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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
"As Satan himself.v


"what If you knew that he was no
false? that he was true to you always
That the contemplate letter which you
read, purporting to have been written
by him, was a vile forgery? What
then 20
She was looking at him i'm mute sur
prise. She drew long breath.
"Was it a forgery?"
at was. have just heard the his.
tory of it. An ill-natured acquaintance
of Richardson's, to crafty a petty re-
venge, wrote the letter, and dropped il
where you would be sure to find it.
Leigh Richardson was loyal and true y
"Annie, my dear child, shall speak
to Mr.. Richardson about this mistake ?'i
''If you please. l would like him to
know that he is clear in my eyes. l
think he would be glad to know it. Tell
him just how it was, and ask him to
forgive me if L was harsh with him."
''Is that all?'
''That is ALL" fitt+
"Annie"'
"Mr. Etheredge!'
"Pardon me for pursuing the subject
but, if you still care for him, you Will
want TO speak to him on the matter
yourself"
"But do not care for him."
'Yo= do not? Why, may | ask 20
She blushed red as a rose. Etheredge
put the blush and the portrait he had
seen her kiss together. A sharp pang
pierced him.
SIS it because you love another2"
"Yes," she said, quietly, sit is be-
cause love another"
"And that other"
She rose abruptly, and flung of the
detaining hand he laid on her arm.
,,You have no right to ask me that, !"
she said, hoarsely. "Let me go. You
torture me-"
Il torture you, Annie; IL"
What possessed him he did not know !;
perhaps something her eyes said to him
made him told. He put his arm around
her, and drew her close to his side.
''Annie, if you love another l must
give you to him; your happiness shall
be secured to you though mine be ship
wrecked. l did not mean to tell you,
darling, but love you so it almost kills
me to think of losing you. Oh, Annie,
Annie! My little, lost Annie!"
Her face grew rosy as the morning.
She put her arm around his neck.
"Not lost but found" she said, softly.
"Annie,'' he cried, breathlessly, edo
not deceive me? What of the picture l
saw you kissing?"
She laughed little, and crimson
with confusion drew the locket from
her bosom and held it up to him.
He saw his own face.
"Forgive me, Milton. | got it of the
artist, and have worn it these two
years. Leigh Richardson is nothing to
me-you are ALL"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
Lambeft's Leap.

Near Newcastle, is Sandyford Bridge,
thirty six feet above the river, which,
like many Northern streams, is seldom
quite full, but flows in a channel, with
the rocky bed bare on each side; an
ugly bridge to look up to; or to look
over, driving by.
In Scotland and the North of England,
when our wise ancestors got hold of SC
dizzy and dangerous place, they made
the most of it; with incredulous perver-
sity they led the approach to such a
bridge either down steep, or nearly at
right angles. They carried Sandyford
lane up to the bridge on the rectangu-
lar plan, and thereby secured two events
which were but the result of their skill
in road-making, yet, taken in conjnnc-
ton, have other claims to notice.
At date 1 hope some day to ascertain
precisely, but at present can only say
that it was very early in the present
century, young gentleman called LAM
bert, was run away with by his horse +:
the animal came tearing down Sandy
ford lane, and, thanks to ancestral wis
dom aforesaid, charged the bridge with
such momentum and impetus that he
knocked a slice Off the battlement, and
half a ton of masonry, into the air, and
went down after it into the river, with
his rider.
The horse was killed; Mr.. Lambert,
though shaken, was not seriously in
jured by this awful leap. The mason
ry was repaired; and, to mark the event,
these words, ''Lambert's Leap" were
engraved ON the new coping. stone. The
road was allowed to retain its happy
angle.
December 3, 1922, about eleven, fore
noon, Mr.. John Nicholson, of Newcas-
tie, student in surgery, was riding in
Sandyford lane. His horse ran away
with him, and being unable to take the
sharp turn for such cases made and pro-
vided, ran against the battlement Of the
bridge. 1t resisted this time, and brought
the horse to its knees; but the animal,
being now thoroughly terrified, rose and
actually leaped, or scrambled, over the
battlement, and fell into the rock bed
below, carrying away single coping
stone, viz, the stone engraved "Lam-
bert's Leap" That stone was broken
20 pieces by the fall; the poor young
man was so cruelty injured that he
never spoke again; he died at seven
O'Clock that eveRing-but the horse was
so little the worse, and so tanned by the
fall, that he was at once ridden into
Newcastle for assistance.
The reversed fates of the two animals,
and the two incidents happening with
in an inch of each other, have earned
them a place in this collection.
Richardson's "Local Historians Ia
BILE Book" relates the second leap. and
refers to the first, which is also authen-
Redde.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
Profanity.

