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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

The Russians are the best coachmon
in the world. In order TO acquire the
great skill in driving to which they at
tain they begin their training early
in fact, when quite children. It is
wonderful TO see the boy coachman
driving a carriage-and-fOur over rough
and dangerous roads, at tull gallop, for
ten or twelve miles at stretch. Rus
sia, as all know, is "a country ofvast ex-
tent, being Ii ,0O0 miles at its greatest
length, with an average width OF ], 800
miles. and containing, as some estimate,
zoos, coo of square miles. The ordinary
carriage roads are nearly the only
means of communication; but these are
of very inferior construction. Huge
hollows and large stones continually
intercept the the travellers progress /;
frail bridges of wood, without any bat
Elements or outside protection what
ever, stretch across wide and rapid
rivers; and over the dangerous roads,
and the still more dangerous bridges,
the Russian coachman dashes at the
fastest gallop. 1t seems a miracle that
travellers do not. as a rule, lose their
lives and break their limbs and coaches
every journey. The latter often takes
place; the coach being stopped for re-
pairs sometimes half dozen times on
the road.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
HOueIy MaNims.

Take care of your pennies. Look
well to your spending. No matter
what comes in If more goes out you
will ALWAYS be poor. The art is not in
making money. but in keeping it. Lit
tie expenses, like mice in a barn, when
they are many, make great waste.
Hair by hair heads get bald; straw by
straw the thatch goes Off the cottage,
and drop 10y drop the rain comes IN the
chamber. 4 barrel is scOn empty if the
cask leaks but drop a minute. When
you begin TO save begin with your
mouth; many things pass down the red
lane. The ale jug Is a great waste. In
all things keep within compass. Never
stretch your legs farther than your
legs will reach, or you Will soon be
cold. In clothes choose suitable and
lasting stuff, ana not tawdry fineries.
To be warm is the main thing, never
mind the looks. A fool may make
money, but it takes q wise man to
spend it. Remember that it is easier
to build two chimneys than to keep one
going. If you give all 10 the back and
board, there is nothing left for the
saving bank. Fare haGd and work
hard when you are young. and you will
have a chance 70 rest when yOu are
old.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

virtue in life. The gauges of actual
living must meet widely various and
widely different demands. Unforeseen
exigencies are ever arising. Crystal
lied opinions are not available for the
needs of to-day. The best of all things
lies in capacity of progression. The
persons who pride themselves upon
their being always the same-yester-
day, to-day and fOrever-are not only
most tiresome, but detrimental to the
true interests of society. ''DOn't be
consistent. but be simply true," says DIR.
Holmes. Ii fyou change your mind, you
are doubtless wiser than before, and
console yourself with the truth that
the consistent" people who never
change their minds have no minds TO
change. A sweet and gracious adapta-
bility, mental pliability, lends charm
that cannot fail 10 be recognized, If not
analysed. 1t is the slight and unassimi-
lated culture that repels. The genuine
article attracts and, unconsciously TO
itself, draws all around 1t upward. 1t
is the perpetual life OF beauty gracing
everything it sees with the ''beauty of
its thought" 1t is the little learning,
the little culture, the little thought that
is dangerous thing" not the broad
and sure foundations, increasing every
day. Positive people do not grow
higher and wider in range of life, but
crystalize, petrify, and stand dwarfed
monuments of an age gone by. The
rich, mellow years that should ripen
and perfect them into golden maturity
leave no impress upon their narrow,
positive lives. At twenty years of age
they may be bright and shining lights
of the circle in which they move, full
Of divine possibilities; but see if at
sixty they are not hard, unyielding and
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
Mistaken Advice.

