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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

In the case of a play, ask yourself, or
still better, somebody else, these ques-
tions: l. Is it from the French? II
you are unable to ascertain the fact, say
it is. Nine chances to one you are
right. If any one disputes the state
ment, say the plagiarism from this or
that work-naming an obscure book, if
possible out of prints too evident TO
need proof, aud the man must be fool
who fails to detect it. 2. Is there any
thing-there generally is something
awkward about the arrangement of the
acts or scenes? If so, you can say the
writer lacks the dramatic faculty.
Neatly put, the accusation reflects As
much credit on the critic as discredit on
the playwright. Many critic has
earned the reputation of being drama
tist by this class of observatiOns-and
kept it until he tried to write a piece
himself, to the great joy of his fellow.
critics. 3. Is it produced economically
hastily, or with too lavish expenditure
In the first case, you can say the man
ager is using up his old scenery which
always provOkes him, especially If he is
not thriving in business. In the second
case you can insinuate, or still better
assert, that he has come to grief with
some other piece, and has been COM
PEELED to produce the present as 'stop-
gap" This tells admirably. and has
the advantage of hitting some author
who is supposed to have piece "under
consideration" at the theatre. If the
production is marked by profuse outlay,
you may make the finest plunge of
all. Say the whole thing has been got
up for the qualification of somebody 5
vanity, or for the display of an indi-
vidual-it should by rights be lady.
BILE capital out of these suggestions
BeiJTdri0.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

We owe this beautiful fabric to what
was at one time considered a great mis-
fortune. Nearly two centuries ago, a
band of exiled Huguenots from France
landed on the coast of Ireland. Few in
numbers, yet Industrious, this little
band of intelligent men established the
silk trade which has since been modified
into the manufacture of pOplin. They
located at Dublin, i'm the CoOmbs, where
the wooden trade of Ireland formerly
flourished. Here the silk weavers were
impeded by every possible restriction,
and by variety of legal enactments; ;
but the present prosperity of the trade
is owing to what was at that time con-
sidered their greatest misfortune-the
inadequate supply of silk. Necessity
compelled the unhappy silk weavers to
employ another material to exc out the
scanty supply of silk. Naturally they
took wool or worsted for the wefts, and
thus pOplin was introduced. OF the
beauty of Irish poplin there is no occa-
sion to speak, but the enduring qualities
of this choice fabric are not well known
Being made of pure silk and pure wool,
poplin yields to the slightest pressure,
and this quality insures an absence Of
permanent folds, which spoil the effect
of any dress, however rich the texture.
As the wearer of Irish poplin moves, a
wave Of colOrs seems to run through the
fabric; while the eolors of poplin appear
more beautiful than those of any other
material
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24
The Pantheon.

