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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF lNTEMPERANcE.
Poem weimer's House, Strong Argu.
ment In Verse In Favor OF Aboiishine
the Rum Traffic-wails Red with the
Blood of Human Sacrifice

ment In Verse In Favor OF Aboiishine
the Rum Traffic-waiis Red with the
Blood of Human Sacrifice.
Wiemer's House Now amt it grand!
Nothing finer in the land.
When the folks come up this way, down
from Flint and Halliday.
And We santer up and down seein' sights
around the town,
They don't seem to have no use Tor the
stores or calaboose
All they really seem to see is Wemer's
pile OF masonry.
Fine? Now | should calculate, grand
enough for potentate,
Built OF stone from land knows where, GOV.
ers more than half square;
Marble steps and rods OF stoop, fancy
tixin's lace and loop,
From the cellar to the tOp-makes a stran.
ger stand and gop,
Walks a.ruunn' through the grass, dogs
and lions made OF brass;
And inside, I've heard 1t told, is a sight
just to behold
Like palace, so | guess just one doggoned
,Ovellness.
Pictures big as double doors, costly carpets
on the floors;
Marble wimmen, iron kids strange things
from the Pyramids;
Curtings wuth a house and lot, even more
It's like.y's not;
Crcckery things from feiren parts repre-
sentin' ancient arts
Goodness me! But what folks tell, what
amt there hain't been to sell:
Makes things look like thirty cents, com
mon truck without pretense.
Wiemer's House. Look yonder there
where the black smoke fills the air.
What is that YOU plainly see? That is
Wemers Brewery.
Here is where he coins his gold, piles his
riches up untold.
This is Wiemer's private mint-just the
same to all intent
Wemers House, so fair to see, is but
shaft to misery.
Every stone within its walls silently fof
justice calls;
Could they cry aloud like men they would
tell what tongue nor pen
Could not utter, for the tale would make
stoutest heart to fail;
Widows cries would rend the air, shrieks
OF suffering and despair;
Broken hearts would moan IN grief. pray
ing for death IS sweet relief;
Starving children cold unfed, begging for
crust of bread
Might be heard-God spare the sight-cry
ing in the lonely night
Prayers of mothers might be heard sobbing
out each broken word.
| Then would sound the murderers yell com.
ing as from deepest hell,
And the c,ank OF feions chains curdllne
blood within the veins
Might resound through hall and room like
| the awful cry OF doom.
| Wiemers House! Now some may laugh
! but / see an epitaph
! On every stone within its walls lis but
| a tomb-its prince,y halls
Built at cost beyond all price-a moloch
fat with sacrifice.
! Its walls are red with human b,ood Sc
dyed, so stained, no earthly flood
Can wash them clear o house OF Death
whose poison chokes the very breath
! How slowly creeps the time apace when Oh
earth shall be no place
For brewery, saloon and den to blight and
curse the souls OF men,
God speed the day when from our sight
these shall be banshed into night
And Gods good world shall hencetorth bt
forever from intemperance free.
Rams Horn.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
EPNOhT IN LEAGUE LESSONS
SEPTEMBER FOURTH.
New Courage for New Work-Psa.
IA. lis; Acts 20. IS.


Gradually the days are growing
shorter. cooler, and renewed energy
calls to greater activity. Before us
are spread inviting fields of labor
Should we think it strange II, in
looking out upon their strenuous
tasks. we shrink from the duties
awaiting our hands? Do we almost
wish ourselves again Just at the open
ing of the vacation period? Why the
burdens that seem almost impatient
to drop upon our shoulders? Why
tne cares so eager to be taken up
again? New courage is needed-cour
age little more sunny and tenacious
than ever before. Such courage is
at the command of your faith.
What a variety of activities and in
terests We behold, Instead of being
discouraged we should be inspired
with the vast and increasing opportu'
mites of usefulness. They are a re.
ward of somebody's past fidelity. They
are of the Lords choosing. They
must be undertaken in the, Lord s
strength (Psa. 144. l.)
The days in which our duties
noble du;ies-are to be performed are
like a shadow (Psa. l44. p, but the
work itself Is for eternity.
Our duties may seem old, but they
are new each day and bring their
new results. New trusts. new con
quests, new progress. and new songs
of triumph when duties are rightly
done (Psa. 144. 81.
Gratitude will grow to more and
more" as We learn TO realize the value
of the work divinely assigned us
AS we advance step by step and clint
to height rising above we too. with
st. Paul. will thank God and take
courage (Acts 2S. 15). Gratitude
| gives relish to duty.
New courage is more than an In
spiration from heaven. II is an In
l. spiration with something to be In
spired. That something is what we
| have made of ourselves by pas
courageous endeavor
Such retrospect as this enforces the
wisdom Of making each day count. L
! Il induces a determination to be faith
! full, this in itself will assist in supply
| ing courage for a good start in th'
autumn enterprises.
Thank God for health and strength
ald tlS HO-O- Vi p4dCC lu h''
vineyard and the supreme glory or De
ing a colaborer with him.
Remember that each days falthtu
service opens up new anC>larger rooms
in the Fathers vast temple. Continu
ously I'd forever may the true work
er hear from his Masters lips
Thou hast been faithful over fe"
things; will make thee ruler ovel
many things
Caleb Is one OF the grandest charac
ters In the Old Testament. Study
him and catch his spirit. AT eighty
Ave he requested the privilege OF TAX
ing for his part of Canaan the rugged
region about Hebron where the giants
lived.
One sure sign OF growing old Is
dIsreHsh for difficult undertakings
The best way to keep young Is to iiv'
in touch with young life, always read.
for new enterprises. Caleb grew
strong by using wisely the strength HI
had.
He braced up his courage and faitl
by wholly following" the Lord In al
his commandments.
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Bear story from Maine.

