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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-02-03
EXECUTORS' NOTIrE-Letsers

~ testamentary on the estate OF Harrison
swary, late OF Adams township deed. havs
ing been granted TO the undersigned. all persons
kIow Ing themselves Indebted 20 sara estate are
requested 10 make payment without delay, while
those having claims viii present them duly au-
thenticatea for settlement &c
MATILDA SWARTZ.
FREDERICK II. sCIiRADER,
Jan. %, 'Td HSeou<rts
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WIFE No. 19.


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Assignee's Notice.

A LII persons interested are here.
IA by notified that David Meiser. OF Middle.
creek township, Snyder county. has madS an ~
Az persons having claims sre requested 10 pre-
sent them TO the undersigned. and persrns tn
dsbted will please make Immediate raym.ut.
SEN LEITZEL
Jss.p. Assignee.
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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-23
Moral Courage,

WHEN | was boy (says writer in
the n. Y. Obserre1) of twelve years of
age, tifty-twO years ago, my father die
tated to me the following composition,
which he required me to write out,
commit to memory, and from time to
time rehearse to him. | am inclined
to think he was not himself the author
of it:
"Ihere is moral courage which
enables a man to triumph over foes
more formidable than were ever mar
shaded by any Caesar a courage which
lmpels him to do his duty; to hold
fast his integrity; to maintain a con-
science void of offense toward God
and toward man-at every hazard and
sacrifice, i'll defiance of the world and
the prince Of the world. Such was the
courage of Moses, of Joseph, of Dan
lei, of Aristides, of Phocion, of Regu-
lus. of Paul, of Luther, of Washing
ton. Such is the courage which sus-
tains every good man amidst the
temptations, allurements, honors, con-
tilcts, opposition, malice, cruelty, per-
secution, which beset and threaten
HIM at every stage Of his progress
through life. 1t is not a noisy, OBJ
trusive, clustering, boastful courage,
which pushes itself into notice when
there is no real danger, but which
shrinks away when the enemy is at
the door. 1t is calm, self-possessed,
meek, gentle, unOstentatious, modest.
retiring; but when the fearful hour
arrives. then you shall behold the
majesty of genuine Christian courage,
IN all her native energy, breathing the
spirit of angelic purity, and grasping
victory from the fiery furnace or the
lions den, when not one of all the
millions of this worlds heroes would
have ventuIed to share her fortune.
SIS | fear God, and | have no other
fear, is the sublimest sentiment ever
felt or uttered by mortal man."
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grimage to his distant home new

grimage to his distant home new
man.
Here also are the remains of buried
cities-sad ruins-generally without a
single inhabitant. In the grand pal
aces, where royalty once gathered and
held festivals, wild beasts had their
hiding places. In several places the
track of the railway has been con-
structed over or through these ruins,
and the material has been used for the
bed of the road. These hills are COW
cred with architectural remains of the
early races. Enormous stones have
remained in their places for thousands
of years, and probably will for thou
sands of years to come. These rock
cut temples. as well as these mutilated
statues, show workmanship that no
work now being done by the natives
can equal. 1t is very evident that
hundreds of years since these hills
were alive with vast multitude.
where now it is all utter desolation,
without cultivation or inhabitants, and
given over to wild beasts.
1t is good hunting ground, and as
the English are mighty hunters, they
may prefer to have these mountains
and ruins remain without change. -
". Y. Observer.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-23
The Secret of Real Success.

But paramount success depends
upon the right use of Gods own weap-
OH the sword of the Spirit Gods
word is the weapon that never wears
out. The busiest brain sometimes
runs dry; the wittiest mans wit often
grows stale; the most eloquent tongue
often loses it's charm. Scores in every
congregation, on every Sabbath, are in
no mood for fine rhetoric, or a keen
witticism, or even an adrOlt argu-
ment. They want something right
from God. They want revealed
truth-saving truth--comforting truth,
the truth as it is in Jesus.
There is only one place in the
universe where this is to be found.
The wise minister comes to his Book
of books, and says: "There is nothing
like this; give it to me- lie prayS
that God will give him full insight into
the Word, full communion with its
Divine Author, and a holy skill to
WELD this sword of the Spirit. He
finds his Bible equal to every emer-
gency, and suited to every occasion,
with something in it for every soul in
his audience. Fifty generations Of
Christians have not Worn it out. 1t is
as fresh from the lips of Sturgeon or
Newman Hall as it was from
the lips Of Baxter or Bunyan three
hundred years ago. To the jewellers
in brown stone and marble it is us well
adapted as to the beggar in the aims
house. Fashions change. But the
fashion of Gods peerless Word never
to be sure; but the sharper the better
when sin is to be cut up by the roots,
or when a corrupt heart needs to be
lanced. The wise minister never muf-
files his sword, or encases it i'll cotton.
He uses Gods Word in its naked SIM
plicity, with all its flashing retribu-
tons against sin, and all its bright
promises of salvation.
His most intelligent and sensible au-
ditors never weary Of the sermons that
have most of Bible in them. After
listening to some sensational pyrOtech-
mist, or some speculative word-spinner
of philosophy, they get hungry for a
soul-kindling Gospel sermon. "There
is nothing like that; give it to us.
Those churches which never get tired
of their own pastor, or the pastor new
er tired of his place and people, are
the churches which never allow but
one areapon in the pulpit. The man
who relies on any other is not fit for
any pulpit. But the secret of a strong
ministry and long ministry is the
thorough mastery of Gods Word
Dr.. Field, IN N. Y. EUange7ist.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-23
Farm Life.

