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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-01

Just now it is considered very
fashionable to damn the Commits.
sioners in all the counties along the
Susquehanna and Juniata rivers
where prompt action has been re
quired to replace bridges which
were swept away by the recent flood.
Some do it for pastime, others do il
because they were concerned i'll II
mercinary way, and others do it be
cause it is their profession. In some
cases the criticisms may be iustiii
able, but i'll most cases it is the re
suit of difference of opinion where
everybody is wiser than his neigh
Dor. Let any one build house,
patch II barn or paint fence and
the same result will ensue. Our
Commissioners are Just now getting
their share of damnings with the
rest.
'Noull De- damned II you do
Youll be damned II you don't"
seems to be the watchword, and
they are evidently ut times much
annoyed. Some of the criticisms
may be justifable. but as II whole,
we believe they have acted from
pure motives and the very best they
knew for the taxpayers. To satisfy
all is beyond anybody's ken. Too
many bosses is worse than no boss
ut all, and any mistakes that may
have occurred are often due to
critics who recommended the very
actions they are now the most loud
mouthed in condemning. One thing
is certain-nO one owns the Com
missoners of Snyder county just
ut this writing, and no one has the
audacity to accuse them of dishon
esty. If you have never been pub
lie officer just place yourself i'll their
shoes one day and dig ditch OF fill
Il gutter on the public highway and
see how IL good damning feels to II
man who means to be honest and do
the greatest good to the greatest
number. Then get out your mantle
of charity.
Bushmeeting in Bowers grove
about one mile west of Middloburgh,
commencing Aug. 3. Preaching by
Rev. p. s. Jarret, at 1880 L, nj.
Aug. 4, Preaching by Rev. II. w.
Runyon at 10, A. NJ. Children's
service at 1:3O p. Nj. Preaching
again mt 2:30 and likewise i'll the eve
ming. Preaching every evening during
the following week. Meeting to con
tinue over two Sundays. Refresh
ments will be served on the ground
5. AURASD.
Any of our readers wanting posi-
tionsright off on salary and expenses
paid, with an old and reliable firm
should refer Mt once to the adver-
tisement in an other column headed
"a Chance to Make Money" 2w
: Great bargains in Mems Youths &
Boys Clothing, also in Straw Hats
To make room for fall stock / vii
during the next 80 days close out t
large stock of summer goods of la
test styles Mt II reduction of 25 pei
cent for cash. G.. G. GUTELIUs
Good, rye whiskey at Marks & En-
, ders at 81 .S5 per gallon.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-01
of LOCAL INTEREST
snoe in s. Weiss adv.

hinge in s. Weiss adv.
of Jurors for September
court in another column.
atrimonial market has been
hing the recent hot spell but
Evening up.
nith Grove Band will hold q
h Smith Grove on Saturday
August ard, 1889.
shirts for 30 cents and fine
h Percal shirts for rs cents,
berger's, Middleburgh.
Lizzie Dill of Patterson,
Ind Agnes Sholley are the
fL. Bowersox and family.
Renninger of Franklin
Job of stating the Witten-
Block and is doing a su-
bb of work.
Veterans of the Juniata and
hanna Valleys have post
The holding of their annual
ment at Selinsgrove this fall.
of John Meyer, Sr., fell in
e-kiln at the ridge on Sun
bit. The kiln was fifteen feet
d the animal escaped with
visable injury.
Aigler and d. A. Kern, pro-
of the Beavertown Planning
he Just received the finest lot
sport lumber that has ever
ipped to this county.
Showers has sold his farm
ately north of Middleburgh
h Bowersox for 80, Mr..
) will move to town again
IN q shoe-shop.
Troup having sold out his
} property at public sale
bis family on Tuesday of this
Big Rapids, Michigan. Oul
shes go with them.
Beaver has issued n requisi
VIM. II. Houtz, implement
Who fled from Lewistown il
hrged with forgery. He was
b at Dubuque, Iowa.
had rain every day this
hd the ground is becoming
khly soaked. The prospects
immense corn crop are there
y hattering.
subscription list is jumping
B toward the 100. If you
e Posi- drop us a postal card
eside outside of the count,
postal order for $1.50 to in
pmpt delivery.
gements have been made foI
btruction of a street railwa.
bet Sunbury and Northum
They expect to have i
ed by this fall. The far
will be six cents.
Shorts of Chanceford, Yorl
Pa, paid us a friendly visi
last week. He has been
Der to the PosT for sewers
bd says he is delighted wit
backed up the assertion b
or it two years in advance
], 1891.
Moatz, devoted Monday o
* to circulating q subscrir
The purpose ofraising fund
rebuilding of the board
etween Middleburgh an
J. The necessary amount
raised and within a wee
5ple can cross the Franc
b shod.
one has taken the trouble {
how far a farmer has /
put in and attend forty acre
To plow the ground with
nch three-horse plow; h
350 miles; to harrow th
thoroughly before planting
fifty miles to cultivate
IDS he will have to travel 3C
aking a grand total of II
bsides the gathering.
pf our country people hay
bit of tying teams so thi
Pgon or buggy rests on
ossing, which compells pet
y off the crossing and wac
around the vehicle. W
puently called attention
is probably an oversigl
hrt of the parties who do il
none the less wrong.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16
A WANDERING DOLLAR.
An Excellent Example of How Eas
Money Travels.


