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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25
A HOUSE-TOP AT JOPPA.
RY MARY HARRISON.

Among the many interesting spot!
the world contains, few are better
suited TO an impressive and stirring
view of the marvels of history, the mo
mentous and permanent in the per
sonal Christian life, and the might
neEs and simplicity of the means by
which the kingdom of Christ wai
founded and advanced in the earth
than the top OF Simon's house a
Joppa.
The moment of time is when Peter
is there for prayer, while the tow
doves and sparrows settle upon the
walls of it, and below a meal is being
prepared. 1t is a moment of leisure
between work and food, which Peter
would spend in quiet aDd seclusion, in
communion with the Father of his
Lord.
Peter no longer believed in the Jew
ish God, who was the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, bat IN the God and
Father of all mankind, with whom it
was possible for every living man to be
as intimate as had been the great dead
TO whom might be spoken feelings and
thoughts as children spoke to father
and from whom it WAS possible to receive
bchShiuS, 1eter
had no more doubt of all this than he
had of his power to converse with ST.
mon on his return in the evening from
his lanyard, or to receive strength
from eating the bread his wife bake
on the hearth-stone. The house on
whose top he was, was not moro real to
him than was the house of God above.
Nor were the inhabitants of the house
below possessed of more power to
understand Peter, and to guide and
help him, than was the Dweller in the
Heavens.
The reality of the unseen God and
the possibility OF intimacy between
Him and man WAS the foundation of his
new religion. By this means priests and
rabbls were no longer his masters, nor
was the world the theatre of his action.
The great mysterIes-God and His
image, Jesus, had taken their place.
The one he had not seen; the other he
had seen, and looked, in little while, to
see Him again. Within Him new
power had come to life, a power of
greater simplicity, contentedness, and
love, which are the first conditions of
communion with God aid a real and
joyful place in his eternal kingdom.
The house in which Peter is staying
is at the top of dome-shaped mound,
on the sea-cosst, covered with beehive
topped buildings. 1t is on the highest
point OF modern Jaffa, the Joppa Of the
Acts Of theApostles. The present in
habitants Of the place are brightly clad,
ragged, and picturesque. Loaded
camels with gay trappings stalk the
streetA The interiors Of the glaring
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25

tion. In this ornamentation female fig
ures ,symbolical of the various arts and
seIen ;es, play Il conspicuous and very
attractive part.
Designs showing in relief the seals OF
the different States of the Union and
OF various foreign nations also appear
in tha ornamentation. These, of course,
are gigantic i'll their proportions. The
Agricultural Building, perhaps, is the
only one which has a more deliberately
OF namental exterior than has this colos-
sal structure.
The exter or of the buIldind Is cov-
cred with staff" which Is treated to
represent marble. The huge fluted col
ums and the immense arches are appar-
emily of this beautiful material.
There are four great entrances, one
in the centre OF each facade. These
are designed in the manner Of tri.
umphal arches, the central archway of
each being 40 feet wide and 80 feet
high. SurmountIng these portals is
the great attic story ornamented with
sculptured eagles Is feet high, and on
each side above the side arches are great
panels with nscriptlons, and the SPAN
drills are filled with sculptured figures
In bas-relef. At each corner OF the
main building are pavilIOn5 forming
great arched entrances, which are de-
signed in harmony with the great por-
tails. The interiors of these pavilions
are richly decorated with sculpture and
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25

