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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16
There Is an island In Slumber sea

There Is an island In Slumber sea
Where the drollest things are done,
And We will sail there, II the winds are fair,
Just after the set of the sun.
IT'S the loveliest place in the whole wide
world,
Or anyway soft seems,
And the folks there play at the end Of each
day
In curious show called Dreams"
We sail right into the evening skies,
And the very first thing We know
We are there at the port and ready Tor
sport
Where the dream folks givetheir show.
And what do you think they did last night
When crossed their harbor bars?
They hoisted u plank on great cloud bank
And teetered among the stars.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16
An Evening Prayer.

Lord, abide with US, for 1t is evening and
the night is upon us. Give us thy pro,ec.
tion In and through the darkness. The dark
ness and the light are both alike to thee
and we shall sleep without fear, for thou an
our keeper. We ask for thy peace. Earth's
peace is easily broken by alarms and BY
troubles that spring up continually; blt thy
peace is eternal not as the world giyetb
dost thou give, and we long to stay our
weary hearts on thee. We lay at thy
feet the work of this day. Teach d.
the lesson thou wouldst have us learn from
its experiences. What is stained with sin
wilt thou graciously cleanse. Correct our
mistakes and let them not mar our work nor
hurt other lives. We ask special blessings
upon our friends. Lead them in paths Of
thine own choosing. Sanctify our home
life. Help us to find the best In each other,
and preserve us from criticism, impatience
and displeasure. May love so abound in our
hearts that all our human relations shall be.
come more thoughtful and tender. Accep,
our gratitude for the common mercies Of
every day. Fold us all now in thine ever.
lasting arms, and may the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be upon us. Amen.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16

HE teacher stood
by the blackboard
reviewing W it h
Ralph Burrows a
problem in alge-
bra. Most of her
pupils were from
the lower walks Of
life, rude in dress
and manner, and
backward in in
telligence. Il Ii Q
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16
Pure Hearts Make Clear vision.

Every permitted sin incrusts the wlndosI
OF the soul and blinds our vision, and e.}
victory over evil clears the vision OF
soul so that we can see God little plains
The unholy man could not see God u
were set down In the midst of heaven
men and women whose hearts are pan
Him in the very commoDest walks oil Hs
]. Wilbur Chapman, d. d.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16

The Committee of Ten from the
great colleges, which is appointed to
consider standards of requirements in
entrance English, and to secure, If
practicable, uniform entrance examina-
tions in that subject recently appoint
ed, to further its work, sub-commit.
tee OF fifteen, headed by DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler. This committee, in
order to ascertain the opinions of well
known English masters on the best
books for additional reading in Eng
lish, sent out list of forty three
books, to which was appended this re-
quest: 'Please mark with cross the
books in the following list that you
have found desirable, with a double
cross those that You have found espe-
cially desirable, with circle those
that you have found unsatisfactory,
with double circle those that you
have found especially unsatisfactory"
Those who received this list replied
readily, and as a result this committee
has indubitable expert testimony on
the best books for preparatory read.
ing. The balloting resulted in the
ranking of the books as follows; l,
Merchant of Venice; 2, julius Cesar;
3, Vision of Sir Launfal; 4, Sketch
Book; 5, Silas Mariner; 6, Ivanhoe; 7,
Evangeline; 8, As You Like It; 9, Sir
Roger de Coverly Papers; 10, Macbeth;
II, Lady Of the Lake; 12, Bunker Hill
Grafton; 13, Ancient Mariner; IA,
Courtship of Miles Standish; Is, Mar
mion; 1G, L'Allegro; II, II Penseroso;
Is, House Of the Seven Gables; 10,
Cancellation With America; 90, Twice
Told Tales; 81, Essay on Milton and
Addison; 90, Vicar of Wakefield; 90,
Princess; "a, Midsummer Nights
Dream; 25, Comus; 90, Life of Sam
uel Johnson; q, David Copperfeld;
%, Paradise Lost, Books l. and II. !;
30, Sohrab and Rustum; 80, Lycidas;
81, Tales of a Traveller; 32, Twelfth
Night; 33, Essay on Burns; "a,
American Scholar; 35, Last of the Mo.
hicans; SO, Pope's Iliad; 81, Wood
stock; 3S, Second Essay on Chatham;
80, The Abbot; 40, Life of Nelson; Al,
Flight Of Tartar Tribe; AZ, Palamon
and Arctic; 43, History of the Plague.
OF these books Merchant of Venice
alone received no unfavorable ballot.
The History of the Plague ranked low.
est in favorable ballots, and at the
same time received 1913 double crosses,
the largest number of negative ballots
cast for a book. The low ranking of
the Second Essay on Chatham, which
always seemed to be favorite with
the masters, will no doubt surprise
many.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16
SLOWLY through all the universe. the 10

