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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-04

Dr. Abbott was for half century
principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
lie recently talked about sehool-boys as
follows:
''Lewis Cass was very wild boy.
One day his father, Major Cass, came
To me and asked me If would take his
son."
Certainly, but why do you ask?r
'Ohl the youngster is headstrong and
hard to manage. | am an officer, and
can govern soldiers, but that boy is too
much for me-"
What does he do?'
"Plays truant, runs away from his
work, steals off without permission to
go cunning, fishing and swimming,
and is full of all kinds OF pranks.'
We'll, send him to me and I'll see
what can do with him.
1.-The boy was placed under my
charge. Several months later | met his
father and asked him how his son was
getting along. We'll, sir, said he, if
Lewis was half rs fraid of the Almighty
as he is OF you, should never have any
more trouble with him.
In relating this incident DIR. Abbot
fairly shook with the laughter which
the recollection Of Majer CasS' answer
excited.
1t is scarcely necessary to add that.
controlled 10y the preceptOr's eXtraor-
binary power of discipline, the strong
motive energies which led young Cass
into all sorts OF b0yish mischief were
directed to nobler objects. The results
of the wise management which quick
ened the ambition and reused into ac-
ton the faculties of powerful nature
are recorded i'll American history. 1t
was, however, intimated that at Exeter
the future statesman evinced more
talent for practical affairs than for the
details of scholarship.
In speaking of the school-boy traits
of Daniel Webster, DIR. Abbot men-
toned an unexpected fact. He said
that "Yo Youg Webster showed an in
superable aversion to defamation. AS
the boy is father To the man. it might
have been supposed that the lad who
was destined to be pre-eminent in ora
tory would have exhibited an early
fondness for defamation, but no per-
Sutoipu COutl ONtitOhAC mo LetNuA
difiidsnee.r
DIR. Abbot remarked that There was
popular misepprehension with regard
10 WebSter's scholarship. 1t was gene
rally believed that Webster was a dull
and unsuccessful pupil, but such was
not the fact. His mind rarely seemed
TO be occupied with his studies. His
large, lustrous, thoughtful eyes were
gazing about the room, or looking out
of the window; but at recitation the
pupil who appeared not to be engaged
in studiouspreparation always acquitted
himself well. He often showed far
better grasp If the subject than those
who were more familiar with the minor
points of scholarship.
While DIR. Abbot was telling these
anecdotes his tones became more earn
est, and his eyes lighted upwith glow
which these agreeable recOllectiOns
kindled. 1t was quite obvious that age
had not wholly quenched the fires OF
| earlier manhood
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-04
Try the City Hail.

He stood in the door of a tobacco
store and stamped the snow off his feet
and gave each of the half-dozen men
around the stove sharp glance in turn,
rs he slowly closed the door, he remark
ed:
"What | was going to say was that |
shan't hang up my stockings tonight.
When a feller passes his nights IN a box
in the alley he wants his stockings on
his feet If any of you gentlemen feel like
adding a ray OF sunshine to the cloud
ed life of poor jay bird like HE, why
why
He waited but no one had any reply
to make.
1T is more blessed to give than to
receive you knowl" he presently con-
tinued. ''Of course don't expect to
see any of you plank down a dollar bill,
pat me on the back, and tell HE to go
off and Christmas myself on turkey and
cranberry sauce, but | was thinking
that-if-any of you"
The men around the store continued
10 talk about Cleveland Inauguration,
and after bit the stranger went on:
Cast your bread upon the waters.
I'm not exactly water, but I'm the next
thing To do it-iee. Haven't been
warm since the lst of November. OF
course | can't expect Il diamond pin,
suit of clothes or new OyercOat, being
an entire stranger to all, and realizing
that my looks are again me. However,
it would seem as if-that is, 1t would
seem-yes, it wOuld-as if some of
you-n
1t didG't seem that way to them,
however, and no one gave him the least
attention. The stranger was about 10
begin anew when he knocked down an
umbrella. The noise aroused the clerk
who walked forward, took him by the
arm and led him to the door, and then
made move with his right leg which
greatly assisted the stranger 10 jump ten
feet into snOw-bank. He took his
time about crawling out, but when he
reached the sidewalk again he looked at
tile door for L long time, peered III at
both windows, and finally walked slow
ly off with the remark:
"And it would have taken so little to
make me happy All Intended TO ask
for was plug of tobacco, good cigar,
a dish of oysters, a square Christmas
dinner and money To get to Buffalo on,
but | was received with indifference
and dismissed with kick. Guess I'll
try the City Hall"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-04
nuiIE WE MAY.

