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THE SOIIANTON TRIBUNE-MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1902.
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Housekeeping Made Easy
N FORMER TIMES the thrifty housewife with limited purse had
to make ends meet by personally visiting the various stores in
order to get the advantage of bargain offerings. -
But nowadays the telephone comes to her assistance. When
she reads in her morning paper what the stores are offering she has
simply to call them up and give her orders. The whole day's sup
plies may thus be secured in less than the time that she used to
have to take in donning her street dress for the tour of the shop
ping district, to say nothing of saving in footwear, car-fare and
physical exertion. The 'phone pays for itself many times over in
actual cash saved, not to mention how convenient it is in stormy
weather or when sudden illness in the home calls for the presence
of the family doctor.
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Let the Pennsylvania Telephone Company talk to you
further along this line.
Send it word and an agent will call.
CROWS SWARM
GULP SUMMIT
ACCORDING TO WHITNEY THEY
ATTACK CATTLE AND SHEEP.
Hunters Unable to Kill the Birds.
Chief Justice McCollum Improved
in Health Man's Right to a Home.
Live News Told in Paragraphs.
Railroad Rumors.
Special to tlio Scranton Trlunnw.
Susquehanna, Dec. 21. For wceiin
torfst crows, to the number estimated
at 1,000, have swarmed in a mountain
above Guir Summit, feeding in the
barnyards along the river In the day
time and collecting at night In the
trees on the top or the mountain. About
dusk these birds gather in from the
burroundlng country in myriads, and
the noise they make by their shrill
'caw! caw!" Is almost deafening. Fre
quently they alight in such vast num
bers on the trees that large limbs are
broken under their weight. On Satur
day a black cloud of these birds was
crossing the Erie tracks when the
emoko of a passing englno blinded
them. They Hew against the sides of
the swiftly moving cars, and parties
who watched the strange scene, count
ed nearly 200 that had met death. A
party of Deposit hunters armed them
selves with shotguns, a few days ago,
with the avowed Intention of ridding
tin) roost of the shiny, black horde. Six
of them shot and killed 175 crows in
less than two hours, but at the end of
that thuo the diminution of the birds
wuh not noticeable, and the hunters left
the mountain In disgust. During the
recent blizzard the birds, maddened by
hunger, attacked cattle and sheep in
tho barnyards and were driven away
with diniculty. The hoise of a HoneH
ihtle peddler was recently attacked on
tho highway, near State Line, by a
largo number of the birds. Tho peddler
saved his steed by furious driving, und
by throwing n bundle or sheepskins off
Ills sleigh to appease tho hunger of tho
black horde.
Matters in Brief,
William O, Scamans has tiled a peti
tion In voluntary bankruptcy,
Tito funeral of the late William
Prentice, one or the oldest residents of
Susquehanna, took place on Thursday
There Is moiu Catarrh hi tills bectlon of
the country, tluiii all other diseases put
together, ana until tho lust few ycurs was
supposed to bo Incurable. For a gtcat
many years doctors pronounced it a local
dlscuso and m escribed local icmedU-b, ami
by constantly falling to cure with Joenl
treatment, pronounced It incurable. Scl.
once has proven catarrh to bo a cnustl.
tutlonal disease unci theiefoiu requires
ronstltutlmml treatment, thill's Cutanh
Cure, manufactured by I J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only Lonutllu
tlonal cure on the market. It is taken
internally In doses from JO drops to a tea
spoonful. Jt acts directly on tho blood
and mucous surfaces of tho system.
They offer one hundred dollais for any
cano it falls to cure. Bend for clrculuis
find testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO..
a Toledo, O.
Sold byT)ruBgUts 75c.
lull's Family PI1U are- the !l
afternoon, Rev. J. L. "Williams, pastor
of the Baptist church, ofllclatlng.
Chief Justice J. Bruce McCollum, o
the state Supreme court, is spending
the holidays at his home at Montrose.
lie is much improved In health, and In
January will resume his duties upon
the bench.
Michael Shanahan, a pi eminent Sus
quehanna, business man, is in very
poor health.
Tho Rt. Rev. Bishop Ethelbert Tal
bot, D. D bishop of Central Pennsyl
vania, otllciated and continued n class
In Grace Episcopal church, Oakland,
on Thursday afternoon.
The funeral or the late Mrs. Ira
Ciawfard, an aged resident of Stevens
Point, will take place from the Slovens
Point Methodist church m Friday af
ternoon, tho pastor, Rev. David T
Meeker, olllclatlng. Interment will be
made In the .Lanes-born cemetery.
Man's Right to a Home.
