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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03
The Dead Cattle King.

John W. lliff, the Colorado cattle king
who died in Denver, recently, after an
illness of several months, left fortune
which may be closely estimated at
81 ,0OO, 900 including life Insurance of
s20, coo. His ranch in Northern Color
ado will be remembered by many visitors
as one of the sights to see in that neigh
borhood. This ranch is l56 miles long,
and begins at Julesburg on the east and
extends to Greeley on the west. 1t in
cludes bottom and upland ranges, and
has several camps or ranches. The chief
ranch is nearly south Of Sidney, and
about forty miles from Julesburg. AT
this ranch there are houses and sheds,
and something more than two sections
ofland fenced ill. All the cattle bought
by Mr. lift were turned over to him
and branded at this place. Here were
his private stock-yards, with corrals,
chutes, and all the necessary conven-
fences for handling cattle. 1t is on the
South Platte River, and Of course has
fine watering facilities, while from the
bottom land adjacent plenty of hay may
be cut for the use of the horses employed
in herding. He cuts no hay for his
cattle. They live the entire year on the
rich native grass on his range. and with
the exception of a severe winter now and
then the percentage of loss was not very
great.
Mr.. Iliff was thorough cattle man,
and from his long experience had a
perfect knowledge of the business. In
1875 he owned $4,000 head of cattle.
The number of calves branded thGt year
on his ranch were from 4, 500 to 5000 head
and his sales of three and four year-old
steers and fat cows that fall probably
amounted to about the same number.
To take care of this immense herd he
employed from twelve to thirty-five
men-very few, usually in the winter.
and the largest number during the
''round ups'' In the spring. This year
he had twenty four men employed.
When engaged in the work of selecting
cattle for shipment the same men are
gathering the cows with unbranded
calves, which they put into the corrals
near by, and, after the calves are brand
ed. they are turned loose with the herd
again. In addition to the cattle raised
on this ranch, he dealt largely in Texas
and Indian cattle, and had advertised
for 20, 900 head of Texas cattle to be
delivered at his ranch in July of the
next year. Mr.. Iliff estimated the in
crease of cattle from his home herd
outside Of purchases and sales-to be
about 20 per cent, per year, and to be
about equally divided as to gender.
His shipping points were at Pine Bluffs
and Julesburg, on the Union Pacific,
and at Deer Tail, on the Kansas Pacific.
The winter of 1S71-72 was very severe.
There were deep SHOWS over Mr., lifts
range that remained on the ground a
long time, and the ssorms were inces-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03

the merry shows of the carnival as
though they felt that naught could dis
sipate the gloom of the past. For them
life is less real than the dreams of the
old market-places and cathedrals of
their homes. The Venitians jostle them
in the crowds and laugh at their poor
finery; and they, all unconscious,
smile in a forlorn, lost fashion, and
wander on as those who feel that the
world has left them behind forever.
The crowd strolls on, day after day,
along the broad path by the side of the
lagoon, where wooden booths have been
erected, with gay flags streaming from
their roofs. Flaring pictures lean
against the boarded fronts; saints per-
forming miraculous cures; wild beasts
devouring their keepers. On the
thresholds stand weather-beaten men
and women in fanciful garments, who
call out to the people to enter and be-
hold the greatest marvels of the latter
world for ten centimes.
Wherever there is an open space in
the crowd the people stop and gather
about the jugglers and charlatans, who
shout themselves hoarse over the elk
ers in which they deal. Sometimes in
the thick of the throng there is CLEAN
of bright satin, and confusion of Draw
ny limbs in coarse cotton coverings.
1t is family of acrobats, tumbling in
the sunlight to earn their scanty supper
They twist their supple bodies into
strange shapes so long as the crowds of
laughing sailor-lads and gondoliers en-
courage them with kindly cries. Then
they gather up the coins that fall upon
the pavement, and wrap their shabby
clOaks loosely about their dingy finery.
The women lift their babies from the
ground, the men shoulder the imple-
ments of the profession, and the poor
souls move off, followed by the strag-
Cling crowd to another open space,
where the fishers are waiting to be
aroused from their sun-baked slum-
bers
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03
The Carnival of Venice.

