Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-09-12

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mer y to be dryer than this one,
ana the next summer there is to be
. famine. But how do the proph-
cts know. 1t will be wet enough
by and by.
(The protracted drought has
shortened the water supply to such
. degree that the water plant man.
agement have asked the citizens to
refrain from using the water to
sprinkle the streets. The water
supply in shade mountain has new
k6r been so low.
The tannery of Calvin Green at
LewistOwn was destroyed by fire
on Monday evening. Four fire.
men were overcome by the heat
and were carried home in An un-
conscious condition. The railroad
fire department gave valuable as
sistance in the fight.
Thirty-six inches of rain fall is
the average yearly supply for tn is
part of the world. That is an av-
iarage of three inches rainfall ev
cry month. Little rain fell during
the months of May, June, July and
August. How many inches are we
behind with the rain supply.
Too bad, the Stoner brothers,
who were sent from Juniata coun
ty to the penitentiary on a charge
of having stolen and sold the iron
of an old saw-mill, are credited by
state newspapers with having SOL
en- planning mill plant and every
thing about it but the foundation.
Read the proposed amendments
to the constitution as advertised
There are two amendments. The
enc provides for the personal regis
tratiOn of the voters. The other
amendment opens the way for the
introduction of some other than the
present method of voting, possibly
a voting machine.
ION Saturday, September Sth,
President Mckinley sent his letter
of acceptance of the Presidential
nomination to the notification Com
mittee. 1t is a long letter. The
democrats who are worrying them
selves over imperialism and expan-
sion should read it to get an intel
ligent understanding of the situa-
| tiOn on those DOints.
The other day Squire C. B. Horn
ing was talking about the destruc-
tion of the Copeland barn in Lost
creek valley by lightning in 1874
He said, "I was acquainted with
all the people in the valley at the
time and the most astounding
thing to me is that at this time
there is not a person in the valley
that was there then. They are all
dead or moved to other places"
WOman's Home Companion, pub
lished at Springfield, Ohio lies on
our table. 1t is a periodical that
particularly commends itself to
stude nts, and studentf who have
read It once want to continue to
read it. But the estudent is not the on
lly reader and only lover Of fine liter
ature that is fond of it and is prone
to take it first from many other pa
pers. Womankind, who have
once met with it are high in its
praise.
Louis Scholar lives not far from
Bethlehem, Pa. He is distinguished
in that part of the state as the man
who is the father of 33 children.
He was twice married. His first
wife had Is children and his SEC
ond wife had Is children. Of the
first wife's children IL are living.
Six children of the second wife are
living. His business is raising
chickens at which he has been as
great a success as that of raising
children.
A citizen when he learned of the
storm disaster at Galveston and
other places along the Texas coast,
was philosophical enough to say,
well I'd rather suffer drought and
have the life roasted out of the
crops in Juniata county and have
half my family killed and my
houses swept away by flood in
Texas. In the long run 1 believe
that Juniata county is as good as
any other place and a better place
than many other places.
Aeronaut John Bryan, an en-
plOyee of travelling circus, had a
narrow escape from death at Blooms
burg on Wednesday afternoon. He
had gone up in his balloon to a
height of 400 feet when the balloon
caught fire and shot towards the
earth with frightful velocity. Bry-
an secured his parachute, but was
unable to open it until he had drop
ped 200 feet. He landed lightly
upon his feet, but was at once bur
led under the burning balloon, and
when rescued was found to be ser
iOusly burned.
Bryan, the past week has been
swinging around the circle making
speeches from the hind platform
of a car wherever the train stop
ped. He talked about imperial
ism, expansion and trusts, but he
didn't say a word about the wrecks
the last two democratic admins
trations brought on the country.
If he had told how Buchanan's ad
ministration wrecked affairs there
would have been something in his
talk. Imperialism is a myth ex-