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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13

than half as large rs the other, but 1t
much startled at the apparition Of a
girl in blue dress. 1t crowded against
the creek bank and showed its teeth.
evidently expecting immediate attack.
and growled and whimpcred, as much
in alarm as in anger.
This stirred the old bear to wrath.
and poor Florence. standing in- mar
row channel between the angry mother
and the formidable cub, dared not
move foot in either direction. She
might have dared TO try passing the
small bear, but she knew the old one
would leap at her Instantly.
She stood upon two big boulders.
slightly elevated above the bears, and
astriGe little channel OF the brook.
She kept her position, and although
her heart beat so loudly that it sound
ed IN her ears like the tattoo OF n
drum. she controlled her agitation. and
turned her camera first upon one and
then the other OF the threatening griz-
zlles. until she had exhausted all the
exposures upon the film.
While she was doing this she noted
that the grizzlies were growing more
and more angry. and that the smaller
one. hugging an earth bank within
| five or six steps of her. had It's nose
and jaws stained red with the juice OF
berries. which seemed to heighten the
ferocity of its expression.
The photographing. which occupied
but few moments. seemed to clear
her brain, and she looked swiftly
about. seeking in vain for some line
OF ascent up the steep banks. The
bears increased their threats and yag.
gerings until the little canyon roared
with the horrid noise
Florence felt sure the old dam was
about to pounce upon her. and as a
last resort. she stopped. laid her cam
era behind one Of the boulders upon
which she stood, and then suddenly
dropped at full length into the narrow
creyice between them.
The water in this small runway was
q foot or more in depth, and Florence
sank upon the bottom with only her
face and floating skirt at the surface.
She was completely hidden from the
bears, and to her great relief their
threatenings quickly ceased, and pres
emily the cub leaped fairly over her
body ON its way TO join its dam.
Two or three minutes later Florence
dared to peen,over the rocks. and find
ing the coast clear. crawled out and
made her way to camp. where, after
telling her story. she became q heroine
indeed.
Six photographs enlarged to real pic
ture size and handsomely framed now
hang in the dining room at Black Rock
Ranch. Three Of these pictures show
great grizzly standing at gaze upon
some rocks. and two others show the
same bear in different attitudes of
fierce threat. The remaining one dis
plays in shadow. n bear crowding
against an earth bank and showing its
teeth like an animal at bay. 1t is GER
tainly a notable collection of photo
graphs
Recently. at social gathering. my
mother related the story Of The Lady
or the Tiger" and some one proposed
/ the conundrum. What would Florence
Crissman do In such a case?' With
one voice all the company shouted.
Photograph the tigerw think such
things are enough to spoil any girl
| Youths Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13

Chicago, Cattle. Mostly 10a15c lower,
good to prime steers " 25as 90; medium
90 75a6 80; stockers and feeders 81 2j
al 90; COWS, 81 40a4 80; heifers 81 Goa
5 90; Texas-fed steers $3 00a4 20. Hogs,
Mixed and butchers $6 65a7 10; good to
choice, heavy $6 a0a7 %; Sheep, sheep
and lambs slow to lower; good to choice
whethers 81 50a4 90; Western sheep
50 50a5 80.
East Liberty, Cattle steady; choice
s6 80a7 90; prime S. l5a6 75 Hogs.
prime heavy 81 25a7 80, mediums 81 10;
heavy Workers. ~ 00a7 90. Sheep steady,
Best wethers 80 60a3 80 culls and oom-
mon 81 50a2 90; choice lambs 50 35a5 50
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13
Velvet Corsage violets.

Something of an innovation in the
artificial flower field, both for millinery
and corsage use, is the violet scented
velvet violet. In shape and shading it
Is as near the natural product as any
manufacture may be, and only the
most sensitive olfactory nerves could
detect a difference in odor.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13
Tunnel jumping in chicago Navigation.


