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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05

The latest is the secretary trust"
Four wealthy Pennsylvania congress
men-Adams. Morrell, Burk and Foer-
derer--sre charged with having organ
lied II. Labor unions in Philadelphia
declare that these four congressman
have pooled their issues. Instead Of
each employing . secretary they EN-
ploy only one for the four Each rep
resentative in congrsss Is allowed Sl..
200 year for the hire Of . secretary.
The combination can divide $500
among them by the trust" plan.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05
A Cats lonu Journev.

A family once left Swanley. Kent
and went to Dedham. near Col
chester, Essex, taking with them two
cats. A few days after their arrival
at Dedham one of the cats disappeared
and it was not seen again for six days
when 1t turned up at the old home al
Swanley The distance from Dedham
to Swanley is rbout eighty miles. How
the cat crossed the Thames is a matter
still to be explained. Pussy" be
yond being good deal thinner. wai
none the worse for its long Journey
London Answers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05
Live Stock.

Chicago, Cattle, Mostly 15a20c lower,
good to prime steers So 50a 6 90; medium
Is 52a4 30; stockers and feeders 81 80
al 80; COWS, 81 40a4 40; heifers So Goa
4 so; Tezas-fed steers 81 50a4 20 Hogs,
Mixed and butchers S. S5a7 10; good to
choice, heavy S. 95a7 20; Sheep, sheep
and lambs slow to lower; good to choice
whethers % 0oa5 10; Western sheep
VI 75a5 10.
East Liberty, Cattle steady; choice
s5 l5u5 %; prime Si 90a5 10. Hogs,
prime heavy 81 i0a7 45, mediums 81 so,
heavy Workers 81 40a7 40. Sheep steady,
Best wethers 81 S5a4 80 culls and COM
mon 81 00a3 90; choice lambs Sc 50a6 65.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05
Orange Cure For Alcohol.

When people crave for alcohol. the ov.
ange ire has been found Of service The
juice is pressed into a glass and should be
taken Just as it is-pure. The acid in it is
a remedy for the diseased bodily state
which has produced the craving for drink.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05

The beauty Of our lives depends Oh
the clearness with which God can shine
through them.
He who keeps the power of passion
In his heart must not be surprised II
there is an explosion.
The memory OF blessings furnishes
remedy for the blues.
The sacrifice that is not consumed
Will soon become corrupt.
Doctrines found by dissection neces-
state the death OF truth.
What is a gate to imprisonment on
this side will prove the door OF release
on the other.
When you see sin ripening in your
neisi.bor's garden look out for the
scejs In your own.
Only the short-sighted egotist Ia cap
able Of mistaking his little chip for the
whole mountain OF truth.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05

A life of unselfsh devotion to God and
to righteousness is the unfailing secret o
happiness. He who lives for himself alon'
will dwindle into miserable and petty in
significance. He who lives to glorify Got
and to make the world better and happier
is sure to be happy. No one can prevent
it. ,Usefulness is true greatness and tru'
year we must love God and work His hoy
xx,u
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05
PAW HIuh Price Tor Beauty.

A wellknown English woman pays
$4,000 year to, be made beautiful.
Her treatment lasts from six to seven
hours every day. She is kept in .
bath for one hour. and . dark room
for four. and for the remainder 10
bandaged from head to foot In chemt
cal pronarntions.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05
No Busines. With To-Morror.

=, Tomorrow you have no business with.
You steal if you touch tomorrow. IL il
Gods. Every day has in it enough to keen
any man occupied without concerning him.
sell with the things beyond.-Henry Ward
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05
New fork In FARMING Business.

The city Of New York does little
in the agricultural line occasionally
Thus e1sz.30 has been received from
the net proceeds OF an auction sale
Of apples held ON the new Croton dam
division Of the new acQueduct. II
has been trAnsrAitted to the city cham
bsrlain for the credit Of the vatss
fund.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05
RAMS HORN BLASTS.

