The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

What's the use of elocuting?
Better far be baseball roofing"
What's the use of all this wrangling,
Neighbors' troubles disentangling?
On the ocean let's go angling.
Let us have a week of heyday,
Every day shall be a playday,
Come along, for it is payday!
La Touche Hancock, in N. Y. Sun.
g=-5E generally start off this de-
~" partment with little
- something or other that
is&Ie&aI has more or less jingle to it
as well as a local hint ly-
ing back to catch the reader where
he will appreciate what we are try
ing to do, whether we succeed in do
ing it or not; but this time we bor-
row something from the paper that
shines for ALL" and all you have
to do is to change a few words,
('o-cean " to " Pau-pack," for in
stance), and the affair is localized
enough to fill the bill just as well as
if we had ground it out with our
own machine.
In fact Hawley seems to be stu
ated just right to offer ''hey-day" op-
portunities to all who want to enjoy
an occasional play-day. OF course
the pay day" part has something
to do with the said opportunities.
Every train on the Erie from New
York way is much easier to draw
after leaving Hawley on it's way to
Honesdale. From this town large
number reach the nearby lakes, while
others make Hawley their head
quarters. Some come for health,
some for fun, and, we suppose some
come with the hope that out here in
the wilds where we grow berries,
fish and a yearly deer hunt they will
get on trail of some new way of
making something out of nothing in
other words, of causing two dollars
to grow where two pennies were
blighted in the hill ere their coming.
Among those who come for pleas
ure must be counted a small army of
curiosity seekers. Those are the
chaps, you know, who examine all
the little stones they run across,
hoping to discover something new
in the arrow head line. They are
ready to shoulder a crow-bar and
lug it about, occasionally plunging it
cover an Indian burying ground, Of
which there must be many in this
part of the state. Such hunters af-
ter the curious won't have to go far
from Hawley to find satisfaction for
their quest. Down at the Eddy they
will be on the scene Of the capture
of white hunters by the Indians who
marched their prisoners away to-
words the setting sun by following up
the waters of the Middle Creek. One
of these prisoners was relative Of
Hon. F. P. Kimble. of Honesdale.
Out at Tafton they will be shown
an underground passage-way nearly
two miles long that opens on the
LackawaXen river at the Narrows.
Indians used that natural retreat
when they wanted to evade the in
vasions or curiosity of the white
settlers. Better be careful how and
when you try to go through that
passageway, for rattlesnakes now
crawl where Indians used to creep,
and the former are more to be fear
ed than were the latter. AS to ar
rowheads, they are frequently found.
The writer found one a few days ago
on his fiat lands at Hoadleys. 1t is of
red sandstone. He also found a brok-
en- hoe, or ak, and two or three
years ago he found a beautiful speci-
men of stone used as a killing toma-
hawk or battle-aX. The past Spring
a son of Dan'l Kuhn, of Adelia, found
a stone spear point in the vicinity of
the Wangum falls. In fact this en-
tire section is filled with the mater
ial from which historians and ro-
mancers mffiake books; and what
greater pleasure awaits anybody
than to drop the everyday cares OF
life for time, especially at this sea-
son of the year, and go sightseeing
among them?