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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-10-04

A PRUDENT man is like a pin; his
head prevents him going too far.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-10-04
MALLORY NOMINATED

A fifth ballot resulted in the following:
Mallory.
DaVls... u
The total vote cast was 24l necessary
to choice, 12l. Judge Mallory was
then made the candidate by a unani-
nous vote.
Recess until o'clock.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-10-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
DEBT STATEMENT.

The September statement of the public
debt is as follows:
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
American Girls.

Your true American girl Is a very
charming being. Like all creatures
reared in freedom. she possesses an un-
taught grace and vigor of mind as well
as of body. She is no helpless puppet,
like her European prototype, pulled
about by hidden wires, and kept perpet-
ually in box. Bred amid the health
ful atmosphere of social system % ex-
ceptiOnal purity. respected, hOnored,
and guarded from baby hood by chival-
rous natures that surround her, she
learns to think and act for herself, and
to think and act ,.aright. 1t is WELL
nigh impossible TO overestimate her in
fiuence on our social system. Reared
at her side the American youth grows
up with an instructive reverence for
and desire TO protect helpless innocence
and maidenly purity. The salons to
which she lends the charm of her win
ming graces and youthful sweetness are
more potent for good than were the
salons of Recamier or De Stael. The
love that she inspires is young mans
best shield against temptation. She
does not herself understandable smil-
ing maiden-what good she has done
and is doing overy day. Yet her white
image has waved back many youth
from the pathway of temptation, her
clear eyes lent light to the comprehen-
sion of better things.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31

higher moral status for themselves or
the other sex. \ vast, a multitudinous
aspect of crime underlies these child
less unions; and women have too
willingly lent themselves to it. by their
unwomanly love of ease, of fashion and
display.
They defraud the world of its element
of youth and innocence by the presence
of the child, and they dwarf their own
souls by ignoring state which is truly
the perfection of womanhood, no less
than the promoter of health and beauty.
/ Let them live ''in maiden meditation,
fancy free" if they choose, but do not
marry without a motive to sanction it,
pure expression of affection ultinated
| by the presence of third, i'm the shape
of a lovely image of the best life of the
two.
The workwoman honestly and un-
flinchingly redeems her marriage con-
tract, and i'm this way she is more
| praiseworthy and more to be honored
than the would-be fine lady who evade-
her marriage obligations. She is not 8
| fraud, nor a mean pretender 10 affection
or morality. All is decent, true and
real with her, and she has no fears OF
her good man, that he will give her
cause for jealousy.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31

den, being used to carry packs up and
down the rugged mountain roads. The
fleece consists of long, lustrous, hairy
wool or woody hair, which is fine and
elastic. From this is made the fabric
known as alpaca and many small
wares, such as braids and tassels. From
other varieties, having somewhat diff
ferent wool, softer kinds of goods in
Guiding gloves, are made. The flesh of
the alpaca is eatable; and the animal is
very docile and easily kept. Its form
is picturesque, and should make it suffi-
ciently attractive and promising, to in-
duce some persons of wealth and enter
prise who possess country places, tO
experiment with it, not only for their
own pleasure, but for the possible OF
probable public advantage that might
accrue from il.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
Gross and Crescent" i'm "a Back Yard.

