The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-16
WHITNEY ON
SkIN-GRAFTlNG
. GOTHIC HORSE CONVERTED
INTO WOOL PRODUCER.
IF You Don't Believe This Veracious
Narrative, Afiidavits Are in Re-
serve - Thrilling Encounter of
Court Clerk Searle with Colum-
Ian Grove Pike-other News and
Gossip of susquehanna County.
special to the Scranton Tribune.

special to the Scranton Tribune.
Susquehanna. July 15.-Salnuel Isaac
son, a peregrinating Hebrew peddler
whose home is at Honesdale. monthly
makes a trip through this section, ex-
changing bright tinware and bric-a -brat
for old iron. rags, sheep pelts, hens
feathers and like truck" Sammy has
for years driven a gothic-framed steed
q relic of the famous Delaware & Hud-
son canal 1t is fast steed with a
record of less than mile a minute.
Sammy and his outfit. one cold night
in December, arrived at the home of
Farmer Charles Ross, at Burnwood,
and asked permission to remain over
night. which was granted, and the horse
was bedded down and Sammy laid him
self away to dream of a big days busi-
ness, with two hundred per cent. profit.
Sometime in the night, Sammy heard
his charger neighing and paving the
barn floor, fearfully. Awakening his
host, the two went to the barn, where
they found the horse evidently in its
last struggle About seventeen kinds
of cures for all kinds of horse ailments
were poured down the beast in rapid
succession, but 1t soon gave loud sigh
and became mOtionless.
Sammy knew that his best friend was
a-goner, and he sat down upon a pile
of rags and cried real tears. Ross told
him that good horses We're real cheap
since the Boer war closed, but he re-
fused to be comforted. At last he was
prevailed upon to return to his bed, but
there was no sleep for him.
When the crows were singing their
morning songs, Sammy arose and went
to the barn, where lie skinned the horse
and took off its shoes. He was bound
to get some money out of the deal
Then he strolled over to Fiddle lake, to
get a man who owed him dollar to
inter the remains. In an hour he re-
turned to the barn where he was amaz
ed to find the horse standing up and
getting a morning lunch off the feed
box. The old horse was much the worse
tor wear but he was still in the ring.
Then a bright idea struck Sammy.
lie carries a little oil stove with him
on the wagon. and melting some glue,
he fixed half a dozen or so sheep pelts
and glued them upon the horse, where
the skin used to be. He neatly pieced
in the places where the skins didn't
join nicely.
The old horse seemed to be surprised
at its new rainment, but he soon same
to look upon it as matter of fact and
he ate Charley Ross oats and waxed
fat All the people came to see it, and
it was the wonder of the wood acid
settlement In two months the horse
fully recovered and happy Sammy
drove it to his home. This summer
owing to its warm coat he pastures it
over in Texas township, but in the fall.
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Sammy sheared the animal and realiz-
ed seven pounds of wool, which will
help pay for the pasturage.
IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY.
The Susquehanna county Republican
executive committee will meet d Mont
rose today to arrange for the nominat-
ing convention.
The Great Bend cllamois tannery will
soon resume business. An experienced
tanner has been secured in New York.
The HallsteadG Great Bend industries
are Cooking up
About $175 was realized on account of
the Fourth of July celebration at
Uniondale. The amount was presented
TO the Carpenter brothers, who are pros
pecting for coal near the borough.
The remains of the late Charles F..
Meeker, of Montrose, were on Saturday
inferred in McKune cemetery, Oakland.
EMIT A FOUNTAIN. .
The Main street public drinking
fountain, presented to the borough by
the w. c. r. IT,. few years since has
gone into innocuous desuetude and the
place that once knew it will probably
not know it again forever. Somehow it
never appeared to fila a-long- -felt-want.
Quite large number of our people
object to drink water in public, and
others drink it only upon a physicians
prescription and so the fountain, which
was an ornament. was never neces-
sity. A fountain which gave forth
lager, iced buttermlk or seltzer would
have been appreciated, and the names
of the donors would have gone down
the centuries. But just plain water,
from way back in the townshp--that's
different.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
f. r. w. Searle, esq. and family, of
Scranton, are spending the summer in
their cottage at Columbian grove, five
miles north of Susquehanna. Ed"
puts in about fourteen hours OF each
day sitting in a boat. tempting min
swapping lies with the horny-handed
gransers of the vicinage. On Monday
he borrowed lamprey eel of neigh
Dor. with the avowed intention of
catching pike. He had yearning
desire to truthfully tell Judge Archibald
that he had caught fish weighing
more. than six ounces.
Edward had been playing pinocle
with the farmer boys, the night before,
and, as he sat in the boat. in the hot
sun, he was soon in the land of nod.
The bait danced joyously with the tide.
Like flash, a big pike darted out from
under log, grabbed the bait, swal-
lowed it and commenced making for
the left bank of the stream.
Ed" had the end of the line tied
around his knee, and. as the big fish
frightened it, he awoke to find himself
foundering in the stream. He at once
saw that the boat was nearer than the
shore, and he made an effort to return
to the craft but the line was drawn
tight and the big fish was fast haulino