Mapleton Item

              VOL. 9.
MAPLETON DEPOT, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1897.
NO. 9
HlNNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Schbdolb in Effect Ma.y 17. 1897.
New York.... 8.00
Philadelphia. 11.20
Washington ...10.40:
Baltimore 11.40|
D'ly
A.M
P.M.Night. A.M    A.M. A.M. P.M*
12.15
4.30
4.50
7.00
8.30
9.00
12426
10.60
11.46
1.00
4.35
D'ly.
A.M.
8.00
8.12
8.17
8.3S
9.05
9.16
9.26
9.44
9.60
Harrisburg 8.10
Bookville	
Marysville 3.24
Duncannon.. ...3.38
Newport 8.69
Millerstown	
Thompson town....
Port Boyal 4.31
Mifflin 4.371
Lewistown Jc.4.5810.13!l2.37
McVeytown... .5.2010.3812.57
N. Hamilton...5.38ill.OO 1.12
Mount Union...5.42111.00  1.17
Mapleton 5.4911.13  1.22
Hnntingdon. ...8.0811.88  1.37
Petersburg 62111.47  1.50
Birmingham ...6.4812.13 2.14
Tyrone 6.5512.20 2.20
Bellwood. 7.1812.41  9.37
Altoona 7.40  1.00 2.55
Pittsburg 12.10 5.50 7.00
pm.Ip. m. p. m.
D;iy,
A.M.
10.5E
11.071 .
11.10| .
11.24
11.44
11.58
12.01
12.14
12.18
D'ly.
A.M.
11.45
..*
12.57
1.18
2.06
2.45
D'ly.
P.M.
3.60
4.15
4.35
Dly
PM.
5.00
5.13
6.18
5.34
6.02
6.11
6.21
6.38
5,0716.43
5.2717.07
7,80
7.60
7.56
8.02
20
8.83
8.56
9.02
7.2319.20
7.40 9.35
11.30 2.00
AN INTERNATIONAL HENCOOP.
Honest Amasa Barrow Feeds His
Hens In Mexioo and Gets Their
Eggs In Arizona.
6.27
h
7.04
3.16
7.00     -.
P. M.IP. M.|P.M
Harrisburg 10.20, Bockville 10.31, Marysville 10.34, Duncannon 10.47, Newport 11.16.
Millerstown 11.14, Mifflin 11.40, Lewistown
Junction 11.58, p. m. Hnntingdon 12.66, Ty-
■ Taine 1.32,  Altoona 2.00, Pittsburg 5.30 a. m.
'"h" stops to let off passengers from points
Amasa Barrow has a chioken ranch
not far from Nogales, Arizona, on
whioh he has divided mutters between conscience and thrift with trne
Yankee ingenuity. Barrow is from
Massachusetts, and he has an eye
that magnifies the main chance by
many diameters and a Puritan conscience that wonld have shone resplendent on the Mayflower itself. Barrow's looal nickname is Old Honesty,
and those who know him best do not
hesitate to declare that he wouldn't
take an advantage even in a horse
east or soutli
of Harrisbi
rg.~
•D'ly
D'ly.
D'ly.
Uly
D'ly,
D'ly.
AV..
A.M.
A.M.
PM.
P. M.
P. M.
Pittsbnrg...,.
8.00
1.00
4.30
Altoona.	
• ......
7.1S
11.40
2.10
6.05
9.05
Bellwood	
7.30
11.52
2.26
6.20
9.19
Tyrone	
» 	
7.48
12.03
9.43
6.37
9.33
Birmingham
7.63
g
2.48
6.42
Petersburg .
8.17
8.18
7.06
Hnntingdon.
...5.30
8.30
12.35
3.28
7.20
10.12
...5.44
8.47
3.45
7.85
8.53
8.58
3.52
3.58
7.41
7.46
10.32
N, Hamilton
...6.65
McVeytown.
...6.12
9.15
4.20
8.04
Lewiston Jo.
...8.32
9.35
1.83
4.46
8.26
11.16
9.55
1.60
6.10
8.47
11.87
Port Boyal...
..6.56
9.59
5.15
8.52
Thompsontown7.12
10.14
6.33
9.07
Millerstown.
