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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-01-04

Sudbury ut lO:3O THIS wednesday
morning. His neck was broken and
death was instantaneous. No confes-
sion was made, but he left state
ment which may implicate others.
The Christian Endeavor Society
of the Lutheran church held a very
interesting and enjoyable social on
New Years evening. Refreshments
consisting of ice cream and cake
were served. A literary program
was rendered.
TYPEwRITING without teacher.
Barkley's Ring Method teaches how
to use all eight fingers. Easy and
practical. A boon to beginners. A
luxury for experts. Send for clrcu-
lars. c. W. BARKLEY, Steward,
Nebraska. l 4 5t.
l.. c.. Bowerscx and wife of Sha-
mokin, Mrs. VIM. f. Stahlneckcr
of Adamsburg, A. Meade Bowersox
and wife of Beavertown, Mrs. Anna
Kreeger of Selinsgrove, Prof.C. w.
Herman and wife of Wyoming were
among the Christmas visitors in
town.
If you want your hair cut with
out steps or nice easy shave and a
refreshing shampoo, go to A. E..
Soles. in the bank building one door
east of the Post Office, in room with
the drug store. A clean towel to
each customer and satisfaction guar.
anteed.
Hon. Geo. Alfred Schoch bought
the old nomestesd farm ofthe joseph
Walter estate west oftown at public
sale for$571O. X. q. Walter bought
the one-half interest in the Allen
Schoch farm for &4S00 and Isaiah
Walter bought the woodland tract
for 500.
/, OR SALE.--A good working
horse for all purposes, a buggy, hay
ladders complete, truck wagon COM
plete with pole and shaft and other
articles will he sold at private sale in
Middleburg. Call on or address,
IRWIN r. Buck,
ltf West Market Street.
Harvey f. Eberly Of Beaver
Springs was in town Thursday Of
last week. Mr.. Eberly has heen
one Of Snyder County's hest bust.
ness men nthe creamery business al
Adamsburg, but on Monday Of this
week he moved his effects to Denver
Lancaster County, Pa, where he will
make his future home. We regre
| 10 lose 90 valuable a citizen.
l The cantata "Bethlehem" wa
rendered in the court house Oh
Christmas evening by chorus re
presenting the Lutheran Sunda.
school. The singers were attired il
Oriental costume which made a yer,
unique appearance. The singing
was well rendered and all who wer
connected with the project deserv
the highest praise. M. !. Potte
was the director.
C. G. Seebold and family of Sun
bury spent Sunday with relatives a
this place. Charley says he loade
himself up with the many goo
; things that Mrs. John Runkle ha
prepared Sunday. Mr.. Seebold
building up an extensive trade j
the musical instrument business 9
> Sunbury and is now erecting larg
8 brick structure on Third street to i
. used as place Of business and
residence.
With this issue, the Posr enter
-Iupon its 37th volume. 1t is no,
e 36 years since It'll called the. Posi-
Before that time it was called tn
Unisn Demokrat and was 4 Germa
Whig paper, estabIished about 184
lat New Berlin. Hence it is 5
! years since this paper was establish
< Ied. We dGire to thank the man
: friends Of the Posr Who 80 sobl
\ | have e,annnrted Il and are sfilI len(
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-01-04
INTERESTING ITEMS.

