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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
The Most Dangerous Tempters.

A man who has mingled much with
the business and social world was
discussing the drink habit, in an in
terview with a representative of the
San Antonio Express:
1T is all nonsense" he said, "for
young men to say that they cannot
resist the temptations of the saloon.
AS far as my experience goes, the
saloonkeepers of San Antonio and
the men of San Antonio seldom urge
a young man to drink. They say,
No, | never drink or L would like
to be excused this time, that is the
end of it. 1t is all mistake about
a young man being forced to drink If
he mingles much with the men of the
town. He can refuse very easily, il
he wants to; and when it is once
known that a man never drinks, he
is seldom asked to do it, But the
real hard people to get away from are
the women. You can go into a recep-
ton where the punch is strong
enough to knock you down, and the
first woman you meet will say, DO
come and have some punch.
No, thank you, not now
oh, yes; just one glass with me-
"If by certain amount of rudeness
you are able to escape this woman,
the next one you meet will say: This
is the most delicious punch. Let me
help you
What Don't drink much?
What kind of man are you? l as
sure you this is quite harmless
"A matronly woman comes along
and says: You must taste this
punch; it is made from my special
recipe and l am proud of it..
Don't drink? Well, just this
time to please me. I've raised my
children on this punch.
And so on through the evening.
A young man who is strong enough
to resist the temptations of society
has nothing to fear from the sa-
looms"
This is the testimony of not one
young man, but several, and 1t is no
uncommon thing to hear men and
boys say: "Why will women urge a
fellow to drink the way they do?"
There is something peculiar about
wine or liquors of any kind-you are
always urged to take it. You can re-
fuse bread and butter, meat and po-
tatoes, and even coffee without a
word of remonstrance, but never
wine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly Review Of Trade and Latest
Market Reports

BradstreetS says:
While there has been some expan.
sion in house jobbing trade in dry
goods, millinery and kindred lines
and business In agricultural imple-
ments, seeds and fertilizers has been
large, the unsettlement caused by
price reductions in the iron, steel
and other metal markets, the weak
ness in securities and the nearer ap-
proach of tariff revision have all
made for a degree OF uncertainty
not so plainly visible for a long
time past. Weather conditions, too.
have played a part in arresting re-
tail trade, country roads are in bad
shape farmers deliveries are affected
despite attractive prices for grain.
and there has been, in fact. an ap-
parent slowing down in the current
of trade, which, however, temporary
it may be- has tended to make com
parisons with year ago at this time,
largely favorable as they still are,
less satisfactory than was expected
some time ago.
Business nilures in the United
States for the week ended February
25 are 244, against 2S2 last week.
81 in the like week of 1908, 1914
in 1907, $50 in 1906 and 206 IN
1905.
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protest when father had made up his
mind. Besides, she, 700, had learned
in her pioneer experience not only
how to give material comforts, but,
what is of far more value and costs
more, how to give up her own COM
fort and to give of her life. The
bundle was made up, and the blessed
father went out into the night and
the storm. and mother sat down by
the stove to wait, and to feed the fire,
and to listen. Now she heard the
barn door slam shut. Now he would
be springing on old Judy's back; the
hoofbeats came to her ears, muffled
by the snow; then they ceased. He
must be crossing the creek by this
time, now climbing the bluff opposite
She went to the window and strained
her eyes to look out into the night,
IL perchance she might see his dark
form against the white ground. But
the air was filled with binding snow;
her horizon was bounded by the win
dow pane. The wind smote the house
with great blows. No other sound
reached her. She went back to the
fire and her vigil, but her heart was
out on that bleak stretch of prairie
that father must cross before going
down to the poor little house under
the hill, where lived Mother Berry,
blind Uncle Billy, her husband, and
the four little Berrys.
II was half past IL. He ought to
hU 40
Is long way on such a night. Would
ne md the Berrys snug and warm
IN bed, and sound asleep, and his
night ride FOOLS errand? Ora
sudden fear chilled her heart--would
ne md the house at all? 1t was such
a blind trail!
The clock struck 12. and still
mother waited. Father must face
Inc storm coming home, the icy
northwest biast-if he came at all!
Mother was inclined to worry. An
other half hour. He should be here
by this time. Again she went IN the
window. The clouds were breaking
A CLEAN Of light was strugg,in .
through here and there. Even as she
looked the wind swept the skv clear
and the full-orbed moon looked down
on a white. white world. And there
across the creek on the hillside in
plain view was old Judy carefuIlv
picking her way down the unseen
uncertain path. OF course. old JUDY
wouldn't get lostl Mother might
have known that! The man on her
back is as white as the waste OF snow
around him. But she can see him
now, and-he sces her form outlined
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
THIS AND THAT

