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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-02-23

X EGISTER'S NOTICES S-Notce is nerenv CIV.
en- tliat the following named persons h. 80,
leu tneIr ADMINISTRATORS Guardian and Ex
cu'Ors' accounts in the Register Is ONCE of = D..
yer County' ana the same VII, be presented Tor
confirmation and allowance at the Court Hons.
IN Middleburgh, Monday, Fl bruary 27lh. Is,,
FirSt and final account OF II H. Shipdel e-ecu
VI OF the last VIII and testament OF j. q, /.
deceased. we a.
Account OFF g. Meyer, Executor OF the last
WIZ and testament "f William Straub. late of
washington TOWNSHIP Pa. deceased.
Final account OF Nary q. WatzeI. Administra.
oroi the estate iicr,y n. We;zel, decreased.
Final arcon Il X y. Gross. Administrator
licensed, ''H'
Final account OF X. B. Gross, Executor OF the
'tst Will and testament OF Christian Gross laie
" Beaver township, deceased.
The FIRST and final account of George T.. Rot.
iiger ard Michael d. Hassinger, Executors M
me last Will and testament or Levi U.ssinyer
iecd., including the accounts OF same parties
hosilnislrators s OF the estate OF Lydia 4assing.
First and final account OF j. s, Meiser. Admin.
'strator OF .he estate OF Mary Be1fer, deceased.
First and final account OF G. A. Boyer. Admin.
,.raIor OF Nathan Arbogast, late of Perry twp.
Pa, deceased. ''
Firs' and final account OF Henry I. Swartz. Ad
Illustrator OF Julian Swartz late OF Adams
'ownship, deceased.
FIRST and ilnal account Of Jacob Craner Ad.
ninistratOr VI the estate OF .becca Cramer. de.
ceased. w
The md and final account OF D. j, abd j.
Has singer. Administrators OF Joseph Hassjne..r.
ate "t spring twp., SDy der county, deceased.
J.H. WILLIS. Register. &c.
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EARLY MARINE ENGINEERING.


In 1880 gongs for the engine room,
were unknown. and in many OF the
boats, when the pilot wns in his house
III there was one) or on the deck over
the engine room, he would signal to
the engineer by the strokes Of stick
CT cane upon the floor of the house or
deck. All boats, Of course, carried bells,
and by them all notices Of departure
end Of arrival were made known, and
all salutes between boats were given
by their bells. To blow steam, as Is
now done by whistle, was intended to
he a challenge or an insult.
In July, 1887. the first steam launch.
the Sweetheart. IS feet in length. four
feet three inches of beam, and three feet
depth. engine, 4xl2 inches, wheel three
feet six inches in diameter, and boiler
horizontal fre-tubular, designed and
constructed at the United States navy
yard, New York, by the writer, then
chief engineer of the navy, was COM
pleted, and on her trial and succeeding
trips around the city Of New York was
sa!uted with the bells Of passing steam
boats and cheered by people who rushed
to the end of the piers to witness the
novel sight. She attained q speed OF
SIS miles per hour. The engine was
subsequently transferred to the United
States naval school at Annapolis.
Fuel. up to the year 1886, was wholly
pine wood, though up to that time some
owners of steamboats, commenced ex-
perimenting upon the practieability of
using anthracite coal. A steamboat on
her route Of six or more hours could
not have the capacity in her fire room
to contain all the wood required, and
was compelled to pile it upon her side
houses; and such boats as were on a
long route, as from New York to Prov
idence, were compelled to invade their
upper deck with wood, and upon leav-
ing the city had somewhat the sem
biance of q floating woodward.
In 1899 anthracite coal was intro
duced in the furnaces Of the steamboat
North America plying on the Hudson
river between New York and Albany.
and TO aid It's combustion when high
pressure Of steam was required fan
blower, driven by belt from the wheel
shaft, was first resorted to, but soon
afterward small independent engine
was used, connected by q belt to the
blower. Anthracite coal was soon aft
e,ward first burned without aux
iliary draught in the open furnace of
{ steam boiler.-Cassier's Magazine.
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To Keep Shirt Waists Down.

