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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-04-08

from dill lllC OOJSS1ioih@'DiS
features of older iron prepar-
atoms. Whether taken
In Pill or Liquid Form
Peptiron does not injure the
teeth, nor leave any inky or
metallic flavor in the mouth,
and is the only iron prepara-
ton that does not cause con-
stipation, however long taken.
Peptiron cures nerve pain,
nerve tire, and all degrees OF
nerve debility; makes the
cheeks rosy and the eyes
bright-the young more vlgor-
Gus and the old less feeble. ,
Invaluable to invalids and
convalescents and to all neu-
rasthenic, anemic, and dyspep-
tic sufferers.
Peptron is made in two forms: In LIQUID
an aromatic cordial eliXir--at 81 per pottie;
also in pi HO al ooG ct
Hoods Sarsaparilla, Lowell. Mass. U. ). A.
Selling Agent in st. Johnsbury:
w. 8. Eastman, So & So Eastern Av.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-04-08

Here is a recipe for raising prize
crop of corn, ITO bushels per acre: A
clover sod turned over in September,
forty loads of manure to the acre, one
nlowing and six draggings in the spring
before planting, an average OF TWO
stalks in hill, one dragging after
planting, one deep and four shallow
cultivations and the removal of all bar
rem stalks and suckers. You can raise
inst such O crop as this if you want to.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
The Profession Of Earnlnn.

We recently attended the com
mencemont exercises of one of our
great Western higher institutions Of
learning Hundreds of young people
were receiving diplomas as evidence
of four years faithful study in the
higher branches of learning. In the
graduating classes was at least car
load of to-be lawyers. As their diplo-
mas were being handed to them we
asked ourselves: is the world in
need of the services of these young
men along the particular line in which
they have trained themselves" Does
any reader of this journal know OF a
community sorely in need Of a law
yer at this time? If so. he can find
listening ears. Many of these lawyer
graduates were from the farm. Some
of them had left splendid home es-
tates where life Is well worth living
and where there Is need of the high
est form of educated intelligence ex-
ercised wisely and judlciously every
day that the farm is managed. Turn
ing their backs on such farms, these
young men nad sought the college to
secure through its training the means
Of entering an already overcrowded
profession. In some cases they had
been urged to leave the farm by par
ents who, half desplsing their own
vocation, looked upon the profession
Of law as something akin to higher
order OF existence In other cases
parents no doubt reluctantly saw their
bright, ambitious son leave the farm.
Had their choice ruled he would have
taken the agricultural course instead
Of law and prepared himself specially
to return to the old home, take up its
management and cares as declining
years came upon them.-Breeders'
Gazette.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
The Farmers are Highly Elated.

The farmers and residents OF
Roaring Greek Valley, and the
vicinity of Numidia are greatly
elated over the surveys, now being
made in that section by engineers
who claim that they are employed
in securing a route for the extern
sion of the Scranton, Wilkesbarre
and Hazleton trolley line which
will probably enter Centralia max
ing connection there with the
Shamokin, Mt. Carmel line. 1t is
also said upon excellent authority
that the new line from Pittsburg to
New York will run through Roar
ing Creek Valley from Sunbury.
This is believed to be the project
of the Wabash Company of which
George Gould is the head. 1t is
quite probable that the Could
Rockefeller interests are endeavor-
ing to secure control of the Lehigh
Valley railroad. This would give
them entrance into the hard coal
fields and also give them through
connecting link to New York City.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
Important to Mothers.

The manufacturers of Castoria
have been compelled TO spend hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to
familiarize the public with the sig
nature of Chas. II. Fletcher. This
has been necessitated by reason Of
pirates counterfeiting the Castoria
trademark. This counterfeiting is
crime not only against the pro-
prietors of Castoria, but against the
growing generation. All persons
should be careful to see that Castoria
bearsthe signature ofChas H. .Fletch-
er, if they would guard the health
of their children. Parents, and moth
ers in particular, ought to carefully
examine the Castoria dvertisements
which have been appearing in this
paper, and to remember that the
wrapper Of every bottle of genuine
Castoria bears the fac-simile sig
nature of Chas. II. Fletcher, under
whose supervision il has been manu-
factured continuously for over thirty
years. .-PhiIa. Bulletin.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
THE USEFUL APPLE.
Food for the Gods, Renews Both Mind
and Body.


