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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
SHOT TO DEATH.
semi-weekly News.

Semi-Weekly News
Robert Wood, minor, and u
former resident of Robertsdale.
this county, was shot to death
during a quarrel at Puritan, Cam
bria county, ON Friday, by Mich
ael Brown, a boarding house
keeper, with whom he made his
home. Alexander Currie, anoth-
er boarder, was badly wounded.
Wood and Currie had been on a
spree for several days and ON the
evening of the tragedy they be-
haved so outrageously at the sup
per table that Brown was forced
to leave before he had finished
his meal. AS he attempted to
pass into the next room Currie
struck him in the mouth and
Knocked him down. Currie and
Wood jumped on Brown and
kicked and beat him. Wood pro-
duced a fork and endeavored to
stab Brown. Brown managed TO
crawl to stand, from which he
procured a revolver and while
lying on his back opened fire on
his assailants. His first shot
struck Wood just above the heart
and inflicted a wound which prov
ed fatal in a short time. His sec
ond wounded Currie in the neck,
but not dangerously. Brown
walked to Portage and gave him
self up. He was at once taken to
Ebensburg and placed in jail. He
fell asleep soon afterwards and
did not awake until Saturday
afternoon. Brown claims the
shooting was done in self defense.
lie had just returned home from
Altoona accompanied by a new
boarder.
1t is said that both Wood and
Currie were too attentive to Mrs.
Brown.
The remains of Robert Wood
were taken to Robertsdale Mon
day afternoon to the residence of
his brother, James Wood, and
were Inferred at Broad Top City
on Tuesday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
What Women's Colleges Lack.

"There is no doubt that the
average girls college would be
more useful to girls themselves,
and to American domestic life in
general, if the practical compo-
nents of a woman's life entered
little more into it's curriculum, +"
writes Edward Box in the May
Ladies' Home Journal. "Girls
are turned out by our colleges
with diplomas telling us how eff
ficient they were in the physiol-
ogy class, and yet they have alb
solutely no practical knowledge
of their own healthful dressing
or hygienic eating. | must con-
fess that in my editorial eXper-
ience | have come across more
atrocious chirography in letters
from college girls than | would
have believed possible. Some
day our girls colleges will wake
up to the fact that for a girl to be
able to write an intelligent letter,
properly punctuated, and in a
hand writing which does not
drive a man clear to profanity, is
likely to be of more value to her
than the gift to glibly decline a
Latin verb. 1t is a better mix
ture of the practical with the less
useful that is needed in the man
agement of girls colleges. AS it
is now, the college gives girl
only mental resources. 1t should
go further, and give her also a
fund of practical knowledge from
which to draw when she becomes
a wife, a mother and a home
keeper. That is the field for the
women's colleges-not, by any
means, becoming mere practical
outfitters, but adding the prac-
tical to the mental.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
How the Young Elbow the Old

"The part of wisdom is not to
drop ones tasks too early, not to
be in haste to retire from posts
of influence and duty" writes
Margaret h. Sangster in the May
Ladies' Home Journal. "Insen-
sibly the young, with "a certain
unconscious arrogance, elbow the
old out of the way, and monopo-
lie the places in every profession
and branch of business. Yet the
young are not lowered with ex-
perience, nor have they the ripper
Judgment of maturity. But they
do have what age has often lost
enthusiasm, self-confdence and
pluck Old people are some
times out Of touch with the pres
ent age. They have ceased to be
receptive; they have grown men
tally inhospitable and inert. Is
there, however, the slightest rea-
son why Il woman should rust out
through mere Incidence before
she has lone the full measure of
service required by her Master
for the time in which she lives?
AS a teacher, as an artist, as Il
house mistress and mother, in
whatever field you are, my friend,
do not withdraw from active duty
too soon. There is need at the
front for the woman of warm
heart and trained capacity for af-
fairs, and her age is of little con-
sequence if she is equal to her
work. There never was a time
when the Judgment of mature age
was more needed than it is to-
day."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
BIG FAMILY.

