Mount Pleasant journal (July 7, 1904)

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VOL. 31. MOUNT PLEASANT, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904. NO. 27.
MURDER DONE
AT BESSEMER
COKE WORKS
Near Pleasant Unity Early Sun-day
Morning
BY EDWARD FLOYD, COLORED,
WHO SHOT AND KILLED GEORGE
UHRING, A SLAV.
The Victim Was About to Start for the
Old Country to See His Wife and Chil-dren
and the Neicro, Knowing of the
Intended Trip,Thought to Rob Uhrinf?
Who Fought for His Wealth and was
Getting the Upper Hand Until Floyd
Fulled His Revolver and Fired Four
Times.
George Uhring, a Slav, aged 31 years,
was shot and instantly killed by Edward
Floyd, a negro, at Bessemer, near Pleas
ant Unity, at 4 o’clock Sunday morning.
Both men were employed at the Besse-mer
Coal Company works at Bessemer,
the former as a miner and the negro as
a coke drawer.
Floyd knew of Uhring’s planned trip
to his native country to see his wife and
children two weeks hence and planned
to steal the money. Uhring shared a
room with seven other coke workers.
Sunday morning he was awakened by
someone tugging at his money bag,
which he carried about his neck. He
grappled with the robber. A desperate
battle ensued in the dai'k.
Clinched in each other’s arms the two
men fought, neither uttering a word
Uhring began to overpower the negro,
when the latter drew a 38 caliber revol-ver
and shot four times. Two bullets
entered the chest at such close range
that when the others awoke they found
his clothing burning. Another bullet
struck him in the arm, while a fourth
plowed through the muscles of the back.
The first two shots were fatal, as they
punctured the lungs.
Floyd escaped from the house, but
was overtaken by Uhring’s countrymen.
He was given over to Mine Foreman
George Murphy and was ’ater arrested
by Constable H. M. Fry, of Latrobe. At
Coroner Wynn’s investigation Floyd
was positively identified as Uhring’s
murderer by two of the men who shared
Uhring’s room, and is now in jail at
Greensburg.
It was testified by Mine Foreman
Murphy that after he had been captur-ed
a revolver with four chambers
«mpty was taken from him and that he
had begged his keeper to throw away
the weapon, saying that it was in his
power to save him from the gallows.
Floyd is a desperate character although
but 25 years old. He Was released a
short time ago from the Huntingdon
Reformatory.
NICE ENTERTAINMENT
Given by Miss Sadie Horner in Honor of
School Chums.
The handsome country residence of
Isaac Horner, east of town, was the
scene of a delightful social gathering
last Wednesday evening, the event be-ing
one of the features of a house party,
given by Mr. Horner’s daughter, Miss
Sadie, in honor of Miss Mary G. Got
uals, of Phoenixville, and Miss Grace A
Kimmell, of Shelocta, who are her
guests.
The young ladies were school chums
at Juniata College. For this occasion a
large number of Miss Horner’s friends
were present to participate in the pleas-ures
of the evening, which consisted of
lawn and parlor games and music, the
latter being spiced with college songs.
Nice refreshments were served later, all
of which showed clever hospitality for
the charming hostess, Miss Horner, and
her assistants.
Among the out-of-town guests were:
Misses Mary C. and Emma B. Johnson,
Samuel Hogsett and Joe I Johnson, of
Uniontown; Clayton Johnson, Mason-town;
Miss Sarah and Charles Myers,
Pennsville; the Misses Smith and Hamel,
Laurelville; Misses Cora and Bertha
Myers, Frank Myers and John Me
Curdy, Ruffsdale, Mount Pleasant be-ing
represented by Clarence Cooper and
Jack Cummings.
Memorial Hospital Report.
The following is the report of the
Mount Pleasant Memorial Hospital for
the month of June :
No. patients iu hospital June 1st 11
No. admitted during month 7
No. male 3
No. female 4
No. surgical 6
No. medical 2
No. discharged 8
No. died 0
Total No. cared for during month 18
Total No. hospital days 329
No. patients in hospital July 1st 11
JESSIE M. DURSTINE, Sup't.
COMERS AND GOERS.
Paragraphs About Prominent People
Gathered Durinir tbe Week.
Miss Freda Stein, of Meyersdale, is
the guest of Miss Lillie Hunter.
Miss Mary Colvin, of Pittsburg, is
here visiting her cousins, the Misses
Colvin.
Mr. and Mrs. William Giles drove
over and spent Sunday with Brownsville
friends.
Miss Janet Ramsay, of Greensburg,
spent Sunday here with relatives and
friends.
Dr. F. L. Marsh, wife and daughter.
Miss Leona, returned Saturday from the
World’s Fair.
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JUDGE A. B. PARKER
THE EXPECTED WINNER OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.
Young Mr. and Mrs. John McFayden,
of Latrobe, were the guests of relatives
here on Sunday.
Miss Mary Ramsay, a stndent at the
Indiana State Normal, is home for the
summer vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wallace, of Den
ver, Colorado, are here this week visit-ing
old neighbors.
Mrs. Calvin Power, of Hopwood, Fay-ette
county, is here visiting her mother,
Mrs. Ruth Shields.
David Millward and his son George,
of Lambert, Fayette county, spent the
Fourth here with the former’s brother,
William.
Mrs. I. J. McWilliams and daughter,
Miss Estelle, returned last night from a
week's visit paid Rochester and Wil
kinsburg relatives.
Alfred J. Kobacker, of The Fair man-agement,
is at Mt. Clements, Michigan,
where he will take treatment for rheu-matism
for several weeks.
Miss Flora Rhoades and Clyde Weaver
attended last week’s district Epworth
League meeting in McKeesport as dele-gates
from the local chapter.
Mrs. Steward Dillon and daughter,
Miss Etta, left Tuesday for Charleston,
West Virginia, to spend some time with
the former’s daughter, Mrs. J. C. Gal-breath.
Miss Sue Hurst, of Washington, Pa.,
is here visiting her brother Frank, other
relatives and old friends. Her brother
Will, of Pittsburg, spent the Fourth
with her.
Rev. C. W. Haines left yesterday for
Ocean City, N. J., where he will be
joined by his wife and spend a month’s
vacation. They expect to return on
August 10th.
Walter Freed returned Saturday from
an extended stay at the World’s Fair,
St. Louis. Stewart Kennedy, who went
with him, reached home Tuesday, hav-ing
gone on to the Pacific Coast.
Jesse J. Fox, of West Palm Beach,
Florida, arrived here Tuesday evening
on a visit to relatives and old friends.
Time has dealt very kindly with him in
the score of years he has lived in the
South.
Mrs. Mary Shnpe of West Newton,
was here the past week with relatives
and old friends. She has just returned
from a trip to Pennford Falls, Maine,
where she visited her sister, Mrs. Theo-dore
Hawley.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Kintigh, of Irwin,
were here over the Fourth with old
friends. The former, who is in the su-perintendent’s
office at the Westing-house
air brake works, East Pittsburg,
was principal of the local schools three
years ago.
West Newton Bridge Closed.
The Board of County Commissioners
on Friday last ordered the bridge cross-ing
tbe Youghiogheny river at West
Newton closed. The structure was
badly damaged by ice gorges. A new
bridge will be built. This bridge is the
oldest in Western Pennsylvania, It was
built 74 years ago.
BLOOD ELOWED FREELY.
Dawson’s Fourth Was Marked With
Much Utfly Fighting.
During a game of ball between the
Pittsbnrg Reserves and the Dawson-
Vanderbilt team at Dawson on the
Fourth, Lewis Moore kicked a small son
of Samuel Addis. James Smith, stand-ing
nearby, drew a long knife from bis
pocket and stabbed Moore in the abdo-men,
the knife going to a depth of four
inches and making a gash clear across
the victim’s body.
Hardly had tbe fight on the ball
ground in the center of the race course
subsided until the gentlemen’s road race
for the association cup was called.
There were four entries. William Brad-man’s
horse won the first heat over
David Girard’s by five feet. Girard’s
driver claimed that Bradman fouled him
at the three-quarter post. This caused
a fist encounter, in which both Brad-man
and Girard were knocked to the
ground. Blood was spilled freely. All
the male element became involved in
the dispute and a small riot occurred,
practically causing the abandonment of
the closing event.
NICE SERVICE
Given at the First Reformed Church for
Local Elks.
There was a nice service at the First
Reformed church Sunday morning
when the local Elks were present by
special invitation of the pastor, Rev. W.
H. Tossing. Everything was in good
taste even to the neat four-page order of
exercises that was printed in purple, the
B. P. O. E. color. Rev. Tussing’s ser-mon
on “My Own Country” was a mas-terly
effort, full of the simon-pure arti-cle
of patriotism. The full program
was:
Organ Prelude,
Doxology.
Invocation.
Hymn No. 608.
Scripture Lesson Psalm 145
(Gloria Patrl.)
Glory be to the Father and to the Sou and to
the Holy Ghost. f
As it was In the beginning. Is now and ever
shall be.
World without end. Amen.
Pastoral Prayer.
Offertory Organ Miss Alice Lozier.
Hymn No. 699.
Sermon W. II. Tusslng.
My Own Country.
Hymn (Congregation standing.)
CHILDREN’S DAY.
Little First Baptist People Bender a Nice
Program.
Nicely performed Children’s Day ex-ercises
were held in the First Baptist
chnrch Sunday evening. The Boys’
Brigade drill was a striking feature of
this well arranged program:
Prayer Rev. C. W. Haines
Recitation
James Millward, Bessie Miller and
Russell Myers.
Recitation Six little girls
Vocal Solo Clarence Zimmerman
Recitation John Wilson, Grace Mill-ward
and Roy Howorth.
Recitation Ruth Miller and Ralph Kuhn
Song Junior Society
Recitation Ruth Hitchman and Har-riet
McOulley.
Dialogue Six children
Drill Boys’ Brigade
Song No. 18... «. School
Recitation Jennie Hitchman and Bea-trice
Myers.
Vocal Solo Mabel Elcher
Recitation Ruth Elcher
Flag Drill Juniors
Song—"America,” Congregation
Benediction Rev. Haines.
Those who took partin the drills were
trained by Lieutenant Edward Hawkins
who was paid many compliments on his
work.
NEW PRINCIPAL.
H. D. Huffman, of Latrobe. Made Head
of the Local Schools.
H. D. Huffman, A. B., of Latrobe, was
elected principal of the local public
schools at the regular July meeting of
the Mount Pleasan,t Board of Education
Tuesday evening. There were a num-ber
of other applicants, bnt the selection
was made without any friction. In ad-dition
to routine business, the hoard
gave the coal contract to Bennett D.
King, of near Armbrnst, who will be paid
6J cents a bushel and $12 for removing
the ashes.
Mr. Huffman, the new principal, is a
young bachelor, a graduate of St. Yin
cents College and was recently re elect-ed
assistant principal of the Latrobe
schools. His experience as a teacher, in
addition to the work he has done for
County Superintendent Ulerich, leads
the board to believe that it has secured
a good man for the place.
Killed While at Play.
George, the 10-year-old son of John
Preshock, fire boss at Leith, was killed
by a shifting engine near his home
Tuesday night. He was playing ball
and stooped to pick np the ball which
had rolled between the rails without
seeing the engine approaching him from
behind.
MOUNT PLEASANT
HAD LOTS OF FUN
ON THE FOURTH
Winding Up With a Creditable
Fireworks Display.
IT WAS ALL IN GOOD ORDER
ALTHOUGH THE POLICE MADE A
DOZEN ARRESTS.
The Noise Began With the Birth of the
Independence Anniversary and Ran
the Full Twenty-four Hours. Rat-tling
Good Ball Games and the St.
Joseph People’s Picnic Afforded
Plenty of Amusement for Unusually
Large Crowds of Local Fun-Lovers.
The 128th anniversary of the Declara-tion
of Independence has gone into local
history and there is nothing mean about
the page, either. Mayor Overholt’s
order forbidding shooting of any kind
before Monday was pretty well obeyed,
although the noise broke loose almost
on the stroke of twelve Sunday night
and was kept np throughout the entire
twenty-four hours. Good order was
maintained, the police making in all a
dozen arrests before a tough element
realized that it must behave itself. The
only accident was the setting on fire of
C. F. Coldsmith’s drug store awning by
a Roman candle early in the morning,
but the flames were extinguished by
Night Watchman Jack Thompson be-fore
any serious damage was done.
The St. Joseph people opened their
picnic on the East End chnrch grounds
at 9 o’clock in the morning and from
that time until late at night there were
dancing, all kinds of athletic contests
and feasting in full keeping with the
day’s published program.
At Frick Park there were two of the
best ball games of the season played be
tween the high school teams here and
of Oakdale, a Pittsbnrg suburb. Big
crowds witnessed both the morning and
afternoon contests. Jacob Zundell Mii-bee,
a former professional player now
on the JOURNAL force, officiated as
umpire and it is but simple justice to
“Cob” to add that he filled the always
trying position to perfection.
Tbe battery for the local students in
the morning game were “The Jimmies,”
Peterson and Hatfield, and, had they
been given the proper field support, it
would not have required the Garrison
finish at the bat it did to defeat tbe
lively Oakdalers by the lose score of 10
to 9. Peterson’s three bagger brought
down the field.
Hnrst and Smith were at the points
for the victors when they lined np in
the afternoon and, had “The Deacon"
fielded his position half as well as he
pitched, the visitors would have been
shut out instead of getting the short end
of the final 6 to 3 score. His bad throw
started a series of errors that netted
Oakdale all the tallies they got in one
inning. “Sloly” Goldstone’s catch of a
line drive to deep right garden, after a
long run, seemed to take the heart ont
of the clever visitors.
Mayor Overholt and Samuel N. War-den
had charge of the fireworks in the
park at night and made a very credita-ble
display lasting from 8:30 until 10.
And then it rained.
Bold Holdup.
Adam Whitehead, formerly mine
foreman at the now abandoned Emma
mines and now with the Veteran coke
people in Mount Pleasant township, was
held np and robbed of his pay, $35, in
broad daylight Friday last while on his
way home from work. He thinks two
men did the work by slipping up back
of him, one grabbing his arms and the
other cracking him over the head with
a clnb just hard enough to produce a
few moments of unconsciousness. When
the victim came to his assailants and
money had disappeared, bnt he still had
his watch.
