Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
MlFrLINrowN. May Q. 1874.

Wv" eoitespoLueut ior your pa
per. do not promise to act regularly
IN that capacity, but if this letter is
published l may write you others. l
write you this on the last evening of
the week, as you doubtless have OBJ
served by its date. Town people, fol-
lowing pursuits different from those
pursued by people in the country, dress
and six up" more or less every day
and evening, but Saturday evening
with them, too, is the evening par er-
ceilence for a general turnout In fine
"bib and tucker" While the country
beau is traversing miles of road, or
''cutting across" fields and ridges to
| get to the home of his weet-heart, to
enjoy her company and revel in her
smiles, the town beau, in his best
clothes, is disporting in the presence Of
bis love on some doorstoop, in some snug
parlor, or perhaps is perambulating i'll
slow and measured steps on the pave
ment IN the lamplight, through by
streets, in the shade around the Court
House Square, or, percbance, away be-
yond the suburbs into the country. 1t
is nothing but the .same old story"
both in country and town" varied only
by circumstances.
Country people sometimes think that
town people are stuck up. If they'd
come to town and we'd 60 to the cdun-
try, would they turn up their noses,
and would We say you are stuck up
There is good deal, you know, III
the saying, "Put yourself in his place."
The truth Is, however, apparent that We
have people who put up their noses at
country people. You can just put
such people down as an ignorant set,
who are not worthy of confederation.
" hen they put on their airs they do it SO
ignorantly that intelligent and read peO-
pie are highly amused at them instead of
being offended. For example, the other
day We heard the remark, - He is only
low ScotchInan." The speaker
thought the word low, as applied to the
Scotchman, was word full of disgrace,
when in fact it is used to indicate that
the Scotchman belonged to the yalley
or loxland Scotch, and not to the high
land Scotch, or thai portion of the
Scotch people who live up among the
hills and high places of Scotland. We
have often heard the words low Dutch
man ignorantly misapplied. You can
readily see how funny it seems to those
who know better when you hear it used
By one who wishes to heap an ugly
word on some person he don't ike by
calling him a low DVtchman. A low
Dutchman means Hollander; that Is
all. Holland is a low country-Indeed
below the level of the sea, like some of
the country along the Mississippi river,
aud banks are thrown up and kept in
the most thorough repair to keep the
sea from flooding it. The Hollanders
or Low Dutch are as careful about keep
ing that bank or levee in repair as they
are about taking their meals.
This has been the first real summer
day that we have had this season, and
you may guess how We are at work at
the nev buildings. Bob Parker is hur-
rying up his house on Main street, op-
posite Court House Square. John
Muthersbaugh, Esq , If is said, will oc-
cupy one of its capacious rooms as a
hardware store. Muthersbaugh is an
energetic young cltiaec, and 1t IS ma
tural for him to be little restive un-
der the slow progress that the building
made on account of the past bad wea-
ther. George Jacobs, one Of our Oldest
and richest citizens, may daily be seen
turning attention to the work that is
going on for the erection of large
hotel on the corner of Main and Bridge
streets. The bailding goes up by con-
tract, still Mr.. Jacobs cannot lose in
terest in the work. Just now the In
dependent is heunding him with all the
indirect fury it knows how to use. 1t
does now use bis name, bu: it strikes at
him across the bridge. 1t advocates
that the bridge be made a free bridge.
1t knows, as do most other people here,
that Mr.. Jacobs owns a large portion
of the bridge stock. 1t imagines that
if it could get the bridge stock out CT
Mr.. Jacobs hands be would be extin-
g1ished That attack is more ridlcu-
lous than was the attack it made on the
SENTINEL local relative to the NJ. E.
church. | do not know whether the
bridge stock holders would sell, bat l
suppose they would; but who would
buy, The whole thing is so thin that
| wonder that the management of that
paper advocate it. They must believe
every body to be as naughty as they are,
or else they must believe people gen
erally are confounded dumb and blind
and cannot see. Do you know that the
men who run the Independent wanted to
run the bridge, "They can't shut our
: ttar ron, Id