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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-04-12

tbr)uyn tue COLO, uamp alt'
Sleeping on feather beds in seven-
by-nine bedrooms, without vcntila-
tion at the top of the windows, aud
especially with two or moro persons
in the same small, unventilated bed
room.
4 Surfeitiug on hot and very
stimulating dinners. Eating in q
hurry, without half mas'icaliug your
food, aud eating heartily before
going to bed every night, when the
mind and body are exhausted by the
tolls OF the day and excitement of
the evening.
5 Beginnin, in childhood on tea
and coffee, and gcipg from ono step
10 another through chewing and
smoking tobacco, aud drinking i'm
toxicating liquors, aud mental and
physical excesses Of every descrip-
tion.
6. Marryil & in haste, and getting
an nncongenial companion, and hv-
ing the remainder Of life in mental
dissatisfaction. Cultivatiug jealous
les and domeetic broils, aud being
always in mental fermeut.
I. Keeping children quiet by
giving paragoric aud cordials, aud
by supplying them with raisins, nuts
aud rich cake. When they arc sicl;
by giving them mercury, tartar-em
etic and arsenic, upder the mistaken
notion that they are medicines aud
not irrilaut poisons,
s. Allowing the love of gain to
absorb our minds 30 as to leave no
timo to attend TO our health. Fol
lowing an unhealthy occupation be.
cause money can bc made by it.
9, Tempting the appetite with
bitters snd nicoties when the stom-
ach says No, and by forcing food
when nature does not demand aud
even rejects it. Gormaudizing be-
tween meals.
10. Contriving to keep in con-
tinual worry about something OF
nothing. Giving away to fits Of an
ger.
IL. Being irregular in all our
habits of sleeping and eating, going
TO bed 81 midnight uud getting up
at noon. Eating too much, too
many kinds Of food, and that which
is too highly seasoned
IL. Neglecting to take proper
care Of ourselves aud not applying
early for medical advice when disS
case first appears.
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THE YOUNG WIFE.

4 don't like you'll l wish / had
never married you = cried Elfrie Sa-
brooke, passionately. Let 90 of my
hahd ! don't want you to come
near me r
She was only l6, this beautiful
passionate young creature with the
olue' glittering eyes and red lips and
hair like golden mist--and Colonel
Saybrooke looked down on her with
astonishment. Elfrie had often been
10 temper with him, but never one
like this.
'Elfrie 7
Don't call me Elfrie Z don't look
~ me- she sobbed. 'You don't love
me-you won't let me go to the
opera with Ralph Eytinger
No, Elfris. but
s, YFISnt to 60 home to mamma. I
hsapd d0,,af left mamma. You
I, him, Wo,p cross aud sour for
y 4 IN short 4
- ssI;uo ~ tn IN her scsIacy Of
'hsvs. ~ never for % ipssaot
\, Z. |tp, settled paIlor that
W hssbaad's ~
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TWELVE WAYS OF CoMMITTING
SUICIDE,

