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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

A pleasant traveller gives us the fol-
lowing bit of experience: "Taking
mine ease at mine inn," has real sig
nificance i'm England. You can take
your ease and more; you can take real
solid comfort. In the first place there
is no bar-roOm, and consequently no
loafers; no fumes of tobacco or whisky.
The host (if there be such a person. has
a way of keeping himself in the back
ground, or out of sight, that is entirely
admirable. The pilgrim is in no dam
ger of having the pOetical atmosphere
dispelled, but rather enhanced, espec-
tally if he has the luck to find few other
guests, and TO fall into the hands of one
of those simple, strawberry-like En-
glish hOusemaids, who gives him a CO.
zy, snug little parlOr all to himself,
who answers his every summons and
looks into his eyes with the simplicity
and directness of child; who puts the
"cOals" on your CRATE with her own
hands, and when you ask for a ''lunch,
spreads the cloth on one end of the ta-
BILE, while you sit reading or writing at
the other, and places before you a
whole haunch of delicious cold mutton,
with bread. and home brewed ale, and
requests you to help yourself; who,
when bedtime arrives, lights you up to
clean, sweet chamber, with a high
canOpied bed, hung with snOw-white
curtains; who calls you in the morning,
makes ready your breakfast, while you
sit with your feet on the fender before
the blazing CRATE; and to whom you
pay your reckoning on leaving, having
escaped all the publicity of hotel life,
and had all the privacy and quiet of
home, without any of its cares or in
terruptiOns.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
The Witchery of Manner.

Almost every man can recall scores
of cases, within his own knowledge,
where pleasing manners have made the
fortunes of lawyers, doctors, divines,
merchants, and in short, men in every
walk of life. Raleigh flung down his
laced coat into the mud for Elizabeth
to walk on. and got, for his reward, a
proud queens favCr. The politician
who has this advantage easily distan-
ces all rival candidates, for every vO-
ter he speaks with becomes instantly
his friend. The very tones in which he
asks for snuff are often more potent
than Webster or a Clay. Polished
manners have often made scoundrels
successful, whilst the best of men, by
their hardness and cOldness, have done
themselves incalculable injury; the
shell being SO rough that the world
could not believe there was precious
kernel within. Ciyility is to a man
what beauty is to a woman. 1t creates
an instantaneous impression in his be-
balf, while the opposite quality excites
as quick prejudice against him. 1t Is
a real ornament, the most beautiful
dress that man or women can wear,
and worth more as a means of winning
favor than the finest clothes and jewels
ever worn. The gruffest man loves tn
be appreciated and it is Oftener the
sweet smile of a woman, which We
think intended for us alone, than a pair
of Juno-like eyes. or 'lips that seem
on roses fed," that bewitches our heart,
and lays us low at the feet of her whom
we afterwards marrv.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
A Homemade Carpet.

An Eastern lady says: Have any of
you a spare bedchamber, seldom used,
which you would like to carpet at little
expense? Go to the paper-hanger' s
store and select paper looking as much
like carpet as you can find. Having
taken it home, first paper the floor of
your bed room with brown paper, or
newspapers. Then over this or these
put down your wall paper. A good
way to do this will be to put "A good coat
of paste upon the width of the roll of
paper and the length of the room, and
then lay down, unrolling and smooth
ing at the same time. When the floor
is all covered, then size and varnish,
only dark glue and common furniture
varnish may be used, and the floor will
lock all the better for the darkening
these will give it. When it is dry, put
down few rugs by the bedside and be-
fore the toiletltable, and you have as
pretty carpet as you could wish. A
carpet, too, that will last for years, if
not subject to constant wear, and at n
trifiing expense. myself used a room
one entire Summer prepared in this
way-used it constantly; and when
the house was sold in the Fall, the pur-
chaser asked me to take up the oilcloth,
as he wished to make some alterations
which would be sure to iniure it
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Keeping NJ Ii.

