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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
GOod-Natured Taxpayers

The Tuscans take credit to themselves
as being the gentlest and most amiable
people in the world, but they certainly
claim no more than they are fairly en-
titled to. They are, says the London
Times, decidedly the most patient.
The Florentines pay house property
tax amounting to thiriy-nine per cent.
of the nominal rent of the nominal rent
of their tenements. and Signor Digny,
in reporting on the municipal budget,
throws out very clear hints that even
tha. burden is not sufficiently heavy,
but that his townsmen must further
execute themselves by voting an addl-
tional ten per cent, when house prop
erty will pay the city very nearly one
half of its income. On the other hand,
the revenue which the city collects from
the octrOi, or duty on consumption at
the town gates, has raised the price OF
halfpenny loaf to one penny, and the
cost of all the necessaries Of life IN the
same proportion, so that Florentine
must manage to make half his former
wealth meet the exigencies of twice his
former expenditures. How the miracle
is achieved and the difficulty is got over
is not easily explained, but this is GER
tain, that there the people not only do
not complain of the hardship, but even
do not mention it; that many of them
seem not to know to what extent they
are mulcted, or stoutly deny that the
charge is as great as it really is; so that
a stranger who wishes to ascertain the
truth OF the matter must be at some
pains to institute an inquiry, and
wrench, as it we're, the evidence from
their unwilling lips. The fact is that
the brief promotion of Florence to the
rank of an italian capital and the too
sudden removal of the court and gov
ernment from it have been like tile
falling on the head of the fair city, and
that, in spite of all the efforts of her
sanguine and optimist citizens to deny
it, the place has suffered and suffers
much from the unexpected calamity,
notwithstanding all the endeavors OF
the municipality and of the most con-
spicuous citizens to repair its losses
and to relieve its distress.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
MIFFIINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA,

night both watcher and nurse fell asleep.
The man with the mumps lay watching
the clock, and saw that it was time to
give the fever patient his potion. He
was unable to speak aloud or to move
any portion of his body except his arms,
but seizing a pillow he managed to
strike the watcher in the face with it.
Thus suddenly awakened, the watcher
sprang from his seat, falling to the
floor, and awakened both the nurse and
the fever patient. The incident struck
the sick men as very ludicrous. and they
laughed heartily at it for some fifteen
or twenty minutes. When the doctor
came in the morning he found his pa
tient vastly improved ; said he never
knew so sudden a turn for the better,
and now both are up and well. Who
says laughter is not the best of medi-
cines? And this reminds the writer of
another case. A gentleman was suffer
ing from an liberation of the throat,
which at length became so swollen that
his life was despaired of. His house
hold came to his bedside to bid him
farewell. Each individual shook hands
with the dying man, and then went away
weeping. Last of all came a pet ape,
and shaking the mans hands, went away
also with its hands over its eyes. 1t
was so ludicrous sight that the patient
was forced to laugh, and laughed so
heartily that the ulcer broke, and his
life was saved.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
GOOd.Nafured People.

The specially social quality is good
nature, amiability, the desire to please,
the kindness of heart that avoids giving
offence, and cannot bear to hurt any
ones feelings. A good-natured person
may frankly disagree with you, but he
never offends. He quarrels good-na-
turedly. He boxes with gloves on
when he fences ever so deity, there is
great soft bottom ON the end of his
foil. He may satirize, ridicule, open
up all your weaknesses and absurdities,
but so kindly that you cannot help low
ing him. He cannot say harsh, hard,
bitter, or cOntemptuous thing, because
he has no hardness and no contempt.
This is simple, natural goodness, like
the goodness of fond and friendly ami
mails. 1t may not be high moral vir-
tue; there is no particular merit in 1t
any more than in beauty or any natural
gift; but it is very delightful quality,
and those who do not possess 1t should
initiate those who do. Just as we avoid
in person, dress, or manners, anything
that may give disgust or pain, so must
we do IN our conversation. We must
no more use vulgar expressions than we
would wear vulgar garments. Our talk
should be as clean as our fingers. We
should no more bite one with our words
than our teeth. An angry word is as
bad as blow, and a satiricai word Is
like a sting. IL We are never to say any
thing to a person which will give him
disgust or pain, we must be even more
careful not to say anything of any one
which will liniure him in the estimation of
others. Playful, good-natured criticism
upon the little foibles and peculiarities
of others may be no harm, and even
useful, but it ceases to be good-natured
when it gives pain. SANDER is a sin
much worse than theft. Charity for
bids that we should even tell the truth,
when that truth can wound and injure.
The best rule is to say all the good we
can of every one, and to refrain from
ever saying evil, unless it becomes a
clear matter of duty to to warn some
one against him.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
Modern Appliances In Fishing.