Money Travels.
Thirty years ago it was common for
school-boys, when hard pushed for So
called composition, to write an imaginary
autobiography of some everyday object, q
coin, for example, or a knife. Some of the
fiction thus invented was undoubtedly
strange enough, but not much of it could
have been stranger than the adventures of
gold-piece as narrated for fact by one Of
our exchanges 1t appears that a young
woman in New Jersey had gold dollar
that she especially valued for the sake of a
monogram in scribed upon it
The coin was attached to a bracelet by a
chain. One evening III February, after a
sleigh ride, it's owner missed 1t, and the
broken chain showed plainly how it had dis
appeared. Search was at once made, but
without avail. Finally an advertisement
met the eye of loafer about town, who
said that he had found the dollar below the
steps of the sleigh the morning after the
ride, and had spent it for whisky at a
saloon.
The friends of the young lady determined
to find the keepsake if possible. The bar
tender remembered receiving the coin, but
had paid itto butcher, who recollected pay
ing it to drover in Trenton.
The address of the drover was secured,
and letter written to him, requesting re-
ply at once. 1t soon came, and contained
the information that he had purchased a
ticket to Philadelphia with the money on
the very day the butcher gave it to him,
and that the ticket agent made some re-
mark about the monogram.
The search was continued. The agent
remembered the dollar, and said that he
laid it aside for few hours, but that it
dnl % d. loI
daily accounts. The receiver of the New
Jersey receipts at Philadelphia was next
corresponded with. The beautiful mono
gram had been noticed, but the money had
been deposited in the bank.
The cashier was communicated with His
attention had been called to the initials on
the back of the dollar by one of the clerks,
and he had instructed him to place it aside
for few weeks. Unfortunately, in the
absence OF the clerk, gentleman desiring
several hundred dollars in gold, prepara-
tory to a California trip, had been furnished
with the amount, and the little piece had
in some way, been mixed with that sum
and gone westward. The gentleman's
name was furnished, and letter was sent
to him.
The remainder of the spring and sum.
mer passed without tidings. Finally, how.
ever, communication was received from
the gentleman stating that the letter of in
quiry had just reached him, on account OF
some mistake in the address, but that he
still had the dollar in his possession The
initials were the same as those Of q young
friend Of his, and he had kept the coin on
that account
On receiving the proper direction he
promptly returned the gold dollar 50 per-
sistently searched for, the curious history
of whose wanderings afford an excellent
example of how fast money travels
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16
CHURCHES.

DAPTIsT.- each sunday at II a.
.om. aud at 1870 y. m, at the courthouse. sun
day school at 10 O'clock, IN. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week. Rev. w. A
Cain, Pastor. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry Streets.
HHRISTIAN.-Prench every Sunday at
~ IL o'clock, n. M, and 1880 p. IN, by Elder
David Nation. Prayer meeting every We'd
ncsday night. Sunday school at 10 o'clocka. m.
every Sunday.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Services every
GN1 Sunday at II 100 q. IN. and 30 p. IN. sun
day school every Sunday at 10 a. m. Prayer
mectine every Wednesday evening at 1880.
Strangers invited. X. SANDERsoN, Pastor.
ORESBYTERIAN.-Sc every Sunday Al
4 IL a. IN. and 30 p. IN. Sunday School at
no IN. J. B. NORTH, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH Services on End
sunday OF evory month at Sherlocks hail. at
HO.0o n m REV. BITTER Pastor.
rJERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-HOld reg
VI uIar services at Mingona, Barber county,
the second and fourth Sundays in each month.
Cedar Creek school house on the third Sunday.
Nv Elders Shamberger. Smith and Neher.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16
GsuIIs ana Their Youne

