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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-06-26

How a Church da4e hiJoey.

NJtw,ih-,andin. IN e tact tuat The
ice cram nni strawberry festival
scl,ln Ni'l -oln t- p.hrrtd ~. e New
jer,ey church con rrgatloa At Enslc-
wood h,s ,v,srI Dev aud yory
nking scheme tor tai,n- funds !.
has many sivnntlgrs oven the o!i
grlhhinG All fair scheme, ~ It coats
ultn.Us t1 got ~, sut /. bound ID
limo 10 wrench the last ehcs"l ou'
II every mau IN the cummuLlty, :
tho sister, are endowed wlth the
proper CllisiiIn toru,aie sal have
physical endl, anca t, stand It, 1be
Plan Is simply t1 charge sO mach !1r
kissing AMI husSins the sisters
4 rate OF charly, WAS h:ei, wt'c"
,ppeags t. b1 yNy TeGsJneo.e and
just
Ten oonts for kissing Il girl ho-
tween fifteen an! twenty five cents
extra Tor Lusging.
fiye cents for kissing girl be
tween twenty and thirty Ave cents
extra for hugGiug.
Over thirty, five ceu.s al sround.
FOX kissing young widow, tTen-
ty.iye ceuts; hugging, ten cents
extra
For kissing married lady, fifty
cents husS,ag, Twenty-Five cents
extra.
The nowplan worked ike charm,
The ravenlus We're larS the SIS
ters mllo supren,ly happy, ani
although the yoHug meu III ths town
over-excrtei themselves, yot taey
arc satisfied.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-06-26

A gcutleman vss disturbed from
his rest in the middle of the might
by some one knocking on the street
door. WHO'S there - be asked.
"A friend was the answer "M hat
10 you Naut ;'"l want t. stay here
III night. "QGeer taste stay there
10y all means, VAS the benevolent
ranlv
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-06-26
GABRIELLE.
EASTER EVEN.
1856.

And underneath, in golden letters,
the former things ara passed away.
We passed quickly out of tho church
yard on to Il sweep OF soft turf, shad
ed by stately weeping willows, from
under which groups OF startled deer
gazed wouderingly at rs with mild,
liquid eyes, aud reached many
gabled Mansion, that seemsd to be
ia solemn state in the Moonlight.
Another moment, aud we were in u
darkly wainsooted room, where II
lamp burned on a bracket beneath
tho picture Of u child, In tho crim>
son shadow Of velvet curtains, sup
ported by richly carved pillars, slept
Gabrielle Father and Mother. In
Shsir cslm faces | seemed to read a
tale Of sorrow, of strife aud then Of
victory--something OF what years
had brought them sinsa they laid
their ouly child to rest bapeath tho
whito cross.
Truly I longsd that they might
awake. il but for ono momont, to be-
hold their darling ~ she bent over
them--the deep pure love OF Heaven
shining in her steadfast gazs. But
they lay in 10 maiestio q rsposo, that
I could almost fancy them tho mar
'bls sG.glss VI spws apeispb towb,
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-06-26
lhe pto7ix Pec.oraI

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ON ~. M cuu.l.u I'VE. anl children 10
l-e,.s saco,i II .fpqs q rSpza. Il sli.eS-
/. ctb-.u1n 4 Stves 'ttTt -el'et n gives
itrrr.,- Ith-.uI. rest Il EAs made a1fe
rtf..t.', am athtr Iaail.igc rHuH-hlis %
d. ei.ii.a. % -a.rcrn d n0silSl1H tN'e
r..'I or wear. 80. . / testify 8 t-s reflex
al,-a Nnf cur~. c. 4
r.i.s. 8 cents - Iatf',s f1r a..
~. .1r.i ol leg4 Nlrra1 'g-' " u a"i
l.Iou D : Nu.tr Mi'llrNa'E a1i S.2s
.rstru \ b.r er. tsEtrg' '.l.e, IA,
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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-06-26

An old lady seeing a sign over the
door Of an umbrella shop "umbrel-
las recovered went in aud told the
shopmsn tina. she would Ike him to
recover the one that WAS stolen
from her the seek previoas,
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-06-26

A Texas man shot I've men and
no attention Was paid 10 it, but one
day he stole = mule. aud in less than
an hour the iafuTiAtsd eitisens hang
ed hin.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-06-26

Birds sins sweetest in spring
tune. whom they arc choosing
mates, Before fall they will be
over & worm aud picking
sAeh othss : syss eal Such y lie
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-06-26

Advertising Rates.

