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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10
MISCELLANY.
Stay Where You Are.

One of the greatest drawbacks to
prosperity Is the Iestive, rowing, and
unsettled spirit of the people. Each
one imacincs that thereis an FL Dorado
somewhere, or that some section Is
more prosperous than his own, and
that he must get to il before he can ac-
complIsh anything. The idea unsettles
him, and If he does not pull upn and
migrate at once, he is forever thinking
about it, and neglects to improve his
present home and farm. The delusion
has been widespread since the war,
and much individual disaster has been
the result. The curse of Reuben seems
to rest upon the people. The terrible
"TeXas fever,n which so ragged a few
years ago, caused untold families mis-
fortune, and ruined many excellent
farms and good farmers.
Ii is great mistake. Contentment
is the great secret of life. Old Horace
struck the right key when he said ::
Happiness depends not upon place nor
climate, but upon the state of ones
mind" Rolling stones gather no
moss" and the experiment of selling
ont and moving, in the hope of better
ing the condition, often ends In bitter
disappointment and irreiTievable loss.
Thousands in the South can testify,
from experience, TO the truth of this
assertion.
Better stay where yOu are. If You
are in a good community, and your
lands have bottom, drive down your
pegs and locate. Remember that
"there's more in the man than the
land,n as old Jones said on returning
from Texas, after terrible sailures, TO
the old worn-out homestead he had
sold. and found it blooming like a
garden. Right-up the old dwelling,
renew the out-buildings, palingS.
fences, and barns; spend Il few dollars
in white paint, and give the premises
an air of cheerfulneSs. Cultivate less
ground, and make it richer every year.
Make plenty to eat and some to sell,
and let your cotton crop be clear profit.
Plant fruit trees, have your rye, oats,
barley, wheat and clover patches, fine
horses, fat cows, and rich butter. Give
your wives and daughters flower gar
dens, and assist them in. collecting a
good assortment of roots and cuttings.
DO these simple things, and, -our word
for il, your houses will take new hold
upon your affections, and, instead of
the rickety, dilapIdated establishments
ami solemn, hungry-looking counten-
ances so common IN our country, we
will find comfortable and inviting
homes, where all is love, contentment,
and happiness. 1t will he like Col
chian enchantress infusing new juices
into the veins for the prolongation of
life and youth. Try it. Turn over n
new leaf and begin anew. Fear God,
love your neighbors, your wives and
children, and don't try to get rich IN
one year. Teach your little ones to
II IL -
melody and sentiment in that immortal
old ballad,
Mid pleasures and paaces wiere'er We may roam.
Be II ever 50 humble, there's no place like home
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

Mr.. James Parton, in his lecture be-
fore the Liberal Club New York, said
Shakespeare was evidently tory of
the old school, as he ikened the clown
and the farmer to fools fitted only for
the jest of kings and princes and even
the common people, such as the tailor.
shoemaker and baker, were treated
with marked contempt, skilled work
men though they might be. They were
vulgar people in his esteem, and he
made frequent use of them in his plays.
The late Horace Greeley used to think
differently. He thought that manual
labor was no disgrace. Lord Chester
field considered loud laughing one of
the worst features of yulgarity. Scott
thought it was vulgar to belong to any
Vulgalarity was to be noticed in a
thousand forms. Some women were
rude in their manners and especially
in their dress. At an evening party
you may see them often decked ont in
what one would suppose were costly
trinklets-jewels everywhere the set
complete-and how much did the set
complete, cost ?-the large sum of Sl4.
Well known German writers had con-
demned shell-fish simply because they
had understood the American people
ate so many of them that they lost their
wits, and finished up their cIam-bakes
with wild speeches, dancing, shouting,
and gouging out each others eyes.
Vulgarity could be seen every after
noon in Central Park. Dashing and
vulgar equipages could be seen there
after the style OF Fisk and Helmbold.
Some people had been guilty of many
acts of vulgarity, if nothing worse, by
municipal gifts one in particular
William NJ. Tweed. He gave one
winter $40, 900 to the people of his ward,
after taking much greater sum from
them. Such charity was very vulgar.
Then again there were some vulgar
clergymeu, who, like Tyndall or Huxley
or Carlisle, could teach young children
what they did not believe themselves.
For instance, he himself went into a
country church one day, and there the
clergymen was talking to a number of
children about the deluge, as if he be-
lieved it. This Illinois pastor knew he
was lying, and yet what should those
children think when they grew up? A
gentleman not to be vulgar, must be
pure, temperate and honorable. A
short time ago New York was nearly
swallowed up by foreign vulgarity-
such time was never known before.
There were foreign politicians-men
who wore diamonds-here, there, and
everywhere, until diamonds were not
worn by any one else who did not wish
to be considered vulgar. New York
was turned upside down. The great
event was the Americus Club ball.
There could he seen miles of carriages
earring vulgar people to that ball.
Indeed it might well be said New York
was then at its lowest, for the lowest
were at the top.
Parton evidently don't consider him
self vulgar, wherein he differs with a
great many.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10
POETRY.
BITTERNESS.

