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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

When life is over. its battles fought,
its hopes, and fears and sorrows ended,
and no more need nor opportunity re-
mains for human cheer and friendliness
to kindle the glazed eye or thrill the
heart that has ceased to beat, then the
elegant casket is provided, and the
sweetest and costliest flowers are heaped
around. Their language is eloquent OF
tenderness and sympathy, speaking
more than lips or tears can utter of gar
nered affections, and surrendered ties
and broken hopes. As the funeral hour
arrives, how many friends appear
every room is crowded by an unwonted
presence. More flowers are bro't; their
perfume loads the air with heavy
sweetness, and when at last the narrow
hearse receives its occupant, loving
hands still cast in the flowers, the last
sacrifice the heart can offer.
1t is all well. Who shall forbid the
flowers? Who shall desecrate the best
sentiments of humanity by crying,
'Why all this waste." And yet could
those eyelids move, could those eyes
behold the friendly crowd, that marble
face feel the dropping tear, would not
that oft discouraged heart have great
surprise in knowing that so many really
cherish such regard? And if the flow
ers could speak, would they not ask /:
'fWhy did not you scatter us beforehand
along the paths of the living? Why
not have suffered US TO tell of your af-
fectiOn while the ear could listen; TO
delight the admiring eye when it could
appreciate: Why not oftener, before
this, have filled the house with the fra
GRANGE of your kindly sympathies? You
came to the funeral and your coming
was no pretence. You really cherished
that departed friend in your heart of
hearts. But how little he knew of it
In the hurry of your secret love you
have passed him by on the other side,
and have gone on, forgetful of the sor-
rows, and trials, and discouragements
and WEAKNESS which your presence
and your sympathy might have allevia-
ted. Why should we waste our fra
GRANGE on the dead? Should not our
beauty and our sympathy be shed rather
upon the living, whose hearts are sad
and sore, and whose weak hands are
weary with the cares and tolls of life ?''
Such might be the questions Of the
flowers, if speech were granted to them.
ana 4 n1gner anu more AUTHORITATIVE
voice has said: GAS we have opportu-
nifty, let us do good unto all men, espe-
cially unto those who are of the house
hold of faith" Our opportunity is
n0to. Death closes each avenue of use
fulness, and shuts each door of service
that stood open before US. If We have
love and sympathy let us show them
now. Let our flowers be scattered
along the paths of the living. rather
than on the cofiins of the dead. Let
them be used 70 bless hearts that are
torn and broken, rather than wasted
over those who are gone beyond the
need of our sympathy and the reach OF
our approval. Let our care and love
be for those whose tears are past, and
whose sorrows shall return no more.
The living claim our love.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

Cork as a Non -CondaciOr.-A com
pany is said to have recently been
formed in Paris for the purpose of
testing the non conducting property of
cork. A number of steam pipes at
several important establishments had
been covered with cork, and it is said
that, after standing some eighteen
months, the covering remains intact,
and is as perfect a noD-conductor as on
the day it was laid. Although the du
rability of cork had been proved be-
fore. in the case of buoys. which are
partly immersed and partly exposed
to the weather. its ability to stand
such high temperature as those of sur
faces intensely heated 10y steam had
not before been shown. The lightness
of cork the readiness with which it
yields so as to surround cylinders and
pipes the facility with which it Is put
in its place, taken down and put up
again in the case of inspection or re-
pairs of boiler or steampipe, to-
gether with the fact that its non-con-
ducting power effects q great saving of
fuel, are regarded by engineers as
greatly in its favor for the outer coat
ing of steam vessels.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

How TO REDUCE Bones WITH ACID
The agricultural editor Ofthe New York
Tribune gives the following as the best
way to operate:
Take one hundred pounds of bone,
twenty-five pounds of oil of vitrol, OF
sixty degrees, and six quarts of water.
BY means of sieve separate the ground
bone into coarser and finer parts, or
better into three parts, by the use OF
two riddles. one of one-sixteenth and
the other of one-eighth inch holes. Mix
the coarsest portion of bone with the
oil of vitrol in a cast-iron vessel. When
the bone is thoroughly wet, add the
water little by little, stirring and mix
ing well. Let stand twenty-fOur hours
or until the cOarsest fragments are quite
softened. then work i'm the next coarser
part of bone, let stand another day, and
finally ''dry off, with the finest bone.
By this method the acId is made to
spend itself where most needed, on the
large bits of bone, one-third of the acid
that would be consumed in the usual
way is saved, and the finest bone which
is fine enough for fertilizing purposes,
is used simply to render the mass easy
of handling, and also gets the benefit of
any acid not consumed by the eOarser
parts.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10
MUTUAL KINDNESS
BY ". c. BRYANT.


