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HELENA. MONT. FEB ,. 1871
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-03-15
,HArrAfx M.cinr oN nrrn Avp BREAD.

In u recent issue you say. Anarchists
want To get bread by force, but they seem
willing TO pay Tor beer Yes. aud now
much do they plyy The Anarchists are only
u very small wing Of the laboriug Glasses ~
cIr country II IL hardly worth while To-
Gni ont how much they pay for beer and
whisky. but tho millions OF wotking people
pay over 500. 200. 600 every year for that
which Is not bread. Why not remind them
OF this iHctp They ARE the main support of
the colossal rum trafllc which bors,s OF
drawing into its Golfers 100000 00O an.
Aualy.
The lOhorinc people Of the country spend
moro Tor whisky aud beer than the entire
banking capital ~ the Nation. lfthey would
save what they spend IN this way aud start
banks they could soon have 10. 900 banks with
S2.2jO, 600. .0G0 capital. Don't get the ilyurcs
wrong. III write II out, 50 there will be no
nistakc. In three years, 10y saving what
they pour down their throats, they could
have banks running in their interest with an
aggregate capital OF two thousand two hun
irrl and fifty millions OF dollars, leaving
net profit OF nj least ono hundred millions u
gear TO be divided among them. Pat this Ht
hem, put II nj them strOng-,ho way for tho
poor 10 Rgt rich Is TO stop spending money
Tor that which Is not bread. and thrir labor
for that which Sats1eth not" o for n pub
Tic press that will spoak fcarossly on this
Subject --Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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A cngrI OTTLr.

LOT the most cru' things which wicked
nten can do Is 20 sell .rong drink 20 ignor-
ant hrathen sayages. Thousands OF ba-rrls
81 strong drink are sent from Europe and
America to Africa 10 poison tho benighted
Africans aud OF lntc strong drink has been
sold in Alaska 10 the Indians, and has pro-
auced most serious results. The Government
has prohibited such sale, and now and then
a man gets what he deserves. stephen Mer-
r,it. OF New York. who visited Alaska says
he sav man sent TO prison tor nine months
Tor selling a bottle OF whisky.
lie was fireman on the ship in which Mr..
Merritt sailed. and when h. went on shore In
Alaska Es took bottle OF whisky which cost
MIN u dollar, thinking 10 make something by
selling It for larger amount. An Indian
woman bought the whisky aud paid him two
dollnrs, 40 lac made dollar but he violated
United States law, aud soon found that ho
was ''out Of u job, and was landed In jail
Tor nine months. Mr.. Merritt and others
ir-d 10 persuade the officers To lei him OIL
with fine, so that he could keep his place
as fireman where he was needed. but they
refused and so he was sent TO Jail. II every
man who sells WHISKY, either 10 the savage
or the civilized, IN Africa, Auerica or Alas
kn could be landed in jail for nine months,
the people could afford 10 board them there,
pay them a salary and take caro- OF their
families NJ home. and make more money by
the operation than this sailor did selling q
bottle OF waisSy for two dollars. Sale
guard.
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by hand ana a. .nis department oftue
work the ways of our ioreiathers pre-
vail
Next il is weighed out in batches of
thirteen and three-quarter pounds
and tossed into II machine which cuts
it into twelve parts, all exactly equal.
Each chunk represents II loaf, and as
each of these should Ivy law weigh one
pound, the overweight is to allow for
shrinkage. The machine which does
this work is German invention, but
it is stated that the patent was bought
bya Chicagoan, aud the first instrument
OF tpe kind was put into practical
operation in this city. 1t apportions
the dough after the manner of bullet
mold. 1t is unyarying in its accuracy,
and renders it impossible for the jour
neymento alter the weight of the loaf
either from negligence or violence.
With the present machine the jour
neyman has no authority in the pre-
misses. He simply pulls the lever and
the engine does the rest. The shaping
process is next in order Thence II is
passed along to the oveners. First it
is treated with steam TO Tighten it and
glaze the crust. After its Turkish
bath it is placed in the finishing oven
by meano of pole handled wooden
shovels, allowed to remain thirty min
utes, and then removed by the same
means. Each paddle will bear six
loaycs.
There are in Washington twenty
four modern high-classed ovens.
Those hot.air chambers have an aver
age area Of 100 square feet, and nc
commodate, as u rule 300 leaves at
each sitting. They are absolutely free
of dust and obnoxious gases and are
brilliantly lighted SO that every loaf
is under the surveillance OF an opera
tor. Before science and bakery got
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
What Is Transpiring the World Ovor.
Important Events Briefly Told.
trritni. Labor nud dinir., .,ri,t.