Bear Rocks Party.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lawton, who
are entertaining friends from Munhall,
gave a tallyho party to Bear Rocks on
the Fourth. The merry participants
were: Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Foster and
sons, Harry and Paul, Charles Fraleigb,
J. Molamphy, A. Pnnton and Ed. Law-ton,
of Munhall; Anna Curry, of Con-nellsville;
Gertrude Zundell, Elta Burns
and the Misses Lawton, of Monnt
Pleasant.
Fool Bridge Jumpers Hurt.
On a wager for a quart of whisky and
a dollar Lawrence Mnnsey and George
Cadwallader jumped from the bridge
into the Yonghioghenv river at Con
nellsville Friday morning. Both landed
in shallow water. Mnnsey sustained a
severe cut on the knee and Cadwallader
was badly cut and bruised.
COKE AND COAL.
Items of Interest Gathered From Both
Mine and Yard.
The Westmoreland Coal Company is
running its Larimer mines double torn,
giving 100 more men employment.
The Fourth was generally observed
throughout the region, five days being
the rale this week with practically no
change in the number of ovens in blast.
The contract for the building of the
Cherry Tree and Dixonville railroad has
been let to D. F. Keenan, who has been
doing work for the Pennsylvania rail-road
near Beatty. The new road will
open up a big Indiana county coal field,
and it will take about 18 months to
complete the work with 1,000 men em-m
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SAID TO HAVE BEEN TAMMANY’S CHOICE
FOR A THIRD TERM.
ployed. The new road will connect
with the West Penn railroad.
Judge Umbel at Uniontown Tuesday
handed down a decision for the defend-ant
in the case of Henry L. Coe vs. the
Leckrone Coke Company and John R.
Carothers. Mr. Coe was general mana-ger
of the Leckrone company and se-cured
an injunction preventing the di-rectors
from removing him from the
position. By the decision the injunction
is dissolved and the costs placed on tbe
plaintiff.
J. M. B. Reis, general manager for
the United States Coal and Coke Com-pany,
in the Tng river, West Virginia,
coke field, resigned his position last week
and has been succeeded by Edward
O’Toole, mine inspector for the H. C.
Frick Coke Company. W. C. Mnllan,
who had charge of a large coke plant in
the Tng river field, has returned to
Broadford and resumed charge of the
plants of the Broadford branch formerly
in his care.
Big Barn Party.
Some two hundred delighted people
from here, Greensburg and the country
about attended the barn party given at
the hospitable home of William H.
Evans near New Stanton on the Fourth.
The splendid dinner served in the barn
ind the tennis tournament, in which
Miss Sarah Watt, of Greensburg, and
Eugene Warden, of this place, carried
off the honors, were the leading features
of the thoroughly enjoyable day.
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WILLIAM R. HEARST
WHOSE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL BOOM
DIED A-BORNING.
A REUNION
IN HONOR OF
C. C. TAYLOR
Held in the Byerly School Dis-trict
Saturday.
HE TAUGHT THAT SCHOOL
BEFORE GOING TO MICHIGAN S3
YEARS AGO.
A Number of His Pupils in the Byerly
District, After the Lapse of Over
Half a Century, Were Present to
Greet the Old Teacher. Together
With George and John Freeman wha
Voted for the Introduction of the
Free School System.
Prof. C. C. Taylor and wife, of Ovid,
Michigan, are visiting old friends and
acquaintances in the Byerly neighbor-hood,
Monnt Pleasant township, where
the former taught school fifty three
years ago.
Their visit was made the occasion of
a public reception and school picnic on
Saturday last. Of course, after the
lapse of so many years, Mr. Taylor’s
pupils were somewhat scattered and
many of them are dead. Bnt, still they
came from Irwin, Greensburg, Stahls-town
and other points to greet him.
The meeting was organized by making
George Freeman chairman. Speeches
were made by Attorney Albert Snively,
of Greensburg; James Dillon, of Monnt
Pleasant township; Eli Roadman, of
Stahlstown, and others. Mr. Taylor’s
response while not lengthy was very
patriotic and befitting the occasion.
He spoke of the struggles for the
adoption of onr free school system, and
it was found that there were two per-sons
present who voted for the system—
George Freeman and his brother John
who are both octogenarians.
Mr. Taylor has spent much of his life
in school work having acted as county
superintendent of Erie county for nine
years.
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DEATHS 0E THE WEEK.
The Grim Reaper’s Work in This Place
and Vicinity.
Squire William A. Keenan, a promi-nent
Greensburg citizen, died Thurs-day
of consfimption, aged 53 years.
Four children with their mother sur-vive.
Hamilton Riley, a veteran of the Civil
war, died of cancer at his home near
the Acme postoffice Monday night.
Thomas, of this place, William, Albert
and Robert are the surviving sons.
Mrs. John Miller died at her home
near New Stanton of apoplexy Monday,
aged 80 years.
Mrs. Louisa Stahl died last evening at
the Main street home of her daughter,
Mrs. S. K. Ebersole, aged 82 years. She
suffered an ugly fall a year or so ago
and met with a second accident of that
kind which doubtless hastened the end.
Richard Stahl, the well known grocer,
is her son. She was a devout member
of the United Brethren church. The
funeral services will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the house.
DEIMONT’S FIRST MURDER.
Local Base Ball Field.
The Connellsville Crescents came over
Saturday afternoon and played a few
rings around the Sterlings while win-ning
the game 11 to 8.
Then the Union A. C. boys from the
Empire coal works, near Tarr, did the
Yorks np 14 to 2,
The Royal Arcanum team, resplend-ent
in new white uniforms, will play at
Dnnbar tomorrow afternoon.
George Hedinger was Tramped to Death
by Gregory Fiscus.
The first murder in the history of
Delmont, this county, occurred Monday
evening when George Hedinger, of that
place, was killed in a fight with
Gregory Fiscus, a barber at Export,
a mining village some two miles west of
that borough. Hedinger, who is about
60 years old. met Fiscus in an alley in
the rear of Simon Keck's home. The
two men got into an argument. Fiscus
is said to have struck Hedinger a blow
in the face that knocked him down. Ha
is alleged to have jumped on the pros-trate
man and tramped his life ont.
The killing was witnessed by George
Wooster, an aged shoemaker, who was
accompanying Hedinger in the walk
through the alley.
Citizens captured Fiscus who is now
in jail at Greensburg. He is greatly
distressed and blames his trouble on
liquor. He has a wife and family.
Street Car Victim.
Joseph, the 13-year-old son of Richard
Keefe, who lives on the Ridge near tha
Southerwood postofflee, while placing
torpedoes on the street car track at
Swedetown, a Scottdale suburb, Mon-day
evening, was run over by a car and
terribly cut and braised about the head
and body. The poor little fellow was
brought to the hospital here where death
soon followed from the shock. His
mother’s grief on reaching the hospital
soon after his death was heart-rending..
THE MOUNT PLEA8ANT JOUBNAI, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904.
SWALLOW
AND CARROLL
Are the Presidential Candidates Named by
the Prohibition National Convention
at Indianapolis, Indiana.
GENERAL MILES REFUSED USE OF MS NAME
As General Miles refused to permit the use of his name, the Prohibition
party in national convention at Indianapolis, Indiana, on last Thursday nom-inated
Silas C. Swallow, of Pennsylvania, for President, and George W.
Carroll, of Texas, for Vice President. Ill health of his wife may lead Dr.
Swallow to decline the nomination.
The platform was adopted without argument after a long deadlock in the
resolutions committee. In addition to the planks on the liquor question, it
declares the party to be in favor of international arbitration, a suffrage law
based on mental and moral qualifications, uniform laws for the country and
dependencies, popular election of Senators, civil service extension, and the
initiative and referendum. The trust question was recognized by a demand
for a rigid application of the principles of justice to all organizations of capi-tal
and labor. A reform of divorce laws is demanded, and polygamy de-nounced.
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, , By George Thomaj Palmer, M. D. { |
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IX.—Some Peculiar “Isms” and
"Pathies.”
N a vocation so rife with super-stitious
notions as medicine it is
not strange that various illogical
and absurd cults have arisen.
Inasmuch ns the art of healing has
always had in it a great deal which
Is incapable of explanation, it is not
to be wondered at thnt thousands of
people have been ready to follow
every new "ism” without troubling
themselves about whys and where-fores.
The admixture of religion with
the healing of disease, born of the
miraculous cures by Christ and the
saints of old, has been productive of
the “faith cures” which have from
time to time appeared in various forma.
So much of mythology hangs over
Homeric, Hippocratic and post-IIip-pocratic
medical history that it is dif-ficult
to differentiate quackery from
the natural superstitious beliefs of the
day. In Roman times we come upon
a quack so arrant and bigoted that he
is j>laced beyond question on a par
with quacks of our own day.
However absurd may have been the
teachings of the older masters, there
was earnestness in their research and
modesty in their demeanor, but Thes-aalus
of Tralles was too pronounced
a charlatan and his teachings were
too grandiose to credit him with a
shadow of sincerity.
How unchanging are the methods of
the quack! Thessalus came to Rome
an ignorant adventurer and began the
practice of the art of healing. He
studied the tastes of his clientele and
advised liberal use of wines, choice
viands and all forms of self indul-gence,
thereby making himself exceed-ingly
agreeuble to his patients. He
opened a school of medicine, guaran-teeing
to teach the entire art in six
weeks—a veritable twentieth century
diploma mill. Of students he had hun-dreds,
of patients thousands, nnd he
rode upon the very crest of popular fu-vor.
Before his death he superintend-ed
the carving of his own tombstone,
on which lie had inscribed, “Greater
Than All Physicians, Living or Dead!”
The “putby” of Thessalus was the first
on record of many of those by which
the world lias been willingly hood-winked.
But even before his day Paracelsus
had in all sincerity established a
school of healing, the theories of
which were so peculiar us to entitle
them to consideration here. He taught
that man is best understood by the
study of nature and that each dis-ease
has its cure in some special
product or nature. His was also a
popular school and for a time over-threw
the teachings of Hippocrates,
and, absurd ns his ideas now seem to
us, we must ndmit that they contrib-uted
materially to the knowledge of
specific medication. There was a
grain of truth in his writings. Some
diseases have certain specific cures in
nature, but not many. His were as
true as the doctrines of Hahnemann,
who taught that like cures like; that
what will cause a condition will also
cure it.
But of the “isms” and “pathies” of
which we still have traces the school
at Hahnemann is the greatest. We can
speak freely of this school today, for
it is practically out of existence. The
narrow teachings of Hahnemann no
more resemble the great homeopathic
school of today than do the theories
of Hippocrates resemble the allopathic
ideas of the present.
The father of homeopathy taught
the doctrine of “high potency”—that
a drug diluted with ten times its bulk
of water was stronger than the drug
undiluted, and that the greater the
dilution the greater the potency or
strength; furthermore, that a greatly
diluted drug shaken by a strong arm
| would have a higher degree of potency
than if shaken by an arm not so
strong. He also believed, as I have
mentioned, thnt a drug which will
cause a condition will cure the same
condition (“similia similibus curan-tur”).
In the teachings of Hahnemann
there was more than a grain of truth.
The theory is exampled by the fact
that ipecac, which will cause nausea
and vomiting when given in small
doses, will allay nausea. But who can
believe that whisky in minute doses
will overcome alcoholic intoxication?
that salt, which causes thirst, will nlso
allay thirst?
As I say, the homeopathy of Hahne-mann
is no more. The great school
which bears that name each year ap-proaches
more nnd more the allopathic
school^ and it has had the effect upon
the old school of i%difying its treat-ment,
of reducing its dosage and of
making medicinal treatment far more
tolerable to suffering humanity.
And now comes the cult of Mrs. Eddy
—Christian Science. It is one which is
fol'owlng the course of the dozens
which have gone before. It is now in
the era of prosperity which each “ism”
has in its day and soon shall be for-gotten
with the others. It is the nat-ural
association of religion with heal-ing
which has existed since the earliest
days of history. There is little that is
new in it save that it is the refined
and cultured faith of the well to do
Instead of the blind faith of the igno-rant.
It denies the existence of mat-ter,
holds disease to be mere error
and insists that when faith has so far
developed as to overcome our present
fallacious beliefs in the existence of
things, and false feelings and emotions,
sin and disease, and even death, will
pass away. It is called a science be-cause
its followers believe that they
have arrived at their conclusions log-ically
and by a regular sequence of
facts.
It has in it the grain of truth that to
a certain extent mind can overcome
matter and that functional disease can
be cured by faith. It is the therapeutic
measure of mental suggestion which is
used and has been used by the regular
medical profession for many years.
The Christian Scientists call in sur-geons
to set bones because the faith is
not yet sufficiently developed to over-come
such conditions without mechan-ical
aid. It will reach that state of
perfection some day—some day!
The same element of religious faith
is evidenced in a crude way in the
workings of Dowie of Chicago. Like
Mrs. Eddy, but In a cruder way, suited
to the clientele to which he cuters, he
has thrown a cloak of divine power
nbout ids person, claiming with con-vincing
earnestness that he is the re-incarnated
Elijah and John the Bap-tist
merged in one. This assumption of
holy place or divine Inspiration is es-sential
to working upon the minds of
people who have been taught for cen-turies
of the disease curing process of
religion and to account for the powers
of the alleged healer. Man’s confidence
in mail is not suffialcut to nermlt the
healer to claim the power as lying
within himself.
Many of my renders will remember
the wonderful popularity of spiritual-ism
in its day, of the cures accom-plished
by the advice of those who had
gone before generously volunteered in
the seances of skillful mediums. While
not so directly medical as others, the
cult of spiritualism was one which was
felt in the medical world.
Others may recall that peculiar con-dition
of “king's evil” now known as
scrofula, or tubercular glands of the
neck—peculiar because it could only be
cured by the laying on of royal hands.
Many were the pilgrimages to Euro-pean
courts by sufferers, and many
were the cures reported. The sponta-neous
recoveries which are common to
the disease were naturally attributed
to the monarchs who set aside days on
which to bring relief to their suffering
subjects.
