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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02

"I'i send Bob back for you when ne
gets home from school this afternoon.
Try not to be lonesome, dear"
Jack swung away whistling to tho
beach. Hnllie could hear the splash
ing OF oars for few minutes Then
the sound died away. Fo: a long
time there was more golden silence.
Halle stole to the edge of the wood
and looked out Neither the boat nor
Robinson was in sight. He must have
taken her at her word and left her.
A rush of warm anger flooded the
girls veins. How dared he leave her
alone. Did he think she could be
marooned like any pirate7 She would
make him eat dirt for treating her so.
What had come over him, anyhow?
He had never been like this before.
She stamped her little foot In rage
She hated him--hated him--hated
him.
Her anger was genuine enough,
but trickling through it, scarcely rec
ognized as yet, was a new pride in
him, an admiration born of defeat.
The world-old instinct of her sex was
at work in her. She had found her
mate and her master, and in much the
same way that her savage ancestors
had found theirs. He had trampled
her pride under his feet, had beaten
down her will with kisses, just as his
fathers two thousand years before
had beaten into submission with clubs
their 1.-THE and lissom loves. 1t was
the old primordial battle over again,
with the same result. She still fought
against surrender, hardly realizing as
yet the imminency of it, but her fight
was a useless one. Already she was
thinking with q kind of fascinated
fear of this boy whom she had been
used to order about at her will. He
would never again be her unreasoning
slave, and deep in her heart she was
glad of it, glad that the manhood in
him had asserted itself to defeat her.
She felt, too, new strange craving
for his presence. The memory of his
strong embrace still shivered through
her, the hateful delight of his kisses
still burned her face. She had but to
self snatched to him again. Shame
and anger might surge in her, but
deeper than either was the awakened
instinct of her strong young woman
hood. She had come into her natal
inheritance.
And even though she feared to
match herself against his new-found
strength she wished he had not left
her by herself. She felt oddly de-
pendent and alone. Always aggres-
sive and unafraid, fear at last had
found her, and in this little island
where she had been at home since
childhood. For now she was shut
off from retreat, and defeat, making
clear her weakness, had sapped her
strength. Vague alarms filtered
through her, fancies of the woodland
folk and fettered power lurking in
the shadows to seize her. Perhaps
some Caliban of the forest
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
DICKINSON NOT CHANGED.

Carlisle (SpeciaD. - President
George Edward Reed. of Dickinson
College, upon his return here from
making an address in Philadelphia
and at the York Methodist Episcopal
Conferences, where a Board of In
quiry was appointed to inquire why
Dickinson's trustees had announced
Dickinson as a non-sectarian insti-
tuition in availing itself of Carnegie
foundation help for superannuated
professors, said that the relation of
Dickinson College to the Methodist
Episcopal Church is today precisely
what 1t has been since the year 1888,
when the college came under the aus
pices of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, not line or even a word
OF its ancient charter having been
changed, in order to secure place
uDOn the Foundation
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
A Rare Find.

In a collection of Egyptian papyrl
Professor Jules Nicole is reported to
have found among some Greek texts
an ancient Latin guide through
Rome. AS II contains an inventory
of sculpture and indicates the local.
ity where each piece was located, as
well as describing each, 1t may prove
of Importance in supplying us with
data for the attribution OF as yet
nameless statues.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
Elkins ON Rich Senators.

Senator Elkins, of West Virginia,
the other day had one of the current
lists of millionaires in the upper
branch of Congress. 1t carried him
as the third richest man in Congress.
one whose credit would be $25, ,OO0,-
900. There were thirty other sup
posed millionaires on this Senate list.
Discount those figures by ninety
per cent" said Senator Elkins, in all
seriousness, as he surveyed the
names of his very rich colleagues,
"and they will be more nearly cor
rect. 1t is the honest truth that
many OF the men listed in the Senate
by these writer's as worth all the way
from $1,000,000 to $50. 100000 each
would be willing to take ten per cent.
of these estimates in cash to-day.
Run over the names of the
wealthy men of the Senate" contin-
ued Mr.. Elkins. There are admit
tedly some wealthy men among its
members They are nothing like as
rich as they are represented to be,
but with only one or two exceptions
you will find they are self-made men,
who started in very modest circum-
stances.
In some ways this kind of exag-
gerated talk about millionaires pre-
dominating in the Senate is not just.
! have personal knowledge from my
long business associations that the
figures are greatly exaggerated. OBJ
servers, familiar with affairs here.
know that very rich men do not con-
troll in matters of legislation. They
bear their part of the work, according
to their ability and service, just as
do all other Senators. Washington
Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
Mans Endless Quest.

