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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-06

Of my line and then held him by main
strength.
THAT small line will cut his head
off" cried Mr.. Ditmars. in real alarm
for the safety of our prize snake.
Better let me cut itv' He whipped out
his knife and poised the open blade
over my precious bit of line.
mo, no! Don't cut 1t. We've got
to control his head this way or we'll
never master him without getting
hurt Let go the tail and grab up the
body through that next opening"
This new move again brought up the
original six feet of body and tail
which that reptile had, by sheer
strength, pulled out of the grasp of
two strong young men. The snake
now moved forward once more and as
he came / pulled in my line through
the staple until presently coaxed and
pulled the head into an opening hold
ing 1t quite safely at the end of my
stick Instantly Mr. Ditmars seized
the neck with both hands, and the
snake was our.
Dropping my line and stick I, too.
took hold close behind the head and
we began TO walk away with our cap
tive. AS that magnificent and wonder
fully powerful body emerged from un-
der the floor. the other men laid hold
of It at intervals and bore 1t along.
Keep it out straight, boys, and don't
give him chance to get coil around
any of usr'
Truly, 1t must have. been an odd
looking procession that we made as
we marched across the yard with that
big snake and dumped 1t into its cage.
The hunt had lasted nearly an hour
No one had been bitten and the snake
was quite unhurt.
''Now, boys" said I, 'let's say moth
ing about this little incident for the
present"
They did keep quiet and the unex-
pected happened. Not one of the
newspapers of New York heard word
of the affair until fully three months
had elapsed, and then the story was
so old that as a sensation it was as
dead as Rameses, and the zoo did not
suffer a bit from reference to It,
To-day that python occupies the Sec
ond cage from the alligator pool, and
Is the handsomest, although not the
largest, of our many constructors
Youths Companion.
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Tie Electric Eel,s victim. .

At the Geological Gardens a large
electric eel was swimming in its tank
with more activity than usual, when
big coclzroach fell into the water.
and in its efforts to get out made a
disturbance of the surface, which at
tracted the attention of the eel. The
eel turned round, swan past 1t, dis
charged its battery at about eight
inches Off, and the cockroach instant
ly stopped stone dead. 1t did not even
move it's antennae after. The eel then
proceeded to swallow it's victim, and
the narrator goes ON to point out the
curious circumstance that the fish,
which weighed about twelve pounds.
should find 1t worth while to fire its
heavy artillery at creature an inch
and half long, when it could easily
have swallowed 1t sans facon.-Cham-
berss Journal.
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minerals in the Land of oranges,

Florida Is rich in minerals. In aGdi-
ton to phosphate, of which the world
already knows, she has immense de-
posits of clays of every kind-kaolln,
ochres, fire and aluminium clays. gyp,
sum and Fuller's earth of great extent
and finest quality. She has stone ex-
cellent for building purposes and a
soft magnetism limestone that pro-
duces a cement in every respect equal
to the best imported. Iron of high
grade and value is known to exist in
several localities; so also are indlca.
tions OF petroleum. natural gas and
soft coal and asphalt to be found In
several portions of the State; and yet
with one or two exceptions the fields
containing these ores are undevcloped
Baltimore Sun.
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR TOPICS.
June 9--fiow to Enter Christs famiiy--Matt
XIII, 1850. (Childrens Day.)

Scripture Verses-John XIV. 4, 8; IA,
10; Heb. IL. IL; Matt. xiii. S-12; Rom.
viii. 16, II; Gal. iii. 1929; l John iii.
10; John xii. 80, 36; Eph. v. 6-S.
LESSON THOUGHTS.
Nothing is more close than the con-
nection of Christ and his believers.
The tie of human relationship is physi.
cal and temporal; the tie to Christ is
spiritual and eternal. And we see
from this passage how absurd Is the
idea that Mary Is our intercessor with
Christ or God. The connection of any
saint with Jesus by faith is greater
than this tie of blood in itself is"
Our boast of eminent ancestors.
and important kinsmen. is usually
foolish and vain. The only question
of consequence is how nearly we our.
selves are related to Jesus"
THE home should be a type of the
church; the pure but earthly family,
of the perfect heavenly family"
SELECTIONS.
A poor but plous woman called upor
two wealthy and truly refined young
ladies'. OF course they received her
with Christian affection, and they sal
down in the drawing room to enjoy
a delightful conversation. While thus
employed dashing youth by chance
entered, and appeared astonished to
see his sisters so engaged. One OF
them instantly started up and ex
claimed: Don't be surprised, brother
this is kings daughter, though she
has not yet got her fine clothing"
All true Christians are brotners ane
sisters of Christ, and heirs with hin
of God. his Father. His riches are
their riches; his joys, their joys; hii
character. their character; his home
their home.
When one enters family by mar.
riage, he becomes responsible for Its
honor. SO when you join the church
the family of Christ, your dishonoi
becomes the dlshonor of the great
family, and your honor becomes iu
honor
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Chiiis.

