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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28
EUGENE FIELDS CORNER IN THE POWELL STREET BooKsTAL
ostrils distended, like racehorse ready

nostrils distended, like a racehorse ready
TO run a race.
There was one nook in the place that
Field always sought. 1t was the place
where the first editions were Kept, and
once he was seated before those musty
tones the poet became oblivious to all
surroundings. He paid no heed to the
young woman who came into the place,
and, while she chewed assiduously upon
piece of gum, looked over the volumes
OF Bertha NJ. Clay, "Ouida" or 1.-The
Duchess" He had no time to devote to
one who was looking for something
new" nor to the cranks who affected
more recent authors than he.
Field in coming into this bookstore
made for one place and was not satisfied
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28

kFNIA BOUT forty years ago there was
AS streaming into the newly discov-
H%AS cred gold dtields of California a
steady current of immigration. Nearly
all the newcomers were men, and young
men too. with habits not yet firmly fixed
They were "going home," you know, as
soon as they had filled their respectable
Eastern carpetbags with nuggets yes,
'as soon."
They didn't go. Let the magic of the
Western air get into their blood and never
again would the effete civilization of the
East satisfy. They wouldn't have gone
with whole regiment of carpet bags full
of nuggets. If California was a great
place to make money how doubly great
and glorious place it was to sperd i'll
And their habits were soon fixed" too.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28

TATIP in a big oak tree, where l
1E9Sk have established a snuggery, my
OY privacy was invaded today by a
fock of titmic. l wish l could do any
thing like justice to these morsels of birds,
but no words at my command can do it.
There is no feathered creature except the
humming- bird so fearless and free in the
presence of humankind as the "least tit
mouse, and except the hummer we have
no other bird so small. But the hum
ming-bird, dear though he is to every
lover OF nature, never seems to me to
come quite so close to the heart as does
the sober -hued, round-eyed, little scrap of
quick life we call the titmouse. He has q
bigger name, portentous title, quite as
long as himself, but no one ever thinks of
calling him by il. He is Just the tit
mouse, as in the Eastern States, his
cousin, the black capped titmouse (Parus
stracapillus) is Just the chickadee, dear to
every one who really sees him.
The titmouse is the friendliest of 8 II the
small birds. You may call him close to
you by the simple process of answering
his lisping twitter as he hops among the
foliage seeking insects, and as an insect
DESTROYER every one of them is worth
many times his tiny weight in gold.
have said he is sober-hued. AS mat.
ter of fact he is a most absurd appearing
little bird, with his wee body, his large
head and big, round, astonished-iookin
eyes. But he is exceedingly lovable; so
frank and confiding, so perfectly certain
that you are his friend ana glad of his So
ciety as he seems 10 be OF yours. He en-
bodies in his funny little self many of the
very best of those traits We are won't 10
call human. You may bring whole flock
of the birds Within reach of your hand by
initiating the cry of one of them in dis
tress. They will gather about with anx-
ious, solicit Gus chirps of inquiry, eagerly
peering at you with their big eyes, seek
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ant hours during his stay in California
three years ago. ANY one of artistic tenn
perament can appreciate the manner IN
which the soul of Gene Field was
charmed by its atmosphere. The place
"smells'' of books. 1t has about it that
indescribable odor that old books send
forth. In it books are omnipresent They
line the walls, and high-shelved cases
have been erected for their accommoda-
ton in the middle OF the room, and upon
all these are books and books and books
Nearly everything printed in the English
language can be found in the place, and it
was from this source Gene Field derived
his greatest pleasure so soon before he
went back to Chicago 10 die.
The Western poet loved the place, and
he would enter the old-book store with
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28

