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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
THE HORSE IS UNHARMED.
Trolley Cars and Automobiles Have
Only Dettered It's Con-
ditiOn.

Ten years ago, when electric trolley
cars began to be generally introduced
into the cities, so many draught horses
that had been used in the street car
service were put on the market that
the price of horses fell to figure that
left no profit to horse breeders. Many
stopped breeding horses altogether.
Others, more far seeing, began to
breed better ones, believing that only
the common plug" horse was to dis
appear from the market. This has
proved true, says well posted author
ity. The electric elevated railroad
has been introduced since that time,
and the automobile, both doing much
of the work that used to be done by
horses. Yet the price of horses is
higher now than it was ten years ago,
because only good ones are in demand
and there are not enough of a high
grade offered for sale.
The plug" that used so sell for S25,
has largely disappeared from the mar
ket, and with it has gone the cruelty
of drivers. A mans pocketbook usual
ly appeals TO him more strongly thaN
humane society, and when he has
paid $3.50 for horse he has personal
interest in seeing that it is not abused
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Giant Trees of the Pacific Coast Have
Never Bccn in Jcop-
nrdy.

Statements in Che California papers
that the sequoas have no commercial
value are apt to create surprise at
all the effort that has been needed to
begin the work of making these gi-
ant trees public instead of private
property in order to preserve them.
If they have a sentimental value only
no great price should be asked for
them. Indeed, that is the argument
addressed to the eastern owner of
the Calaveras grove, with whom the
national government is dickering.
Hitherto it has been threatening un-
less his price was paid to convert
the trees into lumber, when every
lumberman knows that the trees are
of no value for milling" says the San
Francisco Chronicle.
In the FIRST place, the San Francis
60 paper explains, the cost of Telling
any one of the o2 big trees on the
5OO-acre tract would be excessive. II
would take five men 90 days to bore
enough holes through any tree 30 feet
i'm diameter. After being felled the
trunk would have to he cut into 40
foot lengths to be serviceable. A
block of wood, say 80 feet in diam
eter by 40 feet in length, would
weigh about 600 tons, aad no ma
chinery has yet been built carable OF
handling it. No saw could work on
such section, if it were possible to
get it to mill, and to split it with
dynamite, as Mr.. Whiteside once sug-
gcsted, would shatter the log and
spoil the lumber. In other words, the
big trees are vastly too massive for
commercial use.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
LhSSON WAS NUr 'NhELLD.
An Incident I'm stock Specializing
FURRY That Henry CIews
Does Not Tell,

Henry Clews, the New York stock
broker, is very kindly man and de-
lights in doing good. Naturally he
figured to some extent in the recent
Wall street operations, and story
IS told of him that he has vainly
tried to sidetrack, says a New York
exchange.
An army officer stationed in the
Philippines has been sending home
his salary for his wife to save. She
sought'to add to it by taking flyer
in Wall street She had invested
every dollar of her husbands savings,
and in the recent panic all were
swept away. She appealed to Henry
Clews, with whose firm she had dealt.
"If / show you the way to get
your money back, will you promise
me that you will not speculate
again?" asked the broker.
Indeed | will" tearfully assented
the woman.
"Well, here's your money; now keep
out of the market"
Clews said afterward that he had
not invested the money.
A broker in the Waldorf-Astoria
cafe who listened to the story
laughed.
"Well, that's one on Clews. That
woman brought the money right to
my office and asked me to buy Della
ware S Hudson for it. / did so, and
she made $4,000"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
Hessian Flies.

A we'll known farmer has the follow
ing to say in regard to the Hessian
fly pest: "The grubs of the Hessian
flies of last falls breed, one of the
most dreaded of crop pests, have been
doing unmistakable damage to the
wheat fields in the vicinity where
reside. Field after field have been
almost totally ruined, nearly every
stock being under the attack of grubs
that are consuming its sap to such an
extent that the plant cannot attain
to nature growth. In some fields can
be seen stalks with half developed
heads, but for want of the nour ish-
ment consumed by the insects nature
is rendered powerless in pushing them
20 their natural sizes and hence the
plants droop and finally become pre-
maturely yellow, drop to the ground.
Many fields badly affected and rem
dered almost wholly bare of plant life,
we're plowed down this spring and
seeded with oats. The ravages of
these little pests are source of great
1amage to lot OF farmers. A drive
through the affected localities is all
.shat is necessary to reveal the exist.
.nce of the pests.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
COULD NOT ESCAPE BLAME.
shift the Responsibility on
n Phonogrspb.

