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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
Burning the Candle Of Life at
Both Ends.

The deadliest foe to mans longevity
is an unnatural and unreasonable ex-
citement. Every man is born with Il
certain stock of vitality, which cannot
be increased, but which may be ex
pended OF husbanded rapidly, as he
deems best. Within certain limits he
has his choice, to live fast or slow, to
live abstemioasly or intensely, to draw
his little amount of life over large
space, or condense it into a narrow one;
but when his stock is exhausted, he has
no more. He who lives abstemiously,
who avoids all stinulants, takes light
exercise, never overtasks himself, in
dulges no exhausting passion, feeds
his mind and heart on no exciting ma
terial, has no debilitating pleasure, let's
nothing ruffie his temper, keeps his
accounts with God and man duly
squared up, is sure, barring accidents,
to spin out his life to the longest limit
which it is possible to attain; while he
who intensely feeds on high-seasoned
food, whether material or mental, ia
tigues his body or brain by hard labor,
exposes himself to inf1ammatOry dis
ease, seeks continual excitement, gives
loose rein to his passion, frets at every
trouble, and enjoys little response, is
burning the candle at both ends, and is
sure to shorten his days.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
Gentle words.

There Is magic power IN gentle
words, the potency of which few ma
lures are so icy as wholly to resist.
Would you have your home a cheerful,
hallowed spot, within which may be
found that happiness and peace which
the world denieth to its votarles Let
no harsh words be uttered within its
walls.
Speak gently to the wearied hus-
band, who, with anxious brow, returns
from the perplexities of his daily avo-
cations; and let him, in his turn, speak
gently to the care-worn woman and
wife, who. amid her never-ending round
of little duties, finds rest and encour-
agement in the sympathy of him she
loves. Speak gently to the wayward
child; pleasant smile and word OF
kindness will often restore good humor
and playfulness. Speak gently to the
dependent who hghtens your daily
toll; kind words insure respect and af-
fection, while the angry rebuke pro-
vokes impertinence and dislike. Speak
gently 10 the aged; many are the trials
through which they have passed, and
now in little while they will be missed
from their accustomed places; the
spirit will have passed to its rest. The
remembrance of an unkind word will
then bring with it bitter sting.
Speak gently to the erring one; are
We not all weak and liable to err
Temptations, of which we cannot judge,
may have surrounded him. Harsh
ness will drive him on the sinful way;
gentleness may win him back to virtue.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
Small Means.

The power of money is on the whole
Over-estimatsd. The greatest things
which have been done for the world
have not been accomplished by rich
men, or by subscription lists, but by
men generally of small means: The
greatest thinkers, discoverers, invent
Ors and artists have been men of mode
rate wealth, many of them little raised
above the conoitiOn of manual Ia
bOrers, in point of worldly circum-
stances.
And it will always be so. Riches are
oftener an impediment than stimulus
to action, and in many cases they are
quite as much misfortune as bless
ing. The youth who inherits wealth is
apt to have life made too easy for him,
and he soon grows sated with 1t, be-
cause he has nothing left to desire.
Having no special object to struggle
for, he finds time heavy on his hands:
remains morally and mentally asleep;
and his position in society is often no
higher than that of 4 polypus over
which the tide floats
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
Male Milliners.

In Paris there are now nine mantua-
makers and six milliners of the mascu-
line persuasion, each of whom is at the
head of large establishment. They
are all gentlemen of unusually refined
manners and luxurious habits. They
never go abroad without q carriage, and
are always attired in faultless costume.
By uniting taste and tact with busl-
ness-faculty, they are rapidly building
up enviable regulations and fortunes.
Is there not a lesson for ladies in their
career? 1t is little curious that, while
women are venturing into vocations
hitherto monopohzed by the stronger
sex, men should turn the tables upon
them, and, taking up trades which have
been deemed their exclusive preroga-
tives, quickly coin wealth and fame out
of the undertaking. Does not this tend
to show that there is not much differ.
ence between the masculine and the
feminine intellect after all; that the
great disparity noted in their inclina-
tions, pursuits, and achievements, is
more the result OF education than Of
Mature?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
Miscellany.
Death.

