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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-07-18
TINES

"Good times, and bad times, and all times,
pass over"
Then cheerily bend to the oar;
Through depth and through shallow,
through calm and through tempest,
The bark is still nearing the shore.
Soft woos the zephyr and low laughs the
ripple,
Warm CLOVIS the rich light of the sun,
But oh, at his brightest, he slopes to the
Westward
The good time is over and done.
Black rolls the billow, white flashes the
breaker,
Fierce and bitter the pitiless blast,
But of it's own fury the storm sinks
exhausted;
The bad time is over and past.
Our =" times" we can neither foretell them
nor rule them;
Let us face them, however they come;
Pray God for one true hand to clasp through
the hours,
Till night brings us haven and home.
Tinsley's Magazine.
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BLUE SKY AND WHITE CLoUDs.-The
ethereal blue color of the sky is due to
minute particles of matter which float in
the air. Were these particles removed, the
appearance of the sky would be dead black.
1t is fact in optics that exceedingly fine
portions of matter disperse or scatter the
blue rays of light, coarser portions scatter
red rays, still coarser portions scatter all
the rays, making white light. An atmos-
phere IS full of aqueous vapor, the particles
Of which diffuse white light in all directions
When these particles are enlarged, they
become visible in the form Of clouds. The
vapor particles of the white clouds are sup
posed to be finer and lighter than those of
the dark clouds.
That the diffusion of light in our atmos-
phere, the blue coloring of the sky and the
colors of the clouds, are due to the presence
of matter floating in the air, has been con-
clusively proven by Tyndall. On passing
beam of sunlight through glass tube,
the beam is rendered brilliantly visible by
the reflection of light from the dust parti-
Giles floating in the air contained in the tube.
But on removing the dust particles, which
is done by filtering the air by cotton wool,
or causing the air to pass over flame, the
beam of light is no longer visible in the
tube.
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THE BEST FooD.-The best food in the
world is the best bread. Nothing has yet
been discovered which gives to adults SO
we'll all that is needful to build up bone,
muscle, tissue and brain power. But to do
this it should be made into bread just as it
comes from the mill stones. Boiling spoils
it, that is, it takes from it the best portion
of the flour-the bran. Now the bran con-
tains the sugar, and the phosphorus, and
the mechanical quality that makes bread
easily digestible, and prevents constipation,
that bane of American life. This may
sound queer to those who have not studied
the question or practically experienced the
benefits of pure bread. But try the fol-
lowing method of making bread and notice
that it requires no soda or other alkali, nor
acid, nor any ferment save the atmosphere.
Persons who once accustom themselves to
the use of this bread will have gained SO
much in health, and their taste for the new
method will have so increased that moth
ing could induce them to return to the
old. But here is the recipe. Graham
Bread: Stir unbolted or Graham flour into
as much sweet milk, or if that cannot be
had, as much cold, soft water as will make
a batter little thicker than that used for
griddle cakes. Have gem pans hot, fill
and bake in hot oven. Much depends in
baking this bread on having the pans and
oven hot, otherwise it will be sad and
heavy.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-07-18
REVOLUTION IN DRESS.

