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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
A Waysisle Lesson.

A good woman, searching out the
children of want. one cold day last win
ter, tried to open q door in the third
story of a wretched tenement house,
when she heard little voice say:
"Pull the string mp high pull the
string up highr T. She looked up and
saw "a string, which. on beiug pulled,
lifted a latch and she opened the door
upon two children, all alone. Very cold
and pitiful they looked.
DO you take care of yourselves, little
ones ?" asked the good woman.
"God takes care of US" said the
older.
"And are you not very cold' No fire
on a day like this I"
"Oh when We are very cold we CREEP
under the quilt, and 1 put my arms
round Tommy, and Tommy pnts his
arms round me, and we say, Now ]
lay me-" and then We get warm" said
the little girl.
''And what have you to eat, pray?"
"When granny comes home she
fetches something. Granny says God
has enough. Granny calls us Gods
sparrows and We say, "Our father,
and daily bread. every day God is oul
father"
Tears came into the good woman's
eyes. She had a nistrusting spirit her
self; but these two little "sparrows'
preached in that upper chamber, taught
her lesson of faith and trust she will
never forget.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
An Answer To Prayer.

An Euglish Town Missionary short
time ago related a remarkable incident
which may interest many of our readers.
There was lodging house in his dis
trict, which he had long desired to en-
ter, but was deferred from SO doing by
his friend, who feared that his life
would be thereby endangered. He
became at last so uneasy that he deter
mined to risk all consequences and try
to gain admission. So one day he gave
q somewhat timid knock at the door, in
response to which a coarse voice roared
out, who's there?" and at the same
moment vicious looking woman opened
the door and ordered the man of God
away. "Let him come in and see who
he is and what he wants." growls out
the same voice. The missionary walked
in, and bowing politely to the rough
looking man whom he had just heard
speak, said, II have been visiting most
OF the houses in this neighborhood to
read with and talk to the people about
good things. have passed your door
as long as feel ought, for l wish also
to talk with you and your dodgers. care
You what is called town missionary 2
Il am, SIR" was the reply. "Well
then," said the fierce looking man, ''sit
down, and hear what 1 am going to say.
I will ask you Q question out OF the
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Romance of a Glove.

A lord was observed who wore, fas-
tened To his dOublet a small glove, such
as women wear. 1t was fastened with
golden hooks. and the seams were
adorned with such n quantity of dia-
monds, rubies emeralds, and pearls. that
the value of tue glove was something
extraordinary.
81 perceive, monsieur, that you are
surprised | have so enriched this poor
glove, but will tell you the reason. |
look upon you as a gallant man, and L
am sure you know what love Is. ION
must know that have all my life loved
a lady whom | still love. aud shall love
even after | am dead. As my heart
was bolder to make good choice than
my tongue to declare it. l remained
for seven years without even daring to
show any signs of loving her, for fear.
if she perceived them, | should lose the
opportunity had of being frequently
with her-a thought that terrified me
more than death. But one day, being
in a meadow and gazing upon her, |
was seized with such a palpitation of
the heart that lost all color and eOun-
tenance. She having noticed this and
asked me what was the matter, | told
her | was intOlerably sick at heart.
Thinking this sickness was one i'll
which she had no share, she expressed
her pity for it, and that made me en-
treat her to put her hand on my heart
and see how it beat. She did so more
from charity than affection, and as
held her glOved hand on my heart its
motions became so violent that she
perceived that had spoken the truth.
Then | pressed her hand on my bosom
and said to her: Receive this heart.
madame, which struggles toescape from
my bosom and put itself in the hands
of her from whom ! hope for grace, life
and pity. 1t is this heart, madame,
which now cOnstrains me to declare the
love have long cherished for you In
secret; for neither my heart nor l,
madame, can longer withstand so pO-
tent a god Surprised at SO unexpected
= declaration, she would have with
drawn her hand, but | held it so fast
that her glove remained with me in
stead of that cruel hand. As l never
had before, or have since, any Other
approach to near intimacy with her,
placed this glove over my heart as the
fittest plaster | could apply to it.
have enriched it with all the finest
Jewels in my possessions; bnt what Ii
dearer to me than all of them is the
glove itself, which would not give fOl
the realm of England. For there Ii
nothing prize in the world SO much a:
to feel it on my BOSOM"
Such a love as this is declared by
connOisseurs to be a perfect and idea
love.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Cabinet Timber.

