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FULTON COUNTY NEWS,
Published Every Thursday.
B. W. Peck, Editor.
McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
Thursday, Nov. 2, 1899.
Published Weekly. 1.00 per
Annum in Advance.
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THE DAYS GONE BY.
J,MKH WHITCOMI1 KILEY.
Q, the days (jone by! O, the days gone
by
The apple In the orchard and the path
way through lh vyc;
'Tho cblrrii) of the robin and.the whist-
,le of the quail,
Ai he piped ucroK.s tlve jntjadow Bweet
. as any nightingale;
When the bloom .Is on the clover, and
the blue was In the sky,
And my .happy heart brimmed ov,r In
the days gone by.
In the days gone by, whe.n my naked
feet were tripped
By the honeysuckle's tangles where
.the water lilies dipped
.And the ripples of the river lipped the
moss along the brink,
Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed
.cattle come to drink,
And the tittering snipe ntood fearless
of the truant's wayward cry,
.And the splashing of the swimmer in
the days gone by.
,0, the days gone by! O. the doys gone
by!
The music of the laughing lip, the lus
tre of the eye;
The childish faith in fairies, and Alad
din's magic ring
"The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief
in every thing
When life was like a story, holding
neither sob nor sigh,
In the golden, olden story of the days
gone by.
THE SOUTH AFRICAN
'DIFFICULTIES.
British yersus Boer.
From Erie comes a series of
.questions suggested by ihe South
African trouble, the answers to
which, if properly made out,
would fill this page. They must
.bo limjted to this .column. The
first question is:
"When did the Boers leave Hol
land, and what fori"'
Holland belonged to the empire
of Charjes V., and when that was
divided between Austria and
Spain, Holland fell to the latter,
in consequence of which the Hol
landers kept their share of tho
commerce which grew out of the
discoveries by Columbus and his
successors. They extended their
trade as a means of maintaining
thejr Jong war of independence,
which broke out in 1"00, and in
the closing years of that century
,and opening ones of the next,
perfected the Dutch East com
pany. It established a trading
station at the Cape of Good Hope;
iho first Europeans to settle there
were Dutch, in 1 They were
the agents of the company; they
were joined by other Dutch.
Brjelly, that is how they camo to
Jeavo Holland.
"Why are they called Boers?"
In the latest of the dictionaries
Boer is marked as a South Afri
can word, and in a certain sense
correctly; but Boer meant origin
ally exactly what our word boor
did a countryman. The spell
ing hero is in the one case Dutch
and in the other English. We
employ the word to express what
is rude, coarse, clownish; to say
that a person is a boor is to say
that he has bad manners. In
South Africa to say that a man is
a Boer, is to say, first, according
J.0 the primary meaning of the
word, that ho is a farmer or cat
tle breeder, a man who lives in
)ha country; secondly, that he is
by birth or decent Dutch, though
tho word js desprjptive of a per
son of mxed blxd who speaks
the broken Dutch which is known
as Afrikantaal. Boers indicates
the nationality of the person rath
,cr thau Ids occupation tho Boer
js distinguished by his lauguage
now rather than hy hjs occupa.
tjou; the banker or merchant of
Dutch origin is jn South Africa
im distinctly a Boer as the farmer
iiV the CJttltf breeder,
"In what respect does the
Orange Free State differ from
tho Republic presided over by
Kruger?"
Hp says in no respect, and
hence all tho uproar. Tho Orange
Free State is an independent re
public; ho says his South African
state .is an indcjiendout republic,
and has been since 1884. That is
why he has .objected to Chamber
lain's claim of right on the part of
England to compel a change in its
olectoral law. Chamberlain in
sists that Kruger is darkening
tho issue; that England is endeav
oring to compel the Republic to
keep the engagement as to voting
and of representation into which
the Republic entered with her in
1884.
"What is Transvaal, and why
so called?"
