TIIE SCRAXTOX TRIBUNE SATURDAY MOPuNLNU, DECEMBER 29, 18U4.
Sfrpng Reminder
of City's Past
Henry Xi. Jones Speaks About Our
Oldest Industry.
MOKE THAN FOKTY YEARS AGO
It Wus Then Tlmt He Began Work in the
. Old Rolling Mill and He Has Been
' l tnploycd in and About
t It Ever Since.
When a resident of the city of Scran
ton wishes to look about him and In
quire In an Interesting way concerning
the objects of history connected with
the development and extraordinary
growth of this, the fourth largest city
in Pennsylvania and the metropolis of
,the anthracite coal fields, there Is one
spot first and foremost to attract ob
servation and which deserves foremost
consideration. Tlmt Is the old rolling
mill of the present Lackawanna Iron
and Steel company.
This plant Is situated along the Roar
ing Brook creek and Is located a little
distance above that point of the stream
where the new Spruce street bridge will
span it when built. The mill at present
Is a little over a half century old, and
It may, be truthfully said that it wus
the beginning of the great Electric
City.
Ifar back In the early forties whep the
Indians hunted In these parts and fish
abounded in the Lackawanna river,
which was then quite a pretentious
Stream of spring water, a hardy band
of enterprising capitalists settled here
and began the erection of the old roll
ing mill, the first Industrial plant built
In northeastern Pennsylvania. These
people were the Scranton brothers und
J. C. Piatt. The facts connected with
this brief sketch are not meant to fur
nish a history of the city from the be
ginning. They are to deal exclusively
with scenes and incidents at the old
rolling mill as related to the writer by
ft man who has spent the past forty-
three years of his life as an employe
at the mill. This man is the one whose
photograph is reproduced In this ar
ticle, Henry W. Jones, of 522 Harrison
avenue. He Is now employed as watch
man at the small shanty which can be
.c? in the cut representing a look
up the stream; his station is at the
tipper end of the view and adjoins the
bridge crossing the creek.
' Came Here in 185 1.
When. Mr. Jones, who is now nearly
70 years of age, came to this country
from Wales In 1851 and moved his fam
ily to this region, the territory where
the city proper now marks Its out
lines was known as Slo'cum Hollow.
There were scarcely 3,000 Inhabitants
between WllkesrBarre and Carbondale,
and nature with air its wild and un
trained grandeur wasevident on all
sides. The future Scranton at that
time possessed, indeed, a truly wild and
woolly appearance.
Joseph H. Scranton, and In fact all
the owners of the Iron works, were idol
,. lZed by the employes. Selden T. Scran
ton was president of the company when
Mr. Jones came here and the firm went
by the name of Scranton & Piatt, which
was subsequently changed to the Lack
awanna Iron and Coal company, nnd
later, within a few years' recolloctlon,
to the Lackawanna Iron and Steel com
pany, i
First -nihen the old rolling mill was
built 'the number of employes corre
sponded with the small size of the
. Plant and the crudity of the machinery
n vogue ait that time In the iron-mak-
. .-''-.
The Old'
ng Industry. The manufacture of steel
then was an unknown quantity and not
discovered and made practicable until
almost the time When the war broke
out. Iron sjlkes and merchant iron
were the fii-st articles wrought at tha
rolling mill &nl the .number of employes
In 1862, ten years nftnr ithn first ntr.no
was laid on the foundation, had in-
cieawu 'len-roiu and then ampunted to
about 400 men and boys. These were the
old tlnwss prior to the change to steel
rails when it is told of the fabulous
wages paid to itlhe puddlers.
Puddlers Out of Work.
There ware elxty puddlers employed
ait the mill and.wihen the company be
gan the manufacture of steel the pud
dim mill was ehuii dawn, the fires ex
tinguished and dn faw years the grafts
was growing In what had been the most
important part of the establishment.
In another nartltlon of the mill steel
rails were being tunned out by improved
machinery, giving a forcible illustration
of the rapidity with which conditions
ohamge 4n this' progressive country
where new and better methods are con
stantly superseding the old.
The puddlers, among whom were Mr.
