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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01

Says the London Chronicle: Many
wrongs have been laid to the charge of
the bicycle, and now, it seems, it is
accused in France of being a literary
destroyer. Publishers complain of
.heir shelves being encumbered with
piles of yellow covered novels, and even
of more serious works, for which there
is absolutely no sale. The market for
Zola, Ohnet and Daudet is falling off,
and the percentage to be deducted
from their issues grows larger day by
day. So long as it is light every able
bodied human being is upon wheels,
and when they come home people are
too tired to read.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01

A Reading penn girl has just re-
covered sl5l.62 in damages as the re-
suit of an action brought against a
lady who called her (the girD a
"chippie. II is to be assumed from
this that the term "chippie" is de-
famatory, the opinion Of the girl who
brought the suit and that of the jury
before which the case was tried operat.
ing to Justify this assumption. ''This
goes to show that it isn't safe to monkey
with the vernacular of the street." OBJ
serves the Lowell News.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01

"When Victoria was called to the
throne the United Kingdom contained
26,O0O,OO0 people," writes William
George Jordan, of "What Victoria
Has Seem" reviewing, in the Ladies'
Home Journal, the worlds progress
during the sixty years of the English
sovereign's rule. To-day it has over
39,000,0OO. The wise men of the
time said the nation would 90 to
pieces. They claimed it could never
govern its home and colonial posses.
sions. Under Victoria the new terri
tory acquired alone is one-sixth larger
than all Europe. To-day Victoria
rules over 402, ,514, 900 people, or
twenty-seven per cent. of the popula-
ton of the globe. Her Empire ex:
tends over 1l,399,31G square miles,
covering twenty-one per cent. of the
land of the world. The Upited States.
ut the time of Victoria's coronation,
had only 1900, 600 people; to-day it
has 10000, 900. Arkansas, Missouri
and Louisiana were then Western
frontier States. All our territory west
of the Mississippi contained less
people than Philadelphia has to-day.
Our present trans Mississippi popula.
ton exceeds in number that of the
whole country in 1887. Our territorial
area has increased seventy-tive per
cent; our National wealth has
increased about seventeen hundred per
cent. -
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01
@Id RELIGIOUS RfIDIL
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FRO.
WORLDS GREATEST AuTHoee ~

O' Let Jesus Lift the Load-r..
Worth Faith for Guidance ~ irr
Over Small Things -Chri.,.. e'un
tions-Feet That Go Up To Gos 'A''
The camel, at the close Of dav
kneels down upon the sandy Mat.
To have its burden lifted OF,
And rest to gain.
My soul, thou, too, shouldst 10 ,hv.
When daylight draweth to a clos anees
And let thy Master lift the load
And grant repose.
Else how couldst thou tomorrow MAJ,
With all tomorrow's work 10 do '''
II thou thy burden all the night
Dost carry through?
The camel kneels at break of dav
To have his guide replace his iood
Then riseth up anew to take
The desert road.
So thou shouldst kneel at mornin, a..
That God may give thee daily cs,s a""n'
Assured that He no load too great
Will make thee bear.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01

And Dick Lansing's ball team won
two games.
About the old cannon? When it was
fred it split from end to end, but
Griggsville still keeps it as Q proud
trophy. And she is probably cele-
brating around it to-day, for Will
Spencer made the dive which brought
him fame all over Missouri many
years ago.-Chicago Record.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01
"Run Over" with JOY

Rejoice! BE glad! Be cheellss,.. /.
merry countenance, OF a smiling "a
OF good courage-never somoly y
gloomy. Let the Joy OF the Lo'u u,,r 7
strength. Bubble up and run y
Joy; let 1t well up from a great GIa ~ ID
like n reservoir OF God from whlcs ,S1 \
everyone else can draw inexhau''I. /.
plies. Make everybody happy I'll
exultant joy. Your business -.
your mission Is to bind up wv
hearted; to lift up the fallen HI
and encourage the despondehl agu "a
to make everyone to be glad anu"
Tho Kings Messenger.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01