If you have a map large enough
to show it, look for the Orange or
Gariop river, which forms the
northern boundary of Cape Col
ony, and tracing it eastwardly
from where it pours into the At
lantic, you find it forming tho
southern boundary of the Orange
Free State, while what the map
makes a branch of it comes in
from the northeast and forms the
northern and eastern boundary
of the state. It lies between riv
ers very much as Pittsburg does.
The northern one, corresponding
to the Allegheny is the Vaal.
Now, let us go back a bit. When
Holland was overrun by the
French revolutionists, the Prince
of Orange, a fugitive in England,
turned the Dutch South African
possessions over to her to keep
them from falling into the hands
of the French, but they did not
finally become English until 1800
Tho Dutch had established sla
very in them; the English abol
ished it, for which and other rea
sons the Dutch declared that they
did not care to live under English
rule. In 1830 they bought a tract
from the-Zulus, and on that set
up a government of their own, but
the English after a while conclud
ed not to permit any independent
governments in South Africa.
There was a sharp contest, and
when it ended this Dutch govern
ment was the English province of
Natal. Disgusted Dutchmen
then pressed eastward into the
wilds, and founded the Orange
Free State. That ( was in 1813,
perhaps; five years later that
state went the way of Natal, but
the Boers were so intolerably ob
streperous that in 18i2 tho Eng
lish gave them their freedom to
bo rid of them. Meantime, how
ever, disguested Dutch again
went into the wilds, which is to
say, they crossed the Vaal and
proceeded to set up a republic.
Trans means across; when the
Transvaal was referred to the
reference was understoad to bo
to that part of the wilderness oc
cupied" by the Dutch who would
not remain under English law in
the Orange Free State. Trans
vaal is used synonymously with
South African Republic, the offic
ial title of the government beyond
the Vaal."
"When did suzerainty exist be
tween England and the Boers,
and is it broken now?"
This question'has been answer
ed in part in the preceeding par
agraph. In part it cannot be an
swered until tho present bicker
ing is terminated. Suzerainty
implies much or little according
to the interest of those who have
the interpreting of it. It conveys
the notion of the superiority of
one state over another; the su
periority of England over the
South African Republic consists
in tho fact that tho republic can
not concludo a treaty with any
power save tho Orange Free State
without tho consent .of England,
or this is tho English assertion,
based on an article of the conven
tion of 1884.
"In tho years that tho Dutch
have been in South Africa have
they utilized tho resowces of the
soil and advanced tho business
relations of the nations as much
an the Britons have in the last
few years?"
That is a largo subject. As to
business as the word is usually
taken they have not accomplished
much; for they are not traders or
manufacturers, but husbandmen,
and of the conservative sort.
They care nothing for progress
in art or science or industry, and
are content to indulge themselves
in their passionate love for "the
desolate freedom of the wild ass."
That is tho chief cause of their
present trouble. English and
America:; liavo been developing
the gold mines of tho republic
and in other ways creating wealth
but they are excluded from their
share in tho government, which
they have been enriching.
"What is tho population of the
Boers' country?"
Tho only figures we have at
hand aro those, total for all tho
Boer Republics: Area, 102,640
square miles; population, 888,000.
The census of 18D0 gave the South
African Republic a white popula
tion of 119,128, while tho native
population was estimated at 506,
000.
,. "What does the war hinge upon?"
According to Mr. Chamberlain,
the determination of England to
obtain for tho Uitlanders such
substantial and immediate rep
resentation as will enable them
to secure for themselves the fair
and just treatment which the re
public by treaty promised them.
The Boers answer that what he
calls fair and just treatment is
tantamount to a surrender by
them to the foreigners, who will
outvote them. This is how they
regard the demand: "The Trans
vaal is struggling for its very ex
istenco. The danger from the
invasion of miners is as real as if
it were an invasion of armed men;
for it is all ono to have your gov
ernment captured by a troop of
horse or to have your privileges
taken away by alien voters."
A Farmer Met Death While Haul
ing Corn.
On Wednesday afternoon, Oct.
