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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-12-13
Gke Bulletin.
JOHN n. oBERLY, Editor.
The Arkansas Smith is in Washington.

The Louisville Courier-Journai urges
the organization of a good militia system
In Kentucky.
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TO TEACHERS.

We will furnish our music 10 teachers at
the usual discount; viii select music for
your scholars. II you will let us know the
grade and style desired.
Teachers everywhere are requested TO
send us their address, and we win keep
them informed Of the new publications.
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MUSIC

A great variety, selected with csre, aud
adapted to the wants Of our Gust omers, con-
sisting Of all the new aud popular music OF
MENTAL.
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Orders solicited, and music selected Ia
suit and sent by mail, on same terms
as from large cities.
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II recognizes the equality OF all men be.
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msnt, and honest payment OF the public
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THE
Kimball Orchestral Organ

A very line instrument, adapted to IN.
SrRUMENTAL AS WELL AS SACRED
MUSIC, aud becoming more and more pop.
ulsr every day.
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New MUSIC SJOr0.
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OPENS
MONDAY EVENING DEC. IA
PIANOS,
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SHEET MUSIC
Musical Merchandise OF ell kinds
at prices to suit the times.
Messrs. Robbins would announce 70
their friends and the public generally
that having been, ~ they trust,
favorably known through
out this region as deal
ers In PIANOS, Or
CANS, &c. con
nected with
the Wholesale
house Of W. W.
Kimball Of Chicago, for
the past ten years, they
have concluded to open Music
Store 10 Cairo, where they will keep
on hand, and be constantly In receipt Of
everything 10 their line desired by theil
customers
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SMITHS
American Organs.

The most perfect and durable Organ ever
made, there being now over $1,000 In use.
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A Large Collection Of
Studies & Exercises

FVR me UbI VI bCHULAB3,
We would call special attention Of teach.
ers 10 this department Of our stock.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
MIFFLINTOWN JUNIATA COUNTY, 6.

surely be consumed and leave behind
it a blackened. gaping chasm.
Down deep in the inner man, where
no eye butGOd can see, and only the
consciousness of the individual can
penetrate should he laid away against
the day of trial solid bars and bullion
of gold, so that the promise to pay
can all he made good, dollar for dollar.
We want no imitation here; here not
even "the best currency in the world
will answer the purpose. The image
of our virtue must be stamped in cur
rent gold.
Not by accident or chance does the
choicest fruit mature upon our trees.
How carefully we prune them; now
closely we watch to destroy their enc
mics; how skillfully we cultivate them,
and how we rejoice when success
crowns our labOrs! Not by accident or
change did Charles Sumner become the
noble man he was. How diligently
did he cultivate art, literature, and the
virtues that made for him the spotless
character he wears so proudly and will
wear forever.
Our labors Os aspiration and conquest
must last until the breath leaves the
body. 1t is never safe to rest upon our
oars until we are anchored in the har-
bOr. Life Is full of adverse currents
that even when we are almost ashore
may drift us away from the desired
haven.
A youth devoted to thecultivation of
essential virtue, a middle life spent in
the exercise of whatever is ennObling
and beneiicent, an old age showing the
ripe fruit of integrity and hOnor-w hat
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
BIRTHPLACE OF Columbus.

Tradition makes Cogoletto, a small
town few miles from Genoa, the birth
place of Columbus, and there is an in-
seription which marks the house of his
reputed birth. 1t may be true, aud II
may be false-for. In this land of tradi-
ton and superstition, 1t Is as easy to
fabricate tradition as an Inscription,
and credulity is ready to believe that it
is as old as Adam. The house of his
father was in the suburbs of Genoa, as
is shown by the deed. He, himself, says
he was born in Genoa, an expression
which may we'll mean the territory, and
not the city, of Genoa. There is, there
fore, some color for the tradition, aud
it is not worth while to dig deeper to
find doubts. He was Ligurian, and
nothing could be more likely to sharp
en- his curiosity, and suggest life of
adventure, than to look out from these
rocky highlands upon the Mediterranean,
washing the field at its base, and covered
with the little, but daring aud enter
piising corsairs OF the Levant. the
Grecian Archipelago, and the African
coast.
How time sets things right Brought
home in chains, robbed IL his lifetime
Of his honors. and his profits, and the
name of another given to his discover
les, time has written his name with
iron and lead in the rock forever" His
Jealous and triumphant enemies, as well
AS his royal patrons and enterprising
followers in the path Of discovery are
remembered but when We call them up
from the land of shadows. there Is al
ways in the midst of them, aud before
them, the great Genoese with a glory
about him, in the light of which they
shine with pale ray. So 1t will be for
ever
He went on, when every other would
nave given up in despair. He gave a
New World to the kingdoms of Cistile
and Aragon. But Castle and Aragon
and all the progeny of their descendant
commonwealths, are dwindling and IA
ding away, and a race, never akin to
the old Ligurian-''the world seeking
Gsnoese"-is, from year to Year, devo-
ting the New World to the great COM
monwealth of freedom and mutuality.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
Beauties Of N Man.OOd.

