The Middleburgh post. (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, September 30, 1897, Image 2
THE HIDDLEBURGH FOST. GEO. W, WAGENSELLER, Editor snd Proprietor Miodlfbcbor, Pa., Oct. 30, 1897. The year 1393 will not witness a di amond jubilee, bat it will be golden one. Emperor Francis Joseph of Au stria, who is sixty-seven years old this month, will celebrate next year the fiftieth anniversary of his asoent to the throne. Travelers in the wilds of Africa will do well to take a plentiful supply of umbrellas with them, according to Professor Pechuel-Loesche, the Ger man explorer. He says they are the best protection against the wild beasts, tigers and lions especially being afraid f them when suddenly opened. A Territorial newspaper claims for Arizona the possession of a single sea port. This is Tama, at the paint where. the Oila River joins the red and rolling Colorado. The town is oue of the oldest in the Territory. Its climate is such that the inhabitants ran raise about everything that tan be grown in the tropics. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat ex olaims: What a system of fireproof bnilding is worth to a city is shown by the fact that the Fire Department of Paris costs 8514,600 a year, while that of New York City requires ou outlay of $2,345,355. To this must be added the losses caused by the far more numerous and extensive conflagrations in the American city and the heavier premiums on, insurance. The State of Georgia is $1,000,000 short in tax returns. All except eleven of the 187 comities have made their returns of taxable property, and of this numbor eighty show increases and forty-sit decreases, as compared with the returns of Inst year. The total decrease for eighty counties is $1,000,916, and the total doorease for forty-six is $5,000,091. The few connties not reported will not change these figures materially. The tax rate this year will be higher than ever before. A German professor, Dr. Marpmann, of Leipsio, has discovered that we in cur great danger every time -w use 4 pen. He says that t'lere kre deadly bacteria in ink. ; Ft tsx e viVof seventy samples he seeded bacillus. This he prooeeded to cultivate. Hi evolved something which was able to destroy a mouse in four days. Now, as mice don't use ink much, and as those persons who pat their pens in their months are comparatively few in number, there does not appear to be any serious cause for alarm. The establishment of a sort of "Si beria" for the Anarchists of all Na tions has boeu proposed by Spain. A penal colony where dangerous An archists, who have not yet taken the life of King, Emperor or President, can be confined for life. It is said that Austria, Germany, Italy and Rus sia have received the proposal favor ably, but Great Britain, France, Swit zerland and the United States have not yet bcon heard from, and will probably not consent to the proposal. Uncle Sam showed clearly at Chicago some years ago that he had made up his jnind what to do with the An archist when he catches him, com ments the New York Commercial-Advertiser. - . M 1 . . . . The fact that one of the strongest and moat popular of New York's clubs has been obliged to issue to its mem bers a sharp oiroular letter on the "tipping" abuse, shows how that in sidious evil has extended even into the strongholds of masculine iadepend enco, observes the New York Mail and Express. Ho universal has (he im ported tip-giving and tip-receiving habit beoome on this side of the At lantic that not only the hotel or res taurant waiter, but the barber, the porter, the hall boy, the chambermaid and the cabman expect a gratuity in addition to the proper cost of the ser vice rendered. Gradually this Euro pean abuse has crept into American sooiefy until it seems almost impossi ble to eradicate it. Every one who gives a tip knows that its action is an imposition upon himself, and every American who accepts one feels that he thereby sacrifices his independence, manhood and self-respect; yet the shrinking of the giver from appearing conspicuously stingy, and his unwill. ingness to suffer from inattention at the hands of an expectant receiver, saffice to keop the pernicious fee sys tem in growing vogno The beat quality ot iu.ti syrup comes from the north side of the tree, but the flow Is not no larjre as when the tree Is tapped on the south aide. THE TWO One day a harsh word, rashly said. Upon ao evil Journey sped. And like a sharp and cruel dart It pierced a toad and loving heart; It tame 1 a friend into a foe. And everywhere brought pain and woe. A kind word followed It one day, Flew swiftly on Its blessed way; It healed the wound. It soothed the pain, And friends of old were friends again. It madetbe