Directly up from the river toward
new Rome and you come upon the
skeleton of u mighty round structure,
which the people there call the rOtunda.
You pass around to the front. and You
stand under the temple tn It has been
handed down to us from the heather.
The mighty granite columns that sup
port the Greek porch are too heavv for
any modern machinery TO move. They
are too large for any modern designs
of architecture, and being mOnOliths,
they, unlike the stones of the Coliseum,
will probably remain there. just Is
they are, for cycles o. come. You wish
to enter the PanthcUH, TO see the tomb
of Raphael. Good. Youpush the iron
gate between the great columns. Ii
cracks; priest comes out (as they al
ways do come out in every place you
go into in Rume), and he stands before
you. Hand him franc. You cannot
better introduce yourself. 1t does not
matter much whether you can talk a
word of Italian or not. They all know
ist what you want and you can have
it, if you pay for it, just as well with
out a speech as with it.
In Italy they are willing to do all the
talking themselves. They are q race
of women there. In Italy yOu are not
expected to talk, but to pay. All
around the round, wigwam shaped
Pantheon you see only shrines and
tOmbs. Priests are moving about IN
their black gowns and sombre cOwls,
candles are burning before the affairs
mass is being said for che dead. 1t is
cold, damp and dismal. You feel the
chill and the fevers in your bones. 1t
do IN an m hare
this vault. The priests know this, and
they keep constantly on their feet
when not on their knees. The Pan
theon has sunk down into the earth
or, rather, the earth has grown up
around the Pantheon. Ages have
washed and worn the Alps away the
Tiber has borne the debris to the streets
of Rome and now the ''temple to all
the GODS" which was once reached by
ascending long and lofty steps, is
reached by descending through the
mud.
If you come here when the Tiber is
full YOU will come in a boat. Many
times during the year all this par; OF
Rome is under water, and yOu have a
sort of Venice without the gOndOla. AT
such times the priests enter the Pan
theOn in boats. You see them pass the
great iron gates, row through the open
iron doors which have been put up in
place of the copper ones torn away and
plundered to ornament st. Peters, and
then go all around the affairs and say
their prayers, and light their candles
and count their beads. while the awful
Pantheon stands up to its knees in the
dark and dirty waters OF the IIber.
These priests paddle their own boats
at such times. They are silent men,
Their cOwls are about their faces
ropes are around their waists. They
LOOK like birds of evil omen, angels of
tbe devil. CbarOn on his solemn vOy-
age of the eStyx.-Jodquin Miller, in In
dependent.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24
Poverty Of the Swiss.

A correspondent writes: We have
been very much disappointed thus far
in seeing so much squalid poverty
among the Swiss. The peasants have
a sallOw, sickly. depressed appearance,
the women especially, and the children
have not the rosy bloom mountain air
is supposed to impart. In HOspenthal,
nor in any village through which we
have passed, have We found a single
clean, comfortable private house. The
hotels make some pretensiOn to modern
comforts; but outside of these there
is little to be said in the way of home
like comfort. which, with cleanliness,
is not dependent upon modern cOnve-
niences. 1t would be very delightful
to happen upon some of those
charming, happy peasants about whom
one reads.-Thus far in Switzerland,
and all through Germany, we have
searched for them in vain.-The pdtOis
in Switzerland is very disagreeable to
the ear, and the German language is
mutilated beyond comprehension.
notwithstanding these drawbacks we
have persisted in trying to draw from
the peasants some pleasureable incl
dents in their lives, but we hear only
of hard labor aud an incessant struggle
for the necessities of life. A girl of
ten years was wheeling home on a
clumsy barrow q bundle of bean stalks
from which the hard, coarse bean had
not been removed. In answer to
question if they were not for the COW,
''Oh, no." she said, I'VE eat the beans
and save the stalks for fuel" The
load was large enough for much stron-
ger arms than hers, and she looked
prematurely old and carewOrn. as did
her father and mother, who followed
her with cOrrespondingly large bun
dies. Disposed as one may be to look
on the bright side of the picture. we
cannot help feeling that the glorious
descriptions we read must be drawn
from festival days, when the peasants
are in holiday costumes and spirits
Wherever we have stopped for glass
of milk it has been given us with such
a proportion of sediment and such a
taste and smell of the stalls that it is
not possible to drink it. This is our
actual experience. but we are going on
in the search, and when
we come to picturesque costumes, rosy
checked children, inviting chalets,
clean milk, etc., We will let you know.
Don't imagine for moment we blame
the peasants themselves or think that
under all this rough exterior there are
not warm hearts we only feel like
those writers who look at
everything through rose-cOlOred glass
ses.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

