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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03
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Be sure to call at our shoe store to see the
king Quality" shoes for men; we have
them in Kangaroo Patent Leather, Enamel
Leather. Box Calf, Eli Calf, Velour Calf and
vici Kid; they all retail for $3.50, but our
prices on all So. so is 3.25: they are the finest
line of shoes that was ever put up 10 retail
for $50; we also have the famous Walker
boot for sale So. 80 to 8 90, the most famous
boot ever sold in the Shenandoah Valley;
we have big stock of other boots; our
$1.75, 200 and 2 80 boots can't be matched;
we have a bran new snag proof rubber
boot for $50, you pay 500 elsewhere for
them; mems heavy rolled edge rubbers,
pure gum, S5c, they are worth 1.50; mems
heavy arctics, rolled edge. lis, they are
worth $50; ladies' Kelly shoes all styles
and widths 200 to 800; we have children s
solid leather shoes SOC. nice shoe, and we
sell piles of them. We have been rushed
in our millinery department ever since we
had our opening. Orders are still pouring
in from all quarters. Our prices tell. We
can sell you nice hat for one-third less
than you pay elsewhere. Don't take my
word for it, but come and see for yourself.
j. w. CoFFmAN.
Racket Store
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03

Mr.. John B. Hendricks. a prominent
farmer, died at his home on Sandy Ridge
on Sunday evening, February ~, aged
IA wears.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03
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To Investors.

Having been to New York looking up
some investments in Real Estate, have ar
ranged with leading Real Estate firm of
that city to sell some of their property at
very reasonable rates and on small monthly
payments. All titles are guaranteed BY the
Title Guarantee 8 Trust Co., or BY the Title
Insurance Co., of New York. | Will be
pleased to, have parties call at my Office to
show them maps of properties for sale and
give them prices. as wei as examine methods
of purchasing. All purchasers have their
travelling expenses paid to examine their
properties. Where several parties purchase
/ will accompany them to New York.
A. G. WYNKooP,
Real Estate Agent, Charles Town, ". Va.
Feb. II, 1903-6t.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03

Three dwellings for sale-One at $500
one at $500, and one at $3.50. Two dwelling
for rent, $240 and $3.50 year.
17-3. MOORE & MOORE.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03

Our well-known colored caterer. Jas.
w. Thomas, underwent successful sur
gical operation at the hands of Drs. Neill
and Miller last Thursday. and is since
doing well.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03

Paul Stevenson. infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oscar l.. Watson. of this place, died
on Friday evening last, aged 10 weeks.
Parents and grandparents mourn the Nss
of a sweet little loved one, but precious
bud has been transplanted from earth to
heaven, and awaits your coming on the
ntier shore
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03

A house and lot of Jos. d. Smith, in
Middleway, was sold on Saturday last,
by n r. Roberts, Trustee, to DR.. d. P Fry
and r. N. Smith, for 1920.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03
OIOvER aEEp

Timothy, alsyke, alfalfa, KY. blue grass and
orchard grass seeds at Wall, Jenkins & Ship
mans.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03
Gardening Should be a Pleasure.

With the advent of spring comes the smell
of burning weeds and other trash that has
accumulated on the garden during the winter
This smell means making garden" Then
comes the demand for seeds. You want the
best varieties and the kinds that will grow
Sow tomato and cabbage seed now. If you
want the reliable, get them at
Boards VARIETY STORE.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03

Money to lend by Jefferson County
Provident Building Association, on real
estate or notes well endorsed.
THos. r. MOORE.
Sec'Y and Treas'r.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03
Safe in the arms of Jesus
Safe on his gentle breast -

Safe ON his gentle breast''
Funeral services were held at the house
Sunday morning, conducted by Rev. B..
F. Ball, vocal quartet rendering several
appropriate selections. after which the re-
mains were inferred in the Masonic
Cemetery at Middleway.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03

Feed cotton seed meal to your fattenine
cattle. See testimonials at our Office from
successful cattlemen who are feeding cotton
seed meal WALL, JENKINS q SHIPMAN.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03
!. BON Run to Bull Rom.