nateand anger eease, And everywhere brought Joy and peace. A Will and 7m m hi 13 y GWENDOLEN OVERTON XISTENCE un der the guard ianship of some one who is doing his duty by you is not an un mixed pleasure. Miss Bradford's sister, Mrs. Gal latin, was doing hef duty by Miss itraaioru. xne iormer was not at an pretty. The lutter was very, very pretty which is so much "more charm ing than being very, very beautiful, lint Mrs. Oullutin was married and Miss Bradford was not. This came of the fact thut Mrs. Gallatin had visited at Fort Treble and had captured an unfludgod lieutenant by manicuvring and a miracle, and that Miss Bradford had spent her tweuty-one years in a small Maino town. Boys in the village had been in love with Bessie Bradford, but she had not been iu lore with them, and she had, moreover, a decent appreciation of her owu value and knew she was fur too good for such as they. There had been a college youth, also, once; but he and she had quarreled before the end of his summer visit. And now Bessio was one-and-twenty and the family worried. It worried itself into a state where even the raising of a niortgngo on the home did not seem too great a thing, if it would but in sure her marriage. With the money thus obtained she was sent across the continont, with instructions to get herself wedded before she came back. She was told to marry a general if she could. If not anything, down to a second liontennnt. But rank was to 1)3 the primary consideration, Miss Bradford agreed. She picked out a very nice general, mentally. He would be about five-and thirty, and hand some and dashing. That years went with rank was one of the things the civilian novels of army life she had read had not taught her. Besides, she was romaritio as a very pretty girl should be, Sri she promised that grade should .govern her choice. Then she departed to visit her sister at the Presidio. Lieutenant and Mrs. Gallatin lived In the building known as the "Cor ral." If the Corral wero in the city, it would be called a tenement. But Uncle Sam doesn't quarter his officers in tenements. The Gallatins were cramped for room very cramped. They had three children and second lieutenant's pay. So they were poor. Therofore, taking Miss Bradford in was not a pleasure. It was a duty. But Bessie felt the unpleasantness of tho situation tho very day of her ar rival. "Captain Soutter is going to take you to the hop this eveniug, Bess," Mrs. Gallatin said; Bessie was cutting paper bird-cages for her niece. Mrs. Gallatin was mending a pinafore. "I've promised to go with Mr. Mil ford," answered Miss Bradford, stop ping and lookiug up from the scissors. "Mr. who?" "Mr. Milford. Colonel Milford's son, who lives in St. Louis." "Where have you met him?" The "him" warned Bessie that she was running on rocks. "On the train. We got acquainted. He's in business in St. Louis, and he's coming to visit his people because he8 in bad health. He is a very nice man." "Man! He must bo about twenty three. A perfect boy. And his busi ness is being a briefless barrister. Now, lot me tell you one thing, Bes sie. You must learn from the first that the civilian son of an officer is no body at all in a garrison. You will hurt your chances badly witt the of ficers by going with him. How did he know there was to be a hop?" Bessie finished opening the cage, gave it to her uiece with a kiss, gath ered the scraps of paper in her bond and threw them into the waste-baket, clasped her fingers behind her curly brown head, aud auswered leisurely: "He didn't know there was to be one to-night. He asked me to go to the first one there should be after our ar rival." Mrs. Gallatin thought how very, very pretty Bessie was and wondered if her husband contrasted them. "He probably will never think of it again. Captaiu Soutter is going to call to ask you, this afternoon, and you'd bettor accept." "Can one go with two men out here onte-nuptiolly?" "Don't be vulgar. You needn't consider tho Milford boy." "Oh! but I must, Genevieve, you know. I promised." Miss Bradford's big gray eyes were guilelessly ear nest. "I've no donbt that pose is taking with the men. But you can't make your devotion to promises succeed with me, dear. I know yon too well. I can't remember that they worried you, with the boys at home." "This promise doesn't worry me. Not a little bit." "Well, I should suggest that you WORDS. But vet the harsh word left a traoa The kind word eould not quite effaoe, And though the heart Hi love regained. It bore a sar that long remained; Friends eould forgive but not forget. Or lose the sense of keen regret.. Oh, If we eould but learn to know How swift and sure our words can go, How would we weigh with utmost ear Each thought