To the boy, the world beyond his i'm
mediate surroundings is only picture.
He does not know how real are the sor.
rows, the passions, the ambitions OF
men. Its absorbing interests, Its be
roes and its martyrs, are heard OF 10y
him without understanding or with ln-
difference. His sport. his lessons, his
home life, are alone real. But there
will come a change. The ordinary slow
growth into manhood, with its business
or professional pursuits and widening
relations, or startling events, such as
the death of q parent, or some intellect
ual or spiritual appeal, striking out the
latent soul, will make vivid and ear
nest what was indistinct and uninterest-
ing. =.
Like stereoscopic picture before 1T
is put in the stereoscope, the life OF map
has no body or reality but when the
boy awakens, as with the picture within
the instrument, SO with him. solidity
and naturalness will be acquired by the
external world, and he viii feel what 1t
is hencefort1 to live and move amongst
these grander forms.
MANY mistakes will he commit, false
estimates will he form Of proportion
and perspective, the earnestness OF his
new conceptions will hurry him into e1.
travagsnces and generous errors but IL
there is truth in his nature. and noble
ness in his spirit, Just views will be
formed, and the day IN which tits given
him TO work will find him not nnmind'
full of the responsibility which arises
from q knowledge of the coming night
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
The Pertls Of Practical JOkers.

A respectable person, says the Pail
Mall Gazette. was arrested the other
day in PARIS on the charge of picking
pocket under circumstances which must
command the sympathy of the most
rigid moralist. He was returning home
from a social gathering when the natu
raj convulsiOp to which Lord Dundreary
usei to be SO subject overlook him, and
ne sneezed in the most uncoinpromisiDg
manner. This usually satisfactory op-
Grafton is not, however. entirely SO to
civilized person unless he can command
the assistance of a pocket handkerchief.
The subject of this crisis, therefore, telt
wildly in his pockets for the desired arti-
Gle, but his faithful companion had dis
appeared. Suddenly an emotion ofjoy,
such as that with which a shipwrecked
sailor espies a distant sail. lighted up
his fearful eye. He saw depending from
the pocket of q friend walking a few
PAGES in advance of him red silk hand
kerchief, large, soft and lustrous. A
few seconds more and he had buliel
his still quivering and wasteful nose IN
those delicious folds, when the hand of
a police agent was laid on his shoulder,
and the owner of the handkerchief turn
ed round, revealing the countenance OF
a complete stranger. The pickpocket
n,algreiui was about TO be led of to the
station, when certain papers found on
his person established his responsibility
so conclusively that he was suffered to
go home, duly provided with pocket
handkerchief obligingly lent him by a
police officer.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
The Ring Finger.

We have already noticed the mode
of procedure adopted by bridegrooms
in placing the ring upon the fourth lin
ger of the left hand. Though 1t was
reached simultaneously with the con-
Guiding "Amen." Il far weightier reason
prevailed with many of our forefath-
ers for selecting this finger te bear the
matrimonial token. The finger on
which the ring Is to be worn Is the
fourth finger of the left hand, next to
the little finger; because by the re-
ceived opinion of the learned and ex-
perienced, in ripping up and anatnmiZ-
ing bodies, there Is VEIN OF blood,
which passeth from the fourth finger
to INTO the heart. called vena amOris,
Loves vein; and so the wearing OF the
ring on that finger signitieth that the
love should not he vain or feigned, but
that rs they did give hands each to the
other, so likewise they should give
hearts also. whereuntO that vein ex-
tended d.r-Swinburne's Treatise of
Spousals. This idea seems to have
arisen in Egypt as early rs the second
century. Appian, an Alexandrlan
historian, says that, in the opinion OF
the anatomists of Egypt, "a certain
most delicate nerve" passed from the
ring finger to the heart. But the
s.aunchest uphOlder of this theory was
Lavinus Lemnius, a celebrated sage of
Zealand, who lived in the sixteenth
century. In his medical practice he
had often taken advantage of this con-
Meeting artery to restore fainting wo-
men To consciousness. The small ar
tery is stretched forth from the heart
unto this finger, the motion whereof
you may perceive evidently in all that
affects the heart in women by the
touch of your foretinger. L used To
raise such as are fallen intOa swOon by
pinching this joint, and by rubbing the
ring of gold with little saffron; for,
by this, a restoring force that Is In lt
passeth to the heart, and refresheth
the fountain of life, unto which this
finger is Joined. Wherefore antiquity
thought fit to compass it about with
gold" He also states that this finger
was termed "medicus," since, If any
verom entered it, notice was given To
the heart before it was too late to use
an antidote. The gOut, also, never
afflicted this finger until the attack
had assumed a fatal character. This
he had observed in Gallia Belgica, the
land par excellence of podagrhl suffer
ers, no Belgian, however long his ex-
perience of govt may have been, ever
suffering in this finger till death was
nigh at hand.-ICanadian Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
Where il all comes from.

