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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-12-12

~ Carpets -Damp pen corn
-,srinkle II over the carp Of
Yssss . dry broom, and swecp it
j bri'ki3.

Farm leases Like farm nc.
counts, they should be simple. They
Should toll ia pleia English wha
''h p, tics agree to. All c,mbsr
7'm' v"rjiago may DO left out, but
IL 's better to use all the words nee.
essary TO express the thing, and no:
i"avc any part to be understood.
let The pvncr uoto with his peDcil
every item which he wishes expressed,
also what ths tenant is to do, and
whit hc is to receive. This put into
rlain words and subscribed, is the
lease. Thero is littlo room for form.
Almost every lcaso is peculiar to
itself, nai would not suit another.
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Hoo Much Does 4 Coo EatS-
DR.. R'bsrt D,n'Ias Thomson, some
years ago, carried oft a series of OK
periments on feeding cows, 10 order
TO determine the value of matted
grain ~ food /; AMI from bis tables
We derive that two Ayrshire cows,
weighing 967 lbs. and s34 lbs, re-.
spectivsly, consumed 10 fourteen days
2.S53 l-2 los. VI erssa, or 1Ol 9.IO
Je2 each rsr day. Ti,isc same cows
vhsa Ted on b,rloy and grs-s con-
soned - lbs. Of barley and $3.50 lbs.
d ersss 10 eleven dsys, or 4-3 lbs.
Of barley aud 90 lbs. Ut erass per COW
daily. In thih experiment 4-8
poasds Of b roy seemed 10 replace
shat II lbs. Of grace. This il not
sxset but tho ysii, end los updsr
ths ditssest -ystsm~ of fs,disg were
bs' slight, aitLsash thsro was ssIisht
rAia 10 the ilrst sesisr, aud slieh.
iess 10 shs sseoni.
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Sundays
For New York b.2o q m.
For Philadelphia I. 45r r. m.

Trains for Horrisburq ieae a
Leave New York, s.45
and " ~ p m.
Leave rhila'
7 90 p. IN
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7roins ieorr HarisJwrg az follow,
For Rev York. $50, 8 10 q m. =,
! 90 snd ~ So r. m. w
For Philadelphia $40, e.i0a. IN. an
and 100 pm.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-12-12

n m n week IN Your town. s5 out.
&EHeaat free. No fisk. Resder. ~ you want
UUVa business AZ which persons Of either
Q, can maxi great pay all the time they work,
wiite for psrtieulafsto II, HALLET Co., Port
iand. Mains.
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Philadelphia and nrs,;.
Rail Road
arrangement ei Passenger 1rss,
NOV. 10th. l9Ss

"A
Trains fcove Bernolon o1 .,
io'os tSs.',doys Erceptedi~ I've
For shamok'n, 1920 Ills -
8.'5 p m. ~
For Mt Carmel, Ashland, r,u.
Po',sville, Reading, and rhilai,,,r'S
il.i5 q to. ts''
7rdins for Hevndon, 'sore NJ Sogo,.
(Sundogs Ercspfed.)
Leave Shamokin. 500 am ia.
3.45 p m. ="
Leave Philadelphia s.4s . m. R..a,.
Ii.55 am.
Po,i.viIle. 1870 p m. Tamaqua I'm
"a Ashland = &c p m.
NJ. csrmel 3.s0p m.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05
POLITICAL ACUMEN

We have great confidence in our polit-
ical foresight If not the very first, we
were at least second, to name David Tod
for Governor of Ohio in 1861. That was
not a mistake. 1t may be too soon to
talk about candidate for Governor next
year, but people might be thinking
about it. We care very little for men, as
individuals, but we have solicitude for
the glorious old Republican party, and
would like to see it succeed in 1880.
What we said Tin parenthesis) about
Hon. Milton L. Clark as the Republican
candidate for Governor of Ohio, is sec
onded by the Portsmouth Blade, and the
Chillicothe Gazette says:
THE Standard is not the first to sug-
gest Mr.. Clark We have heard it freely
canvassed by his friends since the Con
gressional Convention. Should he be
nominated the Standards prediction OF
25.000 could be made good. The people
of Ohio have the habit of electing Ross
countyans to the Governorship every
time they can get them to make the race
and that too without regard to previous
political maorities."
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

