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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28
Bubonic Plague Over,

WASHINGTON. Oct 26 49, United
States Consul Johnson, at Annoy, China
reports that the bubonic plague in tina,
city has run its course after a career
of three months duration. He says
that 90 per cent of the persons attacked
died, but that no foreigner fell victim
to the contagiOn. Mr.. Johnson esti-
mates that in Annoy and four ADJOINING
towns there We're go deaths from the
plague daily in June, 400 daily In July
200 daily the first Is days in August
and 100 daily during the latter half OF
that month.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28

SEATTLE, Wash, Oct gG.-Tht
steamer Narrho has arrived here from
st. Michaels. She left there oct 10. one
day before the steamer Humboldt. and
consequently brings no late news. She
brought 40 passengers who failed Ia
reach the Klondike and were SO utterly
disg,sted with themselves that they ex-
acted promise from Captain Higgins
not to give out their names. The ma
jority Of them went to Alaska ON the
schooner North Fork from san Fran
DISCO.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28

SEATTLE, WASH. Oct. 2G-rhe PAS
sengers of the steamer Faralloues.
which arrived here from Alaska, bring
the news OF a murder committed near
Lake ragish oct L. Two men from Seat
tie named Henderson and Peterson
quarreled over a trivial matter. and
Henderson, after stabbinE Peterson with
a bowie knife several times drew a re-
voivor and beat his victims head into
Jelly. Henderson was arrested and
bound TO a tree for ten DAYS, until the
arrival of the Canadian mounted police,
who took him to Dawson city for trial
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28
Dogs For the klonlikc.

CHICAGO, oct. 26.-Exactly 22O dogs
OF high ana low degree, mostly the lat
ter the property of w. X. Lewis. a
Seattle lawyer are on their way to the
Pacific coast from Chicago and will be
sold to klondike miners. Lawyer Lew
Is hopes to get from $25 to $50 apiece for
the CANNES, and should his fond hopes
be realized he will take two more car
loads Of the product of the Chicago dog
pound.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28

CHICAGO, oct 26.-The $1,000 pack
age sent by registered mail to the State
Savings bank Of Butte. Mon, by the
National Bank Of the Republic. has
been given up for lost. The Union Ma
rine insurance company of New York,
with which the package was insured.
notified the bank by telegraph that it
would pay the loss. The company has
no recourse, the government accepting
no responsibility.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28

INDIANAPOLIS, oct. 26.-Four mer
wearing masks drove up to the Hicks
home, near Monrovia, and entered, de-
manding money. The six members OF
the Hicks family We're securely tied by
the robbers, who proceeded to rob the
house. They secured about $3.50 in cash
and drove away.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28

NEW YORK. Oct. 25.-William II.
Foster, Jr.. who fled from this city in
1883 and was charged with robbing the
New York Produce Exchange Of S193.
900, was arrested at Neuilly, near Paris,
by Scotland Yard detectives. who had
been tracking him to earn the $1,000 re-
ward which the Produce Exchange had
offered for his arrest.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28
Those Mail Box Thefts.

BOSTON, Oct. 26,-J. IL. Ogle and
Robert Russell, the men arrested in
New York on suspicion of being impli-
Gated in extensive letter box robberies,
We're brought from New York yesterday
by United States Marshal McCarty.
They are held as witnesses against the
members OF the gang who were arrest.
ed here.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28
Cabinet Minister In the Klondikc.

VICTORIA, b. c.. oct. 26.-Hon. MIR.
Sifton. Canadian minister Of the lnte-
rior, has started In over the Dyea trail
with Major Walsh, administrator of the
klondike district; the mounted police
and other officials. Mr.. Sifton will re-
turn by the Skagguay trail IL he gets
through.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28
Report on the southern plague.

NEW ORLEANS. oct. 25.-Yesterday
there We're "a new cases OF yellow fever
gomery, Ala, comes the news Of is ad-
ditlonal cases. Mississippi towns have
new cases as follows; Bay st. Louis.
s; Edwards, j; New Albany, /.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28
HURLED TO DEATH.
Terrible Accident on the New
York Central Railroad.
NINETEEN DROWNED LIKE RATS.
Long Train with Hundred Persons on
Hoard Piungrs over IN Embaukment
and Several Passenger Coaches
Sink In Fifty Feet of Water.

