Mount Pleasant journal (April 12. 1901)

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MOUNT PLEASANT, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, APRI L 12, 1»()1.
THE TRAIL WAS COLD
But The Thief’s Victim Warmed
It up a Bit.
STOLEN GOODS RECOVERED
AFTER A LONG CHASE DOWN INTO
WEST VIRGINIA.
M. F. Byers, of Near Tarr, Whose Young
Farm Hand Skipped With a Horse and
Lot of Other Plunder Last December,
Has Recovered the Animal and Sev-eral
Other Articles Taken and Will
Likely Get the Thief, Too.
M F. Byers, the yonns fanner who
lives near Tarr and whose hired boy,
Ira J. Keller, of Luzerne connty, this
state, left December 18th with one of
his employer's best horses, a saddle,
bridle, lady’s gold watch and about $18
of Sunday school money, has just recov-ered
the animal and watch and will
likely get the thief ere long, too, as the
festive youth has been located.
While Mr. Byers lost no time in com-mencing
the hunt it was six weeks be
fore he got any trace of the thief
Through one of the postal cards, con-taining
a description of the thief and
atolen property, he learned that young
Keller had been seen in Biansville,
West Virginia, and on going there Mr.
Byers recovered the saddle and bridle
which the thief had sold for a song.
While there Mr. Byers also got trace
of the watch which Keller had traded
to William Albright, of Ursina, Pa.
This trade took place in West Virginia
and Mr. Byers had to come back to Mr.
Albright's home where he recovered the
ticker early last week.
On Saturday he got his horse from a
Mr. Morgan who lives on Nigger monn
tain, back of Rockwood. The animal
had been eold by Keller and twice
traded, the last time to Mr. Morgan
who wasn't for giving the horse up at
first. But, Mr. Byers was determined
and took him. The value of Keller's
stealings, outside of the cash, was about
$250 and he realized less than $25. In
fact, he gave himself away by the low
prices he offered to take.
Quiet Church Street Wedding.
On last Thursday Mr. Frank Cunning-ham,
of Connellsville, and Miss Faith
Westmoreland, of Irwin, were married
here at the South Church street home
of the groom’s Bister, Mrs. Charles Ganse.
The ring ceremony was used by the
officiating clergyman, the Rev. C. L.
Smith, of the M. E. church, of the place.
Only the immediate friends of the
family were present. Mr. and Mrs.
Cnnningham will soon move to Scott-dale
where they will beat home to their
many friends.
Sunday School Commencement.
The annual commencement of the
Primary Department of the First Re
formed Sunday school will be held,next
Sunday morning at 9:15. The members
of a large class will be given their di-plomas
and passed into the Intermediate
Department of the school. A cordial
Invitation is extended to all to be
present at this interesting service. Rev.
Tossing will preach at 10:30 a. m. and
7:30 p. m. ^
Frick Library Grows.
The H. C. Frick Library at School
No. 6 of the Bridgeport Independent
District is receiving donations every
week Last week Jessie Lawton, a
pupil of the school, donated several fine
volumes. This week, Lena and Master
Tommy Myers, both pupilBof the school,
donated several beautiful volumes for
the young folks.
Reed Stauffer IU.
Reed Stauffer, the well known young
Scottdale bnsiness man, youngest son
of J. R Stauger, the banker, was taken
to Hot Springs, Arkansas, Saturday in
a special Pullman car for treatment for
Inflammatory rheumatism, from which
he baB been suffering for some time.
He was accompanied by his father and
ister, Miss Eva.
New ConneUevllle Bridge.
An application will be made April 30
by L. F. Ruth, Rockwell Marietta, I. C.
Smutz, E. K. Dick and John Duggan
for a charter for a new free bridge over
the Youghiogheny river between Con-ellsville
and New Haven. It is pro-osed
to erect a high bridge landing on
reen street, South Side, in Connells-ille.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs About Prominent People
Gathered During tbe Week.
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Miller
moved to East Liberty yesterday.
John L Albright, of Weltytown, was
ealling'on old friends here Wednesday.
Miss Josie Sinkula is visiting her
friend, Mrs. Harry Mnlford, of the Ea9t
End, Pittsburg.
Miss Sarah Kelley, of Scottdale, was
here Wednesday as the guest of Mrs.
R. E. Mahaney.
T. J. Smith, now a fellow citizen of
President McKinley at Canton, Ohio,
was here yesterday calling on relatives
and old friends.
William E. Robbins, of Derry station,
a Republican Poor Director candidate,
spent Monday night here with his old
friend, Simon Affolter.
Miss Edith Goodman is here visiting
relatives and friends while on her way
from tbe Philadelphia school of phar-macy
to her home at Denver, Colorado.
Miss Mabel Eicber, of this place, was
one of the guests at the ‘'Unlucky
Party" given by Miss Nell Wortman at
her Connellsville home Friday evening
last.
Mrs. James Dillon, son, Master Stew-art,
and her mother. Mrs. Parker Divley.
of Berlin, who is here visiting, went to
Pittsburg Wednesday to spend a few
days with friends.
A. M. Springer, of Uniontown, who
was here visiting his daughter, Mrs. O.
C. Kough. returned home Wednesday,
accompanied by that lady who will
spend a few days there.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Cronan, of
Greensburg and former residents of
this place, spent Sunday here with the
latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Carr, of Sand Hill avenue.
Miss Susan Poole, who was here visit
ing her parents, returned Saturday to
Pittsburg where she teaches in a Kin-dergarten
school, making her home
with her sister, Mrs. Charles Rush.
LIVELY MEETING
Of the Afro-American League at Scott-dale
Monday.
The meeting of the Afro-American
League of Westmoreland county, held
at Scottdale Monday, was a very lively
assemblage. There were nnmerons
squabbles and at one time an open rup-ture
was threatened when a resolntion
was offered to indorse a member of the
league as a candidate for poor director.
There happened to be two aspiring to
the position and order was restored only
by the tabling of the resolution. Reso
lutions were passed indorsing Governor
Stone, State Treasurer Barnett and
Hon. James S. Beacom. The next
meeting of the league will be held here.
The officers elected are: President,
Warwick Anderson, of Greensburg;
first vice president, Alex Pangbum,
Monessen; second vice president, C. H.
Tyler, Mount Pleasant; third vice presi
dent, Bailey Green, West Newton;
fourth vice president, Josh Beasly,
Greensburg; recording secretary, Jack
Martin; treasurer, Osborne Irwin; chap-lain,
Rev. D. K. Davis, of Scottdale, and
John Gant, of this place, sergeant at-arms.
James Lewis, of this place, was
elected a delegate to the state conven-tion,
which will meet at West Chester
in August.
Stuck in the Mud.
The other day when Charles Graul,
the South Church street baker, tele
phoned a hnrry-np order for floor to
Shnpe’s mill the proprietor took his No.
5 delivery wagon and one horse to fill
it, but stuck fast in the muddy alley
back of the public school building. The
fat miller finally got through by getting
ont and pushing, although nothing ex-cept
lack of time kept O. P. from lick-ing
a passing Hungarian who refused to
hold the lines. Jake Hont says the per-formance
as a whole beat any circus he
ever saw.
White-Dawson Wedding;.
Miss Bertha Dawson, the clever and
accomplished Western Union telegraph
operator at Connellsville, and Mr. John
Henry White, tbe obliging superintend
eutof the Broadford distillery of A. Over-bolt
& Co., were married Tuesday last.
The ceremony took place at the Pitts-burg
home of the bride’s sister, Mrs.
Wible. Young Mr. and Mrs. White
will make Connellsville their home
upon returning from their bridal trip to
Florida.
A Teamster’s Fatal Fall.
George Pofsky, a Central foreigner,
while driving a one horse wagon to
Alverton, Saturday, fell off and was
either kisked or trampled about the
head, being unconscious when found.
He lingered in that condition until
Monday when his injuries proved fatal.
A Famous Play.
“The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” that
most famous of war dramas, will be
given in the Grand Opera House April
26 and 27 for the benefit of the Mount
Pleasant Fire Department. The piece
will be under the clever management
of Fred B. Wigle, the sole proprietor.
VERY HARD COLD LINES
LOR AN OLD COMPANY
John A. Hennessy, Who is Now with the Regulars In
Telegraph Line Building There and Once
is Enough for Him.
COKE AND COAL.
EMAN.
Alaska, Tries
Items of Interest Gathered From Both
Mine and Yard.
A test hole for coal will be put down
on the Donegal township farm of O. C.
Brown. A large field in that section is
ht Id under option by local capitalists.
President Thomas Lynch, of the Frick
company, his wife and son John arrived
at their Greensburg home Tuesday from
an extended southern trip that included
Mexico.
SAINT MICHAELS, ALASKA, Dee. 28,
1900 —My last letter, addressed to my
old Company E comrades through the
columns of THE JOURNAL, was written
here on the eve of my departure on de-tached
service with the signal corps.
The object sought was the construction
of a telegraph line to connect us with
the outside world; hut, the work had to
be abandoned because of the cold that
made the trip the most trying in my
experience.
We left here early in August, there
being 25 infantrymen with the corps on
board the steamboat Leon and it was
lad luck from the very start when a
rowboat got into and broke onr wheel.
Following a lay-np of several days for
repairs, we were off for the mouth of
tbe Yukon river, 80 miles southeast.
Sterms drove us back and, to make
matters still worse, the boiler flues be-gan
to leak. A tug saved us. however,
and, after more repairs, we finally made
the riffle and started up the big river
whose banks for the first 200 miles are
desolate wastes with no sign of life.
Timber and an occasional village of
natives appear about 800 miles up.
Here we found Russian missionaries and
one American who wereall glad to learn
the object of our expedition. When
we reached a point some 700 miles from
the river's mouth we landed and began
work on the line.
We had 80 miles as a starter and were
soon continuing the line along the river
through the mountain, the force being
divided into gangs that cleared tbe way,
chopped and set tbe poles and strung
the wire. We worked from 10 to 12
hours a day, the mules towing small
boats carrying our tents and provisions
from one point to another as we moved
up the river. We put up from one to
three miles each day. It rained nearly
all of August and September, making
ns look more like sailors than soldiers
in onr oilskin suits. Upon completing
45 miles we came back to a place called
Kaltxg where we had to wait for cold
weather to get the line across a big
swamp to the coast at Unaliklik to con
nect with the cable running from there
to Nome and Saint Michaels, saving
300 miles by the short cnt.
We bnilt sleighs and on October 22
left the river which froze np a week
later, marking the opening of the sea
son for dog power in moving nearly
everything. A dog np here that’s a
good worker is worth something, too,
the price ranging as high as$50. Native
canines are called “siwashes ”
Our first move on the overland route
was 7 miles, onr mules and sleigh mak-ing
three trips to get all oursnpplies up
Mules are not worth much here once
cold weather sets in ns it's about all
they can do to pack forage for th m
selves. With November cauie snow
and zero weather and then onr troubles
began in earnest as we started across
the swamp.
We had to use iron-braced poles and
in some places standing trees. A pole
put into the ground soon freezes fast and
will never come ont as the heat of the
sun goes but little below the moss. We
succeeded in getting up 25 miles through
four feet of snow and then it rained,
forming a crust on the snow. Follow-ing
this came two more feet of the
beautiful and a second crust that cnt
onr mules so that we had to shoot a
number of them. We had to abandon
work on the line and hustle to keep
from freezing as the thermometer drop
ped to 30 degrees below zero.
Onr Sibley tents and little stoves af-forded
anything but comfortable quar-ters.
One man in teu was detailed to
keep the fire going while the others
slept, but it was hard work to get fuel;
for, we had frequently to wade through
snow to the waist and go a mile this
way to get dry wood. Everything we
cooked froze ns soon as it left the fire.
Flour when mixed froze and when
baked into biscuits would turn tbe edge
of an axe. Without good teeth one
might have starved. We had dessicated
potatoes and evaporated onions, but it
was mighty hard work to get them
cooked. The fire made icicles which
would drop from the walls of/the tent
to our blankets and freeze fast there.
There were times when a sleeper had to
be cut ont of his blink. We named that
camp “Freeze in Your Bunk.”
As we were ordered back to Saint
Michaels, 200 miles away, we kept
moving slowly on to Unaliklik. Some
idea of the difficulty we had in moviDg
at all can be had when it is stated that
with onr entire force at work breaking
a trail, 80 men, the best we could do
was two miles a day. In this way we
made 40 miles when a second party of
40 men caught np with ns. They had
lost their tents on the river and their
presence only increased onr trials. This
point we called “Camp Misery and Dis-pair.”
All were short of underwear
and socks and there were numerous
cases of frostbites. I had two fingers
and a heel frozen. One couldn’t help
but pity the poor mules we had left.
They struggled along, their lacerated
legs leaving a blood trail behind. Then
came orders to kill the last of these poor
beasts and “cache” everything except
three days’ cooked rations as the rein
deer would be sent to onr relief. A
“cache" is a Bhak or hut bnilt wherever
needed and, when thus stored, is usually
respected by both miners and Indians.
The government keeps these deer at
different stations for this purpose, They
are in charge of Laplanders whose queer
dress and entire outfit remind one of
the pictures of Santa Claus. The sound
of their hells reached us one evening
when we were feeling awfnily blue and
when they came up the sight f Old
Kris himself would have been scarcely
more welcome
These deer live on moss, to which
they dig down, and were attached to a
little Bhell boat. They can travel over
great snowdrifts hanling a 2"0 pound
load. Each one of onr party was al
lowed a deer and boat. Relief parties
had been put to work making a trail
from the other side of the divide and we
struck their first camp 18 miles ont and
another 20 miles farther on. Then we
reached the coast, where tbe snow was
light and we soon reached Unaliklik
twenty miles nway.
We spent five days at Unaliklik in
log cabins resting up for onr 80 mile
march to this place along the shore of
Behring Sea which was frozen from
one half to one mile ont In the way of
amusement we attended an Esqniino
dance in an underground hall where the
revelers would put a contortionist to
shame. The reindeer left us here, but
we got several lunlea and a number <f
dogs and with thesemade Saint Michaels
in four days. December 21st. and right
glad onr comrades were to see us, but
not any more than we were to be with
them again. The reader is left to
imagine how good a tnrkey dinner
tasted and how welcome was a warm
room.
