Mount Pleasant journal (February 17, 1899)

              VOL MOUNT PLEASANT, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, FKBRUAUY 17, NO. 7.
THE TERRIBLE PLOI
Said to Have Been Laid by
Karl Norcross
TO POISON HIS LITTLE BROTHER
IN ORDER TO GET THE LATTER'S
INHERITED ESTATE.
The Accused When Arrested and Jailed
at Uniontown Tries to Commit Suicide.
The Discovery of His Alleged Murder-ous
Intent Brought About Through the
Confessions ofThose Whom HeWanted
to Do the Awful Deed with Poison.
Karl Norcross, a prominent young
man of Uniontosvn, was arrested Mon"
day and placed in jail charged with at-tempting
to murder his little brother,
Allen, aged 10, who lives with his uncle
at West Newton. The prisoner tried to
commit suicide by taking morphine and
was unconscious for a time, but will re-cover.
Norcross' arrest was caused by the
confession of John Devlin and Sylvester
Hetterman, who on Monday told Dis
trict Attorney Crow the story of the at
tempted murder, and how it failed be-cause
they backed out the last moment.
Neither of the men knew until that day
that the other was implicated in the
deed, but this came to light through
their confessions.
The district attorney learned of the
alleged plot through the talking of Het-terman
and Devlin, both residents of
Uniontown, who, it is alleged, backed
out when the money promised for the
work was produced. Devlin alleged that
Norcross last fall took him to West
Newton, near where Allen Norcross
lives with his guardian, and aftershow-ing
him the house, told him to deliver
a box of candy, but cautioned him not
to eat any of it. This made Devlin
afraid, and he pretended to carry out
the bargain, but did not. Devlin says
Norcross prepared the candy in a res-taurant
by putting arsenic in chocolate
drops. He says Norcross got, the poison
at Uniontown before going to West
Newton. Devlin threw the poisoned
candy away and went home.
Hetterman's story is that Norcross
came to him two weeks ago and said he
would give him $50(1 to deliver a pack-age
at West Newton. He was also
frightened by Norcross' care that he
should not eat .any of the contents, and
after starting on his errand from West
Newton, he hid until the next day and
went home. He took the poisoned
candy with him, and told his story to a
lawyer at Uniontown, who is Norcross'
attorney, and gave him the box. Nei-ther
Devlin nor Hetterman has been ar-rested.
Norcross went to Uniontown a few
years ago from Brownsville. His father,
Joseph Norcross, committed suicide two
years ago, and his mother died in an in
sane asylum. Norcross' mother left a
fortune of something like $25,000, which
was inherited by Karl and his brother
Allen, her only children. In the event
of the death of either of the boys the
other would succeed to the inheritance.
Norcross has lived a very gay life lately
and it is said has about dissipated his
fortune.
ROUGH EXPERIENCE
Hadby Aba Myars While West for a Car
Load of Horses.
When Bill Byers and Abe Myers left
here some two weeks ago for Illinois to
get a car load of horses for the local
market, the latter was much the smooth-er-
looking individual, wearing a new
)by hat and kid gloves. William re-turned
by passenger train Saturday
looking just about the same as when he
left, but poor Abraham, who got in with
the horses on a freight Sunday, wasn't
by any means as pretty. A western
blizzard had taken several falls out of
him. He gave his hat away and got a
storm cap, while his kids were replaced
with big woolen mittens. He is still
sticking close to his home just south of
town, trying to get the swelling out of
his frosted ears and nose.
He left Hancock county, where the
horses were bought, Friday and had a
cold time of it. It was cold there al-though
there was no snow in Illinois.
The horses stood the trip fairly well, al-though
soveral drovers, who were taking
cattle and hogs east on the same train,
feared they would lose some of their
stock crossing the Alleghenies.
COMERS AND GOERS.
! Paragraphs About Prominent People
Gathered During the Week.
Rev. J. W. Kilbourn, of Arcanum, O.,
is here visiting the Rev. Mr. Keister.
Miss ()rpha Thornley, of Pittsburg, is
here the guest of Miss Minnie Husband-
Field Postoftiee Inspector Gregory was
here yesterday looking up the lockhox
key account of a former administration.
Miss Anna McElwee, of Greensburg,
was here Friday as the guest of the
Misses Jennings.
John F. Wilson, of Bradford, Pa.,
dropped in here Tuesday to see his son,
the Rev. Mr. Wilson.
President J. S. Hitchman, of the Citi-zens'
National Bank, was snowed in at
Markleton Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Emma Mullin, of the East End,
Pittsburg, was here this week visiting
her aunt, Mrs. Mary Mullin.
W. S. Patton, of Fayette City, was
here yesterday visiting his sister-in law,
Mrs. Mary C. Hurst, who has about re-covered
from a serious illness.
Mrs. O. P. Shupe gave a needlework
party Friday evening, at her East End
home. Some twoscore of her lady
friends made up the list of handsomely
entertained guests.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hitchman and her
West India party, who were to sail from
Philadelphia Thursday' for Jamaica,
were notilied by the steamship people
Monday not to start from home as ice
has tied shipping up. They will sail
from New York to morrow.
Connellsville Fears a Flood.
Every indication points to a flood at
Connellsville. The Yougliiogheny is
rising now and the thaw there is very
pronounced. The river was frozen solid
there but cleared off, the gorge sticking
at Dawson. It left immense piles of ice
and snow on the banks and the stream
is therefore much contracted. These
heaps will make a high river.
TOUCHING TRIBUTE
Paid the Memory of the Late J. D. Cope
byJ. R. Spieg-el, Esq.
The funeral of Joseph D. Cope, whose
death wasnoted in last week'sJOURNAL,
took place in the cemetery at Tarr Fri-day
afternoon and the concourse ot
mourning friends, despite the intense
cold, was large. A touching and well-deserved
tribute to the memory of the
dead man, who was one of Bethany's best
citizensnnd whoenjoyed to a marked de
gree the confidence and respect not only
of his neighbors but of a wide circle
of friends over the county, was paid by
J. R. Spiegel, Esq , of Greensburg. The
well delivered oration was the result of
an agreement made between the two
gentlemen nearly a score of years ago
whereby the one surviving should speak
at the other’s funeral.
Mr. Spiegel recalled the early tutor
ship of his friend, speaking of the high
moral tone of the school atmosphere
where Mr. Cope held sway, whose influ-ence,
he said, many' men and women
carry with them to-day'. He spoke of
the deceased as a citizen, a student and
thinker, tenderly referring to his
thoughtfulness of the poor and spoke of
his stout adherence to principle under
any and all political pressures. He made
special reference to his stndy of meta-physics
and the sciences in general and
also his careful reading of the Holy
Scriptures.
COMBINE BREWERY DEAL.
The Licenses for its Westmoreland
Plants Transferred.
The United Brewing Company, of
Pittsburg, has been given complete con-trol
of the breweries at this place, Scott-dale
and Latrobe. Judge McConnell
has transferred the licenses and the par-ties
heretofore operating the plants have
retired.
In view of the gobbling up of these
plants by' the Pittsburg combine other
breweries in the county', two or three in
number, will apply to the court for a
bottling license. First they intend to
have a bill presented to the Legislature
repealing the act of 1860, making it un-lawful
to bottle beer in Westmoreland
county'.
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Three Victims of a Blast.'
Michael Kerouth. John Mattou and
John Wokle were fatally injured
Wednesday by an explosion in the cut
being made to straighten the Pennsyl-vania
railroad tracks about Irwin. Two
blasts had been discharged and the men
had returned to work when the explo
sion occurred, it being caused by pow-der
which had not exploded with the
other charges. Kerouth was buried in
rock and earth up to his neck. The
others were hit by fly'ing rock. The
men were taken to the Greensburg hos-pital.
Humor Comes Next.
The next eutertaiument in the “Peo
pie’s Popular Course” will be given at
the Grand Opera House Monday even-ing,
February 20th, by’ H. Spillman
Riggs, the famous humorist and whist-ler.
Stahl-Cramer Wedding-.
Mr. C. E. Stahl and Miss Vernah
Cramer, both of this place, were mar-ried
by Rev. Mr. Yalm Wednesday.
30 Degrees
Below Zero
Tell the Tale
Of the Coldest Spell of Weather in
Mount Pleasant’s History.
THE OLDEST INHABITANT IS FLOORED.
The Mercury Began Its Downward Course Last Sunday Week With a Fall
of Snow and Kept on Tumbling Until it Broke All Records Friday.
Then it Eased up Gradually to a Steady Zero Run Until Wednesday.
Railroads and Coke Operators Catch It, While the Coal Hauler and
the Plumber are Sort of Kings in Their Respective Spheres, for Fuel
was Scarce and Burst Pipes Numerous.
The real old thing in the line of winter weather, remembered
so well by your grandfather, wasn’t in it with the spell this sec-tion
has had during the past week or more. The mercury began
its downward course with a fall of snow last Sunday week and
kept on tumbling until all records were broken Friday morning
when the thermometer at Standard registered i!0 degrees below
zero. This was the coldest point about town. Morewood came
in a close second with tlh at the fan house and the third place of
cold honor was taken by the East End with one degree warmer;
while 20 was the best West End thermometers could do. It warmed
up a bit Saturday w'hen the mercury popped up above zero and
then fell back to 10 below. It continued this performance Sunday
and Monday with slight falls of suow, and the thaw setin yesterday.
The railroad peoplejiad a hard time of it. This was espe-cially
true iu the Pennsylvania freight department which was
practically abandoned Friday and Saturday and every effort cen-tered
iu the passenger service; but, iu spite of all this, trains
would get so late that some of them laid off entirely, while a warm
coach was the exception. The 13. & O. people were more fortu-nate
and, barring delays caused by late eastern connections, man-aged
to keep pretty close to schedule time on the Pittsburg divis-ion.
Both roads, however, were blocked on through travel east
from Monday until early Wednesday morning. The B. & O. was
snowbound east of Cumberland just as was the Pennsylvania from
Altoona to Philadelphia, while much trouble of the same kind was
experienced on the New York division.
The intense cold had a very depressing eifect on the coke
trade. Not only were cars short but at- many plants outside labor-ers
were unable to perforin their different tasks. Frozen water
lines and pipes made operation still more difficult. The only fa-tality
so far reported iu the region occurred Thursday night.
Hugh Gallagher, of McKeesport, a miner at Leisenring No. 11, was
frozen to death while en route home from Connellsville. He rode
on the Connellsville, New Haven and Leisenring electric railway
to Graham’s crossing, and started to walk from there to Leisen-ring,
but perished on the way, his body being discovered on the
road Friday morning. Gallagher had a wife and five children liv-ing
at McKeesport. He was boarding with his son, who is also
employed at the Leisenring works.
While there was not an absolute coal famine here coal was
coal in Mount Pleasant and by no means easy to get, although the
railroads and both Standard and Morewood contributed liberally
to the town’s comfort. The country banks could uot meet the de-mand
made by haulers whose teams frequently spent a whole day
and part of the night to get one load that was divided up among
customers. A number of empty coal houses were replenished
Sunday.
It was the local plumbers’ harvest, but no one envied them in
its cold gathering. The house that did not contain a frozen or
burst water pipe was the happy exception and, in uot a few instan-ces,
particularly “on the Hill,” considerable damage was done by
escaping water.
The foot or more of snow has made the best sleighing for
years even on country roads that are remarkably free from drifts.
A SAD SCENE.
When a Pennsylvania Railroad Engineer
Dies at Greensburg.
Bruce Patton, of Pittsburg, an en-gineer
on the Pennsylvania railroad,
was mangled by his train Saturday
night so that he died an hoar later at
the Greensburg hospital. Frank J. Hal-ferty,
a passenger conductor, also of
Pittsburg, had a foot crushed, and Flag-man
McNally had his nose broken and
was otherwise injured.
The passenger train stopped to pick
McNally up to take him to Greensburg
Patton and Halferty were caught by the
backing up of the train while aiding
McNally after it had stopped. Patton
was 29 years of age, and his remains
were taken to Pittsburg.
A young woman, who refused to give
her name, said to be Patton's affianced
wife, *vas present at the station when
the accident occurred She had come
to Greensburg from Allegheny to ride
homo with him in the cab. She accom-panied
the injured man to the hospital
and was with him when he died. Ilnl-ferty
remained at the hospital.
SAME OLD TALE.
The Senatorial Deadlock at Harrisburg
is Still On.
The United States Senatorial deadlock
at Harrisburg is still on with the usual
large crop of rumors that would have
Quay both re-elected and licked. His
followers still claim it will be the “Old
"Man” ornobody, while the anti Quayites
are equally confident of winning out.
The so called insurgents are jubilant
over the postponement of the McCarrell
bill to March 31st, as they look upon the
measure as intended to help Quay out
in his coming trial for conspiracy,
which it cannot now do.
Uniontown’s New Pola Tax.
Uniontowu’s Council has just passed
an ordinance taxing all telegraph, elec-tric
light and telephone poles -50 cents
each. It is estimated that there are
8,000 poles in that borough. The new
ordinance provides that the police shall
count and keep a record of all poles,
tlie company by which they are owned,
and all other information necessary for
the enforcement of the new tax.
DEATHS OF THE WEEK.
The Grim Reaper’s Work in This Place
and Vicinity.
Abram H. Hudskin.
Abram H. Hudskin, formerly a well-known
citizen of this place, died Satur-day
noon at the Hamtnondville home of
his daughter, Mrs. John T. Tarr, from
the effects of a paralytic stroke.
Mr. Hudskin, who was 73 years of
age, removed to Mount Pleasant from
Adams county some fifty-two years ago
to follow his trade of a bricklayer and
stone mason, helping to erect many of
the old land mark buildings of West-moreland
and Fayette counties. With
the exception of eleven years spent in
the California gold fields, be was a
Mount Pleasant resident till five years
ago when he made his home with his
daughter atHammondville.
In 1843 he was married to Miss Mary
Jones who died eleven years ago at their
Bunker Hill home. Of this union seven
children were born, four of whom have
survived their father. They are: Mrs.
John T. Tarr, Haromondviile; Mrs. Wil-liam
Thornley, Pittsburg; Mrs. William
Bowers, Mount Pleasant, and Charles
W., Rochester, Pa. A daughter, Lo-retta,
died when several years old. Miss
Rebecca and Mrs. John Stout dying in
recent years.
Revs. Davis, of the Mount Pleasant
Methodist Episcopal church, and Ynhn,
of the Church of God, conducted the
funeral services at decedent's home fol-lowed
by interment in the Presbyterian
cemetery at the Middle church.
