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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-03-22


| Penn TOWNSHIP, SNYDER CUuNrY. pa
! The undersigned Executors Of said deccdcnt
VIII sell MS real estate, Ou the premises IN said
| township, ON
Wednesday, March %. 1894,
! pursuant 10 IAN order issued hy the Orpnlt,
| court oi said county under proceedings I'M part.
uOh when ana where all are invited 10 De pres
cut
The said real estate win be- offered for sale in
! tW"1rtct- lu Two different ways. and whichever
way the most Is uld " VIII he struck on TO Wit
FIRST WAY.
TRACT 80. !, being bounded ON the north by
land Of Lewis T.. Pawling, on the east by land Of
Scpharas Gembcrling William u. Gclnberllng
ana others, on the south 10y public road and
tract No >. and on the west by land OF George !
SchOCh and tract No. q containing ONE HUN
DRED AND THIRrY.ElGHT ACRES, more or
less, whereOn are erected Two FINE DWELL
ING Hol sEs, Large Bank Barn, and minor out
buildings, also Coal Yard az what is known as
Clinord, being all first class farming land. and
located about two miles west Of Selins Grove
TRACT NO. =, being bounded on the north by
tract No. !, on the east by tract No. /, on the
south by land OF William Mease, and on the west
by land OF George j. Schoch, containing FORTY.
EIGHT ACRES, more or less. whereon are erect.
eda ,i FRAME f DWELLING House. and new Bank
being first class farming land.
SECOND WAY:
TRACT NO. 1.-Being bounded on the north
by land OF Lewis l.. Pawling. on the east by land
OF sepharas Gemberling William Il. Gemberling
and others, on the south by public road ana on
the west by tract No. ., containing NINETY.
THREE ACRES, more or less whereon are erect
ed all the improvements meftioned in the for
mer description OF tract No. tn,
Sual lafl.
TRACT No.2 Being bounded, on the north
Dy land OF Lewis f. Pawllng. Oh the east by
tract No. ], on the south by sans OF William
Mease or the Public Road and on tue west hv
land OF George j. SchOch. containing NINETY.
THREE ACRES, more or less, whereon are nil
the improvements mentioned In the former de.
scriptiOn OF tract No. =.
TERMS. The terms OF sale win be as follows
~ per cent down when the property Is struck
on one half the balance on April list iSq5 and
me other one half ON April Isl, 1890. with inter.
estlrom April LIST, isaj deeds ana possession TO
be given ON April lst ls95 The purchaser viii
receive one half the crops IN the ground.
sale 10 begin AZ 10 o'clock 4. VI.
SOLOMON APP.
WILLIAM B. GEMBERLING.
AMOS G, GEMBERLING,
Executors ui Jonathan Gemberllng dec "a
A. Il. keck, AucriOncer.
J.. =. ANY Information desired VIII DE cheer.
iuly given 10y the said Executors, or their At
t0rney,at'Law, Chas T.. Ulrch, ESD selins.
grove, Pa.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

Insurance statistics for the year
1893 show the greatest FIRE loss
since the enormous confagration
that wiped out Chicago. A half
million dollars a day win not cover
the Ices to insured property by fire,
and the loss to uninsured property
must have been equally as great
In other words the enormous sum
of over $3.50, GOO, 900 was wiped out
by the consuming element last year;
a sum that in little over two years
would pay the national debt. A
sum that exceeds sixty per cent. of
the entire federal revenues; sum
greater than all the tariff taxes,
paid as a tribute each year to the
carelessness and haste of builders
and property owners. Experience
does not seem to teach its usual les
sons in this connection. The per-
feet fire proof building does not
seem to be any nearer than it did
twenty years ago. In fact the ten
dency has been towards hasty and
faulty buildings, and consequently
increased fire losses every year
The subject is one that might well
be taken in hand by State Legisla-
lures.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
Music Loving Cat.

