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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14
Tuskegee Endowment Growing.

New York, Dec. 12.-Good results,
accomplished through the Madison
Square Garden concert hall meeting on
Dec. 4, in the interest Of the Tuske-
gee Normal and Industrial Institute,
Tuskegee, Ala, are apparent. Yes
terday check for s25,000 toward the
endowment fund of Tuskegee came
from a woman in Ohio. This is the
conditional s25,OOO subscription made
through Grover Cleveland, the donor
having removed the condition. Other
gifts make the whole amount added
to the endowment fund about 5000.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14
KKEAMER.

Thomas Lands of Lewisburg is
visiting his parents at this place. =.
Lewis Magee and wife of Mazeppa
visited their son and daughter, James
and Miss Erma, over Sunday :.
Reuben Hummel, who is working
at Adamsburg, and w. A. Hum
mel, who is working at Logan, were
home over Sunday. F.. Fisher Wal
ter visited his uncle, VIM. Gember-
ling, at Salem last week. . There
was party held at the hotel on Sat
urday evening. Quite a number Of
young gentlemen from other town;
were present. .. Quite a number o.
our citizens are attending court this
week. The jurors from this town.
ship are A. G. Smith, Emanuel Ben.
fer and Reno Sholly :. .Protractef
meeting is in progress in the Evan
gelical church at present. Nearly
everybody is in the butcher business
at present. This is tough weather
on the porkers. F.. David Buck anc
family moved to Middlcburg las
week. ;. "A. G. Smith has the hea'
West stock Of Xmas candies this yeal
he has ever had. It's of the best
quality and cheap, too.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14
SHAMOKIN DAM.

Chas. Hartman and wife of Sum
bury were visiting his parents, N. f.
Hartman and wife, Sunday. Levi
Banderand wife of Iowa, in compa-
ny with Mary and Annie Wetzel Of
Mitiiinburg, are visitors ut James
Gilbert's.. .Chas. Frymire and
wife of Sunbury paid visit to his
parents, Wesley Frymire and wife,
Sunday. The Lctheran Sunday
school will hold their Christmas ex-
ercises in their church on Sunday
evening, Dec. "a. A good program
is expected. . Misses Lillian Wendt
and Edith Dutry visited at Fred.
Herrold's near Sunbury. They also
attended the Orphans Home Sun
day school in Shamokin Valley,
Northumberland county. . Mrs.
Catharine Coryell is very sick at
the home of Chas. Bower. She ac-
cidentally fell and sprained her limb
last week. She is some seventy years
old Read the Posi- and the Farm
Journal. The Posi- one year and
the Farm Journal five years for only
One Dollar. Every-family in Mon
roe township should have this COM
bination. .Edwar Derr, who had
been working for VIM. Snyder this
summer, left for Culp's Camp, neal
Lewisburg last week. Miss Jenni,
Shipe is ON the sick list at her home
>. Foster, son Of Chas. Notter, il
is listed among the sick .Reviva
meeting CLOSED irIthe NJ. f. churcl
ON Saturday evening. They had ;
meeting of five weeks and with gooo
success. M. S. Wendt and wifi,
are visitors at the home of her pa
rents, Mr.. Brouse's near Winfield
this week.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14
Tventy-six Miners Killed.

Coronado, WASH, Dec. lion Sat-
urday there was terrific explosion In
the mine of the Carbon Hill Coal COM
pany. The explosion occurred just as
the men we're preparing to leave the
shaft at noon. Seventy-six men were In
the mine at the time. Several hours
elasped before efforts could be made
TO enter the mine. The surviving rela-
tives at once flocked around the shaft
creating q terrible scene with their
loud lamentations. Twenty-six min
srs met death, the remainder being
rescued.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14
Solid Trans TO Northern WichIoan.

The Chicago Milwaukee & st. Pau, Railway
Is now running solii trains OF palace sleeping
cars, dining cars (scrviug meals Ia carte
and first-class day coaches. through from Chic
ago to Calumet, houghton, tloncock and other
points in the opper onntry without change
OF cars, with direct connect N for Marquette
Negaunee lshpeming etc , and passengers from
the East. south aud SOU Invest will find this a
most desirable route.
All coupon ticket agents sell ticket. via the
Chicago. Mi,wausce ~ st Paul Ra lway. 90.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14
MARRIED..

