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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
Boots, Shoes and Robbers.

We have everything in Footwars.-
A few of the fall and winter styles
are still here-All sizes. They will
be sold for about one half their val
ne. They are full 20 per cent. less
than n be pear Mans Gum Boots
only $4.l5; Ladies' Rubbers from
18c. to 45c. Our shoes must be re.
duced to make room for the incom-
ing spring stock. No is your time
to make Bargains in Shoes.
We will give a special dis
count of 10 per cent. on ev-
cry dollars worth Of Dry
Goods, Notions, Clothing,
Boots and Shoes, in fact on
everything but Groceries.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
Republican Standing Committee.

Adams, ". II. Herman, Jeremiah BowersoS
Beaver Jas. N. Kline. Charles Specht
Beaver W., Geo. j. Specie, Chas. A. Wagner
Centre, II. B. Wagner. X. d. Erdley
Chapman, VIM. II. kerstetter, u. =. Troutman
Franklin. ". ID. Gift II. =. Renninger
jackson, Geo. A. Brouse, j. s. YeArick
Middleburg, Al. Clclan, n. A. Bewes
Niddlecreek, $. y. Yoder. Theodore Row
Monro, A. X. Young, ID. p. Ritter
Penn, Frank Miller, Howard Row
Perry, J. y, Brosius, DR.. N. Rothrock
Perry W., Geo Strawser, John Noll
Selinsgrovc, n. \. Fisher, +. II. Smith
Spring, P.F. ReigeI. Geo. S. Lepley
Union, o. q. Rice, II. J. Stroh
Washington. Henry Brown. John Miller
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

To quit tobacco easily and forever. he mag
netic. full Of life, nerve and vigor, take MOTTO.
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 50c or si. Cure guaran.
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co Chicago or New York
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
CLOTHING.

Mems Navy Blue Beaver Overcoats
only $3.50; Mems Heavy Storm
Overcoats only $4.0O. Also Mems
and Boys Heavy suits, they must
90 at and below cost.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
OLOAKS.

Ladies' Cloaks, Capes and Wraps
must be sold at cost and below.
Don't miss the Bargains on Ladies'
and Children's Cloaks and Capes.
They must be sold as we don't carry
any over Season.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

We have Just finished taking our
Stock and find we will be needing
more room for New Spring Goods.
We prefer making Quick Step
prices to many of our winter goods
than carry them over till next sea-
son,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
In Carpets, Rugs and Oil
cloths

we hove all the newest patterns and
choice colorings. The latest de-
signs are beautiful and ut about q
quarter off from former prices.
Good Ingram Carpet, only 2hc.
Good Homemade Carpet, 25c.
"a Floor Oilcloth, 50c. per yd.
IA Table Oilcloth. 14c. per yd.
"a Table Oilcloth, 12c. per yd.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
The AiddIeburgh foSt
Published every Thursday.
Geo. W. Wagenseller,
Editor and Proprietor.
Subscription $3.50 per year.

wh III must be paid 10 advance when sent out
side the county,
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
~ transient advert:camonts not otherwise
cont acted for win be charged at the rate OF IS
cents per line tnonparie measure) for flrst inser-
lion and 10 cents per line for every subsequent
Insertion.
- Death notices published free obituary poerty,
tributes Of respect. de-. three cents a line.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For U. s. Senator,
Hon, NJ. S. Quay.
For Congress,
Hon. Trad. NJ. Mahon.
For Assembly,
DR.. A. NJ. Smith.
For Associate Judge,
Hon. Y. T. Gemberling.
For County Surveyor,
Geo. A. Botdorf, Esq.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
The EnsIey Fire.
anyhow?

