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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05

TEA CAKEs.-Three eupfuls of sweet
milk, one cupful of yeast, -four to make
a thick batter; set this as sponge over
night. In the morning add one cupful
butter you may use one-half lard +,
one-halfteaspoonful of salt, flour enough
TO roll out as biscuits; knead well and
set TO raise about five hours, then roll
one-half inch thick and cut into round
cakes; put in buttered tins and let rise
one-half hour, then bake TO a light
brown; add currants If you like.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05

IT Is beautiful starry night and the
seniors are out singing. First senior,
who studies astronomy-"LoOk up
there, and see how beautiful Orion
looks" Second senior, who does not
study astronomy, but who has streak
of Irish blood-"Is that Organ? Thank
the Lord, then there is one Irishman In
heaven, anyhow !"-COrnsH Era.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05

confer favor upon the Advertiser and the
Publisher by stating that they saw the adyer-
nseinenf In this Journal (naming the paper).
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05

A SCOTCH WITNESS, somewhat given
TO prevarication, was severely handled
by cross-eXanining counsel. SLOW
far is il between the two farms?" said
the counsel. by the road it's twa
mile" "Yes; but, on your oath, how
far is il as the crow flies?'' II dinna
ken; | never was a crow"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05

A DISTINGUISHED but not wealthy
politician received letter from a
farmer, who claimed to be his cousin.
"I've found our genealogical tree" "
said he; $50 that must be right" The
politician replied, "If you have found
the tree, there must be a mistake about
it; for | never owned even a stick in all
my life."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05
INA pickle-Seeds.
That In~itliouS Foe to Health

An atmosphere impregnated with the seeds OF
malaria Is rendered harmless by the timely
Use of Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters; and Il a
resort to this benign protective agent has IN
wisely been deferred until the fever fits have
developed. it will have the effect Of checking
them and preventing their return This state
ment il corrobOrsted by thousands who have
tried this medicine for fever and ague and
bilious remittent fever, besides affections of
the stomach. liver and bowels peculiarly rife
in malarious localities. Throughout the West
indeed In every part Of the American continent
where malaria prevails. it Is the accepted
specific. Nor is the area of its usefulness
by the limits of the United
States, since il Is widely used in South Amer
ca, Mexico, Australia, and elsewhere
SONGS OF BEUIAH-the new Sunday-School
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05

If you have the feeling of hate or re-
venge, subject it TO severe process of
mental chemistry; examine into its ma
ture, its uses, its philosophy; end, be-
fore you have finished the scrutiny, it
will probably vanish like volatile
essence into the air.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05
DOMESTIC.

II The HEALING PROPERTIES OF CABBAGE
LEAvEs.-The therapeutical value Of
cabbage leaves, which has long been
recognized in household medicine, is
discussed at considerable length by DR..
Blanc in the Rerue de Ia Therdpeutique,
and the conclusions TO which he comes,
concisely stated, are as follows: The
cabbage leaf excites and augments sup
puration of the secretion of ulcers,
ulcerations, vesicles, and pustules. 1t
has the same action on the integuments
affected by an erysipelatous or furuncu-
lous Inflammation. This property does
not consist in any principle which the
leaf yields for absorption, but rather in
an affinity which the leaf has for the
vitiated secretions. The leaf exercises
this affinity on open ulcers, or on
ulcers covered by a thick or thin seab
or crust; itexercises il on the thickened
epidermis or where il is converted into
thickened rind like membranes; In
simple or cOnfluent variola, throughout
mortified tissues, through the integu-
ments, whether inflamed or non-in-
famed, but removes tumors capable of
absorption. When the documentary
affection is widespread or general, the
action of the leaves on the parts where
they are applied benefits the whole dis
ease. The matter in the parts not
covered by leaves is absorbed, and at
once directed under the leaves, 10 be
Immediately eXcreted at that part.
Treatment, by the leaves, of suppura-
tive affection prevents re-absOrptiOD
and consequent pyemia. The cure OBJ
tanned by this means is more complete
and certain than by any other, because
it is brought about only when the cause
and products OF disease are eliminated
from the system. The cure of an ulcer
by the leaves, however widespread and
long standing it may be, is without
danger, and relapse is very rare. The
cicatrices obtained by the leaves are re-
markable for their small degree of de-
formity. Smallpox, measles, and scar
latina, treated by applications OF the
leaves, have few or no sequela; {. g.,
phthisis is not to be feared.-Nel1s
Letter.
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onft,rt.

