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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-01-21
FARM FOR SALE.

ll3-acre farm, 65 acres cultivated,
balance good timber, Good produc-
Ing land. Groom house with porches,
summer kitchen, woodhouse, bank
barn with shed over barny ard. 2-story
implement shed. Wagon shed and
corncrib, hogpen, chicken house,
springhouse All buildings have on
worked siding and are we'll painted
Good running water close the house.
Close to store, school, and church.
Plenty OF fruit. IL acres in wheat. A
good stream of limestone water runs
through the farm. The farm is situate
miles north OF McConnellsburg the
County Seat on State road, and it can
be bought for almost what it cost to
put up the buildings. Will sell stock,
farm implements and household goods
with the farm If desired. Possession
given April /, 1915. My reason for
selling Is that l am greatly afflicted
with rheumatism. II you think you
would like TO have the farm, get busy,
for | mean to sell. Call on, or ad-
dress.
J. G. FORE,
l-2i-St Knobsville, Pa.
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Pictorial War Magazines.

The Philadelphia Record has
begun the publication of week.
ly Pictorial War Magazine. This
magazine is published entirely
separate from its newspaper. 1t
is made up of highly interesting
and exciting scenes of current
events of the European War.
The magazine consists of "A pa
ges end is printed by the new
kotogravure Process.
1t will pc obtainable on news
stands at 10c per copy.
All persons interested in Euro
pean War affairs will be kept
we'll posted by the advice and
scenes of battle obtained in this
publication.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-01-21
Gettysburg Reunion Report.

The report of the Pennsylvania
Commission of the fiftieth ami
versary of Gettysburg has been
printed in substantial book form.
We have received one at this Of
flee, and we find that it is an ex-
cellent write-up of the great re-
union of the Blue and Gray that
took place at Gettysburg in 1913.
The book is profusely illustrated
with photos of scenes on that oc-
casion, and every veteran of the
Civil War will find days of pleas
IRE in perusing the work.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-01-21
BIameS the GooSebone Men.

On last Friday, when S. D.
Mellott had finished counting out
a pile of greenbacks which he
gave to the editor in exchange
for sale bills, advertising, SUBJ
scription, &C., he told a story
that should make those Down
East goosebone men sorry for the
way in which they have succeed
ed in mixing up the calculations
of the present generation of wild
geese. Mr.. Mellott related that
some time in last December, dur
ing the week in which the 'ther-
mometer registered below zero,
the Misses Katharine and Diana
Smith, of Pleasant Grove, observ
ed a large flock of wild geese fly
ing northward. The geese were
flying in regulation style, and, to
all appearances, were perfectly
intelligent geese. 1t will be re-
membered that one set of goose
bone men predicted an early,
short winter, while another set
prophesied that we would have a
long, hard winter. Therefore
the explanation that our Belfast
township friends can give for the
strange action of our migratory
relatives is, that they read the
report of the short-winter proph-
cts, and, being Industrious crea-
lures, they attempted to steal a
march on their more stupid breth-
rem, in order that they might Sc
lect and preempt the most favor
able feeding grounds for tn e
spring and summer of 1915. We
are inclined to think that those
goosebone men should get togeth-
er and establish a more reliable
school of philosophy.
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Sale Register.

Wednesday, February "a, ia
cob F. Grouse intending to quit
farming will sell at his residence
2 miles north of Burnt Cabins,
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, farm.
Ing implements, corn, potatoes,
and household goods. Sale will
begin at 10 o'clock. James M.
Chestnut and James j. Harris,
Auctloneers.
On Thursday, February 25,
1915, g. F. Wagner intending to
remove from his place of resi-
dence on what is known as the D
M. Kendall farm, Al miles south
of McConnellsburg, will sell a
large lot of valuable livestock con.
sistlng of cattle, horses, and hogs
Also, farming implements, wag-
ons, harness, potatoes, &c. Sale
will begin at ten o'clock. Terms
ten months. A. L. While, auc-
tloneer.
Thursday March 4, G. f. Nau-
gle, intending to remove to
smaller farm, will sell at his resi-.
deuce on the T. j. Comerer farm
II mile from Burnt Cabins, on
the road leading to Shade GAP, 2
horses, 8 cattle, farm machinery
harness, corn, hay &c. Sale be-
gins s at 10 o'clock. Credit 81
months. j. j.. Harris Auct.
Thursday, March IL, D. W.
Cromer having rented his farm
for a term of five years, and IN
tending to quit farming, will sell
Of his residence near Fort Little
ton, horses, cattle. hogs, farm
nts and machinery, hay,
gram, &c Sale will begin at 10
o'clock. Credit, 9 months. j. M.
Che ut, ructioneer. M 49,. !
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". 6. I. U. Meeting.

