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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
sam Weller. First Love.

There was no body in the kitchen but
the pretty house-maid; Sans hat was
mislaid, and he had TO look for it, and
the house maid in her anxiety to find
it, turned over all the things that were
heaped together in little corner by the
door. 1t was an awkward corner. You
couldn't get at it without shutting the
door first.
This is it, amt 2" said the pretty
house-maid.
Let me look, " replied Sam.
The candle gave a very dim light,
and sam was obliged to go down on his
knees before he could tell whether it
was his own hat. 1t was a remarkable
small corner, and so-it was nobody's
fault but the man who built the house
sam and the house-maid were pretty
close together.
Eyes that is it, said sam. Good
bye"
Goodbye" said the pretty house
maid.
Goodbye" said sam; and he drop
ped the hat that had cost so much trou-
BILE.
''How awkward you are" said the
house-maid; ''you'll lose it again if you
don't take care"
So to prevent his losing it, she put it
on for him.
Whether it was that she looked so
pretty as her face was raised towards
Sans or whether it was the conse-
quence of their being so near together,
is matter of uncertainty to this day,
but Sam kissed her.
''You don't mean to say you did that
on npurpose, said the house-maid, blush
ing.
mo, | didn't, then" said sam, ''but
| will now; and he kissed her again.
''Sam," said Mr.. Pickwick, calling
over the bannisters.
Coming, SIR" replied sam, running
up stairs.
''How long you have been,'' said Mr..
Pickwick.
There was something behind the
door, sir. which prevented our getting
il open for ever so long" replied sam.
And this was the first passage of Mr..
Weller's first love.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
Fayors.

If you want to be happy, never ask Il
favor. Give as many as you can, and if
any are freely offered, it is not necessa-
ry TO be too proud to take them; but
never ask for or stand waiting for any.
Who ever asked a favor at the right
time? To be refused is woeful stab to
ones pride. 1t is even worse than to
have a favor granted hesitatingly. We
suppose that out of hundred who pc
tition for the least thing-if it be even
an hour Of ftime-ninety-nine wish, with
burning cheeks and aching hearts, they
had not done so. Don't ask favOrs of
your nearest friend. Do everything
for yourself until you drop, and then if
any one picks you up. let it be of his
own free choice, not from any groan
you utter. But while you can stand, be
a soldier. Eat your own crust, rather
than feast on another's dainty meals !;
drink cold water rather than anOther's s
wine. The world is full of people ask
ing favors, and people tire of giving
them. Love or tenderness should new
er be put aside. when its full hands are
stretching towards you; but as few love,
so few are tender; favor asked is apt
to be millstone around your neck,
even if you gain the thing you want by
the asking. As you east your bread on
the waters, and it returns, so will the
favor you ask, if unwillingly granted,
come back to you when you least ex-
pect or desire. Favors conceded upon
solicitation are never repaid. They are
more costly in the end than overdue
usurer's bills.-Liring Issue.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
Sir Boyle Roche's Blunders.

Many of these are preserved. ''Sir, |
would give up halfway, the whole OF
the Constitution to preserve the remain
der" This, however, was parliament
tary. Hearing that Admiral Howe was
in quest of the French, he remarked
somewhat pleasantly that the Admiral
would sweep the French fleet off the
face of the earth. By and by came dan
gerous times of disafiectiOn, and honest
mems lives were insecure. Sir Boyle
writes from the country to friend in
the capital this discouraging view of
his position: ''You may judge, he says,
''of our state when | tell you that |
write this with sword in one hand and
pistol in the other" On another oc-
casion, when the famous letters to the
Public Advertiser were attracting uni
versal attention, Sir Boyle was heard to
complain bitterly of the attacks ''of a
certain anonymous writer called Jun
ius." He it was who recounted that
marvellous performance i'm gymnastics,
when in a tumult of loyalty, he ''stOod
PROSTATE at the feet of his Sovereign"
He it was who denounced, in whitening
language, the apostate politician, who
''turned his back upon himself" He
it was who introduced to public notice
the ingenious yet partially confused
metaphor of the rat. ''Sir," he said,
addressing the Speaker of the Irish
House, Il smell a rat. see him brew
ing in the air; but, mark me, l shall
yet nip him in the bud" There was
the famous speech which eOnfounded
generations. II don't see, Mr.. Speak
er, why we should put ourselves out of
the way to serve posterity. What has
ever pOsterity done for u.s." He was
little disconnected by the burst oflaugh-
plain his meaning: '.By posterity, sir,
do not mean our ancestors, but those
who are to come Immediately after
them" His invitation to the noble
man on his travels was hospitable and
well-meant-but equivocal. II hope,
my lord, if ever you come within a mile
of my house you'd stay there all night"
He it was who stood up for the proper
dimensions of the wine bottle, and pro-
posed to Parliament that it should be
made compulsory that "every quart
bottle should contain n quart" Very
pleasant, and yet perfectly Ineligible
though it rfflhappily took the fatal bo
vine shape-was his rebuke to the shoe
maker, when getting shoes for his gOuty
limbs: Il told you TO make one longer
than the other, and, instead of that,
you have made one smaller than tn,
other-the very opposite
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
Beer In Bavaria,

