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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-03-26

everywhere else was only sere brown
sod; the trees were In leaf and bud a
full week earlier there than In other
orchards. Summer brought ripe lux
uriance OF growth. Long ago grand
mother had sown a little plot with
oaraway just inside tho gate and 1t
had spread half over the orchard.
In July, when It came into blossom,
the long arcades were white with its
billowy waves that swayed and
foamed In the moonshine of summer
ewes like seas of silver. One day a
three-year-old baby wandered into the
caraway thicket that met over her
head. lay down in it, and went to
sleep. When she was missed, great
was the CONSERVATION In the house of
King. Everybody turned out to
search, distracted by direful possi-
bilitles Of we'll and river. Search as
they might they could not find her.
1t was sunset, with mother in hys-
terics, before an answering gurgle
came from the caraway in response to
franctic calls. Father plunged over
the stone wall and into the caraway
where he came upon rosy sleep
warm baby curled up In nest of her
own fasihoning and very loath to
leave 1t.
Autumn was, think, the time we
loved best. for then came the apple
picking. What fun it was! The boys
would climb the trees and shake the
apples down until we girls cried for
mercy. The days were crisp and mel
low, with warm sunshine and tang
of frost in the air, mingled with the
woodsy odors of the withering leaves.
The hens and turkeys prowled about
picking at windfalls, and our pet kit
tens made mad rushes at each other
among the leaves.
Then came winter, when the
orchard was heaped with drifts. II
was a wonderful place on moonlit
like magic avenues of ivory and pearl
and the bare trees cast fairy-like trac-
cries over them. Uncle Stephen s
avenue was a fine place for coasting,
and when a thaw came, followed by a
frost, we held high carnival there.
Any history of the old south
orchard would be incomplete If II
failed to mention the king Bubble. "
This was spring of peculiarly sweet,
pure water which gurgled up in the
southwest corner at the foot of a
gentle slope. Grandfather had
trimmed it round with circle of hewn
stones, and in this basin the water
brimmed up like great amber bub-
BILE until it found it's way through
ferns and mosses to the brook below.
In our games the King Bubble played
the part of every famous fount in
song and story of which we had ever
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KILLED TRYING TO ESCAPE.

York Especially - Samuel Knaub,
an alleged horse thief, fell under the
wheels of the southbound Washing
ton express and was ground TO pieces
shortly before 6 o'clock. when he
tried to escape by jumping through
the window of toilet room on car.
He had been arrested at Harrisburg
and was on the way to jail here, in
charge of Constable G. X. Weaver.
Several days ago a horse and bug
gy were stolen from the farm of
Harry Strayer, near Dillsburg. Knaub
was suspected and was captured at
the home of his mother, Mrs. David
Hartman, in Harrisburg. On the
way down abroad the train Knaub,
who was handcuffed. asked permis-
sion to go to the toilet room. Shortly
afterward a passenger heard n crash
of glass and, looking from the win
dow, saw the prisoner fall headfore-
most to the ground.
The train was stopped and the
prisoner was found dead with his
head crushed and one OF his legs
severed.
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IN DAYS OF
HESITATION
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1t is now several months since Wall
Street undertook to cure a case of
financial grip with remedies that all
but produced heart failure. Since
then the country has been promising
itself a speedy recovery of normal
conditions. Convalescence has in
deed begun. but it is not as rapid as
some of the optimists expected.
We can hardly expect that the
business world will return to normal
conditions until there is a readjust-
ment throughout it's entire extent.
For the man who was forced to ex-
pand against his will, this period of
readjustment is not likely to bring
serious results. His very objection
to exploiting prosperity will have
proved blessing.
There will be more or less distress
on the part of those who have been
living as If the feYerish prosperity of
the last few years was excessive
health. The penalties of extravaganza
must be met by the world at large,
whether that extravaganza took the
lOl VI laNLOl IhdL hio
not need rebuilding, mortgaging ones
house to buy an automobile, or buy
ing unneeded furniture on INSTALL
ments.
Fifteen years ago a situation such
as we see to-day would have given
rise to a new populist movement So
far as can he seen. there is no evil
dence of radicalism. We face a Pres
idential year with no great issue be-
fore us except that of whether we
shall maintain the policy of President
Roosevelt policy that meets with
the approval of practically every man
in the country except those who have
overexploited their borrowing power.
1t is a moment of hesitation, but
not a moment of dependency. 1t is
moment that suggests reaction, but
only to those who are the manipula-
tors rather than the actual purchasers
of wealth, whether they be farmers or
manufacturers.
In a word, let us "sit tight and
trust the horse. Editorial in The
World To-Day.
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by TROLLEY TO GETTYSBURG.

