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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17
HE LOST THE BET.
dow Governor Seward Verified Doubts OF
Bis Own veractty.

Bis Own veractty.
The other afternoon when the
ihadows were growing longer in the
streets and the day was taking on a
,omber hue, a group of politicians sat
In the City Hall RECALLING each other
with We stories of We olden time.
Among those reeled off was the fol-
lowing regarding an experience of
William ii. Seward, who was then
Governor of the Empire State. 1t
seems that while travelling around
through the rural districts and max
ing sure that his political fences had
no very bad breaks in them he came
one evening to the humble abode of a
farmer. 1t was too far from the
sown where he was stopping to go
back that night, and so he asked per-
mission to stop there. This was
:heerfully granted, and after partak-
Ing of an old-fashioned country sup
per the old farmer invited his un-
known guest to take ride across the
country with him, he having an er-
rand to do in a neighboring village.
With all the suavity for which Mr..
Seward was justly famed, he accepted
the invitation and as they drove
along in the gathering twilight he
entertained the old farmer with all
manner of campaign experiences and
stories.
The old farmers native shrewdness
caused him to wonder why the
stranger should show him SO much
attention, and at last he blurted out:
"Say, be you book agent?"
"Not that 1 know Of" was the
Governors smiling rejoinder
Perhaps you're a lightning-rod
nan. eh?"
."No, sir: you are wrong again."
''Then you're sewing-machine
man,"
"No, SIR"
swell then, by gosh, you must be
politician"
Mr.. Seward at once acknowledged
the soft impeachment and then in
formed the inquisitive old fellow that
ne was the Governor of the State of
New York. This quieted the old
fellow for a while, but at last he
could hold in no longer, and he
quietly informed Mr.. Seward that
ne thought he was liar. Mr.. Seward,
however. insisted on the truth Of his
story, and the dispute finally resulted
in wager of so. The money was
placed in an old lantern that was
carried in the wagon to be used in
ease of emergency, and it was agreed
hot ha chN,rIl
decide as to the ownership Of the
money. Should he tail to recognize
Mr.. Seward as Governor the former
was to win, and vice versa.
The test soon came. Driving by
The shop of a wayside blacksmith shop,
the proprietor himself stood in the
doorway. The farmer stopped his
wagon and Mr.. Seward said:
, my friend, my veracitv has been
questioned by the gentleman with
me and / should be pleased to have
1im convinced as to who l am. Will
Tou be kind enough to tell him?"
The man of Drawn and muscle
pcered at Mr.. Seward long and earn
.stly. Then turning to the farmer
ne said in awe-struck tones:
"He's all right. Bill! l know him.
He's Thurlow Weed, by goshr'
The farmer took the $40 and Mr..
Seward was poorer bv that amount
than when he started out-Chicago
kai1
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17

A swelling beneath the bark OF
some huge, surface appearing root OF
large tree announces the coming OF
flower. Soon the bark splits, and
the bud, resembling the head Of a
young cabbage, bursts, showing five
great lobss, which open and roll back
slightly on the edges Then a circu.
lar ring appears, surrounding a deep
cup, In the center Of which is the
ovary. Below the edges is a kind OF
gallery, wherein are numerous STAN.
ems In which is located the pollen.
The remarkable feature Of the flower
- its colossal size, the largest species
being thirty nine inches in diameter.
The central cup holds six quarts OF
liquid, and the total weight Of tho
flower is over fifteen pounds
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17
News in Brief.

TIL, zen Of touch is duliest on the
back.
Faunin, m lis were invented IL
China.
In japanese sa VS. the teeth point 10
wal 4 The ha rdle.
Nus:c vl,rat'on wi | Cause high
expI sives to go of
Tile meat o. anim lis which have
beep hl, {. to ii, ath keeps tn, brst.
There is Ia lt,v in ali japan an
average Of two earthquake shocks
daily.
Wasps rapk next to the blsher
class. of ants III point Of insect int, ILL.,
Tne higbess peak OF til, Rocky Noun
is NJ, unit Brown, Br tlsh America
l., ,9JG feet.
The first book to have IT. leaves
numbered Il was "Esop's Fables, piln'eo
bv C..xiol III 14S4.
-HoliaDis soap duty lngs SOU
600.
Tie roar oil Niagara has beenphon'
oerapned and may Re beard III any
part of America for a small Tee.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17
The Sense of Srnelr.

