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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
Origin OF Great Men.

st. Andrew, apostle, was the son Of
fisherman; st. John was also the son
of fisherman; Pope Sixtus V, was
the son of swine-h e-herder-he was also
one; Aristotle, of a doctor; BOccacio, of
a merchant; Columbus,o of a wOOl-comb-
er; John Basth, of a fisherman; Dide-
rot, of a cutler; Cook, of servant;
Hampden, of a carpenter; Talma, of a
dentist; Gesner, of bookseller; Sal
vator Rosa, of a surveyor; Euripides, of
a fruit-woman;V Virgil, of baker; HOr-
ace, of denizen; Voltaire, of a tax
collector; Lamothe, of a halter; Fletch-
er, of chandler; Masillon, of turner;
Tamerlane, of q shepherd; Quinault, of
a baker; ROllin, of a cutler; Moliere, of
an upholsterer; Rosseau, of watch
maker; Sir Samuel BOwditch, of a sill
versmith; Ben johnson, of a mason;
Shakespeare, of butcher; Sir Thomas
Lawrence, of a custom-house officer;
Collins, of a halter; Gray. of a notary;
Beattie, of laborer; Sir Edward Sug-
den, of barber; Thomas Moore, of a
swordmaker; Rembrandt, of miller;
Benjamin Franklin, of a chandler; Car
dinal Woolsey, of butcher; Napoleon,
of farmer; Lincoln. of q backwoOds-
man
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
Negative Kin dness.

Do the doctors know that half the
wives in the world die of this COM
plainti He never spoke an unkind
word to his wife," Yes, but did he re-
member, now and then to speak a kind
onef Did he have any sympathy for
her bodily and mental illsf Or was he
blind and deaf to both, treating them
with that cutting indifference which in
time chills the most loving heart and
silences its throbs fOreverf Men are
very guilty in this regard. Take a
young girl from the warm atmosphere
of a loving, cheerful home, and after a
few weeks of devotion leave her to
battle single-handed with new cares
and new duties, and to bear sickness
with what courage she may, and go
their ways into the tangled paths of
life, without thought of the response
bilities they are shirking or the solemn
vows they have really broken. No
wonder so many happy brides ripen in
to irritable dissatisfied matrons, who
seem to have lost all real delight in
living.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19

amounting to f13S,649, and this
amount was sent out in coin, used to
cancel the outstanding paper, then
worth about nine per cent?, while, of
course, ''panic" and "shock" were eI-
pected, the only "shock" fell On
''Rhode Island and New Hampshire,
who found their trade transferred to
the silver colony and their paper
suddenly and heartily deprecated. The
West India trade of Massachusetts, had
been largely done through Newport. 1t
was now transferred to Salem and Bos-
ton. In 1892, in Connecticut "there
were four prices-'pay,' pay as money,
money and trusting Trusting was
an enhanced price, according to time.
Pay was barter at government rates.
Money was Spanish or New England
coin, also wampum for change. Pay
as money was barter currency at one
third less than government rates. A
six-penny knife cost twelvepence in
pay, eightpence in pay as money, and
sixpence in coin"
One of the new socialist devices for
cheap money is as old as the "banks,"
/. e., as understood about 100, "a
batch of paper money issued either by
the government or corporation"
The bills for oHe of these "banks" in
Pennsylvania were printed by Frank.
lin, who says, at was very profitable
job, and a great help to me-" but though
issued at five per cent on mortgage of
land In each county, according to tax
able assessment. the result of the
fhat =
only one who fairly profted by the
wretched device.
The issue of bills to "make business
brisk. and attempts to 'grow up" to
excessive issues, will be found not to
be new in our times.
With the Revolutionary War, paper
money flowed afresh, and in 1850 was
worth two cents on the dollar; and
some who had faith in paper promises
left basketsfull of it to their children.
Col. Pickering insisted that Congress
should authorize contracts to be made
by him as quartermaster-genera pay
able in specie. and was thus enabled to
obtain supplies for the army. 1T
ought to be noticed" says Prof. Sum
ner, ''that this continental paper was
vaunted as the safest possible cur
rency,' which nobody could take
away ii. e., export.)
"In 1914 all the banks, save the New |
England banks suspended. Specie
went to New England because there
was a sound currency and low prices
there, and went away from the Middle /
and Southern States because displaced /
by redundant paper and consequent
high prices" Some contended that /
silver had risen, and that the paper
dollar was an ideal unit.
Interesting and instructive accounts
follow, of the banks, and the currency
up to the present time. The second
part of the book contains an account of
the English Bank Restriction; and the
contains the justly celebrated
Bullion Report" made by the Select
Committee to the House of Commons
in 1Sl0.-O old and NelU.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
Camp Cure for Dyspepsia.