Some years ago a certain layman
discovered (?) thnt rays of sunlight
coming through panes of blue glass
would cure almost any ill to which
man is heir. Physicians took it up,
and hundreds and thousands were
cured of every variety of ills. After
reporting these recoveries with all
sincerity the physicians realized their
extreme folly nnd hastened to forget
the blue glass cure.
And now from the state of Missouri
comes another “Ism.” This Is oste-
Dr. Virchow.
[Noted Austrian surgeon.]
opathy. Contrary to one’s natural con-clusions,
this as it is practiced has
virtually nothing to do with bones. It
is merely massage developed Into a
gigantic cure-all—just massage, which
your family doctor has used as far
back as you can remember, but mas-sage
decorated with a number of artis-tic
theories which every cult must
have.
There are nlso pthyslo-therapy, elec-tro-
magnetism, pliysio-chemlstry nnd
on and on down a, long list, each with
Its foundation of a grain of truth and
an immense superstructure of theory.
Each year a new cult is born, each
year an old one dies, nnd the old school
goes on accepting and regretting, gain-ing
new truths nnd casting out false
doctrines. It has its vagaries and its
false prophets, but the secret of Its
continued growth is merely that it has
no set principles or theories; there is no
belief so strong as to be an absolute
essential. It gathers facts from each
cult as it lives and dies and profits by
the teaching of every “ism.”
[Copyright, 1902, by Lewis D. Sampson.]
Tommy Visualizes His
Idea of an Old Favorite. IN a certain school out west means
nnd methods of education are used
which to the unenlightened mind
appear little less than startling.
For instance, the children sing a
song. Then each of them makes a
drawing which is supposed to Illus-trate
the song which has just been
sung. In this way the power of the pu-pils
to “visualize their conceptions” is
fostered.
The other day the music of “The Old
Oaken Bucket” was started, and every-body
joined in the singing. Then they
all sot down to make a picture of what
the song meant to them.
Tommy, one of the youngest of the
class, turned in a truly original sketch.
He had drawn what might have been
meant for a circle nnd within it had
outlined what appeared to be three
wastebaskets all in a row. Under-neath
tills diagram was n sprinkling of
fly specks, or was it a representation
of microbes as they appear under a
magnifying glass?
The teacher looked at the drawing
for a moment and then admitted that
she was puzzled.
She put her forefinger on the left
hand figure in the row of three inside
the circle and said, “Tommy, what is
that?”
“Why, teacher, that’s the old oaken
bucket.”
The teacher pointed out the right
hand figure of the three.
“And that one, Tommy?” she asked.
“Pshaw! That’s the iron bound buck-et.”
The teacher pointed to the circle
which inclosed the three buckets.
“What’s that?”
“That’s the well they hung In.”
“And what are these?” she asked
finally, pointing to the ragged group
of exaggerated fly specks below the
rest of the picture.
"Those,” answered Tommy, with nev-er
the ghost of a smile in his big blue
eyes—“those are ‘all the loved spots
which my infancy knew.’ ’’—Chicago
Tribune.
Man of Excellent Tawte.
Burrell—Did you ever notice when a
woman comes into the oar and there
Is no seat wholly vacant she invariably
takes a seat beside some other woman?
Dixon—Well, why shouldn’t she? It’s
the most natural thing in the world.
That’s what I always do myself—in
fact, I do it when there are plenty of
whole seats vacant.—Boston Tran-
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Any Rags, Any Bones,
Any Metals Today?
I am always in the market and
paying the highest prices for
old Iron, Metal, Rags, Bones,
Copper, Rubber, etc. If you
have anything in that line don’t
bother with anybody—bring it
right to the right place and get
your full value for it. Orders
by mail promptly attended to.
My wagons are always ready
to clean off your place.
The Old Reliable Dealer,
M. LEVIN,
Parfittown, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
The biggest dealer in West-moreland
county.
VELVETEEN,
A Beautifying Cream and Flesh Food.
Removes all Facial Blemishes, as
Wrinkles, Pimples,1] Freckles, Tan.
Develops Bust and Neck.
Large Jar, $1.00. Small, 50c.
For sale at all Druggists.
0. F. Coldsmith and 0. L. Kut.il,
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Excellent Offers
in Summer Goods.
The Union Supply Company stores are full of novelties for
Men, Women and Children. It’s the time of year everybody is
looking for something nice, and it’s the time to get the choicest
styles.
Cool Clothing,
Straw Hats,
Underwear.
For men and boys. We will not attempt to enumerate the
different kinds of each line, any more than to say that the stock
of Clothing is complete. The Straw Hats are all new, not one
style carried from last season. The variety of Underwear is large
and quality good. We invite comparison of prices.
For Women and Girls
We have Many-
Special Things.
Underwear. Hosiery Corsets, Shirt Waists, Ready-made
Suits, Collars, Cuffs, Umbrellas, Trunks, etc. There are no stores
in the coke region that can show you such an extensiye line, nor
can they quote such reasonable prices. Try us.
The Shoe Stock for Men,
for Women, for Boys,
for Girls and for Infants
Here is a line that we defy any store to excel. They are
made specially for us, all sizes and lasts. Every pair guaranteed
to wear good, every pair guaranteed to fit, and every pair guar-anteed
to be a little less in price than you can buy same quality
for elsewhere.
Want to call your attention to our
Grocery and Meat Departments.
It is well known all over Fayette, Westmoreland and ad-joining
counties that we excel all others. While we know that our
stores are the best, we want to make them better, and are’doing it
daily. Try our grocery; try our fresh meats.
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904.
SERIOUS
CHARGE
Made by James Flynn, a Coke Worker at
United, Against Mrs. Anna Gibbons,
His Housekeeper.
HE CLAIMS THU SHE EMBEZZLED $1,000.
James Flynn, a Untted coke worker who was a few days before arrested
but discharged on a charge of assault and battery preferred by his housekeeper,
Mrs. Anna Gibbons, entered a cross suit against her before Justice Beatty at
Greensburg last Thursday, claiming that she embezzled $1,000 of his money.
Four years ago Flynn, who is a bachelor, saw an advertisement in a
Pittsburg paper of a home wanted by a widow. He answered the advestise-ment
and finally sent the woman money to pay her fare from Pittsburg to
United. He told her if she liked the place she could stay and if she did not,
Treat Your Kidneys for Rheumatism.
When you are Buffering fromrheuma
tisrn, the kidneys must be attended to
at once so that they will eliminate the
uric acid from the Hood. Foley’s Kid-ney
Cure is the most effective remedy
for this purpose. R. T. Hopkins, of
Polar, Wis., says: “After unsuccess-fully
doctoring three years for rheuma-tism
with the best doctors, I tried
Foley's Kidney Cure and it cured me. I
cannot speak too highly of this great
medicine.” All druggists.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
N. A' COUT’ATTORNBY-AT-LAW.
Office adjoining Eagl treet residence,
Mount pleasant, Pa.
McGEARY & HARSH,
aATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
McOausland building. WestOtterman St..
Greensburg.
EUGENE WARDEN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
UI111CU. lie LUIU UVI 11 Oliv HRVM CWW j I .
she could hunt another home. She stayed and made herself so useful that »Mam^“"«-Monnt Pleil8ant.
gradually he entrusted her with the purchasing of the household supplies. He
also says that she drew his pay.
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A Musical Triumph.
[Recent report* from somewhere In New
England state that caterpillars have been
killed by the playing of a brass band.
People who have heard brass bands of the
village variety will have little difficulty In
crediting the reports.}
TUSIC has oharms to soothe tho
savage breast,”
At least so we have often
heard it said.
And yet for soothing savages out west
We always had a preference for lead.
We had a notion, it must be confessed,
A savage is most soothing when he’*
dead,
Which same is why we never tried to fill
him
With harmony, but figured how to kill
him.
Yet this does not disprove the adage, for
If we had tried on him a modern chorus
W# might have saved the shedding of his
gore
And changed to wholesome dread the
hate he bore us.
He would have found our music worse
than war,
And to escape he would have fled before
us.
Bv taking thus an opera along
We might have had tho country for a
song.
"Music has charms.” ’Tis wonderful the
sway
That it has held o’er warriors, bards and
sages.
Across the past we hear it far away,
Its sweet strains wafted down from dis-tant
ages.
Yet it has shown a greater power today
Than has been chronicled in history's
pages.
The erstwhile charmer now becomes a
killer
And knocks the tar out of the caterpillar.
The forest waltzed when Orpheus played
his lute;
The devils, charmed, forgot their devil-hood.
When Pan upon his pipes began to toot
There fell a panto through the fearsome
wood.
Such skill had the Pled Piper with his
flute
That even rats the music understood.
Our players show a magic still more
fetching.
The worms succumb unto Its spell be-witching.
—J. A. Edgerton In New York Times.
Good spirits.
Good spirits don’t all come from Ken-tucky.
Their main source is the liver—I • > ■ rtviy KAI P
and ail the fine spirits ever made in the ^’
Bine Grass State could not remedy a bad Inciiranrr Anpncv
liver or the hundred and one iii effects it Real Estate and insurance Agency „ ,.. , 833 East Main street, - Mount Pleasant, produces. You can t have good spirits^
and a bad liver at the same time. Your —————
liver must be in fine condition if you [>!\ CLAUDE W. HcKEE,
would feel buoyant, happy and hopeful, SPECIALIST,
bright of eye, light of step, vigorous and Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat/
successful in your pursuits. Yon can | Office Hours: 8 tolOa.m..;i to3and 7to8p,m
pnt your liver in fine condition by using
Green's August Flower—the greatest of
all medicines for the liAer and stomach
and a certain cure for dyspepsia or in-digestion.
It has been a favorite house
hold remedy for over thirty-five years.
August Flower will make your liver
healthy and active and thus insure you
a liberal supply of “good spirits.” Trial
size, 25c; regular bottles, 75c. A. D.
Rumbangb, Ph. G.
Makinff a Date.
GREGG & POTTS.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Barclay Building, Greensburg.
Bell ’phone ( Boyd Building,
SCOTTDALE, PA.
S. C. Stevenson,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE,
487 MAIN ST.. MOUNT PLEASANT.
When Other Medicines Have Failed
take Foley’s Kidney Cure. It has cured
when everything else has disappointed.
All druggists.
L. S. RHOADES,
JUSTICE OUHE mCESmiTW PUBLIC.
All kinds of legal papers prepared and exe
cuted. Collecting a specialty.
Office 1109 Main Street. Mount Pleasant
Some Foolish People
Allow a cough to run until it gets be-yond
the reach of medicine. They often
say, “Oh, it will wear away,” hut in
most cases it will wear them away.
Could they he induced to try the suc-cessful
medicine called Kemp’s Balsam, H. W. Stoner,
FIRST NATIONAL BANK. or MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Capital Stock $100,000
Bring Your Wife Along.
Women are the best judges of dress, their own
or the men’s. They know a good thing when they
see it, and you may rely firmly on their good judg-ment.
Bring HER with you, by all means; let her help
you select your Summer Clothes She’ll understand
that “genuine goodness” of a Schloss Art-Tailored
Suit, better, perhaps, than you. However, you are
sure of good treatment here, whether you bring her
or not.
The difference in the cost of a Schloss-made
Suit and that made by the “merchant tailor” will be
enough to open her eyes to the possibilities for money
saving. Just think, we sell a suit like either of those
shown in the picture at so little a price as
$12,501
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cure, they would immediately see the DIRECTORS.
excellent effect after taking the first J>s. Hitchman, J. D. Hitchman,
dose. Price 25c, and 59c. Tlrriiaail 8s1iye I jH..oW. C. Srotownneor,ver, 'JJo™s.-RJ. SlteaeulfAf.er.
free. At all druggists.
Foley’s Kidney Cure purifies the blood
by straining out impurities and tones up
the whole system. Cures kidney and
bladder troubles.
| s' N. Warden.”’ F.. W. Stoner.
Isaac Staerrlck.
Particular attention given to collections, and
proceeds promptly settled.
Farmers & merchants
<*INAT10NAL BANK>
OP MOUNT PI.EA8ANT, PA.
HI* Duty.
“Whenever our crowd goes fishing,”
said Guzzel, “and the fellows begin to
think of having a drink they invariably °APITAL STOOK.^^
have to call upon me.” 1
“Get out!” replied Frankley. "You
never bought a flask in your life.”
“No, but I always carry a cork-screw.”—
Philadelphia Press. ,1 DIRECTORS:
R. K. Hlssem, Abraham Ruff,
Hives are a terrible torment to the |[r|nk
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DjB‘rahart' E' T' F°X
$90,000.90.
*25,000.
The “merchant tailor” would want to charge
$25 for a suit not so good in fit, style or quality. Here
is a clear saving of $12.50, which your wife can find
good use for in adding to her own wardrobe. No won-der
she is bent on breaking you of the “merchant
tailor” habit.
This label on Schloss made clothes is to protect
the wearer. It stands for reputation, uniform excel-lence
and up-to-dateness.
‘iDrop in and let us talk it over.”
Dillon & Sherrick,
Outfitters to Particular People,
Zimmerman Block, Main street, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
OTFICKRS:
R. K. Hlssem, President.
O. E. Mullln, Cashier
little folks, and to some older ones.
Easily cured. Doan’s Ointment never
fails. Instant relief, permanent cure.
At any drng store, 50 cents.
£ B“Ruff. L. S.TInstman,
S. P. Zimmerman. O. E. Mullln,
M. M. BYERS.
Student—Bring your bill in a month.
Tailor—And then—
Student—Then I will give you an-other
appointment.—Fliegende Blatter.
A Firm Stand.
The mild business man was calmly
reading his paper in the crowded trol-ley
cnr. In front of him stood a little
woman hanging by a strap. Her arm
was being slowly torn out of her body,
her eyes were flashing at him, but she
constrained herself in silence.
Finally, after he had endured it for
twenty minutes, he touched her arm
and Baid:
“Madam, you are standing on my
foot.”
“Oh, am I?” she savagely retorted.
“I thought it was a valise.”—Lippin-cott’s
Magazine.
Manager Wanted.
Trustworthy lady or gentleman to
manage business in this county and ad-joining
territory for well and favorably
known house of solid financial standing.
$2.00 straight cash salary and expenses
paid each Monday by check direct from
headquarters. Expense money advanced.
