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Show RU LATEST TROMPNSYLVAN.A.. i cast-jus- So many of the former residents of Ptehts Tallodip! and J man'who would not drinkider under I Of the Keystone state have asked me I warned by the stern voice of the old those circumstances is a heathen. DOOt. ..('.v. course he is. And a criminal to questions concerning a recent Bhort man, were so careful about visit to the hemlock covered nasb with the odor so creeping so bael I Pennif so so pleasant so alluring, vil-frequently have inquired 1 insinuating, walks around, the pride of the aad I . and Ah, thats gg a hying monument of the so indefinably delicious. sylvania is the same old place g stuff. Made sour kraut. genuine same Old, whether its people live in the advantage of living a good, temperate, i t i 1 Vivecd - i i . rtss sawfta ara ajo in boys and girls together, bo saw most of us be- - tenderly, but firmly tramped down of c I ' lines barefooted a few a boy write , to benefit I am fain, barrel, by any one eise did not excepting the clean 9 years, who Sot three pennies I his about their to drug used home. By keep our mothers, concerning and red green lights in for the work and wouldhavegotfour the with store Postmaster C Thomas, Allen E mean has been but that was all she had. Pint of salt doctor The G. H. L. 8. McCartney, Hague, his fathers these many to a barrel o kraut. Not an ounce t0 I it, ask Jim zel, Judge Bartch, Dennis Eichnor rs Ed and Minnie live just west more. If you dont believe I across the wbere the armory used to stand, Harvey. He knows. Board and a thousand others. Although the I days top with a big stone from the crik names iu this narrative are different, where the company drilled in theFrank Lf to hold it down and then left ninety thft Springfield, and I every last one of them will apprec a house on the spot days before being touched. That s haye joe I statement made, where we used to take the prone posi- - sour kraut. Ach. Gott, mein leiber and. recognize every I range. Gott! What would Billy Young or for in one respect all Pennsylvanians tion in firing at the Cas- - Finch say to serving that ambrosia Bailey, him as married a are alike ana.uiat likeness was in Shacktown, acroSs the counter for forty cents an lives up still ne of the the ated by. similarity J hen the boys go up to Sheiks order? Their cooks wouldnt know I hit stuff. And ings of their childhood. This little d beg pardon its Lake Something how to handle the precious Made meat. is mince for theor other now after pickerel. Hank this? Oh, thats of information is not written meat real the boats and bait just the from real apples and currants ana purpose of affording any particular ythere withever and Brown still writes the reai raisins and rdil satisfaction to the former residents of a paper and 1Ittie per- boiled down in cider to the fjacon other states, and if there be any who I nal paragraphg t0 the effect that of a mosquitos eyelash and dis-- 1 Oood? Well ..Jim Ball kined his hogs last week,"- brandy added to it. express dissatisfaction at my little froin a Reythat, about pie ratner. Take sertation on the land of the leather-- are as common as of yore. Harry i v- of desertion. Benedictions on the dear old stab; and all her good people. She stands today the foremost of them all. Her children shed their blood freely during the dark days of the revolution. They shouldered the flintlocks and marched to victory in the war of 1812. They sent down many who sleep beneath the walls of Chapultepec and around un- der the palms of Monterey. And. oh, what a grand procession of the best blood of the commonwealth was that which marched down to Washington when Lincoln called for volunteers to defend the Union of Washington, Jefferson and of Jackson. The bones of her brave boys who went down in that gory strife lie on every battlefield from Mannasas to Petersburg. The names of her sons shine with a luster exceeded by none. She has her hallowed spots at which every American h, I can be proud to bare his head. Old to the state may be, take a trip wbitehaired old bachelor, with the t0 surround. Home cured independence Hall and Valley Forge. of their birth, or births, and I will try game old bakers dozen of fox hounds. whicb yield gravy for pancakes ; Germantown and Washingtons Crossstun wooden has none of y0Ur chippy, to set even by having the editor pub- - I Fred Castle has married, and so and not least, Gettysburg, I but in with ing. 'Last, while Mace Reynolds wbjch you have to use lard meat liah any little hnnrh of observations Eva Ball, where Hancock, Pennsylvania HanCobb are skipping around in the order to fry. Spare ribs, with Clark accumuthe right center, stood and at they, or either of them, may old fashion. Tim Karney is on em N0t the kind we get here from cock, to a standstill game the gallant PickI in the city, and Pat and Armours and Cudahays, which make fought late. yardmaster the sun ever battle in the greatest I an orphan dorg howl with despair ett To begin with, the country hasnt The Duchess live in the oldto house meetdecisive do so at the scarcity of flesh when he gets looked down upon; the continue no-- 1 may they could as I eo are for these But war. changed a bit, runs one for dinner. Apple butter; a bar. ing of the civil Smith years. many where ones which appeal to tice, except that up on the hill and almost any day you rej 0f ft and not a spoonful or geia- - not the only the Tavern, us natives, are they? Ah, no. Here npPelham used to live they have cut all can see Spiel Briggs standing around- tine in the entire compound. Ciderfrom and there, from Chester to Lake Erie; for a hoss trade. Char- L,le gauce in big "crocks, made the timber on what used to be Bart there looking sweets from Uniontown to Tunkhannock are and Squire khe "pumpkin 0f on the the Is road, fruit been lie Knapp Caswell's back lot. There have to each "apple pared, cored and halved