.
waking plunged in the twlnkliag Of an
eye early yesterday morning men, wo-
men and children, Into the Shiny bed OF
the Hudson river train laden with
slumbering humanity dashed. dragging
4 through the waters the helpless pas
sengers.
There was nothing to presage the ter
rible accident which so suddenly de-
prived these unfortunates Of Ike. The
New York Central train left Buffalo
and had progressed for nearly nine
tenths Of the distance toward lts des-
/ tination. The engineer and his fireman
had just noted the gray dawn breaking
! In the east and the light streak OF red
! ,etokeninS the suns appearance when
'ith the great engine, a servant on the
rails. devil Of. they plunged into the
depths Of the river. Neither engineer
nor fireman viii ever tell the story OF
that terrible moment, for with his hand
upon the throttle the engineer plunged
with his engine To- the river bottom. and
'hc fireman to. was at his post Be
hHd F~n tuWn the express car The
coordination ,.r and the -lcrprrs and
ta.e. piled ON J,o of the rugDuG
Then lncr' happened ..at ON ,hr
railroad 40 amy utsrr time would have
caused The dis .nr but u.w proved q
rrry h',sstnr As the train plunged
.vHr the cuh7nItwnnt the coupling hat
hold the last three of On. six s..uo.s
broke, and the. n.rnuuuu y remained
IN th" broken .r.r',. In that way rme
'1 lives We're s.".1.
The train WAS hauled n, .pn.0a N-1
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY MEMO" "
copyrighted by DAVE & Taber."

