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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-04-01

Judge Cheadle spoke in part as fol.
lows:
When n considers the growth of
the public school system of America,
he may well be filled with wonder.
When one thinks upon the enormous
expense that is incurred and the elab-
crate organization that Is built up
and maintained. he wonders that pub
lie education has made such great
advances; he marvels that people
have been willing to tax themselves
so heavily to provide for the necessi-
ties OF the schools. And, on the other
hand, when one comes to see, at
times, the effects of sh~ortrsightedt
ness and parsimony In the admins.
tration of the schools, he wonders
that the people. who are so generous
In some things. can be so ~niggardly
in others. Nevertheless, | believe that
the public school system of America
is as well adapted for its own pur.
poses as any organization that man
kind has ever developed.
In a country like ours, public pro.
| vision for the education of the young
is an absolute necessity. II Is trite
to say that unless this Republic ed
ucates it's citizens, and educates good
ones. II cannot endure very long. The
foundation of the United States Is In
the common schools. Without IL We
could not be assured for one genera
ton OF a nation Of good citizens. What
we want in the state we must first
put into the schools. If II does moi
originate in the schools it is not likely
to originate anywhere. II we wan
| citizens who are good men and won
en-, we must teach them in the schools
those things which we want them t.
be later in life. Now, children are II
school on an average but a few years
and in those few years the teachers
of this country have to inculcate thu
lessons which will make the boys ant
girls good men and women and goot
citizens when they grow up; and thu
task Is a most important one. | d.
not know of any work that Is NOR
honorable and more useful to the con.
munity than the work Of the teache
in the public school. Very likely IN,
teachers do not always see II in tina
light. | have known OF many a schoo
district in which the teacher was pail
an annual compensation that woul,
not hire a good sheep-herder or COW
boy. Il is true that there are distriet
whose trustees will not pay a teache
wages which would be considered &C
ceptable 10 the ordinary workingman
Men will pay better the men they pu
in charge Of their sheep or thei
horses or their crops. than the teache
in whose charge they put their Chi
dren. This is not as IL should be
All honest service is honorable, l
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
SPLITTING UP A NICKEL.
where There Are nut Few
Copper Cents.

"You would be surprised to know
the vast number of children among the
poorer classes in New Orleans who do
not clearly understand the value and
Junction of the nickel" said a store
keeper downtown, reports the New Or
leans s-Democrat, "and il all re-
suits from the popularity of the
quartie system which has always been
SO much a part of life in this city. They
are the small buyers, who run all
kinds of errands for the little family
to which they belong. Purchases,
amounting in individual cases to less
than five cents, daily amount in the ag
gregate to thousands of dollars. 1t is
no small part of the retail traffic of
the city. The children split nickel
up into very small pieces, buying
penny's worth of this and penny's
worth of that, until they leave the
store or the market with an armful of
little packages which will represent
the days supplies.
Sometimes they will spend only
part of the nickel, and will get ticket,
or tickets, or maybe pennies, in change.
Frequently the purchase will amount
to two cents and half, and then they
get pasteboard check for the other
two cents and half, which is legal
tender at the place issuing it for its
face value. Checks or tickets of this
kind are extensively used in this city,
and they have added greatly to the
circulation of sort of crude sub
sidiary money. One of those checks is
as good as gold at the grocery or mar
ket stall where it is issued. it is
predicated on and gets its value from
a redemption fund, just like Uncle
Sans money, except that instead of
being redeemable in gold on demand
IT is exchangeable at the grocery at its
face value for any of the things in
stock, or good at the vegetable stall at
the market place for two cents and
half worth of anything on hand when
1T is presented. 1t is always good for
what it calls for on its face"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
Last Florida Tour.
Via Pennsylvania Railroad.