..7.21
10.22
5.43'
9.16
Newport......
..7.30
10.32
6.64
9.26
Duncannon.
..7.57
10.64
6.23
9.60
Marysville...
..8.14
11.07
6.41
10.04
8.18]11.12
6.47
10.08
Harrisbnrg...
„8.30|11.25
3.1017.00
10.20
1.00
Pittsburg 3.30, Altoona 6.50, Tyrone 7.12,
Huntingdon 7.44, Harrisbnrg 10,00 a. m. daily.
P.M.| P. M. P. M.lF.M
' P.M.
A.M. A.M
Baltimore 112.20
*3.10 6.15
♦10.40
Washington..   1.25
*4.10
Phila 12.1712.17
*3.006.23
11.15
4.30 4.30
New York 2.43| 2.33
*5.53|9.23
3.53 7.3317.33
Additional trains are run as under:—*
Leave Pittsburg 8.10 P. m. daily, Altoona
12.01 A. M., Huntingdon 12.68 A. m.; arrive
Harrisburg 3.30 A. m., Philadelphia 6,52 A. M.
Leave Pittsburg 7.30 a. m. daily, Altoona
11,05 A. m., Tyrone 11.30 a. m„ Huntingdon
• 12.03 p. m., Lewistown Junction 1.02 p. m.,
Newport 1.63 p. ra.; arrive Harrisburg 2.40
p. m., Philadelphia 5.47 p. m., New York 8.23
p.m., Baltimore 6,00 p.m., Washington 7.18p,m.
Leave Altoona 10.60 p. m. and arrive Huntingdon 11.55 p. m., stopping at all intermediate stations. '
•Week-days only, "g" stops to let off passengers from Pittsburg only.
Connecting trains leave as follows:
At Lewistown Junotion.—For Sunbury 7.30
A. m. and 3.15 p. m. week days.
For Milroy 6.85,10.20 a. m. and 3.10 p. k.
week days.
At Huntingdon—-Por Bedford and Cumber-
laud 8.35 a. M. and 6.36 P. M. weok days. Bedford only 8.00 a. m. Sundays.
At Tyrone—For Clearfield and Curwens-
villo 8.20 A. M., 3.15 and 7.20 p. M. week days.
For Bellefonte and Look Haven 8.10 a. m.,
19.80 and 7.15 p. M. week days.
For Scotia 7.60 A.M. and 2.55 p.m. week days.
For further information apply to tioket
agents, or Thomas E. WattrPassenger Agent,
Western Division, Corner Fifth Avenue, and
Smithfield Street. Pittsburg.
J. B. HUTCHINSON, J. B. WOOD,
Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agt.
EAST BROAD TOP RAILROAD..
Schedule in effect Nov. 16,1896.
NORTH.
STATIONS.
SOUTH.
W
a. a
9 m
o M
Mixed,
No. 8.
Mail"
No. 6.
Mail,
No. 2.
S" —
msS.
~£
P. M.
a.m.'a.m
A.M.
p.m.jp.m.
112
838620
Bobertsdale
1139
639 202
124
850632
Cook's
1124
627 149
136
9 0216 44
Cole's
1109
615 126
104
928|710
Saltillo
1039
5351267
212
936 717
Throe Springs
1030
528
12 60
224
948 729
•Beersville
1016
636
1238
2 39
1003 7 43
Bockhill
953
454
1213
255
1018 800
Shirley
938
439
1158
305
1026 808
•Angh. Mills
930
4 31
1150
826
1046 828
Mount Union
915
416
1130
p. m.
a. m. a.m
a. m.
p.m.
a. m.
No. 9 leaves Bobertsdale 7.22, a. m., Cooks
7.34, Coles 7.46, Saltillo 6.14, Three Springs
8.22, Beersville 8.34, arrives at Bockhill 8.49.
No. 7 leaves Bobertsdale 5.03 p. ra.. Cooks
5.18. Coles 5.25, Saltillo 5.45, Three Spring
•6.53, Beersville 6.05, arrives at Bockhill 8.20.