Revolution is the order of the day, host
of the great movements that have bene-
flied the race have been accomplished by
revolutions. In nothing is revolution
more imparatvely required than in wo-
mans Dress and l am glad to say it has
begun. Within the past ten years great
effect has been made by many of our most
intelligent and thoughtful women to make
radical change in woman's mode of dress
ing. All physicians agree with them in
the belief that much of the diseased con-
dition of woman is due to the present I'M
natural way of clothing her body. These
reformers are interested in experimenting,
and by personal experience demonstrating
to their sex that a beautiful and healthful
dress can be worn by women without en-
objects of curiosity and ridcule. For sew
eral years Mrs. Susan Everett, NJ. D., has
been lecturing to women in many of our
large cities, both in the east and in the
west. She has done much in this direction
in some of our large seminaries, where
educated and cultivated young women can
best be reached. Her success has been
wonderful. She aims principally at per-
suading the ladies to entirely discard cor
sets. and instead of hanging all their skirts
on their hips, to have them suspended from
the shoulders. But the most encouraging
feature of this great reform that have yet
seen, was the interest the Boston's We-
mans Club took in regard to woman's dress
at their meeting during this month. Such
women as Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. DR.. Dio
Lewis, and Mrs. DR.. Blake were principal
movers in the work. A number of styles
of woman's der-clothing were exhibited,
and their fitness and advantages discussed.
All the suits were made SO as to form either
one entire garment, or else the drawers
were buttoned to waist, to which also the
outer skirt should be buttoned. Thus
entirely removing the weight of the cloth
ing from the hips, and suspending it all
from the shoulders.
A Mrs. F. once a fashionable dress
maker in Boston, has experimental on
women's under clothing particularly, until
she has gotten an almost perfect and health
full style. Since the meeting of the Club
more than thousand ladies have called on
her and examined her work and are warm
in their praises of it. This new impetus
in this most needed reform will no doubt
mark out for woman a new era in her life's
work. No woman can accomplish the best
possible results in life, so long as her health
is impaired, and her usefulness checked by
such unnatural and unhealthful garments
as the majority of women now wear. The
true idea of dress to be beautiful and health
full should be that the clothing must be
equally distributed over the whole body.
The outside garments are not of so much
consequence provided they are suspended
from the shoulder. 1t needs to be empha-
sized, and therefore l repeat it, that the
clothing should always be suspended from
the shoulders and not from the hips. The
anatomy of the body as well as experience
demonstrates this.
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SERVED HIM RIGHT.-Excited wife Ito
her husband) edo you lot admit that
woman had a mission?' Cool husband:
eyes, my deer, she has-submission.'
Great confusion in the family circle, and
the husband calls on the family surgeon for
a plaster for his head, wounded by acciden-
tally hitting it az a;nst the edge of an open
door.
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ny-Tbirty-seven wears ago Sir Rob

sB Thirty-seven years ago Sir Robert
Peel presented Warwickshire Farmer s
Club with two iron plows of the best con-
struction. On his next visit the old plows
were again at work. owe tried the iron,
Sir Robert" said member of this enlight-
ened society, "but we all be of one mind,
that they make the weeds to grow
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Would that the dog days were dog.
gone days.
eB-To cure dull times-apply an adver-
tisement to the afflicted part.
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WThe collection of Chinese coins in
the museum of the Paris mint consists of
nearly eight hundred specimens, some of
gold and silver. One Of the pieces dates
from one thousand seven hundred years
before Jesus Christ. A fact worthy Of
notice is that the Chinese observe the deci-
NAL system in the division of their money.
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S4S,9l4 -
RecapitlIlatiOn.

$ll2, 203 IS
To amt of Co. tax on s4 AL at 50 cts. SIP a 76
By order. ISAAC T. VANARSDALE,
July Is, 1S74-2w Clerk
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STATEN EMIT
OF THE
Expenses Of Cecil County,
FOR THE YEAR 1874.
EXPENSES of Circuit Court.

Armstrong Walter. Juror 5 days mlse sl3 lG
AIeyander John E, II !" I" ~ 80
IA D n
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-18
EnersOn's Mysticism.

