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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-03

earth. and will prove to be the seed Of
purity, morality, land virtue.
Numerous authorities might be cited to
establish the fact that the bones Of Bud
dha do not exist in Siam or anywhere
else, and that the paragraph in question
was the conception of some ingenious i'm
poster, without the slightest foundation in
fact."-New York Tribune.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-03
REVBNGES OF SOLDIERS
Privates Who Settle Grudges by
Staying Officers.

Tragedies on the Battlefield Tint
Are of Rare Occurrcncc-fnstnn
in European Armies-A Notable Oc-
currencc During FrnncO-Prussfnn
Wnr-MnrshnI Bnznine's Danger.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
SALUVIA.

Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Mellott and
children of Clearfield, are visiting
Mr.. Mellott's parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Emanuel Mellott.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. II. Minnick,
Of Evertt, spent few days with
friends at this place last week.
Mrs. Harris, spent Saturday,
with friends at Fort Littleton.
Miss Anna Speer, is visiting
friends at Burnt Cabins.
Rev, Seifert, is spending the
week in Chambersburg where he
will take his first examination.
Miss Anna Mann of McCon-
nellsburg, was the guest of Mrs.
f. II. Austin, for a few days the
the last of the week.
The average attendance of our
school for the first month was
nine out of an enrolment of fif-
teen. This state of affairs GER
tainly, shows a lack of interest on
the part of the patrons. We
know the teacher is not to blame.
Mrs. Miles Ham and two sons,
who had been visiting relatives at
this place left for their home at
Dennlson Texas, Thursday.
Mrs. Harry Edwards and
daughter Marion, of Enid, were
the guests Of Mrs. Speer's family
the first of this week.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
HUNTING SEASON OPEN.

Bright and early Monday
morning the woods was full of
sportsmen who had waited pa
tiently for the season to come in;
and pop-bang! was heard when
ever one went near the woods.
The success attending the
hunters was understanding
from chipmunk to a possum--
every one getting something even
if only pair of tired legs.
Printers Frank Sheely and
Alvin Sipes claim to have brought
in the greatest number of part
ridges. We are sorry we cannot
say just how many.
Linn Alexander and John Hell
man each got wild turkey; and
Bill Myers and his brother, and
two young fellows from the Little
Cove, bagged five wild turkeys.
j. K. Johnston came in before
noon with five gray squirrels,an
well that is as far as we have
heard. Buzz Sewers and Willie
Mellott had little experience
that they will likely remember.
They were both hunting for tur-
keys in the same piece of woods,
but neither knew of the others
presence. Both were calling.
Each heard what he supposed was
big gobbler, and each stole up
on the other for a shot. Mellott
was the first to get a glimpse of
his game and quickly fired. Sow
ers feeling the sting of shot in
his face and body, started to run,
when Mellott let him have the
other barrel. Fortunately the
distance was so great that but
little mischief was done, and the
shooter" was as greatly scared
as the "shootee" when he found
that his gobbler also carried a
gun.
The moral is; Don't shoot un-
til you know what you are shoot
ing at.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
NEEDMORE.

Mr.. David Evans, who has been
quite i'll for some time, was able
to attend church Sunday.
Mr.. d. A. Arnold, of West Vir-
ginia, spent a weekvisiting friends
in this vicinity.
The Baptist Association held
at this place on Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, was largely attend
ed. Quite a number of people
from the counties of Bedford and
Huntingdon were present.
Mrs. George Geinger and son
Watson were visiting Mrs. Gein-
gers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. JIG.
Shafer, on Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Jehu Madden, one of the
directors of the Huntingdon coun-
ty almshouse, was in attendance
at the Baptist Association. Mr.,
Madden is well informed about
the workings of his county and
it is a pleasure to talk with him.
Mr.. d. V. Sipes, the toll-gate
keeper west of McConnellsburg,
was visiting friends in this com
munity during the meeting.
Mr.. b. A. Mellott has begun to
quarry and haul lime stone
Bennett is one of our hustling
young farmers and makes things
go.
Mr.. Charlie Mellott and wife
were visiting Mrs. Mellott's pa
rents, Mr.. aud Mrs. j. w. Truax,
on Sunday.
Mr., Wesley Mckee is going to
have a well bored on his lot on
East Liberty. A. G. TruaX is the
contractor.
DR.. j. S. Swartzwelder was
manipulating the farm wagon the
first of the week. He seems to
swing on the lines with an old
time grace, but his team was un-
accustomed to "pill wagon" SC
heavy.
The school had been in progress
one month on Friday last. Thir
ty.seven pupils have been enroll
ed.
Mr.. Thompson Peck, of Emma
vile, spent several days in this
vicinity recently.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
AMARANTH.

