The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-12
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
ANOTHER EFFORT TO MARK
MEREDIrH's GRAVE.
Susquehanna's Strike Experience.
Hon. James T. Dubois a Favorite
son-The Discovery of a Big Footed
Reptile - Dots and Dashes - An
Episode of the Cistern.


Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna, Sept. IA bill Is
being drafted and will be presented
at the next session of the Legisla-
ture of this state, to appropriate the
necessary sum to erect a monument
over the grave of Samuel Meredith,
the first treasurer of the United States.
In n neglected, unmarked grave at
Belmont, Wayne county, near the JEFF.
ferson division of the Erie railroad,
rests the remains of the first treasurer.
He was appointed by Washington in
1889, in the days of Alexander Ham
ilton and held the Office until 1901, re-
signing during the administration Of
Thomas Jefferson. He received the
commendation of congress and OF
President jefferson. He gave $4,000 in
silver to the starving patriots at VAL
ley Forge.
In 1916 Meredith purchased several
thousand acres of land in Wayne
county. His object was to cut the tim
ber from the tract, burn it and manu-
facture therefrom potash and pear
line for commerce. The venture failed
to pay and was abandoned. Upon re-
signing as treasurer. Meredith re-
moved with his family to Wayne coun-
ty, and at Belmont erected a home
costing $4,000. 1t was a mansion for
those days, and was visited by Presi-
dent Jefferson and other great men.
Meredith died in 1917. almost alone
and forgotten. He left a distinguished
family in Philadelphia and elsewhere,
but none Of them have ever raised a
slab to his memory. Congress and
the Legislature of Pennsylvania have
at different times been asked to erect
monument to the memory of this
great man, but no definite action has
ever been taken. The Daughters of
the American Revolution are interest
ed in this latest movement.
sUsoUEHANNA HAD ONE.
Men should think about forty times
before they strike once. SusQuehanna
had a big, long strike once upon a
time, and for ten years afterward
times were so hard In the old town
that you couldn't cut them with an
axe. Nobody has since yearned for a
strike.
A "FAVORITE SON"
Hon. James T. Du Bois, of Halstead,
our consul general to Switzerland, will
speak, during the campaign, in West
Virginia. OF him the Binghamton Re-
publican says: when the assistant
secretary of state. who has charge of
the consular work, was in Europe last
November he said the conspicuous
successes in the consular service were
three consuls-general whom he mem
toned and Mr.. Dubois was one Of
these. One of the others was Consul
General Mason, of Berlin, who has
been in the service for about twenty
years. Mr.. Dubois is comparatively a
new man in consular work, but the ef-
fective assistance he rendered Apprais-
er Wakeman in breaking up the under
valuation frauds on Swiss embroideries
has given him almost a national rep
utation. For an officer comparatively
inexperienced to be thus singled out
among several hundred of his COL
leagues, as one of the three conspicu-
Gus successes in the consular service,
is a compliment as distinguished as It
is deserved"
FOOTED REPTILES.
prints was recently made in a quarry
near Forest City. In a clear surface
or shale are seen about forty tracks.
Nearly all of them are in rows, the
largest one containing sixteen tracks.
The tracks are from six to eight inches
in length, and were probably made
by a reptile that, If 1t had front feet,
seldom used them. This is. without
doubt the largest uncovering of tracks
within ten years.
DOTS AND DASHES.
A sewing bee can't sting, but it does
lots of buzZing.
An optimst is a woman with a sea
cloak and hat. A pessimist is a wo-
man without either.
What a dull. stupid world this would
be without any sea serpents in the
summer and daisies and dandelions in
mid-winter.
A rubber-neck was recently killed
near Starrucca. 1t had the faculty Of
swallowing its own neck.
Never argue with a bull, a mad dog
or an editor.
The man Tat all the town admires,
And calls the "boss supriser,"
Has everything his heart desires,
He's the leading advertiser.
A CISTERN EPISODE.
Mrs. Rollins, of Cascade Valley, has
long desired to visit relatives at Kala-
mazoo, but her husband has strenu-
ously objected. She has coaxed and
threatened for three years. but the old
chap has been obdurate. He has
been "sot."
Last Saturday Rollins was cleaning
out a deep cistern, using a long lad
der, TO descend and ascend. Mrs. Roll
Inns pulled up the ladder, and then
asked permission to go to Kalamazoo,
but Rollins refused and told her TO
so to a warmer cline than the celery
city. In three hours, the wife again
visited the cistern, and this time her
husband was tired .and hungry, and
he relented, and the ladder went down
after he had promised TO let his wife
visit her relatives. He said a few
things when he reached the surface,
but he Is a man OF his word, and the
white dove of peace again broods over
the home of the Rollins.
NEGATIVE DISTINCTIONS.
In Ararat there is a farmer nearly
SO years old, who is not wise in the
ways of the world. He has never seen
plano, has never been ten miles on
a railroad, never wore a collar or neck
tie, and has never had on a pair of
socks.
MATTERS IN GENERAL.
They thought they had found a girl
in Great Bend who had died of a
broken heart, but an autopsy revealed