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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
A Burglars Dual Lille.

The arrest of "Joe" Killoran. A,
Howard. in New York, together ':
several notorious characters, on d
charge of being postoiiice ro5s
has revealed to many New Haven a
dents one of the most interest,"
characters that ever entered the q,
Of Elms. Killoran lived in New .
ven several years ago in one Of D
most respectable portions Of the I'd
and became acquainted with mily |
ciety leaders, who would hardly d
TO claim his acquaintance to-day. 1
came as mysterously as he left l
brought with him an attractive wo-s|
whom he claimed was his wite, 1
who was in reality Fanny Wr.;j
The pair were charming and ints'a
ing to meet, and soon made The I
quaintance of q number of menA
of the best families.
The Killorans took q house al
Wall street, and it was there
many well known persons cane
know them and frequently dinel u
them. About ten years ago Kilm{
was first arrested, and 1t was then d
his acquaintance with prominent p
sons stood him in good steal. Ag
tleman who knew Killoran told d
following story about him:
"Killoran," this gentleman "a
"was q charmer among men
women. He had q wonderful pers
atty that attracted almost every
that ever knew him, and he knew n
of the most prominent and inaues
persons in New York. His frienlA
with these persons undoubtedly
him out OF prison a good many I'd
When he was arrested ten years
there were eight penitentiaries
ing to receive him. When kllld
lived in New Haven he knew man
the best citizens, and yet his b
was visited again and again By
most notorious bank burglar;
country has ever produced
came to consult with him whea
they had big job on. He was
is called a spider in that bus,
and if he told all he could makea
of the most startling order, Joe
ard and Joe Lawler' are two Of
oran's aliases.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18

plants must be we'll grown and in lux
uriant Towering, since each one is
finally subjected 10 selection by re.
tail buyer for place in the window
or door yards.
The market season is over by the
end of June. The cultivators then oc-
cupy themselves in repairing green
houses, growing on stock for fall and
winter cuttings, and in caring for their
bulbs of Easter lilies from Bermuda
and rose stocks from Belgium. The
winter IL given up to anxious care and
cultivation for the spring rush, which
rounds out the year. Altogether, it is
hard work, which yields not more than
fair living, and often but frugal
one. Cold days and stormy weather
operate against sales, and large re-
ceipts of Strawberries and other fruits
take the hucksters into other lines of
trade and make slow sales and low
prices in the flower markets. Dull
market days are often helped out by
buyers from Springfield. New Haven,
and other towns III nearby States,
who can buy more cheaply in the met
ropolitan markets, even when the
cost of transportation by water or rail
is included.
1t is not possible to give an approx
innate idea of the total sales in these
markets for season, but the flower
trade has assumed great Importance
since the beginning of the century,
when there was but one commercial
florist in the United States. There are
now nearly 5000 establishments for
growing flowers, and four.ffths of this
business has been developed within
the last twenty-five years. The last
census report states, among other in
teresting items connected with fori.
culture, that 1923, 247 square feet
OF glass are in use, covering more than
S9l acres. OF these establishments,
312 are owned and conducted by wo.
men. The value of fixtures, heating
apparatus, and tools amounted to
$40, 100000. Fuel, freight. and ex-
press, and postage on some 10000,
900 catalogues are other large items
Of expense. The receipts from sales
of cut flowers are put at more than
SID, 000,000 year, and from plant:
and shrubs at above S12, 100000.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
Cameo Carving.