Position permanent. Address Manager,
810 Como Block, Chicago, Illinois.
4 14 12t
A. R. Bass, of Morgantown, Ind., had
to get up ten or twelve times in the
night, and had a severe backache and
pains in the kidneys. Was cured by |
Foley’s Kidney Cure. All druggists.
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Bakery.
Flies and Mosquitoes
and other objectionable insects can be
successfully fought with the weapons
we prpvide. The “fly in the butter
will be unkown if our
FLY PAPER
is used around the house. It catches
the flies and the germs they carry.
OUR MOSQUITO LOTION
is a sure cure for the bites of these ma-laria
carriers. It counteracts the effect
of the poiBon and stops the itching and
burning.
M. A. BOWMAN,
West Main st., Mutual ’phone 56
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Watches, Clocks,
Chains, Charms,
Rings, Bracelets
Collar Buttons, CuffButtons,
Studs, Scarf Pins,
Brooches, Ear Kings,
Gold Pens, Inkstands,
and a complete and very hand-some
line of
Appropriate.
“And so the minister delivered a Ber-mon
especially for the baseball team
this morning, did he?”
“Yes, and the services were arranged
so as to appeal to the audience.”
“How’s that? Did he make grand
stnnd plays?”
“Something on that order. The choir
had only a first, second and third bass,
and the sermon came to a short stop
when the players saw the plate.”—
Judge.
A Spoiled Cook.
Mr. Grumps—You’ll have to dis-charge
that cook.
Mrs. Grumps—You liked her at first.
Mr. Grumps—Yes, but she’s getting
into your way of cooking.—New York
Weekly.
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from other points.
Be sure your ticket reads over this line
Inquire of G. G. HERRING, G. A.,
708-9 Park Bldg, Pittsburg,Pa.
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which will he well worth your w
while to come and see. We never s
had a finer line of these goods £
than we have this season, and the £
prices are very reasonable. Come \
and see the goods before making £
your purchases. |£
H. C. MORRISON, j;
At the New Stand,
farmers St Merchants Nat. Bank Block,
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
516
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Mrs. Minerva Smith, of Danville, 111.,
writes: “I had bronchitis for twenty i -. T __
years and never got relief until I used U Have Money.to Loan On
Foley’s Honey and Tar which is a sure | Real Estate,
A Lyre holds the music on a Clarionet,
Wessel, Nickelson and Gross
Action holds the music in a
Weaver Piano
Full in tone, light and elastic touch.
Nothing better in the world.
Before buying a piano ask the agent
if his piano had the above action in it.
If his answer is not “Yes” his head
will drop and his appearance tells you
he is selling a cheap piano.
We sell the latest
Weaver Upright Pianos,
styles 47, 37, 35, 27, 25. Also the
York and Livingston Pianos, manu-factured
by the same firm.
J. B. MYERS, Jr.
311 E. Main St.. Mount Pleasant
cure ” All dealers.
Diphtheria relieved in twenty min-utes.
Almost miraculous. Dr. Thomas’
Eclectric Oil. At any drag store.
no matter where located at 4W per cent and
5 Der cent interest. If you desire a loan, and
have real estate to warrant It write to me all
about it. All correspondence strictly confl-
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Mortgage Broker.
5 36 6m 1090 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N Y.
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The Hench & Dromgold 20th century steel ball bearing
pivot axle Cultivator. A wonderful improvement.
The Bucher & Gibbs Imperial Junior Sulkey Plow.
The new Imperial 300X Chilled Plow; the best plow on
earth; most durable and economical. They last a lifetime.
More of them sold than all others. Do not be deceived into
buying an imitation or counterfeit plow.
Superior Grain Drills.
Sold by
J. J. HITCHMAN,
East Main street^ Mount Pleasant, Pa.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAI, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904.
hcjftount JJlcnaantJournal
JOHN L. FIELDS. PUBLISHER.
Mount Pleasant Is situated In the heart of
the Great Connellsvllle Coke Region, has a
population of over 5,000; while, with offices
-surrounding within a radius of three miles
the postoffice distribution Is 13,000. A new 24-
pot tableware glass factory, the finest In this
country and employing over 400 hands, Is In
successful daily operation.
SUBSCRIPTION *1.50 per year, payable In
advance.
ADVERTISING RATES will be furnished
OB application.
JOB PRINTING of every kind with the
beet workmanship and best material.
THURSDAY. July 7.1904.
LOOKS LIKE PARKER.
The Democratic National Convention
in session at St. Louis will tomorrow
very likely name that party’s Presiden
tial candidates, and it wonld seem that
the first place will go to Judge A. B.
Parker, of New York. This assurance
was, it iB claimed, clinched Sunday
night when the Pennsylvania ctelega
tion, 68 votes, held a caucus and, by a
vote of 63 to 5, decided to support that
eminent Empire state jurist.
Very little attention has as yet been
paid to the nomination of a Vice Presi-dent,
although Governor Dockery, of
Missouri, may get the place.
Some of the conservative leaders were
fearful that through the Pattison boom
William J. Bryan might be able to
bring about a chaotic condition that
would result in his being able to dictate
the nominee. The real Parker men
feared the Guffey people might put
their candidate out of the game entirely,
just as they were satisfied that Pennsyl
vania’s support of Parker would insure
his winning ont.
If the socalled re-organizers who are
back of Parker win out, as it seems they
will, it still remains to be seen what
Colonel Bryan and his followers will do
There has been a marked disposition
manifested ever since the unterrified
began gathering at St. Louis to turn the
Colonel down, and it must be galling to
him to be ignored after basking in the
political lime light for the past eight
yearp. It is said, however, that he will
not bolt, but the convention will have
accomplished wonders if it unites the
party.
year exhibit an increase of 2.6 per cent,
for June.
Prospects are still favorable for large
returns on the farms, despite some loss
from storms during the past week.
Confidence grows in the iron and steel
industry, although as yet there is little
support in the shape of increased orders.
But the amount of business in sight and
contemplated work held back is suffi-cient
to provide a good tonnage when-ever
it is decided that the time has come
to place contracts.
It is hoped that the conference this
week will be productive of good results,
although there is a wide difference of
opinion regarding the advisability of
reducing quotations. One reason for
the better feeling may be found in the
satisfactory arrangement of wage scales
and other labor matters.
Lost Opportunity.
Pittsburg Leader.
The Prohibs at Indianapolis might
have made a ten-strike by rising in a
body and intoning that grand old hymn,
“The Old Oaken Bucket.”
POPULISfl DYING OUT.
Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, for
President, and Thomas H. Tibbies, of
Nebraska, for Vice President was the
ticket nominated Tuesday at Spring-field,
Illinois, by the Populist National
Convention.
The platform reaffirms those of the
past three presidential campaigns; de-mands
government issuance of all paper
cnrrency and none by banks and insists
on a postal savings bank; applauds or-ganized
labor; declares for the abolition
jjf child labor and greater immigration
arestrictions; endorses the eight-hour day
for all government work; declares for
the initiative and referendum and the
election of the President by direct vote,
and has the usual planks on alien own-ership
of land, trusts, government own-erships
of railways, and control of cor-porations
by federal*instead of state
statues. The platform was adopted
unanimously.
Barely one-third of the delegates ex-pected
at the convention were present,
although this fact was not needed to
prove that Populism, which was only a
political fad, is about played out.
SOMEWHAT OF A DISAPPOINTMENT.
Rev. Silas C. .Swallow, D. D., of Har-risburg,
Pa., who was unanimously
nominated by the Prohibition National
Convention last week, will, it is said, be
in no hurry to decide whether he will
accept. He said that he would not give
his decision until after he has been offi-cially
notified of his nomination, and he
has oonsulted with his friends.
He has received telegrams from his
political friends urging him to accept
and make a speaking campaign, such as
he did when he was the party nominee
for Governor of this state in 1898. He
eaid he regretted that General Nelson
A. Miles could not see his way clear to
accept the nomination because he be-lieved
that he would have made a most
acceptable candidate.
No one can question either the strength
or purity of Dr. Swallow’s prohibition
and yet the regret he speaks of at the
failure to induce General Miles to run
is pretty generally shared in by his fel-low
cold water advocates.
ENCOURAGING TRADE OUTLOOK.
According to reliable trade reports,
there is much encouragement in the ev-idences
of returning confidence, and sta-tistics
for the past six months indicate
that there is no little reason for antici-pating
better things in the last half of
the year. Half yearly returns of insol-vencies
show that liabilities have stead-ily
decreased. Railway earnings that
in earlier months showed losses of 5 per
cent, or more in comparison with last
Blue Law Preparation.
Latrobe Advance.
Greensburg cellars, it is said, will be
worth robbing Saturday night. The
foxy residents of Puritanville don’t in-tend
to be caught napping next Sunday.
Bill Morrow’s Way.
Jeannette Journal.
An Indiana minister opened a dance
with prayer. Now if he will open
prayer meetings with a dance there will
be an end to this talk about men not at-tending
church.
Looks That Way.
Seottdale Independent.
The Westmoreland county court is
not going to have the liquor licenses
issued put in the bargain counter class
by transferring them to any fellow that
comes along. A license in Westmore-land
county means a year’s contract
with the original.
Butler’s Dilemma.
Greensburg Argus.
What’s Butler going to do? It can’t
drink its water, and the court has shut
off its booze supply. Better move to
Jeannette, where the supply of the last
mentioned fluid is unlimited; and as
for water, the natives use it only for
drowning purposes.
A Remarkable Girl.
Uniontown News Standard.
The graduation of Helen Keller, deaf,
dumb and blind, with honors, at Rad-cliffe
college, Cambridge, Mass., should
be an inspiration to every girl and to
every boy who seeks to achieve honor-able
and useful success in life despite
what are usually accounted insuperable
obstacles and blighting handicaps. The
achievements of this remarkable girl
are among the marvels of this marvel-ous
age.
CHAMPION.
An elaborate program was rendered
at Children a Day at Calvary on last
Sunday. The decorations were beau-tiful.
T. A. McLean, who was among the
number graduating at the Peterson Bus
iness College. Seottdale, and sister, Mrs.
Olive Kennell, were visiting friends and
relatives here last week.
Samuel Mathews and Jacob Geary
were callers here last Sunday evening.
What are the attractions, boys?
Milton Sleesman, of Youngwood, was
calling on old friends here last week.
Miss Nora Mathews was the guest of
Miss Minnie Newill last Sunday.
Among the number from here who
attended the examination at Springfield
were the following: James Douglass,
John Douglass, Ella Hunter, Minnie
Newill, Thomas McLean and Dr. Hun-ter.
Which school are you going to
apply for, Doc ?
Katharine McLean, Maud Miller,
Hays Miller and Elmer Shaulis have re-turned
home from California where they
attended the normal.
Roy Myers, of Mount Pleasant, was
the guest of his cousin, Charlie Myers,
the past week.
Miss Daisy Mathews, of Wilmerding,
is at home on a short vacation.
The party held at the Neiderhiser
Hotel, Jones Mills, the other evening
waB the Bwellest of the season. The
guests, who numbered about one hun-dred,
had a very jolly good time.
Miss Nora Pletcher, of Utah, is visit-ing
her parents here.
One of our local ministers is making
a collection of rbse bugs.
Our girls are well pleased at the ap-pearance
of another young sport. You
had better watch your chance, Law-rence.
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses have
been granted for this vicinity during
the past week:
Joseph Gardner, of Mount Pleasant
township, and Elsie Palmer, of Donegal
township.
James Irwin, of Youngwood, and
Laura B. Myers, of this place.
Vi' _
When ths Doctor Prescribes
he expects that the order for medicine
will be taken to a store where the
DRUGS AND MEDICINES
are pure, fresh and of the highest qual-ity.
Naturally he expects that it will
be filled here.
Our prescription department is mod-em
in equipment and method. Absolute
accuracy is the guiding motive. Noth-ing
but the best drugs are used, and
there is no substitution.
Crystal Pharmacy.
C. F. Goldsmith.
040 Main St. Mount Pleasant.JPa.
Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Corner Main and Eagle Streets.
Hardware,
Farm Imple-ments
and
Seeds.
Special attention
given to steam
and hot water
heating.
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Street Car Fare within
five miles on all pur-chases
of $2.00 and over. $15,000 Money Back
if you are not satisfied
with your purchase.
Worth of Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings
to be Sacrificed.
The building we are in will in the near future be partly torn down and rebuilt. We
will have to vacate our room temporarily. Rather than pack up and store our
goods we have decided on the only remedy left us, to
Close out the entire stock regardless of cost.
A chance for all to buy goods for present use as well as fall and winter at lower
prices than were ever known.
Nothing Reserved==Everything Must Go.
This is a bona fide Closing Out Sale---it’s a case of MUST.
H. GOLDSTONE,
Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings,
Mount Pleasant’s Largest Men’s Outfitting Store.
Cor. Main and Church Sts., - - - Mount Pleasant.
Your Money’s \A/orth, or Money Back:.
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904.
MUGS AT HOME
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 Hitrh Carnival and Works off his
Surplus Enersry in Condensations
That Deal Solely with Matters Relating
to Mount Pleasant
Will Galley ami Harry Burgess gath
ered in eleven woodcock along Brush
Run Monday morning.
A thief visited the East End coop of
J. B. Myers, Sr., Saturday night, taking
eighteen of his finest chickens.
Steve Shina, a young Slavish miner at
Rainey’s Acme coke works, was caught
and killed Saturday by a fall of slate.
The regular night coming on the
Fourth, Council decided not to hold its
July meeting until next Monday eve-ning.
H. B. Pershing has cut some five-foot
timothy hay in his South Side field and
iB feeling considerably stuck up over the
fact.
Mrs. Steward Dillon, of Sand Hill
avenue, left some forty of her fat hens
outside the coop Sunday night and they
were all gone the next morning.
Dr. J. S. Mullin will attend the
Knight Templar Conclave at San Fran
cisco, California, and will be absent
from his dental office from August 19 to
September 20th.
Joseph Deluca, of Youngwood, has
sued Joseph A. Eichar, the well known
local teamster, for $150 damages for al
leged failure to deliver the plaintiff's
goods at his home.