A young married couple up town
adopted a pretty little Maltese kitten
which strayed into the house one
evening, and the innocent little feline
caused quite a sensation the first
night of his stay. The head of the
small household was awakened by a
succession of strange, inharmonious
sounds late that evening, and after
alarming his better half armed him.
self and slowly made his way to the
source of the disturbance.
Reaching the parlor, he suddenly
struck a match and peered fearfu1ly
to find an intruder He found one,
but twas only the new four footed
inmate of the home walking up and
down the piano keys, to which she
had taken a strange fancy, and she
performs the same feat whenever she
can get access to the instrument
Philadelphia Call
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
The Best Bank.

So long as riches are liable to take
to themselves wings" the best bank
for a man to rely upqa is a pair of
hands ready and a Heart willing to
earn daily the days livelihood. The
man who has these at command, with
a reasonable degree of faith in them,
may snap his fingers at the rise and
fall of stocks and fluctuations of trade
that make the pillows of the rich
hard and thorny, and not infrequent-
ly being wreck and wretchedness to
whole communities Men who regu-
late their ambition by their produc-
tive capacity are seldom subject to
panic or want-New York Ledger.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
Living Berond Ones Means.


An American capitalist, who is a
keen observer, is reported to have
said that there was not an Ameri-
can citizen whose income represent
ed salary who was not living be-
yond his means. And he added
that, if the man had a family to
standard that he could not honestly
crafty. Our own observation does
not bear witness to this assertion
But if the alleged fact be true to
any considerable extent, it may be
regarded as among the causes of the
many embezzlements and other pc
cuniary delinquincies which have
become so common of late years.
"Playing the races has been the
ruin of a multitude; but living be-
yond ones means must bear part of
the blame. And it is more serious
than is commonly imagined. 1t in
wolves false pretenses and fraud. 1t
is a mean species of crime. and yet
often committed without any COM
Function. Men are afraid or as
named to say 81 can't afford ii" and
yet are not afraid or ashamed to
contract debts which they cannot
honestly Christian Intelligent
Ger.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
What Makes n Journalist.

Ayoung man once asked me what
I considered the qualifications of a
Journalist. Brainsl" .sWell, - 1 said,
ian occasional brain won't do any
harm, but regard the prime qualifi-
cations in a newspaper man-frst,
loyalty. / do not mean loyalty to the
flag. A man who is not loyal to the
flag is not worth kicking. Loyalty
to your profession and to yourself is
what mean. Next, industry; last,
intelligence For 1 do not care how
intelligent a man may be unless he
is industrious, and 1 do not care how
industriously intelligent you are, un-
less you are loyal and loyal to a high
ideal you can never amount to
much. Joe Howard.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
What a Woman should be Like.

a philosopher says: There are
three things which a good woman
ought to resemble in one particular
but not in another. Thus, she
ought to be like the snail, which al
ways keeps in the house, but she
should not copy its example in put
ting all that she possessed on her
back. She should resemble the
echo, which never speaks unless
spoken to, but she ought not, like
the echo, always try to have the
last word Lastly, she ought to be
true and correct as the clock, but
she ought not, like the clock, make
noise enough to be heard all over
the town.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

he who. believing, strongly lays his hand
Unto The work that waits for him to do
Though men should cavil, measures prove un-
true.
Friends write their trusted promises on sand,
And failure mock him with its threatening
sim in the end he, fearless, shall pursue,
TIN crack of doom, will find power which few
Or none with cause less righteous may com
mand.
For conquest Is not built on the defeat
OF any man whose aim is human good;
Who fights for justice hath already won.
Before no show OF loss shall he retreat;
However crossed. maligned, misunderstood,
He knows but triumph in the work well done.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
VISITING AN OSTRICH FARM.
An Inquisitive Young Man Meets the Bust.
ness End of the Bird.

