mm VOLUME 5. McCONNELLSBURG, PA., MARCH 16, 190. NUMBER 26. MISS ALICE WISH ART. Reached Allahabad, India, Her Destina tion lo Time for Chriitmaa Dinner. IS DELIGHTED WITH THE PLACE. Telia of Her Arrival, toe Meeting of Miss Todd, and Her Introductloa lo the Euraalaa Olris. Something of Their Home Ule. I staid, as I expected to do, with Dr. and Mrs. Abbot at Bom bay from Saturday noon, when we landed, until Monday night, when I came on to Allahabad, reaching here Wednesday at 2 a. m. Miss Todd met me at the train and I hadn't the least trou ble in recognizing her. I am writing out on the big veranda surrounded with the loveliest palms four immense beauties as tall as myself in huge pots are in sight, with dozens of the hand somest chrysanthemums and ferns I ever saw sitting in groups here and there on the floor. How 1 wish I had a picture of it to send in tnis letter. The grounds are fine but I didn't finish what I began. This makes me think of the "Bishop," for soon after my chotti hauzri (little breakfast brought into my room by the ay eh) Miss Todd had the bearer briDg a little table and chair out here so that 1 could write. I had only finished one letter when I heard some unearthly sound like a bagpipe coming up the drive way and there he was the man with the mongoose and the cob ras, ready to perform for the "Miss Sahib" who had just come; but I concluded that snakes could wait, and letters must be ready to go In to-morrow's mail ; so he vanished. Just here a native woman dressed in white with a red chad der and anklets came up on the steps and salamed low to me, and as I've learned how, I returned it. But now to go back to Bombay. Dr. and Mrs. Abbott are rich mis sionaries and lovely people. They did everything possible for my comfort, and I had a delight ful little visit there. We were in vited to Dr. Abbott's sisters' to tea that same afternoon with all the rest of our party; then part of them were to dinner at the Abbot's that evening and some for 9 o'clock breakfast Monday morning. Sunday I attended five servi ces which I shall write up for the S. S. and C. E. at home Just as soon as I have time. Miss Todd is so fearfully rushed and I am so glad to be able to help her with the things I can do about the house. Monday morning Mrs. Abbott and her mother, Mrs Clarke, took me shopping. I had to get a carry-all and comforta ble for traveling, for one must carry one's bedding along when one travels in India. Bombay is . a beautiful city with the hand somest publio buildings I ever saw. The shops are tantalizingly lovely, and there is do end of in teresting sights. Monday afternoon I was invi ted to take tiffin at the American Mission. All the people there are Humes or related to them, with several who had come up from Ahmednager to meet their friends, the Lees and Dr. Ruth Hume. After I returned to the Abbot's we went driving on Mai abar Hill, the aristocratic part of Bombay, overlooking the harbor I never before saw such luxuri ance of palms, ferns and flowers such magnificent sunsets for a pink glow stays in the sky long after the sun sinks.' Dr. Abbot took me to the train at 8:80 and slept all night One funny thing I couldn't find my trunks any where, nor my shawl-strap with my rug, rain coat, jacket and pil low. They had not been tent from the custom house ; so Dr. Abbogave me his overcoat (thi nights are very cold) to put around me in the tralu or I would have bem greatly chilled. I had a note this morning, however, saving they are all right and will . be on in a few days meantime I JOB HART BADLY HURT. Native of this County Struck by Hack Near Hia Store In Cheater From Cbetter Time., March 11. As the result ol being knocked down by one of the hacks owned by John McFadden shortly be fore noon yesterday, J. Hart, the piano dealer at 602 Edgmont ave nue, is now lying at his home, 2316 Providence avenue, suffering with a badly injured hip and se vere contusions about the head. Dr. D. P. Maddux is in attendance and as yet has been unable to ful ly diagnose the extent of the in- uries, although it will be some time before the injured man will be able to get out of bed. At the time the accident hap pened Mr. Hart was crossing from Market street to Edgmont avenue and was about to step up on the curbstone in front of the Arcade hotel when the hack came dashing by and although Mr. Hart had one foot on the curb, the horses struck him and dashed him to the ground, striking his head against the curbstone and njuring his head and twisting his hip. Owing to the fact that the in jured man had been crippled in his right hip for many years the njuries to that part may prove to be more serious than at first an ticipated. Bystanders rushed to the aid of the injured man and he was assisted to his store and aft erwards conveyed to his home in a cab. This morning he was un able move with out the most in ten! n. Robert Shimer, who had been visiting his parents and other friends in this place, for some time returned to Harrisburg Monday morning to take charge of his former position. am wearing borrowed clothes. A minute after I got off the train Miss Todd came rushing up and said, "Are you Miss Wishart? " Just as I said, "Are you Miss Todd ? " she gave me a hug and a kiss, and was so sweet and sym pathetic that 1 promptly fell in love with her. We got into our gari, and in about 15 minutes were driving up "our" driveway between neat little hedges of green. 