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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-01-06
Snyder County Historical Society.

Minutes of the meeting of Janu-
ary ist, 1898.
The meeting was called to order
in the Office of Jay G. Weiser, Esq,
at l o'clock p. NJ, by George W
Wagcnseller. The following o.
ficers were chosen for the tempora
organization:
President, Jay &. Weiser, f.
Middleburgh.
Vice Presidents, Prof DAM,
Boyer, Freeburg II. Fl
Schoch, Esq, Selinsgrove; II
Alfred Schoch, Middleburgh
John l. Woodruff, Selinsgro
VIM. X. Miller, Esq, Saler
Corresponding Secretary
w. Wagenseller, Middlebu
Recording Secretary, !
Bower, Swineford.
Treasurer, Ira G. Schc
grove.
Librarian, Edwin G
TrevertOn.
On motion AttorI
Weiser and VIM. X.
structed to make app
tssm cf tn eosrt e
On motion
tee was appoi,
stitution regtl
~ the Gecisty
ChAfles. Geo.
Williin X. N
+ Adjournmen
Y . l~.t4. n
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-01-06

xU6 q ~ HQcduX tite1u IN
borne 81 ~ M NJ collectioul
are allowed u theadvertising Of sny
business. The discussions are upon
farm topics frthe benefit Of farmers
Arrange your business 80 Is to- at.
tend and take part in the exercises,
All classes Of citizens are welcome,
and Interesting programmes have
been prepared. The county chair
man Is John F. Boyer of Mt. Pleas.
ant Mills, Pa, who will be glad to
send programmes or information to
any one who will make the request,
The state speakers who will be
present are: Col. John A. Wood.
ward, Prof. William Frear and
others.
The institutes will he held at tht
following dates and places: at Bea.
vertown in Specht's Hall on Jan.
uary l4th and 18th and at FreeburQ
in Musical College Hall January
18th and 18th 1898.
Come out to these meetings and
bring your families and friends.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-01-06

DIR PURITY M POLITICS Aud ANY POLICY THAT G0PS SUBMISSION TV TH

Levi Hassinger, who resided one
mile West Of town ON j. p. Smiths
farm died Wednesday morning, aged
some GO years.
The Middleburg Cornet Band
will meet on Thursday for re-organi-
zation. Parties having chairs ofthe
Band will please return them by
that time.
John Klose, Of MiAiinburg, last
Thursday, was a Middleburg visitor
having brought Rev. Mcconnell, the
Lutheran pastor of Mifflinburg, to
this place to go to Lewistown.
Frank Spangler, of Toledo, Ohio,
was married Dec. "a and brought
his bride to this place to spend their
honeymoon. They were the guests
Of MIRA Adam Spangler. The PosT
extends congratulations.
The Commissioners ON Monday,
! selectod Calvin Stetler a. the audi
ltcrs clerk and Irwin Landenslager,
Jury Commissioners clerk; J. w.
lSwaftx Commissioner clerk; H.
lR Tol janitor; N. l. Potter,
: : : J : ! ! !
:! ! : !! I !
YouEcAx my FUsxrzunn ;-
/ Iesof sll sarts good and bad+
anything to at the price paid, but
liz you are looking for the best how
ever 1t lowest prices, call and see
my stock. ~ H.. E. WALTER,
! f, ~. Middleburg, Pa.
] A smooth, easy shave, genteel hair
cut, or other tonsorial work, is al
ways obtained at Soles' Barber Shop,
in Wittenmyers building, opposite
Post Office. Gu to Soles and you
will make no mistake, shaving soap
face cream, hair oil and egg-sham-
poo for sale. A. E. S0LEs.
"That the richest and largest de-
posits Of gold that the earth has ev-
er produced up to the present time
have been found in the Alaska
Klondyke country is now an es-
tablished fact. We call your at
tention to the advertisement Of the
Alaska Klondyke Gold Mining Go.
| IN another column" 1O-7-6m.
i : Valuable information for adver.
tisers, in u new and convenient form,
will be found in the two-hundred
page pamphletjust issued by the
Geo. P. Rowell Advertising Co.,
New York. It contains q complete
list Of papers having circulation
Of more than thousand copies each
issue. As a book of reference in
preparing plans and lists for adver-
tising, it is invaluable, and is we'll
worth the price asked tor it, one
dollar.
| At recent meeting Of the stock
holders and directors Of the Mill
helm Electric Telephone Company
it was decided to extend the line to
Bellefonte sometime in tha near fu-
ture. To that end Messrs. VIM.
Pealer Of Spring Mills and w. L.
Goodhart Of this place are at the
4 county seat this week for the pur-,
pose Of interviewing its business
men and placing contracts for
phones. We hope they will Be suo-
oeesfdl as It will be Z great benefit
70 this end of the county 70 have
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-01-06
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lristmas vacation with
at Mexico, Juniata 60.
nkleberger, who clerked
last year at 'Lewistown,
position and came home.
.urer, New Berlin, wants
= at 10 cents per pound
filed. Call at once.
der obligations to g. ].
,fkrean,er for copies Of the
.ated Mar. 10 and Nov. 10,