There is no subject upon which the
human mind can dwell that is invested
with such sober surroundings as death.
What it is? This question has been
asked billions of times we ask our
selves this momentous question every
bo iy asks it, because everybody feels
deeply interested in its deep mysteries.
The subject is not a pleasant one to
contemplate the best of the race re
gard 1t with dread all classes put it
away from them as far as possible /; none
like to commune with the great Terror
King but no answer comes back to the
question. "What is death p We have
seen it effects upon our families, friends
and acqualntances We are painfully
conscious that it destroys life. trans
forms beings of beauty, activity and af
lection into Jumps of Illuminate clay ;
that the damask cheeks, the sparkling
eyes, the athletic frames, are rendered
food for the charnalhouse worms, after
death has placed the signet of mortality
upon the living. Of the nature OF this
great scytheman of our race we know
absolutely nothing of the universally
of his sway We know all, but finite
minds cannot fathom the immensity OF
this change from life to death.
Is death the bridge between the
present and the unexplored future,
between earth and heaven? Is it posi-
bic for mortals, after they have lost
their vitality, to walk safely over the
bridge that spans the two worlds? Is
death an unbridged chasm which separ-
ates the finite from the infinite? If SO,
may we not bridge it by life devoted
to the right? May not virtucus actions
erect a safe structure over this dark and
forbidden chasm? We are told that faith
can explain all these things, but we
have not that faith, in the orthodox
sense
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
The Chief Editors Duties.

Says the Milwaukee Sentinel: I; The
young man who is fitting himself for a
journalistic career asks us If the chief
editors position is difficult. On the
contrary, it is the most comfortable
place on the paper. He has only to
dash off few columns of editorials q
day. and then enjoy himself. All the
good-looking women with poems are
shown into his rooms, and he smokes
all the cigars sent in for the reporters.
He receives invitations to deliver ad-
dresses at county fairs, and carries
home the best of the books sent in for
review. When he hasn't anything else
to do, he looks over copy" and care
fully runs his pencil through the joke
the writer struggled four hours with,
and considered his masterpiece.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
Poetry.
LOVE FLOWERS.
BY Z. W. BoURDuLoS,

Oh who was watching when Love came by,
When Love came here in the glad spring
hours?
The scarf was torn from his laughing eyes,
And he wore instead wreath of flowers
The wreath of flowers his head went round
And about his eyes, the scarf had been;
But in vain the fiowery band was bound,
For he peeped the flowers and leaves be
tween
lie wore no quiver. he bore no bow
And innocent looked as blinded boy;
With flowers about him, above, below,
The spirit he seemed of spring and JOY.
But here and there he let fall flower
The cruel, the bright little blinded god.
And watching, l saw that hour by hour
These blooms took root in the green spring
sod
And whose plucks the flowers that grow
From the blooms Love flung from his
wresths above
Though understanding of blossoms they
blow,
His heart shall be hot with the madness OF
love.
The SDoctdiOr.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
Growth Of Savings Banks.