Bavaria is the Paradise of the beer
drinker and smoker. We are told by a
correspondent that beer is to the Ba-
varian what beans are to the down.
easter 1t strengthens him at the early
breakfast, refreshes him at the noon
lunch, washes down his dinner, and
gives the German rest and recreation
in the evening, with his pipe, in the
public gardens and music halls. Beer
is not spoken of in the vein of frivolous
badinage common among our country
men. Ii is referred to-if it occurs to
the Bavarian to ever think of it, save
when his huge stone mug is empty
with gravity and sober comment, as he
would discuss the price of bread. All
Bavaria drinks beer-royalty, mobiles,
burghers, artists, men, women and
children, old and young. Likewise, all
Bavaria dances, loves music, and all the
males smoke. The soft blue haze that
hangs over the mountains of the Tyrol
| see from where | write, might be the
incense of tobacco rising from millions
of little altars at which the memory of
Sir Walter Raleigh is worshipped from
dawn to bedtime.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
"Go On. Sir, Go On

Arago, the French astronomer, says
in his autobiography, that his best mas
ter in mathematics was a word of advice
which he found in the binding of a text
book. Puzzled and discouraged by the
difficulties he met with in his earlier
studies, he was almost ready to give
over the pursuit. Some words which
he found on the waste leaf used to stiff
fen the cover of his paper-bound text
book caught his eye and interested him
''Impelled," he says, ''by an indfin-
able curiosity, damped the cover of the
book and carefully unrolled the leaf
to see what was on the other side. Ii
proved TO be short letter from DIAL
embert to young person disheartened
like myself by the difficulties of mathe-
matical study, who had written to hin
for counsel"
:" Go on, sir, go on, was the counsel
which D'Alembert gave him. The
difficulties you meet will solve them.
selves as you advance. Proceed, and
light viii dawn, and shine with in.
ereasing clearness on your path. That
MAXIM" says Arago, "was my greatest
master in mathematics.
Following those simple words, &c
on, sir, go on" made him the first as
Economical mathematician of his age.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02

and begged of him to forgive me. He
talked with me awhile about decei. and
disobedience, and then prayed with me,
and blotted out all the sin, so far as it
had been against him, forever.
But l have never forgotten those
beans, nor that way of planting them.
They were covered, but they would not
stay covered. And so it is with all
wrong in the case of boys or men.
Sooner or later II iniquity, all false
hood, all wrong shall be discovered.
HE that cOvereth his sins shall not
prosper" And remember, children. if
the love and mercy of our Heavenly
Father snail fail of keeping you from
doing wickedly, however you may sue
eeed for time in hiding wickedness.
that fiat of Jehovah has gone forth
BE sure your sin will find YOU out ,,
And hold also in fond memory that 9TH
er blessed truth for us all: .'If we con-
fess our sins, He is faithful and lust to
forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from
all unrlghteousneSs ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02

great fair was that of St. Bartholomew,
whose memoirs are set forth III very
interesting manner by Henry Morley.
This fair lasted from ll3s, when it was
founded by Rayer, prior of the Abbey
of st. Bartholomew and former jester of
King Henry l., by charter from the
royal hand, to the year 1855, when it
was proclaimed for the last time.
In old times fair-goers were privil-
eyed class of persons and were granted
certain immunities. The lords of the
land through which merchants passed
were obliged to requite whatever loss
traders suffered by spoliation in passing
through their territory. The import
ance of these fairs was recognized thus
early in their history. They had an
important effect not only upon the
wealth of the country, but upon the So
cial relations ofthe people, and upon the
language itself.
At what time amusements were first
introduced to add TO the attraction of
fairs is not definately known, but it was
quite early in their history. They be-
gan, probably, with miracle plays, Civ
en- in connection with the religious fes-
tivais, and as the religious element ia
ded slowly away, we may suppose that
these amusements became Ofa grosser
character. until at last they formed the
principal features of the present fair.
In this country the yearly agricultu-
raj shows perhaps the nearest approach
to the time-honored institution. What
we commonly call fair" is. however,
but the ghost of that old, rollicking fig
ure Of the past.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
Hints for Speakers.

