in the fire.
quency that newspapers are asked to
state in their columns the distance
that a shot or shell may be fired, the
thickness of metal it will pierce, etc.
The new 16-inch breech-loading rifle
recently finished at the Watervliet ar
senal, and which is to remain with the
army exhibit at the Pan-American ex-
position, will no doubt excite the
question among lay people as to
age to Manhattan if mounted on an
enemys ship off the harbor. A table
of ranges and muzzle velocities of this
gun, prepared by Lieut.. Col. T. NJ. In
gals, shows what it is capable of do
ing. With As degrees elevation, and
a projectile weighing 2,370 pounds,
given muzzle velocity of 1000 feet
per second, its effective range would
be 149 miles; while, with "A muzzle We
locity of 1900 foot seconds, its range
would be "a miles. The table also
shows distances of travel with other
velocities, and governed by weight of
charge of powder, but sufficient has
been stated to prove that with the
maximum velocity a proiectile could
be sent nearly twice the distance from
Sandy Hook to the Battery
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
SHIP WITH A HISTORY.
Once the yiGiIant Was n Pirate Shin
aud n SLAYER, Now She Is nn
Honest Mail Ship.

Few persons, even those who are in
the postal service, know that United
States mail is carried in the Oldest sail
ing vessel in the water to-day, and that
the vessel has been pirate ship and a
SLAYER. Its name is the Vigilant, and
1t carries the mails from st. Croix to
st. Thomas in the West Indies. In
speed it compares favorably with many
steamboats, which carry the mails, and
it can distance anything that is pro-
PEELED by wind in any postal service.
The ship is of 40 tons burden, and is
rugged as fore and after, the same rig
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y,
May I to October 81, 1901.


For the above occasion the follow
ing fares and arrangements will apply
from Bloomsburg via the Lackawanna
Railroad Season tickets, $IS.5 50 /;
ten-day tickets, 5000; five-day tick
cts, $500. Season and ten-day tick
cts will be sold every day, five day
tickets on Tuesdays and Saturdays
only. All tickets will be limited to
continuous passage in both directions.
Fares to Niagara Falls will be IS
cents higher than the five and ten-day
fares quoted to Buffalo, but the sea-
son tickets will include the trip to Nj
agara Falls without extra cost. Three
fast trains each day. For further par
ticulars apply to ticket agents. 5-stt
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
Of Interest TO School Boards.

Judge John G. Love, OF Centre
county has decided that contract
made by school board on the day its
successor takes Office is not valid
The case was that of Stancliff & Co.,
of Philadelphia, against the school
board of Taylor township, to recover
on a contract to furnish school sup
plies for the school district, the
amount involved being in the neigh
borhood of S., 600. On the first Mon
day in June, 1899, the school board
which went out of Office that day con-
tracted with Stanchff & Company to
furnish the supplies, majority of the
members signing the contract. The
new board, which was sworn into Of
fee the same day, refused to recog-
nize the contract or pay for the sup
plies.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04

The Parisiennes have a new English
word. They think it more piquant
than either "hirt" or "higlif" or "five
o'clock" or "sportsmen." This time
It is '"'prig." A bonnet is prig, bow
of ribbon is prig; it is. prig to go mo-
tor-callng dressed in white leather
jackets which can be cleaned with pipe
clay, etc. An American woman hear
ing the proud reiteration of this up
side-down expression among her
French friends, threw cold water on
the enthusiasts by explaining what
the new word meant. OF course. it
was dropped at once and replaced by
another one-vingtieme--w seems
to comprehend and express all the
possible records, the various perversi-
ties and modern nervous complaints.
One is vingtieme, and that means ev-
erything.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04

There is more catarrh in this sec
tion of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incura-
bile. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease, and
prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat,
ment, pronounced it incurable. Sci.
ence has proven catarrh to be con-
stitutional disease, and therefore re.
quires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.,
Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., is the only
constitutional cure on the market. 1t
is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimo
malls. Address, +. J. Cheney & Co +,
Toledo, o. Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
PHILADELPHIA q READIN G.
RAILROAD.

TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURG:
For New YORK, Philadelphia, Reading Potts
For Williamsport, weekdays, 7.2O a. M, 1856 p
For Danvllle and Milton, weekdays 7.aO a. m.
For Catawissa weekdays 7.2O, s.Ss, ll.sO a. M,
1890, 500, 80, p. m.
For Rupert weekdays7. co. s.ss II .soa. m, 1890,
'is SsS Bstmcrs s Washington and the West via
B. q o. r. r., through trains leave Reading Ter.
minal, Philadelphia, 800, 7,55, l1.a6 a. m, 40
3.46, 7.27, p. m. Additional trains from "a and
Chestnut street station, weekdays, 1.85, 5.s1
s.2a p. m. Sundays 1875, 1928 p. m.
TRAINS FOR BLooMsBURG.
Leave New York via Philadelphia 7.sO a,
M, and via Easton y.l0a. m.
Leave Philadelphia 1921 q. n.
Leave Reading 1918 p. m.
Leave Pottsville i2.30p. m.
Leave Tamaqusl .49 p, M,
Leave williamsport weekdays 1913 a m, sac p
Leave Catawissa weekdays, 700, ,s.2O9.lOa. m
Leave Rupert, weekdays, 7.Os, s.2S, 9Is ll.4O
a. M, las, 3 46, 6.2l.
ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION
In effect June 90, 1901
Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street wharf
and south street wharf.
For ATLANTIC CITY = Weekdays. Ex-
300 90, 40: 400, 4.SO, 500, Is 40, S,i5 80 p NJ
Accommodations 500 a. m, t5,40 $50 p. IN. Sun
days-Express T30, 500, 80, 800, 1000 1l.C0 a.
m, 4.45, 7.15 p. m. Accommodation, 900 a. M,
500 p. m s1.OO Excursion daily 700 a. m. Ad-
ditonal sunday, 7.30 a. m.
Leave ATLANTIC CITY, Weekdays Express,
(Monday only, 1,3O), 700, 745 from Baltic EX-
tension only, 765), $50, 800, 1918, ll00 a. M.
$50, 4,30, $40, 7,30, s 80, $50 p. m. Accommoda-
tion 5.25, 705 a. M, $50 p. m. Sundays-EX-
press-S,45 a. M. $780, 4,s0, $50, 500, $50, 7.OO
730, 500, $50 p m Accommodation, 7.15 a. m.
4,32 p. m.
Parlor cars on all express trains.
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA.
For CAPE MAY-weekdays-S.3O a. M, as
Has a. M, sl5O '4lo $50, pm. Sundays, s45,9 Is
a. m, 500 p, m
For OCEAN CITY-Weekdays-s ll.45 a. nj.
els, "a 90, $50 p. III. Sunuays, S.45, 9l5 a. m, ,
5.00p m
For SEA ISLE -weekdays-s4 45 a. m.
Els, t4.e0, 1880 p m. sundays, s,45 a. m, 5 90
p. m. sl00 excursion tn Cape May Ocean City
and Sea Isle City, 200 a. m. daily.
I ,outh St., 400 p. tn., tSouth St., 4.15 p. m ,
| sSouth ST., $40, Las p. m.
| NEW YORK AND ATLANTIC CITY EXPRESS.
| leaves NEW YORK liberty StreeD O. 40 a. IN.
! Saturdays only, LOO p, M, 8,4op. m.
! Leaves ATLANTIC CITY, $50 a. m, LIS D. m.
l.SuUdays, O. so p. IN
Detailed time tables at ticket Offices
| w. G. BESLER, EPSON j. WEEKS,
| Genl Supt, Geu'l Pass Agt.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
Nothing to Worry About.

Ted-He's to get hundred thou
sand providing he doesn't marry.
Ned-Well, there's nothing hard
about that. A fellow with that much
money doesn't need to marry.-Town
Topics.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04

"What is the price of these gloves?"
1.-TWO dollars"
"You had some last week just like
them that you were selling for $1.99."
"Same glove, ma'am. That was q
special sale. Chicago Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
CarefuIness PersOpified.

