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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28
Odds and Ends.

Four hundred women are employed
~ telegraph operators IN the Posto6ice
Building Of Manchester. England.
In the United Kingdom an income Of
e170 Der annum will pay this year los.
tax. Before Sir William Harcourt ar
ranged matters 1t would have paid rs
LOS.
1t In the law in Maine that the bounty
for bears must be paid when the ami
mails nose Is shown, anu in New Hamp-
shire the money Is payable on exhibi-
tio: OF the ears
In England during the past few
years. II Is claimed. 140. 800 farm Ia
borers have been displaced by machin-
cry. while the making of the latter. 1t
is asserted. REQUIRED only the labor Of
1900 men for one year.
Indian "relics'' are now being turned
out in regular factories. one Of which
is located in a nearby county Of Wis
consin. The relic makers have a secret
process by which an ancient appear
ance is impaired to bones. pots. arrow
heads, etc.
Paris has an invisible defence-the
submarine boats that patrol the Seine
from Asnieres and Ivry.
In 1880. E8.510. .603 duty was paid on
unmanufactured tobacco in the United
kingdom: Last year it had risen to
a1O. .192. 1872.
Paper money IL at a premium at
Nome. Miners find 1t more convenient
than gold. and pay az much as 2 per
cent in excess Of its face value for 1t.
The exports Of butter. cheese. egga
bacon, ham. mutton. pork. apples. oats.
peas, wheat, -four and potatoes to
Great Britain from Canada have more
than doubled since 1896.
The experiment station hes concluded
that fiax grown for se<l N Minnesota
is Identical with Russian fax. and prob
ably equally as good as that imported
from Europe at . high price.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28

m1es ana about as many pOople q
there are miles. France, with less thar
one-tenth Of Germany's land, 10 NJ
some Of the most important points Of
strategy and at the point Of greatest
travel Several independent states lie
in the midst Of this federation, as Swift.
zerland does in Europe; several other,
in the unhappy. suxerained position
Of the Transvaal in South Africa.
II all the islands could be put into .
continuous body Of land they would
form a most heterogeneous empire.
They would include. In addition to Eu-
ropean peoples with their various polit.
lcal and social systems. a tangle of alb
origines, a confusion Of savages and
semi-civilized cultivators Of soil and
commonwealth: an emporium Of pro-
ducts more diversified than a bazaar on
a midway plaisance. a mystery Of trn.
ditions as inexplicable as the origin of
the American Indians. Profoundly for
ested in the Dutch East Indies, the ISL
ands become In western Australia more
barren than the lava beds Of eastern
Oregon and more irredeemable than
the uppermost wilds Of British Colum-
la. Fertile. balmy and luxurious in
the beautiful lands Of New Zealand.
Fill. Samoa and Tahiti. they are trans
formed into uninhabitable coral reefs
or into hot and malarial beds Of strup.
gle in the guano-cOvered or cOpra-pro-
ducing dots on the map north and east
Of line drawn from the Philippines to
New Guinea and through Samoa to the
Society islands.-Ainslee's Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28

oily whispering soft nothings into her NOT
inattentive car. and now and then casting
q rapid, but searching glance over IN The
direction Of Miles: glances wrongly inter
preted by that hot-tempered gentleman
as SO many triumphant challenges, CALI
ing to his notice the fact that the Jewel
he had spurned. and cast away, had been
won. and would be worn, BY one who
knew its value.
An hour later Mrs. vashon and her
sister were rolling homewa ard In the little
green brougham. tete-a-tete at last.
well, Esme," exclaimed her chaperon.
impressively. was it not extraordinary
our meeting Miles tonight? nearly
screamed when I saw him on the stairs;
i positively thought IL was his ghost!
How nice he is' I wish poor dear Freddy
had a little Of his good looks. All the
same, looks bring in no income, and you
are not to think Of him, my love-" She
paused expressively. and drew up the
window.
You need not alarm yourself, Gussie;
everything was at an end long ago be-
tween Miles and me-" she replied with
an ayerted face, and q shade Of frost In
her tone.
CTo b eoptinued.)
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28
Personals.