Advertising Rates.
On column one year, seo.0e
One-half, column, one year, 5000
One-fourth column, one year, 1900
One square 10 lines) insertion 75
Every additional insertion, go
Professionalism Business cards Of
not more than 5 lines, per year, 500
Auditor, Executor, Administrator
and Assignee Notices, $50
Editorial notices per line, Is
All transcient advertising less than
3 mouths 10 cents line.
All advertisements for shorter Pc
riod than one year are payable at the
the person ordering them will oe held
responsible for the money.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18

from which it viii be seen that both he
and Conductor Stance hardly varied
from me, though the opportunity of both
for absolute correctness did not equal
mine. | showed my record to Osmond,
who said: "Give me two cars in
stead of four, and I'll pledge myself
to make that mile in forty-five Sec
onds.'
In conclusion, may say that if have
not established my assertion as to the
speed of which our lines are capable,
then do not know how it can be done.
There are a dozen trains on the Penn
sylvania Road which make a mile a min
ute on every trip. Chales Lynch, when
RUNNING the newspaper line, went from
New Brunswick to Trenton three times
in one week in % minutes, the distance
being over 26 miles Yesterday an ex-
President of the New Jersey Senate sat
in the seat with me on the train which
leaves Trenton at three minutes after 10,
and we together timed the train for sew
eral miles, each of which was made in
side of minute. On the day preced-
inc, the same train ran from Elizabeth
to Newark in > minutes, the distance
being $40 miles. The train has run
from Trenton to Jersey City in l hour
and 9 minutes, making four stops, be-
sides slowing up in going through the
cities. Allowing three minutes for stop
ping and starting, and remembering
that the distance between the two points
named is a trife under 81 miles, ii will
be admitted than the train must have
struck mile a minute at several points
on the route.
However, submit my figures as OBJ
tanned to-day, on the run between West
Philadelphia and Jersey City. They
we're made with the utmost care. Sit
ting on the engine, was enabled to see
the mile posts as we approached them,
and being prepared with watch in hand,
am sure that the record as | took it is
as nearly correct as it can possibly be
made. As | have already stated, any
passenger on the trains leaving Jersey
CITY at $3.50 and :05 for Philadelphia,
or the the latter city at SO in the morn
ing, can easily convince himself that q
mile minute is an ordinary speed, and
made on every trip. The mile posts are
provided the entire way, and all the pas
senger needs is reliable watch and Il
careful eye.
| should also add that the run this
morning, as have recorded it, was the
ordinary one, which is made daily. En-
gineer Osmond put forth no special eff
fort, but spun along just as he has done
for more than year past, and as he eX-
poets to do for an indefinite time to
come, excepting, perhaps, with the pos
sible contingency that he may conclude
of the New York division.
TRENTON, Sept. 4. E. S. ELLIS.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
Haryard's Chinese Professor.

