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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-17
SPECIAL NOTICES.

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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-17

Trains leave Selinsgrove Junction
10 90 IN, week days arriving Mt Fhil ,delphia
3 90 pm New York . 80 p IN Baltimore II u m
Washington 10 pm
534 p m daily arriving AZ Philadelphia
10 20 p IN New York 3 SO a m. Baltimore o - p m
$ Il p IN. week days arriving At Philadelphia
4 80 a IN New York 80 am
Trans also leave Sunbury:
30 m daily arriving at Philadeldhia 8 SO a m
Baltimore ~ q IN Washington : 10 am New
York 9 % m Weekdays, 10 - a IN sundays,
81 J. ~, week DAYS arriving at Philadelphia
2S pm New YORK 30 p IN, Baltimore % p IN
Washington Tl5pm
Tratn- also leave Sunhury ut 80 n III and y
ana 30 IL, for Harrisburg, Philadelphia aud
Baltimore
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PILES PERMANENTLY CURED.

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Money refunded il permanent cure
is not obtained in the most seve,
cases in less than days time. After
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any address, on receipt ofprice. Ad-
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Other complications
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wANTED-Trustw orthy and Active gentle
w men or ladies TO travel for responsible, es-
tablished house in Snyder County. Monthly
ence. Enclose self-addresscd stamped enve-
lope. The Dominion Company, Dept Y,
Chicago, Illinois. !LlG-let
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-17

pVprlcCtinn pnrtu Recipe TO make Fence
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WANTED-BRAINS

essa r or handsome vovs of rrtc tudiarr, u.atues
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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-17

Report Receipts and Expenditures Of Snyder County
the year ending Dec. 81, 1897.
STATEMENT showing
allowed and outstanding, for the 1897.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-17

UW EADACHES are the bane Of womans
"a life. Frequently relieved but seldom
permanently cured the ultimate re-
suit is continual misery. Miss Maggie Han
nah, 52l Chestnut St, Danv!lle, ILL.,, says in
June 1896: 81 cannot add TO my testimony OF
last year except that am well and strong.
Two years ago had such pain in my head
that ate nothing, was desperately nervous
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TO Cure CcI Horeves. \
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Train leaves Sunbury % D m, ar
rives at SeEnsgrove 5 As p IN
Trains leAve Lewistown JnnctiOn

tsam, 10 13 m, 1897 ms q y mr. o. IL IS p m
Altoona, Pttsburg and the West.
For Baltimore and Washington . 35 n m o..
S3 IS. OF m For Philadelphia and New
York 33 35 IN, ! O2 ! SO 4 % and II 10 p IN For
Harrisburg OJ IN and 70 pm
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-17

N,,sckc we wan! one snrewd. careful
HulSNs man in each town 20 make
5000 per year quietly for himself and
not work hard. Private instructions and out.
fit of new goCds % cents. GREAT NoRTHTRS
SPECIALITY Co, 57I3 Union Ave. Chicago.
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25 a m for Catawissa and Hazelton
25 a M @ rs II m . 90 and asp IN for W likes
barre and Hazclton
co M, 10 2Oam, o5 p m, i5 p m for Shame
kin and Mount Carmel
Sunday 55 u IN iOr Wilkesbarrc
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Philadelphia & Erie R r Division
AND

NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY
-rains leave Suubury daily except sunday:
: "a m for Erie and Canandaigua
3 IL IN for Belleionte Erie and Canandaigua
Q - a IN for Lock Haven, Tyrone and the West
/ 10 p m for Bclleionte Kane S Canabdaigun
b "a p IN for Remove and Elmira
y % p IN Tor ICck Haven
Sunday l3 a m for Eric and Cnnandaigua
Q IS q IN for Lock Haven ani 925 pm for WI
Transport
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-17

FUR unnt tolaw, We. the Undersigned Com
missioncrs of Snyder County, Pa, publish the
foregoing statement Of Receipts and Expendi.
lures OF said county for the year 1897, and also
present heIewith stal ement OF the liabilities
ana assets OF the said county on the 3lst day OF
December, A. d., 1897,
Witness our hand aud seal OF said Office, the
Sth oay OF January, A. D. 1893.
WILLIAM DREEsE,
ISAAC SPOTS,
PuAREs HERMAN,
County Commissioners
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-17
HUMPHREYS

