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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-02-03
one of the dear girls with YOU. Come

one Of the dear girls with you. Come
and kiss me, my dear"
"Yes, Susy, kiss your aunt said
Uncle Barnabas, flinging his hat one
way aud his gloves another, as he
sat complacently down on the sofa.
"Afy aunt 7" | echoed
"Why, Of course" said tho plump
old lady: don't you knowi I'm your
Aunt Prudence
But thought" gasped ]. 'that
| was coming to n situation"
"Well, 80 you are, rctorted Uncle
Barnabas. "Thesituation of adopt
ed daughter in my family. Twenty.
five dollars q mouth pockct-moucy.
tho care Of your Aunt Prudcncc's 5
cat aud canary, aud to make your
self generally useful "
"Oh. Unclop' cried I, "Eleanor
would have been 50 glad to come il
she hail known it,"
"Fiddlestrings and little fishes
illogically responded my uncle. Il We
no patience with girl that's too
fine for work. Eleanor had the sit
uation offered her aud she chose to
decline. You decided to come, and
here you stay. Ring the bell, Prue,
and order tea, for I'm rs hungry as
a hunter. and 1 dare say little Susv
here woull relish cup ofgood tea.
And this is the way drifted into
my luxurious home. Eleanor, in
tho country cottage. envies me bit
torly, for she has all the tastes which
wealth and n metropolitan home can
CRAFTY. But Uncle Barnabas will
not hear of my exchanging with her.
"No, no says he. The girl I've
got is tho girl ] mean to keep. Miss
Eleanor is too fac lady to suit
mo"
But he lets mo send them liberal
presents every month, 30 / an
happy
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-02-03
For Fat Persons, Only.

A correspondent Of tho scientific
American" says: find in use in Del
aware tho leaves of small bush that
grows in the swamps and on the bor'
ders of lakes and ponds. 1t possesses
the peculiar property OF diminishing
or preventing the accumulation OF
fat in persons disposed to obesity. l
have been unable to find that it is
known to the medical profession,a and
l do not know what its proper name
is; it is called here the swamp shrub.
It is q beautiful bush, growing to the
height OF 2a or feet, and bears n
beautiful purple flower. 1t blooms
in July aud August, and is quite
ornamental in comparison to the
surrounding rubbish among which it
grows. My attention was called to
it by several corpulent individuals.
who stated that they could diminish
their proportions at leisure at the
rate of 8 or @ pounds por week. Be-
ing quite lusty, was induced to try
it, with tho following result In
five weeks / diminished my weight
from 210 lbs. to 100 lbs, when my
clothes commenced to feel uncom-
fortably large, and then I stopped,
| took q dose OF the infusion when
convenient. When my fat accumu-
lates, I take to driking it and in a
short time the oppressivenoss OF
flesh dimlnishes. II there is any
thing in medicine that will do this,
am not aware Of it. What is the
botanical or medical name Of the
shr,nbe
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-02-03
He Had no Enemies.