The arrival of the gorgeously cos
tuned new Chinese Professor at Har-
ward, Ko Kun Hua, with his wife, five
children and interpreter, created some
stir in drowsy Cambridge. President
Eliot being away yachting, the party
was temporarily quartered in the hos
pital building, near Holiness Field.
The establishment of the professOrship
is due to the efforts of Francis p. Knight
of this city, at present United States
Consul at New Chwang, China. Mr.
Knight, when last here, in the early part
of 1877, proposed to President Eliot the
establishment of ProfesSorship of Chi
nese at Harvard, reasoning that it would
be of great advantage to young men in
tending to enter commercial life, and
who would be likely to engage in
business with the East, to have
speaking familiarity with the
Chinese language. President Eliot
took counsel with the Boston mer-
chants engaged in the China trade, and
then wrote to Mr.. Knight, stating his
harmony with his views Subsequently,
the necessary money for limited trial
of the plan having been raised by pri-
vate subscription, the Harvard Univer-
sity corporation authorized Mr.. Knight
to engage competent instructor, act
ing as agent for them. There the mat
ter rested for Il while, and it began to be
supposed that nothing would come of it.
when a dispatch was received from Mr..
Knight that the Professor had been en-
gagged. The written agreement under
which Prof. Kun Hua comes here was
drawn up at Shanghai May 26, 1879,
between Mr.. Knight, as agent Of the
President and Fellows of Hazard Col
lege, and Prof. Kun Hua, who was the
Sub-prefect of NingpO. According to
its terms, he is to teach Mandarin Chi
neSe for three years, at 5000 a month,
and was to receive first-claSS pas
sage from Shanghai to Cambridge
for himself and the family men
toned above. 1t is proposed to
teach Chinese for commercial purposes
alone. Nothing has been said about
studying Chinese literature as Il branch
of education at Harvard, nor has there
ever been an expressed desire on the
part of any student for an opportunity
to perfect himself in that department.
1t is not decided yet how the language
will be taught, in what collegiate year
the instruction will be given, how ample
will be the opportunity of taking up the
study, or what books will be used. All
that has been done so far is to decide
that the language shall be taught and to
get the teacher here. At the opening
of the fall term complete arrangements
will be made, and ambitious young men
can add another to their list of linguistic
accomplishments. Prof. Kun Hua is
about 40 years of age, rather slender,
and of medium height, and is regarded
by Mr.. Knight as an excellent man for
his position-New York Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
Intelligent WOrkmen Needed.

Notice was taken in a recent issue OF
this paper of the experience of a large
shoe manufacturer of this State, who
advertised in Boston and New York for
% shoe-fitters to work in his factory, Of
fering full current rates and steady
work. The advertisement brought one
application.
About the same time q Boston firm
advertised for a bOok-keeper, and the
next days mail brought 347 answers.
During the same month an advertise
ment for a clerk, in a Detroit paper,
brought $50 applications the first day,
and a greater number of letters and per-
sonal applications the next day.
An advertisement for a week in the
same city, calling for carpenter,
brought only four replies. -.
1t is altogether probable that in any
considerable city in the land, an adver-
tisement for a book-keeper or retail
clerk will bring fifty times as many re-
plies as an advertisement for fair work.
man in any trade.
1t is also probable that in any and ev-
ery city the average earnings of clerks
are nowhere near so large as the earn
ings of workmen of average skill in the
various trades.
Further, it is fairly certain that, with
equal capacity, industry, and thrift, the
young man who learns any trade will
achieve reasonable competence sooner
than the young man who sticks to clerk
ing: while the chances for materially
improving ones condition are more nu-
merous in the trades than behind the
counter or at the desk.
Why is it, then, that the boys all want
to be clerks? Why is it that intelligent
parents encourage them in looking for a
chance to "get into business" and in
looking down on mechanical employ
ment-as though there could be any call
inc more wretchedly mechanical than
average clerking? Why is it that teach
ers almost invariably train their pupils
to "look above mechanical pursuits
What the country wants now is work
men-intelligent, industrious, thrifty
workmen; men who can do skillfully the
work that waits for the dOing-whO can
invent new and better processes for de-
veloping the crude resources of the land,
and for converting brute matter into
DEMONSTRATING and life-enriching wealth.
Mere clerks and record keepers are at a
discount. There are too many of them.
And the professions, so called, are al
most equally crowded with men who
have nothing to do. There never was a
time when ability to do something real
and practical was worth so much as
now. Yet our young men swarm after
clerkships. Why is it?-Sctent!ft
american.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
Not Domestic, but "Littely."

One of those incongruities which Sol
ONION referred to IN Prov. 14:22, is
sketched by writer in the Boston Jour
nal:
1.-The writer recalls a circumstance
noticed in popular hotel in Florida
some winters ago. The outer air was
somewhat damp and chilly, and the
guests had congregated in the parlors.
The GENITAL figure in one of the groups
was a maiden from Philadelphia, the
richness of whose apparel and the bril-
liancy of whose jewels far be it from the
writer to attempt to describe. A circle
of admirers was gathered about this fair
and dazzling creature, listening to her
words, and we drew modestly within the
outer lines, to bask for moment In her
radiance. The conversation had some
now turned upon domestic matters, and
these were the words which we heard
fall from the lips OF the maid of lace and
diamonds: well, l don't know much
about housekeepin' and such things, but
achen ii comes 10 any thing litter'y, Tn
there p"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
The Esthetics OF Wine and Tobacco.