Levi Bresson, who lived in the
little town of Foster, has broken
the American record of paternity.
and is the happiest father in the
State of Rhode Island.
When he awoke last Thursday
morning he found that he had be-
come the father of a boy, his
forty-frst child. Thirty-six OF
his children are living in Is diff
ferent States of the Union and in
Canadian Provinces. The pres
sent Mrs. Bresson is Lewis third
wife.
Mrs. Bresson No. 1 was seven
times the mother of twins. Mrs.
Bresson No. 2 was the mother
of three sets of triplets and once
the mother of twins, besides
three single children. His pres
ent wife has born twins once and
II single children.
Bresson is 65 years old. OF
the 30 living children 33 have
large families of their own. Eight
of his grandchildren have fam
lies too. Bresson owns a farm
of q hundred acres and has never
employed anyone in cultivating
it except his own descendants.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
KNOBSVILLE.

May 16.-Mrs. John Lancaster
and son Willis and daughter Ivy,
of Markes, Franklin county,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
Mrs. Lamaster's father, Daniel
&. Fore.
Daddy Greer and wife spent
Sunday with Daniel E. Fore's
family.
Mrs. Abram Wagner spent
Monday with Mrs. Daniel E..
Fore.
Mabel, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Barmont is very sick.
DR.. Dalbey is attending her.
Mrs. Christina Forney is ON
the sick list; also, Mrs. Nancy
Noggle.
Mamie Fore and Maggie Ham
il spent Tuesday in McConnells-
burg.
Frank Fore helped to eat ice
cream at A. j. Hamil's, Tuesday
evening.
Farmers are replanting their
corn and wishing for rain as it is
very dry.
Arthur Manley and Sam Pitt
man were at Mercersburg on
their bicycles on Tuesday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
Nervous Children.

Intelligent people are begin
ming to understand theimportance
of protecting the nervous system
in infancy and the danger of a
shock to childish nerves. AS a
rule the more quiet a baby is
kept during the first year of its
life the better chance it has for a
life Of health and happiness. The
Fact that so large proportion of
the human family die in infancy
is due largely to the folly of nur-
ses and the ignorance of mothers.
Overbright babies do not com
mend themselves to physicians,
who know that the first year of a
child's life should be spent in
sleep.
All efforts to arouse the dor
mant mind of a child at this pc
riod are attended with danger.
The foolish practice of tossing a
helpless baby in the air, while it
screams both with alright and
delight, is a most dangerous one.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
Tortured A Witness,

Intense suffering was e1
by witness II. L. Martin, q
Ky, before he gavethiS eVl
81 coughed every night u1
throat was nearly raw; ting
DR.. Kings New Discovery
gave instant relief. lhaV'
it in my family for fourye'
recommend it as the 9
remedy for Coughs, Colds.
Throat, Chest and Lungtr'
1t will stop the worst coug
not only prevents but aos
cures Consumption, Prl'
and S1.00. Every bottle :
teed. Trial bottle free AZ
Dickson's Drug Store
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
ODD FELLOWS GOOD WORK.

More than 1000 delegates were
in attendance when the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows of Penn
sylvania opened it's seventy-sev-
enth annual session, in the Har-
risbnrg Opera House, on the 18th
inst. Addresses of welcome
were delivered by Lieutenant
Governor Goblin, of Lebanon, in
behalf of the State, and Senator
McCarrell, of Harrisburg, in be-
half of the city, both of whom are
members of the order. The re-
sponse was by Harry L. Neal of
Philadelphia.
The lodge then went into
executive session to receive
and consider the report of
James b. Nicholas, grand secre-
tary, included the following stati-
sites: Number of members at
last annual report, 106, 121; num-
Der initiated during the year.
1881; number admitted by card,
753; number resisted, sol; num-
Der of members dropped during
the year, 1541; number with
drawn by card, 653; number of
members suspended, 6248; num-
Der of members expelled, so;
present membership, 106, 984; in
crease in membership, 1868; num-
Der of applicants rejected, 277;
number of past grands, 29,623;
number of working lodges, 1887;
mum ber oflodges surrendered, TO-;
number of lodges instituted, 4;
decrease in number of lodges,
3.
During the last twelve months
relief has been given to 1905
members Of the order; number of
widowed families relieved, 504;
paid for the relief of brothers,
1852, 481.S0; paid for the relief of
widowed families, S3711.63; paid
for the education of orphans,
S27, ,354. SO; paid for burying the
dead, S144, ,875,86; paid for
special relief, S21, ,280.O5; total
amount paid for relief, 649, SOB. 81;
total expenditures for relief and
working expenses, 1855, ,578. "a;
number of weeks sickness, 1885,
1862.
The report of M. Richards
Muckle, grand treasurer, estima-
ted the revenues of the Grand
Lodge for the ensuing year to
be S24, 485, and the expenditures
S25, $50, of which $4,000 was es-
timated for mileage to Harris
burg and 5000 for expenses of
session.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
HONESTY WON A HUSBAND.

