Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-02-06

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said all a man could to comfort her.
but no, nothing would do but l must
pay for him. Finally, l said wasn't
investing in cats now as much as l was
and with that she walked of in huff,
carrying the remains with her. That
closed our intercourse with the Juneses.
Mrs. Jones joined another church and
took her tribe with her. She said she
would not allow fellowship with as
sassiDs. Well, by and by comes Mrs.
Browns turn, she that went by here q
minute ago. She had disgraceful
old yellow cat that she thought as much
of as if he was twins, and one night he
tried that trap on his neck, and it fitted
him so, and was so sort of satisfactory
that he laid down and curled up and
stayed with it. Such was the end of Sir
John Baldwin.
"Was that the name of the cat?"
''The same. There's cats around here
with names that would surprise you.
Maria ITO his wife) what was that eats
name that eat keg Of ratsbane by mis-
take over at Hooper's and started home
and got struck by lightning and took
the blind staggers and fell in the well
and was most drowned before they could
fish him Out?"
'.That was that eolored Deacon Jack
sons cat. L only remember the last
end of his name, which was To Be Or
Not To Be That Is The Question Jack
son.
"Sho that amt the one. That's the
one that eat up an entire box of Seidlitz
powders, and then hadn't any more
judgment than to go aid take a drink.
He was considered to be great loss,
but | never could see it. Well, no
matter about the names. Mrs. Brown
wanted to be reasonable, but Mrs.
Jones wouldn't let her. She put her
up to going to law for damages. So to
law she went, and had the face to claim
seven shillings and sixpence. Ii made
great stir. All the neighbors went
TO court. Everybody took sides. 1t got
hotter and hotter, and broke up all the
friendships for 300 yards around-friend
ships that had lasted for generations
and generations.
"well, | proved By eleven witnesses
that the cat was of low character and
very ornery, and warn't worth can
celed postage stamp, any way, taking
the average of cats here; but L lost the
case. What could l expecI3 The sys-
TEN is all wrong here, and is bound TO
make revolution and blOOdshed some
day. You see, they give the magistrate
poor little starvation salary, and then
turn him loose on the public to gouge for
fees and costs TO live on. What is the
natural result? Why, he never looks
into the justice of a case-never once.
All he looks at is which client has got
the money. So this one piled the fees
and costs and everything on to me. l
could pay specie. don't you see? and he
knew mighty well that if he put the
verdict on to Mrs. Brown, where il be
Ionged, he'd have to take his swag in
currency"
Currency? Why, has Bermuda Il
currency?"
Yes-onions. And they were forty
per cent. discount, too, then, because
the season had been over as much as
three months. So | lost my case. i
had to pay for that cat. But the gener-
al trouble the cat made was the worst
thing about. Broke up so much good
feeling. The neighbors don't speak TO
each other now. Mrs. Brown had
named child after me. but she changed
its name right away. She is Baptist.
Well, in the course of baptizing it over
again, it got drowned. | was hoping
we might get TO be friendly again some
time or other, but of course this drown
ing the child knocked that all out of the
question. Ii would have saved a world
of heart-break and i'll blood if she had
named it dry"
knew by the sigh that this was hon.
est. All this trouble and all this de-
struction of confidence in the purity of
the bench on account of seven-shilling
lawsuit about cati Somehow, it SEEM
ed to .'>ize" the country.
At this point we observed that an
English flag had just been raised at half
mast on a building hundred yards
away. and my friends were busy in
an instant trying to imagine whose
death, among the island dignitaries,
could command such mark of respect
as TINS. Then a shudder shook them
and me at the same moment, and knew
that we had jumped to one and the same
conclusion: "The governor has gone
to England; 1t is for the British admir-
alp
At this moment Mr.. Smith noticed
the flag. He said with emotion:
"Tnat's on a boarding house.
Judge there's boarder dead"
A dozen other flags within view went
to half-mast.
''lt's bOarder sure" said Smith.
But would they half-mast the flags
here for a boarder Mr.. Smith,"
"why, certainly they would, if he
was dead"
That seemed to size the country
again.