At a meeting of the local or.
ganization of the W. G. T. u,
held on Monday evening, Hon.
Jno. P. Sipes was elected to &c
to Harrisburg on Monday, Feb
ruary 1st, which is to be a red
letter day in the fight for a Coun-
ty Option law in Pennsylvania.
1t is the day on which there will
be held in Harrisburg a State
Convention of Anti i-saloon League
forces, for the purpose of helping
Governor Brumbaugh and our
friends in the legislature to Sc
cure the enactment of a County
Option law. The legislature will
be thoroughly organized and
down to business by that time,
when a demonstration will be
made to our lawmakers that they
are expected to fulfill the pledges
made by the new governor, and
to grant the state relief from the
intolerable condition under which
we are living.
MRS. w. B. KENDALL,
President w. c 7. U,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-01-21
Teacher Held For Court.

Prof. John F. Kunkle, presi-
dent of the Franklin county Sun
day School Association, and teach
er of a public school at William
son, Franklin county, was held
for court at a hearing in Cham
bersburg on last Saturday on a
charge of assault and battery.
The prosecutor was M. B. Hill,
one of the patrons of the school.
Mr.. Hills small son attends the
school taught by Mr.. Kunkle.
According to the story told by
the lad, members of his family,
and pupils of the school, the boy
was accused of swearing by Mr..
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-01-21
HULL & BENDER.

Kunkle. The lad denied this and
the teacher made an effort to line
up the pupils as witnesses against
the lad. Finally, according to
the testimony, the teacher got
one boy to shake his head yes
when asked whether he had heard
the Hill lad swear. The Hill boy
again denied the charge, but the
teacher grabbed him, and after
pulling him over a desk, he plac-
ed him across the edge of the
desk and with a rod two feet long,
one-nalf inch thick and two inch
es wide, he thrashed him on the
part of the anatomy, used for
generations for that purpose.
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For SALE:-Pair of good mules;
or, will trade for good horse, or,
will sell a horse and keep mules.
Have too many.
GEO. N. SIPEs,
l0-29-l4-tf Hustontown.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-01-21
More Foot and Mouth Disease.

A herd of cattle belonging to
Guy Myton, of Shavers Creek
Valley, Huntingdon county, has
something wrong with them, and
indications point strongly to foot
and mouth disease. This is the
first instance of the appearance
of the disease in that county.
How did it get there? How does
an epidemic start anywhere?
Some person, beast, or bird must
have been where it was, and car
ried it there on clothing, fur or
feathers. Or, something that
had been in contact with the dis
ease might have been shipped to
this farm. Our own county has
escaped thus far; but there is no
telling when the foot and mouth
disease may break out in the
very centre of the County, in
probably the same mysterious
manner in which it did in Hunt
ingdon county. 1t would be very
wise policy to make sure that
nothing from the neighborhood in
which the scourge is known to
exist be permitted to come to our
farms until the plague is stamp
ed out of the sixteen, or more,
states in which it is now found.
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Card Of Thanks.

Mr.. Watson c. Lynch and chill
dren desire in this manner to ex-
press their sincere appreciation
of the many acts of kindness and
words of sympathy of the friends
and neighbors during the sick
ness and death of the loved wife
and mother.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-01-21