Dear ties Of mutual succor bind,
The children Of our feeble race,
And il our brethren were not kind
This earth were but weary place.
We lean on others as we walk
Lies twilight paths with pitfalls strewn
And 'twere an idle boast to talk
OF treading that dim path alone
Amid the snares misfortune lays,
Unseen, beneath the steps Of all,
Blest lie the Love that seeks to raise
And stay and strengthen those who fall.
Till taught by Him who, for our sake,
Bore every form Of Life's distress.
With every passing year We make
The sum of human sorrow less.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

CHLoRAL FOR HEADACHE.-Dr.E f. VI.
Nolan describes the following cure of a
very painful headache in a lady. He
dissolved fifteen or twenty grains of
chloral in a very little water; and with
the tip of finger rubbed it upon one of
her temples until she could sensibly feel
the burning and the skin was reddened.
The part rubbed was no larger than a
silver dollar. The pain was entirely re-
lieved and remained so. The doctor
has also used this method of applying
chloral for headache with success in
many other cases, sometimes rubbing
on both temples. No permanent sign is
left
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

PoTATO DIsEAsE.-"Can you tell me
what is good for blight on potatoes
like the specimen l send you?. The
blight commences near the roots and
spreads up. The field looks as if fire
had swept over it"
Reply.-There is no cure for this So
called "blight." Upon examination
under microscope the peculiar fun
gold vegetation of the common potato
root is discovered. Doubtless upon dig
ging the potatoes it will be found that
they are infected. If so, upon cutting
into them black spots will be perceived.
The best course TO pursue would be to
NOW Off the whole of the diseased potato
tops, leaving the roots in the ground
until it is convenient to dig them. If
the potatoes are diseased they should
be dug at once and disposed of before
they begin to decay, or placed in heaps
in dry cellar and abundantly sprin-
kled with fresh dry slaked lime in fine
powder through the heaps. The dis
ease is caused by the late wet weather,
and will probably be prevalent on
heavy soils or moist lands.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10
SCIENTIFIC.

Economy in the Use of Fael.-In a
paper on economy in the use OF coal,
lately read before the Royal School of
Mines, Berlin, the following synopsis
of interesting historic facts is given (:
The progress in the economical con-
sumption of fuel in the last 30 years
has been enormous, and has been ef-
fected i'm great part by metallurgists I;
and here again we find the scientific
men taking the lead. In the ecoDOmi-
cal application of the heat developed
by fuel, the Bessemer process is enOr-
mOusly effective, not more than 10 lbs.
of coal being requisite for the prOduc
ton of cwt. of steel from pig iron by
this method, while in the older process,
still in use for fine qualities of steel,
$50 lbs are needed. Siemens, by max
ing the heat which would escape
through the chimney of an ordinary
furnace warm the fuel and the air ne
cessary to combustion, obtains an
economy of two thirds the weight of
fuel. 1t was Faber de Faure. an ac-
cOmplished Bavarian metallurgist, who
first made practical uses OF the gases
which formerly escaped in immense
quantities from the tops of blast fur
naces and the enormous blast engines,
,I tIe .o,s.lns ~ emS"Is, .h po IrT I,,n not 81
snaI ,"I. s"u daSs raon;ra
nuon SUI @f,aIarnnn.t non.,,a.;aJ Tas,e
~ ,uoamn. Risehnf ann,5er German
pnoGo pn%;noar anJ "V .,aiinrn;caI = anth"r
uns ,as .'e "a, anu y. nrndnna 90 art;fe;ai,y,
go %' s,.It;n. sno ,. ~ ,nrn"ses p and this was
eorta;nIY eo, % nns ~ ,he S,e,tsst aJvances
.Yor naJs in onr art Rv f;rst tnrn;no
= 80, 80 S "as g. fnoI aon Lo ,,,ch n,ors nar,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

To CLOSE cracks in cast-iron stoves
good wood ashes should be sifted through
a fine sieve, TO which is added the same
quantity of clay finely pulverised, to-
gether with little salt. The mixture
should then be moistened with water
enough to make a paste. and the crack
i'm the stove filed with it. The cement
does not peal off or break away, and as
sumes an extreme degree of hardness
after being heated. The stove must be
cool when the application is made. The
same substance may be used in setting
the plates of a stove, or in fitting stove
pipes, serving to render all the joints
perfectly tight.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10
Sex in Friendship.