A man who inherits wealth may be-
gin and worry through threescOre
years and ten without any very definite
object. In driving, in foreign travel,
in hunting and fishing. in club-hOuses
and society, he may manage to pass
away his time; but he will hardly be
happy. 1t seems to be necessary to
health that the powers of a man be
trained upon some object, and steadily
held there day after day, year after
year. while vitality lasts. There may
come a time in old age when the fund
of vitality will have sunk SD low that
he can follow no consecutive labor
without such q draft upon his forces
that sleep cannot restore them. Then,
and not before, he should stop work.
But, SO long as a man has vitality to
spare upon work, it must be used, or it
will become q source of grievOus, ha-
RAISING discomfort. The man will not
know what to do with himself; and
when he has reached such a point as
that, he is uncOnsciOusly digging a
grave for himself, and fashiOning his
own coffin. Life needs steady chan
mel to run irregular habits of work
and of sleep. 1t needs a steady, stim-
ulating alma trend towards sOme-
thing. An aimless life can never be
happy, or, for a long period, healthy.
Said rich widow to gentleman, still
labOring beyond his needs; Don't
stop keep at it." The words that
were in her heart were "If my hus-
band had not stopped, he would be
alive to-day" And what she thought
was doubtless true. A greater shock
can hardly befall a man who has been
active than that which he experiences
when, having relinquished his pursuits,
he finds unused time and unused vital
ity hanging upon his idle hands and
mind. The current of his life is thus
thrown into eddies. or settled into a
sluggish pool, and he begins to die
Ur. j. q. Holland.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
To Tea Drinkers.

Green tea is nothing more nor less
than a poisonous humbug, manufac-
tured to meet the demands of vita
ted taste. Black tea is the leaf in its
natural state. Most of the varieties
are, however, too mild to satisfy a pal
ate used to pickles and mustard, and
pepper sauces and like condiments.
The dealers, therefore, kindly poison
the leaf and produce what they are
pleased to advertise as "a superior
quality of green tea" At one time ten
pounds of green tea were sold III the
American market for every pound i'm
ported. The process of adniteration
was performed at the sea-bOard. A
long cylinder, turning slowly over a
fire. was half-tilled with black tea.
Then handsfull of turmeric. indigo
and other poisonous matters, were
thrown in. After the whole had been
cooked together the stuff came out as
green tea. Each leaf was perhaps Goa
ted with copper Since then @ChiDese
cheap labor" has supplanted Caucasian
cunning. The MOngOlian ships the tea
already greened, and so saves the I'M
porter trouble. Unfortunately for us,
passes his Christian brethren in so
many things, excels in the art of adul
teration the coloring matter nsed by
him is filthy compound of silicate of
magnesium. Prussian blue and other
dirt, and the leaves cOlOred are faded
and old. and mixed with leaves of a
plant bearing the suggestive name of
.'lie tea" The ''lie tea," We may add,
iiOurishes in New Jersey, and is care
fully cultivated there-it is not difficult
to surmise why. There is such thing
as pure green tea. but it is much wea
ker than the artificial stuff, and has to
he prepared by aprocess of drying that
is long and costly. 1t is rarely expOr-
ted from China. No wonder that ex-
cessive a-drinking does almost as
much harm as excessive liquor drink
ing. People are not apt TO thrive on
naisnns
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Lamarek ON the origin OF Species.

A man of keen and powerful intellect,
who, had he but lived in our time,
would have attained the summit of
fame, with marvellous acumen anticipa-
ted doctrine which is steadily tend
ing to become received scientific dis
covery, viz, that the changes which
have occurred i'm Nature are the effects
of constant natural laws. Applying
this idea to the natural groups of the
animal kingdom, he rejected the hy-
pOthesis which ascribed to geological
catastrophes the destruction of entire
fauna, and the preparation of the
earth's surface for a fresh special crea-
ton. The transformation of lower or
ganisms into higher he referred to the
action of notifications which, though
IN themselves inconsiderable, became
important from repetition and long ac-
cumulation, under the influence of for
ces whose powers he exaggerated. Spe-
cies and varieties he regarded as artifi-
cial groups. According to him the
very simplest organisms are derived, by
way of spontaneous generation, from
naturally-prOduced plastic substances !;
then they mutually diverge by imper-
ceptible differences, so as to constitute
linear series, which, but for the gaps
caused here and there by lost species,
would present to us the aspect of a con-
tinuous system. Under favOring circum-
stances this divergence by imperceptible
differences causes changes in the struc-
ture of the individuals belonging to a
species, and is the starting-point for
the formation of new species. Cross
ing, by producing hybrids, still further
multiplies the number of species. And
species appear to be fixed, simply be-
cause the circumstances appear to be
similarly fixed during the brief period
embraced in our observations. Trans
formation is the rule, and i'm the regu-
lar course which it runs we can dis
cover no indications of plan or purpose.
Popular Science Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

