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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23
Little COnjurers.

81 am fond of children" said the late
DIR. Binney. 81 think them the poetry
of the world, the fresh flowers of our
hearts and homes-little conjurers, with
their natural maggie evoking by their
spells what delights and enrichens all
ranks and equalizes the different classes
of society.
'.Only think, if there was never any
thing anywhere to be seen but great
grown-up men and women! How we
should long for sight of a little child
Every infant comes into the world like Il
delegated prophet, the harbinger and
herald of good tidings, whose Office it
is 'to turn the fathers to the children,
and to draw the disobedient TO the wis
dom of the just A child softens and
purifies the heart, warming and melting
il by its gentle presence; it enriches the
soul by new feelings, awakens within
what is favorable to virtue. Ii is a
beam of life, "A fountain of love, a teacher
whose lessons few could resist. Infants
recall us from much that engenders and
encourages selfishness, freezes the af-
fections, rOughens the manners, indu-
rates the heart: they brighten the home
deepen love, invigorate exertions, ,infuse
courage, and vivify and sustain the
charities of life"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

The London Sanitary Record, i'm an in
teresting article on "Overwork," gives
the following graphic picture of the
business man who is everlasting his
powers:
work has become an effort, toll rather
than delight; the last hour has be-
come 4 strain only maintained by de-
termination; a sense of exhaustion and
fatigue envelopes his closure of the
days work, and the last columns Of
figures have presented difficulties hith-
ertO unknown, and the last pile of let
ters has seemed more trying than of
yOre. Anything new, of an unwOnted
character making special demands upon
the higher faculties, becomes arduous
and distasteful, revealing the fact that
the higher powers are first commencing
to give way, to announce their inabil-
ity; while the mere routine matters,
which have almost become automatic,
or even habitual, can still be effectively
discharged. But in time even their
lower processes are affected, and the
last half hour at the office is a distinct
trial, and is followed by a new sense of
exhaustion. There is certain amount
of irritability combined with the sense
of exhaustion, that irritability which is
ever found along with the exhaustion
of nerve matter; this irritation, some
times almost amounting to exaltation,
marks the commencement of nervous
exhaustion and failure. While work
seems to become more irksome, the
usual sources of pleasure no longer af-
ford their wOnted sOlace and satisfac-
ton. There is heightened suscepti-
bility to any little trivial annoyance,
domestic matters are felt more keenly,
the dinner is not so satisfactory, the
children are noisy; the more necessity
for rest, and the more distinct the crav-
ing for comfort and quiet, the less
seems forthcoming. There is an emo
tional exaltation which reveals the irri-
liability of the exhausted nerve centers
the newspaper is stupid and uninterest-
ing, the piano wants tuning, servants
are deteriOrating, children are less obe-
dent and wives less sympathizing than
of yOre. The mind is as sensitive as is
the skin after blister; the slightest
touch produces pain"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23
whats In q Name?

A writer says: All names are origin
ally significant. and were always be-
slowed by the ancients with regard to
their well understood meaning. Some
times they were commemorative of
some incident or circumstance con
nected with the birth of the individual
bearing them; as, Thomas, a twin !;
Maius, May (applied To one born in the
month";; Septimus, the seventh, &c. In
other cases they were expressive of the
aspirations, desires, or hopes of the
parents rs, Victor, one who cOnquers !;
Felix, happy; Benedict, blessed. Not
unfrequently they were descriptive of
personal qualities. as Maeras, tall !;
Pyrrhus, ruddy; Rufus, red haired
Names are as significant now as they
were in the days of Plato, and rs i'm
pOrtant, but are frequently ignorantly
or carelessly applied, thus making our
personal nomenclature worse than
meaningless. "A man with the name
of George or Thomas" Leigh Hunt OBJ
serves, might as well, to all understood
purposes. be called spoon or hatband "
Blanche is now anything but the fiaxen
haired blonde which her name indi-
Gates. Isabel is no longer brown.
Cecilia (gray-eyed) bellies her name.
and "lets fly the arrows of love" from
eyes of heavenly blue.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23
Giants.

