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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1900-12-12

Men S Suits In all the latest colorings
in black, blue, gray, brown
and fancy checks and stripes. Strictly
all wool for $500.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11

making soap bubbles, painting turkeys
feet, retailing lighted fuel guessing
riddles, collecting samples, and act
ing as guardian angel-of only ono of
which, the last, have we space for m
explanation. The guardian angel es.
tshiishes himself in the outskirts OF
the city noar the wine shops, where
he does odd jobs during the day for
the shopkeeper, while in the evening
he assists in getting home any oil the
sons Of Bacchus who may have drunk
too deeply. In doing this he must be
deuf to all the commands and entrea.
ties OF his charge to let him enter any
of the wine shops on the way; he must
keep him out of broils, guard his per.
sonal effects, even fight for him il
necessary, aud when he cannot he led
home, carry him on his back or wheel
him on n barrow. The earnings Of
these helpers of frail humanity are
ridiculously paltry, seldom exceeding
franc or two n night
THE EXPERIENCES OF wINE.TAsTERs.
One of the out-of-the. way modes OF
BSebihb ~ 10 luhb pihC'
ticed by the wine-tasters of the Lon
don docks. These persons, who are
supposed to have palates OF exquisite
delicacy, with much knowledge OF
wines, hang about the docks, where
they are hired by both dealers aud
buyers to accompany them to the
vaults and give their opinions OF the
various wines submitted to them for
examination. Though they carefully
avoid swallowing the wine they taste,
yet their calling slowly saps their
health, and they become at an early
age physical wrecks. The sensations
which they experience in sampling tho
wines are of the most delicate and
subtle nature; it was one of these men
who detected tue flavor Of iron in
pipe of wine into which shingle nail
had fallen. Saturday Evening Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
SOUTHERN STEEL.
Beginning of nm Enormous Industry
Steel Roll Mills TO Follow Cotton Mills.

Beginning of an Enormous Industry
Steel Roll Mills TO Follow Cotton Mills.
The beginning OF the manufacture
OF steel at Ensley, near Birmingham,
Ala, recently is striking and impor-
tant fact Of great significance for
Southern industry. Three furnaces
out of the ten that have been under
construction began to make steel on
Thanksgiving Day and the other seven
are soon to be in operation. Where
pig-iron can DO made most cheaply,
steel also can be made at least cost, so
that we are now Witnessing tho first
steps of a movement that means a vast
development
Hitherto the South has been pro-
ducing pig for sale to steelmakers in
tho North. Much pig has also been
exported to England aud other coun.
tries. The significance of the event
at Ensley is that it points to time
-ot far distant when steel rails, armor
for warships, steel ships, tinplate,
structural shapes, etc, will be South
ern products. Other steelmaking g
plants are already, we are told, in
contemplation and several rolling mills
are building,
Low cost of production is nowadays
the controlling factor in the location
of new industries. 1t is the breeze
that watts the cotton manufacturing
industry slowly from New England to
the Carolinas. 1t is the beginning
that is difficult. After the first cot
ton mills had shown the way to sue
cess, others followed in quick success.
sion. So it may be expected the sue
cess of steel making at Ensley will
have large results. Baltimore Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS.
JANUARU IA.
IN The Far Country. Luke w. ii-24.

Scripture Ncrses.--Job XII 49, H.
Isaiah l. 1913. Ps xix. :; John vi. a.
Ps Ii. II-I5: Matt. ILL., |, ?: iv. u; Acts
ii. .3S; Jas. iv. $40; Ps. Xxx. 7.
Lesson Thoughts
As soon as we lose our trust and con.
hdencc in God, and feel independent ol
his care and protection. we become
prodigals in far country and will soon
be in sad want
Our worthiness to be Gods children
depends upon our willingness to be his
servants
What an encouraging truth is this.
that VIC need not plead with God for for
giveness. for he is even more willing to
forgive than sinners are 10 be forgiven;
he waits and watches eagerly for their
return and receives them to himself at
the first expression OF true repentance.
Selections.
Repentance without amendment has
been compared to continual pumping in
a ship without stopping the leaks
When Russian soldier, heavily in
debt. wrote out list OF his many obi
cations and exhibited il in public
place, adding in large letters the Qucs-
ton, "Who will pay these debts?" the
Gar happened to see the whimsical no
tice. and quietly wrote his name after
the question: Nicholas" The soldier
knew that he was free from his credi-
tors As simple as this. absolutely as
simple. is the souls way 10 get rid OF
its sins.
There is ono heart that is filled with
generous kindness toward every man
who wants to repent. The voice OF God
is calling you. The sound OF your Faith
er's voice is in your heart. Trust
God. Remember that he is on
your side. and does not desire
that any man should die, but rather that
all should turn and live.
Many persons who appear to repent
arc like sailors who throw their goods
overheard in a storm, and wish for them
again in a calm.
c. f. Gospel Hymns.-6o. IoS, 24o.
2I4, I3o, 6s.
Gospel Hymns, I-4.-237, $50, o.,
335. 424, 2It.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11

