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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14

Nearly oil or the new towns in tuis
northern country are laid out north
of the railroad track so that they may
constitute snow sheds and protection
to the railroad from the winter
ssorms.
After having made plat of the
town and properly staked it out,
date is fixed for the sale of town lots
according to a schedule of prices an
nounced in the city dailies and in q
score or more of country papers in
the territory tributary to the location.
A new town is great self-advertis-
ing institution, however Weeks be-
fore the date of sale the little village
of squatters, which may have been
established miles from Lne site ult-
mately to be chosen gets wind Of
what is going on. The business
houses have been hastily placed on
wheels or skids. forty hirse teams or
big threshing machine engines have
been fastened to them and the pro-
cession across the prairie is begun. At
such times one may see a compile ely
equipped bank going along tao ua'r.a
in tow OF q "threSher"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Pensions For All Now.
President Signs Act Grading Service Rates
From sic Up to 500.

The Service Pension bill signed
Feb. 9TH by President Roosevelt
makes provision for nearly every
Union soldier of the civil war. 1t
provides that any person who serv-
ed 90 days or more in the military
or naval service of the United Stat
es, who was honorably discharged.
and who has reached the age 62
years, shall, upon proper proof and
application, without regard to rank,
receive pension at the rate OF $Ia
per month; those who have reached
10, SIS per mouth; IS years or ov-
er, $40, each pension to begin after
filing application in the Pension
Office.
All pensioners 62 years old or
over receiving pensions under ex-
listing laws, or whose claims are
pending, may receive the benefits
of this act. No person shall re-
ceive pension under any other
law at the same time he becomes a
beneficiary under the one Just ap-
proved. No person who now or
hereafter receives greater pension
under any other general or special
law shall be entitled to a pension
under this act.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
800 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive care now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being
a constitutional disease, requires
constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation
OF the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in
doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials
Address F. J. CHENEY & Co
Toledo, o.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14

Trains No. 81 and 22, mixed, secoLd.cass.
I Daily except Sunday. Daily sunday
only. Flag stop. ". g. SNYDER, Supt
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many games of cards on wnlcn for-
tunes hung. But occasionally even
nowadays very large sums of money
are lest and won in the card rooms
sions; and It is but little while ago
that certain young gentleman lost
$4,000 in an evening at bridge, play
Ing with ladies'; while it Is reported
papers some weeks ago at the sugges-
ticn Of the war office, because it had
become known to his commanding
officer that he had lost 900 at a
well known club where high play IS
not the rule.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
RUSSIANS AS GAMBLERS.
They Are Said to Play For Higher
Stakes Than Any Other People.


1t was recently reported in Rus
sian newspaper that the Car had
cashiered a young officer of the I'm
perial Guards for having played cards
for such high stakes that ne won SO,-
coo rubles (G10.000) in rather less
than an hour, his adversaries being
two famous gamblers. Doubtless his
Imperial Majesty considered that such
reckless young man could not be a
reliable guardian of his person. and
very probably also he thought it a
fitting opportunity to put veto on
what constitutes one of the worst
vices of the Russian aristicracy.
But if his Majesty imagine. that this
express rate of gambling constituted
record he was very much mistaken,
says London Tit Bits. for it fell far
below many feats which gamblers
have accomplished.
II. Justh, Hungarian nobleman OF
great wealth, holds the worlds rec
ord for winning fortunes at cards, and
he has on three or four occasions eX-
ceeded the rate of 10000 an hour.
A few years back, for instance. NJ.
Justh, whose name is almost a syn
ouym for luck among his acquaint-
ances, won trifie less than 6 Gl00, 900
curing an hour and halfs play at
the National Casino at Budapest, and
this was at rate exceeding G 100 q
minute. OF this immense fortune
Count Michael Karoly lost more than
halt, TIE other portion being won
from two other players.
On another occasion the same lucky
gambler, whose honorable play is, by
the way, absolutely beyond suspicion,
sat down to the card table and lost
nearly $4,000 without winning
cent; bat at that point the game
turned in his favor so completely that
he rose from the table some G14,000
richer than when he had started play.
Thus in an evening he lost $4,000
and won C G22.000.
Russians are perhaps the greatest
gamblers of this generation. 1t was
another Russian nobleman, Count
Potocki, who startled Europe a few
years ago by losing Gl60,0U0 in sim
gle evening at cards-the largest
amount, IL is believed ever lost at
card table by a single individual; and
the whole of this great fortune was
won from the Count by two gentlemen
in q little less than four hours.
The game played was baccarat, and
the scene of this remarkable contest
was the Jockey Club at Vienna, which
has witnessed the ruin of some of the
richest and most reckless gamblers OF
modern times, for Austrians rank
only second TO Russians in the love
of gambling. To this club go lue
most daring card players of the
tracted by the high play which is the
rule there. 1t is said that on the par
ticular OCCASION when Count Potocki
lost Gl60,000 he was only concluding
a series of games which had already
cost him 100000 before he sat down
on the eventful evening. or the
100000 he lost, II. Won Szemere, a
Hungarian deputy, won 100000,
Prince Braganza winning the balance
of 100000
Extremely high play has, happily,
gone out of fashion in London, and
even the opportunities afforded by the
popularity of bridge have not effected
a revival of gambling on the scale
which was common enough when
Whites club was the scene of SO
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad.
SCHEDULE ~ EFl
MBEN 25, 1000

