Mount Pleasant journal (May 26, 1899)

              VOL. 27. A., FRIDAY, MAY 2<S, 1890. NO. 21.
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WELL DESERVED REST
Given the Tenth Pennsylvania
Boys at Cavite.
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RELIEVED ON THE FIRING LINE
AFTER A HARD CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE INSURGENTS.
They Marched from Manila to the Front
on February 4th and for Seventy Days
were Kept in the Field Facing Bullets,
but are Now Doing- Garrison Duty and
Longing for the Day when They will
Set Sail for Home.
Special Correspondence of THE JOURNAL.
MANILA, P. I.. April 15th, 1899.—1THE
JOURNAL’S readers might be surprised
if I should say that this may be my last
letter from the Philippines; nevertheless,
there is a probabilty of such proving to
be the case.
Yesterday morning the Tenth at Ma-lolos
recieved a tip that it was to be with-drawn
from the front, exchanging places
with the Fifty-first Iowa doing garrison
duty at Cavite, our naval station south
of this city. By taking the train we
covered the 38 miles, over which we
fought from February 4th, and were
back in Manila by noon that day board
img boats which soon carried them down
So Cavite where Colonel Hawkins is
now in command.
Details from each company were left
here and are now busily engaged pack-ing
up our property preparatory to tak
ing it down tomorrow. Moving on Sun-day
at home would be out of the relig-ious
order, but everything goes in war.
The next transfer I hope will be on board
a transport for home. It does, indeed,
seem like the beginning of the end that
can't come too soon.
The seventy days that have elapsed
since the insurgent outbreak occured on
the night of February 4th have been
full of excitement for the Tenth, to say
> nothing of hard work, for, driving the
“niggers’’ out of one entrenchment after
another for thirty-eight miles through
jungles and swamps, in a temperature
that almost blisters the American face,
can certainly be classed under the
“white man's burden." The insurgents
N are still putting up a little scrap almost
daily, but it must be rather discourag-ing
business for them as they invariably
get licked, with many killed, wounded
and captured.
The transport Sheridan arrived here
yesterday with the Twelfth and one
battalion of the Seventeenth U. S. In-fantry
on board. Nine deaths, four
soldiers and five children, occured on the
long trip from New York.
Almost every regiment is represented
by released soldiers homeward bound.
Sergeant E. F. Newill and Private Jos-eph
M. Snyder, of Company E, will go
on board the Portland which will sail to-morrow
or Monday, while First Lieuten-ant
James Harkins will leave next week
for San Francisco where he will receive
his discharge.
The weather has been very sultry and
hot, not a drop of rain having fallen for
about three weeks, but it will not be
long until the rainy season sets in and
then there will be water and mud to
burn.
Captain Loar returned from the con-valescent
hospital at Corregidor Island a
week ago and is now at quarters where
he is gaining strength and looking much
better.
Lieutenant Thompson has also come
from the hospital and manages to navi-gate
with the help of a pair of crutches.
His leg, however, is still weak from the
wound in the hip, although he is getting
along nicely and we trust will soon be
able to lay aside his props.
Corporal Jesse Cunningham and Pri-vates
Christ Seibert and Grant Bair have
reported for duty and are now at Cavite;
while the other wounded members of E,
Privates John McVey, Roy Knox,
William West and John Hennessy, are
going around and will soon be able to
leave the hospital.
Colonel Hawkins, his staff and the line
officers are all well as far as we know.
There is no serious sickness, although
some of the boys are in the hospital suf-fering
from dysentery and malaria.
As this is a very hot evening and we
. “'are busy getting the company property
on board the boat so as to take it down
to Cavite in the morning, I will close,
trusting that this will be my last letter
written direct from the Philippines.
CORP. C. W. BROWN,
Co. E. lOthRegt., P. V. I.
A Sword for Major Bierer.
A movement has been started at
Uniontown to present a magnificent
sword to Major Everhart Bierer, of the
Tenth regiment, for his gallant conduct
at Mauila, and in recognition of the ser-vices
of the regiment of which two com-panies
were recruited from Fayette
county. Many subscriptions toward
the fund are coming in.
MOUNT PLEASANT, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, 1
COMERS AND GOERS. FALLEN HEROES OF TWO WARS
Whose Graves a Grateful Nation will Decorate.
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PROGRAM:
Sunday, May 28th:—Memorial
ft Sermon in the Lutheran church
ft t>eynsth, eatpa2s:8to0r,p.thein.R, epv.recMerd.edMabry-march
of Post from room.
Tuesday, May 30th, 9:30 a. m.
ft Parade of G. A. R., hand, civic
fl\ societies and citizens from post
room to cemetery where there
will he music, by band; prayer,
Rev. Dr. Elliott; reading of Lin-coln’s
Gettysburg address: song,
“My Country," choir; address,
Paul H. Gaither. Esq.; music, by
\ band; benediction and decoration
/n of graves. The procession will
then reform and return to post J
• room for dismissal. Jt
Details from Post will decorate j
f|\ the •soldiers’ grave in the old >
fjjy Church street cemetery, nt the 7
Middle churches and at Greenlick <
in the afternoon
All are cordially invited to take ^
ft part in the exercises. 4
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AY. M. JORDAN, I
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NO MORE DISCHARGES DEATHS OF THE WEEK.
COKE AND COAL.
Paragraphs About Prominent People
Gathered During the Week.
Mrs. Carrie Millerleft Wednesday on a
two weeks' visit to old friends at Hag-erstown,
Md.
Mrs, James M. Barrett, of Pittsburg,
was here from Friday until Saturday
with Mrs. Clarence H. Hosier.
George Marron, of the Mount Pleas-ant
Supply Company, returned Tuesday
from a flying business trip to Chicago.
Mrs. Janies K. Husband, accompanied
by her daughter, Mrs. Harry Mnlford,
returned home Friday from a Pittsburg
visit.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hitchnmn and her
daughters, Misses Mary and Alice, have
returned to their summer home nt Mar
kleton.
The Rev. Mr. Tnssing, accompanied
by his wife and family, left Monday for
Tiffin, ()., to attend a meeting of the Re-formed
Synod
J. A. Strickler, of Wilkinsburg, was
here Friday shaking hands with old
triends and renewing his subscription
to THE JOURNAL.
John B. Reynolds, of Greensburg,
with his wife and daughter, Miss Ger-trude,
spent Sunday here with his moth-er,
Mrs. Eliza Reynolds.
Mrs. ATan Harlingen celebrated the
77th anniversary of her birth with a
family reunion Saturday at the Church
street home of her daughter, Mrs. Rev.
Reeu.
Martin Freed and his bride, nee Miss
Minnie Eshelmau, left Thursday for
Waterloo, Iowa, where they will spend
several weeks as the guests of the latter’s
sister, Mrs. Brown.
James Israel, the clever staff corres-pondent
of the Pittsburg Dispatch,
dropped in Friday to see his old Mount
Pleasant friends. "Jim" was formerly
a.teacher at the Institnte.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wilson have sent
out the invitations for the marriage of
their daughter, Miss Margaret K., to
Mr. George G. Brown, which will take
place at their New Standard Shaft home
Wednesday evening, June 7th, at 8
o’clock.
Miss Jennie Johnston, of this place,
and Mr. Randall Kelley, son of Editor
W. L. Kelley, of the Scottdale Inde-pendent,
will be married Thursday,
June 8th. The ceremony will take
place at the East Main street home of
Miss Johnston's mother, Mrs. Mary
Johnston, and will be witnessed only by
the members of the two families.
WESTMORELAND DEMOCRATS.
They Elect Uninstructed Delegates and
Adopt Resolutions.
The Democratic committeemen of
AVestmorelaud met in the Greensburg
court house Saturday afternoon and
named these 11 delegates to the state
convention out of 15 candidates: James
M. Laird, John B. Head and Paul H.
Gaither. Greensburg; Roland Merrell,
Jeannette; John L. Flaherty, Manor;
Joseph Frantz, Parnassus; H. A. Lauf-fer,
Harrison City; John McDermott,
Unity township; T. C. Martin, Sewick-ey
township; Joseph S. McLaughlin,
Allegheny township, and Marion Byers,
Mount Pleasant township. The delega-tion
will go uninstructed, but with a
careful regard for the candidacy of
James S. Moorhead for the supreme
court. Should it be found that Mr.
Moorhead cannot win, a portion of the
delegation will go to Judge S. L. Mes-trezat,
of Uniontown, and the others to
Judge John M. Kennedy, of Pittsburg.
Judge Doty was unanimously indorsed
for re election. The resolutions thus
commended the Democratic members of
the recent Legislature:
“For their manly stand for the elec-tion
of George A. J enks, and the influ-ence
they set in motion leading to the
exposure of rottenness and vandalism
too long rampant in onr once proud
Commonwealth. ”
The action of Governor Stone in reduc-ing
the appropriation of the public
school was condemned, as was bis action
“in appointing M. S. Quay senator
against the wishes of a majority of the
citizens of the Commonwealth. ” J. M.
Guffey’s leadership was highly commen-ded.
Special Meeting of Council.
A special meeting of Council was held
Wednesday evening when the organi-zation
of the new local Board of Health,
as noted in THE JOURNAL several weeks
ago, was approved and the salary of its
secretary, S. C. Stevenson, increased
from $35 to $50. Constable Htimbertson
was appointed health officer at $25 a
year in place of Policeman Shivler who
declined to serve. The petition for the
removal of the old shanties at the cor-ner
of East Washington and Diamond
streets was laid on the table for future
action.
To Be Granted Philippine Soldiers
from this Side.
Ex-Congressman E. E. Robbins is in
receipt of a couple of letters from Ad-jutant
General H. C. Corbin which state
that no more volunteers at Manila will
be discharged upon application of
friends in the United States, but if ask-ed
for by the soldiers themselves their
request will readily be granted.
The discharge of soldiers at this time
interferes with their receiving the two
months’ extra pay and ration money.
Gen. Corbin said that the volunteers
would commence leaving the Philippines
about June 1, and from that time on
they will be mustered out as rapidly as
possible. This would indicate that the
Tenth’s turn would come some time
about the latter part of next month.
Fayette Stands by Mestrezat.
The Fayette Democratic county com-mittee
met at Uniontown Saturday and
elected as delegates to the state conven-tion
R. W. Dawson, AV. N. Carr, Rock-well
Marietta, R. H. Lindsay, Frank
Coughanonr, J. R. Gray, John Boyle and
R. E. Umbel, who were instructed for
Judge Mestrezat for the supreme court
bench. The course of Fayette Demo-crats
in the Legislature was praised and
“imperialism and the saerafice of lives
at Manila” deplored.
New Radiator Company.
The Uniontown Acme Radiator Com-pany
was organized by local capitalists
Friday, the officers being: President,
Fuller Hogsett; vice president, Altha L.
Moser; secretary, Lloyd G. McCrnm;
treasurer, Isaac W. Semans; directors,
the above and James M. Hnstead. The
company is capitalized at $25,000. C.
W. Howell has been made superinten-dent,
and the plant will be started at
once in the old radiator works at that
| place.
The Grim Reaper’s Work In ThiB Place
and Vicinity.
John -L. Lowe suffered a stroke of
paralysis at his West Main street home
Sunday and died at 1 o’clock yesterday,
aged 77 years. He was a retired East
Huntingdon township farmer and is sur-vived
by his wife. The time for the
funeral will not be fixed until some
time to-day.
H. H. Ruff, a prominent farmer, died
suddenly of heart failure Thursday at
his home near Mendon.
Abraham Rowe, a well known South
Huntingdon township farmer, died Fri-day,
aged 86 years.
L. S. Lewis, father of John R. Lewis,
of this place, diedSundayat the Cokeville
home of his son, Harry, aged 77 years.
Miss Lizzie Grinnell, sister of Abram
Grinnell, of this place, died Tuesday at
the Connellsville home of her sister, Mrs,
William Rowan, of paralysis, aged
about 60 years. The interment took
place at Pennsville AVednesday.
Henry Millhoff, long a well known
merchant at that place, died at his
DonegalJ home Tuesday last, aged
62 years. He took sick at noon while
at the store and fell dead soon after
reaching the kitchen of the house.
Heart failure is believed to have been
the cause.
James P. Curry, one of the most
prominent farmers of Fayette county,
died at his Laurel Hill home Monday,
aged 64 years.
Benjamin Shoaf, an aged citizen of
Alverton, died Sunday. He made his
home with John White anil is survived
by one son, John.
Joseph L. Nick, aged 18 years, died
AVednesday at his West End home of
hernia. He was an ash carter at More-wood
where he injured himself Satur-by
lifting, He was the main support of
his widowed mother.
Items of Interest Gathered From Both
Mine and Yard.
AV. J. Rainey’s new 200-oven plant,
now building on the Warden tract,
north of town, has been named Acme.
The capital stock of the Carnegie
Steel Company, when the II. C. Frick
company interests are consolidated with
it, will be $250,000,000. The charter
will be taken out in this state and will
cost $1,000,000.
