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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-06

WHEN Mulrooney, Professor Fosterberg
and the dean We're safely locked in the
deans chamber that evening. and the detec-
tive had examined all windows. doors. hooks
and corners of the room, the light was turned
down and they waited for results
These We're not long in arriving. The rap
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-11-27
THE REAL NATIONAL BIRD.
UNCLE SANS THANKSGIVING

They came from far, as we'll near,
To Uncle Sans Thanksgiving;
To fill him with gregarious cheer,
And help absorb his living,
For it was widely understood
That everyone must come who could;
Although twas thought that some would repair
To friends and neighbors otherwhere
And many lived who had been known
To feast at tables of their own;
But though it was a prosperous year
And food was neither scarce nor dear,
They came from far, and fingered near
TO Uncle Sans Thanksgiving.
There no road, upon tha. day,
Where any one was living,
That did not somehow stretch away
To Uncle Sans Thanksgiving
From Richards Plain and Rudkins Hill,
Down from Horse Heavens dEeary chill,
From Jump-off-Joe's mimic mountain top
From old McPhee's big blacksmith shop,
From where the foalning pillows ride
The old Columbia, three miles wide
The hungry guests came thronging down
All glad tina. they were living
By couple, dozen, and by score
Il never knew" Sam pondered DER,
u had 50 many friends BEFORE
twas large Thanksgiving.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-29
EIumor
Gle BOY WHO DIDN'T.

And Now He Probably Regrets His
Little Plan.
please, SIR" said the office boy,
"may get away this afternoonT
whats wrong?" asked the great
financier. els your grandmother deadT
Little Willie had been taught that
honesty was always the best policy.
He was a good boy. He never sneaked
stamps from his employer and he new
err threw the pretty typewriter into
fits by whispering to her that he had
Just seen a mouse scoOt under her
desk. Being a truthful boy, little
Willie replied:
''No, sir. 1 amt got no grandmoth-
er. But the club that's in first place
is going TO play here today, end I'd
like to see the game"
The old gentleman stared at him
helplessly for moment and then drew
from his pocket 50, which he handed
to the boy.
All, reader, you have already guessed
that the great man felt In duty bound
to encourage such frankness-but wait.
'Here," said Henry Hardrocks,
'here's your weeks wages. Don't come
back any more. A boy that can't get
up even poor excuse on such an oc-
casion as the present one would never
amount to anything in this business"
Thus do we learn that in being its
own reward virtue continues to have
few competitors. Chicago Record
Herald
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-29
Summer transformers.

whats them thar actor folks doing
prowling around in the hot sum-" ask
ed the postmaster of Bacon Ridge.
'They say they want to get the lay
of the town." said the village cutup.
"Waal, they needn't to be in any
hurry about that. They'll get the lay
of the town and the country both to-
night The boys are out buying up
every egg within four miles. Detroit
Tribune.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-29
Gloomy Outlook.

"What are you worried about, Ras-
tus?"
"I's worried bout rain, OATS whut
rs worried bout, an 1 reckons rs
gwinter keep worried all summer"
"But it is almost sure to rain before
long"
"Yessuh. But when it do it's almos'
sure to be too much or not enough
Washington Star.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-29
He Spoke Too Soon.

"Look here, old chap, forgive me for
speaking of it, but you really ought to
know. Your wife doesn't play square
game of bridge"
"N1y dear fellow, that's a compliment
to you 1t shows that you play such a
corking game that she couldn't afford
to.'-New York Life.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-29
A Love Scene.

Before 1 went away you seemed to
love me-"
"Yesf"
"And now you are different"
"You are mistaken-utterly mistak-
en-"
"Are you not different?"
mo; am Indifferent"
But even that did not seem to salts
fly him. Some men are hard to please.
Cleveland Leader.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-29
The Human Mimosa.

