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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The family Of Charles Waters, of
Catawissa is sorely afflicted. A
calamity in the shape of diptheria
has befallen them. The disease
has already caused the death OF one
child, son, and now another son,
a daughter and the mother are i'll.
The condition of Mrs. Waters is
said to be quite critical.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The B. & S ran three coaches on
every train OH the 4th, and they
were ali we'll filled. Many fisher
men went up the creek, and at some
points it was lined with anglers,
some of whom met with fair success.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

"WoaV anu Then" Bloomsbury S
new magazine, D. J. Tasker and
r. c. Tburston, editors and pub
fishers, will make its first appear
ance this month.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

w, II. Coffman has accepted tie
management of the United Stat
Express office at Bloomfield N. J.
which position was offered him by
the Company last week. The
vacancy III the Office here will be
filled by Myron Sands.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Price who has been playing with
Milton, for three weeks past accom-
panied the A. AS home and will
wear local uniform for the balance
of the season.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

A Bloomsburger who recently
returned from the west says that
the western half of the United
States would sustain population
greater than that of our whole
country if the waters that now run
to waste were saved and utilized
for irrigation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Rev. L. a. Sharretts, is greeting
his many f;iends in this section.
He has been spending the past year
with his sou at Minneapolis.
His appearance would seem to in-
dicate that the western cline has
agreed with him.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Charles Jamison, of Catawissa, a
brakeman on The P. & r. was the
victim of an accident at Rupert
yesterday. In jumping from a car
his arm struck the brake, cracking
the bone.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

In order to enable the d. l.. &
w. Railroad Company to construct
switch to facilitate the loading OF
grain at his storage house, James
+. Reichard is removing a portion
of the Hess foundry on Iron Street.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Among the successful fishermen
on Tuesday, was Rob't Dent. He
caught four nice pike out at the
Iron Dale dam, running in length
from twelve to sixteen inches.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The Danville & Bloomsbury
Street Railway Company, courted
trouble Tuesday night by running
q car without headlight. Had
the car struck anybody, nothing
could have saved the company
from heavy bill Of damages.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The proprietors of the various
stores which shorten their keeping
open hours for the summer will not
lose anything by so doing, and will
gain in more eager, faithful service
on the part of those who benefit.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The Sells & Downs Circus will
exhibit in Bloomsbury July 27th
This is probably the largest tented
enterprise that will come Our way
this summer. If requires about
fifty cars to transport the outfit,
and it is rated as one of the really
big shows.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Chas. p. Elwell will continue to
teach during the summer months.
Instruction in pianoforte, violin,
harmony and composition. Send
for circular or call at 233 West
Third street, Bloomsbury. If
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Gambling is on the increase
among society women and men III
the so-called Smart set". Bridge
whist has broken many heart and
home. Too bad.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Your glasses may be partly right, and pro.
portionately helpful; but if they are not en-.
trely right you are not getting all of the
benefit you should. ONLY medical eye
specialists can determine exactly what lenses
are needed. Henry W. ChampIin, N. D.,
0CULlST,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

William Calhoun and Ralph
Schwartz will leave tomorrow for
Eagles Mere where they will play
clarinet and violin respectively in
an orchestra during the summer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The early closing movement
went into effect last night, and
from now on, through July and
August, excepting Saturday even
ings and the 18th of each month
the stores will close at six O'Clock.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Mrs. Thomas Gordon, of Tai
mar, fell at her home Tuesday
morning, and broke both bones in
her right forearm.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Vanity Fair, March and Two.
step by Chas. p. Elwell, on sale at
all music stores. Second edition,
IS cents. tt.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The train that goes ninety miles
an hour will be safer when there is
a watchman at every switch and
crossing.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