Sold by druggists. or sent prepaid upon receipt
Of price, . cents each. Humphreys Medicine
CO., III william St., New York.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29

Juana between troops from Santiago de
las Vegas and insurgents. Eight of the
insurgents are reported to have been cap
tured.
The Norwegian steamers Aladdin and
Bergen arrived at Sagua on Aug. 13. Many
persons We're awaiting the Bergen to leave
the island.
4 steady increase is noticeable in the
quantity of food distributed by the free
kitchens in this city.
On July "a about $500 rations were sup
pied 20 the poor; on the 25th, about 5000
rations; on the 26th, about 5000; onl the
9th, about 11,000; on the 2sth, 1900; on
Aug. g. 14700, and on Aug. 10, $4,000
On the last mentioned date it was no.
ticed by the committee in charge of the
kitchens that a great many boys and girls
We're sent by their parents 10 receive the
provisions distributed. A large number of
these children, upon being questioned by
members of the committee as to whether
or not they attended school, replied in the
negative. The committee then sent to the
civil governor a written request that he
give the matter his attention and furnish
him with a list of ITO names of children
who had acknowledged their non-attend-
ance at school,
A number of the residents of the village
of Regla have made complaints that while
sufficient wheat flour was distributed re-
Gently among the Havana bakers to sup
ply the suffering Havanese with bread for
two days, Reg,a'9 bakers We're unable to
obtain the smallest quantity of the flour
and the people were, consequently, with
out bread.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29

ate). CochIn-China and Tonquin. In the
latter are 100000 people, and in French
Congo more than half that number. AL
geria has population of 100000 and
Madagascar $4,000. The African and
Aslatlc possessions of France are the larg-
est ana most troube some, and would fully
warrant the home government in keeping
a large standing army II the German
frontier were thousands of miles away.
Among the French-American possessions
England now rules Canada. where
france was once supreme-are CAYENNE
(where the pepper comes FROM. Guada-
loupe' Martinique and ST. Pierre and Mi
quelon islands.
Germany's colonies as compared with
those Of England are somewhat insignifi-
cant They cover about 10000 square
mics, most of the territory being In At
rica, and not being mentioned often IN the
dispatches. In the Cameroons are 4.5Oo, 900
people ruled by the young war lord and
ln German East Africa are 4OO0 Gao more
In the Pacific Germany holds the Ris-
marek and Marshall archipelago. Kaiser
Nhhelm.s Land ana the solomon Islands
SPAN mas more colonies now than she
win nave in few weeks. The most val
uaDe of the islands over which once foot
eu me RED and yellow stripes are the Phil
iPplhes' cuba and Porto Rico. The last
named viii belong to the United States.
Cupa will be free if il behaves
NseH' and the Philippines may
so with Porto Rico They arc
isiands Of richest production, and they
h"id 100000 people. Little Porto Rico
mas only $3.50 square miles and less than
I'oVoVVo people, but they all want to come
ana WIN come under the protection of
Uncle sam. Spain's other colonial nos
sessions are the Caroline. Palaos Sulu ana
Marianne Islands in the Asiatic. and Uni
fernando Po, Elobey, Anabon. Carisco
ana canary Islands and the Sahara coast
hollands best colonial possession is
Java, that land of earthquakes and cot
lee, where live 25010 600 such simple peo-
PIE as We're seen on the Midway during
the World Fair. Besides Java, the
putch rule over part of Borneo and New
Huhea, the Mouccas, Sumatra and other
islands in the Asiatic Archipelago. and st.
Martin, Curacao and half a dozen others
IN the West Indian group. Little Den
marx claims Greenland where the lev
mountains grow; Iceland and st. John and
ST Thomas Islands, in the West Indian
ocean. Portugal holds the Cape Verde ISL
ahds, off West Africa, where Cervera's
fleet loitercd a few weeks before sailing
over the Atlantic to destruction, and a few
minor islands in African and Asiastic wat
@rs. Itaiys colonial possessions are in
significant. and so are Russas siberia
being province in the Russian stated
The Bey of Tripoli renders homage to
the Sultan of Turkey, who also exercises
his power in Egypt, though EGYPT is
nominally an Independent state, even il
1t is occupied by British troops
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
Ex-Gov. MATTHEW'S DEAD.
He Dies at Wingate Surrounded by
His Family.


