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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13
A Word for the Women.

We do not hesitate to say that the
average woman, educated in the better
class of schools in this country is a better
scholar, and a more capable and accom-
plished person, than the average col
lege graduate of the other sex. What
we want is cheaper schools of an equal
excellence. The farmers boy goes to
college, finds cheap tuition, wins a
scholarship perhaps, boards in commons
earns money during vacation, and gets
through, while his sister stays at home.
because the only places where she can
get an equal education are expensive
beyond her means. There is no college
that needs TO he so richly endowed as a
woman's college. Women are not men,
quarrel with the fact as we may, and
they cannot get along so cheaply and
with such self-helpfulness as men while
going through the processes of their
education. Ii we are to have wOmen's
colleges, we must have well paid pro-
fessors, philosophical apparatus, cabi-
nets, collections, galleries, labora-
tories, and they must be provided for by
private munificence. Provision should
be made for the poor, so that high eda-
cation shall come within the reach of
all. There is not woman's college, or
an advanced public institution for the
education of women, that is not to day
in need of large endowment for the
purpose of bringing its advantages
within the reach of those whose means
are small.
Now we commend this matter partic-
ularly to rich women. There are many
scattered up and down the country,
who are wondering what they shall do
with their money when, and even be-
fore they die. To all these we beg the
privilege of commencing this great OBJ
ject. Let the boys alone. They have
been pretty well taken care of already,
and the men will look after them. 1t
is for you, as women wishing well to
your own sex, and anxious for its ele-
vatiOn in all possible ways, to endow
these institutions that are springing up
about the country i'm its interest, so
that the poor shall have an equal chance
with the rich. You can greatly help
to give the young women of all classes
as good a chance as their brothers enjoy,
and you can hardly claim a great deal
of womanly feeling if you do not do it.
MOathlg.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13
The Marriage. OF Great Men.

Byron married Miss Milbank to gel
money to pay his debts. 1t turned out
a bad shift.
| Robert Burns married a farm girl
with whom he fell in love while they
worked together i'm plowed field. He
was irregular i'm his life and committed
the most serious mistakes i'm conducting
his domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter of a
| country squire, but lived with her but
a short time. He was an austere, ex-
acting literary recluse, while she was a
rosy, romping country lass that could
not endure the restraint imposed upon
her, so they separated. Subsequently,
however, she returned, and they lived
tOlerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
were cousins, and about the only ex-
ample in the long line of English mon
archs wherein the marital vows were
sacredly observed, and sincere affection
existed.
Shakespeare loved and welded a
farmers daughter. She was faithful to
her vows, but we could hardly say the
same of the great bard himself. Like
most of the great poets he showed too
affections on the other sex.
Washington married woman with
two children. 1t is enough to say that
she was worthy of him, and they lived
as married folks should-in perfect har-
mony.
John Adams married the daughter of
a Presbyterian clergyman. Her father
objected, on account of Johns being a
lawyer-he had bad opinion of the
morals of the profession.
John Howard, the great philanthro-
pist, married his nurse. She was alto
gether beneath him i'm social life and
Intellectual capacity, and besides this
was fifty-twO years old, while he was
but twenty-five. He would not take
NO for an answer, and they were
married and lived happily together un-
til she died, which occurred two years
afterwards.
Peter the Great of Russia, married a
peasant. Sne made an excellent wife
and a sagaciOus Empress.
Humboldt married a poor girl because
he loved her. OF course they were
happy.
1t is not generally known that An
drew Jackson married lady whose
husband was still living. She was an
but amiable woman, and
was most devotedly attached to the old
warrior and statesman.
John c. Calhoun married his cousin
and their children fortunately were
neither diseased nor idiotic, but they
do not evince the talent of the great
estate Rights" advocate.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

