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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-01-25

Norwich Freshmen plays l.. G. A. at the
home gym Friday evening Both are strong
teams aud an exciting game may be expected
from start Jo finish.
Saturday evening some Of the young ladies
of Hyde Park gave the boys of the basket
ball team a progressive whist party in honor
of their victory at Waterbury.
Tie pupils of the Academy are arranging
for an entertainment Friday evening, Feb. 3.
One of the features OF the entertainment will
be a presentation OF Riley's poem, That
Old Sweetheart OF Mine"
An exciting game OF basket ball was play
ed at Waterbury Friday evening. Jan. Goth
between Waterbury High School ana l.. Q, A.
The result however was not as some papers
reported in favor Of Waterbury but 10 to 1S
in favor OF l.. G. A.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Vaccine Law Valid
Test Case Brought in Franklin County and
Judge Rules that Child Cannot Enter
School Until vaccinated

All cases in the Franklin County
County Court were SGT aside Tues
day afternoon to hear argument on
the application to make permanent
a preliminary injunction to restrain
Superintendent J. II. Reber, Prin-
cipal Charles II Coover and Ches.
ter Geesaman, a teacher of the Sny-
der Avenue Public School, in
Waynesboro, from refusing to- adj
nit Grace Stull, daughter of Ed
ward Stull, TO the school
Charles Walter and A. w. Gil
Ian were allowed to intervene in
behalf of the State Board of Health.
The first witness called was Edward
c. Stull, of Waynesboro, whose
daughter is not vaccinated and be
cause of that woHld not be allowed
admission to school
O. c. Bowers argued that the
law does not apply to townships,
merely to municipalities, and is
therefore special legislation and un-
constitutional. He made strong
plea and cited many authorities
Charles Walter quoted Supreme
and lower court decisions uphold
ing the law, and Judge d. w.
Rowe, in long and careful opinion,
took the view that the Legislature
had power to pass such a law.
The statute has been upheld by
various courts, including the su-
preme tribunal of the state.
The court dissolved the injunc-
ton, placing the costs on the plain
tiffs.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Mining for Rubies in India.

The system practiced tor obtaining
rubies in the mining districts in Bur.
nah is of the most primitive descrip.
ton. The mining shafts are simply
holes about two feet square sunk to a
depth varying up to fifty or sixty feet.
The Snoring up of the walls of the
shaft is most crude. the sides being
supported by posts at the corners and
branches of small trees secured care
fully against the sides by means of
stout sticks.
The miner carries a tin pot similar
In shape to blunt-edged cone, on his
head. He squats down in one corner
and digs between his knees in the
opposite corner. The earth or byon,
as the ruby-bearing earth is called,
Is conveyed to the top, as fast as it
is excavated, in small buckets let
down from above
The apparatus for raising and low
ering the buckets is simple in the ex-
treme. A stout bamboo post about
twenty feet high, called maung-
dine, is fixed upright in the ground
at a convenient distance from the pit
or dwin, and long, thinner bamboo
pivoted horizontally into the upper
end of it so as TO project an eighth
from the mine and the long arm to.
ward the mine,-Search Light.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21

1t is a great mistake to suppose that
every rich man is money mad, for
many rich men are money sick, and it
that the only money mad people in the
world are rich people. A man who is
poor but bent on becoming rich is much
more likely to be money mad than a
man who has an Independent fortune,
only he shows it In different way, A
man of large fortune who is money
mad shows it by his continued activity
in money making, The poor man who
is money mad shows it by envying and
hating those who are more successful.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
PASSING OF THE CHINESE.
In Fifty Years viii Be Extinct Under
Present Laws.

