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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26
HINT TO COUNTRY MERCHANTS.
The Local Weekly His Defense Against
Mail Order Houses.

httti OFuef houetss
The country merchant is making n
great talk about the mail order houses
in the big cities who are getting trade
away from him, but with all his out
cry lie is really making no serious eff
fort TO prevent it. says the Advertising
World You can't stop people from
buying where they think they can buy
the cheapest. simply by the use of in
vective. The only way the country
merchant can hope to compete with
the mail order houses Is by meeting
them on their own ground-by adver-
tlsing.
There Is absolutely no hope for the
business of tie country merchant un-
til lie corrects few of his time worn
views about advertising. Advertising
is simply telling what you have to sell
and the price. 1t makes no difference
II your ads are not written by an ex-
pert or illustrated by high-priced art
ist, you can make them effective and
result producing If you bear in mind
the one point that an ad. should tell
about what you have TO sell and not
simply about yourself.
The advertising done by the average
country merchant is usually something
frightful. He docs not consider adver-
tising a force by which he is to di-
rectly increase his business, but as n
kind of leg-pulling proposition on the
part of the local newspaper. Any old
thing will do him in the way of an an
nouncement. and the smaller the space
the editor will let him down with the
better the bargain he imagines he has
made. Some merchants carry nothing
but II stereotyped card, year in and
year out, yet If they stopped to think,
they find that they have dozens of
things they could sell at less than reg
ular prices and which, IL made known.
would attract many buyers who would
otherwise send to the big cities for
them. The secret of the success of
the mail order firms is simply because
their advertisements tell something.
Any kind of advertising is of course
better than none. All advertising
pays in some way or another, but the
merchant who does no advertising at
all, because he is not able to afford
big pages, makes one large mistake.
II you can't do the best advertising,
do the best you can. What the best
is that you can do may seem very
small, but advertising is something
that pays for itself and 1t increases
right along.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26
where the prourht WIN pinOI,,

When drought destroys or reduces
crops everybody pities the farmers on
the mistaken supposition that they
are the sole losers. As matter of
fact it is the rest of the community
that suffer most from crop short
age. In many cases the farmers gain
rather than lose in the higher prices
they get for the crops which they do
harvest
The longest drought rarely affects
all crops disastrously. The recent
drought In the great corn belt did not
affect the wheat at all except to insure
its gathering in the best possible con
dition. The unprecedented wheat crop
will command ready sale at ad
vanced prices because wheat must be
substituted in a limited degree for
corn. The corn that comes to maturity
Will command high price because
OF its comparative scarcity. Hay, oats
and potatoes will all be high in price
have, in fact. already advanced far
above the average prices at this sea.
son of the year. The consumers pay
these advances all along the line and
the farmers profit by them. There
are few American farmers in this
day who stake their entire years
prosperity upon the corn crop. The
up-to-date farmer puts his eggs in a
good many baskets. The upsetting OF
one of them doesn't leave him without
eggs to carry to market. Philadelphia
Record.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

EYES," he said 1--WE quit. and
want to say that | think these stories
of the way men get ahead in the world
are all fairy tales. I've tried the
methods and know. Only few days
ago read about Tom l., johnson
making his first big hit with the
manager of a street railroad by pick
ing up the scrap iron he found lying
around. You're the kind OF careful
man l want said the manager, nnd
he promoted him right away. That
was enough for me, SO began picking
up things whenever the boss was near.
what are you doing 2 1e demand
ed yesterday.
There's no use letting these things
go TO waste, sir answered, for that's
wbQt Tom Johnson said.
"'Of course not. he snid, 'and we
hire men for dollar day to do lust
that class OF work But we can't
AFFORD TO have clerks wasting their
time over II. Hump yourself back
into the Office, now. or I'll have you
on the pay roll as q day laboror.
$50 ! Quit. Somehow thI,cs don't
seem % happen in rcai iife the way
they DO IN print. cla|caco post
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