Two cars of coke, made from coal from
the Alasontown, Fayette county, field at
the South West company's Morewood
plant, were shipped last week to the Illi-nois
Steel Company’s Chicago mills
where thorough tests of its qualities as
a fuel will be made.
At a meeting of the coal miners about
Irwin, held Monday, committees were
appointed to wait on the operators and
demand an advance of 10 per cent, and
a proportionate rate on machine mining.
The committees were instructed to al-low
the operators until June 1 to give
their answer.
Jones & Langhlins, who have held
options for several months on river coal
land in the vicinity of Coal Center and
California, have closed several import-ant
deals, and now own about 5,000 acres
of coal property back of these two towns,
which, it is believed, the company will
lose no time in working.
The Monongahela River Consolidated
Coal and Coke Company has applied for
a charter. The capital stock will even
tually be $25,000,000, the object being
to control all the river mines and the
eraft and wharves as far smith as New
Orleans. The incorporators, G. I. Whit-ney,
A. W. Herron, G. AV. Weitzell J.
M. McBride and M. D. Ullery, are all
Pittsbnrgers.
FINALLY GOT TOGETHER.
The Tri-State Telephone Company
Coming Here.
The Mutual and Tri-State telephone
companies have finally come together
and as a resnltjthe latter corporation
will, run a trunk line here from Scott-dnle
and connect with the local system,
possibly, within the next month or soon
as the work can be done. The agree-ment
was effected here Monday evening
when E. P. Clark, representing the Tri-
State company, met with the Mutual di-rectors.
Under the contract made the Mutual
subscribers will talk free overall the Tri-
State lines in AVestmoreland county,
nowr up or hereafter to be constructed,
with a division of the outgoing tolls.
The rate to all points covered in Fay-ette
county will be ten cents.
The Tri State people are now extend
ing their system in this county and ex-pect
to have connections with the local
companies at Greensburg and Latrobe
within the next sixty days.
HAPPY SILVER WEDDING.
Mr. and Mrs. William Bowers Celebrate
that Event With Many Friends.
At their East End residence Saturday
evening Mr. and Mrs. William Bowers
pleasantly entertained some fifty
of their friends the occasion being the
celebration of their twenty-fifth mar-riage
anniversary.
Those present enjoyed themselves to
the fullest extent and participated in
the usual amusements pertaining to such
a joyous event until a late hour. A
splendin repast was served and disposed
of in a happy manner, the pretty wait-resses
being Misses Edna Page, Bertha
Kalp, Hazel Cox and Jessie Bowers.
The genial host and his charming
wife were the recipients of many fine
presents among which was a valuable
silver service of five pieces given by the
former’s business friends and their
wives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowers have the well
wishes of their many friends who all
hope the happy couple will enjoy an-other
quarter of a century as happily as
they have tho last.
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REVIVED AMERICUS.
Reorganization of the Local Council by
Special Deputy Morrison.
At the reorganization of Mount Pleas
ant Council, No. 4, Order of Americus,
as effected by Special Deputy Morrison,
of Allegheny, the following officers
were elected and installed: Past presi-dent,
John D. Hitehman; president,
John L, Ruth; chaplain, Henry AVal-deck;
guide, E. C. Kesler; physician,
Dr. J. W. Shelar; secretary, S. C.
Stevenson; treasurer, G, AV. Stener;
senior warden, H. H. Stoner: junior
warden, Thomas Hoyt; sentinel, E. A.
Greene. Installation was conducted by
Executive Secretary Squier, of Greens-burg,
and at the close John D. Miller,
of the same place, made an address.
The council begins its new career
with a membership of thirty-five repre-sentative
citizens who are determined
to make it a leading fraternal society.
New members will be added at the next
meetingjm June 6th.
SPLENDID RECEPIION
For the Saturday Afternoon Club
and Its Friends
GIVEN BY MRS. J. McD. BRYCE
AT HER SPACIOUS EAST END HOME
FRIDAY EVENING.
A Rare Musical and Literary Treat that
was Enjoyed by Over One Hundred
People from This Place, Pittsburg and
Neighboring Towns. The Talented
Miss Killikelly Tells of the Famous
Epic Poems of India.
The members of the Saturday After-noon
Club and their friends from this
place, Pittsburg, Scottdale and Connells-ville,
who numbered over one hundred
people, were royally entertained Friday
evening by Mrs. J. McD. Bryce at her
pretty and roomy East End home with
the able assistance of her house guests,
Mrs. James Boggs, Mrs. AVilliarn AVolff
and Airs. Edward Dermitt and her
daughter, Miss Marie, all of Pittsburg.
The musical part of the evening'spro-gram
was opened by Aliss Alather, of the
Institnte, with a piano solo and was fol-lowed
by vocal selections by Mrs. AVolff,
Miss Axtell, of the Institute, and Mr.
Edward Dermitt, of Pittsburg, who all
had to respond to the hearty encore that
greeted each piece.
Miss Killikelly exercised the privi-lege
of her sex and changed her subject
to the “Epic Poetns of India,” prefacing
her striking remarks with a short talk
on expansion, from which the close lis-tener
soon learned that that talented
Pittsburg lady was abreast the times on
this important question. She justified
the present use of American arms in
the Philippines by claiming that there
could he no advancement without force.
Of the two Indian epics, Timnayana
and Maliabharata, she chose the former
and told the wonderful tale of Prince
Rama, eldest son of King Dasaratha,
of Kosala, and his faithful wife Sita,
the beautiful and good daughter of Ja-naka,
king Arideha, who were banished
to the wilderness for fourteen years.
AVhen ten years of the exile had been
spent the rejected love of the female de-mon,
Rakshasi, for Rama leads her
brother, Ravana, the demon king of the
island of Ceylon, to carry off Sita a cap-tive
to his capital, Lanka.
Rama, with the assistance of his broth-er,
Bharata, who had refused to sup-plant
him on the throne anil had joined
him in his exile, entered into an alliance
with the monkey king, Sngriva, and
marched to his wife’s rescue. The mon-key
allies, tearing up rooks and trees,
constructed the so called Adam's Bridge,
still designated Rama's Bridge in India.
Lanka was captured, the demon king
slain by Rama and Sita rescued.
After having been crowned king on
his return to Oudh, Rama is forced to
again exile Sita, although she had proved
her purity in an ordeal of fire. Two
sons are horn to her at the hermitage of
the sage, Vamilki, by whom the young
princes are tanght all the arts of war.
Then all ends well with a happy family
reunion at the royal palace in Oudh.
As evidence of the interest excited by
the recital of deeds of some forty cen-turies
ago it might be added that Mr.
Bryce and B. F. Overliolt, of Scottdale,
who had long been sort of Doubting
Thomases on women's clubs, actually
blushed at their ignorance of the fact
that America's epic poems are Uiawutlia
and the Columbiitd. These gentlemen,
however, are determined to never again
be caught napping, having already
ordered copies of all poems of this kind
ever published, beginning with those of
India, of which there are twenty-five
volumes.
It was after 12 o’clock before the din-ing
room was deserted and the last car-riage
load of guests had rolled away
from this hospitable Alonnt Pleasant
home.
B. & O. FLYER AVRECKED.
It Collides With a Freight Train Near
Layton Friday Evening.
The Duquesne Limited, the new fast
train recently established between Pitts-burg
and New York on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, was in a wreck Fri-day
evening near Layton. The passen-ger
ran into the rear end of a special
freight train, eastbound, which was on
the eastbound track and on the time of
tho limited. Engine 842, in charge of
Mike Darr, was I kdly wrecked and the
caboose and two freight cars of the spe-cial
freight were totally wrecked.
Both the east and west bound tracks
were blockaded by the wreck for over
two hours. No one was injured. The
engineer and fireman of the limited are
said to have jumped, thus saving them-selves.
There was no one in the caboose
of the freigut train. None of the cars
of the limited left the track and only
the front car was slightly injured.
TUB MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL FRIDAY, MAY i30, 1899.
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EMORIAL DAY, 1889,
found the Grand Army
3men, the high school pn-
Jpils and the citizen sol-dier
companies gathered
in large numbers in the Forrest Hill
cemetery to make the event of the cen-tennial
year noteworthy as a patriotic
festival. After the formal ceremonies
by the order at the soldiers’ plot were
over and the military ranks broken
veterans in blue wandered away in all
directions among the graves and plant-ed
little flags as markers, that the school-boys
and schoolgirls might know where
to place the pots and baskets of flowers
generously donated to honor the fallen
heroes. Among the latter went Harold
Bement, a freshman at Harvard, and
for the first time clad in the uniform of
the military company he had recently
joined. Many of the younger flower
beai'ers knew Harold and were delight-ed
to have him of their party in his
bright and suggestive soldier’s clothes,
and a group of them half led him along
until the great crowd had been left be-hind.
Reaching a vale shut off by itself
in the quiet inclosure, they saw no flags
and paused to consider what route to
take.
At some distance away on the farther
slope a strange scene attracted the
yonthfnl eyes, and wonder was upon
every face. Kneeling beside a plot con-taining
two headstones was a man of
bent figure and long gray locks, ap-parently
near his threescore. In one hand
he grasped a bundle of wild flowers, and
upon the grave over which he bent
were strewn clusters of buttercups and
Held violets and the brave yellow daft'o
dil. Harold changed his manner at once
and disentangled his hands from those
of the children, while they curiously
but cautiously went forward to the
kneeling figure. The voices of the crowd
disturbed the old man’s reveries, and
he turned, pleased rather than annoyed,
when lie saw who the intruders were.
Harold made a detour to keep the back
cf the figure to him. but drew near
enough to hear anything that might lie
said for the benefit of his companions.
Taking the hand of a bright and
kindly faced boy of about 13, the old
man fumbled for some moments to ar-range
the wild flowers that he held in
the other, then said, pointing to the
name on the headstone nearest him:
“We were comrades, schoolmates at
Harvard, many years ago, my boy, and
I come here every year alone to strew
his grit re with wild flowers and that
other one with blossoms from the gar-den.
I come alone because, while this
is a soldier’s grave, it is not one to be
honored like those you have decorated.
This soldier fought against the flag that
those over there died to save. But he
was not my enemy—not my own enemy,
although he fought on one side and I
on the other, and I shot him.’’
From scores of the lips the words
were echoed, “He shot him!” But the
youthful ears were eager for more. The
old man had said too much for youth-ful
curiosity not to be gratified with
more of the war romance suggested by
those lonely graves and the faithful old
friend beside them.
One inscription read:
GERARD ISELIN,
Pogrom's Virginia Battery.
Killed at Five Forks April 1, 1S65.
The other:
KATHARINE MASON ISELIN,
Wife of Gerard Iselin,
Died Jan. 1, 1805.
“And were you in the war?” asked a
girl companion of the lad whose hand
the old man still retained.
“Yes, I am sorry to say I was," said
the prematurely aged veteran, “for,
thongh it had to be, it has left me only
sad memories, a record of bitter strife,
of friendship broken and these two
graves for a brand into my soul. But 1
must not say more, my children. You
would not understand. Go on with
your loving duties to the heroes of the
war. They deserve yonr honor, but for
one my duty is here, to bring both wild
flowers and fragrant garlands, hitter to
the bitter and sweet to the sweet.”
With this he waved his auditors adieu,
and they went away marveling that
war, which meant to them such pag-eantry
and holiday making, could des-olate
a life so completely. Harold did
not rejoin the chattering juniors, hut
made his way back to the company
alone. still avoiding the gaze of the old
man at the grave.
The incident was quickly forgotten
by many of the children, while others
asked their elders what it meant. Abont
all that could be learned was that the
grave of the Virginia soldier repre-sented
the gray and was to be thought
of only as something distinct from the
bine, held in such loving remembrance
by the people of New England. Every
Memorial day some of the bolder ones
lought out the lonely twin graves, hut
did not venture near to question their
faithful warden more. Those who wan-dered
in that direction saw Harold Be-ment
keeping vigil at some distance be-hind
the gray haired mourner until the
intruders left the scene, when he, too,
returned to the company of young sol-diers,
where his elder brother, Gerard
Bement. also a Harvard man, was an
officer.
But when Memorial day came in 1898.
and the children of centennial year
were full grown youths und maidens
and even men and women following the
stalwart young volunteers for the Span-ish
war a* they marched before the
veterans of 1861 to do honor to the
fallen, not a few pulses beat with high
anticipation to see the old man of the
Virginia grave episode walking beside
the ranks whore Harold and Gerard
Bernert marched. Some who had been
inquisitive hud learned that the gray
haired sire was John Bement, father of
Captain Gerard and Lieut; mint Harold
Bement of the Second Massachusetts
volunteers and that the day was to see
the parting of father and sons, the lat-ter
setting out to join their regiment
for service in Cuba.
