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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-12-10
GRATITUDE

Gratitude is a mark Of distinction
that stamps a personality beyond
the pales Of comprehension A
person cannot comprehend the feel.
ings who has not had the experience
in such expression as we find writ.
ten in the COLUMBIAN last week in
an item, by grateful pupil who
referred to Prof L. B. Beishline, as
a teacher to command attention
respect, admiration and conf.
dence." And adds that it was his
good fortune to be pupil of his,
back in the Sos"
Prof. Beishline, no doubt, ap-
preciates this compliment as highly
as / do his compliment, in these
words: II have often thought that
if it had not been for the good
advice given me by you, would
not be in the work." (meaning
school work II remember the
starting point. You composed an
essay and requested me to declaim
1t at Christmas anniversary at St.
James, you encouraged me in the
effort and told me it was we'll done,
and, further, you advised me to go
to school. ] followed your advice.
| wish to tell you now that it was
the best thing ever did. | often
think / owe you vote of thanks
for the interest manifested in my
behalf. say now, thank you. l
think the time must come to every
reflective person when he feels thus
toward faithful teacher" Writ
ten at Pleasant Hill Academy, L.
B. Beishline. Principal, July 27,
1898.
Prof. Beishline will find such to-
kens Of gratitude only to heighten
Joy with advancing years. AID
when he once gets away from the
school and profession, by reason OF
age, or other incapacity, such to-
ken will bring tears Of JOY to his
gladdened heart.
find that the older I get the
more highly appreciate such to-
kens of gratitude from my pupils
of long ago. The teachers pro-
fession, though poorly paid, brings
its own reward. The COLUMBIAN
scribe will never forget the services
of a faithful teacher. Gratitude is
the greatest element that kindles
love in the human heart.
JOHN c. WENNER.
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Rite's Case Continued.

In the Court of Northumberland
County at Sunbury Monday after.
noon the case of Jacob Hite, who it
is alleged shot Mrs. Fred Krebs at
Northumberland some time ago,
was continued until the next term
OF Court. 1t is the opinion of many
that in the meantime there will be
a determined effort made by the
counsel, or the defendant will make
determined effort to have the
matter fixed satisfactorily to all
concerned as it is claimed that an
airing in the courts would develop
some unsavory doings that would
be very distasteful to Hite as we'll
as Mrs. Krebs and her husband.
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Another War Veteran Gone.

Another Civil War veterar
answered the last roll call on Mon.
day. We refer to Peter Hayman
who departed this life at his home
IN Greenwood. For about a year
past he had been a victim of heart
disease and it was this that caused
his death. He was a well-to. do
and respected farmer and was, be-
side civil war veteran, a granger.
He was siXty-seven years of age
and is survived by family OF five
children, two daughters and three
sons. The funeral will be held to-
day. Interment will be made in
the cemetery at Rohrsburg.
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but returned it. He pleaded guilty
X. o. Brockway Esq, stated tC
the Court that arrangement had
been made for the defendants en-
listment in the army, aud asked
that sentence be suspended. Court
postponed final disposition.
Commonwealth VS.. Myron Shut
man and Frank Welliver. Charge
larceny. These are the two young
men, who, while clerking for the
Berwick Store Co., made incorrect
returns of the sales made and re-
tanned and divided a portion of the
receipts. Shuman pleaded guilty,
and his counsel Frank Ikeler, ask
ed the mercy of the Court.
District Attorney Duy asked the
Court for a noll. pros, as to Welli-
yer.
Commonwealth VS.. Frank Welli.
yer. Charge larceny aud removing
goods. Continued.
Commonwealth VS.. Annie Rob-
bins. Assault and battery. The
prosecutor S. S. Byers, claimed
that on the 18th of August of this
year he was driving through Rob-
bins farm in Madison township,
when the defendant hit him upon
the shoulder with a club, and forbid
him to drive through the farm with
a team
John G.. Harman made the argu-
ment for the defendant and District
Attorney Duy for the Common
wealth. The jury returned ver-
dict of not guilty and the prosecutor
and defendant to divide the costs.
Sheriff Knorr acknowledged the
following deeds in open Court.
Daniel Knorr, High Sheriff, to
w. L. White, T. Harvey Doan and
J. w. Sitter, property in Main
township. Consideration, S6S5.
Sheriff Knorr to Garrison Bros.
property in Berwick. Considera-
ton, S6I5.
In the case of Com. VS.. William
Meredith, charge larceny, defend
ant pleaded guilty. Defendant was
accused of stealing a number of
pocketbooks from Garrison Bros,
of Berwick. After hearing a mum
Der of witnesses as TO the theft the
Court suspended sentence until
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STORY Of CAL-CURA,
Discovered by Or. David kennedy-OnI,
Kidney Remedy Sold Under Guarantee.