,--s. .pca dear hands;
joe e. p . full they tarh A o"' He''i" ID :
TX! A,i,ap. they reach oil'
S;,b trii-s scarcely t1"n-A' aoolt'
IN, fimv>; they 10
. H1-i things Tor nc 'or you
s. Dis.} l.i- fond wills mistake,
u n. nav well 5-nd, Mt hre1k'
such fond, fral lips
Ila' -.s.t.f8u,. Pray, II love strips
IA ltl; - = II discretion many times.
dt-3-tb+v speak too SO" or qaIok,Such
crlur-
Rsll, ~. 5l when those small words
ca - ~. ls slow, or quCik, or out Of
mace. but dear,
p.,ig.- The lips ara no more here.
..7rb dear, familiar feet that 90
Ihs' - ~. n,-h wiki ours -- feet fast or
s.5S,
a. -rgisg "a keep Iace-iI Saey inis''1H9 li'''iS
6Sl-,,l g., upon some igwer that we would
r.,--nr breast, or bTuise some reed,
O- crush poor hop" autli Il o'oeu'
We may be mute,
n, turniug quickly 70 impute
- fsulJ; for they and We
- .grL A little way 10 gO-can be
n1r'r.rgII q little while along the way,
~ G5.si.i be gatjeu: while We may.
s,,,,ry li,tle faults we find.
" .-- them: for not bind
~ We see them; but II you and
-, : nm remember them some 10y and by,
Tiey vi. not BE- .,., .,,, 49,,
Fault. tle grave iln..sLto s. yon or eyen rne Iess .ns
P-mrmbrluces % bless
~. rb.u-r 50 MANY tAlngs-yes, hours
a: - : differently in suns and showers
Mistaken WUrl, tonight
Nav b 80 cherished bs Jo-morrows hghb
" nav d. patient, Tor We know
Tl-r-', such a lrilc way 10 20.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-04
The Hero OF Fort Erie,

General Gaines, famIliarly known as
the Hero of Fort Erie" was not
pleased when General Scott was pro-
NOTED, although he was then upward OF
eighty years of age, and unit for MILL
tary duty. Tall, spare and erect, with
snow-white hair and keen eyes, he pre-
sented a striking contrast to his small,
yiyaclous and energetic wife, who was
at tina. time commencing one of the
most celebrated of the causes ceteOTes
of the United States. Amiable, courte-
GUS and affectionate, Mrs. Gaines
became a heroic htigant, and went from
court to court seeking to establish her
rights as the lawful heir OF her father,
Daniel CLARK, Mr. Clark was In his
day one of the most ambitious young
men of New Orleans, who divided the
confidence and respect OF the people
with Governor Claiborne. He was a
high-spirited, ambitious young Irish
man, full of energy and wealthy. En-
barking in politics he WAS elected the
first delegate to Congress for Louisiana,
when he forgot the vows to his vile,
who had not, at the time oil his mar
riage to her been divorced from her first
husband, a confectioner named DE
Grange. Their child WAS Myra Clark,
subsequently Mrs. Gaines. At WASH
inoton he became infatuated with the
beautiful Miss Cation of Baltimore, and
he returned to New Orleans deter
mined to have his marriage with Nine.
De Grange pronounced illegal that he
might wed Miss Cation. Pecunlary
embarrassment fortunately arrested
this resolve and induced a fatal SICK.
ness, during which he repented and
sought to make reparatiou to Myra by
making a will in her favor IN which lie
acknowledged her as his legitimate
daughter. When shortly afterward he
died this will could not be found, but
previous one was produced which con-
tanned no recognition of Myra. Under
fms will his real estate in the city oil
New Orleans was administered on and
sold. Nor did his daughter Myra, then
a child, know anything about her par
entage and history until she had grown
mn and become the wife oil Mr.. WHIT
new. She at once commenced the
prosecution of her claim to be recog-
nized as the legitimate daughter and
beiress of Daniel Clark. This she
continued, and when, after tho death
of MIR. Whitney, General Games ad-
dressed her, she consented to become
his wife only after he had promised to
second Ter litigation. The great mum
ber of persons interested to defeat her,
and their large means, rendered the
contest apparently most unequal one.
Rnt what has been wanting In means,
infIuence and array OF great legal talent
has been made up by the singular
heroism. pertinaclty, patience and IN
domitable will Of this remarkable
lady.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-04