The Phoenix Opa) iron works. which
ususually employs between 5000 aud 1000
men. have closed down.
The 500 employees orthe Buffalo. Rochester
( Pi,tsburG road receiving over so month
rave suffered 10 per cent reduction.
The Eagle mills Of Woons,cket. Il. l.,
which have been running alternate weeks
nave resumed on full time at 10 per cent
reduction. \ further cut will soon be made
The lockout ot molde's at Cleveland. o.
was broken the men gaining :hcr demands.
Knowles, Taylor & Anderson, sewer pipo
manufacturers of East Liverpool o.. have
resumed work ia fall AZ a reduction aver
igiug from 10 to - per cent.
The vutoutowu lpi) Glass Company has
closed 10, plant hccausc of inrk oC orders.
hbou, 2oo employees are affected.
The Wheeling w. VA Typographical
union nt its ln.t meeting adopted q resnlu.
ton plcdgnE all ti' members not to join a
military organization. T. is believed that
lthrr labor unions IN tha, city Wi, be ASK
ed to take similar steps.
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The Poor Cannot Eat Meat.

A high tax on butcher shops In,
just been imposed in the State OF
Sinaloa, Mexico. It is SO exorbitant
that the butchers have been com
pelled to advance the price OF their
meats correspondingly, and now it is
said that the prices are SO high that
the poor are utterly unable to afford
the expensive luxury, and the use of
meat is practically restricted to the
rich. Meat is selling in Sinaloa at
from fifty to seventy-ive cents n
pound. For thinly populated coun-
try, which raises good deal more
beef and mutton than it consumes,
this is II most extraordinary state OF
affairs. New Orleans Picayune.
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and perhaps throwing occasional
pieces of dough out upon the floor.
These sweepings are sold to farmers as
food for swine. In this way six bar
rels of flour may be thoroughly ground
in twelve minutes. This, i'll the days
OF crude methods, was one of the
slowest and most laborious processes
in baking. Stalwart men bent over,
punched and tugged at the dough aad
peispired there, too.
The mechanical device is in the line
of speed aud cleanliness After the
necessary treatment in the hopper the
material is lifted into wooden trouyhs.
In professional parlance this bread
elect Is called "sponge" and the pro-
cess "rising." The apartment set
aside for the rising is apt 70 be
filled with an odor anything but per-
fumcful to the uninitiated scent. II
is allowed to remain in this condition
for two and one-half hours. Next 1t
is fred down through chutes to the
49, ~ 90. ' ~ -
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Washington News.