We were given a week to restand
clean up and then it was work cutting
ice for the water supply or carrying
coal from the beach, where the steamer
dumped it, to quarters and that, too,
alongside of a civilian who draws his
$90 a month while wedon’t. However,
we are happy and in good health, look-ing
forward to the good time we will
have when we reach San Francisco or
Seattle.
Wishing all the old boys of E a Happy
New Year, I am,
Respectfully yours,
JOHN A. HENNESSY,
Co. I, 7th U. S. Inf.
DEATHS OF THE WEEK.
The Grim Reaper's Work in This Place
and Vicinity.
Swartz Gardner died at his Pleasant
Unity home Saturday of a complication
ot diseases, aged 7n yea s.
Mrs. Julia Foley, mother of Mrs
Mary Coffee, of this place, died Monday
at the Pittsburg home of her daughter,
Mrs. John Keliher, aged 81 years.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dun
can, of the East End, will regret to
learn of the loss of their twin boy babies
born last Thursday. One died that day
and the other on Tuesday.
Shoplifters Caught.
Officers Wilson and Crossland, of
Connellsville, were here Friday looking
for two men and a woman who had
robbed Dunn’s stores there of a lot of
silk goods the day before. Tbe trio of
clever shoplifters was run down at
Greensburg Saturday and one of the
men and the woman are in jail. The
other man escaped from the police at
the lockup. JohnConian, of Allegheny,
was arrested Tuesday and is now in jail
at Uniontown. Greensburg victims of
the gang failed to identify him, but
Mr. Dunn's man did.
United Mine Workers’ officials are or-ganizing
the Smock and neighboring
independent mines in Fayette connty
with a view to forcing the operators to
pay scale rates.
Several small coal properties in Som
erset county have been consolidated by
John Murray Mitchell, of New York,
under the name of the Ursina Coal
Company, with a capital of $1,000,000.
The Washington Coal & Coke Com-pany
has bought the Perry Coal Com
pany’s plant near Perryopolis, Fayette
connty, consisting of 90 acres of coal,
which controlled the outlet of another
tract belonging to the purchaser.
There has been much trouble from
water in many mines throughout the
region during the past week or more
owing to the heavy rains and melting
snow. The diggers at the Frick com
pany’s Buckeye plant were drowned out
Saturday.
Thomas R. Keene, mine foreman at
the Jones & Langhlin Tyrone coke plant,
which will soon be abandoned on ac-count
of the coal being exhausted, has
held that position for a quarter of a
centnry and has never had one of his
men killed.
Thomas Reiner, and others, who leas-ed
the Mahoning Coke Company 125
acres of coal in 1884, have sued theCam
bria Steel Company for $61,000 royalty
in the Fayette connty courts. The de
fendant company got the property from
J. K Ewing following a sheriff sale.
The executors of the estate of the late
W. J. Rainey have commenced action
against the estate of the late A. M
Byers, of Pittsburg, to recover $17,000,
which, it is claimed, is due for coke de-livered
under contract to Byers during
his lifetime, to be used at his furnace at
Girard.
BIG LAW SUIT
Involving the Title to Valuable Coal
Land.
A year ago Dr. Keaggy, of Allegheny
City, leased 815 acres of coal southeast
of Greensburg to Daniel Dillinger, W.
A. Huff and J. C. Crownover, of the
latter place, who subsequently signed
the lease to the Seaboard Coal Company.
The conditions of tbe original lease as
set forth in the bill in equity were that
tbe lessees were to begin work within
six months. Dr. Keaggy claims this
was not done and that the lease con
sequently became mill and void. He
subsequently sold the coal to H. James
H. Gallagher for $100,000. Proceedings
are now brought in court to divest the
Seaboard company of its alleged claim
to the premises. Only last week this
company let the contract for the sinking
of a shaft and the building of works on
the tract.
Ten Happy Married Years.
Mr. and Mrs. Orrin C. Galley, of West
Washington street, were tendered a
little surprise party Tuesday evening
last in honor of their tenth marriage
anniversary. The affair took place at
the close of services at the Methodist
Episcopal church, the Rev. Mr. Smith
accompanying a score or more relatives
who bore, besides a-plenty to eat, numer
ous nice presents in granite ware.
Band Entertainment.
The Mount Pleasant Band’s annual
benefit entertainment will be given in
the Grand Opera House this and to-morrow
evenings. The performance
will open with an np to date minstrel
show, while the second and third parts
will include a concert by the band,
moving pictures, buck and wing danc-ing,
bag punching, cake walk and the
like.
He Was a Poor Shot.
A couple of rowdies prevented the
colored social and cake walk from being
held in the old Third ward school house
Saturday evening. Joe Lewis, of More-wood,
cut loose at Henry White with
bis revolver, but Lis aim was bad and
tbe bullet struck Al. Bradford in the
heel. The wound, however, was a
slight one.
Missing Dawson Man.
Adam Eichler, of Dawson, has disap-peared,
and it is thought that he has
been killed. A few days ago he drew
$150 from the First National Bank at
Dawson and started to go to his friends
at Blythesdale, below West Newton.
Since that time nothing has been learned
of him.
Added to Fayette County's
Long List.
IT WAS AT RUTH STATION
AT A LATE HOUR ON SATURDAY
NIGHT LAST.
The Victim Was John Grindell, a Track-layer
in the Davidson Shaft, Who was
Shot By His Son-in-law, John Nolan.
The Trouble is Said to Have Been
Caused By tbe Dead Man’s Refusal to
Permit His Daughter to Live With the
Murderer.
John Nolan, an employe at tbe Pitts-
Brewing Company’s Connellsville plant,
shot and almost instantly killed his
father in-law, John Grindell, at Ruth
station, a short distance north of Con-rellsville,
at a latehonrSaturdaynigbt.
There is said to have been a quarrel be-tween
the two men over the victim’s re-fusal
to permit his daughter tolive with
the murderer.
Nolan was at the brewery until 9
o’clock Saturday night. He went thence
to Grindell’s house. No one saw the
shooting except the participants. About
midnight, Grindell's son heard a shot
fired, as if in the yard. He went down
stairs and found the body of his father
lying on the wet ground. Nolan was
standing some distance off, flourishing
the revolver in his hand. Young Grin-dell
started after Nolan. The latter at
first started to run, then faced about
and threatened to shoot his pursuer.
The latter closed in, the two grappled,
and after both had fallen, Grindell
wrenched the weapon from Nolan’s
grasp.
At this time neither one seems to have
known that the old man was dead.
When they rose to their feet, yonng
Grindell went back to his father and
Nolan fled. Young Grindell found a
hole in his father’s face, to the left of
his nose, and blood was oozing ont in a
dark stream. A sheet was pnt over the
body, and it was carried into the house:
The household was aroused and neigh-bors
also by this time.
Connty Detective Alexander McBeth,
with Policemen Frank McCormick and
Martin Coyne, of Connellsville, were
soon at the Grindell house. They were
shown the torn wet ground, where
yonng Grindell and Nolan had fought
their desperate battle for possession of
the fatal revolver, and took up the
track, following it to Connellsville,
where Nolan was finally found at the
house of his father. He was arrested
without resistance and taken to the
borough lockup. Early Sunday morn-ing
he was taken to jail at Uniontown
and an information charging him with
the murder of his father in-law was
made against him.
The prisoner is 22 years old and was
married last May to the daughter of
the man he killed. Since that time the
young couple had not gone to house-keeping,
and, it is said, that Grindell’s
objections to Nolan were the cause of
this separation.
The body of Grindell, who was a
tracklayer in the H. C. Frick Coke Com-pany's
Davidson shaft and aged 49
years, was taken to the Connellsville
morgue Sunday morning when Coroner
Taylor held an autopsy. He opened the
skull of the dead man and found tbe
bullet at the base of the brain, just in-side
the rear skull bone. It had entered
beside thenose, taken an upward course,
piercing Grindell's brain, and had killed
him instantly. So close was the re-volver
to Grindell’s face when fired that
the powder was blown into the nose,
cheek and eyes of the dead man.
A Gay Star Boarder.
Oliver Gregg, who lives near Greens-burg,
claims that his gay and handsome
star boarder, Mike Galvin, has broken
np his home by eloping with Mrs.
Gregg Monday last. The aggrieved
husband has taken out warrants for the
runaways and instituted legal proceed-ings
for a divorce. Mrs. Gregg was
Miss Lottie Sprug, of Kecksburg, and
is tbe mother of two children.'
Smallpox at Greensburg.
A harmless rash on Simon Brant, a
tramp arrested at Derry Sunday and
jailed for stealing a ride on the cars,
gave Greensburg people a bad smallpox
scare Monday. On Tuesday, however,
there was gr und for alarm as Frank
Ruffner, who lives near Jamison’s coal
works, was found in town suffering
from the dreadful disease. He was
eicorted home and quarantined.
Property Sales.
McWilliams & Beltz have sold the
East Smithtield, North Hitchman and
East Washington street properties of
W. H. Ramsey, Ludwick Koper and
Hon. J. S. Warden to Mr. Shebol, M.
Culeta and T. H. Dalton, respectively.
I’HK MOUNT PLEASANT1 .lolltNAU, Kill DAY, APKIL 12, 1901. I
Manure is always Injured by heating,
Kirougli which process It loses Its am-monia.
The best remedy for lice in the hen-house
seems to be to line the building
with tarred paper.
The colored brother needs freezing
*p—putting into cold storage—for
about throe months every year. He
would then get a hustle on himself.
There will always be some one to
breed the scrub cow, somebody to milk
her, somebody to lose money feeding
her steer calf, but it should not be you.
At the present prices of the staple
good cotton lands—those which will
produce from three-fourths of a bale to
a bale per acre—are easily worth $100
per acre.
The wolf bounty appropriation of the
mate of South Dakota is short the sum
of $20,000. Range conditions always
favor the multiplication of wolves, who
find an easy living preying on the
young anti helpless of the flocks and
herds.
If the oattleld Is rank and black in
May and the field is level, turn the
■beep In for a short time; if the field is
willing, do not do it, ns the sheep will
invariably feed on the higher portions
•f the land, just where their work is
not needed.
Good seed is the first step In securing
good crops, then a proper and thorough
preparation of the seed bed. Ignoring
these things many men work and fret
and fail, It being the same sort of fool-ishness
which makes a man expect to
raise a good calf on sour separator
milk.
Neither an old boar nor an old bull is
a desirable adjunct of the stock farm.
They are very apt to be ugly and more
•r less of a nuisance, but just the same
any man can well afford to keep such
matured sires, caged up like wild
beasts, If necessary, for the sake of
their value as sires.
A friend wishes to know what he
can do to make his hired man content-ed.
It depends upon the man, hut if
he (our friend) will do all the milking
and get a good looking hired girl the
chances are the h. m. will lie reasona-bly
contented. If not, then he should
be fired at once.
We commend the red cedar for an
evergreen belt around the farm home.
It will not grow so fast as the white or
Scotch pine, but Is everywhere tough
and hardy, standing drought and ex-treme
cold better than any evergreen
we have. It should be planted much
more extensively than it is.
“How many sheep can be kept on the
food required by one cow?” we are
asked. That depends altogether on the
breed of the sheep. Five 200 pound
Cotswolds will consume as much food
as a thousand pound cowr. while eight
Shropshires and ten Merinos would re-quire
about the same amount of food.
A prominent railway official told us
lately that It will pay to build a line of
road anywhere In the west and north-west
where a belt of farm land six
miles wide on each side of the road
can be depended upon for patronage.
If this statement is true, we have not
got to the end of railway construction
by a good deal.
If capitalists can make good money
buying western range sheep and your
grain and hay to fatten them for mar-ket,
why In the name of common sense
should not you? These men are mak-ing
close to a dollar a head, and you
would have an additional 10 cents
which they can't get In the matter of
fertilizing your land.
One ton of commercial fertilizer,
worth $28, is required for each acre of
farm land on Long Island In order to
Insure a crop. And there are thou-sands
of men in the fertile west who
grow three tons of worthless weeds In
each acre of their cornfields who would
not know what a commercial fertilizer
was if they were asked.
Two million seven hundred thousand
Frenchwomen are reported by the last
census of that country as employed In
outdoor work on the farms and gar-dens
of France. This condition would
theoretically imply large families of
children, but the same census discloses
the fact that the nation as a whole is
barely holding Its own in point of pop-ulation.
The dust and fine chaff from a ma-chine
thrashing flax were carried by a
strong wind over on to a piece of land
a quarter of an acre In extent which
had never grown a crop of flax. This
field sowed to flax next year produced
a fine crop, with the exception of this
one-quarter acre, which was so poi-soned
by the dust that the crop all
died off when it was two inches high.
We came across a public spirited
man lately who had set a row of apple
trees in the street outside the sidewalk
for shade trees. Of course the boys
will get all the apples, but no man has
lived in vain who has helped the boys
of his town to have a good time.
A late experiment conducted at the
Kansas experiment station In the feed-ing
of young calves showed that a
bunch of calves raised on sweet sepa-rator
skimmilk made a daily gnin of
1.54 pounds at a cost of $!5.42 per 100
pounds of gain; a bunch fed whole
milk made a gain of 1.95 pounds per
day at a cost of $0.04 per 100 pounds,
and another bunch allowed to run with
their dams made a gain of 1.77 pounds
per day at a cost of $4.41 per 100
pounds.
Try a patch of rape this year. Plant
two acres of sweet corn and sow 1(4
pounds of rape seed to the acre at the
time of the last plowing. When the
corn begins to harden, fence off half of
It and turn the hogs in. Let them alone
and go and lean over the fence as the
sun goes down and just laugh to see
them grow. Give them the other half
later on and then raise a hundred bush-els
of corn to the acre there next year.
This Is not a long item, but it is a
mighty good one all the same.
We do not know about sowing rape
in corn unless both crops cau be fed
off on the ground by either sheep or
hogs. A friend sowed a part of his
cornfield with rape at the time of the
last plowing. A big storm blew the
corn crop down in early August, and
the rape started up and soon buried
the corn almost out of sight. And he
had to wait until the frost killed the
rape before he could pick his corn.