rhe new sheriff, Geo. Wash. Row,
ed into the Jail Tuesday. !
We wish the readers of the Posi-
,appy and prosperous New Year
L. ]. Manbeck of Middlecreek
IS a Middleburg visitor one day
t week.
ating last week was the chiet
,ment of the school children
hers.
sMollie Bolender is spending
weeks visiting her sisters at
l,Ohio.
ne editor of the Posi- and wife
heir Christmas dinner with his
er at Selinsgrove.
lviu Stetler and wife attended
mic banquet at Mifflinbnrg
nesday Of last week.
Thomas II. Hosterman OF Centre
inty has been spending the holi-
in town with his wife.
Iiss Cora Enterline of Riverside
1.-THE holidays with her many
v in town and Swineford.
Mensch Of near Miffiin-
ling a few days with
ALI. Schoch and wife.
sadvaLced 20 cents ton.
.shp must buy their coal have
Ato wish for warm weather.
Dr. l. G. Barber and chill
Danville are visiting Miss
.Wittenmyer IL Franklin.
liam Dunkelberger, headclerk
sGlobe StoreatS tSunbnry, spent
,,mas with his parsntsin Swine
iss Ruth Bower Of Lewisburg
at the holidays with her grsnd-
her Catharine Bower. in Swine
county Treasurer William H.
gle has purchased a piano from
wide-awake music dealer, Frank
siegle.
Villain Gutelius Of this place
been rallied to Harrisburg ia
t in the rush ofexpress business
lat pace.
rof. Edwin Charles of the In
,ediate school, spentseveral days
is vacation last week with his
nts at Port Treverton.
II the Sunday schools held ap.
rfhte Christmas exercises in &C
lance with notice published II
last issue of the PosT.
Ar. Gilbert, a student Of Frank
and Marshall College of Ian
ter, is spending his vacation witt
parents on West Market Street
Capt. G. w. Ryan Post No. 36-
"a. X. will hold an entertainment
|, the Post room on the evening o
eb. %, 1900. Further announce
tent will be made later.
w. e. Pomeroy Of Port Roya
Middleburg visitor last week
q been called here by an i'm
int meeting .: the directors o
First National Bank.
Jr. A. j. Herman Of this plac
Is best man at the wedding Of Mis-
(artha Olivia Hill and Stewart s
NTH, both Of Northumberland, a
kak ,,l.ce erhura1av If last week.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15

said: "FatheF, / have on seven differ
ent coverings beside my dress"
This is enough Of beans and vines and
insects. Ny folks are busy now MAKE
ing jelly-made Sc glasses Of horse APP
pie Jelly yesterday and are working on
the bIackberries to-day. Never was
such a crop Of berries-these berries
Of chameleon colors that are red when
they are green and black when they
are ripe. The poor country women
and little girls have taken in many .
dime already. They want 20 cents q
gallon, and / never jew them. When a
poor woman and her little children turn
out in the wet grass and scratch their
hands and tear their clothes and get
wet up to their knees and tote their
buckets to own two or three miles
they ought to have 20 cents for a gall
lon, but they don't get it often.
A woman came yesterday with a
peck of nice berries, and I knew her,
though / hadn't seer her since her hus-
band was in the chain gang. How is he
doing now?" I asked her. She
6NllAEW FdAu 68A4L lit az WOAAg
he's been doin' right well for q
good while. His health amt good, but
he's at work. Me and the children have
got a right good garden, but my little
daughter needed a pair of Sunday shoes
mighty bad, and l told her we could
pick berries for 'em, and we will" Now,
that poor woman tied herself to a
trifling man when she was young and
fairly pretty, and she don't want to get
loose. It's most astonishing to me
the devotion of q roman to a trihing
husband. She says he is good to her
and loves the children, but he has his
failings, and so she clings to him and
keeps her marriage VOWS. St. Peter
will let her in when she knocks at the
gate and will let her children in, too,
but 1 don't know what will become OF
him. Maybe he is elected for her sake;
1 hope so.-Bn Arp, in Atlanta Con-
stitution-
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
sulphur the moaqultO's Foe.

One of our readers informs us that,
having seen a statePent of some Eng
lish medical journal to the effect
that sulphur, taken internally, would
protect a person against flea bites, it
occurred to him to try it as a.preven-
tive of mosquito bites. According
ly he began taking ~effervescing tab
let's of tartarlithine and sulphur, four
daily. He provided himself with sever
al lively mosquitoes, and, having put
them in a wide-mouthed bottle, in
verified the bottle and pressed Its
mouth upon his bare ARM. The mos
quitoes settled on his skin, but showed
no inclination to bite him. If this
gentleman's experience should be
borne out by further trials it might
be well for persons who are partiCu-
larly sensitive to mosquito bites to
take a course of sulphur during the
mosquito season, especially in view Of
the growing opinion that the mos
quito is the common vehicle Of the
plasmodium m~alariae.-MediCal Jour
nal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
sTo1Cs AMONG THE BoERs.
Remarkable Statement Made by q
Family of Mel Who Were
Prisoners.

