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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23
Into Mischief.

Dancing feet and busy fingers,
Never still the whole day through,
For the little brain from dreamland
Brings them work enough to do,
Racing through the gorgeous parlor,
Romping on the winding stair,
Tearing books and breaking vaces-
Into mischief everywhere.
Picks the cakes and tastes the Jelly,
Breaks the window, slams the door,
Throws the statues from their brackets
Scatters playthings on the floor,
Tearing little coats and trowsers,
Runpling up his curly hair
Busy, naughty little fingers,
Into mischief everywhere.
Spilling ink upon the carpet,
Dashing pictures from the wall:
Breaking mirrors, singing, shouting,
In the attic and the hall;
Tracking mud across the entries,
Turning over desk and chair,
Cutting up the morning paper
Into mischief everywhere.
But no look of hate or malice
Darkens DER those laughing eyes;
Not thought of harm or SHINING
In his little bosom lies.
For his soul is pure and guileless,
Whate'r harm the fingers do
Though the little feet are straying
Into mischief all day through.
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Saved By Accident.
A Detectives Story.

Langley, I've got a job for you
one that must be attended to i'm
mediately.-Are. you ready to
travel ?"
This was the salutation / received
from my chief one afternoon, as I
entered headquarters after hard
days work.
"At q moments notice." replied
-"or at least as soon as can put
on a disguise, should that be no.
cessary.'
"Good r. said the chief, "for that
is oil the time I am able to give you.
Ihave just received information that
Sam Wolfe is in this town, and that
he 10 to leave today by the @. and Il.
Railroad. think we have now an
opportunity of tracking him to bis
headquarters. and I want you to do
the job"
Il should like nothing better"
"Very we'll then start at once
ior the railroad depot. l don't
know what train he is going on but
you can wait until you see him.
You are sure you cannot mistake
him.
Il should know him in any dis
guise," ! replied, as I left the room.
sam Wolfe, or "Slippsry Sam"
a. he was generally called. was, at
the time OF which | write, one Of the
moss dangerous counterfsiters iu
sne country and the chief Of . large
eAss' We had ios along time been
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23

HEREDITARY DISEASE. AS to be-
ing inflicted with gout,' Said Mrs.
Partington, looking very wisely rs
she stirred her tea, "high living
doesn't always bring it on, defend
upon it, though it generally does,
sometimes. 1t is incoherent in
some families, and is handed down
from father to sou. Mr.. Hammer.
poor soul, who has been so long con-
ilicted with it, incoherits il from his
wifes grandfather" very quoor
transmitted gout, net 50.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23
A light aiiair-A lamp.
The railroad frog cant swim.

The railroad frog cant swim.
A young fellow pressing his Owl
suit frequently wrinkles the girls.
He who does not strive to render
others happy, does not deserve hap
piness.
An Iowa paper speaks OF couple
who were separated by cold cloud
Of realism. This is new name for
the old mans boot.
Owing to the trichina prevailing
in American pork, railway eating
houses are using sole leather in
manufacturing sandwiches.
A great many peoples morality
resembles sign posts at the corners
Of country roads. They point in the
right direction, but they don't bulge
an inch themselves.
A we'll cooked breakfast will do
more toward preserving peace 10 the
family than will seven notices on
the wall, even though they be franz
ed 10 the most elaborate OF gilt
moulding.
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The people of Now Jersey town
are 10 fsarfnlly lazy that when the
wife OF II minister who had just set
tied in that town asked a prominen t
citizen il the inhabitants generally
respected the Sabbath and refrained
from business, ho replied &: "Cou-
found it, ma'am, they don't do
e's--Ssn wo.a in the whole week to
break tho Sabbate if it was all dono
on that day
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"What,' asked a Galveston Sun
day School teacher, 'is that invisi-
ble power tina, prevents the wicked
man from sleeping and causes him
to toss about upon his pillow, and
what should he do to enjoy that
peace that passeth understanding ="
Sew up the hole in the mosquito
bar" was the prompt answer from
the bad boy at the foot OF the class.
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"Mother," romarkod Il Dlluth girl,
IL think Harry must be going to
propose +, me "Why 50, my dangh-
ter 2 qucrel tho old lady, lay
ing down her spectacles, while her
face bcamcd ike tho moon 10 its
fourteenth night. "Well, be asked
me this evening II | wasn't tired OF
living with such rcnaserio as you
md dud"
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Thirteen years ago Mr-. Henry
Joscphs, Of Pine BluiT, Ark swal-
lowed needle, and last Thursday it
was pickel ont ia sawlos in Bay
City, Mich. We do not pretend to
account for i, it is all we can do to
give tho fuct.
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H O q { II v.
The Water that has Passed.