This combination would be just the
thing for a hog pasture where, with a
portable fence, it might be fed off in
sections.
For the average farmer who wishes
to grow a supply of good fodder for bis
dairy cows there Is probably nothing
better than to sow corn at the rate of
about a bushel to the acre along the
last of June and then cut It with a har-vester
or corn binder if sown in drills,
cure it well in the shock and later put
in the barn or stack. This Is a better
crop than millet or sorghum, so far as
the feed is concerned, and is more eas-ily
and satisfactorily handled. Five
acres of such corn If planted on good
land will easily yield 20 tons of very
choice fodder.
We lately at a farmers’ institute at
Logan, in Harrison county, la., had the
pleasure of listening to a brass band
and string orchestra of 20 members,
each one the son or daughter of men
living on their farms. Under a compe-tent
instructor they had semiweekly
rehearsals during the winter months
and have settled in a most happy and
pleasing manner the question of social
pleasure for themselves, while nt the
same time they afford others a rare
musical treat Here is an example well
worth following in other localities.
Two-thirds of this organization were
young ladies.
It may be In place to say a word
about a change of seed grain at this
time. Few men realize how much
they would be benefited by doing this.
If the farm is a clay soil, try some
wheat, oats and barley from a sandy
one, no matter if It Is only a few miles
to the sandy soil. Better yet, get the
seed from some sandy soil 100 or 200
miles to the north of you. If your farm
is sandy, got the grain grown on a clay
soil. Potatoes will show more improve-ment
than almost any other crop by
this changing of seed. Nature works
on a law of continual change, and it is
well to heed it
The back acres on the farm—the far-away
fields which cannot be reached
by the farm fertilizers—should have
special clover attention. It will be a
great day for the central west when all
farmers look at clover rather as a fer-tilizer
than as a forage plant, for,
grand forage as it is, it is still worth
far more on any farm as a fertilizer.
There Is no single line of farm econom-ics
which needs so constantly to be
kept to the front as this of the value
of the clover plant ns a soil fertilizer.
Not one-third of the farmers in t(je
west and north west seem to know or
care anything about clover.
We came across a farming communi-ty
this winter which has had during
the past ten years periodic spells of
shifting from dairying to beef raising
and back again, with the result that In
the effort to breed to meet these diver-gent
specialties they have got so much
Holstein and Jersey blood Into their
herds that the steers are no good for
feeders, and, crossing back to the beef
type with Polled Angus and Shorthorn,
have spoiled their dairy herds and
practically, to all Intents and purposes,
have now nothing but the worst sort
of scrub stock. This is all folly and al-ways
brings disappointment.
CHEAP BUTTER MAKERS.
We are prompted to speak of 111 ad-vised
economy practiced by many co-tperatlve
creameries In selecting the
cheapest man for butter maker. There
Is probably no other business where
cheap and Incompetent men can lose
so much money for their employers as
here. Take a big creamery making a
ton of butter a day In June and allow
the product to be off Just enough to
sell for a cent under the market, and
away goes $20 Into a hole. The butter
maker, If an expert. Is cheap at $100
per month, for such a man can save his
wages twice over. Brains cost money,
but brains must go Into the cream vat,
the starter, the tester and the churn
and are Just as Important as salt. We
have known cases where $10 a month
saved on a butter maker’s W'ages repre-sented
a dead loss of $100 each month
he made the butter.
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THIS MOUNT PUKAHANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AP11IX. 12, 1901 t
As Judged From the Past Week's
Trade Reports
WHEN CAREFULLY COMPILED
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OF THE JOURNAL.
The First Quarter of the New Year Just
Closed Shows that While Transactions
On the Stock Market have Amazed the
World. General Trade Has Maintained
An Even Course. With More Points ot
Gain than Loss.
While the general business world has
looked with amazement at the perform-ance
of the stock market, trade has main-tained
its even course and there are!
many more points of gain than of loss,
with even a slightly steadier tone in the
dry goods market. There some sellers
have withdrawn offers at recent low
prices, though buying is small as yet.
Collections in all lines are unusually
prompt, and in the building trades con-tracts
have been entered into sufficient
to furnish a decided impetus in allied
lines during the spring season.
No sign of lessening demand is per-ceptible
in any branch of the iron and
Bteel industry. Mills are accepting con-tracts
for the closing months of the year
and there is every indication that 11)01
will surpass all records in the quantity
of pig iron consumed by manufacturers.
Though capacity has been wonderfully
enlarged during the past five months,
there are still many extensions and new
plants contemplated. Itisalso probable
that the customary summer repairs of
furnaces and mills will be accomplished
within a shorter period than usual, as
contracts call for heavy deliveries right
through the season.
Permanence of prosperity in this in-dustry
is becoming more certain as there
is less evidence of inflated prices.
Regular quotations have not altered,
except for bars and foundry pig iron,
although all sorts of premiums are paid
where prompt shipment is required.
Although fewer ovens are active in the
Connellsville region than a year ago,
the output is much larger and about
8,000,000 tons were made during the
quarter.
Shipments of boots and shoes from
Boston are steadily increasing, the last
week’s movement reaching 1)4,453 cases,
against 1)2,075 in the previous week and
89.034 a yearago. Quotations are steady,
but it is feared that the recent declines
in leather and hides will make it possi
ble for the small shoe manufacturers to
cnt prices when they are compelled to
seek new business. An unexpected de-mand
has appeared for russet shoes,
equaling last years business, despite the
fact that these lines were considered
less popular. The circular of Coates
Brothers on April 1 made the average
of 100 grades of wool 17.99 cents, a de-cline
of nearly a cent since March 1,
and 51 cents compared with April, 1900.
During the past two weeks, however,
the market has steadied and there is
much more trading. Moderate buying
is done by worsted mills.
After declining within a sixteenth of
4 cents, it was not surprising to see cot-ton
recover half a cent. The oversold
condition of the speculative market was
chiefly responsible, and southern dis-patches
gave support by statements of
unfavorable planting conditions. Sup-plies
were against any pronounced rise
in prices, however, and conditions at
mills continue extremely depressing.
Aggressive manipulation of corn
forced prices to an unreasonable point,
from which the fall was severe; and
wheat also weakened, although exports
from the Atlantic coast continued liber-al.
Pork products did not show the
usual sympathy with corn when it re-acted,
for Chicogo operators absorbed
offerings readily.
Banking defaults numbered 21, with
liabilities of $8,44},889. For the month
of March the total liabilities were much
smaller than in the corresponding month
of any year since monthly statements
were first published. These figures in-dicate
moBt undeniably that the new
century has opened with business on no
uncertain foundation.
OllAIN. ri.OCH AND FEED—WHOLESALE.
Wheat, per bu 73
Oats, per bu
'Corn, per bu „
Corn Meal, per bbt.. bolted 3 50
Flour, patent, per bbl 4 »>
Chopped feed(corn and oatslper ton 18 00
Bran, per ton g* J#
Middlings, per ton 30 00
Mill Feed, per ton 30,00
Hay. baled, per ton
Huy, loose, per ton lo 00
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE—RETAIL.
Breakfast Bacon, per lb
Brooms -
Buckets
Buckwheat flour, per sack
Butter, per ft
Candles, per lb : -
Carbon oil, per gal
Cheese, per lb
Chickens
Coffee, per lb
Dried Apples, per ft -
Dried Beef, per can —
F.ggs, perdoz -
Ham, per lb
Lard per lb •
Maple Molasses, per gal -•
Now Orleans Molasses, per gal
Potatoes, per bu i
Bice, per lb •• -
Rolled Oats. 2 lb packages
Balt, per bbl
Balt, per sack -
Balt Fish, per lb • •••
Smoked side bacon, per lb
Balt side, per lb
Boap, per cake -
Starch, per lb
Sugar, per ft
Bweet Potatoes, per lb
Tea per ft
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LOGICAL UNCLE ELI.
No V«»* In Worrying, nml Hn Hail
I.oKlo to l*rove It.
“Say, m,v dear,” said I to my wife HH
I returned home the other night, “I’ve |
been held up and robbed by a footpad.”
“No!” she exclaimed as she fell Into
a chair.
“Sure's you live. Yes, sir, he took 84
off'n me.”
“For the land's sake! But you went
to the police at once?”
“Noap.”
“Didn’t seek to hnve him arrested?”
“Noap.”
“But are you goin to let folks rob you
and not do anything about it?” -
“In tills ease, yes. Let’s look at the
logic of the thing. My friend Green is
coming over in the morning to borrow
money of me. Having been robbed of
it, I can't lend it to him. Not having
borrowed any money of me, he will
continue to be my friend instead of
turning against me. For the trifling
sum of $4 I have helped a footpad out
of a hole, retained a friend, lmd an ad- j
venture and am home in time to wind
the clock and go to bed at the usual
hour. Hannah, I’m no man to want
the whole earth. I’m satisfied with a
good thing.”
*•*•**•
At midnight the other night I got a
dig in the ribs and woke up to hear
Hannah saying:
“Uncle Eli, get up at once or we shall
have our throats cnt!”
“Have you discovered any one In the
loom with a knife?” I asked.
“No, but there’s a great racket in the
hack yard.”
“Well?”
“Well, who knows who is around and
what they are stealing? Get right up
and let ’em know you’re home.”
“My dear woman, let’s look at this
thing from a logical point of view. No
person In our back yard can cut our
throats. It is a well known fact that
1 am always home, and no one would
reason that this night was an excep-tion.
As to the identity of the marau-der,
what is it to us whether he be
Tom Jones or Bill Green?”
“But do you want to he robbed?” she
persisted.
“I do not. No man does. I hear a
barrel being softly rolled over the
snow. That barrel contains a dead cat
and a lot of old shoes. I headed it up
this afternoon and left it to he stolen.
If not stolen, it will cost me 15 cents to
have it carted away. Hannah, seek
thy repose. We have saved 15 cents in
cold cash, the thief has worked up a
surprise party on himself, and there Is
yet time to indulge in our full amount
of sleep.” M. QUAD.
AlmoM Done.
A country editor who was not sup-posed
to be rich built himself a modest
cottage. The neighbors were all inter-ested
and naturally made inquiries os
to how the building was progressing.
The editor finally became tired of be-ing
asked whether the plastering was
dry yet, whether he expected to move
in this week, and so on. One day he
was quite out of patience, and just then
a subscriber asked:
“Well, Mr. Barnes, have you moved
into your new house yet?”
“We began this morning,” answered
the editor. "We carried over a chair
and a saltcellar and left the dog in the
yard.”
"Well, well,” said the subscriber,
“moving is an awful nuisance. I’m
glad you’re so nearly through.”—Stray
Stories.
Courtesy.
Small Boy—Shall I keep yer cigar
a-goin for you while yer inside, mister?
—Chicago News.
So They Do.
Mr. Pitt—Did the odontologists dis-cuss
prosperity and adversity at their
convention?
Mr. Penn—I don’t see what such a
subject would have to do with den-tistry.
Mr. Pitt—Don’t you? Well, dentists
know what it is to look down in the
mouth.—PittsburgCbronicle-Telegraph.
His Father’s Pride.
Mr. Courtenay (flatteringly) — I bad
the blues awfully when I came here
tonight. Miss Fisher, but they are all
gone now. You are as good as medi-cine.
Miss Fisher's Little Brother—Yes.
father says she will be a drug in the
market if she doesn’t marry you.—Tit-
Bits.
Reciprocal Devotion.
He—Mrs. Cashley has all the money,
yet she and her husband seem to be
perfectly in harmony.
She—They are too. He’s watching
all the time to spend her money, and
she’s watching him all the time to keep
him from it—Detroit Free Press.
The Savuire Bachelor.
“Woman's love and the love of a
faithful dog,” said the vealy boarder,
“are the only true affections.”
“A dog,” remarked the savage bach-elor,
“also will pull a man’s leg with
great eujoyment.”—Indianapolis Press.
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C. vV. Stoner.
Particular attention given to collections, and
proceeds promptly settled.
CITIZENS’ NATIONAL BANK,
MOUNT PLEASANT. PA.
Capital Stock,
Surplus b und,
$50,000.00.
${0,000.00.
OFFICERS.
J. S. Hitchman. President.
J, L. Ruth, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
E. T. Hitehman,
J. L. Ruth.
J. A. Warden,
J. C. Crowuovor,
Jno. M. Stauffer.
John Husband,
o. P. Shupe.
J. S. Hitehman.
J. L. Myers,
Farmers & Herchants
NATIONAL BANK>
OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
CAPITAL STOCK. - $50,000.00.
OFFICF.US!
R. If. Illssom, President,
James Neel, Vice President,
0. E. Mullin, Cashier
DIKBCTOUS:
U. K. Hissem, Abraham Ruff,
Frank D. Barnhart, E. T. Fox,
g. R. Buff, L. S. Tlnstman,
D U. l’ersb g, James Neel,
8. P. Zimmerman.
Exchanging Ideas.
WELL DRESSED PEOPLE
seldom discuss clothes in public,
but wherever a well dressed man
is seen his clothes are an argu-ment
for tailor made garments.
OUR PATRONS ARE
pleased with the perfect fit and
splendid appearance which ar-tistic
tailoring gives. Correct
ideas worked into clothes—that’s
what you get here.
VOGEL BROS.,
Mullin Block, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
Cor. Main & Church Sts.,
MOUNT PLEASANT. PENNA.
Centrally Located. First-Class Accom
modatlons for Man and Beast.
Toilet and Bath Rooms. Large Sample
Rooms. Good Bar Attached.
BELL and MUTUAL TELEPHONES.
Telegraph Office in same block.
FREE ’BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS.
Excelsior
Bakery.
516
Church Street,
mrnnnxmmm XXXX>
Mount Pleasant,
Penn’a.
Fine
Bread
Cakes.
C. A. GRAIIL, rjj'r .
k•*•1TMti'ai.rW- ;.
McCORMICK HARVESTING HACHINERY.