A sewing machine agent in Germany
wanted to slander an employe whom
he had quarreled with D1d discharged.
lie did not call it slander, but he knew
that his enemy would, and possibly
the courts also, and as the penalties
for that offense arc likely to be heavy
in the kaiser's realm Re sought out n
way in which he could gain the desired
end without endangering his own
safety. An inspiration came to him,
and purchasing a phonograph roll he
went to the village inn, placed it into
the instrument which was in the tap
room and talked it full of things about
his sometime friend, relates the New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Later in the day the patrons of the
Inn came in to have their beer. and, as
was their custom, some OF them
dropped coins into the phonograph
and set it a-tallting. The result was
appalling to them. The photograph
told the most shocking tales about one
whom they had considered hitherto
much respected and altogether to be
praised if not admired fellow citizen
tales they knew not to be true. They
hurried to the slandcred man, and in
the course of time he brought an ac-
tion against his former employer
The latter pleaded that he had not in
suited the plaintiff, but that the
phonograph was the guilty one. The
phonograph was brought into court
and turned on to give its testimony,
but it refused to work. However, the
judge decided that the defendant was
at least an active accomplice in the
ISLANDERS and fined him so marks.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
MORAL TRUTHS FROM MR.. WU
The Chinese Minister mt Washington
and n Bonstful Re-
porter.

This is an old story of the Chinese
minister, WI Tingfang, in a new
form. A reporter had been commits
stoned by his newspaper to interview
Mr. WI. Following his usual artless
Chinese custom, Mr.. Wu asked the
reporter how much salary he re-
ceived, says the Youths Companion.
zone hundred and fifty dollars a
week." he answered.
The familiar comment was at once
forthcoming:
ut is too much. 1t is altogether
too much. You are not worth more
than $25 week"
Some time afterward, while talk
ing with other newspaper men, the
minister learned that the reporter
has deceived him, and that instead of
receiving $50 a week he was paid
not more than $50. Accordingly the
next time he called at the Chinese
legation in search of information Mr.
WI thus sharply dismissed him:
You lied to me about your salary
If you will lie about such thing as
that you will lie about anything.
do not trust you. | have nothing to
say. | want to revise my former es-
innate of your value. Instead of be-
ing worth $25 a week, you are not
worth anything, SIR"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
SPINSTERS TAKING TO BIRDS
Parrots Not in Favor Any More,
Perhaps, owing to the Comic
Papers.

The arrest of woman shoplifter
who had stolen a canary and whose
theft was revealed because the bird
sang when she opened her bag, re-
minded the bird store man the other
day that spinsters and bachelor wom-
en- were taking to canaries more than
they used to, says a New York ex-
change.
ITS a queer thing" said the bird
store man, "but canaries are driving
the parrots out of business as COM
panions for lonely women. | don't un-
derstand ii any more than you do,
unless it's because the comic papers
have made the possession of parrot
by woman peculiarly characteristic
of an old maid But it is fact that
the old maids aren't buying parrots
any more and are buying canaries.
"A canary's the pleasantest kind of
bird to have around the house, anyway,
but it's hard on the parrot to be de-
serted in this way There's one good
quality about parrot. 1t takes few
likings, but it is usually loyal to the
few it does take to, even if it is dis
agreeable to outsiders"
Department stores are selling as
many canaries as the bird stores, ac-
cording to the bird store man, and the
bird trade isn't what it used to be in
New York. If the big stores keep on
selling BIRDS he told the reporter,
there won't be any bird stores left
soon, which he thought would be a
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
. a 81 TO IxEA.
Bears the HIhe Kind You Have Always Bought
signature Of E/zzzzIzm
OranseVille Borough Ordinances.
ORDINANCE NO. II.

