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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12
The Look. Of Literary women.

An exchange says: Very intellectual
women are seldom beautiful; their fea-
lures. and particularly their foreheads,
are more or less masculine. But there
are exceptions to all rules, and Mrs.
Landon was an exception to this one.
She was exceedingly feminine and pret-
ty. Mrs. Stanton likewise is an exceed
ingly handsome woman; but Miss An
thOny and Mrs. Lvermore- are both
plain. Maria and Jane Porter were
women of high brows and irregular
features, as was also Miss Sedgwick.
Anna Dickinson has strong mascu-
line face; Kate Field has good look
ing, but by 10 means pretty face, and
Mrs. Stowe is thought positively
homely. Mrs. Burleigh, on the con-
trary Is very hne-lOoking, Alice and
Phoebe Cary were very plain in feat
ures, though their sweetness Of dispO-
sitiOn added greatly to their personal
appearance. Margaret Fuller had a
splendid head, but her features were
irregular and she was anything but
handsome, though sometimes in the
glow of conversation she appeared al
most radiant. Charlotte Bronte had
wondrously beautiful darkbrOwn eyes,
and perfectly shaped head. She was
small to diminutiveness, and was as
simple In her manners As child. Julia
Ward Howe is fine-!OOking woman,
wearing an aspect of grace aud refine
ment, and great force Of character in
her face and carriage Olive Logan
is anything but handsome in person
though gay and attractive in converse
fion Iaura Holloway resembles Char
lotte Bronte both inpersonal appearance
and in the sad experience of her young
lite. Neither Mary Booth nor Marion
Harland can lay claim to handsome
faces. though they are splendid speci-
men of cultured woman; while Mary
Clemmer Ames is just as pleasing in
features as her writings are graceful
and popular. -..s hsH.lf.a lss5 E..
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12
Harpinx on my Dasghser.

We expect young men, young wo-
men, and old Frenchmen, to write
mostly about love; but this everlasting
sharping on my daughter" on the part
of mature fathers of families in Eng
land and America is simple effeminacy.
The world as it is.-with all its great,
social. religious, and political questions
its saints and its scamps, its grand re-
alities and shams, its needs and its
strifes, and still can find nothing Of in
terest to write about but petty things
and pretty things, and the relations OF
young life from which he is forever re-
conclude that the ele-
ment of virility is seriously lacking in
his constitution, and that the best thing
he can do is to wipe his pen, put the
stopper in his inkstand, lay away his
paper, and go into the millinery busi-
ness.-Scribaer.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12

Beethoven used TO sit for hours at the
piano, improvising the thoughts which
he afterwards jotted down on paper,
and subsequently, elaborated into the
music with which he astonished the
world. If he discovered that he had
been overheard at such times-as hap
pened once when Cipriana Potter called
upon the great composer and was shown
into an adjoining room-he was incen-
sed to the highest degree. In another
mood, especially after he had become
deaf, while working out subject in his
mind, he would leave his house at night
or In the early morning, and walk for
many hours through the most remote
and solitary places, through woods and
by lakes and torrents, silent and abstrac-
ted. In this way he sometimes made
the circuit of Vienna twice in q day,
or, if he were at Baden, long excursions
across the country. When engaged in
his magnificent Sonata ApassiOnata he
one day took long walk with Ferdi-
nand Ries, his pupil. They walked for
hours, but during the whole time Beet
hoven spoke not word, but kept hum
ming, or rather bowling up and down
the scale. 1t was the process OF incuba-
ton. On reaching home he seated him
self at the piano without taking of his
hat, and dashed into the splendid finale
of that noble work. Once there he re-
mained for some time, totally regard
less of the darkness, or the fact that he
and Ries had had nothing to eat for
hours. His appearance became perfect
" well known to people of all classes,
who exclaimed, ''There is Beethoven,
when they saw him; and it is related
that once, when a troop of charcoal
burners met him on a country path,
heavily laden as they were, to let him
pass, for fear of troubling the great mas
ter's meditatiOns. When composing in
his own room at home, he would some
times walk about in a reverie, pouring
cold water over his hands alternately,
from Jug after jug till the floor of the
room was inundated, and the people
came running upstairs to know the
cause of the deluge. AT his death bed
he left, besides his finished works. a
quantity of rough sketches, containing
doubtless the germs of many more
works, which never passed the stage in
which they appeared there. The first
draughts of his well-known composit-
ions show the successive alterations
which their subjects suffered before
they pleased him; and these form 8
most interesting study, as exposing hi;
manner of working. One Of his sketch
books have been published in ertenso
and besides host of matters of minor
interest, it. containes three separate
draughts, at length ef the finale of hi'
Symphonies striking proof Of thu
| patience with which this great ant
fiery genius perfected his masterpieces
Even when completely finished ant
perfected to his own satisfaction, hi
manuscript presented many difficulties
to the reader, and his copyists and engra
vers are said to have had q hard time o
it. In one of his letters, in which h
gives his publishers the correction. o
some proof of stringed quartet, h
concludes by saying that at is 4 O'Clock
1 must post this; and am quite hoars
with stamping and dswearing. ."-Mdemil
laR's Maqdzine. s@ l-1l .
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12

