Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-03-30

Ten sheepman Of Drew's valley,
Lake county, Or, each agreed to pay
a neighbor 25 cents for every Wild
cat, cougar, or coyote he killed in the
vicinity Of Drew't gap. and within
three months he made nearly 5000
for himself, besides making the SUR
rounding country safer for sheep,
and then he doubled his earnings by
means of the public bounties.
Lewistown Gazette.-For several
years past gang of poker players
composed of travelling men from any
old place have been making an an
nual trip along the Middle division.
While taking a walk Sun
day week Lloyd Slime and Milton
Taylor, of Atkinsons Mills, found a
possam and took it home for the 9th
er members of the family to see. Af-
ter keeping it for coupe CT lays it
was taken to the woods and liberated
that night, and the night following it
returned and fsasted on their chick
ems, when they succeeded in captur
ing it and killed it.
The Huntingdon Journal says, a
school teacher in Barree township,
had taken to the habit of locking the
door at certain minute and all late
comers were thereby required to go
home and get an excuse explaining
their lateness. A day or two after
adopting that rule the whole school
was present on time, but the teacher
was late. Some ten minutes elapsed
and the door was bolted. Shortly
the teacher came painting and tried
the door. No 60. Open this door !!
Can't it is too late 1 say open this
door or l will break it in! Have you
an excuse? The door was finally un-
unlockad to admit mad school
master.
Photographs advancing in price.
Take Notice on and after April 1st,
1898, my price for our best Cabinet
Photographs will be 800 per dozer,
until then April 1st, I will make and
sell tickets for these same photo
graphs for 1.50 per dozen. I have
ordered 5000 Of the highest style
cards. printed in gold to supply this
work, our efforts in low priced work
bas not been appreciated, therefore
we are obliged to return to our old
price $500 per dozen. Tickets sold
will be good at any tims presented,
this is your last and only chance to
get high priced work at half price.
Don't come IL after the time and say
you didn't see this add, it will be too
late. Respectfully,
JOSEPH HESS.
A middleburg man writes to the
Beaver Hearld, saying :-Conscience
recently awakened young mans
mind and he wrote letter 10 one
of our citizens stating that he had
made the bible his study for the last
three months and that he has learned
in order to doright and be Christian
he had to make things right, and
says, 81 have no rest till l confess
my sins and I now enclose 3 two cent
postage stamps for three chews of
tobacco I stole from you" This
young man lived about three miles
from our town whe he stole the to-
bacco and so did the man he stole it
from. The young man now resides
in or near Philadelphia. and is chang
ing his course OF life.
There is scramble among Demo
cratic lawyers in Reading for the
nomination of District Attorney, to
be rnade next month. Ons OF them
has Published circular. in which be
INDUCES in some strong personalities
as to his competitors. He concludes
by describing himself as "Berks
county Dutchman by birth, a black
smith by nature, AMI lawyer by
trade; have always voted the Demo-
cratic ticket since I havs the right of
suffrage and never bucked 1t !; have
unfiinchinsly supported the party in
ward, county, State and national
issues, whether right or. wrong, pro-
ferring to be conscientiously wrong,
rather than indifferently right"
.Seins Grove Times Down in
what should be the most quiet part
of the county, because it is far re.
moved from railroad and even tele-
phone, Wrn. Seiford, q bad young
msn, has been writing letters to mar
ried men and women, disturbing the
peace and happiness existing he
t,o,.l ,n1 vr;f. IN Y,,.n~
good families near Mt. Pleasant Mills.
4 number of these letters without
an acknowledged author were for
warded to Washington with the re-
quest that detective be put upon
the case for the purpose OF bounding
the destroyer Of family urity 10
earth. Seiford is still a young man
and is a cobbler by trade, making bis
bone with his mother. When he be-
came cornered by the evidence placed
before him, he admitted that he
wrote one of the letters, but he de-
MED authorship to the others.
He left home and friends and did
not tell them where he went, and lie
changed his name, bnt when his
father died he turned up for his
share of the estate that is what the
Lewistown Sentinel OF March "a,
says in the fo!iowing-In regard to
the article which appeared IN the
columns OF the Democrat and Sanii-
mel last week headed ''Absent for
twenty five years" would just state
that the long lost Darius G. Wyre,
referred to is no other than James
Ryan, ef this place. Sir. Ryan in
conversation with the writer stated
be changed his former name to Wrye
shortly after leaving home AID WAS