Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-11-05
Letter from Tusoarors Township.
TUsCARoRA TowssniP,
Nov: |; 1879.
Editor Sentinel and Republican Dear
Sir-In reply to "Ea1$ Reader"

A0u-Au iOPiy W AnIy AsoaOci,
go dainty duck o dear,
But stay 20 spitei
But m ,rk '-Posr knight, =
what drAGdful dole is here"
Ever ssnc,e the Democrat and Regis.
ter carie to hand, containing com
miinication from McCoyssills, I have
been In a niJst doleful frame of mind
and heart. That a woman, the next
being to an angel, "Heaven's last and
Best gift to man." should call me an
ugly jackal, and 1oracious byena, stung
me SO hard that l have been a suf-
ferer ever sihce would not have
felt it, If it had been tilt from one
OF the several booted and spurred
knights of Democracy that have been
tiltiug throughout the length and
breadth of Juniata the past cam
paign, but when a fair daughter OF
Eve, the mother of us all, steps into
the arena, and let's fly dart, I am
pierced almost to death by its point.
Shall 1 poise lance in return? Shall
II Shall l menace the dainty duck
The height of my offending is, That
called one of the deceased leaders
of the Democracy a Pope. A Pope,
forsoothl a Pope! and that's the
offence:
4 Protestant of the deepest shade
must my Lady Reader be. Her ex-
pressions are SO ardent that + fear
them. l trust, 1 hope, l pray; that
you do not reveal my identity; don t
tell my name until 1 have made
friends with her, for by the warmth
of her letter, she tells plainly that
she may be, either a friend, a very
Miriam that would lead off with tim
brel music in a josohs daiice among
friends, or a Jael to drive nail
through the temples Of king: May
I kiss my hand to her, ard say, peace
be unto you Let us bio friends.
How stongly Protestant she must
be, when she flames up 50 Brightly
when her dear devoted political leader
is hkened In power to the Pope.
Doubtless she is animated by the
dep love that moved Elizabeth Gotta,
daughter of the Burgomaster of Eli
field, to become the patron of Luther
when he sang in the streets of Else
mach for bread Purer love than that
woman cannot give. There was more
honesty in it than when mother Eve
and CID Nick engaged in d Irritation
under the apple-tree, when Adam was
from home, when Eve and Nick ate
apples together in the Garden of
Eden But my Lady Reader, in her
love for her friends, and in her indig
nation, and. shivering expressions
against me, Tor comparing the power
that her loved one welded, to the
power of the Pope over his friends,
should not forget, that many of her
sisters, with as much grace, love and
beauty as she can boast of, and with
as mnrh devotion as she can hope to
have, would rejcite to have the power
of their friends compared to the
power of the Pope. Many of her
sisters, whose love and devotion is as
deep and abiding, aud whose virtue
is as hhyieidlrs and as uhcompro-
missing, during every week in the
year whisper into the ear of the Holy
Father, secrets from the innermost
recesses Of the mind and heart. The
name of Pope has no terrors TO them !;
it stands as the name of everything
that is good on earth. Has Lady
Reader read only one side of the re-
ligion of the world! Will she drive
me to tell hef how; in the mind and
heart of many people. the Pope is all
in all. above all other things on earth.
With a spiritual or platohic good
night kiss for the Lady, and the hope
that the next letter she may write for
me in the DsmOcrdt ard Register may
be in better temper, and more IL ac-
cord with Protestant pretensions, l
close with
"Thanks to the dainiy duc1,
for her hearty prayer.
alt grieves my soul TO see
her misery"
n HAS the leyate OF the Pope
been with herf
Has she made happy
peace with him T.
Respectfully yours,
TT-on&Dnn