Hanover Especially. - Announce
ment was made that work will soon
start on the extension OF the Han
over Street Railway to Littletown, a
distance of seven miles, by way of
McSherrystown. The contract for
the work was given to John Dob
bling, of York, and requires compile
tion within ninety days.
Another extension in contempIa-
tion is from McSherrystown to New
Oxford, a distance of five miles. The
projected line will then be run to
Berlin Junction where the East Ber-
lin branch railway. which is probably
the shortest steam railroad in Penn
sylvania. will be electrified. and the
line continued through Abbotstown
to East Berlin. After the line Ia
Littlestown is completed 1t is pro.
posed to extend the road to Gettys-
burg, ten miles distant. Then it will
be possible to go from Lancaster
York and Hanover, to the historical
battlefield by trolley.
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white hair. Grandmother called aim
by name, but for the first time he
failed to answer her.
They carried Grandfather King
through the old orchard on his last
journey. IL had been his wish. Chill
dren and grandchildren walked be-
hind him under boughs laden with
the mellow fruit of trees his hands
had planted. The next June Grand
mother King was carried to him over
the same way-the bride going once
more to her bridegroom under the
glory of their bridal trees.
l visited the orchard not lorg ago
on a mellow afternoon. 1t did not
seem much changed. Most of the old
trees were standing; grandfather's
and grandmotber's were gone, but
their places were filled with two
fiourishing young trees planted when
the homestead boy had brought his
bride home. Aunt Una's seat was
there and Uncle Stephens avenue;
the King Bubble was as clear and
sparkling as of yore-truly, 1t was
fountain of youth. for 1t never grew
old. And at the big granite bowlder
children were playing "Ivanhoe" and
besieglng 1t valiantly with arrows and
popguns. My best wish for them was
that in the years to come the old
orchard might hold for them as many
sweet and enduring memories as 1t
held for me.-From the outing Mag
azine.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Cross bearing by proxy will not
win crowns
In order to be humble one need
not be servile.
Infant hands can take firm hold
on beartstrings.
Time is money, but the landlord
will not accept it.
To-morrow's industry will not bal.
ance to-day's Incidence.
Even if you can not toot a horn
you can follow the reform band.
The pulpit would profit by looking
at it from the pewpoint once in a
while.
The more men you lift up the
fewer there are left to drag you
down.
Heaven is a gift that must be ac-
cepted with clean hands and clean
heart.
False teeth do not ache, but that
is about the only good thing to be
said of them.
Widows weeds too carefully cul-
tivated are the soonest to go to seed
and disappear.
Have you ever noticed that when
man takes himself too seriously he
is generally Joke?
There was something wrong about
the good time of yesterday that pro-
ducsd to-day's headache.
We don't think much of man
who has large social correspon-
dence and keeps up with il.
1t will take something more than
the fear of microbes and germs to
put stop to the kissing habit.
We never worry about the spirit
ual welfare of the man who always
sprinkles ashes on his icy sidewalk.
From Brain Leaks" in the Com
moner.
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BY L. M. MONTGOMERY.

