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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
Readers and Writers.

Reading without purpose is sauuter-
ing, not exercise. More is got from
one book on which the thought settles
for definite end in knowledge, than
from libraries skinned over by a
wandering eye. A cottage flower gives
honey to the bee, kings garden none
to the butterfly. Youths who are des-
tined for active careers, or ambitious
of distinction in such forms of literature
as require freshness of invention or
originality of thought, should avoid the
habit OF intense study for many hours
at stretch. There is point in all
tension of the intellect beyond which
effort Is only waste of strength. Fresh
ideas do not readily spring up within a
weary brain and whatever exhausts
the mind not only enfeeblfs its power,
but narrOws its scope. We often see
men who have Overhead at college,
entering upon life lsnguidly as if they
were about to leave it. They have not
the vigor to cope with their own gene
ration, for their own generation is
young, and they have wasted the ner-
vous energy which supplies the sinews
of war to youth, in its contest for fame
or fortune. Study with regularity at
settled hours. Those in the forenoon
are the best if they can be secured. The
man who has acquired the habit of
study, though for only ore hour every
day III the year and keeps to the one
thing studied till mastered, will be
startled to see what he has made at the
end of the twelvemonth. He is seldom
overworked who can contrive to be in
advance of his work. If you have three
weeks before you to learn something
which a man of average quickness could
learn In week, learn it the first week
and not the third. Business dispatched
is business well done, but business
hurried is business i'll done. In learn
ing what others have thought, it is well
to keep in practice the power to think
for ones self. When an author has
added to your knowledge, pause and
consider if you can add nothing to his.
Be not contented to have learned
problem by heart !; try and deduce from
it corrollary not in the book. Spare
no pains in collecting details before you
generalize; but it is only when details
are generalized that truth is grasped.
The tendency to generaliZe is universal
with all men who achieve great success,
whether in art, literature, or action
The habit of generalizing, though at
first gained with care and caution. Sc
cures, by practice, comprehensiveness
of judgment and promptitude OF de-
cision, which seem to the crowd like
intuitions of genius. And indeed moth
ing more distinguishes the man OF
genius from the mere man of talent
than the facility of generalizing the
various details, each of which demands
the aptitude of special talent; but all
which can be gathered into whole by
the grasp of mind which may have no
special aptitude for anv-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
Predatory Chickens.

One Max Adeler describes a novel
method he adopted for ridding his
garden of neighbor's chickens. lie
saws 1--WE had good deal of trouble
last summer with Pitman's chickens
as fast as we planted anything in our
little garden. those chickens of Pitman' $
would creep through the fence, scratch
out the seed, fill up, and go home:
When the radish bed had been ravished
in this manner for the fifth time, we
complained to Pitman. He was not
disposed to interfere. 'Adeler, he
said, Il tell you it does 'em good; and
it does them beds good to be raked
over by chickens. Ii L had radlshes;
give me chickens to scratch around
them and eat up the worms. kadlshes
that haven't been scratched am worth
a cent Then we climbed over the
fence with the determination to take
the law in our own hands. We pro-
cured half peck OF corn and two
dozen small fish hooks. Fastening the
hooks each TO a grain of corn, we tied
wire TO each hook. Then we scattered
the whole of the corn on the radIsh bed,
and fixed the ends of the wires TO the
biggest sky rocket we could get. Inc
rocket stood in frame about l0 yards
away from the hooks. That very
morning Pitman's chickens came over,
and instantly began to devour the corn.
We were ready; and as soon as 1t was
evident that the hooks were all swat
lowed, we applied a match to the
rocket. 1t is regarded as probable that
no barnyard fowls that have existed
since the days of Noah ever proceeded
toward the azure vault of heaven with
such rapidity as those did; a fizz, a
few ejaculatory cackles, pun OF smoke,
and Pitman's rOOsters and chlckens
were swishing around the celestial con,
stellations without their feathers, and
in some doubt respecting the stability
of earthly things. Pitman never knew
what became of his fowls; but when
twenty -fonr underdone chickens, with
fish-hooks in their craws, had been
rained down by a hurricane IN New
Jersey, we felt certain that that sky
rocket had done its duty"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
Receipt for . Happy Home.

