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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-28

eyes until the smarting ceased, and
then in the darkness she filled her
hands with water and dashed II Into
the face of the unconscious man.
1--WE saved you. God help me-" she
murmured.
The dash of cola water aroGscd
the man and he staggered to his
feet. and as the glare Of the fre fell
upon his face Lora gave startled
cry. for It was not Bunt who stood
before her, but Pete, brave. hand
some Pete, who had started to save
her and had been overcome in the
clearing
"Oh. Pete. Petel" she cried. Hes
back there in the cabin! ! thought
you were him, and | tried to save
him. oh, Pete, what can we do?"
Pete lifted the terrified girl to her
feet. the realization OF what she
had done sweeping over him. Suf-
fering as she had from the brutality
OF that man, she had risked her life
TO save his so worthless.
"Lora. you are an angel" he said
reverently. God knows you did
Iour best to save him, and he knows.
too, that you have borne your burden
long enough See, it is too late to
go back now" and even as he spoke
great tree blazing fiery red fell
across the little cabin. blotting out
the worthless life within. Praying
softly, Lora covered her eyes from
the dreadful sight. and then Pete's
arm was about her. and he drew her
hands gently down and turned her
face toward him. "Lora. you are his
wife no longer. | have waited long;
will you come to me now?"
Lora gave him her lips for her an
swer, and regardless of the destruc-
tion sweeping down upon them, Pete
gathered her in his arms and kissed
not only her lips, but her eyes and
face and dusky hair as well, and then
with his strong arm about her, they
turned their backs on the scene OF
death and desolation, and plunged
down the trail leading them away
from the forest which had held for
them little besides misery and sor-
row. out into Gods country, under
the silent stars. leaving the old life
behind them and going forward into
the new. better and cleaner lie.
purified by fire.-Boston Post.
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A Spiritual Carrot.

The lay preacher has his rewards,
but he has also many discourage
ments. A veteran brother once, at
a conference Of lay preachers. gave
them some cheer. He said: When
l was lad used to drive a donkey
cart. Sometimes the donkey would
not 60, but tied a carrot on the end
of my whip and dangled it In front
of his nose, and then he went. My
brothers, let me dangle a spiritual
carrot before you-'Be not weary In
well doing, for in due time ye shall
reap II ye faint not.
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ONE WOMAN'S PROFIT
MAKES ONE HUNDRED AND THIIs-
TY PER CENT. ON FOWLS.
The Example cf Mrs. Rufus Hitch
cock Who Lives Near the Village
of Damariscotta, is Worth Emulat-
ing.

Near the little village of Damaris-
Gotta, Maine, lives Mrs. Rufus Hitch
cock. who finds both pleasure and
profit in raising fowls. Her hus-
band, while he runs a small dairy.
Willingly admits that his wife makes
more money than he does.
Many women feel that when they
have performed their household du-
ties they have neither the time nor
strength left for outside work. Mrs.
Hitchcock took up poultry raising in
order to divert her mind and give
her an excuse for being out of doors
for an hour or so every day.
The poultry houses, two in num-
Der. are 81 u by 101z feet and Al u
by 10k feet each. While they are
warmly built. there is nothing in
the least fancy about them. There
are no partitions in the houses. the
fowls having the entire floor space
free The flock numbers 470. In
the larger house 240 hens and IT
cocks are kept, while the smaller
building 200 hens and Is cocks.
Mrs. Hitchcock believes in mashes
and feeds a warm mixture every day.
In addition to this she uses oats and
corn. The youngsters are started
on commercial chick food which is
Ied for the first month. Then comes
the mash with cracked corn and roll
&c oats. All the Matching and rear
ing is done with incubators and
brooders. The chicks are all hatch
ed early and are allowed free range
after the hay has been harvested
in July.
Here, then, is woman who, with
! capital of about 5000, is able to
sell yearly eggs to the extent of
about $3.50. while the hens sold fetch
about $500. and the chicks marketed
add about $110 more; and the to-
tai sales footin up 70 $3.50, while
the average yearly feed bill amounts
to about $3.50.
Poultry certainly pays this woman
well; $50 on an investment of $500
Is better than any mercantile busi-
ess ever does. unless 1t is some get
rich-quick scheme.-A. p. in the
Countr..- Poultry.
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Twenty Years of Pleasure.