No. 4 leaves Bookhill 6.30 a. m., Beersville
$.42, Three Springs 6.54, Saltillo 7.01, Coles
7.36, Cooks 7.58. arrives at Bobertsdale 8.10,
No. 10 leaves BookhiU 5.30 a. in., Beersville
5.42, Three Springs 5.54, Saltillo 6.01. Coles
6.44, Cooks 6.54, arrives at Bobertsdale 7.04.
QHADE GAP BRANCH.
WEST.
STATIONS.
EAST
o            o
m
m
t-»
#-               (0
**
p. m.
a. ni.
a. ra.
p. m.
600
965
L Bockhill A
9 00
5 05
5 53
9 48
•Blaoklog
907
512
5 45
940
•Cedar Book
915
620
6 41
936
•Locke Vall'y
919
624
635
930
•Shade Gap
Stair
A Goshprn L
926
680
AU trains run daily except Sunday.
» Blacr otftHnn.        A. W. OBEBNWOOD,
Superintendent.
' Slag a tutions.
trade. He is a survival of the severe
old Puritan mortality which held to
take a pin is as bad as to take a
pocketbook, and he governs his daily
life by its principles. But that does
not hinder him trom being as anxious as the next man to get hold of
a good thing. So, when he decided
to start a ohicken ranch near Nogales,
he saw at once the big advantage it
would give him to grow his ohickens
across the line in old Mexioo. But
he wanted to supply the Arizona
trade, and to pay duties would eat
up his profits.
But to Yankee ingenuity the thing
was easy enough. Barrow just built
an international hen-house. American money changed into Mexioan
money means nearly two dollars for
one, while the cheap prioes for labor
and products inorease the advantage
for the buyer. But his ohickens and
eggs would command far higher
prices on the Arizona side pf the line,
If he bought his grain and other feed
for his ohickens in Mexico he would
get it for about half what it would
cost him in Arizona. But Amasa
Barrow would not smuggle chicken
feed aoross tho boundary. That
would be the same as stealing. So
he built a long coop or pen half on
the Arizona side and the other half
extending down into Mexico. He
buys all his snpplies on the other side
and stores them there in sheds. Never a grain of his ohicken feed is oarried across the border. When he
wants to feed his chickeos he opens
the gate between the two parts of the
pen and drives the flock into Mexioo,
where they fill up on Mexican grain.
When they have eaton their fill he
shooes them back to the otber end,
where, under the folds of the Stars
and Stripes, they lay their eggs and
hatoh their young.
Financially, the scheme works
beautifully, and if it were not for the
errant nature and perverse disposition of the common barnyard fowl
Amasa Barrow would have easy profits hs well as a olear conscience.
Every one of his hens is possessed to
lay her eggs in Mexioan territory.
He has built the cosiest houses and
the softest and most comfortable
nests for them on the Arizona side.
But they will waste most of their
time and muoh of their flesh hunting around for chances to slip over
into Mexioo and hide out their nests
under the rule of President Diaz.
This gives conscientious Amasa Barrow no end of trouble. To a visitor
to his ranch the other day Barrow
told what a life his hens led him.
"Do you see that speckled critter
proepectiii' along the fence yonder ?"
he said. "Well, she's lookin' for a
place to get through right now. Bnt
she won't find any. I've fixed 'em
all so there ain't a crack she can
squeeze through. She's the goldarn-
dest fool yon ever saw. She's the
tarnationist one in the hull lot. She's
won't lay in it. No, sir; she hikes
off into Mexico and hides her nest
out in the saga brush and cactus
every chanoe she gets and keeps me
busy tryin' to chase her back before
she lays. Gosh all mighty, there she
goes now I"
The speckled hen   had found a
crack she oonld squeeze through, and
with a demure but anxious air was
hurrying off into the laud of Montezuma.   Barrow gave chase, and the
hen, taking immediate alarm,  half
spread her wings, and with a cackling chatter rushed off at top speed.
They ran and ran, and the hen doubled and turned and dodged around
cactus clumps and scooted throngh
bunches of sage brush, sometimes well
ahead of her pursuer and sometimes
barely slipping from under his hands.