Again the solemn and impressive cere-monies
at the “soldiers’ plot,” the
planting of the sprig of evergreen, a
white rose and the laurel branch as
symbols of remembrance, of virtue and
of victory, and the firing salute to the
dead. There was less chatter among the
children, for many were learning now
the meaning of war, with their brothers
and even fathers about to march away
to battle. John Bement, no longer bent
and weighed down by age, led the way
to the lonely graves in the out of the
way vale, moving with sprightly step
between his soldier sons. A crowd fol-lowed,
some out of idle curiosity and
others—older ones—to learn more of the
story of the Virginian’s grave and its
mate. The latter were not disappointed,
but they saw no wild flowers on the
grave of Gerard Iselin of Pegram’s
Virginia battery—instead a beautifully
wrought coat of arms of the nation in
rare Hewers of red, white and blue. On
the other grave, deftly wrought with
white blossoms, were a pair of bands
folded over the breast and a dove.
John Bement had placed these tokens
of friendship at the dawning of the day,
so bright for him. In simple words he
told his story for the ears of Harold and
Gerard, but there were many listeners
besides.
“Father, ” said Harold, “I have a con-fession
to make. I was an eavesdropper
many years ago, when you told the chil-dren
how you shot this man in gray.”
“ ’Tis nothing, my boy, to what you
shall hear today. Gerard Iselin, your
father, lies buried here, and I killed him:
also yonr”—
His voice was stilled by the emotion
of Gerard, who grasped his hand vio-lently,
but could not speak. “Goon,”
lie said, after a struggle, and the story
was told without further interruption.
“Gerard Iselin was my classmate and
friend at Harvard, as you boys have
been, and as like brothers. He was a
southerner, wild, as we used to say, and
as even I boasted at times of being. He
loved the sister of another friend and
classmate, Katharine Mason, and it was
said that his love for her alone kept
him from running the lines in 1861 to
fight for the south, boy that he was, for
he was only 17 then. Well, the war
went on, and, although we disputed of-ten,
there was no rupture. At last I
volunteered in Harvard’s own regiment,
the Second Massachusetts, and Gerard
bid me godspeed in his wild, hearty
way, saying, ‘he’d meet me and whip
me soma day on the battlefield. ’ ”
“And yon never told us that you
were a Second Massachusetts man,
too,” said Harold, his thoughts on the
regiment and its proud name.
“No, F sought to forget, to bury the
war, since it forced me to kill a friend,
a brother. In time I learned that Gerard
had disappeared and with him Katha-rine
Mason. It was-a blow to Oliver,
her brother and our friend. And he
vowed that he would shoot him down
like a dog, if he ever found him alive.”
He paused, overcome with emotion.
“But those were stirring days,” he
continued after awhile. “We fought
almost every day of that year, 1864,
and at last came to the field of Five
Forks. Our regiment charged there
upon the flank of the Confederate
trenches. All went well until we reach-ed
Pegram’s Virginia battery. Then we
lost many, but my company pushed for-ward
and shot down many to clear the
way for advance. Suddenly I saw a
Confederate rise up from the field and
handle the lanyard of a piece aimed
straight at our advance line. A second,
and a hundred of my brave men would
be blown to pieces, and, although I saw
W yl
Tfl
“WE WERE COMRADES.”
and recognized my friend and brother,
Gerard Iselin, I raised my revolver and
thot him down.”
Harold stood motionless, gazing at
the inscription on the Virginia grave,
while Gerard remained overcome with
emotion.
Growing husky now, John Bement
proceeded: “Well, we charged and car-ried
tbo day, and I went back to find
my fallen friend. He was alive and
knew me. It was a sad meeting, but he
said: ‘I have not long to live, John, so
forgive me. I have wronged you and
Oliver and Katharine!’
“ ‘Katharine I’ said I. ‘What of her?’
“ ‘She is dead! My child wife, dead!’
“ ‘You married her, then?’ I cried.
“ ‘I did, indeed, and meant to do well
by her,' he said. ‘We settled in New
York. One day I met an old friend
from home. He induced me to run the
lines aDd fight for the south. Not dar-ing
to face Katharine, I sent her a
draft for all my bank account and ran
off here. Ah, John! This war! This
war I’
“ ‘And then ?’ 1 questioned hurriedly.
“ ‘She died, and, I hear, left a baby
boy, and now I am going, too, old man.
Won't yon care for my hoy ns yonr
own ?’ The effort' was almost too
much for him, but after a few seconds
he continued: ‘Katharine lies in For-rest
Hill, Find her grave and place me
beside her, for the sake of those school
days in New England, the only joyous
ones of my life. All else has been wild:
nlas, how wild! Bury me beside her.
but, while you planj her grave with
roses and with lilies, let mine he covered
with blossoms as wild as my own life
has been. Promise me that, John, and
to save my boy, for I forgive you this
hour of pain and death.’ ”
John Bement censed speaking and
looked first at the grave and its head-stone
and then at Gerard as if to say.
sSMMr
%&■
1 TlC-ffF l' ll/llV
II’
"I SHOT HIM DOWN.”
“I have been true to my trust.” Then
he waited for Gerard’s verdict. It came,
with a hearty embrace und clicking sob:
“Father! Yes,” he added, “yon have
teen all that to me!”
A bugle sounded the call to assemble,
and the veteran seized the hands of
Harold and Gerard. “My care has been
rewarded and my grief is over, ’ ’ said
he. “This is the happiest hour of my
life when I send yon two, a son of
Massachusetts and a son of Virginia,
side by side to battle for the nation.
Sumter, Five Forks and Appomattox
will be forgotten while you carry the
flag on new fields of glory to avenge the
martyrs of the Maine. ”
*******
The day was nearly over at El Cancy.
In front and on the right and on the
left the Americans found their march
opposed by barbed wire barricades just
where the Mauser fire from distant
trenches swept the ground. Only: one
knoll, crowned with cactus copse, offer-ed
shelter for advance from the Ameri-can
side. It lay in front of the Second
Massachusetts, and Gerard Iselin volun-teered
to crawl through the grass cover-ing
the interval and cut the wire so
that the regiment might rush forward.
He reached the fence, as he believed
unseen by the Spaniards beyond the
copse, but at the first click of his wire
cutter two Mausers looked out from the
cactus blades, and their muzzles slowly
dropped to the level of his head. Then
two successive pistol shots rang out
from close behind him. The Mausers
suddenly dropped from sight, hut a vol-ley
from the copse passed over him.
aimed at some object in the rear. In
the confusion he severed the wire of
three spans of fence, then tossed his hat
in the air as a signal agreed upon for
his comrades to advance. He led the
charging line and was the first to cross
the Spanish trenches, hut when the vic-tory
was won Harold did not appear.
His story was soon told. He lay dead a
few feet back from the cactus copse,
killed by the volley which had answered
his deadly pistol shots. The boy had
followed Gerard, for he feared that his
rashness would he fatal, and he wished
to be at hand in his hour of need.
Together John Bement and Gerard
Iselin made the long journey in winter
and brought Harold’s remains from
Cuba. They were met at the steamer’s
wharf by a committee of Grand Army
men, who had prepared to do public
honor to the dead hero of El Caney.
But John Bement said: “No; it is now
as it was in I860, when you wanted to
honor me as the hero of Five Forks. I
felt then that I had only' performed my
duty, a dreadful duty, since it made
me take the life of a friend. My boy
simply did his duty when he gave his
life for a friend. ’ ’
When alone again, he said to Gerard:
“The account of Iselin against Bement
has been honored. The ashes of their
dead shall mingle and the blood of their
living flow in one stream forever.”
Memorial day, 1899, finds two graves
at the little plot in the vale to decorate
with flowers of red, white and blue,
while above them the father of a dead
soldier and a son of a dead soldier pledge
with clasped hands undying love for
their country’s standard, echoing in
their hearts the sentiment of the Great
Commander, “Let us have peace!”
THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE.
In a southern vale where the cypress grows
And magnolias smile on the blushing roso,
Where a stream meanders slow to the sea
Mid tree fringed hills and a verdurous lea,
There hate and fury once were rife
And north met south in deadly strife.
But now thoy reposo ’neath the summer’s glow,
Both the victor mid vanquished long laid low,
And the perfume laden south winds sigh
A plaintive lament as their lullaby,
And peace profound reigns now where they
Met in the pride of war’s array.
No sign now remains of that bloody strife,
Of that combat of heroes, that waste of life,
Save the grassy mounds that silently tell
Of the harvest of death in this sweet dell,
Unless perchance some mourners stray
There to deplore that fatul day.
Oh, never again may a brother's hand
Be raised 'gainst a brother within our land,
But ever may harmony, love and peace
Us closer unito as the years increase,
For peace hath triumphs greater far
Than all the pomp and pride of war I
NEIL MACDONALD.
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3 25
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Next morning I sent a penitent note
to Kitty, imploring her to overlook my
strange conduct of the previous after-noon,
My divinity was still very wroth,
and a personal apology was necessary.
I explained with a fluency born of
night long pondering over a falsehood
that I had been attacked with a sudden
palpitation of the heart, the result of
indigestion. This eminently practical
solution had its effect, and Kitty and I
rode out that afternoon with the shadow
of my first lio dividing us.
Nothing would please her save a can-ter
round Jakko. With my nerves still
unstrung from the previous night 1
feebly protested against the notion,
suggesting Observatory hill, Jutogli, the
Bbileangunge road—anything rather
than the Jakko road. Kitty was angry
and a little hurt. So I yielded from fenr
of provoking further misunderstanding,
and we set out together toward Chota
Simla. We walked a greater part of the
way and. according to our custom, can-tered
from a mile or so below the con-vent
to the stretch of level road by the
Hanjowlie reservoir. The wretched
horses appeared to fly, and my heart
beat quicker and quicker ns we neared
the crest of the ascent. My mind had
been full of Mrs. Wessington all the
afternoon, and every inch of the Jakko
road bore witness to our old time walks
and talks. The bowlders were full of
it, the pines sang it aloud overhead,
the rain fed torrents giggled and
chuckled unseen over the shameful
story, and the wind in my ears chanted
the iniquity aloud.
As a fitting climax, in the middle of
the level men call the Ladies’ mile the
horror was awniting me. No other rick-shaw
was in sight, only the four black
and white jhampaniea, the yellow pan-eled
carriage and the golden head of
the woman within, all apparently just
as I had left them eight months and one
fortnight agoi For an instant I fancied
that Kitty must see what I saw—we
were so marvelously sympathetic in all
things. Her next words undeceived me.
“Not a soul in sight I Come along,
Jack, and I'll rnce you to tho reservoir
buildingsl” Her wiry little Aral) was
off liko a bird, my wider following close
behind, and in this order we dashed un-der
the cliffs. Half a minute brought ns
within GO yards of the rickshaw. 1
pulled my waler and fell back a little.
The rickshaw was directly in the mid-dle
of the road, and onco more the Arab
passed through it, my horse following.
“Jack, Jack, dear I Please forgive me!"
rang with a wail in my ears and, after
an interval, “It’s all a mistake, a hid-eous
mistake!”
I spurred my horse liko a man pos-sessed.
When I turned my head at the
reservoir works, the black and white
liveries were still waiting—patiently
wniting—under tho gray hillside, and
the wind brought mo a mocking echo of
the words I had just heard. Kitty ban-tered
me a good deal on my silence
(throughout the remainder of the ride. I
had been talking up till then wildly and
rnt random. To savo my life I could not
speak afterward naturally and from
Sanjowlie to the church wisely held my
tongue.
I was to dine with the Mannerings
that night and had barely time to can-ter
home to dress. On the road to Ely-sium
hill I overheard two men talking
together in the dusk. “It’s u curious
thing,” said one, “how completely all
trace of it disappeared. You know my
wife was insanely fond of the woman—
never could see anything in her myself
—and wanted me to pick up her old
rickshaw and coolies if they wero to be
got for love or money. Morbid sort of
fancy I call it, but I’ve got to do
what the memsahib tolls me. Would
you believe that the man she hired it
from tells men that all four of the men
—they were brothers—died of cholera
on the way to Hardwar, poor devils,
and the rickshaw has been broken up
by the man himself? Told me he never
used a dead memsahib’s rickshaw.
Spoiled his luck. Queer notion, wasn’t
it ? Fancy poor little Mrs. Wessington
spoiling any one’s luck except her
own I” I laughed aloud at this point,
and my laugh jarred on me as I uttered
it. Bo there were ghosts of rickshaws,
after all, and ghostly employments in
the other world I How much did Mrs.
Wessington give her men? What were
their hours ? Where did they go ?
And for visible answer to my last
question I saw the infernal thing block-ing
my path in the twilight. The dead
travel fast and by short cuts unknown
to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a
second time and checked my laughter
suddenly, for I was afraid I was going
mad. Mad to a certain extent,I must
have been, for I recollect that I reined
in my horse at the head of the rick-shaw
and politely wished Mrs. Wessing-ton
“Good evening.” Her answer was
one I knew only too well. I listened to
the end and replied that I had heard it
all before, but should be delighted if
she had anything further to say. Some
malignant devil stronger than I must
have entered into mo that evening, for
I have a dim recollection of talking the
commonplaces of the day for five min-utes
to the thing in front of me.