Quite as sure is the relief from dys-
peptic troubles; for although the diet
of camps would be at home, for the
dyspeptic, but mode of tardy suicide,
the steady, but not too severe, exer-
else and the constant exposure rarely
leave man after few days much
fault to find with the most evil dis
posed stomach. Among our lakes and
streams the bill of fare of the camp is
by no means bad one, but it would
be shocking one at home. There Is
always fish fried, or broiled if you are
wise, or perhaps, if you have taste for
delicacies and want the trout at its
best, you will cook it in paper, when it
Is a thing to remember. Birds, es-
pecially ducks, are rarely lacking, and
in the AdirOndacks venisOn is abund
ant enough. Then it is easy to carry
canned and dried vegetables, beans,
potatoes, biscuits for bread, condensed
milk and the inevitable pork. If /
wanted a comparative test for the alb
sence of dyspepsia, | should say that
when a man can relish bit of we'll
dried, crisp pork ON the top of a stew
of ducks, and can wind up with a big
onion eaten raw with salt, he might be
regarded as tolerably competent to
compete with the proverbial ostrich. |
think it was that good fisherman, the
late DIR. Bethune, who said that good
part of the value of wood life was in
the fact that you crave onions and can
eat them. In fact, there i, always a
row in camp when the onions
give ont, and the new men often Won
der at starting why an old woodsman
i. SO very particular about having
plenty of onions; but in the wilderness
and in armies onions are at a premium.
| remember once, in padding along
the shores of lake in Maine, we espied
a log cabin in rough clearing, and,
pulling the canoes upset off to see who
was about, with that odd craving for
new faces which haunts men after a
few days of lonely wood life. We
found four children with measles, the
mother recovering from pneumonia,
the father down with lively chill i'm
father with a dislocated finger. We
soon put the last right, and then, draw
ing water cool from the spring, with
few lemons and white sugar, we made
them drink which called down upon
us unnumbered blessings. Next my
little medicine case came into use for
the first time in several summers; and
so by and by, leaving them our remain
ing lemons-may never do deed of
greater self denial we went away.
As we were showing off the old man
came down the hill and stopped us
guessed, as we were doctors we ought
to be paid. "Well," he said, "you done
us heap of good, and we was kind of
mournsOme before you come.n l felt
that the new word mOurnsome was
worth many fees, and so guessed in re-
ply that we wouldn't take anything.
''But maybe you'd have this" he
urged,w an air of triumph. "Them's
somewhat W ancient onions. | accepted
the honorarium, and we padded away
down the laks.-lDr. Wier Mitchell.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
Animals and Firearms.

That crows and many other species OF
birds have little fear of man when he
is unarmed is familiar fact, and sug-
gests that they fear him chiefly because
of the weapons he carries. In Scotland,
where shooting was prohibited, on Sun
day, crows aud rocks were gentle, and
fed around buildings without concern.
Singularly enough the same thing was
observed of animals by DR.. Tristram
when travelling in the wilderness of
Moab, where the sound Of gun is
quite rare. He says: "We we're struck
with the sagacity which all the wild
nimals showed in the matter of fire.
/, rms, little familiar as they can be with
Il EN- here. As it was Sunday, we stroll
ed or sat down among the ruins without
our fowling- pieces, and we're conse-
quently objects of indifference. A fine
fox sat and looked at us q dozen times
among the stone heaps, and just walked
away, keeping almost within gunshot
all the afternoon. The Sakkr falcon sat
calmly on his fsvorite perch, and allow
ed us to reconnoitre him on Sunday,
while the eagle, owls, sand-grouse, and
partridge, showed a similar contempt
for unarmed Europeans. Popular
Science Monthly for August.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
How Figs are Dried In Smyrna.

