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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
A Ci,y of vast Terraces.

Simie, India. Is built on the side Of a
steep hill, and the roof of one house is
often on level with the foundation Of
one on the next terrace.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03

tually teach for a time, She was after
ward a nurse, and some years ago was
drawn into reform work of various
kinds. in which field she has made a
splendid success. She is an author of
considerable power and has even pub
iished volume of poems. She has sew
eral times visited America
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03

Soda is an excellent article for cleaning
tlnware. Apply with damp cloth and rub
dry.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03

There are lots of human beings who inn
agine that they are working because they are
always busy
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03

They Give and Take.
People who borrow trouble are al
ways willing to lend It. we've noticed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
Dictionary for the Blind.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 The Maryland School for the Blind has just given to the world what is said to be the first dic- tionary ever printed in point type. The work, a replica in point type of Funk & Wagnall's Intermediate School Dictionary" IS in eighteen volumes, and contains aDout 3S,000 words. The only English diction- ary for the blind previously in ex- istence, it is said, was an old one, containing only few hundred se- lect words, and not printed in the point type.
 The staff of the scnool has spent two years, under the direction of Messrs. F. D. Morrison and M. k. Raddick, in arranging the work for the. press. The book Is printed from brass plates, the impressions of dots forming the letters being stamped in the plates. Applica- tons for the dictionary have been received from institutions for the blind all over the country.
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MODERN FABLES BY GEORGE ADE.
 Willing Comedian Who Was Hunting FhOd
BY GEORGE ADE-c0pyraht ieO by Robert Howard Russell

are 99s Blanks to every Prize and the one who gets the Prize usu- ally draws a case of Nervous Dyspepsia with 1t and has to live on Cereal Food. If you desire safe and profitable Employment, learn to be Bank Robber, but don't join the Starvation Brigade. The Professions are petering out. We live in Commercial Age. The Money-Makers of today are the Wise Boys who trade in Produce and Manufactured Staples"
 Accordingly the Young Fellow put in an Application with a large Wholesale Concern. The High Guy called him in and gave him Talk.
 If you are Strong and Willing, we can start you at S3.50 per Week, juggling Boxes," said the Manager Tn ten Fears or so you will be moved up Into the book keeping department where you can get S60 a Month just like finding it. Before you decide upon a Mer- cantile Career, may as well warn you that 95 per cent of those who go into Business eventually blow up and the other per cent com promise with the Trust and get what they can. The inexperienced Kid without Capital who tries to get a HammerLock on these air tight Combinations has about as much chance as a Chicken at a Camp-Meeting. If you wish to sit on High Stool so long that you grow fast to it and then, at the Wind-Up, get a Floral Pillow from your Fellow-E Employees, come and join our Happy Band. But if you are Foxy, cut out the Mercantile Act and try some Enterprise in which you will have Show to pull out something for yourself"
 By this time the Assets had shrivelled to about S2.60 and it was up to the ambitious Stripling to get on a Pay-Roll or else begin the systematic Touch.
 Journalism looked very good to him, because it seemed to re- quire neither Experience nor Funds and he could mould Public Opinion without joining the Moulders Un- ion. An Old-Timer in the Business steered him away.
 Don't start into this Life," he said. "It's only a Treadmill and after your Legs give out, you are dropped down the Dark Chute. Be- sides, Collegiate Training units you to help out on the Comic Sup plement. Another thing, the longer you daily with Journalism the less you know about it. The best Way in which to direct Newspaper is to stay away from the Office and write Letters to the Editor"
 The poor Youth had just about played his whole String, when he happened to think of the Stage. He was Good-LooKer and knew how to wear Clothes and had made terrific Hits in Amateur Pro- auctions. The hardened Manager to whom he sent his Card handed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
him a Cake of Ice weighing 300

