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VOL.
ITEMS of LOCAL INTEREST
R. Guntzberger pays tbe highest
price, in cash or trade, for all kinds
of furs.
Jacob P. Aurand is confined to
his bed by an attack of billious pneu
monia.
Columbia county Roller Process
Buckwheat Flour for sale by J. W.
Swartz. It is tho finest 2t.
Frank Hare and wife, of Qlen Un
ion, Clinton county, visited relatives
at this place over Sunday.
Give some people!!mountain-mov-ing
faith, and everybody else's land
would soon be covered with hills.
Mrs. Frank Gaugler and little
daughter, Aida, of Selinsgrove, are
visiting relatives in Middleburgh.
Mrs. Henry Herbster and little
on and Miss Carrie TJIsh, of Swine
ford, spent Sunday at Selinsgrove.
- Mr. Geo. W. Hoke, of Hummels
Wharf, will sell personal property on
bis premises on Monday, Dec. 4, at
1 o'clock p. in.
Mrs Dr. T. B. Bibigbaus and
family desires to return thanks to
relatives and friends for their kind
ness during their bereavement.
Governor McKinley, of Ohio,
Showed his good judgment the oth
er day when he declined the invita
tion to attend a republican jolifica
tion, because such gatherings were
.unnecessary at this time and too
costly, monoy could better be ex
pended to help the unemployed. -
r" "We have just received a nevBtook
i. -of Tiujter and-Holiday goods which
cah ut produce. - Give us a cad and
save money. Highest price paid for
produce in exchange for goods.
David Wetzel,
2w. Swineford, Pa.
Free ! Free ! ! Free ! ! !-Beauti-f
ul oil paintings, size 22x3(5, in com
position gold frames, will be given
free to persons buying goods to tho
.amount of $15 between Nov. 20 and
Feb. 1, 1893. Come and see them.
A bargain. Yours Respectfully.
J. W. Swartz.
A mau dropped into a newspaper
office iu this state one day recoutly,
and informed the bookkeeper to stop
the paper which was being sent to a
.man, who, he said, was dead. Tho
bookkeeper looked up the name and
finding that the dead subscriber was
in arrears three years, changed the
poutoffice on the mailing list to
H 1, and sent the paper right along.
On Saturday of last week a young
man named Clarence Aikey, employ
ed on a farm near Hartelton, took a
day off for a hunt after pheasants.
While hunting with a friend back of
Hartelton, they saw a rabbit. He
got on a stump to shoot, and in the
act of drawing his gun to him, the
trigger caught and both loads (he
having a double-barreled gun) went
off, disemboweling him.
"He was an employee of the Penn
sylvania railroad shops and had gone
back to work after a several mouths'
lay-off. When the dinner hour ar
rived he opened his pail and took
therefrom a piece of dry bread and
some sugar and began to cat. His
fellow employees looked on iu aston
ishment, and asked him if that was
all he had to eat. With quivering
voice he answered that it was, and
volunteered the further information
that he and his wife had not bad a
bite to eat the day before. llarrit
burg I'detraph of Monday.
The other day a very modest and
absent minded young woman of
Monongahala, Washington county,
went to the city mill for some flour.
She gave the clerk what she thought
was a neatly folded and ironed pillow
slip. The clerk emptied one scoop
of flour and it wont through to the
floor. Just then a horrifying dis
covery was made what had been
taken for a dainty little sack had
two outlets, and each outlet was
trimmed with embroidery. The
clerk fainted, and has stayed fainted
ever since.
MIDDLEBUEGH, SNYDER
Twin girls were born to Newton
and Geanette Bowes of Middle
burgh,on Sunday. The one died on
Sunday and the other on Monday and
were buried in the Middleburgh
cemetery on Tuesday.
General Dan Hastings, who will
speak before the Teachers' Institute
next Thursday evening is one of
Pennsylvania's greatest orators
and most beloved sons. He is the
State's undoubted choice for Gov
ernor. Come and hear him.
Hoos ! Hogs 1 The undersi a n e d
will have 80 choico head of Polan
China and Yorkshire Shoats at John
H. Mover's stables in Middlcbutsh
during court week. They will be
sold at private sale and there will be
a bargain in it for persons needing
shoats and fine brood sows.
Nib A. Fits,
Beavertown, Pa.
