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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-08

For sale cheap-A Piano box top
buggy, also Il few cushion and
Pneumatic tire safety bicycles.
\. II. ULsH X SoN.
Miss Laura KELLER, after spending
several weeks with her uncle Bene-
vile Smith, returned TO her home at
Adamsburg on Tuesd' Y accompanied
by her neice Miss Bessie Smith, who
will visit her uncle ]. G.. Meyer for
several weeks.
The Republicans of Union county
held their primary election on the
27th ult., and tho following ticket
was nominated Treasurer, ID. L.
Higgins Register and Recorder,
W. Shields Commissioners, 4. \.
Gemberling and II. Il. Hartman
Representative Delegate, II. A.
Taylor.
Justices of the Peace throughout
the country will hail with pleasure
the new fee bill which went into ef-
feet last week. According to the
new bill Justices can now charge for
oath and information 80 cents, dock
ct entry p cents, warrants 30 cents,
transcript 80 cents, entering dis
continuance of assault and battery
casses 50 cents, entering action %
cents, summons or subpoena %
cents with 10 for each additional
name, return of summons % cents,
entering satisfaction Is cents, execu-
ton 30 cents, return of proceedings
on certiorari or appeal 81, receiving
or paying over where the amount is
over 800, 81 per hundred.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-08

Adam Comfort, who was convict
ed of shooting John Snyder with in
tent TO kill at Shamokin Dam, on the
night of January 10, 1891, and SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment
III the Eastern Penitentiary at the
February court following, commit
ted suicide on Saturday night, June
3, by throwing himself under coal
wagon in the Penitentiary yard, re-
ceiving injuries from which he died
in the hospital few hours after.
Immediately upon Mr.. Comforts
arrival in the Penitentiary in March
1891, he was put to work at shoe
making, at which he remained until
December 20 of last year. On the
date mentioned Comforts $ mind be-
came affected, and he intimated to
several of his associates that he
was going to kill himself. The keep
ers, on lsrrning this, placed aim in
tho hospital ana defaiIe,. TWO othso
convicts TO watch him. so that he
could not injure himself. His con-
dition was improved, and on Jan
uary 10, 1898, he was assigned the
duty of keeping part of the yard
of the fifth block clean After his
release from the hospital he again
threatened to do himsel harm, and
it was decided to continue watching
him. He acted very strangely lately
and never spoke to anyone. For "A
time he refused to eat anything and
once went without food for week.
On Saturday afternoon about 2.3O
o'clock two wagons belonging toe.
III. Binns, coal dealer, brought loads
of coal to the institution. The ve-
hiclcs entered the entrance to the
yard where Comfort worked. After
the coal in the first wagon had been
weighed by Keeper Joseph NJ. Nor
gan, the vehicle started up the drive
way to the coal house. The other
wagon started in the same direction
shortly afterwards. When the first
wagon had gone about thirty yards
the driver noticed the horses take n
sudden squirt, rs if they had been
frightened, and on looking back the
driver saw Comfort lying on the
ground over which the wagon had
Just passed He went back and
learned that lie had been run over
and hurt. Comfort was Immediately
taken to the hospital, where he was
attended to by the prison physician,
DR.. NJ. V. Bull.
The driver saw the dead convict
gathering debris on the side of the
path. He did not see him run to-
wards his wagon. The driver of the
other vehicle, which was following,
said that he saw the man stop work
and, running to the first wagon, de-
hberately place his head under one
of the hind wheels, which passed
over his neck. Another convict
known as "A $780, who witnessed
the accident, corroborated the dri-
ver's story. Other witnesses say
that the man attempted to cross the
driveway and was knocked down by
the wheel
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-08
MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO., PA, JUNE s, 1893
The Fool Killer.

