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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-12-07
Do You Sec IT,

A laboring man leaving large saloon
saw a costly carriage and pair of horses
standing in front, occupied by two ladies',
elegantly attired, conversing with the pro.
prietor.
As it rolled away. he said to the dealer
Whose carriage is that?'
1T is mine replied the dealer. compia.
Gently. 1T cost $1,000. Ny wife and
daughter cannot do without it."
The mechanic bowed his head a moment
in deep thought, and looked sad Then,
with the energy of a man suddenly
aroused, he said:
II see it, see it.'
''See what" said the dealer.
''See where for years my wages have
gone. I helped to pay for that carriage
and horses and that gold mounted harness
for the silk and laces and jewelry OF your
family. The money / earned, that should
have given my wife and family home of
their own and good clothing, I spent at
your bar. NV wages, and Others like me,
have supported you and your family in
luxury. Hereafter my wife nd family
will have the benefit Of my wages. and by
the help of God | will never spend an.
other coin for drink. | see the mistake
and a cure for it."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-12-07

DR.. Saleeby's chapter in The Verdict
of Science Upon Alcohol" is not the least
interesting one in his virlle and entertain
ing book The Cycle of Life, which the
Harpers have just published. DIR. Seleeby
refers to the monster petition circulated
among registered physicians early this
year in Great Britain, winch urged that
school children be taught the true nature
and effects Of alcohol, and adds that fout
days after his petition was posted H.,
900 signatures had been subscribed, show
ing the attitude of physicians IN this vital
matter. DR. Saleeby lays ne door Of
his own profession in the past the respon'
sibility for much drinking OF raw pirit'
in preference to wine, which physicians
have prohibited in many cases becrusc OF
its relation to gou,. ~ArralgneC before the
bar of science" writes Dr. Saleeby, at the
close of tbs vigorous chapte-, winch
nowadays can try whatever case It pleases,
alcohol has been found guilty; the judges
are physiology. pathology, pharmacology
clinical medicine. psychiatry and crimin'
ologv. But though they concur in their
verdict, society alone can pass sentence
This is only one Of many important sub
iects treated
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-12-07
WHOLESALE MARKETS.

Baltimore-Plour-Quiet and un-
changed; receipts, 4,4o2 barrels; ex-
ports, 6o77 barrels.
Wheat-Firmer. Spot contract, I.Io
0I.IoA; No. red Western. Novem-
Der, I.1o0GGoH; December, I.IoH@
I.toA; January, GI2A@tI3; steamer
No. red, I.o2AGt.o3; receipts, Ao48
bushels; Southern, by sample. oo@
ITO; Southern, on grade, oo0G.Ir.
Corn-Firmer. Spot, new. 53N4
50; November, new, year, 53053H;
January, sIH@s2A; February, sIH
@5IA; March. sIH@5IA; steamer
mixed, 51A052; receipts. 27,s86 BUSH
els; new Southern white corn, 48N@
5334; new Southern yellow corn, 48H
@53A,
Oats - Firm. No. 2 white. 3s5,
sales; No. 2 mixed, 34H@35; receipts.
6,26T bushels.
Rye-Dull. No. 2 Western, up
town, 90; receipts, 7.755 bushels.
Hay-Steady and unchanged.
Butter-Firm and unchanged. Fam
cy imitation, 1890; fancy creamery.
26@27; fancy liable, I6GG7; store pack
ed, 1905.
Eggs-Firm and unchanged, at "a
Cheese-Firm and unchanged. Large
II8@1IB; medium, II35@IIA; small
I2MI2H.
Sugar 49, Strong and unchanged.
Coarse granulated, SIS; fine, SIS.
New observation-disclosures, 2o.S34
barrels; exports, 537 barrels; sales,
4,3oo packages; market was quiet and
nominally higher.
Potatoes-Steady; Long Island, I.7s
@2.oo State and Western, I.+o@r.oo;
Jersey sweets, 2.ood $50.
Steady fancy hand picked.
5t5; other domestic. 5l4d5I3o
Cabbages-Firm; per barrel. 5o97s.
Lard - Steady; Western steamed,
7.5o; November closed 80 nominal;
refined firm; continent, 10
Couonseed Oii-Easy; prime crude
nominal! do. yellow. 25Aa264.
Turpentne-Steady; 52HG53.
Coffee-Spot Rio steady; No. 7 In
voice, S}5; mild steady
Sugar-Raw firm; fair refining, ~;
centrifugal, 20 test, 434; mo,asses su-
gar 4; refined nominal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-12-07