“Mad as a hatter, poor devil, or
drunk! Max, try and get him to come
home. ’ ’
Surely that was not Mrs. Weasing-ton’s
voice I The two men had over-heard
me spoaking to tho empty uir and
nan returned to look alter me. They
were very kind and considerate, and
from their words evidently gathered
that I was extremely drunk. I thanked
them confusedly and cantered away to
my hotel, there changed and arrived at
the Mannerings’ ten minutes late. I
pleaded the darkness of the night as an
excuse, was rebuked by Kitty for my
unloverlike tardiness and sat down.
The conversation had already become
general, and under cover of it I was
addressing some tender small talk to
my sweetheart when I was aware that
at the further end of the table a short,
red whiskered man was describing, with
much broidery, his encounter with a
mud unknown that evening.
A few sentences convinced me that
he was repeating the incident of half
an hour ago. In the middle of the story
he looked round for applause, as profes-sional
story tellers do, caught my eye
and straightway collapsed. There was
a moment’s awkward silence, and tho
red whiskered man muttered something
to the effect that ho had “forgotten the
rest." thereby sacrificing a reputation
as a good story teller which he had
built up for six seasons past. I blessed
him from (he bottom of my heart and
—went on with my fish.
In the fullness of time that dinner
came to an end, and with genuine re
gret I tore myself away from Kitty, as
certain as I was of my own existence
that it would he awaiting for me out-side
the door. The red whiskered man.
who had been introduced to me as Dr.
Heatherlegh of Bimla, volunteered to
bear me company as far as our roads
lay together. I accepted his offer with
gratitude.
My instinct had not deceived me. It
lay in readiness in the mall and in what
seemed devilish mockery of our ways,
with a lighted head lamp. The red
whiskered lfmn went to the point at
once in a manner that showed he had
been thinking over it all dinner time.
“I say, Pansay, what tho deuce was
the matter with you this evening on
the Elysium road?" The suddenness of
the question wrenched an answer from
me before I was aware.
“That!” said I, pointing to it.
“That may lie either D. T. or eyes
for aught I know. Now you don’t liq-uor.
I saw ns much at dinner. So it
can't be I). T. There’s nothing what-ever
where you’re pointing, though
you’re sweating and trembling with
fright like a scared pony. Therefore I
conclude that it’s eves. And T om?ht to
umrerstana all about them. Dome along
home with me. I’m on the Blessington
lower rond."
To my intense delight tho rickshaw,
instead of waiting for us, kept about
20 yards ahead—and this, too, whether
we walked, trotted or cantered. In the
course of that long night ride I had
told my companion almost ns much as I
have told you here.
“Well, you’ve spoiled onoof tho best
tales I’ve over laid tongue to,” said he,
“but I’ll forgivo you for tho sake of
what you’ve gone through. Now, come
home and do what I tell you, and when
I’ve cured you, young man, let this be
a lesson to you to steer clear of women
and indigestible food till tho day of
your death. ”
The rickshaw kept steady in front,
and my red whiskered friend seemed to
derive great pleasure from my nccount
of its exact whereabouts.
“Eyes, Pansay—all eyes, brain and
stomach. And the greatest of these
three is stomach. You’ve too much con-ceited
brain, too little stomach and
thoroughly unhealthy eyes. Get your
stomach strnight and the rest follows.
And all that’s French for a liver pill.
I’ll take sole medical charge of you
from this hour, for you’ro too interest-ing
a phenomenon to be paseed over.”
By this time we were deep in the
shadow of the Blessington lower road,
and the rickshaw came to a dead stop
under a pine clad, overhanging shale
cliif. Instinctively I baited, too, giving
my reason. Heatherlegh rapped out an
oath.
“Now, if yon think I’m going to
spend a cold night on the hillside for
the sake of a stomach-cnm-brain-cnm-eye
illusion— Lord, ha’mercy I What’s
that?”
There was a muffled report, a blind-ing
smother of dust just in front of us,
a crack, the noise of rent boughs, and
about ten yards of the cliffside—pines,
undergrowth and all—slid down into
the road below, completely blocking it
up. The uprooted trees swayed and tot-tered
fbr a moment like drunken giants
in the gloom and then fell prone among
their fellows with a thunderous crash.
Our two horses stood motionless and
sweating with fonr. As soon as the rat-tle
of falling earth and stone had sub-sided
my companion muttered: “Man,
if we’d gone forward we should have
been ten feet deep in our graves by
now. ‘There are more things in heaven
and earth. ’ * * * Come home, Pansay,
and thank God. I want a peg badly.”
We retraced our wuy over the church
ridge, and I arrived at Dr. Heather-legh’s
house shortly after midnight.
His attempts toward my cure com-menced
almost immediately, and for a
week I never left his sight. Many a
time in the course of. that week did I
bless the good fortune which had thrown
me in contact with Simla’s best and
kindest doctor. Day by day my spirits
grew lighter and more equable. Day by
day, too, I became more and more in-clined
to fall in with Heatherlegh’s
"spectral illusion" tneory, implicating
eyes, brain and stomach. I wrote to
Kitty, telling her tlmt a slight sprain
caused by a fall from my horse kept me
indoors for a few days, and that I
should be recovered before she had time
to regret my absence.
Heatherlegli’s treatment was simple
to a degree. It consisted of liver pills,
cold water baths and strong exercise,
taken in the dusk or at early dawn, for,
as he Hugely observed, "A mini with a
sprained ankle doesn’t walk a dozen
miles a day, and your young woman
might lio wondering if she saw you.”
At tho end of the week, after much
examination of pupil and pulse and
strict injunctions as to diet and pedes-trianism,
Heatherlegh dismissed me as
brusquely as he had taken charge of
me. Here is his parting benediction:
“Man, 1 certify to your mental cure,
and that’s as much as to say I’ve cured
most of your bodily ailments. Now, get
your traps out of this as soon as you
can and be off to make love to Miss
Kitty.”
I was endeavoring to expL.su my
thanks for his kindness. He cut me
short.
“Don’t think I did this because I like
you. I gather that you’ve behaved like
a blackguard all through. But, all (lie
same, you’re a phenomenon and as
queer a phenomenon as yon are a black-guard.
No." checking me a second
time, “not a rupee, please. Go out and
see if you can find the eyes, brain and
stomach business again. I’ll give you a
lac for each time you see it. ”
Half an hour later I was in tho Man-nerings’
drawing room with Kitty,
drunk witli the intoxication of present
happiness and the foreknowledge that I
should never more he troubled with its
hideous presence. Strong in the sense
of my new found security, I proposed a
ride at once and by preference a canter
round Jakko.
Never had I felt so well, so overladen
with vitality and mere animal spirits,
as 1 did on the afternoon of tho 80th of
April. Kitty was delighted at tlie
change in my appearance and compli-mented
me on it in her delightfully
frank and outspoken manner. We left
the Mannerings’ house together, laugh-ing
and talking, and cantered along the
Chota Simla road as of old.
I was in haste to reach the Sanjowlie
reservoir and there make my assurance
doubly sure. The horses did their best,
but seemed all too slow to my impa-tient
mind. Kitty was astonished at
my boisterousness. “Why, Jack,” she
cried at last, “you are behaving like a
child! What are yon doing?”
Wo were just below the convent, and
from sheer wantonness I was making
my waler plunge and curvet across the
road as I tickled it with the loop of my
riding whip.
“Doing?” I answered. “Nothing,
dear. That’s just it. If you’d been do-ing
nothing for a week except lie up.
you’d be as riotous us I.
“Singing and murmuring in your feastful
mirth,
Joying to feel y.mi-self alive;
Lord over nature, Lord of the visible earth,
Lord of tho senses five!’’
My quotation was hardly out of my
lips before we had rounded the corner
above the couvont, and a few yards
farthor on could seo across to Sanjowlio.
In the center of the level road stood the
black and white liVeries, the'yellow
paneled rickshaw and Mrs. Koith-Wes-sington.
I pulled tip, looked, rubbed my
eyes, and, I believe, must have said
something. The next thing I knew was
that I was lying face downward on the
road, with Kitty kneeling above me in
tears.
“Has it gone, child?” I gasped.
Kitty only wept more bitterly.
“Has what gone, Jack, dear? What
does it all mean? There must bo a mis-take
somewhere, Jack—a hideous mis-take!”
Her last words brought me to
my feet—mad—raving for the time be-ing.
“Yes, there is a mistake somewhere, ”
I repeated, “a hideous mistake. Come
and look at it. ”
I have an indistinct idea that I drag-ged
Kitty by the wrist along the road
up to where it stood and implored her
for pity’s sake to speak to it—to tell it
that we were betrothed; that neither
death nor hell could break tho tic be-tween
ns, and Kitty only knows how
much more to the same effect. Now and
again I appealed passionately to the
terror in the rickshaw to bear witness
to all I had said and to release me from
a tortnre that was killing me. As I
talked I suppose I must have told Kitty
of my old relations with Mrs. Wessing-ton,
for I saw her listen intently with
white face and blazing eyes.
“Thank yon, Mr, Pansay,” she said.
“That’s quite enough. Syce ghora lao. ”
Tho syces, impassive as orientals al-ways
ure, had come up with the recap-tured
horses, and as Kitty sprang into
her saddle I caught hold of the bridle,
entreating her to hear me ont and for-give.
My answer was the ent of her
riding whip across my face from mouth
to eye and a word or two of farewell
that even now I cannot write down. So
I judged, and judged rightly, that Kit-ty
knew all, and I staggered back to the
side of the rickshaw. My face was cut
and bleeding, and the blow of the rid-ing
whip had raised a livid blue wheal
on it. I had no self respect. Just then
Heatherlegh, who must have been fol-lowing
Kitty and me at a distance, can-tered
up.
“Doctor,” I said, pointing to my
face, “here’s Miss Mannering’s signa-ture
to my order of dismissal and—
I’ll thank yon for that lac as soon as
convenient. ”
Heatherlegh’s face, even in my ab-ject
misery, moved me to laughter.
“I’ll stake my professional reputa-tion”—
ho began.
"Don’t be n fool,” I whispered.
“I’ve lost my life’s happiness, and you’d
better take me home."
As I spoke the rickshaw was gone.
Then I lost all knowledge of what was
passing. The crest of Jakko seemed to
heave and roll like the crest of a cloud
and fall in upon me.
Seven davs later (on the 7th of Mav.
that is to say) 1 was aware tlujt 1 was
lying in Heatberlegh’s room as weak us
a little child. Heatherlegh was watch
ingfme intently from behind the papers
on 'his writing table. His first words
were noteuconraging, but I was too far
spent to tie much moved by them.
“Here’s MiHH Kitty lias sent back
your letters. Yon corresponded a good
deal, you young people. Here’s a packet
that looks like a ring and a cheerful
sort of a note from Mannering papa,
which I’ve taken the litierty of reading
and burning. Tho old gentleman’s not
pleased witli you. ”
“And Kitty?” I asked dully.
“Rather more drawn than her father
from what she says. By the same token
yon must liavo been letting out any
number of queer reminiscences just be-fore
I met yon. Hays that a man who
would have behaved to a woman as yon
did to Mrs. Wessington ought to kill
himself ont of sheer pity for his kind.
She's a hot headed little virago, your
mash. Will have it, too, that yon were
suffering from I). T. when that row on
tlie Jakko road turned up. Says slie’ll
die before she ever speaks to you again. ”
I groaned and turned over on the
other side.
“Now you’ve got your choice, my
friepd. This engagement lias to ho
broken off, and the Mannerings don’t
want to be too hard on you. Was it
broken through 1), T. or epileptic fits?
Sorry I can’t offer you a better ex-change
unless you’d prefer hereditary
insanity. Say the word, and I’ll tell
’em it’s fits. All Simla knows about
that scene on the Ladies’ mile. Come!
I’ll give you live minutes to think over
it. ”
During those five minutes I believe
that I explored thoroughly the lowest
circles of the inferno which it is per-mitted
man to tread on earth. And lit
the same time I myself was watching
myself faltering through the dark laby
rinths of doubt, misery and utter de-spair.
I wondered, as Heatherlegh in
his chair might have wondered, which
dreadful alternative I should adopt.
Presently 1 heard myself answering in
a voice that I hardly recognized:
“They’re confoundedly particular
about morality in these parts. Give
’em fits, Heatherlegh, and my love.
Now let me sleep a bit longer.”
Then iny two selves joined, and it
was only I (half crazed, devil driven I)
tlmt tossed in my bed, tracing step by
step tlie history of the past month.
“But I am in Simla,” I kept repeat-ing
to myself. “I, Jack Pansay, am in
Simla, and there are no ghosts here.
It's unreasonable of that woman to pre-tend
there are. Why couldn’t Agnes
have left me alone? I never did her any
harm. It might just as well have been
mo as Agnes. Only I'd never have come
back on purpose to kill her. Why can't
I Vic left alone—left alone and happy?”
It was high noon when I first awoke,
and tlie sun was low in tlie sky before
I slept—fflept as the tortured criminal
sleeps on his rack, too worn to feel fur-ther
pain.
Next day i could not leave my bed.
Heatherlegh told me in the morning that
he had received an answer from Mr
Mannering, and that, thanks to his
(Heatherlcgh’s) friendly offices, tho
story of my affliction had traveled
through tho length and breadth of
Simla, where 1 was on all sides much
pitied.
