Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-08-25

sixty- three tickets were sold at this
Station for Seashore train. The Tus.
corora Valley Railroad brought many
people down the Valley. Two hun
dred carriages and two hundred
wheelmen crossed Mexico bridge on
Sunday afternoon. There were a
Thousand carriages on the ground at
l3 p. M. The lower end of the coun.
ty turned out in force. One hundred
tickets were sold at Thompsontown
station. Fayette township people
were there in large numbers. Lick
ling creek valley was largely repre-
sented. Indeed all adjacent districts
sent their quota and swelled the null
titude to numbers beyond all expecta-
ton. The five thousand was the
number that Christ fed with five bar
ley loaves and two small fishes, leav.
ing twelve baskets of fragments to be
gathered up" Had such a miracle
been performed at Tuscarora camp
meeting last Sunday, all that multi
tude would have been converted from
worshipers of the material comforts
of to-day to the spiritual things
that are not seen BY man. The
preaching was of high spiritual
order to partake of freely without
money and without price. The seat
ing capacity of the camp for preach
ing time is seventeen hundred. Ev-
cry seat on Sunday was occupied.
The preaching on that day was done
by the presiding elder Rev. Mr..
Young Rev. Mr. Searle and Rev. Mr..
Seibert. Rev. Mr.. Davis has charge
of the camp. It has been . meeting
long to be remembered by both
priest and people.
The number of people at the Indian
Mound Harvest Home Picnic on Sat.
urday was not counted. It would
have been hard to count for the most
Of the people were constantly on the
move and the person you met at one
end OF the grove you were liable to
meet in the middle or the other end
of the grove in a walk of few min
utes. The multitude was no less
than in former years., and they'll be
there next year if Mr.. Book does not
cut down the grove in which event
another grove not far from Indian
Mound may be secured.
People for generations have been
used to going there, and there they
will continue to go, like the man who
started when he was young to go out
to fence in his yard and there put
his finger through knot hole in a
board. He built a new fence there
twice, during his long life, and he
both times put board with a knot
hole in it where the first board was,
so that he could go out svery morn
ing and put his finger through it.
That is the way with the Indian
Mound and Pannebaker Island picnic
grounds. There ID nothing at either
place, but for the people to see each
other and talk to each other.
The writer has seen many crowds
of people, men and women and chill
dren and the people that meet at the
harvest homes in Tuscarora Valley,
compare favorably with the best.
With very rare exception the assem-.
bly, is composed of American people,
that is people whose fore fathers
came to America before the Revolu-
tionary war of 1776. A man might
be b!ind-folded one hundred times on
q picnic day and turned loose to
catch somsone, and every catch he'd
catch deeendent Of a Revolutionary
war hero. fhey are Of frisE, Scotch
Irish and Dutch extraction with here
and there a sprinkling of English.
The speakers stand was tastefully
decorated with spruce and golden
rod, which blended harmoniously and
was pleasant to the eye, and whoever
did it had an eye for the decorative
art, and an appreciation of the dig
nifty that always attends the rostrum
Once the speakers stand is lost sight
of at such places the occasions will
degenerate to occasions of the COM
mon dance and merry making ca
rousal. There are indications Of a
loss of regard for the utterances of
the rostrum. To discover why that
is would require more discrimination
than the average Legislative commit
tees have, for the most of such COM
mittees are organized to draw extra
pay and mileage, but the truth is
people as a rule at harvest homes do
not listen. They in many instances
stand close to the platform and talk.
The speakers of the county have be
come quite we'll acquainted with the
characteristics OF good many of the
habitues of the Tuscarora Valley Har.
vest Homes, and would not for love
or money speak on such occasions.
The speakers on Saturday at Indian
Mound. took the heroic view of the
question and despite the unfavorable
surroundings, delivered entertaining
addresses. The speakers were Rev.
John Speedy and Hon. Louis E At
kinson. One of the subjects talked
about by everyone on the ground,
was the question of the rise in the
price of wheat. Intelligence was scat
tered broadcast. Indeed, it scatter
ed itself, once it was started like if
on the wings of the wind, that wheat
had been sold in New York City the
day before, for one dollar and six
cents. Such news frightened the
face of everyone on the grounds, who
we're not i'll or had some personal
sorrow knswing at their heart and
mind. Men supposed to be learned
in business matters of cause and af-
| feet haya been fellinu the people thst