A writer on chair" says: Though
the day for the best bargains has gone.
It is still not uncommon to obtain a
magnificent chevelure from a Breton
peasant for gaudy cotton handkerchief
or a twenty sous pair Of earrings: Tying
his horse to a spreading tree, the hair
mopeer, armed with formidable pair
of scissors, soon attracts a crowd OF
village maidens, who. after little hag-
Cling, submit to be sheared like so
many sheep. After de1terously and
gracefully clipping the locks, he de-
posits them, neatly tied, in his basket,
and JEANNE is liberated, to be greeted
with shouts and laughter from her
companions, for so well has the work
been done that her head has the appear
snce of being shaved. Nowhere but in
Brittany will the girls submit to this
wholesale cropping, insisting upon pre-.
serving q few thin locks, at least, OF
natures fairest gift. In that province,
however, where the custom is for women
to wear hideous, close-fittiDg caps, hair
which would be the glory of American
ladies is useless and it is there that the
hair merchant reaps his richest har-
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
The !:pOthecary's Oath.

The Medical and Surgical Reporter
has unearthed a singular bit of med
ieval cursing architecture. SAYS that
journal: VINO is the guardian saint of
the apothecaries we do not know, but
somebody has disinterred an ancient
oath, which formerly had to be taken
by every French pharwaceutist. 1t runs
thus:
81 take to witness, before all, God,
the Creator of the universe, In three
persons, that during the whole Of my
life will observe that which follows:
"I will live and die in the Christian
faith. L will honor my parents. Twill
honor the physicians and masters under
whom l have studied. 1 will never say
anything that shall be injurious to the
seniors of our order TO others. L will
adorn with my best the dignity of nv
art, and will not reveal its secrets. l
will do nothing imprudently nor
through hope of gain. In acute sick
ness will not give purgatives without
the order of the physician. i will keep
the secrets of the patients. l will ad-
minister no poison, neither will l allow
it to be administered, even to my enc
mics. 1 will not alter prescriptions OF
physicians. ] will neversubstitu'e one
remedy for another without their know
ledge. 1 will discourage the fatal prac
tice of empires. L will refuse to no
person my legitimate assistance. 1
will not keep in my pharmacy stale or
badly prepared medicaments. In max
ing and observing these rules, may God
assist me. Ainsi soHhr'
That is not such an antiquated oath
but that VIC should like to see it revived
and respected.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
Character.

From the cradle to the grave the
character of IN individual, like his
body. is undergoing constant changes.
1t grows, it developes, IL natures, 1t
ripenS, until the frost of death gives 1t
the fixedness of marble; then as the
tree falls so it shall lie.
Character, like stature, temperament,
tendency, Is to Il great extent inherited.
Parents outline their children before
their birth, and herein is a thought that
should give many parent food tor re-
tiection.
Great as Is the influence of various
circumstances in molding character the
influence of ones own will may he
equally potent. Thought and affilc-
tion, passion, hell itself, she turns to
favor and to prettiness," said Laertes
of Ophelia when her reason was like
sweet bells iangled, and ont of tune. y
Even TINS may the strong Will compel
poverty, disaster, bereavement, no less
than prosperity and happiness, to be-
come the ministers of grace and perfect
ness to the aspiring, resolute patieut
soul.
The corner stone of all noble charac-
ter is truth, and as the virtues ever go
hand in hand, with this will naturally
he associated purity, justice, integrity,
reverence. Therefore. the first ell
deavor of the parent should he tn
quicken in his child's heart the love of
truth, the hatred of falsehoOd. The
first effolt of him who wOuld turn
away from evil and love good is to cul-
tivate in himself perfect sincerity and
utter truthfulness. With this as a
foundation there is no limit to the pos.
sible growth of the human soul toward
absolute virtue and perfectness.
just as the tendencies in the body of
disease and deforInity may he modi-
fed, and sometimes eradicated by a
severe and skillful regimen, so many
faults in character may he purged and
smoothed away; flaws may lie polished
ont and virtues Incorporated, If, while
it is plant, the right steps are taken to
make it symmetrical and well rounded.
A Single element of weakness or oil
vice NAV taint the entire character
For awhile it may seem firm and sound
but as n little leaven leaveneth the
whole lump, so the outgrowth of one
vicious thought may gradually under
mine the strongest principle and blast
the labors of lifetime. 1t is not safe
to have one inch of wormy timber Ill
the stoutest ship; it is not safe to har.
Dor in the heart the smallest element
that is not wholly virtuOus; for wher
the fiery blasts of temptation try tht
soul, If Stubble Is found therein, 1t VII
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
GiutfODy.