copyrighted by Dave & Taber."
To VOTERS We believe in
pride of country and | write to a
nation not lacking in it. We be-
lieve in the possibility of real de-
votion to an adopted country by
those who come from other shores,
and ! write to Il nation largely made
up OF emigrants. We believe there
are more healthy people than sick,
more sane than insane, more honest
than criminal, and | write to ma
ton whose unselish citizens out
number by five to one all who
find their pleasure and their profit
in pervcrting the peoples will.
*,*
So you and are ilIed with IL
healthy sort of hopeiulncss. Like
those dear lovable people who insist
on seeing always the bright side of
trouble, or those logical sufferers
who insist on the existence of the
sun no matter how black the cloud,
We believe in our country, we dare
to imagine for it a greater destiny
than has yet been attained in short,
re are proud cfH. But let us stop
amoment to analyze our pride for
"pride goeth before fall' unless it
be a carefully selected and we'll
grounded pride, that has no stiff
neckedness about it.
81
What is there about the United
States to make us proud?
Territory! Yes, that is some
hng extraordinary vast and COM
pact, but the Roman Empire had
that and yet went to pieces. The
character Of Il people has something
% do with the retention of territory.
Population! That indeed in
Geases by leaps and bounds. Each
census piles up further millions, but
TIE Chinese Empire has that fact to
meet IN even greater measure, and
sa nation it is tottering to disrup-
y fOn In population, quality is
more important than quantity.
A Wealth ! The total wealth of
- pc nation climbs up into figures
: pat are beyond comparison. But
pan and India were, during their
y |hne, richer than your most gold
dream the former is now mar
9, We'd down to mere nothingness
d lOng the powers, and the latter
Tor generations been trodden by
"a foot of the conqueror. The true
n 'al'h OF a nation is mankind, and
,s lack of that ruined the two
at ntioned.
i roducts! | grant aremarkable
iSe from tropical fruits to arctic
~ and from pottcry-clays to viz
Il gold, but these things are here
- ne gift Of Nature. We may be
Z and take or eat, or we NAV
guy e''se OF our plenty, to others
but the sun shines ON other
''nS beside ours, and if we may
'ood, much more such nation
! lgland who makes up for in
> lack by getting quotas from
- iaollable portion of the globe.
'"ueal Institutions ! Then the
must be largely ascribed to
Not broad plans OF our fathers,
5lSI 'han to any certainty in re-
,6% !" the future; unless we come
',5S 'DNe that institutions and rights
perpetual motion machines
:" not run themselves. For
Ps II progressive plans and
M sal'''re could go on without
''iVu 10 parrxy d.. n1 |
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America
~
No!Tcrritory, population, wealth,
products, formal declarations, are
not the things that fill us
with most pride. This nation
thrown together hap-hazard, is new
ertheless so permeated by ideas OF
the eternal right and justice of
things, that in moments of grave
national testing the pulsations of
the mighty heart of the great conf
mon people have always beaten
steadily. That is our pride. After
all moral idea is greater and long
cr lived than material things or
forms of words the church in your
ncighborhool will point my mean
ing as its spire-ingcr is raised up
ward to the sky. 1t stands for an
idea that goes on after its apostles
have perished, after its builders
ha>c slept for generations, after the
mat, rials Of which il was made have
crumblcd at the touch of time.
Moral and material it survives the
lapse OF years, the death of support
crs, the shattering of dynasties.
Even 50 with all right ideas, of
which surely our nation is an en-
bodiment. Vaguely yet desperate
ly the masses have held to the con-
viction that this widespread mun-
try is to be a supreme testing place
of the trustworthiness of the COM
mon-people solemnly have they
grown to a sense of unity and its
absolute necessity to national life.
Glance back and see!
Who held in climbing despera-
ton along the fringe OF the CONT
nent, despite wild savagery before
and cultured savagely behind ? The
common people.
When lapsing time showed the
possibilities of this country and men
began to dream of rights based upon
conditions here, -uninhuenced by the
dictation remote and half-crazv
monarch, the common people water
ed the ground with blood.
Tke supreme right to the man
agement of our own affairs having
been decided, Il territory wide
enough to inspire boundless en-
thusiasm confronted this plain peo-
pie. BY splendid energy they have
subjugated it, so that its culture, its
progress, its completeness are Il
monument to the magnificent power
ofcommon people, rmtrammeled by
traditions.
Then Il great moral question: came
up for settlement, whose ISSUES
struck at the very cohesion of curl.
blood-baptised nation. Desperately
the national heart yearned over the
need of Il government "one and in
The common people
bore the brupt of the conflict on
both sides, and by them was it
fought to Il conclusion, 50 that even
the vanquished now say the question
was settled rightly. ,
X *
Our pride is that "the people" .
AN be trusted. If thoroughly pos !
'essed by an idea, their response is
splendid. Like some huge engine,
heir progress is irresistible when .
,nce motion is impaired. The only 2
'omplaint-and even that is cause V
or pride as it is closely related to c
he permanency of national purpose a
S that they are slow to awaken to :
langer. b
NN.lI \
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28
sight of Greece, 80 decadent from
grand historical traditions as to be
an easy conquest by, the polygam-
Gus Turk.

No country stretching Gar,
No pomp of civic state,
Can make you truly great
America!
No gain from cruel war,
No cannon echoins loud,
Can make you really great
America
No golden stone or bar
Filched from It's darksome ditch,
Can make yon truly rich
America
Only the guiding star
OF honecty aud truth
Tan keep your glorious youth
America
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-17
A Floral Clock.

John D. Rockefeller, who owns the
largest estate on the Hudson, will
shortly tell the time of day by a unique
time-piece, floral clock. 1t will be
composed of such flowers, arranged in a
dial-shaped bed, as have certain hours
OF opening and closing. The idea is not
new one, for flowers were, in the days
Pliny, the time-pieces of the poor. The
white lily, of which we have records, in
that day opened at seven o'clock in the
morning and closed at five in the after
noon. 1t still keeps its regular time of
opening and shutting. There are. in
all, sixtY.seven flowers that have their
times for blooming. This time varies
little, according to latitude. but, except
in either an extremely hot or piercing
cold region does not change materially.
For instance. the yellow goats beard of
the meadows closes promptly at twelve,
noon, in France, as we'll as here. In
Scotland the goats beard is used for
Diminishing school in the very poor dis
tricts, where neither teacher or schol.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-17
HORTICULTURE.