We are emphatically in the the age of
and it seems to us that We are
on the topmost current. One cannot go
on the streets anywhere without having
his ears offended with the vilest words,
and his reverence shocked by the most
profane use of sacred names. Nor does
it come from the old or middle aged
alone, for it is fact that the younger por-
ton of the community are most prof.
cient in degrading language. Boys have
an idea that it is smart to swear; that
it makes them manly, but there never
was a greater mistake in the world.
Men, even those who swear themselves,
are disgusted with profanity in young
man, because they know how, OF all bad
habits, this clings the most closely and
increases with years. 1t is the most in
sIdious Of habits, growing on one so in
visibly, that almost before one is aware
he becomes an accomplished cursor.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
Spanish Brfgandage.

Keeping along the eastern coast OF
Spain, our travellers visited Tarrapona
and Valencia. When Baron Davillier
previous to his trip with Dore, there
were no railroad, and brigands were
said to infest it. According to the tales
of travellers, no one ever set out without
preparing for some adventure, and
those who lived to return, if they had
not been actually attacked, had barely
escaped, and could tell at least one tale
of mysterious Spaniards, wrapped alike
in their mantles and the gloom of the
night, or disappearing suddenly bent
on some deed of darkness, with their
uplifted swords or daggers cleaning in
the pale moonlight. These were the
good old times, when the coaches were
regularly stopped, and no one ever set
tied in his seat without having his ran
som ready at hand. The brigand's pro-
fession was then lucritive one, carried
on in broad daylight, and each highway
was secured by its own peculiar band,
who regarded it as private property. 1t
is even said that the coSSdriOs-the
drivers-were in league with the BAN
dts, and agreed with them to share
their booty, or rather the coachman
paid regular blackmail, which was
contributed by the passengers; and,
curiOusly enough, the members of the
band always knew when and where to
receive this tribute. Sometimes the
chief of a band, having earned a eompe-
tency by the exercise of his noble pro-
fessiOn, would settle down TO an unevent-
ful life of simple respectability, but be-
fore abandoning the kings highway he
was careful to sell the goodwill of his
business to some enterprising successor,
who probably inspected the accounts,
and was fully instructed in the secrets
of the profession. In spite of these
very attractive storiss, alas our travel
ers never saw, far or near, the figure of
a single brigand, although they fire.
quently traversed the roads and rocky
defiles recommended to be the most like
ly and dangerous. Still these bandits
are DOW and then heard of, and as re-
Gently as 1871 they displayed enterprise
and bOldness enough to stop railway
train near Sierra Morena, and rob the
passengers. Travelling by diligence is,
of course, still In vogue where the
railroads have not penetrated, and this
method of progression has its wild ex-
in spite of the diminution of
brigandage. Between Barcelona and
Valencia, Davillier and Dore passed
frightful ravine, into which diligence
had been precipitated, carrying in its
fall both horses and travelers.-!ScriJner.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
ALawyer and q Witness.

