davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01

A SToRy or TRAIL, She was q
tall, stout individual, and sprang
out of tho wagon rs lightly as g
spring chicken after a grasshopper
lie was little, withered, dried up
weasal, and followed slowly, bring
ing basket Of eggs with him. They
entered one Of our stores aud she
asked, "What arc yo givin' for
eggs Z
Eight cents" was tho reply OF
the counter jumper.
"Wcll. here are three Dozen" said
the fat party, "and Ill take it into
calico"
"But I want somo yarn to mend
my socks" put in the old man.
"The weather is warm and you
can go without socks,' replied the
fat party.
"But my boots hurt my feet in :
sisted tho old man.
$50 bsrefooted. said sho, rather,
sharply, Then turning to the clerk
she changed her tune, and remark
cd: Young man, please count me
out tho eggs and give me four yards
Of calico to match this ere dress
"But---' the old man was going
to continue, when she raised her
huge index finger aud said: Henry
Winter Davis SprigSins, them ere
eggs are mine the hens what laid
EN- are mine the corn what fed om
was mine. and I'se going to have q
trail on this ere dress as long as
Betsy Gowen's if every too On your
feet turns into gum biles. Now,
shut. And you youngster, yank of
four yards of that ere calico or you
will hear u bumble bee q buzzin."
The old man shut and the clerk
yenked of the calico.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01
Rules for the Journey OF Life.

The following rules from tho pa
pers OF DR.. West, according to his
memorandum, arc thrown together
as general waymarks in the journey
Never ridicule sacred things or
what others may esteem as such,
however absurd they appear to you.
Never show leyity when people
are engaged in worship.
Never resent supposed injury till
you know the views and motives OF
the author Of it. Aud on no occa~
sion relate It.
Always take the part OF an absent
person, who is censured in company,
SO far as truth and propriety will
allow.
Never to think worse OF another
on account of his differing from me
in politics and religious subjects.
Not to dispute with man who is
moro than seventy years Of age, nor
with woman, nor with any sort Of
outuubiubb.
Not to affect to be witty, Or to
jest 80 as to hurt the feelings OF an
other.
To say as little rs possible OF my
self and those who are near me.
To aim ct oheerfulness without
levity.
Never to court the favor Of the
rich by Aattering their vanities or
their riches.
To speak with cslmness and delib-
Grafton on all occasions, especially
Of circumstances which tend to irri'
tate.
Frequently to review my conduct
aud not my feolings
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01
A Few Proverbs.

Better 60 round than fall in the
ditch.
Better go aloro than in bad COM
pany.
Be slow to promise, but. quick to
perform.
Better 60 to bed supperless than
got up 10 debt.
Cut your coat according to your
cloth.
Catch the hare before You sell his
skin.
Charity begins at home, but does
not end thero.
Do not rip up. old sores.
Doing nothing is doing ILL.,.
Diligence commands success.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
Dependence is q poor trade to fol-
low.
Deeds are fruits words are but
leaves.
Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you.
Every couple is not q pair.
Everything is good in its season.
Everybodys business is nobody's
business.
False friends are wJrse than opon
enemies.
Fortune knocks once at least al
every mans door.
Fire and water are good servants,
but bad masters.
Great barkers arc not biters.
Great gain and little pain makes
q man woary.
Give a rogue rope enough md be
will hang himself. @
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01
GOVERNMENTAL DIRECTORY.
UNITED STATES.