BY Capt. George Baylor, for sale by
Brown & Hooff. druggists. Price, $3.50.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-03-03

CLOVER SEED.
You can save money by purchasing your
clover seed at Wall, Jenkins Il Shipman's.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
The Law About Weeds.
Laws as to Neglect OF a Neigbbor TO Re.
move Them.

An article in the August number of
the monthly bulletin issued by the
Zoology Division OF the Pennsylvania
State Department of Agriculture, con.
'alns the following information OF
timely and general interest:
One of the most common questions
sent is the following: Is there no law
to prevent my neighbor neglecting his
weeds until they go to seed and fill
my cultivate ! fields ? We believe
there is moral law involved in this.
Such thing ought not to be done,
but unfortunately, there is no civil law
against any weed in this State, except
ing the Canada thistle. The law re.
gardlng the compulsory destruction of
the Canada thistle is that if the land
owner neglects TO cut the thstles so
as to prevent them from rpeh,ng, any
person may inform, by written notice,
any constable or supervisor of the
township or district in which the
Canada thistles grow, and it is this
officers duty to give five days notice
On wrlting) to the land owner to cut
the weeds. If they are not cut at the
end OF five days it shall be the duty
of the officer to enter the premises
with such employees as he may need
and cut them down and destroy them.
From the tax list OF the land owner
he shall then recover a fee OF fifty
cents and six cents mileage for each
mile travelled to do the work, and also
Ss.5o per day for all services render
ed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
Fall Arbor Day.

State Superintendent Scheffer has
issued his fall arbor day proclamation,
in the course of which he says:
"The law wisely requires the OBJ
servance of Arbor Day in the public
schools. The rapid destruction of our
forests has alarmed the far seeing
citizens of the commonwealth. The
gradual purchase OF large tracts for
forestry purposes is but the beginning
Of what should be done to avert the
scarcity of timber and the material
welfare Of our people.
"The new career which is opening
to those who dedicate their lives to
forestry, and the important service
which they can render to future
generations, should be pointed out to
the aspiring youth in our schools.
Every boy and every girl should be
taught how to plant and protect trees.
The value of trees for shade, for
fruit and for industrial purposes should
be duly emphasized. Their signific-
ance in the domain of the higher life
and the use made of them in ltera-
ture and ethical instruction, should be
brought to the notice of our young
people. The time is past when argu-
ment is needed to show the import
ance of proper observance of Arbor
Day in all the schools of America.
"Since many rural schools are not
in session when the regular Arbor
Day is observed, and since trees can
be planted in the autumn as we'll as
in the spring, it has become customary
to observe an Arbor Day in the fail of
the year. In accordance with this
established custom Friday, October
10, 1903, is designated as Autumn
Arbor Day and superintendents,
teachers and pupils are asked to OBJ
serve the day by the planting of trees
and by other suitable exercises"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
An Important Decision.

A very important decision in regard
to liquor selling has just been made
by Judge Lyon of the Supreme Court
of New York. Mrs. Eliza Westbrook
of Ithaca sued Joseph Miller and
seven other liquor dealers of that city
for $1,000 damages each, for injuring
the health and morals of her son by
selling him liquor after she had for
hidden them to do so. The liquor
dealers made a motion to have the
case dismissed, but the judge refused,
and ordered the case to jury trial.
This decides that the case is action
able, in civil action. II is the first
time such question has come up IN
the court and it provides parents with
a most powerful weapon.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
A Neat Swindle.

Some of the farmers IN Monroe
county have been neatly victlmized
by a pair of sharpers. They claim TO
be representatives OF the State agricul-
tural station. Well to do farmers are
asked to certify to the locality which
furnished the specimens they procure
in the nelehborhood. A few days
later the farmer receives notice from
a justice of the peace that the speci,
mems are of the Canada thistle, wild
parsnip, etc, and the certificates have
been used as evidence in a successful
action which necessitates the pay
ment of heavy fine. The sharpers
have taken advantage Of an old law
that imposes fine upon the owners
who allow noxlous weeds to 60 to
seed upon their property. Half of
the fines go to the complainant. In
some instances the sharpers are re-
ceiving handsome income from
farmers favorably inclined to scientific
investigation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08