Some one who has not been given
credit for 1t has this to say of the use.
full apple:
The apple contains larger per.
centage of phosphorus than any other
fruit or vegetable This phosphorus
Is admirably adapted for renewing the
essential nervous matter, le helm of
the brain and spinal cord. The old
scandinavian traditions represent the
apple as the food of the gods. who.
when they felt themselves to be grow
Ing old and feeble and infirm. resort.
ed to this fruit for renewing their
powers of mind and body.
The acids of the apple are also OF
signal use for men of sedentary hab-
It's whose livers are sluggish in ac.
tion. These acids serve to eliminate
from the body obnoxious matters.
which, II retained. would make the
brain heavy and dull or bring about
jaundice or skin sruptlons and other
troubles. The ancient practice of TAX
ing apple sauce with roast pork. rich
goose and like dishes is based on sci
entific reasons. The mallc acid of ripe
apples, either raw or cooked, will neu.
tralize any excess Of chalky matter
engendered by eating too much meat.
Fresh fruit, such as the apple. the
pear and the plum when taken ripe
and without sugar, diminish acidlty in
the stomach rather than provide H..
Their vegetable salts and juices are
converted into alkaline carbonates.
which tend to counteract acidity. A
good, ripe, raw apple Is one of the
easiest vegetable substances for the
stomach to deal with, the whole pro
cess of its digestion being completed
In eighty-five minutes.
Besides these medicinal qualities OF
the apple, 1t has great virtue for local
applications. The pairing of an apple
cut somewhat thick. is an ancient
remedy for infamed eyes. being tied
on at night when the patient goes to
bed In France n common remedy for
inilamed eyes Is an apple poultice,
the apple being roasted and its pulp
applied over the eye without any in
tervening substance.-Fruit World.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
PERCHES;
STEAM and WATER POWER
GRTST MILL,

known as the "RED MILL and three
dwelling houses with out-buidlngs, together
with the reserved rights and water rights as
set forth in a certain deed OF CONVEYANCE 10
William Ivey, dated 2sth day OF May, A. d. 1881,
recorded In Deed Book 40. 30, at page Al, etc,
together also with the seven acres OF land con-
tanning the dam or reservoir OF said water
power as described and conveyed 10 !. W. Nc
Kelvy by william Ivey and wife, by deed dated
1st day OF september, Al d., 1882, recorded in
the offlee OF the Recorder OF Deeds In the county
OF Columbia aforesaid in Deed Book No. 81, at
page 35i, etc. The land above described being
theIsame dnter ALTA con'eVedto the said Daven-
port by Geo. W. Sterner oy deed dated 18th day
cf lpril. 1899 and recorded In the Recorders
once OF said Columbia county In Deed Book No
n, atpage 5g9.
seile1, taken In execution at the suit of
Warren f. Con VS. I. John Davenport, ana to
b. sold as the property OH John Davenport
POWELL, Atty. DANIEL KNORR
Sheriff.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
A Real Grangers' Fair,

The Pomona grange of Center county,
Pa, owns the beautiful fair grounds in
that county, with all the buildings and
other fixtures, including several hun
dned tents which are occupied by Pa
irons and their families during the
weeks outing. The large and beautifui
brick hall of Progress grange stands
near the grounds and is model in all
its arrangements. Its cost was several
thousands of dollars. 1t has 147 mem
bers. and ut their fair and encampment
this season there was large exhibit in
all departments. The large auditorium
was filed in the afternoon to listen to
addresses and music and in the evening
TO enjoy varied programme Of enter
tainments. music singing, drills, reci-
tations, plays, etc, furnished by the
members OF the oranges near by and
their families.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
Not Fair to Women,

