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profit in the shape OF tolls, they have as
good q RICH. to the tolls rs II the capital to
build the road had been raised by them
selves; that is to say, the companies which
built the railroads with capital donated by
the public have the game right as other
companies to charge reasonable toll; bGt
their demand OF excessive tolls, though
not worse in law, seems in the eye oI
natural reason great outrage. II rall'
road corporations have the unlimited pow
or which they claim, then all bushes ia at
their mercy-agriCultuTe, commerce, man
uiaCtures, must suffer what they choose to
inaiCt, They may rob labor Of the bread
1t wins, and deprive all enterprise OF its
Just reward. Though thispower doesnot
belong to them legally, they have been
PERMITTED TO UsuRP 1T,
and need not tell you that they have
grossly abused it, They avow that they
make their exaCtions with an eye single to
their own advantage, without considering
any right or interest OF the public They
boldly express their determination to
charge as much as the traffic will bear
tnHL Is 10 Say lucy Wlll thhu hN4' t"N
profits of every mans business as much as
can be taken without compelling him to
quit it. In the aggregate this amounts to
the most enormous, oppressive and unjust
tax that ever was laid upon the industry
Of any people under the sun. The lrreg-
uIsrity with which this tax is laid makes
it still harder to bear. Men go into BUSH
ness which may thrive at present rates,
and will find themselves crushed by
burdens Unexpectedly thrown upon them
after they get started. 1t is the habit OF
railroad companies to change their rates
OF transportation often and suddenly, and
in particular to make the charges ruinously
high without any notiCe.at all. The farmers
Of the great West have made large crop
Of grain which they can sell at fair prices
II they can have it carried to the Eastern
ports, even at the unreNsonably high rates
Of last summer. But Just now it is said
that the railroad companies have agreed
among themselves to raise the freight five
cents per hundred weight, which ID equa!!
to an export tax upon the whole crop o.
probably S75,0C00O0, Tho farmers must
submit to this
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and no violation OF them comes within
the scope OF your design.
But on this question railroad men mis-
understand their situation. They believe,
or pretend to believe, that railways are the
property OF the companies authorized to
run them, which is cardinal error,
and the parent OF much false argu-
ment. A public highway cannot
be private property, and railroad
LAID out and built by the authority OF the
State for the purposes OF commerce is as
much q public highway as a turnpike
road, canal or nRvigable river. 1t is the
duty of the State to promote intercourse
and trade by making highways Of the best
sort through her territory. To this end
she may take land and materials, which is
an exercise Of the power Of eminent do.
main. She can build q railroad at her own
expense, using the direct agency Of her
own officers, and after it ia built she can
make 1t
FREE TO ALL 'CoNERs,
or reimburse the cost by special tax on in.
diyiduals who have occasion to use it.
She can delegate the taking and taxing
powers to a corporation or natural per.
son; and that ia what she always does
when she grants q railroad charter. But
in either or any case the road belongs to
the State, and all the people have the right
to use it upon compliance with the neCes.
ssry regulations and payment OF the
property tax,
The corporations who have got into the
habit nj no linn kbnuunlynu Tim nVuUnFp nj
the railroads have no proprietary right
title or claim to the roads themselves, but
mere franchise annexed to and exerCis-
able thereon. They are tho agents Of the
State for the performance oil q public duty,
II the franchise be forfeited or surrender
ed, or II it expire by etfiux OF time, the
State takes possession OF the road and runs
it herself or employs q new agent. The
company cannot keep the road any more
than an outgoing collector OF port can
appropriate to himself the Custom.house
where he did his official work. The State
having need OF a public highway at par.
tiCulRr place makes a contract with cor
poration to open and put 1t in condition
TO be used, and by way OF reimbursing the
builders and operators she authorizes q
tax upon those who travel or carry mer-
Chandise over it, But this tax must be
reasonable, just, uniform, prescribed and
fixed, 80 that every citizen may know be.
torehand exactly how much he must pay,
80 that when helpays or tenders the proper
amount he will acquire an absolute and
perfect right to the Use OF tho road. The
amount OF the tax, toll or freight in any
case is
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Louisiana State Lottery Company.