There are many practical evils, patent
to all, which result from lavish personal
expenditure. In almost every case II
has a deteriorating effect on the charae-
ter, pandering to vanity and conceit.
In an ideal world no ore would obtain
additional respect and Difference ON ac-
count of riches. But under present
conditions large expenditure is bribe
for obseauious and undeserved homage,
quite as certainly as money given Dy
candidates at elections is a bribe for
political power. While it tends to make
many of the poor false and sycophantish,
it AS surely has the effect of giving the
rich a very exaggerated idea of their
own worth and importance. In most
ases it is a barrier to free intercourse
between a man and his friends, or those
who NAV have been his friends, but
who have ceased to be, on account OF
prosperity, selfishly used: having ell
abled and encouraged him to indulge III
tastes and habits beyond their means;
II is but seldom that riches are employed
for cultivating the society OF the wor-
thiest and best. 1t would be nearer the
truth to say that they are mostly used
to cultivate the society of the rich, who
can give return for expensive enter
tainm .nt-a practice especially ineon-
sisten. with the principles professed by
the religious world, who are not less
than others the slaves of the prevailing
fashion. Again, from the custom OF
lavish expenditure set by the opulent.
extravagant expectations are formed as
70 what decency demands from profess
sional persons or Others of moderate
r,eans, which often make life very
hard struggle, when, but for the exam
pie set by plutocrats, existence might
be comfortable and easy. There Is
large class, the vain and weak-minded,
over whom the custom of the rich has
such overwhelming force that, in order
to comply with it, they commence life
on a scale quite beyond their means, the
consequence being perpetual struggle
with fate, or, in many cases, utter de-
gradation and ruin.-Fruser's Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

Every mechanic knows that old
tools. which have been laid aside OF
lost for long time, seemed to have
acquired additional excellence of quail
ity. Razors, which have lost their
keenness and their temper, recover,
like mankind, when given time to re-
cuperate. A spring regains its tension
when allowed to rest. Farmers leave
their scythes exposed TO the weather,
sometimes from one season to another,
and find their quality improved by it.
Boiler makers frequently search old
boilers carefully, when reOpened for
repairs after long period of service,
to find any tools that may have been
left in them when last repaired, and if
any are found, they are almost invari-
ably of unusually fine quality. The wri-
ter when boy in the shop, frequently.
if denied the use of their tools by the
workmen, looked about the scrap heap,
and under the windows, for tools pur-
pOsely or carelessly dropped by the
men I; and when one was found badly
rusted by long exposure, it proved to
be of the best of steel.-l English Me-
chdRic.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

De fremont could not speak, the

DE fremont could not speak, the
words seemed frozen upon his lips.
Your sin has found you out. and |
proclaim you liar, ;" continued Dorval.
'You deceived the woman l loved, and
who loved me. L learned the truth too
late to avenge the wrong done to both.
l know you well, and long to discover
If. indeed, it is blood that flows i'm your
veins. We will fight without witnesses
and here in the presence of the woman
you have tortured by doubts and false
hood. Of these pistols but one is loaded. -
Maurice Dorval advanced with a firm,
determined step. As he did so, DE
fremont retreated until his back
touched the wall.
death is in one of these weapons.
know not which, said Dorval. Choose
Realizing his danger DE fremont grew
calm, and quickly turned his eyes to-
ward the door, but his companion inter
cepted the glance.
''ChoOse instantly, or will kill you, -
exclaimed Dorval in voice full of stern
command.
For an instant De fremont looked
scrutinizingly at the pistols, but the cold
iron revealed nothing, and, yielding to
chance, he grasped the one nearest him.
The two adversaries stood confronting
each other, hate expressed i'm the fierce,
relentless glance of their dark eyes. De
fremont looked like Satan. Maurice as
an avenging angel. The scene was
solemn, and for an instant not sound
broke the stiffness of the room.
Not one regret for his misdeeds
troubled the mind of DE fremont; his
every thought was centered in the de-
sire to kill his enemy.
''lf you have aught to prepare before
dying" he said, turning to Dorval, do
so quickly, for you and not will fall. "
Perhaps" responded Maurice.
They approached ami placed the
muzzles of their pistols each above the
heart of the other, and at the same in
slant fired. The household were sud-
denly aroused by the sound of loud
report. The Baroness de Neuilles rushed
to the chamber of her daughter. On
entering the room she saw Maurice
Dorval bending over the dead body of
the Baron de fremont.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