Jones, struggled against being separat
ed from their furnaces, but they were
powerless to Btay the wiheels of pro
gress and were sadly compelled to ac
commodate themselves to the mew con
ditions of affairs. They still speak with
affectionate 'regret of 'the f'good old
days" when they worked before the
flaming furnaces and earned salaries
that in these days appear princely. Mr.
Jones spoke with feeling about these
days that have gone and, related many
Interesting incidents that occurred In
tihat old puddling mill.
Many Changes llnvo Been Made.
Additions and Innovations were made
from time to time, and at present the
mill stands as represented in this por
trait, fully equipped as it has been for
more ithan twenty years with machin
ery obl(to turn out steel rails or steel
fish plates, as the order may be. All
that Is necessary is to change the rolls,
wJiiloh can be done in less itha.n an h :tir
and the mill is raady for the manufac
tuie of ona or the other. Industry has
been absent from the mill far a Hale
more thain a monlth and Jt Is commonly
rei cried that work Will resume tln-re
again in a brief space aflter the beg'n
ninjr of -1 lie coming year. It Is a com
mon impression Chat the old mill hns
boen abandoned as a relic of the past,
as something that had outgrown iu
usefulness. This lis a most erroneous
Impression, as it 4ias been operated
ceaselessly, with the exception of the
usual Idle spells that were felt at the
other mills. In fact, the old rolling mill
worked when the North works and
South works were many times idle.
Quite as Interesting -as the mill Itself
is thetdam tllmt Is seen In the view up
the stream. It was built the same year
for the purpose of supplying water to
the boilers that generated steam to pro
pel the machinery. It abounded with
fish and sportsmen spent many pleas
ant hours along its banks. But as the
years sped by civilization reaching out
settled along the Roaring Brook creek
and the water became polluted so that
the fish died and the boilers would rust
with Its use. Now it Is more omamen-
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View of "Old" Rolling Mill.
tal than useful except that is furnishes
a small amount of water for cooling the
rolls and like purposes.
Golden Days at the Mill.
The period which the old time em
ployes of the mill like to speak about
with tenderest recollection of the happy
bygone days Is the period during the
war. That was the time when wages
were hlgh and work superabundant.
Employes were almost as scarce in
comparison with the demand as wives
are in a western mining town. Mr.
Jones tells that the late D. B. Brainard
of this city, who was before the war
and aljout that time foreman at the
mill, used to spend hours at the Dela
ware, Lackawanna and Western depot
watching all Incoming trains, ready to
extend a warm hand to all "green
horns" arriving.'
These were the days when a laborer
was paid for his dally toll as much
as the skilled mechanic Is now paid.
Among all who worked in the rolling
mill In those days and are now living
a bond of fellowship to a remarkable
extent exists. Mr. Jones says that If
he meets a man who worked with him
In the mill in those early days that he
Is as proud to shake his hand and as
happy to welcome him as If he had been
a long lost brother, seen for the first
time since both were boys together.
The old rolling mill sounds with the
same cadence as the . "Old Oaken
Bucket" or "The Old Mill Stream."
A visit now to It is frought with sug
gestions of the romantic ruins of the
old and ancient gnist, mills of poetry.
Mill Dam.
I It is situated along the'stream, walled
in by picturesque banks and has a
charm about about It In Its stillness
that Is Inspiring.
He Is One of tho Very rW.
1 Mf. Jones is one of the few In these
parts who spent his early manhood,
prime of life, and declining years an an
artisan under the old mill's roof. Three
of Ms sons were killed In the employ of
the company, the last being John B
who met his death last October, with
two others, Instantly by a fall of rock
In the Pine Brook shaft. He Is," he be
lieves, the only one that has not an
swered the long roll call, who was a
worker In those early days; when, as he
expresses It, "no one would think that
Scranton would ever be what It Is."
During the past half dozen years this
old soldier on Scranton's frontier has
been resting on the easy side of life.
He takes a pride In his long unbroken
years of service for the company and
they have rewarded him with a posl-
tlon as watchman at a perfunctory
post.
