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Evening star., 1912-07-21

than ply acting The elements had conspired to help
him. and he sprang to the wheel glance showed him
Fire Island lightshp dead ahead big bodied and top
heavy wallowing at her moongs though striving to
escape the coming terror in the east.
ust in time for you, my heartyl" Over the rising
wind Welsh roared his orders the schooner master him
self taking hand in their execution. Under snuggled
canvas the little vessel fitted athwart the somber wall
cloud, head on for the 1ightship Consummate
that he was, Welsh tempted for moment to lay
her alongside; but the time past when he dared to
take chances with his treasure and above all ke
loyal to his mates at Ships Bottom. He did not
want to leave the shiPnot until he reached Barnegat,
anyway.
"Cramp her! She'll blanket us!" roared Little Welsh.
For second the schooner hung in the wind, her bow
spirit almost spearing the hghtshlp rail. He men
running, and cry went up, and frantic hootl OF
the foghorn. Then the schooner fell off foutng her
screwless the grotesque lap post of the sea-
"Haul in the foresl Hustle, you fellows That bowll
hit 'er in mnute-howl an be hanged to ye!' Under
of the confusion, his expert hand huTed the bot
tie he had taken from his pocket He heard it splinter
the lightshps deck, and disdaning assistance he
gripped the wheel in both his sinewy hands, edging the
schooner out to meet the coming gale 1t nip and
tuck now, with the odds against them. The emergency
raised Wehs spirits, already soaring with secret elaton
"Cuby Davy Jones-I reckon thatn hold you,
my son. he said apostrophzing the scared and raging
schooner master. "Just you wait till your chickens
come home to roost!" Weshs imagination filled in the
details gloangly; for that scrap Of paper in the poi
bottle carried warning to his mates at Ships Bot
tom to watch out for the mysterious schooner if she
showed her within shooting distance OF Ships Bot
Continued page II
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professional duty now, and his face hardened he
thought of the work ahead, determined to carry it
through to the bitter end The note he thrust into the
neck of medicine bottle red labeled Poison" fact
that made him smile grinly
II reckon he'd think SO, if he knew watts up" he
said, suppressing the excitement that shook lis
stubborn little frame. "Il learn Mr. Fox to shanghai
folks-an tie EN- loose right in his chicken yard!
He must been hard pressed for time to do it"
From the sound on deck they having trouble
with the schooner-"chatterin an chvyin her like
hawk in a henyard ain goin to have that' Welsh
decided Indignantly. The schooner's safety meant
everything to him now.
He gave hasty glance about to that things
in place. slipping the bottle into the pocket of his pea
jacket. Tom Welsh not to compromise with
Fate, neither he fool and, having decided to
diplomacy, he did not to copper his own game.
"Gov'ment first" said Little Welsh. "If the same
line shot fetches the girl much the better Ony got
out!"
The pacifcally inclined diplomatist pounded the
hatch, yelling opprobrious at the schooner mas
ter. GAIL right, Skipper! You win! I'm willing to
sign Open the door, will yep
He had his answer more promptly than he expected.
The cover was thrown back, and the hatch filled with
chattering brown faces and rolling eyeballs.
"Scared stif-an' don't blame em" Welsh growled.
As he eaped deck he the cause-a wall of clouds
banked the horizon bowling out Of the east like vast
curtain shot with fire.
Quick" the schooner master said his face CHASTITY
blue-gray over his black beard. Il the ship
with MOTOR but l know not much of sas-and the
coast not at all"
"Course you don't! She's rackin' to DEATH" Welsh
showed him roughly aside. This suited his book better
Evening star., 1912-07-21
A COMBINATION IN
RESTRAINT OF TRADE
BY FREDERIC VAN RENSSELAER, DEY

