Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-12-20

ERAR SEVEN STAB TAvIRN, I
December 8, 1871. (

NEAR SEVEN SrAl TAvERN,(
Decenber 9, 1871. !
My Dear Mr.. Edisor:-I thought
that Id get up to Court this week. but l
didn't. 1t would have done me good to
see the new Judge that our party helped
to elect. 1 don't hear Of our fellows
I talking of the amount Of stock in him.
but the truth Of the matter is clear to all
that we hold quite deal Of it, for you
know that without our help you fellows
never could have elected him. l never
heard you crow over his election, and l
suppose that was the reason. You didn't
want to make Us fellows feel bad by
claiming it all to yourselves. There is a
good deal of Andy jackson about some
Of you fellows. Andy, you know, never
abused fellow on the other side when
that fellow helped him. He never abused
a man for doing what was right. 1t was
right to elect Junkin Judge. l have
Just come from the bar-room of the 'Sev-
en- Stars" where l heard good deal
said about the new Judge, for there l met
some of our folks that represented Green
wood at Court this week. and of course
when our fellows come home, all they talk
about fo- while is what was said, seen
and done at Miflin. 1t is as big thing
for our fellows to go to Mifflin as it is for
you fellows to go 10 Harrisburg or Wash
ington during the time the Legislature
or Congress is in session, and they al
ways come home-if yon fellows don't
feeling bigger than when they left, and
thinking and acting as if the things
around home don't quite fit, that the af-
fairs are too small for them, or they are
too big for their things around them. 1t
is big thing to have big feeling. Not
all people feel big. but the most do. The
Speaks don't feel just that way. but they
have sort of feeling of pride for their
stock. and may be the best of it is like
the Irishman's potatoes, under the ground.
The pride of stock among the Speaks is
a sort Of family feeling almost as old as
the hills 1t has run in the family ever
since that Speak that came over to what
is called John Bulls land, with the Sax
ons, and took from the Britons a big
piece of land and set himself up as
nobleman. Ever since that time the
Speaks are great people in England. 1t
is a mighty nice thing to be a big bug
over there. A big bug over there means
big bug, but here in this country it
doesn't mean anything; all the shines ct
that kind of business in this country are
like the shines that that four-footed thing
tried when it wanted to swell itself up to
the size of an OK. You know it busted,
and that was the end of it. Well, that's
just the way with our Americans who
want to swell up like the big bugs of the
old country, they generally bust. Over
there they can't bust, you know. for the
reason that the Oldest boy of the family |
gets all that his pap owned, and his old
est son gets what he owned, and that's
the way they keep up their big bug stock
Here man may be as rich as a King,
and his oldest son and all the younger
ones too, may get to be as poor as Jobs
turkey. Well. the younger fellows of the
family over there. they generally make
preachers or lawyers of, or get them into
thearmy or navy, or get them fat gov
srnment clerkship. My great-grandfather
lidn't happen to be the oldest son, and
of course he didn't get the estate. If he
had been the Oldest son, you may bet
nigh that wouldn't be writing for the
SENTINEL guess I'd he writing for
he London Times. I'm eatisfed that if
lived over there Id say. like Andy
Jackson, by the Eternal, these things
lint for the good of the people, and they
ant be right. We ought to change
hem. You know, too. that old Andy
lidn't like big bugs. No, Sir. not him.
They tell yarn about the great Andy,
low he fixed an English nobleman who
,ame to the hotel in the town where Andy
vas. He turned up his nose at every
hing and everybody about the place, and
old the landlord that he must have him
Dom fixed up very different from any ,
hing about the house. Old Hickory
leard all this, and told the landlord that /;
lie wanted him to pass the Englishman
yer TO him for the night The landlord
greed. Andy sent man to sweep out
corn-crib that stood near the stable. {
nd put little stand in it, and a candle i
n it, and chair and a bundle of clean ,
traw in the crib, and when all was ready :
old the Englishman that he'd show him a
0 his room, and took him down to the q
rib and opened the door. The English.
Ian looked in, not thinking of trick,
'hen Andy pushed him in. and hung a
ad-lock in the staple, and left it locked {
II morning. l don't say that Andy did
uch trick. l only tell it to show how c
e disliked swells and Frenchy fellows f
nd big bugs. Old Andy had what you c
FLOWS call dignity, but be wasn't big f