tSSGeSSGeGeGGGSSe g
Of awe and fear. This was Aunt
Una's seat" bench of mossy stone
gnarled pear trees and grown thiclSly
about with grasses and violets. We
never cared to play there---it would
have seemed like desecration, but in
our quiet moods we sought the old
stone bench to dream. Aunt Una
mingled In those dreams, but not
after the fashion of Uncle Stephen,
for there was no doubt concerning
her fate. She had died thirty years
before, on her twentieth birthday.
We children heard much of Aunt
Una, for she was one of those people
who are not soon forgotten, whose
personality seems to haunt the scenes
of their lives long after they have
gone hence. She had been very beau
tiful, with a strange moonlight beau
ty Of white skin and night-black eyes
and hair, foreign to the fair, rosy
King style of loveliness; a dreamy,
spiritual girl, one of those souls who
have no real abiding place In this
world and only tarry for brief
while. She had been gifted with the
power of expression, and sort of
journal she had written was one of
grandmothers treasures. She some
times read portions of 1t to us, and
so we seemed to make very real ac-
quaintance with Aunt Una. The book
contained verses that appeared quite
wonderful to us-indeed, think even
yet that they were wonderful-and
bits descriptive of the orchard, blent
with girls dreams and longings.
Her phrases fingered in our memories
and the whole orchard seemed full OF
her. Besides, there was bit of her
romance connected with it.
Aunt Una had had lover. This
man was still living; he was little
more than fifty, but we thought him
very old because of his snow-white
hair. He had never married, and
lived some distance away. Every
June, on Aunt Una's birthday, he
made pilgrimage to the old orchard
to see her tree, all ablow with never
failing blossoms, and sis on her
bench. At such times we children
were not allowed to go into the
orchard, but we sometimes peeped
over the wall and saw him sitting
there, melancholy, lonely figure. 1t
gave us, think, deep and lasting
sense of the beauty and strength of
love which could thus outlive time
and death. We were too young then
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His Steamer Chairs

Il have the woodwork Of seventeen
steamer chairs in my garret," grum-
bled the man who had crossed the
ocean seventeen times. Just as good
MS new. Each chair cost me $3.50.
The canvas, duck, or webbing that
formed the seat wore out and l never
was able to replace It. tried forty
stores for similar material. and gave
up the Job. Now, whenever want a
chair | buy new one complete; no
use looking for colored, or striped, or
checked duck to form a seat" l had
like experience. Plenty OF white
duck can be found, but no subdued
stripes or colors. All you want is .
strip seventeen or eighteen inches
wide and two and half yards long.
II cusat to cost about twenty-one
cents a yard.-New York Press.
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PANIC IN SCHOOL.

Butler Especially a panic among
school children and their parents oc-
cured at the Institute Hall School
building, when a report was circu-
lated that President Mechling, of the
school board, had received Black
Hand threat demanding $500 or the
building would be blown up with
dynamite. Many women, frantic
with fear, rushed to the school and
demanded that their children be in
stantly dismissed. When the teach
ers persisted in keeping the children
in their rooms a number of women
tainted. The children deserted the
building when they learned of the
report. All efforts to hold them in
check we're futile.
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CKAzED by LACK OF WORK.

Carlisle Especially - County Off
cials here dealt with a sad case. when
they removed to the county asylum
Frank Fink, a well known young
married man, who became crazed be-
cause of lack of employment and
worry over his financial affairs A
baby arrived in the Fink home on
Saturday, after which time tho
young father completely lost his
reason
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WIDOW CHARGES FRAUD.

l'ittsburg Especially - Standing hel
last ground in the battle to save heI
home from litigation that has gradu'
ally dissipated the huge fortune oi
her dead husband, Mrs. w. c. lutte
widow of the suicide coal millionaire
entered suit, alleging fraud on the
part of James w. Friend and F. n
Hoffstott, administrators of the dead
financier's estate.
Hoffstott now has pending in court
an ejectment suit to oust the widow
from her palatial Pittsburg town
house. Mrs. lutte claims the deed
to this house was given by her late
husband to Hoffstott and Friend as
collateral and that their claim against
lutte was afterward satisfied in full
but that the property was never re-
conveyed,
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Sorrow of a Secretary.

