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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03
woman's Rights in France.

Some millions OF Frenchmen have
received shock, not an electric nor an
earthquake one. 1t belongs to the
moral order of phenomena, but it has
none the less spread CONSERVATION.
The highest court in France-the Cour
de Cassation-who5e function is to
decide knotty questions OF law by a
direct appeal to the moral principles
from which all laws are in theory de-
rived. has declared that a man, having
promised marriage to a woman, incurs
the liability to pay her a pecuniary
indemnity in the event of his refusing
to keep his promise. The shock is
contained in tisis decision, for which the
public mind was quite unprepared. a
breach has been made In a fortress that
was held to be impregnable and ever
lasting, and through this breach it is
feared the whole army of French
women will march, feathers and rib
bOns flying, and that they will refuse
to lay down their arms-they are no
longer dlstaffs-untIl new revolution
has been proclaimed in favor OF their
sex.
Breach of promise cases in other
countries, especially in England, have
hitherto proved an inexhaustive mine
of humor to the French journalists.
They have told US again and again that
the principle of assessing a pecuniaTy
indemnity for sentimental damage may
seem natural enough to John Bull, to
whom time is always money, including
the time spent in unsuccessful love
making, but that it is much too revolt
ing TO the instinct of Frenchmen for it
ever TO be admitted in judicial practice
here. Revolving to Frenchmen the
principle undoubtedly is, but not so to
Frenchwomen. They hold that all
weapons that can be used against the
male who profits in many ways by the
unfair division of power between the
sexes are good to keep in reserve.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03
MILLIONS OF BROOMS.

There is one industry in the country
in which the small capitalists have
been able to hold their own against the
wealthiest men in 1t, and that is the
industry of broom making. 1t is a
business IN which jOurneyman of
skill and prudence can hope to estab-
lish himself, If he wishes, within a
very few years after he has learned his
trade.
The process of broom making is sim
pie and yet il is such that machinery
has never been devised for turning out
completed broom, and, beyond the
sum necessary to erect such an estab-
lishment as will permit OF a certain di-
vision of the labor, an abundance of
capital is of no special advantage, The
broom centre of the country is in New
York State, the largest establishments
and best wOrkmen being located IN the
Mohawk valley. The time was when
the Mohawk valley was the great broom
corn raising centre of the country, too,
but the less tough and strlngy and
more succHIent and profitable cabbage
has driven the wavy, green tassels OF
broom corn from the fats which were
once their favorite growing place. 1t
was because of the prolific yield of corn
there in former years that the trade of
making broOmS became SO well estab-
lished.
The growth of a broom factory is in
teresting. a young man of econom-
ical habits learns the trade, and, hav-
ing learned il well, is able to do the
equivalent of turning out 100 TO l25 or
$50 complete brooms a day. As mat
ter OF fact, in Well regulated shops no
man makes a complete broom, but
only part of it, but the jOurneyman
having learned his trade well can do
enough work usually at piece prices to
earn from 81 to S3 day. Out OF this
he ought to save $500 before startin /,
in the trade for himself. With this
sum he can buy enough machinery (at
a cost of $3.50 and stock to set from
three to five men at work and keep
them at work until returns come IN
from the sales. That is very modest
capital, but since the machinery costs
so little, men have started on $500, and
even less. and made notable successes
as the trade goes Second hand tools
can be had sometimes for $50 to $50, a
couple Of bales OF corn would cost per
haps SIS, 500 handles So. 80 more, and
other supplies S25, and then the man is
ready to set up shop and make all the
brooms his neighbors can use, at least.
The trade in New York City calls
for about 10000 dozen broems year
The majority of them are made in Am
sterdam and other towns along the Mo-
hawk river. Many come from Jersey,
however. The factories are unpreten-
tious buildings. Steam power in the
larger factories Is used in stitching the
broom and winding the wire around
the corn where it is secured to the
handle. The largest factory IN the
business, according to a New York
dealer, turns out LOCO dozen broOms a
day, or twice as many as the New
York City trade demands. In such a
factory a mans work is equivalent to
the making of from 200 to 250 brooms
day, according to the quality of the
brooms.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03
How Chinese History is writtea.

