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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
Keeping Faith.

Sir William Napier was one day taking
long country walk, when he met a
little girl about FIVE years old sobbing
over a broken bowl. She had dropped
and broken it, in bringing it back from
the field to which she had taken her
fathers dinner. and said she would be
beaten on her return home for having
broken IL. As she said this, sudden
gieam of hope seemed to cheer her.
She inpocently looked up into Sir Will
liam's face and said But you can
mend it, can't yoG?" He explained
that he could not mend the bowl, but
the trouble he could overcome by the
gift of a sixpence to buy another.
However, on opening his purse it was
empty OF silver, and he promised to
meet his little friend on the same spot
st the same hour next day, and to bring
sixpeace with him; bidding her mean
while tell her mother she had seen q
gentleman who would bring her the
fz.oney for bowl next day. The child,
entirely trusting him, went on her way
comfGrted On his return home he
found an invitation awaiting him to
dine in Bath the following evening to
meet some one whom he especially
wished to see. He hesitated for some
iittle time, trying to calculate the possi-
bility of giving tine meeting to his little
friend of the broken bowl and still being
in time for the dinner party in Bath,
but finding this could not be, he wrote
TO decline accepting the invitation, on
the plea of "a previous engagement. }"
saying, 81 cannot disappoint her; she
trusted me-"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
A Forger ESeaeems Himself.

While Geneva is mourning over the
remains of the Duke Of Brunswick with
a grief which finds consolation only in
the legacy bequeatheJ to her by the
departed Prince, the City of Carlisle.
Scotland, has fonnd little Dnke of
Brunswick of her own, whose bequest
in her favor, although not so magnifi-
cent as that of the Duke of Brunswick
to Geneva, is sufficiently large to call
forth her utmost feelings of gratitude to
her posthumous benefactor. 1t seems
that certain Mr.. Edward Stuart Will
son, who in 1855 fell into trouble by
committing forgery, and was sentenced
to transportation for twenty years. but
was subsequently released on ticket
of-leave, has left to the corporation of
Carlisle the sum of $50, 900 for building
new town hall, and SIS, 900 for erect
ing q reredos in Carlisle Cathedral, be-
sides other legacies, amounting in all to
about S750,000.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
Modern Sayages.

After all, III every age, under every
civilization, a people Is always itself
Whatever be the dress, ,goat-skin blouse,
gold-lace doublet, black dress coat. the
five or six great instincts which it pos
sessed in its forests follow in its palaces
and offices. To this day, warlike pas
sions, gloomy humor, subsist under
the regularity and propriety of modern
manners. Their native energy and
harshness pierce through the perfection
of culture and the habits of comfort.
Rich young men, on leaving Oxford. go
to hunt bears on the Rocky mountains,
the elephant in South Africa, live under
canvas, box, jump hedges on horseback,
sail their yachts on dangerous coasts
delight in solitude and peril. The an
cient Saxon, the old rover of the Sean
dinavian seas, has not persisted. Even
at school the children roughly treat one
another, withstand one another, fight
like dogs, and their character is SO
indomitable that they need the birch
and blows to reduce them to the disci-
pline of law. Judge what they were in
the sixteenth century the English race
passed then for the most warlike of
Europe, the most redoubtable in battle,
the most impatient of anything like
slavery. English savages is what
Cellini call them and the ''great shins
of beef with which they fill themselves
keep up the force and ferocity of their
instincts Iaine's History Of English
IifeyHy1P,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
A Female Brigansl.

The italian Journals relate that the
environs of Catanzaro, Calabria, are in
tested by band of brigands under the
command of young woman. She is
twenty years of age, and of great beauty.
with remarkable black eyes. Her name
is Maria, the widow of Pietro Monico,
bandit chief who was killed in an en-
counter with the gendarmes. At his
death she seized his carbine, and swore
to avenge him. Some time after, a
young man, the son of wealthy farmer.
fell in love with her and joined her band
in order to be able to prosecute his suit.
He was, however, peremptorily elected,
and, in order to revenge himself, he
betrayed her to the authorities. She
was arrested, tried, and sentenced to
thirty years Imprisonment.
While undergoing her punishment
warder, becoming enamored of her,
favored her escape, and accompanied
her, but was stabbed to death by her
orders Immediately after she had re-
Joined her baud. Since that period she
has become still more redoubtable, her
audacity and activity having redoubled,
and she has made herself the terror of
the country. She burns farms, carries
off cattle, and levies forced contribu-
tions. The slightest disobedience to
her orders is punishable by murder and
fire. Her troop is numerous, and al
ways well informed by the peasantry,
through dread OF vengeance.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
Education OF Women.