What marvellouSly delicate ma
chinery is set in motion when we
smell the fragrance of a rose! Sim.
pie as that pleasurable sensation
| seems to US, it involves the activity
of agencies and forces that the imag
inatIon can scarcely grasp 1t has
been shown that the minute cells at
the ends of the olfactory nerves in
. the nose hear the most delicate little
hairs, and it is believed that these
hairs are the active agents in pro
ducing the sense of smell.
Yet when we come to inquire into
the manner OF operation of these
cells and hairs we find that it is
even more wonderful than the deli.
cacy of the mechanism. itself
1t has been suggested that at least
| one special cell and the nerve fibre
connecting it with the brain may be
affected by each different smell pro-
ducing substance. But, as Professor
Rutherford remarked at the meeting
: of the British Association last Au.
/ gust, "1t would be somewhat seri-
Dus stretch Of imagination to suppose
that for each new smell Of sub.
stance yet to emerge from the retort
Of the chemist there is in waiting a
special nerve terminal in the nose"
He thinks tt is more reasonable to
suppose that all the hairs of the OIL
factory cells are affected by every
smell-producing substance, and that
! the different qualities of smell result
from difference in the frequency and
form of the vibrations transmitted
through those cells to the brain.
According to this view there I.
something in musk, something in the
rose, something in the violet and the
lilac. something in every substance,
which produces smell either agree
able or offensive, that is able to SO
affect the hairs and cells of the olfac-
tory machiney of the nose as to set
their connecting nerves in vibration,
and the rate of this vibration varies
for every different substancel
We are reminded that the differ.
ences of both sounds and colors also
result from variations in the rate of
vibration, although sounds are pro-
duced by that mysterious medium
called the lumlniferous ether. II
smells also result from varying vibra-
tions, what a surprising glimpse Of
the inner unity Of nature that fact
gives us!-Youth's companion.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17

ENTREES OF JAPAN and nneIy bhapeu
mouth. Even without her imperial
rank she would be the universally
acknowledged belle Of japan. She is
Immensely interested In the educa-
tion of the gentler sex and in char
liable works of all kinds. She is a
ne scholar of both polite literature
and music, and plays the piano we'll.
Her poems have been set to music
and used as imperial songs. She is
the founder of the Red Cross Soci5ty
In Japan, frequently visits the hos
pitfalls, and gives to each patient as
much consolation and care as II she
were a simple white capped nurse Of
he Red Cross.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17
last NIGHT.

Q comrades, let the song 20 round
And laughter be our guest,
OF all the blessings life has found
A woman's love is best.
I drink not when the cup is crowned
wish you all that's bright:
Ny vintage lies
In beauty's eyes,
I kissed my love last night.
The jasmine perfumes rose and strayed
Like elm waits unseen;
The summer moonbeams stole and played
Her lattice bars between;
She shyly stood, all white arrayed,
With youth and grace bedighs;
She was so fair,
Row could dare
kissed my love last night.
A sudden glory fille6 the earth
1t had not known before;
A happy gleam too sweet for mirth
The quiverinc moonbeams were,
To think that l of little worth
Had won the pear, of light
No song or speech
My bliss can reach.
/ kissed my love last night.
I sought my lonely couch to dream;
Sweet wlftures thronged my brain
Blue eyes and lily buds a-Sleam,
Ani roses wet with rain.
With mornings opaiescent beam
'rhe glamorie took flight.
Yet waking brought
A dearer thought
kissed my love last night.
o !Ioon, laugh down your silver rays,
Smile up, o dimpling Sea,
o Fountain, toss your tinkling sprays,
o stars rejoice with me.
With Nv. .nklinS shoon ye tricksy Fay5
Cone guide my song Alright,
And tip with dew
Each measure true
k.sse my love last night.
S muel u. Peek. in Atlanta Constitute
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17
A AUeeclN0 EPISODE,
It Is not Always Wise to Calculate ol
Appearances.