The lion. Galusha A. Crow, of this
county, made -his first speech in con
gress more than fifty years agu on
"Land for the Landless; or, Man's
Right to the Soil." The speech was
made in advueacy of a homestead bill
Introduced by himself to secure) "free
homes for free men." The homestead
bill wns of Incalculable benellt to the
west. It sent over 0,000,000 farmers
from the older states and Europe to
build up new commonwealths. It put
millions of ncres out of the hands of
the speculators. It gave us a new land
system which, with amendments that
have been adopted from time to time,
hns given us an ever increasing army
of home-makers, upon whom rest "the
pillars of tho lepubllc." Mr. Grow has
lived to see the realization of his dream
of "free homesteads for free'iiien." Will
any of his associates In congress live to
see the full realization of his dream us
to "the comfort of the home and tho
happluess of the fireside of labor?"
Just Between "Us.
A Jleetlng show The theatrical com
pany which jumps its board bill.
The trouble with men who "go to tho
devil," Is that they contituio to stay
with us,
Next to ti good mother, the best
friend uny man has Is a dollar note,
After n man finishes putting up n
stove pipo und thawing out the wnter
pipes, tlto family parrot has to be put
nut ot the room when the minister
calls.
Few of us ever discover bigots among
those who agree with us In our religious
convictions.
An exchange consumes u quarter uf a
column of space in teaching Its readers
how to keep warm. This Is nioro brief
Oo Into politics.
Mummies guaranteed to bo 5,000 years
old may now be purchased in Europe
for $85 apiece. Cheap enough. But the
merchant mummy who doesn't adver
tise glyes himself away for nothing.
In a Paragraph,
The Urlo has Just received six new
passenger locomotives from tho Bald
win Locomotive works at Philadelphia.
Some of them will run from Jersey City
to Susquehanna, with a change of en
gineer and llreman at Payt Jervls.
Mrs. Zlpron C. Bell, a fanner resident
of Susquehanna, is deud at her Kite
home In Carbondale.
The present board of county com
missioners held their final meeting at
Montrose on Thuisday.
In Hogan opera house, January 26,
a "spectacular Carnival," will be held,
under the auspices of the Dorcas so
ciety of the Presbyterian church, and
under the direction of Prof. Benson,
of Blnghamton.
In the Oakland Methodist church on
Sunday evening, Hon. W. J. Welsh, of
Blnghamton, delivered an address and
oignnlzed a chapter of the Brotherhood
of St. Paul.
The City National Bank of Susque
hanna will elect offlccrs January 13.
There are no new developments at
the Steam Hollow oil well.
It Is expected that Rev. M. J. Wat
kins, pastor of the Hullslead Baptist
I'hruch, who has been ill at Scranton
for several weeks, will resume his paa
ioi ale on Sunday next.
Various Vagaries.
She could swing a six-pound dumbbell,
She could fence and she could box;
She could row upon tho river,
She could clumber upon the rocks;
She could do some heavy bowling,
And play tenuis all day long
But she coudn't help her mother,
Cause she "wasn't very strong."
It's a nice old saw that knows who
tiled It last.
Most men are "shortest" during tho
holidays.
We always- know what is best for
our neighbors,
I hear the bells on Christinas day,
Their old familiar carols ploy,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
About time to "set" those New Year
resolutions.
With coal at $10 a ton and oil at thir
teen cents a gallon, it will bo In order
for a motion to change "Trustees df
Providence,"
Postscripts, aa 'Twere.
A number of Erie firemen have been
promoted to engineers.
The Thompson creamery has been
leased to the Campbell Milk company,
of New York city.
Hallsteud Is enjoying a boom. It de.
serves it.
Tho Improvements to tho County
court house are approaching comple
tion. Richard Brush, of Susquehanna, will
become sheriff of Susquehanna county,
January 1. He will bo the first Demo
cratic sheriff In about twenty years.
The Erie Is doing an Immense freight
and coal business. Good Republican
times.
Whitney,
Good News.
It will bo good news to the mothers
of small clhldren to learn that croup
can bo prevented. Tho first sign of
croup Is hoarseness. A day or two be
fore the attack tho child becomes
hoarse, This is soon followed by a pe
culiar rough cough. Give Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy freely as soon us
tho child becomes hoarse, or even after
the rough cough uppeats, and It will
dispel all symptoms of croup. In this
way all dungcr und anxiety may be
avoided. This remedy Is used by many
thousands of mothers and has never
been known to fall. It is, in fact, the
only remedy that can always be de
pended upon and that is pleasant and
sufe to tuke. For sale by all druggists.
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