Monongahela Valley Republican from Monongahela, Pennsylvania • 8

The Deoter's Imagination. OB Libeling Nature. The plea of a woman criminal that bar sidestep from the path ef rectitude was due to her "natural badness" la not as convincing an thut of the colored man who was "bad afore de wan, bad eudurln' ob de wab and bud ebber since de wuh." lie udded that he was MILESVILLE MAN DIED AT THE HOSPITAL For the Children VALLEY PRESS ASSOCIATION ENTERTAINED "I hava good story on one of Wash Ington's best known oculists," an Id prominent clubman, addressing come friends In the billiard room of the Met ropolltan club. "My eyes httd trou bled me for some months, and Dually went to see the doctor about tbeui. "After a thorough examination he snld that the muscles were badly strnlued, and then be gave rue a pre scrlption for drops to be used In qiy eyes three times a day.

When I left be gave me an appointment for tba day week, as be said he could not ex amine my eyes for glasses until they were In their normal condition. "Well, I mislaid that blessed pre- scrlption, and as I was particularly busy that week I bud no time to get another copy. So lu some trepidation I kept my second appointment. "As the doctor examined my eyes hesitated a moment about telling him I had not used the drops, when he took the words out of my mouth and the breath out of my body by remarking with pleased emphasis: 'Your eyes very much Im proved. That medicine which I gave you is certainly wonderful.

It always has such prompt, and satisfactory re "It was all I could do to keep concluded the speaker, laughing. "Bu I wasn't quite sure how be would take the joke. You see, he may not have a sense of humor." Washington Star. Comets In Oldon Days. People nowadays do not regard the comet as one of those signs that fore run the death or fall of kings, but the superstition was still current in the time of Queen Elizabeth, though, to tba amazement of her courtiers, the qneen calmly scorned it.

It was nlso thought that if the sovereign would re frain from looking at the malignant celestial passerby no harm would come to her. On one occasion Elizabeth's attendants shut and curtained her win dows, but her majesty, as might have been expected, with "a courage an severable to the greatness of her es tate," caused them to be opened, cry ing as she looked up: "Jacta est alea the die is cast!" Then, like King Knut on the seashore, she read her people a homily, asserting that her "steadfast hope and confidence were tfio firmly planted in the providence of God to be blasted or affrighted with those beams which either had no ground in nature whereupon to rise or at least no war rant in Scripture to portend the mishaps of princes." Queen Elizabeth as an Ale Drinker. There is an amusing letter written by the Karl of Leicester to Lord Bur lelgh as to the lack of sufficiently strong ale for the queen at Hatfield. "There Is not one drop of good drink for her here. We were fain to send to London and Kenilworth and divers other places where ale was.

Her own beer was so strong as there was no man able to drink it." Ale and bread were the chief items of the royal breakfast. The quantity of ale consumed by ladies at breakfast in those days was considerable, for In the reign of Henry VIII. the maids of honor were allowed for breakfast "one chet loafe, one mane hot, two gallons of ale and a pitcher of wine." A Lady Lucy made a mighty tonic of the national brew. Her breakfast was a chine of beef, a loaf and a gallon of ale, and for her pillow meal a posset porridge, a generous cut ef mutton, a loaf and a gallon of ale. Westminster Gazette.

His Class. The head of a large mercantile bouse received not long ago a letter from a millionaire banker in the west asking that the latter's son be placed in some business house where be could learn "things from the bottom The writer explained that his offspring was "no good at home." Soon after the western millionaire received the following reply from his New York friend: Dear Sir Tour hopeful has arrived. I have given him employment in my establishment at $6 a week with others of hie class. One of these young- men has Just bought a 150,000 yacht, and another comes to the office in a. J9.000 motor car.

No doubt your son will find his surroundings eonjrenial. Harper's Weekly. A Sad Cast. Mr. Lawhead Why do you treat me so coldly? Why didn't you answer the note I wrote you last Thursday? Miss Brushley Sir, I don't wish to bare anything more to say to you.

You began your )ote by saying you "thought you would drop me a line." I want you to understand that I'm not a fish. An Illustration. Little Harry Pa, what's a foregone conclusion? Pa Anything that's sure to follow something else. To give you an illustration, if I were to lock the drawer of my desk it wouldn't be twenty minutes before your mother would break It open for the purpose of finding out what I was trying to conceal! Cleveland Leader. Forgetful.

