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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-07
Recon- mended

above all others, we used IL with mar
.yeleus results. The sore healed and
health and strength rapidly returned"
j. j. Armstrong, Weimar. Texas.
"I find Ayers Sarsaparilla TO be an
admirable remedy for the cure OF blood
ji,eases. | prescribe It, and IL does the
work every time" -- l.. l.. Pater, NJ. d.,
Manhattan, Kansas.
I'VE have sold Ayers Sarsaparilla
mere for over thirty years and always
recommend it when asked TO name the
best blood-puriier." w. I. Mclean,
Druggist, Augusta. Ohio.
Ayers medicines continue TO be the
standard remedies in spite Of all com
petition" - 4. W. Richmond, Bear
Lake. Mich.
Ayers SarsapariIIa,
PREPARED ny
Or. !. c. Aver & Co.. Lowell, Mass.
price 81; six bottles, o.. Worth o. bottle.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-07
Philadelphia & Erie Y r Division.
AND

NORrHERAN CENTERAL RAILWAY.
Trains Leave Sunbury
$40 m, For BelleiOuntc. Erie and Canandal.
qua.
p63 m, For Lock Haven.
asp IN, For Belleionte. Kane and Canandai.
qua.
5 SOP m. For Remove and Watkins
10 t3 y m for Williamspott.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-07
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Sunbury h Lewistown Division.
Time Table, In effect May IL, 1889.

SeiinsgrOyc kcCOmmO
(Oonuectiny with trvins on N. u. Ry.)
Leave Sslinsgrove Arrive at Selinsgrovc.
$50 AN 1000 A. NJ.
1.40P. NJ. 2O5 y. NJ
sos y. NJ. b.10P NJ.
Trains Leave Lewistown Junction:
IL ~ a. IN. s OF, n. m. 10 40, a IN IL, IN % y
IN o - M Tor Pittsburg and the West.
100, n m gi} u m, IS y IN, 3s p IN. IS p m,
II 10 y IN. For philadelphia, New York. Balti
more aud Washington.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-07
The Old Doctors

Drew blood, modern doctors cleanse 1t
hence the increased demand for Altera-
tives. 1t IL now well known that most
diseases are due, not TO over-abundance,
but to impurity, OF the Blood and 1t
rs equally well attested that no blood
medicine is so cfiicacious as Ayers
Sarsaparilla.
"one of my children had large sores
break out on the leg. We applied
simple remedies. for a while, thinking
che sore would shortly heal. But II grew
worse We sought medical advice, aud
were told that an Alternative medicine
was necessary. Ayers Sarsaparilla
being
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

in every carriage on the place-there
should be small roll of wire, as we'll as
a ball of stout string. = In the event of a
breakdown all sorts of mending can be
done with great ease. A broken strap,
thill, or even tug, can be made whole,
and accidents which are usually serious
ly vexatious become mere incidents.
Wire wound tightly about the end of
a stick, and the ends carefully tucked
in, or the last turn secured with tack,
makes a good and substantial ferrule.
To learn how this should be done one
has only to study the winding of wire
upon Broom. This broom wire is of
about the right size for all the smaller
jobs. There are places and times when
a couple of turns of wire around the
mouth of bag are much better than
string. A wire staple or band will hold
Tapping strap, and without showing
like string. A stretched wire will
keep flower pots from blowing off a
bench or shelf in summer. A split
knife-handle may be wound with wire
and made to do good work. 1t must not
be forgotten that handle tightly wound
with copper wire affords very firm
grasp. Lastly. when your suspenders
break, and needles and thread are q
mile away, don't forget the copper wire
American AqTiculturist.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Very Queer.