A husband with a million dol
lars due him from a rich uncle's
estate, is, says the Philadelphia
Record, Mrs. Kate Wright's re-
ward for honesty if she but
chooses TO say eyes.
Mrs. Wright is forewoman in a
book bindery and works because
Sam Wright, with whom she
eloped in July, 1899, has not
treated her as a husband should
treat pretty and confding help
mate.
Three months ago Mrs. Wright
went TO a lawyers Office to begin
divorce proceedings, and on the
stairs found wallet containing a
great many greenbacks of large
denomination. She showed her
find to a lawyer.
"Why, that's my wallet" ex-
claimed Joseph Pionier, brother
of Alfred Pionier, who has since
become deputy chief electrician
at the Paris Exposition, and who
at that time had an Office in the
same building as Mrs. Wright's
lawyer.
Mr.. PIONEERS card and other
papers indicating his proprietor
ship were in the wallet, so Mrs.
Wright surrendered it without
hesitation and refused to accept
a reward.
81 don't see why should be
rewarded for giving up what new
er belonged to me-" she said.
A few weeks later the PIONEERS
went to Paris, and since then
Mrs. Wright has obtained her
decree of divorce, with permis-
sion to resume her maiden name.
Recently a letter postmarked
Paris, from young Joseph Pio-
nier, was received by Kitty. AT
ter telling her of the death of a
ulti-millionaire uncle, he said:
There are only five persons
among whom the estate will be
divided, equally. 1 am one of
them. In few weeks every
thing will be settled and 1 will
return to New York.
| have been thinking a good
deal about you. Although 1 met
you only four times, l feel con-
vinced l can never love anybody
as l love you.
When you get your divorce, do
you think you can make up your
mind to marry again? I'm de-
termined to win you. I'll not
take "No" for an answer.
Make me happy and tell me
you will consent to be the wife of
Your sincerely loving
JOSEPH PIONEER.
"I guess he'll be glad when he
hears l got the divorce, "she said.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24

1t is the general remark that
the foliage is much farther ad-
vanced than usual at this season
Of the year Summer costumes
are also more in evidence than
usual.
One advantage that the colored
small boy has over his white
brother is that his mother can
not tell when his neck needs
washing.
Jury Commissioner Millard f.,
johnson, who plead guilty at
Clearfeld last week to stuf1ing
the jury wheel, confessing to the
same in open court, was ON Sat
urday sentenced to four years
solitary confinement in the West
ern Penitentiary.
Miss Emma Kurtz, of Waynes-
boro, while visiting the new Way
nesboro laundry at that place,
last week, out of curiosity placed
her hand upon large roll. Her
arm was drawn in to the elbow,
and crushed so badly that ampu-
tation was necessary.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24

Missing her husband last Tues
day, Mrs. Benjamin Hallman, of
Skippackville, made search and
found him hanging in the pig sty.
The would-be suicide was cut
down, apparently lifeless, and re-
NAMED unconscious for twenty
honrs. The doctors efforts were
finally rewarded when Hallman's S
senses returned. The man will
recover.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24

At Prices church, near
nesboro, Saturday and y
the German Baptist Brd
held their annual love feast
members of the denominau'
this section of the state atIe1
Bishop Jacob Snyder prj
and a score of other mlnl
of the church were presen1
noon ON Saturday, the lOcaI
gregation fed the visitors
numbered over Il thousand
Daniel Bechtel, a wealthy
er of Grafton, HuntingdOnl, y,
ty, hanged himself laS' W., ns
dav to a tree overlooklns
home. He committed the
with a tarred rope which il'
fashioned himself WIN
care. He had recently 'S sn
from his farm to Grafton ~ y,
distasteful change from NV ~
to inactivity is thouSh' "
led to his suicide.
Ramsey Hart, aged 40 :
who has been absent iroD =,
lin county for 30 years ~ y
Pacific coast, has come ~, ~
nettsburg to inherit the ,'sr piv
of his mother, Mrs D" 'r,
Hart. whose funeral occuri' !
Gently. The properly ys,oa
at between 50, 600 ana e'V
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
Stephen A. Douglas in the Bear
Skin.