"I don't know of any better illustra-
tion of the way the Boer families have
gone into the field" said one of the Of
ficers of the transport Milwaukee, ac-
cording to the New Orleans Times-Dem-
Ocrat, than the fact that we had four
generations in a single group among
the prisoners we took with Cronje to
St. Helena. 1t was a remarkable party,
and consisted of great-grandfather,
grandfather, father and son. The boy
was about IS; his father was 40 or
whereabouts; the grandfather was a
man of 60, and the old patriarch of the
lot was about so. They had all been
under arms in Cronje's laager when it
made its last stand, fighting in differ
emit trenches, and after the surrender
they mutually drifted together.
They excited my interest and 1
talked with them on several occasions
during the voyage. It seems that they
had been living on one of the great cat.
tie ranges of the northern veldt, form.
ing one big household with their won.
en- folk, and knew nothing of the war
until the order came to turn out for ac-
tive service. OF course they belonged
to the local commando or militia de-
partment for that section, but it was
not a regularly disciplined ~organiza-
ton, and they had never even drilled to-
gether.
"When the call came the father and
son responded first and Joined Cronje's
n-p,- TnAnw an ALawa v-nr nn1+hn-
requisition for troops and the grand
father shouldered his rife and hurried
to the front. About the time Cronje
started on his last retreat the old
grandfather got uneasy and set out to
see how his boys as he called them,
were getting along. He arrived just be-
fore the final stand, and, once inside the
lager, he couldn't get out; so he took
a gun from a dead man and went to
fighting along with the rest of the fam
lily.
"The four Beers struck me as coed,
honest, supplemented men. They had
no idea whatever. of the causes of the
war, the principles involved or the rela-
tive strength of the two sides. All they
knew was that the 'rooineks' were try
| ingto invade the republic and that Dom
Paul had called on them to come out
and fight. The whole crowd were ia
talists of the deepest dye. They were
prisoners of war on a strange ship, sail
ing away to a part of the world as un-
known to them as the mountains of the
moon, but they accepted the situation
as stoically as so many Turks. Iasked
the grandfather how he thought it
would all end. God knows he replied,
calmly. But don't you expect to get
back to your home and family again 2
I inquired. God knows he repeated.
and went on smoking his pipe"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15

Warm weather is trying enough in
itself without the extra annoyance Of
toothache, and it is well to have a reli-
able remedy at hand. Even the most
troublesome tooth may have the pain
almost instantly stopped by the use of
a little of the common compound tinct-
ure Of benzoins sold everywhere in the
drug stores. Put a few drops on cotton
and place it in or around the tooth.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15

A most healthful dish is hasty pud-
ding, It is made by mixing enough
water with a pint Of Indian meal to
take out all the Jumps. Add the mix
ture, a tablespoonful at a time, to q
quart Of water, kept at boiling point.
When this has been thoroughly dis
solved, add a sufficient quantity of
dry meal to thicken, season with salt
and serve.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
Rnab nf VInltnrn.

Mistress-Did anyone call while I
was out?
Bridget (the new housemaid)-Yis,
mum; foive leddies an two gintlemen.
'Where are their eards?"
'There was no need o. thin LAWN
any,
''Why not, I should like to know ?"
sol was at home"
"You2"
sYis, mum. They called on me, mum
st. Louis Globe-Democrnt
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15

Riggs-Hear about Mrs. Titewaddi
Told her husband she would kill her
self if he did not buy her a new bon
net.
Jiggs-What did Titewadd do?
Riggs-Got estimates on funerals,
found he could save two dollars by buy.
ing the bonnet, and saved her life.
Baltimore American.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
NOTICE no THB PUBLIC.