IT was warm. sunshiny morning. and
dld not wonder that the old man who was
pushing barrow with a load hp the
steep ascent to village I sometimes visit
was tired. lie sat down on heap OF
whinstone to rest I knew him as ono
clever with his tools when other failed
He was a matchmaker by trade. but he
could turn his hand to many things
said
"Aye.'
He was getting his breath.
Broken, | SUPPOSE"
The wheels won't work. they tell me-
I've a notion to know why. This machine
is like many a man It's had the wrong
oil. and that just sDoilt it,"
There was a twinkle in the gray eyes.
The wrong oil! said. What do YOU
mean?"
"Whv, it did harm instead of good. Ana
that's how it is with those who take stim
ulants to make the wheels Of life run easi
ly. Strong drink spois the machine It.
a mistake to try it. Some day folk will
be wiser"
agreed with my friend and I went on
my way. thinking about his words How
true they arel How many times men ana
women have had to call in a doctor, or g.
to hospital because when power seemed
to fail them, they used the wrong oil, il
has even happened that the wheels have
stopped altogether. and death has come
through this sad mistake. The old watch
maker, during his many years OF horest
toll had often known what it was to feel
weary, but he had long ago learned the
lesson that he was now so willing to teach.
He did not use the wrong oil!
All strong drink contains the poison al
cohol, and it is for the sake OF this that
men drink it. Yet this alcohol bring-
about many cruel diseases. It used to he
thought that brandy must be given to
people laid low with fever. but some brave
and shrewd doctor who did not believe
that this irritating poison could soothe or
helD the sick. put the matter to the proof;
and more patients were cured out OF every
hundred who did not take brandy. than
out of every hundred that did. To-day
in all our great hospitals they are using
more milk and less strong drinl.
We want our boys and girls to now
that beer. wine, or spirits can easily make
men i'll, but cannot make them well. DR.
Norman Kerr tells us that in Great Brit
ain alcohol kills at least 2OOO people every
week. In our country it is the greatest
foe that those who love the health and
happiness of their fellow countrymen have
to fight. War is a very cruel curse; so i:
pestilence-strong men, and sweet chill
dren. and tender women cut down by some
deadly plague; and so IS tamlne-people
dyingfor lack of food. Yet Mr.. Gladstone
once said that the evil doings of alcoho
are worse than the effects of war. pesti
lence and famine combined" Foolish peo
pie sometimes call their favorite form o
strong drink "pick-me.up." 1t is rather
a "knock When the wheels o
life and labor run only by an effort. give
them rest; but if you would have them by
and by work as well as ever, be very care
full. no matter who tempts YOU, to avoid
giving them "the wrong OIL
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-12-07
Silent Japanese Women.

Japan has its communities of silent
female recluses. There Is convent
at a place called Yunakawa, about
seven miles from Hakodate A matron
of some fifty years presides. and her
instructions are implicitly obeyed
The women are all young. ranging
from sixteen to twenty-seven. and
some of them are described as very
beautiful. The building stands In a
farm of some $50 acres. but the women
do not engage in any agricultural
work. They spend most Of their time
indoors, and they observe strict rule
OF silence.
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tney. Knew not what they asked. Can We
drink the cup that drink. be baptised
with the baptism that am? They thought
they could. Later, in a measure. they did.
But the places are reserved for those
to whom il is appointed, for those who
are fitted for it.. II is the inner prize of
character, of holiness, of love, of truth,
after the likeness Of Jesus Christ which
entities one to stand near Him in spiritual
power and dominion. This is not always
easy. Christ had His struggles. His agony,
His cross. The disciple is not above the
Master. 1t may not mean the giving up
OF life. 1t does at times in mission lands.
But to gain that knowledge of Christ will
cost; Is Righteousness gained without eff.
tort! Is forgiveness OF one who has in.
jured us mere bagatelle? Do all the re.
wards go to the honest and high princi.
pied in politics.? Is truth in business al.
ways at premium? In the presence OF
the pleasure and the business of the day
IS 1t simple matter to keen ones head
erect, ard work as a son of God, and thus
acting. know Christ. in truth and love?
Does 1t demand much of us that we shall
give ourselves up for those who may scorn
or hate us, so following the example of
Christ, who gave Himself for us? All, we
know in our daily life how great the task
is set for us in the school Of character, that
we may know Christ; that we may be like
nun, thaV we may grow IN the knowledge
OF human truth and love as we not only
see it in Him, but know it in ourselves.
1t costs much because it is life: and he.
cause it is life. it pays. For chief in the
joys and glories Of truth. there stands this
excellency of the knowledge of Christ as
apprehended by man; it is the truth of life,
the life Of God, the life of man, who is the
child OF God.
Read through the history of the past of
those noble ones who have aided the moral
uplift Of the world through this personal
living knowledge of Christ. They know
truth and love, because thew have lived
truth and love, They paid the price. It
might be poverty, persecution, martyrdom:
struggles within and trials, without. In
the power of Christ's strengthening, them
to do the things which were right. in the
suffering for others that they might be
drawn unto God, thev came into possession
the knowledge Of Christ. through exper-
ience With one accord that noble multi
tude which no man can number of apos-
ties, prophets, martyrs, known and nm
known, giving thanks unto God for His
goodness, ascribes to this knowledge pre-.
eminence and surprising glory above all
Others, crying out with Paul. We count all
things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord
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COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
R. G.. Dun & Co.., "Weetlv r,

