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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08

Keep ready money on hand if you
can. No matter if it is only little sum.
Ifit is only sufficient for the current
expenses, il is great convenience to
say the least. Any one who has tried
and compared the credit with the cash
system, will readily admit the correct
ness of the above remark. When you
buy for cash You generally get things
cheaper-get better weight and measure
and all the favors the dealer can ex-
tend 20 his patrons. On the chronic
credit system, the matter is usually re-
versed. If you try to avoid credit by
borrowing, you improve matters very
little, if any. Hence we give this adj
vice, "Turn an honest penny" whent
ever you can, and always have snfficien-
money on hand to meet your small en-
gagements-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08
Restoration OF Life After Freezing.

A friend residing in Baltimore had
in his possession small alligator,
which had been sent him from Florida.
Its habitation was tub partially filled
with water, kept outdoors. During one
of the cold snaps of the past Winter, in
the night the water became completely
frozen, imprisoning the reptile in the
ice, with but a small portion Of his
body protruding therefrOm. To lap
pearances. the animal was as dead as
one of the stuffed specimens seen in
museum collection. The want of time
precluding an effort for its extricatioD
in the morning, it was allowed to re-
main frozen, and was soon forgotten
in in the maze of the cares of the day.
For forty-eight hours the reptile thus
remained frozen and lifeless, at the end
of which time, being thawed out, vitality
became visible, and in a short time it
was animated as ever, with no evidence
of having i'm the least suffered by the
prolonged frigorific confinement. Here
is an instance in which the vital spark
seems not to have been extinguished by
the freezing, nor the animals organism
to have been mutilated, but that vitality
merely remained torpid or dormant
during the freezing, and ready to re-
spond to its functions whenever the
animals organism returned to its nor
NAL condition. Artisan.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08
The Newest Form Of Pick pocket.

The last clever pickpocket on record
is little girl of about twelve years old.
for whom the police are diligently look
ing out. Her victims have been up to
this time country ladies vino are visit
ing the metropolis, or foreigners.
Presently when she grows bold enough
to attack London ladies, who are dis
trustful to disinterested kindness from
strangers, then her career will meet
with check. She is a nice little girl,
clean, pleasant faced, bright-eyed looks
for all the world as if she was a model
scholar. O,please ma'am, Il suppose ou
didn't know there was black spot on
your nOse?" Lady, with concern for
appearances, especially where eleanli-
ness is concerned, replies, go no, L did
not" in a tone of alarm, mingled with
gratitude, having instant recourse to
her handkerchief, thereby revealing
the exact locality of her pocket, and
leaving it prey TO the thief. The nice
little girl is very sympathizing, offers
her aid, and scrubs the face of the
victim with well assumed earnestness.
The face is clean aid the imaginary
black routed at last the lady offers her
thanks, possibly substantial ones, but
meantime the cute young person has
managed to possess herself of the con-
tents of the pocket, with the watch, or
any loose trinkets, which hang conve-
viently exposed to view.-LOndOa Cor.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08
Modelling.

CLAY is the material most commonly
approved and used for modelling. 1t Is
wet with pure water, carefully freed
from all foreign substances, beaten and
worked to a proper state of fiji mness,
and is then ready to take the shape of
the ideal formed in the artists mind.
With the simplest tools or home man.
ufacture, made of ivory or bone or box
wood or rubber or cedar, of with his
bare fingers, the artist fashions the
plastic material, and touches and re-
touches it thousand times, until the
image before him is the counterpart of
that in his minds eye. Sometimes he
works all day on the corner of mouth
to get it just right, and then puts the
model away dissatisfied. but takes it
out again and continues his labor till,
at last, some happy touch makes the
whole complete. Very careful is he to
keep the clay moist, and for this he
sprinkles it through fine hose with
water, and covers it in intervals of
labor with rubber cloth, that its plas-
ticity be in no wise diminished.
Whether the figure be finally draped
or not. it is modelled naked, so that
severity and truth of form, upon which
the excellence of sculpture so much de-
pends, may be made perfectly sure.
The other day we stood beside the
modelling stand of an artist whose in
imitable groups are familiar to every
cultivated eye in the land, and watched
his skilful hand as it worked the veins
into an oak leaf. ''My talent is patience
said he: 81 never weary of working at
my model till it suits me. The fault
with novices i'm the art is that they ex-
pect fine results too soon; they do not
keep their clay MORT enough, and they
are not patient"
Modelers in clay are we all. The
tools with which we work are simple
enough; they are the duties. the pleas
ures, the crosses, the burdens of life,
made to our hand, waiting to be used.
The ideal to be wrought out must be in
each individual heart. BY education,
by discipline, by correction, faults must
be removed from the character, which
is the plastic material on which we
work. The drapery is the body. If
the shape beneath is perfect, the dra-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08
Artificial Wants.