a sad fix sometimes, and always a fix
that never could be unfixed, and that
never was so we'll fixed as in Californi ia
the glorious, the golden, the fiowery.
Mohammed came to the mountain, as was
inevitable; and Mohammed. in the shape
of wives, sisters and mothers, found the
mountain quite a bearable place, inso-
much that they. too, became totally unfit
to live outside Its shadow.
Before the advent of womankind there
had sprung up, like some widespread vari
ETY. of toadstool, the miners cabin. Men
lived in companies. in pairs, or all by
their lonelys, and patched" A collec-
tion of models of the cabins OF the '5Js
would be unique and interesting lad
educational, too, for soon the solitary
miner in California will have Joined the
dodo, the Ichthyosaurus and the girl who
Doesn't bike; the place thereof shall know
him no more.
Ihev-the cahins-ranged from spotless
10 very spotty indeed, and from handy to
| way up on the top note of the scale of un-
| handlress; from picturesquely pretty to
| plcturesquely hideous. Almost the same
description would apply to the miners
themselves, who have been drawn-and
quartered-so Variously in novels written
by Eastern tourists who have passed a
lew days, weeks or months in some corner
OF this not very limited State.
Tie phrase, "a California Novel," al
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28
seen the sun DER shasta's heights

I seen the sun o'er Shasta's heights
pleased him particularly, but when the
price of the volume was quoted to him the
poet refused to buy it on the ground of
economy.
So it was with a first edition of the
poems of Edgar Allan Poe, which was Of
fered TO Field for $40
TOO much,' said the poet, as he laid
the book down with a sigh.
According to Miss DAILY, Field never
quibbled over prices. After "poking
about among the books in the store he
would generally select two or three vol
umes that he thought he wanted; but ii
the price asked for any of these seemed too
much for his economic and domestic ideas
he would lay the volume aside with an
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28
Here the Poet ReveIed in His Glory
co BookstaI, With FaVorite Chair, Held Sacred
to the Memory Of Eugene Field

until he reached it. This was before the
shelves that contained the old books.
After we found out who he was," said
Miss Daily. who presides over the place,
1--WE never used to pay any attention to
Mr.. Field. He would come and go when
he pleased and would move his chair
about when he liked. Sometimes he
would pore for hours over one books"
AS the poet-humorist could not buy all
the rare editions he desired, his chiefest
delight was in visiting bookstores and
Libraries where he could secure access to
them.
Early editions of American authors af-
forded him his greatest pleasure. A first
edition o: joaquin Miller's poems. where
in the bard of the mountains ungrammat-
icaliy stated
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York in 1855, in whose contemplation
Field spent many hours.
Probably the most unique book that
attracted Field S attention during his visit
TO San Francisco Just prior to his death
was nondescript volume entitled d "Phu-
ri-bus-fah, song without an author and
deed without name" written under
the nom de plume of Philander Doesticks,
P.B., and published by Livermore g. Rudd
in New York in 1856.
Over these rare books Gene Field would
dwell for hours. To him, during those
last days of his life, they were source OF
daily pleasure; except for his wife and
his children they were the greatest source
of pleasure 10 the Western poet who
wrote the lullaOies of a nation and sung
children to sleep.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28

The food OF the swallow Is composed OF
insects alone, and the mum Der these birds
destroy in single summer is incalcuIa-
BILE. They are in summer on the wing for
fully sixteen hours during the day, and
the greater part of the time making havoc
among the millions of insects which infest
the air.
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A Quaint Bird LEGEND.

The Medical Press, in a recent reference
to work on some old legends in connec-
ton with drugs, said: ut would be inter
estlng to know if the bird which the
author calls 'aster' is known by modern
ornlthologists. Speaking of the remarks
that its scent is said to be so strong that
fishes are drawn by it as he is flying over
the river, and so taken up by him, having
one leg like hawk, the other like duck"
1t is not difficult, however, to identity the
bird in question, says the Westminster
Gazette. 1t is the osprey (Pandion halioe-
tus), which, although not to-day classified
under the genus astur, is related to it. In
the Rev. c. Swainson's "Folk-Lore of
British Birds" there is reference to it
from Shakespeare. "CorioIanus," act
four, scene three:
Autdius loq. AS in the osprey OF the fish,
Who takes it
BY sovereignty of nature.
And in Peele's play called 1.-The Battle of
Alcazar" Q594), act ii, scene 1;
I will provide thee with princely osprey,
That, as she f1ieth over fish in pools
The fish shall turn their glistening bellies nm
And thou shalt take thy liberal choice 0: all
We learn also from Mr.. Swainson's book
IAdI al Old oeIIO1 IS mentioned DV Har-
rison in his Description of Britain" " pre-
fixed to Holinshed's Chronicle" (vol. 1.
page 882), who writes respecting the
osprey: ut hath not been my han
hitherto to see anie of these foules ana
partiie through mine owne negligence:
but L heare that it hath one foot like a
hawke to catch withall, and another re-
sem bling goose, wherewith to swim:
but whether it be so or not 1 refer the
further search and trial thereof to some
other" Giraldus Can't mbrensis t"Topoo-
raphy of Ireland" page 3S, ed. Wrigbn
improves on this morslizing as follows:
I'm like manner the old enemy of man.
kind fixes his keen eyes on us, however
we may try to conceal ourselves in the
troublesome waves of the present world
and ingratiating himself with us by tenn
poral prosperity, which may be compared
to the peaceable foot, the cruel spoiler then
puts forth his ravenous claws to clutch
miserable souls and drag them to perdi-
tion."
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28

