Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-22

they will not starve.
Letter from an Old Jacksonian Democrat
Of Greenwood Township.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TAVERN,
June Is, 1881.
.vu Dear Mr.. Editor: 1t is now
midnight. and 1 am inst in from the
Stars. You know this is the night
of the conjunction of the big stars,
that is, the planets, and tomorrow
Sundays to be the end OF the
world that is. certain so called wise
men have said so. l hope this will
prove a blessed Saturday night for
YOU if it is the last one. How little
the beaux that sit in conjunction with
their lasses tonight know what IS
going on overhead. They don't know
that the big stars of the solar system
move up into straight line with the
sun. to night. That is SO. If you
don't know what the big stars-the
planets-are called, get down to the
books and learn their names. To
night and tomorrow the big stars
will be in dress parade the most OF
them will be in a straight line with
each other, with the sun not quite IN
the middle of the line, but little off
toward the one end of the line If
there isn't big disturbance to-mor-
row in the air; if there isn't any
amount of big storms tomorrow, L
don't want to be told again by the
astronomers and other people that
want to know so much about the
stars in the sky, that when the earth
gets out on dress parade with the
sun and other big bodies in the sky
there must of necessity be big dis
turbance about it. The fact is, /
don't believe that a disturbance will
take place You know what great
Andy jackson fellow l am, but l
wasn't with Old Hickory in all of his
notions, mot much" / loved Old
Hickory because he was conscien-
tious man, because he stuck to his
convictions If he wasn't learned In
some things, that goes for nothing !;
that did not affect his honesty; that
did not affect his conscientiousness,
or his manhood. Book learning is
one thing and natural manhood is
another. If you will give me my
choice, of man with lots of book
learning and no manhood, or a man
with manhood and no learning, /
will take the man with the manhood.
Old Hickory was all manhood; he
knew some law, the acts of the Leg
islatyre of his Stat, Tut he had lit
tie other book learning. He didn't
beliere in the roundness of the earth !;
he believed that the earth rested on a
stone-pile, or something else; and
there are good many people down
here that believe the same thing.
There are a good many Andy Jack
son people down here on that point.
They don't take much stock in the
star conjunction business Of course
they all believe in coniuncting ut the
the Seven Stars. It is q coujuncting
place; we often get into line there
The conjunction of the big stars in
the sky did not concern the crowd at
the Seven Stars last night. A school
teacher had been that way, that is
by the Stars, to-day, and told some
one about how there is a row down
at Millersville, Lancaster county, in
the Normal School on the question
of the conjunction of men and wo-
men. He said that the bosses of
that school will not allow the bows
and girls to move in conjunction :
they shall not move in line with each
other on the pavement, on the school
grounds, anywhere. They may not
stop to talk with each other anywhere
on the pavement or the street. He
told that father may not stop to
talk with daughter on the pavement
or any place about the grounds; if
he wants to see and speak to his
daughter he must meet her in the
parlor of the Normal School. He told
the folks how that couple of bloods
concluded to kick the rules into a
cooked hat, and stop and talk with
the ladies on the pavement or ahy
other place, when it suits both parties.
The bosses would not stand that kind
of kicking against the rules, and they
sent the young men away from the
school. He said that when the boys
heard that, they rebelled-that is,
about one hundred and fifty rebelled
in a kind of way. They hired a
prass band, and formed in line, put
the band anu the boys that had been
kicked out of the schooi for disre-
garding its rules, at the head Of the
line and marched them to cars and
saw them of. The school teacher
told all that here at the Stars, and as
there was a man and a woman in it,
the subject took right well, and we
fell to talking about having men and
women educated at one and the same
place. One thought it is just the
thing to have men and women educa-
ted IN one school. In substance he
said:
ooh what joys from woman spring,
Source of bliss and pures: peace;
Eden could not comfort bring
Till fair woman show'd her face"
We all agreed on that, and were near
ly carried away by the peace that
woman brings, when some one in the
crowd said that her presence at Mil
lersville was not a source of peace ::
that it is her presence that has
brought al the trouble that has been
had there His idea when applied to
Millersville, suggests:
Oh! the woe that woman brings.
Source ef sorrow, grief and pain
III our evils have their springs
In the female education train.
You know that at Millersville is