We have heard oyermuch of late Of
the fact that women have never be-
come artists or poets or creators Of
male standard. The insinuatlon is un-
fair because biassed. Women, have
never had a real chance to equal
men, and to argue that because they
have never attained the level of a
Shakespeare or a Raphael, therefore
they are inferior to men generally, is
to condemn them because they do not
rise superior to the average man. How
often have men produced Shake
speare or Raphael? And men have
had the start of centuries.
Take England only. Have not two
est, of her sovereigns been women?
How many men novelists are on a
par with George Eliot? Have not cer-
tain women shown their ability to
hold their own in scholarship with
men in these days? The average
man is not the intellectual equal of a
Miss Fawcett.
The real handicaps women suffer
are domestic. They have to keep the
home beautiful while their husbands
are striving after those triumphs
which may mean Immortality. There
is one thing, at any rate, that the
progress of women has proved, and
that is that the larger the voice wo-
men have in affairs the higher are
the moral ideals entertained by the
community.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
CHARTER NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that an application
win be made TO the Governor OF PENNSYLVANIA
on Thursday, the seventh day OF January, A. ID.
1904, by Ross w. Burrows, J, j. Robinson, John
Coleman, S G Greasy, T. Il. Hyde, ali residents
OF the State OF Pennsylvania, under the Act OF
Assembly entitled "An Act TO Provide for the
Incorporation and Regulation OF Certain Cor
porations," approved April Goth, 1874, and the
several supplements thereto, for the charter or
an INTENDED corporation TO be called Blooms
burg Lumber and Manufacturing Company, the
character and object OF which is the buying and
selling and manufacturing and dealing In lum-
Der and articles made OF wood and Iron and
other metals ana materials, and for these
purposes TO have, possess and enjoy all the
rights, powers, henefts and privileges of said
Act OF Assembly and the several supplements
thereto q NJ. TUSTIN,
Bloomsbury, Pa, Solicitor for Applicants
December 10, 1903 At.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
Teaching Poll Parrots to Speak,

The strangest school in the world
has been established in Philadelphia
by a woman. 1t is a school where
parrots are taught to speak by means
of the phonograph, which is a new
method only recently adopted by the
founder of the school. Mrs. Jacob
Hope. The old way of teaching par
rots is tedious and unsatisfactory.
The tutor, crouched in a corner out of
sight of the bird, repeats to it, over
and over, thousands of times, the
same word, the same phrase, till his
back aches from his cramped and still
position and till his voice cracks and
gives out. The new way of teaching
these birds to talk is pleasant and
wonderfully successful. The tutor
sets his phonograph going at the par.
rot's ear, and then retires to read or
to look after other business. His
phonograph, while he rests, works
for him. With a precision and per
severance that he could never equal
1t drums into the brain of the bird the
sentence that is to be learned. This
sentence the parrot acquires much
more quickly and much more thor
oughly by the new way than by the
old.
The term ut the Philadelphia phon-
ograph school of languages for parrots
lasts six months. The tuition fee Is
$40 a term, and the school has at
present twenty pupils.-W. II. Trites,
in Leslie's Weekly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
A NEST-BUlLDlNG FISH.
owing to Its Peculiar Structure II Is q
Poor Swimmer.