before it sought the air. And only speak the words that move Like whlte-wlnged messengers of love. Great Thoughts. The Way. g take my advice and be less flipptfnt. Recollect that you were not sent 'way out here to flirt with penniless civil ians and small boys." "If I forget, remind We, will you? I'll make you a little red silk flag, if you like. I can make flags. I made one for a fair at home, once. Yon might draw it out of your bosom and wave it when you see me about to rnn off the track you have all so kindly and laboriously laid for me to run on. I'll teach you the signals. Mr. Mil ford and I studied them from the back of our sleeper. I think there's some one at the door, sister deario." It was Captain Soutter, come to for malize the hop arrangement. He was, obviously, very glad that he had come. For Miss Bradford was pretty ex traordinarily pretty. "I am happy in being a near neigh bor of yours, Miss Bradford," he told her. He forgot as men will how often he had cursed tho ill-luck which threw him within hearing distance of the Oallatm trio of infants. "Yes?" said Bessie; "you are in our vicinity, then?" "A little above you in tho world. I livo upstairs. When yon want me you have only to pound on the ceiling." "The what is it? quartermaster? The quartermaster mightn't like me to wear out Ins ceiling. "You Hatter mo by the implication, Miss Bradford. But I'll settle with the Q. M. if you will only pound. For instanco, will yon pound to-night when you are ready for the bop, to which it is my dearest wish to be permitted to escort you?" He forgot what be had wished when Mrs. Gallatin bad asked him to per form this act of courtesy toward the comingsister. But then he had looked at Mrs. Gallatin and had j'udgod from her of the sister. "I would be only too delighted, if it were not that I have already promised to go with some one else." f The betrayed captain manifested hi astonishment and resentment at having tafWkVuibjcsted to refusal. . IT.t kai 6 high opinion of bis dignity, had captain. "Why, who on earth can have asked yon already?" he cried. t Miss Bradford had 'a cool little Northern air, when she liked. She considered the captain's question in bad taste. So she raised her eyebrows and smiled most sweetly. "I shall hope to have a dance with you, Captain Soutter," she said. And she had, not one, but three. The captain forgot his wrath at the sight of her. Wheu she came from the dressing-room into tho hallway to join young Milford, the captaiu was by the door. Ho looked at her. "Might I hope to bo accorded the second and fifth and ninth, Miss Brad ford?" be asked. "Oh! thank you," said Bessie. She was gruteful, aud ho was quite ap peased. Now Miss Bradford was a sucoess. She had what is known as a beautiful time for three whole mouths, No girl was remembered ever to have re ceived altogether so much attention. She always hud lovers and tho two don't always go together. Captain Soutter loved her, so did Lieutenant I'axton, and so did young Milford. Bessie loved young Milford. A girl who prefers "cit." clothes toa uniform is peculiar, to say the least. Bessie didn't say or show whom she loved, except to Milford. She had told him. She had refused I'axton, and she was warding the captain off. But the last she could not do much longer. The captaiu had a good opinion of him self. He also had a dignity which was not to be trilled with. Mrs. Gallatin was by no means sure of Miss Bradford. So ono day she spoke to her. The process of being spoken to can rouse the worst iu a girl. But Bessie was in a broken aud contrite frame of mind. She and young Milford had quarreled, aud she didn't care what became of her. She might as well marry any old man and sacrifice herself for her family. She made a most affecting picture of herself as an offering on the altar of matrimony and filial duty. She would pine away picturesquely in a year or so, and Will Milford well, perhaps be would go to tho bad. She hoped so. It was under this pressure that she solemnly promised and swore to Mrs. Gallatin to marry Captain Soutter if he asked her. What Miss Bradford promised and swore she never broke. So as soon 'as she and young Mil ford made it up, she set about won dering how Captain Soutter was to be kept from asking her. Yet she could not arrive at any plan. The captain was an impetuous man, and he was neither over well-bred nor nicely dis criminating. Bessie was worried. If it had been that she had promised and sworn anything to young Milford and had had to choose which vow to break, she would not have hesitated. But she had teased him, and had only answered "maybe." For which she now suffered. if . Bat Fate came to her aid as it al ways should and always doesn't in