Cuba's population is COZ per cent.
white
London's newest hreboat can
pump 900 tons of water an hour.
Gasoline can be used as a solder
ing fiux for very neat work on TIN.
A German life preseryer consists
OF a hollow rubber belt, to which Is
attached a small metallic cylinder
filled with carbon dioxid liquified.
This may be turned by tap into the
belt where II volatilizes, Initiating the
belt.
Lace dressing, the process between
weaving and finishing. long was con-
sidered an unhealthful occupation be-
cause carried on in hot, humid at
mosphere. until the British govern
ment Investigated and found that the
workers enjoyed better health than
those employed in other branches OF
the lace industry.
The Mexican Herald announces
that movement is on foot for the
erection OF grain elevator at Mexi-
co City. At present the only one In
that republic is the small elevator on
the Coatzacoalcos River. near santa
Lucretia, In Vera Cruz.
The book having the largest cir
culation is tho telephone directory
of the city OF New York. An edition
of 1,OOO,O copies is printed twice
every year to meet the demands OF
subscribers to 100000 telephones
which are in use in that city and its
suburbs.
Police Constable II. Coles, station
ed at Ealing, London, holds the rec
ord among humane officers. having
recently brought his nine-hundredth
case Of cruelty to horses before the
Brentford bench. Fines amounting
to more than $4,000 have been Inn
posed on drivers In these cases.
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WOman'S Position.

The Duchess of Marlborough con-
tributes to the North American Re-
view the first of series of three arti-
cles on the important and timely
question of "Woman's Position" In
this article, which exhibits no little
learning as well as thoughtful re-
Election upon her subject, the Duchess
makes an historical retrospect, de-
scribing the relations of women to
the community at periods which rep
resent different stages of social de-
velopment. Beginning with the con-
ditions existing in the times and
places when nomadic life prevailed,
she considers the circumstances in
which the weaker sex found itself
among the Hebrews and the Greeks,
giving an entertaining account of the
status and influence of certain women
among both these peoples who took
prominent part in their history.
AS to woman's earliest relation to
society, the Duchess says:
Professor Thomas, in his interest
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:3ust Like Father
G True Story.
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Frost King. Father came in and
wound the clock, while mother looked
after some last things for the night.
Then they, too, lay down, but father
did not sleep. He heard the clock
ticking off the minutes as they passed
five, ten, fifteen, half an hour. 1t
struck 10. Then father spoke.
Mother! "-hesitatingly.
Yes, father" she answered drows-
fly.
II can't sleep"
whats the matter? Are you
cold?"
No, I'm warm. But l can't forget
Mother Berry. Jane, I'm afraid the
Berrys are cold"
We'll, Franklin, I don't see as we
can do anything about it. You'd bet
ter go to sleep" And mother dozed
off once more, and the clock went on
ticking.
Fifteen minutes past 10. Again
came the call. "Mother!" There was
a note of decision in the voice this
time. Father had made up his mind.
well, father!" And it would not
be strange If the voice showed a trace
of impatience.
Haven't you any bedding you
could spare?"
Yes, there's plenty of bedding,
but"
well, wish you'd get up and
make up a bundle, and I'll carry it
over to Uncle Billy's."
"Oh, father, in this storm! I
wish"
But mother knew il was no use IN
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
The Saloon n Parasite.

Business men are coming to realize
that there are two wealth producers
on earth-one is the hand and the
other the head All wealth is created
by work. For city or State TO be
prosperous two things it must have
men and women with steady hand
and cloudless brain who are at work.
These are our money-makers. Sa-
looms make no money. They gather
in lot of it from those who do make
it. but wealth Is produced only by
those who toll with the hand or head.
The saloon is the greatest curse to
the business producing interests that
is known to civilized men, and the
business men are coming to realize
it, They know that it unnerves the
hand and paralyzes the brain Of
everyone under its influence.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
"SalOme" Outdone In Saloon,

Allentown.-In License Court here
Philadelphia detectives, who were
employed by the State Anti-Saloon
League to gather evidence against
nine local hotel and saloonkeepers
against whom remonstrances were
filed, testified that in one of the
places that they visited young wom-
an did the "Salome" dance that beat
Oscar Hammerstein's stars dance "to
a FRAGILE" Other orgies equally as
shocking were testified to.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
Give nrIdegroom WiId Ride.