IL sounds ormidable-cameo cary-
ing-but in reality it is quite simple.
First you provide yourself with a
working table; it need not be largo;
then, at any store, buy half dozen
gravers and scoopers of varying de-
grees of tineness; the next outlay is
for a shell upon which you are to cut
the cameo. Black, red aud yellow
helmets" as the shells are called, are
required, and they cost from SO to So
each, but from good shell several
ovals or rounds can be cut.
After it has been cut the required
size and shape it is then fixed with
hot cement upon O holder-a little
block that can be held in the hand.
The upper surface of the shell is made
sufficiently smooth to take the design,
which Is then traced upon it, as one
traces on china; all the white part be-
yond the design is cut away, leaving
the pattern on the dark ground to be,
by degrees, cut into form. The thick
ness and quality of the white stratum
cannot be known until the shell is
cut. 1t varies good deal, so that
sometimes the figure will stand out in
much higher relief than at first anti
cipated.
Sometimes, when particular de-
sign is to be made, several shells are
cut before a suitable one Is found.
The skill of the artist is shown in
the arrangement Of the design 80 as
to make the best use of the she'll. For
instance, the foliage must be arranged
to come where the white is thinnest
and figures where the thickness of the
white will give roundness to the
limbs.
1t naturally follows that the one
who understands the arts of drawing
and painting and all about lights and
shadows will make the greatest suc-
cess as q cameo engraver.
To take out any scratches made by
tho graver the cameo or shell must be
polished by rubbing it with pumice
stone and water, after which II must
be washed in warm water, when n
second polishing follows with pumice
dust and oil and with q small box
wood stick. Then it must be washed
again. The third and last finish is
given with fine rotten stone and
sulphuric acid; very high degree of
polish is thus obtained, and behold
your cameo! Perhaps not at first the
success you dreamed. but still very
satisfactory, while with practice you
go on to perfection and in time have a
choice bit to offer friend.
"What n cameo, and you cut it p
"Yes; oh, that's nothing. I've done
dozens of them," and SO forth and so
on, while you in turn initiate your
friend in the mysteries of cameo cut
ting and feel sufficiently awarded for
your labors in her exclamations oi
surprise at your cleverness. Chicago
! Record.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
UrDER THE THORN.

Under the thorn In the field OF clover
Two hearts met in the Summer morn,
Met by chance with the blue skies over,
Under the thorn.
Love, the live blossom OF llfe reborn,
Burst into bloom in the heart Of each lover
In full fruiton. that feared hot scorn;
Sweet are the songs OF the birds above
her.
While love. no more with its heart forlorn,
Discovers tho lips it would fain discover,
Under the thorn.
Under the thorn when the blossoms withor,
Shall Love lie languid or droop forlorn;
When its joys had gone and you wonder
whittier,
Under the thorn.
Still in the springtimes yet unborn.
Like a cloud or blossom or bird-wing' 8
feather.
Plucked from It's flying pinions torn,
Shall love forever In its own weather
Come through the air in life's azure morn,
When two hearts shall meet, thus per-
chance together
Under the thorn.
-Bcnnct B,llman, In Philadelphia Times.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
WORDS OF WISDOM.

A lazy man always hurries to dinov
A crank-The fellow who Is sr,
ming up the stream.
He who can not govern himself q,
not govern his horse.
Conscience warns us as friend N.
fore il Furnishes as Judge.
He that will not supply new ,es..
dies must expect new evils.
A thoroughbred is n man WHO IA,
gets that he has new clothes.
Every mans name looks pret;y d
him when it appears in print.
A girl visitor never has better cloths,
at home than she has with her.
Courage is, on all hands, conside,.,
as an essential of high character.
1t is no sign that man is n fool h.
cause he differs from us in opinion
A man who has no poor kin thi,I,
il would be pleasure to help then
II is nature for woman to thi,l
that some ugly man is good LOOKING
A deaf man nearly always he,r
everything you don't'want him to hea,
Every man occasionally wishes tb,,
he could attract as much attention \
o fire.
Unless q man is first rich on the i.
side no amount of money can give hI
wealth.
The man who is living only for hi,|
self couldn't be engaged in any small
business.
No matter how bright the pleasu,I
of sin may be, they are only pleasu,I
for o season.
II you let the sun go down up,
your wrath it may stay there until !.
judgment day.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
Soaring Unwelcome Visitor

