Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-16
Homeslckness.

There was more than ordinary earnest
ness in the tone OF Mr.. Trillpipe, as he
said: "Referrin' TO this thing of bein'
homesick, l want to say right here that of
all diseases, affections or complaints tins
thing of bein' homesick takes the cookies !.
A man may think what he's got aggra-
vatcd case of janders, er white swellin'. er
bone erysipelas, that he's to be looked up
to as bein' purity well fixed in this line of
trouble and unrest, but | want to tell you
when want my sorrow blood raw, don't
you understand, you may give me home
sickness-straight goods, you know-and
I'll get more clean. legitimate agony on. of
that than you can out of either of the other
attractions-yes, er even if you'd ring in
the full combination on me! You see,
theirs nc way of treatin' homesickness only
one-and that Is to get back home-but as
that's remedy you can't get at no drug
store, at so much per box-and if you
could, for instance, and only had enough
ready money anyhow TO cover half the cost
of full box-and no:hIn' but full box
ever reached the case-why, it follows that
your condition still remains critical. And
homeslckness don't show no favors. It's
Just as liable to strike you as me. High
er low, er rich er poor, all co mes under her
jurisdiction, and whenever she once reaches
for citizen YOU can just bet she gets there,
Ell, every time. She don't confine herself
to youth nor make no specially of little chill
dren either, but she stalks abroad like a
census-taker, and is as conscientious. She
visits the city girl in her summer tour, and
makes her wonder how things really is back
home without her. And she haunts her
dreams, and wakes up at all hours of the
night, and sings old songs ever for her, and
talks to her in the low, thrillin' tones of q
young man whose salary amt near big
enough for two; and then she leaves her
photograph with her and comes away, and
makes 1t lively for the boys on the train.
the conductor, the brakeman and the en-
gineer. She even nests out the traveliin'
man, and yanks him up and down the car,
and runs HIM out of cigars and fine-cut,
and smiles to bear him swear. I'll never
forget" continued Mr.. TrillpIpe, 1.-THE last
case Of tomesickness / had and the cure
took for it. You see nay old home is most
too many laps from this base to make il
very often, and in consequence hadn't
been there for five years and better till this
last trip, when 1 thls succumbed to the
pressure. and throwed up my hands and
went. Seemed ike I'd aided if hadn't
And 1t was glorious to rack around the old
town again-things lookin' just the same,
mighty nigh it. as they was when was a
boy, don't you know. Run scross an old
schoolmate, too, and took supper at his
happy little home and then we got us a
nickel cigar, and walked and talked and
ta,kedl Tuck me all around, you under
stand, in the meller twllight-till, the first
thing you know, there stood the old school
house where me and him first learnt to chew
tobacco, and all that. We'll, sir, you hain't
rot no icea Of the feelins that was mine !.
Why, 1 felt like l could throw my arms
around the dear old buildin' and squeeze
1t til the cupolo would just pop out of the
top of the roof like the core out of a bile !!
And think if there ever was q epock in
my life when / could attacked poetry
without no compunctions, as the feller says
why, then was the time-shore Z"