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MAPLETON DEPOT, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1889.
NO. 33.
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BUSINESS   CARDS.
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SlPHYSICIAN & SUBGEON,—
JSB-Office' on Main-Street, near Juniata
'•House.	
—JUSTICE OP THE PEACE.—*
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proper attention. Collections made and immediate i***turns given. Legal writing promptly executed.
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E. SIMPSON,
Huntingdon, Pa.
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^H  P; WILSON,
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ANTHBACITE, BI-nTUINOnB, &
CANNELCOAL, & CONNELLS-
VILLE CBOSHED COKE.
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(Net Tons)
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at
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1L L MX.
A Beggar's Revenge
It might have been a hundred
years ago that there died in au old,
damp hut in the village of Monmouth two old women, and one can
truthfully nay they died of hunger
and misery. When the grave-diggers had ended their work, a pale,
thin, barefoot boy left the hut, and
after wandering-some tine on the
main street, fina-lly entered a shoemaker's shop.
"Mr. King," he said, crying,
-•there is no oue left at my house,
•and I must go away; will you sell
me a pair of shoes?"
"And who will pay for then-Tasked the shoemaker, with a mistrustful look.
"I will pay for them as soon as I
can, on my honor, as true as my
name is Will Jones'"
Shaking his head the did mau
looked tat the'lad over his -spectacles, then rose and took from his
oase a pair of fine, strong -shoes,
and gave them to the boy.
"There, Will," he said, "take
them; so one shi.ll say that X -sent
away a poor orphan bey with no
shoes -on his feet. Yott "Will pay
me when you can, if uot, all the
worse for you, I shall not reproach
you for tt."
The boy thanked him and went
away, still assuring him he would
keep his word.
Several years passed. Will Jones
was not heard from.
Shoemaker King who related his
bargain with the boy, was laughed
•at, but he answered, --Will is an
honest bay; if he can't pay, he
-can't pay, and I shall consider him
'trusty just the same."
One day at last there 'appeared
-on the streets of Monmouth a poor,
ragged man, who entered the gate
at the tavern and begged a piece
bread. Tbe old innkeeper roughly refused him and when - he still
begged, he set the dogs on him.
The poor beggar wandered in
the streets, and going to the town
officer begged of Wm, saying, "I
am Will Jones, and I have wand*
ered many years around the world
to seek a living, but everything
has gone badly with me, and nothing is left for me but to return - to
my native town, hoping that the
good people there will not let me
die of hunger."
"Be gone again, and quick,"
cried the officer, Monmouth cannot
support beggars. You must find
another city richer than this," and
he slammed the door in Will's
face.
Will Jones stood again on the
street and casting bis eyes up and
down, discovered the shop of honest Master King.
Entering the dark little shop he
cried, "Father King, will you give
poor WiU Jones a little piece of
bread?"
The shoemaker looked at the
beggar over his spectacles and
seemed to recognize him, for be
said at once: "Ah, yen are going to pay me for my shoes, perhaps?"
"Alas, no," answered Will.
"Not this time, bnt I will as soon
as I can."
"Wife, this is really Will, come
back poor and needy. He can't
pay for my sboes, but who can't
pay, cau't pay. Give him a piece
of bread; his debt will not be any
greater for tbat, and he has prom-:
ised to pay me."
Will took the piece of bread,
thanked the old wan and kissed •
his hand. "Don't be discouraged,
my boy; your promise is as good as
gold to me. I can wait; try your
luck elsewhere."
Will Jones left the city for the
second time, and the old shoemaker thought no more of the shoes.
A few days after a beautiful carriage rolled up the main street of
the eity aud stopped before the
•hop of Master King.
-•Father King," cried a familiar
voioe. "Come out a moment, I
bring you back the shoes yoa gave
Will Jones -and which he could not
pay lor."
"■Nonsense,"" replied the worthy
man, "but that is better than nothing," and stepped out to the oar:
nage.
•"Hera they are," said a richly
dressed gentleman, awd handed
Master King a beautiful chest.
"They are so torn and worn out I
had to put tbem in this little box
in order to 'bring all tbe pieces."
Master King was like one fallen
from the clouds. The gentleman
was no-other than WiU Jones, and
when _e -opened the chest he actually found the old torn shoes, but
filled with gold pieces.
Before he could recover from his
surprise the carriage moved away,
and he beard a voice calling back,
"lie-member poor Will Jones, uow
Baronet and Member of the Council."
Some-months-later, on the hill
•outside the town, rose a beautiful
building. On a black marble tablet over the entrance, in -gold letters, were the words, "For the poor
-old persons whom Monmouth cannot support."
In tbis way did Lord William
Jones find revenge on bis native
town, which had allowed his poor
m -ther aud aunt to starve and himself to wander away in misery and
want.
-Words of -Wisdom.
The fool wonders, the wise mau
asks.
All men have their imprudent
days.
Go not into the society of the
vicious.
If you would kill a slander, let it
alone.
Misery requires action; happiness
repose.
Nothing overcomes passion more
than silence.
Where children are, there is the
golden age.
He who has most of heart knows
most of -sorrow.
Good order is the fountain of all
good things.
Apologies only account for what
the do not alter.
To be proud of learning is the
greatest ignorance.
About the only force some people
have is the force of habit.
The secret of felicity is a judicious interruption of routine.
Charity gives itself riches, but
co vetousness boards itself poor.