Chinese history Is compiled by per-
manent commission OF accomplished
literary men, who are always at work
upon il. In 1877 an imperial edict
stated that history ought not to be
written for the Emperor's use only and
remain shut up in golden caskets and
marble chambers: It ought to be made
accessible to all officials, that they may
know the mind of the Emperors and
the laws of the land. From the Chi
nese standpoint history Is divided into
two parts, one al exact narrative of
events, the other of what the Emperor
has said and done. This division origi-
mates two sets of publlcations-one IN
which the officers speak, and the other
in which the Emperor Is spokesman.
In the first the Industry of the Bureau
OF History is run in the collection OF
facts, but there is always a danger
that the recorder may be under
strong court influence. Historical can
dor can scarcely find place in refer
ence to nation or persons who have
been IN conflict with the court. With
this exception the array of facts thus
recorded is most valuable. The edicts
published in the second series express
the mind of the Emperor. He is al
ways man who has the advantage of
good training, and if his style is toler-
able and he happens to be fond of
writing his e1icts himself they will all
be transmitted to future times in full.
The scribes, who stand writing when
he speaks, translate his spoken words
into official phrases, and his opinions
and decisions will then pass into official
history, partly written by himself by
the scribes OF the cabinet.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03
Story OF the Lost Ring.

One evening lady, while preparing
for bed. laid three rings on her dres-
sing table, where, among other articles,
small plate of oatmeal had been
placed. During the night the owner
of the rings was seized by illness, SO Sc
we're that for nearly a week she never
remembered her property, which had
meanwhile been taken charge OF by a
nurse. On inquiry, however, there
proved to be only two rings, the nurse
declaring that she had never seen the
third, though she had removed the
others Immediately on entering the sick
ROOM This not being satisfactory, a
thorough search was instituted, but
without success, and gradually the ring
was forgotten.
Many months afterwards there was
an unpleasant odor IN the same apart
ment, and a bricklayer was summoned.
He raised the hearthstone and discoy-
cred the dead body of a thin emaciated
mouse, which, on examination, proved
to have the lost ring firmly fixed round
It's neck. The death OF the mouse had
evidently been caused by suffocation,
and the explanation of the whole seems
to be, that, on the evening when the
rings had been placed on the table, the
mouse (which must have been very
young), attracted by the smell of oat-
meal, had crept up to partake of this
dainty. and, while moving about, had
unconscIously pushed its head through
the cIrclet of gold. As .ne little crea-
ture grew larger. however, the pres
sure of the ring mus have caused 1t
much uneasiness, AID finally strangled
It altogether. Tie attenuated condi-
tIon of the mouse was a proof of how
much its has health had suffered dur
ing the gradual process of strangula-
tiOn
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03
why a Boot Shines.

''DId II ever occur TO you," said a
chemist, "What a remarkable and
unique process the blacklng of a boot
isp You see, we smear the boot with
a preparation of boneblack, which Is
entirely devoid of lustre, and then, by
the friction of a dry brush, make it
shine like the sun. There Is not another
process like this anywhere In the arts,
so far as l know and l never read any,
where any scientific explanation of the
process. l have a theory OF my own,
however, which 1 will give you for
what it is worth.
The key to the mystery lies in the
fact that a diamond IS nothing but
crystalized carbon. The blacking Is
little more than carbon paste, and the
friction of hair brush, being one of
the most efficient methods of generat-
ing electricity, has the effect of crys-
talizing the carbon of the blacking. AS
soon as this is done the boot is COW
cred with millions of Infinitely small
diamonds, and. of course, begins to
shine, as a mass of diamonds would
"Of course this is not perfect ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomenon. What
part the other ingredients of the black
ing play, and especially, why it is that
the blacking must be moistened. L can
not tell; perhaps some one else can.
But I feel pretty sure that the boot
blacks are engaged all day In turning
backing into diamonds"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03