There were the great Scripture giants
Goliah and 0g. The former was six
cubits and Span high q. Samuel xvii,
~, variOusly estimated to be from nine
feet SIX to twelve feet. Og is supposed
to have been even taller, from the fact
that his bedstead is mentioned in Deut,
iii, 2. as being mine cubits long"
During the reign of Augustus Caesar
we read of two giants, Idusio and Sc
cUndilla who were each ten feet high,
and after their death their bodies were
kept for a long time as a wonder.
During the reign of vitellius he sent
Darius as hostage to Rome with pres
ents, and among these was a jew by
the name of EIeazar, who was ten feet
two inches high. Gabara, the Arabian
giant, was nine feet high. The Empe-
rOr Maximus was eight feet and six
inches high. Jacobus Damium was
eight feet; William Evans, seven feet
six inches high.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

st. Matthew is supposed to have suf
fered martyrdOm, or was put to death
by the sword. at the city of Ethiopia.
st Mark was dragged through the
streets of Alexandria, in Egypt till he
expired.
st. Luke was hanged upon an olive
tree i'm Greece.
st. John was put into a cauldrOn OF
boiling oil, at Rome. and eseaDed death.
He afterwards died natural death at
Ephesus, in Asia.
st. James the Great was beheaded at
Jerusalem.
st. James the less was thrown from a
pinnacle OF wing of the temple, and
then beaten to death with a fuller's
club.
st. Philip was hanged mp against a
pillar at Hierapolis. a city of Phrygia.
st. Ba,thOlSmew was tlayed alive by
the command of barbarOus king.
st. Andrew WAS bound TO a cross,
whence he preached to the people till
he expired.
81. Thomas was run through the body
with lance, near Milipar, in the East
Indies.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23
Gilding Silk.

The process of gliding silk, now used
in some of the European tinsel factO-
ries, is thus described 1t is first es-
sential that the silk be of superior
quality, free from knots and rOugiiness.
The gum must be boiled out of it and
it must be tinged tO the shade of light
orange it is then wound on bObbins,
the end of the thread being passed over
a wire. and subsequently under a roller
which works in trough containing q
elutinOus but transparent liquid. 1t is
now made to pass over a reel attached
to an endless screw or threaded spindle
80 arranged that it lays on brass cyl
iader the thread of silk as cords are
wound round the handle of q whip,
without overlapping, until the cylinder
is completely covered with the silk,
when the thread is broken. The length
of the skein of thread depends, there
fore, upon the size of the cylinder and
fineness of the thread, but the cylinder
cannot he of size larger than can he
spanned by single leaf of gold. The
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

cylinder being covered with silk IN n
gummy state, the book with the gold
leaf is opened and laid on the palm of
the hand the Notwithstanding like
q turning lathe-is moved the edge of
the leaf Is made to touch the gummed
silk. and it is quickly drawn round the
cylinder covering the silk. This is re-
peated until the entire surface of the
roller is covered with gold leaf. The
next operation consists in fastening n
piece Of cloth or washed leather upon a
slip of wood, something like razor
strOp; the roller is turned round and
the strop pressed firmly upon the leaf,
which not only attaches the latter
closer to the silk, but separates it be-
tween each two windings of the finest
thread. Thus one side of the finest
thread is gilded. III gold or green, or
any other color, is desired in cOmbina
ton. it Is only necessary first to dye the
thread the required color. and then, by
gliding one side, the combination wished
is secured. To gild the entire thread,
it is simply necessary to wind the half
gilded thread ON to another roller.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23
WHEN WE MEET AGAIN.