HE Gospel in life
will save the world
where the Gospel In
literature would
fail.
Any fool can find
faults, the wise man
discovers virtues.
Every vice thick
ems the veil be-
.ween ourselves
and virtue.
Since man can
manage matter how
could matter make
man
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05

Let us think before we speak, since the
words we must speak must enter into the
life OF the world and make it worse d
better, and if we err on either side, cri
in gentleness aud tenderness and love-
The Rev DIR. Savage.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05

Misery will not last-happiness will, il
only in remembrance. No pure JOY, how
ever Heeting, contains any real bitterness,
even when It is gone by.-D. NJ. Craik.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05
CHRISTIAN ENDEAYO2 TOPICS.
March S-"What Christ Teaches About Heart
Righteousness" Matt v. 20-4S; vi. !6.!l

Scripture Verses-Josh. xiv. IA;
Psa. Ii. II; Mic. vi. 6, s.; Mat. vii. II;
xxi. %, so; Rom. Kill. 8, 10; l Cor
Kill. 2; 2 Cor. 1. IL; ii. II; viii. g.; Gal.
v. 6; Eph. Iii. II; vi. "a.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-03-05
Suggested Hymns.

I belong to Jesus.
Search me, o Lord. and try this heart.
Take my life and let 1t be.
Am l a soldier of the cross?
Just as am, without one plea.
Truehearted, whole-hearted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
FLOWING THE DESERT.
Salt Lake Road Penetrating New
Waste Region.

San Bernardino, Cal, Dec. 26.-Out in
the appalling desert country thirty
Daggett is sight of strenuous en-
deavor to stir the heart of a strong
man. There. unheralded to the
swarming world, far beyond the boun-
diaries of that death-stiH region an
army is leboring toward a conquest
so arduous that only one who has
seen the slow, stubborn battle waging
can understand the magnitude OF the
task. There the wilderness is being
probed with steel, driven by brawny
arms, directed by masterful minds.
The rails of the San Pedro, Los An
geles & Salt Lake railroad tht new
continent, are marching over the Mo
Jave desert at the rate of a mile
day, showing toward the Nevada line.
Thirty miles of track. already stretch
away from Daggett. and for twelve
miles beyond the ends of the shining
rails are pitched at intervals five
grading camps Of John H. Norton &
Co, the Los Angeles concern which
has the roadbed contract to the Ne
Yada line. From dawn to dark Of each
blazing day 500 men and about 500
mules and horses are stretched out
between these isolated white settle
ments. ga9hing a trail for modern
commerce through the virgin desert
along the general course of the old
wagon road from Los Angeles to Salt
Lake, Travelled by the argonauts and
ACi6uleIS VI more LQau nan a century
ago. A long cloud of dust marks the
progress of The toilers, right up to the
face of the beetling iron-red front of
the eastern bank of the Moiave river,
whose silvery stream coils twice
around the base, to be swallowed up
again by the sands even before it
reaches the last camp back toward the
railroad.
Twelve miles beyond the end of
the track or about forty-two miles from
Daggett. at the site of the farthest
camp, a gang has just started work
on the desert. 1t marks the beginning
OF the most difficult work to be en-
countered by the contractors. The
tunnel is located in the canyon of the
Colorado, in the district known as 1.-THE
Caves" Although its length will not
be over $40 feet 1t is a difficult under
taking, the track diving into the rock
mountain straight off trestle across
the Mo1ave on the western side To
drill the holes for the first blasts in the
gophering 1t was necessary to lower
Workmen on ropes from the top of the
sheer bluff so feet down to the proper
spor Tor the portals of the immense
hoies. Blast after blast now skaters
the stiffness of the desert as the dig
gers gnaW inward and an avalanche
of stone rattles to the canyon below
on the further side. as a long force OF
shovelers toll at the seemingly endless
task OF raising an embankment to the
level OF this portal, on which trains
may shoot away toward another trestle
and on through the marvels of the
Cave country.
The route new being followed
through the canyon of the Mojave was
chosen for its scenic beauty. the rail
road only lately abandoning the course
at first decided on, which lay through
a pass miles to the nOrthward
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26