Wingate, Ind, Aug. 2s.-At 500 O'Clock
this morning, at the quiet Meharry home
stead, where he was taken Immediately
after his sudden affection, ex-Gov. Claude
Matthews passed away peacefully. sur
rounded by his wife and all the other
members of his immediate family.
There was prayer service. accompanied
by the singing of hymns, at the bedside
of the dying Ex-Governor
About o'clock the minister In the
course OF the services asked the dying
man if he believed In Jesus The an
swer. as plainly as anyone could articu-
late 1t, Yes" was the only word he
spoke after he was stricken.
The remains will be inferred in the
family plot in the cemetery near Clinton
on Wednesday.
Gov. Mount and his staff Will attend.
The Ex-Governor was born in Kentucky
in 1915, but left there in 1865 and settled
in Nermilliou county, Indiana. He was
elected Governor in 1892 In 1896 his
friends resolved to make him a con-
spicuous candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination. The state con-
Vention was enthusiastically an favor Of
his nomination by the national Democrat
ic convention, which met in Chicago in
July, 1896.
Mr.. Matthews ndorsed the action of the
Democracy in that convention and con-
Quoted brilliant canvass for Bryan and
Sewal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
GOV. BLACK TO INVESTIGATE.
He Goes to Camp Thomas to Look AZ
ter New York Volunteers.

Washington Aug. 2S.-Gov. Frank S.
Black of New York, after two days
spent in Washington, left at 104O tonight
for Chickamauga Park, to make an inves-
tigation of the condition of the New York
troops at Camp Thomas
Before leaving he secured the issuance
of an order for the mastering out of the
Sixty-fifth New York Volunteers, now
at Camp Alger. The regiment will pro-
coed probably tomorrow to Buffalo, its
home city, and upon arrival there the Off
GERS will be granted leaves of absence, and
the men furloughs for thirty days, at the
expiration of which they win be muster
ed out of the service Of the United States.
Gov. Black, accompanied by Representa-
tive Alexander of Buffalo, and State Sen
ator Persons, visited Camp Alger to-day.
Regarding the camp the Governor said
',rhe condition of Camp Anger Is not so
bad by a good deal as / had been led to
believe The water Is poor and the supply
inadequate, but otherwise the troops are
getting along reasonably well"
The Governor said it had been decided
definitely to establish a government hospi-
tar for sick soldiers on Fire Island. 1t will
be a hospital for general use and not par
ticularIy for the New York sick.
Gov Black wiz make pretty thorough
investigation of Camp Thomas, where the
Eighth, Ninth and Fourteenth New York
are located.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
ALL BUSINESS HOUSES CLOSED.
CIeveIanders Unable to Purchase
Necessities Yesterday.

CASNGAdHUeEs OHaDAe TO HuTcnuSe
Necessities Yesterday.
Cleveland, o., Aug. 2S.-Cleveland had a
spasm of a very peculiar kind of moral
ity to-day. Nearly every cigar store,
newsstand and candy store was closed,
most of the druggists sold nothing but
medicines on prescription and restaurant
keepers refused to sell cigars.
Yet the saloons, as usual, with little
pretense of keeping closed, did a rushing
business through side doors and behind
screens.
The cause is the resentment of a few
merchant tailors and clothiers, whose
clerks a short time ago induced the Re
tail Salesmen's Union to cause the arrest
of those clothiers who kept their stores
open on Sunday mornings, thereby de-
priving their employees of part of their
weekly day of rest.
This movement spread to the butchers
and the grocers and the aggrieved cloth
ing dealers, not more than a dozen in
number decided to make the Sunday la
Dor law obnoxiods by compelling its rigid
enforcement upon everybody.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
AFTER A NEGRO MURDERER.
A Mob of 300 Men at Gadsden Only
Needing "a Leader.

Needing "a Leader.
Gadsden, Ala, Aug 2S.-The white man,
Morgan, who was shot by the negro,
Lawrence, yesterday, died this morning.
By IL o'clock Morgans friends began ar
irving, and organized to lynch Lawrence.
Sheriff Lister apprehended trouble, and
raised posse of deputies and dispersed
the mob, but by 4 o'clock they had reas-
sembled, and the 300 men only wanted a
leader
Judges Bilbroque and Disque were sum
moned, and after a consultation ordered
the negro taken to Birmingham for safe
keeping.
One company of the state militia sta
toned here was called out and stood
guard around the jail while the sheriff
slipped out at the rear door with his pris-
oner He was taken to Fort Payne, where
the party will board the train for Birm-
ingham.
Late tonight it IS reported here that
the mob has thoroughly organized in the
country, and will hold up the train at
SteePs station and take the prisoner from
the sheriff.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
SLEEPING ON THE GROUND.
Three Hundred Patients at Camp
WiIxOff without Beds.