disappeared, making feints at each other
in the air as they flew.
Pedagogia took me to task the other
day. There are so many practical issues
to be considered by thoug hIful minds"
she said, seriously. ~ wonder you can
spend so much time over dickey-bir and
weeds"
l am in perfect agreement with Peda-
gogia, who is learned beyond my widest
ken. This is time and an hour of prac-
tical issues. great problems to be solved,
but l question whether there is anv
greater problem than that OF our relation
to the lowly things about us; any issue
more vital, more practical than that from
nature up 10 natures God. 1t is good to
come to know the life of the small crea-
lures that live beside u.s. Their very ex-
lstence is in its way a comment upon, an
Interpretation OF, our own life, with its
further reach, its wider needs and possi-
billties. There Is. more is the pity, deal
OF false sentiment INDUCED in about the
things OF nature. We who love shah
bring it to her, as we carry it elsewhere.
Nevertheless, what there is of us that is
simple and true may find its best help
among the dickey-bir and the weeds if
we come to them with true, wholesome
appreciation. The good old New England
primer expressed a psychological prin-
ciple, as well as literal truth and the al
phabet, when it taught in questionable
verse how
Zebedee
Climbed tree
The Lord to see.
The treetop does not pierce the sky
bipo Ilu nil h..
vanes and church steeples The yanes.
perforce, to show which way the wind
blows, to such as have not vet learned
that no wind blows i'll; the others for the
impaling, perhaps, of any spiritual aspi-
ration that may succeed in getting above
them) but it grows skyward, which is
better than being reared in that direction.
and its growth is unhindered by pride
and vaingloTy and all the other burdens
of life" We may learn a lesson in good
ness from il; in taxing what comes in the
order of life, not striving after more, or
other, or different things, for good cometh
not of strife.
But while nature will surely help us to
clearer ana simpler seeing if we turn to
her in loving honesty, her lesson is one of
first principles rather than of polity. They
make a mistake who reason from the life
of the brutes TO the life human beings
should live. The analogies are only an.
parent. The dumb creatures have for us
no real lesson in the ordering of our lives.
for we have their life plus humanity, with
its wider range; Its greater freedom: its
power of choice. Perhaps, after all. the
only lesson nature has to teach US is that
of love, which we learn as we bring to her
the perception of beauty. but this lesson is
supreme one, for love is, in fact, the
problem Of life and its solution.
ADELINE KNAPP. ]
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-16
TAYLOR.