1t appears that the Equitable has
been paying salaries of $25 5000 a
year to dead men. The Equitable
pay roll may justly be listed among
the greatest of the worlds wonders.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Under the new California marri-
age certificate law the young couple
must swear that they are not in
sane.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Ralph G. Phillips will open his
branch photograph gallery at
Eagles Mere next Thursday.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Harvest and hay making time has
arrived which is a reminder that
the summer season is we'll advanced
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The Bloomsbury shops of the
American Car and Foundry Com
pany are working over time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Miss Rose Ruckle has accepted
position as clerk at the Supplee-
Mather Co. Store.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

The man who can but doesn't
must give way to the man who cant t
but tries.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

William Sechrist caught pike
22H inches long at the lrondale
dam on Tuesday.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

A son has been born to Mr.. and
Mrs. c. A. Small, on First Street.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06

Meyer Bros. building is in the
hands of the painters.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-07-06
THE COLUMBIAN.
LOCAL NEWS.

Legal advertisements on page 7.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23
Wireless Not New Thinu,

The idea that wireless telegraphy
has originated and grown up during
recent years is a popular fallacy. It
was nearly a hundred years ago that
the possibilities of aerial telegraphy
were seen by scientists. In the early
half of the last century men of sci
ence were busy with experiments by
which they hoped to prove that mes
sages could be conveyed from one
place to another without the use of
wires.
In those days there seemed to be
two ways which seemed to show how
this might be accomplished. One was
known as Induction" or the prop
erty an electric impulse has of trans
ferring itself from one place to anoth-
er The other is "conduction," by
which the conductive properties of
the earth and water are turned to ac-
count for conveying electric forces. It
was not until the end of the century
that a third method, known as the
radiation of the electromagnetic
waves through space, was discovered,
and 1t is this method which Marc0nl
has successfully developed
The existence of these electrO-mao-
netlc waves has been known only
since 1888, and the discovery forms
a fascinating page in the history OF
scientific romances.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23
HISTORY OF A FAMOUS BELL.
Cast In a Spanish Foundry, 1t Had
Many Adventures.

Many Adventures.
The famous old bell of the Roman
Catholic church in ST. Joseph, Taze-
well county, again tolls the knoll
OF parting day" after being temporar-
lily silent, following the transfer from
the old edifice TO the new one recent
ly dedicated. The bell has a remark
able history and has had many own
ers. For forty years it has been the
property of st. Joseph parish, ring
ing out the hour of weddings, of
tinction. The age of the bell has been
variously estimated between 200 and
300 years. 1t is but a trihe larger
than the ordinary locomotive bell,
but the metal contains certain por-
tion of silver, which not only gives
it a peculiarly sweet tone but also
one of great strength, so that the
sound is heard from one end of the
township to the other.
According to an inscription upon
the bell, il was cast in foundry at
Vallidodlid, Spain, early in the six
teenth century. The bell was con-
veyed to Vera Cruz, Old Mexico, by
monks, where It hung in the cathedral
until the Mexican war in 1Si7. When
Vera Cruz was captured by the Unit
ed States army, three young men of
Company G, 4th Illinois Infantry,
which was recruited in central Illinois
captured the bell and sent 1t home.
After reaching Pekin the bell was
sold TO the owner of the Prairie State
an Illinois River steamboat, and was
carried between Peoria and St Louis
for five years, until, on April TO- 1852,
the Prairie State. while racing with
the steamer Avalanche, blew up oppo.
site Pekin and went TO the bottom
with heavy loss of life. The bell lay
at the bottom of the river for two
years, when it was fshed out. and
the finders sold it to the Methodist
congregation, who were about to dod-
icate new church. From 1854 the
bell hung in the tower of that church
until 1867, when the Catholic people
of ST Joseph decided that the historic
and Catholic associations Of the bell
were sufficiently important to war
rant its restoration to that faith. They
asked the Methodists to set q price,
and the latter denomination willin y
ly gave up the bell for the price OF
another, which was of less value from
a historical andpont.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald. y
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23
RUSSIAN BUREAUCRACY.
Genuine Russian Worse or Than His
Fellow Subjects.

