The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-09

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| wrote about the creamery here.
1t was built by an association of
farmers, 72 in number, and cost
them 10000 marks, equal to
about $500 1t pays a yearly
dlvlden of per cent. The but
ter is sold at 10 pfennigs, equal
to 274 cents. Cheese ranges from
12 to even so cents per pound.
AS / shall speak of values as
represented by German coins,
will here explain that the coins of
the German Empire are of gold,
silver, nickel and copper, the
smallest denomination being the
pfennig, which is worth about
one fourth of a cent in U. S. mon
ey. AS a mark is worth 100 pfen-
nigs, 1T has a value about the
same as our silver quarter. The
gold coins are the 20-mark piece,
the 10-mark piece and the five
mark piece, worth, respectively,
as you will notice, IS, $3.50 and
S1.25. The silver coins are the
one and the two mark pieces,
worth % and so cents. The nick
el are the 10 and 5 pfennig pieces,
worth q cents and Il cents, aud
the copper coins are the one and
two pfennlg pieces, worth / cent
and ! cent respectively. Thus,
you see, the storekeeper does
not beat you out of the extra half
cent in making change.
Another industry is beet sug-
ar factory, built, likewise by an
association of wealthy men. 1t
costs 100000 marks, or $685.
900. Of such factories Germany
possesses 2SO. The factory here
in Umstadt is considered small
one; yet 1t works up 600 tons of
beets per day, during the season,
which lasts about 80 days. 1t
employs about $50 men. The
farmers deliver the beets at the
factory at II marks per ton, equal
to S4. 25 and when the crop is good
realize about $4,000 per acre for
their beets. There is also quar-
ry of nice sand stone here, which
employs 200 men.
Another important source of
wealth is the manufacture of wine
chiefly from grapes, but also
from all berries and from cher
ries, pears and apples. Most OF
these wines sell at l mark per
pint. But the making of beer
goes ahead of everything l have
ever seen. Beer sells at 10 pfen-
nigs plnt-that is "a cents. The
town of Heuback has population
of 1850, has nine beer saloons,
and drinks up yearly the sum OF
$4,000 marks. Saloons pay no
license aud has no restriction as
to age. All can buy and drink to
their hearts content. Beer may
be sold on Sundays as well as on
week days; and intact, Sunday is
the busiest day in the whole week.
In the hotel in which | lodge, l
counted nearly so persons drink
lug beer last Saturday evening,
and some of them sat till nearly
midnight, drinking continually,
some as high as twenty pints OF
beer. Yesterday was Sunday
and, of course, attended church.
The church was well filled with
people, in the morning, as we'll as
in the afternoon, and fine sermons
preached; but think of my sur
prise, after service when these
people gathered in the saloons
again to drink beer; and in the
nine.pin alley were gathered
about so young men rolling balls
for money stakes, and drinking
beer.
How will all this end with th'
German nation ? Some of th'
Germans see the dark clouds o
the coming storm. The nation II
self is alarmed at the element II
the Reichstag which consists o
95 members out of 450, who seen
to be of the Herr Most type :
They oppose the Emperor and al
government They represent tn
working classes and are agains
eapitalr land even religion. The,