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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
EpWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS
September 2i.-The Fullness OF God, How Sc
cured.-Eph. 3. l4-2l.

1t Is impossible for us to compre-
bend the entire fullness of God. or
course the finite cannot surround the
Infinite. But we may apprehend God
and know certainly something Of him.
There are certain lines we may follow
to the extent of our limited abilities.
Creation stands before us as an un'
mistakable evidence of his omnipo'
tence. HE hath made us, and not we
ourselves. Having been created by
him and in his image, and voluntarily
falling so beneath his design in our
creation, we wonder that he has not
cut man off from the earth. That he
has borne with such a wayward and
rebellious race is demonstration OF
his infinite, exhaustless patience.
Such long-sutfering patience must
be the outgrowth of his great sym
pathy with us. We know a little about
human sympathy but this measuring
line is very short in comparison with
lnfinitude. Only this Is so small COM
pared with Gods sympathy. His max
ing us In his own likeness, his won
derful patience, and his fathomless
sympathy have all sprung from his
goodness. To benefit the universe. to
increase the sum total Of its real
wealth and it's true blessedness. must
have been his design in our creation.
Now he is doing all he can to bring
US into cooperation with himself in
achieving the consummation OF his
wise plans. How grand is the end
contemplated Does it not give to
life surprising grandeur? How long
hn bn I'M hor
his goodness!
His omnipresence Is marvellous.
Think of him in the completeness of
his Personality being present every
where every instant! Thought wearies
In trying to grasp so broad truth.
Faith comes to our rescue, and we be-
lieve much that intellect fails to eX-
plain. His omniscience is another es-
sential of his perfectness. He knows
all that can be known from the begin.
ming to the end of time, and even
reads like an open book the wonders
of eternity. His word affirms that
from him mo secrets are hid" When
our knowledge is so limited our brains
whirl In striving to imagine the bound
less extent of his omniscience. Again
faith comes to assure us OF the inconI-
prehensible. Looking only at these
majestic elements of divine perfection,
we stand in awe OF Cod do VIC not ?
So very insignificant are we in con.
trast with him. 1t seems scarcely pos
sible that we can bo of any value to
the mighty Jehovah But just hero he
comes to lift up our heads while he
points TO tho cross of Calvary. For
God so loved us. Loved US Yes 4!
How gloriousl Every heart that really
knows this must De overjoyed. How
iL leaps and bounds with delight!
Praises I'll our whole being. Hallelujah
to our King. Beautiful as heaven it.
self is 1t to know the love of Godl
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
Selections.

Make me. pure One. as thou art.
Pure in soul and mind and heart;
Never satisfied with less
Than thy perfect holiness.
How anxious we are so to live that
we may not grieve away our friends
from our dwellings, Should an IL
lustrous guests become an inmate IN
our abode, how anxious should we
be to do all that we can to please
him, and to retain him with us!
How much more anxious should we
be to secure the indwelllng OF the
eternal Spirit! How desirous that he
should make our hearts and the church
his constant abode!
If thou, then wouldst have tho
soul surcharged with the fire Of God
so that those who come nigh to thee
shall feel some mysterious influence
proceeding out from thee, thou must
draw nigh to the source OF that fire
to the throne of God and of the Lamb
and shut tnyself out from the world
that cold world, which SO swiftly steals
our fire away.
Divine grace, even in the heart OF
weak and sinful man. is invincible.
Drown 1t in the waters Of adversely,
it rises more beautiful, as not being
drowned indeed, but only washed !;
throw it into the furnace of fiery
trials, it comes out purer, and loses
nothing but the dross.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Expressmen at San Francisco have
organized.
Norfolk (Va.) street railway men are
taking steps to organize.
Omaha (Neb.) street railway men
have recently organized a union.
About 1000 diamond workers in Am
sterdam, Holland, are out OF work.
The Seattle (Wash.) Central Labo
Union has secured the necessary funds
to build labor temple.
At Sacramento, Cal, 100 women wer,
recently initiated as members OF thu
Retail Clerks Union.
Mexican labor is so scarce as TO nc
cesitate sending for negroes from ia
maca. The latter are guaranteed EN-
ployment for year.
In wages alone SIoo, 100000 IS annu
ally expended by the United Statci
Steel Corporation, better known as th'
Steel Trust.
The Bank OF England employs abou
900 people, pays a quarter OF mil
lion a year in wages and f35,ooo a yea
in pensions.
Journeymen tailors of New Haven
Conn, will organize and again demans
an increase in wages The last move o
the workmen in the latscr direction wa
= fsdrr~
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
A Noyelist,n Opinion.