set off firecrackers and have a balloon
ascension, with fireworks in the even
ing. Quite the contrary, for the
Fourth of July in the past had always
been the greatest day of the year.
Griggsville had thought it all over, re-
membering that crops were bad, that the
times were hard and that taxes were
high, and had come to the conclusion
that it would need all the money it
could get for winter fuel and buck
wheat -four and bacon.
All of the older folks agreed with
this decision; not without many mourn
full shakes of the head, but the boys of
Griggsville were much displeased.
ITS what / call burning shame"
shifted Jack Morris when he heard the
news.
Yes" chimed in Ruddy Wilson,
"Alden's Mills and Norcross and
Simpsons Landing and nearly every
town in the county is going to have a
celebration, and now Griggsville has
backed out.
Course all of our games are off, >"
remarked Dick Lansing, disconsolate-
ly; mo team will come here to play un-
less there is something going on"
Dick was the manager of the Griggs-
Vile Baseball Club and he felt the dis
appointment deeply.
For moment all the boys were 81
lent, as if the weight of the afliiction
was too greatfor expression. Presently
Will Spencer blurted out:
Lets have celebration anyway.
I've got few dollars I'll put into it
and we can get enough more among
the boys to make something of show
at least-and we'll leave the old folks
out Of it, too"
That's all very well," returned
Dick, "but it's easier said than DONE"
and there the matter dropped.
The next day when the boys met at
the ball field Will came rushing up the
street, evidently much excited. As
soon as he was within hearing he
shouted:
1--WE got it, fellows, I've got it,"
"Well, out with it, old man; don't
keep us in suspense" replied Dick,
who didn't think much of Wills many
plans. For Will had only lived in
Griggsville short time and Dick was
little jealous of his popularity.
As soon as Will recovered his breath
he unfolded his scheme. 1t was to 60
down to Sullinger's Hole and find the
cannon and muskets that were sup
posed to lie hidden in its depths. Dur
ing the war the part of Missouri in
which Griggsville is located had been
overrun by rowing bands of marauders
belonging To both the Confederate and
Union armies, and it was ON one of
these raids that the Southerners had
pounced down upon quantity of
stores and ammunition held at Griggs-
vile, and, being unable to get entirely
away with their plunder, they had
dropped it into Sullinger's Hole. All
this had been long known to the boys
of Griggsville, ,eiwhose' fathers and
mothers often told Of the wild day of
the raid, and pointed out the bullet
burrows in their homes. And they
knew, too, all about Sullinger's Hole.
1t lay at the end of tangled path
among the hazel brush and prickly ash
at the bottom of the bluff which shell
tered Griggsville. 1t was q quiet,
CLASSY pool with q harmless little
stream trickling into it, but no outlet
that any one knew about. Grass and
weeds and q few yellow water lilies
! $1,000, -,e-> .~-e,rd q. -adr-a..hrt ~ In
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01
A GENTLEMAN OF '76.

He cut gallant figure
In bonnie bun and blue;
A goodly sight his buckles bright
And primly powdered queue!
A more courageous quester
Neer served Sultan nor Shah
Than he, my brave ancestor,
My great-great- t-grandpapal
And then in his elation
Did my forefather gay,
Speak out the word he'd long deferred
For fear she'd say him Nay"
And when he saw how tender
Within her eyes the light,
He cried: I'm your surrender
read-we win the fight'
And when the freedom -p@an
Swept, surge-like, through the dells-
A might clang whose echoes rang
From Philadelphia bells
Loud from stern old steeple
He hurled the proud hurrah,
The joy-peal to the people,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01

The feet that go up to God mo a,.,
tain, at the end, are the same ,n~ .1,"Ir.
of their shoes beside the pu'%s, ,ss,
This is why the Christian, moie
men, not merely dares but iy,~ ,,,ss
back and remcmber.--Phillips '
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01

My great-grcat-grandpapa.
He held the brutal Briton
A thing" beneath his scorn;
A Tory he conceived to be
The basest caitiff born;
And not a neighbor wondered
He looked upon them So
Forsooth, that was one hundred
And twenty years ago!
How true the happy presagel
In faith, how leal and true
Thy whole long life of love and strife,
Thou saint in bun and blue!
Beyond all touch of travail,
With great-great -grandmamma,
Now flooding time, slips by In rhyme
For great great -grandpapa!
Clinton Scollard.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01
GR|GGSV|LLE'S CANNON.
A Fourth of July Story.

r IGGS V LILLE
was very sorry,
indeed, but it
didn't see how it
was going to have
a Fourth of July
celebration. Not
that Griggsville
wasn't anyinl1s to
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01

II is a pleasant sight to zee au,s s
ing God, for the air is heavy W.
Of murmuring, and the rpads -
oomplaints and lamentstl lons
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01
MDpLEBURoH. Pa, July /, 1897.