consular agent in Abyssinia. We send
to that country cotton goods and
other staple articles and receive in
return large quantities of ivory, hides.
carpet woods aud other raw materials.
XIX
The first meeting Of the Negro
Suffrage league OF the District of
Columbia, which was held here last
week, marks the beginning of move
ment among the colored people for
the organization of national negro
league which will have for its object
the protection of the black man and
the furthering of his interests. In
other words the negroes are trying to
organize. AT the meeting of the
District League resolutions were
adopted condemning the attempts to
break down the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, and requesting Presj-
dent Roosevelt to do all IN his power
to prevent "the rank and 6agrant
determinations which are practlced
against the negro in the District OF
Columbia IN public places OF amuse
ment." During the past year similar
leagues have been organized through.
ont the country and they propose to
unite together in federation. For
this purpose a convention will be held
here in December. The leaders of
the movement say that the negro
officer holders have betrayed the inter
ests of the race, that the leadership
of Booker Washington is hypocritica
and dangerous, and that the time has
now come when the negro must look
after himself aud not trust TO the
republican party.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
woman's Right to scold.
Judge Johnson, Of Media. Has an Opinion
OF the Law.

Judge Johnson believes tha; the law
that gives the right to jury to say
that woman is common scold sim.
ply because some of the neighbors
think she talks TOO much, should be
wiped from the statute books; and
every chivalric man will freely agree
with Inn. AS the court says, it is a
mean discrimination against woman
to apply this law to her. while it can.
not be applied to man, though there
is just as good ground in one case as
the other.
This county has as its greatest boon
the righ, of free speech and that right
is particularly the heritage of the
women, and any law that curtails that
boon does violence to our institutions
and to the sex. We stand with the
learned Judge of the Delaware county
courts that it is unfair to make any
such discrimination and we will die in
the last ditch before the mothers, the
sisters, the pretty cousins and the be-
nevolent aunts of this glorious land of
the free and the home of the brave
shall be obliged to curtail in the least
degree the privilege of womankind to
speak freely and without reserve upon
any topic that courses through the
feminine mind.
Talking is the safety valve of our
dear sisterhood and it is more than
probable that but for this happy and
heaven-given vent many OF the recre-
ant husbands would get their worth
less heads thumped with rolling pin;
so let there be the freest speech &C
corded to the women of the land,
whether In the club, the home or up
on the sidewalk in front of a neigh
bor's house. - Chester Times,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08

Daily. 5 Daily, except sunday. 'f' stops
only on signal notice to Agent, or Conductor 10
receive or discharge passengers
Trains leave BLOOMSBURY as follows:
For Pittston and Scranton as follows: 7.S7 and
l0I3 a. M, 2. .43 and 6.l5 p. m. week days; lO.4S
q. m. daily,
For Pottsville, Reading and Philadelphia, 7.37
a. m. and 2.43 D. m. week days.
For laZleton, 737 and 10. 4S a. m 2. .43 and .lb
%. m. week days, l0.43 A. m. sundays.
For Lewisburg. Milton, Williamsport, Lock
Haven, Renova and Kane, ll.50 a. IN. week days;
Lock Haven only, s47 a. m. and 400 p. M week
days; for Willfamsport and intermediate sta
lions, 6E a, IN. and 725 p. m. week days,
For Bellef0nte, Tyrone, Philipsburg, and
Clearfed, s'47 and 80 a, m, week days
For Harrisburg and intermediate stations S.47
and / SO a. m, 400 and 7,25 p. m. week days;
4.06 p. m. Sundays.
For Philadelphia (via Harrisburg), Baltimore
and Washington S.47 and ll,50 a. M, 406 and Z. .25
D. m. week days: a. OF p. m sundays.
For Pittsburg (via HarrisbuIg), S.47 a. m.
town Judction, s.41 and II 30 a. m. week days;
pullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars run on
through trains between Sunbury, Williamsport
and Erie, between Sunbury and Philadelphia
and Washington and between Harrisburg Pitts-
burg and the west.
For further Information apply TO Ticket
Agents.
W. W. ATTERBURY, j. X. WOOD,
General Manager. Passr Traffic Mgr.
GEO. W, BOYD,
General Passenger Agent
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
SCOT rs
|: NJ I'LL SION