Shirt waists have an uncomfortable
fashion of slipping up in the back,
which is especially disagreeable to the
girl who prides herself upon being we'll
groomed. There is one way, and one
only, of keeping them down effectually.
For this make band three inches long
and just enough wider than the belt
Of the shirt waist to allow room to
stitch it on easily and leave it as wide
as the belt. Work two buttonholes in
it and attach it firmly to the belt of
the shirt waist, exactly in the middle
Of the back, on the outside. Now sew
two fiat buttons on the skirt to match
the buttonholes. When buttoned the
waist and skirt will be kept together
easily without strain or danger of sep
arating. The buttons should be fat,
such as are used for mems underwear
pearl buttons for wash skirts and
black trousers buttons for dark woolen
skirts. By this simple contrivance all
danger of tearing the skirt by pinning
is avoided. and the work once done is
lasting.-Chicago Times-Herald.
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Notice in Partition.

In the estate OF william Hollenbuch, late OF
Perry Township. Snyder Co., Pa, deceased
To Hannah Holenbach, widow Of william Hol.
lenbach. deco. OF ChapmaL twp, snyder Co..
Pa. Mary Spicher (nee HolleDbach) intermar.
led W tb John L. Spicker OF Liverpool, Perry
CO., Pa.; Levina Heckert (nee Hollenbach) inter-
married with William Heckert OF Chapman
,wp. SDyder Co., Pa. and Samuel H0llenOacn OF
Perry twp, snyder Co.. Pa: william Portzllne,
husband Of Eva POrtzline (nee HolleLDach) now
deceased; Catherine Shaf1er (nCe Portzllne) In
ermarried with James Shairer, Henry Z. Portz-
Inc, Martha ST. CUB (nee PortZline) intermar.
lied with Wesley Stroud, Gertie Portzline and
Susan PortziDe, minors above the age OF IA
ears who have for their guardian Philip keiter
u Of Perry twp Snyder Co.. Pa. and william
B. rortzline OF Treverton. NOrth'd Co.. Pa.
YOI are hereby notified that by virtues OF a
writ OF iDquisitlOn issued out OF the orphans
Court OfSnyder Co. and to me directed, an In
quest win be held on Tract situate In Perry twp.
snyder Co., Pa. bounded and described az fol.
lcws. viz: on the North by lands OF heirs OF
William Portzline, decd. on the East by lands OF
q. w. P0rtZ'ine, on the South by lands OF same
ana George Cooling and on the West by lands
n Samuel H0lleDbach, containing about Eighty
(sOl Acres, more or less, with the appurtenances
ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, A. d., 1899.
al 10 O'clock A. NJ, to make partition or valua.
ion OF the real estate OF said deceased, when
and where you may attend II you think proper.
Jan. l. 1899. P.S. RITTER, Sherin.
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RUSSIANS RACIAL HISTORY.
Pushed Aside and Absorbed
by the Slavs.