Commenting upon the fact that not
one woman was saved on the fated At
lantic. although many had the same
chance of life as the men, an exchange
says THE strength of women at the
crises of their life depends on their
physical culture while children. Let
parents be no more ashamed of their
girls brown faces and fists than Of their
boys. Let them train and clOthe them
so that they can run and climb and
care for and protect themselves. Let
them take them with their brothers into
the harvest field. A boy is not ashamed
of work no more should be girl.
The refinement that shuts girl out of
Gods sunshine, and allows her no
rougher work indoors than to embroi-
der worsteds, or tap ivory keys, or dust
marble mantel, is refining her off of
the face of the earth to give place to
the daughters of the servants OF the
kitchen"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
Its None Of Ny business"

Its none of my business" said Peter
Martin, as he passed Farmer Hyde's
orchard and saw one of his neighbor's
sons stealing apples. ''Let Ryder look
after his own boys"
Mr.. Ryder by the way. His first i'm
pulse was to tell the neighbor about his
son, but he checked the impulse, saying
in his mind: "Let him find it out for
himself ; it's none of my business. I'd
get his ill-will, instead of his thanks,
most likely"
1t SO happened that this was Jim
Ryder's first offence, and if Martin had
told his father, the reproof or punish
ment that would have followed might
have saved the boy from further crime
But, escaping detection and punish
ment, he was encouraged to go on in
evil.
But it was Martins business, even in
the narrow and selfish sense in which
he had expressed himself. He would
have made it his business if some one
had introduced fever-breeding nui-
sance' into the neighborhood, to the
serious peril of his family.
On that very evening Jim Ryder met
Martins son, Edward, lad three years
younger, and gave him a compile of nice
red apples.
Where did you get them? ?" asked
Edward, as he ate the spicy fruit.
You'll not tell %
cob, no indeed" ..
"Well, then, / got them down at Mr..
Hyde's orchard. | was going along
there, and the apples looked so tempting
could not resist. Mr.. Hyde's got
bushels and bushels, and he'll never
miss them" .-...
The boys talked it over, and the older
one persuaded the younger that there
was no great harm i'll taking few
apples. The only thing was not to be
found out. And they agreed to go round
together, on the next afternoon, and
help themselves to as many as they could
carry.
Peter Martin was returning home on
the next day, and Just as he got near
Farmer Hydes orchard, he heard a
great outcry and barking of dogs. And
soon after he saw Jim Ryder leap over
the fence and run swiftly down the
road.
"Ah, you young rascal ~ he said to
himself. Been stealing apples again. "
He was moving on, when he heard
himself called. Looking round he saw
Farmer Hyde-and he saw something
else that made his heart sink like lead
in his bosom. He saw his little boy
Edward iii the tight grip OF the angry
farmers hand.
Been stealing my apples ~ said the
farmer. ---
At single bound Peter Martin was
over the fence, and, standing with pale
lips before the farmer and his frightened
boy, he cried: "Oh, Ned Ned J" in
sorrow and shame 'To think that yOs
could have done mean and wicked
thing like this"
81 wouldn't have thought of it. father,
answered the trembling. white faced
child, "if it hadn't been for Jim Ryder.
He said he got some yesterday, and
that it wasn't any harm"
''The greatest rogue has got OFF, as is
usual in such cases, said Farmer Hyde,
the anger going out of his heart at sight
Of the fathers pain. 'BIt there is harm
my boy" speaking gravely but kindly
to Edward, ''in taking what don't belong
to you. Ii is, stealing"
Peter Martin went home that day a
wiser man; and with some clearer no
tions of his responsibility in the life
around him.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22