s0uri told in low and tender voice to
Jim that night, was one OF sorrow and
sadness; for, ia spite of all he could do
the tears would come and mix with
his voice, and even J4m's face had
traces OF tears upon it.
AS the story progressed Jim moved
up closer to the old man, and when it
was finished he leaned his head against
Missouri's breast.
"Psee it all now. Forgive me. for
give me-" sobbed jim
Just then Missouri. with faint
moan upon his lips. fell over backward
In a dead swoOn, faint from excite
ment and loss of blood.
Jim tried to rouse him, but his every
effort seemed in vain. Then he shouted
for help. but just at that moment the
loud believing of the cattle in the herd
drowned his voice.
In few moments the earth seemed
to tremble: the believing of the cattle
grew wilder, tisrcer, aud the sound
was nearer. The rattle of the horns
of the maddened brutes as they clashed
together in the night sounded like dis
tant musketry, and jim knew that the
herd bsc stampeded. He tried to drag
Missouri with him out of the way OF
the TOdTlnI mass he saw coming. Out
failed. He called him and tried -
rouse him, but received no answer or
sign that he was heard.
The cattle were close upon them
when Jim made one more effort to
rouse Missouri. AT last he opened his
eyes and looked about him. He seemed
TO take in the situation on the instant,
for he quickly sprang to his feet,
clasped Jim around the waist and held
him to his breast, while he resolutely
turned his back to the oncoming herd
that rushed upon them the next mo
ment.
The cattle passed on with a rush
and roar. Behind them from the
rrampled ground, bruised and bleed
ing, rose Missouri, with him yet in
his arms, clasped closely, tenderly to
his breast, but the head of the youth
was crushed and trampled out OF
shape. and his limbs hung limp and
lifelesS.
Missouri carried the dead boy to the
camp and placed him upon a blanket
on the ground. Then drawing his
pistol, he touched 1t to his head, but
before lie had time to fire he fell dead
by the side of Jim.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03
vol. XIII.
Sometime.

Sometime youu think of these summer
prsaml,y iading in purple haze.
Sometime, with a thrill Of passionate pain,
Ysu D long for their sweetness over again.
Sometime you'll listen, In silence lone.
For gulish voice that was all your own.
s,m-ume, when the starlight is shining
And rla b. noon a.a drops low in the summer
night
You will watch for cleaning figure fair,
NuI,r-r.h ID auI noiseIosS, with falling
hJIT
Sometime Ia your dreaming n little hand
Will unrrr in yours ut loves sweet de-
maudi
ArI. gazing 3cer in the luminous eyes
That made for your light its paradise,
The light, rIr music and oiorous calm
OF tins -o'Urn-crowued summer will linger
like balm,
Til. starting. I walSen 10 clasp but air,
Aud list 20 uittiuE football there.
Sometime you'd give all the wise worlds
praise
For one OF these vanishing summer days;
For Just one leaf from the swaying boush-
Sometime you'd clasp it; ahi why not
now.
Ere the ungerin. light Of the perfect days
Had faded. forever. in mystic hazsF
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03

ment. sis this the way you find
Charley, our lost dog?"
Lost dog?" L echoed loudly.
Lost dog? What elseS Yes, lost
dogl''
The truth fell upon me as fed from
before her. 1 was ready to sink be-
meath the burden. 1t grew heavier
and heavier as l thought of 1t.
''Oh, Edith. you are gone foreverl"
As the last words 1 had heard in her
home rang in my ears, l muttered them
again and again. As / crawled home.
humiliated, heart-broken, / whispered
them. L repeated them aloud. 1 ap-
piled them to myself. Lost dogl Oh,
lost dogh
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03
Superstition OF a Merchant.

We saw a wealthy merchant the other
day who wore the coat in which he was
married twenty-five years ago. In re-
ply to a question as to the reason why
he appeared in that particular garment,
he said it was his mascot; that when
ever he entered upon a new specula-
ton, or made a new investment. or
took any important step in domestic or
business life, he had always donned
that coat, and that its charm of luck
had never yet deserted him.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03
The Whole World Kin.