During the Franco.German v
couple OF hundred Uhlans arrived
Norman village. One of the pa
hurried to a neighboring hand
warn well-to-do farmer that he
expect n visit from unwelcome Tl|
The farmer was equal to the
ency. Calling his wife and daus1
all went to work with will
quilts, tattered petticoats, dIlapI
gowns, were thrown over the Oa
the cattle, enveloping them mp 70
horns, while their feet and theI
were bound with straw.
Then the sheep and goat.
treated IN the same fashion;
of medicine were scattered ao'
large trough was filled with
and in its midst was placed
syringe, Up came the Uhlals
sight of the strangely attirei 8
and the squirt they hesitated'
At last one of the troopers lAl
what was the matter. "Ihe
pest" said the farmer. lie
answer no more questions.
tors turned their horses he''
galloped off at their best 3
make requisition elsewhere. lie
Weekly.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
Some Great Readers,

One of the best educated men in
this country, says. regretfully, that
he never had days schooling in his
life. He taught himself to read, n
friend introduced him to the famods
works of modern authors and he has
eagerly devoured books, newspaper
and magazine articles until he is an
authority on literature. Yet he has
found time to make modest fortune,
not by speculation, but close attention
to business is devoted to his family
and belongs to several clubs, SO that
he cannot be called book worm.
George Peabody used to tell how
his uncle thrashed him for "wasting
his time over books" but the taste
for reading was never whipped out of
him.
John Wanamaker says: "Since l
was bog l have read everything that
came into my hands, and have been
surprised how useful odd scraps of in
formation have proved. When / SEQ
young fellow spending his spare
cash on magazines and papers | know
he is furnishing his brains for sue.
cess.
Gladstone is an omnivorous reader
and one of the best customers London
booksellers have.
Cecil Rhodes, the richest and most
influential man in South Africa, one
whom English politicians watch with
suspicion, was described by native
chief as "a man who eats whole
country for his breakfast and sits
amidst clouds of paper"
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
Bogus American Lard Abre'

The Department OF Agrlca'.a
received from France an exteHa
tice Of the condemnation by "
nicipal chemist of Paris OF q cog
which is being sold in Fran'ii
the name OF American lats
chemist has ascertained that VI
pound consists OF ho9 oiiaI j
chemically at a high telnperSM'
under strong pressure. "
odorized and bleached with eT]
The Journal des Debats, q
newspaper OF prominence as'l
this compound sold in Francs
the name of American lara
even .or dogs to eat. The au'
at the Agricultural Deparims
nothing of this alleged Amsl,
duct, and intimate that II la
OF American origin at all :
ton Star.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
Sympathetic Inks.

There are many ways of producing
writing which is invisible until ex-
posed to certain conditions. The juice
of an onion affords convenient med
ium for secret writing, though it is
hardly suitable for love letters. Gray
ink can be made from weak solution
of alum in lemon juice. Words writ
ten with 1t will not show unless the
paper be immersed in water, when
they will be plainly visible.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
Improvement In Field Cannon.

The improvement in feld-cannon,
writes General Fitzhugh Lee in the
Century, has kept pace with that in
small arms. II is doubtful whether
troops can be held in column or mass
formation within two miles of an enc
my firing the present modern breech-
loading field-guns. The extreme range
of these 80 and 3. G. h-calibie field.
guns is over five miles, and when
suitable smokeless powder is found,
they may throw a proiectile eight
miles. Had Mcclellan had these guns
when his lines were five miles from
Richmond, he could have ruined the
city. No troops can live in front of
them when they are rapidly discharg-
ing shrapnel, two hunded bullets to
the case and they can defend them
selves without infantry support, and
can be captured only by surprise, or
when their ammunition is exhausted.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
BOHEMIA.
At SEVENTEEN.

HERE are high
hills on every side
save one - the
south approach
leads up from q
valley n IN lie
away. The hou Sc
faces the incline,
and back of it, ap
and up, the grade
rises until less
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18

The immigrants from the Scandi-
navian Peninsula and Denmark exceed
1000, 900 in number.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
In Favor of the Debtor.