Here is bear story from South
Paris: The other night Ira Murch of
that village went to pasture near
tne Stony Brook road after his COW.
When well up into the pasture he
stopped down to pick some strawber-
ries, and little distance away heard
q combined grunting and squealing
sound. Looking up he beheld large
female bear with her family OF three
little cubs about two rods ahead Of
him. The mother bear was lying
down, but got up slowly onto her for
ward feet and took careful survey
Of Mr.. Murch. He then tossed a
small stick toward her. when she got
onto her feet and walked away. close
" followed by her three babies. Mr..
Murch Says she was quite thin. but
thinks she would weigh about 200
pounds. The cubs were. from his des-
cription, some eight or ten weeks old.
and very cunning. Several boys arm
ed with guns started Saturday In hot
pursuit So far as we know the boys
got back aiive.-Kennebec Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31

My father (who has now passed
away was a physician. practlcing fol-
over fifty years. and cured many
many cases Of lockjaw. Even after
the jaws were set they became re-
laxed, and the patients recovered.
He often told me that 1t was o
great outrage to let the patients die
Of lockJaw. as they have done time
after time In the hospitals OF this
city. Then he told me what to do
and which have always done when
ever I have accidentally cut my hand
or foot with rusty iron. and have nev
or had any serious results. He told
me that this knowledge he received
from an old French physician. yeare
ago. He said to take raw red bee.-
cut II In half and scrape or mash II
into pulp and apply 1t to the wound
and also to the palms OF the hands.
binding It on like q poultice. The
Juice OF the red beet will cure lock
jaw. II draws the poison out and
prevents It from spreading. .-Pbila
delphia Record.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
Enoch walked with God.

My God. how can | walk with Thee?
D, wilt Thou not to me confde,
The secret of the Enoch life,
In Thy communion to abide?
Not for eternity alone.
To brighten hope and cancel fear;
But, listening Father, for to-day,
To know the Joy to feel Thee near
In skies and flowers and holy book
AT times hear Thee speak to me.
l love to speak to Thee in prayer,
But, Father. do | walk with Thee?
Can be walking with my God.
II, through soma storm of selfish grief,
/ shrink, and lie with sullen gloom
In some foul cave of unbelief!
Or, ii alternately within
Now regns the good and now the i'll?
Or, ii my heart in changeful moods
Rebels against Thy holy will!
Come Holy Spirit of the Lord,
Before whom chaos cannot be,
To harmony bring all my soul,
That God may come and walk with me
Be near me, o Thou, Christ divine
Who art the life, the truth, the way,
Now let me closely follow Thee
Then | shall walk with God to-day.
j. Hunt Cooke, in Chicago Standard.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
A HyporriticaI Excuse.

We must impress upon parents the great
responsibility which rests upon them.
/ occasionally meet with people who say
"NNhen was boy my father and mother
were very strict. They brought me up so
rigid,y that a reaction took place in my
mind, and | have turned away from re-
ligion." / have sometimes said to such
persons:
Did they teach you to be honest:'
eyes"
"To tell the TRUTH"
"Yes"
"nid they insist upon it"
"Yes'
"Ha, any reaction taken place on these
points
There is a great deal of nonsense palmed
off upon the community in relation to this
matter Not one man OF US learns the
multiplication table from sheer love of
il, but / never knew any one TO say his
mind was in reaction against the multi
plication table.-Dr. John Hall.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
SEPTEMBER FOURTH.
New Courage for New Work." Ps.
IA lis; Acts 23:15.