The pastoral call which the Presby-
terian church of this place and the
Sumner Avenue Presbyterian church
of Hyde Park decided TO extend to Rev.
l.. Il. Foster of Auburn. n. Y, has
not yet been accepted. Mr.. Foster has
been in Scranton since Saturday, and
on Sunday preached in this place. In
the evening he occupied the pulpit at
the Hyde Park church. The committee
representing both churches, called upon
Mr. Foster and officially handed him
the call which he read. He did not
give them any answer, but in all prob
ability will make known his decision on
March %, when he will return to SCran-
ton to occupy pullits in the both church
es alternately.
Rev. w. S. Jones, of Hyde Park, occu-
pied the pulpit at the Welsh Baptist
church on Sunday and delivered an elo-
quent sermon to the audience that was
present.
Miss Eva Musleman, of Ransom, has
returned home after visiting friends on
North Main street.
A dispatch from Philadelphia on Sat
urday last announced that Mr.. John d.
Edwards, Of this town, who went there
a week ago. had passed through sue
cessful operation.
A large delegation of the Emblem
division, No 81. Sens of Temperance,
of this place, will attend the anniver-
sary given at Pittston by a division of
that place this evening.
Great preparations are being made
for the concert for the class of Edward
d. Davis, of the Calvary Baptist church
On March y. An excellent programme
is being prepared for the occasion.
Mr.. Thomas Jones. of Feitsville, is
confined to his home with sickness.
Pride of Lackawanna lodge. No. lS,
will elect officers this evening. All
members are requested to be present.
M. Griffith w. owen, who has been
confined tc his home for the past week
by sickness, is slowly recovering.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-16
FACTOR YVILLE.

Mr. NJ. II. Reynolds sold COW few
days ago to butcher, who when the
proper time arrived, killed the COW for
beef When dressing the carcass, they
noticed something very heavy and hard
in the stomach, and upon investigation
found over a quart OF assorted nails,
from stub of horse nail to q ten
penny nail. And wonderful to relate,
the COW never suffered any inconveni-
ence from the nails being in her sto-
mach.
Mr.. A. j. Gardner will move into his
town residence about the first of April,
having rented his farm to Nelson
Gardner Of Jermyn, Pa.
Contractor George B. Reynolds is ex-
hibiting ono of the finest tool chests
ever brought to this town. 1t is solid
black walnut case throughout, and is
model piece of mechanism. every
piece being connected by the skillful
hands of Mr.. Reynolds.
Contractors are remodcling the old
storehouSe, commonly known as the
"Dutae Potter store" house. into pri-
Vatc dwellings. This old building stands
Just cut Of the borough line. opposite
the old denot site. and is one of the
Oldest landmarks of the town.
DO not forget TIE Junior league ard
their entertainment tomorrow night.
The menagerie part of it will interest
the children.
one Of the best moves our town coun-
Gil has made of late, and one that will
be much appreciated by travelling ped
estrians at night. was to have our street
lamps lighted on every dark night.
The members of Langstaf Hose COM
| iSb n pl, : Ia.
columns OF The Tribune. their sincere
| thanks to all who so kindly assisted
them in their benefit concert on the
evening of March 5,and especially those
who SO ably assisted in the concert
programme.
The Winola Oil, Gas, Development
and Improvement company last week
placed large order for cases to ship
East Mountain lithia water in, with q
New York factory.
our town is to have a genuine bicycle
club the coming summer.
Last Friday evening about twenty
five of the many friends of Miss Lizzie
Wilbur decided to Day her their re-
spccts by Just accidentally calling at
the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, all
a the same time. A jelly lot of young
people they We're and the evening was
very pleasantly spent in games, sing
ing and other amusaments.
Next Friday evening the young ladies
Of keystone academy will contest in
prize speaking AT the Baptist church
Miss Deltha Carr left yesterday for
Philadelphia, where she will spend two
weeks visiting and selecting her spring
stock of millinery goods.
Mrs A, A, Brown is visiting friends
in Scranton.
Mrs Fannie Matthewson left last
week in company with her sister for the
West where she will make her future
home.
Crawford Matthewson has rented his
house to the Rev. Button and will move
into the house connected with his store.
Mr.. oscar stone was a caller in
Scranton yesterday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-16
the house by sickness the past few

