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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
BY-AND-BY.

Be quiet restless heart! The long Light lies
In CLEANS Of lingering sunshine on the hill
The home-bound swallow, twittering .s he
flies,
Makes silence seem more still.
The shadows deeper grow. and in the woods
The sir . latent sweetness holds in fee
An odor faint OF yet unblossomed bulls
So ike. dear heart, to thee
Far distant in the soft cerulean deep
Where the horizon bounds the neither world
ssleeo.
Lie with white sails loose furled
In peace the day is ended and the night
Falleth as doth . veil upon the sea
Along it. bosom comes with swift-winged fiisht
The gray mist silently.
o anxious heart how Nature speaks, He,
How leisurely she uses How intense
How soft her influence
Time hath she for her storms to sweep the
To rock the treetops with her winds OF
wrath
To bring forth fragrance in the summer rain
And time for snow she hath.
So dear. for all thy eager soul desires.
She keeps sweet times and seasons In her
mood
Is hid for thee all psssions's subtitle fires
To round thy womanhood
Cease, then and in this dswy twilight, move
As one who ASKS not whittier cares not why
This gift for all holds still the eternal love-
Gods endless BY and by.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
Large cutie Fish.

On November 2, 1878, fisherman was
ont in a boat with two other men near
Ie,th Bay Copper Mine, Notre Dame Bay,
when they observed some bulky object not
far from shore, which they approached,
thinking it might be part Of. "a wreck 10
their horror they found themselves close
to a large fish having big CLASSY eyes. 1t
was making desperate efforts to escape,
and was churning the water into foam py
The motion of its immense arms and tails;
Finding it partially disabled, they plucked
nm COURAGE and threw the boats grapnei,
Tb;cb sank into its soft body. By means
of the stout rope attached to the grapnel
and tied to tree the fish was prevented from
going out with the tide; its struggles were
ferrific. as, in q dying agony, it flung It's
great arms about. At length 1t became eA-
6austed, and as the water receeded II eA-
nired. Its body from the beak OF the
mouth to the extremity of the tail, meas
ured twenty feet, and one of the tentacles, ;
or arms. measured thirty-five feet 1his i !
the largest specimen yet mea ureo oi
Irchiteuthis princeps. Prof. serrlil
mentions eighteen species as now KNOWN U"
the northeastern coast of America.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
A Doomed City.

The town of Covington, Iowa, is literally
a doomed city. Situated on the bend Of
the Missouri river, the banks are gradually
being eaten away, and the ground on which
the court house stood year ago is now
covered by many feet of fast flowing water.
The cutting away is done by fits and starts.
A week ago the current set in shore and
took off strip of land thirty feet wide in
a few hours. No invasions were made for
another week, when another slice was cut
of. Then about half Q dozen buildings
were moved back some thirty feet, and the
next day tine land on which they had stood
was all gone. The citizens have tried TO
moor trees and logs to the bank in the hope
of forming barrier for the flood, but the
current Is so swift, and the water so deep,
that these attempts have failed TO give
an idea of what the town of Covington has
suffered in the past five years, the case Of
the ferry house and the principal hotel may
be instapced. Two years ago there were
66O feet of ground between the building
and the river bank now you can toss g
stone out of the hotel window into the rive
and buildings are now being put on roller
for removal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
The Boy and the Mnsket.

A lad living in Havana brought down
from the attic recently an old rusty muske,
that had probably been laid away there 3
long time ago and forgotten He found q
percussion cap that fitted the tube and
placing il thereon marched about the
premises for some time. His little sister
approaching, he pointed the gun toward
her, CRYING out: ''l'm going to shoot you. v
But the child frightened ran off uninjured.
The boy then hunted up the family dog
and leveling the weapon at him, cried Out
the same words that he had addressed tC
his sister. The dog didn't understand,
winked his eye, wsgged his tail, but die
not move away from his tracks. 1t wa;
bis last wink and his last wag. The boy
pulled the trigger. He let go the gun, ol
the gun let go Of him, and he found him
self a rod or two away from where he haC
been standing, the ground having flown uI
and hit him on the back. When he gathered
himself up the gun was found to be badlJ
shattered and the dog was dead. No friend
ship exists now between that boy ant
strange muskets.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28