/ think that the mysticism of Emer-
sons style was not wholly native and
spontaneous to him. But his intuitions
told him, and rightly, that without it
he could not gain his Just influence
our community would deny him hear
ing if he should begin by telling us
bluntly what he thought. The most
conscientious readers are often the most
bigoted. In order not to provoke the
needless enmity of these good people,
Emerson employed an exquisite obscur-
antism in his style. Persons of mature
preiudices passed him by as incompre-
hensible. They did not take the trouble
to understand him; they took up the
cudgels and quarreled with enemies
whose weapons were coarse, but far less
lance. But the young, meanwhile, the
ardent and delicate spirits of the times,
were reading his sayings with glowing
hearts. In them they found the cool
ness, the freedom, the mystery of
Nature; his sentences seemed to flow
down from the mountain springs. Emer-
sons thought was attended to ; it gained
its deserved influence, and has colored
the better character of America. 1t
was the triumph of wise method. do
not say that here a wise method was
all. Only genius could have wrought
SO admirable a weapon as Emerson S
style. But it was this that gave him
opportunity. A categorical clearness
in his first volume would have been
ruinous. If vulgar people had known
what he meant, he would have been
whirled away into their CULTS of contro-
versy, and we should have lost Emerson
and the best of New England culture. -
Lippincott's Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-18
The Home of Landseer.

The house of the late Sir Edwin Land
seer is at the end of st Johns Wood
road, London. 1t is long, low build
ing, standing in some acres of garden,
at the bottom of (which runs the Regent 8
Park Canal. The original of one of the
Trafalgar square lions keeps grim watch
from under gigantic tarpaulin kennel
on any visitors approaching the house
across the gravelled courtyard which
lies between it and the road. The
painting room is large bare room with
two high windows facing north. Great
doors with rusty hinges open into the
garden, and through them came the
horses, dogs, dead lions, and all sitters
that were not human. A bobby-horse
with side-saddle, and all the numer-
GUS straps and buckles correctly ad-
justed, attests the painters fidelity to
all the minuter accessories of his art.
In one corner stands the huge couch,
covered with o tartan, on which the
painter spent many hours of the last few
Years of his suffering life. Two busts
of the Queen, at different ages, attract
every eve, placed, as they were, in the
masters lifetime, almost in the centre
of the room; while his stand of half
emptied color-tubes, and even the raised
chair occupied by his sitters, are Just
as he left them. The wallis and ceiling
are toned by age into a harmonious
gray, which did not attract the painter
sight from his work, and pleased him
far better, so he was used to say, than
the glaring whiteness and cleanliness
dear to less artistic eyes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-18
Here and Hereafter.

Two glorious futures lie before us
the progress of the race here, the pro-
gress of the man hereafter. History
indicates that the individual man needs
to be transplanted in order to excel the
past. He appears to have reached his
perfection centuries ago. Men lived
then whom We have never yet been able
to surpass, rarely even to equal. Our
knowledge has gone on increasing, for
that is a material capable of indefinite
accumulation. But for power, for the
highest reach and range of mental and
spiritual capacity In every line, the
lapse of two or three thousand years
has shown no sign of increase or i'm
provement. What sculptor has sur
passed Phidias? What poet has trans
cended Eschylus, Homer, or the author
of the book of Job? What devout as
pirant has scared higher than David or
Isaiah? What statesman have modern
times produced mightier or grander
than Pericles? What patriot martyr
truer or nobler than Socrates? Wherein,
save in mere requirements, was Bacon
superior to Plato? Very early in our
history, individual men beat their
wings against the allotted boundaries
of their earthly dominions early in
history God gave to the human race the
types and patterns to initiate and ap-
proach, but never to transcend. Here,
then, surely we see clearly intimated to
us cur appointed work-viz : to raise
the masses to the true standard of har-
monious virtue and capacity /; not to
strive ourselves to overleap that stand
ard not to put our own souls or brains
into hot bed, but to put all our fellow
men into fertile and wholesome soil.
-EnigDlds of Life.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-18
A Friend in Need.