Dec. 6, at Adamsburg, by Rev. |.
p. Zimmerman, James ID. DreeS,
and Amelia Koch, both of Beaver
Springs.
Nov. 2S, at the Reformed parson-
age, Adamsburg, by Rev. H. H.
SPAIN, George A. Klinglcr of Nc
Vcytown Pa, ard Emma J. .Frock O
Middlecreek, Snyder County, Pa.
Dec. I, in New Berlin, by Rev. S
Sidney Kohler, Harry S. Smith O
Vicksburg and Mary F. GelIinger O
Lewisburg.
Dec. 7, at the residence of tn!
brides father at Lochiel, by Rev. z
Sidney Kohler, John M. Erdley o
Lewisburg and Lucy G. Frederick
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14
u..tern Germany snowbound.

Berlin, Dec. 12.-All eastern Ger
many IL snowbound today. The cold Ii
intense. Koenigsberg reports i've
inches of ice. In the province OF
Posen several persons have been frozen
70 death. At Munich the temperature
10 II degrees below. and trafhc in Ber-
In ID greatly impedsd BY the heavy
snowfall. -
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14

The finest line Of Sterling Silver
Cut glass, Solid Gold Jewelry for
wedding and Christmas gifts at b.
F. Sheibley's, JewcIer, Engraver
and Optician, Lew istown, Pa.
12-7-3t.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14
BANK STATEMENT,

Bank OF Middeburgh, al MIddleburgh. in the
State Of PENNSYLVANIA, AT the close oi business
Dec. ., 1899:
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| }. i.

Dec. 4, at Selinsgrove, VIM. II.
Gemberling, aged G3 years. Inter-
ment Thursday, Dee. 7th.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14
What is
Cream of
I artdr (?

When the juice which is pressed from
grapes for winc-making ferments, the acid
of the fruit is crystallzed and precipitated.
This is collected, refined to absolute purity,
and ground to powder. This is cream OF
tartar.
Fruit acids are among the most whole
some and important constituents of the food
Of man. They are absolutely requisite to
maintain health In grape cream of tartar
there are combined the most useful of leaven-
i'm arencies and most healthful food article
This highly refined acid of the grape,
or cream of tartar, is the material from
which Royal Baking Powder is made. 1t
is many times more expensive than ingre-
dients used in many baking powders, but
being healthful in itself, it adds healthfulness
to the food instead of degrading it.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14

NEURALGIA cured by DR.. Miles PAIN
PILLS. "Ono cent q dose" At all druggists
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14

In imitation baking powders poisonous alum
is used instead of healthful cream of tartar.
Alum powders seriously affect the health.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-12-14

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
NOW IT'S ADMIRAL HOHISON.
Howison 0utranks Sampson and if
Comes May Take Command
HE is EXPECTED OCTOBER S,

Washington, Sept. 25.-A dispatch
to the navy department from Rear
Admiral Howison is worrying the Off
Gals. Admiral Howison, entirely un-
conscious of the CONSERVATION his news
will carry to those who have been as
sorting that he will not get to New
York until after the reception of Adj
miral Dewey, announces that he has
left Barbados on the Chicago for New
York. Everything had been arranged
to have Sampson, in his capacity as the
hero and victor of Santiago, greet his
brother hrro of Manila Admiral
Schley will be in New York at that
time, but in no official capacity. He
will be there simply because as an
American citizen he has an inaienable
right to- Nothing had occurred to
mar the spectacle of one hero greeting
another and welcoming him home, I'M
til this disquieting news was received
from Howison. Howison is Samp-
sons senior and if he gets there before
the celebration, he will outrank that
officer and take command. The naval
regulations require it. Howison is
simply an old friend of Dewey and
would like to be on hand when his
friend has his triumph. The navy de-
partment officials have pointed out,
whenever this danger was suggested,
to Howison's itinerary, which calls for
his arrival on October 5, and have con-
6dently proclaimed that he will not
get there before then, notwithstanding
the fact that Howison has been ahead
of his schedule right along. They are
now busi1y engaged in figuring out
that he cannot get to Tompkinsville
in less than eight days, but others
| think he can do it easily in seven.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
VEGETABLE GEMS.
Curious OpaIs Found In the Bamboo OF
Manila.

