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MOFFAT's LIFE PILLS
and
PHOENIX BITTERS.

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Castor Oil Pills.

The safety aud certainty OF action of Castor Oil,
for both children and adults, has made it at all
times popular, because it is reliable medicine
THE ONLY OBJECTION
to its constant is the difficulty of administering
it to children and It's nauseousness to adults Both
these objections are now entirely overcome. The
Proprietor, by the application of the principles of
chemistry, aided by careful manipulation and
long practical experience, has at length succeeded
in accurately combining,
IN A SOLUBLE FORM,
all the medicinal elements of Castor Oil with other
harmless but valuable vegetable products. These
Pills being coated with sugar, will be found easy
and pleasant to take, and, they contain neither
mercury nor minerals in any form, are very safe
medicine in all cases where purgatves required
such as
Bilious Disorders.
SICK HEADACHE AND FOULNESS OF THE
STOMACH.
Habitual Costiveness and Piles,
Diarrh9a or Looseness of the Bowels
Fevers and Inflammation; and as
GENERAL BLOOD PURIFIER
they will be found invaluable; also very desirab
medicine for
FEMALES IN DELICATE HEALTH,
None other should be used.
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-13

To these three medicines DR.. j. Fl. Schenck OF
Philadelphia, owes his unriyalled success in the
treatment of Pulmonary Consumption. The Pull
monte Syrup ripens the morbid matter in the lungs
nature throws it off by easy expectoration, for
when the phlegm or matter is ripe slight cough
will throw it of, and tn patient has rest, and the
lungs begin to heal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
Twenty Marriage Maxims.

Husbands need not pass these maxims
by, for they are designed for wives; and
wives should not despise them, for they
are addressed to husbands:-Q.) The
very nearest approach to domestic hap
piness on earth is in the cultivation on
both sides of absolute unselfshness.
CD Never talk at one another either
alone or in company. 81 Never both
be angry at once. a. Never speak
loud to one another-unless the house
is on fire. (5) Let each one strive to
yield oftenest to the wishes Of the other.
(6) Let self-denial be the daily aim
and practice of each. (7) Never find
fault, unless it is perfectly certain that
a fault has been committed, and always
speak lovingly. (S.) Never taunt with
past mistake. o. Neglect the
whole world besides rather than one
another. Q0) Never allow q request
to be repeated. Q1) Never make a
remark at the expense of the other.
Q2.) Never part for a day without
loving words to think of during alb
sence. OBJ Never meet without a
loving welcome. Q4) Never let the
sun go down upon any anger or griev-
ance. Qa.) Never let any fault you
have committed go by until you have
frankly confessed it and asked forgive
ness. Q6) Never forget the happy
hours of early love. Q7.) Never sigh
over what might have been, but make
the best of what is. Q8.) Never for
get that marriage is ordained of God,
and that His blessing can make it what
it should be. Q9.) Never be content
till you know you are both walking in
the narrow way. (20.) Never let your
hopes stop short of the eternal home.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
Happy Husbands.

1t is mans own fault if he is un-
happy with his wife, in nine cases out
of ten. 1t is very exceptional woman
who will not he all she can be to an
attentive husband, and more excep-
tiOnal one who will not be very dis
agreeable if she finds herself wilfully
neglected. 1t would be very easy to
hate a man who, having bound a
woman to him, made no effort to make
her happy; hard not to love one who
was constant and tender; and when a
woman loves she always strives to
please.
The great men of this world have
often been wretched in their domestic
relations, while mean and common
men have been exceedingly happy.
The reason is very plain. Absorbed in
themselves, those who desired the
worlds applause were careless of the
little world at home; while those who
had none of this egOtism strove to keep
the hearts that were their own, and
were happy in their tenderness.
No woman will love a man the better
for being renowned or prominent,
Though he be first among men she
will only be prouder, not fonder; and
if she loses him through this renown,
as is often the case, she will not even
be proud. But give her love, appre-
citation, kindness, and there is no sacri-
flee she would not make for his content
and comfort. The man who loves her
well is her hero and her king No less
a hero to her thought he is not one to
any other; no less a king though his
only kingdom is her heart and home.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
Female Taste.