Walk as if you were conscious
that your body has a soul in it.
The only really bitter tears are
those which are shed in solitude.
Poverty is the test for civility
and the touchstone of friendship.
The king becomes graces; Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude.
If a life will bear examination in
every hour of it, it is pure indeed.
"Revenue, though sweet at first,
bitter ere long, back oa itself recoils*.
A Word spoken -pleasantly is' a
large spot of sunshine on a sad
heart.
True eloquence consists in saying
all that is proper, and nothing
more.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is
fortitude.
If any one says ill of you, let
your life be so tbat none will believe him.
Conversation en-riches the understanding, but solitude is the school
of genius.
tt is a good rule to walk fast until you get on solid ground—then
to stand fast.
No metaphysician ever felt the
deficiency of language so much as
the grateful.
It is curious how little we feel
the burdens we put ou the shoulders of others.
Services to be rendered reconcile
friends whom services rendered
have estranged.
The folly of others is ever most
ridiculous to those who are thein-
-selves most foolish.
The moment a man is satisfied
with himself everybody else is dissatisfied with him.
All passions are good when one
masters them; all are bad when
one is a slave to them.
Childhood has no forebodings;
but theu it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Evil is followed by its punish-
meut. It is as if evil had its punishment inscribed upon it.
He who strives after a long and
pleasant form of life must seek to
attain continued equanimity.
There was never law, or sect, or
opinion, did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Eveiy man who lives in the
habitual practice of any voluntary
sin cuts himself off from Christianity.
Flowers sweeten the air, rejoice
the eye, link us with nature and
innocence, aad are something to
love.
It is a ruinous misjudgment, too
contemptible to be acted upon,
that the end of poetry is publication.
"We never [see a tear in the
eye," says a celebrated writer;
"bnt we are reminded of a warm
heart."
Fortunes made in no time are
like skirts made in no time; its ten
to one if they hang very long together.
In a crowd the average individ*
ual is small, and the purpose of
parties is to take advantage of
this fact.
Platonic love is like a march out |
in time of peace;   there is much
music and a good deal of dust, but
no danger.
The discovery of what ia true
and tbe practice of what is good
Tbe Three Americas.
Every American boy and girl
should take au interest in the Pan
American Congress, as its result
may be a coalition of the entire
North American continent, with
tbe possible exception of the British posessioas. The object of the
Congress was to -enter into a com*
mercial and perhaps protective alliance for mutual -benefit. We, in
the United States,-are fully equip*
ped for furnishing every kind of
manufactured article as Well as
breadstuff's to Central and South
America, and these countries, in
return, have a wealth of raw material very valuable to us.
lit is quite likely that very few
young people have any idea o*r-*the
size and population of the countries
represented by tbe delegates, and
whose future may be Involved ia
tbe Congress, and a short state*
•went will doubtless prove interest*
ing as well as instructive.
Mexico covers an area just about
equal to that part of the United
States east of tbe Mississippi Iii v-
<ete, exclusive of the States of Louisiana and Mississippi, and has 10,
000,000 inhabitants.
The five Central American "fee-
publics of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua,
and Salvador cover an extent 'ot
country about the size of the four
States of New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Illinois, and have a population equal to Missouri.
Brazil's area is somewhat greater than that of the United States,
exclusive of Alaska, and her population is about that of New York*
Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
The Argentine Bepublic, with
half the area of the United States,
has a population not quite as large
as Ohio.
Columbia is nearly equal in extent to New York, Pennsylvania*
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
aud Wisconsin, with a population
probably a little less than that of
Pennsylvania.
Bolivia's territory is somewhat
greater than that of the Atlantic
States, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
Michigan, and has a {papulation
about Indiana's figure.
Peru is a little larger than the
New England and Middle States,
Maryland, Virginia, W. Virginia,
the two Carol in as, Georgia, and
Ohio, and her population is about
thatot Illinois.
Venezuela is larger than Peru
by about as much territory as is
embraced in New Jersey, and her
population is equal to that of Indiana. . _>P^
Ecuador could contain Ohio,
New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Illinois, but her population is not np to tbat of Michigan
alone.
Chili's domain cut Up wonld
make States as extensive as Ohio,
are the most important objects of I -Pennsylvania, and Indiana.   Her
population is somewhat greater
than tbat Of Indiana and Nebraska.
philosophy.
Is there ever a hard question in
morals that children do not. drive
straight at in their wide-eyed
questioning?
Whatever else we neglect, let ns
keep np the habit of communion
with God. Prayer is the key of
the position.
Fifty years is a long wait for a
golden wedding, but it is an eighteen carat argument iu favor of
early marriages.
God in the beginning held a
darning mass of eternity in his red
right baud, while every spark that
flew from it made a world.
Paraguay is big enough to in*
elude Ohio and New York iu her
borders, bnt h*-r entire population
scarcely exceeds that of Cincinnati.
Uruguay is as large as Ohio and
Indiana combined, and abont the
same number of Inhabitants as
-Brooklyn.
The Guianas are EiigIish,French,
and Dutch colonies. British Guiana, twice as large as Alabama,
has about the population of Cleveland. French Guiana, as large as
Louisiana, has as many inhabitant*) as Toledo. Dutch Guiana,
nearly as large as Pennsylvania,
has no more inhabitants than Columbus,— J, H. S.; in Golden Ditvs-*
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