$1489 90 is the amount the County Au-
ditor over-drew in one year from the
County Treasury and yet Charley Atkin-
son said it was only $29l62, but since
that time the Auditor has paid back over
three hundred dollars, we believe. Why
not pay back the balance?
The above has been in the Herald sew
eral weeks, and Aleshire says;
The fees received by Patterson were
$35S500 The amount he was entitled
to under the law of 1877, $l9l940. The
amount overdrawn under the law of 1877,
is S1665 60, and as will be seen above, the
amount he would be entitled to under
the Oren law, would be $l976 40. The
amount overdrawn under that law is
$l60S.60.
Try and agree among yourselves before
you give the exact figures. Which law,
Mr. Aleshire, should have governed
And how much did that fellow over
draw" from you at the side show in the
wear 1870?
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

n ature in almost every position spoken
of, and many others, but it will be our
sincere effort to say nothing at any time
but what will stand the test of history
and can be proven by the facts, and we
shall avoid any disposition to lampoon
Mr. Emmitt, because he commenced life
under circumstances which precluded
the possibility of obtaining even fair
education, but that which he did acquire
he has used to the best account, at no
time making claim for that which he
does not possess, so far as education is
concerned, and until within the past sew
eral years he has been fortified by an
amount of common sense which was a
great aid to a moderate education, but
time is working fast upon Mr. Emmitt
bodily and mentally. The James EN-
formed his acquaintance, makes a con
trast wonderfully unfavorable for the
present. Time has been as hard upor
few, as with him; he is now an old mar
with three score and ten passed by sew
eral years, marked on his features ane
evident in carriage. He is no longer thu
James Emmitt of days gone by, but is a
that stage of life with all the weakness
of age so definite that it would be NOR
becoming in him and his friends to seel
retirement, and await the call of Gabriel
rather than enter contest for Congress
a position beyond what he was at an.
time of life competent to fill, with digni
ty and ability.
These few words will convey an idea O
the spirit which will influence US durin
the present Congressional campaign"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

From the request made by JAS. A.
Aleshire, Esq, for space in the Herald
we presume he intends making it warm
for the Treasury moths and those who
attempted to white-wash the illegal fee
business of the Auditor. Atkinson,
Paine. and all concerned, had better
stand from underl Come On Jim, our
columns are open. The first contribution
of Mr.. Aleshire appears this week. and
we expect his articles will get better and
better, as he gets his hand inr
The above appeared in the Herald sew
eral weeks ago. Aleshire came prancing
into the Herald, charging nearly all the
Republican county officials, and the edi-
tor of the Standard. with an attempt to
justify, cover up, or "white-wash' crime.
We notified James that he that asks eq
uity should do equity-that a man who
has criminal charges to bring against his
neighbors, should himself have clean
hands, and referred him to that little af-
fair of 1870, and he had sense and discre-
ton enough to "dry up" We have heard
nothing from him since about white
washing"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05
HON. JAMES EMMITT.