Admiral Sampson's retirement In
February next will not break his Fam
ily's connection with the navy; for ne
las three sons-in-laws dieutenants
Jackson and Roy Smith and Ensign
Cluyerius) in the service, and his son
will probably enter the Naval Acaoe-
my next year. ,,u,.
The shell which killed General VILE
bois De Mareuil near Boshof mas oeeh
mounted on an ebony base. and Is TO De
presented to Lord Galway and the ON
GERS of the Sherwood Rangers impe
rial Yeomanry to commemorate their
first engagement. .,oo
Secretary Hay has contributed SlOO
70 the fund for enlarging the rev
Hampshire Society's building at con-
Rev. H. w. Jones. chaplain OF the
Jrnited States training ship Monohga-
heia has Just been honored with the
deoree of doctor Of divinity from Wade
College. North Carolina. The degree
No. Conferred on him because ne was
the chaplain Of the only Sou's
named ship which took part In the san
tto0o enRaRement-the battlesnip rex
as. - .ra noint
- having every letter which ne re-
cetves answered with AZ little oeiay a
no.sible. For this purpose two Secre-
taries are kept busy nearly All 'ne
time.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28
DUTCH HAVE RICH ISLANDS.

Holland, Next to England, the Greatest
Land Owner In the Pacific.
The Pacific ocean, westward Of Ha-
waii and the Marquesas. is like a fed
Grafton Of European nations on AsiatIc
soil. united by the free commerce Of
the seas. The nations vary in size,
strength and Importance, as the states
Of Europe or Of the American Union.
Great Britain commands the field with
4 landed area Of nearly 3.25O,OOO square
miles. Poor SPANS once magnificent
empire Is shrunk to less than fifty
square miles, a smaller total than be-
longs to black King George Of the
TOngas. Holland. the country from
which emanated the doughty Beers.
owns over 735.OOO square miles. settled
with nearly eight times as many people
as inhabit the larger area owned by
Great Britain. Germany. the new civ
ilizer among the nations. has domi-
pance over more than 10000 square
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28
CHAPTER XIV.

Mr.. Hepburn was by no means a stupid
young man. and he had not failed to no
u'e his partners violent start, her sud
eh tn"e. and her sinking color. In bin
'"n mind he attributed these symptoms
10 dark. soIdierly looking fellow they
uad passed on the stairs. Her faint re-
guest Tor glass of water. the shaking
mowers IN her hand, all indicated some
:. unusual and painful agitation; for Miss
i1Sihe was serene, self-possessed young
muy, and not given to demonstrations.
ie mad known that his case was quite
y. I'peIesS, and, strange and uncommon as
may appear, was content, at any rate
e'ished' to range himself as friend. II
1e nad wanted further testimony that her
ar could never be his, it had now
..,, me'"d out to him abundantly.
- -Srle, come here1' cried the tactless,
- 'rk!'Ss Augusta, who considered 1t
d .hing to get this meeting over, and
,I" i.A!y resolved that it should take
80 s,i IN her presence "She would not
ar, S II Tor anything" she told herself,
.,'l,t. .r.ia 'Ical!y; and it was best to put ev-
-.ns Oh a comfortable footing once
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28
A Happy Ending.

A boy about 10 years old came into
the Central Police Station Of Kansas
city. leading a fine shepherd dog by a
piece Of rope. The boys face was red
and he was crying A big policeman
kindly asked what was the matter. 1t
was quite a long time before the boy
could stop crying long enough to re-
ply. "My mother" he sobbed, .is too
poor to pay for license for Shep, and
I brought him here to have you Kill
him."
Then he broke out with another wall
as II his heart was breaking. Shep
stood mute and motionless. looking low
ingly at his young master. police
man blew his nose very lou,,I-. the desk
sergeant walked out into the hall. while
the captain remembered that he must
telephone somebody. Then the chief
of police led the boy to the door, and
patting him op the head. said gently:
There. little fellow. don't cry any
more; run home with your dog. |
wouldn't kill Shep for a thousand Col
lars"
The boy shed tears Of Joy now. and
ran off with Shep barking and bound
ing Mt his side and II was hard to tell
which was the happiest.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28
eEAUTY's GREATEST FOE