That mlschievous distinction be.
tween various races subject to tho
czGr was, Russian patriots now affirm
manifest even to the most obtuse. But
what most foreigners failed to per.
ceive was that the genuine Russian
was even worse off than his fellow
subject of Jewish, Armenian, Polish
or Finnish extraction. Indeed, the
orthodox elements of the population
were treated as a conquered race, ever
hostile, ever dangerous. And they
were accordingly shackled and kept
under the ministry of the interior,
which was often called the ministry
of war against natives" This is how
Russians now describe their own con.
dition in the past:
They had no voice in governing the
country. no right to tax themselves,
no claim to control or to criticise the
administration, no authority to audit
the state accounts, no right to rcmon.
strato against measures fraught
ruin TO the masses, nor permission to
worship God as their consciences die
tated. Liberty of public meetings,
liberty of the press, of speech, of re-
ligious thought displayed in worship,
was absolutely suppressed. "With
u.s. writes Vyazemski, everything
ends in prohibition or a command.
When shall we be forbidden TO be
slaves and ordered to be reputable
men?"
And tho consncuanoo ,yoo .bo4 o,
terprise in trade, originally in thought,
imagination in literature sincerity ir
religion and self-reliance in everyday
life were often otrophied and soms-
times wholly destroyed. Legislation
was a straitjacket woven by the priv-
ileged few for the purpose of Gripping
the inarticulste millions
But even these laws were made
only to be broken. There was hardly
q protense of applying them for the
benefit of the people. Violated when
invoked against the privileged, social
layers, they were stretched, twisted
and intensified when employed TO
sc0urge the masses. Russian law
says: NO one shall be deprived Of
the rights of his status, nor shall any
person be curtailed otherwise than
by tribunal as punishment for
crime Yet since Prince Svyatopoll;-
Mirski has become minister numbers
Of men, women and youths have been
brought back from exile or liberated
from prisons, among them lawyers,
physicians. students, officers, work.
men, peasants and sixty striplings not
Of age, who were deprived Of their
rights and liberties without trial,
without charge, without crime, with.
out appeal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23
Simple Garometers.

Country people have a great con-
tempt for those who cannot tell what
the weather is going to be till they
have looked at their expensive baron.
eters or seen the weather indications
in the morning paper. They have so
many simple ways of finding out what
they wish to know about the weather
and are so accustomed to doing this
that they make the observations al
most technically. Ask one of them
how to do this and he will give you q
long list Of simple weather gauges.
For instance, if you are a smoker, look
at your cigar tip. If it burns with q
clear, red glow the day will be fine,
but if it has a charred end that re.
fuses to burn brightly take out your
umbrella. If a slipper creaks it is sure
to he fine; If it is silent it will be
damp. In damp weather newspapers
are easily torn, gloves contract and
are difficult to put on, matches will
not light easily silk hats become dull,
awning cords are tight, boot laces
snap and a score Of inanimate things
tell to the initiated that there is rain
to come.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23