The above is the heading now seen in
a great many papers. Some things are
said about Mr.. Emmitt which we do not
approve. He never pretended to have
any education, in book learning. A good
many men who make loud pretensions,
can spell but little better than Mr.. En-
mitt can.
Some three or four years ago, Mr..
Emmitt commenced writing his autobiog-
raphy, which was published in the Pike
County Republican. chapter would be
published one week, and the next week
would be taken up with corrections and
explanations, and after few chapters
had been published, the work was dis
continued We learn that when Mr.
Wetmore, editor of the Republican, was
INQUIRED Of as TO the discontinuance Of
the publication, he replied that Emmitt
wrote in such a way that no mortal man
could make any sense out OF 1t, and 1t
had all to be written over again, and put
into shape and when this was done, Mr..
Emmitt was not satisfied with it.
These sketches were, to US, very inter
esting. They showed that Mr.. Emmitt
was remarkable character. He never
became discouraged. He was very
poor boy, but he always kept himself
employed. IF he could not get dollar
day, he willingly did the hardest work,
driving team through mud, rain, snow
and sleet, for six dollars per month.
These sketches of Mr.. Emmitt's early
life, show that he is not the shrewd
business man that he is generally sup
posed to be- He failed in business one
or more times, most signally, and never
did make any money until he commenc-
ed to make whisky, and his vast fortune
was accumulated either directly or indi-
rectly, by the manufacture and sale of
whisky We believe that if the voters
could see the graves opened, and the vic
TINS of Emmitt's whisky come forth-if
they could see the tears, hear the groans
and cries Of the widows and orphans
made such by Emmitt's whisky; if they
could hear the cries of his victims who
are calling for a drop of water to cool
their parched tongues-where there is
weeping and wailing and gnashing of
teeth--if the voters of the 18th District
could see and hear all this work of En-
mitt, in the acquisition of his vast
wealth, he would not get ten votes in the
District.
Many persons fear that Emmitt will
buy his way to Congress with money and
We have no such fears. All
the "ornery" Democrats will vote for
him ANYHOW, and if there are any Re
publicans low and mean enough to sell |
put for money or whisky, let them go;
the party is better off without them. We |
10 not believe there ara ten such in the |
District.
We became acquainted with Mr.. En-
nitt when he was President of the s., j.
L P. R. R., and we had much confidence
n his great business capacity, until we
ested him, and found him to be an ut
er failure as a business man. We will
peak more in detail next week about
lis railroad management, concluding this
7eek by giving the following, from the
Vaverly Republican. which goes to show
hat Mr. Emmitt is fast failing in mental
nd business capacity:
Hon. James Emmitt is wonderfully
exposed to criticism of an uniaVorable
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

If Atkinson is reelected, will he do
any better than he has done? He re-
fuses to bring suit TO recover that
$1,460 80 that Mr.. Paine reported Pat
terson had illegally overdrawn II Her
aid
Mr.. Paine never made any such report,
and the renowned Aleshire did not make
any such report under oath, no doubt
having the fear of the penitentiary be-
fore his eyes. He is now swift to make
such report for much larger amount,
when not acting under oath. But Mr..
Paine never said any thing like that,
When aoiH you stop lying?
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05
A Source of Hard Times.

Speaking of the vast-and to a great
extent voidable-destructio of proper
ty by fire in this country, the Fireman
says that fires are increasing, both in
numbers and destructiveness, far more
rapidly than the increase of wealth and
production. 1t is computed that from
an annual loss by fire in 1868 of $35, ,000,-
600, the annual loss, exclusive of excep-
tional fires such as Boston and Chicago
Gf they may be called Exceptional J,
has increased to $l00,0O0,000 The full
significance of this statement cannot be
realized unless analyzed. This loss is the
irremedial loss of human product and in
dustry. 1t is the conversion of human
blood, Drawn and muscle, necessary to
create $l00,000,000 of value into ashes
and smoke. Assuming that labor pro-
duced this value to be worth So per day,
this loss is the loss of more than the COM
bined labor of 100000 men for one en-
tire year Then, too, it must be remem-
bered that this is surplus production
1t has been accumulated by producers
after earning livelihoods for themselves
and families, and paying their share of
the cost Of government and their proper
ton of the burdens of society. 1t would
require, then, the labor of 100000 men
AOi - sColS W oy plOuuC
ton this annual loss 1t is not only so
much wealth subtracted from the re-
sources of the country, but it is the loss
of the productive power of so much capi-
tai.
We find the above in the Scientific
American. Last week we published the
testimony of VIM. E. Dodge, before the
Hewitt Committee, in which he put the
amount paid at retail for Intoxicating
liquors at $9OO,00O.OOO. Every observer,
even without statistics, must be convinc-
ed that the tobacco consumed each year
amounts to more than half as much as
strong drink, or at least $500,000, ,0OO-
There is 81 0,000, 900, or fourteen times
as much property destroyed as is destroy
ed by fire. The loss caused to the wealth
of the country by the idleness and crime
the result Of the use of strong drink
and tobacco, are a tenfold greater loss
than if all this vast product of labor were
destroyed by fire. or sunk into the ocean
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