Slowly, through all the universe, the V
pie OF God is being built. When, IN W
hard fight, in your tiresome drudgerN % a.
your terrible temptation, you catch tneFI|
pose OF your being, and give youts's
God, and so give Him the chance .osl
Himself to you, your life, n living s.Vns
taken up and set into that growing "N-
Phillips Brooks.
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gled with the whir and clatter ef the
machinery. ti t
''Run for your livcsl" sil i
They rushed to the street and fed
their various ways. One, half para
lyzed, clung to Weaser Tan.
''The railroad bridge is high and
very strong" From both sides peo-
pie were crowding upon it.
Only q moment-but in it, to that
struggling cityful, terror enough to
freight eternity-and Louise, her arm
around her 'fainting charge stood
upon the bridge. Then the dam sur
rendered its last defense and pande-
monium plunged into the valley.
The work of rescue was going on.
The young doctor had not lain down,
they said, for two days and two nights.
He was everywhere, directing, COM
manding, executing. Some sixty rods
below where the bridge had been was
wooded knoll, for which the branch
in its peaceful days had turned tran
gully aside. A mass of drift was
piled there now, sand and soil;
trees, cattle and the wrecks
of homes; stone buttress; brace
and girder and stanchion of steel
and human flesh and blood-wisps of
straw tipped aside by the torrent, the
discarded playthings Of a moment.
Gangs of men were sorting it over
A bit of blue cambric caught Ralph's
eye. He knew it, for his mother had
worn it once.
Careful there, careful, ,"he warned,
pressing in among the laborers, "take
away that piece of roofing. Not your
axe, man! For heavens sake don't
use that! There's a young girl lying
just beneath! Help me lift it, half a
dozen of you-so-that will do"
He scooped away some debris with
his hands and wiped the soil from the
dead face.
"Tllank God, there's no mutilation.
That iron beam there twisted like q
thread-it confines the arm. Set your
lever just here. Steady-steady; that
will do.
"Now, some one help me carry her.
Not you, Van Courtlandt; some one
with an awful sorrow tugging at his
heart You'll do, Mccall.
Gently, my man, tenderly as you'll
lift that little girl of yours when you
find her. Lay her here, Mccall.
"One moment more, my friend.
Here's a pillow, soft and white and
frilled, dainty thing-Marguerite
sent it. Put it into place while I lift
the head. Now the spread-thank you.
Mccall"
Weaser Tan lay in her coffin; her
face as plain in death as in life, but
more serene. Ralph stood and looked
at her wonderingly and sadly. His
old dog came and, whining, laid his
muzzle in his hand.
eyes, Don, you've lost q friend.
She loved you"
Marguerite came softly in.
Here's something else she loved"
she said. "They say she would not
sleep without it under her pillow"
He opened the little box she gave
Him, gazed into it for moment,
touched its contents tenderly, then
tucked them under some roses that lay
upon her breast.
They were pair Of gray yarn nit
tens and a blue-jay's wing.-Short
Stories.
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Italy had under operation last year
$500 miles of stsndard-guage railways,
100 of narrow guage and ITO Of street
railroads.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16

Do not fancy yourself safe and ioT
because you feel no burden. There
thing as laden slave sleeping on ns
den. The drst stages Of mortilica'loh.
are painful !; after that the benumeea ~
cease to warn. Tho frost-btten m
warned by strangers. So Is !. In Paiss
OF conscience. .--Frederick W. Robef's'D
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II we look down, then our shou1
stoop. II our thoughts look dowh v
character bends. It IL only when W.
our heads mp that the body become.
It Is only when our thoughts go up "
lie becomes erect. t.--Aloxander hSa
y. D.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16

II you pay your debts promptly, you
are entitled to more credit than man
who is charitable, or woman who is
literary.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16

MIDpLEBUReH, Pa, SEPT. l6, 1897.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

Protest Against what rs Called
Newspaper Interference.

