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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
THAT GOOSE WAS COSTLY.



There is an old saying about "the
goose hangs high" but the saying has
been changed a little in Selma, and
they now say that "the goose came
high" Last Saturday a week ago Mr..
Watt Craig killed a wild goose of the
pelican variety and took 1t to the city.
1t was the finest goose of that kind
that had been killed in Selma in sew
entceu years. and old weather proph-
cts predicted at once that the South
was on the eve of a cold snap, as that
kind of goose never made its appear
ance until about two days before n
tremendous frost or n freeze.
This particular goose was discussed
around Cotton Exchanges, and good
many men worked themselves up into
believing the story. They argued to
themselves that if cold spell should
come in the next two or three days,
the price of cotton would jump clear
out of sight, and they would reap a
rich harvest on the strength of that
goose.
Men who are disposed TO speculate
do not want very much encourage
ment to wade in, so they commenced
to buy cotton, and pretty soon the
injection spread, all on account of this
one wild goose. But the weather
turned warmer instead of colder, the
heat became oppressive, the dust got
denser, and cotton took a tumble and
kept going down. The men who had
bought cotton on the wild goose the
ory kept getting bluer and bluer, and
n well-informed cotton man said that
Watt Craig's wild goose cost Selma
cotton spectators not less than $4,000.
One man remarked that the next
man who came around telling yarn
about a wild goose making it turn
cold was going to get a first-class
scrap on his hands, and that if such a
man should 80 around the Cotton Ex-
change he would he liable to be tarred
and feathered, if he escaped with his
life The predicted cold spell came,
and not until the money of the bellev-
ers in the wild goose theory had taken
wings and flown to parts UNKNOWN
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

twitching and general irritability.
Some patients say that after a limb
has been heated awhile the release
from pain causes sensation of the
loss of that member.
When the heat is first turned upon
The man in the stove-bed he feels only
mild and genial warmth. Below $50
degrees no Inconvenience Is expert
cnced. Then he becomes thirsty, and
the nurse gives him a sip of water not
too cold. which modest draught is re.
peated whenever he signifies his de.
sire. At $50 degrees he becomes aware
of many tiny streams of heat like so
many sharp needles impinging upon
his body, but still he does not suffer.
He is drenched with perspiration, and
his feet seem to have gone TO sleep"
Some of the sweat is actually turned
into steam, and may be seen issuing
from the tunnels atop the machine.
At 200 degrees one becomes dreamy,
and for the remaining eighty degrees
to which It is safe to subject n man
functionally sound, the experience is
said to be not unlike some of those
described by De Quincy. If the pa.
tlent slumbers he is easily restored by
the rubbing that closes each treat.
ment. Then he rests an hour or two,
and upon going abroad. should his
complaint permit. feels an exhilaration.
Suppose man has n bad leg and
takes. say, $50 degrees of heat. 1t is
hard to convince him he is not being
roasted alive. His heart thumps fran.
tcally, and his blood seems ready to
boil. Bags of ice are applied to his
head. one after another, until the or.
deal is over He does not get all the
water he wants, but only a mouthful
for the asking. Such heat would kill
sooner or later We're it not very dry,
Its humidity is practically nothing
| IT was the humid heat that made this
city so unpleasant this summer.
Massage and electricity are applied
subsidiary to thermaerotherapy, II
deemed expedlent. An interesting ad.
iunct to the hospital in this city is
an adjustable staircase for the use OF
partial cripples, who constitute n ma
jority of the patients, in determining
their progress toward recovery. 1t is q
wooden lsosceles triangle, with sliding
shelves along the equal sides, the third
resting upon the floor pulling out o
shelf furnishes a step, and the steps
may be as near together or as far
apart as seems fit, or at irregular in
tervals, within certain limits. The pa
tient can thus discover exactly what
he can do in the way of climbing and
descending stairs, and when he has
ascertained may utilize the frameworb
for practice and exercise.
A woman who said she had not
walked for thirty-two years learned
over again, just as she had in the first
place in childhood. and has experienced
no subsequent difficulty, according to
the head nurse. Another achievement
claimed for the concern is the reduc-
ton of a well known public man in
fifteen treatments from 21S to 1S0
pounds. which weight he has retained
ever since.-E. L. B., in New York
Evening Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
Live Stock.