OhDlNANtE No. II.
AN ORDINANCE REPEATING BOROUGH OR
DINANCE NO, l6 OF THE BOROUGH OF
ORANGEvILLE.
BE 1t ordained and enacted by the Borough
Council OF the Borough of orangevIlle, and ir
Is hereby ordained and enacted by authority OF
the same:
Section /. That ordinance No, i6 of the Bor-
ough OF orangeyllle, passed by Council on the
18th day OF May, 1900, and approved by the
Chier Burgess on the same date, entitled "An
ordinance permitting the Montour and Colunl-
ola Telephone Company, Its successors or as
signs, to construct, maintain ard operate, tel
ephone exchange and system OF telephone SER
vice In the Borough OF orangeville, County O
columbia, and to erect the necessary poles.
wires and cables, TO operate the same upon
certain terms and conditions" be, ana the same
Is hereby repealed ana OF no effect.
Passed December 3D. 1900
CB. WHITE,
President OF the Borough Council
Attest; CLINTON HERRING. Secretary.
Approved December Sd, 1900.
A. b, HERRING,
Chief Burgess
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
Full Value for all They Receive.

Newspaper men who receive COM
ohmentary tickets to county fairs and
other places are often looked upon as
ieadheads, but the managers of the
Woodford, ILL.,, county fairs, who have
iome experience in such matters, had
he following printed on the compli-
.nentary tickets issued: "Thls ticket
las probably been paid for ten times
~ the paper to which it is issued
It will be honored in the hands Of
nan, woman or child, white or black,
ed or yellow, who favors the assoca-
~ presenting it, good for entrance
md grand stand, and bearer If driving
vii be entitled to pass team free.
The association recognizes the fact
hat its splendid success is due to the
notices SO freely gwen by the press,
md while we cannot render an equiv
lent In cash, we return our grateful
hanks"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
Chicago Postomce Changes.

WASHINGTON, June 19.-The post
office department has allowed Postmaster
Coyne of Chicago 100 additional clerks,
80 of whom were put on duty June 13,
and also has granted him 800 promotions
among lower grade clerks. A fund of $10.-
600 is allowed for emergency clerk hire,
and 40 additional substations are provid-
ed for, effective July |. 1t also was de-
cided that the carrier stations in Chicago,
which now close at & p. m, will hereafter
remain open until at least s O'Clock.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20

CHICAGO, June ia dispatch TO
The Record Herald from Topeka says
that former Congressman :. Il. Peters
Of Kansas has received dispatch call
ing him to Washington, whore he will
be rendered the Office of pension commits
sioner, succeeding II. Clay Evans Pres
ident Mckinley has had under considera-
ton the names of former Congressman
Blue and Peters for this position, and Mr..
Peters summons to the White House set
Ties the appointment in his favor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
The July New" Lippincott.

With a single exception the July "New"
Lippincott Magazine is given over to stories
for summer. "a Woman for No hing the
novel complete, is by Louise Belts Edwards,
n Phladcl phia writer of many short stories.
II deal5 with the decline and fall of Miss
Rix She is the daughter of MILL onaire
philanthropist who had bound her down very
young to church work. never letting her 20
much into society for fear she would marry
some fortune hunter. At his death Miss
Xix is left wealthy in everything but happi
ness. Youth is slipping away and she longs
for taste of the bliss which other women
know. Her good friend the Bishop (who
has loved her for many years) asks her in
tcrest in his nephew, Pierre d'lnvillers, and
his babies Mrs. Pierre is in Europe with
nervous prostration. Pierre is younger
than Miss Rix and the situation seems i'm.
pregnable. So she consents. Faclis de-
scensus Avern Miss Edwards portrays
Characters so well that the reader ev n hears
the sound of her peoples voices. The dc.
nouement is thrilling.
Mary f. Wikins's long short story, "Two
for Peace" recalls her earlier successes. II
is about typical daughter of the Puritans
and her lover, who confesses to "Catholic
leanings." Out of their love, their troubles
and triumphs, she has made an absorbingy
interesting tale in her early short-story vein.
Martha Wolfenstein's humorous sketch,
called "a Judgment Of Solomon, " will make
laugh. Another lively love.story, appro-
pirate to the outdoor season, is "Cheever's
Magic Mashie" by Edwin L. Sabin.
''ller Day Of Freedom" by Ina Brevoort
Roberts (whose novel, '"The Lifting of
Finger" is TO appear in the August number),
is one days romance beginning in Central
Park between reporter on n New York
newspaper and one of the richest girls in the
city-a bride-elect who, with dollar in
her pocket, chooses to spend her last free
day at Coney Island.
An Italian story, "The Image.Makcr,"
by William lie QueX, is charming: and
wonderful Chinese story by Harold Ballagh
called "a Chinese Cue" is declared by the
author to have "actually occurred"
The College Tale this month is from the
pen of Albert Payson Terhune of Columbia
College. lie calls it "a Lightning Change"
and it is distinctly society story about
college men and pleasure, loving girls who
scent mystery connected with a popular
senior This they at last uuravel
Patriotism is responsible for the only prose
article other than fiction. 1t is called '"The
Men Who Signed" by S. LaMance, and
contains an abundance of interesting infor-
nation and new anecdotes about the Signers
OF the Declaration Of Independence, also
facsimile of their signatures.
A Scottish newspaper said last month that
some OF the stories in the Walnuts and Wine
Department 'were enough to make an Egypt
ian mummy smile" The Department this
month lives up to ITS reputation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20

