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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-22
The Lice Plague.
ELI PERKINS.

John Snyder is a Mennonite. One
of his daughters learned the milli-
merry trade and started shop ut the
family home in Ephrate township,
Lancaster county. The Mennonites
are not much on millinery, but other
people are.
One day, some weeks, ago thrifty
housewife of Ephrata township open
ed on old chest that had been lying
in her garret for years, tightly closed.
She found no treasure in it. An
antiquated but physically sound
bonnet frame was all she found. 1t
was too good to be wasted and she
Immediately sent it to Miss Snyder's
millinery store to have it remodeled
and modernized and made into new
Sunday bonnet. A few hours later
.-4'.s sa, ~ u lame to
fashion it according to the prevailing
style there abouts. She threw it on
the floor the next instant and ex-
claimedin good.Pennsylvania Dutch,
Dare hoot is full fin ~
But they were not ileas, but lice.
The hat was at once destroyed, but
enough of the insects got away to
soon populate the house. They
don't seem to care for human flesh
and blood, and only swarm on people
to feed on clothing. The binding of
books they are also partial to. The
Snyder family quit going abroad,
and did everything possible to rid
themselves of the insects. Then
they called in assistance. First the
premises were fumigated for days
with burning sulphur, the family
having abandoned the house and
sought shelter in tobacco sheds and
the barn. Two barrels of sulphur
We're converted into suffocating
smoke, which entered every crack
and crevice and remote hiding place
the insects could possibly find. This
done, the Mennonite good Samari-
tans tore out their brothers petro-
leum smoked and sulphur walls,
floors and partitions from cellar to
garret and made the house new in
side. All the bedding and clothing
belonging to the family were soaked
in strong salt brine for a day and in
boiling water for another day. Then
the Snyder household took posses
sion of their house again, and to
their Joy found that they were rid
Of the pests. 1t cost farmer Snyder
nearly -, 900 to evict them.
But the good brethren who aided
iu bringing about this pleasant re.
suit soon found that the feas, AS
they were still called, had sought
revenge for their ruthless unhousing.
Next day, after the work at Snyder's S
was done, every man who had taken
part in it made the appalling dis
coyery that his own house had been
taken possession Of by the insects,
and that they were playing havoc
there just as they had been doing
at Snyders.
They have now spread through
several townships, and there is a
panic as the insects spread rapidly.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-22
Republican Standing Committee.

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iirUDr-Ndth1n Freed. Irwin Kinney.
Beaver Wpst-Mm ilepter. Geo. :. SNYDER.
trhirc-H. &. Sampsell, VIM. Hartman.
tuunWIuaIuhn Silcr. 4. ". Rohrpr
FrIukilu-J. Howard Bl.tE. james Entorlinc.
Martin, Peter kiu-ler
Niddleburgh-JuS. BpWcTsON, &. " Herman.
Middlccrcck-p. l.. Row, NJ +. Holingcr.
Muuru"-G A. Kaufman, VIM g. kcurns
lcuu-l. y. Jarrett. y +. Grouse.
Icrry-W. ID. Bilgcr, -. +. ArbOgaSt.
Perry Vest N. Gruylll. r.. NJ Arhog1st.
>prlny-A. VI. Aurand. David Nldtle,wurth.
ScliuSgt1yo- ~. VI Hummpl \. Nlrberger
I uipu-AllHu SrchrlSt. j. =. Stuul
NaShiugton-Wn. c. Iillbish MOyer.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-22
Eli Perkins Story Of The Cir
Gus.