SCOTS Emulsion is the
means Of life and of the en-
joyment Of life of thousands Of
men, women and children.
To the men SCOTS Emul-
sion gives the flesh and
strength so necessary for the
cure of consumption and the
repairing of body losses from
any wasting disease.
For women SCOTS Emul-
sion does this and more. 1t is
a most sustaining food and
tonic for the special trials that
women have to bear.
To children SCOTS Emul-
sion gives food and strength
for growth of flesh and bone
and blood. For pale girls,
for thin and sickly boys SCOTS
Emulsion is a great help.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT g. BOVINE, Chemists.
4Oe-4l5 Pearl Street, New York.
500. and $l.ooi all druggists.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
Game Season Opens.

THIS is brief enough to paste in the
hat of any sportsman. The open sea-
son for game in this State !, as fol
lows: Elk, deer and fawn, two in one
season, November only; Mongol,an
pheasant, Oct. IS to Dec. IS; ruhed
grouse, ten in one day, Oct. IS to
Dec. IS; hare or rabbit, Nov. to
Dec. IS; reed birds, Sept, Oct. and
Nov; web-footed wild fowl, Sept. 1
to May I; wild turkey, two in one
day, Oct. IS to Dec. IS; gray, black
and fox squirrel, Oct. IS to Dec. IS;
woodcock, Oct. IS to Dec. IS; plover,
July IS to Jan. 1.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
Passing OF the Veteran.

A scene that bordered on the pathe-
tic took place at the room of Borrows
Post. Williamsport, Grand Army oi
the Republic last week, when the or
ganization gave all of its property,
with the exception of a few chairs and
one flag, to Hancock Camp of the
Sons of Veterans. The ravages of
time and disease have so thinned the
ranks of this Grand Army post that
the few remaining veterans in the or
ganizatlon decided that they would
not much longer need relics and deco.
rations and furnishings in their hall,
aud concluded to present them to the
Sons of Veterans.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
Beware; of 0intments for Oatarrh that Con
tain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering 1t
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable physi.
clans, as the damage they do is ten
fold to the good you can possibly de-
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure
manufactured by F. ]. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, o., contains no mercury, and
is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. In buying Halls Ca
tarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine.
1t is taken internally, and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by +. ]. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 7sc. per
bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08

t Runs daily. Flag station.
Il. NJ. RINE, Il. W. LEE,
Supt. Gen. Pass. Agt.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08
A Fool Tax, Anyhow.

The Berks county commissioners
have relieved single men OF the extra
S. cents tax burden, which they have
had to bear for years. 1t proved a
failure as means to drive bachelors
to matrlmony, and many of the special
class of taxables lodged it by repre-
senting that they were married men
or widowers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-10-08

FOR SALE by w. S. RISHTON'
New-York tribune., 1903-03-29
HEWITT 1ND THE SULTAN
The Turks Gifts SAID to Haze
Cost the american $3, 900.

A friend in Turkey writes, says THE Chicago
Record Herald" that the recent death Of Abram
S. Hewitt recalls to him an interview Whlch
that man had with the Sultan some years ago.
while S. S. Cox was United States Minister at
Constantinople. Mr.. Cox having arranged for
IN audience, Mr.. Hewitt ushered into his
u.ajesty'5 presence the day appointed, and
conversed with him in familiar way for an
hour or more through interpreter. Various
topics were discussed and the courts Of Turkey
were alluded to. The Sultan explained the sys-
ten by which justice administered in the
Ottoman Empire. and remarked that one very
important advantage was hat the judges served
without pay. Mr.. Hewitt asked how they man
aged to live, whareupOn his majesty eXpialneo
naIveiy that they were paid by the people VINO
brought the lawsuits for their decision.
Then, I suppose remarked Mr. Hewitt, that
he who pays the most gets the Judgment
The Sultan looked little puzzled. placed his
finger on his temple if rejecting. and re-
marked:
New-York tribune., 1903-03-29