A cultivated taste marks woman OF
elegance and refinement as decidedly
as a knowledge of classical literature
does gentleman and there is nothing
in which female vnlgalarity is more
clearly shown than in want OF taste.
This is an axiom that We think VIII not
admit of dispnte but it is question
how far taste is natural, and how far 1t
NAV be acquired. A delicate taste
must, to a certain extent, depend upon
the organization of the individual and
it is impossible for any rules to be laid
down which will impart taste to persons
entirely devoid of it. But this is very
seldom the case with women, as 1t is one
of che few points in which women natu-
rally excel man. Men may be, and
probably are, superior to women IN all
that requires profound thought and
general knowledge but In the arrange
ment of house, and the introduction
of ornamental furniture and articles OF
biiouterie. there can be no doubt OF the
innate superiority of woman. Every
one must have remarked the difference
in the furnishing of bachelors house
and one where a lady presldes the
thousand little elegancies of the latter,
though nothing in themselves, adding,
like cyphers, prodigiously to the value
of the solid articles they are appended
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
Miscellany.
Southey-s Life.

All SOuthey's thoughts, all his wishes
all his hopes, were centered within the
four corners of his library. This library
was all in all to him. Coleridge called
it his wife, and De Quincey has given a
description of 1t which is too well
known to need quotation. Southey
knew all his books by heart, kept them
all in perfect order, well classified,
marked, and indexed E; and here, with
these books for his companions. "the
pride of his eye and the Joy of his
heart" he spent most of his time.
"Imagine me in this great study of
mine, from breakfast till dinner, from
dinner till tea, and from tea till supper,
in my old black coat, my corduroys,
alternately with the long worsted pan
falcons and CATERS in one, and the
green shade, and sitting at my desk.
and you have my picture and my his
tory" This is Southey's own descrip-
ton of himself at work, in a note to his
brother, and it tallies to a L with De
Quincey's account. 81 rouse the house
to breakfast every morning, and qualify
myself for boatswain's place by this
practice and thus one day passes like
another, and never did the days appear
to pass so fast. - My actions are
as regular as those of ST. Dunstan' S
quarter-boys Three pages of history
after breakfast, equivalent to five In
small quarto printing, then to tran
scribe and copy for the press, or to
make my selections and biographies,
or what else suits my humor, till dinner
time from dinner till tea | read, write
letters, see the newspaper, and very
often indulge in a siestd for sleep
agrees with me, and l have good sub
stantial theory to prove that it must ;
for as a man who walks much requires
to sit down and rest himself, SO does
the brain, if it be the part most worked
require its repose. After tea L go to
poetry, and correct and rewrite and
copy till am tired, and then turn to
anything else till supper; and this is
my life, which, if it be not very merry
one, is yet as happy as heart could
wish" | take these sentences from his
letters at thirty and forty, but they may
stand for a description OF his life at
forty-fiye, at fifty, and even within four
or five wears of his end for although
his tasks varied from year to year, his
habits were as fixed rs the habits OF
pundit. What they were at fifty they
had heen at thirty, and you may take
his own account of his life at thirty as
a representation in miniature OF his
whole career and of all the habits of his
life.-Ismplc Bar.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
Ancient Firearms.

an exhibition of ancient and modern
weapons has been opened at Blrmlng-
ham. They date from the fourteenth
century. Among them is a breech-
loading air gun. made by Mock an Eng
lishman, somewhere about 176O, which
has seven barrels, all of which explode
with one blow of the hammer. There is
also beautiful breech-loader, bearing
the name of Aquafresca Borgia, 1874.
There are many exquisite breech- load
ing pistols of ancient dates, with IN
eepious mechanisms, and the first at
tempt at the revolving principle, In the
shape of a double-barreled gun. the
barrels turning on a pivot. Many OF the
guns have reservoirs in the stock Ior
ammunition. One curiosity is single
barreled gun to hold two charges. one
charge was rammed home and several
wads inserted, after which the second
charge was placed in the barrel Inc
top charge was exploded by hammer
about a third of the way up the barrel,
and a hammer at the bIeech then dis
charged the second.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
A Serious Objection.