In Pennsylvania. June 12.-Tbe
other day, away out in Oregon, the
newspapers all had long pathetic
kilograms about the shocking wreck
OF Il circus. They said seventeen
car loads of beautiful tigers, leop-
ards, elephants, snakes, ostriches,
camols and fifty lovely spotted ponies
and trick horses left Clearfeld, Pa,
with the light-hearted circus riders
and clowns. When the train came
down the mountain into Altoona it
got away from the engineer, and in
moment it went fifty miles an
hour to destruction. Clowns and
bareback riders and bears and mon
Keys and camels were piled in heap,
and the poor circus man was ruined.
The wounded leopards, lions and
monkeys took to the woods, the
frightened birds flew away, and
when they pulled of the wreck they
couldn't tell the balloons from the
'''"U"1 NOR the h. 'xes =. on u
elephants trunks. Tears rolled
down the cheeks of poor Maine, the
circus man, for the work of life
time was destroyed and all hope was
gone. | found myself thinking Of
that poor circus man every night as
/ lay doing in the Pullman cars out
in Oregon. | wondered if he would
ever be happy again. | wondered
what would become of the halfdead
animals scattered through fields and
woods and the poor circus people
stranded without money.
Well, today l got the sequel to
the story, and it has made me glad.
| saw this same circus proudly pa
rading the streets of Altoona, while
Maine, the wrecked manager, proud
ly surveyed his show, happy man
again.
How was this resurrection
brought about so.quickley p asked
the Altoona hotel keeper
Well, he said, "the next morn
ing after the wreck the Pennsylvania
Railroad people came up to see the
terrible sight They found the cir
Gus man in tears.
What can we do for you they
asked
Nothing, moaned poor Main. l
am ruined. | haven't even hope.
All | can do is to bury my poor AMI.
mails, put my wounded circus men
III hospital. and crawl back to my
poor wife and children at Ashtabula.
I'm in bad luck. The wet spring
has been against me. l have seven
thousand dollars worth of hand bills
posted ahead of me, but no circus or
money to meet them. / must aban-
don everything. Before / can get
anything out of a suit with the Rail
road the season will be ended, and
1t will be ruin upon ruin, and then
with tears in his eyes, he went on
dressing the broken legs of the
clown.
"But you won have to commence
a suit, said the railroad men. The
fault was ours. One Engine never
ought TO have brought the train
down that steep Mountain, and then
they say our trainmen had been
drinking before the train started
We viii help YOU right now Wen
put YOU on your feet again right of.
"What the railroad will do this ?.
gaspod the circus man in astonish-
mont.
"'Yes, well help you out. "
The result was that the railroad
sent the mangled circus men 10 al.
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Vetoed.

The governor has vetoed the act
an appropriation to the
State agricultural society. In dis
il, he says This bill
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PRIvATES SALE

The gned will offer to the public his entire s
of Furniture and Bedding for the next three months
the greatest sacrifice known in the Furnitue Trad
in entrai Penna. Having decided to change nv bud
ness III doing so must make alterations IN u
buildings L am compelled to offer my entire stock
prices never heard of before. Chamber Suits. Par
Suits, Sideboards, upboards Extension Tables Brea
fast Tables, Centre Tables, Marble Top Tables Polj
Tables, Fancy Cookers Common Rockers, Willow Rod
ers, Baby Coaches High chairs, Small rockers Wool
esat chairs, Cane Seat hairs Doughtrays Beds, 81
reaus Wfshstands Sofas, Lounges Couches, Mattress
Blankets, Haps, Pillows, Bostes, Springs, Sc. &c.
The above goods must be sold without reserve all
will be delivered TO all points along the main line al
branches OF II. r. My Cstock of Carpets is the lag9
in Iewisown and will be offered at great reducd
during the above SALE
w. III. FELIX,
Lewistown,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-22
Worlds Fair Lodging.

To comply with the desire Of many eastern
friends % secure them safe Worlds fair lodgings
We have decided to accommodate limited mum
her and have rented the new building, 53i Oak
ley avenue, with
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

mountains, there are the warm and the
hot springs, the spring of saline waters
and the bathing in Salt lake. The bath
ing is simply unsurpassed. believe the
water is impregnated more with salt than
that OF the ocean, and, of course, even
more buoyant.
"Salt Lake city has about $1,000 inhab-
itants now, and the territory between two
hundred and three hundred thousand.
Many times more people, you see, than
any of the recently admitted states up
north. must confess / would like to see
it become state, and so would the Nor
mons, but from different reasons. :
But revelation or no revelation, I am
strongly inclined to believe the Mormons
are honest in their desire for state. And
hope that Utah, with its splendid reali-
cations for citizenship and its glorious
prospects for becoming a great and pros
porous state, will be admitted into the
union, and that very soon.n
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18
A Fire-ProOf Building

