Mount Pleasant journal (September 12, 1907)

              VOL. 34.
MOUNT PLEASANT, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1007. NO. 37.
GREAT TRIP
TAKEN ACROSS
THE CONTINENT
By a Party of Well Known
People of Ruffsdale.
THEY LEFT HOME ON JUNE THIRD
AND ARE NOW WITH FRIENDS AT LIV-INGSTON,
CALIFORNIA.
Young Mr Leighty, who is one of
the Trio, Writes to the Journal En-tertainingly
of the Sights of the
Pleasant Journey That Includes
Western Cities, a Walk up Pike’s
Peak and a Drive of Five Hundred
Miles Through the Wonders of the
Yosemite Valley and Other Points
of Interest in the Sunny Land of
California.
LININGSTON, CALIFORNIA, SEPT. 1, 1907:
—B. H. Pool, Miss Mazie Pool and C. H.
Leighty, who left their Ruftsdale home
on June 3 for the Pacific Coast, are now
in that land of sunshine and flowers af-ter
a most enjoyable trip across the con-tinent.
We passed through Chicago on June
4, crossed the Mississippi at Burlington
and rested that night at Red Oaks, Iowa.
We got only a glimpse of Omaha, but
spent a week with friends at Ashland,
Nebrasba. Our next stop was at the
beautiful city of Denver, Colorado,
where we saw the Sherbondy girls,
former Scottdale residents. We also
took a little side trip from there over
the Moftatt road, some 76 miles over the
divide, passing from summer to winter
on reaching Corona, a small town on the
mountain top. This is the railroad that
is so crooked it crosses itself. Then we
went to Colorado Springs and thence to
Manitou at the foot of Pike’s Peak on
June 13. Here we left the car and be-gan
to foot it up that famous elevation,
We spent the night at the Half Way
House. We resumed the tramp at 4 a.
m., making the six miles and the top at
noon. The sight was grand, but after
the nine mile walk back to the foot I'll
admit I was mighty tired on getting back
to Colorado Springs which we left on
June 15.
We passed on west through the Royal
gorge and over the hanging bridge, reach-ing
Salt Lake City the next day. There
we saw the great Mormon temple and
crossed the 40-mile trestle over Salt
Lake. A little taste of water went a long
ways. We saw our first Indians at Reno,
Nevada,
Our first stop in California was at New
Castle where we spent a week with C.
V. Freed, and maybe we didn’t enjoy
eating his home grown oranges that
tasted quite different from those we get
at home. New Castle is a small place,
but it ships some 10,000 cars of fruit
annually. We also visited a gold mine
there and were given little nuggets by
the foreman as souvenirs.
After a stop of four days at Stockton
we reached San Francisco, taking in
Golden Gate Park and the Cliff House.
One can still see remains of the earth-quake,
although rebuilding is well un-der
way.
Then we came to Livingston as guests
of John Weaver. With our host, R. A.
and Misses Mollie and Nettie Weaver,
we left on July 9 on a drive through the
Yosemite Valley, camping out at night.
We saw the big trees and all the other
wonders of this wonderfully beautiful
valley, greatly enjoying the trip as the
weather was fine. I got lost on the moun-,
tain at Grub Gulch, but found myself
all right. We returned to Merced after
an eight-day expedition of this kind on
which our only mishap was a broken
wagon axle.
After remaining with William Weaver
at Merced until July 31 we went on to
the coast, arriving at Santa Cruz August
3. Here I had my first swim in the
Pacific. Following a ten days' camp
there we struck back and wound up the
500-mile trip on August 18 at Living-ston
where we are having lots of fun
hunting and fishing. We will visit Los
Angeles on our way back home over the
Sante Fe. C. H. LEIGHTY.
Marriage Announcement.
Mrs. Margaret Reese announces the
marriage of her youngest daughter, Miss
Florence Mae Reese, to Elmer E. Berger.
The ceremony will take place on the
evening of September 19 at 7:30 o'clock
at the West End home of the bride-to-be.
Minister ftuietly Wedded.
Rev. D. A. Stevens, the well known
Church of God minister, and Mrs. Del-liah
Davis, of Connellsville, were mar-ried
last Thursday evening at the West
End parsonage of the Church of God by
the pastor, Rev. Dr. S. G. Yahn.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs About Prominent People
Gathered Durlnsrtbe Week.
Mrs. J. L. Elkes, of Williamsport, is
here visiting her father. Hirsh Kobacker.
Miss Anna Smith was the guest of
South Greensbnrg friends over Sunday.
Prof. W. Lawrence Kalp and his bride,
nee Phillips, returned to their Institute
home Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chevie, of the East End,
are in Michigan on a two months’ visit
to their former home.
Mrs. Charles Cunningham was at Ju-niata,
Fayette county, last week visiting
Mrs. Jennie McDonald.
Mrs. William S. Ramsay and daughter,
Miss Christine, left Saturday for several
weeks' stay at Cambridge Springs.
Miss Edith Guy, of Pittsburg, was here
the past week as the guest of Misses
Margaret Cunningham and Sadie Horner.
George W. Stoner was at Pittsburg
Thursday and Friday attending the an-nual
convention of the Pennsylvania
State Bankers Association.
Mrs. Edgar T. Stevenson, after a week
spent here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James S. Braddock, will return to-day
to her home at Franklin, Pa.
Mrs. John Shrader, of Udell, was given
a most enjoyable surprise party Satur-day
by some fifty lady friends, among
whom were about a dozen Mount Pleas-ant
people. The occasion was that lady’s
birthday.
Miss Dol. Hartigan and her brother,
Paul, of New Kensington, were here the
past week with relatives and old friends.
Master Paul started for school al Greens-burg,
but decided to come on down here,
preferring a visit to studies.
Frank P. Stauffer, of this place, and
his oldest brother, Henry, of Scottdale,
were taken Sunday by their cousin, C.
W. Stauffer, the well known Scottdale
meat merchant, in his new Premier au-tomobile
to visit their aunt, Mrs. Stick-ler,
who lives near Perryopolis. The
brothers enjoyed very much the smooth
run of 44 miles.
TWENTY-FOURTH ANNIjAL
Convention of the County W. C. T. U. Held
at Vandergrift Last Week.
The twenty-fourth annual convention
of the Westmoreland County W. C. T. U.
was held Thursday and Friday in the
Methodist Episcopal church at Vander-grift
and proved a well attended and
interesting gathering of faithful temper-ance
workers. All the old officers.among
whom are Mrs. S. G. Yahn and Mrs. Geo.
W. Stoner, of this place, respectively,
vice president and treasurer, were re-elected
with the exception of a few su-perintendents
who are no longer resi-dents
of this county.
The Mount Pleasant ladies named, to-gether
with Mrs. Harriet E. Brothers,
foreigners and miners, and Miss Anna
Stoner, fruit and flower mission, all took
part at different times in conducting de-votional
exercises. Mrs. Brothers was
also elected a delegate to both the state
and national conventions.
SIGN OF THE CROSS.
Items of Special Interest to Local
Church Goers.
For the sixteenth successive time the
Church of God people on last Wednes-day
evening at a congregational meet-ing
expressed their earnest desire to
have the West Pennsylvania Eldership
return Rev. Dr. S. G. Yahn to them as
their pastor.
Rev. Prugh, of Jeannette, who preach-ed
for the local Presbyterians Sunday,
was accompanied by Miss Walters who
presided at the pipe organ.
The order of exercises at the A. M. E.
Zion church Sunday next is: Preaching
by the pastor, Rev, J. M, Wheeler, B. D.,
11 a. m.; preaching by Rev. C. W. Hains,
3:15 p. m.; farewell sermon by pastor,
7:30 p. m. The public is cordially in-vited
to attend all these services as well
as the donation party that will be given
Rev. Wheeler Monday evening next.
Rev. R. L. Leatherman, the local Lu-theran
pastor, will preach on Sunday
next at the Middle Lutheran church at
10:30 a. m.; at Ruftsdale at 2:30 p. m. and
in town at 7:30 p. m.
At the Second Baptist church Sunday
next there will be Sunday school at 9:30
a. m.; covenant meeting, 11 a. m.; preach-ing,
“Jesus Offered for Sale,' 3 p. m.;
communion, 4 p. m.; B. Y. P. U. meeting
6:30 p. m. and preaching, "Warm Recep-tion
Awaits Thee," 7:30 p. m. A concert
and lecture will be given at this church
Thursday and Friday evenings of this
week.
Youngwood Fair.
Up until yesterday rain interfered
with the Youngwood fair, but good
weather and a large attendance are hoped
tor today.
SAME OLD EGG.
Mother Enrvh: “Cut, cut, cut, .othing! You cut no ice at all. That’s the
■ame old nest egg you had eight years ago.”
—3artholomew in Minneapolis Journal.
CARNIVAL OF LOCAL FIREMLN IS NOW ON
The Week's Entertainment for the Benefit of that Deserving
Department Was Successfully Opened at Frick
Park on Monday Evening Last.
AN OUTLINE OF WHAT THE LADDIES ARE SHOWING.
The Mount Pleasant Fire Department
had a successful opening of its carnival
week at Frick Park Monday. The change
of location from North Church street to
the open grounds required lots of hust-ling
on the part of the laddies, but they
were rewarded by a big crowd that wait-ed
in good nature in the dark until the
West Penn Electric Company got the
connection made and had going hun-dreds
of incandescent lights that circle
the grounds. Some idea of the depart-ment’s
expense can be had when it is
stated that the light bill alone is expect-ed
to run well up to $200 for the six
nights. The Mount Pleasant Cornet Band
enlivened the occasion with catchy se-lections
and the presence of both local
and state police made the order all that
could be desired.
In the way of amusements there are
vaudeville and minstrel shows, a palace
of mystery, bird, candy and gold fish
wheels, cane and doll racks and merry-go-
round, to say nothing of the country
Cases Disposed of During Last Week of the
August Term.
As was expected, Harry Cochran, the
West Apollo colored boy, who shot and
killed Katie Pettigrew, a white girl, was
acquitted on the charge of murder. He
is still in jail, having been at once re-arrested
for involuntary manslaughter.
W. J. Horton confessed to the robbery
of Keck’s Greensbnrg store and on his
testimony W. B. Atkinson and Ed. Con-ners,
arrested with him at Johnstown,
were convicted. Conners and Atkinson
were sent to the penitentiary for four
years each, while Horton, who is not
yet of age, will likely get off with a term
at a reformatory.
John Shandor, aged 73 years, was
found guilty of having set fire to the
stable of Adelaide Depetris at Lloyds-ville,
near Latrobe, and was given four
months to the workhouse.
John T. Haigh, his daughter Lizzie,
Frank Moyer and Harry Hollenburg, all
of near this place, charged by Mrs. Vir-ginia
Keenan with disorderly conduct,
were found guilty and sentenced each to
pay $5 and costs.
Buried Bank Statement.
It is said that there was buried with
Hugo Lorentz, cashier of the defunct
Farmers bank at Meyersdale and a son-in-
law of President Livengood, a state-ment
which shows how the funds of the
bank were invested. The figures were,
it is claimed, in a small book in a vest
pocket and now the creditors want the
remains exhumed in order to see the
contents.
Pretty Scottdale Wedding.
There was a pretty wedding at the
Scottdale home of Mr. and Mrs. Kramer
Eberhart Monday evening when their
daughter, Miss Sara Eliza, became the
bride of Mr. Andrew Jackson Thompson,
of this place.
store and the high dive, in which a man
drops from the top of a 50-foot ladder
into a net stretched some six feet above
the ground. He performs tlie feat nightly
at 11 o’clock. In addition to these sev-eral
of the Youngwood side shows are
expected to come down and set np on
the park today.
The big parade, in which the firemen
of neighboring towns will join with
their Mount Pleasant brothers, will be
held this evening, forming at 7 o'clock
in front of Polanofsky’s New East End
Hotel. Then on Saturday evening be-tween
6 and 7 o’clock there will be a
hose race on Church street for the prize
silver cup donated by Jeweler Posner.
The object of the carnival should not
be lost sight of by those who know what
Mount Pleasant owes to its ever willing
and efficient fire fighters. The boys are
anxious to be thoroughly up to date in
their equipment, but are lacking a chem-ical
engine which they hope to be able
to buy from this week's receipts.
Their Executive Committee Names Ticket in
That County.
The Prohibition executive comum...
of Fayette county meeting at Uniontown
Thursday nominated this ticket: H. L.
Robinson, law judge; R. D. Warman,
district attorney, O. B. Purinton, sherifl;
H. K. Mellinger, coroner, and G. W.
Scott, poor director. T. Scott Dunn was
re-elected county chairman and W. M.
Likens, secretary.
The list of nominations includes the
indorsement of R. D. Warman, Democrat,
for district attorney and Judge John C.
Work, Republican, for orphans' court
judge. This gives Judge Work a clear
field for unanimous election, as no can-didate
has been nominated against him.
COUNTY RECORD BROKEN.
W. S. "Wirsing Gets Verdict for $45,000
Against His Father-in-Law.
A jury at Uniontown awarded William
S. Wirsing $45,000 damages in the suit
against his father-in-law, James R. Smith,
a wealthy Smithfield farmer.
Wirsing eloped with Smith's daughter
a year ago, and npon their return Smith
shot him with a Winchester, shattering
his right arm and rendering it useless
for life.
Smith is also serving a five years' sen-tence
to penitentiary for felonious
shooting with intent to murder. The
verdict is the largest ever given in the
Fayette county courts.
• , . ,
McBane-Long.
Rev. M. S. McBane, pastor of the
Laurel Hill, Fayette county, United
Presbyterian church, and Miss Sadie M.
Long, of that place, were married last
Wednesday at the West Leisenring home
of the bride's sister, Mrs. John Parkhill.
The ceremony was performed by the
bride's brother-in-law, Rev. Howard S.
Wilson, of this place.
COKE AND COAL.