'Mistress (returned from her sum-
mer vacation, to her cook)-'I hear
that you have been entertaining your
soldier lover here. Didn't l forbid
your entertaining company in the
kitchen during my absence!' Cook
'Yes, madam, but | took him to the
parlor."
Young man." said the banker, 'I've
decided that it's about time for me to
put a check to your aspirations to-
ward the hand of my daughter" Oh,
thank you, sir. But wouldn't II be
better to wait till after we're married ?
then the check would come as a we'd
ding present 1t would save my feel
ings a great deal"
She was not able to support a b,,.
band. And what answer do you
make to my appeal?" he asked as he
knelt at her feet James, l will be
frank with you." she murmured. '.Oh,
speak," he implored, .'and relieve me
from this agony OF suspense" Then
let me say it cannot be-" why not?
Oh, why not?" Because, James. I
DO not feel able to support husband. ~
II you are in a crowded theater and
somebody cries '.fire." throw up your
hands and scream and rush toward
the doorway. 1t will help on the
panic. Then, when you reach the
middle aisle. faint and fall over. Do,
especially II you weigh 200 or 800
pounds Nothing shows off womanly
sensibility like fainting in crowd.
This will help on the panic amazingly.
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fhe Manufactures and Liberal Arts
Building.

Notable for its symmetrical proper
lions, the Manu- Facture5 and Liberal
Arts Building Is the mammoth struc-
lure of the Exposition. 1t measures
6S7 by 7S7 feet and covers nearly 81
acres, being the largest Exposition
6riliing ever constructed. Within the
building a gallery so feet wide extends
around all four Sides, and projecting
from this are Sc smaller galleries, II feet
wid", from which visitors may survey
the vast array Il exhibits and the busy
scene below. TIE galleries are ap-
proached upon the main floor by 81
great staircases, the flights of which
are L. feet wide each. Columbia
Avenue" 80 feet wide, extends through Ii
The mammoth building longItudinally
ar't au avenue or like width crosses it
at right angles at the centre. The main
roof is of iron and glass and arches an
area 3SJ by l, 400 feet and has its ridge
l5J feet from the ground. The build
lug, including it' galleries, has about
40 acres of floor space.
The Liberal Arts Building is In the
UOrinthian style of architecture, and in
point of being severely classic, exce,s
nearly all of the other edIfces. The
long array Of columns and arches, which
its facades present, is relieved from
rlonotony by very elaborate ornamental
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25

