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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08
TRAINING HORSES.
Preparing the Ne,v Aaimair For the
Circus Ring.

PrepnrinE the Neyv Animate For the
Circus Ring.
All through the winter circus men
are training the animals for new tricks
for the next summer. The winter is
by no means an idle time. Training
horses for the ring is interesting work.
The first thing done is to put the new
horses in the stables with the old cir
Gus horses TO get them used to their
new company, and II queer thing no
ticed Is thai the old horses are Jealous
OF the newcomers.
a great deal Of patience and time is
required 10 train the horses to rnn
around the ring. They are hllndfolded
and taught to ran around the ring IN
circle. The natural tendency Of thu
horse is 10 run straight. ana It is n
hard thing fer him to learn 4 sys-
ten Of checks ana lines makes the
training easier than formerly.
The horse is an obServaDt animal
and apt TO do what he seps another
horse do so when the hllndfold is re.
moved he Is placed alongside an old
trained horse, and the man who Is to
ride the new animal does tricks with
the old ones, then tries them on the
pupil. \ good Intelligent horse soon
learns and actually helps his rider
Horses are very sensitive to applause
and with that stimulus will do twice
as much work as without They are
just as likely 10 lose their heads as hu-
man performers and have to be care
fully watched \ well trained ring
horse is easily worth $1,000 and rid
ers who are stars usually own their
horses. The most careful attention Is
given these animals. Before each act
their backs are rubbed with resin.
which has to be washed Off aftcrward.
San Francisco Chronicle
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DUT.

Albert HixsOn has moved his
saw mill to Chas Hess's farm
where he intends to saw for j.
F. Bridges Of Hancock, Md. Mr..
Bridges has purchased a timber
right of two hundred thousand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Mellott of
Sideling Hill attended preaching
in Whips Cove where S. l..
Baugher of Beldor, Va, is hold
ing a series of meetings which he
will continue until the 9th. He
will preach at Hills Chapel Feb-
ruary 10th in the evening and
continue over Sabbath.
A. II. Lanehart has returned to
his home at Sideling Hill serious
ly ILL.,. We hope for his speedy
recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Karns,
of Cumberland, Md, are visiting
Mrs. Karn's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. L. Garland of Dott.
Russell Layton Of Sideling
Hill had a pleasant trip out near
May IS Chapel on Friday last, ac-
companied by Kate Hendershot
and Lessie Goodman.
Ira Hess, Of Sideling Hill, has
been on the sick list for the past
week.
Silas Peck was seen in our To-
cality last week.
For fear of the waste basket !
will close for this time by wish
ing the Fulton County News sue
cess.
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WHIPS COVE.

Rev. Baugher is conducting q
series Of meetings at Jericho.
We hope he may have good sue
cess.
Mrs. Eliza Hoopengardner is
slowly recovering after a severe
attack of measles.
Miss Kate Heudershot was a
pleasant visitor at Miss Cora
Morgret's Sunday and Sunday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Diehl's
little child is very i'll.
Scott Lynch, Benjamin Cor
don and Bert Hess of Frog Hol-
low made a flying trip through
the Cove on Saturday night. At
traction ahead. What was it
boys?
Benjamin Morris moved to his
home on Black Oak Ridge Fri
day. Come back and visit us
Ben, viii you?
VIM. Decker has gone to Ev-
erett, where he has secured en-
ployment
Nathan Mellott was among our
representatives in Hancock Mon
day.
Quita a number of the Sideling
Hill boys attended preaching in
Che Cove Saturday night and
Sunday. Come again, boys.
Guss Davis and his lady friend
Miss Ollie Garland visited the
family of Henry Vancleve on Sun
day night.
Miss Minnie Mellott has been
quite i'll. We hope she may soon
recover.
Alfred Morgret made flying
trip to John Hendershot's on
Monday morning.
Ira Smith is a pleasant Sunday
evening caller at Levi Winters.
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LAIDIG.