st. Michael's Church, Macclesfield.
England, is noted for its beauty In
The Manchester and CLAW Road
Charles G. Harper tells of a curious
epitaph in the churchyard upon one
Mary Broomfield, who died In 1888,
aged eighty. 1t reads as follows:
1.-The chief concern of her life for
the last 20 years was to oroer and
provide or her funeral, Her great
est pleasure was to think and talk
about 1t. She lived many years on
a pension of Cd. a week, and yet
saved five pounds, which at her re-
uuest was laid out at her burial"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-28

Under the terms Of treaty con-
cludcd at Berne. october 8, 1874, the
object Of which was to secure uni
formity in the treatment Of corre-
spondence and the reduction of rates.
etc, the provisions Of which were
carried into effect July l. 1875, the
whole of Europe. the United States,
Egypt, British India and all the col
onies of France were at the outset
included in the Union. and many
other colonies and countries have
since Joined 1t.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-28

Sellingsgrove, Pa.-To be saved
by a pet cat from being ground un-
der the wheels Of locomotive was
the thrilling and unique experience
of Mrs. Mary Longeaderfer Of Sun
bury. At crossing Of the Reading
railway her walk was interrupted by
a freight train on the nearer of the
double tracks, and when the string
of cars had passed the woman step
ped forward. and halted as she no
ticed a frantic pulling at the hem
of her skirt. At that instant
light" locomotive dashed past on
the next track so close to the un-
mindful woman that the momentum
felled her to the pavement. Then
she looked back and saw her pet cat.
with its teeth securely fastened in
her skirt.
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Where Great Writer Lived.

Craigenputtock, Where CarIyIe
"Sartor Resartus" was written, has
lust been the scene Of notable we'd
ding. The bride was Miss Mary Car
lyle of Craigenputtock. a grand-niece
of Thomas Carlyle. and the BRIDE
groom James Carlyle, a farmer OF
Pingle, Dumfriesshire, son OF Thos.
Carlyie's favorite nephew. Pingle is
about four miles from Ecclefechan.
Carlyle's birthplace, and this village
is the original of the Entuphl of
"Sarto Resartus."
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f-ariSian Horse Markets

The famous old horse market in
the Boulevard de rHopital in Paris,
where Rosa Eonheur used to plod
about in mans attire with pencil
and sketch book, has ceased to exist.
No one who loves horses will regret
1t, for 1t represented the acme of
equine discomfort. The new horse
herget. in the Rue Brancion, is a
model of its kind. 1t comprises sta
bles and sheds sufficient to shelter
500 horees
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-28
Window Glass at Pompeii.

Recent discoveries in the ruins OF
Pompeii prove that the ancient Ro-
mans used window glass; but for
centuries houses in England were
without window glass. the place OF
which was frequently supplied with
waxed linen or oiled paper. At the
end of the eighteenth century there
were men living whose occupation
it was to paste oiled paper into WIN
dow-sashes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-28
Rain Poor Substitute for Irrigation

Irrigation is better than rain. In
finitely better. That also sounds
like a paradox. but instead 1t is al
most a truism. What is better-to
give a plant Just as much and no
more water than It needs and just
when 1t needs it; or to parch 1t or
drown It according to the whim OF
the clouds? The rain falls upon the
Just and upon the unjust alike; upon
your Strawberries that cry for 1t
and upon your sugar-beets that want
uninterrupted sunshine. Rain is all
right in its place. but 1t is a very
poor substitute for irrigation. Other
wise why would the lawns OF our
cities be sprinkled or irrigated. In
stead Of leaving them to the tender
mercy Of the clouds? No. Arid lands
are more fertile than ordinary lands.
and irrigation is better than rain.
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Columbia e. M0ntOur EI. Ry.
TIME TABLE IN EFFECT
June 1904, and until furthtr tiee.