UNITED STATES. l
Observation-Disclosures d. Hayes, Ohio.
Vice prcsident--willism A. Wheeler, Eex
Secretary Of s,a,e-4wiliism N. Ever,s;
New yorR.
Secretary Of tho freasary--Josn SHERMAN;
Secretary CT war-dcorse W. Mccrary,
Secretary Of the Navy-R,chsrd W:
Thompson, Indiana.
Attorney General--Charies peveus, Mas
eschusetts.
Postmaster General--David NJ. Key, Ten
Secretary Of the ,Iutcrior--Csri schurt,
Missouri.
STATE.
Governor-John +. Hartrapft,
Lieutenant Goyernor--John Latts,
Secretary OF tho Commonweslih-M. S;
Quay.
Deputy SEQ. of,he commorwe.l,h -.joLt
Il. Lima
Private Sec: to the Governor --Chcstct n.
Farr, Jr.
Chief Clerk-Thomas MCamant.
Attorney Uencr al--George Lear.
deputy Attorney Gcnersl--Lymsu ID;
Gilbert.
auditor 0encrni--Justus r. Temple.
Chief Clerk--G. ". q. Waddell.
state Tearsurer-- Henry Rnwle.
Secretary of Internal Afaits- William,
MCandlass.
Superintendent Of Soldiers orpbsn and
Common Scbools--J. =. wickersham.
AdJutant Gcneral--Jatncs W. Latta.
Z n m I'm iaat .r t.. ns
State LibrariaG %. II. Miller.
Commissioners OF Public Chaf,ies-G,
Dawson Coleman. Philadelrhia Gem
eera' Agent and Sec., Dillcr Luther;
Reading,
Fishery Commissioners BENJAMIN l.. lie.
wit, Howard }. Reeder, and janet
Duffy,
JUDICIARY.
United States Suprcmo Court.
Chief Justice--Morrison Il. Waite, Of
Ohio.
Associate Juatices-Clifford. OF Maine;
Swaync, of Ohio, Miller, Of Iowa;
Field, OF California, Strong, OF PENN
sylvauia. Bradley, Of New Jersey,
Hunt, of New York.
Recorder Todd Otto, OF Indiana.
Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania.
Chief Juotice-Daniel Agnew.
Associate Justiccs-George sharswood;
Ulysses Mercur. Isaac q. Gordon,
Edward NJ. Paxson, Warren J. Wood.
ward. John Turnkey.
Two,tieM Judicial District.
President Judge--Joseph G, BochSamuei
Associate Judges Hiram UNeil, cr.
II. Schuck.
COUNTY.
Sheriff-.D. Eisenbart.
Prothonot tary--J Grouse.
Register and Recorder James NJ. Van;
zandt.
Treasurer Henry Benfcr.
District Attorney. III. Arnold.
Coroner-A. VI. Smith.
Ccmmissicners-.Joel Row, John Romig;
Moses Krcbbs.
Surveyor George =. Benfer.
Audit itors--- Daniel Deifenbach, Ncr u:
Midd!oswarth, w. A. Glass.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01

HIsroRY OF DRINKrSd CLUB.--
Some years ago, 10 large town In
tho west OF Scotland there existed O
drinking club OF upwards Of twenty
members, all Of whom belonged to
the middle class OF society. This
club had great influence in munich
pal affairs, and several of it's mem
bers were elected to ill posts in the
town council. Tho drinking was
carried on to a fearful extent in the
tavern where they met. Tho mem
bers were to be found often in the
club at all hours Of night and day.
Their drinking was often connected
with such noisy mirth as to attract
the attention OF the passers.by. The
club was broken up. Two OF its
members we're sent TO Q lunatic asy.
lum one jumped from q window
and killed himself ono walked or
fell into the water and was drowned
one was found dead in q public
house ono died OF delirium tre-
mems upwards Of ten became bank.
rupt four, died ere they had lived
half their days.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01
A Taste for Reading.