l. Wearing thin shoes and cotton
stockings on damp night aud 10 cool,
rainy weather. Wearing insufficient
and especially upon the
limbs and extremities'
Q. Leading a life of embedding,
cupid laziness, and keeping the mind
10 an unnatura! state Of excitement
by reading romapces. Going to
theatres. parties and ralls IL all sorts
u weather. IL tho tbirpesl possibls
Treas Dancing, gu pplste
'erspIfaliou, apd then hsa| home
.l|hsas ssls|Ie' 1sls
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AT last, che said, with a quiver-
ing lip, L eau study to become more
worthy of the love he noce layished
on me /
'Butyou will lay off that mourn.
ing dress. Elfrie II looks 50
strange. People make remarks
And, after all, you are not a widow.
.Not a widow-but worse Elfrie
said, smiling family. Let thcm
talk, mamma l shall always dress
in black until-until they put me in
the white muslin shroud that is the
end of all things
This is strange talk, Elfric, for a
gill of l6 =
is this mamma? But you see, !
feel nt least go =
And young Mrs. Saybrooke kept
vigorously TO her word. She attend
ed no moro parties, went to no more
balls, operas nor concerts, but NOV
ed like a gentle, young Sioter oI
Mercy through scenes of trial, woe
and suffering Her soul was daily
becoming refined in tho alchemic
fires of selfdeuial and charity-and
Hyde Saybrooke would scarcely
have known his butterfly bride now
Il told her how it would be y cried
Mrs. Percy, fretfully. 'poking
abont i'll those nasty tenement hous-
es whore nobody ever gose but the
tax~collectors aud tho missionaries
and now she 3 down with the fever
A film came over Mr.. Fortescues s
eyes.
She has followed in her Master s
footsteps" he said solemuly, 'and if
it leads her to the very gates of the
grave, who shall dare to murmur p
But there came time when the
angel Azrael folded his pinions
across the threshold, and then there
was new watcher at Elfrie's bed
side; one who never tired out,
neither grew weary, for the might of
love upheld him And at last she
opened her eyes, pale, emaciated
and weak as an infant. but with the
burning fever gone.
Mamma I she murmured family,
Il have had such sweet dream ! 1t
seemed TO ne ,Sat q It Hyde was wS bbssid'5
me, pressing my hand, whispering
to mo ! Oh, if 1 could have died
then Oh, Hyde, my husband =
'Efrie
He was bending over her, hiS
dark sad eyes looking into hers.
i meant only to see her once, aud
then TO go-but Efrie, l could not
leave, until | know you were safe =
Dearest, you must never leave
me,' she uttered Il have learned to
value and love you at least. Oh, my
husband, it is like welco ming you
back from the grave J
Shall stay Elfrie Do you lcve
me at last 2
And to both OF tho earnestly ut
tered questions she answered
Yes
Colonel Saybrooke was happy at
last. lie had lost his wild little
Elfrie, but in her place was tender,
true-souled woman.
For Elfrie had discovered at last
that she bad heart.
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The Old and the New Times.

is allies hendich eingericbt
In unserer guta Zeit,
braucht sich niemaud ploga mm
Unless err is net g'scheit.
er steam duht allies for de Lett.
Sell is yust was ich m@n
In wann mer ergeds hin will gam
Damn fahrt mer uf dem train.
Es war net so in alter Zeit,
Sell es,ich forna naus.
Is macht villeicht dehl Alte bps,
Doch sag lch's frei heraus
Bic sin geloffa all der Veg
Won finf bis fufzig mile,
/ I'm de was eppes reicher wara
Sin ganga uf de d@u.
Soil war der style in alter Zeit,
.Des Laufa war ken lSchand.
Vas is mer ais do hegedrollt,
Sell is recht gut bekannt,
E,s Is nimme so In unsera Zeit,
Es fahrt Jeder wann er kanD,
I'm wer gar niinme laafa duht
Sell is der gentlemon.
Now fahrt mer init der engine cars
Sell is en- eisener Gaul.
{Er schnauft an hecht vie an amer
stick Fieb,
Doch sehnt mer gar k@n Maui.
Der werd net mied, un wann erspringt
En- huanert tausend mile.
Der hot au sure der vorzug welt
Won all de nnnera Geul.
Der train Is INNER zi,nlich voll
Won allie Sorta Lett,
I'm dehl sin gar. greueslich DUNN
AnDere sin so g'scheit.
Es bot ufgeputzte gentle-leit,
Dehl schwarz un annere weis,
Un ladies Won der rechte sort,
Was sin de doch so nice.
Do sitzt en- rascal in dem Sitz,
I'm dort en- gutter Christ
Gleich komint so en- dumme Nunner
Mas
Un frogt dich wer du bist.
En- Fratzhans hockt uf sellem Sitz,
Sein ticket uf EN- Hut
Err mehnt er wer des ganz allie
Was fiehlt .er doch SO gut.
En- parrer hockt net welt eweg,
Der macht en- lang Gesicht.
bort driwa hockt so en- rother Kerl,
Err guckt as vie en- LIGHT.
Un weiter draus is noch en- Paar
n VI ihrer Hochzig trip.
Sic blsiwa net so arig lang,
Des wett ich dich en- ftp.
Do sitzt en- Weibsmensch nit ein Kind
Es kreischt chm doll un daub.
De cars geht merkwerdig stark
Was raised DIES doch en- Staub
Mer werl SO dreckich Won Kop IA Fuss
Won Kohla-Aesch un shmoke.
Doch all des st;end mergnediglich
As EN- zmlich gutter joke.
De cars dunnert dorch Borg un Dahl,
I'm waun Sc dorch en- Tunnel geht,
Do sehnt mer gar ke Sum.
Mer musz ah INNER in Aengste sci,
Sic springa Won dem track,
oder trefft viellelcht en- Rindstick Fieh
Was gebt es damn derno
Damn gebt's en- greuslich accident,
Un allies werd verst@rt
DE Weibsleit werra unmachtig,
De Mannsleit sin verzagt.
Der engineer blos't merderlich.
De engine geht druf los.
Now springa SO wedder. sn alte Kuh--
Was gebt's ihr doch en- Stosz
So en- Stosz Is mer net gew1hnt
Der macht chm daub un stumm,
Un dehl de schlaga Berzelbeum,
Un kenna net recht rumm.
Dehl st@ne uf H@nd und Fuesx-
Sic halte fest am floor,
Un yeder winscht or wer daheem
Aus der grosza G'fohr.
30 geht es eva uf dem train
lch haesz es arig sch1'.
mer krlgt ken Kopweh Won der Hitz,
Un ah ken miede Be.
mer kauft sci ticket vorna mans,
Damn is neral @. X.
oh wann's heszt "Tickets, II you
please I"
Dann recht mer's eva hin.
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An Introduction I'm Mexico.