“And that’s rather more than you
deserve,” he concluded pleasantly,
“though the Lord knows you’ve been
going through a pretty severe mill.
Never mind. We’ll cure you yet, you
perverse phenomenon.”
I declined firmly to be cured. “You
have been much too good to me already,
cld man,” said I, “lint I don’t think I
need trouble you further.”
In my heart I knew tlmt nothing
Heatherlegh could do would lighten tlie
burden that had been laid upon me.
With that knowledge came also a
sense of hopeless, impotent rebellion
against the unreasonableness of it all.
There were scores of men no better than
I whose punishments had at least been
reserved for another world, and 1 felt
that it was bitterly, cruelly unfair that
I alone should have been singled out
for so hideous a fate. This mood would
in time give place to another where it
seemed that the rickshaw and I werS
the only realities in a world of shadows;
that Kitty was a ghost; that Manner-ing,
Heatherlegh and all the other men
and women I knew were all ghosts, and
the great, gray hills themselves but
vain shadows devised to tortnre me.
From mood to mood I tossed backward
and forward for seven weary days, my
body growing daily stronger and strong-er
until the bedroom looking glass told
me that I had returned to everyday life
and was as other men once more. Curi-ously
enough, my face showed no signs
of the struggle I had gone through. It
was pale indeed, but as expressionless
and commonplace as ever. I had ex-pected
some permanent alteration—visi-ble
evidence of the disease that was eat-ing
me awav. I found nothing.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
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TIIK MOUNT I* LISASANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1809.
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JOHN 1,. SHIELDS. I'ITHI.ISIIRII.
Mount PloHSRllt. is situated In t ho heart of
I ho Groat Oonnollsvllle Coke Region. Ims a
populathm of over B,000| while, with offices
surrounding within a radius of three miles,
the IHistofhce distribution is 13.000. A new 24-
pot tableware glass factory, the llnest In this
country and employing over 400 hands, Is In
successful dally operation.
SUBSCRIPTION 11.50 per year, payable In
advance.
ADVERTISING RATES will be furnished
on application.
JOB PRINTING of every kind with the
best workmanship and best material.
FRIDAY. May 28, IHtMI.
THEY HAVE DONE THEIR DUTY.
Just before the Tenth Pennsylvania
regiment left Malolos on its return to
Cavite Major General McArthur, com-manding
the Second Division of the
Eighth Army Corps, heaped encomiums
upon the services of Colonel Hawkins
and his men, saying:
“I could not ask for a regiment with
better discipline and fighting qualities
than the Tenth Pennsylvania. I have
been near them frequently in action
and have personal knowledge of their
victorious work under the able leader
ship of their colonel. Itis clear and
ringing voice could be heard far beyond
his own regiment, eveu when the noise
and din of battle were at their highest.
The Pennsylvania soldiers have done
their duty, they have worked hard and
obediently and fully deserve the rest
they now are to get.”
When these boys of ours left home
over a yearagoTHE JOURNAL expressed
the belief that they would do their duty
and tiuio has brought ample proof.
Still, the recent words of their division
commander have a sweet sound to the
ears of Western Pennsylvanians.
shooting match, twenty men and fifty
gnus whose other owners were killed.
It was at this point that Colonel Funs
ton and ids brave Kansas boys, who had
crossed the rivor some distance below,
came up and as Major Bierer, who was
in command of this battalion of tlie
Tenth Pennsylvania regiment, was out
ranked, Colonel Fnnston took charge
and was credited with the capture. A1
the gallant young Greeiisbnrg officer got
was the insurgent leader's sword which
his younger brother Private Henry
Coulter, brought home with him when
discharged.
But, hurrah! for “YoungDick."
iMMAAhkt
BROWN DOWNS BEACOM.
Shortly after the Republican cam-paign
in this county opened there were
at least three candidates being groomed
for the judicial race—John U. Steele,
Cyrus E. Woods and Edward 13. McCor
mick, Esqs. The last named gentleman
was tlie first to be taken olf the track,
so it is said, by the Hull people, whose
choice he was. as they sought peace and
thought they had found it when they
united ou Mr. Woods with State Treas-urer
Beacom and ex Congressman Bob-bins,
pronounced Quay followers.
Tlie first bump given the palm hearers
was when they discovered that Mr.
Woods couldn't see his way clear to a
race with Mr. Steele, his impaired vision
having been caused, it is claimed, by
Messrs. Beacom and Robbins failing to
show that hearty support to be expected
of political backers.
The Steele forces were then treated to
an unpleasant surprise on tlie last day
for announcements when Mr. Beacom
hung his banner on the outer wall 'mid
cheers from the Huff faction at whose
head was ex-Sheriff Seanor in the sad
die. Everything then was lovely in the
Beacom camp. A vigorous campaign
was planned and every preparation
made to take John Byers Steele's polit
ical scalp and, incidentally, to lay State
Senator John Hardtodo Brown on the
shelf.
Commander in-chief Seanor ordered
a general advance against the Steele
trenches; and many people in the “Star
of the West” held their breath expecting
an awful crash that would end in the
complete annihilation of the Steele co-horts.
But, the engagement couldn’t
be called eveu a respectable skirmish,
for, there was only a dull little thud
made when the badly scared custodian
of state funds laid down.
This is a brief bnt truthful story of
the miserable attempts made to defeat
Mr. Steele for the nomination and to un-horse
Mr. Brown. The former has a
1 clear field and the Grapeville statesman
is the biggest G. O. P. toad in the West-moreland
puddle.
HURRAH! FOR “YOUNG DICK.”
When the Manila cable a few weeks
ago told of Colonel Funston’s bravery
on the firing lines about Malolos the
whole country congratulated Kansas
upon the possession of such a distin-guished
Bon, and it would seem that the
colonel, who has since been made a
brigadier general for gallantry, is a
fighter from away back. Bnt, recently
received letters from the Philippines
leave no doubt that General Funston
got more credit upon one occasion than
he deserved. It happened in this man-ner:
A band of insurgents, entrenched on
one side of a river, proved very annoying
to our troops on the otherand the natural
consequence was a fight which ended in
Lieutenant Richard Coulter, son of old
General Dick Coulter, of Greensburg
taking a detail from Company I across
in a boat, secured by two nervy county
seat lads, Privates Rugh and Campbell,
who first swam the stream. The result
was the capture of the whole Filippino
TIIE Greensburg Tribune doesn't like
tlie idea of tlie Pittsburg Dispatch rais-ing
a popular subscription with which
to buy a sword for Colonel Hawkins;
bnt. we hope our esteemed county seat
contemporary will look at this effort
with more generous eyes, for, certainly
we country people can well afford to
both forgive and forget all slights, real
or imagined, of old National Guard
days.
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LET us not forget to honor the memo
ries of those old heroes who fell in a
war that wns fought with their equals
in intelligence and spirit their now
forgiven southern brothers.
IT will be just like Mr. Frick to give
Pennsylvania (1,000,000 for a charter
for his new consolidated steel and coke
interests when lie could have saved lots
of money by taking advantage of the
New Jersey laws.
Bill Calls the Turn.
Irwin standard
John Shields, Charley Korler, Bob Mc-
Kee, John Holmes, Jim Laird, Dave
Berry and several other of our editorial
bretberen are ripping Andrew Carnegie
for saying, “A man wTho dies rich dies
disgraced.” They all expect to die im-mensely
rich but object to the disgrace
clause.
If “Pap” Says the Word.
Connellsvllle Courier.
Colonel Hawkins is mentioned as a
candidate for State Treasurer on I lie
Quay ticket. Quay or no Quay, “Pap”
Hawkins would bo a popular candidate
in this section.
Nothing- hut Millions Now.
Pittsburg Press.
Chairman Frick, of the Carnegie in-terests,
denies that $035,000,000 capital-ization
story. The Moore Bros., of
Chicago, are very light hearted when
they begin to talk millions.
Nothing Excites us Now.
Pittsburg Loader.
In the excitement attending the nu-merous
trustorgamzations, the reorgan-ization
of the B. & o. road, with a cap-ital
of (211.1,000,000 and no receivership
does not create the least little ripple.
A year ago a bit of news like this
would have stirred us all up.
Tanner Like Alger.
Pittsburg Dispatch
Governor Tanner states that he will
consent to run again, only if there is “a
popular clamor for his renomination.”
That is also Algor’s platform with regard
to his Senatorial candidacy in Michigan.
After which, both gentlemen turn in
and proceed to take vigorous measures
that the people—i. e., their workers—
shall not forget to clamor.
J. Bull is Sly.
Pittsburg Times
While the peace commission is trying
to beat the guns of Europe into pruning
hooks and plowshares, Great Britian
slips away from the meeting long
enough to toss a rake over toward the
Dutch possessions in the Transvaal just
as an evidence of faith in the new weap-ons.
Doesn’t Suit Thomas.
Somerset Herald.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed is sarcastic to a
finish. He declines to have anything to
do with the Czar’s universal peace con-vention
on the ground that he does not
feel at home in a deliberative body.
Both Excellent Bensons.
Latrobe Advance.
This paper supported Judge McCon-nell
for two reasons. First, because the
editors believe in a bi-partisan bench
and second, because of Judge McCon-nell’s
eminent fitness for the place.
Andy's Hard Lines.
Pittsburg News.
It is but natural for the world’s men-dicants
to consider Mr. Carnegie a “good
thing.” He advertised that he had
money to give away. Now that he is in
hiding the beggars cannot help feeling
hurt.
The ailing
leaves
five
So the falling of the hair tells g
of the approach of age and
declining power.
No matter how barren the tree
nor how leafless it may seem,
you confidently expect leaves
again. And why?
Because tiiere is life at the
roots.
So you need not worry about
the falling of your hair, the
threatened departure of youth
and beauty. And why?
Because if there is a spark of
Q life remaining in the roots of
the hair AYER’
IT would almost kill some of tlie ap-plicants
for Speaker Heed’s Heat if Tom
should decide to keep it himself.
THE JOURNAL extends its heartiest
congratulations to the Westmoreland
Democrat upon its splendid 16-page
centemiinl edition which is a credit
alike to Greensburg, the entire county
and the clever publishers, Messrs. Vogle
& Winsheimer.
will arouse it into healthy activ-ity.
The hair ceases to come
out: it begins to grow: and the
glory of your youth is restored
to you.
we have a book on the Hair
and its Diseases. It is free.
Jho Beal Advice Free,
If you ilo not obtain nil tlio benefits
you expected from the uso of the Vigor,
write the doctor about It. Probably
there Is some difficulty with your gnu* |
oral system which may bo easily
i removed. Address.
DR. J. C. AYER, Lowell. Mass.
The
Old Reliable.
The Leading
JEWELRY STORE
in Mount Pleasant,
If it’s tt good Clock, Watch, Dia-mond
or Plain Gold Ring, or
one of- the thousand and one
articles that go to make up an
up-to-dnte store of the kind,
we have it and at prices so low
that they must surprise you.
Repairs of All Kinds
A SPECIALTY. . . .
This work is Guaranteed as it
is done by a skilled silver-smith.
H. C. Morrison,
603 Main Street,
Mount Pleasant, - Pa.
N. A. Cold. Attorney.
Administrator’s Notice.
Estate of Wilson EV. Mason, deceased,
Notice is hereby given that Idlers of ad-ministration
011 tin* estate of Wilson
E. Mason, late of Mount Pleasant Boro,
dec'd, having Been granted to the undersign-ed
by the Register of. Wills, ete. of Wcslmoro-niorelnnd
county, all persons knowing them-selves
Indebted to said estate will make Im-mediate
oiiynient. and those having claims
against tne snnic will nresent them properly
authenticated for settlement.
SARAH MASON. Adm’x.
P. O. Mount Pleasant. Pa. 1-21-llt
All the latest designs and the
largest stock in town.
We ask simply that you call
and examine goods and sam
pies before purchasing.
IT
FISHER HOUSE,
am Street, Greensburg.
James Borlin, Jr., Prop’r.
The leading hotel. Centrally located
Accommodations first-class. Kates reason
able. 1251y
If you wish to have the hanging
done on paper bought of us,
remember wo employ only
the most competent work-men
and guarantee all work.
Respectfully
J. B. Coldsmith,
“On the Hill,”
MOUNT PLEASANT.
BRINGS BACK
THE LUSTRE!
, MAKES OLD
I LOOK NEW! onarch Polish
For Furniture, Pianos,
Tiling, Hardwood Finish
For sale by
all Dealers.
BAIRD BROS, A CO. B CLEVELAND. O.
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S. C. Stevenson’s
Real [state Bulletin.
Office 457 Main St., - Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Property in Mount Pleasant Borough:
West Main Street, near Eagle—Two-story brick dwel-ling;
9 rooms and basement. Price, $3,200.
Church Street—Large frame ^dwelling; 10 rooms.
Price, $3,000.
South Eagle Street—Frame dwelling. $1,400.
Between Church Street and College Avenue—Piece of
ground large enough for six building lots. Price,
$2,000.