Say ''good morning or ''g0od evening
to the hostess, on leaving the room $50
long, old girl has gone out, in the best so
ciety.
If their are seventy-fve or one hundred
persons in the company, it is not necessary
for YOU to shake hands all around.
Do not be in haste to go down to din
ner without waiting for a tardy guest.
Give him al least thirty minutes You
may have TO get down on your hands and
crawl around and feel for 8 lost collar
button yourself, sometime.
Upon introduction to a young lady, i'm
mediately ask her age and the size Of her
shoes. This will put you in an easy con-
versational plan
In society, note requires as prompt an
answer as a spoken question And in the
bank it requires a great deal prompter
one.
Do not thank any one who waits on you
at table Look wan and hungry, as though
you wanted more.
To tilt back in your chair and drum idly
on your head with your fork is condemned
in good society.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28

hideous scene of ruin and devastation; anC
in the midst of it all the author places s
group of pretty girls, in the widely -hooped
costume of the period, laughing behind
their fans at the indiscret speeches of gal.
liant cavalier. Perhaps he wants to make
the frightful picture that he places before
our eyes seem more striking from this con-
trast.
The interior of the vast and ancient
church presents a mournful aspect. Its
wide nave terminates in ruin; it is sep
arated by wooden partition from gigan-
tic transept, and the latter, transformed
into covered passage which leads from
ore end of the quarter to another, opens
upon a space once occupied by the choir,
which has long since disappeared. Moth
ing can be more impressive than this great
empty piece of ground, covered with briers,
where there are few great trees, where the
grass grows hard, dry and scanty, as
though in cemetery, and where the eye
seeks in vain among the fluctuations of the
soil for traces of the vanquished choir.
Those great ogival bays, now masked by
common masonary, and those majestic
arcades, whose fine architectural curves re-
main unfinished, produce dreary effect.
still more melancholy is the transept,
which has been transformed into passage
and is now receptacle for mutilated
tombs, headless statues and broken grave
slabs. A great company of heroes have
been laid to rest in this noble sanctuary
The ancient !seigneurs of Bergen had their
place of sepulture within its precincts; and,
after them, the governor of the city. Nor
gan, who repulsed the duke of Parma; LOUIS
of Kethel, who opposed Spinosta, were in
tered here. The gratitude of the inhsb-
itants had decreed pompous inscriptions,
as relIefs and statues to these valiants
heroes; they rested under the shadow of
great porticos CT marble; but the cannon Of
l747 disturbed their eternal slumber, and
mingled their ashes by breaking into their
bomb. OF all these superb monuments
there remain only a few fragments, and we
may think ourselves fortunate to be able to
make out from whence they came.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
A Lazy Mans Views