| OF all the money schemes proposed
| for the amelioratiOn of the working
classes, there have been none more
successful than savings banks. The
system in New York State received its
impetus, as stated in a very interesting
address from Surveyor keys,in letter
from Patrick CelquhOun, of London To
Thomas Eddy, in 1916. The result of
the formation of these provident assO-
Citations, as they were first called, was,
that during the fifty years following
their organization in this country over
/ 5000, 900 persons deposited, and their
deposits amounted to S2,OOO,OO0, and
to-day these deposits have increased TO
S300.0O0,0O0. representing the savings
of SOC, ,oO0, 900 people.
The first of these banks originated in
Scotland and next in England, and
from there they were transplanted to
the United States. Boston has the
credit of having the first actual savings
bank, under the uame of The Provi-
Town of Boston," But on November
10, 1916, a society was organized with
De Witt Clinton presiding, for the Or
ganization of a savings bank in New
York State, but with poor success. A
new society was, however, formed in
1877, and De Witt Clinton being then
Governor, the charter of the new bank
was approved on March 60, 1919. The
bank was opened in a room of the
Academy of Fine Arts,in the City Hall
Park, July 3, 1919, and on the first day
50 persons deposited S2,SO7.
In 1890 the Albany Savings Bank was
established, and in 1927 the "village" of
Brooklyn received its first bank Zone
bank in that city to-day contains S12,
100000 on depOsit). In 1929 the New
York SeamaD's Bank was opened, and
in the first ten years S5,43S, 800 were
deposited, and at the close of that pc
riod S2,0S3, 600 remained on deposit at
this one bank.
In the next ten years eight banks
were Incorporated, and S7,0O0,00O We're
deposited. In the next decade eight
new banks arose, with S12,O0O.0O0 on
deposit. From 1913 to 1859 tifty-seven
banks were chartered, and at the close
of 1859, S4S, ,000, 900 remained on deposit.
The number of banks chartered then
was tiity-seven. From 1859 to 1868
eighty-three banks were Incorporated,
and 0,000,0 600 were deposited in 10
different institutions. Since 1868, sixty
banks have been incorporated, and to-
day 1886 100000 remains on deposit.
During the past fifty years of the saw
ings banks existence 100000 We're
distributed as interest, and the yearly
average now amounts to $4,000, 900.
The average yearly interest is $40 per
person; the average deposit of each de-
pOsitOr is $500.
The progress of savings banks in
this country is truly astonishing, and,
with better laws regulating their man
agement, and enforced the benefit of
these institutions to the country, and
great interest, and was treated in a
very intelligent and instructive manner
by the late Superintendent of the De-
D1rtment
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
MIFFIINTOWN JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA. JULY %, 1874

thing come from, I'd like to know p
she shrieked out, seizing hold of the
funny flannel night-cap that was perched
up on top of the foot post, and she gave
it vicious jerk, breaking the string
that held in pucker the back part of it,
and it slipped down over the post. En-.
ragged, she pulled at it violently, tore il
of, and twisting it up in q little wad
threw it at the 'Squire's head. ''Cleal
out, I say both of you prowling dogs ;
and she stamped her little foot very
much in earnest and followed them to
the head of the stairs.
"Mrs. Bobbett, my dear woman,
began the Squire, apologetically.
"Away with you don't you go to
Mrs. Bobbettin me !" said she, and she
made the dearest little fist, which she
extended in the direction of his face.
He lodged his head, as if a wasp was
coming that way, and the two men
shambled off down stairs. She lay
prone on the floor in her dire distress
and cried "rivers of tears" tears OF
sorrow, and modification, anger and
spite, and grief, and disappointment.
But time brought an end to her agony
she grew calm and her sorrow was OF
the subdued kind. While she lay on
the floor sobbing, her brother Ira was
lying on the floor too, down in the sit
tilg-room, and he was giving expression
to the exaltation that lifted him higher
than he'd ever been before.
No danger now, he thought, of the
poor orphan, Ira Josephus, being
turned out of house and home, to make
room for Squire Wilkins. sold
sold r. he calculated, as he lay on his
broad back and kicked his heels up i'll
in the air and gesticulsted with his
brawny fists. "Oh, that was rich but
my didn't her eyes blaze, and her
cheeks glow she looked like harnsom
fury" and in his inexpressible exuber-
ance of Joy he beat his breast, shook
his head and acted like crazy man.
We don't know how the brother and
sister settled the affair and became
good friends again, but we know it to
be the case, and that they live together
as snug as two chatty little mice. and
she ''smiles again." and swings her
bonny curls bewitchingly, and is as
happy as the days are long.
Squire Wilkins married that red
headed widow, with the lame boy, who
used to live on the farm he sold after
he came to the village. She and Widow
Bobbett are friends, and they gossip
and sip tea together in the summer
evenings. and see a great deal of COM
fort. We don't know whether Squire
planned his rooms after those in Rose
Cottage, or not, but we guess by the
twinkle in his gray eyes that he often
laughs over the ridiculous figure he
cut, crawling around under the bed of
the widow. Betsey Bobbett.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22

