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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28

down that timber, aiming TO make the
trees fall as much as possible in heaps or
clusters, so that when fired they will
burn up. This they call there, slashing.
The stumps are generally left standing
about three feet high, and the first sea-
son after being cut, the roots generally
send out great many shoots or sprouts.
Goats are very fond of these shoots, and
devour them voraciously. In that coun-
try, if these sprouts are kept close down
the first year, preventing the sap from
going back into the roots in the fall, the
stumps are most sure to die and COM
mence to die the following spring. Being
thus deprived of sap, the life-giving
principle, they can no longer resist ten =
dency TO decomposition. A white mil
dew sets in, and in about three years the
roots are rotted off and thelstump may
be removed, leaving the land in con-
dition TO cultivate. The Angora goat
is becoming quite popular in Oregon,
and those who have fiocks can get them
kept without expense by those who make
use of them in the above manner. To
those who are clearing river bottom
lands i'm this State, timbered with second
growth oaks or willows-the above facts
may furnish useful hint. The practice
here is to dig the roots almost entirely
out of the ground to prevent the sprout-
ing. If the effect of the work of the
goats will be the same here as in Oregon,
a considerable expense might be avoi-
ded by cutting the trees OFF and turning
in the goats TO kill the stumps, as they
do there. And we see no reason why
the same cause will not produce the same
effect. The philosophy of the killing by
browsing is this: The sap left in the
stump is taken up by the growth of the
young shoots, and if they are nipped of
and Kept short no sap is returned to the
roots to keep them alive and they die
from this cause and the great shock re-
ceived by cutting off the original stem
aud branches of the tree.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28
A Privileged institution.

The press dictates our opinion of it.
self, and that no other modern institu-
ton does. Even the telegraph is dumb
except as the press praises it. But the
press has in itself never-silent voice
of Self-eulogy. The power of the press,
the intelligence of-the press, the dignity
of the fourth estate" the greatness of
the London Times, the New Y YOrk Herald,
the genius of Mr.. Greeley or of Mr..
Smith--these are themes from which
none of us can escape. Short of refus-
ing absolutely TO read the newspapers,
we cannot close our eyes, even in the
Barcan desert, to this fine procession of
heroic forms that are kept constantly
moving before us. -- ....
The stock eulogies of the press thus
become part of the mental furniture
ofa constant newspaper reader, sort
of fundamental postulate upon which
he bases his processes of thought. L
suppose that some day our metaphysi-
clans may be able to use these concep-
tions in making up their lists of intui-
tions. \ college professor gave Us, a
few years ago, a valuable book on what
he called mental philosophy, if l re-
member rightly, and it contained list
of ultimate and absolute truths, as given
in the professors consciousness, very
useful as sort of canon law, or final
authority in cases perpleXing to the
theological mind. i was always a little
surprised that he did not include with
them the virtues of the newspaper. but
presume these may be added to future
editions of a work so likely to remain i'm
permanent demand.
1t is the journalist then. and not the
soldier. the man of business. or the
scholar, who specially magnifies his
office in our day; who has taught us
that the press is the soul of modern life,
the proper master of modern thought
and action; that the secret of intelli-
genee lies in reading the newspapers,
and the secret of wealth in advertising,
with many other valuable truths of a
similar kind: and il is the journalist
who, more than other men, can sup
press criticism of his calling. If the
praises of the press are born of itself, if
its censures are disarmed bv itself,
should We not seek opportunity, from
time TO time, to correct our estimates of
its power and value; to look at it, as far
as is possible, as we should look at other
glories of this age, with our own eyes,
and not with any others? MAY We not
have agreed too easily that the press
does Us nothing but good all the days of
our life? These cautions are obvious,
yet we need to bear. them in mind.
There are fallaeies which escape our
notice because they are so evident, Just
as we may fail to see an advertisement
printed in letters thrice a. large. a. we
were looking for.-The Gdlo6g
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VOL. xxx.
The PEW SYSTEM.