II he had no enemies he never hal
q positive opinion upon any lea lin!
subject he ever heard discussed.
lie could have hal no ileas abJut
religion, nor could he have takor any
side in politics He could mover
argue upon any topic. Ho could
never fluid fault with an, body or
anything. nor could he havo u word
Of praise for any person or any oh.
ject. He must havo boon continu.
ally wrapped up in himself. Hs
must have been oil things to all men.
and nothing positive or determined
in his character OF nature.
He had no enemies What eartl-
y use could a man bo to tho world to
live fifty years, aud during all that
time mako no enemies What an
unhappy man he must have boon 1!
No friction no disturbance, no opin
ion, no trouble, no qnirrels, NJ
nothing. How much pleasure no
must have missed Not one enemy
to relieve any Of the monot)ny of
lie. Ho never learned that enemies
were better than friends if you only
know how to use them, and don't
have too many.
Tho mcu who think have enemies.
The men who act have enemies.
he mon who put their Impress on
an idea have cnomics. No min il
prominent among MS nelShbIrs but
nc iinls plentY of enemies Ene mtu
who leads, no natter wnJ or what
has enemies Enemies arc moro
necessary to develop man capa-
bilities than friends No man can
tell what he cin do until ho meets
resistance, aud that resistance
comes not from friends. IL takes
the storm to make the oak stout aud
strong aud it takes tho sting aua
backblting OF enemies to mako man
Of grit and nerve and force.
A man may make enemies by bo-
ing dishonest, deccitful, aud acting
the hypocrite such a man is really
not entitled to the luxury Of owning
aud controlling enemies. But the
class of enemies we refer to aro
those created by iirmnoss Of pur-
pose, by decision Of character, by
Independence Of action, and 10y ad.
herence to tho right. Every man
worthy Of tho name has them. anI
the man WIN d.es aul leaves bo.
hind one friend who says ho docs
not have them, leaves his memory III
unkind hands and hearts.
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Much in Little.

A man walks 3 miles in an hour: u
horse trots Z; steamboats, run II {;
sailing vessels 10; slow rivers flow 4;
rapid rivers 7; moderate wind blows
7; storm moves 81 hurricans so n
rifle ball 1000; sound i4Eligh: 73L.
OJJ,0JJ; electricity 2S0,O0O,OOO A
barrel of Hour weighs 1876 pounds (;
barrel Of pork 200; barrel Of rice 600;
barrel of powder $50; iirkiu of butter
So; tub of butter 81. Wheat, beans
and clover-seed 60 pounds to tho
bushel; corn, rye and hix-seed Sc ;
buckwheat 62 barley ~ (; oats 35 ;
bran 20; timothy seed As; coarse salt
80. Sixty drops make II drachm 8
drachms one ounce; 4 ounces n gill /;
4 gills II pint; 60 drops a tablespoon
full, or half an ounce two table,
spoonfuls IN ounce, 3 table.spoo oonfuls
u gill. 2 gills coffee cup or tunbler:
q huid ounces u teacupful Four
shousand eight hundred and forty
square yards an acre; square mile
go acres To measure an acre 900
feet on each side making n square
within an inch. There are 2.75J
languages. Two persons die every
second. A generation is 35 years /;
average of life, 81 years. The stands
ing army in Prussia, war times. L.
2OO,0Jo; Austria, S25,00O; Italy, 200,
900; Spain, 100000 Belgium, %,
600; England, 10000; United States,
24,0J0. Mails in New Yorl: City are
100 tons per day. New York con-
sumes 600 beeves daily. 700 calves,
10000 sheep and 10000 swine in
winter american uradi Of
Hedith
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Manhood: How Lost. How Restored

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The celebrated author In this admirable Es-
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or the application Of ths knife +; pointinh out o
mode OF cure at once simple certaia aud ehoctu.
al, by means OF which every sufferer no m ,tter
what hts condition may h", may cure himself
cheaply, privately, and Iadiosiy.
So This Lecture should 80 In tho hands OF
every youth and every man In tho land.
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address. postpaid, on receipt of str cent or two
p1At stamps Address the Puplishrrs,
CHAS. j. 4. KLINE o.,
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p~On the 4th inst in the Crimi-
nal Court, at Memphis, two attor-
neys became engaged in q rough
and tumble fight and while the
sheriff was separating them prison
er named Bill Smith walked of with
his handciffs and escaped. The
judge sont both the attorneys to jail,
but they were released that after
noon on payment of fine.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-02-03

--Wanamaker & Brown present ccr-
tain facts To the people, in large card
ON our 2nd page. But It Il ~ very
large house and they have large stock
and it takes large space to tell the
public about the largo discounts they
are making. Don't fail to read the
advertisement. They are mon who
say what they moan, aud do what thsy
Any
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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
A Dangerous Plaything.