the ease of a very pretty girl. She was going to another hop, and she was going with Captain Soutter. He had invited her at the time that she was practicing for the martyr role. As she couldn't, therefore, go with Milford, she would wear the gown he liked, which was white silk. For it she had tOjhave white gloves; and her white gloves were soiled. Therefore they must be cleaned. Miss Bradford was an adept at cleaning gloves. She prepared a special mixture of a num ber of chemicals and powders. This mixture had to be whipped as if it had been the white of eggs very light and frothy. It had a most unpleasant odor, but it was pretty to look upon. Because the odor was so unpleasant Miss Bradford opened the door into the hallway and stood just within it beating. There was air in the hallway, bat there was none in the Gallatins' quar ters, as the baby bad a cold. Captain Soutter had a cold, too a frightful one. If he had not had he would would hare noticod the smell of Miss Bradford's mixture. He came through the hall on bis way to his own quar ters on the floor above. Colonel Mil ford was with him. The captain, did n't like the colonel particularly, on ac count of his being his son's father. "Ah! Miss Bessie! What a pretty, housewifely picture we make," said the captain. Bessie smiled encouragingly. "What are we doing? Whipping cream? How good it looks. If Hebe would but feed us with ambrosia." The colonel smelled the ambrosia; but he held his peace. "I'll give you a taste, captain, if you want it very, very much. Open your mouth wi-i-de. Shut your eyes." ' She put a heaping forkful in his mouth. ' The horrible taste made him gusp. The gasp made him swallow the froth. Colonel Milford laughed. But Captain Soutter wont to his quar ters without a word. Bessie went to the hop that night with young Milford. Afterward, while she and her sister and Lieutenant Gallatin were having their supper of crackers and cheese, Miss Bradford told thorn that she was going to marry the penniless civilian. "But how about Cnptain Soutter?" wailed Mrs. Gallatin. "Hush! He might hear you. Oh! I'm awfully afraid he'll never speak to me again." And he never did. San Francisco Argonaut. Dog Given Vp Life to Save IIU M inter. When a man gives up his life for another, posterity erects a monument to his memory; but when a dog dies that his master may live, men stop and think, and John Walker, of Roselle, N. J., was doing a lot of thinking Sat urday night. He was face to face with death, and his dog had averted the Wow: , r , Walker left his house early in the morning for a stroll. His dog followed him. He tried to drive him back. Then master and dog started to walk along thq Jersey Central Railroad tracks to Elizabeth. Midway between the stations Walker met a heavy freight train running rapidly eastward, making enough noise to deaden all other sounds. Walker stepped to the west-bound1 track. His dog, which had been run ning ahead after birds or loitering be-i hind to make short and noisy excur sions into the bushes, closed in on his! master when the ti?ain neared him. Walker was careless. He neverl looked behind him, and did not hear. or see tho Royal Blue Express. Brake men on tho freight train shouted warn ings. The engineer of the express train blew his whistle, with no avail. It was too late to stop, although the engineer was trying to do so. Walker plodded on. When the tram was nearly on top of Walker his dog sprang at him with a growl. Warker turned, saw the train aud stepped asido in timo to avoid tho cars as they swept past him with a roar. Isot so with the dost. The pi lot of the engine struck the animal and tossed him asido. , When Walker recovered his senses he looked for his dog. The faithful animal lay dying, with his back broken. Walker carriod his dog to the side of the traok. The brute licked his hand, feebly wagged his tail, and died in his master's arms. New York rress. Indian and AnlronU In'llronie. Indians and animals typical of America are to be perpetuated in bronze for the National Zoological Garden at Washington, if the plans of certain men of public affairs at the National Capital are carried out. And Edward Kemeys, the Chicago sculptor, is the artist who is to execute . the statues of the fast disappearing red man and the fauna of America, Congress will be asked for an appropriation for the pur pose, and it is expected that that body will respond as generously for the pur pose as it has heretofore in the beau tifying of the great National park. Capt. Kemeys has returned to his Bryn Mawr residence after a six weeks' visit to Washington and is at work on the project. Are There Living Altec? Dr. Saville, of Washington, read a paper before the anthropological