Little Georgie likes to hear stories.
but he has q choice an to what kind.
Bear stories always come first. and
after that Indian and fairy stories
thrill him with interest. Not long ago
his father varied the story program by
telling him ghost story. which was
the first the child had ever heard. 1t
was about ghost dressed in white
which walked about a lonely grave
yard at night. Georgie was interested
in the ghost story. but he could not
forget about the dreadful thing. and
1t was noticed that he was afraid to go
to bed alone that night. A few even
ings afterward found him again on his
fathers knee asking for story; but.
papa" said Georgie, please don't tell
me anymore ghost stories, coz they
make my back all cold"
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nre not fixed on them.
Great men are those who apply the
measures of heaven to the matters OK
earth.
The hereto hunter tries to make
the flowers OF truth by blowing the
dirt from their roots.
When you keep your preacher
worrying over his grocery bills you
can hardly expect him to feed you
with the bread OF life.
The man who has eaten too heartily
to enjoy the sermon is SHINING IN ex-
actly the same way as the drunkaro
lying In the alley.
The Kingdom of heaven viii not
come till men come TO make It's laws
supreme and His will greater than tha
word Of majorities.
Spirituality is not spasmodic.
Your soul cannot eat by proxy
self-seekers do not find salvation
The fear Of God cures the fear Of
man.
You may always suspect the sua-
picious man.
He is poor Indeed who cannot nve
without riches.
when the devil breaches leave your
purse at home.
The softer the snow - Il fAlls ~
deeper It will sink
The roots arc retreshed ~ ~ rnin
released py The leaves
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The Germans are not too proud to
learn from other nations. They are
now buying American locomotives
with a view to ascertaining In whnt
respect they diccr from their own
make. Tho administration OF the
Royal Bavarian Railway have ordered
four engines from the United States,
aud the German manufacturers are
agitatcd ~ this account London En-
gincer. '-'-~----- -~---- =
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Naturallsts in Germany are much n.
terested in a wonderful old tree which
has been discovered near Homburg.
1t is an oak, and is notable not only
on account of its great bulk, but also
for the fact that at the base of the
trunk it is entirely hollow. The trunk,
indeed. is not more than eight or nine
feet in circumference. Some idea of
the size of its interior may be gathered
from the fact that four persons recent
ly found ample room in it. In winter
the old oak looks very bare and gaunt,
but according to peasants in the
neighborhood, who have known it for
many years. it regularly puts forth
new twigs and foliage every spring,
SO that, ancient and decayed though its
trunk may be, it is nevertheless
crowned and surrounded with masses
OF green leaves, just as it was in the
days of its youth. The people of HON.
burg are very proud of this natural
curiosity, and it is safe to say that
many tourists will have look at II
during the summer.
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RAMS HORN BLASTS

HUNDER in the
pulpit does not
tighten the world.
Holiness sur
passes morality
as love surpassea
law.
He who de-
socrates his body
dishonors his Gre
.ator.
God gives rich
es to our hands
when our hearts
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CURIOUS FACTS.