When two people are introduced in
Mexico, If both arc women, they ex-
change light embrace and palmadita or
little pat on the back; where one or both
are men, hand shake is In order. And
beside the formula, 'Let me present"
ETC., of the officiating party. each of
those introduced gives his name and his
address, with the formal, ''Y our ol,edient
servant "At your orders" or somo
such steaeotyped phrase. by those who
have suffered from not hearing tho nalpa
of q rtsunRor, piun1blcd or sIurrcd orcr
By his infrodglcfr. {Ilis custom will v !
;sss ;'s',. ,''. 6 hsxs e q's3 - fssn.
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The reader is hereby solicited 10
make one word ont Of these foar, viz
"Red nuts and gin" DO you give IL
upy Yes; here it is "uudeIsland=
ing"
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usN ls!SSnIp EIsAa Gq uaaIEvuvno
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dIL 'ou!o!pom pooS q,!M ,uoui!led
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so5u!m1 oEuuuopI W!M qluop styusa
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Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
PHIL SHERIDAN.
Salient Points in the Great
Soldiers Life.
A MOST WONDERFUL RISE.

Tow Poetry, Romance and Art Have
Told His Story-The Irish-American
Boy-A Lively Lad-The Ohio Home
of Els Parents-Life at West Point.
Military Career-Ais Home al. Wash
/. ington.
rCopyright By The American Press Association
Phil Sheridans boyhood was one Of rude
freedom, plenty Of plain food and not little
adventure: but it was certainly not one of
culture or luxury, for his parents were the
plaineSt Of plain Irish workers, who had
come to America without means and held
their own we'll" Indeed the father re-
manned working man almost to the close OF
his life, and the mother, who still lives, IS OF
The most muscular Irish stock; but they were
persons of high character and some influence,
as was shown at the time their son applied
for cadetShip at West Point. Little Phil
was decidedly ''tough''-in both the mean
ings of the word in the west. He was, SO
his mother and early companions say, ex-
tremely tough in fiber, ''as healthy as pine
knott 1t is not probable that he ever cost
his parents S. in medicine. But he was also
triGe though" in the slang meaning of the
word, a fighter and prone to mischievous
pranks.
Few can recall any foreshadowing Of
future greatness in his boyish actions. He
was simply a merry, healthy boy, fond of
activity and quick of apprehension. An old
resident who had known him from infancy,
when appealed to for some Renaissance that
would show the future man in the boy, pom
dered a long while and finally said: "Well,
he was mighty fond Of horses, and not afraid
of the widest And there is philosophy in
the remark, for the saddle is the true seat of
empire; the equestrian nations are the con-
querors; riding is good training for ruling;
and did not Homer mean it for his highest
compliment when be called bis hero "horse
riding Hector!' So the following story cur
rent about Sheridan's boyhood has the air Of
truth.
When be was about years old some older
boys persuaded him to mount horse in the
pasture without saddle or bride. The fright
ened animal dashed madly away, jumped
the fence and soon disappeared on the road,
the little fellow clinging to his name. Nor
did he stop till he reached the shed Of a
tavern ten miles away, where he had often
been fed. The curious crowd at the tavern
asked the boy:
"Who taught you to rideg'
''Nobody," was the answer.
''Did nobody ever tell you how to sit on a
horscF"
}, yes, Bill Seymour told me to hold on
with my knees, and | did"
This was Little Pills" first cavalry
charge, and the comment of the horsemen
who knew the vicious character of the ami
NAL was, ''That boy has pluck enough for
an Indian fighter"
His time when not at school or engaged in
doing chores was largely devoted to the
juvenile show business, where q charge of
from three to five pins constituted the admis-
sion fee
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
SHERIDAN'S FIRST RIDE.