Chicago tugmen view mournfully the
passing of one Of their fayorite diver
siOus through removal of the top OF
the old cofferdam OF the Washington
street tunnel. For years tunnel
jumping has been a feature Of river
towing. In Jumping the Washing
ton street tunnel tugs, With free
river before them. have shot over the
tunnel, dragging II 400-foot vessel with
10000 bushels OF grain or 1000 tons
of coal behind them. TO get over the
cofferdam the big ships have been
forced fifteen or eighteen inches out
OF water, their keels resting On the dam
while the propellers and tugs forced
them across and into deep water Sew
onteen feet below the surface two
divers worked all day 10 cut away the
tirnbers of the cofferdam. The flow
OF the river was stopped for a time
while they worked.-Chicago Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13
Reetlea For Mlllinerx

Large beetles Of enamelled French
gold and studded with mock diamonds
are one of the millinery caprlces of the
moment. Floriated devices of the same
material, set with scales of mother-of-
pearl, are also seen, while spangles.
cut steel and cut jet are in high favor.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13

One of the most fashionable fads OF
the season is the 'grandmother's chain"
strings of cut jet or bogwood in marble
effects and long, sometimes five or six
feet. They are worn several times
about the neck and knotted in front
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13

lar, The stock Is the regulation one
with the addition of the turnover
portion.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is four aud one-eighth
yards twenty-one inches wide, three
and seven-eighth yards twenty-sevcn
inches wide. three and one-eighth yards
tbirty-two inches wide or two and one
eighth yards forty-four inches wide.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13

seven and one-fourth yards thlrty-two
inches wide or four and three-fourth
yards forty-four inches wide will be
required.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13
The Feat Of
an Amateur.
Cy F. w. Crissman.

y sister Florence has won
considerable success as an
amateurphotographer. Last
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-13

New York City.-Simple waists al.
Ways possess an inherent charm and
re essentially smart. This attractive
lay Manton model Is shown In peau
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18

M VAL EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION.
If in the elaborate tests about to be
made by the Navy department the new
submarine boats should demonstrate
their efficiency, if a 1.-THE of the possibili-
ties claimed for them should be realized,
what would become of scores of mil
lions expended on fleets of great battle.
ships?
The officers OF the navy have been
s%ingularly Indifferent to the subject Of
submarine warfare, neither encouraging
nor welcoming the efforts of specialists
and inventors to develop it, and al a gen
eral thing actually regarding them with
contempt. So, in the days of the old
wooden ship of the line, they were skepti-
cal and u~nreceptive to the possibilities of
armor. This did not prevent the sud
den revolution of naval architecture by
the little ''cheesebox on a raft"
Ericsson's Monitor, which single
handed could have sent the wooden war
ships of the world to Davy Jones locker
in a trice.
If scientific opinion is to be given fair
credit it is altogether possible we may
be on the eve of a revolution of naval
methods through submarine navigation
as sudden and complete as a half CEN
fury G was wrought by the turreted
ironclad. Yet our government is going
ahead building battleship fleets the
same as If they might not any time in
a twinkling be rendered obsolete.
1t costs from $4,O00,OOO to $6,O00,0O0
to build and equip a modern battleship
and after being in commission their
maintenance is enormously expensive.
1t would be sufficient to build three or
four dozen of the small submarine craft.
1t is highly probable that If the govern
ment had spent a considerable part of
the cost of a single one Of the I'M
wieldy sea monsters on sincere and per
sistent experimentation with submarine
boats it would ere this have developed
a system substantially changing naval
warfare.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18
BETTER WAGES Fur RAILRoADERs.

Tie railroad corporations are at last
safely stand out against INCREASED wages
to their employees. Their profits have
been enormous, Notwithstanding their
full extent has been obscured by the
mergers, the appropriation of extraor-
binary sums for permanent improve
ments, and dividends on many OF the
| stocks have been raised to 6. Z or even
a higher per cent, still the companies
are carrying surplus accounts increas-
ing in magnitude every rear, and. in
some cases, like the st. Paul and North
western systems, amounting to millions
Of dollars.
In spite of this fact. the roads have
only grudgingly conceded increased
wages during these years of unparalleled
prosperity. The average advance of
wages has followed at a long distance
in rear of rise of net earnings and is in
ridiculous disproportion to 1t. 1t has
been on the average not to exceed 10
per cent, or only a fraction of the en-
HANGED cost of living.
Beyond all question the situation JUS
titles a demand for a substantial general
advance of the wages of most classes
of the employees. Although they have
proceeded cautiously and conservatively,
1t is incomparably better for the com
panies to yield to the demand than to
sustain the losses which Generalization
of traffic by strikes would inevitably
entail. Within a few weeks more thar
a score Of the companies have made
settlements with employees on this basis,
and undoubtedly many more are to fol-
low.
There is certainly no public disposition
to deny to the railroad companies a fair
and even a large share in the era of
prosperity that is now at its height. 1t
would have been better, however, if they
had shown a reader disposition to APP
portion the results Of prosperity, on the
one hand by readjustment of charges
and tax contributions, and ON the other
by more liberal wages TO the labor en-
ployed in conducting transportation.
Public sympathy, therefore, will be def
nitely on the side of the employees until
the movement for a, fair settlement shall
have been generally successful.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18
PRoBLEMs FuR THE LreIsL1rrRr