they'd agreed that IL was to be the
last. A few minutes before four Hen.
dershot was walking about pretty
nervous, with one eye on old Ever.
lasting.
She's a-going to do it, says he.
She amt moved feather. She's
right there. She's a-winning money
for me. Tonight I'll give her a nest
and thirteen eggs as her reward. Yes,
sir; thirteen genyooine eggs, you un.
derstand-eggs that will hatch. She's
the greatest fowl in the United States.
I'll back old Everlasting Hills ag'in
the world
"Just tn on in walks the clerk, and
says he: That Englishman left on the
one o'clock train. Did he pay his
bill?'
Great beeswax, MOI yells Hen.
dershot. Two hundred dollars. il
it's cent? Nor the bet, neither! You
blamed old speckled fraudp aud he
renches over and gives tho hen a poke
with tho billiard cue, aud she rolls
over with her feet up.
lueu JUuBe hOnBSuOrl picks mel
up and she didn't weigh more than
six ounces. Why says he, she's
got glass eyes and wire in her neck
That feller must a. been taxider-
mist and stuffed her about four weeks
agof
"Well, when Hendershot could
stand up without help, he said some
things-.also without help--but there =
no use of my telling you what they
was, cause they wasn't things you
could print in your paper, and there's
no sense in your bothering with things
you can't use. just go ahead and
make an editorial OF this, and draw n
moral on the sinfulness of betting If
you want to, which I've always said
it was, ever since bet ag'in my own
hoss and the critter got scared and
run away and come in ten rods ahead,
which I'll tell you about some other
time" and he went out and left me
to finish the article / was writing,
urging people to dig deeper cyclone
cellars. Saturday Evening Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11

The Sanitary Home is authority for
the statement that potatoes contain n
poison known as solanin. New pota-
toes contain comparatively little of
this poison unless they grow above
the surface of the ground and have IL
green skin, when they are generally
known to be poisonous.
1t is not, however, generally known
that old potatoes contain much more
of this poisonous principle-solanin-
and many cases Of serious poisoning
have occurred in late summer when
old potatoes are used. In 1892 and
1898 there was almost Wholesale poi
soning among the troops of the Ger
man army. The symptoms were frontal
headache, collie, diarrhea. vomiting,
weakness and slight stupor, and IN
some cases dilatation OF the pupils of
the eyes. Meyer investigated the
case, and found in old potatoes, kept
in a damp place and beginning to
sprout, twenty-four times as much
solanin as in new potatoes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
Agriculture in the K,ondyke.

Such of us as regard the Klondyke
as cheerless, arid waste of ice are
surprised at the statement of a resi-.
dent of Dawson City, sent to Wash
ington by Vice Consul Morrison
Grain has done exceptionally well,
and L see no reason why it should not
be extensively and succ essfully grown
here. / see no reason why this coup-
try should not be able to produce it's
own vegetables aud grains. The sue
cess have had with flowers proves
that all hardy ANNALS will do well.
The coming year | intend planting
several hundred hybrid roses; also
summer Towering bulbs, large variety
of other hardy and half-hardy an.
nuals, and some of the hardy peren.
malls. Small fruits, such as straw
berries, currants, blackberries and
raspberries, should do WE'LL Currants,
raspberries, cranberries, strawberries
and blueberries grow wild here. -
Victor Smith, in New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
Unsanltary Condition OF pekIn

The three chief characteristics of
Pekin, the Chinese capital which
most impress the newly arrived visi,
tor are dust, stencil and dogs. There
has been no rain since June, and tho
hideous tracks that are digni6ed by
the title of streoia arc ankle deep in
black dust, much Of which is pulver.
lied filth. Along tho macadamized
streets, of which thcro arc three, are
open drains. These serve as sewers
from which the sewage is dipped and
tho highway sprinkled. When it
dries tho pulyerzing is resumed, and,
in addition to the original compound,
tho residuum oi tho tainted water is
breathed into tho lungs.-Correspon
denco New York Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
Paid s175 For Dog. Colin.