broke leg any other animal got seriously
injured they shot it and got 1t out OF the way
as quickly as possible Now that is all changed
If a fallow deer az deer breaks leg
through the humping about Of the cars, as often
happens, we don't kill it. Either I or one of my
assistants puts the leg in Spints and cares 1Or
the animal until 1t recovers-
But after all, the secret Of successfully treat
ing animals is to know them and understand
them. Poor devils! Just think of it; there they
are shut up day after day, fretting and worry
ing: wouldn't such treatment make any living
being sick? Camels and other animals oLteh
go crazy. Take shut up in a CELL ana ne
can usually invent some amusement 10 olFeFt
his mand. An animal can't do that. care VI
the health with plenty of exercise. is the only
way to save them. Elephants look Tor thelr
performances a d boy looks for the CLOSE "a
school. 1t is their recreation; it gives them
something to DO, something to think ABOUT
They like to be washed, too. Once or twice
wear We give them a kind of Turkish bath-go
at them with sandpaper. scrubbtng brushes ana
nlenty of water and soap. They enjoy this
hugely Snakes like a scrubbing OF that SORT
too. 1t gets the old skin off, opens the pores ana
sets the blood circulating. Give an elephant
or q snake bath like that. then rub in i little
oil and they are as good as new.
We have any amount of trouble with the
claws of lions tigers and the other cat ahliiialS
No we don't send for a manicurst. We do the
iob ourselves. Catch the claw in a slip moose
pulI it through the bars and cut the nails
Sometimes lion or tiger gets splinter III
the paw from clawing at the bottom OF the
cage. Then we have to resort to the same trick
Yes, they do make awful fuss, but we man
age to get along all right.
"OnCe in a while we have to saw OIL the
upper horn of the rHihoceros to keep IL from
growing back into the skull and Killing hllli'
You see the circus veterinary surgeon and his
assistants have to do a little of everything,
from feeding pills in potatoes and wads CT bread
I'D to pulling an elephants tooth. When we are
on the road we fellows have tent to ourselves.
q regular animal hospital you know No, the
New-York tribune., 1903-03-29
GOT TIE WRONG NAN.

Secretary Moody Postmaster General Payne
Senator Hale, Representative Cannon and
eral other statesmen the way e
Charleston. S, c. there to embark on the Dol
phin for fishing cruise AS they travelled r.
L. Fishback. who is Mr., Moody's private se,re-
tary, said:
Once, in my early youth desired to change
my boarding house Rooms in a certain h, USE
advertised and at this house l called. A
woman of middle age received me.
Il wish to state. she said after everything
had proved satisfactory and l had engaged a
room; L wish to state that you will finl
drawback here sir. My husband IS 4 drunkard,
He often comes home late at night in sh :c.I
ing condition. Aside from this know that you
will like my house.
II assured the woman warmly that 1 would
overlook her husband, and that afternOol l
moved in. 1 went to bed early, and about mi l.
night l awoke to the sound of loud singh g.
This sound came from without. looked from
my window and the doorstep OF the house I
saw a drunken man. He lay his hack and
sent forth on the still night air elibly
earsplittng song.
THAT murmured. is the drunken husband.
I'll fetch him in
so slipped my trousers On over my pajlTas,
stole downstairs and out upon the step Come
in to bed 1 said. and took the fellow by the
shoulder and brought him to his feet He
seemed little stubborn. but I got him into the
hall and shut and locked the door.
Now, upstairs you 60 said I. bat ha re-
sisted here. However, l was determined
picked him up bodily and began 10 ascend the
stairs, carrying him. He fought. He kicked,
pulled my hair. tried 20 trip me with his legs
indeed. we had a time of it. And in the midst
of this scuhle l heard my landlady'S voice. ana.
locking up, two faces. peerinS dose to-
gether over the balustrade of the second fo3r
MIR. Fishback. what on earth are you
doing?' said my landlady.
II am bringing I'D your husband. madam
He is drunk again. said l.
Then another voice the voice OF the Won1ans
companion, exclaimed sternly:
what do you mean. young mani ] am thAs
iady's husband.