Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-08-07
Opening The Valves.

Recently Mr.. Eyarts, who had
been confined TO his room several
days by severe indisposition, was walk
ing out for little air and exercise,
when ne met Alex. II. Stephens, lean
ing on the arm of an attendant and
walking very slowly and painfully
along. He was evidently very weak.
Mr. Evarts paused and grasped the old
mans hand.
"My dear Mr.. Stephens" he exclaim-
ed, warmly, ''pefmit me to extend the
salutations of the day, the exhilirating
and warm, refulgent growing sunshine
of which, natures own unmedicated
tonic, L have no reasonable doubt must
infuse into your own life and vital
forces, as indeed / feel that it does into
my own shaken and perturbed system.
that newness of life, that spontaneous
renewal of mental vigor and physical
activity, that revivifying of the forces.
that glow and warmth of second
youth, as it were, a rejdvena.ing of the
mental man, which at our time of life,
when the burdens of public life bear
all too heavily upon us, and the cares of
public service strain both the body and
brain, is a grateful relief, a heavenly
Invigorant, "a"
Excuse me-" fal;ered Mr.. Stephens;
''but before you begin, allow me to say
that there is in our varied natures, and
the intrinsic differences of natural i'm
pressions and organic diffusions, per
meating the entire realm of protOplas-
mic and developed life, does not, and in
the very nature and order, and, in fact,
in the very eternal fitness of things eau
not, acting either separately or in the
closest and most harmonious eOnjunc-
tion with each other, bring about, in
dependently Of exterior and apparently
irrelevant causes, natural or artificial,
developed, as one may say, from nature
by art, science and the tireless investi-
CATION Of man, prompted by that rest
less intelligence that from the founda-
ton of the world has penetrated tie
mysteries of the mine, the forest, the
mountain, the air, the primeval rock
itself, that from all the limitless realm
of natures world, all that has been con-
eealed in her boundless stores of re-
served force. That is its natural state,
or is in itself, or by proper manipula-
ton, ambition or treatment in the forge,
the lathe, the crueible, be made of good
to man either for his physical protec-
ton, comfort, or reinvigOratiOn, can af-
feet, in an equal degree or even in SINH
lar quality of manner the various or
ganisms or constitutions, which, al
though under precisely identical condi-
tions are, or rather, may be subjected
to the same impressions, or series Of
"Pardon me-" explained the Seere-
tary, "but was about to remark that it
had often occurred to me, Tor this is
not by any means new subject of
thought or investigation with me, but,
indeed, one which in my leisure mo-
ments, when | have thrown Off the
cares of State and given myself up to
the higher pleasure of scientific reerea-
ton and philosophical research, | have
subjected to the minutest, carefulest,
detailed dissection, viewing it in every
mental light in which it could be placed,
establishing my theories upon all the
various groundwork OF hypothesis that
any investigation could suggest, prof.
ing, indeed, TO the very core of the
matter in my anxious effort TO get at
he real, definite, physical and abstract
truth, SO that l feel prepared, amply
and logically prepared to say, with all
confidence, and believing that | can
fully sustain my position, that these
very definite forces to which you refer,
the very specific influences of national
causes which you have mentioned, upon
the organic conditions which yourself
have cited, not only can, bat especially
in cases of direct contact, most assured
ly and pointedly, and, indeed, almost
invariably and infallibly do, create,
effect and produce the most sensible and
appreciative-"
"But, my dear Mr.. Evsrts,' said Mr..
Stephens, "you must surely admit"
"My venerable FRIEND" exclaimed
the Secretary in a tone of gentle remon-
STRANGE, edo you not see that"
But" protested Mr.. stephens, sit
must be apparent to you that"
AT this critical moment the Supervis-
ing Architect came along. and informed
Mr.. Eyarts that the scaffolding was all
up and ready for the construction Of
the first sentence in the special message
which was to be completed in time for
the next Congress, and, hastily excus-
ing himself in a few hurried words
the Secretary withdrew, and Mr.. Ste
phens went into short executive ses-
sion and shortly after adjourned.