"Lenkerbad, 'is favorite resort of
invalids who come To seek health in the
warm waters. / went into the bath
house, saw both sexes dressed in long
flannel gowns soaking in the samesteam-
ing pool. Friends come to chat with
them. and You may see a great fellow
kicking out like Giovanni's frog. while
carrying on conversation with his pos
sible dul.inea. Those not SO fortunate.
IN company play solitaire, read papers
or books, or divert themselves in the
yarious ways that floating table per-
mits. One woman 1 saw arranging
dowers, which, in their natural beauty,
lent a slight refining influence to the
scene, but not enough to detain me
long. / FASTENED back into an atmos-
phere which. in temperature and odors,
wasn'tquite SO suggestive of cutaneous
disorders.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
The Log House of Norway.

"You may suppose, "that log houses
were born on Plymouth Rock; but they
existed in Norway centuries, perhaps,
before Plymouth Rock was known. A
yet more interesting facts that the
fashion has not changed. Improve
ments there have been in many ways,
but the log house of Norway is the most
fashionable, perhaps because the most
comfortable, house. In regions far re-
moved from timber, and where stone
and lime and clay abound, even there
the log house obtains universal prefer
ence. During my trip up and down this
long line of Norwegian coast, have had
many opportunities to examine the old
as we'll as the new constructions. Let
me tell you first of the old. The logs are
squared and nicely dovetailed at the
corners. Grooves are then cut, with the
broad axe, on both the under and the
upper surface. When the log is finally
laid to its place, this double groove is
filed with moss, and moss is afterward
caulked into the log seams. The par
titions are built with the house, and in
the same thorough manner as the out
side walls. The houses are never more
than two stories high, and the roofs are
steep and heavily timbered. A covering
of slabs is fitted, round side down, to
the roof timbers and over these slabs
comes one or more layers of birch bark.
Then comes heavy timber coping
along the caves and up the roof at either
end. On this is laid sods of rich earth
well packed to a thickness of about six
inches, and these. in this moist climate,
furnish an abundant grassy finish. The
only essential differences between the old
and the new Norwegian styles of house
building are in the substitution of red
tiles, and occasionally of slate, for the
sod roofs, and the casing of the timber.
which forms the body of the house, with
thin boards. for looks sake.
Within year the town of Namsos,
about one hundred miles north of
Drontheim, was almost totally destroyed
by fire and it is now ir course of re-
building. Here, notably. the work OF
building is going on upon a considerable
scale, and the two modes appear side bv
side. A few finished buildings there
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22

No educated woman is fit to bear
children who cannot give them all the
instruction they require up to the age
of ten years. No woman can have any
higher career or nobler exercise for
whatever talent God has given her, and
if the unmarried women who are seek
ing outlet for their unused energies
would qualify them selves for this high
est duty of maternity ,hey would prove
their own frequent assertion, that wo-
men are born for higher uses than to
be household drudges or to bring forth
children. Home training in infancy is
the only absolute universal rule of edu-
cation. After that the parents course
should be modelled by the child's char
acter and temperament.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
Miscellany.
Thoughts on a Shirt.