him a Cake of Ice weighing 300 Pounds.
 The trouble with you is that you have been attending the UniVer- sity unsteady of working on Spring-Board, so as to do the Double Flip-Flops," said the Rag time Impressario "l ou are next to the Greek Verb, all right, but you are shy on Buck-and-Wing Steps and l cant see that you have a Chance in a Million. I SUD- pose you have studied Shakes peare. If so, you may possible hook up with a fly-by-night Organiza- tion. The Legitimate Drama is now being played at the Whistling Posts and Water Tanks but not in the great Thought Centers. If your Voice had been cultivated in Europe, 1 think 1 could fix it for you to carry a Spear, but as you have not sufficient Talent to get you into the Chorus, I suggest that you go down and play the Stock Market"
 Here was an Inspiration. He would go and find Employment in Brokers Office and Study the Quo tations and gradually pike into the World of Speculation. He sought out a pious old Gambler who had made a Ton of Money by never do- ing what he let on he was going to do. The veteran Financier would not be a Party to the ruination of any Good Young Man.
 Keep away, from the Market" he said. All those who play the Ticker get the Solar Plexus Punch sooner or later. This Speculation is very demoralizing. It has de- moralized every one except me. l always warn Young Men to buy nothing on Margins. Buy it out right. You can do this easily after you've earned the first Million or two, as a Stenographer."
 There doesn't seem to be any safe Opening for an eager Soul with a University. Training" said the Graduate.
 q might give you a Hunch on the o. T." said the Old Gentleman. Those who are very Bright often marry into the families of the yul- gar Rich, thus acquiring the Means to go Abroad and study Art and, at the same time, throw the Hooks into their Native Land"
 'I'll tackle Matrimony," said the Collegian That appears to be the only Field that is not over crowded"
 MORALE: Every Man Knocks his own Line of Work and sticks to it like Glue.
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-
 f" Man with a College Edu- WY cation, an assortment
 >) of Cravats and about SIS in Real Money, who was anxious ly looking for his Life Work.
 He wanted to break into a Learned Profession so that he could wear his Good Clothes all of the Time and get Coin with out working too hard for it.
 His Idea of a dignlfied Snap was to sit in a small Office about three hours every Day and have the Public come in and pass Money to him. The Medical Game struck him as being about the soft est Proposition of all
 He thought that all Doc had to do was to lead the Mark into the Chamber of Horrors where they have the Skulls and the Butcher Knives, look him over, ask a few Questions, tell him to stop smok- Ing and then tap him for V.
 So the hopeful Graduate went to the old Family Physician for a few Tips.
 The antique Medicine Man threw a Back-Twister when he heard of the Boys Intentions.
 Any one who tackles the Aesculapian Stunt is a vitrifed Mutt" said his Whiskers. eff you must earn your living, be Porch Climber or a Short Change Man. We now have in this Country four Medical Degrees to every case of Tonsilitis. Most of us are kept so close to the Carpet that we have to buy last years Magazines to- put in the Waiting Room. If Patient dies, all his Friends say that you helped to push him off, so they undermine your. Practice aud begin to plug for Christian Sci ence. If he gets well, he gives you the Laugh and you have to go after him with a Constable. If you acquire Reputation, they work the Night-Bell on you and if you arrange a Dinner Party it's Q Cinch that some Old Lady three miles away will ring in an Epilep- tic Fit and crab your whole Even ing. Nix the Materia Medica! Turn back before it is too late"
 Thereupon the Collegian be- thought him of the Law. So he went to old Judge Caveat and said he wanted to start right in Read ing.
 'If you can dispense with Feat ing for the next 15 Years, come and join our noble Profession" said the Judge. "If you have got into the Food Habit, however, and feel that you may need Clothes now and then, take my Advice and duck. It's getting so that one can't drop a Brick out of a Window with out hitting at least three Lawyers. The only ones who land are those that sell their Immortal Souls to the Corporations, and they get roasted so hard that they can't be elected anything except United States Senators. The Legal Pro- fession is a Lottery in which there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
Laughter Better Than Pills.

