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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15

roots sf your tongues an almost omnipotent
thirst, II you viii this moment give your
heart TO God He will help you, by His grace,
to conquer. Try IL. IL is your last chance.
have looked of upon the desolation. Sit
ting under my ministry there are people In
awful peril from strong drink, and, Judging
from ordinary circumstances there is not
one chance In five thousand that they will
get clear Of IL. l see men In this congre-
cation OF whom i must make the remark,
that IL they do not change their course,
within ten years they will, as TO their bodies,
souls lie down In drunkard's perdition.
know that it is an awful thing to say, but I
can't help snying IT, Oh, bewarel You have
not yet been captured. Bewarei As ye
open the door OF your wine closet to-day,
may that decanter flash out upon yoW
Bewarei and when you pour tho beverage
into the glass, in the foam at the top, In
white letters, let them be spelled out to your
soul: "Bewarew When the books Of judg-
ment are open, and ten million drunkards
come up to get their doom, I want you 10
bear witness that l, to-day, in the fear Of
God and in the love for your soul, told you
with all affection, and with all kindness, 20
beware Of that which has already excrtcd its
influence upon your family, blowing out
some Of its lights-a premonition OF the
blackness Of darkness forever. Oh,
ouSns If you ,n,caonnay could only ,,ts hear as this
ards bones. drumming on the head of the
wine cask the Dead March Of immortal souls,
methinks the very glance of n wine cup
would make you shudder, and the color OF
the liquor would make YOU think OF the
blood OF the soul, and the foam on the top of
the cup would remind you Of the froth on
the msniac's lip, and you would go home
from this service and kneel down
and pray God that, rather than
your children should become captives
Of this evil habit, you would like TO carry
them out some bright spring day to the ceme-
terry and put them away To the last sleep,
until at the call Of the south wind the flowers
would come up all over the gravo--swect
prophecies of the resurrection. God has a
balm for such n wound hut what flower of
comfort ever grew on the blasted heath Of .
drunksrds sepulcherg
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15
WHAT ALCOHOL DOES

Statistics, says DIR, Oswald, have fully es-
tabished the fact that the percentage Of
idiocy bears a close proportion 10 the prevail
ence Of intemperance. Before the Parlia-
ment Committee on the amendment of the
liquor laws Dr. Charles Anstie testified that
"the tendency of drink begets hereditary dis
orders of the brain. When both parents
have been incorporate, think IL is IA physi-
cal certainty that such disorders will be
traced in the children. | have no doubt that
many persons who were fond Of their bottle,
though never drunk, in the old port-wine
drinking period have transmitted very un-
stable nervous systems to their children"
IL would indeed be "A mistake to suppose
that the ruinous effects of the alcohol vice are
confined TO habitual intemperance in its gros-
ser forms. Small beer AS well as lager beer,
wine as well as brandy and rum tend 10 inn
pair the functional vigor of every organ OF
the human system; and the time is near when
no intelligent moralist will venture TO deny n
truth tacitly or openly admitted by the ablest
physicians OF tho nineteenth century, viz,
that the alcohol habit, in all its forms, and
In every stage Of its development, is a health.
destroying and mind-degrading vice.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The criminal statistics OF prohibition Iowa
Tor 1897 report just one vagrant.
Six prohibition tents, well equipped with
able speakers, are sturdily marching over
the prairies Of South Dakota, making many
converts 20 the cause.
Sam Jones says that Georgia has already
III counties redeemed from whisky, that
only twenty are left where IL Is still tolerated
and that during thenex twelve months they
propose To put legs under the demij johns and
run them out Of these counties also.
Before the bar Of an enlightened conscience
and the tribunal Of God every other sin will
pale into inslgniticance beside the awful
crime Of forcing upon the helpless child n
mnrred and tainted inheritance Of blood and
brain and nerve, mortgaging the future for
The base, ignoble indulgence of the present.
Racine (lNis.l saloons were closed 10y law
ON the sth of July. Anticipating this, Mil
waukee breweries got up "a free steamboat
excursion To the city OF beer" conditioning
the free ride upon the purchase of fifty cents
worth of beer tickets good in any Milwaukee
saloon. Another illustration OF what saloon
lists will do TO destroy their fellow men.
Tho Hundred Dollar Band" is n now in
vention for raising money for the temperance
temple. to be erected in Chicago IL is to
consist OF thousand white rbboners who
pledge TO give 800 each 20 the building fund
within two years Many ladies have already
Joined this band. A similar hundred dollar
band, TO be composed of q thousand men, has
also been started.
A monster petition In favor OF Sunday
closing OF saloons was received at the House
OF Commons recently from the Salvation
Army. The roll, signed by 436, 500 persons,
was borne through tho streets Of London 20
the House, drawn by four horses, and pre-
ceded by band in the army Uniform The
united efforts of six men were required to
carry the roll into the cloak room
$50 certain are the criminal effects Of the
licensed drinks OF the saloon and bar-room
that chemist in analyzing them should not
be surprised 10 detect crime in crystalline
form, existing rs an original clemens in their
composition; while it would not require the
microscope to discover the monad cells Of
every sin incident 10 fallen man in the foam
Of the beer mug or the drcgs of the wine
cup" SO says Hon. A. b. Richmond in the
CHdutduguutt,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15
a Painting That Cost $4,000 CGvip
Ing 10 Amnricn