The soldiers' orphan school com
mission has decided to accept the
site offered at Scotland. Franklin
county, for the proposed State or
phans' industrial school- George H.
and Alexander Stewart own the farm
of 100 acres on which this institution
is to be located. The Cumberland
Valley railroad passes by the farm.
which is about five miles from Cham-
bersburg. The commission will pay
$12,000 for the farm, and the school
building will be built within a year,
and when finished will accommodate
about 1,000 pupils. The last legisla
ture appropriated $150,000 for the
building of the institution.
Tho business men sav that, t.h
utter disregard which some people
manifest about paying small debts
nowadays is, little short of criminal
fest the least concern in this respect.
Many who owe from 25 cents to $25
are utterly neglectful of the ac
counts. Business men who accom
modate them are kept of it when it
could be paid as easily as not. These
sums are insignificant in themselves,
but when aggregated they are con
siderablo and would pay thousands
of dollars of indebtedness if put into
the channel of business.
Peter Knepp, of Bannorvillo, who
passed away vory suddenly Sabbath
afternoon, Nov. 10, ngod ('.!) years, 8
months and 10 days, was a man who
was respected by all who know him.
His sudden departuro has caused
quite a shock to tho community. In
tho morning ho participated in tho
solemn communion of tho Lord's
Supper in tho St. Paul's Lutheran
church. After services ho drovo two
miles to visit his daughter, MrH.
Henry Krobs, who had boon unwell
for some time. Ho Beemod cheerful,
and Bat down on a rocking-chair
when ho suddonlv throw his head
back and expirod. Ho was laid on a
bed, thinking he might rovivo, but
the soul had fled to Him who gave
it. He led an exemplary christian
life and as a shock of ripo corn, he
was gathered to his fathers. Our loss
is his eternal gain. X.
It is said that many young men
who have had the benefit of good
homes forget the instructions of
their childhood when they enter
active life and provo a shame to
those who gave them being. It
looks as if this were true, and there
are instauc cs, possibly, in which it
actually is, for the old saying is that
there aro expectations to ull rules.
But the rule stands, nevertheless,
that the boy who has been proporly
trained will not depart from, the
right way when he has grown up.
But there is a depth of meaning in
the word training which is not al
ways apprehended. It means much
more than instruction, good ex
ample judicious advice, remon
strance, severe discipline. It means
th6 continuous and true moulding
of the young life from the hour of
birth until the character is formed
and the habits of bfe are fixed. Few
there be among those culled to the
high and Bacred offico of parent
hood who have an adequate con
ception of the duties they owe their
children, and this is ouo roasou why
so many go wrong and make a fail
ure of life.
Hunting Notes.
Rabbits are reported more scarce
this year than they have been for
years,
The Middleburgh hunting party
left for Little Valley on Monday for
a ten clays' deer hunt.
M. L. Kreegrr of Middleburgh,
and lawyer E. M. Beale of Lewis
burg are hunting quail at Liverpool
this week.
Pheasants are growing more
scarce every year in this county
and some of our sportsmen talk of
making a trip to Sullivan county in
quest of the birds.
The hunters report very few signs
of bear. It appears they hibernat
ed early in the season, which is a
sign of a hard winter.
Sixteen bear were shot and trap
ped by the inhabitants of Treaster
and Little Valleys during the full of
'92 and spring of '93.
It is said that four hundred hun
ters were encamped in the moun
tains north of Milroy last week.
On the Centre county side they use
dogsbut on the Mifllin county side
they shot and poison them like flies.
The Millersburg pary, which took
five deer and threo bear from Slate
Ridge, near Reedsville, last year,
returned on Friday with one small
four-prong buck. They had a dog
with them which they usod to hunt
"wounded deer."
A party of six boys from Potter's
Bank, Centre county, camped at
Slate Ridge last week. They were
unable to capture a deer and were
quite despondent, when, one eve
ning their dogs started a fuss in
trosS .cr"1 Tock7(,.Jttvm AivMaoj
yards from their camp. The fy inves
tigated tho cause of the disti'bauco
and discovered the den to boV inhab-
ltetl by bears. After shoot in' AT two
cubs that dressed 38 pounds each
and an old sho bear that dressed
over 100 they went home with heads
up.
Littlo Vulloy wus last week wel
represented by Snyder county hun
ters. The Kratzurvillo and Beaver
town parties camped at Peters', tho
Troxelville party at Muthcrbbaugus',
and tho McCluro party south of
Jacks Mountain near tho Bcllctown
path. Neither party had brought
1 1
aown uuoer up to irulay morning,
except tho Troxelvillo party, un ue
couut of whoso capturo of a four
prong buck was given in last week's
Post. Everybody iu Littlo Vulley
carries a gun. The teamsters, wood
choppers, schools teachers, doctors
ami even some or tho women aro
trained to the use of fire-arms, and a
stray buck has about as littlo chanco
to get across the vulloy with a wholo
skin as a bat has to lly across the
sea.