This institution was regularly Independently thV
legislature Of the state for Educational aud ChaTltR.
BILE purposes In 1865 for the Term Of Twenty.
Ave Years, 10 which contract the invaluable fuilh
nOwel by an Overwhelming popular vote, seGuringiS
franchise In tho new constitution adopted December
ID, A. d, 1870, with capital Of S,0OOOOO, to which
II has since added reserve fund Of over S350,0O0
ITS GRAND sINHLE NUMBER DISTRIBUTION
will lake place monthly on the second Tuesday.
neUsr SodEeJ or pO'lpOHeG. Look At the following
Distributions
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LOTTERIES.

At Correspondence Should be with N. A.
Dauphin as below. In all cases the TlCKE Ts
themselves are sent, and never circulars offer.
ing certificates or anything else instead. Any
one proposing to offer anything else by cirCu.
lar or otherwise, OH his own behalf or that Of
the Company, Is u HwindlCr.
a HPI.ENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN
A FORTUNE. SECOND GRAND DISTRIBU.
TION, CLASS u, AT NEW ORLEANS, TT ESDAY,
FEBRUARY Sth, lSSl-I2Oth Monthly Draw
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-26

A RELIABLE savings bank. One box Of
DR.. TUFTS Pills will save you many dollars
in doctors bills. They will surely cure
Chill and Fever, Dyspepsia, Dirordered
Liver or Bowels; Sick Headache, JaundiCe
or Chronic Constipation, and expel every
impurity from the system,
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Father IL t,o,tIpx well.

My daughters say, "Iow much better
father is since he used Hop BitterB.n lie
ia getting well after his long suffering
from disease declared inCurAbe, and we
are so glad that he used your bitters.-A
lady Of Rochester, N. VI Utica Herald.
MWFGW
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-26

what would be? The power being con.
coded, an eiTeCtual way OF righting the
wrongs now complained Of can easily be
devised. Doubtless you arc right in the
belief that public opinion will be in favor
OF your movements. Rejecting men can.
not deny its justice But the influence
OF these great corporations can hardly be
calculated. They have methods Of de.
Tense and oiTense which make them almost
You have referred to portions
Of their history which proved this. Some
OF the State governments are literally sub.
jngated by them now. II will require
a strong organization and much labor TO
reduce them, UndisCiplined militia In
the open field make q poor fight against
regulars intrenChed. What are Cornstalks
against Cannons2 Such is truth against
money, You ask what l think Of regu.
lating these affairs by the agency Of Com.
In England | believe that
plan has been complete success; in Cal.
iiornia l understand It is a dead failure,
This paper ls much longer than | intend.
ed TO make 1t, and as an answer 10 your
question II is less categorical than IL ought
TO be. But you must take II as 1t is, and
believe me your obedlent servant,
], s, BLACK.
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CIIY REPURLICAN TICKET.

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SEGARs-JUST IN, A LARGE AS
~ SORTMkNT Of Fine Hegafs, Tips and BoEios for
sale At Wholesale and retail, Z. BEliREke, 1910
Market street, lA2OEl
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-01

Deing a complete cycl0pedia OF every
ID day wants. This is the most useful and compact
literary achievement of the age II has competitors
We competent solicitors No peddlers need apply
Crculars giving full description, sent application
CHAMBERS,
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11
The Castor Bean.

The Castor Bean is native of the
West Indies. where il grows with great
luxurianee. 1t is cultivated as field
crcp in the lower Middle States bord-
ering on the Ohio river on the north.
1t likes rich mellow bed land is plant
ed and hoed like corn. 1t attains the
height of five or six feet and bears at
the rate of twenty or thirty bushels
per acre. The seed is separated from
the pods, bruised and subjected to great
pressure, by which it yields nearly a
gallon of cold pressed castor Oil to the
bushel of seed. The cold pressed oil is
far better than that extracted by boil
ing and skimming; the last process is
performed either with or without first
slightly roasting. Formerly its separa-
ton into limpid oil for machinery
and lamps, and into stearlne for can
dies, much increased its value, but
since the inti oluot on OF mineral oils,
which are so plentifully produced, the
use of castor oil is chiefly confined to
medicinal purposes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11
AGRICULTURE.