Corner Diamond and Spruce Streets—Frame dwelling
of 4 rooms; large lot. Price, $900.
On Diamond Street—Large frame dwelling with two
lots. Price, $1,600.
On Bridgeport Street—Frame dwelling of 6 rooms.
Price, $1,300.
On street east of Bridgeport Street—Frame dwelling;
two lots. Price, $750.
On Sliupe Street—Lot 60x120. Price (375.
On Sycamore Street—Two lots, 50x120. Price, $125
each.
In Fairfield township, 3^ miles south of Bolivar,
Westmoreland county, Pa.—Farm of 145 acres;
115 cleared, 30 in timber, principally white oak;
brick dwelling and frame barn; building in fail-repair.
Price, $4,000.
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$4,000 TO LOAN!
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ON FIRST MORTGAGE.
Have You
Seen Them?
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If Not, You’ve a
Pleasure to Come.
At present the Best Sight in town is our Hand-some
Stock of New Goods, which includes the pick of
the market, iu Bright, Fresh, New Styles and Novel-ties
for the coming season. Our buying has been done
with a view of offering you the Best Styles, the Best
Qualities and
The Best Price Concessions.
Nobody Will be
Disappointed.
No doubt about our LOW PRICES and TINE QUALITIES in
Men’sand Roys’ Clothing,
Hats, Caps and
Gents’ Furnishing Goods.
There can be no RISK in seeing what we have
for tlie New Season—there is positive LOSS in not do-iug
so. We keep a very complete assortment in all
departments, and THE BEST is our kind always. We
shall show you such GOOD GOODS and make the
prices SO LOW that buying is a pleasure—TRY IT.
:v
0, To Spend Money and be happy at the
Ijj; Same Time, Go to
I Rumbaugh 4 Dillon,
<0F 619 Main street, Zimmerman Block, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
In Selecting
A Spring Suit
Don’t let cheapness guide you. You must con-sider
Quality if you expect Satisfaction
When that is missing disappointment is bound to
follow. We have
for Your Inspection
an assortment of Suits that lacks nothing of
being Perfect.
Perfect in Variety,
Perfect in Quality,
Perfect in Style.
“random 53.90 tO $15 4 $17.
We repeat we don’t expect to make any money
on clothingthis, our first, season among you. All
we aim to do is to establish ourselves with you.
BUT WE CAN GIVE YOU
no adequate idea of the values represented and
how much you save until you make an examina-tion.
So come in, see our goods, see our prices,
and we’ll leave it to your own judgment.
THE FAMOUS
Clothing House,
Levinson Bros.' Old Stand H. G0LDST0NE, Mgr.
Cor. Main and Church Sts., MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Til E MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1899,
HAPPENINGS AT HOI
For the Past Week Briefly Men-tioned.
LITTLE TALK OF THE TOWN
THAT WILL BOTH INTEREST AND
ENTERTAIN.
A Department in Which the Local Editoi
Holds High Carnival and Works oil his
Surplus Energy in Condensations
That Deal Solely with Matters Relating
to Mount Pleasant.
Q. W. Overholt's son, George, Jr., lias
a mild attack of diphtheria.
There was a alight frost Saturday
in this section, following a remarkably
cold day, bat it did little damage.
A goodly number of Mount Pleasant
people took in the Greensbnrg centen-nial
yesterday. The attendance is esti-mated
at 80,000,
A new iron pipe railing has been
placed about the front general delivery
window at the postofflce which is strong
if not highly ornamental.
William Giles, the popular Moretvood
blacksmith, had to lay oft' work Friday
with a sore foot into which a pesky niule
stamped the cork of its shoe.
Mr. John M. Coles, of Acme, and Miss
Florence Stoner, of Tarr, were married
at the Alverton Church of God parson-age
by ltev. Umstead Sunday morning.
The Second Baptist church people
will hold a grand levee in the old Third
ward school building to morrow even-ing.
The proceeds will be devoted to
the church.
David Miller, a colored coke worker
at Morewood, had his jaw broken in two
places Sunday by a fall from his bicycle
on a steep hill near Central. The front
wheel broke.
The Rev. Dr. Elliott, of this place, ad-dressed
yesterday's Scottdale meeting
of the Christian Endeavor societies of
Redstone Presbytery on “How organi
zation can be made successful.”
The drivers here for the Pittsburg
Brewing Company, with those at all
other outside plants, have been organ-ized
and will affiliate with the Teams-ter’s
Local Union, No. 1,557, Pittsburg.
The sixth annual meeting of the
Mount Pleasant Township Sunday
School Institute will be held in the
Heela Methodist church, Thursday, June
8th, with morning, afternoon and even-ing
sessions.
The Epworth League of the Methodist
Episcopal church will hold a lawn fete
Tuesday evening next at the College
avenue home of D. L. Nedrow. Ice
cream, strawberries and cake will be
among the good things served.
Mrs. Sadie Ramsay, of this place, has
sued the Gondola Real Estate and Im-provement
Company, of Jeannette, to
recover $1,500 with interest, being
money borrowed from the estate left by
her husband, the late Morris Ramsay.
The order for a new Pittsburg mail
from Mount Pleasant, to close at this
office at 9:10 a. m. and leave at 9:40 oyer
the Pennsylvania road, was received
here Wednesday. The Pittsburg sack,
which comes in now over the B. & O.
route at 3:30 p. in., is already of respect-able
size.
John Husband & Bros.’ team with a
load of lumber got away from the driv
er, Henry Cunningham, on College
avenue Wednesday afternoon, and ran
into the pavement in front of Daniel
Stoner’s residence, breaking down two
good-sized shade trees. No other dam
ane was done.
A petition has been circulated declar-ing
the old shanties at the corner of
East Washington and South Diamond
streets public nuisances and praying
Council that they be removed in com
pliance with that body’s action, taken
several years ago, when the property
was condemned. The paper was well
signed.
Mary Hoke, a Spring Garden girl,who
runs the cuff machine at the College av-enue
laundry, suffered a severe attack of
nervous prostration Tuesday morning
and for a time was unconscious. Pro-prietor
Galley had her removed to his
own home where she received every at-tention.
Unpleasantness at home is
said to have caused the trouble.
Mrs. Rev. Smith and Miss Chambers,
of Pleasant Unity; Mrs. Rev. Nigley, of
Little Redstone, and Mrs. Rev. Maloy,
of West Newton, members of the exec
utive committee, met here Wednesday
at the home of the secretary, Mrs. S. C.
Stevenson, and arranged for the next
meeting of the Home Missionary
societies of Redstone Presbytery.
FRANK BAER’S TROUBLES.
A Warrant is Out for his Arrest for
Stealing Diamonds.
A warrant was taken out Tuesday for
the arrest of Frank Baer, the Greens-bnrg
messenger, charging him with
having stolen ten loose diamonds, val
ned at $1,500, from W. J. Johnston &
Co., Pittsburg wholesale jewelers. The
officers have not as yet, however, been
able to find Baer who is said to be hid-ing
about his home.
As noted in these columns last week,
Baer gotsthe jewels for Mr. Bailey, a
Uniontown dealer, who knew nothing
of the transaction, and pawned them
nuder a ficticious name. Then he re-deemed
and returned nine of the stones.
The tenth is still missing.
Baer served a long term in the pen
itentiary for mill burning at Latrobe
and Greensbnrg. After his release lie
started a store at Johnstown, giving his
name as that of John Thomas, the same
as that of a wealthy merchant there,
and failed with numerous liabilities.
GEORGE M. EARNEST.
What a Home Paper Says of That
Republican Candidate.
The Ligonier Echo, in speaking of
George M. Earnest, Republican candi-date
for commissioner, says:“He belongs
to a family of prominent farmers of this
county, being a son of Samuel Earnest,
of Cook township. He was born and
raised a farmer and has been a farmer
all his life. He lives on one of the best
farms of Cook township, where he has
established and has in successful oper-ation
tlie famous Farmers' Stock Farm.
He is an extensive breeder and shipper
of blooded cattle and hogs, and has act-ed
ns expert judge of live stock at a
large number of country fairs in this
and other states the past three years.
Mr. Earnest belongs to an influential
Republican family, has been a Republi
an all his life and from his first vote to
the present lias taken an active part in
politics, having been a member of the
comity committee ever since he was 21
years of age, and was elected Justice of
the Peace in 1898. Mr. Earnest is active
and energetic in whatever he undertakes
and if elected to the office of county
commissioner would without doubt,
make an acceptable officer, serving the
people to the best of his ability.”
AROUND AND ABOUT,
Goodman & Springer, whose
graph gallery is in the Stauffer
Main street, are artists in their.
DEER PARK HOTEL,
photo-block,
Deer Park, Maryland. Most Delightful
Summer ReBort of the Alleghenies.
Swept by mountain breezes, 2,800feet
above sea level. Absolutely free from
malaria, hay fever and mosquitos. On
Main Line of Baltimore & Ohio Rail-oad.
Hotel and Cottages. Every
modern convenience. Rooms en suite
with bath. Electric Lights, Elevator,
Turkish Baths, two large Swimming
Pools, Golf Links, Tennis Courts, Bow-ling
Alleys, Magnificent Drives, Com-plete
Livery Service. Annapolis Naval
Academy Band. Delightful cottages
(furnished for hovsekeeping if desired)
ready for occupancy June 1st. Hotel
open from June 24th to June 30th.
For rates and information address
D. C. Jones, Manager, B. &0. Building,
Baltimore ,Md., until June 10th. After
that time, Deer Park, Garrett County
Md. o 7-30.
When in town Tuesday next, drop in
at the Goodman & Springer gallery and
have your picture taken. Your friends
would he pleased to have one.
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses have
been granted for this vicinity during the
past week:
George Stevenson, of Calumet, and
Emma M. Watt, of Mount Pleasant.
Lewis S. Niswonger, of Mendon, and
Florence Sager, of Scottdale.
Frank B. Stough and Lizzie Kemp,
both of Mount Pleasant.
But Principally Within
Bounds of This County.
the
A FULL COLUMN OF GOOD NEWS
Mr f*
Parker’s. Parker’s.
SECURED FROM THE PAGES OF RE
LIABLE EXCHANGES.
Messrs, James B. Sipe & Co., Alle
gheny, Pa., in order to introduce “Sipe’s
Japan Oil,” aud to demonstrate practi-cally
its superiority over linseed oil for
all kinds of painting, will send free of
charge enough of it to paint an ordinary
building, to the two first addresses re
ceived from property owners in reply
to this. It
Flour for Wheat.
O. P. Shupe, the East End miller,
will exchange for 60 pounds of wheat
27 pounds of spring wheat flour, 82
pounds of spring and winter wheat flour
blended or 36 pounds of straight winter
wheat flour.
If you want a good picture yon will
make no mistake in having Goodman &
Springer take it for you.
A Beautiful Show Window,
Manager H. Goldstone has the big
show window at his Famous Clothing
House beautifully trimmed for Memor-ial
Day. It is, in fact, a miniature sod-ded
cemetery with a soldier’s monument
and the figure of a widow kneeling over
a grave. War relics are tastefully placed
about the white shaft, while above
the crossed swords are the touching
words: “Let us have peace.”
Stockholders’ Meeting.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Dunlap Coal aud Coke Company will bo
held at the office of tho secretary, N. A. Oort.
In tho borough of Mount Pleasant, on Tues-day.
the utb day of Juno. A. II. 1899, at 2
o’clock p. w„ at which time directors will be
elected to serve for tho ensuing year.
Attest, THUS. LAIRD,
N. A. CORT Sec’y Prost.
How these Articles Appear After They
Have been Boiled Down Into Short
Paragraphs That Speak to the Point
But Briefly of Interesting Events
Transpiring in the Old Star of the West
Cases of smallpox have, it is said,
broken out, at Hearight and Smock, Fay-ette
county.
State Treasurer Beaeom says that in-dications
are that Colonel Hawkins will
he his successor.
Russell Scliroyer, a young man charg-ed
with robbery, was arrested at Con-nellsville
Friday and taken hack to
Somerset for trial.
A street car at Leisenring cut a ,2 year
old child of Mike Bell to pieces Monday.
The little one was run down while try-ing
to cross thedrack.
Orders were issued from the postal
department Friday for the establish-ment
of new rural free delivery routes
at Irwin and West Newton.
The general store of John W. Carnes
and postoffice at Lauglilinstown were
destroyed by tiro Friday night. The
$2,000 loss is partially insured.
An unknown man about 45 years of
age svas killed by the cars at Stewart's
station Saturday evening. The body
was buried at the County Home.
Tilden McLaughlin and Walter Cam-eron,
two Dunbar township, Fayette
county, young men, have just started
for Nebraska on their wheels.
The skeleton of a young woman, a
supposed flood victim, thought to be
Miss Cora Given, was dug up on Napo-leon
street, Johnstown, Saturday.
Floyd Larimer, a West Newton youth,
escaped deserved punishment for heat-ing
his mother Wednesday by going tc
Pittsburg and enlisting in the regular
army.