The last Pennsylvania Railroad tour
of the season to Jacksonville, allow
ing almost three months in Florida,
will leave New York, Philadelphia.
and Washington March 8.
Excursion tickets, iuclu1ing rah.
waystranspoltation, Pullman accom-.
modatlon (on berth), and meals en-
ronfe while going on the special tram,
will be sold at tn: following rates
New York, $50 90 Buffalo, Ss4.25;
Rochester, $54 90; Elmlra, $5I As;
Erie, $54S5; Wiliamsport, $1,000;
Wilkesbalre, $50 IS and at propoi-
tonate rates from other points. Re-
turning, passengers will use regular
trains until May 81, 1903.
For tickets, itineraries, and full in
formation apply to ticket agents, or
address Geo. w. Boyd, Assistant Gen
eral Passenger Agent, Broad Street
Station, Philadelphia. 1t
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
New Orleans Carnival Closed.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 25.-The car
'lival closed last night in a blaze Of
slOry. In point of attendance of stran-
;ers it has been the most successful ev-
r held, while the pageants We're on
Gale of great artistic splendor. The
losing pageant was by the Mystic
Erewe of Comus. Its title was "A Leaf
from the Mahabarata," and it illus
rated in twenty superb floats the
,reat epic poem of the Hindoos. The
eliminating society event of the sea-
ON was the ball of Comus at the
Srench opera. The curtain rose upon a
picturesque tableau revealing Comus
III throne of light and the masked
krewe grouped on either side. Comus
hose for his queen Miss Myrtle Stauf-
ier. Miss Alice Roosevelt was present
md again was the object of special at.
ention. Admiral and Mrs. Schley and
ieneral Joseph Wheeler and his daugh-
ers We're among the guests.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
CAUSES GREAT LOSS.
Instructive Information Concerning
Ap<hous Fever, or Foot aud
Mouth Disease.

The outbreak of apthous fever,
commonly known as foot-and-mouth
disease, among cattle in several New
England states, carries with it fear
of widespread human infection, says
the Rural New Yorker, as the dis
ease is highly contagious among
warm-blooded animals, and is known
to be transmissible to humans undet
certain conditions of exposure, but
such infection is really so rare MS
not to he worth consideration. Like
many other plaques and pests it came
to this country originally from
northern Europe. Though seldom IA
tai, apthous fever causes great loss
in reducing the flesh and vitality of
the animals attacked, but particu-
larly through the interference Of
commerce by the rigid quarantine
needed to limit an epidemic of this
serious affection. The average loss
of flesh in horned cattle attacked by
apthous fever is estimated at nearly
SO each, and in dairy cows much
more. The disease is primarily a
skin affection, and is especially Sc
we're about the mouth, udder and
feet, developing severe and extensive
blisters about these parts. The
hoofs, as appendages of the skin, suf-
fer great damage in neglected eases,
especially among hogs and sheep
The most efficient treatment consists
mainly in the local application of an.
tiseptics and should always be given
by a competent veterinarian. The in
fection of apthous fever appears to
be entirely transmitted by direct con-
tact with disease products and chief
ly affects humans through milk from
sick animals, when it may produce
dangerous irritation of the intestines.
1t is plain the most radical means
should be taken to stamp out the dis
ease on its first appearance and linn
it outbreaks to the smallest possible
territory, and il is in every case q
fit subject for control by local health
boards. Apthous fever is one of n
small group of diseases communi-
Gated to man by domestic animals,
among which rabies or dog madness
is the most common and distressing.
Chambers and carbuncle, or malig.
nant postule, both fortunately quite
rare, are examples of this class, while
able authorities still deny the possi
bility of consumption or bovine tu.
berculosis being transmitted from
cattle to man.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
Painting Outside of siIos.

w. Z. Brooks, OF Massachusetts, is of
the opinion that there cannot be any
good argument advanced against paint
ing the outside of framed silos, but in
the case of stave silos there is possibly
a question as to the expediency of
painting, as the slaves will inevitably
swell and shrink with varying moisture
to such an extent that the paint can
not be expected to keep the seams
closed. The best inside covering he has
seen is a coat of coal tar, which was
first set on fire and allowed to blaze un-
til when eXtinguished and tested it
was found to harden quickly.-Prairie
Farmer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
Plant n Farm Wood Lot.