An 1n-Temper Ii Always Sure to Ruin
Its victim's Beauty.
Bad temper and worry will trace
more wrinkles In one night than hot
and cold bathing and massage and COM
plexion brushes and creams and lotions
can wash out In q years faithful appli-
cation. Physicians assert that an I'm
mense amount Of nerve-force is expend.
ed in every ft Of bad temper; that when
one little part Of the nervous system
gets wrong the face first records It. The
eyes begin losing the luster Of youth.
muscles become Habby. the skin refuses
TO contract accordingly. and the newt
able result 10 wrinkles, femininity's
tiercest and most insidious foe. There
is no use attempting to reason with q
woman about the evil effects Of ill-teIn-
per while she is in an ugly mood. She
knows perfectly well that 1t Is bad
form; that II savors Of the coarse and
underbred; that II IL weak and belittihg
and immoral. and that II hurts her
cause to lose her temper. But she does
not stop at Just that time to think about
1t, and to remind her Of the fact only
adds fuel to the flames.
But when she Is cool and serene and
at peace with all the world. II you can
convince her that each it Of temper
adds q year to her age by weakening
her mental force by tracing crow
tracks about her eyes and telltale lines
around her mouth. she will probably
think twice before again forgetting
herself. For no matter what she as
serts to the contrary. woman prizes
youth and beauty above every other
gift the gods hold It in their power to
bestow upon mortals.-Woman's Home
Companion.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28

We expect to hear Of bull disput.
Ing the right of way with locomotive.
but n horse generally has more sense
However, this was broncho horse In
Colorado. He was wandering around
railroad track, but. for some reason
took a notion to return and use It as a
promenade. Along came a train and
the engine whistled a warning. Bron-
cho trotted along a little faster, but
declined to get off. The engine shrietetl
out fie.sely, and this apparent, an
sered the broncho. for he turned square
ly around, and reared up as il to as,
sault the locomotive. There can be
only one ending to such tale-he was
knocked out In half a jiffy.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28

"A negro in Atlantic City. N. J.. has
,da himself famous. In q whole year
ha Eent a quarter Of a dollar IN Dis
mouth, and thus won . wager Oh >A"'
american shoes have met with sHcn
.uccess in French Switzerland tn.. ~, ~
sonesn manufacturers have begun 70
make limitations OF them: ana nv. ::
marked their goods made In
The eucalyptus trees IN Au:trans use .ss
, .netrate from $50 to 13o ieet in.S All al
soiI with their roots. WnIco trt+y Ia
moisture within raoius u
sixty feet
a Hsn tes about q dog belonging to to
m.nmrn mar. The authorities want 70
. ciereys a.: hnt the owner objects.
tax the .hsf the an1anaI watches the the
ssyarh seyrch property. and should snesei''e
be exempt from taxA'
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28
KILLED sv A FLrs BITE.
Chlld Su6ers Great Agony and Expis,
Ia q London Hospital

Chlld Suffer- Great Agony and Expirsa
Ia q London Hospital
At st. Bartholomew hospital the
other day Arthur c. Langham, deputy
coroner, held an Inquest relative to the
death Of Lydia Maria Chamberlain,
aged 8 years, the daughter Of a riding
Instructor. lately living with her uncle
at SO Chelmsford road. Walthamstow.
| Alfred Lewis Chamberlain deposed
that the deceased, his niece, was play
Ing at the window on Friday with lis
own little girl, when she suddenly CON-
planned of having been bitten by a fly.
Not much notice was taken at the time,
but In the morning the spot on the
| nose where she had been bitten became
so much inflamed and swollen that 1t
was thought advisable to call in doc.
TOR. Afterward she became very de-
nr;ous. and eventually lapsed into un-
consciousness. BY this time her nose
and eye had swollen to an abnormal
size. and 1t was thought advisable to
have her removed to the hospital. De-
spite every effort which was male by
the whole of the staff of the hospital
! the child gradually sank and died. II
was a case Of such rarity that It was
watched with intense interest by all
the doctors.
"You are sure 1t was hy that bit
her'' asked Mr.. kangham.
What she said was. oh, have Just
beel, bitten by a fly and it Is painful I"
| DIR. Nixon, house surgeon, dcposed
that when he admitted the child she
WAS unconscious. Having heard tlc
history Of the case, he never left her
until she died. The face was SO swol-
len trat he was unable to say mt first
where the bite was. He had sine. made
. post-mortem examination and found
inside the lower lid Of the right eye
an ulcer. This ulcer had set up in
nammation, which had penetrated into
the skin and into the cellular rissnes Of
the orbit. So great was the infialnma-
lion that the pupil Of the eye was sorc-
ed out from between the lids. the pain
being. no doubt. most terrible. On ex-
s.nining the lungs he found Infection.
showing that a blood stream had run
from the head and carried the poison
Gus microbes over the body.
Have you ever heard of slch n case
before!" Mr.. Langham asked.
Yes. We have records Of one or
two cases Of the kind. but they are
extremely rare"
1.-The bite of the insect caused the
micro organisms. thenY'
II can see no other cause, from the
history Of the case" Continuing. wit
ness said th:t death was due to general
tiood poisoning set up by the microbes.
The jury returned a verdict Of death
from blood poisoning set up by the bite
Of an insect. the death being caused by
misadventure.-Pall Mall Gazette
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28