Six things, says Hamilton, are requi-
site to create happy home. Integrity
must be the architect, and tidiness the
upholsterer. It mnst be warmed by
affection, and lighted up with cheerful
ness; and industry must be the ventila-
tor, renewing the atmosphere and
bringing in fresh salubrity every day ;
while over all, a protecting canopy of
glory. and nothing will suffice except
the blessing of God.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07

AFTER all there are some things that
puzzle the philosophers. In China,
and in Scotland and good many other
places, they take thick muddy water,
like the peat water for instance, and
throw in about seven grains of alum to
the gallon, and instantly the mud col
lects in long thick streaks, and is preci-
pitated to the bottom, and the water is
left clear and pure. The Chinese found
this out centuries ago, but though the
philosophers have squinted and smelled
and tasted, and looked as wise as owls,
they can't for the life of them tell how
the alum clears the water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
Youths Column.

/ How THE Doc HAD HIS Likeness
TAKEN.-As the story we are about to
tell may seem incredible to some of our
readers, we viii preface it by stating
that it's literal truth is vouched for by
well-known lady of Lowell, Mass.
Mrs. c. A. Richardson, sister-in-law
of President Grants Secretary of tEo
| Treasury.
| Cesar was fine Newfoundland dog
OF great intelligence, owned by Mrs. r.
One morning she took the dog, with
some of the children of her family, to a
daguerrotype-room, with the view of
having picture taken of the group.
For nearly an hour Mrs. r. tried to
place Caesar In posture suitable for
the purpose of getting a hkness but,
when she thought he was all right, he
would slowly get up, shake his huge
body, and, of course, spoil the picture.
Annoyed at his conduct, Mrs. Il.
opened the door, and, in a stern voice,
said to Caesar, go home, sir I You
have displeased me very much you
shall not stay with us any longer"
Hereupon poor Cesar skunk away with
crestfallen look; and Mrs. r. made
no further attempt to put him in the
picture. But the next day, much to
her surprise, Cesar came home with
box tied round his neck. What could
it mean? He seemed to be greatly
pleased, and wsgged his tail express
sively while waiting for the opening OF
the box.
His mistress was still more surprised
when she found that it contained fine
daguerrotype of Cesar himself.
At her earliest convenience she called
on Mr.. s., the daguerrotypist, to in
quire how he had succeeded in enticing
the dog into his room, aud keeping him
quiet. Mr.. s. said, that on the morning
following the failure, he heard a noise
in the entry as if some one was thump-
ing on the door.
On opening it, he found Cesar stand
ing there with wistful and eager face.
Mr.. s. tried to drive him away but
the dog insisted on entering; then
walked to the old place directly in front
of the instrument, and sat quietly
down, as much as to say, "Now, sir, L
am ready to make amends for my uu
dignified behavior of yesterday
Seeing at once what the dog wanted,
Mr.. S. took the hint, placed his instru-
ment Alright; and the result was a very
fine picture.
As soon as he saw that Mr.. S. had
done with him, Cesar rose and stretched
himself, with the satisfaction of one
who had wiped out disgrace by making
reparation. He then waited for the
daguerrotype, which Mr.. S. tied around
his neck, and trotted home with it to
his mistress.
After this specimen of his sagacity,
Cs 5ar was more a favorite than ever.
He died many years ago; but the
daguerrotype likeness which he OBJ
tanned is still treasured in his MISTRESS s
family and we are glad to be able to
record this story in our pages as
tribute to his memory.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07

The AFFECTION FOR MoIHER.-A
singular and affecting trait is recorded
of the bison when young. Whenever a
COW bison falls by the hand of the
hunter, and happens to have a calf, the
helpless creature, instead of attempting
to escape, stays by its fallen dam, with
many expressions of strong affection.
The mother being secured, the hunter
makes no attempt on the calf, because
this is unnecessary, but proceeds to cut
up the carcass and then, laying it on
his horse, he returns home, followed by
the young one, which thus instinctiyely
accompanies the remains of its parent.
A hunter once rode into the town of
Cincinnati, between the Miames, fol-
lowed in this manner by three calves,
all of which had Just lost their dams.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07
Poetry.
PILG RIMS.