An Inqutsittve Young Man Meets the BUSH
ness End of the Bird.
"While journeying in California
one summer" said Scranton tour
ist, 'tsome of the men and women in
our party went to visit an ostrich
farm. The keeper was very kind
and obhging, and he called the herd
of ostriches up. to the fence and
fed them for our entertainment. A
few of the great birds didn't show off
to suit him, SO he told the visitors
that if they would excuse him for a
moment he would enter the inclosure
and make the ostriches behave.
There was an exceedingly inquisi-
tive and very gabby young man in
the party, who had annoyed us a good
deal by trying to stick his nose into
every prohibited spot on the journey,
and when the keeper got whip and
started for the gate the mouthy fell
low followed him and begged to be
allowed to go inside. The keeper re-
fused his request at first, but the
tonguy chap was SO persuasive and
oily that he finally got permission to
enter the lot, very much to the dis
gust of the rest of us. The young
man was neatly dressed, and as soon
as they had got inside the gate the
keeper said to him:
Please walk behind me until we
return
'aThe inquisitive visitor obeyed for
little while, but his curiosity pres
emily got the best of him, and he put
on his eyeglasses, stepped to the right
of the big bird tender and started to
examine the ostriches on his own
hook. The keeper didn't notice him
until he had got up pretty close to
the rear of a male ostrich that was
feeding, when he said sharply:
Please come this way, sirl That
ostrich may kick your
1.-The young man turned around,
held the glasses on his nose and said !:
Beg pardon, sirl"
''At the sound of his voice the os-
trich kicked straight out behind like
flash and with all its strength. Its
mammoth claw struck the cheeky
dude square on the seat of his trou-
sers, and before he had time to think
he was blowing through the gravelly
lot on his elbows and knees toward
the keeper His fine clothing was
ruined, his knees and elbows were
badly skinned, his hat was spoiled,
and his eyeglasses were broken, and
the keeper was so angry that he took
him by the collar and marched him
out of the gate, with the parting re-
mark:
That's what you get by acting
like fooll'
'of course we all had to roar over
the picture the inquisitive chap made
behind the ostrich's colossal foot.
We couldn't have helped it if the fell
low had been killed. The kick laid
him up, and instead of accompanying
us to Alaska, as he had set out to do,
he deserted the party at San Francis
co. New York Sun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

L do not know who is responsible
for the following story, but it is
skillfulIy told:
A distinguished United States
Senator, who was supposed to enter
tain some rather heretical views on
the subject of religion, and especial
ly on the doctrine of the immor-
tally of the soul, was once written
to by an impertient editor, who
asked him to give his views on the
matter. The Senator replied: Il
cannot say that L have reached any
very definite conclusions on the
question; but in my better moments
/ do indulge the hope that some
where beyond the present life there
is a better world, where there will
be less friction and no editors.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
PLAYED 70 An AUDIENCE OF one.


Forrest, John w. Forney and Daniel
Dongherty In a Cast of Julius Casar.,,
While in the zenith of his superb
powers and at the very height of his
fame Edwin Forrest, the greatest
actor of his day, once played ON a
Christmas night one of his most sue
cessful characters to an audience of
but one person.
The play was Julius Caesar, I" the
place of its presentation the inner
sanctum of the chief editors office in
The Press building, at Seventh and
Chestnut streets, and the cast of char
acters: Julius Caesar, Daniel Dough-
erty; Cassius, Edwin Forrest; Marc
Antony, Edwin s. Conner; Brutus,
John w. Forney What manager of
today or of any other day would not
be proud to produce a Shakespearean
drama with such combination of
players Dougherty, the silver
tongued; Forney, the journalist and
statesman; Conner, the veteran of
the stage, and Forrest, the towering
giant of the dramatic profession4 Is
it any wonder that that audience of
one should feel that he was at once
lucky and highly honored citizen2
1t was only few years before
FORESTS death that on this Christ
mas Sunday night he strolled into
The Press Office to have chat with
his old friend Forney. A few mo-
ments later Dougherty came and
was soon followed by Conner, who
was a frequent visitor to the editor.
The meeting was purely accidental,
but they were all close friends, and
the surprise was pleasurable one.
Dougherty, as is well known, had in
his early days prediction for the
drama and narrowly escaped being
an actor himself. Indeed he was a
good deal of an actor in his famous
lectures, especially in that celebrated
discourse on THE Stage" Forney,
too, was an ardent admirer of the
players art and once had a strong
desire to figure behind the footlights.
1t was not strange, then, that the
talk of this noted quartet soon shifted
toward plays and players, and this
was soon followed by recitations.
Dougherty gave his "Shamus O'Bri-
an" which alone had made him ia
nous. Forney rendered several pas
sages from Boucicault's Long
Strike, :" which the editor greatly ad-
mired, and then the four, being
warmed up, instructed the audience
which was William a Brady, Colo
mel Forney's stenographerAt "lock
the door, Billy, and don't let another
soul in tonight" and proceeded to
give the notable performance of
Shakespeare's play.
The minor roles were merely re-
cited "by cues, !" while Brady, when
the occasion was urgent in its de-
mands for supernumerary assistance,
acted as the Roman populace, " sol
diers and retainers of all sorts where
presence was necessary to give the
proper emphasis to points in the
drama. Brady, who is an old theater
goer, and considers himself critic
says to this day that Julius Cesar
was never played before or since as
it was played that Christmas night.
ALI these noted men have passed
from the stage of life-Forrest first,
next Forney, then Conner, and last
Dougherty-and of each it could be
said in the words of Marc Antony
over Brutus, He was a man. Phil
adelphia Record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
The Engagement Ring.