Herman, the magician, was standing
with some friends at the Hoffman House
last night, says the New York Sun,
when Marshall P. Wilder started to do
trick which hinged on a certain num-
Der. He turned to Alfred Claggot, and
asked him to think of number between
one and ten.
"Wait a minute" said Mr.. Herman,
''and | will put down the number that
you select"
He took a pencil and scrubbed the
number on the back of menu card.
Mr.. Claggott sat in deep thought for a
moment, and finally said:
''Se ven."
Herman turned the menu over and
there was the figure on the back ofthe
card.
"It is not a trick. he said quietly.
'You will find that every man Will
choose under the same circumstances
Mr.. Ciaggott turned to an adjoining
table, where Col. Ochiltree sat, and put
the question to him. The colonel yelled
Z in lold and burly voice. Then Ed
Stokes and E. 6. Gilmore came in rapid
succession, and both chose the same
number. townsend Percy and Tom
Burnside of the London Savage Club
also selected the same numeral, and for
the succeeding half hour no one broke
the record.
There is no explanation for it," said
Mr.. Herman, in conclusion, as he rose
to 60 to dinner. cit is the habit of the
human mind, nothing more"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Francis Joseph's Early Generosity
From the London Figaro.

EIOm Tie LONDON FlRaIO.
The first recorded instance Of that
generosity of heart of which the En-
peror of Austria has given such striking
proof lately, by ordering that the money
which his subjects were prepared to
spend on his jubilee should be given to
charities instead, occurred when Francis
Joseph was only years old. He was
playing with his toys one day-his birth
day-in the Castle of Schonbrunn when
he noticed that a sentry was standing on
the lawn before the window. He imme
diately asked his grandfather to give
him gold piece, and, this being done,
be went up to the sentry and offered the
coin to him. The soldier presented arms,
but would not touch the coin, much to
the displeasure of the child. The ch1ld's
father. an amused spectator of the
scene, thereupon came up and
said to the little Francis HE
cannot take the money because
that is not allowed; but we will put it in
his pouch, and that will not be against
the rules" Thereupon he lifted up the
child, who dropped the coin in the sol
diers pouch and then trotted back to
his toys again. The sequel Of the story
may as we'll be told. The Emperor was
so much pleased with the irmness oil the
sentry in refusing to take the profered
coin that he made inquiries about him,
and finding him to be one of the best
conducted men in the regiment, gave
him out of his own purse enough money
to enable him to purchase his dis
charge.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Salmon in Puget Sound.

: The catch of salmon in the Puget
SOUND TINS year although not SO large as
fail rains will vii be eG about e cases ea onr
dozen cans per case. There are five
factories engaged in the business. The
largest has capacity for canning 10000
pounds of fish per day and employs six
seines, costing, with the necessary skiffs
and scows, 81, 800 each, manned by In
dian crews. The packing is done by
Chinese, of whom $50 are employed at
81 per day per head, boar ling them
selves. The cost of the fish is 80 per 100
10 cents each. The average weight is
six pounds. Single specimens are fire.
auently caught exceeding 20 pounds,
but the smaller sizes are more palatable
and more in demand for home consump-
ton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

wood, and is cheap. It is extensively
advertised and sold as 'sliquid smoke,o
at high prices.
To cure pork pack it in barrels or jars
in layers, between which are layers of
good salt, using Is or 20 pounds of salt
to each 100 pounds of meat. Then
make brine enough to cover the meat
land keep it covered), using as much
salt as the water will dissolve. The
brine should be cold when PIT on the
meat. See that the cask does not leak
and let the brine out, SO that there is
none on top of the pork. IF it does,
che pork will spoil. For each 100
pounds of hams, shoulders, bacon, etc.,
of salt, pounds of brown sugar, or 2
quarts of good molasses, 3 ounces
of saltpeter, l ounce of cayenne
pepper, and any other spices
| liked. These must be boiled together
and skinned in sufficient water to COW
| erthe meat, which must be packed as
closely as possible in a cask or tub.
| The pickle must be allowed to become
cold before being put over the meat
In four to six weeks the meat will be
ready to be taken out, washed, dried.
and hung up to be smoked. Some pre-
fer these sugar-cured hams without be-
ing smoked. They are salt enough to
keep, and seasoned about right for gen.
eral taste. Beef intended for drying is
picked in the same way. The same
pickle is used for corn beef, but this
must be packed in layers like pork,
with light layer of salt between
each two layers of meat, and
left two or three days for
the blood to be drawn out. Then
take it up, wash it, repack it and cover
with pickle prepared after the formula
of that for hams. If the beef is to be
kept for use in warm weather (the next
summer) the pickle should be drawn off
just before warm weather sets in, scald-
ed and skinned and then put back on
the meat, adding enough made in the
samesproportions to cover the meat we'll.
| This makes the meat little harder, but
it will keep well. The proportions of
the Ingredients used in making this
pickle are those used by the best Mary
! land farmers and Baltimore ham pack
ers.-BufdlO Express.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Regulating the Cellar.