Let us analyze this lying in bed. We
maintain that, in the mere fact of lying in
bed, there is something heslthy and re-
cuperstive to the system. The wheels of
life are oiled and eased. The proper and
legitimate purpose Of stopping in bed is to
go to sleep. There is no tonic or medicine
in the world like sleep. The more sleep
the brain gets, the better does the brain
work. All great braIn-workers have been
great sleepers Sir Walter Scott could
never do with less than ten hours A fool
may want eight hours, IS George III. said
but, the philosopher wants nine. The
men who have been the greatest generals
are the men who could sleep at will. Thus
il was with both Wellington and Napoleon.
The greatest speakers in the House Of Com
mons have been men who can go to sleep
as much as they like. This explained the
juvenility of the aged Pslmerston. There
is a man whohss been Atty. General, whom
have seen bury his face in his hands over
his desk and sleep soundly until his own
case should come on. ''Sleep," says the
Greek proverb. sis the remedy for every
disease If he sleeps well he will do well.
A friend told me that he treated himself
for fever. He went to bed with a large
pitcher of lemonade by his side. He drank
and slept, slept and drank, and slept him
self well again. When you take to your
bed, get ali the sleep you can, even Though,
TO quote Dick Swiveller's saying, you have
to pay double for q double bedded room,
confessing that you have taken a most un-
reasonable amount of sleep out of q single
bed. You will have q whole store Of re-
operative energy. Even il you cannot
sleep, still keep your bed. There is no
more pestilent heresy than that you should
get up Immediately when you awake. If
il is the early riser who catches the worm,
the worm is a great idiot in rising still
earlier in order to be caught. If you do
not sleep by lying in bed, you get rest
You secure the fallow ground which will
hereafter produce good harvest. Sleep
is of course the proper enjoyment for a bed.
but if you don't sleep you can lie and read.
We don't believe that the man who gets up
really learns or does more than the man
who lies in bed OF all the sleep in the
world there is none 50 good as what yeu
get in the way of tressure-trove, after the
usual time of waking, when in point of
fact, you have given up the expectation of
getting any more sleep. As for ''being
called" as the saying goes, that is simply
relic of the barbarian of our ancestors.
We should quarrel with any man who
would presume ''to CALI US. One of the
main beauties of an occasional day in bed
is that you get an extra stock Of sleep,
which goes to the credit side of the sanitary
account
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
Bachelor Housekeeping.

We suppose everybody knows what
''grass-widow means|a woman living
temporarily absent from her husband We
can think of no corresponding terms to sp-
| ply to a man in like condition, unless it is
grass wldower.' We know of one who
is just setting up his cabin on northern
prairie, prepared for summer campaign of
breaking prairie sod. A boy of fourteen
IS with him as ''chief cook and bottle
washer" We feel deep interest in their
work, particularly in the house keeping.
The boys success or failure in cooking,
washing, etc, will bring credit or discredit
to his mother. We have lately heard the
father inquire anxiously concerning his
capabilities you know how TO cook
oat meall' Scan you make such graham
bread as this?" .Does he understand the
knack of making dried apples eatable?"
~ on know how mamma seasons maca-
roni, don't youl' etc. Both are very fond
of milk, and if they get COW, or find good
milk for sale close at hand, the cooking and
eating business will be simplified. Milk
goes well with almost everything that our
folks eat, as we never use pickles, and
vinegar very seldom To make sure of
cooking the oatmeal, cracked wheat, rice
and hominy, properly, they have taken
along steamer made after the farina-ket-
tie plan They are directed to use one part
oat meal, rice or hOminy, or cracked wheat.
to tour parts of cold water in the inner ket-
tie with plenty of water to keep up boiling
IN the outer one. To secure good graham
bread. they have provided the best of
graham flour and dried Yeast Cakes"
The cook will set thin sponge at night.
with half yeast cake, aud flour
and warm water enough to make large
dripping pan loaf Gall they can bake at one
time in their oven, and in the moraing he
will add sugar and graham -four until he
has stiff batter well beaten. This will be
turned into the butter bread-pan without
kneadIng, allowed to rise quite light and
then baked 1t IS pretty sure to be good
every time, for the ,Ime cook has gone
through the same movements many time,
simply helping his mother, but unconscious
" educating himself to be great help to
his father in this emergency, and possibly
TO himself later IN llfe
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28

