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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
Suicidal Mania.

Sometimes person determined to de-
stroy himself will wait months and
years for an opportunity of executing
the deed in the particular manner he
has marked out for himself, and the very
inclination TO suicide may be removed
by Withdrawing the particular objects
that would awaken the idea. Thus a
man who has tried to drown himself
will be under no temptation to cut his
throat. Example, it is well known, is
a powerful cause of incitement to the
suicidal act. We were once told by a
physician that a hypochondriacal patient
used 10 visit him invariably the day
after reading the report of suicide in
the daily papers, possessed by morbid
fear of initiating the act of which he
read. Sir Charles Bell, Surgeon of
Middlesex Hospital, was one day de-
seribing to a barber who was shaving
him, patients unsuccessful attempt to
cut his own throat; and, on the BARRIERS
request, pointed out the anatomy of the
neck, showing how easily the act might
have been accomplished. Before the
shaving operation was completed, the
barber had left the shop and cut his
throat according to Sir Charles Bell
exact instructions. Sometimes there Is
an epidemic of suicides, as at Versailles,
in 1893, when out of a small population
$40 persons destroyed themselves in
one year; or as i'm the Hotel des In
valides in Paris, when six of the inmates
hanged themselves on certain crossbar
within a fortnight. Very often this
disease is hereditary, and at "a certain
age the members of ole family will all
in turn evince the suicidal tendency,
while even children of very tender
years have been known to end their
short lives by their own act, from force
of example. Curious, too, are the
methods of self-destruction, but they
are too painful to bear description. a
Frenchman once attempted TO ring his
own death-knell, by tying himself TO
the clapper of the church-bell, which
thereupon began to swing, and alarmed
the villagers by its unwOnted tones. All
cases undetermined suicide are character
istic of confirmed insanity; whereas, in
cases of impulsive insanity, the per-
petrator will often regret the act before
it is completed, and endeavor to save his
life, as did Sir Samuel Romilly, thus
demonstrating that the very attempt
may effect the cure of the disOrdered
brain. The months of March, June,
and July are the favorities with men ;
September, November, and January for
women, in which they voluntarily end
their lives. In youth men hang them
selves; in the prime of life use firearms
and when old revert to hanging. Women
usually prefer Ophelid's ''muddy death. >
Poisoning is a method adopted by the
very young of both sexes. We have the
consoling reflection that, prevalent as
brain disorder is in our country, at least
| eighty per cent. OF cases of insanity are
cuIaDle. if treated at an early stage
while il is to be noted that 1t is not
pleasurable productive brain-work that
does the mischief, but rather the mental
strain which results from the high pres
sure of our artificial life.-Chdmbers''
Journal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
In Idle Dream.

For man to think that he is going to
do the work of his life without obstacles
and opposition, is to dream in the lap of
folly itself. 3 What should we amount to
were we not compelled TO feel our way,
to fall down and get up again, learn that
our theories are never according to the
laws of nature, but nothing more than
the projection of our own limited per-
|ception upon the untried and unreal !?
We are. however. not TO be discouraged
on this account; we are rather to be the
more satisfied of its being good and
right for us. For i'm adversely and op-
position we are tried, and trials are
nothing more than tests of nature. Up
from below do we go above. We are
but the products of lower conditions.
The material comes to its highest in this
life, and is gradually refined and got rid
of after natural laws. Our experience
is merely passing through these changes,
which would be just no experience at
all if we could manage to escape alto
gether. We. ought not to make COM
plaint when we see how all things work
together for our good.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
rmprovidence of English workmen

There is no saving among the working
classes. The traditional picture of the
British tar of a century ago, whose &C.
centric extravaganza has been the source
of inexhaustible laughter for several
generations, would be no uniting rep
resentation of the more prosperous sec
ton of the British workmen of the pres
ent day Much has indeed been done in
the direction of thrift by the great bene-
fit societies, but their action has been
greatly checked by the fact that even
the best of them is based upon statistics
which do not command the confidence
of those qualified TO form an opinion of
their stability. Ii is little to the credit
of past governments that slight legisla-
tive assistance has been afforded to the
only great effort which has been made
by the working men of England to raise
themselves permanently above the in
fiuence of pauperism. The life of a
collier. ofa London journeyman tailor in
the season, or even of an agricultural
laborer in the best districts, is one of
more or less lavish expenditure; and the
idea of joining benefit society, much
less of laying by money, but rarely
enters the mind of these men. They have
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
why Men Smoke.