Crawford-Is he what you would
call careful man?
Crabshaw-Is he? Why, he's been
known to carry gold-headed UNI
brella six months before losing it,
Town Topics.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04

gerous, nervous trouble. Those hot
flashes are just so many calls from
nature for help. The nerves are cry
ing, out for assistance. The cry should
be needed in time. Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound was pre-
pared to meet the needs of woman's
system at this trying period of her life.
1t builds up the weakened nervous
system, and enables woman to pass
that grand change triumphantly.
81 was very sick woman, caused
by Change of Life. / suffered with hot
flushes, and fainting spells. | was
afraid to go on the street, my head and
back troubled me SO. | was entirely
cured by Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound" Mrs. JENNIE NOBLE,
SOLO Keyser St., Germantown, Pa.
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she Hnd I0I0 the Trurn.

Sue-You said you were going to
marry an artist, and now you're en-
gagged to a dentist
Flo-Well, isn't he an artist? He
draws from real life!-Philadelp
Bulletin.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-04
The Change of
Life

is the most important period IN wo-
mans existence. Owing to modern
methods of living, not one woman in
thousand approaches this perfectly
natural change without experiencing
a train Of very annoying and some-
times painful symptoms.
Those dreadful hot flashes, sending
the blood surging to the heart until 1t
seems ready to burst, and the faint
feeling that follows, sometimes with
chills, as if the heart were going to
stop for good, are symptoms of dan.
Arizona republican., 1901-09-16
PERSONAL.

Prof. William Willoughby of the de- partment of labor. at Washington. will probably have charge of the St. Louis Worlds fair department of social econ only- MT. Willoughby had imnedia te Charge of the work in social economy for the United States at the Paris ex- position.
 A monument is being erected on the grounds of the old government fort on Mackinac island to Dr. William Beau mont. who. more than a half century ago, made a number of surgical dis coveries.
 To advance the project of beautifying the river front of Springfield, Mass. for which project the late lilly Haynes bequeathed $1O.000. Everett H. Barney of that city. has offered to be one of nineteen persons to give $10.o00 each.
 Sir Henry Irving has been appointed by the Royal Institution of Great Brit ain as it's representative at Winchester in connection with the national com memo. alton of King Alfred. He will give a reading from Tennyson's s Beckett"
 Ths biography of himself contributed by Governor Mclean of Connecticut to Who's Who in America is said to be the shortest in the. book. It reads: Mclean. George P, Governor Connec- ticut. 1s01-'O3. Republican. Address, Hartford. Conn"
 Prof. Hidebrand. the antiquarian. thinks he has discovered in Stockholm >the burial place of the Dominican friars. They existed in Sweden durins g the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and were one of the most powerful of the Swedish religious as sociaticns.
 A house which is associated with the early life of Daniel Webster Is soon to be sold. It is at Main street and Web ster avenue, Hanover, N. H. Webster occupied one of it's rooms for large part of his student life at Dartmouth college.
 Sir Henry Johnson, who recently re- turned to London from Uganda, has brought with him a collection of photo graphs said to be the finest ever gath cred together in Africa.
Arizona republican., 1901-09-16
FUTURES. .

There's lots of things we're going to do As soon as this hot wave is through: When winter eases our distress And the humidity grows less. We'll snter every foreign mart; The isthmian canal we'll start; And capital and toll shall be United in true harmony. The colored man shall fairly vote, And honest prices they will quote From Wall street. Happiness sublime Will surely reign ere Christmas time. So let us finger now at ease And sing. the idle strains that please. There's lots of things we're going to do As soon as this hot wave is through.
 Washington Star
Arizona republican., 1901-09-16

The thirty-fifth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic just closed at Cleveland. Ohio. finds the ranks of the veterans much re- duced by the passage of the years and the ravages of death. A year ago last June the number of comrades on the rolls was only two hundred and sev- enty-six thousand, and it is probably less now. The organization is numeri- cally weakened every year. These bent and grizz.ed men are the visible re- hinder to the upspringing generation of a war of which they have no personal memories, and the annual encamp- ments of the order serve to teach many the important lessons of loyalty and patriotism, though unwise lead CTS sometimes manage to persuade these gatherings into taking a selfish and rancorous attitude.
Arizona republican., 1901-09-16
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SEPT. 1s. 1901.