Pres u1d aftaR January 1, lGgT, no tFsspasI
BWamB lands.
Any ana al cattle, h0rsss, mules, etc., found
- oG4 plantation after ah0Ve aato win Be
Ponna1 and held fer aamaEE. MhokB and other
AAmRgipg anlmalB WILL 90 killed VIXEN f9und on
ARaaef 0o above plantation.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
TREsPAss NOTICE.

The public e hereby notified not 20 hgsb O.
atheFwise tregpaas on my property. on Grand
Ga3lou, Bayou Sale and Bayou Grassy. tn
roads through said properties are not public
but private, and all persons are warned not u
use without hFst obtRlnlng tho permission o.
UWrnef, under penalty OF the law Trespassins
% also forbidden on the properly oIG ]. Cena
30 grahd CniltOu PIERRE CENAC.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
NOTICE

An PsEsOag sFo hereby noglaed R0s to hunt or
aHh on the following plantahoaB; BOuthdoWn,
Hollywood, Concord, Waterproof, Laurel and
BOsodalO. JOHN d. MINOR
WIZ. MINOR,
Rststs r. O. MiaoG.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
TO H PUBLIC.

Hunting, trapping or tFespasBing o my EnalRE
Ridge plantation, Little Gallon, Is hereby for.
bidden. Parties caught -trespassing en- saic
JOHN BhDLN
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
TO THE PUBLIC.

}Tho public is hereby notified not 20 hHnE plea
noa9 81 traspRss on thn Point Fagm PlBntGtiOn
lF The swap iands belonging 70 said plantation
aadaF penalty o. tue law
A. r. VLGUERIL Prep
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
TRESPASS NOTICE.

Tue pualto g hereby notified that huntinE,
~eEoapaaslRg o. mOss-PickiRE on tho Waubou, %
George ahd Julia plantations, D foFbiPdon, IN
Ser penalty 81 the law.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
TO TIE PUBLIC.

Tho public Is hereby notified NOS 70 hult, plOA
nosS OF tresPass on Asagoa Plantation, undo
penalty 81 tbs law.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
10 THE PUBLIC.

TAs VabHela hereby notified not - hunt, trap
Sex moss or Otherwise sFespaSa on the St, Eo
piantstioR, Bayou DuLargS, under penalty Q
n. RoUssEAUx. Tutor.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
TREsPAss NOTICE.

All parties are forbidden, under penalty 81 the
nW,9 20 hunt ase, Hap, ems weed, d0aden trees,
PICK moss or OtheFWA9 tFeapaB8 On the Wood.
avn Rnd Ashland p~lhntnaBns.
CEILt6bE 8 MACHINES.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
NOTICE

An bunting n tReaPasslng ca OAK Forest
Plantation and Rousdl tFast positively prshib.
eo4 +. T. CASEY, Agent
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
10 THE PUBLIC

Fhs public Is hsrsby nOuhoa uos = huas. plun
hess a. otherwise tFo1paau q tho Eaalolla
plautation Of MEz s. @. HHupGgays under p-as
AW g ne Law. T.E CABRE, ASST
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15

friend or Dr. Walkers grandmother. Mrs Wal.
Ter IIddeli. whose family retained number or
Ietters nom the poet all of which have been
printed by his biOgraphers. together with copies
OF some or his poems written out for Mrs. Rid
deiIs delectatOn. LandOr was Dr. walkers
friend and correspondent for many years. and
ne save MIN his cedar wood writing desk con-
tanning among other things a miniature Of
lanthe and a lock of Rose Aylmers hair, the
identical tress Of which LandOr must have
written the lines:
Beautiful spoils. borne off from vanqushd
Death.
Upon my hearts high altar shall YOU lie
Moved but BY only one adOrer's breath.
retaining youth. rewarding constancy.
The portrait OF Ianthe. otherwise sophia JAMS
swift. may have suggested another love poem.
sadden while L view again
Smiles that for me the Graces wreathds
Sure my last kiss those lips retain
Aud breathe the very vow / breathd.
Together with these touching mementos. uo
desk preserved by DIT Walker contained -a IT,.
ber OF letters and papers. most OF which n~ ss
recently been published. Mrs. BroWnins -
another OF his friends and not very Ions "a
fore his death he recalled the TemarS sne "a
made 20 him that Shakespeare is "a seconu =
spiration."
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15