Carslea Bloom for Espy, Almedi Liza
Ridge, Berwick and intermediate points
follows:
A. NJ. Ts;oo, $40, 6:2o, 700, 7:4o,.S;a
200, o:4o, Io;2o, 1900, 1I:4o.
p. NJ. 1870, 100, I 40, 2. 40, 800, 3:4o
4:ao, $500, $40, Gao, 1900 $40 $50, 9t g
*(o;4o) 1920 *tII;oo)
Leaving depart from Berwicl one he >
from time as given above, commencing
GOO a. M
Leave Bloom for Catawissa A. NJ.
o:I5, t7:oo, +S;oo, 900, tIo:oo, ~ 4,
1900.
p. NJ. 1900, t2:oo, 800, 4:oo, $500, 6'oo,
t7:oo, $500, o;oo 1920, *(1I:oo)
Cars arsreturningdepar from Catawisss q
minrtestrom timeasgivenabcve.
First car,leaves Market,Squate ior R,rwick
on Sundays at 700 a. m.
First car,for Catawissa Sundays ZOO u. m.
First car from Berwick for Bloom Sundays
leaves at $500 a. m
First car leaves Catawissa Sundays at
:. 80 a. m.
sFrom Power House.
Saturday night only.
tP. X. X. Connection.
WV. TERwnIIGEr,
Superintendent.
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The Duke, an invalid, passes most
Of the time at his Scottish home
here, Hamilton Palace, a great man
sien that absorbs nearly all his in
come. He inherited the title from
his cousin, the twelfth Duke. but the
estates passed to the late Dukes
daughter, now the Marchioness Of
Graham, who is one of the wealthiest
women In England.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-28

One difference between Europe
and heaven is that people who make
their money in American can't go to
heaven to spend it.
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No FOR Price
1. Fevers, Congestions, Infammations ....25
2. Worms, Worm Fever. or Worm Disease. %
3. Collie. Crying and Wakefulness of Infants 10
4. Diarrhea, OF Children and Adults. ......"25
3. Dyscntery. Gripings, Bilious Collie. ......".26
z. Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis. s................".26
q. TOothache, Faceache, Neuralgia. ......,..26
o. Headache, Sick Headache, Vertigo. 30
10. Dyspepsia. Indigestion, Weak stomach 10
13. Group Hoarse Cough, Laryngitis. .....,".2S
IA. Salt Rheum Eruptions, Erysipelas. .........20
rs. Rheumatis or Rheumatic Pains %
16. Fever and Ague. Malaria. .........,......'. "a
~. Piles, Blind Bleeding, External, Internal ~
IS. Ophthalmia, Weak or Inhamed Eyes. .......25
10. Catarrh. Influenza, Cold In Head. ......"..,26
20. WhOoping Cough. spasmodic Cough. ......25
II. Asthms, Oppressed, Difficult Breathing .....!S
~. Kidney Disease. Gravel, Calcul. l..........,.2S
IS. Nervous Debility, Vital Weakness .....1.OO
-. Sore Mouth, Fever Sores or Canker..........25
80. Urinary incOntinence. Wettins Bed. ......3S
81. Sore Throat. Quinsy and Diphtheria. ...",25
rs. Chronic COngestiOns. Headaches. ...,.,..36
~. Crippe, Hay Fever and Summer Colds. rs
A small bottle of Pleasant Pellets, fits the vest
pocket Sold by druggists sent on receipt price,
Medical Book sent free.
HUMPHREYS HOMEO. MEDICINE CO., Cornes
William and Ann Streets, New York.
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An Awkward Fix.

What! You say that old Doe
mall, the merchant, has gone blindf
Here's pretty how dye do-Pve got
hill on the man which is made out
payable at sight
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r. II. II. Accepts Tickets of 1860.

Pittsburg.-A railroad ticket is
sued in 1869 was rendered recently
by a passenger on Train No. 4 from
Pittsburg for the East. The ticket
was issued by the Louisville & Lex
ington or Mexican Railroad Com
pany. and read:
Good for one first-class passage
between Cincinnati. Ohio. and Wash
ington. d. c."
1t was so worn with age. how
ever, tnat great difficulty was ex-
perienced IL deciphering the full
name of the railroad.
The conductor telegraphed to the
superintendent OF passenger trans
portation at Philadelphia for instruc-
tions and wss advised to honor the
ticket.
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SOUTH WARD.

Trains No. q and % mixed, second class.
I Daily except sunday. Daily Sunday
only. Flag stop. W. G. SNYDER Supt.
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DR.. HUMPHREYS SPECIFICS.

Directions with each Vial In Five Languages
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-28
FEBRUARY JURORS.