Mrs. Sarah Kuhn.
Mrs. Sarah Kuhn died Sunday after-noon
at the East Main street home of
her sou, Mr. James Kuhn, the interment
taking place Tuesday afternoon at tiie
Middle Presbyterian churchyard where
the bodies of her husband, the late
George Kuhn, and two daughters were
buried. Mrs. Kuhn, whose maiden
name was Peterson, was born in July,
1867. and the other surviving members
of her family are: (Mrs. Martha McCul-lough.
of Pittsburg: George Kuhn, of
Dawson; Mrs. John .Tones, of Armbrust;
Josephus Kuhn, of Euffsdnlo, and Dan-iel
Kuhn, of Stahlstown. Another son,
Charles, was killed during the war of
the Rebellion, but his body was never
recovered. She was a member of the
First Baptist church and a consistent
follower in the Master's footsteps.
Obituary Notes.
Samuel Latta, of Fayette county,
died at his home near the Mud school
honse Tuesday, aged TO years.
William Zimmerman, an old soldier,
died Tuesday at his Ridge home, above
Laurelville, of paralysis, aged 70 years.
Hon. A. J. Stewart, an ex-member of
the Legislature, died at his Smithfield,
Fayette county, home Monday, aged 05
years.
COKE AND COAL.
Items of Interest Gathered From Both
Mine and Yard.
The cold weather of the past week
gave the '-oke business a black eye, due
in part to a shortage of cars.
Two of the Baggaley Coal and Coke
Company's tenement houses, occupied
by foreigners, were destroyed by fire
Monday.
The machinery for sinking the shaft
on Rainey's Warden coal tract, just
northwest of town, is in place ready to
begin work.
Wilson Mason, the stable boss at Stan-dard,
had his face severely frozen early
Thursday morning while going from
the office to his home.
The cases, brought by the Pittsburg
Humane Society against coke companies
for working sore-shouldered horses and
mules and appealed to court by the de-fendants,
were thrown out by Judge
Doty who put the costs on the prosecu-ting
agents.
Owen Murphy, of this place, and bis
force of twelve men have returned from
Level, Kansas, where they erected 50
beehive ovens for the Eastern Coal and
Coke Company. Mr. Murphy intends
adding 100 more ovens to the plant in
the spring,
There was a .serious coal famine in
Johnstown this week, due to the inten-
'sity of the severe weather. Every miner
in the city was employed overtime and
hundreds of men who were never in
mines before were put to work. Coal
was delivered to customers in half ton
lots in order to meat the unu-ml
demand as far as possible.
THE SECOND WEEK
Of Criminal Court in Westmore-land
County Before
JUDGE8 DOTY AND McCONNELL
WHO DON’T PERMIT THE COLD TO
INTERFERE WITH BUSINESS.
One of the Most Interesting* Cases Dis-posed
of was That of the Irwin Club,
Five of Whose Members are Convicted
of Illeg-al Liquor Selling-, Fined $500 j
Each and Sent to Jail for a Term of
Three Months.
One of the most interesting cases dis-posed
of during the past week of crim-inal
court in this county was that of the
Irwin club, five of whose members,
John Salamon. William Sylvester, Ab-solein
Dnnmire, Joseph Arthur and Jo-seph
Sisteck, were found guilty of vio-lating
the liquor law in their manage-ment
of the organization. Judge Mc-
Connell, before whom the trial was had,
in sentencing the defendants made a
vigorous tirade against the so-called so-cial
clubs. He said that every organi-zation
that furnished its members with
intoxieent.s made the sales for gain. It
is the common custom for clubs of this
order to buy a keg of beer for a sum
that is not as groat as the profit, This
is in direct opposition to the liquor law,
he said, and he sentenced the defend-ants,
all except Sisteck. to three months
in jail pay, costs and $500fine, Sisteck,
who was convicted on the same ( l arge,
is ill at his home at Irwin.
Philip Ross, charged with violation of
the livery act by C. Eisaman, of Latrobe,
was acquitted as the alleged deed was
committed in Indiana county.
Jerry Bitz, charged by L. M. Mace, a
Greensburg clothier, with larceny of
two pairs of pants, was found not guilty.
A. Abattichio, the Latrobe hotel man
charged with illegal liquor selling, was
acquitted but had the costs to pay.
Albert Brenizer, a Ligonier hotel
man, was also acquitted of having sold
liquor to persons of intemperate 'mbits
and the costs were put on the county.
While the jury in the case of George
Neff, of Greensburg, charged with lar-ceny,
was out, the defendant simplified
matters by acknowledging his gniP.
James Woody, of Latrobe, was con-victed
of rape. His counsel will apply
for a new trial.
John R. Dowden, charged with the
murder of John Roberts, near Bellever-non,
October 20, was called for trial be
fore Judge McConnell Monday. Dow
den and Roberts bad been enemies, Rob-erts
alleging that Dowden had stolen a
suit of clothes from him. Dowden me
Roberts near Bellevemon and suggest®'
that they befriends. Dowden extended
his hand, and, just as Roberts grasp
j it, Dowden pulled a revolver and fir:
the fatal shot.
William Dowden, Charles Rank-in a;
Rody Johnston, alleged accomplices
John Dowden, will not be tried nn
the May term.
Good News for Uniontown.
The Ohio Steel Company, of Youngs-town,
on Thursday last signed a lease
for the Columbia steel mill at Union-town,
with the privilege of buying the
same. The lease is for one year and the
option price for purchase is $150,000.
The mill was built in 1880 and is said to
have cost over $500,000. It was opera-ted
until 1893.
COKE PLANT SOLD.
Pittsburg Capitalists Buy the St.
Works at Latrobe.
The St. Clair Coal and Coke
pany’s plantat Latroba was sold We hi
day for $300,000 to Pittsburg eapitalis
who will double the capacity by addin,
100 ovens in the spring and operate tht
works under the name of the I): qiiesiM
Coal and Coke Company.
The purchasers of the plant are W. IE
Humphreys, of Humphreys, Stewart
Co., tiie iron and steel men, who will
president of the new concern; Aloxai
der M. Byers, Jr., son of A. M. Bye
the prominent iron manufacturer, v
will be vice president; Hermoa Grift
of Humphreys, Stewart & Co., who wi
be treasurer; William Harris, of
same firm, who will be secrets
Matthew A. Preston, president
St. Clair company, who re
interest in the new corporate
new company will take immgjdi.
session of the purchased plant up;
granting of its charter, applic ufm 11'
which has already been made. 5
Humphreys is now president of the Bt
seiner Coke Company that svas form
several years ago Ilermpn Griffin
secretary.
;o and Hernia Gril
Suspended From the Miuist
Rev. Isaiah S. Hawn, paste:
New Kensington Presbyterian
was found guilty Thursday l
ville Presbytery on the charge
cessive use of morphine, dishone
untruthfulness, and suspended fre
ministry until evidence of repentat
! shown. His defense to the tuorp.
! charge was that he purchased 1;
quantities of the drug for his sick fa
, who lives at Paris, O. Frank Burt
I Pittsburg detective, however, eoi
I dieted this statement.
TUP. MOI'VT PliKAHANT ,TOt ItHVT,, FIMDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1890.
GLIMPSES OF CAMP LIFE
How Our Soldiers Fare In the
Philippine Islands.
FORAGING FOR FOOD AND FUEL
Rnmboo I’HIMI In Mnklnji tl»e Tent*
Comfortable—Hothlna In tbo I’AHIK.
Thpl’lftnrcjiqno Fruit Stands I-Jreet-i
rd l»y the Native*-—The Fruits Prove
Healthful nnd Palatable.
[Copyright, 1S99, by the Author. 1
IV.
That the natives of tho Philippines
knew very little about the United
\ States before Dewey’s guns awoke the
echoes of Manila bay was plainly shown
by their attitude toward the great
American dollar. They knew absolute-ly
nothing about American money when
our camp was first established at Ca-vite.
Upon landing we found that our
silver dollars were of no use to them
apparently. At first they would not ac-cept
one of them, but later American
(dollars passed current, the same ao Span-ish
and Mexican. This condition of af-fairs
our hoys were not slow in taking
advantage of. Whenever they received
American change for Spanish or Mexi-can
money they exchanged on the
equality basis so popular with the na-tives,
nnd as every American dollar is
as valuable as two Mexican or Spanish
tlollars the soldier hoys often made a
considerable profit on the transaction.
Tho natives are shrewd, however, and
in a very short time they had mastered
the new problem in finance and were
carefully storing away all their Ameri-can
money. When we captured Manila,
we found that the shopkeepers were
fully conversant with the situation and
every American dollar would buy the
same amount as two Spanish dollars or
two Mexican dollars. This fact, how-ever,
was somewhat offset by the speedy
advance in prices.
This is the land of cigars and ciga-rettes,
for hern everybody from t-lie over-grown
pickaninny to the head of the
family l-olls the cigarette or smokes the
cigar. Smoking is not an expensive lux-ury
in the Philippines, for cigars and
cigarettes are extremely cheap. One
odd feature in connection with our oc-cupation
of Manila is the fact that the
atives have taken a great fancy to our
■lug chewing tobacco and will give al-ost
anything they possess in exchange
for it. Our hard tack also seems to fill
a want with the Filipinos, and they
ill fairly take the clothes off their
cks for an American onion.
In the United States the American
ldier is not particularly fond of rice,
hut this climate seems conducive to an
appetite for this nutritions cereal, and
it is now a popular food in the camps.
Since the fall of Manila barrack life
has been very monotonous, especially to
the volunteers. There is plenty to do
every day, but one day is just like an-other.
There is the continuous routine
of guard duty, hut routines are not in-epiring
to the ordinary soldier, who
eince he has come into possession of the
coveted city of the Philippines is some-hat
anxious, it must be confessed, to
tnrn home. About the only alluring
speet at present is the possibility of
brush with the Filipinos. Notwith-nding
the monotony of his routine
istence, however, the soldier here has
me opportunities for enjoyment. For
stance, there is the surf bathing in
anila hay. It compares very favorably
th the bathing at Atlantic City or
nearly two miles along tho bay side of
the Pasig road, and reaches in width
probably ISO yards to tbo wooded nnd
native residence district which fringes
the bay.
Another feature of the life at Camp
Dewey WHS the foraging, an experience
that was move enjoyable to the’ soldiers
who foraged than to the natives who
were foraged upon. Fresh chickens or
ducks and other eatables were naturally
in great demand, and now and then
they mysteriously disappeared from the
premises of the natives. The wood de-tail
was one which the boys always
dreaded, yet it was a very important
one when it is considered tlmt the re-sult
of the cooking depended upon the
character of the fuel supplied by the
men. At first trees were cut, nnd bam-boo
formed much of the fuel. Later the
natives complained, and orders forbid-ding
the cutting of any timber were
issued from headquarters. It, then be-came
necessary to forage for the wood.
Often it was gathered on tho shores of
tho bay, being tho wreckage cast up
from the sea. Sometimes there were
unearthed water soaked timbers with
all sorts of figureheads and quaint carv-ings.
There are always little incidents of
camp life which, unimportant and ir-relevant
to the general work of the
army, no doubt, make interesting and
gossipy reading for the people at home.
Especially is this true in a camp on
foreign soil, amid strange conditions
nnd circumstances, thousands of miles
from home. In the neighborhood of the
camp are large tracts of bamboo, which
proved most useful in making our
quarters tenantable. The little “dog
tents,” with the use of long bamboo
crosspieces and bamboo sticks, were
raised a foot or two from the ground,
and bamboo beds were put into the
tents to enable the men to keep dry.
Bamboo beds are the only kind used in
the country districts and were purchas-ed
from the natives for a Mexican dol-lar
each. These and additions to the
little tents made with gum blankets,
ponchos and whatever cloth the men
could gather up made life here during
the incessant rain not all a trial and
disappointment, but even at that camp
life is not all “one long, sweet song. ”
Altogether the American soldiers in
the Philippines have a genuine respect
for the fibrous bamboo, and henceforth
to them a bamboo rod will awaken
other memories than those of a fishing
trip nnd the landing of gamy trout and
sportive bass.
Scarcely lmd our camp been estab-lished
on the shores of Manila bay than
the native fruit venders set up their
stands in adjacent fields, much the same
as the sutlers, hucksters and canteen
keepers gather around our camps at
home. These fruit stands of the natives
are decidedly picturesque and as numer-ous
ns they are picturesque and as rude
as they are numerous. The native fruit
stands are not, however, confined to the
camp, but are scattered quite thickly
along the public highways. Indeed
nearly every native house is a fruit
stand, or rather the front ]>orch—where
there is a porch—is utilized for this pur-pose.
Here the women and children,
even the men, sit all day long crying,
“Unus banana, unus centavo!” or dish-ing
out rice or vending cocoanuts, man-goes
or other fruit.
Before our troops came here much
had been said regarding the nnhcalth-fulness
of the fruit of the Philippines,
and the soldiers were repeatedly cau
tioned against its nse during the early
days of onr occupancy. With the fruit
in sight and the commissary rations
rather common, and not very plenty at
Wf
SECTION OF TENTH PENNSYLVANIA’S QUARTERS.
utro baths Rt San Francisco. Hun-of
soldier bathers are to be seen
3av on the beach in front of Camp
ay is usually comparatively
ow and then a storm causes
to come rolling in on the
,b, and in these waves the
disport themselves. While this
ting surf has been a great pleas-to
the boys, it has also robbed them
nite a number of square meals since
have been here. When the third
dition arrived at Manila, the surf
rolling soi high, that for some time
• ere unajble to procure supplies
the ships. 1 Not a few of the lighters
ized, and some of our men
-d to an involuntary plunge
One of these accidents
Astor battery to lose a large
mmunition.
e were camped at Camp
r tents were set up in a pea-
On these islands rice patches
upy a few square yards of land,
nuts are raised on an immense
bout Manila bay. A field spucious
for a camp which holds 10,00U
certainly a large one, and such
e size of the huge peanut field,
the world over by this time ns
Dewey. The field, or rather the
of fields all in one, extends lor
that, they paid little heed to the warn
ings. They have devoured the fruits ir
great quantities, nnd the result has no!
been deleterious. On the other hand,
the fruits have proved healthful, palata
ble and wholly beneficial to the soldiers
The mango is a favorite. It is a flat
poar shaped fruit the size of an apple
and has a seed as big as a maple sugai
cake. While there is really little fruit
about a mango, what there is of it is
good. The flavor of the mango is verj
rich. There are cocoanuts here by th<
houseful and bananas by the woods-ful.