Russia's population has increased
nearly million a year for one hun
dred years.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01

Stop, traveller, and weep for him
Who's lying here below.
He filed his cannon to the brim-'
That's oil you'll ever know.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-05

planned: Il know thats wha' 1lelen
would wish II she could be .6sulted.
She has always objected to the settle
ment and she says she will insist npon
turning II over to my mother when IL
comes into her hands. / thought II
would simplify matters TO include IL
with the rest"
Il knew about that" replied the law
yer. taking up his pen again; land 80
l thought perhaps you might want 20
leave il as an anchor TO windward in
case your mothers property ever be-
came involved. don't like your obsti-
macy in the matter OF investments; /
mean the way you both keep all your
money tied up in Hallam's bank stock"
II know that's always been an eye
sore to you, colonel. and could never
understand just why IL should be. Hal
lam Is as safe as the subtreasury, and
he always pays good dividends"
THAT may all be-" replied Van Colt.
testify; II don't know anything to the
contrary; but IL cuts no figure with the
principle of the thing. It's plain case
OF putting all your eggs in one basket;
and that's never a good thing to do"
Philip wrestled a moment with new
sense of responsibility. 81 guess you're
right; though / never thought much
about it. before. It's hardly worth
while for me 10 make transfers now,
but I'd be glad If you could get mother
10 do IT," And the making OF the will
went on without further interruption.
During these days of preparation
Philip found II convenient to avoid be-
ing much alone with Helen. Since tell
ing her of his intention, he had been
beset by n fear that she suspected more
serious reason for the journey than the
one he had given her. The fear was not
wholly unfounded, for, on the following
day. Miss Morrison had gone straight
10 DIR. Perevin. Fortunately for that
gentleman's reputation as n keeper Of
family secrets, he happened 20 be en-
gaged when she called, and so had time
to reinforce his caution. Helen waited,
quaking, in the reception-room, losing
the vantage ground OF attack in the
same proportion that the physician
strengthened his defenses by delay.
When she was finally admitted. she
threw away her one chance of success
by abandoning strategy for assault.
doctor, / want you 10 tell me all
about Philips trouble" she began.
"Why are you sending him away? and
why won't he talk about what you told
him?"
The doctor was suavity and consid-
crate sympathy personifcd. "Why, my
dear young lady, one would think that
Philip had been ordered 70 Siberial Is
il so remarkable that should have sug-
gested n change OF scene and climate?"
"N-no, / suppose not; but, doctor.
please tell me why you advised him TO
go alone"
TTo BE CONTINUED
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-05
ROYAL PHRAsE-MAkINo.
Fine Speeches Made by Monarchs OF the
Past and Present.
Tro BE coNTINurD.l

Phrase-malling two or three genera
lions ago played an important part In
french politics. Louis XVI. had lit
crary prompter who used to prime him
with phrases and plan for him scenes
such as would excite the peoples admit
ration.
Your majesty will soon be going TO
the races" said this prompter one day.
"You will find a notary entering the
bets of two princes of the blood; when
you see him, sire, make the remark:
What is the use OF this man? Ought
there to be written contracts between
gentlemen? Their words should be
enough"
The scene came off-the prompter
saw TO that--and the courtiers ex-
claimed: "What happy thought
How kingly! That is his STYLE"
Another scene, more likely to impress
the populace, was planned by this
prompter. A sledging pleasure party
was arranged for the king. Just as II
was about 10 start several carts passed
by, carrying wood to the poor of Paris.
These are my sledges!" said Louis,
pointing to the loaded carts, and he de-
clined TO join the party.
Talleyrand coined for Louis XVIII.
the remark which he was reported TO
have used on the day he entered Paris
There is nothing changed; only a
Frenchman the more in Paris"
AS a matter OF fact, the king did not
trouble himself to utter the phrase;
but Talleyrand inserted IL in the jour
nails of the day that the people might
flatter themselves that their king had
forgotten the past, and consequently
there would be no change.
Perhaps the most striking phrase ut
tered by modern king was spoken by
King Humbert n few years ago, when
the cholera was raging in Naples. He
had been invited by the municipality OF
Genoa 10 a banquet, which he declined
in these words: "Men are Teasing at
Genoa; men are dying at Naples-I go
10 Naples. Youths Companion.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-05