Steam power has reached the fish
cries, the seal and menhaden depart
ment, and ere long it will include the
mackerel fishery. 1t is new state of
things, and what its effect will be is a
matter of conjecture. The menhaden
fleet for the current year Will have
thirty steamboats,, carrying some forty
selnes and about $50 men. They attack
the fish and sweep up vast schools
within five to thirty miles from the in
shores, and with these swift-sailing
steamers convey them TO their factories,
where the oil and meat and bones are
separated by steaming process, and
they are sent to market. In former
years plenty of this bait fish of the
regular fisherman could be found close
into the shore, while now none can be
had, by reason of being driven off into
a wide sea by the introduction of steam
power to aid the fishermen in their de-
structiOn. What is to be the end of
this method of fishing In former years
none but sailing vessels We're used by
the sealers of Newfoundland; but at
present these have been made to give
way to steamers, and the result is that,
to all appearances, steam Will eXter-
inmate the seals and call down final
loss on the capitalist who has invested
so largely in steamers. We learn from
good authority that during the past
four years two millions of seals have
been brought into the port of st. Johns,
y. F., and the indiscriminate slaughter
afforded in an especial manner by the
use of steamers has OccasiOned the loss
of twenty million of seals, at least, by
the destruction of the breeding ones.
ltrv EGh
great change in the methods of captur-
ing them. Steam has not quite reached
them vet, but the day may not be dis
tant when it will. The change in
mackerel fishingconsists in substituting
the seine for the hook and line. 1t is
almost impossible to find a crew that
will accept position on board of Il
''mackerelman' upon our own coast
with no means but hook and line to de-
pend on for fare, but are free to if the
vessel Swings twine." Within the
next few days, there will be fleet of
two hundred vessels, each with seine
one thousand feet long and one hun
dred and fifty deep,with a skilled crew,
stationed from Nantucket to the capes
of Virginia, watching with the vision
OF eagles for the appearance OF mack
erel as they emerge from their wlntry
beds, the mother fish full of spawn,
following its instincts for suited local
tiles to deposit it, to be gobbled up in
immense masses before that important
service has been rendered npon the
nurturing beds of the sea. We allude
to these matters, as they are new ap-
pliances for prosecuting important
branches of industry; and if they are
attended with the results very many
apprehend, namely, the perceptible de
crease of these valuable fisheries, a
little attention To this matter may con-
tribute to their preservation.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
Rules for Whist Playing.

The following rules for whist playing
are for the benefit of the members OF
the Anti Calvinistic club:
l. IN opening always lead from a
sneak ;" Ii you have no ''sneak, renig.
>. When you have four more trumps,
hold on to them as You would twenty
per cent. bank stock they are too valu-
able to be invested in the early part OF
the game.
3. Never under any circumstances
whatever return your partners trump
lead. This Is called Strengthening
play"
1. If, holding the ace. king, queen,
knave and a small one of trumps, lead
the small one to keep your king from
being ''ketched."
). Holding king and queen of any
suit, lead queen to force your partner
ace If he holds it.
6. It is a good rule to inquire every
seventeen seconds, whats trumps
:. If YOU should by chance hold all
the tru1nps or nearly all, and your OPP
p0nent should win the trick, say 1t was
because YOU held "curious hand.
s. Think at least seven times before
you make play-say ten to fifteen MN
utes to each card this Will give the
others ample time to take nap or any
thing else that is handy.
.. Hold your cards so that all the
PLAYERS can see them, as 1t assists them
very materially in remembering, and
nav give them a hint when IN ''quar-
dam"
10. Always claim at least half the
hgEurs-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
Miscellany
The Fate Of CwO Lovers.