WHAT A HORSE HAD FOR LUNCHEON
A bakers cart one day stopped before
q house in Boston, aud the driver went
in to see what the family wanted.
Prstty soon he came out, opened q
drawer in the back part of his cart,
where he kept his cakes and pies, and
took out some good things. He put
them in his basket, and went into the
house with them but he forgot to shut
the drawer.
Now, little way behind the baker
owner had gone into another house. As
soon as this horse saw that the baker
had left his drawer open, he walked up
to it, put his nose in, and rummaged
around among the pies and cakes /; and,
when the baker came out, the horse had
finished sheet of gingerbread, and
was eating an cpple-ple with great
relish.
He began to back off when he saw the
baker coming. Perhaps he thought he
should be called upon to pay for the
apple pie or perhaps he thought, as
the baker did, that apple-pies were
rather too expensive for a horses lun.
cheon.
There was another horse, that used to
be driven into a street beside the
Quincy Market in Boston, and left tC
stand there while his master was attend
ing to his business. Along the street,
at the edge of the sidewalk, there were
sometimes rows of barrels with molasses
in them. In each barrel was a hole
with stick stuck in it /; SO that people
who wanted to buy barrel of molasses
could taste it to see if it was good.
Now, this horse was as fond OF mo
lasses as anybody. So, when there was
nobody to hinder him, he would walk
along, take the stick in his teeth, pull
it out. and lick it clean. Then he
woald drop the stick, and walk along
to another barrel The men near by
used to watch him often, and laugh
heartily to see horse lick molasses.
"a friend of mine, whom / will cal
''Mr. Smith," once had a little colt,
which was the pet of his children They
named him Charley, and used to delight
In feeding him with bread and cakes
and Jumps of sugar. Charley liked Sc
well to eat from their hands, that be
would leave the grass-plat in the yard
and walk right into the house, if h,
saw the children there. So Mr.. Smitl
had bar put across the open doorway
to keep him out for Mrs. Smith die
not like to have a horse in the kitchen
Charley lived to be very old horse
He was never beaten, nor left hungry
or thirsty. He was never allowed Il
draw a load that was too heavy, no.
hurried too much in hot weather. And
when the good horse and his maste
had grown old together, the boys, 'who
had now grown to be men, bought {
young horse to do the work on th'
farm, so that old Charley might have
an easy time as long as he lived. Wa,
not that q good way to treat a faithful
horse?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22

Only flower" the rich man said,
When he trod it down I his careless walk;
But his little daughter raised its head,
And tenderly held the rokon stAlk
And from its place by the dusty way,
She carried it hsme TO her garden small,
And set it where, from day to day
Sunlight and shadow would ON it fall.
1t lived and thrived in the garden small.
And when the autumn winds were chill,
And the roses died il the frosty air
The hardy wild flower blossomed still.
The little maiden often smiled
To see it bloom when the rose was dead
And the father watching his happy child,
This sermon short in the blossom read
Too often We crush with orr careless feet
The flowers of love in our paths that blow.
And that, cherished, would open foil ant
sweet
When summer blossoms were lying low.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22

Here is the pithiest sermon ever
preached F: "Our ingress into life is
hacked and bare our progress through
life is trouble and care our egress out
of it we know not where; but, doing
we'll here, we shall do we'll there; 1
could not tell more by preaching 3
year."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
Land Culture Per Man.

The New Bedford Mercury" pub
fishes some interesting statistics as to
the amount of land cultivated by agri-
culturists in the following different
States, showing Enthusiastically the want
of labor i'm those parts: In the States,
as whole, the number of acres is 81 to
the hand employed; in Alabama, II
acres; in Arkansas, ,lS acres; in Georgia,
90 acres; in IllinOis,51 acres; in Indiana,
80 acres; in Mississippi, 81 ceres; in
Missouri, 35 acres; in Oregon, s. acres;
i'm Texas, 1s acres; and in California,
100 acres.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22

"How DO you keep out of quarrels 2
asked one friend of another. "Oh,
easily enough" was replied. "lf a man
gets angry with me, | let him have all
the quarrel to himself.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22

The man who is venial himself be.
ieves that everybody has his price.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22

A ship should not be made to depend
on one anchor, or life on one hope.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-22
A SERMON