MANAGEMENT OF FARM.-There is
probably not one farmer in ten thous-
and who keeps set of accounts from
which he can at any moment learn the
cost Of anything he may have produc-
ed, or even the cost of his real proper
". A very few farmers who have
heen brought up to business habits
keep such accounts, and are able 70 tell
how their affairs progress, what each
crop, each kind of stock, or each ami
NAL has cost. and what each produces.
Knowing these points farmer, can,
TO a very great extent, properly decide
what crops he will grow and what
kind of stock he will keep. He will
thus be able to apply his labor and mo-
rey where it will do the most good.
He can weed out his stock and retain
only such animals as may be kept with
profit. For the want OF such knowl-
edge, farmers continue, year after
year, to feed COWS that are unprofit-
able, and frequently sell tor less than
her value one that Is the best OF the
herd, because she Is not known TO be
any better than the rest. Feed is also
wasted upon ill-bred stock, the keep OF
which costs three or four times that OF
well bred animals, which, as has been
proved by figures that cannot be mis-
taken, pay large profit Of their keep
ing. For want Of knowing what they
cost, poor crops are raised year by year
at an actual loss, provided farmers Ia
bor' at the rate current for common
labor, were charged against them. To
learn that he has been working for fif-
ty cents day during a number OF
years, would open the eyes of many
farmer who has actually been doing
this and 1t would convince him that
there is some value in figures and book
accounts,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

1t has long been favorite theory
of geologIsts that sea and land have
been playing sort of seesaw game for
ever so many ages that now the bot
tom of the sea, the great ocean floors,
became the continents, and again the
great continents subsidized and became
the floors of the oceans Almost every
modern book on geology sets forth this
as something 10 be accepted without
question. At first sight the observed
facts appear to support the view of the
book-makers. The rocks, which make
up the most of the continents, and the
sites of the loftiest mountains, gave
unmistakable proof that they had been
frequently under the sea. A close sift.
ing of the facts, however, disposes of
anything like the great cataclysmal
notions. Continents when they lost IN
one direction gained in another, Re-
cent soundings have shown that the
sediments carried off the land have
been deposited not more than 200 miles
from the shore. The remains Of pelagic
flora and fauna on dry land go to
prove that the living organisms had
never an existence at a very great
depth. This Is what Professor A.
Geikie, one who stands in the front
rank of the geologists of our time, has
to say on this subject: again and
again the solid bulk of the continents
has been reduced to mere detritus, and
has been Spread over the sea bottom.
And yet the continental ridges have
never ceased to exist. Their disappear
ance would necessarily have been fol-
lowed by the ces sation of sedimentary
accumulation. The character of the
component rocks, however, teache
that, whether by the operations of un-
derground movements or by the action
of superficial causes, the land has been
continually wandering, as 1t were, TO
and fro across continental areas,
disappearing beneath the sea in
one region, reappearing from the
sea In another. In one sense,
of course, it may be said that land and
sea have been continually changing
places. The waters covering it have
been mere prolongations of the upper
layers of the ocean, like the Mediter-
ranean, Black and Caspian seas Of the
present day. An elevation or depres-
sion of a few bundled feet sufficed to
turn wide tracts into land or into water.
But such oscillation made no real
change in the essential position of the
grand aboriginal oceanic basins and
continental ridges" An Interpretation
of phenomena like that just quoted
cannot fail to modify or overturn many
prevalent theories, including those re-
garding climate and the existing lOea-
tlon of animals and plants.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11


