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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-11-19
Weather-Denten.

"Why do so many writers use that
hackneyed phrase, the weather-beaten
farmer?'" said the young man who
reads novels.
81 dunno" answered Mr.. Corntossel,
as he laid down the paper containing
the latest freshet news, "onless it's be-
cause the weather beats us out of so
many crops. ."-Washington Star.
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No. 7Oo3.
Treasury Departmental of Cong
trOller of theICurrency.
No. 1908.

uOlleI VI tueASuIIeuCl.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. IS, lsS
WHEREAS, BY satisfactory evidels
presented to the undersigned, it s
been made to appear that "The Es
National Bank of Swineford," locstS
in the Village of Swineford, III ia
County of Snyder, and State of Penn
sylvania, has complied with all ID
provisions of the Statutes of the Unl'a|
States, required to be complied wiz
before an association shall be authonfI
81 1" cpn,'urure the business of BsDf|
iuw.
N"w. tnpr"i"rr /. Th.nia> 7. has|
Deputy u'id Actin: Comptroller o' 'H|
Currency, do hereby certify that III
First Nalionnl Bank of SWinefofu
located il the village IT Swinetord' y
the County Of Snyder, State OF fep'
sylval,ia, is authorized to conmen'|
the business Of Banking rs provided n
Section Fifty Ore Hundred and ohv
Nine Of the Revised Statutes Of "
Unite" .,tates. %. J-''-.-A "A
/. testimony whereof wit Loss n'
hand and seal Of this Office, this VI
teenth dav of October, 1908. 4a.l
ID. CsEAL,l .5us T. p. KANE, y
Depaty and Acting Comptroller Of y
f., Currency. lO.29-St
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When He Mailed II.

Mrs. Jones-John. are you sure you
mailed those letters gave you last
week. and also the one gave yos this
morning? ... r.. vr
Mr.. Jones-Yee, found the other
letters in my pocket when mailed the
one this morning.-Judge.
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Dissimilar Views.

Stern Parent-Young man, saw
you kissing my daughter as I passed
the parlor door, and want you to
know that don't like it. What have
you to say about it?
Young Man-An I've got to say is
that you evidently don't know good
thing when you see it.-Cincinnau
Enquirer.
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company since April, 1901. Mr.. Corey is
one OF Mr.. Carnegie's "30 young men,"
Fifteen years ago he was pushing o
wheefbarrow In the yards Of one Of the
Carnegie mills in Braddock. He wheeled
80 much more iron in a day than the
men at his elbows that he was soon
made foreman over them. Then his
employer noticed that he got three
times as much work out of his men
as the other foremen, and at the same
time the men worked harder without
any grumbling, and swore by their new
and youthful boss. Corey was straight
way picked out by Mr.. Carnegie as q
promising. valuable acquisition, and
given constantly widening opportuni-
ties. He worked hard, studied at night
to improve his public school education,
and in time became an expert chemist
FL IN nrmor plate authority. He was
r .'.. ''''rc' cf this mill. and
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Good GiYl.

Good Girl.
did you engage the cook. oahrr
said the young husband.
Eyes, did," replied tho young
wife.
DO you think she's a good cookr
"She must be; she says she goes to
church twice every Svndsyi"-Von-
kers Statesman.
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The POST, Middleburg, Pa.
Tho Game OF Silence.

hes 30 mean" she said.
What does be DOR asked her moth
or, with view to smoothing over
any matrimonial dlfacuities.
why, in our honeymoon days he in
sisted on teaching me to play chess and
now he insists upon game whenever
want to discuss household matters or
talk to him about his club."-Chicago
Post.
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A Practical View.

AFTER ALL" remarked the senttmen-
tai wife, home 10 the dearest spot on
earth" vT1t-r 'g '9 1" tl 1928
Eyes, verify" rsjoined thS frsight
payer Of the matrimonial trust. a. hs
finished auditing last months Opossy
blh-CiAdnnat EnQuirsN
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WILLIAM ELLIS COREY.
began business Life by Pushing
WheelbarrOw.

William e. Corey, who has been as
sistant to President Schwab, of the
United States Steel corporation, and will
be the active head of the big corpora
ton. has been president Of the Carne-
gle company land the Carnegie Steel
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Feminine Logic.

"I Just know that my new drees
does not look at all neat or stylish, !"
said Mrs. Wedderly.
why do you think that, my dearf"
replied the bill-footer Of the combine
because it's too comfortable" re-
piled Mrs. W.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Same Old SeoFY.

I'VE women will have the last word,
you know" ..a ts-r..ft t.,.,,a .n0.
Saying which Miss Nippy picked up
new novel and opened It at the conclud-
ing chaptsS.-Newark News
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Same Thing.