Few persons suspect the interest
which the younger portion of our pop
ulation feel in the progress of the Euro
pean struggle, and the familiarity with
its details which they evince in their
daily conversation and intercourse. An
uptown gentleman on reaching home
the other afternoon found his wife out
and the house all upside down. The
beds had been stripped of blankets and
counterpanes, the tables denuded of
their covers, table cutlery, broomsticks,
and various kinds of household hard
ware were strewn over the stairs and
floors: in short. il looked a. if burglars
had been through the establishment and
left in a hurry.
just a. he contemplated the devasta-
tion, Bridget, the cook, came rushing
up stairs with despair depicted on every
lineament of her face. Och, Misther
b she gasped out, I'm so glad viz
have come home. Shurc thin boys is a
murtherin' each other in the back
yarrud.
In an instant he threw open the back
window, and the sight that met his eyes
showed the situation at glance. All
the boys in the neighborhood. from six
teen down. were there engaged in set
tling the Eastern question in a style
that would have made Won Moltke howl
with envy. For a moment the Turks,
led on by one boy in baggy trowsers
(Which proved to be his fathers red
flannel drawers and armed with
cheese knife in one hand and dirty
white towel on a stick representing
the banner of the Prophet in the other,
appeared to have the advantage, and
had cornered the Russian army, COM
posed of six boys with rakes and pitch
forks, between the hen house and the
back fence. Several other boys with
bloody noses and black eyes sat on the
grassplot, perSonating the Christian
victims of the atrocities in Bulgaria.
The Gar had already lost one of his
front teeth, and the khediye of Egypt
was to be seen seeking safety by inglOr-
ious flight through back lot, carrying
off the the parlor table cloth, rolled up
on his head as turban. just at this
moment England interfered in the
shape of ten boys, who had been con-
cealed in the back area, but who now
charged forth with rolling sticks, flat
irons and pokers, simultaneously with
a grand onset of COsSacks and Name
lukes who had lain in reserve behind
the fence, the maneuvring was superb,
the contending hosts described flank
movement around the clothes posts
which would have outwitted Sherman
himself, and there i no telling but that
the Crescent would have waved victor
iouS over all Europe had not Mr.. b
suddenly appeared on the scene, seat
tered the armies like chatf, and ended
the contest by sending the Sultan off to
bed, and interviewing the Duke Of
Cambridge with the flat side of a shin
gle
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
The Hearts of the Lowly.

One day three or four weeks ago, a
gamin, who seemed to have no friends
in the world, was run over by vehicle
on Gratiot avenue, Detroit, and fatally
injured. After he had been in the hos
pital for a week boy about his own
age and size, called to ask about him
and to leave an orange. He seemed
much embarrassed, and would answer
always bringing something, if no more
than an apple. Last week when the
nurse told him that Billy had no chance
to get well, the strange boy waited
around longer than usual, and finally
asked if he could go in. He had been
invited to many times before, but al
ways refused. Billy, pale and weak
and emaciated, opened his eyes in won-
der at the sight Of the boy, and before
he realized who it was the stranger bent
close TO his face and sobbed.
"Billy, can We forgive feller? We
was allus fightin' and | was allus too
much for We, but Pm sorry. Fore We
die wont We tell me ye haven't any
grudge agin me?"
The young lad, then almost in the
shadow of death, reached up his thin
white arms, clasped them around the
others neck and replied:
"Don't cry Bob-don't feel bad, 1
was ugly and mean, and was heaving
stone at ye when the wagon hit me.
If yen forgive me I'll forgive We, and
I'll pray fur both of u.s."
Bob was half an hour late the MORN
ing Billy died. When the nurse took
him to the shrouded corpse he kissed
the pale face tenderly and gasped:
'D-did he say anything about-about
me?"
''He spoke of youj just before he died
asked if you were here" replied the
nurse.
Sand may l go-go to the funeral?"
"You may"
And he did. He was the only
mourner. His heart was the only one
that ached. No tears were shed by
others, and they left him sitting by the
new-made grave with heart so big
that he could not speak.
If, under the crusts of vice and igno-
rance, there are such springs of pure
feeling and true nobility, who shall
grow weary of doing good.-Detroi
Free Press.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
4 Cunning Dog.

