The Middleburgh post. (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, January 14, 1897, Image 6
. THE HIDDLEBURGH POST. GEO. W, WAC.EXSr.tLEE, Editor auii Proprietor MuiDLEiirituii, Pa., Jan. 14, 1897. An investigation of tho work of tho turn)ike raider in Kentucky ebowa that 1500 miles owned by corporations have practically bon confiscated and are being traveled free of tU. It is estimated Ibat tbo destruction of tollgntes in the Bluo Grass region baa . affected 4,000,000 worth of property. The Madrid newnpapcrs Bay that Spain is well ablo to punish tho United States for "aoy interfer ence." Tho Dons evidently expect to get things like this for their money, comments tho New York Sun. It ia impossible to imagine that tho editors are foolish enough to believe tho pugnacious statements they print in their (-beets. "Sha le of Sir Walter Scott !" ex claims tho Loudon Chronicle, ''Cluoy Marphersou, of Cluny, as chief ot tho Olnu Chattan, presided at tho inau gural gathering of the clan in Glasgow recently, but apologized for not np penning iu tho hilt, as he was of mid of catching cold ! Ho concludod bis address by stating that whenever they wanted him to lo.td them ho should bo most happy, bo long, wo assume, as tho weather is lino and warm." Emigration to America has crcatod such .1 Hcsroity of farm hands in Ger many that laud owners aro now im porting Chinese coolies in hordes for field work in Silesia, East Prussia, Poscn uiid Pomerania, says the Chi cago Xowfl, Tho coolies work for twenty cents a day, and tho land own ers aro enthusiastic, with tho result that many (iormans who havo hitherto refused t cmigrato aro being forcod to do ho through lack of work. When tho Chinese coolio has extended Lis grasp n littlo the Chinc-o problem of Germany will bo tho Bamo as ours. Iron inuilo in Alabama is steadily pushing its way into t'uo markets of ttio old world, tho latest order being 1000 tons for shipment to India, notes tho fiow York Mail and Express. Liverpool, Rotterdam and Genoa havo already mudo liberal purchases of tho furnace product of thq Sonth, and thero is hkely to bo a btill further de mand for it in thoue-aadi trUipr F.um pean cities. Tho unexamplod cheap uetu of production iu Alabama and Tennesseo is gradually but Burely rev olutionizing tho manufacture of the sheaper grados of pig iron in this coun try, and tho movement in that direc tion is bound to be greatly accelerated by tho rapid development of tho for eign demand for our furnaco output. Physicians and scientists agrco that hot or iresli bread is much moro indi gestible than old breid, declares tho American Farmer. In Germany thero is a law that no bread must bo sold be fore it is a day old. Tho Americans aro credited with making tho worst bread in all tho world, an v way, and, beside-", they consnmo an inordinate quantity of hot bread, and on tho bread question generally, ficera to bo below the average iu civilization. Tho American bread is srvgy and heavy, ond has too littlo crust to bo truly hygienic, and, furthermore, tho lino white Hour has loi-t much of its nutri tive value. All that goes to make teeth and Initio aud to build up a lino nervous system is bolted from tho wheat. Massachusetts has, nisordia-j to de tails of tbo census of 1S'J,", just made public, 517,385 families, of 2,500,131) 1 persons, i;n overaga of 5.17 to tho family. This largo averago is largely duo to tho fact that all occuptnts of a hotel, a charttablo institution, a penal institution, or other buildings of that sort, arn considered as of ono family with the proprietor or superintendent, as tho caso may be, counted as tho bead of tho family. The normal sizo of a family, in its commonly accepted sense, is a fraction over 3. The largest average sizo of tho families is in Suffolk County, whero it reaohos 4.97, and tho lowost in Nantucket, where it falls to 3.07. In tho cities of the State the average number of rooms to the family is 6.02, and in the towns 7.00. The total number of buildings in the Stato intendod for human occu pancy is 423,494, containing 3,093,93!; ?ooms. Each person in the State would have an average of 89.C5C square feet ot tho superllciul area of the State to move abont in if th property were cut up and distributed pro rata. Miss Calamity's W ill. , A man is ho. elessly dull when hi doesn't know when he U being modi fun ot . F.ETTY EUBY HEN frew was summoned from school in baste. Her great aunt, wealthy Miss Calamity