R. 6. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Revisvs
of Trade" says:
Retail and jobbing trade was re-
tarded by unseasonably mild weathss
and the interruption Of another holk
day, but manufacturers extend opsr.
ations. as confidence is strengthened
by the receipts Of larger contracts fof
future delivery, and many inquiries
that promise to mature in something
more tangible. Postponed orders ei
all kinds are being placed. repoets
from every prominent industry indi-
eating that idle mills are reopeninG
and the number OF operatives gradu-
ally increasing.
Cotton spinning makes the slowsst
progress, but the statistical position
steadily improves as stocks of goods
diminish and the raw material de-
clnes nearer the point at which the
mills can operate profitably.
improvement in the iron and steel
industry continues, orders coming for
ward with increasing freedom. de-
spite the upward trend OF prices.
Prices OF wool are fully maintained
at recent advances, the Eastern mar
kets ruling quiet because OF limited
offerings rather than any slackening
OF demand.
Failures this week numberd 2os in
the United States against 2sS last year,
and in Canada 80 compared with II
a year ago.
Bradstreet's says: Wheat. includ-
ing -four, exports for the week sg-
gregate I,332,366 bushels against T.
28o,o42 last week. 3,85I,767 this
week last year, 4,G7oo85 in 1909
and s,1I7,478 in 1901. Corn ex-,
ports for the week aggregate 7o.-l
oo2 bushels against I3o,o7S last week,
1,52o,o4G year ago. 255.I74 in 1909
and 63o,o78 in 1907.
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snap Shots, 1000 a second

An Italian named Luciano Butti has
perfected a Photographic apparatus
capable OF registering the incredible
number of 1000 Photographic impress
sions per second. says the London
Globe. The most minute and least
rapid aud casual movements OF birds
and insects on the wing, which have
hitherto deiied science. can. II Is
claimed. be registered with accuracy,
thus opening new world Of natural
observation to ornitholosists. The
films used cost f2 per second for the
1900 Impressions.
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WORLD OP LABQR.

A strike is in progress among the
Honesdale (Pa.) glas scutters.
In 1908 Chicago, ILL.,, had 25o strikes
involving $4,000 men.
Native laborers in India receive &
cents 3 day for 10 hours work.
Agitation has begun for a central
labor body at San Francisco, Cal.
The supply OF union tailors in Co
lumbus, Ohio. is not equal to the de-
mand.
Efforts are being made to organize
a union of leatherworkers at Laneas-
ter. Pa.
There is a movement on foot in
Liverpool, Eng, to cope with the
existing want OF employment and dis
tress.
The Erie Railroad Company is max
ing a fight for the open-shop idea in
all OF It's shops between New York
and Chicago.
Andrew Carnegie says that bigger
fortunes will be made in the rubber
industry than in any other during the
next half-century.
1t is said that just now il may
roughly be estimated that so per cent
OF the workmen OF Dublin. Ireland.
are out Of employment
Mr.. Chamberlain says that there
are 900. 600 fewer farm laborers in
England now than in 1851 and r.
ooo, 600 laborers are underfed.
The decrease of capital value of az
ricultural land in Great Britain be-
tween 1875 and 1895 reached the cuor.
,nors xuun Of e. 600 600 GOO
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
DECEMBER eleventh.
"How to Break Bad Habits and Cuti
vate Good Ones."-Rom. 8:1-15.