Theanthropological history OF north
eastern Europe is now clear. The Savs
penetrated Russia from the southwest,
where they were ply ysically an offshoot
from the great Alpine race Of central
Europe. In so doing they forced a way
in over people primitive in culture,
language and physical type. This
aboriginal substratum is represented
to-day by the Firms, now scarcely to
be found in purity, pushed aside into
the hooks and corners by an intrusive
people possessed Of higher culture ac-
Juired in central Europe. Yet the Finn
has not become extinct His blood still
flows in Russian veins, most notably in
the Great and White Russian tribes.
The former. in colonizing the great
plain. has also been obliged to contend
with the Asiatic barbarians pressing in
from the east. Yet the impress of the
MongolTartar upon the physical type
of the Great Russian, which constitutes
the major part Of the nation, has been
relatively slight.
For. instead of amalgamation or abb
sorption, as with the Firms, elimina-
tion. or what Leroy Beaulieu calls
secretion" has taken place in the case
of the Mongol hordes. They still re-
main intact in the steppes about the
Caspian. The Tartars are banished to
the eastern governments as well, save
for those in the Crimea. The Asiatc
influence has probably been more
strong in determining the Great Rus
sian character than the physical type.
4 struggle for mastery of eastern En-
rope with the barbarians has perhaps
made the Great Russian more aggres-
sive; vigor has developed at the expense
Of refinement. The result has been to-
generate type well fitted to perform
the arduous task of protecting the
marches of Europe against barbarian
onslaught, and also capable at the
same time of forcefully extending Eu-
ropean culture over the aborigines Of
the neighboring continent Of ASIA
Appleton's Popular Science Monthly.
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WIDpWS' APPRAISER NTS.-NOtice Is here
w by given that the following Widows Ap-
raisements under the $3.50 law, have been flied
Nth the Clerk OF the Or1ans' Court OF Snyder
ounty for confirmation February 27, 1899.
The appraisement OF Adelaide Sampsell, Wild
y Henry G. Sampsell late OF Centre township
snyder CO. Pa, deceased. elected to be taken
nder the 500 exemption law.
AprraiSement OF Annie N. Luck, widow OF Le.
II l. Luck late OF Spring twp. Snyder Co., Pa,
"ceased elected to be taken under the $500 ex-
mdtiOn law.
Apprn'srment Of Elizabeth Gin widow OF A..
NOS Gin, late OF FranGlIc twp, Snyder CO., Pa
licensed elected to be taken under the s22c0 ex-
np'iOn law.
Applaiscmrni 0f Hannah IIollenhach. widow
4 William Hollenbach, iate OF Perry twp, Sny.
,rr ca. Pa. deceased, elected 10 bC taken under
he $50 exemption law.
ApprHiscment OF Rachael Kern widow OF Geo,
Kern, late Il Middleburgh Snyder CO., Pa, de.
eased, elected 10 be taken uuder the $500 ex-
mption law.
GIN. sIIINDEL, Clerk.
Middieburgh Pa, Jan. u. 1899.
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DIALECTS IN AUSTRIA.
There Are Widely Different Tongues
Spoken in the Various
PPOvinces.

In the Austrian Alps the local dia-
lects 20 vary as to be unintelligible
from one district to another, and yet
have been cultivated in passion plays
and popular poetry. Over and above
these dialects are scattered-chieiy in
lower Austria. but even round Vienna
-Slav colonies, Czschs, Slovaks, Cro0ts.
In Vienna itself the czechs claim to be
100000. Slovenians spread over three
crownlands - Styria, Carinthia and
Carniola-And dominate in the last,
which contains also Uscoks, Roman
Catholic Serbs, but the Sovenians seem
10 be retreating before the Germans.
OF these q remarkable group occurs
in the barren Gottschee country, south
east of Laybach, only inhabited since
the fourteenth century. Here again we
find dialect unintelligible TO other
Germans, yet rich in tales and poetry.
Strange to say, the reawakening Of the
Slovenian race in the course of the last
hundred years seems to have been de-
termined by the first Napoleon, who re-
placed German in the normal schools
of the so-called lllyrian provinces (s;x
in number) by Slovene and called forth
the passionate admiration of the Sov-
enian poets. Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
again, are divided between Germans,
Italians and "Ladins" Uatins), the So
called Romansch Of Switzerland.
In the Tyrol also each valley has its
own pronunciation, its own accent, its
expressions unin,elligible few miles
off. The Ladins were predominant in
the sixteenth and seventeenth GEN.
turies; toward the eighteenth century
the Italians got the upper hand. but
seem now to be becoming gradually
outnumbered by the Germans. The
Ladins form a curious little group Of
from 10000 to 10000 in Tyrol, with
nearly $4,000 in Friulli (besides the 4O,-
coo of the Grisons). Their language is
nearer to Provencal or Catalonian than
10 Italian. They chiefly inhabit the val
leys. while the German climbs the
mountain sides. just as he has done in
Bohemia. the Czechs mainly occupying
the plains.-London Spectator.
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Many Clocks in windsor Castle.