Tho American public, says the Chicago
Herald, will soon have the pleasure Of
seeing n masterpiece of modern art. Jean
Francois Millet's wonderful painting,
"Thc Angelus," for the possession Of
which much desperate effort was made on
behalf of the French Government, has
been secured by the American Art AS
sociation, and will he exhibited through
out this country. At the Sccrctap sale in
Paris, Monday, July 1, VI. Proust, who
bid the Government, offered $ll0,6 600 for
TO him rs the representative of the Louvre.
The fact appeared that Mr.. Proust did
not have anything like the amount he of.
fcred, and when Challonier, the auc-
t!oneer, asked for the money it w. -ot
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15
The Chinese Laundryman UtilizrS His

II Is not generally known that a news.
paper in classical Latin is publi-hed fort.
nightly in Italy. Its editor is Carlo Ar,
riggo ulrichs, young scholar OF Italian
parentage on one side aud of German
paTentage on the other, and he has the
assistance of several learned contributors
in both nations. 1t is full OF anecdotes.
jokes and verses In classical dress. The
only thing as yet wanting to its present
consistency is the translation OF the ad>
yertisemeDts into the tongue of Cicero.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15
THE TABLES TURNED.

A wealthy man was in want Of n male SER
want and heard OF n Chinaman who was said
60 possess many desirable qualities The Col.
eStial was sent for accordingly.
you smokeY asked the gentleman.
hN, ,,, ~, ,tp,lapw
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15
TEMPERANCE.
TEMPERANCE SHALL WY.

TEMPERANCE SHALL wrS.
Must we call delay defeat,
Shall our gallant band retreat
From hard-won ficldf
Never! for our cause is right.
And though long the bitter fight
Wrong at last must yield.
Slow)y-as the tide come in
WeS-e gaining-through the din
Timid souls may shake;
Far above the bakle's roar
Cries and groans rise evermore--
"Helpl Tor loves dear sake"
Pause--to clear the smoke-dimmed eyes;
Pause-then as the arrow flies,
Swiftly charge tho foe,
Push the war for hearth and home;
Make no compromise with rum;
Forward forward, go.
Harriet N. Stodnt0ick, in the Voice
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15

60 possess many desirable qualities. The Col
estial was sent for accordingly.
'Nou smoke" asked the gentleman
"No, me no sInolsoom
"Nou drink
"No, me no dlinkog"
You gamble'
mo, me no gamblcc"
"Thcn you're just the man want was the
prompt answer.
A few nights later the master of the house
gave AN elegant supper for party of gentle
men. Wine ilowed in rivers, betting ran high
at cards and cigar smoke as dense as "A Lon
don fog shrouded everything in the rooms.
The Chinamnn made the supper table "A
marvel of beauty, and waited Ia IA charm.
When the next morning came, however, the
gentleman found no preparation for break
fast.
Drunk, the scoundrel, I've no doultp
he said as he steered his way out to the rear
quarters, expecting 10 encounter the pros
trate body Of the Chinaman. No, there in
the kitchen sat tho Celestial sober as a
Judge.
why haven't you got breakfast"
me no stayee here' was the answer.
Don't pay you high wages enough"
"Sessee; but You askee me smokeoy and
say no smokee; | dlinkeeg and | say | no
dlinkee; gambleeY and | say no gamblee;
and you smokee, dlinkee and gamblee, all
tree. no stayee hcrev'-BostOH Herald.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15
ITS DESTRUCTION INEVITABLE.