the house by sickness the past few
| days
Miss Margaret Tighe, of Fallbrook
! street, who has been i'll, Is improving.
Henry Gramer. of Washington place
| master mason for the Delaware and
| Hudson Canal company. is seriously ~,
George Chamberlain, Of Scranton, at
| one time u resident of this city, called
| on friends in town yesterday.
Miss Mary Hoar and her cousin, Miss
Olive Avery, who are attending school
| in Honesdale, were guests of the lat
ter's parents over Sunday.
John O'Cunnell, who has been visit
| ing in Elmira, n. y, returned home
ON Saturday
Mrs. j. B. Hoyt, of West Pittston,
| is the guest of her son, John b. Hoyt,
on River street.
Mr. and Mrs John Solomon, of Jer-
myn. were guests of friends in this city
Sunday.
Mr. James Stott. of the First Nation
al bank, who has been quite i'll, is so
| much improved as to resume his duties
Rev. n. f. Coffey was in Scranton
yesterday.
Mrs. Coon and daughter. Miss Bertha,
of Jermyn, We're the guests of friends
in town last week
Miss Olina Herring, who has been Wis
tng friends in Wilkes Barre, has re-
turned home.
Mrs. William Buckingham, of Ply
mouth is a guest at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin Moon on Terrace
street.
Frank Van Gorder spent Sunday in
Scranton.
Misses Annie and Mamie Grier, of
Dickson City, are visiting Miss Mar
garet Higgins on the South Side.
Miss Edith Moon, of Terrace street
who has been the guests Of friends in
Plymouth and Wilkes Barre, returned
home yesterday.
Miss Agnes Hendrick, of Great Bend
who is a guest at the home of w. B
| Chase, is confined to the house by i'll
ness.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George Moore, of Alden
| vile, We're the guests of their daugh-
| ters. Mrs. Ernest Oliver and Mrs. Fran
| els Faatz. over Sunday.
Mrs. Howard is seriously i'll at the
| Arlington House.
Mrs Arthur O'Malley. of Scranton,
is the guest of relatives in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Gritiths and
| daughter. May. We're the guests of
| friends in Scranton over Sunday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-16
HOW TO find OUT.

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When urine stains linen il is positive
evidence of kidney trouble. Too fire.
uuent desire to urinate or pain in the
back, is also convincing proof that the
kidneys and bladder are out of order
WHAT TO Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge
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If YOU need medicine you should have
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lard table and make other improve
ments in their rooms.
I. A. kreitner u Co., custom skirt
makers, will occupy rooms over Buel
Dodge's drug store.
The young men of the high school are
arranging for the promotion of athlet-
ic sports with the approach Of spring
time.
The lady and gentlemen cyclists of
Honesdale are about to organize Il
bicycle club and occupy the Keefer resi-
dence on Park street as a club house.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID. Weston are at
Lakewood, N. j.
Canal navigation will open in about
three weeks.
Our silk mill, glass cutting shops, shoe
factories, box and shlrt factory are all
working on full time and with bright
prospects.
The little German band which fur
nished fine music on cur streets last
fall will visit us again next month.
a block of anthracite coal four feet
ten inches thick, twenty -one feet eight
inches in circumference and weighing
six tons, and four hundred and fifty
pounds, has been placed at the north
side Of the Delaware and Hudson coal
office. 1t was shipped from the Mar
vim shaft, Providence, as q present to
Mr.. L. o. Rose. superintendent of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal COM
pany.
Edison's vitascone and a high class
concert company combined will occupy
the stage in the opera house Friday
and Saturday evenings March 10 and
20, with first class entertainment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-16
BIRTHDAY SURPRISE.
Pheasant Gathering at the Home of
Mrs. John REYNOLDS.

number Of Mrs. John Reynolds
friends learning that Saturday was the
tfty-ninth anniversary of her birthday
came to her house on Jeffrey street in
order to celebrate the day by a sur
prise party. After being welcomed and
congratulations had been offered, j.
Il. Haley, representing many friends,
came forward and in a few we'll chosen
words spoke of the esteem with which
they regarded Mrs. Reynolds and then
presented her with a beautiful couch
as mark of their friendship.
very pleasant social season was
passed with conversation, music and
refreshments.
Among those present We're: Messrs.
and Mesdames John Pethick, John Rey-
nolds, George Hoar George Oliver, Geo.
Chapman, John Haley, George Schra-
der, David Mann, Theodore Kline, Thos.
Bates. John Miligan, Sidney Pearce,
Christopher Milton, Arthur Correll. the
Misses Olive Avery, Mary Hoar, Rena
Mann, Leana Glider Mary Bates Nora
Oliver, Mary Haley, Janet Milligan.
Margery Pearce, and the Messrs. Will
lam Weight, Lloyd Oliver, Thomas
Bates, Harry Gelder, Leslie Pearce and
Lewis Pethick.