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~, hatr-an,, -, tho ' go i that i,s con.
inp 80, = S,,';slo,,,,rahonIaJ Er;snd-
IN: ~ .ii...;I,' - ,ta,,n.L, 90 ha ,ho
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r. 80, ~ ,f.,,,o r,andars II i c,uaJ
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IT. g -, 81 l. 81 =
IA. .,i;ier iii y, - Iii -,;oi, 80 !, +, 7,ho
aag.oS.ita.;",, . , Pa,";Sta,,o, v.i,h tho
,'',1,;,,Sa al =, h.,S a,,arr adrontaae Of nbiIo-
li' I,' - - nt,s,,r. 30 40
% - -, IL - ,Le bos,
r.Si "n' Th,," m" - e haS hoom ,ron, ,he FIRST
J,', 'J ,e;i, - =, ,I,a Lot g. l. not do
.arn,;nad ..,u i aI,ooa,I,ar nv nbilosonby tom
,,a,.a,,,a,,t ,,,r,.o ,,aarIy Settles 4 Nanv
-, ara n,asn,li,,e and fan,;nina to each
other: many women likewise. If love
were possibie between the sexes alone.
they might be. and often are, represen-
ted bv the same sex; so that regarding
love as the only natural affection of men
for women. or of women for men. il
might be rechristened friendship. and
the acceptance of the postulate thus en-
forced. But Style them what you NAV.
and Notwithstanding their indistinction.
love and friendship are different. albeit
not obedient to gender. Sex. we know.
enters into material as well as animated
nature. and is. as we hold. independent
of corporality. In friendship, not less
than love. sex has its part. Whether
two men or women be friends, one is
masculine and the other feminine one
to the other. as much as when man and
woman are friends. Therefore friend
shin between the sexes is more natural.
because physically comfortable. than
between members of the same sex. Then
the relation is more clearly defined,
better established, less exposed to exter-
nalinfiuences. Disguises are not needed
assumptions are superfluous: the har-
monies are preserved: the form answers
to the spirit.
7, oil aann;no fr;endsb;ns the nositive
81 ,al,s,;,-a a., onn,I;,edN - ~,,btiv
es,an os =, he haraIy narcantihle hui
oo,;n1 f,lly and fre.iv nerertbeless
tn 1os;tiya nor+rars Tho mascnline
and tbe negat;ya tbe feminine in the
,h;af eoncars,s os l;fe thonah thay sb;ft
nnder different inf,uences There were
never I've friands even v,ban they
were strong but who were NOT nositiye
70 each other: altboncb in words. mas
culine and feminine Patroclus only
symbolized the woman TO Achilles: :
Uenbesfion aid IN AIexander .Jonatban
70 David. AIva To PbiIin II: Shelley
WIS feminine 70 Ryron fonis the XTv.
10 Naintenon. Charles VII. To Jeanne
Dare: Leicester 10 Elizabeth: Petrarch
toLaura: Antony TO Caesar. Caesar him
self was masculine to everybody except
TO Cleopatra: Napoleon Bonaparte was
masculine to his marshals-the entire
French nation. A man NAV be
masculine TO one man and feminine to
another. A woman NAV be masculine
to her husband and feminine to her
lover. Sex varies with the nature it is
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