144 1-15; Acts 28:15.
Scripture verses.-Prov. 1871; Luke
21:36; Rom. S:1S, 2S; 14:S; Cor.
1855; Eph. 6:10; 1 Thess. Sis;
Tim. AS; Tit. 2:11. IL; Pet. 3:13.
Lesson Thoughts.
Work for God requires courage.
Witnesses for Christ have had courage
to give up their lives in his name, and
we need moral courage. But no cause
was ever better fl ted to inspire cour.
age.
A thankful spirit can hardly fail to
be courageous, for a realizing appre.
citation of Gods boundless resources
and his equal willingness to aid must
make any undertaking sure.
Selections.
Courage shall outast the years,
But every coward soul shall die
Griswod.
A great traveller was saved from
death, while lying in a desert where
he had fallen faint and famishing, by
seeing little speck of green moss
rising out of the hot sand. This geam
of life assured him that God must be
near, and he rose up to live and
journey on.
Discouraged in the work of life,
Discouraged by its load,
Shamed by its failures or it's fears
| sink beside the road;
But let me only think OF thee,
And then new heart springs up in me.
A minister was called upon to offer
coincidence to one of his endeavor.
ers who was in the hospital. The
young man had lost his right hand.
but instead of being downcast he was
lying calmly on his back, the stump
of his right arm on a pillow. while in
his left hand he held a booa from
which he was studying a new line OF
work that he could follow, onehanded,
when he could be up again. He was
cast down, but no destroyed. Such
courage as that is as refreshing as
Paul's.
Go, take that task of yours which
you have been hesitating before and
shirking. and walking around, and on
this very day lift it up and do it.
Phillips Brooks.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31

The only way to become capable OF lofty
sacrifices is first to begin with humble
ones. The doing of the little duties at our
own house door, the love of our neighbor,
perhaps uninteresting and rather stupid,
are the first steps in the ladder OF good.
ness, at the top OF which sparkes the mar
tyr's crown For there are martyrs now,
who live out their quiet lives, die in their
beds, wear everyday clothes enjoy homely
worship. yet lay their lives at their heay'
emily Masters feet as full and as acceptabiy
as either Ignatius or Ridley. IL Is the
that enables us for making them in great,
when it is asked of us.-Bishop Thorold
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
Bare Medal Found.

Harold Reed. OF Dnmmerston W,
recently dug up medal or coin that
was made for a memento OF the battle
OF New Orleans. fought Jan. 8. 1913.
On tbe diverse side of relief portrait
NJ Andrew Jackson. encircled by his
name. On the reverse is a distinct
picture OF the battle fought by Gen.
Jackson encirclsd by the words, Bat
tie OF New Crleans|
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Wants His Dismond RIna.

Leon Stanford OF Keene. N. H., has
)rcught an action In trover against
Daisy Wells an actress OF Atbol.
Mass. TO recover a diamond ring
which was given him by his uncle,
The uncle before his death loaned the
ring to Miss Wells to wear at a theat-
rical performance and II was never
returned. The defense Is that two OF
the stones were lost and that the
remaining seven were afterward
made up into three rings that were
afterward stolen through no fault OF
hers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
a.a chsrrls. Amer sulI.

Red cherries which Farmer Henry
Knapp OF Richland township. Pa, was
carrying In Q basket nearly cost him
his life when attacked by mad bull
Mr. Knapp was passing through the
bsrnyard when the bull. seeing the
cherries, attacked the farmer. The
animal knocked the fsrmer down and
was goring him when the farm hands
drove the angered animal away with
hay forks.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
Heroic Drink Cure.

"There is only one custom in our country
which l would like to see established in
America, and that is the custom of dealing
with drunkards," said Isaac Yohannen, a
Persian missionary, who lectured at Sioux
country when a man gets drunk we take
him and nail him to the sidewalk, diving
the spikes through his ears. Then when
other people come along they spit in his
face and kick him until he is sober.
think this method would do great deal OF
good in America, because you have more
drunkenness than we do"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31
The worth of n single Life.