To visitors and to its own citizens
Henry W.' Jones.
Scranton can offer no more Interesting
or suggestive view than the old rolling
mill herewith sketched.
THE WESTEKX GIRL.
Octave Thnnct Says There Are the Con
ventional and the Unconventional, but
They Are Always Jolly.
There may be things which the West
ern girl lacks; but one thing she surely
has that is a good time! There still
Is, and, much more, there was,- a pic
turesque social liberty In the average
Western towns whereby the girls and
boys have profited. The laws of con
duct were few. "Nice" girls could do
things which, would .make a woman
reared In a more conventional atmo
sphere shudder to hear.
The conventional woman did not con
sider that the liberty accorded to the
Western girl was matched by the re
spect exacted of the Western man. It
certainly appear an audacious breach
not only of conventions, but of common
propriety for a girl of 19 to drive away
with a boy of 22, take supper in a pub
lic restaurant and come home by moon
light. Yet the boy would no more
dream of thinking lightly of the girl
than the girl dreams that she is expos
ing herself to criticism.
We disapprove, most of us, who have
lived much in the world, of such ac
tions; but nevertheless, there is a kind
of Innocence about It that Is touching.
These darling girls become the best of
wives, the most devoted of mothers, and
outside of their homes carry their en
ergy and gay-hearted courage into all
manner of charity and good works.
Perhaps the bold young man who mar
ries one should be punished for not
having married a more demure and
modest creature; as a matter of fact, he
Isn't. He goes about, blissfully ignor
ant that his wife has brushed off the
evanescent first bloom of modesty, that,
like the down of a peach you will all
remember the rest. He thinks that she
Is as sweet and Innocent as a girl can
be. And so, very often, she Is, although
she has not had a chaperon in her life,
and has read any novel that she cared
to read, and calls her masculine ac
quaintances by their Christian names.
But In her heart she may not have
half the cynical wisdom of an eastern
society girl who has been most care
fully trained.
She has a simple belief In the decency
of men. She knows, It Is true, that
young Eddy, who has such beautiful
eyes and sings so delightfully, some
times drinks more thun Is good for him;
but she knows no more. Why her father
should look so black when Ralph calls
she cannot Imagine. To her Ralph
seems a wit and a lovely fellow. Nobody
else sends her such llowers, or can pay
little attentions with such a bewitching
half tender, all worship olr. And
Ralph Is a good business man, too, so
what has got into papa to make him
so horrid? One day, perhaps (for the
child Is not the least bit in love with
Ralph, It is only her fancy and her
vanity that are engaged), she will
frankly ask her father, who Is the big
gest and In many ways the nicest of
her chums, why he doesn't like Ralph.
And If her father Is wise, he. will tell
her as frankly as she has asked. But
he will blush, the honest, faithful
husband that he Is, while he stammers
through his story.
It Takes Drains.
From the Chicago Record.
No one will be surprised to learn that
prize lighters consider foot ball brutal. It
requires a prize fighter's Intellect to make
these delicate distinctions.
As to tho Too Officious Helper.
Prom the Wllkes-Hnrre leader.
The Brrunton Tribune is right hi tills
far the mun who goes Into the booth to
help the voter vote, should be sut upon,
This Old Country.
Good times or bad times, we're with this
country still;
With her on the mountain top, or slldln'
down the hill!
Don't cure how corn'B a-Sellln' If cot
ton's high or low;
This old country, brethren, Is the best
one that we know!
dood times, or bnd times, wo'ro In this
country still; ,
Every time wo feel her shake we have a
friendly chill! ,
Don't care how things Is goln nor how
the temuests blow.
This here old country,' brethren, Is the
uvni mat we Know!
Good times, or bad times, we're In this
country still;
With her when we sow the grain, an'
when we go to mill. ,
Don't care what's In the future: we'll
. whistle as we go,
For this old country, brethren, Is the best
one inav we Know I ,
Atlanta Constitution.
English Decisions
: flboiif America
They Expect -.Yankees to Keqr Long
Hair and Howie Knives.