From What to Eat.
 The cure for the bilious man is there fore a clown-not pills For Indigestion go to a show where there are one or two frst-class fools who know how to make monkeys" of themselves. The tun' now ever, should be clean, innocent harmless and hearty, with no suggestion of inde- eencv or vulgarity. In other words, the fun should be ''hygienic.' Fun that IS foul and malodorous Is unhealthful
 The best sort of fun for the dyspepuc is the fun that burlesques the follies and foibles of the odd characters you have met. If you cant find the show with the burlesoue artists" who can make you laugh, seek out companions who are jolly and who know the art of clowning.
 Don't let any half-baked idiot load your mind with his business or domestic trou- bles. When you get an hour or two from the desk or the store abandon your self willingly and, cheerfully to the frivolities of a jocular friend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
Under the Worlds TalIest Building

From the New York Press.
 Dining in the basement of the tallest building in the world has no terrors for hungry New Workers. More than 300 feet above them towers the roof of the Park Row building They are beneath thou sands of tons of stone and iron, appar- ently sustained only by slender pillars in the cafe Nearly 6,00O people, the popu- lation of small city. toll in the offices of the thirty-two stories. During bus- ness hours f0,000 persons are In the build ing at time. If 1t should collapse the list of casualties would make It a ''catas- trophe." But so sublime Is the faith of New Workers in the skill of builders of skyscrapers that they think of the fate ful pollysylable only In connection with volcanic eruptions and Kansas cyclones.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

sentatives for the coming debate with Princeton.
 Pickens tried for the debating team, but has failed to get a place. His failure to be chosen for the team has created some criticism.
 Members of the university fac ulty awarded Pickens the Deforest medal, and 1t was also members of the university faculty who selected the members of the debating team. Pickens is the first colored man who ever won the Deforest medal at Yale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
shakespeare FoIIo MutI!ated.

Berlin Cablegram to the St. Louis
 be-Democrat.
 The fine copy of the first folio edition of Shakespeare's works the only one in Germany-which American and English tourists were wont to admire so often, has been sorely mutilated by a read CT" in the royal library, who cut from it the entire Comedy of Err rors." This edition originally be- longed to William l., who placed 1t at the public's disposal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
News Service By Wireless Tele-
 oraph,

Avalon, Catalina Island, Telegram t
 the New York Herald
 Santa Catalina Island, lying thirty miles from the mainland, has a newspaper that is unique among daily journals. The enter prise is conducted by the Los An geles Times, and has been duly launched. It is the only daily paper in existence receiving its entire news servlce by wireless telegraph. The paper is appropri- ately named the Wireless. News of the outside world is transmitted from Los Angeles by the Pacific Wireless Telegraph company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
Neoro Not a Vale Debater.

New Haven Telegram to the Philadel
 phia Press.
 William Pickens, eolored, of Lit tie Rock, Ark, of the junior class of the academic department at Yale, who won the Deforest prize medal on Wednesday, has not been selected as one of the Yale repre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

Let us sell you pair of James A. Canister high-grade Shoes to go with that suit you have for Easter.
 See our new line of Patent and Ideal Kid Shoes. They wear as well as vici
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
Mems Shoes

or box calf, and don't crack.
 See our line of popular priced Shoes 2. S3.50. We have just received new shipment of these Shoes. It will pay you to see them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
Ladies' Shoes.

price is $2.5o. See them.
 Our Patent Vici Oxfords, in French. Military and Cuban heels, with coin toe, make a neat little Shoe for any occasion. Price $500.
 See our line of medium priced Slip pers and Oxfords, ranging from S1.2o to S2.oo, in all new heels and toes.
 See our assortment of Misses and Children's Slippers. They are neat ana hobby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Just come in and let us fit you up in that pair of Shoes.
 Our Easter Slippers are the prettiest ever exhibited in this city.
 Our line of Patent Vici Strap Slip pers, in one, two, three and four strap, with French heels, are the nobbiest thing to wear with that handsome gown you nave just had made. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12
Mems Hosiery.