In lifty years-puraaps less than
fifty, If the present laws remain in
effect and are r.gidly eXccuted-the
Chinese population of the United
states will become practically extinct.
from 1880 to 1900 they fell away
from 12G,77S to il905O, a decrease Of
nearly eight thousand, or more than
six per cent. In the fiscal year ending
June 80 1903, more than four thou.
sand voluntarily left the port of San
Francisco for the land of their birth.
the total deported and returning vol.
UNFAIRLY being 5000. A very large
majority of these Cinnamon were ad-
yanced in years, and went home to
die.
A generation ago, there we're in
San Francisco from thirty to forty
thousand Cinnamon. The Chinese
Consul.General there told me that,
counting men, women and children,
there are now not 10000 The same
proportionate decrease is seen in 9th.
er places. 1t should be borne in mind
that the total number of Chinese now
In the United States includes 2G. 767
in Hawaii and BIG in Alaska, so that,
at the beginning OF this decennial
period there were living in the United
States proper only $4,000. a genera.
tlon ago there were at least 15O. 900.
According to the most liberal csti.
mate. there are not more than one
hundred and fifty legal Chinese wives
in San Francisco. But the number
of Chinese women is estimated at be-
tween one thousand and two thou.
sand. OF such female children as are
born to the lowest class, a large pro-
portion are sold for immoral purposes
by their parents. thus still further re.
ducing the possibilities of an increas-
ed population.
The main adult population is male:
rs unmarried, or, at least, wifcless in
America: and is rapidly approaching
old age. Thus by 1880 or 1910. the
main Chinese life in America will
have become exUlnct-World's Work.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
PuNlsHMENTs IN CHINA.
Many Cruel Forms Abolished Forever.
Others Modified.

Wu Ting-fang, long Chinese minister
IN Washington, has succeeded i'm induc-
ing the imperial government at Pekn
to abolish some of its cruel punish
ments. An imperial edict gives Wu
ana Shen Chiapon credit for suggesting
the changes and then proceeds. at
the beginning Of the dynasty when our
sovereignty extended within the great
wall, the most severe punishment was
beheadins. In the year of 1lsin Jul,
however, when we revised the laws,
we permitted the introduction of those
punishments which had been prevalent
in the Ming dynasty, hence ling chi
tcutting to pieces) was allowed for GER
tain crimes Now that we are once
more revising the laws, therefore, we
hereby order that for all variations Of
tho crime of taking life, beheadng
shall be the extreme penalty i'm future;
ling chi, exposure of the detached head,
and mutilation of the corpse must be
abolished forever"
The penalty of chan hsiao, or what
might be termed compound doCapita-
tion, or the entire removal of the head
and exposure of the same, must here
after read chao chueh or strangulation
on sentence This is supposed to be a
far more honorable death than decapi-
tation and was formerly reserved for
princes and other great men.
Another important reform is the alb
clifton of the condemned brand on
the faces Of prisoners. Hitherto all
who have been sentenced to banish-
mcnt for robbery and other serious
crimes have been tattooed on the face,
In order to mark them as criminals for
life.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
VlcissItudes Of PAINTINGS.

Many and strange have been the
yicissitudes of some OF the worlds
greatest pictures and a fine painting
which now graces Lord Lcigh's resi-.
dence in Warwickshire, England, has
an interesting history. This remark.
able picture, which for some years
consisted of a painting of flowers,
was pronounced by an art dealer to be
merely a mask for some other picture,
and on his receiving permission he
gradually cleaned off the flowers, dis
covering underneath a very fine por-
trait of Charles | by Vandyke. 1t is
supposed that the portrait was thus
disguised in order to save it from de-
struction by the Roundheads at the
time of the commonwealth.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Is ENGLAND DEGENERATING2
Statistics Taken from the British
Army Confirm That View.

Arnold White has written as follows
In the London Chronicle of physical
degeneration in England: The Ger
mans drink an enormous quantity Of
beer, but there is no class in Germany
of drink-sodden, dirty and broken
mothers such as we produce by tho
thousand. When Taine was shown the
seamy side of London he said that the
rush of the inhabitants of an east Lon
don slum into a wide street when at
tracted by the spectacle of an accident
was like a human sewer emptyinS 1t.
self Before the outbreak of the Afri-
can war, of 1100C men who wished to
enlist in Manchester, only little oven
1000 could be sent into the army The
Scotch highlanders and the Irish peas
antry are healthy, but English towns.
men can no longer vie in war with the
Tyrolese and Bavarian mountaineers
the inhabitants of east Prussia, the
French peasantry, the Montenegrins OF
the hardy Russians.
"Britain's soldiers are born Of moth
ers affected by the normal conditions
of town life. both moral and physical
The average stay in hospital of soldiers
affected by one preventable disease is
% days. Thus in one year we have a
total loss of ,73S 6SS days army serv.
ice. Two hundred and three soldiers in
the British home army go sick out OF
every 1000; in the French conscript
army only 43 become invalids.
"In 1S45 the standard of height for
admission to the army was five feet six
inches in 1883 it was five feet three
inches, and in 1900 FIVE feet. There is
a progressive decline in the average
weight. AS the British army Is ten
times more unhealthy than the Ger
man. it loses three times as many by
dee tn"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Customs in China.