Mr.. J. ". !StcdiR, of New-castle-on-
Tyne, has come forward as the inven-
tor of system of tincandescent electric
lighting, which he claims can be eco
nomlcaDy applied to domestic purposes.
He thus states In general terms what
he has done: 1t is found after many
troublesome experiments that when
the vacuum within the lamp was good
and the contact between The carbon
and the conductor which supported it
sufficient, there was no blackening of
the globes and no appreciable wasting
away of the carbons. The main prin-
ciple of the Swan system Is that upon
which MIR. Edison has lately been
working, and upon which, many years
ago, other American inventors devoted
a good deal of attention with consider
able success. MIR. Swan arranges his
lamps in series, and feels warranted in
asserting that at least twice as much
light i S pI oduced by certain quantity
OF gas used to generate an electric cur
rent employed in his lamps that can
be obtained from this quantity of gas
burned in gas-burners in the usual
manner. Putting the question OF
economy in other words, he reckOns
that forty pounds of coal employed in
raising steam, to generate electricity,
is capable of producing the effect In
his lamps of one thousand feet OF ga
burned in gas-burners.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

VALUE OF DRAINAGE.-A striking H.
lustratlon of the value of drainage is
furnished by the experience of the
farm superintendent at the Illinois In
dus rial Tn yersity- He reports that
on the lands of the farm where drains
were needed most, he is enabled &c
plant corn in some seasons 10 days
earlier than formerly, and that one
acre of C, IN planted the let of May " Ill
Weld as much as TWO acres planted the
1st of June. When planted by the lst
of May the crop can be worked before
the beginning of the midsummer har-
vest, which is n important advantage
and another is that in the early stages
of its growth the corn can be worked
within ID hours after heavy fall OF
rain, whereas on undrained land OF
the same character this would be m
possible.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

DR.. Gage Parsons believes that Mr.
Erasmus Wilson was the first to pro-
pose sulphur lotion in acne punetata,
according 10 the Practitioner, The
usual lotion of the flowers of sulphur
with glycerlne and water is undoubt-
edly valuable remedy; but, from the
readiness with which the sulphur sep
arates, tits in elegant and Inconvlent,
while it is not quite satisfactory in its
results. A far more efficacious mode
of using sulphur is to dust the face
with pure precipitated sulphur every
night with an ordinary puff used for
toilet purposes. Recently two severe
cases of acne of two years standing,
which had resisted the ordinary
methods of treatment. yielded at once
to sulphur thus applied. If the sui
phur be scented with oil of lemon CT
roses, it will form an elegant cosmetic.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

BAKED SwEETBREADS.-Let your
sweetbreads lie in warm water for an
hour; then put them INTO boiling wa
ter and let them cook gently for ten
minutes. Take them out and drain
them; beat up an egg and dip each
sweetbread into it, then into bread
crumbs; repeat this. Then sprinkle
them lightly with little butter melted
over the fire; put them into moder-
ate oven and bake them nearly an
hour. Delicately toast some nice
slices of bread; dip them into boiling
water in which little butter has been
melted; place each sweetbread on a
slice of the toast and pour around them
a nice brown gravy.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

Some Of the ways of distinguishing
amber from copal are thus given In La
Nature: "Copal is yellow, of a more or
less deep tint, but uniform throughout,
and has yellow points like sulphur on
its surface. Amber in fragment of
twelve centuries in length will show
a variation of shade. Amber when
rubbed will yield a strong aromatic
odor; its limitations will not. Amber
may be bent after being smear ed
with tallow and heated; the limitations
will not bend. Amber may be cut,
sawed, rasr ed or polished, but cannot
be eemented or soldered like eopal
The density of amber is 1.09 to IL ;
that of eopal is 1.0i."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

If you will stop spending so much
on fine clothes, rich food and STYLE. buy
good, healthy food, cheaper and better
ciothing; get more real and substantial
tnings oil life every way. and especi-
ally step the foolish habit of employ
ing expensive quaca doctors or using
SO much of the vile humbug medicine
that does.you only harm, but put your
trust in that simple pure remedy Hon
Bitters; that cures always at a trifiine
cost, and you will see good times and
have good health.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11
wilmington, Del) Daily Republican,