1 ne driveway is aoout iz feet wide and forms a horse shoe in front of the house, which is big and looks like white marble (but isVt). I felt at home with Misp Todd from the first When we got here she took me to my room at once, brought me a cup of hot bouillon which she made me drink right off for fear I was chilled, and tucked me in bed with a good night kiss. We have the most ex quisitely beautiful roses here now I have ever seen, and some one had placed a dozen pink and white beauties on my dressing table. At 7 Miss Todd awakened me saying it was a shame not to let me rest, but that I must eat my "chotti hauzrie" and rest 'la ter on. We breakfast usually at 11 a. m., but this first morning a little earlier on account of our Xmas preparations, with which I helped by stuffing dates, making candy, arranging the table that is, the dollies and flowerst,for our Xmas dinner in the evening. I was stuffing dates on the veran da when Miss Todd brought out the bearer and mayhter and in troduced them, both salaming very low and saying that the new Miss Sahib would be their Miss Sahib just as Miss Todd Sahib is, Then the seven Eurasian girls, who are called "the young la dies, "were introduced, also some of the other teachers and natives about the establishment Miss Todd called a gari after break last (we nave prayers every morning at table, reading verse about), and we went to a faucy sale to get some Xmas things, then to several shops and home for tiffin. (Have to stop ajgain and helo with the children's Xmas things. (CoailBut4 next we.lt.) THOSE QUINTUPLETS. David Swope'a Name Will be Familiar In Every American Household. David Swope is a son of George Swope at Wells Tannery, and just now his name is riding the head lines of all the leading newspa pers of the country. It all came about this way: Davy lsa"crack" bridge builder, and is employed by the Wabash Railroad Co., and has been at work in, or near, Pittsburg. Last Friday's dailies contained a dispatch from Pitts burg saying that Dave had receiv ed a telegram saying that his wife Annie, who lived on a farm with her parents in Fulton county, had given birth to five boys, and that Dave should come home at once to help take care of them. Of course the five-boy business is a fake. Dave's wife's name is An nie, but she lives with her hus band in the western part of the State. The funny part of it is the way the papers over the country bit on it as a piece of news. Here is what the Chicago Inter-Ocean says of it editorially: "The earliest dispatches with reference to the Swope affair in Fulton county, Pennsylvania, are entirely unsatisfactory in so far as they relate to one of the prin cipals. "David Swope is a steel work er, and was engaged in riveting bolts in a Wabash bridge, at a height of 125 feet above the wa ter, on Thursday last, when the foreman handed him a telegram reading : " 'Annie save blrtb to five boy. today. Come home at once. Annie and boys all doing ell.' "Annie, it appears, is David Swope's wife, it is significant that her husband, though sus pended in midair when he got the dispatch, lost neither his presence of mind nor his balance, but, on the contrary, quietly laid down his tools, folded his blouse, called for his time, and quit his job, saying, like a good husband, that his place was by the side of his wife and five boys. "The story is apparently cor rect up to this point, but where It represents David Swope as saying that under no circum stances would he permit the five boys, or any of them, to be nam ed after politicians, thereby leav ing the inference that he was disinclined to let the Roosevelt administration have any credit for his wife's achievement, it seems to give plain evidence of having been tampered with by the President's enemies. "Later news from Fulton coun ty, we are confident, will place David Swope in a much better light before the American peo pie. Although nothing is known at present concerning his antece dents, it stands to reason that he has always voted the Republican ticket, for there is not on record an instance in which a nonparti san, independent, or mugwump has ever become the father of quintuplets, all boys. "This being the case, then, it also stands to reason that, as soon as the excitement in his aome