The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-06
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~ HE OTHER DAY two young So
ciety people Of this city started
= out for a drive. They have not
long been married, at least not long
enough to have lost a romantic taste
for beautiful scenery and as their
route lay in the direction Of the Notch
they had ample opportunity for expa-
tiating on the charms of the land
scape. While leisurely surveying the
golden tints on the mountain side, 1t
occurred to them that from little
hill not far from the road side, a su-
perb view might be obtained and they
left the carriage and proceeded to
Chamber up with much alacrity. Sud-
denly. they were startled by some very
forcible remarks, which were being
addressed to them by farmer, whose
irate language and gestures seemed
rather unaccountable. "Hi there!" he
was saying. "Git out o. there or I'll
sick the dog on We. Now just We git
and git blame quick" The two in
truders were almost paralyzed with
surprise and dismay. They are very
conservative young people, indeed, and
to be thus unceremoniously chased off
the landscape was humiliating, to say
the least. BY the time they had re-
covered from their CONSERVATION, the
farmer had escended the hilltop and
was breathlessly continuing his sput-
tering. Cit" he ordered imperiously.
II amt a-going to have any more O.
my apples stole by any blame loafers."
1t was at this point that the young
man raised protest. do we look
as if we had come here to steal APP
ples?" he demanded. The farmer
gazed at them curiously. "Well. now
come to look at We. sure's I live, We
don't" lie acknowledged. But We see,
it's just this way. The strikers have
dug our potatoes and stole all our win
ter pears, and when l see ye kind o.
sneaking in and out goin' up this hill,
I just thought I'd ketch em sure"
1--WE came up here to see the view,"
explained the wife with dignity, but
this statement made the farmer gaze
at them with more curiosity than be-
fore.
They We're rather silent on their
way home, but once the young wife
remarked reflectively, And I had on
my new golf coat, too"
"That's probably what did it," he
replied with masculine frankness.
Speaking of potatoes is a reminder
of a farmer who lives a few miles out
of Scranton and who has or did have a
fine field of potatoes, the field being
SMALL but the potatoes large. The
other day he discovered man en-
gagged in industriously filling capac-
ious sack from the choicest rows He
went out and urged the marauder to
desist, but the latter, who was a Hun
garian, apparently failed to understand
his orders or was Indifferent to threats,
for he proceeded with stolid intentness
of purpose until the sack was full when
he shouldered it and trudged off.
The farmer grew madder and madder
and after a few moments of delibera-
tiOn secured the cooperation of a
neighbor and started with horse and
wagon after the thief. They overlook
him at some distance away from the
scene Of his depredations and were
about to make him convey the potatoes
back to their native heath, when it oc-
Cured to them to search their captive,
as thus they might be able to judge as
to whether he was in great need. They
found that he had money to the
amount of $1O4 on his person, and rea-
soning that an individual with such a
''wad" was able to buy his potatoes,
they proceeded to make him do the
same, demanding the market price of
the vegetables before allowing him to
go.
With many grunts of disapprobation
he was obliged to hand over the re-
quired sum and the farmers returned in
triumph to lay plans for conducting a
home market on a similar basis should
further attempts be made to lift their
crop of potatoes.
Many people in this vicinity seem to
have strong attacks of religious fervor
when their prayers and their resolu-
tions which appear in the newspapers
are exceedingly profuse. The amount
of prayers, resolutions and nothing
else which have been bestowed on for
eign missionary sufferers by fire and
flood and other objects of popular pity
in various quarters of the globe is truly
affecting. Every little while these
sympathetic ones hold a special meet
ing to condole with each other over cer-
tain victims Of one or another calamity
but they do nothing further. The
prayers are very eloquent and the reso-
lutions look very pretty in print and
the authors of both receive the con-
gratulations of friends while the suf-
ferers continue to suffer. -
The other day there was conven-
tion Of some kind where they prayed
long and earnestly for the stricken
in China. The prayers
We're certainly beautiful and brought
tears to the eyes of the hearers as we'll
as the composers. but they didn't take
up even penny collection for the un-
fortunate missionaries in China.
Not long afterWard the carnenters