SCHEDULE lN EF MBEK IS, 1000
Trains leave EAs. .5-,.. re as follows:
For Nescopeck AID " NtlRes 1 IRE, i:5J, !0:i6 a.
m, 2:i3 (4:2S Nescopeck only, o:sJ p: m. week.
days.
For Gatawissa and Sunbury, S:25, lla7 a. m,
4:07, 7:25 D. IN. week days; -undayS d'Ul p. IN
For Pittston and scranton as follows! c0O lOao
a. m, 2.i3, $40 p. IN. weekdays.
For Pottsvllle, Readingand Phlladelphla,' oo a.
IN 4:3S q. IN. week days.
tIazleton, 7'50 l0:i6 a. M, d.SS, $40 p. IN
week days. ,.. r,
g. Lewisburg. Milton, Williamsport, Lock
raven, Remove, and Ridgway ii ~ a. m week
avs: Lock Haven only, S:25 a. m, 4:OI p. m;
lur Williamsport and intermediate stations,
rs, ll:i7 a, m. 4:O7, T.25 p. m. week days; a'U'
in. Sund tyS. ,.,,
For Bellefonte, Tyrone, ,rhilipsburg, and Clear
field, S:2J, il:47 a. IN, week days. -.
For Harrisburg and intermediate Stations5.25
li:l7 a. M, t:07, T:25 p. IN. week days; i;U' p
m. Sundays. - ,,-,..--a
For Philadelphia (vla Harrisburg, Baltimore
and Washington s25, ii:47 a. m, i;O', 7;H5 p. M
week days: sundays, 40 y. IN. 81.
For Pittsburg (via Harrisburgl, S:25 a. M, 4O'
rs D. m. week days; 1907 daily;via Lewistown
junction, S:25. ii41 u. IN. weekdays; via LOCK
Haven. s:3S, tl;i7 a IN. weekdays. ..
For further Information apply TO TlcReI
Agents.
W. W. ATTERBURY, j. X WOOD,
General Manager. Passr Tfafnc Mgr
GEO. ". BOYD,
General Passenger Agent
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Cars leave Bloom for Espy, Almedia, Lime
Ridge, Berwick and intermediate points as
follows:
A. NJ. $500, $40, 6:2o, 100, 7:4e, $50,
o:oo, o:4o, 1920, II:oo, II;4o.
p. NJ. 1870, 100, 1910, 10, 500, $40,
4:2o, $500, $40, 6:2o, 700, 7:4o, S:2o, 600,
*(9:4o) 1920 *UI:oo)
Leaving depart from Berwick one hour
from time as given above, commencing at
600 a. m.
Leave Bloom for Catawissa A. M. $3.50,
oIs, t7;oo, $500, 900, tIo;oo, -II;oo,
1880.
p. NJ. 100, tz:oo, 900, 400, 500, 600,
t7:oo, 500, 600, 1920, "(II:oo)
Cars returning depart from Catawissa 20
mnrtes from time as given above.
First car leaves Market Squareifor Berwick
on Sundays at 100 a. m.
First car for Catawissa Sundays 700 a. m.
First car from Berwick for Bloom Sundays
leaves at $500 a. m
First car leaves Catawissa Sunday at 1890
a. m.
TFrom Power House.
Saturday night only.
tP. X. X. Connection.
VIM. TERwILLIGER,
Superintendent.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
FOR PILES,
ONE APPLICATION BRINGS RELIEF.
SAMPLE MAILED FREE.