Thou shalt not pray. thou shalt not sing
No sitting shalt thou have from me;
Thou shalt not pray. thou shalt not sing
Until thou art as rich as me-
60. earn thy twenty thousand pound.
And tread the aisle with proper pride
And then q seat shall soon be found
Where we may worship side by side;
Together take the bread and wine;
And all shall come thy pew TO see.
And saints will then be friends of thine.
And TO thy riches bow the knee.
And if by chance some doubtful name
Pc found within our sect select.
He must have fashion, wealth or fame.
To patch his morals incorrect
And 30 be rich, and have then all
Thy fancy and thv taste demand
The evening dance, the morning cali.
And the best pew at thy command
Our edifce Was made for show
Nor WITHOUT MONEY, WITHOUT PRICE"
Can those into our sittings go
Who have not wealth and are not nice,
oh, no!-the poor must meekly drink
The gospel from their cups Of tin.
And backward from the pulpit shrink.
For poverty's deadly sin.
''SEIL ALL THOU HAST, THY SUBSTANCE GIVE
UNro THE POOR, AND FOLLOW ME-"
Alas that men should rather live
For TINE than for EIERSIrY
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blushing, refusing to let me see hei
face. Presently she said:
''Oh, Geriy, YOU never could ina
gine."
.sYes, indeed. can," ] interrupted
'.Charlie was here"
'.Poor Charlie-' laughed Cassie
'sRoger laughed so about him."
"Roger" / gasped.
'sYes,' she answered, smiling and
blushing more vividly. "Yes, Roger.
He loves me. l had thought so for some
time, he always seemed 50 hurt. and
grieved when did wrong. Some way
he found out that | was To ride with
Charlie tonight, and come and took his
place. / never knew il until we were
clear out of Lynne. When the moon
came out bright he pushed back his hat,
looked at me and in his own voice said
Cassie l turned perfectly stiff, and
couldn't take his eyes from him, even
when he spoke 10 me; ] just stared al
him and couldn't speak. Il have al
most frightened the child 10 death, he
said, and" hiding her face on my
shoulder, che put his arms around me
and kissed me, and called me his 'darl-
ing little Cassie and am So happy
so happy
'Well.' | remarked. "A method,
indeed, / should think he did have a
'methOdr"
Cassie looked inquiringly at me, and
went on:
''Roger does not wish TO have Our-it
talked of much. He is going to tell
some of the professors-and Mrs. Laneey
by and by-and said | might tell you
now. | told you, Gerty, didn't l, that |
was going TO break rule for the last
time. I've been thinking about it ever
since began TO find out how much
loved him. | have loved him from the
very first, and didn't know it."
And from that time forward Cassie
was changed girl, though her bright
ness and gayety were not lessened. 1
do not say she never disobeyed a rule
again, for she did frequently, but there
was a marked change for the better.
After my graduation, and | was mar
ried To the ''PrOfessor"-as | was proud
to call him-and in my own dear little
home, | still kept Cassie with me, and
and at the end of two years she gradu-
ated with the highest honors of her
class, and was married To ''Roger" after
the great Alumni dinner in the hall !;
and in President Williams little con-
gratulatory speech after the ceremony
but few of the assembled Alumni under
stood to what he referred when he con-
graduated Professor Castleton upon his
''method," and regretted that it was
one which could not always prove avail
able.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28

RULES YoR rnE CARE OF THE EYES.