Every young man entering upon
life ought to give some portion Of his
time regularly to tho development Of
his mind, to the gaining Of useful in-
formation, aud 10 the cultivation of
some innocent and ennobling taste.
A taste for reading i s worth moro than
any sum We could name A rich man
without that OF some similar tasto
does rot know how to enjoy his mon-
ey. His only resource is to keep on
making money, uolcss he prefers to
spend it. A well known millionaire
used to say that he would gladly give
it all, If he could only himself have
tho education which his lazy and stu
pid bog refused to acquire. Mako il
o rule-.uovcr TO be broken-to de-
vote at least half an hour day to
tho reading Of 50 me useful book--not
stories chiefly. Stories are good il
their place but evory man needs
knowledge Of history, the elements Of
science and other useful subjects and.
if he has only half an tour to give to
reading, he will bo very foolish to
give it all TO novels. BE hungry
and thirst after knowledge of all kinds,
and be sure that you will be none the
worse, but all tho better, as business
men.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01

No EscApE.-Every condition OF
life, be it what it may, has hard
ships, hazards, pains. We try to es-
capo them /; We pino for q sheltered
lot, for suooth path, for cheering
friends and unbroken success. But
Providence ordains storms, disasters,
hostilities, suffering and tho great
question whether we shall live to
any purpose or not whether we eshsll
grow strong in mind and heart, or
DO weak and pittiable, depends on
nothing SO much as on our use OF
these adverse circumstances.
Difficulty is the element, and re-
slstance tho true work of man. Self
culture n ever goes on so fast as when
embarras sed circumstances, unex-
pected changes of the times, or 9th
or forms OF suffering, instead of dis
heartening, throw us on our inward
resources, clear up to as the great
purpose OF life, and inspire calm,
resolutions.
Thus oil conditions may be press.
ed into the service Of self-improve'
menk
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01
Maternal Murders.

Maternal murders are numbericss.
Women the light of whose life has
gone out with their doad child, new
ertheless have killed the creature they
were told by nature to protect, as ef-
fectually, IL less consciously, than il
they had strsngled il with their own
hands. Improper food, and too
much OF tive will not speak OF
those poor mothers Mo give their
children too littlo that is generally
a matter of necessity, not choice
murder by circumstance, not action /;
insufficient clothing, because OF The
vanity which must bave them FASH
ionablo and 'nico ! lato hours, thea.
tres, crowded balls, wine and strong
soups at an ago when they shoul d
have only milk and far;naceous food ;
sometimes the hardening oystom
carried out with such Spartan seve-
rity that the tender lifo doops under
it, and dies out like flower in tho
frost sometimes tho careful system
exaggerated to point that saps
the strength and woskons the fibre
like wax before tho fire somotin es
education begun sclearly aud pushed
go far that tho over strained brain
gives way, and tho youthful prodigy
droncs through lifc as nature
dunce,maybe an idiot, or maybe fash.
es out altogether in brain fever. All
these are the methods employed 90
unconsciously, yet so criminally, by
doting mothers, whereby to murder
their young, and mako their own
lives desolate. But who can inter.
fero e? Children arc borne unto tho
world for the pleasure of their par
ents, not for good OF society, nor for
their well being. Fathers and moth
ers are absolute and provided
there Is no malice and no direct ac
tion, they arc able to kill their chill.
dren Indirectly and by ignorance,
without prevention or rebuke.
IL this is truo Of parents, it is
so OF schoolmasters and
schoolmistresses. Tho marvel is
here, not how many chrildren die,
but how many escape.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01
Carrying Their own Birthstone.

After q service iu place where
tho people had been good deal be.
wildered by a solf-ordained preacher
who accepted only 90 much Of the
Bible as suited his whims, and who
was want to make merry over the
idea Of future punishment, q man
stepped up TO mo and said in can't
ing voice
"Bishop, do you believe in a
hell y
81 said, "Are you anxious TO know
what 1 think Of hell ?"
EYES, said he.
"Weli, said /, "tho best answer
have over heard came from q poor
negro woman. She had ayoung niece
who sorely tried the poor soul. The
moro sho struggled to keep this
willful charge in the right way the
moro sho seemed to wander. One
day, after hoaring new preacher,
she bounded into the room, and
said
"Aunty, I amt gwine to believe
in q hell no moro. Ef dar is any
hell jest wants to know where dey
gets all dero birthstone for dat
place, dat's 'sactly what l would like
to know.
"The old woman fixed her eyes on
her, aud with q tear on hor cheek,
said,
"Ah honey darlin, you look out
you don't 60 dare, for you'll find
dey all takes dere own birthstone
wild um.'
| then said, "Is there any other
question in theology you would like
to eek 7"
No. said ho.
And he went homo, 1 hope with
new idea that sin brings sorrow, and
that TO DO saved We neod deliveranco
from sin. Some men carry "their
own birthstone" oven in this world.
-Bishop Mippie.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01
Moscow.