For one prime natural product the
emissaries of fashion must go to Mincing
Lane. Judging from the quantities in
which it is imported, this article must
be in considerable demand. The ''lot"
with which we are more Immediately
concerned is lying i'm Cross lane, and
weighs some five thousand pounds-a
tolerably large consignment of an article
which is-well NOT necessary, per-
haps, but apparently finds customers
readily enough. 1t is human hair. The
great bulk of it comes from China, is
black as coal and coarse as cOcOa-nut
fibre, but of magnificent length. Many a
Chinese head had been shorn to produce
these tons of material, to be sold only i'm
lots of two cases (Of about four hundred
pounds) each, and expected to realize
about half a crown a pound in this
wholesale transaction. Skilled experts
are weighing and feeling the long
tresses, but soon leave them to investi-
gate the various shades and qualities of
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13


"a MIi.er IN aRp'eepM ooer''n, ue-
sSs serlo,ns an en.erta'hlneni I'D M .he anpli,
'nea.eI vi 'eioha, says me sworn
sa'ne ""s .oou. W Desin. Mo Nhina-
,neh, III oiinison sa'i'i anu oiue SIN COS
u:I .aaies nuns WIN eoui.iess - peis, oceu-
Pieu lne s.aSe' ohe oi them ac.eu as
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h e.ioeh', uS!y ioohihs rasJai, Win 1neeh
oohes pusn.hS ou. his Poch-iiiar keu ssiii
am aos' "S a. 'ne VI ~ e VI nis Oeies,
uar au hose, anu Win eyes VI very ueclueu
JunIue ansN wv swoius Mele pio-
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anu a. a. ".liVs' Poi suauihS my sen ,ha'
.ne!o "as W o1 iuii pe.ween es .he jar
DHllans; 1 "nen 'he siaii. vi 'he jaw
sroMI1 oeSan " ram oo'ii Wiue piaues
w" ms Sapao'ous, Moeh9-Pfcoi tnro,i'
my Irielu iheanMhiie i.iuuisihS IN tle
nlos' Irantr Junipingya yach , eAercises,
anu sii ichiiS uilii'eliisioie sPaslioiio 'i
, Moius Vi elccuIaSenleh'. wien .Ie
S ~, =" 'ne sh:ns "a",
',iu nc iocAou iiho sosio chu vi gay
P,"n,.'so pa, sP..oeu ioI .ne iiIo, iea.hei anu
an, tle eAc,.elneiit oI .ne auuience wa,
% SUP oo - 'tio. Vi l1o "uoe.
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nahu aPplau anu .he LUIS u;u nos
% uliii'iissi uli'ii ne iai uhsp,,,eu 'iiiiseh
anu nau repr,.e'i NE s,'ia,l
VI .in no S'iu oiu
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13
H0nOred Hearts.

Robert, Earl of Mellent and Leicester,
as famous among the crusaders of the
twelfth century for his sagacity, elO-
quence and valOr, as he was infamous
at home for his unscrupulous rapacity,
violence, and cruelty, finding life slip
ping away from him, assumed the mon
astic habit, and died in the odor of sane
tity at the Abbey of Preaux. There he
was buried; but i'm fulfilment of his
dying wish, the heart of the infidel-
hater was sent to the hospital he had
founded at Bracklcy, to be there pre-
served i'm salt. Perhaps the old warrior
thought, like Lord Windsor, that the
heart of an Englishman ought to rest
on his own land. That nobleman died
at Spa in 1874, and directed that his
body should be buried in the cathedral
church of the noble city of Liege, and
his heart, enclosed in lead, laid under
his fathers tomb, in the chapel at
Brakeman, Bucks, 'in token of true
Englishman.' So, too, Sir Robert Peck
ham ordered his heart to be conveyed TO
Denham, in the same county, to be
placed in the family vault; but his rela-
tives did not seem to be in any hurry to
execute his behest The worthy knight
died in 1863; and the register of burials
at Denham, contains this entry: ed
mundus Peckham, Esq, some of Sir
George Peckham, July Is, 1856. On
the same day was the harte of Sir Robert
Peckham, knight, buried in the vault
under the chapell;' so that it had been
kept above ground for seventeen years.
When George Villiers, Duke of Buck
ingham, fell victim TO FeltOn's knife,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