Edwin and Maggie Clevenger
of West Dublin, spent the last
week visiting relatives in Bedford
county,
Jonas Lake and daughter Ella
visited relatives in Belfast, Sat
urday and Sunday.
Daisy Hoover spent Sunday
afternoon and Monday with Lydia
Mumma, of Laidig.
Viola Mumma spent Saturday
and Sunday with her sister, Mrs.
w. r. Evans, OF Hustontown.
Sore-throat has been quito
common the past few weeks.
The Hoover Brothers killed q
hog a few weeks ago which clean
ed 40 lbs.
Johnson Brothers put up u
fine lot of ice last Saturday.
David Stevens, Of Laidig, is
quite i'll again.
Albert King, who had been all
ing with rheumatism, has gone
back to his work at Kearney.
Fannie Brant, of IIustontown,
is spending a few days with the
family Of G. M. Brant, of West
Dublin,
On the Saturday before Christ
mas, valuable young COW be
longing TO Mus, andrew Hoover,
had one OF her horns torn of in
some way. The stump of the
horn which remained, bled very
profusely One Of the boys, true
TO tho principles Of his Order,
acted the part Of the Good Sa-
marian, and, as soon as possible,
bound UP the horn with tar, re-
peating the application since
when necessary. The young
man referred to above, doesn't
pretend 10 be q veterinary sur
geon; but sometimes emergency
cases are thrust upoa him whath-
en- he is dcsirous Of them or not.
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SPRING HOUSE VALLEY.

Samuel Mellott, who has been
on the sick list, is reported bet.
ter.
Miss Rosa Paylor, who was
spending some time in town re-
turned home last Monday even
inc.
John Souders spent last Friday
with his parents in Tod.
Joe Mellott, one of Big Cove
Tannery's young men, was seen
in our neighborhood Sunday.
Christley A. Butterbaugh, OF
franklin county, spent last Sat
urday night with his cousin, 81
mer Seiders, Of this place, and
also spent Sunday at the home Of
w. n. Paylor.
Miss Matte Palmer spent Sat
urday and Sunday at her home at
Needmore.
Our Valley is still improving.
There arc two new houses being
pat up.
MIR. and Mrs. w, II. Paylor
and little daughter Nora, spent
last Sunday in Tod township.
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BETHLEHEM.

The prospects are that the
winter will continue if Mr..
Grounding has anything to do
with it,
There is not much sickness in
our neighborhood at present.
John Ewing spent Sunday at
Samuel Scott's.
Miss Bess Smith of town spent
few days with her uncle, Daniel
Elvey.
Annie Truax and little boy
spent few days the last of the
week with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Cowan.
Frances Brant spent Saturday
with Lottie Scott, quitting
Nathan Deshong and wife spent
Sunday with GeorgeFix's family,
Harvey Wagner Of Knobsyille,
spent Sunday with his sister
Mrs. Adam Oyler.
Our meeting is stilliu progress
fifteen conversions and six at
the altar There is good attend
ance every night
Wm Shearer and wife, of Pitts
burg, We're visiting their niece,
Mrs. James Connolly on Satur-
day. They were accompanied by
Mrs. Connelly's father, Wm. Me-
Elhaney, Of Hustontown.
Howard Cohen, o2Ft. Lttleton,
is visiting in our neighborhood,
and attending meeting.
John Shafrcr speut Sunday at
James Connelly's.
Hugh Ewing was seen making
his way homeward on Saturday
with a fine Scotch Collie. Look
out boys.
Mary Sipes >ol HnstontNn is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Aum-
mers.
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Sale Register.

J. Milton Unger, having sold his
farm in Ayr township, will sell at his
residence two and a half miles south
west OF McConnellsburg, on Monday,
February 10, 1900, all his stock and
farming implements. Sale begins at
10 o'clock.
March6, DIR. Trout 'sexecutorswill sell
at the farm east OF M'Connellsburg val
liable live stock, hay, grain and farm
ing implements.
March Z, Mrs. Rachel Peck will sell
at her residence, two miles south of
Needmore, horses, cattle, hogs, bees,
farming implements, and household
goods.
March Z, Mrs. Rachel Brant will
sell at her residence in Thompson
township three miles northeast Of Han
cock, horses, cattle, farming impld-
ments and household goods.
March s, Jehu Booth, one and a
half miles southeast of Dublin Mills
will sell horses, cattle, wagons, har-
ness, agricultural implements, grain
and fodder. Terms II months. Sale
begins at 10 o'clock.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08
THE HOTEL BELLBOY.
We Plans 60 Have One Day of Fun
anu Revenge.