subsides, Mr. Swope will demonstrate bis loyalty and grat itude by naming his boys Theo dore Roosevelt Swope, Jacob Rils Swope, Henry Cabot Lo?ge Swope, John Bay Swope, and Seth Low Swope." Off For St. Louis. This is what the Altoona Mir ror says about a former Fulton county boy: "John L. MeQuade, of 7231 Chestnut avenue, an employe of the Twelfth street shops, left last night on the St. Louis express, to which place he has been trans ferred by the Pennsylvania Rail road company, to take charge of a crane on the exposition grounds this coming summer. Mr. Mc Quade is said to be one of the best cranemen in the employ of the company. His many fi lends join in wishing him success." W. 0. Mann of Saluvia is crtti cally ill. FROM CHARLIE POTMAN. Interesting Account of a Tour in Per. ala Last Summer. MEETS A FORMER COLLEGE-MATE. QUmpiea ol Hla Life and Work aa a Mis sionary la that Far-Oil Land. Likes the People Very Much. (Continued from lust week ) We left the caravansera or inn where we had spent the night, soon after sun-up and traveled slpwly but steadily until noon. At noon we reached a spot near a village where there were trees and a nice spring of water. Here we stopped and ate our lunch of bread, cold chicken and cucum bers, which had been prepared the evening before, except the cucumbers which we bought on the road. We rested awhile un der the trees and let the horses eat grass, then continued our lourney until about four o'clock when we reached a village where we wished to remain over night. We asked for a room and were told that all the houses had ganas" in them. (The gana is an insect which makes strangers its victims and whose bite produces fever and sometimes death,) Nevertheless, we stopped at a house and put our baggage on the fiat roof and entered the house which consisted of two apart ments, the first being a stable for cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats; through this we passed in to the second apartment, which was the living room for the fami- The room was very empty and there were evidences of poverty. Ihe woman in the house told me that there were robbers living in that village who had taken every thing they had. Near sunset, I went upon the roof by means of a ladder placed against the outside of the house and sat down on my camp stool in the shade ol a stack of hay which had been placed on the roof. Here, it was clean and cool as well as high and dry From this point, I could see all over the village and I thought, as I sat there, that if I had my Mc Connellsburg friends with me I fcould give them a better idea of a Persian village in ten minutes than by any amount of writing, Women and children and some men sat on the ground in groups near the house where they could see me and commented on my clothes and general appearance, and speculated as to the probable business which brought me into their midst Horses and donkeys driven by boys were bringing wheat strapped on their backs from the fields to the village threshing floor where it was stack ed to be tramped out later by ox en. Other boys were bringing flocks of sheep and goats from the neighboring hills and mountain sides into the village. They all knew their owners and five or ten separated trom the flock and stop pod at each house along the street. Then the women came out of the houses with earthen bowls and milked them. My servant came and said he bad been hunting something for supper butcould not fiudauy thing in the village but bread and that he bad brought a little rice from Zenjan and he would cook that. I told him to do so. Later he came back and said that he could not find any wood in the village or any fuel to cook the rice. But we also had a little charcoal with us and with that he boiled some water and J had some boovil which I carry for such emergencies, and 1 made some broth which I ate with native bread and tea. It was now dark and we spread our beds on the roof of the house and lay down to sleep the na tives also sleep on the roof of the houses in 1 summer, Two days later we reached Ardabil where a Syrian physician trained in Eng land Is practicing and we spent four days in bis house, and here I had the opportunity of seeing a Persian prison. I looked through NEW INDUSTRY FOR CHAMBERSBURQ. The Norland Land Company Meets Capi talists Half-way. Chambersburg will have a silk mill as soon as the structure can be erected, says the Repository. The Norland Land Company of Chambersburg has arranged with some Scranton capitalists who are interested in several silk mills throughout the State to put in operation one in Chambers burg. To bring about this, how ever, the land company gives to the silk company a piece of land ' along the C. V. R. R. 200x250 feet. On this tract the land com pany will erect a two story brick building 40x120 with a power house in the center. The build