New York Press: Among the queer
things found in the Philippines are
bamboo opals, a vegetable gem which
is sometimes discovered by the natives
in the stem of the bamboo" said a
gentleman who has lived for number
of years in Manila. Not one piece OF
bamboo in a thousand, however, con-
tains a specimen, as the bamboo grown
there, as elsewhere, is usually empty,
but accident occasionally brings to
light in the bamboo stem small flint
like material, which presents the ap-
lpearanee of a perfect opal. These
modules are known TO the natives as
i'tobacur,' and l have found from time
to time during my long stay on the
islands seen several OF these yegeta
BILE freaks OF nature, which reproduced
the characteristic lines Of the opal so
faithfully that experts were puzzled to
know the difference between the
vegetable and the real specimen. BE
sides the tobacur gem there is fire.
Quentiy found in the inside OF the Phil
ippine cocoanut a tiny substance re-
sembling a sponge, which, when eX-
posed to the heat OF the sun for several
days. will reveal the presence of sundry
small spheres that have all the natural
appearance and luster of the pearl.
These cocoanut gems range from the
size OF a pin head to that Of a small
pea. They are valuable. and when not
used by tie natives for personal adorn-
ment, are sold to local and foreign mu-
seums as curiosities. 1t may be in
teresting to know that the first chem
ical and neurological examination OF
these vegetable gems was made by
James Smithson. whose munificence es-
tablished the first of the scientific bu-
Teaus Of the American government"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
Insurgents Capture a Boat.

Manila, Sept. 26.-The Urdancta beach
ed opposite the town of Orani, on the Or
ami river She was riddled with bull
let's and burned, and the following
guns with their ammunition were cap
tured:
A 1-pounder, one Colt automatic gun
and one Nordenfeldt gun.
The crew of the Urandeto are prison
ers or have been killed.
Washington, Sept. 26.-The gunboat
Urdaneta, which was captured with her
crew at Orani. about twenty-five miles
from Manila on the bay of Manila, is a
little craft of only forty tons displace-
ment, not much larger than a small
tug. She was captured by the navy
early in the war and has been on police
duty in the bay for months past.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
Kansas National Guard.

Topeka, Sept. 25.-The state military
board met at the office of the adjutant
general and approved the discharge of
the companies in Topeka, Yates Center;
Garnett and Fort Scott by General
Hughes, as they did not have enough
men. Also the mastering in of compa-
MES at Wichita and Sabetha was ap-
proved, as well as the work of muster
ing the companies of the guard at Phil
ipsburg, Burlington, Ottawa, Ere
donia, Hiawatha, Manhattan and
Washington.
New companies in the First regiment
will Il OF be organized until the return
of Colonel Metcalf of the Twentieth
Kansas, who is colonel of the First K.
\. G. The Fort Scott, Lawrence, lola
and Kansas City companies of the
Twentieth are practically the compa-
MES of the national guard at these
points. 1t is thought likely they will
want to join the First K. N G. when
they return.
The reorganization of the battery at
Wichita was approved.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
4 union LEADERS, VIEWS.
Iron and Steel Workers Have Seen
a Gain.
IRON WORKERS MOSTLY UNION.

Washington, Sept. &c. = Theodore
Schaffer of Pittsburg, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, was witness before the
industrial commission. He said that
about 20 per cent of the iron, steel and
tin workers were organized After
1892 the iron workers suffered 80 per
cent reduction of wages the steel work
ers 10 per cent and the tin workers %
per cent, but since then the wages have
been almost leveled up, by advances.
The trade was now more prosperous
than it had ever been, but the wages
were not quite as high as in 1892. The
workers in iron, steel and tin were not
getting the full advance in wages.
This was due to the fact that mills
were filing contracts made six months
and in some cases a year ago. But with
the filing of contracts based on present
prices the advances would come.
Many OF the mills were non-union
owing to personal difficulties which
arose between employers and employed
rather than to direct hostility of the
employer toward organized labor or the
union scale. Mr. Schaffer said his as
ISOLATION had never called upon state
boards of arbitration in case of strikes.
The incorporation of labor organize
tons would be advantageous. He was
opposed to compulsory arbitration. He
felt that the workers could not get JUS
tice from state or government boards.
This opinion was based upon the inter
probation placed by the courts upon
laws passed in the interest of labor.
He favored a restriction of imnigra-
ton. The Huns, Polanders, Russians
and Italians were the most objection
able.
Asked about trusts, Mr.. Schaffer said
he had such respect for them he would
not call them trusts" Their effect
thus far had been beneficial to the iron,
steel and tin workers. AS generl rule
he said he believed the members of his
organization would prefer to deal with
combinations and large corporations
than with smaller independent mills,
| tin mills and finishing mills. In his ex-
perience he had always had fair treat
ment in negotiating with these combi-
nations. He did not believe they pre-
vented competiti On.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
HOLES BORED BY LioHrnrN
Fal9urities Found Penetrating Thirty
Feet Into Sand.