Bulwer says that poverty is only an
idea, in nine cases out of ten. Some
men, with ten thousand a year, suffer
more from want of means than others
with three hundred. The reason is,
the richer man has artificial wants. His
income is ten thousand, and he suffers
enough, from being dunned for unpaid
debts, to kill sensitive man. A man
who earns dollar day, and does not
run in debt, is the happier of the two.
Very few people who have never been
rich will believe this; but it is as true
as Gods Word. There are thousands
upon thousands with princely incomes
who never know moments peace,
because they live beyond their means.
There is really more happiness in the
world among working people than
among those who are called rich. d.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08
The Power OF Water.

1t has been observed by the ablest
writers in the service of geology that the
power of water rs an agent of denuda-
tion and subsequent transportation of
matter is, without any doubt, the great
est now i'm operation. The smallest
streams carry with them proportion
of the soil through which they flow,
and when union of their waters in
creases their volume and velocity, and
powers of erosion and trans
portation of a river, the effects on mat
ter through which the channel is formed
will be very marked. Lyell estimates
the quantity of solid earthly matter
brought down annually by the waters of
the Mississippi TO be three million seven
hundred and fifty-eight thousand four
hundred cubic feet; and this is exclu-
sive of the vast quantities of floating
timber and other vegetable matter which
are continuously being borne off the up
lands by the tributary streams.
A vast quantity of the alluvium finds
its way to the Gulf and is deposited on
the submerged plateau of mud at the
outer edge of the delta there forming
the foundation of that great alluvial
is deposited i'm the bed of the great river
itself, and this process of filling up has
for ages assisted in the formation of the
great alluvial plains or bottom lands
that stretch southwark from St. Louis
tor one thousand miles along the river,
and are in width from thirty to eighty
miles, and represent those inexhausti-
bly, fertile lands of which the London
correspondent wrote in 1866
'There is no system. The farmer
scratches the ground and throws in the
seed, and his bountiful harvests come
up year after year without further
thought or trouble. Thousands of GEN.
turies have made the soil for him, and
it defies him to make too heavy demands
upon it. 1t gives him all he asks and is
never known to disappoint or fail"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08
KOTHER'S OLD KITCHEN.

How sweet to my sight was my mothers old
kitchen,
As prompted by hunger entered therein:
The kettles and sauce-pans they looked 90 be-
witching.
And halo of glory surrounded the tin.
The bag Of old Java-the codee-mill by it,
The tea-urn and caddy on shelf Just above ;
The jar Of nice pickles, and all the good vic
tuals,
And the juicy mince-pies which 80 dearlyI
love,
The tender-crust pies, the spicy mince-pies,
The sweet, juicy pies which SO dearly love.
Ny mothers old kitchen was always the haven
Where in childish distress put in for relief;
And the tablets Of memory will ever be craven
With the pastry confections that smothered
my grief.
How eager I'd tease while mother was making
squirrel-shaped pattie, or sometimes .
dove;
And with lips that were watering. I'd watch
while twas baking
The juicy mince-pies which 80 dearly / love-
With my alphabet plate. and the pattie upon it
I'd haste to the doorstep that fronts to the
street;
Nor sweet-cake, nor pudding. could win my
heart from it.
Though luscious with spices and everything
sweet
And though since my chilhood I've been rowing
around
Ger hfes stormy pillows, return ike the
dove,
To rest in the old kitchen till turmoil Ia DER.
And partake yet again Of the pies that
love
The tender-crust pies, the spicy mince-pies.
The sweet juiE pies, / 30 dearly still love.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08