EMPoRIA, Kan, Dec. 30.-Judge
Randolph, in the District court,
has decided that deed cannot be
given after foreclosure and sale by
the sheriff, and instead ordered a
simple certificate OF purchase. The
plaintiff will take the case to the
Supreme court. This decision will
save to citizens Of Lyons, Chase
and Coffey counties alone over
$500, 600, as 1t means that in ma
jority Of the cases which have been
foreclosed and embraced under this
act the debtor may pay into court
the price at which the land was bid
in, together with the interest, cost
and taxes, and get the land clear.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
DIRECT FROM MARsov1AN.
American Missionaries Protected T.,
the Turkish Troops.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 30.-The'
parents Of Miss Francis C. Gage,
principal of the American girrs'
school at Marsovian, Turkey in
Asia, formerly teacher i'm the pub
lie schools of st. Paul, have re-
ceived three letters from her since
the date of the massacre, Novem-
Der 10th. Writing November 22d,
she says: Sat the noon call to
prayers last Friday a massacre be-
gan in this city in which about 100
were killed and in the Armenian
quarter of the market about 300
shops with goods, valued at $4,000
lire were rified. We were protect
ed by the local government. School
buildings belonging to the Ameri-
can board were not burned, though
an attempt was made to burn
them in October, which was frus-
trated." By letters received from
Miss Gage it is known that up to
December I'd the boys college and
the girls school were both running
as usual at Marsovian. The distress
of the impoverished and homeless
people is terrible.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
Compelled to Shut Down.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30.-The Free
man Wire Nail company, of this
city, was compelled to suspend
operations at it's plant in Ander-
son, Ind, as the result of the
United States court granting an
injunction to the Columbia Wire
company, of Covington, KY, and
Chicago. The latter has suit on
infringement pending. The claim
is for something in the neighbor-
hood of $3.50, 200. While all of the
machines have been closed down,
the manager at Anderson, Mr..
Campbell, announces that they
will not be moved or in any way
disconnected. While but one COM
pany is plaintiff, the entire trust
is against the Freeman company.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
Hog and Hominy Hob-Nob.

WACO, Dec. Boz. s. Peters,
president of the Texas division OF
the American Cotton Growers
Protective association, has issued a
call for a meeting Of the assocIa-
ton to take place in Waco on Tues
day, the 2lst prox. That day the
Texas State Swine Breeders asso-
citation will also meet. The plan
is to have conference between the
hog, cotton and grain men, with a
view to improving methods OF
marketing hogs and grain and to
agree on increasing hogs and grain
and restricting cotton acreage to
the area planted this year, which
was 80 per cent under the year be-
fore.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
The Woman Closes It

ATLANTA, Dec. 30.-The high
honor has been conferred upon
Mrs. Belle Castleman Carroll, OF
st. Louis, Of presiding over the
closing and eliminating services
of the Cotton States and Interna-
tionaI exposition on Tuesday, to-
morrow. AS that will be the last
day OF the Exposition every effort
has been made to mark it as the
greatest OF the entire period. 1t
was decided by the management
that it should be designated as
Woman's Day, in compliment to
the great work performed by the
women OF the country in erecting
the woman's building and placing
therein an exhibit which was vot-
ed the best on the grounds. This
act has made the day one of the
greatest rivalry is now in progress
as to places OF nonor.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
American Coal Miners in Peru.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-Consul
Jastromski, at Callao, Peru, reports
to the state department that an
extremely liberal concession has
been made by the Peruvian gov
eminent to two American citizens,
Gubert and Jones, and their aSso-
ciates, for the construction of a
railway from the coast to the dis
trict of Hualgayoc, where coal
mines of great value exist. About
forty of these mines are already
owned by an American company.
The mines yield bituminous and
anthracite Goals, equal to those of
Pennsylvania, and as the United
States warship, the Alert, recently
paid $3.50 per ton for English coal
at Callao, the consul anticipates
great benefits to navigation to fol-
low the exploration of these native
mines, which are said to be mex
haustible and easy to work.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
illegal Ass.ssment Claimed.