At meeting of the Fruit Growers
Association of the Gulf States, Mr..
Geo. A. Fsunce gave q description of
the mode OF preparing figs at Smyrna,
Turkey. which may be the means of en-
tightening many persons why they have
failed in making a merchantable article
of our native fig.
Mr.. Faunce describes the soil in the
neighborhood of Smyrna as being of
volcanic origin, the climate much cold
er than ours, and surrounded by high
mountains covered with snow.
OF the fig there are three varieties
generally grown there; one large pur-
pie fig, much like those seen in the
neighborhood of New Orleans; large
yellow, and smaller kind which is not
much thought of and is never shipped.
The trees average the size generally
seen in our gardens. The fruit is very
dry and rather insipid, and when fresh
is not used by the natives.
The crop ripens about the 2Sth OF
August, and they are shook from the
trees and thrown on the ground in the
sun where they are allowed to remain
a few hours; they are then packed in
hampers and brought on the backs of
mules to the bazaar or market and
thrown into piles twelve or fifteen feet
high. The fruit is selected into three
classes by women and children, and
packed without further preparation in
to boxes or cartoons.
Figs are generally shipped on sailing
vessels, the hold of which is kept well
ventilated by windsails and the matches
kept open. There is also small white
worm or maggot which bores hole in
the bottom end of every fig: these
worms are in such abundance that they
crawl over the vessel and drop into
everything. Our informant has often
seen the shippers trying to clean the
stem of his pipe which was full of the
Termin.
When the fruit arrives at its destina-
ion, if it is dry and covered with grape
sugar, it is considered in good order; if
lark and of shining appearance, it is
n process of heat and decay.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19

TIE "GREAT CLOCK OF ETERNITY. y
A Washington lecturer says that the
earth's orbit has been widening out for
10000 years past, and will continue to
do so for 20, 900 years to come. 1t will
then begin to contract, and will con-
tinue to do SO for $1,000 years. The
eccentricity of Mercury has been
steadily increasing for the last 100. 900
years, but has nearly attained its limit.
In about 5000 years it will begin to
diminish and will continue to do so for
more than 100, 900 years. The orbits
of the planets must go on oscillating in
this manner as long as the laws of nature
remain unchanged, forming what a
French writer has called "great clocks
of eternity, which beat ages as ours
beat seconds"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19

QUEER FRIENDS. Toby was big OK.
He had grown too old to work so he
used to stay all the time in the barn.
yard, and had stall under a shed in
the warm corner.
Peep was a poor little motherless
chicken, with not enough feathers on
to keep the cold Off. He had to hunt
up his own victuals for nobody
thought of feeding him so he used to
peck meal in Toby's feed-box, and Toby
never refused to let him.
Sometimes Peep sat on Toby's horn !;
and, when it grew colder, he roasted
on Toby's broad, warm back. When
Toby got sleepy in the daytime, he
would low for Peep to come and sit on
his horn while he took nap.
By and by little brown pig, seeing
how happy Toby and Peep were to-
gether, left all his kinsfolk, and went
to live in the shed with them. Piggy
slept in the straw close by Toby's side !;
and tho good old OK would low, when
ever he was fed, till Peep and Piggy
came to eat with him.
AT last the butcher came and took
Toby away; and poor Peep and Piggy
were left TO mourn for their dear old
friend. But they loved each other all
the better, and slept side by side in the
straw.
Whenever you saw one, you were
sure to see the other. If Peep found
any thing to eat, he was sure to divide
it with Piggy; and, though both were
homely fellows, it was pretty sight to
see them together.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
Youths Column.
Measuring the Baby.