Dickens tells us that his friends dis
suaded him from undertaking work
to be issued in monthly parts, price
one shilling, because it was a low,
cheap form of publication, by which he
would ruin all his rising hopes. Ma
caulay, in his essay on Addison, has
recorded few of the instances in
which the friends of an author have
adjured him nos to undertake the par
ticular work by which he raised him
self to that eminence which now makes
him widely known. Herder entreated
Goethe not 10 take up SO unpromiing
Il subject as Faust. The History of
Charles the Filth gave Robertson i'm
mense reputation, and put forty i've
hundred pounds in his pocket; but
Hume tried to persuade him not to
choose such period for the exercise of
his historical talent. Pope advised
Addison to print the tragedy of Cato.
but not to ran the risk of its being
hissed from the stage. One of ScOtt's
best friends predicted the failure of
Waverley, and urged him not TO peril
his reputation by publishing it. The
list might be indefinitely extended of
intelligent persous who, with the most
cordial good will to an author, have
advised him not to think of doing the
special thing which his taste or genius
prompted him to do.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
The .0dd Com. shortly,

"0dd come shortlies never do well,
said an old lady to me one day.
VIII you please tell me what odd
come shOrtlies arefn | asked.
Well" said the old lady, "a mean
any odd acquaintance that you pick up
in an irregular manner-haven't been
properly intrOduced-and know moth
ing about their antecedents. They
never turn out well. Did you ever
know them to DO so2 Think my dear
l thought. | had at first dashed at
the conclusion that the old lady was
wrong, but to the question | replied la
couically, mo, ma'am, they do not"
Yet to whom does the cOntding hearC
of woman turn as to an "0dd come
shortlyl" You travel in the car with
her and she borrOws your magazine
and lends you her travelling cup, and
you cOnfide 20 each other that it does
not make you i'll TO ride backward, and
likeing the color of her eyes, you cement
a friendship. because of the surprising
coincidence that her little boy is the
same age as your little daughter, and
that they both like cream cakes, Why
is she more likely 30 turn out badly
than if che were your second cousins
daughter. | can't tell you. | don't
know; but she will. After she has
called on yoI. and borrowed your wat
erproof and your silk umbrella, and
begged a letter of introduction TO the
pastor, and hopes you will call to see
her, and wondered that such cOngenial
souls never met before. strange things
will happen; your waterproof and silk
umbrella will be that were te you, and
you will miss the little Cerde antique
from the etagere, and never see the
purse that was lying on the table again.
These people do not always vanish
so mysterious,y. It is the mission OF
many of them to become bores-to
come, on the strength of the fancy"
they have taken to you, to breakfast
and to stay to lunch and afterwaTd to
tea-tO look over your shoulder while
you write or read and to ply you with
questions until you could shriek-to be
always communicative without hav-
ing anything to communicate" and to
become as unbearatle in the end as
was Sinbad's Old Man of the Sea.
know herl" cries some long suffer-
ing friend. "HOw | pity you! How did
she get introduced" Then you re
member she was not introduced at all.
She called one morning to hope that
"her canary did not trouble you by
singing so much, because it it did, she
would send it away, much as she loved
it.r
So sweet of her, you know. Yet
to- day, when you look at her, you re-
peat the old lady's Yankeeism and say,
"Odd come shortlies never turn out
well.r-ErchdRJe.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14

There is nothing-nO moral or intel
lectuai phenomena-mOre strange than
falling in love. What is it; whence it
originates; how it is brought about !;
those things are among the hidden
mysteries of our nature.
4 girl has reached the age of eight
teen young man that of twenty one.
They have lived at home; travelled a
little pursued their stndies; attended
parties, aud been good deal in society
of other young people yet they never
took very deep interest i'll anything in
particular neither of them ever cared
very much for any other person.
They meet, and 10. of sudden all is
changed Each sees the other in
a different light from what any other
was seen in; the world seems changed.
Life itself seems changed their whole
being is changed, to be like what it
was, again, nevermorei
Love is often as sudden as this, but
not always.
Sometimes it is of very slow growth.
Persons have known each other for
years, and been much in each others
society, and been intimate all this time,
but never thinking of a tie stronger
than friendship; when some incident
or event-a temporary parting, or the
intervention between them of third
person, friend or stranger-reveals to
them, for the first time, the great truth
that they are mutually in love.
Yet this love, springing up gradually
and imperceptibly, isno less mysterious
and unfathomable than that which is
Sudden and at first sight.
1t is not mere friendship grown
strong; it is a more absorbing more
violent, more uncomfortable sentiment.
Whether a person can fall in love
more than once is mOoted question.
Some people appear to fail in love
many times.
Ii is not unusual to see widowers,
who have been very devoted husbands,
marry again and seem to love the see
oud wife as well as the first.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
Hoax OF Charles Mathews.