Listen to the water-mill,
Through the live-long day.
How the clanking of the wheels
Wears the hours away
Languidly the autumn wind
Stirs the greenwood leaves
From the field the reapers sing,
Binding up the sheaves,
And a proverb haunts my mind,
As spell is cast
"The mill will never grind
With the water that has passed. ="
Take the lesson to thyself,
Living heart and true
Golden years are ileeting by,
Youth is passing, too
Learn to make the most Of life,
Lose no happy day
Time will never bring thee back
Chances swept away
Leave no tender word unsaid
Love while life shall last
'The mill will never grind
With the water that has passed"
Work while yet the daylight shines
Man Of strength and will;
Never does the streamlet glide
Useless by the mill.
Wait not until to-morrow's sun
Beams upon the way;
All that thou canst call thy own
Lies In thine to-day.
Power, intellect and health
May not, cannot last;
1.-The mill sill never grind
With the water that has passed. .
oh, the wasted hours of life
That have drifted by;
Oh, the good we might have done,
Lost without sigh;
Love that we might once have saved
BY single word;
Thoughts conceived but never penned
Perishing unheard.
Take the proverb to thine heart,
Take, oh hold it fast
''The mill will never grind
With the water that has passed"
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23

The golden sovereign makes less
noise iu the contribution box than a
penny piece, principally for the rea
son that it is never put in except by
editors, and they are not very pune
tual attendants.
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TO CONSUM'TIVES

Tho advertiser, having been uermaneutIy
cured ci that drest disease, COnsunpti1n, by A
s,inple remedy, IL anxious 10 make known TO
ms lello" sufferers the means OF cure. tn all
who doslro II, no viii isend u copy of tho prs
scrlptinn usoi, lfre' Ot charge with the dire,.
lions Tor preparing AMI using tho same, WHOA
lhey wiz hmI srHE cuHE Tor CONSUMPTION,
AsTHMA, liHoSCuITIs, Ac,
Parties wishi the Prescription, viii please
address, Rev, T.. A. WILSON, lpl Penn St,
Williamsburg, n. Y.
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Josh Billings on "OispepshY. =

for ~ years aud four months, and
it would have been mummy in my
pocket. il l had been born without
any stummuck.
L have prayed upward OF one
thousand times to be on tho inside
like au ostrich, or travelling col,
porter.
have seen travelling colporters
who could eat as much as n goose.
have seen goose eat till i,
couldn't stand up any more, and
then set down and eat sum aud then
roll over and eat sum more.
1 have tried living on filtered
water and going barefooted for tho
dispepshy, and that didu't hit the
spot. | have soaked myself at n
water cure establishment until |
waz 30 timber that kouldn't get
myself bak again inside ov my Bald
win apparel.
l bought saddle horse once, who
was got up expressly to kuro the dis q.
pepshy in 30 days or kill the borse.
/ lie waz warranted to pull harder
than trip hammer, pull wusser on
the bits and tumble safer down bill
than emmy other boss on the foot
stool.
| rode the boss until | was ov a
jelly, and then sold him bride and
oil for sixty eight dollars, aud got
sued by the purchaser, and had to
pay him ninety dollars aud some
sents damage. because tho horse
"Ninshys,' a disease l knu nothing
about.
The boss aud fixings cost me $3.50
in gold.
l kontrakted for eleven kords Of
hicory wood krossed grained, aud as
phull of wrinkles as an old cows
horn, and sawed away three months
on it, and the pile seemed to grow
bigger every day.
l finally gave away the saw and
what wood there was left. to save
my lie, and sat down discouraged,
a square victim to tho dispepshy.
have lived at tho seaside, and
gamboled at the saliae flood until
waz NJ u number one salt mackrol.
have walked two miles before
breakfast, and then cit sack Of dry
toast, aud half tho yelk of pullcts
eg, and felt Nil the time az weak oz
n kitten that haz just come out OF II
fit.
hav laid down moro than two
thousand times, and rolled over once
n minnit in all night long and got
mp in the morning like II corpse, aud
their didn't nothin seem TO all me
enuy where in particular.
| have read whole librays on the
stummuck and liver, aud when ! got
thru, | kou great deal less what
was tho matter ov me than when |
began.
have drank whislee with roots
in it enuif to carry o.. ny bridge or
sawmill in the country.
| have worked on farm for nv
vittles and board, and dietei on fried
pork and ri bread until was or
thin az the sermon ova 7 day Bap.
tist preacher.
l have dun these things and 10
thousand other things just as riiiki-
lus, and hav got the old dispepshy
yet, just as natural and as thik az
tho pImples on a four year old
goose.
If you get good holt of the dis
pepshy once you can't never loose it
entirely it will come around once
in a while like ghost, and if it
don't scare yu so much as it did
once, and make yu think yu arc go-
ing to die Tomorrow it will make yu
feel just az sorry.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23
How II Pays To lake A Newsp aper