The saloon seems 60 have tightened its grip
on some communities Of late, but this fact
should cause no despair, nor even discourage
ment. The saloon is such an indescribable
breeder Of sin and sorrow that advancing
civilization will Just as certainly destroy IL
~ spring sunshine melts ice. 10 is an intoler-
able nuisance, and must disappear. Despair
ON this subject implies belief in the persistent
existence OF the worst institution in the civil.
lied world. Western Christian Advocate.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15
DRUNKENNESS AND pRuNKARp.NAK1Na.

Commenting upon the new Minnesota law
declaring drunkenness crime, the Cumbcr-
land Presbyter-idn says
The Legislature of Minnesota has passed q
law declaring drunkenness a crime, and inn
posing fine or imprisonment for the first
two offenses and for every subsequent offense
Imprisonment for not less than sixty nor
more than ninety days. This is a very good
law as far rs II goes. IL should be accom-
panied by n law making IL crime TO sell i'm
toxicants, and then legislation on the subject
Of intempernnce would be complete in Mime
sofa, but, strange to say, Minnesota makes
the liquor traffic virtue and or-drinking
u crime. The sale and manufacture of in
toNicants in the State are legalized, and
drunkenness Is punished as felony. Ger
tainly n law that permits man 60 sell in
toNicants also permits the buyer TO Use them
All experience goes to prove that moderate
drinking leads To drunkenness and that moth
ing else can. Now, II a man be indulged by
the law in forming habit that makes him a
drunkard IL looks inconsistent to punish him
for IL. But the Minnesota law is but another
exhibition of the folly Of trying 60 deal with
intempcrance in any but a radical way. Tho
drunkard should be treated as n fclon, and
tho drunkard-maker as his accomplice When
n man is found drunk that ought Ia I've all
the evidence required for his punishment, but
the investigation should not stop until his
accomplice is found aud punished for putting
the bottle TO his neighbor.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15

There has been decrease in immi-
grafton during the last year. The total
arrivals ia June were only 46 ,059, us
compared with 6S, ATS year ago. The
total for the IL months ending July
was 43S,6l0. which is 10l ,20l less than
for the preceding 12 months.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15

There are 1s, s47 policem in London
aud IA. 267 hacks.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-31
THE LATEST.

ASA passenger train on the Texas &
Pacific Railroad reached the outskirts OF
Dallas, Texas, on the night of the 25th, two
masked men with drawn revolvers entered
the express car, bsat the messenger until
he was inseusible, took his keys and rob-
bed the safe Of 81 800, pulled the bell cord
and when the train slowed up jumped off
and escaped.
REV. j. r. MoxLEY and his son, young
man twenty years old, were drowned in
Black river, near Newport, Ark, on the
gath.
The latest in the combine world is the
Mammoth beer Trust of st. Louis and other
points, so as to organize a monopoly
similar to that of the Standard Oil Com
pany.
| THE total amount Of bonds purchased
since August 3, 1887, tO-date is SI69, 9,351, 800,
of which SOL ,59l 100 were per cents, and
S1O7, $50 800 1-2 per cents. The cost OF
| these bonds was $l95. 729, 42s, of which $751;
929, go was paid for per cents and
SIG, 699, ,449 for the 1-2 per cents.
THE reduction Of letter postage from two
to one cent is again talked OF among the
postoffce authorities at Washington.
HL1IARD HIx and Napoleon Lawson goU
E
28th, and the former was cut to death. The
ARRAY is said to have been a bloody and
ferOCious one.
The marriage of Ex-Secretary Bayard
to Miss Mary Willing Clymer is announced
to take place on June IL.
The Yalobusha County miss. Fair As
socistion Inaugarated on the 25th series
OF monthly racing meetings, to take place
the last Saturday in each month.
THs Mississippi River Commissioners are
voyaging down the river TO the jetties on
, their annual tour Of inspection of the
work done in improving the channel Of the
river.
Alfred Speer, the president of the New
Jersey Wine Company OF Passaic, n. J.,
disappeared on the 25th from Passaic with
s., 900 in monev and checks which were TO
have been used 10 pay of the employees Of
the company.
Hon. J. T. JONES, of Benton county,
Tenn, has gone TO PIainfield, n. J., TO col
lect S25O,OsO for clients in Benton and
Humphreys counties.
THIS Civil Service Commission has made
an alteration to one OF its rules by provid-
ing that hereafter the list of eligibles for
appointments TO the Governments service
and their standing shall be made public.
EDWARD MALKT, Mr.. Kasson and Herr
Holstein, as a committee OF revision, com
pleted on the 25th a draft OF a protocol
concerning Samoan questions.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-31
A GUTHRIE RIOT.

