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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
Millions and the Mikado.

The emperor's yearly expense Of
living is limited, For this purpose he
draws $3,000,000 from the national
treasury, writes Hosmer Whitfield in
Success. He has got to pay out Of
1t some 1000 employees. The lady-in-
waiting is said to be paid $3.50 month
ly. have no doubt that even a
washing-girl is paid about $40. Japan
is a country where a laboring mans
wages are not more than 80 cents
daily. The chief cook of the imperial
palace is paid 5000 a month.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
Selma Ones Wares.

In parts of Switzerland the bakers
wife carries round the bread in a sort
of hamper, and she has not fixed,
immutable charge. but chaffers for a
price with the customers, The old
English word for this process was
"cheaping," which in many places In
England has been corrupted into chip
ping. Chipping Norton, for instance,
is really Cheaping Norton, or the
place where goods were cheapened--
that is, sold by chatter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
Learning French.

I recently visited the most famous
international institute in Switzerland.
writes IN. r. c." in the London Mail
and was enabled to witness the whole
system by which splendid linguistS
are turned out.
AS soon as the boy arrives he is tolA
that he must speak French, and a
every occasion he speaks his mother
tongue he is given a certain number
of Lines" to write out These are
usually in French and German.
Take French as an example. Say
the pupil Is English, and does nok
know a word of French. He Is shown
a huge illustrated map with ali kinds
Of animals, trees and common objects
in colors. The master will point t.
an animal, the boy is told the French
for it, and in very short time he
knows the name of every object On
the map. The whole time he is be-
ing spoken to in French and getting
accustomed to the sound.
One little chap informed me that hs
was English. He spoke French ana
German with great fiuency. and hs
had a fair smattering of Italian. How
long have you had this youngster?"
asked the head master. "Oh, he's
only been with us a year and half:
but come and look at his written
work"
This youngsters French and Ger
man were excellent and his italian
fair
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
The Golden Mean

The motto of the Greeks was Not
ing too much"
An excess of courage is brutality.
An excess of economy is penurious-
ness.
An excess of taste Is preciosity.
An excess of gentleness is timidity.
An excess of confidence is egotism.
Who will show us where to draw
the line?-Everybody's Magazine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
Makes Bird of An Airship.

j. r. DalmeIda of st. GATHERINGS,
Ont, has invented an airship. 1t is
constructed of bamboo, resembles a
bird in shape, and has two wings. each
"a feet long. 1t is worked by levers
moved by the operators feet.-Nsw
York World
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06

A railway Is about to be constructed
near Elsinore, which will run across
the spot traditionally believed to be
the grave of Hamlet, Numerous signed
protests against the projected rail.
way have been addressed to the gov.
ernment.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
Vaccination Without a Scar.

AS result of experiments made in
some of the hospitals in Paris, it is
stated that vaccination performed un-
der a red light leaves no scar and
causes less pain. The patient is vac
cinated in room where the only light
is an incandescent lamp with a red
globe
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
Front Room" Crusade.

An English educational society
which declares that people ought to
live in and use their front rooms"
has created a sensation. The London
Express remarks: "Such a reckless
suggestion is calculated to undermine
the very foundations of lower middle
class home life in this country" the
front room being sacred to company"
over there.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
An interesting example of the many

An interesting example of the many
different practical uses which are like
iy to be found for the X-rays is pro-
vided by the Ceylon pearl fisheries.
BY the application of the rays it is
now said to be possible to tell wheth-
er an oyster contains a pearl or not,
and those which are in purely nor
NAL and healthy state are thrown un-
opened back into the sea. BY the
adoption of this device, the depletion
OF the oyster bed is, of course. reduced
very greatly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
Coins a New Word.

An Ohio man wrote to Elmer Do
yer, secretary of the Republican ma
tional committee. claiming to have
done great work for Roosevelt in the
campaign, and asking for job. He
said he would like to be "chief Gus
pidorian" of the Treasury Department.
Mr.. Dover wrote in reply: II regret
to inform you that there is no such
position as chief cuspidorian Of Tho
Treasury Department, although I
think there might very well be. Un-
fortunately, however, while you have
coined a word, cannot coin the Job"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
Old Maids Paradise.