The indications are that within the
next ten or fifteen years the curled and
bird eye maple timber of the West
the Eastern. Middle, and Southern
States for cabinet ware and cabinet pur-
poses.
Twenty years ago mahogany was used
for cabinet purposes throughout the
East, but either the demand 30 far ex-
ceeded the supply or the taste changed,
and at present time walnut is the style.
The supply of walnut, mainly obtained
from Indiana, is decreasing. Indian
apolis and Toledo are now the great
business centres for walnut lumber.
already stripped of its walnut timber,
ana the saw-mills have been removed
to the southern portion of the State
to consume what is left standing
Musical instruments, furniture sets,
sewing machines, and nearly every
article of fashionable construction now
in use, including fashionable cofins,
all over the East and South, are made
of walnut. Annually the price of this
lumber rises, and as it grows dearer and
scarcer it is beginning TO be quoted in
European markets. Last year New
England alone used &c, 600, 600 feet of
walnut lumber in furniture, musical in
struments, sewing machines, house
trimmings, decorations, and coffins.
The present rate of consumption of this
timber will, within from ten to fifteen
years, compel the adoption of some
substitute, and curled and bird 's-eye
maple-of which there are large guam
titles in the forests of Michigan, Wis
consin, Iowa, and in portions of Canada
must be utilized. There will be no
alternative. Europe, for the past, has
been depending more and more largely
upon American forests for timber and
lumber, especially hardwood varieties,
as witness the shipments of large quan-
titles of oak wainscOtlng for the Liver
pool market. For many purposes it is
superior in quality to any varieties that
grow there. The consumption of vari-
Gus kinds Of hard wood lumber in the
United States annually for furniture
alone, is an immense business, and
amounts to more than many people are
aware of. In fact there is little if any
timber of any kind now growing ol
standing anywhere in the United States
that is not valuable and worth money.
Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Mi.
chigan are four States principal source
of whose health consists in the timber
and lumber business, interests and In.
dustries.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Tempers.

Few men have sweet tempers, or hold
such as they possess under steady, in
variable control, though there are men
who, without this sweetness of nature,
however much tried, never seem to lose
their self-command. No public man
can get on long who has not his temper
we'll in hand ;but with the same amount
of infammable particles men differ very
much on the occasions that set fire to
them. Some people, who are all COM
posure when we might reasonably ex-
pect and justly excuse an explosion,
will break down into peevishness, or
passing frenzy on slight provocation.
We have known men, quite remarkable
for well-bred serenity, be unreason-
ably and childishly testy at some tran
sient annoyance of sort they are not
used to. Highly sensitive organiza-
tions and intellects kept on the stretch
are always irritable. De Qnincey, who
has no heroes, says that Wadsworth,
with all his philosophy, had fits of i'll
temper, though the unexampled sweet.
ness of his wIfe's temper made it i'm
possible to quarrel with her.
The two great hymn writers and good
Christians, Newton and Toplady, met
but once, and but for few moments,
yet something passed-a triping Jest
which upset Toplady's equanimity, and
made his parting words, We are told BY
the friendly by stander, not very cour.
teous. There are times when men think
they do well to be angry, and attribute
their display of ill-temper to holy i'm
pulse, while the observer sees only a
common pet-e1posing itself at the
most unsuitable moment-at the failure
of their efforts to attract and impress,
perhaps to shine. The preacher is par.
ticularly subject to the temptation oi
an angry remonstrance uttered in this
spirit. 1t must be hard to feel you
best passages lost through the restless
ness of school children or the infec-
tious inattention of the singing gallery
but it seldom answers to allow the
chafed spirit its fling. The parsor
may be in a passion without knowing
it, but not without the congregation
being quite alive to it, and the remem
brance of scene outliving every Other
effect of his discourse.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Dickens's Love Of Applause aud
Money.