Successful farming includes horicul-
ture and horticulture. The man who
confines his work solely to the produc-
ton of the coarser products of the earth
may succeed in making money but he
will never get that complete satisfaction
which is obtainable from his occupa-
ton.
Nectar seems to be secreted by the
flowers to attract the bees. that they may
collect the pollen and carry it to other
plants, and thus ferrilize or cross-fertil-
ize them. Bees can not be too numerous
for the good of the plants. and every
wise fruit grower will keep a few colo.
MES at least. When bees swarm about
fruit trees at blossoming it is a pretty
good assurance that we will have full
crop.
Many who feed and cultivate their
trees well are surprised that they do
not bear. and are at loss to explain
why. The reason is simply that they
are producing so much wood that they
cannot produce anything else. Summer
pruning is the antidote. if begun in
time.
If but small crop of Strawberries has
been produced from vigorous vines. and
the beds are kept free from weeds and
grass, then the second year, and even
the third year, may be profitable. de-
pending, Of course. ON season, fertility,
cultivation. etc.
AS rule, new strawberry beds every
year are most satisfactory. When old
beds are to be continued they should be
moved off Immediately after fruiting,
and burned over. Reduce the rows to
narrow width. hoe them out clean. ap.
ply fine manure. and cultivate the same
as new beds.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-17

ars have watch. and where the town
ship is too poor to furnish any other
time-piece. In England the four O'Clock
is as we'll known in poetry as it ishere,
and it preserves it's namesake hour as
accurately.
Mrs. John d. Rockefeller is botan-
ist, and, it is said, could. If she would.
write very good botany for common
use.
In the clock that has been designed
for Mr.. Rockefeller, among the flowers
are the common yellow dandelions
which open precisely at $3.50 in the
morning, and close at 8: 30 at night; the
hawk weed, opening at 8 A. M. and clos.
ing at 2 2. NJ /; morning glories closing,
at 3 p. M; four o'clocke, closing at that
hour; COW thistle, opening at 5 A. NJ,
closing at II A. M; and many others
equally familiar.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-17
How Royal Ladies Kill Time.

Queen Victoria. whose especial hobby
is music, has educated her daughters to
be useful as we'll as accomplished wo-
men, and they may all be said to be
efficient and artistic. They have their
fads. however, like the other queenly
celebrities. The queen herself likes to
study Hindostanee, and to see her ia
vorite dogs and ponies. A writer on
this subject in the San Francisco Chron-
icle says that Empress Elizabeth of
Austria is an accomplished horsewoman,
and the sovereign of court whose arts
tocratic preiudices are of the strongest
kind. She delights in her fame as a
pastry-cook. and her daughter, the
Archduchess Valerie, is proud of her
accomplishments in the methods of the
ancient and modern cuisine.
The Queen of the Belgiaus is clever
nurse and good doctor, having not only
studied medicine, but having frequently
applied her knowledge in emergencies.
1t is noticeable to see the interest in
nursing among noble and royal ladies.
The Duchess Of Albany and the Ouch
ess of Portland count themselves among
those who have matriculated in this pro-
fession.
The Queen Of Greece is at the head of
an association of women whose object is
the moral regeneration of criminals.
They frequently visit the inmates of pris
ons in Athens, giving them religious in.
struetion, and a sympathetic attention
to their woes.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-17
STOCK.


A variety of food is better digested
and supplies more fully the wants of the
system than any one material can do,
and the animal will eat with better
relish. Such supply does not entail
much trouble, and the better results
procured in every way will make it ex-
ceedingly profitable. The Agricultural
Department has book on cattle, their
feeding and their diseases. 1t should be
in the hands of every farmer; it can be
had for the asking. and all should avail
themselves of an opportunity to study
these subjects.
Sheep will injure themselves eating
salt only when careless shepherd has
deprived them of it too long. Keep the
salt where they can help themselves.
and they will take only so much as is re-
CURED to satisfy their actual needs.
Scratches" most frequently attack
horses long kept on heavy grain ra-
ton, and the best remedy is to turn
them out to pasture. They will get ex-
ercise, and the grass will act as a mild
laxative. Outward applications. while
standing in the stable. are almost use.
less.
Beef making or wood growing or dairy.
ing without shelter is pretty crude
way of farming. II this has been your
way remedy the defect before you pre-
pare much stock to keep through the
coming winter. Ha 'e little stock I'M
der good shelter rather than much stock
and poor covering for them.
The owner of crop is not compelled
to defend it by building fence around
it, and the stock owner is responsible
for damages. Ii stock is worth anything
it is worth keeping within bounds.
Scrub stock is hardest to restrain, and
the law tends to lessen the amount of
this variety to the good of all. More
over. it costs less to fence stock in than
to fence it out
1t is never good policy to try how
little you can keep live stock on, but
rather how much you can get them to
eat. 1t is the excess given above that
required for maintenance which Yields
profit to the feeder.
The Department of Agriculture has
made the surprising statement that the
greatest loss from winter exposure of
cattle is in Louisiana. This teaches that
good care in a severe winter is worth
more than mild winter with poor care.
Knowing that every effort must be made
to keep stock comfortable, we have fewer
losses when a mild season would tempt
US to be negligent.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-17