The disproportion of the sexes is
still very great in some parts of Aus
tralia In West Australia, for exam
ple there are only $4,000 women in a
population of 10000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06
Prof. Korn of Munich has presenteA

Prof. Korn OF Munich has presented
a report to the Bavarian Academy Il
Sciences stating that he has perfected
a system for transmitting photo
graphs, sketches and facsimiles of sig
natures over ordinary telegraph wiruR
Any photograph. he says. can b
transmitted over wire 1000 miles
long in twenty minutes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-04-06

A fellow will often run into debt
and then try to crawl out.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08

heard the whistle of the locomotive on
the rival roads construction train. It
drew into view around the curve, where it
was stopped by hagman. Cautiously it
pushed on to the edge of the ravine and
stopped again. The superintendent the
foreman Of the rock, gang and a number
Of others came and looked down upon the
debris of their wrecked trestle.
The superintendent, whose line had been
reported short Of explosives. seemed to
have plenty left in his vocabulary. and
he poured forth upon the head of his gen
eral foreman a scathing shower of words
selected from the muddy end of the die
ttonary, not exactly complimentary. but
expressive Of his opinion Of that gentle
mans failure to have the structure
watched.
When the superintendent had gone back
up the track his unhappy victim added a
few specimens Of his own linguistic ac-
complishments and passed the pleasan-
tries on to the division foreman
Hello, you fellers!' shouted Dick.
why don't you run your train over here
and dump them rocks on us? Why don't
you bury us out of sight, eh?' Then, adj
dressing the foreman and shaking his
dirty little fist at him, You will kill my
dog, will your
There was rumble on the track below,
and an engine, southbound, with pas
senger coach attached, stopped by the
new culvert The defeated group on the
bank above (they were defeated for the
courts decided against them week later)
heard an exasperating laugh and then the
voice Of Mr.. Bent called out: '.fIo, there,
Dick! You here yet? Come down here.
The superintendent wants the admiral to
ride into Pittsburg with him. Come on.
He wants to Introduce you to the board
a. directors
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08
Training Baby Memories.

AS children, part of the Japanese:
education is learning to notice. A tray
with a dozen things on it is given to:
the child for few minutes, when it Isl
taken away from him and he is re-
quired to repeat from memory the!
name of everything that was on the
tray. Gradually the numbers of things
are increased and the time he is al
lowed to look at them decreased, until
noticing becomes habit, and single,
cursory glance catches up main idea
and details in an almost magical way
One mother, who heard Of the method,
was so struck by its simplicity and by
the value Of quick observing that she
tried the experiment with her own
children-not with trays and objects,
but in their walks She found that the
children develop splendid memories as
we'll.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08
He Was q Speaker.

Thomas B. Reed, when speaker of
the house of representatives, once
went into an unfamiliar barber shop
in Washington to be shaved. When
the negro barber had about finished he
began to try to sell hair tonic.
"Hair purity thin, suh,'' he said, I'm
gering the two or three stray locks
that fringed Mr.. Reeds bald pate.
Been that way long, suh?''
Il was born that way" replied Reed.
Afterward enjoyed brief period OF
htrsute ef1orescence, but it did not
endure"
The barber gasped ana said no more.
Later some one told him he had shay
81 the speaker. "Speakah" he ex-
k3a1psd. ''Don' know dat? should
w he was speakah, sure 'nuf!p
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08

half mile back on the road There
was do or die expression on his face
that could not be mistaken for the Sc
renity of the cornfield or the peace of
the barnyard. Betty and her mother
rose up to receive him, but he was too
busy to be received, or had, rather, re-
ceived himself. He seized chose Peck
ham boys" according to age and pres
ent condition, and flung them among
the hollyhocks; he grabbed Farmer
Johnson and rolled him over among the
pinks; he lifted up Uncle William and
heayed him into the top Of Siberian
crab apple tree, and he picked up Mrs.
johnson and her rocking chair and,
dumped. them into bed of tiger lilies.
There was no rest for him. He had,
come for Betty, and he meant to have!
her or die.
'sOh, Joel, what is It? What does it
mean p she cried as he Jumped for her.
by gum, you shall never marry any
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08

N1AAAAAIN >.
and they'll be back by 9 O'clock
that's what we We're planning for
wasn't ito make him jealous? tt
came a leetle stronger n I looked for,
but I'll bet my boots ag'in a rooster
that there won't be any more twid-
ding of thumbs and sitting on the
edge of chairs in this house. Your
Uncle William has married and laid
three different wives to rest, and
don't you make no mistake on him"
Uncle William was true prophet
Soon after o'clock the old gray horse
came trotting up to the gate with a
bridal couple in the buggy, and as Joel
entered the house with the blushing
Betty on his arm he clinched his free
killed. hands and glared around and in
CURED:
''Has anybody here got any objec-
lions to this here performance"
No one had. But it was Uncle Will
liam who stepped forward and felt Of
the bump on the back of his head and
replied:
mo, there's no objections, Joel, but
when you get after your second wife
don't spark so long and don't stand so
many of her relations on their heads.
There's a heap of time wasted in
sparkling, Joel, and there's folks that
object to being flung sky high into a.
crab apple tree"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08
How Joel
Came to Time
BY c. B. LEWIS
BY c. B. LEWIS
Copyright, 1904, by Charles B. Lewis
Joel HASTINGS, son Of Farmer