Personal cleanliness is not invariably
a passion" even with individuals in
the upper ranks of society. We have
heard of British General, whose anti
pathy to ablutiOn was matter of nOtO-
riety among his friends and acquaint
anees. Meeting one of the latter one
day, the General complained of being
unwell. "What seems to be the mat
terf- enguired the gentleman. Cant
tell" said the General, "but don't feel
exactly WE'LL "Allow me to prescribe,
said the gentleman. No objection be-
ing raised, he advised the General to
lose no time in procuring "a convenient
tub, half filled with tepid water, and
Gn addition) "a big-sized lump of
brown soap. Apply the soap and the
water liberally.n said the gentleman,
and repeat the experiment again and
again." "Why." said the General,
''that simply amounts to washing my
self" The gentleman quitting on a
very serious look remarked, at is
liable to that objection
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
How Frederick the Great Re.
sumed Specie Payments.

1t was lust exactly a century before
our war that Frederick the Great, al
ready so called. was involved in the
seven years war, a most tremendous
conflict and one which promised to
strip him utterly of his vaunted title, if
not of his klngship. He was beaten on
eyery hand, and perhaps the fortunate
death of the Empress of Russia alone
saved him from annihilatiOn.
ponar r,onov wos tbep untnown on
,, apet appn,;nnmt omy yanJ m1i Eredar;cI for Wavs
omd omo oWn., n'nans m.itad down ali the silver
anu III ne.s nnSsess;on n ;nclnJ;ne The ;mmense
s;Irar ornamenfs which his nrndent
satSe, sathar Sa Sad nIenad IN tbe nalace at Rer.
i;n n,ni With ',a r;aw p 70 inst @ sppcb an emer-
enc am m,'r ra,ber than to the cnlture of
rt liz iamI nnI;.v vas not M to to increase the
.aSos s,x nis dpiinr pn We sn"n " saw that the
harrs,s Hr /" of J s;irer hnlI,on lon and the silver
c%andel;ers % M and balconies wonld moi
Ln1d ont FOREVER % and there was no
hoin for Il Int to debase with conner.
p ;msf eyactIv as We debased tbe currency
Nth nsney centnrv LATER Rut ali
~ I!n f;app fRaIp, anr em;sS;on of naner, was
Snma sn1elv & @ ~ n war m,aasnr..
N'vno 80 - - pao
hue ai'ei 'no 5.tai na,a Hnt th"la naaSnras
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
Female Hats.

Happy is that human being who has
the tact to do adisagreeable thing beau
tifully. Here are the men of America
continually ababbling concerning the
aggravating height of feminine hats IN
theatre audiences. And yet no manager
in the land has had the wit to remove
these tOrments in the simple manner
adopted by the functiOnary of French
provincial theatre. He made no bOis-
ferrous observations; he gave 10 stern
orders; not he. He merely printed in
large letters on his playbills this mas
ter-piece of genius "The manager begs
that all goOd-lOOking ladies will remove
their hats for the accommodation of
the rest of the audience. The Aged,
the Bald, and the Plain are not expected
to comply with this request" From
that auspiciOus night the soaring bonnet
and the mountainous hat were invisible
at that wise mans theatre.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
Eating Before Sleeping.

1t is a common mistake to suppose
that eating before sleep is injurious.
Not at all unfrequently does it happen
that people are sleepless for want of
food, and little taken either when
they first go to bed or when they thus
awake sleepless, will be generally
found far more efficacious, and of
course infinitely less injurious than
any drug in the chemists pharmaco-
pia. These are the physical remedies
for sleeplessness which have the best
recommendation. As for the moral
ones, there is certainly good deal
more to be said. Perhaps the most
stringent of all rules are; "Avoid
anxiety and Don't go to bed owing
anybody grudge.' Chewing the
bitter cud of quarrel is a thousand
fold more injurious to repose thaa swal-
lowing whole teapOtful of the very
greenest of green teal
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
Washing.