Along the seashore, strewn with shells,
And, white with glittering sand.
Two children walked with footsteps light,
With happy hearts went hand in hand.
All the bells Of morning, ringing
Slowly, sweetly, glad, and strong
Holy messages were bringing,
Joining in the sweet old song
That the lapsing waves were singing
All the sandy shore along.
Children. children! little children.
Oh, be glad
VIII the bells be always ringing:
VIII the waves be always singing:
Oh, be glad!
Along the roadway, edged with weeds.
And brown with travel dust
Two children walk with footsteps slow,
With weary hearts, yet full of trust;
Though the bells have ceased their ringing
Slowly, sweetly, clear and strong,
And the morning winds are bringing
No sweet messages in song,
To the time the waves are singing
All the sounding shore along.
Children children, little children
Are We sad;
That no more We hear them singing.
Bells and waves together singing
Are We sad?
Along the pathway, steep and rough,
Leading to the mountain brow,
Hearts still brave, hand clasped in hand
Weary feet are climbing now.
Faint and far the bells are ringing.
In the valley down below;
Thoughts of far off childhood bringing
To the travellers who go
Upward to the land of singing,
From the valley green and low.
Weary, aching hearts, take comfort.
Oh be glad
For the dear Lord hears you crying
Up in heaven hears you signing;
Oh, be glad
Along the pathway, strewn with thorns.
And hot with glaring sun,
Walk the pilgrims sad, earth weary;
But their journeys almost done.
Are the bells of morning ringing?
Gladly, sweetly, clear, and strong;
Bells and waves together singing.
All the dear cid beach along?
No; an echo from the land of singing,
Echo of the sweet new song"
See We not the gates wide open
Oh, be glad
Ye who stand at heavens portal
At the open golden portal,
Oh, be glad.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07

Actions speak more forcibly than
words they are the test OF character.
Like fruit upon q tree, they show the
nature of man, while motives, like sap,
are hidden from our view.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07

Ir's rather remarkable that while sew
eral thousand feet are required to make
one rood, q single foot, properly ap-
Piled, is sufficient to make one well-be-
haved.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07

BUILT OF SEA SHELLs.-I've heard OF
a very wonderful thing. The houses
and churches and palaces of the big
and beautiful city of Paris are almost
all made of sea shells. This is how it
happened Some hundreds of thou
sands of years ago the water of the
ocean rolled over the spot where Paris
now stands. Under the ocean waves
lived and died millions and millions of
tiny sea shell animals. By and by,
after great, great many years, the
ocean waters no longer rolled over this
spot, and the very, very big piles-I
might say indeed, the mountains-of
dead shells were left for the sun to
shine on, the winds to blow on and the
rains to fall on for many centuries more,
till the shells had hardened into rocks
Then, after hundreds and hundreds of
years more, men came and built houses.
They dug in the earth and found the
sea shell stone with which they built
the beautiful houses and churches and
palaces for which Paris is so famous
And yet the poor little sea SHELLS that
lived and died so long ago never get the
least bit OF credit for all that they did
for the fine city Perhaps, though.
they don't care. At any rate, We will
remember them, and that will be some
thing. While we are talking about
this matter, it may be as well to remem-
ber that great many OF the rocks in
different parts of the world were made
of sea shell and fresh water shells in
Just about the same way that the stone
of Paris came to be ready for the
builders.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07

Love is all its shapes implies sacrif-
ces. Much must be conceded, much
endured, if we would love.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07

Do YOU know why it is that the black
mud of the Nile spread over the land by
its yearly overflow brings such wonder
ful fertility? 1t is made up in large
measure, of tiny creatures, SO small
that only the microscope can divide
them into separate forms. Millions
and millions of the living, and millions
of the tiny shells of those that have
perished. In the harbOr of Wismar on
The Baltic sea there are deposited every
year almost 300, 900 cubic feet OF this
mud
a large part of the sand of the great
African desert is made up of the fossil
shells of small animals. On the coast
OF Patagonia there is a bed of fossil
shells that has been explored for five
hundred miles, that reaches at Port
Julian the thickness of eight hundred
feet. The largest of these shells are
sometimes foot in diameter, but one
tenth of the whole bulk are so small
as to be only shining specks to the
naked eve.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07