1t is to be hoped that after all the talk
and discussion and investigation, to saw
nothing Of the iuuketing and recreation.
over the probing OF the city and
county building, we shall have struc-
ture that is really fire-proof or as nearly so
as modern skill can make it. There are
very few actual fTe-proof buildings in
the world. A great many have been so
declared which have subsequently gone
up in smoke or been laid down in ruins
by the devouring flames.
An Ohio paper gives some particulars
concerning proof buildings in several
places which proved to be fire traps. The
stillman apartment building, for in
stance, in Cleveland was pronounced alb
solutely fire-proof. The roof and top
story, however, were built of wood. A
spark fell upon it and very soon there was
no top story or roof The old Lumber
Exchange in Minneapolis, nine-story
building, was made fire proofn by an
application of thing to the wood, and
not long after the Lumber Exchange
building was laid in ashes. One of the
most elaborate s'fre-proof'' buildings
ever constructed was the Chicago Ath-
letic club building. Its fre-proof quality
was advertised far and near. On it in
surance rates were fixed at the minimum,
When it burned one of the old exper-
fenced Chicago fremen said it made the
hottest fire he had ever felt. So hot was
it that the surface OF the Sire proof
material and the exposed face of the
bricks in some phases became fused while
the melted glass from sEylights ran
down the walls like melted tallow; and
this was a fire proof" building.
Many fire. proof buildings are only fire
proof SO far as the walls and foundation
go, They are filed in with COM
bustible materials, and when a fire
breaks out they are completely Quilted
and only the blackened exterior
as evidence that the struc-
lures were warranted fire-proof Woods
that contain more or less pitch
ought not to be used on their construc-
ton. Pine is dangerous lumber when
fire is near. Architects must study the
materials of public building as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

Give me plenty Of room, for I'm going to use
Washington Netos
Buffalo Courier: It is hard to tell what
the Kansas legislature is, but it is not an
lridescent dream.
indianapolis Journal: Watts-Old Grim
MINIS lett his wife pretty well off when he
died, didn't he? Potts-Better off, in fact.
Brooklyn Life: Ella-What makes you
think he loves you? Did he say SO? Ida
No, but he Rugged me. That is a rounda-
bout way OF letting me know it.
Detroit Tribune; De Young What
would you call it, proud beauty, If your
presence? Proud Beauty-Infanticide.
Chicago Ne,cs Record: 1t is now con-
sidered to be perfectly good form in the
aristocFatic precincts of Chicago to sit
down upon the sidewalk for a moment
and study astronomy.
7. d S. S. Co.'s Bulletin: az hear Bar
low has got a pension s'What for?'
He lost five fingers at Gettysburg. :"
"Barlow?' Eyes; five fingers of whisky.
Got shot right square in the flask"
Kate Fields Washington: One Good
Turn Deserves Another .-Husband-But
don't want to quit chewing tobacco.
Wife-I gave up my weeds for you, and l
think you may do the same for me.
Harper Bdzdr: Mrs. McBride-Before
we were married, you often wished there
was some brave deed you could do for me
to show your love. Mr.. McBride-Yes,
dear, and would do it now. Mrs. Nc
Bride-Then, love, go down into the
kitchen and discharge Bridget.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18
Hostility to Railroads.