ialism of these people there is yet a
strong conviction of the agency OF
spirits, but almost always as doing act
ual hurt-as being an influence de-
cidedly hostile to living people. The
'jumbies" In some islands-notably st.
Croix-are evil-disposed. The only in
nocent propensity they have in that
island Is to wear ''jumby- beads. These
are little red seeds, very bright, and
with black spot on every one. One
would presume they are called '.jumby-
beads" because they are the ''particlar
vanity" that the jumbies indulge
i'm by way of fOrnamentation. The same
seeds are called "crab's eyes" in Bar
badOs, from their resemblance to the
eyes of very active little red crab well
known there. The Barbadian ghosts
are not so elabOrately got up, it seems,
as their St. Croisian brethern.- CORtem-
porory Rerie,,.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24
THE JACKAL'S PRAYER.
HoTrENror FARI.K.

A chicken. wandering far and vide,
Soon saw jscasl at its side;
And though, for safety. help was sought,
The silly saunterer was caught
Then said the chicken to the beast,
Prayer always comes before a feast;
The white man doth some grace repeat
Before each meal-or Will not eat
Il should not, friend, object to pray
II knew how. Show me the way"
The chicken said: '-Now, understsnd-
When you hegin. fold hand with hand"
The jackal followed ont with care
This brief advice, and offered prayer
Then spoke bic guide: Your words are right
But prayers Of faith, and not of sight,
We bow our heads unto the ground.
Nor look above, nor gaze around;
And so. if ycu are good and wise,
You'll pray once more and close your ewes"
So doing as his prompter bade.
The jackal shut his eyes and prayed;
But, long before he ceased to pray,
Chicken and dinner few away.
Christian Union
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24
Victoria Regfa.

The buoyant power Of the leaves Of
the great water-lily, the Victoria regia,
has lately been tested by NJ. Won Hulle,
chief gardener of the Botanical Gardens
at Ghent. He found by actual trial that
a single leaf was able to sustain a weight
Of 76l pounds. The leaf Of the Victoria
is orbicular, and from 5 to feet In
diameter. The edge turns up all around
forming . rim about inches high, a
strong framework Of veins supports
the leaf On the surface Of the water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24
The Use Of Tobacco.

Much has been written against the
use of tobacco, but there are verv few
cases where it can be charged fairly
with abridging life. In consequence of
its power of relieving nervous excita-
bility, of rendering the mucous mem-
brane of the air passages less suscepti-
Bile to the influence of cold and damp,
and the cause, whatever it may be, Of
influenza, 1t must, when used in mod
Grafton, rather tend to promote longev-
ity. have known very aged persons
who have been smokers for the greater
part of q century.-Dr. Gardner.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24
adam "

The Talmud gives this reason why
the first man was called Adam. In
English the word Adam is spelled with
four letters, but in Hebrew it is spelled
in three letters, ADM. 1t says: God
did ordain that the world should last as
long as He sees COED. The first man
that was created was called Adam; the
second man, who was a man of Gods
own heart, was called David; and the
last man that ever will be born will be
the Messiah. The first initial stands
A., for Adam; the second, D., for
David; and third, NJ, for Messiah,
which they say is the foundation or the
reason why the first man was called
Adam.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

Elephant and Chiid.-A troop of ell
ephants were accustnmed to pass a
green-stall on their way to water. The
woman who kept the stall stock took a
fancy to one of the elephants, and fire.
quently regaled her favOrite with re
fuse greens and fruit, which produced
corresponding attachment on the
part of the elephant towards the wO-
man. One day the group of elephants
unfortunately overturned the poor
woman's stall, and. in her haste to pre-
serve her goods, she forgot her little
son. who was in danger of being tram
Piled to death. The favorite elephant
perceived the child's danger. and TAX
ing him up gently with his trunk, care
fully placed him ON the roof of a shed
close at hand.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