Will you know me. will you know me.
In the fair immortal land?
Will you kiss my lips in welcome
And extend your little hand?
Will you know me when I'm coming
And know me when come?
VIII you always be my darling"
In our .blest eternal bome?'
VIII your spirit arms enfold me
When lay me down TO die?
When the shadows gather DER me.
And the angel drzweth nigh?
Wal you be the first to greet me
When reach the other shore?
VIII you sing song of gladness
When my journeying is Ger!
VIII your eyes grow soft and brighter
Your voice take sweeter tone.
When you see me kneeling by you,
Round the Fathers great white throne
Will yon know how have loved you,
As we at the portals wait,
II linger 10 caress you,
Ere We enter in the gates!
VIII this love not purify me,
In its sacredness SO sweet?
Can take you up and bless you
When find you at my feet!
Then that blessed meeting will a-susge
Many days of grief and paiE;
Up in Heaven, face TO face.
Reunited once again.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

: 4 Skeleton ia Erery House-The fol-
lowing conversation was overheard the
other day among a lot of schoolgirls,
who eongregated in front of house.
Each one In turn appeared to be hold
ing up the domestic skeleton which
afflicted their several homes. One told
how her little brother had broken his
leg; another about how sick her mother
was, and still another told abont how
drunk her father would come home
every night.
In short, they all appeared to have
some grief to hold up-all but one little
beauty, who seemed only unhappy tn
think there was nothing that she could
tell to excite the envy or sympathy of
the rest.
She listened to the recital of all these
troubles as long as she could, and
finally she expressed herself in this
way:
"Well. girls. we all have our troubles.
Some have sick brothers and drunken
fathers, and ugly mothers. Some of us
have got measles, and small pox. and
scrofula, We've got something awful
in oar family"
what is it r. asked several.
My little brother Benny's left
handed.r
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23
How 70 Get Along.

Don't stop to tell stories in business
hours.
Ifyou have a place of business, be
found there when wanted.
No man can get rich by sitting around
the stores and saloons.
Never fool i'm business matters.
Have order, system, regularity, and
also prOmptness.
Do not meddle with business you
know nothing of.
Do not kick every one in your path.
More miles can he made in one day
by going steadily than by stopping.
Pay rs you go.
A man of honor respects his word as
he does his bond.
Help others when you can, but never
give what you cannot afford because it
is fashionable.
Learn TO say No. No necessity of
swapping it out dog fashion, but say it
firmly and respectfully.
Use your own brains rather than
those of others.
Learn to think and act for yourself.
Keep ahead rather than behind the
times
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

There was a panic in a Paris street
over the conduct of magnificent re-
triever in front of a window of dealer
in picture frames. He jumped, yelled,
barked, tried To throw himself through
the glass and he was mad, of course.
They were about to kill him but phi
losoDher interiered. Ii seemed to him
that all these eceentricities of the dog
had relation toa portrait in the window.
SO it proved. All this was joy at sight
of the portrait of a lady. That lady
lived in Marseilles, and the dog had
been stolen from her many months be-
fore. StraBge chance to find its way
home by the picture placed there casu-
ally to exhibit the frame.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

Truth and FdlsehOOd.-"Willie, why
were you gone SO long for the water n
asked the teacher of little boy.
I'VE spilled it, and had to go back
and fill the bucket again." was the
prompt reply; but the bright, noble
face was shade less bright, less noble,
than usual, and the eyes dropped be-
meath the teachers gaze.
The teacher crossed the room and
stood by another, who had been Willie's
companion.
FREDDY, were you not gone for the
water longer than was necessary
For an instant Freddy's eyes were
fixed on the floor, and his face wore IL
troubled look. But it was only for an
instant-he looked frankly up to his
teachers face.
"Yes, ma'am.r he bravely answered
eve met little Harry Braden, and
stopped to play with him, and then we
spilled the water on purpose and had to
go back"
Little friends, what was the differ
ence in the answers of the two boys ;
Neither of them told anything that was
not strictly true. Which one of them
do Won think the teacher trusted more
fully after thatf And which was the
happier of the twOf
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