CLOSELY is such a stingy chump. He
goes around rafting the dollars in his
pocket, but he never spends a cent"
Eyes, 1 have noticed that too. Do
you know why he reminds me Of a
sensitive plants"
"No. Why?'
"Why he willis every time you touch
him."-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-29

2b1 acres-ony miles from town on the Rus
sellville pike. This farm can be bought
cheap, add is an ideal location, and highly
productive place, with good improvements
300 acres near Bell, KY. This is a we'll i'm
proved farm, and just what you are look
ing for. Splendid dwelling, good stable
and large tobacco barns and all other out
buildings 40 acres good timber, balance
in high state of cultivation.
211 acres, miles south of town, Improvements
good, and everything in good shape. An
opportunity you cannot afford to miss.
We have some very desirable homes for sale
on the best residence streets in the city and at
real bargain figures.
A right new modern cottage for sale or rent
on 18th street. in the old Sharp addition.
Another one at a bargain on West 18th st.
Also some desirable building lots in different
parts of the city at ridiculOusly low prices.
Call and see US if you are interested in good
home, either in the city or country. Now is the
time tolbuy good property at prices that appeal
to your pocket-book.
If you are looking for a good established
business, we'll located, we have got just what
you are lookingfor, and at the right price.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-29
a pnintsr For Percy.

Tess-Percy We're was telling me that
he still hopes to have the luck to win
you
Jess-Well, Percy will find that it
takes more than luck to win me. I'm
no raffle.-Philadelph Press.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-29

278 acres, 5 miles south of town, in the finest
neighbOrhood in the county, large two
story house, large barns 2 tobacco barns,
hayshed, wagon shed, COW house, granary,
buggy house, ice house, good cabins, meat
house, hen houses, etc. Well watered, and
has splendid crops of orchard grass, clover,
timothy and wheat growing on it. An ideal
stock and grain farm, and money maker
sos acres, 10 miles south of town, on the Clarks-
vile pike, and close to R. R. station on the
l. C. road near school house, and with all
modern improvements This is as fine a
body of land as you can find anywhere, and
produces large quantities of wheat, corn,
hay and tobacco. Has 90 to so acres fine
timber, tobacco barns, large stock barn,
l hay shed, cabins, windmill and tank, land
all improvements necessary to first class
farm. If you are looking for something
extra at bargain don't fail to see this place
222 acres, miles south of Garrettsburg-1OO
acres of this is in timber, containing lot
of red and white oak and poplar, 2-story
brick dwelling, 2 tobacco barns, stable, 4
cabins, and other necessary Improvements.
This place is offered at real bargain.
200 acres. near Pembroke. rich land and well
improved. Runs right up to within a-mile
of the best little town on earth.
Is acres Just outside the corporate limits of
Hopkinsville, splendid house and all neces-
sary out buildings. Just the very best
place you know of to raise chickens and run
garden andfruit farm
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
SENTENCE COMMITTED.

Washington, d. c., Mar. II, 1908.
Special Dispatch to the Columbian"
Representative John G. McHenry
has just made another family in his
district very happy. He has pro-
cured the Communication of the sent
ence of William Cooleskie, from
fifteen months Imprisonment to six
months, four of which have already
been served.
This is a rather singular and
somewhat pathetic case. The boy
who was the main support of his
neither and several younger bro
theirs and sisters. enlisted when he
was sixteen years and eight months
of age. Attachment to his family
influenced him subsequently to go
home without leave, for which he
was arrested, tried, convicted and
sentenced.
At the instance of his mother and
her neighbors, Mr.. McHenry inter
vened. He appealed to the War
Department in person, pointing out
the fact that the boy was under age
when he enlisted that the affec-
ton which enticed him home was
an amiable rather than a vicious
characteristic and that the destitu-
tion of his mother, brothers and
sisters instead of purpose to shirk
his obligations, kept him there.
That he had two uncles in the Civil
war one of whom was killed in
battle and that another uncle is
still in the army.
These arguments achieved their
purpose to the extent OF the i'm
mediate Communication of the sent
ence and the boy will soon be re-
stored to his family at Exchange, a
suburb of Mt. Carmel, Pa.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
WHAT CAN YOU DO?