There is more profit in a small farm
made rich and we'll titled than with a
larger acreage less carefully looked
after. With a larger farm it becomes
more difficult to maintain the fertility
and to procure the best conditions for
seeding and planting, neither is it as
easy to cultivate thoroughly nor to har-
vest at the right season.
No other possesses to such degree as
does stable manure the power to restore
worn soil to productiveness, and yet,
Notwithstanding its value, its waste
through carelessness is so common as
to hardly cause comment. Worst of all
its place must be taken by high priced
commercial fertilizers.
One of the greatest objections to
threshing grain out of shock is the in
creased liability to spoil in the bin. 1t
is much more liable to heat and mould
than il it has been allowed to go
through the sweat in the stack.
The bins which have been used
should be whitewashed with lime and
carbolic acid solution before putting in
grain this summer. Then vermin and
germs will not be so likely to modest.
Next, be sure that there is not even
tiny leak in the roof over the bins.
The larger the silo the cheaper the
storage for each ton of silage; the larger
the herds the more cheaply can sill
age be supplied to each animal.
While clover is the best friend the
farmer has as soil renovator and a
money crop. it has the meanest treat.
ment of all the crops. Why not give it
as good care as we do the wheat and the
corn? A clovor crop is of more value
than either of these.
Rye makes a desirable food for all
kinds of stock, increases the quantity of
milk produced, and is a saving OF form
one or two tons of good hay for every
acre sown; and, not least, affords green
crop to be plowed under in the spring
to renew and enrich the land.
European Joint stock companies lease
or buy large areas, and from them sup
ply the cities with millions of sheep or
with numberless bushels of potatoes or
beets, etc. Devotiug their whole effort
to a single product. they reduce the
cost to minimum. They buy and sell
in wholesale way, which the trades
and manufacturers have found so sue.
cessful. Such methods. in come degree,
must become common in agriculture in
the future.
If the clover did not make a good
catch, it is not always wise to pillow it
under. Manure it Immediately after
the first cutting, and it will stool out
very much, and cover most of the waste
places. if not too large. Then a little
more seed can be sprinkled in the bare
places.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-17
LEAVES IN THE TREE TOP.

Murmuring leaves in the tree tops,
Rustling and ripling all day,
Whispering leaves in the poplars,
o what are you telling, l pray2
Do soft summer winds sweeping Ger you
Breathe secrets mysterious and sweet!
Do you, leaning each to other,
The wonderful story repeats
Among YOU the sunbeams are show ring
Tremulous jewels of light
You sparkle with laughter till even,
And rock in the breezes all night.
Dear little leaves in the tree top,
Your mission on earth you fulfill;
You belong to the joy of the summer,
And the part of the Infinite Will.
You live your short life with rejoicing,
And then, when the year has grown old,
You go to your rest ia the autumn
In glory of crimson and gold.
May we be as joyful in duty,
Though lofty our station, or low;
And, passing through life's changefuI
journey
Shed blessings wherever we go.
And if God call us hence from our labor
For naught earthly abides and endures,-
Then, o beautiful leaves in the tree top
May our last days be as lovely as yours
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-17
DAIRY.

Drouths are very apt to come some
time during the year, and scant pas
ture interferes sadly with the milk yield
and profit. A dairymsn who does not
early in the season prepare for a soiling
crop is not wise man.
The trade in condensed milk is rapid
" growing, and yet the factories are go
few that the business is practically
monopoly. 1t is probable that co-opera.