Crane, was dying. Ruby, full of lovo and friendliness for all tho world, though a certain wistful nets in the great, hazel eyes told of a want in tho young heart. Miss Calamity had been bountiful, considerate, kind t tho girl never tender. With her large, angular frame, her energy, her courage and iron will, she was moro like a man than 3 woman. She bad given fcer grand-nisce a home, and every advautngo in educa tion ; she apparently realized nothing was needed beyond this. Yet, lluby loved her nunt with ft lovo born of gratitude and respect ; sho was oppressed with dread and grief now that she approached Silver side, whero Miss Calamity lay dying. Tho family carriage was waiting for her ut tho station. "Mrs. Calistn would have como to meet you, Miss Ruby," said Barney, tho coachman, "but sho oould not leave Miss Calamity." For the first time since tho letter summoning bor to Silverado had reached tho seminary, Enby remem bered Mrs. Calistn Crane. Sho had seen tho woman first bix months pre viously, when home at vacation. Mrs. Ca'.ista was Mit-s Calamity's cousin. Sho had attended Miss Calamity very closely; uniraatcdly announced her success at "keeping up her spirits," though Miss Calamity had long borne ill-health with great forti tude. And down tho long lino of terraces tho poplars showed their silver aides, l'ho beautiful mansion of brown gran ito loso abovo them. Tho mnssivo oaken doors swung on thoir silver hinges, and lluby was in Mrs. Calista's arms. "My dear, you aro too late. Sho has gonol" A cry of pain broke irotn tho girl's lips. "Aunt Calamity dead I" Bat she saw the waxen image which Utti v6cu bei liiua aunt, auii nearly broke her heart over it. "Dear child, don't," said Mrs. Sil cott, tho housckeoper. "Miss Calamity wouldn't liko it to havo you cry bo. Como into my room, dear, and get your roor littlo feet and hands warm. You're white as a ghost and colder, haunting this chilly room all tho time. You can't do that poor woman any good, but you'ro making yourself sick." On a lounge before tho housekeep er's fire, lluby heard tho account of Miss Calamity's last hours. "Sho lived a brave, good life. Shc'r gono to her roward, nnd sho provided for you, Miss lluby, bo sure of that. She sot a groat deal by you that I'm sure of. Wait tiil you hear her will read." lluby thought ot the future, and her perplexod meditation driod her eyes. "There's ono who hoped to prolit by her stay here that's Mrs. Calista," said Mrs. Silcott, nfter a silence. "Not that sho was ever needed atSilvcrside, or was ever Bent for. Sho just crowded herself in to servo her own ends, I say. I could have nursod Miss Ca lamityshe always likod my nursing iu days gono by and I wouldn't have pushed advice on her about her will, cither 1" added Mrs. Silcott, eigniti cautly. Trembling iu her black robes, Ruby gathered with tbo family, two dnys later, to hear tho will read, Mrs. Ciil ista Crano was also in deepest mourn ing. Iho bulk of Miss Calamity's wealtd was great. Every servant nnd dopnndent was generously romern bered, and then live thousand dol lars to Mrs. Calista, ten thousand and Silversido to Ruby, and tbo vast re mainder of bank stock, railroad shares and real estato to John Steele, a nephew of Miss Calamity, whom lluby had never seen and seldom hoard her aunt speak of. Whatever he might be, a dozen fortunos rolled into one had become his, and Mrs. Carlista an nounced that ho would aoon bo at Sil versido. "John Steelo do you know him, Miss Silcott? ' asked liaby, wonder ingly. "I've seen him, dear, years ago, when you were a child a nice enough gentleman. But what's willed to him Bhould be yours by right. Miss Ca lamity would never have done this but for it's boing put into her head. John Stoclo was rich enough before. As for Mrs. Cahsta, sho is pretty well cut up by her legacy. But sho hopca to make it up with Mr. Steelo s share. Laws?" muttered Mrs. Silcott, "she's boon mail after him these ten years." Her last words were nearly ambigu ous to Ruby. All truth and simplicity tier so II, sue was bund to guilt to others, and unsuspicious. Her mind, too, was flllel with her loss. By tbia last kind aot of her gen rous aunt she was mistress of beauti ful Silverside, and its income would afford her aa ample living she, vho had come, a homeless child, tcu years before, to this good woman. She wandered about the familiar, Btrangely-silent rooms, weeping a good deal. Her eyes were red, her cheeks pale, yet she was a sweet, lovable little thing, in her black dress, all tho gold hair knotted plainly back, as John Steele came upon ber, standing disconsolate upon the hearthrug be fore the ruddy drawing room fire. Mrs. Calista was with him, and ef fusively performed the introduction. Aud what did this blue-eyed, curly bearded, pleasant stronger do? Bow formally to pretty littlo Miss Renfrew, of Silverside? Not at all. He took both her little, cold hands in his warm, strong clasp. "Why, yon poor child 1" ho eaid. "Don't grieve bo!" Ruby met tho kind yet piercing eyes with u quiver of tho lip. "Sho was all 1 had. I havo no ono now," monned she.