DR.. j. M. McKibbin and family
will attend the fair at Hagers-
town this week.
Joseph Crawford of Everett
was in our valley last week visit
ing friends and relatives Joseph's
tongue is ever ready to re-
spond to the action of the brain.
Mrs. James Rhea and daugh.
ter Bertha spent Tuesday with
Mrs. Daniel Hebner who is quite
sick-caused by falling down a
pair of stairs some time ago.
Charley Spade who has been
employed in Johnstown for the
past two months returned home
Monday.
Martin True, spent last week
with his daughter Mrs. Jos. Sny-
der of Capon w. Va.
DR.. IL. w. McKibbin of McCon.
nellsburg was in the valley last
week on business.
Mrs, Mary Fisher, son Harry,
and babe of Brunswick Md. are
the guests of John Spade and
family at present.
Ed Smith, and wife visited re-
latives near Robinsonville Satur-
day and Sunday.
Gilbert Mellott, of Franklin
Mills, passed through this place
enroute to see his best girl near
Purcell recently.
Mrs. D. A. Mellott, son Cordel
and daughter Jessie attended the
Association held at the Sideline
Hill Baptist church Saturday and
Sunday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
LESLIE STUNKARD KILLED.

Mr.. Leslie Stunkard, aged 81
years, 1 month, and II days, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert r. Sunk
ard, near Hustontown, was killed
in Allegheny City and buried at
New Grenada.
The facts as we have been able
to get them are as follows; Les
lie with his brother, has been
employed in the Westinghouse
works at Pittsburg for about a
year. Last Thursday morning
he complained of not feeling well
and told his brother that he would
not work that day. About one
o'clock Friday morning his life
less body was found on rail
road track in Allegheny by a po-
liceman.
His head was terribly crushed,
and both feet were cut off. How
he met his tragic death is not,
and may never be known. He
may have been run down by a
train; or he may have been the
victim of foul play, and his body
placed on the track to hide sus-
picion. He was a young man of
temperate habits, and good char
acter and the fact that no money
was found about his remains in
fact nothing except letter from
a friend by which his body was
identlfied-makes the latter view
of the case seems not improbable
His body was at once sent to the
morgue. His foreman at the
works, noticed his death in the
Friday morning papers, and ac-
quainted Leslie's brother, and
they two went to the morgue
and inentified his body.
The remains of the unfortunate
young man was brought to the
home of his brother-in-law Geo.
w. Barnett, near Waterfall ON
Saturday, and Inferred at New
Grenada on Sunday.
This is the second of Taylor's
young men to be killed at Pitts
burg within a year, the other be-
ing that of Sherman Anderson.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
Local Institute.

second local institution Thomp-
was held at West View Octo-
a. Questions discussed: l.
what extent should memory
~S be carried on in primary
4 r%Ser's II grade-opened by A.
eCk' followed by H. S, Sharp,
y, S L. M. Fisher, Prof. b, N,
uer and others. 2. How best
~ouse a lazy or idle pupil in
\ ''uules-t thoroughly discuss
W all the teachers present.
Sr wy very practical work was
~. su oy Prof. Palmer. 8. How
j ''each self reliance discuss
h.. W all teachers present. A.
| would you explain decimals
sspapils who had no knowledge
unopened by Miss l.. M.
as'' A large number of pa
We're present.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
Jud Palmer Back in Chicago.

Although not written for pub
lication, the following will be in
teresting to the pupils and friends
of the writer.
81 have returned to the city af-
ter spending my vacation travel
ing over this beautiful state.
'Fhis has been q fine season
and the wonderful crops of both
broom corn and Indian corn are
immense.
"People, in general, are happy;
and as long as they are receiving
80 cents a bushel for their Indian
corn, and from $4,000 to $4,000
per ton for broom corn, they care
but little who shall be the next
presidents for their crops do
grow, and they wax wealthy
withal.
''The black soil about which
people who wade through it COM
plain so much, is full of fat for
their pockets.
"The green fountains of corn
plays over hundreds of acres;
and the Illinoisan Tor Sucker)
who at other times wears old sol
diers clothes with brass buttons
and hand-me-down, starches his
collars and suffers virtuously
in his neck, while his wife visits
her mother in silk that is covered
with cores and ruflles and
biases, the rustic of all which
may be heard half way across the
state. During the last trip l
made through central Illinois be-
fore returning to the city, found
the farmers taking care Of their
broom-corn, which | dare say
would be a rarity for many Full
ton county people.
81 would like to write you much
more of the interesting features
with which came in contact, but
want of time forbids." "
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
John Shaffer Hurt.