i appearances.
s.Speaking Of hunting" said a pun
| ter, reminds me of a little fun Il
| had some four or five years ago
! Three of us, more or less sports
men and all jolly fellows were stop
ping at small place on the eastern
shore of Lake st. Clair 1t was in
November and the ducks were pretty
thicA We did some great shooting
that season, l can tell you.
zone day the landlord announced
that a nephew of his. a young man
just over from England, was coming
up for few weeks sport, aud he
guessed we'd find him pretty near q
dandy on the shoot.
"Well, pretty soon the young fel
low arrived, and our first glimpse of
him decided everything. The boys
said they didn't believe he had ever
seen wild duck, much less shot
one.
"He was one of your swell hunters.
all logged out in corduroy jacket and
high top boots, with one of those
patent-reversible fore and aft caps
and a pair Of eyeglasses astride his
nose. He showed us his gun, a
double barreIed pistol grip thing. and
blowed pile on its fine qualities and
of the wonderful execution he could
do with it. 1T came from England,
ye know
'Would he go after ducks with u.
In the morning? o, yaas, he fahncied'
he would, though it wouldn't be much
sport; he was accustomed to shooting
woodcock, and ducks flew so beastly
slow.
"Well, we fixed up things among
ourselves that night. We picked out
some of our oldest decoys and anchord
them out in a bayou a short distance
from shore, then turned in for the
night
'Our friend was up bright aka
early next morning and was anxious
to show his skill We made some
excuses about not being quite ready.
but told him that il he would 60 over
to yonder bayou he might get a shot
before breakfast. He put of with
much splashing Of paddles and great
show of caution and was soon out of
sight in the reeds Allowing him
time to reach our decoys, we followed
and soon heard the sharp bang. bang!
Ct his gun. Before we could reach
him we heard another report Ex-
ploding with laughter at the success
Of our scheme We FASTENED to the
spot"
"Did he fill the decoys with lead?"
'No. Say, he had bagged four as
pretty canvass backs as you ever
saw"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17

the Empress is Al
years OF age, one
year younger than
her husband. She is
not 50 tall as Amer
lean women, is slen-
d er a n d cry
straight For t h Q
last sixteen years
she has worn Euro
pean dress She is
very fair, with rosy
cheeks, large eyes,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17

About a quarter past five on the toi-
lowing Thursday they all left the old
Patterson farmhouse. They were go
ing to give up their souls to heaven,
and they walked on in solemn silence.
1t was preternaturaf1y quiet all around
them. The cleaning was rapidly fall
ING, and it seemed to the old folks al
if it were the precursor of eternal dark
ness.
The group halted near cluster O,
trees. Marten held out his watch !;
there was ten minutes more left them1
The old people stood there glum anl
motionless John and Millv had locked
hands and looked pale. Marten told
them to lie down fiat on their stomachs
and hide their faces in the ground till
the thing was over.
Tremblingly, fearfully, they obeyed,
and lay flat on the ground, dreadina
to stir, awaiting the sounds of the aw-
full crash. Marten retired to another
spot, whence he said he would signal
them to rise if they were destined to
survive.
Ten minutes passed; n quarter of NJ,
hour followed, and still they lay there.
1t was growing darker; they were get
ting chilled to the bones; their teeth
began to chatter, and still no signal
tsom the schoolmaster, no sound of
the crashing doom. Half an hour
passed, and then fearfully, cautiously,
old man Patterson began to move his
head. Gradually he raised it and
looked round. Everything was still,
deathly still. It was dark, but he
could see the farmhouse clearly. Then
he suddenly thought that he alone had
survived the general destruction-he
ard the farmhouse. A terror crept
over him that he would lave to end
his days alone and in darkness.
"Wish l had died with emf he
groaned aloud.
But he looked round and saw his
wife's head rising, and suddenly her
terrified face looked at him. The next
moment he saw in her eye glance of
recognition. So they were both alive
"Milly! Milly!" called the old man
timidly.
eyes, father?" came trembling re-
ply.
"Are We living?" he asked again.
81 am, father. Is John alive?"
"Yes, Milly," came the emphatic re-
ply from John, who sat up on the
ground.
They were all sitting up now.
'sThe farmhouse is there, too" said
Mrs. Patterson in a wondering voice,
"and l hear the short-horn blowing il
the yard.
'Guess we'd better get up" re-
marked the old man, rising and assist
ing his wife.
Inside the house, when they got it
light, they all burst out laughing, they
felt so foolish; and the more the.
laughed the more foolish they felt
Milly laughed until the tears streameJ
down her cheeks, and John, in trying
to restrain E-r, felt his sides fairy
sche. The oil couple rocked them
elves in the-r chairs with laughter,
md amid those peals the old man would
gasp out: "And thought Is the only
one alive-ho-ho-hol !"
They found the silver where they
buried it. The old man discovered
everything he had sequestered but
bundle and a couple of gold rings an
Did brooch, twenty-six dollars in
money, and the schoolmaster's own
note for fifty dollars were missing. SO
was the schoolmaster himself. On the
following day John came in and au-
nounced that the schoolmaster had
skipped-"Hung on to the tail Of the
romet, they say"'-New York
Storiettes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17