Mr.. William G. Morris, the
welll1nown insurance man, was ex-
changing "reminiscences with me
the other day when something was
said about Stephen a. Douglas.
"You know that Douglass" said
Mr.. Morris, 'like many great
statesmen of his day, sometimes
drank to excess, and in his frol-
les with the boys forgot all about
his Senatorial dignity. | saw
him gloriously drunk in a little
Illinois town in 1850, after he had
made a great speech.
'The Senator at that time had
an iron constitution. He could
work harder and drink more
than any of his contemporaries,
and his excesses did not muddle
his head nor tangle his legs.
"In this little Illinois town he
lost his equilibrium for once.
CATER drinking many hours
with scores of tough old topers
drinking champagne, brandy and
whiskey, the Little Giant unex-
pectedly collapsed.
GA moment before he stood
like a granite statue. Then, with
out the slightest warning, he
was shapeless lump of boozy
humanity, lolling in a big arm
chair.
''Hhe reckless jewellers had
just sense enough to know that
Douglass was drunk, and their
next step was a practical joke,
which was disgrace to the town.
In front of a drug store stood
q big stuffed bear. The drunken
mob pulled him down. They rip
ped him open and pulled out the
stufiing.
"It was two o'clock in the
morning, and the sober citizens
then on deck were too few in
number to do anything.
"The town boys had their way.
They jammed the unconscious
Senator into the bearskin and
stitched it up.
"Then they propped the hor-
rible figure in large chair in the
hotel lobby and stood around it in
state of wild and noisy hilarity
until daylight.
occasionally the bear would
give a forward Lounge, but the
bystanders Strengthened him up
again. The Senator's snorts and
grunts were so decidedly bearish
that the boys were delighted.
sin the early morning hours,
when the bear left his chair, and
gave chase to his tormentors,
swearing at them in good, old
fashioned Anglo-SaXon, the tip
piers went into spasm of glee,
and it was difficult to induce
them to rip the bear skin and put
the furious Senator to bed.
"That was the meanest practi-
cal joke l ever saw" said Mr..
Morris in conclusion, "but it was
also the funniest.
"Only very great man could
have outlived it. But Douglas
was such a genuine patriot, and
a man of such remarkable ability,
that the people gladly overlooked
his little indiscretions. Atlanta
Constitution.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
A Woman's Awful Peril.

"There is only one chance tc
save your life and that is through
an operation" were the startling
words heard by Mrs, l. b. Hunt
of Lime Ridge, Wis, from her
doctor after he had valnly tried
to cure her of a frightful case OF
stomach trouble and yellow jaun-
dice. Gall stones had formed
and she constantly grew worse.
Then she began to use Electric
Bitters which wholly cured her.
It's wonderful Stomach, Liver
and Kidney remedy, Cures
Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite.
Try it. Only 80 cents. Guaran-
teed. For sale by WIS. Dickson,
Druggist.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
The Punishment of Children.

A refined woman recoils even
from the thought of corporal
punishment for her children, yet
it is but a. short time ago since
the rod was administered with
cruel severity in schools and in
homes. 1t can be easily proved
that the discipline in schools is
far better to-day than in those
olden times when the scholar saw
the rod constantly before him to
enforce obedience. 1t might be
more difficult to prove that the
children of to-day are better be-
haved than the children of few
generations ago, but we believe
they are. Whosoever trusts in
God and in the advancement of
the race must believe that, what.
ever individual lapses may occur
the boys and girls of to-day as a
whole are working out a nobler
manhood and womanhood than
the last generation ever knew.
Fear no longer rules them, but
love. There is less deceit to-day
among children than there was
among those who were cowed by
the whip, and sincerity is the
first step toward genuine i'm
provement. Nothing is more
dangerous to the moral nature of
a self-respecting child who is old
enough to think than the use of
brute force to compel it's will.
Such a child must be kept in
the right way by kindly persua-
sion and reason. He must re-
alize from the beginning that his
mother is his heaven given guide,
and know that she will suffer
herself and see him suffer ply
sically rather than have him do
wrong.
A very little child is only taught
by its physical senses that fire
burns and must be avoided. 1t
can be taught in the same way
at this early age to avoid other
evils. A trivial bodily punish
ment administered in no more
retaliatory spirit than the burn
ing log shows to the small hand
that reaches it will do a great
deal of good. Some mothers are
foolish enough to punish chill
dren in a fit of anger. 1t is not a
pleasant thing to see a man or
woman, flushed with anger, strike
a little child. Children are mar
vellously sensitive to the mental
condition of their elders. Anger
only arouses them to a retaliatory
state. A grown person who is
not able to govern his own tenn
per cannot hope to govern child
and train him in the way he
should go. The moment a child
is able to reason and to under
stand a higher motive for doing
right than the avoidance of the
slight physical hurt which a kind
mother may administer as pun
ishment, it is tine to stop such
punishment A very little child
can be easily taught to avoid
evils by slight rap on the hand,
where it will do no injury, and
like kitten or any other little
animal can be taught in no other
way, but the moment the mind
develops higher motive can be
appealed to. 1t is a dangerous,
foolish practice, degrading to
both parent and child, for pa
rent to treat a thinking lad as if
he were no higher mentally than
a stubborn colt.
How the Young Elbow the Old.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-24
Love Won the p