Last Saturday as John Shaffer,
president of the Tod townshhip
school board, was returning from
meeting of the board at Nc
Governs school house, and while
riding along the Cove road be-
ween Mrs. e. G. Trout's lane and
Ralph Reeds, the mule that he
was riding shyed suddenly at a
pile of stones, which caused the
saddle girth to break, and threw
Mr.. Shaffer violently to the
ground, breaking his collar bone
and bruising his face painfully.
Doctors Dalbey and Garthwaite
rendered the necessary surgical
aid, and Mr.. Shaffer was sent tc
his home later in the evening.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
Lightning Rod Swindlers.

From Echo-Pilot (Greencastle)
An agent offered to put a light
ming rod on the barn of Samuel
r. Fritz, near Ringgold for So,
claiming that it was one of four
samples to be erected in each
county of Maryland, simply as an
advertisement, the regular price
being &c per foot. The rods
were put up in the absence of
Mr.. Fritz in an imperfect man
ner. In a few days two men
came, one of whom professed to
be a lawyer, to collect the money.
1t then developed that the con-
tract called for the rods to be
erected at 67c per foot, which
amounted to $40.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
BETHLEHEM.

Mr.. d. A. ellis spent part of
Sunday at d. G.. Elvey's.
Mr.. Lincoln Dishong and two
little boys spent Saturday and
Sunday with the family of Mr..
George Gress.
There was an institute at
Scott's school house last Friday
evening.
Luther Fix now sings, ga
charge to keep l have"-it is a
boy.
On last Saturday Mr., John
Shaffer rode one mule to town
and called on DR.. Mosser and
back home in the forenoon. Al
ter dinner he rode over to Doug
las school house, and on his way
from the school house, he was Sc
proud over his grandson he fell
off his mule and broke his collar
bone and cut his face badly, and
in the evening rode home in the
buggy behind "old Kate" Thus
it took three mules to carry
grandpa around on Saturday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
THOMPSON.

Mrs. Eli M. Funk spent sever
al days at Needmore last week.
Among our sick people are
Margaret TruaX, Millie Lynch,
Betsey Pittman, Nettie Peck, and
five members of Daniel b. Sny-
der's family.
p. p. Shives is in Baltimore on
a combined business and pleas
ure trip,
Rev. Seifert win begin special
services at the Mt. Zion church
on the evening of the 4th proxi-
mo.
Squire and Mrs. Daniel Covalt
were the guests of John Gordon's
family Sunday, The Squire feels
confident that he has the precious
metal on his farm. The excite
ment over the prospects of valu-
able mineral deposits has led
many persons to drop everything
else and prospect for gold. The
women complain that the men dc
not have time to keep wood cut
for the kitchen-fre, If reports
are correct we have in this town
ship valuable deposits of gold,
silver, iron, paint, graphite, and
many other things too numerous
TO mention.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
]. *. Johnston added much TO

j. K. Johnston added much to
the appearance of his property
last week by putting down a nice
brick pavement. His neighbor
Samuel Bender preceded him a
few days. Letthegood work go on
until the ladies may be able to
traverse our sidewalks in wet
weather without gum boots.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Woollet of the
Washington House in this place
entertained a half hundred or
more of their friends very de-
lightfully last Thursday evening.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.
Nis and Ends From the Reporters
Note Book.