them through the vTinger. All at
once he noticed the stove boiler. and for
a moment his heart beat unanimously.
The idea flashed across him that it was
somehow connected with washing, but
after a bit his face cleared and he got
his breath again. What the boiler was
used for, as he suddenly remembered,
was to heat hot water to thaw out fro
zen pipes in the winter. Mr.. sBowser
was no half way man. Having done the
washing he started to hang out the
clothes. Bareheaded and his shirt
sleeves rolled up, he had hung his first
sheet on the line when circus started
up.
That sheet was the most wonderful sight
ever seen pinned to a cIothesline. It was
blue and white, blue and grey. blue ard
several colors, and every woman on the
block had her head out of a back window
to look at it and cheer and clap her
hands. Boys yelled and climbed upon the
fence and dogs howled and cats fed as
from Destilence. Mr.. Bowser held a
cIothespin between his teeth and towel
in his hand for five minutes and then the
applause was too much for him He seized
the basket of clothes and walked into the
kitchen just a Mrs Bowser appeared
Madam, perhaps you can tell me what
this means. he holly demanded.
''Hurrah for The red, white and blue.'
yelled three or four boys in chorus from
the alley fence.
1T MEANS" said Mrs. Bowser, as she
struggled with her emotions lit means
that ve-you We"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
Friction Exists Between Rock
Island and Frisco.
KOakum Interests Not Satisfied
With Moore Bros.
MAY SUNDER THE TIES.
Two Systems Likely to Resume
Independent Existence.
That S25O,OOO,OOO Bond Issue
the Cause of Trouble.

Chicago, Ill, Dec. 26.-Considerable
friction is said to exist between the
&oere-Leeds interest, which controls
the Rock Island railroad, and the
Xoakum interest. which controls the
St. Louis & San Francisco system
Predictions are being freely made that
IN less than a year the split between
the two factions will become so pro-
nOunced as to cause a sundering of the
ties which bind the two systems to-
gether. The st. Louis & San Fran
cisco interests are said to be much dis
satisfied with the financial policy pur-
sued by the Moore brothers, and 1t is
said to be due to their opposition that
the announcement was made of an
abandonment of the contemplated
blanket mortgage of $3.50, 900 900 by the
Rock Island interests and the official
statement that the company will not
sell any bonds for considerable time.
In connection with the reports an in
terview had with President 3. F.
Yoakum of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco regarding railroad mergers is sig
nificant. Mr.. Yoakum is quoted as
saying that there will be no further
mergers of railroads, as nearly all the
companies of any Importance are al
ready grouped. He thinks a further
merger OF these big groups has been
checked. He is also quoted as express
ing the belief that the trunk lines will
not invade the territory west of the
mississippi river He is of the opinion
that the Mississippi river will be the
dividing line for railway systems, ex-
cept, OF course, for the Gould lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
NO CESSATION OF WORK.
Orient Pushing It's Work Rapidly i,
Mexican Territory.

Kansas City, Mo, Dec. 26.-Officials
OF the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railroad deny the report sent out from
El Paso, Tex. to the effect that word
has been received from the New York
office of the company ordering con-
struction stopped.
THE company has no office in New
York. said E. Dickinson, general man
ager of the company, this morning
THE head and front of the Orient rail-
road is i'll the offices of the company
in Kansas City. Again the wcSk of
construction is proceeding rapidly and
positively no order for it's cessation has
been or will be issued"
A. f. Stilwell, president of the com
pany, received the following telegram
from ]. L. Case, local agent of the
company at F'uerte, this morning:
Track to eighty-seventh kilometer
last night Merry Christmas. Will be
completed to the one hundredth kilo-
meter next week, when the 5000, 900 sub
sidy from the Mexican government will
be due"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26

Pyramids or the digging of the Erie
saw men laugh till they had to be thump-
ed on the back, and when the old Roman
sat down he bombarded all along
the table with biscuits.
There were other toasts and other
speeches. 1 couldn't make out at that
time why two men should get up every
time to speak, and why they looked Just
alike and their voices were Just the same.
but 1 have since learned that Champagne
sometimes acts that way on a new be.
ginner. There wasn't the slightest ap-
proach to funerality. Even the druggist
who had brother in the grave digging
business made such a jolly speech about
Washington crossing the Delaware that
We continued to yell for Ave minutes af-
ter he had sat down. One man did start
out to stem the tide by getting off some
thing about humanity not being long for
this world, but his audience took his rrss
marks wrong-end-to and laughed him
down and out
don't exactly remember when or how
the banquet broke up. or how many were
left on the island behind, but next morn
ing felt 1t my duty to drop in and COM
pliment my family druggist on his great
speech 1 could plainly recall all the
deliciously funny points, and was laugh
ing over them again when I entered the
store and reached out my hand and call
ed him old man and declared that he was
the funniest man of the whole crowd
Sir he replied, as he stiffened up and
waved my hand away, sit does lock a
bit like rain today, but I never concern
myself about the weather.'-M Quad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
BOWsER TAKES HOLD.
He Shows Mrs. Bowser That a Week
ly Washing Is Trifing Affair.