The destruction, or at least paralyzation,
of the Semet-solvay bi-product plant at
Ensley, would be grave disaster to the dis
triet, If circumstances did not afford the
hope that it would be speedily reconstruct
ed. The process is not at all in a tentative
stage. Its application is as well known and
well tested as the process of the primitive
beehive ovens. 1t is known that it=both
makes more and better coke from a given
amount of slack" and furnishes a num-
Der of bi-products that are always wanted
at remunerative prices. The splendid plant
was in full operation, and everything con-
ly when the fire occurred. The only BIZ
product of the plant that was not fully util-
lied was the abundant supply of fuel gas,
but even this would have been needed
when in addition to the blast furnace there
had been added the great steel mill, and the
nearby rod and rail mills.
Let us hope all possible efforts will be
made towards the quick rebuilding of the
plant. II would seem as IL the SuperStruc-
ture of such plant should be constructed
of iron or steel. \ 1t was the destruction of
this part of the plant that has paralyzed
the whole. Much of the work must be in
tact, although the fire must have been
very hot one, and the damage must neces-
sarily have been heavy.
The plant was the pride of the whole
southern mining country, for it was a step
forward from the wasteful bee-hives that
have been employed without material
change ever since the beginning of the coke
industry There was not in the entire coun-
try more scientific factory than the one
established by the Semet-Solvay company
of Syracuse, N. Y, and burned last night.
1t must be rebuilt. The district cannot do
without 1t. 1t is needed at Ensley because
the other great mills at that point need
fuel-gas, and it is needed as an object les
son to all coke manufacturers in this dis
trict.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
Matters in the Moon.

The lurid copper-colored light of the
moon, during the eclipse of Tuesday even
ing, was due to the earths atmosphere,
which refracts the suns light passing over
1t. A citizen of the moon was treated to
total eclipse of the sun, for the earth was
between him and the sun, which shines for
both the earth and it's close-by satellite, the
moon. But the intelligent and persevering
student of the heavens, standing on the
moon, would see his big neighbor. the earth.
encircled with a halo. The individual ha-
Ices on the earth he would not be able to
see, much less to appreciate; nor is it GER
tain that lessened distance would increase
his appreciation of the American haloes, for
they chiefly encircle the noble brows of the
Hannas and Agers and Pingrees of the
period. But let that pass.
The halo of the earth that the man In
the moon would see would be the sunlight
refracted through the earth's atmosphere.
In a clear air and clear sky, like that of
Tuesday night, the man in the moon would
halo, all the while the moon was passing
through the earths big elongated shadow.
The light by which, to us, the moon shone
on Tuesday evening was a red light be-
cause the red light passes most freely
through the earth's atmosphere. A similar
effect is seen when the sun looks red at set
ting.
1t may seem strange that the moon does
not oftener pass through the earth's
shadow-in fact, that we do not have cop
per-colored eclipse every month. The
variety of the occurrence is due to the fact
that the moons orbit is inclined about five
degrees to the ecliptic or the apparent path
of the sun-the real path of the earth as
seen from the sun. This inclination causes
the moon as a rule to pass above or below
the shadow of the earth at full moon, ex-
cept at rare intervals Not more than three
eclipses of this nature can occur in the
course of a year. All the variations that
putation, and the men who are full of sky
lore can tell with exactness the times of
their coming, why they occur, and all the
facts in the case; but in this backward CEN
fury they are not able to talk the matter
over with the mar lin the moon. Next cen
fury things will, Tit is true, be different.
The man in the moon will then of course
send regular specials to the Twentieth Cen
Lunarites, and their ups and downs, ana
their Sloane sensations, and prize fights,
and other valuable and vital information.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29

From the Chicago Evening Post.
Our friend of the ghetto Isreal Zangwill.
is not permitted to escape without little
feminine criticism from his own race In
deed it seems thar Mr.. Zangwill has been
openly charged with an exhibition of ghetto
manners very painful to the higher classes
of society in which he has been recently cir
culating. We are inclined to think that
many of the monstrous things that have
been laid up against him have been greatly
exaggerated, although it has never occurred
to us that Mr.. Zangwill suggests the en-
bodiment of the graces of Chesterfield or
Sir Philip Sidney. Mr.. zangwl's position
is a rather peculiar one. He probably rec
ognies lie fact t;lar IlI.sfis Of Tic ,ed.o5 Who
are running after him are influenced
strongly by the lion-hunting sentiment, and
it is altogether likely that his early associa-
lions and tastes give him an attitude of
hostility toward the society end of his en-
tertainment in America. Undoubtedly he
is brusque and at times extensively blunt in
his speech, and it is tolerably certain that
he never neglects the opportunity to say a
smart thing" however ill-advised and I'M
diplomatic. But we should hardly take him
to be a man who would accept hospitality
and then sheer at his entertainers although
we have heard of literary men from Great
Britain who have erred to this extent Mr..
Zangwill has mission in life, which he will
in all likelihood accomplish, and this mis-
sion has little to do with feminine recep-
tons in the homes of the wealthy or with
conVocations around the Samovar. We be-
lieve that, like Hall Cain and other eminent
foreign authors, he has come to America
to sell books and make money and we
fancy that he goes into society" merely as
a part Of the business. 1t seems to us a
cold-blooded proposition on both sides. The
ladies like the excitement of entertaining a
lion, and the lion sometimes forgets him.
self and emits the roar of his Jungle. But it
all evens up at the end, and in few days
society and Zangwill will forget that the
other exists.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
Pulp and Paper.