sec tion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in the absence of the author, MiBS Zelia Nut tal. The author contended that the Aztecs are not an extinct race, but many representatives are alive now. men and women of magnificent phy sique, not withered decrepits, as many believe, who still speak the language of Montezuma. Miss Nuttal's paper was startingly original and productive of much discussion, the greater part of which. However, was in her favor. Detroit Journal. : TTTtaKilBMiPMBflBBKaBBISBflMBaSStSSBSSSPBBSS Hay trd In Plaid. Msy weed is not a kind of weed that seriously troubles the careful farmer. It mainly comes in on hard, trodden places by road sides, where if anything else starts to grow it is crushed oat. The may weed, not being so easily killed, survives. May weed cannot thrive where there is an undisturbed and thrifty growth of clover, but let the clover be trampled in the mire by stock, and the may weed will be ready to grow aud take the vacant place. It is most often seen, aside from road sides, at the entrance to pasture lots, where clover and the grasses are trampled to death by stock. Milk rever. Milk fever is a disease to be dread ed by the man who has first-class dairy cows, and who feeds and cares for them in such a manner as to make them large producers. The man with scrub cows, that have to rustle for themselves during the winter . round the straw stack, never suffers from loss by milk fever when his cows come in iu the spring. It is true he gets no profit out of his cows, and he rarely gets product enough from them to pay for the little feed and care they do have. But he can, and does, console himself by saying he never has milk fever with his cows like those men do who "stuff and pamper and baby their cows." We have lost, within the past fifteen years, several valuable cows with this disease. We think we now know how to prevent. A heifer with her first calf never has it and very rarely with the second calf. A cow that is milked continuously right np to calving is not liable to have milk fever, at least we have never known one to. We hesi tated to write that last sentence for fear some one would accuse us of ad vocating continuous milking. That we do not, but still feel bound to state that fact. A cow that is starved, or fed just enough to live on, will never have milk fever. One way is to dry the cow up six or eight weeks before she is due to calve (unless she is suoh a persistent milker as to make that impracticable) ; at the same time reduce her feed by taking nearly, if not quite all, the grain from her. Her bowels should be kept loose. If the cow is in flush pasture, and she is one you have reason to believe like ly to have milk fever, the only safe way to do is to keep her upon dry feed. We know it is hard for the man who has been in the habit of "babying" arfd petting his cows and feeding them to their full capacity to refuse them all they want to eat, but it is the only safe way . to do with some of them. After a cow has had milk fever once she is more liable than other cows to have it again, and if she does have it a second time she will be always most sure to die. Hoard's Dairyman. The rig and the Orchard. The two go together well. The pig stirs up the soil about the trees, let ting in the sunshine and moisture to ths roots and fertilizing them, while devouring many grubs that would otherwise prey upon the fruit. But v NOVEL PIO PEN. many orchards cannot be fenced and many owners of fenced orchards, even, would like to have the pig oonflne his efforts around tho trunk of each tree. To secure this have four fence panels made and yard a pig for a short time in suooesipn about each tree, as suggested in the diagram. Poultry In Orchards. Mr. Tegetmeier, the famous English authority on poultry, in commenting on a report of the Rhode Island Ex periment Station regarding the value of fowls to orchards, says: "For many years I have advocated the introduc tion of poultry into apple orchards, maintaining that they do good service. in two vory distinct modes first, by manuring the ground, and, secondly, by the destruction of insects and grubs that hibernate in the soil." The apple maggot appears to be ex tending in America, attacking the fa vorite Baldwin, which is so well known as being imported largely into this country, and rendering it entirely un fit for use, but the spraying the trees with 'Bordeaux mixture and Paris green has appeared to prevent all seri ous attacks of this insect In the mature state this insect is a fly, which deposits its eggs in the pulp of the apple beneath the skin. The young maggots grow within the fruit, which they render worthless, and when mature emerge from the apple