There comes a time to the sea city
when the heaviness of mid-winter van
ishes from the hearts of the people, and
in its stead appears a budding hope,
like dim intuition of the approach of
spring. The impressionable Venetian
nature reveals in its external shows the
emotions that are at work under the
surface of the city's life. Thus the
burst of triumph at the departure of
the winter. which has not yet given
place to the tender silence of the spring,
finds its symbol in the mirth and riot
of the carnival.
The fishermen who toll in storm and
wind out upon the treacherous lagoons
deny themselves their daily share of
polentd in order that they may spend
more freely at carnival. The women,
stringing beads in the doorways, work
faster as the merry time approaches.
hat the children may have at least one
treat of pdnna and Jrittole. The girls.
sewing in dark back-roems, toll for
weeks far into the night for the sake of
the one days masking with their lovers.
The children in the streets cover their
faces with paper masks and cry out to
the passers-by in the hoarse voice that
the city's traditions have consecrated
to the mad season. In the narrow by
ways hang worn garments of silk and
satin covered with gold and lace. They
flash together in the sunlight that steals
down between the houses-the brocad-
ed coat of the old noble-the thread
bare velvet trains of dead and gone
great ladies-the torn gauze skirt of
some poor dancing girl.
As the time of the carnival draws
near, the faces of the people color with
hope and excitement. The women
leave their households and pour into
the sun-warmed streets, brave in scar
let-and-yellow shawls, with heavy
braids coiled about their heads. On
their necks and wrists are the long slen-
der gold chains that have come down
through generations of toiling woman
hood. The young girls stroll in groups
along the rira, glancing from under
their powdered lashes at the stalwart
gondoliers. Their trains sweep far
behind them, and large fans protect
them from the western sun.
The boatmen don their fiesta shirts
and deck their worn, broad hats with
feathers. The fishers patch afresh
their old blue coats, and mend the rents
in their red Greek caps. The peasants
leave their low cabins among the dead
vines and press into the town with bas-
kets of eggs and fowls, that are to be
traded for their lodging in the days of
the carnival.
From the sleepy old towns of the in
terror come the pale citizens. They
have a dispirited, listless look, as
though they had dwelt all their lives
under the shadow of past that had
weighed oppressively upon them. They
are haggard, and pinched, and wistful-
eyed. There is a shabbiness in the
thin, well-kept silks of the women,
their over-large, well-cleaned gloves,
and their fashions oftwenty years back !;
in the threadbare cloaks and rusty,
once elegant hats of the men; in the
rude, homemade jackets and trousers
of the gray-eyed little boys. They are
courteous and dignified. They gaze at
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03
A Turkish Clairvoyante.

NecrOmancerS, seers and Seeresst
| who profess to commune with the spirits
of the dead, are to be found among the
occult scientists of Stamboul. One of
these was said to be an ecstatic medium
of great power. She was but eighteen
and married, and had just recovered
from a serious illness when / heard that
some khanums of my acquaintance
were going to visit her. Attaching N.Y.
self to them, We found the Zulu Fdldje
Kare in a lonely winding street of a
poor neighbOrhood of STAN boul. A
crowd of all sorts of women, rich and
poor, filled her little sanded ante-room.
There were mothers with sick infants
in their laps, come for "cure;" there
were daintily dressed slaves from the
Seraglio, wrapped up in shabby feradyis ;
there were married Khanums with the
threat of divorce hanging over their
heads, There they patiently awaited
for hours their turn to be admitted to
the inner room. This was as poor as
the other. The seeress, seated on a low
stool in the midst of the uncarpeted
floor, leaned over a low brass mangal,
or chafing-dish. She was plump, fair
young woman, with flaxen hair, and
eyes of peculiar light tint. She ap-
peared to be excessively exhausted and
could not repress long and repeated
yawns. She told us there were great de-
mands on her powers, and that her
strength was almost entirely gone at
the end of the day. She would do her
ton her visions we're uncertain. Then
placing rs before her on low wicket
stools, she bent over the brazer and
sprinkled on the live Goals powder
called ambdrd, the fumes of which pre-
sently affected her as one has seen mes
meric passes affect mesmeric subject.
Her eyes were raised and had fixed
look, but she sat upright and answered
intelligibly the questions which were
put to her by ourselves or by the woman
who acted as her second. l do not re-
member what she predicted for the
others of our party, but for me she fore
told voyage over the sea, which was
not q remarkable clever hit, since she
must have known that l was foreigner
in Turkey intending some day to return
to my native land. Still, must do my
fortune teller the justice to acknowledge
that did make an unforeseen VOYAGE to
India not long after. But the seance,
on the whole, was a failure; and as the
effect of the umbara soon passe of, the
seeress returned to her normal state,
and begged us to leave her to repose,
which, in pity to her WEAKNESS, we
presently did, A n'edjidieh (about four
shillings) was looked on as liberal
gift from our party, some who had
consulted having offered only beshlie
or two, Ia beshlic is about one shilling),
and some had given only few paras or
pence. The woman seemed quite poor,
and evidently lived very miserably,
saving most Of her gains, and having to
support q husband who had no calling.
1t was said that grief at the loss of her
baby had made her a clairvoyante. She
was much sought after from the fear
that her gift" would wear away as her
sorrow healed. Hers was looked on as
q case of genuine mediumship, and to
see her l could not doubt that she be-
| lieved in her mission and powers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03
How an Oil Well Is Drilled.