New York, Aug. 2S.-This morning when
the account vas made up the hospital list
at the general hospital at Camp Wikof
numbered 1880. Three hundred patients
are still sleeping on the ground.
At the detention hospital there are SIS
patients. This hospital is now in pretty
good condition. Fifty nurses were added
10 the force here to-day.
The dead in the detention hospital this
morning were: Leo Woodhall, of Troop f,
Third Cavalry, and a soldier whose name
and regiment are unknown, who died of
malarial fever.
one hundred and twenty-seven men
were furloughed from the detention hos
pital to-day
Calculations made by the hospital Of
ficers to-day show that they have 5000 at
their disposal under the now famous order
ITO. This will be used freely by them in
bettering the condition OF the remaining
and incoming patients.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
CHAINED LIBRARIES.
Methods of Keeping Books In the
Middle Ages.
From the sclentinc Amoroan.

"'""ie Ages
from the Scientific American.
In a paper on the Libraries of the
Middle Ares - rocan+I,, ROOD t, M, - =,
"''he0" peloIS the hoyaI INSTITUTE OF
British Architects, the lecturer said that
buildings specially to hold their libraries
vere first orec,..1 h,- az, ,,,t,,,,.i,i,,.. o,1
Ooi''ses' Inc oiuest structure OF the kahu
in England. perhaps In Europe, is the old
library of The Irniversitv Of Ovford which
stm ra,ot,,, 800. e,,.,,..- = a..
e.l'i9 many ied'uIes Oh us otsiia'
'oi"n inns structure, rarely seen by visit
ors, and even unknown to the ma jorty of
Oxford men, is n two STORED building
si4,,t4 - A. ,
~ va ''.N VI WV N'iO'i "
81 Mary $ church. adjoining The tower at
one end, and separated from the body of
the church by a narrow court ward, Hay
ing glanced at the way books were kept
used and lent at oxford prior 90 the cree
ton of tins building, the lecturer gave a
sketch of its foundation by Gotham
Bishop of Worcester, about 1920, and some
Incidents in it's early history, following
with a description OF the interior furni-
lure and general arrangements Long
desks were placed az regular intervals at
right angles to the walls on which the
volumes lay on their sides. bench was
fixed In front of the reader and a
window came between each pair of desks
to light that pew or cell Every volume
had metal clip riveted TO the front edge
of the board forming one cover, 70 which
was attached light iron chain of the
requisite length, having at the other end
a ring This ring ran upon an iron rod
which was carried along the ton of the
desk. and was secured at the end by a
haps and a paddock 10 prevent the ring
being drawn off. The foundation of Bishop
Cobhams library was succeeded shortly
afterward by that of the library of Dur
ham College, oxford, by Richard de Bury,
Bishop of Durham Q35-45). The books be-
queathed by De Bury 10 the college were
kent for many years in chests. under the
custody of scholars deputed for the pur-
pose.
At the beginning of the fifteenth centu,v
a library was built and regularly fur
uished with bookcases or settles incvosine
news or studies between them where tbe
hooks were chained When Durham COL
lege came 10 an end AZ the Dissolution its
old buildings were utilized Inv is successor
the present Trinity. and the old library
of Durham College sim serves aa the IL
brarv of Trinity College yVillian, If yVvlxe
hams New College az oxford set the
fashion for All f,tt3Ire calleoIata buildings
at either university In provlsion being
made for every denartnant and thence.
forward every collage had its libray,y * a nc
essential mari Of its man Tbongb hook
were few. the rooms davotad 10 them mad
to he very large The cbaining of the hooks
10 tha desls u1a1sine n nossib,a ~ have
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
GUNBoAT ZAFIR SINKS.
A Serious Loss 40 The AngIO-Egxp-
tiRn Exposition.