The Milwaukee (Wis.) Telegraph. in AM
article on the United States army. thus re-
Dukes Chicago papers for their sensational
assaults upon army officers at Fort Sheri-
dan Has It not" It asks, become APP
ity or Unsuitable hunger for sensationalism
on the part of city dailies is
likely to do irreparabe harm to the United
States army by an almost constant effort
to keep before the public, in an unfavorable
light, those portions of the army situated
near the great cities?" Continuing, the
of sensations over acts at Fort Sheridan
pretty much ever since it was oc-
cupied by regulars, and the sensa..
tions, when boiled down to fact, amounted
to almost nothing, except to make great
many people who read them and who do
not take the pains, or have not the time, to
to place a very low estimate upon the value
of our regular army. IT newspaper pro-
prietors continue to encourage, continue 10
permit, this damaging course, IL were pekter
that the troops be stationed TAR from the
large cities A continuation of these con-
slant sensations, great stories based on al
most nothing, means serious damage to the
army by weakening discipline But Tor
mastership there would have been no army;
would have been no preserve, ne t r,,,
away with them over a. sensational, Diack-
headed story of supposed wrong on the part
of an officer should take these things into
account The fellows who need punishment
in the army are such creatures as pollcemen
in all cities have to pound over me hs .nu
taken to a lookup. Hammond, the Fort
Sheridan soldier charged with desertlon'
would not obey an order. proper, reason
able order. Should he have been ailoWed
to DEFY the authorities and win at III
WASN'T II better that that one disobedient
so1lier. charged with desertion, a would,pe
shirlS receive a little bruising than tnaI Gus
cinliue le wrecked-than that VICIOUS, ue-
faint SOLDIER rule the camp? II Hammond
had def Sd the authorities It would nave
been a Z in signal for loose dlsclpl me-
Think of e things when you read the
slush of sensational daily paper as Il
deals with ,uch a case. The newspapers
have materially interfered with discipline OF
the troops permanently stationed near iarge
cities Common fairness patriotism, re,
-sneot for the welfare of the army, anu
.recognition of the value of that army 70
the government in time. of trouble snou ll
lead every managing editor ana eGltors-l na-.
chief TO see that nothing is SAID IN tnslr
cnlsIInns that does mischief in the directions
rdicated' The public is not particularly N
-tereeted in the manner in when a polc55.aiseIl
bandies q vicious, murderous, drunken DrusSS
x.yben he goes to arrest him. ny snoui s
the napers think that the people care inuSt
tn,,ohing the manner in which dlsoDeoiiSSiil..
,,;cious ugly, deserving. drunken solT rlsr
sba,id he handled by his officersE me me
snouIIa army costs too much and IS 700
-a1,ahIe to be injured by neWspapeA
course that is little less than CRIME
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
MATRIMONIAL TRAGEDY.
Bride Thought She Was Abandoned
and Went Back to Vermont.
Iew York Evening Sun

New York Evening Sun.
LOST-AIichael Clark, forty years old, of
Northampton, Mass. Came to this city last
Monday night and strayed from his wife
yesterday.
That was the slip sent out this afternoon
by the police of the East Thirty-fifth-street
station. Two policemen had spent all the
morning with Clark trying to find a keyhole
in Third avenue which would fit his latch
they took Clark back to the station house
and told him to remain there until some
thing should turn up to reveal the location
OF his lodging house and his bride.
While waiting for something to turn up
Clark gave an account of his experiences
as "A stranger in New York. He said that he
land. VT, when they fell in love and de-
cided to get married. The fact that she
was forty-six and he forty was somewhat
counterbalanced by the fact that she had
a bank account of $3.50 in Northampton
Mass, where she formerly worked.
They thought that it would be a good idea
to get married there on their way to this
city. They were married at that place last
Saturday night, and after spending Sunday
at the home of a friend of the bride they
came TO this city. They arrived at the
Grand Central Station last Monday night.
They took a furnished room in a house
on Third avenue, and paid for three DAYS
in advance. They were to start to Florida
on the fourth day, and he intended to set
himself up in business there as a carpen-
ter and joiner, On Tuesday morning he left
his bride to take a walk. but he also en-
tered a saloon, where he found several
men singing Way Down Upon the
ant anticipations of his journey to Florida
and he ordered something for the crowd
When he woke UP late in the afternoon his
book and $3.50 which his wife had given
him for pin money from her bank account
Then he. tried to find his way, back to HIS
wound up in the police station pleading for
assistance TO find his bride
After Clark had remained at the police
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

