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

An exchange prints n pretty and pa
thetic story said to have been related
by Prof. Galaudet, the well.known in-
structor of deaf mutes. The professor
has favorite pupil-a little deaf mute
boy. exceptionally bright. Mr.. Gal
laudet asked him il he knew the story
OF George Washington and the cherry
tree. With his nimble fingers the little
one said he did. and proceeded to re-
peat it. The noiseless gestulations con-
t,nued until the boy had informed the
professor of the elder Washington's dis
,covery Of the mutilated tree and Of his
quest for the mutilator, "WSen
Georges father asked him who hacked
his favorite cherry tree" signalled the
voiceless child, George put his Ratchet
in his left hand" "Stop," interrupted
the professor. "Where do you get your
authority for saying he took the hatches
In hts left hands" 'Why," responded
the boy, "he needed his right hand TO
tell his father that he cut the tree
Youths Companion.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

Years ago, when one OF the now
bursted Wichita banks was running. its
officials cause a certain money borrow
er TO insure his life and transfer the
policy to the bank as security. Year
after year the bank paid the premium
and kept the policy alive. The other
day the mau died and the receiver of the
bankrupt institution collected $500
from the insurance. 1t turned out TO
be the best investment the bank had
ever made.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

Oh. weary housewife. struggling Q,

Oh. weary housewife. struggling On,
Beneath q weight Of toll and care.
With aching feet. and anxious brow.
Thy burden seems so hard to bear.
Tired OF the oft-recurring task.
And never-ceasing daily round.
nost sometimes wonder II sweet rest
On hither side the grave were founds =.
Have heart Of patience. weary one,
Lest thou may'st pass beneath the rod. "
And all the loved thou laborest for,
Like mine. beneath the silent sod.
Shall sleep In Gods Green Acre; where
Nor loving words. nor bitter tears.
May call them to thy side again.
Through the long vista Of the years.
For II I might resume my load
(And ah! It seemed SO heavy them
How eagerly I'd lift 1t up.
And now. content, go on again.
What though with busy hand and brain.
And weary. aching feet the while.
Methinks could toll on and on,
With joyous heart and CHEEKY smile.
Yea. have leisure now. for now
Is the last loving service done.
But ah. my heart! a weary round
I still pursue from sun to sun.
My soul grieves for the loved and lost
That dwell upon the spirit shore;
My cup of Joy thrust aside.
And l shall quaff its sweets no more.
Deem not thy life Ill spent: for God
Counts homely task and trifiing deed,
II they be done for love OF Him:
And surely thou'lt receive the need
or praise and righteous just reward.
When He shall say to thee: well done.
Come dwell with me forevermors;
ha hA, fSrU f,,l
Then bravely lift thy dropping head,
And show the world n smiling face:
And thou shalt conquer all; for God
To those who ask Him giveth grace.
And IL thou make happy home.
Where sweet content shall reign supreme
Thy work shall more enduring be
Than sculptors SKILL or poets dream.
-Ingar Ingram. In Housekeeper.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
uuaA a.ein' n. Az n tumbled to The

smaA a'gin' II. Az II tumbled to the
foor with q clatter. Cap'n Jenkins
sorte riz up In tn air an brung his
left lsh like a streak of lightnin' a'gin'
the flint Of Baldy's chin. The big feller
jes, Elapsed. His whole body stiffened.
He Igripped the floor a second or two
with his heels an then he went smash.
full, length onto his back. with n jar
thet shook the buildin'. 'Twuz full five
mirits by the watch afore he moved
muscle.
Es soon's Badly cd stan up an take
a glass Of whisky he went out of the
back door an Cap'n jenkins went out
Of the front door. We all knowed tibet
the mex thing to come long w'd be
leetle gun play, an whilst the two
principals wuz gone fer their tools we
all took drink-an' three or four as
wuk sensitive to the sight of gore
slipped out an spread the news Of what
wu3 a-comin'.
That wuz how C1'b Perkins happened
Z pear on the scene. Havin' come TO
town artef dark he wuz eatin' his sup
per at the Transcontinental when he
heered the news, an he rushed over
10 Morey's thinkin' he might swipe a
sketch off'n tn incident. You cd hev
knocked us fellers down with feather
when he sprung inter the room. like
he wuz shot out ora gun, an looked
'roun' sorter dazed by the lights an
the queer look on our faces. Skeered a
little. too, ! reckon, for his voice sorter
trembled as he sed: Gentlemen, will
you hev a drink with me?"
Perkins poured out bout a finger Of
whisky in u glass an wuz jest a-raisin'
1t TO his lips when the back door flung
open-t'ords which Perkins back wuz
turned-an' big gun come in, follered
by Badly Powers. 'Thout waitin' a
second he pulled the trigger. aimin'
right at the center Of that velvet coat
the back Of 1t. But Tony Moore. the
barkeep. wuz too quick for him all
the same. He knocked the muzzle Of
the gun. down with an empty bottle,
an the bullet nipped the heel off Of
Perkins boot. an the blood ran out
onto the floor. OF course Perkins wuz
s'prizcd. He catched up the heel in
his haH's an stood an hollered. Jest
then the sheriff, who'd been a-waitin'
outside till urter the shootin', Z arrest
the survivor. If any, came in an rabbcd
Baldy.h
Cap'n Jenkins wuz the ca'mest man
Of the lot in the confusion thet follcred.
Sech shout as went up when he
| 'peared on the scene. lie he'd six
shooter in each ham when he stepped
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

