The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-06
honor the district. He will surely be
Susquehanna countys candidate.
ELOTSAM AND LETSAM


Susquehanna county's candidate.
FLoTsAM AND JETsAM.
Just after this cold spell" comes
the ground hog. Something is always
happening in this rugged climate.
Somebody says there is a vast diff
ference between u dyspeptic and being
religious, but some people never learn
1t.
Queer. but a man who minds strictly
his own business is frequently un-
popular.
Most of the time when you can't
sleep because of something on your
mind, IL turns out to be coffee.
When It gets much below zero, then
man doesn't so much mind the doc
trine of future fiery punishment.
None but the brave attend the
church fair.
Ii mule were to have frost-bitten
ears it would be Il great sufferer.
When you need n friend don't pick
out the man whose dog never wants to
follow him.
MULTUM IN PARVO.
Congressman C. Fred Wright Will
probably be q candidate to succeed
himself. And there are two Republic
can candidates in Wayne, two or three
in Bradford, and in Wyoming-how
many? There are certainly enough
| candidates to make an exciting race.
The Crescent club held Il social hon
at the Starrucca house last evening.
Music was by the Fadette orchestra, of
Binghamton.
David Michael, of South Gibson. a
prominent veteran of the Civil war, is
said to be a Republican candidate for
the county treasureship. And the
genial David IS all right.
1t is an "off season." but the Erie is
enjoying big freight traffic.
JUST BETWEEN US.
A man may go through Niagara
whirlpool without "barl." but let
him try the pool of politics. and as he
goes under you can hear him yell
louder than saw in a stave mill.
Humanity is not easily discouraged
The man with the cracked voice al
ways insists upon leading the singing
To be religious at all it is necessary
to be so with all your might.
"A man is as old as he feels:' but
Is,
The man who has no business of his
| own to attend to always goes TO bee
tired.
The phrase, "An accomplished young
lady" regularly appears in the mar
riage notices. When a bride is not
handsome she is invariably accom-.
| plished.
A church audience is not so solemn
| that it will not look for amusement
THE HOME ANARCHIST.
| One section OF the proposed anti
| anarchist legislation reads:
mo alien who advocates the over
throw of organized government is tt
be admitted to this country, and il
found therein may be deported." VIII,
does Uncle Sam lay the penalty of os
tracism against the "alen who advo
Gates the overthrow of organized gov
ernment," and totally neglect the
American citizen who, born. bred ant
raised under less eXtenuating circum
stances, advocates the same doctrine
THE NEWS GRIST.
| With four revivals in progress, Sus
| quehanna- Oakland will soon be read,
for the millennium.
| The North Pennsylvania Oil ant
Gas company" will soon begin pros
pecting for natural gas on the Wheaton
farm, near Franklin Forks. The indi
cations are said TO be excellent.
Colonel Coe Durland. of Honesdale
is Republican candidate for con
gresham from this district.
The institution OF n hive of th
r toll ,
this place on Saturday evening.
Susduehanna has about all of th
fraternal associations, except the Sub
lime Order of Hunchbacked EIindoo
and the Improved Association for tn
Amelioration of the Condition OF Spav
ined Goats.
The Century club will hold a hop il
Hogan opera house on Wednesda,
evening.
JUST A POSTSCRIPT.
The only man contented with his 10
occupies it in the cemetery.
A Susquehanna county paper print
these two items rather near each other
Our mother-in-law is visiting IFS thi
week" I'VE are going to New Yorl
tomorrow to see the sights"
Don't talk about yourself in com
pany. 1t can be done much more sat
isfactorily after you have left.
1t is little trouble for man to max
his mark in politics. The trouble is il
removing it.
AS long as a man brags of his pas
tor he is not so bad, even if he doesn'
help pay him. Whitney.
TO REVISE THE CREED.