Some papers are not OF much ac-
count AZ to appearance, but | never
took one tina, did not pay nc, il
some way, more than ] paid for it.
Que time an old friend started ,
little paper awRy down in South.
western Georgia, and sent it to me
aud | subscribed just to encourage
him, aud 50 after awhile it published
II notice that an administrators had
an order to sell several lots at pub.
lie ou'cry, and one of the lots was in
my county. So | inquired about
tho lot, and wrote to my friend tC
attend the sale and run it to fifty
dollars. ilo did SO, and bid OF til,
lot to me at thirty dollars, and
seld 1T in month to n man it Joined
for hundred, and so | made sixty.
eight dollars clear by taking that
paper. My father told mo that
when no was young man ho saw
u notice III paper that schoo
teacher was wanted away off in q
distant county, aud ho went there
aud got the situation, aud it'll,
girl was sout t. him, aud after
awhile she grew up mighty sweet
aud pretty, and he fell in love with
her and married her. Now, if be
hadn't taken that paper, what dc
you reckon would have become OF
me ? Wouldn't / be some other
fellow, or may not bo at all 7-E.c
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23

Loud and boisterous talking, or
laughing, should always be avoided
Nothing sis so lady like as low and
well-modulated voico.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23
R'HHk G'5IES.

VIII mail Lfrce. the recipe Tor q simple,
,EknhlAhi. BALM tiat viii remove TAN
fKttk LIS, PlMPLES ani BLDrCuES
leaving the skin soii, clear aud beautiful also
INSTRUCTIONS for producing luxuriant growth
81 halr On bald head or smooth face Al.
X NO., Nerkmnn 81. N. \.
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23
(lticl1ra
hching HVmors, !Scoly Uumors,
Biood HUmors, speedily, perma-
nenHy anil economically cured
'rhen physicjans and all other
nethOis faiied.g

Cut'curn Ns'oire"t. the now BLOOD Puri.
Nor. internally, CrrtCvuN. n Neitsinnt JeIIy
assisted by tho Crrt.UuN MEptctNAL Ann
loiItr soar externally, have reformed the
ctoinlous Humors ever re- ordod In medical
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23
Errors of Youth.

n tENlLtNNN who suffered fir wears from
T. Nervous DEHlLlfY, PREMATURE DE.
tAf AMI all the effects Of youthful indiscre.
tl"n, wiz Tor the sake Of suffering humanity
soni ireo 10 all VIII usel II the recips AMI III.
rectlon Tor making thcsimplc remedy by which
10 wa cured. sufferers Wishing t. pront nv
The aivertiser's experience can dn SO IS az.
dressing In ret'ect confidence. JOHN b. 90.
DEN, ~ &c lar ST., New!lOTk.
Ian. 81, 'sl6m.
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SKIN DISEASE.