Joel HASTINGS, son Of Farmer
Hastings and twenty-five years
" old, had been counting Betty
johnson, daughter of Farmer
johnson and only year younger, for
almost three years-that is, he had
taken her to the circus and spelling
schools and husking bees, and he had
called at the farmhouse Sunday and
Wednesday evenings and sat on the
edge of a chair and shufled his feet
around and spoken of the weather
and the crops. There was no doubt
that Joel was in love, but he was a
bashful lover. He had been given sew
eral broad hints by Farmer johnson
and several broader ones by Betty's
mother, and his own parents had asked
him if he was waiting for the earth to
revolve the other way, but the shy
Joel continued to be shy. While he
felt reasonably certain that Betty
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08

body else while I liver he hoarselyl
shouted as he picked her off her feet.
"But don't want to-"
You are mine if 1 die for it! Come
along!''
No one interfered From Uncle VIII,
liam down to the youngest Peckham,,
they We're dizzy lot, with bumps and
bruises to fondle and soothe, and Bet:
~ was bundled into the buggy and the
old horse put to the gallop again before:
head showed above the grass.
Now you see what you've donev'
walled Mrs. Johnson as she got up and
faced her visiting brother-in-law.
what have done?" he asked as he
loosened his necktie and gave his Ad-
ANS apple fair play:
Joel has turned pirate and carried
Betty off to sea-
Don't you believe it. He's carrying
her down to the Corners to marry her.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08
Single Talents and Self Confidence.

A single talent man, supported by
great self confidence, will achieve
more than ten talent man who does
not believe in himself. The mind can
not act with vigor in the presence Of
doubt A wavering mind makes a.
wavering execution. There must be-
certainty, confidence and assurance or
there can be no efficiency. An unedu-
Gated man who believes in himself and
who has faith that he can do the thing
he undertakes often puts to shame the
average college bred man, whose over
culture and wider outlook have some
times bred increased sensitiveness and
q lessening Of self confidence, whose de-
cision has been weakened by constant
weighing of conflicting theories and
whose prejudices are always open to-
conviction.-O. S. Marden in Success
MAGAZINE
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08

Johnson returned his affections and
would probably blush and shipper and
lay her hand in his when he PROFOUND
ed the awful question, a chill crept
over him at the bare thought of a re-
fusal. On a hundred different even
ings he had his mind firmly made up
and the little speech at his tongues
end, but Betty giggled or the dog bark
ed or the clock stopped and left him
hanging in the air.
Such was the state of affairs when
Uncle William arrived on the scene.
Uncle William was Farmer Johnson's
brother and a widower. Indeed, he was
three widowers rolled into one, having
married and buried three wives. IN
Gle William was a hustler in matrimo-
NAL affairs. He had never spent over
three months in counting girl, and he
couldn't see why any one else should
waste time
"Look here, Sarah," he said to Mrs.
Johnson when he had been told of Bet
tvs long engagement, 'it's a good
thing I made up my mind to visit you.
I'll either bring that young man to
book or send him off to spark his own
grandmother. If he wants to marry
Betty let him go ahead and marry, but
if he doesn't he can't come scraping the
mud off his boots around here I've got
to talk to that gall
He did. He asked her to take a walk
with him down past the haystacks and
into the orchard, and as he fred har-
vest apples at the guinea hens wander
ing about he opened the interview by
saying to Betty:
''Now, then, how much longer is that
Teller Of yours going to hang about
with his tongue in his vest pocket?
Why doesn't he toe the mark like other
folks? It's simply ridiculous the way
he dilly dallies along. He's wasted
more time than I did in marrying three
women, and he hasn't got to the point
yet. Is he waiting for you to pro-
pose?''
"Joel is awfully bashful, you know
replied Betty in her lovers defense.
''Then he ought to have been a hen"
I'm in no hurry to get married"
"Well, you ought to be- A gal of
your age won't have many chances
You just ought to let that Joel under
stand this very night that if he comes
here simply to twiddle his thumbs and
guess it's going to be good year for
ratnip he can take himself home again.
Does he ever talk love?"
"I-guess so'
"Has he asked you to set the day?"
"N-not YETI
well, there you are! Counting you
for three years and yet never talking
love or asking you to set the day! Bet
sy, something has got to be DONE"
"But I'm not worried or anxious, I'm
Gle William" protested the girl "When
Joel has made up his mind he will per
haps ask
Something has got to be done," re-
peated her relative as he upset a
guinea hen with an apple, land your
Uncle William is the man to do it.
Yes, Stree That calf of Joel has
reached the end of his rope, and in
less n week you'll have him tied up
in knots, or he'll be hiding in the
huckleberry swamp
Betty protested, coaxed and sulked,
but Uncle William was firm. He hadn't
made up his mind yet whether he
would take fourth wife OK not, but
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08
ADM RAJ
DICK
By BISSELL BRICE
Copyright, 1904, by A. 81. Martin

