Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-09
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
THE sharp mercantile man knows WHIT
to cut prices.

! SNAP SHOTS In SEASON.
THE sharp mercantile man knows when
to cut prices
THIS is about sugar time in the land
where the sweet maple fiourishes best Were
you ever in a sugar bushr Way back IN the
wild hower-gathering days perhaps you were.
And what sweet holiday you had in the snow.
carpeted, sap-yielding grove, to be sure.
| Wasn't the sap sweet too, and couldn't you
drink and drink, and drink From trough to
trough you wandered blowing the brown
leaves off the honeyed water and sticking your
red, little nose into it until you reached the
bursting point. Then to the "sugaring Off
spot where the red tongues of flame licked
the bulging sides of the big black kettles
which held the syrup-bubbling, kissing, boiling
sugarward. Then with bent twIg
| you flung some of the sticky, sweet
| stuff on the pure white snow of the
| woodland and secured your share of the
'tafy'-pure, unadulterated, wholesome How
| sweet the "hunk' of salted meat between the
thick cuts of homemade bread tasted, too.
| The very memory of it brings back the flavor.
| doesn't it7 But the sugar bush'' lies way back
! on the road, beyond the blue lakes, swift rivers
| and high hills. The sweet saps that drip from
the cedar spiles surely fall into new troughs
| now, and are carried to the kettles with yokes
| borne on the shoulders of those you played
| with then But when the sun starts the blood
| in the veins of the naples and the hickories
and the beeches and the birches, and the oaks
of that hardwood land the drip, drip, drip of
the sap. and the dancing fires under the
huge kettles push aside the curtain
that hangs between then and now. while
memory leaps the waters and the hills. Then
you close your eyes and see it all again. In the
backward fight sorrow sinks out of sight, leav-
ing the picture undimmed, the view unob-
structed, the sweets sweet though many bitter
draughts have intervened And after the
naples stopped dripping, the sun grew warmer
and the birds came nearer. You knew spring
was closer then. And it's Just as close now. 80
HENS are handy things to have laying
around the house Just at present.
THE cream that rises first is the richest,
and well the willy dairyman knows it.
PEOPLE who expect monuments after they
depart. should see that their wills provide for
burial outside of New York.
THE approach OF the maple sugar season
has sent glucose upward.
JERRY SIMPSON saws he proposes to live
in Washington for $50 a month. If the free
lunch bars are closed and the benches removed
from the parks Jerry will go hungry and be
compelled to sleep standing
MOSQUITO nets will be as fashionable as
ever at the Jersey resorts next season.
A GREAT many Pittsburgers will 60 to
the dogs this week.
IF you have a jewel of a wife see that she
is provided with an appropriate setting.
A VALUABLE seal ring-The Alaska
Commercial Company.
In the drama of life too many seem anx-
ious to assume the role of Satan
THE hire classes-Those who work for a
living.
THE girl who waits too long for the right
man will surely get left.
The preacher who aims at the heads in
stead of the hearts of his hearers seldom goes
beyond the stars for his text.
SPEAKER REED attended Carmencita
seance in New York. He didn't try to apply
the closure there, either.
THE last Congress was cipher. 1t got
away with 81. 600. 100000.
IF Allegheny Councils would only ad-
journ sine die life would not be such burden
on the Northsde.
CONSCIENCE takes the place of Judgment |
in the land of dreams.
IF city's progress is to be gauged by the |
number of its theaters Pittsburg is on the high |
road to prosperity.
The Philadelphia women who have
raised such row about nude art will probably
compel butchers to dress legs of mutton here
after.
THE internal revenue officer is Uncle
Sans spiritual adviser
THE President evidently shut his eyes
when he signed the PHILADELPHIA mint bill.
A SQUARE race course would suit bettors
better than either round or kite-shaped one.
FLYING machine stock shows no upward
signs as yet.
A SAFE with 100, 900 cipher combinations
has been patented. Uncle Sam should buy one
for the next surplus, and keep the cipher from
Congressman.
THE race horse is one of times four run
ners.
THE "corker" is the fellow who floats
easily on the sea of life.
AN invoice OF Irish whisky is un-
doubtedly dew bill.
THE President leaves for shooting trip