To KEEP the feet dry-Stand on your
head.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05
NATURES REMEDY.\
YEGETINED
IsE calsI sloou PuaInIs/

THOUSANDS will bear testimony (and do IL vol
untaT1ly). that NEGEIISE Is the best medical
compound yet placed before the public for rem
0yattng and purifying the blood, eTadicatfng all
humors. impurities. or poisonous secretions
from the system, invigOratlng and strengthen
ing the system de bilirated by dseiSe. In tact II
Is. as many have called II, THE Great Health
ReStOrer."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05

SONGS OF BEUIAH-the new Sunday-School
Singing -book-Price S5 cts. go per hundred
LEE 4 WALKER, lib Chestnut St, Phllad'a.
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r UP RE,
DR.. Sherman,

0S Snowflake cards aud elegant case, With mans
Z,D Oc- ". FELLOWS & Co., North Chatham, \ 4.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
FFIT CEILING Tor rooms IN place % Plaster
FEIr ROOFING and SIDING- For Circular
-pI -.mpI- address e. j. FAY Camden, v J.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
THE CIR AssHoPPER COMMISSION

A learned commission, consisting of
three very proper entomologists, have
eighteen thousand dollars given them
by the government that they may look
after the morals and practical habits of
the cheerful grasshoppers. Mr.. Sunset
Cox is not, as some may suppose, of
this grand commission, though these
eicadG did lnterpose and stop the train on
which he came up to the capital from
the Gulf. He argues, if properly rep
resented by a good Democratic organ
of New York, and not without force,
that Whist we want to do with the To-
Gust of the Rocky Mountains is not to
know of him. The inhabitants of the
trans-SIissIssippiau States know as
much of his habits and appearance as
they care to know, and our farmers,
more favorably situated, consider their
ignorance thereof bliss. When the
wind is west-nor'west, il the Kansan
or NebraskSn agriculturalist cannot tell
grasshopper from tornado it is not
for lack OF opportunities Of oLservs-
ton. With fine American omnivor-
business this terrestrial visitant in the
fury of his hearts, when the dog-star
RACES, devours the standing crop, the
garnered grain, the fence rails, the
railroad ties, the telegraph poles, the
foliage Of the trees; to his unbounded
stomach all grass Is flesh. He comes
with the noise of railroad train and
has the optical effect of a solar
eclipse; and behind him he leaves
howling wilderness and large
family. Thus much We know Of him
Experiment has shown that the only
plant which withstands his appetite is
railroad plant. As to the best methods
Of destroying him opinions differ.
Some people light smudges on their
fields in April and keep them burning
till November; but this, We ahould
think, would interfere with the oulti-
vAtion of any crop but winter wheat.
Others dig trenches round their farms
wherein they trap and crush with gar
den-rollers the locusts. An ingenious
Minnesota inventor has just patented :
machine which win, it is claimed, dis
courage ten pecks Of grasshoppers an
hour. Still another plan is to lure the
locust to deposit its eggs in belts oi
prsirie-grass left standing with sinister
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
THE FORTUNES OF uEXICO AND
OF TEXAS.