DIR. David Kennedy was born in New York
City, but at an early age his family moved
to Roxbury, NY. He was graduated in 1860
from the New York College of Physicians
and Surgeons. He at once volunteered as
surgeon and was assigned to the United
States Army General Hospital in West Phil
adelphia, and soon became President of the
Examining Board and Consulting Surgeon.
After the war, DIR. Kennedy settled in Ron
dout, City of Kingston, N. Y, where for
number of years he enjoyed large prac-
tice as an operative surgeon. He was one
of the Presidential Electors of New York
State, Mayor of Kingston for four years,
and held many other professional, business
and political offices.
The latest achievement of his life was the
discovery of Cal-cura Solvent, a positive
cure for all diseases of the kidneys and blad-
der. Inspeaking of this remarkable remedy,
he said: "Cal-cura Solvent is the crowning
achievement of my life. 1t will not dis
appoint"
Your druggist will return your money if
Cal-cura fails to cure, and The Cal-cura
Company, of Rondout, N. Y, will pay the
druggist. Cal-cura Solvent cures 9SSS of
all cases of Kidney, Bladder and Liver dis
orders. xl.00 a bottle. Only one size.
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WANTED.

General Agents to handle ex,
elusive territory for the Pennsyl.
vania Guaranty Company of Pitts
burg, Pa. A guaranteed investmen,
proposition which sells at sight.
Salary or commission contracts
Address A. G.. Wormser, Manager
9 North Market Square, Harris
burg, Pa. 1t.
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Labor Crowds Berwick.

Berwick is overcrowded with
labor, and a reaction has set in,
causing many to leave for other
fields. During the past year men
from all over the state have focked
to Berwick in search Of employ
ment in consequence of which the
supply grew away beyond the de-
mand.
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Try THR COLUMBIAN a year,
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Stick to Home Merchants.

Here's some good advise from
one of our exchanges that applies
TO every town Don't waste
money or time on strange peddlers
when the same or equally good
goods can be had from your town
merchants, who help to pay the
taxes and do their share toward
making the town what it really is.
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ELECTION NOTICE.

The annHual meeting OF the policy holders OF
the Briarcreek Farmers Mutual Insurance
company OF Lime Ridge, Pa. win be held AZ the
day, January i2th, 1904, between the hours OF
~ a. m and 2p m, for the election OF twelve
directors 10 serve for the ensuing year, and for
the transaction OF such other business as may
properly come before said meeting.
1910 Sc H. H. BROWN, Secretary.
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New Series.

A new series in the Industrial
Building and Loan Association will
be opened January 5th, 1904. Sub
scriptions for shares may be made
now with the Secretary, A. N.
Yost. at.
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Subscribe for THE COLUMBIAN
and get the Farm and FireSide and
a handsome picture free. The regu-
lar price of the three is $2.5o. We
will give them all to you for one
dollar. If.
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HIGHEST cash prices paid for
all kinds of raw furs by F. R.
Drake, 40 East 4th St., Blooms
burg Pa. Always home on Satur-
day. at.
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SALE
OF
REAL ESTATE.

There will be exposed to public sale Oh
SATURDAY, DEC. 18th, 1908,
two lots OF ground of the estate Of the late
Mrs. Robert Manning, one situated on Main
street Eyersgrove and the Other on Pine
street, orangeville, on both of which are
erected
DWELLING HOUSES
and out-buildngs.
The sale of Eyers Grove property will com
mence at Q. 30 o'clock a. m. and the Orange
vile property at o'clock p. m.
Try TUR Cor IrMprAN a wear
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Cross?

