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VOL. 2)). NO. ]5. aunt Peasant JTanimal 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. i Wring Out Rinse Out Hang Out and your washing’s done if you use Walker’s Soap and follow instructions on wrapper Contains no alkali for the. 20th Century buy ihe new I Ball Bearing Sewing Machine and the Sterling Pianos s d Organs Lookfor the rooster on the ■wrapper. FROM J. L. ARMBRUST, of Armbrust, Pa. fiSSS&SSK KWSSSK SEND FOR PRICE LISTS. iDltpm(11i1riInllny tenMdeadchtoinwesitahndprOormgpantnseasts-. Attention, Ladies! 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Lime, ..alsomlne, Artlsls’ Materials. Floor and Table Oil Cloths. Linoleum. Window and Pic-ture Olass, Roofing and building Paper. Pic-ture and Wall Molding Picture Frames made to ordor and Molding sold by the foot. SOrThls season we hang paper bought of us. J. W. SWARTZ, 'phono No. 86. i street, MOUNT PLEASANT. We are The People to make your photos. A Correct Likeness Guaranteed We also furnish Crayon and Pastel enlargements and make all kinds of frames from a stock of moulding that is com-plete and up-to-date. GOODMAN & SPRINGER, S Beautify Your home. We are in that business and flat-ter ourselves that our goods prove that we know something about it. Quality and 1 _ Ppj£g j Both Right. These are the main features sought by every one wishing (o buy Furniture or Carpets, and our guarantee goes with every purchase. GIBBS & KING, Furniture, Carpets and Undertaking, 427 W. Main St„ Ur A. Pyne, Leading ..Shoe Store... Walkover Shoes for men, Stetson 'H u u a i)/ ili \if Sorosis Shoes ladies. 'A The Wright Shoe for misses, tt tt u tt boys. A full line of all kinds of Shoes here. 711 Main streei, Mount Pleasant, Pa. •jfytd Cooper# W. h. COLES, Proprietor. ••'.Main St., - flOUNT PLEASANT. PA. In and about the House—^ Stauffer Block, Main street, Mount Pleasant. Everything Right Up-to-Date, Including Bath and Toilet Rooms, Telephones and Electric Bells. FINE BAR ATTACHED. J. R. JONES, IE WITH, smn no sis limit. Orders, left at either J. Stevenson & Co’s. West M Street store or at my residen on Smithfield street, will r ceive prompt attention. All Work Guaranteed. THIS MOUNT PUKAHANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AP11IX. 12, 1901 t As Judged From the Past Week's Trade Reports WHEN CAREFULLY COMPILED i FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF READ-ERS 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 IB 12®30 lzmo 35 20 12* 10@15 16 20@30 12*3)20 7 28 10 18 10 40050 75 10 10 1 25 305 5013 8 007 5 5 7 2 35050 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. GET STRONG Vinol Makes Weak People Strong. WE GUARANTEE IT WILL DO SO. WE KNOW OF NO TONIC OR RE-BUILDER LIKE IT. Vinol does create strength. We know that and have proved it in many instances. 'The reason Vinol rejuvenates and strengthens a person is that it acts directly upon the stomach, strengthen-ing and toning up this great vital organ and enabling it to obtain for itself, from the food that is taken into it, the elements which are required to make firm healthy flesh and muscle tissue, sound bone structure and pure healthy blood. Vinol does this in a scientific way and is enabled to do it because it con-tains. dissolved in a delicate mild wine, in a highly concentrated state, the act-ive principles of cod-liver oil. Vinol does not, contain any of the grease- that formerly characterized cod-liver oil. hence is free from all the ob-jectionable features which made it im-possible for patients to take or retain that vile-smelling remedy into their stomach. Vinol in its favorable action upon the stomach and other organs of the body acts also in a beneficial way upon tlie nerves and brain, and will he found lobe invaluable to brain workers as well as body workers. The following letter is from a well-known authoress. It reads as follows: “I wish to acknowledge the receipt of the Vinol and testify to its grea) benefits. Since taking it I am much improved in health, and during the in-tense heat of last August 1 should not have been able to continue in my liter-ary work if it bad not been for the strengthening properties of Vinol. Yours in gratitude.”—EI.I.A STARK, 106 W. 82d St., N. Y. City. We wish any one sufferingfrom weakness, a demoralized con-dition of the nerves, or a suscep-tibility to wasting diseases, to call on us and hear what we have t<j say in regard to Vinol. Try it on our recommendation, and if you find it does not do everything we claim for it, we will gladly refund to you the amount you have paid us. H. f. BARKLEY, Mount Pleasant Pharmacy, 608 Main. Street. ARTISTIC PUBLICATIONS Issued By the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road. Guide to Washington. The Passenger Department of the Baltimore'&’Ohio R. R. has issued a Guide to Washington, which in many respects excels all other guides publish-ed, both in artistic appearance and careful description of points of interest in the Capital City. The front cover ot the hook is embellished with a hand-some steel engraved portrait of the “Stuart” Washington. The reverse cover bears an American flag in the grasp of an eagle The inside pages contain recent photographs of all of the Government Buildings with correct in-formation concerning them, together with other interesting features of the city, and the very latest map. Copies will be sold at the principal Ticket Offices of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. for ten (10) cents cash, or will be mailed to any address on receipt of fifteen (15) cents in stamps on application to the undersigned. “Reasons Why.” “Reasons Why” is a forty-two page pamphlet giving in condensed form the important facts concerning the Balti-more & Ohio R. R. It is an argument setting forth the claims of the railroad for public consideration. This artistic booklet contains many half tones and drawings illustrating the history, scenic charms, the development and