Says Sir. Henry Thompson in the
Nineteenth Century:
Unquestionably tobacco is an ally of
temperance; certainly it is SO in the eS-
timation of the gourmet. A relationship
for him of the most perfect order is that
which subSists between coffee and fra
grant smoke. While wine and tobacco
are antipathetic, the one affecting in
juriously all that is grateful in the
other, the aroma of coffee "marries
perfectly with the perfume of the finest
leaf. Among the Mussulmans this re-
lationship is recognized to the fullest
extent; and also throughout the Cont
nent the use of coffee, which Is almost
symbolical of temperate habits, is init
mately associated with the cigarette or
cigar. Only by the uncultured class
es of Great Britain and of other north
ern nations, who appear TO possess the
most insensitive palates in Europe, have
smoke and alcoholic drinks been closely
associated. BY such, tobacco and spirit
have been sought chiefly as drugs, and
are taken mainly for their effects on the
nervous systematic easy but disastrous
means of becoming stupid, besotted, or
drunk. People of cultivated tastes, on
the other hand, select their tobacco or
their wines, not for their qualities as
drugs, but for those subtler attributes of
flavor and perfume, which exist often in
inverse proportion to the injurious mar
cote ingredients; which latter are as
much as possible avoided, or are accepted
chiefly for the sake of the former.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18

Parable of the prodigal son; but there
was no answer, except to forward the
remains when Charles was dead.
CHARLES A. GOODMAN took great
pains to get a little money from Miss
Roberts, in Cincinnati. They boarded
in the same house, she being dress
maker and he a reputed eX-army officer.
He told her that he was very wealthy,
although the fact was that he was pen
niless adventurer. She fell in love with
him, but hesitated about marrying him
before learning something of his antece
dents. One day he pretended to faint
away, and, on being put to bed, said
that his illness would quickly kill him.
as it was the result of an old wound
which he had long known would finally
prove fatal. He expressed a desire to
marry Miss Roberts before he died, and
bequeath her all his property. She con-
scented, and they became husband and
wife. Then he recovered, permitted his
wife to pay his board for several weeks,
borrowed the $50, all her savings, and
disappeared.
LIFE in Memphis is described as be-
ing only little more wholesome than
death. Yellow flags are displayed at
every turn and crossing. The hospital
sign was counted in eight places along
one short square a few days ago, and
since then two others have been added.
The curfew-bells now tolls at 9 O'Clock,
and after that hour the streets are de-
serted. In the last epidemic crowd of
whisky-drinking nurses and seltzer-wa-
ter doctors kept the town alive. In this
epidemic the only sign of life is the en-
campment of colored troops on the bluff.
The reveille and the O'Clock matinee,
when the band plays, are, as CORE
spondent says, ''the cheerful characters
tics of the present campaign. Fire
alarms last week relieved the monOtony,
but since the watchfulness of the author
ties has been redoubled even the torch
doeSni T. flicker
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
A Poor Widows Valuable Picture.

The wOrthlessneSs or waste of money
to those who misunderstood its use is
witnessed often enough in the case of
many who should know better. An ex-
ample of real ignOrance-and
singularly forcible one-is the following,
related by an officer of the Bank of
England to a London correspondent:
A poor little Hungarian widow, living
in garnet at LimehOuse with her deaf
and dumb son, was overtaken by the
hard times, and fell i'll. This was at
the end of the year. The neighbors
wanted to fetch the relieving officer and
the parish doctor, but the old creature,
who hardly knew word of English,
made it known that she wanted no aid
of any kind. At last she became in
sensible, and then the other dodgers and
the landlord entered her room. They
found it wretchedly furnished, but plas-
tered all over with colored prints and
engravings. Looking over these, one OF
the intruders saw hundred-pOund note
posted between q cut from the London
Illustrated NewS and q business card.
Doubling his eyes, he drew the attention
of others to it, and the doctor, who had
been sent for, coming in at the time, the
fact was made known to all. An at
tempt was made to detach the precious
engraving from the wainscot, but to no
purpose, and by direction Of the medi-
cal man, the piece of panel was cut out,
taken to the Bank of England, and
cashed on the nail, when the doctor ex-
planned that the proceeds would be lOdg-
| cd Tn the credit of the old ladV who with
her son, was made more comfortable
than she had ever been. 1t seems she
picked up the note two years ago, and
seeing in it only a picture, fixed it
on the wall of her room, where it re-
manned an unsupported treasure until
discovered
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18