HAZY IDEAS OP OIK POLITICS
Wherever Miss Kaiser Goes She Is Impor
tuned to Diugruih the American Polit
ical Situation and Ex plain Away Nil
. merous Anglicun Misconceptions.
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
London, Dec. 13 I most sincerely
hope you didn't publish that prosy old
letter which I sent last week. It was
dreadfully gossipy and mean to the
queen to say all those uncharitable
things about her that I dld.: I nm
ashamed of myself, Indeed, for writing
them, even If they are true. But I only
meant to show you, by what I said,
that the reigning families do not have
such a very good time in this world
after all. They really do not have
nearly so entertaining and pleasing nnd
happy a life as one of Us blessed United
States people, who do what we please
and are, really und actually, every one
of us, the bona fide kings and queens.
I get gladder every day that I hall from
the great United States, for I think we
are the people who progress.
I have Just returned from the Royal
Academy, where, as It happens, I have
been having quite a long talk with Miss
May John and Miss Bessie Evans, who
are also studying there, and who will
be remembered by many Scrantonlans
and Wllkes-Burreans as the principal
soprano and contralto of the Welsh
Ladles' choir when they were In Amer
ica. Mlsa John, you recollect, had the
extreme good luck to carry off the
World s fair soprano prize at Chicago.
She asked me after many Scranton peo
ple, chief among whom were Judge and
Mrs. Edwards, by whom she says she
was so delightfully entertained that she
can never forget It. Miss Evans and
she were enthusiastic over America and
the good time they had while there, and
I, In my turn, could not forbear singing
the praises of their own denr little
Wales, whose people had been so very
kind and hospitable to us thnt l cannot
forget them either. Only last week
there came a perfectly lovely big box of
flowers up to me from Wales to
brighten my little den here, and make
me think lovingly of the big hearted
friends who could find time to go out
Into their flower gardens and strip the
late rose bushes and the holly trees and
the chrysanthemums. And then the
violets, too! Oh, how lovely they were.
Welsh Girls In London.
Speaking of the Welsh girls, to whom
I was talking about home today, there
are a great many dear friends that I
have made at the Academy and quite a
number of them are bright, brainy
Welsh girls, some of whom I met this
summer, down in Wales, and whom,
when I came up and entered the acad
emy late In October, I was overjoyed to
find already there. So it wus not so
strange as if I had no friends there at
all. There are a great many Welsh
girls and men up in London studying
music and the other arts; and, by the
way, the most distinguished pupil at
the .Royal Academy, at the present time
Is a dear little Welsh young lady named
Miss Llewella Davles. She Is a wonder
fully. clever girl and .composes and
plays most charmingly. I wonder If
she has any relatives on' our side of the
water. If she hus, they can be right
proud of her, I am sure. She holds
numerous prizes, medals and scholar
ships, and though a wonderfully hard
student, yet finds time to fill many en
gagements In the city here. Misses May
John-and Bessie Evans are among the
promising students here also. Of
course, they do not belong to Mrs.
Clara Davles' Welsh Ladles' choir any
longer, as they left It, much to the dis
appointment and chagrin of Its fair
leader, for the purpose of study. They
tell me that Mrs. Dalies parted with
them In very high dudgeon, us they
were her show singers, so to speak,
and she became very angry when they
spoke of leaving the organization,
which, of course, was not doing any
thing in the way of advancement In
their studies for them, and which cer
tainly was not a paying Investment for
any one but the leader. It seems to
me that It Is a great thing for these
gifted young Welshmen and Welsh
women to have London and all Its ad
vantages so near to their doors. They
bring such unquestionable tulent, such
fine physique and voice, up to the
teachers here that the rapid progress
made by them as a cluss is proverbial.
Possessed with the most emotional na
ture, many of them become splendid
exponents of the dramatic art, and
blessed with the love of literature, many
are the successes achieved by them in
all Its branches; while in the realms of
music, both the composers und singers
of note who come from the land of tho
Cymrl are too many, to be counted. I
do not wonder thut the Welsh-Americans
have done so much toward the
general spreudlng of an appreciation
for music among the masses In our
country.' Their eisteddfods are a most
wonderful assistance In this respect.