Do not be appalled, by the idea that to
make an excellent discourse. yon
have to exhaust the subject. No sub
jet is exhaustible; only take the most
salient points. Beyond this you will
seldom be understood.
Instead of multiplying heads or divi-
sions Of subjects, bring in your most
striking illustrations as fast as you go
along,
Let each performance be complete
enough in itself to more than satisfy
one partof the audience, and not satisfy
the other. because in striking between
the two classes of auditors you will
bring the one up in sympathy with the
higher, and the higher with the lower,
and sympathy between the two secures
the greatest triumph with both.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
Let Your Neighbor Alone.

No people are such thorough nuisan-
ces as those who are perpetually med
ding with the business of their neigh
bors-who are always on the alert for
something suspicious-always ready to
believe the worst of everybody. Read
er! If you belong to that unfortunate
class, we pity you. As it is impossible
shat you can find out everything that is
going on in your vicinity, you must be
in state of continual torture. A pry-
ing mind needs food, and without it suf-
fers. Then try to conquer the unhap-
py peculiarly. What is it TO You if
your neighbor does bring home brown
paper package and a covered basket I:
You will live just as long if you never
know what they contain. IL is none of
your business. And If your fiighty
neighbor, Mrs. Lightfoot, indulges her
self in new bonnet while her devoted
husband wears patched boots, you need
not fret about it-he is the only suffer
er, not you. No need of making a hue
and cry over her supposed extrava-
gance. The money did not come out
of your pocket, and consequently it is
none of your business. What if the
minister does call on Ann Smith twice
week: Why exercise your brain about
it? Suppose she has an awful temper
ana powders her face, As you say she does
her temper will not trouble YOU
Mind your own concerns. What differ
enee does it make to you if bold Maria
cuts out modest Mary: You need not
torture Mary by long stories of what
you have heard concerning the matter.
Il thought | would tell you, my dear
| speak for your good. Somebody ought
TO put you on your guard against that
treacherous girl" As natural cOnse-
quenee modest Mary, her womanly
pride aroused, shrinks into the back
ground, leaving the field open to her
victorious rival. So you will crush a
good girls heart because you will not
mind your own business. What if they
do have three pairs of stockings over at
squire Hills: Haven't they got a
right to: As long as you don't do the
washing it need not trouble you at all.
What right have you to watch their
clothes line? Employ your time better.
Ii may be perfectly true that dashing
Mrs. Gay signals to young DR.. Wilde
from her back windows. But who gave
you the privilege of watching lady in
her own home, where, if in any place,
her privacy should be- sacred? Her dis
grace is nothing to you; it is none of
your business. If we had our own way,
meddlers should be punished like any
other offenders against the rights of
others.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
Don't be Too Critical.

Whatever you do, never set up for a
critic. We do not mean a newspaper
one, but in private life, in the domestic
circle, it will do you harm-if you
object to being called disagreeable. If
you don't like any ones nose, or object
to any ones chin, don't put your feel
ings into words. If any ones manners
don't please you, remember your own.
People are not all made to suit one taste,
recollect that. Take things as you find
them unless you can alter them. Even
a dinner that is swallowed can not be
made any better. Continual fault-find-
ing, ctoinual criticism of the conduct OF
this one and the speech of that one, oil
the dress Of the other, and the opinions
of the other, will make home the un-
happiest place under the sun.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
Egyptian Architecture.

owing to the climate of Egypt, it has
never been a woodland country. Palm
trees are found about the deserts of
Lydia, and near Denderah timber of
all kinds is scarce, as the soil is not
suited to the growth of trees. The aca-
cia and the palm do grow, but the oak
does not, and fir has to be imported from
Arabia; and thus for solid structures
OF great magnitude the old builders of
Egypt were shut up to the use of stone.
which abounds in profusion, and in the
use of which the Egyptians were great
proficients, As may be seen both in the
rock temples which were excayated
adorned with sculpture, and in the tenn
Piles which We're erected in the open
air. While the sculptures and the hier-
oglyphic figures which adorn their
palaces and temples and attest the pro-
gress of their workmen in the art of the
newer of stone, it is evident that they
had made great progress also in the
department of construction, for many
Oi the blocks which they used were of
enormous dimensions, and that they
were lavish in their material is shown
by the fact that the walls of some of
their temples are of the almost incredi-
bic thickness of twenty-four feet thick.
Then again the stones instead IF being
dressed as in modern masonry on one
-.
and the whole mass is solidly Joined
together, thus tending to secure the
durability of their monuments. In
these great structures no arch is ever
introduced. The columns stand at such
short distances that great stones can
reach from capital to capital, and thus
the roof is formed of huge blocks laid
on horizontally forming solid bed
Americdn Monthly.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
'But can't you find anything to do.