and go into the ground, lying iu the pupa state beneath the surface soil among the grass roots. Samples of the earth, six inches square, were taken, and the number of maggots un der the trees varied, according to the size, from 1C00 to more than 12,000 under each tree; the pupa somewhat resembles kernels of wheat. Now comes the point which was particularly interesting to me. The experiment was tried as towhether poultry, if confined to small range and enoour aged to scratch, would destroy these pupa. A large movable wire fenJ pinooa aoou a wee, whose fruit had been destroyed by insects. On side of the fence was raised and fifty hens were called iota th The fence . was let down and they erJ couuueu iu wo space around the tree As soon as thev had eutnn 41.. '. thev naturallv beiran to pupa, and in the course of three or iour uaya waa louna mat the latl.J 1 m .9; . .. . wi.-ri uaci uisappearea. as mese insects re main in the pupa state from the full 0f me appie to me louowmg spring when they appear, it may be expected that next year the number of AW breeding from the apple maggot will oe greauy uiminisnea in the localitie wuere mis pian is loiiowed. From personal exnerienrA 1 ing over many years, I can speak pooi. lively "I 1110 nuvauutgeB 01 Bllowin iuwib uu iiuicwiiii h iree range in apple orchards. They not only m, nure the soil and destroy nil harboring in it, but they find, forsom. weens, a consiueraoie portion of tliei own food the windfnlln devour greedily, with any grubs thev may contain. The raising of poultry for sale mm be much more advimtmrennul,. on where the land is made to produce two crops namely, apples and eggs than where only one is gathered. Movable Rooitand lronnnir.It.,..i When the nests are under the drojiJ piugH-ouaru mere is a greater liability it 1 inn vt nUiiJninn A 1 . 1 i mnlated in the nests from the bodu 1 of the hens is conducive to their pru paganon. xney go up to the rou. 1 1L. 1 mi 1 nun uuuj iu ueuB. ine nests caiil cot be easily made movoblo when covj MOVABLE ROOST. ered by the droppings-board if th roost is also over the board. The ill lustration is a design of a niovabl roost placed over a droppings-boari the board haying legs of any hsighl aesirea to Keep it on tne floor. Th arrangement permits of placing roost and board at any desired lo tion in the house, and it and the nesi L -1 I J 1- . ... vwuicu euomu.aiso De movaiiie cal be taken outside and cleaned at an time. , f arm and Garden Koti. . Have early pullets for the wintci layefs. Road dust is a good material to soul ter under the roots as an absorbent. Fruit and poultry make a good cotJ bmation as the fowls bunt for and cod sume many insect pests and are better for the exercise it gives thru Don't forget that skim milk and tlJ scraps from the table fed to tho fowl will yield greater returns than you cal possibly get from them in auy ctLJ way. You cannot be too particular aboi keeping the poultry houses clean, a:J it yon will paint the roots onco a weH with kerosene it will be a great aid i keeping down lice and mites. Corn-fed hogs can hardly he anl thing less tbau lard hogs, a lcH which those who are aspiring to prl duce the bacon hog, with its streak j fat and streak of lean, will uo well lay to heart. I IThe old saying that there's more the feed than in the breed, mur betri in some cases, while in otherH the if verse is true. The fact is. that ff profit good feeding and good hreediij are both leading essentials. Among the two-legged frauds tlf should be given "walking papers'' J the traveling hog cholera doctor wil a "sure cure. Tne chances are has more cholera eerms on his IwJ than his remedy ever destroyed. By utilizing rouoh, bneby or, fi lands as sheep pastures, we not on may secure a revenue from otbemi expensive property, but the value such lands is enhanced tliereiiv. considering sheer as land reuovat and improvers, the term "golden li! is no misnomer. The power corn-hnsker is no long? an experiment; its practical utility hi been demonstrated; and yet it ' a long time ere the old huskiug-Ffj laid on the shelf alongside tho nan, in very many cases the corn gto can strap on his little peg and crib i crop cheaper than in any other w,Tj There is a question as to whether! is best to sow timothy seed in uu'l ii.a n-iisn eei to wheat in the fall. Locatioa somewhat to do with the answer. ' heavy day soils we would ow M"! on light, porous soils deeper cort" is required and we would toto" Because sheep will feed upon . and bushes, picking up muen would be passed over by other wj t1,( alinuld P M pellcd to subsist upons starvation J They will not thrive upon barepj tores. Liberal feeding and good ej are absolutely essential to iucce; sheep. Joiei Pack