of millions from the otherwise natural channels into the
pockets four The person upon whom the
of this vast transaction depends happens to be man to
whom have shown favor in the past, man"
"Good Heavens, Lisle! what you talking about!
You were brought up together. You have been like
brother and sister all your lives You know Craig
Wentworth better than you know any other man on
EARTH unless is your father He wants to marry you
There has never been time since you broke your slate
his head when you eight years DID, that he has
cared fig for another girl and you know it. He has
asked for you dozen times and he has asked you
every time he has seen you hasn he' Shown him some
favor! Well if you call it showing man favor to keep
him guessing till his hair begins turn the temples
you certainly have doomed the market in that respect.
Now Lisle be sensible. Look at this thing in the right
way"
W7E are begging the question:, she said proudly
W "You asked me to to your Office this after
at three. You said that you had business propo
sltion to make to me"
4That unfortunate remark Lisle.'
at seems to have been true 1t is a business
"Decidedy but there is another view to take of it.
too. One may combine business with pleasure
She shrugged her shoulders almost mperceptbly and
continued from the point of interruption "When |
here you said If you will consent to marry Craig
Wentworth and will set day for the wedding, you
make possible the biggest deal have undertaken, and
make yourself the richest woman in the world at the
same time. Those are your words, are they not"
"Yes"
Il do not remember that you ever struck me in your
life; but blow in the face, from your hand, would have
been much less amazing"
aHow was to know that you would take it So Lisle?"
a am your daughter. Would you tamely submit to
coercion?"
@But there is no coercion about it. That is utter
Do you suppose would have listened to such
suggestion for instant if had not known that you
in love with Craig Wentworth, and
@That will do, if you please. You do not know it; for
it is not true Just despise him. | want you to
reply to two questions that shall ask and after that
will give you the to your proposition The first
have already asked will repeat it. Just how
much am worth regarded a colatera?' He did not
reply, and she added, "Three hundred milions?
Her father nodded unmindfu of what he did, or how
she would choose to regard it. She worth every
thing in the world to him. and his passionate wish had
always been to merge her future with Craig Went
worths, Just he had often merged great industries
to capitalize the two, one and to give to them
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Z 7HE

thing earth that he loved His friends and his
in the Street would have said that he loved power
but he did not and he knew that he did not The two
alike could be, eliminating years and and
the that great nancier receives and wears and
grows to gloat upon when he is nearing seventy.
The girl faced him across the sodity of the directors
table She had been moherless from her BIRTH and she
adored the who had been mother well as father
to her. who had given her moment of his time that
he could spare from great affairs she could
ber who had trained her mind if she had been
She was straight and tall and 1.-THE and beautiful and
proud She was his daughter in CHARACTERISTIC he
possessed and with many of her the like OF which
he had possessed but had long ago been sotheed
in the spune of the financial maelstrom Her eyes
almost hard and cold as his own. She very
angry-siently, remorseessy angry, as he had known
himself to be often.
al wish thoroughly to understand this matter she
said to him quietly "You have made me perhaps too
familiar with your methods in the past. | well
informed concerning the financial deals that in
this office engineered by you and the puppets who serve
you that | suppose | ought to comprehend this one;
only do not. 1t is step beyond me. | understand
only this much that you have suddenly discovered that
l am valuable asset | have been appraised for my
money value. Tell me- then just how much am worth,
regarded as collateral"
"My dear child" he replied, "you take entirely the
it as you do We will dismiss the subject, and manage
the deal in another way, drop it."
"No" she said, "we have gone this far with it, let US
finish it. You and three associates propose to buy GER
tain company that includes several subsidiary compa
nes, like kittens in basket. You propose to pay sum
that is mentioned vaguely but which may be hundred
and fifty millions, three hundred millions, according
choose to determine. You do this to effect
bnation of certain interests that will divert hundreds
Evening star., 1912-07-21

ian, grim, relentless, sphinxlike, from
long habit, wearing the mask of
indifference that many years in the
caldron of Wall Street will inevitably
bestow, was more greatly perturbed
than he would have cared to admit,
although he was careful to show no
sign of it. The effort to deny to him
self that he was moved rendered his
smoothly shaved patrician face the
harder. 1t was more remorseless,
less responsive, than the girl who
confronted him across the barrier of
a directors table had ever seen it;
and she was his daughter, the apple
of his eye, the one being upon whom
he was ever known to smile, the one
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-07-16
The Alaska Dog Team.

Estell Mason and her team of
Eskimo dogs passed through this
place last Friday morning. Ac-
cording to the postal cards which
she sells to support herself and
dogs, and an escort, they left
Nome, Alaska, October q, 1908,
for a trip of 32, 600 miles around
the world. They are now on
their way to San Francisco to at
tend the Panama Worlds Fair.
The team is composed of nine
dogs, seven Of which were draw
ing the low-wheeled wagon; the
other two ran with the team.
Besides the nine grown dogs,
there were seven puppies in the
wagon, or, rather, in the sled;
for the second story" of the
outfit was a sled, and in case snow
is encountered, the vehicle can
be reversed and the wagon can
be carried on the sled.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-07-16
SIDELING HILL.