The suggestion of The Republican that any assault of whatsoever nature
 upon the person of the SANCTITY president of the United OF PERSON States should be de AND OFFICE fined as treason, pun
 ishable by death, has been echoed from all parts of the coun- try. Legislation to this end, and if need be. an amendment to the consti- tuition. may be regarded as certain.
 But the reforns should not stop there. The office should have such sanctity in the eyes of the people that coarse and vulgar abuse of the occupant Of the presidential chair would not be tolerated. Can it be doubted that the blood of President Mckinley is on the hands of others besides the murderer Czolgosz? For the lowest partisan purposes vicious assaults were made upon Mckinley by certain speakers and newspapers for years In epileptfc editorials he was abused by the yellow press as the enemy of the poor and the oppressed, as the willing tool of men who were bsnt on the enslavement of the workingmen of the United States. and as a despot and would-be emperor. Who can measure the effect of such things upon the minds of the igno- rant?
 In June last the Nsw York Journal had an editorial on the subject of assassina ton. It purported to be dis passionate discussion of the question whether assassination had at any time changed the current of history. But running through it all was an insidious suggestion to the weak minded that assassination might not be a hide5us crime in every instance. Did not the murder of Lincoln" said the Journal in that editorial, uniting in sympathy and regret all good people in the north and south, hasten the era of American good feeling, and perhaps prevent the renewal of fighting between brothers?" Ii that idea is not due to a demensed brain it is the logic of the anarchist, who holds that stealthy murder is the weapon wherewith to improve social conditions and the worlds political frame work.
 A few days ago Emma Goldman, the anarchist leader, was arrested in Chi cage. To the newspaper reporters, she said:
 T regard Mckinley as the most in- significant president this country has ever had. He is in the hands of the trusts and is the foe of the laboring man. He is a tool of capital.
 T will tell you that I believe him to be the most insignificant and weakest president the United States ever had. l think that he is a tool in the hands of the wealthy.
 MT. Mckinley is insignificant. and he is neither endowed with intelligence nor reason, and is owned completely by Mark Hanna.
 The monopolists are responsible for all this misery about us.
 He is a tool, a most insignificant tool. He has neither intelligence nor skill. and there never was a United States president so unimportant. Mark
Arizona republican., 1901-09-16

The cable rate between the United States and Hong Kong is from $1.65 to s1.75 per word, and from Hong Kong to Manila a considerable addition is made to these prices. This high cost of com munication operates as a handicap on business. and there is an urgent cry for relief both in this country and the Ori- ent The Philadelphia Press remarks: '''The United Statss pays almost enough tolls on its Philippine business to capi- talize a sum sufficient to construct cable, and it has ample funds lying idle in the treasury to pay for the work. The refusal of congress to act at the last session on the, presidents recom- mendation was in the highest degree penny wise and pound foolish polity." A cable from the United States to the Philippines, touching the Hawaiian is- lands, is an immediate and urgent ne cessity. Congress should take the proj- ect in hand next winter and carry 1t through without delay"
Arizona republican., 1901-09-16

Those who have contended that the United States is losing its Anglo Saxon individuality on account of the influx of foreign immigrants will be surprised to learn that for the five months ended May 31, 1901, there arrived on Ameri- can soil 39.s23 persons from Great Brit ain, as against a grand total of all other nationalities of only 34,2s5. Of the first-named number 19,695 were of English birth. 2.97s Scotch, and IT, 15o Irish. One Amerl.an journal ap- praises each ab!e-bodied immigrant as worth about G2,000 to the United States. This repre sents the surplus wealth he creates in an average life over what he receives in the way of wages