Muslin dresses, even of the most del
icate colors can be cleaned in ten min
utes or quarter of an hour without
losing their color. Melt half a pound
of soap in gallon of water, empty it
into a wash-tub, place near two other
large tubs of clean water, and stir into
one quart of bran, Put the mnslin
in the soap, turn it over and knead it a
few minutes squeeze it out well, but
do not ring it, lest it get torn rinse it
about quickly in the bran for couple
of minutes. Rinse again well for a
couple of minutes. Squeeze out dry
and hang it between two lines. A
clear, dry day should be chosen to
wash muslin dresses. Half a dozen
may be done this way in half
an hour. This last rinse may be pre-
pared in the same way as the rinses for
woolen fabrics. A colored pattern on
a white ground must not be blued.
The bran may be dispensed with.
When the dress is dry make the starch I;
for colored muslin white starch, for
a colored muslin white starch, and un-
boiled but made with boiling water, is
best for muslin dresses. Stir the starch
with the end of wax candle; dip the
dress hang it to dry again. When dry
rinse it quickly and thoroughly in clear
water hang it to dry again sprinkle
and roll it mp afterward iron it with
very hot irons. Hot irons keep the
starch stiff. This rinsing after starch
ing is called clear starching none of the
stiffness, but much of the unsightli-
ness of the starch is removed in this
way. The advantage of thus cleansing
dresses instead of washing them is, first,
if colored, the process is so rapid that
there is not time for the colors to run ;
secondly, the fabric is not rubbed, and
therefore not strained and worn ont ;
thirdly, the process saves nearly all Ia
Dor, and is so quick done that any lady
may manage it for herself in the absence
of a laundry-maid or a lady's maid
Household Gsids.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25

He offered kiss in the morning
coldly turned away,
For an idle word that overheard
Had ranked night and DAY.
! knew. in truth. it was nothing
That he would have blushed to own
That point and sting of the trifilng thing
Grew out of my heart alone
But vexed, unquiet spirit
Weighs no matter Alright
And the sore smart Of jealous heart
Puts reason out of sight
| let him 90 III the morning
Without the kiss he sought:
And the day was long, but nur=ed nv wron;
With many bitter thought.
one bitter thought, God help me-
Did not enter my brain,
That kiss of mine, by word or sign,
He would never seek again.
But as evening shadows gathered,
My heart began to burn
With quickened sense of his influence.
And / lohged for his return.
Leaning against the window
That overlooked the street,
l strained my ear his step to hear
In the crowd of hurrying feet,
Far of, in the dimmest distance,
should have known il well;
But there came instead a muffied tread
And the sharp alarm of the bell.
Some griefs though deep and bitter,
Find at last their cures,
Bat some retain the old. old pam
As long a. life endures.
l did not know in the morning
When l coldly turned away,
That | should miss and mourn that kiss
Down to my dying day
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
A Dog Collar Story.

A correspondent writes to the London
Times "The Paris police lately re.
ceived intelligence that young man oi
Polish origin was journeying through
the suburbs of the capital, and en-
deavoring to pass off quantity OF
forged Russian notes, and last week
this interesting wayfarer was appre-
hended in a cafe at Sceaux. He was q
man of about thirty years of age, who
had been fitting rapidly through the
towns and villages on his route, accom-
panied only by a large mastiff, that
never left him. When arrested he put
on an air of injured innocence, protest
ing that he was an honest dealer in
imitation jewelry, producing a box of
samples, and growing more and more
defiant as the strict search made upon
his person proceeded, without bringing
to light anything of nature to incul-
pate him. At length his captors, fairly
nonplussed, were on the point of dis
missing him, when the eye of one of
them fell upon the mastiff that had re-
mained at the door. He noticed that
the animals neck was encircled with a
collar of very unwieldly thickness, and,
on taking it off and inspecting it he
discovered that it was hollow inside and
stuffed with counterfeit notes to the
amount of f300. In the face of such
proofs the man ceased to deny the facts
imputed to him, and began to moralize
pathetically upon the fragrant unfair
ness of Providence, and the cruel
absence of anything like even-handed
n inc in hn
ment of the prizes and blanks of his
profession, whose chiefs and magnates
invariably came off scot free and mil
honaires, whereas the poor toiling un-
derling drudges never reaped anything
for their pains but the prison and the
hulks. These gloomy metaphysics he
proceeded to fortify with an anecdote,
which, whether authentic or not, is
certainly very remarkable. 1t appears
that during the Crimean campaign one
of the principal regimental canteens in
the Russian army was suddenly closed
in the faces of officers and men with
out notice or warning. Prince Cor
tschakoff, furious, rode up the purveyor
and demanded an explanation, where
upon the latter replied that instead of
yielding him, as was commonly sup
posed, f20 of clear daily profits, his
business was landing him in downright
ruin, inasmuch as the greater part of
his receipts consisted of false bank
notes. The General, at his wits end,
telegraphed to the Emperor, and, on
receiving reply, told the purveyor that
if he would open his canteen the spuri-
GUS notes in question should be cashed
by the bank as if they bad been genuine.
Armed with this assurance, the pur-
veyor briskly resumed his business, and
labored in his vocation with such zeal
and diligence that at the end of the war
he had the satisfaction of being able to
present for payment to the Imperial
bank f40,OOO worth of counterfeit
paper, scarcely any of which had really
been received by him in the course of
his dealings with the army"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
MIFFLINTOWN JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA. NOVEMBER 1874