The first white child born on the
island Of Manhattan is said to have
been ose Jean vlgne, who saw the
light in 1914. The corroboration of
this interesting historical episode
comes from the memoirs of Jasper
Banker and Peter Sluyter, Labadist
missionaries, who in 1879 visited Man
haitian Island. saw vigne, then sixty
five years old, heard his story and sat
isfied themselves that 1t was true.
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Stock Exehas.s s~as sells FAR $4,000.
It IL said that $4,000 WAS paid for
seat In the stock exchange in New
York Monday. The prediction u
mado that II tho present activity In
stocks continues. $4,000 viii be paid
enr nineie seat
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Estimated national wealth at the be-
ginning OF the twentieth century.
100000, ,ooo.ooO.
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Now that the use Of boiled drinking
water has become common. 1t is inter-
esting to be reminded that similar
method Of guarding against disease
was practiced in ancient times. Hero
dotus tells how Cyrus had his drink
ing water boiled and carried in silver
vessels. and Pliny the elder relates
that Nero had water boiled and after
ward cooled for drinking by placing 1t
in glass TASKS surrounded with snow.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-06

New 1Ork ZOO1OgIcHI PHrK
was rapidly nearing compile
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Living representatives of four gen.
erations of one family are not very
uncommon in the United States, but
living representatives of four genera
tions who all have the same birthday
anniversary are surely not frequently
met with. This is said to be true of
the family of Mrs. Edith Ford, who
resides on o farm near Greensburg,
Ind. She is the reat-grandmother
was born in Scott County, KY, and is
now eighty-six years old. Her hus-
band died about ten years ago. Her
daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Strawback, is
tifty-six years old; the next represen-
tative of the family is thirty-six years
old, and tae fourth member is three
years old. Their birthdays all fall on
July o.
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"a snakes tail never dies till after
sundown." That is an article of rural
faith. By way of reinforcing 1t it
may be said that with some species Of
snake q severed bead bites an hour or
even two after cutting off, and further
that the headless body will often leap
its own length if irrtated upon the
raw That is not, however, quite so
strange as that the leap is made to-
ward the irritator, as though the body
could still measure distance and direc-
tion without eye, ears or brain.
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tion. Its great main hall wa
The representative., 1901-06-13
French Farmer Has the Best
Organized Trust in the World.

The world In its contemplation Of the
billion-dollar combinations, OF the new
century, and the nerging Of syndicates
into other syndicates. has quite over
looked the. In some respects, greatest
and best organized trust in the world.
For 1e years II has gone slowly and
quietly about It's work. taking year by
year another stride toward the stage OF
monopoly, unremaFhsd and unnoticed.
The world at laI8s hsa been thus blind
because it has sprung MP and obtained
its toothold in the most unlikely place.
But It Is there, nsyertheless, and today
the French farmer, With his 'syndtcatea
agricoles,' may smile at the steel
trusts" the building trusts" or the
Standard Oil combinations. More capt.
tai may be employed by these great
unions Of industry and money, but none
is SO well organized and in every way
the arch-type Of the idea as his.
Under the law Of the Third Republic
of March 81, 1884; the French farmer
and under that head is included the
landowner, the oceupier of the lands and
the agriculturist os every degrees en-
powered to organize societies for the
economic, industf1al, commercial and
agricultural betterment Of his class
They are permitta4 TO possess the realty
necessary for their meetings. library and
lecture rooms, to establish, banks among
their members, to provide pensions fol
the aged, relief funds for the sick and
needy and to open Offices for the un-
employed. They are empowered to or
ganize tribunals forfthe settlement Of all
contentious between workmen, or work
men and employers
Under this law farmers and persons
having to do withsetther the growing OF
disposing Of farm bzpducts have COM
bined to the numheraf S,k01, ,6S5. and are
com pretended in z pss societies: These
are the figures for =. !, 1900.
The farmers. sodsties combine and or
ganize in larger body. called union.
Of which there ale 40 in France now
the Northern union. headquarters IN
Boulogne; the Normandy union, at
Caen; the Breton Agricultural union,
Rennes; the Western union, Anglers:
the Burgundy union, DiJon; the Alpine
and Provence union. Marsielles; the
Southwestern, Bordeaux; the Southeast
ern, Lyons, and the Union du Midi, Tou-
louise. Over these is central body in
Paris, to which all unions report. and
which represents their interests in the
French legislative body, and in the more
important matters of business.
The societies are each divided into a
number of subordinate groups. The de-
partmental or county union is divided
into syndicates, these into cantonal or
The representative., 1901-06-13