Harrison Meyer Of this place pays
g highest cash prices for calves
nd hides. Call on or address a.
,ovc. #.
Geo. Beaver has quit farming and
vill begin to learn the trade Of
Jlacksmithing with H. D. Stahl-
necker.
William r. Irwin, Of William
sport, Pa, will speak in the Luth-
sran church on Friday evening Of
tllis week.
Send in the date of your sale and
,ave it put in our Sale Register free
Of charge if your Wills are printed
1t this Office.
G. A. Meis r, our baker, has
bought Harrison Meyers share Of
their property known as the See
bold propsrty.
A full line Of tinware can be
ound at 6choch and Stahlneckers
&and. All kinds Of repairing
'romptly attended to. tt.
Joseph P. Sbirk. Of Beavertown,
'ss selected as BfsriAntile appraiser
ofSnyder COUNT being the choice Of
VIM. Drsese, Cc4missioner.
\ Charles +. Menscls Of the Belle
qts Gazette, and Miss Bessie Mus
{, Of Bellefonte, were thegussts Of
Nm steininger and wife last week.
Ais Bobb Of waahington, D. c.,
d Mis- jean Kerr Websr ofIsw-
own, PA, paid . short visit 10
cir friend, Mra G. H. Brisbin, in
'-ford recsuEly.
g Kohl, a Gnsday
~ched IA opsuipe ~
a<t ef hfsyss. Uni-
very eyenipg
eist. churcheS.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-01-06
New Year Party.

The Middleb,irgh Social Club
had open doors on last Friday even
ing. They entertained quite NUM-
Der Of guests. The hrst hour and
a half was devoted to progressive
euohre. A full and complete pro-
gramme OF waltzes, two steps,
quadrilles, etc. was arranged and
executed. The ladies had prepared
an elegant repast before which all
sat as the New Year was ushered
in. The guests of the club on this
occasion were Misses Ida, Nora and
Esther Greene, Florence Penne-
baker and sister and Mrs. j. q.
Amig Of Lewistown; Misses Har-
riet Richter and Ethel Schoch and
s. J. Pawling Of Selinsgrove; Chas.
Marks Of Carlisle A. r. and A. +.
Gilbert of Lancaster Samuel Wit
tenmyer ofIthaca, N. Y; Miss Bes-
sic Musser and Chas. +. Mensch Of
Bellefonte; Chas. Yon Of Altoona
and Mr.. Rodgers Of Muncy.
The affair was the chief social
event Of the season. The social sids
Of our young people seems - ~,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-01-06

n Y0uEc EcAx BUY FU11TEunH ~;
Itssof all sarts good and bad
anything to st the price paid, but
If You are looking for the best how
ever 1t lowest prices, call and see
my stock. n, H. E. WALTER,
lfi ~ Middleburg, Pa.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
Useful X-Rays.

1t is very satisfactory and interest
ing to know that the Roentgen rays,
which at first promised to be only a
nine days wonder, are doing such
splendid work in the hands of the sur
geons. Every big hospital has now it's
long roll of cases in which the sur
geons have been guided in their work
by the revelations of the X-ray tube;
and now, from the distant Indian from
tier, we hear how the wounded are re-
ceiving benefit from this method of
diagnosis. In one instance a Sepoy
had been struck by a bullet, which
made a flesh wound across his chest,
and apparently had found exit at his
arm. The case was not an extraor-
binary one, but the surgeon was puz-
zled by the infammatory symptoms
which manifested themselves, and for
which there was nj apparent cause.
Recourse was had to the Roentgen
apparatus, which at once showed that
some shadow-casting foreign bodies
were lodged in the mans chest. Oper-
alton showed that these were pieces
of lead, the remains of a bullet which
seems to have broken up after impact
with the bones.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
Ancient Maps.