1t is a dark and difficult problem, but
one thing see clearly, namely, that drink
is the greatest and most baneful hypno-
tist on the earth at present, and that its
influence is more awful than any plague,
more devastating than any war. Looking
back from more than middle life. l can
hardly remember case of wreck and ruin
that has not been, directly or indirectly,
the result OF drink 1t is terrible roll
call my memory goes through of men Of
good and even brilliant opportunities, who
are dead or worse than dead, at the hands
Of the great hypnotist. Against that rec
ord l cannot recall single case of man
who, free from the tyranny of drink, has
been utterly destroyed by misfortune. The
hardest blows of fate seem powerless to
slay the man whom the great hypnotist
cannot subdue. And though l think in
temperance is often as much consequence
as a cause, l truly believe that if drink
could be utterly wiped out of the world to-
night, humanity would awake in the morn
ing with more than half its sorrows and
sufferings gone.-Hall Caine, in Household
Words.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
walking in tho Light.

"God is light, and in Him is no darkness
at all" ! John !: g. A Goddess life is
worse off than sunless world: better to
miss the light of day than the light Of all
life. Yet men viii suppose that the only
way to live the light and happy life is to
get as far away from even the thought Of
the God of all light, sunshine and bright
ness as they possibly can. We wait till the
cloudy days are past before we go out on
our search for recreation and enjoyment,
but many feel they must wait till God, the
Sun of life. has set to their view before
they can hope to find happiness. There can
no more be happiness without God than
there can be flowers without the sun. Men
ought to feel and do feel when their hearts
are right, the same Joy at the thought OF
Him as we feel when we step out on n
bright summers morn for whole day of
baslling in its warmth
Where darkness is He cannot be. Ii you
are hiding yourself under the shadow of
some great sorrow you are but dwarting
your life. chilling your heart and secreting
yourself from the only power able to make
the light shine in the darkness of despair.
What is the cause of dark days but the
hiding of part of the interests of the life
from the Lord? As soon as you shut the
light out you shut the darkness in, to shut
God out is to shut the devil in.
And how can we who walk in the light
live with faces eclipsed? These brief afflic
tions are but the vaDors that rise from the
soil; they cannot shut out the sun over
head. In fact God is not only light
above. He is light Within no matter
how heavily roll these mists and fogs they
cannot make it dark where He is shining in
the heart. Men do not fear Affections so
long as they are in fellowship with unfail-
ing love. Before the clear shining of that
eternal goodness our fears flee like those
of children when the light is turned on in
the dark room and they see the mothers
face. His perfect light casts out fear be-
cause it is the light of perfect love.
Alas, the hidden and dark places they
make our cloudy days and they form the
black spots on our professions. They are
the recesses where sin is conceived and
cultured; they are silent yet eloquent ar
guments that make all our verbal testi-
mony vain and void.
If we turned our calendars upside down
it would make no difference to the year; if
we called the nights day they would be
Just as dark A life is known by the way
it leads and not by its label. A false life is
lie in itself. Men are not saved by their
words about heaven, but by their walk to-
ward heaven. The world is convinced by
the logic of lives lived in the light, where
the finest language fails. Men may know
little of theology but they are quick to
recognize the shining of the divine in your
life. The only hope of this Door world is
the light of God shining in the hearts and
faces of men. and its greatest danger is
that those who profess to have this light
should be but empty and dead lamps, walk
ing in the darkness and leading others
deeper in.-Ram's Horn.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
Our Greatest Curse.

The saloon is the greatest curse of the
present day, the fountainhead from whence
flow streams of evil. 1t fills our prisons
with criminals, our insane asylums with
victims and our graveyards with paupers'
graves. 1t turns happy homes into barren
wastes. 1t debauches and ruins the hus-
band the son, the father; it destroys the
happiness of the wife, the mother, the
daughter. 1t clothes them in rags, starves
them and breaks their hearts. And for
what? That a few men may grow rich and
flourish on the burnt ashes of homes.
Every conscientious thinker admits that
all have said is only the sad truth, Then
why allow this terrible cause of crime and
wretchedness to go on? Why not inaugu-
rate war against it that would overthrow
it? If every good man should vote as his
better nature dictates this evil would be
abolished. Do not say that it is hopeless
to war against it, that this foe is too
strongly intrenched in human hearts and
selfshness, for right will triumph in the
end.-Josiah Aliens Wife, in the Woman's .
Home Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
rha crusnde in nrIaf.