Poor Swimmer
IL Is doubtful whether protective
mimicry among animals is better ex.
empliiied than in the case of the Ash
commonly known as the marbcd an
gler of the Sarglsso Sea lPterophryne
histrioJ. Owing to its peculiar
structure, 1t Is n poor swimmer. aud
1t therefore spends most of It's life
moving slowly about on the bottom,
among corals, seaweed. etc, which
these fishes closely resemble in color
and in outline. They cling. too, to
the floating masses of sargassum
weed with their pediculated fins, and
the color-markings of the fish closely
resemble the weed itslf. Not only
does the weed thus furnish home
for this species, but the fish actually
constructs a nest from 1t and therein
deposits its eggs. One of these nests,
found In connection with the Hassler
expedition in 1871 was described as
consisting of round mass of sargas-
sum, about the size of two fists, rolled
up together. To all appearance It was
made OF nothing but this Gulrweed,
the branches and leaves of which
were, however. evidently knit togeth-
er. and not merely tangled into a
roundish mass; for though some
of the leaves and branches hung
loose from the nest. 1t became
at once visible that the bulk
of the ball was held together by
threads trending I'm every direction
among the seaweed By close obser-
vation 1t became apparent that this
mass of seaweed was a nest, the cen
tral part of which was bound up in
the form Of a ball, with several loose
branches extending in various direc-
tions, by means Of which the whole
was kept floating. On still closer ex-
animation the nest above described
was found to be full of eggs. which
were scattered throughout the mass.
Nature has thus afforded safe asy-
lum for these somewhat helpless
fishes, whose cutaneous filaments,
which are plentifully provided on the
belly, around the mouth, and on the
dorsal spines, so nearly resemble the
weed itself that predaceous fishes
doubtless fan to recognize the living
animals, and thus the latter escape
determination.
The ground color of this fish is
pale yellow. ard on this light back
ground are darker irregular brownish
bands, very much like the branched
fronds of the sargassum weed itself,
while along the edges of these darker
bands, on the bands themselves, and
also to lesser extent upon the rest
of the body, are little white specks Of
various sizes, on an average about the
size of pins head These markings,
which are regarded by chthyologists
as having been developed in mimicry
of the minute shells (Spirorbis) with
which the sargassum weed is often
covered, afford an additional means
of protection to the marbled angler
from its natural enemies, the larger
fishes.-Scientific American.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
SHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue OF an alias writ Off. IA issued out
OF the Court OF Common Pleas OF Columbia
county, Pennsylvania, and TO me directed there
will be exposed TO public sale at the Sheriffs
once at the Court Houseinthe town OF Blooms
burg, Pennsylvania on
SATURDAY, DEC. IL, 1908,
at two O'Clock p. m, All that certain messuage,
tenement and tract OF land situate In the VIII
age OF Aristes, ConynghAn township, county
Of Columbia and state Of Pennsylvania, bound
ed and described as follows TO wit: Adjoining
land OF Isaiah Kreischer, the Lutheran Church,
Sylvester Fahrlnger, fronting on the public
road leading from Catawissa to Centralla,
whereon are erecteda,
TWO STORY FRAME DWELL
ING HOUSE and STORE
building. barn and other out-bulldings.
Seized, taken In execu ron at the suit of Jane
Robbins use VS.. Charles Mase aud TO be sold as
the property of'Charles Mase.
DANIEL KNoRR Sheriff.
C. A. SNAIL, W. III RHA sN, Attys.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
STRANGE COAL FORMATION.
Peculiar Pictures Formed IN the Anthracite
Product.

In the great anthracite coal mines
located i'll the picturesque Lehigh.
Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys
of Pennsylvania are to be found
many wonderful, odd and beautiful
things formed in the anthracite
veins. These formations are moth
ing more than pictures representing
various interesting ami attractive
subjects.
In mine of the Lehigh Coal
Company, located near West Pitts
ton, and which runs beneath the
bed of the Susque hanna River, are
to be found embedded in the walls
of solid anthracite perfect pictures
of animals, birds and trees and a
number of small flowers, which
look like ox-eyed daisies AT
Wilkes Barre, in the great collieries
of the Wilkes Barre Coal Company,
which are also beneath the
Susquehanna Rivir, there can be
seen near the bottom of Empire
shaft No. a peculiar figure in the
form OF all immense serpent. The
creature is coiled up as if in the act.
of making a spring. Near Wyom-
ing, where the mines of the Hollen.
back Coal Company are situated,
in all old working, are pictured
several angels, while in another
chamber upon the walls can be dis
tinctly observed a cluster of large.
grapes. Further on there is an
image of a large church.
These pictures are mostly in old
mines which have been operated
for many years, and in some of
them, from which thousands Of tons,
of fine coal has been exhumed, the
anthracite product has been very
nearly exhausted, several almost
stripped, pillars" or supports,
merely standing to keep the roof
of the mine chamber from tumbling
down
There is superstition prevalent
among colliery laborers, particular
ly the foreign element, that these
pictures are talismans of good luck,
and if they are i'll any way disturb
ed or destroyed some uncanny and
disastrous event follows. Ere
quently pious miners are seen stand
ing before them with folded hands,
frequently praying. 1t is stated
that it is believed a prayer said be-
fore one of the delineations is fol-
lowed by good luck.
Several instances are known
where miners who have blasph em-
ed the pictures have been caught
in colierv disasters and have met
terrible deaths. Previous to the
deplorable Avondale mine disaster,
i'll 1872, when several hundred
miners were entombed, a party Of
miners destroyed several of the
pictures in the mine, and within
few hours the disaster occurred.
Still later, at Plymouth, a party of
miners, while returning from the
night shift in the Hollenback mine
of the Lehigh and Wilkes Barre.
Coal Company, threw coal at some
sheep pictured upon the mine walls
and destroyed the group. Three
hours subsequent All explosion
took place in the shaft, and nearly
a hundred men were killed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
cettino Rid of Woodchucks.