The queen has $50 clocks at'Windsor
castle. Some of them run for 4s hours
at winding. one of them for 12 months,
and it is said that in order that the
winder may not forget the latter one it
is wound every year on his birthday.
The oldest clock the queen has be-
longed to Anne Boleyn. 1t is quite a
modern looking affair. but for the
heavy weights that work it. One Of the
clock cases contains Gen. Gordon's
Sible.-, Chicago Chronicle.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-02-23
w0RLDFANRD DOG.
u Assisted Its Aaster In De'ivesiAs
Innocent Chinese from Tor
tuPe aad Death.

Among the celebrated dogs Of the
world must be counted Herr Won Schus-
ter, the faithful companion of Herr
Eugen Wolf, the well-known traveller.
Herr Won Schuster's fame is not due TO
distinction at dog shows or any strik-
ing purity OF breed or race. but is
only sort Of reflected glory. as being
the property OF his master.
The incident which brought him int o
prominence was one that happened in
China shortly after the massacres Of
German missionaries. which led to the
seizure of Kiao-Chou by the imperial
government. II was first related by
Capt. Dannhauer. the correspondent in
China Of the Berlin n-Lokalanzeiger. Ac-
cording to his account, Herr Eugcn
Wolf arrived in Kiao-Chou some
months ago. AMI was informed by one
OF the German missionaries that on the
Berlin government demanding the pun
ishment of the murderers of the mis-
sionaries number of Chinese had been
arrested, more or less at random, uc-
cused of attacking the German mission.
tortured into confession and con-
demneG to death. All Of them, the sur
viving missionaries averred, were COM
pletely innocent Of the crime with
which they were charged.
The real culprits had been denounced
to the mandarin. but he re fused to have
them arrested. On hearing this Herr
Eugen Wolff. accompanied by one OF
the priests Of the mission as interpre-
ter. went to the courthouse and sent to
ask the mandarin to attend. When he
arrived Herr Wolff demanded to see
the prisoners. At first the mandarin
demurred. but more peremptory repe-
tition Of the request led him to give the
necessary order. He had by this time
begun TO get seriously alarmed. as he
thought from Herr VOLTS manner
that he must be armed with great pow
ers. The Lokalanzeiger declared that
Herr Wolff represented himself as sent
ny the German legation in Peking, but
this he absolutely denies.
In any case, the frightened manda-
rim sent for the prisoners. When they
arrived Herr Wolff went forward to the
bench of the court, in which there were
four seats, sat down in the principal
one, placed the priest on his right hand,
lifted his dog, Herr Won Schuster, on to
the chair on his left, and then informed
the now trembling mandarin that he
might occupy the remaining seat.
The prisoners were then brought in and
a short examination proved the accu-
racy of the priests statement. Every
one of them was completely innocent Of
the crime laid to his charge, and had
been arrested by the mandarin either to
wreak private vengeance or to get rid
Of troublesome creditors. When he saw
the impression this evidence was max
ing on the two Germans the terrified
FASTENED TO promise to set
the prisoners free. which he, did "seance
tenante."
Such is the story told by the Lokalan-
zeiger which has contributed to make
Herr Won Schuster one Of the most cele-
brated dogs in Europe. In justice TO
Herr Wolff II should be stated that he
denies certain allegations made by tie
Lokalanzeiger, one being the stale
ment that he had given his dog chair
10 sit on before the mandarin.-ChicaSo
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CAUTION NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given that we have pur.
chased from VIM. +. Howell, the following
named articles which the said Howell purcbas-
ed at Constable Sale: Two horses, prop wa.
gbn. 4 sets of gears, buggy and log wagon.
We have left the above property In the hands
OF II. NJ. Romig and all persons nre cautioned
not to IT eddie with the same.
sTEININGER BROS.
Middleburg, Pa, Jan. IA, 1899.
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Not Apprehensive.