AS great preacher once said
"Man is continually looking for his
lost inheritance of happiness, which
the allegory OF the Garden of Eden
preiigures. He knows 1t exists for
him somewhere, and he is ever knock
ing, knocking - generally at the
wrong door, of selhshness. greed. am
bition, lust, all sorts of foolish doors,
and we cali his mistaken seeking by
a name, Sin"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02

the way. According to time honored
anarchistic methods the murderer
was selected from their number by
drawing lots. The man who chose
the fatal paper which made him re-
gicide decided to kill the King at a
fancy dress ball which he was to at.
tend at Stockholm, so as Gustave en-
tered the ballroom he received his
death blow. The assassin was exc
cuted, but all the instigators escaped
punishment.
Emperor Paul of Russia spent his
entire life trying to escape assassina-
ton and at last was choked to death
by a band of conspirators. His ex-
cesses we're so horrible and he was so
insane in his cruelties that it is small
wonder his life was always threat
ened. His murderer was not put to
death, but merely sentenced to ex-
pulsion from st. Petersburg.
On June 4, 1876, four days after
his abdication, Abdul Aziz, Sultan of
Turkey, was found dead. He was
probably assassinated.
In 1881 Alexander II. of Russia
was killed by bomb thrown at him
as he was driving to the palace after
he had taken the oath.
There was no great surprise at the
murder of Nasr ed Din, Shah of Per-
sia, for the lives of Eastern rulers
are notoriously insecure, but his
Majesty had been twice to England
and by his personal charm and tact
had made himself very popular. The
special feature of this crime was the
cruelty with which the assassins we're
punished. They were placed in pits
as deep as they were tall and these
were filled in with plaster of paris.
Then water was poured on, with the
result that as the substance set the
poor wretches we're slowly crushed
out of existence.
The murder of the gentle and sore
ly stricken Empress of Austria is
still fresh in peoples minds. Luc-
choni, her assassin, said when cap
tured; IF all anarchists do their
duty as / have done mine bourgeois
society will soon disappear. The
Empress was killed at Geneva.
King Humbert of Italy was assass-
mated in 1900 by an anarchist, An.
gelo Bresci, hailing from Paterson,
N. J.
In 1903 King Alexander and Queen
Draga of Servia were killed in their
palace by some of their own people.
Their history was not a pleasant one
and they seemed to have rushed from
one mad act to another without con-
sidering what the end would be as
their unpopularity increased among
their subjects.
Besides all the royal victims who
have suffered death there have been
numerous others who have escaped
assassination, but who have spent all
their lives in fear of Il and often on
the very verge of it. Frequent at
tempts were made on the lives OF.
Napoleon III. and the Emperor of
Austria. Queen Victoria, popular as
she was, was not free from danger
and only just escaped the attacks of
Oxford and a nalf witted youth name
O'Connor. King Edward, when he
was Prince of Wales, was fired at in
Brussels. William I. of Germany was
seriously wounded in an attempt on
his life. The narrow escape of the
King and Queen of Spain on their
wedding day is worldwide knowl.
edge, and of course the life of the
Gar of Russia is one constant pre-
caution against the Vaccinations OF
his enemies.-New York Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02

