The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-14

stove, will in no wise be restricted.
Like the water brook he goes on for
ever.
Ten years ago a Deposit young man
followed the advice Of the late lament
ed Horace Greeley and went west. Be
sides O car ticket he had SIS In his
inside pocket. He has cleared up
100000 in a mine. And yet they do say
that the western people are enjoying
hard times"
LOCAL POLITICAL MATTERS.
Ararat has a brand new silver club.
jackson ProhibitiOnists had rally
OH Friday evening. The speakers an
nounced were Tallie Morgan, OF New
York. and Attorney Nichols. ot Wilkes
Barre.
There will be a big Republican rally
this evening i'm Brandt The speakers
will be Hon. j. d. Dougherty and r. l.
Lott, esq, of Montrose. n special
traA will run from Susquehanna.
No man stands higher in the estima-
tion of the people of old Susquehahna
county than william Connell. OF Scran-
ton. and they will rejoice to see him
elected to congress. In electing him
the people of Lackawanna county Will
honor themselves.
There will be II Republican rally in
Thomson on Friday evening. to be ad-
dressed by Captain w. ID. Il. Ainey, OF
Montrose. Music will be furnished by
the Jackson Cornet band and the Sus-
quehanna Glee club.
Hon. James Fl. Coduing. of ToWan-
da, our congressman, and Hon. George
w. Ray. of Norwich. n. Y, will adj
dress a great rally in Susquehanna ON
Wednesday evening.
THE SOLDIER BOYS"
In
ing boards recent meeting here was
attended by the usual number of vet
Grams. Haste, all! The boys" who
wore the blue are fast growing old.
Give them all they deserve--and tney
all deserve well of their country-ere
they answer to "the roll up yonder."
When Coin Harvey recently al
luded to Generals Sickles, Howard and
others as paid wrecks of the war;"
his tongue should have been paralyzed.
He deserves the contempt of all decent
people the world over. There are times
when the English language fails to do
a subject justice. This is one of them.
BRIEF MENTION.
The Susquehanna hunters have ar
rived home from the Adirondacks,
| bringing deer.
James Hopler and Porter Greene. of
Binghamton, a few days since caught
from a private pond near Susquehan-
| na siXty-four and one-half pounds Of
pickerel. The owner of the pond was
at home.
Joseph Mccarthy will be sent to the
Montrose Jail today for stealing a
watch from Michael Morrison. of De-
posit, at the Erie station in this place
on Sunday evening.
Lanesboro has named it's streets af-
| ter being borough for several years.
a new Mother Hubbard" locomotive
is approaching completion in the Erie
shops.
Canawalta tribe of Red Men attend
ed services in a body in the Presbyter-
ian church on Sunday morning
During the services in the Presbyter-
ian church on Sunday evening the cleo
trio lights were suddenly extinguished,
and the congregation was dismissed.
THE MELANCHOLY DAYS.
"The melancholy days are here"
when the minister endurcS "dOna-
tion," which is applied in his salary;
| when your last winters overcoat looks
shabby, and you wonder where your
summers wages have gone; when pat
ent medicine men put up hOgSheads of
sure cures" for coughs and cOnsump-
tion, although the graveyards are fat;
when the Darson. the coal dealer the
fiddler and the liveryman have their
| innings; when last winters latest style
of cloak is older than Noah, and last
seasons worth dress isn't worth -
| picayune; when politicians are haran-
guing and instructing the dear people,
some of whom are about as fit to vote as
a William Goat: when the sad-eyed
| turkey congratulates himself because
he will live until after elections; when
| in millions of homes plans are already
I~ 60, tlSa r1nxl N1p piyt n .
time while in some millions Of other
homes the frost is but the forerunner
| of many long months of cold and hum
| ger; when the farmer reckOns up his
| seasons profits and 'reckOnS' that his
| cellar will hold all of his money; when
| the dear bonneville has just turned the
house upside down and wrong side out
for the dirt that never came; when the
peregrinating evangelist is all eyes for
pastures new and converts many; when
| in stores the straw hat has made way
for the flannel shirt, and the lawn
| mower has stepped aside for the snow
| shovel: when the ice man is preparing
| to spend the winter in the south. and
| the coal man hopes to make enough
money in the winter to spend the sum-
mer at the seashore; when the wild
geese are winging southward and the
tame ducks are iOcking to the mat
inees; when the chestnut tree and the
burnt cork men are brothers; when
| the patriot wades in mud, carries Il
torch and yells until his left lung drops
out-all for the good of his party;
when over on the hills they are pre-
pairing for apple parings and corn
| huskings, and the cider mill is run
ming on full time; when the hop picker
| is coming home and the bark peelel
is going away, and when the mel
anchOly days have come, the Saddest
Of the year! Whitney.
| ANnn'A