In the United states 10O,O00,000
pounds Of prunes are eaten yearly
Prior to 1886 the supply came wholly
from France and the Danuban PROV
inces and sold under the designation
of French" or Turkish" prunes. In
the year referred to prunes Of Amer-
can growth appeared on the market
and with each succeeding year the
supply has increased until the impor-
tation of foreign fruit has been reduc-
ed to extremely small proportions.
Much the larger portion OF the prune
supply is from the southern part OF
California, where climatic peculiarities
are extremely favorable for its produc-
ton. In Santa Clara county alone
there are 100000 trees growing on
$1,000 acres, 100 to the acre. The
quantity Of prunes somewhat exceeds
110,000,000 pounds-more than enough
for the requirements of the whole
country, but the excess, with that
raised in other localities, is needed
to supply the export demand from
Great Britain, Germany and France.
The first plum trees planted 40 years
ago in California were shoots from
the Petite" and "Epineuse" varieties
from France. The original varieties
have been greatly improved upon.
After the planting, which is usually
done in the rainy season, the shoots
are cut down to a uniform height of
about two feet. In the second year
the trees are pruned, from three to
five branches being left, and are again
pruned in the third and fourth years.
Twice during the spring and summer
the soil is cultivated. In September
the fruit ripens and is gathered by
spreading sheets under the trees and
shaking the branches. The green
fruit is taken to the warehouse, where
it is graded in size and passed through
boiling hot liquid in which process
it is cleaned and the outer skin soft
ened. 1t is then spread out in trays
eight feet in size and exposed to thd
heat of the sun for three to eight days,
depending upon weather conditions.
Ten thousand trays of fruit spread
out in one unbroken tract may be seen
In Santa Clara in the drying season.
When sufficiently cured the prunes
are stored in separate bins and there
are allowed to Sweat" this process
taking from ten to twenty days, when
they are ready for marketing
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23
No Tlns For EnclIsh euarda.

The guards of the London, Tilbury
and Southern Railway have received
orders to refuse in future to accept
tips from passengers. The position
has been thrust upon the guards by
the efforts of certain well-meaning
philanthropists. The London-Tilbury
trains between and 8 o'clock in the
evening are generally overcrowded,
and it often happens that twenty or
thirty people travel in the guards
brake. 1t has become customary on
these occasions for some one to pass
around the hat for the benefit of the
guard Complaints have reached head
quarters from time and the guards
have been warned. but have pleaded
their inability to prevent the colec-
tons undertaken on their behalf. The
new order has occasioned deep dissat-
islaction, as the collections have come
to be regarded by the men as a recog-
nized part of their salaries.-London
Express.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23
SAILING SHIP CAPIAINS
Nearly All of Them Have Dis
likes for Land Lubbers.
ARE UNWELCOME GUESTS
Difficult for Them to Secure Passage.
One Must Furnish Certificate of
Good Character and Be Willing
to Pay Handsomely For the
Privilegc-Rules to Observe.

Nearly every one has at some time
or other been seized with the desire
to go to sea on sailing ship. The wish
comes oftenest in the summer vaca-
ton, when the so called sea birds"
fit by the beaches and stretches of
country shore. Oftener than not, the
passion fades out of mind. but there
are still enough people who hang to
the notion, to cause captains of sail
ing craft o good deal of trouble The
fact is, most of them have a suppress
ed horror of land lubbers" in general
and the fact that they may have oc-
casionally carried passengers who
proved exceptions to the rule seldom
softens their demeanor when a strang.
er steps up and asks If he can be
taken along with the cargo.
1t might be well here TO res'ate a
fact known to many that passengers
are taken solely at the pleasure of tho
captain. The sailing agents, or the
mate, or others, might recommend,
but they would so no further. and
there have been frequent cases in
which captains have turned down
wodld-be sailors bringing letters from
the owners of the vessels in which
the trip would have been made. Liv-
ing afioat and ashore develop diff
ferent qualities in men, and so a cer-
tain incompatibility springs up be.
tween the sea faring and land faring
classes, until 1t often becomes an inn
penetrable will Money as a rule, is
not over plentiful among captains
of the smaller vessels, yet they fire.
quently refuse amounts Of money for
passage that would pay first class
fares on the best steamers for cor.
responding ports. 81 just didn't take
notion to that rooster" is the rea-
son usually assigned. This, too, 10
occasionally the case when there arc
several spare sta,orooms or berths
aboard. Sometimes the boot is on the
other foot and it is the landsman who
backs out.
Get your trunk packed month
ahead and put on board before all the
cargo is extracted. Then. by getting
on the craft yourself two or three days
before she can possibly start. the
chances are that YOU will not be left
behind should a little favorable wealth
er come loafng around between snow
storms Make it a point to like all the
provender that is dumped on the gen.
eral board.
Never observe that the cabin stove
would scorch an iceberg brown in ten
minutes, or that the fire has gone out
altogether rs for he'd clothes, be
thankful you have got any Observe
occasionally that the tobacco smoked
aboard is not rank enough to please
you And above all, don't draw the
color line on the yermin. If You will
carry out these suggestions on few
trips, YOU may some time live to have
a pleasant voyage.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23
John l.. Sullivan,
Curious Freaks of Lightning.

