Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-17

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| The summer il came, and the summer il went
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And there they lived on. and they never paid rent
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Their parior was lined with the softest Of wool
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Their kitchen warm. and their pantry was full
And four little babies peeped out at the sky
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fou never saw darlings 50 pretty and shy
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Now winter came on with its frost and its snow
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They cared not bit wheu they heard the wind blow
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For. wrapped in their fuis. they ali lay down to
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But, oh. in the spring how their bright eyes wil
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DESERVING BoYs.-We like boys who
help themselves. Every one ought to
be friendly to them. The boys OF
energy and ambition, who make manly
efforts to do something for themselves,
are the hope of the country. Let their
anxious ears catch always words of en-
couragement and cheer, for such words,
like favoring breezes to the sails of a
ship, help to bear them on to the des-
tination they seek.
| 1t is not always as it should be in
this respect. Many a heart has been
broken-many young man of indus
| try, and animated with honorable mo-
tives, has been discouraged by the sour
words and harsh and unjust remarks of
some unfeeiing employer, or some rela-
| tive who should have acted the part of
friend. The unthinking do not con-
slider the weight with which such re-
marks sometimes fall upon sensitive
spirit, and how they may bruise and
| break it.
IL you cannot do anything to aid and
assist young men, you ought to abstain
from throwing any obstacles in their
way. But can you not do something
to help them forward? ? You can at
least say :'God speed to them, and
you can say it feelingly from your
heart. You little know of how much
benefit to boys and young men encour-
aging counsel, given fifty and we'll
timed, may be and in the great day
those in need of them you may find
reckoned among your good deeds.
Then help the boys who try to help
themselves. You can easily recall sim
pie words of kindness addressed TO
yourself in your childhood and youth,
and you would like now to kiss the lips
that spoke them though they may long
since have been sealed with the silence
of death, and covered by the clOds Of
the grave.
ALMONDS AND PEACHEs.-What a diff
ference education can make, to be sure |!
Not but an almond is just as fine in its
way as a peach, but then it isn't the
same thing by good deal.
That is, il isn't and it is.
The schoolmistress has been reading
aloud out of book written by a cele-
brated naturalist, in which he plainly
says that the peach-tree has been edu-
Gated out of the almond tree.
In the almond the large, sweet ker-
mel, in its soft, smooth shell, is covered
with thin, dry, tough flesh that is not
good for food. In the peach the small
bitter kernel, in hard rough she'll, is
covered with thick, soft, Juicy flesh,
which YOU BOYS think so delicious. And
it is only education, or culture, or
training with view to improvement,
that has made all the difference. As
tonishing; isn't it
Some almor ds are most excellent, and
| think you boys and girls would not
like to see them all turned into peaches.
You need not feel uneasy, however
the peach almond at the start was a
very bitter affair miserable for an
almond and worse for peach. 1t
needed the bringing up it has had, to
make it worth anything.
/ SOCIAL BIRDs.-It is wonderful how
the birds love the companionship of
men. Even the Indian recognizes this
liking, and puts up his gourd shell for
/ the purple martin the colored man of
/ the South in like manner sets up a
| calabash, while in our villages are seen
martin houses, often evincing taste In
their construction. But the American
swallows formerly kept aloOf from men,
and in the far west the martin still, as
of old, builds in hollow trees. Some
of our migratory birds are seen with us
in the winter. This is explained,
think, by the agricultural habits OF
men. Wherever agriculture fiourishes,
so will insects, and the fields of the
husbandman are thus attractive to the
birds who come thither with their sweet
voices and good deeds. Now this fact
does, / think, In time greatly modify
the migration impulse. The blue-bird
is frequent visitor of our gardens IN
winter, though not in large numbers.
He now finds his food in the larve OF
those insects which are the pests of the
farm and it is pleasant to watch him
peepIng around palings and under
lodges and rails for this food.
BIRDS have great fear OF death. A
hen canary belonging to the author
died while nesting, and was buried
The surviving mate was removed tC
another cage the breeding cage itseli
was thoroughly purified, cleansed and
put aside till the next spring. Never
afterward, however, could any bird en-
dure to be in that cage. The LITTLE
creatures fought and struggled to gel
out, and if obliged to remain they
huddled close together and moped anC
we're thoroughly unhappy, refusing tt
be comforted by ally amount of sun
shine or dainty food. The experiment
was tried of introducing foreign birds
who were not in the house when th'
canary died, nor could, by any posi-
bility. have heard of her through othe
canaries. The result was the same NJ
bird would live in that cage. The Gag
was haunted, and the author wa
obliged to desist from all further at
tempss to coax or force a bird to sta,
In it.-AtheH0UDi.
Emeralds and Pearls.