While about her work Monday
4 morning, Mrs. Hannah Goldsmith
truck her "crazy-bone" against
he sharp edge of the cupboard
md tainted. Through the prompt
forts of her daughter Name she
vas resuscitated, but she has not
4 st well since.
We have on our desk a sample
dtbe ore from the farm of Dan
Nj Covalt, Esq, of Thompson
<Srnship. The Squire has about
Henty.fve tons out, and we are
Informed that he expects to make
Shipment this week. The ore
. Jcht has been leased on some of
8 pighboring farms. The report
Mai the vein is found on the
last side of the Ridge seems to
4 encOrrect.
We received by mail on Tues
r l,v -four for a mess of buckwheat
axes from Will Peck's new mill
tGem. This mill is a commen-
( hbIe enterprise, and will be a
4 veat con venience to the farmers
+ that region. Will is a genius;
z md lii would not be surprising to
iar of his having added an at
achment by which buckwheat
\ " the bushel may be thrown in
I bthe hopper, and hot spongy
axes come out into the bin by
be hundred, already dripping
nth butter and honey.
+, Men. Johnston, of the U. S.
census Bureau, at Washington
City, D. O., in a letter to II. j.
thompson of this place, says;
We have been having much more
1mfOrtable weather for about a
nOnth, and considerable rain. |
Npe Fulton county got her share
the rain, to help the pasture,
Ndput the ground in good order
G the balance of the seeding,
bat is to be done. 81 see by the
Aper that Magsam's Addition is
FOwing. McConnellsburg will
resent quite a different appear
lce soon."
Mr.. George Wilds Sloan and
Hiss Helen May Kelsey, both of
buffalo, N. Y, were united in
larriage in that city on Wednes-
ny Of last week. After spend
Aga few days in New York, the
Appy couple came to McCon-
elSburg and are visiting the
NOthers and sisters of the
rOOm in this place. Mr.. Sloan
rs been in Buffalo about a dozen
ears, and is one of the city's
F@perous business men. Mr..
10 Mrs. Sloan will return to
'analo the last of this week, and
'Al enter at once upon the stern
altles of housekeeping.
few months ago James S.
Iers, formerly of Akersville,
u'chased the mill at Locust
llOVe in Whips Cove, and set
Oatrepairing and improving it.
u'er much hard work and the
aPadlture of a considerable
'a OF hard cash, he has the sat
aac'lon now of knowing that he
S@a position to please all who
Wy favor hlm with their patron
:" A 2O-horse power steam
gne has been put in; so that,
Na or shine, the mill will run
~. The same. James is a prac-
al miller, and a good all around
uOW, and his enterprise will be
peat convenience to the good
FOpIe Of that cove.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18

We received this week a few
fresh ripe raspberries just taken
from a bush in the garden of
Mrs. Il. j. Thompson.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18
FULTON COUNTY PEOPLE.

residence, in Springfield, ILL.,, on
Tuesday of last week, Asa Mont
gomery died, aged 7S years and
8 months. Mr.. Montgomery was
an old citizen of Springfield, and
his death will be mourned by his
friends. He was born in Mary
land and was well known by the
older people of Hancock. He
visited here about four years ago.
The deceased was very wealthy.
Hancock Times.
LANEHART. - Abner Lanehart
died September %, 1900, at the
home of Dennis Hull, Franklin
Mills, at the advanced age of 7S
years, and was laid to his resting
place in Cedar Grove Cemetery
on Sunday, funeral services being
conducted by Rev. James II.
Logue, of the Christian denomi-
nation, of which the deceased
was member. Mr.. Lanehart is
the last of very large family of
sisters and brothers. Their
father, Frederick Lanehart, came
to this country and settled at the
foot of Sideling Hill on the prop:
erty now owned by Andrew Mel
lott. He was from the state of
New Jersey and was of Hessian
descent and taken prisoner by
Gen. Washington at Trenton
Hancock Star.
MANN.-David Mann, aged 80
years, died and was buried on the
farm once owned by him in
Washington county, near the
Fulton county line, and known as
the Pool graveyard. 1t is a bend
in Sideling Hill Creek and called
the horseshoe bend. He is the
father Of a family of % children,
being married twice. Mr.. Mann
was born on the farm at Franklin
Mills and now owned by William
f. Golden, his father being John
Mann, commonly called "Jackey
Mann"
Mr.. Mann, after his marriage to
Miss Mary A. Bettey, commenced
keeping house on the farm now
owned by j. H. Lewis, where
many of his children were born.
After this he removed to Ohio
and lived there awhile, returning
he settled in Buck Valley and
thence in Maryland. He was a
man of great physical strength
and constitution that few peo-
pie possess. Hancock Star.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph e. Mel
lott were in town Wednesday.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-06