At the recent meeting of the German
Scientific Association, at Leipzig, DR..
Hecker made some remarks upon laugh
ter. He stated that tickling, which he
styled variable intermittent excite
ment of the nerves of the skin, produced
irritation of the sympathetic nerves,
with the result of an expansion of the
pupil and a contraction of the blood
vessels, and that the consequent diminu-
ton of pressure on the brain, permeated
with blOod-yessels, is so considerable as
not to be without danger. Powerful
expiration operates against such di-
minution of pressure, and therefore
laughter, which consists simply in in
termittent forced movements of expira-
ton, must be recognized as decided
remedy for the effects of tickling.
Laughter, due to sense of the ludi-
crous, according to his experiments, is
also to be accounted for as the result of
an intermittent, cheerful excitement,
accompanied by similar bodily mani
festations, which may be referred to
stimulation of the sympathetic nerves.
Laughter thus seems to have a remedial
office.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

his enemy's strength was beyond oppo-
sitiOn. Yet still they fought, the weaker
going backwards and backwards, until
they both stood on the brink.
Your hour has come, Harry, u
shouted Steele. "Good bye, old friend,
Tll take your love home to Mary"
The wife's name decided the contest.
With one superhuman effort, Thavies
darted down between the others legs,
tripped him, and i'm another instant the
madman, with despairing cry, fell
head foremost into space.
1T was some time before Thavies man.
aged to lower himself, but no anxiety
equalled that which had gone before.
However, time lightens the solemnity
of everything. In speaking on the
subject Of his experience now, he calls
it a Pleasant Adventure.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

probably experienced. tits bad enough
if, having opened up subject after sub.
ject and produced nothing better thar
monosyllabic answers, you are forced
TO subside into dreary silence, and tc
concentrate your faculties upon making
the best combination possible out of the
heterogeneous materials for dinner SCI
before you. A yet worse thing than
this, however, may befall you. 1t may
be that the lady whom you are privi-
legged to take into dinner imagines her.
self to be charged with a mission, and
has cut short all endeavors on your part
at conversation, not from shyness or
ignorance, but with deliberate purpose.
Ii this be so, she will follow the course
which has been seen to be adopted by a
distributor of tracts in a railway car
riage, who, observing a nervous looking
boy occupied in readinga a novel, begged
for permission to glance at his book for
a moment, and Immediately filled its
place with selection from his own pro-
vision of literature. In like manner the
woman with a mission will carefully
exhaust all her neighbor's resources,
and, when 1t is completely defenceless,
will attack him with all her eloquence.
Ii is useless for him to hint at the out
set that his opinions upon the subject
which engrosses her have been formed
long ago, and are not likely to be altered.
Herein she will only discern a greater
possible glory to be gained by bringing
him over to her views. In this case the
constant handing round of endless
dishes which breaks in disagreeably
upon pleasant conversation may be-
come blessing, by giving the victim at
least temporary escape. But he may
not be able to avail himself of any such
chance, and then he will be i'm parlous
state. He will be compelled not only to
listen, which is bad. bnt to answer,
which is worse, either until the COM
pany is broken up or until he is driven
by sheer despair and weariness to give
such kind of assent to the propositions
offered as will satisfy their suggestor.
If he is so far overmastered by fatigue
as to take this step, to the sufferings
already inflicted upon him will be added
the self-inflicted one of an uneasy con-
Rerie,o.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13
Forests I'm Germany.

Few people have any idea of the ex-
tent of forest land in Germany, and
most imagine that Of the Black Forest
little is left except tradition and con-
ventional blister of woodland, so named.
On the contrary, in Hanover alone there
are 100000 acres of wood under State
management, while nearly fourth part
of the area of Prussia is in forest,
although half of that is in private hands.
As is well known, the forest admins
tration in particular districts has long
been famous, especially in Thuringia
and the Hartz mountains. In North
Germany generally the responsibilities
are allotted i'm districts among a carefully
organized body Of officers, presided
over by a forest director.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13
Rusk FMS Description of n Storm Mt
Sea.