began to fight, you thought was plenty
old enough
To be sure, to be sure answered
Jonathan, but you're rather clumsy for
your age, and should hate to have
you cut your fingers. Then, too. after
I've helped fight for it, the knife is real
1y as much mine as yours
But 1t isn't yours at ALL
1--WE won't talk about that just now.
Suppose, however, you just jot down
on piece of paper your plan of using
the knife. If like the plan, perhaps
you can have the knife-if you'll keep
the biggest blade, the little blade and
the corkscrew for my use l mustn't
let you get them dulled or broken
but il can't use all the blades, I
might as we'll not have the knife,
whimpered Juan.
Exactly; that's what have always
said; you might much better give it to
me, and done with the matter. And,
besides, when l promised you should
have it I was so excited l didn't know
what was talking about. A bad prom
Use, you know, is better broken than
kept
"'But l want the knife myself
"'Yes, but you ought not to want It.
I can make much better use of it, and
everybody knows that things belong to
the people who can make the best use
Of them. II you weren't such can
tankerous little rascal, you'd insist on
my keeping the knife; and now that
we're on that point, II you don't insist
on my keeping it, I'll make it so hot for
you on this street that you'll wish
you'd never been born. You shan't have
any of my playthings; I'll never swap
marbles with you again, and If catch
you alone, I'll pound you till you can't
see straight Citizen, Toronto.
The representative., 1901-06-13

DR.. Parkhurst, who raised SO much
fuss in New York over the rOttenness
of that city, has been on an observa-
tion tour through the South to find out
the exact status of the negro. He sums
up his conclusions as follows:
"The Southerner does not like the
negro any better than the average
Northerner does, and the two carry
themselves toward the negro with just
about the same amount of Christian
consideration, only of the two the
Southern white man has, perhaps, this
advantage in that he does not make any
pretense of loving the negro as his
Northern confrere does. The Southern
white man dislikes the negro and owns
up to It, The white man in the North
dislikes the negro and lies about it,
Southern Mercury.
The representative., 1901-06-13
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY
THE FARMERS CONVENTION


farmers of Minnesota should Immediate
ly and energetically proceed to organize;
that able and efhcient organizers should
at once be placed In the field to the
end that our organized membership be
speedily built up to include as nearly as
possible every farmer In our state, with
out regard to his party afiliations.
It Is the sense of this convention that
the largest possible membership in the
quickest possible time is of the essence
Of our success in this movement.
We further resolve that If it is good
for the organized steel industries to in
fluence the appointment of United
States attorney general and for railroad
combines, Standard Oil, sugar, whisky,
national banks and other corporate in
terests to control the election of United
States senators and state and federal
appointments and influence national pol
itics in the matter of ship and other sub
sides, the fixing of tariffs, the building
of canals, the extension Of foreign mar
kets and other matters affecting the
material welfare of the entire citizen
ship, then like privileges must be of like
benefit to the farmer.
To best promote our interests we deem
1t the part of prudence and wisdom to
first build up farmers organization
strong in members, to the end that all
Minnesota farmers may at our next
meeting have voice in the details of
plan of organization and procedure
that shall then be considered most ef-
fective in carrying out our purposes.
The representative., 1901-06-13
TO All the Farmers Of the Northwest

TO All the Farmers Of the Northwest
Greeting:
We, as farmers Of the state Of Min
nesota, in mass convention assembled.
having earnestly and carefully consid-
cred the business and industrial condi-
tions at present surrounding our occu-
patton, have determined that in all In
dustries except farming organization is
today the chief and most potent factor
making for success In those industries,
and the success of the farmer is the
basis Of success in all other industries.
That an era Of organization, consoli-
dation and cooperation has come, and
that it has come to stay.
That the controlling spirits in the ma
tons most successful business and in
dustrial enterprises are today acting up
on the theory that they are outside Of
partisan politics, and know no party
opposed to their business interests.
One of the prominent and typical busi-
ness men of our times tersely expressed
this thought when he said, Politics is
business, and very serious business at
that"
We realize that organized business in
terests are today controlling the making
and the execution of our laws, while
partisan politics and politicians are but
the instruments, and that without that
control coming from organization it is
impossible for the farmer unorganized
to realize from the sale of his products
a fair equivalent for his toll
Therefore we hereby resolve that the
The representative., 1901-06-13