honorable intentions. trusting to secrecy
until he shall have paid back every cent
The point we make is that the word hon
orable in such connection is unfortu-
nate and injurious to good morals. The
intention is iii the highest degree dishon-
orable which encourages a trustee to per
il the money of another for his own ad- |
vantage. The intention to restore is the
salve to his conscience, or rather the
mask that he wears while he robs his in
nocent, unsuspecting and helpless vic
Tins. Honorable intentions, inde2d A
man being entrusted with the money of
another says to himself: / will take this
money and 60 upon the street with it and
operate till have doubled it; then | will
put it back where it now is, and the trust
will be as good as before. l will be so
much richer and nobody will know how
it is done Is that honest2 The trust
was safe as it stood Or it was where the
law and his judgment directed him to
place it, But he resolved to put it in
peril for the sake of making himself rich.
His intention to put the money back was
part Of the scheme which he formed for
his own advantage at the hazard of the
trust. The resolution was dishonest. The
intention was no palliation, but was
cloak for the crime, and, therefore, was
in no sense honorable. The moment
that he decided to violate his obligation
as trustee the man was lost. Having
no better right to take that money for
his own use than he would have had if it
were in the keeping of another, he was
a thief at heart as soon as he determined
on its appropriation.
We are the more explicit on this point
because it is just here that men deceive
themselves, and are deceived, by such
reasoning as we have cited. They valnly
imagine that restoration atones for the
appropriation of what was not their own:
as if it were q sufficient excuse for high
way robbery that the ro5ber intended to
restore, and actually did restore, at some
future time, the purse he took. The
trustee who misappropriates the funds IN
his hands is as much worse than thief,
as a thief is meaner than a robber; the
F meanness being greater as the risk OF de-
lection is diminished.
These are times when this subject
ought to be fully understood. 1t is well
to set before the best of men the dangers
of temptation when facilities are so great,
and the standard of morality is so fear
fully low. So many have been the breach:
es Of trust on the part of treasurers and
, directors and presidents, as well as OF
6 private trustees, that men have come to
: look upon these offences with q leniency
that is exceedingly unfavorable to pub
lie virtue. 1t is now very hard to make
! "breach Of trust crime punishable
: with imprisonment. The honorable in
tention' to restore palliates the sin and
wipes out the shame in the eyes of {
= money getting generation. But it is moi
> SO in the sight Of Him who seeth in secret
1t ought not to be so in the eye of the
law, or of any good man"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

Waverly has a popularity probably
not existing anywhere else in the world,
in the shape of a Catholic church fore
closed under mortgage; but that is not
all this church is turned, by the mort
gagee, into play house, and right where
the devout priest has stood in his sacer-
dotal robes to administer the Eucharist
or exalt the Host, the gay proscenium
now stands; but even more, the spire of
that desecrated church is still erect with
the gilded cross, as if to mock the sensl-
bilities of devout christians; all of which
is the work of Hon. James Emmitt, a
candidate for congress in this district
Waverly Republican.
We see nothing strange in all that. Mr..
Emmitt was one of the most unreasoning G
of the know nottingham organization
whose members had to take a solemn
oath that they never would vote for
Catholic for any office. We saw Mr..
Emmtt at the head of know othing
procession after nearly every prominent
man in the country had become ashamed
of it Perhaps the Catholics may vote
for Mr.. Emmitt. Perhaps not.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

Mr.. Paine, in his speech at Portland on
Monday, opened with few remarks per-
sonal to himself He said he was born in
Jackson county, and had resided on the
farm where he was born until he came to
Jackson couple of years ago. When he
was boy Vinton county was organized,
and he was legislated into the edge of
Vinton county, but large portion of the
old homestead still remained in jackson
county. He and his father, and his
grandfather, had paid taxes into the
treasury of jackson county every year
for more than seventy years. He said he
is still farmer, and he can build as good
haystack as his friend Mclaughlin He,
(Paine) knew what rake, and hoe,
and spade were made for; he had hand
led them.
Mr.. Paines opening remarks were cut
ting rebuke to the sniveling old hypo-
critic and carpet bagger who has been here
four years, but who has never been per-
mitted to vote in the county and who
has never paid one cent of taxes in Jack
son county, but who has been constantly
abusing Mr. Paine, without any cause or
.eason.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