With the publication of any story
that increases Loeb's mail, Loeb de-
spairs Once when the President
went off on a trip he left Loeb lot
of slips containing his autograph
stating that the slips were for those
who asked Loeb mentioned the in
cident to reporter. The reporter
rushed into print. Loeb's mail few
days later was too big for the regular
White House mailbag. Loeb later
was seen whispering in the ear of
that print-rushing reporter, and it
was noticed that the reporters face
became slowly sicklied DER with the
pale cast of contrition.
The publication of this story will
increase Loeb's mail within a week
by hundreds of letters. It's always
so, when some one does Loeb the un-
kindness to tell the people what it
means to be secretary to the Presi-
dent. There was a Loeb article pub
lished by a syndicate, some months
age, in 500 different newspapers.
Poor Loeb! His friends and we'll
wishers, FROM the Rio Grande to
Alaska and from the Penobscot to
the Pacific, wrote him, either inclos-
ing copy of the article. or saying,
did you see it?" Courtesy required
an answer to every one of those zeal
Gus admirers. So don't think Loeb is
hankerlng for one line of publicity
more than is thrust upon him by his
official duties-for he has no such
hanker.-Leslie's Weekly.
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Checks to Filtration.

when ! went abroad to Baden Ba-
den last summer" said the little in
valid, my husband gave me an Elk
pin to wear and my father a Masonic
one. They said II there were any Ma
sons o. Elks on beard ship they would
look after me.
Every blessed man on board was
either Mason or an Elk, and not e
one of sAem would iiirt with me on
account of those pins.
you caa bet when sailed for
homo l put those blooming pins In
the trunk and kept them there. -
New York Press.
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read-especially the well of Urda and
Ponce de Icons fountain OF youth.
On summer days, tired and warm,
we would fling ourselves down on its
fern-fringed brink and drink deep
draughts from an old blue china cup
which always sat on a little stone
shelf below the brim and never
Glanced to be broken despite the doz-
ems of careless little hands that seized
1t. To-day weary men and women
all over the world think often of that
spring and long for a cup of it's
matchless water.
Near the spring was huge granite
bowlder as high as a mans head
straight and smooth in front, but hol-
lowed out into natural steps behind
1t also played an important part in all
our games, being fortified castle, In
dian ambush, throne, pulpit or con-
cert platform as occasion required. A
certain gray-haired minister, famous
in two continents for eloquence and
scholarly attainments, preached his
first sermon at the age of ten from
that old gray bowlder, and a woman
whose voice has delighted thousands
sang her earliest madrigals there.
If you're King, you sing," was
countryside proyerb in those days,
and certainly 1t was true of all the
descendants of grandfather and
grandmother. We all sang more or
less, although none could equal
Laure, and among the dearest men,
ories of the old south orchard are
those OF the long, mellow twllights of
summer Sundays, when old and young
assembled In the orchard and sang
hymns, grandfather beating time.
How clearly the whole scene comes
out on the wall of memory's picture
gallery - grandfather and grand
mother, father and mother, sitting on
Aunt Una's bench, while we children.
with all Uncle Georges brood from
the next farm, sat ON the grass
around them. Two voices sound out
for me above all the others--Laure's
glorious and silyery, grandmother
sweet, quavering, tremulous. Dear
old Grandmother King! How much
she enjoyed those summer evenings
of song
Grandmother and grandfather used
to walk much In the orchard on fine
evenings. hand in hand, lovers still,
lingering in Uncle Stephens arcade
or at Aunt Una's seat. Their devo-
tion to each other was beautiful to
see. we children never thought It
sad or unlovely thing to grow old
with SO fair an example before us.
One summer grandmother grew very
fraii and could not walk In the
orchard. Yet grandfather was the
first to go; they found him sitting in
his armchair on one summer after
noon, smile on his fine old face and
the sunshine making glory OF his
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to understand its full beauty. The
romance of 1t appealed more strongly
to us; we girls had our favorite
dream of dying young and having our
lovers come to visit our trees thirty
years after.
But the orchard had happier men,
| ories. There had been a wedding in
1t for one thing-long before we were
born. 1t was that of Aunt Iris, who
had been celebrated beauty. She
was married in the orchard under the
apple blossoms of June. We never
tired of hearing grandmother tell of
1t. We had heard the story so often
that we could picture it almost as
plainly as grandmother herself-the
lanes OF white, fragrant trees, the gay
dresses of the guests. the beautiful
bride In her white silk dress and old
lace veil. 1t was fayorite game with
us to enact 1t all over, and so coveted
was the honor of playing the brides
part that 1t had to be settled hy lot.
Aunt Iris pear tree, planted by the
bride herself, after the ceremony, was
In our time a huge old tree Just with
in the entrance gate. The most de-
licious pears that l have ever eaten
grew on 1t. There are no such pears
nowadays. l suppose they had cata-
logue name, but the old south orchard
had a nomenclature all its own, and
We knew them as Aunt Iris pears. {"
There were many plum trees in the
orchard, as we'll as cherries-great
luscious ox-hearts and a sweet white
kind-pears and ounces, but of
course more OF apple trees than of
any other kind. Uncle Bob's tree was
our fayoglte, because 1t bore a delic-
ious, Juicy, yellow apple with streak
| OF red ON one side. There were two
big trees-the twins trees-which
were given over to us entirely, be-
cause nobody except children could
eat their big, green, dead-sweet APP
pies. And there was Seeding tree
which had come up unbidden In q
sunny corner, the fruit of which we
used when our games called for
trial by srdeal." The apples of It
| were the sourest that ever grew;
hard, bitter, unpalatable. The "or-
deal" consisted in eating one OF them
in large bites without making single
grimace! Few of us ever passed 1t,
but there was one who never failed
our little French cousin, Laure.
She could MUNICH those dreadful ap-
pies without SO much as change of
expression on her little dark, elfin
face. But then, Laure could do any
thing she attempted, We could
never stump" her. as our Juvenile
slang expressed it.
Every season brought new beauties
to the old orchard. II would have
been hard to say whes we loved It
best. In spring II was rare spot;
the grass would be green there when
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RAILROAD CENTER DOOMED.