Oscar Sharpe, of Baltimore,
recently visited relatives and
friends in Fulton county.
Russell Layton was business
visitor to McConnellsburg Satur-
day of last week.
Mrs. Floyd Williams and two
children, of Hagerstown, Md,
and Miss Thelma Ryan, Of Han
cock, spent part of last week with
the family of Mr.. Geo f. B. Hill.
George Wilson recently visited
IN Bedford county.
Miss Georgia Mellott, who had
the misfortune to fall out OF
cherry tree a few days ago, Is
able to be around again.
G M. Belt, of Franklin Mills,
is doing some very nice painting
and papering for Chas. FL. Hess.
Thurman Truax, wife and son,
of Locust Grove, visited Mrs.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-07-16
Birthday Party.

Elizabeth Sipes celebrated her
birthday recently, the following
friends helped to make it a sue
cess: Rarold While, Olive Wi
BILE, Donly Mumma, Paul Evans,
Harold Evans, Myrtle Cutchall,
Edith Reeder, Ethel Wink, Mel
vim Mellott, Francis LambersOn,
Ida Fix, May Huston, Christabel
Lamberson, Beatrice Mellott,
Eunice Brown, Junie Sipe, Hazel
Reeder, Edna Long, Andrew
Sipe, Rush Henry, Hanse Lam
berson, Russell Deshong, Robert
House, Ruth Huston, Vaughn
Chestnut, Edgar Sipe, Mrs. Mary
Chestnut, Mr.. and Mrs. Berkley
Sipe.
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+, MARKET REPORT.

CORRECTED EVERY WEDNESDAY.
The grain markets are taken from the Cham
persburg daily newspapers The provision
prices are those that obtain In McConnels-
purR.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-07-16
Stock Sells High.

1t has been freely predicted
for some time that the price of
all kinds of meat would soon go
to highest known. The follow
ing dispatch from Chicago would
indicate that somebody knew
what he was talking about:
Chicago, July 13. Cattle pri-
ces at the Union Stock Yards
reached record point to-day
when choice beeves sold for
$1,000
This price was the highest ever
paid there in July and was a top
point for the year. Hogs touched
SO, the highest level in months.
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AyA yEY2Aa s7 9fl M lines


parents.
Mrs, II. NJ. Edwards is making
a weeks visit with relatives
In Saxton, Junlata and Bedford.
Mrs. John Cham berlain, of
North Point, is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. W. r. Foster.
j, G. Foster is circulating
among relatives and friends at
his old home.
Chas. Schenck with his family
and mother attended Bush Meet
ing at Gracey on Sunday.
Reed Edwards spent Saturday
and Sunday at home.
Miss Reta Farley spent two
weeks with relatives at Three
Springs; returning home on Sun
day.
Hilary Foster is quite poorly at
present-may POSSIBLY go to the
hospital.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-07-16
At Mertie {. Sinners New Store

See the lovely vestee neck ruifs,
neck bows, necklaces, brooches,
decollette pins, white belts silk
embroidered in pink and blue,
fine handkerchiefs for ten cents
and nice ones for five, underwear,
pink, blue and white stockings
for infants and small children,
infants kimonos, pretty ten cent
dolls, ready made aprons, nice
Turkish towels for ten cents, a
fine assortment of animal and
bird pin cushions, glycerine and
rose water lotion, camphor ice
stick, face cream, face powder,
face chamois, fine toilet soaps,
talcum powder, perfumes, ironing
wax, clothes pins, sweeping COM
pound which thoroughly cleans
while it does not injure the finest
carpet and there is no dust, steel
wool for cleaning all kinds of
kitchen utensils, etc., egg boilers,
patent nutmeg graters, patent
long handled dust pans, spice
jars, bread toasters, toasts four
pieces of bread at one time, best
on the market, and many other
pretty and useful articles too nu-
merous to mention.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-07-16
Western Maryland Railway Company
In Effect June II, 1914.
Trains leave Hanc ock as follows;

Trains leave Hanc ock as follows:
No. II 81 u, IN. daily for Cumberland, Pitts
burgh and west, also West Virginia
points.
No. $50 u. m. for Hagerstown, Gettysburg,
Hanover and Baltimore.
No, $50 u. IT. daily except Sunday Ex-
press for Cumberland and intermediate c
points.
No. i-907 q, m. daily except Sunday Es
press for Hagerstown, Waynesbor =,
Chambersburg. Baltimore and informed =
ate points New York, Philadelphia, e,
Washington, etc.
No, 3-225 p. m. daily Western Express for
Cumberland, West Virginia points and
the West.
No. 2-3.07 p. m. daily, Express for Hagers
town, Waynesboro, Chambersburg, Get
tysburg, and York. Baltimore New
York, Philadelphia, Washington.
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Holy Communion.