The moment that Dickens felt his
invention failing in the least degree,
the prospect of retaining the public by
reading the older stories, and tasting
by nearer and personal contact the pun
gency of popular applause. was fasci
mating and overpowering. His pleasure
in it, as one of the English critics say,
is little humilating in q man of his
great genius. 1t is the more so when
he listened intently for the chink of the
guinea as well as for the murmur OF
delight; Yet no man needed money
more. nor might more rightfully earn it.
His family was very large, his estate
was costly, and his manner of living
profuse. But the reader presently sees
with sorrow that, as with his great pre-
decessor, Scott, the chief question gra-
dually came to be how much money he
could ma.5 out of his genius. And as
with Scott, although in smaller de-
gree. the sum was enormous. By his
readings alone Dickens made nearly a
quarter of million of dollars, one hun
dred thousand of them between the 1st
of December and the 1st of May in the
United States. The physical labor and
exposure of travelling, and the nervous
exhaustion of the readings, with the
tremendous pace, as he would have
called it in another, of the rest of his
life, were enough to destroy any man.
During all his travels, both in the ear
lier and the later day, when he ran over
to the Continent or cOursed about Eng
land to find inspiration or seclusion or
excitement, he constantly wrote the
most copious letters, full of fun and
shrewdness and fine fancy, and walked
miles and miles, and devised entertain
ments, and acted plays, and presided at
meetings and feasts, and made delight
full speeches, and seemed to have all the
occupation of q very active and busy
man before considering the real business
in hand at the time. Such animal
spirits as in his earlier years were GER
tainly never known. They bubbled
about him and overhowed all who cam.
in contact with him. They affected his
style of writing, and despite the saga
cious Taine, they gave his descriptions
much of their singular vitality and
power.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Poetry.
WHAT THE wIND.ELvES HEARD
AND SAW
BT EBES z REIFoRD
The West Wind /:

The West Wind:
The saddest sound that ever heard
Was the wailing plant Of mother-bira
For the one woe nesting that cheered her nest,
Dead, with thorn in its pretty breast
The Souta Wind:
have known a sight that was sadder still;
There's grave up yonder, upon the hill,
And mother weeps at her poor boys name.
For his ruined soul, and his guilt and shame.
The West Wind:
The sweetest sight that ever knew
Was the kiss Of two lovers whose love was true
As they pledged themselves, come veal or woe,
One path in life they would henceforth know,
The South Wind:
Once, when q weary old man died,
saw Heavens gates swung open wide.
And his wife, who an angel long had been,
Stretched welcoming hands and cried Dear,
come inl"
And the look on her face II was dumb with
A sight that was grsnder never saw.
The IVES. Wind:
Last night when the stars were out in the
blue,
Like dead white-lily kissed by dew.
l saw . baby Of two short years
Wet with its mourning mothers tears
The South Wind:
saw mother go in one day
Through the gates Of Heaven, and heard her
say,
is my baby here 2" And they put in her arms
A wee child sweet with baby's charms;
And she cried as she kissed it, her face aglow.
Il have found my babe This is Hedren, !
krior -
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
The Ages.

A writer in the Overland Monthly
discussing the 'forces of culture, says:
.If We should divide culture into a
dozen eras instead of only into the
stone, bronze and iron ages, We should
have to designate nearly all OF them
from industrial events. The sailing
vessel, the mould board, which turns
over the furrow Of the plough, the
water wheel, the magnetic needle, gun
powder, the paper mill, movable type,
the spinning wheel, the telescope. the
microscope, the quadrant, the chro
nometer, the steam engine, the steam
boat, the steam railroad, the steam
blast in smelling furnaces, the pudding
furnace, the rolling mill, and labor
saving machinery Of q thousand kinds
these are triumphs Of industry, and
the main causes Of the superiority OF
modern over ancient civilization. 1t is
the workingmsn, not the soldier. the
priest the statesman. the philosopher,
the scientist, the artist, nor the author,
who has given us not only the founda-
ton, but also most Of the superstruc-
ture, of our culture"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13