The Houston Age says that Mexico
is devoting attention to coffee produc-
ton as we'll as to revolutions and in
surrections. The exports of coffee
from Vera Cruz amounted in 1871 to
627, ,6ss pounds, and in 1875 to 1913,
67S pounds. The rapid increase in the
product was during the administration
of President Lerdo. The soil is as
productive as that of Texas, but be-
sides coffee we never heard of the
country exporting anything except de-
fested revolutionary generals" 1t is
surely important that these industrial
and commercial habits of Mexico should
be reformed, and if it be the purpose,
as asserted, of the government of the
United States to enrich the South, and
cities of the South, there is no resource
of greater wealth and business &C
tivity than the practically uudevel-
oped terra inoogHita beyond the
Rio Grande. Therefore, the STATES
MAN has persistently urged the
necessity for the immediate ex-
tension of the International road TO
Laredo or Monterey and the Mexican
capital. The corporation owning the
road can hardly afford, just now, to
build it across the plains. The pres
ent resources of Western Texas viii
hardly justify an investment of SEQ, :
600 per mile in a railway to Laredo,
and yet the Mexican border must be
paciied and order restored, aud
an invading railway would achieve
this purpose finally and more
surely and at infinitely less cost
Of blood and treasure than an
army. But governments. like men,
are creatures of habit. The nations,
for centuries, have been accustomed to
conquer peace" Desolstion has been
employed to effect ends much more
surely achieved by steam than by gun
powder. Not only are desired results
more certainly accomplished, but both
parties to conflicts between pro-
gress and barbArism are ennobled
and enriched, while war, as We have
seen its effects illustrated In the
fortunes of these States, destroys
the decency and intelligence and hon.
esty Of participants. The commercial
conquest of Mexico by the extension Of
the International road to the Mexican
capital would invest the South with
attractiveness and riches, and Hayes's
administration with immortal renown.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
THOSE BLESSED HETHODISTS
AGAIN HAVE TURNED UP.

Another ire-brand has been quenched.
An ex Frecdmen's Bureau agent, who
happens to be a. member of the New
York Methods: Conference, made q
stump speech, We are told, IN that
body a day or two ago with a view 10
arousirg the war passions OF the
brethren by playing upon their sympa-
thies for the negro. His idea was to
secure the passage of bull-dozing reso-
lutions similar to those which had been
introduced ''amid great applause" in
the New England Conference on the
day before. But the TRADE of Wen
dell Phillips against the President and
his "slave-h hound Cabinet had made
even less impression in New York than
in Massachusetts,. The brethren prayer
fully considered the subject through
the Sabbath and came together Mon
day to adopt a series of resolutions
which, instead of attacking the admin
istration, approved its policy of con-
ciliation warmly and bade the Presi-
dent God-speed in the work he has so
we'll begun. The wisdom of political
deliverances by ecclesiastical bodies is
always questionable, but when it is
thought advisable for clergymen to
raise their voice all will agree that, as
in this instance, it should be on the
side of peace, law and order. The
country has had enough of the gospel
of hate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
PARTY LEADERS IN TROUBLE.

Should not the people of Austin
meet in the court house to express
gratitude TO God and to those who
served God in serving South Carolina
and louisiana 1t would rot be well,
however, for those who wear the
straight jackets OF party to be very
demonstrative. They need only laud
Nichols and Governor John G. Browns
commission. The President has taken
his own course and avoided violence
and thrust aside the bayonet and abso-
lutely defeated the aims of mep who
made him president; but these facts
need not be mentioned by the office
seekers and by the timid fellows whose
souls are not their own. The plain
farmers and lawyers and doctors and
merchants of the non -officeseek-
ing class can afford to tell :he
truth and speak generously of
the Presidents moderation and
wisdom; but the rabld party organs
and leaders and professional place
seekers must "sing low," very lewly,
even while all honest men chant rap
turously the praises of the President.
We have seen much of the management
of parties and know the power Of
whippers,in to be terrible, and must
advise the juicy and softly sweet office
seekers ard future statesmen of the
country 10 remain silent and equivo-
cate till they see exactly show the cat
jumps" The STATESMAN is not an
office-seeker. 1t goes for what is best
at the time. 1t consults the interests of
its readers, who are the masses of the
people, and suffers the party leaders
to define for themselves policy. Plainly
enough self-interest and this selfish
policy of embryo candidates lmpel
them to beware of commencing the
administration save in most guarded
and set phrases. The party might be-
come demoralized, and is it not pitia-
bic that the wiser, better, truer and the
braver the administration and the bet
ter for the country, the worse for the
ever blessed party9 The politicians
should therefore be very guarded in
any speeches they may make. The
party may be wrecked because Louisi
ana and Carolina are saved, and be
cause the country is to be wisely and
honestly governed. The party's loss is
the country's gain, and whatever the
leaders say the people are content to
see prosperity and peace restored even
while parties are dissolved or dying.
While the people rejOice the leaders
and office-seekers weep.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