The American newspaper publishers de-
sire to be relieved of the grievous robbery
inflicted by the Dingley bill This is nat
ural enough, but really the robbery to
which they are subjected and through
them all American readers, for the benefit
of a handful of manufacturers, is no great
er than the spoliation that the Dingey bill
has made possible in hundreds of other ar
ticles. What is wanted is an overthrow of
Dingleyism altogether, root and branch
The publishers, and through them the
zAe.eriean scheol. hoy and the American
reader of all other ages, are taxed at the
rate of Sc ton on print paper, and $1.67 on
ground wood or pulp. No one pretends that
any tax is needed on these articles, SO far
as the preservation of these industries is
concerned, for 1t is well known that both
paper and pulp can be made in this coun-
try at lower costs of production than else
where in the world. These rates were put
on to enable the paper branch of the asso-
ciated manufacturers of the countries to
ties put no considerable money in the treas
ury, but they fill the pockets of the pulp
and paper manufacturers, who are expect
ed in turn to fill sheet at least of Mr.
Mark Hannas campaign subscription lists
These mills have been formed into a
trust, in pursuance of the logical inten-
lions and designs of the Dingley bill, and
the reading public are now at its mercy.
The trust was capitalized at $1,000 600, or
three times the value of it's mills, and the
price of pulp and paper is to be put up to
earn dividends on this capitalization. Since
the formation of the trust the price of pa
per has been advanced at least IS ton,
thus levyng upon the country tax of ST.
10000 a year for the benefit of the trust
This is, of course, a tax upon intelligence,
but it is no worse, no more villanous no
more insdious, no more secret, than scores
of other taxes levied by the Dingley bill
for the benefit, first of conspiring individ-
uals, and next of the Hanna quadrennial
corruption fund 1t must all go in time, or
else the liberties of the people are not
worth contending for. Taxation is the es-
sence of government and when 1t is abused
as 1t is under the Dingley bill, there is not
much left to fight for.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
EXPLANATION OF "SIRDAR."
Items of Interest Concerning Egyptian IT.
tie Borne by Kitchener.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
In the flood of news which came in daily
over the wires recently about Fashoda there
was a constant reference, an iteration and
reiteration of one word which, while per-
sons who read might surmise it referred
probably to a title, yet had no positive
proof of exactly what it meant. That one
word was invariably affixed to Sir Herbert
k!tchener's name-the Sdar Now, what
meant this word Sidar?
A quarter of a century ago or there
abouts, at the l-me when Great Britain by
right of might and not for any other rea-
son occupied Egypt and took the Sultan 5
khedive under his tutelage, one of its first
acts was to reorganize the Egyptian army.
British officers were sent to Egypt and
placed at the head of the native troops
These officers drilled the troops, taught
them the manual of arms and gradually in
stilled in them that same esprit de corps
which makes the British army itself
such compact and formidable body. The
native troops were allowed to retain their
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29

