The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-26

be held at the home of Norton Darte,
in Herrick, on Thursday, Aug. IL.
Editor Gelder, of the Forest City
News has been appointed Justice OF
the peace. He will honor the ermine.
/ s1uto thee, oh most just Judge, and
Matty Murphy will be side judge,
but he will spell his title with a lower
case !.
The death watch" is still set over
Eagan and Shew, the convicted muir
derers. The Montrose Democrat con-
slders it a needless expense, inasmuch
as the men will hardly commit suicide
so long as the state board Of pardons
still has their cases under advisement.
The county commissioners are maxi
ing a bridge-letting trip.
ANENT FAMILY REUNIONS.
In susquehanna county, during Aug
ust and September family reunions
will he thicker'n mud. There are worse
aflictious than family reunions. They
lack the enthusiasm and eXuberance
of a camp meeting, but as a promoter
of dyspepsia and dsordered liver, they
can see" u Sunday school picnic and
"go it one better" The doctor and the
druggist bless the man who first in
vented family reunions.
ALIKE AND UNLIKE.
Running a newspaper is just like
running a hotel, only it Is different.
When a man goes into hotel and finds
something on the table that he doesn't
like, he doesn't kick all the fat into the
fire and tell the landlord to stop his
old hotel"
Well, hardly! He just pushes that
dish aside and wades into some other
brand Of eatables. But it is different
with some newspaper readers. They
find an item they do not like, and
without stopping to think that it may
please many other people, they make a
grandstand play and stop their
paper" The paper doesn't stop, but
when that particular gentleman's copy
fails to reach him next day or week,
he is sure to sneak around and bor-
row his neighbors copy, "iust to see II
the darned old paper is still published" 7"
You know the press still grinds on,
| and new subscribers line up in the
| place of the dysreptic who stopped his
| source of information, because small
| part of it didn't suit him. Such is
| life!
| MOLLIE'S QUEER ADVENTURE.
Mollie Dodson, a little Red Rock girl,
| aged -, a few days since was sent to
| the milk house for a pan of milk. She
got the pan, and on her way to the
house, set it down in the grass to pick
some berries. When she turned again
she saw a rattlesnake drinking the
milk.
She was not six feet away when she
saw the snake, and as she came to a
| halt, the snake saw her and cooled
as if to strike. Mollie was paraiyzed
with fear and hadn't power enough 10
call for help. She simply claSpcd her
hands and gazed at the big reptile In
helpless terror. But help came from
an unexpected quarter. A fat hog
sauntering around in search of food
came in sight, and in a moment made
for the snake. The battle was eXcit-
ing but short, and Mollie, now at a
safe distance watched it with wonder
The snake more than once bit the hog
but each time the hog received the bitt
on his ham, where the great layers Of
fat rendered the poison harmless.
Then, when the snake had exhausted
its venom, ii concluded to retreat bu
the hog then took his innings. Jump
ing on his enemy he pinned it to th'
ground, and with his teeth actually
tore 1t to pieces, and then ate it. Lit
tie Mollie cried and then went home
carrying the milk and told her story
to sympathetic ears. Whitney.