Wrs. CrlWSON DtHK (dt tnt DHN RtEn6D-
Wat '""0 = '''"- John. when the man
at tho h'' n" BAT Gown and re-
t!r7s 20 So '"rA?
Mr. Crim<c. ." --v'h''. Il mrars the
sane rs whoa wpr u lpa"es the room
ard slams the tcor cfter her--Yonkers
Statesman.
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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-11-19
Attractive AdvertisinU

Customer see you advertise boy
cles from ten cents to one hundred dol
lars.
Dealer-Yes, sir.
What kind OF bicycles DO you sell
for ten cents?"
"Candy oneR"-N. Y. Weekly.
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l.
,r;ol.ooaa - -" TY- Hs
nr;oht ana rs t"S Ia 80 .no , we.
n;s d;roo,ion H. ~ ~
,bs yatsr nnr g. ~ 80. W..
, two-dor,s - -. .aaN
vas NO, mora ~ H.', "a -
,o,,,l h.,.a nc
Toward morning and h. "A the
ground RISING. He kD-,v rs an.
proaching the eley?;.,. II seen
early in the evening. .. IN ont
be stretched ,ims. Il ,.. md for
IN hours rest and ,len he
awoke il was day.i- was Mt
the base OF a Hill. , ovation
proved to be three '.,.l ne little
distance apart. ana ,g... mind the
other, which. at q .rnp ice. gave
them the appearan ,.... ce. They
were also higlrr they had
seemed 10 be ON the or . ; evening.
The man ate t.. .be food
md drank some .. nrecious
water. What hr CO... zee of the
lllls was not cnea but his
waking dream cam. "A dream
Of cottonwood .... 4 willows
under them sl.#irr j. running
ttrram on either .i.. the ridge,
Thinking of this -. red his he
longings and started v TO ascend
the hill. 1t was = lu. imb and he
rested often. bec.,.. ,ore excited
Us he neared the to,. ice he would
be able to see the o.. r side. His
heart sank as il ca,a in sight, for
1t was dryer, if possil, than the one
he had trayerscd, ard is vision of an
hour before became a nightmare |,
lie knew no time CO" be wasted in
making the return tip. 1t was
two-day's journey; in had scant
one-days water sur' y, and he was
very weak. lie sta" ed around the
bill to get his bearings for camp. He
ooticed pieces of On" c-looking brown
rock, and through free of habit he
picked up specimen to examine as
he went. 1t was composed quartz
and 1t crumbled in his hand. He
picked up another and another; they
were the same. NOW the brown
chunks on the gronnd seemed yellow
TO MIN. He picked one up. 1t not
only looked ye'l"w--it appeared very.
heavy. lie tried others; all were the
same.
Was he dreaming? Or going mad?
lie feared the liter. He dropped
the last piece ir had picked up and
started for the I'D of the hill. rub
bing his eyes. lie sat down in his
excited condi'i'n and tried to calm
he l"""ed out over the des-
ert' EVeryth'"E had its natural
Color; he took " little water; every
thins SCENE" zeal; then he went
pack lie wa either dreaming nor
going mad. it as real! The ground
tor a space a. 1T two feet wide and
several yardS 'ng was covered with
nuggets OF 81 shapes and Sizes
some naa 't2 dark brown quartz
aktached, ana all were embedded In
ledge OF honeycombed, decom-
posed brown quartz, with a black
malachite rock on both walls. He
TOOK ms can zen from his shoulder
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Oates -; :"'..-':; i'.'er, ais bar the
''r''. '."'"'' rc'|7 n Norway. and are q
'l;'SaN - - "3T''""s who have TO leave
'i"tr '"hi"i"s No open the barriers.
G'a"-a nht r',"'.cT' lark the boundaries
NJ farms. or sap r. the cultivated SEQ
: oHs from the waste lands. ...
O..nens.
The bookkeeper 5u,Ees the b4eDd stenoO.
Ths Sflce boy ,ou IS about.
Tho cause? The boss Is ou.. Of course
The effectf Why. tho boss Is out.
Puck ...... .....r
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49, old mans t,n',y lea; ,r.'s. re
NoUid change t., snhl.,t hv .avin,
thry would come back after visiting
AlLmD. There was y" r,"ic- left the
pr"sprctor; he ACCOMPANIED his res
cucrs. and in the gold fields he tried
to interest prosprctors to 60 with
him; but when he told of the rich
ness of the find they would shrug
their shoulders and look incredulous.
For several months the man who
lived this adventure prospectcd in
Alamo, in the hope of interesting. in
the desert discovery, some prospect
or-American, Mexican or Indian. he
cared not which--but to no purpose.
He finally located rich and extern
sive mine, known as the Silent Part
ner, on the north slope Of the Santa
Tomas mountains. overlooking the
desert. He worked the mine for
years. But seldom did day pass
that he did not sit for hours facing
the desert, thinking Of that strange
find and its stranger loss.-Overland
Monthly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05