hicans." There is nothing artificial here; there
is truth and there is beauty; there is the zest of
life, and there is the flavor Of literature despite
all defects Mr.. Morris well says of Cooper
that his best stories are romances Of adventure,
lin the best sense Of the phrase not pieced pain
fully together out of forgotten chronicles,
but like Sir Walters own, warm and glowing
with imagination inspired by personal ex-
perience and edged with knowledge naturally
acquired and wholesome always. and bracing as
the breeze which blew over his own Otsego and
stirred the flowers which fringed the beautiful
valley Of the Susquehanna. And the setting of
these romances is superb. A literary artist as
I have said, Cooper cannot be called but IN
drawing nature he certainly showed some of the
finest qualities Of the artist" The illustrator of
this edition. Mr.. Harry II. Brock, is weak where
Cooper is strong, in the presentation of a sylvan
atmosphere, but in dramatic action md in the
characterization Of figures the draughtsman is
effective. and his work helps to make this edi-
tion good one.
OF course, no self-respectiag reviewer can af-
ford TO speak Of Miss Jane Porter without a SOL
emn shake Of the head over her failure to write
as the historical novelist is nowadays in duty
bound to write. But, having sacrificed 10 the
conventions, that same reviewer. if he is Just
will admit that there are some beguiling quail
ties left in THE Scottish Chiefs" The tone is
so brave and wholesome, the narrative style is
SO workmanlike. the drift of the book IS so hon
estly romantic. Most assuredly IL is a pleasure
TO meet this old companion Of earlier days in
the first holiday edition which really does il
justice Mr T. Ii. Robinson, the illustrator. is
a competent draughtsman, facile and pictu-
rescue. His frontispiece in colors is so good
that we wish there more plates like il in
the book. but the black and whites are in their
way equally artistic. With its pretty end pa
pers and its unusually refined and effective col
ored cover this is a Christmas book which M
! well constituted boy could lake I'D witbout he
/ ing glad of the privilege
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15

1t is published in two Volumes Illustrated by
Albert +. SteTneT There is also a one volume edi-
ton, which is illustrated and bound i'm crna-
mented cloth. The most important novel in
Harpers' list, after Eleanor" Is "rhe Mantle of
Elijah" by l. Zangwill, illustrated by Louis
Loeb THE Expatriates." by Lillian Bell is the
first novel BY this author. lovely young
widow, pretty girls, tame bears and young
schoolmaster few Of the characters who
add interest to "A Bicycle OF Cathay." a new
story by Frank r. Stockton. Besides those al
ready mentioned. Harpers list contains great
number OF other novels. some few of which are
THE Cardinals Rose" by Van TasseI Sutphen:
'Chlors of the Island" by H. r. Marriott Wat
son; THE ConspiratoTs.' by Robert w Cham
hers: "A Cumberland Vendetta" by John Fox
jr I'm a new edition. and specially illustrated
editions. particularly suitable for gifts of
Lorna Doone," by II. D. BlackmOre; 'Vesty
of the Basins" by Mrs Sarah F. Mel. Greene;
Their Silver Wedding Journey" by William
Dean Howells, and The CIoister and the
Hearth" by Charles Reade.
Literary Friends and Acquaintance" by
William Dean Howells carries the list away
from fiction. Another collection of essays Is
Lucid Intervals by Edward Sanford Martin
with Illustrations by Miss Stilwell. Still another
volume of essays mixed with fiction is The
Man That Corrupted Hadley yburg" by Mark
Twain. To be classed as miscellaneous books:
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
NEW AND CID NOVELS.
HANDSOME REPRINTS FOR CHRISTMAS.