The Agricultural Department of Vie
tora mas recently made experiments
with reference to the preservation of
fresh fruits. Pears and peaches packed
in the ordinary boxes for shipment
were subjected to the vapors of hy-
drocyanic gas. The fruits were then
taken out of the boxes and separately
wrapped in tissue paper. Some of
them We're again treated with the gas,
and the whole lot was placed in a dry
room AZ temperature of forty de-
grees Fahrenheit. and kept there for
seven weeks. While the fruits We're
taken out they were In an excellent
state OF preservation, especially those
that had been treated with the gas a
second time. Not only the pears, but
the peaches. felt hard to the touch. re.
tanned their fresh appearance and
showed no decayed spots, as the germs
had all been killed by the gas.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26
To Stop Rooster Growing.

A Brockton (Mass.) man has invent
ed an appliance to keep roosters from
growing in the early morning and is
said to work like a charm. II is called
the Brockton "AnSi-erower." The de-
vice is fastened to the bill OF the roos-
ter Mt night by simple clasp, which
does not interfere in any way with
respiration. When the chanticlee.
rises before dawn. throws back his
head and attempts to wake himself
and everybody else by uttering D
clarion note, the device restraints lila
ambitious plans and not until his own
er sees fit to remove the clasp Will
his vocal organs give utteranoe to his
feelings. The inventor hopes to raise
race of non-crowing fowl by means
Of this device.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

The statues aud plaques carved IN
stone and wood. that are to be seen
In the Glzeh Museum, prove beyond
n doubt. says Sir Norman Lockyer,
that the priest-mummifers of Mem
phis 600O years ago thoroughly under
stood anatomy. Science. he thinks,
therefore, is as old as art and the
two have advanced hand in hand. An
other noteworthy proof OF the an
tiquity Of medical science Is the facy
that scores OF finely finished surgical
Instruments have been excavated Ia
italy, which are, In almost every dr.
tail OF form. precisely like those de-
vised IN modern tImes and used BY
the most adydnceQ surgeons ef 'o'op5.'
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26
More Vacation. Wanted.

More time given to innocent pleas
ure and healthful recreation Is the
very thing that the average American
needs to offset the hurry and worry OF
his business life. He needs 1t to keep
his head clear and his heart true. He
needs ii TO prevent him from degen-
Grating into sordid, selfish, dry-as-
dust, with no thought nor ambition
above that of moncy-grabbing. Right.
iy considered and properly spent. the
vacation period may claim a place In
every well-ordered life as truly as the
time devoted to business duties. No
other view can be taken of The mar.
ter by any man who has rational
views of the real objects Of human
existence Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26
Here Was Buried
Thomas Jefferson,
Author of the
Declaration of American
Independence, of

The marble tablet which formerly
was attached to and formed part of
the granite obelisk was badly broken
when the university buildings were de.
stroyed by fire on January 0, 1892. II
now, for safe keeping. rests under
glass in the fireproof vault of the proc.
tor of the university.
The epitaph Is significant one.
Thomas Jefferson had been a member
of the Virginia House of Burgesses
and of the Continental Congress, Gov
ernor of Virginia, Minister to France,
negotlator of the Louisiana Purchase,
Secretary of State, Vice-President and
President of the United States, but
none of these honors did he wish in
scribed upon his tombstone. The stern
old Democrat preferred instead as
passports to Immortality remembrance
of his advocacy of the rights of man,
religious liberty and universal educa-
tion.
Thomas Jefferson died n bankrupt.
Beautiful Monticello passed into the
hands of strangers, and the simple
gravestone was neglected and mutil-
:,red. On April Is, 1882, in the birth
month of Jefferson, Congress appro-
priated $4,000 for the erection of n
suitable monument and to make other
suitable improvements over the grave
OF Thomas Jefferson at Monticello,
Virginia" When this new monument
was erected the original shaft was
presented by the Misses Randolph, the
residuary legatees of Thomas Jeffer-
son, through DR.. 5. S. Laws, Presi-
dent, and DR.. A. f. Fleet, Professor
of Greek In the University of Missouri,
to that institution. II was shipped
from Monticello by DR.. Fleet on the
4th of July, 1888, and unveiled on
the 4th of June, 1885, upon the Mis-
souri, University campus with ceremo-
MES, In which Senator Vest, Thomas
f.. Bayard, then Secretary of State;
Senator stephen Il. Elkins and other
eminent Americans participated.
Aside from this tablet the only in
scription upon the obelsk Is the sunk
EN- figures showing the date of the
birth and of the death of Jefferson.
The shaft proper is five and one-half
feet high, and rests upon a base three
feet square. 1t had been chipped
somewhat by relic hunters before its
removal from Virginia. The tablet is
two feet by eighteen inches in size
and of highly polished marble The
monument stands in beautiful grass
plot ON the east side of the quadrangle
OF the university campus. Not far
from 1t is the original monument from
the tomb OF David Barton, the first
United States Senator from Missouri
replaced at Boonville by handsomel
shaft erected at State expense.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