"Few people, comparatively, have
ever seen the effect on the sea of a
powerful gale, continued without inter
mission for three or four days and
nights; and to those who have not, /
believe 1t must be unimaginable. not
from the mere force or size of surge,
but from the complete annihilatiOn of
the limit between sea aud air. The
water. from its prolonged agitation. is
beaten, not into mere creamy foam,
but into masses of accumulated yeast,
which hang in ropes and wreaths. from
wave to wave; and, where one curls
over to break, form a festOon like a
drapery from its edge; these are taken
up by the wind, not in dissipating dust
but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling
masses which make the air white and
thick as with snow, only the flakes are
a foot or two long each; the surges
themselves are full of foam in their
very bodies, underneath, making them
white all through, as the water is under
a great cataract,-and their masses,
being thus half water and half air, are
torn to pieces by the wind whenever
they rise, and carried away in roaring
smoke, which chOkes and struggles like
actual water. Add TO this, that when
the air has been exhausted of its mOis-
ture by long rain, the spray of the sea
is caught by it as described above, and
covers its surface not merely with the
smoke of finely divided water, but with
boiling mist I; imagine also the low rain
clouds brought down to the very level
of the sea, as | have often seen them,
whirling and flying in rags and trag-
ments from wave to wave; and finally
lo surOac fbap, aaluas N their
utmost pitch of power, velocity, vast
ness and madness, lifting themselves
in precipices and peaks furrOwed with
their whirl of ascent, through all this
chaos; and you will understand that
there is indeed no distinction left
between the sea and air; that no OBJ
ject, nor horizon. nor any landmark, or
natural evidence of position is left:
that the heaven is all spray, and the
ocean all cloud, and that you can see
no further i'm any direction than yOn
could see through a cataract" In the
publication of selections from his
earlier books, Mr. Ruskin says of this
word painting: "The whole of this
was written merely to show the mean
ing of Turner's picture of the steamer
in distress, throwing up signals. 1t is
a good study OF wild weather; but,
separate from its aim, utterly feeble in
comparison to the few words by which
any of the great poets will describe
sea, when they have got to do it. am
rather proud of the short sentence in
the 'Harbors of England describing a
great breaker against rock: 'One mo-
ment, flint cave,-the next, marble
pillar,-the next, fading cloud But
there is nothing in sea-descriptiOn, de-
tailed, like Dickens's storm at the death
of Ham, i'm David COpperfield.'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13
CHILDREN.
BY LONGFELLOw.

Come to me, o ye childrenl
For hear you at your play.
And the questions that perpie1ed me
Have vanished quite away.
Ye open the eastern windows,
That look towards the sun.
Where thoughts are singing swallows,
And the brooks of morning run.
In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine
In your thoughts the brooklets flow;
But in mine is the wind of Autumn,
And the first fall of the snow.
All what would the world be to us,
II the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.
What the leaves are to the forest
With light and air for food,
Ere their sweet and tender juices
Have been hardened into wood
That to the world are children;
Through them it feels the glow
OF brighter and SUMMER climate
Than reaches the trunks below.
Come to me. o We children.
And whisper in my ear
What the birds and the winds are singing
In your sunny atmosphere.
For what are all our contrivings,
And the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses,
And the gladness Of your looks.
Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For We are living poems.
And all the rest are dead
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13
Small Things.

A holy life is made up of a number
of small things. Little words, not elo-
quent speeches or sermons; little deeds,
not miracles, not battles, not one great
heroic act of mighty martyrdOm. make
up the true Christian life.-The little
constant sunbeams, not the lightning /;
the waters of Sloan, that go softly
on their meek mission of refreshment,
and not the waters of ''the river, great
and many rushing down with torrent
noise and force, are the true symbols
of holy life.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13
The InOrdfnate Duration Of Modern
Dinners.