AS the Bowsers finished brea kfast the
other morning the cook asked Mrs.
Bowser for private word and was
granted dozen of them The result
was that as Mr.. Bowser was ready to
start for the office he was asked if he
couldn't stop somewhere and send a
washerwoman.
For what reason?" he bluntly
queried
For the reason that the cook is now
packing up her things and will be gone
in half an hour. If I can get some one
to do the washing I'll manage the other
work till we get a new girl"
"And the cook is going to quit with
out an hours notice? This is another
specimen of your way of managing
things. Your cold hearted, autocratic
ways have chilled the poor girls heart
and driven her to desperation. The
going to jump into the river
THE chances are that her mother is
very i'll and she has been sent for" said
Mrs. Bowser There is no specimen
of my ways You have heard her sing
ing every evening and spoken of her
contentment and good spirits. viii you
send up a woman to wash?''
Mrs BoWSer there is something
wrong about this house-something rad
ically wrong. When poor, hardwork-
ing girl leaves US al a moments notice,
and probably carries a piece of clothes
line with her with which to hang her
self, it is my duty as the responsible
head to look into things"
At that moment "the poor, hardwork-
ing girl'' came down with her bundle
and said to Mrs. Bowser:
I'm sorry, ma am, as you are one of
the best women I ever worked for, but
you know how it is. If mother gets bet
ter I'll come back to you
Mrs. Bowser couldn't repress a, smile
of triumph as she looked at Mr.. Bow
ser. but he was not the man to take a
back seat.
GAS I said,'' he observed, there is
something radically wrong here, and it
is my duty to investigate. I shall not
send up a washerwoman.
'fThen there will be no washing done"
ION the contrary, there will be.
shall do it myself"
"You-you will wash?"
81 will wash. Sooner than let an
outsider know that you have driven
heartbrokep girl to her grave I will
do the washing. and do 1t well. 1 can
take a day from the Office as well as
not, and I want to get an insight into
this housework.''
II think we can let it go a week"
stammered Mrs. Bowser, who intended
to get a woman herself as soon as he
was out of the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
CAN'T GET GRAIN.
Eastern Roads Greatly Worried by
the Gulf Ports.

Railroads between the Missouri river
and the Atlantic seaboard are greatly
alarmed over the large diversion of eX-
port flour and grain to gulf ports. Grain
and -four shipments to the east are
growing smaller and smaller and the
traffic officials feel that unless speedy
steps are taken to meet that competi-
ton such shipments by Atlantic sea-
ports will cease almost entirely.
The agreement recently made with
the gulf roads whereby they were to
adhere to a rate that gives them a fair
advantage is not maintained, and they
do not hesitate to cut the rates to get
the business.
The failure of the eastbound roads to
meet the gulf competition is mainly due
to the inability of the eastern and
western roads to agree upon a division
of through rates. A conference between
the general traffic officials of the east
ern and western roads was held here
yesterday with a view of remedying
the evil. 1t was finally agreed that
committee be appointed by the eastern
and another by the western lines to
devise a plan for a division of the
through rate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
THE SOLEMN DRUGGIST.