Joseph Herwick, postmaster ah Stew-anon,
Fayette county, and his wife were
thrown from a buggy Sunday. The for
mer had his leg broken and Mrs. Her-wick
was badly bruised about tho head.
The Yongh Brewing Company, with
D. D. Johnson president and John Gui-ler
secretary-treasurer, has been organ
ized at Connellsville and will build a
plant probably near the site of the old
one.
Freeman C. Gay, of Greensbnrg, with
ovor $3,000 on his person, was held up
in the rear of his office Friday night by
toughs who decamped when that well,
known insurance man reached for his
gun.
The Derry home of Pennsylvania Rail-road
Detective Sharretts was broken
into Thursday night by thieves who
were frightened away by Mrs. Sharretts
before they had secured anything of
value.
Letters from members of Company I
at Manila claim that Lieutenant Dick
Coulter is entitled to some of the credit
given Colonel Funston, of Kansas, for
marked bravery in the fight before Ma-lolos.
Rev. Father Boniface, pastor of the
Catholic church at Vandergrift, was
robbed one night last week of some $30
by two masked men who compelled him
at the point of a revolver to show them
where he kept his money.
At the opening of common ideas court
Monday Albert Anderson, convicted of
larceny at Irvvfti, was sent to the Hunt-ingdon
Reformatory, while Charles
Dowden, the New Alexandria incen-diary,
was taken to Dixmont.
The Lutheran Sunday school conven-tion
at Latrobe closed Thursday with
the election of the following officers
President, H. M. Zundell; vice presi
dent, O. F. Myers; secretary, Mrs. C. T.
Walthonr: treasurer, Miss Kate Barron.
James S. Beaeom, Joseph W. Stoner,
Dr. C. C. Porter, E. E. Robbins and L.
W. Squier, of Greensburg. have formed
a corporation to he known as The Ameri-can
Regalia Company, the object being
to furnish regalias for secret societies,
They have applied for a charter.
The report that all the section hands
along the B. & O.’s Pittsburg division
were marching to that city to demand
an increase of wages was somewhat of a
fake. Fifteen men at Sand Patch struck
to have their daily pay increased from
$1.10 to $1.25 and went back to work at
$1.20.
Daniel Williams and Agnes Evans,
young Lemont couple, eloped to Cum
berland in a hired Uniontown buggy
last week and were married and the
groom is now in the Fayette county jail
on charges of fraud preferred by the liv
eryman. The team ran away for
officer who made the arrest and one of
the horses was killed.
Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
tho Citizens Building and Loan Association
will be held in McElweo’s Hall, Mount Pleas-ant,
Pa., Tuesday evening. June 8th, at 7:80
o’clock,when the auditors’ report will be read,
officers for the ensuing year elected and sucli
other business transacted as may then he
doomed necessary.
W. A. KAI.J', J. 8. BHADDOOK
Secy, . Prest.
Cotton
Dress Fabrics.
New Lots Attract-ively
Priced
If you are a regular vis-itor
to this shopping head-quarters
you know that as
quickly as any desirable
dress fabric appears on the
market we get it and you
also know that summer
cottons are sold here at
money-saving prices. Here
are a few instances:
SIMLA MOUSSELINE is
a fabric in weight between
a lawn and gingham; the
colorings are beautiful
shades of pink, blue, lav-ender
and red; made to sell
at ioc hut our price is
the yard.
ARDSLEY CORD is a de-sirable
weight for shirt
waists and children's dress-es.
It conies in the new
stripes and neat figures
and we have priced this at
15c the yard.
You know the rage there
is for corded effects. We
have them in large variety.
A pretty collection of fine
FRENCH ORGANDY in
dainty colorings for even-ing
wear is priced at 18c
the yard, is regularly sold
at 25c and 30c the yard.
We have just placed on
sale some distinctively new
styles of Dimity and fine
lawn at 15c the yard.
Sun Shades
^Umbrellas.
desire
styles
A manufacturer’s
to close out certain
and qualities of silk ena-bles
us to offer some ex-ceptional
values in white,
black and plaid silk para-sols,
black and colored sun
or rain umbrellas. We
know these are selling at
50c to $1.00 under regular
prices.
Everything that is new
in Belts, Belt Buckles,
Belting and jewelry trin-kets.
Try our Mail Order
Department.
PARKER’S,
Scottdale,
Probable Greensburg Murder.
In a fight between crooks at Greens
burg yesterday John Craig, of Alleghe-ny,
was perhaps fatally shot. George
Guyhuff, of Pittsburg, was arrested, but
he says “Blinkev” Hannan, of Johns-town,
iB the guilty party. Hannan is
still at large.
.. MULLIN’S . .
EMPORIUri
OUR ALL-AROUND
REDUCTION SALE
For the past six weeks in every depart-ment
of the store has met with our public's
unqualified approval. Our stock is un-broken
in
Colored Weaves
of excellent styles. Among the Black
Weaves Crepons, of course, take first
place. ,
Spotless
White Goods.
“A Woman in White” will be a most
familiar figure this summer, and what so
dainty ? Piques push for preference; we’ve
got them in ail the wantable grades. The
Sheer Fabrics are standard for many uses.
Linen Values.
Home equipment is never too heavy in lin-ens.
Extra towels, extra tablecloths are
always desirable.
Our General Redaction Sale Continues.
MILLIN’ SEMPORILM,
605 Main Street, MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
We make Our First
SPRING
ANNOLNCEMENE
To the people of Mount Pleasant and surround-ings,
thanking them for their patronage ’ in-the
past ten years. We shall continue to furnish our
customers with the best of
Clothing, Shoes,
Oats and
Gents’ Eurnishings
that can be had in this locality, at reasonable pri-ces.
We now extend to you, reader, a hearty
invitation to our Uniontown store to examine our
Grand and Magnificent Stock of Haberdashery for
the men and boys. Last Saturday our store was
Crowded with people
and in order to wait on the multitude of people
that was in, we had to close our doors, and the
throngs outside were waiting for us to wait on
them. Our great hit was our
Suit
..for..
This Suit Sale will continue for 10 days more.
All mail orders promptly attended to.
Respectfully yours,
LEVINSON BROS.,
1? W. Main St., Uniontown, Pa.
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOUllNAT., FRIDAY, MAY 20, 18119.
FATHER OF HEROES.
GENERAL GEORGE SEARS GREENE,
BORN 1801; OBIIT 1899.
OMlcsl (IrmlimlP of Vi'nt Point—Yen
..riltetl Conirndr of Veteran, of
Three Worn—IIIH Son. Smonel lln-nn,
it \i>vnl Hero.
Every now mul then the obituary col-limns
record the pulsing of some veteran
whose very existence lias long been for
gotten by the closest contemporaries of
his days of activity. Again and again
at veteran reunions have the men of the
old brigade who fought under General
George Sears Greene at Antietnm, at
Gettysburg, at Wanhatchee, asked after
their venerable commander, seldom
wondering if he was alive, but wonder-ing
when told that he actually survived
a cheerful octogenarian, then a nona-genarian,
then a patriarch crowding a
century of life. He died at Morristown,
N. J., last January with tho weight of
almost 80 years added to that which
he bore in the days of battle, and he
was then past threescore. Horn in 1801,
General Greene well remembered the
war of 1813, and, in fact, trained in
tho boy companies which emulated
their seniors in the excitement of that
faraway conflict. Bearing a surname
identical with that of the grept Hevoliv
tiouary soldier, Nathanael Greene, and
hailing from the same province in
Rhode Island, it might be supposed that
our General Greene was a descendant
of Washington’s favorite marshal, but
that was not the case. Of tho same
English stock, their lines were some
degrees apart when the first American
representatives of each followed Roger
Williams to tho new world.
General George Sears Greene, al-though
not a professional soldier, since
he laid by the sword in peaceful times
and took it up at tho call of bis conn
m.
/'■
GENKKAL GEORGE SEARS GREENE,
try, has added much to the glory of
American annals. In his old age he
Baved the army from a disaster at Get-tysburg,
and a year before that his son,
Samuel Dana Greene, fought by the
eide of Worden on tho Monitor until
the latter was blinded by a shot from
tho Merrimac, then kept on pounding
the ram with shots from the little
cheesebox until she ran into a channel
unknown to any one on the Monitor.
The’ Spanish war brought out another
son, General Francis Vinton Greene,
one of tho captors of Manila. This sol-dier,
Greene, was n West Point gradu-ate,
like his father, and had imitated
his father’s example by laying down
the sword to await his country’s call.
At the outbreak of the war he was colo-nel
of the Seventy-first New York.
The elder Greene lived in and
near New York since the war which
made him so conspicuous in martial
annals. For a long time he had the
distinction of being tho oldest living
representative of West Point and from
time to time appeared at the reunions
of army officers. On those occasions he
was duly honored by his associates and
by tho press, but immediately sank
back into the retiracy he cultivated,
and it was necessary for his old follow-ers,
and even his contemporary officers,
to search the records to see if he had
not meanwhile passed to the eternal
camping grounds without the world
taking note of tho fact. For a num-ber
of years he lived at Morristown,
where he had for neighbors or frequent
visitors a number of his most intimate
comrades of the old army. Until the
end his spirits were happy, his man-ners
genial and courteous.
THE FORTUNE OF WAR.
Event* of 1H(W mul Their Fruit In
May, 18U5.
It was November, 1804. The Forty-fourth
United States colored infantry,
under the command of Colonel Louis
Johnson, had only a few weeks before
been ordered to Dalton, Ga., from
Rome, in the same state.
When Sherman began his march to
the sea, the white troops were all with-drawn
from Dalton, leaving the Forty
fourth U. S. C. I. as the sole garrison
of the post. The last train from Atlanta
came into Dalton loaded with troops
■whose term of service had expired and
with wounded men who were unabl; to
go forward with their regiments. They
brought news of the destruction of At-lanta
and of Sherman’s departure for
an unknown destination. They told of
the rumored movement of Hood’s Con-federate
army toward the north, with
designs upon Nashville und possibly
upon Louisville und Cincinnati.
Scarcely had this train departed to-ward
Cleveland, Tenn., than word was
brought from one of our pickets on the
southwest of Dalton that a fiug cf truce
had come in with u request to see the
commanding officer. Colonel Johnson
directed the adjutant und me to accom-pany
him.
The officer in charge of the flag of
trnce was Governor Isham G. Harris of
leunvssee, men volunteer uia upon me
stuff of General Ilood.
Governor Harris—I have forgotten
wliut his military rank was or if lio had
any—said that the flag of truce had
been sent for the purpose of demanding
the surrender of the post und garrison
of Dalton, in order to save the needless
destruction of human life. Ho gave his
word of honor that the entire army of
General Hood was present and that the
total annihilation of our small force
would bo the work of little more than
an hour. Ho added that in the event of
surrender the officers would be allowed
to retain their personal property and
would lie paroled within a few days.
Under the circumstances Colonel
Johnson decided that it was his duty
to accept tho terms of surrender.
During the days of our captivity we
were under a guard commanded by
Colonel John F. House of Tennessee,
who treated the prisoners witli the
greatest kindness and consideration.
We were not supplied with any rations
on the first day, it is truo, but neither
were our guards, who told us not to
mind a little thing like that, which
they were used to. On the evening of
the second day we each received a small
portion of raw cornmeal and a chunk
of raw beef from a steer just killed. We
made the meal into little cakes witli
our hands and baked them on hot
stones. The meat we toasted over the
fire. No salt was given us, for that was
a scarce article in the Confederate
army. The next day we were paroled
and after various adventures found our
way to Chattanooga.
After the surrender of the Confeder-ate
armies we were comfortably en-camped
at Chattanooga, doing guard
and picket duty. One day word was
brought to camp that Colonel House
had .been seen among a lot of paroled
Confederates just arrived at the rail-road
station, or “car shed.” Our colo-nel
at ones sent tho adjutant to arrest
our former guard and bring him into
camp. Permission to do so was readily
granted by the provost marshal. Tho
sutler’s big tent was soon arranged for
the reception, and all the officers of the
regiment who were not on duty were
present to welcome Colonel House to
the first square meal that lie had en-joyed
for many months and to congrat-ulate
him upon the end of the war, as
well as upon tho fact that we then met
as friends and fellow citizens of a com-mon
country, whereas our first ac-qnainatnee
had been made as enemies
under hostile flags.
The moon was shining brightly from
a clear sky when wo reluctantly bid
goodby to our guest, who had to report
at 10 o’clock at the “car shed.” The
ground glistened in the moonlight, and
the grains of gravel sparkled liko dia-monds.
Had the gallant Confederate colonel
lost all note of time and season and fail-ed
to remember that the winter of his
discontent was over? Wo forgot or re-frained
from asking. Wo only know that
when ho came forth from the tent and
saw the white light on tho ground, he
said, “Why, it’s snowing,” and bent
down to gather up a handful.
All this at, or near, Chattanooga,
Tenn., and on or about tho 30th day of
May, 1805. THOMAS B. KIRBY.
.ALLEY BROS.