Every bird watches over and cares for
her own nest, though the numbers are so
great and the tumult so excessive that it is
difficult to conceive how each gull can dis
tipguish her own spotted eggs, placed in the
midst of so many others, exactly similar in
size, shape and color; and when at Iength
the young are hatched and are swimming
about on the loch or crowded together on
some grassy point, the old birds, as they
come home from a distance with food, fly
rapidly amid thousands of young ones
exactly similar to their own, without even
looking ct them, pntil they find their own
offspring, which, recognizing Fneir parents
among all the other birds, receive the NOR
sci without any Of the hungry little Great
ures around attempting to dispute the
prize, each waiting patiently for its own
parent, in perfect confidence that its turn
will come in due season.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16
A WILD-GOoSE CHASE.
How q st. Louis Father Got Rid Of
Worthless Son-in-Law.

How st. Louis Father Got Rid Of y
Worthless Son-in-Law,
That ancient gentleman who laconically
remarked that ''to marry in haste was to re-
pent at Ieisure'' thoroughly understood hu-
manity. The truth of the saying has been
proved time and time again in all ages and
in all countries, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, and now another illustration has
come to light which has local interest, but
general moral. About eighteen months
ago the dtughter Of one of the most promi-
nent citizens of st. Louis was married
while on a visit to New York. The parents
were not consulted about the matter, and
knew nething of it until after the ceremony
had been performed, and the young couple
asked for their blessing. The bridegroom
was young, handsome, apparently wealthy,
OF unobjectionable character, so far as could
be learned. The bride was beautiful, well
educated, leader in the upper social cir
Gle. To all appearances it was splendid
match, and when the couple arrived here.
after an extended tour society received
them with open arms, and congratulations
were generally showered upon them The
father and mother of the bride seemed to
be well pleased with her choice, and pardon
for the secret marriage was freely given.
For short time matters went on smooth
ly, and then it was discovered that the
bridegroom was practically penniless. The
father made generous contributions from
his own purse to help the young man along,
out, as ne showed no desire 10 help himself,
this source Of revenue was eventually cut
of. The young wife then went to a city Off
cial, and, with tears in her eyes, asked for
. position for her husband. Her petition
was granted, and for three months their
domestic life again ran on smoothly, q
daughter being born to them during this
period. But the husband was not inclined
to be industrious. He ave-..ed work. did
-. aLJend TO his duties, and was absent
from the office for days at time. As re-
suit, his services were dispensed with, and
he was again obliged to appeal to the gen.
erosity of his father-in-law. From this
time on he passed the larger part of his
time in s'pool alley." spending his allowance
foolishly, and making no attemptto improve
hls condition. When patience ceased to be
a virtue the father in-law decided to resort
to extreme measures, and get rid of the OBJ
noxious young husband. Accordingly, he
got his daughter IN a room in the upper
story of his residence and locked her up.
When his son-in-law inquired for her he
was told that she had taken her child and
gone 20 New York. Two days later the
young man was furnished with ticket to
the metropolis, but no money, and he start
ed, as he supposed, to join his wife. As
soon as he was out Of sisshit the daughter
was set free, and is now living. &c hapnv AZ
possible under the instances. at ber
father house. s'he young man thus turned
adrift reached New York, and his wife, e
family are confident that he will never be
able to earn enough money 10 buy return
5icketi ana fondiy beheve they are rid Of
I'm for - l. L.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16
THE GUILE STREAM.
Theories of an Observer Who Says th
Moon Controls It's Current.

