The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-17
4 SINNEMAHONE CANVASS
AND A MORAL LESSON CARRIED BK
a PANTHER AFTER PORK.

In = Remarkable way, with = Result
80 Unexpected That He Warned His
Son Against Being Too Remarkable.
RoUbETTn. Pa. July 18.-"My remarkable
father. Reuben Pettibone." said the man from
over Sinnemahoning way, was a candidate for
once once and exhibited his remArkableness
by the manner In which he conducted his cam
paigns But the result was most amazing. He
overreaohed himself. He overreaohed himself
in such an unexpected way that, to his dying
day. he was wont to say 10 me:
"'Be remarkable, Praxiteles. Be remarkable
always. Blu don't be too darn remarkableP
II sometimes wish that / had lived and
moved In the Sinnemahone country in those
PARKWAY days when my remarkable father was
all in all therein. but then l think how selfish
1t is OF me to wish such a thing. II had lived
among those early scenes I could hardly expect
to be here now to tell you folks on this side the
mountain OF things that happened then. as
Reuben Pettibone has handed them % to
me. and see what you would have missedl 1
have only the memory Of Reuben Pettlbone to
compensate me for being contemporary with
those days merely by proxy. That. OF course.
IL great compensation. but see the gain you on
this side Of the mountain have by my not hay
ing lived SO long ago. You have not only the
memoir Of Reuben Pettibone. You have mel"
YES" said the man In the red. blue. pink,
yellow. green. and purple Mackinaw jacket,
land We have 'tater bugs, and sheep rot, and
chicken cholera. and q heap Of other pesky
things We wish we hadn't"
True. Mackinawi Too truei" said the man
from over SinnemahoninG way. I'VE have 'em
even along the favored Sinnemahone. We
have 'em bad. / was talking to one OF my
fellow citizens over there about IL only the
other day.
"'Simpkins.' said /. It beats all how we are
afnicted with later bugs. and sheep rot. and
chicken cholera, and other pests this year.
We've got 'em ten times worse than they have
or t'other side Of the mountain. even.'
~ know it, said Simpkins. But then we're
luckier than they are on t'other side Of the
mountain, after ALL
"'Yes ?" said /.
"'oh. yesl said simpkins. 'Mackinaw lives
on t'other sidei said he. You know simpkins,
don't you. Mackinaw2 2"
mo. 1 don't know Simpkinsi" exclaimed the
nan in the red. blue. pink. yellow. green. and
purple Mackinaw jacket. And II you'll Jest
fetch him over here once I'll FIX him so that no
body else won't never know i'm
Then the man in the jacket of varied hues
went out after air. The man from over Sinne-
mahoning way smiled pleasantly. and by and
by continued his narrative.
speaking Of the time my remarkable father
was a candidate" said he. "'Praxiteles.' he
used to say. 1 declared up and Town that I
would not be a candidate. Eleazar Snipewell
wanted the place. and I wanted him to have It.
But my fellow citizens wouldn't hear of my not
running. They put me against Eleazar.
VERY Goodl' I said. Then 1 will elect
| Eleazar.'
81 went to work to beat myself. 1 cleo
tioneered against myself the best way I knew
how. 1 put in circulation all sorts Of stories
calculated to show nov unfit and unworthy I
was in every way for the place. and cracked up
Eleazar to the skies as the man who should I'LL
It. I must have done some amazing work.
ton, Amazing work, fndeedF
try was then not only small. but, it was scat
tered about SO that folks were called next-door
This wide distribution Of the populace made It
rather difficult to get the voters out on election
f Ssys; but id 5hn Il s d1ae 81 en-, snake cea q E1ssa ms deal / P S.S dit1
70 know. how he would more than likely vote 4
c eSr II s10 WASN'T isS K 8 Just st. satisfied saas; sUI That 't seesnd ]! SO 9
M Sna L was v essti 1HF along hs% / LATE ei In T sSe a. da sns sR Rs1l'sdI
hold the election over until the next day SO
and ind out how, the man wanted to vote.
in The ( fs sliG 4 ean dafiaE Ry a ssRfassefha RI w 1fth sSo was Ia.
and heavy; Repben. Petti5ons Ssd liz coat %
i Elsa 80 as sdilRsT Si@is slf t als fES& { P SSss Who
T saFiy TN iS lfsadf Day e to f Fear h that f ksu SbeaD you'd Rfdif Es9
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came lA In he hailed 9ne P bin Snd h1OllleeG o%; tb,. INV
N"""'i' don't think 1 : viii said Noah. What's
this story | hear about Reuben Pettibons
young ones outP'
markaBle Tiather started against himself so thSi
IT would lose him votes from the headwatert
"'That's a blarin' liel' yelled jackson. 'Reu.
ben Pettibone is Goin' to free the mortgage on
the widder's %clearIn' and give 1t to her. instead
OF eio SIN It up and turnin' her and her young
This, started Noah to talking the matter
Snd Began slsn to shoat t e@a P ef ifbesaeef But Ris my sp re.
markable father was Watching out for this. and
fro% aaT El saas ri Il T he x nsP's s SC Sssd s SO he f EuF
ried oyer to where VII eFEeeN Noah was electioneerinG the
and tns' WIDOW SidS . Rum H9 4D4 Soa Rfuf ae has hesO DONE
lust what you heard he did And he'd do Il
Then Jackson he came up. mad as he ooult
h.n bd tel you it lisa is a l 6c1 NoahP he yelled. 'Reu
ana anybody leo CnaC SAID ne naQnT. Inc up
shot Of It was that he and jackson pitched int
one another. and Reuben had to give jackson {
tremendous licking. He. got Noah away from
him and hustled him to the polls e put ip BIZ
turned in and electioneered for Eleazar stiffel
yet than he had begun to electioneer for Reu,
ben. This made Jackson madden than ever
and he threw, of, his coat and swore up ant
down that he'd elect Reuben II it cost him hi
"'Praxiteles,' my remarkable father used Il
say. my, rousIng Jackson up that way was
big mistake. Ifit hadn't been for that Eleazal
would have showed me under. and I'd haVC
carried my point. But by rousinR jackson vi
he put the screws on to i've men that Eleazai
would have got sure. and. do all I could, they
slapped their votes In for me-
Just before the polls closed Reuben Petit
bone hollered to Noah:
"RidHes psLtsrs. dog shep come IMP
Then, save Reuben .thsresa dead sur
ing badi The way that misRulder, JacksoI
PIE. has beer Lying himself out 70 got vote
shameful close. and we can't AFFORD to lose an
snipewell votes. What In Sam Hill can be tn;
overwhelming badI