What can you do? That is the
question. A lawyer in the city of
Lancaster recently had occasion to
employ young man as clerk in
his office and advertised for some
one to fill the position. He got APP
plications galore. To each one he
said: "Sit down at that desk, take
this manuscript, copy it, and cor
rect the mistakes in spelling, pune
tuation and grammar. Most of
the young men were high school
graduates, some of them had a uni
versity degree, and were B. Ms or
G.. AS or something like that, but
every last one of them fell down on
that job. They knew how far it
was from the outer rim OF the PLAN
ct Saturn to the center of the
moon, and they could recite Homer
and tell you about Caesars victo-
ries in Gaul, and compute the di-
ameter of a rohomobehedrial cryp-
togram, but when it come to cor
recting so simple thing as faulty
manuscript they couldn't do it.
Education is fine thing. That is,
if it is of the right kind. AS for
us we wouldn't give two cents for
the young man that knows all about
the stars and very little about the
earth. The business men are the
ones who pay the salaries, aud
what they want of an employe is
the ability to write fair hand, to
add up a column of figures correct.
ly the first time trying, to be able
to spell correctly, to use good
grammar. to come to work prompt
ly at the appointed hour, and tc
stick to it even when the band
plays or when there is base bal
game in progress. The young
man or the young worian who
can't do this had best go back tc
school. No one in business care:
about the fancy fol de rolls. .-ET.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
FOR BETTER ICE CREAM.

The ice cream manufacturer of
Pennsylvania, represented by 100
delegates, assembled at Harrisburg
last Thursday. The following Off
GERS were chosen President, Rob
ert Crane, of Philadelphia vice
president, Edward Reick, of Pitts
burg secretary, Edward G.. Eek
ert, of Hanover treasurer, II. r.
Walker, of Warren press repre-
sentative, James p. Melick, of
Williamsport.
The association took up and dis
cussed the question of manufactur-
ing ice cream, and severely con-
demned the product that fails to
comply with the provisions of the
pure food law. 1t was decided to
use all the means possible to secure
a most rigid enforcement of the
law, to the end that impure ice
cream be driven from the market,
and that ice cream in its purest
form only be made the standard of
the state.
The next meeting of the associa-
ton will be held at Warren in
January, 1909.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12

Our supremacy in civilization is
established, ard 1t is France, the
mother of enlightenment that has
established it for us. The Revue
Scientihque of Paris, applies very
simple formula by way of civilization
test. Every nation is sized up" ac-
cording to the amount of paper 1t
uses.
In the matter of paper production
this country leads with an annual
output of 639,734 tons. Germany
follows with 393,6S3 tons; England.
246,0b1 tons; France, 196,942 tons:
Austria, 147,706 tons, and Italy 1913,
ole tons. Naturally the mere pro-
duction Of paper cannot be taken as
a correct standard. although 1t Is
suggestive, for every country exports
more or less paper.
The amount Of paper used In this
country every year for each inhabi-
tant is 1855 pounds; France. 20:5
pounds; Austria, 10 pounds; Italy,
1874 pounds. The lowest European
consumption is found in Servia with
IL pounds per capita. China uses
the some amount. The lowest paper
consumption in the world in in India.
with only 80 pounds per inhabitaut.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
M'HENRY'S BILL.
For The Protection OF Miners.

Congressman John c.. McHenry,
of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania dis
trict, proposes to shortly introduce
a bill in Congress that if il becomes
a law, the United States govern,
ment will be an insurance agent for
the coal miners and their families.
Under the terms of the bill Bureau
Of Mines and Mining is to be organ
lied in the Department of Com
merce and Labor, which will have
the power to investigate the causes
of all accidents at the mines, and to
afford such relief as the exigencies
demand. In case of the death or
injury by accident of any employee
of any coal mining operation in the
United States while in the perform
ance of his regular duties, certih-
cate of death or injury is to be made
out by the superintendent or mana
ger of the mines. This certificate
must set forth all the facts in the
case and be signed by two reputa-
BILE physicians and the mine inspec-
tor in charge of the mine where the
accidents shall have occurred. The
proposed act provides that on re-
ceipt of this information the Bureau
of Mines and Mining shall issue a
warrant equal to forty per cent. of
the amount which in the Judgment
of the commissioner of the bureau
the claimant would be entitled to
receive under the pro rata partici-
patton in the insurance fund and
forward It to the beneficiary.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
HON. JOHN G. McHENRY.