"I suppose," said the beautiful girl, "that you often bam the midnight oil?" "No," replied the poet "I bang my hat on the doorknob, so the landlady can't look through the keyhole and catch me burning the gas." Judge. Inquisitive. "Ill send my boy to a boarding school." "What for?" "Oh, he asks such questions. He wanted to know last night If a shoemaker could breathe his last." There la nothing bo true that tne PWUliilg damps af Topper. not warj4 It.

Lboru bad, and the criminologist knows where to pluce bis type. But this woman bad been good long enough to mature decently and wlu rcspectuble man's love. We may set this down as a freak case, but there must he Nome reason beyond that of latent hereditary strain to account for tlm sudden moral lapse. Natural badness Is consistent. It is marked by attempts at U-UeriiiiMit.

and only after repeated backsliding will the erring one admit that nature Is too strong to be oveivo.ne. As a rule criminals manifest a desire to reform and make the plea of temptation. This natural goodness Is probably more real thun utter natural badness. The templution or the incentive to crime is the evil to be aimed at. We are told to pray.

"Lead us not Into temptation." And the proverb has it that "Satan finds work for Idle hands to do." The woman of means aud leisure without strong family aud social re straints is in danger. The tendency of the times is toward activities which give zest to life that is, artificial ex cltement. Then the badness which crops out is not the tnlnt of nature. but a morbid growth. We Are the Americans.

Opposition to the designation of the people of this country by the title Americans has aguiu cropped out over the water, this time with something like a formal and dignified protest. since it was made by memliers of The Hague conference. Of course the dele gates from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and other countries ou this continent nlso claim to be Americans, and it was proper for our own delegates to slug small under the critical remarks. But the truth Is we are not assuming too much when we ask for the exclusive use of the term America. Before ever there was a United States the people who.

ultimately founded this republic were referred to In European courts as Americans, and their territory was referred to as America to tho exclusion of other peoples and political divisions on this continent. There were English colonies in Canada when friends and foes alike la the British parliament Invariably spoke of the thirteen revolting colonies as America. The king of France and Frederick the Great used the same designation, meaning the colonies which had cut loose from England. The name should be perpetuated, and it Is proper that the largest, oldest and most Influential of the group of nations here should assume what it can maintain with dignity. Henry C.

Frlck recently paid for a box In the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. It is not improbable that the desire for social distinction may have moved Mr. Frlcfc more powerfully than anything else, but that does not alter the fact that he is using his own funds to promote an art that in foreign countries Is stimulated by subsidies which the people pay, but by a polite fiction royalty gets the credit for It. If the people have their taste for high class music gratified at the expense of men willing to pay handsomely for the distinction of being regarded is promoters of art, they have ''no kick coming." In the presence of such a calamity as that caused by the recent powder explosion In the Du Pont works Immunity stands appalled. No man will ever know how It occurred.

What every one does know is that in every quarter where such mills are estah? the utmost care should be taken that a similar accident shall not be possible. Powder is an agent Of terror as well ns of usefulness, and the frequent accidents in handling show that man with all his ingenuity has not got ft under complete control. A hundred years ago the poet Whlt tier took to the cradle, and Longfellow, Robert E. Lee, Agasslz and Garb bald! got there only a few months ahead of him, The Japs should take a hint from the measure of Secretary Taft as tQ the size of the job thpy would have jn cleaning oui the army over which he is boss. The Hague peace delegates may well wonder what 'twas all about wheq Wpy BPt back to their peaqefuf father, lands.

That riding test for the fat "arm chair colonels" really turned out to bfl nq endurance test for the army horses The returning tourist's pocketbOQk speaks louder than w-ords as to the reason for "hurrying home." It Is a wise hunter who goes into tba wilderness pot depending for what he eats on what he kills. "QHlggJng" is a shorter but not a more elegant term for public opinion To succeed these days you must have plenty of grit, courage, strength. How is it with the children? Are they thin, pale, delicate? Do not forget Ayer's Sarsaparilla. You know it makes the blood pure and rich, and builds up the general health in every way. ThRrtilltlriMt cannot pnsittiljr hnvn irnol houltli unit, the huwi'lrt ure iti ptiiper i-omllthm r-ret mijr ruiisiliiutlfin liy utviutr hiiihM Uxulfvtt duats of Ayttr's 1U1.

All vegetable, suar-coulcd. Kada brJ.O. lrr Lowell, Ms.s. Aug nionuiMiurers ui 9 HAIR VIGOR, i fO MVD CUKE. Llt CHI2KRY PECTORAL.

