davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The age-herald., 1901-02-18
Birmingham City Bonds.
Fruit and Produce,

Butter-White clover. pound prints, 27c; Elgin (standard), 23c; best creamery. 25c; Mississippi. best grade. 2oc; good country. 14616c mixed country, 10c.
 Irish Potatoes-Per bushel, roc Sweet potatoes White, $1 60; yellow yams. $2.25.
 Apples-Per barrel, $3.25@D3.75.
 Bananas, Per Bunch = Cults, s1.5O; straights, s1 .75@2.00
 Lemons-Per box S. .25@4. .O0. Oranges-Per box, $275.
 Eggs-Fresh country. 16c.
 Poultry-Best frers, l5@20c; medium, 1sc: hens, 30035c: Pekin ducks, 3O@35c; puddle ducks 15@20c; turkeys on foot, SO 9c; drawn, head and feet off. 121sc. Onions-Per pound, 2k@2%c
 Cabbage-Per pound. 2c.
 Rutabagos-Per pound, 1Q1asc. Lima Beans--Per pound, 7@71c. White Peas-Per bushel, $2. 25@p2 .50 Dried Apples-Per pound, 3k@5c.
 Local Staple Groceries. Flour Best patent. A.75; Tennessee patent, s4. 40 half patent, $3.S5.
 Sugar-Granyated 5Bc; Y. C., 55sc. Coffee = Green. 12@1311c: Arbuckles packages, 30; Lion packages, $11.3 Cheece-New York full cream, 131hc. Lard-8Hc basis.
 Meats-Clear rib sides, 7%c; bacon bel lies, s%c dry salted bellies, SAC; best hame, 11%c; four hams. lie; California hams, Sc; breakfast bacon, 12c.
 Centrifugal, 15@35c; sugar. house, 2O@35c; Georgia cane, 371sc Rice-Per pound, 4hc; fancy. To. Corn Per Bushel-Mixed, 54c; white, 51c. Meal-Jim Dandy, soc; Joe Darter, sec. Hay Per Ton-Choice Timothy. $19.00; No. l, $18.50; clover mixed, $1S.00; prairie, $11.50.
 Oats-Mixed, 36c; white, 3Sc.
 Bran-Mixed, s17 .00; pure wheat, SIS. 50. Cotton Seed Meal-Per ton. s23.00
The age-herald., 1901-02-18

ARRIVALS. No 1 from Macon. Albany, Columbus. Opelika, Americus, etc. $40 D. m. No. from Savannah, Augusta. Macon. Columbus etc., 1920 D. m.
 Elegant through sleepers between Biz mingham. Columbus Macon and Savan- nah on Nos. and 4.
 Connection is made at Savannah with the fast freight and luxurious passenger steamships of the Savannah Line iron, and to New York. Boston and the East. For more detailed information. beauti- fully illustrated matter write or apply to SOLON JACOBS, Commercial Agent. w. D. HAMMET, Travelling Passenrer
 Agent. 1921 First Avenue.
 JACK W. JOHNSON, Union Ticket
 Agent, Birmingham, Ala.
 J. c. HALLE, General Passenger Ansnt E.aW, HINTON. Traffic MAnaeer. 0a- vanhah, Ga. N {. s
The age-herald., 1901-02-18
PLANT SYSTEM.
Florida and Cuba.

Leave Montgomery 3 p. m., arrive Lu- verne 645 D. m. No. 92 is new limited vestibule train to Jacksonville without change, provided with elegant day coaches, Pullman draw ing room compartment, sleeping and dining cars. Trains arrive at Montgomery S:10 a. m., 9:15 a. m., 7:3o p. m., 9:2o D. m. THREE SHIPS A WEEK FOR KEY WEST AND HAVANA. Lv. Port ampa Tu., Frl., Sum-, 6:30
 a.. m. For further information address
 R. l.. TODD,
 Division Passenger Agent,
 Montgomery. B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager, Savannah. Ga
The age-herald., 1901-02-18

No 21 carries Pullman sleeping car Bir- mingham to Mobile; open p. m.
 TRAINS ARRIVE BIRMINGHAM No. s7 from Atlanta.... .... -. 1o:oo pm No. 35 from Atlanta....... .12:00 noon No 20 from Selma. .......... 9:45 pm No. SS from Greenville. 5:30 am No S6 from Greenville .... .... 400 pm No 22 from Mobile. ...... ........ 5:30 am No l6 from Blossburg. .......... S:16 am
The age-herald., 1901-02-18
Ala. Great Southern R. R.
 |I|||| K |II||||| Shortest and quickest line to Cincinnati.