More than $4,000 Americans die from az
coholic drink every year.
Moderate drinkers belong to the same
class as moderate stealers.
Earl Roberts comes before the British
public with renewed appeal that the re-
turning soldiers should not be led into
drunkenness by treating.
In the light of recent events in Mary.
land the friends OF Temperance reform and
OF good government have every reason to
be encouraged. Not only has the tendency
to rum rule been checked, but the tri.
umph of civic righteousness has been In
part at least realized.
DIR. Henry, the American speaker and or.
kanizer, who began work in England a
year ago, reports gratifying results, espe-
cially in Scotland, where. drink brings
degradation hardly heard OF elsewhere
A man may owe to drunken parents or
remoter ancestors nervous system which
Graves alcohol. Yet in all save one in
stance in thousand il is strictly true
that it lies with the man hmself whether
or not he will submit to the hereditary
predisposition and drink.
MIR Justice Emerson, one Of the judges
OF the Supreme Court OF Newfoundland.
lately congratulated the people OF large
judicial district on the utter abscnce of
crime, which he considered was due in =
great measure to sbe wise tempcrancc
legislation 20 long IN iofee.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
New 1emperapoe Saloon.

A "bar without beer" is soon to be
opened under the auspices of the Brown
ing Settlement, Walworth, London. It
will be on the lines of the "Red House"
in East London. A building has been
Walworth road. and The aim of the set
tlement will be to supply wholesome food,
tea, coffee, cocoa, etc. at price within
the means of the working classes. In the
same building a Robert Browning Club for
worllmen will be established, and the DR..
Dale Memorial Library win find home
under the same roof. Membership of the
club viii give free access TO the library. bill
liards, bagatelle, pingpong, unlimited op-
portunities for mental culture, cricket and
football
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18

True humility does good and is silent.
Gods sympathy is not exhausted in sighs.
Father" is the keyword to all true
PRAYER.
The light from heaven can never lead
astray.
When God closes one door, He opens an.
other.
PRAYER is the anchor that holds us fast
to God.
Honor looks better on a background Of
humility.
God puts consolation only where He has
first put pain.
The shadow may be the price we pay for
the sunshine.
Gods patience with the sinner does not
approve the sin.
There can be no Christian meeting with
out Christ in the midst.
If the King is indeed near kin to us the
roval likeness will be recognizable.
We know not a milhonth part of what
Christ is to us, but perhaps we even less
know what we are to Him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.


Bradstreet's says:--
All available data confirm reports Of
past good trade and foreshadow as good
or better yet to come. 1t has been es'
sentially week OF active buying in dis.
tributive trade. and sellers have occu-
pied an enviable position. Reports as
to August trade have been almost uni.
formly favorable, and the records oi
failures show business mortality to have
mum. Prices show persistent strength
despite the fact that agricultural pro-
ducts, except corn and prime cattle,
tend lower, owing to the growing
strength of raw textiles and other ma.
terials for manufacture. Corn is not
yet out OF danger from frost in the
northern half OF the belt, and this. cou
pied with short supplies, imparts
strength to cereals generally. Reports
of cotton crop deterioration, caused by
hot, dry weather, have scared shorts
and stitfened values OF raw and manu-
tactured cotton, but there is feeling
that the crop damage talk has been
overdone and that a liberal yield is still
possible, though active trade IS expect
ed to demand all available supplies oi
the South's leading product. Rather
less disturbance is noted in labor mat
ters, some strikes having been declared
off. The anthracite trouble still hangs
over the situation. but the volume OF
coal shipments is slowly and steadily
increasing. Some wage advances are
noted in widely separated lines. Col
ections are uniformly good.
Jobbing activity is undiminished
Dry goods. shoes, millinery drugs,
hardware, groceries, clothing and lum-
Der figure actively in demand
Leather sales are large at the West,
but high-tide prices discourage tanning.
Wheat, including flour, exports for
the week aggregate 6,276, 200 bushels,
against 5,436,53o last week, 4,4o6,oo4 in
this week last year and 3,373,Ioo in 1900
Wheat exports since July I aggregate
44,657,5o6 bushels, against 6I,6o2, ,o6z
last season and 3o,3r7,85I in 1900. Corn
exports aggregate 2I,Io6 bushels
against 1850 last week. 55o,S76 last
year and 3,I62,2 in 1900.
Business failures for the week ending
September 4 number 1888, as against 40
last week, I6o in this week last year.
In Canada for the week there were IL,
as against 20 last week.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
As TO Users of Tobacco.

