Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-09-22

headed in May 1886. The appear
ance of the ghost is said to indicate
the death of member of the royal
family of England. Fiddlesticks.
At the Musical College, Freeburg,
Snyder county, Pa, none but the
best methods are used, 80 that to day
it is recognized as one of the fore
most schools of music in the country,
$33 will pay for term. of six weeks,
instruction and board. Fall term will
begin Aug. 80.
For catalogues address,
HENRY B. MOVER,
If. Director.
Last Thursday was the big day at
Port Royal fair The chief features
of that occasion were heat, dust, eat
ing stands, people, merry go round
and the horse races. The people
numbered about three thousand. The
heat was SS, but on account of mois-
ture in the atmosphere seemed to. be
100. Peoples faces looked like pieces
of cooked lobster with plenty of dirt
dusted over them for condiments.
The ground was dotted over with
places for people to eat meal at the
stands where meals were served were
canvassed over to protect the hungry
eating crowd from the blazing sun.
Someone's tent took fire in the after
noon and for awhile things in that
neighborhood were quite lively. The
merry. .go-round was constantly
crowded and its devotees seemed of
all the crowd the happiest. OF course
there was great deal of happiness
there among others and next in hap
piness to the merry so round fire.
quenters were those engaged in fir
tations. There were a number Of
preachers there and they were not
happy, for between the physical dis
comfort of heat aud dust, aud the
mental inquiry of their own mind as
to whether they should be at such a
gathering they were less happy than
on many other more corgenial occas-
sions, bat it is a good place for
preachers TO so and lsarn of the
practical every day way of working
the worldly racket that here and
there some of their flock engage in.
E iitors We're there, and if they were
not happy they we're amused at the
way delinquent subscribers lodged
them. Doctors were there and rub
bed there hands In delight of pros
pective calls that were casting their
shadows before through the gorging
process that the inner man was put
ting himself through. The lawyer
was there locker On in wonderment,
and co1n.iug the possibilities of find
ing a chance to help some unhappy
mortal out of the slough of litigation.
The farmer was there declaring to
himself that he would be great deal
more comfortable, if not happier at
home on the farm With his coat off at
work, and for the life Of him he could
not understand why such place is
called the agricultural fair. Why,
says he to himself, 1 wouldn't give
the things l have on my farm for this
whole outfit, and then he grew happy
over the truthful thought that slim
as the fair was, the fact that it was
called an Agricultural Fair was abun.
dant testimony of the worth of Agri
culture. Here is an assembly of ev.
erything out agriculture itself. 1t is
an assembly that could not De as
sembled here under any other name
1t is the name OF an Agricultural Far
, that brings the peop G. 1t is anoSh'
er proof that the business of farming
is the first industry in the world
Why the farmer did not bring the
products of his farm and put them
on exhibition is question not ans.
, wersd. Every other phase OF life
was represented in that crowd ol
, three thousand people, and turning
from nothing to see and turning from
social conversation they turned to
see the races. The trottlng was ol
, the usual stereotyped form with the
variation of an uncommonly dusty
track. No one will ever know how
much money changed hands on the
betting on horses. A great deal oi
money changes hands on such occa
: sious ''by betting" The class of mer
is large, who believe they know al
about the speed of horse when theI
see him go, and perhaps they do, buI
the boys who are managing the races
are the only ones who know whai
horses are to win. They are the wire
=, pullers and if you don't get a tir
from q race wire puller, your betting
is all of the hap bazard kind, andif yor
,, win it is on the same principle Of d
: blind hog occasionally fibGing an a
!, corn. There were scarcely thou
sand people on the ground on Fri
day, and they had nothing to see ex
. cept the races which were exciting
; The track was made good by the rair
6 of Thursday night The crowd was
displeased with the close of races
3 The crowd believed that the hors.
that could have wor the race wa
crowded out OF his place on the track
The Judges were bissed at and bit
b terly condemned, but the turfman
:, who could ave explained it ell KEEP
quiet, aud if they had it set up to re
suit as it did, they must have smiled
- to themselves at the crowd falling ou
q with itself over the close of the races
3 The institution closed on Frida,
= andthus the great assemblies of Tusca
rora Valley that began with the Har
4 vest Home at Pannebaker's Island
n and ran their summer course through
!. Indian Mound and Waterloo picnios
: closed with horse race at Port Roy
9 al on the 18th day of the presen
month. In the summer of '9S, tn
people will again be there.
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