Items of Interest Gathered From Both
Mine and Yard.
The Cook coal, 297 acres, near Belle-vernon,
has been bought by the Monon-gahela
River Consolidated Coal & Coke
Company for $350,000.
C. E. Bills and family left here yester-day
for Brier Hill where he has accept-ed
the position of stable bess with the
Brier Hill Coal & Coke Company.
The Westmoreland Coal Company, of
Irwin, has just completed the planting
of 50,000 locust and catalpa trees on its
farm. The trees have been set out with
the view of furnishing pit posts, these
timbers becoming scarcer year by year.
The Sunshine Coal & Coke Company,
which has 50 ovens in operation at Ache
Junction, 50 at Hester and 150 at Martin
station, is adding 50 to its first named
plant; while the Browning Coal & Coke
Company is building a 32-oven plant
near Bitner, Fayette county.
The output of the coal in the Irwin
field is unprecedented in the history of
the region. It is estimated that the daily
output is nearly 50,000 tons. Operators
say that the great problem is getting men
to work in the mines and at least 1,000
more miners could find employment in
the region.
In order to test the act of 1893, six
mine foremen of Fayette county were
arrested Thursday on warrants from the
office of Justice John D. Dawson. The
charge is violating the mining laws in
not repuiring miners to properly under-cut
before setting oft a blast. Those ar-rested
were Clarence Burkey, Oliver;
Patrick Reynolds, Buffington; J. J. Mc-
Intyre, Searights; P. J. Mullin, Trotter;
Brian McGinty, Parshall No. 2, and Sam-uel
McKay, Colonial No. 4.
Cleveland and Uniontown men, the
latter representing J. V. Thompson and
others, have opened negotations for the
purchase of 10,000 acres of Washington
county coal in the vicinity of Hart’s
Mills, southeast of Washington. Two
farms have already been purchased out-right,
these tracts comprising but 500
acres.
DEATHS OF THE WEEK.
The Grim Reaper’s WorX in This Plaot
and Vicinity.
Paul Hacke, the well known Pitts-burger,
died Saturday of heart trouble,
aged 70 years. The interment took place
Tuesday at his old Greensburg home.
He was a bachelor and leaves a large
estate.
Dr. F. L. Marsh was called to Lexing-ton,
Ohio, Tuesday by the death of his
uncle, Jackson Marsh, aged 80 years.
Harry Jordan, a well known citizen of
the East End for the past thirty years,
died Friday of paralysis, aged almost 60
years. He was a veteran of the Civil
war and is survived by his widow, no
children having been born to them.
Mrs. Mary Gowton died at the hospital
Friday of paralysis, aged 66 years. Her
husband was killed in the mills at Scott-dale,
since which she made her home
near her son John, who is the only sur-vivor
of her nine children. She was a
fine old lady and a devout member of
St. Joseph church where Rev. Father
O’Donnell, the rector, conducted the
funeral services Monday morning, the
interment following in St. Joseph ceme-tery.
Mrs. R. T. Lee, of Circleville, died
Friday night of a complication of dis-eases,
aged 65 years. The husband sur-vives
with four sons and three daugh-ters,
of whom Mrs. Elmer S. Springer, of
this place, is one. Mrs. Springer is with
her father and two single brothers who
are left entirely alone.
COLLISION OF LAUNCHES.
Col. James E. Barnett Has Exciting Experi-ence
at Annapolis.
A collision occurred at Annapolis, Md.,
Friday, between a launch attached to
the United States monitor Arkansas and
a launch owned by Colonel James E.
Barnett, late of the Tenth regiment, Na-tional
Guard of Pennsylvania, camping
on the Severn river, near that city.
The navy launch was so badly injur-ed
that it would have sunk had it not
made directly for the Arkansas and been
hoisted to the davits. Colonel Barnett’s
launch had its bow badly twisted.
Bad B. & 0. Freight Wreck.
A bad freight wreck occurred at 10
o'clock last Wednesday night on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad one-half mile
east of Scott Haven, where the engine
and eight cars of fast freight No. 92 were
derailed. It was at first thought a de-fective
rail was the cause of the acci-dent,
but an inspection of the track
later seemed to indicate, the work of
train wreckers whose real object was the
derailing of an express train.
END OF CRIMINAL COURT. FAYETTE PROHIBITIONISTS.
POLITICAL LINES
ARE WIPED OUT
IN “OLD EIATT”
At Least so Far as Common
Pleas Judgship is Concerned.
THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE MEETS
AND ACCEPTS THE WITHDRAWAL OF
JOHN S. CHRISTY.
This was Followed by the Indorse-ment
of John Q. Van Swearingen,
the Republican Nominee, Who is
Now Looked Upon as Sure of Being
Judge Reppert’s Successor. John
S. Ritenour Sizes up the Alleged
Deal With His Sharp-Pointed Pen.
For the first time in the history of
Fayette county the Republicans and
Democrats have united on one candi-date
for the office of judge of the court
of common pleas. This was eftected at
Uniontown Saturday afternoon when the
Democratic Central Committee of the
county accepted the withdrawal of John
S. Christy, nominated at the June pri-maries
for this office, and indorsed the
candidacy of J. Q. Van Swearingen, the
Republican nominee, in the interest of a
non-partisan or, rather, a bi-partisan
judiciary in the county.
The action of the Democratic commit-tee
was practically unanimous. The
meeting was marked by the presence of
a large number of more prominent mem-bers
of the bar, who are likewise promi-nent
in the Democratic organization.
This action it is said to remove any
doubt as to Mr. Van Swearingen’s suc-cess
at the November election.
John S. Ritenour, the well known Un-iontown
newspaper man and now the
Democratic auditor of Fayette county,
is out in a bitter attack on the alleged
deal. In closing his account of the ac-tion
of his party's committee he says:
"There is intense delight among Re-publican
politicians throughout the
county over this action of the Demo-cratic
county committee. The frightful
corruption of the June primary has been
rapidly solidifying public sentiment
against Van Swearingen, and the pros-pects
of Christy's election grew brighter
daily. Now he has kicked over his own
meal tub. To the Democratic party of
the county as a whole it will come as a
great surprise. It means the sure defeat
of the whole Democratic ticket, with
possibly one exception, viz., district at-torney,
and it means the complete sub-mergence
of the Democratic party in
this county for the sole purpose of elect-ing
a Republican to a position on the
bench, and to gratify the selfish designs
of a few Democratic lawyers. Saturday's
work will bring a day of tremendous
reckoning to some so-called leaders of
the Democratic party."
JESSE JAMES SHOW
That will Appear at the Grand Opera House
Saturday Evening Next.
When Huftle & Co., the New Yorle
managers, organized the “Jesse James'*
Company which is to present that four
act sensational drama at the Grand Opera..
House Saturday evening next, Septem-ber
14, they thought that twenty-five or
possibly thirty people would be enough,
for its proper presentation. Then they
added the cowboy band and the Indians^
and found that to travel comfortably
they would have to engage private cars
for the entire season because they could
not always be snre of enough Pullman
sleeper accommodations on the night
jump and enough seats in the same
coach for their day travel, particularly
as members of theatrical companies like
to be together in traveling as much as
possible. So the private Pullman car
was the only answer and that is the way
they travel now. They also carry spe-cial
baggage cars for their elaborate spe-cial
scenery and mechanical effects for
their big scenes in the play.
FIRST ANNIVERSARY
To be Fittingly Celebrated by Local Golden
Eagles 8atnrday.
Mount Pleasant Castle, No. 81, Knights
of the Golden Eagle, will celebrate its
first anniversary here Saturday evening
next with their brother lodgemen from
many neighboring towns who will join
in the big street parade at 5 o'clock.
The exercises, which will be held in
the new state armory at night, will con-sist
of musical selections, vocal, instru-mental
and by brass band, addresses by
prominent speakers and a team drill.
Refreshments will also be served and
the last number down on the well ar-ranged
program is a cake walk.
THE M0XJNT;;PLEA8ANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907.
OLD TIME
PICNIC
To be Held on Saturday Next at
Stahlstown by the People of Cook
and Donegal Townships.
LOG CM WILL BE # LEADING FEATURE.
On Saturday next, September the 14th, the people of Cook and Done-gal
townships will assemble at Stahlstown to hold their much-talked-of old
fashioned picnic, a feature of which will be a log cabin, with clapboard roof
and fitted up with ancient furniture. This structure, both inside and out*
will be made to take on the appearance of at least 100 years ago. There
will also be an exhibition of the antique flax break and scutching knife,
which will be new to many and revive fond memories in others. A large
turnout and an enjoyable time is anticipated as many prominent speakers
have been engaged.
UUEENOFTHEWBLVES
Indian Girl Dwells Alone In Midst
of Howling Horde.
SHE CATCHES THEM ALIVE.
Bells Their Skins at a Good Profit.
Strange Career of Mary Gissler,
Beautiful Half Breed Chippeway,
Child of the Forest.
Mary Gissler, “queen of the wolf
ranch,” are the name and title of a girl
who runs probably the most peculiar
and the most dangerous business in the
United States, or in the world, per-haps.
Miss Gissler’s ranch is on the river,
about half way between International
Falls, Minn., and Mine Center, On-tario.
She is the daughter of John
Gissler, a hermjt hunter and trapper,
and his wife, a full blood** Chippeway
Indian woman, both of whom died
a few years ago.
“That girl has more genuine courage
than any man I ever met,” says Daniel
Rutledge, a fur buyer of St. Taul, who
“discovered” her.
“The scene that opened before me
when I came upon the ranch was the
strangest a man ever beheld,” says
Rutledge, who recently returned from
a long trip in the woods. “The girl
herself is a marvel. Tall and straight,
with her jet black hair closely coiled
under a cap of wolfskin, and dressed
In garments of fur, she certainly was
n sight for an artist.”
"I was coming down the river when
I heard wolves howling,” says Rut-ledge.
“Naturally I supposed a pack
was running a deer or moose, or was
possibly on my trail, so it was me
for a tree to uwajt developments. Fi-nally,
as the howling continued with-out
coming closer, I descended and
made an investigation.
“Nearer and nearer I slipped to the
howling, snapping, snarling brutes,
and at lust reached a high fence of
long tamarack poles, firmly fastened
to pine trees.
. “Inside were a hundred or more
wolves savagely snapping over big
bits of meat which this girl, standing
on a platform built from a window of
the cnhin at the upper end of the
stockade, was throwing out to them.
“As I looked through the fence a
skulking wolf of gigantic size crept
up behind me and, without a warning
growl, fastened its teeth in one of my
legs. I shouted and the animal leaped
to one side. I kicked at it.
“Almost Instantly there came a cry
—sharp and piercing—from the girl on
the platform, and the animal that had
bitten me skulked away, his tail be-tween
his legs,
” “The animal was a wolf dog—a cross
■between a timber wolf and the com-mon
house dog—and I must say that
more vicious unimals never lived. As
I stood rubbing my leg and wonfler-
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
Ing what sort of a place I had reached,
the girl came toward me carrying a
rifle and followed by three or four
woU dogs.
“ ‘What do you want? Who are you,
ar.d what are you doing here?’ she
■sked, before I recovered from my
surprise.
“I explained to her that I had heard
the wolves howling and had been curi-ous
to see them—after I found they
were not after me—and in trying to
npproncb them had been seized by her
dog.
“The girl, with a half apologetic
manner, said that she kept the wolf
clogs as pets in her cabin, they being
her companions and protectors.
“ ‘They are not like the wolves in
there,’ she added with a laugh, point-ing
to the brutes in the pen.
“The stockade, or corral, in which
(he wolves are kept in a deep ravine,
is faced on one side by an almost per-pendicular
wall of rock which no ani-mal
can scale. The ledge on the other
side is less precipitous, and is sur-mounted
by a high fence of tamarack
poles, over which the animals cannot
leap or through which they cauuot
crawl. The ravine is about 500 feet
in width, at one side of which is a
large spring. Extending back from the
river for a mile or more, it gradually
narrows until the entrance to a swamp
beyond is not more than 100 feet
across.
“At this end has been built a high
fence of small pine logs, being fas-tened
to trees, until a barrier has been
treeted through which nothing larger
Ilian a rabbit can creep.
“I asked her, after she had explained
to me that she was in the fur raising
business, how she managed to trap
the animals in the first place.
“ ‘I’ll show you,’ she replied, as she
led the way to the cabin, where she
laid down her rifle and whipped the
wolf dogs into a small shed adjoining
the cabin.
“She pointed out a gate hung on
pulleys in the center of the fence at
the lower eud of the ravine, which
could be easily raised, leaving an
opening thirty feet across. The gate
is fastened by a huge padlock to a
pine tree which serves as a post. The
key to the padlock Is worn as a locket
by the ‘wolf queen.’
“Her cnhin is a two story affair, and
from a window on the upper floor ex-tends
a small platform, the outer end
resting on the fence closing the ra-vine.
“It was on this platform that I first
saw tho ‘wolf queen’ throwing meat to
the wolves below.
“As I stood with her on this platform,
watching the animals fighting for food,
the wolf dog which had attacked me
THEY LEAPED LONS BEPOliE THE DOS
STRUCK THE GROUND.
came up beside me snarling. I turned
and kicked at It again, and It jumped
so far that it slipped off the platform
and fell among the wolves. Before It
touched the ground the wolves leaped
at it, and In a moment it was torn to
bits. I shuddered as I thought what
a man’s fate would be if he were at
the mercy of that howling horde.”
“The gate at the lower end of the
stockade does not open directly into
the main yard, but into a smaller pen,
connected with the larger one by a
gate somewhat similar to the one at
the river end of the ravine, only
smaller.
Natural Home For Varmints.
“The rocks and brush In the ravine
furnish an excellent retreat for the
wolves, and in the numerous gloomy
dens in the ledge hundreds of young
wolves have first seen the light of day.