u
sylvania valley through which
the Badger river flowed be-
tween the two flanking chains
of hills. This valley was a natural
highway between two populous Sec
tons. On the western bank railroad
had already spun it's threads of steel
and become one of the best paying
lines in the country, the amount of
business handled by it having caused
the general superintendent to remark,
'The B. and R. E. isn't very long, but
she's mighty WIDE"
Two other lines had cast envious
glances at the traffic Of the B. and R.
E. and planned to extend their tracks
so as to tap this rich section. This
was especially desirable, as it would
give them short cut into Pittsburg.
The western shore being already &C.
cupied, each of the new companies had
run survey along the precipitous side
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-25
UNDERGROUND Russia.

Timeliness is the chief merit Of Mr.
A. Cahan's The White Terror and the Red
CA s. Barnes & Col II is a story Of nihilism
and Of the assassination of Alexander H..
told, as we understand, by Russian Jew.
The author, 1t may be said al once. accepts
the usual version. that the blowing up OF
the Car was the work Of reyolutionists,
paying no heed TO the story that the bureau
cracy put Alexander out Of the way in order
TO block Loris Melikoh's proposed reforms
We have an interesting picture of the way
in which a boy Of reactionary instincts is
driven into the nhilist ranks by the spec
tacle of cruel injustice done TO those about
him. We have also a vivid description of
the assassination Of Alexander and a very
realistic account Of the hideous maltreat-
ment of the Jews in a race riot. Apart
from these, we must follow the author
blindly, for the psychology and motives OF
the Slav nature escape us.
There are minute descriptions OF indi-
viduals who have little TO do with the action
of the story. There are accounts of nihilist
meetings, the chief purpose Of which seems
10 be defamation on abstract subjects
The object Of most Of the people brought
in apparently is not 80 much to help their
country or to do any good as 1t is to get into
Jail and enjoy martyrdom
This may all be true to life. There is
absolutely nothing, however, in the book
that could not have been obtained easily
from the newspapers. There is not hint
IA to the revolutionary organization or
action, not an incident in the assassina-
ton nor in the Jewish massacre that has
not appeared before in print in English
Az a summary Of the wrongs committed
on the people by the ruling classes. and a
powerful plea against the existing oondi-
ton in Russia the book is effective
II is written in a quaint sort of English
that gives the impression OF translation
from foreign langua ge by one not wholly
versed in the vernacular. Wrong words
are used so frequently as to suggest re-
lance on dictionary rather than on per-
sonal knowledge OF the language This
gives foreign touch TO the story that will
seem very Russian to the reader, and many
little details would not have been men
toned by any one that was not more familiar
with Russian than with English customs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-25
Treasure. Pirates and shlpvreck

Excitement is not the quality in which
Mr.. II. B. Marriott Watson's Hurricane
Island Doubleday Page 4 Coz is deficient.
From the start the readers attention ia
arrested and is not allowed TO wander till
the very end. The name Of the book IS
inappropriate for the island has very little
to do with It, the story il Of a sail across
the Atlantic into the Straits Of Magellan.
with mutineers in control, and in the course
OF it more blood Is shed than in the last act
OF Hamlet.
II IL much moro than a story Of adventure,
however The author has taken the trouble
10 draw chara cters. and some Of them are
very well done indeed. There is French
chansonette singer aboard. and her child
like disregard of everything but herself
and recklessness Of all but the present
moment are extremely we'll shown. The
hero succeeds in being something more
than n stick, and there are bits at times
OF other people that are very good. a rascally
lawyers clerk. the chief villain, and one or
two others.
There is plenty Of swing to the story.
but the author presumea on his own or the
readers ignorance Of things nautical.
The hero's dragging himself up hand over
hand on rope from the water, while the
steamer il doing sixteen knots an hour,
Ia remarkable feat SO Is the handling
OF the vessel and setting sail by three men.
From the moment the mutiny breaks out
the shedding Of gore is unstinted; we fear
that an accurate count of the dead on ship
board would result in a number exceeding
the whole ships company While in the
final conflict on the island If the tale were
kept very few mutineers would be found
left to oppose the triumphant hero and his
friends The shutting about Of the treasure,
too. Ia pretty strenuous ice.
Nevertheless, the reader will find the story
to read smoothly and plausibly enough
if he will only close his eyes little. 1t will
remind him more Of Mr.. W Clark Russell.
If that gentleman could be imagined to be
ignorant Of sea matters, than it will Of
Treasure Island" which the title Of the
book, apparently, is intended to suggest.
It is written in excellent English.
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