We Plans 60 Have One Day of Fun
and Revenge.
Some day when have accumulated
stake" said one of the bright bell
boys at the Blossom House the other
day, Il am going to have some fun"
'Whot are you going TO doY a by
stander asked
II am simply going to some big hotel
IN Chicago or st. Louis and live for
day and the boy paused to let the
remark soak in.
And that's your idea OF good
time. is ~" queried the curious lis
tcrer.
Hold on am not through yet.
am going to n big hotel with three big
Rrips, HnG am going to make the bell
boy carry nll of them up TO the room
for me won't carry even the small
est one Then as soon ms am in my
room an going to have some ice wa
ter | viii not ring for ice water. but
for belIhoy, and after he has climbed
to the tlfih floor--bcllhoys are not per-
mitted to use the elevator. you know.
und shall no: take n room lower than
the ifth ioor-when he has climbed
up there / will tell him | want some
ice water
II will drink all the ice water can
and pour the rest in cuspi1or Then
| will ring for more ice water After
that | shall order "A cocktail served in
my room. don't drink. but there
must be variety in my scheme. Then
! will decide to take Turkish bath
and will call boy to carry my grip
down to the bathroom. When re-
turn, I will ring for more ice water.
81 will insist on having the same
bellboy serve me all the time and I'll
keep him chasing around until he will
curse me at every step. Then when
get ready to leave and he Is happy to
think he shall never see my cursed
face again | will give him dollar
You know ! couldn't think Of putting
a boy TO all that trouble without re-
warding him. because have been
through the mill myself. What have
just described happens to bellboy
every day of his life-all except get
ting the dollar when it is over"-Kan-
sas City Times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08

Ae had reen studying shorthand,
thinking it might be a help 20 h,u IN
his business and naturally he was in
terested in it, SO il happened thgt
when he did something 10 diap!tnsp his
wife ANA Sc started to ,cil him what
she thought OF II all he asked her to
wait Il minute.
"Walt n minute! she exclaimed in
astoniShmrct "WhyT'
81 don't Ike TO miss such a splendid
chance for practice" he replied. reach
Ing for lis pencil and PAPER I'm
training for speed certificate, you
know, nnl rapid dlciation is Just what
| want. NuE 70 ahead"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08
GOLDSMITH, tho TAILOR.

N'NtNt'NAiNAif .NiAN 'WAN'A'
A mll line Of staple groceries at
Robusons.
Culture is all right in q young wom-
an but it shouldn't completely over
shadow her ability to sew ON o button.
Fashionable society is an unhappy
aegregation Of beings who arc afraid
to eat apples without peeling thew.
When a woman looks most interest
ed IN the sermon She is generally plan-
ming how she can get a new waist out
of her thinnest old silk petticoat.
The only millionaire who is capable
Of telling other people how to live and
prosper is he who has risen, through
many tribulations, from the ranks Of
the toiiers.
A West Main Street maid was in
clined to be sentimental. "What
remedy" she asked ''is there for a
broken hearth" The practical young
man arose to the occasion. "Why
not try 'splicing?' he suggested" And
now the cards viii soon be out.
Louis G. Bailey, for several years a
resident OF this place engaged in the
jewelry business, has purchased tn,
DR.. NJ. II. Evans property on Rail-
road avenue in Saxton and will at
once erect a jewelry-store building on
part Of the lot. We are glad to note
this evidence of LOUIS prosperity: and
extend best wishes for success in the
enterprise. He is skilled mechanic
and deserving citizen.
When young girlmarries anoldman
with romantic notions about being an
old mans darling, she usually spends
the honeymoon nursing him through a
sickness.
There is an excess of marriageable
royal princesses in Europe. Here is
where the American young man of en-
terprise has a chance to equal matters
with the title hunting American girl
We have beforcus the first issue OF
the Hancock Times, new journal
lanuched on the Potomac of public ia
vor, February J., 1900. The helmsman
is George G. Huber, a practical Jack
Tar in the newspaper craft. She leaves
port with a fine cargo of up-to-date To-
cal, general news, and advertising
matter. Nav her sails ever be ex-
panded with firm winds of prosperity.
AS Sheriff Daniel Sheets was driv-
ing past the Court House Monday,
some one fred shot which passed
through the buggy, making hole in
each side curtain. If the horse had
not made n sudden start at the report
of the weapon, the ball might have
passed through the Sherilf's head.
The probability is, that the shot came
from an target rife in the hands OF
some careless boy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08