This country was never more pros
porous really than now; the only need
is clear perception of its actual con-
ditiOn, and the adaptation of its forces
to this condition.
The remedy shall propose is plea
SAINT one, as this suffering country is
not really ill, but remarkably well !;
and the very evils which seem so heavy
are the best indication Of its thrift, its
prodigious vitality, according to my
diagnosis of the case; and 1 think you
will agree with me.
The condition of affairs is this:
Vast numbers of men are out of en-
ployment. They are consuming and
not producing. They desire work, but
there is no work for them. Every
branch of industry is full, and over
flowing. There is a glut of every pro-
duct, waiting to be consumed. Excess
sive accumulation had been growing
for years, until 1t eliminated i'm the
fall of 1873. Since then labor has been
reduced to the gauge of necessity, over
production no longer goes on, and many
thousand men are now without work.
Their work is not needed, but they need
work, for they need wages to obtain
the necessaries. of lite. Everything
produced is produced in abundance by
the workers now employed; and the
accumulation of an immense over pro-
duction continues on hand. What is
the cause of this apparent evil? Labor
sdring inuentioRs.
Month after month, year after year,
the great idleness continues. The army
of the unemployed is increasing in num-
bers. The amount of work they would
do, and wish to do, is not done; is lost
for ever, a great stream of waste. Nc
adequate measures are taken to utilize
this labor, to prevent this needless suf-
fering, to end this painful condition OF
unwilling idleness. Labor which would
make an enormous showing, If per-
formed, is not performed, and the whole
nation feels the loss as well as the un.
employed. Labor-saving inventions in
crease i'm number-as they should; Ia
borers diminish in number, forced out
into idleness, to avoid still greater
over production; and no new, grea,
enterprises are engaged in, although to
establish them is clearly the remedy
for the condition of over production In
the existing industries.-Ihe GatGry.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12

1t is not so very long since we had
the pleasure of cOnversing with one of
the best Sdotch deer-stalker and most
successful of chamois hunters. Accord
ing to this gentleman's experience, get
ting a shot at red deer is mere child's
play compared to getting within range
of the lynx eyed and keen-scented cha
mois. No one need to sleep out all
night upon an icy mountain ledge to
kill a red deer; bur, in order to circum-
vent a chamois, the sportsman is often
compelled to adopt this course for many
nights at a time before he even sees his
quarry. Then, again. deer-stalkers
crawl up the mountain side as a rule,
while the chamois hunters object is to
attain a high altitude first and creep
down towards the object he wishes to
"draw a bead" upon. At gray dawn
the chamois hunter is on the alert, and
by the aid of his clear-eyed Swiss guide
and one Of Stewards best deer-stalker's
glasses, he sweeps the rocky peak and
ledge within his ken. If he is lucky
enough to spot the sentinel chamois
perched on some pinnacle of rugged
granite, the party separate in order to
circumvent the f1Ock-a proceeding
which i'm nine case out of ten ends i'm
miserable discontinue. Sometimes,
however, the party above the chamOis
get a crack, at others those below.
Even should the bullet take effect, not
a bone of the quarry may be even picked
at the camp fire. Sometime the DEATH
struck chamOis topples off the giddy
ledge, and bounding from projecting
crag to crag, as he falls downwards,
eventually lodges in some inaccessible
crevice, "a mere pommeled mass Ofshape-
less skin and bone. At other times
the hunters find it impossible to get at
the ridge upon which the chamOis has
fallen. Should the party, however,
succeed in catching the old goat, great
is the rejoicing and horn blowing, and
many the nips of old eOgnac indulged
in. The flesh of the chamOis eats more
like goats than deer's meat, and from
a gourdmans point of view, is a dead
failure. The wild, sterile, and roman
tic scenery, the dead silence of the AL
pine heights where the dangerous sport
is pursued, and the extreme arduousness
of the pursuit, all have charms for the
true sportsman and lover of nature.
Sportsmen-- we mean the genuine ar
ticle, not the base resemblance but now
too common-love sport for sport S sake,
and il is not the prize they value so
much as the winning Of it The Swiss
mountaineers are ardent chamois huut-
ers, and many of the goitre affected in
habitants of the Alpine hamlets lose
their lives yearly in hunting the wild
gOat.-London Illustrated Ne,os. r
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12