human beings. but in gifts. attachments and
possessions he finds the greatest inequality.
He shows that the greater progress a peo-
pie makes in civilization the more marked
is this individual inequality. Even the same
opportunities offered TO different men do
not make them alike, but more unlike.
These facts, which he illustrated, make So
cialism based upon the assumption of equal
tempt to enforce the equality which is the
basis Of socialism would turn back the
worlds progress because it would take from
highest efforts. The same possessions en-
Joyments and culture are not possible to
all. because God has made men unlike;
nevertheless a degree of Improvement is
possible tc all. Indeed, the progress of the
race has lifted all to better conditions and
to higher plane Of existence. The book is
an excellent antidote for the heresies OF
Bellamy and his school Published by
Houghton, Mifiin & Co., Boston and New
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

station nearly all day and all efforts of the
police to find his lodging house had failed.
some one suggested that he go back to
the Grand Central Railroad station to see
whether his wife might not have called
there for her trunk and in shat way left
some trace of her lodging house.
Clark went to the railroad station and
was overjoyed to learn that his wife had
come for her trunk, the check for which
she had kept in her pocket and had given
the address of the house.
But when Clark reached the house. which
was 643 Third avenue, the landlady said
your wife is gone. L tried to make her
stay, but she said that she felt that you
had been disappointed. and she couldn't
stand it any longer. She left for Rutland
That's what l get for going where they
give Knockout drops" said Clark as he
re-engaged a room and asked the. landlady
to telegraph to his wife that he had been
found. The landlady said that the wife
spent ali day yesterday. looking for the
missing bridegroom and was inconSolable
himself from her on purpose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

Keely and you will see at once that weight
does not enter into the problem in the
slightest degree. Il find that deviation is
the opposite force of gravitation The ma
thetic outreach of distance great enough
about itself to not only neutralize the eff
fects of gravitation, but to permit the en-
CINE and its equipment, no matter how
heavy or how heavily burdened. to keep
1t. That is as simple everything that
Keely invents always is. He adds that he
is now lat work on a new idea to increase
the area of the sympathetic outreach,'' and
when he gets that in full operation the MAJ
chine will move. So sure is he of success
that he is planning an Inventors home
to be built and supported on the profits of
his Inventions This is another expansion
of the Sympathetic outreach" idea.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

"Tales from Town Topics New York,
Town Topics Publishing Company.
Evangelical" by Katherine Russell. Pub
lished by the author, 100 Fifth avenue, New
York.
''Way-Songs and Wanderings,' a collec-
ton Of short poems by Claiborne A. Young.
Boston: Estes d Lauriat.
"A Romance in Transit" ae novel by
Francis Lynde issued in the Ivory Series
by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Uncle Roberts Geography I'LL" edited
by +. W. Harper. published in Appleton's
series of Home Reading Books.
Goods Founding" novel by A. G. Daw-
son. Issued in Town and Country Library
series, by d. Appleton & Co. Paper. SO
cents.
Reflections of a. Bachelor. by P: W,
illustrated by c.. d. Gibson. New York:
G. s. ogilvie Publishing Company, 81 Rose
street.
1.-The Freedom of Henry Meredith a
novel by M. Hamilton Published in Apple
toms Town and Country Library Series
Paper, so cents.
1.-The King of the Street." story by Will
liam Gill, and ''All About the Emerald
Ring" by Charles Albert Carly Paper. G.
w. Dillingham;, New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