At Druggists, 25 cents, or mailed.
Humphreys Medicine Co., Cor. william and John
Streets, New York.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, d. c. Feb. IL, I

Washington, d. c. Feb. IL, 1907.
All sorts of speculation is in or
der now as to what the interstate
Commerce Commission will do with
the monthly report of railroad earn
ings and operating expenses which
will have to be made to them under
the new rate law. 1t will be under
stood at a glance of what immense
Importance these reports will be
from speculative standpoint.
They form the bases upon which
all stock mauipuations rest, and
for stock juggling purposes they
are immensely more valuable than
were even the cotton crop reports
which formed the basis of the now
historical Agricultural Depart
ment leaks. According to the new
rate law, the railroads will have to
submit sworn statements covering
their earnings and operating ex
penses 10 the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and if these reports
could be gotten at by the outsiders,
they would be a remarkably effec-
tive speculative weapon. One Of
the beauties of the situation from
the viewpoint OF the manipulating
railroad official, is that with the re
ports in the hands of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, it will be
almost easier than ever to give in
side tips to favored few and then
lay the blame for such information
given out upon the clerical employ
es of the Commissioner or the Com
missioners themselves. None of
these reports have yet been sub,
mitted and given out oy the Com
mission, and every effort is being
made to guard them carefully
when the Commission does get hold
of them. What effective precau.
tions can be taken is still an un-
solved question. and cne may look
for the development of some sort of
a scandal in the matter before the
system is reduced to a working
basis.
*.
Contract for the construction Of
the Panama Canal has not yet been
awarded, but it is understood now
that J. w. Oliver has associated
with himself solue OF the strongest
backing in the United States, that
he will be awarded the contract un-
less the Canal Commission ultimate
ly decides to do the work itself.
Considerable surprise was express
ed in Washington at the selection
of John B. Mcdonald, the builder
of the New York subway, as the
President of the newly incorporated
Panama Canal Construction Com
pany. 1t is understood that the
visit Of Thomas F. Ryan to the
White House on the eve of the
formation of this company had to
do with Mr.. McDonald's part in
the enterprise, for Ryan. it is
known, controls the New York
subway, and Mcdonald is his right
hand in all engineering matters.
Whether the canal construction
contract is awarded to a private
bidder or not, it at least will have
shown the ability of American con-
tractors to get together an organi-
cation sufficient 10 cope with any
engineering problem from a pan.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14

American railway to the bridging
OF Bering Straits.
XIV
The River and Harbor Bill is
now an assured fact. and the most
remarkable feature in connection
with it is the fact that Representa-
tive Burton, who is the chairman
of the committee, failed to take all
that he could get in the way of ap-
pr rcpriations for work i'll his district
and state. One matter of interest,
however, has been brought up in
the discussion of the bill, and that
is demand for investigation as to
how tar the wharfage facilities at.
Ma on, Ga. are in the hands oil in,
terests that will use them for limit
ing the competition between rail-
road and water born freight. This
is an inquiry which very we'll cou d
be made in many localities besides
Macon, for it has been shown in
numerous hearings before the inter-
state Commerce Commission that
nearly all the navigable rivers the
freight rates are controlled exclu
sively i'll the interests of the rail-
roads and there is little actual CON-
petition between the two classes of
freight carriers This is a SOME
what mysterious situation, and one
which has never been brought out
fully, but the fact remains, and it
is of interest to all the producing
industries of the country, that it
is very seldom any company can
get practical advantage by utiliz
ing the supposed cheapness of river
competition against the exaction OF
railroad freight rates.
Xxx
1t appears from the report of the
Judiciary Committee of the House
on the subject Of child labor in the
United States, that Senator Beve
ridges anti.child labor bill will
have hard road to travel before it
is, if ever, enacted into law. The
speech of Senator Beveridge on the
child labor problem showed a de.
plorable condition existing through
out the United States. He declar-
ed that according to the census re-
port there were 1000, 900 child
bread winners in this country, and
that of these, 100, 900 were employ
ed in occupations other than that
of agriculture. These occupations
included, of course, mines. mills
and factories from which large di-
vidends were drawn because the
cheappess of child labor enables
the owners to reduce operating ex-
penses. Senator Beveridse pointed
out the danger and the fallacy of
this cheapness, not only because Of
It's hurtful effect upon the children
employed, but because it also tend
ed to reduce adult wages to the
scale of payment OF child labor.
Altogether he drew a very dis
couraging picture Of the situation
confronting this country if some
thing were not done to check the
child labor evil
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
NERVOUS DEBILITY,