Vdte SOou OneS. -fCW. q. I'D
Scripture Verses.--Prov 24:33, "a:
1914; 1874; 20:15, 16; %: %; Acts II:
2; 1913; 26:4, 5; l Cor. 1888; Heb.
1925; Peter S:11. -.
Lesson Thoughts.
Habits are as seeds sown. and grow
a harvest according to their kind. II
tares will not grow good grain, neither
can we expect harvest of good from
sowing of evil.
Habits are either good or they are
bad: either after the flesh or after the
spirit. 1t will pay to stop and consid.
er our habits; hold them up to the
light of Scripture teaching; compare
them with the rules there laid down
s,r spiritual Christian living; If they
are not straight with this standard.
they must be crooked.
Selections.
Little by little, sure and slow,
We fashion our futures of bliss or woa
AS the present passes away.
Our feet are climbing the stairway
bright,
Or gliding downward into the night,
Little by little, day by day
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
SOW habit, and you reap charac-
ter SOW character and you reap a
destiny.
Habit is cable; we weave Il
thread of it every day and at last we
cannot break it.
Resist beginning; whatsoe'er it is,
Though 1t appear light and of little
moment.
Think of 1t thus-that what it is
augmented,
Would run to strong and sharp extre-
mites.
Life's evening will take its character
from the day which has preceded 1t,
and If we would close our career In
religious hope. we must prepare for
II by continuous religious habit. Thou
shalt always have joy in the evening
If thou hast spent the day WELL
AS the stream gradually wears the
channel deeper in which 1t runs. and
thus becomes more surely bound to
its accustomed course; so the current
OF the mind and heart grows more
and more restricted to the course In
which habit has taught them TO flow.
Bad habits, even If corrected, leave
the person weaker. 1t is as in the
case of a mound of a reservoir; II this
mound has in one place been broken,
whatever care has been taken to make
the repaired part as strong as possi-
BILE, the probability is, that, IL 1t give
way again II will be In that place.
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Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother.
by THEODORE L. CuYLER.


There is touching story told Of the
famous Dr. Samuel johnson, which has
had influence on many boy who has
heard it. Samuel's father, Michael John.
son, was poor bookseller in Litchfeld,
England. On market days he used to car.
ry package of books to the village of OF
toxeter, and sell them from a stall in the
market place. One day the bookseller was
sick, and asked his son to go and sell the
books IN his place: Samuel, from a silly
pride, refused to obey.
Fifty years afterward Johnson became
the celebrated author. the compiler of the
English Dictionary and one of the
most distinguished scholars in England:
but he never forgot his act Of unkindness
to his poor hard toiing father; so when
he visited Ottoxeter he determined to
show his sorrow and repentance.
lie went into the market place at the
time of business, uncovered his head. and
stood there for an hour in the pouring
rain, on the very spot where the book
stall used to stand.
This he saws. was an act of contri-
tion for my disobcdience to my kind
father"
The spectacle of the great DR.. Johnson
standing bareheaded in the storm to atone
for the wrong done by him fifty or sixty
years before is a grand and touc nng one.
There is representation OF it in marble
on the Doctors monument.
:, Many man in after life has felt some:
thing, harder and heavier than storm OF
rain beating upon his heart when he re.
mempered his acts OF unkindness to
good father or mother now in their graves.
DR.. John Todd. OF Pittsfield, the emf
nent writer, never forgot how. when his
old father was very sick. and sent him
away Tor medicine, he, little lad, had
% %peen unwliilng TO go, and made u he
that thc druggist mad not got any such
medicine.
Inc old man was lust dying when littN
Johnny came IN, and he said to him.
MY boy, your father smners great pc for
want OF that medicine
Johnny started In great distress Tor the
medicine, but 1t vas. too late. The father
on his return vas almost gone tie could
only say to the weeni-g boy: Love God
and always, speak th' truth, for the eve
OF God Is always upon YOU. Now kiss me
once more, and fare ell
Through, all his after life DR.: Todd had
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-12-07
Catching FIsh win relephones.