DID you ever hear of the lost king of
France, the unfortunate little son of
Marie Antoinette, and Louis XVI? He
was taken from his parents, in prison,
shortly before their execution, and was
never really known to history after. His
keepers testified to his death in prison,
but there have been several persons
who have claimed to be the lost dauphin
Louis XVII. One of them lived and
died in our own country, and was a
missionary 70 the Indians In northern
Wisconsin.
The latest story concerning this un-
fortunate character is creating a good
deal of excitement in France, which is
Just now without king, you know,
though a good many are claiming the
kingdom. One of these claimants is
Adelbert Waundorff, who says he is the
son of the dauphin, who was taken from
prison after being put into deep sleep
by opium. A deaf and dumb child was
left in his place, and he was carried into
one Of the high towers of the temple.
Here he was placed in a coffin, but on
his way to the burial place, he was taken
out. stones and earth were put into the
coffin aud it was bnried. The dauphin
was taken out OF the country, first to
Rome, and was then shipped to Eng
land, but the vessel was captured on Its
way there, and he was again thrust into
prison, where he staid for seventeen
years. His life was a series of escapes
and captures, and he died, at last, in
Holland, after having been recognized
by his old governess and many who
were public officers in his fathers reign.
he left one daughter and the son who
has Just lost his case in the courts.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Newspapers.

Small is the sum that is required to
patronize a newspaper, and most amply
remunerative is tte patron. l care not
how humble or unpretending the gazette
which he takes, it is next to impossible
to fill sheet fifty times year without
putting into it something worth the
subscription price.
Every parent whose son is off away
from him at school, should be supplied
with newspaper. 1 well remember
what a difference there was between
those of my schoolmstes who had, and
those who had not access to newspa-
pers. Others being equal, the first we're
always decidedly superior to the last. In
debate and composition, at least. The
reason is plain, they had command of
more facts. Youth will peruse a news
paper with delight when they will read
nothing else.-Judge Longstreet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Affective Faculties.

Having much of one of the effective
faculties, we do not like to be exposed
to the acute exercise of the same fac
ulty in others. A person with large
veneration shrinks from being an Oh
iect of veneration to others. (TO one
with large self esteem the veneration
of Others is, on the contrary agreeable }
One with large acquisitiveness detests
being subjected to the action of power
full acquisitiveness in his neighbors. 1t
has often been observed that individu-
ais who are much given to jesting at
the expense of their creatures
cannot endure tObe the subject of other
peoples jokes, and that great censurers
and reprovers hate to be in the least
Iebuked or found fault with.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
MIFFLINTOWN JUNIATA COUNTY PENNA. MAY l3. 1874
,enox street. 1t was twilight when