China, as seen with our eyes, is gro
tesque. She is the antipodes of all the
rest of the world She seems the up
side down of everything. The needle
in her compass points to the south,
she says west north instead of north
west.
She enjoys her fireworks in the day
time; her ladies use wheelbarrows
when they are making calls; they drive
cows instead of horses; the necks Of
their prisoners are put in the stocks;
Their surname comes first as Roosevelt
Theodore; they mount their horses
from the right side; the old men fly
kites, while the small boys sit demure-
ly and watch them; they keep on their
hats as sign of respect; their Grim
son visiting cards must be burden to
them if they do much calling, as they
are four feet long and about two wide;
their boats are drawn by men, their
carriages by sails; they never drink
milk and their mourning color is white
or pale blue.
Their young women, no matter how
beautiful lHey may pe, aNcOi uih5 W
Chinese ideas, are slaves, while the old
mother of grown sons and the wrinkled
grandmothers are queens, and the most
respected and beloved members of tho
household. Even the emperors moth
er ranks higher than he does. When a
son is fortunate enough to receive an
honorable decoration, he brings it to
his mother, who wears it for him.
Sunset MAGAZINE
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Owls EIectrocuted.

The temporary suspension of work
at the mine and mill of the Granite
Bimetallic Mining Co., at Pittsburg,
caused by an, owl becoming entangled
in the wires, recalls the fact that since
the transmission line was put in COM
mission, nearly four years ago, 25 owls
have been electrocuted by coming in
contact with the wires, and since No
yember OF last year II fine specimens
of the owl family have gone to owl
land oyer this route. The transmission
line Is IL miles in length and fur
nshes a current of 10000 volts to the
mine and mill, No. 4 copper wire being
used. The line traverses a wild and
unsettled country the abiding place Of
all kinds of wild beasts and BIRDS
Anaconda Standard.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
CompulsorY M. P.,s.

The Norwegian parliament consists
of ia members, many Of whom sit in
the house under protest. All Norwe-
gians over 25 years of age who satisfy
certain conditions of residence, etc.
meet in the local parish church once in
three years and choose one man out
of every 100 present to select the mem
bers of parliament for the country. The
men so selected are bound TO serve
whether they like the honor or not
Immediately parliament meets one
fourth of the members are chosen to
form the upper house, the remaining
three-fourths constituting the lower
house-tniladelph Ledger
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
The Art of Tattooinu.

The master of the tattooing art in
Japan is Chyo, who can produce such
pictures on the human skin as are the
envy of all rivals. He has photographs
of all his more important works, most
of the originals having been produced
on the cuticle of English and American
travellers. TWO of the most remarka-
BILE are a huge dragon in three colors,
covering an American Doctors back
entirely, while another is a life-sized
fly, which was put on an Englishman'
wrist so naturally that one would feel
tempted to call his attention to the
fact if one were not told that it was
the work of the tattoing needle. Chyo's
work is recognized by his countrymen
at a glance, and is looked upon with
much respect.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
How to Cut Glass.

Glass can be cut without a diamond,
and the way is very simple. Dip a
piece Of common string in alcohol and
squeeze it reasonably dry. Then tie
the string tightly around the glass on
the line of cutting. Touch match to
the string and let it burn Off While
it is hot plunge the glass under water,
letting the arm go under well to the
elbow so there will be no vibration
when the glass is struck. With the
free hand strike the glass outside the
line of cutting. giving quick, sharp
stroke with any long, fiat instrument,
such as a stick of wood or a long-blad-
ed knife, and the cut will be as clean
and straight as if made by regular
glass cutter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
The Nose and Deafness.