Chester.--Harry Clendenning. who
was quietly married several evenings
ago to Miss Mae e. Marshall. in VIII
mington, was taken in hand b.
friends. placed in a wild animal cage
belonging to the Hargreaves Circus,
and headed by a number OF his fell
low employees of the American Steel
Foundry. was hauled through the
city. He took the treatment good
naturodly and did not get angry un-
III he returned home and found his
wife in tears.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPELsANCE.
What is n Saloon?

From man in the penitentiary, .whC
was sentenced there for a crime which ht
committed while drunk.
A bar to heaven, door to hell
Whoever named it, named it well
A bar to manliness and wealth.
A door to want and broken health.
A bar to honor. pride and fame,
A door to sin and grief and shame;
A bar to hope, bar to prayer,
A door to. darkness and despair.
A bar to honored useful life,
door to brawling, senseless strife;
a bar to all that's true and brave,
A door To every drunkard's grave.
a bar to JOY that home imparts,
A door TO tears and aching hearts;
A bar 70 heaven, a door to hell
Whoever named it, named it well!
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
ENTOMBED MINERS ESCAPE.
But Two Dead And Fourteen Seri-
ously Burned In Colliery.

Wilkes Barre. --- a terrific eXplo-
sion followed by fire in the colliery
of the Pennsylvania Coal Company at
Port Blanchard, near here, caused
the death of two men, severely burn
ing fourteen others and shut in fifty
workers who, for five hours, it was
believed had little chance for escap-
ing. That they finally made their
way out through a maze of old work.
ings heavy with smoke and the dead
ly fire damp, IS considered almost
miraculous, and their escape caused
rejoicing among the anxious hum
dreds gathered at the mouth Of the
shaft and who expected each moment
to be informed that all were dead.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
STATE ITEMS.

Trying to board a Philadelphia &
Reading train near Pottsyille. Harry
MertZ. aged l3, fell beneath the
wheels and was crushed to death.
Captain James Boyd Robson. for
mer Columbia County Solicitor. and
a war veteran, was found dead In
bed at his home at Espy, of paraly
sis of the heart. He was II years
old and is survived by n wife and
seven children.
Thomas Corcoran, the oldest man
in Chester County, died at his home
in Elk Township, near oxford, He
was 1913 years old and had lived
sixty wears in this locality.
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Live stock.

Chicago.-Cattle - Market strong
20 l0c. higher. steers, $500 q 100;
cows, S360Q5.50; heifers. $3.25 %
500; bulls. $3.40 % 5.25; calves
$3.50 n $50; stockers and feeders
s3.2595.50.
Hogs-Maket 10 to I5o. higher.
Choice heavy, s6.7O96.75; butch
ers. $6.6096.75; light mixed S6.4o
66.55: choice light, se.55 % s.65;
packing, s6.5096.65; pigs, $5.35 %
6.1O; bulk of sales. $3.50 a 6.65.
Sheep-Market strong to l0c
higher. Sheep. $4.25 a 5.75; lambs.
$3.50 7S0; yearlings. $4,000
7.15.
Kansas City, Mo.--Cattle-ChoiCa
export and dressed beef steers, $3.50
d6.75: fair to good, s4.75 q SIS;
Western steers, $3.50 q 6.35; stock
ers and feeders. $500 5.25: South
ern steers, s4.75 q 6; Southern cswS
s2.75Q AIS, native cows. 81 u $50,
native heifers, $4,000 $50; bulls
s3.3094.75; calves. $f@T.25.
HogS-Market 10@15c. higher.
Top. $3.50; bulk OF sales. $s.2o ~
CAS- heavy, $6.4o q $50.
Sheep--Market for sheep Zoe
higher; lambs 100 sc. lower
Lambs. $500 a 7.55; ysarliugs,
$5.7506.S5; wethers, $5@5-T5:
ewes, s4.5OQ5.35: stockers ana
feeders. Ats.
Pittsburg. Pa. - Cattle = Choice.
s6.200e6.S5: prime. $500 D6.I5.
Sheep-Prime wethers. $3.50 "
M6; culls and common. S2.3b u
$50: lambs. s5.50@s; veal calves.
se@ $50.
Hogs - Prime heavics $1,000
s.s5; msdiums. 1886 56p6 9os heavy
Workers. $e.75 % 6.Sb; ligti Workers.
Sc. so % Geo; pigs. 50 y o; rons.'A
1850 q Glib,
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REPEAL 61-YEAR-OLD LAW.
Lebanon viii Have Real Old-fash-
ion Fourth OF July.