The Indian famines have afforded
coin collectors many opportunities to
acquire rare and old coins, which have
lain buried For great number of
years. The native has always shown
very grave suspicion Of banks. and
has usually preferred to bury coins in
what was considered a safe spot.
Those hiding places are revealed by
father to son, and the accumulations
sometimes go on for generations. In
dire extremity the hoard has to be
trespassed on; coins which have long
since become exceedingly rare are
thus brought to light and are eagerly
snapped up BY collectors. Many oil
them are being sold in London at The
present time. London Chronicle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26
JEFERSONS MONUMENT
A SIMPLE oBELIsK DESIGNED BY THE
GREAT PATRIOT AND STATESMAN.

II IL Now st the Missouri University, sna
VIII BE One OF the Interesting His
toricsi Exhibits at the worlds Fair,
Sc. Louis, 1908.
The original monument, designed
by Thomas Jefferson and erected over
his grave at Monticello, now stands
upon the campus of the University Of
Missouri at Columbia. 1t is simple
obellsk OF granite, eight feet in height
and without the slightest attempt ut
adornment. The monument will form
the centre Of the Missouri University
exhibit at st. Louis in 1909. Two
miles from the spot where Thomas
Jefferson was born, near the junction
of the Rivanna and James rivers. in
Albemarle County, Virginia. on the
lands which be inherited from his
father. rises Monticello, or the Little
Mount, 500 feet high. the home for
more than sixty years, and the final
resting place of the patriot and states
man. During the long summer days
OF the year 1853. ON rustic bench
near Its summit, beneath the branches
of majestic oak, could be seen two
young men in the early bloom of man
hood. students of the law and devoted
friends. The one was Thomas Jeffor-
son and the other Dabney Carr. Sena-
tor Vest thus described the scene
Lifting their eyes from the pages of
Coke OH Littleton they rested upon n
landscape Of enchanting beauty; on
..fo fhn ia H..
stretched away in an unbroken plain
to the ocean, with the Rlvanna and
James like threads of silver, while on
their left the Blue Ridge. robed in
azure hue, looked down upon the bill
lowy hills that nestled at their feet
solemn compact, mutually pledging
their sacred honor that beneath this
oak should be their burial place and
here their ashes rest Dabney Carr
died first He married Martha, sister
of Thomas Jefferson, and eight years
later, at the very commencement of
what promised to be most brilliant
career, died, leaving to the care of his
distinguished brother-in-law a widow
and six children. Fifty-three years
later, after forty-four years in public
service, Thomas Jefferson died and
was buried beside his boyhood friend
under the great oak. Among his pa
pcrs after death was found a rough
sketch in ink of an obelisk, together
with this inscription for n marble tab
let:
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26
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man who owns lottery ticket issued
by Presbyterian church in Plttsburg
as authorized by law" 1t is datc0
June 3, 1907.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