Chicago. Cattle-Market steady; good
to prime, $64oa7 rs; poor to medium,
$36oa6oo; stockers and feeders, $2ooa
4.35; cows, $I.25a4.7s; heifers, $I.soa
$50 ;canners, $I.25aa.3 80; bulls, $2.ooa
AIS. Calves, S.. soas.oo; Texas steers,
SAYS. Hogs.-Receipts to day $4,000
head Monday. $4,000 left over, q, 500;
10 TO I5c. higher; mixed and butchers,
S5.7oa6.2o; good to choice, heavy $5,75a
6,3o; rough heavy $s.5oas.75 light;
$5.25a575; bulk of sales, $s.7oa6oo
Shecp,-Receipts 1000 head; sheep and
lambs steady good to choice weth-
ers, $3,soa4,2s; ethers, $4,25; native
lambs, 2.5oa4oo Western lambs, $3.50
a4.Io.
East Liberty.-Cattle steady; choice,
$s75aooo; prime, S.. soas.7o; good, $5;I5
a5.4o. Hogs higher; extra prime heavies
So Ioa6,2o; heavy mediums, S5.ooaoo5;
light do, $5.7sa5.Ss; heavy Workers, $sos
a$s.75; light do, $5.4oa5.5o; pigs, $5.25a
80; roughs, $4.5oa5oo. Sheep firm;
best wethers, $3.4oa3.so; culls and COM
mon. ST. .ooa7oo; yearlings, s.. 5oa3.75;
veal calves, $6.ooa6.5o.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
IS 5000 physicians.

Russia has 5000 physicians.
Paris has automobile fire engines.
Bengal has 100000 quinine trees.
Mississippi has IT. o.43S wage workers.
Washington State has 444 lumber
mills.
Cuba has a 6o,ooo-acre sugar planta-
ton.
Sugar plantations are appearing in
Mexico.
Four New York banks control $780,
100000 deposits
Kansas farmers are feeding wheat to
their cattle.
Californa's gold output since 40 has
been SI.3so,ooo,ooo.
Italy furnishes nearly all the sulphur
used in the world.
Oil prospectors in Missouri are pre-
Darng TO bore 1000 feet.
A good many pioneers in Alaska, hunt
irg gold, strike coal
California, Utah, Colorado and part
OF Arizona produce about all the Amer
:can honey that is sold abroad
Eleven million dollars worth OF bus
ircgs was ;ramac.ed between Seattle and
CAPE Norie tlis year.
The great rush Of work il Westafr
pac, houses IS niaSue lzboz 'eartc ~
many ANe Germ lcpnf n
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.

r. c. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review OF
Trade says When consumptive de-
nand equals or exceeds supply and prices
are firmly held at an exceptionally high
level it is generally considered that there
IS little to be desired in the business sit
dation. These factors are now in evi-
ience TO an unusual extent, yet many
industries are hating. The principal
disturbing element is the lack of cars to
handle the phenomenal shipments that
arc urgently nc sded.
A general advance in the price of
pig iron indicates that record-breaking
activity at furnaces fails to produce ac-
humiliation of supplies Steel mills are
seeking material urgently and Besse-
ner pig for prompt delivery at Pittsburg
S not available below $I65o. The feat
ire among the minor metals was the
sharp advance in tin to much the high
.st point of the year because of delayed
arrivals.
In marked contrast to the rise in tin
vas a sharp decline in silver to the low
st price since early in 1893. Shoe shops
At the East are fully employed while
Western producers were never before so
tCtlNely tHBdBSu. yODpis uduS II
greatly accelerated by the fall in tenn
,erature, and makers are importuned for
,arly shipments.
Failures for the week numbered I82
the United States. against I78 last
rear, and rs in Canada, against FL last
Scar
"Bradstreet's' says:
Wheat, including flour, exports for the
week aggregate 5,I17,479 bushels, as
against 5,5IS,o3o bushels last week and
l,4o7, $50 in this week last year Wheat
exports July to date twenty-five
weeks )aggregate I27,S1o,ooo bushels, as
against 76,742,oo3 last season.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
LATEST QUOTATIONS.