Men do fight, no doubt, from mere
recklessness, from hope of plumber or
glory; and sometimes they have been
whipped to it. But more often, when
they go where one out of every four or
five is likely to fall, it is with the nobler
motive uppermost, and felt with burn
ing earnestness, too, which only the
breath of the near-at hand death can fan
up. No! there is reason enough why
battle-fields should be, as they are,
places of pilgrimage. The remOteness of
the struggle hardly diminishes the in
terest with which we visit its scene !;
Marathon is as sacred as if the Greeks
conquered there last year. Nor, on the
other hand, do we need poetic haze from
a century or two of intervening time ;
Gettysburg was consecrated spot to all
the world before its dead were buried.
There need be no charm of nature; there
are tracts of mere sand in dreary Bran
denburg, where old Frederick, with
Prussia in his hand, supple and tough as
If plated into nation out Of whip-cOrd,
scourged the world; and these tracts are
precious. On the other hand, the grand
est natural features seem almost dwarfed
and paltry beside this Overmastering in
terest.-Apra Atlantic
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Lamartine's wOrks.

In this kind of gentle strain. whether
it be prose or poetry, he is beyond a
rivalry. When all other inspiration
fails, the inspiration of home never
fails him. Whatever he may be else
where, at Milly he is ever a true poet.
This Is the highest praise we can give
to Lamartine. His longer poems are
mOnOtOnOus and clOying his pOetical
romances of mawkish and unwhOle-
some sweetness. But on his native
soil, in the hOmely hOuse of his mother,
all objectionable qualities disappear.
He loves the skies which Overarch that
dear bit of country; he loves the hills
and the fields because they surround
that center of all associations and i'm
his cOmpaniOnship with nature he is
always tender and natural, seldom ex-
aggerated, and scarcely ever morbid.
His shorter strains are full of the fresh
atmosphere of the country he loved,
and the sentiment of peDsive evenings
and still nights, soft breathing, full of
stars and darkness, is to be i0and
everywhere in the gentle melOdious
verse not lofty or all absorbing, like
the nature worship of Wordsworth.
but more within the range of the Ordi-
nary mind, and quite as genuine and
true. Had he been content with this,
and not aspired to represent passion,
of which he knew nothing. his fame
would have been more real and more
lasting. He was such a poet as the
quieter intellectualist, the pensive
thinker. loves. He could not touch the
greater springs of human feeling; but
he cOuld so play upon the milder stops
of that great instinct as to fill his au-
-. a.
of his prose works reach to profOun-
der influence and those readers who
remember, when il came out, the His
tory of the GirOndists, will not refuse
to the poet certain power of moving
and exciting the mind; but this work
and the many others which preceded
and followed it. have little to do with
our argument. They are poetical and
exaggerated prose, and have TO claim
to the higher title of poetry.-Biaek-
rOod's Mdga-ine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Waste no Time.

Time lost can never be regained. AZ
terallOwing yOurselfprOper time for rest
don't live a single hour of your life with
out doing exactly what is to be done in
it, and going straight through with it
from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is, take hold Of it at
once and finish it up squarely and clean
ly; then to the next thing without let
ting any moments drop out between. 1t
is wonderful to see how many hours
these prompt people make out of a
day; it is as if they picked up the mo-
ments that the dawdlers lost. And if
you ever find yourself where you have
so many things pressed upon you that
you hardly know where to begin, let
me tell you a secret. Take hold of the
very first one that comes to hand, and
you will find the rest all fall into file
and follow after like a company of we'll
drilled soldiers, and though work may
be hard to meet when it charges you in
a squad it is easily vanquished if you
can bring it into lifie.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Home.