MCCORMICK
We handle not only all the McCormick Harvesting Ma-chinery
but also Wagons, Carriages, Surreys, Buggies,
Harness, Blankets, Robes, Whips, etc., all of the very
best and at lowest prices. Call and examine.
J. J. HITCHHAN,
East Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
H.S. ACKERMAN,
DEALER IN., HIGH GRADE Pianos = =
ANDOrgans,
Sheet Music and Musical
Merchandise.
Densmore and Yost
Typewriting Machines.
Gramophone Talking Machines an?he Standard Sewing Machine,
NEEDLES, OIL AND ATTACHMENTS.
Address
H. S. ACKERMAN,
2oi Main Street, GREENSBURG PENNA.
OF THE
PciNDEREL5EK9S
yjSTOVES & RANGESjaJii
18 DUE
To good materials, perfect workmanship, aud
a thorough knowledge of the wants of the
housekeeper. Every feature to promote
durability, cleanliness and economy has been
well planned and developed.
If you buy a CINDERELLA you run no
risk; they are good bakers and perfect roasters,
and aro sold with that understanding.
Your money back if not satisfied.
Made in all styles and sizes.
For sale^by W M PATTERSON CO.,
BE COMFORTABLE
And you can be so in cold weather only when your house
or place of business is warmed by a good heater. There are
three agents for this purpose, hot air, hot water and steam,
but the greatest of these is steam and especially is this true
when it is used in
A plant of this kind, put in by J. A. Stevenson & Co. can
be seen in successful operation in THE JOURNAL Block.
CALL AND SEE IT WORK.
Tni5 MOUNT PI/KABANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AriUI. 12, 11)01.
Sllu'Pount jJIcaaanlJournal
JOHN L. SHIELDS, I’IJBI.ISIIEK.
Mount Pleiisant Is sltuatod In the heart of
the Great ConnellsvUle Coke Region, Ims a
population of over 5,000; while, with offices
surrounding within a radius of t-hreo milt's,
thp postofilce distribution Is 13.000. A new 24-
pot tableware gluss factory, the finest In this
oountry and employlug over 400 hands, Is In
successful dally operation.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year, payable In
advance.
ADVERTISING RATES will be furnished
on application.
JOB PRINTING of every kind with the
best workmanship and host, material.
FBI DAV. April 12. 1001.
PITTSBURG RECORDERSMIP.
The appointment of Major A. M.
Brown as Recorder nnder Pittsbnrg’s
new charter has given rise to numerous
“gold brick” tales. Some hold that
even Senator Qnay has been the recip
lent of one of these gilded masses of
political clay.
The explanation of the holders of this
theory is that-Governor Stone, Senator
Penrose and Attorney General Elkin
entered into a deal with the Pittsburg
and Allegheny rings for the support of
the solid Allegheny county delegation
This arrangement would have the Gov
ernor succeed the “Old Man” in the
United States Senate four years hence,
Mr. Penrose his own successor in l!)"3
and Mr. Elkin take the gubernatorial
chair at the expiration of Mr. Stone's
term.
Such a deal is possible, but, with a
man of Mr. Quay's political sagacity,
extremely improbable. Another strong
element of doubt is to be found in the
high character of the appointee; for.
Major Brown would accept of no office
that had any strings tied to it.
A LUCKY IRWIN MINISTER.
It looked last Sabbath morning as if
the Irwin Methodist Episcopal people
would have to do without their Easter
sermon as it was found that their pastor
the Rev. Dr. Conner, was ill and it was
then too late to get a supply. But,
after all, the congregation wasn't dis
appointed. The sick minister's wife
filled his pulpit.
The clever lady rend the Scripture
lesson, announced the hymns and fol
lowed with a very pleasing discourse on
“Woman, why weepest thon?” from
notes prepared on that text by her hus-band.
Mrs. Conner said that she did not
wish to be looked upon as one of the
new women, nor did she think woman’s
place was in the pulpit; but, for all that,
she proved that her husband was a
lucky man when be got her for a help-mate.
Still, local pride prompts the
belief that, if anything so nnhoped for
should befall onr own Rev. Smith, he,
too, would he helped out in a like
manner.
DON’T FORGET THE BAND BOYS.
Every local lover of good band music
should not only remember the minstrel
performance which the Mount Pleasant
hoys will give in the Grand Opera House
this and tomorrow evenings but should
encourage the performers by his or her
presence. For, there is every reason to
believe from their last year's show that
this year’s entertainment will be still
better.
These young musicians are a credit to
the town, but, it costs money to hnv
both instruments and music and they
take this means of meeting such ex
penses. Their effort deserves to prove
a financial success as they have always
been very generous with their really
excellent music.
Help the boys along.
IT’S not at all likely that either Gov-ernor
Stone or his Attorney General has
cut loose from "Old Man” Quay; for,
neither has ever been accused of seeking
political suicide.
A GOVERNOR’S LIMITED POWER.
A few months agjo Governor Stanley,
of Kansas, indignant at the open law-breaking
practiced by the joint keepers
in Leavenworth county, got into the
newspapers with the statement that he
intended to close out those joints if he
had to call out the militia. Here, then,
was a fair issue made between the power
of his government and the law breakers.
The law breakers, evidently possessed
©f sound legal advice, declared that they
didn’t care anything about the Governor
or his militia. Then the Governor, who
was desperately in earnest, commenced
to look around to see what he could do,
in the language of the street, toward
“making good his bluff.”
The Attorney General was consulted,
the prohibition lawyers of the state
• were asked for advice, the state tem-perance
society was aBked for sngges
tions, and, as a grand resnlt, it was
found that the only power possessed by
the Governor in the direction of bring
ing the illegal liquor sellers to justice
was the futile one of offering rewards
for their conviction by the local courts
out of bis small contingent fund!
Absolutely no other power or latitude
for the Governor with respect to the
enforcement of the prohibition law can
be found in the constitution or laws of
Kansas, and one may see, therefore, the
injustice as well as the uselessness of
the nagging which he suffers from his
critics. All of which goes to show that
prohibition in Kansas doesn't prohibit
any better than it does in Maine or any
other state where it is beiug, or has
been, tried.
THF, refusal of Republican County
Chairman Rankin to accept money for
the the announcement of candidatesfor
County Controller shows either that he
is mistaken in his view of the law creat-ing
snch office or that the Legislature
wants to pass a special measure before
the 3D day limit for announcement of
that party's candidates in this county
shall have expired.
IT will be a wonder of the new cen-tury
if the allied forces can get out of
China withont fighting among them-selves.
Yonr Uncle Soninel is there
with an eye single to future business
with the Flowery Kingdom. He has
all the land he wants.
AGUINALDO is coming around all
right. He has not only taken the oath
of allegiance but has signed a peace ad-dress
to the Filipinos. The poor Amer-ican
"aunties” will soon be out of a job.
MR THOMAS BIGELOW should have
taken the Pittsburg Recordership when
it was offered to him; that is, if he
wanted it. His public statement will
do him no good.
THE H. C. Frick Coke Company offic-ials
deny having bought the "Uncle
Jacob” Byers coal, but, perhaps the pur
chaser will prove to have been their
agent.
THE Boers are still fighting bravely in
South Africa, bnt the policy England is
pursuing will ere long see them all
killed, captured or starved to death.
IT would be really too bad if the
Westmoreland insurgents conldn’t find
a candidate for Sheriff, if only for
Brother Trescher to lick him.
RUNNING telegraph lines in Alaska
with the thermometer 30 or 40 degrees
below zero isn’t the snap some linemen
in the States make it.
THE hotel business in Mount Pleasant
must be a paying one, judging from the
price licensed houses bring when on the
market.
IF every victim of a horse thief hus-tled
like Mr. Byers has done the busi-ness
would soon become very unpopular.
THIS is Arbor Day, but, if you forgot
abont it, yon will have another chance
to plant that tree two weeks hence.
Missionary People Exercised.
Pittsburg Dispatch
The Missionary Board people say that
Mark Twain is "flippant.” Perhaps
they will also remark that President
Tucker of Dartmouth, who declared in
a sermon on Sunday that "the Christian
Church has been set hack, nobody
knows how far, by the behavior of mis-sionaries
in China,” is too ponderous.
Between them, however, the average
seems to be maintained.
Never Touched Fred.
Uniontown News Standard.
The Boston “aunties” conld regard
with complaisance the slaughter of
American soldiers by Aguinaldo, but
they are horrified at the high handed
"treachery” by which he was captured
by the fertile Fnnston.
A Good Diversion.
Pittsburg Times. ,
Boston has a dog show, and it is hoped
that this will divert the minds of her
rabid anti imperialists so that they will
be able to again enjoy themselves, just
as if Aguinaldo had not "jined” the ad-ministration.
Nor Can Farmers Afford It.
Pittsburg Leader.
Farm labor is deplorably scarce. The
trouble is that no farmer is willing to
pay his hired man a hundred a week
and allow him to work in a high hat
and patent leathers.
As long as this
fellow and had
SORE
THROAT
DOWN
Tonsiline
WOULD QUICKLY
CURE IT.
36o and SOr.
All Druggists.
THE TONSILINE OO. CANTON, OL
ABILITY,
STABILITY,
LIBERALITY,
MUTUALITY.
Do you realize how masterful Is the man-agement,,
how great Is the strength and how
broad Is the plan of
The Mutual Life
Insurance Co...
NEW YORK.
On the 1st of January, 1001. the assets of
The Mutual Life were larger by 93ft.04O.OOO
than the net cash assets of the United States
Government, including tlie $150,000,000 gold
reserve.
Total cash assets of the
United States Govern-ment,
Jan. 1, 1901 - $290,107,072
Assets of the Mutual Life for the protec-tion
of policy holders, (Pi'll; yr-y iri
January 1, 1901 - vpJ£ J*/ J3, I DL
The Mutual Is the st rongest, largest, most
progressive Lite Insurance Company In the
world. Its assets are clean and well Invested.
It Issues the most attractive and desirable
policies.
Nothing: New For Li.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
Late dispatches from Peking would
seem to indicate that Li Hung Chang
is in for another one of those periodical
losses of his peacock feather and yellow
jacket. ■ ■ ^ m ^ •
A Pointer for John Bull.
Scottdale Independent.
England ought to borrow Fnnston for
a few weeks and start him out to cap-ture
DeWet.
W. F. MORRISON,
DISTRICT AGENT,
Farmers and Merchants National
Hank Building, Room No. 5.
Mount Pleasant, - - Pa.
WE ARE NOW READY!
Our room is finished and, without exaggeration, is the finest and best
lighted room in town. Our Spring and Summer Goods are all here
and we cannot exaggerate the beauty of our spring goods. Scores of
customers who were drawn to our store by the attraction of the great
change in our room pronounced our spring stock the Finest and most
Complete they ever saw. But a still greater attraction is the
Unprecedented Low Prices.
Men’s Suits in all the latest shades and pat-terns,
the variety too large to
attempt description, ranging in
price from $5.50 to $18
Young Men’s Suits
for ages 14' to 30 We
proudly assert that we
have the finest and
most attractive lineever
shown hereabouts.
Ranging in price from
for ages 3 to 16. Onr as-sortment
of children's
spring and snminer snit-s
is worthy of yonr inspec
tion. Two and 3-piece
suits, Russia blouse or lit-tle
gent'scuta way, double
seat and knee
In Children’s Suits we are far ahead in variety, style and quality and
Lower than all in price. Space will not petmit us to say aught about
our spring line of Pants, Hats and Caps, Dress Shirts and Easter
Neckwear. We will say in brief that we have anything and every-thing
that Dame Fashion calls for. And we positively and unfalteringly
say that we are from 15 to 25 per cent, lower than all competitors,
whether it is a suit, a shirt or anything else in our line.
Don’t take our statement—don't take our word. Use your own
eyes, rely on your own judgment, see our goods, see our prices, com-pare
them with others, favor no one, and we are sure of the result.
H. GOLDSTONE, of
THE FAMOUS Clothing House,
Cor. Main and Church sts., Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Greater Values for your Money.
Our business is improving daily and that gives us great encourage-ment
to give the people of Mount Pleasant and vicinity greater
values for their money than were ever offered by any other mer-chant
in our line
MEN’S SUITS.
Men’s all wool black and blue Clay Wors-ted
Suits, made by Nusbaum & Miller,
Rochester, N. Y. Efl
$io.oo values at v I
Men’s steel grey all wool Clay Worsted
Suits, made by N. & M., Roches- ^
ter, N. Y., $12.00 value at V
Men’s black and blue France Diagonal,
Homespun, Bird’s Eye, Broadcloth, Unfin-ished’Worsted,
made by N. & M., Roches-ter,
N. Y., with padded shoulders, stiffen-ing
in front, will always keep coat in good
shape,5, $17 and $16 values at 12 50
YOUNG MEN’S SUITS.
Black and blue Unfinished Wors- M, EG
ted Suits, 12 up to 20 years, at “ w
Young men’s strictly all wool suits in
brown, plaid, mixed, vicuna, cash- C Ell
mere and worsted at w UU
Young men’s strictly all wool Flannel
Suits in all the latest stripes 7 SO up
from
BOY’S SUITS.
Boys’ double breasted Knee Pant Suits,
all wool, blue and black, Broad- I 7C
cloth, Clay Worsted, fancy stripes at I IW
Boys’ double breasted suits, from 7 up to
16 years, all the latest Q Up
makes, from L UU to O UU
JUVENILE SUITS,
from 3 to 8 years, prices from
I 00 up to 5 00
Russian Blouses, the newest makes in
Serges, black, blue and dark red velvet,
at all prices.
SHIRTS.
Our line of shirts is complete. All styles
and all prices from 25c U
P t° $2 oo-
HATS.
We show the largest assortment of Hats ever
shown in this section by any merchant. If
you want a hat for yourself, your boy or
child we have them to suit you in both
style and price.
CHAS PROSS, MEN’S AND
BOYS’ OUTFITTER,
Mullin Block, Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
THK MOUNT PLEASANT .JOURNAL. KillDAY, APRIL 12. 1901.
For the Past Week Briefly Men-tioned.
TATTLE TALK OF THE TOWN
THAT WILL BOTH INTEREST AND
ENTERTAIN.