The assassination of the King and
Crown Prince of Portugal recalls the
long list of monarchs who have been
killed by rebellious subjects with
real or fancied grievances against
the State of by conspirators against
the throne or by maniacs. Since
the very earliest days of history the
heads that wore the crowns have had
good cause to rest uneasy. Often the
next heirs or close relatives of the
monarchs have been the instigators
OF their murder. In the case of Ed
ward H., King of England in 1877, 1t
was HIS wife, Queen Isabella, daugh-
ter of Philip w. of France. who sug-
gested that he should be done to
death and she looked on calmly while
the murderers killed the King by
thrusting a red hot poker into his
abdomen.
The assassination of James l. of
Scotland in 1437 was like that of
Dom Carlos in that his wife, Queen
Joan, tried to shield him with her
body as did Queen Amalia, but in the
of his wife was unavailing, as he
fell pierced by the swords of the
murderers.
In this age of reason there are
many doubts cast upon the reputed
murder of Edward w., who, with his
brother, the Duke of York, is sup
posed to have been smothered in the
Tower. Bayley in his history of the
Tower of London quite discredits the
story, and 1t may be that Richard
ILL.,, the wicked uncle of tale and pic
ture, did not really have this deed
upon his already overloaded con-
science after ALL
James III. of Scotland, who WIZ
stabbed at Kylesithe in 1883, appears
to have rather deserved the fate some
of his long enduring people meted
out to him, for he caused great suf-
fering among them and was absolute
ly regardless of right or justice. But
the assassination of William of Or
ange at Delft in 1884 was quite with
out adequate reason. The murderer
was not Dutch but Burgundian, and
was in the bodyguard of the Prince
His only excuse for the deed was that
he was convinced that $50 long as
the Prince lived he seemed likely to
remain a rebel against the Catholic
King and to make every effort to
disturb the rights of the Roman
Catholic Apostolic religion" so he
fired three shots at his royal master,
who fell exclaiming 'Oh. God, have
mercy on my soul! Oh, God, have
mercy on my people!" The murder
er was submitted to horrible tortures
and finally put to death.
Henry III. of France, the last of
the Valois line, was killed by Do
minican monk in 1889. AS he was
undoubtedly cruel King and the in
stigator of three murders among his
unfortunate relatives, the mobiles, who
were certainly relieved by his sud-
den exit, ought to have rewarded the
monk for his service, but instead
they most ungratefully put him to
death at once.
Henry w. of France was killed by
Ravaillac in 1910. This King seems
to have been as kindly as he was
wise, and Ravaillac's only reason for
the crime was that he killed the
King because he feared that he was
going to war against the Pope.
Gustave III. of Sweden. who was
stabbed to death in 1892, was the
victim OF a conspiracy. The mobiles
were discontented with their mon
arch and resolved to put him out of
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
STATE ITEMS.

Henry Bender went to his room at
the Danielsville Hotel after spending
several pleasant hours with friends
and committed suicide by swallowing
poison. He was As years old.
The Lehigh Valley Symphony Or
chestra organized at Bethlehem by
electing these officers: President, A.
G. Rau, of Bethlehem; treasurer, M.
j. Sinner, of Bethlehem; secretary,
e. Donnecher. of Allentown.
G. Call, a prominent young busi-
ness man, of Waynesburg, ended his
own life by firing a bullet from a
revolver through his heart.
The State Treasury bought for the
State sinking fund $4,000 of the
State bonds due in 1912, at 102, the
lowest price ever paid for them.
With ordinary earthworm bait,
which they first saturated with
brandy as an experiment, Policeman
Thomas Clark, of Darby, and Police
man John Carr, of Yeadon, caught
$50 pounds of fish.
Suspended employees of the Penn
sylvania Railroad on the Shamokin
division sought legal advice relative to
the relief fund of the company. They
fear that II they are not re-engaged
they will lose lot money paid into
the fund.
1t Is announced by delegates who
have returned from the indianapolis
convention that John Mitchell and
Samuel Gompers will soon speak in
Shenandoah.
Rocci Couldaniti, years old, was
burned to crisp in a stable at Mount
Carmel.
At a meeting OF the class OF 1908,
Pottstown High School, the follow
ing were chosen to write and read
papers on Glass Day exercises: Glass
history, Charles Heilman; Charles
Brown and Miss Blanche Bach will
read the class prophecy, and Mabel
Rhoads and Edna Wisler will read
the class statistics.
After three years of legal battling
in the county and Supreme Courts,
the Pottsville Gas Company won a
victory in court against the Potts
vile Borough, jury deciding that
SO is an excessive charge for a per-
init to open the streets in order to
repair gas mains.
The Schuylkill Canal is being pre-
navigation. The usual damages in
Cured by Spring freshets did not
materialize, consequently, the chan
mel is open and ready for the antlci-
pated brisk coal traffic between Port
Clinton and Philadelphia.
Ralph Morettas, mounted State po.
liceman, was badly injured at Shamo-
kin when his horse, which was rum
ming away. fell upon him.
The farmers of Berk County are
paying the highest prices for clover
seed, seed corn and seed potatoes
this Spring that have been known
since the inflated values that pre-
vailed during the Civil War.
Fire of incendiary origin destroy
ed the new bank barn on the farm
of G. G. Nells, at Rossville. while the
family was absent at a sale. 1ne
loss is about $4,000,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
RAILROAD COMMISSION CASE.