The cellar should be ventilated in
winter as well as in summer. In fact,
as it contains more, its atmosphere is
sooner contaminated in winter, and its
ventilation should be more carefully
attended to at this season. Advantage
may we'll be taken of the middle of
every warm day, when the air has
reached a temperature of thirtv-fve
degrees or above, to give the cellar an
airing. Vegetables and fruits keep best
in temperature just above the freezing
point. say from thirty-fve to forty-five
degrees. Should the temperature in
severe weather threaten to fall below
thirtv-fve degrees, make sure that
doors and windows fit tightly.
Every cellar should have double
windows and double outside doors.
It is fortunate if the cellar has
been constructed with a fireplace, for
then the temperature may be easily
controlled. A pot of Goals replenished
as often as the Goals die will have a
greater effect on the temperature of
the cellar than is generally supposed.
Rather than have the contents of the
cellar freeze, we would put stove in
the cellar, as we have seen done, rum
ming the pipe through the kitchen floor
into the hue, or through a window, the
sash being taken out and the space
about the pipe being closed by a bank
of earth. By running the pipe up a few
feet on the outside, and wiring it to a
stake, su fficient draft will be got; but
a close watch must be kept on sparks,
and no fire should be kept in the stove
during the night. Two or more lighted
kerosene lamps in cellar will often
prevent freezing Agricultor-
asst
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Oliver Wendell Holmes at Home.
Boston Corr. Chicago Tribune


People outside of Boston do lot gem
orally appreciate the versatility of the
Autocrat's talent. He is hardly less
well known, professionally, as pathol-
ogist than as litterateur. For many
years, and until quite recently, he has
been professor In the Harvard medical
school, where his naughty stories, apro-
pos of opportune points in his anatomi-
cal lectures, have given much enter
tainment to successive classes of appre-
ciative students. Besides, he is always
may be invariably counted upon tor a
poem, though the taste of his effort at
the laying of the cornerstone of the
new public library the other day has
been severely criticised. It was ref
erence to the city as a virgin and the
book collection as her child which ex-
cited unfavorable remark.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Wire as a Farm Convenience.

Soft steel galvanized wire, such as is
used for the cheap telephones, is won
derfully useful about the house or the
farm. With good pair of pliers it can
be used almost like string. When this
cannot be had common copper wire will
answer just as well, but is tride more
expensive and not as strong. Inthe
absence of these the soft ircn wire used
by stove men for putting up stove pipe
will answer. The latter, however, is
rather large. Having either of these
soft wires we may sew button upon
stiff cloth, fasGen the ear of tin pail.in
place, or bind volume of periodicals.
With the copper wire leather can be
fastened in many places, as, for exam
pie, about q harness where ordinary
waxed ends will all. For training plants
against the house wire is far better than
string. For this purpose copper is first,
the galvanized second, and plain iron
wire last. Old fence wire may be worked
in Tor this purpose. In the garden
two or three strands of it can be made
partly, if not entirely, to take the place
of brush for peas. A pretty stout stake
is wanted a. each end of the row.
Tomatoes can be supported by pair OF
wires stretched along the row, one on
each side. This must be done early
before the vines begin to spread at the
top. An old barrel hoop may be
fastened to the wires 50 that the plant
comes up through il. In the pocket of
the buggy and the farm wagon-ln fact,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Tobacco Raising in Florids.