/ An eastern paper notices that efforts are
continuing to be made in some of the
western states to enact laws that would
more or less hamper or obstruct railroads
from running through or carrying on
their traffic within those regions. 1t
characterizes this as 'ssuicidal policy. -
We agree with the opinion. There is a
class of people, notably the Populists, who
seem to think that anything that will in
iure the railroads is benefit to the pub
lie. Take Wyoming, for instance. The
Union Pacific seems to be an adherence
to them. Anybody WHO'S alleged to be in
the service of that company is set down
at once as a public enemy. Why, no.
body seems able to explain.
What would Wyoming have been with
out that railway? 1t would probably
have had no political existence. Ger
tainly it would not now be a state but for
the very road those people seem to hate.
1t is still essential to its prosperity. 1t
pays large sum in taxes and thus helps
to support the state which it largely aided
in creating.
1t is SO in many other places. Railroad
companies are grasping, there is no doubt
Measures are necessary very often to
curb their voracity, and protect the inter-
ests of the people who depend upon them
for trade and transportation. There is no
objection to proper means to bring them
to reasonable terms. But there seems to
be no reason and no sense in acting as
though they were public enemies in their
very constitution, and that they ought to
be legislated against and INSTRUCTED.
There are hundreds of thousands of
acres of soil, producing food for man and
beast and making possible pleasant homes
and thriving towns and villages in the
west, which, but for these same railroads,
would be now as they were before the
iron rails were laid and the iron horse
snorted over them-a barren, desert waste.
This is not intended as an apology for
the railroads in any extortion, nor de-
fence of exorbitant rates, nor justifca
tion for charging moro for a short haul
than long haul in freights. 1t is simply
word OF caution to unreasonable people,
and advice to them not to try and kill the
bird that laid the golden eggs. The rail-
roads are not public enemies, and they
can be made to continue as public friends
by fair treatment. Legislatures and the
public generally would do better to make
terms with them than try to repress and
cripple them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18
Maryels of Transportation.

| In several works written as novels and
depicting events hundred years or SO in
the future, a submarine pneumatic rail-
way is one of the novelties described, and
extraordinary speed is given to the trains
propelled by compressed air and moving
without jolt or jar. There is nothing
really incredible in these theoretical de-
scriptions, nor is the idea behind them
altogether original.
A pneumatic tube for the conveyance of
parcels has long been talked of and now
it is likely to become an actual fact, and
that on no small scale. The news is
that a company has been formed
to construct tube of that
kind, twelve inches in diameter,
and lay it on the bed of the Atlantic
ocean from the United States to England.
1t is to be for the transmission of mail
matter and valuable packages.
The one foot tube for parcels is said to
be only intended as test for the prac-
ticability of another of more preten tious
proportions and purposes. That is a
twelve foot tube for passenger cars which
are each to be sixty feet long, to carry
their own apparatus for light and sup
ply OF air and make the journey to Eu-
rope in three hours. Sea sickness of
course will be entirely avoided, and the
cars will be kept right side up with care
by making the shape of the tube partly
elliptical.
This sounds very well at first pop, but
when curious questions are asked. the
feasibility of the project does not seem to
ring in quite as well. 1t is supposaple
that the tube will be manufactured on
land and laid like cable is laid. If it is
flexible, how can it be fixed straight
enough to be pneumatic and without
those bends and convolutions which seem
impossible to avoid on the uneven bottom
of the deep, deep sea? The speed is to be
only thousand miles an hour, but even
that looks a little difficult under these
considerations.
Perhaps it would be as well for the
company said to have been formed for this
purpose to experiment little on terra
firma before venturing out on the bosom
of the vastly deep. Or is this organiza-
ton and its great pneumatic tube only
intended for the benefit OF ''the marines"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

well as the external, and exhibit their
skin in rendering it actually safe from
the fire demon if such thing is possible.
1t will be expected of the city authori-
ties, after their jaunt to the coast and the
stores Of tire-proof learning they have
laid in, that they will be able to detect
any susceptibility to flames in the ma
terials attempted to be used in the city
and county building. They should by
this time be fire-wise. If the structure
should, after all, turn out to be food for
flames, there viii be a great eonfiagration
jim more senses than one. Let us have, if
possible, building that shall be fire
proof TO all intents and purposes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18
Good Words.

Cincinnati papers notice the arrivaI in
that city of Paymaster J. s, WITcHER,
U. S. Army, who is en- route to Florida
on leave of absence. At the time of the
Centennial exposition he was stationed at
Cincinnati, where he made many friends,
He stated to the reporters that he had
been for three years a resident of Salt
Lake city and made the following re-
marks about Utah:
81 am firm believer in the future of
Salt Lake city and Utah. Next to Wash
ington city consider Salt Lake city the
second handsomest city in the United
States. And its location is unsurpassed.
1t has all the environments for being one
OF the wonderfully attractive cities of the
world. AS health resort alone, its quail
tiles should most strongly commend it.
There it is within the shadow of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

1t is proposed in Maine to enact law
providing that habitual drunkards shall
be sent to the Kelley Institute to be
cured. That's all right, but how is it
that there are any habitual drunkards in
the state of Maine Is it a fact that pro-
hibition does not prohibit?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18
To Advertisers.