Harrisburg Especially The Penn
sylvania State Railroad Commission
has fixed Thursday, April 8, as the
time for a hearing in the complaint
filed by the Manufacturers Associa-
tion of York, against the Northern
Central Railway Company and the
Western Maryland Railroad Com
pany. The complaint in this case is
concerning switching of empty ard
loaded cars between the railroads
having terminal facilities within the
city of York.
This case is the first hearing fixed
by the Pennsylvania State Railroad
Commission.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
TO CUT MINERs' WAGES.

Altoona Especially Central Penn
sylvania coal operators do not pro-
pose to continue the present pick
mining wage scale of sixty-six cents
a ton in effect in this field at the
present time without a struggle.
At secret meeting here of fifteen
of the biggest operators their inter
ests were discussed. They decided
on not less than ten per cent. cut
all around, so 1t Is said.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
Murders woman, KIIIs Self.

Willlamsport Especially THE find-
ing of two bodies In the woods near
Munson disclosed a double tragedy.
murder and suicide, the outcome of
an old love. The corpses were those
of Frank Roberts and Mrs. Gustine
Brizette. Both had bullet holes In
their heads and close by the hands
of Roberts lay revolver with two
chambers empty. Roberts had wife
In France. Mrs. Brizette Is survived
by a husband and two children.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
NEARLY ENDS IN TRAGEDY.

Pottstown Especially A burglary,
which came near ending in tragedy,
was committed at the restaurant of
Clayton Isett, and as a result of the
robbery John Davis and Lafayette
Levengood are now in the Pottstown
Hospital in precarious condition
from inhaling gas. The thieves af-
ter rifling the cash register, broke
the connection of the gas meter and
removed $500 in quarters.
The gas leaked out rapidly and
soon found its way to an upstairs
room where the victims we're sleep
ing and they were unconscious when
found.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
HOW AIcients pid.

BY rubbing metals with salt. be-
fore applying mercury, the ancients
obtained reaction similar TO that
for which copper, sulphate is used.
The chlorine released from the salt
formed a silver chloride easily at
tackled by the mercury, sc as to form
an amalgam.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
FLEE FROM FLANIEs.

Pottsville Especially The family
of Elias Reigel at an early hour
awoke to find their sleeping apart
ments in the homestead, at Spring
Garden Junction. all ablaze and them
selves hemmed in by a circle of fire.
Not stopping to change their night
they plunged down the stairs,
which were also afire.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
NAMES STEEL RECEIvER.

Media Especially Judge Johnson
appointed ex-Mayor Howard H. Hous-
ton, of Chester. as receiver for the
Tidewater Steel Company. which un-
til short time ago, operated an ex-
tensive plant in that city.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
Their Age is in Sight.

Women OF the Ivory Coast in Africa
iengthen their necks by wearing iron
rings. Every year they put new.
ring around the neck, which they can
stretch SO far that 1t is nothing unu-
suai to find 1t as long as the face.--.
New York World.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
HOW A SOUL EXPANDS.