We have nc secrets 1 We publish the formulae of all our medicines. The Colored Brother's Reason. Booker T. Washington told the st.iry of negro pastor who was having some diflieulty with his flock. "The old fellow came to me and asked me to help him out." said Mr.

Washington. "I went down to the little backwoods country church wltl him one Sunday. Incidentally I took occasion to inquire among the parishioners a little and found that they bud not paid the old man his salary. "Upon this busts of information I started in to admonish the members of the congregation. I told them thut they should pay their pastor; that he had to live; that be bad to have his salary.

"All In all. I was making a pretty good speech. I had most of tue congregation convinced. 1 think. "But there was one old fellow in the buck of the church that was mumbling during my talk.

lie would snicker a little and duck his eyes below the old soft hut he held up to bis face. 'We uln't goln' to pay 'tin any more salary this "The old fellow became so obstreperous that I remonstrated with him. 'Brother, why are you not going to pay pastor uny more salary this I asked blui. 'Because we done paid him for them same sermons last was Undecisive response." How Prisoners Resd. "It Is rather pathetic," said a prison chaplain, "the way our Inmates read their surreptitious newspapers.

It is had for the poor fellows' eyes too. "It is against the rule for thorn to rend in their cells, and In the cell doors there are peepholes, to which the jailers come, noiselessly, seeing that all the rules are enforced. "The prisoner who simply must read pastes with a bit of porridge his journal up against his cell door beneath the peephole. He sits down on the floor a yard or two away and holds his dustpan In one hand and his brush in the other. In this awkward and wearisome position, his eyes nearly popping out of bis bead from strain, ha reads away for dear life.

"And when the jailer's cold, harfl eye peers in through the peephole it misses the paper and lights up with some faint approbation ut the sight of the prisoner polishing up his floor." New York Press. A Wise UUI Milliner. "If I had Insisted," said the milliner. ''I could have sold her a hat that cost Sio more, but I was afraid that If she took it I should lose her trade. I knew her husband wouldn't like it.

It isn't the expense he would object to. but the hat. She Is a countrywoman, and he Is a countryman. Countrymen do pot like New York hats that Is. hats of the exaggerated type.

I never yet sold an extreme stylo to Ah out of town woman without losing her custom. The men at homo always said, 'Well, If that's the best you can do in New York come back with a scarecrow thing like that you'd better buy your bats nearer home. And thereafter that is Just what the women do. That why I now sell nothing but modest looking hats to country customers. I can't afford to antagonize their hus bands." New York Times.

A Mighty Ran Autograph, There are an unlimited number and Tariety of the genus autograph Jector. Some have the grewsome fad of (BOitectlng ail autographic matter re? latlng to tl assassins of our presidents. To bie aucfiiBgsful even in this limited range requires much careful research and great patience. The move inconspicuous and unknown the sub lecs chosen the more difficult the task of coHaetng. ft may be said that it Is an easier task to aacnre an authentic autograph of Napoleon Ponapnrte or of Cromwell than one of the practical ly unknown murderer of President Me- Kiniey.

The very obscurity from which the perpetrator temporarily emerged is hard to penetrate and there- lore makes tne securing of Bs auto graph a difficult task. Collector. England's One Protestant Cathedral. Truro cathedral the only Estab lished Church cathedral of any importance which has beeu built since St 'uul's was completed by Sir Christo pher Wren. All the great cathedrals and abbeys in England wore erected by Catholics and were handed over by act of parliament lu the reign of Henry VIII.

to the Protestauts when the Catholic church was established and the Protestant religion created by law. Reynolds' Newspaper. George Popowick, a miner livintr ut Milesville was taken to the hospiti.i lite Saturday afternoon and died Sunday. He was intoxicated and wk-walking along the tracks of the P. L.

railroad when the accident occurred which cost him his lite. It wa the old time worn story of walking along (he southbound tra -k and upon the approach of a train stepned ovi to the northbound track, directly in front of another train. His righ' lev was severed from his body and he wa injured internally. The ambulance was summonded-and the injured man was removed to the Memorial hospital. I Sis injuries were too serious to peril it an operation and he died Sunday.

The body was removed to the undertaking rooms of Fiank Bebout and prepared for burial. It was lattr taken to his home in Milesville from which place the interment will take place this afternoon. Popowick was' a Slav, 21 years of age and single. rri nomas jester, oi jvammerer, ap- i a i.i icoicu ueiure Aiuerman uay about a week ago and preferred a charge of assault and battery against Robert Martin and a man named Loefink. It is alleged by the prosecutor that the two men set upon him several weeks ago and brutally beat him.

