The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-08-31
MIDDLEBURGH 4, AUGUST 81

YER township, known as the Ridge
picnic, has been postponed to tho
10th of September on account OF the
land having been leased to
parties for the use of "Merry-go-
round,"-a thing which is not suit
able at any christian church picnic.
Y.
The gentleman who wishes to be
strictly a pet among the majority of
the ladies of the present day must
drive a good team, two horses pre-
ferred, aud must spend his money
freely for gold rings, albums, chew
ing gum, ice cream, candy, lemon
ade and other things in this line.
His reputation is not questioned.
BUcKNELL UNrvERsrrY.-The best
school is the cheapest. Nearly a
million dollars have been invested
in fixed and working capital in the
five schools of Bucknell University,
John Howard Harris, President.
For catalogue, illustrations and
other information, address the
Registrar, VIM. c. Gretzinger, Lew
isburg, Pa.
While at Selihsgrove last week we
were shown tho magnificent stock Of
gents neckware displayed at II. OPP
penheimer's. He is making a spec
ialty Of this line of goods and has as
fine a stock as we have ever seen
outside Of the large cities. Ties for
dress, weddings, funerals-in fact
for every occasion, which in beauty
and style are unsurpassed.
The directors OF the Worlds Fair
have about concluded to continue
several of the most attractive de-
partments of the exhibition for am
other year. These departments, ri.
NOR has 1t, are those Of fine arts,
fisheries, and horticulture, with pro-
badly some others. Nothing has as
yet been definitely settled, but will
be rs soon President Higinbotham
returns.
The sixth annual Snyder county
choir convention was success mu-
sically and was well attended. The
seventh annual will be held at the
same place on the third Saturday in
August, 1894. A winter session will
be held at Selinsgrove on the after
noon and evening of Feb. 22nd, 1894.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year President,
VIM. Meyer ; vice president, p. A.
Schnee secretary, VIM. Freyman
treasurer, NJ, X. Hassinger.
A mai who Is afraid of ridcule and
always OH the lookout for it, is
bound to find what he hunts for.
He shows that he is conscious of
discoverable deficiencies, and that
Ire is not supported by self-respect
sufficient to make him indifferent to
unreasoning and unreasonable pre-
judice, but has q timid regard for
the opinion of others which spurs
them on 10 attack him with the
weapons he fears. He opens up his
soreness to the public, and thus
provokes them to aggravafe it.
1t is not only in soil products Chat
the prevailing drought is having in
furious effects, buS its drawbacks on
horses, cows and poultry are regard
ed as also deleterious. In some To-
calities horses and cowsare contract
ing eye and nostril diseases, caused
by dust settling in each of these or
gans, while in poultry the injuries
are also singular and distressing. 1t
requires the utmost attention on
the part of farmers to protect these
lines of stock under the circumgtan-
ces.
The happiest man in the land to
day is the successful farmer. He
sits contentedly under his own vine
and fig tree, undisturbed by the
noise of the great city.
Banks fail, railroads go into the
hands OF receivers, booming towns
collapse, all business stagnates. But
the wise farmer can snap his fingers
at these things. He is the monarch
OF all he surveys on his broad acres.
And the honesty of his boys and the
purity of his girls is guarded against
temptation, and in them he is giving
the country its best manhood and
womanhood. The farmer is to be
enyied, and, il he is not contented
with his lot, he is lacking in wisdom.
Success to the farmer.