little spots, sacred to the memory of been has Gardner just those we loved in life and who loved a few Improvements own on the flats I Wg fortyfirst year as justice of and a clove stuck in each half and pre- us. to Blessings on the good old state where we used to play ball and a lot the peace Pard Knapp has quit ring-o- f. served in sweet cider, hotted down where the on I ing the bell in the M. E. church, and a syrup. Pickled peaches and black- and the hallowed ground houses built have reveille last people city out the meat berry jam by gallons. "Blackcaps in sleepers rest. When the sold Abel and Gardner her A1 Doolittle we, may the did side hill where rest. Smear sounds its welcome call, answer I cannot until you its iars to The who sons and her daughters, is yet people you myself used to pick blackberries. running Ob, tactory in pounds. kase e,8 on silvery notes, martialed and waiting on South Branch wanders and murmurs whiie Annabelle Read is teaching Imagine that a blood rare of her bosom. Philippines. Mary Ann a hot plate with greasy old German the green C. M. J. along, toward the Susquehanna just SChool in the man Go way returned have eating! is just her good and while Pike fried potatoes m it did thirty years ago, and You dont know what eating is. For accident insurance see Warm For breakfast we had pie. Yes, pie. fo? lo, these manyyears. Foster, 300 Proflrreaa building. same you thin, cadaverousm Laugh, news your dyspeptics, who Now, really, thats about all the old musical tones. There have been with oatmeal, frames 111 nourished some changes at the grist mill. They there is. to want and other sorts of horsefeed. but "Force for wheat, But you Pennsylvanians have a roller process for grind- know what we had to eat. Ah, but We had pie. Pie, scrappel, buckwheat that old pair of burr stonesready-raisewith sage and d cakes, country sausage, lots of homeing buckwheat (not this and the mil- thats a subject dear to every Pennand heart.. Because hack home summer savory stuff, pah!) is still there, sylvania my we do not eat to live; we reverse the grown seasoning. Real maple syrup. ler was "pecking th6m during say. where we dump- rule and live to eat. Imprimis. We Oh yum, yum. For dinner. Oh, some visit The old hopperfor supper For earth. on "samp has landed at Uncle Ben's on a cold day. Everything ed in th new com we ola The a more of it. After supper while one. new and It in a hot a with poker by replaced been behind we ate the miller Cider, peppersass. You talked of the days left cracked shell-barkone, like old Joe Hardinhis last long dash of home-mad- e apples, drank cider, wore out Joe sleeps atch on. Of course you do. Then, celhis last to the walnuts, butternuts and roasted sleep. He has ground his lastgrist after warming up a bit, a trip rave over chestnuts until midnight and then, Oh you Salt Lakers who lar. taken his last toll; drank and under the a bushel of pithy old Idaho apples, that just before retiring, had Aunt Ann say of rab-sthe boys, wont you have white mantle which coveredshould you have to soak in something wet in to us, Why, to eat before You go to that zsho something apples them rests to juicy; peacefully, make order ground My my, how can a fellow live for pictures, just imagine bed are all after a life of constant Brind. Tie right who think vegcourse of modem improvement has being turned loose in a cellar contain-of among the benighted, a bridge etable soup, and carrots and brisket bushels and hundred fifty two destroyed the old coveredhave ing a uew baldwins, b3Now they the pity-- and out greenings about the size of catch which will point ,thats just they affair that russets iron Alfancy gillflowers, gates with Callahan all of it. Just what Eichnor and spitzbergens nine partners, to the stranger within the old one would no len and Hague and Dr. Hazel would much pride, although the and told to ramble. Ramble with with home. The writer for tired eyes, on you. It would mean plain find if they went have been a sight end strings feels that he has grown twenty years reading. all. Cider? Thirty-fou- r thats its sign on each and is insanity, went Made from sorted apples. No younger since he dose away,as often dollaroflne for ridlugor .Irivmgfnster barrels. just smoking, or carrying mixing all in a common mess, hut each going to repeat the than a walk, or on he says. this balance across the To or made from a particular variety. as possible.likewise. Because there are fire unsecured barrel d I and do I wish I had that sign. hriffee That first barrel is for company and Go the as lot of the old faces disappearwhole a and, Seconk three the from made frame it with a gilt frame, was of to say and doubtless says iu the first row, next the wall. The ing from view, and a wholeinlotthe plain new stones appearing next is the product of the famous white SQuaretop. with the cemetery and up at old of the hills juicy Clark ' apples, those contour the And though southwest the In down the same; al- iTew they thin skins, orchard. You can just is. and ever will remain of the corner "The Tavern mil it! th? old cue is Df-HMhe- a though the sheen on the waters will reflect back forever the shadows t as they did when we "skipped for pickerel among the water lilies the old familiar voices of today will be hushed and silent soon. They will he mingling in the New, new song 0f everlasting love up yonder. It isnt worth while for any of us to take a chance on hearing them again, either for after leaving all the good things referred to herein behind us, if any of us get to heaven it will be more through sufferance than as a right, and much prayer and heavy penance will be required at our hands for our sin d 50-cali- c 4 H ' 500-ya- crc-Ha- h . 4 4 ? t r t I i- - .6 if i . I rd nk , .1 V . V r ' . ( 4 - i . , re-elect- . : , ? . ji i . i . gr Men i M . P Sf l'many ' i SC, .. ed T-bo- ne sour-stomache- d, . s, littl-measu- re hi seek-no-furthe- rs, v Vi'" ! |