THE Son Of the Wolf, by Jack London
marks the advent of a new romance writer
in the literary world Whether Mr.. Lon
don Will ever do another book as good as
this is of course uncertain; 1t bears the
earmarks Of practical experience, and
sometimes, in his "Wanderjahre" man
sees and understands things which are
uncommonly fascinating, and which as he
does not meet them in his after life, he
cannot record twice. Also It is not given
to any man to discover more than one new
and unworked field. In this book are nine
stories of the Far North. of the Yukon
country. Dawson mining camps. and the
white silence of Canadian mountains They
are stories Of Indians of miners and Of
the women and priests who stray into the
Ear corners Of the earth and belong to a
sifferent species from those whom one
meets in the haunts Of civilization. The
STYLE reminds one Of Bret Harte and Of
Ktpling. the author has borrowed d little
of the Californian's Gallo conciseness and
rather more Of the Anglo-lndians brutal
directness. But his material is new. and
so Is the spirit with which he deals with
II; and no man can modestly claim abso-
lgte originality.
There are two creations in this book;
one is the story Of The Son of the Wolf
which is a wild saga CT romance and ad-
venture, the hero being "Scruff'' Macke n
zie, and the heroine the daughter of a
Thlinkt chief; the other is "Malemute
Kid" the big. stern gruff. tender hearted
wise Ulysses who appears in half the
taies-a sort Of Argonsut Mulyaney. Even
in the portrait Of the Kid" there are I'M
defined shadows: he is a little too much
Of a type and not enough Of person; but
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-06

stated that the appointment of these ca
diets was made as political experiment by
Representatives who wished to force an
issue. Mr.. Benjamin says that the first
OF the three cadets appointed was found
deficient in mathematics and French, after
year at the Academy, and resigned. This
is not precisely true. The cadet resigned,
it is true. but he had been nearly two
years at the Academy, and during that
time had become convinced that he would
never be allowed TO graduate. Moreover,
he had been the object of a number Of per
sonal attacks one Of which came near end
ing his life. and concluded that he might
as well give up the idea of going on
He has since held positions under The
Government which required about as much
knowledge Of mathematics as he would
have needed to graduate from Annapolis,
and 1t was generally understood at
the time. by unprejudiced people, that
his failure TO finish the course was due
to the persecution to which he was sub
jected. There Is of course, a question
as 70 the efficiency of a cOlored officer
in practical work, since he would have to
contend with many difficulties which 9TH
ers do not encounter; but there really
seems no reason why the matter should
not be left to the actual test of life on a
man-of-war, without resorting to such
petty methods as Misrepresentation and
persecution during life at the Academy.
The book is full Of anecdotes of one
sort or another. and those which have
been given are fair examples. There is a
full description of Annapolis as it is to-
day, and one chapter explains
to the would-be naval cadet
the requisite qualifications for
entering the Academy. There are nu-
mcrous Illustrations, among them por-
traits Of Chauvenet, the mathematician;
II. II. Lockwood; Worth Bagley. in foot
ball costume, and various other men who
have at one time or another been con-
nected with the Academy. New York:
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-06

Said Duty sternly; Take thy pen and write
Liie-throbbing lines. words weighed with import
hight
Enough Of something on Svlvia's eyei
Enough Of singing Of her and white"'
| sit me down, when 10, upon my sight
(My inner SIGHT since there is one nighO
vision flashes thoughts Of duty fly
Like soGthering birds sdown autumn night.
o mentor stern. no task that thou canst set,
care not whatsoever thou bdst it be.
VIII far remove me from some dream Of herl
Look. ! am wearing Love for amulet!
And hence thou msyst as soon part land and
sea
As thoughts of Love from Loves true wor-
shiper
Clinton scollard.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-06

1 sought you, but l found you not,
Where lartow. yet a rill,
By many moist and likely spot,
Glides downward from the HILL
1t was then only in a dream
! had beheld you there,
Marked your reflected blossom gleam,
And called its paleness fair.
But at a later Lamnaas- tide,
Beneath the evening star.
1t fell that from Loeb Lomond side
l crossed to Arr0char.
Then. ere the swiftly gathering gloom
That darkened all around YOU
Had power 10 hide your milk-white bloom.
l sought YOU not. but found you.
Henry tombstone. in the Century.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-06

his wits behind him when he undertakes
to write a long story. 1t is impossible to
get interested either in the characters or
their conversations, and as for the plot, it
could not be discovered with a microscope.
There is even less Of it in The Action and
the Word" than there was in the former
novel. The general theme is the infatua-
ton of a young married woman for the
stage. New York: Harper Bros.