"Yoa dad gummed old fool 1" panted Old Honesty,  making a dive for
the speckled ben.   "Kuh tut, kuh
tah kut," gasped the hen, taking
fresh wind and darting aronnd a cactus bash, leaving Barrow clawing the
air in the effort to keep his balance.
"You gol darned Mexican greaser of
a coyote!   Shoo back there, now!
Ain't tbe United States good enough
for you to lay in ?"   "Kuh tut, kuh
tah kut!" from the hen as she slipped
from under his grasp with tbe loss of
a tail feather.   "You gosh dinged
fool, I'll wring your carajo neck for
you 1   Dad gum you to blazes, you
blamed old idiot, shoo baok there, I
tell you, or I'll — Oh, Lord, she's
gone and done it!"   The speckled
hen, with a proud and defiant cackle,
made a flying rush from under a
olump of sage brush, where she bad
found a moment's rest, and started
back toward the ohicken pen and
the Arizona line kuh-tah-kutting at
the top of her voice.   She had accomplished her intention and became
tbe proud parent of an egg on Mexican soil.   Barrow shooed her back to
the enclosure without diffiulty, heaping upon her meanwhile all the Yankee and Spanish epithets of derision
and contumely of which his limber
tongue was capable.   Then he made
a little heap of grease, wood and sage
brush around the egg and set it on
fire.
"We've got to eat that egg down
here in Mexioo," he explained to his
visitor. ''I generally get 'em chased
back to the United States before tbey
lay, but if any of them dog gorned
critters get ahead of me I roast the
eggs and eat 'em down here, 'cause
I can't smuggle eggs across the line,
no sir. If I oan't make money honestly I don't want to make it at all."
Old Honesty hauled out from his
trousers pooket a little tin box containing pepper aud salt, whioh
showed that he was always prepared
for just such catastrophes, and then
sat on the ground across the Mexican border and ate the egg whioh the
speckled hen had insisted on laying
on Mexican soil. And then Amasa
Barrow came back into Arizona witb
his conscience at rest. He had smuggled no eggs, and would not be the
richer by the perversity of the speckled hen.
THIS  DOG  HATCHES OHIOKEN8.
Ha was Laid Up for Repairs and
His Kennel Became an
Incubator.
PARTED BY THE FLOOD.
Yard Breeze, who owns a poultry
farm just west of Trenton, N. J., is
also a dog fancier, and in his kennel
is a valuable red Irish setter. About
a month ago, while the dog was frisking about one of the poultry buildings, a plank fell upon him, breaking two of his legs. Mr. Breeze engaged a veterinary surgeon to set the
broken limbs, and, in order to keep
the dog quiet, placed him in a box
filled with straw.
Knowing that it would be several
weeks before the dog would be able
to leave the box, Mr. Breeze decided
to experiment, and placed half a dozen eggs in the warm straw under the
dog's body and awaited developments.
At the end of the third week six tiny
ohicks made their appearanoe. They
were added to the family of a mother
hen with a small brood, and are
thriving. The hen takes good care
of them, but the chioks have an at.
tachment for the dog and spend
much of their time with him, while
h
Romantic   Reunion   of  Viotlms
the Johnstown Disaster.
of
That truth is stranger than fiction
has been verified by a romantic
occurrence in Boanoke, Va., the event
being the meeting of a man and wife
who had each supposed the other
dead for nearly eight years. On the
afternoon of May 31, 1889, Jobn
Sharkey and his young wife, both
from Buohanan County, Va.,
stood at the door of their cottage
home in Johnstown, Pa., preparing
to flee from the great wall of water
that was coming down the valley
from the broken dam, carrying
death and destruction in its
path. They plunged into the rapidly rising waters and in their efforts
to reach the hills were oarried helplessly down the stream.
In the horror and confusion of
that awful time, when thousands
found a watery grave, they soon became separated, and though the man
finally reaohed the shore and the
woman was rescued by strong and
willing arms, each supposed the other had perished.   Both remained in
e seems proud of his proteges and   T v.    _. ■, .	
j  ii        -ii ■   i jonnstown and vioinitv for <?pvpc»i
uards them with lealous care. . , "uimiy ior several
days, searching for some trace of eaoh
Intelligent Maids of De Motte.