Is it true have built insecurely?
Do no foundations remainI
We're the structures / planned 30 surely
Founded and bailt in vain
Have the waves. 30 madly careering.
No pity for wrecks laid bare ?
Ah why are they ever appearing.
Tomock me in my despair
just as il nv hopes were their vassals,
They have felled them in their strife;
And the last was the lordliest Of castles,
Replete with the dreams of my life.
l watched. from my rampant and towers,
The storms sweep over the main;
And, scorned, in my daintiest of bowers,
The fury of wind and rain.
/ saw the stars pale in their splendor,
And die out in darkness above
While music, enhancing and tender,
Was soulless beside my love.
But my castles were crushed on the morrow
My hopes that were life TO me;
/ was mad i'm my first wild sorrow,
And cursed the relentless sea.
/ saw with powerless emotion,
The wrecks streWn far and wide;
And watched the foam-crested ocean
Pear them away on its tide.
Eememembrance and life are yet left me
Memories Of sorrow alone;
OF the rest has the sea bereft me,
Claiming my all as its own.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10
show The Man.

Show us the man who is ever ready
TO pity and help the deformed; show
us a man who covers the faults of
others with a mantle of charity; show
us man who bows as politely and
gives the street as freely to the poor
sewing girl as to the millionaire; WHO
values virtue, not clothes who shuns
the company of such as gather at public
places to gaze at the fair sex, or make
unkind remarks of the passing girl !;
show us a man who abhors a hbertine /;
who scorns the ridicule of his mothers
sex, and the exposure of womsnly rep
utation; show us a man who never for
gets for an instant the delicacy due
women, as a woman, in any condition
or class-and you show us gentleman.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

Mr.. GOldthwaite was much surprised
upon entering his comfortable sitting
room one bitter cold evening, to find
his wife wiping the corners of her eyes
with the daintiest of cambric handker-
chiefs Had she been reading a novel
he cOuld readily have accounted for
| this, but she was only intent upon the
daily paper, and as that does not usu-
ally appeal to the tender emotions his
curiosity was excited, and he asked:
"Lucretia, dearest, what is the matter?
Don't you feel well this eveningf
With a lOng-drawn sigh Mrs. Gold
thwaite replied, Il have just been read
ing of a family starving to death out in
Nebraska; its terrible! The govern
ment ought to do something for the
relief of the sufferers
perhaps we could do something for
them ourselves said the gentleman,
retieetively; "But then there's no
knowing that it would ever reach
them.n
"And even if it did, the little we
could give would amount to nothing
among so many. OH it's dreadful to
think of so much destitution. 1t will
drive me crazy if | don't have some
thing to divert my mind
So saying, she took up the latest novel
and soon forgot the real sorrows of the
world in imaginary ones.
That same eevening John Smith, sitting
with his wife and children around the
evening lamp, read aloud the same
heart-reDding account of starvation and
suffering in the west. Before he was
half through Mrs. Smith exclaimed with
her usual energy:
'JOhn, those people must not starve
while we have plenty of everything; !;
something must be done right away.
We can give something ourselves and
get others to help u.s."
John replied, more cautiously, 1--WE
are not rich. Mary am afraid we can
do very little 3"
"NO, we aren't rich, but we can share
what we have. | will get an alpaca
dress instead of the silk one you prom
ised me. and put my name down for ten
dollars
Spoken like my own brave little
wife," said John, smiling. 81 will make
my old OvercOat last another winter and
put my name down for ten dollars
more"
Then twelve-year-Ol Charlie caught
the infection and spoke up, "John Blake
offered to trade his new skates for my
old ones and dollar to boot, but I'll
keep the old ones and give you the
dollar And before he had finished
Alice chimed in, Mamma, mayn't |
give the fifty cents | earned hemming
Uncle Franks handkerchiefs g'
There was something more than ap-
prevail in the mothers smile, as she
glanced from the elder children to the
little fOur-year-old in her lap and
asked.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10
Delicious Bits Of French W it.