The farm should have a wood-lot,
even if only small one. and that
of the farmers own planting. The
farmer, hereafter will appreciate the
wood-lot as never before; and who
ever has one at the present time,
should take good care of it and make
the most of it. The wood-lot adds
a great deal to the attractivcness
Of the farm, and its utility can hard
~ he overestimated, as an adjunct
to the farm. The farmer who is
able to get his fuel from his own
wood-lot, while coal is so high, has
reason to thank his lucky stars. II
will be a long time before coal gets
down to the low figure where il was
before the strike, If it ever does;
and every bit of wood should here
after be carefully saved for fuel
and the rough, waste places on the
farm ought to he planted to rapid
growing varieties of trees. that the
farmers may not be Obliged TO de-
pend wholly on the coal companies
for fuel.--Farmers' Voice.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
WANT WOMEN PARTNERS.
In business Compacts Women No
Longer Prefer Men as at One
Time They Did.

"When a woman in business wants to
ital by taking in a partner, she seeks
for another woman" said an agent
who makes good income bymanaging
transactions of this kind in connec-
tion with a real estate business, re-
ports the New York Times. "In for
mer days, when a woman's husband
died and left her with profitable
business on her hands, she either sold
it or took in a man as n partner. AS
a general thing ii ended in the mans
getting control of the store and the
woman selling ont at very much re-
duced figure. But as rule women
know much more about business than
they did few years ago, and are keep
ing alive to opportunities for turning
over their money at quick profits. Men
in our line of business have on their
books number of women who have
anywhere from So 900 to $4,000 to in
vest in some congenial occupation,
where they can take a personal part
in the management. AS a rule, part
nerships of this sort are good money
makers. Whenever a man and a wom-
an go into business partnership,
there is trouble. The woman is ever
suspicious that the man is trying to
take unfair advantage of her, and the
man is seldom slow in expressing his
conviction that the woman is slow,
and hasn't a grain of common sense.
In the stenographer's business women
partnerships are very frequent. Some
of them have the most profitable es-
tablishments in town"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
Weary,s Good Ronds Idea.

"Dis good-roads movement" re-
marked Weary Raggles, picking
piece of timothy out of his hair, dat
dey hev started agin, is all right. I
t'ink I'll git job wild de commits
sion"
"Git job!" exclaimed Tired Tat
ters, sitting up straight in his aston
ishment, "Is you gone daffy?"
"Oh, no." replied Raggles, "I'll Jest
continue perambulatin' de roads, and
ev'ry so often I'll send 'em wire
less about de condition of de mud er
dust. "Deyll want expert opinions,
I reckin." Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
ONLY SEVENTY BELOW ZERO.
This fs the Limit mt Forty-Mile,
Alaska, and Everybody Says the
Place Is the Limit.

For those seeking climate where
there is not so much reason for re-
pining as in the one we suffer under,
Forty-Mile, Alaska, might be recon-
mended, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. We see n statement made
by an enthusiast just returned from
there that, no matter what the stories
and false reports sent out may have
been, the mercury never, under any
circumstances, falls lower than 20 de-
grees below zero. In common with all
new countries, this district of Alaska
has to undergo campaign of mis-
representation before its true charac-
ter is known, but now that the facts
are made public, there is no occasion
for believing these stories. The re-
turned gold hunter has taken little
run down into the continent seeking
n winter resort at which he may wear
out some of his summer clothes. Med
icine Hat suits him pretty we'll There
balmy day after day succeeds each
other, with the thermometer mark
ing as high as IL to IA degrees below
zero. At Medicine Hat it is so warm
that sleeping bags are not used at all,
and there is never a night from Au-
gust to June that you can't sleep COM
fortably under four bed quilts, five
blankets and a wool mattress; and
no matter what the temperature, there
is always a cooling breeze that makes
life in steam-heated room agreeable
and pleasant. At Forty-Mile, of course,
they have their winters, as might be
expected, but with a record of three
years in which the mercury has never
gone beneath 70 below zero, it is pretty
safe to say that that is the limit. In
fact everybody that goes there says
that place is the limit.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
DAIRY AND LIVE STOCK

A thrifty calf and healthy boy are
very much alike in some respects, Both
are chock full of mischief and always
hungry.
Do not turn a COW off just because
she is old The question of usefulness
is far more important than that of age,
Not that we should be sweved from
our best judgment by sentiment. The
butter tub tells the story.
Milking at five o'clock in the after
noon of one day and seven of another
is the surest way to serve notice on
the COW that you do not care whether
she does her best or not, If you fail
on your part, she will certainly not
work hard to keep up her part of the
bargain.--Farm journal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
SAD DAY IN NEWARK.
Memorial Services Held In All the
Churches For Trolley Victims.