In his youthful days Mathews pre-.
pared hoax as daring as Hooks BerneI
street affair. He and some friends
were in the habit in summer of making
pleasure trips TO different places about
London. At the time of the excitement
about Ferdinand of Spain, it occurred
TO them that Mathews should make an
excursion as the Spanish Ambassador.
His 'suite" was disposed in two car
riages; Hill, the proprietor of the
Monthly Mirror, acted the part of in
terpreter. They halted at WoOlwicb
where his "Excellency" sailed out on
foot to view the place; he was dressed
in bright green frOck coat, covered
with ribbons and orders, and wore an
enormous cooked hat with "Viva Fer
dinand" stamped in gold letters 0pon a
purple ribbon; of course he was fol-
lowed and loudly cheered By all the
little boys; he went into shops, bought
various articles. speaking wonderful
jargOn, which hisinterpreter translated.
By and by there came message from
the Arsenal that it was open to his Ex-
cellency's inspection and that all the
employees were at his command, an Of
fer of which he had the impudence to
avail himself. At the inn where they
dined the scene was the most ludicrous;
the landlord and his satellites were
tucked up in their best, the whole
neighborhood was ransacked for plates
to adorn the table. The Interpreter in
formed the landlord that his Excellency
required everything in great prOfusion
vast numbers of napkins, spoons,
forks and plates. His bed-chamber was
an illumination of wax candles, and
twelve dozen towels were placed for his
use. Everything he did and required
was the reverse of ordinary rules. Next
morning they went for a water excur-
sion on board a fishing boat. The mas
ter was greatly astonished by the doings
of his distinguished passenger.
Amongst various other refreshments
he was shown a large can of lamp-oil
for his excellency's exclusive drinking,
and was equally astonished to see him
deyour what be believed 10 be a candle
end, but which was really only piece
of apple cut into that form, and wash it
down with what he was told was a
glass of the lamp-oil.-Tsmpls Bar.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
HER ANSWER.

All day long she held my question
In her heart;
Stunned my eyes that craved an answer.
Moved apart;
Touched my hand In Goodnight greeting.
Roster grew
Should leave tomorrow ?-esrly?
Then Adieu,
Bent her head in Farewell courteous,
Onward passed,
While a cold hand gripped my heartstrings,
Held them fact
Still ! waited, still listened;
All my 500,
Trembled in the eyes that watched her
AS she stole
Up the stairs with measured footsteps.
But she turned
Where lamp in brazen bracket
Brightly burned,
Showed me all the glinting ripples
OF her hair,
Yelled her eyes IN violet shadows
GHmmered where
Curved her mouth in soft compliance
As she bent
Toward me- from the dusky railing
Where she leant
All, ny love, -" One white hand wander;
To her hair,
Slowly lifts the rose that nestles
Softly there;
Breathes she il its heart my answer
Shyly sweet,
And loves message mutely hutters
To my feet
-BelgrdUid.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
The Camel ns a seape.asat.

A very singular account of the use to
which camel is sometimes put, Is
given by the traveller Bruce. He tells
us that he saw one employed to ap-
pease a quarrel between two parties,
something in the same way as the
scape goat was used in the religions
services of the Jewish people. The
camel being brought out, was accused
10y both parties of all the injuries, real
or supposed, which belonged to each.
All the mischief that had been done.
they accused this camel of doing. They
upbraided it for being the cause of all
the trouble that had separated friends,
called it by every opprobious epithet,
and finally killed it, and declared
themselves reconciled over it's body.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
Go 10 Sleep.