A Paris correspondent writes: With
regard to authors who have died poor
it may be interesting to remind you of
what De Lomenie wrote of Chateau
BRAND, whose statue has just been un-
covered ut st. Malo. He says no man
ever took greater care of his glory than
the author of the "Genie du Christian
isme,r and yet he was obliged 10 pub
lish the work at a most unfavOrable
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

has never been known to fail in the cure Of
weakness, attended with symptoms: indis-
position to exertion; less Of memory; diff
Guilty of breathing; general weakness; hor-
ror of disease; weak, nervous trembling;
dreadful horror Of death; night sweats;
cold feet; weakness; dimness Of vision
lansuor: universal lassitude Of the mussu-
lar system; enormous appetite, with dys-
peptie symptoms; hot hands; flushing Of
the body; dryness Of the skin; pallid coun-
tenance and eruptions on the face, purifying
the blood pain in the back; heaviness Of
the eyelids; frequent black spots flying be-
fore the eyes with temporary sufusion and
loss of sight; want of attention, etc. These
svmptoms all arise from weakness, and to
remedy that, use E. r. KUNKEL's Bitter
Wine Of Iron. II never fails Thousands
are nov epjoy4ug health who have used it,
Get the genuine. Sold only in 81 bottles
Take only +. F. Kunkel's- Depot and
Office, No. 259 North Ninth St, Philadel-
phia, Pa
Ask for Kunkers Bitter Wine of Iron.
This truly valuable tonic has been so tho.-
ouehly tested by all classes of the commu-
nity that it is now deemed indispensable as
a Tonic medicine. 1t costs but little, puri-
fies the blood and gives tone to the stomach,
renovates the system and prolongs life.
now only ask q trial of this valuable
tonic. Price 81 per bottle. E. +. KUN
KEEL. Sole Proprietor, No. 259 North Ninth
ST., below Vine. Philadelphia, Pa
Ask for Kunkers Bitter Wine Of Iron, and
take no other.
1t is sold only in 81 bottles. with photo
graph of the Proprietor on each wrapper,
all other is counterfeit.
Sold by all Druggists
TAPEwoRM REMOVED ALIvE.-Head and
all complete, in two hours. No fee till head
passes. Seat, Pin and Stomach Worms re-
moved by Dr. KUSKEL, 259 NORTH NINTH
STREET. Advice free. Come, see over l 200
specimens and be convinced. He never
fails.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

Fo,rls do not like to step down into a
house before they fly up to their perches.
The floor of the house should be some
what above, and not lower than the
the ground outside. Just outside the
fowl-house there should be either pitch
ing or gravel, otherwise the birds soon
tread holes and cause puddles that
would convey filth into the interior.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

To CLEAN MARBLE.-Take two parts
common soda, one part of pumice stone,
and one part of finely powdered chalk ;
sift it through fine sieve and mix it
with water; then rub it well all over
the marble and the stains will be re-
moved; then wash the marble over with
soap and water, and it will be as clean
as il was at first.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10
AGRICULrURAL

A Practical FARMER ON FEEDING
HOGs.-It appears to me that some men
exhibit less sense in their contempt to
feed hogs than almost anything they
undertake. / have a neighbor, and he
is no green hand at the business, but a
farmer of many years standing-One of
those experienced fellows who should
know all about it, and who doubtless
thinks he does-that for the past eight
or ten years has fed his hogs in a little
pen, three or four rods square, without
ANYTHING i'm the way of floor or shelter
beyond what nature has provided
mother earth below and the skies above.
| was looking over his hogs to-day, as
passed, for the pen is Immediately
alongside of the road. The hogs have
no place to go into out of the mud
which is five or six inches deep, per-
haps deeper-they must hunt out the
corn from the quagmire, into which it
is thrown and make their beds of the
same precious mortar. His hogs are
from sixteen to eighteen months old
and do not weigh 80 pounds on am av-
erage. Another neighbor, who was
with me, remarked that he did not be-
lieve these hogs had gained pound a
month.
The practice of turning hogs into the
corn field is perhaps, little better than
this, but still not much better. It's
about Hobson's choice between them.
Now, such ways of feeding hogs do
not pay at any time, and especially
when corn is from fifty to sixty cents
per bushel. 1t behooves us farmers to
look into this matter of feeding and see
if we cannot hit upon more improved
and economic methods, 1t behOOves us
to give the matter our most serious
thought and tn discover how we can
make the last ounce of pork from a
bushel of corn. If we do not do this
we certainly deserve little sympathy
when we complain of hard times and
high taxes.
The practice pursue is to grind my
corn. or whatever grain | am going to
feed, and cook with steam into sort of
mush, which feed in trOughs, so con-
structed as to prevent the hogs from
getting their feet into the feed. The
best plan is to have plank pen to feed
in, with good high sheds for them to go
into out of the storms and not let them
out until fat. That will not be very
long if you have good breed of hogs,
and feed them regularly and exercise
good judgment. They can be made to
gain from pound and half to two
pounds per day and at this rate will
soon be ready for market.
l should be pleased 10 hear from
others of my brother farms on this sub
ject of feeding hogs, for L am satisfied
,% IN ial al n
deep interest, and | am not sure that
any of us understand all there is in it.
National Stock Journal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