The Methodist Episcopal ladies clear
ed some $40 with their cleverly arrant ■*
ed farewell festival given in their old
Walnut street parsonage Thursday and
Friday evenings last.
Some twenty-five lady friends gave
Mrs. N. M. Crusan, of East Washington
street, a most enioyable surprise party
Tuesday evening, of which a nice lunch
was a prominent feature.
The hail storm Friday afternoon last
did considerable damage in sections
near about town. The fall in the East
End was heavy, but very light in the
First and Second wards.
The preliminary steps looking to the
organization of a local Slavish political
club were taken Sunday. It is proposed
to have the two lodges unite with a
total membership of over two hundred.
It is said that Samuel Dennison is pre
paring to bring suit for damages against
the local Methodist Episcopal people
who failed to purchase his South Church
street property after agreeing to do so.
Mayor Overholt’s treatment of the
dozen victims gathered in by the police
on the Fourth was of the mild order.
Four were discharged and the balance
let off with fines that totaled up but
forty dollars.
Rev. R. W. Goff, one of the ablest
colored divines in the South, will preach
a special sermon for the Mount Pleasant
Club of the Royal Order of Joseph in the
A. M. E. Zion church Sunday evening
next at 8 o’clock. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
Communion will be held at the Re-
Union Presbyterian church Sunday
morning next. At the preparatory ser-vices
Rev. Fisher, the new Middle Pres
byterian pastor, will preach Friday eve
ning and Rev. J. B. Lyle, of Scottdale,
Saturday afternoon.
The second annual supper for the local
Masons and their wives, served by the
Ladies Hospital Aid Society in the base-ment
of the First Baptist church Friday
evening, was a very nice affair, covers
having been laid for sixty people. The
management cleared some $60.
While Henry Gillespie, an East End
brewery employe, and his family were
at the St. Joseph picnic Monday eve
ning, thieves broke into their Dice’s
Extension home and took $90 and two
watches. The money was in a little
bank safe that had been left in a bureau
drawer.
It is expected that a number of Prof.
Fox’s former pupils here will attend the
Fourth of July party he will give in the
New Auditorium, Scottdale, tomorrow
evening. The program will embrace
fireworks, a balloon ascension and “The
dance of the Ruby Light,” with special
souvenirs.
Beginning Sunday next, the evening
services at the Methodist Episcopal
church will be changed so as to combine
the Epworth League meeting and the
regular evening service. The combined
service will begin at 7 o’clock and close
at 8, the arrangement to continue dur-ing
the summer months.
During last night’s unusually heavy
fall of rain the steeple of the Methodist
Episcopal church was struck by light -
ning which knocked several wheelbar-row
loads of slate down in Captain Jor-dan’s
yard and made so much noise gen-erally
that that startled gentleman ex-pected
to hear Gabriel’s toot. No other
damage was done.
EXCURSIONS TO ATLANTIC CITY
And Other Atlantic Coast Resorts via
Pennsylvania Railroad.
July 7 and 21, August 4 and 18, and
Senteuiber 1 are the remaining dates of
the Pennsylvania Railroad annual low-rate
excursions for 1904 to Atlantic City,
Cape May, Ocean City, Sea Isle City,
Avalon, Anglesea, Wildwood, Holly
Beach, N. J., Rehoboth, Del., or Ocean
City, Md.
Tickets good to return within sixteen
dayB, including date of excursion will
be sold from Tarr at $10; proportionately
low rates from all other points.
A special train of pullman parlor cars
and day coaches will leave Pittsburg on
above mentioned dates at 8:55 a. m.,
reaching Philadelphia6:25 p. in., in time
for supper, and arriving at Atlantic
City, via the Delaware River Bridge
Route, the only all-rail line, at 8:85 r.
A stop will be made for luncheon
en route. Passengers may also spend
the night in Philadelphia, and proceed
to the shore by any regular train from
Market Street Wharf or Broad Street
Station on the following day.
Passengers for New Jersey points
other than Atlantic City will spend the
night in Philadelphia, and use reguli r
trains the next day from Market Street
Wharf. Passengers for Rehoboth, Del.,
or Ocean City, Md., will use regular
trains the following day from Broad
Street Station.
A stop over within limit will be al-lowed
at Philadelphia returning, if pas
sengers will deposit their tickets with
the Ticket Agent at Broad Street Sta-tion,
Philadelphia, immediately on ar-rival.
Tickets must be deposited with
Agent on arrival at seashore destination
and properly validated for return trip.
Tickets will also be sold for regular
trains leaving Pittsburg at 4:65 and 9:00
m. from all stations at which these
trains stop, and from stations from
which regular connection with them is
made, and at the higher rate only on
train leaving at 10:00 p. m. Pullman
sleeping cars through to Atlantic City
on the 10:00 P. M. train, and to Phila-delphia
on the 4 55 and 9:00 P. M. trains.
Returning coupons will be accepted
on any regular train except the Penn-sylvania
Limited and the Chicago Lim-ited
and the St. Louis Limited.
For detailed Information in regard to
rates and time of trains apply to ticket
agents or Mr. Thomas E. Watt, District
Passenger Agent, 360 Fifth Avenue,
Pittsburg.
Other Reduced Rates.
For the benefit of those desiring to at-tend
the annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks, to be held at Cincinnati,
Ohio, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-pany
will sell round-trip tickets to Cin-cinnati
from all stations on its lines,
July 15, 16 and 17, at rate of single fare
for the round trip, plus $1.00. Tickets
will be good returning, leaving Cincin-nati
not later than July 23, when prop-erly
validated, for which no fee will be
required. By depositing ticket not later
than July 23, and payment of fee of fiftv
cents, an extension of return limit may
be had to August 18.
On account of the Imperial Council,
Order of the Mystic Shrine, at Atlantic
City, July 13 to 15, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell round-trip
tickets from stations west of Downing
town and Avondale, north of Parker
Ford, south of Newark, Del., and Por-ter,
Del., and north and east of Trenton,
Windsor, and Toms River, N. J., to
Atlantic City, July 11 and 12, good re-turning
until July’23, inclusive, at rate
of single fare for the round trip, plus
$1.00. For stop-ove? privileges and
further particulars consult ticket agents.
On account of the Triennial Conven-tion
of the Ladies’ Catholic Benevolent
Association, at St. Paul, Minn., July 15
to 30, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-pany
will sell round-trip tickets to St.
Panl or Minneapolis from all stations on
its lines July 12 to 16, inclusive, good to
return until August 5, at reduced rates.
MOUND AND (BOUT
But Principally Within
Bounds of This County.
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A FULL COLUMN OF GOOD NEWS
SECURED FROM THE PAGES OF RE-LIABLE
EXCHANGES.
Birds eye View of the Columbia River.
An attractive topographical map, in
colors, giving a comprehensive idea of
the country on and tributary to the Co
lumbia River. This map is in folder
form, and on the reverse side contains
on interesting description of the Colum-bia
River route. Copies sent free by
E. L. LOMAX, G. P. & T. A., U. P. R.
R. Co., Omaha, Neb., on receipt of four
cents postage.
How these Articles Appear After They
Have been Boiled Down Into Short
Paragraphs That Speak to the Point
But Briefly of Interesting Events
Transpiring In the Old Star of the West
Joseph Marsteller, aged 24 years, was
caught between two freight cars at Ev-erson
Monday night and badly hurt.
The working time of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad in the mechanical depart-ment
was reduced from 10 to 7 hours a
day last Friday.
The laying of the corner stone for the
new $20,000 Salvation Army building in
Uniontown has been postponed from
July 3 to July 17. .
Daring a hearing before Justice Daw-son
at Uniontown Saturday Lawyers
Stein, of Pittsburg, and R. P. Kennedy,
of Uniontown, came to blows.
In a riot at a Russian wedding cele-brated
Sunday Irwin officers were over-powered,
but when reinforced by citi-zens
captured six of the ringleaders.
New Kensington teachers, who diso-beyed
the directors’ edict against dan-cing,
have all been re-elected, six of
them getting $5 a month increase in
salary.
Brooding over an information that
had been made against him for a trival
offense, Rosco Bragano, a Jeannette
Italian, on Friday, fired a bullet into his
brain and died.
Charles Baker, 11 years old, died at
the Connellsville hospital Monday from
lockjaw. About three weeks ago he had
his finger hurt by the premature explo-sion
of a pistol.
Local Grand Army men presented the
First Methodist Episcopal church of
Scottdale with a large silk flag Sunday
evening. Pastor Cartwright preached
a patriotic sermon.
The force of the operating depart-ment
of the Pennsylvania railroad has
been decreased eleven per cent., and all
other departments have undergone a 5
per cent, reduction.
George Provosky and his brother John,
Revere coke workers, are in jail at Un-iontown
for having put a keg of beer on
the street car track after having been
put off a car for disorderly conduct.
Thomas O’Brien, a 15-year old Young-wood
boy, while picking cherries near
Middletown Saturday with several other
lads, drank a lot of whiskey found in
the buggy of two Manor drovers and
died from the effect the next morning
At West Elizabeth the Presbyterian
church was struck by lightning last
Friday. The bolt struck the bell tower,
tore off part of the slate roofing and
passed on down through the church, but
d’d not set it on fire. The loss will not
exceed $100.
A destructive storm passed over the
region abont Irwin last Thursday after-noon.
It was a combination of wind
and a downpour of rain and big hail
stones. East of the town trees were
blown down and growing crops were
stripped to the ground.
Harry Shoemaker, who passed a stolen
B. & O. check by forging the owner’s
name, escaped from the Connellsville
lockup Thursday. He had been held for
court by Justice of the Peace Miller and
was locked up in the police station while
trying to secure $500 bail.
George Hollenbeck, of Scottdale, an
electric lineman for. the street railway
people, while at the top of a 30-foot pole
near Rainey’s Acme coke plant last
Thursday afternoon, was terribly burn-ed
by coming in contact with the high
power line carrying some two thousand
volts. He fell to the ground, but will
recover.
FOR SALE OR RENT:—An eight room
frame dwelling house in Hammondville
with fine cellar, good water, stable and
other necessary outbuildings. If not
sold at once, four of the rooms can be
rented on reasonable terms. Inquire at
this office. 6 30 4t
Annual Meeting: of German Baptist
Brethren.
For the above occasion the Missouri
Pacific Railway will sell round trip
tickets from St. Louis to Carthage, Mo.,
at the rate of one fare for the round trip,
with final return limit to June 30th
Full information, schedule of trains,
eto., furnished on application to John
R. James, Central Passenger Agent, 815
Bessemer building, Pittsburg, Pa.
5:12 tf
Sound kidneys are safeguards of life.
Make the kidneys healthy with Foley’s
Kidney Cure. All druggists.
Strickler’s Store.
1854-1904.
CLEARANCE SALE
—OF—
D.D. Miller Estate.
L. S. Kettle, of Columbus, Ohio, ad-ministrator
of the estate of D. D. Miller,
deceased, formerly of this place, with
his attorney, Judge Horst, and A. G.
Innes, a Columbus capitalist, was here
last Thursday attending a meeting of
the directors of the Copper Rock and
Gold Quartz Mining Company, in which
Mr. Miller was a stockholder. His stock
still represents one-twentieth of the
capital of $1,000,000, although he dou-bled
his money invested by selling one-half
of his holdings some time before
his death.
New East End Home.
Contractor Frank Hurst has Justice
McWilliams’s new East Main street
building well under way. It will be a
ten-room frame residence, 80x42, and
when completed will be occupied by the
owner.
NOTICE:—All persons desiring to save
the 5 per cent, discount on this year’s
borough taxes must pay the same on or
before July 20, 1904. J. M. Yothers,
6 80 8t Collector. |
All Summer Goods
is now going on all over the store.
WHITE SHIRT WAISTS,
CORSET COVERS,
WHITE SKIRTS,
SUMMER SILKS,
SUMMER DRESS GOODS.
Main street and Diamond Square, MOUNT PLEASANT, PA.
Go Way Back
and Sit Down.
For if your sweetheart sees
you with that dirty looking shirt,
collar and cuffs on, your goose
is cooked. Better emigrate; best
go west and grow up with the
country. But, better still, bring
your next laundry to us to have
done up and you’ll surely avoid
all future collisions with your
“best,” at least those due to the
laundry question.
Mount Pleasant
Steam Laundry,
F. S. DULLINGER, Frop’r.
Local ’Phone 129.
All the latest designs and the
largest stock in town
We ask simply that you call
and examine goods and sam-ples
before purchasing
If you wish to have the hanging
done on paper bought of us,
remember we employ only
the most competent work-men
and guarantee all work.
•
Respectfully
J. B. Coldsmith,
' “On the Hill,”
MOUNT PLEASANT.
If you would attend the best
endowed secondary school in West-
Mount
There is
ern Pennsylvania come to
and enter the Institute,
no better place in the country to pre-pare
for college than at this school.
Then, steps are being taken to erect
a new $50,000 Boys’ Building. ’
Special attention is also
to Music and Business courses.
given
fall Term Opens, Wednesday, Sept. 14.
Send for catalogue to
C. DIXON, Principal.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 190-1.
ENGINE
EXPLODES
On the Pennsylvania Railroad Above John-stown,
Killing Three and Injuring
Two Trainmen.
ALL THE VICTIMS (HE FROM CHIP,
For the second time in the last live months a Pennsylvania railroad lo-comotive
blew up at Ehrenfield, nine miles east of Johnstown, last Thursday.
THE DEAL).
J. B. WISSINGER, engineer, about 45 years old.
DANIEL QROUCH, fireman, about 30 years old.
CHARLES ROSS, flagman, about 21 years old.
THE INJURED.
A. G. BOYLE, conductor, bruised about body and serious scalp wounds.
J. B. SMITH, brakeman, fractured ribs, bad bruises and burns.
The dead and injured are residents of Conemaugh. The train, composed
of an engine, 44 cars and a “pusher,” left Conemaugh that morning. After
putting in five more cars at South Fork, the crew had been under way two
minutes when the explosion occurred.
Mr. Bowser had given the dog 11
white tall, white ears and a red mouth
and wns standing Imck to gaze on Ids
work when a quietly dressed and quiet
mannered man of middle age turned
into the gate. After looking at the dog
a moment he smilingly said:
“I am afraid you cannot change the
work of the original artist."