- "I don't know about that," said Mr. Steelo. In all hor lifo Ruby had never seen any ono 60 pleasant and hearty, with such an eye of conrago ond voico of cheer. All at onco sho felt frioudless no longer. Aud Mr. Steelo evidently took care that sho should not feci ho. Socn tho glances which rested upon this girl wero more than kind they were ten der nnd Mrs. Calista saw them. Ono morning, Ruby roso with a strange dizziness r.nd ringing in her ears. After an effort mudo to dress, sho was compelled to return to her bed, aud Mrs. Calista camo to attend her. "Sho has taken everything so much to heart, she is worn out," said the woman. Her words seemod true. Ruby was robbed of all strength. No pain, no disturbnnco, but a strange languor, iu which everything bwoui before ber eye?. She heard Mr. Steelo urgo calling a physician, but Airs. Calista strenuously opposed. "No no, indeed I Sho docs not need drugs, but rest and relief from exciiemcut. Leave her to met" And Hubyt since she did not Buffer, nnd was so heavy-headed, did not care wbnt was done, since they did not dis turb her. But the languor grew deeper. Day and night were a dream. In this trance sbesomctimessaw Mrs. Calista turning something from a vial into tho glass from which she drank, but she cared cot for this, nnd thought of nothing. One day she saw John Steele's bluo eyes bonding over her. "Darling my littlo darling I" he said, tenderly, "what nils you?" . She was conscious of longing to ease tho pity and pain in his face, but tho strange inc-rta hung upon her so heav ily sho could not lift a lid or move a finger. 'lhen camo a long blank, full of tlran.j;e dreams. Sometime", in the night, Mrs. Calista held a feather to her lips to seo if sho breathed. It was long sinco food bad parsed them ; she only drank from a spoon upon her pillow. Aud it was always fdra. Calista who presented it. Sho missed tho others, yet could not dwell upon the thought of their ab sence. But ono day a piercing scream pene trated even her dulled cars. Bofore hor eyes struggled two figures. Mrs. Calista held tho glass and tho vial in her bunds. Mr. Silcott grasped firm ly her wrists, und called loudly for hoi p. "You aro poisoning her t It is tho truth 1 I have caught you! Help! help!" John Steelo rushed into the room, and tho two combined to restrain the frenzied woman, who struggled madly to dash' tho vial upon the floor. But John Steele secured it, and read tho label with a blanching check. Then ho closed his hand upon it, and direct ing Mrs. Sileott to make no outory, but send for n physician, closed the door upon the only witness of Mrs. Calista guilt, and sternly faced the woman alone. "Why are you poisoning that inno cent child?" he demanded. "Yon lovo her, and I had loved you madly for years. I have won your fortune for you. Yon shall marry me ; hover her?" was the reply. "Dreadful, infatuated woman I Mad, iodoedl" he cried. "Calista, I could not love yon, if you brought me tho wealth of the Indies. Horrible, horrible I Ob, if sho dies, I will give you over to the law criminal that you ore I For a moment he forhot her, and stooped over lluby s pillow. In that instant Mrs. Calista slipped from the room. The physician came, and Mrs. Siloott was stationed at the patient s bedside, But Mm. Calista's work was nearly ac complished. The breath of life flut tered feebly on the girl's lips, threat ening at any instant to take its depar ture, John Steele himself threw wide the windows, letting tbo strengthen ing breeze blow over those pale lips. and administered nourishment with his own hand. They all started when tha eyelids quivered and the breast heaved; but it ws with, life, rot death, and tha strong man trembled at he tnrned away, with the murmur, "Thank God J" upon his lips. All night the physician was in at tendance; but at