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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
Wide Tire Testimony.

Testimony on the valne fwide tires
comes from all sections of the globe.
A correspondent of paper in Sydney
describes a road in which heavily
laden wagons with narrow tires sank
"half.spoke deep, and IN places to
their wheel hubs" and yet load of
five tons carried on six-inch tires sank
but two to four inches in the worst
places. In dry weather, he says, the
roads are cut up by narrow tires until
the dust is a foot deep, and then the
rain will not make the dust set hard
again.
A good material for roads is gravel,
"but no gravel loads of ten and twelve
tons on three and four-inch tires. An
experienced teamster will not speak
about the tonnage his team can draw.
He will say, Il think the road will
carry five tons or more, as the case
might be. have heard road superin-
tendents say that enormous sums Of
money could be saved annually il
broad tires were used. The only OBJ
lection / have heard raised against
the wide tires is that they do not fit
into the ruts cut by the narrow ones,
which makes the draught heavier upon
the team. That is partially true, but
the ruts would not be cut if all the
wagons had wide tires. Portable en-
gines varying from six to eight horse
power and weighing five tons and over
are drawn by lighter teams than
wagons which, with their loads, would
not weigh more. This is owing to the
broad tires always used on engines.
The ash pans ON engines are seldom
more than about ten inches from the
ground, but owing to the wide tires,
these engines seldom bog deep enough
to allow the pans to touch the ground. "
North American Horticulturist.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
Tho Girl WHO Knows How.

"There's such thing as being too
smart" sighed the ambitious girl.
"It's really misfortune TO have the
reputation of being able TO do things,
for the one who possesses the knack of
doing anything, from millinery to
scrubbing,is is almost sure to be imposed
upon"
1t is true that such girl is apt to
be overworked by her friends, who,
seeing the deft fingers work so quick
ly, too forgetful of the strength used
in gratifying their requests to ''iust
help me out on this, dear, you do it
SO beautifully"
However, believe in teaching girls
to do everything that they are likely
to need to know in every day life or
emergencies, and L am not like
the mother who would not teach her
girls how to cook, believing if they
didn't know how they wouldn't have
it to do.
But with all the rest of the knowl-
edge, Impress upon the girls a regard
for their own strength, and the power
to say no when the nerves cry out
that the limit of healthful endurance
is reached
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
cAoRe BOY no MILLIoNAIRe.

To advance from the humble posi-
tion of "chore boy" on a farm, receiy-
ing fifty cents week, to be one of
the leading business men OF state Is
indeed a long step, but this is what
has been accomplished by James Oil
yer, Of South Bend, Ind. He has fought
his way alone and unalded from power
ty to riches. and now holds a proml
nent place in social and Industrial
circles. Mr.. Oliver was born in Scot
land in 1928, and came to America
when thirteen years of age. lie locat-
ed in Geneva. N. Y. and secured
place on farm at fifty cents a week.
His father and brother had preceded
him to America and were located on
another farm near by. In 1885 the
three removed to Indiana, and James
secured employment on farm at $6
month. Saving a little money. ne
made an investment in real estate,
which gave him a start. Then he
learned the molder's trade and in 1855
became a manufacturer on small
scale. His business grew and, by de-
vislng plan whereby an improvement
he had long sought was accomplished,
he was started on the road TO riches.
Success, having once smiled upon him,
became lavish in the bestowal of her
bounty and his wealth is now estlmat-
ed at from Sl0,000,O00 to $4,000, 900
Although one of Indiana's wealthiest
men, Mr.. Oliver remembers his early
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10

A pretty little incident marked the
arrival of Queen Victoria at London
on the occasion of her recent visit to
the capital city, just after the turn of
the war tide in South Africa. After
the royal train came to a standstill
there followed the inevitable delay
pending the completion of the prepa-
rations by which the Queen was pro-
vided with an inclined platform to
make it easier for her to walk from
her saloon to the carriage in waiting
1t was during this interval that the
aged sovereign caught sight of the
station dog "Tim," who was running
about the trainshed.
He was gayly beribboned for the
occasion, and by means of cup un-
der his chin was diligently ''collect-
ing" from the crowd contributions for
the fund to assist the widows and
orphans of the Great Western en-
ployes. The Queen asked his mis-
sion, and, upon being informed Of 1t,
caused him to be brought to the
saloon of the train and thereupon
dropped sovereign in the collection
box attached to his collar. -Philadei-
phia Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
TRGTTY Ga
EyEJNlMGS MS
TO WEAR IN Vs.
cases.

