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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
THE REApERS.

The respers bend their lusty backs;
Their sounding sickles sway;
At every stroke the golden sea
Recedes to give them way:
The heavy ears fall bowing down
And nestle at their feet
Such vii, such work as theirs, perforce,
Must win-must homage meet.
So careless of fatigue they go,
So true, 20 steadily.
The sdmiring traveller on the road
Leans o'er the gate to see;
With marvel of the soon-fallen breadth.
The lounging gossips tell;
But the reapers labor for us all;
Tis need they should work well
Ere the great sun ths: burns above.
Shall CRIMSON In the west.
And the children's poppy nosegays fade.
And they lie down to rest.
Each golden spear that upward points
Shall fall upon the field,
And the farmer drains sparkling glass.
Rejoicing o'er the yield
Ply. bonny men, your sickles bright
And give the people bread
At every conquering stride you take.
On want and woe You tread.
Drop. heavy ears, and give the strength
You gathered from this p,ais.
That man may rise refreshed and firm.
And do great things again
God bless the hands. all hard and brown.
That guide the cleaying p,ow,
Thst cast abroad the sh Mug seed,
And build the wealthy NOW;
They rear the bread our children eat;
lis by their toll We live;
Hurrahi give them the loudt ST cheer
That grateful hesrts can givei
-CRdmbers' Journal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
Not Then But Now.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes OF
your love and tenderness sealed up un-
til your friends are dead Fill theiI
lives with sweetness. Speak approving,
cheering words, while their ears can
hear them and while their hearts can
be thrilled by them. The things you
mean TO say when they are gone say be-
fore they go. The flowers you mean to
send for their cofiins, send to brighten
and sweeten their homes before they
leave them. | would rather have y
bare coffin without flower and fune-
raj without an eulogy, than life with
out the sweetness of love and sympathy
Scrip Book.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10

"What have you got here?" he asked,
uncoveriHg pair of ducks. "Ducks,
as l am sinner. I'm fond of ducks.'
and so saying he commenced to devour
them.
Mr.. BObbles almost choked himself
with anger.
''Sir, said Mr.. Bobbles, rising in great
wrath, this supper is mine, sir, mine.
sir, prepared expressly for Mrs. Gleeson
and myself; so you will oblige me, sir,
by not touching it,
Mrs. Gleeson won mind my having
some," said the man; ..for | am hun
cry"
Mr.. Boobies looked as if he would
like to have pitched the man out of the
window, but he was about size too
big. so he refrained. Mrs. Gleeson en-
tered the room.
Julia" asked Mr. Bubbles, '.who is
that man?'
Yes, who am II" said the man.
Mrs. Gleeson gave a startled scream,
and exclaimed:
MY husbandr'
Your husband?' almost shrieked
Mr.. Bobbles. ''Why, amt your hus-
band dead? 2"
But Mrs. Gleeson didn't answer for
she had tainted.
''This woman is my wife, said the
man; ''and ! think you had better 20
while you are safe
Mr.. Bobbles didn't answer him. but
took his hat and made for home.
1t was too true: the man was Mrs.
Gleeson's husband. He was wild, dis
sipated fellow, and had married her
when she was quite a girl, and long be-
fore she knew her own mind. He had
gone abroad, and she, not hearing any
thing of him for ten years, concluded
that he was dead, and gave out that she
was widow. When Mr.. Bobbles came,
she thought him an elegant catch, and
determined upon marrying him, if pos
sible. But she was prevented by the
sudden and unexpected arrival of her
husband.
Mr.. Bebbles has discarded blue coats
and moustaches, and has gone back to
his old-fashioned black coat and white
waistcoats, and is still a bachelor.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10

There are ,7l7 nuncnDacss ard
sixteen dwarfs in Paris and its suburbs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