The following persons have been
drawn to serve as jurors at February
term of court:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-10-07

worth mentioning. The more we think
OF it the r-ore we grow appalled, at
the size Of the debt we owe this man
columbus, and any one mean enough
to begrudge one day q year in his
honor ought to be lost and never dis
covered at I'll.
j Why Columbus Deserves Honor.
: of course Columbus did not know
that he had bumped into America, but
he was the cause of us knowing it.
which is more to the point The fact
that lie died in ignorance Of just how
big thing he had delivered to pos
terity should cause US to try all the
harder to make it up to him. He
could not foresee Tammany Hall, DR..
Cook, President Taft and the star
spangled banner Think of what he
missed! He had a rather tough time
of it when alive, had Columbus, and,
as is the case with most of the help
ers of the race, the best the world can
do for him is to name towns, babies
about him after he is dead. That is
a thin sort Of compensation, but is the
most substantial we can give. Poor
old Columbus was called crazy in his
day by men who had so much second
hand learning they had no brain space
for original thought. He had commit
ted the objectionable sin Of being born
poor, and that peeved lot of people
who were spending the money that
Others earned Columbus had to go
around nearly twenty years before he
could find anybody big enough to see
the bigness Of his dream. It was a
woman that finally gave him the
chance to make good. She sold her
Jewels to help him and with them
bought the love and gratitude of all
after times
When Columbus first got acquainted
with the West Indies on that Oct. IL
AT years ago it was a lucky meeting
lucky for him because it broke up a
lnutiny of his crew and lucky for us
because of reasons-Well, why try to
recount all of them? That is the day
we celebrate or are going to celebrate
las soon as all the state legislatures
can get around to the matter of fixing
up holiday for the purpose. New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Con.
necticut. Colorado, Illinois, Missouri,
Montana, California and Michigan have
already taken the joyous step, and OH
aers will follow as soon as they sat
their patriotism screwed up to the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-10-07
What We Owe to the
Brave Navigator Who
Discovered America.
The States Which Will
Observe His Day This
Year * * *
BY JAMES A. EDcERToN.

"HERE is move for a new hol-
lday. In some states it is estab-
lished already, and if the Ital-
ian societies and knights of
columbus have their way it will be le-
sal1zed throughout the nation. 1t is an
observance in which all of us should
DE interested, for what could country
90 without being discovered? And
where would be be, pray, if a certain
Genoese navigator had not happened
on America by mistake when he was
looking for something else? There is
no use trying to conceal the fact long
er-the holiday to be Established is Co.
lumbus day, the immortal and fortu-
nate 10Th of October, when he grabbed
this hemisphere out of the unknown.
There are many grouches among us
who think we have enough holidays
already. Employers, for example, will
not wildly welcome another day of
rest when we have so many on the
calendar. But the laboring man will
have no kick coming, and as most of
us work for a wage we can outvote
the bosses if it comes to pinch. We
hardly ever do it, being contented to
vote against each other, but we have
the numbers and may learn to use
them. Besides, the employers should
reflect on what might have happened
to them if Columbus had given up or
had decided to discover the north pole
instead Of the land Of the free and the
home of the brave. They might have
been serfs in Europe, or their parents
might have neglected to get married,
and then where would they have been?
If America had not been discovered,
how many of us might have lost out
on being born at all! Even if we had
managed to wiggle into existence back
In County Glare or Yorkshire or West
phalia we probably would have had
little liberty, less money and no fun
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Celebration Of Columbus Day
Reasons For Establish
ing a Holiday to Cele-
brate the Exploit of
One Who Aimed at a
Little Goal and r each.
ed a Big One ~ *