Seldom has pug dog been buried
with so much pomp and expense as
"Dude" Rogers, OF Denver, Col,
who had been Mrs. Jennie Rogers s
constant companion for seventeen
years.
Mrs. Rogers said he knew as much
as u child, that he had always been
treated like one, and that he should
be buried like one; so she sent for an
undertaken to lay out his remains and
measure him for coffin. The casket,
for its size, was the most expensive
ever made in Denver. 1t was of ma.
hogany, lined with silver, finished
with SILVER trimmings, and cost $175.
The body lay in state in Mrs. Rogers's
house for half n day, and lots of her
friends came to make a farewell call
on Dude. Mrs. Rogers had Dude
buried in the garden back of her
house. The grave was terraced up
exactly like that of baby and covered
with roses.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
CURIOUS FACTS.

japan has fifty sects of Budd.
hism.
The watermelon grows wild all over
Africa.
Benares, India, was an ancient
capital before Babylon or Ninevah
were founded.
Rhinoceros meat is something be.
tween pork and beef, and is not to be
despised when no other flesh is to be
obtained.
In Harrodsburg, Ky, there is
man who has n private coal mine that
he uses as his fuel supply and will
sell none.
Raw eggs, milk and plenty of fruit
are recommended for brain workers.
The fruit corrects the bilious tendency
of the milk and eggs.
The largest tree in the world lies
broken and petrihed at the end of q
detile in Northwestern Nevada. II is
said to be 666 feet long.
With plenty of water and without
solid food, horse will live twenty five
| udyb, Will SOllu lOOu anu WITHOUT
water, he will live only five days.
In the King of Saxony's museum at
Dresden there is cherry stone upon
which, by the aid of microscope,
more than one hundred faces can be
distinguished.
The Indians OF the interior of Bolivia
wear shirts and hats made of the bark
of tree, which is soaked in water to
soften the fiber, and then beaten to
make it pliable.
Among the yosges peasants children
born Mt the new moon are supposed to
have better hung tongues than others,
and those born at the last quarter to
have keener reasoning powers.
In all these years of tea drinking,
tea has not been drunk at meals in
China. The water from which it IL
made is always freshly boiled and
used as soon as it reaches the boiling
point.
In Iceland horses arc shod with
sleeps horn. In the valley of the
upper Oxus the antlers of the noun.
tain deer are used for tho same pur-
pose, the shoes being fastened with
horn pins.
Dancing eggs are said to he abundant
in Shasta County, California. Tho
egg is laid by an unknown insect on
the oak leaves, and when it is mature
it drops to the ground, where it
dances about as if animated.
Natural gas conveyed in bamboo
tubes was utilized in China ycarS ago,
and one of their writer's mentions
boxes which repeated the sounds of
persons voices that were dead-a
machine similar to the phonogreph.
A great many things that arc now
used for food were ouco considered
poisonous by the Romans, who used
them to scatter among their clothes
and keep away moths. IT was a bold
man who first dared 20 cat tomato
OF cook au eggplant.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
RELATED TO TAM O'sHANTER
Great-GranddAughter of Robert Burns
stnl Living.