We have no faults that the devil
don't keep account OF.
Broken hearts are the easiest crockery
to mend.
A rich dress is not worth a straw to
one who has a poor mind.
A bride for the tongue is a necessary
piece of furniture.
sort can really be strong pure and good
without the world being the better for
II. without somebody being helped and
comforted by the very existence Of this
goodness.
epiLlOn Of yourself.
You can rarely reason q man out Of
an opinion which he has never been
reasoned into.
No pleasure IN comparable to the
standing upon the vantage ground ol
truth.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28

No Room for Argument.
She-You need not think you are first
In my affections.
Jack Hughard (tightening his hold)-
That may be. but you must admit that
am a pretty close secOnd.-The Smart
Set
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28

pidity with which ordinary telegraphic
signals can be transmitted BY cable.
The principle Ii likewise applicable for
extending the range Of telephone CON-
munication over aerial wires.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-11-28

Magistrate-YOu may go, Jones.
see no ground for your wife's COM
plaint.
Jones Qn cold perspiratiOn)-Will
your honor be so good as to tell her 50
yourselfY
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-03-02
A GRITTY GERMAN.
After Dangerously Shooting Hlmself
He Walks Eight Miles.

Madison, Wis. Feb. 24.-Henry Wan,
q German farm laborcr, lately from
Hamburg. shot himself with a revolver
at Middleton. the ball entering the
middle OF his temple directly above the
nose, plllnsing through the two bony
tables of the skull and Embedding itself
i'll mass of broken bone exactly be-
tween the two lobes of the brain at Il
depth Of some two inches from the sur
face. After the deed was done he
bandagcd his head as best he could and
walked through the storm all the way
to Madison, distance of eight miles.
He went to the office of DR.. George
Keenan,, and the physician had him
taken to the hospital at once. There
the patient was put under the influence
OF chloroform and the bullet was re-
moved. The doctor considers. it al
most miraculous that the man is alive.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-03-02
Old Settlers at Little ra,1s.

Little Falls, Mimi. Feb. "a. - The
second annual meeting of the cid set
tiers Of Morrison and adjoining coun.
ties was held in this city yesterday,
About scventy-Gve were i'll attendance
4 permanent organization was effect.
ed. Officers were elected for the ell.
suing year rs fellows: President, Hon.
Nathan Richardson. Little Falls; first
vice president, William Pedley, Little
Falls; second vice president. Il. J. Far.
rand. Belle Prairie; secretary, Eva NJ.
Smith. Little Falls: treasurer, w. r;
Haring, Little Falls. \ banquet was
served ut Hotel Buchanan.
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mo, mamma" sobbed the unhappy
young wife, George doesn't love me.
1 found it out last night"
ooh, my poor child" the mother ex-
claimed "what has happened? All,
see it all! You found 4 letter in his
pocketw
at wasn't that" the miserable
young woman answered; che came
home and told me that he had had his
life insured"
"Well?'
'Well, if he really loved me. wouldn't
he have had mine insured instead Of
selfishly going and having all this pro-
lection put upon f?"-Chicago
Times Herald.
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CRUSHED IN THE ICE.
Tug Boat Goes to- the Bottom OF
Lake MichiEan.

Tug Boat Goes to. the Bottom of
Lake Michigan.
Chicago, Feb. 22.-The tug boat Tom
Brown, carrying crew of three men.
was crushed in the ice yesterday af-
ternoon off the mouth of the Chicago
river and went to the bottom Of Lake
Michigan. All the men were saved.
The tug Robert e. r. Burke had be.
come caught in a mass of ice and the
Brown hearing her whistles Of dis
tress, went to her aid. \ line was
thrown to the Burke and she was
pulled free. A mass of jammed ice
came with the Burke, however, and.
striking the Brown, crushed in the
boats sides. The crew managed to
scramble on the boat they had rescued
just as their own boat went down.
The sunken tug was valued at $4,000.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-03-02
MooLIHAN Is GONE.
Station Agent VaMisI,ex When the
Travelling Auditor Appears.