The name of Hon. John G.. Nc
Henry is announced this week as
candidate for nomination for a Sec
ond term in Congress. No other
name is mentioned in any of the
counties of the district, so far as we
can learn, and the nomination will
be unanimously conceded to Mr..
McHenry.
This district has never had Rep
resentative i'll Congress who has
devoted as much time and energy
for the benefit of his constituents as
does Mr.. McHenry. He is indie
fatigable in his attention to pension
claims, and has already secured a
number of them for worthy appli-
cants. No reasonable claim upon
his time ever goes unheeded.
He has been honored by being
placed on important committees,
and has received a very respectful
hearing in the House on the deliv-
cry of his first speech, both of
which are quite unusual attentions
for new members to receive.
Besides this, he has introduced a
number of important bills of varied
character, thus further displaying
his ability and his industry. Mr..
McHenry is representative of
which this district is justly proud.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
DINING IN OTHER DAYS.
Methods Of the English Mt Table In
the Seventeenth Century.


the Seventeenth Century.
The old English had three meals
day, of which the chief meal was
taken when the work of the day was
finished. The first meal was at 8
o'clock ,and supper was taken Just
before bedtime. The Normans dined
ut the old English breakfast time or
little later and supped at =. NJ.
In Tudor times the higher classes
dined at IL and supped at o'clock.
but the merchants seldom took their
meals before IL and o'clock.
The chief meals. dinner and supper
were taken In the hall both by the
old English and the Nornans, for
the parlor did not come into use un-
I'll the reign of Elizabeth. Breakfast
did not boone regular meal until
quite lately, and DR.. Murray In the
Oxford Dictionary gave 1643 as the
date Of the earliest quotation in
which the word occurred. The meal
did not become recognized until late
In the seventeeth century, for Pepys
habitually took his draft of half
pint of Rhenish wine or dram of
strong water in place of morning
meal. Dinner was always the great
meal OF the day, and from the
accession of Henry w. to the death
of Queen Elizabeth the dinners were
as sumptous and extravagant as any
of those now served.
Carving was then a fine art. Each
guest brought his own knife and
spoon. for the small fork was not
| introduced into England until Thom-
as Coryate Of Obcombe published his
| "Crudities' in 1911. Pepys took his
spoon and fork with him to the
Lord Mayors feast in 1868. The
| absence of forks led to much stress
being laid upon the act of washing
the hands both before and after
hand alone should be dipped into
the common dish. the right hand be-
Ing occupied with the knife.
The perfect dinner at the best
time of English cookery consisted Of
three courses, each complete in it.
self, and terminated by a subtlety
or device, the whole being rounded
off with hippocras, after which the
guests retired into another room,
where pastry. sweetmeats and fruit
were served with the choicer wines.
The English were essentially meat
eaters. and 1t was not until the time
of the Commonwealth that pudding
attained its extraordinary popularity.
Indeed, the first mention of pudding
In the menus of the Buckfeast at st.
Bartholomew Hospital did not oc-
cur until 1710. and in 1712 is an
| Times.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
A Serious Mistake.
A Shamokin Young Man Who Got His Notes
Mixed.

A young man of town, says the
Shamokin HfvaIa,. who is particu-
lar about his laundry, wrote a note
to the washer-woman and one to
his sweetheart and accidentally got
them in the wrong envelopes. The
washerwoman got her invitation for
drive to Elysburg and is busy
showing it, while his sweetheart
received the sarcastic note which
read "If you crumple my shirt
bosom like you have been doing 1
will try some one else" The girl
has been crying ever since while
the washerwoman is jubilant and
prepared for the drive.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12

A glory of color, plenty of melo-
dy, laughter and song, scattered
generously throughout the produc-
ton, and the cleverest kind of mp
to-date jokes, helps to make up the
performance of Hi Heniy's Great.
est Minstrels. The burnt cork
aggregation scores hit, delighting
the eye with stage settings and
pleasing the ear with wealth of
solo and chorus numbers. The
program is divided into two parts,
the old time circle, opening the
performance. Of the comedians
who entertain, Charles Gano and
Pat Crawford are perhaps first in
popularity. Both are the cleverest
kind of laugh-provokers and their
selections are we'll chosen and rem
dered with just the proper accent
to make them attractive. Of the
speciality performers, "Probst,' the
whistling marvel and imitator,
scores the heaviest with his calls,
trills and limitations. Brothers
Brock, in novelty Chinese act;
Charles Gano, in monologue, and
easy Money" "a rollicking sketch,
completes this portion of the pro-
gram. At Grand Opera House,
Bloomsbury, Tuesday, March 18th
..s-l-A
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
Heraldic Apples.