BY AMELIA Z DALEY.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-31

eYT The whiteness and frothiness
of butter made from overheated cream
is probably due to some change effected
in the casein of the milk by overhead
ing, which prevents it being properly
separated from the butter, the product
being really mixture of butter and
cheese
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-31

SHEEP RAIsING.-At the meeting of
the Union baltimore county, Club, in
Jockeys woods, Mr.. Thomas Worthing-
ton, an energetic farmer of that neigh
borhood, gave us the result of his ex-
perience in sheep raising. He bought
fifty common ewes from drovers, at So
per head, and procured Cotswold and
also Shropshiredown buck. The re-
suit was, he sold the lambs, then the
wool, and afterwards the ewes, and
realized profit of $500 on an expendi-
ture of $3.50.
A new lot of ewes was then pur-
chased, the bucks being retained, for a
repetition of the same course. Mr..
WIS profit might have been increased,
if he could have permitted his sheep to
remain out upon the pasture at night,
to manure his land, but the danger of
having his flock destroyed by dogs rem
dered it necessary for him to keep them
up at nights, and having large barn
that he used for the purpose, he sue
ceeded in carrying them through with
out loss from this source
A Washington county farmer remark
ed to US, that the loss to our State was
not less than quarter Of a million
dollars a year, from the omission to in
clude sheep-raising in our system of
farming, caused by the fear of loss from
worthless dogs kept, in the greatest
number of cases, by those who pay no
taxes. If the farmers do not take the
remedy in their own hands, which they
have the power to do by sending to the
legislature men who have the true in
terests of the people at heart, more
than their own selfish aims, they will
we'll deserve to suffer loss and damage
american Farmer
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-31
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COLD SWEAT.
From, the Journal of the Farm.

From the Journal Of the Farm.
An old stage owner, having had a
large experience with horses, and who
ought to be able to give good practical
advice, sends the following, which we
commend to the attention of our read
ers:
Il find not few persons having
charge of horses in cold and stormy
weather complain that some of them
are troubled with what they term cold
sweat, that is, they are found in the
morning with the hair wet and cold
from Yesterdays work. They say why
is it that this horse does not dry off
like the rest of the team? There may
be more than one reason. Perhaps
this horse is not in good condition, and
he may not be able to do as much work
in the same length of time as the
others. Certainly he cannot, if he has
this so-called cold sweat in the morn
ing. At any rate this horse has been
worked until his blood has become
heated, and the pores of the skin opened
and the hair wet with perspiration, and
then allowed to cool off so quick that
the pores of the skin close so that
no heat can come from the body to dry
the hair, and the consequence is that
the poor horse stands with his wet coat
on all night, or until something is done
to open the pores to let the heat out.
This is usually done by hitching him
up and putting him to work, which is
better than nothing But l think he
feels about as you and | would if we
had slept in wet coat all night, and l
think | should say to my employer that
/ had taken bad cold and could not
work. But the poor horse cannot say
SO, and he is put to work.
But the question is, how to prevent
this cold sweat One way is, give him
gentle exercise until dry, or nearly so.
But my way is to scrape the horse as
dry as can, rub the hair the way it
grows close to the skin, throw wooden
blanket over him, buttoned around the
breast only, give him warm bran mash
thinned down so he can drink it. This
will supply heat and keep the pores of
the skin open, and the heat of the body
will dry the hair, so that in twenty-five
or thirty minutes you can dress your
horse for the night, give him his sup
per, and in the morning you will have
a fine feeling horse, and he will be
ready for work. BY the way, drying
blanket should never be lined The
best CHEAP blanket to dry horse under
is an Atwood cheap floor carpet, one
that is not woven tight 1t will pro-
tect the body from cold and viii let the
steam through.
To make bran mash, take as many
quarts of rye or wheat middlings as
you have horses, add as many table
spoonsful of caraway seed, stir it up
with boiling water Tor better in cold,
and bring it to boiD, set it off and
cover it for five minutes and thin it
down with cold water, and it is ready.
If there is any left, and it is cold thin
with hot water.
| practiced this treatment for years
with my stage horses, and l think it
paid.