A small boy in the mission Sunday
school Of Bishop Fallows church pro
pounded an entirely new theory of ere
alton last Sunday.
"Who made man?" asked the teach.
er beginning as in the good old days
when orthodoxy used catechisms.
God, was the prompt reply.
And how did he make hlmY
"Out of dust maam: nothing but
dust"
"And who made womanT'
"God made her too, ma'am."
"How?"
The small boy hesitated and then re-
piled cheerfully. "He caused n deep
sleep to fall upon man ana then took
out his backbone and made the wo
man." Chicago Inter Ocean
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08

The following is from an article In
the London General Advertiser Of iT47:
"On Monday last in playing the Wo-
mems Cricket Match the Ccupany
broke in, so that 1t was impossible for
the game to be play'd out; and some Of
them being very much frightened, and
others hurt. it could not be finishd till
this MoTmnG when at Nine O'Clock
they viii finish the same, hoping the
Company win De SO kind as to indulge
them in not walking within the Ring.
which will not only be u great Il"n3-
ure to them. but a general Satisfaction
to the Whole All Gentlemen and La
dies tha, have paid to see this Match
on Monday shall have the Liberty Of
the Ground to see it hnsh'd without
any other charge And In the After-
noon they will play a Second Match,
in the same Place, several large Sums
being depending between the Women
Of the Hills OF SUSSEX in Orange Col
our'd Ribbons, ana those Of The Dalcs.
in Blue. The Wickcts to be pitch'd sy
One O'Clock, and TO begin Play by
Two"
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SOUTHERN BELFAST.

Miss Blanche Peck visited her
uncle Mr. Alfred Peck, Of near
Needmore, and attended the pro
tracted meeting at pleasant
Grove, last week.
Charles Gress, OF McConnells-
burg visited the family OF Daniel
y. S'nider recently.
Miss Rhoda Lake spent last
Friday with Miss Cora Funk and
attended service ut Pleasant
Grove Friday evening.
MIR. and Mrs. Wilson Titton Wis.
ited the family Of David Evans
last Sunday.
Corder Suider is suffering
from erysipelas.
Is. b. Fisher had a phone placed
in his house last week; Erwin
knows how to have things handy.
S. r. Martin and Miss Correll
attended services at the Dunkard
church last Sunday.
Mrs. Thomas Rash is still on
the sick list.
Next Wednesday will be Valen-
tine Day. Girls look out for
them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08

Was Queen Dcss Hnudsomef
Sir Horace Walpole's description Of
the maiden queen. drawn from her
portraits and from contemporary nc.
counts. Is not very attractive one.
"a pale Roman nose, n head Of hair
loaded with crowns and powdered with
diamonds, q vast ruff, a yaster farthin-
gale and bushel of pearls are" he
says. THE features by which every
body knows at glance the pictures
of Queen Elizabeth"
But Notwithstanding that she did not
care for art and that, knowing her
lack Of If, She affected to despise bodi-
ly comelincss. still she loved to multi
ply portraits of herself. "ln them she
could appear really handsome Yet
IL she has been fattcred in the exist
ing likcpesses of her she must have
been not merely plau, but a remark
ably ugly woman. Perhaps the truth
Is that with the most cOurtly intcn
tlons the painters of the time did not
know how to prevaricatc
"Thc queen" says foreign observer.
sis fair but wrinkled. Her nose Is Il
little hooked her lips thin and her
teeth black. She wore false hair aud
that red. Her bosom was uncovered.
as all the English ladies have II until
they marry" That the painters fiat.
tered her IN some degree we must infer
from that fact that she was fond Of
sitting to them. though she could not
bear the sight Of mirror, which so
enragcd her that her attendants We're
obliged to hide theirs when she was
present.-Art Amateur.
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PLEASANT RIDGE.

Mr. and Mrs. Il. II. Deshong
and daughter were callers at D..
NJ. Kline's last Saturday and
John w. Bard, Miss Rosa Desh-
ong, and Mr.. and Mrs. u. $.
Deshong spent Sunday there.
i. b. Mellott spent last Satur
day night at the home of his
sister, Mrs. S. K. Pittman at
iarrisonville.
James Fegley was o caller at
Ulysses Deshong's last Sunday.
Miss Viola Deshong and her
brother Oscar spent last Sunday
with her sister Mrs. Roy NJ.
sipes.
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SIPES MILL.