Take walk through any of the
cemeteries throughout the country
and you will believe with us that the
fools are slowly but surely passing
away. You pass the last resting of
man who blew into an empty gun.
The tombstone OF him who lighted
the fire with kerosene. The grass
carpeted mound covers the remains
of the man who took the mule by
the tail. The tall monument of the
man who didn't know it was loaded
oyer-shadows the man who jumped
from the cars TO save a ten rod walk.
Side by side lie the ethereal creature
who kept her corset laced up to the
last hole, and the intelligent idiot who
rode a bicycle nine miles in ten min
utes.
Here reposes the doctor who took
n dose of his own medicine, and the
old fool who married n young wife.
Right over yonder in the northwest
corner, the breezes sigh through the
weeping willows that bends over the
lowly bed where lies the fellow who
told his mother-in-law she lied.
Down there in the potter's field, with
his feet sticking out to the cold
blast of winter and the blistering
rays of the summer sun, is stretched
the earthly remains of the misguided
regulator, who tried to lick the
editor, while the broken bones of
the man who would not pay for his
paper are piled up in the corner of n
fence. Over by the gate reposes the
boy who went swimming on Sunday,
and the old woman who kept baking
powder side by side with strychnine
in the cupboard. The old fool-killer
gathers them in one by one, and by
and by we will have a pretty decent
world to live in.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-08

Miss Daisy, j. b. Reed sbeautiful
and accomplished daughter of Sun
bury, will please accept our thanks
for AN invitation to attend the
eleventh annual commencement of
the Sunbury High School in the
Lyons Opera House on the 25th
ult. Although too late for the ex-
ercises it is never too late to return
our thanks for the kind remem-
brance.
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of LOCAL INTEREST

z[ ON. why should the spirit
| OF mortal be proud
|<X In a coutry like ours.
8 where It isn't allowed
E# For man who one time
It'd In onice has been
IA TO never again have chance
To get In
u. l.. Marks of Swineford is
Il relatives in Lewistown.
IN Bibighause Of Philadelphia
sunday in DIiddleburgh.
tSchoch, who spent the winter
|Hhlo, n. Y. is home on II visit.
Mitchell and wife of New
4 visited with Joe Clelan and
&over Sunday
phat Walter is raising, inn
and building an addition to
bse in the east end of town.
n received n car Of No. l 2l-inch
Is Mt S5.25 per m.
A. II. ULsH " Son.
Hrleland and Philip Spaid left
hday morning for Lewistown,
Hst in laying brick for the new
prks.
Sen Fessler of Centervillo
Is a pike in Penns Creek on
day that measured % inches in
b and weighed p lpounds.
N. w. Orwig and the editor of
|osr fshed Swift Run on Thurs
last week and retuned with
D the speckled beauties-every
which was caught at the fly.
]H. Bower assistant general
er of the West Virginia Cen
lilroad, with headquarters at
brland, Md, visited his parents
nklin last week.
es-. Runkle and wife Of near
Hall, accompanied by. their
ter, Mrs. DR.. Allison of Spring
yare visiting friends in Middle
1.-The guests OF merchant John
hAle.
closing exercises of the spring
|of the Freeburg Musical Col
kill take place Friday evening
D. A large and Interesting pro-
has been prepared for the oc-
b.
b T. Bonner of Mahonoy, Pa,
b; Enclosed find $3.50 for the
for another year. l am a dem
and the PosT is republican but
hon't matter. 1t is the best
| can get for the money and |
! do without it,"
b Harter, of the AIiddleburgh
is visiting the Worlds Fair in
lgo, and his paper last week
Iuite readable letter init from
III he keeps on he'll soon size
,,ith Aleck McClure.-Jumiata
u is when we die, and then we
size up" with Aleck in the
nt of dust we make.
'tions of Lancaster county are
Jed with lice. SO numerous
Icy that the people are moving
the infested districts. There
|indreds of millions of the pests
pc lives of the inhabitants are
miserable. When they go
ID they are stunned by every
hey meet and when they stay
|ne they can do nothing but
rh.-Er.
neg citations heretofore in
'ess for the purchase of Mr..
r's corner by the First Nation
PIX, have resulted in an agree
|npon n price-certain matters
'tail remain to be arranged, |
they are satisfactorily adjust
no doubt they will be, the
lase will be completed, and the |
Mill erect a business block on |
~ corner-the finest location
Rsiness purposes in the county. |
Pph Walter, residing one mile
town, was given pleasant
Pc party on Monday evening"
rs his 5Sth birthday. 1t was
form OF a family reunion and |
he relatives I were invited.
the recipient of n number
able present-among them be.
iuster band tea set, and a
gold watch. The affair was
bly managed and the occa.
As as pleasant to Mr.. Walter
as unexpected.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-08

