A Stream Of Death

The Scrouton (Pa. ) Times saya : "But fow that live aloug the Lackawanna havo become conscioua of the tact that it ia a stream of death. Nowhero is there to be found a living thing in its waters. But a few yeais nince there were largo numbers of fiah and eels in it. One might seo, iu passing along its banks between Scranton anti rrovklcnce, nnmbera of men and boys fishing. Their oocupation is completely gone. There are no snakes, 110 lizards, no frogs, no toads, no reptilos of any sort found, and no wild game I upon ita waters. Everything is dead. The water, at all times, is perfectly transparent. But whilo it has produced death to every living thing that has made ita waters its home, it has, at the same time, improved the health of all who have come to reside near it. " These siugulsrinfltiences are attiibuted to the drainage from the coa) mines whicli flnds its way iuto the river.