"1 am not trying to," was the reply.
“Hut do you hope to make u dog out
of a pig?"
“Yon take lids for a pig. do you?"
“I certainly do."
“Then coum around In the hack yard
for a couple of minutes!"
Mr. Hawser laid down Ids brushes
and led the way, and the stranger fol-lowed
him. lie had an Idea that there
was more statuary hack there to he
identified, and lie failed to note the
signs of an nppronehlng cyclone. When
the Imck yard was reached, Mr. Ilow-ser
extended Ids Imnd and grasped the
man by the collar and said:
“Now, then, I have hoard enough
about sheep and calves and hears and
pigs! I said I’d break the hack of the
Bowsers Stone Dog
He Gives Him a Coat of PeJnt-Too Much Criticism Causes
Him to Lose His Temper, a.i\d He Handles
sv. Citizen Rather Roughly.
W[Copyright, 1904, by C. B. Lewis.] * HEN Mr. Bowser seemed to
he taking things very easy
at the breakfast table the
other morning, Mrs. Bow-ser
asked If business at the ollicc had
dropped off.
“There’s business enough, but I shall
spend the day at home,” he replied. “I
want to do a little painting.”
“You—you won’t paint the steps or
the veranda?”
“No; 1 may touch up the fence a
bit and give the gate a coat, hut I want
to pay particular attentlou to our stone
dog. lie Is In a shabby condition. All
the old palm has peeled off. There
isn't a front yard in this town with a
nicer ornament than that dog.”
“Couldn't any painter give him a
coat or two?” asked Mrs. Bowser, as
she began to see trouble ahead.
“Yes, any painter could daub him
over, and after the paint was on he'd
look as much like a hyena ns a dog.
I have always painted that dog my-self
ever since I bought him, and I
see no reason to pass the job along.
If you are afraid of an explosion or
anything you might go away for the
day."
Mrs. Bowser mentally regretted that
some tramp had not stolen the terra
cotta during the winter and sold It for
beer, but she had nothing to say, and
as soon as breakfast was over Mr.
, "if you were foolish enough to buy
j that tiling for a sheep you have been
taken in and done for.”
I “Is It your business whether It Is
i a sheep or a calf?” exclaimed Mr.
| Bowser.
“No, of course not, but I hate to
1 see a soft headed man taken advan-tage
of. If I were you I’d take the
. ax and”—
Mr. Bowser went over to him. His
words could not have been heard
! thirty feet away, and his gestures
| were no stronger than Hamlet’s, but
j ns the butcher listened he began to
j turn pale and heads of moisture to
I start out on Ills forehead. As soon as
1 Ve could get a move on him he got
I i way, and an umbrella mender on the
! other side of the street shook his head
i most solemnly and said to himself:
i "That bnldheaded man inside the
fence don't weigh over half a ton, but
I’ll bet my last plunk lie's u holy terror
»m wheels.”
The third man came along at a lei
surely pace with a benign look on his
face, and his motive was utterly un-selfish
as lie stopped i.’or awhile to re-mark:
“My friend, if you are seeking to
imitate nature you are making a mis-take
in getting so much white on. In
fact, I don’t think there should be any
at all."
“What do you know about it?” curt
pig
next idiot who came along, and I’m go-ing
to thump you till you can’t holler!"
“But, my dear sir my dear lunn
my”—
“Shut up! If It’s got to that pass
Hint a respectable citizen and taxpayer
can’t go out into Ids own front yard
to paint a stone dog without being In-sulted
by half a dozen loafers, then lot
him lake the remedy into his own
hands. Prepare to he driven into the
earth head llrst!”
“But I am no loafer, sir. If your
wife were here, she”—
Mrs. Bowser called to Bowser from
a hack window to stay IIIH Imml, and a
minute Inter she was down In the yard
whispering In his car.
“Well,” he said to the man ns ho re-leased
Ids collar, "ns you are a clergy-man,
that makes n difference, but don’t
ever conic around hero criticising
things again. That's a stone dog out
there, and lie will continue to he a
stone dog till the end of Ills days.
Don't mix him up with pigs if you
want to keep out of trouble.”
The minister went away with pale
face and slinking chin, mid Mr. Bowser
had to make a trip to the store for
some turpentine. Upon Ids return lie
found that a change Imd come over tlio
face of the heath, or at least o’er that
portion of it specified in Ids warranty
deed. The trnmp whom lie had scared
away had not been satisfied to leave
things thus. He had sought the as-sistance
of three other trumps, and
when Mr. Bowser’s back was turned
the four had painted the stone dog a
Jet black and propped him up against
the front steps, and then one of them
hail fashioned a rude sign which read:
“This Whale For Sale Cheap!”
“And you—you allowed Hint to he
done in my absence!” exclaimed Mr.
Bowser ns Mrs. Bowser met him at
the head of the steps.
“But, you see—you see”—
“Yes, I see! Woman, the law might
not call this u direct attempt to assas-sinate
me in my own dooryard, but I
know and you know what the intent
was, and now your old stone (log can
go f> thunder, and I’ll paint the house
.seventeen different colors!”
M. QUAD.
CURIOUS THINGS FROM CHINA
The Mod Magnificent Beds Ever Seen
Are Part of i.Ho Celestial Empire's
World’s Fair Exhibit.
The Chinese exhibit at the World’s
Fair is filled with pleasing surprises.
Borne of the most magnificent articles
of furniture are a part of lids wonder-ful
display. The curving and Inlaying
of Ivory, hone and wood Illustrate the
marvelous skill of the Chinese.
Models included In this Interesting
exhibit show the homes and home life
of tho Chinese, their weddings and
funerals, Chinese tea house, restau-rant
and shop, Chinese weaving and
some of the beautiful silks uml wear-ing
apparel of the Chinese and their
methods of manufacturing them.
One feature of the exhibit Is two
magnificent Chinese beds, each of
which has the appearance of being a
small house of great beauty. One Is a
summer bed, the other for winter. The
summer bed Is hand carved und inlaid
with Ivory nml hone figures and land-scapes
exquisitely curved and so j
skillfully joined as to appear a part of
the wood. The bed nml furniture are
of carved bamboo. The bed consists of
un anteroom, with tables, chairs nnd
ten stands, nnd In nn Inner room, which
la the sleeping apartment, there Is a
couch with coverings of gauzy silks.
The winter bed Is still more elabo-rate.
It consists of three compartments.
The first contains four chairs, a tea poy
nnd a chest of drawers. This Is the sit-ting
apartment. The second is the dress-ing
room, and the third Is the sleep-ing
apartment, or the couch Itself. The
furniture is of rosewood Inlaid with
Ivory carving of birds, flowers nnd
trees. The couch Is covered with silks
of the finest texture nnd In gaudy col-ors.
Tlio sleeping compartments are
lighted with Chinese lanterns of silk
hung at the outer entrance, while the
light enters through gauze panels, hand
painted nnd in forms of rosewood In-laid
with ivory figures.
A table anil dish made of highly pol-ished
ash, with exquisitely carved
bamboo figures Inlaid, are shown. The
work Is so artistically done that each
article seems to have been made of
one piece of wood.
There Is also a large display of Chi-nese
lanterns made of silk, gauze and
other light materlnl and some made of
bends artistically arranged with glass
centers. The silk and gauze are beau-tifully
band painted.
There nro models of some of tho
great Chinese temples, theaters and
arches, showing elaborate carving In
wood and Ivory and two large elephaDt
tusks exquisitely carved.
IT IT
In order to devote our entire time to our
Undertaking
business, which has grown to such proportions as
to demand our entire attention, we offer our entire
Stock of Furniture
at a discount of 20 per cent, for cash. We have
no old or shop-worn goods but you are given the
opportunity to buy strictly
Up=to=Date Furniture
at prices which will appeal to all economical pur-chasers.
Come at once. Stock will not last long.
Yours very truly,
GIBBS & KING,
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
760 Main St., Mount Pleasant.
Terms Cash, Goods Delivered.
H. S. ACKERMAN,
DEALER IN
AND
Hnck at Him.
I Bejiggers 1ms just finished his choic-est
anecdote. Bejaggers refuses to
. laugh at it.
"I can tell nn old joke when I hear
1 It,” declares Bejaggers.
"You bet you can!” snaps Bejiggers.
"You generally tell It about the next
day after you have heard It and keep
on telling it until no one will listen to
you.”—Judge.
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Pianos - -
Organs,
Sheet Music and Musical
Merchandise.
Densmore and Yost
Typewriting Machines
Gramophone Talking Machines aD?he Standard Sewing Machine
NEEDLES, OIL AND ATTACHMENTS.
Addres*
H. S. ACKERflAN,
210 Main Street, GREENSBURG PENNA
m
New Follngre.
"Our family tree has lots of new
limbs on it now,” said the member of
the proud family.
“It has?"
“Yes. Within the past three years
six of our connections have eloped
with chorus girls.”—Judge.
What Shall We Have for Desert P
This question arises in the family
every day. Let ns answer it to-day.
Try Jell O, a delicious and healthful
dessert Prepared in two minutes. No
1 boiling! no baking! simply add boiling
| water and set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon,
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Get a package atj.yonr grocers to-day.
10 cents. 4 28 17
A Saintly Settlement.
“And it’s a law abiding settlement, is
It?”
“You bet! Ain't been a lynchln’ roun’
here since a hurricane bloweil the trees
down ail’ rope riz in price!”—Atlanta
Constitution,
“I SAID I’D BREAK THE BACK OF THE NEXT IDIOT WHO CAME
ALONG!"
rtotvser got into Ills old clothes and
rummaged around for paints. In the
course of an hour he was ready to be-gin
on the dog. The idea was to imi-tate
the colors of the living animal as
far as possible, and he therefore had
four or five kinds of paint: He bad
scarcely begun to clean off the statuary
when n tramp came along and leaned
on the fence to observe:
“AVhat breed of dorg do you call that,
old man?”
“Are you addressing me?” demand-ed-
Mr. Bowser as he looked up.
j “I wasn’t addressln’ nobody else. It
'looks to urn ns if the man who made
that dorg had a goat before him.”
■ Mr. Bowser dropped his tools and
went over to the fence, and, shaking
his finger within six inches of the
tramp'B red nose, he made an address
lasting live minutes. His words were
not loud, hut intense, and he was still
speaking when the man swallowed the
lump in his throat, got u brace on his
wabbling knees and started off. He
didn’t stop until he was two blocks
away, and then he wiped the perspira-tion
from his brow und muttered to
liimseif:
■ “By George, but if they don’t chain
that old chap up lie'll do murder yet!”
I Half an hour later, as Mr. Bowser
was putting black und white spots on
a portion of the dog, a butcher came
along and paused to look. He couldn’t
be satisfied with looking, but pres-ently
blurted out:
ly replied the painter as he paused in
his work.
"Well, I have seen a few black bears
In my time, and have also read consid-erable
natural history, and I can’t
agree with yon that they are white
and black. A black bear is black, isn't
he?”
“Do you call this a bear?”
“I suppose It is intended to represent
a bear, though there is something un-couth
about it.”
“If this represents a bear, then you
represent a jackass! By John, but the
next man who comes along und opens
his gub about this dog will get rolled
in the mud! Bear, you noodlehead!
Can’t you tell a bear from a dog? Get
on with you and call a grasshopper a
chipmunk!”
"My dear man”—
But Mr. Bowser’s ears began to work,
and the man moved on down to the
corner and there met a woman und
somewhat plaintively Inquired of her:
“Madam, do you happen to know the
—ah—person who lives back there with
the stone bear in the yard?”
“Yes, sir,” she replied. "His name
is Bowser.”
“And Is he considered—ah—danger-ous?”
“He is. If he is down on you, you’d
better get a mile away as soon as pos-sible.”
"Ah, I see. Many thanks. As the
day is fine for walking, I think I’ll
move on.”
uoniriiiK.
"I didn’t know the Russians could be
so polite.”
“How’s that?”
“Why, the Japanese wanted to sink
some ships at the entrance to Port Ar-thur
harbor, and the Russians sunk
’em before the Japs could sink ’em.”—
Cleveland Flnin Denier.
No False Claims.
I The proprietors of Foley’s Honey and
| Far do not advertise this as a “sure cure
for consumption.” They do not claim
it will cure this dread complaint in ad-j
vanced cases, but do positively assert
j that it will cure in the earlier stages and
1 never fails to give comfort and relief in
the worst cases. Foley’s Honey and Tar
is without doubt the greatest throat and
lung remedy. Refuse substitutes. All
druggists.
A Lena Year 1’ropoaal.
Harry—Here is the newest conun-drum.
When is two an odd and lucky
number?
Celia—You know I never can guess
conundrums.
Harry—When two are made one.
Celia—Oh, Harry! This Is so sud-den!—
Town Topics.
A little life may be sacrificed to an
hour’s delay. Cholera infantum, dysen-terp,
diarrhoea come suddenly. Only
safe plan is to have Dr. Fowler’s Extract
of Wild Strawberry always on hand.
The Way of the World.
Burns—Billings loves a joke even if
it be on himself. He laughed like all
possessed when a fat lady came in
and sat upon his hat.
Scarby—But he didn’t know it was
his hat. He thought It was Hill’s.—
Boston Transcript.
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“I was troubled with kidney com-plaint
for about two years,” writes A.
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bottles of Foley’s Kidney Cure effected
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What's the secret of happy, vigorous
health? Simply keeping the bowels,
' the stomach, the liver and kidneys
strong and active. Bnrdock Blood Bit-ters
does it.
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Become not surety for your friend!”
GET YOUR BONDS Of SURETYSHIP
FROM THE
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limited
Is the new electric-lighted train Chicago to Kansas
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
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By one Missouri editor it has been called ‘‘The Sure
'Nuf Hurry-up Train between Chicago and Kansas
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standard sleepers, dining cars, compartment-observation
sleepers, chair cars and coaches.
Leaves Chicago 6:00 p. m. Arrives Kansas City
8:40 a. m. Union Stations in both cities. Two
stations in Kansas City.
JOHN R. POTT,
District Passenger Agent.
Room D, Park Building,
Pittsburg, Pa.
THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904.