The man Loefink appeared before the Alderman and plead guilty to the charge, but it was necessary to send an officer after Martin. Upon being arraigned hefore Alderman Day, Martin demanded a jury hearing. He was released on bail until Tuesday evening when a jury will be empaneled. Geo. Cater of Riverview, appeared before Mayor Elwood and preferred a charge against his son-in law John Kurton, for carrying and pointing fire arms, Kurton was arrested and when tal en before the mayor, he waived a hearing for court and gave bail in the sum of $300 for the next ttrm of court.

It appears that the son-in-law and father have been having trouble for some time. It is alleged by Mr. Cater that Mr. Kurton has bee-i carrying a gun for several weeks and threaten ing to kill the man. The trouble arose over a family affair of several months ago.

Mr. Kurton also appeared before Alderman Sarver and made a charge of agravated assault and battery and surety ot the peace against Cater. He alleged his son-in-law beat him un mercifully and threatened to kill Cater will be given a hearing before the squire Tuesday. William Patterson, bf Haeelkirk, in company with Burly Cairington and Robert Minney, created no little ex citement on Park avenue Saturday night. The three men who were some what intoxicated had purchased a new shotgun and two revolvers and were trying the weapons.

They were shoot ing along the road across the creek and in every direction. The residents became frightened at the men's carelessness and notified the police, Officers Bergmann and Chester responded to the call and; ar rested the three men. The three men were arraigned before Mayor Ellwood this morning and the evidence showed that Patterson was the only man who fired the gun. He was accordingly charged with carrying and discharging deadly weapons, within the city limit. He waived a hearing and gave bail in the sum of $300 for the next term of court, Carrington and Minney were released, "there being no charge against them.

The President's annual Thanksgiving proclamation, issued Saturday, select ing Thursday, November 28, for the people to assemble and "pray that they may be given strength so to or der their lives as to deserve a continu ation of the manifold blessings of the past year," triumphantly declares that nowhere in the world is there such an opportunity as here for a free people to develop to the fullest extent all powers of body, mind and character. During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, from war," it declares. "Our natural resourses are at least as great as those of any nation. Much has been given us from on high and much will rightly be expected of us in return. Into our care the ten talents have been entrusted; and are to be pardoned neither if we squander and waste them, nor yet if we hide them in a napkin.

"We should earnestly pray that the spirit of righteousness may grow greater in the hearts of all, and that our souls may be inclined even more both towards the virtues that tell for gentleress, for loving kindness and forebearance one with another, for without these qualities neither nation nor individual can rise to the level of greatness." a The Monongahela Valley Press Association met in regular monthly ses-sion in the Hotel Lawrence at Donora Saturday evening, as the guests of Editor Koehler, of the American and Lewis, of the Daily News. The business meeting was called at six o'clock and many important topics, of interest to editors and newspaper men in general, were thoroughly discussed. After the business of the month was disposed of the party repaired to the spacious dining room, where a Bumptu-ous banquet was served. The "feed" consisted of seven courses and the way those half famished scribes went after it was evidence enough of how they appreciated Messrs. Lewis and Koehler 's hospitality.

After the wants of the newspaper men were satisfied, cigars were passed and 'neith a halo of smoke from fragrant Havanas Host Turner of the hoUl was tendered a hearty vote of thanks for' the manner in which the pencil pushers were received. Those fortunate enough to be in attendance were: A. H. and H. L.

Lamb, California Sentinel; L. M. and Claud Truxal, Bellevernon Enterprise; E. C. Niver, Charleroi Mirrow; W.

H. Watson, Monessen Independent; R. E. Koehler and M. T.

Whittaker, Donora American; C. E. Lewis, Donora Daily News; W. T. Wiley, Elizabeth Herald; L.

E. Flint, Monongahela Times; Vernon Hazzard and George A. Anderson, Daily Republican. Walter Brown, of Donora, secretary of the Big Stick Novelty company was a guest of the association for the evening. Upon invitation of the Lamb brothers the association will go to California next month, as guests of the Sentinel.

Natala Trunzo and George Razina, two section hands, employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company appeared before Alderman John W. Sarver and preferred a charge of felonious shooting with intent to kill, against Miss EllaWoodward, who lives cross the creek. In the allegation the two man say they were working on the track and were ordered off the property by Miss Woodward. According to their idea the men were on the railroad property and when told to leave they refused, point blank. Misa Woodward secured her revolver and according to their statement opened fire on them.