No habit adopted by whole race of
men, indeed by all races of men, but
must have raisoa d'etre. The dhudeen
of the Irishman, the chibouc of the Ash
atie, the calumet of the Indian, the cigar
of the white American would not exist
on every part of the
globe if in the use of tobacco there did
not slumber some spell of great potency
over men. The lazy man it seems 10
make lazier; the nervous man it makes
more nervous; the brain worker il in
spires and on the artist it bestows visions
of beauty. All lecturing against it has
proved in vain. The habit spreads with
population over Australia and Polyne-
sia, and in a couple of centuries from
now smoking will be as universal as
eating. 1t behooves US, then, to see that
something is done to insure the rehabi-
litation OF the better qualities of tobacco,
winch seem deteriorating so fast. Ma
nilla is ceasing to produce even decent
cheroot, tobacco culture dying out there
like wine culture in Madeira. One thing
is certain, that the substitution Of the
cigarette for the cigar is exceedingly
dangerous.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
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Pouer of Kindness

Walking down country lane the
other morning, heard a gentle whistle
behind me and almost simultaneously
a shrill neigh burst upon my ear from
the neighboring field Turning round
| was about to retrace my steps toward
a man saw standing by the field gate,
about a hundred yards away, and whom
| presumed had given the call, when 4
pony dashed past me at full gallop, on
the opposite side of the fence toward
the gate, and before | had gone many
yards, was being quietly led out by the
man. Feeling interested, not 10 say de-
lighted, at this proof of the power of
kindness-for such had no doubt was
the cause of this ready Obedience-l
questioned the man, who, seeing that i
was interested, told me that, having
been accustomed to groom and feed the
animal. he was in the habit of calling
it from the fields by the peculiar whistle
of which had just now seen the effect; (;
that many others had likewise tried to
call him. but always signally failed, the
pony taking not the slightest heed of
them. He acknowledged that it was
through kindness and attention alone
that this was gained. In his absence
another groom having TO catch the pony
would attempt to call, but whistle and
chirp as he would, it was no use: he
was always obliged TO enter the field,
basket i'm hand, and so lure it towards
the halter.-J. a, AIlimdt World.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
Teachers ana rneir Responsibilities.


Teachers are persons on whom rests
the blame or the praise of the schools,
and to them all power should belong.
III teacher is not capable of managing
her own class, the remedy is not to set
a superior officer to manage her, but to
dismiss her and put competent teacher
in her place. The relation of teachers
to superintendent or committee or prin-
cipal is not the relation of rank and file
to a colonel and general, or of railroad
employees to President and directors. 1t
is rather thas of a clergyman TO the
parish officers, or of a representative to
his constituents, or of an editor TO his
subscribers. The teacher is servant
hired by the Committee but a servant
through his intellect. a servant to whose
Judgment much must be left, who is re-
sponsible for results, but who Is not to
be dictated to "a to methods; who is to
be consulted, who may be advised, who
can be dismissed, but who is never TO
be ordered. No amount of machinery,
no interference of outside authority,
can help poor teacher, or do anything
but hinder a good one. OF one of the
best public schools that ever came into
the range of my vision, the committee
is like clay in the hands of the potter.
They do everything that the teachers
tell them TO do, and nothing that the
teachers tell them not to do, and there
is no unsoundness in them.-Gdl Ham
jlfOn
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
squandering Priceless Gifts.