Shortest and quickest line to Cincinnati. Louisville and the North; also to Shreve- port, New Orleans Texas and all points Southwest.
 Schedule in effect December g, 1900
The age-herald., 1901-02-18
New York Cotton Futures.

By Private Wire to H. D. Cothran & c
The age-herald., 1901-02-18
THE LOCAL MARKETS
Local Cotton Market.
Local Iron Market.
Local Stocks and Bonds.

Corrected Daily by J. M Caldwell & Co.,,
 2015 First Avenue
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14

the canals, but its finances were IN
such low state last year that only
a portion of the canals were cleaned,
and to enable the boats to pass
through them without grounding, the
draughts were reduced and the boats
were not loaded to their full capacity.
All these canals are now in need OF
good cleaning, but so far no orders
have been given for the work. 1t is
said the company has no funds on
hand and has no securities which 1t
can use as collateral on which to boz
row money.
These canals were formerly owned
by the state and became the property
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany when 1t bought the state works.
At that time this was the only means
of transportation to many points in
Pennsylvania and not only freight
boats, but passenger boats as well,
made daily trips between many i'm
portant interior cities. The business
was very heavy and large returns were
secured from freight and passengers
carried. In 1866 the canals were
taken out of the direct management
of the Pennsylvania Company and the
Pennsylvania Canal Company was
formed. These canals have ever
since been operated by that company.
When the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway Company abandoned the
Tidewater Canal, 1t hurt the business
of all the other canals in this state.
This canal ran from Wrightsvile to
Havre de Grace and when in opera
llon a large volume of business was
shipped through it for points along
the Delaware River and to New York
Owing to the heavy expense incurred
yearly the canal was abandoned"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14
RADICAL CHANGES.
Senator Grady's Bill Affects Many Con-
O. essional Districts. This District
will be Changed.

There are some radical charges
made by the Congressional appor-
tionment bill, introduced last week.
Certain we'll known districts in the
Central and Western parts of the
State have been knocked out of all
semblance to their former selves.
The bill was read in place Tues
day by Senator Grady, referred to
committee and reported back affirm
atively within fifteen minutes.
The bill arranges for twenty-nine
sure Republican districts in Presi-
dental years and three sure Demo
cratic districts. In of years there
are twenty-eight sure Republican
districts, one doubtful and three
Democratic.
In the Deemef- Packer district,
Clinton County is dropped and
Columbia County is substituted for
it. The district will be known as
the Sixteenth.
Congressman Wright's district
has Sullivan County taken from the
Polk district. and added to Wayne,
Susquehanna, Wyoming, Sullivan
and Bradford, thus continuing the
Seventeenth district.
To Congressman Polk's district
are added the Counties of Cameron
from the Sibley district; Clinton,
from the Packer Deemer district
and Union and Snyder from Con
gressman Mahon district. North
cumberland and Montour alone are
retained. This makes Republican
district which stretches a third OF
the way across the State, retaining
its old number of the Seventeenth.
The districts of Congressman
Polk and Hall, Democrats, are
woefuliy partitioned. Polk is left
living in a district putting his
county, Montour, with parts of the
district of Congressman Mahon,
Packer and Sibley. Halls county,
Elk, and another county, Forest
from his district, are put into dis
trict for Sibley.
This makes the Seventeenth dis
trict consist of Columbia, Cameron
Clinton, Union and Snyder.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14

Many papers through the state
are commenting unfavorably on the
authorities of this county because
no one has been arrested for the
murder of Thomas McHenry. If
we remember rightly, all the mill
ions Of A. I. Stewart, and the ef-
forts of the best detectives in the
land, failed to discover who stole
the body of that multi-millionaire.
The Nathan murder, committed in
the heart of New York City some
years ago, still remains a mystery.
The abductors of Charley Ross
were never discovered, though the
Boys father spent large fortune
in the search. Many other mur-
ders have occurred in cities where
the detective bureaus We're at work
within an hour after the commits
sion of the crime, and yet it took
months and years to run down the
offenders. Columbia county is not
the slowest place on earth, after all.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14
PENNSYLVANIA CANAL.
More Talk Of Closing the Water. Way.