Lenox street. It was twilight when
rang the bell at his door.
A smiling fellow admitted me fairly
forcing me into the hall. before could
utter q word. "Walk right in, SIR"
1 was gently pushed toward the door
OF shadowy apartment, and at the en-
trance was announced:
"Mr. Henryr
The gas was not lighted, and the
apartment was in semi-darkness.
heard q soft, quick footstep on the car.
pet, and q pair of the sweetest lips in
the world touched mine; and, good
gracious - for o moment the world
swan and I felt as if I had been
stewed in honey, and distilled into
Lubin's best triple extract of roses.
''Oh, Henry-my dearest and best
Why don't you kiss me, Henry p
cried q voice like music. "Have you
ceased to care for me?" and again the
kiss was repeated.
Who could resist the temptation? ]
am naturally diffident man, but have
some human nature in me, and I paid
her principal and interest.
''Oh, Henry, had so feared that
being in the army had made you cold
hearted-good heavens !" She fell back
against chair as pale as death. The
servant had Lit the gas, and I stood re-
vealed.
81 beg your pardon, marm," said I,
there is evidently some mistake. May
I inquire if Mr.. Smiths wife was
Melinda Byrne, the eldest daughter Of
my fathers great uncle"
The red flush came to the young
lady's cheek-she was handsome as q
picture-and she replied with courtesy:
"She was not. You will, I hope, ex-
cuse me for the blunder I have COM
mitted? We are expecting my brother
Henry from the army, and your blue
clothes deceived me-"
"For which I shall always wear
blue" I replied gallantly. "Allov me
to introduce myself am Henry Park
we'll, of Squashville, and in making
my best bow, stumbled over an otto
man, and fell smash into q china closet.
demolishing at least . dozen plates and
as many glass tumblers.
sprang to my feet-seized my bag,
and without q word dashed out OF the
house.
knocked over q man who was pass
ing at the moment, and landed myself
on my head in the gutter. The man
picked himself up, and was about to
make display of muscle, when the
glare of the street lamp revealed to me
the we'll known face of my John Smith.
Eureka !" cried /. "Allow me to
inquire if your wife was Melinda, the
eldest daughter of my fathers great
uncle Byrne ?"
"She was" said he, grasping my
hand, "and am delighted to see you
But. confound it ! you needn't come at
fellow so"
But I must cut my story short.
He took me home with him and had
good visit; 1 saw Melinda to my
hearts content. Nay, more-I met,
was properly introduced to Hattie Smith
-and-well-I am having q new suit of
clothes made-and in due course they
will be married-myself in them, to the
young lady Just alluded to.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Stray Thoughts.

We are all hunters in the field of life.
Some ot us bring down our game but
most of us end in a wild goose chase.
Were it not for the clouds that darken
us. there would be no rainbow In our
lives.
When you read, read the best books
it costs you no more and what you get
will correct and help to build you up. A
good book is like voice from nature OF
from God. Do not confound this voice
with the utterance of falsehood.
A child is often the hyphen connect,
ing the uncongenial husband and wife,
80 common about you.
1t is not in placing the words that
the effect of the good writer consists
it is in the thought bringing its own
word, that leaps to it like the particle
TO the magnet.
We are shining when we think we are.
Perhaps the greatest good next to
doing good to your "neighbor," is to
benefit your enemy. But some people
heap Goals of fire on their enemy's head
to scorch him, thus making use of a
Christian precept to do evil.
Idleness is the great slough into which
the vices of the world drift and settle,
to rise again in miasma.
1t should not discourage us II our
kindness is unacknowledged 1t has its
influence still
We govern our passions but in
general we let the passions hrst have q
trial.
- o0nrQ6afQ 0I
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13

"Half of the evil of hfe," says q
speaker in a new novel, The Sherlocks
sis caused not by the direct irst-doers
of evil, but by the well meaning people,
who 90 on adding to it-imitatlng the
yerv criminals who have offended them,
stimulating the instinct and impulses
that led to the offence, but doing all
under fine, moral names-and with 9
sort Of furtive glance heavenward to see
if heaven and all its angels do not ad-
mire them very much.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13

Vicious habits are so great stain on
uman nature, and SD odious in them
serves, that every person, actuated by
right reason, should avoid them. though
he was sure they would be always con
cealed from both God and man. and had
no future punishmeEt entailed upon
them.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13

Discoveries of borsx in California
and Nevada have been made to such an
extent as to warrant the belief that
from these sources the markets IN the
east of the American continent will, at
no distant time, be able to draw their
chief supplies.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
ESIGMA.-

ESIGMA.-
Tho small I am, and quite entire,
If forced, I'd set house on fire;
Let but q letter disappear,
NV space would hold herd Of deer
Another less, and you will find,
l once did hold ali human kind.
Ans,cer Spark, park, ark.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
Youths Column.
Lullaby.


The red sun Is sinking,
And father at sea
Il sure TO be thinking
OF baby and me-
The sou-ve<t Is blowing.
The bre tksrs are high;
May God guard his going.
II danger Is nighl
Whilst father is kee- ing
His watch in the storm,
Ard mother is weeping.
Our baby sleeps wzrn-
When winter is over.
And sp ing decks the lea.
May wiads ws Our rover
70 baby and me!