We realize this when wo consider that
at every succeeding one as many as
from 'fifty to a hundred people, say.
who never before took any active In
terest In music of any kind, become so
deeply Interested In what they have
heard that they are moved to begin
the study of some Instrument or other,
while many of thoHo who before had
some knowledge of the subject are
Bpurred on to still greater efforts In
their work or to the study of yet dif
ferent branches of that art which Is
the widest and deepest and altogether
the most boundless of all the arts.
Chapels and Churches
I went to church with one of the
girls here lust Sunday. All the
churches over here which are not Epis
copal, or English, are called "chapels,"
not churches. When I spoke one Sun
day morning of finding a church near,
they asked me if I were high or low
church, and upon my telling them thut
I was neither, they all chorused; "Why,
then, you aren't church at nil, are
you? You want a. chapel." So all
Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans,
and so forth, are "Chnpel folks."
Chapels are scurce in our neighborhood,
so I went to church near by with one of
the girls, who lent me a church service
for my own particular use all this year
until I go home again. They have no
ushers In the church here to come and
politely escort a stranger to a sent, but
visitors must stand In the aisles, near
the doors, and wait until a little old
woman, who hustles about and opens
the .doors of the pews for the Important
parlshoners as they come In until she.
as I was saying, is not very busy, and
then she will come back and put one
Into an empty pew. Sometimes there
are long lines of visitors standing
meekly In the aisles In the back of the
church, waiting to be stowed away
somewhere by this little old pew
opener. She Is a very picturesque lit
tle body, and makes you think of an ,
old story book or of a scrap of Dickens,
but as an article of usefulness I don't
very, much- admire her. Our American
ushers are so much more expeditious
aud hospitable. It seems to me.
Dec. 15. I am Just home from Dr,
Bridge's second lecture, about which I
cannot forbear telling you. You see,
the other day was the anniversary of
the death of Mozart, und so the Doctor
seized this opportunity to give us a talk
on that composer. Dr. Bridge Is, as 1
said before, the organist at Westmins
ter Abbey and Is n collector of every
thing Interesting In the way of music.
such as autographs, old manuscripts
and such things, besides old instiu
ments. I took copious notes of his talk.
It was, very Instructive. One thing he
said that was new to me was that Mo
aart was very fond of the minuet, wihlch
he danced beautifully. We all know
what an exqulnite gentleman Mozart
was, but the interesting thing about
this was llialt a string quartette which
was then to Illustrate some of the
music, played an unpublished minuet
which Mozai't wrote for ihlmself and to
the music of which he danced more fre
quently thAn to any other, i This was In
manuscript, under a glass cover, but It
was played nevertheless. Dr. Bridge
was the favorite pupil of the late Sir
Jrlhn Goss, who was, In his time, the
pupil of old Thomas Atwood, and
Thomas Atwood was, about 120 years
ago, the favorite pupil of Mozart him
self. Now, all of Atwood's exercises in
the different kinds of composition were
corrected by Mozart, -his teacher, who
also wrote frequent .examples for his
pupil, and often composed little things
like the minuet of whidh I spoke, wdiich
he presented to Atwood, wiho preserved
them all, and brought them home to Eng
land with him. Upon his death he be
queathed these to 'his pupil, Sir John
Goss, who In turn gave them to Dr.
Bridge Just before ihis death. The Doc
tor keeps them In two glass oases, but
we were allowed to see them. Slgnor
Alberto Rsirdeggu, a professor ait tha
Academy, also brought ten pieces of
Moaart's music, all of them unpublished
titling quartette and double quartette
linings. These he would not let go out
of his hands, but It 'happened that I had
the pleasure of holding them In mine,
anyway. I was standing at his side,
closely pressed up to the piano by the
crowd back of me, and I Inadvertently
said, aloud, as he leafed them over.