Nine years ago we commenced to
keep a record on this subject" says
DR.. Fish, an eminent eastern educa-
tor, "and we have found that the boy
who fails usually uses tobacco.
When asked to sign our pledge the
pupil usually answers that he does not
lse very much, but we find that he
continues to fail in his studies. Ona
If the questions submitted in our rec.
,rd blank Is whether or not the puph
kinks the use of tobacco is necessary
10 his success. I must admit that
many answer this question in the af-
irmative. In our chapel we frequent.
Y ask all those who have not had to.
,acco In their mouths for twelve
months to arise and be counted. The
verage varies from 50 to 70 per
ent."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
Lesson Thoughts.

Love is the means by or through
which God will communicate of his
fulness to us. 1t is the root through
which the tree draws its sustenance;
T. is the foundation upon which must
be firmly grounded the temple for the
Spirits indwelling.
The love of God our Savior is In
deed an illimitable ocean. We can
not hope fully to fathom 1t in this
world. But we may know more Of 1t
than we do, and we can attain enough
to. reward all our efforts to under
stand 1t.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR
WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF.

Poem: Shut in with God-The Horrors o
a Goddess Life-Men Are Not Saved b,
Their words About Heaven But b,
Their Deeds.
Shut in with God alone
spend the quiet hour:
His mercy and His love / own,
And seek His saving power.
Shut in with God alone,
In meditation sweet
Ny spirit waits before the throne,
Bowed low at Jesus feet.
Shut in with God alone,
praise His holy name,
Who gave the Saviour to atone
For all my sin and shame.
Shut in with God alone,
And yet have no fear;
I rest beneath the cleansing blood,
And perfect love is here.
London Commonwealth.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
Run-a-Mile.

In run-a-mile the boys count out
and ut" hides his eyes. He is then
touched by one boy, who Immediately
conceals himself with the others
When "it" has counted 100 or SO he
starts out to find the TOUGHER"
Each player. when discovered. steps
from his hiding place. but offers no
information as to the whereabouts
Of the "toucher"-unless indeed, he
be that same. In which case the ex.
citing race to home occurs, and II
1T" gets there first he may set any
task he pleases for the TOUGHER" to
perform, even to the running of a
mile. But 1t Is safe to assume thar
this penalty is seldom exacted--or
paid.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
LATEST QUOTATIONS.

Flour-Spring clear So 1Oa3.30; best
Patent, $3.50; choice Family, 1915.
Wheat-New York No. 2. 76Hc;
Philadelphia No 2, 73a7316c; Baltimore
No 2, 72c.
Corn New York No. 2, Csc; Phila-
delphia No. 2, 69a69A; Baltimore No. 2,
69c.
Oats-New York No. 3. 34}Sc; Phila-
delphia No. 2, 39c; Baltimore No 2,
32c.
Hay-No. 1 timothy, S17OOa1750;
No. timothy, $16. .00a16.5O; No. 8 tim
othy $14.00a15.
Green Fruits and Vegetables-Apples
per brl, fancy 75c@S1 90; fair to good
per brl, 50cG65c; Beets, native, per
bunch 11Sc02c; Cabbages, native, fiat
dutch, per 100, 81 50@S2 90; Canta-
loupes, Anne Arundel Gems, per basket
ripe, 40c050o; Celery, New York, per
doz. 35c040c; Elephants. native, per
100, 60c@75c; Grapes, Rappahannock,
per lob basket, 9c010c, do, Western
Maryland, per 5-fb basket, 9c010c;
Lettuce, native, per bu box, 20c@30c.
Lima beans, native, per bu box, 50c0
60c; Onions, Maryland and Pennsylva-
mia yellow, per bu, 70c075c; Pumpkins,
native, each, 4c05o; Squash, Anne
Arundel, per basket, 10c015c; String
beans, native, per bu, green, 25c050c;
Tomatoes, Potomac, per peach basket,
30c032>{c, Rappahannock, Der bu box,
50c@60c; Waiermelors, Selects, per
100, s12 oo014 90; primes, per 100,
$6 000$9 90; seconds, per 100 S4 000
So 90; culls, per 100, 80 000S3 90.
Potatoes, Potomac, per brl, No 1,
81 00a1 %; do, seconds, 75asOc; do.
culls, 50a60c; do, Eastern Shore, per
brl, No 1, 81 GOAL 25.
Butter, Separator, 2la22c; Gathered
cream, 20a21c; prints, lib 25a26o; Rolls,
2-lb, 25a26; Dairy pts. Md, Pa, Va,
23a24c.
Eggs, Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen,
19ha20c
Cheese, Large, 6O-l5, lohalo1Sc; me-
dium, 36-lb, 10Aal0K; picnics, 22-lb
11Xa1lAc.
Live Poultry, Hens, 1l1Sa12c; old
roosters, each 25a30c; spring chickens,
12al3hc, young stays, 1l1Sa12c. Ducks
10al1c.
Hides, Heavy steers, association and
salters, rate XIII, oO-los unu W, oIOso ec'
lection, 129lal3slc; cows and light steers
9Xa101Ic.
Provisions and Hog Products.--Bulk
clear rib sides, 1910; bulk shoulders,
10Hc; bulk bellies, 13c; bulk ham butts,
1910; bacon clear rib sides, l2c; bacon
shoulders, 11Hc; sugar cured breasts,
11Ac; sugar. cured shoulders, Ike;
sugar.cured California hams, 1880;
hams canyased or uncenvased, II lbs.
and over, 141Gc; refined lard tierces, brls
and 80 Id cans, gross, 11]1c; refined lard
secondhand tubs, 1115c; refined laras
half barrels and new tubs 1l9lc.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
The saIoon,s Real oharacter.