hVtiNC Vi " OiiCteiN
he could rise from the bed upon which
his unnatural passion had thrown him.
But that night the climax came.
1t was about two In the morning,
when l was awakened by terrible
smell of fire.
Arousing John, we went into the
passage, to find it full of smoke.
''Merciful heavensr' L cried, '.the
house is on fire.
1t was SO.
We thought of our dodgers, and strove
TO ascend TO them, but were driven back
by volumes Of dark smoke rushing down,
through which the red glare Of flame
was visible.
The fire was i'm Mr.. Fortescue's rooms.
''Oh, poor Miss Kathleen!" | shrieked.
''Help. helpr'
| threw the street door open, and
filled the place with my cries for assist
ance.
was soon joined i'm the appeal by
Mr. Fortescue and his niece from the
upper window. They had evidently
tried the stairs, and found it impossible
to descend.
John had just run off TO the engine
station, when, from the opposite direc-
ton, perceived a man coming towar,.
me.
recognized him at once.
"Oh! Mr.. Airlie, thank heaven it is
your! | CALCULATED.
"Good heaven! what is ths matter 2"
he asked.
began to tell him, but the form of
Kathleen Milbrooke ut the window re-
lated it quicker than words.
In a second her cousin had darted into
the burning house.
followed, but already he had van
ished up the stairs.
One, two minutes, and, blackened,
burnt, he was back with Kathleen Mil
brooke.
s'Oh, dear Richardr' she cried. ''My
uncle"
"Do not fear; will save him, if pos
sible, darling" he answered, again dis
appearing amid the smoke.
Three, four, five minutes it seemed
now before he descended, with the old
man wrapped i'm the coverlet, and cling
ing wildly around his sons neck.
We bore him into the open air, for he
seemed half-sufiocated and paralyzed
with terror. Mr.. Airlie rested him on
Ills hhtt but WI "Voio NV
unclasp his arms from him.
His eyes were closed.
The crowd gathered. l babe them
keep back. The fire-engine ratified up,
but could not leave that group.
Abruptly Mr.. FOrtescue looked up,
and his eyes rested upon the blackened
features of Mr.. Airlie.
He started violently, then exclaimed: !:
''Richard! Was it you then, who
saved me?''
Il was so Fortunate" he answered
quietly.
"YOu are in no danger now, SIR"
There was a pause. The old man
never removed his gaze.
Then | saw a great change come over
his features.
'Richard," he said, in low voice,
''can you forgiven"
Eyes, father; but, rather, ask it of
her." and he pointed upward.
IL do have, when i'm yonder awful
room. Mary, pardOn"' he murmured,
lifting his eyes. Afterward he added,
anxiOusly: my will-my will! 1t is
there-JuTnt! Thank heaven for that"
He made an effort TO turn toward the
burning house, and i'm the effort fell
back on his sons shoulder dead.
/ have no more to say. The will be-
ing burnt, of course Richard Fortescue
alias Airlie, succeeded to his fathers
property, and also married his cousin,
Miss MilbrOoke.
They now reside i'm Devonshire, and
when we pay a visit there-which we
do frequently-we always are sure of
hearty welcome from the family of our
second-floOr lodger.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

An Executive Committee Of l25 of
the most prominent ladies' in St. Louis,
headed by Mrs. General Sherman, has
been formed to assist in the Philadelphia
Centennial enterprise
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