The Russians love Moscow. 1t is
the idol Of every Russian hoart.
Her shrines are to him the holiest in
the empire, hallowed by seven cen-
turies of historical associations. But
grand and holy as it is, it has suffer-
ed from the sword, the torch, and
the plague. Three hundred years
ago IL was nearly consumed by fire,
in which two thousand Of it's citizens
perished. Fifty years later the Tar
tars fred the supurbs, and ono hun>
dred thousand of its inhabitants
perished by the flames and by tho
sword. A hundred years ago, the
fatal plague SO reduced its popula-
ton that it never regained its forms
or proportions. Within our own
century. and to save it from plunder
by the foe, the people gave up their
beautiful city to the flames, the
grandest sacrifice ever mado to ma
tional pride. But when the French
retreated tho city was rebuilt, and
is to-day thing Of beauty. Its
too frequent reconstruction is the
cause Of the irrogularity everywhere
apparent. Only few OF the streets
are straight, q palace and o hovel, q
state building and q stone, o splen-
did church and o small hotel, sdjoin
each other, and the rich and poor
are nearest neighbors Nothing is
more noticeable and attractive than
the display Of colors, red, white,
green, gold and silver, with which
the public and private buildings srs
|ornamented. Roma has long been
celebrated as the city Of churches,
having one for each day In the year
and an additional one for leap-y year,
but Moscow can boast Of nearly four
hundred temples dedicated 10 relig>
ion. Although the decentralization
|pf the city 10 more than twenty Eng
lish miles, yet the objects Of interest
10 . traveller are within narrow linn.
|its. The Moskva Aows through the
city, spannsd By noble bridges. and
along IL hanks ere beautiful lawns
|shadsd by pobls tssss.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01

Gathering courage, he pushes open
the door. He enters. Toward that
bed through whose curtains he
struck so blindly q moment ago
Again he pauses, not q sounds
stiffness moro terrible than che
grave. He flings aside the curtains.
There in. the full light Of the lamp,
her young form half covered, bathed
in her own blood there lay bis
daughter Mary!
All, do not look upon Tho faco oi
tho father as he starts silently back,
frozen to stone but in this pause
OF horror listen to the mystery Of
tho dood.
After her father had gone down
stairs, an hour ago, Mary silently
stole from the chamber on the right.
Her soul shaken by q thousand
fears, sho opened the door on the
loft, and boheld Washington sitting
at the table op which we're spread q
chart aud a Bible. Then though her
existance was wound up in the act,
she asked him, ia a tone Of calm DO.
likeness, to take the chamber on the
opposite side. Mary entered the
chamber which he had loft.
Can you imagine the agony of that
girls mind lying on the bed intend
cd for the death couch of Washing
ton, she silently awaited the knife,
although the knife might bo clench-
ed in q fathers hand.
And now that father, frozen TO
stone, stood there, holding the light
in one hand, and still clutching the
rcd knife. There lay his child, the
blood streaming from that wound
in her arm her eyes covered with
q giaay Aim.
"Mary!" shrieked the guilty father,
for robber androry that he was, still
a father, ",lary = he called to her,
but that word wac all he could say.
Suddenly she seemed to wake from
this stupor. Sho sat up in bed with
her CLASSY eyes. Tho strong hand Of
death was upon her. As she sat there
erect and ghastly, the room was
thronged with soldiers. Her lover
rushed forward aud called her by
name. No answer. Called again
spoke to her-still no answer. She
knew him not.
Yes, it was true-the strong hand
OF death was upon her.
HAS he escaped 7" she said in
that husky voice.
"Yes !" shrieked tho father. Live,
Mary, only, and tomorrow l will
join tho camp at Valley Forge
Then that girl, that hero woman,
dying as she was, not 30 much from
the wound in her arm, rs from deep
agony which had broken tho last
chord OF life, spread forth her arms,
as though she beheld form floating
there above her bed beckoniug her
away. She spread forth her arms as
if to enclose that angel form.
"Mothor," she whispered-while
there grouped the soldiers-there
with specch!ess agony on his brow.
stood the lover there, hiding bis
face with one hand, while the other
grasped the light, crouched the faith
er--that light flashing over the dark
bed, with the white form in the cen-
tre-"Mother, thank God For
with my lifo l have saved him -
Look even as starting up on that
bloody couch, she speaks tho half
formed words, hor arms stiffen, her
eyes wide open, set in death, glare
in her fathers face
The half-formed words still quiv-
ering on the white lips of the hero
woman-thst word uttered in her
husky whisper, choked by the death
rattle that word was-"Washing-
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01
True EloQuenos.
ktleptnderce Ddu.