Lace boleros in black and white
and ecru colors will be seen.
Cluny lace is used for many kinds
of gowns this year, and is charming
with all.
A satin ribbon worn around the
neck and tied in trim bow at the
throat should have the two ends long
and tucked in at the belt.
A panne velvet parasol has rather q
warm look for summer, but it is beau
tiful. One with a white ground, with
the most delicate pink roses in clus-
ters upon it, is charming.
A wooden gown which has a narrow
panel front has solid mass of tucks
or folds going around horizontally
over the hips from the panel. Large
women will have to fight shy of such
gowns.
Some Of the bodices seen are made
to blouse decidedly back and front, as
pronounced blouse effect as has been
worn in any of the time of the recent
popularity. of the bloused garments.
Some of the bloused waists are plated
in close small plaits.
One pretty little silk gown has the
fullness given it by fine tucks set in
around the waist. These are stitched
down five or six inches to form three
points in the front and at the sides,
and below this the tucks flow out into
the skirt. The fine tucks are set in
plain at the back.
An Eton jacket on a pretty little
light stuff frock opens at the side,
and is fastened across with narrow
black velvet ribbons. There are three
of these fastenings, each with two
straps of the black velvet, with bunchy
little rosettes of the black velvet on
either end. 1t makes rather pretty
| finish.
Panne velvet is combined with satin
ribbons. A sash that is worn with %
light stuff gown has a black panne
velvet centre, with brilliant colored
flowers on it, and wide edges of black
satin ribbon. This is q narrow sash
width, and is tied once around the
waist and fastened little at the side
of the front with big bow.
The new stockings are gorgeous to
behold. Black silk stockings are cut
out on the instep to show appliques
of lace. Others have the holes worked
around with button-hole stitch, and
underneath are set pieces of bright
colored taffeta. Black stockings, are
embroidered with dots and small
flowers. The open-work stockings
are of exquisite delicacy.
A unique belt is made of three mar
row straps of white kid over black
velvet ribbon. The black velvet is
rather wide, crushed together at the
ends in front, where the three straps
of the kid are also brought close to-
gether, and the whole fastened with a
small gold clasp. AS the straps pass
around the waist they are separated
about their own width apart, and held
in place by little crosspieces of gold
! tiligree work.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10

long neck? II could not be possible.
No; it must not bel
He closed his eyes, leaned far out
of the window, opened them wide and
looked again. His image was still
there unchanged. Still he would not
believe it. In horror he kept on star.
ing at the glass until it became
clouded. Then a veil seemed drawn
slowly over his eyes. 1t grew more
and more indistinct; darkness gath.
cred all about him, and suddenly
everything was black. He saw no
more.
Despair seized him. He thought
he had become insane. He threw
the mirror away, stamped with his
feet and struck himself in the face.
Anna would see him, and she would
be Mortified. She would forsake him
ugly and blind-and she would GO
away into the sunny world and forget
him. He must remain behind, help.
less and alone. All the happiness
was gone forever.
He sank into chair and sobbed
like little child.
Suddenly he started up. A well
known hand caressed his head.
''Is it you, Paul?" he heard her
ask in a whisper.
eyes, said lie, breathing heavily
"Paul, looked for you everywhere
in the garden aud could not find you
Then took off the bandage."
"And do you see me?" cried Pau
in deadly alarm.
81 must say that I do not. No, no
It is just as dark as it was before
The operation was failure. l SCI
nothing whatever"
"And L nothing" said Paul exult
ingly. ''I also took off the bandage
at once, everything became quite
dark"
"Now," said Anna with sigh
eve must remain forever blind"
"It is better So" answered Pau
with a happy heart; and he tenderl.
embraced his poor blind friend.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
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B GOOD ROADS NOTES !
Country Highways.

sSei&es9 eaaAseHeseaee8nte0Nsm
Country Highways.
Owe actually want good roads?
Or are bad roads preferable?
y Is the cry that has been raised
{ throughout the length and
breadth of this continent owe want
good roads," the demand of men in
their sober senses? Or has labor and
money been placed on our roads for II
century past merely to fill in time,
and keep our surplus capital in circu-
lation. If we do not want good roads,
if bad roads are preferable, why should
we want roads at all?
We must have roads. That neces-
sity having been placed upon us, the ex-
perience which has taught us the wis
dom of building other structures sub
stantially, teaches us the economy of
having roads that are good. We want
roads which will withstand wear. We
want the labor and money spent on
them to be a paying Investment. We
want roads which will be good no mat
ter what the state of the weather. We
want roads which will not become
rutted Immediately the fall rains come
on or when the frost leaves the ground
in the spring, remaining in rough
ridges for considerable part of the
summer. A road which does this is
bad road. The money and labor
spent ON it is largely forced down into
the mud, is plowed under within Il
| year and wasted. A good road is an
economical road.
| In building an economical road inn
proyements must be made in such
way that they will last. Roads have
! been built on the same principle as is
wagon which breaks down under the
first load, and Is used for frewood af-
ter year of service. Most of the
leading roads have been made and re-
made a score of times and are still bad
roads. They are of the kind that
"break up" A road that "breaks
up" like anything else that breaks
up, is poor investment. When road
building is rightly understood in this
country, township councillors will no
more think of building roads that will
break up in the spring than they will
think of constructing houses that
break up in the spring, barns that
break up in the spring or fences that
break up in the spring.
The road builders of this country
have not given sufficient consideration
to the effect of building bad roads.
Year after year work of himsy, shift
less character is placed on the roads.
The results are only temporary and are
destroyed by a very little wear and
traffic. In very short time the work
has to be done over again. But the
evil ds' y not end with this. This an
nual demand for repairs is so great
that no township can respond to it.
The roads instead of being repaired
when they need it are neglected, grow
worse and worse, and all the evils OF
bad roads follow.
What bad roads are doing for this
country is ouly one side of the evil,
The other side is what they are not
doing. The loss does not arise so
much from the money and labor wasted
every year as it does from the absence
Of benefits which good roads would
bring. Our loss must be measured
not so much by the money and labor
we are throwing away ON bad roads,
as by the opportunities which would
come to us if the roads were good
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
A LANDLAoY's SCHEME.
How a Woman Got Her Start on the Road
to Social Greatness.