There was an nm. T.
incident upon the g,,'
marriage license up nj
ton a few days AGO
minutes before the Ar,
II. ~ train, Railroad A.
est Addleman reccived
from Q. NJ. Rice, at NJ
asking the officer to ~
young couple on board
and hold them until M
arrival. The yopnE
alighted at the station i
Aouleman az took them 4
Their appearance ipdiI
they were a prospects
and groom and this s
was born out by a futpl
renee. G. M, Rice reodH
on the 2.Ol train and I
story of the telegam apA
particulars were reyo,ll
Elmer F. Leach, enb /
James Rice as a farm I
Milford township, Jupit!
wooed and won the beal
ANNE H. Rlce, the veal
er's daughter. Msrril
natural sequence, wash
opposed by the parentl
girl. Until Miss Anniel
years of age the oppos,ta
ed, but upon reaching /
birthday she was Just al
in her determination to \
ried to Leach as she wal
the time she was a mini
the young couple to cart
plans into execution il vi
Sary 10 go INTO an 4
county to escape peril
wrath of the entire Rice.
and that is why they ID
to Huntingdon. The
pleaded with his sister h
gister's office to reconsI
He told of his heart
mother until tears trick
his cheeks. The woman
bed family, but her r.
could not be broken, and
the circumstances, Regi.
ara llau no Otler alterna
to grant the necessary dl
which was finally dcnc
the wisdomof abandonin.
opposition the brother a
kissed each other good
parted most affectionate
Leach and Miss Rice
er an attractive looking
Miss Rice is especially
sessing. At the conc
all formalities in the
they presented themsely
the Rev. G.. NJ. KlepfeI
Methodist Episcopal P
and were united in mar
crestfallen brother W
stained eyes, taking hi.
ure ON the first eastern
report the success Of tt
ment to his irate father,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-19
Working In Her Own r,me,

1T took my servant two hours todaJ
to clear up the lunch Dishes" said thj
lady who was dining out. your girll
a jewel. She has the dinner dishes al
washed, and It's scarcely 10 minutes
since we finished"
"Yes," said Mrs. Hauskeep; "she'l
got this evening off," = Philadelphia
Press
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-19
Ratification of Peace Treaty.

But we have treaty and the treaty
was ratified, and want TO talk TO.
day for little while about the ratinca-
tion OF the tceaty; hut I want to say now
that the ratification OF that treaty did not
change the principles OF our government.
we could secure from Spain a quit claim
deed We could exclude Spain from the
controversy, and when we got Spain out,
then we had TO deal with the Filipipos
according to our own principles and not
according to European principles. en-
thnsiastic applause and cheerlng)
when spaln's title was purchased or
secured by force-whch ever you want to
call it--you simply got Spain out You
did not settle the Philippine question. A
president cannot change our principles oi
government; cabinet cannot change our
principles OF government; q congress can
not change our principles OF government
lappiause and voice calling, MARK
Hanna cam, and according to our idea
those principles forbid either purchase OF
force as the title TO people.
voice. That is what Mark Hanna
says
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-19

Why. my friends. II used 10 be that the
Republican party boasted OF decreasing
the national debt. and yet today the Re-
publican party stands for currency sys-
tenn that can only be permanent and
rest upon bonds, upon the theory that
the bonds shall be permanent How are
you going to have bank notes, payable or
redeemable or supported by bonds. unless
you have the bonds7 And II your bank
note system is 10 be permanent, and the
bonds are forever TO protect II, then you