sticking point. 1t is bound to come
Not only are the Italian Americans for
it, but so are all Of us who are proper
~ grateful for our discovery. It is
time we were showing some gratitude
to the great Christopher, for he got lit
tie enough Of it in his own life. His
king, who like some other kings could
not bear to see too much glory be-
slowed on subject, put Columbus in
chains, and, while the indignant popu-
lace forced him to remove the shackles,
he never did restore the greatest of
the discoveries to his rightful station.
The white headed sailor who had add
ed new world to the map died at last
broken not only by his labors and
hardships, but by the meanness Of
tribe Of little courtiers and by the in
justice Of his sovereign. But they gave
him grand funeral
The Morse DISCOVERIES.
The meanness has pursued him to
this day. There are those who say
that he was not the first to find Amer
lea, the Morse having discovered it
hundreds of years earlier. Possibly
they did, but if so they kept the fact
religiously to themselves, or if they
impaired the news the small part of
the world that knew it got busy for
getting the fact long before the days
Of Columbus. He never had heard of
a new land across the sea. He was
hunting for India and died supposing
he had found it. He did not know
that he had started new era in the
history of the human race He had
aimed at a little goal and reached a
big one. He was the unconscious
builder of a multitude Of nations, the
unwilling forerunner of the coming
race. The divinity that shaped his
ends used him for nobler purposes
than he had dreamed or than any man
could have dreamed in his day. That
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is the way with those who do the su-
preme things of the world. They are
moved by they know not what forces
to they know not what destiny. But
they are moved nightly, and accord
ing to their obedience to the inner i'm
pulse is their outer fame The moving
finger writes unerringly the innermost
secrets of each soul. The Invisible of
what we are in our most hidden real
1ty becomes seen of all men in our
deeds The great souls are beheld as
great souls when they do the worlds
work in obedience to a moving that is
not of the world
Columbus was most religious man
in the religion of the spirit and not
of the form-as are all those to whom
are intrusted the high things. Why
not give him day? He gave US
land. Why not bestow his name
on one Observation-Disclosures fifth Of
each year when we failed to do him
the justice of naming for him the con-
tinents which he found? Why not sus
pend our business in his honor on.
brief twelve hours when he gave us
practically his whole life? This is
but poor requital and a belated one.
We owe him more, but if we cannot
cancel the whole obligation we can at
least pay something. We can give S
cents on the dollar on the debt of graf
1tude-a branch of commerce in which
there are more bankrupts than any
other.
Where the Italians Come In.
1t is peculiarly fitting that the Ital-
Ian societies should propose this day.
Columbus was their countryman. He
is the historical link that binds them
to America. He is theirs and ours.
he is theirs by birth and ours by her
itage. They gave him to the world.
and he gave one-half the world to us.
Our debt is to him and also to them
for him. He was the first Italian
American and the first European-Amer-
lean Of any stock-not technically so
perhaps, but actually. Of all those we
honor he stands first-frst in time and
first in the sense that without him
there could have been none other. Had
he not discovered America some other
might have done so perhaps, but he
did discover it, and so the suppositious
possibility detracts nothing from his
credit. Nor does the fact that the dis
covery was unintentional diminish
him. Many inventions and discoveries
are the result Of accident. He was
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There are nearly $4,000 persons en-
rolled in the Sunday schools Of Massa-
ehusetts, including some $4,000 officers
and teachers.
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looking for the Indies and found many
Indies rolled Into one. He sought the
seat Of past ivilizati ion and discoy.
cred the seat Of the civilization of the
future. He was hunting rabbits ana
bagged an elephant.
Columbus is not the only discoverer.
whose title has been questioned The
historical iconoclast is out with his
hammer, and the voice Of the knocker
is heard in our land They even saw
that Bacon wrote Shakespeare and that
Thomas Paine was the author offthe
Declaration Of independence. AS for
men who have invented and discovered
things, they seem to travel in pairs
sort Of scientific twins, as it were.
There have been Cooks and Pearys all
through history. It is claimed that
Hudson was not the first to find the
Hudson river; that Fulton had a pred
ecessor in the invention Of the steam
boat; that another man had a working
telegraph before Morse got to it: that
Elisha Gray and not Professor Bell
was the real inventor Of the telephone.
And so it goes. But even If Columbus
was not the first to find America the
land stayed discovered after he did
find it. That is the great point. The
man that does the thing and makes it
stick is the one that gets the bay
leaves. It pays to advertise. Column
bus was not only there in the line Of
discovery, but also in that of public
ity. He let all Europe know about it.
He made discovering America fashion
able. AS soon as the other navigators
heard of his find they ran for it like a
bunch of miners to new strike Ev-
cry man who could get together two
or three ships was soon blowing the
waves to the west. All Of them were
hunting for gold or fountains of youth
or a new kind of Ell Dorado, but found
something better. They started man
to a new home, where he could spread
himself and be somebody. They sought
a few yellow stones and gave the
world the temple of democracy and a
new age. This epoch should be called
the Columbian, for he was it's founder.
He is entitled not only to have a day
named for him, but many centuries.
Measured by results, he is the king Of
discoveries.
From Italy to America, from the
Rome Of the first century to the Rome
Of the twentieth, this is the road Co.
lumbus found. He led the way from
the land of Scipio and Caesar to that
of Washington and Lincoln.