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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-23

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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-23

Last yenr Kansas exported 3, 700, 900 dozen
eggs, rs compared with 15l 600 dozen In
1895.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-23

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup for children
teCthing, soitcns the gums, observation-disclosures
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. sjc.a bottle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-23

FITS permanently cured. No nts or nervou
ness after first days use OF Dir. klue's Great
Nerveltcstorer Strial bottle ana treatise free
DR.. IL. II. KLINE, Ltd. El Arch ST.. PhilA, PA.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-23

The dikes Of Japan cost in the aggregate
more money than those OF the Netherlands.
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WILLS PILLS. BIGGEST OFFER EVER MADE.

Assuan, Egypt, has two new hotels and an
English church for 81 0 people.
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Take LAXATIVE BRoMo QUINrNE TABLETS Al,
druggist, refund The money q IL fails tn cure.
L. w. GROVES signature is ON each box 25c
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Continued on Eighth Page.
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sret from the following who had been in
Vlted, but were unable to attends Cover
nor IL. ;. Pingree of Michigan; United
States Senator George @. Perkins Of
CALIFORNIA; Congressman Fred @. Stevens
Of St. Paul, Mimi.
The letters were filled with warm ex-
pressions of regard for the old home state
and the old associations. This sentiment
of love of home came to the surface in
the midst of the hard conditions and
stern competitions of life just as the May
flower IN the springtime brought the
sweep promise of summer. (Applause.)
Portland, Ia her summer beauty, Joined
IN the welcome and the greetings. And
when the guests returned to their homes,
he hoped they would carry with them
many pleasant memories OF AzAlne's most
beautiful city.
Mayor Robinson was enthusiastically
applauded as he concluded, and proceeded
to Introduce the popular young
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OF New Hampshire, the originator Of the
Old Home week idea. The audience had
a warm place IN their hearts for Governor
Rollins, and received him with much ap.
piause. After a pleasant Introduction the
speaker said:
Maine and New Hampshire may well
make common cause of brining the old
homes to the attention OF the wanderers
who have gone away upon quests from
which great majority have not come
back. These two states have trained their
boys and girls along the same true lines
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and have given most gene rously towards
the upbuildng of newer but now wealth.
Ter and more powerful commemorative.
Each of these two states have seen the
names of many of their sons enrolled upon
the scroll which bears the record Of great
usefulness and grand achievement in the
service of the nation. New Hampshire
sent Salmon p. Chase to Ohio and saw
him chief justice of one of the greatest
judicial bodies on earth, the supreme
court Of the United States; Illinois
allured from Maine, and the nation took
from illinois, most worthy successor to
the long line OF eminent jurists, Chief
Justice Melville " Fuller. New Hamp-
shire gave to Michigan that great sena-
tor, ambassador and cabinet officer,
Lewis Cass; Maine furnished Illinois
with that noted congressman, govern or
and ambassador, Elihu b. Washburne.
'Zaohariah Chandler a son of New
Hampshire, sat in President Grants
cabinet, with Lot NJ. Morrill, son
of Maine.
eve are proud of the fact that Henry
Wilson, of humble New Hampshire BIRTH
became vice president of the United
States; Hannibal Hamlin brought honor
to your state in the same high office.
lit was a son of my state, John A.
Dix, who with the fortitude of Spartan
general gave the order, If any man at
tempts to haul down the American flag
shoot him on the spot. With chivalry
worthy of Sir Philip Sidney your soldier
scholar, Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain,
commanded his soldiers to present arms
before their vanquished foe at Apo
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United States. daughter and applause
I'm my pjlgrimages, quadrenniaIly
and biennially, from Portland, Me-, to
Portland, Oregon, 10 these many years,
have found thousands and thousands
who have come to greet me, not only for
the sound doctrine which was preach
Ing daughter and applause), but most
of all, to talk of the loved state from which
they had not been weaned, either by
gathered wealth or broad and fertile
lands, or even the conquest Of the pine
in all the regions from the Atlantic to
the Puget Sound. Maine may not have
furnished great wealth gathered from
her soil, but she has furnished men who
have made at least one broad belt from
ocean to ocean the scene of strong en-
deavor and of successful and vigorous
life.
whether it is the happier lot here to-
day to be one of the welcomers, or one of
the welcomed, hardly know for I am
so near to both that l have the pleasure
Of all. daughter and applause
"Here it is not permitted to give a
toast (laughter), but If it were, should
say, Here is TO the State Of Maine, set
tied mostly by the blood Of old England,
but always preferring liberty to ancestry ;
(applause) a strong old democratic state,
yet the first to help to give liberty to
the slave-may her future BE- as noble as
her past. Here is to the State of Maine,
the land Of the bluest skies, the greenest
earth, the richest air, the strongest, and
what is better, the sturdiest men, the fair
est, and what is best Of all, the truest
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of the toast:
'The State of Maine is not the garden
spot of America That proud title will
some day belong to some spot in the
arid West, when touched by water of
which Maine is the most strenuous adj
vocate. Maine is more than garden
spot, for it is the summer paradise of all
this world
'No lovelier sky looks down on man
on any part of the round earth, and no
more health giving air ever goes to hui
man lungs than fills the summer breezes
of the largest of the New England
States There are many mysteries in
life, but time reveals the purposes of all
things, and If the old shippers who
used to sail in and out of the bays and
inlets, wind round the islands and Won
der why there were so many of them peo-
pling the sea upon every side, are look
ing down upon the old state just now,
they can see that while the Almighty
gave us bu t 300 miles of seacoast, he had
so notched it that 5000 miles of water
front invite the cottager, from Ports
mouth to Santiago, to come and build
the health bringing buildings which
today shine along the rock-bound shore.
(Applause.)
s'It may be that with this air the soft
hearted sons may drink in some of the
virtues of the sires who met with joy
and froIic welcome the winter gales
where we now basl in the summer
breezes.
s'Maine is thought not to be growing
state, because she cannot keep her sons
at homeg but she Is growing all over the
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women under the sun" Great ap-
plause.)
EX-MAYOR HAYES.
A cordial greeting awaited ex-Mayor
Enhu b. Hayes of Lynn. Mass, who was
next introduced as a representative of
the Massachusetts visitors, who were
very numerous in the audience. He ex-
pressed the qualification of the visitors at
the reception given them in Portland.
He thought that the arrangements for
the occasion had been splendidIy con-
ceived and executed.
The Maine man-liks the Puritan faith
er-was a commanding figure in history.
His footsteps were in every state, his
works IN every land.
In every great crisis in the Nations
life, Maine and Massachusetts, were one.
Tt was so In the war for the Union. The
great soldier who led the procession dur
ing the day-to whom history would
give a greater place than this generation
had gfven-had fought beside Devens and
Bartlett of Massachusetts,. And the great
war governor of Massachusetts,, who
stood at the altar of liberty in the war
for the Union, was John A. Andrew, a
native of Maine. And in the recent I'M
pIeasantness John d. Long, a son Of
Maine, had guided the navy to the vic
tories which destroyed the power of
spain in the Western Hemisphere in 100
days.
In the future as we'll as in the past,
Maine and Massachusetts, would bs found
together.
HON. WILLIAM d. WASHBU RN
of Minnesota, was next ntrodnced
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tee if all of kindred were gone from
the heart.
''The message was not only heard and
answered by words of thankfulness but it
brought the welcome presence of the son
or daughter, of brother or sister, to the
old hearthstone when no other summons
would have been needed in years. have
in mind one instance of peculiar interest,"
here. the brother, who had gone to the
shores of the Pacific as Forty Miner, "
came back for the first time as q
"Nfnety- Miner" in Old Home Week,
never to go away again from the peace
full Preside on the Atlantic's silvery sands.
We say 10000 people heard our Old
Home Week call last year, but we make
no account in such reckoning of the
many times 10000 of our own people
whose lives were frightened and whose
hearts were gladdened by the home
.conings of SO many absent ones.
ut is early yet to count our gain. We
know of quick Yankee trading done in
Old Home Week whereby the possession
Of old homesteads reverted to former
occupants and communities were gamers
because the wealth and culture and in
Auence of success achieved in distant
lands were thus transferred to places
which need them sadly We know of
public improvements made upon the spur
of Old Home Week interest and enthusi-
asm. We have seen enduring memorials
set up n spots associated with lives or
events in which great pride is taken be-
cause Old Home Week has created a new
or more concentrated interest in local
history. 1t you viii go with me to the
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GLASSES, the state extended cordial greet.
lngs' with a door Hospitality open.
or the early settlers of Maine MANY oe
them veterans OF the Revolution and WA,
OF lslS' the speaker said that they defied
ana detested every form OF tyranny
ana oppression except, perhaps, their
own. They We're jealous to defend their
rights and TO keep the fires of liberty
burning on the altar of freedom. Such
men built the state and to us they leave
the duty of perpetuatlng the structure
which they erected.
There was no spot on earth where
mankind enjoyed more OF the comforts Of
life than here IN the home state. Nature
had been wondrously kind to us. The
beauties OF sea- lake ana shore attracted
yearly two hundred thousand visitors.
Peace, prosperity, happiness ruled ana
blessed this land.
Maine had always been devoted to the
honor and Integrity OF the Union. In the
Rebellion she sent seventy five thousand
OF her sons to the battlefields of the
South and no Drawer saIdiers and sailors
ever followed flag They met their
Southern feos on many field ana never
lost flag. The same loyalty is IN the
state today ana whatever duties and OBJ
legations the new conditions have IN store
for as today, Maine viii Loyalty respond
TO honor's call. Our people, however, de-
sire not conquest not military glory,
they abnor war; they desire to cultivate
peace and enjoy It's fruits.
The end Of the Nineteenth century
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parts of the country such citizens as the
visitors who were returning, it was nat
ural that their neighbors should con-
cIude that there could not be much Of
ability left in the state.
But it must be that here was the
perennial foundation of virtue and
ability. For we were still here tending
the affairs of civil and religious liberty.
This was the census year, and Mr. Lit
tlefield expressed curiosity as to how
many sons and daughter of Maine would
be found in other states. If those who
had gone away had remained, Mai ne
would have a million and half of the
best citizens in the world Since 1920
the nation had increased ten times. How
much had Maine contributed to this in
the years since Massachusetts was set
off from Maine? (Laughter.)
It was source of great pride to reflec6
on what Maine had given to the nation.
She had sent into the arid regions of the
West not only gallant men and beautiful
women. but cold cash. Laughter.)
= This brought him to the serious re-
Election that it would be as well to keep
the cash at home for the places like
Rumford Falls and Millinocket, as to
send it to Fort Paine or Cardiff.
& Mr.. Littletield concluded by saying
that Maine was good state to be born
In, a good state to live in, and good
state, after the good fight was fought, to
die in.
CONGRESSMAN LOREN FLETCHER
of Minnesota. was next introduced.
He was most cordially received, and saids
conttnuo.I al, Inirl,th pnce.
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and most cordially received. "Mr. Mayor
and beloved friends of the old state,
were the words with which he began his
address, He said speaking was not his
forte, but he was glad to look into the
faces of the children of the old state The
sons of Maine were found in every state.
ana they had never planted their feet in
any state but what the pulsations of life
and civilization had been higher. 10
his adopted state of Minnesota the sons
of Maine had been most loyal and devot-
ed citizens. For whatever he had been
able to do In the land of his adoption he
was indebted to the training which he
received in the old home in the Oxford
Hills. His love for the state OF his birth
was as warm as ever. 1t was said by
some that Maine was not producing so
great men as in the past. He did not be-
lieve that. AS long as the state had Gov.
Powers, Gen. Chamberlain, ''my old
Christian and revered friend, Judge Putt
nam, >" and 'Tom" Reed, Maine would
continue. "God bless them all, - were
the words with which the speaker con-
oluded, as he resumed his seat amid
much applause.
Mayor Robinson next introduced
CONGRESSMAN LITTLEFIELD,
as the 'plumed knight who had won
his spurs in one short, sharp fight. Mr..
Littlefeld received royal welcome as he
addressed the audience. He said he could
understand why there might be an im-
preston abroad that Maine was peter
ing out" When there were in SO many
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mattox.
= Under the secretaryship Of William
&. Chandler. a son Of New Hampshire,
the United States navy took on new
strength; it won imperishable glory
under John d. Long, a son Of Maine.
"Our Daniel Webster was the greatest
expounder Of constitutional law the
greatest expounder of parliamentary law
is your Thomas B Reed.
= New Hampshire gave the nation
president, Franklin Pierce; Maine offered
the nation the peer of ali the chief mag
istrates, her adopted son, James G.
Blaine"
After speaking Of the summer beauties
of Maine and New Hampshire he spoke
Interestingly of the benefits Of Old Home
Week.
1T is an old story to you all how
nearly New Hampshire's Old Home
Week, last year. met all expectations,
but am going to trespass on your time
just a little longer and name some OF
the results. In the first place the meas
ure Of invitation with its
assurance of hearty welcome was far
reaching. It was heard in the miners
or cowboys camp Of the far West, the
cabin Of the sailor, and the tent of the
soldier, as surely as IN the office OF the
banker in Wall street, the study of the
college president, the studio Of the
artist, or the sanctum Of the editor-and
the responses VIII len came back to loved
ones at home, If any remained, and to
some friend or Old II ONE Week commit
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founa the world brighter and freer than
ever before; and in spite Of the threaten
ing clouds IN the East in spite of wars
and cru tiles, there was every reason TO
believe in the final triumph Of Justice
and the God given rights of man over OPP
preston. That passage Of the Declaration
Of independence, that all men We're
created free and equal was living veri-
t., aud had been SO IN all the history Of
this nation. Maine faced the rising, not
the setting sun, and ever would be true
to her motto "Dirigo."
Governor Powers spoke generally to the
visitors OF their visit, concluding with
the words from Walter Scott:
'sBreathes there a man with soul SO dead,
That never to himself hath said,
This Is my own, my native land, etc.
MAYOR ROBINSON
next spoke, representing the city of Port
land, as Governor Powers had represented
the state Portland had been selected
this year for the state meeting, and as
Mayor Of the city the duty devolved upon
him to conduct the exercises. The object
and purpose of the meeting was to follow
the old custom Of the forefathers, who of
old at the village meeting house, ex-
changed greetings and neighborlyinquiries
before passing to their devotions. The
sentiment on which this meeting rested
was that which must always be relied up
on to uphold our free institutions. The
love of home was the basis of patriotism.
The best and greatest Of the land were
not ashamed to confess to that sentiment.
Mayor Robinson then read letters Of re-
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quiet village of Boscawen viii point out
to you as one of the results of its first
Old Home Day a handsome bronze tablet
with this inscriptions
Birthplace Of
William Pitt Fessenden,
Born Oct. 6, A. D. 1906,
United States Senator from Maine for
Thirteen Years,
Secretary of the United States Treasury,
S64-1S65
Erected by the town of Boscawen.
And I viii show you within a stone
throw of It other memorials showing
where Gen. Dix was born, where Daniel
Webster's first law office stood, and other
sites of local Importance marked in the
same generous way.
e Our literature about New Hampshire
was greatly enriched by the contribu-
tions of Old Home Day orators and poets.
The addresses, sketches, verses, and
songs which the occasion inspired cover
ing as they did the range of history
romance love and home, win have a
lasting influence for good.
Mayor Robinson then presented-he
haiu ne Wouiu hO5 presume 20 miro
duce''-
Hon THOMAS B. REED.
Mr.. Reed received a splendid ovation,
one OF the old-time greetings that have
always been IN store for him when he
has spoken. Applause followed almost
every sentence and was long and Iouf
as with upIifted arm and impressive
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-04-05
New York's Underground Railway.

With silver spade, and in tho pres
cnce of thousands of persons, Mayor
NanWyck last Saturday lifted from an
opening in the City Hall Square fow
pounds of earth which formally began
work on the underground rapid transit
railway system Of that great city. The
ceremonies which marked The beginning
of this great engineering undertaking
were hcitting an event Of such great i'm
portancc. great multitude gathered
in tho circumscribcd space and over
flowed into the adjoining streets, rcquir-
ing the services of one thousand police
zen to handle them. A handsome mo-
mortal tablet bearing suitable inscrip-
tion was fitted into the opening. The
underground railroad tunnel will DO
twcnty-onc miles i'm length and will in
Volvc tho expenditure by tho city OF Now
York of more than S3G,000,000. The con-
tract time for completion is unlimited
and about 10000 men will bc employed.
Work will bo begun simultaneously at
several points, but it is not known yet
when tho actual work of construction
will commence.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-04-05
Most Lovely Thing on Earth.

Sam Jones, the inimitable, whose
qnalntncss of style is cqualed only
ny the accuracy Of his definitions
and descriptions, gave, in recent
sermon, the following beautiful story,
IN which he 50 charmingly portrayed
the most lovely thing on earth. We
do not remember to have seen any
where prcttier picture than this
can angel was sent down from
heaven one day to bring back the
most beautiful thing on earth. lie
hunted long and carefully, saw bed
OF full blown American Beauty roses,
lovely beyond compare, and he gath
cred an armful and started to return
to his home above.
"As he scared into the air ne saw
q baby'S smile and, filed by n raptur.
Gus admiration at the sight, returned
to take it, too. BY its side he dis
covered mothers love, and with all
three in his arma he mounted TO tbc
place beyond the skies.
"Just outside Of the pcarIy gates
the spirit paused for n moment. and.
10 the roses were wilhcrcd and tho
baby's smile had vanished, bu,.
strong and faithful and scrcncly
beautiful as ever, mothers love re-.
NAMED and he cast the others aside
and took this and laid it at the feet
OF his Master as the most lovely and
lasting thing on this earth"
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500 REWARD 500.

The readers Of this papc: will be
pleased to learn that there is at least on,
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages and that is
catarrh. lIalPs Catarrh Cure is the onl,
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ternity. Catarrh being constitutional
disease, requires n constitutional treat
mcnt. Halls Catarrh is Cure taken inter
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mucuous surfaces of tho system, thcrcb,
destroying the foundation OF the disease
and giving the patient strength by Build
up the constitution and assisting nature
in doing it's work. The proprictors have
have so much faith in its curative pow.
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for any case it fails to cure. Send fol
list Of testimonials.
Address, f. j. CHENEY E Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
IIalPs Family Pills arc the best.
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STATE CANVASS NUISANCE.
SOME HOPE THAT WE ARE TO re RID or
IT AT LAST-TWO LETTERS.
ABUSES OF THE SYSTEM REALIZED
BY Senator Ti''Tian ana Edior Parks-Th,
People will Consider the Matter.

At last it appears that the people
OF South Carolina are to be spared
the nuisance of county to county
campaign meetings. Senator Till
man has come out and said that il
would be good idea to try change
From time to time such change has
been urged and the reasons for such
change have been given. With an
experience covering more campaign
meetings than even Senator Tillman
attended, it was stated that the peo-
pie generally were sick, tired and
disgustcd with the constant ha-
rangucs at the campaign meetings.
Last year there was q sentiment in
favor of one meeting in each of the
Congressional districts, but the poll
tlclans and leaders were afraid to
make the move, fearing they would
be understood as being unwilling to
go before the people.
Senator Tillman has now paved
the way; he will not insist upon the
county to county campaign.
lie suggests that each candidate
can arrange his own meetings or that
the counties can invite those they
want to speak. This will keep such
Of the officers az want to speak in
touch with the people.
The whole matter is set forth in
The two letters that follow. The
first is from Editor Parks, of the
Oranseburg Patriot:
ORANGEnURG, S. c., March II,
190O.-The Hon. b. r. Tillman,
Washington, ID. C.-Dcar Sir and
Friend !: According to the Constitu
tion of the Democratic Party of
South Carolina the State Democratic
Convention will convene in Columbia
on Wednesday, May 1G, 1900, to
elect delegates to the National Con-