The Chicago & Milwaukee Telegraph
company announced last week that 1t
will hereafter transmit "all telegrams
between Milwaukee and Chicago at the
rate Of 10 cents for 10 words. and one
cent for each additional word"
In answer to an inquiry whether the
Chicago & Milwaukee Telegraph COM
pany's lines, which have been used al
most exclusively for board Of trade
business. were going to be open for a
general commercial business, the local
manager, M. P. Allis, said: s,stse
I'VE have been sending out large
number Of messages for bankers and
business men, who can be reached for
delivery by telephone call, and we are
now going to extend this business by
advertising it. We will accept and send
any message at the rates quoted which
can be delivered by telephone either in
Chicago or Milwaukee. You see nearly
every business house is now accessible
by telephone. No arrangement has been
made for the delivery of messages in
any other way than over the telephone
wires, but suppose they will be mailed
to the persons for whom they are in
tended later. We have been delivering
board of trade messages at the same
rate which we now offer to people who
arA on the telephone systems in either
Chicago or Milwaukee"
Il don't think this move on the part
Of the Chicago & Milwaukee will make
any difference with our arrangements,
said M. w. Hamblin, the manager of the
Western Union company's Offices in Mil
waukee. I'VE have been sending board
Of trade messages at the rate of. five
cents for 10 words and one cent for each
additional word, while our regular rate
for commercial business is 25 cents for
10 words and two cents for each ad-
ditional word. OF course, do not know
what the Western Union will do; can
not speak for the company"
H. ]. Ramsey, the night manager OF
the Postal Telegraph company, said the
Chicago & Milwaukee company was
confined to the two cities of Milwaukee
and Chicago for it's business, and that
It did not amount to enough to warrant
the Postal company in taking any mo-
tice of this apparent cut in the rates.
The representative., 1901-06-13
THE MAtH1N1sTs, STRIKE.


The month of May, the favorite month
for labor demonstrations in Europe, has
witnessed a considerable number of
strikes in this country, and two OF
portions~to awaken wide comment. The
strike OF the machinists, following
closely on the heels Of the Albany la
Dor contest, was not unexpected, and
the machinists demand for a nine-hour
workday at present wages receives a
large share of public sympathy. There
have been NEW strikes with SO good a
basis of justice as this one" remarks
the New York World. The number Of
men involved in the strike at it's outset
was estimated at $4,000, but this num-
ber has been reduced daily by numerous
concessions made by employers. Almost
all the great Industrial centers are af-
fected by the strike, which has assumed
largest PROPORTIONS in San Francisco,
Scranton, New York and Cincinnati.
The contrast between the peace and or
derliness Of the tnachinists' strike and
the violence of the Albany labor war is
favorably commented on by several pa
pers, as is also the statement of Presi-
dent O'Connell, Of the International As
sociation Of Machinists, who is conduct
ing the strike frpn headquarters at
Washington, and who asks that IAN
arrangement shall bs, made whereby all
future DIFFICULTIES may be adjusted by
arbitration, thus preventing strikes and
lockOuts."
The strike has had, the effect of bring
ing into public notice in vivid way
the whole question of tho short-hour
working day. and the statement Of the
Brooklyn Eagle that the strikers de-
mand "harmonizes with what has come
to be regarded as the industrial fitness
of things on this side of the Atlantic" !"
finds favor even in conservative quar-
ters. The St. Paul Dispatch says:
"This action is in harmony with the
universal industrial tendency, the miti-
CATION of the mythical curse of the Car
den Of Eden, and the attainment Of co:-
ditions when all, instead OF few, men
will be able to secure the maximum COM
forts of life with the minimum of exer-
ton. The official world sets the exam
pie. Office hours are leisuraly and COM
pensation liberal. Why may the men
who work in shops not aspire to some
thing of the same condition? In COM
mercial life conditions are getting easier