ONE of the compensations of a farm
not measured by dollars and cents eN-
lists in a feeling of independence and
security which no one can possess
more satisfactorily than a good farmer
upon a good farm, well stocked and
free from debt. No reverse or reVul-
sion of affairs can touch him. III the
worst of times the world must eat and
be clothed, and the farmer feeds and
clothes the world. His market can
never fail. There is, in addition to
this, the vast satisfaction of possess
ing in security something which he can
improve and adorn and spend his la
bors of love upon. 1t pays to live and
breathe; social pleasures pay; the at
tachments Of the family pay; the cul-
ture derived from the study of books,
of men, and of the beauties and mys-
tsries of nature pays; and all these the
farmer may enjoy, if he will, in a
greater degree than the majority of
other men. He may labor harder, and
be exposed to heat and cold and rains
and storms, but the sleep of the labor
ing man is sweet to him; he breathes
the purest air, and enjoys the easy d.
gestion of his food, which consists of
the best and the freshest the fields,
gardens and orchards yield. He may
find tongues in trees, books in the
running brooks, sermons in the stones,
and good in everything.' In all these
he may count his profit, and the
farmer who ignores all but the money
ne can gather at the end of the year
lives but small portion of his life,
and that the worst. 1t is all that
makes the possession of Il piece of land
a passion inherent in the dispo-
sition of man, although he
may not fully recognize it, ard
it may lie latent in him; and it is this
which forces the successful man to
seek recreation upon farm, and the
disappointed one to find solace and re-
sources there. Just at this time there
are more men than ever looking to a
farm as more certain possession, and
to farming as a more securely profit
able and more desirable occupation
than business promises to be in the
near future. Some Of the best and
most successful farmers are those who
have been driven to the farm as a
refuge from business reverSeS, and
many such are now daily leaving the
cities to find homes in the country.
Both for these and those who are
"native and to the manor bOrn," we
would point out what seems to us real
ly the most profitable results of farm
life, and that which to us has been
productive of more comfort and en-
jOyment than all the pecuniary results.
No one suppOses for a moment that
farmers can live or enjoy life without
at least as fair an equivalent for their
labor as others can secure, but it is a
great mistake, made by many farmers,
that many other industries offer higher
compensation for labor than theirs.
and they forget that much they enjoy
without cost is absolutely necessary to
the comfort of every man, and is pur-
chased dearly by others; the value of
this never enters into the calculation
of farmers protits.-N. Y. Times.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-23
Coffee in the Vienna Fashion.