"But can't you find anything to do."
"Nothing."
"Have you tried ~
Everywhere; but it's no use. ]
have pawned all my clothes save those
have on. I've been to tine biudery
to-day, and what do you suppose he
offered me?''
"What was it?''
"Why, he offered to let me do hi:
hand carting? He has just turned of
his man for drunkenness, and offered
me the place. The old curmudgeon.
had great mind to pitch him into the
hand cart and run him into the
''If had been in your place should
have taken up with the offer.'
Mark mentioned the name of the same
individual again.
why" resumed Peter, Il have been
doing the work of butchers boy fol
a whole week"
Mark was incredulous, but his CON-
panion convinced him, and they sep
arated, one going home happy and con-
tented, and the other going away from
home TO find some sort of excitement in
which to drown his misery.
One day Peter had a basket of provis-
ions to carry to his former employer.
He took the load upon his arm, and
just as he was entering the yard of the
customer, he met him coming out.
''Ah, Stanwood, is this you?" asked
his old employer, kindly.
''Yes, SIR
"And what are you up to now?"
''I'm butchers boy, sir"
"a what?''
"You see I've brought provisions for
you, sir. I'm regular butchers boy,
SIR"
"And how long have you been at
work thus?"
This is the tenth day"
but don't it come hard -
Nothing comes hard so long as it is
honest and will furnish my family with
bread
"And how much can you make day
at thiss
Sometimes over a dollar, and some
times not over fifty cents
''Well, look here, Stanwood, there
have been no less than dozen of my
old hands hanging around my counting
room for a fortnight, whining for
work. They are stout, able men, and
yet they lie still because have no work
for tLem. Last Saturday | took pity
on Leeds, and offered him the duty of
doing my hand carting: told him that
| would give him a dollar and Il quarter
a day, but he turned up his nose and
asked not TO insult him; and yet he
owned that his family were suffering.
But do you come TO my place to-mor-
row morning. and you shall have some
thing to do, if it is only to hold your
bench. | honor you for your manly
independence"
Peter grasped the old mans hand
with a joyous, grateful grip, and blessed
him fervently.
That night he gave Mr.. Snow notice
to quit, and on the following morning
went to the bindery. For two days he
had little to do, but on the third day a
heavy job came in, and Peter Stanwood
had steady work. He was happy; more
happy than ever, for he had learned two
things-first, what a noble wife he had
and second, how much resources for
good he held within his own energies.
Our simple picture has two points to
its moral. One Is, no man can be low
cred by honest labor. The second,
while you are enjoying the fruits Of the
present, forget not to provide for the
future, for no man is so secure but that
the day may come when he will want
the spuanderings of the past.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
THE GOLDEN MILESTONE.

Leafless are the trees their purple branches
Spread themselves abroad, like reefs Of coral,
Rising silent
In the red sea of the winter ssnset
From the hundred ch imneys OF the village,
Like the Afreet in the Arabian story.
Smoky columns
Tower aloft into the air of amber.
At the window w.nks the fickering freight;
Here and there the lamps of evening glimmer,
Social watchfires
Answering one another through the darkness
On the hearth lighted logs are glowing.
And like Ariel in the cloven pine tree
For its freedom
Groans and sighs the air imprisoned in them
By the fireside the old men seated
Seeing ruined cities in ashes.
Asking sadly
OF the past what it can ne'er restore them
By the fireside there are youthful dreamers,
Building castles ia r. with stately stairwsys,
Asking blindly
OF the future what it cannot give them.
BY the fireside tragedies are acted,
In whose scenes appear two actors only
Wife and husband,
And above them God, the spectator.
By the fireside there is peace and comfort,
Wives and children, with fair, thoughtful
faces,
Waiting, watching
For q well-known footstep in the passage.
Each mans chimney is his Golden Milestone
Is the central point from which he measures
Every stance
Through the gateways Of the world arount
him.
In his fartkest wanderings still lie sees it,
Hears the talking fame, the answering night
wind.
As he heard them
When he sat with those who were but are not
Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion,
Nor the march of the encroaching city.
Drives an exile
From the earth of his ancestral homestead.
We may build more splendid hsbitations,
Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculp'
But we cannot
Buy with gold the old associations
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02
~onr."

Don't hang dismal picture on your
wall, and don't daub with sable and
gloom in your conversation. Don't be
cynic and disconsolate preacher.
Don't bewail and bemoan. Don't waste
yourself in detection, ror bark against
the bad, but chant the beauty of the
good.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02

Some men are like pyramids-vGry
broad where they touch the ground,
but grow narrower as they reach the
sky, Observe their heads; they are
correspOndingly pyramidal.
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02

"A large shed in SOmerville, Mass,
has been stocked with wood, saws and
sswbucks, and tramps are at liberty to
earn their meals there or 60 hungry.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-02

Leafiess are the trees /; their purple branches
Spread themselves abroad, like reefs Of coral,
Rising silent