How much there IS sometimes in a
single word. One word can often move
the heart more deeply than the whole
of an elegant sermon. Speak the word
''household. :" or "lireside," }" or ''home, J"
to one who is wandering friendless, and,
perhaps in a strange land, and how
quickly the tears will start, the bosom
heave and the lips quiver. Memory
goes back with lightning speed to the
days of childhood when the loved house
hold gathers in an unbroken band
around the fireside i'll the dear home,
The happy voices that are scattered far
away, or hushed in the silent dormItory
of the dead, are plainly heard by
memory's ear, and above the rest sounds
the loving mothers voice, as with one
Of the sweet songs If Zion she sang her
weary child to sleep. AS memory
brings up 50 faithfully scenes of the
Old home, and just as faithfully his life
since he left that home. how our wall
derer wishes himself back again an in
nocent child on his mothers lap listen
ing to the old Bible stories that are
ever new. the stories float in his
memory, and thoughts of them and his
mother cause The tears To roll down his
cheeks. Oh, the memory of "A loving,
faithful mother can soften the hardest
heart! How her advice, precepts and
love can help us when she has long been
mouldering in the grave. When WE
think of home how our thoughts will
go back 10 the place where mother was,
and when We look forward 10 the beau
tiful home beyond the river, faith and
Imagination see mother there.
Oh, mothers of the youth of our
country, do you realize what power
for good is in your hands if you will
only use 1t? Are you SO living before
your children, SO training them that
when they go out in the world away
from YOU, or YOU are taken from them,
their memories of you will be as guild
ing star To keep them In the right path?
Do you realize that God has placed the
children with you to take care OF for
Hin? Do you stop TO think that the
way in which mothers train their chill
dren will now influence the whole na-
tion, aye, in years To come? Ii you do,
why do YOU leave that little one of ten
der years out IN the street away from
under your own eye and ear, to learn
more of evil in enc hour than you can
uproot in lifetlme1 How are you
training your sons that in time to come
are To ill offices all over the land? Are
you training your daughters to be true
women, worthy TO become wives and
mothers of the nation? Oh, woman,
take care of the precious talent God
has given you; and one way TO make
the best use of it is to make your home
the most pleasant spot on earth. Gather
your household around cheerful fire
side, where the cold, wintry winds of
unklndness and neglect are not allowed
te come, but from which the members
Will carry glow all their lives.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-04