ing will be so constructed as to be enlarged into a square as the increase in business demands. The silk company agrees to place in the building, as a beginning, fifty looms, and to employ not ess than sixty people at the btart. They also assure the local company they will employ over one hundred within six months after they have begun operations and will gradually increase the force. Here is given the secret of the development of a town. If im provements are to be made which need the assistance of outside capital, the people interested in the locality must show their faith in the enterprise by a willing ness to share the risk of the en terprise. Misses Netha Nesbit, Annie B. Frey and Kitty Crosby of this place spent Wednesday the guests of Miss Mary H. Kendall and Mrs. Grove Keefer of the Cove. a small door made of iron bars in to a room about eight by thirty feet in size. An iron rod ran the length of the room through th'e centre and about six inches from the floor. On each side of this iron rod sat twenty-five or thirty pris oners facing each other and fast ened to one another by a heavy chain about the neck of each. At night one foot of each prisoner is chained to the iron rod. It was a hot ill ventilated place and I was told that many become sick and die. The floor was of mud. They asked me for bread and I was told by the keeper that there was no allowance for food out that they had to depend upon charity. I did not give anything as there was little chance that it would reach its intended destination. Some of the prisoners were taken out each day and beaten. We remained in Ardabil four days and after sir days more journeying reached Tabriz on the fourth of August- Although we traveled in mid-summer and en tirely by day light we did not suf fer from tie heat. This was due to the elevation of the land being from five to eight thousand feet. I remember that on the 29th of June the people were sleeping be side a fire at night I was very glad for the oppor tunity of visiting this part of our field. The thing that impressed me most on this tour as on former tours was the great number of unreached villages which we pass ed by daily not having time to stop in them and which have nev er heard the gospel and the great number of the unreached in the towns and villages that have been merely touched. Our greatest needs are, first, that the Holy Spirit may be pour ed out in abundance upon trie christiaus of this land both mis sionaries and natives that they may be impressed by their re sponsibility as possessors of the light and, second that the Lord of the Harvest may raise up and thrust forth other laborers into this part of His harvest field. It is my privilege and pleasure to remember the churches of Mc Connellsburg, and especially the young people, before the throne of Grace. Your a sincerely, Chah. R. Pittman. PASSED BEYOND THE RIVER. Another Week's Record of the Doings of the Grim Reaper. MAHYC. PATTERSON. The unfolding leaves of time continue to bring to us the un looked for with startling effect. Ou last Saturday morning t.he whole com munity wns shocked by the announcement that Miss Mary C. Patterson had passed peacefully away at 3 o'clock A. M. Some two months or more ago she suffered from an attack Gf grippe from which she seemed to partly recover, yet it had so depleted her vital force and great ly aggravated some heart weak ness that she soon relapsed into very serious heart complication which her physicians were un able to overcome; and after an ill ness of about five weeks, in which every thing was done that could be done to save and prolong a use ful life, the inevitable came. Miss Mary was a member of the United Presbyterian church, and a lady of more than ordinari ly high endowments, and lived a very active lite, always engaged in some kind of religious or be nevolent work. At the time of her death she was president of a "Sewing Guild," which she was instrumental some two or more years ago in organizing in this community, and whicn has for its object the relief and help of the destitute. She was for many years treasurer of the Presby terial Women's Missionary Socie ty receiving and paying out the benevolent funds of all the socie ties of the Presbytery. This of fice she filled until failing strength compelled her to relinquish it. She was a great worker in her own congregation. During the whole of the present pastorate of nearly twenty years she was a very efficient teacher in the Sab bath school having charge most of this time of the primary de partment. In the Young People's Societies she was alike efficient and helpful. In the Women's Missionary Society she always took a deep interest and was pres ident of the society at the time of her death. And in every worthy effort in the congregation she was always ready to take a leading part. But her work in the earth