To MAKE RENNET CUsTARD.-To
lukewarm new milk add sufficient rem
net to curdle the milk, then set in cold
water ON ice, and serve by dipping out
so as to break the curd as
little possible. 1t is better to prepare
it in the same dish you wish to send to
the table, CRATE a little nutmeg over it
and eat with sugar, and, if you have IT,
sweet cream. 1t is better to prepare but
a short time before using it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08
YOUTHS CoLUHN.

al should keep Mm."-I was very
much struck with an answer | received
the other day from little boy who
was visiting me. He had been playing
a long while, and was very tired. One
of his playmates, | am sorry to say,
was not very good boy; he did not
mind his mother, and sometimes ut
tered words do not wish ever to hear
from children's lips but he was a gen.
erous, merry kind of boy for all that.
and was quite favorite.
II am afraid, Charlie said, "that
Willie Ray is naughty: he is a very trou
blesome child. Now if you were his
mother, what would you do with hint"
II should keep him ~ answered Char
lie, looking up in my face fearlessly.
Would you keep naughty boy,
Charlie Does he deserve his mothers
klndDessi ~
"Yes. L should keep him :" said Char
lie again, shutting his lips firmly to-
gether as if that was all he had TO say.
"But, Charlie,"I persisted, '.do you
think naughty boy like Willie Ray
ought to be kept by good kind mo-
theri he is disobedient and unruly in
every way
"Now, auntie.- replied the little boy
auntle. DO you tnink ne cOutd
be good if his mother did not keep
him / should keep him and try to
make him BETTER
Here was his answer. How many
mothers act upon little Charles resO-
lutte reply, 81 should keep him." "He
is my boy God gave him to me. He
may be undutiful and disObedient
sometimes; but 1 shall Keep hm-work
with him and for him, pray with him
and for him, still hoping and never,
quite despairlng.n
Yes, children, the mother is the last
to give up her child; through evil
and goOok report, in times of sickness
and sorrow and trial, and even in
crime, she will shield, she will love
him. and pray for him, and keep him
always in her heart.
And does not the blessed Saviour
show the same patience and love to US
all, His children, for whom He died
Does He not wait "that they may
bring forth fruitf He intercedes for
us. send blessings and mercies and
trials, all to bring us back to Him. He
will not let us go until we prove wholly
recreant. Let us pray that, as little
Charlie said, He will keep u.s." and
at last receive us into His Heavenly
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08

III could only see my mOther.-"If /
could only see my mother" J"
Again and again was that yearning
cry repeated
"If could only see my mOther."
The vessel rocked, aud the waters,
chased by fresh wind, played musi-
cally against the side of the ship. The
sailor, a second mate, quite youthful,
lay in his narrow bed, his eyes glazing,
his limbs stiffening. his breath failing.
Ii was not pleasant to die thus, in this
shaking. plunging ship; but he seemed
not to mind his bodily comfort; his
eyes looked far away, and ever and
anon broke forth that grieving cry
''lf could only see my mOtherw
An old sailor sat by, the Bible in his
hand, from which he had been read
ing.
lie bent above the young man, and
asked him why he was so anxious to
see the mother he mad so wilfully left
"Oi that's the reason he cried in
anguish 1--WE nearly broken her
heart.and can't die in peace. She was
a good mother to me-0l so good a
mother, She bore every thing from
her wild boy, and once she said, My
son, when Won comb to die you will re-
member this o! if | could only see
my motherm
file never saw his mother. He died
with the yearning upon his lips, as
many a one has died who sighted the
mother who loved him.
Boys, be good to your mothers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08

What's the matter Wih this Story
A rite suite little buoy, the son of a
crate kernel, with rough about his
neck, fiue up the rode swift as eh dear.
After thyme, he had stopped, at a
gnu house and wrung the belle. His
tow hurt hymn, and he kneaded wrest.
He was two tired too raze his fare pail
face. A feint mOwn of pane rows from
his lips. The made who herd the belle
was about to pair pare, but she
through it down and with awl her
mite, four her guessed would knot
weight. Butt when she saw the little
won, tiers stood in her eyes at the site.
Eve poor dear Why due yew lye heart
All yew dyeinge Know, he sade, 81
am feint to the corps" She boar him
in her aims, as she aught, too a rheum
ware he might bee quiet, gave him
bred and meet, held cents under his
knows, tide his chOler. raped him
warmly, gave him some sweet drachm
from viOl, till at last he went fourth
hail as young hOarse. His eyes shown
his cheek was read as flour. and he
gambled a hole our.-St. Nicholas.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08