THE warlike tenor of the European
news has had the effect of advancing
the prices of gold and breadstuffs in
this country, the market reports show
ing an important rise. Wheat is sell
ing in Chicago for 81. so per bushel for
May delivery, and the market is excited
ana active, while the gold premium
has advanced from 104 10 107. The
position of the country is every way
favorable to general revival Of indus
tries when once the clash OF arms in
Europe takes place. The abstraction
of more than a million of able-bodied
men from the farms ana workshops to
the destructive feld of Mars will cause
steady demand for the provisions,
munitions and manufactures of Amer
ica, while the most important sign of
al Is the sense of stability and hope
fulness for the future since the presi-
Dental difficulty has been peacefully
settled IA feeling such as has not OBJ
tanned since the panic of 1878, and
which reaches every important branch
of Industry.
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ters they may bring upon the country.
hope such thing will never happen,
but II they will not accept il, what can
BET The North can not say that they
were defeated (; that free labor is wrong;
that slavery is right; nor can she tear
from her history the page of glory. and
she never will. Great applause,
But the North can say with all mag
nanimlty, 1--WE will forgive you il you
will forget" IApplause. The North
can say, "Let us be friends The
North can say, "We will assist you in
building up the broken WALL" The
North can say, ''Let US join hands, and
united we are the greatest nation on
earth.n Remember we commenced
with 5000, 600 people, and commenced
to push our way West. Think OF the
toll it has taken TO push that govern
ment from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
And vet we have done it. Think of
the valor Of the labor that has done it.
This mau aud that one building their
little homes alone in the forest, with
the smoke coming out of the little
chimney all by itself, with no other
column of smoke in sight. There these
men chopped down trees and plowed
the land, aud planted the corn aud
raised children. And there they fought
the savage and drove him further and
further, until progress has swept from
the Atlantic 10 the Pacific, and we have
covered the whole continent with the
valor of American labor. Applause.
l say Jet us unite again, and lot uspush
our schools North and South. Let us
go on until the American controls the
continent. Ladies and gentlemen, l
thank you. Applause.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

care, to be burned with fire in early
spring. Professor Riley, who is one of
the commissioners, proposed in 1875 TO
eat the locust, with wild honey, au
naturel, in various ways. Indeed he
gave banquet az which the grasshop-
per appeared as, the matter of four
courses and great American dessert,
and we remember seeing some elaborate
calculations as to the thousands of tons
of palatabie and healthy food wasted
yearly through tine disinclination Of
Occidental farmers to make Johns the
Baptists Of themselves.
There is indeed large and infuen-
tial class of people who live on grass
hoppers. In Minnesota some of the
counties have paid dollar bounty on
every bushel of eggs collected, and ten
cents for mature grasshoppers, and the
crop has proved SO much more certain,
profitable and easy to cultivate than
wheat or corn, that the tortures of 10
cal farmers have become their elements
of prosperity, and the county treas
uries have been exhausted utterly.
Kansas will view with alarm and dis
gust this attempt to take the grasshop
per out of their mouths. And then
suppose that, when the commissioners
have hunted the locust TO his fast
nesses, the locust should issue more
numerously and voraciously than everl
On the whole, we think that the ap-
pointmert of this commission will be
clessed among momentary diversions
rather than among the serious opera
tions of Washington politics.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAM
BER OF COMMERCE.