1t is among the Egyptians that we
find the earliest recorded examples of
map-drawing. Apollonius reports that
the Egyptians of Colchis, a colony dat
ing from the time of Rameses H., had
preserved as heirlooms certain wooden
tablets, on which land and sea, roads
and highways, were accurately indicat-
ed; and, according to other authorities,
Rameses is said to have caused route
maps to be prepared. These state
mentS have been confirmed by the &C
tual discovery of such maps and plans
of old Egyptian papyrus rolls. Birch
has, for instance, identified a drawing
on a papyrus in the Turin Museum as
the Typographical map of a gold-min-
ing district in Nubia. The perspective
is very childish, and, in order to show
that the road leads between two noun
tain chains, the mountains on one side
of the road are inverted. This map is
1000 years older than that of Anaxi-
mander $3.50 B. CO., who al consid-
cred by the Greeks as the inventor of
c~artography. Similar picture maps
were discovered by Layard in Assyria.
Among the Egyptians and Babylonians
map-making remained in it's first in
fantile stage; it's scientific development
was received at the hands of the
Greeks.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
INSANITY AND MURDER.
How Far Should the Plea of Degen sracy
BE Carried?

How Far Should the Plea of Degensr acy
BE Carried?
1t may well be that a man who
could not be called insane, but merely,
say, an ordinary member of the GRIM
inal classes, with strong passions and
feeble intellect, would, in the presence
OF an opportunity long expected and
hoped for, the consequences of which
his thoughts had frequently rehearsed,
be really for the moment incapable of
restraining his hand, says the London
Hospital. We should hang him, new
ertheless, without the slightest scru-
pie; and we should waste no COM
passion upon the absence of self-con-
troll. 1t is, in fact, impossible to frame
a definition Of responsibility based
upon absence of s~elf-control without
including all sorts of crimes which at
present are punished by the law. For
years back there has been a sort Of
teud between the lawyers and the
alienists on the subject, so that even
The textbooks speak of legal insanity
and medical insanity as distinct. To
take extreme cases, jurists have con-
tended that no degree of insanity
should exempt from punishment for
crime unless it has reached such a
point that the person is utterly I'M
conscious of the difference between
right and wrong at the time of com
hitting the o%ffense, while medical men
have very generally held to the opinion
that this is not a proper criterion, that
many of the insane are fully conscious
OF the difference between right and
wrong, and that to enforce such a test
means the hanging of many a ~lunatic.
There can be no doubt that of late
years the medical view has met with
a wider acceptance than it used to do,
and that even lawyers have shown an
increasing readiness to admit the doc
trine of responsibility. But it is a
very anxious question, especially in
view of recent dogmas as to ~degenera-
cy how far this doctrine is to be al
lowed to go. The condition of affairs
is much more serious than some peo-
pie think, and it is highly necessary
that those who administer the criminal
law should be on their guard against
any insidious establishment of immu-
nifty for the violation of it's most sa-
cred principles. In any case of MUIR
der, the presumption in favor of hang
ing should be so strong as to leave very
slender prospect of escape for any man
who, prior to the commission of the
crime, had been thought fit to be at
large. If this condition cannot be Sc
cured, it will become a matter Of grave
necessity to take prompt steps for the
incarceration of many persons of evil
passions who are now at liberty, and to
render the utterance of threats a mat
ter to be dealt with by the alienist as
well as by the magistrate.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21