We give you three pairs for 25c, or 1oo each, a line of Socks that are made to wear, in stripes and fancy colors.
 For 15c or two pair for 25c-a line
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-12

of Socks that usually sells for 25c, in pretty, neat patterns.
 Also swell line of 25c and SOC Socks, in .ace and plain, in all new ana up-to-date patterns.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-17

under command of Gen. Burnside,
marched up West Patrick street, Mrs.
Frietchie was at one of the dormer
windows and waved her hand as a
token of joy. Her grandniece. Miss
Julia Hanshaw-now Mrs. John Abb
bott-and a young Miss Yoner were
standing by the old lady's side. The
presence of the union forces and the
inspiring music caused the patriotic
old lady to request Miss Yoner to go
into an adjoining room and get the
flag from the Bible. This was done,
and soon the Stars and Stripes were
floating from the window. The en-
thusiasm and patriotism of Mrs.
Frietchie caused the union soldiers to
cheer Justify. The gallant Gen. Reno
went into the house and c%ongrStu-
lated her, at the same time asking
her for the flag which she had waved.
Mrs. Frietchie did not give the gem
eral the flag. but did get another
and give him with a God bless
you and the Stars and Stripes"
Gen. Reno waved the flag and pro-
posed three cheers, which were
given with a will. Gen. Reno was
killed next day at the battle of South
Mountain.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-17
I v AT ALL PRICES.
Suftors in Savage and Semi-Barbarfc
Countries Are Compelled to
Buy Their Brides.

In Europe, says a foreign explorer,
it is customary for parents to give
dowries to their daughters when they
marry. but in uncivilized countries
quite a different custom prevails.
In Uganda a maj can buy a hand
some wife for four bulls, a box of
cartridges and six needles. and if he
has the luck to go a-wooing when
women happen to be a drug on the
market. he can buy a suitable damsel
for a pair of shoes. A Kaffir girl is
worth, according to the rank Of her
family, from four to ten cows. and
any Young man who becomes enam-
CURED of a native girl of New Mexico
will have to give at least ~ horses for
her. In Tartary no father will sur
render his daughter unless he gets a
goodly quantity of butter in return,
and in certain parts of India no girl
can marry until her father has been
pacified by a present of rice and a few
rupees.
Twenty oxen is the regular price for
. wife among the Mishmis, but a poor
man has more than once succeeded in
obtaining a bride on payment of one
pig. At Timor no girl will think of
marrying a man who is not provided
with a certain number of elephants
tusks. and at Unyoro, any desirable
but impecunious sutton may purchase
his wife on credit, but will not
be allowed to enjoy her company
until he has paid tie uttermost
farthing.
Among many tribes of Africa and
Asia it is customary for a sutton to
work as a hired man for his future
father-in-law in the same manner as
Jacob worked for Laban. A certain
value is set on the girl whom he Sc
lects as his wife, and when his wages
amount to that much he gets her, and
not before. A man who falls in love
with a native girl of the Manzoni ter
ritory fares better, for all he need
pay for her is two deer skins.-N. Y.
Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-17

served and is now in the Reno fam
lily.
Now that is all l care to say
about the incident, and, as l have
stated, l do not wish to talk for pub
lication. There has already been too
much written about the flag incident.
Aunt Frietchie was a dear, good soul,
and 1 am always pleased to show
these relics to visitors. / have here
a 'Frietchie Memorial Register and
I always request visitors to register"
Barbara Frietchie was in her nine
ty-fifth year at the time of the flag
incident" September 10, 1862. and
died on December Is, following.
When the confederate troops began
entering Frederick on the 9Th. Sth
and 10th of September, Mrs. Frietchie
took the flag down from her dormer
window and placed it betwee1A the
pages of the old family Bible. She,
with other citizens of Frederick, real
lied that it was dangerous to per-
nit the flag to float while the town
was filling up with confederates. On
the morning of the 18th, when Gen.
McClellan's army, with the advance
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-17

who wished some souvenir or keep
sake that l gave away a large num-
Der of them. 1t is so hard to refuse
your friends, you know. A great
many people call here to see these
relics of Aunt Frietchie and a few
years ago l concluded it would be
best to get them all together and
put them here in the parlor so that
| would have less trouble in showing
them. So much has been written and
printed about the flag incident that,
not wishing to become involved in
any controversy, l have declined to
talk about it, leaving newspaper peo-
pie and all visitors to get informa-
ton as best they cam"
"Will you answer just n ques-
ton, Mrs. Abbott? Did Gen. Reno
salute a flag which was waved by
Mrs. Frietchie, and did that lady
give him a flag which was placed on
his grave when he was killed next
day at the battle of South Noun
tain?'
That is true, and here is a photo
graph of the flag Aunt Frietchie gave
Gen. Reno, which was sent me by
the generals son. The flag was
taken from the grave and pre-
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-17
BRIGHT EASTERN GIRL.
She Gave n Unique Turn to Rather
PrOsafc Way of Earning an
Honest Living.