ArSene TIoussave's last Paris letter to
the New York Tribune, contains some
delicious bits of French wit. NJ. de
Villemessant, the editor of the Figaro,
passes for "A lucky man in Paris, and a
man of wit. His personality is very
useful to his paper, and with his $1,000
subscribers he knows how to manage
the public. Lucky he has been at
every game of life except trellte Ct quar-
ante and baccarat; witty he always is.
Recently in the green-room of the
Theatre Francais. Mile. Favart ran up
to him. M. de Villemessant how can
you permit such calumnies Your
EYqarO says | am forty years old
''Well, - answered NillemesSant, gaily,
TX iss me as many times as that esti-
mate slandered you." Mile. Favart
threw herself on the neck of NJ. de
VIllemessant and kissed him ten times,
distributing the favors equally on his
two cheeks. Every well, said NJ. de
Villemessant, thereafter the Figar0
will tell the truth, and instead OF forty
years will give you fifty" And all the
actors in the green-room stood laughing
about the burly journalist and the
great coquette.
The wits are still vieing with each
other in describing the leanness of Mile
Sarah Bernhardt. She has gained a
great triumph at the Theatre Fran
caise, and has spent so much passion in
tragedy that there is little left of her
but soul; so the papers have begun
anew the pleasantries in regard to this
impalpable body. One says she can
walk in the rain without an umbrella,
because she can pass between the drops.
Another replies that this is an exag-
geration, but he adds that one evening.
when some one tried to run away with
her. she escaped by hiding behind her
riding whip.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10
MIFFIINTOWN. PENNA. MARCH 10.

his service? Phineus was turned into
q stone, too, at sight of it.
Perseus and Andromeda was married
and ''lived happy ever AFTER and
when they died, they were turned into
stars and put into the sky.
Some people don't believe this story,
but there are the stars l-St. Nicholas
for March.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

SEEING MoTHER.-A lady was riding
one day in her carriage, among the
mountains, when they came non an
old woman, with funny little hood on
her head and staff in her hand, walk
ing all alone. She was neat and clean,
and her skin was soft and delicate, but
her back was bent and she was barefoot.
The lady saw she was shoeless, and
stopped the carriage. Here is some
money!" said the lady in a tender tone.
''What for ?" said the woman, look
ing mp pleasantly.
''To buy shoes for your feet. Do
You not want pair of shoes q
The woman laughed a little low laugh
which seemed to come from a heart
filled with simple, happy thoughts.
81 s'pose 1 do" said the woman,
"but L never didn't think of anybody's
giving them to me"
Take this bill, please, and buy you
pair" said the lady.
God bless and reward you ~ an
swered the woman, heartily.
The carriage drove on, and the lady
sank bank on the seat with tears in her
eyes. "Oh," said she, 81 thought /
saw my own mother in that dear old
lady. She had Just such sweet face
and pleasant voice. You don't know
how l felt when L thought of my mother,
old and feeble, walking with bare feet
over this rough, rocky road"
If We all saw fathers and mothers,
brothers and sisters, in the poor, the
cold, and the hungry, what world this
would soon be.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

A great many men. whatever may
have been their experience in life, are
accustomed to complain of the usage
they have received in the world. They
fill the ears of those who have the mi.--
fortune to be their friends with lanIs..
tations respecting their own troubles
But there is no man who is born inLo a
world of trouble; and no man has ever
attained to anything like the full stat
ure of manhood who has not been
ground, as it were, to powder, by the
hardships which he has encountered in
life. This is a world in which men
were made, not by velvet, but by stone
and iron handling Therefore do not
grumbe, but conquer your troubles.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