"Good Morning Don't forget to
say good morningw Say it to your
parents, your brothers and sisters, to
your children, or your fellow work.
men and say it cheerfully and with a
smile I; it will do you good, and your
friends good. There is a kind of an
inspiration in every "goOd morning"
heartily and smilingly spoken, that
helps to make hope fresher and work
lighter. 1t seems, really seems to make
the morning good, and to be proph-
ecy of good day to come after it.
And if this be true of the good morn
ings,n it is so also of all kind, heart
some greetings. They cheer the dis
cOuraged, rest the tired one, and,
somehow, make the wheels of life run
more smoothly. Be liberal with them,
then, and let no morning pass, how
ever dark and gloomy it may be, that
you will not help at least to brighten
by your smiles and cheerful words.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08

Keep to your Voedtion.-"Pickle, !"
said Dick, the bull-terrier. to the
pretty little Skye, "as long as you keep
to your tricks and winning playful
ways you are charming; bat when
you come to the gate after me, putting
in your shrill, sharp pipe, and spelling
my deep hoarse bark, you look posi-
lively silly; excuse me, but true
friends must be faithful
"Dick, dear,n said Pickle, "that re-
minds me of something l have often
thought of telling you; as long as you
keep to guarding the house, and fright
ening the beggars, you are highly re-
spectacle /; but whom you try to come
sprawIing on my lady's lap, in imita-
tion of me, you have no idea how foo
lish you look. Excuse me, but one
good turn deserves another, and true
friends must be faithful"
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09
Political Notes.

Recently the indecent newspapers have been
abuang ~ President for Quazzsling with oscrs-
taxy 1tss1ew bsoAsas The latter persisted b in-
quiring into General Babeoek's alleged compn-
city with the whisky frauds. To-day 1t is posi-
lively asserted that the President and the Secre-
tary have not qnarreled. but have been, and are
now the best Of friends. Accordingly, to-day
the indecent Journals assert that the President
has too much sense to refuse to supporb the
Secretary In his movement upon the whisky
ring. This kind Of warfare upon public man
10 characteristic of the sneak and the black
guard.-Philada. Bulletin
The grxndest successes Of the Republican par
ty were made when the people believed in it as
the party Of truth and honesty, ~ we'll ~ OF hu-
manity and union. II it Ia to be the party OF
the future, it will have to regain its former high
standards. To do this, something more 10 need
ed than hne-sounding sentences Of reform.
Joyce and Macdonald In st. Louis could prate
Of reform ~ loud as the loudest, while they were
swindling the Government to the best OF their
ability. But when Mr.. Bristow sent them howl
ing into the penitentiary he gave the cause Of
reform new Impetus Hartford Courant.
To show there was no prejudice on account Of
color, the White Leaguers elected Smith - Sher-
III OF East Feliciana, against the regular Repub-
licxn candidate. They sfterwArd captured his
Office and drove him from home.
Everybody knows that the real conviction Of
the Republican party has repudiated all thought
Of re-nominating the President Hdrpers .
Weeklu
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09
Poe the Grandson Of Arnold.

Probabilities for West Street-Hale, this
evening.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09

The Presidents message is file for his critics
to crack their teeth on. And they are cracking
away.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09
Fosters Blood Pnrtrier,

Fosters Blood Purtrier.
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take Fosters Blood Purifier.
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Fosters Blood Purifier.
If you wish to cure letter and rngworm, take Fos-
ter's Blood Purifier.
II you wish to cleanse the blood from old and in
dolent ulcers, take Fosters Blood Puriner.
Our Blood Purifier does all we claim for 1t. II 10
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and IL pleasant to take has stood the test for years.
1t has cured hundreds Of cases given up BY phys-
clans a. incursble. We challenge the world to pro-
duce any medicine to take the place Of our Blood
Purifier. Tetter Ointment used In connection with
the Further for all eruptioEs Of the skin. Sold
wholesale and retail, at
Front and West Sts., Wilmington, Del.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09
shcridan,s Horse Livinx.