On May 7, the Senate met at $50 o'clock.
A resolution returning thanks to President
Curtiss for the able and impartial manner
in which he has discharged his duties as
presiding officer; also to Samuel Knox,
President pro tem.; to Sergeant-at-arms
James and Chief Clerk Donaldson, were
passed. A message was received from the
Governor nominating James s. Jennings,
of Athens County, Charles Hare, of Noble
County, and Isaac Wisener, of Monroe
County, to locate and purchase a site for a
tobacco warehouse, and 81. W. Hughes, of
Hamilton County, to be Trustee of the
Miami University, all of which were con-
frmed. The nomination Of Harry j. Walls,
of Hamilton County, to be Commissioner of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was also con.
frmed. Goodbye speeches were made by
President Curtiss, Senators Knox, Ransom,
Andrews, Bates and Kerr. The Senate was
then declared adjourned without day........
The House met also at 81 o'clock. A
large proportion of the members were in
their seats. Considerable routine business
was disposed of. While waiting for the
enrolment of bills appropriate goodbye
speeches were made by Messrs. Hodge, Con-
verse, Rowland, Stone, Monahan, Barrett,
Menzer, Dalzell and Brunner. Messages
were exchanged between the two bodies,
stating that all of the business before each
branch had been disposed of before it, and
both were ready to adjourn. Speaker Gros.
venor then delivered his valedictory. He
stated that nearly one thousand bills had
been introduced in the House during this
and the last session. Five hundred of
this number passed the House, and four
hundred and ffty.six became laws.
At the conclusion of the address, the gayel
fell, and the Speaker declared the House ad-
journed, without day. Mr.. Richards then
struck up the Doxology, in which all Joined,
with fine effect. Just as the las. note died
away Rev. Mr.. Blake, member from Portage,
took his place in front of the Clerks desk,
and with uplifted hand and bowed head
pronounced the Benedictiop. So ended the
session.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17
Bucharest.

"The town of Bucharest, the capital
of Roumania," says a recent traveller,
/" is situated in picturesque plain in
Central Wallachia, and comprising some
seventy thousand souls, is notable for its
converts, its sixty Greek churches, its
pleasant gardens and groves. Near by
runs the charming river Dimbovetza,
of which an old Wallachian song says,
Sweet waterl he who drinks once of
thy crystal stream shall never leave thy
banks The houses in Bucharest are
mainly of two stories, built of clay and
wood, with bay-windows jutting from
the upper stories. Only the principal
streets are paved; they are long, narrow.
and irregular, and, withal, wretchedly
lighted. Quite elegant mansions stand
cheek by jowl with miserable novels;
there is no fashionable quarter, no dis
tinctively paupers' quarter: rich and
poor live side by side. Bucharest is in
these respects more Oriental than Euro
pean in character. 1t is peculiar place
for several reasons. There are SO many
dogs in the Roumanian capital as to be
a downright plague, and more than once
it has beer found necessary to oinaugurate
a general massacre of them. The dogs
thus killed are given over to be skinned
by the peasantry outside the town. A
permanent fashion in Bucharest is that
of using vehicles. Nobody will go from
place to place on foot if he or she can
help it. NJ. De Giradin says, in a letter
from there, To go on foot in Bucharest
is like going througha French town with
bare feet" Another traveller gives All
amusing description of one of these
turnouts: From a house in which a
decent English workman would be
ashamed to live, so dirty and dilapidated
is it, you see the noble proprietor driving
out in his own carriage, half-naked
slave, with few rags hanging loosely
about him, acting as coachman, the great
man himself enjoying his easy dignity
within, not in the cleanest habiliments,
with all the comfort the execrabIe road
and the wretched springs, or want of
springs, in his carriage will admit Of"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17
THE EDITOR'S ROOM.
BY WILLIAM n. CARLETON.