Feet Into Sand
From Pearson's Weekly: did yoQ
ever see the diameter of a lightning
lash measured?'' asked a geologist OF
the writer We'll, here is the case
which once inclosed a flash of lightning
fitting it exactly, so that you can see
Just how big it was This is called a
'fulgurite, or lightning hoIe,' and tie
material it is made of is glass. 1 will
tell you how IL was manufactured.
though it only took a fraction of a sec
ond to turn it out When bolt Of
lightning strikes a bed of sand it
plunges downward into the sand for a
distance less or greater. transforming
simultaneously into glass the silica in
the material through which it passes.
Thus, by its great heat it forms 4 glass
tube Of precisely its own size. Now
and then such a tube. known as full
gurite,' is found and dug up. Fulgur-
ties have been followed into sand by
excavation for nearly thirty feet. They
vary in interior diameter from the size
Of quill to three inches or more, ac-
cording to the bore OF the fash. But
fulgurites are not alone produced in
sand. They are found also in solid
rock, though very naturally of slight
depth, and frequently existing merely
as thin, CLASSY coating on the sur
face Such fulgurites occur in aston
ishing abundance on the summit OF
Little Ararat, in Armenia The rock
is soft and so porous that blocks foot
long can be obtained perforated in all
directions by little tubes, filled with
bottle-g- zen glass formed from the
fused rock. There is small specimen
in the national museum which has the
appearance Of having been bored by the
teredo, and the holes made by the
worm subsequently filed with glass
Some wonderful fulgurites were found
by Humboldt on the high Nevada de
Toluca, in Mexico. Masses of the rock
were covered with a thin layer Of green
glass. Its peculiar simmer in the sun
led Humboldt to ascend the precipitous
peak at the risk of his life
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
FLIM-FLAM GAME.
With Varia lions, But 1t Failed To
Work This Time.

With Varia lions, But 1t Failed To
Work This Time.
New York Sun: A young man hold
ing two addressed and stamped letters
in his hand entered Louis Mendels-
sohn's cigar store, at ST. Marks place
yesterday, and asked the proprietor tc
give him SO bill for ten ones, so that
he could send it in letter to his sis
ter in Philadelphia. Mendelssohn gave
him the SO note and then counted the
81 bills and found there were only
nine. Mother must have made a mis-
take. I will go home and get the other
ST." said the young man, moving to.
ward the door. Hold on! 1 want my
s1O," called out the proprietor. That's
so. Give me the So and there's the let
ter with the $40 in it. You hold on
to that until I come back from moth
er's," said the young man. He got
back his money, handed a sealed let
ter to Mendelssohn and again started
for the door. The proprietor tore open
the letter and found only blank paper
inside. He shouted for the police, and
his wife, who was just outside the door.
stopped the young man. He told her
to keep quiet, handed her the SO bill
and ran down the street. Policeman
arrested him and took him to police
headquarters, where his picture was
found in the rogues' gallery labeled
"fim-fam worker" He gave the name
OF John Williams. Mendelssohn hav-
ing got back his money refused to
make a complaint. The prisoner was
discharged.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
Should Women Smoker

1 have no earthly objection to Wom-
en- smoking; only, If they do smoke.
they should smoke seriously. Most
of them just fool little with a cigar
cite Now, that scarcely amounts to
smoking at all. II they really mean
it, let them take TO cigars and pipes.
I know a dignified old lady. a Polish
countess-what is her name? Count
ess? Countess ?-oh, well. Thinga-
mojisky-it ends in 'isky.' anyhow
and respect that woman She genu-
inely smokes, and no mistake about it
There is no playing there She looks
on it as a sacred duty. She has a long
pipe with a wooden stem and the bark
ON, and a fine big bOwI-a regular
mans pipe. When she was visiting
me, she just loaded up and smoked.
and loaded up and smoked, and loaded
up and smoked again She meant
business. l know another lady who
has long Turkish pipe. and she, too.
means business. II women are ever to
be genuine smokers, that Is the way
they must go TO work.-Aark Twain
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
4 New Way of Hearing a sermon.

