Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-06-14

i'll. They make the sick people be-
lieve that BY taking medicine their
lives arc endangered. The medi-
cine doctors want to get rid Of the
faith doctors. and tell the sick II
thsy don't take medicine they GER
tainly must die. Amidst it oil the
certainty appears that the faith doc
tor has no more faith in the medi
cine doctor than the medicine doctor
has in the faith doctor.
There was q wreck of q number Of
cars in freight train at the head Of
the railroad yard at this place last
Friday evening. Some one made a
mistake, and thereby freight train
ran into the rear end of q freight
train ahead. It was about 6 o'clock
in the evening. The weather was
fine and that induced many people
of both sexes to gather at the wreck.
It is not often that a railroad wreck
clearing crew have among their spec
tators several thIdred women to put
them on their best behavior. Super
VISOR Krick aud his efficient assistant
Massey were on the ground. There
was not an oath or profane word ut
tered by anyone, and the work went
on like clock machinery The men
spectators almost envied the wreck
cleaners because the workmen were
getting paid for being there and the
others were only idle lockers on.
Most of the women had arranged
themselves in groups on the grassy
slope of ground that rises so to 100
feet on the west side of the road at
that place. From that elevated
ground they could look down as
from the seats in circus at the ami.
mated scene on the railroad. John
Kelly had telegraph stand close by
the track and that kept Supervisor
Krick in electric touch from that
place to higher authority. The cabin
that was on the rear end of the train
that was run into made first rate
buffer to break the force of the run in,
but it was hard on the cabin. It
was smashed like an egg, g,shell and
lifted and thrown forward on large
open car full of coke. The coke car
was broken with three other cars
ahead, all loaded with coke. Cars,
coke, and all broken material was
speedily role d off the road on the
west side and travel and trsnsporta.
ton restored on the track that had
been obstructed. Here and there in
the crowd of spectators were past
masters in railroad work. Mr.. Fred
erick Espenschade was of the num-
Der and he was Retrospective in his
conversation: There" he said. sis
locomotive numbered 1882. When
1 first found service With the railroad
company away back in the fiftles,
the engines were known by names
The thing has grown so large that
they can't find enough names to GO
around, ard they must take to the
figures. Three aad four of the large
cars now on the road made train
when 1 was railroader. That was
away back in the days of single
track. was a macbincst and work
ed in the machine shop, but on wreck
days they made all FOUNDERS of u
all. We were all called out to help
clear wreck. Look in here at the in
side Of the old mecbipe shcc. Here
al this second window I worked. At
the first window Jim Parker, deceas-
ed worked. just behind me VIM.
jackson, late deceased of Altoons
worked. Que day a peculiar sound
behind me caused me to look back
Such sight. Jackson's recktie had
caught on sLaft and he was being
choked. 1 yelled to Parker and ther
ran and threw off the belt. Parker
pulled out his knife, forced the blad.
between Jscksop's neck and the til
and cut the tie. Jackson fell to th'
floor and We thought he was dead
but lie soon came too and was no
much the worse over it. but it was ,
close call. Railrosders are always
within the range of close calls
"Well there is Sam Stimeling, still
running the engine. Stimeling hal
been here since 1858, forty-one years
Wnat will this railroad be forty-on,
years after this. Whoi and wba
will be here on the evening of Jun
10, 194O."
There We're two executions in Peun
sylyania last week. Uns in Cheste
county, the other in Lancaster coun
ty. The singular thing about both
was the deep religious devotion tn
murderers manifested on the scaffold
and tho arimal appetite to eat at tn
last moment. The one said be want
ed to go home to Jesus, aud the 9th
er said he hoped to meet bis friend
in heaven. No one has ever return
ed to tell what kind of home Jesu
lives IL; no one has ever returned t
tell what kind of place heaven ii
but there must be q gooi deal of ba
company there if all the murderer
go there as they claim to do whel
they are hung. Might it not De 70
the bette1ment of society in thi
world, if murderers were not s.
taught; would it not be f'r the bet
terment cf the depraved to teacl
them that it is a matter with ther
and their maker, and that they vii
be held responsible for their deprav
ity. 1t seems like a piece of pre-
sumption to teach a man when b
has filed the measure of his iniquit
and that he ia no longer a fit man t
live 10 this world, but that he mus
be sent out Of this world to stop hi
career of crime, but that his execu
tion will send him to heaven ant
Jesus. 1t is serious question wheth