11, Amos Foul, aged 05 years,
while at work on his farm near
Gardiner's Station, Adams coun
ty, met death by an accident,
Foul was sitting on the seat of a
wagon loaded with corn which he
was hauling from a field to the
barn, when the front end-gate of
tho wagon, against which he was
bracing himself in order to con
trol the horses, in going down a
hill, gave way and ho was thrown
down between the frightened ani
mals which ran away overturning
the wagon and doing considerable
damage.
The unfortunate man was com
pletely covered with corn and his
back was broken as a result of
his fall. As soon as ho could be
extricated from his dangerous
position Mr. Foul was taken in an
unconscious condition to his
home near by, and medical aid
summoned, but all efforts to re
suscitate him proved vain and ho
died four hours later.
A New Kxcu.se.
"Henry, this is scandalous."
"What's tho mattor, m' dear?"
"Oh, there's no use talking to
you. Don't you know you're in a
dreadful condition?"
"Who said s-so, m dear?"
"I say so. Why, you won't bo
able to get your hat on tomor
row." "An do you know why, m'
dear?"
"Yes, I know why."
"Th-then you know about kiss
ing bugs?"
"Kissing bug! What about tho
kissing bug?"
"Kissiu bug bit me on th' brow
an' poor ol' head swelled twice its
nashral size. Look at it, my
dear."
rf'You go to bed. "Cleveland
Plain Dealer, .
An Excellent Law.
It should be remembered by
those who are in the habit of
shooting at birds that como with
in reach, that the killing, wound
ing or trapping of any bird of
song, cat bird, robin, woodpeck
er, blue bird, yellow bird, or any
other bird not a game bird, is in
dictable as acriminiloirense, and
any person convicted of such an
offeuso is subject to pay costs of
prosecution and a fine of not less
than ten or more than fifty dol
lars, and be imprisoned. One
half of tho fine goes to the inform
er. This is an excellent law and
should bo rigidly enforced.
"Now, children," said tho young
lady who was instructing a class
of small boys in the Sunday
school, "which of you can tell me
of what particular sin Joseph's
brethren were guilty when they
sold him into bondage?"
"Please, ma'am, I mu," an
swered one bright little follow.
"Very well; what was it?" she
inquired.
"They sold him tyo choap," was
the sonioMlutt unexpected reply.
IIAMTS OF SPEECH.
Faulty Language Used in Child
Iiooil is Hard to Correct In
After Life.
"Why do educated parents al
low their children to contract
habits of ungrammatioal speech
that will have to bo conquered in
after life?" asked a spinster of a
mother.
"Because they hate to worry
tho poor little things about such
niatters when they are young and
should bo care free. It soems
cruel to be all the time correcting
them and keeping them on their
good behavior. They will have to
learn the rules of our dreadful
language all too soon as it is. "
"Yes," said tho spinister, "and
in addition to learning to speak
properly they will have to unlearn
tho tricks of speech in which they
have been allowed to indulge all
their little lives. I know, "laugh
ing, "that there is much ridicule
of 'old maids' children,' but I
believe that my theory in the case
is correct. It is a positive un
kindness to let your child double
his negative and say 'ain't,' when
several years from now he will bo
harshly reproved for such lapses.
The child must learn to talk, any
way, and is it not as easy to teach
him to say 'It is I,' as 'It's me?'
And is it not as simple for the
little tongue to lisp 'I saw it,' as
'I seen it?' I love baby talk, and
should cot correct a child for his
mispronunciation of hard words.
As he grows older ho will himself
see his mistakes in that lino and
change them. But I insist that
it is a parent's duty to make the
difficult patch to grammatical
speech as easy as possiblo by
never allowing the little ones to
stray from it in the boginning. "
Harper's Bazar.
Outwitted the Lunatic.
While residing at Rome I paid
a visit to'the lunatic asylum there
and among the more remarkable
patient one was pointed out to me
who had been saved with much
difficulty from inflicting death
upon himself by voluntary star
vation in bed, under tho impres
sion that he was defunct, declar
ing that dead people never eat
It was soon obvious to all that the
issue must be fatal, when the hu
man doctor bethought of tho fol
lowing stratagem: Half a dozen
of tho attendants, dressed in
whito shrouds and their faces and
hands covered with chalk, were
marched in single file with dead
silence into a room adjoining that
of the patient, where he observed
them through a dxr purposely
left open sit down to a heavy
meal,
"Hello?" said tho would be
corpse to an attendant. "Who
bo they?"