Among the numberless marvels at
which nobody m3rvels, few are more
marvellous than the recklessness with
which priceless gifts, intellectual and
moral. are squandered. Often have i
gazed with wonder at the prodigality
displayed by nature in the cistus, which
unfolds hundreds or thousands of its
starry blossoms, morning after morning,
TO shine in the light of the sun for an
hour or two, and then fall to the ground.
But who among the sons and daughters
of men-gifted with thoughts which
wander through eternity, and with
powers which have the godlike privilege
of working good and giving happiness
who does not daily let thousands of
these thoughts drop TO the ground and
rot? who does not continually leave his
powers to draggle in the mould of their
own leaves? The imagination can
hardly conceive the heights of great
ness and glory TO which mankind would
be raised, if all their thoughts and
energies were to be animated with a
living purpose. But, as in a forest of
oaks. among the millions of acorns that
fall every autumn there NAV, perhaps,
be one in million that will grow on
finto a tree-somewhat in like manner
fares it with the thoughts and feelings
of man. What, then, must be our con-
fusion when we see all these wasted
thoughts and feelings rise up in the
Judgment and bear witness against us
Julius Here.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03

no object in doing so in this country. A
man who succeeds by his own thrift in
providing himself with little income
i'm case of sickness or old age, i no better
off than the man who has led the life of
a jovial British workman. and who, in
his hour of need, draws from the parish
pay-table in all probability about the
same income which the other has denied
himself many a luxury and enjoyment
to procure. The advantage to a country
of large number of small boards is al
most incalculable, as the recent history
of France clearly shows. 1t is not too
much to say that the folly and exirava-
gance of Imperialism plunged that coun-
try into misfortunes from which the
thrift of the working classes extricated
her. There are no such boards in Eng
land. If we had an indemnity to pay,
we should have 10 make hard bargain
with those capitalists in whose hands the
wealth of the country is accumulating
with geometric speed. Is there single
working man in England who holds
consols - -CORteBlDO Rerielr.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
Growth Of Man

Observations regarding the rate of
the growth of man have determined the
following interesting facts: The most
rapid growth takes place Immediately
after birth, the growth Of an infant
during the first year of its existence
being about eight inches. The ratio of
increase gradually decreases until the
age of eight years, at which time the
size attained is half that which it j. to
become when full grown. After five
wears the succeeding increase is very
regular till the sixteen year, being at
the rate for the average man of two
inches year. Beyond sixteen the
growth ia feeble, being for the following
two wears about two-sixteenths Of an
inch a year; while from eighteen TO
twenty the increase in height is seldom
over an inch At the age of twenty-five
the growth ceases, save in a few exeep-
tional cases. 1t has furthermore been
observed that in the same race, the
mean size is little larger in cities than
in the country, fact that will be re-
ceired with doubt by many who have
come to regard the rustic as the true
model man.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03

lujah in that, and it may well begin
here. Long may this bell praise God J
He saved it in the ruins of the furnace
by one wise thought in the ruins of a
human brain. Our furnace is rebuilt,
and behold, this dear boy has his reason
again! The bell and the boy snail
glorify God togetherv
'Amen.' murmured all the listeners.
Then the great bell was lowered, and
as the truck rolled away with its melo-
dious burden, the boy was lifted and
carried after it, and both went out into
the sunny day together, the rough men
standing in the doorways, waving their
hands.
Little 'Tnventor" afterward well
proved his claim to the title so lightly
given him i'm his unfortunate boyhOOd.
His name is now read on many bell
whose matchless richness of tone his
genius and skill in metals alone created.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03

Of woman's position in Japan, Prof.
VIM. E. Griffin writes: "Filial obedi-
ence is a marked characteristic of the
japanese maiden. Be she as pure as the
purest Christian virgin. she will at the
command of her father enter the brothel
tomorrow and prostitute herself for life.
Not a murmur escapes her lips rs she
thus filially obeys. TO life she loathes,
and to disease, premature old age, and
an early grave, she goes joyfnlly. The
staple of a thousand novels, plays and
pictures in Japan is written in the life
of girl of gentle manners and tender
heart, who hates her life and would
gladly destroy it, but refrains because
her purchase-money has enabled her
father to pay his debts and she is bound
not to injure herself"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03

BY FANNY FERN.