colors, their flags and insignia and all the
paraphernalia of war distinctively the at
tribute Of uneonquered people. British
statesmen went further. They even al
lowed the same military titles to remain.
It was taetful thing to do. Britain lost
nothing thereby. and the Egyptian warriors
retained all that was sentimentally sacred
to them.
Thus, therefore, the very ancient words,
sirdar bimbashi, jougonl, etc, remained in
the army. The srdar of the Egyptian army
Is the general-in-ehief. The bimbashi Is a
sirdar, bimbashi; jougoql, ETC., remained in
orally 1t means officer, is as old an express
sion almost as the country of the pharoahs
itself In Arabic the word means head
man." There needs be little stretch of the
imagination to see how the term came to
be given to the commandant Of the Egyp-
tian forces.
sir Herbert Kitchener is the second sirdar
of Egypt the first to bear that name be-
ing Maj. Gen. Sir Fraiicis Wallace Grenfel.
Sir Herbert Kitchener Became sirdar in
49,. 1t is not a generally known fats that
he was a fellow student of the late 6-ince
Imperial at Woolwich Military academy.
Born in 1850, he was, to say, brought up in
a barracks. His father, Col. Horatio kitch-
ener, was a soldier, and the future hero of
Omdurman dreamed of soldering in earliest
boyhood. County Kerry, Ireland was his
birthplace, and on the downs near Crotta
House, his home when lad, a fine old
mansion on the road to Tralee, the battle
of Omdurman was really fought.
he thus possesses British tenacity and
Irish pugnacity. And only 4S! What great
eminence may he not then reach?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
LINCOLN COULD GET ANGRY.
As, for Example. When His kilograms Were
Delivered to stanton.
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
81 have read several Lincoln anniversary
speeches." said Mr.. Charles Frederick,
land have been struck with the statement
contained in some of them to the effect
that Mr.. Lincoln seldom got mad, and that
when he did get mad he did not allow him
self to get very mad If these speakers
spoke from their personal experience, it is
all right, but my personal experience with
him one night satisfied me he could get up
terribly good-sized case of mad at times.
II was boy at the time and was mes
senger for the old American Telegraph
ed by the present Western Union Tele-
graph. For several days there had been a
number of kilograms for the president from
army officers, and among them I remem-
Der two or three from Gen. Mcclellan
don't remember now why they did not come
over the military telegraph lines. Well,
one night 1 started over to the white house
with telegram that 1 knew came from
Gen. Mcclellan. 1t was for the president.
In those days there was always a guard
of soldiers stationed at the two avenue
gates, but messenger boys were generally
well known, and they were admitted day
or night without any question, at least to
the front door, where another soldier was
stationed. There was always an officer
about the door, who receipted for tele-
grams. This night, however, 1 saw Mr.
Lincoln coming toward the outer gate, and
L thought would personally hand him the
telegram, which l did. He smiled pleas
antiy enough as he opened it, but a change
suddenly came over him.
!" Have you the other telegrams? he
demanded of me. l replied that [ had but
the one, though 1 informed him that
knew that there had been one or two 9TH
ers that day rom Gen. Mcclellan.
!" That is what he says, added the pres
ident, and what annoys me is that L have
not received them.
Then, turning to the sentry he said
Send up to the door for the the officer in
charge and tell him that when kilograms
come here addressed to me they should and
must be delivered to me. Tell him also, >
and by this time the president was very
mad, that If he sends any more of my
kilograms over to Mr.. Stanton's house Til
drive him away from here. Mr.. Stanton
has enough kilograms of his own and
should not have mine
Though I was but a boy" said Mr..
Frederick, 81 could see that Mr.. Lincoln
was mad all the way through, and that, for
the moment at least, he was displeased
with his war minister Secretary Stanton,
and that he intended exactly what he said
The president. then directing himself to me,
continued: Boy, tell your folks that
must have my kilograms, and that if these
soldiers about the door interfere any more
I'll drive every one of them away I don't
want them and never did want them about
the place."
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
Some More Boston Sentiment.