will not be so much military cut"
The shoulders are to have less pad
ding. the waist less curve. The
hang" will be loCser, as it was before
the advent of the uncomfortable mill
tary shapes. Loose and easy fitting
cutaways are to come into more gen
eral use again, it is said, and fancy
vests are to be worn much more than
they were last year. There viii be
vests with or without collars, either
in good form, but all of them will be
cut high.
Trousers are to have moderate
sized legs-nCt tight, but 5aggy like
those Of recent seasons. The shoes of
this year are to be q little more point
ed, say the shoe store men, but beyond
that there are not to be any innova-
tons. AS to hats, they form the one
line of mems clothes about which the
public gets no reliable advance hints.
1t is explained that there is SO much
rivalry in the hat trade that each deal
er regards his plans for the coming
season as dark secret. Each has
an opening day." and then his patrons
are expected to come around and see
for the first time what they are sup
posed to wear on their heads.-NeW
York Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05

is in a fair way to add $4,000 year
to the Emperor's revenues.
Fou- years ago only rye and pota
toes would grow in Cadinen. The en-
peIOr has introduced wheat, oats and
barley and mangeI wurzel for cattle.
He has put $50 Dutch COWS on the
estate and every day their produce
gees to Dantzig and other towns III
the vicinity The Cadinen milk, cream.
butte and cheese have become ia
nous throughout the east Of Germany
and command the highest prices. The
emperor's new dairy is modelled upon
the Windsor establishment a spirit
motor supplies all the power needed.
During his recent stay in Cadinen
the empe or read up all the latest
English books on dairy farming His
attention has also been directed to
better eed of swine. He has just
bought farm adjoining Cadinen. a
place called Kickelhof. where he has
installed some Of the best Westphalian
breeds
But he is proudest Of his potatoes.
IN four years he has replaced the poo.
sOapy potatoes which used to grow ii
Gardiner with a splendid, lOuTy arti-.
Gle admired all over the countryside
The potato output of Cadinen this
year was over 1000 tons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05
Curious Esuuimoux Customs,

The arrival in the world of the
youthful EsQuimau is not greeted by
the orthodox cradle and sWaddling
clothes. Practically, till he can shift
for himself, he lives absolutely naked
inside his mothers sealskin blouse,
skin to skin keeping him warm This
arrangement allows the mother to 60
about her work almost Immediately
AMI she can also travel and hunt with
out perambulator, and without hay
ing to leave any one at home to
mind" the baby. The mothers dress
is almost exactly like the fathers, eX-
cept that it has a long sort of tall
reaching nearly to the ground, en-
bryo, no doubt, Of the Modern train -
Spared the miseries of soap AMI
water, and early weaned to the read
lily swallowed diet of blubber and raw
seal meat, the infant rapidly develops
that invaluable layer of simultaneous
fat, which, while it enhances the
Jolly" appearance Of the lads and the
shapeliness of the maidens. assists
materially in economy in clothing.
Thus in their frigid cline, once in
their skin tent. the whole family will
divest themselves of every stitch OF
clothing, unembarrassed by the fact
that so many families share the tent
with them. Sociability is early de-
veloped, when ones next-door neigh
Dor on each side is only separated by
an imaginary line between the deer
skin you sleep on and the one he does.
The winter deerskin serves as bed and
bedding at night, and as parlor fur
niture in the day. Community of
goods is almost imperative under this
arrangement. mus, when one kills
seal all are fed, and likewise, when he
doesn't, all go hungry together.-Dr.
Wilfred Grenfell in Leslie's Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05
A Patient Husband.

While in England Marshall P. Will
der came upon a curious case of hus-
bandly devotion. He had heard thai
the wife of a certain laborer was not
all she should be, and that the daily
wages her husband earned by the
sweat of his brow were spent by her
for liquor rather than household
necessaries. Moved with pity for the
poor fellow, who never complained OF
his wrongs, Wilder put a few odd jobs
in his way which paid the man well,
and also livened up his dull hours
with many funny yarn. One day
they happened to talk of domestic
quarrels, and then the poor fellow
spoke of his own troubles for the first
time.
"Mr. Wilder" he said, some say as
how my wife doesn't do exactly right,
but knows of only one fault that she
has. She swears when she's drunk. -
New York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05
NINETY MILLION TONS.
Is the Size of Uncle Sans Cereal Crop
Annually.