"Dead men," was the reply.
"What, " rejoined tho defunct,
"do dead men eat?"
"To bo suro they do, as vou
see," answered the attendant,
"If that's tho case, exclained
the dead man, "I'll join them, for
I m famished."
John Brown's Raid.
Forty years ago Monday night;
October 10, 18")1), John Brown
made his historic attack on Har
per's Ferry. It was an exciting
event. Tho invaders captured
tho town lato at night. While
John Brown and his raid occupy
a prominent position in American
history, tho. average man vaguely
regards the event as more remote
than it is. The tremendous hap
penings of following years seem
to have shouldered Brown fur
ther into the past, to bo dealt
with solely by history.
The editor of a Scranton news
paper recently secured some in
formation from what he consider
ed a trustworthy source and pub
lished it. It proved to be incor
rect, and on the head of it tho pa
per became involved in a libel
suit. Learning that the person
who furnished tho information
knew it to bo false and purposely
hoaxed the reporter, the editor
has started suit under tho law
passed a few years ago which im
poses a heavy penalty for that
sort of business.
Women can always see tho mis
take others aro making when they
marry, but never are able to view
their own matrimonial ventures
in that light until it is too late to
mend.
TAKING WATER.
On many of the railroads it is
no longer necessary for a train to
stop to allow the engineer to re
plenish his boilers with water.
All travelers have now Lscome
accustomed to seeing the narrow
troughs, 1,200 to 1,400 feet long,
at various dead level points along
the road, and they know .that the
strip of water that it contains is
scooped up by the engine as it
speeds over the tracks. But peo
ple from foreign countries often
ask questions about the water be
tween tho tracks and marvel
when they hear tho story about
"drinking" the engine on tho fly.
What seems a marvelous me
chanic contrivance is an extreme
ly simple thing. A pipo with a
scoop'ond it fastened to the ten
der. It is C-shaped, with tho top
end pointing into tho water tank
and the bottom curled under tho
body of tho tender. By a series
of levers this end may be dropped
until it reaches the level of the
ties.
When the engine reaches tho
trough the fireman drops the
scoop end, which is 3 inches
high and 12 inches wide into tho
trough, into which it sinks a dis
tance of about six inches or with
in an inch of the bottom. It may
wabble slightly without doing
any harm, because the trough is
twenty-four inches wide.
Dropping the end is all that is
done, for the motion of the en
gine does tho rest. The water
rushes into tho pipo and thence
into the tank with a rush and
force that suggests to the uniniti
ated tho use of powerful engines.
"The most remarkablo thing
about the water-taking scoop,"
said a railroad official, "is the fact
that the speed of the train must
be reduced when the water is
taken on. It reaches the bend in
tho pipe with such force that if
the train were allowed to go at its
regular speed the metal would be
seriously strained, so we roduce
the speed to about thirty miles
an hour and have the best re
sults." While the engine is passing
over the trough at the rate of
thirty miles an hour it takes up
about 4,000 gallons of water
about as much as would be con
tained in 100 spirit barrels.
Kate Field's Love Letter.
If that charming woman, the
lato Kate Field, did not marry, it
was assuredly not because she
did not have many an admirer.
A Washington lady has in her
possession a little old bit of yel
low paper upon which is penciled
a boyish scrawl. It was preserv
ed by Miss Field from her little
girl days. The scrawl runs thus:
"wont yue mete me down bye
The Gate aftter school Yue nowe
ILuvyue."
On the other side of the bit of
paper is the address, thus:
"Miss Kate Feld, Esq., last
Scat nex to the Door goin out."
It must have been iike a bi'eath
of tho forgotten perfume of yes
teryears wnen tho clever, kindly
woman happened upon this little
old piece of yellow paper on a
rainy afternoon of rummaging.