“ ‘But I don’t depend altogether on
raising wolves,’ said the girl. ‘That’s
too slow.’
“Then, with the enthusiasm that a
young society bud would display iu de-scribing
her first ball dress, she told
how she led into the stockade large
packs of the most cowardly, yet most
during and desDeratc—when hungry-denizens
of the pine woods—the “hell
dogs’ of the north.
“The end of the ravine farthest from
the river opens into a big tamarack
swamp, so dark and thick as to be al-most
impenetrable, and is an excellent
stronghold for wolves. This fact has
shrewdly been taken advantage of by
the ‘wolf queen,’ who two or three
times a year throws out a big dragnet
and captures lots of the animals.
“Her method Is to make a tour of the
swamp, dragging behind her on the
snow or pine needles the carcass of a
newly killed deer, now and then leav-ing
a piece of the meat. She carries
this trail into tho first pen of the
stockade.
“The trap Is set by opening the gate
leading Into the swamp. The carcass
of the deer Is the bait. Then the 'wolf
queen’ conceals herself to await the
coming of the pack.
Strike the Trail.
“ ‘When the wolves strike the trail
and get the scent of the fresh meat,’
the girl said, ‘they follow It directly
into the outer pen, for they never have
been known to leave the trail until
they have overtaken, pulled down and
torn to pieces the animal they are
after or until they have been shot and
killed.’
“On the ledge, holding the ropes con-trolling
the gate, the girl watches.
“The long drawn, mournful howl an-nounces
the start, and soon the pack is
in full cry, tearing through the under-brush,
their blood thirst aroused to
the highest pitch.
“Nearer and nearer they come, and,
crowding and slipping at each other,
they press through the gate. A pull
at the rope releases the gate, shutting
in the wolves.
“I don’t know what hades, filled
with maddened animals, would look
like, hut I do know that the scene
when a pack of timber wolves is
trapped by this girl must he the sight
of a lifetime and one well calculated
to strike terror to the heart of the
strongest man, let alone a young half
blood Indian girl.
“Her method of slaughtering the
wolves when she wishes to market the
skins is effective, safe and possibly as
humane as any that could he devised.
“Twenty-five or thirty animals are
lured into the smaller pen from the
taain stockade and the gate closed.
“Miss Gissler takes her position on
the ledge and with her rifle picks off
the animals one by one until all have
been killed. One bullet for each wolf
is all she needs. The wolves are skin-ned
and the carcasses used as food for
the rest of the captives.
“The skins are allowed to freeze,
after which they are tied iu big bun-dles
ready to he taken to Fort Fran-cis,
on the Canadian side of the river,
where a buyer is always to be found.’
A Matrimonial Necessity.
“Mary couldn’t take that outing trip
without her husband.”
“Why not?”
“All her waists button down the
back.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
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NEW COAL
RAILROAD.
Another Branch to be Built From the
Baltimore 8c Ohio at Rock-wood
to Barronvale.
IT IS PROPOSED TO DO WORK AT ONCE,
Another branch will, it is said, be built from the main line of the Balti-more
& Ohio railroad to develop new coal fields. The Rockwood & Bakers-ville
Railroad Company has been incorporated to build a line from Rock-wood,
where a direct connection will be made with the Baltimore & Ohio,
through Bakersville to Barronvale, a distance of twenty-five miles.
Charles F. Hood, president of the Indian Creek Valley Railroad Com-pany,
is president of the new railroad, and S. M. Faust, of Connellsville. is
chief engineer. President Hood states that the location of the line has been
completed, and it is proposed to build it this fall.
Growing Old.
It Is ten p. m. They are seated in
the parlor. “No,” she says, bowing
her head: “Pa says I am too young
to become engaged.” It is just 1:30
a. m. They are still seated in the
parlor. Suddenly, from somewhere
upstairs, a gruff voice shouts. “Hen-rietta,
if that fellow waits a little
longer you’ll be old enough to accept
his proposal!”—Woman's Home Com-panion.
Latson on Walking.
Dr. Latson says: “A correct walk
is the rarest accomplishment I can
think of. Handsome faces are rare,
good figures are much more rare: but
as to gait and carriage, out of 500 we
shall find 30 or 40 handsome faces,
and perhaps a dozen good figures. But
certainly in that number we shall
rarely find more than one or two peo-ple
who walk properly.”
Hint for Parent*.
Many a child grows up a hard, un-impressionable
man or woman, sim-ply
from the uncheered silence in
which the first ten years of life were
passed. Very few fathers and mo-thers,
even those who are fluent, per-haps
In society, habitually talk with
their children.
SHOT WIFE AT PHONE
Ordered Not to Answer Call, She
Disobeyed Husband.
BULLET HER PUNISHMENT.
After Fatally Wounding Woman Phila-delphia
Merchant Took His Own Life
at Somers Point, N. J.—Climax of
Fight Against Drunkenness.
While she stood with a telephone re-ceiver
to her ear Mrs. George Schaef-fer,
wife of a wealthy Philadelphia
merchant, was shot In the back of the
head by her husband in their summer
cottage at Somers Point, N. .1. Schaef-fer
waited until he saw his wife seem-
HELD THE PISTOL CLOSE TO HEB HEAD
AND FinED.
ingly dead on the floor and then fired
a bullet into his heart. His body was
found by servants lying across the un-conscious
form of the woman.
A physician found a spark of life In
Mrs. Schaeffer, and she was carried to
the Atlantic City hospital in an auto-mobile
at sixty miles an hour. Two
policemen tried to hold up the car for
exceeding the speed limit, but the
driver continued without slackening
speed for an instant. Mrs. Schaeffer
was placed at once on the operating
table and a bullet was extracted from
the base of her brain, but the doctors
held out no hope of her recovery and
said*it was remarkable that she sur-vived
the operation.
The tragedy came as a terrible cli-max
to two days of constant watching
over Schaeffer by his wife. The man
had been a victim of the drink habit
for many years. Mrs. 'Schaeffer pro-tested
and pleaded with her husband,
but be refused to listen to her until
recently, when she won a promise
from him to make a determined battle
against the craving for liquor. The
woman Insisted on .her husband stop-ping
in bis room, and there she pre-pared
to keep watch over him until
she was assured he had overcome his
weakness. Although she Is one of the
leaders of the summer colony In Som-ers
Point, she had all the blinds
druwn on the cottage and Instructed
the servants to tell callers she and
her husband bad returned to the city
for a week. Then, with a physician
making two visits daily, she settled
down to assist her husband to victory
over himself.
Search of the room revealed that
Schaeffer deceived his wife about his
drinking. Hidden under the mattress
and in corners of the room were half
a dozen whisky bottles, four of them
empty. To the servants Mrs. Schaeffer
expressed surprise at the continued ex-citement
of the man; hut, believing he
could not obtain drink, she rested in
the belief he was the victim of a
slight attack of delirium tremens. The
man became so morose and ill tem-pered
that only his wife could enter
the room. On the fatal morning the
maid went to the door with his break-fast
on a tray, and he struck her in
the face with a hairbrush. lie de-clared
he would have no one near him
but his wife and broke into frequent
outbursts of passion. Mrs. Schaeffer,
against the advice of the doctor, single
handed succeeded in restraining him.
It was advised that a male nurse lie
(lnployed, but the woman asserted she
anil her husband would fight it out
alone.
Schaeffer was in one of his most vio-lent
fits when the telephone be/1 rang.
The Instrument was on the wall close
to the door. Mrs. Schaeffer turned
from her husband anil took the re-ceiver
off the hook. “Don’t answer
that telephone,” shouted the man an-grily.
“Why, of course I’ll answer It,
George,” replied the wife in a quiet
tone, hoping to placate him.
“You won’t answer it, or I’m not
boss In this house,” said Schaeffer.
“It’ll he worth your life to try it.”
But her husband had threatened her
so often that Mrs. Schaeffer was not
alarmed, and she put her lips close
to the transmitter. “Hello, who is it?"
she asked.
“Do you hear me?” demanded
Schaeffer.
“Yes, I hear you, George, and I’ll
talk it over with you in a moment.
Just a moment, please. Hello, hello!”
she continued, and she paused to listen.
Schaeffer was In bed, and he got out
on the floor without a word. He got
the revolver from a bureau drawer
and crept up behind his wife. A serv-ant
through the open iloor saw the
danger to the woman, and she called,
“Mrs. Schaeffer, look out!”
But before the woman could turn
her husband held the pistol close to
her head and fired. Mrs. Schaeffer fell
on her back, her head a few inches
from the foot of the bed. Schaeffer
swayed unsteadily for an instant,
gazed down on the senseless form of
Ills wife, and theu, steadying himself,
he held the muzzle of the revolver
against his breast anil shot himself
dead.
Just ten minutes nfter the shooting
Mrs. Schaeffer was placed on the op-erating
table. The automobile was ob-tained
from a neighbor, and the five
miles were covered in a few seconds
under five minutes,
Corset Saves Her Life.
With her husband Mrs. George W.
Rydrnan of Lima, O., was driving
through the crowded public square
When another driver, handling a frnc-tious
horse, suddenly dashed along-side,
and a sudden lunge ran the bug-gy
shaft of the latter rig into the side
of Mrs. Itydman. She was thrown
heavily to the paved street and picked
up unconscious. Dr. Steiner stated
after dressing the wounds that the
stays in Mrs. Rydman’s corset had un-doubtedly
saved her life, preventing
the end of the shaft from penetrating
her side near the heart.
Bride Goes Out With the Boys.
Garbed as a boy, Mrs. Grafton Din-ger,
aged sixteen, who until a few
months ago was Miss Graves of Wheel-ing,
W. Va., cut a wide swath in Bel-laire,
O. She negotiated an acquaint-ance
with some boys of her own age
and was first noticed in the park smok-ing
cigarettes. With her two male
companions she chased about Bellaire,
spending money and having a great
time until arrested late at night by the
police, charged with disorderly conduct.
At police headquarters she broke down
and confessed her sex. Her mother
was telephoned for and took the girl
home. There were no prosecutions.
Teetotaler Drowned In Beer.
James Cnnliam of Walthamstow,
England, who for many years had been
a stanch teetotaler, was drowned in
a vat of beer. He was employed at an
east end brewery In London and was
standing on a ladder against the vat
keeping down the froth on a quantity
of fermenting stout. Suddenly he was
missed, and after a search his body
was found floating In the stout. The
contents of the vat, which were valued
at $3,000, were run off as waste.
Made Hubby Sleep With Cat.
Gottlieb Herring sued his wife for
divorce at Waukesha, Wis., on the
ground that she compelled him to sleep
with her pet cat. Mrs. Herring said
the charge was true in part. She said
the cat slept with her, that was true,
and she wouldn't give that feline for
all the Gottliebs iu Wisconsin. “If
Gottlieb wants to sleep In my bed he's
got to sleep with my cat. That’s all
there is to It.” The divorce was grant-ed.
and the wife got aiimouv.
Just By Living.
A good man does good merely by
living. It Is enough to be simply
good, and so shed about one this at-mosphere
of goodness; to have ready
the kindly word that will help an-other;
to live so that the life is an In-spiration
to others to be good also.—
C. S. Day.
Matters Little, Anyway.
“Conceding,” said the professor, "al-though
It isn't proved, that a soul
weighs half an ounce, as tested by a
pair of material scales, how much do
you suppose your body would weigh
on a pair of soul scales? Half a
grain?”
Ornamental Boat.
Johnnie had taken a trip and cross-ed
a large river. He saw a steamboat
for the first time, and on looking at
one boat going from him he ex-claimed,
when he saw the wheel:
“Look at that boat with a ruffle on the
back.”
One Thing That Is Plentiful.
A wit remarks: "Everybody is sorry
to he abused unless It is because he
Is rich." If the rich derive any joy
from being abused they must consti
tute the most hilariously joyful por-tion
of the community in these days.
Their only competitors are the politi
cal bosses.
Remarkable Historical Point.
Extract from a history book:
“Robespierre had small reason to re-joice
over such an easy victory, foi
seven months after he saw his own
head fall on the scaffold.”—Nos Lot
sirs.
Too Late for Him.
Manuscript of “Scots Wha Hae” has
been sold for $1,775. Burns missed
lots of fun by not being able to touch
the publisher at that rate.—Philadel
phta Ledger.
Time Proves All Things.
There is no better touchstone of
everything than time, which shows
the mind of man in his breast.—
Sophocles.
Make Suicide a Jest.
In the Celeatial empire, where hu-man
life is held cheap, the genius or
demon of suicide is represented as a
jester.
Always Exaggerate.
We are never so happy or so un
happy as we suppose.—La Rochefou
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tfAlN 5T. MT. PLEASANT
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1907.
Ik flfmmt fffeiWMt Jounuil
JOHN L. SHIELDS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
Subscription, ^1,50 a Year. Payable In advance.
Mount Pleasant has within its borders a population of over
6,000; while more than double that number of people live immedi-ately
around about and for them it is the natural center, as shown by
a postoffice distribution of over 16,000. It has both Pennsylvania
and Baltimore & Ohio railroad branches and will soon be given the
main line of the Coke Region Trolley System. It is completely sur-rounded
by coke plants and has in the town Bryce Brothers Company’s
big tableware glass factory, the Mount Pleasant Tool Company. Hus-band
Company’s planing mill, Galley Bros.’ carriage factory, foundry,
brewery, distillery, pop plant, two flouring mills, 13 Protestant and
3 Catholic churches, Mount Pleasant Institute, 2 large Public Schools
and 3 Parochial schools.
There is coal in abundance at the town’s gates and the'1same is
true’of electricity and natural gas for heat, light andcpower. All of
which things, when taken In connection with the best water system
in Western Pennsylvania, make Mount Pleasant’s numerous manu-facturing
sites ideal.
THURSDAY, September 12, 1907.
NEW HIGH SCHOOL SITE.