The Philadelphia Press OF last Sat
urday published the following article:
SIN all probability the canals of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company IN
this state will not be In operation
after this year, and it is probable that
after the annual meeting of the COM
pany next Tuesday, action will be
taken which will discontinue the bust
ness on these canals.
Ever since the Johnstown flood the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
which is the parent company of the
Pennsylvania Canal, has been aband-
oning its canals, and that portion
which extended from the Susquehanna
River to Hollidaysburg, has ceased to
be in operation for some time. The
company now has canal extending
from Columbia TO Nanticoke and
from Northumberland to Muncy Dam.
This system comprises waterway of
about I79 miles, and at one time a
large amount of business was carried
through the canals.
The Pennsylvania Canal now con.
sists of four divisions. That portion
from Northumberland to Nanticoke is
included in the Wyoming division;
from Northumberland to Muncy Dam
in the Upper West Branch Division;
from Northumberland to Clark's Ferry
in the Lower West Branch Division,
and from Clark's Ferry to Columbia,
in the Eastern Division. The busl.
ness over these canals has materially
decreased during the past few years.
the falling off having been brought
about by the reduction in freight
rates and the better facilities offered
by the railroad companies for the
speedy handling of business.
The canal company spends consid
cradle money each year cleaning ou,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14

The bill appropriating $s,ooo,-
900 for the st. Louis Exposition
has been favorably reported to the
House, and Speaker Henderson has
promised that it shall be voted
upon, which is equivalent to
promise of its passage.
Representative Griggs, of Georg-
ia, made the postoffice appropria-
ton bill the text for a speech full
OF common sense against the ten
dency OH the part of Congress to
increase the salaries of federal en-
ployes. For instance, the follow
ing, the truth of which every one
must acknowledge II undertake
to say that there is not All employe
of the government, VINO devotes his
whole time to its service, who does
not receive greater pay than he
would for like service in private
life. There is not an employe in
The government service to- day who
did not better his or her condition
financially when he entered it.
There is not one who, if he could
better his condition in other service,
would not resign tomorrow. Then,
why this paternal interest in gov.
ernment employees ? All OF them
are free men and women, and of
full age. Why should we make
them wards of the nation? How is
this fatherly interest of legislators,
so lately aroused, III what seems to
me cancerous growth eating its
way to the very vital of the Amer
ican body polite, to be accounted
for ?" Mr.. Griggs answered the
last question by citing the growth
of associations of various classes of
government employees. organized
ostensibly for other purposes, bu,
actually used to lobby for a Con-
gressional increase Of the salaries
of their members.
Among those nominated to be
brigadier generals i'll the regular
army were two captains-J. Frank
lin Bell, now serving ir the Philip
pines as brigadier general Of vol
unteers, whose promotion jumped
him over 1852 officers, and Leon
ard Wood, now serving as a major
general of volunteers and military
governor of Cuba, whose promotion
jumped him over 5o7 officers. Fred
Grant, another one of them, who
is serving in the Philippines as a
brigadier general of volunteers,
owes his appointment to his name
rather than to any distinguished
service he has rendered as a volun-
teer officer. He had been a failure
in every civil occupat on he had
tried and it was felt by som, of his
: fathers old friends that he ough,
to be provided with life time Job
where the salary was certain,
Gen. +. S. Otis, who is in Wash
ington, is said to be much dis
gruntled because he had been lee
to believe that he, and not Gen
Nelson A. Miles, would be nomi
I mated for lieutenant general of the
, army. 1t is said that one of the
reasons why President Mckinley
} took the unusual course of asking
t the Cabinet to decide by ballo
which of the major generals shoulc
be nominated for lieutenant genera
i was his desire to allow Otis t
. think that his nomination had beer
i prevented by majority of the Cab
i met. 1t is said that Otis has beer
r promised that Miles will be com
4 pulsorily retired by President Nc
i Kinley when he reaches the age O
II 81, which will be next August, ant
e that the place will then be given t,
e him.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14
WASHINGTON.
From CUR Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Feb. II, 10