The Holy Communion Service
will be held in the Lutheran
Church of McConnellsburg next
Sunday morning at 1890 O'Clock.
Preparatory service will be held
on Saturday at 2:30 p. m.
RoBT. E. PETERMAN,
Pastor.
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jeremiah Golden, Sunday.

Jeremiah Golden, Sunday.
Miss Blanche Mann, of Frank,
lin Mills, is spending some time
with Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Pless.
niger, near Needmore.
John Hess, wife and daughter,
of Needmore, spent Sunday with
James Truax and family, at Dott.
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sale at the City Hotel last Satur-
day, brought good prices.
The Pennsylvania railroad
placed orders last week for 1O0,-
600 tons of steel rails.
It's all right to make hay while
the sun shines, but some of us
came very nearly not having any
hay to make while the sun shone.
A 3-ton road plow was taken
through here on Monday to be
used in ploughing up roads where
necessary to level them. The
plow is drawn behind the road
roller when in use.
Secretary of State, William Jen
nings Bryan, will lecture in
Chambersburg Saturday evening,
July 18th. The lecture will not
be political, but will be one of his
famous Chautauqua discourses.
HlDES.-Frank B. Sipes
pays the highest market price
for beef hides at their butcher
shop IN McConnellsburg, also
highest price paid for calf SKINS
sheepsklns and tallow.
Advertisement.
Claud McCusker, who shot to
death Jefferson Roman, near
Hancock, on May 80, 1910, after
having baffled the police for four
years, was arrested near Green's
burg, Pa, last week, and will be
tried in Hagerstown, in the No
vember court.
A letter from Albert Heikes,
Great Falls, Mont, says that his
family are all very well, and that
while they have had a dry sea-
son, the crops are very promis-
ing. He wishes to be remember
ed kindly to all his old Fulton
county friends.
Mrs. Matilda B. Trout went to
Chambersburg last Friday to see
her daughter, Mrs. E. r. Nc
Claim, who has been in the hos
pital for several weeks. While in
Chambersburg, Mrs. Trout was
the guest of Mrs. Ida Parker
Skinner. Mrs. Trout found her
daughter to be improving rapid
ly, and came home Sunday with
Mr.. McClain, who drove over for
her in his auto. Mrs. McClain
will remain at the hospital until
she fully recovers from the Sc
we're operation which she under
went.
David Malloy, a former well
known business man of this place,
dropped into town last Saturday
for a short sojourn among old ac-
quaintances. About eight years
ago Mr.. Malloy went to Wyoming
where he preempted a quarter
section (160 acres) of govern
ment land. He afterwards pur-
chased eighty acres of adjoining
land, so that he now owns, clear
of encumbrance, 240 acres Of
good land, which we think is a
pretty good eight-years' work.
Mr.. Malloy looks well, and the
dry climate of the Rocky Noun
tains seems to have preserved
him first rate.
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ENID.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ham Rider and
children, of Three Springs, at
tended the social at the U. B.
church on Saturday night and
spent Sunday with their broth
ers.
Mrs. S. e. Truax, of Home
stead, is spending some tune with
friends and relatives IN the VAL
ley.
Mrs. w. H. Barnett and chill
dren, of Mlnersvllle, are spend
ing some time with the former s
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-07-16

large line of Oxods and light weight Summer Shoes Summer
Undewear-Ladies' Vests 26C. Corset Covers 26C
large line of Silk and Cotton Hose for Ladies.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08
A MOVING TALE.

Il is story that is calculated TO 20 a
long way toward bringing about the en-
sctment Of more stringent laws govern
ing the employment Of women and chill
dren and the hours they may work.
Durine the interview Miss Chamber
lain held in her hands the original notes
Of her diary made while in the enemys
country. and 10 which she frequently re-
ferred
Her story, as she told H. was accurate.
absorbing and dramatic Throughout the
telling Of it she showed an intense desire
to do no one an injustice.
Most of these Gamers are good fel-
lows she said. at the beginning of the
interview Many Of them will be hon
estly shocked They don't know the con-
ditons in their own plants. We shouldn't
do these people any injustice
IT is true they should know the con-
dtions but that is what / am trying 10
bring about. / don't want 10 create any
sensation ] only want to show the pub
lie and the Gamers themselves what the
conditions are. and ! am confident mat
tsrs will be improved"
Miss Chamberlain Is optimistic. The
Gamers have assured the legislative COM
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08
AN ANXIOUS BOSS.