white dwellings, present scenes of filth
| aud squalor. Over the whole is a bril-
liant blue sky. Far as the eye can see
and to the east, bounded by the brown
hills of Juda, vast plains of orchards.
Though the scene is bathed in perpet-
ual sunshine, it would in itself scarcely
claim the travellers attention; yet it is
a spot where devotion may in fancy
rest and find reward, for It is the
scene of heavenly vision, by which,
nearly nineteen centuries ago, was ac-
complished the first completed union
of the GENTLE and the jew in The then
newly forming Christian Church in the
world.
Mankind may afford to forget that
here, according to Greek story, An
dromeda was exposed to the monster,
that here Rameses encamped, that here
Pharaoh Necho met and conquered his
Assyrian invaders under Sennacherib,
that here "Dan remained in ships, :"
that here the servants of Hiram landed
the cedar and pine wood from Mount
Lebanon for the building of the Tenn
pie at Jerusalem, that here Jonah
took ship to flee from the presence of
his Maker" that Alexander the Great
and Napoleon trod It's streets. But
those who long for the union of the
races of men in one family cannot af-
ford to forget that here Peter lodged
with one Simon a tanner" and that
there the man who was TO leave his
spirit in the reatest movement of the
worlds history lost the last vestige of
his bigotry, and the final catholicity of
his great Masters spirit was born. But
for this event in its history, insignifi-
cant as the world counts significance, no
man save the small shipping traders
who do business in its har rbor would to-
day care to look upon Joppa. Once
realize the issue of the apostles lie
and mission, the world contains no
street which led to so great a sanctuary
as that Jopps street along which. with
"a devout soldier" of Corncli us's Ital-
ian band, and "two of his household
servants Peter went to make one the
jew and the GENTLE in the Church of
their Lord.
To this day this glaring empty ruin
OF town contains its tan works. Still
too, there is the site of the house "by
the seaside" on whose fiat roof Peter
prayed. Another house is upon it.
Upon that roof, overlooking the great
wide sea, spanned with the vast dome
of heaven, whilst his meal was being
prepared, Peter sought the refuge of
quiet for prayer. From q description
OF the man as he was seen with Paul at
Antioch some years after this date
which has been preserved, we can, in
fancy, see the man whe has for q mo-
ments communion with God left the
busy house below. 1t is while his meal
is being prepared for him-fos Petsr is
no ascetic. His frame is large and
strongly built. He is clothed with q
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acacia, and stately palm. The wealth
Of this ancient plain of Sharon has
been celebrated from the times when
The PhIlistines were its masters. Not
only has it rich soil, but it is filed
with wells of water from which it is
constantly irrigated. SO it was when
Simon's Galilean lo1ger beheld it.
On the other side Peters view rested
on the sea. The view of this was unin-
terrupted. That fisherman born
should choose for his lodgings houss
''by the sea" was natural The vest
ness of the new waters must have awak-
ened gentle awe In those dark, child
like eyes. Possibly, too, the gorgeous
sunsets seen above as he sat musing
alone at evening with the darkness de-
scending, night swiftly following, may
have suggested the grand poetic i'm
agery in which he wrote of the coming
of the day of God-''the heavens being
on fire shall be dissolved"
Down by the low, fiat shore runs the
the sandy road, through Ashkelon to
Egypt to the south, and to the north
through Carmel to Tyre and Sidon,
along which Peter and the messengers
of Cornelius "with certain brethren
Over all this scene-the sea which
ceaselessly murmurs against the little
reef that forms the Joppa harbor; the
fertile fields; the dome-shaped town its
blistered houses, its brown, half-nak ed,
harmonious inhabitants; all made vivid
by the warm transparent buoyant air
the fact that from Simon's house, perched
up on the higest point of the town, the
man whom the Master Builder of the
Church for all time placed in position
of singular honor looked upon it, casts
something of the halo of sacreGness,
which even the more than eighteen CEN
tur!es that have passed over it since he
d d so cannot destroy, nor all the events
which have happened, since super
sede. 1t Is a sacredness which has
no name.
Before this Galilean fisherman hired
his rooms at the tanners house, and
after that Joppa was the scene of great
victories of generals and kings; Macca-
bees and Romans, Ssracens and Cru
momentous in their day, have passed
to and fro from its Notifications, and
have blessed and cursed it. That mod
ern Alexander the Great, who rode
roughshod over Europe, and who died
at st. Helena, has walked its streets;
but tis Peter who has given its marked
interest to it. The town in which he
had that vision, 80 great with future re-
suits, still lives for man through him,
and through him alone, and must sur
ylye its own destruction, and be lasting
as time,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25
The Fisheries Building.

One of the most OF the Exposition
palaces Is the Fisheries Building, which
embraces = large ec,csrpi structa-s g.
gwo smaller polygonal buildings con
iected with it on either enl by arcales.
The extreme length of the bail ling is
|, 100 feet and the width 200 feet. II
s beautifully located TO the north
ward of the United States Government
Building.
In the central portion is the general
Fisheries exhibit. In one of the poly
gonal buildings is the Angling exhibit,
and in the other the Aquaria. The tx
teri)r of the building Is Spanish
ROmanesque, which contrasts agreeably
In appearance with that of the Other
buildings.
To the close observer the exterior of
the building cannot fail TO he exceed
ingly interesting, for the architect,
Henry Ives Cobb, exerted all his in-
yenulty in arranging innumerable forms
Of capitals, modillions, brackets, cor
nices, and other ornamental details, us
ing only fish and other sea forms for
his motif OF design. The roof of the
building is of old Spanish tile, and the
side walls of pleasing color. The cost
was about 100000.
The Fish exhibit is wonderful one,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25

Father TO editor). Il would like
you to give my son a chance in your
printing Office"
Editor. What can the boy do?"
Father. Well, at fist he couldn't
do anything more than edit your pa
per and take general charge of the
mechanical department but later on,
when he learns sense, he'll be handy
to have around to wash windows, keep
lamp chimneys clean and sift ashes "
-Norwalk Record.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25
A CANADIAN LULLABY.