Washington, Feb. II, 1901.
The latest scheme Of the Repub-
lican leaders is to take advantage
OF the popularity Of the Nicaragua
Canal project to push the Ship
Subsidy bill through the Senate
they have only to issue orders to
have anything put through the
House at short notice. The scheme
provides for combining the two by
accepting the amendment to the
Subsidy bill, offered by Senator
Clay, of Georgia, providing for the
construction by this government of
the Nicaragua Canal, and then to
inform the Democratic Senators
that unless they vote for the two
in one the Nicaragua Canal project
will not be legislated upon at all.
Senator Hanna is credited with be-
ing the father of this scheme, and
it is further said that he claims to
have promises from a number of
Southern Senators that they will
vote for the bill so amended. Mean
while the night sessions are on in
the Senate and the Democrats and
Populists, aided by the advice of
Hon. Arthur P. German, whose
success in heading off the Force
bill some years ago has not been
forgotten, are giving the Republi-
cans about all the fight they can
handle. A few days will show
whether this scheme is really to be
carried out, or is only put out to
make talk. The Senate passed the
bill reducing war taxes last week.
Senator Teller made a short but
vigorous speech Just before the Sen
ate adopted resolution calling on
the Secretary of War for state
ment of the facts in the case of c.
7. Rice, the American editor who
was banished from the Philippines
for commenting upon the rules and
regulations concerning pilots and
pilotage, as enforced at Manila
Mr.. Teller read the editorial and
then said "The deportation of ar
editor is not simple matter, to be
whistled down the wind. regard
it as grievous offense against the
liberty of an American citizen thai
he can be taken, thrown into Jail
and then deported under the pre-
tense of the charge that he is 4
! dangerous incendiary and a menace
: to the military situation There
: is no such offense known to the
4 laws OF our country, or in the Grim
l inal statutes of any state. 1t is no
known in any republic, in any fre
4 country in the world. He is bu
: one man, to be sure, but he is a cit
: izen of the United States. The of
= fense against him is an otfens
/ against every citizen of the Unite,
d States. l do not make any apollo
u gies for pleading his cause here.
h would feel justified if this was tn
S last hour of the session and a
a extra session should ensue throug
s failure of an appropriation bill, i
h standing here and calling the after
G ton of the country to this outrag
upon citizen Of the United Stats.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14

The bill appropriating $4,000, :
900 for the st. Louis Exposition
has been favorably reported to the
House, and Speaker Henderson has
promised that it shall be voted
upon, which is equivalent to a
promise of its passage.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY H. 1901.

The annual report of the Con-
troIler of Luzerne County again
brings public attention to the enor-
nous amounts paid justices and
constables in the way of fees
There has been an energetic effort
in the county to reduce these ex-
penses, but in spite Of that the Con-
troller's figures show that justices
and constables have received during
the year for discharged cases the
sum Of S53,So6, and in addition
over $40, 900 have been paid as wit
ness fees. 1t does not appear to
make much difference to some OF
these petty officials whether a case
reaches court or not, they have a
way of getting out of it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14

1t is announced that prominent
educators in the state are at work
on new compulsory educational
bill which will be presented at the
present session of the State Legis-
lature. The compulsory education
al act of 1895 and the amendments
of 1897 have, it is claimed, proved
to be defective and in many places
SO obscure that even lawyers are
puzzled to know what was origin
ally intended. The preparation of
new bill has been entrusted to a
committee named at meeting OF
the county school directors, with
instructions to take all the good
features of the existing acts and
the ideas suggested at the direct
ors' meeting and the committee
conference and embody them in a
new bill which would carry with
it the repeal of the present laws
The committee chief aim has beer
to prepare law that could be cas-
lily understood. Under the exist
ing law there is number of loop
holes which persons so disposed
can easily take advantage of anc
keep their children out OF schoo
while seemingly complying will
all the requirements of the law, a
the directors understand it. AS
result superintendents, director
and truant officers, have met witt
considerable difficulty in enforcin,
the law.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14