Theodore Erdly is building a new
barn on his lot Immediately back of
the Reformed church.
The Glen Union Lumber Co.,
Glen Union, Clinton county, Pa.
want twenty-five good, practical
teamsters and wood choppers.
Wages paid according to the man S
ability and usefulness. II to Sl.25
per day and board. Men who drink
rum and get drunk need not apply.
G. X. SOBER, Gen. Supt.
The editor of II weekly journal late
ly lost two of his subscribers thro'
accidentally departing from the
beaten track in his answers to cor
respondents. Two of his subscrib-
ers wrote to ask him his remedy for
their respective troubles. No. !, Il
happy father of twins, wrote to in
quire the best way to get them safe
ly over their teething, and No.
waited to know how to protect his
orchard from the myriads of grass
hoppers. The editor framed his
answers upon the orthodox lines,
but unfortunately transposed their
two names, with the result than No.
/, who was blessed with the twins.
read in reply to his query: Cover
them carefully with straw and set
fire to them, and the little pests, af-
ter jumping around in the flames n
few minutes, will speedily be set
tied" No. ., plagued with grass
hoppers, was told to give n little
castor oil and rub their gums gently
with bone ring"
A letter was recently received at
the pension department from a wild
ow in little town in Ohio, who said
she had lived a widow for thirty
years and found it too lonely. There
fore, she asked that plank be put
in her pension that would enable
her or any other who lived single
since 1892 to marry, andat the same
time keep her pension. She added
that she was now too old to get
much of n husband, one who was
able to support her as we'll rs her
pension had, and consequently she
must take what she could get, but
did not feel like again venturing on
the matrimonial sea unless she
could do so and still continue TO re-
ceive her quarterly remittance from
the pension department. A widow
who can state her case so cleverly,
and whose utterances bear every
evidence of candor and sincerity,
ought to have her wishes complied
with, if this be at all possible under
the law, or even by stretching the
law q mere trifie
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-26