Did they know there that YOU were an
Inspector" she was asked
They did. | inspected factory one
afternoon. and | asked the owner II the
sheds were there. and he said no, that
the sheds were about half mile from
the factory. but that there were no people
shipping at the sheds that afternoon,
Il thought that was true because / had
seen the women and children going out TO
pick as / got of the train at the station.
SO | did not attempt to so out to the
sheds that afternoon.
"'rhe next morning | did not say any
thing about going out to the sheds but
inquired where they were. | think | said
| might go out the next day. | don't re-
member the exact conversation.
The next morning | heard the clock
strike 3, and | heard 1t strike the half
hour. and a little after the half hour-i
should say at S:45 in the morning-I
of the window and saw children with
baby carriages and mothers going up the
street. and stuck my head further out
of the window and saw they were going
up to snip
How many?'
"They were going in groups. | did not
stop long enough to count them, but
there were groups with five or six In a
group, with baby carriages and little
children"
WAS ii dark or iight?'
1t was dark. II was the gray of the
morning, but quite dark.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08

mother scolded her constantly. Jack made
81 20 during that period"
During what perod?'
From a. m. until 10 p. m.," she re-
piled. He said he couldn't keep any Of
il. Jack said work like this was nothing
to peas, when his mother and sister came
home every night at l and O'Clock, and
they was so sick they fell down ana
vomited.'
This is quite but it probably Is not
absolutely correct" commented Miss
Chamberlain.
From her diary she corroborated her
recollection that there were about seventy
five to one hundred children in the she'd
the majority ten years and over. but about
twenty-five between five and ten years old.
II should say none under five said
Miss chamberlain. The parents were
constantly urging the children to work.
One little boy eleven years old was throw
ing some bean snippings at another little
fellow and had stopped work a second
His father hit him brutally across the
face and set him again at work. Every
where parents were forcing children TO
work. II they did not work they would
shake them and sometimes hit them. all
denending on the parent.
That was not true Of all parents, but
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08

And then | went TO Albion. where
STAYED two weeks. | shipped beans and
worked in the labelling room worked on
the bean sorting tables, and for in
Stance. on the pea sorting tables
Asked what she meant by pea sorting
tables, Miss Chamberlain said her work
consisted in sorting out peas as they
came along She received eight cents an
hour for this.
How many hours did you work."
1t differed | kept the record of three
women-two besides my own. | have a
record Of two children also
Requested to tell about the children.
Miss Chamberlain referred TO ner diary.
and replied:
Child a was Florence Laney, eleven
years I'd. She gave her age as four
teen. but | inquired from teachers in the
town OF Albion and from her many
friends and companions and learned that
she was only eleven years old. She was
employed regularly as a factory worker
al the cannery."
What did she do"
"She set up the cans. That is when
the cans came down from above through
the hole in the ceiling she took those
cans and brought them over to the
filters"
Then she told of Child 3. Milly Vacant,
aged ten, shed worker.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-08

keen them out. There may nave been
some that slipped in, through their par
enfs' confirmation Of their age as being
ton bu. most of them were ten or over
after the visit of the Factory Commls-
SION
Asked what kind of seats were pro-
vided the workers, Miss Chamberlain re-
piled
.'They had boxes most Of them had
backs to their seats-long benches with
backs.
The boxes weigh anywhere from twen-
" TO twenty five pounds, and have to he
carried anywhere from twenty TO three
hundred or four hundred feet, and l
should say that the shed was about four
hundred feet long The children had to
carry the boxes down the length of the
she'd
WHY should the children carry the
boxes?" Miss Chamberlain vas asked
Little Mlly Vacant, ten years Ole.
sitting at the further end Of the shed
alwavs sat there. 7 don't know why. ana
always carried her own as well as her
mothers boxes to be weighed. about three
hundred feet replied Miss Chamberlain.
children carry the boxes for the par
ents instead of vice versa and then have
TO stand in line fifteen to twenty minutes