LEAvENwORTH, Kan, Dec 3d.
The Leavenworth Coal company
began suit in the District court
today to enjoin the county treas
urer from issuing tax warrant
to the sheriff against the COM
pany's property. 1t is alleged that
an Illegal assessment was made by
the trustees Of Kickapoo Town
ship, who made a return fixing the
taxable value OF the property at
$4,000, when the mine officials
swore it was worth only $4,000.
The suit will be watched closely,
as it is proposed to test the CON.
stitutionality Of the law under
which the assessment was made.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
Rattlashin Indiana.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The bat.
tleship Indiana will leave the
League Island navy yard in the
course of a few days for Newport,
where she will receive her torpedo
outfit. She will then go to sea for
a few days to test her battery and
machinery, and IL all goes we'll
with her she will be sent to Port
Royal, S. c., to be placed in the
new dry dock there to be cleaned
and painted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
Thinks the Miowera Safe.

SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 30.-Wm.
Brown, manager Of the Canadian
Pacific and Austrian Steamship
company, owning the Miowera,
said that the company had no mis-
givings as to the safety Of the ship.
He believed that her captain, after
the Strathnevis' hawsers parted
and the hurricane came up, had
concluded that it was time to think
Of his own ship and passengers and
valuable cargo. Also it was prob
able he was unable to turn his ship
in the direction he had left the
Strathnevis, owing to the terrific
storm, so, for fear of further en-
dangering his own ship, he had
proceeded for Honolulu.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
They Are Going to Chicago

CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec. 30.--At
a meeting of the captains Of the
military companies Of Charleston,
it was unanimously resolved to &C
cept Col. Henry Turner's invitation
for the southern militia to come to
Chicago next summer. Nine out
Of twelve companies in the city
were represented, and twas agreed
that each ot them should send not
less than thirty-six, or more than
forty men. The militia are enthu-
siastic in their endorsement of the
scheme.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
The State Takes the Convicts.

NASHVILLE, Dec. 30.-Tomorrow
all the state convicts will be re.
turned to the state, and the state
will have to take care OF them.
Five hundred will be worked In
the state coal mines at Brushy
creek, some are to work on the new
penitentiary, but the majority will,
from present indications, be kept
in idleness, as only three appli.
cants have responded to advertised
bids for temporary leasing OF con-
victs, and these bidders, il the con-
tracts are accepted, only want a
total OF about 300.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
The Preacher dubbed Him.

MADISON. Indiana, Dec. 30.-At
Mount lions church, this city,
Christmas night, Ed. Robertson
cut Charles Reeds throat and the
preacher, Rev. Fletcher Jones. frac-
tured Robertson's skull with a
club. Robertson was dragged to a
corner Of the room and the enter
tainment went on. Robertson was
brought to Madison and is in jail
unconscious.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
Meridian Helps Herself

MERIDIAN, Miss, Dec. 3O.-The
Meridian Co-operativeCotton Mills.
organized here some weeks ago,
is now among the assured realities
of this manufacturing town. At
a late meeting OF the stockholders,
an order for fifty of the latest i'm
proved Victor knitting machines
was placed with aProvidence X. IL
manufacturer, and the work OF pro.
viding the necessary buildings for
the plant will receive early atten-
ton. This industry Is altogether
separate and distinct from the
100000 cotton factory recently or
ganized here, and for which the
machinery has all been purchased.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
Postal Telegraph Line.

DENVER, Col. Dec. 30.-It is learn
ed here that prominent citizens of
Helena, Mon, have organized the
Rocky Mountain Postal Telegraph
company, to purchase the plant Of
the old Rocky Mountain Telegraph
company, which has been operating
for several years in Montana, and
will extend its lines to Ogden, Salt
Lake and Denver. The contract
has been made with the Postal
Telegraph company for connections
at Spokane, Denver and Cheyenne.
Bonds to the amount OF 100000
will be floated for the work OF con-
structiOn,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
Big Wool Business,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 80. - The
wool crop of Australia is being
marketed a fortnight earlier than
usual, and the business done up to
November 18th, last date Of report,
to the state department, from
United States Consul.General Ma
retta, at Melbourne, shows the
largest business ever done in Vic
torla for corresponding period.
This was done too in the face Of
the fact that there will certainly
be a decrease in production visible
later on,