zone hears much facetious talk
about the hard luck of boarding.
house keepers with fellows who leave
without warning after running up a
good size bill, but 1 am going to re.
late o story that is absolutely true, !"
remarked u travelling salesman to a
group of men who were swapping
stories in the hotel corridor.
'"The story concerns one of the
social lights of Gotham who got her
first step upon the rung of the ladder
of success by realizing on the death
of a boarder who owed her q pretty
tidy sum. A very improbable tale
you say? Well, we'll see. 1t was in
the days when she was not over pros
porous aud kept a clearinghouse in
not very fashionable part OF the
city. One day a stranger went to
board with her and paid regularly.
He appeared to be without friends or
relatives, for no one called to see him
and no letters came to the house
addressed in his name. He was en-
ployed as q clerk in some store, and
never enlightened any one as to who
he was and where he lived when he
was home, if he ever had one.
One week he lost his job, but as he
was a steady chap, and had been so
prompt in his payments, his landlady
allowed him to run up bill. He
seemed to be unfortunate, somehow,
for no one would give him employ.
ment, and so that bill grew larger and
larger. One day the landlady pro-
posed that he become insured in her
favor, that she would pay the premiums,
and, if anything happened to him,
why she would be reimbursed for
the credit she had advanced him. A
blunt, cold-blooded proposition, say
you? Well, he agreed to it, and be-
came insured for $500 in her favor.
The premiums were regularly paid by
the landlady.
All that time the delinquent boarder
went from one job to another, and
never staid in one place long enough
to be able to pay off his debt to the
landlady A fearful winter set in and
pneumonia was prevalent, people
dropping off so fast as to create the
biggest kind of scare in the city.
He was taken SEX, and no mother
could have looked after this fellow as
his landlady did. She paid for q
doctor and a nurse to attend him and
did everything in her power to bring
him around to health. But he died
and mighty good funeral the poor
fellow had. The insurance was paid
to her, and with the few hundred dol
lars she received in lump sum hel
husband was enabled to make n for
tunate speculation which started then
well on the way to the possession OF
millions and a place in the Foui
Hundred. Improbable? Well, the
story's true every word of it,"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
Making Good Roads.

We once helped man fit bit of
road through a low and miry piece of
land on his farm. There was bad
road often used at certain seasons and
he wanted it made good. The surface
soil was thrown out as deep as it was
thought to be valuable material, and,
by the way, that well paid for the Ia
Dor. Then bit of old stone wall was
put into the roadway, the larger
stones being rather carefully packed
at the outside. On these larger stones
were dumped piles of small stones
that had accumulated from clearing
the meadows and cultivated fields. 1T
was two good jobs in getting the walls
and stone-heaps out of the way. This
foundation was covered with gravel,
and when it was done the owner said;
'There, that job is done, and | think
it will stay done while 1 live, and We
think it would and through one or two
more generations. We have thought
since the ragitation of the good roads
question that we should not reach q
solution of it until road makers learned
to do their work 80 that it would 'stay
done" Many farms have places used
as roadways which need just such
treatment, and so do certain pieces oi
town roads
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
mis- OF HOPE.

child, on the hills OF hope
|,yyoa,, INV vr 20 that be over-wlse),
300 iao lo" fades lingerlngly
slDs gssos sSs Of your eyes?'
,eare roses and snow
lVp jp Of It's own self sings,
| 10 |. ,,ll1,Id alI II hid 10 the mists below
vO,,otten dream of things.
~ gSe,rt was light and gay
ny no ao the hills Of nope to-day?"
ohild on the rainbow hills
|fIOu5, 90 that be over-wise)
senla,y, scold little hand in mine,
E!Jw E..!yJow Of fear in your eyes?'
dido of the rainbow hills
BUY lsood 1' trees black and bare
~ |r',lS rs the river of death,
i,'.O,i,sol 'Ois dead Joys wnnder there.
.', beart was terrified
|that cold, dark river s'ae'
,,,old. little child, for see
IA gone, and the warm sun
1 ,se maths Of everyday,
hsnd ~d is clasped In mine"
pl IoTry Marsh, In East and
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
why one Man Wonders.