FIGHTTyG FIsH.-In the East Indies a
species of fish is found known as the
"fighting fish, and used by the natives
for sport much after the manner of
game cocks. 1t is said that when two
are placed in separate glass vessels and
brought near together, they will mt first
watch each other closely from n dis
tance, ''then, changing color and be-
coming almost black, tine gill covers are
opened out and form sort of collarette
round the head, giving the fish most
curious appearance. The tail and fins
become phosphorescent in eelor, as well
as the eyes, and are tinted with the
most beautiful hues." The fish then
try to get at each other. but are pre-
vented by the glass. When they be-
come sufficiently angry. they are put
into one vessel, and fight furiously,
striking one another rapidly with their
tails and fins until one or the other is
conquered, when he turns a sort of
grayish while color and uses every effort
to get out of the way of his eOnqueror,
often jumping out of the water in his
endeavors to escape.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

IwoULD rather be the author of one
original thought than conqueror of a
hundred battles. Yet moral excellence
is so much superior TO intellectual, that
L ought to esteem one virtue more valu-
able than a hundred original thoughts.
". Il. C7ulOtc,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

The stem of the American wild rice is
coming extensively into use as a mate
rial for paper pulp. The shores of the
Canadian lakes alone will furnish 100,
600 tons annually.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

A bronze statue of Robert Burns,
costing twelve Thousand dollars, is to be
placed in Central Park.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

Il said Happy New Year to the Judge
"And did he give you anything ?" ''Yts
five years. -ChGrirari.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

EIGHT pounds of oxygen gas and orc
pound of hydrogen are combined in
nine pounds of water.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

The DoRMoUsE.-The squirrel has a
distant relation. kind of third cou-
sin once removed, well known under
the title DOrmOuse, and often seen in
cages, but not very frequently in a wild
state. This little creature is also one
of the hibernators, and has its warm
nest in thick bush, much as a squirrel
has its domicile in tree, where it
sleeps its time away throughout the
Winter.
Like the squirrel, too, it has its store
OF food, not gathered into the earth,
but tucked away into sundry hooks and
crannies in the neiehborhood. The
amount of food which the dormOuse
takes during the Winter, and the fire.
quency of its awakening, depends al
most entirely on the severity or mild
ness of the season.
In a very sharp Winter the drowsy
creature wakes but seldom, and very
little of its store is consumed, and in
deed, even if the season should be mild
the inroads ON the larder are but few.
The provisions are not gathered so
much for the Winter as for the first few
weeks of Spring, when the animal has
at last shaken of its long Wintry sleep,
and returns to its own lively habits,
nature not yet having supplied it with
sufficiency of food whereon to live.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

OUE BOYS OwL.-SOme time since, a
little boy, while at play in an orchard,
found a sE.all owl which was disabled
so that it could not fly. He brought it
carefully home, placed it in a large
cage. gave it plenty of water, and fed it
on various kinds of food, but princi-
pally meat, of which it was very fond.
The owl was not much larger than a
pigeon, and OF yellowish-white color,
with rings If brown feathers round the
eyes. The beek seemed hardly large
enough to admit a small cherry, yet
when a dead mouse was given him, he
swallowed it whole without apparent
effort. had often heard the saying,
"He looks as wise as an owl, but never
realized its truth before. He would fix
his large, round eyes on me with a
steady, searching glance, which seemed
to read my inmost thoughts, and would
wink now and then, in a most knowing
manner. He liked very much to have
his head scratched with the back of
caseknife, and it was a cOmical sight
to see him enjoying the luxury. He
would sit on the perch in his cage, with
his big, round head bent forward to get
the full benefit of the scratching, and
would slowly open and close his eyes,
as eat does when you gently stroke
her head. L paid him several visits
and became much interested in him.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-20
DOMESTIC MARKETS.