The Settlement of Town Lot Contests
Leads to "a RIOt-The Troops Called On.
GUTHRIE. l. r., May 25.-The soldiers
were Thursday called out for the first
time since the opening of Oklahoma, and
for several hours Guthrie was practically
under martial law. The meetings, he'd
every night for week by the men who
lost their lots through contests and by the
opening of streets, eliminated in a riot
OAe of the best lots in Guthrie was
awarded by the board of arbitration to a
man named Driscou of Chicago. An Old
man named Diemer, of Kansas,
occupied the front of the same
lot with a tent Driscoll erected a
building on rollers, ready to shove it to
the front as soon as Diemer should va
cate. Recently the Council passed an
ordinance empowering the marshal to
eject every person whose claim for lot
had been rejected by the arbitration
board. This proceeding would affect
over / 900 persons. The city eovernm Mt
made a test case of the Driscoll d Diemer
contest. The marshal attempted to re-
move Djemer and his tent Immediately
a mob of >. o men collected and drove
the marshal away. The mob was about
to attack the city hall. when Captain
Cavanaugh arrived and dispersed them,
after which the city au hOrities resumed
the work of ejecting D emer. Diemer
fought like a tiger and had to De dragged
from his tent 10 the street. DriscJlPs
building Yves rolled forward. The mob
attemp ed to tear the house to pieces, but
this time the authorities were able to re-
pulse tho angry men without the aid of
the soldiers. At night soldiers guarded
the principal streets and more trouble is
anticipated when the work of ejectment is
again begun.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-31
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


THE treasury accountants have COM
pleted an estimate Of the cash value or the
currency, c6sa and securities turned over
TO Treasurer Huston by ex-Treasurer
Hyatt, and find the total amount to be
S722, OO0,OOO.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER has given
an opinion that there is no provision Of
law under which National banks can be
established in Oklahoma at the present
time. One OF the requirements Of the Ma
tiOnal Banking law is that three-fourths
Of the directors OF a new National bank
shall have resided in the State, Territory
or District for at least one year preceding
their election as directors.
THE wedding of Ex-Secretary Bayard
with Miss Clymer has been fixed for June
THE United States Senators who are in
vestigating trade relations with Canada
have gone to Sitka, Alaska, to study the
seal question.
THE Chicago & Alton road, through
Manager Chappell. has given notice to
Chairman Walker, OF the Interstate Rail-
way Association, that it must have a more
equitable proportion of the livestock and
grain traffic from the Missouri river to
Chicago or it will at once take the matter
into its own hands and drop rates low
enough to secure business.
THE Navy Department has completed
and soon will issue advertisements calling
for proposals for the construction of the
new cruisers slightly larger than the
Yorktown, and OF 1000 tons burden. The
limit OF cost fixed in the appropriation
net is $3.50 900 for each vessel
The United States cruiser Boston has
been ordered to Hayti on "A secret mission.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY TICHENoR has af-
firmed the decision Of the collector at New
York in assessing so-called vinegar
wine. The importers claimed that the
liquid, when shipped, was vinegar and
must have changed to wine during the
voyage.
that knife sharpeners made of wood, steel
and emery are dutiable as manufa ctures
in part OF metal, and not as whetstones On
manufactures Of steel
The President has appointed b. f. Gil
kerson, Of Pennsylvania, to be Second
Comptroller Of the Treasury; S. H. HoIli-
day, Of Pennsylvania, to be Commissioner
Of Customs OF the Treasury Department.
and David Martin 10 be Collector OF In.
ternal Revenue for the Philadelphia dis
trict- Also Charles S. Zane, OF Utah, tc
be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court OF
Utah.
TIE celebrated Twiggs swords which
have been in the custody of the Govern.
ment since 1862, have been delivered by
Secretary Window to A. Q. Myer executor
of the Twiggs estate. This is in accord.
ance wit the pI DIVISIONS OF an act passed
by the last Congress and the decision Of
the Court OF Claims establishing the
ownership of the swords.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-31
THI3 WEST.