y sRe last my uirm0ry wandcrD
70 the happy childhood days.
bringing joyous recolicctions
Or It's sports and childish ways:
But one moment seems the brighter.
Ano my memory longer stops,
AZ the time l wore 30 proudly
Boots with red morocco tops.
fieeting time I'm quick succession.
40 the years rolled swiftly by.
brought new scenes and new enjoyments,
changing as the moments fly;
hut or these my mem'ry wearies.
And their view II gladly drops.
Just 10 see those boyhood treasures
Boots with red morocco tops.
Proud walked 10 school In winter,
Drawing SHOWS and piercing cold.
Richer than the envied miser.
With his hoard OF shining gold.
And II seemed-perhaps' twas fancy
That the world I'm wonder stops
lust TO gaze but for q moment
At those red morocco tops.
How / thought was the envy
or the boys across the way.
With their boots, 80 plain and clumsy.
That they'd worn for many a day.
How felt way up and above them.
And 70 play would never STOP
Just because my boot was finished
With red morocco top.
Years may bring us many lesson. .
But We fall TO heed the best
III we think that wealth or station -
Makes us better than the rest:
And the one who, proud and naughty.
With the humble never stops
Is more foolish than the schoolboy
Proud OF boots with flaming tops.
Con X. Norton. I'm Chicago Inter Ocean.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-05
FOR SUNDAY RE&DING.
.coME UNTO ME-"

OFT when the tide OF life runs low.
And brain and soul are sick with doubt
And life seems full OF grief and woe.
And hooking devils iecr ana nout.
I turn unto my Lord IN prayer.
know His strength than mine Il best.
And lol A sweet voice thrills the air
Come unto me. ye weary laden,
And 1 win give you rest"
Sometimes the night IL very dark.
The way is rough and wounds my feet.
And life lies stretched out wan and stark.
The winds blow 1erce and falls the slaet.
fear. and fearing. fam would fall
Beneath the shadows dire Distress
But that hear my Saviour call
Come unto me. ye weary laden.
And ! VIII give you rest"
And often, when the waters roll
And surge and foam around mo here.
And threaten 90 ingulf my soul,
Roaring and rolling. swift and near.
My strongest efforts seem In vainl
How can / 'scape so hard oppressed7
And then hear that voice again
Come unto me. ye weary laden.
And / viii give you rest"
Some days my burden bears me down.
cannot see the far-on skies.
The grim, gray cross obscures the crown,
And In my heart hope faints and dies.
But leaps TO life when. sweet and low.
With love and mercy full expressed.
These words across the silence go
Come unto me. ye weary laden.
And / will give you rest"
Yea, Lord. come 20 Thee In all
The evils that afiiict my day,
And at Thy feet repentant fall
For doubts that daunt. and fears tina
STAY
Give unto me. q give me more,
The strength TO bear. the longing best.
Extend Thy shield my face before,
For / indeed am weary laden
And come to Thee for rest
Hamilton jay, In Florida Times-Union.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-05
PROF. MoRsE's "LIGHT."
Testimony OF the Inventor of the
Electric Telegraph.