Later. We leurn that the Kratz
ervillo party shot two doer on Fri
daythe ono, a spike-buck, was
brought down by Commissioner-
elect Pharos Herman, and the other,
a doe, by Dr. Frank Wugenseller, of
Selinsgrovo.
John Davy Snook last week shot
a wild turkey in Little Vulloy that
hud a tail 18 inches long, which had
a spread of two feet. Ho gave tho
tail to his son, Will, of Lewistown,
who in turn gave it to tho editor ot
tho Post, and it will not be long bo-
foro it will occupy a prominent po
sition in tur "curiosity shop."
Will Moyer shot a lino specimen
of sea loon back of Middleburgh
last week, which we sent to our tax
idermist, W. L. Weaver, of Millors
burg, to have it mouutod for him.
Persons having birds, buck-hoads
or any kind of animals they wish
mounted can address tho Post and
we will give thorn terms.
Tho man who loves a gun most
fears it most. AccidoDts will hap
pen, but in nearly every caso n is
through the carelessness of tho one
handling the gun. To hold a gun
with the muzzlo towards any one
invites death, and to draw it to
ward you through the brush is worso
than carelessness, and it id only a
question to the man who does it
who he shoots first himself or a com
panion.
CO., PA., NOVEMBER 30, 1893.
"He Wasn't In It,"
ft.
A. K. Mlnl. h, of Philadelphia, lust week
Mil, ns tlin following rule little poem, entitled
"He Waan't in II." aililmouxl m iha .i..v"i..
Mm oflle, aaylng that It waa wnt In compliance
with thu rfspiMiol tln cantor forcorrcapondi'iita
vif mi-ii . iir-n, 111 muting inn pnMr lliKTcNIIluf
anting hi alnw'ucn in tli mountain, it raint
Y ht fr laal rt but we gladly (five It apwD
Thajr built nnf chuirh at hla vpry door,
lie wasn't la It ;
The brought him st home for tvlipvinir the
pour,
ll waan t In It :
Lt tliem work for UiemaWvoa" as he had done
"TbCT Wouldn't lUk 111' In of i.v.tv mi..
tf ttory hadn't wanted earn ifoldcn mlnule."
He woxn't In It.
So be pnaaed the poor with hituifhtjr tri-ad.
lie waan t In It t
H (corned the (rood with averted bead s
lie waan t in It.
When men In the haIN ot rlrtuo mrt.
He aw their ifooduesN without nvn't :
Too high the mark for lilm to win It,
Ho wuan't Iu II.
A earrtatfe rolled down the atroet one day,
And he wum in II i
Tfco funerul Impplng mailt urimt display,
for he waa In It ;
St. peter reciMved him with hood and la-ll
"Mjrtrleodyou have pun-lnmcd a ticket to well
Your elevator (joes down In a minute,"
And he won In It.
"A Choke on Schneider."
A joke too good to bo lost even
if it does come near homo- occurred
week-before-last when severul of
our town boys, who, with un eyo to
laying up a little money for a sore
heel had sent to Bultinioro for a lot
of sweet potatoes and u barrel of
shell oysters, which they peddled
out amoung our farmers. They had
just pulled up iu front of a rather
pretentious looking farm houso and
had called out, "oysters and sweet
potatoes," when tho "lord of tho
manor" made his appearance and
,.'bg'llr.tc.othfit,twhJ'J
came up the wagon, where he picked
up an oyster, looked at it critically,
turned it over, studied at it, and
then remarked: "Hi. was furicho for.
dbiii?:tp.:roombeera sin don des !"
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Next Wednesday Evening's Lecturer
JohnR. Clark, tho Anglo-Ameri
can orator, has given three lectures
on tho Thousand Island Park plat
form this season. H 1ms earriei'
the pooplo by storm. H is a mar
: ... i .
i -iwun iuiiii iii tin iriy, iiuinnr, pantos
and eloquent-. His entertainments
aro a resistless medley of classic
beauty, solid sense, magnetic ora
tory, rugged manliness, loftiest
morulity and purest religion. He is
worthy of tho largest patronage and
widest popularity. It is a genuine
pleasure to commend him to public
favor. jM. J). Kinnty, PvtUhnt
Thousand Inland Park Asaocla-
tion.