ST. JOHNS, n. r., June 17.-Sir Cav
endish Boyle, the new governor of New
foundland, arrived here yesterday from
England to assume his administrative du-
ties. He will take the oath of Office today.
The British warship Columbine arrived
here Yesterday afternoon.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
To RuiId Good Ro0ds

MIDDLETOWN. n. Y, June 19.-The
board of supervisors of Orange county in
special session decided to sublet the con
tract for the construction of 33 miles Of
county roads under the good roads sys-
TEN to the Orange County Road Com
struction company, of which Il. II. Har-
riman is president.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
Wasn't Taking ANY Chances.

A Kansas school board received
ne following letter the other day from
me OF the teachers: ! would like to
ave the refusal of the school as long
S you are willing TO hold it for me,
hough can't say positively that |
'lll not teach, nor positively that /
ill. If l am married, as ] think
nll be, Of course / will not want the
chool. But you know the old story
.bout many slip, and / would hate
o be out of job as well as the other.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20

Beauty is born in the blood. Beauty is
more than ''skin deep" it is blood deep.
When the blood is tainted by disease the
flesh will feel It and the skin will show it.
Sallow or muddy compilations, pimples,
blotches and eruptions are only the surface
signs of impure blood Face washes, 10.
tons, complexion powders, may palliate the
evils but they cannot cure the disease. The
only cure is to cleanse the blood of the pois.
onous matter which is the cause Of the out.
break in the flesh and skin. Impure blood
can be absolutely purified by the use of DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medicll Discovery Its ef.
feet on flesh anu skin is marked. Sores heal
and disappear. The skin becomes smooth.
and regains its natural color. The eyes
brighten and sparkle, the whole body is radi.
ant with the brightness and beauty of
health. Golden Medical Discovery" con.
talns no alcohol whisky or other ntoxicant,
and is absolutely free from opium, cocaine
and other narcotics. The use of DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets assists the actAn of the
discovery" by cleansing the system of clog.
ging matter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
Da,iy Bid Relccted.

HAVANA, June 19.-The government
has rejected the bid of approximately
$4,000, 900 made by Dady, Onderdonk &
Mcclellan for the sewering ana paving of
Havana and will readyertise the contract
for three months.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot Ease,
a powder. 1t cures painful, smartng, merry
Gus feet and ingrowing nails, and instantly
takes the sting out of corns and bunions.
It's the greatest comfort iscovery of the
age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight or new
shoes feel easy. 1t is a certain cure for
sweating, callous and hot, dred, aching feet
Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and
shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps.
Trial package FREE. ADDRESS, Allen S.
Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y. 66Atd
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
Rooms Are Left VncnDt

The apartments of deceased kings
OF Italy are left untouched for two
generations.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
Some inventors are like their inventions -
they won't work.

Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls,
Mont, recommended Ely's Cream Balm to
me. can emphasize his statement, at is
a positive cure for catarrh if used as direct
ed. Key. Francis w. Poole, Pastor Cen
tral Pres. Church, Helena, Mont.
After using Ely's Cream Balm six weeks
| believe myself cured of catarrh Joseph
Stewart, Grand Ave, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Balm does not irritate or cause sneez-
ing. Sold by druggists at so cents, or
mailed by Ely Bros, SO Warren St., New
York.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20
RAILROAD NOTES.