A location is found and a wooden
derrick of narrow plank and boards i:
erected. 1t is twenty feet square at the
base, twenty-five feet high, and the
four corners so converge that the top i:
but three feet square. Here rests 8
heavy piece of tramway for the recep.
ton of the pully over which the two.
inch drilling cable is to work. In the
valleys it is necessary to drive pipe te
prevent the caving in of the well. Thi;
pipe is of wrought iron, eight inches in
diameter, and is driven in seventeen
feet sections by heavy maui erected
in the derrick. Since it is to guide the
drilling tools, great care is taken that
it be kept straight. The engine, gen.
orally of fifteen-horse power, is placed
short distance from the derrick, twelve
feet from the center of which is planted
the sampson post, heavy piece of tim
Der twenty inches square and twelve
feet high, the top of which is prepared
to receive the walking BERN. This beam
is larger in the center than at the ends
II is about fifteen inches square and OF
such a length that, when properly
balanced on the sampson post, one end
over the middle of the derrick floor.
To this end is fastened the cable and
drilling tools, which weigh 5000 pounds
and the other end derives power from
the engine, giving the beam rocking
motion, which lifts and drops the tools,
They are lowered and drawn by the aid
of the ''bull wheel" and shaft. An
eight-inch hole is drilled below the
veins of fresh water, which is shut of
by wrought-iron casing, five and hall
inches in diameter, lowered in sections
eighteen feet in length. After placing
whatever amount of casing is needed,
250 or 500 feet, the size of the hole is
diminished to five and a half inches,
which cOntin ues until the completion
of the well. Four men, two drillers
and two tool-dressers or black smiths
are required to sink well. The rock,
pulverized by the drill, is removed by
the means of sand pump, which is a
heavy metal tube, six feet long, with a
valve in the lower end, rapidly lowered
and drawn by Fight rope, receiving its
power from the engine.
At certain depth first sand rock is
found, then second, and finally a third
where the oil is stored. This sand is
from Is to ie0 feet deep and of dark
grayish color, containing pebbles-the
more the better. In close sand rock
there is no oil. Sometimes when the
tools penetrate strong vein of oil and
gas the oil flows out with great force,
and, unless the boiler has been removed
a good distance, it sets the oil on fire
destroying the derrick and everything
near it. With ordinary good luck a
well is finished in month. Great delay
is sometimes occasioned by the heavy
tools running away" from the we'll
men, who escape from the derrick, as
the tools, descending with great rapidity
cause considerable destruction by send
ing the bull wheels crashing through it.
Then the fisherman" with his curious
and ingenious tools is employed at great
expense TO regain possession of the
drill.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03
Sight Restored for Ten Minutes.

Mrs. Abbott, who resides within few
miles of Pitts Point, KY, had singular
circumstance to happen to her one day
last week. She has been totally blind
for about eight years, but, for about ten
minutes on the day in question, she re-
covered her sight, and was enabled DUR
ing that brief period to see everything
about the house,-something she had
not been able to do for eight years be-
fore. The house had recently been
newly papered and painted, aud, when
total blindness came over her again, she
described accurately the various colors
used in the papering and painting. Her
son had married since she lost her sight
and she had never seen her daughter
in-law, but, in the period she was re-
stored to sight, she saw her. and after
ward described her appearance accur-
ately. The momentary ecstacy occasion
ed by miraculous restoration to sight
was as suddenly dissipated by its equal
ly instantaneous loss, and she is now as
blind as ever.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03
A Famous Matador.

Spanish bull-fighters find their dan
gerous calling very lucrative profess
sion. Thus the famous matador OF
Madrid, Frascuelo, possesses fortune
of s4O0, 900, a magnificent house, and a
wife considered the prettiest woman in
Madrid, and is member of one of the
most aristocratic clubs in the city On
the day of a bull-fight Frascuela sends
a messenger to his wife after each of
his performances in the arena, the de-
struction of six bulls being his usual
task, and twice he has been brought
home seriously injured. Frascuelo took
part in the recent bull-fight before the
King and Queen, and his costume was
literally covered with diamonds. Most
interest was felt, however, IN the anna
teur mataiors, cavalry officers chosen
by the different provinces, and who
showed themselves fully as skillful as
the professionals.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03
John Mccullough and the School Ma'anna