ly sanctuary is done. "Well done good and faithful servant." In the grace of her personal charac ter she was beautiful. Possessed of a high sense of honor, a heart full of sympathy and keen regard for the rights and interests of ev ery one, she was respected, es teemed and loved by all who knew her. The funeral services on Sab bath afternoon were conducted by her pastor, Rev. J. L. Grove, assisted by 'Revs. C. M. Smith, and S. B. Houston. The mark of esteem in which she was held was marked by the great concourse of people and the rich floral tributes by the hands of loving friends. A touching incident in the ex ercises was the attendance of her Sabbath school class assembling at the casket and each one laying the tribute of a beautiful flower upon it Interment was made in the Union cemetery, where the body still united to Christ shall rest till His loving voice shall announce the morning of the glorious day of the Lord. Pastor, ellen i. watson. . Mrs. Ellen J. Watson, wife of Isaac Watson, and daughter of Henry Caution of Franklin coun ty, Pa., died at her late home in this place on Sabbath last at 2:30 A. M,. after a protracted ill ness which began with an attack of grippe, aged 45 years, 8 months and 17 days. Mrs. Watson was a member of the United Presbyterian church, and a woman of strong religious convictions and devotion to her church, regular in her attend ance upon all its meetings, and ready to do her part She led the services of the meeting of the Missionary Society at the last ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW Supahota at Their Movements, as They Come and Go. NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED. Item for a Vacation; Away tor aa Ootlflf, a Trip tor Bislnets or Pleasure, You'll Find It Right Here. Mrs. A. D. Dalbey has return ed home after having spent a week among friends in Philadel phia. Any of our subscribers who have been waiting for a chance to send us a little money might send it next week along with some trusty neighbor coming to court Those of our subscribers whose change of residence this spring will make a change in their post office address should notify us in time so that they may not miss any numbers of their paper. In a letter from Lake McDon ald a few days ordering his paper sent up to Willet, N. Y., he says he has just made a purchase of 175,000 feet of lumber on the stump, and will be kept busy for some time getting it sawed. Mr. J. A. Stevens, a dealer and breeder m high bred poultry at Three Springs, Pa., captured eleven prizes at the Annual Poul try Show at Johnstown last month two 1st, two 2nd, three 3rd, one 4th, and three special prizes, were awarded on eight en tries. Joseph Smith.head of the Mor mon church, brazenly acknowl edges that he has five wives and five sets of children, but the sev eral wives each have an establish ment of their own. The old rep robate ought to be severely pun ished. He should be required to live with all his wives under the same roof. Mr. Jonathan P. Peck on last Wednesday moved his family from his farm in Belfast town ship, to the farm recently pur chased by Mr. J. F. Johnston from J. C. Fore near Knobsville. Mr. J. T, Laley moved from the "David Myers" farm down on Licking Creek, to Mr. Peck's farm, and Mr. William F. Engle goes to the Myers farm. Waynesboro was visited by al most one hundred disciples of the Royal Arcanum Society last Wednesday evening, delegations also being present from Mercers burg, Greencastle and elsewhere the object being to confer the de gree of the order on a class of ninety candidates. Addresses were made by Grand Regent Mc- Nulty, Gra ad Vice-Regent Wick ersbam, of Steel ton, and others. meeting she was able to attend. She died very confidently in the faith in which she lived. Mr. Watson's family has suffer ed much affliction in the last few years. Within a period of about five years three children and, now, the mother, have been call ed away, leaving only the father and one only daughter. Mr. Wat son and daughter are certainly entitled to the sympathy of their friends and neighbors. Pastor, james a. zimmerman. From last Friday's Pittsburg Post, we learn of thesudden death from heart disease ot James A1-. len Zimmerman a prominent bus iness man of Connellsville, Pa., which occurred at his home in that place last Wednesday even ing. Mr. Zimmerman was born in this county in 1651 and went to Connellsville 21 years ago. Twen ty years ago he married Carrie Fields of Martinsburg, W. Va., who with four daughters, Misses Edna, Etta, Julia and Josephine, survive him. He was a thirty second degree Mason, a HeDta soph, an Odd Fellow and a mem ber of the Order of Iroquois. He was also a member of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a director of the Young Men's Christian association.
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