Owing to the illness Of Rev.
Hughes and to the bad weather
there was no preaching as Ebe-
nezer on Sunday night as an
nounced.
Miss Laura Palmer, of Har-
risonville, was visiting among
friends in the vicinity of Pleas
ant Grove last week.
Quite a number of our young
folks We're regular attendants at
the meeting at Pleasant Grove.
e. N. Akers and friend Piper
Barton were among the crowd
that enjoyed themselves skating
ON Needmore ice Saturday. Nor
man says he thought the water
deeper
Indications are that S. l.. Wink
is dealing in Spades at present
Howard Dixon was seen ska
ting in the neighbornood Of War
fordsbqrg Saturday night.
S. l.. Wink and William Spade
captured a live coon last week
Ia pounds.
Miss Verda Akers was show
ing the young folks how to cut
figures and other Philadelphia
characters on country ice last
Saturday afternoon,
George Bard expects to start
for Pittsburg next Wednesday.
S. l.. Mellott has organized a
singing class at Sideling Hill
Christian church.
There viii be teachers local
institute at Sipes Hill school, Fri.
day night Of this week.
Mr., Groundhog, after viewing
his shadow, has returned to his
abode to endure the hardships Of
six weeks more winter.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08

1t is claimed that 3O,O0O.OOO leeches
are used annually in France and Eng
land alone A single company in Aus
tralia used to export 100000 to 3,000-
600 year to Europe and America One
Partisan capitalist affirmed that his
leech crop returned him Is to l. and II
is recorded that the monopoly of talk
Ing lePches in Morocco was once sold
for SlON.OnD
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08

A man may be late an hour for
meal, and wonder why his wife COM
plains; but he never fails to act ag-
grieved If she is late five minutes in
giving him his dinner.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08

Said Mrs Gadubout. who had come
to spend the day. to little Edith;
Are you glnd TO see me again,
Edith"
"Yes, min. and mammals glad. too"
replied the child
"is sheT
'Yes, MIN She said she hoped you'd
come today and have II over WITH
Ohio State Journal.
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Two souls with but a single
thought surprise everybody by
finding such lot 10 talk
ABOUT

Ifall the dressmakers known
b exist in America, worked
twenty-four hours of each day
for a whole year wlthout.s stopping
for sleep or meals, they would be
able to make only one dress
apiece for less than seven n-eighths
of the women of America.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-02-08

The woman who thinks She is marry
ing novelist's hero and the man who
thinks he is mairyingn n wingless an
gel invariably discover that marriage
is afailure.
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"As lawyer Quibb's success is due
largely TO his great power Of will"
Eyes, | understand he has broken
more wills than any other man az the
bar" Philadelphia North American.
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EconOuny.

"Pleasc. lapa. give me quarter TO
sec the hiG suatc In the menagerie."
"M0wis my dear. here's the mag
nifyng glass. Go look ut an angle
worm" i'iiegpu0e Rlatter
Evening star., 1900-10-01
Fifth Anniversary Celebrated.

A celebration of the fifth anniversary OF
NJ Goldenberg's popular department stores
at 922 to 92S fth street northwest and ex-
tending around to 706 K street Is in prog
ress today, and hundreds of the patrons
and newly acquired friends and admirers
of the firm are joining with the proprietors
In making the occasion all that is worthy.
The proprietors have been congratulated
earnestly and heartily upon the growth and
present standing of their enterprise. The
anniversary celebration and the fall OPEN
ing are both taking place, and the double
attraction has drawn to the place one of
the greatest crowds ever assembled in the
spacious quarters. In token OF the events
which have attracted so widespread atten-
ton the stores are beautifully decorated
with palms. other potted plants, twining
vines and cut flowers
In a number Of the departments where
the display is in delicate colors, such as the
millinery department, the scene has been
enhanced by many brilliant electric lights.
the dazzling rays bringing out all the fine
shades of the dainty creations. In all the
section of personal effects and in the house
furnishing and carpeting departments the
displays are unusually attractive and in
teresting. The GoIdenberg stores have an
unquestioned standing in the community.
From the first their motto has had In 1t
the word dependable" and the proprietors
have always lived up to that standard. .