CHISEL IN HIS HEAD.
Tho latest tragedy in Kentucky
is joyously characteristic of some
portions of the State. Two
young farmers who had long had
a feud met in church on Sunday.
They sat on opposite sides of tho
congregation, they joined in all
the devotional exercises, listened
to tho sermon, raised their voices
in tho hymns, bent their heads in
prayer and patiently waited until
the benediction was pronounced,
when they rose and immediately
began shooting. One of them
was killed and several members
of tho congregation were wound
ed. The usual panic and posse
comitatus followed.
Shower of Stars Coining.
On the night of the 14th of this
month there will pour from tho
heavens the most remarkable and
spectacular stream of shooting
stars ever predicted by astrono
mers. In Washington tho scien
tists of tho United States naval
observatory aro making elaborate
preparations for observing the
coming appearance of the Loon
ids, while throughout thecolleges,
universities aud astronomical ob
servatories of the United States
and of tho world thousands of
men trained to a knowledge of tho
stars are awaiting with eager in
terest the celestial phenomena,
Ono of tho most remarkable ac
cidents in the annals of surgery
was brought to light this week
in Baltimore by, the aid of X
rays.
About eleven weeks ago, Char
los Baker, a machinist in the Gei
sor shops, Waynesboro, was found
unconscious at the side of the
machine ho had been operating.
There was a cut across the ridge
of his nose, another below chin,
and still another on one of hislegs.
Tho machine had contained two
steel chisels, each five and a half
inches long, ono inch thick. Oneof
tho chisels was found lying on the
floor near the machine, but, al
though diligent search was made,
the other chisel couldnot be found
He was taken to St. Joseph's
Hospital, Baltimore, and was
treated and after several weeks
the wounds healed. About throo
weeks ago Baker began to com
plain of a stiffnoss in the muscles
of the neck, and later a partial
paralysis of some of tho nerves
of the face and neck developed.
Prof. William C. A. Ilamrnel, of
the chair of physics, State Nor
mal School, placed him under the
action of the X rays and by means
of the lluoroscope located the lost
chisel in the patient's face and
throat. The tool when it flew
from the machine, must have
struck on tho bridge of tho man's
nose sharp end formost, and tak
ing a downward course, penetrat
ed tho bones, flesh and muscles
until it reached almost to tho ver
tebrae.
The upper end of the tool is
shown ju st where the bony struct
ure of the nose begins, and can be
traced along its entire length al
most to the vertebrae.
The chisel, in its course, not on
ly narrowly missed the jugular
vein, but cama within a short dist
ance of severing tho base of tho
tongue. The patient, before the
accident was a s trong,robu st man,
but he has now become greatly
emaciated on account of his ina
bility to swallow food. He also
experiences great difficulty in ar
ticulating, and it is with difficulty
that he can make himself under
stood. It is expected that an op
eration will be performed to ro
move tho. chisel.
Strange Abode of a Giantess.
Miss Ella Ewing, famed as tho
Missouri giantess, whoso heightis
eight feet three inches, has just
had built a remarkable house
near Garvin, Scotland county. It
is a two-story frame structure of
conventional pattern and would
not attract more than ordinary at
tention were it not for the fact
that the door s are all ten feet high,
with windows and ceilings to cor
respond. Thisgives itanappear
anco possessed by no other resi
dence in Missouri perhaps in
the world, for in the world, there
is no other woman like Ella Ew
ing. She is as modest as she is
tall, and it was only after tho
most temptingofl'ers that she ev
er consented to exhibit herself
for a consideration. She has
been the main attraction at sever
al circus side-shows but has in
variably boon accompanied by her
parents. They are pooplo of av
ernge sizo and cannot account for
their daughters's remarkable de
velopment. She is now at her
homo. It was whilo traveling
with a circus that she earned the
money which paid for the houso
which is now the wonder of Scot
land County, Mo.
Muy u Woman Tell Her Love?
