The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-03
4 S THE
Coffee Cools,

THIS is truly an age of enterprise.
Oar old friend Sam Speck. Of Smith
Family" renown, now silk hattei as to
his headwear and b.diamondsd as TO
his glossy shirt front, is giving free
building lot to each purchaser Of re-
served seat in his Standard theatsr,
Philadelphia. Tho ticket costs dol.
lar or two ana the lot is worth fifty"
We 0ll know what competition has
driven The newspapers to offer in way
Of premiums ana the like albums,
cameras. coupons, dictionaries, ency.
clop,dias. free insurance, free food and
fuel; trips to Washington,
trips to Chicago. trips around
the world. Up in Carbondale ths'vs
begun to throw in handsome magazines (;
and by and by it will be proper to ex-
pect free house rent aud, il Democrats
prevail, perhaps even free trade. It's
certainly d warm hearted world when
business grows so generous. But what
is there to do2 When one begins an
otEer has to follow The foremost wins
the race and the public gets the benefit
Nevertheless, think friend Speck is
going it pretty furiously when realism
in ,theatriclls becomes free realty.
An ODD incident in the history Of q
notable newspaper is about to bs con-
summated in the iiscoutinuauce Of the
daily edition of the West Chsster
Village Record which has recently
passed from the management of
ex-senator Evans estate. The Records
new proprietor. recognizing tho fierce
competition now prevalent among daily
newspapers, has decided. it is said 10
concentrate his energies upon the
weekly edition, which years ago was
rated AS one of tho two best weekly
newspaper properties in the state. This
was when Blyard Taylor, as q bare
headed boy, addressed wrappers in its
offics; and when ex-Chief Justice Pax
ton sat or three legged stool in its
composing room plying his art US u
printers apprentice. Tho experiment
Of reviving the old time weekly In
community where every household
takes ut least one daily local and one
large city paper will be viewed with
interest, il not with complete con-
iidence.
THERE WAS time--and ia yet, for
that matter-when the Norristown
Herald was az widely quoted as the
Daubury News, in which Bailey's
unique wit scintillated and amused; or
MS the Burlington Hawk Eye, in which
Frank Hatton andBob Burdette, an in
imitable team of journalistic gems, po-
lished off the oddities of human nature
in rib tickling paragraphs. Gene Field
was at that time irradisting tho solemn
xpanse of great American table land
in and around Denver Bill Nye was
reaplng famo and badness on the
Laramie Boomerang; Josh Bill
lings was pouring the qnintess.nce
of his dialectic philosophy into
Robert Bonner's Ledger; C0arles B
Lewis, under the pssudonym Of IN.
Qaad," was making the Detroit Free
Press a household word; and David
Ross Locke, as Petroleum V. Nasty,
was cutting the vitals out of Demo.
cratic pretenSs from the mythical
vantage point of Confident X, Roads,
wich Is in the state nv Kentucky"
H#A
BAILEY BECAME Iich AMI famous;
Hatton is Il lishing his satirical snick.
ersnee IN opulent independence rs el.
itor aud pnrt proprietor OF tha highly
profitable Washington Post Buristte,
grown serious. breaches at in
tervals and lives on the fruits
of his ample past earnings; Field.
with international renown, is woolng
back wasted adipose on the sunny
elone of California; Nye, with his
humor vein long ago worked out, man.
uges nevertheless, to exc out sybari-
tic existence on the strength OF past re.
uown. Josh Billings--rest bis soul
--is in the domain Of the great beyond
Lewis, lured to Gotham by the false
light Of Pulitzer's capricious favor, is
relying now upon syndicates for bis
trOad and tea and Locke. before his
death, had made the Toledo Blade
property worth hundreds Of thousands.
BUT THE Norristown Herald man,
what Of him2 Who knows his nam4H
Who recalls his brilliant work2 o
yes, here's limo Of news just flashed
over the telegraph wire Read 1t, W
hopeful ones aud then answer me
what ia fame2'
John II. Williams, the man who gave
the Herald a national reputation, will very
likely be the next burgess Of Norristown.
If YOU have made up your mind to buy
Hoods SarsNparilla, do not be persuaded
sarsapafilla, which possesses peculiar
curative power.