The Philippine pineapple is tin
only real common variety of fruit raised
here. Breadfruit has not found favor
among our soldiers. If you have ever
eaten a May apple, -which grows wild
in the woods of Pennsylvania, you have
an excellent idea of the taste of bread
fruit. It somewhat resembles a cocoa
nut in size and shape and a peach in
the appearance of the skin and a straw-berry
apple in color.
While doubtless most cf the volunteer
soldiers hero would welcome a return
to home and native land, they are in
the main cheerful and contented and
recognize the fact that there may be
worse things than camj)aiguing in th)
Philippines.
WILLIAM GILBERT IRWIN.
Manila.
THE PRISONS OF MANILA
Dark Dungeons Where Spain
Confined Political Offenders.
THE PHILIPPINE PENITENTIARY.
•
For Nearly Two CentnrlcN a Place ol
Incarceration anil Torture—Shac-kled
PrlHoner* Who Hail Forgotten
lfow to Walk—CrevjMOtne Tale* of
Iiinnlaltorlnl DUIIKCOIIN,
[Copyright, 1899, by the Author.]
v.
Manila is a prison in itself, and with-in
tho very walls that make it such are
subprisons and dungeons wherein the
light of day never shines and where
hundreds of unfortunate offenders
against so called Spanish honor have
met death in all its varied forms nnd
with all the horrors which Spanish
vengeance and ingenuity could devise.
In Manila, even the houses are built
more like prisons than dwellings, and
their stout mahogany doors, fastened
with enormous chains and balls, and
they were continued in charge under
our administration. Tint first step taken
by onr authorities was to free the mis-erable
cnlpi'ts, v. ho had for years car-ried
with them the crude Spanish shac-kles.
This was done early in onr occu-pancy,
and over 800 of those wretched
prisoners then took their first unfettered
step for years. One poor old decrepit
native had been shackled for 20 years,
nnd ho bad actually forgotten bow to
walk. The last of the SO Spaniards con-fined
here, excepting the five Spanish j
officers before mentioned, had been in
prison for 101 ^ years without the privi-lege
of a trial and without having had
any official charges preferred against
him. In some manner he had incurred
tho displeasure of the officials. The man
when released went by the Scandia to
tho Unit' d States and will go at once
to Porto Rico, where his family resides.
Tho routine which the prisoners now
undergo is strictly military. Tho first
call is at 5:25 a. m., and they are given
a breakfast of rice and native coffee
prepared in an enormous caldron by
the prison cooks. At <! a. m. they go to
their work and are kept busy until
11:80 a. in., when they assemble for a
dinner of rice, soup and sugar. They
are then locked up to enjoy a rest un-til
2 p. in., when they resume their
fkg
TO
WALLS AROUND MANILA
their windows, cleated and barred with
great iron bars; are all indicative of the
dark and bloody days which this old city
has seen in tho several centuries of its
existence.
In snch a city it is but natural that
one would expect to see many prisons,
and they are to be seen here.
Great interest is connected with the
famous old inquisitional prisons, which
are located within the walls of Old Ma-nila.
These thrice century old dungeons
have witnessed many dark enactments.
Thousands have perished in the filthy
dungeons, and within these dark walls
many murders have been committed in
the name of Spanish justice. It was in
these dungeons that the political prison-ers
were confined, and from here hun-dreds
have been led out to execution on
the Lunetta, while just as many have
faced Spanish horrors within the walls.
This is tho “Dark Hole of Manila,”
where two years ago 50 of the 100 pris-oners
here confined perished in a single
night.
Next in importance to the great in-quisitional
prisons the principal prison
is the Presidio de Manila, or the Phil-ippine
penitentiary, which is situated
at the corner of San Pedro street and
Callc dc Bilibid. Connected with this
institution is also the Carcel de Bilibid
and the Bilibid military prison. This
ancient and gloomy prison is nearly 200
years old, and within its moss covered
walls have probably been witnessed as
much suffering and misery as within
many times its area the world over
The records now in possession of onr
authorities date back to 1808, and they
tell some ghastly tales. Death by the
rack, death from starvation, death from
drawing, death by the garrote and a
hundred other means of torture are here
recorded.
The presidio corresponds to our s'ate
prisons, and in it are incarcerated pris-oners
who have been sentenced to serve
a term of two years or more. At pres-ent
the presidio contains 750 prisoners,
this being scarcely half the number
confined under Spanish rule. When our
army assumed charge, many of the pris-oners
were discharged, and our authori-ties
have not thought it necessary to
fill their places as did the Spaniards by
fair means or foul. While the old prison
is yet far from being in a sanitary con-dition
it has been cleaned up wonder-fully
since our authorities assumed
charge.
The buildings within the walls are
called barracks and are numbered. In
the different barracks are confined the
different classes of criminals. The first
building contains the prisoners serving
two years, the second the four year
prisoners and so on.
All the prisoners in the presidio, with
the exception of a few Chinamen and
five Spanish officers, who were formerly
in charge of the prison, are Filipinos.
Three of the Spanish officers ure charged
with embezzling $16,233.82 from the
funds of the prison between Aug. 13
and Oct. 1, 1898, during which time
AND GATES TO THE CITY.
duties and work until 5 p. m. Supper is
the same ns dinner, and at 5:80 they
are paraded and inspected, standing
at parade rest as the strains of "The
Star Spangled Banner” echo between
the gray old walls and as- Old Glory
glides to its sunset rest. There lias
been a good native band organized by
tho prisoners, and it is allowed two
hours each day to practice.
A visit to the old presidio naturally
surprises one as to the ingennity dis-played
in the various workshops in the
manufacture of almost everything. The
prisoners manufacture canes, trunks,
valises, carved silverware of all kinds,
statuary in clay and plaster of paris: in
short, it would be impossible to enumer-ate
all the products of the prison laboi
here. A first class laundry is run in the
prison, and clothes are washed at a very
low rate. At present the prison is over-whelmed
with work of all kinds, for
our relic hunters are having all sorts of
remembrances made at the prison.
The Cured de Bilibid at present con-tains
520 prisoners, mostly natives.
This prison is similar to a workhouse in
the United StateH, and here aro confined
prisoners serving less than two years.
At present this prison is not as much
Americanized as the presidio, and there
'.re many foul smells about the place
There is no work done in this prison,
though the prisoners are all sentenced
to hard labor. Arrangements are now
being made to put these prisoners to
work.
The saddest and most grewsome of all
these prisons is the Bilibid military
prison, wherein are now confined about
40 American soldiers, incarcerated for
crimes against their oath of service to
the United States. It is here that ali
the soldiers convicted at general court
martial are confined, most of the of-fenses
being drunkenness, disobedience
and assaulting officers. Their routine is
much the same as in quarters, but they
nre closely guarded and during the
time of their imprisonment they are
not permitted to see or talk to any one.
I have been told by old prisoners that
it was the custom of the Spanish offi-cials
to amuse themselves by torturing
prisoners in every way that a corrupt
Spanish mind could contemplate. Their
bones were scraped with bayonets, pins
were driven under their finger nails,
their eyeballs were scraped with sand-paper,
they were suspended by the toes
or the thumbs, and their shoulders were
dislocated by opposing sides pulling the
prisoners’ arms at the end of a rope.
These tortures were continued until the
garrote ended the unfortunate or until
the cruel Spanish tired of the sport.
Two years ago Dec. 20, 1896, 77 na-tive
prisoners, suspected participators
in the rebellion, were shot down on the
Lunetta. The prisons were too crowd-ed,
and room had to be made for more
wretched natives charged with oifeu o-against
priestly dignity or Spanish op-pression
and misrule.
WILLIAM GILBERT IRWIN.
Manila.
MURDERERS IN MANILA.
A Vendetta Vuws to Kill an
American Soldier Every Week.
DEPREDATIONS OF OUTLAW BANDS.
%
Native* Driven to Desperation by
Spanish Hit rharltleM — ImmrpreiitM
Take Terrible Revcypre t pon Tlielr
Former Oppre*Mor* — Tragic Inci-dent*
In (ho Filipino Revolt.
supplies of food anil ammunition were
stored within the strong stone walls.
For four days and nights they kept tho
insurgents at bay, but the water supply
was gone, and there were no signs of
rain as it was the dry season.
Two days longer the garrison held
out nnd then retreated under cover of
darkness to tho cemetery chapel, no
doubt believing that they were safe
from tho vengeance of the natives un-der
the sanctity of tho cross. Tho insur-gents
closed in and occupied tho block-house
deserted by the Spaniards. This
position commanded the north walls and
windows of the chapel, and under the
(Copyright, isori, by the Author.]
VI.
There are many native outlaw or-ganizations
on these islands, and at
first wo credited this outlawry to the
natives us a class, but we have learned
our mistake. They are not confined to
any one class, foreigners as well as na-tives
being members of the Various
bands.
Probably the greatest of these organ-izations
is the Maccabebes, who are
especially strong in Manila and on the
island of Luzon. Almost every night
these organized freebooters find victims
in the city and suburbs. Chinese, Span-iards,
natives and Americans all fall
prey to these outlaws. Lately they have
nmde’a vow to kill at least one Ameri-can
soldier each week, and they have
been succeeding in their resolve. The
death of the Maccabebe organization in
Manila will be only the question of a
few months, for our officials aro now
hot on the trail of its leaders. There are
other lawless classes of natives on these
islands. In many cases they are led by
"anting anting, ” or charm men, and
their system of robbery and plunder ex-tends
over largo districts. A just ad-ministration
will eliminate many of
these outlaw bands, whose existence in
many cases was brought about by the
outrages of their cruel and oppressive
Spanish masters.
Lately I have had occasion to learn
much about the inhumanity of Spanish
officials in the Philippines. Every day
these tales of barbarity are cropping out.
It was in the collection of taxes that
the Spaniards were most unrelenting.
The natives were taxed for everything,
even to their children. Out in Malaban
a native lind threo children, nnd when
the taxgatherer arrived the native had
but money enough to pay the tax on
one child. Ho was given a choice of
which this should be, and the other
two were beheaded before liis eyes.
This is only one of many similar cases.
It is no wonder that the insurgents re-volted
against their inhuman rulers,
and their thirst for Spanish blood is
but natural in view of the circum-stances.
The leper colony of Manila is located
in an old convent out on the Passe del
Norte beyond the Santa Cruz district
of New Manila. During tho turbulent
times of the sioge and blockade vigilance
was relaxed, and many of tho poor
wretches escaped from their piison and
commenced wandering about the streets
in search of food. As soon as we entered
the city the work of returning these
lepers, some 200 or 800 in number, was
begun. Every time one crept from liis
hiding place he was loaded on a bull
cart and taken back to his dreary prison
to slowly rot away. The appearance of
the leper is repulsive yet pitiful. There
are seen faces so contorted and disfig-ured
by the terrible disease that every
vestige of humanity seems to be lack
ing; eyes from whose leaden balls conn
no gleam of answering intelligence t<
tell that in that deformed and shriveled
frame there still dwells a human soul
I have seen bodies and limbs so shrunk
on, twisted and decayed that it seems a
marvel that so battered a hulk had still
sufficient vitality to hold imprisoned
the smoldering spark of life.
Manila has no theaters worthy of
especial mention, the Zurilla, the finest
of the playhouses of the city, being at
present occupied as barracks by our
troops. Tho Philippine theater, down
in the Suiapo district, is about the only
playhouse whose doors are now open to
the public. Here a number of native
productions have lately been given
which are certainly unique if not ar-tistic
specimens of the histrionic art.
Ont to the north of Manila is situated
a native cemetery in which is located a
chapel with which is connected some
stirring events of the late war between
the Spanish and the insurgents. At the
breaking out of the insurrection two
years ago the Spaniards built a block-house,
which is still in good condition
and an interesting place to visit. This
blockhouse stands about 200 yards to
the north and east of the church and in
an open field about half a mile from the
Calle de Real. It is built in the form of
a hollow square, with conning towersdi-agonally
placed at the northeast and
southwest corners, and seemed to be
impregnable.
However, in providing for an emer-gency
the small Spanish detachment
garrisoniug the blockhouse forgot to
secure a supply of water. They had only
a small tank and were dependent upon
the rains to keep up the supply. When
the insurgent forces appeared upon the
three sides at once, the garrison was
not in the least daunted, as plenum1
AN INSURGENT ON GUARD.
cover of their guns tho insurgents crept
up and commenced the work of cutting
a passage through the two foot stone
wall which surrounded the cemetery
and chapel. The Spaniards could in no
way check this movement, as there was
no way of reaching tho men on the out-side
of the wall without exposing them-selves
to the deadly fire of the insur-gents.
To cut a hole through tho wall re-quired
two days, and then a hole only
sufficient to admit two men at a time
was made. Through this opening they
flocked into the yard, and then, making
a charge on threo sides of the building,
climbed in through the windows and
killed tho 28 Spanish soldiers of the
garrison. What a scene of carnage there
was the next morning when the sun
sent its golden rays through the gothic
windows in the dome of the chapel! On
the floor beneath lay tho 28 dead sol-diers,
the remnant of the garrison of
the ill fated stone fort, struck down be-neath
the cross which had been the rod
of iron used in tyrannizing over the
poor and ignorant natives; surely a
retribution on those, who, by their bru-tality
and un-Christianlike abuse,
taught their victors to know no pity I
When Cavite fell, a single Spanish
officer escaped capture or massacro. He
sought refnge in a small room which,
like several of its kind, opened into a
court from which an arched passage-way
led ont to the street. His flight
was observed' at the time, but the in-surgents,
busy with their bloody slaugh-ter,
forgot him. But toward evening
his flight was recalled, and a horde was
soon upon him. He had barricaded the
door, and at last this was broken down.
The officer then fought fiercely for his
life, nnd only after a great struggle, in
which a number of natives were struck
down, was his swoTd arm piecred by a
bullet, and, disabled, he fell an easy
prey to their thirst for Spanish blood.
Finally his head was severed from his
body, and one of the natives, bolder
than the rest, set it np on a window
and, falling down before it, shouted,
“Sextus gloria!” and thus the bloody
work was christened the sixth glory.
When it is remembered that the
established church of the Philippines
has hut “five glories,” the significance
of this bloody work to the long op-pressed
insurgents becomes apparent.
Finally one of the natives took up the
head upon n pike and headed the pro-cession
about tiie room, and all shouted
“Sextus gloria!” as they marched.
This was another dark day for Spanish
rule in the Philippines, and countless
others just as horrible can be recited.
Had Manila fallen before the hordes of
Aguinaldo horrors more terrible than
the modern world has ever known
doubtless would have been enacted.