Phil was invariably the ''slack rope per-
former" and if a nenagerie was attached he
performed the feat of going into the ''iion's
den," which was large box with wooden
Stats nailed on the front side and generally
contained two or three dogs and number Of
cats He also took great fancy to drilling
ard had company Of eighteen or twenty
of his playmates. His old plaUnates
and the older people generally say he
had a mania for riding vicious horses, and,
although young and small for his age, he
never found horse that he could not man.
age. Phil was known as good diSpositioned,
manly boy, but was IS wild as any Of them,
and stood ready to assert his boyhood at any
time with bare knuckles If necessary, though
ho was by no means qraTrelsorne And this
disposition evidently stuck in him some time,
for while in West Point he was put back a
year for whipping a member Of a higher
class, and was thus five years in the course.
Still he graduated at p.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10

ale wore some of the regulation uniform,
but not much. On his head was a little round
cap, such as German students wear. In his
right hand he held small riding whip,
which, Judging by the weltS on his horses
TANKS. had been industr;ously used. He was
splashed with mud and had big daub under
one eye, which gave him a sort of been to a
wake look If he had any gauntlets they
were in his pockets. As he rode on the hill
beyond Middletown he was met by one OF
Gen. Torbert's aids, who was mounted on a
big gray horse nearly as large as Rienzi.
''The officer jumped the stone wall and
Joined the general just as he came in sight
of the field, and rode side by side towards a
group near the woods on the right of the
pike in the rear of the Sixth corps, where
Gems Wright, Emory and Torbert and their
stats We're gathered.
II asked the aid afterward what the gen
eral said when he joined him. He replied
We'll, the generals first words were. alt was
just such id mess out west as this that
gave me my brigadier star in the regular
army, and I'm going to make it double
star this time He then asked Where is
Wright and soon after joined the Other
generals had been riding along behind a;
IaSJ as my liClie llaTc COtilI "utl
general looked back and said: Scout, hunt
up the ammunition wagons and order them
up Back in the rear on the valley pike the
generals staff were making their way up as
fast as they could. / transferred my orders
to one Of the aids, for l knew the democrat
lied Transfers would not pay much attention
to mSn in a blouse, and then turned and
rode back after the general.
Near the close of the fight was near Gen.
Torbert, on the left, when Gen. Sheridan
came flying across the pike, jumping the high
stone walls on each side. He said, in his
earnest, quick way: 'Torbert, took the old
Sixth corps in and drove them from the
woods and over the hill and sway from the
stone walls, and l have got the bulge on
them; and now, Torbert, want your cavalry
to do yotr best, and when | go back am
going in with everything, and if you and
Merritt and Custer do your work well we
viii have them on the run in half an hour,
and history shows that they did do their
work well; but if Gen. Early had not been
so greedy and had withdrawn with his cap
tIlred guns and prisoners after the success of
the morning, Gen. Sheridan would not have
won the double star that day"
Such were the dramatic scenes at Cedar
Creek
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
THE SHERIDAN FAMILY.

The Sheridan family consisted of John
Sheridan, father of the general, who died
Thursday, May 5, 1915, in the 10Th year of his
age; Mary Miner Sheridan, his mother, who
is still living in the suburbs of Somerset, and
who is IS years of age; Patrick II. Sheridan,
who was born April 10, 1927, and died Oct.
z, 1851, and was buried at Somerset;
Patrick Sheridan and a sister who died on
the way to this country, who were born in
Ireland; Philip II. Sheridan who was born
March 6, 1851; his sister Mary, who was born
dune 4, 1854: John l.. Sheridan, who YVES
born April 2, 1887, and Col. IL V. Sheridan,
who was born in 1910.
In 1851 they moved from the house then
occupied to house one mile from town
where Gen. Sheridan's father had q
contract on tho old Scioto and Hook
ing Valley railroad. The eontrac.
about two years, was abandoned, and
into it. This, however, seemed 10
be the old Gentleman's misfortune in lne as
he Jared but little if any better contrac-
tor on the GAINESVILLE and Maysville turn
pike, which was built through Somerset
1ALS- SQSFlO30. VINO Is WOMAN OF l0US-
fatigable energy, was ever ready to cheer
her husband and lend every assistance. The
financial reverses did not discourage her in
the least, but seemed TO increase her deter
| mination 70 overcome the obstacles thrown
in their path. she was stroC., both mentally
and physically.
After the failure of the railroad the Sheri-
dan family removed 70 the old homestead
and remained there until 1856, when they
built the house in which old Mrs Sheridan
now resides, Gen. Sheridan having bought
eighteen acres of land and furnished his
parents the means with which to erect the
building.
Somersat was the cou1ty seat in ISIS, and
the population for forty years past has not
varied far from 1900 TIE old residents add
some interesting stories 70 those above re-
latsd. They sly that though the family was
poor and Phiiis school days few, he was al
ways somewhat of leader among the boys.
He was not enly trustworthy and clear
headed, bat it WAS noted that lie was uauSa-
ally psrsevering and not afraid Of hard
tHsEs, 50 Mr. Tablet snall dsaier in hard
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