The officers of the Bradford
County Agricultural Society, who
we're arrested on charge of main
aiming or allowing gambling de-
vices at the fair at Towanda last
all have been exonerated. The
grand jury found mot true bill"
and the prosecutor to pay costs.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14
at first.

this picture it, er. axe more;
take no other.
not too much F.; enough is as
much as you like and agrees
with you. Satisfy hunger
with usual food; whatever
you like and agrees with you.
When you are strong
again, have recovered your
strength---the germs are
dead you have killed them.
If you have not tried it, send
for free sample, its agreeable
taste will surprise you.
SCOTT & BOVINE,
Chemists,
400 Pearl St., New York.
SOC. and $l.OO; all druggists.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14

A bill to do away with the Office
of tax collector in Pennsylvania will
soon be introduced in the Legisla-
ture by Hon. A. J. Palm, of Craw-
ford county. In an interview he
sets forth these reasons for the meas
ure: "I can see no reason why the
taxes Of all kinds should not be
paid direct to the treasurer of each
county, thereby avoiding the hand
ling of the funds by middleman,
who must be paid a salary for his
work. SO much money is lost by
the shortages as in the recent case
of Collector Hughes, of Titusville,
and such amount is paid out use
le,sly in commissions, that l be-
lieve the bill abolishing the Office
of tax collector will become a law"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14

1t acts as a
food /; it is the
easi e st 70 0 d .
Seems not to be
food ; makes you
hungry eating
is comfortable.
Y grow strong
a, To1e p,Ore.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14
Consumption

is destruction of lung by
growing germ, precisely as
mouldy cheese is destruction
of cheese by growing germ.
If you kill the germ, you
stop the consumption. You
can or can't, according to
when you begin.
Take Scott's Emulsion of
Cod Liver Oil: take a little
at first.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-14

The most important state bill
presented in the Legislature last
Thursday was that introduced by
Representative McLarn, of Wash
ington county, which provides that
every social, athletic, musical, po-
litical or other society. association,
club or body of persons, shall not
furnish their own members, friends
or others, vinous, spurious, malt
or brewed liquors. without having
first obtained license in accord
ance with the laws regulating the
licensing of hotels. 1t is urder-
stood that the real purpose of the
bill is to increase the revenue of
the Commonwealth. There are
thousands Of clubs located within
the precincts of the Commonwealth
and immense sums of money are
spent by them yearly by the pur,
chasing of liquors, etc., for the use
of members aud visiting friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-21

IFrom the London Telegraph
Tides Of the ocean, as every one
knows, are the result Of the unequal at
fractions OF the sun and moon on the
earth's surface as compared with its
centre As the proportionate difference
on account of its lesser distance is
greater in the case Of the moon, its tide
raising influence IS rather more than
twice as great as that Of the sun, not
withstanding the dictum of the man
who would not believe the moon had
anything 10 do with it because he had
seen tides when there was no moon.
Visitors to the lake country may not BE-
aware that our small inland seas have
tides which follow the moon with even
more precision than the open ocean The
were a solid mass. but slowly. the sur
face changing its level as the meridian
Of the lake alters It's direction with re-
minute observation TO detect this tide
So small is il that the difference be
tween high and low water IN lake
hundred miles broad is little more than
an inch- In some Of the lakes OF SWitz-
erIand. besides the serni-diurnaI tide
phenomena have been observed. called
locally seiches. in which the whole body
Of water rocks or vibrates in 20 minutes
or half an hour British lakes are pro
baby too small for similar phenomena
to be easily perceptible; but DR.. Forel.
Of Lausanne. has made careful study OF
the seiches Of the Lake Of Geneva. and
his analyses. showing that the move
ments are often compound oscillations
about two or more axes, are fun Of in
lereSt.