•h I5he + Filigree Ball
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN,
Author of “The Mystery of Agatha Webb,” "l ost Man’s Lane,” Etc.
Copyright, 1903, by the Bobbs-Mcrrlll Company
A NEAT
TESTIMONIAL.
A
[CONTINUED.]
My next move was toward the little
talile holding the candelabrum with
the glittering pendants. This tnblo
was one oil a nest standing against a
nearby wall. Investigation proved
that It had been lifted from the others
and brought to its present position
within n very short space of time, for
the dust lying thick on Its top was
almost entirely lncking from the one
which had been nested under 1L
Neither had the candelabrum been
standing there long, dust being found
under ns well ns around It. Had her
hand brought It there? Hnrdly, If It
came from the top of the mantel
toward which I now turned In my
course of investigation.
1 have already mentioned this man-tel
more than once. This I could hard-ly
avoid, since In and about It lay the
heart of the mystery for which the
room was remarkable. But, though I
have thus freely spoken of it and
though it was not absent from my
thoughts for a moment, I had not ven-tured
to approach It beyond a certain
safe rudlus. Now In looking to see If I
might not lessen this radius I experi-enced
that sudden and overwhelming
interest In Its every feature which at-taches
to all objects peculiarly asso-ciated
with danger.
I even took a step toward It, holding
up my lamp so that a stray ray struck
the faded surface of an old engraving
hanging over the fireplace. It was the
well known one, in Washington at
least, of Benjamin Franklin at the
court of France, interesting, no doubt.
In a general way, but scarcely calcu-lated
to hold the eye at so critical an
Instant. Neither did the shelf below
call for more than momentary atten-tion,
for It was absolutely bare. So
was the time worn, If not blood stained,
hearth, save for the Impenetrable
shadow cast over It by the huge bulk
of the great settle stundlng at Its edge.
I have already described the Impres-sion
made on me at my first eutrunco
by this ancient and characteristic arti-cle
of furniture.
It was Intensified now as my eye ran
over the clumsy curving which added
to the discomfort of Its high, struight
back and as I smelled the smell of its
moldy and possibly mouse haunted
cushions. A crawling sense of dread
took the place of my first Instinctive
repugnance, not because superstition
had as yet laid its grip upon me, al-though
the place, the hour and the near ,
and veritable presence of death were
enough to rouse the Imagination past
the bounds of the actuul, but because
of a discovery I had made—a discovery
which emphasized the tradition that all
who had been found dead under the
mantel had fallen ns If from the end of
this monstrous and patriarchal bench.
Do you ask what this discovery was?
It can be told in a word. This one
end nnd only this end had been made
comfortable for the sitter. For a space
scarcely wide enough for one the seat
nnd back nt this special point hud
been upholstered with leather, fastened
to the wood with heavy wrought nails.
The remaining portion stretched out
bare, hard and Inexpressibly forbidding
to one who sought ease there or even
• moment of casuul rest.
The natural Inference was that the
owner of this quaint piece of furniture
had been a very selfish man who
thought only of his own comfort. But
might he not have had some other rea-son
for his apparent niggardliness?
As I asked myself this question and
noted how the long and embracing
arm which guarded this cushioned re-treat
was flattened on top for the con-venient
holding of decanter and glass,
feelings to which I can give no name
and which l had fondly believed my-self
proof against began to take the
place of Judgment and reason. Before
I realized the nature of my own Im-pulse
or to what It was driving me I
found myself moving slowly and stead-ily
toward this formidable seat under
an Irresistible desire to fling myself
down upon these old cushions and—
But here the creaking of some faroff
shutter, possibly the one I had seen
swaying from the opposite side of the
street, recalled me to the duties of the
hour, and, remembering that my In
vestigatlons were but half completed
and that I might be Interrupted any
moment by detectives from headquar-ters,
I broke from the accursed charm,
which horrified me the moment I es-caped
It, nnd, quitting the room by a
door nt the farther end, sought to find
in some of the ndjacent rooms the def-inite
traces I had failed to discover on
this the actual scene of the crime.
It was a dismal search, revealing at
every turn the almost maddened haste
with which the house had been aban-doned.
I passed out Into the kitchen
nnd so on by a close and narrow pas-sage
to the negro quarters clustered In
the rear, nere I made a discovery.
One of the windows in this long dis-used
portion of the house was not only
unlocked, but partly open. But, ns I
came upon no marks showing that this
outlet had been used by the escaping
murderer, I made my way back to the
front of the house and thus to the
stairs communicating with the upper
floor.
It was on the rug lying at the foot of
these stairs that I came upon the first
of a dozen or rqoro burned matches
wmcu lay in a distinct trail up tne
staircase and along the floors of the
upper halls. AR these matches were
all burned as short ns fingers could
hold them, It was evident that they
had been used to light the steps of
some one seeking refuge above, possi-bly
la the very room where we had
seen the light which had first drawn
us to this house. How then? Should I
proceed, or await the coming of the
“boys” before pushing In upon a pos-sible
murderer? I decided to proceed,
fascinated, I think, by the nicety of
the trail which lay before me.
But when after a careful following
in the steps of him who had so lately
preceded tne I cnme upon a tightly
closed door at the end of a side pas-sage,
I gave n slight push to the door
and, on seeing a crack of light leap Into
life nlong the jamb, pushed the door
wider and wider till the whole room
stood revealed.
The Instantaneous banging of a shut-ter
In one of Its windows proved the
room to bo the very one which we had
seen lighted from below. Otherwise
all was still, nor was I able to detect
in my first hurried glance any other
token of human presence than a can-dle
sputtering in Its own grense nt the
The candle in the tumbler
CULPTOR NOW AT WORK ON IRE STATUE,
Dottom or n tumbler placed on one cor-ner
of an old fashioned dressing tnble.
This, the one touch of Incongruity In
a room otherwise rich If not stately In
its appointments, was loud in Its sug-gestion
of some hidden presence given
to expedients and reckless of conse-quences,
but of this presence nothing
was to be seen.
Not satisfied with this short survey, 1
turned my attention to my surround-ings,
which had many points of Inter-est.
Foremost among these was the
big four poster which occupied n largo
space at my right. I bad never seen its
like in uso before, and I was greatly
nttracted by its size and the air of
mystery Imparted to it by Its closely
drawn curtains of faded brocade.
A dressing tnble laden with woman’s
fixings and various articles of the toi-let,
all of an unexpected value and
richness, occupied tbo space between
the two windows, and on the floor, Im-mediately
In front of a high mahogany
mantel, there lay, amid a number of
empty boxes, an overturned chair,
This chair nnd the conjectures its po-sition
awakened led me to look up at
the mantel, with which it seemed to
be in some way connected, and thus I
became aware of a wan old drawing
hanging on the wall above it. Why
this picture, which wns a totally unin
terestlng sketch of a simpering girl
face, should have held my eye after
the first glance I cannot say even now.
It had no beauty, even of the sentimen-tal
kind, and very little If any mean-ing.
Its lines, weak at the best, were
nearly obliterated and In some places
quite faded out, yet I not only paused
to look at It, but In looking at It forgot
myself and well nigh my errand. Yet
there was no apparent reason for the
Bpell It exerted over me.
It may seem both unnecessary and
nut of character for a man of my call
lng to acknowledge these chance sen
satlons, but only by doing so can I ac-count
for the minutes which elapsed
before I summoned sufficient self pos
session to draw aside the closed cur-tains
of the bed and take the quick
look inside which my present doubtful
position demanded. But, once I had
broken the spell and taken the look
Just mentioned, I found my manhood
return and with It my old ardor for
clews. The bed held no gaping, chat
tering criminal, yet was It not quite
empty. Something lay there, and this
something, while commonplace In It-self,
was enough out of keeping with
the place and hour to rouse my inter-est
and awaken my conjectures. It
was a lady's wrap, so rich In quality
and of such a festive appearance that
it was astonishing to find It lying In
neglected state In this crumbling old
bouse. Though I know little of the
cost of women's garments, I do know
the value of lnce, and this garment
was covered with It.
Interesting as was this find, It was
followed by one still more so. Nestled
in the folds of the cloak lay the with
ered remains of what could only have
been the bridal bouquet. Unsightly
now nnd scentless, it was once a beau-tiful
specimen of the florist's art. As
noted how the main bunch of roses
and lilies was connected by long satin
ribbons to the lesser clusters which
hung from it I recalled with conceiva-ble
horror the use to which a similar
ribbon had been put In the room be-low.
In tho shudder called up by this
coincidence I forgot to speculate bow
a bouquet carried by the bride could
have found Its way back to this up
stairs room when, as all accounts
agree, she had fled from the parlor be-low
without speaking or staying foot
the moment she was told of the catas
trophe which had taken place In the
library. TJiat her .wrap should be ly
Miniature of the Colonel Hawkins
morial to he Presented to the Old
Commander’s Widow.
M(
Meanwhile'her lips had opened with
the cry:
“My sister! Where Is my sister?”
The cnptaln made a hurried move-ment
toward the rear and then, with
the lnurtnblo Intention doubtless of
preparing her for the ghastly sight
which awaited her, returned and open-ed
a way for her into the drawing
room. But she was not to be turned
aside from her course. Passing him
by, she mndo directly for the library,
which she entered with a hound.
Struck by lier daring, we all crowded
up behind her and, curious brutes that
we were, grouped ourselves In a semi-circle
about the doorway as she falter-ed
toward her sister’s outstretched
form and fell on her knees beside it.
Her Involuntary shriek and the fierce
recoil she mnde as her eyes fell on the
long white ribbon trailing over the
floor from her sister’s wrist struck mo
Mrs. Agatha G. Hawkins, of Washington, Pa., widow of Colonel Alex-1 "» voicing the utmost horror of which
, . , , ”, , ,, ,, , - ,, • , . the human soul Is capable. It was as
ander Leroy Hawkitls, is to be remembered by the Hawkins Memorial Asso- though her yery B0„, wore plerced
ciation of the Tenth Regiment, N. G, P. Plans are under way to present to Something in the fact itself, some-tier
a miniature statue of the handsome memorial to the late commander, thing in the appearance of this snowy
which was dedicated at Schenley park on June 11. I he sculptor is at work Bcome(1 to piuck nt the very root of
on the statue, and it is expected to be completed withiii the next six weeks. her being, and when her glance, in
I he intention to honor Mrs. Hawkins, as welt as the memory of her traveling its length, lighted on the
valiant husband, was first suggested by the memorial committee nearly eight C|.jnged such apparent anguish that
months ago, when William Couper, of New York, who was making the we looked to see her fail in a swoon or
monument for the park, was also instructed to make a miniature statue of the 1,rpnk HUt int0 f , respondlngly sdtaerlitrleiudm.whWene wsheere scuodr--
figure of Colonel H&wkins. By some misunderstanding, the desire of the burst forth with this word of
committee was overlooked by the sculptor, and it was not made at the time, stern command:
"Untie thnt knot! Why do you leave
that dreadful thing fast to her? Un-tie
It, Isay! It Is killing me. I cannot
hear the sight.” And from trembling
she passed to shuddering till her whole
hotly shook convulsively.
The cnptaln, with much considera-tion,
drew back tbe hand he had Im-pulsively
stretched toward the ribbon.
“No, no,” bo protested: "we cannot
do that. Wo can do nothing till the
coroner comes. It Is necessary that be
should see her just ns she was found.
Besides, Mr. Jeffrey has a right to the
same privilege. We eirpect him any
moment.”
The beautiful head of the woman be-fore
us shook Involuntarily, blit her
lips made no protest. I doubt if she
possessed the power of speech at that
moment. A change, subtle, but quite
perceptible, had taken place in her
emotions at mention of her sister's
husband, and, though she exerted her-self
to remain calm, the effort seemed
too much for her strength. Anxious
to hide this evidence of weakness, she
rose impetuously, and then we saw
how tall she wns, how the long lines
of her cloak became her and what a
glorious creature she wns altogether.
“It will kill him,” she groaned In a
deep Inward voice. Then, with a eer
tain forced haste and In a tone of sur-prise
which to my ear had not quite a
natural ring she called aloud on her
who could no longer either listen or an
swer:
Oh, Veronica, Veronica! What cause
had you for death? And why do wet
find you lying here In a spot you so
feared and detested?”
Don’t you know?" Insinuated the
captain, with a mild persuasiveness,
such ns he was seldom heard to use.
Do you mean that you ennnot account
for your sister's violent end, you, who
have lived with her—or so I have been
told—ever since her marriage with Mr
Jeffrey ?”
"Yes.”
Keen and clear the word rang out,
fierce In its keenness and almost too
clear to be In keeping with the half
choked tones with which she added
”1 know that she was not happy, that
she never has been happy since the
shadow which this room suggests fell
upon her marriage. But how could I
so much as dream that her dread of
the past or her fear of the future
would drive her to suicide, and in this
place of all places! Had I done so—
had I Imagined In the least degree that
she was affected to this extent—do you
think that I would have left her for
one instant alone? None of us knew
that she contemplated death. She had
no appearance of it; she laughed when
I”—
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
Old Reliable
BANNER
BAKING
pOAVUTK
Always the Best.
IK re was not strange, but that the
vediling bouquet—
T hai it really was the wedding bon-net
and thnt this was the room In
which the bride had dressed for tho
ceremony was apparent to the most
usual observer. But It became an es-abiished
fact when In my further
nurse about the room I chanced on a
andkerehief with the name Veronica
mbroidered in one corner.
This handkerchief had an interest
part from the name on It. It was of
alnty texture and quite hi keeping so
ar ns value went with the other be-longings
of ils fastidious owner. But
was not clean. Indeed It was
strangely soiled, and this soil was of a
nature 1 did not readily understand. A
woman would doubtless have compre-hended
Immediately the cause of the
brown streaks I found on It, but it
took me several minutes to realize that
this bit of cambric, dellcnte ns n cob
web, bad been used to remove dust.
To remove dust! Dust from wlint?
rom the mantelshelf probably, upon
one end of which I found It. But no!