one night suddenly confronted Marion
Rhett. A gentleman whom he made
known as Mr.. Swails, of PittsbuIg &C.
companied him.
"Where were you on the Goth oi
October, 1853," inquired Mr.. Swails,
during the conversation that followed
the introduction.
The answer came after a moments
thought.
"In Alexandria and Washin gton."
"Ah a fine old town, Alexandria,
said the questioner and then the con-
versation fell upon the murder at the
plantation.
Il was in Richmond that night at the
Spotswood," said Marion Rhett.
The last word was still quiyering on
his lips when Swsils rose to his feet.
"Marion Rhett, in the name of the
Commonwealth of South Carolina,
arrest you for tine murder of your natu-
raj uncle, Randolph Rhett."
The accused laughed.
"Well, well, this is a joke. Mr..
Moultrie, 1 suppose l am indebted to
you for its preparation. So 1 am to
exhibit clear alibi to q dozen men.
Well drink over this"
With forced good humor Marion
Rhett ordered wine, and astounded the
officer and his friend.
But, alas for his precious life, his
alibi was not good one. The lie in
his letter to Viola hung him. The evil
dence of his wronged wife he could not
overthrow. Before he died he con
fessed to another crime. Entering his
uncle's chamber that fatal night, he
found him at the desk. There, before
the old man could recognize him, he
drove the little dagger to his breast,
stole the will, and wrote the codicil
found among the letters.
The spell of Marion Rhett's fascina-
tion dissolved. Viola returned to the
love of Parke Moultrie, and became his
wife.
lyon do not need q divorce now,"
said the lawyer to the deserted actress,
after the villains condemnation.
''But 1 must have it ! The world
shall never point to me and say, Her
husband was hung by his own lies.
The court must separate US before he
dies"
On the morning of Marion Rhett's
last day on earth, certain papers were
placed in his hands. They told him
that the ties that had bound him to
Maud Raymond were broken.
The intelligence embittered his last
moments ; but he met his fate with the
courage of a Rhett. 1t was Marion
Rhatt who 1aff tho Ioiay laof in tho
library, as is related in the first part of
this story it was Marion Rhett who
was hung by his own lies.
The actress committed suicide four
years ST nee in New York. On her per-
son was found the decree that sepa-
rated her from murderer.
Parke Moultrie and his wife are
happy. Over his desk hangs a sword
and faded uniform. True to the teach
ings of his father-true to the spirit of
the Rhetts-he wore them nobly for
the lost cause"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-25
A Mennonite Divorce.

A curious episode in the railroad
depot at Lincoln, Nebraska, the other
day, was a Mennonite divorce. The
man was anxious to go to Dakota, and
his wife equally anxious to remain, so,
after long argument in Russian and
German, they sat down upon the floor,
and, opening bag containing $1,000 In
gold, counted it out, piece by piece, the
man taking One-half and the woman
the other. They then shook hands and
separated. the man jumping upon a
train bound for Dakota.