Flour - Best Patent, $500; High
trade Extra, $4.Io; Minnesota Bakers,
Wheat-New York No 8IHc;
Philadelphia No red 7715a78c; Balti-
more No. 75a7Sc.
elphia No. 2 6oHa7oc; Baltimore No
0atts~New York No. ? 4Sc; Philadel-
,hia No. SIC; Baltimore No. z 5Ia
&c.
Hay.-No. I timothy, large bales, SIS
;oaI6.oo; do, small bales, -aI6oo; No.
timothy, $I4.5oaI5 500; No. timothy,
iI2.ooaI3.5o.
Green Fruits and Vegetables.-Apples,
iearby, per brl, fancy red $2.5oa3oo-
Cabbage, New York State, per ton 5000
HOO. Carrots, native, per bu box 35a
,oc Cauliflower-Long Island, per
rate or brl I.5oa2.5o. Celery--New
York State, per dozen stalks 2oa35c; do;
iative, per bunch 3as13c. Cranberries-
Cape Cod, per brl So 5oa7. so. Cucum-
,ers-Florida, per crate $I.75a2.oo. Let
uce-Native, per bushel box 4oaooc-
Onions-Maryland and Pennsylvania,
'ellow, per bu. $I.25aI. 80. String Beans
Norfolk, per basket, green, S2.ooa2.5 so;
10. wax, $2.ooa2. so. Turnips-Native,
per bushel box 2oa25c. :;
Potatoes. - White - Maryland and
Pennsylvania, per bu, No. 85aooc; do,
ieconds, ooa75c; New York, per bu, best
tock, S5aooc; do, common, 6oa75c;
Western, per bu, prime, S5aooc. Sweets
Eastern Shore, Virginia, per truck
,rl, $I,25aI75; do, per -four brl, $I.75a
1885, do, per brb frost 75c.a$I 90; ma
| i've, per bril- No. I, $2ooa2.25; North
Carolina, per brl, No. I, $2ooa2.25
Yams-Virginia, per brl, smooth, -a$I.
Provisions and Hog Products.-Bulk
dear rib sides, oc bulk clear sides, oAc;
,ulk shoulders, o13c; bulk clear plates,
! )Nc; sugar-cured shoulders, narrow,
broad, IoHc; hams, canvased or TN
:anvased, IL lbs and over, 12Hc; refined
ard, tierces, brls and 5o-lb cans, gross,
9Nc.
Eggs.-Western Maryland and Penn
sylvana, per dozen --a27c Eastern
Shore maryland and Virginia., per
dozen -27c.; Virginia, per dozen, goa
a7c.; West Virginia, per dozen, 25a2oc.
Western, per dozen, 26a27c. Southern,
23a25c,
Butter. Creamcry.-Separator, 2oa27;
gathered cream, 22a23; imitation, Ioa2o;
Md, Va. and Pa. Dairy prints, 2Ia2e;
small creamery blocks, e lb.), 23a24;
choice rolls, I7aIS,
Cheese.-New cheese, large 60 lbs.
ToA to IoZc.; do, flats. 81 lbs, 1917 to
Io7sc. picnics, % lbs, II to NE
Live and Dressed Poultry-Turheys-
old. -aISAc.; young, fat, oao12c.; do,
small and poor, -aSc, Chickens-Hens,
-a7Ac. do old roosters, each 25a3o, do,
young good to choice Sa8H do, rough
and poor, az. Ducks-Fancy, large, 9
"a; do, small as; do, muscovy and
mongrels, SAG. Geese, Western, each 5oa
! 65.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

Tom re-enl.s.cd last week in spite OF
the combined objections OF Jim, Tillle
and the old folks.
mo use kicking about 1t, dad" he
said. II got the fever and l can't
shake It. You don't need me in the
store. an guess they amt more than
enough to split tween two families
I'll get along all right, but honest, dad.
just couldn't live here in Sugar Creek
another week. Tell Tlllie to write to
me about the kid."--John II. Raftery,
in the Chicago Record-Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

You can always have all the heaven
you will make room Tor
The little mans life Is small be-
cause he circumscribes It within HIM
self
The world does not need correct
philosophy so much as It does better
philanthropy
self-knowledge depends on seeing
God
Gods faithfulness does not depend ON
ours.
God will not lift our position up ex-
cept we keep our pride down.
you must come to the Teacher be-
fore you can receive the teaching.
One of the noblest OF the rights Of
man is that OF giving up his rights.
+ Cross bearing does not manlfast H.
self In cross bearing TO one another.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
~ TX months of soldering in the
. Philippines had taken all the
y edge off Tom Crowder's mill