Considering the many old men who
are struggling along in poverty, 1t is
wonderful that young men do not take
better care of their money, and save
it for the inevitable rainy day. --Atchi-
son Globe.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
, Fresh Eggs From Australia.

"Fresh" eggs from Australia are
prominent feature in the London mar
ket. They come in crates, and are
packed in oat hulls, sometimes acquir-
ing an oaten taste thereby. They are
good competitors in London with Rus
sian, Austrian, Italian and other con-
tinental eggs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10

struggles, and the rough hand Of The
honest laborer is today as warmly
grasped by him as is the gloved hand
of the aristocrat. He is firm friend
of the deserving and many young men
owe their success in life to timely helr
and words of advice from him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10

4, ,on.ented and happy. The
| Of the world were as strong
Is its daily miseries. They
4 N ouiet, comfortable house,
/ rarden-and nothing more.
|6ey belonged. They could
Ibing Of what was going on
One thing only was clear to
\ 4 that was-that they loved
! r,
summer day. ***
+ 10 sat on bench in the gar
&ttng.
4 | am so glad" "
. Fiat account, Anna?"
Don't you know? To-mor-
Tomorrow the famous ocu-
4 be here.
1 be will make us both see."
3 is really able to accomplish
are joking. OF course, he
= lble to do it. That is his busl-
al last I shall he able To
lovely face. OF that L am
Of nothing else?"
ling."
said she, laughing quietly,
you know that l have a lively
use / have seen You twice
in dream. You had golden
wings as white as snow"
il that were only true!"
quite certain" !"
| so beautiful?" she asked,
him by the hand: $50 beauti-
ptwhen | reflect, Paul, 1 think
be even better for us to be
Pach other than to be able to
bat would be lovely. Don't
pk sO?"
pv not, " ne answered thought
ldtben both were silent. y
Ventiul day had passed. The
p on the eyes had reen per-
II not all a delusion, it must
success.
per OF you must take the band
Ae eyes for fourteen days!"
the Doctors order before he
next evening, after the sun
down, the Two were again
the garden, clinging close
pther.
when will we first see each
Parteen daysr"
OT, but that is much too long.
ys would certainly be long
Tune than that, perhaps; but
'Ae Doctors order"
mot endure to wait so long.
the operation has been q
pna we have rejoiced in vain
en?"
s silent.
VI that, we could"
Ior a moment, dear Paul. II
4 y not be wrong"
VIII, Notwithstanding"
LOT a moment. We will put
wages on again Immediately.
not be at all afraid. Please,
" let us wait. We have suf
ny years. Let us endure il
" longer"
| cannot wait. If You Low,
or l will myself alone"
Il SLATED awhile, but at lengtl
"a ga calmly; "We will do it."
:SsrsS ostGT : morning early-her,
Tss, You will come at tb,
d time?" w.
night"
night I hope you will hav,
Peep"
lg twilight.
as been long out of bed. FL
~, Oi the next hour. Anna
d" beautiful, but he? VIII,
ugly he may beP Perhap
Ssome also, but he can neve
E''Ore her in this dreadful un
+ sith the hona.,, ,4%$
Eia ~ loose and threw it on th
HIM eyes were still closed. H
e cupboard and searche
WI ne found a small mirror
VI went to the window, wher
IN, uimself and waited. Hi
Violently; his head was in
'Sn smi anxiety he sat there, hi
"a 'ses hxed on the little glass
. uugers held in a firm clasr
LINZ" aOw decide his fate. In
ps s'' ne would have certai
laylight came.
the light, opened his eve
s'ared at the mirror. tren
'A' N while with torturing Q,
no no, mol But Sc,
poa,. as' Gould that bo himself
Els'aa,'mlSrked, ia ma ugly facel He
S;, snnken cheeks, that, re,
~'' those decayed teeth, thi
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Those pear old shoes.

A mans heart is generally where
his old shoes are New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
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[lrt TVE BLIND LOVER SAW !

WO blind peopl e
who 10 We eac h
other.
He, an uugainly,
stunted figure, with
u very homely face
she, tail, thin, OF
yellowish complex
ION and of sickly
appearance.
Benevolent peo-
pie had place d