Poor man! He can't help it.
It's his liver. He needs a
liver pill. Ayers Pills.
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Gave Life for Sweetheart.

Jacob Boozar on Saturday gave
his life to save his sweetheart.
They were walking OH the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad track, near SHINE
mahoning, when a train bore down
upon them.
The girl became confused. Boo.
zar caught and lifted her from the
track. He was struck and instant
ly killed.
CALENDAR PADS FOR 1904
ALI. SIZES.
For sale at THE COLUMBIAN OFFICE
If.
Only two weeks till Christmas.
How the time does fly.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-10-07
Don't Marry In Haste.

Again and again the question is
asked, care long or short engage
ments best ~ The answer obviously
is that the longer the wooing the
more thoroughly will the man and
woman know each other, and there
fore the better is their chance of
knowing whether they are likely to
pull together happily in the double
harness of matrimony, says Home
Notes:
Of course there is such a thing as
going to extremes, and too pro
tracted courtship becomes a weari-
ness to both man and maid. A
happy medium may be struck in
most things, and in courtship year
ESQ will generally be considered
right. In that time the lovers may
surely know whether they are suited
/ to each other. #
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RATS HATE TOBACCO.
Cigar Stores Therefore Are Not
Bothered by Rodents.

"At any rate, the tobacco man
can put in good word for the rat"
said an old cigar man, "but [ sup
pose he,is the only man who would
see anything about this rodent fam
lily that was'good.
Besides, what he says is mega
tiye sort of goodness. The rat sim
ply doesn't bother the tobacco man.
During long experience in the
tobacco business, On experience COW
ering twenty-five years or more, [
can recall but few instances where
the rats became at all bothersome
around cigar stores.
'"They cannot stand the odor of
tobacco and / have never known OF
rats eating toba 60 in any form, or
even Of rats attempting to cut into
tobacco. | suppose the taste Of the
weed is offensive to the rodent pal
ate.
"At any rate they will have moth
ing to do with it. You might fill
the place up with rats, and 1 would
open every box Of cigars and tobacco
in the place SO the tribe would have
easy access to the stock, and / would
lay a wager that we would come in
here after they had remained over
night and find that they had not
touched thing in the place.
Gratis are not chewers of tobacco,
nor smokers, nor users of the weed
in any form. Even the smoke of
the tobacco seems to craze them.
/ remember a few years ago to have
made an experiment for the purpose
of seeing what effect smoke would
have on a rat and to determine the
cause Of the rats antipathy to to-
bacco. I had caught rat in trap
at,my house.
81 put him in little cage and
began to blow tobacco smoke in on
him. 7 have seen d great many
panic stricken animals, but nothing
compassed by my experience equaled
the wild alarm Of that rat when I
began to puff the smoke through the
slts OF the cage. If the cage had
been On fire he would not have been
more frightened than he was.
"A1aybe that is what he thought.
I carried the experiment further
than I had intended, for before I
knew it the rat became as limp as a
rag and was evidently very much
nauseated.
"The experiment taught me that
the rats stomach rebels at either the
smell or the taste of tobacco, and I
suppose that's why we are not pes
tered by rats in cigar stores."-
Butte Inter-Mountain.
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An Embarrassing Incident.

Sir Henry Parkes when he was
premier of New South Wales secur-
ed the passage Of a law requiring ev-
cry Chinaman entering the colony
to pay poll tax of $500. The day
the law went into effect he was trav-
cling homeward from a neighboring
colony and on the train he met an
old friend in the person of leading
Chinese merchant of Sydney, a man
of great wealth and influence, that
most people forgot was China
man when they were speaking to
him. The premier and his Celestial
friend discussed various matters of
finance and politics as they journey
ed along, and the corks were pop
ping checrfully when the train ran
into Albury, the station on the bor-
der. Then the crisis occurred. for
the border officials approached the
Chinese merchant and sternly re-
fused to let him enter New South
Wales. till he paid the poll tax and
otherwise complied with the almost
prohibitive conditions imposed upon
immigrant Chinese. Parkes was ap-
pealed to, but he could do nothing,
as no provision had been made in
the act for the readmission of old
Chinese settlers who happened to
leave the colony temporarily.
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Anderson County MutualBen
eft Association of America.