Buy a suit, overcoat, raincoat,
or Macklnaws at Hege and My
ers' clearance sale.
Coal oil 10 cents a gallon; su-
gar, &c. pound or 81. As for 25 ID.
sack at the Irwin Store.
Hege and Myers big Clearance
Sale IN Mercersburg will begin
Friday, January %, and last ten
days.
The Cumberland Valley ticket
office in Greencastle was entered
at noon one day last week, while
the ticket agent was at lunch,
and $50 and some tickets stolen.
H. L. Sipes, of Licking Creek
township, was kicked on a leg by
horse. No bones were broken,
but Homer was confined to the
house for a few days.
Joseph E. Throp's coal lands
in Huntingdon and Bedford count
les are in the sheriff's hands and
are advertised to be sold at
sheriff's sale in Huntingdon on
the 9Th of February.
How TO GET EGGS. Buy at
the Irwin Store 100 lbs. oyster
shell 85 cents; meat meal, bone
meal and charcoal at 5 cents a
pound; feed with mixed grain,
and you are sure to get eggs.
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.
The Oddfellows and Rebekahs
of Harrisonville Lodge, 710, will
hold their annual banquet and
oyster supper at Metzler's Hotel,
Harfiscnnlle, Saturday evening,
February 9th. Tickets will be
given out from the Hall between
6 and seven o'clock.
Two young travelling men ap-
peared before magistrate Orr in
Chambersburg one day last week
and tried to enter suit against
one of the hotels of the town be-
cause they were refused liquor.
The magistrate would have moth
ing to do with it. We will wa
ger that those two goslings have
not been ION the road" very
long.
Stimulated by the success of
the Rufus F. Dawes hotel in Chi
cago, in its first year as shelter
for men who can pay only nom-
inal sum for board and lodging,
similar hotels are to be built in
other cities. The Rufus Dawes
hotel was erected by Charles G.
Dawes, as a monument to the
memory of his son. In stands in
West Madison street, a crowded
district, and in its first year hous-
ed 1890 men and served SO, 900
meals. Charge for a bed is five
cents a right, On its bill of fare
meat hash and beans can be had
for 3 cents, coffee for 2 cents,
soup and bread for 2 cents and
pie for 8 cents.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-01-21

For RENT-Dwelline ho use
and Store room at Fhckersvllle,
one and a half miles north of
Locust Grove, Pa. Ed A. DIEHL.
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Wanted, For Sale, For Rent,
Lost, Found, Etc.

RATES-One cent per word for each
Insertion. No advertisement accepted
Tor less than Id cents. Cash must ac-
company order.
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ARKET REPORT.
ooRREorrp EVERY WEDNESDAY.

The grain markets are taken from the Cham
persburg daily newspapers. The provision
prlcea are those that obtain In McConnells-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-01-21
Racket Store
NEWS

We have just finished the greatest year
that we have had in the Is years we
have been in business in McConneIlsburg,
and we want to thank you for your part
in this.
Now, we want to name you few prices
for this month.
Pure flaxseed meal, got from the crush
ers at &c lb.
Have just got another lot of Lenox Soap
at the old price, cakes for 25c. Nest
eggs Ic each. 6 Rolls of Best toilet paper
for 26C.
Just bought large lot of good GaIvan-
lied pals at the right price: loot, l3c.;
l2-qt., I6c.; l4-qt. I9c. and l6-qt., zoe. each
Galvanized tubs 4O 45, and Soc Heavy
stove pipe and 8 inch, 10 cents Joint
Mems heavy buckle Arctcs, 95c., S1.45, $1.65,
$780, and S2.35. Chllds' Buckle Arctics, 6Oc; Mis-
ses, zoe; Ladies'. 75c. Childs' and Misses Rubbers,
33c. to 48G. Ladies Csc. to o0c. Mems 45c. to
$125. Ladies Cloth Alaskas, Csc; Mems 85c and
$110 Felt Boots, $3.50 $3.50. Mems separate
overs for feltS, $3.50 up. 4 Mouse Traps, Sc,
packs Hold Fast Shoe Nails &c., Coat and Hat Hooks
SC. dozen. Cow CHAINS, 15c. Table Oil Cloth, 15c.
yard. Coal Oil 1Oc. gallon.
Thanking you for past favors and ask
ing you for share of your trade for 1915.
We are yours respectfully.
HULL & BENDER.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-13

embarrassing positions because they do
not know how to behave properly on GER
tain occasions or when things happen
suddenly. like running up against a per-
son and then blushing and stammering
instead Of apologizinG. not knowing how
TO behave at q well-ordered table. or not
being able, because one has not been
trained. to practice the graceful OBJ
servance of the right thing to say or to
do" on all occasions.
Our manners should be automatic.
child should be so well trained in good
manners that he would do the prop"r
thing at the proper time automatically.
without the slightest hesitation or en-
barassment.
How quickly we can tell the well-hrcd
person by the little marks Of automatic
good manners, automatic courtesy, that
are as natural to him as walking or talk
ing What a contrast to the one who Is
trying to be well bred and well man
nered. to appear at ease. but who has not
had proper early training, and. conse-
quently. in spite Of all his efforts. is often
awkward. confused Inundated, and i'll
at ease. because he Is afraid he has done
or said. or will do or say. the wrong
thinS.
To a sensitive person the lack Of early
training in good manners. in the convcn-
tional forms of etiquette means constant
humiliation and chagrin through life.
Copyright. 1881
The Washington herald., 1915-09-13
Income Tax Comparisons.