Electric Telegraph.
Rev. George Winifred Hervey relates
that long ago, while pursuing iuvesti-
cations in the Astor library, New York,
he used often to meet there Prof. Sam
uel 4. b. Morse, the renowned inventor
of the electric telegraph. Once he asked
him this question: prof. Morse, when
you were making your experiments
yonder in your rooms In the universe
ty, did you ever come to a stand, not
knowing what TO do next?"
ooh. yes, moro than once"
"And at such times, what did you
do next?"
Il may answer you in confidence,
sir" said the professor, shut it Is a
matter of which the public knows moth
ing. Whenever could not see my way
clearly, prayed for more light"
"And the light generally came?"
"Yes. And may tell you that when
fattering honors came to me from
America and Europe, on account of the
invention which bears my name, never
felt that deserved them. had made
a valuable application of electricity, not
because L was superior TO other men,
but solely because Cod Who meant it
for mankind, must reveal IL to some
ore, and was pleased to reveal IL to me"
This utterance by distinguished
man OF science reminds us again, as
many similar utterances have done.
not only that true greatness has no
vanity, but that superior minds, as n
whole, reverently acknowledge the
supreme. They who climb highest see
farthest, and the light that comes from
above shines the longest way.
A pleasant proof of the felicity and
foreseeing wisdom of this eminent man
and devout inventor appeared in the
result of grand test by the Postal Tele.
graph company.
This company had a field day" n
short time ago, when the various trans
mission methods and alphabets we're
tried on all their lines. When COM
parative material costs, salary Of oper-
ators, accuracy OF work, time con-
sumed and oil other factors were taken
into consideration, the decision was
wholly In favor of the Morse system,
that has been in use more than so years.
The inventors first message: what
hath God wrought" animated in no
uncertain way the inspiration that gave
his work longevity, and made it light
TO the world
At the completion of one of the Am
herst college buildings, when President
Hitchcock first assembled his geology
class in new recitation room with sky
windows, this was his introduction TO
one Of his best lectures:
young gentlemen,- all the light we
have here comes from above"
The rcverent spirit that took that
text and that spoke in the Astor library
dignifies scientific thought, and con-
tributes 20 success in all search after
truth.-Youth's Companion.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-05
Excuses.

An excuse for sin Is n statement of
the circumstances under which man
did wrong. When we say; II could not
help IL; circumstances were too much
for me-" do our hearts believe IL to be
true? We say: "My temperament, my
inherited appetite, business cxigencies,
irresistible pressure" as though we
were compelled to do wrong. The first
man In the long line of apologize sue
cession said: 1.-THE woman tempted
me-" but did not say; "And made me
eat" Whatever he might wish implied,
he could only say; "And did eat" No
unconsenting soul can be made 60 sin,
and so sin is inexcusable. When the
thief would excuse his theft by say
ing: "a man must live" the reply was:
IT do not see Il. There Is no necessity
TO live" To die doing right Is better
than 20 live doing wrongs. s. Times.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-05
Fooled After All.

During the Peninsular war a number
OF English officers had established n
mess in Spanish village, with native
cooks whose efforts were fairly salts
factory TO the keen appetites of the
campaigners. They were joined, how
ever, by certain peevish, cantankerous
major, who bitterly complained that
every dish was favored with sugar
after the Spanish fashion-and quite
uneatablc. Finally, he confined him
self TO a diet of eggs boiled in the shell.
''They can't sugar those" he cried, tri-
umphantly. But his triumph was
short-lived. Next morning some mis-
chievous subs were at the mess-table
before the major. and emptied all of the
salt cellars, replacing their contents
with powdered sugar. The major
soon appeared, and with gloomy com
placency began upon an egg, with
which, rs usual, he took plenty OF
salt" AZ the first mouthful his face
turned purple with rage. "Sugared,
by Jove:" he exclaimed, and rushed
Oft TO his tent.--San Francisco Argo.
naut.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-05
HERE AND THERE A GEM.

1t is a great thing to die Christian
death; IL Is o greater thing to live q
Christian life.--N. Y. Observer.
Faith Is to believe what We do not
see, and the reward of this faith Is TO
see what we believe.-St. Augustine.
The greatest power know of Is not
Niagara, nor a tornado, nor an earth
quake, but the power of an endless life.
life hid in God.--J. j. Ingersoll.
Any worship that does not have
man for it's ultimate object, that does
not tend to uplift him and make him
juster, wiser, kinder, is idolatry Rev.
j. III. Palmer.
The merchant who tells his clerk to-
sell half-cotton goods for. all-wool goods
should not be surprised IL his clerks
tell him lies and steai his money.-Rev-
ID. l.. Moody.
If you trust In God and yourself.
you can surmount every obstacle. DO
not yield to restless anxiety. One must
not always be asking what may happen
toonein life, but one must advance fear
leSsly and bravely.-Prince bismarck.
"A mans positive and decided influ-
ence for good upon others seems TO be-
gin ut the point where he rises above
mediocrity, and inanifests an overpluK
of energy. Until we rise above the
standard OF Christian living that pre-
walls among men, VIC are not the wit
nesses for Christ that we ought to bu
"W'hat do we more than others? ?" Is al
ways n pertinent question. - United
PRESBYTERIAN.