Tho Anderson County Mutual Benefit
Association of America writes the cheap
est Insurance Of the day. Tho plan is to
take one thousand people, men and wo-
men, bind them together In business
way To help each other in time of need
and trouble. You only paw when one
dios. " yOu Join now your first paymep<
pays you up until January, 1904, unIesr
we lose one OF our members, If the ilano
of Providence should sever the silver
thread that holds tho life OF one of our
loved one. friend or neighbor, who
would hes ;ate moment on paying the
little sum II One Dollar and ten cents to
replace iho amount and pay expenses
paid on, IL death claim. Consider the
matter, Xanine and study our plan
1on are receiving insurance O protect
Your Ian ily at actual cost. Don't stand
back, lct our agencies write Won m at
once
If there is anything you wish to know
In regard TO the policy call on any OF the
agents and they will take pleasure in
explaining tho policy to YOU. lsemem-
ber this Is the only opportunity ever
presented TO you at 0ctual cost You
owe ii TO your family, you owe il to your
sell to secure their protection IN case YOU
arc taken away from them. If YOU are
over thirty years of age this Is the only
chance YOU will have OF getting in.
After 900 members have been secured
no one over thirty gets in, and he only
to replace deceased member.
y. K. GREEN, Pres.
j. NJ. PAYNE, Sec. and Treas.
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TIGHT ROPE WALKERS.
The Dangers They Face and the
Story Of Timely Rescue.

1t is curious thing, and one that
remains standing puzzle even to
those connected with the business
all their lives, that tight rope, ira
peze and other daring performers who
chiefly work in the open air at galas
and SO on are far more liable to
sudden nerve failure and to "stage
fright" if it may be so called, than
are their fellows who only show
their proves under a roof.
Another fact equally well known
is that once woman performer has
heard the ringing shouts of an 'ap-
plauding public, once she has learn
ed some dangerous fent, she will run
risks and quite fcarlessly perform
tricks that no male iii the same line
would ever dream of. The woman
athlete has not to be urged on; she
has to be restrained more often
than not. 1t may be said at once
that few among the public know
how near death such people occa-
sionally are.
AS illustrating both the facts stat
ed above, the writer can never forget
seeing woman tight rope walker
whose rope had been left too slack.
She was performing at o great
height and when she got to certain
distance along the rope the latter
sagged so that she could neither ad-
vance nor retire. The public knew
nothing of the danger till the man
ager in an agony tried to get two
immense ladders, tied together, ap
to the rope. But this arrangement
fell short, and even if it had not
done SO no one would have dared to
rest it against the swaying rope. At
last the ladders were held bodily up
right by strong men till the topmost
rung just reached the rope, and then
a gallant young fellow, sailor, went
up while the ladders swayed about
as though in a breeze. He snatched
the woman on the rope and held her
just as she tainted and dropped the
balancing pole.-London Tit-Bits.
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The Horaes WIdow.p

"Thc origin of the term grass
widow said a philologist, s, puz-
zling. Some e-say it came from the
French-that it was originally
grace widow that is, widow by
grace or courtesy. Others say it de-
rives from the old English custom
of a mans hanging out d broom
when his wife was away overnight.
To hang out the broom was a COM
mon phrase. When the thing was,
done the meaning was that the
house had been swept clear Of the
wife's presence, and the husbands
friends were to visit him and do
asl they pleased. In time, instead Of
Hanging out a broom, the husband
came to hang out only d bunch Of
grass. Thus he grew. to be called q
grass widower' and his wife q grass
widow - Philad delphia Record.
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Remarkable SnaIls.