PROBLEMS FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
The coming legislature will be com
PEELED to grapple with many grave prob
lens. First and foremost among these
are the questions Of revenue law re-
vision, az reform. state debt, deficiency
appropriations, revision Of the depository
law and constitutional amendments. At
its very opening the legislature will be
confronted with Il financial exhibit and
an estimate Of appropriations believed to
be. necessary for the maintenance OF
state government and state institutions.
With a state debt that has passed the
S2,0OO,OOO mark in spite of the constitu-
tional Limitation of $780, 600, the legisla-
ture will be expected to appropriate
8 100000 to meet current expenses Of
state government and the maintenance
of educational and correctional institu-
tons, or about $1,OO0,OOO more than has
ever been appropriated by any Nebraska
Legislature for the same period.
Where is this enormous amount of
money to come from under the present
lopsided system of taxation that enables
the owners Of o%ne-fourth of the entire
wealth Of the state, namely, the rail
roads, to evade their just share of the
taxes and shift them upon the owners
of the other three-fourths Of taxable
property? If it is absolutely necessary
to appropriate 100000 a year to meet
the expenses Of state government, does
1t not necessarily follow that the state
debt instead Of increasing at the rate of
100000 a year will be increased by
$250,000 a year and mount up to $1,000
900 within less than FIVE years?
If the state debt is to be reduced in
stead of increased. how much of a tax
will the state have to levy for 1908 and
1904? Manifestly, we must either cur
tail expenses of state government all
along the line and resist all demands for
the enlargement of existing state institu-
tons or the creation of new ones or pre-
pare to have the state thrown into the
hands Of a receiver at no distant day.
The truth of the matter Is that Ne
Didbhd mas W -SGdLS bECh WNhAAhb n
strait-jacket constitution that has pre-
vented expansion where evolution and
growth made 1t imperative and at the
same time prevented retrenchment where
it could readily be effected without Inn
pairing the efficiency of public service.
The enormous increase in the state debt
within the past ten years is not alto
gether due to bank wrecking and EN-,
bezzlement. 1t can be readily traced to
legislative extravaganza and a%ppropria-
lions largely in excess of the income of
the state, and last, but not least, TO
wastefulness and unbusinesslike man
agement in state institutions.
There is great opportunity for cour-
ageous men Of brains and business tact
to render the state invaluable service
and distinguish themselves during the
coming session of the legislature, which
will have ample time to deal with all
the intricate economic problems.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18

sonable hope that it will soon fade out
altogether, leaving the kiss as before, Sc
curely intrenched in private and popular
approval the world over, as It has been
since the days of Hilpa and Shallum, the
echo Of whose chlrping oscillations no
doubt made glad the far-off time in which
they conducted their innocent and ante
diluvian courtship. The bowling homoeo-
pathic incubus. II such a description may
properly be applied to him who has Just
lent additional dr~eariness to the gray wane
Of Nebraska's perishing October by -four
ishing forth a theory so absurd as that
which connects kissing will peril from the
rsvsge of colhding microbes, is individu-
ally Of little consequence, and to be spanked
by his fellow doctors II at all, but as he
has led an entire medical association by
its much too extenuated ears into a posi-
ton so irrational and untenable It becomes
a public duty to hold him up by the tail
Of his professional perlwig for general
observation and reprobation.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18
DEPARTMENT DE CoNMERoE