Tnoories OF an Observer Who Says the
Moon Controls Its Current.
81 was anchored for three months over
the true source of the Gulf stream, and
whatI learned of the nature of that mys-
terious and erratlc current durin that time
knocks all the accepted theories as to its
origin ia the hea5.'f
Thus spoke W. s. Howard, late of the
United States coast survey steamer Blake,
to Philadelphia Inquirer reporter.
~ was attached to the Blake for three
years. Z" continued Mr.. Howard, sand during
that time we definitely fixed the source Of
the Gulf stream We spent two years in
Isaing up the Gulf stream and studying
its pecuiiarities, and while we are still in
the dark as to the primary cause Of this
great ocean river, we have definitely fixed
upon the spot where 1T originates. Former
ly 1t WAS believed that the Gulf stream was
simply the CONTINUATION of the Mississippi
river, the immense volume of water flowing
out of which cieaved its way through old
ocean, and preserving its own distinctive
characteristics as to temperature and color,
finally was lost and assimilated by tha
waters of the frozen northern seas Others
held to the opinion that the Gulf stream was
IoImed and controlled By the trade winds.
sDur observations and investigations
neither of these elements had any thing to
dc with it. One curious fact was estab-
lished, however. We found that the moon
affected the Gulf stream, and that the cur
rent was controlled absolutely and arbi-
trsrily by that body.
"fhe true source or beginning OF the
Gulf stream, established by careful scien-
tific observation extending over period of
two years, is at point between Fowey
Rocks, Florida, and the Gun Key, on the
coast of the Bahamas. At this place, in 49S
fathoms Of water, we anchored. and for
months devoted ourselves to a careful study
of the great ocean river.
LET me tell you something about the
peculiarities that we noticed. To begin
with, the current of the Gulf stream at
the point where we were anchored, and
which we unanimously agreed upon as It's
true source, varies daily in its velocity.
The difference in the fioE was at times as
much as two and 4 half knots per hour.
The greatest velocity noted was generally
about nine hours before the upper transit of
the moon. The variations wers most ex-
cessiye on the eastern side Of the straits,
and least on the western side. The average
daily currents vary during the month. the
strongest current coming day or two
after the greatest deolination Of the moon,
.The axis or true poInt of beginning Of
the Gulf stream determined by fixing the
position OF the strongest surface dow) is
eleven and a half miles east of the Fowey
Rocks lighthouse. The strongest surface
current found here was 1--WE and quarter
knots per hour, the least one and three
quarter knots, and the average three and
six tenths knots, We used two meters In
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16

our observations, one for the surface cur
rent and one for the sub-surface stream.
The wind has no effect upon the velocity of
the current. The surface current, it was
noticed, has a much higher velocity than
the sub-surface. During our observations
we occupied twenty-six different stations,
being anchored at each for several days at
time. We took $50 current observations
with the meter, and 1,S07 current observa-
tions with the pole during this time"
sand what deductions did you make!"
'sThese only: That neither the Mississip-
pi river nor the trade winds were in any
way responsible for the Gulf stream; that
it was affected by the changes of the moon,
and that this particular point, Tx miles
east of Fowey Rocks lighthouse, was its
true axis or source"
tWhat theories have you in reference to
the first cause of the streamp
Hundreds. 1t is great field for specu-
lation. just imagine, if you can, what
would have been the result if we could
have donned submarine armor and dived to
the bottom in 49S fathoms of water. We
made soundings, but they revealed to US
nothing. The bottom was a sandy, coral
foundation; fish and other submarine
creatures lived and disported themselves
in the depths, and all the time that surg
ing, resistless current boiled about US, de-
flying inquiry as to its true origin.
"1t might be, for aught any one could say
to the contrary, the mouth of great river,
with the course deep down in the bowels of
the earth, among those everlasting fires that
scientists tell US are continually burning
there. The superheated water gushing to
the surface of the ocean at that depth with
power that can not be estimated would be
apt to displace the chilled and heavier
water of the ocean, and, with an initial We
locity Of nearly six miles an hour, would
certainly clear for itself pathway through
the ocean until chilled and rendered inert
by the frozen waters of the Arctic seas
'Again, it may be that we were anchored
over an immense and ever-active volcano
which in no way crippled by the constant
influx of the cold ocean water into It's yawn-
ing crater continually, with power that
human thought can not measure, hurls back
the heated waves, and this repulsion, going
on day after day and year after year or a
period of time that has not yet been fixed
by observation or deduction, has increased
the volume of the at first puny geyser until
now it has become fixed and well founded
current, differing in temperature from the
water that surrounds it, and with sweep
and stretch that extend over thousands of
miles. \ ou can theorize all day over the
matter, and perhaps be as far from the
truth as ever. The observations made by
the Blake settled several disputed points,
81. That the winds and the Mississippi
river have nothing TO do with the formation
OF the Gulf stream.
'2. That point eleven and a half miles
east of Fowey Rocks lighthouse, Florida,
in the Caribbean Sea, is its true axis or
source.
SO. That the velocity of the current is
controlled by the decIination of the moon.''
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16
Traced by a Horses Hair.