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD REDUCED RATES
TO DETROIT, ACCOUNT NATIONAL EDU-
CATIoNAL ASSOCIATION.
For the meeting Of the National Educa.
tional Association at Detroit July s to ~.
1901, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will sell excursion tickets to Detroit from all
stations on its lines, at the rate of one fare
for the round trip, plus So 90. Tickets will
be sold July 8, 7 and s, good returning to
leave Detroit not earlier than July Q, nor
later than July IS. BY depositing tickets
with joint agent on or before July IL, and the
payment of so cents, the return limit may
he extended TO leave Detroit not later than
September l.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-06-20

eaeher-'Name very innammable ma
terlal." Willie Wiseboy-''Money."
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-04-19
VALENCIA COUNTY NOTES.
The Range Is in Poor Condition Sheep
Thieves Have Been Arrested

Special Correspondence New Mexican.
Progreso, Valencia County, April Is,
1901.-There has been "a lull i'm the wind
the past two days, but today i'd COM
menced to- blow again. The winds will!
not permit the grass to grow and the
range looks desolate, but 1T is better
here than anywhere else. Several sheep
men from the west of the Rio Grande
are here prepasing for lambing, having
leased ranches for the purpose. Among
them are Louis Ilfeld, Andres Romero,
Jose Jaramillo, Alejandro Sandoval.
and many others.
c. F. Blackington, sheriff of Socorro
county, arrested two sheep thieves in
this vicinity who We're indicted two
years ago, Espiridion Luevas and Lev!
Claypool The sheriff has many others
of similar Offenders spotted and will
take them in leisurely.
Mrs. R. S. Garcia has received her
commission as notary public.
Hon. J. Francisco Chaves, s'uperin-
tendent of public instruction, who has
been inspecting 'tyhe schools and CONFER
ring with the directors of siN school
districts i'm this county, will probably
return to Santa Fe by April 25.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-04-19
MURDER CHARGE DISMISSED.
Ira F. Henry Is Sentenced to the Peniten
Tertiary for Larceny.

Ira f. Henry. charged with infantcide
and larceny, was before Judge Crum
packer at Albuquerque and pleade !
guilty to three indictments of larceny,
and was sentenced to two and ONE half
years in THE territorial penitentiary,
and the case of murder was dismissed.
Last November, Henry's wife gave
birth ito a child and in less than two
days it died and was bulied. After the
funeral Henry returned to his home and
made a remark to his Wife that was
overheard by some of the ladies ait the
house.
The authorities suspected the child
had been murdered, the body was eX-
hume'd, and then Henry told the story
that he and his Wife had given the child
chlorofolm. The accused husband and
Wife We're arrested, but the latter soon
gained her release through halbeas corr
pus proceedings, since which time she
has made her abiding home ait the Mrs.
Loveless-S Smith one -mlle place beyond
the Albuquerque city limits.
The Henrys, husband and wife, came
to Albuquerque from Topeka, Kan,
where they. moved i'm the best society
and religious circles.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-04-19
SANTA FE, N M, FRIDAY APRIL l9, 1901.
CLAIMED BY DEATH.
An Old Friend Of Kit Carson Answers the
Last Summons,

Mattoon, Ills, April 19-W. B. Ken
needy, prominent resident of Hum
boldt, is dead, aged S3. He was a Vet
eran of the Mexican and civil wars, a
personal friend and companion of Kit
Carson, and shared many of Carson s
thrilling experiences ON the plains.
DEATH OF A JOURNALIST.
Asheville, N. c., April 19.-Col, A. Fl
Belo, proprietor of the Galveston Dallas
News, died here today,
The burial will take place at Salem,
N. c. where Belo was born on May ~
1899. He was elected captain of the
Forsythe Rifles ON April 1, 1861, served
in the Confederate army of Northern
Virginia and was wounded at Gettys-
burg. At the close of the war he went
to Texas, was principal owner of the
Galveston News and established also
the Daily News. of which he was ONE
of tha princfpas owners in 1885. Belo
was at various times director of the
Associated Press and ONE of it's vice
presidents.
GEORGE COPPELL.
New York, April 19.-George Coppell,
senior member of George Coppell & Co..
chairman of the board of directors of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, died
today