When che question Of the adop.
tion or rejection Of the Declaration
Of Independence, was pending in the
Continental Congress, John Adams
as Daniel Webster, in moment of
patriotic frensy supposee) delivered
the following surprising eloquent
appeal
Sink or swim, live or die, survive
or perish, I give. my hand aud my
heart to this vote. Il Ia true, indood.
that in the beginning we aimed not
at independence. But there is q de-
yinity which shapes our ends. The
justice Of England has driven ms to
arms and blinded to her own in
terest for our good, she has obsti-
natcly persisted, till Independence is
now within our grasp. We have
but to reach forth 10 it, and il is
ours. Why, then, should we defer
the declaration I
Read this declaration at tho head
OF the army; every sword will be
drawn from its scabbard, and the
solemn vow uttered to maintain, or
to perish on the bed of honor. Pub.
lish it from the pulpit religion will
approve it, and the love Of religious
liberty will cling around it, resolved
to stand with Il, OF fall with il. Send
II to tho public halls, proclaim it
there lot them hear it who heard
the first roar Of the enemy's cannon (;
lot them see it who saw their BROTH
ers and their sous fall on the field
of Bunker Hill, and in the streets Of
Lexington aud Concord, and the
very walls will cry out in its sup
port.
Sir, know tue uncertainty Of hut
man affairs, but / 500, / 500 clearly
though this days business. You
aud |, indeed may rue it. Wo may
not live to see tho day when this
declaration shall DO mado good. We
may die die colonists die slaves /;
die it may be ignominiously, aud on
the scaffold. 30 it so. If it bo tho
pleasure Of Heaven that my country
shall require the poor offering of my
life, the victim shall bo ready at the
appointed hour OF sacrifice, come
when that hour may. But, whilo l
do live, let me have country, or at
least the hope Of country, and that
q free country.
But whatever may be our fato, DO
assured, that this declaration will
stand. 1t may cost treasure, and it
may cost blood but it will stand.
and it will richly compensate for
both. Through the thick gloom OF
the present, SEQ the brightness OF
the future, as the san in heaven. We
shall make this glorious and inn
mortal day. When We are in our
graves, our children will honor it.
They will celebrate it with thanks
giving, with festivity, with bonfres
and illuminations. On its annual
return they will shed tears, copious
gushing tears, not OF subjection and
slavery, not Of agony and distress,
but OF oxultation, Of gratitude aud
OF JOY,
Sir, before God, I believe the hour
is como. My judgment approves
this measure, and my whole heart
is in it. All that have, aud all
that ! am, and all that / hope in this
life, / am now ready here to stake
upon it i; and 1 leave off as begun,
that live or die, survive or perish, /
am for tho declaration. is my
living sentiment, and, by tho bless.
ing of God, it shall be my dying
Observation-Disclosures now and
independence Forever.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01
Valley Forge.
DY GEORGE LIPPARD.