DR.. Torrey tells OF a well which was be.
ing dug in an American township by two
men, one working at the bottom filling a
bucket, and the other at the top drawing
it up by wlndlass. Presently quicksand
was struck, which began to pour IN upon
the bottom man, but, shelterins his head
under a plank which was there, he was
able to breathe. News OF his danger
spread in the township, and the whole
township turned out to dig that man out,
and worked for many hours till he was
saved.
Was it worth while for the whole town.
ship to go to work 10 save one man! Was
il right?
There is one man going down a victim
OF the liquor habit in your township. Will
it be worth it for the whole township to
vote the liquor traffic out to save that
man! Will it be right!-National Advo
cate.
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An Expense Account.

This statement was made out on Sunday,
in the presence OF his wife and four chill.
dren. while trying TO keep warm before an
empty CRATE, with the thermometer fifteen
degrees below zero, says the American Is
sue. There was no coal in the house, moth
ing to eat, money and no credit outside.
1t shows that for five days work he re-
ceved $3.50 OF which S5.7j went for intox.
icating liquors,
1t further shows that he was short" for
groceries, meat and rent S5.25. That is to
say, he had paid all his drink bill but
twenty-five cents, as his account shows,
doubtless under compulsion of getting no
more drink, while the legitimate trades
nrn were lett to whistle
This shows where the money goes.
Who foots the bills for this business?
The landlord, who loses his rent; the
baker, the butcher and the grocer; the
charitable persons who pity the children
and keep them from starving, and the tax.
payers who support the jails, prisons, the
hospitals and the aimshouses, where such
folks fetch up at last
Who makes the money? The saloon.
keeper, who Is privileged to fill the land
with poverty, wretcheduess, madness,
crime, disease, death and damnation, be.
ing authorized by the sovereign people
Are yOu one OF the sovereign people!
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The Little Love Services.

Many a trusting child is cast down be-
cause the little love service, which may be
required, seems too small to he counted
for aught in tine great harvest fed, forget
ting that the dear Lord asks OF His chill
dren only so much as He gives them abil-
ity TO perform Augustus c. Thompson.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31

You need God in the very things that
seem to separste you from Him. You
must seek Him in the vegy places where
the misery OF life seems to he that lie Is
not You must question the stoniest paths
for streams OF water. .>-Phi!lips Brooks.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31

A butcher not long.ago delivered whole
temperance lecture in q single sentence
A young lady called upon him. and with
much missiyins asked & ior ~ Ss toward pay
sneak for the Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union. He replied: There's your
dollari I've sold more meat in one day
since this town went no-license than
used to in q whole week when we had sa-
looms. ."-Banner OF Gold.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-31

The breweries in Kristiania. Norway. are
no gold mines nowadays. Five OF the six
their stockholders no dividends for the
past year.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-14
Hops and Dried Fruit.

Mail advices from New York say: The
kzisin market Is unsettled. Orders are being
Solicited. subject 70 confirmation. on the basis
OF zlkc T. O. b. for fancy new crop coast
seeded stock and IL Is understood that some
orders have been wired out on that basis.
but up 10 the close We heard OF no conflr-
nations There Is some demand for imported
sultanas On the spot and the market under
reduced stocks is firm. We hear Of no business
~ future shipments from the primary market
Valencia layers are offered at f12c 70 arrive
but sales are reported CurrantS remain
quiet, but the market has a steady tone ana
prices are unchanged. ADricots are wanted
and buyers are ready TO pay the prices asked
q week age, but sellers have raised their views
q quarter 10 q halt cent ana are onerlng yer.
Euaringly al the advance Peaches are hard
"a md and the few Offering are held at prices
above buyers present views. Prunes are eA-
There are said 10 be sellers Of new crop Santa
Claras the basis of nc T. o. b. for the
four sizes ia bags, but on the other hand II
ie said that occasional sales have been made
premium on sOs- An offer made to sell
new crop Northern prunes on the basis OF l.s5oc
net and no brokerage, without business result
ing. Oregon Italian prunes, 30-4os Of the ola
are quite plentiful owing 10 the recent arrivals
Of stock bought some time ago for shipment
from the coast or a low basis. These goods
are now ohered al BIC on the spot IN some
HOPs-CabIe advfces from the foreign mar
ket continue firm. The yield OF the English
crop is now placed Al 325. 600 cwt, and al
though business ir the English markets was
Quiet prices were firmly maintained Inc
German market was reported firm at an ad-
vance IN prices of . marks Coast adV1ces re-
ported firm markets. with growers generalls
reported indiuerent sellers, despite the hlsh
vas reported ss firm. Locally there was a nrm
hIr luief market.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-14
DeciduouS and Citrus Fruits.