There is rift in heart window opens to the
outer light when have assumed weight anohers
burden. We get strength, a sort of strength
and a Joy.
The pressure that bears down open a new
valve OF power We may weak in physical
worldly yet strong with n
rift in skies We beyond, another world
Our interests have others interests and
the two together form life substance like the
chemical equation And this solitary Interests
cannot do They must have the addition.
The chemistry may be mysterious the reaction al
certain to this greater power wonder
how where but have It, a to burdens
mattey how grave.-Washngton Star.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
Devils Darninp Needle

The devils darning needle" is the
popular name OF several species Of
the dragon fly. They are so called
from their cylindrical bodies. resem-
bling needles. They are not nnison-
Gus.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
Woman Commits snlelde.

Toughkenamon (SpeciaD Suffer
Ing with nervous troubles, Sarah,
wife of Herbert owen, of this place.
committed suicide by cutting her
throat with a razor at her home.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02
Poineer Oil oper..or Dies.

Titusville Especially II. V. S. Mo-
rain, 80 years old, a well-known oil
operator in this vicinity for sixty
years, is dead.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02

An effort is being made to organize
the workmen of Mexico on the same
lines as they are in other countries.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02

One of the startling facts develop
ed by the Public Service Commits
sion OF New York City is thay over
injured every month by the urban
railways under the commissions
deaths In accidents is between 500
and 900.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02

Bolivia ranks second among the
tin-producing countries. The Bureau
of American Republics announces
that the Bolivian expectation OF tin
to Europe and America In 1907
amounted to 1890 tons. against
1880 tons In 1906.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-02

A rich widow never has to give
any references as to what good
wife abe was.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-09

1t is true not all are as bad as this,
but it is equally true that few court
houses in the country are decently
kept. In the smaller places the walls
are marred and stained, the passage
ways covered with litter, papers, whit
things and tobacco guilds. Sometimes
the floors are carpeted with dirt and
sometimes with sawdust, and always
unkempt. In cities, whatever may be
the architecture, the air is that of
prison, and one intuitively clutches
her pocketbook as when passing a
lane in White Chapel. ] suppose the
reason is man IS left alone there in
his native barbarism. At home. he
is as good as is made, and l think a
tiny BIT better. In business, he is a
gentleman, in church, a saint: on the
street a gallant, but there the feminine
never intrudes, and the pre-Adamite
prOc1ivities have full sway. If that is
a type of masculine housekeeping, ma
ton and state, hasten the day when
the other half that knows how 10 use
the broom and soap lends hand.
- .r-e
Now, it is much easier to cast
ballot than to cancel tax bills. speak
from experience Once in New York
women voted at the regular election.
A law was passed that We could vote
in all matters pertaining to schools,
and the county school commissioners
was elected the same day as other
county and state officials, I. e., men
voted for all the officers, we, for one.
They were given a long ballot and we
were given a tiny one, too weak to
handle the big ballot. Father, moth
er and | went together, and never
felt more "churchy" in my life. All
o1< tot
had started the D0XOfogy, 1t would
have seemed appropriate enough.
was glad to see mother vote. She
was long past the meridian OF life,
had seen reforms come and then go
to make way for greater ones, and
she had believed in and quietly work
ed for them all. Her progressive
spirit shaped the lives of those about
her. With few opportunities in early
life, yet she kept abreast with the
best thought and in touch With all
great movements. Like all trde wO-
her family her life, but because of
this. all things commenting were of
vital interest.
How sweet to see those who SOW
reap something of the harvest, too.
Imagine Neal Dow or Frances Willard
taking a daily paper and reading
Oklahoma, Georgia and Alabama
have gone prohibition. only four towns
licensed in Kentucky Tennessee al
most in line, Florida close on the way,
sixteen cities of Massachusetts voted
the saloon out; state prohibition bill
in both houses of North Carolina,
South Carolina not far behind, Ohio
cleaning two-thirdS of her territory.
My, 1t makes one swallow hard and
fast to think of the great souls who
have paved the way for mighty
things and passed on before they
came. But their reward is no less.
nav, more. for blessed are those who
work by faith.
It is needless to say mother voted