Confidence" says the proverb, sis
a plant of slow growth 1t is, per-
haps, not best to grow at all in the
Australian bush, judging from the fol-
lowing incident by Melbourne paper
A certain person was travelling through a
lonely district, when he heard q great
outcry. Thinking bushrangers were at
work, he fired off pistol to intimidate
them. and presently the noise ceased
and scampering was heard. On COM
ing to the open ground the traveller
discovered man tied to tree. "Oh,
SIR" cried the victim, 81 am so glad
you are come, have been attacked by
ruffians, and they were robbing me
when they heard your pistol" And
couldn't you get loose, my friend p
asked the traveller. 'No; they tied me
so very tightly" ''And did they rob
you Of everything ?" "No, only my
watch. They had not time to search
for my money, which L placed in my
left boot" "How fortunate" observed
the traveller; twas the sum consider
able?" "Over a thousand, thank hea-
ven," said the poor man. "Are you
sure they are gomez" asked the other.
.sOh, certain" The new conner looked
around and around, and seeing the
coast clear, said cody, "Well, as they're
gone, 1 think I'll finish the job myself.
And he proceeded to rob the unfortu-
nate victim. m.-LOndOn Globe.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-18

twelve natives, and an ample store OF
stones is kept, which they throw both
with slings and with the hand, with
great force and precision. At the foot
of each of these trees is another hut, in
which the family usually reside, the
tree house being only resorted to al
night and in time of danger. In fact,
however, they are never safe from sur.
prise, notwithstanding all their precau-
tions, as the great object in life among
the people is to get each others heads.
Captain Simpson found row of twenty
five fresh human heads fastened up
across the front of a chiefs house.
Raids are made to get heads and to eat
the bodies. The heads of men, women,
and children are all taken, and the
wonder is that the island has not be-
come depopulated.
The people of this and other islands
are not, however, noted for their cou-
rage. Such a thing as a stand-up fight
between tribes is almost unknown, but
they prowl about for prey, attacking
whenever they have a victim in their
power, without risk to themselves. In
some of the islands the men have long
hair, which they wear in fashions like
those adopted by the other sex in civil
lied lands, the favorite modes being
the chignon or loose down the back /;
the women, whose hair is shorter than
the mems, wear it loose and undressed.
'In their clothing there is not at
present opportunity for European or
any other fashions"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-18
An Old.Time Rat Exferminafor

Many years ago there stood on the
bank of river in Tyrone County, Ire
land, an old Jail, which was so terribly
infested with rats that the prisoners
were often bitten while sleeping in their
cells. Every method of determination
had been tried without avail, and the
authorities had almost determined to
forsake the premises and leave the rats
in possession, when one day a wretched,
weird-looking old man, who was incar-
cerated for some offence, requested an
interview with the Governor of the Jail.
His request was granted, and when he
was alone with the Governor he stated
that he was able and willing to extermi-
nate every rat from the place by the
next morning, if he might have his free,
dom in return. He also stipulated that
no questions were to be asked concern
ing his method of doing it, nor was a
single rat to be molested by anybody
during the time intervening. The Gu
riosity of the Governor was aroused and
he consented to the old mans request.
He then asked the Governor for pen,
ink, and paper, which were given him.
He wrote something npon the paper and
placed it in the largest rat-hole he could
find. He invited the Governor and the
officials to assemble next morning on
the lawn in front of the Jail. At the
appointed time they were all anxionsly
Watching the door, when to their amaze
ment out came, first, an old gray rat
bearing in his mouth the identical pa
per which the old man had placed in
the hole, and following after him in
single file came about two hundred rats,
marching slowly onward until they dis
appeared in the distance. Never after
ware was a rat seen or heard of in the
place. This story has been handed
down through generations, and vouched
for as an authentic incident.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-18
Three HabftatiOns I'm the South
SeQ Islands.