1t is regarded as practically assured
that congress will at the coming session
pass the bill providing for a department
of commerce, in which shall be embraced
a number of bureaus now in other de-
partmehts, chiefly in that of the treas
ury. SO far rs appears there is no con
siderable opposition to the proposed new
department, 1t being generally admitted
that it is necessary and would be of
material advantage to the Industrial and
commercial interests of the country,
which for several years have been urg-
ing the creation Of such a department.
The arguments in behalf of a depart
ment of commerce have been repeatedly
and amply set forth. The sufficient jus
tihcation for creating the proposed de
Dartment is found In our great com
mercial development. the extension OF
which is steadily going on. II is mani.
testify important that the national gov.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18
BITS or WASHINGTON LIFE.
Minor scenes and Sketched
on the spot.

Nicholas Jean Fortunesco, a Roumanian,
and Alfred Georges. a Belgian, have secured
American patents on a motor which en-
gineers say will inaugurate a revolution in
the motor line. Motors generally do a
revolution stunt when busy. SO with the
new one, but Il surpasses it's predecessors in
two important particulars-it occupies far
less space and can be operated by steam.
water, compressed air or with gas or Huui-
fed air. An eight-horse power machine
built on the some scale would weigh only
254 pounds and occupy comparatively no
room at all and can be used for the propul-
sion OF vessels by direct transmission OF
power. There is scarcely any machinery
from a farm implement to a steamship
which cannot be run by this little motor.
1t has been tried in automobiles and runs
smoothly and without the slightest vibra-
ton Of the vehicle such as is experienced
in most of the machines.
There is no hywheel such as would inter-
fere with the general application Of its
power and 1t can be used in propelling air
ships. 1t has been used in the generation
of electricity on a large scale, but acted
equally we'll when for house lighting It
was worked by water pressure from an or
binary spigot.
During its operation in the Navy depart
ment IL was illustrated that the little cir
cular affair, scarcely bigger than a wash
basin, could, while in any position what
ever, either vertical or otherwise, be used
with the same advantage as when standing
in its proper position on the base con-
structed for It.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18
THE FELLOW WHO FIGHTS ALONE.
New York Sun

New York Sun.
The fellow who fights the fght-alone,
With never a word OF cheer,
With never a friend his help to lend,
With never g. comrade near
It's he has need of a stalwart hand
And a heart not given to moan
He struggles for life and more than life,
The fellow who fights alonei
The fellow who fights the world alone
With never a father's smile,
With never a mothers kindly tono
His sorrowful hours to guile,
Who joins the fray at the dawn OF day
And battles till light has flown,
Must needs be strong, for the fight IA long
The fellow who fights alone!
All, bitter enough the combat Is
With every help at hand,
With friends at need to bid godspeed,
With spirits hat understand;
But fiercer far Is the fight to one
Who struggles along unknown
Oh, brave and grim is the heart OF him,
The fellow who fights alone!
God bless the fellow who fights alone.
And arm his soul with strength
Till safely out of the battle rout
He conquering comes at length.
TIL far n near into every ear
The fame of his fight is blown,
TIL friend and foe in the victor know
The fellow who fights alonel
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18

1t is likely that the congressional dis
tricts of Iowa will be reapportioned by
the next legislature. The present dis
tricts are very unequal in population.
The Tenth and Eleventh districts, COM
prising the northwestern t~wenty-seven
counties, or almost one-third of the terri
tory Of the state, have a population
equal TO that of three districts in the
southeast. The districts have been little
changed in a quarter Of a century and
population has rapidly increased in the
western, while it has increased slowly
in the eastern parts.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18
A carr ROE E.RLy 1CTrON