If each person were asked to define
this word, the answers would be anus
ing. Emerson says, 'that we should
not turn away wholly from the routine
of our daily life to make our guests well
come; that every one worthy to sit at
table knows that life has its necessary
duties: and that we should not burden
our friends with the thought that our
business is suffering arrangement and
loss by their coming"
This is common sense; but if we meas
sure the majority of people by it. then
few 'sdre worthy to sit at ones table. ="
1t may be because insincerity is so much
the order of the day, that each so dis
trusts the other, that person cannot
say frankly to a friend without giving
offence, II would be glad to stay longer
with you, or have You stay longer, hut
/ really cannot now" y lady said to
me, not long since, 81 never dare say
truthfully that | am engaged when a
visitor comes, no matter how impossible
circumstances make it for me to receive
him or her. If l do, it always oflends.
Therefore | am obliged to send word
that am mot at home,' and the caller
leaves without any wound to his or her
self-lOve." Now, this ought not to be.
A straightforward honesty is much
better. But there are so many ineOn-
siderate people, who, provided they gain
their point to see you, care little at what
sacrifice on your part of time, or at
what postponement of imperative duties.
Tier have time enough-so much, that
they are even puzzled what to do with
e IL l,af haf haN
so little, at the service of friends: They
cannot comprehend that ones duty or
ones labor may tread so closely ON the
heels of the other, that your remaining
vitality needs the most careful nursing
and division to keep your steps from
final faltering. What is TO be done with
such inhospitable people as these? Yon
feel no unkindness towards them; but
you have little sympathy for them.
l recollect once lady in the same
house with me to whom | apologized as
ciyilly as knew how, for being obliged
10 leave her to write promised article.
She bowed coolly, and on my leaving
the room, said TO a friend of mine, 81
suppose she did that to get rid of me ;
don't you think so?"
1t Is much easier to get on with men.
because they can understand that life
has its unpostponable duties, without
any lifting of eyebrows or incredulous
struggling of shoulders, or aDoOl salute
the next time you two meet. The inter-
course of one gentleman with another
in this regard has always elected my adj
miration. They take up newspaper or
a book, and read, in each others pres
ence, with a tacit understanding of its
perfect propriety. If one has TO leave,
he often says no more than "lm off,
or Goodbye" :" "Shall see you again on
another evening, or some other familiar
observation perfectly well understood,
and therefore appreciated. Sometimes
it is only a touch of the hat, or hand
laid on the others shoulder in passing.
and sometimes only a nod; and no black
looks follow
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
Hint. About Rhenmatism.

A painful disorder, writes an English
very common in this country
which attacks principally the larger
joints-the shoulders, knees, elbows,
etc.-is rheumatism. 1t may be chronic
or acute. 1t seems TO arise from the IN
action induced by exposure
to damp and cold upon a certain condi-
ton of the blood, and generally attacks
persons of plethoric habit of body at
the middle period of life, and once be-
gun with an acute pain. often continues
at intermittent periods throughout the
rest of life in lasting or chronic form.
In whatever form it occurs, the same or
similar remedies are useful in its cure or
though applied in different
cases, modified by the circumstances
and symptoms most urgent. Acute, COM
monty called rheumatic fever some
times attacks person so suddenly that
he goes to bed without pain, and wakes
in agony with an attack of acute rheu-
matism; yet generally speaking it gives
notice of its approach some days pre-
viously, by general uneasiness, giddi-
ness, headache, then succeed shivering,
alternating with flushes of heat, quick
ness OF puIse, hot skin, thirst and a
sense of fatigue; afterward is felt a
gDawing pain in one or more of the
larger joints, progressively becoming
more severe, until the slightest move
ment occasions the greatest pain.
1t shifts often from one Joint to an
other. fever increases, and the patient
cannot move or bear the slightest touch.
After a fortnight the fever subsidies and
the joints either very gradually and
slowly recover their tone, or the disease
assumes the chronic or lasting form.
Remedies: In acute rheumatism, blood,
letting by the application of from ten to
twenty leeches to the most painful joint
is most valuable remedy in this dis
ease. The bowels should be kept open
by mild laxative medicines, and the
bleeding assisted by mixture of tartar
emetic, two grains; tincture of henbane,
two drachms water, six ounces. The
whole to be taken i'm the course of the
day, one or two tablespOonfuls at time.
The joints most affected may have To-
mentations of pOppyheads, henbane
leaves, etc., applied, or poultice of lin
seed meal and laudanum much alleviates
the gnawing pain. If only one or two
Joints are affected. cold bathing, the ap
plication of cold cloths and cold lotions
tend to moderate the pain and reduce
the Inflammation; but where the disease
wanders from one joint to another, such
is dangerous. as it may drive it to the
heart or some other important organ.
Rubbing the painful joints with cam
phor dissolved in ether rapidly alleviates
the pain; also, moistening the joint two
or three times day with n feather dip
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
YOUTHS COLUHy.