Sleep, my darling one. sleep,
Wildly the winter wind blows;
Wake not, my darling, to weep,
COldly and fierce il SHOWS;
Child, be thy slumbers deep
The deeper the better, God knows.
Dried are the tears on thy cheek,
Close shut are thy tiny hands, =.
Thy white lips so wistfully meek
Are mute to thy hunger's demands,
Gently, my darling one, seek
Thy comfort in s!umber's dream-lands
Child, be thy slumber's deepi .-s
Wildly the winter wind blows; i
Wake not. my darling, to weep,
The mother-heart breaks for thy woes,
Death, and her half-brother Sleep!
And which is the better, who kuowss
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25
DrOp It.

If you have imbibed the idea tina
more people die at midnight or day
break than any other hour, drop it. A
memoranda of 1000 cases proves tha
the dying die at any hour or minute
throughout the day or night, and tina
there is no favorite hour. just le
right go whenever you get ready ans
you will be in style.
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lng.
In the centre of the polygonal build
ipg is a rotunda go feet in diameter, in
the middle Of which is basin or pool
20 feet wide, from which rises tower
ing mass of rocks, covered with moss
AMI lichens. From clefts and crevices
IN the rocks, crystal streams OF water
gush and drop to the masses of reeds,
rushes and ornamental semi-aquatic
plants In the basin below. In this pool
gorgeous gold fishes. golden ides, golden
tench and other fishes disport. From
the rotunda one side of the larger ser
les of AquarIa may be viewed. These
are ten i'll number and have a capacity
of Z, 90 TO $1,000 gallons of water
each.
Passing out of the rotunda, great
corridor or arcade is reached, where on
one hand can be viewed the opposite
side of the series of great tanks some
what smaller, ranging from 750 to l, 500
gallons each In capacity. The corridor
or arcade is about Is feet wide. Tine
G ass fronts of the Aquaria are in length
about 575 feet and have
800 square feet of surface. They
make a panorama never before seen
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25

and not the least interesting portion Of
it is the Aquarlal or Live Fish dis
play. This Is approached through
one of the arcades from the main build
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-09
ELLIOTT SENTENCED FOR LIFE.
The Judge and the Prisoner Both Make
Vigorous Speeches.

COLUMBUS, Aug. s.-lSpecial I-Wm.
D. Elliott, convicted of murder in tho
second degree for tho killing of 4. c..
Osborn last February, was to-day SEN
fenced to tho Ohio pcnitcntiary for life
Thcre was great crowd present, but
mono of the defendants relatives were
in court Judge Pugh first took up tho
motion for now trial and reviewed tho
evidence, commenting in a scathing
manner upon the testimony f certain
witnesses for tho defense who we're de-
clared to have perjurtd thu mselvcs
without staint. The killing of Osborn
was characterized by tho court rs de-
liberate, malicious, relentless murder
and the verdict was declared to be not
against the weight of evidence, and the
motion was Overruled.
Tho motion for the stay of sentence
pending an appeal to the Supreme Court
was overruled, and tho prisoner was
asked if he had anything to saw before
receiving the sentence.
Elliott arose and made n speech of
some length. in which he declared be-
fore Immaculate God that he was inno-
cent; that he had not expected to rect
Osborne on that fatal day; that Osborne
began tho shooting. lie claimed that
tho jury had dOno him a great wrong
He said he would bid good. bye to liberty
with tho reflection that he was victim
OF circumstances and was suffering for
his devotion to the cause of pure woman
hood. Judge Pugh then sentenced FL
lott
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-09
is full of exceptions to rulings of the