We measured riotOus baby
Against the cottage wall;
A liiy grew at the threshold,
And the boy was Just as tail
A royal tiger-hly,
With spots of purple and Of gold,
And q heart Of Jewelled chahce,
The fragrant dewto hold.
Without the blackbird whistled.
High up in the old roof trees,
And TO and fro at the window
The red rose rocked her bees,
And the wee pink fists of baby
We're never a moment still.
Snatching at shine and shadow
That danced at the lattice-sil
Ay iu darkened chamber.
Wiaf the sunshine shut away.
Through tears that fell ike bitter rim,
We measured the baby to day
And the title bare feet that were dimrlrd
And sweet as a budding rose,
Lie side by side together
In the hush Of a long repo-e.
Up from the dainty pillow,
White as the risen dawn,
A far face lay smiling
With the hight Of heaven thereon.
Ans the dear little hands like ruse leavy,
Dropped from the rose, lay still,
Never 10 catch at the sunshine
That crept to the shrOuded sill
We measured the sleeping baby
With ribbons viii e as snow.
For the shining rosewood casket
That waited HIM below.
And out Of the darkened chamber
We went with a childless moan;
For to the height of the sinless angels
Our dear little one had grown.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
Old Paper Money Items.

Prof. Summers book is encouraging,
as showing that we are not much worse
than our ancestors, and discouraging as
showing how little we have learned by
experience, or how ignorant We are of
even recent history. His condensed
accounts of the continual issues of pa
per money in the North American Colo
mics should be read by those who be-
lieve in inconvertible paper. Those
who think it any advantage to buy at
low prices may be glad to learn, that
when the British Parliament paid to
Massachusetts, its share Of Louisburg,
which it ransomed from the Colonies
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19

The Busy -BoDY.-An old red COW
came in at the gate to eat the fresh
young grass. "How do you do, old
COW? Have you a calf? Why do you
come into our yard Where is your
home You may eat the grass, but do
not touch the trees
The COW ate and ate. Then Toms
kid Nan came to the gate, looked in,
and at last ian in also.
''How do you do, Nan? You, too,
may eat the grass, and no one must say
Go out ="
Then the COW spied the kid, ran up
to her, and tried to hook her, and drive
her out in the street.
''What a selfish busy body, you old
red cowl Who gave you leave, pray,
to come into the yard =? Suppose Mary
had run at you, and said, Go out 2
You should have let Nan eat, as you
we're doing, in peace, selfish old red
COW You are like some girls and
boys, that are never willing to share =
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19

MANNERS. s.-Manners are more i'm
portant than money. A boy who is
polite and pleasant in his manners will
always have friends, and Will not make
enemies. Good behavior is essential to
prosperity. A boy feels well when he
does well. If you wish to make every
body pleasant about you, and gain
friends wherever you go, cultivate good
manners. Many boys have pleasant
manners in company and ugly manners
for home.
We visited small railroad town not
long since, and were met at the depot
by little boy of about eleven or twelve
years, who entertained and cared for
us, in the absence of his father, with as
much polite attention and thoughtful
care as the most cultivated gentleman
could have done. We said to his mother
before We left her home
You are greatly blessed in your son
he is so attentive and obliging."
"Yes," she said, 81 can always de-
pend on Charley when his father is
absent. He is great help and COM
fort to me-"
She said this as if it did her heart
good to acknowledge the cleverness of
her son.
The best manners cost so little, and
are worth so much, that every boy can
have them.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19

A new way of killing alligators has
been discovered IN Louisiana. A two
ounce can of nitro glycerine, with
lighted fuse, is put inside of chicken,
the latter tossed to the alligator, and
in a few minutes an explosion ensues
and the carcass of the reptile floats
gently on the waters.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
Poetry.
THE CHARGE OF THE COrRT
BRIGADE

Half yard-half a yard
Half yard onward,
Through the first crush-room,
Pressed the -Four Hundred.
Forward-the Fair Brigade
On to the Throne, they said
On TO the Presence Room,
Crushed the Four Hundred,
ii.
Forward, the Fair Brigade,
Was there a girl dismayed?
/ en- though the chaperons knew
Some one had blundered.
Theirs not to make complaint,
Theirs not TO sink OF faint,
Theirs-but words cannot paint
Half the discontinue
OF the Four Hundred.
III.
Crowds on the night of them.
Crowds on the left Of them,
Crowds all in front of them,
Stumbled and blundered
On through the courtier-lined
Rooms-unost tremendous grind
Into the Presence-room,
Leaving their friends behind.
Passed the Four Hundred.
".
Flushed all their faces fair,
Flashed all their jewels rare,
Scratched all their shoulders bare.
Thrusting each other-while
Outsiders wondered
Into the Presence-room,
Taking their turn, they come
Some looking very glum
Ger trains sore-sundered-
Kiss hand, and outwards back,
Tagged. the Four Hundred
V,
Crowds 10 the right of them.
Crowds on the left Of them,
Crowds all in front Of them,
Stumbled and blundered-
Back through more courtier-lined
Rooms-O, tremendous grind
Ds5TI1'ss thirsty pined
For Ice or cup o tea;
No sofas hOrse-hsir lined,
Not chair or settee,
Poor dear Four Hundred
VI.
Mothers 10 rage gave vent,
Husbands for BrouShams sent,
While at mismanagement
Both sorely wondered.
Not till the sun had set.
Not till the lamps were lit,
Home from the Drawing-room
Got the Four Hundred
Punch.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
Troubles will not last forever:
Ihe 4arknsf DIV WI nas. aAaN"