All the schoolmasters and schoolmis-
tresses in Boston are scolding John
Mccullough for pronouncing 'Corio-
lanus" with the accent on the second
syllable. The actors defence is that
rythm requires this pronunciation, and
that he is loyal to the traditions of the
stage and to the memories of Kemble,
Macready and Forrest. His critics re-
tort that although the word is used
twenty-five times in the play, the accent
forced on the second syllable only
once, and that the ictus properly falls
on the first and fourth syllables; and
moreover that in Shakespeare's verse
the two short vowels 'io" are orIinari-
ly used as single syllable, so far as
metrical quantity is concerned, The
discussion has ceased to be interesting,
inasmuch as it was worn threadbare in
Forests time, and every argument
that could be used on either side was
then brought forward. One new thing
however, can now be said the retention
of unusual pronunciation is a tribute to
Forrest himself. and serves to remind
old play-goers of a grand voice that will
never be heard again. Mr.. Mccullough
in talk with Globe reporter, has re-
ferred to the attack which the critics
made upon his great predecessor, and
to the persistency and vigor with which
such interference was resented. He
says that it was very amusing to note
the emphasis which Mr.. Forrest laid
upon the second syllable in cities where
abe critics excepted to his pronunciation.
"He would ring out the mex, night,
'Co-rye-o-la-nus' and 'Co-rye-o-li,' said
Mr.. Mccullough, giving fine imitation
of the great tragedian's manner. "He
would fairly shoot the words at the
audience on such occasions"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03

might if you choose, and you'd be sure
to say something agreeable" said
Marie; and then laying her head on
the cat, she cried like any other woman,
When breakfast was ready the next
morning she tapped at Otto's door.
They could not meet without blush
ing. Each knew that it could never be
between them as it had been.
The picture they present to my imag-
ination is pleasant one. So poor, ex-
cept in their youth; so hopeless, save
of love.
"Now tell me all about your trou-
bles," she said, after she had made the
room once more the dainty little parlor
Otto thought the ccziest place he ever
saw.
He told her. 1t was SO good to have
friend.
He could not guess the meaning OF
the wise look she gave him when by
and-by, she put on her hat and told him
to keep Mrs. Grundy company until
her return.
She came back win flushed cheeks
and bright eyes.
| Good news! Good news," she
cried. ''Longman & Gray will employ
you to translate German stories."
He seized her hand and kissed her
fervently.
Angel" he cried.
Marie wept. To her also it seemed
good TO have friend.
Apart now through the long summer
days the two worked. In the evening
he took her to the park, where the
bands played and gay crowds made a
picture
She was little pale now. lie noticed
that she could not walk so far as he did
at first
''Oh, if l could only take you into
the country, my darling" he said.
81 should so like to see the country, :"
she answered, little sigh fluttering
from her lips.
Otto thought bitterly what a curse
poverty was. He had so longed to
take her to his heart and away from all
that monotonous work. He had even
written TO his father, but he got for
answer that he had chosen his own
way, and must walk in it.
''Otto." cried Marie, suddenly. She
had picked up bit of an old city news
paper, and was carelessly reading it,
''Otto. was your fathers name Lud-
wig?"
"Yes," in wonder.
She grew white.
"Read.'
He took the bit of newspaper and
read.
''If the son of the late Ludwig Leib-
hart of Hamburg. Germany, will send
his address to $50 Broadway, he will
hear of something to his advantage"
my father is dead, 'said Otto slowly.
What shall we say more than that
old Ludwig, on his deathbed, had for
given his son-that Otto went back to
Germany, taking Marie with him, and
that they will live there, as happy as
love and prosperity can make them.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03
The VESPER BELL.

Ring on, ring on, sweet vesper bell,
From out your lofty tower;
Your silvery accents seem to tell
How sacred is the hour.
Ring. for the day is almost done;
Aud now. while heavens blessings fall
So gentx:softly. over all.
As if iifsnswer to your call
Sweet vesper bell ring on!
How welc me were the mes, sweet bell,
One week ago o~iayi
Since then how many sad farewell
Fond lips have learne to sayi
How many q soul 20 heaven has gone
To win the fadeless diademl
Sad hearts are left; oh. now for them
Iu tones OF sweetest requiem,
Ring, vesper bell, ring onl
And when again, sweet vesper bell,
The day of rest shall come;
Who KIN oweth if he still will dwell
Here, in an earthly home?
How many task will then be done.
oh, may Col keen us in his care;
Nay He, Himself, our soul prep re-
Sweet ball you warn us TO beware,
Ring on ring on, ring on
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03

The new wing of the New Jersey
State Prison, at Trenton, will be ready
for occupancy about April lst.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-03

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