A Department in Which the Local Editoi
Holds Hifrh Carnival and Works off his
Surplus Energy in Condensations
That Deal Solely with Matters Relating
to Mount Pleasant
The Standard Band will hold a dance
In Bohemian Hall tomorrow evening.
The Westmoreland W. C. T. U. will
hold its semi annual convention hereon
Thursday, May 2nd.
Alex Ramsey has bonght out Benford
Brothers’ East End meat market and
moved it to the corner of Main and
Shape streets.
M. L. F. Taylor moved his family
from Mammoth last week to the North
Diamond street Lewis Trnxel property
which Mr Taylor has purl-hased.
A social for the new members and
young folks of the First Reformed
church will be held in the Sunday school
room of that chnrch this evening.
The weather man was most unkind
Sunday to the local wearers of new
Easter bonnets as the day was anything
but favorable for the display of fine
millinery.
The ladies of the United Brethren
church, who are all famous cooks, will
\ive a chicken and waffle supper Thurs-day
evening next at the East Main street
home of Mrs. H. C. Morrison.
The United Brethren Ladies' Aid
Society received word yesterday that it
had been a warded a fill prize from the
publishers of the Delineator for sub
scriptions taken for that monthly.
Mrs. Susan Hays, of the East End. was
on Wednesday last paid $2,000 by Treas
urer G. W. Stoner, the amount of in-surance
had by her husband, the late
William Hays, in the Heptasoph order.
Tho Second Bnptist people will hold
a social in Simpson's Hall tomorrow
evening. A special feature on the pro-gram
will be the solo singing by Miss
Mamie Frazier, the talented Allegheny
vocalist.
The Fayette County Gas Company,
which wants to supply Mount Pleasant,
has just let the contract for 40 miles of
main from its wells in Marion county,
West Virginia, The cost of this work
is $250,000.
Republican County Chairman Rankin
has refused to accept the announcement
of John D. Hitchman, of this place, for
County Controller, claiming that it will
require an act of the Legislature to
create the office.
The first of the series in the "Pastor's
Lecture Course,” which the Rev. J.
Eugene Reed was to deliver at the First
Baptist church this evening, has been
indefinitely postponed owing to that
gentleman’s illness.
Lieutenants Ellis and First, of Com-pany
E, with other new officers of the
Second brigade. N. G. P., will be exam
ined at the Seventh Avenue Hotel,
Pittsburg, Thursday next. First, how-ever,
resigned yesterday.
Communion will be held at the Pres
byterian church Sunday morning next,
with preparatory services last night and
this evening conducted by Rev. H. W.
Kilgore, of Allegheny, who is assisting
the pastor, Rev. D. M. Lyle.
John Polonofsky, of this place, who
formerly kept hotel at Mammoth, has
bonght the Andrews House in the East
End from Mrs. Anna Andrews for
$18,000 and will take charge as soon as
the transfer can be made, June 1.
The local Lutheran people were so
much pleased with the sermon Rey.
Swiggart, of Franklin, Pa., preached
for them a few weeks ago that they ex
tended that reverend gentleman a unan-imous
call at a congregational meeting
held Sunday last.
Through the efforts of Hon. James S,
Beacom, the Mount Pleasant Public
Schools will receive a fine collection of
iw products, photographs, etc., from
he Philadelphia Commercial Museum
he only expense is a cabinet which the
board will supply.
P. J. McGrath, the jolly hotel man,
is back in the business, having purchas
ed the National House and furniture at
Berlin, Somerset county, for some
$7,000. He took charge Monday when
the license was transferred. The prop-erty
is said to be a most desirable one.
O. A. Olsen, of Byesville, O., has pur-chased
the James Braddock property on
outh Diamond street, this place, and
ill take possession in a few days. Mrs.
Disen and children have come and are
staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Tarr, until her household goods
rrive.
Easter week is being observed at the
ethodist Episcopal church with special
services of worship. On next Sunday
evening Rev. Smith’s sermon will be on
fo.egin missions and at the conclusion
of it a special offering will be made on
behalf of the work of the Women’s For-eign
Missionary Society.
ANN01INCFMENTS.
5ub|ect to the Decision of the Republican Pri-mary
Election to be held on Saturday,
June ist, loot.
FOR CONTROLLER,
JOHN D. HITCHMAN,
Of Mount Pleasant.
FOR SHERIFF,
JOHN H. TRESCHER,
Of Jeannette.
FOR POOR DIRECTOR,
JOHN G. THOMPSON,
Of Mount Pleasant.
JAMES RIDDLE,
Of Greensbura.
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses have
been granted for this vicinity during
the past week:
Frank W. Cropper and Lizzie Steph
ens, both of Monnt Pleasant.
Nicholas Diestadt and Annie Fagan,
both of Madison.
Harry Werry and Suie Brown, both
of Acme.
It is Unquestionably Pittsburg’s Best
Newspaper.
"The Pittsburg Post" is the kind of a
newspaper that is bound to be success
ful. It is second to none in the matter
of publishing the news of the world,
and in addition to that important fact
it insists on such careful editing that
all objectsonable items are eliminated.
It is a newspaper that can be safely ad-mitted
into any home. "The Post’s”
facilities are surpassed by none. It has
demonstrated time after time it is al
ways on tho alert, whether it be to
gather the news of the far East or of
the local field. “The Post” is essential
ly a newspaper, bnt it does not neglect
other features that go to make a well
rounded daily publication to interest all
kinds and conditions of men.
“The Sunday Post" has forged steadily
to the front until it now occupies an en
viable position at the head of the pro-cession.
The most instructive and in
teresting articles that can be procured
are to be found in its columns, and it
is acknowledged that its illustrations
are not excelled anywhere. “The Sun-day
Post's” increasing circulation attests
its worth. Its growth has been little
short of marvelous. You cannot afford
not to read it.
A Car Load of Buggies.
That is the size of the shipment just
received by J. J. Hitchman, the East
Main street dealer, and there are some
beauties in the bunch.
FOR SALE:—Good second hand Range
and a Refrigerator. Address P. O box
53, Mount Pleasant. 4 12 2t
FOR SALE:—A first-class Estey organ.
Call on J. H. Clark, West Main street,
Mount Pleasant. 4 5 8t
Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold.
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure
a cold in one day. No Cure, no Pay.
Price 25 cents. 8-24-ly
GEORGE BENFORD has added the
Cosmopolitan Fashions to his First Na-tional
Band Block wall paper store
These model paper patterns for a full
dress will cost you but ten cents. 3 15 tf
SECURED FROM THE PAGES OF RE-LIABLE
EXCHANGES. I
It will pay you to see Benford’s ele-gant
Btock of wall paper before you get
that room papered.
Have you seen Benford’s stock of wall
paper in the First National bank block.
It is all new and up to date.
COLDSMITH’S stock of wall papers is
the largest in town. '
To Cure A Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to1 cure. E. W. Grove’s signature
on each box. 25c. 8-24-ly
E. C. PIERCE,
Upholsterer.
Makes yonr old furniture new,
Leather work a specialty. All work
first class. Over Wible’s store, Church
street. Local ’phone 135 12-7- tf
WHEN you buy your wall paper at
Coldsmith’s and leave him to do the
hanging, you can rest assured that you
will have a neat job. For, he employs
only competent men.
IF you haven’t seen Coldsmith’s stock
of Spring Wall Papers you have certain
ly missed a rare treat. The prices and
designs are sure to please you.
COLDSMITH’S stock of spring wall
paper is just in. You want to see it.
Annual Election.
Thu annual mooting of stockholders of t ho
Mount Pleasant & Donegal Turnpike Road
Company will be held at the National Hotel,
Mount Pleasant, at 10 o’clock a. m. on Sat ur-day.
April 20,1901. for tho purpose of electlm
seven directors and the transaction of suri
other business as may then be deemed neces
sary. JOHN D. HITCHMAN, Pros.
J W. HUNTKB. Secy. 4 5 3t 1 Mount Pleasant, Pa. April 1.1901.
ARQUND AND ABOUT,
But Principally Within the
Bounds of This County.
A FULL COLUMN OF GOOD NEWS
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
Burglars stole three gold watches and
several dollars from Frank Evans’Jean-nette
residence.
Governor Stone has re appointed N.
C. Shaffer as State Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
Fire, caused by a defective flue, dam-aged
the U. P. chnrch at Circleville
Sunday to the extent of $500.
The report that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will abandon its
new yards at Yonngwood is denied.
It is said that local capitalists, headed
by L. D. Castle, will build an iron
works at Greensbnrg to employ some
8o0 men.
The Central Hotel at Larimer will be
sold at sheriff sale Tuesday next at the
suit of Samuel Crow. Max Crow is the
proprietor.
Stewart Station is expecting a boom
as it is reported that the Westingbonse
Airbrake Company will build a big
plant there.
Rev. E K. Bailev. pastor of the First
Bnptist church of West Newton, has re-signed.
He had charge of the congrega-tion
for six years.
About 100 men nt the Davis glass
works at South Latrobe struck last
Thursday because of the discharge of a
fellow union man.
Rev. Dr. D. W. Townsend, for 82
years pastor of the Unity Presbyterian
church, will resign at the next meeting
of Blairsville Presbytery.
Lafayette Rnmraell, of Monessen,
was jailed at Greensbnrg Saturday
charged with having criminally assault-ed
a 4 year old Jones girl.
The Pleasant Unity home of Postmns
ter Myers was slightly damaged by fire
Saturday, a 8 year-old child being al
most suffocated by smoke.
John Martin of New Alexandria, was
instantly killed there Friday by a fall
of slate in William Seanor’s coal bank.
He was 87 years of age and single.
A Bradenville coke worker named
Yonaskey was found dead on the rail-road
track Saturday morning. He was
killed by a train during the nighf
Rev. Charles A. Clarke, pastor of the
Rehoboth Presbyterian chnrch near
Bellevernon, has accepted a unanimous
call to the Presbyterian church at Panx
sutawney.
Greensburg’s Council ’ has granted
franchises to the Westmoreland and
Southern street railway companies for
$0,000. It is said both corporations will
put up the price.
John Locoski, whose back was broken
in the baggaley mines by a fall of slate,
died at the Greensbnrg hospital of his
injuries Friday night. He was 33 years
of age and married.
Rev. John McCarthy, of Haydentown,
aged 74 years, and Miss Nancy Lewis,
who has seen 44 summers, took out a
license at Uniontown last Thursday and
married themselves.
In a row at Everson Wednesday
George Shnnosky perhaps fatally stab
bed George Firback in the abdomen.
Shnnosky was arrested and committed
to jail without bail.
Charles Tremp, of Connellsville. a
Tenth regiment man who served in the
Philippines, tried to shoot his wife Mon-day
night. His aim, however, was bad
and no one was hurt.
Adam Houser, of Penn, had his head
almost cut off Monday morning by fall-ing
under the wheels of a freight train
he attempted to board. He was 25
of age and but recently married.
Steve Varna, the United coke worker
who was run over Saturday by a shift-ing
engine, died at the Greensburg hos-pital
that evening. He was to have
been married Tuesday, but instead he
was buried.
Frank Weaver, a young Irwin elec-trician,
and Dottie Kells, a 16-year-old
Latrobe girl, eloped to Steubenville,
Ohio, last week and were married.
The bride’s parents objected to the
match because of her youth.
Rev. A. T. Bell, a Saltburg Presbyter-ian
minister, is said to be dying in a
hospital at Wichita, Kansas, from blood
poisoning, caused by a sore finger. The
arm has been amputated. He was on
his way to take charge of a church in
Oklahoma.
The County Commissioners have ap-pointed
J. H. Geary, of New Florence;
J. W. Phillippi, of Donegal, and John
D. Withrow, of Cook township, forestry
officers for Westmoreland county who
are paid 15 cents an hour while perform-ing
their duty which is to punish wilful
destroyers of timber.
Room! Room!
Is what we need.
Our immense arrivals of Spring ami Summer
Clothing, Shoes and Furnishing Goods are crowd-ing
us. Our liberal buying enables us to give you
better money-saving inducements than competition
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dare offer. Our well-established reputation for
good goods and honest values is what brings our
old patrons back to our stores and draws many
new ones.. Read a few of our new
Spring=Summer Money=Saving
Inducements:
Clothing.
Men’s Spring Suits, manufactured
to sell from $7.50 to $10.00, d'J- "t JF
Our Spring Sale price N'O ■ O
Men’s Spring Suits, manufactured
to sell from $6.50 to $9.00,
Our Spring Sale price . 4 75
Men’s very tine grade of spring
and summer Flannel Suits, made
in the very latest style, cut and
pattern, were manufactured to
sell from $12.50 to $15.00, ill fill
Our Spring Sale price IW UIJ
Men’s fancy Serges and unfinished
Worsteds, the very latest shades,
were manufactured to sell at $12.50
and $15.00,
Our Spring Sale price 10 00
Our line of Young Men’s,
Boys’ and Children’s Clothing
is complete. It comprises all
of the latest novelties, at prices
lower than elsewhere.
We will be pleased to show
you our line of Children’s
Russian Blouses, which is the
very latest.
Our line of Men’s Spring
Shirts, Hats, Hosiery, Neck-wear
and Underwear is now
ready for your inspection. A
call at our stores will convince
you that our assortment is the
largest and prices the lowest.
Shoes.
150
Ladies’ fine shoes, madeof vieikid,
genuine dongola, leather or vest-ing
top, manufactured to sell
for $1.75, tor
Our Spring Sale price \]/|
Ladies’ fine shoes, manufactured
to sell for $2.00 and $2.25,
Our Spring Sale price
You will say it is the greatest, pret-tiest,
most stylish and cheapest line of
shoes for the price when you see the
ladies’ fine shoes we are showing at
$2 00 and $2 50 in the endless variety.
Choicest selection, unmatchable styles
and unequaled low prices We show
you at least twenty-five styles at the
low price of $2 00 and guarantee to
save you at least $1.00 on each and
every pair.
Still greater values shown in our line
of ladies’ $3 00 and S3 50 hand turn
and welt shoes, manufactured by John
Kelly and other popular makers of
ladies’ fine shoes.