Just>Why Ex-Governor George s. Boutwell,
wave down living issues is wholly and ut
terly unexplainable. To the present gen.
Grafton he was as dead as Julius Caesar
until he suddenly appeared at the ladies'
night of the Congressional club of Boston.
"A congressional club in Boston is also I'M
explainable and so for that matter is O
ladies night of a congressional club; for
the fair sex has not been. congressionally
recognized. But the wires assure us that
there is a congressional club In Boston,
which sets apart night to the ladies, and
his cerements, or rather in his mid-century
evening clothes.
He very properly talked mid-century nom
sense. After we had fought out an expen-
sive and historic war, he practically told
his hearers-from the tomb, too, perhaps
that we should not ratify treaty of peace,
because in that way we would gather in
some territory that Russia would terrorize;
and he proceeded then to urge this country
to form an alliance with England for the
purpose of meeting Russia in battle.
All this Is moonshine-New England
moonshine of the sllllest Sort If Russia is
10 overrun the world, the world is not worth
much, anyway. But when the ancient
alarmst of Massachusetts tells us that We
should not ratify a peace treaty because
Russia will gobble us up If we do, he
transforms Russia into a sea power several
generations ahead of her time at least. Rus
STA has a respectable navy in size, but IL
Russia can fight modern ships to good adj
vantage she will simply astonish the world.
no one but Governor Boutwell, believes that
bureaucracy founded on a mass that can
not read and write can fight modern ships
well. They may stand like a stone wall in
battle, but they cannot serve acceptably as
men behind the guns. At least they never
have.
He condemns the president for desiring
q ratification of the Paris treaty, with a
view to careful study of the Philippine
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
AGE LIMITS

From the New York World.
Mr.. Justice Pryor retired from the bench
on Saturday because his age has reached
the limit prescribed by law. Admiral Bunce
is retiring from the navy for the same
reason.
Yet both men are in the full vigor of body
and mind.
Justice Pryor is seventy years of age.
John Marshall at eighty was still the great
est chief justice that the United States ever
had.
Admiral Bunce is sixty-two Farragut
was more than year older when he fought
the battle of Mobile bay and two years
older VIXEN he entered Richmond in adj
vance of the president. At sixty-nine.
when he died, he was in active command
of the navy as the first full admiral
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
THE SCHOOL BILLS
From the Fayette Sentinel.

From the Fayette Sentinel
The legislature adjourned on the 10th in
slant, and is to reconvene after the holt
days, on January "a. There is a bill pend
ing before that body that ought to engage
forcibly the attention of all our good peo-
pie. The bill referred to provides for an in
crease of the public school fund looking to
a continuance of the free public school for
at least six months of every year. Nothing
can be more important than this measure.
Our peple are requested to circulate petit
tons memorializ!ng the legislature to pass
the law, and these petitions ought to clrcu-
late in every beat in all the counties in
the state, and to be forwarded to the rep
resentatives, when they reassemble at the
capitol. Who will be the first to agitate
the matter in Fayette county?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
LOOKING WELL ON LITTLE

London Letter to the Chicago Herald.
The stranger in London cannot readily
get over the idea that man who wears
frock coat and silk hat is necessarily a
person of some Importance. In America
when we see man in a prince Albert"
and plug" hat we can guess that he is
a preacher, a professor, a chropodist or a
tragedian. In London the formal makeup
has no significance whatever. All kinds Of
men, ranking anywhere above ''lower
Glass;" have their frock coats and tall hats.
tailor-made frock coat is not a luxury in
London.
Take it in the United States, and man
who wishes to attire himself In the ex-
IRENE of what the British call Afternoon
wear" must be willing to spend money.
Compare the prices of a Sunday outfit:
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
Firm the New York Press.
Truth will silrnrisn Il mnnnor, taI

Firm the New York Press.
Truth will surprise If women tell it,
A woman's logic is far above a mans
morals.
The longest way home is the shortest way
to trouble.
The lower a gown is cut the more it con-
ceals the real charms of womanhood.
A woman who will play with deadly fire
every chance she gets will not cross a cable
track when the nearest car is three blocks
away.
No amount of soft music and dim lights
can make amends for woman's failure to
have her eyes fill with sadness when she
thinks how happy you might have been.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
HolIeben Calls on Hay

Washington, December 2S-Dr. Won HOLE
ben the German ambassador has lost no
time in calling upon the officials at the
state department presumably in conformity
with his instructions relative to reciprocity
arrangements. The officials decline to dis
cuss the ambassadors visit, but it is
known that he brought assurances al
variance with some of the newspaper state
ments touching the relations of the German
government towards the United States
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-29
NOTHING FOR SAMPSON

From the Springfield Republican
Hobson gets the kisses and Schley the
swords. A fine Damascus blade. with scab-
bard and belt, costing $4,000, was given to
the admiral in Philadelphia the other day.
The collection must now be a large one
There's Sampson! He gets neither swords
nor kisses. Yet he bossed the job.