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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
Sauandering Pricele.. Gifts.

Among the numberless marvels at
which nobody marvels, few are more
marvellous than the recklessness with
which priceless gifts, intellectual and
moral, are squandered. Often have |
gaZed with wonder at the pr0digality
displayed by nature in the cistus, which
unfolds hundreds or thousands of its
starry blossoms, morning after morn
ing, to shine in the light of the sun for
an hour or two, and then fall to the
ground. But who among the sons and
daughters of men-g gifted with thoughts
which wander through eternity, and
with powers which have the godlike
privilege of working good and giving
happiness-who does not daily let
thousands of these thoughts drop to
the ground and rot who does not con-
tinually leave his powers to draggle in
the moald of their own leaves The
imagination can hardly conceive the
heights of greatness and glory to which
mankind would be raised, if all their
thoughts and energies were to be ami
mated with living purpose. But, as
in a forest of oaks, among the millions
of acorns that fall every autumn. there
may, perhaps, be one in million that
will grow on into a tree-somewhat In
like manner fares it with the thoughts
and feelings of man. What, then, must
be our confusion when we see all these
wasted thoughts and feelings rise up
in Judgment and bear witness against
u.s.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
Teaching Children Courage.

Courage is a vital element of Chris
tian chivalry. Without it indeed neither
truth nor fidelity to promise can be
hoped for. The coward is sure to lie
when truth means punishment, and
sure to retreat from his engagements
when they involve peril. We need valiant
souls that have learned to endure and
scorn pain, and to face danger fearlessly
and promptly when duty requires.
Some parents evade this vital part
of training by CLOSES and deception. A
mother who has taken her boy to the
dentists to get a tooth out will often
say, if he is shrinking, ''Sit still, my
nv boy; it won't hurt you" Now she
knows it will hurt him, but thinks if
she can only get him by this device to
sit still and let the dentist get hold of
the tooth, then his discovery of the pain
will not hinder its extraction. This is
double mistake, Ii destroys her boy 8
confidence i'm her; for he detects her in
lie. And though it gets the boy this
time, TO sit still, it is under the delusion
that there is to be no pain, whereas he
should be taught to face the pain and
to scorn il. This makes the difference
between towards and heroes. A regi-
iment of poltroons could march up TO a
battery as cheerfuliy as regiment of
heroes if they thought there was no
enemy at the guns. The difference is
that heroes know the danger and yet
flce il valiantly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
Moral Courage.

Sidney Smith, in his work on moral
philosophy, speaks in this wise. of what
men lose for want of a little courage,
or independence of mimi "A great
deal of talent is lost in the world for
the want of a little courage. Every
day sends to the grave a number of
obscure men, who have only remained
in obscurity because their timidity has
prevented them from making the first
effort and who if they could be in
duced to begin, would in all prObabil
ity, have gone great lengths in the ca
reer of fame. The fact is, that to do
anything in this world worth doing, we
must not stand shivering, and thinking
of the cold and the danger, but jump
in and scramble through as well as we
can. Itwill not do to be perDetually
calculating tasks, and adjusting nice
chances it did very well before the
flood, where a man could consult his
friends upon an intended publication
for hundred and fifty wears, and then
live to see its success afterwards; but
at present, man waits and doubts
and hesitates and cOnsults his brother,
and his uncle, and his particular
friends, till one fine day he finds that
he is sixty years of age; that he has
lost so much time in consulting his
first cousin and particular friends, that
he has no more time to follow their
adVlcp
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
A Pie. for the wild Elephant.

A correspondent of Land and Water
calls attention to the slaughter of ele-
plants, arranged TO take place at Trim
comalee, in Ceylon, on the occasion of
the Princes visit. The elephants are
described as roaming about in large
herds in the most tame and inoffensive
fashion, almost needless of man, for
none have been shot for upwards of
twelve months. There is at present
such large class of society in England,
who advocate kindness to animals in all
its forms, that we VENTURE to predict
that, when the battue and shooting down
of these semi-tame elephants. occurs,
the accounts will be received in England
by the humane and thoughtful portion
of the community with feelings the re-
verse of satisfactory. 1t seems pity to
destroy, for the sake of simple sport.
such useful intelligent animals as ele-
plants. In destroying tigers and other
strictly wild and destructive beasts, the
sportsmen perform public service, and
this knowledge doubtless adds additional
zest to the enterprise; but the whole
sale destruction of these huge and valu-
able assistants TO man, on the plea OF
sport. when their hunting and capture
for domestication would be equally ex-
citing and far more instructive, is a
proceeding repugnant alike to the teach
ings of our flag, and to our humane
ideas of advanced civilization. If the
risk of life from the furions charge of a
wounded bull elephant is required 10
establish the courage of their future
king i'm the eyes of his Eastern Empire,
let some other plan be devised, and LET
his millions of half civilized subjects
practically associate his visit with re-
collections of mercy rather than with
the wanton slaughter of animals almost
idOlized for their utility, and tractability
the most powerful, and yet the most
docile, creatures in the universe. Wan
ton waste brings wOeful want. The
commercial loss, though large, in an
elephant battue is not of so much con-
sequence as the example. The wanton
slaughter of buffalOes of late years on
the American prairies, and of moose
deer in Canada, has already excited the
action of their respective Governments
and nearly every State of the Union ha:
been compelled to pass severe repressivt
game laws 10 prevent the determination
of many of the indigenous birds ano
beasts, and this, too, in wild country
with almost unlimited range. We trus
to hear that the royal party will have
plenty of sport in every Legitimate sense
but elephant battues are not Legitimate
sport. Sport is misnomer: it is simple
butchery.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
Something TO Set ms ThinkfnE.