One OF the fantastic tricks which
lightning plays upon its unfortunate
victims is kind of flashlight photog-
raphy There are numerous instances
OF this which are more or less auth
enticated," but they seem almost too
wonderful to be believed. One of
these is a young man in New Jersey
who was struck by lightning and was
taken in an ambulance to the hospi-
tai at once. There seemed to be no
wound except a small mark on the
back, but while the doctors and
nurses were examining him picture
began to develop on the skin, Soon
before the wondering eyes of the
watchers appeared a perfect picture
Of the figure of Christ nailed to the
cross. The explanation is that on the
wall opposite the bed on which the
young man lay was the picture which
was reproduced on his skin.
Another instance is of a man who
was struck by lightning, and on his
chest were red marks resembling
tree with all its branches under which
the man was standing when he was
killed, From France comes the story
of a peasant girl who was driving
COW from the pasture when she was
oyertaken by a storm. and she and the
COW took refuge under the tree. A
bolt killed the COW and stunned the
girl When she recovered conscious
ness she found on her chest a picture
of the COW she had been driving.
The chatelaine of the castle of Ben
atonnaire was sitting in a chair in
her salon when the chateau was
struck by lightning. She was quite
uninjured, but on the back of her dress
was found perfect copy of the chair
on which she had been sitting, down
to it's minutest ornament. These are
a few of the many strange pranks
which lightning plays upon us.
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23
SHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue OF a writ OF feii faclas issued out OF
the Court OF Common Pleas Of Columbia county.
Pennsylvania, and to me directed there viii be
exposed to public sale at the Court House In
Bloomsbury, county and state aforesaid, on
SATURDAY, April, Ist. 1905,
OF two o'clock y. M.
All that certain lot OF land situate on the
northerly side OF Britain street, in Michaels
Addition TO West Berwick In the township OF
Berwick, now Borough Of West Berwick, Co.
lumhia county, Pa, and bounded and described
as follows, to witt Beginning az the horth-
westerly corner OF Brittaiu and Mercer streets,
thence along Britain street south eighty-seven
degrees ten minutes west eghty-seven aud one
half feet; thence north two degrees and fifty
minutes west seventy-ive and four tenths feet
to an alley; thence south seveaty-seven degrees
thirty minutes east ninety and six-tenths feet
60 Mercer street; thence along the same south
Two degrees fifty minutes east fifty one feet TO
Britain street, the place CT beginning Being
the easterly part OF lot No. 221 OF Michaels
addition TO West Berwick, Ia. Whereon is
erected a two-story
FRAME DWELLING HOUSE.
Seized, ken in execution ut the suit Of
Security Eullding and Savings Union VS.. Frank
A. shirk, and to be sold as the property of
Frank A. Shirk.
II. G. REYNOLDS and w. W BLACK.
ALgX q. JACKSON. Sheriff.
Attorneys.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-03-23
A Mountain of Iron.

A mountain which is said to be the
most remarkable in the world is sit
uated in the state of Durango, Mexico.
1t certainly has claim to this repu-
tation, for it is two thousand feet
high, about three-quarters Of a mile
in thickness at the base and is al
most solid iron. Naturally, IL has been
the dream of iron manufactdrers ever
since its discovery to lease the noun.
tain and so work it, But this the gov
ernment has refused to let them do
till quite recently when a contrac.
was signed between 1t and some New
YORK capitalists for the operation and
development of the mountain on 2
partnership basis. The ore obtainea
from this mountain is said to yiela
about eighty-seyen per cent pure iron