There are fine cayerGs and recesses
amongst the rocks; one particularly,
vhich We took the opportunity of visit
ing recently, as 1t can only be entered
IL the ebb of the spring tides. 1t is
very spacious, beautifully arched, and
composed OF granite rocks finely veined
with alabaster, which the imagination
may easily form into a semblance of
female figure. and Is, of course, the
Nereid OF the grotto. We wished to
stay longer, but our friend hurried US
away, lest the tide should rush in,
which 1t Is supposed to do from subter-
rlueous cayeTns, as 1t fills before the
tide covers the sand of the adjacent
beach. ! was particularly affected with
tie f.te of two lovers Ga young gentle
man and lady from Clifton, whose
friends were here for the sake of sea
bathing. They stole out early one
morning by themselves, and strolled
along the beach till they came to this
Cr,tto, which, being then empty, they
entered They admired the strata of
rocks leading in different directions.
They admired the incrustation which
covers part of the sides, exactly re-
scmbliug honeycomb various shells
imbedded in the rock the sea anemone
spreading its purple fringe-an animal
flower clinging to the rocks. They ad-
N red the first efforts of vegetation in
the purple and green tints occasioned
By the hchens and other MOSES creep
ing over the bare stone. They admired
these together; they loved each other
the more for having the same tastes !;
ana they taught the echoes of the cavern
20 repeat the vows which they made of
eternal constancy. In the meantime
the tide was coming in of this they
were aware, as they now and then
glanced their eye on the waves, which
they saw advancing at a distance f: but,
not knowing the peculiar nature of the
cavern, they thought themselves safe !;
when on a sudden, as they were IN the
farthest part of 1t, the waters rushed in
from the assures in the rock with terri
bic roaring. They climbed from ledge
10 ledge OF the rocks, but in vain /; the
waters rose impetuously, and at length
filled the whole grotto. Their bodies
were found the next day, when the tide
was out, reclining on a shelf of rock !;
he in the tender attitude of supporting
her in the very highest accessible part,
and leaning his own head in her lap, so
that he must have died first. Poor
lovers Mrs. BarbguLd'S Life and
lfOrES
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
'.DOn't."

A writer SAYS J.: Don't marry the
worthy Young man. The worthy young
man is the pet of old ladies and the
salvation of wall-fowers. He comes to
an evening party In thick boots and a
frock coat, is overwhelmed with con-
fusion, and sticks in the doorway for
an hour, where everybody stumbles
over him. Finally, having summoned
up courage to ask you to dance, and you
have been foolishly good-natured
enough to consent, he either trcads on
your toes at every lunge, or lands you
neatly on the back of your head before
the eyes of some triumphant rival. He
fetches you a coffee ice, which you alb
hor, when you have asked for a vanilla
one, and upsets it over your new ball
dress, from Worth's. He comes to see
you the next afternoon, to renew his
apologies, and spills his cup of tea over
your sofa and carpet. He treads on
the paws of your leverette and sits
down in the lap of the person behind
him. He has the most intense fear of
the ordeal of leave-taking, and sits five
mortal hours in your drawing room
from sheer timidity. He models his
opinions on yours, and, like the love
smitten baronet in 'Middlemarch,
says, Yes, precisely to every word you
utter till you long to say that the earth
goes round tbs moon, or that potatoes
grow on cherry trees, to oblige him to
dissent from you. He is awfully good
and meek and humble, so you pity him
too much to make fun of him, but dom
let pity carry you too far. How you
would blush for his gaucheries, and be
ready to sink into the earth at his .faur
pas, if you were responsible for him in
any way. As rule, the worthy young
man remains bachelor, not being able
to get any one to take him, or else be
marries in remote country places"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
VOL. XVIII.
Poetry.
GOING TO THE WELL.