They were forced to beat a hasty retreat. Going before Alderman Sarver they made the above charge against the lady. She will be given a hearing this evening or Tuesday. Venetia, Oct 28. In a collision of coal cars in the Nottingham mine of the Pittsburg coal company Saturday Butler McClure, aged 25 years, was instantly killed.

It is said the accident was the result of a misunderstanding between drivers. When the cars collided McClure attempted to jump, but was caught between the bumpers; Thomas Rogers narrowly escaped death. McClure was unmarried. FAYETTE CITY MAN KILLED Frank Brewer, a prominent and well known Fayette City man, while out hunting near the home of his son-in-law, William Cope, in Jefferson township, accidently shot himselt and died after an anaesthetic had been ad ministered him on the operating table. There was no witnesses to the accident.

Several days ago Mr. Brewer left his home in Fayette City to take a rest and a hunt for a few days at the home of his son-in-law. Friday afternoon he started out with an old shotgun. He was found later in the woods with a portion of his shoulder blown off. He was removed to the home of his son-in-law and medical attention summoned.

Three doctors responded and decided that an operation was immediately necessary. The wounded man was in a very much weakened condition and before the doctors could begin the operation his heart action ceased. Deceased leaves a wife and three children at Fayette City. His wife is a sister of David Burton of near Tippecanoe and Rev. William R.

Burton, a prominent Methodist minister. He was a son of J. K. Brewer, a prominent and well known farmer residing in Perry township, near Perryopolis. Maybe if business were to slow down prices of the necessaries and comforts of life would also come down a few notches.

One thing sure; if prices continue to go skyward the average family will not be able to find the long green with which to supply their needs. Canonsburg Notes. distinctive clothing Men today want Clothing with dis tinction -individualitysomething above und apart fiom the usua1 run of Clothing. This is the field we are coveiine having made to our order Clothing pos sessing distinctive features that give it the desired character. In other words Clothing made for those particular men who know clothing merit and style when they see it.

Men's Suits built by the best tailors in the land according to these ideas, $12.50 to $50.00. Cheviots, Serges, Mixtures, Exclusive Imported English Cloths and other best suiting fabrics. Blue, Brown, Grey, plain Cloths and Mixtures of the season's best types. Good serviceable stylish suits $15.00 and $20 00. High class exclusive patterns dressy stylos $25.00.

Men's three-quarter length Over Coats silk lined to edge or silk facing $25.00. Men's three quarter length Over Coats Black or Oxford Grey Unfinished 00 to $35.00. Men's Fancy three-quarter length Over Coats $20.00 to $40.00, Top Coats Black Thibet, silk lined $20.00. Stylish tailored Rain Coats, $15.00 to $35.00. Grey Cravenette Worsted, hand tailored Rain Coats $20.00.

Men's Winter Over Coats three-quarter lei gth Black or Oxford Grey to $55.00. Black, medium weight, silk lined Over Coats $30 00. Cannot be duplicated under $38. 00. BOGGS BUT! Allegheny, Pa.

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Patents, taken through Mumt St Co, reoetv wyt mi lium VUHTKO, (UQ Scientific A Handsomely Illustrated weekly, T.nrtrest elr. oulution of iny eoiemtdo tournul. Terms, t3 year: four months, Bold ty nil newsdeatert. MUNN Co.38'8""1-'. New York Branch omco.

625 8 Waahtnuton. u. 0. MUCH TROUBLE WITH FOG The railroad companies whose lines un along the river are havinar much rouble these days in maintaining any thing like a dependable schedule. Tho arly morning trains are delayed anv- where from five minutes to an hour, on account of the fops which hanr ver the Valley these cold nights.

Much annoyance is orcasioned to pas- engers' especially those who use the trains as a means of getting to and from their work. NEW POSTMASTER AT STOCKDALE Geo. Cowan, who until recently was resident of Roscoe, has been appointed postmaster at Stockdale. He received his commission this week and Joseph Underwood, who has conducted the office for the past four years stepped down and out. Mr.

Cowan had no opposition for the appointment and Mr. Underwood did not desire the position any longer. The latter expects to em bark in the real estate business. Finleyville, 27 Henry Boyer. aged 76 years died at his home near this place Saturday.

He moved here from Johnstown about eight years ago. Mr. Boyer was born near Johnstown and engag. in farming, there following that occupation until his death. He belonged to the Methodist EniscoDal church and is survived by his wife, one son, Elmer and a daughter, Hilda.

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