The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-29

paratus before there is nothing to
burn.
The next meeting of the Bridgewater
Baptist Association will be held in
Jackson.
The Binghamton district convention
of the Epworth League will be held in
the Methodist church in Hallstead, Oct
1919.
Hallsdead and Great Bend will soon
have electric lights. In more ways
than one they have needed light down
there for some years past.
THE OTHER SIDE OF LIFE.
Mary had little lamb,
It's fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
1t fleece is still white as snow,
But Mary's lamb has grown,
And now she'd rather walk three miles
Then face that lamb alone.
-Longfellow.
Il am tired of living with such a
homely woman" exclaimed a Gulf
Summit man, as he walked away from
home six weeks ago. The other day
she was left a legacy of $15, and the
husband hurried back home to call her
his angel one, but she wouldn't let him
in.
Talmage has been i'll. For six weeks
he didn't see newspaper. Neither did
the apostles.
Every affliction has its blessing. The
man with the wooden leg never knows
what 1t is to have rheumatism in that
| ankle.
Infidelity. what is it, and what has it
done ne?-Lancaster Intelligence. The
average layman will answer that it
has increased the population of Sheol.
Economy is wealth." but the Lanes
boro boarding house mistress who split
the feathers in half so that they would
go further. carried economy too far.
This month will decide with many
young men whether they are to be
| made welcome by freight and love
| ly creature" all alone in the
parlor or whether they will be
| received in the sitting room in
the presence of the whole family and
the bulldog.
Footprints Of men, women and chill
dren, supposed to have been left on the
hardening soil $4,000 years ago, were
recently discovered near Great Bend.
The way they distinguished the foot
prints of the men from the women
is because the tracks of the former
| show where they occasionally stopped
| and clung to the lamp post.
A TREES RAPID TRIP.
One day last week a woodsman felled
tree above the railroad track neaI
state line. The tree did not fall as
the men intended, but went sliding
of
rod and trimming itself of branches as
it went. freight train was coming
| north and the tree crushed endwise
through a box car loaded with sheled
corn and went on into the river. There
was a hole in the roof and side of the
car as large as the log and the corn
was distributed along the track for
some distance. When the log struck
the car the shock to the train was so
violent that the trainman in the cab
oose thought it was a collision and
jumped off. The train never stopped.
IN A LINE OR so.
The semi-annual meeting of the Sus-
quehanna County Medical society will
be held in New Milford, oct. 4.
The grand officers of the Grand
Chapter of Pennsylvania, II. Il. A. NJ,
paid Susquehanna Chapter, No. 276l
an official visitation, on Thursday even
ing. With Susquehanna masons and
their families on Thursday afternoon
they enjoyed an excursion up the river
on the "Ermine."
Editor Taylor of Montrose, and Edi-
tor More. of Great Bend. are down as
judges for the largest families showing
up at the Montrose fair. Are they ex-
ports, and what are their qualifications
for the position? Album
THE TURTLE AND THE CAT.
A cat owned by Farmer Edgerton, of
the Cascade, has long been the terror
of the dogs and cats of the neighbor-
hood Recently he met his match i'm
a turtle. Discovering the queer cr2a-
ture taking leisurely promenade in
the meadow, "Scriper" ieaped on its
back and clawed away at a lively rate
The turtle seemed to rather enjoy the
performance, so the cat changed its
tactics. He was not long in discover
ing the place where the turtles head
came out, and he sat down to watch
that spot. Presently the turtle peeped
out to see If it's enemy was gone. The
cat made a grab and missed. This was
| repeated three times, and then the tur-
tie, keeping his head safely inside the
! shell, put out his feet and started TO
| crawl away. Then the cat caught a
! foot Of the tur.le with his teeth, and
the fight began in earnest. The tur-
tie pulled and struggled but finding
itself being hauled away, put out its
head, and, with quick snap, caught
one of the cats hind feet in its wise
like Jaws. The cat pulled, bit and
scratched, and doubtless would have
called the fight off. but the turtle held
on in triumph. Finally the cat secur-
ed good hold on the turtles head.
| and then the turtle would have with
drawn If he could, but he couldn't, and
In short time the victorious cat was