The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-02

of these years there has been no
reconciliation until last week when
the two brothers, Ballington, of the
Volunteers, and Bramwell, the sue
cessor to his father as Commander of
the Army, met in New York. 1t is
possible that the two organizations
may consolidate. A Booth pecu-
liarity is that every member of the
family had to take the family name.
For instance, there is Maud Balling-
ton Booth and Gen. Booth Tucker.
1t must have seemed to the two boys
as they clasped hands last week that
they were uniting that clasp over the
open grave of their father.
#N-S+<#
Blood Poisoning from handling
money is one of the new sensations
recently sent out from Scranton. The
teller of a bank in that city was
troubled with an in-growing hair
on his neck. After handling a guam
tity of bills he scratched the hair, the
spot festered, and bad case of blood
poisoning developed. Strange rs it
may seem, there are a lot of people
ready to take all the risks attend
ing the handling of any number of
bank bills.
Do You Remember how two years
ago about this time everybody was
talking about the unreasonable
weather? Every sign from crows to
fish worms pointed to an iceless win
ter. 1t was too slishy-sloshy along
about Christmas time, to seem at all
like holidays, and everybody pitied
Santa Clauss "eight tiny reindeer"
with the snowless stunt they had
ahead of them on "the night before
Christmas" Perhaps you haven't
forgotten the rest of the winter, how
the mercury went down to "a degrees
below zero on the morning of jan
uary IA, when the firemen were
| fighting flames in the Red Stone
Front on Main street in Honesdale;
nor how cold and snowy it was all
winter long, one day especially when
the sun shone from early morning
until night, not a cloud in the sky
and the mercury registering zero all
day long. When we consider these
days of severity which followed a
mild Indian Summer we are led to
caution our readers not to sympa-
thize too soon or too seriously with
the ice man in his imaginary troubles
Sa4%<-@#
To obey, or not to obey, we trust
will never be an alternative thrust
upon Mrs. Francis B. Sayre. While
she didn't promise to "obey," quite
likely she will do as she pleases
about it, anyway, for
First, then, woman will, or won't,
depend on It;
If she will do t, she will; and
there's an end on IT,"
4s~4*+#
In Russia there is a sort of nation
al pastime they call "Jew-baiting, !"
the main object of which is to tor
ment and cruelty persecute the Jews
of that so-called Christian land. That
sort of sport is mischief, and it is
more than mischief, for there is NAL
ice back of it. Over from Scranton
comes occasionally details of mischief
that runs quite parallel with the mis-
chief of Garland. On Thanksgiving
evening a poor foreigner was made
drunk with "booze," then tormented
until he shot to death those who were
tormenting him. True, he had no
business with pistol, but it is equal
ly true that he should not have been
filled with poison and then tormented
| until he became crazed. And when
the one who was tormented turned
to the LAW of the city in the form of
police officer for help, he was told
by that keeper of the citys peace to
"go to --!" So much for that
instance. Now for another.
1t is scarcely a year since a man,
1--we regret we cannot recall his
namel, left his home out in the coun-
try beyond Carbondale to go to
Scranton. His wife said he was a
very kind husband, and he was very
particular to return to his home as
near the hour he invariably said he
would as possible. He had one fault.
That fault was he would sometimes
drink too much when among friends.
He drove his own automobile. In
Scranton he fell among-not thieves,
but friends" He drank with them,
and they did something to his auto.
For hour after hour they kept him