On the Italian stamps are Italian
towns with Austrian stamps, showing
the long dominion of Austria over parts
Of Italy. On some OF the old stamps
are marked the keys of st. Peter. sur
mounted by the mitcr Of the Bishop ~
Rome.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

The reason given fof the substitution
OF the drum for the trumpet in the
Italian army is that in these days of'
short service a young soldier learns to
march to the drum far sooner than To-
the trumpet. Again, IL Is found that
trumpeters are very subject to pulmon-
airy affections.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

hs huthoriIeu Dy law. III IS uatcW
June 3, 1907.
On the Italian stamps are Italian
towns with Austrian stamps, showing
the long dominion of Austria over parts
OF Italy. On some OF the old stamps
are marked the keys Of st. Peter. sur
mounted by the mitcr OF the Bishop ~
Rome.
The reason given foi' the substitution
OF the drum for the trumpet in the
Italian army is that in these days OF,
short service young soldier learns to
march to the drum far sooner than to-
the trumpet. Again, IL Is found that
trumpeters are very subject to pulmon-
airy affections.
An ear viii be handed down, so to
speak, from father to son for genera
ton after generation, with compa1a-
lively little modification. Some au-
thorities on criminology assert that
criminals are very apt to possess pc
culiar kind OF ear. which is recogpiza-
bit W an tApIIl JH SuCu uldlAtTb.
Every robemaker In London always
keeps some of the most expensive
robes of state-tbose of a registrar.
for instance-ready. and lends them
out when officials have to use them
at any great ceremony Many peer.
when his portrait is to be added to
the family picture gallery, has OBJ
tanned the crimson and ermine from
his tailor for small consideration.
John Foe. of Midtown. n. J., lost
his arms thirtytwo years ago, but he
can do most things that other men ac-
complish by the aid OF those members.
Says he: Anybody can get along with
out his arms If he has to. Every time
/ row, fish, hunt or plow | find a bet
ter way to do it, and it continually
grows easier to get along" The arm
less wonder is not new. Montaignc
described an exhibiting one of the six
tcentb century in words that would fit
modern press notice.
Among the curious insects of the
Malay peninsula recently studied by
Mr. Nelson Annandale of the London
Geological Society is one called the
lantern-hy, which is remarkable for it's
sudden leaps. made without the aid of
its wings. 1t was only after he had
carried u specimen back to London
and carefully examined 1t that Mr..
Annandale discovered that a curious
projection on the front of its head, a
kind of nose with crease in it. was
the leaping organ. When bent back
under the abdomen and suddenly re-
leased it sent the insect flying.
In China the mortal part of the dead
is put under the control of a geoman-
Ger. n man wise in the mysterious in
fuences of Feng Shua. Feng Shua is
a superstition concerning the earth
and air forces, and it operates power
fully in all Chinese matters. but in
none more powerful than in the burial
of the dead. That the grave should be
so located as to invite the good infiu-
ences and avert the evil influences Of
Feng Shua is the great consideration,
for which the good Offices of the geo.
mancer are sought-at round price.
All graves must be protected ON the
north, as from that direction the ma
lign influences usually come. Hence
the grave is placed on the south slope
of hill, with protective architecture
built on the hillside or, If on level. is
supplemented by walk, half clrcling
it on the north.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

An ear win be handed down, so to
speak, from father to son for genera
ton after generation, with compara-
lively little modification. Some au-
thorities on criminology assert that
criminals are very apt to possess pc
culiar kind OF ear. which is recogniza-
bic by an expert in such matters.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

THE PARACHUTE DROP.
Told by r1r. Lane-stokes, Aeronsut.