The church in the Philippines has
been a great fomenter of evil. It would
be a hard matter to tell just what the
position of the church here is at pres-ent.
It was established here coincident
with tho estab'ishment of Spanish rule
and is the established church of Spain,
fostered by Spanish rule, supported by
FILIF1NO AND HIS UMBKKLLA.
Spanish grants of land, its priests be-ing
paid from the money extorted from
the natives through excessive taxation
and customs fees. The church as it ex-ists
here today is not the true Catholic
church. There are many ecclesiastical
orders here, some of them being strictly
native and naturally in sympathy with
the insurgents. It is to some of these
ecclesiastical orders that the real cause
of these native uprisings is largely due.
WILU.HI GILBERT IRWIN.
Manila.
♦
%
Til U MOt'NI RURAHANT DM l!N A I, KIM DAY, KKill 1P A KY 17, IMM).
As Judged From the PastWeek's
Trade Reports
WIIKN CAREFULLY COMPILED
FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF READ-ERS
OF THE JOURNAL.
The Solid BIIHIH for Good Buelmme Hue
Not Beni Slmkmi by Speculative Rour-tlon.
SloiikN are SllKlitly Lower, liut
the Market la all the Safer for the Un-eoundiieaH
That Has Been Shaken
From It.
The solid basis for good business bus
not been aimken by speculative reaction.
Stocks have been slightly lower and the
market Is all the safer because much on
soundness and unreason have been sir1,
lten out, Speculation in wheat, which
for a time depressed prices, lias also tn
ken n turn and, with heavy exports, the
market tends upward again. The cot
ton movement is not essentially specu
lative, but based on reported injuries,
and holds its advance.
Meanwhile dispatches from all parts
of the country show extraordinary no
t ivity in the chief branches of trade, and
a business much larger than a year ago
in nearly all. The heavy excess of ex
ports over imports continues, New York
exports having been in live weeks 111
percent, larger than last year, whl’e
imports were by it per cent, larger,
In wheat Americans are getting pro
tits, even though prices are lower than
they were some months ago. After
some yielding the price rose to 7H.Nn
cents and the May option rose fo during
the week, with Atlantic exports of
11,02(1,892 bushels, Hour included, against
2,174,021 last year, and total exports in
eluding the Pacific, 4,847.408 bushels,
against 9,080,818 last year. Western re
ceipte have been tl,088,408 bushels,
against, 2,087,770 for the week last year,
while corn exports for Jhe week were
also 11,102,800 bushels, against 11,11118,070
last yenr. At higher or lower prices
foreigners arc constantly taking more
wheat and corn from us than in any
previous yenr.
The cotton market is in slightly
stronger position, because foreign inly-ing
continues beyond precedent, while
home indications now point ton smaller
crop than was expected. The stocks on
hand are heavy, both commercial and
mill, out foreign buying supports the
rise in prices thus far. Mill operations
help also, though at this season they arc
naturally small, for the heavy demand
for goods of late leads buyers to remem
ber that the material has not advanced
in prices as much as staple cottons since
the lowest point was reached. (loods
are rapidly rising with the expanding
demaud, hut the material has advanced
only an eighth.^
What wool is worth, in view of the
groat stocks yet unconsumed, few arc
aide to judge, and that fact hinders ad
justment of prices for goods. Hales have
been small, only 8,478,400 pounds at; the
three chief markets for the week, against
8,803,200 last yenr and 0,178,900 in the
same week in 1897. but this year and in
1807 the buying has by no means repro
aented consumption only. While quar-ter
and half blood wool and delaine
have been in demand and firm, the
quotations indicate weakness in Ohio
and other fleeces. The goods market is
of similar character, strong for cheviots
and serges, but not for line, high grade
or plain goods.
The Iron trade is so exploited by con-solidations
and attempts of that nature
that it is wonderful prices have not re-flected
distrust. Instead there have
been general advances, in pig because
the demand has been large, forbessemer
at Pittsburg to $11.40 and grey forge to
210.78, and in finished products because
nearly all are in demand beyond the on'
pacify of works for some time to come.
The advance of 10 cents per keg in wire
nails by the association was not caused
by any especial pressure for supplies.
Failures for the week have been 217
in the United States, against 298 last
year, and 35 in Canada, against 43 last
year.
GRAIN. FLOCK AND FEED. WHOLESALE.
Wheat, per Du 70
Oats, per bu 40
Corn, per bu - 48
Corn Meal, perbbl., bolted - 2 28
Flour, patent, perbbl 3 85
Chopped feedteorn and oatslper ton IT 00
Bran, per ton 17 00
Middlings, per ton 17 00
Mill Feed, per ton 17 00
Hay, baled, per ton 11 00
Hay, loose, per ton 8 00
GROCERIES AND PRODDCE—RETAIL.
Breakfast Bacon, per 2)
Brooms
Buckets • # ■•«•••••••••••• ••
Buckwheat flour, per sack-
Butter, per lb
Candles, per lb
Carbon Oil, per gal
Cheese, per lb
Chickens -
Coffee, per lb ...
Dried Apples, per lb
Dried Beef, per can
Eggs, per doz
Ham, per lb ...
Lard, per 1b
Maple Molasses, per gal
New Orleans Molasses, per gal- .
Potatoes, now, per bu
Rice, per 1b
Rolled Oats, 2 lb packages
Balt, per bbl
Balt, per sack
Balt Fish, per lb...
Shoulder, per lb
Smoked side bacon, per lb
Balt side, per lb
Boap, per cake —
Starch, per lb
Sugar, 181b
Bwoet Potatoes, per lb....
Tea, per lb
13
10Q25
12@30
35
25
10@15
15
20@30
12020a
28
24
10
10
on
40®;,o
80
10
19
1 25
8@5
5@18
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ROAD HORSES.
I tn*reusoil DOIIIHIMI I'or Them In Metv
\ iirk I'lly.
Never Imfnrn in llw biNtnry of the
horse market in IIIIH city tins there been
Filch n demand fur high CIIIHH hone's IIN
there is at present, says The Daily Tele-graph
of tluil eily. New York, IIH the
metropolis of the western world, tins al-ways
presented an exnelh lit field for the
operations of the denier or breeder wlui
enufllied his business in the sale or rins-ing
of first, close stork. In tills city or
in (lie nearby outlying districts reside
tlinuKiimlH of wcnlthy men to whom the
possession of n stable of horses is n nec-essary
adjunct to tlio enjoyment of life.
There WON II time, not many years
ago, when only n few of the wealthiest
men in tlm roiiimnnity owned fast
roadsters, They were and are yet on
tlmsiastio horsemen, tn whom the pleas
urn of an inspiriting ride behind u well
broil noil fust moving animal represent-ed
(lie mime of recreation, lint of Into,
especially since the speedway became
an established fact, the fail lias extend
nil, until at. I lie present time every one
who can alfurd the luxury is cither in
possession of n good horse or looking for
one. One tins hut to taken trip over tlm
favorite driveways almost any pleasant
afternoon to realize the extent to which
this form of outdoor pleasure 1ms lie
oniini general. Hundreds who several
years ago did not know how to drive
nee seen handling tlm ribbons over
horses that; can step close to the 2:20
mark.
Ml rid I* White Hour.
The Middle White hoar Unstleornft
Royal Emperor was tired and is owned
by Alfred l). Twentyinnn, Castleeroft,
Wolverhampton. He tins won tlm fol
£
C •
OASTI.KOnOFT ltllYAl. KMl'KHOU.
lowing prizes, 18D7 : First, Bath and
West of England, Southampton (in pens
of two); first It. A. H. E., Mmieheetcr
(in pens of three); 1398, first, Until and
West of England, Cardiff; first prize
and champion gold medal R. A. S. E.,
Birniingliuni Ho was farrowed Jan. 8,
1897, his sirn being Morden Pore Until
8283 and his (lam Castleeroft Daffodil
(1874, a (laughter of the well known
prize sow Castleeroft Daisy Hell.—Lon-don
Live Stock Journal.
Little Money In INtor (’nttle.
Cattle aro never so inferior hut that
tlioy may return a profit if bought cheap
and sold soon enough. The one impor-tant
principle to ho kept clearly and
constantly in mind in handling that
class of stock is that it will never justi-fy
the outlay of largo expense. It must
be handled us cheaply us possible. Un-less
the class of cattle referred to can be
bought very cheap they cannot be finish-ed
on expensive grain feeding at u prof-it.
They should he fattened wholly or
mainly on grass. Of oouiso it is possi-ble
to pay too liigh a price oven for the
best feeders, no matter how good tlioy
may be, but thu purchaser of really
good young steers is safer at a strong
prioo than in using older steers of infe-rior
quality at a low price. The young
steers of good quality not only give far
bettor returns for the feed consumed,
but in the feed lot they make a product
that is worth from 25 to 50 pef cont
more than the other. This difference
otearly justifies a good price for good
stock.—Professor O. F. Curtiss in Breed-er’s
Uazettte.
SHEEP IN NEBRASKA.
nil Dili IneroiiM- In (tic liiiliixd-}- In
(he l*n»l Ttva Vi-ai-M.
Robert Tnvli r, who Inis established a
sleep ranch of III,(II(l acres seven miles
nottiiwcit of ( rand Island, Is said to
own morn sheep Ilian any other man in
tlm United f rides lie lias established
huge breeding rnnelicH in Wyoming
and now owns 91) noil head of sheep,
most id them thoroughbreds Ills ranch
in Nebraska county Is fitted to handle
20,900 la nd id sheep, most (if which arc
now on hand Tn get this ranch in
shape to handle such an IninieiiHe hush
nt'HH Mr. Taylor lias just expended fill), •
(Mil) in buildings and Incidentals for tlm
business This im ludcs a feeding shell
of 120 by 280 feel, and another 08 by
112 feet, with iHinicriniM HIIUIII build-ings;
n dnuble crib, 84 by 220 feet,
with a capacity of 10,000 bushels of
corn; a storage house of II I liy 200 foot,
with n full sized liascinent, which lie
will fill with heels for the sheep, and a
number of other storage houses of toss
importance. Resides these, there are
large IKIUNIIH, water tanks, dipping tanks
and convenience!, constituting one of
the most complete slmcp farms in the
world Certainly there lias been noth-ing
attempted in the west on snob a
scale. All tlm buildings mo ns light and
airy as their substantial nature will
permit Forty men are employed on the
ranch, and a large number of milk
rows and ninny horses and hogs are in-cidental
to the earn of the sheep The
intention of the owner IH to seed the
entire 10,000 acres to alfalfa This year
Im had BOO acres in alfalfa, and about
10,000 tons of the season's out is stowed
for winter use.
A fcaturo of tlm IJUSIUOSN which is
also now to tlm western slmcp Industry
is the insurance of the whole plant and
contents Tlm policy was written liy a
tiig eastern company for #80,000, a
premium of #1,300 lining paid This is
believed to ho tlm largest premium of
tlm kind ever paid.
Just iieriiss tlm linn in liiilTahi county
is another rniioli, where II large number
of sheep were led last year Now ar
rntigoiiicnts urn being Hindu to purchase
180,000 head from the further western
range for feeding thorn this winter The
net profit on n transaction of this sort is
figured at 40 cents a head for the sen-sou,
which lasts five months.—Ameri-can
Wool and Cotton Reporter
I'll* Fe**illii« IQx|M-rlitM*»lii.
Mr. (f. E Day mirnailtnrist at tlm
Ontario Agricul enllego, for tlio
past two years , neeii conducting a
very valuable lino of experiments in pig
feeding. The object of these experi-ments
is to ascertain the effect of exer-cise
and nmiexercise on tlio quality of
flm bacon produced, tlio effect of feed-ing
corn and rape ns compared witli
mixed grains, tlm effect of feeding whey
mid to nscertain tlm influences which
are the most conducive to firmness tn
the quality of the bacon. In the 1808
series, which is about concluded, 30
pure bread lings, comprising six differ-ent
broils and 24 grades, are being treat-ed.
Those lings when the experiment
began weighed about J00 pounds onoh
and were divided into lots containing
four lings each. When the experiment
is concluded, the lings will ho killed,
cooled and salted under Mr Day’s su-pervision
and the quality of the prod-ucts
of tlm various lots carefully report-ed
upon. The data to be gathered from
tliis will ho very valuable indeed, mid
we will give full details as soon as the
results are known. Tlio experiments
conducted in 1807 seem to iudioute that
a certain utnouut of exercise lias a tend-ency
to pnidnoo n better quality of ba-con
tluiei uonexerciso.
Kiiil<!l«* Morion.
The favor in which Kentucky saddle
bred horses are now held in the east,
consequent upon repeated victories in
the show rings, will surely encourage
oven closer attention in the breeding
districts to tlio production of high class
| horses. The fact that the east prefers a
: walk trot canter horse to one that lias
I all the accomplishments is in favor of
j the breeder and trainer, as it is much
j less work to finish the horse of tho lesser
; education Type, weight carrying blood
' and Hiuldjo horse instincts and intolli-
| gonce are what is wanted, and tlio breed
j of saddle horses chiefly fostered in
| Kentucky and Missouri is abundantly
] ablo to furnish all these requirements.
1*111111»k I in anil PnrniltoN.
A correspondent of The Breeder’s Ga-zette
says: Pumpkins seem largo mis-siles
to throw at the small parasites
that infest sheep. Yet I believe them
very effective instruments in eradicat-ing
certain forms of purasitos from the
flook. Daring the past summer our ewe
flock did not thrive as I wished it to.
The grass was ubundant, but the stom-ach
worm and doubtless other forms of
worm life abounded. In the fall the
ewes were in but tolerable flesh and
seemed rather listless and droopy. When
pumpkins ripened, I began feeding them
in quantities. I did not remove the
seeds nor did 1 limit the amount that
they ate. Entire loads were hanled out
at one time and scattered about the
pastnres and renewed when eaten up.
Mutton Sheep and Lambs.
The St. Louis National Live Stock
Reporter says that the demand for good
mutton sh^ep and lambs is better than
ever before, and one which the supply
is inadequate to meet, and intimates
that buyers will be forced to ship in
supplies from other points. The condi-tion
is as favorable to the producer of
good muttons or lambs at all the mar-kets.
The sheep of poor qualify are not
oommandiug good prices, but those suit-able
for the market are about 50 cents
per 100 pounds higher than a year ago.
In sheep raising, ns in the other depart-ments
of live stock raising, the niarkot
is growing more and more rigorous in
discriminating against inferior quality,
and it doesn't puy to perpetuate it.