The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance fur
rowed with care,
His mind at the bottom of his business, his feet at
the top Of q chair,
His chair arm and elbow supporting. his right hand
upholding his head,
His eye the dusty old table, with different doc
unents spread.
There were thirty long pages from Howler, with
underlined capitals topped,
And short disquisition from Growler, requesting
his newspaper stopped;
There were lyrics from Gusher, the poet, concern
ing sweet fowrsts and zephyrs,
And a stray gem from Plodder, the farmer, de-
scribing couple of heifers;
There were billets from beautiful maidens, and
bills from grocer or two,
And his best leader hitched to letter, which in
quired II he wrote it or who7
There were raptures of praises from writers of the
smooth and melifuous school,
And oneof his rivals last papers, informing him he
was fool;
There were several long resolutions, with names
telling who they were by,
Canonizing some harmless old brother who had
done nothing worse than to die;
There were traps on the table to catch him, and
serpents to sting and to smite him;
There were gift enterprises to sell him. and biters
to bite him
There were long staring ads " from the city, and
money with never one,
Which added: Please give this insertion and send
in your bill when you're done %
There were letters from organizations-their meet
ings, their wants and their laws
Which said: " Can you print this announcement
for-the good of our glorious cause %
There were tickets inviting his presence to fes-
rivals, parties and shows,
Wrapped in notes, with Please give us q notice" ("
demurely slipped in at the close;
In Short as his eye took the table, and ran Ger its
ink-spattered trash,
There was nothing it did not encounter, excepting
perhaps it vas cash.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17
The Oriental Business.
Detroit Free Press.I

A good citizen of Croghan Street was
reading the other day of good Persian
gentleman who always walked about
with a smile on his face. When this
Persian was asked why he always looked
so happy when other men looked sad he
replied:
~ smile because it may be sunshine
to some poor soul surrounded by shad-
ows."
1t was very nice in the Persian, and
the Croghan Street man said he'd be
hanged if he couldn't outsmile Persian
or anybody else walking on two legs.
He at once began to smile at his wife.
She stood:it for few minutes, and then
observed:
What's the matter, William-got
the collie again 2"
"I smile because I want to carry SUM-
chime to your darkened soul, he replied.
She wanted him to understand that
fifteen minutes at the woodpile would
help her more than all the grins he could
grin in straight week, and when he
went into the kitchen to smile some SUM-
shine at the hired girl the wife followed
him and raised row that put dinner
4hree quarters of an hour behindhand.
However, one can't get the hang of
Oriental business in day, and this man
tried it again on the street car as he
came down town yesterday. Opposite
him sat an old woman with basket, and
he undertook to smile the shadows from
her heart. She watched him for two or
three minutes, growing mad all the time,
and presently she asked:
"Do you think you know me, that you
are grinning across the aisle like circus
baboon ?"
'1smile, madam, because-because-
he stammered, forgetting what the Per.
sian said.
"You are grinning because I've got
sore eyes," she shouted.
"No, madam. l. smile that THAT
l."
"l'll not stand it'll" she exclaimed,
and she hammered him with the basket
until he escaped off the platform.
"Now grin over that, will you'll" she
called after him as she shook the basket
in the air.
"The Persian who went round smil-
ing was fool, and Pm his first cousin p'
growled the man, and he quit smiling
and picked fight with harness-maker.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17
a La Crosse Blu of Fare.

Years ago there used to be party of
boarders at one of the La Crosse hotels
that were full of fun. There were Ken
nedy and John B. Webb, for instance,
who never let a chance slip to create
amusement. Then there was lawyer
Woodward, who never joked much, and
who would as soon have expected to be
struck by lightning as to have trick
played on him. At that time the board
was unusually bad. Times were hard,
the house was not paying, the proprie-
tors were disguised, and the bill of fare
was rather thin. One day the two first
mentioned bachelors put up a job op
Woodward. They got bill of fare and
filled it out with all the hne dishes they
could think of, and made lay out that
would have done credit to Delmonico.
This bill of fare they placed at Wood
wards plate, the waiter girl was let into
the secret, and after all the rest had been
seated at the table, Woodward came in.
Being trife near sighted, he placed the
bill of fare close to his eyes and read
"terrapin." For fear his eyes deceived
him he looked again, but the terrapin's
flag was still there. Said he, "It is
years since 1 have eaten terrapin fish.
Kate, bring me some terrapin." The
girl went to the kitchen and got gen.
erous slice of the surloin of catfish
and placed it before Woodward. He
tasted of it, looked grave snd doubtful,
and said, 81 will take some of the OK
tail SOUP" She brought him plate OF
beverage that looked as though vegeta-
bles had been washed in it, and he tasted
of it and set it one side, and said he
would take little canvas back duck,
with jelly. She went out and came
back and said it was all gone, when he
looked again at the bill, and said never
mind he would have some of the wild
turkey. She returned with some corned
beef and cabbage, which he ate. While
eating his corned beef, his eye glanced
down to the bottom of the bill of fare
and he said he would have some char.
lotte russo and some plum pudding, ice
cream and walnuts. The girl, almost
bursting with suppressed emotion, went
out and got slice of prune pie, with
eight hundred flies holding convention
on the crust. This was too much,
Woodward looked at Kennedy and
Webb, then at Kate, then at the pie
and then he said that it was the most
elaborate dinner on paper that he had
seen, but the most unsatisfactory that
he had experienced in that house. Ken
nedy said he had noticed it himself, and
Bum said it was like some generals in
the army, lightning on dress parade, but
pretty scarce in action. Woodward has
forgiven them now.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17
Footing an Indian.