Superfuous variety causes the inor-
dinate duration which is ruinous TO the
well-being of dinners. If one is fortu-
nate enough to have pleasant COM
panion during dinner the edge of even
the brightest conversation is liable to
be dulled by being employed too long.
The torment experienced under the
same circumstances in the case of uncon-
genial companiOnship most people have
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

Trouble for Nothing.-Shine out,
mamma don't you see how they twin
kie at us ~ said young Glowworm to
her mother.
THE stars, do you mean my dear 2"
asked the mother
"Yes, if you call them stars; they
are staring at US finely said the
daughter.
"Bless your little heart" said her
mother do you think they can see
usf-
"Why mott We can see them,n re-
piled the daughter.
Because, nv dear, their light is
strong enough to travel To us, but ours
is too feeble to be seen many yards
from the earth. We might shine our
hearts out, and the stars would never
know we were in existence"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

The Point at Issue.-'How in the
world did we get here cried the mice.
one to another, as they ran hopelessly
round the wire walls of large trap.
IL think something fell down and
shut me in,n said one,
81 think was so taken up with look
ing at the cheese that lost sight of the
way | came in." said another.
81 can't account for it at all y said a
third.
whats the use of wasting time in
trying to account for n said an old
gray beard 'here we are, and the
question to be considered now is, not
how we got in, but how we are to get
out"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

II was the house of a well-knOwn
doctor of divinity; and the little tod
ding girl who did not like to see her
aunt trim lighted kerosene lamp, and
came honestly by a somewhat modi-
fed theory of predestination, said
Take care, take care or we'll get
bowed up into the sky; and then God'll
say: Girls. what are you in such a
hurry for y"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

A Chilrs Hea.-A mother was show
ing her little six year old. DOre's Para
disc Lost. The child was greatly in
terested in the magnificent pictures,
and also in the story the mother told
by way of explanation. Unlike the
major portion of children, who would
have heard the strange, eventful, story,
and then turned open mOuthed to
thoughts of bread and blackberry jam,
the child of our little narrative pom
dered on what she had heard. The re-
suit of her brown study was somewhat
as follows:
mamma s'pOse you and papa and
me had been in the Garden of Eden,
and you and papa had eaten of the for
hidden fruit and hadn't then you
would have been turned out, and /
wouldn't. Do you know what I'd have
donef I'd pitched flowers over the
fence to you"
The mother told the child that the
angel would not have permitted any
communication, between parents and
child under any circumstances.
''Then I'd eat the fruit and go with
yOu," said the child.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

Chicago has one hundred and forty
two church bells, all tolled.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

Planting Hdr.-A five year-old girl
had her hair cut few days ago, and
was seen digging hole in the garden,
and on being asked what she was do
ing, said I'm planting this hair to
make little child grOw.n
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

Only 7l2 of the ,5l6 Ofncers in the
American navy are on duty at sea.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-13

Second Thoughts are Anything
is better than this ~ exclaimed a
Thrush, after having vainly battered
about a frozen snail. which she at last
gave up in despair.
Anything is better than Hisw chirp-
ed Robin in a melancholy tone, as he
saw the last crumb picked up by a spar
row before he could hop to it, and
knew his breakfast was gone.
"4nything is better than this" muir
INJURED Blackbird, perched on a leaf
less branch, with his feathers putfed
out to twice their usual size. "Why
doesn't Master John cOme.and shoot us
with his gung That sharp, short death
would be easy compared with this lin
gering miserym
"POOr. dear creatures " cried the
black Cat, who had been watching
them and listening behind snow drift,
"YOu are all quite right. Take my ad-
vice and bear it no longer; and, as
Master John doesn't seem to he COM
ing, let me, in a friendly way, put you
out of your troubles ~ 1
Away they all flew, at the very sight
of her ears above the drift, without
waiting 10 hear her offer.
81 knew how it would be :" she cried
more provoked than surprised.
Though they are silly enough to talk
nonsense, they are wise enough to know
better than abide by their words"