nave been continued to the present
day. "Old Tat was the founder of
the firm. Excepting only Childers and
Eclipse, Highflyer was the most cele-
brated horse up to hat late on the
English turf. Though in training only
two years he won $50, 900 in stakes, a
large sum for that period, and was
beaten only once. Inscribed upon a
tablet which marks his last resting
place is this epitaph: Here lieth the
perfect and beautiful symmetry of the
much lamented Highfyer, by whom
and his wonderful offspring the cele-
brated Richard Tattersall acquired a
noble fortune, but was not ashamed to
acknowledge it." At Hyde Park Cor
ner in 1865 Richard Tattersall estab-
lished s"Tattersalls," and there the
business was conducted until 1866,
when it was moved to the present
quarters near Albert Gate, Hyde Park.
He soon secured a complete monopoly
in the business and %prospered, and
then he became part proprietor of the
London Morning Post. Later, on ac-
count of disagreement, he established
the Morning Herald as a rival, but it
was not a financial success. After serv-
ing a term of three months imprison-
ment on conviction of libeling the
duke of Richmond Mr.. Tattersall
changed the politics as well as the pol
icy of his paper, unfolding the prince
of Wales, Mrs. Fitz-Herbert and Fox,
who later became his intimate friends.
Richard Tattersall lived to a ripe
old age. dispensing hospitality with a
generous hand at High1yer hall, and
conducting his great business in Lon
don and at Newmarket.
The business was continued by his
son Edward until the latter's death, in
1910, when Richard, of the next gen.
Grafton, succeeded. Upon the death Of
Richard, in 1859, the succession fell to
Richard and Edmund Tattersall, the
latter of whom has just died.
In this country it is difficult to real
ize the enormous influence and power
of a firm like Tattersalls. 1t has at
once a complete monopoly of the good
will and esteem of the country. The
firm conducts all the thoroughbred
sales, besides many others. To the
public at large, especially in this coun-
try, Tattersalls is best known as the
settling place each Monday for all
bets made by members of the Jockey
club, being the final tribunal for ad-
Indication of all betting disputes con-
nected with racing. Thus Tattersalls
today represents to the sporting world
of England a combined Bank of Eng
land and a supreme court.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21

Miss Florence Higgins of Francis
vile, Ind, is the first and only woman
in the world to occupy the chair OF
elocution and rhetoric in a law college.
The position of instructing lawyers in
elocution and rhetoric is one that
would hardly be associated with a very
attractive young woman, even in these
days when up-to-date women are MAX
ing their way in almost every known
occupation. Elocution and rhetoric
are to the student of law two import
ant branches of his education, and can
not be passed over with scant attention,
as they are usually by the average col
lege boy. The professor of these
branches in a law school, consequently,
must have a high standing and unus-
ual ability, before being able to secure
the appointment. Her success, how
ever, was not a surprise to her init
mates, for as a child she was generally
regarded as a prodigy. She was born
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
The Sin of Morrrinr.

1t is care that kills. One who de-
iloerately c~ultivates a disposition to
throw care to the winds soon becomes
an indispensable person to his friends.
Care is worry. pure and simple. The
burden that causes us to worry In
heavy enough to bear, In all probable
ity, without adding to 1t that of ALL
engrossing care, which never lets the
mind rest for an instant. Suppose you
do have troubles of your own" Can
you cure them by worrying? Ones
best effort to overcome the trials and
tribulations of this life is all that In
demanded. If that effort
the difficulties, well and good. II it
fails, the fret that wears wrinkles in
ones soul, the worry that makes ia
hated By our friends, the care that
wears deep burrows on the brow. do
not help one out of the slough of de-
spond, but rather bury us the deeper.
The world gets very tired of men and
women who placard their woes on
their faces and moan 1t in their voices
n hourly conversation. But the world
dearly loves those people who are
merry and companionable, even when
grief is gnawing deep. We owe some
thing to society, to the world of peo-
pie about us, and have no right to
make ourselves public nuisances be-
cause the clouds obscure our sun.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
VIVA MI WATER.
what Do Polar Creatures DRINK
Water in the Deserts.