Some objections are heard to the ac-tion
of the Mount Pleasant Board of Ed-ucation
in purchasing the T. J. Smith
lot on East Washington street as a site
for the new high school building; but,
possibly no more than were filed by cit-izens
at the abandoned original plan to
use the Church street playgrounds for
the badly needed new school.
It will cost the board more, it is true,
to build on the new site, as there is the
price of the lot to begin with; but, the
new site has its advgntages, too. It is
more centrally located and a building
there by itself would make a better
showing than if placed close along side
of the old Church street school. Its ap-pearance
would be still further enhanc-ed
if, in the course of time, the lots on
either side were added to its grounds,
taking in the whole quarter square.
ALLEGED POLITICAL THIEVES.
Samuel J. Grenet, Director of Public
Safety of Allegheny; State Senator Elliott
Rogers, former judge of the Allegheny
county courts; William Lamb, an em-ploye
of the county recorder's office,and
William Hozel, an Allegheny council-man,
have been indicted by the grand
jury of Allegheny county for the Sep-tember
term of criminal court in con-nection
with the alleged tax receipt
frauds in Allegheny.
The defendants claim that the prose-cution
is only a bluff on the part of their
political enemies whose sole aim is to
secure control of the Republican ma-chine
in the western end of the state.
Be that as it may, the honest people of
Allegheny would have a good chance of
coming into their own, if it should prove
a case of political thieves falling out
among themselves.
WEAK] BANK COMMISSIONER.
Pennsylvania bankers in annual con-vention
at Pittsburg last Thursday were
almost of one mind to ask for the resig-nation
of State Bank Commissioner J. A.
Berkey, whose interpretation of the
banking laws respecting reserve funds
has proved odious to so many institu-tions.
After due deliberation, however, the
members of the association decided to
bring matters to a focus by appointing a
committee of seven persons to hold a
conference with Governor Stuart, the
attorney{general and the commissioner,
respecting Berkey's ruling.
Thejtrouble with Mr. Berkey is that
he owes his appointment, not to any fit-ness
for the responsible position he
holds, but to his supposed political
"pull" in Somerset county. The bankers
are well aware of this lact and, very
naturally, impose no confidence in him.
It is to be hoped that Mr. Berkey will
have the good sense to resign.
RAILROAD IMMUNITY.
Attorney General Bonaparte has clear-ly
indicated that unless the new evi-dence
secured by United States District
Attorney Sims shall cuase a change of
opinion, immunity will be -granted to
the railroads which gave the rebates to
the Standard Oil Company, for receiving
which the latter was fined more than
$29,000,000 by Judge Landis, of Chicago.
The attorney general declares that the
Government promised immunity in con-sideration
of the railroads furnishing
the evidence to convict the oil trust. If
this is true, even though Justice Landis
should take a different view of the mat-ter,
the Supreme Court would probably
sustain the position of the attorney gen-eral.
The Alton railroad people, who fur-nished
the evidence, on which the Stand-ard
Oil Company was recently convict-ed
and given the biggest fine in the his-tory
of this country, were just as guilty
for having allowed as the oil people
were for having accepted the rebates
Yet, the Government doubtless believed
the end justified the means. Perhaps it
did. The Standard Oil crowd would
not have been convicted except for the
evidence furnished by the Alton crowd.
Prosperity Still on Top.
Pittsburg Post.
Wall street's would-be panic-makers
find an insuperable obstacle in the Na-tion’s
prosperity.
Rich Man’s Panic.
Unlontown News Standard.
The rich man’s panic is still confined
to Wall street, where the water is being
squeezed out of stock at the rate of
millions per day.
NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS.
Quarantine Established in Mount Pleasant
and Unity Townships.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
State Live Stock Sanitary Board.
Regulation regulating to dogs in Unity
and Mount Pleasant townships, West-moreland
county.
The attention of all owners of dogs in
the above described district is called to
the following order of quarantine of
dogs adopted by the State Live Stock
Sanitary Board, Sept. 12, 1907. Dog own-ers
are warned that disregard of this no-tice
may lead to the destruction of their
dogs and that they themselves may be
proceeded against legally.
LEONARD PEARSON,
State Veterinarian.
Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 12, 1907.
WHEREAS. There is reason to believe
that the disease known as rabies or hy-drophobia
exists in Unity and Mount
Pleasant townships, Westmoreland
county, and the nature of this disease is
such that for the present all dogs,within
certain limits, must be suspected of be-ing
capable of spreading it,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, by authority of
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board un-der
the provisions of the Act of March
27th, 1903, that all dogs in the above
district are hereby declared to be in a
state of quarantine, and must be strictly
confided or firmly secured on the prem-ises
of their owners, and not allowed to
run at large or enter public highways
excepting when led or when muzzled
with a well fitting muzzle that will
effectually prevent biting.
This quarantine shall remain in force
for 100 days from the date hereof or un-til
removed by the State Live Stock
Sanitary Board.
Attention is called to the following
sections of the above mentioned act.
SECTION 3. Should dogs be permitted
to run at large, or to escape from re-straint
or confinement, or to go without
muzzle, in violation of the quarantine,
or regulation, or order, established by
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to
restrict the spread of rabies or hydro-phobia,
as provided by this act, such
dogs may be secured and confined, or
they may be shot or otherwise destroy-ed,
and the owner or owners thereof
shall have no claim against the person
so doing.
SECTION 4. Any person violating the
provisions of this act or of a quarantine,
or of a regulatinn or order to restrain,
confine or muzzle dogs, duly established
by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board
for the purpose of restricting the spread
of rabies, or hydrophobia, in the man-ner
provided in the other sections of
this act, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor; and upon conviction shall
forfeit and pay a fine of not less than
ten dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars, at the discretion of the court.
WOODDAIiB.
Wiley Davis and sister, Miss Jennie,
of Philadelphia, spent Sunday with their
cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Christner.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hartman, of McKees-port,
was here last week visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Sarah Washabaugb, who is
entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Homer Martin
and Judson Washabaugh, all of Carnegie
and her grandchildren, this week.
Norman Hayes returned Friday from
a trip to Niagara Falls.
Mrs. Nelson Christner was the guest of
Latrobe friends Saturday.
ft Check Account
is a convenience
that you hould not
be without.
It helps your stand-ing—
promotes your
credit--and acts as
a receipt for every
bill you pay.
The first National
Bank welcomes
your account, large
or small. Start a
check account now
and enjoy its bene-fits.
We furnish
handsome check-books
free to 'our
depositors.
Gbe first
Utotional Bank,
MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.,
BANK REPORTS.
DEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST
AV National Bank of Mount Pleasant, at
Mount Pleasant. I11 the State of Pennsylva-nia.
at the close of business. Aug. 22. 1007.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured
U.S.Bonds to secure circulation
Premiums on iT. S. Bonds
Bonds, securities, etc
Banking-House, furniture and fix-tures
Due from National banks (not re-serve
agents)
Due from state banks and bankers
l >ue from approved reserve agent s
Checks ana other cash items
Notes of other National banks
Fractional paper currency, nlckles
and cents
Lawful money reserve in.bank. viz:
Specie $19 883 30
Legal tender notes 8 000 00
Redemption fund wlthU. S.Treas’r
(5 per cent of circulation)
$278 970 92
840 48
100 000 00
1 750 00
90 500 00
49 000 00
65 091 31
5 105 44
22 453 00
445 27
27 883 30
5 000 00
Total $647 039 72
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in $100 000 00
' ‘ “ 80 000 00
14 912 85
100 000 00
1 344 32
4 418 99
65 00
342 179 73
4 118 83
Surplus fund
Undivided profits less expenses and
taxes paid
National bank notes outstanding.
Due to other National Banks
Due to Trust Companies and Sav-ings
Banks
Dividends unpaid
Individual deposits subjectto ch’k
Demand certificates of deposit
Total $047 039 72
State of Pennsylvania. f
County of Westmoreland, fs* s’
I, Geo. W. Stoner, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
Geo. W. Stoner, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to- before me this
28th day of August, 1907.
S. C. Stevenson, Notary Public.
Correct Attest:
Isaac Sherrick,
JAMES S. BIIADDOCK, )■ Directors.
JAR. 8. HITCHMAN,
TCK.I
N. )
13 EPORT OF THE CONDITION OF Til E FAKMEH8
& Merchants National Bank, at Mount
Pleasant, in the State of Pennsylvania, at the
close of business. Aug. 22. 1907.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts $4472.56 74
Overdrafts,secured and unsecured
U.S.Bondsto secure circulation....
Premium on U.S. bonds
Bonds, securities, etc
Banking-uouse, furniture and fix-tures
Other real estate owned
Due from National Banks (not re-serve
agents)
Due from approved reserve agents
Checks and other cash items
Notes of other national banks
Fractional paper currency, nickels
and cents
Lawful money reserve in bank, viz:
Specie 32 705 00
Legal tender notes 16 910 00
Redemption fund with U. S. Treas-urer
(5 per cent, of circulation).
Total $710 388 6
LIABILITIES.
Capit al stock paid in $50 00000
r 110 65
25 000 00
98 000 00
20 000 00
2 641 60
1 991 97
14 473 97
22 93223
19 730 00
386 63
49615 00
1 250 00
Surplus fund..
Undivided profits.lessexpenses and
t axes paid
National bank notes outstanding..
Due to approved reserve agents
Dividends unpaid
Individual deposits subject to ch’k
Demand certificates of deposit
Certified checks
Cashier's checks outstanding
30 000 00
2 241 73
25 000 00
36 00
596 220 55
6 890 41
Total $710 388 69
State of Pennsylvania, )
County of Westmoreland, j 8* “*
I. C. E. Mullin, Cashier of the above named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best of my knowl-edge
and belief
C. E. Mullin. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th
day of August. 1907.
J. Lloyd Kalp, Notary Public.
Correct Attest:
E. T. Fox, |
W. A. Marsh, > Directors.
L. S. Tinstman, i
J. A. Sheppard,
Contractor
For all kinds of
Cement Work
Cement Paving and Cellar
Walls a Specialty.
Estimates given on application.
Address or call at No. 414 Depot
street, or leave orders with W.
H. Smith & Son, Mount Pleas-ant,
Pa. 6 20 era
Advance showing of
New Fashions for the
new season just starting
of the three most cele-brated
makes in the
country--
Collegian,
Brock,
Campus
Men and young men who
are particular in their dress
and want to be exclusive will
do well to see the new fashions
and quality of these makes be-fore
seeing their tailor.
Fall Hats Now Ready.
See our Hat display in our front show case. Hats to fit as well as suit all
tastes and all purses.
GET TO KNOW US.
H. Goldstone & Son,
Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings.
Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
National Hotel Block.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907
For the Past Week Briefly Men-tioned.
LITTLE TALK OF THE TOWN
THAT WILL BOTH INTEREST AND
ENTERTAIN
A Department in Winch the Local Editoi
Holds Hiffh Carnival and Works off his
Surplus Energy In Condensations
That Deal Solely with Matters Relating
to Mount Pleasant
A daughter was born Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Snyder, of the South Side, Monday
morning.
The tall term at the Institute was
opened yesterday with quite a number
of new students.
The ladies of the A. M. E. Zion church
will hold an entertainment in Kuhn’s
Hall this evening.
Thieves visited one of Frank Miller’s
West End coops Saturday night and re-lieved
it of six fine young chickens.
Fletcher Benford, an old East End sol-dier,
was laid up the past week by an
attack of his old enemy, rheumatism.
The lid was on the town pretty close
Sunday. Even the drug stores that were
open limited their sales to medicines.
A family quarrel stirred up consider-able
excitement in the East End Sun-day.
Several of the combatants were
badly scratched up.
Mayor Crosby on Monday vetoed the
ordinance recently passed by Council
for the opening out of College avenue
from Standpipe alley to Main street.
G. W. McCreary, of Mount Pleasant
township, was jailed at Greensbusg Mon-day
by state police on a charge of as-sault
and battery with intent to kill.
A class of 21 new members was taken
into the local National Protective Legion
Friday evening when 16 old members
were paid out, receiving a total of $4,375.
Mrs. Amanda Rinehart, of this place,
while in the mountain Monday gather-ing
elderberries, encountered two large
rattle snakes and it was only by a mira-cle
she escaped being bitten.
A young man named Crise, of Mocca-sin
Hollow, arrested by state constables
on a charge of criminal assault preferred
by a neighbor girl Wednesday, was dis-charged
by Justice Elliott for lack of
evidence.
In renewing his JOURNAL subscription
B. F. Scanlon, Esq., of Seattle, Washing-ton,
who formerly resided here, speaks
of the bright outlook of the Red Cross
Mining Company, of which he is presi-dent-
treasurer.
Constable Jack Thompson shot two
more dogs on North Church street Sat-urday.
George F. Cooper, the saddler,
was badly broken up when he learned
that one of the slaughtered canines was
his valuable pointer jip.
Prof. Jakes, the popular Pittsburg mas
ter, had a successlul reopening of his
local dancing school Tuesday evening
in the bank and trust company assembly
rooms. Instruction will be given the
different classes every Tuesday.
An independent company of local
capitalists is dickering with the Savings j
and Trust Company for the old part of
the National Hotel block at the corner
of Main and Church streets. If the deal
goes through a fine new building will be
erected.
In orphans court at Greensburg Satur-day
Miss Annie S. Overholt, of West
Overton, and Mrs. Catherine Mechling,
of Greensburg, took the East Hunting-don
township real estate left by the late
Martin O. Overholt at the appraisment,
practically $100 an acre.
Clayton Kranich, of Allegheny, an
employe of the Searchlight Manufactur-ing
Company, who was injured by a fall
from a merry-go-round a few weeks ago
and confined to the hospital, was here
Saturday and expects to be able to re-turn
to work shortly.
Sunday poker players who frequent
the hollow east of the Bryce glass fac-tory
had a narrow escape from being
gobbled by the state police. One big
but badly scared gambler escaped through
the brush, leaving a swath as though an
elephant might have made it.