President Henry Wade Rogers, Of the
Northwestern university, and his wife
have moved into the slums OF Chicago
and have taken up their residence
there Mrs. Rogers IS the president OF
the Settlement Society. and DR.. Rogers
has been greatly interested in this
work for many years The doctor is
a tall, impressive, eloquent man, and
has entered earnestly into his new Ia
bors. But he has always been earnest
and as a boy he was something OF an
investigator, too. An old playmate
tells the following story OF him: Their
schoolmaster was once talking to them
If literature. In the course OF his
talk he said: There are sermons in
the stones, the running brooks" The
future doctor interrupted with: We'll.
If there are sermons in the running
brook, 1 should think they'd let Us
swim on Sundays instead OF listening
to the dry old stuff we have to-" But.
shen-that was years ago.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
GAVE A FARM FOR A DRINK.
ParadoxEcaI in TEXAS the Drink Was
Straight Water.

straight water.
4 section of land which constitutes
one Of the finest farms in the fertile
Brazos bottom of Texas once sold for
drink of water. 1t was about fifty
years ago, according to ex-Lieut-Gov
George 7. Jester, that a crowd Of from
iersmen from OF the Brazos came to
.CoTsicana on a trading expedition.
Corsicana at that time was not as
great town as il is row. since 1t
threatens TO rival the most productive
oil region of Pennsylvania, but was a
typical frontier village or trading post
The grandfather OF Gov. Jester was a
Methodist circuit rider, and lived at
that time in Corsicana- He occupied
tUo-story double log house His house
was a rendezvous for people from far
and near who came trading. In those
days land certificates were used as cir
culating medium, as money was rarely
seen. On one occasion a whisky-drink-
ing character from OF the Brazos ar
rived in town, got on drunk, and at
night was put to bed in the second
story of the Jester mansion. About
1 o'clock in the morning he aWoke with
a terrible thirst No water was in the
room, and he couldn't find the way
down stairs. Sticking his head out Of
the window, he saw some men asleep
in the yard. He called to them to
bring him drink OF water, but no one
answered him. 4 second and & third
time he called. but with no response.
Finally he yelled out: "One OF you
fellows bring me drink OF water, and
I'll give you 800 acres of land" This
aroused one Of the sleepers. who called
back that he wouldn't climb those
steps for 800 acres of land, and the
offer was raised to $40 acres. The man
under the tree drew a bucket OF water
and lugged it upstairs and offered
dipperful to the topper, but he pushed it
aside. Give it to me out of the bucket
like horse he said. and he put about
half the contents of the bucket under
his belt In those days a Texans
word was his bond, and this fellow kept
his word about the land. Next morn
ing he made his benefactor a deed to
$40 acres of Brazos bottom land. This
land still belongs TO the descendants OF
the water carrier and is one OF the
finest farms to be found in all Texas.
1t is now worth from S35 to $40 per
acre.-St- Louis Globe-Democrat.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
To Meet and receive DIaz.

Washington, Sept. 25.-In recogni-
ton of the presence of the foreign ruler
within the country, it is probable that
representative of President Mckinley
will meet the Mexican president at the
United States border and accompany
him throughout his stay in this coun-
try.
An army officer Of high rank is likely
to be selected for this service. No less
than fourteen invitations from that
many cities have been extended to
President Diaz to be their guest during
understanding among officials in that
he will not be able to accept many of
these
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-30
Secures Delaroa BAY.

ATlahabad, British India, Sept. 90
The Pioneer printed a dispatch saying
negotiations have been concluded by
Great Britain for taking possession of
Delagoa bay November 1.
Delagoa bay is in the control of Por-
tugal. It has the principal port used
by the Transvaal republic, which in the
control of England effectually block
AIDES the Beers and cuts off their chance
to import war supplies direct.