Across the dewy green she stept,
In the sweet freshness of the morn,
While vet the tears that night had wept
Gisteued on grass and hedge-row thorn
No fairy maid was she. whose tread
The Welding clover did not stir;
No tuv foweret raised its head,
When she had passed to lock on her.
The bloom Of spring was on her cheek,
The light Of morning in her eye;
Her lips half parted, as TO speak,
sui wreathed with maiden witchery.
With quick. elastic, dancing feet
She slept along the dewy grass:
rEoul1 wake the dullest pulse TO meet
This pretty, blithesome farmers lass.
And many rustic lad she met,
and greeted with pleasant smile
Though well she knew, the arch coquette.
Who waited for her al the stile-
Who waited for her at the stile
Down in the green. secluded dell;
ald yet % each she gave a smile,
s. she slept lightly toward the well
Her rustic lovers. rs she passed.
STAYED their own steps to look at her,
md 1t each sideiong glance she cast,
Felt their young pulse beat quicklier;
Twas pleasant fooling. each one knew;
For each one knew (and sighed , full well
Who waited at the rendezvous
Down near the weE-side in the den
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
Men and Women.

Providence has so made the sexes
that women, like children, cling 10
men: lean upon them for protection
care and love; look up TO them as
though they were their superior IN mlnG
and body. They make the suns OF
their system, and they and their ehll-
dreD revolye around them. Women;
therefore, who have good minds ana
pure hearts, want men 10 lean upon
Think of their reverencing drunkaru,
"a fool, a liar or libertine. Ii a man
would have a woman do him homage,
tie must be manly in every sense;a true
gentleman. not after the CheSternelu
school, but polite because his heart Is
full OF kindness TO all; one who treats
her with respect, even Difference, De-
cause she is a woman: who never con-
descends to say silly things to her; VINO
brings her up TO his level If his mlnd Is
above hers; who is ambitious to make
his mark in the world, whether she en-
cOuTageS him or not; and who Is always
cOnsiderate, but always keeps his place
as the man ut the head ,andnever losing
1t. Such department with noble prln-
ciples, a good mind, energy and INDUS,
Try, Will win any woman IL the Land
Who Is worth winning.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
Parker's Married Life

Theodore Parker married, in April,
1886, Miss Lydia ID. Cabot, only
daughter of John Cabot, of Newton,
with whom he had plighted troth five
years previously. The following reso-
luton are entered In his journal on his
wedding day.
1. Never except for the best Of causes,
to oppose my wife's will.
2. 10 discharge all services, for her
sake, freely.
3. Never to scold.
4. Never to look cross at her.
5. Never to weary her with COM
mands.
6. To promote her piety.
7. To bear her burdens.
8. To overlook her foibles.
9. To love, cherish, and defend her.
10. To remember her always most at.
fectionately in my prayers; thus, God
willing, we shall be blessed.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10

BOYS GO HoME.-Ah, boys you who
have gone out from the old homesteads
into the rush and hustle of life, do you
ever think of the patient mothers who
are stretching ont to you arms powerless
to draw yOu back TO the old home nest
Arms that were strong to carry you
once, pressed closely to hearts that love
you now as then. No matter though
your haIr Is ''silver-streaked," and Dot
IN the cradle calls you Grandpa" you
are only "the boys" so long as mother
lives. You are the children of the old
home. Nothing can crowd you out of
mothers heart. You may have failed in
the battle of life, and your manhood
may have been crushed out against the
wall OF circumstances you may have
been prosperous and gained wealth and
fame; but mothers love has followed
you always. Many "boy" has not
been home for five, ten, or even twenty
years. And.an this time mother has
been waiting, waiting, waiting. Ah,
who does not know the agony expressed
by that word ? She may be even now
saying, II dreamt of John last night.
May be he viii come home to-day. He
may drop in for dinner ;" and the poor,
trembling hands prepare some favorite
dish for him. Dinner comes and goes,
but John comes not with it. Thus, day
after day, month after month, and year
after year, passes, till at last, ''Hope
deferred maketh the heart sick, ay,
sick unto death, the feeble arms are
stretched out no longer. The dim eyes
are closed, the gray hairs smoothed for
the last time, and the tired hands are
folded to everlasting rest, and mother
waits no more on earth for one who
comes not. God grant she may not
have to wait as vainly for his coming in
heaven.
Once more 1 say unto you boys, go
home, if only for a day. Let mother
know you have not forgotten her. Her
days may be numbered. Next winter
may cover her grave with snow.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
Laughter as n Medicine.