Local contractors are very much dis-satisfied
with the decision of Council to
have a committee of members build the
new borough lockup. They say that
there were no specifications and they
had a hard time getting even the poorly
drawn plan. They think Council owes
it to itself to look into the matter.
Letter to W. Lawrence Kalp.
Mount PJeasunt. /’a.
Dear Sir: We should like to set your
boys and girls at work on this question
in arithmetic and casuistry.
A farmer is fatting three hogs in three
small pens; they have equal room and
slraw and care, and are fed in these three
ways; first hog, on a certain proportion
of milk and cooked cornmeal; second
hog, on the same, half water; third hog,
on the same, half water and sawdust.
How long will it take, how much will
they weigh, how much will they cost,
and what’ll the profit be on the three?
And a similar question on pigmentry.
That same farmer is going to paint three
barns same size; and he says to three
painters: ‘What'll you take to paint that
barn?"
First painter scratches his head a few
minutes and says: “I'll do it for $50."
Second painter: "$75.”
Third painter: "97.48."
Will they each get a barn to paint, or
one get two, or one all three, or nobody
any; and what'll they make on the job?
That's about how painting goes some-times.
But there is a way to reckon: $5 a
gallon. The difficulty is in knowing how
many gallons to buy. There's a way out
of that.
Buy the least-gallons paint. Devoe.
No matter how much one buys; he re-turns
what's left; costs nothing.
Yours truly,
29 F. W. DEVOE & CO.
J. A. Stevenson & Co. sell our paint.
PITTSBURG EXPOSITION.
Reduced Rates via Pennsylvania Railroad.
On account of the Exposition at Pitts-burg,
August 28 to October 26, the Penn-sylvania
Railroad Company will sell
excursion tickets to Pittsburg on Thurs-days,
September 12, 19, 26, October 3, 10,
and 17, good going on trains leaving on
or before noon of the day of issue, and
good to return within three days includ-ing
date of sale, at reduced rates, from
stations on the Pittsburg and Mononga-hela
Divisions and Southwest Pennsyl-vania
Branch; from stations on the In-diana
branch of the Conemaugh Divis-ion,
and to Allegheny or Pittsburg from
other stations on the Conemaugh Divis-ion
between Blairsville, Butler and Al-legheny
(minimum rate, 25 cents.)
9 5 6
Grangers at Centre Hall, Pa.
For the Patrons of Husbandry Exhi-bition
at Centre Hall, Pa., September
14-20, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-pany
will sell special excursion tickets
to Centre Hall from stations in Pennsyl-vania,
and from Baltimore and Elmira
at reduced rates (Minimum rate 25 cts.)
Tickets will be sold September 13 to 20;
good to return until September 23, in-clusive.
9 5 2
They Mean Comfort.
“Patriots” cost no more than the shoes
that hurt your teet; they fit and feel so
good from the start. Why not try a pair?
The Fair.
FOR SALE:—Large, nine-room frame
residence, Main street, Mount Pleasant.
Union Realty Company,
Mount Pleasant, F. & M. Bank B'ld’g.
8 22 tf
Marriage Licenses.
rhe following marriage licenses have
en granted for this vicinity during the
:t week •
Allen S. Hoffer, of Stahlstown, and
rrtle Overly, of Donegal township.
D. A. Stevens, of Mount Pleasant, and
:lliah Davis, of East Connellsville.
Pennsy Wins First Round.
The Dunsmore two-cent rate law was
dared unconstitutional Monday by
dges Wilson and Audenried in the
liladelphia common pleas court. An
peal will be taken to the Supreme
FOR SALE:—Shetland pony, surrey and
harness, either as a whole or separately.
Inquire of E. A. Walker, 200 E Main st.
FOR SALE:—Five-room house and
about four acres of land near Mount
Pleasant. A bargain for the right party.
Union Realty Company,
Mount Pleasant, F. & M.Bank B'ld’g.
8 22 tf
FOR SALE:—Part or all of furniture in
10-room house on Main street. Could
rent house reasonably if desired. In-quire
at this office. 8 8 tf
AROUND AID ABOUT,
But Principally Within the
Bounds of This County.
A FULL COLUMN OF GOOD NEWS
SECURED FROM THE PAGES OF RE-LIABLE
EXCHANGES.
FOR SALE:—Farm of about 160 acres in
Mount Pleasant township. Good soil,
buildings and improvements. Terms
reasonable and to suit purchaser.
Union Realty Company,
Mount Pleasant, F. & M. Bank B’ld’g.
• 8 22 tf
FOR RENT:—Good office in the Brad-dock
Block. Inquire of J. S. Braddock.
6 20 ts
PUBLIC SALE:—On Saturday afternoon
next, beginning at 1 o’clock, Dr. C. L.
Sheppard will sell the entire furnishings
of his ten-room residence and office on
East Main street, near the Diamond. 1
LOST:—A hymn book, church consti-tution
and pocketbook containing $1.50.
A liberal reward will be paid for their
return to Rev. G. W. Carter. 1
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 Weat |
The Scottdale Y. M. C. A. is preparing
to open a mining school.
Two employes of the West Penn Rail-ways
Company were electrocuted near
Arona Tuesday evening.
The court has appointed Thomas S.
Kunkle burgess of Avonmore, his pre-decessor
having resigned.
Connellsville proposes raising $5,000
to blow in on its free river bridge dem-onstration
Tuesday, October 1.
Greensburg United Presbyterians ex-tended
a call to Rev. George Bowden, of
New Martinsville, West Virginia.
George Wurm, aged 17 years, was
caught and killed by a trip in the Loy-alhana
coal mines near Latrobe Friday.
Rev. C. E. Christian has resigned the
pastorate of the Jeannefte Baptist church
in order to accept a call to Horsehead,
New York.
West Newton fears an epidemic of
typhoid fever. Some thirty cases were
reported last week and about the same
at Scottdale.
Harry Hammond, a Jeannette baker,
had four fingers of his right hand ground
oft Friday in the cogs of the electric
dough mixer.
Frank Oatsman, au Irwin coal miner,
had his back broken by a fall of slate
Saturday. He was taken to the Greens-burg
hospital.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
on Friday last bought the Harrison ave-nue,
Greensburg, property of John G.
Felgar for $33,650.
Dr. J. H. Shook, a well-known practi-tioner
of Windber, Somerset county, was
run over by a train in Windber Sunday
morning and killed.
The Glass City Union Deposit Bank
opened for business af Jeannette^on-day.
Louis R. Schmertz is president and
William Frank, cashier.
Thiel College will reopen at Green-ville
today after being closed for five
years during legitation over its propos-ed
removal to Greensburg.
John Queer, aged 20 years, an em-ploye
at the Peters Kingston paper mills,
Latrobe, had his left arm ground off in
the rolls last Wednesday.
Jacob Isaacs, a Uniontown Pole, is in
jail at Greensburg where the railroad
people had him arrested because his
trunk was full of dynamite.
The West Penn Railways Company is
lifting options of rights of way between
Greensburg and Latrobe which is thought
to mean the line connecting these points
will be built.
Irwin United Presbyterians have ex-tended
a call to Rev. J. H. Hutchman,
of New Castle, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Rev. C. E. Patfon,
who goes to Washington, Pa.
Sheriff George Seanor and a party of
Greensburg men on Friday closed a deal
for the purchase of 1,000,000 brick from
Cyrus Echard, of Connellsville, for the
erection of the Smithton brewery.
By turning on and lighting gas in his
room at the Hotel Sheets, Monessen, Sat-urday
morning, Theodore Shenrock, of
Buffalo, N. Y., aged 40 years, caused an
explosion that wrecked the house and
badly burned himself.
Joseph Guetillo, Jeannette's wealthy
Italian, is alarmed over the receipt of
several Black Hand letters demanding
that $10,000 in gold coin be placed on a
road near Homestead. The postal au-thorities
are at work on the case.
Masontown, which was founded by
John Mason in 1798, and has been known
as “Tlje Walled City,” on Friday lait
celebrated the opening of the West Penn
street car line into the town. There
was an ox roast, speeches, music, games
and fireworks.
Lewis L. Shaffer, of Paint township,
Somerset county, who laid in jail for
months rather than execute a deed for
the sale of his coal when ordered to do
so by the court, was sued last week by
his partner, who got judgment for $4,
262.50. Shaffer conducted his own case.
You can have your eyes tested free at
George’s five and ten cent store. 6 6 tf
D. C. Rumbaugh, the local collector,
desires Mount Pleasant people to re-member
that if they would save five per
cent, they must pay their borough taxes
on or before September 9; county tax,
on or before September 23 and school
taxes, on or before October 16,
8 22 4
FOR SALE:—Good frame house and lot
in Jordan Plan. Union Realty Co.
Mount Pleasant. F. & M. Bank B’ld'g.
8 22 tf
Birthday Surprise.
Almost a street car load of relatives
and friends from this place, McClure and
Scottdale gave Jacob R. Berg, of Con-nellsville,
a surprise party Saturday
evening in honor of his 32nd birthday.
The willing victim received numerous
nice presents and a toothsome lunch was
served. Joe Snyder and Robinson Berg
furnished enjoyable music.
Strickler’s Store.
1054-1907,
For SALE:—Household goods of all
kinds. Inquire of Dr. C. L. Sheppard.
8 8 tf
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First showing of Fall Goods.
Flannelettes, outing flannels, in
the new designs, ioc, I2>2c, 15c yd.
DRESS GOODS--Large show-ing
at 25c, 35c, 50c in the service-able
kinds that are used for every-day
wear and particularly adapted
for school dresses.
BLANKETS—Large size cotton
blankets that are in speh demand
this cool weather, $1.00.
SHOES—School shoes in box
calf, chrome calf, at $1, $1.25, $1.50
Boys’ heavy never rip shoes,
splendid showing boys’ shoes at
$1.25, $1.50 upwards.
LADIES’ SHOES-Ladies who
are troubled with tender feet will
appreciate “Shillibers E Z Shoes.”
No seams, no lining, glove fitting,
and a solace to tired feet. $3.50 pr.
Splendid selection ladies’ shoes
at $1.50 to $3.50 pair.
At $3.00 Peters, Goodyear welt
colt and kid shoes that are made
over comfort lasts, possessing all
the style that is wanted in a shoe.
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Western Pennsylvania
Classical and
Scientific
INSTITUTE,
MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
A School for Both
Boys and Girls.
Building Remodeled and in
First-class Condition.
Diplomas granted in the
Classical, Scientific and
Musical Courses
admitting to any college or
conservatory.
Special courses for those
not wishing to enter college.
Unusually efficient corps of
teachers enables the school to
give each scholar careful and
individual artention.
Separate dormitories for
young men and women.
Endowment makes the
charges moderate.
35th Year Now Open.
The Freshman and Sopho-more
work of college grade
will be given in 1908-09 in
this school.
For catalogue and informa-tion
write to
W. LAWRENCE KALP,
Principal
J. 6. Goldsmith.
Headquarters for
Fine China,
China Dinner Sets,
Toilet Sets,
Hanging Lamps,
Stand Lamps,
Etc.
Be up to Date.
New Spring
Wall Papers
Just In.
When in Pittsburg see
F. C. DOESCHNER
Pur Specialist.
Furs, Fur Coats and Fur Repairing,
Most Complete line in Pittsburg.
Your visit incurs no obligation to buy.
F.C. DOESCHNER, 720 Penn Ave.,Pittsburg,Pa.
* (Second door from 8th St.)
Paper Hanging
A SPECIALTY.
Largest, Oldest and Leading
Jewelry House. ■ • • •
H. C. MORRISON,
653 Main Street.
Money—time—labor—worry—all are
saved by coming to this place to buy
anything in my line.
Diamonds
and other precious stones.
Watches
for men and women—best makes.
Jewelry
in most elaborate selections.
Silverware
only most dependable qualities.
Clocks
from the smallest to the largest.
Cut Glass
exquisite and exclusive designs.
China and Bric-a-Brac
The finest imported wares.
Umbrellas and Canes.
H. C. MORRISON,
F. It M.Bank Bids:. Mount Pleasant.
Send your friends
views of this place
and vicinity. We have
just received a number
of subjects on post-cards
of Mount Pleas-ant’s
most interesting
scenes. We ttlso have
a nice line of comic
post-cards.
The
Crystal Pharmacy,
C. 406 Main St Mount Pleasant. Pa
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^ LCECHBURG.PA.
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1000 Mile Axle Grease
made from cylinder stock of natural
Franklin oil, is the best lubricant
known for buggies, wagons, coaches
or%ny other vehicle, because
It Positivejy Will Not Cum.
It’s better than other greases, hut
costs no more.
Pkgs. I lb. to I bbl 1-lb. pkg. 10c.
For sale by
J. J. HITCHnAN,
E Main st. MOUNT PLEASANT.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907
ANOTHER
RAILROAD
To be Given Pittsburg From West
Virginia With B. F. and Ralph
Overholt Heading Company.
WORK OK LIKE TO BEGIN VEfff SHORTLY.
Benjamin F. Overholt, of Scottdale, and his nephew, Ralph Overholt'
of Pittsburg, are at the head of a company organized under the laws of West
Virginia which proposes to build a new railroad from Bellington, Barbour
county, West Virginia, through the Tygart and Monongahela valleys into
Pittsburg, touching Fairmont and Crafton. Work on the line will begin at
an early date.
The company has been chartered with a nominal capital of $25,000 and
will be known as the Fairmont & Southern Railroad Company. Associated
with the Overholt interests are known to be John T. Williams, of Baltimore;
Charles F. Tetter, of Phillippi, W. Va.; Walter H. and Charles E. Conaway,
of Fairmont. W. Va.
BOWSER THE MARTYR
Has Sewirtg Bee, In Which He
Does Much Needed Repairing.
BEJECTS THE HELP OF WIFE.