! Bob, our mastiff was always on
friendly terms with the cats and kittens
Of the house, and nothing pleased them
better than to crouch up to his warm,
curly coat and have snOoze. He
always received these attentions from
his frisky friends with great Kindness
and condescension on his part, but |
am sorry to say he was guilty of a good
deal of hypocrisy towards them and
their mother. He would never drive
them from n dish, or a dripping-pan, or
anything else. Oh . no; but when he
happened to see them eating out of
either, he quietly but quickly walked
up TO the coal heap, and picking up as
large lump as he could well hold be-
tween his teeth, he would walk gently
up to where his friends were feasting
and drop the lump of coal into either
basin, dish or dripping pan, looking
quite innocent all the time Pussies
Immediately licked their mouths, and
walked away, while their amiable
friend finished their meal for them.
One of Bob's duties was to accompany
our wagOners on their Journeys in TAX
ing out our goods we were manufac-
turers). This he did not at all approve
of, and in order TO shirk his duty he at
first absconded as soon as he saw any
signs of packing and loading of the
wagons. and would not be found till
after he knew that the wagons and
wagoners were gone and at Il safe dis
tance. This he must have learnt by
watching them off. He then returned
TO society, looking as amiable and as af
fable as ever. But, being of social
disposition, he got tired of secreting
himself in solitude, so, in order to es
cape the toll of travel and to eniov the
pleasures of society, he adopted, another
eXpedient, for which, think, he merits
the title of being ga very knowing dog"
1t was this: His inquiring eyes were
always on the watch, and after he had
given up absconding, whenever he saw
packing and preparation for a journey
guns Jus "' "c'"iho oui>lTessllSIy Iaine,
first with one leg, then with another,
but with one or another constantly,
frequently lying down as if too lame
to stand, much less to walk. But as
soon as the wagons were well away,
Bob's lameness vanished, and he could
walk and run as well as ever.-Leisure
Hours.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
Why the barometer Rises and Falls.

First of all, what is barometer? 1t
is tube or pipe. closed at one end and
open at the other, made of some trans
parent material, such as glass, so that it
can be seen through. This tube is filled
with the melted metal called mercury,
and, when quite full, the thumb is
placed over the open end $50 as to keep
the mercury from falling OUT, and the
closed end is at the top, the open end
at the bottom. and, if the thumb were
removed, the mercury would, of course,
run out. But now suppose you wished
not to waste any, and so put the open
end of the tube into a basin with some
mercury in it, and then remove your
thumb. what would happen? ''The
mercury would all run out in the ba-
sin," some one Will say. But this is a
mistake, as the Italian philosopher
Torricell found out; and whatever
size or length of tu0e be taken, the
whole of the mercury will not run out,
but a length of about thirty inches of
the tube will remain full of mercury,
and you cannot make it run out into
the basin unless you either pull the
open end of the tube out of the mer-
curry or make hole in the closed end
of the tube.
This puzzled Torricelli for a long
time. until at last the thought struck
him that the only thing which was on
the mercury in the basin was the air,
and that it was probably the weight of
the air pressing upon the metal which
prevented its running out into the ba-
sin. 'If So" thought Torricelli, ''then
if take my tube and basin of mercury
up mountain, less and less Of the tube
will remain full. for there is evidently
less air above the basin at the top of
the mountain than at the bottom" You
may be sure he didn't wait very long
before he made the experiment; and
TO his great delight he found the mer-
curry getting lower and lower in the
tube, thus proving that it really was
the weight of the air that kept it in the
tube at all; and so the instrument was
called a barometer, which is derived
from the Greek. and, in plain English,
means weight measurer."
But if the barometer is watched it
will be found to contain different guam
titles of mercury on different days.
On a fine day the mercury will, as a
rule, stand higher in the tube than on
wet day or just before rain; and now
for the reason of this. Why does the
barometer rise (or rather the mercury
in it, in fine weather, and fall when it
is going to be wet? Now, dry
air is much heavier than wet air, or
air containing steam. The conse
quence is that when the air gets moist
IL becomes lighter, and presses less on
the mercury of the barometer. so more
mercury flows out into the basin, and ,
consequently, less remains in the tube,
or, as we usually express it, the baro-
meter falls. Now, when the air is very
wet there is, of course, more chance of
rain than when it is dry, for rain is
formed by the cooling of the steam con-
tained in moist air.-Little Folks.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
ADVICE 70 BOYS.