Senator Cameron iuiroiuccia bill to give
sister Jc,c.tinc Mother Superior of St
loscphs Convent rtusvi,le, Pa, @ pension
ofS25 per month, dating from May II 1858.
Shcwos hospital nurse during the war.
Congressman N c. Blanchard has been
appointed United state, senator by Gov.
Foster Of Mississippi to ij,l the uuoxpirel
term OF senator White uutli the legislature
meets in May this year
Hereafter all notices OF reductions Of pen.
.ions will be- sen, g. pensioners by register
cd letters Thi. plan has been adopted by
Commissioner Lo,hrcn and necessary ar
unsemcnl, have bycn made w.tl the post
office department.
The statement is made hy one orthc most
rrominen, men I'm punic NE stha' r'c,i-
dent Cleveland vii. veto the Bland sc,sujog-
age bill it in passes the senate.
The Boston rowb1lt Company has been
given the cputrac, 10 raise the Eonrsargc
lrsucc, ssfui &Non Will be paid otherwise
$1,000
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rule bakers are fnt and Jolly, but in
nine cases ont of ten are only modcr-
ate caters. Bakers are cleunly. Mod.
ern jakeries ARE provided with all
means e. facilitate neNt-to-godlIncss.
There is u dressing room where he
must doH his street attire and don his
sandals. cap and gown. He Is rohed
in fine linen Tie must wash before
going IN duty aud must always wesh
after having been excused from work.
Bakers know how a good song counts
rs muscle on dough batch. and slug
rs they labor.
There are fashions in brcnl Just rs
in bellies and bouncts Vienna has the
call at present anil experts say that It
will continue 20 bc the ruling bread
because of its excellence. II contains
large percentage of milk. The book.
keeper III one of the mighticst baker.
les in town told reporter for the
Star that during the wear his food
factor had soaked up %, 2j0 gallons of
milk mt cost of over $4,000 Chicago
bread five or six years ago was all the
rage. Now it is dead letter. At
that time one bakery furnished the
trade with GO00 loayes. The same
concern now bakos hut twenty-cight
loayes. II was loaf baked in large
sheets aud had to BE- torn from its
partners In postage stamp. Capitol
bread is enjoying good deal oi popu.
lnrity Just now. tcomes ia sheet, of
sixteen and retails for four cents. Box
bread, which comes in square loaves is
fairly well received. Pullman bread
which il baked in rectangular loaves
and by the yard. is having run with
the Connecticut avenue population.
Home made bread, so-called, is on the
decline and the biscuit loaf Is advanc-
ing in favor. Rye bread is u yery nonn
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-03-15
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
rhcre are 80 COO barmalds in England.

| There are So GOO barmaids in England,
J Sixty.two brewers died IN the UnitoI stat os
/ suring 1898.
| The Indian Army Temperance Association
numbers q, 2,0O7 members.
! Fifteen English brewers anil vino mer-
! chants who died last year LETT moro than
! 81 900, 900.
Tho man who talks OF having been driven
10 drink might have been led there Just as
successfully.
Dr. Nicolas GrlgorieiT Librarian OF the
| 81. Petersburg (Russia) Temperance Society,
! is compiling Rn annual for the special use OF
.7mperance societies in Russia for 1894.
| Baltimore has recently organized and in
,orporatod an "Anti-Treat Club" tho mem
Oers Of which aro pledged neither to treat
any one nor allow themselves to lie treated.
! Archdeacon Farrar points out tho fact that
| :here are 20, 900 prisoners In England who, so
ar from suffering from total abstinence,
/ improve in health during their incarcera-
| Hon.
Every days experience tends moro and
/ moro TO confirm mo In my opinion that the
:emperancs cause lies at tho foundation Of
all social and political reform. Richard
! Golden.
An Edinburgh life insurance man says that
| :he largest mortality rate OF indoor occupa-
| ions ~ found among liquor sellers. Among
1000 sellers he found the average mortality
20 be 20.2.
In the face OF constant assertion that there
Is no drunkardness in France, statistics show
! that alcoholic insanity has doubled in fifteen
years, and tho number OF persons who have
oeen placed under restraint on account OF II
has increased twenty-five per cent. in the
last three years.
A protest against the rapid increase OF sa-
looms and the sale OF liquor 10 minors,
against bad laws and the nou-enforcement or
good ones, has been presented to the City
Council Of New Orleans by q committee rep
resenting the W. q. 4. U., the Woman's Club
and the Christian Woman's Exchange.
On recent Saturday = census was taken
OF the number OF persons In the Old Kent
Road, London, who entered one public
house, the 'Dun Cow, from 7.30 a. 10. until
midnight, and 1t was found that II reached u
total Of 1850 men, 4242 women, 1l29 children
and 800 babies---a grant total OF $3.50 persons.
| or the whole poDu lation of the town.
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ance and inspected. If not found
wanting il is hoisted to the top story
in the steam elevator. Here as wanted
il is dumped into the mixer. This
machine bears the same relation 10
bread that the hopper boy did when
you and were young.
IL is circular bin about eight feet
in diameter and the mixing is accom-
plished by harrow-like weapon that
swings around the circle. When occa-
sion suggests divers brands of -four are
blended. as tea and tobacco men would
say. to produce n desired result. As u
rule, though, only straight -four is
used. IL is pleasing 60 watch the great
steel comb whirl round and its teeth
plow up and rake down the bed OF
wheaton dust.
From the mixcr il passes through
steel sieves. These are cylindrical ia
form and perform their task by revo-
luton. This was once u tedious hand
process
From the sitting cylinders the
powder passes into receivers and then
rolls through n shute into the dough
hoppers located on the floor below.
In the hopper is metal revolving
machine, much like ships screw A.
the flour showers down from the upper
floor salt is sprinkled in and pure cold
water. pumped by steam power from Il
sealed and concreted well directly be.
uenth the bakery, pours in. The mass
is churnod and torn, the blades tear.
ing through it Mt high rate of speed
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-03-15