better that 1 should at once take NV de
parture."
"And why 50 Georgy7"
"Georgy" Could he believe his ow,
eafsf Was this vixenish, overgrown fe
male the Julia Everson whom he had wor.
shipped in dreams as his future wife? Ht
would rather die than become the husband
of 90 hideously ogreish creature.
Il have no reason to give for leaving 8,
aprubtly," he said. in sharp. cold tones
julia made some odd sound between a,
g1ggle and chuckle, and as he was abou,
to retire, she said:
'Oh you don't like fun, d'yel Have q
cigar won't you'''
heavens. exclaimed the bewilderet
Op1ohn, stumbling backward in astonish
msnt you can't possibly mean that 70,
Certainly l do, was the reply, MIS-
Everson biting the end of very nlce-look
ing Figaro as she spoke.
MIR. Upiohn walked deliberately for
ward, and took his portmanteau, and.
having bowed was about quitting the apart.
ment, when Julia exclaimed:
II hope l haven't offended YOU. Pail
be frightfully mad when he hears you've
gone in this style. He'll be sure to blam.
me, too. wish you'd leave him little note,
explaining that you go of-of your own
free will, as it were"
81 shall be very willing, Miss Eversor
he said, TO leave note for your father.
What is it you desire me to writer" taking
card-case and pencil from one of his
pockets.
'Only that you don't think we suit each
other well enough to get married. Please
don't say anything about smoking, because
pa don'tknow l smoke, and"
Cpjohn delayed no longer, but wrote the
following on card, and handed it to Miss
Everson as message TO her father:
'SIR:-I desire to have the agreement
broken concerning my future marriage
with your daughter. l have held an inter,
view with her, and confess to being
wholly unwilling that such lady shall be
come my wife.
'GEoRGE UPJoHN."
'Tha.'s precisely it.' bcisterously ex.
claimed Miss Everson, seizing the cigar.
sold fellow you've got handsome streak
in you, If we don't like each other" Up
john rushed from the apartment, and short
ly afterward the hall door closed upon
his retreating figure.
Francis, you have certainly been
making the most utterly revolving creature
of yourself that it is possible to conceive of.
/ have been listening in the dining room
yonder to every word you said" And the
real Julia Everson surveyed her disguised
lover with laughing eyes
There is my chief trophy" exclaimed
Rowley, waving above his head the card
which contained Upjohn's message TO her
father
Upjohn put in no further appearance.
Mr. Everson was deeply indignant on read
ing his card, and ultimately consented to
Julis's marriage with Francis ROwley the
man of her choice So much for the clever
disenchantment and the venication of
Julia's favorite maxim-SWhere there's
a will, there's way"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
A Big Item.

A tall lady with a saturnine countenanct
came into the Chronicle officer at Virgins
and demanded of one of the reporters il
Virginia offered good field for series ol
dozen lectures on women suffrage. 81
don't think the Comstockers have thought
much about female suffrage" replied the
reporter frankly. Don't say female, v
said the tall lady sharply. ''Why notl''
asked the reporter, in innocent surprise.
because, sir, term used to describe sex
in animals shouldnot be applied to woman. y
The reporter admitted IN great humiliation
that the point was well taken, and looked
up In some alarm at the severe countenance
of the lady, who was head taller than
himself and manifestly able to thrash him
in the interest of progress, if so disposed.
The stern countenance softened somewhat
at the signs of confessed inferiority. how
ever, and the lady continued; ''The cause
of women is the cause of humanity. The
cause of humanity embraces all progress.
Why then should the people of Virginia be
indifferent to womany' They're mott"
cried the small reporter hastily. Far
from it, Woman is the boss in this camp.
Everything she wants she gets, and not
one in hundred has, to do a HEX OF work. "
sMere play toys" said the tall one,
with deep scorn "Playthipgs for an idle
and sink her soul into inslgnifcance by cir
cumscriblng her sphere and allowing her
no mission in life" ''Well,' admitted
the small reporter, ''that's about the way
we look at it no here, that's fact. Wo-
men haven got the nerve to rastle for
themselves like men" ''Ne-r-r-ve!' She
uttered this word in a terrific tone, so teri
fic that the small reporter halfrose from his
chair. Nervel What is there requiring
nerve that you do that am incapably of
No offence, madam, no offence, Imeant
nothing personal, l assure YOU cam
not stronger than youi" she demanded,
scorning the apology. Am l not gifted
with as a great brain? Why do you de-
spise my sexl We can bear I'M )re pain,
and are, therefore, your sIperiors In cour.
age" The small reporter was gazing fix
edly at dark corner of the room and made
no answer. 'sNerve, indee1l" continued
the tall lady, 'why women have infinitely
more nerve than men. Only Yesterday
saw a woman" That's the biggest rat
ever saw in the Office" said the small re
porter. staring intently at the dark corner
The screams that rent the air brought il
al the printers and several citizens from
the street. When they arrived, the tai
one was standing on a chair, with one hi nj
covering her eyes and the other convulsive
ly clutching at her skirts as she gathered
them close around her. The small reporte
wisely took advantage Of the crowd to slil
out and he telegraphed FROM Gold Hill
that he was going down to Carson to worl
up big item.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
The Trousers.
A pair of trousers once Law on chair il