Whatever you are. be brave, boys.
The liars a coward and slave, boys;
Though clever at ruses
And sharp at excuses,
He's sneaking and pitiful knave, boys
Whatever you are, be frank, boys?
'Tis better than money and rank. boys;
Still clesve to the right,
Be lovers Of light.
Be open, aboyeboard, and frank, boys
Whatever you are, be kind, boys
Be gentle IN manners and mind, boys;
The man gentle in mien,
Words, aud temper. ween,
Is the gentleman truly refined, boys
But whatever YOU are. be true. boys
BE visible through and through. boys;
Leave TO others the shamming,
The 'greening' and 'cramming.'
In fun and in earnest, be true, boys
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
American Marriages.

The earlier inhabitants of our country
were pioneers, and became posSessors
of great landed estates, from the profits
of which they lived in something more
than comfort, and were able TO raise and
educate their large families with com
parative ease; but in the process OF
evolving the present state of the coun-
try, estates have been divided and sub
divided till these old families are COM
paratiyely poor, and the young people
now must look to their own exertions
for competence in life; but they would
scOrn the pretty log cabin where their
ancestors lived on the outskirts of civil
izatiOn, and they scorn also the more
imposing farmhouse, with its plain
dressing and homely comforts. The
sewing machine, the railway and ex-
press and telegram render it possible
for the country matron or maid to dress
as fashiOnably as the denizen of the
city, and they do not fail to avail them
selves of the opportunity; reporters and
newspapers eXpatiate upon the silks
and velvets and diamonds worn by
ladies at receptions and entertainments,
till a universal appetite for ostentatious
display in dress has been created, and
has been fostered by the tone of the
press, as well as by the vanities and
rivalries of the sex. This OstentatiOn
pervades every aspect of society, and is
found in our expensive furniture, our
over large houses, and a general con-
tempt for labor.
The consequence is, that a young man
can not marry; the expense is too great,
and the club becomes his place of resort
He rather avoids women, and is grad
ually losing the refinements of social
intercourse, to say nothing of his de-
teriOration in morals. If he marry. the
wife will not keep house at a moderate
expenditure of taste and money, and
they are compelled TO board. Here
again is new temptation to extrava-
gance. All the earnings of the man
are swallowed up in board bills, and
dress and millinery bills. 1t is easy to
foresee the end. Children are an ex-
pense and incumbrance, and not to be
thought of. There is no check upon
the husband by the tender council of
the wife, and no silent plea from the
face of an innocent child; he becomes
reckless, forges or purloins, and winds
up sad career in prison, or meets
death by his own hand.
Now why did these two come to-
gether? / see no motive above a gross
sensualism or foolish vanity. No high
or Eoly impulse mingled in their rapid
worldliness. Neither made society any
better for their existence; and if we
could go behind the scenes and inquire
into their childless union, we should
most likely find it was made the worse |
by them.
Yet this is the experience Of thOus-
ands, and is the growing evil of the
day; and much of it-all / am inclined |
10 believe-lies at the door of women.
They do not uphold the sacredness of
marriage; they do not insist upon
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
Difference of Memory.

One man, from taking glance at an
object will sketch it correctly another
could not give correct representation
were he to labor for a month. The
mind of another is more for living OBJ
jects, and, like Cuvier or Knox, he car
ries in his memory the names and forms
of hundreds of plants and animals.
A third has propensity for the faces
of his fellow-creatures, and, like Them
istocles, he can name each of the twenty
thousand of his fellow citizens; OF like
Cyrus, he could remember every soldier
in his army, the like being related of
L. Scipio and the Romans. The day
following the arrival of Cineas, am
bassadOr of King Pyrrhus, in Rome, he
saluted by name all the senate and gen.
tlemen Of the city. George Ill. had
also an extraordinary power of recol-
lecting faces.
The taste of fourth is for languages,
and like Mezzofanti or Alexander Muir
ray, every word he hears or reads i'm
foreign tongue becomes a lifelong heri-
tage.
Another retains mathematics, the
symbols of which require a peculiar
cast of memory. Such mind is gener-
ally destitute of love of color, of music,
etc.; it wrestles with the artificial SYM
bols that express the most important
truths of the world.
The natural history memory has to do
with artificial symbols, but with these
1t mixes the consideration of actual ap-
pearance to the senses. The taste of
another is for choice, emphatic and die
tion; like Wakefield he can repeat the
whole of Virgil and Horace, Homer and
Pindar.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
Living Without Food.