The tedious session of the supreme
court at Pittsfield Mass. was recently
relieved by an incident. a leading
member of the bar, rather noted for
strategy of confusing witnesses by
working them into passion, had under
cross-examination woman who seemed
on apt subject for his favOrite tactics
having wound her up to the desired
pitch. he inquired-"Madam, are you
now living with your first Or second
husband?"
"That's none of your business ~
sharp and short.
With an offended dignity, the attor-
nev turned to Chief Justice Bringnam,
who said with smile:
ssI think the witness is about right in
that, is she nOt?'
This reminds the old members of the
bar OF a similar misadventure that a
still more distinguished member of the
Berkshire bar once met at the hands of
Chief Justice Shaw. o.
"where did you get the money with
which you made the purchase spoken
off, asked the ''learned brother" of a
witness under the torture of cross ex-
animation
"None of your gentle expletive)
business - thundered the victim.
Snow may it please your honor, are
counsel to be insulted in this manner?'
appealed the lawyer.
Witness" said the chief justice
compassionately, edo You wish to
change your last answer.
'No sir, dOn't!'
swell, wouldn't If were in your
place"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
TURNING GRAY.

I.ife's sands are running fast away.
The buoyant step Of youth has gone.
The falling hair is turning gray,
And time seems now to hurry on
More fieetly than in days of yore.
Before the heart became its prey,
Before twas saddened to the core,
Before the hair was turning gray.
Yes. turning gray age comes like snow,
As still. and carves each careworn line;
lts wrinkles on the brow will grow.
The hair with silvery streaks will shine.
The eyes their brightness lose, the hand
Grows dry and tremulous and thin;
For life, alas, is quickly spanned
And death its gates soon closes in
All. turning gray, we vain would hide
This sign how long with time we've been !;
These deepened wrinkles side by side
Cut by the sorrows We have seen.
For feeble beats the heart as years
More thickly cluster on our head,
As autumn raindrops hang like tears
on some fair flower that's nearly dead
Like pcrished petals from the flower.
Our hopes and widest joys are laid.
Born only for a day or hour,
Sweet gsmbols by the fancy played
As age comes on We long for rest,
As saints near shrines will long to pray:
But still We love that time the best
Before the hair WAS turning gray
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08

Nutrfiive Value OF Fruits.

Very many persons Overestimate the
value of fruits as food. To tell the
plain truth they are not much in that
way, and therefore should be considered
more in the light of a luxury. You
could not live long on fruits alone.
Every bad boy knows this-he well re-
members how soon hunger returns
after he has enjoyed the freedom of
some neighbours orchard unknown to
the proprietor. The indulgence fills
him, but doesn't satisfy him, simply for
the reason that the food taken does not
contain the requisite food elements for
his organization.
DIR. Fresenius has lately been ana
Lying various fruits with a view to
ascertaining their relative value as
foods. In his list he puts cherries-as
exhibiting the lowest relative value
at OLE hundred and seventeen, apples,
one hundred and ninety-two, grapes,
at one hundred and twenty, blackber-
ries, one hundred and ninety-six, goose
tWO kifu wv ChSy -cCNCb,
apricots, two hundred and twenty.
plums, two hundred. Strawberries, one
hundred and sixty-one, common plums
two hundred and ten, pears, three hun
dred and eighty-fve. raspberries one
hundred and eighty-three, peaches, two
hundred and ten, and white desert ap-
Piles two hundred and fifty-four. Ac-
cording to this, he says, it would take
very nearly five pounds of pears to yield
as much albumen (real food) as is con-
tanned in a single hens egg. Prof.
Volt, of Munich, says man in ordi-
nary work requires every twenty-four
hours for his nutrition as much albu-
men as is contained in eighteen eggs,
so if it were required to give him tie
necessary amount in the form Of pears,
no less than seventy-five pounds per
diem must be eaten.
|. Notwithstanding these startling dis
closures, adds the Live Stock Record,
the value of fruit, as an article of diet,
is not to be despised. Not only is it
most easily digested In itself, but by rea-
son of the acids, which all its varieties
contain Though Oftentimes so disguised
by sugary matter as to be imperceptible
to the taste), it aids in the digestion of
other substances which are less amena-
BILE to the action of an ordinary stomach.
But those persons who intend to be-
come vegetarians-especially if they
have a failing for pears, and expect to
grow fat on them-should be sure their
stomach capacity is sufficiently large
before they entirely foreswear the use
of fish, flesh and fowl. a
While the acids alluded to are good
In some cases. they are in many in
stances the worst faults that fruits
have. Few persons with weak stomachs
can stand them, which explains why
sick headache prevails to such an ex-
tent in fruit time. Very many persons
suffer severe attacks Of sick headache
from eating acid fruits. OF these toma-
toes are most to be dreaded; apples
come next, oranges next, and peaches
next. The scuppernong grape is gen.
orally considered very unwholesome,
but our observation teaches us that it
is less likely to bring on sick headache
than most other acid fruits,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
Capital and Labor.