y chopper OF wood iu Milo, Me-, was
found at work recently with L huge
cowbell attached to his back in such
manner that every motion Of his body
caused a clangor likely to drive away
umid wildcats and shatter the stiffness
Of the forest. When asked why he per-
sisted in creating such a disturbance.
he remarked: NO fool shoots me for
deer" They must have some more
green hunters up in Maine.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

Gov. Bushnell. of Ohio, gave a pardon
to Ralph Wiutersgill, life prisoner, on
Christmas day, which was promptly re-
fused. Wiutersgill is now 20 years old
aud has served 20 years. In declining
the pardon he said the state had I'M
fitted him for life and that he did not
care to go lack in his old age to L world
that had forgotten him and preferred
that the state should continue TO care
for him 10 the end.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

inter the front door, but he dropped
one inter each pocket Of his velvet
coat an stood smilin', first at C'I'b Per-
kins, artist, still a-howlin' with pain,
an then at Baldy Powers, who wuz a.
sulhin' in the grasp of the law. Then he
shed his sombrero, an made bow all
'roun', an sed, in that soft an courtly
voice of his, an alters the happy thing
at the right time:
Tony, set out the Bourbon, an ev'ry-
body take drink with me-
Mex dhy the sheriff tried to git some
body to swear out n c'mplaint ag'iu'
Baldy. But the cap'n sed he wuz sat-
isfied an hadn't no c'mplaint to make.
Badly he'd insulted him an he he'd licked
him good-thatwuz all right. An Per-
kins' sore heefdidn't hurt him none
no fault at all TO find with that. He
b'lieved in brethren a-dwellin' together
in unity, an in peace an hormony an
goodwill. He wuz willin' 10 fergive
Baldy Powers fer bein' licked. an
didn't want to see him sent up 10 the
county Jail. No. he want afeard thet
Baldy d tackle him ag'in. Some friend
of Baldy's guv Perkins new Si2 pair
of boots an persuaded him tibet leetle
thiunin' Of his blood wuz good fer his
health in sech dry climate. So he
w'dn't make no complaint. an Bowers
wuz turned loose. But he left town
same day an we never see him ag'iu.-
San Francisco Argouaut.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
Needs of Cooperation.

The meek, you know, are to inherit
the EARTH"
That's all right, but they will have
10 get the cheeky to collect it for them"
Chicago Record.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

Was he secretary or treasurer Of the
company"
We'll. they supposed be was only sec
retary until after he had gone."-Chi-
capo Journal.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
Lost Forever.

"You say you lost son last year.
What did he die off"
"Oh, he isn't dead. lie married a
hawk-blled widow who runs select
boarding house and has never been no.
ticed since."-N. Y. Journal.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
Left in Bad shane,

81 see your son has turned out an art
Ist. Mr.. Gibbs. How did that happen?"
Il dunno, sor. his mother thinks he
was left that way by the measles."-N.
I. Truth
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
Ut,l,,aas, N,ssa.a.. Fewer.

The Hrst uss Of Niag~ras power was
made In l79s. . primitive sawmill being
operated. Nothing moro was done until
is4a. when Auguatus Porter conceived
the plan 0f AyasNulio canalA and in
1891 one ot them was completed. !.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
Practical Picty.

What is a devotional attitude, grand
pap"
Getting down into your trousers
| pockets for a dollar 10 send to the
heatheu "-Brooklyn Life.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

Gobang-What sort of trip did you
have coming from Europe?
Ukerdek-Awful. Sick all the time.
There must have been at least dozen
Of the fools who rock boat or board.
Town Topics.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10

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

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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
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The age-herald., 1898-11-19

ters the people as whole are safer guard ians of public affairs than any body of se- iected men can be. There is less selfshness, less scheming, in the great body of the peo- pie than there Is in small lot of men gath cred from one station in life. In Alabama better judges and sheriffs are selected by the people than any legislature would se- lect And yet the Mercury insists that the people are incapable of selecting their own lawyers. The proposition is too ridiculous for debate.
 The matter was amply Illustrated in the caucus of Thursday night at the capitol. After some "sparring for points, says report of the caucus, Representative Bull ger offered resolution providing for an open and above-board vote for solicltorship nominees. The resolution was promptly voted down, and a secret ballot followed. Just how many deals and bargains were perhaps never be known; but Governor Johnston seems to have had a pretty clear estimate of the situation when he told the members of the general assembly that the bartering of one vote for another in the solicitorship races was as heinous as the sale of vote for money.
 The Mercury should have confidence in the people, They do not need guardians or middlemen to save them from themselves. That was the prevailing theory one hun- and the people are coming to their own at last.
The age-herald., 1898-11-19
JOHN WESLEY GAINES ON TOP