Grand Forks, n. D., Feb. 24-Trav-
cling Auditor Billings. of the Great
Northern, is i'll charge OF the Great
Northern depot ut Bagley, Mimi. wait
ing until Il new agent can be appoint
ed. Tho former agent, Hoolihan, mys,
teriously disappeared. On Tuesday
Billings went to Bagley to check up the
office. the agent not having reported
for about ten days. He asked Hooli-
han for the money on hand and wa.
given $3 or 81, when Hoolillan ex-
planned that he must hurry up town
with the mail. lie has not yet re-
turned.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-03-02
Acquitted of Assault.

Sparta, Wis. Feb. 24.-The case of
the State of Wisconsin against Fred
Thompson. principal of the Norwalk
schools, for alleged assault and battery
on William Schell, one Of his pupils,
was brought here from Norwalk and
occupied Judge Potts court. The
plaintiff claimed that the defendant
punished Schell in a cruel manner for
q slight offense. The jury brought in
the refractory pupil got his deserts.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-03-02
SOLDIERS. GO HOME.
Very Small Force Now Left a,
Frankfort, lIy.

Very Small Force Now Left at
Frankfort, lay.
Frankfort, Ky, Feb. 24.-The state
capitol last night was guarded by
fewer soldiers than it has been at any
time since the assassination Of the
late Gov. Goebel. Adjt Collier yester-
day, acting under directions from Gov.
Taylor, summoned all the soldiers he.
fore him and told them that such OF
them as did not desire to remain In
the service longer might return to
their homes. About $50 went home,
leaving probably 100 still here. Gov.
Taylor spent the day in conference
with his attorneys. Gen. W. Fl. Yost
and Capt. w. II. Sweeney, in regard
to the agreed case which is being pre-
pared for submission to the court. The
legislature was not in session, having
adjourned on account of Washington's
birthday, and it Is doubtful II either
house will have working attendance
today.
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Chi,d ratnllv scaldctl,

Ellsworth. Wis. Feb. 22.-..rhe three
year-old son of John Bremen, residing
near here. fell in pan of boiling
water and was fatally scalded. The
mother of the child had the pan on
the floor in readiness to scrub, when
the little one backed into 1t. The child
died after many hours of suffering.
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n. ID. HARDWARE DEALERS.
They Select Grand Forks as the
Next Meeting Place.

They Select Grand Forks ms the
Next Meeting Place.
Fargo, n. d., Feb. :4-The' North Da.
kota hardware dealers concluded two
days meeting here yesterday with IN
executive session. Grand Forks was
selected as the place for the next an
nual meeting, to be held the third
Wednesday, in February. The meeting
has been an enthusiastic one, and the
statistics show that the North Dakota
association has the largest member.
ship in proportion to the hardware
men of the state of any similar or
ganizaticn. Officers elected: Presi-
dent, II. Il. Helgeson. Milton; vice
president, II. Harrington, Fargo: sec
rotary. G. n. Barnes. Grand Forks
treasurer, II. n. JOY, Hamilton.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-03-02
Tax for the University

Des Moines, Iowa. Feb. 81. - The
lower house Of the legislature yester.
day passed the senate bill to give the
state university state tax of one
tenth Of mill annually for five years
for building purposes. The tax will
produce $275.OOO during the period.
This is the second tivc-year period for
which such tax has been passed.
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auarantine Rai.ed.

Wahpeton. N. D., Feb. 21.-Prohibl-
ton against public meetings on ac-
count of smallpox has been raised.
Public schools and the college are
opened. The sick cases are carefully
quarantined. A public funeral was al.
lowed in the Catholic church yesterday.
The quarantine set up by Breckenridge
will be raised to-day.
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Friendly Comm ent

81 am afraid my speech was a little
too long" said the orator.
NO" said his friend, Il don't think
it was, considering You We're only talk
ing. If you had had anything to say,
1t would have been better to lave used
fewer words. "-lndianarolis Press.
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Store pronerty Sold.

Moose Lake. Mimi, Feb. 24.-An Inn
portant real estate transfer was made
here yesterday wherein the John Hal
version store building was purchased
by II. o. Herrcid from c. McCabe.
The purchase includes all Of block 80.
Mr.. IIerreid intends to move into it at
once with his general merchandise
business