Perhaps the town of Paisley, in Scot
land, is less known in America for its
poetry than for its shawls. A friend
once said that lady of Boston, sailing
with him on a Cunard steamer to Eng
land, informed him that she intended to
visit Scotland, for the purpose of buy
ing "a genuine Paisley shawl from Mr..
Paisley himself.n But Paisley has the
deserved reputation of having pro-
duced more poets than any other dozen
towns in the world. Many of these
poets are yet unknown to fame. but
some of them have a world wide
celebrity. OF the latter is Robert Tan
nahill, whose centenary his native town
has lately celebrated. Like most of
the Paisley poets. he was a handloOm
weaver sensitive, shy, broOding,
meditative man but as true a poet rs
ever lived. There never was a sweeter
picture than that which he drew of his
Jeannie.n
Yon messy rosebud down the howe
Just sNening fresh and bonny,
Blinks sweetly meath the hazel bough
And = scarcely seen by ony;
Sac sweet amidst her native hills,
Obscureiy blooms my JEANNE
Msir fair and gay than rosy May.
The flower of Arranteenie
He was unhappy and melancholy in
his life, and he killed himself in a fit of
dependency caused by the rejection of
his poems by publisher: but wherever
ScOtchmen live his fame survives and
his songs are sung.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

Train says: There are four varieties
in society; lovers, the ambitious, OBJ
servers and fools. The fools are the
happiest.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23
YOUTHS COLUMy.

The Tiro Little Rabbits. s.-SOmetimes
when Johnny climbs up in mammals 5
lap he likes to hear this story:
Once there was a good little boy who
went out to his uncle's in the country
to spend the day, and when he came
home his uncle gave him two beautiful
little rabbits, one white and one gray.
The boy, feeling as happy as n little
king. brought them home. and when he
saw his mamma at the door watching
for him he called out: ..
''0h, mamma! See my two beautiful
rabbits !"
And his mamma said, "Why, what
pretty creatures they arei Put them
out in the yard and let them run around
in the green grass"
So the boy put them down in the
grassy yard. 1t was a great, big,
splendid yard-bigger than Judge
Cooks. And the two little rabbits ran
up and down, all around, tiliby -and-by
they came to u clover bank over in one
corner. and they thought that would
he just the place to build their houses.
So they went To work and dug and dug
away down into the ground till they
had made their houses, with little round
holes for doors, opening out in the
G - &c. 50
a. Till anu otI In nouse ,ii LII 'ne " wiz. ;r.s
anJ ors ,hare eie .h aaoy yia op"'u ~, s'9ep m, id,
na sr,ohtanaJ ' tI,n, .o" nr Is t. ..haSaS
them "
So ;f onv str,n,, nerso, want ont 70
the cIoyer hank In se,, the two IittIe
rabbits and they were afraid of him
they wonlJ RIM "a fast that ali he couId
see voulI Inc n short Witt. fail onin~
down one hole and n short gray tail
going down tbeotber Rut If he wanted
to see them very mucb he cnuIJ On and
sit down IN n iencb under the annie
free and tean very still not sav;p~ ane
word nor mpvinc only neeniny aronnd
once in a wbije and tben hv-and- Inv
he wonId see a white head eomino mn
ont of one hole and n gray head ont Of
the other and in n minnie more there
xould ha tLa two l;ttio raII,;tS ;um,,;no
about amone, The ciover hloSsnws WITH
their lone ears srandin@ rig6t mn
straioht
D..
Du. .ncy never WeI9 airai1 whGn .ne
poy caihS. ne wouiu pi1h cappage
lcdNoS auu Ie'1uSe lelVes tiii ms nanus
MeIe iaii, anu tlen ne wouIu go out
anu Caii, Dunhy, Duiiily' Duhhy, DUN,
rabbits wo1ld run as fast as I thew couId
and reach nm I'm tLe bov's hands and
eat the cabbage leaves and lettuce
leaves till they ate them all up.
Rut one dav the white rabbit tbouobt
he would ike some green cnrr,nt
leaves. There was a verv nice currant
bnsb- fnll of tenJer green leaves away
over in the furtbest corner of the ward.
and there he went and beoan tn nibble
He was having n beantifni time when
ali of n snddon a araat yaII,w cot
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23

So then the cat jumped right over the
fence again, and ran into the house to
get her milk. And the white rabbit
came out all of tremble from under
the green currant bush, and ran back
to his hole in the clover bank as fast as
ever he could and the gray rabbit was
reTy glad to see him coming home safe.
This is all of the story about the two
rabbits.