Most of Captain Moss's time has been
in prospecting for gold. About 1862,
just at the time when there was such a
furore on the Pacific coast over mineral
discoveries in Arizona, he struck some
greenhorns whom he induced to shell
out one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars for ahalf interest in mine which
he had opened on the Colorado River.
There is nothing niggardly about Moss.
On the contrary, he is munifcent. When
he had got his cash for his mine he
started on an eastern tour, taking along
with him as friend and travelling COM
panion, Aratoba, a chieftain of the
Mojave tribe, who had great influence
with his people. The Indian had never
seen more than few men together at a
time, and his notions of eastern civiliza-
ton were very crude. Moss and his com.
panion went from Lower California to
San Francisco on a steamer, and when
the city and its shippings opened before
Aratoba's vision, he became unmanage-
able from amazement and excitement,
and attempted to jump overheard.
When they boarded train east of the
Rockies and the thing was getting down
to thirty or forty miles an hour, the cid
chief tried to throw himself out of win
dow, and during the remainder of the
first day of their journey by rail it took
two men to prevent him from breaking
his neck. He got used to railroad
travel, however, and liked it toward the
last; but the more he saw of city life
the greater his amazement grew.
Moss and his friend lived in the best
New York hotels for a week, faring
sumptuously. When he got ready to
visit Washington and Baltimore they
took the train from Jersey City ia the
evening, engaging berths in "a sleeping
car. During the nigh run whenever
the train halted at town Moss made
Aratoba get up and look out at the gas
lights. The object of this was to make
the Indian think that he was riding
through New York. They arrived in
Philadelphia before daybreak, and re.
mained there until night. When the
journey was resumed to Baltimore, Moss
still practiced his deception on the In.
dian by waking him. up at every town
TO convince him that they were still rid
ing under the gaslights of New York.
The game was played upon the unsus.
pecting and bewildered aborigine until
the trip ended in Washington.
When they returned to the wilds Of
Arizona old Aratoba feared to relate his
experience, for he knew that his people
would think that he was lying, or that
he had been bribed to deceive them.
Finally he consented to tell his story,
and on a certain day the whole tribe
assembled to hearit. When he described
his journey by rail, and told about rid
ing two whole nights under the gaslights
of the city, the untraveled Mojaves
denounced his narrative as monstrous
lie, and they nearly mobbed the old
chief then and there. A council was held
and it was decided to Danish Aratoba
from the tribe, and he was accordingly
stripped ofhis Eastern-made clothes, and
abandoned on an uninhabited island in
the Colorado River, from which he was
afterward rescued by his old friend
Moss.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

PROFESSOR YoUMANs says of General
Pleasonton and blue glass: "The man is
pestilent ignoramus. He may be en-
tirely honest, but that is no reason why
we should give attention to his egregious
folly. Pleasonton, however, it must be
confessed, serves one neimportant function,
he gauges for us the depth and density
of American stupidity. De Morgan
says, somewhere, that certain men appear
occasionally to play the part of fool
ometers in the community, that is, to
measure the number and quality of the
fools furnished by any given state of
society. Pleasonton has done this
for us with an accuracythar leaves moth
ing to be desired" Now it is the Gen
erals turn to say something.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