The establishment of the tobacco
raising In Florida, on quite an extensive
scale, promises to result in some injury
to Northern tobacco growers within a
few years. At present the product is
not sufficient in quantity to severely af-
feet the market either as to quantity or
prices, but the success of the initial en-
terprises in raising tobacco in Florida
on large scale warrants the belief that
some disturbance may be anticipated
from the Florida crop III the near fut-
ure.
The combination system has been
adopted as promising better results in
economy of management and in placing
the crops upon the market than could
be secured by having, as in the North
and West, many small farms under in
dividual ownership and operation. A
single company has taken up 1900
acres of land, and divided it up into s
plantations, but the entire tract under
the supervision of general superln-
tendent. Last summer, from 800 to 500
hands were employed and 791 acres of
tobacco and 920 acres of corn and oats
were raised on so much of the tract as
had been cleared. The tobacco acreage
yielded 100000 pounds of the different
varieties, Sumatra, Pennsylvania, Con-
necticut and Wisconsin seed leaf, and Gu
ban, new, and one year old. The SUI
matra. it is reported, gave the best re-
suits, the soil being very we'll adapted
to it. The average yield of the several
varieties, $50 pounds to the acre, was
far under the yield of seed leaf in Con-
necticut, but as large part of it was
Sumatra and Cuban tobacco, the crop
must have been profitable one.
Colored labor was cheap, SIS per month
cash, or $40 with house rent and certain
articles of food. An increased tobacco
acreage will be planted next year, and
also OF corn and oats, which are largely
consumed on the plantation, and can
be raised far cheaper than they can be
imported. Any surplus finds ready
market in the Southern cities. The
fertilizers used for the tobacco were cot
ton seed, composted with material from
the stables.
Another firm in Gadsden County, con-
trolling 5000 cases this year, either
raised or purchased from small farmers,
reports Cuban the best adapted to that
section, the yield averaging 500 to 600
pounds to the acre, at cost of from $40
to $50 for labor, fertilizers. etc. This
firm will plant ii 1880, on its own ac-
count, 250 acres new land burned over
and the ashes plowed in.-Hartford
Times
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Counting the Cost.

In making up the cost of any crop,
the work should always be considered
at its market prices. This is the rule
with mechanics and contractors, in esti-
mating the cost of work. A fair price is
always charged for it, with an additional
per cent. for profit and risk of loss.
The farmers time and that of his
team are certainly worth the cost and
some profit, per day, and this should be
charged for with each crop. 1t may be
true that in doing this the per cent of
profit with many crops will be found to
be small; yet, this is the only way of
correctly getting the cost. If the farm
is at all profitable it should pay fair
over and above all expenses, and that
upon the basis of counting fair price
for every days work done. The price
that should be charged will, of course,
vary in different localities, just the same
as the price for other classes of work
will vary in different sections. The
work of man should be counted at a
fair price, and another price for the
man and team.
In harvesting, stacking and threshing,
the customary prices paid to others for
this kind of work should always be con-
sidered, as this is the only fair basis of
keeping correct accounts. In feeding
and caring for the stock, the manure
secured ought, under all average condi-
tions, to be sufficient to pay for this
work. The crops, too, should always
! be charged with a fair proportion of the
work of hauling out and applying. If
commercial fertilizers are applied, the
~oost, both of the material and the work,
should be charged against the crop !;
but when stable manure is hauled out
the cost should be divided, charging
crop, and the balance to the next two
or three, as the effects of good appli-
cation of manure would be felt by sew
eral crops.
The idea that because the farmer must
live, and that he must keep his teams,
and that, therefore, he ought to work
for nothing, is an erroneous one, unless
he be willing to work for everybody
else, as well as for himself, for his
board.
A very good plan is to charge for the
work Just what you would be willing to
do the work for others for, or what you
would be willing to pay some one else
for doing it for you. 1t may be true
that calculating upon this basis, and
then taking the average yield of the
crops at the ruling market price, would
show very small margin of profit, yet
such is really the only correct way OF
ascertaining the full cost of each crop
when ready for market; and this &C
count taken from the value of the prod
uct when marketed, or rather, when
ready to market, will show the amount
of profit or loss, as the case NAV be-
N IT. s. In Prairie Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
FOR THE AGRICULTURIST.
Face Your Fortunes Like a Man