Reader" requests The Herald to publish an
analysis of the returns from the income tax, par
ticularly in the prohibition States and suggests
what is interesting. The returns from the income
tax last year will be discouraging to the authors
of the law They expected more than $Ioo. 900 900.
but the returns totaled $So,ooo,o 900, while those
600 ooo The individual income tax was to be the
source Of new revenues and the theory that
we had great many millionaires it was to pro-
duce a much larger revenue than it did. But New
York City, and in fact all the large cities, nclud-
ing Washington, paid individual income tax
as much if not than anticipated. The
disappontments in the rural States partcu-
larly in the prohibition States There nineteen
States which have enacted Statewide prohibition
nearly one-third of the population of the United
States, and they together paid less than one
twentieth of the individual income tax
The report of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue shows that these nineteen prohibition
States paid $2,23oo75.o4, and that twelve license
States which have large cities and great industries,
paid S,46zII77.24 of the individual income tax.
Taking the population as basis, the nineteen pro-
hibition States paid about cents per CAPITA while
the twelve license States paid &c cents per capita
of population. Taking total wealth the measure
the nineteen prohibition States paid less than S
cents on each $1,000 OF wealth. while the twelve
license States paid 81 cents on each $1,000 of
wealth. If all the States had paid an individual
income tax the per capita rate paid in the nine
teen prohibition States, the total would have been
less than SSooo,ooo but if all had paid the per
capita rate in the twelve license States the total
would have been S66ooo 900 instead of 81 900 900
collected last year. II all the wealth in the United
States had paid the percentage paid in the nine
teen prohibition States the total from the indi-
vdual income tax would have been $9,35o,ooo but
if all the wealth had paid the percentage paid in
the twelve license States the total would have been
500 ooo,o 900. Kansas is the banner prohibition
State. but Kansas paid only So4,o75.59 an indi-
vidual income tax, while New York paid SI7,4I7,-
$3.50 Kansas paid a per capita of cents and
New York per capita of $I.76; Kansas paid as
an individual income tax cents on each 81 900 of
wealth and New York paid 70 cents each 1000
of wealth. Kansas claims to be prosperous
than any of the Eastern States, but the people in
that State paid only thirty-fth the percentage
wealth that the people of New York paid.
AS Reader" suggests the government cannot
tax hypocrisy get revenues out Of those who
preach rcfornl-for the other fellow
The Washington herald., 1915-09-13
AMERICAN MANNERS.
by ORISON SWEET MARDEN.

well. we think they're bad enough in
Chicago. but they are certainly worse in
New York;
The speaker. presumably a lady from
the Windy City. was sitting next to me
on a New York street car, and thus re-
lieved her feelings on receiving no,
over-gracious reply from the hurried
perspiring conductor in response to an in
Quiry.
There Is much to be said in excuse for
any lapse from politeness of our con-
stantly rushed and hardworked metro
politan car conductors. They are in the
main kind hearted and willing to help. as
any one can tell who has seen them
time and again rush to the assistance OF
old people and women with small chill
dren. getting on and off the cars. The
strain of constant crowding and a good
deal of rather foolish questioning on the
part Of some passengers are wearing on
the nerves and temper. and often result
in an outburst OF rudeness toward q per-
fectly guiltless stranger, as in the pres
ent instance.
But when everything possible has been
said in extenuation. We must admit that
the manners of our public servants and
have the unfortunate distinction of be-
liked world.
II good manners were generally prac-
ticed among US. In our homes, in our
schools. in hotels and theaters. in the
shops. on the streets. everywhere. all
would fall In lire. Politeness would be
the rule. not the exception.
1t would be in the atmosphere, and our
street car conductors could no more help
being Influenced by it than our railroad
ofYicials. our shopsirls. our schoolboys
and schoolgirls. Everybody would catch
the contagion Of good manners.
It Is said that the root of true vti.
ssuette Ia in the heart" that 1T Is a
kindly consideration for others: the
graceful Observance OF the right thing to
say or to do" II IL true that genuine
politeness Is of the heart. yet the pos
SCISSOR Of . very kind heart may often be
lacking In the outward forms OF good
breeding
How often do We - kindly. we'll
meaning people put IN the most awkward.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-13
n2zMM&