Ii Is true that many diseases, all the
world over. arise from eating toe
much. But it is possible, on the other
hand, to eat too little; and we doubt
whether many could maintain healthy
existence on the meager diet OF such
medical philosophers as Cornaro. How
long one could contrive to eat anything
at all is question of which few will be
inclined to undertake the practical so
luton. Unfortunately il has been
solved over and over again in the case
of many an accident and many a deed
of cruelty. Without something TO eat
or drink. man will not live beyond a
few days or at least a week. Access TO
water, however. makes a great differ
ence. There is a we'll known case of an
AYRSHIRE miner who lived txenty-three
days buried in a coal mine, without
swallowing anything but small guam
titles of chalybeate water sucked
through a straw. He had the advan-
tage of being shut up in contaminated
atmosphere, which by diminishing
nervous sensibility, lessened the pangs
of hunger.
Berard quotes the example of con-
vict who died of starvation after sixty
three days, but in this case water was
taken. Cases of alleged fasting longer
than this are certainly due TO exposure.
The insane appear to bear fasting longer
than those in their sober senses, and in
some morbid conditions of the body
nourishment may entirely be done
without for a surprising length of time.
Animals have an advantage over man,
so far as living without food is con-
eerned. Rattle snakes exist many
months without eating anything, and
retain all their vigor and tierceness;
and many creatures voluntarily spend
four, five and six months in every year
without eating or drinking. The tor
toise, bear, dormouse and other animals
retire TO their respective cells, and hide
themselves, some in caverns of rocks
and ruins, others dig holes underground
while some get into woods and lay
themselves up in the clefts of trees.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
A Neglected. Liver.

The bile has a three-f fold part assigned to it
bv the great man ger. Nature 1t assists ID
the digestive process, acts as q colorlug agent
Of the bloed. and Is essential to the evacuative
function When the liver grows torpid, COM
plete chaos ensues in the stomach md bowels;
the bile is injected into the circulation in large
quantities, and constipation and Indigestion
are produced. Pains under the night shoulder
blade and through the right side, headaches,
vertigo, yellowness of the skin. furred tongue
and nausea, also follow. But thee and othsr
symptoms OF bilIou-ness, and the disorders
which accom- any 1t. are entirely removed by
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, that benign rec
tifer Of organic disturbance and remedy for
physical weakness. Intermittent and remit
tent fever. urinary and uterine troubles, rheu-
matism, gout and other maladies also yield to
the remedial influence of the great Corrective
and invigorant 1t is the peoples chosen
cemedy
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31

CoRKAGE.-The stupid waiter is pro-
verbal. When asked, show long will
that steak beg'' he is likely TO reply,
''somewhere about three inches; they
generally run that length here, sir"
He may supplement request for a nap
kin by desiring 10 know if you Twill
have it fried or boiled;" he has even
betrayed the secrets of the prison house
by carrying back what was handed to
him as black coffee because it was per-
fectly brown. But even he was sur
passed by one of the guests at a leading
hotel the other day. This hotel is an
advocate of protection as opposed to free
trade, insomueh so that it does not al
low private wine opened at table unless
it pays a tariff 10 the house. This tariff
is announced At the foot of the wine list
in the cabalistic words, "COrkage, one
dollar a bottle" This announcement
was the means of entrapping a thirsty
but economical hoosier into a sad fdlr
pas the other day, when, seeing dollar
was the cheapest on the list, he called
for ga bottle of corkage."