Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-05-17
MIFFLINTOWN. PA.
B. F. SCHWEIER.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

B. F. SCHWEIER,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
THE democrats are snickerin
and say Mckinley has taken
creasing his pants from the kne
down.
A MAN in Nittany Valley, Pa.
has found a rock that is 60 PEI
cent silver. Good for the Nittany
county man
THE most enlighte ned nations hav'
not cotton through with hero wor
chip. For proof see how the women
kiss Hobson, and see Dewey wher
he comes home.
The Philadelphia North American
appeared in new dress of type or
M,niay. L. patterns after the ap.
pearance of the New York papers. 1t
Is gre. t n. wspaper in every re
spcct.
COLONEL Mcclure of the Philadel
phiG Times ,s throwing out broad
hints for Dewey as a Presidential
candidate. In the event of the elec
tion of Dewey to the Presidential Of
fee the probability is Mcclure would
he made Secretary of State. Well,
Dewey and Mcclure could run the
government both at home and
abroad.
STATE SENATE Finn gave a
dinner to his insurgent anti Quay
legislators and other friends in
Philadelphia on the day the Hart
ranft monument was unveiled at
Harrisburg. They had good time
il declaring how the Quay ma
chine is to be run down and brOk-
al into kindling wood in the last
ditch. John Wannamaker wrote
along letter TO the festive diners.
A BOOZE bill was COTTON through
the Legislature and signed by Gov
ernOr Stone in n peculiar way. 1t
was not intended to pass such a
bill, but in its passage the word
exclusive" was changed to Gin.
elusive" and that made a world of
difference. just the chano" cs - .wo
'e''ef Auc change Of two letters
was IN the transcribing in the
House. The Governor has recall
ed the bin, and it is reported that
he will ai1iX his veto.
THE late Legislative insurgents
want Quay to become a candidate
for State Treasurer, for the pur-
pose Of showing they say that he
cannot be elected. They want to
help defeat him. But isn't it queer
that they urge him for an Office that
they did all they knew to have it
appear that he made great sums
out of the State Treasury in the
past They have forgotten that
portion of the Lords prayer that
says: .Lead us not into tempta
ton, but deliver us from evil.'
ONE HUNDRED milliOnaires in
New York are each to put up one
hundred dollars for dinner for
Dewey when he comes home.
When the other fellows get up
dollar dinner, fifty cent diner
end "A twenty-five cent dinner for
Dewey it may seem plain, but v ill be
appreciated all thessne, for Dewey
is from all accounts one of the
biOods that sits at lunch at home on
a wooden seat eating pork, cabbage
and beans as easily as he sits on
tbs most costly upholstered chair,
eating from an deliberately embel-
lished table in a service of many
courses of good things from the
best markets in the world.
GEORGE UHLER of RaphO town
ship, Lancaster county, had relig-
ious delusiOns, and killed his wife,
by striking her on the head with
an AK while she was milking in the
barn. To save himself from being
hung by the process of law, he
hung himself in the cOrn-crib near
the barn. Bertha Beilstein of Pitts
burg having spiritualistic prompt
ings shot her mother, because she
says she was prompted to do SO by
God. 1t may not be a gallant sug
gestion to hang people who make
spiTitualistic promptings an excuse
ioy rnur,ier, but it would be a world
OF aici FOR society and wouiu make
the circle quite small of people who
claim to be spiritually prompted.
TO MORROW, Thursday, the
11lth General Assembly of the
Presbyterian church meets in Min
neapolis. The Presbyterian church
has 100000 communicates and a
SUNDAY School membership Ofover
1000, 900. 1t has 1900 churches.
1t spent last year 10000, 900 dol
lars to carry on its work. Seven
hundred thousand went for for
eign missions. The chnrch has A
colleges and twelve theological
seninaries. Philadelphia is the
largest stronghold of Presbyterian
ism. 1t has forty thousand commun-
icants and one hundred churches.
The State of Pennsylvania outside
of Philadelphia has one hundred
and sixty thousand communicates.
LAST Monday when Buffalo Bills
Wild West show parade was passing
the college grounds at Princeton,
several hundred students. savage
ike, assaulted the parade, hooted at