Altoona tSpecia all. - Because
freight can be handled cheaper from
Altoona to Sunbury, via Tyrone, Lock
Haven and Williamsport. than via
Lewistown Junction. the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad is to virtually abandon
the latter place. which for years has
been an important railroad center.
on account OF being the Main Line
Terminus of the Sunbury Division.
Already ninety trainmen has been
discharged, together with seven tele-
graph and telephone operators. and
twenty more of the latter are to be
dismissed.
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A Few Suggestive Don'ts.

Don't be afraid befor act.
you for that purpose.
Don't be afraid mitators Originality always a
Don't be great successes born of
chance - - " -
Don't be afraid to
Don't be afraid to admit it when the
Don't be afraid to obey earn to OBJ
he hope O " ~
Don't be afraid of experience He the teacher
Don't be afraid of pleasure.
Don't be afraid of censure. We all
toning - - - 49,
Don't be afraid of rivals Things but
there is always
Don't be afraid fight Most things worth
having hard to e0 "N-
Don't be afraid polite
stances 1t is disgrace to be a gentleman.
Don't be afraid of rebuhs This may be your ennlovers
method of trying grit - ' P'O'Oi'
Don't be afraid Confidence is a necessary
- 'ooS"''
people-The Bankazine IVA ans O"s
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Youngest Attorney Dies.

Honesdale Especially. - Lawrence
NJ. Atkinson, a prominent IIonesdale
citizen. died OF apoplexy during the
night at his boarding house. He was
Wayne County's youngest practicine
attorney and was admitted to the bar
In 1897. lie was also q member OF
the Philadelphia Bar. having been
admitted shortly after his graduation
from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1897 lie served term as Dis
trict Attorney of this county and was
IA director of the Dime Bank.
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landslide Wrecks Town.

Pittsburg Especially Two China
men are believed to have perished,
scores OF persons are suffering from
inhaling gas, eight places were eth
er set on fire or were the scenes OF
explosions and many persons narrow
ly escaped death as result of a
landslide which demolished the gas
regulator house of the Manufactur-
ors' Light & Heat Co.. at Ben Avon,
a suburb.
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state To Help Build Highway.

Harrisburg Especially The State
Highway Department will cooperate
with the county officials of Lacka-
wanna in the construction of the pro-
posed improved highway across the
county. The project has received the
Endorsement of the Court and Grand
Jury and meetings are now being
held along the line of the proposed
road at which engineers of the State
are present. The State surveyors
will assist the county authorities.