Great of Robert Burns
stnl Living.
Relatives OF great men still crop up
out OF the silence of neglect. A great
granddaughter OF the immortal Scotch
bard. Robert Burns, is a resident Oh
Nevada City. She is Mrs. Susan FL
eanor Andrews. the wife of Samuel
Andrews, an old Californian, hailiny
from Londonderry. Ireland. Mrs An
drews is the daughter of Robert Burns.
one OF the two sons of the poet. Robert
Burns, the younger. had five children.
four daughters and a son, named re-
spectively In the order of their senior
ity, Mary, Susan. Elizabeth or Betty,
Prudence and John. Betty married a
Scotchman named Lamon and emf
grated with him to America in 1885.
Mrs. Andrews Is one OF the issues OF
that marriage. She was born at
Nesquehoning. Pa, In 1874. John
Burns remained with his father until
the time of his death. In 1910, and after
the death OF his wife. in 1870, he like.
wise crossed the Atlantic to Join his
sister. He died four years ago, leav-
Ing four daughters. two in America
and two in Ireland. Mrs. Lamon died
in 1888, and four children survive her.
All that remain OF the Burns family"
writes Mrs. Andrews, ARE my two
brothers, one sister and myself and
four OF Uncle Johns children" Mrs.
Andrews takes great pride in her rela-
tionship to Bobbie Burns. from whom
she has inherited talent for verse
writing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
Some Circus Statistics.

When Barnum's Greatest Show on
Earth" travelled throughout the United
States on its annual tour, visit ng
every city Of 10000 inhabitants or
more, it covered an area of nearly g..
900, 900 square miles, and even then
appealed to population of less than
90, 900, 900. Tody Hamilton once told
me that over 10000, 900 tickets had
been sold for this show. OF Barnum's
autobiography and his "Humbugs of
the World" and "Lion Jack" it is said
million copies have been sold.
Though not humbug, Barnum was
the Prince of Humbuggers. He began
his career as Snowman by exhibiting
Washington's nurse, Joyce Hetb, set.
ting her age down at 16l years. Who
else would have had the nerve to do
that? He made $500 week ont of
this piece OF humbuggery. When
Joyce died post mortem proved that
Barnum had added eighty years to her
age. Victor Smith, in New York
Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11

Why do all newspaper writer's, when
writing of q marriage, say that the
"couple were pronounced man and
wife?" I admit that tho bride was
not wife until married; but was not
the bridegroom. q man before he en-
tered the marriage state? Sincerely,
QUERIsT.
No, no, mol Ask any woman. No
male is more than half man until
married. 1t requires matrimony to
round out his being. In somo parts
OF the country, when one man is in
troduced to another, the first query
is, "Glad to know you; married man
or dog" And the answer is "Dog, Z"
if the one interrogated is a bachelor,
and "Man." if he happen to have
wife. Victor Smith, in New York
Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
EssImcnrs Flag In the Sanctuary.

A striking ceremony, like those of
tue days of the Crusaders, was wit
messed at Canterbury, England, when
a large company Of the East Kent
Regiment, known as tho Bluffs, &"
marched to the Cathedral escorting
the regimeutal colors, which wero
placed in the sanctuary.
Dean Farrar accepted tho custody
OF the colors, conducted tho impress
sive ceremony and addressed words of
sympathy and encouragement to the
soldiers, who were about to sail for
Africa.
British regiments no longer carry
their precious colors in foreign wars.
but deposit them in thoir home
churches. New York journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
An Ancient House.

A great curiosity is house 1, 100
years of age, and yet fit for habitation.
This old dwelling, the oldest inhabit-
ed house in England, was built in the
time of King Ofia of Meroia. II is
octagonal in shape, the walls of it's
lower story being of great thickness.
The upper part is of oak. At one
time the house was fortified and
known by the name OF st. Germans
gate. 1t stands close to the River
Yer and only few yards from st.
Adams Abbey.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
ChristeninE GIfls.

Christening gifts are OF ancient
origin. Formerly sponsors presented
gilt spoons TO the child, which were
called "apostle spoons" because the
figures OF the apostles were carved on
the handles. A rich godparent gave
the complete set OF twelve, while a
less opulent one contented himself
with four, and poorer sponsor CON
sidered a single spoon suitable Of.
fering.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11

The Society FOX tho Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals in New York City
picked up 25.A wandering dogs in
1898. OF these 1911 wero restored to
their loving owners, and almost every
ono in healthy condition was
adopted. Thousands werc killed be
cause OF disease, ------------
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11

Beers Have Plenty OF Ammunition.
The quantity of ammunition stored
in the Transvaal is absolutely colos-
sal, and would suffice for ten years.
war. even at the present rate OF usage.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11
e GREAT SETTING
OF. EVERLASTING HILLS.
VEN in the uncon-
nY HAYDEN cARRurH.