Some years ago it was decided in
an English court that an engage
ment ring is not recoverable in any
circumstances Vermont has given
a different decision. A young man
sued to recover a ring that he had
given to young woman, who. after
accepting it, repudiated the engage
ment. The judge decided that ii
must be returned or else that the re
cipient must fulfill the conditions on
which it was presented.-Lewiston
Journal
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
The Glnve,. Equality.

One was king. and wide dor>ain
He ruled, as his sires had done;
A wooden hovel, bed of pain.
Belonged TO the other one.
The king was i'll. and the world was sad
But the monarch languished. the monarch
The beggar was sick unto death, but he had
No one to watch at his low bedside.
Then under the minister the king was laid,
While DER him the marbles were piled:
But a shallow grave in the fields was made
By careless hands for Poverty's child.
But now there are those who profanely declare.
II yon opened the tomb and the grave,
You could not distinguish. whatever your care,
The dust OF the king and the slave.
Charles Noble Gregory.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
Made a Substitute.

A millionaire, who was at the head
of great business, was known as be-
ing strict man and rather exactizg
in his demands upon his employees.
One of these, having been drawn for
jury service, came to his employer
and asked leave of absence for the
purpose, saying that he had no rea-
sonable excuse to offer.
''You can go if you like, " said Mr..
K, "but if you goyou need not come
back again
The man went to the judge and
asked to be excused from service,
saying that his employer had threat
ened his discharge in case of his alb
sence.
who is your Employer
'Mr. K"
"Ah," said the judge dryly, 'syour
reason is sufficient" Then turning
to an officer at hand:
Summon Mr.. x. as this mans sub
stitute. From Mr.. x. no excuse will
be accepted. Kate Fields Washing
ton
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
Heard In the Wings.

Ballet Girl Ito admirer) : Only
think of it, the Society For the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children was
here today to inquire about me.
Rival-What shamel 1 can ties.
tify that you are very good to your
grandchildren.-Kate Fields Wash
ington.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
Go ut It Right.

If the people who want to do good
among the poor would give up pat
ronizing them, would cease trying to
convert them before they have
gained the smallest personal inf1u-
ence with them, would visit them as
those who have just as good right to
be here as they have, it will be all
the better for both-perhaps chiefly
for themselves.-George Macdonald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
FIENplsH DEED.
Foars OIL on Their Bed and Burns wife

and Child to Death.
BENTON, Mo-, Jan. 3O.-Charles Owens,
living near Diehstadt, is charged with
numbering his wife and child and setting
fire to his house. He is under arrest,
Fire was discovered in his house and put
out in short time.
Search of the house disclosed the dead
bodies of the woman and child, the for
mer with an arm and leg burned off, and
the latter almost entirely consumed.
The bed in which they were lying had
apparently been saturated with coal oil
and fired, and the two suffocated and
then burned.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

1fone could incorporate all the
improvements in a newspaper q
suggested by the people wouldn't
they have a dandy, though? 1t
would be SO complete that nothing
short of celletial intelligence would
dare contribute matter for its col
umns.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
There is plenty of good, sound
Muscle and Vigor-A Difference.

