Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-07-14

In Pennsylvania.
CARD players held what they pleas.
antly designated whist Congress, y
in Erie, Pa, last week.
DEMOCRATS in New York on the 4th
of July, declared again for silver.
The Mckinley administration, doubt
less is doing what it can to bring
about a conference of nations on the
gold and silver question. A delay on
the question will be more harmful to
Republican interests than failure in
the inter National conference.
The British in India are using their
military power in an offensive wey to
stamp out the Bubonic Plague, and
have aroused the latent spirit of sup
erstition among the people to such a
degree that rebellion against Brit
ish rule is feared English manners
everywhere are extensively assertive,
and they are doubly so now in India,
where they incline to the belief that
the plague Is caused by filthy habits
and carelessness in diet. With such
a belief uppermost in their minds the
English look upon the Indian with
much of the same contempt that they
look upon horse or mule that fol-
lows its instincts in everything that
it does. The kind and yet unkind
treatment that the British are en-
ploying to manage the plague has
caused the Indian to resent the ef.
forts of the English in every way ex-
cept to take up arms. They look up
ON the British as the cause of the
plague, and the exemption OF the
English from the dreadful disease.
they set down to the esuperstitious be-
lief that satan in some way is in
league with the British and protects
them from the ravaGes of the piague.
The inhabitants of India look upon
the English as so many devils sent
among them to plumber and plague
them for some reason that they can
not explain.
IT is said there is owing England,
eight thousand million dollars, paya
BILE in gold-that is eight billion dol,
lars. Who can comprehend that
amount. To get within counting dis
lance of that amount of money let US
pile it in two rows. Lay down $40
gold piece and another $40 gold
piece on top of that and SO go On pill
ing up $40 gold pieces to the height
of 20 feet Then start another lpiIe
and build it twenty feet high. Now
we step twenty feet away and start
and build pile of $40 geld pieces
twenty feet high. That gives US a
start with two rows and we continue
the two rows twenty feet apart.
That is TO be the width of the street
batween the two walls built of $40
gold pieces twenty feet high, and
we continue the two rows twenty feet
apart. That is to be the width Of
the street between the walls built Of
$40 gold pieces. Ga we build, one
hundred miles; one thousand miles;
ten thousand miles; twenty-five thou
sand ard nine hundred and six miles
of street between walls twenty feet
nigh of $40 gold pieces-all that to
pay the debt that is owing England
by other nations. Reader, if you
were required to count the eight bill.
lion at q dollar a count, it would be
necessary to have your lease of life
extended many generations. 1t
would require quick counting, ten
hours day, one hundred and fifty
two thousand years to count that
amount.
THE first public bubble of friction
over appointments rippled to the sur
face ia the Senate the other day when
Senator Wellington of Maryland rose
to q question Of privilege and spoke
ch the subject of the appointment OF
consul. He complained tba. he
had not been properly treated IN the
house of his friends. He had en-
dorsed H. B. Warner, Jr., for the
Consulship at Southampton. He
said someone had gone before the
Committee on Commerce where mat
tiers relating to nominations are some
times considered, and changed tie
nomination from Southampton to
Leipsic, Germany. TIE young man
whose nomination caused an unpleas
antncss among Maryland politicians
was here at Mifflintown among lis
relatives when the ripple of the ques-
ton showed itself on the floor of the
United States Senate. His father,
FL B. Warner, ST., a long time since
became clerk in one of the depart
ments at Washington and unlike
most OF the clerks who 60 there, he
took good care Of himself and his
means and embraced the advantages
ofreal estate speculations and bank
ing that at time were Laying around
loose at Washington, and made judic-
ious investments. He is q rich man
now with residence in Maryland within
easy reach of the Capitol of the Ma
ton, and is spoken of in connection
with the next United States Senator
ship from Maryland. His first wife
was Miss Mary Parker of Mifflintown,
who was mother of the young man,
whose nomination to Leipsic, Sena-
tor Wellington is opposed to, because
he desires another man appointed to
that consulship. Leipsic among 9th.
er important things is noted for one
of the best University Schools in the
world. At this writing and this dis
tance from Washington, it looks as if
the nomination of II. B. Warner, Jr.,
for the Consulship at Leipsic, will be
confirmed by the Senate.