A retired physician writes: no"
does it happen that amid the everiast
ing cry against drunkenness We never
hear a word against its sister evii, gint-
tonv? / think / can assert with trntn
that, in a long practice, three have dieo
among my patients from over-eatlne
where one has died from drink. whence
comes apoplexy, paralysis, dyspepsia,
and a host of other diseases, but from
too much rich food, taken under the
most imprudent circumstances ana
vet we hear of no society formed to pre-
v.nt this growing vice. A man eats
until he drops down and expires win
apoplexy by the roadside, when up
comes the coroner with jury OF twei'e
good men and true, who pronounce
verdict Died from intemperance. %
he did. but what kind of intemperance
was it? 1 have heard more than Que
minister in the pulpit expatiate WIN
great vehemence against the sin o'
drunkenness, whose very appearances
was proof positive that he was Pre-emi'
nently guilty of gluttony.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
An Enormous Cistern.

The foundation is now being laid OF the
new Palace Hotel for the biggest cis-
tern in the world. There are upward
of hundred men engaged in laying
the bricks-more than million In
number. The foundation is laid in a
cement, and the engineer in charge
says it will be one of the finest pieces
of engineering on the continent. "How
much water will it hold?" asked
Chronicle reporter recently of Warren
Leland, who was watching the men at
work. "Lemme see," said Warren,
taking a short stub of pencil snd a
pink envel' pc out of his pocket. sixty
times 90. 900; ought from ought You
can't, twice ought is oughty ought and
divide it by nine; four from seven is
three, and add that to six and then
we'll have it-6, 800. 900. That's it. l
guess. Yes. 6.3OO,0OO gallons. Big
cistern that?" ana Mr.. Leland returned
the stub of the pencil to his capacious
pocket.-.Saa Francisco Chronicle.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16

There is scarcely a fashionable ca
price that doesn't do good to some one.
Thus the ornaments OF white and black
let which have become the vogue in
Paris have restored prosperity to the
working classes of Venice. who we're In
a state Of great distress before the re-
vival of the taste for jet trimmings.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16

The wife of Bismarck, over sixty
years of age, yet fresh aad beautiful,
directs her household affairs, carries at
home bunch Of keys in her belt, and
is proud Of the many embroidered cov-
ers and curtains. the work Of her own
industrious hands.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16

Buffalo prides itself on a sunfiower
plant ten feet high. and nearly four
feet in diameter at the part where the
leaves are largest. Il now contains
more than fifty full blossoms. besides 0
number of promising buds.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16

IpLESEss. is a mistake to imagine
that only the violent passions, such as
ambition or love, can triumph over the
rest. Idleness, languid as she is, often
masters them all +; she, indeed, inhu.
ences all our designs and actions. AMI
insensibly consumes and destroys both
passion and virtues.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-16
Poetry.
THE VISIT.

The sweetest woman ever fate
Perverse denied household mate.-
WHITTIER.
lis twilight Of the day.
And twilight of the year;
The leaves are turning scar.
The green is growing gray.
Il is little room,
So neatly dressed and still;
Which fostered roses fill
With subtlest Of perf-me-
A zephyr lurking By,
BetrAys the curtained bed
Did ever mortal head
On either pillow iei
That pantomimic fire
How clear its cozy glow:
Il gestures ever so.
Behind the woven wira
But hush. The Lady comes,
As softly as the holrs;
lis sweeter than her aoW'rs-
The melody she huns
She deftly locks the blind,
And draws the nIsht-shlie low;
While with her gown of SNOW
The kitten toys behind.
Her hands are faultless fair.
Her movements. all OF grace
And hers a aueenly air
For such a ioWly place.
She sits. and bows her heas-
What do the shadows say5-
Her volume of the day
Lies open and unreal
Tue beauty of her face,
Where lives q dreamy light
No suffering shall blight.
Nor wearing years erase.
She sighs-nov lifts above
The worship OF tear:
And angels waiting near,
Record wounlei love.
Tibner's.