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The Bashful Youth.
Biishfulness is a sort of shell or
husk which protects youth from tho
contaminating influences of life un
til the mind roaches maturity. Tho
bashful youth generally turns out
to be the strongest man. But this
husk Bhould bo torn oft" us soon us
the com is ripouod, elso tho world
never knows whether it is a good,
full ear or only a contomptiblo littlo
nubbin. Tho husk, however, should
not be tukeu off too soon or tho
drouth of self conceit may wither
and stunt its irrowth ami utov.o.t
its development. When u youth
Bhods his husk too soon ho is prop
erly described as "too fresh."
A Royal Gift.
Our good old friond. Peter Gar-
man of Mt. Pleasant Mills, brought
us a fine specimen of tho Columbia
River (Oregon) salmon on Tuesday,
which, when caught, must have
weighed over fifteen pounds. A bar
rel of these toothsome lish, in salt,
was shipped him by his sou. W. D.
Oarman, of Mill City, Oregon, on
the 28th of Octobor by freight, and
it took them four weeks to make tho
3.CO0 miles to Middleburgh. It is
a very rare gift, and is highly ap
predated by us.
Spyker Long and Arthur Aurand
drove to Centre oounty last weok.
Cuto Comments.
The Boouastiol Book has brought
us a great deal of correspondence,
ana bence a great deal of work. It
has been a great Bource of pleasure
to us, for we have formed many
nappy acquaintances, and afow quo
tatious complimentary and other
wiso from letters received aro not
out of place here. Oue fellow writes
Is Boonastiel real or ideal T If real.
I want to moot him i If ideal. I will
bo content with admiring him
Another goutlomuu who hud a book
Bent on inspection, wrote : "Boona
stiel has come. Are it farflom)t
ioot. J)oh m rfi ydd. A lady
writes us that sho did not admire
Boonastiel, as she believed him u
woman hater. A gentleman in West
Chester writes : "I have laughed
myself Bick ut tho quaint philosophy
of Boonastiel and believe it worthy
of translation into English where
it would rank with tho most popular
authors." Anothor gentleman from
Philadelphia writes : "Where is Mid
dleburgh t" We told him it was tho
county-seat of Snyder county, Penn
sylvania, and that if ho saw our
thousand dollar per ucro cow pas
ture and tho advertisements on tho
wrapping pupor of our merchants ho
would think wo had a population of
a hundred thousand.
Pink Tea Festival.
Tho members of the Middleburgh
Reformed choir will hold u Pink Ten
Festival on the 11th und 12th of De
cember in tho Grand Armv hall. A
finolunch, consisting of uv
as chicken-Hplud, sandwi
uxuries
Sara-
ftogA cmV,f'iuv;
etc., will be eervei"
Generous und fast
will also have an option.
to
tickle their palates with .fco-creum
and cakes of diHerm- n'iluls. Every
' ir.itouo come and partake
of tho delicacies offered on this oc
casion, and, by ho doing, extend a
helping hand to a choir, which start
ed under difficulties and whose mem
bers aro trying to bring their organ
ization up to the high standard at
tributed to Snyder County Chora
nocicwos. in mis ineir endeavor
they have necessary expenses and it
is for tho purpose of paying these
that tho festival will be held
i m -m - 1
Roast Turkey.
Select a fat hen weighing from tei
to thirteen pounds. Singe, draw nm
wipe well with a damp cloth. Ii
cutting to remove tho crop, cut tin
skin cm tho back of the neck, take
out tho crop and cut the neck off us
near the breast bone us possible.
In this cavity put two tublespooiifu
of dressing. Sew up the skin on the
oacK 01 1110 neck una lohl it over
that tho breast may look plump un
unbroken. Put tho remainder of tho
dressiug in tho body, sew up the
vent, und truss tho turkey. Lan
tho breast und legs, or put tho sur
plus fat taken from tho inside of the
turkey over them. Have tho oven
very hot at first, put in tho turkey,
und when it has cooked for fifteen
minutes, put ono cup of boilin
water in tho pan. Roast ten minutes
to tho pound, basting every fifteen
minutes. Do not add any more wu
tor unless absolutely necessary, as
tho turkey should bo banted with its
own dressing.
Henry Deitrich will sell lumber ut
his mill, t milo south of Krutzi-rvillo
on Saturday of this week. Seo
bills.
Eggs aro now 30 cents u dozen and
nro purchased principally by tho
wealthy who use thorn us mantle
curiosities.