=. \. steele, E.p., Chicsgn, III says: ~
viii say that b'iOre used Cuticura Rcmedie
] was W n fearful state, AMI had given up n
hope Of over having any relief They have
petinrmed wonderful cure Tor me, and of my
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23

POTTER, Chemists aud druggists, JJJ Wash.
lnptnn St, hustDu, and are Tor sala hy ali
Druggists. Pfico Of Cuticura, y Msdlcin,l
Jeliy, small boxes, So cents; large boX,a al
tuticutia RcSulyont the new Blood Further
" per hottie. 'uticura Medicinal Toilet Sunp
2a cents tuticura Medicinal shaving -o.p,
10 cent; In bars tor BARRIERS aud large ronsun
crs. 81 cents All mailoi tree on receIpt OF
price. send tor illustrated treatise On the
skin
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23

When a young man wants to pro-
tect a yonng lady he naturally puts
his armor round her.
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THE POST.
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SAIL RhEuM-

WIZ Mcdonald 2iJ2 Dearborn street, Ont.
cngo' gratefully acknowledges cure Of salt
hheun IN head neck, tHce arms anil legF for
seventeen ycats: not nblc TO walk except on
hands AMI kures tor ono year; not able TO holm
hlihscli Tor elght year,: triei hundreds of rem.
cdics; doctors prnnOuncoI hts rass hopsles,i
permanently cured 10y tho Cuticura RomeIles
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ECZEMA RODENT.

" W Dr"h", Esq. ngcnt for Harper and
Htcihet- Detroit, Mich. gives an Astonishing
account VI hts case tEcEcm, UodenU when
had been treated by consultation OF physI-
clnns without honeht, and which speedily Yield
Ul to the Juticurn ltenedios '
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,he person ordering them will ue held;
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RlNGWORM.

Geo. w. irovn, .. Marshall strect, PROV.
lden'c, ". l. cured by Cuticura Kcmodirp Of a
Ritgworn llumor, got At tho BARRIERS, which
spread al ever his ears. neck and tacc anu for
Elk years resisted all kiuds of treatment.
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-12-24
St.. Charles College,
A COTEAU La.

GRAND COTEAU, Id.
Conducted by Fathers of the Society
of Jesus.
LOCATION most healthy and
pleasant, on the Alexandria Branch
Of the Morgan N. O. and Texas
R.R, IL miles by rail from Yer.
milionville. Beautiful Fairgrounds
and avenues Of oak trees Bull.
DINGS comfortable. CHURCH
new and magnificent, divine ser.
vice impressive. FARE substantial
and wholesome. EDUCATION pa
ternal, cultivating the heart as
we'll as the Mind. Classical. Sci.
entiic and Commercial Courses.
Special attention paid to Book
keeping and Penmanship. TERMS
moderate. Per Session : Board,
Tuition, Wasing $3.50, BED & Bed
ding $40, Medical Fees 10.-First
Entrance or matriculation Fee 10.
-OPENING Of Session 1s8O-81.
October 18th REFERENCES:
President of st. Charles College
Jesuit Fathers, ~ O.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-12-24
THE SUN.

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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-12-24
CONsU MILTON CURED.

An old physician retired from active
practice, having had placed in his hands
by an East Indian missionary the formnls
OF a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy aud permanent cure Of Consump-
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using. Address with stamp naming this
paper, DR.. j. G. STONE. Al North Ninth
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.-Nov. ~.
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It fence, and can be had at a moderate price and on very good

picket fence, and can be had at a moderate price and ON very good
terms.
No. Is A valuable lot in the Town of New iberia, on church st.
100 yards from the Methods, thnrch, very suitable for a residence
or business stand, measuring 200 feet front by $50 feet deep. The
same can be had on a good bargain.
No. lG This beautiful and well improved property is situated in
his town on rue du-Bas-ie-Vie. The lot measures 80 feet front by
LAG feet deep, g large c~ommodious and well furnished dwelling house
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also a large cistern, everything perfectly new and enclosed with
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sgg~ Several other properties are for sale, description Of the same
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purchasing closely would do well to consult him.
\ full stock of general merchandise and of the most selected quail
ties is constantly on hand and at The fairest prices. Customers. white
or colored can rely that they will always receive as in the past the
best attention.--my "a 791y.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-12-24
LII. Leguennec,

WHEELWRIGHT & BLACKSMITH.
l respectfully announce to the
public thatl keep Oh hand all the
Different materials apperfaining
to sewing machines, If all kinds,
and more especially to the Singer;
and also the genuine machine oil.
| also have bnggies and hacks
for sale, and make and repair the
same at prices to suit the times.
Sept-7'78.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-12-24
Advance and Retreat.
Personal Experiences in the
United States and Confeder-
ate States Armies
BY Gen. j. B. HOOD,
Late Lieutenant-G General Confed.
crate States Army, published for
THE HOOD ORPHAN MEM
DRILL FUND
Gen. G.. T.
NEW ORLEANS, 1880.

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