the Sea Bid, and take ourselves away
from ugly questions. When We came
lii sight of Block Island we got into ouI
rowbOat ana pulled toward land. leaving
the vessel TO her fate. We Law IN the
otiing TIL dark; then we landed. All
signs of sculfie had been removed from
The deck. We must complete the mys-
tery and make away with the long boat.
We loaded it with heavy stones, towed it
INTO deep water, drew ont the plug and
sunk 1t. Then We pulled for shore,
landed and set our boat adrift. That
could tell no stories. We weIe safe.
We took the first road westward and
walked all night. felt like one stun
ned. leSterday seemed like a horrible
dream.
Where was my joy at finding myself
Tree and my own masterp Ii it had not
been for llensda!e at my side, | should
have thought | was dreaming still. We
walked for miles without speaking a
word.
Jack seemed the same as ever, but he
saw L was downcast and didn't trouble
me with talk. About sunrise We found
ONASNA'So Il ACN luliCo VI
ton. Here we separated. Jack divided
with me a susl of money, taken from
the captains desk.
Cheer up, old fellow, and good luckl
We'd better part. Ii won't do for us
TO be seen together. | know where
fortune is waiting for me. There are
brave men down in the Gulf, who make
money easy enough. They've asked
me To join 'em. Now's my time. a
rover's life isn't SO bad. Gold, spices,
silks to be had in plenty if a fellows
got pluck. Go with me, Tom, or join
me later. We mustn't keep together
here"
81 have had enough of rover's work,
IIenSdale."
Come, come, don't be downhearted; {;
you'll do. But" speaking low, you've
got to take care of yourself. Good luck.
Tom, and If you won't join Inc, good
bye"
lie wrung my hand and was gone
L never saw him again.
| had the luck he wished me. l found
a sloop bound to New York. 1 took
passage in her. though | felt | was
treading close To danger. But didn't
stay III New York. AS soon as | got
there | heard that a vessel had arrived
III Newport without man on board.
IL seemed as If punishment was already
for me. | didn't wait to hear anything
else, but shipped for Copenhagen.
From there | came TO Nstad, where |
have passed many years. learned the
Swedish language and soon found
enough employment TO maintain me.
Ever since that dark night and dread
ful day | have lived an honest man.
There are times when | think God may
forgive and that an innocent life of
sixty years may weigh in his sight
against the sins of my youth.
MAY ask why you tell me this hor-
rible tale?" inquired young man VIII
had listened to the above recital.
because you say you are going to
be sea captain, and | want you to
know something of the injustice shown
toward sailors, also the results arising
from their cruel treatment.
They are rascals, Williams, crimi
nalsl''
"Yes, and who helped to make them
all these?"
"Do you think / shall turn into a
tiger when l go to sea.
"YOu will have power, and power Is
everywhere danger-and- you
will have mate"
~ don't believe one word of the
story"
The account was found among Capt.
RObson's papers after his death.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-04
Cure for TattIers.

Miss Hannah More, a celebrated
writer who died about nifty years ago,
had good way of managing tale
bearers. 1t is said that when she was
told anything derogatory OF another,
her invariable reply was. "Come, We
will go and ask if 1t be true" The
effect was sometimes ludicrously
painful. The tale bearer was taken
sback, stammered out qualification.
or begged that no notice be taken of
the statement. but the good lady was
inexorsble; off she took the scandal
mouger to the scandalized, to make
inquiry and compare accounts. 1t is
not likely that anybody ever a second
time ventured to repeat gossipy story
to Hannah More. One would think
her method of treatment would be a
sure cure for scandal,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-04

"Beware" said Lavater. "of him who
hates the laugh of a child" 81 love
God and little children, was the simple
but sublime sentiment Of Rltcher.
The man who Is curious to see how
the world could get along without him,
can find out by sticking q needle into
mill pond and then Withdrawing it and
looking at the hole,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-02-04

Thinking is the talking Of the soul
with itself,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

will make use of almost any kind of plant
food. Decomposed barnyard manure,
hog manure and sheep dung are especially
valuable. On some soils plaster proves
beneficial. Ashes are excellent for this
crop. Chemical fertilizers, either a
special formula for corn or the complete
manure, almost always give good results.
The quantity Of manure TO be applied to
the acre depends upon circumstances.
Several farmers recommend the follow
ing for harness dressing: One gallon of
meats foot oil, two pounds of beeswax,
four pounds of beef tallow. Put the
above in pan over moderate fire.
When thoroughly dissolved add two
quarts of castor oil, then, while on the
fire, stir in one ounce of lamp black
Mix well, strain through fine cloth to
remove the sediment, and let cool. Half
this amount may be made by observing
the proper proportions.
The reason for rotation of crops is
that no two plants of different kinds re-
quire the same substances in the same
proportion for their nourishmcnt. The
grains and grasses may soon exhaust the
supply of silica. These should, therefore,
not Immediately succeed each other in
rotation. They ought to be followed by
a crop which needs less of silica but more
of potash or some other mineral salts. A
field which would not yield good sec
ond crop of wheat may, even without
manure, give good crop of clover, of
turnips or of carrots.
A correspondent who processes to know
says six quarts of liquid, be it what it
may, is enough for the calf More than
this will cause the abdomen to fall. But
the mess may be increased if the size of
the stomach keeps pace with the other
growth of the calf. He thinks "pot-
Quilted" calves come of overlooking the
stomach with poor milk. Give them
fresh milk the first week. The second
week one-half fresh, the other half
SKINNED milk. Under no circumstance
should it be given to them without being
warmed to the same temperature of the
mothers milk.
Although salt is not generally fer
tilizer, it produces similar effects by rem
dering soluble latent fertility in the soil
Its use to promote the growth Of crops is
increasing, and for time on tolerably
rich soil it may take the place of real
manures when the price of crops is too
low to allow large purchases of the latter
1t is mistake to suppose that refuse
salt, consisting of coarse, hard Jumps
mixed with dirt and gypsum, is cheaper
than fine salt. The opening of new salt
wells has made salt very cheap, and fine
salt at dollar or little more per barrel
is enough better for the land to give it
the preference.
The old fashioned way of sowing fod =
der corn broadcast is giving way to bet,
ter methods. By thick sewing mass of
fine but watcry and nutritious stalks
was produced, but no ears, for there was
not enough substance in the plant to
make the grain. The drill is now al
most universally used for fodder corn and
the tubes should be set wide enough to
admit the cultivating between the rows
while small. Many ears will be formed
on fodder corn thus treated, and the
corn, though somewhat coarser, will be
more nutritious and better relished by
stock in winter.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
A Useful Dog.