DR., Wallace Mackenzie of Yelling
ton, New Zealand, reports the case of
healthy man who came to him be-
cause of deafness following an opera
ton on his nose. Examination re-
vealed the fact that both nostrils had
grown together. The man was chloro-
formed, the nostrils reopened with the
knife and prevented from growing to-
gether again by placing in each little
cylinder of celluloid prepared from a
Photographic film. Two weeks after
the operation hearing was greatly i'm
proved and eventually almost COM
pletely restored.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
How Birds Doctor Themselves.

Certain birds seem to possess a re-
markable instinct for surgery. The
woodcock, the partridge and some 9TH
ers are said to be able to dress their
wounds with considerable skill. A nat
uralist observes that he has shot sew
etal woodcock that were recovering
from wounds previously received In
every instance he found the injury
neatly dressed with down plucked from
the stems of feathers and skiltully ar
ranged over the wound, evidently by
the long beak of the bird. In other
cases ligatures had been applied to
wounded or broken limbs.-Exchange
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Goats as Pilots.

In Switzerland and other mountain
Gus countries goats lead long strings Of
animals daily to and from the noun
tains, but it is in South Africa that the
goat is regularly kept and employed as
a leader of sheep. Should a binding
storm of rain or hail drive the sheep
before it, or cause them to huddle to-
gether in a corner, so that there is
danger of their suffocatng each other,
the trained goat will wake them up,
and, by a method of his own, induce
them to follow him to a place of safety.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
FIRE WORSHIP IN SCOTLAND.
Ancient Custom Still Practieed in
Certain Sections.

SGIld!N OGCllOnS.
"reminiscences OF the pre-Christian
days OF Baal worship and fire worship
are still to be found occasionally in
Scotland A few years ago a traveller
wrote: "On the last day of the year,
old style, which falls on Jan. 12, the
festival of the clavie' takes place in
Burghead a fishing village near For
res. On headland in that village still
stands an old Roman altar, locally
called the 'dOuro.' On the evening of
Jan. 12 large tar barrel is set on fire
and carried by one of the fishermen
round the town, while the assembled
folk shout and halloO. If the man who
carries the barrel falls, ii is an evil
omen. The man with the lighted bar
rel, having gone with it round the
town, carries it up to the top of the
hill and places it on the 'douro.
More fuel Is Immediately added.
The sparks as they fly upward are sup
posed to be witches and evil spirits
leaving the town. The people, there
fore. shout at and curse them as they
disappear in vacancy. When the burn
ing barrel falls in pieces the fisher
wives rush in and endeavor to get a
lighted bit of wood from its remains.
With this light the fire on the cottage
hearth is at once kindled and it is con-
sdered lucky to keep this flame all the
rest of the year. The charcoal Of the
'clayie' is collected and put in bits up
the chimney, to prevent the witches
and evil spirits from entering the
house.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
In a Glacier 2a Years.

In an almost perfect state of preser-
vation, and easily recognizable, the
dead body of guide named Nagi, a
native of Aosta. Italy, who fell into a
crevice in 1877 near the summit of
Monta Rosa, was recently recovered
from the ice
Nagi was descending the mountain
in company with two Milanese Alpin-
lists when he suddenly disappeared, and
the cord which bound him to the 9TH
ers was cut by sharp piece of ice. A
search party made many vain attempts
to recover the body.-London Mail.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Feminine Guile.

Some women when staying at hotels
do not care to exhibit to the passers
along the corridors the exact size Of
their feet, so they carefully carry
with them a couple of pairs of tiny,
delicate shoes, which, instead of the
ones they are wearing, they place out
side their doors for the servants to
take down and clean. All the big
boot shops in Paris now make a spe-
cialty of this tiny footgear, and a pair
or two form a portion Of the trousseau
of every up.to-date bride.-Imparcial,
Madrid.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
tuberculosis is Mt Hereditary.
Or. Dixon Says II Can Be Communicated BY
Contact Only.