Gen. Sheridans horse on which he rode to
Winchester is not dead yet and consequently
its skeleton will not be exhibited at the Centen-
nisl, as report said it would be. "One Of Sher-
idan's men writes to the Springfield Reptibli-
can that the horse " Rienzi " is in Chicago still
in good order, barring little rheumatism in
one Of his legs and adds " Nothing could in
duce the General to consent to the exhibition of
the noble animal which saved the day for him ut
Cedar Creek, and 1t might be advisable fer the
man who should propose such thing to him to
wear breastplate in the slack Of his pantaloons
temporarily"
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09

We are forced to admire the accuracy, if not
the astuteness, of the political classification
given by the New York Tribune to the Philadel-
phia papers, wherein the Ledger is classed as
Republican" and the Times Independent"
1t takes man in a tall tower to see into that
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09

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Fuss Oksss ssssids Of Nss cssss ss~'Asv, $3.50 pss
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Tus PulIuHlao PnxrAy PosfAa1 y ~ sssssL
COMMERCIAL GTAAk PRINTING ROOAs pro
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Aos ss,exsao Boob. JOB, and Mercantile 'rtfS Of AZ
1Ssorlptso.s u prices BELOW the leadtn0 Prsnf'Hs
Hesssss Of ~ lssys ettiss.
lDRLAWARB TRIBUNE, (Reeklv) the Psmtns''lss
srpss n Nss,ssvs end Fuit9voosss; great Fa'ntlj
Ss..spapv; ysbsasAsd ssoy ThSrsday morns'V, a
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LtaulnR
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09

Ssbs~ibsrs ssndtns stnols copy Of the ooxNnRmAI
sssay by ~,sQ ere s,vbrmsd that tso-ee'n stamp Y
rsqxrsd gan ordinary wrapper b. used; sent to ~
poSg sees ga cent stamp vii probably never
rsabA ~ dssfhsstton. 1As pcp~ vifA NO vrdppsr at
"a or . lteA o~s, ssn b nsailsd for ons cent.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09

Edgar A. Poe WAS the grandson of Benedict
Arnold. His mother, who was known before
her marriage IS Elizabeth Arnold, was the nat
ural daughter Of the traitor. This singular fact
has escaped the notice Of all Poe's critics and
biographers. 1t rests on the concurrent testi-
mony Of number Of old actors who knew Eli
xabeth Arnold well. Poe himself alluded to the
matter oooasionally-not in conversation with
those whom he desired to mislesd (Poe was fond
Of playing tricks upon the credulity of his ac-
quAintance, )but in the company of those who
knew this chapter in his family history.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09

The Presidents sugg estions that church pro-
psrty shonld be taxed, as other property and that
the schools should be protected by constitution
a provision, give the Morning Herald such bad
turn that 1t proceeds to the demonstration that
educating the people is injurious, Operating. .un-
favorably upon the mental and moral health of
the people" as a certain U. 8. Senator has put
1t. The Herald ia quite sure that Ignorance is
the parent OF virtuous living, and that Prussia
where the people are educated, ia " despotisn
OF revolving character" So 1t appears that the
Herald is ready to meet the school question as a
campaign issue of 1876. arguing that education
hurta the people, breeds crime, and is altogether
"in1udicious and unreasonable" as Senator
Bsyard not long ago thought it would be found
IN the end. Well, this is a hopeful start. II
the friends Of Senator Bayard can take that
ground to-day, what may they not be ready to
DO In SIX months, when the canvass warns up :?
Gen. Jas q. Wilson, who has contributed
number of valuable articles on engineering
subjects to Appleton's Cyclopedia, has two more
IN Volume XIV, just published-one treatin
the great topic Of Railroads. Pennock Pusey,
49,, now Of Minnesota, but formerly of Della
ware, and well known to our readers, writes
the article on St. Paul, and has also prepared,
as we happen to know, that ON Wilmington
this city-whioh will be reached, probably, in
next volume.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-09
TO the Ladies'.

TO the Ladies'.
Mrs. DR.. Foster keeps always on hand full sup
ply Of trusses, braces supporters, syrnges
breast pumps and many other articles to numereu,
to mention. Ladies' In want of the above line OF
goods can be accommodated by calling at the pri-
vRte entrance on West street.