Have friends been torn from US whose
bright smiles no longer cheer us as we
pass on the rugged pathway of life !?
Then let us look at the friendly steeple
spanned by the bright bow of promise,
and promoting US to the Eden of rest
the pilgrims home. Let us learn a
lesson from the friendly steeple-"True
greatness consists in moral grandeur. p"
That our thoughts should be elevated
and pure. That the tendency of our
be beavenward, and that We
are to rise above all that is low and
grovelling aud aspire 10 that purity
whose birthplace is Gods throne.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19

TIE STEEPLEs. When We look at tine
steeples of a city piercing the blue sky
we should ever regard them as so many
friendly beacons calmly and gently di-
recting us to look up ADORE mere mate
rial things to the calm, peaceful serenity
of heaven, CT which the bright firma-
ment IS a symbol. When the dark
clouds of adversely hang around us like
a funeral pail and their thunders would
seem to rend our very souls, let us look
up to the friendly steeple which points
to Gods bright sun and heavens smiles
beyond the clouds, remembering
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-05-08
Hetne's Heaven and Hell.

In heaven people amuse themselves alto
gether supcrbly. There they live from
morning to night, and the cookery is as
good as Jagor's; roast geese fiy around
with gravyboats in their bills, and feel fiat-
tered IL any one cpndescends TO eat them
TartS cleaning with butter grow wild like
sunfiowers; everywhere there are rivuets
of bullion aud champagne, everywhere
trees on which clean napkins hutter wild
in the wind, and you eat and wipe your
lips and eat again without injury TO health.
Nothing disturbs your feeling of perfect
happiness; no pain, no veXation, nay |
when one treads on another's corns aud ex-
claims "excuSezr' the one trodden on
smiles rs If gloritied, and insists: "Thy
foot, brother, did not hurt in the least,
quite an cOntralre, II only causes a deeper
thrill of heavenly rapture to shoot through
my heart" But Of hell you have not the
fantest idea! There II is Internally hot,
and when l was there, in the dog days, il
was past endurance. Still, II is rank cal
umny TO say that there The poor souls are
compelled TO read all day long all the dull
lest sermons that were ever printed on
earth. Bad as hell is II has not quite come
to that. Hell appeared TO me like a great
town kitchen, with an endlessly long stove,
on which were placed three rows of iron
pots, and in these sat the damned and were
cooked. In one row were placed Christian
sinners, and, incredible as it may seem,
their number was anything but small, and
the devils poked the fire up under them
with especial good will. Iu the next row
were Jews, who continually sci canned and
cried, and were occasionally Knocked by
the tiends, which sometimes seemed odd
enough; as, for instance, when fat, wheezy
old pawnbroker complained of tho heat,
and a little devil poured several buckets of
cold water on his head, that he might real
iZe what refreshing benefit baptism was.
| In the third row sat the heather, who, like
| the Jews, could take no part in salvation
| and must burn forever. / heard one of the
latter, as a square-built, burly devil put
| fresh Goals under his kettle, cry out from
his pot: "Spare mel l was once Socrates,
the wisest of mortals. 1 taught Truth and
Justice, aud sacrificed my life for Virtue"
But the clumsy, stupid devil went on with
his work and grumbled, 30 shut up there
All heather must burn, and we can't m AXE
an exception for the sake OF a single man"