DIR. d. +. Lincoln, Secretary of the
Department of Health, read the follow.
ing rules for taking care of the eye
before the American Social Science
Association at Detroit:
When writing, reading, drawing
sewing, etc., always take care that
l. The room is comfortably cool, and
the feet warm.
| :. There is nothing tight about the
neck.
). There is plenty OF light without
dazzling the eyes.
4. The sun does not shine directly on
the object we are at work upon.
3. The light does not come from in
front; il is best when il comes over the
left shoulder.
g. The head is not very much bent
over the work.
.. The page is nearly perpendicular
to the line of sight; that is, that the eye
is nearly opposite to the middle of the
page, for an object held slanting is not
seen 50 clearly.
5. That the page, or other object. i
not less than fifteen inches from the
eye.
Near-sightedneSs is apt to increase
| rapidly when person wears, in reading,
the glasses intended To enable him To see
distant objects.
In any case, " hen the eyes have any de-
feet, avoid all such WORK, except for very
short tasks, not exceeding half an hour
each, and in the morning.
Never study or write before breakfast
by candle light.
Do not lie down when reading.
If your eyes are aching from fire light,
from looking at the snow, from over
work. or other causes. pair of colored
glasses may be advised, TO be used for a
while. Light blue or grayish blue is
the best shade, but these glasses are
likely 10 be abused, and usually are not
TO be worn except under medical advice.
Almost all those persons who continue
to wear eolored glasses, having perhaps
first received advice 10 wear them from
medical men, would be better without
them. Travelling vendors of spectacles
are not to be trusted; their wares are apt
10 be recommended as ignorantly and
indiscriminately as in the times of the
''Nicar of Wakefield"
Ii you have to hold the pages of Har-
per'S -ndgdzine nearer than fifteen inches
in order to read il easily, it is probable
that you are quite near-sighted. If you
have 10 hold it two or three feet away
before you see easily, you are probably
far-sighted. In either case, il is very
desirable to consult physician before
getting pair of glasses, for 4 misfit may
permanently injure your eyes.
Never play tricks with the eyes, as
squirting or rolling them.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28

A Ne,r idea in Telegrapkg.-Telegrams,
by device founded on the idea of the
Jacquard loom, may now be committed
to roll of paper, punched with holes
instead of letters, and despatched au-
tomatically. The punched roll deliv-
ers its message to the instrument with
out attendance, and the message is
printed at the other end of the line at
the same time. The advantage claimed
for this system Is gain of time, and
the liberty TO send messages when the
line is in the most favorable condition
without the assistance of the operator.
-ScribHer for ,JsIu.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28
Lost Arts Reyiving.

There appears to be revival in
Venice of some of the arts which have
been SO long uneXercised as to be prac-
tically lost. The ancient brOcade
tapestry manufacture is being revived
by the Fratelli AgnInO. The produc-
ton of this fabric, which existed before
that of Lyons, and was used by the
DOges for gifts to other potentates, en-
plOyed at one time 1900 hands. Some
of the stutfs were of extraordinary
texture and beauty, but the secret of
the rarest died with the inventors. In
recent times Mr.. Layard, British Mn
lister at Madrid, obtained very sue
cessful result at revival of the art in an
order executed for him; the Princess
DOlgOrOuky also obtained some of the
richest patterns. The cost ranges from
80 40 to $50 per meter (about % inches.
The lace work for which the small
islands of BuranO, near Venice, was
once renowned is also being revived.
Under the auspices of the Princess
Giovanelli and the Countess Marcello,
an aged woman, who remembers and
understands this art. has been engaged
to give instruction in it. The demand
for the first specimens was very great.
The cost is about $50 for meter, about
46s inches in width. The production of
one meter occupies woman $50 days
of five working hours each. Another
revival is that of the "gros point de
Venice at Burano. A new branch of
industry springing up in Venice is the
result of the demand of limitations of
antique furniture in ebony and ivory,
pearwOOd and bone being used as sub
stitutes for these materials. Ii Is stated
Al. 4 n
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Crabbe. the Poet.