hE THE HERALD has the largest circu-
Iasion in Utah. It is a visitor to more
homes in this territory and the Surround
ing region than any other newspaper
published. It's constituency comprises
more heads of families than any other,
and it Is therefore the best advertising
medium in Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

will contain a number of interest
ing features among which we men
ton the following;
THE ANTE- BELLUM SOUTHERN WOMAN
Winnie Davis, The Daughter of the
Conlederaoy' explodes uopui ar tradi-
tis.n regarding the mistresses Of the
southern plantation and their life before
the war wherein she shows that the
languid southern woman had no exis-
fence. Ths is The first Of her series OF
arrcies md : handsomely illustrated
bAIATY DRsSs eof HONE AAJ1 gRAFEl
&iss. ADA aaeAe Cons DESCRIBES three
new costumes viz. green ana rose fou-
tsro gown. travelling dress ana fash
ionsble morning costume
NOVELTIES IN THE CRY SHOPS.
One OF the newest and prettiest articles
for home is a glass top IRE screen. This
novelty, as wen as many others, is dis
cussed by Clara Brunce in very enter
tanning article.
FREsREEING Up THE DINING ROOM
An Illustrated article by E. D. Brown,
presenting a design for a table cover
ana poTiiere.
PBIzs Dogs or NEW YORK.
Cleveland Moffet writes of the famous
prize dogs of New York OF $4,000 ST.
Besnards, ohsmnIens of the Geld. and of
the dogs, known as toy dogs owned by
Mrs. Sem
0DAN7' LAMONT.
The career Of the private secretary
who viii be secretary Of war under the
new administration is charmingiy pre-
scented in a short sketch by E. j. Ed
wards.
OUR FEBRUARY HOLIDAY.
How they keep it at Washington illus
trsted with cuts OF Mt. Vernon and
Washingten's room.
FIGHT FOR LIFE ON A MUsKEG.
Capel Rowlen in a short story for
boys, tells OF tight for life, With buff
falo in the north west.
These are some of the many features
OF the SUNDAY HERALD of tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

PAPER DRAWINGS of the coal road and
the road to Deep Creek are all very well
in their way but what Salt Lake folks are
looking for are the drawings of cars by
the putting locomotive.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

THERE ARE several prominent Bills.
There is BILL NyE, BILL MCKINLEY,
BUFFALO BILL and host of others but
the people of the wild west are more in
terested just now in Silver Bill than any
otba-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

IN THIS plutocratic age custom would
seem to justify the substitution OF
money! for the first word in the script
ure text, ssCharity coyereth multitude
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

The HAWAIIAN commissioners did not
come in the costume of the countryside
undress of the natives of the interior, they
were at least clothed with authority.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

Boston PAPERS say that Boston is to
furnish all the coffee for the Worlds
Fair. Ii beans are mixed with the Mocha
there will be strong grounds for complaint.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

IT Is Stated on the best of authority''
Dame Rumor-that Massachusetts is
about to cod-ify her fish laws.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18
Home Industry.

There is no excuse for supporting east
ern manufacturers. We quote home
made red and white Flannels at 25c per
yard, reduced from 35c. We have only
forty pieces Seize this opportunity. Get
the goods at
PEOPLES EQUITABLE Co-OP.,
and g., Main street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

THE Princess of Wales it seems has shut
down on the hoop skirt. However she
does not seem to have fattened it out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

WHEN A person trumps up an excuse
does ne always speak by the card?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

SEVERAL STATES are passing laws
against the deadly cigarette. They want
ii fired but not smoked.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

THE STRONG interest taken by Iegisla-
tors to promote the purity of whisky sug-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

gests the idea that there is something per-
sonai in it rather than patriotic.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18
NOnsepsical Nuggets.

Now, bring me ladder and chair, my lad,
And a whitewash brush that's damp,
Give me plenty Of room, for I'm going to use
The new Columbian stamp.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-18

TIE DAIIY HERALD is published every morn
ing, Monday excepted, at THE HERALD
block, corner West Temple and First
South streets, Salt Lake City.
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