ELEANOR. A Novel BY Mrs. Humphry Ward
illustrated by Albert Sterner. IN Two Volumes
octave, pp. S6S, 25S Harper a Bros
DAVID HARUM. a Study OF American Life by
West Clinedinst with a Few Text Drawings ny
g d. Farrand Duodecimo. pp. XVII SO D.
Appleton Co.
PFNELOPE's ENGLISH EXPERIENCES. BY
Kate DoSslas Msgin o Mlth fiSy5Tee no5anSeo Dn
x I7s Houghton. Mf1in & Co.
PFNFLoPE's PROGRESS Being such Extracts
from the Common Place Book OF Penelope
Hamilton Relate 10 Her Experiences In scot
land. BY Kate Douglas Niggin With flits-
i've Illustrations by Charles +. Brock. Hough-
ton. Mifflin Co.
vEsTY OF THE BASINS. a Novel BY Sarah ?:
Mclean Greene. Illustrated with Drawings ny
Otto n. Bacher and from Photographs by Chf-
ton Johnson. Octave. pP. VI, 2l. Harper q
Bros.
DAISY MILLER. BY Henry James i nlgstrSted 1Si,o
from Drawings by Henry W. McNickar Duo
decimo. pp. vi. lSi. Harper & Bros.
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT BY Beatrice
Harraden. With Illustrations from photographs
by Gertrude Harraden. Duodecimo, pp. XVII.
2S5 Dodd, Mead e. Co.
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANs BY Fenimore
Cooper. With Illustrations by a NJ Brock ana
Introduction by MOwbray Morris Duooeci-
mo. pp. xvii a9S. The Macmillan Company
With Illustrations by T u. Robinson. octave,
pp. xii 564. z p. Dutton & Co.
when Mrs Wards Eleanor" passed into book
form after serial publication il appeared In one
volume printed very ordinary paper, and
with but one iustration-a frontispiece. The
authors work is deserving of better treatment.
and this the publishers have given it in thu ed
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15

manship in America. He drew monthly naqe
for Life" from the time OF the birth OF that
periodical to November. 1899. His humor was
genial but it had a backbone and at the Same
time that he raised a smile he touched the intel
ligence Of his public. While there was nothing
distinguished about his draughtsmanship. a GER
tain sense of beauty is felt in some of his
sketches Of Columbia" and though his line was
not in itself brilliant. il sufficient for his
purpose; he had never any difficulty In express
ing what he had to say. Thoughtful. individual
kindly. but always pungent in his castigation Of
the follies of the world he receives no mora
than his deserts in tre volume which now gives
permanent form TO his fugitive pages 1t is n
fitting memorial to a gifted man.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-15
By LILLIAN BELL

NAPOLEON: The Last Phase" by Lord Rose
berry: "She Stoops to Conquer. by Oliver Gold
smith, with numerous Illustrations by Edwin
A Abbey in half leather. with decorative sides
in green and gold; Our Presidents. and How
we Make Them" by Colonel ~ X. Mcclure:
The Story of Nineteenth Century Science" by
Henry Smith Williams, with many Illustrations;
''The Idiot at Home" by John kendrick Bangs;
The Booming of Acre Hill, and Other Stories,
also by Mr. Rangs, and 'WhilOmVilie Stories"
by the late stephen Crane. a number OF emf
nent preachers have contributed To Women OF
the Bible" which contains full page plates by
Frank V Du MOnd. w. +. Snyder, and George
t. Tobin The title page is Illuminated and the
binding Is I'm ornate green and gold or purple
and gold
Harpers' list further includes Mother Goose
for Grown Ups" by Guy WetmOre Carryl: for
children there are 1.-THE ROggie and Reggie
Stories" by Gertrude Smith; The Road TO
Nowhere. by Livingston T. Morse. both OF
which are illustrated IN cOlOrs and In the
Hands of the Cave Dwellers." by George Alfred
Henty.