The story Of American agriculture
has been the story of our growth in
population and Of the existence Of our
national domain,-a record without a
parallel in the history of the world. A
Chicago man once said that he had
lied a great many times about the
growth of his city, but Providence had
always quickly come to his relief. 1t
would take a gifted liar to overstate
the growth of our agriculture or eXag-
gerate the marvel of its present pro-
portions. The difficulty is to prod i'm
agination to any appreciation of the
simple facts.
Uncle Sam already occupies the first
rank among the farmers Of the world
in the magnitude and value of his
crops. Although his family consti-
tutes only one-twentieth of the human
race, he produces nearly one-third Of
the worlds food supply, while Russia,
which comes next. as a food producer,
has one-twelfth Of the worlds pOpula-
ton and supplies less than One-fifth
of its food. Compare our wheat crop,
for 1900, with that of the other leading
wheat countries of the world -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05
COuntT'

The expert mot officiaD estimate
of our wheat crop for the past year is
100000 bushels; and the same au-
thority places our corn crop at 2,5S9,-
951 600 bushels, which equals the out
put of wheat for the entire world in
1900.
We are told, by government author
ity, that our crop of cereals for a
single year is 9O,O0O,000 tons. Let us
try to get hold of these figures so that
they will mean something to Us. How
long a train Of cars would be required
to ship this crop, allowing 40 feet out
side measurement to each car, and 10
tons of grain to each?
If we had double track betting the
globe at the equator, these cars load
ed with our grain crop for a single
year would fill both tracks solid, and
then enough would be sidetracked to
reach from New York to San Francis
co six times! success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05

per.
Hay is England's most profitable
crop.
Lord Kitchner is learning Urda, a
composite tongue much used ty the
Sepoys.
swallow can fly at a speed of .12S12
miles an hour.
Prince Chun will be the principal
representative of China at the ST..
Louis exposition.
Miljukoy, the Russian novelist, is
views too freely.
DR.. F. D. Snyder of Ashtabula, o.,
owns the largest private starfsh col
lection in the country.
Rosa BOnheur spent much time in a
slaughter house, in order to perfect
her knowledge of animals.
Ibrahim, sultan of Johore, who
wishes to visit the United States in
1904, is 80 years old and likes to
travel
"Ochl The ind O. this Ioine is an
unhOly time a-coming." Maybe some
spalpeen has cut it off, Pat."-The
King.
Atlantic City has special police
motor car which is used expressly for
the conveyance of intoxicated prison
ers.
Perhaps that baseball war might
be settled if it were sent to The
Hague tribunal for arbitratiOn.-Pitts-
turg Dispatch.
Vienna has been suffering from a
plague of dust, the low temperature
making it impossible to water the
streets with saefty.
The red deer of New Zealand num-
Der between 1000 and 5000 head.
These are the offspring of two stays
and six kinds turned loose in 1868.
1t is not easy to understand why
our wives should seek political honors
when each is already speaker of the
hOuse.-PittSb burg Dispatch.
The first European observatory was
cho rahe at UraninDurg was built in
1876. There is a very ancient one at
Benares, in India.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain
Travelled on the cow-catcher during
part of their journey on the Uganda
railroad, Mrs. Chamberlain taking
snapshots with her camera.
The historic village OF Hermanns-
burg, Germany, contains four varities
of independent Lutheran churches
Each refuses to recognize the other or
to practice altar or pulpit fellowship.
A perpetual pencil is now manufac-
tured. A simple pressure of the cap
gives new sharp point. The pencil
is a magazine filled like a repeating
rifle with small acknowledgements
pieces of lead
Alabaster is a fine-grained variety of
gypsum, either white or delicately
shaded, and occurs in fine quality at
Castelino, Italy, whence it is taken to
Florence for the manufacture of
vases, figures, etc.
II is stated that D'Annunzio, Ibsen
and Verestchagin have bequethed
their skulls to a collection of the era
MIA of celebrated men, which it is in
tended to form at the chronological
museum at Cornell.
A golden dish in one of the plate
rooms of the king of England is sup
posed to have been used by Alexander
the Great before the battle of Hydas-
pes. For more than six centuries it
has reposed at Windsor.
A dredge built for levee work at the
mouth of the Sacramento river has a
"clam-shelr' scoop, rugged on a boom
1875 feet long. Twenty-three tons Of
earth can be taken at single bite
and deposited in one minute.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05
EMPEROR is A GOOD FARMER.
German Ruler Sets a Good Example
to Agricultural Subjects.

Emperor William has been directing
much attention lately to agriculture,
says a Berlin dispatch. He says il
German farmers would only take les
sons from scientific farmers in Eng
land or the United States they could
increase their crops and improve their
condition without state aid.
Williams model farm in Cadinen is
being rapidly transfo med into an agri-
cultural show place. When the EN-
peror took possession of it four years
ago it was in a condition of wreck,
both houses and estate; badly drained,
badly stocked and yielding no crop
worth speaking of. In four yeas he
changed everything. The house is
now a charming English country seat
and shooting lodge combined, and the
estate, of about 5000 acres, half forest,