Action should not be overlooked—not
the action of a higher stepper, hut cleau,
true, attractive and balanced tore and
aft. Front action that comes from the
shoulder is demanded, while the hocks
should follow promptly Of ull horses
a saddlu horse needs a leg always under
him. There is a bright future tor breed-ers
of the saddle horse.—Breeder’s Ga-zette.
Slieep Breed I IIK In (lie Arid lle^lon.
The extensive cultivation of alfalfa
in some of the states where little water
falls is leading to the introduction of
sheep breeding and woolgrowiug as a
leading industry. The alfalfa will grow
and keep green in the driest time, as it
sends its roots down deep for moisture.
The Bheop also will live with loss water
than any other farm animal. In all our
eastern states sheep may be kept in sum-mer
on pasture with m3 water except
what they get by eating grass at night
or in early morning while it is covered
with dew. This does not prove, how-ever,
that sheep can be kept on pasture
in regions where dew seldom if ever
falls. Even with dew in the morning,
if the weather he warm, the sheep will
drink some before night if they get the
chance to do so.—Boston Cultivator.
Pure Blood.
The introduction of pure blood and
reaching that stngo in the business
where all cattle will be pure bred can-not
.be consummated in a short time,
but the longer we delay the important
xvork of building up the herds along
these lines the longer it will be before
we have desirable blood in them. All
stockmen should remember this faot
and begin today to allow nothing but
pure bred bulls among their cattle.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
TSJ A. ('OUT.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
<MIICD (’ornur of Mfiln :m<l <'IIMirli NIroot, In
( IM* 11 raililiM’lc A- Co. Block. Mount I'lciisuiit,
I'll.
ry<s‘ *'• ft W. A. MARSH.
I’ll YHH’IANH AND HtMMJKONH.
unices No. 339 Wes! MtiIn Hired, mid 2nd
I'lnm Hraddock Block,
Hpccliil nl teiil Ion lo 1 he Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat. (Basse's lit ted.
Telephone No. 51.
Nl^lit calls ill West Main St reel (mice.
HI* M. W. IIORNKR.
^ PHYSICIAN AND HD ltd EON
( Hllce Hours. Until 10 a, in.; I to I and
0 to M |i in.
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PAOI.I S. MORROW. JOHN M. UOHK.
MORROW & CORE.
ATTORNEYS-AT-1,AW.
29 East Main Hi., (Juloatown
Fayette county. Pa.
GREGG & POTTS.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
llui'Cluy Building. Occonshurg.
w.
Agency.
A. KALI*.
Beal Estate and Insurance
833 East Main street.
S. C. Stevenson,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE,
157 MAIN ST.. MOI: NT PLEASANT.
L. S. RHOADES,
MICE Of THE PEACE & I01IIY PUBLIC.
AII kinds <»f letfal papers prepared and eve
ented. Collectlnn a.specialty.
Office 1109 Main Street, Mount Pleasant
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
or MOUNT Cl,KARA NT, l*A.
Capital Stock $100,000
orriOKitfl:
11. W. Stoner. ,f. I>. 11 Itch man,
President. ('ashler.
(J. W. Stoner,Vice President!
PI HECTORS.
Henry Jordan. J. 0. HUchnmn,
II. \V. Stoner, Wrn. B. Neel,
J. ('. ('rownover. Jos. R. Stauffer.
S N. Warden. Dr. J. II. (Jlark.
(». W. Stoner.
Particular attention given to collections, and
proceeds promptly settled.
MOUNT IM.KAMA NT. CA.
Capital Stock,
Surplus I' and.
$50,000.00.
$30,000.00.
OFFICERS.
J. S. Kltchrnan. I resident.
• J. L. Ruth, ('ashler.
OIRKCTOKK.
E. T. Illtchman. John Husband.
J. Ii, Hut Ii. O. P. Shape.
I. A. Warden. J. H. IHtchrnan.
I. (J. (Jrownover. J. L. Myers.
J no. M. Stauffer.
Farmers & Herchants
^NATIONAL BANK.t»
OF MOUNT IM,KAMA NT. CA.
CAPITAL STOCK. - $.50,000.00.
OFFIOF.KS:
R. K. Hlsscm. President.
James Neel. Vice President.
C. E. Mu 11 In, Cashier*
DIRECTORS:
U. K. HIssern. Abraham Ruff.
Prank D. Barnhart. E. T. Fox,
S- R. Ruff. L. H. Tlnstman,
I). II. Pershing. James Neel,
H. P. Zimmerman.
Hotel de Alverton,
Alverton, Pa.
IRA ANDERSON, PROPRIETOR.
Newly Furnisned Troughout
with every Comfort.
Close to Railroad Station.
Bell Telephone Service.
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The great
remedy for
nervous pros-tration
and
all nervous
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of either
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Youthful Errors, Mental worry, ex-cessive
use of Tobacco or Opium, which
lead to Consumption and Insanity. $1.00
per box by mail! 6 boxes for $5.00.
MOTT'S CHEMICAL CO., Prop's, Cleveland, Ohio.
For Sale by
Mount Pleasant & East End Pharmacy.
BEFORE AND
i<?jf ■*
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radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its ac-tion
upon the system is remarkable and mys-terious,
It removes at once the cause and
the disease immediately disappears. The
first dose generally benefits: 75 cents. Sold
by Chas. L Kuhn. Druggist, Mount Pleasant.
* ' * si-.-.4V—'** J
A WORDTO FARMERS:
In addition to lining tho Apodal agent for the ivlc
Cortnick Right-Hand Hinders, New Four Mowers,
Daisy Reapers and Vertical Corn Hunkers, I have on
hand
Celebrated - MI LLBURNWAGON,i
SURREYS, BUOQIES,
Harness, Rohes, Whips, Clows and Pennsylvania Spring-
Tooth Harrows; in fact, about everythin# you need in
this line.
The best goods in ... .
the Market for the Money.
J. J. HITCHMAN,
East Main Street, Mount Pleasant.
Our Prices are Right on
HARDWARE,
TINWARE,
STOVES,
AM well aw on SIato Roofing of which wo make
a specialty, and tho reputation for square deal-ing
enjoyed by Schenck & Husband doubt-less
guarantees that the recent, change in the
name of the firm has in no way effected its
well established policy.
EVERY BIT OF TINWARE WILL GO
At Racket Store Prices.
A call is nil we ask to convince yon that we
mean just wnat we say. Prompt attention to
all orders. Respectfully yonrs,
Samuel Schenck.
At the Old Stand,
831 Main St., Mount Pleasant.
Successor to
Schenck & Husband.
■**********.*******.**&**&&
BE COMFORTABLE
And you can be so in cold weather only when your house
or place of business is warmed by a good heater. There are
three agents for this purpose, hot air, hot water and steam,
but the greatest of these is steam and especially is this true
when it is used in
A plant of this kind, put in by J. A. Stevenson & Co. can
be seen in successful operation in THE JOURNAL Block.
.CALL AND SEE IT WORK.
5 W *
THE MOUNT I* LICABANT JOUIWAL, FRIDAY, I'lOIMM'ART 17, H )0.
ilu\? floimtjpirasnntJournal
.IDIIN I/. SlilKi.ua, rmu.iaimt.
Mount I’lciisiml IH Nlt ilillKtl In llirhimrtof
till, Great I’nniH'llsvlIln Colin IK-alon. Inis it
Iiopulmion of nviir B.IKW: wlillr. with olllnus
Humiunillni! within it t'liillitsof tlin-t- mill’s
ihn (lostoilh'i' ills! iliuition is I I.IHH'. A now ■■’i
pot t.iil,h*wiii,ii plnss fni'tory, tin1 Hnnst In this
country itml nni|iloyliiK omKin Iniinls. Is In
sms’t'ssfn 1 dully o|iornl.lnn.
RIJHHoIUl’TtON il.St) purycuf. pnynhU'In
till viuico.
ADVERTISING KATES willin’ fimilshfd
on iipplluutIon.
Kill PRINTING of innry hltul with tin
host ivoi hnninsldp noil host nmti-t-lul.
I'll I DAI . Iflu mi r\ tr. 1SIMI
Till: WAII INVESTIGATION.
Thfi Wav Invoatigntion ('ommission
1ms made its report, lint so tntu’li of il
hail been discounted lioforelinnd that its
publication caused little cointnent. II
sets forth al leugtli tlial the dillictiltles
which the dliferent departments had to
overcome in equipping and provisioning
an army of 3(Ui,000 men after a genera-tion
of peace, admitting and excusing
nnmerouu mistakes. II finds that, as a
whole, considering the immensity of the
task and the short time given to do it
[in, (lie work was well done. Some
'fault, however, was found with the ap
pointment of civilians as officers as well
ns with tlie red tape system.
Major General Miles and l)r. Dalynre
both scored for what they had to say
against tiie “embalmed" beef which the
commission finds was really a choice
article of food. The doctor is charged
by the commission with having for
months concealed I lie knowledge of a
crime affecting men under Ids charge,
whom, ns an officer and n physician, lie
was bound to protect.
The report is, in fact, just wlmt the
majority of American people believed il
would lie: il complete vindication of
Secretary of War Alger and a slap at
General Miles. Yet it has done Secre-tary
Alger no real good nor lias it in-jured
General Miles. The people of
this country, as a rule, look upon Mr.
Alger ns a scheming politician and have
little confidence in his executive ability,
facts which President McKinley would
do well to recognize and profit by.
UNIONTOWN’S POLE TAX.
Uniontown's Council has just passed
an ordinance providing for a tax of BO
cents each on street railway, electric
light, telegraph and telephone poles
which are so numerous that they give
that borough the appearance of a forest
of dead cedars.
The ordinance was passed at the in-stance
of numerous property holders and
business men. who claim that as the
corporations have seen lit to occupy so
much of the streets and alleys with their
poles and other property they should
help bear the tax burdens.
This view seems fair and yet it is still
a question whether any town, after hal-ing
granted a corporation a franchise to
do business within its borders, can levy
and collect a special tax such as that
mentioned in this article. Several
towns have passed similar ordinances,
bat, s > far ns we can learn, there have
been no collections made. It, is to be
hoped, however, that Unlontown's Coun-cil
will press the matter to a settlement.
There seems to he nothing unfair about
such a tax.
NEW ELECTRIC ROAD PROSPECTS.
Among the new electric mad projects
is that of the Mount Pleasant, Scottdale
and Counellsville Company which has
just been chartered with a capital stock
of $400,000. The Pittsburg capitalists
interested say it is tlieir intention not
only to build a road between the towns
named but extend the line to West
Newton, where connections will be
made with the Second avenue system
that is to be extended to that place from
McKeesport, thus connecting the coke
region with Pittsburg.
All this looks nice on paper and THE
JOURNAL would like very much to see
it in active operation, but wo expect to
be disappointed unless this session
of the Legislature grants electric roads
the rights of common carriers, without
which it is an easy matter for railroad
people to shut out all competition of this
kind. It is already said that the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, should the
electric line be built as projected, would
discontinue the passenger service on its
Mount Pleasant branch as it would not
pay to run a train. However, the elec-tric
people have only organized.
that the best of cure will not prevent
and yet in which, in nine eases out of
ten, (lie sore heals readily while tlieiini-null
is kept at work mid that, too, with
out suffering pain to amount to any
thing.
About tlie first intimation of such a
visit had by the superintendent was a
notice from a Justice of the I’eaeeaway
down al Hmithton, staling that the
above named society had entered suit
which, however, could be settled upon
payment of something like $111 In
some eases the money was sent, lint, in
the majority appeals were taken to
court, in which the prosecutors will have
whatever satisfaction there is in paying
the costs.
The Pittsburg IIuinane Society doubt
less not only menus well but accomplish-es
much good, although in the cases
mentioned it was sadly imposed upon
by its agents. For, with the exercise of
a little common sense and acquaintance
with facts, there is the assurance that
the coal or coke company's stable boss
who permits of any abuse of the stock
would soon find himself out of a good
paying job. Mine horses and unties cost
money and that it pays to take good care
of them no one knows better than the
operator himself.
THERE wasn't any real pleasure in the
fact that the mercury in the Mount
Pleasant thermometers, during the late
cold spell, saw those of neighboring
towns and went them two degrees bet-ter;
that is, lower.
THE Filipiimsure getting easier. Gen
eral Miller took Iloilo without tlie loss
of a man, and, should they now resort
to bushwhacking, they will speedily
learn that your Uncle Samuel is an old
hand at that kind of warfare, too.
( IEEli i AL reports of the late battle at
Mnniln show that the Tenth Pennsyl-vania
played its part well. But THE
JOPHNAL lias no fears that “Pap" Haw
kins's boys will not keep up their record
ns fighters from away hack.
THE cold snap wasn’t such a bad thing
after all, ns it is generally believed that
all the grip germs perished.
THE Seriate passed a hi 11 Monday ere
ating theoffice of Admiral for the Navy.
Of course, everybody knows that this
mark of special honor is for Dewey.
IT is only natural to suppose that, if
Mr. Quay should withdraw from the
senatorial contest, Mr. Magee, would
have plain sailing.
Brown and Quay.
< 'onnollsvlIU* < 'ourloi*.
Senator John Henry Brown of West-moreland,
who announced before the
meeting of the Legislature that he had
returned all of Quay's old love letters,
and after one fond and affectionate fare-well
vote, would thenceforth arid for-ever
meet him as a stranger, finds it dif-ficult
to break away from the Old Man’s
fetching fascinations.
A Big- Undertaking-.
Pittsburg Dispatch
If tlie Chicago beef combination, as is
rather wildly rumored, is going to run
down tlie record of everyone who says
that the army beef was bad, it has a
contract on hand which will use up the
big end of this year's profits.
Real Cause for Alarm.
Pittsburg Leader.
What alarms the Filipos is the pros
pect that, after one or two more scrim
mages, there may be none of 'em left.
Spain never soaked 'em like this, you
know.
A COMMENDABLE ACTION.
The action of Judge Dot}’, in throw-ing
the cases bronght by the Pittsburg
Humane Society against coke operators
ont of court and placing the costs on the
the society's local agents, is certainly a
Iccmmendable one when the course pur-sued
by the prosecutors is reviewed.
These agents, ns a rule, would sneak
around mines until they found a horse
or ..ime with a sore shoulder—something
Not Compelled to Drink Beer.
i’ll tslmrg Commercial Gazette.
With the completion of the brewery
combine it is pertinent to repeat that
the perfection of the combination is ac-companied
by no law which requires
anyone to drink beer who does not wish
to do so.
A Tabooed Subject.
Pittsburg News.
They have at last persuaded General
Shatter to fight his campaign over again
in a magazine article, and it is unneces-sary
to say that he avoids the dangerous
subject of beef.