State Health Officer Dixon was
shown a statement made by Arthur
B. Reeve in Public Opinion" this
mcuth, in which he says that Zone
seventh Of the deaths in the cities
throughout the world are caused
by tuberculosis, and that in the
face of the assertion of one of the
most eminent specialists that when
the people can be aroused to COM
prehend the truth and to do their
duty lin two generations case OF
consumption will be as much of a
rarity as a case of leprosy now is, 3"
II would not draw the line so
close as two generations" said DR..
Dixon, "but l would say that if the
people were aroused to the danger
of coming in contact with tubercu-
losis, and were taught the methods
to prevent contagion they would
have it in their power to eliminate
tuberculosis in very few genera
tions.
"Tuberculosis is not inherited,
as I have always maintained, but
it is only by coming in contact with
it that the disease is contracted, l
have made repeated experiments to
prove this, and to my mind have
succeeded in proving it to the salts
faction of those who have made the
subject a study"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
COTTON FROM FIRWooD.
Difficult to Distinguish the Natural
from the Artificial.


Cvtton. which used to be born, Is
now being made from firwood which
has been freed from bark and Knots.
The iibers are broken up by a special
machine. and are then placed in lead
lined copper cylinder having capacity
of 100 cubic centimeters. Into this
steam is introduced for ten hours by
means Of a pipe in the bottom.
At the end of that time 60 cubic CEN
timeters of soda lye are poured in and
boiled for SO hours under a pressure
of three atmospheres. The material is
then washed and thoroughly crushed,
after which it is bleached and dried.
The pure celulose thus obtained is
treated in an autoclare containing a
mixture of zinc chloride, hydrochloric
acid, and nitric acid, to which little
castor oil, cascine, and glycerine arc
added The fibre, after being further
reduced, is passed through a weak So
luton of carbonate of soda, and then
between drying rollers.
The necessary firmness Is given to
the thread by finally putting it in q
bath of diluted ammonia and then
washing it with cold water The sub
stance thus made may be easily woven
and dyed when the artificial product
is compared with the natural 1t is said
to be difficult to distinguish the differ
ence, and 1t is even asserted that the
former may be so economically pro-
duced as to be able to compete with
the latter.-Chicago Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21

The most extraordinary of all Brit
ish lighthouses is to be found on Arm
ish Rock, Stornoway Bay-a rock
which is separated from the Island OF
Lewis by a channel over 500 feet wide
On this rock a conical beacon is erect
ed, and on its summit lantern is
fixed. from which, night after night
shines a light which is seen by the fish
ermen far and wide. The way in which
the lighthouse is Illuminated is this:
On the Island of Lewis is a lighthouse
and from a window in the tower q
stream of light is projected on to g
mirror in the lantern on the summit
of Arnish Rock.-EXchange
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Chinese Porcelain.

Cinnamon have been exporting their
porcelain to the west for at least d
thousand years, and probably longer.
Medieval Europe could make nothing
like porcelain, and therefore regarded
it as a magical product endowed with
uncanny powers. 1t was said, for in
stance, that a porcelain cup would
break if poison were poured into it.
Travellers declared that porcelain was
composed of various substances which,
after being tempered, were hidden in
the ground for ages before being tit for
use. Even so erudite man as Sir
Thomas Browne, writing in the later
seventeenth century, was mot thor
oughly resolved concerning porcellane
or china dishes, that according to COM
mon belief they are made of earth"
The secret of the true Chinese porce-
lain was first discovered in Europe a
generation later by the German chem
ist Bottger, the inventor of what is
now known as Dresden china.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21

Election Notice.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Farmers Fationnl
Bank of Bloomsbury, Pa, for the
election Of directors for the ensuing
Y ar will be held at their Banking
room Tuesday, January 9, 1906,
between the hours of and A p. m.
at M MILLEISEN
Cashier.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21
Election Notice,

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Pennsylvania Copper
& Mining Company, for the pur,
pose of electing a Board of Direct
ors for the ensuing year, will be
held at their Office at Central, Col
umbia County, Pa, on Monday,
January Sth, 1906, at 10 o'clock a.
m. Polls will remain open until 4
O'Clock p. m.
J. P. Fritz,
I2-7-5t Sec.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-12-21

Japan's war department. Is econom-
ical. The worn-out socks, stockings
and other hosiery used by the troops in
Manchuria were sent back to Japan to
be remade into knitting yarns. These
are then given out to hosiery manufac-
turers and reknitted by machinery into
underwear, which was reshipped to the
seat Of war.