First Boarder-The landlady has
gone to a food exposition, but don't
think it can possibly affect US.
Second Boarder-Why should II af.
feet US?
First Boarder-Well, Of course, II she
finds any cheaper kinds Of food than
we are getting now. we'll have to eat
them; but don't think it's psssible.-
Puck,
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Ruling Passion.

Mrs. Shopleigh-This war tax is not
SO bad, after all.
Mrs. Trotleigh-How do you make
that out?
Mrs. Shopleigh-Why, don't you see :?
II you write check for one dollar and
put a two-cent stamp on it, that re.
duces il to 0S cents.-N. Y. Journal.
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Aai fAcn 01aPt iaain.

Saloon Keepsr-I can't charge any
thing more up to you, Mr.. Soak. You'll
have to pay cash hereafter. I've used .
whole leadpcucil up charging the stuff
you've had.
Mr.. Soak-Dont let little think like
a fve-cent .leadpencil worry you. I'll
bring you new one to-morrow.-N. Y.
World.
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The following accounts VIII he presented for
,oii affirmation on Monday. Feb. q, 1899:
First and final account OF Jeremiah Beaver,
Executor OF Daniel Beaver, deceased, who was
q. NJ. SHINDEL. Clerk.
''ddleburgh, Pa. Jan. 2s, 1899.
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Only an Inference.

"Who was Diogenes?" said the teach
er to Freddy Fosdick.
"Diogenes was q woman of Athens" :"
replied the boy.
Freddy, how did you get 1t into your
head that Diogenes was woman2"
Because she was always looking for
Q man."-Judge.
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n XECuToRs NoTICE.-Notice is

IL hereby given that letters testamentary up
ON the estate Of Amelia Biger. late OF
deceased, have been issued in due form OF law
to the undersigned. to whom oil indebted to
said estate should make immediate payment
and those having claims agnfnst It should pre-
sent them duly authenticated for settlement.
Jacob Gilbert. w. ID. BlLGER,
Attorney. Executor.
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In Four Hours.

A division of Russian cavalry, to-
gether with horse artillery, has re-
Gently been exercised in crossing the
Niemen river. near Kovno, as nearly as
possible under war conditions. The
river is about $50 yards wide. and some
20 feet deep. with fairly strong cur
rent. One regiment of dragons swan
across with their horses in 80 minutes.
another in &c minutes. and a Cossack
regiment, sotnia succeeding sotnia. got
across in 20 minutes. The mems arms
and clothes, toget- -.er with the few men
who could not swim, were taken across
in boats or on RATS, and improvised
RATS carried the guns and wagons
The whole division got across in four
hours. and there were no mishaps OF
any importance. The weather was wet
and therefore not favorable to the ex'
periment.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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BFOtherly.
They quarreled over her, but now
They as two brothers be
For the girl since has declared herself
Each fellows sister. See?
Detroit Journal.
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A Nail Income assured. 25 cts. starts you or
"A cir. free. POINTS Co 25l Oak Dlk., Boston.
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Lose weight in school Examin ations

The weights of classes Of students
before and after examination have been
made the subject of recent investiga-
ton. In high classes, where naturally
the responsibility of the examination
to be gone through was more felt, sew
eral pounds were lost, showing how the
mental strain was felt. In lower classes
the loss was not so great.-Xouth's
Companion.
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FOR. THH DELICATE dkRr

r p PAY IF YOU'RE PLEASED 10 DAYS
Ah AFTER SHIPMENT; IF NOT, RETURN.
UCV NO MONEY WANTED IN ADVANCE.
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% zE eox RAIN coal

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-23
FICTION.
THE MIsDEEDs OF AN IGNOBLE GEN
TLEMAN.

COUSIN IVO Ry Mrs Andrew Dean Mrs Alfred
Sidgwick) limo pp $40 The Macmillan COM