Fine gold fears not fra, nor SOLID
stone the water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-07

home-like /; if he would only give in and
ask her to stay.
"Good-bye, WILL she ventured
timidly; and the clear girlish voice
trembled.
Will never raised his head, and vouch-
safed no answer. If his life had de-
pended upon it, he could not have
asked her to remain.
Poor Nellie felt she had made con-
cession which had been very ill re-
ceived. Piqued by his seeming indiffer.
ence, she was very deaf to her aunts
entreaties and, regardless of the
friendly warning, she rushed out into
the storm. 1t was drifting, and the cold
snow flying in her face almost blinded
her. She could not see her way there
was no path, and at every step she sank
almost to her waist and still, with the
energy of anger, she went on.
"He drove me out" she said to her
self. II shall never turn back. Ii he
finds me dead in the snow it Will serve
him right"
She turned to look at the house, but
could not see it. Indeed, she could not
see a ward before her. She tried to flnd
the road. but failed. Nellie's courage
commenced to fail. Her pride could
NOT sustain her amidst such difficulties.
How cruel he was, yet he had said he
loved her. She would retrace her steps;
she could not be tar from the house.
She wandered first in one direction,
then in another, but at each step SANK
deeper and deeper into the snow. Inc
short winter day was drawing to close;
i. was almost dusk now. A terrible
dread took possession of the girl she
trembled convulsively. Would she, IN
deed. perish in the snow, and be frozen
stiff? She thought of her. mother,
happy at home, unconscious OF her
chiId's danger. She thought OF Lyster
Farm. its warmth and comfort. She
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-02-19
AUCTION.

The undersigned wilt sell ut pubic auction at
their rcs0ence, one half mile w0at OF Bratoi Sta.
tion. in the Town Of Brlstol.
Tuesday. March s, 1874.
The following described property TO wit: $50
sound sheep, work horres. 8 cows. hogs I
g0o0 tuck, 800 buFhel4 corn, tons OH hay, com.
bineG reaper and mover, lumber wager, / bug
gy, dounle sleigh, cutters, seedrr, snlky
lorse rake, plows, cultivatoTs, / drag set
double harness, sets single harness, hay rack
tanning mill, l Corn shelter, / uldron kettle
so gram bags, together witt. scyih.s forks rakes,
shOvels, chains, and other things rno numerous TO
menloil, also lot OF household furniture.
Terms of TaEe.
Sums under $Ih cash ON sums over thai amount
credit OF one year will be given good endorsed
notes, interest AT per cent. Sale to commence
at l0a. m 3w98
l. II, WEBB, Auctioneer.
GEORGE WATKINS, VIM. WATKINS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-02-19
VICTOR HUGO.

Victor Hugo's life, which to 'stran-
gers may have seemed one of SPLEEN
did excitements, and crowned with
ample compensations for his po-
htlcal vicissitudes, has been, to those
who knew it best and nearest, a life
Of many and bitter afiic1ions. The
most poignantly pathetic passages
be has ever written, says London
paper, We're transcripts from the tab
Its of the fathers heart. One OF
the two daughters whom he idolized
soon after an early and happy mar
'iage, was drowned almost before
ais eyes his eldest son, in whose
literary brilIiance there was more
han a reflection Of the fathers geni-
Is, an2 in whose political faith there
vas more than an echo Of the faith.
ar s voice, died sud ienIy on the eve
pf a family annlver airy, and JUS,
Fhen the little circle had met to :
5ether once more in France, at the
lose Of the lamentable war. His
wife hao gone before, after linger;
ng malady, in the midst of these
omber years Of exile. TIE sole sur
ivlng son has now died, leaving to
|lotor Hugo only daughter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-02-19
DETERIORATION OF APPLES.

M. B. Bateham, at the late meet
ing of TIE Ohio State horticultural
Society, which met at Mansfield on
Dec. 10th, said i: Our orchards do
not average so bushels Of really good
apples to the acre. What is the
easue of shis ? First, the apple
wrom does more harm than any
thing else. Second, smutty fungus
attaching itself to the apple, stops
it's growth and renders it unfit for
market or use. These are growing
on US. We are likely to suffer more
and more as the orchards grow older,
and tre org orchards are damaged
by loximity to old orchards. We
portion of
the state for good fruit. IF : were
looking for land on which to grow
apples, | would go into a new coun
try. We will be driven to the west
for good apples unless we discover
some means of checking the nul-
sance. We have discovered only
one practical and effective method Of
checking them, and that is by keep
ing hogs in the orchards. The hogs
root out the worms from the ground
and destroy them. I have known
orchards that were prevented by
these causes from bearing any good
apples W ich afterward bore good
fruit, these causes being removed by
this method.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-02-19
WHAT a DOG DID.