ason lies III machinery and cen
alton of force.
Washingtoniaus eat 900, 900 loaves
of bread daily. A l96-pound barrel
of standard flour will make on an
average 2G0 loaves. Calculate this
for yourself and see how many acres
of wheat land, bread III the original
package, il takes t. make the wheels
OF local life go round.
Two of the banner bakeries of the
city each have sworn to circulation
OF $1,000 loayes per day, and on Sat
urday they issue $4,000. One of the
bonanza bakers some time ago brought
through in tifty-eight hours from la
Crosse, Wis, II special train of forty
cars in two sections, each car contain
ing 30, 600 pounds OF tissue making
food. The principal local bakers carry
stock OF about 6000 barrels of flour,
and for one year the books of one
baker record the consumption of 10, .
900 barrels of -four.
All the first-class bakeries use only
northern-grown wheat, because 1t Is
harder, grinds finer and yields better
bread. Southern grain, they say, won't
do. Nearby lard is said TO be the bes /,
and is the most generally used. One
baker used last year 30, 900 pounds of
the lubricant The days of malt and
potato yeast are only memories, and
compressed yeast is the feature OF to-
day. Fourteen thousand five hun
dred pounds is the amount used last
year IN single bakery.
The superiority of bakers bread lies
in the fact that the proper percentage
of ingredients-salt, sugar, milk yeast,
flour, lard and water--has been deter
mined by years of experiments and
experience. The ratio OF ingredients
having been settled on is not allowed
80 vary.
To the dear little wife who gets her
arms and manicured fingers all gummed
up with dough this mixture process is
largely matter of guess work. To-
day she hits it and blushing honors
fall thick upon her. Tomorrow she
misses il and the rolls have to be swal-
lowed gently to save C fracture of the
ribs. Then the bakers -four is selected
by an expert, and unlike the parlor
angel he is not to be roped in by horid
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tangled up and interlaced the opera
tor, when he deemed it advisable to
look at his bread, would turn on the
rays of an oil lamp or ignite bunch
of kindling wood SO that the flames
would light the interior of the oven.
That is why in times that are history
now bakers bread would sometimes
taste of pine and resin. In one local bake
shop seven ovens are kept III almost
constant running order, at II cost of
cue thousand tons of superior coal an
nually.
There are abont three hundred
bakers in Washington, and proper
tionate number OF apprentices. To be
graduated rs a baker three years
course is required. Eighty per cent.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-03-15
Oh. reader Of this inventory.
1Earrp,Scr ,noNc rSotAxp's youurty.

TEIuFutSSE AMoNu rNGLANp's Suutttiy.
Temperance seems 10 ho making rapid
headway among the aristo'rtrv oi Great
Britain Not only has tn" young Duchess OF
Sutherland joined the Duchess ot Bedford.
Lady Henry Somerset the Countess OF Car.
lslc aud other titled ladies asapublr sprakcs
In behalf oI the cause. Ia; the Earl ~. Car
lislc has just given a practical illustration OF
his belief IN the owls OF drink hy destroying
the whole Of his celebrated cellar tho lame
ol which gxtoddoi Tar beyond the shores OF
England. Lord NormInlowu, toe, has con.
verted ail tho liquor shops on his large
estates iuto temperance hotels. follow ins the
example o. the Prince ot Wales. who viii no,
tolerate a single public house on hi SAND.
bingham property. Christian at Work.
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GOVERN MENT RECEIPTS.
The Wilson Bill Compared with tho Nc.
Kinloy Law,