Many children instead of being as
fresh as peach are as wrinkled as
last years apples because they do not
sleep enough. Some physicians think
that the bones grow only during sleep,
This we cannot say, certainly; but we
do know that those little folks who sit
Up late at nights are usually nervous,
weak, small and sickly. The reason
you need more sleep than your parents
is because you have to grow and they
do not. They can use up the food they
eat in thinking, talking and walking,
while you should save some of yours
for growing. You ought to sleep a
great deal; if you do not you will in
activity consume all you eat, and have
none. or not enough, 10 grow with.
Very few clever children excel, or even
equal other people when they grow up.
Why is this Because their heads, If
not their bodies, are kept tSo bnsy; so
that they cannot sleep, rest and grow
strong in body and brain.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
On the morrow there is a grand cav

On the morrow there Is grand cav
alcade of all the the mighty personages
of Spanish history and fable. The
marble Rubens gazes down uDmOved
upon the great horses he loved so we'll
and the graceful figures in satin aud
velvet and waving plumes and golden
chains and ermine bOrdered robes, and
the great painted pastebOard ships and
castles, and the sturdy yeomen and the
dainty pages. All pass himby, and he
looks down unchanged upon the dazzl-
/ life beneath.
Suddenly the white face eseemsinstinct
with life. Behold, there goes the car
of the Guild of st. Luke, which ne him.
self designated for the color feasts of
his city. Itis fiorid triumphal chariot,
all faded blue and gliding, supported
by cherubs and wide mOuthed dolphins,
and wreathed with fruits and flowers.
High on the sum NIT is his own beauti-
full head, with the broad, plumed hat.
About it young painter lads stand
grouped, their faces flushed with the
pride of their high charge.
Behind them, ON foot, saunters Il
group of figures in quaint dresses.
There is old Quintin Matsys, in his
long, dark robe, with turban upon his
head; and SDyders, in deep blue velvet.
with his trusty spaniel by his side; and
young Vandyck, with his pale poet
face upturned to the sky, and the long.
l,ita r1r s,E Ii hot ha
ground. They glance up at the white
face on the house top, and their hands
rise instinctively to the motley cover
ings of their heads. lt is a supreme
moment. The great master looks down
so silent and yet SO sentient. Surely,
he is not dead! He walks by their side
to day as in the Olden time.
There is a moments pause. The
great soul has cast down his blessing
upon them, and they are satisfied. The
divine promise of arts eternity has en-
tered their hearts.
They know that his body lies under
the marble pavement of St.-Jacques,
by the side of those he loved, with the
glory of his own handiwork shining
down upon him from the walls, with
the purple light of the stained windows
streaming over his resting place, and
the silence of the church all about him.
But they know that his soul hOvers
about Antwerp, stands by their side in
their dark studios, shines through the
young hopefulness of their lives, and
moulds the ciry's revels and shows of
holidays into unconscious glory and
magnifcence of color.-IppietORs' Jour
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-29

IF two of the most distinguished person
ages in that resolute fraternity which visits
by night, equipped with jimmies and false
keys, the treasure vaults of banks and
similar places, had prepared little game
for the richest treasure in the world; if
they had tunneled a passage that could at
the last moment be opened with the
greatest facility, and had secured impress
sions of the lock on the last door and we're
in possession Of the whole secret Of It's
structure and the material with which to
make practical use Of that secret; and if
at the given hour they had reached that
door and proceeded to operate on it, and
then discovered that during the preceding
day it had been supplied with terrible
new lock. against which all their study Of
| the other lock was of no use, bow bitter
would be their disappointment and how
fierce their indignation against the theory
and practice of the application of new
locks. 1t is conceivable that in such case
they might feel as savage as Senators
! Morton and Cameron feel, suddenly con
fronted By the device of a new electora
law, which comes between them and The
little game Of making president without
much regard to the will of the people. =
NJ 7. Herald
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-29
EvSzoEs OF GIGANTIC swlEDLEs ON
THE y. 8. TEEASURY
the Treasury Denies. Them.

New YORK, Jan. 29.-Rumors of the
extensive swindies upon the United States
treasury were rife in Washington yester-
day but Treasurer Wyman says there is
nothing in them and explains that 81 2,00O,-
600 or $3,0O0,0o0 of unclaimed interest on
bonds resting in the treasury suggests an
extraordinary inducements to claim agents
constantly on the lookout for owners OF
the bonds. A claim agent sometimes gets
hold of the wrong parties of the same
name from whom the agent procures pow
er Of attorney to collect the interest, Ii
this way moneys have been erronously
paid out but such monies have invariably
been refunded after detection of the mis-
| take. The treasury has not lost dollar
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-29