tic coast and the rest of mankind. 1t
may be that a new source of supply for
the wants of mankind has been diseov-
cred, and that furs and oil at least from
this almost wholly inaccessible region
NAV be added to the trade of the world.
The voyage of the Vega is one of the
great accomplishments of the age.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
10 CnaREspnNnENrs

All colalnunicai ions forthis papcrsh Guild be
accompunicd hy The name Of the auibor, not
necessarily Tor Publication. bufas evidence oi
good faith on the part OF the writer Write
only on one side ot the paper. iie particularly
careful III giving names and DATES, 70 have
hll letters or iigtTes plain and uisiii't
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18

CHICKEN SALAD.-Bol or roast nice
fowl. When cold chop off all the meat
and chop it little, not very small; cut
up large bunch of celery and mix with
the chicken; boil four eggs hard, mash
and mix them with olive oil, pepper,
falt, mustard and gill of vinegar
Beat this mixture together, and Just be
sore serving pour it over the chicken.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18

The coniuring materials taken from a
Georgia negro consisted of goose quilts
filed with broken needles, vial of
iron rust, the feathers of various birds,
and snake skin. The negroes of his
neighborhood had long believed in and
feared his power of working mischief
with charms.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18

AGooD whitewashing, with fresh lime,
at this season of the year, will destroy
the vermin found in almost every hem
merry, which will be great relief to the
poultry. A foul hennery is persecu-
ton to poultry and keeps them from
LAYING. A few cents worth of lime
and a few minutes of time will do the
work effectually.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18

If you are ambitious to move in the
highest circles join the next expedition
to the Arctic circles.
, 1879-02-04

HOUSEHOLD d Go0Ds.~
n nj, ntlu,xn .Anxs 1tnsa VI t44s, - esais p4r ia
attt.a, EucA a4iilftDnut 4Hx ~ etats.
cAnu-ruK us1pS fUKKrTuRE CO.. Ha
~ WcsI Nzlt4on A.. ss1l 81 ktnds u househald
EtuA 1T nth{ ysy 1tau; low eF.esai eAat teiA4s
, 1879-02-04
HOW IS 1HIS2

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Iaks JisrnH NJ Ian. 1R 1R7Q s,uufro bIn&c,f
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us"tue' st.e"" ~" .a'e uee''lon VI ."e nu'
psene Court Us Tue uultcd States, III which tho
constituttonslttY OF thu luw OF lSla. preventing
4ud Furnishing po,ygomy. IL affirmed, aud sse,ua
dcs,rous IN mt,i9.t. iIo e.ver,tv nj ,h.t ,,a-
'..s,'S -. ~ ~ 49, =. ., a. w
ets1oo ny hadtns p!auSaolo oJect1oastot Lie a9Eu-
meutatiVa parts 0l It, ..
Referrlup to the statement by tile Court Of
,. .s,,;r,,. or nnn,i.rcl,ciou. rttex ountp,
s"ese ..,,n.sh",. .ss IN ,xh,,h hnn,an xrt,ms sr,
offered in sacrifice. Md tho 11u.noatton
Of widow upon the funeral pyro Of ber hus-
h.n,, III, srftrr .ssumas tl,at il,n CoUrt could
osuut u'o "''se. w., s.,,.'. ,,.,u.s !. ..s~s
not see OF os mose" W ss.t'"'s "'''ces u "s''
bloody one, or niado At ttc stsgentaon ol
hc.thc ntsh tItc, an! In this connection oilers