Revels In Buttons and Patches While
Looking Upon Himself as a Greatly
Abused Man—Leaves His Home For
the Street to Drown His Sorrows.
[Copyright, 1907, by Homer Sprague.]
Mrs. Bowser needed but one look In-to
Mr. Bowser’s face as lie reached
home the other evening to show that
■something was out of gear with him.
His shoulders humped up, his under
lip stuck out, and lie had the sulkiness
of a boy going to a licking. In reply
to her statement that lie was fifteen
minutes late he took from his pocket a
ball of red twine and three darning
needles and muttered that he had to
atop at a store and buy them.
“But what on earth are they for?”
she asked.
“You will see after dinner.”
“Weren't things right at the office to-day?”
He grunted iu reply.
“Have you got a cold or one of your
headaches?”
“Never mind me. I am of no account
in this world.”
“But if you had a chill or anything
of that sort I want to know It and
send for the doctor.”
“Never mind if I have n dozen chills
and will be in my grave ore a week
has passed. As long ns one is not ap-preciated
in tills world he’d better be
dead.”
Felt That He Was a Martyr.
Mrs. Bowser realized that the time
had come around for Mr. Bowser to
feel that he was a martyr. All hus-
HE THEKKUl'ON BEGAN DARNING.
bands get that feeling two or three
times a year. No one exactly knows
what brings It on, but it is sure to
come, and no dandelion tonic will ward
it off. She wanted to laugh and gossip,
and she did to some extent, but he ate
his dinner in solemn silence. Even
when she told him that a tramp luid
entered the yard and was smoldering
the terra cotta stone dog and bearing
it off on his shoulder when she caught
him Mr. Bowser maintained his sud
iind solemn expression. When dinner
•was over and they went upstairs lie
made a great show of the twine and
the needles and presently threaded the
latter and sat down and pulled off Ills
shoe and sock. The latter had a hole
about as big as a dime in the heel.
The hole had not worn there, but had
been made as the sock was pulled on.
“If you want that sock darned hand
It to me,” said Mrs. 'Bowser ns she
Teaehed for It. “How you could get n
hole like that in a new sock puzzles
me. I paid 50 cents a pair for them.”
“I won’t trouble you.” was the reply.
“I was told years ago that the time
would come when I’d have to darn my
•own socks, and now it is here.”
“But you aren’t going to darn them
with red string, are you?”
“Anything Is good enough for me. I
can go around all day in perfect agony
and what Is it to you? Yes, I am go-ing.
to darn them with this red twine
and if I fall dend tomorrow and tun
taken to the morgue the keeper will
see what n wife I had and how I must
have suffered.”
Ho thereupon began darning the
same as If mending a fishnet, and aft-er
ten minutes’ work he had a wtidgel
that would have rubbed (he heel off an
ox. Jlo held the sock up to view nnd
turned It around and viewed It from
till sides and then, with a sigh, laid it
aside and produced a loose pants but-ton
from his pocket. One of his sus-pender
buttons had snapped olT, and
he was going to replace If.
“Just let that alone till you go to
bed, and I will sew It on In a jiffy,”
said Mrs. Bowser, “You didn’t say
anything about a loose button this
morning or it would have been fixed
then.”
"When one has talked and tnlkod for
twenty years, what’s the use of talking
any more? The button has been loose
for months nnd months, and 1 have
boon waiting to see if you would no-tice
it. Todaf as I iient over In the
street car to pick up a cent dropped by
n Indy off wont the button. Two work-ing
girls tittered about it, and I heard
one of them say that the old man was
coming all to pieces. I toll you this,
but of course you can’t understand my
humiliation. It is a sad, sad house,
but T must put up with things until
Providence sees fit to remove me.”
Sewed on the Button.
Mrs. Bowser had to got up nnd go
dowu the hall to do her laughing, and
meanwhile lie was busy with the but-ton
After the darning needle had
drawn the twine through the eyes
once all the room was taken up, but
ho cut off the twine and called it a
job. lie then pulled off the other shoe
and looked at the other sock. There
was no hole in it, but lie made one and
sighed heavily as another wudgel
made Its appearance. When he had
dressed his feet again ho went off up-stairs
and brought down bis nightshirt
and a button tlmt had come loose from
his winter overcoat.
“What’s wrong .with that shirt?”
asked Mrs. Bowser.
"Button off, of course,” was the re-ply.
“It’s been off for the past four
weeks, and that is what brought tills
case of bronchitis on me. I haven't
said anything because It's no use.”
“Look here now, but when that shirt
came home from the laundry three
days ago the buttons were all there
and all tight. I looked them over, ns I
always do. When you took the shirt
off you gave it a pul! and sent the but-ton
flying. It must have been the one
I found on the floor yesterday."
Mr. Bowser sighed nnd drew his
hand across Ills eyes as he placed (be
big horn button opposite the small but-tonhole
and prepared to sew it on.
“For the land’s sake, but don’t do
tlmt!” exclaimed Mrs. Bowser. “Can’t
you see that the button is forty times
too large?”
“I am only too thankful to get any
kind of button,” was the reply, accom-panied
by several sad and solemn
shakes of the head.
Button Was Too Big.
“That's all nonsense! Hand that
shirt over to me. You have three or
four more nnd don’t need to put this
on at all.”
But Mr. Bowser stuck to his tailor
job and sewed on the button. lie knew
that It would never go into the button-hole,
but he would have It there for
an ornament anyway. The effect of
the red twine on the white background
was picturesque, to say the least.
When the work was finished he depart-ed
upstairs again. This time he rum-maged
around for a quarter of an hour
before he descended, but lie had put
in his time to good advantage. He had
found an old pair of trousers and had
cut a patch out of an old vest.
“Well, what is it now?” asked Mrs.
Bowser.
“These trousers have needed patch-ing
for the last five years, but you
haven’t had time to do it. I shall now
do it myself.”
“But they are an old pair that you
keep to work around in.”
“The principle of the thing Is just
the same.”
“There’s no principle about It. If
you use a blue patch on n green ground
all the hoys in the neighborhood will
be guying you the first time you step
outdoors.”
“Then the boys will be informed that
I have to do my own sewing or there
wouldn't be any done. Don’t bother,
Mrs. Bowser. Just keep your nose In
that novel aud never mind me. Blup
patches on green grounds are good
enough for your husband. He hasn't
long to live anyhow, and what's the
odds whether the patches are blue or
black or green?"
Wiped a Tear Away.
Mr. Bowser snuffed nnd sniffed and
wiped a lenr away, and ns lie began
to 111 a patch eight Inches sqmiro to a
hole not over two Inches In diameter
nnd sew II fust with the rod twine
Mrs. Bowser could control her feelings
no longer. She burst out laughing, nnd
It was tlpee or four minutes before
she could control herself. Then Mr.
Bowser was looking at her with a cold
glare. He kept It up for two long min-utes
and then laid the half patched
trousers aside and said:
“I nra not only neglected, but Insult-ed
In my own house, and human na-ture
can stnrnl no more.”
“Rut I had to laugh. I think that
patch Is the funniest thing 1 ever saw.
Why, even the cat"
“Mrs. Bowser, 1 am going out. I mil
n homeless mnn, and where I shall go
heaven only knows. Perhaps when I
am brought home dead and you gnze
Into my while face you will cease
your merriment and realize that you
are responsible for the dealli of a good
mnn. Good lilglit. Mrs. Bowser wo-man,
good night.”
She tried to stay him. but In vain.
ITe left the house for the street with
tears In Ills eyes and wandered up one
street aud down another, and the
south winds sighed nnd moaned, and
the crickets called to each other that
all was lost, and the policeman on Ills
lonely heat stopped him to say:
"Look here, old man, I’ve got my
eyes on you, nml If you try any mon-key
work In this neighborhood I’ll
make your heels break yir.ir neck.
What’s an old coon like .von doing on
the street nt (Ills hour of the night any-way?
Move on with you!"
M. QUAD.
Physiological.
First Boatman to Second Ditto—’E'§
got mote brains In ’is 'end than you
and me 'ns got in the rest of our bod-ies—
Tatlej’.
Disadvantage of the Present Mode of
Millinery.
—Harper’s Weekly.
All “Over.”
Mario is In the mountains,
The precious little dove,
And she Is (so Jane writes me)
Over her head
In
love.
And Daisy’s at the seashore;
She's gettin; awful tanned;
Upon the beach she’s lounging
Over her limbs
In
sand.
And Myrtle's on the prairies
(A tall, romanlic lass).
Outdoors she's idly rambling
Over her knees
in
grass.
And father's in the city.
He a hustling be d. you bet.
Poor man! They say that he la
Over his ears
In
debt.
—F. P. Fltzer In Bohemian, '
Tested and Proven
There is a Heap of Solace in Being-
Able to Depend Upon a Well-
Earned Reputation.
For months Pennsylvania readers have
seen the constant expression of praise
for Doan’s Kidney Pills, and read about
the good work they have done in this
locality. Not another remedy ever pro
duced such convincing proof of merit.
Mrs. Anna Hover, of 84 Croton Ave.,
New Castle, Pa., says: “I gave for
publication in 1897 a testimonial about
Doan’s Kidney Pills. Before using this
remedy I was easily fatigued and over
exertion always brought on pains in my
back. The benefit I derived from using
Doan's Kidney Pills was very gratify-ing.
I think jnst as much of this rem-edy
today as I did at the time I recom-mended
it before, and I have beard of
others who have been benefitted in the
same way.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, New
York, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—and
ake no other.
Premium tickets with
every purchase. Clias.
Pross and The Leader
premium tickets redeem-able
at either store.
A COMPLETE
CAR FARE
paid on every pur-chase
of $5 and
over.
Clearance Sale
now on of Odds and Ends in
Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Summer Wear.
In conjunction with our School Girl Sale everything will be sacrificed at
ridiculously low price*, regardless of cost of production, as our fall stock is com-ing
in fast and we need the space, which is more important to us just now than
our summer stock. This is positively the last sale of this season and everything
must go. With the low prices you will realize the necessity of your attendance
at this final Clearance Sale of all odds and ends, as it means Dollars in your
pocket.
You cannot come too soon, for this sale cannot last long at the prices we
have placed on the goods.
Final Sale Closes Sept. 14.
ip^c.
The Store for All the Ladies.
The Store All the Ladies are Tor.
623 Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Chas. Pross’ Old Stand.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
S. C. Stevenson,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE,
497 MAIN ST.. MOUNT PLEASANT.
A. OORT.
N. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Second Floor new Hank and Trust building,
Mount Pleasant.
New Laird bulldlug. Main st.. Oreensburg.
McGEARY & HARSH,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
McOausland building. West Ottei man St..
Oreensburg.
WARDEN & LIGHTCAP,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Barclay Building. Oreensburg.
Farmers & Merchants Nat. Banx Block,
Mount Pleasant.
GREGG & POTTS.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Barclay Building. Greensburg
J. LLOYD KALP,
(Successor to W. A. Kalp.)
Real Estate and Insurance Agency
838 East Main street, Mount Pleasant.
L. S. RHOADES,
JUSTICE OP THE PEACE 4 NOTARY PUBLIG.
A11 kinds of legal papers prepared and exe
cuted. Collecting
t-
JAMES B. HOGG,
M. AM SOC C. E.
CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER
410 First National Bank Building, Connellsville, Pa.
Development of Coal Properties. Railway Location,
Structures, Surveys. Examinations and Reports. Topo-graphical
Work and the Laying Out of Towns.
EXAMINATIONS OF PROPERTIES FOR INVESTMENT.
Office 1109 Main Street.
a specialty.
Mount Pleasant
CHAS. F. RUMBAUGH,
Notary Public.
Real Estate and Insurance
Room 6, Farmers & Merchants National
Bank B’ld’g, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
ELI CROSBY,
Auctioneer and Sale Crier,
TARR, PA.
Service the Beat. Terms Reasonable
—s 9 FEDERAL ST. ALLEGHENY PA
Bad Breath.
A well-known physician, who
undoubtedly knows, declares that
had breath has broken off more
matches than bad temper.
There are ardent
lovers who must
sometimes wish
their sweethearts
presented sweeter
mouths to be kissed.
Good teeth cannot
prevent BKK<1 breath
when the stomach is
disordered.
The beet cure for
bad breath is a
cleansing out of the
body by use of
Lane’s Family
Medicine
the tonic laxative.
This is a herb medicine, sold in
25c. and 50c. packages by drug-gists
and It is saving more doctor’s
bills than any other medicine has
ever saved.
It cures headache, backache,
indigestion, constipation and skin
diseases. 4
Farmers & flerchants
^NATIONAL BANK>
or MOUNT PLEASANT. PA.
JA PITA L STOCK. - $50,000.
Surplus and Undivided Profits. - $30.C
OFFICERS:
R. K. Hlssero, President.
C. E. Mullln. Cashier
DIRECTORS:
R. K. Hlssem. W. A . Marsh
Frank D. Barnhart. E. T. Fox.
8. R. Ruff. L. S.Tlnstman.
C. E Zimmerman. O. E. Mullln.
M.M. BYEPS.
B. F. MILLER. W. P. HENDERSON.
Miller & Henderson,
[Successors to John C. Gemmell.]
Marble and
Stone Cutters.
Monuments, Flag Paving, Build-ing
Stone, and, in fact, every-thing
connected with a tirst class
works of this kind.
Let lls Make You An Estimate!
Mullin Ave. Mount Pleasant
Executor’s Notice.
Llghtcap & Warden. Attorneys.
Estate of Amos R. Rumbaugh. deceased.
Letters testamentary on the estate of A mos
R. Rumbaugh. late of Mount Pleasant Bor-ough,
deceased, having been granted to the
undersigned by the Register of Westmoreland
county, notice is hereby given to all persons
indebted to said estate to make immediate
payment, and those having claims against the
samewiil present them properly authenti-cated
for settlement.