Is 1ull OF exceptions to rulings Of the
court
As the Gaze nears It's close DR.. Baker
manifests deeper interest in the pro-
ceedings and frequently bends forward
to catch what is said. II he is acquitted
he will be tried with Mrs. 0,lmer for
conspiring to murder her husband.
4 hung jury is predicted by the spec
tatprs, feared by tho prosecution, and
wopld not be unwelcome to tho dofeuse.
At1east 1T would be preferred to q YER
dict of guilty.
aome OF the newspaper correspond
ents have described DR.. Baker as q very
handsome man. 1t required great
stretch OF tho Imagination to do this.
Hi3 features are bold and not at all in
viang. The only attractive thing about
him is his affability.
rs. Baker is described by those who
knfw her best as eXcolling in amiability
AND kindness Of heart. She was we'll
co4nected. One of her brothers, Col. A.
NJ. Davis, of Grayson county, repre-
serted his district in Congress one term,
auq another, Prof. James A. Davis, was
for5sevcral years member OF tho faculty.
of Emory and Henry College.
DIR. Clark, the nephew of Dr. Baker,
is the laughing stock Of the largo num-
Der OF people who heard his grandilo-
quent testimony. He overdid the thing
and convicted himself of tcstifying for
thq deliberate purpose Of aiding Dr.
aker, his uncle, regardless of prudence,
propriety or consistency. His thrust at
the press was gratuitou5 and fell harm
loss He is the subject OF as much un-
favorable criticism here as DR.. Baker,
but unlike this unfortunate man, he has
no bne but himself to blame for it.
Connolly and Daniel Trgg are
brothers and opposing counsel in this
Gasp. Every once in Il while thev begin
hpt cross fire OF words at each other
and afford considerable amusement to
THO spectators, lawyers and reporters,
and the dignifed court has been seen to
smile. These little storms have naught
In them but wind and thunder and al
ways end in smiles and good humor
MRS. Gllmer has not been in court
SINCE she left the witness stand. There
Is great curiosity to see her, but it will
probably not be gra,ified until she is
put on trial for attempt to murder her
husband by administering poison pre-
scribed and furnished by Dr. Baker.
| DIR. Bakec has many warm partisans
here and they are sticking close to him.
The ladies who have appeared on the
witness stand in his behalf showed an
overwhelming desire to aid him, there
by discrediting their own testimony in
the estimation Of unbiased spectators
Counsel INDUCED in frequent inter
changes OF wit and sarcasm, tut good
humoredly Counsel for tho State
broke into laugh over question as
long as the moral law asked by General
Blatr, and he brought down the house
by congratulating them on their ability
| TO smile once more.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-09
TBLEGRAPHlC FLASHES.

Governor Fleming, OF Florida, is out
in u long card to the people giving his
reasons for refusing to sign the certifi-
cate OF election of Senator Call to the
United States Senate.
Tho Masonic Savings Rank. of Louis
VILE, assigned yesterday afternoon to
Gcrmanic Safety Vault ard Trust Com
pany. CAPITAL S25o,0oo and deposits
over million.
Tho wcll-known Cooper House, at
Cooperstown, n. b, caught fire in the
kitchen at 4 o'clock yesterday morning,
and before o'clock was burned com
pletely to tho ground. The loss is placed
at $4,000, partly covered by insurance.
Tho Southern Pacific steamer Eldor-
ado, Captain Byrnc, is ashore on Great
Bahama banks, two miles south of Great
Isaac shoals The vessel and cargo
will become a total wreck without assis-
tanc". There arc no passengers on
board.
John Haas tinwaro factory in New
York was burned yesterday. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, $40, 600
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-09
EDITOR FRENCH BURIED.
The Funeral at Abingdon-A Sad ana
EnectnG Scene mt the Grave.

ABINGDON, Aug. s.-[Spccial Tho
remains of William A. French, associate
editor of the Glade Spring Citizen, were
brought hero this afternoon from tho
residence of Miss Findley, sister of his
mother. Tho funeral services were brief
and very sad. The aged mother stood
over the casket and talked to her boy,
begging him to come back to her
us there no voice on earth that can
reach your ear. my boy? Is there no
voice that can reach God and bring you
back" She walled. Turning she saw
the undertaken and cried, "Why is it
you never bring tidings of Joy? Why do
you always bring the shadow Of death
with you to every homo you visit?'
She also appealed to those around her
to prepare to meet God, lest He should
como in the night time and take them,
as He did her boy. Everybody present
wept
Mr.. French was a member of the
Virginia Press Association. President
Pugh attended tho funeral.