Ninety years hence not single man
or woman, now twenty years of age,
will be alive. Ninety years. Alas
how many lively actors at present on
the stage of life Will make their exit
long ere ninety years shall have rolled
away. And could we De sure of ninety
years. what are they: "a tale that is
told;" a dream; an empty sound, that
passeth on the wings of the wind away
and is forgotten. Years shorten as man
advances i'm age. Like the degrees in
longitude. mans life declines as he
travels toward the frozen pole, until it
dwindles to a point and vanishes for
ever. Is it possible that life is of so
short duration? Win ninety years
erase all the golden names over the
doors in town and country, and substi-
tute others in their stead? Will all the
new blooming beauties fade and disap-
pear, all the pride and passion, the love
hope and joy pass away in ninety years
and be forgotten. 'Ninety years"
says Death; edo you think shall wait
ninety years. Behold to day and to-
morrow, and every day are mine. When
ninety years are past, this generation
will have mingled with the dust and be
remembered not!'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
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Walt.

Wait, husband, before you wonder
audibly why your wife don't get along
with the household affairs ''as your
mother did," She is doing her best
and no woman can endure that best to
be slighted. Remember the long weary
nights she sat up with the little babe
that died; remember the love and care
she bestowed upon you when you had
that long spell of sickness. Do you
think she is made of cast iron? Wait
wait i'm silence and forbearance, and the
light will come back to her eyes-the
old light of the old days.
Wait, wife, before you speak re-
proachfully to your husband when he
comes home late, weary, and ''out of
Sorts" He has worked hard for you
all day, perhaps far into the night; he
has wrestled, hand in hand with care,
and selfishness and greed, and all the
demons that follow in the train of money
making. Let home be another atmos-
phere entirely. Let him feel that there
is no other place in the world where he
can find peace and quiet, and perfect
love.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
sehenehs Ma.dr.ke Pills

Will be found TO possess those qualities neces-
sary to the total eradication Of all bilious at
tacks, prompt to start the secretons OF the liver
and give healthy tone TO the entire system.
Indeed, It Is no ordinary discovery In medical
science TO have invented remedy for these
stubborn complaints which develop all the re-
suits produced by heretofore free use OF Gallo
mel mineral Justly dreaded by mankind, and
acknowledged TO be destructive In the extreme
10 the human system. That the properties OF
certain vegetables comprise all the virtues Of
calomel without It's injurious tendencies, Is nov
an admitted fact rendered indlsputable by SCI
enrific researches; and those who use the Man
drake Pills Will be fully satisfied that the best
medicines are those provided oy nature In the
common herbs and roots Of the fields
These pills open the towels and correct all
bilious arrangements without salvation or any
OF the injurious effects o. calomel or other pol
sons The secretion q bile is promoted BY
hese pills as viii be seen by the altered color
OF the stools and disappearing OF the sallow
complexion and cleansing OF the tongue.
Ample directions for use accompany each pox
OF pills.
Prepared only by ). q. Schenck & Son, at their
principal ONCE, corner Sixth and Arch streets
Philadelphia, and for sale by all druggists and
dealers. Price IS certs Der box. .t
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
THE HIDDEN BROOK.
BY JOIN TRowBRIDeE-

What is this melody beneath the grass:
Come hither stoop and Esten-nearer yet
And push aside the thick and tangled net
OF bending rushes and the brakes green mass.
It tones the shrilling of the locust's gles,
And. like a harper's touches falling in
With high notes of masters violin.
1t binds jarring strain to harmony.
Hush. boboiinkl and cease to emulate.
Gay bird, thou hast not caught he gentle
song;
Too many roguish thoughts together throng,
And mingle in thy carols to thy mate.
But, fresh from graver forest-symphonies,
Tho winds, in varied movement, low and
sweet,
Within the pines and birch-trees may repeat
This sweetest Of the meadows melodies.
-S7iLner's Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
Corporal Punishment I'm the schools