hluloy IWH'
Comparative estimates OF the results OF
the workings Of the Wilson bill as it passed
the House and as it has been reported to the
senate Finance Committee, with the opera
lions of the Mckinley bill for the year 1893
based upon the volume Of impuTtations for
that year have been prepared Tor the infOr-
nation of that committee.
In the year 1898 under the Mex nley law,
the customs receipts were Sl9S 313, i)2 17
The equivalent average ad yalorem rate was
10 % per cent, making the total value OF
importatiOns in round numbers Z 800. 900 600
The receipts from internal revenue were
Sl6l .021, ,623, miscellaneous, $26,ilS 55l,
making total for The year of $3.50. $40, 6lS
The expenditures for the year 1898 were
s3N3. Al SH 10.
As the Wilson bill passed the House the
receipts from customs under 1t would be
l2hOB,OOI, the average ad valorcm duty
being 10 % per cent, making the value of
dutiable imports in round numbers Sj6S.-
100000. The income tax and internal rev.
venue receipts would be s2Oj 600, 900. With
The S26 0JO, 900 miscellaneous receipts the
total would be 1857 900 900 leaving "a deficit
OF approximately So, 900, ,O)0.
The bill as It now stands before the Fi.
nance Committee will produce from Gus,
toms Sl65 9OS77l upon an average ad yalo
rem duy of 50 ID per cent, the estimated
value OF imported goods being $3.50, 600, 900.
The internal revenue and income tax re-
ceipis would he s223. 100000 Added to the
receipts from miscellaneous sources other
wise provided for, these items would make
the total receipts sil6. coo 900, leaving a sur
plus of S3i, O0J 600.
The sub committee Of the Senate Financs
Committee has transferred $3.50 900 900 OF
importalions from the free to the dutiable
list about so 00O, 900 OF tins however, IN ia
sugar alone. The revenue proposed TO oe
derived from this one article by the duty
liked In the Senate bill Is sal ,001, ,00O.
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TEMPERANCE.
A pnrSK,Rp's HONE.


A hut OF logs without door,
Minus n roof and ditto floor;
A clapboard cupboard without crooks.
Nine children without shoes or frocks,
wife that even has no hoDnet
with ribbons. bows aud ties upon It,
scolding. aud wishing 10 lie dead
Because sh. has not any bread.
A tea.kcitle wthou, spout,
A meat cssS with the bottom OUT.
'comfort" with tho cotton goue,
Aud not a bed to put 1t on,
A handle without amy aN,
A hatchet, without wood or faN,
pot Id and "a wagon hub.
Aud two ears OF u washing tub.
rhrec broken plates of dl'reront kinds
Some mackcral tails and bncou rinds,
A table without leaves or legs,
ono chair and halt dozen pegs.
One oaken kec with hoops ot brass,
One tumblcr ~ dark cr'en glass
A fiddle without any strings.
A gun stock, and two turkey wings.
Oh. reader Of this inventory.
Take warning bv graphite story;
For little any man expects,
Who wrar- good shirts with hittons IN 'cm.
Ever TO put on cotton checks,
And only have brass pins g. pin 'cml
'Tis. remember. lutlo stitches
Keep the rent from growing great -
when yoI cant tell bed from dtches.
WANING words viii bt too late.
Alice Cary.
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u,i, - made. -

au, - made. =, ~ Ia, e..
pally by the Germans. II has
no hold on the Washington heart
More rye bread is baked IN Baltimore
in one day than in Washington in one
year. In northern Europe simple
crushed rye is made into bread and
and the loaves sometimes weigh twen-
ty pounds. OF these family will live
an indefinite period. II is said TO bo
nutritious. Bakers say that the gra-
ham is the king OF breads. Init is found
the grain with II flavor Of sun, wind
and shower. The bone, sinew, meat
and soul of the wheat ARE preserved.
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of the bread builders of Washington
are Germans. either by birth, breed
ing or inheritance. A small percent
age are American, native and to the
manor born The land Of the lily
and merry England are also repre-
sented by smnll contingents. As y