A pair of trousers once lay on chair in
9 boys room.
1t was night, and the boy had gone to
bed, having first thrown his Jacket on one
chair, and his trousers ON another, while
his stockings and shoes lay in the middle
of the floor, looking as if they were ready
for dancing.
They were asleep. however, and 80 was
the jacket, but the trousers were awake,
and complaining bitterly of their hard fate.
why they said, ''were we ever made
into this dreadful shape? We were 30 hap
py when We were part of the great roll of
cloth, and lay on the counter in the tailor's
shop. Then we spoke often Of what We
should become when we were cut out.
"We wished to be jacket for some nice
little girl, or handsome coat for q tall
man. But one day the roll of cloth was
opened and shaken out. We felt cold steel
passing through U.s. Snip, snap! snip,
snap! !" this is all that scissors can say, as
We know from experience.
"Then We were put under the needle of
sewing machine and pierced cruelty,
many times. Yes, that is painful, Iassure
you. And 50 We became trousers, and
were bought by the mother of little Frank,
who lies sleeping yonder-
''Since then, what life we have led.
Often covered with mud from top to bot
tom, wet through and through, stained with
berries, bespattered with ink, frozen stiff,
when our master must needs play in the
cold snow, and then scorched by being
hung too near the fire to ury. All. it is q
hard life.
''And now comes the worst Of all, for
recently We were forced to go through some
brambles covered with sharp thorns, which
actually tore piece out Of each knee, so
that now we are indeed melancholy sight.
We shall never recover from this"
The trousers sighed deeply and looked at
the jacket, hoping for sympathetic reply.
But the jacket still slept soundly, and said
nothing.
Then the trousers were offended, and re-
manned silent for the rest of the night,
though they thought great deal.
In the morning when the mother came
to wake her little boy. she saw them lying
there, with great hole in each knee.
"Here is a sad piece of work, " she said.
Put on your shirt and jacket, my child,
and sit here on the table while l mend your
trousers. So you will know how it feels
to be without any, and learn to take better
care of them.
The trousers said nothing, but they were
well pleased. Soon they had q patch Of
bright new cloth on each knee, and that
was good enough for anybody.
This is well, they said at shows
what one was in ones youth" And of
they went TO school
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28

A stirring dwarf We do allowance
give before q sleepy giant.
Pockets are always ripe enough TO
pick.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28

TEE pupil Of the eye has to be lashed,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-05-08
Road Notice.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
IN application will be made to the Coun-
ty Commissioners for A!legany county at
their next session for the opening of a pub
lie road from the top OF the "Eckhart Hill''
on the southwest margin of the National
Road, and about one mHe east of TIE tow n
Of Frostburg, to the hay scales on the Cla-
rysville and Borden 81 aft county road, on
the hill above the Hoffman mines, and
through the lands of the Consolidation
Coal Con pany, and probably through the
south margin Of the land of Curtin M. Ora.
ham and Miss Sailie Wright, thence round.
ing Il east side of the hill ON or near the
margin of the "Vale Farm" owned by the
Consolidation Coal Company; thence 10
the village of Pompey Smash, which pro
posed road your petitioners are DESTROYS to
have opened and made public highway
GEORGE A. WINGERT,
TH0S. G. McCULLOH,
b. STERN s. CO.,
MAY 1-5t and others, Petitioners.