looked eagerly into the sky.
Old man Patterson, who stood near
the young people, also had his face
turned upward; but there was no in
dication of glee in his voice when, af-
ter gazing for few minutes, he re-
marked:
"And to think that them things,
with such beautiful tails, could do us
any harm"
There wes no response to this re-
mark, save loud sigh from Mrs. Pat
terson, who turned round abruptly and
walked into the house, where Mr.. Pat
terson soon followed her
Milly and John were still standing
end gazing at the heavens. They had
not said word To each other; they
were happy in the consciousness OF
their proximity.
you?" asked Milly some minutes after
wards.
"What?"
ooh, what Schoolmaster Marten
GAYS about this-er-comet-th that s
going to break ND the earth and kill
oil the people on it and annihilate
everything. l don't believe lido
you?"
tBosh!" remarked John emphatic
ally. 81 think Marten is slick fraud,
that's what he is" he added, holding
his arm tightly round Milly's waist.
"It's awful !" said Milly concernedly.
"He's been coming here every day for
the last couple of weeks talking about
that comet, and he's dinned into papa
and mamma's heads that the whole
world is comm to an end, and that We
re nigh the day of judgment -
| Rubbish !" commented John.
| "And he's been talking at me, too,
the hypocrite, telling me to mend my
ways and not to be SO giddy. AS if I
am ever giddy, John!" she added in
an injured tone.
John did not reply for a second or
two. He seemed to be thinking.
"'Pesrs to me-" he said, after a
while, "that your father ought to
know by this time what kind of a
customer he's got to deal with. Has
Marten paid him back the fifty dollars
he borrowed last Christmas?"
| 'No, not he"
"Why don't you tell your father not
to take any stock in Marten?"
"It's no use, John. He's wheedled
them round completely to his side.
It's perfectly awful how he's talked
them into things about this comet.
They've been glum and mopin', and
paokin' away things; and mothers
been buryin' lot of silver in the
garden"
"What!" |" interrupted John. ''The
old folks haven't been hidin' things in
the ground and let Marten know of
it?"
! "Yes He's shown them the very
J place where he says the comet won't
strike, and mothers put lot of silver
spoons in it."
''The fox! He's been stealin'
them II exclaimed John.
! Milie sprang to her feet and ran
into the garden, John following her.
She stopped near a slight mound Of
fresh clay in which two sticks were
firmly stuck and which she began to
probe gently.
"Thank goodness, it's not touchedw
she said with a sigh of relief, evidently
satisfied with her examination. "You
nearly took my breath away with
fright, John. Mamma would go crazy
if she were so fooled"
81 tell you what I'll do, Milly," he
said. "You keep a sharp watch on
this place, and if Marten turns up Co.
morrow keep him till get through
work. I'll come over here. and well
Dc Whether We can't fix him some-
toE."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17