MRS. LIZZIE F. RUMBAUGH. *
CHAS. F. RUMBAOGH. f Executors.
85J26t Mount Pleasant, Pa
The Old Way
Means hard work—so does the “old wey”
polishing stoves and stove pipe.
Try the New Wayl Use 6-5-41
It shines itself, is applied like paint,
will not rub, or wash, off and each
application wears months.
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Cleanups and beaut:flea the hair.
Promote* a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Restore Gray
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Cure* scalp disease* At hair falling.
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907.
ii The King of
Diamonds.
By LOUIS TRACV.
] , Author of "Winffa of tho Morning,”
“The Pillar of Light.” Etc.
11 Copyright, 1004, by Edward J. Clode.
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[CONTINUED.]
At tile hotel lie found the French
mlet setting forth a shirt. The man
explained that he required a spare set
of stalls and links.
This reminded Philip that there was
still a Rood deal of shopping to be
done, lie was about to leave the room
for the purpose when the valet said:
“Another portmanteau has arrived
for monsieur. Will you he pleased to
unlock It?”
“No,” said Philip. “It must remain
untouched.” lie smiled at the thought
of the sensation Ills tattered rags and
worn boots would make In that place.
Yet Just a week ago he passed through
the street outside hound In the pitiless
rain for Johnson's Mews and bent on
suicide.
He walked Into Regent street and
made a number of purchases, not for-getting
some books. A double silver
mounted photograph stand caught his
eye. It would hold the two best pic-tures
lie possessed of his father and
mother, so he bought it. He also ac-quired
a dispatch box in which he
could store his valuables, both jewelry
and documents, for lie had quite a
number of receipts, letters and other
things to safeguard now, and he did
not wish servants' prying eyes to ex-nmiuc
everything belonging to him.
When alone in his room he secured
the album and locked that special port-manteau
again, after stowing therein
the letter found beneath Mrs. Anson’s
pillow. Soon Ills mother's dear face
smiled at him from a beautiful border
of filigree silver. The sight was pleas-ant
to him, soothing to Ills full mind.
In her eyes was a message of faith, of
trust, of absolute confidence in the
future.
It was strange that lie thought so
little of his father at this time, but
the truth was that Ills childhood was
passed so much In his mother's com-pany,
and they wore so inseparable
during the Inst two years, that mem-ories
of his father were shadowy.
Yet tin* physiognomist would have
seen that the boy owed a great deal of
Ills strength of character and well knit
frame to the handsome, stalwart man
whose name he bore.
Philip loved his mother on tho com-pensating
principle that persons of op-posite
natures often have an overpow-ering
affinity for each other. He re-sembled
her neither In features nor In
the more subtle traits of character.
After a dinner the excellence of
whicli was in nowise diminished by
lack of appreciation on his part he un-dertook
a pilgrimage of curiosity to
which he had previously determined
to devote the evening.
He wondered unceasingly to whom
he was indebted for the good meals he
had enjoyed in prison. Now he would
endeavor to find out.
A hansom took him to Holloway,
but the first efforts of the driver failed
to discover the whereabouts of the
Royal Star hotel.
At last Philip recollected the ward-er’s
added direction—“opposite."
He dismissed the cab and walked to
the prison entrance. Directly In front
he saw a small restaurant called the
Star. Its titular embellishments were
due to the warder’s gift of humor.
He entered. A woman was knitting
at a cash desk.
“Until yesterday," ho said, “you sent
food regularly to a hoy named Anson,
who was confined in the prison”—
“Yes,” Interrupted the lady. “I on'y
heard this mornin’ that he was let
out.”
“Would you mind telling me who
paid the bill? I suppose it was paid?’
“Weil, as a matter of fact, it was
overpaid,” was the reply. “You see,
tlie pore lad was remanded for n week,
and Mr. Judd, a man ’oo lives in the
FarringdoM road, kern ’ere an’ ar-ranged
for ’is week's board. Hnv’ ye
heard wot ’appened to ’1m?”
Fhllip's heart was in his mouth, bnt
he managed to answer that the boy
was all right; there was no charge
against him. Then he escaped into
the street. The one man he had for-gotten
was his greengrocer friend,
who had indeed acted the part of the
good Samaritan.
There was some excuse for this, but
the boy’s abounding good nature would
admit of none. He hastened to Far-ringdon
road with the utmost speed
and found his fat friend putting up
the shutters of his shop.
The restaurant next door was open.
Philip approached quietly.
“Good evening, Mr. Judd,” he said,
holding out his hand.
“Good evenin’, sir,” said the green-grocer,
his eyes revealing not the re-motest
Idea of the identity of the smart
young gentleman who addressed him
so familiarly.
“Don’t you know me, Mr. Judd?”
“Well, sir, I can’t exactly bring to
min’"—
“I suppose the good fare you pro-vided
for me at Holloway has so al-tered
my appearance that you fail to
recognize me again?”
“Wot! Ye don’t mean to s’y— ’Ere,
Eliza, this young gent is the lad I was
a-tellin’ you of. Remanded till Sat-urday,
you was. I saw in the piper
last night. Well, there, I’m done!”
By this time Philip was inside the
shop, and the stout greengrocer and
his equally stout spouse were gazing
open mouthed at this well dressed
youth who had supplanted the thin
tatterdemalion so much discussed by
them and their neighbors.
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Penna.
Judd and the restaurant keeper were
the only men in the locality who could
claim actual acquaintance with the boy
whose strange proceedings us reported
by tlie newspapers made London gape,
indeed, both men had been interview-ed
by police and reporters many times.
They were living links with the mar-velous.
n pedestal of common stone for
an aerial phantasy.
And now hero he was hack again,
dressed like a young gentleman and
hailing Judd as a valued friend. No
wonder the greengrocer lost Ills breath
and his power of speech.
But Philip was smiling at him and
talking.
“You were tho one man out of many,
Mr. Judd, who believed in me and even
stuck up for me when you saw me led
through the street by a policeman to
be imprisoned on a false charge. I
"Don't you know me, Mr. JutldT”
did not know until an hour ago that
I was indebted to you for an abun-dance
of excellent food while I was
remanded in prison. I will not offer
to refund you the money you spent.
My gratitude will take another form,
which you will learn in a few days.
But I do want to pay you the nine-pence
I borrowed. Would you mind
asking the proprietor of the restaurant
to step In here for a moment? Don’t
say lam present. I wish to avoid n
crowd, you know.”
Judd had time to collect his scattered
Ideas during this long speech.
“Blow the ninepence!” he cried.
Wot’s ninepence for the treat I’ve
’ad? People I never set eyes on in
my life afore kem ’ere an’ bought cab-biges
or taters or mebbe a few plums,
an’ then they’d stawt, ‘Mr. Judd,
wasn’t it you as stood a dinner to the
boy king of diamonds?’ That’s wot
they christened yer, sir. Or it’s: ‘Mr.
Judd, cahn’t yer tell us w’ere that
young Morland lives? Surely yer know
summat abaht ’im or yer wouldn’t hev
paid ’is bill.’ Oh, it ’as bin a beano!
Hasn’t it, Eliza?”
“But we never let on a word,” put
in Mrs. Judd. “We was close as wax.
We told none of ’em as how Mr. Judd
went to ’Olloway that night, did we,
Wlllyum?”
‘Not us. Ye see, I took a fancy to
ye. If ahr little Johnnie ’ad lived, 'e’d
ha’ bin just your lge. Fifteen, aren’t
ye?”
At last Philip got him persuaded to
summon his neighbor. Judd did so
with nn air of mystery that caused the
baldheaded restaurateur to believe
that a burglar was bottled up in the
greengrocer’s cellar.
Once inside the shop, however, Mr.
Judd’s manner changed.
‘Wot did I tell yer, Tomkins?” he
cried elatedly. “Wot, price me as n
judge of knrakter! ’Ere’s Mr. Morland
come back to p’y me that ninepence.
Eh, Tomkins! ’Oo’s right now, old
cock?”
Philip solemnly counted out the mon-ey,
which he handed to his delighted
hacker.
“There wns a bet, too,” lie snld.
"Rn-thnr!" roared Judd. "Two hob.
w'ich I've pkle. Out wi’ four bob,
Tomkins. Lord lumine. I'll stand treat
at the George for tills!”
“There's something funny In tlie
kiso," growled Tomkins ns lie unwill-ingly
produced a couple of florins.
“I was sure you would see the joke
at once,” said Philip. “Goodby, Mr.
Judd. Goodby. mn'mn. You will hear
from me without fall within a fort-night.”
lie wns gone before they realized his
Intention. They saw him skill rapidly
up the steps lending into Ilolborn, and
London had swallowed him forever so
far as they were concerned.
Ton days later a firm of solicitors
wrote to the greengrocer to inform
him that a client of theirs had acquired
tlie freehold of his house and shop,
which property during the life of ei-ther
himself or his wife would be ten
nntnble free of rent, rates or taxes.
So Mr. Judd's investment of nine-pence
plus the amount expended on
eatables at the Royal Star hotel se-cured
to him and his wife nn annual
revenue of £175.
And Tomkins never beard the Inst
of It.
B CHAPTER XII EFORE retiring to rest Philip as-certained
Mr. Abingdon’S I.on-
I don address and wrote asking
for nn appointment the follow-ing
evening.
He also interviewed the manager.
“1 want the help of a thoroughly re-liable
solicitor,” lie said. “I wish to
purchase some property—not valuable
property, but of importance to mo.
Can you give me the address of some
one known to you?”
M. Foret named a reputable firm in
tlie locality.
“They may refer to you,” added
Philip. “Of course I do not ask you to
say more than that I am staying here,
but tlie point is I do not wish you to
mention my age.”
“Will you not see them, then?”
“No. I will endeavor to conduct the
whole business by pqpt.”
The manager laughed.
“You certainly are the coolest young
gentleman I ever met. However, Mr.
Anson, it may please you to know that
your bank gave you the best of rec-ommendations.
I will say so to any-body.”
So Philip first drafted and then
copied the following letter:
Dear Sirs—M. Foret, of this hotel, has
given me your names as a firm likely to
transact certain negotiations for me. I
want to purchase a small property In the
Mile End road, known as Johnson’s
Mews, also a shop near the entrance tp
the mews, tenanted by a marine store
dealer named O’Brien. The mews Is owned
by the Cardiff and Havre Coal com-pany,
limited. I do not know who owns
the shop. I wish to acquire these prop-erties
for a philanthropic purpose, but I
am most desirous that my name should
not figure In the transaction. I propose,
therefore, when you have ascertained the
price, which should be at the earliest
possible moment, to pay to your credit the
requisite amount. You can have the
properties transferred to any nominee
you choose and again transferred to me.
Kindly add your costs, etc., to the pur-chase
price. My movements are some-what
uncertain, so please send all com-munications
by letter. It will be an obli-gation
and lead to future business if you
attend to this matter tomorrow morning,
fours faithfully, PHILIP ANSON.
He did not compose this letter with-out
considerable trouble. The “philan-thropic
purpose” he liad already decid-ed
upon, but he thought it was rather
clever to refer to the possibilities of
“future business.”
As for the double transfer, he dis-tinctly
remembered copying letters
dealing with several such transactions
at the time of the coal company’s con-version
into u limited liability con-cern.
He was early to bed, and his rest
was not disturbed by dreams.' He rose
long before the ordinary residents.
Deferring his breakfast, he walked to
Fleet street »*d purchased copies of
morning and evening papers for the
)]The Womans eftore
Formerly
LEVINSON’S
Department
Store,
652 riain St.
A cozy and
refined little
ihop for La-dies,
Misses
and Children.
Good, up-to-date
Merchandise
at right prices
Remnant and Odds and Ends Sale
OF THE L. LEVINSON STOCKS.
Too much can not be said of the magnificence of this sale. Only a few days
remain, so we advise you to get in the “swim” and follow the crowds who have been
packing our store for the past two weeks. No matter how great the reductions have
been, we have resolved to make the next three days the banner days and have re-duced
the prices still more
FALL GOODS ARRIVING DAILY
Beautiful new Coats, Suits, Skirts, etc., in the daintiest patterns and effects,
and of course only the latest styles have been coming in. In a few days we will
show the prettiest and most exquisite ready-to-wear goods for ladies, misses and chil-dren.
Watch this space for further announcements.
Owing to Mr. Levinson moving his stock our store has not been
able to put on its best front, as a moving of this kind necessitates more or
less of tearing up the store, etc. We will be ready shortly for you with
one of the neatest and prettiest little stores in Mount Pleasant.
formerly
Levinson’s.
Main Street.
Mount Pleasant.
ivnuiu 01 tue WCCK.
He could thus enjoy the rare luxury
of seeing himself as others saw him.
lie read the perfervld descriptions of
(I10 scene in court and found himself
variously described ns "pert,” “mas-terful,”
“Imperious,” "highly lutolli-g
lit." "endowed with a thin veneer of
education" and “affected.”
Philip could afford to laugh at the
unfavorable epithets. Up to tlie age of
thirteen be laid been trained in a first
rate lycee, and his work was supervis-ed
by ids mother.n woman of very great
culture. lie spoke French as well as
English and spoke both admirably. He
knew some Greek and Latin, was well
advanced in arithmetic and had a spe-cial
penchant for history and geog-raphy.
It was In the glowing articles which
appeared during his imprisonment that
he took the keenest Interest. Oddly
enough, one ingenious correspondent
blundered on to a clew. Gifted with an
analytical mind, he had reasoned#that
the diamond laden meteor fell during
the extraordinary storm of the lfith,
and the meteorological department In
Victoria street helped him by describ-ing
the center of the disturbance as
situated somewhat to the east of the
London hospital.
The writer had actually interviewed
a member of the staff of that institu-tion
who amused himself by noting
barometrical vagaries. His instrument
recorded an^extraordinary increase of
pressure soon after 10 o’clock on the
night of the storm.