What Do Polar Creatures DRINK.
Water in the Deserts.
Tame rabbits are commonly kept
without water, but they may be seen
licking the bars of their hutch after a
shower and drink eagerly when they
nave a chance. Most other rodents,
including rats, are thirsty creatures,
says the Philadelphia Ledger. The
only animals living in very dry places
which seem to do entirely without
drink are snakes and reptiles. In the
cold desert of shifting sands in Kash-
gar there are no reptiles, not even =
fly. But the Afghan boundary commir-
sion found swarms of lizards and a
new and venomous species Of adder in
astonishing numbers in the awful des-
ert OF hot, shifting sand at the corner
where Persia, Baluchistan and Afghan
lstan meet. We must note one excep-
ton, the giraffe, which Mr.. Dryden be-
heves exists for thr~ee-quarters of the
year In the north Kalahari without
water. But this can not be proved I'M
I'll the desert has been explored and the
oDoOICC VI WdtCl SOhh
There is known to be water beneath
the surface, and if the giraffe does
live waterless he must imbibe his liquid
nutriment at second hand in the juices
OF the leaves of the tree, which have
their roots in the moisture. Seals do
not apparently drink, neither do cor
morants and p%enguins, but there can
be little more evaporation from their
bodies than those of fish, and their food
is wet and moist. A more difficult
question is that of the water supply of
Arctic animals in winter. Possibly
they eat snow. There is abundant
evidence that, though many animals
can exist without water for long Pc
RODS, this abstinence is not voluntary
n when unduly protracted causes
suffering and loss of health.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21

DR.. Thompson, master of Trinity col
lege, Cambridge, was a scholar and an
administrator; but his fame rests on
his sharp, witty and often bitter cpl
grams: He said of Ely, where, as a
professor of Greek, he held a canonry,
"The place is so damp that even the
sermons won't keep dry there" and at
a college meeting where some of the
young fellows were treating with very
little respect the opinions of their Sc
niors, he said, None of us is quite in
fallible, not ever the youngest"
OF an amiable and excellent scholar,
he said, "The time he spends on the
neglect of his duties he wastes on the
adornment of his person." and of an
eminent professor, whose first lecture
he attended, Il little thought that we
should 40 Dol have cause to regret his
predecessor, Professor -"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21

ing money, the girl, out at elbows and
patched as to shoes as she was, has
tened to say, ooh, it wasn't the money.
You see, | have so much idle time on
my hands now, and this embroidery
does entertain me so" The new phase
of the subject was brought the other
day to the notice of the head of an
exclusive and very prosperous girls
school in Philadelphia. The principal
desired a stenographer in place of the
Rmanuensis she had heretofore had. APP
plicants one after another presented
themselves, and with each n the
principal found some cherished notion
as to the good sense and stability of
the modern business laid low.
If it wasn't one thing it was another,
but she at last realized that they were
all imbued with the I'~m-as-good-as-
you-are idea. The principal finally en-
gagged a young girl who was less up
pish" han the others, and whose spot
ted veil was not quite so obtrusive. At
the end of one week the girl resigned
her place. "Why, I pay you SO a week
more than you were getting in your
downtown Office" said the teacher.
YES" said the girl, "but I like it bet
ter in the Office. It's more fun for one
thing, and then" She paused, but
the teacher begged her to continue.
well, it's this way" the girl finally
blurted out, "you see, it's sort of more
honorable for me. 1t isn't because
don't like to be employed by a lady,
I.14 II -r~.- Thrr
none of my lady friends do anything
except one or two, and they're m
ployed by gentlemen in Offices. I don't
know any t%ype-lady who is employed
by a woman who works, and, to tell the
truth, we think it a little beneath us.
I'm sorry" with a commiserating
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
MILK AS FOOD.

1t is generally supposed that a milk
diet will add to ones flesh, but 1t de-
ponds on circumstances. Taken in
connection with a full diet of solid food
it will, but if a stout person should
confne himself to milk he would lose
in weight.
The amount of nutrition in one pint
of milk is equal to that in six ounces
Of beef or mutton. In New York city
100, 900 quarts of milk are consumed
daily. If it is desired to sterilize milk,
heat it to the boiling point and keep 1t
at that degree from twenty minutes to
two hours.
Drinking milk is bad for persons who
take plenty of exercise or work hard,
therefore requiring a large amount of
nutrition, for such a quantity of milk
must be drunk to supply enough nutri-
ton that there will be an excess of al
bumen, fat and water taken into the
system and billiousness will result.
There is no other article of food
which is so capable of sustaining life
Tor an indefinite period as milk, In
some illnesses, such as typhoid fever. il
forms almost the sole diet, but if the
diet is designed to increase bodily
strength milk is not to be counted on.
The excessive drinking of milk by
adults is claimed by some physicians
to be positively injurious.