expect they had some fine pups up
at the Chicago dog show" remarked a
passenger from Ohio, "but have got a
dog at home | wouldn't trade for the
best of EN-"
"What breed is he?"
'Don't know exactly, but call him a
coaly."
"Collie, you meanW
"No, l mean just what I say-coaly.
Money wouldn't buy that dog. He's a
cur, but we couldn't keep house without
him. You see, several years ago | trained
him to bark at the railway trains as they
passed our house. That's his sole bust
ness barking at trains. He does just
whoop her up, especially at coal trains.
Well, he annoys the railroad men so that
every fireman and brakeman on the road
has sworn to kill him. Oh, he is val
liable dog"
81 can't see where the value comes i'm
"'You cant2 Well, you could if you
was in my place and had all the coal you
could burn, and some to sell, thrown
right off at your back door, free of cost. u
-Chicdq0 Herald.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

Mr.. Black, the eminent and wealthy
coal dealer, called one of his oldest
drivers into the office the other morning
and rendered him quite a large sum OF
money.
"What is this forl'' asked the aston,
ished driver.
"Merely a token of appreciation for
services rendered." replied Mr.. Black
kindly.
"But, sir, you've always paid me well
for my services, and that was apprecia-
ton enough"
There is really more than that in it,
john" continued the gentleman, II
really owe you the money
~ don't understand"
"Let me tell you" and he dropped his
voice to whisper, 'you have been with
me for twenty years, working 800 days
every year and averaging three loads a
day; that makes Is, 600 loads. You
weigh about $50 pounds, John, and we
have never failed to weigh you in with
every load of our superior coal; that
makes two million seven hundred thou
sand pounds, or 1850 tons. This, at
$3.50 per ton, John, represents 4,725.
The package you hold in your hand con-
tains sap. 80, or ten per cent, which
we think is yours by right We are
honest men, John, and don't desire to
dafraud any man out of what is justly
his"
John bowed in humble submission
and is now waiting for the next divi-
dend. Merchant Irareler.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
He Hoped for the Best.

Mrs. Jones had joined French class,
and was telling her husband how well
she was getting along.
II am afraid, " he said, that it is moth
ing but 'spasm.' I've known people
before who would tackle foreign Ian
guage, expecting to know all about it in
a month, and by the time they could
translate the son of the baker has the
loaf of bread of the daughter of the gar
deher,' or some such rank nonsense as
that, and had bought twenty-five or fifty
dollars worth of foreign books, their en-
thusiasm would die away like the morn
ing mist"
''But that's not the case with me, "
replied Mrs. Jones, confidently: II am
doing so splcndidly. Professor Froglegg
says that in short time | ought to be-
gin to think in French, and when one
can accomplish that his progress is
always rapid"
"Well," said Jones, with a sigh: 81
don't want to interpose any objections,
of course and if you can learn to think
in French | shall be glad of it. It's
something you have never been able to
do in English"