Lebanon.-City Councils paved the
way for a return OF the old-time
Fourth of July celebration by pass
ing an ordinance repeating the old
borough ordinance of lS4S, which
prohibits the sale and discharge of
flrecrackers within the city limits.
1t was under this law Mayor Mar
quart last year compelled a safe
and sane" celebration and aroused
the ire of merchants by prohibiting
them from selling explosives. The
Mayor said that if the people did not
want their laws enforced they should
repeal them. The merchants have
been agitating the repeater ever
since and it has now passed Councils.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
HUGGER GUILTY OF ASSAULT.
Youth Embraced Young Girl Who
Had Been skirt Dancing"

Media.-Michael Curry was found
guilty of assault for having placed
his arm around the waist of Rebecca
Schutt, the 1S-year-old daughter of
Frank Schutt, of Leiperville. Judge
johnson sentenced Curry to pay a
fine and did not infllct a Jail sentence.
The defendant and Mrs. Beebe, IN
whose house the assault occurred,
both testified that the young girl had
taunted Curry by a skirt dance. ."
Curry admitted that he had hugged
the girl after she had gone through
the performance, but he denied in
tent to commit a crime
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ADMITS KILLING HIS FATHER.
Man Makes Startling Confession,
Escapes, And Is Caught.

Clearfield, - After admitting his
name was Alexander Rosenbloom,
and having stated that he had killed
his father at Windber in 1907, and
taking the body TO New Jersey,
where he buried it, a man who an
swers the description OF the fugitive,
made his escape from George Ellin-
ger, farmer
The man later was captured by
the police after a desperate struggle.
He is being held to await the arrival
of the Windber authorities.
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KILLED IN FOLDING BED.
Pittsburgcr Loses His Life And Wife
Is Seriously Injured,

Pittsburg. - Charles Murray, SO
years old. was killed and his wife
was seriously injured, when they
were caught in a folding bed that ac-
cidently closed while they were
asleep.
The couple moved and went to
sleep in a folding bed that is said
to have been set up hurriedly. A
daughter entering the room found
her mother and father enclosed in
their folding bed.
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The Real Source.

The temperance movement is not
due 10 local or ephemeral causes.
writes Dr.. Samuel j. Barrows, In the
Outlook; It springs from public con-
viction which the United States SUI
pTeme Court has we'll rendered,
namely, that "the public health. the
public morals aud the public safety
are endangered by the general use OF
intoxicating liquors." and that "the
idleness. disorder, pauperism and
crime existing in this country are
largely traceable TO this evil"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
Increase Wages OF Silk weavers.

York.-When the weavers of the
York Silk Mill threatened to strike
unless their wages were increased,
the company conceded in part to
their demands and the young men
and women returned to work. When
the financial depression was at its
height the weavers were cut 1914
per cent. A strike was averted when
superintendent John Guyer promised
that an additional 1a per cent. had
been taken off the cut in wages.
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Wholeaals .larkst..