1 will venture to relate a story which l
can vouch for as true tale, writes a Bos-
ton Post correspondent. A gray horse of
some value owned at town about twenty
miles west Of here was stolen one night,
and inasmuch as no trace of the animal
could be found elsewhere, it was assumed
that he had been taken to Boston. de-
tective was employed, and every public or
Dealers stable in the city was visited, but
without results. Finally, just at dinner
time one day, the detective dropped in at
large hotel much fIequented by market
men, teamsters and the like, and as it was
the winter season, a great number of top
coats We're hanging up insthe ball. The de-
tective examined them, and found that two
contained white horsehairs, although he
had previously ascertained there was but a
single gray horse in the stable, and that
not the one of which he was in search. Ac-
cordingly he waited for the owners of the
coats to come out from dinner. The first
one went straight to the stable and ordered
his horse to be harnessed. The second one
put on his coat and went out into the street
The detective pursued, and, after tracking
his man for an hour or so, finally followed
him to small stable in an obscure street,
where he found the missing horse and ar
rested the thief
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-16
PRETTY TOUGH YARN.
Told by an Ancient and TruthfuI Mariner
Of the Lakes

Of the Lakes.
"Talklng OF life-preservers,n said the
truthful mariner, as he knocked the ashes
out of his pipe, to New York Dispatch
man, "you remember the old steamer
Roustabout that used to run from Buffalo
to Chicagos was mate on her the year be-
fore she was lost. We were about sixty
miles out from Chicago when Mike Ian
agan, who was doing something upon the
mast, fell, struck On his head on the roof of
The cabin and bounced clean out into the
lake. Well, the captain he see him fall,
and he stepped and backed that old
Roustabout auicker'D you could say scat.
Mike went down like plummet. for he was
knocked insensible, and I know'd there was
no use to heave q life e-preserver for him, 80
! just hurried up the boys in getting the
boat down, although I didn't expect it 'ud
do much good. We had Jim King On board
Passenger from Chicago You remember
Jim King, don's 's.youl'
t.Cant say that / do,' remarked a by
stander.
well, Jim was the champion quoit-
thrower in them days. He's dead now,
poor fellow, but Jim was boss on throw
ing quoits. / tell you quoits were a great
game them days. Every village had QUOT
club and the boys on the farms used to
throw hoss shoes. 1t was something like
baseball in these times, although l never
could see as much fun in base ball as could
see In good game of quoits.n
''Oh, come on, y cried the impatient listen
er What did Jim do, or did be do anv
thingi Did the man drownin
Now, don't be too fly. Who's tellin' this
yarnl' W.
We'll, you don't seem TO ben
s'Go onl Go op ~ said the crowd.
Wei, you know, in quoits ringer was
when you put the quoit around the stake.
1t counted double. Well, Jim he picks uu
the round life preserver-it's lIM great.
Dig quot, you know-and as the Cap'n came
running aft, Jim he sings out: sCap'n, I'll
bet you five dollars I'll make a ringer On
that man if he comes up within the length
of this line"
"sBet You twenty dollars you can't,
said the Cap'n.
"sTake you,' said Jim, and just at thet
mint up bobs Mikes head about sixty feet
e-stern- Jim threw il, and I'll be burned If
that life-preserver didn't go plump over on
Mikes head clear down on his shoulders,
and there 1t stuck. We got down a boat,
and when we got to Mike he hadn't come to
yet, and didn't for some time after. He'd
been goner If it hadn't bin fur that ringer,
although it took the skin offen his nose''
"Did the Captain pay the twenty dollars ie
PAY 1T You jist bet he did. And Jim
he handed it over TO Nike, and Mike he blew
it all in when we got to Detroit / wish
some Of it was here now, fur I'm mighty
e=s- Thanks. Don't mi-2 :. l-