The persistency with which the idea is
being advocated that the first step OF the
reform against the drink evil ought to be
the establishment of substitute for the
saloon indicates that the propagandists OF
that idea have entirely overlooked one OF
the most patent of all facts bearing upon
the question: The saloon is not good in
stitution with incidental features that are
bad; it is a bad institution that tries to
pose as a public benefactor for the purpose
of Disgusting its badness.
Those features of the saloon system
which we are told minister to fundamen-
.al needs of society,"" facilitate social ex-
pression," etc, etc., are without exception
exaggerated in the presentation that IS
given to the public. As a poor mans
club" the saloon is a farce and a failure.
True, there are saloons where comforts and
luxuries can be found, but the saloons that
are patronized by the men who are without
comforts in their homes are bare of COM
tort, foul Of air and dirty in every appoint
ment There are very few homes, even in
.he worst sections of American cities, that
are not cleaner and more comfortable than
the average poor mans saloon.
But even where the saloon may furnish
certain comforts and advantages, those
things are only incidental to the saloon
business. The saloon exists for the purpose
Of selling drink, and is resorted to prima-
rily for the purpose of drinking.
During the discussion of Bishop Potter's
outburst the early part of the year 1899,
the New York Telegraph which is in no
way to be regarded as a temperance paper,
made an Illuminating remark as follows:
81 never had any use for whisky except
to get drunk with it. 1t was wise man
who said this. He had made speciality
Of drinking for some years, and eventually,
seeing the futihty of his pursuit, had
ceased, and was subsequently giving his
opinion upon the value of whisky as an aid
to civilization. He might have continued
with the cognate assertion that the only
use for saloon is a place in which to get
drunk. Whisky is made because
men wish to get drunk and saloons are
maintained as convenient depots for the
distribution and dissemination of whisky.
Saloons are not poor mems clubs. New
| Voice.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
Live Stock.

Chicago, Cattle, Mostly 10al5c lower,
good to primo steers $8 00aS 81; medium
$4 75a7 30; stookers and feeders 50 r,
a5 25; COWS, 81 50a5 %; heifers So 5Oa
90; Texas-fed stecrs So 00a4 30. Hogs,
Mixed and butchers 81 30a7 so; good to
choice, heavy 81 45a7 rs; Sheep, sheep
and lambs slow 20 lower; good TO choice
whethers 81 5Oa3 10; Western sheep
81 50a3 30.
East Liberty, Cattle steady; choice
81 40a7 so; primo Sc 50a7 90. Hogs,
prime heavy 81 75a7 80, mediums 81 80;
heavy Workers 81 50a7 80. Sheep steady,
Best wethers So 70a3 So culls and com.
mon 81 5Oa2 0O; choice lambs s. 25a5 80.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-18
An Elaht.Leaaed Horse.

In consignment of Western range
horses from Colorado received ut the
stoclSyards at Sioux City there was a
curiosity In the shape Of sorrel
gelding with eight legs. The horse
is owned by John Huey and John
Wenzo of White Pine. Col, and they
had raised him. They refused 81 900
for him. The animal Is years old
and weighy 600 pounds. n