progress of the railroad, and superior service af-forded to patrons. Single copies can be obtained of Ticket agentB, or will be mailed to any address on receipt of two (2) cents in postage stamps on applica-tion to the undersigned, D. B. MAR-AN, Manager Passenger Traffic, Baltimore 8 22 4t & Ohio R. R., ‘Baltimore, Md. This signature is on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo=Quinine Tablets the remedy that cures u cold In one day PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM fn*iiw and beautifiea the hair, j ^Promotes a luxuriant growth. I Never Pails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cure* scalp diseases & hair tailing. |0c,hiid 11.00 at Dntfgiita AGENTS WANTED—Either male or fe-male. for the sale of Life of Queen Victoria, the Galveston Disaster and The Story and History of China. A commission of 30 cents will be allowed on each book sold. Outfit free. Address GEO. M. RAMSAY, 2 1 tf No.226 Arch St.. Connellsville, Pa. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. NA. OORT. • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office adjoining Engle street residence, Mount. Pleasant, Pa. RABE F. MARSH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 46 Bank & Trust Building. Greensburg First National Hank Bulldtng. Mount Pleas-ant, Pit. Monday and Tuesday of each week. DR. M. W. IIORNER. PHYSICIAN ANT) BURGEON. Office Hours:—Until 10 a. m.; 1 to 4 and 6 to 8 p. rn. F. & M. Bank BPk, Main St., Mount Pleasant. EUGENE WARDEN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 208 Main street, Greensburg. Braddock Block. Mount, Pleasant. GREGG & POTTS. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Barclay Building. Greensburg. yv/vw ft. nftDi , • Real Estate and Insurance Agency, 833 East Main street. S. C. Steven5on, NOTARY PUBLIC. REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE, 4W MAIN ST.. MOUNT PLEASANT. L. S. RHOADES, JUSTICE IF TIE FEIGE&N8TIIY PIllllC. All kinds of legal papers prepared and exe cuted. Collecting a specialty. Office 1109 Main Street, Mount Pleasant FIRST NATIONAL BANK. OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PA. Capital Stock $100,000 OFFICEKB: H.W. Stoner, J- D. Illtchmnn, President. Cashier. G. W. Stoner.Vice President mmacrons. J. S. Pitchman. J. D. llitclmian, 11. W. Stoner, Win. B. Neel, J. C. Crownover, Jos. K. Stauffer. S N. Warden, Dr. J. 11. Clark. 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 ] 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. 4 . 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. II 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 y\ nsi I TiNM&iM ROOFS. 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 fan 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, Llmlterd. i| 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. I 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. % 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. 3 8 Gt 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, "VITALS" BRAND CLOTHING- IS TM nr A m m ft 'b <b (0 W <b '0 'b <b 'b '0 'b / '0 <b 'b 'ft <b 'b '0 <b 'b 'b '0 '0 COME! INVESTIGATE! EXAMINE! '0 '0 'b 'b 'b 'b 'b 'b 'b 'b 'b 'b 'b 'b s WE SET THE PACE! 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. Onr prices are not any higher (if as high) than elsewhere. TfV Suits from $6.50 up 'b 'b 'b 'b 'b b '1' 'b Overcoats $4.50 up Rumbaugh S Dillon, The Up-to-Date Clothiers and furnishers, 619 Main street, Zimmerman Block, Mount Pleasant, Pa. \0 sz&sz &&&£.&&sz t&&ii*? sr«■;^^ ^sr^ st'sr^*■; et ^^^ ^srsi-i ViTpttfipt? LfTf,!- ‘,T+1- T,'f1'.N.'t-1, .+'I1’,tf-'kp. trdf".!, tr'fk,'. L.d*p. .'k, rt*, To Teachers anti Pupils of the Public Schools: # ❖ Perpetual Motion is an impossibility in the material world. It is a fact in the intellect-ual world. You must go forward or backward. For all who would like to go forward The Mount Pleasant Institute offers many and valuable opportu-nities. You can study new subjects or review old ones. Enter when your Schools close... and make an advance for next year. Apply for information to H. C. DIXON, Principal. Mount Pleasant, Pa. rt? it? efr? it? it"? fir? it? it? ftT? 1^7 yT? TilK MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, FRIDAY. APRIL 12 IftO'l *i> OJxs-S’ m » 0 H & □ :t A THRILLING STORY *?4 OF THE BOXERS IN CHINA. tot Copyright, 1900, By Paul IL Reynolds. '"ssSfE ^ <£K®y?> s$ m fsf m sis III 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 <8><"S> $v<i> <§>w 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- I: 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 'JL.A:'M. 'M.JLJLJL'JSJL'JLJL*' li it’s § JEWELRY v You’re looking for, ^ jj We’ve got It All. Jj jj Watches, Clocks, |P H Chains, Charms, L Rings, Bracelets ^ 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
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Title | Mount Pleasant journal (April 12. 1901) |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County -- Mount Pleasant ; Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Pleasant |
Creator | Mount Pleasant journal (Mount Pleasant, Pa.) |
Publisher | Mt. Pleasant Pub. Co. |
Place of Publication | Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa |
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Title | Mount Pleasant journal |
Subject | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County -- Mount Pleasant ; Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Mount Pleasant |
Creator | Mount Pleasant journal (Mount Pleasant, Pa.) |
Publisher | Mt. Pleasant Pub. Co. |
Place of Publication | Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa |
Contributors | Publishers: John L. Shields, [Jan. 10, 1923]; Howard M. Stoner and Clark Queer, 1923-1963; H. Ralph Hernley, 1963- . |
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VOL. 2)). NO. ]5.
aunt Peasant JTanimal
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 |
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