Among the papers presented to the
British Parliament relating to the South
Sea islanders, is report by Captain G.
H. Simpson, of Her Britannia Majesty's
ship Blanche, giving an account of his
visit in 1872 to the Solomon and other
groups of islands in the Pacific ocean.
While at Isabel Island, Captain Simp-
son, with party of officers, went q
short distance inland to visit one of the
curious tree villages, peculiar, he be-
lives, to this island. He found the vii
lage built on the summit of a rocky
mountain, rising almost perpendicularly
to height of eight hundred feet. The
party ascended by native path, and
found the extreme summit a mass Of
enormous rocks standing up like a
castle, among which grew gigantic
trees, in the branches of which the
houses of the natives are built. the
stems of these trees rise perfectly
straight and smooth, without branch
to height of from fifty to one hundred
and fifty feet. In the one Captain
Simpson ascended, the house was Just
eighty feet from the ground one close
to it was about one hundred and twenty
feet. The only means of approach to
these houses is by ladder made of a
creeper, suspended from a post within
the house, and which, of course, can be
hauled up at will.
The houses are most ingeniously
built, and are very firm and strong.
Each house will contain from ten to
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-18
Mistakes In Life.

There is no more prolific cause O
repining and discomfort in life thai
that found in looking back upon bygon,
mistakes. We are fond of persuadin,
ourselves and others that could othel
crises have been decided differently
our whole course in life would hav,
been one of unmingled success, instead
of the partial failure that it so Otter
appears. None can tell how weight,
may be the results of even a trifiins
action, nor how much of the future i:
bound up in every day decisions.
The great error men make in thi.
revision is in attributing their failure.
to circumstances, instead of to charac
ter. They see the mistakes which liz
on the surface, but fail to trace then
back to the sources from which the,
spring. The truth is, that crises are
the occasions for bringing out predo
minating traits of character. They are
tests of the nature and qualities of the
man, rather than the causes of future
success or failure. Chances are lost
and opportunities wasted; advisers i'll
chosen, and disastrous speculations
undertaken; unhappy marriages con.
tracted; but there is nothing properly
accidental in these steps. They are to
be regarded as the results of unbalanced
character as much as the causes oi
future misery. The disposition of mind
that led to these errors would certainly,
under other circumstances, have led to
different, but not less lamentable re.
suits.
We see clearly in Judging of others.
We attribute their mischances without
conjunction to the faults that we see
in them, ard sometimes even make
cruel mistakes in the investigation but
in reviewing cur own course, self draws
a veil over our imperfections, and We
persuade ourselves that unavoidable
mistakes or unfortunate circumstances
are the entire cause of all our misfor-
tunes. 1t is true that no circumstances
are always favorable; no training per-
fectly judicious no friends wholly
wise; yet he who is ever shifting the
blame of his mischances upon these
external causes, is the very man who
has the most reason to trace them to
his own inherent weaknesses or de-
merits.
1t is questionable whether the habit
of looking much at mistakes, even OF
our own, is a very profitable one. Ger
tainly the practice of moaning over and
bewailing them, and charging upon
them all the evils that afflict US, is the
most injurious to our future course,
and the greatest hindrance to any real
improvement of character. Acting from
impulse and not from reason, is one of
the chief causes of these mistakes, and
he who would avoid them in the future
will submit all his sudden impulses to
the searching and penetrating ordeal of
his best reason before acting upon them.
Above all, the steady formation of vir-
tuous habits, the subsection of all action
to principle rather than to policy; the
stern and unfiinching adherence to right,
SO far and as fast as it is discovered,
are the best safeguards against mistakes
in life.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-18
WHY Not Successful.

The young clerk marries and takes a
house. which he proceeds to furnish
twice as extensively as he can afford,
and then his wife, instead OF STRIVING
to help him earn a livelihood, by doing
her own work, must have a servant to
help her spend his limited earnings;
Ten years afterward he will be found
struggling on under double load OF
debts and children, wondering why the
luck was always against HIM, while ms
friends regret his unhappy destitution
of financial ability. Had they from the
first been frank and honest, he need not
have been SO unlucky. The world is
full of people who can't imagine why
they don't prosper like their neighbors,
when the real obstacle is not in banks,
tariffs, bad public policy or hard times,
but their own extravagance and needless
ostentation.