Vital Weakness and Prostra-
ton from OVerVVOrk and other
causes, Humphreys HOmeo-
pathic Specific No. 23, in Use
over 40. years, the only success.
ful remedy. 81 per vial, or spec
ial package for serious cases, $5.
Sold by Druggists sent prepaid receipt of price
Humphrey Med. Co., William 4 John Sts., NY.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
PHILADELPHIA q READING
RAILWAY.
In effect Nov, Il, 1904.
TRAINS LEAVE BLUOMSBUkG

In effect Nov. L., 1904.
TRAINS LEAVE BLUOMSBURG
For New YORK, Pniladelpnle, heading, Potts
yillp TamAQua, weekday 72l Via west Mliton,
ii:3O a IN, via East Mahanoy' 8'2' p III Vi" "e''
" For Wnuamsport, weekdays, 72' 3'as
For n panyllle and Milton, weekdays, 1927 a m
Dc r For r Catawissa ca weekdays 727, il'S m
FOR iTT Rupert RI weekdays 7g7 II2s a. m. l2 20
q, ,2g, 700, p. m.
TRAINS FOR BLOUMsBURG,
Leave New YORK via Philadelphia s.O5
m andvia Easton y.1Oa. m.
Leave Philadelphia i0.2ls. m.
Leave Reading 1918 2. IN.
Leave Pottsville p. IN
Leave Tamaqual.49p M, ,o
Leave WIliiamsport weekdayslO.0G n, 4.3O
Leave Cstawlssa weekdays, 6.s6, $40 a. m.
iIS; Leave we rupert, weekdays, GA, s.2s, ll.4O a.
IN. 1888, $40 6.2l p. m.
ATLANTIC CITY X X.
From Chestnut Street Ferry.
For South st. see timetables AT stations
WEEKDAYS.
,rr,Nr,c ctry ATLANTIC CITY CAPE MAY
AND
7:3o a. m. Lei. 400 D. m. EXP. OCEAN CITY
800 a. In. Exp WO Mlnutesl $3.50 a. m
ll:21 a. IN. ExO. BOO p. IN. EXP. 4:I5 u. IN
200 D. m. EXP 500 p. IN. Lei. 500 q. m.
7:l5 o. m. Exp. an. ,s,v ,,ry
SUNDAYS. $40 a. m.
INTIc CITY ATLANTIC CITY CAPE MAY
OCEAN CITY
500 a. m. Lei. 500 p. m. Lcl,' AND SEA ISLE
900 d. IN. Exp 7:l5 p. IN. EXP. CITY
1000 a. no, Evp e:45 a. IN.
Detailed time tables at ticket offices, 18th and
Chestnut SITS, S34 Chestnut St. 1908 Chestnut
St. 6O9 south 3rd St., 1862 Market st., and at
Stations.
union Transfer Company will call for and
check baggage from hotels and residences.
A. r. DICE, EPSON j. WEEKS,
Gen'l Supt. Genl PaSs. Agt.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14

The Day Of the Speculative Town
Site Man is Passing and Each New
Line Now Locates It's Villages as II
Fleases-North Dakota the Chief
Centre.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14

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This machine can be seen at the
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Postal Typewriter Company
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-26
BUILT BY UNSEEN HANDS.
Jewish Legend of Solomon and the
House of the Lord.

$50 that there was neither hammer
nor ak nor any other tool Of iron
heard in the house while it was build
ing" q Kings vi, y. The above Is a
Scriptural quotation, to be found at
the citation given, and is concerning
the building Of Solomons temple. The
reason therein assigned for the perfect
uuietude which existed in and about
the great building while it was In
course Of erection is that the stones
and timbers were all made ready be-
fore being brought to the site Of the
great building. Heber beautifully al
ludes to this in the little couplet, In
which he says:
No hammer fell. no ponderous axes
rung,
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric
sprung.
The Jews have a legend to the effect
that Solomon did not employ men In
building the great "house Of the
Lord" but that he was aided in the
gigantic undertaking by the genii.
Having a premonition that he would
not live to see the building finished.
Solomon prayed to God that his death
might be concealed from the genii un-
til the structure was finished. Inn
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-26
The Finest Country In the World.