From the Washington Post.
 In referring to the downfall of Represent ative James Hamilton Lewis, of Washing ton state, 1t is not amiss to notice that the voters have treated very unkindly in the campaign just passed both the Beau Brum- mels and the best dressed men in the na- tional house. Not only MT. Lewis and Representative John Murray Mitchell, of considered the two best attired men under Speaker Reeds imperial sway, but also Wallace Turner Foote, Jr., of Port Henry, in the Twenty-third New York district, reputed to be the handsomest man in the house, have politically fallen by the way side. MT. Foote will be succeeded by re- publican, Mr. l.. w. Emerson. MT Mitch- ell, who has served in two congresses, and who very frequently was seen in the fall and spring season toolng very smart tall Iyho and four about the streets of Wash ington and about the rural thoroughfares nearby, was nominated for a third term by the republicans, but his district was close one, and with the heavy democratic vote in New York city stood no chance of another reelection. His successor will be Daniel J. Rordon. MT Foote had demo- cratic rival in the house, just as did MT. Mitchell, in the person of Representative John Wesley Gaines of Tennessee, who is accounted a strikingy handsome man. It remains to be seen whether any of the new members of the Fifty-sixth congress will possess qualifications to deprive MT. Gaines of first place in this particular line
The age-herald., 1898-11-19
Hanna and DinQIey.

The October foreign trade statement shows an excess of exports amounting to $66,s ,e3s. One months excess! In Decem- Der, 1897, the exports reached larger ag- gregate, but outside of that month Octo- Der of this year stands unrivalled. Exports are increasing. and imports are either standing still or falling off. In the ten months of the present calendar year ex- ports have exceeded imports by the great sum of s46o, ,26O. .SO2.
 Such facts as these have brought. the Age-Herald regrets to say, the great and only MT. Mark Hanna and the esteemed MT. Dingley into conflict. MT. Hanna says in substance that the Dingley bill is fail- ure, and that it should be reformed by the very congress that brought 1t into exist ence. He practically declares himself in favor of a revenue tariff. Republican that he Is, he deprecates honest and above- board taxes, and favors indirect taxes be- cause people cannot see the tax money as an independent quantity. Such coward Ice and trickery is excusable in man
 
 na wants tax placed upon tea and coffee and other articles not produced in this country This makes him revenue tariff mana democrat, in other words, in one respect.
 MT. Dingley says there shall be no tariff tinkering during the short session. He tries to defend his pet bill but it Is plain the facts are against him. As revenue pro- ducer 1t is a delusion and snare As a trade restricter it is success. It limits our foreign trade but 1t does not fill the treasury. MT. Hanna says it must be changed MT. Hanna is not talking through his hat. He means what he says. He knows what he Is talking about. He is the administrations mouthpiece. He is prepar- ing to conduct another presidential cam- paign. Either MT. Hanna or MT. Dingley must crawfish, and the chances are that 1t will be the gentleman from Maine.
The age-herald., 1898-11-19
In Three States.

The black miners involved in the coal dis tricts of Illinois do not represent any phase of a race issue It is conflict between capital and labor, and the imported negro miners are but an incident of it. The race question is not at stake.
 Nor was the question of white supremacy involved in the South Carolina troubles. White supremacy was in no way an issue. It was in no way endangered, or really in volved. One white man attacked another, and then a sport of murder and lawlessness broke loose, and helpless negroes were shot down. The Greenvile News and the Charleston News and Courier cannot find words strong enough in condemnation of the action of the mobs of Greenwood coun- ty-mobs that have disgraced the state of South Carolina, and injured the entire southern country.
 In Wilmington, in North Carolina, the race question was distinctly involved, and so, it must be confessed was rule by the majority The North Carolina revolution simply re-established the doctrine that in- telligence should be factor in American government. Democracy is, indeed, fail- ure if it be based on ignorance. The rule of a majority should be the rule of in- telligence. The North Carolina revolution flor it was revolution that will become a part of the history of the times in which we live-declares and establishes the fact that Anglo-Saxons cannot be ruled by blacks, and that ignorance and irresponsi- bility must give way to intelligence and worth.
The age-herald., 1898-11-19
The Election of Solicitors.

