The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-01-12

Tor each district q fac simile OF the
Auditors signatures must be print
ed on the legal ballots, the same as
the commissioners signatures on
the ballots in November. The au-
ditors OF the boroughs and town
ships should without any delay have
their signatures electrotyped and
have Them ready for the printer of
the tickets This can be done any
time during the present month.
Ballots printed without the sigma
lures of the auditors would be ille-
gal
The advertisement of the New
York Sen will be found in another
column of the PosT. The San is the
greatest newspaper intellectually
speaking) published in the United
States to-day. II is not only great
but generous and doesn't ask coun-
try papers to print whole page ad-
vertisement for the gracious privi-
lege OF exchanging with it. This is
very important distinction, for no
country newspaper can afford to
get along without the San. but be-
fore we comply with the demands of
some of the other metropolitan
journals we will read almanacs for
1898.
The decision of Judge Woodward,
of the Luzerne courts, against the
right of supervisor to employ mem
bers Of his own family or teams own
ed by themselves in the work Of re-
pairs should be generally known.
The laws very properly forbid pub
lie officials from profting by their
owE delegated authority in the mat
ter Of contracts, aud this decision
r.yopld. .se. S.acY';s ta s;ioaii'Sn.ed ~
Tde most of the Judges OF the State
were the matter properly brought
before them. Persons violating so
plain principle of law cannot legal
ly collect the money alleged TO be
due for such service. The decision
is i'll harmony with the law as well
rs with common sense, and its en-
forcement would aid in preventing a
very common abuse in case of such
officials.
Jay Gould's father Gen. Jasper
Packard says in the New Albany
Tribune, "was n farmer and kept n
dairy of twenty COWS. Jay used to
drive these COWS to water and help
his sisters in milking them. He was
little chap and went bare-footed
and stubbed his toes like other boys,
and got thistles in his feet and had
stone bruises. He didn't like it,
and asked his fathers permission to
so somewhere and work mornings
and nights to pay for his board
while he went to school. Not every
boy who went bnre-footed and drove
COWS, aud got thistles in his feet
and had stone bruises becomes Il
millionaire, rs we know from ex-
perience. But for tho one who
does, we shall always, we trust,
have something to say besides harsh
and cruel words of denunciation and
censure, when at the worst, he only
accomplished what other men try
to do"
AS we are impressed the printing
of the ballots for the spring election
will be a job quite as tedious az it
was for the November election, the
only difference being the size of the
ballot. The law requires the same
number, twice seventy-fve for every
fifty voters, and an equal number
of specimen ballots--in all some
where between fourteen and fifteen
Thousand. They must be gummed
the same as in November, and the
total amount of press work, for the
whole county, will be about the
same. And in all probability some
districts will delay longer than 9th
ers in ordering the printing. There
being seventeen districts in the
county so many forms will have to
be put in type and an equal number
of endorsements giving the name of
the district. In November the bal
lot was the same for the whole
county. The amount of type setting
work will be fully one-third more in
February than il. November, be-
cause the body of the ballot is diff
ferent in every district, which was
not the case in November.