We still sell our $5 00 E. Z. turn
shoes for $4 00- Try a pair and you
will recommend them to your friends.
We have irresistible values in men’s
$1 00* $| 25< SI 50 and $2 00 shoes.
We can and will save you at least 25c
to $1.00 on each and every pair of men’s
fine dress shoes.
You will see a grand selection and a
wonderful saving when you look at our
men’s $3 00 and $3 50 shoes.
We will show you the most beautiful
line of men’s $4 00 $4 50 and $5 00
shoes.
Our line of boys’, misses’, children’s
and infants’ shoes can’t be matched in
style, quality and low prices.
We have no space to mention all the
money-saving values we have for you in
our stores. Come and see them for your-self
and be convinced that our adver-tisement
contains the truth.
KOBACKERS’
Clothing and Shoe Stores,
riain street, = Mount Pleasant.
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TIIFi MOUNT PT/KA^ANT .TOI'HNATj. FllIOAT. APRIL, 12, 1901
A FLOATING EXHIBIT
NOVEL PLAN TO BOOM OUR GOODS
ABROAD.
Pro|»oi«al to IiOii<1 VPMNOIII With Our
i'ro«liM‘tf« nml SDUII Them Around
the World — A<1 vantage* of the
Selieme Set Forth l»> 14M l'ro|»o«er.
From almost ovary civilized foreign
country comes tlie cry tlmt tlie sale of
American products Is hurting tlmt of,
tlie nalive articles. Wo are sending
coals to Newcastle, milk (condensed) to j
Cowes, locomotives to India anil South
Africa and Iron and steel products to
England, long the home of lids trade.
Russia, France and ttcrmuny are think-ing
of erecting tariff walls against us,
but everywhere our products are gain-ing
ground by their excellence and
comparative cheapness.
Hut even though our trade is going
forward by leaps and bounds our man-ufacturers
and exporters cannot afford
to overlook any plan to Increase it.
Therefore the novel, practicable and
very promising project of Mr. Oscar 1’.
Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics
of tlu* United States, is well worth con-sideration.
Briefly described Mr. Austin contem-plates
the sending abroad of a "floating
exposition” of American goods, lie
nays, “A floating exposition, carrying
samples of our merchandise around the
world and putting our merchants in
touch with those of all nations, seems
to me n fitting American enterprise for
1he beginning of the new century.”
Mr. Austin proposes the loading of
steamers with samples of the various
classes of our products and sending
them on a trip around the world. They
would stop at tlie principal ports of all
ttio maritime countries according to
a prearranged schedule and lints give
to the merchants of foreign lands an
excellent opportunity of seeing before
their very eyes the advantages of trad-ing
with us.
There seems scarcely any doubt that
the accomplishment of Mr. Austin’s
plan would greatly increase our trade.
He points out tlmt the imports of Asia.
Oceania, Africa and the American
countries south of the United States
amount to ,$2,000,00t>,000 every year.
Nearly all these Importations are of
the very classes of goods which we
wnnt to sell, foodstuffs, textiles, min-eral
oils, machinery and manufactures
of all kinds, yet our sales to these
grand divisions In the best year of our
Photo Joy Rice, Washington,
HON. OSCAR P. AUSTIN.
commerce, 1900, amounted to only
about $200,000,000, or 10 per cent of the
total. This percentage could easily he
increased were the merchants of these
countries made cognizant of our goods.
According to Mr. Austin, one vessel of
the proposed floating exposition could
be loaded with exhibits of foodstuffs,
another with textiles, another with
manufactures of iron and steel, anoth-er
with household requirements aud
another with "Yankee notions.” Send-ing
these from port to port and from
continent to continent should prove
highly advantageous to our commercial
relations with all of the countries vis-ited
iu nil parts of the globe.
The only possible objection to Mr.
Austin’s plan is the expense attached,
and that, he argues with much reason,
would he more tlmu refunded by the
benefits to be derived from the float-ing
exposition. The government has
on hand a considerable number of
safe and seaworthy merchant vessels
purchased for transports during the
war with Spain, and these could be
applied to the more peaceful purpose.
The expense of the floating exposition
would not be nearly as great as that
of a land exposition and the benefits
to be derived greater.
Nothing definite in regard to the mat-ter
has yet been done by Mr. Austin
more than the making of the sugges-tion
and its reference to a committee
composed of the officers of the nation-al
hoard of trade, the United States
Export association, the Manufacturers’
National association and the Philadel-phia
Commercial museum.
The proposition has, however, at-tracted
a great deal of favorable at-tention
among manufacturers and ex-porters,
and it seems probable that it
will be organized along the lines sug-gested.
Mr. Austin has been chief of the
bureau of statistics In the treasury de-partment
for some time and is an old
newspaper man. In a recent paper
published in The National Geographic
Magazine of Washington he says,
“Why not an nround the world Ameri-can
exposition to Inaugurate the twen-tieth
century?” And all Interested in
the extension of American commerce
and influence are Inclined to echo,
“Why not?”
PITTSBURG’S POPULAR
MUSIC HOUSE.
00 YEARS IN BUSINESS.
H.KLEBER& BRO.
221 amt 223 FIFTH AVENUE.
BE SHARP.
’ Compare Piano values you find
elsewhere with those
shown by us.
We sell these celebrated musical
instruments :
KNABE PIANOS,
HENRY F. MILLER PIANOS,
STRAUBE & CROWN PIANOS,
OPERA AND GILMORE PIANOS,
NEW PIANOS $150 UPWARD,
BURDETT ORGANS,
APOLLO PIANO PLAYER,
AMERICAN MUSIC BOXES,
WASHBURN MANDOLINS,
WASHBURN GUITARS,
TALKING MACHINES,
5000 RECORDS IN STOCK,
DUQUESNE BEST STRINGS,
VIRGIL PRACTICE CLAVIER,
BAND INSTRUMENTS,
ORCHESTRA MUSIC,
LATEST SHEET MUSIC.
H. KLEBER & BRO.,
221 and 223 Fifth Ave., CATALOGUES
PITTSBURG, r*. FREE.
All tlie latest designs and the
largest stock in town.
We ask sitnply that you call
and examine goods and sam-ples
before purchasing.
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If you wish to have the hanging
done on paper bought of us,
remember we employ only
the most competent work-men
aud guarantee all work.
Respectfully
J. B. Coldsmith,
“On the Hill,”
MOUNT PLKASANT
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MiptiE&SlMNE:
Call and ask for circular. Sold by
J. W. SWARTZ,
Wall Paper and Paints. Mount Pleasant.
If you wish.
THE BEST
MILLINERY
WE HAVE IT!
This season I will have the finest line
of Millinery Goods brought to the city
in the way of Trimmed Hats and all the
novelties of the season. With the
FINE CITY TRIMMER
1 have this season I know 1 can please
you. Don’t fall to call aud see my Hue
display of Trimmed Hats.
My store Is In the upper rooms of .7. W.
Swartz’s wall paper and paint store. 525
Main street.
flary Swartz.
Local ’Phone No. 35
J. G. THOMPSON,
riount Pleasant, Pa.
AUCTIONEER.
Calls for all kinds of sides promptly attend-ed
to.
Lock Box 531. Bell Telephone 9k
FURNITURE
REUPHOLSTERED and REPAIRED
Pit Reasonable Rates.
tlPPIMroTtS
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BANNER RECIPE BOOK Free by Mail.
Spiced
Chocolate
Cake.
To the yolks of five eggs, well 7>eaten, add
one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half
cup sweet inllk, one teaspoonful ground cin-namon,
one grated nutmeg, then the whites
of two eggs well beaten, one and a half cups
Hour having in it one measure 44Bannern
link infi Powrier; hake in jelly-cake nans;
when cold spread each layer with the follow-ing
chocolate ereain:
FOR THE CREAM.-To four ounces of
plain chocolate, grated, add one cup of white
sugar, two tablespoonfuls of corn starch, one
cup sweet milk, one tatdespoonful extract of
vanilla; mix well together and boil until It
thickens, stirring constantly; when cold,
spread it <n the layers ol the cake.
Address B. B. P. Co.,
P. 0. Box 245, Pittsburg, Pa.
Union Supply Company,
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Dealers in General Merchandise §
We are particularly proud at present of our Ladies’
Tailor Made Suit Department. We have over a hun-dred
styles and are doing a fine business. We are not
running this depart-ment
to make mon-ey,
but to accommo-date
those who buy ** 7
other goods from us,
and are accordingly
offering bargains.
See our stock and
see something hand-some.
We are offering
some special good
values in Wash Fab-rics'and
Dress Goods
of all kinds, includ-ing
a most beautiful
line of Ladies’ Shirt
Waist Patterns.
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GARRETS and RUGS.
■jug Our Carpets and Rugs are moving rapidly,
want tlie best for the least money see ours.
If you
SHOES.
The 30,000 wearers of Union Supply Co. Shoes are
more pleased than ever with our spring lines. We are
going to add a few thousand customers as the result of
the excellent satisfaction the great army who are al-ready
wearing them have found in their Winter Shoes
which they are now laying aside for something more
suitable for warmer weather. Be one of this throng
and you win be pleased with your Shoes, if you are
never pleased with anything else.
CLOTHING.
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Business is on the jump in our Men’s Tailor Made
Suit Department, and we are putting out hundreds of
ready-made Suits to Men, Boys and Children, and they
are all satisfactory because we make them so.
Do not forget that we sell everything.
We are right at home in the department which sup-plies
the inner man. Groceries and Provisions are
handled properly only as we handle them. They are
always fresh and bound to give good results.
Union Supply Company
LIMITED.
H. n. GILSON,
0 10-tf West Main et., Monnt Pleasant
WRITTEN & SCANLON, Attorneys.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Estate of Lydia Boyer, deceased.
Letters of Administration on the estate of
Lydia Boyer, late of the borough of Mount
Pleasant, Westmoreland county. Pa., de-ceased.
having been granted to the under-signed
by the Kegslter of said county, notice
Is hereby given" to all persons Indebted to
said estate to make immediate payment, and
those having claims against the same will
present them, properly authenticated, for
settlement. B. F. SCANLON.
March 5. 1901. Administrator.
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BOYD’S OINTMENT
Cures by Absorption.
TFTTFPorany °* the 1 1 1 diseases as wIerlrlitaatsinogldskoinr
scrofulous sores quickly, surely and perma-nently
cured by the greatest of all remedies,
Boyd’s Ointment. Boyd Ointment Co., Kittan-ning.
Pa. Price 50c. For sale by H. F. Bark-ley,
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The standard that none can meet
on a solid merit basis
For spring we have gathered the newest, most distinctive and
original styles in America for men's apparel.
and you will be as enthnsiastic as we. You will know what yon
wnnt for spring when you look through our line. We are going to
show you how much better our Suits and Spring Overcoats are
tailored than the ordinary, every day, ready-to-wear. Ours can well
be styled "Made to your-order," for we know a merchant tailor
cannot give you a better fit.
Most of our clothing is made by the largest and best Tailors
and Manufacturers in the World -the "VITALS” URAND. Wish
you could see their plant and their superior appliances, the clean,
healthful workrooms a feature which in itself should appeal to
you when you think of the unhealthful sweat shops.
We mention these few points to prove to yon how thoronghly
conversant we are with the source from which our clothing comes.
Oar care and thought relieves you of all doubt as to whether the
Suit or Overcoat yon buy from ns will give perfect satisfaction.
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world. It is a fact in the intellect-ual
world. You must go forward
or backward. For all who would
like to go forward
The Mount Pleasant
Institute
offers many and valuable opportu-nities.
You can study new subjects
or review old ones.
Enter when your
Schools close...
and make an advance for next year.
Apply for information to
H. C. DIXON,
Principal.
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
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ICONTtNTTRD 1
CHAPTER XVf.
A WEST END TRAGEDY.
I cannot conscientiously say that this
Information, though broken to my un-cle
by me with bated breath, occasion-ed
him any surprise. Something very
like a look of Inward comprehension
flew from his eyes to mine, and 1 rend
there a decided continuation of my
worst fears.
“Humph!” he muttered. "I expected
as much. Let us make Inquiries.?-*
We accordingly went to the office
and there learned that Mr. Wentworth
hail left during the dinner hour. In
reply to a further inquiry we were in-formed
that a telegram had been de-livered
to him during mealtime. But
to the individual In charge this meant
nothing. People were always coming
and going. To us. however. It had a
fuller significance. Why had that young
gentleman left so hastily?
“I think I should like to look at the
room," said my untrle ns we turned
away. "Let us go up stairs.”
On reaching our floor we rang for the
Chambermaid and by her were admit-ted
to the room which had lately been
occupied by Mr. Wentworth, but a
minute examination disclosed no clew
to the antecedents of that young gen-tleman.
The girl regarded my uncle
With n hnlf curious, half superior smile
of astonishment as he peered here and
there, but her look was strangest of all
as I pointed to die bullet splash on the
wall.
"Law.” she gasped, “how did that
happen?”
I told her, and asked if nothing had
been heard of the report.
“Nothing,” she answered. "But I
don’t understand it."
“Nor I. But there is the proof.”
Here my uncle, who had been closely
examining the mark, turned and said:
“1 can’t find the bullet, Davie. It has
been extracted.”
It was true, but why I could not
imagine. Jim shook his head sagely.
“The police have a way of following
ni> slender clews,” he said. “No doubt
the person who extracted this bullet
had a very good reason.”
The next morning at breakfast my
uncle, who was an insatiable reader of
the newspapers, stopped suddenly In
Hie midst of a perusal of his favorite
journal (we all have one) and looked
me blankly In the face. "Davie,” he
muttered below his breath, "the devils
have been at It again!”
My heart seemed suddenly to turn
cold, for I knew to whom he referred.
“What is it? What has happened
now?”
For reply he handl'd me the paper,
pointing with his forefinger to a head-ing
in large type. It ran thus: “Trag-edy
in a West lOnd Hotel. Murder or
Suicide?”
A mist seemed to swim before my
eyes. I was almost afraid to read.
Then I pulled myself together, my
brain, with strange Insistence, assur-ing
me of the fact that It could not re-fer
to any one who was dear to me be-cause,
with the exception of my uncle,
there was no one in the world I loved.