N> Philippines had taken all the
1 y J edge off Tom Crowder's mill
tary ardor. In a year the
sight of khaki uniform hurt his eyes
and he began to realize that in all the
world no village was so fair to look
upon as Sugar Creek, ILL.,. the home
town where "Crowder St Sons" kept
store, and where the event of each
droning day was "traip time" When
two years had almost passed he began
to dream OF swinging under the elms
ln the old front yard at home, and
wondered as he nibbled at the ever
lasting hardtack how many pitted
cherry pies he could eat at one sitting
in the dining room at home.
When a young soldiers mind begins
to dwell on the pies that mother used
to make he cannot flourish on salt
pork. But when he begins to decorate
his tent wall with the photographs Of
Tillie and Sue and "the folks" he's fit
for nothing but furloughs and sick
leave, and if there's anything of the
quitter about him he's in imminent
danger of forgetting to answer roll
call some dark evening when the mu-
sic of the sea beyond the jungle lures
him with false songs of home. Tom
heard the siren voice all right, but he
didn't lure little bit. His term of en-
listment was almost at hand, and he
satisfied himself with blotting each
dull day off the calendar, writing
doggerel verse about Tillie and max
ing himself a nuisance generally to his
bunkie.
He used to swear roundly that he
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

A Marysville schoolma'am was
teaching her class the mysteries of
grammar Now. Johnny said she.
"ln what tense DO speak when say,
i am beautfulTp The little fellow
answered as quick as wink. "The
past ~ Kansas City Journal
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
THE PAST.

"A thousand dreams to earth have come
and gone,
"A thousand forms, by fear or fancy drawn,
Like shapes of night have faded from the
dawn.
"A thousand creeds have held their sway
on earth,
Unto a thousand myths have given birth,
That now. are food for wonder, scorn or
mirth
A thousand gods have reigned their little
day,
And crumbled. They were fashioned out
of clay
Like worn.out toys they now are cast
away.
A thousand castles Of the human mind
Are wrecks with which the coast of time
are lined,
The rubbish of the ages left behind.
A thousand systems of a thousand schools
The theories of natures hidden rules.
Now seem to us the dreams of idle fools.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
RAMS HORN BLASTS

HE rights OF
rulers depend on
their ruling Alright.
There can be no
privileges where
there are no duties.
A mans philoso-
ply is usually
founded on his
practice.
It IS better TO
pray for power
over sin than TO
plan for its for
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

alone in the swing or on the narrow
seat of dads spring wagon.
So when Tom got back to Manila
and regular nails he was stirred by
an unreasonable hope that there would
be at least one letter from Tillle He
was disappointed but not disheartened
to find nothing but three old missives
from his mother, in which there was
not a word of his hearts delight and a
volume of motherly advice about the
care he should take of himself, the
things he should eat and drink, the
comrades he should avoid and the
prayers he should say. Her latest let
ter was full of the "time they would
give him" when he got home, and 1t
concluded with the hint of n great
surprise" that was in store for him.
OF course, that put new zest into his
"honlng for home" and his hatred for
the army rose in proportion.
The whole town was at the station
when Tom swung off the train steps at
Sugar Creek. The Silver Cornet Band,
with old Bill Thompson, shake and
all at its head, was standing on the
platform playing. "See, the Conquer
ing Hero Comes" Great flags waved
above the depot and yards of bunting
stretched clear across the street from
Crowder's grocery store to the Town
Hall. Tom almost fell into the arms
of his mother. Even his brother Jim
semeed to have forgotten all differ
ences and hugged him. But best of
all there was Tillie, quite woman
now, prettier than ever, blushing fu-
riously and holding his hand as she
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12
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\ VI CVRIOUS ",
~ FACTS ~

The jarrow wood, which grows in
Australia, is almost the only kind
known to the lumbermen which eff
fectively resist the depredations of in
sects. Not an insect Will touch it.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

The latest invention for life saving
at sea is a life belt that carries a light
to guide the struggling swimmer to it,
and whose lamp is lighted by contact
with the sea water. This device is re.
ported from Germany.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