If ever a man began literary life
with serious disadvantages, it was
George Crabbe. He was the son of a
fisherman, who also performed the du-
ties of salt-collector at the port of Aid
borough, in Suffolk. The old man
would say, when George was but a lad,
.'That boy must be fool. John, Bob,
and Will are of some Use about a boat 4;
but what will that thing ever be good
for?" His early predictions were for
anything but the humble pursuits of his
father and brothers: so he was appren-
ticed to surgeon, and ultimately began
10 practice for himself in his native
town, with but Indifferent success. His
inclinations first led him To science.
Entomology and botany engaged his
attention; but even while engaged in
these solid pursuits, he was cultivating
the art which was to bring him fame,
and place his name among the first
poets of his native land. While wan
dering in search of plants and insects,
he was moulding verse into measure.
The two pursuits, poetry and natural
history, went on well together; note
book in hand, he would often pause in
his researches to jOt down verse OF
revise a cOuplet.
At twenty-five he abandoned the
medical profession, and threw himself
upon the world of London; with a heart
full of hope, bundle of poems, and
three pounds-borrOwed money-in his
pockets. He arrived in the metropolis
stranger. His poems were rejected
by the publishers, and for many months
he was reduced TO destitutior and want.
Yet he struggled on, hoping against
hope, sustained by his religion and his
love for his sweetheart-a Miss Sarah
Elmy-whom he had left in his native
village At last, driven to despair. his
wardrobe sold, his watch pawned, and
the spunging-house staring him in the
face, he applied 10 Burke, and in a
modest and manly story disclosed his
listened, compassioned his distress, took
him by the hand, received him into his
own house, and introduced him to Fox,
Sir Joshua Reynolds, and many more
of his distinguished friends. In this
same year, while under Burke's roof,
Crabbe published his first work, 1.-The
Library" His noble benefactor assis-
ted him into holy orders. procured him
the position OF chaplain Ia the Duke OF
Rutland, and the protection of Lord
Thurlow. then Lord Chancellor, to
whom the needy poet had in vain ap-
piled in adversely.
He married the object of his affec-
tions. settled down Oh his living, and
for the remainder of his years, which
were long, for he died ut the age of
seyenty-eight, he led life of domestic
happiness and literary leisure.
Later in life, when he had acquired
fame, and came to the city where he
had once wandered homeless and hungry
he was the lion of the season, dined and
feasted, and sought after by the first
men OF letters of the time.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28

The NelC Times aud the OIL for Chill
dreR.-The children in a West side door
yard were just finishing game of cro-
quet yesterday, when one of them came
running up to an old gentleman, who
had been demnrely watching the game
from bench near by, exclaiming: 'Oh,
grandpa, why don't you playf Its such
fun II wouldn'tjln in any such non
sense replied the old man. What's
the sense in knocking lot o. balls
round through some hoops and then
again post n Here the rest of the
young folks gathered about the old
gentleman to listen, and as he took
pinch of snuff he shook his head and
continued: No; children amt brungup
as they used TO be in my day. Here
I've been a-watchin' on We playin'
that Frenchy game a quarreiin' an a
mashin' mallets an calm on each other
liars-tnat amt no such way as my
parents edicated me to do" The old
gentleman stopped to take another
pinch of snuff aud warmed up as he said:
They kept me az work at some useful
employment, hOein' taters or studyin'
the good book. IL was work in them
days-work for your daily oTead-woTk
night n day, an If any ON US went to
runnin' off an playin' lazy, tell We we
got tux across somebody's knee" And
the old man paused as memory con-
jured up these visions of the past, and
he sighed as he said "Ah, them was
pdiny days. The children thought
so. too, but they didn't envy him.
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work for Goats.

They have way in Oregon to make
goats useful in other ways than fur
nishing fleece and mutton. Men who
are clearing land are glad to take flocks
of goats to keep for nothing, for the pur-
pose of availing themselves of their SER
vices as scayengers of weed and sprout
browsers. The lands in that State are
mostly heavily timbered, and a great
deal Of labor is required to clear it of
timber and prepare it for cultivation.
The first thing they do towards clearing
up piece of timbered land is 10 chop
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28

A certain amount of opposition is a
great help to man. Kites rise against
the wind, and not with the wind even
a head-wind is better than none. No
man ever worked his passage anywhere
in q dead calm. Let no man wax pale.
therefore, because of opposition op-
position is wLat he wants and must
have. to be good for anything. Hard
ship is the native soil of manhood and
self-relianee. He who cannot abide
the storm without flinehing, lies down
by the wayside to be overlooked or
forgotten,
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YOUTHs' COLUMN.