In truth it was terrible as Milly e11
reseed it, if half the things we're go1
ng to happen which Marten predicted.
The whole village of Scarborough was
xrribly excited over the event. Every
,ody recollected that wars, pesti-
ence, famine, and other calamities
ollowed the previous appearance
# comet like this-with
lmost the identical tail Schoolmaster
Marten talked about such uncanny
hinga ~ the '.stellaxy Natsn. the
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17
NO. "A

b6smic law" and 80 on. On the day
IN which Milly and John had conspired
70 rout him, Marten was at the Patter-
son farm holding forth as usual. He
had brought a newspaper with him, and
read out from it impressively the an
nouncement that on the coming Thurs
day, precisely at "a p. m, there
would be an entire eclipse of the sun,
and the inference he left to be gathered
from it was that the general breakup
was to begin at that very second.
The old people sat listening and blink.
ing solemnly. Milly was somewhat
swed herself, and she was mighty glad
when John came into the room looking
ready for action.
John contented himself at first b.,
simply denying the arguments. But
Martens superior loquaciousness wa,
rapidly getting the best of him and he
was gradually drawn into the meshes OF
reason. That WAS ell the schoolmasteI
wanted. He could reason a bull into
frog any day, if the animal only fol.
lowed the process of logical deductionsi
so by and by John found himself lis.
tening with his hands folded, his rea.
son silenced, and more than half con.
vinced of the probability of the who'll
thing.
"And We say it'll all take place Oh
Thursday at 5 "a p. IN. ?" asked the
old man. Marten had not said it, but
he answered:
Precisely. The unerring calcula
ton of science
"Maybe it'll only strike one corner
Of the earth and leave out Stockton.
ough and the farm?' he asked timidly
again.
That is difficult to say" replied
Marten, thoughtfully. ''Our whole
planet is sure to sustain terrible
shock, and it Will be felt all the world
over. There is chance-a small
chance-that We might escape with ouI
lives here; but everything else il
doomed"
That night John and Milly were
locked in long embrace before they
took leave of each other. They were
both heavily oppressed, and though
John entertained a sneaking scepticism
of the whole thing, he really believed
that before the end of the week the
earth might be broken waste, with
nobody and nothing alive on it.
"You will come over on Thursday,
John. won't you?" asked Milly in II
trembling voice. "We can die to.
gether, if we can't live together, can't
we, John?'
.1'll be here, Milly, by o'clock,
and God may prove him yet liar
you see if He DON'T" said John US he
went Off
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17

LAReEsTFLowER INTHE WORLD
Over . Yard In Diameter and Holds Lots Of
Water.

Over . Yard I'm Diameter and Holds Lots OF
Water.
The wonderful flower shown in the
cut Is that Of the rafiesia arnoldi, a
plant discovered by DR.. Arnold in
the Island of Sumatra some eighty
years ago. The various species now
known are all parasitic, not, how.
ever, to the branches OF other plants,
but to the roots. Entirely destitute
of leaves and green in color, these
singular vegetables are provided with
scales or bracts, which conceal and
envelop the flower previous to open.
Ing.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17
EMPRESS OF JAPAN.

An Interesting Little Personsgs the Only
Wife O. the Mikado.
An interesting little parsonage is
the Empress Of Japan, who Is the
only wife of the Mikado. though
many imagine ne has dozen or more.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17
TIE TALE OF A COMET.
Il ROMAN 1. ZUBOE.

II, mamma! mamma
Come out quick ; it:
on! ! look ut it, papa
isn't it beautiful q
and i'll the eXuDerance
OF excitement Milly
Patterson squeezed
Johns arm tightly
while she leaned
against him ant
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17

Bronson-Your calling ne an ass,
sir. doesn't make me one. Craik-
OF course not 1t merely indicates
the accuracy Of my observation. -
Truth
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-17

Pretty Compliment
She-What colored eyes do you ad {.
a re-brown or blue? He-I can't
see well enough in this light. t.-Buf.
talo Express ,--