makes them say it." The law of the
table in sbeauty-a respect to the common
soul Of all the guests. Everything is
unreasonable which is private to two or
three or any portion OF the company.
Tact never violates for q moment this
law; never intrudes the orders of the
house, the vices of the absent, or tariff
of expenses, or professional privacies; !;
as we say, we never ''talk shop" before
Lovers abstain from cares
ses, and haters from insults, while they
sit in one parlor with common friends.
Would we codify the laws that should
reign in households, and whose daily
annOys and mOrtifies us,
and degrades our household life, we
must learn to adorn every day with
sacrifices. Good manners are made up
of petty sacrifices.-Ralph Waldo Emer-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exag-
geration. A lady loses as soon as she
admires too easily and too much. In
man or woman, the face and the person
lose power when they are on the strain
to express admiration. A man makes
his interiors his superiors by heat. Why
need you, who are not gossip, talk as
gossip, and tell eagerly what the
neighbors or the journals say? State
your opinion without apology. The at
titude is the main point, assuring your
companion that, come good news or bad,
you remain in good heart and mind,
which is the best news you can possibly
communicate. Self control is the rule.
You have i'm you there noisy, sensual
savage, which you are to keep down,
and turn all his strength to beauty.
For instance what a seneschal and de-
tective is laughter. 1t seems to require
several generations to train squeaking
or a shouting habit out of man. Some
times, when in almost expression the
Choctaw and the slave have been worked
out to him, a coarse nature still betrays
itself in his contemplate squeals of joy.
The great gain Is, not to shine, not to
conquer your companiOn-then you
learn nothing but cOnceit-but to find
a companion who knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown.
horse and foot, with utter destruction
of all your logic and learning. There
is defeat that is useful. Then you
can see the real and the counterfeit, and
will never accept the counterfeit again.
You will adopt the art of war that has
defeated you. You will ride to battle
horsed on the very logic which you
found irresistible. You will accept the
fertile truth instead of the solemn Gus
tomary lie.
When people come to see us we fool
ishly prattle, lest we be inbospifaoie.
But things said for conversation are
chalk eggs. Don't say things. !" nat
YOU are stands over you the while, ana
thmnders 40 that cannot hear what you
saw to the contrary. A lady Of my ac-
nny.;ntsnee say said 81 don't care so much
for what they say as do for what
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12

"Too much WOrk."-John wanted a
kite: nobody gave him one, and it was
too much cork, he said, to make one for
himself. So he went without. He wan
ted to have his examples in arithmetic
done; but it was too much work to ci-
pher them ont, so he copied them from
his class mates. So he never knew
much about figures. 1t was the same
way with his grammar and geography !;
"too much cork" he thought, to learn
them hard lessons" So they went
unlearned. -
Later he tried to carry on a little
business. But his old complaint too
much work- came on. He soon got
tired and gave it up.
Still later on an old man could be
seen in the country poor house. it was
John. Three little words brought him
there. Do you know what they were.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12
A simple Little Flower.

In one of the early comic ANIMALS
there are some amusing lines of Hood s
describing how country nurseryman
had made large sum out of the sale Of
simple little flower which he sold
under the name of the 'sRhodum Sidus.
This charming name had proved quite
an attraction to the ladies, and the
flower had become the rage OF the sea-
son. At length pertinacious botanist,
who found that the flower was not an
uncommon weed, insisted on knowing
where the nurseryman had got his
name from. He elected the following
reply.
aI found this flower in the road beside u.s.
so I christened IL the Rhodum Sidus."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12

A Talk with the Young Folks about
Leap Tear.-As a year has 365 days 1t
should be divided into months of 30
days and five months of 81 days each,
but instead of that it has months of
30 days. month of 2S days, and of 81
days.
But the yeaI is nearly six hours lon
ger than 365 days, so in every four
years a day has to be added in Febru-
airy to make all right, and that day has
come this year.
But the year is not quite three hun
dred and s;xty-fiv days and quarter.
Enough minutes are gained every four
years to make one day in a hundred
years, and therefore there is no leap
year in the years 1900 or 1900 or any
even hundred years.
This is a pretty fine calculation, but
only think of the wonderful skill which
makes our earth go round the sun eve
ry year in exactly the same days, hours,
minutes and seconds, without making
any mistakes at all. We could not
make the best watch keep time for a
year without losing or gaining some
hours or minutes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12
A Dinner In 0aheFia.