Inc JtFTOW WOOu, WnlCu SlOhS III
Australia, is almost the only kind
known to the lumbermen which eff
| fectively resist the depredations of in
sects. Not an insect Will touch it.
The latest invention for life saving
at sea is a life belt that carries a light
to guide the struggling swimmer to it,
and whose lamp is lighted by contact
with the sea water. This device is re-
ported from Germany.
The oldest known weapon was the
club The clubs Of the lake dwellers
of Switzerland, studded with stones
in default of nails, and thus making
| formidable weapons, have been recoy'
| cred from their habitations.
In Greece, in the third century 3. c.,
| the wearing of silk was forbidden to
women. the husbands of those who vic.
lated the law being heavily fined, on
| the theory that husband ought to be
able to control his wife's taste for
| inery.
They say that after the Duchess Of
York had visited one of the schools in
Toronto, and had graciously written
| her name on the school register, the
teacher passed around the ink bottle
in order that each pupil might dip
finger in the ink into which duchess
had dipped the pen.
A remarkable orchid has been dis.
covered in South America. From the
centre of the plant, which is attached
to the branches of trees, a long, fiat,
tube-like stem depends. When the
plant Is thirty this tube Is lowered to
find water. and as soon as the tip Is
full the tube coils up in a spiral, carry
Ing the water through its length to bo
distributed on the roots above.
Conscience money" in Great Brit
ain now amounts to thousands Of
pounds annually. The first sum no.
ticed was on March so, 1889, when
1890 was carried to the public account
in consequence of a note received by
the Chancellor. The writer with
troubled soul implored him, "as al
honest man, to consider the money
the property of the nation, and to he
so just as 10 apply it to the Use of the
State in such manner that the nation
may not suffer by its having been de
tanned. and thus to ease the conscience
of an honest man"
Word comes from Paris that some
handsome American women of stately
proportions as to altitude have aroused
the envy of many Parisiennes. The re.
suit is that French professor has
come forward who claims to have a
process by which he can supply the
demand for increased stature, even
though the subject may have reached
maturity. He treats the ankles knees
and spine electrically. claiming that
the osseous at the joints is thereby
expanded and the growth of the bones
stimulated. He claims that he can
add two-fifths of an inch q month
during six months treatment. Need
less to say the professor has already
large praYle
The AR. sandford, Of Shiloh,
4 Me-. recen&y baptized Pts persons IN
| o4. nan. I'D fhirty-soren minutes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

The oldest known weapon was the
club. The clubs Of the lake dwellers
Of Switzerland, studded with stones
in default of nails, and thus making
formidable weapons, have been recov'
cred from their habitations.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

A thousand lofty sentiments expressed,
To those who heard them seeming of the
best,
Are now forgotten or theme for jest.
A thousand books on memory have laid
claim,
A thousand authors through them sought
for fame;
To us there scarce remains single name.
The winnower Of the ages thrashes o'er
The harvest of generations lore;
One grain is gathered from the thrashing
floor,
The rest as empty ohaff. aside is cast
Oblivion's. refuse, gathering thick and fast,
Chokes all the gates and highways of the
past.
Religions dreams and empires all have
gone,
Like shapes of night that vanish from the
dawn,
While through the ages earth went roll
ing on.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

They say that after the Duchess Of
York had visited one of the schools in
Toronto. and had graciously written
her name on the school register, the
teacher passed around the ink bottle
in order that each pupil might dip a
finger in the ink into which a duchess
had dipped the pen.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-12-12

In Greece, in the third century 3. c.,
the wearing of silk was forbidden to
women, the husbands of those who VIC
lated the law being heavily fined, on
the theory that husband ought to be
able to control his wife's taste for
fnery.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-12
Admiral Dewey and Rear Admir-
ais Benham and Ramsay Begin
Consideration Of Evidence
Brought Forward in Inquiry
CONCLUSIONS WON'T
BE DRAWN IN A HURRY
Work Is Not Being Divided, in the
Interests of ExpedienCy,Among
the Members, But All Are
Working Together as a Court
Should, Says Admiral Dewey

Washington, Nov 11.--Admiral
George Dewey and Rear Admirals
Benham and Ramsay. composing the
Schley Court of Inquiry, met at their
quarters in the Mclean building be-
hind closed doors at 10 o'clock this
morning and began the discussion and
considering Of the evidence brought
forward in the inquiry.
These sittings are to be strictly pri-
vate. The court has two small rooms
for its work-one for the members
themselves, and the other for the ac-
commodation Of clerical help. At the
door of the latter is stationed a SER
geant of marines whose uniform would
be the only surface suggestion to a
chance caller that something out of
the ordinary was going on in these
two little rooms.
The court adjourned at 1890 for the
day
Admiral Dewey said after today's
session that as yet he could not fore
tell how long it would be before the
court would be ready with its finding.
He pointed out that 1t had taken
nearly eight weeks of searching exam
ination to produce the material In hand
and that the court could not be ex-
pected to draw it's conclusions in a
hurry.
When asked if the work was divided,
in the interests of expediency, among
the members of the court the admiral
said: mo, we are working together as
a court should"