Think of what is meant by a happy
home. 1t is the best likeness of heaven
"a home where husband and wife,
father and mother, brother and sister,
child and parents, each in their several
ways, help each the other forwards, in
their different course, as no other human
being can; for none else outside the
circle of our own home has the same
opportunities, none else has known SO
the character of any other, none else
has such an interest at stake in the well
fare, the fame, and the grace and the
goodness of anyone else, as we have in
the welfare of those who are bone OF
our bone and flesh of our flesh, in whose
misery we become miserable by whose
selfishness, or weakness, or wOrldliness
we are decoyed down to earth, by whose
purity and nobleness and strength we
are raised up to duty, to heaven, and to
God.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Some Eccenfrieitfes Of COurtship.

'sProbably there is no instance in
which any two lovers have made love
exactly i'm the same way as any two
other lovers, since the world began.-
Sir Arthur Helps.
Barkis insinuated.
Vivien charmed Merlin.
Alexander made bonfire for That's.
Hildergarde took the bull by the
horns.
The Merchant of Venice soft soldered
Portia with lead casket.
The garrulOus female i'm the Arabian
Nights told her husband stories.
Victoria sent for Prince Albert and
told him she wanted him. She was vic
tOriOus.
In the POlynesian Islands they win
their hearts by beating their heads with
a shillelah.
Harry the Eighth and Bluebeard were
off with the head of the old love before
they were on with the new.
DR.. johnson poked the tobacco in his
pipe down with his sweetheart's finger
"a warm token of affection.
Tristram did it mostly with harp,
and was also a good liar. His two
Isoldes were too many for him.
Boutwell, was inclined to Marie, and
locked her up in his castle. 1T worked
rs well as Peters pumpkin shell.
Cobbett's wife caught him by the
grace with which she used her wash
tub. She never was known to use il
after the wedding.
sam. Romily, the famous lawyer,
killed himself because his wife died,
while a good many others kill them
selves because they won't die.
= Nicholas of Russia wanted to pop at
dinner table, but didn't like to be
caught at it, so he imbedded ring in a
lump of bread and handed it to her.
Charlemagne's secretary was caught
by snow storm sparkling the Empe
rOr's daughter at midnight, and she
carried him home on her back, so that
his footsteps shouldn't be traced. The
Emperor heard of it, and saddled him
on to her for the rest of her life.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA. MAY 10, 1876.

who even now are not unfrequently
prejudiced by the memory of the slave
days against the cane-field and sugar
factories, undertake willingly enough ;
and to judge by their stout limbs and
evident good condition, they find it
not unsuitable to their capabilities.
More than four million pounds weight
Of cocoa are yearly produced in Surf
nam, (which is a consideration as a
negro remarked to me, labOriOusly at
tempting to put his ideas into English,
instead of the Creole mixture of every
known language that they use among
themselves. Neither Coolies or Chinese
are employed at these cocoa estates,
much to the satisfaction of the CreOles,
who, though tolerant of, or clinging to,
European mastership, have little SIM
pathy with other cOlOred or semi-civil-
lied races.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
AUTUMN DAYS.
BY WILLIAM HowITT.

|
Red springs the rye
As autumn days decline,
And from the brilliant sky
Less ford splendors shine.
Its airy lust-ous line,
The gosssmer displays
And family breathes the pine
In autumn days.
And solemn is the hush
That on the earth doth fall:
And Of all birds the thrush
Alone is musical
The sparrow on the wall
Shivers in pallid rays,
And the frog has ceased its call
In autumn days.
But oh, the life. the life
That summer poured around.
The merry, ringing strife
And jocundry Of sound
In wood and sky and ground
What q chorus, what . maze
OF beauty there Was found
In summer days
lis gone. you hear no more
The bee hum in the flower;
Nor see the swallow soar
Around the hoary tower:
Nor the shrieking swifts devour
The distance in their plays
'Tis now the voiceless hour
OF autumn days
Atlantic Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

Society had ripple Of sensation in a
fashionable wedding when the son OF
Israel Furber, the millionaire $50 the
newspapers said-and they know every
thing) married Miss Leonie Cameron.
But only you and l, reader, know the
romance of that summer in ScranfOrd,
or how John Furber redeemed his
manhood for LeOnie's sake.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
TOUTHs' COLUMN.