The Worm that hred ia Chestnut
Once there was little worm that lived
in the very heart of fine large chest
nut.
How he got there he never knew. In
fact, don't believe he ever thought
anything about it; but there he was,
snug and warm, with plenty to eat,
and tiny hole in the chestnut to let
in the air.
The nut was lying on the ground
with number of its relations, among
some autumn leaves, and the wee worm
could hear the leaves whispering to-
gether whenever the rude wind came
that way.
''0h, how frightened we are " they
would say. ''The trees have let Us fall.
and soon we shall be blown we know
not where"
But We need fear nothing said the
chestnuts to each other. "Chestnuts
can't be blown about like dry leaves.
True. the wind, when he's in very
great hurry, gives US little roll, but
that's only fun,-it don't frighten US a
bit.r
As for the worm. he said to himself.
because he had no one else to say it to,
I'D rather be even a leaf than worm
in chestnut, no matter where the wind
blew me, for then | should at least see
something. It's awful stupid being
shut up here
Well, one morning there was n sound
in the wood that was neither the song
of the birds, the whistling of the wind,
nor the whispering of the leaves
1t was the sound of childish voices.
and the little worm heard the children
rr1n al, 10, y,
other.
"0hi here's plenty of them right un-
der these old trees.n
And the chestnut lying next to the
one he lived in said, ''Oh, deari Oh,
dear. think they are after us. This
is worse than the wind"
But the worm said to himself. 81 hope
they'll let me out of this poky little
house, so that | may go about and see
what wood is really like
Just then he felt ''the poky little
house" lifted from the ground, and
girl called out in great glee, 1--we
found great, big gOne-asplendld one"
Then sharp, cracking sound nearly
him, aud he felt the top of the
chestnut cave III, and heard the girl
give shrill scream, and cry out III a
very different tone from that in which
she had cried out before, oh, hor-
rid, horrid worm r as she flung it, with
all her strength, far away from her on
the grass.
Don't carer said the worm to him
self NOW | can come cut, anyhow
And he came, and was nipped that
very moment by sparrow, who was
hopping about on the ground looking
for something for dinner-Ihe MethO-
DIST
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28

JOHNNY aud Jaek.-Johnny had a
piece of bread Jack had none.
Johnny was not hungry; Jack was
desperately SO.
Johnny had lain all night asleep in
his crib: Jack had wandered through
the silent streets, seeking bones, and
finding none.
Johnny was thinking-a pleasant, in
distinct lullaby of thoughts. about the
warm Sunshine and the twIttering of
the birds, and mother coming back
soon.n She had said so when she had
left him.
Jack was thinking: '1t's the nieest
piece of bread everd did see.n lie crept
in through the open door, and sat down
very close to the little hand and lips 50
busy with the bread, watching with i
watery look in his steadfast eyes.
It was dumb drama. Neither OF
the actors could speak johnny was a
young baby Jack was an old dog.
On the one side was the dreamy. self
absorbed content of fulness; on the
other, the bitter impatience of want.
"He might give me bit, ''thoug ht
Jack.
Pretty sunshine thought johnny.
TO stifle his faithful dog-hOnesty;
could bitethat boy, and the bread, too
Mother coming back, thought Johnny
81 think must" thought Jack
What held him back Who shall
say Perhaps the other dogs would
have counted him a mean thief to steal
from a child. Perhaps, long ago, he
might have had a home and a master,
who taught him not to steal ut all.
Perhaps, dog as he was, he had "a con-
science and would not do the thing Just
because it was wrong thing. Brave
Jack But his will was falling; the
bread was so nice, and he was so hun
CRY. He was getting angry, too with
the mover of his struggle. Serve that
boy right To punish him Bit ne
mused. A dangerous thought. Ay,
Johnny, you may well begin to wish,
Mother come back"
But as JOhnny's little soul awoke to
longing, it awoke also to a perception
of the cravings near him. He turned
to look at Jack. "Poor dog he tried
to say, and then good Johnny wise
Johnny he broke off a piece of the
bread, and gave 1t to him.
Jack smacked his lips in enjoyment.
"Ha, la laughed JChuny. This
was good entertainment. He broke OIL
another piece. Jack ate it. and then
in his dogs fashion, kissed the little
hand of the giver.
"Nice dog" thought Johnny. His
bread grew interesting, now that there
was some one to share it.
This boy is fine fellow how could
think of biting him ~ Thought Jack
Johnny was saved and Jack was
saved. BLESSED are the mericful.T
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28

Forty thousand Mennonites are to
emigrate to this country. And the best
of it is, they mean to settle here, and
have money TO enable them to begin
life comfortably.