Recently a Frenchman named
Combes called at friends house in
the morning on some important
business and was disappointed to
find that he was still in bed. AS he
could not wait he left brief mes
sage and was going away when he
noticed through the kitchen window
that the cook was preparing a sa-
worry dish of snails for his friends
breakfast. This furnished him with
an idea for joke, and few hours
later he telephoned to his friend
from a neighboring town, whereup-
on the following conversation oc-
CURED:
'sHello, Combes, is that you?"
eyes, my dear"
Sorry / missed you this morn
ing. I wanted to consult you about
Great heavens, what smell of
snails! You must have eaten some
this morning"
s'Snailsl Heaven preserve us !! Do
you mean to say that you can smell
them at this distance ?"
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APHORISMS.

The heart gets weary, but never gets
old.-Shenstone.
The only way to have n friend is to
be one.-Emcrson.
What we learn with pleasure we new
er forget.-Mercier.
Opposition infames the enthusiast,
never converts him.-Schiller.
True merit is like q river-the deeper
1t Is the less noise it makes.-Hazlitt
The eye Of the master will do more
work than both Of his hands.-Frank-
lin. e
Experience takes dreadfully high
school wages, but he teaches like no
other.-Carlyle.
Kindness is the only charm permit
ted to the aged; it is the coquetry of
white hairs.-Feuillet.
If we had no failings ourselves we
should not take so much pleasure in
finding out those Of others.-Rochefou
cauId.
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THE ATHLETES HEART.
In the Rowing Mon 1t Ia Strong and
Well Developed.

Ncil developed.
a prominent member of the faculty
Of the University of Pennsylvania Med
ical school has made study OF the
heart action of athletes. He has ex-
amined large number OF men III ath-
letics especially rowing men. and he
has come TO the conclusion that no man
In perfect health who has been proper
ly trained is injured by rowing, but
that, OH the contrary, his heart is 80
strengthened that, with q moderate
amount of exercise after he has finish.
ed his rowing career, there is no rea-
son. so far as the heart and lungs are
concerned, that he should not live to
very old age.
'Thc heart" said bic, "is both 81 very
delicate ani a very strong organ-that
is, If 1t Is we'll developed It will stand
al cHorinous amount Of strain without
any permanent injury, but if it is not
well developed it is very easily weak
ened. Violent exercise, like rowing,
places q great deal of strain on the
heart because when the body is being
exertcd 1t requires SO much moro pres
sure to force the blood through the
body. Like any other muscle that Is
worked, the heart under the added Ia
Dor becomes larger, and most athletes
have extra large hearts, just as they
also have larger muscles throughout
the body.
"If the strain is put upon the heart
suddenly it dilates-it becomes larger,
but not more muscular-and that is the
danger in athletics. If n Man exercises
gradually then his heart also increases
in size gradually because the muscles
become larger, and this is perfectly
normal condition. It simply means
thut the athlete has q stronger heart
than the average and can cope with
the extra strain that is put upon it. A
man needs larger heart to row u
race, and If gradual exercise has so
provided him with one then he can
safely undergo the most severe tests.
"it is the same way with tie lungs,
and they must be developed gradually
until they can undertake the extra
work. man with his heart and lungs
well developed is in no danger, no mat
| ter how h0id the race. He may COM
| pletely keel over at the end of the race,
but it will likely be from sheer exhaus-
| ton, and his heart is SO strong that the
| effect Is not ut all injurious. He will
| be as good as ever in few moments"
Philadelphia Record.
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A Brilliant Retort.

After dinner speaking is an art, and,
like many other arts, its excellence has
much to do with the mood of the artist.
Some Of the best Of our after dinner
speakers sometimes fail, but it is not
often that failure results in the enrich.
ment Of the worlds store of epigram,
as it did in the case Of Lord Erskine
many years ago.
When Lord Erskine was made a
member Of that highly honorable body,
"the Fishmongers' Company Of London,
he made an after dinner speech on the
occasion Of his first appearance among
them as a member. Upon his return he
snfd to q friend:
II spoke Ill today and stammered and
hesitated in the opening"
"YoI certainly foundered," was the
reply, "bnt thought you did 80, In
compliment to the f1shmongers."