THE two-gill measure level-full of
ground coffee (three ounces; the same
of cold coffee or water; one egg, shell,
yelk and white mixed together in a
bowl. Rinse out your coffee-boiler
with boiling water, put this in, and
pour over it three pints of fiercely
boiling water, or two pints if you wish
it strong. Close the spout and lid close
ly, and boil fifteen or twenty minutes :;
pour in about four small tablespoon
fuls of cold water to settle it. Rinse
out the coffee-urn with boiling water
before pouring The coffee in. "The
boiled milk" for the coffee must be
fresh and new, not merely warmed, or
even brought to the boiling point. but
slowly simmered in farina boiler,
till it attains thick, creamy richness;
then it must be sent to the table IN a
hot cream-pitcher to keep it warm.
"The whipped cream is made by
pouring cupful of rich cream into a
deep bowl, holding the churn about a
quarter of an inch from the bottom,
and churning it well. AS fast as the
stiffened froth rises to the top of the
cream, skim it off with spoon, keep
it cool, and send it to the table in
bowl. Put into each cup the desired
amount of sugar, a tablespoonful or so
of the boiled milk; pour on the coffee,
and place on top a large spoonful of
the whipped cream. Give gentle stir
to each cup before sending them round.
Do not grind coffee too fine. A heap
ing silver tablespoonful of the ground
is liberal allowance for each person,
and weighs half an ounce.-Cottntry
Gentleman.
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one, in fact, has nothing at all to
give, and only the power of holding
up ones pitcher to receive, should one
feel entitled to complain if the pitcher
be not always full and running over?
The inference is plain that one rather
greedily holds too big a pitcher for ones
share, and that less demand and less
expectation would not find themselves
sighted.
There are, indeed, two things at the
root of the whole matter, which,
though so trihing in appearance, is,
in truth, a great disturber of the peace,
and those are jealous disposition and
an inordinate vanity. The disposition
that is not jealous is not perpetually
hunting for hurts; takes life as it
comes aware of ill-will toward none,
SO suspicious of ill-will from none; if
forgotten or overlooked, seeing or sup
posing some perfectly good reason for
it; DESTROYS rather of the comfort
of others than of the hattery of
self; not too sensitive to wounds
which are like the bruises in old "dead
mems pinches," all on one side; and
always well convinced of the truth of
that old Kings wisdom which de-
clares, "Better is a handful with quiz
etness than both the hands full with
travail and vexation of spirit And
the nature whose restless vanity Is
not always expecting and claiming
will never smart for want of recogni-
ton of the claims, will scarcely dream
of rights before the rights are &C
knowledged, cannot live, indeed, in an
atmosphere darkened by absurd con-
jecturings and imputings of evil in
tent. And to sum up the whole mat
ter, one would suppose that the utter
want of good taste in this complaint
of fancied Sights would repel the in
ordinate vanity as much as any other
breach Of the canons and if one must
needs fancy ones self sighted at every
turn, one should go into training to
get the better of the tendency, and
should that be found impossible, at
least have the sense to keep quiet
about it, and not to vaunt ones
shame. There is SO much pain and
trouble that is real in our few years of
active life that 1t seems a sorry thing
to add to it by all the weight of imag,
ined trouble; and we should perhaps
tons if we once properly unused upon
" the little lives of men,
And how they mar this little by their feuds."
-HaTDey's Buzay.
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the soil, and to destroy the vegetable
mold contained therein. Thus the &C,
emulation of years of rich deposits in
the soil may be dissipated in a single
season.
Underdrainage to some extent makes
the farmer master of his avocation.
The soil remains mellow and friable,
neither reduced to the condition OF
putty from incessant rains, nor baked
into bricks, with gaping cracks be-
tween, by extreme drought. The curl
ing of the corn indicates that at some
period of it's early growth, the excess
i've moisture in the subsOil has pre-
vented it from sending down its roots
below the effects of the suns rays.
All perhaps know how the roots OF
plants keep near the surface OF the
ground during wet seasons, as nothing
grows where the air is strictly eX-
Guided. The atmosphere is as much
needed in the soil among the roots of
plants as among the waving branches.
And to accomplish this which is so
necessary, the soil must be kept free
from excessive moisture.
Considering the physical condition
of our prairies, thorough underdraln-
ing must be the means of putting the
farmer, as it were. in a position to
control the effects of these climatic
disasters. When the fertilizing gases
which are 50 valuable to the growth of
plants, when in the soil, are forced from
it by too much water they become
malaria, so that what is blessing in
one condition becomes a source OF evil
in another. People are not alone at
fected by this condition of things;
it is deleterious to the health of
stock.
/. With the perfection to which tile
making is now brought, it only re-
quires an increased demand to so
cheaper the price of the material, and
the labor to lay it that any enterpris-
ing farmer may afford it. In fact,
when a portion of a farm is done, the
increased production it occasions will
soon pay the expense of the balance.
The time will no doubt soon come,
when underdrainage will be the test
of the model farmer. At any rate the
profits will have largely increased by
it Western RuTuI
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-23
The Importance of Underdrain-
age.

IF the interested farmer will study
the geological formation of both the
surface and sub-soil layers of our
Western prairies, he may comprehend
something of the wise provisions of
nature in placing so many of the con-
ditions necessary, and within the easy
reach of man, to make this one of the
most delightful and profitable regions
for agricultural purposes on the.face
of the globe. To accomplish all that
may be gained, the farmer must CO.
operate with nature in developing and
making available these conditions.
The soil is extremely fertile, and por-
| Gus to such depth that llnderdrainage
is rendered very easy. The character
of most of the lands of the West is as
though the soil stood in a water-tight
box with openings to let the water in.
but without means for its escape ex-
cept by evaporation at the surface. A
wet soil is never warm soil, so that
land thoroughly underdrained pro-
duces better crops with less labor than
the unframed. Crops also mature
earlier on the dry soil, with the added
advantages of a longer season to grow
in. Especially is it the case, that the
spring work and the planting of the
crops are often delayed by the satu-
rated condition of the soil during the
period of the vernal equinox. To say
nothing of the damage to the soil, the
losses frequently entailed are incalcu-
liable. The most of the wells in the
West are called "surface wells" and
rest upon the imperyious clay which
lies at various depths. These wells
are not often fed by regular stream
of water but by "seip' through the
soil, and they cease to afford supply
after succession of dry years.
Though this water does much damage
under present conditions in not being
permitted by this "hard-pan' to pass
down and out of the way, it may be
turned into a blessing by such under
drainage as will keep the "water-
line'' at sufficient distance from the
surface of the ground. In this way
the water, when it rains, brings down
with it from the atmosphere fertiliz-
ing gases, and instead of lying upon
the soil or running over it passes di-
rectly through it, leaving them in the
ground to feed the growing crops. No
farmer can realize the amount of dam
age done on undrained lands, the pores
of which become periodically filled
with water to drive out the fertilizing
gases, to break down the porosity OF |
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vidual member of the Order, brother and
sister, rests responsibility that each does
his or her part in the work sv essential to
the general good, success Is insured.
l have been everywhere received in the
kindest and most fraternal spirit-a spirit
which left the regret that could only meet
small portion of the urgent calls for my
services.
had never before realized the importance
OF this branch of our work. The very fact
of an officer of the National Grange visiting
our members seems to encourage and
strengthen the cause and incite to renewed
efforts. 1t is of the highest importance that
the bond Of fraternity between the consti-
tuted authorities and the Sub-Granges should
be made as close as possible. / cannot re-
frain from expressing my obligations to the
Masters and officers of the State Oranges
where it has been my lot to labor. They have
done everything in their power to make
q work (Which at best is laborious
one) as easy and pleasant as possible. From
officers of National and State Oranges have
received constant encouragement and SYM
pathy. And the interest and fraternal kind
ness manifested in every community where
l have been has strengthened my faith, and
more than ever taught me that it only needs
that we as an Order should be faithful to
the trust given to us to make this Order,
under the providence of God, what it is de-
signed to be, the instrument which is to ele-
vate, strengthen, and educate the producing
classes Of our Ma ion.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-23

LITERALLY, prayer is supplication
1t is asking. By asking is meant. moi
simply desire expressed, but paramount
desire. There must be desire for the
thing asked, greater than for ANYTHING
else that would be incompatible with
1t. This is prayer, and nothing else
IS. If man may have either an es-
tate or so much money for the asking,
but cannot have both, however much
he may desire the estate, he cannot
really ask for it unless he desires if
more than the money. And so, what
ever desire man may have of heaven.
or OF the presence with him of the
spirit of God, yet if he has stronger
desire for any form of worldly good
any form of expression that he might
use in the guise of prayer would not
be asking. Itwould be hypocrisy to
the omniscient eye. 1t is only para
mount desire presented to God with
the submission becoming creature,
that is prayer.-Hopkins.
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Rehqinus.
THANKSGIVING HYMN.

For bounteous harvests, fertile fields,
For golden sunshine, grateful shower,
For all the gifts that nature yields
We render thanks to Thee this hour.
For all our houses. all our lands,
For all the talents Thou hast given,
For ell our blessings from Thy hands
We thank Thee, God Of earth and heaven
O. Thou. to whom thousand years
Are but as yesterday when past,
We thank Thee that our years go on;
That lite, and breath and being last.
With Bonded head with faltering tongue,
We thank Thee for the loss, the pain.
o gently bind each broken heart,
Thou who chastiseth not in vain!
AnG on this day from East to West,
From northern lake to southern Shore
Let grateful anthems sing Thy praise,
" no art our God forevermore.
detroit Tribune.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-23

pills and caIOmcl. To regulate it, and en-
dow the entire system with healtnful vgor
use IIoStcttcl's Stomach Bttcrs Bilious
mvalidS, which Of these two recipes will YOU
adopt? We doubt not, the latter. By SO
doing, you will avoid the disastrous Conse
qucnres which the persistent or frequent
use of mercury entails, and ctfcctuatc the
desired reform in the action of the hillary
gland without danger, as well as speedily
and thoroughly. The Bitters invariably rem
cdy ycllowncss of the complexion and whites
of the eyes, pains in the right side and
under the right shoulder blade, furrcd
tongue, high colorcd urine, nausea, vertigo,
dyspepsia, constipation, hcaymcss of the
head, mental dependency, and every other
manifestation or accompaniment Of q disOr
dcrcd condition of the liver. The stomach,
bowels and kidneys also experience their
regulating and tonic influence.