Within a few years some of our COM
munities have forbidden all resort to
corporal punishment for refractory pu-
pills. Ii is denounced as barbarous and
degrading An indiscreet administra-
ton of it arouses an excitement as in
discreet rs the original sin. Instead of
removing the one offender, we remove
from all hands the weapon with which
he has offended. 1t is always so much
easier to generallze than to discriminate.
Nevertheless relapse into barbarism
sufficiently to suggest that, in the pres
ent state of our civilization and our
school organization, corporal punish
ment is a means of grace which we can
not abolish, and have not abolished with
out injury. The necessity of using it is
very, perhaps increasingly rare. The
teacher who frequently and freely re-
sorts to it is presumptively unfit for his
situation. But the power TO use it
should vest in the teacher, and is pre-
ventive of mischief. Corporal punish
ment has never been abolished in the
Kingdoms of nature or of grace. Every
teacher knows that there are boys, who,
by some inward conformation or some
defect Of home training, do not respond
TO the ordinary motives OF the school
room.
We give the little victims over. un-
helped and hardened, to the cruel indul-
gence, to the fatal unwisdom of their
untaught, INCAPABLE guardians. To
turn many of these boys out of school is
to turn them upon the street, is TO let
them loose into a life of idleness and
lawlessness- 1t is unjust to the parents,
rs well as ruinous TO the child. The
former have paid their share of the
taxes which support the school and they
have right to all the benefit which the
school is capable of bestowing. When
they send their children TO school, the
school ought to teach and govern them,
not send them home again. This is just
what the naughty boys want. In very
many cases the rod would not need to be
used. If the boy knows that by playing
tricks, or by prolonged idleness, or con-
tumacy, or rebellion, he will be only
sent adrift, he will play the tricks and
wrench himself free from restraint. The
sweeping away of corporal punishment
from schools is the Towering of that
tare of weakness which springs TO vigor-
Gus growth side by side with the wheat
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
sympseu,s ef C.s.rrh.

Dull. heavy headache, obstruction OF the
nasal passages, discharges falling from the
head into the throat, sometimes profuse,
watery. and acrid, at others, thick, tena-
cious, mucous, purulent, bloody and putrid;
the eyes are weak, watery and infsmed ;
there is ringing in the ears, deafness, hack
ing or coughing to clear the throat, expec-
toration Of offensive matter, together with
scabs from ulcers; the voice is changed and
has q nasal twang, the breath is offensive,
smell and taste are impaired; there Is
sensation of dizziness, mental depression,
hacking cough, and general debility. Only
few Of the above-nsmed symptoms are,
however, likely to be present in any one
case. There is no disease more common
than Catarrh, and none LEES understood by
physicians.
DR. sAGE's cATARRH REMEDY
is, beyond all comparison, the best prepara-
ton for Catarrh ever discovered. Under
the influence of its mild, soothing and heal
ing properties, the disease soon yields. The
Golden Medical Discovery should be taken
to correct the blood, which is always at
fault, and to act specifically upon the dis
eased glands and lining membrane Of the
nose. The Catarrh Remedy should be ap-
piled rara with Dr. Pieree's Nasal Douehe
the only instrument by which fluids can
be perfectly injected into all the passages
and chambers Of the nose from which dis
charges proceed.
These medicines are sold by Druggists.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05

Makdrof's Mdts.-As a substitute for
sails in stopping leaks in ships, Lieu
tenant Makaroff, a young officer serv-
ing in the Russian navy, designed a
mat of peculiar construction. The
MakarOff mat has for its basis closely
worked structure of rope about inch
in diameter, made of the finest hemp,
while the matlike surface closely re-
sembles that common to all mats Ofthe
kind used for street doors. The tex
ture of the mat is wonderfully close ;
and as the whole is treated with wa
ter proof composition, it may be re-
garded as practically impermeable to
water. The hairy side of the mat is
that applied to the ships side, and it
is stated-and We see no reason to
doubt the statement-that these mats
may be dragged over Jagged edged
holes in iron plates without sustaining
any injury.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05

of kindness in your rich American soil.
1t is the same vague, blind, emasculate,
injudicious c0mplaisance which winks
at crime and shrinks from punishment
and pardons out, and is not so far re-
moved from cruelty to the community
as it is from beneficence to the criminal.
And always and everywhere it is, to the
full measure of its influence, subversive
of manhood and fatal to Character
Gal Hdmilton, in Independent.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05