VEN in the uncon-
ventional West,
the freedom with
which the deni-
zens of the place
came into the of
hce and pied the
type was some-
thing rather re-
markable. Colo
mel Slocum ex-
pressed the opin-
Ion tn at W o
The age-herald., 1900-06-22
WIFE IN NEW ROLE.
Arrested for Beating Her Husband On
 Public Street.

h the criminal annals of Birmingham many instances have occurred where men whipped their wives but perhaps the first public whipping any woman has given her husband in this city occurred at Second avenue and Twenty-first street yesterday afternoon about o'clock.
 About the time stated a man and woman were seen to engage in an animated con versation for a few minutes and then sud- denly the woman drew a large umbrella with which she began to vigorously be- labor the man. It was such an unusual sight as to attract a large crowd of men and a few women who stood by in ap- parent enjoyment of the scene being en- acted. From the angry words used by the woman and the terms of 'endearment' she applied to the man it was plain to all that he was her husband and that he had been derelict in his duties to her though just in what way could not be gathered. She was very much excited, and as she laid on blow after blow on the poor fel- lows back he stood there with his arms folded on his chest and never a word did he utter. He seemed to be dazed with her sudden fury and stood there in apparent nelpleSSneSS. lle DlOWS relGH9u tiliCh anu fast and the crack of the umbrella it fell across his shoulders could be heard for almost a block away.
 The man presented such a miserable as- pect that the sympathy of the spectators was aroused and some one suggested 10 him that he run. No sooner had -..s1 -,lg- gestion been made than he put the words into action and moved off down tile street with the speed of an ''infernal ra,chiIio. With the increased distance he gained from the irate woman he seemed to gather fresh speed and the last seen of him he had turned the corner a block aWeE epd was still running as if for dear life.
The age-herald., 1900-06-22
Monumeptto samuel Hahnemann

Washington, June 21.-A monument to the memory of Samuel Hahnemann, founder of the Homeopathic School of Medicine, was formally dedicated this afternoon with appropriate exercises in the presence of a large assemblage, including President Me- Kinley, Attorney-General Griggs and dele gates to the American Institute of Homeo- pathy now in session in this city. The site of the monument is on the east side of Scott Circle. The treatment is in Greek and the statue of bronze. It's total cost was S5OOOO.
 Attorney General Griggs delivered an ad- dress. It was the merit of Dr. Hahne- man, he said, that exposed fallacy, uncov- cred truth and uncovered errors.
 The institute elected the following officers for the ensuing year:
 President-Dr. A. B. Norton, New York.
 First Vice President-Dr. George Royal, Des Moines, la
 Second Vice-President-Dr. Flora N. Ward, San Francisco.
 For the other offices those now filling those positions were reelected.
The age-herald., 1900-06-22
WILL ARREST RATHBONE
Postofflce Inspectors Think They Have
 Strong Evidencs.

Havana, June H.-It is probable that E. G. Rathbone the suspended director of posts, will be arrested within the next few days. The postal inspectors assert that they have evidence duplicating him beyond any question. MT. Rathbones replies in the course of the examination yesterday before Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Gen- eral Bristow and the inspectors was re- garded as very unsatisfactory, more than establishing the suspicious that have been forced upon the investigators during the last few weeks. until proof has accumu- lated to such an extent as 10 compel them to look upon MT Rathbone guilty.
 It is also understood that the authorities
The age-herald., 1900-06-22

tentions of his government and his own general instructions.
 The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs today joined Emperor William at Kiel to give His Majesty oral account of the Chinese imbroglio. Ii is probable that he will postpone his vacation during the pres ent crisis. Thus far, however, nothing has developed to indicate that the Kaiser means to abandon his Norwegian trip.
 Preparations continue for increasing the German forces in China. For the present the fighting force of the German troops will be $500 when all shall have arrived, but if more alarming news is received the government will send out a volunteer corps taken from all the regiments of the army up to 0000 men.
 The volunteers needed to bring the two marine battalions to the full war footing or l,OeO men have responded eagerly. In one case an entire company declared them selves ready to go
 The armored cruiser Fuerst Bismarck will carry 300 soldiers in addition to her crew of 545. From Kiel comes the news that the big cruiser Wineta, which has ar- rived at Laguayra, has been ordered to proceed to China, and that the cruiser Cormoran, which is now in the South Seas, has also been ordered thither. Similar in- structions have been given to the gunboat Luchs.