Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-06-19
Ben Butler Badly Bothered.

Il was up at State fair at Man
chester, N H." said Ex-Governor
Warmoth, of Louisiana. the other
dav. away back in 1878. 1t was the
usual sort of New England fair
an agricultural horse trot with brass
band and political speeches Ben
Butler was up for the speech. The
audience was on the grand stand,
on one side the race track, and Ben
Butler and the rest of us big guns IN
the Judges stand on the other side.
- Fellow citizens of my native
State, began the bold Ben, Il shall
address YOU today on the subject of
Federal, State and municipal tax
alton
Butler sailed along and had got
we'll warmed up when corn-fed
farmer drove along the track with
twenty woke of oxen and cart piled
up with corn, pumpkins, and other
farm products and couple of buxom
country girls on top. He was proud
of that turnout and took his time
getting by the grand stand. OF
course Butler had to stop till 1t got
out of the way Then he began
BY that time another farmer had
got jealous of the impression the
first one had made, and he came Zee
having down the track with thirty
yoke of cattle and a still bigger cart
loaded away up with big squashes
and pumpkins and four slashing-
looking red-cheeked girls on his load.
each one holding a red ear of corn in
her hand Well. that outfit made
sensation on the grand stand and at
tracted more attention than Jim
Robinson driving n twenty horse
circus chariot would Of course
Butler had to stop again. He was
getting mad.
. Can't tins thing be stopped ? he
asked, L don't want To be headed off
by every Jake IN New Hampshire
who wants to make a holy show of
himself
80 some one was sent off up the
track to stop further Interruptions,
and Butler got along as far as fifthlv.
and was getting red in the face.
when what should come along the
track but another caravan. This one
hnd nearly forty woke of oxen, every
one a seven-footer, as sleek rs bulls
and as fat as butter The cart was
full of apple butter, schoolmarms.
and the grand stand knew them all.
and went wild with delight. To saw
that Butler was mad would be use
less He got his ewes almost wide
open.
If another one of those internal
cattle shows comes along, said he,
III leave the platform. / will be
id if L am going to be broken
IN upon every ten minutes
This time messenger was sent
up the track, who headed off all the
rest of the procession, and Butler
went alang swimminfily for quarter
of an hour longer, when a big brass
band struck mp back of the grand
stand. 1t was visiting band from
somewhere up State; it thought it
was some pumpkins, and it Just put
III and blew for dear life. Lord,
what n noise it made But Butler
wasn't going to be 'phased' by a big
brass band, even if two-thirds of the |
crowd We're craning their necks for a
sight of the musicians. Just then |
the tire-bells over in Manchester set |
up an internal clang-whanging, and |
every engine in the city had paraded |
out into the fair grounds. Down
the track they tore at full speed, one
after another, fires up, smoke rolling
out of the stacks, bells changing, and
horses laying their bellies almost on
the ground, while every boy in
chased along behind,
yelling like demons and the grand
stand tumbling over each other to