New York.-Wheat-N 2 red,
1913 &c. elevator; No. 2 red, 125 20,
f. o. b. afoat; No. / Northern Du-
luth, 124as, f. o. b. afloat; No. 2.
hard winter, 1928 f. o. b. afoat.
Corn-No. 2, 74c., elevator and
721a, +. o. b. anoat; No. 2 white
nominal and No. 2 yellow, 76h. (.
o. b. ahoat. Options without trans
actions. closing bc. higher. May
closed 731sc.; July closed, 72%;
September closed, 72A.
Oats-Nlixed, 26 032 lbs, 561s "a
81 &c; natural white, 26056 lbs,
90 a GO; clipped white. "a @42 lbs.
$50 SO.
5,4S7. Creamery specials (official.
80; creamery held, common to spe-
cial, % q 29c.
Eggs - Firm. Receipts. 1890.
State, Pennsylvania and nearby
brown and mixed fancy, 24025c.;
do, fair to choice. 241a; West
ern. first. 23 "a; seconds. 23@23h.
Poultry - Alive, firm; Western
chickens, 13c.; fowls, 20; turkeys. -
a Is; dressed firm, Western chick
ems, ia 16; fowls, " @16; tur-
keys, 1923.
Philadelphia.-Wheat-kc. high
er; contract grade February, 1920
1890.
Corn = Hc. higher; February.
7OA G7O1a.
Oats-scarce, firm; No. white.
natural. SO Y a 6Oc.
Butter-Steady. Extra Western
creamery, SOC; do, nearby prints.
32
Eggs-Steady. Pennsylvania and
other nearby firsts, +. c., 24c. at
mark; do, current receipts in re-
turnable cases, 23 at mark; Western
firsts, f. c.. "a at mark; do, current
receipts. f. c., 22923.
Cheese-Firm. New York, full
creams, choice, IAN a 15c.; do, fair
to good, IA a 141a
Live Poultry-Firm; fowls. 1GH
@17hc.; old roosters, 10h oil;
spring chickens, 17DlS; ducks. II
q 16; geese, 12@l4.
Baitimore.-Wheat - The market
for Western opened steady; spot.
1231sc.; March, 1.22. No life in
the market as both sides are in a
waiting attitude. Prices became
hrmer and advanced as the day pro-
gressed, closing at the best. At the
midday call spot was quoted at l24c
Corn-Southern steady on prime
corn OF both colors. Graded lots or
No white corn afioat are quotable
at 73674c. per bush, and yellow
or mixed corn ailoat at 10 7O5
per bush. Track yellow corn for
domestic delivery is worth 7lh "a
72c. Ter busG. Tor cur lots nn spot
Oats-We Gr"te: White-No. 2.
5S0 5S1ac.; No. 3, 5G1s D57h;
No. 4. "a a 55. Mixed-No. 2. 55 %
551ac.; No. 3. 81 a "a ".
Hay-We quote, per ton: Tim
othy-No. /, large bales. $l4.506o
10; do, small blocks, s14.50 q Is:
No. ., as TO location. $13 AZ 1850:
No. 8, lO.50@1l.50. Glover mixed
Choice. sl2d 1850; No. l. Sll.50
012: No. 2. $10@11. Clover-No.
|. sl2@12.5O; No. 2, s1O@11.5O.
No grade hay, as to kind. quality
and condition, $6@9.
Butter - Creamery fancy. 31@
31Ia; creamery choice. 29030:
creamery good. 23026; creamery
imitation, 2O624.
Eggs-The market is steady and
unchanged on hen eggs, but duck
eggs are lower. We quote, per doz-:
Maryland. Pennsylvania and nearby
firsts, 22c.; Western firsts, %; West
Virginia firsts, %.
Live Poultry-Market firm. with
demand for attractive stock. We
quote, epr lb.: Chickens-Old hens
heavy, 15c.; do, small to medium.
Is; old roosters, each, 25030;
Young. choice. 17@1S; do. rough
and STACEY, IA. Ducks, 15c.; White
Pekins, l6.
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:. News OF PENNSYLV VANIA :
~@%Aa@AaSaA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AAS
MINISTER'S son A SUICIDE.
Despondent Over Ill Health Wilmer
Boyer Shoots Himself.

Norristown. -- Wilmer Beyer. 23
years old, a son of the Rev. George
John Boyer, the well-known evange-
list, committed suicide here by
shoot ing himself in the head with a
32-caliber revolver at his fathers
residence on Barbados Street.
The young man had been despond-
ent over his poor health. His mother
heard the report of the revolver and
when she reached the bedroom,
found her son a corpse. He had
placed the muzzle of the revolver in
his mouth and pulled the trigger.
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Pottsyille.-Engaged in the dam
gerous occupation of robbing pill
lars, which consist in removing coal
from the solid anthracite columns
left to support the roof of a mine
chamber, Michael Bisintain, aged 81
years, of Mnersyille, was caught by
heavy fall of coal at Pine Hill col
liery and his life Instantly crushed
ont
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-03-11
Find Rewarded Hero.

York;. II. Brindle. of this city.
who was asked to locate L. s. Myers.
heir to $4,000, which was bequeath-
ed to him by Carlisle woman at
her death. has been found at 14l3
Vernon Street. Harrisburg.
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The Rest WnY.

The most successful way 20 pro.
mote abstinence from liquor, says
Forward. Is to invite men and women
10 give their hearts to Christ. The
frht against habits is vain without
His help. but when He holds the
hand of the tempted man the victory
is sure.
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Blow For Scranton Saloon Keepers.

Scranton.-In the Tripp Park sec
tion of the Twenty-first Ward it has
been discovered that a reservation in
the deed forbids the sale of liquor on
the premises. AS there are seven
saloons or hotels located there and
ten others desiring to enter, gloom
settled upon the countenances of the
applicants in License Court.
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Ice EnIninc Feared.

Strcudsburg- The mild and wet
weather has brought the ice business
in Monroe County to an end and an
ice famine Is feared The houses
are but little more than half filed.
As the season is growing late. the
chances are that no more ice can be