Ask any economist, and he will tell
you that capital is the accumulation Of
past labor, intended to move Or.assist
labor, and it is either transient or per-
manent assistance, the former requiring
constant renovation, the latter being Of
an enduring character. Ask him what
labor is, anu he will tell you that it is
the power which intelligence gives man
over the properties of matter and life
by which muscular effort can make
matter useful. 1t will be added that
this power which the laborer is able
to exercised over matter may be
either the direct action of the man, or
may be indirectly exhibited upon GER
tain inorganic and organic powers; in
other words, that the workman may be
plying his own muscles, or may be
guiding animal power, or be using
steam, wind or any other natural motion
for his own ends. In technical language
economists speak of fixed and circulat-
ing capital, of muscular and nervous
labor. All these definitions and dis
tinctions, however, are not fundamental,
but only denote tendencies under which
the same facts appear in different forms,
or in which one of the circumstances
which accompanies the fact is exhibited
in different degrees of intensity. Thus
the labor of the manager is said to be
nervous, that of a workman muscular.
But unintelligent effort is of no avail,
even for the commonest acts, nor can
the sharpest intelligence give effect to
Is thoughts, except by means of mus
cular effort. No labor appears to be
more characteristic of the brain than
the thoughts Of poet or musician are,
but both these personages must at least
exercise the mechanical function of
writing or speaking. Again it is true,
that capital is the accumulation Of past
labor, embodied or condensed in mater
ial objects. With one exception, name
ly, land available for occupation or cul- |
tivation in densly peopled countries,
there is no object whatever which pos
sesses value, that has not obtained its |
value by reason that labor has been ex-
pended on it. A sack of wheat, bale of
cotton, barrel of wine, wedge Of gold,
a house, or a spinning machine posses
ses, whatever value the market assigns
to it by reason that labor has been ex-
pended ON its production. 1t signifies !
nothing from its point of view, whether
the article is movable or has been gifted
with qualities which cannot be recOv-
cred or resumed in their original form.
In every case it is labor, and labor only,
which confers on these subjects those
properties which economists recognise
and comment on.-Prof ROgers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
when to be Idle.

There are undoubtedly seasons and
periods when it is wise to wait-when
it is not wise to commence an undertake
ing, great or small. There are studies
which it is not worth mans while to
take up, pursuits which is not worth
which it is not worth while to fill with
an occupation. No doubt we have all
our peculiar notions on this head. 1t
does not seem to US worth while to read
at dinner-time, or out of doors, or to
set ones self to learn a language in re
curing spare moments; these acts come
under the same category of virtue with
the old housewives economy of time
which makes her sit up in bed and
knit stockings in the dark, or rethread
her needle, at infinite expense of time
and eyesight, TO save an inch Of cotton.
There are vast numbers of small indus
tries that are not worth the while of
a man with one settled occupation
which engages fair portion of his
Il1llt. we HstNc HUI uiuOii idilh III tlC
achievements done in odd minutes. We
believe that there is usually more loss
than gain by them, and that manners
and conversation both suffer where
there is this trick of thinking it worth
while to pull out some impediment of
labor-pen, pencil, or needle-at times
when other people are content to seem
unemployed, and are only busy in be-
ing agreeable and placing themselves
at the service of their company. Moth
ing ministers so much to impatience as
these habits. 1t is an evidence of tho
rough self mastery when man who
knows how to use time has the sense to
recognize when time is not worth using
in any definite, ostensible way
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
The squirrel and the burglar:

A German story thus illustrates the
fact that no creature is too small to be
of use, sooner or later:
Gan apothecary had tame squirrel,
which he was in the frequent habit OF
RECALLING with nuts, and which he used
to keep in his own private room adjoin-
ing his shop. The little fellow was al
lowed plenty of liberty, for the door OF
his cage was frequently left open, and
he used to climb up doors and windows
and spring thence upon mis- masters
hand.
'On che occasion he jumped upon the
broad brimmed hat of Quaker who
came into the shop. He made friends
with all his masters aequaintanees, but
if anybody teased him he could show
that he knew how to bite.
GAS the winter came on, he was in
the habit of building himself nest of
any tow he might find about, and used
to choose for residence the pocket of his
masters coat.
When, in the evening, the coat was
taken off and hung upon nail, the lit
tie squirrel would climb up the door on
which the nail stood, run down the
coat, and take up his quarters in the
pocket, carrying always in his mouth a
good supply of the tow, which he had
prepared and rolled together beforehand,
and with which he cOntrived TO make
in the pocket the cosiest nights lodg-
ing in the world.
"a housebreaker, watching his op-
portunity, selected an especially dark
night for getting in through the window
of the apOthecary's little back room be-
hind the shop, with, as you may imag-
inc, no good end in view.
''IIe knew that the apothecary kept
no dog; he could easily guess where his
coat was likely to be hanging up. He
soon found the pocket, and was just
about to Tighten it of purse, poeket-boOk
and keys, when misfortune totally un-
expected befell him.
SIN rummaging FOR keys and purse,
he had struck the squirrel, of whose
strange habits with regard to his bed
room he had not been aware.
"NOt liking to be thus suddenly dis
turbed, the little animal gave the thief
so sharp bite on his thumb that he
could not fOrbear yelling with pain, and
the master of the house, alarmed at the
unusual sound, came into the room
armed with the poker, just as the thief
was escaping through the window.
''The watchman happening to be pas
sing, the unwelcome guest was given in
to custody; and as the geese at Rome
had saved the capital by their cackling,
so the little squirrel had saved his mas
ter's property by lodging in his coat
pocket"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
Pulpits.

Who knows what becomes Of the old
pulpits? What curious tales might be
told of some of them; and if they could
speak or write, what curious tales they
could tell! But, as matter of curiosity,
we should like to know whether any of
the pilgrim pulpits. for instance are in
existence, and where. Let some of the
the old brethren rub up their memories
and let us see what is known of these
old standpoints.
To give an idea of what We mean,
here are three or four facts about pull
pits in Europe: In closet near the
door OF the church of st. Nicholas, at
Leipsic, is the pulpit in which Martin
Luther, the reformer preached.
The pulpit of the celebrated Richard
Baxter is still preserved i'm the vestry
of the Unitarian church at kiddermins-
ter, and was occupied by the writer a
few years ago. 1t is small, and of oc-
tagonal form. In the front, near the
top, are the words, in yellow letters,
Praise We the Lord" and on the front
panels are the words, "Daw widow
gave this
John Bunyan's pulpit was removed
many years since, from Bedford to
London and it is feared is now lost.
His vestry chair is yet preserved in the
vestry of the present church; his pulpit
Bible is in the possession of the distin-
guished family of Withdrawals, who
purchased it for large sum, and his
large awkward pulpit candlesticks are
i'm the pulpit of the Baptist church at
Irthlingborough, in Nerthamptonshire.
The pulpit of the excellent DIR. Isaac
Watts was sold few years ago in Lon
don, and is yet used I'm small place o
worship in that city.
The pulpit used by George Whitefield,
in his open air efforts on Blackheath,
was carefully preserved until a few
years since, when it was borrowed by
a careless preacher and broken.
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and he perceived that he held his be-
loved clasped in his arms.
The legend is pretty one, although
it is alleged that it had its origin in the
circumstance of young hunter having
once chased moose so hotly that the
animal leaped over the precipice; when
he, coming too swiftly and suddenly to
its brink, and unable to check his speed
was carried over also.