If Mr.. Henry Kendall, the author of
The Kinship OF Men," is to be be-
lieved, there is no need of the zone
touch OF nature" to make the whole
world kim" He traces our relation
ship TO one another, not to a common
stock, but in each case from an actu-
ally living individual backwards. Some
OF the results are most startling, as for
instance, the calculation that the nor
NAL increase of ancestry up to the
thirty-second generation shows that
each living man has 4, ,294, 967. 296 an
cestors. After that, who can doubt
the kinship of the world?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03

The PAGER Argyle has an ailing
leg.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-10-03

Mrs. Stowe, author OF Uncle Tom s
Cabin, is gradually falling into mental
decline. She is tenderly cared for by
her children.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-10

The Rochester millionaire II. ii. Warner,
is credited with considerable political sagac-
ity. In 1884 he was delegate to the Repub-
lican National Convention. where he support
ed General Arthur for the nomination. In
talking day or two ago he expressed him
self as favoring the denomination of Mr..
Blaine. He regards the denomination of
Cleveland as certain and said among other
things: Mr.. Cleveland has weakened him
self by his tariff message and put his party
in hole. Blaine is as strong or stronger
than he was before. The Democrats have
been forced by Mr.. Cleveland to take up this
tariff question. If they fail to pass bill.
they will be in a bad position before the
country. If they pass bill it must be in
accordance with the majority sentiment of
their party, which is beyond question the
minority sentiment in this country. Thus in
either dilemma they will go to defeat. As to
Mr.. Blaine, it is easily to be seen now that
the men who opposed him before were free
traders, prompted by their antsgonism to
protection but afraid to avow it. They will
oppose any Republican this year"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-10

On the question as to whether the high
est capacity of COW is in the breed or the
feed, Prof. E. W. Stewart in his treatise
on Feeding Animals" says he has taken
young heifers with small udders and with
no marks of being high, or even good
mixers, and by liberal, perhaps it might
be called high feeding, has developed
them until they had large udders and
became deep mixers. The breed is much
it is true, but the feed is more II farmers
only knew it there are thousands of them
who are keeping their cows at .'poor,
dying rate;' in fact, starving them to
death.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-10
xhe Reasons for the Upfiains Against
CLEVELAND FREQ Trade in Alabama.

xhs Reasons for the Upsiaing Against
Cleveland Free Trade in Alabama.
The remarkable development Of natural
resources and business change which have
been taking place in the South the past
few years are nowhere more apparent than
in Alabama. OF this we are strongly re-
minded by the statements Of that trust
worthy Alabama newspaper, the Birming-
ham Age, which says that there will be
built this year, in Alabama, twenty new
iron furnaces, with an average output of
1900 tons per day, or 100000 tons per
annum. This output. with that Of the
existing furnaces, will run the output of
1888 up to about 1.000, 900 tons, and it is
hoped by the Alabamians that in that year
their State will contest with Ohio the
honor of being the second iron producing
State In the Union, the iron output in Ohio,
last year, having been 1858 tons. mus
in 1888, the iron product of Alabama esti-
mated at fully sl5, OO0, 600. will be one of
the three most valuable products of the
State, ranking above the corn crop, about
1900, 900, and below the cotton crop,
about sl5, O00, 900.
1t is such vast economic changes as
these that are convincing those Alabamians
whose future is not behind them that the
continuance of Republican Protection is
Of vital importance to their interests and
to their future prosperity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-10

For some very potential reasons the
Pennsylvania Democrats are very hostile
to the existing high license law of that
State. In Philadelphia alone it will close
400 saloons, and reduce by the same num-
When the Pennsylvania Republicans en-
acted high license they struck their politi-
cal opponents decisive blow. besides
rendering most valuable service to the
temperance cause. All respectable citizens
are in duty bound to give it fair trial and
to get all possible good from its operation
until something better can be found
practicable. Only cranks and bitter parti-
sans will seek to prevent its usefulness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-10

Enslage is meeting with great favor
among western dairymen, and it Is said
the dairy farmers of Wisconsin will build
about two thousand silos for pitting fod-
der the coming season. What revolu-
ton will be made in western agriculture
when the corn fodder from their immense
fields of corn, now generally wasted, is
preserved in silos and fed out as ensilage
to dairy cows and growing steers. Are
eastern farmers to see this revolution 90
on and yet have no part in it? We don't
want our farmers to get left in this march
of progress.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-10
Advice to M0thera