TIVE man Woodruff, who confessed some
days ago to carrying away a body from a
barn on the night that DIR. CTonn disap-
peared, said later that the body was taken
from a cellar under the barn. Detectives
were sent TO the p ace and found the cellar
as described and in IL a bundle OF blood
stained rags. Blood stains were also
found in the barn.
AFTER two weeks investigation the
Webster County, Iowa, grand jury failed
70 indict the seventeen Des Moines river
land settlers charged with conspiracy by
tia land owners.
GOFHERs are causing so much damage
60 the crops in portions Of Iowa that
bounties Of five cents for each scalp are
being paid. In Boone County Is OOO scalps
have so far been presented.
FIRE in Howard City. Mich, recently
destroyed the opera house, the bank, the
Baptist Church, four stores and eleven
dwellings. Loss, $4,000
EIGHTEEN members OF the St. Louis
Produce Exchange have been suspended
for indulging 10 horse-play during TIE
dl3t Taarket
AL thc'Fallroad- enteriug Chicago haz~-
ing down town ticket offices have ag-Teed
to close the places on Sundays and sell
only at the depots.
TWO men were drowned in the Muwau-
kee river recently by the capsizjng Of the
boat Ia which they were fishing.
A DISEASE supposed 10 Pc hydrophohla,
Ia epidemic in 1riu HeEa Wis. School has
li--n eIoscd lu the district and the children
a5s strictly forbiddon 70 leave bomo. Men
have been engaged 20 kiH all the stray
dogH In town.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-31
FORMING A CHARACTER.
True and False Methods of Intellectual
and Moral Training.

True and False Methods of Intellectual
and Moral Training.
The process of forming the statue
that shall waken the admiration of the
beholder ages after the hand of the
artist has moldered to dust, is slow.
Suppose the object be TO reproduce in
marble the features of a distinguished
statesman. A model in clay or gypsum
is first formed. Then, by slow and
tOilsome process, requiring the accu-
rate measurement of lines and angles,
the features of the model are trans
ferred to enduring marble. Such IL
the course pursued by the true artist.
A novice may pursue a different
course. He may commence at once on
the block OF marble BY the direct
application OF the chisel he may, in a
short time, fashion the rude outline
of features bearing some resemblance
TO those designed to be commem-
GRATED. But he can go but little
further. He can never reach the per-
fection which the artist attains by
obedience to the rules Of his art
Processes analogous to these may be
pursued in the cultivation Of the mind.
There is q process OF patient culture,
a toilsome formation Of habits which
do not admit Of direct application TO
practical life, which, though slow, are
necessary to the development Of the
higher forms of intellectual life and
of intellectual power
There is process which rejects a
large portion OF this disciplinary toll,
and aims at immediate results. The
pupil at first seems 70 make rapid pro-
gress; but his progress is soon arrest
ed. Il is snowy and limited 1t can
never be carried far.
The educator should take as much
pains in forming a mind as the artist
takes in forming statue. II time and
toll are necessary to the perfection OF
a statue which is TO endure for ages.
then time and toll may be necessary TO
the perfection OF the soul which is 70
endure forever.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-31

A TRAIN running over the Canadian Pa
cific railway was stopped the other day
by an army Of caterpillnrs covering the
track.
The steamer City of Paris, which left
New York Wednesday afternoon, Nav IS,
passed Brow Head, Queenstown, at 1918
p. m, on the 21st; time, five days and
twenty-five hours, beating her own record
ON her previous westward voyage Of five
days and twenty three hours.
THE Verugas railroad viaduct in Peru
was swept away by a cloud burst recently
1t cost 500, 900.
ARTHUR MUsEY, civil engineer who
came to this country 10 inspect beet sugar
etineries in the interest of French capi-
talists, was drowned at Montreal recently
while bathing.
President CARNoT, OF France, gave a
fareveII audience TO Mr.. McLane, the re-
firing United States Minister, on the goth.
A CABLEGRAM from St Pierre Miquelon
states that TWO French fishing vessels, the
Elk and the -Four Brothers, which left
France some time ago for the Newfound-
land fisheries with It's men aboard, have
been lost and al hands drowned.
THE German Emperor and the Beres-
ford, both British steamers, collided in
the mouth OF the Thames recently. The
German Emperor sank Immediately. six of
her crew being drowned. The Beresford
succeeded in reaching Gravesend.
ADvICEs from China report that eleven
Cinnamon were dccapitated in the prov
ince OF Huper for having murdered a man
who attempted to arrest some OF them
after they had broken into a store.
A NEWSPAPER OF Munich has been con-
0scated for publishing "a scandalous obitu-
avs, q the late Queen Margaret Of Ba-
varin.