Vassall became later the property OF an
apothecary by the name OF Andrew Grail
gle. His widow in her turn occupied the
house and let few of the rooms to such
men as Edward Everett, Joseph FL. Wor-
cester of dictionary fame and President
Sparks. When Longfellow, at the age OF
30, lifted her knocker and demanded to
see her rooms he was professor at Harvard
having previously occupied chair at
Bowdoin and since that been much in
Europe. Mrs. Cragie who was quite
character, and an admirable pen picture
of whom will be found in James Russell
Lowell's Cambridge Thirty Years Ago"
civilly showed him over the house. First,
there was the room where Washington
had lodged. He would say, 'sthis is a
fine room,' and she would reply, Eyes,
but you can't have it, !" and then to his
next note of admiration the same reply,
Eyes but you can't have it. Finally
Longfellow Ventured to ask why she did
not wish to lodge him, and she replied
because don t take students" Then
the poet explained that in spite of his
young smooth face he was a professor and
not an undergraduate, and he was in
stalled in the room that Washington oc-
cupied, and there the rest OF his life was
passed. All the country round about 1T
LongfelloW made familiar in his prose
and verse.
In the future of American literature
Longfellow' s name will occupy singular
place. He will represent the gentleman
writer, the man of means who did not de-
pend on his work for his bread, who was
born to dignified position, and could
trace his line clear back to the old country
by the way of one of the staunchest OF
loyal men, and whose Wife's social po-
sition was equal to his own. Five OF his
ancestors, including John Alden came
over in the Mayflower, while the poets
mother was decended by two different
gestive "Why don't you speak for your
self, John?' figures so cleverly in the
poets story of Miles Standish.
Landmarks connected with Longfel-
lows name are many, There is the old
house in Portland where he was born and
which still stands, or did year or two
ago, at the corner of Fore and Hancock
streets. 1t is a large square, wooden
structure; then there is the house next
to the Preble house, on Congress street in
Portland, whose tree-shaded front, in
spite of it's location on so busy street as
Congress street has become, is still so at
tractiYe. In this latter house the poets
mother lived during the first year OF her
married life. There he spent most OF his
youth. These as well as the Craigie house
Longfellow park and his grave al Mount
Auburn are already points of interest to
tourists.
1t is strange but true that the faces of
the Longfellows are hardly known in
Boston save by their circle of intimate
friends and they have no desire TO accept
any of the homage excited by their
fathers fame.
1t is something OF pity that in a fam
lily of quite numerous grand children
there should not have been a son of the
male line to continue the name.
MILDRED ALDRICH.
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tables or in the midnight smoke at the
club, he is a man 3 man in-everya sense OF
the word. His especial friends were the
late Commodore Weld, whose recent
death so shocked his friends, Henry Bry
yachts, and 7. Watson Merrill, all OF
whom are Somerset club men. He has
travelled half round the world in yachts,
and has always been famous sportsman.
Miss Longfellow is the only one of the
daughters that has not married She is a
dainty waman, with fine face under her
fast whitening hair. Her modest and
unselfish life has endeared her to all who
know her, and she shrinks from all no.
toriety.
Edith Longfellow, the second daughter.
was the beauty of the family. She mar
ried over dozen years ago Richard IL.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-26

The present occupant of the house is
the poets eldest daughter, Miss Alice
Longlellow. Miss Longfellowis woman
of rarely beaatiful character. Child as
she was when they lost their mother, she
seemed to feel at once as if her mother
duties were hers. and to try to take TO the
than herself, a mothers place. During
her father life she was his constant COM
panion, his faithful helpmate, his friend.
And since his death she has filled the
same place to her bachelor brother Charles
Longfellow, who is low living with her at
the homestead. At present he is an in
valid, not having recovered from the Sc
rious attack by which he was Frustrated
while at Nahant this summer.
Though by birth, and by every right
that society recognizes, the Longfellows
are entitled to all the social prestige that
one can be given in this country, and in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-26

Dana.-the third to bear that name,-
who is the grandson OF the famous author
of 1.-Two Years Before the Mast. :" They
have six children. The Oldest is named
Richard Henry,-the fourth to bear the
name.-and is called Dickie; he is about
II years old. Then comes Henry Long
fellow Dana, called Harry; Frances Dana /,
named for Mrs. Dana's mother, beautiful
Frances Appleton, of whom her brother,
Tom Appleton, was, as friend of his
once said, so "proudly fond" Then
come Allison Dana, Neddie and Della.
The Danas live in q house which they
built a few years ago on part OF the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-26
A POETS BIRTHDAY.
"reminiscences of Americas Sweet
Singer, LOngfellOw.
The Historic Cragie House-LongfeIow's
Cambridge Home-The Sons and
Daughters of the Poet.