The Norwich Bulletin says: A prominent
gentleman OF this city narrated TO ma a..
o' sagacity witch deserves more genera,
notice, It appears tt al some evenings sy,
d lawyer OF this city drove TO the house az
Inc gentleman upon business. While he was
whh'n, the door bell was violently runr.
A servant proceeded TO the door and ns one
was found there The gentleman then went
10 the door and found That his friends horse
had gone. Both gentlemen went in search
OF the animal and were not able to fnd him
until the family dog led them to the horse.
which was found standing some dis,arce
from the house. AS the dog has been known
to ring tie door bell, It lie inferred that he
saw The horse starting off, and rang The bell
to give warning, and then prepared to show
jns. mere the horse was.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-02-19
LEARNING NOT INSTINCT.

During the last century, Barring
on brought up some linnets, taken
rom the nest, in company with
srks of sandry varieties, and found
hat every one Of his linnets adopted
omple'ely the song Of the master
ct over him SO that now these lin
ets-Iarks by naturalization-form-
d company apart when placed
mOng birds Of their own species.
bird reare in a cage does not
onstruct the nest peculiar to it's
oecies. In vain will you supply all
re necessary materials the bird
i'll employ them without skill, and
i'll, oftentimes, even, renounce all
lrposo of building anything like a
2st. Does no. this wcln know fact
owe, that, instead of being guided
instinct, the bird learns how to
instruct its nest, just az man
arms how to build house i?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-02-19

Some people have the idea that small
children shodld no: work. They hold that
u stands in The way OF their bodily aud men
tai development, and they cite the fearfu,
effects Of labor III the mill and mine on the
working children OF England and other En-.
ropean countries. The truth about the
matter, to.our minds is hat al work or al
play is exceedingly injurious To persons of
any age. BIT play nnreieved by labor often
becomes quite as monotonnus and unpleasant.
as work VII hout play. Very young chill
dren like 10 work pant OF the time, to take
their places among children OF larger
growth" to do useful things. If parents do
not punish their children with work to do
IN earnest, th" chances are that they wiz
pay work The hest way isto furnish them
something to Go; not mere drudgery. but
something that requires fathiulness and
acme degree Of skill 10 perform it properly
They will be glad to leave play to 60 il.
To becom" skiTed artisan requires training
and practic" in very early life. What ia
true OF learning music and Languages is ito
The same degree true OF earning to do sny
Kind OF useful work.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-02-19
QUEER TALKING.

You boys and girls, just before the
shirt collar and back-hair age. manage to
twistAwords in a comica way. Often |
have good time listening to wee folks
who come to our meadow.
One day little girl, seeing, in the last
part ofone of her Christmas nks, that
ST quel to it would soon be published.
called out TO pla mate, 20, Kitty ism t
this nice My new bucks cot squeal to
it T. a
J But she was quite accurate, Compare q
with little bit ola boy, wt came t, the
creek with some children, one day last
summer, to look for water crosses.
9 am goiu' to take an awful. lot %
crosses home to mamna, "he said ,trudsino
along as briskly as his fl, little legs
W ruld ALLOW !" cause ny mammals got a
fgeJator, whot'll keep everything as cold
as Ice, to put 'em In. Your mamma got
one?" ff
IN, she aint," answered tow headed
little chap; "but she's got steel egg
beaterl"
Fl ! a leg heater /" shoa,ed my W. G
youngster, turning square aqout t..
look at the speaker whats that for p
why, to beat eggs with, you gooseyr'
"Ho ]! scretched the little chap, IN
great scoru. She'd better look out If
she s"es to beating eggs she'll break
EN-. E5gs is brltter than anything
Guess ynu 'mn-t don't know what you're
ia KIN 'hout !"-St. Nicholas fer F6bru-
:, J.,