The Huntsville Mercury does not like the paragraph in Governor Johnston's message in which the election of the circuit solic- itors by the legislature is condemned. The Mercury thinks a change to popular eiec- tions would prove a retrogression rather than an advance toward ideal government. The circuit solicitors should be free from political obligatioDs--a condition wholly in- possible when they are dependent upon the people for their election. Under the pres ent plan the solicitor is recommended by men who are In no way interested in the proceedings of the criminal court, whereas. If they are elected by the people the vote of the thug counts as much as the vote of the best citizen in the community
 Such distrust of the people is a relic of the early days of the repubIc-of the days when constitution makers thought a select body of middlemen should stand between power and the people in the selection of a president. The scheme broke down in few years. just as the contrivance of the constitution for the election of United States senators is breaking down. In all coun- sries experience is teaching that in all mat
The age-herald., 1898-11-19
The Convict Problem.

On each side of Alabama convicts are profitably employed outside of mines. No convict in either Mississippi or Georgia is sent into mine The figures of the Mis- sissippi convict farms are not at hand but it is well known that the states great cot ton farms, fifteen in number, show hand some earnings each year.
 The convicts in Georgia are employed in farming, numbering, turpentine-making and brick-making, and their hire puts in the state treasury about $2OO0 900 year. They exceed in number those of this state, but the excess of earnings. In round numbers annual earnings in Georgia are $2OO, ,OOO; in Alabama, $75 OOO.
 Nor is this all The chairman of the Georgia convict board says: "The total number of deaths during the year among the hired convicts has been ffty-one, of which seven were accidental and violent, leaving forty-four which occurred from dis ease, indicating mortality from disease of sixteen to the thousand. This death rate Is about the same as that of many years past. and, as has been shown in former re- ports from this department, is smaller than the rate of mortality in most communities in this state. This death rate demonstrates more thoroughly than any other argument could that the convicts in the Georgia pen itentiary are humanely cared for. and the hygiene of the camps is carefully and sue cessfully guarded. When this record is compared with that in some of the army camps of the federal government during the recent war with Spain the comparison is flattering to the state.'
 In other words, the convict camps are the best sanitariums in the state. This situa- tion is certainly quite contrast to the damp floors of thirty-inch coal veins, in which high explosives are daily used. The difference is apparent in the death rates of Georgia camps and of Alabama camps
 The plain moral of the case is this: De- velop as rapidly as possible the profit side of the states cotton mills and farms, and when they become as profitable per capita as the hiring of convicts to mine operators, let the convicts be withdrawn from the mines. Humanity demands such a course, and economy will not forbid it. The change would need to be gradual, but let the fixed policy of the state be away from the mines, and towards the cotton mill and cotton farms.
The age-herald., 1898-11-19
A CYCLONICCUR

From the Detroit Free Press. sa
 Did the climate out there benefit your asthma?" asked a man on the boulevard of his next door neighbor, who has just re- turned from new resort in the northwest
 Say, it makes me short of breath to think about it. I was sitting out in a sort of an arbor the first afternoon after I reached there. I was in the shadow of a trailing vine through which the sunbeams sifted in a mellow light. The air was balmy and freighted with the odor of roses"
 'Must have been delightful"
 Simply charming Suddenly there was a sort of gigantic zip athwart the heavens, darkness enveloped the earth like palb and before could cover three rods to the hotel on the dead run there were six inches of snow on the ground. I never put in a wheezier night than the one that followed .'
 Mighty sudden wasn't it?''
 "Yes, but that's the way things go out there. One morning started to the nearest town, carrying a twig of cherry blossoms ana wearing white tennis suit Out on the trail 1t turned cold quicker than you could wink your eye, and would have frozen if a native hadn't wrapped me tip in a horse blanket, big wire nail serving as shawl pin"
 "Got through all right, did your"
 ''Yes, providentialy. A cyclone struck me, turned the blanket inside out and blew me for a mile. I don't know what did 1t, but I'm free from asthma
The age-herald., 1898-11-19
LAY TWO HUNDRED EGGS
From the Poultry Herald.

T Iom tne Foultry Herald.
 Can we produce hens that will lay 200 eggs per annum? Without doubt. Howq By scientific breeding, as for a good butter COW or a COW milker; as for good trotting or high-jumping horse. Experiments have been made to increase the number of rows of corn on the cob with success. The same method is applicable to poultry breeding. We will start with hen that lays 12O eggs. Some of her chicks will lay 15O per year. From these we will pick out layers, and so on until 200 or better are the results. At the same time it is just as essential to breed out males from prolific layers as it is the females. In fact, it is more so. If we look after the breeding of the females only, we will introduce on the male side blood which is lacking in proficiency. and thus check every attempt in progress. It is just as essential that the male should be from hen which laid 175 eggs and from a male that was bred from a hen that laid 150 eggs as 1t Is that the hen was from one that laid 175 eggs and whose mother laid 150 eggs.