A letter from Siberia says: "Our din
ner party i'm the evening-and 1t was
really a dinner party-was extremely
merry. Each one laid his stores under
Some brought out fro
zen bread, others frozen caviare, others
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12

The Deacon attacks an old Sdying.-I
like Deacon Green. He goes straight
to the heart of things. and is not led
off by moonshine. The other day,
when a very positive and loud-voiced
lady was talking with the little school
mistress and himself about a certain
troublesome child, the lOud-vOiced la
dy exclaimed:
"PoOhl good influence isn't what she
needs. A bird that can sing and 'front.'
sing must be made to sing; that's my
doctrine.r s' -''t -'. s
With these words the lady glared at
the schoOlmistress who made no reply,
and then with an air of conscious vic
tory she turned to the Deacon, repeat
ing:
-Yes, sir, that's my doctrine 1i--
"a capital doctrine said the Deacon
with bow, "but there's flaw in your
illustration. ma'am." | t--l
"Butlr almost screamed the lady.
There's no but about it. | tell you
there's no other way. A bird that can
sing and wont sing must be made to
sing. You'll admit that l hope 1t is
true as gospel.
"Granted,r said the Deacon, with q
voice as soft as the swish of water
lily, most certainly, bird that can
sing and wont sing must he made to
sing; but how are you going to do 1t
"The fact is, my dear madam" con-
tinued the Deacon, "sOme of these old
sayings sound very well, but there's
nothing in them. I'd like to see the
person who can take bird that wont
sing and make him sing. Now, your
bird that can't sing and will sing. is
easily dealt with. You can at least
quiet him. But, for my part, I'd rather
undertake the management of all the
brass bands in the country than to
force music ont of the tiniest canary
when he chose to be silent."-St. Mich
Ol0S
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12
YOUrHy COLUR.

How long. 1t takes to make Slice OF
Bread.-"Oh, I'm so hungrym cried
Johnny, running in from play, "giye
me some bread and butter, quick, mo-
therw
THE bread IN baking. so you must
be patient said mother.
Johnny waited two minutes and then
asked if itwas not done. s-d st
No." answered mother, mot quite
1T seems to take long while to
make a slice of bread" said Johnny.
perhaps you don't know, Johnny,
how long it does take to make slice
of bread" said mother.
"How longr asked the little boy.
'The loaf was begun in the spring.
johnny opened bis eyes wide-.'it
was doing all summer it could not be
finished till the autumn" if .-
Johnny was glad it was autumn if it
took all that while; for so long a time
to hungry little boy was rather dis
why p he cried, drawing long
breath. -rrr-sI tst e't on
Because God is never in a hurry"
said mother. "The farmer dropped his
seeds in the ground in April she went
on to say, partly to make waitlng-t time
shorter, and more perhaps to drop good
seed by the wayside, "but the farmer
could not make them grow. An lnge-
Rious man could make something that
looked like wheat. Indeed, you often
see ladies' bonnets trimmed with SPRAYS
of wheat made by the milliners, and at
first sight you can hardly tell the diff
ference"
"Put them in the ground and see,n
said Johnny. .7.-lf .....s-s t
"Tbat would certainly decide. The
make-believe wheat would lie as still
as bits of iron. The real grain would
soon make a stir, because the real seeds
have life within them, and God only
gives life. The farmer, then, neither
makes the corn nor makes the corn
grow but drops it into the ground and
covers it up, and then leaves it to God.
God takes care of it. 1t is he who sets
mother earth nourishing it with her
warm Juices. He sends the rain, he
makes the sun shine, he makes it spring
uD, first the tender shoot, and then the
blades; and it takes May and June
and July and August, with all their
fair and foul weather, to set up the
stalks, throw ont the leaves, and ripen
the ear. If little boys are starving, the
corn grows no faster. God does not
hurry his work: he does all things
WE'LL" -- ...- 81 4
By this time Johnny had lost all his
impatieBce. He was thinking.
"Well.p he said at last. that's why
we pray TO God, Give us this day our
daily bread Before now thought it
was you, mother, that gave us daily
bread and now see it was God. We
should not have a slice, if it weren't
for God, would we, mother n /
, 1876-12-25

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