One Means of Relief.
BlairsviUe Courier.
A whole lot of people, not necessarily
bloodthirsty, would experience a sense
of relief if some of the military sharps
were embalmed as thoroughly as the
beef is said to have been.
Milk in the Cocoanut.
Pittsburg Press.
If the Philadelphia district attorney
doesn’t get his packed jury, he may not
be able to “convict” Senator Quay, and
if he doesen’t convict Senator Quay,
Senator Quay will surely be elected, so
you see why the McCarrell bill is being
so virtuously combatted.
Quay No Quitter.
Pittsburg Post.
It also demonstrates the fact that the
Beaver man can take’ a great deal of
punishment.
zr*S5!rtl
% Heroes of the cj War with Sp&in
thousand.* of them, are suf-
£
faring thorn lingering dis-eases
induced by life in
poisonous southern camps,
the result of changes of
climate, OT of imperfect
nutrition caused by im-proper
and badly cooked
food. Sleeping on the ground
has doubtless developed
rheumatism in hundreds
who were predisposed to
the disease. In such cases
the Boys of '98 may take
& lesson from the e«peri»
ence of the
Heroes of the
Civil War.
fa
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MUHIN’S
605 Main Street, Mount Pleasant. Pa.
Public Notice.
Mr. C. E. Mullin, of the C. E.
Mullin Co., will retire from the
firm and in consequence the firm's
large stock of Dry Goods must be
greatly reduced in a very short
time. We take this means of noti-fying
our many friends of Mr. Mul-lin's
intention and also that they
may take advantage of the sale be-ginning
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, '99.
Our goods will be 3old at the low-est
possible figure and a careful
inspection of the same is earnest-ly
solicited.
Respectfully,
THE C. E. MULLIN CO.
“A Word to tlie wise %
is Sufficient.”
Our Rntirc Stock of
Men’s Stylishly made
SUITS
tH AT
Hundieds of the Boys
oF'63 hive testified to the
efficacy of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills FOT Pale People
in driving out malaria,
rheum&tism and other
diseases contracted during their dsys of hardship
and pTivation in the army. These pills are the best
tonic in the worid.
ABII Robinson, of Mt. Stirling, 111., is a veturnn of thr* Civil war, having
served in the Hyd I'umsylvuniu Volunteers. He went lo the warn vigor-ous
farmer's hoy ami mine back broken in health, n victim of sciatic rheu-matism.
Must of the time he WHS unfitted lor manual labor of any kind,
nud his sufferings were at all times intense. Hesnys: "Nothing seetnea
to ffive me permanent relief until three years nuo, when my attention was
called to some of the wonderful cures effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
for Pole People. I had not taken mote than half a box when I noticed an
Improvement in mv condition, and I keep on improving steadily. To them
1 owe my restoration to health. They ate a grand remedy.”—^//. Stirling
Democrat-Message.
At 6*11 ciructd»5tv or sent, postpMd, on receipt o? price, 50 tt* per
box, by the Or WiMi&ms W\e dicine Co., Bo* V, Schenectady .H .V.
f' % HHUntVH
EMPORIUM. <
HALF-PRICE! ■W
I oo Large a Stock n
Good
$
m
Season kar Advanced
Sacrifice every garment at an
Extremely bow Price, and get the Business mone
>
y ^mt t,i) 'n s° ia,,Ke
Drag along and carry your Stock
Dcgc* over to next Season, then present
DUoMlvSS as new goods.
We would rather “swallow our medicine”
gracefully and pin our faith to Good Business.
You know we sell nothing but the Best Tail-ored
Ready-to-wear Clothing in the city. Therefore
25 per cent off on
PRICES ALREADY CUT.
UNTIL FEBRUARY 18, 1899,
Should interest the economical who want to
dress well, and at little money.
Rwnliatigli S Dillon,
619 Main street, Zimmerman Block, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
H.S. ACKERMAN,
DEALER IN.. HIGH GRADE
pianos = =
p ^Organs,
Sheet Music and Musical
Merchandise.
Densmore and Yost
Typewriting Machines.
Gramophone Talking Machines ttUd
th6 Standard Sewing Machine,
NEEDLES, OIL AND ATTACHMENTS.
Address H. S. ACKERMAN,
201 Main Street, GREENSBURG PENNA.
^ N0TE:--I will be personally pres-
A ent at the above sale from 8 to 9 ^
^ a. m. and 5:30 to 8:30 p. m. each ^
T day until the entire stock is sold. $
A LC. E. MULLIN. J
GALLEY BROS.,
Vjl MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.,
-Manufacturers of-
BEST WHISKIES
LOWEST PRICED
HIGH GRADE.
Carriages, Buggies, Phaetons,
Wagons and Buckboards.
We also, at all times, supply the greatest selection of
wines (Imported or California), brandies, rums, gins and
liquors of all kinds—we quote a few prices;
Apple Blossom Whiskey,
Violet Whiskey,
Chestnut Whiskey,
Finch, 5-year,
Gibson. 5-year,
Guckenheimer, 5-year,
Overholt, 5-year
Finch, lO-yeer,
Gibson, 10-year,
60c qt., doz. $5.00;
05c
75c
$1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.25
1.60
7.00
8.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
12.00
15.00
Gal. $1.50
“ 2.00
2.50
'' 3.00
" 300
" 3.00
" 3.00
“ 4.50
“ 6.00
To get an accurate idea of our immense stock and oqr
low prices, send at once for our new price list. Orders of
$10 or over, shipped free. Every measure guaranteed full
quantity.
Jos. Fleming & Son,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUOCISTS,
410, 412 Market St., ....
While we continue to maintain our high standard for best material
and workmanship, we have determined to handle at the
same time a cheaper grade of buggies. We can now sell you
*
A Buggy from $37-50 up.
Call and see us at our factory on West Washington street, where
*vc Lave prices to suit all purses.
THE MOUNT ULEA8ANTJOURNAL Kill DAY, KEHItlAItY 17. Its!)!)
For the Past Week Briefly Men-tioned.
LITTLE TALK OF THE TOWN
THAT WILL BOTH INTEREST AND
ENTERTAIN.
A Department in Which the Local Editoi
Holds High Carnival and Works off liis
Surplus Enemy in Condensations
That Deal Solely with Matters Relating
to Mount Pleasant.
Lent begnn Wednesday.
Local banks were closed Monday in
observance of Lincoln's birthday.
The local Heptasojdis installed their
new officers Tuesday night.
Tuesday's election in the borough
promises to be warm, especially in the
Second ward.
The local crop of valentines was light
Tuesday ns the cold weather seemed too
much for Cupid.
The many friends of Miss May Shaf-fer
will be pleased to learn that she lias
recovered from her recent illness.
The loeal banks and postoflice will lie
closed Tuesday and Wednesday next,
election and Washington's birthday.
The Rev. Dr. McKee, of Butler, l’n.,
preached for the Rev. Mr. Wilson in the
United Presbyterian church Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Emma Stauffer and M. A. King
have administered on the estate left by
the former's husband,* the late A. N.
Stauffer.
'the Rev. Mr. Wood is continuing his
interesting evangelical services in the
East End chapel every evening during
■•he present week.
The Methodist Episcopal people gave
a jolly calico i arty at their Walnut
street parsonage Tuesday evening, real-izing
some $12.
The pleasing musical at the Institute,
arranged lor to-night, was given Iasi
evening so as not to interfere with the
G. A. R. benefit.
Dr. M. S. Kuhn and Harry Mullin
headed a jolly party who sleighed
Wednesday evening from here to Don-egal
for a chicken and waffle supper at
the St. Elmo Hotel.
Mary Walters and Lizzie Galvin, of
the Hotel Cooper, have broken the rec-ord
as hotel girl stayers. They began
service there when Mine Host Coles took
charge, over two years ago.
Johnston McCormick, the' East End
shoemaker, lias returned from a two
weeks' visit with friends in Allegheny,
improved in health and ready to pay
strict attention to his trade.
Jerry Myers, the nurseryman-farmer,
who lives just south of town, had the
tail frozen off his thermometer Friday
morning. The instrument was made to
register but 20 degrees below zero.
The past week’s cold greatly reduced
the attendance at the neighboring
country schools. Mr. Smith, an Jude-pendent
district teacher, was laid up by
sickness and the house was closed.
The court lias appointed James Silia
man, W. M. Jordan and J. F. Stoner
viewers on a proposed road to run from
Bridgeport street, below the East Eml
glass factory, to Warden street.
Tlie Rev. Mr. Keister was at Greens,
burg over Sunday preaching in the
United Brethren church morning and
evening. The Rev. Mr. Wood Idled the
vacant pulpit here Sunday morning.
Even if it were not for the benefit Of
Robert Warden Post, G. A. R., tonight’s
panorama of the war with Spain by the
American Wargraph Company will
wed repay a visit to the Grand Opera
House.
The Rev. Dr. Lewis, Who was to lec-ture
here Monday evening for the “Peo-ple's
Popular Course,” got sidetracked
at Harrisburg by the cold. The enter-tainment
has been postponed until Feb-ruary
28th.
Quarterly meeting will be held at the
Methodist Episcopal church Sunday.
Presiding Elder Ballentine, of Wilkins-burg,
will assist the pastor, the Rev.
Mr. Davis, preaching this and Sunday
evenings.
The Passion Play- drew a very small
audience to the Grand Opera House
Tuesday evening. The instrument used
* to throw the moving pictures on the
canvas evidently suffered from the cold
as it made a great deal of unnecessary
noise.
As will be seen by an advertisement,
C. E. Mullin. in order to devote all his
time to the Farmers and Merchants Na-tional
Bank cashiership, intends retiring
from the C. E. Mullin Company, which
will begin a special sale to reduce stock
on Monday next.
THE JOURNAL yesterday received a
letter from Private C. W. Brown, of
Company E, its special correspondent,
dated at Manila January 5th, but lack
of space forbids its publication this
week. The general health of Captain
Loar’s boys is, however, .t ; .1
AM IMPORTANT DECISION
Handed Down In a Lomr-PendinR Fay-ette
Gas Suit.
At Uniotitown Monday Judge Rep
pert decided the long pending case be-tween
George Bailey and the Fayette
Gas Fuel Company, giving the coin puny
power to'charge any mfe it desires for
gas, Consumers protested against pay-ings?!.
50 per thousand feet for light
when the company charged only 25 cents
a thousand for fuel.
Judge Reppert's decision reaffirms
Judge Single's that the gas company,
being a common carrier, must supply
gas to customers with discrimination
for nil purposes, but nt the same time
holds that the company is privileged to
charge any rate it pleases for gas. If
this decision stands, It may lmve the
effect of bringing an opposition gas com-pany
to Uniotitown. and also of estab-lishing
n mutual electric light plant by
local business men. This project was
broached when the gas war began, lmt
was delayed to await the court's action.
CHARTER STAOE REACHED.
The Mount Pleasant, Seottdale and Con-liellsville
Electric Road.
The Mount Pleasant, Seottdale and
Connellsville Electric Railway Com
pany, with a capital stock of $400,000,
was chartered at Harrisburg last week
and at ft meeting of tlie stockholders in
Pittsburg Thursday tlie following offi-cers
were elected: President, W. E.
Tustin; secretary, G. S. Lewis; tress
nrer. II. C. Fehl; general manager, W.
\V. Stnuh, nit Pittsburg capitalists.
The line, ns projected and already de-scribed
in THE JOURNAL runs from
Turr, via this place and Seottdale, to
Connellsville, and now it is said the in-tention
is to extend it to West Newton
and there connect with the Second nve-nue
system for Pittsburg.
A Frightful Death.
John Green, the colored stable boss at
the If. C. Frick Coke Company's Lei-senring
pin lit, was instantly killed
Thursday by falling down the 200 foot
shaft. In the heavy vapor pouring
from tlie mouth of the shaft lie opened
the wrong door mnl missed the cage. His
body was terribly mangled. lie was 45
years old and leaves a widow and sev-eral
children. He formerly lived here
and was stable boss at Standard.
FLORIDA.
Personally-Coiiduoted Tour via Penn-sylvania
Railroad.
The Pennsylvania Railroad ('ompany's
third tour of the present soesnn to Jack
sonvile, allowing two weeks in Florida,
will leave New York and Philadelphia
by special train of Pullman Palace Cars
Tuesday, February 21. Excursion tick-ets,
including railway transportation,
Pullman accommodations (one berth),
and tneals en route in both directions
while traveling on the special train,
will be sold at tlie following rates: New
$50.00; Philadelphia, $48.00: Canandai
gna, $52.85; Erie, $54.85; Wilkesbarre,
$50.85; Pittsburg, $53.00; and at propor-tionate
rates from other points.
For tickets, itineraries, and full in-formation
apply to ticket agents; Tour-ist
Agent, 1100 Broadway, New York;
780 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.; or ad-dress
Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General
Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station.
Philadelphia.
MID-WINTER EXCURSIONS
To Washington and Baltimore via Balti-more
& Ohio Railroad. Very LowRates.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad lias
made arrangements for a series of pop-ular
mid-winter excursions to Washing-ton
and Baltimore at $7.85 for the round
trip, allowing ten day limit on tickets
including date of Bale. These excur-sions
will lie run on February 21st,
March 2d and April 13th, 180!). Tickets
will be good going on regular trains of
the above dates and good to return on
regular trains within ten days, inclu-ding
date of sale.
Do not miss these splendid opportu-nities
to visit the National Capital dar-ing
the session of Congress. Call on 8.
W. Husband, Agent B. & O. R. R., for
full information. 8-10-9t
Maps for Ready Reference.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway Co. has just issued in conven-ient
form for household, library and
school reference an atlas of seven colored
maps of the world, the United States
and our new possessions in the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans, together with an
amount of valuable information con-nected
therewith—all up to date. This
atlas will be sent free to any address on
receipt of six (0) cents in postage.
Apply to Geo. H. Heafford, General
Passenger Agent, Old Colony Building,
Chicago, or to John R. Pott, District
Passenger Agent, Williamsport, Pa.
Close Up the Century
by opening a savings account in the
Pittsburg Bank for Savings, No. 210
Fourth avenue, Pittsburg. Four per
cent, interest paid—compounded twice
a year. Yon can deposit money by mail.
IT, M
But Principally Within tho
Bounds of This County.
A FULL COLUMN OF GOOD NEWS
SECURED FROM THE PAGES OF RE
LIABLE EXCHANGES.