Bi-sulphide Of carbon will smother
the pests in their dens. Saturate a
RAG with two tablespoonfuls of the
stuff and push 1t down the hole as tar
as you can, then stop the hole tight
with sods or earth and go away sor-
rowfully for you have committed mur-
der. Bl-sulphide of carbon is very ex'
plosive after being exposed to the air.
rather the gas from 1t Is explosive,
SO do not light matches or smoke ci'
cars while doing this.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
TWO STORY FRAME DWELL
ING HOITSE md STORE
SHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue ofa writ OF Fl. Fa issued out OF t1s
Court of Common Pleas OF Columbia Coun0y
Pennsylvania, and't to me directed there Will be
exposed tA public saTe at the Sheriff's once at
the Court House in tAe town OF Bloomsbury,
Pennsylvania on
SATURDAY, DEC. I2th, 1903,
at two o'clock p. H. All that certain plece'
parcel andllob Of land situate In the Borough of
Centralia, in the county OF Columbia and State
OF Pennsylvania, bounded and described as
Dollows to.wts Beginning at poln5 on the
east side of Locust Avenue: thence extending
south on said avenue twenty-five feet, thence
running east one hundred and forty feet to an
alleys thence along said alley nor6h twenty
ave feet; thence west one hundred and forty
feet to the place OF beginning, ana being the
lot whbch is marked on the map os plan OF said
town with the No, 4, In Block No. II and being
the same premises which David Walsh and
wife and G. G. Murphy and wifs conveyed 10
said Charles Fetterman by deed dated Sept Is,
1882, and where on is erecteda
TWO STORY FRAME DWELL
ING HOUSE.
Seized, taken In execution at the salt OF
Caroline Fetterman VS.. Charles Fetterman, and
10 be sold as the property OF Charles Fetter-
man. DANIEL. kNORR, Sheriff.
CLINTON HERRING and RHAwS, AttyS.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
An Up to Date New Jersey Grange

Moorestown On. j. grange has Il
membership of about 90. The mem
bers have purchased fertilizer material
to the sum Of 500 3,322G0, potatoes for
seed $5,069.94, grass seed S9l6, truck
and machinery 1913 and selling in mer-
chandise S3,5OS.10, The grange owns Il
eommodious three story brick building
on the main street, centrally located
The basement is fitted up with range
and every convenience and comfort \
dumb waiter passes from the kitchen
to the grange room on the upper floor
A speaking tube takes the word from
the anteroom upward to the inner gate
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
Burned Cobs for Hogs.

Burned corncobS, If you have no
charcoal, mixed with some wood
ashes and a very little salt kept where
the hogs can get at it, IS one of the
best regulators that hogs can be CIV
en- to keep them in healthy condition.
AS to the manner of burning these
cobs, one breeder says to dig hole
in the ground five feet deep one foot
in diameter at the bottom and five
feet at the top, using this hole as a
charcoal pit Into this pit place some
combustible matter and ignite, To
this gradually add dry corncobs until
the pit is full. A'ter the flames have
thoroughly penetrated these cobs
place over the pit a sheet iron cover
so as to exclude the air. If there are
any crevices around the edge it should
be covered with soil. In the course
of ten or twelve hours the charcoal
will be ready for use. This charcoal
may be fed alone to hogs or mixed in
the following way: Six bushels Of
corncob charcoal, eight pounds Of
salt, two quarts OF air Stacked lime
and one bushel of wood ashes. The
charcoal should be broken up fine and
these substances thoroughly mixed to-
gether One writer adds to this mix
ture one and one-quarter pounds Of
copperas, which he dissolves in hot
water. afterward sprinkling this over
the mixture.
The mixture may then be fed to
hogs at certain intervals, or, what is
better, it may be placed where the
hogs can have free access to 1t at all
times.-Indiana Farmer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
A Thought.

The grange. like political party
cannot live always on its past. There
must be something doin'" all the while
in the living present, Seed must be
sown now for future harvests or there
will be none. The grange has an elo'
quent past, but 1t is only at the thresh'
old of its career Of usefulness.