The happiest event in the history of
Austin is the organization of a cham
Der of commerce. The men constitut-
ing its membership and they who pro
pose to become connected with the
body are the best citizens and mer-
chants and bankers of the capital.
Even in the utter absence of city
government many tasks of public be-
neficence of intirlte importance to
the people, propcrty-holders and
tradesmen of the capital may be
readily accomplished by this asso-
cIatiOn. There is no such agency
for the creation and crystaliza-
ton of an intelligent public opinion.
When railways must be built or cot
ton or woolen mill, or when a city
charter must be reformed or amended,
or the wisest anl best men invested
with municipal offices, bodies like this
now organized in Austin have served
most wisely all classes of people.
There is nothing that Austin should
do, and which individuals as such
cannot do, that the chamber of com
merce may not achieve, and now that
this association has been organized,
each tradesmau, banker and taxpayer
should become an earnest par
tlcipant in its deliberations. 4
year will not have elapsed
when the whole people will
recognize services done the city and
the country, the rich and the poor.
Admirable selections were made when
R. NJ. Castleman was made president,
Walter Tips vice president, D. V.
Whiting secretary, and r. ]. Bracken-
ridge treasurer. The fee for member
ship is So, or So semi-annually. The
officers are elected annually in Septem-
Der, the close of the commerclsl year,
and applications for membership must
be approved by two members.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

WHILE uperserviceable partisans
clamor for office and are penetrated
with the idea that postoffices were
made to reward party services, the idea
of the President and the Postmaster
General is that they were made to
transact the largest amount of the peo-
pies business in the least time. While
the politicians are deeply disgusted,
the people, who will have secured good
business men and prompt service in the
postoffice business, are likely to be well
satisfied. If Congress will only legis-
late to reduce a few of the four thou
sand dollar salaries now paid to post
masters and increase the small stipends
received by the chief clerks and depu-
tics who do most of the work in the
pOstoffiCes, it will be still better for the
public business. A vigorous breaking
up of t whole system of speculative
mail-lettings and straw bids will, it is
declared, be another feature of post
Office administration under the new
regime. Here is a wide field for man
of thorough honesty and business capac-
ity combined; and it Is believed that
Postmaster General Key, who has the
former, will demonstrate marked
capacity in the latter quality as well.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26


THERE is one man that can never be
squclched. We have tried it, and he
rises when overthrown, like the tabled
Anteus, with strength always re-
newed because of the terrible collision
with Mother Earth. He is of the earth
earthly, and when Ramey was assalled
because the Rutabaga Constitution
taxes the smoke house in January, he
coolly said it was the design of the
good men who cobbled together the
awful State government to have that
farmers tax collected and assessed in
November, when there is nothing in
the smoke house, instead of in Janu-
airy, when it is full. In fact, says Mr..
Ramey, 1--WE were 'swooping' down
most felp-oniopsly on towns and
counties with unrestricted suffrage at
the time, and forgot to change the
date of the annual robbery of the
farmers" Such, substantially, Is the
argument of Mr.. RameY, as reported
to US, and there is no getting overit.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
AL Of the prominent cuisines pa

ALL Of the prominent business pa
pers of New York City advocate the
plan of city government proposed tc
the Legislature by the Eyarts com.
mission, the principal feature being au
amendment to the Constitution by
which the financial affairs of cities are
directed by board elected by property
owners and municipal taxpayers. New
York City is staggering under the debt
piled up by Tweed and his gang OF
fellow thieves, and q hundred other
cites North and South have been siml-
larly victimized. RAbble suffrage will
work out the same results everywhere
it is merely question of time. Austin
Is fast following in the footsteps of
these wrecked and wasted corporations,
and the Rutabsga convention was vain
ly besought to extend saving arm by
inserting into the Constitution of our
State clause like that recommended
by the Evaris commission of New
York. But such common-sense ex-
pedient had no charms in the eyes of
the rustics who framed that pitiable
farce known as our organic law, and it
was scarcely vouchsafed hearing. So
we 60 on increasing Our city debt un-
til property and prosperity alike sink
under the burden.