dawn Buby smiled, and knew them all.) One morning John Steele lifted h'l head upon his shoulder, bringing ta flush to that pure cheek with the tea derest kisses. "Darling, yon are safe now in my, care. Tell me, Buby could you learn to love me?" "So," she whispered; "because 1 have loved you from tun first." By-and-by she atked for "that dreadful woman." "Gone, my precious. I let her go gladly when I found she had not suc ceeded in her terrible plan. Yon would not wish her publicly pun ished ?" "No," Ruby said. Saturday Night. Beginning Life All Over. According to the latest reports from Kansas, Herbert Spencer, who caused suoh a sonsution last spring, when, it will be remembered, he was discovered by the police wandering about the streets, Laving completely lost his identity, is still a psychological mys-' tery. Bit by bit Spencer is picking up his old life, but it is all approached from the viewpoint of to-day. There is no recollection ot the past involved in the process. Spencer is once more attending tho University of Kansas. In bis letter to tho Secretary of the university Spencer said that bo had been informed that he had once beon a member of the freshmen class and ho wished to know if be could re-enter without on examination. The answer camo that ho could, and two weoks ago he started to college. At college Spencer nets as an entirely new stu dent, with tho exception that the studies of tno tiret half of the fresh man year seem familiar to him. He docs not recognize bis old teachers. He was given tho scat he occupied when ho was thero before, but did not know such was the case until some ono told him. Ho had to become ac quainted again with tho different rooms and passageways. And so it ia in going around town and to and from the university. Ho has to begin all over ngain, as though be were a child and a htrauger, and yet ho bos the in telligence of a grown-up. Philadel phia Press. llomesticnting Wild Turkeys. Tho turkey is indigenous to Amer ica, and was never seen in Europo c til imported there, it is conscquen.iy tbo fowl least removed from its wild state, moro shy in avoiding close as sociation with man than any other bird. Considering how man treats the turkey about holiday time, it is not surprising that tho turkey's domesti cation proceeds so slowly. In one re spcot the wandering habit of the tur- tey is lor ui r advantage, tuougu lie may not eeccpe getting it in the neck when bis proper time comes. The turkey that wauders, that is, ono thut is set under a hen turkey, has more Vigor and vitality than tho turkey set nuder a common hen. Tho latter will generally havo more turkeys from the tamo number of egg-, but tho weakly ones will die, whilo tho turkeys hatched by a turkey ben will live. This is uncording to tho law of natural se lection, tho stronger living and tho weaker dying. To keep tho smaller turkeys for breeding whilo selling tho largest rcveri-rs nature's process. It tends to deterioration. Hence every few years breeders who do not under stand this principlo of breeding have recourse to tho original wild stock to reinvigoratc their Hocks. Boston Cultivator. m - Blushing .Hay Be Hereditary. It is said iu medical books that n predisposition to blushing is frequent ly hereditary, and in cases whero pe culiar kinds of blushing are observed a family history of the same habit may be obtaiued. All voluntary actions nro controlled by tho brain. If a man drinks one glass too much, or smokes ono cigar loo much, tbo braiu is responsible, but blusliin' in involuntary. It is not even a!lccted by the "piual cord. It is part of tho work of tho sympa thetic nervous system whoso couters aro hngo masses of nervo cells in front of the spine. Thcso centers control tho blood pressure and size of the vessels. If the stomach, for example, ia out of order, tho nearest "rtympathetio" centtr is affected, and this will fre quently transfer influences to the nerve centers, which control the blood vessels in the face, resulting in a red noso, or even a soro throat. Atlanta Constitution. 7 Ll Hung Clians's Tribute. The Chungwen gate of Pekin is th gate at whioh the octroi of the capital aro collected, and the North China Daily News says that every time Li Hung Chang goes through he it obliged to pay the gotemau abont $30,000 in order to be allowed to past his baggage and costly presonts to the conrt without examination. Bullet-Proof Animals. 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