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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

on those wild battle grounds on which
the white man and the red man fought
their last fights"
During the earlier stages the train
ing of the United States cavalryman
differs in no essential particulars from
that Of the infantryman, but, later on,
the great variety of instruction in the
cavalry arm of the service renders II
most interesting for both officers and
troopers. Beginning with the "set-
tlng-up' exercises, the recruit looks
Forward to the time when he shall be
assigned his horse and be full-hedged
cavalryman. The new horses, or ''re-
mounts" as they are called, no doubt
also look for the time when neck
bending lessons, the passaglng, the
turaing of the forehead to the right
and left, about, etc, are over, and
longs, as does the recruit to be among
the horses that know how TO handle
themselves from their foretops to their
heels. After the soldier has learned
to sit his saddle and to govern his
horse. he gets the more interesting
MISUNDERSTANDING, potato races,
sabre practice and rough riding. In
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

with the waist. The fronts proper are
tucked to yoke depth and gathered at
the waist line, but the backs are plain
across the shoulders and show only
slight fulness at the belt. The lace is
applied over the material on indicated
lines, the scalloped edge making an
admirable effect over the plain waist.
The sleeves are in bishop style, with
pointed cuffs. and the neck is finished
with a plain stock, to which are at
tached turnover portions of lace.
To cut this waist for a woman Of
medium size three and a half yards of
material twenty-one inches wide,
three yards twenty-seven inches wide.
two and half yards thirty-two inches
wide or two and an eighth yards forty
four inches wide will be required, with
one and half yards OF lace seven and
a half inches wide, and three-eighth
yards of narrow edging TO trim as IL
lustrated
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

vice-president Roosevelt win visit
Montgomery. Ala, the second week In
November.
William J. Bryan has bought tho
National Watcbmnn, n labor paper.
at Alexandria. Va.
Andrew Carnegie has given SJ0.000
10 build n town hall at Motherwel1,
Lanarkshire, Scotland.
King Edward Is likely 70 confer
dukedom on Lord Salisbury at the
time of His Majcsty's coronation.
King Alfonso of Spain has planned
an extended trip through France and
Germany, accompanied by General
Weylcr
the scventy-ffth anniversary of his
birth. He Is serving his fifth term in
the Senate
Brigadier-General Frederick Grant
Is authority for the statement that the
Filipino is full of fun and knows how
TO take n joke.
Rcar-Admlral Melville has made
public his Views on submarine boats,
holding that they have not passed be-
yond the experimental stage.
Jules Verne. the famous author. has
become completely blind. His eyeslght
had been falling for some time. and
now II has completely disappeared.
Governor White. of West Virginia.
says he will not bc candidate for
the United States Senate, but will re-
turn to newspaper work after his term
expires.
General Harris G. Hobart OF MIL
waul;ec. Wis. Is one of the few sur
vivors of the Libby prisoners who es-
capped through the famous tunnel. lie
Is eighty-nine years old.
An herculean lawyer is Justice Les
lie W. Russell, of the New York Su-
prcmc Court. Judge Russell was In
his youth famous baseball play
or and for years cherished a rosewood
bat given him in token OF his prowess.
but this was lost in q fire some years
ago.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

TO limit Stephenson to the Rocket
type of locomotive. The carriage, of
which this is sectional view, is sixty
feet long and ten feet ten inches wide,
and has accommodation for 100 pas
sengers, each person having separate
seat, specially arranged so as to avoid
discomfort while passing round the
curves Mt high speed The electric
current is picked up by trolleys at
tached to the car, but insulated from
the bottom of the bogies flexibly
coupled together by n specially de-
signed joint, of which the carriage
consists. The bottom part of the car
rlage Is quite open, SO that all the
guide wheels are exposed to view, and
there is ample play between the car
rlage and the line. The motors only
are completely shut off on all sides by
Il box for their protection. The guide
wheels are two feet in diameter, and
there are sixteen. They are very
broad. and are inclined vertically to
the trestles, instead of being horizon
tai, thereby considerably reducing the
friction. The guide wheels below the
driving wheels are attached to the un-
der frame of the carriage, and those
between the two small boyle wheels
are attached to the centre of the b0gie
itself. SO that they cannot move at all
with the carriage frame.