Mrs. Adam Grubb. 23l Walnut street
has been a great sufferer for numDer
of years from extreme pain pain IN she :e
feet, something like rheumatism. one
was also very much troubled WIN
eorps and bunions. 1t was with grea,
difficulty that she could walk, anu
sonnet mes when she would visit her
husbands shoe store or any OF ner
children, she could not get nome
syain without assistance, and often
when she was walking along the
streets she would be seized with such
acute pam that she was compelled 70
stop at the neighbors on her way untl.
she got better. Some two weeks ago she
heard of the wonderful cures st.
Jacobs Oil was effecting and she at
once commenced to use IL and expert
enced great relief Immediately. The
pains have left her feet and ankles ana
the Inflammation has left the corns
and bunioas. She is now tripping 1p
to her husband 5 shoe store and out 10
see her Children without experiencing
any pain
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

81 wASr to find out who is the mas
ter of this house," said the man with
a book under his arm to the vinegary-
looking woman with pointed nose
and very small top knot who opened
the door for him. "Well, stranger"
she said with arms aklmbo, "you just
walk around into the back yard, and
ask little spindle shanked deacon
you'll find there fixing up the grape
arbor, and he'll tell you If L don't
know who does. Now, what do you
want of me."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

WHILE discussing philanthropy the
other day: "For my part" said
Gilliput, 81 do not believe in these
charitable bureaux. Charity needs
no middle-man. like better when L
meet a deformed or blind man erea-
ture upon nv way-with great emo
tion-some truly pltiable case-to sue
cor him on the spot" ga pretty pass,
this" remarked a fellow reading a
newspaper in the corner; "here's still
another midnight attack. If this con-
tinues we shall soon be robbed In open
daylight !" "I'm quite Indifferent to
that" said GilIiput, with shrug, 81
never go out with a cent on my per-
son." "Ah!" says the resder, that
accounts for your views on charity ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

In a recent lecture on "Coal Cas-
Professor Rengen cited curious in.
stance of the aeodorizing of illumina-
ting gas. In Dresden a quantity of
gas escaped from pipe outside of a
dwelling and passed through the earth
into the house, with its odor entirely
gone. 1t was breathed unconsc'ously,
and several deaths occurred In conse.
quence.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

KITCHEN AND MARKET GARDEN
The plants of cabbage, cauliflower, and
lettuce from the cold frames are to be
set out as soon as the soil is ready, and
the frames used to push forward crop
of lettuce, to be followed by cucumb-
ers-thus making the most out of the
investment in glass. AS general
thing, the ashes may be entirely re-
moved from the frames containg Win
tered plants. Seeding plants, either
In hot beds or window boxes must not
become slender and weak; prevent ii
by early transplanting and giving more
room. Window boxes may be set out
of doors In sheltered place during
mild days, but taking IN before the air
gets chilly, unless il is warm and no
danger of a sudden cold turn.
AS the heat of the sun increases, the
hot beds will need careful ventilating.
AS far as NAV be maintain a uniform
temperature for the plants, avoiding
both chilling and burning. Hardy
vegetables should be sown so soon as
the soil is dry enough TO work and hea-
w frosts are over. Tender vegetables
should wait until the soil is warm as
well as dry. This is. in the familiar
expression, about corn planting time.
That leading crop being one of the ten
der class, it makes a safe guide for tine
others. In the Northern states gene
rally, il is rare that any seeds can be
sown in the open ground before this
month. Those to go in first are beets,
cabbage, eauliflower, celery, cress,
leek, lettuce, onions, parsley, peas,
potatoes, radish, spinach, early corn,
tee
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-11

CEMENT FOR AN AQUARIUM.-The fol-
lowing is good cement for an aqua
rum, that will not crack or peel from
glass or galvanized iron: Take, by
measure, 10 parts of litherage, 10 parts
of plaster of Paris, 10 parts of fine
white dry sand, and part of finely
powdered resin. Wnen wanted for
use, mix into stiff putty with boiled
linseed oil. Do lot use the tank for
three or four days after cementing.