1t is easy enough to figure out why the
undertaken is solemn and dignif1ed, but
when it comes to the druggist why should
he go into the cold storage business
against his fellow men? Only once in
my life have 1 seen the druggist unbend.
That was when a dinner and an excur-
sion was given to the united druggists
and aGew outsiders were invited.
I shall never forget the occasion if
live to buy thousand bottles of hair re-
storative. I had dreaded it as a funeral
feast, but it turned out to be q picnic at
cut rates Where had looked for cold
water with a headache water floating
around in it, we had champagne which
bubbled and fizzled, and where I had
thought Of solemn old ganders and roost-
ers and water biscuits, we had feast of
the most rollicking kind. / had never
connected a druggist with oratory, and
here I had something new to learn At
proper moment the president arose and
made g most brilliant speech. l knew it
was brilliant because we all whooped and
yelled. I know it was also facetiouS be-
cause we all pounded on the table and
laughed and cheered.
Then a toast was given. It WAS Don't
let your druggist make you believe that
something else is Just as good and it
was responded to by that old Roman, my
family druggist. As near as I could make
out by that time, the champagn having
passed several times, there were two of
him. I don't remember whether his
speech began with the building of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
WILL GET Low RATES.
Fair Management Has Won
Great Victory.

On account of the decision of the
Missouri supreme court the Worlds
fair management is now assured of low
rates for the exposition. The railroads
heretofore have declined to take any
action on the applications for low
round trip rates for the Worlds fair,
for the alleged reason that the scalpers
would manipulate those tickets and de-
prive the railroads of a large share of
their revenues. Hence the suits were
instituted by the Worlds fair manage
ment in the name of the railroads, and
injunctions were obtained restraining
the scalpers from handling round trip
tickets The scalpers made a hard fight
and now having lost their case in the
court of last resort nothing remains
for them to do but to emigrate from ST
Louis, or apply themselves to other oc-
equations.
The court held that the purchasers of
special round trip tickets at reduced
rates entered into a contract with the
railroads, which stipulates that those
tickets cannot be transferred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
BEGAN ON SANTA FE.
Topeka Young Man Division En-
eineor in Wisconsin.

Walter J. Town, division engineer on
the Chicago & Northwestern, with
headquarters in Baraboo, Wis, Is visit
ing in Topeka Mr.. Town started his
railroad career in Topeka. He began
by carrying a chain on a Santa Fe sur
veying corps under the direction of
Mr. J. NJ Meade, now chief engineer of
the eastern grand division. Mr.. Town
proved himself very proficient, and
when he left the company to pursue
his studies in the east he was in charge
of a corps of surveyors. After leaving
school he was employed by the state
of New York, in charge of work on the
Erie canal. and when he left it was to
again enter railroad work. His promo
ton was rapid, and he now has the
supervision of much important con-
structicn work.
Mr.. Town was reared on a farm in
western Shawnee county, and is a son
of Isaac N. Town, who has a feed store
on West Sixth avenue. He is an ex-
cellent example of what can be ac-
cofnplished in railroad work by a man
with energy and ability.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26
TO AVOID HEAVY GRADES.
Missouri Pacific May Use Katy Track
in Southern District.

poria say that it is only a matter of time
before the Missouri Pacific railroad will
run its heavy freight trains over the
Katy track from Council Grove to Lc
Roy junction or Piqua, and then to Kan
ssas City. because of the heavy grades be-
tween Council Grove and Usage City
The grade in the north end of Lyon coun-
ty, especially near Miller, makes it i'm
possible for even the biggest engines to
carry big loads east. It Is a matter of
fact that on the average of about three
to i've Missouri Pacific trains a week
come down over the Katy now and meet
the Missouri Pacific track at LIE Roy
junction and Piqua. This is done to avoid
the heavy grades and although a long
ways out of the way, railroad men say
it would be saving because of the
longer trains they can take over the new
route. 1t is reported that the Missouri
Pacific has made a contract with the
Katy to keep the track between Piqua
and Council Grove in repair for the use
of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-26

case by one end. when I don't know
how to do family washing you can
apply to the courts to have guar
dian appointed for me. Of course / put
starch in the water You don't sup
pose am fool enough to sprinkle it
over the backyard, do you?"
But you are washing f1annels with
the other thingsi''
'Of course I am, and I know what
I'm about. Don't you dare to disturb
me again, or I'll chuck the whole wash
ing down the cellar stairs!''
AT the end of another half hour Mr..
Bowser had finished. He hadn't been
quite an hour and a half doing what
a washerwoman would want at least
six hours TODD. He rinsed the clothes
through the second tub and then swish
ed them around in the third and put