What makes Water Hdrd.-But,
though insoluble in pure water which
is already charged with carbonic acid,
and az all rain-water brings down car
bOnic from the air, it is capable of tax
ing up carbonate of lime from the soils
and rocks through which 1t filters; and
it thus happens that all springs and
rivers, that rise in localities in which
there is any kind of calcareOus rock,
become more or less charged with car
Donate of lime kept in solution by an
excess of carbOnic acid. This is what
gives the peculiar character to water
which Is known as hardness; and a
water hard enough to curdle soap may
be converted into very soft water
(as the late Prof. Clark, of Aberdeen,
shOwed) by the simple addition of lime
water. which, by combining with the
excess of carbOnic acid, causes the
precipitation of all the lime i'll solution
in the form of insoluble carbonate.
which gradually settles to the bottom,
leaving the water clear.-Poputdr Sci
ence Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05

Erer since SchOenbein showed that
a mouse shut up in an atmosphere of
ozone died i'm about five minutes, a no.
ton has prevailed that ozone acts in
an energetic way on the animal bO-
dy but until these experiments were
made. scarcely anything was known of
the subject. The conclusions, as sta
ted by the experimentalists, are 1.
That the inhalation of an atmosphere
highly charged with ozone diminishes
the number of respiratiOns per min
ute. 2. The pulsatiOns of the heart are
reduced in strength, and the heart is
found beating feebly after the death
of the animal Experimental On). 3.
The blood is always found in a venOus
condition in all parts OF the body. both
in cases of death in an atmosphere of
ozonized air and of Ozonized oxygen
Qn this particular the action resembles
that of carbOnic acid.) 4. Ozone exer-
cises destructive action on the living
animal tissues if brought into immedi-
ate contact with them; but it does not
affect them so readily if they are COW
cred by layer of fluid. ). Ozone acts
as an irritant to the mucous membrane
of the nostrils and air-passages, as all
observers have previously remarked.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
rhe Centennial Year

opeus with a Great Centennial Concert
at Fort Scott, Kansas, JANUARY 1sr, 1876.
Tickets g.. First Prize, Davidson's
Opera House, worth $4,000; Second
Prize, $4,000; and 1856 prizes. from
81. 900 down. Tire enterprise Is endorsed
by the best citizens Of the State, and Is
the most liberal ever offered to the pub
lie. For particulars address j. s.
EMMERT, FoRT Scorr, KANSAS.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05

Pneumatic Ponto0ns.-Knapp's open
bottom pneumatic jacks or pontOOns
are attached by chains passing under
the wreck, and the claiming is ingeni-
Ously effected by means of small tube
passed under the wreck, through which
q float and line attached to the cable
are drawn. Compressed air is then ad-
mltted to the pOntOOns, which instantly
give the lifting power. The advanta-
ges of this system consist in easy man
agement and the possibility of being
used in exposed situations and it ap-
pears to be extensively patronized-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05

PAsTURING MEADows.-I know of
some farmers that almost as soon as the
hay crop is removed turn stock upon
them and let it remain there during
the growing season, and the conse-
auence is, that a productive meadow
will become impoverished by this ruiz
nous course, so that in a few years IL
will not produce one-half what it did
formerly. Then the owner begins to
find fault and thinks il has run out and
wants ploughing up, never once taking
a sensible view of the matter. Some
meadows are naturally rich in fertili-
zing properties, or perhaps have the
wash of stock yard, or by some means
are kept up in high state of productive
ness that will bear to be pastured to a
certain extent. But cattle should not
be allowed to come on a meadow until
the second growth has attained consid-
cradle size, and then they should be re-
moved before eating too close. And i
thing another important matter is in
keeping up the fertility of the soil, and
TO keep the grass before the seed is ripe.
The hay is better and the fertilizing
properties required from the soil to
mature the seed it retained. l have
three acres of meadow and one year j
decided to leave the second growth on
to rot down. Now, what do you think
my neighbors thought about it? Some
said would go crazy; others said, 10,
it is too bad that you leave so much
nice grass on your meadow" but told
them they should wait till the coming
summer, that we would talk the matter
over. The crop realized from my
meadow was six tons of hay. The best
crop before was about four tons. We
would advise farmers not to be afraid
to leave on a little grass in the fall
ID. n, Kern in Practical Farmer.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05

INDIAN RUsK.-Two light cups of
Indian meal, one cup of white flour,
one teaspoonful Of saleratus, enough
sour or butter milk to dissolve, one cup
sweet, stir in three-fourths of cup Of
molasses,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05

The tobacco-growers up the Con-
necticut valley say that the crop Of to-
bacco on the poles appears better this
wear than ever before.