The queen of Sweden is teaching her peas
hntry how to cook.
McGregor, Ia, has young ladies' boa:
club, duly Differed and uniformed.
Mrs. Fair, of California, prefers her own
palace car and cook TO the best hotel between
New York and San Francisco.
Miss Linda Gilbert has found employment
for 6,000 discharged convicts during her fif-
teen years as philanthropiSt.
Although possessing the finest jewels in
this country Mrs. George W Childs seldom
wears any but the simplest of them.
Miss Bell is the only woman in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain who has adopted
the profession Of stock broker. She has an
Office in London.
Kate Greenaway was, says a London pa
par, a charming figure at the arts reception,
nttired in green plush gown, a figured silk
shawl and green trimmed hat
Mrs. Cleveland has appeared in a new
spring walking suit Of gray cloth trimmed
trimmed hat with stone color velvet and
STOW ballR
fs;ss Carrie L. Couch, of Center Isle, Y.
", recently shot woodchuck with rife at
a distance of $50 feet The hunters up there
call this 'big shooting but it is not an ex
ccptional shot for Carrie, her friends say.
Princess Irene Of Hesse married to Prince
Henry OF Prussia, has received thorough
housewives training. She can sew, make
bread and do everything she would have Il
do were she fated to become the wife of q
man not able TO afford servants All tbs
princeSses of HeSSe were trained in this way
by their mother, the late grand duchess
daughter of Queen Victoria
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-10

wanted the very best man In me army FOR
that command Hallack was present ard
spoke up saying, How would Sheridan dor
replied, The very man / want TIE presi-
dent said could have anybody I wanted.
Sheridan was telegraphed for that day, and
on his arrival was assigned TO the command
of the calvary corps with the Army of the
Potomac
Grants army crossed the Rapidan and be
gan operations against Lee on Nay 4, 1854
On the 9th Sheridan started on raid against
the enemy's lines Of communication with
Richmond He destroyed the depots and
other property at Beaver Dam and Ashland
advanced to the outer works Of Richmond,
defeated the Confederate cavalry under Gen
Stuart and rejoined Grants army on May
%. He led another expedition on June Z
against the Virginia Central railroad After
routing the enemy's cavalry at TreviGan
Station and destroying part of the railroad
he returned to the White House on the 18th
In August the middle military division
was constituted and intended to oppose the in
:ursions of the rebels from the Shenandoah
',alley into Maryland and Pennsylvania
Sheridan was appointed to the command.
He attacked the Confederate general Early
On the 10Th of September near Winchester
defeated him and took several thousand pris-
oners. Six days later he was again victori-
GUS at Fishers Hill, and pursued the enemy.
driving him through harrisonburg ard
Staunton.
Immediately after the battle of Winches-
ter Sheridan was made brigadier general
in the regular army. While he was absent
from his command Early suddenly attacked
the Union army at Cedar Greek and Stras-
burg on the 10Th of October and succeeded
in driving the Federals about three miles
with much loss. 1t was upon this occasion
that Sheridan made his famous ride Hur-
rying toward the battlefield he rallied his
men with remarkable power of inspiration
and converted disaster into victory This
achievement stamped him as one Of the
ablest generals of the war. He was ap-
pointed major general of the regular army
in place OF Mcclellan, who had resigned.
Poetry, romance and the drama have so
idealized the events Of that autumn that ono
hesitates at detail; but even the prosiest de
tails, by eye witnesses, are thrilling Here
is the plain statement Of a scout the first to
meet Sheridan after his noted ride"