BRO. Mackley frequently quotes from
the Herald bat he lets the Fifty Cents a
day severely alone; also the $l469.9O Pat
terson received from the County Treas
ury to which he was entitled; also. the
action of the Commissioners and Charley
Atkinson. These are matters of great
interest to the people of the County, Bro.
Mackley, why don't you discuss them for
the benefit of your readers ?''-[W. c..
Gould, in Jackson Herald.
1t is matter of great interest to your
Sabbath School class, your brethren in
the church, and the American Bible Soci-
ETY., to know just where you asked that
negro cook in Chillicothe to take YOU
Why don't you discuss this question for
the benefit of your brethren If you
don't want to do SO, we propose to do it,
for their benefit if you don't stop lying
about that fifty cents day.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05
Letter from Illinois
WATSON STATION, August 90, 1877

WATSON STATION, August 90 1878.
To the Editor of the Standard:
Please find enclosed one dollar, for
which please send me the Standard for
another year. Cannot think of doing
without it. | would have sent sooner,
but l had thought making Ohio visit
this Fall, but financial affairs wont per-
nit We have the lightest corn crop in
this section that has been for years. We
cannot have over onefourth of crop.
Our wheat oats and grass were good.
Considerable excitement here in regard
to yellow fever. A case reported at
Edgewood, nine miles South of US and
one at station twenty-three miles
South, but don't know how true it is, as
any. person getting sick and having to be
put off cars would be reported yellow
fever. Best regards to all OF my old
friends in jackson.
Yours truly,
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05
The Saddest Fate.

To touch a broken lutte,
To strike n tangled string,
To strive with tones forever mute,
The dear old tune to sing
What Sadder fate could my heart befall?
Alas dear child, never to sing at all.
To sigh for pleasures flown,
To weep for withered flowers;
To count the blessings we have known,
Lost with the vanished hours
What Sadder fate could any heart befall?
Alas, dear child, ne'er to have known them all
/ dream of love and rest,
To know the dream has past,
To bear within an aching breast
Only void at last
What Sadder fate could my heart befall?
Alas! dear child, never to have loved at all.
To trust an unknown good,
To hope, but all in vain
Over far-off bliss to brood,
Only to find it pain
What Sadder fate could any soul befall?
Alas! dear child, never to hope at all.
1.-THE Aldine.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

"Mackley talks of Democratic County
Commissioners loaning themselves mon
ey. Does he know that Republican
County Treasurer named Cherrin gton,
loaned Republican County Commission
er named Plummer, 100000 out of the
County Treasury at ten per cent? Say p
Il Herald.
We do not know of any such thing,
and if you do, we demand the'proof We
prove all we charge on Democratic off
cials, from the public records. If Repub-
lican officials have violated the law, bring
out your records. If they have expended
the public money in furnace speculations,
or in any other way, and never paid ii
back, trot out your record
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05

Here is an article from the Hamden
Leader which should be a warning to
mischievous boys everywhere
Last Wednesday afternoon |. n. Mil
ler, Superintendent of the Marietta and
Cincinnati Telegraph Line, appeared be-
fore S.. F. Cramer, J. P, and swore out a
warrant for the arrest of Vernanda
Thomas, George Miller and Gill. Young
charging them with maliciously destroy
ing telegraph insulators, etc. Constable
Lou Miller succeeded in arresting George
Miller, but the other two boys had "got
wind" of the matter and left town. Mil
ler was arraigned for trial on Thursday
morning following and plead mot guilty
to the charge The J. P. upon hearing
the evidence bound him over TO court in
the sum of 500. The other boys have
not been arrested up to this time. Mil
Ter is out on bail This is practice that
not only the small, but large boys are in
the habit of indulging in, and which
Supt. Miller says he intends to have
stopped let it cost what it may.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-09-05
JAMES B. PAINE.

Democratic demagogues have good
deal to say about being the friends of the
laboring man, wanting to send farmers to
the Legislature, etc. Now, it may not be
generally known that Mr.. Paine Repub-
lican candidate Tor Representative, is
farmer, but such is the fact Mr.. Paine
is now engaged in farming, in connection
with his brother. But, like a great many
sensible farmers, Mr. Paine considers it
no crime to secure a good education, or
even to practice law. Anything which is
of interest to the farmers, interests Mr..
Paine, and farmers, and workingm en-,
can vote for him with full confidence that,
if he is elected, their interests will be
carefully looked after. We might name
farmer or two on the Democratic ticket,
who fall far behind Mr.. Paine as farmers.