"Oh, I wlfh I could touch them," wihen
around he turned and grabbed my hand
In the funniest manner and laid It 'flat
on the MSS.! Then he took them and
put them between my thumb and first
finger, saying "Now, little girl, are
you satisfied?" I was covered with
confusion that I 'had made a goose of
myself by .thinking out loud. Every
body laughed at him, he is suoh a funny
little old man. Ills head Is all bald
and shiny and as round as a ball, al
most. He only has a few little white
curls near his collar. He Is very old
and dreadfully eccentric, his pupils say,
Some of Mourt's Manuscripts.
The MSS. were all written rather
da:intlly und neatly dated, some of them,
from 177G to 17S5 and 1786, und had cor
rections to Atwood written In his own
writing besides some little notes to At
wood, as "Wait for me until three and a
half, when I will roturn," with hlB
autograph. So I had 'the happiness of
seeing many things written by his own
hand; one of them, whloh I ought not
to mention, was a correction made by
him, of one of Atwood's exercises and
above it the trenohant, but uncompll
mentary remark, "You are an idiot."
He must have been out of patience with
his pupil. Teachers do get so some
times. I have an extensive experiment
al knowledge of that faat.
I have been very busy lately, and
have not had time to go about sight
seeing much at all. I shall begin soon,
however, to try to go to at least one
point of Interest a week, und so get
some little Idea of the wonders of this
great place before my year in London
Is gone, and with it .Its opportunities,
I have so many lectures and concerts
to which I want to go, at night, be
sides my studies, which I must try to
attend to during the day, that my time
is full to tho brim. And right here let
me say, too, that I am perfectly aware
that I make many a mistake, In iths
hurried litters which I send to you, for
whloh errors please accept my apolo
gies now for every one w.hldh creeps In,
and then I won't have to keep apologiz
ing. They are scrawled off very hur
riedly and I never have the time either
to read them over or to correct them If
I did. So Just take them, If you take
them at nil, as very hurried, breathless
scatter-brained Jottings down of some
of the many bewildering things that
happen to a young girl in the world's
largest city.
Some Pictures of Hades.
Dec. 16. Last night just before din
ner two of the girls rushed Into my
room and asked If I cared to go to hear
Berlioz's "Faust" with thorn. They
had gotten tickets and one of them a
perfect angel, tho Scutch one Indulged
In a ticket for me too, so that they
could take me along. Of course I was
the happiest mortal mlive all through
dinner, during which function I could
not be suppressed, do wibat they would
to make me and my spirits subside.
Well, to get on, we went, and we sat In
the "fitalls," as they call the dress circle
here, and I had pretty ladies with love
ly dresses and beautiful opeiu cloaks
all around me where I could look at
mid admire und fall In love with them,
and wonder how it felt to have dia
monds In one's hair, and lace fans, and
silver lorgnettes to look through, and
to look severe and calm and superior
and "smart" and all that. Of course J
enjoyed Berlioz, especially the orches
tration, which In this work Is superb.
I should think It would be a feasible
plan to take sinners to hear the last
two acts of this opera Instead of
preaching sermons about the lower
regions to them. Lota of people have
gotten hardened to sermons by this
time; but If they just heard the sound
painting, of the terrors and furies
which await the ungodly below stairs,
which the orchestration in this work
gives, I'm morally certain they would
endeavor to mend their ways without
any unnecessary delay. The chorus
was very good, the orchestra magnifi
cent, taking In every Instrument whluh
Is used In orchestra; the soloists a
Faust, a Margaret and a Mephistophe
les were so so. The conductor, I must
not forgft, was Sir Joseph Barnby him
self. Dee. 1". Last night we went down to
Queen's hall to hear a Schumann con
cert. Everything oh the programme
vocal, piano and string was by Franz
Schumann. I enjoyed some of It very
much, and some I didn't. I heard some
very good ballad singers, though.
London, by the way, Is ballad-mad Just
now, and there are ballads on every
programme, while the big London bal
lad concerts are attended by throngs
every time there Is one on; and as for
ballad singers, why, their name Is le
gion, and they range all the way from
the very best, among whom Is May
Calwulder Darien, whom a great many
of us heard at the Word's fair, down to
the very poorest "executioners."
Among Curious Britishers. .