How these Articles Appear After They
Have been Boiled Down Into Short
Paragraphs That Speak to the Point
But Brieily of Interesting Events
Transpiring in the Old Star of the Wes t
Tlie West Jeannette grocery store of
J. U. Myers & Son was gutted by lire
Friday last.
A. IT. Coffroth lias purchased tlie
Somerset Democrat and again assumed
editorial charge.
Treasurer Rankin's report shows the
county's cash balance to the good on
January 1 was $22.(142.15.
Tlie Greensburg estate willed by Hie
tlie late Josiab Meehling to liis family
will foot up over $200,000.
Frank Shearer's (Treensbnrg ice house
was destroyed by fire Friday. There is
no insurance on the $700 loss.
The pattern shop of the foundry nt
Avonmore was destroyed by fire Thurs-day.
The loss is fully covered by in
suranee.
The Pleasant Grove school house, in
Ligonier Valley, was destroyed by fire
Friday. The origin was an overheated
stove.
John Barley, of McKeesport, was ar-rested
at West Newton Tuesday
charged with having robbed n B. <fc ().
car last July.
Alt hough anxious •friends have made
every search, no trace lias been found
of Peter Bruce, who disappeared from
liis Larimer borne onJannary 17th.
Joseph Wagner, of Latrobe, Was ar-rested
and placed in jail at Greensburg
Thursday charged with having assaulted
Lizzie Woody, of tlie former place.
Rosie, the (i-year-old daughter of
Henry Ashbnugli, of near Delmont, was
burned to death Thursday night by her
clothes catching tire from an open grate.
The consecration of St. James' Evan-gelical
Lutheran church at Ligonier
occurred Sunday. Rev. F. W. E. Pes-clmit,
of Greensburg, preached the ser
moil.
A little child of Ellsworth Crable, of
Upper Middletown, Fayette county,
was burned to death Tuesday by its
clothes catching fire from an open
grate.
The J. M. Rumbaugh company, of
Greensburg, lias been awarded a con
tract for 3,000,000 brick for the West
inghonse Air Brake Company at Wil-meriling.
Connellsville lind a bread famine
Saturday. The dough of the home
bakers refused to raise on account of
account of tlie cold and tlie supp’y at
the bakeries played out.
Willis Atkinson, who is believed to
have been one of the parties who held
up and robbed Isaac Becker in Greens-burg
recently, was arrested there
Wednesday and is now in jail.
Squire Samuel Lancaster, of Henry
Clay township, Fayette county, was
distantly killed by a fall of slate in liis
private coal mine Thursday. He leaves
a wife and thirteen children.
Miss Jane Craig, of New Alexandria,
has been offered $2,500 by the Pittsburg
Carnegie museum management for
the famous “Rattlesnake Flag”
which was bequeathed her by her
mother.
Representative Yovmgson lias intro-duced
a bill in tlie Legislature repealing
the act which placed the borongh of
Pamnssns under tne same form of
government as the now defunct borongh
of Birmingham, Allegheny count}’.
Samuel Ashabaugh, a son of John G.
Asbabaugh, of Millwood, was coupling
cars at Bradenville, Tuesday night
when liis arm was caught between the
bumpers. The mangled member was
amputated at the Greensburg hospital.
A family quarrel at Cool Springs, near
Uniontown, Sunday afternoon, will
probably result in death. Jacob Rhodes
stabbed his brother-in-law, William
Welsh, close to the heart, severing three
ribs, and the doctor says he cannot re-cover.
Rhodes is in jail.
“Got the Grio?” Get Dr. Miles’ Restora-tive
ivcrvme onu ui,e it.
Don’t Waste the Water.
Chief Engineer Giles, of the Mount
Pleasant Water Company, would like
very much to have consumers close all
spigots and hydrants, as there has for
the past ten days or two weeks been a
great waste of water, causing that
gentleman many an hour's extra work
with the pumps to keep a supply in the
standpipe sufficient to guard against
fire. Harry's voice trembled as he tel-ephoned
his request to THE JOURNAL
yesterday, and he admitted he had tears
in his eyeB.
WANTED:—Reliable man to put in
all or part of time taking orders for our
Lubricating Oils and Greases. Liberal
commission. THE FEDERAL OIL Co.,
Cleveland, O.
If it was only health, we
might I t it cling.
But it is a cough. One cold
no sooner passes off before
another comes. But it’s the
same old cough all the time.
And it’s the same, old story,
too. There is first the cold,
then the cough, then pneu-monia
or consumption with tlie
long sickness, and life tremb-ling
in the balance.
lit vt/
I IT’S A |
FACT! |
WE’RE GOING TO MOVE. I
We are not jesting about it, just
loosens the grasp of yourcotigh.
The congestion of the throat
and lungs is removed; all in-flammation
is subdued; the
parts are put perfectly at rest
and the cough drops away. It
has no diseased tissues on
which to hang.
Dr. Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral
Plaster
draws out Inflammation of the
lungs.
Atlvlcc f'vcct
Remt-iiibiT wo hfivn n Mmllenl Popart-input.
If yon luivo any oomiilnlnt wlmt-ovor
and uetdra tho best inodioal advice
you can possibly obtain, write tho
doctor freely. YOU will receive a
prompt reply, without cost.
Address, I»H. J. <\ AYKIf.
Lowell, Mass.
Wanted:
TO SELL OR TRADE:
For a small farm of 40 or 50 acres with
building—A nice suburban place, just
outside of Seottdale, close to station;
containing 5 acres, good stable, poultry
house, good frame dwelling of it) rooms,
all kinds fruit, good water, limestone
on place, limekiln ready to burn, stone
quarried for another. Just the place
for gardening.
Price, ■= - $i.6oo
BASY TERMS.
Also stock of General Merchandise-
Invoice about. $2,000. Near Seottdale.
Doing good business. Owner wants to
go on farm.
Address or call on
Q. W. MILLER,
E. & M. National Rank Building,
MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
KfiT
—a
Enough Said:
When you know how many
different styles and shapes of
men wear garments we have
made, it’s almost enough said,
for
OUR CLOTHES LIT.
We make them to fit a man
with a figure like a fashion-plate
model, or the equally
fastidious or the far more cor-pulent
citizen of ample girth—
we make them to fit without
a wrinkle.
VOGLE BROS.,
Mullin Bl’k, flount Pleasant, Pa.
to
jjjjget you here. We move April 1st, andjS
# honestly, we would rather sell you goods#
W | J F> ^
lit at less than the goods cost us, and we\j/
{{■are going to do it, too. We are goingjjj
# to sell you VI/
Men's All-wool Suits the $10 and $12 kind for $6.65. \l/
Men’s Overcoats the $10 and #12 Coats- for $5.90. ^
# Men’s Shoes the $:•! and $4 kind at $2.00. *
Ladies’Shoes the $!{ and $4 kind go at $1.90.
T tf/l
You will recognize this as an honest
if) offer, as.the cost of packing goods to/fi
{{{move and the freight on same is some-1
2 thing enormous, when you consider how 2
If* * J A
large a stock we have. Therefore, in /|V
{{{saying goodbye to the people of Mount
$ Pleasant and vicinity, we want to give^
you something to
W ffi # Appreciate and Remember. %
I LEVINSON BROS., 1
ff\ The Old Successful yiumt Plmc^nl PA ff\
/fV Clothing and Shoe House. IVIOtlill nCdSflni 10, /p
!P ;
Bell Phone 56. | } Local Phone 88.
(Bibbs & Iking,
Mount Pleasant, Pa. 57M2
I
427 West Main St..
A. H. Bell. Attorney.
Administrator’s Notice.
Notice is hereby given that letters of ad-ministration
of tne goods and chattels of I.
E. Harman, late of Mount Pleasant Boro,
dec’d, having been granted to the undersign-ed
hy the Register of Wills, etc. of Westmore-moreland
county, all persons knowing them-selves
Indebted to said estate will make im-mediate
payment, and those having claims
against the same will present them properly
authenticated for settlement to
JOHN H. BAUMAN. Admr.
P. O. Mount Pleasant. Pa. 2-17-tit
Atkinson & Peoples. Attorneys.
Administrator’s Notice.
Notice is hereby given that letters of ad-ministration
on the estate of Aaron N. Stauf-fer.
late of Mount Pleasant Borough. West-moreland
county, deceased, having been
granted to the uudersipned by the Register of
Westmoreland county, notice is hereby given
to all persons Indebted to said estate to make
Immediate payment, and to those having
claims against the same to present them to
tho underslgued, duly authenticated,.for set-tlement.
EMMA STAUFFER,
M. A. KING,
Administrators.
P. O. address. Mount Pleasant. Pa. 2-17-tit
OLIR PLAN
Of carpet selling' met the approval of our many
customers last season, and
OUR [PORTS
for the coming season have been still gi’eater,
and we believe that we will be prepared to show (SgSJi
Better variety
an(I better quality
Than before, and with prices, which are as low
as consistent with good quality, we can serve SR
our patrons even better.
Carpet sewing and laying
is an item in the purchase of carpets, and we
would have you bear in mind that we cut, sew
and line carpets at almost the same prices
which rule in other houses for the carpets
alone, and WE DO IT RIGHT.
We assure you
That our carpets are cut with .a minimum of
waste, and are made to fit the room. Our
spring line of samples will be placed on exhi-bition
within a short time, wrhen we invite a
careful inspection of the same.
Very truly yours,
(Bibbs &1king,
FURNITURE. CARPETS. UNDERTAKING.
ay.-
THTC MOUNT PLUAHANT JOURNAL, ITJDAV, FKBUHATTY 17, 1800.
VER1 CLEVER SCHEME
Adopted by a Cleveland Man
For His Dogs.
HE ROPED THE PAIR TOGETHER
AND ONE WAS BIG AND THE
OTHER LITTLE.
Thin Was the Arrangement When he
Took the Animals Out for a Run in the
Snow the Other Sunday and It Gave
Him the Liveliest Kind of an Experi-ence
as he got Mixed up With the Rope.
mu nusiness limn wno owns two uSgs
made it sad mistake a few days afi[c>.
Every Bumlity lie takes the dogs for a
walk, aud for fear that they may go
astray he fastens them together with a
stout rope. The little deg, he feels as-sured,
will net lose the big dog, and he
is quite positive that tho big dog will
not lose the little one. Of course if tho
big dog takes it into his massive head
that he wants lo go in a certain direc-tion
he is pretty apt, to have his way.
Luckily he is an easily persuaded ani-mal,
and the little dog, by the exercise
of some diplomacy, gets fully as much
fun out of these promenades ns the big
fellow.
Well, all three of the friends were
out walking Sunday, the two dogs aud
the master, and the dogs were snme dis-tance
ahead. The snow was drifted deep
in places and the master determined to
turn aud go hack. He whistled for the
dogs.
Tho big dog whirled around. He saw
his master had slopped and instantly
came full tilt toward him. The small
dog was taken by surprise, and for a
few moments could not regain his foot-ing.
When he did, ho put in some tall
running. They came down on tho mas-ter
at a still gallop.
As they approached thoir speed in-creased,
the little dog at the end of tho
rope running for dear life. Just ns they
reached tbe master they separated, tho
little dog going around him to tho right
and tho big dog to the left, tho six feet
of stout rope held taut between them.
When the master gathered himself
out of tho snowdrift, and blew the flakes
from his mouth, and dug them from his
oars, and rescued his hat, and brushed
off a little of the more sticky mass, he
started for home with one shivering
haud grasping the rope, tho dogs de-murely
trotting along on either side.
Hereafter ho will either shorten the
rope or else get behind a convenient tree
the next time he wbi6tlos.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
(future to Snve Money.
Agent—I am informed, sir, that yon
are about to build a uow house, anil 1
should liko to sell you a hook on archi-tecture.
Mr Suburb—Don't want it.
Agent—It may save you a lot of
money, sir. May I inquire whnt sort of
a house you intend to erect?
Mr. S.—I have accepted a plan for a
$5,0(10 house.
Agent (triumphantly)—Well, sir,
this hook shows you how to build a
$5,000 Imnse for only $10,000.—New
York Weekly.
Hveryday Tragedy.
“Hold up your hands!"
At this startling command every one
of the six or eight stalwart men, taken
by surprise, mechanically complied.
Then the voice was heard again dron-ing
out those words:
“Y’ou and each of yon do solemnly
swear that tho evidence you shall givo
in the cate uow in hearing shall ho the
truth, the whole truth,” eto.—Chicago
Tribune.
Witty SayluttH.
A man never realizes how very dear
a girl is to him until be acquires the
right to pay her bills.
When a man sings his own praise, ho
invariably gets the tune too high.
Doctors assist nature when men try
to escape the debt thereof.
When a girl is in love, she doesn’t
carry his letters in her pocket.—Chicago
News.
Subtle.
“What a nickname!" said one chum
to another as they walked down the
avenue. “Why uudor tho broad canopy
did yon ever tako to calling her ‘Re-venge?’
“
“Because she’s so sweet, don’t you
know.”—Detroit Free Press.
SnvIiiB Labor,
“That’s very strange about those
ohickeus of mine 1"
“ What’s the matter with them?”
“Why, ever since your dog ohased
them all over tbe garden they have been
Uayiug nothing but scrambled eggs.”—
kitray Stories.
■ Even.
■The Housewife—That Mrs. Bell next
Boor is continually borrowing things
'and never bringing them hack.
The Breadwinner—Possess yonr soul
lu patieuoe. I am doing the same thing
with Bell’s money.—Cincinnati En-quirer.
Duple sain.
“But your real opinion of Uuole
?” asked the interviewer,
“Well.” said Aguiualdo, tbought-lly
and slowly, “I liked him better
‘ eu he was patting UB on tho baok
d hollering, ‘Sio ’em I’ than Ido when
e is saying, ‘Come here and lie
own I’ ”—Indianapolis Journal.
COW STABLING.
CbiiiiKPH lu ffrtiluury Harm* lo Over-come
I neon vc‘ii ioiice.
The accompanyiug illustrations, says
a correspondent of The National Btock-mnn,
show the way in which I remod-eled
my cow stable a year ago. My barn
was of the prevailing plan in this part
of the state, a bank barn of two stories,
with feeding room next bank, ho^-e
stable next this anil cow stable at lower
aide, with manger against weather
hoarding, and feedroom for feeding
hay, etc., cribbed off from the mows on
second story. In feeding grain the feed-er
had to pass in between tho cows and
place feed in troughs, carrying feed
from feeding room through horse stable
to cow stable. Perhaps it seems foolish
that any one should have a stable so in-conveniently
arranged, but it is a fact
that nine-tenths of the cow stables in
this part of the state are constructed in
this way.