'Not that I was too selfish to love, but
my destiny had not given me a choice
of friends.
Looking down the column I sew that
a man had been found dead in his room
at the Victoria hotel. His breast had
been pierced by a dagger, and the
weapon itself, a curiously wrought
piece of eastern workmanship, prob-ably
Malay or Chinese, was now In the
hands of the police. The gentleman, It
seems, who had registered In the visit-ors’
book as Mr. Charles Hilbury of
Melbourne had but lately arrived in
this country with his wife and daugh-ter,
both of whom were naturally pros-trated
with grief. The report went on
to say: “No cause is assigned for the
deed—if It be one of suicide, as the
officials seem inclined to believe—as
the gentleman was supposed to be In
comfortable circumstances. This fact
renders the mystery still more incom-prehensible.”
Then followed a descrip-tion
of the man and the manner In
which he was discovered. A couple
»f lines In connection with his personal
appearance burnt themselves Into my
bruin: “On the deceased gentleman’s
forehead there is a strange elliptical
mark, which Is evidently the result of
some former accident.”
1 dropped the paper with the one
word, “The Sign!”
“Yes."
Our further attempts at eating were
a hollow mockery. After a few inef-fectual
efforts I abandoned even the
pretense. My uncle drank copiously of
his coffee and turned once more to the
news sheet. The food lay untouched
before him. When he looked at me
again, the trouble had settled deeper on
his brow.
“What do you make of It?” I said,
more by way of breaking the ominous
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silence than the cxpecfrittWi of gaining
a new Idea; for in my mind I had al-ready
sketched a vivid outline of the
unhappy man’s career. Needless to say
we did not entertain the thought of sui-cide.
“It is evident." was the reply, “that
this unfortunate Mr. Illlbury had, like
ourselves, run counter to the society.
How, or In what way, remains to be
seen. Perhaps he may even have been
an associate of your father. We shall
see Inter on.”
He folded his paper preparatory to
rising.
“Did you notice,” said I, “that de-scription
of the weapon?”
He opened the paper once more and
rend aloud: “The weapon Itself, a curi-
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The red fared one smiled a superior offi-cial
smile.
ously wrought piece of eastern work-manship,
probably Malay or Chinese”—
He stopped short and looked at me.
"Where have 1 lately heard such a de-scription?”
"Why, such a wenpon was among
Mr. Wentworth's curios.”
“And he left suddenly last night?
Called away by a telegram ?”
He looked at me and I at him, each
formulating the same thought. It was
a great jump, a big span of possibility
to leap, but we both seemed to accom-plish
it witli little difficulty.
"It is Just possible,” snid he. “Sin-gular,
indeed, if our esteemed Mr.
Wentworth is not associated with the
society. An escape, Davie. You must
feel your way more carefully.”
I shuddered at the awful nearness
of the catastrophe, and to this day I
cannot imagine why Mr. Wentworth
did not use his dagger on me in prefer-ence
to the clumsy contrivance of the
exploding pistol. If one means to
murder, there is no weapon to equal
the knife. For once that a bullet
brings down its intended victim it will
miss a dozen times. But the knife,
driven by a steady hand, rarely fails in
its mission. It is the thing most to be
dreaded by all people whose position
causes the envy of’less fortunate mor-tals.
Recognizing, then, its utility, I was
at a loss to comprehend the reason for
his neglecting the use of It—taking it
for granted, of course, that the pistol
was not fired by accident. And yet
his choice of the pistol was not with-out
wisdom. Had it succeeded It is
doubtful if even a suspicion would
have attached itself to his person. And
how near he had been to accomplishing
his purpose! Just that slight deviation
of the head at. the right moment had
upset all his plans and given me anoth-er
chance. The more I thought of It
the deeper was I impressed with the
belief that a special providence was
watching over me. When one lives in
a whirl of excitement, when one’s
nerves can no longer be counted upon
to beat regularly, it is easy enough to
fancy things. And, after all, unfor-tunate
as I esteemed myself, I could
not deny that I had some share of luck.
We returned to town that afternoon
and In due course called at the Victo-ria
hotel, but learned to our chagrin
that the widow and her daughter had
already left with friends. Where frad
they gone? The hotel officials did not
know, but suggested that we should
make inquiries at Great Scotland Y’ard,
which was Just round at the back. We
thanked them, but did not take their
advice. Unlike the police, we knew
who had committed the murder; at
least we had very few doubts. How-ever,
we thought that a glimpse of the
weapon might confirm any lingering
suspicion and with that object in view
called at the police office and begged
permission to Inspect the knife, a per-mission
which was peremptorily refus-ed
by a red faced savage clothed In a
little brief authority.
“But I am not without information
which may throw considerable light
upon this crime,” said my uncle.
The red faced one smiled a superior
official smile.
■"res: l know," he said. “I’ve ’ad 15
'ere already who can lay their 'amis on
the murderer at a moment's notice.”
"Do you know," snid my unde, “that
your tone Is hardly the one to adopt
when speaking to a gentleman?”
“If gentlemen will come 'ere with
such yarns” lie muttered as lie turn-ed
his great back on ns. The sentence
was left unfinished, but i’ really re-quired
no completion. The tone, the
movement and the shrug of the mass-ive
shoulders finished it ns no words
could.
"You are an exceedingly intelligent
fellow,” said my uncle. "You ought to
succeed.”
After the first vain attempt to discov-er
the whereabouts of the widow and
her daughter we abandoned our in-quiries.
After all, we could only have
heard what we knew or imagined, anil
our story. If accepted, would render
r:s anything but desirable acquaint-ances.
Therefore, after duly taking all
tilings into consideration, we decided
not to intrude upon the privacy of the
ladies, but from a distance watch the
efforts of t.he law, rendering such aid
as we could. Indeed, our suspicions
were written out and dispatched to
Scotland Yard, and In due time we
were waited upon by one of the chief
inspectors, hut as our story would
serve no good cause by being made
public it accordingly never reached the
newspapers. But the police were duly
informed of the society and its do-ings,
and for some time afterward
their vigilance was such that we ate,
slept and walked in safety, knowing
that our house was watched at night
and that wherever we went a police
officer was at our heels.
I'nfortunatcly Scotland Y'nrd had
met its match in the society. Nothing
that could by the greatest stretch of
imagination be construed into a sus-picious
incident occurred during the
three months we were under police
protection. The reason was naturally
a subject of much conversation be-tween
my uncle and me, he contend-ing
that the fear of detectives had
rendered them impotent, I airing my
hopeful views as to the grim tiger of a
society being at last satiated. But he
refused to share in the hope. Indeed, I
sometimes harbored the belief that he
had no wish for the enemy to with-draw.
So far he had done nothing but
stand upon the defensive, and Ids soul
wearied of receiving thrust and stab.
He longed to lienr the advance sound-ed—
to do some cutting and thrusting
on his own account.
As there had been no sign of the en-emy
during the whole of the period we
were under police surveillance I think
officialism came to the conclusion that
it had attached undue importance to
our story, for we were somewhat curt-ly
informed from headquarters that
there being no longer evidence of dan-ger
our guard would lie withdrawn
forthwith. And it. Is not a little singu-lar
that two days after this notification
ns we sat at dinner in a well known
house off Coventry street the waiter
brought a letter to our table, Inquiring
as lie looked from me to my uncle for
“Mr. Kingston.”
I held out my hand and took the mis-sive
and with hut an ordinary amount
of curiosity opened it. A sheet of pa-per
somewhat curiously folded met my
gaze. This I opened gingerly, for it
seemed to me that the paper was a
blank, and I was getting just a trifle
weary of mysterious communications.
However, It was not all a blank, for in
the middle of it were these words,
"Ilohl this up to the light.” I did so
and saw at once the reason of the re-quest.
The paper had been so folded that
the crease of the line made a perfect
oval. It was the fatal sign once more.
I passed it on to my uncle, and he,
who had been intently watching me,
guessed the had news from my face.
He read the words and accordingly
held the thing up to the light.
“Yes,” he said. “There can be no
doubt as to the meaning. I wonder
where the gentleman is who sent it?”
But though he spoke nonchalantly I
saw his mouth harden, and I knew
that the old fighting blood was bub-bling
once more to the surface. He
had long since passed the terrified
stage and lived now in the hope of one
day meeting the enemy. And I, too,
wus slowly gaining some of his spirit,
the constant companionship of the
Terror lessening the horror which sur-rounded
it. I don’t think It was the
thought of fighting or the probable end
that I feared so much. It was the se-cret.
crawling method which engender-ed
a moBt horrid uncertainty and put
me upon the rack. This it was which
had shattered my father’s nerve and
made him the wreck I knew, and this
was the fear which had haunted me.
But perhaps at bottom I was my fa-ther’s
son, and it would have been a
strange ghost that could have cowed
him at my age, or the stories they tell
of him can have but slight foundation
A .'act.
My uncle looked around Inquiringly
for the waiter, but it was some min-utes
before that worthy returned.
YVhen he did, Jim held the letter up be-fore
the man.
TTO BE CONTINUED.]
About Right.
Mistress — Remember, Bridget, we
want dinner served promptly at 0.
What time Is it now?
Bridget—’Tis 3 o’clock, Joost.
Mistress—Well, you’d better begin to
make the frozen custard for dessert In
that five minute ice cream freezer.—
Philadelphia Press.
For 50 Years
mothers have been giving their
children for croup, coughs and
colds
Shiloh’s
Consumption
Cure
Mothers—have you SHILOH in
the house at all times? Do
you know just where you can
find it if you need it quickly—
if your little one is gasping
and choking with croup? If
you haven’t it get a bottle.
It will save your child’s life.
“Shiloh nlwnya cured my baby of croup,
coughs and colds. 1 would not be without it.’
MRS. J. B. MARTIN, Huntsville, Ala.
Shiloh’* Consumption Cure Is sold by all
druggihtH at. 545c, 5Uc, HM.OO a bottle. A
printed guarantee goes with every bottle,
iryoti are not HAtlMfled go to your druggist
and get your money hack.
Write for illustrated book on consumption. Sent
without cost to you. S, (J. Wells isi. Co., LeKoy, N.Y
Some Reasons
Why You Should Insist on Having
EUREKA HARNESS OIL
yncqualed by any other.
Renders hard leather soft.
Especially prepared.
Keeps out water.
A heavy bodied oil.
HARNESS
An excellent preservative.
Reduces cost of your harness.
Rever burns the leather ; its
Efficiency is increased.
Secures best service.
Stitches kept from breaking.
OIL
|s sold in all
Localities Manufactured by
Stnndnrd Oil ( ompnny.
Jacob J. limit. John 0. Itltchman
Dealers in
Horses and
Mine Mules,
Mount Pleasant, Pa
Stock Farm one mile south of
town.
K
Not So Steady.
“He Is a remarkably steady man,”
commented the old gentleman.
“Hub!” broke In the small.boy. “1
guess you wouldn’t say that If you’d
been wltb me this afternoon.”
"Where did you see him?”
“At the park, learning to skate.”—
Chicago Post
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jj Watches, Clocks, |P H Chains, Charms, L
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^ Collar Buttons, CuffButtons, (*
J Studs, Scarf Pins, L
q Brooches, Ear Rings, £
Gold Pens, Inkstands, f*
•jj and a complete and very hand-
J some line of |£
H Silver Novelties v
j which will be well worth your £ 8 while to come and see. We never P
■j had a finer line of these goods |l»
J than we have this season, and the ^
n prices are very reasonable. Come n
■j and see the goods before making |>
• I your purchases.
jj N. C. MORRISON, jj
At the New Stand,
j Farmers & Merchants Nat. Bank Block, f
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
DENIM’S
SURE. SAFE AND SPEEDY CURB
lends todey the Quickest end most positive
$ecure for KIDNEY Diseases. Stomech or
f trouble. When Doctor foils end must use
J Synnge end Pump, THEN get one bottle of SURE,
I SAFE AND SPEEDY CURE, too doses v/itl help the
1 sufferer so quick that you cen hnrdly believe It. The
L discoverer-wes token off e poir of crutches tn three
^eys, by taking one bottle.
Silty people In our neighborhood,
I North Columbus. Ohio, ere cured
I end recommend II. SevereI Doc-
I tors prescribe end recommend t.
I end tohe it themselves.
Best on eerth (or Stomech,
1 Ditty Heed or Heedeche.
For sele at Drug Stores, 25 end
^75 cents. Semples Free.
Oenn’s Sure. Safe & Speedy Cure Co.
OOLUMBU9, O.
For saleand Samples Free at
Harkins’..Drug Store.
Lester Piano Co
In placing the Lester Piano on
the market we aimed at a larger
business at a small profit per piano.
By making a Sterling instrument
—one that would stand the sever-est
tests of time and use---one with
a tone quality of unsurpassed sweet-ness—-
and by offering it at a fair
price, we have built up a great
business.
The Lester Piano
is the safes instrument to buy as it
is backed up with a strong guaran-tee
for ten years by the Lester
Piano Company and sold by
E. G. HAYS,
534 Smithfield street,
PITTSBURG, PA.
Also by
WEIMER & SONS,
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Mount Pleasant Branch.
Eastern Standard Time. In EfToct Nov. 25th, 1900
a. m. a. m.
7 05
7 00
ft 56
6 52
6 46
6 45
8 16
8 11
8 07
8 03
7 59
7 66
a. m. p. m.
10 50
10 46
1ft 41
10 37
10 .43
10 29
6 34
6 30
6 26
6 22
6 19
I
.... Mount Pleasant
Star Mines
Grecnliek
Emma
Overton
..Scottdale Branch Jc..
a. m. a. m.
7 10 1 9 40
7 15 I 9 45
7 19 9 49
7 23 ! 9 63
7 28 9 67
7 32 1 10 00
p m.
2 60
2 66
2 69
3 03
3 07
3 10
p. m.
6 46
6 50-
6 54
6 68
7 08*
7 05*
Southvs est Division.
NORTH.
113 100 406 101
p. m.