"Tke Boz In the Clomd.-0nce. when
was a little girl, | disObeyed my
mother. After that | was afraid. and
went to an old barn, a way off, so that
mother could not find me. All at once
it began to rain so hard l could not go
back to the house. So sat still. and
thought of what l had done. l remem-
bered that God had seen me disObey,
and that he was angry at people who
did wrong. 1t kept on raining harder
yet, and was afraid that God was
going to drown the world because
was so bad, just as he had done in
Noah's time.
put my face down in the hay. and
cried. Pretty soon l felt my father
touch me.
"What is the matter, Louie r. he
asked.
81 have been very naughty. and God
will never forgive me-" | said. Father
took me in his arms, and carried me to
the door. The rain had stopped. /
looked up and there in the sky was a
rainbow, its beautiful eolors shining in
the sun.
MY father said to me "When Noah
came out of the ark, none of his chill
dren could forget the awful Hood which
had left them so lonely. Every time it
raIned, they must have been afraid that
the flood was coming again. And when
they did wrong, they thought, that
perhaps God would punish the world
as he had done before. So God told
Noah that the rainbow should be a
sign that he would never drown the
world again, but would watch over
men and when men saw it shining af
ter the rain, they were to remember
Gods goodness and he would look at
it and remember his promise to them.
So the rainbow would be token be-
tween God and men,"
81 would rather not have God watch
me am SO naughty" | said.
Then my father told me how God
loves MS, and when we do wrong is
ready to forgive us. if we are sorry for
our sin, and confess it. He sent his
dear Son tc die for us. For his sake
he is willing TO forgive all our sins, in
stead of Furnishing US.
1t made me very happy to think that
God loved me, and was willing to for
give. And after that, every time that
saw the rainbow, it was a sign to me
of Gods blessed promise to take care
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03

about Bees.-A lady in Providence
relates the following story:
Her father once brought home mo-
lasses hogshead, TO be used as a water
tank.
On washing day her mother said.
Lets throw the suds into it, to soak
the molasses from the bottom The
instant she had done so she exclaimed,
"Oh have drowned hundreds of our
neighbor's bees.n
The hOgshead was black with bees,
that were busily apprOpriating the
sweets from what they must have con-
sidered an enormous blossom. The
good lady made haste with her skinner
TO skim the bees from the top of the
water, and spread them on board IN
the sunshine but they seemed drowned
and nearly dead, and she was very sor-
ry.
All the bees that were around the
hogshead had flown away at the dash
of the water, but in few minutes they
returned, accompanied by scores OF
Others. Then began curious work.
They Immediately went to work upon
the unfortunate bees, turning them
over and over and working upon them
constantly with their heads, feet, and
antennp. The result of their busy
labor was, that one after another gave
signs of life, stretched It's limbs and
wings, crawled and dried itself in the
sun, and flew away. The lady said
that there was half a pint at first, and
that there renamed only about a dozen
hopeless cases beyond the humane eff
forts oftbeir brOthers.-Lithe Corporal.