Harrisburg which nominated William
Henry Harrison. the Whig candidate n
President. and John Tyler. Of Virginia.
for Vice President. I remember Mr.. SIi-
liman's statement that Tyler was nomi
mated for Vice President after three
others had declined the offers of norai-
nation. He was nominated because It
was said of him that he was a warm
friend of Henry Clay. few weeks
after he was inaugurated Vice President
he became. by the death of President
Harrison. President of the United States.
Andrew Johnson was nominated for
Vice President-wlth Lincoln As cano:-
date for President-in 1864. He was a
last choice for Vice President, Lincoln
having declined to indicate his choice OF
any one as candidate for the office. Han
nibal Hamlin told me in 1890 that he had
good reason for knowing that Lincoln
would have preferred the renominatIon On
of the ticket OF Lincoln and Hamiiu.
Had that been done. Hannibal Hamlin.
and not Andrew johnson. would have
been President After the nomination Of
Gen. Garfield at Chicago in 1880. the
choice of Gen. Arthur as candidate ior
Vice President was made. l met Gen
Arthur when he was on his way to CHI
cago to attend the convention and he
was nominated for President the prob
abilities were that some distinguished
Republican west of the Mississippi River
would be nominated for Vice President.
The offer of the nomination for Vice
President came to Gen. Arthur as a per-
feet surprise.
II Theodore Roosevelt had had his way
he would not have been nominated .'r
Vice President in Philadelphia in 1pG.
Had Garrett A. Hobart. who was ele:t-
ed Vice President in 1896. lived he I'M
doubtedly would have been renominated
with Mckinley in 1900. Therefore the re-
mark which Commodore Van Santvoord
made to me is sustained by the history
of the conventions. Every one of the
Vice Presidents who succeeded to the
Presidency was placed in nomination for
Vice President at the last moment, not
one of them expecting that nomination
when 1t was made.
tCopyright. 1915 by G. ]. Edwards. All rights
reser,ed.l
Tomorrow Dr. Edwards Will tell WHY
Grant Declined n Captaincy.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-13
What Shells Cost.

Cruciblc, Steel Company's new order for high
explosive shells. valued at more than $40, 500 600,
calls for I5o,5oo shells. The most important fea-
.ures of the contract is the supplying Of 1900 IS
inch lyddite shells for the British navy. Each Of
those shells is worth $500 The 1000 consequent-
ly will cost $5.5oo.ooo In addition the Crucible
Steel Company will supply 5000 s-ineh lyddite
Shells each shell costing $40; $4,000 6-inch shells,
costing SIS each; 10000 o-inch shells worth $50
each. and S.soo I2-inch Shells worth 5000. The
company is vigorously carrying out plans to make
the Harrison plant the greatest torpedo manufac-
turing establishment in the country. The COM
pany has new-design torpedo, its own patent.
Each torpedo costs between $4,000 and $4,000.
The capacity of the plant is being rushed on that
line of work. the output going largely to Great
Britain.-Wall Street Journal
The Washington herald., 1915-09-13
HISTORY BUILDERS.
Eleventh-hour Candidates for the
Vice Presidency.
Written expressly for The Washington HeraldJ
BY DIR. f. J. EDWARDS.

vice I EeSlOcTCy.
Written expressly for The Washington Hcraldl
BY DIR. Z. }. EDWARDS.
The late Commodore Alfred Van SAINT
voOrd. who died in the spring of 1901.
said to me day or two after Theodore
Roosevelt was nominated for Vice Presl-
dent on the ticket at the head of which
stood tho name OF William Mckinley,
in 1900 that lie had seen all of the NiIc
Presidents who had succeeded to the
Presidency, and with two of them lie
had had som. personal intercourse. The
commodore saw John Tyler on2e before
Tyler became Vice President and again
at the time Tyler. when President, Wis
tied New York to meet his tiancce. Miss
Gardner. With Millard Fillmore the
commodore was on terms of more than
mere personal acquaintance. He had
voted for Fillmore when the latter was
candidate for governor of New York and
also the next year. Fillmore having lost
the governorship. the commodore voted
for him for comptroller of New York,
an election to which Fillmore was sue
cessful. Fillmore was much interested
in the canal systems OF New York State
and it was in that way the commodore
became associated with him. for bosh
he and his iather before him were Prom
inently associated with the navigation of
the Erie Canal He was also an init
mate personal friend Of Chester A. Ar
thur He said to me: If you will mai e
investigation of the proceedings OF con-
ventions which nominated the candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
you will discover the extraordinary fact
that all of the Vice Presidents VINO SUI
ceeded to the Presidency were almost
chance nominees to the Vice Presidency.
They were all eleventh-hour choices
Had Commodore Van Santvoord livai
long enough he could have added an
other to the list-Theodore Roosevelt
The late benjamin Silliman told me that
he was a delegate to the convention at