North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-11-29
TOW TALK.
"If there's hole in a. your coats
r. l rede ye tent it.
A chiels amang you taking notes,
And, faith, he'll prent ii,

sEg The total abstinence soc iety spoken of by us
last week, which promised little in its inception,
turns out to be more than "a sick mans dream" or
a drunken mans resolve. Its originator, at least
to all appearances, has faithfully adhered to his
pledge The reformation of himself, the saving to
society of man-we can now hail him such
with such head and heart he possesses is worthy
of his nobest efforts and his greatest sacri6ces.-
lie whose eloquence in the Pulpit or in the Forum
might have rivallsd Cbannings or a Choat's =
whose reasoning in the Senate. might have cOnfuted
a Wcbster's or Calhoun's and whose wit and sar-
casn, would have sparked as bright and have cut
with as keen edge as Randolph's, can afford to
make the effort - He can we'll endure the taunts and
jeers of the vile herd of "wassailers of high and
low degree in the hope that he may yet be himself
again. They, at best, but cankering hlthy
sores upon the body polite and will slough off
into drunkard's graves He whom God has endow-
ed with capacities but little inferior to the angels
should seek another-a nobler destiny.
Having made very satisfactory progress in the
temperance cause far the excessive use of al
coholic stimulants is concerned-the nucleus Of q
large society having been formed-we find that
the lid of Pan 1oras box was opened long enough and
wide enough to allow tn escape of another crying,
or rather coughing, evil. which has taken up its
permanent abode with some of the store-keeps of
town. lady complained to US the other day, after
her exit from of great dry goods bazars that
she was positively sick'-not of her bargains, for
she had made good ones-not of the courteous con-
duct and delicate compliments Of the good looking
and agreeable clerks, for these gratifying to
her feelings and fattering to her vanity but she
was sick of the sckening fumes of poor tobacco
coming from fit by pipe, in the mouth of the pro-
prietor which curled gracefully and odoriferously
und hi raven locks. IF this tobacco worm, in
his post prdndal suckings Of that strong pipe would
take his posish the apex Of one of the hitching
posts in front of his store and smoke 10 all out- doors
his lady customers would not get half mad, and
his calcoes would smell much more of madder.
sgF- rhe young people of this place have in full
blast Thespian Society or Dramatic club. The
very popular play entitled the "HoDey moon" and
the roaring farce of paddy Miles or the Limerick
Boy'' are nov on the boards, and will shortly be
brought out with and beautiful scenery express
ly prepared for these plays by artist we'll skilled
in scenic representation Our ear has been at the
koy-hole during a few of the rehsarsals and we can
safely say that of the actors exhibit talent
that would make them stars upon the boards at Nboe
or any other theatre in the country. We never
doubted that there were in midst some of the
future Garricks, Forests, Burtons Lau Kesns Mrs
John Drews and Jenny Linds of the world Per-
haps too miniature Barnum might be found, for
surely there is among us strong sprnklng of hum
bug which needs but little development to crop
out in its exuberance and put to shame all the tricks
of that acknowledged chief of humbugs. Look at
some of our preachers. Don't they beat Barnum =?
Behold the mammoth waterfall dangling like rag
bag tied up in ish-net at the backs of our Flora
McFlimseys. Who suspects, that inside, they are
as woody as-Bamum's woody horse BQt We
started to talk of the Drama. From the contempla-
ton of the buskin and the garter of the good old
times when the Theatre in its lessons of morality ri
vailed even the Church, when morality was taught
in tive find ourselves almost involuntariIy pscking
like Jack-daw at the follies of the times Let eve-
rybody save quarter for the dramatic en- ntsrtain-
ment shortly to begiven by the Thespian society
of Tunkhannock. ...l r.-.+