I divided the entire space into sec-tions
of SI feet 4 inches each and made
partitions between tho stalK letting
the partition extend back from the
manger 2 feet (! inches and making
that portion of it 2 feet 0 inches high.
I let the partition extend through the
manger, making it so high that one
cow cannot reach over and rob the oth-er
of grain or hay. I made a drop by
setting a row of locust posts five feet
back from tho manger and spiking a
plank to them and tilling the space be-tween
them and the manger with clay
and spiking a plank on top of this for
the hind feet of the cows to rest upon.
Tho manger is my own device. I took
oak hoards to the planing mill and had
them sawed in 4 inch and 8 inch pieces
and surfaced on one side. Of these 1
made spouts of the proper length to
reach from the feed trough a sufficient
distance above the floor of the second
story for convenience in feeding. These
nro constructed with a lip to prevent
wasting feed in pouring in. The spouts
and troughs were arranged in pairs,
and a hood was made to extend out be-yond
tho line of the trough and down
from the upper floor to the line of the
lower edge of the boards of the upper
portion of the manger, which should
extend down as near to the height of
the cow as possible. This hood prevents
the coarse feed from getting into the
feed trough.
I kceji the feed on the second floor of
the barn, and I can feed the grain at
tho same time that I give coarse feed.
I save a groat deal of time in this way.
I am not annoyed with the cows eating
out of my bucket or spilling the feed as
I pour it into the troughs. Altogether I
have found it satisfactory, and I give
it in the hope that it may be useful to
others. One of my neighbors who re-modeled
his barn this summer lias fitted
mi kis stable in the same manner.
American Butter In Cape Colony.
Consul General J. G. Stowe at Cape
Town writes as follows to the depart-ment
of state: “In my recent report on
butter I called attention to the large
quantities imported into South Africa
from Australia and Denmark and of-fered
advice as to the preparation and
packing of American butter. I am in-formed
that within the last two months
from 3,000 to 4,000 boxes (of 56 pounds)
from America have reached this city
through London. This was shipped here
as Australian butter, all the American
marks on the boxes having been erasod
and Australian marks substituted. By
this means all credit to the products of
the American producers is lost, and this
action is prirna facie evidence that the
American butter is now satisfactory,
although complaint is still made that it
is too yellow. Other shipments of but-ter,
to the amount of several thousand
pounds, have been recently received di-rect
from America with the American
marks thereon. ”
Cattle Lice.
Care should be taken that lice are
not transmitted by means of brushing,
as one lousy anflnal may spread para-sites
through a whole herd.
Cow. Like to He Brnnlied.
Cattle enjoy currying and brushing
even more than horses and by their ac-tions
show evidonce of their pleasure
while it is being d^ne.
WINTER MARKETING.
film lo Save Work n ml Make Money
In Celery, CnlilutKEe, Idle.
Diggi.14 vegetables out of pits 011 cold
days when tho ground is frozen is not
agreeable work and is often done with
great risk to health ;so a New York cor-respondent
of the Ohio Farmer bus
shrewdly planned to avoid all this in so
fur its possible Hero are some of his
methods:
1 have in the cellar a lot of boxes
filled with celery, which was put up in
the following way: About Nov. 1 we
drew a lot of boxes to the field where
the celery grew and put about two
inches of soil in the bottom of each box,
then lifted the celery with the spading
fork, leaving a little soil on the roots,
and set the plnnls upright in the boxes,
packing the soil around the roots ns it
was put in. When tho boxes were filled,
we drew them to (lie cellar and watered
tho celery in tho boxes by setting a tube
in the box with a funnel on the upper
end to convey the water to the roots of
the celery without wetting the leaves
or stalks, for this will cause them to
decay. Two or three weeks before I
wanted to blanch the celery I covered
the boxes with cloth, for all that is re-quired
to blanch celery is to cause it to
grow in a dark place. The average size
of the boxes is 2 by 3 feet, and they
hold from 25 to 50 plants. When mar-keting,
we place a few boxes in the
v.’agon, and if the weather is cold cover
tho boxes witli blankets to keep the cel-ery
from freezing. Some of our custom-ers
will take several bunches, ns they
oau place tho roots in soil in the cellar
anil keep it several days, and some will
tako n whole box to put in the cellar for
winter nso. This plan of marketing I
think will satisfy my customers and
save much disagreeable work in trim-ming
mid handling celery in cold
weather.
My boxes in which I packed tbe cel
cry were picked op at the stores and
cost ahimt 5 cents encli. 1 have also a
quantity of celery stared in the cellar,
which I shall put up for marketing in
cold weather as follows: I will trim it
ready for use, then wrap it in paper,
making hunches of different size, to sell
for 5, 10 and 25 cents. These will ho
packed in baskets holding about six
dozen plants
Other vegetables which I market in
winter are usually cabbages, onions,
squashes, turnips, etc. The cabbages
and turnips are stored in pits mid
trenches outdoors, and on warm days
in tho winter wo try to get out n sup-ply
to last several weeks and store them
in the cellar. The most profitable cab-bage
for me to grow for fall and winter
use is the Early VViuiiingatadt Tho
heads are not so large as some of tho
Drumhead varieties, but I hey aro of
butter quality and nro very solid. As
they have less loose leaves I can grow
about one-third mere on (he same
ground aud get more tons per acre.
There nro so many people growing cab-bages
near mo that during the fall aud
winter they are often slow to sell, but
mine keepwell in the trenches until
spring, when (lie cubhages are mostly
out of tho market, and they bring good
prices.
Ouious and squashes aro stored in the
collar in the fall and nrn handled with
less work than the other vegetables
mentioned. Onions pay the best here in
September, when there is a demand for
them from people who are making
pickles, mid then late in the winter,
when the most of the crop has been dis-posed
of.
In my locality if one can grow a good
crop of Hubbard squashes he oau make
money, for they often retail for 5 cents
per pound. A profitable combination of
crops which I suggest is early sweet
corn and Hubbard squashes on the same
ground, and I would advise putting in
well rotted manure in the hills where
the squashos are planted.
Bacterial llot of Cabbnge.
Very good authorities seem to agree
that as there is no remedy known for
cabbage rot preventive measures must
he relied on in oombating the disease.
These moasuros are as follows: Avoid
planting in laud on which infected
plants have been grown. Several years
may bo necessary to rid tho land of tbe
germs. Do not use manure containing
decayed cabbage leaves or stalks either
in the seed bed or field. Wet land should
be avoided, as it favors the develop-ment
of the disease. Keep the plants as
free from insects us possible. Remove
and destroy ail diseased plants or por-tions
of the plant as soon as diseased
condition is noticed.
For Cleaning Away Snow.
Clearing out paths through the snow
with a shovel on a winter morning is
not altogether a pleasing task. Besides,
there are ninny roads and lanes about
the farm that ennnot he thus cleaned.
So it behooves the fnrrnor who is liable
to be snowed up to possess a good
strong snowplow. F. Greiner tells in
Farm and Fireside of a very easy way
to acquire one, provided you happen to
have among your old farm implements a
discarded wood frame cultivator in good
condition.
He took suoh a frame, went to work,
diBrobed it of all unnecessary castings,
and with tbe help of twopieoesof hoard
15 Indies wide aud 4% feet long soon
had an exoellent implement in running
order for making paths through the
snow from house to barn, henhouse aud
other buildings, to olothesliuo, etc.
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For Man and beast.
Toilet and Rat h Rooms.
Larne Sample Rooms.
Good I In v A! I nched.
Hell and Mutual Telephones.
Telegraph office lu same block-
Free 'Bus to and from all Trains
HOTEL COOPER,
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West Main Street.
Mount Pleasant, Penn'a
Everything in aud about
the house right up-to-date,
including bath aud toilet
rooms, telephones and elec-tric
bells
Fine Bar Attached.
One good lamp
equals in brilliancy
two ordinary electric
lights if you use
The diamond cut
surface does it.
X-Rays Chimneys increase the
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Ask Your Dealer.
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Mount Pleasant, Pa.
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PENSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Mount Pleasant Brunch.
Eastern Standard Time.
NORTH.
a. in. H. m. i a. m.; p. m.
I n Effect Nov. 20, 1S9&
SOUTH.
II. III. it. IM. p In. p. III.
7 05
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(l 45
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10 50
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10 821
10 no!
ft 3«
ft :u
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ft 20
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ft 10
Mount Pleasant.
Star Mines
..Groenliek
Emma
Overton.
Scottdule Branch .L
10
■ 15
’ 1ft
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10 00
2 50
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STATIONS.
Fairchance
Unlontown
Redstone .Junction
I birent
Stunflmugli
Frost
Gist
Fu rgusOn
I hiuhar
Wheeler
New Haven
Connellsvl lie
Moyer
Pennsvllle
valley Works
Everson
Scottdale
.dcottdale Junction
Alverton
Tarr
Bethany
New Stanton
Youngwoorl
County Home Junction.
.Greensburg
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3 33
8 25
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8 15
8 II
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7 37
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0 58
0 50
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3 30
3 27
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7 22
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7 Oft
7 05
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0 58
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0 35
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MAIN LINE TRAINS.—LEAVE GREENSBURG.
FAST. I WEST.
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Mount Pleasant Branch.
Eastern Standard Time.
NORTH.
53 55 57 59
In Effect. Nov. 20. 1893.
a. m.
8 20
8 15
8 10
8 05
8 02
8 00
7 48
7 45
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10 20
10 15
10 10
10 05
10 <12
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ft 45
8 00
p. m.
3 30
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3 15
12
3 10
2 58
2 55
12 45
p. m.
7 10
7 05
00
..Mount J’leasant.
Pershing
... Iron Bridge
West Overton. ..
Scottdale
Everson
Morgan
Broad ford
...Pittsburg
p. m.
4 55
5 00
5 00
5 10
5 13
5 16
5 30
7 35
p. rn.
1 55
2 00
2 06
2 10
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2 10
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5 00
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p. m.
12 10
12 15
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12 25
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12 41
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0 55
7 00
7 06
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ft 45
Pittsburg Division.
TRAINS LEAVE CONNELLSVJLLE.
At 8:55 and 9:40 a. m. and2:50. 7:15 and 10:45 At 4:50. 7:40 and 10:30a.m. and 12:40,2:45.
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iiii
The superintendent looked at the
"‘■pasteboard “It’s a very unfortunate
position for you to he in, Captain Brett,
aiud in my civil capacity, us it might
easily have happened to myself, I can
sympathize with you extremely, hut at
the same time my duty forbids me to
let you go at present. We shall push in-quiries
in the morning, go through the
formality of verifying your tale, and
find out the identity of the unlucky wo-man
who has been murdered You have
no suggestion to make as to the reason
for this outrage?’’
“How should 1 have?’’ I answered
“1 never saw the wretched woman in
my lifo before. ’’
“No, I don’t mean that, ’’ said the
superintendent. “What I was wanting
to know was, did you hear any sounds
of a quarrel or a scuffle as you came
down 13ack Saville street?"
“No," 1 answered, “and if there had
been any such sounds I don’t think 1
should have heatd them My mind was
very fully occupied with something else
Indeed if it had not been I should not
have come that way at all To he pre-cise,
I had lust my road. ”
vtvy wen, vjaptnm nrett. 1 think
fre have nothing more to say to one au-f.
ther, lint if I were you I would writo
to some friends to appear here tomorrow
to give evidence both as to your move-ments
this evening and to bear testi-
^lucmy to your reputation. Your solicitor
would probably be very useful to you.
I’m afraid I shall only be able to give
you poor accommodation for the night,
but you must blame our regulations for j
it and not me. ”
I thanked the worthy official for his
courtesy, and, acting on his advice,
wrote to Bnttertou, my legal man, and
to half n dozen friends I knew I could
rely upon if they were in town. I was
then conducted to a cheerless cell. On
luy way thither I passed the body of the
murdered woman, now lying upon a
stretcher and covered with a sheet. This
sight completed the unstringing of my
nerves, and I passed the night feverish-ly
pacing my room, never even trying
to court sleep.
As I walked to and fro between the
cold, bleak walls on that horriblo night
my feelings might indeed he hotter im-agined
than described. Event had fol-lowed
event with sickening rapidity,
and now, to crown all, I was the neigh-bor
of thieves and rogues, under lock
and key at a police stution. The papers
* of the morning would tell the whole
world of my arrest. Tho news would
oarry consternation to the hearts of my
relatives, and my friends would be
aghast at the tidings. Some there were
who would be ready to believe the
worst, but there were others I knew
whocould Dot doubt my innocence. One
dear heart would bleed for me. That
such an evout should happen at all was
bad enough, hut that it should occur on
the night when a world of bliss bad
seemingly opened for us both was hor-rible
indeed. And the awfulueBS lay in
the fact that my innocence could alone
be proved by evidence of George Fen-ton’s
guilt.
George Fenton a murderer I The
thought was terrible. What in heaven's
name could have impelled him to such
a deed of blackness? And who was the
woman? Stopl Of course it must he.
W7hy had I not guessed it before? She
was in all probability the one who had
caused so much heartburning in the Fen-ton
family. The unfortunate fellow had
fallen in love with a girl much bolow
him in station—one who was, in fact, in
domestic service. His infatuation had
been discovered at home, but all the
protests and entreaties of his family had
failed to induce him to take a sane view
of matters. He loved her and would not
give her up. Then why had ho murder-ed
her? Indeed what grounds had I for
thinking this was tho woman? My
thoughts wero in a hopeless jumble.
They crowded one on the other in des-perate
contusion, and I felt as if I were
going mad At last, and not too soon,
relief camo. As the dawn was breaking
nature could no longer hold out under
the strain, and I sank on the coarso mat-tress
iu a fitful sleep.
The first to greet me iu the morning
was Buttertou. Ho had hurried to me
directly ho had read the news in the
papers, and beforo my letter had reached
him. A few words were enough to ex-plain
my position to him, and ho left
me to do what he could to procuro my
release
The police had been active overnight.
The result of their inquiries at De Veto
Gardens bore out my statement; but,
above all, traces of the murderer were
not wanting It appears that the un-happy
man only left me to be pursued.
Tie tried to get rid of the broken hilt,
but it was picked up on the pavement.
He managed to outdistance his pursuers;
he was heard of afterward in Oxford
street, and there, for the nonce, the
trace was IOBL These incidents were
circumstantial evidence of my inno-cence.
Indeed all against mo was the
word of a questionable character who
had disappeared. The testimony of my
old chief, Admiral Yeo, and the other
influential friends who hurried to my
call was hardly necessary to complete
the evidence iu my favor.
So before noon I left the station a free
man, but I retu