A little 6-year-old girl went into a
store where her father was lounging.
and silly approaching him said, Papa,
won't you buy me new dress "
what, buy you a new dress, Susy y
"Yes. papa, won't you 7" "Well, I'll
see. I'll speak to your mother about
it.r ElongatiOn to an alarming extent
rapidly distinguished that little cOun-
tenance, but thought suddenly struck
her, and with a smile she looked up
into her fathers face and said. "Well,
papa, if you do speak to mamma about
it. do it easy, or she may want new
dress herself
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

The SrinJ IN the WoOds.-There are
few plays that show the real DISPOSE
tiOn of children better than swinging.
Where there is only one swing and
there are dozen children to swing i'm
it, we can soon see who are the reason
able ones. One child can swing at a
time, the others have to wait. Some
of them can push the swing. But they
cannot all do even that. Sometimes,
if we stand behind tree near the
swing, we can hear something like
this:
"Now. say. Mary Jane, it's too
mean, it is. You've been swinging all
day, 80 you have, and you wont let me
swing Bit"
"lt's my turn next. She promised
me | should have it first, and there's
four of you big girls have had all the
swing You want, anu | haven't had
any. so | haven't. It's too bad"
81 don't mean to come any more with
such a mean lot of girls as you, | can't
get any chance at all, bit. I'm inst
going home to tell my mother"
I'll pull your hair. you cross old
thing, if You don't get right out of that
swing, now let me tell YOU
Il say, Its too bad, nobody will push
me. | haint had a push to-day"
And so it goes on. But it is poor
way, and very poor way, to have fun.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

A clergyman was prepar ing his dis
course for Sunday. stopping occasion :
ally 10 review what he had written, and
to erase that which he was disposed to
disapprove, when he was accosted by
his little son, who had numbered but
five summers Father, does God tell
you what to preach r. Certainly. my
child.n "Then what makes you scratch
it out"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

General JEFF. Thompson is credited
with the prediction that by the lst Of
Jonuary the Mississippi river will have
cut q new channel near Vicksburg,
leaving that place two miles iRland.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

Farms to rent are in great demand
in central Illinois. Five dollars per
acre Is offered.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

ma" observed BlObb's little child
refiectively the other night as the first
stars came out. don't you think that
when those stars Wrinkle that way they
must tickle the angels feet ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24

1T has been figured out that we are
to have 26 snowstorms this winter.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-24
IOUTRs' COLUNy.

The Stone in the Road.-There was a
duke once who disguised himself, and
placed a great rock in the middle of
the road near his place.
Next morning peasant came that
way with his Ox-cart. "Oh, these lazy
people ~ said he, there is this big
stone lying right in the middle of the
road, and no one will take the trouble
to put it out of the way- And so Hans
went on. scolding about the laziness of
the people.
Next came a gay soldier along. His
head was held so far back that he didn't
notice the stone, and so tumbled over
it. He began to storm at the country
people around there for leaving huge
rock in the road. Then he went on.
Next came a company of merchants.
When they came to the stone. the road
was so narrow that they had to go off
in single file on the other side. One
of them cried out, did anybody ever
see the like of that big stone lying here
the whole morning, and not q single
person stopping to take it awayf'
1t lay there three weeks. and no one
tried to remove it. Then the duke
sent around word to all the people in
his lands to meet where the rock lay,
as he had something to tell them.
The day came, and a great crowd
gathered. Old Hans, the farmer, was
there, and so were the merchants. A
horn was heard, and a splendid eaval-
cade came galloping mp. The duke got
down from his horse. and began to
speak to the people gathered there.
"My friends, it was who put this
stone here three weeks ago Every
passer-by has left it just where it was,
and has scolded his neighbOr for not
taking it out of the way"
Tie stopped down and lifted up the
stone. Directly underneath it was
round hollow. and in the hollow lay a
small leathern bag. The duke held
up this bag, that all might see what
was written on it: "For him who lifts
up the stOne.n He united the bag, and
turned it upside down. and out upon
the stone fell beautiful gold ring and
twenty large. bright gold coins.
So they all lost the prize because
they had not learned the lesson. or
formed the habit of diligence.
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