Trade in fresh fruits confined almost
entirely to the filling of regular local wants,
but as receipts of most descriptions were
comparatively light, prices were well main
tanned and the market generally had steady
tone. The days supplies OF Peaches consisted
chiefly of Oregon fruit, about 200 small boxes
bein= received from that State. Offerings in
lar@e open boxes were mostly culls and met
with very slow sale. The Gamers were pick
ing up Freestones at $25 per ton Strictly
fancy Bartlett Pears were scarce and firm
at the top quotation, while Winter varieties
were inclined to easiness. Apples were rather
weak than otherwise, with low grade stock
commencing to accumulate. Pomegranates and
Fi-s did better, while Ounces weak at
lower prices Table Grapes were in good de-
mand, particularly highly colored offerings OF
the Tokay variety, and receipts were rather
light the market was well cleaned up at the
close. Wine Grapes continued to drag at
easy rates. The market for Citrus fruits was
firm. with stocks Of Lemons and Lines very
light
varieties and $5q7 Tor small berries
BLAcKBERRIEs-s2a so per chest.
HUCKLEBERRIES-79 per- lb.
APPLES-$1 1oQ1 90 per box for fancy, S5c
@S1 for choice and 4Oa75c for common.
PEARS-Bartletts, $1d1 % per box Win
ter NeIlis. S5cQ$1; other winter varieties, 509
PEACHES Small boxes. 5OasOc; open
PLuMs AND PRUNEs-5O975c per crate
and 3O@50c per small box.
POMEGRANATES-50 -50aT5c for small and 81
G1 % for large boxes.
QUINCES-25950e per box.
FIGS-35d5Oc for small and 75cd$1 for
large boxes.
MELONS-Cantaloupes 50cG$1 per crate;
Nutmeg Melons, 25d5Oc per box; Watermelons.
81 5093 per dozen, with some extra large
higher.
GRAPES-Small boxes and crates: Seedless.
5Oc Tokay, 50dS5c; Muscat. 40G75c; Isabella,
60Q75c; Black. 25q50c. Large open boxes
Black, 75cG$1; Tokay, $1Q1 so; Muscat 75c@
81 %; Sweetwater, -; Wine Grapes, $129
IT so per ton.
CITRUS FRUITS-Oranges. 81 5Od3 per
box for Valencias; Lemons, $2 50f13 80 for
fancy 81 1912 25 for choice and 81 25d1 so
for Standard; Grape Fruit. $2d3; Mexican
Lines, So 50d6 per case; Bananas 81 25q2
Der bunch for Central American and T5c0
81 25 for Hawaiian; Pineapples. $294 per
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-14
Dried Fruits, Nuts, ,RaiSinS, Honey.

A fair shipping demand is reported for
Fruits at unchanged quotations. except Prunes.
which are a fraction weaker. Peaches
the most active article under this head and
are also the hrmest The situation in Nuts
and Raisins remains as before Honey is
firmly held at the old familiar quotations, but
the demand is slack.
FRJITS-New crop-Apricots, Z q 69%c for
ROYALS and 9d12c for Moorparks; Nectarines.
so D7c: Peaches. 61z6S1ac per III; Pears, sac
12c; Plums. pitted, 6G61ac for black. 7559S1ac
for red and TdSI5c for yellow; Figs. 2-crown
bricks 521hc: 3-crown, soc; 4-crown. 65c; g.
crown 75c; bulk white. 3h63hc; black. -
Evaporated Apples, 615GT1sc per 10.
PRUNES-1A@1&c per Id for the four sizes.
RAISINS-Association I. O. b. prices Fresno
(subjeet to change without notice. fol-
lows: 50-ib boxes-Loose Muscatels. 3-crown.
Sc; 2-crown. 21zc; Malaga. loose, 3-crown,
2%c: 2-crown, 21c; seedless Sultanas, &c;
seedless Muscatels, 214c; Seeded Raisins. 1907.
cartons, fancy. 4Ac; choice. 4c; 12-oz. cartons,
fancy 3%c: choice, 3Ac per ID.
NUTS-Walnuts, No Il softshell. 13hd14c:
No. 2, 11h612c; No. l hardshell. 13613hc;
No. 2 116111ac; Almonds, 16617c for new
Nonpareils. 14614kc for I x l. 13G14c for
Ne Plus Ultra and lie for Languedocs Pea
nuts 6Q7c for Eastern; Pecans, uQ13c; Co
coanuts, 81 50G5.
HONEY-Comb 11h@13c for white and 100
lie for amber; water white extracted, $40
615c; light amber extracted. 5Goc; dark, SO
BEEswAx-27G2sc per Ib.