5 00
6 16
5 19
5 27
5 29
5 30
6 33
5 36
6 40
5 46
5 49
5 63
6 02
6 06
6 11
6 14
0 17
6 19
6 25
6 31
6 M
6 42
6 47
6 53
7 15
8 40
p. m.
2 20
2 36
2 39
2 47
2 49
2 53
2 .66
3 00
3 06
3 09
3 13
3 22
3 26
3 ;JO
3 33
3 36
3 37
3 44
3 51
3 .64
4 02
4 07
4 13
4 22
5 36
a m.
9 00
9 03
9 11
9 13
9 14
9 17
9 20
9 24
9 30
9 33
9 37
9 46
9 60
9 66
9 58
10 01
10 03
10 09
10 15
10 18
10 26
10 31
10 37
10 46
12 10
a. m.
6 42
6 58
7 01
7 08
7 10
I 46
Falreliance
Uniontowu
Bedstone Junction
Parent
Stambaugh
- Frost
Gist
Furguson
Dunbar
Wheeler
New Haven...
Oonnellsvllle
Moyer
Pennsville
Valley Works
Everson
Scottdale
Scottdale Junction.
Alverton
Tarr
Ruffsdale
New Stanton
Youngwood
County Home Junction.
Greensburg
Pittsburg
404 100 104
5 20
a. m.
11 60
11 32
11 29
11 21
11 19
11 15
11 12
11 08
11 02
10 59
10 56
10 46
10 41
10 37
10 34
10 31
in 20
10 22
10 15
10 12
10 04
9 67
9 51
9 42
8 36
p. m.
4 37
4 19
4 16
4 08
4 06
4 05
4 02
3 59
3 66
3 49
3 »6
3 41
3 :io
3 27
3 24
3 21
3 18
3 16
3 09
3 02
2 59
2 62
2 16
2 40
2 30
12 46
7 40
7 22
7 19
7 11
7 09
7 05
7 02
6 68
6 52
6 49
6 46
6 35
6 31
6 27
6 24
6 21
6 19
6 13
fl 06
6 01
5 53
6 46
5 39
6 28
4 36
MAIN LINE TRAINS.—LEAVE GREENSBURG.
EAST.
8:40, 9:07 and 11:58 a. m, and 2:08, !}:05. 5:.'.2,
i:38 and 10:21 p. m.
WK8T.
4:28, 8:12, 7:17, 8:48 and 10-87 a. m. and 2
4:32, 8:51, 7:18. 8:85 und 10:23 p. m.
For rates, maps, etc,, ca.l.l .on. ti-ck..e.t.agent o■r>address Thos. K. Watt, 380 Fifth avenue. Passenger Agent Western District, Pittsburg, Pa.
J. B. 11CTCHiNSON, General Manager. J. R. WOOD. Gen. Pass. Agent.
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.
Mount Pleasant Branch.
Eastern Standard Time. In Effect Jan. 28, 10OL
a. m.
10 25
10 17
10 12
10 08
10 04
J 49
9 66
8 00
p. m.
3 40
3 32
3 27
3 23
3 19
3 17
3 04
3 00
1 00
Mount Pleasant.
-Pershing
Iron Bridge
West Overton....
Scottdale
Everson
Morgan
Broad ford
Pittsburg
p. m.
6 20
5 26
5 31
5 36
5 39
5 40
5 53
6 00
9 05
p. m.
1 20
1 26
1 31
1 35
1 39
1 40
1 53
1 68
4 45
54
a m.
10 30
10 36
10 39
10 43
10 47
10 49
10 69
11 04
12 60
a. in
6 65
7 01
7 06
7 10
7 14
7 16
7 30
7 35
9 50
Pittsburg Division.
TRAINS LEAVE CONNELLSVILLE.
At 8:80 and 9:40 a. m. and2:50, 3:00, 7:59 and
11:28 p. m.
E. D. SMITH, D. P. A.. Pittsburg. Pa.
At 4:30. 7:20, 9:10, 7:1*0, 7:49 and 11:06 a. m.
and 12:50. 2:50, 2:30, 5:53, 0:45 and 7 50 p. m.
D. B. MARTIN. Mgr. Pass. Traffic, B<o..Y(L
TUB MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1001
1,
* NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS. t
STAUFFER.
H S. Cotighenotir, who since the first
of the j'ear 1ms hail a drag store at
Freedom, Pa., came here Wednesday
and rook his wife and family there to
live with him.
T. W. Black has the Belgian hares
which Mr Conghenonr brought from
Kansas last summer and, if there is a
good local clover hay crop, expects to
•apply this entire neighborhood with
these animals. These hares at-e pedi
greed, smooth and slick as moles and
two or three times the size of our com-mon
ral bits. Mr. Conghenonr paid $10
for hiB first pair aud that was considered
very cheap out in Kansas where raising
them is a regular business.
The flooded Buckeye mine is still idle
and liable to continue so for some days.
It seems queer that we are still with-out
a doctor, and especially as this is a
good location for a physician.
Silby Jones is on the sick list this
week.
8 J. Shoemaker, the local contractor
and builder, has work ahead to run well
into the coming season. He has two
houses to build at Mount Pleasant.
J A. Conghenonr was in Pittsburg
on business several days last week.
George Murtland, of Greensbnrg, was
here Tuesday to see his sister, Mrs.
Bollinger.
It is said that Mrs. Johnny Bell will
build a store room on the lot adjoining
the church which she bought some time
•go. ^
LAURBLV1LLE.
Rev. Stoner’s residence, near Laurel
Run school house, was destroyed last
evening by fire caused by a defective
flue. The greater part of the contents
was saved.
Laurelville is still here but the way
the past week’s snow and ram came it
looked as if we might be washed down
into the Bridgeport dams. It seemed
*s though the ground hog had resumed
business at the old stand Yesterday's
warm sun was very welcome.
Hiram Steele, Hate of Harvey, Illinois,
aud Milford Barron, of Mount Pleasant,
were among the local Easter callers.
Laurelville boys had their passover
feast above town Sunday.
Peter O’Donnell’s incubator on its
first run brought out 32 peepies from 60
«gga.
Joseph Berg and wife, of McClure,
were here Sunday with old friends,
Divine services were held Sunday
evening at the home of James McManus.
Mrs. Lewis Brothers is so very ill that
it is feared she will not recover.
Frank Daniels is spending a few days
with friends here.
The Franklin school closed last week
after a successful term.
and twice on Sunday. Take two guesses
and then you will know who it is.
Some of our fair young Indies eamo
out swell and elegant on Easter.
The literary meeting of the Epworth
League, held here on Monday evening,
was a success. The performers all did
well and especially the MacPbnil broth-ers
who furnished some fine selections
on the mandolin, violin and guitar.
Miss Beulah Bolden was the guest of
Miss Grace Harvey over Easter.
The latest thing in the eatable line is
chocolate pies.
Miss Nellie Naylor started to the
Greensburg seminary Monday.
Miss Margaret Laird was in Connells-ville
last week visiting Miss Mary Dick.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Jones enter-tained
a few of their friends Friday
evening last in a most hospitable man
ner. Music and games were leading
features of the pleasant evening and
were enjoyed until a late hour with an
interiuissiou at 11 o’clock when a most
delicious lunch was served and to which
the lucky guests did full justice.
RUFFSDALE.
While repairing a doubler in a hig
wine cask at the Dillinger distillery
Wednesday Distiller R. C. Porter and
Machinist Jameb Hixson were seriously
hurt by an explosion of gaB. It is
feared the latter may lose his eyeBight.
Easter services were held in the local
Reformed church Sunday and a splendid
program was rendered.
Five pupils from this school were
successful in passing the examination
for entrance into the Alverton High
School, held at Alverton Saturday. The
examiners were Daniel L. Scott, of
Tarr; Prof. Schrenct, teacher of Alver
ton High School, and Township Prinei
pal Orton Lowe The ones successful
from this school were Prince Quarrels.
Edward Null, Winnie Rial. Florence
Hager and Bertha Buttermore. Through
out the township 36 took the examina
tion and 27 passed. They were all ex-amined
in but four out of the eight
branches and for this reason the exami
nation was not difficult.
Chnrley Bashiom, of Old Bethany,
who is charged with shooting Harry
Davenport last Monday night at a dance
given at the home of Mrs. John Mongh,
of New Stanton, has disappeared from
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. Bashiom and up to this time his
whereabouts are unknown. Charley
has been leading a wild life for several
years past but this scrape, though not
one of a small degree, will probably
cause his amendment.
IIECLA.
The thirteenth annual commencement
of the Mount Pleasant township schools
was held in the Methodist Episcopal
church at this place Saturday when,
considering the rough weather, the at-tendance
was good. The graduates did
themselvt s proud, at the same time re
fleeting no little credit on their faithful
teachers and the excellent board of di-rectors.
The program in full was:
CtaBs Motto : “Bowing:, Not Drifting.”
FORENOON SESSION.
Mu9io—Battle Hymn of the Republic
Prayer
Address of Welcome T. H. Laird
Bespouso ....Sadie Peebles
Oration—"Perpetuity of Influence,"
P. O. Peterson
Solo—"The Holy City," Nettie Pox
Papor-“Klse Above It,” Ida Weaver
Beoltation—"The Swan Song,” . .. Etta Dillon
Essay—-‘Progress." lb B. Thompson
Solo—"The Singer and the 8ong,"-M.M. Byers
Valedictory—"What of Tomorrow': ’
R. It. Glenn
Music—"God Bo With You Till We Meet
Again
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Music
“Public Education a Public Responsibil-ity."
Rev. S. G. Yahn
8olo-"Consider the Lilies,” Nettle Fox
Salutatory... -Ivy Mason
Essay—“The Life of Lafayette."
Frank Perkoy
Recitation—“Barefooted Boy,"
Mabel Lemmon
Essay—"Nature's Plan,” Eva Newlll
Solo—“No Grown Without the Cross,"
M. M. Byers
Oration—“Toward the Light,” Elsie GrifHn
Recitation—"The Last Hymn," Nellie Carey
Valedictory Blanche Kemp
Presentation of Diplomas
Address to Class Rev. 8. W. Douglas
Music -
Benediction
Miss Katherine Thomas, one of Arm-brust's
fair daughters, was here visiting
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Wright last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs, of Greensbnrg,
were here Saturday and Sunday with
the latter's sister, Mrs. John Jeffrey.
The Misses Miller, of Greensburg,
were here the past week visiting their
Bister, Mrs. August Sauerwine.
Hecla bas another “lady smasher"
who makes all the other boys look like
SO cents. He goes out 7 nights a week
DePriest, Lootnis, Lowstetter, Smith
and Murray. The jolly party separated
at a late hour after spending a most
enjoyable evening with the kind hostess.
The teachers of East Huntingdon
township will hold an institute here
Saturday next. In the evening there
will be a box social ai the school house,
which all are cordially invited to attend
The proceeds will be used to pnrehnse
more books for the school library.
Sunday was a high day here. From
the amount of shooting and bombarding
going on one could scarcely tell whether
it was Easter or the Fourth of July.
C. L. Bair is having a new house
erected on his farm near here.
C. W. Strohrn has rented and will
farm the Mrs. Lyman Stoner place.
CARDENTEKTOWN.
Miss Minnie Mock, a teacher at Greens-bnrg,
spent Easter with Miss Annie
Lemmon.
Misses Oma and Bessie Tarr, of Lip
pincott, came Saturday to visit their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Lemmon. The former returned home
Tuesday, but the latter will stay for
some time.
William Carpenter hud been Buffering
severely with neuralgia, butisconvales
cing
Mr. and Mrs. Schultz, who were re-cently
married and who have moved to
this place, received an old timeserenad
ing from the boys.
David Lemmon, whose sore eye trouble
was noted in THE JOURNAL some time
ago, is at present entirely blind, catar
acts having formed on the eyes.
Mr and Mrs. David Stull, of Mount
Pleasant, were here over Sabbath with
the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs
Daniel Stull.
The Oak Grove school and teacher,
John Christy, spent Tuesday afternoon
at Lemmon's school, that being the last
day.
ALVERTON.
Mrs Robert Hill, Jr., spent a few
days of tbis week visiting at the home
of her brother, Rev. G. W. Byrnes, of
West Newton.
W. D. Colborn and family will move
into the Breegle house soon, Mr. Breegle
and family having moved to Scottdale.
Frank Stoner, Bon of Mrs. Lyman
Stoner, is laying over 1,300 feet of If
inch pipe from the Southwest Connells
ville Coal & Coke Company’s fan house
at No. 4 works to his barn and fields.
Miss Efifie Hixson spent Wednesday
shopping and calling on friends in
Seottdale.
Postmaster B. F. Sbawley was a bnsi
ness visitor to Wilkinsburg Wednesday.
Charley Connor, of Uniontown, has
accepted a position as clerk at the Don-nelly
store.
J. N. Dodson, our local barber, is
again able to be at his post of duty.
Friday evening last Miss Maude
DePriest gave a party to a few of her
friends here and to the entire force of
the Central store, of which her brother
Fred is manager. Those present were
Misses Boyd, Callihan, Byars, Huns
berger and Shawley uad Messrs.
INDIAN HEAD.
It was a great surprise to the people
to see such deep snow last week. Near-ly
all the fruit trees were injured.
Miss Amelia Davis, who was with
friends in Scottdale, and her brother
Bert, who is working at United, came
home to see their parents last week.
Mrs. Margaret Miller is on the sick
list.
B. C. Berg moved to Pennsville with
his brother in law, Felty Witt.
A. E. Duuibanld has closed his sugar
camp and commenced plowing.
C. D. Kramer has begun building bis
new shop. He intends to blacksmith
this summer.
James Tinkey, who is working at
^altsbnrg, was home with his parents a
few days last week.
Rev. Elliott will preach at Nebo next
Sunday night.
The Franklin school closed last Mon-day.
Miss Iva Chorpuning was home with
her mother over Sunday.
S. G. Lohr has returned home from
Mount Pleasant.
CHAMPION.
Miss Nannie Miller, who had been at
Mount Pleasant for several months, re
turned home Saturday.
Bert Davis passed through here Sun-day
on his way home.
Plowing is in progress around here at
present.
Indian Creek was very wild la