MILFORD, Pa, July 20.-A four-year-
old son of one Riley, living in the old
Milford and Owego Turnpike, in Bloom
ing Grove Township, this county, came
into the house on Saturday last carry
ing a rattlesnake. He had one hand
clasped tightly about its neck and the
other above its rattles. The mother Of
the child was terrified, and screamed to
the boy to throw the snake on the floor,
which he did. 1t coiled up in q second
and filled the room with the din of its
rattles. Mrs. Riley seized the broom
and soon dispatched the serpent. Her
little boy cried over the death of his
venOmous plaything, and said there
were more where he got that, and he
would 60 after another one.
Mrs. Riley summoned her husband
from an adjoining field. He asked the
child to show him where he got the
snake. He led the way into the scrub
oaks about quarter of mile from the
road, to small ledge of rock, in which
there were many assures. There, bask-
ing in the sun, the farmer saw dozens
of rattlesnakes. He took his child in
his arms and hurried away from the
spot. Procuring the assistance of a
hired man, the two, armed with fails,
returned to the den They attacked
the serpents, threshing right and left.
For five minutes the contest waged, the
noise made by the rattles of the snakes
being almost deafening. Riley and his
man killed twenty-one of the reptiles,
and many escaped into the fissures in
the rock. Riley's little boy had wan
dered to this place alone and had cap
tured the snake and taken it home. 1t
was two and half feet long, and had
seven rattles.-N. Y. Sun.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
Gen. Custer and Col. Tom Custer.


While nearlyall of the accounts given
of the massacre Of our troops by the
Sioux agree in the statement that the
body of Gen. Custer escaped mutilatiOn,
the story of one scout which has been teie-
graphed, and had an extensive circula-
tion through the press, is that the heart
of the General was cut out by the saw
ages and secured as a trophy. The
aforementioned version of the matter is
undoubtedly correct, but the other story
is easily accounted for. Gen. Custer
had been in the habit of wearing his
hair in long flowing locks, and was
known as the Yellow Haired Chief
among the Indians. When he was last
in this city, however, on his way to join
the ill-fated expedition in which he met
his death, his hair was cut short accord
ing to the prevalent fashion. But his
brother, Col. Tom Custer, wore his hair
long, as the General formerly wore his !;
and there being striking resemblance
in other respects between the appear
ance of the two brothers, it is probable
that the victorious Sioux mistook the
Colonel for the formidable leader whom
they have so often met to their sorrow,
and mutilated the body of the former
under this mistaken supposition. One
of the reports also says that while the
body of Gen. Custer was unmutilated,
the heart had been cut out from that of
his brOther.-NeW York Sun.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
The Bane of the BOarding-HOuse.

The trial of an amateur cornet player
named Montrose, on charge of dis
ttlrbmg the public peace, is reported in
the Virginia City CsrOnicle. Mrs. john
son, his landlady, testified that when he
came to her house it was full of board
ers, but that many of them left at the
end of o week because they had not
slept well. A bOarder swore that
Montrose played at all hours of the
night, that he couldn't play more that
three consecutive notes without stop
ping to take breath, and that his per-
formance was of nature sufficiently
excruciating to drive an ordinary man
insane. A man who lived two blocks
away testified that be had once got out
of bed, supposing that the noise was
made by COW that he had lost a few
days before. A second boarder didn't
like the music, and had frequently gone
up in the canyon and laid down in an
old tunnel to get some sleep. He was
of the opinion that the man living in
the next block would have no grounds
for complaint provided he stuffed enough
cotton in his ears to shut out the sound.
"HOw much cotton would be necessary
to accomplish the result?' the prose-
cutting attorney asked. 81 think an or
dinary bale of New Orleans cotton XX
prime might last n man two weeks-if
his ears were large, like yours, it might
take more," was the reply. An old
man, put on the stand for the defense,
said that the sound of the cOrnet lulled
him to sleep. In cross-examination,
however, the opposing lawyer whistled,
beautiful Blue DaHube," and the wit
ness swOre an oath that in his opinion
the tune was 6 Yankee Doodle. y The
only other witness for Montrose had
never been disturbed by the cOrnet, al
though he slept in the next room; but
the fact, came out that he was too deaf
to hear any thing fainter than a loco
motive whistle. Montrose was fined $40.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03

while, attended by the medicine men,
the dancers began their wearying per-
fJrmance; fixing their gaze upon the
sun during the hours of sunlight, and
then upon the moon. while that orb was
visible, keeping time, by motions of the
body with the monOtonus music of the
tom-toms. Next morning these enthu-
siasts were ripe for the crowning act
OF the performance,
THE MUTILATIoN,
and early in the day this was COM
menced. While the brave was lying
upon the ground, wrought up to the
highest pitch of religious Oenthusiasm,
almost upon the verge of insanity, the
medicine man pinched up q large fold
of skin over his breast, and, transfxing
it with butcher-knife, inserted thong
which was attached to the pole by a
lariat, and this was to be torn out in
the dance. One, apparently more deep
ly afflicted than the rest, sObbed as
though his heart would break, as he lay
upon the ground, while four of these
thongs were inserted into his flesh, one
into either breast and one into either
shoulder behind. For him those four
stakes were planted, and to each one of
his thongs was attached. As he arose
and walked to them, leaning against
each in turn, his breast heaved with
deeply drawn sighs. These manifesto
tions of grief were but an expression Of
CoNTRITIoN FOR HIS SINS.
For some the mutilation consisted
of simply scarification, the arm in some
instances being deeply gashed from the
elbow to the shoulder. Not until late
in the afternoon of Sunday, the 25tH,
was the dance completed, some Of the
dancers having tainted before they could
tear out these thongs. One was assisted
in this way A friend stepped up behind
him, grasping his body with both arms,
and saving about, while the lariat was
stretched to its utmost, both threw
themselves heavily backward upon the
ground, tearing the skin and flesh until
the thong was released. The Indian
agents, Majors Howard and Hastings,
were present during the whole of the
dance. .-..r - ,arr
The persistence of Spotted Tails
wrath, which has been alluded to, was
quite opportune for him, as he had
vowed, if freed from it, to give away at
the sun dance his whole herd of fine
ponies, about a hundred in number,
and this would have made poor man
of him ..
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
A Parallel to the Custer Massacre.

The massacre of Custer and his COM
mand has many features in common
with those of an occurrence which ex-
cited the whole country forty years ago
the destruction of Major Dade's com
mand. 1t happened at the outbreak OF
bostilities in Florida between the Semi
noles and the Government forces, De-
cember 28, 1885. Major Dade, of the
Fourth Infantry, with Captain Gardner,
Lieutenant Bassinger, and Lieutenant
Henderson, Second Artillery; Captain
Fraver and Lieutenants Nudge and
Keats, Third Artillery; and Surgeon
Gatlin, U. S. A, at the head of 100
men, was on his way TO the relief OF
Fort Hing, threatened by hostile In
dians. The command was attacked at
9 O'Clock in the morning by $50 am
buscaded Seminoles, led by the chiefs
Micanopy, Jumper, and Alligator. The
troops made desperate resistance, but
owing to the nature OF the ground it
was of no avail. One of the attacking
Seminoles, who was subsequently cap
tured, said, "There was little, a great
brave, who shook his sword at the sol
Fdiers and said no rifle ball could bit
him. 10 lathe end every officer and
man in the command was killed, the
negro slaves of the Seminoles being sent
upon the ground to dispatch the wound
ed.-Bost0D Transcript.
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pUSGEsr PARAGRAPHS.


WHEN you find the path 70 glory you
want to hunt up some other road or go
eross-lots. --ROcheSter Democrat
IL anyone has alarge, well ventilated
and eommodious iceberg to rent, he
can hear of n reliable tenant, who will
take good care of the premises, By ap-
plying at this office.
THE happiest fife OF woman is-per-
haps attained when sheadepts the opin-
ions of reasonably Intelligent husband
and eonscientiously thinks they are her
own.-Sdturday ReUiea0.
h CLERGYMAN to Tommy: "what
shall give you for presentPn Tom
my, who respects the cloth, also truth
--hesitatiRgly: Ell think l should
like testament, and | know 1 should
like pop-gun. y"
'YoU mustn't think, boys" remarks
one of our leading orators, "that you
can slOsh around with hatchet and
become great men. If George Wash
ington had used a cheese-knife, it would
have been all the same ---
IRREvERENT society people dance
''Hold the Fort" "Hold the fort for l
am coming-salutey your partner7Jesus
beckons still-aliemand left-Wave the
answer back from heaven-balanee all
By thy grace we will-all promenade"
A BRAVE young man in a neighbor-
ing town got patrioticaliy intoxicated
the other night, and while in that con-
dition resolved to avenge Custer's death
and morning not one sound
wooden Indian could be found in the
place. eY1 proc rFvaH6
WHEN agirl 10 years of ageCries her
eyes red over the loss of 10 cents worth
of sassafras candy, it seems as if the
scheme to enfranchise women would
float OF Ikea castle in the air and dis
solve into everlasting nethingness.
1T is difficult to explain some of the
great problems of nTture. 1t is esti-
mated that it takes eighteen centuries
to form q foot of coal, but it is a we'll
known faet-tha a ton left ont on the
sidewalk will usually shrink 50 per
cent. or more in a single might Nor
5Cich Bulletin.
WE saw mosquito work about 10
minutes Yesterday trying 10. get his bill
through the skin of man who owes us
two years y subscriptions. How we
laughed at that demoralized little in
sect, as, with a look of disgust, he fold
ed up his little bill, placed it in his
pocket, and went for another victim
Whitehall Times
THEY had good deal oftrouble with
the Aztec woman attached to Barnum's
circus in Providence. It. seems she
wanted her salary raised to 81 a week,
but they told her if they did it she would
also be obliged to appear as the Siberian
malefactOr; she said she would go back
to Limerick first, and take in washing
again at two shillings q day, and they
were obliged to compromise by bring
ing her out as the fascinating Odaisque
of the Orient.-NOrUicb BatlIetia.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
Gen. Cusfer,s Wife.


had never seen Gen. Clusters wife
when | met him at the Union League
Club reception last winter, nor himself
but once before in my life, and did not
even know he had a wife. Observing,
while we were in conversation, that he
smiled toward a lady who had previ-
ously excited my interest, said: ''Gen-
eral, who is that lady? Do you know
her? She has such a bright, sweet
look; and though so simply dressed
(she wore a plain dark silk, is so
thoroughly a lady that [ want to know
her. Above all, she looks interested
and happy. l wonder who she is"
"Madam, replied the General, look
ing much pleased, 'I shall be most
happy to present the lady to you, al
though, indeed, she knows you already"
and, stepping to her side, he said: cal
low me to present nly 10Te.'
That is howl became acquainted with
Mrs. Gen. Custer, and, indeed, she was
wife to be fond of, and proud Of.
Never away from her husband, all her
married life was spent on the frontier,
which offered no hardships or priva-
tions TO her which could be compared
to separation from him. She had the
sweetest, truest face, and her eyes met
his with such absolute trust as thrilled
me with pleasure that was pain to see.
She was Michigan girl, and had only
him; but, ''Ohl" she said, ''nO one can
ever know but 1 how good he is" She
had grown quite to love camp life,
which had, she said, many compensa-
tons The principal one OF these was
freedom from the ills aud weaknesses
which belong to high civilization. No
headaches, no neuralgia, no nervous
prostration, no pains in the side or dis
eases of the liver. Sleep is an absolute
restorative, and in the regions which
have never known kid gloves or French
cooks, every one wakes well.-CoT.
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