Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-04-09

poet. have heard that he hez he'd an
idea Nv writin poem in wich am to
be crowned with laurele, and the ages do
homage to re. and possibly he mite hev
it done to read at this resepshin-but NV
course it amt for me 10 say. Ny factry
will turn out strong. Nv course. But 60
aud visit North Easton."
did go. Mr.. Ames hez a factry at
North Easton wich makes shovels. The
physician doctors rick shovel makers,
and insists on bringin into the world en-
bryo shovel makers the store keeper
sells goods to shovel makers the teach
er teaches young shovel makers the
shoe maker and tailor labor for shovel
makers. and the preacher breaches to
shovel makers. Nlr. Ames is the boss
shovel maker-he is the sum NV this
system Ef he he'd bustid in this Cred
it Mobiler, the factry wood hev bin
closed, North Easton wood hev vanished
into thin air, and few years hence all
that the curious traveller wood find wood
be the last shovel maker-a gray-haired
man, sittin on the rooins NV the biler
arch, starin abvut in wild, vacant way
MIR. Amcs owns this shovel factory in
North Easton and North Ea.ton beleev-
es Mr.. Ames to be honest. They reject
with intense scorn the idea that he ever
did anything wrong. or that he could do
anything wrong. So the next day after
my arrival. and after had interviewed
the leadiu citizens. public recepshun
was rendered Mr.. Ames-a spontaneous
recepshun on the part Nv the people Nv
wich Mr.. Ames wuz kept in profound
ignorance. and wus requested to direct
it.
sejested then that it be held in the
skool house, (Which Mr.. Ames built). and
that the music be furnished by the North
Easton band (wich Mr.. Ames equipped }
1t wuz deemed necessary to give the
proceedins religious cast, 30 l reques-
ted the pastor NV the church wich Mr..
Ames attends to ask the blessin. The
family physician Nv the great and good
Mr.. Ames wuz set down to preside and
propose his health. and the general Com
mi:tee NV Arrangements wuz made up
from the store keepers who do business
in Mr.. Ames' store. The clerks and
ok-keepers in Mr. Ames, factory were
distributed along the tables at regler in
tervals to prodoose spontaneous applause
at sich times ez l shood indicate.
Here trouble set in. The family ply
sician he'd relatives away from North
Easton, and he did't like to do it.
"Prepare your speech !" sed I per
emptorily.
"Must say" sed this wretched man.
pale with anxiety, must say that Mr..
Ames is an honest man. wich is the mob
lest work Nv God, (wich l believe it is
the noblest work, there is go little NV it, J
and likewise that he is gold wich hez
passed through the crocible, and come
out purer and brighter. Heaven must
II Is there no escape"
"Mu.s yool My friend, I shood say
so This spontaneous gatheriu must
take place. IF 700 refoose do you know
wat will happen to youl Another ply
.ician will prescribe the nimble ca,hartic
and the energetic emetic-another's cal.
omel will wrench the bowels Nv North
Easton and make bizness for the under.
taker. By the way, ef the undertaken
hez an interest in your continyooance
here, he ought to do half the speech
maxim"
The frame nv mind Nv this physician
NAV be inferred from the act that he
didn't see the sarcasm nv this remark
But it coodent hev bin expected.
"An honest man is the noblest work
Nv God, and gold from the crocodile, y
groaned he. "Is there other impromptu
remarks that I must make p
"None. These are the reglars and
will anser. But don't be cast down my
friend. 1t il only for mint, and after
yoo hev done sich things few times
yoo won't motifs it. Be NV good cheer" !"
The night came. The skool-house
wuz illoominatid-the tables wuz orna-
mented with flowers the Ames were
grouped, the clergyman offered up his
little prayer. and the eatin wended. At
its concloosin the Doctor rose, and ad-
dressin the great and good Ames, re-
marked that his friends and neighbors
he'd met that they mite extend to him
the hand Nv welcome-that they met ez
friends and neighb ore, to show him that
they he'd the most perfect confidence in
his honesty and integrity, and that while
wicked men he'd endeavored to blast his
fair name, North Easton he'd alluz looked
upon him ez an honest man, wich wuz
the noblest work Nv God-(.hear hear
from the Superintendent Nv the east shop
and three cheers proposed by the second
book-keeper in the factory.) But ez
there wuz others wich he'd more Aooency
present, he wood close by proposing ez