WOMAN’S NOBLEST VOCATION
The Making and Keeping of a Sunny,
Cheery Home
“Good housekeeping is easy house-keeping,
and if a woman wears herself
into shreds and tatters keeping house
the case is proven against her,” writes
Helen Watterson Moody in the April
Ladies’ Home Journal. It is precisely
in her ability to guard against this con-tingency
that the housewife shows her-self
not only a good executive officer
but as well a woman with ideals and a
sense of proportion—one who does not
forget that housekeeping is a means to
home-making, not an end in itself—that
the most perfect administration of do-mestic
matters will not make a family
happy in whom the love and spirit of
home do not dwell.
“Home—not only a place to eat and
sleep and work in,but a place to be happy
in, a place to rest in and to be soothed, a
place in which to love and be loved, a
place for confidences, and counsel, and
strengthening words, and hope, and
heartening. It is a good thing, and a
noble thing and a satisfying thing to be
a good housekeeper; there is no profess-ion
of which and in which a woman can
be so proud, and when so blessed in bead
and heart and hand as to be able to
make and keep one of those real homes
which is a ‘little sunny spot of green in
the great desert of the world’—if there
is anything better than this in life I have
not yet found it.”
To Protect thePublic.
There is a strong effort being made by
the manufacturers of leading food pro-ducts
to protect the public against im-purity
and adulteration by sealing up
their wares in the mill or refinery and
delivering it to the public in unbroken
packages. One of the best examples of
this is found in the new brand of coffee
known as Lion Coffee. There is a tre-mendous
demand for this coffee at the
present time, and this is a great temp-tation
to unscrupulous dealers to at-tempt
some counterfeit of it. To pro-tect
against such imposture, Lion Cof-fee
is sold only in 111), sealed packets
with lion’s head on wrapper. It is never
ground nor sold in bulk. If our readers
have never tried a cup of Lion Coffee,
we urge them to do so this very day.
Send for a single pound and you will
never after be without it in the house.
FOR SALE:—A desirable 7-roomed
property on South Church street,
Mount Pleasant. Inquire of Frank P.
Stauffer. 3-31-tf
MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.,
•——Manufacturers of
HIGH GRADE_
Carriages, Buggies, Phaetons,
Wagons and Buckboards.
While vve continue to maintain our high standard for best material
and workmanship, we have determined to handle at the
same time a cheaper grade of buggies. We can now sell you
A Buggy from $37.50 up.
Call and see us at our factory on West Washington street, where
we have prices to suit all purses.
DUCHE5S GOOD AND BAD ... (
Stoves resemble each ot her closely. \
Its when they are put- in use that they f
tell their pedigree. ^
I ^CINDERELLA/
: Ml, STOVES fe RANGES.
• are made of t he best materials and re
• sent, quite a number of improvement
i stove making.
They meet every want of the housek
• er in a satIsfaetory manner at a mode
DIRT, WORK, WORRY, WASTE
ALL LEFT OUT.
Good bilkers—perfect roasters
Fold with that understanding,
T. C. PATTERSON,
jj MOUNT PLEASANT, PE!
^ep-rate
HAMPTON PLACE
8 # IS RIGHT
H IN THE VERY HEART of WILKINSBURG.
8^
Right opposite to the P. R. R. Station -twominutes
j from Street Car lines. Streets are paved, curbing
in, flagstone sidewalks down, sewers in, both gases,
water, electric light, shade trees. Some lots about
4 15 CENTS A SQUARE FOOT
jj and sold on easy terms—you name the terms and
8 like as not wo’ll sell that way. Office on the plan,
«■( open all day; evening appointments made on request.
^ There is
3 A MINT OF MONEY IN THE
3 * LOTS FOR THE INVESTOR.
*1 Building is at present in full blast on the site. We
^ often sell lots by mail and guarantee to deliver the
j best available lot at the time letter is received for
the price you name. In no case has the purchaser
on view become dissatisfied with our selection. Ad-
1 dress all communications to
LOWRY & WYLIE,
^ 626 REBECCA AVENUE,
*1 Long Distance Telephone Service, WILKINSBURG, PA.
vj 200-ring-t Wilkinsburg.
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H3SH-GRABE
HAWTHORNE
$22.50 MET.
SPECIFICATIONS. Name-ITawthonie. Cranks J
—0Vi Inch <diamoml shape). Ciiuin S-trt inch best 5
hardened centers and rivets (Indianapolis B best *
Quality), straw center and blued sides. Frame— *
Kegular 24-inch, option 22 or 20inches. Flnluh—Dark J
myrtle green, neatly hum! striped, Gear—Regular J
72, option 78; 10 tooth rear and 20 front sprockets *
are used on 72 gear, 10 and 28 on 78. Kundle Burs J
—Adjustable, lb-dala—Bridgeport, rat trap. Had- 3
die (Jilllam, padded top. Spokea—Tangent, Excel £
sior Needle Co'a best No. 2,82 front,36 rear. Tires— *
l\.-inch Morgan A Wright double tube. Tool Has !
—Containing wrench, oiler, repair outfit and span* J
tier. Tread—4j$*ineh. Tubing—Shelbycold drawn 1
seamless. Wheel HUB©—4;ti<j inches. Wheel*—28 J
inches. Weight—(About) 26poumlu.
15000 Said m 1890;
It’s as good as any wheel mado. All modern »
improvements. Guaranteed for one year. If |
not found as represented, return at our ex- «
pense both ways, and you can have your «
money back oil demand
ASK US TO SEND YOU OUR FREE BICYCLE CATALOG «
Send 15 cents for our l.ixio pane cataloguo. S
It lists everything used by mankind.
.....MaO.N.T.G.O.M..E.R.Y..W.A..R.D..&..C.O..,..C.H.I.C.A.G.O... ....J
J. R. JONES,
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WATER, STEAM AND GAS FITTED.
Orders, left at either J. A.
Stevenson & Co’s. West Main
Street store or at my residence,
on Smithfield street, will re-ceive
prompt attention.
All Work Guaranteed.
■f
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THE CLOTH
AND THE CUT
both please critical eyes
when we make the garment.
Our exclusive line of high-grade
fabrics, and the tine
reputation of our cutter,
make our place the recog-nized
center for correct
tailoring.
The suits we make for $22
arc marvels.
VOGLE BROS.,
K
Mullin Bl’k, Mount Pleusunt, Pa.
jmi Sewing ilin'rMach"ine
OIL.
For Sewing Ma-chines,
Typewriters,
Fire Arms, etc. The
Highest tirade* Get It
from your dealer.
BalrJBrns.&Co..cle»»i»nd. Q-r7waanuuuj
Do Your Joints
Pain You?
A slight indefinite pain in the joints is the first sign of Rheu-matism.
Then come the aching pains and tenderness, the
agonizing cramps, the fever and restlessness that characterize
this disease.
When you feel the first slight pain, begin to take Dr. "Will-iams'
Pink Pills for Pale People, and the progress of the disease
will be arrested. Neglect this and you will regret it.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills
for Pale People are a
Positive and Permanent
Cure for Rheumatism.
This remedy expels impurities from the blood, and supplies the material
for rapidly rebuilding wasted nerve tissues. It has performed hundreds of
almost miraculous cures in severe cases of Rheumatism, many times after
doctors had given up hope. Read this sworn statement:
“In 18001 was taken with rheumatism, which began in my hips and
gradually spread throughout my body. For two years and a half I
was confined to my bed j employed nine of the best physicians in Al-bany.
anditwo specialists from New York city. They till declared my
case hopeless, and finally told ine that I had but six weeks to live. I
told them to take their medicine away ; thut if 1 were to die I should
take no mQreof the stuff.
My niece, who through her friends knew of the good results attend-ing
tho use of Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, strongly recom-mended
them. She procured the pills and by the time I bad used the
first, box I felt hungry. Huving had no appetite for a long time, I
knew that the pills were doing me good. I continued their use, and af-ter
taking several boxes was able to leave my bed and go about with
the use of crutches. I weighed but 139 pounds. A»my normal weight
is about 210 pounds, you can see how run down I had become during
my sickness. After taking thirteen boxes of tho pills I was weighed
again, and although less than a yearhad passed I weighed 207 pounds.
I continued the use of the pills and finally was able to abandon the
crutches altogether, and am now as well as ever.” MAT TANNER,
231 Hamilton fit., Albany, N Y.
Bworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of September, 1898.
NEILE F. TOWNEE, Notary l*ublic, Albany Co., N. Y.
The genuine Dr. Williams'Pink Pills for Pale People are sold only fn
packages, the wrapper always bearing the full name. At all druggists, or
direct from the Dr.Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. 50c. per box.
High Art
..Wall Paper..
The time has come when you
would like to have your home
beautified by having it papered.
If yon contemplate having it
done and wish to see the most
tlp-to- Date Paper
in the city you will make a mis-take
if you fail to give me a call.
My prices are the lowest and
my work guaranteed the best.
I have a full line of samples
that will enable you to be satis-fied
before you leave.
I will also do all kinds of
Paper Hanging
and Kalsomining
I will have a full line of samples
at Wible’s Grocery Store, or
at my home on Church street,
or I will be pleased to call on
you with samples at any time.
Give me a trial and be convin-ced.
Yours to please,
Qeo. O. Benford,
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
HOTEL COOPER,
W. H. Coles, Prop’r.
West Main Street.
Mount Pleasant, Penn’a
Everything in and abotit
the house right up-to-date,
including bath and toilet
rooms, telephones and elec-tric
bells
Fine Bar Attached.^^x^#
There’s naught in the highway or muyh in the
park,
There’s naught iu a circus but a good bit of
art;
There’s nothing to-day that has ever been
seen
Can ever compare witli tho New Home ma-chine.
It’s light, easy running, with fixtures com-plete.
Its beautiful motion can never be beat.
The machine is all right, is what they all say,
Therefore, send in your order to Arrabrust,
Peuna.
The New Home Sewing Machine is
for sale by J. L. ARMBRUST, Arm-brust.
Pa. New Ideal machines from
$20 up.
THE BEST OF THEM ALLU
55532
LIPPINCOTT’S
I nONTHLYZYAGAZINE i
Contains a complete novel In every num-ber.
In addition to a largo quantity of useful
ana entertaining reading matter.
1Vo continued etorieo, tchioh are so
objectionable to tnoet reader*.
It should be in every household. Sub-scription,
$3.oo per year.
Agents wanted in every town, to whom
the most liberal inducements will DO offered.
J. B. LIPPINC0TT COMPANY, Publishers,
PHILADELPHIA.
WORTHY WATCHES NEG-LECTED.
Too many good watches be-come
bad watches through
neglect. They would keep
good time if kept clean. A
watch ought to be cleaned
once a' year. We venture to
say that half the watches in
this town haven’t been prop-erly
cleaned in five years.
Those same watches might he
pride producers if cleaned as
we can clean them.
ABE LEVINSON,
Rupert Block, - MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF NEW YORK
RICHARD A. McCURDY PRESIDENT
STATETIENT
For the year ending Decembr 31 1898
According to the Standard of the Insurance
Department of the state of New York
INCOME
Received for Premiums
From till olher Sources
$42,318,748 51
12,087,880 92
9,300,010 00
$071,711,007 79
I have carefully examined the foregoing State-ment
and find the same to be correct; liabilities
calculated by the Insurance Department.
CHARLES A. PRKLLER Auditor
From the Divisible Surplus a divideud will be
apportioned as usual.
ROBERT A. QRANNISS VICE-PRESIDENT
WALTER R. GILLETTE
ISAAC F. LLOYD
FItEDEKICVROMWELL
EMORY MCCLINTOCK
General Manager
2d Vice-President
Treasurer
Actuary
W. F. MORRISON,
District Agent for Southwestern Pa.,
MOUNT PLfASANT, PA.
HOTEL ANDERSON, .. .
(Formerly Grand Central Hotel.)
Main Street, Mouut Pleasant.
D. B. ANDERSON, PROPRIETOR.
Steam Heat iu every room.
Bath aud Toilet Rooms.
Hot aud cold water on every floos
Bell and Mutual Telephones.
Large Sample Rooms.
Fine Bar Attached
Every modern equipment known
to make the weary traveler
feel at home*
Free ’Bus to aud from all trains.
V*i
$55,000,029 13
DISBURSEMENTS
To Policy-holders for Claims by
Death $13,205,908 00
To Policy-holders for Endow-ments,
Dividends, etc. - - 11,485,751 35
For nil other accounts • • 10,493,370 53
$3o,245,938 88
ASSETS
United States Bonds and other
Securities - - - $100,950,141 33
First Uien Loans on Bond and
Mortgage .... 68,503,580 90
Lonns on Bonds nnd other Se-curities
-
Real Estate appraised by Insur-ance
Superintendents at
$23,534,820.88: Book Value 20,604,049 01
Cash HI Bunks and Trust Com-
, panic 11,621,377 30
Accrued interest. Net Deferred
Premiums, etc. - - - 6.431,957 10
$277,517,325 30
LIABILITIES
Policy Reserves, etc. - - $233,058,040 68
Contingent Guarantee Fund - 42.238,084 08
Divisible Surplus ... 2,220,000 00
$277,517,325 30
Insurance and Annuities in
force
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOU