The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-05
A PENNSYLVANIA ARCADIA.

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devoted some space last Friday
to our county. Our friend Geo.
M. Eitemiller noticed the article
and sent us a copy of the paper.
While George has been Il promi-
nent resident Of the Iron City for
a number of years, yet he still
feels that there is no spot on this
green earth whose associations
are more tender than McCon-
nellsburg, the home of his pa
rents and the place of his nativ-
ity. Hence, if you want to waken
him up in about a second, you
have only to speak disparagingly
of his old home or his associates;
and, on the other hand, no one is
more ready to appreciate any
thing complimentary along the
same line. Here is the article:
GA few weeks ago some stu
dents of social and economic
conditions made the statement
that the mountaineers of the
United States were pretty much
all alike, and put the trouble
breeders of eastern Kentucky,
the moonshiners of Tennessee
and the crackers" of the Carroll
mas in the same category with the
sturdy mountaineers of Pennsyl-
vania. 1t was a libel, of course,
and as if to refute it, Little Full
ton, which seldom makes much
noise in the world, comes forward
with the evidence that it's noun
taineerS are made of sterner stuff.
Montani semper liberi ought to
be their motto, and doubtless
would be, if it had not been
usurped by another set of noun
tain men, for no Fultonian is in
jail or likely to get there at pres
ent. One of the smallest of the
81 geographical divisions of
Pennsylvania, both in area and in
population, Fulton county has no
railroads and few industries save
the ancient and important one of
agriculture.
"To paraphraseArtemusW Ward,
its inhabitants are not politicians
and their other habits are good.
Half of them perhaps never saw
a bigger town than their own
county seat, village which, after
a century and a half of growth,
still finds three figures ample for
reckoning its population. Some
of its citizens used to bewail their
seclusion, and years ago encour-
aged a movement to tunnel their
mountains to let them through to
the great world beyond. Had the
project succeeded, Fulton's indi-
viduality would have disappeared
and the proud record just achiev-
ed would have been impossible.
AS compensation FIR their disap-
pointment, they can now point to
an empty Jail and court of quar-
ter sessions without case on its
docket. Far from the madden
ing crowds ignoble strife, they
have no strife of their own, and
are evidently too busy to think of
such things. They may not be
aware of it, but huge sections of
the big world will envy them their
seclusion and the ideal conditions
accompanying it. "
BY somewhat singular coin
cidence, j. S. Eitemiller, of Nc
Keesport, brother of George M.
Eitemiller, of Pittsburg, sends
us the following clipping from
last Fridays Morning Herald of
McKeesport. The papers out
in the western part Of the State
will keep on until they so fully
acquaint the vulgar public with
the condition of our secluded
Eden, that the people from the
outside world will be falling over
each other to gain a residence in
this favored county of ours.
Here follows the McKeespert ar
ticle-
"Fulton county, Pennsylvania,
has leaped into fame in single
day, When court was called for
Fulton county last Tuesday, it
was compelled to adjourn for
want of business. There were
no cases on the docket, no pris-