To equal parts Of good food.
fresh air, comfortablo shelter and
clothing, mix judiciously with exer
ciso, morality and temperance, dilute
with good spirits, hold up to tho
light of clear couscionco for a mo
niont and partake unhesitatingly of
this only true pucacea for life's ills
and elixir of perpetual youth.
NO. 4G.
BEAVERTOWN.
Tho following persons uro on the
sick list ! Mrs. Johu Haflley, Mrs.
Goo. Kline, Mrs. Chas. L. Wetzel,
Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher' and George
Etzler.... William Haflley, after a
fow months' stay in Ohio." WAS I'llllilil
homo on account of his mother's ill
ness. . . . Johu Good died on W
day after a lingering illness. Hp
was buried at Troxtlvillo on Snfnr.
day forenoon. He was aged C! years
aud 0 months, und leaves a wifo and
two daughters to survive him . . . .Ed
Kar, a young Bon of James O. Herb
ster, while having a coughing fit,
vomited a tumor. . .Communion ser
vices wcro held in the t'nion rhumb
lust Sunday by tho Reformed con
gregution. Rev. Landis preached an
able ser uiou from Matthew 22:1-15
John F. Middleswarth. William
Thomas, Austin Bingamau and Jus.
Aigler nro off to tho mountains on &
ten days' deer hunt. . .Calvin Drees
shot a wild turkey last week . . Misses
KutoBickel mid Ellen Coleman, who
spent tho past summer ut N'orthum
borluud, came home. Tho latter has
como to stay Mr. and M Will
Dreese, of Salem, und Ii. E. Wetzel.
wife and littlo daughter Alma, of So-
itiHgrove, mingled among friends
icro over Sunday. .Zacharias Bower-
sox.of Michigan, and Pheiicas Bower
sox, of Northumberland, recently
spent a week with their sister, Mrs.
Vm. H. Coleman Misses Knllm
teiglo nnd Sallio Aigler snout threo
lays recently at Sunbury. . .Mr. aud
Mrs. Win. Herbster spent Sunday ut
McCluro. Wtld Rosks
SEL1NSGROVE.
' '' i ".' ':ww, ,.
. . .. . record the death of
.lie of our highly esteemed citizens,
Mr. Jonathan Rudy, which took
place last Tuesday afternoon. Tho
funeral was held last Friday after
noon, Rev. Eckersly of the M. E.
church officiating. Mr. Rudy was in
his V'.tth year. Ho leaves u wife und
several married children. .Mrs. Win.
J. Lutz left on Tuesday morning for
Roaring Springs, Rhiir county, l'a.,
to minister to her youngest daugh
ter. Miss Lottie, who is sick with
that dreadful disease, typhoid fever.
Miss Ijntfie is visiting her sisler.
Mrs. Rev. W. H. Hilbish, at the
above place. Rev. Dr. Born preached
a remarkably practical sermon iu
the 2nd Lutheran church hut Sun
day forenoon. Mr. J. 1J. Lau, a
theological student of Missionary
Institute, filled the pulpit iu the
evening and pleached a very accept
able sermon. Rev. J. Yutzy, the
pastor of this church, was to Blooius-
burg over Sunday Tho Young
People's Society of Christian En
deavor will hold u convention in this
place the latter part of next week.
A largo number of delegates from a
distance aro expected. .. .A load of
live turkeys was hauled through
town on Monday and offeiod for
sale. We havo not heard what they
sold ut per pound but presume not
more than 10 cents us turkeys uro
said to bo very plenty. Mkntoii.
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LOWELL.
Newa is scarce iu this village as
everybody is busy attending to his
own business Tho sudden death
of our old citizen, Peter Knepp, is
much regretted by his many friends
. .Still a few cases of soro throat.
aro reported in this community, but
none aro serious James Peter has
moved his saw-mill to Benfer's dam,
where ho expects to saw about 1,(Nh),-
001) foet of lumber. . . . Abner Knepp
is taking out lumber hero for tho
erection of a houso in Lewistown. . .
Johnny Wagner is busy making
meat vessels. If they are not used
or that purpose they will bo need
ed in 'i"' for Salt River purposes.
That is us truo us the book of Job. .
Tho Lowell roller mill has been run
ning on double time for tho past two
weeks on account of the big demand
or flour and feed. . . .It takes longer
for a letter to roach this placo from
McCluro than it does from the far
West. Such has boon tho case late
ly. U. No.
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