There is a very general feeling that
the time has come when the hands of
the Interstate Commerce commission
should no longer be tied. At the last
session Of congress representatives of
various business bodies urged the
passage of the Nelson-C orliss bill, the
general features of which have been
explained In these columns. and it is
more than probable that that measure
would have been passed but for the sup
port given the Elkins bill by the railway
interests.
The latter measure has undergone re-
vision and amendment since the adjourn
ment of congress and will be brought
forward at the coming session with
such changes as in the judgment of the
executive committee of the interstate
commerce law convention are essential
to render the law to the greatest possible
extent effective. 1t is to be observed
that the committee occupies a neutral
attitude In relation TO the provision of
AZ bAhAho Jill duNlOIlNluk TIE DODlluE
Of traffic or earnings, but as this is the
really vital point In that measure and
the n that chiefly distinguishes it from
the other bill, it would seem to be quite
impossible that the committee can re-
main neutral as to this provision. 1t
must take a definite position for or
against the pooling provision and if it
assume to represent the shipping in
terest Of the country there can be no
reasonable doubt as to what it's attitude
will be. 1t is believed that the shippers
Of the country are by a very large ma.
jority opposed to railway pooling and
therefore favor the enactment of the
Nelson-C orliss bill. which is very similar
to the Elkins bill except as to the pool
ing provision.
1t is promised that. a very earnest
effort will be made at the coming ses-
sion of congress to secure legislation for
increasing the authority and powers of
the Interstate Commerce commission,
but 1t cannot be confidently said that
anything will be done. There is the
same irreconcilable issue between the
railroads and the shippers and it is TO
be apprehended that there are enough
lei in congress controlled by the rail
roads to defeat legislation in the interest
of the shippers. The fight, however, for
amendment of the interstate commerce
law so as to increase and strengthen the
authority Of the commission, in order
that it may be enabled to correct exist
ing abuses. will not be abandoned and
it is not to be doubted that ultimately
it will be successful.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18
Freemen'. Tribute to boosters.
Philadelphia Record.

The most imposing public demonstration
made at Havana since the installation OF
the Palma government was married the
other day by heavy rain. but its blaring
bands, emblazoned banners. gayly capar-
isoned horsemen and serried ranks OF vo-
ciferous marehers none the less a~ttested
a high degree Of popular enthusiasm. What
was it all about? II was in the interest
of legalizing cock fighting, and resembling
the military order, still in force, under
the terms of which the Cubans' favorite
sport is prohibited. Here, evidently, is
work for ping pong missionaries and social
reformers, as well as for the heavy hand
Of military authority.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18
The Brave of Moses.
New York Sun.

Colonel Moses Cincinnatus Wetmore, the
chief Of all the trust busters and the pride
Of st. Louis, viii not tight a duel. He has
declined an invitation to tight sent him by
a Louisville man. Vulgar rumor pretends
that the colonel will not go upon the field
because the other man is a good shot. This
is unjust to as brave a man as ever faced
a trust before selling out to IL. While on
a hunting trip with Mr.. Bryan in 1898
Colonel Wetmore lassoed a Jack rabbit, hit
a barn door and had 10 pay for damages
TO the COW inside. His skill is beyond ques-
tion. but he has no time TO meet private an
tagonists. While there is a trust in exist
ence Colonel Wetmore will devote his own
to starting an opposition and making the
enemy pay dear.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18
Cheap Labor in Hawaii.
New York Tribune.

new 1ork Tribune.
According to Governor Dole's Official re-
port. Hawaii is prosperous. and its goose
hangs as high as at any time in its history.
But he thinks it's situation would be i'm
proved by the repeal Of the Chinese ex-
clusion laws, so that the sugar planters
could get more and cheap labor, and thus
increase their output But this is not SO
easy a matter as the governor evidently
imagines. Congress Is not likely to make
fish of it's Sandwich possessions and flesh OF
all the rest. letting IN Chinese there and
fencing them out elsewhere, to enrich stil
further an already opulent handful of is
land sugar growers who ought to be well
content with the measure of prosperity they
already enjoy.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18

The process of the federal courts as
a means of enforcing the acts of con-
gress of 1865 and 1871 which provide
for the use of the Union Pacific bridge
on equal terms by railroads seeking to
reach Omaha from the east is a rather
slow remedy. A public grant ought to
be accompanied by a more prompt
method of enforcing its terms.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-18

"a Kansas City suburb has declared
war against cats and dogs because they
are believed to be in a large measure
responsible for the epidemic Of small
pox that prevails there. A wholesale
slaughter of the CANNES and catlnes by
police sanitary officers and private citi,
Eens is now in progress. Should the
hnti-dog aud cat crusade reach Omaha
the patrolmen laid of recently by the
police board might have 10 be r~einstated,