A woman, trembling with WEAKNESS,
and nearly discouraged with ill-success,
stands and looks rnefully down on the
shirt she is ironing, when a new train
of thought arrives, and she must heed
its voice ''Why are shirts made with
ruffies and plaits and stitehines and
puffs and why are they starched and
ironed with such infinite trouble? Is
nian any more or less n man, because of
the ornamental shirt front which fashion
dictates? ? Which is the uglier, a plug
hat or d starched shirt? and would not
either of them suit a Feeiee Islander
better than a civilized man? L shall
endeavor to prove the shirt to be a great
promoter of lung disease and cGnsump-
,,on. The ornamental part, which Is
The part to show, is made of linen, and
Just co7srs the vital organs IN front.
Cotton is bad enough, but linen is cruel.
Then the dress, which should be made
to protect the breast. is left open one
third of the front, TO display ornamental
needle work and jewelry, and men go
hacking around with hereditary con-
sumption. Why not say an hereditary
love for display? As Z general thing,
men dress warmly and comfortably on
a cold stormy day, when they go out,
Du. the moment they set foot inside
their homes, about SIX or eight thick
aesses of Noolen goods, and about one
sud one-half or two inches of cotton
xaiding are laid aside. or turned back
10 display the shirt. IL Is not at all
necessary that shirt should be seen,
then how much labor would be saved
10 woman. 1t has never yet been my
fortune to know a woman who could
..Gl her husbands shirt right. Among
she yeyy earliest recollections OF my
ehiidh o0d, arises a ghost of shirt with
ats buttons of, or too far back, or too
Ear front; its collar always too stiff, or
Ioo limp-the one big bugbear of the
wash tub, and the one thing that could
not be put off till another day, In case
If sickness or trouble. Then, whoever
made shirt right? For my part,
have never seen one that proved to be
right. And where Is the need of perfec-
ton in an undergarmeRt, if 1t be clean
enI whole? Men suffer from exposing
kheis persons to display a shirt, and
women suffer from anxiety and fatigue
and unnecessary labor in preparing 1t.
Would not the cause of humanity be
pronoted by wearing plain garment,
without ornament or starch, and devo-
ting the time usually spent on shirts,
10 a careful study of the laws of health ?
Thus one or two OF consumption causes
would be done away.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22

ale, which would hold high rank, among
the best of our American country homes,
in architecture while in comfortable
exclusion of cold, We have not country
house, of whatever material. that would
bear rigid comparison with the poor
est of them. Double glazing OF window
sashes--outside and in-the packing of
every window and door frame with moss,
and careful papering of every room,
are some of the means taken to prevent
any circulation of the frosty air. For
winter comfort, combined with the ut
most facility for every conceivable or
commend to me the Nor
wegian log house.-.Scientifc Ameri-
can
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
Youths Column
Boy and Butterfly .

Boy: Butterfly upon the wing,
Pretty, huttering little thing.
Floating. lowering IN the air.
Ga what do :ou i've up there"
BUrTERyLY- "HOney-lew, saus hlns sweet,
Il the food have - eat"
The insect gay rOltel away,
Fearing the boy would mar Li- 10y,
And "a ne went. on giittering wing
Floating thus he seemed t. sing
Dear child. il is so bright
In the g ad sunlight.
Catch me not, but let me ry
Tomorrow cold and dead III lie"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
WORD SQUARE.

France has no poor law. and the
of the INDECENT depends
upon the bureaus of charity,
which exist in most parts of the coun-
try. These are voluntary organizations,
by contributions, collections
at churches, and similar means. They
are said to work admirably, and accor-
ding to published statement, during a
recent period of twelve months, afforded
relief to 1,250. 900 persons. England
has III, ,725 paupers, or one to every
twenty-seven of the population. Ire
land has 81 ,003, or one to every 63.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
Poetry.
EsOp ia Rhyme.
THE LION AND THE MOUSE.

A lion lay a-sleeping,
little mouse came creeping
Around the forest king;
Not reckiug OF his danger
The careless little stranger
Glanced sn his ear 10 sprius.
The Lou quickly waking
Arose and feIeely shaking
His Iordly name, looked rouai:
The trembling little stranger,
Sore frightened at his danger.
Crep; closely to the ground
The lion soon espied him
CrOuching low beside him,
And raised bis paw to kin
"Great sir" cried nOusey, spare me
prithee do NJ. harm me-
enly bear good will
ITO die ! al rot wiling
What would'st thoa gain By Killing
SO small q thing as | p
We'll; 60, then :" said the Ion,
5ut LEI me Ee'er set eye or
Your carcass, OF you die 20
Meath autumn leaves sbidids,
oar mousey lay abiding;
Twas after many days;
be heard a frightful roaring
lad creeping forth exploring.
Soon saw Ia great amaze,
'Nsath hunters tolls entaBgled,
Sore coIapsssed nd half straagied
The lOrdly lion lie;
sud mouse, in consterustion
Took ss the situation
With oomprehenaiug eye
Then straight began - Ribtis-
Did naught bet nibble, nibble-
TIL every csrd was regr.
oace NOR the lion stsudlng,
Displayed his front commanding,
With Pride and pleasure bleut.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22