NEWARK, n. j., Feb. 23.-In accord
ance with the request of Mayor Henry
NJ. Doremus services were held in all
the churches here for the nine vic
tins of the grade crossing horror at
Clifton station last Thursday. In some
cases special memorial services We're
held. In nearly all other churches the
pastors referred to the disaster as
lesson that should warn all the hearers
to be prepared. For ten minutes dur
ing the afternoon the bells of the
churches throughout the city We're
tolled.
The accident occurred at the Clifton
avenue crossing of the Lackawanna
and Western railroad. a fast express
cut through trolley car crowded With
school children, demolishing the car
and scattering the inmates in every di-
rection
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
EXCELLENT COW TIE.

Rings Ga AZ permit the COW to raise or
lower her head or to move sideways
the width of the stall, while she can
not move ahead or back more than a
step. The snap (c) hooks into the other
end of the collar chain, rendering it
impossible for the COW to get loose.
A cement rail (f) forms the back part
of the manger, into which the gas pipe
uprights (a) are set. The uprights &c
@ are shown four feet apart, but this
distance should be governed by the
size of the COW. The floor is shown at
c, sloping to the gutter in the usual
way.-F. A. Converse, in Farm and
Home
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
"LUG AND LET-UP."
Much Like the Average Ameri-
can Country Road.

Two country teamsters were dis
their horses had been toiling. Its
a bad Bit" said one of them, land
a disgrace to the town"
YES" replied the other, but not
so bad as it might be. There's lug,
and then there's let-up. I've seen
worse roads than that"
The average life is good deal like
that bit of country road. 1t is not
all easy travelling, by any means, but
it is certainly not all hard going,
either. There's lug and there's let
up. There are smooth, level, or
down-grade stretches, as well as
sandy upgrades; and, if one is phil
osophical, he will look at the journey
in the same spirit as that of the
cheerful teamster. On the whole, the
average life is not too hard road
for a sturdy spirit to travel with
satisfaction and profit. The let-ups
fully compensate for the lugs, and
the hard places are no harder than
are needful to test human courage
and endurance.
Some one has said that anybody
can be happy who can be contented.
How true this is, and what an excel
lent working theory for one who is
disposed to get the highest and full
est satisfaction out of life! Hap
piness is really relative matter,
dependent upon ones harmony with
environment and circumstances. If
each one were determined to make
the best of his lot, whatever it is,
there would be very few really un-
happy people in the world.-Well-
spring
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
NeNY NnrI, MnrI,eIs.

FLOUR-Steady without change; Mime
sofa patents, A.l0442j; winter straights,
S3.506t365; winter extras, $2.S0d3.10 winter
patents, S3.65d4.
WHEAT-Fairly active and stronger on
cable news, covering and fears of a bull
ish visible supply statement; May, 81 9-16
QSl%c. July, 7S9sG7S 13-l6c.
RYE-Steady; state, 57Q62c., c. |. f.. New
York No western 62c., T. o. b., afioat.
CORN-Firmer on light contract arriv-
ais, higher cables and covering; March,
514M5Sc.; May, 52AW53c.
OATS-Ruled quiet but higher with
corn; track, white, state, 431suiSc.; track,
white, western, 4S1g44Sc.
uI PoKKMsteadyi sIS {o0iia ness sI75alS'S6; fam
LARpI1Dun and easy; prime western
steam, 10c.
BUTTER-Firmj state dairy, l5q25c.;
CHEESE-Firm state, full cream, fan
cy small colored, fall made 141ac.; late
made, 13A@l4c.; small, white, fan made,
14Ac.; late made. 13Ac.; large colored,
fall made. 14hc.; late made. l3%c.; large
white, fall made 14hc.; late made. 13l4c.
EGGS-Steady; state and Pennsylvania,
average best, l7c.; western, fancy, l6hc.
SUGAR-Raw firm; fair refining, 3Ac, /;
centrifggaa s6 test SAc'; refined quiet:
.,MoLAssEs-Quiet; New Orleans 500
RICE-FIrm; domestic, 4ls@6%c.; Japan.
.TALLow--steady; city. sac; country.
,HAY..steady; shipping, 55@7Oc, good to
choice, 5c.0$l .05.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
ANCIENT PRISON VAULTS.
workmen Unenrth what Were once
British Dungeons In New York.