Tonight I have a dinner party to go
to. So I must don the only evening
dress which has survived the ravages
of the wear and tear of our concert tour
In Wales, and go forth to dine with a
lot of people among whom I know only
the fair hostess. I don't want to go,
but I must, so there's no use complain
ing over It. I am rather shy of meeting
Btrangers, for as soon as I open my
mouth to say a word people all look at
me and say, "Ah! you're ait American
aren't you?" and then they ask ques
tions. If they are men they must needs
know all about the present tariff, or
lack of It, rather, and about American
tin and how many woolen manufacto
ries I think we have, and who will be
the next president Cleveland (for
whom they have a very tender feeling),
or a Republican, now? Ad what Is the
real difference between a Republican
and a Democrat, anyway? And are
there not a great many smaller political
parties springing up, drawing their
numbers from the Republican party,
and which will eventually "smash"
said party, etc.? I am tired to death of
airing my limited knowledge of poll
tics, but when I turn from these ques
tions there are tho women, who are al
most as funny as "the men.i They say
that I am not at all their Ideal Ameri
can girl; that all Americans talk loudly
and In a high key, but I don't at all.
Then they expect me to (make grammati
cal errors galore In my speech, and to
clww gum and stick It under the table
during meals, and to use unlimited
slang. But I really can't do all that,
you know, my education In this direc
tion having been rather neglected, and
hence I am a surprise, and must I say
It? a disappointment to lots of English
girls. The girls at the house here are
simply lovely to me, and I am afraid
I shall be almost spoiled before I am
home again. They think some of the
things I say are very odd Indeed. For
Instance, they new heard any one use
the word "cute" before, and whenever
I say anything Is cute, they all chorus,
"Oh, yes! how 'cute!' " and then they
laugh. They are very much amused
by my "accent," as they say. They do
not pronounce their r's at all, but
avoid them as religiously as any New
Yorker, and I say my r's always, I
hope. This amuses them mightily, as
does the little exclamation, "Just think
of It!" or "Only think!" which I have
gotten Into the habit of saying a great
deal. They think It Is "too 'cute' for
anything," as they remark In Imitation
of me. Then, somehow, I cannot say
the-word "little" Just light for them.
They laugh at me there, too, and in
various other ways I seem to amuse
them. You would think I was the nicest
and most entertaining talking dolly
that they had ever discovered. A fun
ny thing for which I cannot account
at all is that the English, when they
Spell anything with a z in it call it zed,
not z. I asked why and told the girls
that we called that letter z, and they
called that extremely funny. ' Zed Isn't
In Greek. . Is It Hebrew? It isn't Ger
man, nor French. Or are we wrong
perhaps, in calling It "z," not "zed?"
If I could find out about that I think I
should be quite Interested.
Some Knglish Delusions.
The English idea of American girls
Is that we are all Jielresses. Even the
girls here say that all Americans are
more or less rich. But, having me to
live with them here, I can safely say
that I think their benighted minds will
soon become disabused of this idea,
with such a living example of Young
America before them.
Dec. 18. I had a dlstractlngly good
time at the dinner last night. The
people were all simply charming to me,
and no one talked shop, viz. America.
I was so afraid I should not enjoy meet
ing so many strangers, and all English,
too, but I was simply in a delightful
state of mind with everybody, and
everything all evening, and when the
tlma came for me to go home I was as
shocked as Cinderella to find It so
dreadfully late. I'm tired now; I have
been to so many things this week and
looked at so many things that my very
eyes feel rusty at the hinges. But I
must turn over a new leaf on New
Year's Day. Perhaps It Isn't good for
students to have such lovely times.
Sadie E. Kaiser.
This Is Indeed News.
From the Lebanon Dally News.
Relying upon the reliability as well ns
credibility of one of our exchanges we
said several days ago that "for the first
time In Its history Lackawunna county
has a prisoner on hand who has been
found guilty of murder In tho first de
gree, nnd will likely be hung." We have
since discovered that this Is a mistake
and that we have done the county great
Injustice. Instead of huving such a clean
record, as we were led to suppose, Lacka
wanna has had a number of red-handed
criminals, of whom live have been made
to pay the death penalty and the sixth is
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