London, Aug. 2s.--A dispatch from
Camp Hegair, opposite the island of Gebel
Rayan, says the Anglo Egyptian expedi-
ton has suffered a rather serious loss
by the sinking of the gunboat Zafir. The
boat sprang a leak when near Shendy
and within a few minutes went down. All
on board were saved.
From Royan Hill here Omdurman is
just visible. A nephew of Gen. Gordon
first described it by q splash of VIII on
the horizon reflected from the Mahdis
tomb.
Small bands of dervishes continually re-
tire before our patrols. Yesterday morn
ing the sky line was illuminated by signal
fires.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
CONFERENCES or zIONIsTs.

DR.. Theodore HerRI and DIR. Max
Nosdau Prominent at It's Opening.
Basic, Switzerland, Aug. 2S.-The Zion
list conference was opened here to-day. Dr.
Theodore Heral, the originator, Of the pro-
iect TO purchase Palestine and resettle
the Jews there, presided and welcomed the
delegates.
Or. Max Nordau made an address on the
situation of the Jews during the past year
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29

DIR. Gatin. who has added a formid-
able weapon 20 military equipment, has
Invented a new gun Of large size. and a
specimen has been made "a the Otis steel
works In Cleveland. which has been sent
10 washington, ana win be- tested as soon
as Gen. Miiea returns from has campaign
la Porto Rico
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
FoRTY-FIvE HAD GOLD DUST.
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Pas
sengers From st MichaeIs.

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 2S.-The steamer
South Portland arrived here to-day, twelve
days from ST. Mlchaels, with 125 passen-
gers. OF these only forty-hve had gold
dust. The total amount of gold is esti-
mated by the purser at $4,000.
Mai. X A. Walsh, formerly commits
sioner of the Yukon, arrived here to-day
from Skaguay en- route to Ottawa.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
BATH OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS.
Nature Supplies soap and scrubbing
Brushes-The Use of Coconnut Oil.


Brushes-The Use of Cocoanut Oil.
From the New York Sun.
When American civilization takes hold
of the new task which conquest has set
before it in the Pacific, 1t win not have to
bother about the virtue which comes next
to goodness. If the Pacific islanders are
not clean 1t is not for lack of bathing fire.
quently. This holds true all the way from
Hawaii westward to the Philippines The
people make practice of bathing at least
once a day, giving themselves a scrub
bling as efficient as The means at hand al
low, and often they have several baths
daily
In some Of the smaller islets of the
Carolines there Is no fresh water, and
they drink the brackish percolation of sea
water in pits dug above high water mark
on the beaches; even where this Is the
case the percoiated water is used for
bathing. Nowhere do the people look
upon a dip In the ever present sea as a
bath; In fact, 1t is held TO necessitate an
immediate bath in fresh water to wash off
the salt. Among most Of the Polynesians
it is a great insult to say that a man
shows marks of the sea water on his
body.
When the supply of water Is sufficient,
and there Is no lack except on the sand
slets under the equator, every island viii
lage is built with reference to convenient
access to "a river, or at least, large pool,
whether natural or made by damming
some water course. Here the community
bathes in common. Island soap grows
conveniently on the trees which screen
the pool. Thi0 is a large, green orange
too bitter to be used for food When
rubbed over the wet skin the pulp pro-
duces a thin and stringy lather, for the
juices Of the fruit combine with the CO.
coanut oil, which Is abundant on every
island skin, to form q true SOAP For
scrubbing brushes nature has been equal
ly thoughtful. A segment is stripped from
the husk of a cocoanut, and the fibers
thus exposed are an effective substitute
for bristles set In "A handle. With such
soap and brush the Islander gives him
self a thorough scrubbing and then sits
In a current Of wind to dry As soon as
the skin is reasonably dry a coating Of
cocoanut oil is rubbed briskiy into the
body and the bath Is finished by tying
about the waist the strip of native cloth
or gaudy foreign prints which are the
common wear.
This universal use of oil may not seem
clearly to foreign senses, but the island
ers practice it everywhere and. apparent
ly with benefit TO health. One benefit Il
certainly does have-it keeps Off the mos
quitoes. Island life, accordingly, is based
on the odor Of cocoanut Oil an odor that
Is seldom agreeable when the OH is fresh
and good. and may become nauseating
when the oil Is rancid as often happens.
IL Is due to this excessive use of oil that
the Islanders, despite all their bathing,
never really seem to be clean