Face Your Fortunes Like q Man.
There are foes for you to fight,
i here are wrongs for you TO right;
Do rome good where'er you can,
And face your fortunes like man.
Not for poverty or pride
From your duty turn aside;
But be ever in the van,
And face your fortunes like man.
Let no doubts your heart assail;
Let no fears that you may fail
Interrupt your noble plan
To face your fortunes like man.
Nows your time to show your pluck;
Strive each day for better luck;
Threatening troubles lightly scan,
And face your fortunes like man.
Other folks the prize may gain
You were anxious to obtain;
Join the disappointed clan,
And face your fortunes like man.
Wear no frown upon your face;
Poverty is no disgrace:
Work-and do the best you can
TO face your fortunes like man.
Josephine Pollard tn the Ledger.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

The bigger half" Bobby" said his
mother, "did you give hall of the orange
to your little sister ?" .'Oh, yes, ma.
gave her more than that" replied
Bobby, with generous air. "Did you,
indeed, Bobby? Why, that was very
nice of you. eyes, ma, sucked the
juice out and gave her all the rest.''-
New York Sun.
The morning news., 1889-04-12
THE CITY'S SANITATION.
The Health Committee OF the Citizens
Sanitary Association at Work.

The Health Committee OF the Citizens
Sanitary Association at Work.
The weekly meeting of the committee on
public health of the Citizens Sanitary As
sociation was held yesterday afternoon.
The following members of the committee
were present, to-wit: DR.. J. c. LeHardy,
chairman, and Drs Stone and Hummel.
DR.. J. B. Read, president of the association,
was also present
Inspector Desvergers submitted his daily
reports of market produce inspected, ETC.,
and reported that improvements are being
made in the meat vault of the market
Mr.. James Cornell, under whose supervision
the improvements are being made, is getting
the pavement of the vault in a shape
and condition which will render it practical
ble TO keep the vault in a sanitary condi-
tion, provided the entire floor Of the vault
be paved in the same manner aid
proper sewer Connections be made
from it, and the old, rotten and
saturated meat boxes be taken out and re-
placed with new boxes properly con-
structed otherwise the vault will continue
a stencil hole The Inspector reported that
he had addressed a note to Alderman Read,
chairman Of the market committee, asking,
that inasmuch as the meat boxes in this
vault are now in a position which
the market committee be urged to make a
personal inspection in order that every
member of the committee may see for him
self the filthy condition of the boxes and re-
alize theinexpediency Of allowing the butch
ers to furnish these boxes themselves, and
suggesting the advisability of the
city authorities having suitable
meat boxes constructed and so placed that
fluid escaping from them may be conveyed
to the sewer, the city requiring a rental
sufficient to compensate for the outlay. A
number Of the boxes now in the vault, the
inspector said should not only be taken out,
but they should be cremated, as no person
should be allowed TO eat meat kept in or
about them.
The inspector reported upon other mat
ters as follows: That he had received a
note from Receiver Herman Myers Of the
Savannah and Tybee railway, in which he
stated that he appreciated the necessity of
drainage on the extension of the
road from the foot Of Preside ut
street and had instructed the
engineer in charge To give the matter atten-
tion, and that he expected during the pres
ent month 20 drain both sides OF the road
bed. The inspector has been informed that
the city has gang Of laborers now at work
deepening the Jones canal; that the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western Railroad Company
has set 10 work draiuing and putting in a
sanitary condition its grounds about the
city depot, and that the cattle guard pits
and excavations and side bitches along its
line In the suburbs have been filed or
drained, and the sanitary condition Of itA
right OF way between the city and South
over Junction is greatly improved.