A Norwegian has invented a queer
way Of finding out where the fish are.
A microphone. which is an instrument
that will catch and transmit the least
little bit of sound, is lowered into the
water from fishing smack. and a
wire from II leads to a telephone
aboard the boat. Now. as the herring,
Goldfish and mackerel schools number
thousands and tens OF thousands OF
fish. their passage through the water
Naturally causes q rushing sound,
which can be heard by the fishermen
at the telephons. and thus they are
enabled TO lower their nets at the
right time and in the right place.
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Cause and Eject.

The Midland Methodist says: ''The
beautiful little city of McMinnvilie. ;,
Texas. is alive with prosperity. A stock
company has been formed for the cree.
meneed ON furniture factory; the foun.
dry and machine shops are to be enlarged /;
and everything, except cabbage, com.
mands a good price" IL will be re mem.
bered that McMinnville voted saloons out
year or two ago. Put this fact along,
side OF its present prosperity. That they
are cause and effect is shown by the fur,
ther TACT that every town in the State
which has recently abolished saloons has
had similar prosperity.
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Convenient Po.toffles Arr.no.m.,,

The English newspapers report a
new application In Australia OF the
principle Of the coln-in.the-slot ma.
chine. stating that II stamp can not
be purchased conveniently II will be
possible In the future to drop a let.
ter into one orifice Of postal box and
a penny into a second orifce. and the
words "one penny paid" win be found
Impressed on the envelope when the
box is.opened by the postofilce author.
tiles. thereby securing the trensmis.
sion OF the letter.
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Sweet out of Bitter.

Consider that the bees, when they make
their honey. do live upon a bitter provis,
ion, and that we, in like manner, can never
perform actions of greater meekness and
patience. nor better compose the honey OF
true virtues. than while we eat the bread
of bitterness and live among Affections.
thyme Ia little bitter herb) is the best OF
all. so the virtue which is exercised in the
bitterness OF base and most abject tribu.
lations is the most excellent OF all.-De
Sales.
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An EnorInous difference.

Note the sixty years experience with to-
tai abstainers OF the emperance and Gen.
eral Proyident Institution of Great Brit.
ain, whose tabulated statistics prove that
during the active, strenuous years OF
manhood, from the age OF twenty-five to
sixty, the mortality among abstainers is
drinkers" As M. Whitaker, the sta.
tistician, well observed, This is an enor.
nous difference"
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Is it wise. my friend? You have not yet
become a Christian, and yet you frankly
duty and that you do not want to die as
you are.
Is it wise, then, ask, to defer this mat.
ter? Your feelings are not excited, it
may be, but you are convicted, for you
know your duty. Commence right now to
seek the Lord. 1t is very commonsense
matter.
Is it wise? Is it wise not to?
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS A5CUr
THE VICE OF iNTeMPERANce.

Poem: The Poison Bowi-what Happens
TO Those Who Take stimuiant4 to Make
the Wheels OF Life Run Easiiy--strong
Drink spoiis the Machine.
Ha! dash to earth the poison bowI
And seek it not again
1t hath madness for the soul
A scorching for the brain.
The curses and the plaques OF hell
Are flashing on its brim-
Woe to the victim of its spell;
There is no hope for him
John G.. Whittier.
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ian be strong without being sour
II takes more than an accent 10
make aloquence.
Only frozen piety can be bound
down 10 form.
The sense OF smartness is sure to
make man shallow.
A waspish disposition gets no honey
from the rock.
Nothing cools on meeting quicker
than 4 hot scoldlng.
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When Goodyear Bros OF Buffalo
bought the sawmill and houses at Me
dix Run. Mass. there came into their
ownership q union church. which had
belonged to the Dodge company. The
0codyears have now rented this
church TO the Methodists for 10 years
Tor 10 cents. or one cent per wear,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-12-07
RAMS HORN BLASTS

HE sermon need
not be silly TO be
suited to the child.
A silk hat on
some heads Is like a
new roof upon an
empty barn.
Future possibili-
ties determine pre-
sent facts.
He who follows In
faith need fear no
failure.
Your character
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There is movement in some cites to
provide breakfasts for poor children who
come to school too hungry to stady--a well
meant expedient, but involving the dan
gers OF pauperlxing Thousands Stop the
drain OF wages into the saloon. aud fathers
could get breakfasts for their children
and be strong and keep them strong in
nobler Independence.
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Live True TO the Highest.

Ths precepts of Jesus are the essential
element Of His religion. Regard these as
our rule OF life. and we build our house
upon a rock. Live them out, indeed, and
we have entered the kingdom of heaven
we even now enter it.-Channing.