On the Dir,de.-At last, the boys
reached the spring of which they had
heard. They approached it with q GER
tain feeling of awe. 1t was on the di-
viding ridge of the continent. 1t was
a bOggy pool, rising out of a mass OF
rock and turf, trampled by many feet
and spreading out into a considerable
space. Some wayfarer had set up a
rude sign-bOard, on which was in
scribed the name-''Pacitic Spring.
Stepping from rock to rock, the boys
made their way to the fountain head.
and silently gaZed on the source of a
stream which soon divided itself be-
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Here the emigrant train pitched alb
ruptly dewn a rocky canon to the west.
The water flowing from the spring and
saturating the grassy soil, was parted
by a low, sharp ledge of rock. From
this, two little rivulets crept away. one
to the east, one to the west. One CUR
gled down into the canon, was joined
by numberless runnels from the snow
peaks above, meandered away for ma
ny miles, sunk into Green River, flowed
south and west to the Colorado, en-
tered the Gulf of California, and was
lost in the Pacific. The other slipped
silently down the long slope by which
the boy emigrants had come, joined it
self to other tiny streams, and SO, fin
ding the far-Off Missouri, by the way of
the Yellowstone, reached the Missis-
sippi, the Gulf of Mexico. and the At
lantic.
"Go. little stream,- said Mont, "and
tell the folks at home that We have
left the old world. Boys, this is a new
world before us now"
I'VE are ON the lown-hill grade"
added iii. I'VE can scOot to CalifOrny
now. Westward it is, and we are agoin'
with the STREAM"
Barney turned and looked back.
"We are on the ridge. Shall we go
down on the other side, Arty r.
But Arty said: 81 should he glad if
could send message back To the folks
at Sugar Grove. 1t would be like q
message out of the sea. AS long as We
can't do that, suppose we follow the
other stream to the Pacific.
1--WE cannot be sentimental over this
spring. my boy" said Mont, laughing.
But, as Hi says, we are going with
the current now. That's it Westward
is the word ~
"COme on, boysin shouted Captain
Rose, from the dOwn-hill road. '.Its a
rough drive yet to Sunset Canon"
So the young fellows followed the
stream, and turned their faces again
to the west.-S Nicholas for April.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

Many farmers in Monroe couHy,
n. Y, have contracted for help the
coming season at about $40 a month.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

HOnOr.-MOther was writing a letter
at her desk. and | was sewing on a low
bench at her side. Presently she was
called out, and laying aside her pen,
she said, ut will be a good chance,
while i am ont, for you to copy your
composition. Mary. You may sit here
at my DESK
She left her letter open upon her
desk. / seem to see IL now, the large
square sheet, inscribed with her fair.
plain handwriting. i always liked to
read what my mother had written but
would | have looked at this Not for
my right hand.
By and by mother came in. "Well,
Mary said she, shave you read my
letter to aunt Susie 7"
mo mother, of course | haven't"
said, feeling little hurt that she
should have asked me.
But why not. daughterf IL was
open, and there is nothing in it wOuld
not be willing for you to read"
"W by mother, it wouldn't have been
right you know it wouldn't. | would
MT read one of your letters, or anybO-
dy else's. for the world, unless the wri-
ter said | might"
| never shall forget my mothers
happy, loving look at that moment.
"Oh, my dear child,' she SAID, "yOu
can't tell how much good that does me.
That | can rely on your honor makes
me feel truly glad and thankful. That
is the very foundation of a truthful
character and truthful, sincere cha
racter is so lovely
never wanted after that to be any
thing but truthful and sincere. To be
without guile in word or deed has al
ways been delight.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

Eggs in some parts of Nebraska
are selling for three cents a dozen.