Hidden away :hore in deep glon,
not many miles from Valley Forge,
a quiet old FARMHOUSE rose darkly
over wide waste of snow. It was
a cold dark winter night the snow
began to fall-when from the broad
Fireplace Of the old farmhouse the
cheerful blaze of massive logs fash.
cd around wide and spacious
room.
Two persons sat there by that
fire, 9 father and child. The father,
wl,o sits yonder, with soldiers
belt thrown over his farmers dress.
is q man Of some fifty years, his eyes
blood"shot, his hair changed to an
uutimely gray, his face wrinkled and
h,llowed by care and by dissipation
more than care
And the daughter, who sits in the
full light of the blaze opposite her
father-a slender formed girl of
some seventeen years clad in the
coarse liDsey skirt and kerchief
which made up the costume of far.
mers daughter in the days OF the
Revolution.
That farmer, Jacob Manheim, was
a peaceful, happy man before the
Revolution. Since the war he has
become drunken and idle-driven
his wife broken hearted to the grave
and worse than all joined q band of
Tory refugees, who scour tho land
at dead Of night, burning and muir.
dering as they go.
Tonight, at the hour Of two, this
Tory band will lie in wait in
neighboring pass to attack aud muir.
der Washington, whose starving sol.
diers are yonder in the huts OF VAL
ley Forge.
Washington on his lonely jour-
neys is wont to pass this farm -house;
the cut-throats are there in the next
chamber, drinking and feastiug as
they wait for two o'd,ck at night.
The daughter, Mary, had been
reared BY her mother to revere this
man, Washington, who tonight will
be attacked aud murdered re-
vere him next to God-nay, more
that mother on her death, bed Joined
the hands Of her daughter in solemn
betrothal with the hands of young
partisan leader, Harry Williams, who
now shares the crust and the cold OF
Valley Forge.
Yesterday afternoon sho went
four miles over the roods of ics and
snow, to tell Captain Williams the
plot OF refugees. She did not reach
Vallsy Forge until Washington had
left ON ono OF his long journeys |:
this night at twelve the partisan
Captain will occupy the rocks above
the peighboring pass, TO trap the
trappsrs" Of George Washington.
Yes, that pale, slender girl re-
msmbsring the words Of her dying
mother, has broken through her
obedience 70 her father. o long and
bitter struggle in o faithful daugh.
ter's heart ! She had betrayed his
plotsl 10 his enemies --stripulating
osne sVs env ssAoS so0 ssAosy VI uoS
traitor father.
And now ~ father and child are
sitting there. ~ the shouts Of the
Tory refugees echo from the next
room, - tho hand Of the old clock is
on ths hour. of eleven-there is .
pauss-ths door opens, . tall stran-
veF, wrapped ia . thick CLOAK. white
With snow. sntsrs. advances 10 the
Are. and in brief words solioits some
y0(reshmsnts snd an hours repose.
Why does the Tory Aanhoim
~ Ssat u ths aight a that strsn-
40w'o bIuo end gold uniioPm, then
~ opgo1k Mag - ~ dangh-
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01

A dog In NsbrsskA delibsrateIy
walked In front OF . rrilroad train,
laid IL head on The rail and was kill.
ID, because 81 it. gria u The dsath
~ shild ~ iAycats playnAls.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01

In England tho Queen only can
drive eight horses on state occas-
ions. There is no objections. il you
wish, TO seven horses and mule.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-08-01

Arbuckle is about to take q vaca~
ton. He will get one Of his subs-
to.t0oG