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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
JUST A BIT OF LIFE.
A Pathetic Incident of the Pawn
shops In the Metropolis.

A Pathetic Incident of the Pawn
shops In the Metropolis.
Sneaking into a small shop in an OBJ
scure and poverty ridden locality, the
man who went broke" Mt the races
was realizing on a super1uous article
or Jewelry. A woman so poor and
pinched In feature, so marked with
care and desperation that It made him
feel sick to look at her, was holding
something under her shawl and wait
Ing nervously until he should have fin
ished his transaction.
wait on her. She seems to be In n
hurry" he said to the man behind the
counter. and Mt the word of permission
carpenters plane was produced from
the shelter of the shawl.
How much do you wantw querled
the unmoved pawnbroker monotonous-
ly.
FIFTY cents" replied the woman,
with Il gulping In her throat and an
eager look in her eyes. She clutched
the money tightly and ran into another
creature, poor as herself, but bearing
her troubles in duller fashion. She
had a baby's cloak, never costly and
much worn. on which she wanted to
borrow money. the same sum as the
other woman had asked for.
The man who had been offering a
diamond felt uncomfortable. "There,
give me $50. The stones worth four
times as much" And, seizlng the mon
ey, he hurried after the woman who
had just left the shop. He was not
given to acts of charity, and he felt
awkward, the more so as the woman
shrank from him as he accosted her
Il beg your pardon" he began, but
here's $5 | have no use for. Perhaps
YOU
''No, moi" she cried, drawing further
from him.
For your child" he said gently
my child is deadw cried the woman,
with queer sob, and fled into the
labyrinth of alleys and byways that
shelters so much wretchedness.-New
York Times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Brave Men Fall

Victims to stomach, liver and
kidney troubles as well as wo'
men, and all feel the results in
loss of appetite, poisons in the
blood, backache, nervousness,
headache and tired, listless, run
down feeling, j. w, Gardner, OF
Idaville, Ind, says; "Electric Bit
tors are just the thing for man
when he don't care whether he
lives or dies. 1t gave me new
strength and good appetite.
can now eat anything and have a
new lease on life" Only so cents
at w. S. Dickson's Drug Store.
Every bottle guaranteed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Licking Greek.

Dec. 6.-Mr. and Mrs. Arm
strong Miller spent some time
visiting h. p. Schooley's family.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Kline
spent Saturday and Sunday with
friends in Greencastle.
Mr.. John Valance has return
ed home from Ohio,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wishart Decker
and daughter and Mrs. Brum-
baugh, returned home Friday
from visiting friends in Franklin
county.
Mrs. George Mellott, Of Kan
sas, daughter of Mrs. Martha
Deshong, is visiting relatives in
this vicinity.
Mrs. George r.. Hoop and fam
lily spent Sunday with Mrs.
Hoops sister from Kansas at Mr..
Jordan's Deshong's.
Misses Stella Decker, Lima A.
Deshong, Lizzie Mellott, Edith
Sipes, and Bertha Wilson spent
Tuesday with Mrs. Frank Dan
iels and attended the Sunday
school convention.
Mr.. Elias Deshong has moved
TO Cecil Sipes's farm,
Miss Mary Deshong spent Sat
urday and Sunday at home.
Mrs. Troutan daughter Mary
spent Tuesday with Mrs. Maud
Austin.
Mr.. Frank Daniels was ON the
sick list a few days last week.
William Mellott, Of Owl Creek,
has killed two deer this fall.
Mrs. r. Riley Sipes is still get
ting weaker.
Rev. Sines Of Maryland is hold
ing several days meeting at the
Dunkard church in Belfast
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Beldor, Va.

The weather here is very
pleasant and warm for Novem-
ber. The farmers are done
husking corn. Fall wheat is
looking well. The revival meet
lug at Swift River, three miles
from here, closed last Wednes-
day night after duration of
nearly four weeks with over six
ty conversions. Mr.. r. r. Vaw-
ter and II. d. Keister spent last
week in Mineral county, Va,
looking after timber. j. f..
Baugher spent last Sunday at
Lidia, Greene county. Mr.. j.
l.. Marshall is building a new
house on his farm. Miss Lucy
Wyant spent last week visiting
her grand mother at Swift Run.
Rev. A. p. Davis has bought the
property of Mrs. l., G. Williams,
one and a half miles from here
and will soon move on the same.
A protracted meeting will begin
in the Christian church here to-
night. Mr.. w. w. Coleman has
moved from here to Rainbow.
May success follow him, We are
informed that on Saturday morn
ing, December 8, Rev. S. L.
Baugher will start for Pleasant
Grove, Fulton county, Pa, where
he will assist Rev. j. w. Trout
man in a meeting and may spend
some three weeks there.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
IRISH TURNS AND TWISTS.
The Unconscious Humor THAT Crops
Out In the Green TsIe

The Unconscious Humor That Crops
Out In the Green Isle.
The author Of Irish Life and Char
acter" says truly that one has only
to mix with an Irish crowd to hear
many a laughable expression, quite in
nocently uttered. AS the Duke and
Duchess Of York were leaving Dublin
In 1897, amid enthusiastic cheering. nm
old woman remarked:
"Ah! Isn't 1t the fine reception
they're gettin, goin awayT
In 1892 Dublin university celebrated
It's tercentenary, and crowds of Wis.
itors were attracted to the city. Two
laborers, rejoiced at the general pros
perity, expressed their feelings.
"Well, Tim" said one, "thim tar
cintlnaries does n dale for the thrade
of Dublin, and no mistake"
"Oh, fax they dor said the other.
And whin, with the blessin of God.
we get home rule, sure we can have as
nanny of thin as we plase."
An old woman, seeing n man pulling
a young calf roughly along the road,
exclaimed:
"Oh, you bla'guard! That's no way
to thrate fellow crather."
Sure" said laborer to n young
lady who was urging him to send his
children TO school, "I'd do anything for
such sweet gintlemanly lady as
yourself"
Again, the laborers on large estnte
decided thnt It would be more con-
venient for them If they could be paid
every week instead of every fortnight.
One OF their number was sent to place
their proposition before the land agent,
and this was his statement:
IF you please, sir, It's me desire,
and 1t is also livery other mans desire,
that we resave out fortnlght's pay
livery week"
An exasperated sergeant, drilling a
squad of recruits, called to them mt
last:
"Halt!' Just come over here, all of
We, and look at yourselves. It's n fine
line ye're keepin, isn't IT."
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Sixty Years A Recluse.

Miss Phoebe Meeks the fam
Gus recluse, died recently at
Broolyille, Indiana, aged eighty
five. Sixty years ago she was
disappointed in love and she made
a resolution to cut herself off
from the world. So far as known
from that day she never left her
house, and Notwithstanding there
rs a railroad within 100 yards of
her home, she absolutely refused
to- look at the cars. Windows
and doors on the ground floor Of
the little brick house were closed
and the only communication Miss
Meeks held with the outside
world during recent years was
through a small aperture in one
of the doors where the necessa-
ries of life were passed in by a
woman.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Curious Mexican Laws.

They have some very curious crimi-
nal laws In Mexico. For instance. 1t Is
twice as much of an offense TO mutt
late the face of woman as that of a
man. The law seems to be based on
the idea that woman's best posses
sion is her beauty and that to mar it
does her great injury.
There Is another curious law. If a
person should be wounded in an en-
counter, the punishment to the offend
er is fixed by the number of days his
victim has to stay In the hospital or
under a doctors care. A line is fixed
at 40 days in the way of n general divl-
sion. If the injured man occupies more
than 40 days In his recovery, the pen
atty doubles up.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
An Impudent Fraud.

An impudent fraud was perpetrated
upon Manchester bank by one of its
customers, who opened an account
with some few hundreds of pounds.
The man, after few weeks, drew two
checks, each within n pound or so of
his balance, and, selecting busy day,
presented himself at one end Of the
counter, while an accomplice, when he
saw that his friends check had been
sashed, Immediately presented his own
TO cashier Mt The other end Both
cashiers referred the checks to the
ledger clerk, who, thinking the same
cashier had asked him twice, said
fright" to both checks. The thieves
were never caught.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13

Aquor traffic has fine buildings.
great distilleries and breweries
.0ns the most conspicuous edi-
lie towns and cities Of the
lucy are often more costly and
Flg IN size and more elaborate In
uail any schoolhouse, public
lsOr church In the place.
|OpehSe Is spared in the fittings
saloons. Mirrors, marbles and
uhe woods, paintings, pianos,
'Du luxurious fittings of every
provided for the patrons. OF
Is all paid for by the drink
uN But who ever heard them
Nn Of the cost?
Wv Jalls and prisons, the re
'ntS ana asylums, the court
'uu police stations how sub
auu Imposing! What pride
4 ~Ae IN these things! We some
ssuplaln Of the taxes for schools,
i sn~ very often, we hear growl-
~V cost Of running the church,
' ever hears much fault find
4 | ~e expense Of maintaining our
!
O''a a long journey to see the
M, " chicago and New York on
J" avenues and compare them
uyy ald beauty with the din
NJ uo@n town churches. We
run business better than our
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Nxe,s Introduction.

When James Whtcomb Riley and
Bill Nye Travelled together giving a
Joint entertainment, the humorlst had
great fun with the poet. Once, In In
Producing Riley and himself to an au-
dience, Nye remarked 81 will appear
first and speak until | get tired, then
Mr.. Riley will succeed me and read
from his own works until you get
tired"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Dip.Net of IIumor.

Man is never too old TO learn.
That's so, but he has to be
pretty old before he will admit
it.
If | were defeated candidate
do you know what I'd doY
What?
I'd go to making railway maps.
Pa, what is the silent vote any.
way?
That's the vote that comes out
after the election and yells "I
done it," the loudest.
What's the matter over there?
What's the crowd doing in front
of that house?
The man who lives there Shas
just inherited 100000. Those
are friends of his who have come
to tell him how to invest the mon
ey.
A sbscriber wrote to the editor
thus:
don't want your paper any
longer.
To which the editor replied;
Glad to hear it. | shouldn't
make it any longer if you did.
Suppose, suggested the teach
er that you take piece of beef
steak and cut it into the halves
then cut the halves into eighths
and the eighths into sixteenths;
into what could the sixteenths be
cut?
Hash, responded little Tommy,
whose mother kept a boarding
house.
William, has the paper come?
Yes'm.
Anybody married?
Nom.
Anybody dead?
Nom.
My, my! What do they print
that paper for, anyhow!
Mandy, said the old gentleman,
Pm afraid that boy of ours is go
in to be a poet.
He amt writ nothing, has he?
asked the old lady in alarm.
No, he amt writ nothing yet,
but | notice he is doin less an less
work every day, an doin' it care
lesser.
Dear Sue," he whispered,
"do you think if | marry you that
your father would ever forgive
us?"
II am sure he would, dear" she
asserted softly.
"And would he give us house
of our own?"
81 know he would, dearest. ="
"And would, he give us enough
to live sumptuously on?"
81 am sure of 1t, Harry"
"And would he take me into the
firm?"
Certainly he would"
"And let me run the business
to suit myself"
"Of course he would, darl-
ing"
She smuggled to his bosom,
but he put her aside coldly.
81 can never marry you," he
said, hoarsely. "Your father
is too eager to get you off his
hands.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13

Lots of men are not so much
interested in the questions of the
day as the questions Of the night
after the street lights go out.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
COUNTY OFFICERS.

President Judgc-Hon. s. Moo. Swope.
Associate Judges--L Lemuel Kirk, Peter Nor
ton.
Prothonotary, &c,-Frank p. Lynch.
TreRsurer-Theo Sipes,
sheriff. Daniel Sheets
Deputy Sherir--Jamos Rumel
HOckcnsmlth,
Apdlt9rs-John s. Harris, d. H. Myers, A. J,
John Fisher
Clerk-Frank Mason
q Coroner
County SurVeyor-Jonns Lake,
County Superintendent--Clem Chestnut.
Attorneys-W. Scott Alexander j. Nelson
Sipes, Thomas n. Sloan, ", Mon, Johnston
NJ, r. Shanner, Geo. H. Daniels, Johr 4
Slpes
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13

The society who doesn't care to
see callers is sometimes found
out.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13

When a young man learns to
waltz he must expect to meet
with reverses.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13

II [1'n who views the mis-
4 oilers through a Mag
I,S S'ass can't see his own
|elescope. -
n ape y Is not my own, re
H., ue clerk as he consulted
lived watch. !
|,,s convince a man who
Cr'pSla issl that crime is mott
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13

DeWitt's Little Early Risers
are dainty little pills, but they
never fail to cleanse the liver, re-
move distractions and invigorate
the system. Trout's Drug
Store.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13

|. Al, nou surely art worship,
s,l' sa W 1lt not like praise or prayer,
\ AN N, make better Thanksgiving
wy sweet melodies are.
I, 'u' .o', art the Father Of music;
M rls a are a whisper from Thee.
|sb n ,'sle @ Thy creation all anthems,
''ngoth them silently.
M ,' oy the stir Of this music
Z h, lures ,u In heaven can be,
I NJ ,d .uhd Is Thy marvellous stiffness
"usle is light out Of Thee.
n -Fabers
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13

People who succeed are like
postage stamps-stick till they
get there.
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Why not become a subscriber
of the NEWsg
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Additional local trains win leave HARRISBURG
daily, except Sunday for Carlisle and intermedt
ate stations at o, 81 n. M, zoo p. M, bib d. M
o2o p m: and lilo p. m, also for Mechanics
z % a, m. and 327 D. m
Nos l. and run daily between Harrisburg
ana HagerstOwn
Daily.
: Daily except Sunday
On Sundays will leave Philadelphia at &c
p. m,
Pullman palace sleeping cars between New
York ana Knoxville, Tenn, on trains / west
ana 10 east.
Through coaches to and from Philadelphia
on trains and east and and west
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CUMBERLAND VALLEY

Additional trains viii leave Carlisle for Har-
rlsburg daily, except Sunday, at 5.5Oa IN. 1OS
~ NJ ~ 10 p. m, $50 p. m, 6.ls p. m., and from
accommodating AT 6l4 a. M, 7.30 n. m. SIP a.
m, L9o p M, 230 p m, and 1853 p. m, B. 80 p. M,
Ihu olO p' m., stopping Mt Second street
harrsDurg, To let OF passengers.
Trains No. and i10 viii run daily and No
thlrty minutes late ON Sundays. Both trains
VIII stop at intermediate stations on sundays
Daily.
Daily except Sunday.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-05-16
Home Cures.

For sore throat try compress of
cold water.
For bilious colo try soda and ginger
in hot water.
For sick headache rub peppermint
oil on the temples.
Tincture of arnica is the best appli-
cation for spraias or bruises.
A hop bag wrung from hot vinegar
is quick relief for earache.
For nervous headache bathe the
back Of the neck with hot waxer.
For cold in the head try snuffiug
powdered borax up the nostrils.
Limewater aud sweet OF! applied i'm
mediately will take tho pain from
brra.
Shutting tannin is one of the best
remedies for serious case of bleeding
at tho nose.
R an artery is cut tie small cord
os : issadksTsi;e; tightly betWesn il
and the heart.
TO cure ivy poisoning, when sugar
OF lead cannot be obtained, apply
wood ash I've, then wash off with
warm water and rub with vaseline.
For neuralgia try vet cloths Of alco-
hol and water, or paregoric, or iouda-
mum and water, laid ON ahot.water
||;b0ttle, and the part steamed over it.
hEeaking up cold take two
drops enoh Of oamphor and laudanum
|3oH . lump Of sugar, or 12 drops Of
champion in 12 teaapognfuls Of water,
taken BY the teaspoopful every half
h0nf.
An excellent remedy that the Ger
mans use FOR curing cold is the yolk
OF an egg beaten in q pint OF water, q
little butter, three Jumps Of sugar and
tesspoonful Of vhiskey. When it
begins to boil pour it back and forth
from one saucepan to another until
smooth and frothy; allow it to cool,
then take a teaspoonful every half
hour.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-05-16
The Enemy Of all Good.

There is to-day in the English
speaking countries no such tremen-
dous, arrcaching. vital question as
that of drunkenness. In it's implica-
tions and effects it overshadows all
else. It lies at the center Of all social
and political mischief. It paralyzes
energies in every direction. It battles
penal reform. It obstructs political
reform. It rears aloft mass of evil
inspired power, which at every salient
point threatens social and national
advance, whit b gives to ignorance and
vice g greater potency than intelli-
gence and virtue can command; which
deprives the poor of the advantages Of
modern progress; which debauches
and degrades millions, brutalizing aud
soddening them below the planes OF
healthy savagery, and filing the GEN.
ters OF population with creatures
whose condition almost excuses the
immortality which renders them dan
gerous to their generation. Can any
political organization be said to rep
resent the best aspirations and the
strongest needs Of people while this
abiding source Of misery, crime, aud
poverty is allowed to spread and -four
ish?-Neso York. Tribune.
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TME
BANK OF ANDERSON.

J. a. BROCK, President.
JOS. N. BROWN, Vice President.
3. F. MAULDTN, Cashier.
THE largest, strongest Bank in the
Comfy
Interest Paid on Deposits
. BY special aRreemant.
With unsurpassed facilities and resour-
ces we are at ali times prepared to ac-
commodate our customers.
Jan 10, 1900 20
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BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Arp on Veterans---Let that Manned Battal-
ion Go to the Reunion.
Atlanta Consultation.

out forever. So go ahead, Captain
Dearing, and ask for the money and
I am sure it will come. Atlanta
never fails in cause like that.
am an optimist now. The spring
has come at last and the birds are
singing and the roses are in bloom,
and the sweet little children are all 80
happy, it makes an old man happy,
too. Our little ones help me to pick
the strawberries every day and it
pleases them to take sugared dish
full to the sick folks near by, and to
tell how pleased they were to get
them. How charming it is to witness
the daily expansion of their minds and
hearts and emotions, and listen to
their loving prattle. The little five
year-old looked with astonishment at
our turkey gobbler as he gobbled and
said, "Gran nina, he must be sick, I
reckon, for think he is vomiting"
They entertain. me every day and
won't let me look on the dark side.
The fact is, there is no shadow over
this blessed region, for we have peace
and plenty. No famines like they
have in India. No---war like that
which rages in the Transvaal and the
Philippines, no foods nor cloud burst,
no mine explosions, no pestilence, no
great calamity Of any kind, and all our
citizens, both black and white, are
peaceful and law-abiding. Some dirty
scoupdrel did steal poor old Widow
Holiness we'll rope last night, but
that's the only devilment have heard
Of in long time. So moto it be.
BILL ARP.
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w. G. u. DEPARTMENT..
Conducted by the ladies of the w. C.
T. U. of Anderson, s. c.
1t Saves the Boys.

The best argument I have found in
Maine for prohibition was by an editor
of paper in Portland, that was for
political reasons mildly opposed to it.
1 had conversation with him that
ran something like this:
"Where were you born?"
In little village about sixty miles
from Bangor"
"Do you remember the condition Of
things in your village prior to prohi-
bition?"
"Distinctly. There was vast
amount Of drunkenness and conse-
quent disorder and poverty"
"What was the effect Of prohibi-
tion?"
"It shut up all the rum shops, aud
practically bapished liquor from the
village. 1t became one of the most
quiet and prosperous places on the
GLOBE
Chow long did you live in the vii
lage after prohibition?"
"Eleveu years, or until I was
twenty-one years of age."
"Then?"
"Then I went to Bangor"
''Do ynn drink now?"
II have never tasted drop Of
liquor il my life."
"Why?"
Sup to the age Of twenty one
never eaw it, and after that did not
care to take on habit"
That is all there is in it. If the
boys of the county are not exposed to
the infernalism, the men are very sure
mot to be. This man and his school
mates were saved from rum by the
fact that they could not get it until
they we're old enough to know better.
Few men are drunkards who know not
the poison till after they are twenty
one. 1t is the youth the whiskey and
beer men want.-North American Re
vie,o.
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Alcoholism.

Some time ago an snterprising paper
submitted to the keeper Of each county
Jail in the United States-uearly
5000 in all-the question: SIN your
opinion what proportion Of the prison
ers in your Jail were brought there
directly or Indirectly through the use
or abuse Of intoxicating liquors?"
So far, one thousand and seventeen
replies have been received. Nine
hundred and nine replies received
from license States give the proper
tion Of crimes due to drink at 72 per
cent. The general average OF replies
received from the 108 officials in pro-
hibition States gives 81 per cent. Out
Of the 1,O17 replies, 257 placed the
proportion at 80 per Gent. and above;
525 placed it at Is and above; 73
placed it at SO per cent. and above,
while out of the entire 1,O17 jailers,
only 19l could be found to place their
estimate below ,25 per cent, and IS
Of these were from prohibition terri
tory, and reported empty jails.
It is well to remember while study
ing these figures that the men supply
ing them are not prohibition cranks," !"
and would refuse to recognize tenn
perance as an Issue. They are men
in charge Of eriminals.-!P Pa:ss5; :a:.:ss!5;ii;;1yg 5;i;;1-yg .
Catholic.
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One Of the best companies of the
Stonewall brigade was composed Of
railroad men from Martinsburg, w.
Va. In charge at Manassas, the
story goes, the Captain offered bar
rel OF whiskey to the man who first
reached the guns. When the Captain
got there one OF his men, already
astraddle Of q cannon, cried out:
Don't forget that barrel, Captainl'
The next day an admirer Of the hero
asked him how war compared with
s.:...cc:=aa:ss. ""si, "s,,, saiii ne, e.tfne
life Of soldier is pretty rough, but it
has one advantage over railroading."
''What is that?" was asked. "Tain't
near so dangerous said the man Of
the rail:-The Lost Cause.