Internal Parasites Of the House Fly
A correspondent of Nature writes that
he saw small, decrepit house fly
making its way across sheet of paper,
when three minute. active animals ap-
parently beetles. tumbled out of it /;
sembleduphides in shape. and were of
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

HOUSEHOLD HINTs.-BcfOre cOmmenc-
ing to sweep a room, take out all the
chairs and light pieces of furniture, and
cover up those which cannot be easily
removed. Draw back the wiudow-eur-
tains and pin them up as high as you
can reach, opening the windows from
six to eight inches, both top and bottom,
and then close the doors. Hang cotton
cloths, kept for the purpose, over the
pictures and mirrors. Now the room Is
prepared for sweeping, and damp tea
leaves should be sprinkled all over the
carpet. especially in the corners; ifthey
are not to be had, bits of brown paper,
wet with water, can be substituted, but
one or the other should be employed to
keep down the dust. Sweep all carpets
the way of the pile, i e., according as
their breadths are sewed, and not across
them. If the fireplace is in use all the
ashes should be removed from the crate
before the carpet is swept, and, while
the dust settles, the CRATE and hearth
can be cleaned. Then fasten Il soft
cloth over long-handled hair broom,
and sweep the cornices and curtain
fixtures. Before returning the chairs
and small articles to the room dust them
Thoroughly with painters brush.
Carved woodwork can be cleaned with
short hair furniture brush, and china
ornaments with a soft cloth, but a feather
duster is the best adapted to cleaning
raised china and gilded work. Piano
keys can be busted with piece of old
soft silk, kept for the purpose.
To make perpetual paste, take one
ounce of gum tragacanth or gum dragon,
pick it clean, washing off all specks and
dirt; then put il into a widemouthed
bottle or jar which will hold quart,
and add as much corrosive sublimate as
will lie on a three-cent piece. Now pour
over it one and half pints of cold
water. Rain or cistern water is the best.
Cover the jar tightly. and leave it till
next day, when the gum will be dis
solved and nearly fill it up. Stir the
mass well with wooden spoon or stick;
do not use metal, because the corrosive
sublimate will blacken it. Repeat the
stirring three or four times during the
day, and it will form thick jelly, which
must be kept closely covered, as it will
keep fresh for any length of time if only
opened when needed for use. For paper
and many other materials it makes a
strong colorless cement, and, being al
ways ready at hand, it induces the
housekeeper to mend many little things
which would otherwise be neglected.
To clean lime out of teapots boil in
the kettle Irish potatoes with the skins
on. This softens the lime, which is
easily washed out.
A wash composed of a teaspoonful of
powdered borax to pint of rain water
is excellent for removing dandruff from
the hair.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

Mrs. E. III. Tubman has presented
to the Campbellite Society of Augusta,
Ca. a magnificent church edifice, hav-
ing the fallest spire in the South, and
costing her nearly $780,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

HAPPINESS Is THE ABSENCE OF
PAM says Jean Paul Richter. and
20. 600 grateful patients bless the ANA
KESIS of DIR. SILsBEE as the only III
fallible cure for PILES ever discovered.
1t is purely scientific. combining the
best methods of the French. English
and American surgeons, acting as an
instrument. poultice and medicine. and
not only affording instant relief from
excruciating pain, but performing an
absolute and permanent cure. All
Doctors approve it. Price 81. Sent
free by mail on receipt of price. p.
Neustadter & Co., 46 Walker ST.. New
York. o
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

IT Is most convenient to dig muck
in the dryest condition. Straight
bitches should be dug, and the muck
thrown out in heaps on one side, where
it will drain. The ground on each side
of the ditch will dry considerably by
early winter, when the dried muck can
be hauled to the barnyard for bedding,
or be mixed with the manure from the
stables. BY working in this way, the
muck is dried and the swamp drained
at the same time.