John Hoath and wife to John Docherty.
let's /. 2 5, 4, and 5. block 10, in Anda-
lusia, dated July 10, 1876 for $1,000.
Richard Hill end wife to John Strohsahl
description indefnite,-in township 49,
range e-Canoe Creek-dated Jan. Is,
1876, for Sl25
Rufus Walker and wife TO Charles
Titterington, the Of the $ of sec q
township l6, range w-Buffalo Prairie
dated July "a, 1876. for $500
Barbara A Muller, to John G. Muller
lot 8, block Z. in Spencer 4 Cases add t
R. |. dated Jan 26, 1877, for 81.
Edwin Roberts and wife to Johr
Roberts, the W of the t, of sec "a
township II, range 2 w-Black Hawk
dated jan IL, 1871 for $500.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-29
LOCAL COLUMN.
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED.
SoHENoK's PULMoNIc SYRUP,
SoHENcK's SEA WEED TONIC.

SoHENoK's PULMoNIC SYRUP,
SoHENcK's SEA WEED TONIC.
SCRENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS.
Are the only medicines that will cure Pu, ,monary
Consumption.
Frequently medicines that will stop a cough will
occasion the death of the patient; they lock up the
iver, stop the circulation of the blood hemorrhage
follows, and in they clog the action of the very
organs that caused the cough,
Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia are the causes
OF two-thirds OF the cases of Consumption. Many
persons complain of dull pain in the side, con-
stipation, coated tongue pain In the shOulderbade
feelings of drowsiness and restlessness, the food
lying heavily on the stomach, accompanied with
acidity and belching up of wind.
These symptoms usually originated from a disor-
dered condition of the stomach torpid liver
Persons so affected If they take one or two heavy
colds and If the congh in these be sudden y
checked, will find the stomach and liver clogged
remaining torpid, and inactive, and almost before
they are aware the lungs are mass of sores, and
liberated, the result of which is death.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup is an eXpectorant which
does not contain opium or anything calculated tC
check cough Suddenly.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic dissolves the food
mixes with the gastric juices of the stomach aids
digestion and creates ravenous appetite.
When the bowels are Costlve, skin sallow, or tht
symptom otherwise of bilious tendency ,SChenck'
4 Mandrake Pills are required.
| These medicines are prepared only by
| j. II. SCHENCK & Son
| NE corner Sixth and Arch Sts Phia
| And are for sale by all druggists aud dealers.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-29
ELECTION NOTICE!
Old Settlers Of Rock Island County

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
| will be held at the Parlors Of the Rock Island
House, Oh Monday, February 5th, 1871, at O'Clock
D. m for the election of officers for the ensuing
year and to take into consideration the following
article of the constitution:
ARTICLE VI.-SEC l. There shall he an annual
festival of the Society the 22nd day of February
of each year during the continuance of the Society,
unless otherwise directed by tie Association.
Old Settlers, meet with on the 5th of February
and select your officers.
ISAAC NEGUS, President
i. c. CRoPPER, Secretary.
January 17th, 1877. Union copy.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-29
Weather Prohabillt,es.

WASHINGTON, Jan.29 The Signal Ser
vice observations taken at 10 o'clock this
forenoon indicate the following weather
probabilities for this afternoon and to-
night
Indications for the northwest Falling
barometer, southerly or easterly winds,
rising temperature, increasing cloudiness.
succeeded in latter and possibly in former
by rain areas or in norther portions snow,
except in Minnesota and Dakota lower
temperature than on Sunday.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-29

berlain trial justice, was shot, by unknown
parties, near bis door. This assassination
fired the blacks who Immediately armed
and the whites organized a strong police
force. The two parties came in collision
on the outskirts of the town early yester-
day morning and the result was that two
special policemen were wounded, when the
whole force returned to town.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-29
cHANDLER,s WAR ABANDONED.
The Troops Being Sent Away

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-It is reported
tonight that a number of troops which
have been stationed here for sometime,
will be ordered to stations in other por-
tious ofEthe country, some Of them at Fort
ress Monroe and Governors Island, and
others to points 10 the west, where their
services may be in demand in the spring
campaign against the Indians.