"a History of Christianity in the Apos-
tolic Age" by Professor Cushman, of Union
Theological Seminary. is an effort to treat
Christianity as a unit and to trace its de-
velopment. so far as possible, in its totally.
The arrangement of the chapters, the
sequence OF chapters and their logical CO.
herence are in conformity with the design
of the author The origin of Christianity is
treated in relation to circumstances and
persons most intimately related thereto;
the circumstances of Judaism, the person.
atty of John the BAPTIST and of Christ
form the opening chapter. This is followed
by an account OF primitive Jewish Chris
tianity under five heads. Following this is
a comprehensive presentation of the Chris
tianity of Paul and his efforts as a mission
airy. The other divisions are a logical Sc
quence to those named. The striking fea-
ture of the book is that it follows what
is known the rational method of criti-
cism. For instance, all that is miraculous
concerning the early life of John the Bap-
fist is omitted. Coming to Christ, the
learned author says that "our knowledge
of Jesus early life is meager. He has not
a word of the angel heralds of his birth,
of the vision of Mary OF. of the details CIV
en- in the New Testament. These omissions
must be regarded as the result of the ra-
tional method of treatment, which is at
tracing so much attention The style of
the book has a charm which will lead those
who begin lit to read it to the end. Pub
lshed by Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
His Grace of osmonde.

When Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
wrote that veracious tale, "A Lady of Quail
ity," the hero was introduced upon the
scene only in the late chapters, and as he
was plainly favorite with the author she
has thought it we'll to give to the world
an account of his early achievements, which
the limits Of the other volume did not per-
NIT. His "Grace Of Osmonde'' is not Sc
quel but a companion piece to the Lady
of Quality" The story opens with the birth
of the heir to the dukedom and follows
him through blameless, yet mildly adj
venturous life until he finally weos the al
together lovely Lady Dunstanwolde. erst-
while the tempestuous Clorinda Wildairs,
who had Mortified the country roundabout
with her hoidenish behavior. Although
they did not meet until she was Lady Dun
stanwolde. his history is interviewer with
hers from a much earlier period. and con-
siderable part of the narrative is a repetl-
ton of her story. though told from another
point of view. Whether the duke is too
fautless to be altogether pleasing, or
whether Clorinda is not sufficiently interest
ing 20 bear serving up twice, the fact re-
mains that this second story is somewhat
less entertaining than the first. Neverthe-
IesS Il is told with a dash and spirit that
carry the reader along and make him for
get the improbabilitieS until he has closed
the volume. Whatever else may be said or
it. it is not dull. Published by Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 furnishes
the basis of Lorraine novel, by Robert
w. Chambers. The scene of the story is
laid in Lorraine. and the heroine OF the
story bears that name. She is the sup
posed daughter of marquis. and in a way
epitomizes the spirit of her compatriots-
the love of Lorraine, greater even than the
love between man and woman In the pur-
ity of her child-nature, the tinge of super
stition and the exaltation of her loyalty,
she is something of modern Joan of Arc.
She is loved by d young American, who
holds rowing commission as correspondent
of the New York Herald; thus, while alb
Senting himself from her for short inter-
walls, during which he has hair-breadth es-
capes from danger, he is yet able to watch
over her. Her fathers chateau is de-
stroyed, well as that of a friend. in
which she had taken refuge. The war RACES
round the two lovers, and scene after scene
of terrible interest is enacted before they
finally reach safety. The story presents
powerful pictures of the horrors of war,
and incidentally explains the hatred of the
French for their conquerors The authors
sympathies are evidently with the French,
but he does not obtrude them to the injury
of the story, which has happy ending for
the chief characters. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
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keeIy,. sympathetic Outreach.
New York Evening Post.

=
Keely as nearly as we can comprehend
his language, has fitted wings to his mo
tor" and it's speedy disappearance into
space, with Neely at the helm. is TO be
looked for al any moment. lie has ex-
hibted the invention TO a reporter who
knowing nothing about science, describes
1t as "a huge and complicated apparatus.
made for the most part of iron and steel
and apparently weighing about two tons
and half. It's most prominent parts are
two large wheels of polished STEEL Thai
does not sound at all airy. but listen to