In the recent great walking match at
London, through constantly walking in
one direction around the hall, OLeary
had the muscles of one leg contracted
and drop of at least three inches of the
shoulder on the same side. This was the
result of walking five hundred and
twenty miles, with twenty-six abrupt
turns to each mile, always swung in the
same direction.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

THE painful perplexity and indecision
of the young lady who has the ankle of
Venus but a foot like an ironing
board, as she clutches her dress and
steps on muddy crossing, is the saddest
thing we know of.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

MONTENEGRO is semi-independent
principality situated among the peaks of
the Dinoric Alps. The country is small,
having an area of only 1,700 square
miles. The race is hardy, industrious
and bold. Although governed by their
own Prince and legislative bodies, they
pay an annual tribute to Turkey.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

The farmers of Mclean and adjoining
counties, Ill, are alarmed at the inva-
sion of rats, the like of which has not
been known thereabouts since 1858.
Hedges, fences, and the foundations of
buildings are full of them, and the
farmers in plowing unearth them by
hundreds from subterranean burrows
On one farm, near Bloomington, two
hundred and twenty-five were killed in
one dav
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

GIURGEvo, mentioned so frequently in
the war dispatches, is town of Wal
lachia, on the Danube, forty miles south
west of Bucharest, of which it is the
port. 1t has population of seven thou
sand, and is a poor place, but has an
active trade, especially with some of the
Austrian ports on the Danube. The
Notifications formerly encircling the
town were leyeled by the Russians in
1929.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17
The Coroner's Jury at St, Louis ba,

THE Coroner's jury at st. Louis has
finished its labors and brought in a YER
dict. The testimony of several scores of
witnesses has added nothing to the in
formation contained in the first reports.
Nothing is known of the origin of the
fire and very little as to the real respon-
sibility for its management,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

EVERY stylish lady who drives her
own pony must wear colors to match
that of the horse. If she can't do it she
must paint the pony to match her old
dresses or else 60 on foot.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

KAISER WILHELM is upwards of
eighty, but the crown prince, Unser Fritz,
has to be mighty spry to get in the first
kick at the book agent or ightning-rod
man when the old gentleman is about the
premises.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

A New YORK State man grated some
horse-radish for his wife, and then
sneezed, broke blood-vessel and died.
Husbands will by and by learn to sit on
the veranda and let domestic drudgery
alone,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

WANT of prudence is too frequently
the want of virtue; nor is there on earth
a more powerful advocate for vice than
poverty.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-17

THE Ohio Legislature has passed a
law legalizing advertisements in papers
known as "patent outsides."
The Bennington daily banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1877-1877, 1877-08-20

concern we determined when we visited New
Haven. to give it a call. Having done so we
now propose to lay before our readers some
facts with regard to the causes of the i'm
mense popularity of the organs of this COM
pany. Let us commence with the building
which is situated on Chestnut st., fronting
800 feet with an L 1856 feet deep The entire
building is built of brick, and 10 six stories in
height The company commenced to manu-
facture in 1850, and over 10000 Of their instru-
ments are gov in use in various parts Of the
United States and Europe, being about
an average of $500 organs sold an-
nnally since the works were Organized
Prominent among the many stylese made
is the cymbella organ, The case Of
this is entirely new in design and beauti-
full in finish. 1t has many new and valuable
improvements possessed by no other organ
made elsewhere. The music rack when turn
ed down makes fine writing desk. A beau
tiful feature is a chime of two and one-half
Octaves of bells, tuned in perfect harmony,
to be used either alone or with one Or more
sets of reeds, thus producing the most en-
traneingly delicious harmonic effect 1t is
adapted for church or parlor, and with its ar
rangements Of stops can be played as soft as
an EOlian Harp, or with sufficient power and
compass of tone to fill church with its sub
lime notes. This organ has twelve stops, all
OF practical use, and is the embodyment Of
all of the best qualities possible to be attain
cd in q musical instTument,-N, Y. Trade
Journal, Saturday, March is, 1876.
Fred. N. Squire is agent in Bennington for
these instruments, and the public can rely
on him as q responsible dealer. They can be
seen at his music aud jewelry store, Mich
OILS Block, Main st.