British Dungeons In New York.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.--Workmen
tearing down the old hall of records
in City Hall park have uncovered six
gloomy vaults which had not seen Il
ray of light in nearly II century. With
pickaX and crowbar the laborers tore
out huge slab of marble i'm what was
the first floor of the old building. Civ
ing access to the dungeons used in
Revolutionary times for confining
American patriots until New York
ceased to be n British town.
The doorways connecting the half
dozen gloomy cells have disappeared
but the huge oak lintels on which they
swung remain firmly imbedded in the
massive partition walls. The old dun
geons were built about 147 years ago
by the British as part of prison on
what was then the northernmost limits
of the city. The stone was hauled
from Haddum, CT. Beneath the mar
BILE floors of the prison structure prop
er were the dungeons, separated by
walls three feet thick. Four of these
cells had openings far above the pris-
oners' heads, but two were without
opening except the oaken doors
1t is known that Ethan Allen. the
hero of Ticondcroga, was an occupant
of one of the cells. and it is believed
that Nathan Hale was here confined
from the time of his capture to his
execution near by. The building was
refittcd in 1880 and since has been used
for municipal offices.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
To stop Importation of Arms.

WASHlNGTON, Feb. 25,-Represen-
ations have been made to the state de-
Nartment by the Russian ambassador,
cunt Cassini, regarding the increas-
ng seriousness of the situation in Chi
a in the hope that the United States
will cooperate with the other powers
D stop the illegal importation of arms,
ghich has reached an alarming stage
Z activity. Similar representations
ave been made through the Russian
representatives. to Belgium, Germany
and Great Britain.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
Eio2.
Ho l

SKIPPER FOR SHEDDING LOGS.
pieces one by three stuff. Bolt them
to the Stats with one bolt in each end
of Stats, so the gate can be worked up
and down. Now take for the brace
two pieces one by three, bolt them at
the top on the outside of the two end
pieces. Bolt long enough to go through
five Stats. Now on the other end, take
a one-quarter inch rod and bend it like
loop, ten inches long. Bore a hole in
each of the two end braces and drive
this into them, and on the bottom slot
close up to upright piece; cut five or
six notches for this rod to catch in
when you raise the gate, as shown in
the Observation-Disclosures S. Atkins,
in Epitomist.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
First Male Child.

John B. Snyder, who was the first
male child born in Shamokin, died
Saturday morning of stomach trouble
He was 66 years old. A little more
than &C years ago the borough of Sha-
mokin was plotted and the founder
offered a building lot to the first male
child born in the new town. Snyder
won. The lot was decided to the baby
boy and he died in the house built on
the lot by his father when John was a
tiny child.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26
IMPORTANT INVENTION.
Peter Cooper Hewitt's Device Makes
secret wireless Messages Possible.

SOoDcT DeNIce
secret wireless Messages Possible.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-In the cur
rent issue of the Electrical Review is
described an important invention in
wireless telegraphy by Peter Cooper
Hewitt of New York city, son of the
late Abram 8. Hewitt. This device,
which is a development of the Cooper
Hewitt mercury vapor lamp, takes the
place of the usual spark gap for dis
charging in the antenna or sending
mast. 1t consists of a glass globe 8 to
10 inches in diameter, with two mercu-
ry electrodes contained in tubes sealed
in the lower part of the globe.
The device is very effective and, it
is stated by this authority, will enable
a much more powerful electrical wave
to be set up than is possible with the
methods at present in use and will also
make secrecy in transmission easily
possible
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-02-26

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oIn the fall OF 1897 was troubled with nerv-
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DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets clear the
muddy complexion.