“Alas,” said the scribe, “It did not in-dicate
where the meteor fell, and not a
policeman, bus driver or railway offi-cial
can be found who observed any-thing
beyond a phenomenal electrical
display and a violent downpour of
rain.”
That was too close to be pleasant,
and Philip was glad to hear from M.
Foret that the solicitors after telephon-ing
to ask for some particulars concern-ing
Mr. Anson were giving prompt at-tention
to his Instructions.
"What did you tell them?” asked
Philip.
I said that you impressed me as the
kind of young gentleman who would
pay well for services given unsparing-ly.”
“Did that satisfy them?”
“Perfectly. Such clients do not
abound in these hard times.”
Three hours later a letter came for
Philip Anson, Esq., by hand. It was
from the solicitors and read:
We are In receipt of your esteemed in-structions.
Although Saturday is a day
on which It Is difficult to do business, we
lost no time In Inspecting the premises In
the Mile End road, accompanied by a
surveyor. We found that the mews stand
approximately on an area of 3,200 super-ficial
feet, while the shop tenanted by
O’Brien has a frontage on the main road
of eighteen feet, with a probable depth
of thirty or thirty-five feet. The owner
of this shop Is a resident In the neigh-borhood,
and he will accept £450 for the
freehold. ,
We were fortunate In finding the man-aging
director of the Cardiff and Havre
Coal company, limited, at his office. Al-tnougn
me company require the mews
for the purpose of a depot, they are not
unwilling to sell, with a stipulation that
the premises shall not be used by any
competing company during a period of
twenty years from the date of transfer.
We s'uted thnt the site was required for
a philanthropic purpose, but the latter
stipulation is insisted on. The price asked
Is £2.200, which we consider excessive,
there being a very inadequate approach.
Moreover, we wish to point out that
O'Brien’s shop does not adjoin the mews,
and It would be necessary to purchase
two other houses to make the entire
property a compact one.
However, adhering to the letter of your
Instructions, we have pleasure In Inform-ing
you that the two properties can be
acquired, with very little delay, for £2,650.
The legal and other charges will not ex-ceed
£150. We trust, etc.
Philip immediately wrote:
I am greatly obliged by your prompti-tude
in the matter of Johnson's Mews
and the shop. I inclose check herewith
for £2,SOO. The purchase of the other
houses can stand over for a few days.
This he dispatched by special mes-senger,
and in a few minutes he held
a formal receipt.
A telegram came for him. It was
from Mr. Abingdon.
Can see you after 6 at my house.
Then Philip enjoyed his first real
breathing space during hours of day-light.
He went by train to the ceme-tery
in which his mother was buried,
carrying with him a beautiful wreath.
It was a remarkable fact that this
was the first visit he had paid to her
grave. During the days of misery and
partial madness which followed her
death he never lost the delusion that
her spirit abided with him in tlie poor
dwelling they called “home.”
Hence the narrow resting place be-neath
the green turf in no way appeal-ed
to him. But now that a succession
of extraordinary external events had
restored the balance of his mind he
realized Ujgt she was really dead and
buried; that what he revered as her
spirit was in truth a fragrant memory:
that he would be nearest to her mortal
remains when standing in the remote
corner of the burial ground allotted to
the poorest of the poor—those removed
by one degree from pauperdom and a
parish grave.
It happened by mere cbance that
since Mrs. Anson’s funeral no one bad
been interred on one side of the small
space purchased for her. There were
three vacant plots here, and a sur-prised
official told Philip there would
be no difficulty in acquiring these for
the purpose of erecting a suitable mon-ument.
I [To BB CONTINUED.) ■- '
J, A. & CO.
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
WestMait St., “On the Hill.’
Hardware,
farm Imple-ments
and
Seeds.
Special attention
given to Steam
and Hot Water
Heating.
Making a Start
is seemingly the most difficult part 0
saving money. Once commenced i
is eesy to conttnue.
The Citizens Savings & Trust Co
MOUNT PLEASANT. PA.,
makes the staating easy by accepting a
little as one dollar as an opening de
posit. Why not gratify your ambltioi
to save by taking advantage of this of
fer? You won’t be the only one t<
commence with such a sum by an'
means.
He Will Do That.
“Yes,” said the voluble crank, “I used
to be as bad as you, but I made up my
mind to quit smoking and drinking,
and I did it.”
“Indeed?” remarked Manley. “I
guess a man who can quit smoking
and drinking could quit almost any-thing”—
“Oh, yes!”
“Except talking about It.”—Catholic
Standard and Times.
McGeary & Marsh. Attorneys.
Estate of J. Smith Loblngler, Deceased
Administrator’s Notice.
Notice is hereby given that letters of
ministration on the estate of J. Smith L
ingier, late of Mount Pleasant Twp , W<
moreland county, deceased, having b
granted to the undersigned by the Regis
of said county, all persons indebted to s
estate will make immediate payment. ;
those haviug claims against the same 1
present them to the uederslgued. duiv
thentlcated. for settlement.
Mary J. Loblngler j
Mount Pleasant. Pa. ; . . ,
Chauncey Lobingier, , Adm rs.
Frick Bldg, Pittsburg, Pa. J
THE MOUNT.^PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907.
* NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS, S %a
PIKE RUN VALLEY.
Slbooi has opened with quite a large
attendance.
Mrs. Agnes Bowman returned from a
two weeks’ visit with relatives and
friends at Wooddale and Tarr.
Byran Bowman visited his aunts, Mrs.
Joseph Christner, of Wooddale, and Mrs.
John Whitfield, of Tarr, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Hostetter, of
Mount Pleasant, paid local friends a fly-ing
visit last week.
P. R. Stout and brother, Irwin, and
Mrs. Daisy Hoke visited the former's
parents over Sunday.
Rumor says there will be a wedding
in our vicinity'in the near future.
Mrs. Philip Geary and granddaughter,
Miss Anna Hostetter, visited the former's
daughters at Scottdalc and Alverton last
week.
Mrs. George Craig spent last Sunday
with her sister, Miss Emma, who is se-riously
ill at the home of her sister, Mrs.
James Lohr.
Mrs. H. M. Solomon and daughter,
Miss Mabel, have returned from spend-ing
a week with Mount Pleasant and
Scottdale friends.
Eli is running the farm agaiu as in
bygone days.
J, M. Beistel, of Alverton, was an over
Sunday guest of Philip Geary.
Ralph Hostetter was the guest of his
cousin, Roy Hostetter, Sunday.
BROOKVILLE.
The smiling faces of teachers and pu-pils
can be seen circulating in all di-rections
now.
Martin Weimer, of Swissvale, is here
visiting his cousin, Edward Kuhns.
Miss Bertha Kinneer was an over
Sunday guest of her sister, Mrs. Reuel
Christner.
The local Sabbath school will hold its
picnic here in the Kreinbrook orchard
on Saturday, September 21, with a cor-dial
invitation to one and all.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hoke drove over
Sunday afternoon and spent a couple
hours with their daughter, Mrs. M. D
Kreps.
Most every one here is thinking of at-tending
the Youugwood Fair this week.
Mrs. E. Kreinbrook and son, Homer,
spent Sunday in Scottdale with the
former's son, Nelson, who has been ill of
typhoid fever, but somewhat improved
at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. John Armel spent a
couple days the past week with Greens-burg
friends.
Clark Kinneer and Renel Cnristner
were in Uniontown Saturday on busi-ness.
FREED.
Miss Sara Christner is visiting friends
in the mountain.
Stauffer Ankney, of Ruftsdale, spent
Sunday with his uncle, Joseph Etling.
Miss Mary Knopsnydcr is spending
several days with friends at Indian
Head.
J. B. Stauflcr was a Scottdale caller
Thursday last.
A. F. Freed spent Sunday with friends
at Wooddale.
The local mail carrier has taken sev-eral
days' vacation.
Carl Rush is doing some fine sawing
for Mr. Swain.
Daniel Eutsey lost a valuable horse
last week.
The children seem very happy because
school starts Monday.
The local folks have just return-ed
from the Niagara Falls, N. Y. conven-tion
held by the Watch Tower Bible &
Tract Society, of Pennsylvania. There
were over 1,700 delegates of the watch
tower people meeting in the natural
food conservatory lasting from August
29 until September 5. On Monday, Sep-tember
2, they baptized 241 in Niagara
river. They all report an enjoyable
time.
HAMMONDV1LLE.
Prof. Norrpan Hayes and brother,
Thomas, viewed the marvelous Niagara
Falls last week. They were through the
Cave of the Winds, took in the Gorge
Route and crossed Lake Ontario into
Ontario where they saw many curios-ities.
Roy Seeman, of East Negley avenue,
Pittsburg, was a welcome guest at the
Pershing residence last week.
Mrs. Peter Rhodes and visiting daugh-ter,
Mrs. Andrew Bishop, of New Castle,
were enjoyably entertained by Mrs. Gans
a recent afternoon.
Miss Eva Adams has enjoyed her va-cation
very much and is now ready and
perfectly willing to do efficient school
Vork.
Our school opened on Monday with
the usual large enrollment. New pupils
I /Yl7^ 7¥sTTtif
were classified and everything is now in
satisfactory condition. Formal educa-tion
in America has become the most
significant characteristic of the times
and the most potent influence in our
national life. Once organized as they
ought to be, the schools of this nation
will solve the problem of crime. Upon
every teacher in every community a
great responsibility rests.
W. E. Miller was at Donegal last Sun-day
visiting his father who is very ill at
present.
Mr. and Mrs. Royal Mason, of Pritts-town,
were pleasant Sunday”guests at
the George Mason residence.
Few of our young people missed
Howes picture show at Mount Pleasant
Saturday night. All were delighted with
views and will attend every good show
that comes.
On Wednesday of last week the Union
and Evangelical Sabbath school and 0.
W. Council, Independent Americans, of
this place, held a joint picnic at Mt.
Vernon. Wagons and buggies conveyed
four hundred men, women and children
to the cool shady valley. The day was
ideal and all enjoyed a delightful time.
KECKSBURG.
The road roller purchased by the su-pervisors
for the township is setting up
here doing no harm.
President Lemmon will not have the
Farmers Club meet here again for some
time as the members got too full of free
mineral water. The club will meet at
Squire Elliott’s office September 18.
Farmers are busy seeding.
By arrangements, all parties caught
hunting without the proper credentials
or purloining farm products will be
hauled up by the "mounted police” who
are on the alert for these violators of
the law on the territory of the Farmer's
Association.
Farmers report game never so plenti-ful
before.
Schools are under full blast with good
attendance.
Supervisor Hunter is out of funds and
work on the public roads is suspended,
The constabulary was called out on
Thursday morning to look after some
foreigners who had stolen about 45
bushels of apples from an orchard near
here the day before.
Webster and Harry Crise, two young
men arrested on information made by
young women for committing a serious
offense, on their way home from church
last Sunday nightpvere discharged when
brought before Squire Elliott. It is un-safe
for young men to be out alone in
this vicinity.
On motion of Justice W. B. Elliott John
L. Shields, editor of the Mount Pleasant
JOURNAL, was elected an honorary mem-ber
of the Farmers' Protective Associa-tion
at its last meeting.
INDIAN HEAD.
Mrs. Catharine Cramer celebrated her
76th birthday anniversary here last
Monday in splendor by spreading a
meal for her children that was up to the
qneeu’s taste. The principal course of
the menu was oysters a la Creek with
side dishes to correspond. Among those
present were Samuel D. Cassimer, D. and
Lee C. Cramer, Mrs. S. D. Cramer and
daughter, Lydia, of this place; Mrs. Mar-garet
Wissingerand daughter, Ruth, and
son Master McClellan, of Stahlstown; D.
C. Cramer, wife and family, of Calumet;
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Cadden, of Mount
Pleasant; Mrs. Rachael Downs and Harry
Cramer, of Scottdale; Mr. and Mrs. F, D.
Lentz and daughter, Beulah, Mrs. Mar-garet
Cramer and daughter, Dora, and
Mrs. Joseph Eckman, of Everson, the
visiting relatives.
A feature of the gathering was the re-organization
of the 1892 Back Creek
Martial Band. All the old members
were present with the exception of one.
Many friends of Mrs. Cramer were also
present and many useful and valuable
presents were presented to her. Mrs.
Cramer is one of the oldest and best
known residents of this township, hav-ing
lived here for 49 years, and the best
wishes are extended to her and hers
through these columns.
JONES MILES.
Miss Ella Hunter, of Champion, spent
Sunday with Pittsburg friends.
William Miller is a very sick man. .
«
G. S. Engle spent last week at Greens-burg
as a juryman.
W. F. Smith, of Mount Pleasant, and
J. C. Brown, of Laurelville, passed
through here Sunday on their way to
Somerset to buy the former a team of
horses.
Miss Nora Matthews, of Scottdale, was
here last week with her parents.
W. J, Beers left Tuesday to help his
mother run a refreshment stand at the
Youngwood fair.
Struck by lightning Tuesday evening)
George Sleeseman's barn near Champion
was burned with all this year’s crops.
PAINT THIS FALL
There’s no better painting time than the fall.
Weather conditions are usually very favorable to
good results.
No heavy rains to soak into the lumber as in the
spring.
No gnats and flies to stick to the fresh paint.
It’s best to protect your buildings against winter
weather.
You’ll get a good job if you paint now with *
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Center of Town,
Mount Pleasant, - - - Penna.
EXPERT REPAIRING
One day a little girl brought a rin^ to onr store with one set out
and the band entirely broken in two. It was indeed in a dilapi-dated
shape and Bhe sorrowfully asked if it could be fixed. We
told her it could, and charged 25 cents for soldering and 15
cents for a new set—40 cents in all. She called for it the next
day and would haidly believe it was the same ring. The place
where it was soldered conld not bo found, and with a new set
and a thorough polishing it looked exactly like new.
Maybe you have some old jnwelrv that you don't think is
worth repairing. Bring it to us and we will quote a price, and
we will no