Many muscular men succumb to fati-
CUES borne with ease by persons far
their interiors in physical strength.
Muscle does not imply vigor. In fact,
it is not difficult of proof that athletes
do not live as long nor enjoy as good
health as the average individual who is
vigorous-that is to say, whose diges-
ton and sleep are unimpaired, whose
nerves are tranquil, and who has no or
ganic tendency to disease. These re-
quisites of vigor are conferred upon
those inherently weak, no less than up
on those debilitated through wasting
disease, by a thorough, persistent
course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
the leading national tonic, Endorsed and
recommended by physicians of emil
hence. 1t will not endow you with the
muscle of Corbett, but it will infuse
energy into your system, and renew the
active and healthful performance OF Its
functions. Itayerts and cures malarial,
rheumatic and kidney complaints, and
overcomes dyspepsia, constipation, liver
trouble aud nervousness.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

If we do not weigh and consider
to what end life is given us, and
thereupon order and dispose it
Alright; pretend what we will as to
arithmetic, we do not, and can not
number our days in the narrowest
and most limited Specification.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
To SIeenI

To sleep! to sleepI The long. bright day is done
And darkness rises from TIE fallen sun.
To sleepi to sleeepi
Whate'er thy joys. they vanish with the day;
Whate'sr thy griefs. in sleep they fade away.
To sleepl TO sleepi
Sleep, taournful heart, and let the past be past
Sleep. happy soull all life VIII sleep at last.
To sleepl to sleepi
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umns

Is it not strange how people
reared up in a log cabin, covered
with boards help to their places by
the primitive weight pole, can
frown on their poor kinsfolk, after
they have beaten enough people to
have a little something in the
world?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

So long as the accused of this
country are protected by the in
junction, 'Let him that is without
sin cast the first stone they are safe
as though one of the ancient walls
of Babylon stood between them and
the accuser.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
Gould Not Help 1t.

Read Lotts-Do you believe in the
divine right of kings7
Jack Potts-I have to. ran up
against four of them the other day
New York Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

Never do we approach nearer to
our Maker than when we cause the
sunlight of Heaven to beam upon
the broken soul of our suffering
brother.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

The kingdom of Christ is the
kingdom of the cross. Those who
attempt to take the cross from the
Christians shoulders do, in effect,
aim to remove the crown from his
head.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
Wants to Sell.

T WILL sell at private sale my farm of
i "A acres of land, wei improved; one
good dwelling, barn, store-house and
contents, consisting of dry goods, boots,
shoes, groceries and everything usually
kept in country store; also a good
blacksmith shop, horses and wagon.
deceit DAUen' .,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

a circle of Kings Daughters at
Park City, kentucky, recently rails
ed sufficient money to secure some
coal for poor family, who, instead
of buying coal, had their photo
graphs taken.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

There is a man in New York
who recently boosted that he was
never inside church in his life.
He was in Jail when he said it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

Itch on human, mango on horses, dogs
and all stock, cured in 20 minutes by
fails. Sold by a. c. Van Glider. Drug
gist, Point Pleasant. [nov. 29-1y
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

Actions, looks, words, steps from
the alphabet by which you-spell
character.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07
ReIiefin Six Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the NEW
CHEAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE. !"
This new remedy is great surprise on
account of its exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys,
tention of water :and pain in passing it
almost Immediately. Ifyou want quick
relief and cure this is your remedy.
Sold by A. G. Van Glider, druggist,
Point Pleasant. [nov. 30 1y
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-02-07

English SPAWN Eminent removes all
Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and
Blemishes from horses, Bio i Spavins,
Curbs Splints, Sweeney. Ring bone,
Stiles, sprains. all Swollen Threats,
bottle. Warranted the most wonderful
Blenish Cure even known. Sold by A.
G. Van Glider, druggist, Point Pleasant.