Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-05-23
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Clay township man has an opinion
of his own with regard to potatoes.
The farmer says one cause for the
poor quality of potatoes last years
was that planters permitted the bugs
to prey on the vines to q considera-
BILE extent during the latter part OF
the season before the tubers were
matured, and holds that another rea-
son for the poor quality lies in the
new varieties recently introduced,
which, while they produce well, are
not of tirst-rata quality like the Pink
eye and Neshannock. He believes
that the quality of our potatoes is
deteriorating, and that the day may
not be far distant when they will
cease to be generally used as food.
Over in Bedford county the Court
appointed q number of men to put a
value upon certain farm land that q
railroad company desired to run a
road through. The viewers report
ed that no damage will be sustained
by the owners of the land. The
viewers should be sued for oonspir-
acy to rob the farmers of their land.
Corporations are organized for the
purpose of making money, they have
no other purpose IN view, and when
they are empowered by act of Legis-
lature to use private property, no
right is given to any set Of men to
rob the people of their land for the
right of way. They may take 1t for
public purposes but not without
paying for it unless it be given to them
voluntarily. The presumption that
II viii increase the value OF man S
property does nos Justify the rob
berry.
The Shippensburg News writes AS
follows with regard to the liquor
traffic: We have many good laws III
the interest of temperance, but pop
uiar sentiment ism up to the enforcs-
ment OF them. II Is violation OF law
to sell liquor on Sunday; it is a vio-
lation of law to sell to a MINOR +; 1t is
violation to sell liquor to person
of known intemperate habits; 1t is a
violation of law for an intoxicated
person to appear on the street. Now,
if these laws were all enforced, it is
difficult to see how there could be
much intemperance existing in our
State. What is needed, is the eleva-
ton of the ind,riduai to proper re
gard for temperance-to imbue HIM
with temperance principles and hab-
its-and where can this work be so
appropriately and effectively done as
III the church! Let people be taught
not to drink, and we need trouble
ourselves very little about the liquor
seller.
The American Farmer gives the
following directions tor making Il
cheap home -hade telephone: To
make good and serviceable tele-
phone, good from one farm house to
another, only requires enough wire
and two cigar boxes First select
your boxes, aud make hole about
hall an inch in diameter in the center
OF the bottom Of each, and then place
one III each of the houses you wish
to connect: then get five pounds OF
common stove pipe wire, make a
loop in one end and put 1t through
the hole m yom cigar box, support
ing it when necessary with "a stout
cord. You can easily run your line
into the house by boring a hole
through the glass. Support your
boxes with STATS nailed across the
the window, and your telephone is
complete. Tie writer has one that
is 200 yards long and cost forty i've
cents that will carry music when the
organ is played thirty feet away IL
another room.