She had gone to Denver for her
health. Yet her capital was small, and
she must earn her living. How to do
it, and at the same time grow strong,
was a problem. She had been a stenog-
rapher, but to take up a position at
clicking the keys in a Denver office was
little better than in Philadelphia.
AT last she hit upon a happy idea,
which took little of her time, and net
ted her a good return. She rented a
room in one of the big office buildings,
whose busy daytime tenants run up
into the hundreds. 1t was on the ton
floor, and she paid S25 a month for it.
Then she invested in half a dozen
round, unvarnished tables with paint
ed legs. Cheap little things they were.
But she covered the tops with the
soft mating that comes around tea
chests. and which the grocer she pat
ronized gave her.
Next with excelsior, denim, two long
wooden shoe boxes. which cost her so
cents, and some gilt-headed tacks, she
made two divan-looking affairs, which
held innumerable things.
Her next investment was in some cav
little japanese fans at a few cents
each, some crepe paper, and more tea
chest mating. With these she COW
cred the walls artificially and pref
tily, sticking the fans here and there
to give a gay note.
japanese paper napkins, plates, cups
and saucers. and a three-burner gas
stove behind a serene, completed her
outfit.
Then the enterprising young woman
announced her "tea room was ready
for business. From II o'clock to two
she served tea, coffee and cocoa, and
appetizing sandwiches. Her food was
good, and things seemed appetizing.
1t wasn't long before she had more
customers than she could well handle.
Before the first month was over she
had covered her expenses. It was q
clever little tea room. just what it set
out to be.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-17

CAREFULLY guarded and sacredly
treasured with other relics which
belonged to her great-aunt, Mrs. Bar
bara Frietchie, Mrs. John Abbott, of
Frederick, Nd, has the flag which
Whittier's heroine waved from the
window of her home on "that cool
September morn" in 1862.
Visitors to Frederick find the pleas
ant and comfortable home of Mrs.
Abbott an interesting place to visit,
and the excellent lady takes a Pc
culiar pride in showing the old flag,
which is encased in a large frame,
but her really priced collection con
sists of a large cabinet of chinaware,
silver tea pot and other articles for
the table, together with a long pair
of gloves of undressed skin which
Barbara Frietchie wore while work
ing in her yard with her flowers.
These gloves were made by Mrs.
Frietchie's husband, who was a
skilled workman of this kind.
81 had a much larger collection
said Mrs. Abbott, to a Detroit Free
Press correspondent, 'but there were
so many friends of Aunt Frietchie's
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-17
When Wmter Tastes Good.

This is a Texas story. There was gath
cred at one of the country towns the usual
crowd for the county court, which included
the judge, the district attorney, sheriff,
clerk, a number of lawyers, and, on this
particular occasion, a young army officer.
Well, they celebrated to rather a late hour
on the first night, and when bedtime came
it was found that most of them had to
sleep in the one large room called in the
west the school section" because every
thing in the school section lands in the
early days belonged to everybody. About
daylight the next morning the district at
torney crawled out and found a pitcher of
ice water. As he poured it down his throat
it fairly Missed. After a long draught he
stopped and said: mo id sober fool
knows how good water tastes Washing
tom Post
The Tupelo journal., 1903-07-17
WAYS Of EATING Lettuce.

There has been ar unwritten law
among epicures that lettuce should
never be cut with a knife. Indeed, it
should not be touched with a knife, they
say. Now, the common people have
heard this, and it is their habit to roll
up a big leaf with a fork, sop it in the
dressing and pack it in their mouths as
one used to wad a mu~zzle-loading gun
with a bit of newspaper. Once in awhile
you will see a dainty eater pick up leaves
in the fingers, Mortified at the thought
of touching the lettuce ven with a sill
yer fork. 1t has not occurred to most
lettuce eaters that the epicures who es-
tablished these unwritten laws ate only