A short time since, says a writer in
the iSanitaridn, two individuals were
lying in one room very sick, one with
brain fever and the other with an ag-
gravated case of the mumps. They
were SO low that watchers were needed
every night, and it was thought doubt
full if the one sick of fever could recover.
A gentleman was engaged to watch over
night, his duty being to wake the nurse
whenever it became necessary to admin
lister medicine. In the course OF the
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10

Some DEIrIEs.-
OF what deity do six footers remind you !?
What goddess do you think of when in
debt?
Which of the gods is necessary in bread
making?
Which goddess makes honey?
What deity is like a sulky parrot
What priestess is like rank OF soldiers
Which god hits the hardest
ARsUer :-Hymen; 10; Pan Hebe ;
Apollo Hero Nox-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10

Near Rochester there is an eccentric
old fellow who lives alongside grave
yard. He was asked if it was not an
unpleasant location. NO." said he ;
81 never jined places in all my life with
a set of neighbors that minded their
own business so stiddy as they do"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10
Youths Column.
Table Manners--For Little Folks.

In silence must take my seat,
And give God thanks before l eat;
Must my food in patience wait.
I'll am asked 10 hand my plate.
l must not scoid. nor whine nor pout.
Nor move my chair or plate about.
With knife, or FORK, or napkin ring.
must not play. nor must 1 sing.
j must not speak useless word.
For children must be seen. not heard
/ must not talk about my food,
Nor fret If L don't think II good.
My mouth with food / must not crowd,
Nor while I'm eating speak aloud.
Must turn my head to cough or sneeze.
And when l ask, say, ''if you please"
The table cloth must not spoil,
Nor with nv food my fingers soil
Must keen my seat When l am done,
Nor round the table sport or run
When told % rise, thea must put
Ny chair away with uOiseless foot;
And lift my heart 20 God above,
II Yrzise FOR all his Wondr Us love
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10

CONCEALED CIuEs.-We went North
in august, and stayed until fall.
saw a veritable Faust in Germany.
See Louisa cram entomology.
Isaac on cOrdwoOd Is good authority.
The river has fallen Mr.. Hart forded
today.
Can old or new portray the feelings
of my herO9
Father told Louisa Lem was an Odd
Fellow.
Did you give the washing to Nancy
Anslger Augusta Austin Sacra-
mento; Concord Hartford; Newport ;
Salem F; Washington.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10

A Partisan musical dictionary defines
a shout to be ian unpleasant noise pro-
duced by overstraining the throat, for
which great singers are well paid, and
small children well punished.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10

JoHSSY's Confession. At night
Johnny climbed up into his mothers
lap, and laying his head on her shoulder,
said, in a low, sorry tone
81 took that glass marble, mamma. !"
"Took it from whom ?" asked his
mother.
Il took it from the ground" said
Johnny.
''Did it belong TO the ground ?" asked
his mother; did the ground go to the
shop and buy it ?"
Johnny tried to laugh at such funny
thought, but he could not.
81 saw it on the ground" said he.
"What little boy had it before %
CASA Nays it is, l guess" whispered
Johnny.
"When you put your hand out to
take 1t, did you forget, Thou God seest
me 2 asked his mother. Did YOU not
hear q voice, saying, Don't, Johnny,
don't, Johnny
81 didn't hear it, said the little boy,
sobbing. II grabbed quick p Youths
Companion.