While a compositor on the Montreal
iiiitt5sess was setting up an advertise
ment for q lost canary. the bird flew in
at the Office window, "which shows the
value of advertising"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22

ENIGMA
My first is in tape, but not in braid.
My second is in shovel, and also in
spade.
Ny third is in girl, but not in boy.
My fourth is in laugh, but not in Joy.
My whole is a country in South America.
inslreI. Peru.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22

1 A CHiLD-LIKE + ATrH.-One afternoon
through the absence of their mother,
two little children, Willie and Eiie,
aged. respectively, seven and five years,
were left a.one. She was necessarily
detained from her home until after
dark, and the children vainly watched
for her coming, until they could no
longer distinguish one object from an-
other in the fast-gathering darkness.
Their only light being a dim one, pro-
ceeding from the stove, it was no won
der that an underlined fear came creep
ing into their little hearts but Willie,
being the older, put on brave tout
sid" for while, answering cheerfully
to Edie's question, ''Ar'nt you afraid 2"
mo, what do you suppose can hurt me
here 2 But when Edie crouched down
IN alright, declaring, between her sobs,
that she heard something, he uncon-
sciOusly realized the need of higher
power than his own. Taking hold of
her hand he said, "Please don't cry,
Edle; let us pray. God can take care
OF us, even If there was a lion right in
the ROOM" why, how could He 2"
"God can do anything, Edie. Don't
you remember how mamma told us
about Daniel-how he was put right in
among lots of lions, and God came and
shut their mouths so they couldn't bite
at alp Couldn't they growl, either?"
well, l don't know, for sure, about
that but know God could make them
stop growing, il He wanted to, for /
tell YOU God can do anything" swell,
Willie if He can do anything, wish He
would make mamma come home
MAY be He Will, if we ask Him to.
Clasping her little hands together, Edie
said, "Oh, God, please make mamma
come home, and make it light so we
can see" ''Why, Edie, that isn't the
way to pray We must kneel down, and
try to think what big God He is, and
how He knows all about whether We
have been good or not" "Then let's
kneel down, and you pray" They
knels down, and Willie repeated the
Lords Prayer, and then said, "Please,
God, We know We have been very
naughty, lots of times, but we want you
to help us to be good. Please take care
OF us, and make mamma come home
quick, Tor We are all alone" Edie then
said her little PRAYER, Snow / lay me
down to Sleep They arose from their
knees with peace of mind they could
not express, and, young as they We're,
they realized a perfect trust in the will
lingness and ability of God to take care
Tor them under any circumstances.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22

4 Worn To THE BoYs.-Boys the
evenings are growing cooler and longer,
and the time is at hand when you will
have more leiSIre than at any other
period of the year. You shoul. inn
prove these hours. Never allow your
selves to pass an idle moment: improve
every one of them. Read, write do
something that is useful to yourselves
or others. Make it fixed rule to de-
vote at least two hours of each evening
to useful reading. You will be aston
ished, when next spring comes, to find
how much you have learned. Give an
hour day to agricultural and horti-
cultural reading. Make yourselves
familiar with all that relates to your
calling, and you Will realize the advan-
tages of such course when you grow
up to be men.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22

NATURAL SoAP-SUDs.-An astonished
looking little girl who has a lively i'm
agination of her own, and who finds not
the slightest difficulty in believing "for
very true" all the wonderful stories of
the Arabian Nights, gravely accuses US
of making up" when we tell her that
there are natural springs, where ready
made soap-suds boils up from the earth.
Yet it is true. \ spring of this sort
is found on the island of SamaO in the
Malay Archipelago. Owing to the
presence of certain minerals in the
earth, through which the water passes,
1t becomes very soapy, and as it pro-
duces a strong lather, the natives of the
island often wash soiled clothes in it.
Perhaps the waters of this spring,
though soapy enough to cleanse soiled
clothes, are not enough so to be blown
into soap-bubbles. But if they are so,
and if the little Malayans are as fond of
blowing soap-bubbles as some American
children We know, We can imagine that
the neighborhoOd of the soap-spring is
a favo-lte place of resort. little COr-
p0rGi.