Indianapolis Journal.
Fully a score of marriageable girls
of De Motte, Jasper county, Ind.,
iiave deolared war against the young
men of that town and have formed a
league to promote refinement among
the men, whioh the ladies say is sadly
lacking there. They have just met in
a body and passed the following resolution :
"Be it resolved that the ladies of
De Motte, Ind., will not hereafter
marry a young man who is not a patron of their home newspaper, fot it
is a strong evidence bf want of intelligence, and that he will prove too
stingy to provide for a family, educate his ohildren, and encourage institutions of learnig in the community."
The Best Remedy for Rheumatism
[From the Fairhaven CS. T.) Register.]
James Rowland, of this village, states
that for twenty-five years his wile has
been a sufferer from rheumatism. A
few nights ago she was in such pain that
she was nearly crazy. She sent Mr.
Rowland for the doctor, bat be had read
of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and instead
of going tor the physician he went to
the store and secured a bottle of it. His
wife did not approve of Mr. Rowland's
purchase at first, but nevertheless applied the Balm thoroughly and, in an
hour's time she was able to go lo sleep.
She now applies it whenever she teeis an
ache or a pain and finds that it always
gives relief. He says that no medicine
wbich she had used ever did her as
much good. The 35 and 50 cent sizes
for sale by J. G. Gillam.
other, but neither being successful
they wandered away, and being without friends or money they had a
hard struggle in earning a living.
The wife secured employment as a
servant in a family not far from
Johnstown, and the husband went
East in quest of work. He stopped
for a while in Philadelphia, Baltimore and other Eastern cities, and
finally located in Norfolk. In the
meantime the woman gradually
worked her way to Salem, where
she arrived about three weeks
ago.
Recently the husband reached
Boanoke from Norfolk, and while
going up Salem avenue he and the
wife, whom he supposed dead, met
face to faoe. . Mutual explanations
followed. Neither had remarried and
as eaoh had saved some money in the
years of their separation they resolved to return to their native county, Buchanan, wbich thej had left
only a month when the great flood
ooeured. They at once left Boanoke
to begin life together again, and a
happier couple than they has not
been seen for years.
Anoient History Regarding the Bioyole;
got a nice big nest all to herself in a
S cool>
comfortable
■
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Not Alone ln Their Impatience.
the
ike
From the Chicago Becord.
"Those who find fault with
slow return of prosperity are
most sick people."
"How's that?"
"Well, sick people may take ten
years to accumulate a disease,but they
always expeot the dootor to oure
them in a week."
ahe ' at B. O'Connor & Sons.
■» II     <l»     n
—The Westfield (Ind.) News prints
the following in regard to an old resident of tbat place: "Frank McAvoy, for
many years in tbe employ of the L., M.
A. & C. Ry. here, says: <I have used
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar-
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Yang Yu, who was Mr Wang
Wu's predecessor in the Embassy did
not take kindly to the bioyole. He
said they were used extensively in
Ohina over 2,000 years ago, but that
the women of that conntry, who rode
not wisely but too Well and neglected
their husbands and ohildren and
household affairs, the Emperor abolished the manufacture of wheels in
the Flowery Kingdom.
1 !■  et» hi 1
Schools of Miohigan Oity, Ind.,
nnder the inspiration of a member
of the Board of Education, Martin
Krueger, celebrate "Bird Day," wben
a speoial study of song birds is made
and addresses upon them are delivered. The custom has spread to other towns of northern Indiana and is
said to be making its way into Illinois.
am npver without it in my familyy
I consider it the best remedy of tbe kijm
manufactured. I take pleasure in recommending it.' "   It is a specifc for a
"It ts the Best on Earth."
That is what Edwards & Parker, merchants of Plains, Ga., say of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, for rheumatism, lame
rhoea Remedy for ten years or longer-/back» deeP seated *nd mB«»ul»1, P«"B»
old by }. G. Gillam.
At Jackson, Mioh., a father play-
        r»v.-^ .„, ..., ing leapfrog with his boys fell against
bowel disorders. For sale by J.G.GiUas^ (a stove and brofyj his neck.
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