Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-02-21
B. F. SCHWElER.
EDITOR AND PHOPRIErOR.


EDITOR AND PHOPRrEroR.
WAmrxaroN's birth day will pass
'to morrow without public demonstra
ton IN this town.
fREhh is IN uneasy feeling report
ed from London that Russis 10 ebout
80 invade British Iudia.
TAs state appropriation for the
year ending May 81. 1900, has been
distributed BY State Treasurer Bss-
com.
The bri ish have succeeded in re
-inforcipR Kimberly which 10 about
-tvo hundred aud fifty miles west ol
aIadysmitb, but . great battle has
not been fought. All present move
.ments are primary movements that
precede lal ser engagements.
The boy that grumbles because he
did not have an opportunity to 90
.quire an education should take heart
and quit grumbling over the fact
that President Andrew johnson had
NO educational advantages until Of.
ter he WAS married. His wife was
his hrst school.master and taught
him to read and write.
IT is true the products Of the
ia1ms are low iu price. but how
much lower would they be IL the
Cleveland low tariff had prevailed to
this time and had thrown the people
out Of employment, who arc engag.
ed in manufacturing business Throw
. large percentage Of the people now
engaged in other pursuits back to
the farms - prodlcers Of farm prod.
uctP and how low would the price OF
farm products 60.
THs Kentucky settlement Of the
4overnorship question has been
thrust into the courts not that the
Kentuckians have such an unbound
ed respect for the courts. They do
not care q snap of finger for the
courts further than that the courts
stand close up to q more powerful
authority. The courts stand close
up to military authority, and it is the
military authority that the Kentuck-
ian has fear of. II the military did
not stand behind the decree Of court
the courts would be brushed away
with contemptuous "shos hy," and
tho respective contestants would
fight It out to . bloody end among
BHlTIsH Generals IN Boreland may
do we'll to read Of the defeat of Brit |
ish Generals BY Americans during
the Revolutionary war. There was |
fighting in the open
fold by companies in line, but the
wsrfare that took the nerve OF the
rod coat as the British soldier wss
called, Was the hre from fence. stone
wall and tree. from flank and rear
and front. II the British had de-
plOyed troops to meet such attack
the result might have been different.
So it is with tho British and the
Beers. The latter takes the nerve OF
tho British by fighting from behind
Whatever Is la.SS -. ~ hide him
while the British stands in the open
field and catches it all. II
TIE roads have besn bad the past
week owing 70 bad weather. The
roads were good the past nine
and . short time OF bad
weather roads might be looked over
without too much grumbling. But #
you want to see man in q fit on his
feet. raving over something that il
put up with as matter of fact ssv-
eral months every year in the coun-
try just bring sap head from CITY
or large town and give him a drive
on . country road at this time in the
year. He isn't the kind OF . man who
suits himself to circumstances or 10
ct home wherever he finds himself,
hut lie at once begins to show his
band box breeding by bsrating the
rosds and the people who keep them
up. The roads have never cost him
. cent and II he makes money he is
certain to put it where not q farthing
OF it can be used to found . mill Of
tax for the roads.