One look along the polished hoards
convinced me that whatever else had
been dusted In this room this shelf
had not. The accumulation of days if
not of months wns visible from one
end to the other of Its unrelieved sur-face
save where the handkerchief had
laid, and—tbe greatest discovery yet—
where five clear spots just to the left
of tho center showed where some
man’s finger tips had rested. Nothing
but the pressure of finger tips could
have caused just the appearance pre-sented
by these spo[s. By scrutinizing
them closely I could even tell whero
tho thumb had rested anil at once fore-saw
the possibility of determining by
means of these marks both the size
and shape of the hand which had left
behind It so nent and unmistakable a
clew.
Wonderful! But what did It all mean?
Why should a man rest his finger tips
on this out of the way shelf? Had lie
(lone so in an effort to balance himself
for a look up the chimney? No, for
then the marks made by his fingers
would have extended to the edge of tho
shelf, whereus these were In the mid-dle
of It. Their shape, too, was round,
not oblong. Hence tho pressure had
come from above, and—all! I had It.
These impressions in the dust of the
shelf were Just such as would be mndo
by a person steadying himself for a
close look at the old picture. And this
accounted also for the overturned
chair and for the handkerchief used as
a duster. Some one’s Interest in this
picture had been greater than mine;
some one who wns either very near-sighted
or whose temperament was
such that only the closest Inspection
would satisfy an aroused curiosity.
This gave me an idea, or, rather, Im-pressed
upon me the necessity of pre-serving
the outline of these telltale
marks while they were still plain to the
eye. Taking out my penknife, I light-ly
ran the point of my sharpest blade
around each separate impression till I
had fixed them for all time In the well |
worn varnish of the mahogany.
This done, my thoughts recurred to
the question already raised. What was
there In this old picture to arouse such
curiosity In one bent on evil if not fresh
from a hideous crime? I have said be-fore
that the picture as a picture was
worthless, a mere faded sketch, fit only
for lumbering up some old garret. Then
wherein lay Its charm, a charm which
I myself had felt, though not to this
extent? It wns useless to conjecture.
A fresh difficulty had been added to
my task' by this puzzling discovery,
but difficulties only increased my in-terest.
It was with an odd feeling of
elation that. In a further examination
of this room, I came upon two addi-tional
facts equally odd and Irrecon-cilable.
One was tho presence of a penknife,
with the file blade open, on a small ta-ble
under the window marked by the
loosened shutter. Scattered about it
were some filings which shone as the
light from my lantern fell upon them,
but which were so fine as to call for a
magnifying glass to make them out.
The other was In connection with a
closet not far from the great bed. It
was an empty closet, so far ns the
hooks went and the two great draw-ers
which I found standing half open
at Its back, but In the middle of the
floor lay an overturned candelabrum
similar to the one below, but with Its
prisms scattered and Its one candle
crushed uud battered out of all shape
on the blackened boards, If upset
while alight, the foot which had stamp-ed
upon It In a wild endeavor to put
out the flames had been a frenzied one.
Now, by whom had this frenzy been
shown and when? Within the hour?
I could detect no smell of smoke. At
gome former time, then—say on the
day of tho bridal?
Glancing from tbe broken candle nt
my feet to tho one giving Its last sput-ter
in the tumbler on tbe dressing ta-ble,
I owned myself perplexed.
Surely no ordinary explanation fitted
these extraordinary and seemingly
contradictory circumstances.
s CHAI’TUB IV.
AM In some ways hypersensitive.
Among my other weaknesses I
have a wholesome dread of ridi-cule,
and this is probably why I
failed to press my theory on the cap-tain
when lie appeared and even for-bore
to mention the various small mat-ters
which had so attracted my atten-tion.
If he and the experienced men
who came with him saw suicide and
nothing but suicide in tills lamentable
shooting of a bride of two weeks, then
The penknife
the filings on
ind
1 h e table
it was not ior trie to suggest n deeper
crime, especially as one of the latter
eyed me with open scorn when I pro-posed
to accompany them upstairs into
the room where the light had been
seen burning. No, I would keep my
discoveries to myself, or at least for-bear
to mention them till I found the
cnptaln nlone, asking nothing at this
juncture but permission to remain In
the house till Mr. Jeffrey arrived.
I had been told thnt an officer had
gone for this gentleman, and when I
heard the sound of wheels in front 1
mnde n rush for the door in my anx-iety
to catch a glimpse of him, but it
was a woman who alighted.
As this woman wns In a state of
great agitation, one of the men has-tened
down to offer his arm. As she
took It I naked Hibbard, who had sud-denly
reappeared upon the scene, who
she was.
He said that she was probably the
sister of the woman who lay inside,
upon which I remembered that this
lady, under the name of Miss Tuttle—
she was but half sister to Miss Moore
—had been repeatedly mentioned by
the reporters in the accounts of the
wedding before mentioned as a person
of superior attainments and magnifi-cent
beauty.
This did not take from my interest,
and, flinging decorum to the winds, I
approached as near as possible to the
threshold which she must soon cross.
As I did so I was astonished to hear
the strains of Uncle David’s organ
still pealing from the opposite side of
the way. This nt a moment so serious
and while matters of apparent conse
quence were taking place In the house
to which he had himself directed the
attention of the police struck me as
carrying stoicism to the extreme. Not
very favorably Impressed by this dis-play
of open If not Insulting Indiffer-ence
on the part of the sole remaining
Moore, an Indifference which did not
appear quite natural even in a man of
his morbid eccentricity, I resolved to
know more of this old man and, above
nil, to make tnyself fully acquainted
with the exact relations which had
existed between him and his unhappy
niece.
Meanwhile Miss Tuttle had stepped
within the circle of light cast by our
lanterns.
The Last Stroke Counts.
Many an advertisement which ap
parently does not sell a dollar’s worth
of goods may do many a dollar’s worth
of good, for It brings the customers
nearer and nearer to tbe establishment,
and the next advertisement may bring
them in. “The last stroke makes the
horseshoe.” The others were merely
oreparatory.—Benjamin Wood.
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THE MOUNT PLEASANT JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904,
1 NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS. f
* K
IUKE HUN YALLEY.
The Fourth passed off quietly at this
place except a solo in the evening.
A large crowd attended Children's
Day services at Mt. Nebo last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Miller and Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Miller were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. William Miller Sunday
last.
Charles Nedrow, of Washington, and
John, of Kansas, have come home to see
their father who is seriously ill.
Charles Culler and Ilarry Hotigh with
their wives and families, Miss Lizzie
Craig, of Charleroi, and Homer Corpen-ning,
wife and dnughter, of Connells-ville,
and Ira Craig, of Tarr, have come
to spend a few days with Samuel Craig
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ilarry Long visited the
former's sister, Mrs. Miles Hostetter,
ovet Sunday.
Ham Kalp, wife and family and Stew
ard Stout, of Keckslmrg, visited Mr.
and Mrs. Eli Stout over Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Hostetter, of
Mount Pleasant, visited friends at this
place over Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Mowry were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bow-man
the pnst week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Bowman, of Kre-gax-,
were visiting the former's mother,
Mrs. Agnes Bowman, Sunday last.
Miss Anna Haney, of Bridgeport, has
come back to live with Andy Miller’s.
Glad to see you back, Anna.
Mrs. H. M. Solomon and daughter,
Miss Mabel, have returned from a two
weeks’ visit with Mount Pleasant
friends.
The farmers are getting ready to begin
harvesting the crops which look fairly
well.
BertStrohm, of Mount Pleasant, while
over in this section sparkin’ on the
Fourth, lost a good hitching strap. A
calf made a meal on it.
ning by Rev. Mr. Brown, pastor of the
bride and directly afterwards Mr. and
Mrs. Ludwick left for a short stay in
Morgantown, West Virginia, after
which they will return to Pitcairn,
where they will make their home.
Mrs. Walter Robertson nicely enter-tained
on her beautiful lawn a merry
crowd of Fourth of July folks at cron-qnet,
flag racing, pit and numerous
other games in the afternoon. The
pleasure of the guests was increased by
delicious refreshments.
Mrs. H. Hamel, who had been visiting
her aged mother near Greensburg dur
ing the past week, returned home Sun-day.
A number of our people spent the
Fourth at Scottdale, Big Springs and
Bear Rocks.
HIIAULIS 1’. O.
Shaulis folks celebraeed the Fourth in
various ways. McLellan Shaulis ran
down to the Mills. John Walters and
wife were at Donegal. P. H. Baker and
family journeyed to Prittstown. D. P.
Shaulis and wife took a drive. Elmer,
Jordan and Miss Jennie Shaulis did
Bakersville where the local ball club
and theLevansville sluggers had a warm
game. Then the carriers were off to the
disappointment of thoee expecting mail.
Miss Laura Nedrow has left her place
with McClellan Shaulis to the regret of
many friends.
John Kooserand wifeattended church
at Bakersville Sunday and that lady had
driven half way home before she missed
her husband and who had forgotten to
get in.
Dr. Miller talks of erecting a house
here.
Herman Baldwin wants to buy a
Shetland pony.
CA lU’KNTKKTOWN.
The Mount Pleasant Township Board
of Education met at Hurst’s school
house on last Thursday and elected
teachers for the coming school year.
The eight months' term will open Sep
tember 5th, with wages$46, $48 and $50.
The following is the list of teachers
chosen:
Township Principal lolin Hays.
Hair Alice Iteistel.
Kycrs Lilly Wlsslngor
llyerly J.O. Iminell.
C,, a,lumet. j(No. 21—-IHdealdWoevaevr.er.
Carpenter Mary Durstin
Kalrvtow Viola Myors.
Fisher Ada Ovorly
f No. 1—Alice Fry.
,H, eel,a )j NNoo.. 2:i—NMealblieel TLeamylmoro.n
I No. 4—L. 0. Fausold.
Hillside Edna Wissingor.
Hurst Ida Lemmon
Jack Zella Stairs.
Jocobs Crook Mary Barnhart.
Kecksburg Laura Lemmon.
Laurel Run Cleorge Welly.
Lommon Emma Springer.
,M, am_moth |I NNoo.. 21——CIdhaasS.uFmaumsyo.ld
Mt. Joy Maud Knox.
Oaku„rovo jI NNoo.. 1—PLeaaurrlaBWenisnseinttg.or.
Ovorly Berdella Porch.
Plank Road .. Daisy Fultz
Pore - ...Janies II. Bare,
..., . | No. 1—Martha Wolty.
Ridgeview | No. 2—Held over.
Roadman Eva Newlll
| No. 1 -Allco Rumbaugh
Spring Garden No. 2—Lottie Voigt.
(No. 3—Held over.
1 No. 1—Mary Keltz.
Trauger < No. 1 -Sadie Poepbles
I No. 3—John F.lllott.
,u,nited, i| NNoo..12--BNoeylldie BFlrnyk.ey
Wolty Lloyd Weaver.
Miss Eva Newell was a caller in Don-egal
last week.
Miss Annette Dodson, of Pittsburg, is
the guest of Miss Emma Springer, of
Mammoth.
Mr. and Mrs. L L. Eicher and Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. Eicher, all of Braddock,
were here over the Fourth.
David Eicher and family spent Sun
day afternoon at Charles Miller’s.
M. J. Lemmon was a business caller
near Lycippns on the Fourth.
Good Trim 1
A well kept lawn adds a
great deal to the appearanco of
a home. It sets it off—presents a pleasing aspect that appeals to
one’s nature-loving side.
It also speaks well for the thriftiness and orderliness of the
owner.
It’s easy to keep a lawn looking well with one of our
Run Easy, or Keen Clipper
Lawn Mowers. They are light running and cut cleanly aud
evenly. The mecnanism is simple—no complicated parts to get
out of order. It doesn’t require the strength of an elephant to
push them. Prices low.
S. B. COLVIN,
LAUREDV1LLE.
Miss Viola Kuhns has returned home
from Everson where she had been at
tending school.
Rev. Richards delivered a fine dis-course
last Sunday at the Franklin
school house.
J. B. Keim spent last Sunday with
home people in Greensbnrg.
A. O. Horner, who has been a sufferer
from fever in the Allegheny hospital for
the past five weeks, is at home and will
remain a short time, after which he will
go back to resume his duties as book
keeper in the office of one of the real
estate Arms of Allegheny. His health
is improving rapidly.
Miss Helen and Mabel Hamel spent a
very pleasant day last Sunday with
Misses Nannie aDd Emma Jones, of
near Scottdale.
Miss Cora Myers, who was graduated
recently from the Juniata school at
Huntingdon, Pa., is now at home with
her parents.
Misses Elizabeth Barnhart, of Greens-burg,
and Anna Stoner, of Mount Pleas-ant,
were guests of Mrs. Walter Robert-son
from Sunday until Tuesday.
Christopher Griffith has been compell-ed
to lay off work on accdunt of a severe
illness. He is now confined to his home.
Alfred Miller did a rushing business
Saturday in his new meat market, which
he recently opened in the shop of his
brother Wesley.
We all join in expressing our heart-felt
sympathy to the bereaved family of
Richard Keefe, of near this place, in the
death of their 13-year-old son, who was
killed by a street car near Scottdale
Monday.
Misses Sue, Eva and Dora Barnhart,
and Nellie and Minnie Smith went to
Pitcairn last Tuesday to attend the
wedding of Miss Maude Weaver and
William Lndwick, both of that place.
The ceremony waB performed that eve-
WOODDALE.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yothers and
Grandma Yothers spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rishebegar.
Almon Christner, of Connellsville,
spent the Fourth with bis father, Jo
seph Christner.
Miss Myrtle Yothers spent Sunday
with her aunt, Mrs. Rishebegar.
Miss Laura Boring, of Dunbar, spent
the Fourth with her parents, Mr. aud
Mrs. Thomas Boring.
Mrs. Florence Landis and daughter
drove over and spent Sunday afternoon
with their aunt, Mrs. Rishebegar.
Mrs. D. W. Glassburn left Monday
afternoon for Wellsville, Ohio, to see her
daughter, Jennie, who is suffering from
rheumatism.
Mrs. Oliver Beard and daughters,
Alice and Jennie, left Thursday for
Johnstown where they will spend a few
weeks with relatives.
There are some signs of the Wooddale
Coal Company resuming operations.
John Clapper has hauled some of the
coal to the Dexter coke works to test it,
We all hope it will be a success.
Marcellas Murray is wearing a broad
smile. It is a boy
Miss Pearl Tedrow has been sick for
the last week but is some better and we
hope she will soon be well again.
William Freed,