Are you disturbed at night and broken of
your rest by a sick child suffering and cry
ing with pain of cutting teeth? If so send
at once and get bottle of Mas. WINsLow's
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETHING.
Its value is ncalculabe. 1t will relieve the
poor little sufferer Immediately. Depend
upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about
it. 1t cures dysentery and diarrhoea,
regulates the stomach and bowels, cures
wind collie, softens the gums, reduces in
tlammation, and gives tone and energy to the
whole system, Mrs. WINsLows' SOOTHING
SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETnrNG is pleasant
to the taste, and is the prescription of one of
the oldest and best female nurses and ply
sicians in the United States, and is for sale
by all druggists thorough the world. Price
25 cents bottle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-10
BURLElGH 4 FLYNT, Pubs,
Augusta, Maine.


The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore American writes to his paper
that an alliance has been made between
the Democratic free traders and six New
England Republicans. Free wool would
he of service to the woollcn factories of
New England but of not nearly so much
service as the duties now charged on
woollen goods. 1t is difficult, therefore,
to credit the statement of the Americans
correspondent, and yet the report that the
makers of woollen goods are prepared to
join the free traders in their attack on the
wool growers has been repeated SO many
times that it deserves some attention. We
do not believe that six nor even one Re
publican member of Congress from New
England would desert the Republican party
to aid the Free Trade programme. We
endorse the opinion of the New York
Mail and Express, that 1t is not easy to
imagine the manufacturers Of woollens
so blind to their interests as
to separate themselves from those
having other protected interests, for
an alliance of the woolen interests with
the free traders against the wool growers
would he signaiy unwise and seltishly
short-sighted. and would prove a strong
blow against the protective system. II
any of the woolen manufacturers wish to
surrender the protection which they now
receive, they will make the suggested
alliance against the wool producers, for
they cannot stand alone, and the pro-
tectionists fully understand that they must
he united in resistance to all the plans and
movements to revise the tariff in ae-
cordancc with free trade notions and in
subseryiency to foreign importation in
terests. ''rhcy know very well that the
Democratic movement is not entered upon
for the purpose of reducing the taxes and
rates of duty, but for political purposes,
for making a beginning towards the des-
truction of the protective system.
The sacrifice of the woollen interests in
abandoning the tariff policy would be
enormous. The New England manufac-
turers pay rate of from 10 to &c cents
pound on the wool used by them in the
manufacture of cloth. According to the
last report of the Bureau of Statistics. the
average equivalent al valorem rate is l3
per cent. They receive, however, a pro-
lection of 81 per cent on balmorals; ~
per cent. on blankets: 81 per cent. on
clothing; - per cent. on cloths and dress
goods: 20 per cent. on fianuels; "a per
cent ON hats: 63 per cent. on knit goods
the same per cent. on shawls, and 80 per
cent. on yarns.
The suggested alliance would be sui
cidal ON the part of the woollen men; and
for that reason, and because New England
Republicans are not disloyal to their
party, we find it difficult to credit the re-
port"
1t is a treacherous part which Blake OF
Massachusetts, and four or five Rhode
Island manufacturers propose to play.
which can encounter only the sternest dis
appreciation of all thoughtful and con-
sisteut friends of Protection. Compact
ranks aud mutual confidence cannot fail
to secure success to those who wish to re-
form the tariff on the line of American
labor and American capital.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-10

Bright and encouraging words come
from the Republicans Of the Pacific States.
earnestly to steal Oregon, but the Repub-
licans are alert and enthusiastic for Blaine.
In California, Mr.. John F. Swift, late Re-
publican candidate for Governor, has pub
lished an address to the Republicans of
that State, reviewing the campaign of 1886,
and declaring that the State can be carried
by the Republican candidates this year by
at least 1900 majority. He makes very
sensible and urgent appeal to Republicans
to lay aside all discussions AMI disagree
ments for the common good.