NEW YORK, July 10, Noon Cotton-spc
firm; Ordinary 125, Good Ordinary IA, Lo,
Middling 142, Mlddling 15B, Middling Ala
bama Isl, Middling Orleans l5a.
Futures quiet and firm; Low Middling 70
July and August II l5-l6@15 September IA
OLA 1916, October IA 5-16@148, Novembe
l4i, December IA 4@4 SIG, Jan aary 14s01
1916, April l5@15 Lie, May 15l@15 SIG
June 158@15I.
New YORK, July 10, Evening. -Cotton closed
firm; Uplands Isl, Orleans 159 Net receipts
ID; gross %; consolidated net receipts TAG
sales 200.
Futures closed barely steady. Sales 28, SOC
bales, as follows: July, 143(114 1882: Au.
gust, IA 1916; September, IA 2l-32; October
IA l1-32@14ss; Novemb Der, IA; December, 141
January 1904 - 80; February IA 10 326
@l45; Marcn IA 13-l6@14 1882; April, Is
@l5 l-l6; May 15f@l5 932; June, Is 1882.
Flour more active; superfne Western and
State $5@95 SO, common to good extra West
ern and State So 1905, good to choice do.
Sc 05@6 SO. Southern -four firmer and in
fair request; common to fair extra SIS 9O(0
6 so, good to choice extra Sc 65(08 Is.
Wheat higher but unsettled; winter red West
ern 81 1901 As, amber DO. 81 4201 4S.
Corn frmer and more active; S3@S5J tor
steam Western mixed, 65B@S6 for sail do,
80 for fair mixed Western. Oats steady: 60
GD6l} for mixed Western, 63@65 for white do.
Cotfee-Rio quiet and unchanged; cargoes
17I120$ for job lots. Sugar quiet and steady:
7s9os for fir to good refining, S1@S sic
for prime; no sales of any magnitude reported ;
refined firm; l0s for granulated, i'll for
crushed, IL for powdered Molasses and rice
quiet and steady. Tallow steady, 8. Resin
and turpentine steady. Pork closed heavy;
fpr Ill
133 for prime steam. Whisky lower, 81 2is
al %. Freights shade firmer.
CINCINNATI, July 19-Fiour frmer and
held higher at So 70(95 So. Wheat-quiet
and steady. Corn 70. Oats quiet but firm,
5000. Rye scarce; held at 81 20. Pork
quiet, sales at $40 So generally held $40 Is.
Bulk meats firmer; shoulders SJ@S3c, clear
rib sides 1l1cO1l5c, clear sides ~. Bacon
scarce and firm; shoulders 9sG91c, clear rib
sides 125@l24c, clear sides l3B@l3ic. Live
hogs-demand active, market firm; common
light to good light 81 1907 25, extra 81 80
al 80; receipts 1247, shipments 434 Whis-
ky quiet and steady, 81 16. Butter unchanged.
CHICAGO, July l9.-Flour scarce and firm,
higher closed strong; No. spring 81 1910
Fl, No. do 81 1901 1Sf on spot Corn
firm, demand fair; No. 2 mixed 704 on spot
Oats steady, demand moderate; No. 40 on
spot. Barley-No. spring ST OF in Septem-
Der. Rye neglected; No. 2 81 OF. Pork
demand fair; $40 Is on spot Lard demand |
AIR; 3.30@l3.40 on spot, Is 55@l3. 57k in |
September. Bulk meats - demand fair. |
shoulders Sic, short rib middles 114c, short |
lear II !, ali in July. Whisky firm, 81 II. |
Receipts -four 1000; wheat $4,000; corn
,04 900; oats $4,000: barley 80 600; rye $50.
5000; wheat $50, 600; corn
81, 600; oats 1900; barley 5000; rye 49,
ST.. LOUIS, July 19.-Flour rather frmer,
title doing. Wheat-No. 2 red winter 81 81
81 81. Corn-No. 2 mixed offered at 6el,
nth no bids. Oats dull; car lots of No. So
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-20
RIVERS AND STEAMBOATS,,

CINCINNATI, July 19.-River % feet inches
and falling. Weather cloudy and warm.
PIrTsBURG, July 19.-River feet and fall
ing very slowly. Weather clear and pleasant.
LOUISVILLE, July 19.-River falling; ~ feet
inches in the canal.
EVANSVILLE, July 19-River 81 feet l inch
and filling. Rain in the morning. Down:
Chas. Morgan at noon.
CAIRO July 19.-No arrivals or departures
except local packets. River 80 feet inches
and rising. Heavy rain, with hail, this morn
ing; rainy afternoon, with indications of
more tonight.
ST.. LOUIS, July 19-Arrived Capital City
from Vicksburg Jaeger from New Orleans.
No departures. River fallen inches; about
stationary now. Heavy rain last night, and a
steady fall to-day.
MEMPHIS, July 19.-River rose 5 inches
Weather generally clear. mercury go De-
parted: Belle Memphis for st. Louis City Of
vicksburg for Vicksburg, Scudder for New
Orleans. Latter yes erday at noon
VIcKsBURG, July 19.-Up: Illinois at P.
III. Down: Katie at P. M. Arrived: st.
Genevieve at 2 P. M. Weather warm and
cloudy. River risen inches.