Any person desiring a supply of
apples bearing his family crest has
only to send an illustration of 1t to
certain growers at Montreuil, Fran.
ce, and he will duly receive the fruit
the following season.
The odd effect is obtained by
growing the apples In paper bags.
which are slipped on when the fruit
Is about the size of a walnut. Being
thus sheltered from the sun, the ap-
Piles do not color as they swell. and
when fully grown still remain green
or yellow. AS soon as they reach
their maximum size the bags that
cover them are replaced by others.
on the side of which the desired
crest or coat of arms has been cut
like a stencil. The sun can now
penetrate to that part of the apple
exposed and redden 1t thoroughly;
80 that when the bag is again with
drawn the device is seen standing
out In red upon the green surface.
To obtain the opposite result
that Is, a green device on red
ground-the second bag is not used.
but the pattern is cut out In paper
and stuck on the fruit, the sun col
oring all the exposed parts, but leav-
Ing green the crest or other device
which the paper forms. Many Paris
Ian fruiterers have of late years ex-
posed for sale apples with the arms
OF Russia printed upon them; others
have them with monograms, Christ
ian names, arrow pierced hearts. and
Jther devices.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
The States Fish Production.

There are some changes in the
method of compiling annual reports
in that Just prepared by Fish Com
missioner Meehan. Tables have
been stricken out wherever posi-
BILE or reduced to the very smallest
dimensions. In other places the
commissioner has had the superin-
tendents oil the hatcheries expand
their reports to him so as to eX-
plain the methods in fish cultural
work pursued during the year and
the commissioner himself in his
portion views the entire work of
fish Matching.
The report shows very large
amount of work done. There are
eigut hatcheries from which there
were distributed nearly $40, ooo,-
900 fish, of which over 800, 900, 900
were food fish exclusively, like the
white fish, lake herring, shad and
yellow perch, and about 5000, 900
purely game fish, like trout and
bass and the remainder about $50,
900 600, which are classed as both
food and game fish, like the wall
eyed pike and pickerel. Eggs taken
from the State hatcheries last year
produced 5000, 900 young fish.
The stock was so increased that the
yield next autumn should be over
5000, 900.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12

Christian A. Small Esq, is an
nounced for a second term for the
Office of District Attorney. Mr..
Small has been avigilant and capa-
bic official, and has done much to-
wards roofing out some of the evils
that heretofore have hourished in
this county. He is fearless and in
dustrious, and merits a second term
that will be accorded him without
opposition.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12

William T. Greasy announces
himself as candidate for re-elec-
tion to the Legislature in this issue.
He has had long and valuable ex-
perience as a legislator. For several
sessions he has been recognized as
the Democratic leader of the House,
and his ability has been recognized
by two Democratic state conven-
tion by placing him on the state
ticket, once as candidate for State
Treasurer, and again for Auditor
General. His name and reputation
are known all over the state. His
integrity is undoubted. and his
honesty is best altested by the fact
that though he has been in the
legislature for dozen years, he Is
still comparatively poor man.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12

Nine. Guerin of Paris. who ran q
matrimonial bureau In the French
capital. promising to obtain rich and
beautiful wives for her patrons upon
receipt of a handsome consideration,
has been sued by disappointed
suitor who claims he paid $4,000
francs for q wife he never got
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12

Bishop Darlington will visit St.
Paul's church and administer the
rite of confirmation to a class of
candidates on the evening of Sum
day, April 5th.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12

Raymond Hummer has enlisted
as a musician in the United States
Army, and is now a member of the
Ninth Artillery Band, stationed at
Key West, Florida. He is fine
clarionetist.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children.

Successfully used by Mother Gray,
nurse in the Childrens Home in New
York, Cure Feverishu less, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate
the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over
10000 testimonials. They Hf0er fail, AT
all Druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Ad-
dress Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
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