A globe-trotting journalist Of re-
nown has written a tourist catechism
In a German paper in which he sets
forth his observations on the countries
and the people he has visited. His
answers are ingenious, and they may
be correct; but they would seem to
convict him of being a Swede. We
quote the following:
where do you find the most COM
Portable passenger trains?"
I'm Russia"
But where are they kept in the best
condition."
In Sweden"
Where is the railroad traffic man
aged with the least noise?"
"In England"
"W here do you find the best railroad
restaurants"
IN Sweden
where are the most comfortable
steamboats, for longer voyages to be
found?"
I'm Germany and England"
Where do you find the finest and
best arranged steamboats, for shorter
trips?"
IN Sweden"
where are the finest restaurants and
cafes for moderate prices?'
I'm Copenhagen and Stockholm"
where are the best automatic res
taurants?"
in Stockholm"
where are the worst quick lunch
esq"
I'm America, particularly in Bos-
ton"
Where are the finest bath houses?'
I'm Germany, Austria and Sweden.
where do you find the truest po-
liteness and dignity among the peo-
pie generally?"
In Sweden, particularly in Stock
holm"
Where the Opposite?"
In Italy"
where do you find the most polite
and well-bred children?"
I'm Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Where the opposite?'
I'm Italy, Little Italy, but particular
ly in South Boston"
Where do the young men have the
finest figures and the handsomest fea-
tures?"
IN Italy and Sweden, particularly In
Stockholm"
Where are the handsOmest wom-
en?"
This question the writer, who ap-
pears to have gained some experience
Of life, does not answer.-From the
Boston Evening Transcript.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-26

mar C. Pegram, teller Of the First
National bank, is in Charlotte, filling
temporarily the position of assistant
cashier of the Charlotte National
bank, made vacant by the disappear
ance of Mr.. Franc c. Jones, an ac-
count of whose defalcation appears
elsewhere in to-day's paper. Mr.. reg
ram went to Charlotte Tuesday and
will remain several days. The cash
ier of the Charlotte National BANK
Mr.. Twitty, has been sick for some
weeks but is. we understand. again
at his office Mrs. William M.
Wright. who lived at the Gray mill,
died Thursday morning at ! O'Clock
after a long illness from paralysis
Mrs. Wright was about sixty years OF
age and leaves a husband and ten
children to mourn her loss. The fun
eral services were conducted at the
home this morning at 10 O'Clock py
DIR. ]. G. Kennedy and the remains
we're buried at Shiloh cemetery. .....
Mr.. Blame Dellinger, aged "a, son
of Mr.. ]. P. Dellinger, of Shelby, was
killed in the 'pgine room Of the Ver-
ner oil mill at baltimore Wednesday
night. Mr.. Dellingef was night su-
perintendent of the mill and was OIL
ing a pulley on the shaft when part
of his clothing caught in the shafting
and was hurled to the floor. His head
was crushed, causing almost instant
death. The body was taken to Cher
ryville, his former home, where 1t
was inferred after funeral exercises
at the Lutheran church yesterday at
IL o'clock. Deceased was a young
man of much promise and his sad
death will be greatly mourned by a
large number of CASTOR friends.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-26

mediately after he made a staff from
q sprout Of the tree of life, which was
growing in his garden, and leaning
upon this he died, standing bolt up
right in the unfinished temple.
Those who saw him thought that he
was absorbed in prayer, and they did
not disturb him for upward Of a whole
year Still the genii worked day and
night, thinking that they were being
constantly watched by him whose
eyes had been closed in death many
weeks.
All this time, so the legend says, lit
tie white ants Zone account says red
mice) were gnawing at the staff, and
when the temple was finally finished
the staff gave way, and the body of
the dead Solomon fell prone upon the
floor. Mohammed alludes to this
queer legend in the Koran (see Sura
xxxiv), where he says, when he
(God) had declared that Solomon
should die. nothing discovered shis
death unto them (the geniD except the
creeping things of the earth. st.
Louis Republic.