Boston, Feb. 21.-Whenever Feb. q
Games round all lovers of American liter
ature, especially If they were born in the
vicinity Of Cambridge, Mass, remember
thrt on that day, in the year 1906, was
born Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who
by his life and his work contributed much
to the reputation that Americans, as a
nation, are so DESTROYS of enjoying in the
world of letters.
But today It is the changes that each
year brings that are most interesting,
rather than the poet, who is still we'll re-
membered, though personally he was lit
tie enough known away from Boston and
Cambridge even during his life. 1t is
eleven years ago March "a since he died,
and vet he is as constantly spoken of in
the town that knew him best as If he
We're still living. Yet the necessary years
OF obscurity required to ripen contem-
porary reputation into immortal fame are
by no means passed.
This TACT is accounted for by the cir
cumstance of his family still living In the
house that was so many years his home,
and which remains almost as he left 1T,
facing the park thst bears his name
The Craigie House, as it was called
when at the age of 80 he went there to
1--we, and as it is still called, is a fine
mansion on Brattle street, in the pictures
que university town-for the satisfaction
OF those who like accuracy-it is num-
bered los. To this house the poet went as
a young man; it was there he brought
his second wife, beautiful Frances Eliza
beth Appleton, who was the Mary Ash
burton of Hyperion; !" there his children
grew up; there his wife met her tragic
death. there his daughter was married
and there he died, within sight of the
river he so loved, and whose beauties he
has made famous.
The Craigie house, by the way, was
built in 1853, and is as admirable an ex-
ample of colonial architecture as there is
in the vicinity OF Boston. In addition to
its fame as the home of Longfellow it was
the headquarters of Washington when he
was in Cambridge.
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Our Proposition.

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-26

Only published by HIS publishers he mesnA
But If he had spoken the truth about the matter
he would have told you that the first volume Of
the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britain
MICA was issued fifteen years ago, and that the
greater part OF IL was compiled at that date.
So you see they didn't get General Grant In il
after all
That depends on the kind OF book you want.
Let me ask you question or two You live
here IN the United States, don't you?
Yes, thought SO. Now tell me, about which
do you want the most detailed information, an
American city or an English town? An Amer
lean statesman or an English statesman?
T Just so. But, you see, the Encyclopmdia
Britannica wasn't compiled for the use of men
like you. 1t was put together to be used by
Englishmen in England And, you gee, they
want the exact opposite Of what you do andthe
Encyclopaedia Britannica, very properly, gives
it to them 1t fills pages with the account OF
some insignificant English borough or county
that you may never want to know anything
about whatever, aud gives half dozen lines to
some State Orcity here thaty you want the fullest
particulars of, but about which an Englishman
cares just nothing at all.
Right as tri7et. whatever that may be-
never saw one that know Of. But you're just
exactly right, all the same. It's the AMERI-
CANNED Encyclopedia Britannica that We
propose to put IN every home IN the West. The
long-winded articles on petty British subjects
have been cut down to the same length that
would have been given them had they been
French or German subjects, and the articles on
matters Of American interest have been all re-
written and treated just as exhausEvely as they
would have been in the original work had they
| been specially interesting to Englishmen.
Well, rather. One of the best and most com
plete ever written. And there are four thou.
sand new biographies besides In fact, the
work contains the life of every distinguished
man or woman, American or foreign, now living,
or who has died since the Encyclopaedia BrE
| tannica was compiled.
( Oh, yes, a few. The entire work has been re.
vised down to the present year for one thing.
Then an entirely new set of maps has been
added, including separate map for each State
| in the Union.
{ Ten good sized volumes, ezcellently bound.
About 1860 pages altogether, or $4,000 wide
columns, equal to about no ordinary limo
I books.
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What Stronger Proof

Is needed of the merit of Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla than the hundreds of letters contin-
ually coming in, telling of marvellous
cures it has effected after all other rene
dies had failed2. Truly, Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla possesses peculiar curative power un-
known to other medicines.
HOOPS PILLS cure Constipation by re-
storing the peristaltic action of the ali
mentary canal. They are the best family
cathartic. 131
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my friends.
John Cranston, sos Hampshire street.,
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1t never disappoints. Price SIC. Sold by
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