It is true it is unconventional
for a woman to tell a man that she
loves him unless the man has per
suaded her to make such confess
ion. But is there any good rea
son why a woman should not take
tho initiative? Is she any less a
woman for doing so? A shy and
timid man may not know how to
tell a woman that he loves her.
Should tho woman, who isoifirm
or faith and stronger mind,
stand halting and waiting for a
confession that may never come?
Why should sho su ffer in silence?
By so doing may she not lose tho
man who loves her and also the
happiness of a lifetime as well?
A "TREATING" i
Hettio Harry is a man always
to bo trusted. He has never de
ceived me,
Clara But how do you know
that?
Hottie Know it? Why, ho told
me so himself only last evening. -Boston
Transcript.
Col. Fred KinsineortJ
story of Mr. Perry, an '!'
orn gentleman, who dJ
years ago, back of Covit
Mr. Porry was an excpi.
lite man. He would
way at any time to av?!,J'
ing a neighbor or afri s'
i ... ;l)m
day a neighbor met lii jg),
street with: a
"Hallo, Mr. Perry! ime
going in to get a drink, r01
and have something. "
"Thank you, Mr. S
care for anything," n"-''
swor- L
"But come in and t,oi
thing, just for sociabilit W
"Now, I want to be 1
all that; I am anxious t
ble, but I can't drink v-y,
"All right, if you donjon:
bo sociable, I'll go with"'
ing," growled tho frhh'
lently walked along in ro
tion Mr. Perry was tra '
Presently the pair dr ' v
drug store, when Mr. IVJ
out with, "Mr. , IV(U
ing well to-day, and I tl.M
go in the drug store andluw
castor-oil. Won't you j
"What, in a doso of
"Yes." J
"Naw; I hate the stuff1
to v
which a chill went over j0
as visible in its effects t tia
ry as if the ague had
on the street, J
"ButlwantyoutohJJ,
of oil with me, just to i,e
ble, you know." ag
Tho friend still refuv
Mr. Perry said:- "Your,
whiskey is just as
me as my sociabk
Don't you think I've asij
A - 1 (V 11 ..I
sou w do ouenuea wuij
you have with me?" rj(
iuur,
is distil
lo oil is f
THE BITER litti
J
He looked green, buti
ances are often deceitful 1
tain card sharper in to a
out in this particular f 1
says the Memphis Scini'
green-looking individual '
drop where the card p
could hear it that he luif e
erable money in his clotl .- a
sharper spotted him atiP
went angling for the sucj'
th
was not hard to land, at
than an hour the two vnft
in an up-town resort plu,?1
en-up. Tho greon-nian(
roll and the sharper's if
tened as he calculated t
what he was going to dfs
when he got it. '
In order to bait the gif
tho sharper let him wit
occasionally, and in the ilv
the hour's play these 41;
amouuted to a round suf 1
green man lost ho paid
rnt, nf him rinrVif- trnnanr.
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but when he won the moir
into the other pocket. II r
41,!.. : a: n t ft
una u pi euiiuiuu uu mi urn
when gambling in the
said nothing about it. Fii'
green-looking man deck:
he was broke, and the gu
ed. He had lost sometl
$."j00 and tho sharper, U
right thing, called him i
0'L
hnv nnd nrrl urprl n Vvittln
pagno. He threw out ou.
newly-won if 10 bills, and tr
tonishment it was retuf
counterfeit. He tried otl
they were dono the samt'L
"Well, lemme pay ft.
champagne," said thegn,
ing individual. "You si L
beat you at your own jf-
man. You got all my cou-
.1 T i. .7. .. . I
iuuuu.y uuu x irob uie itif
See?"
The sharpor acknow
corn.
a-leilL
To Stop Nosebleed
To stop nosebleed cu
blotting paper about i
square, roll it about the 4;
leadpencil and put it up t
tril that is blooding. Th
in it will fill the space 1-
the tube and the noso n
very sxn coagulate and '
stop tho flow of blood
York Times.
"Does the climate agn
you?" inquired tho mud b
versational porsou.
"No," answered the
prophet fiercely. "Near!1
time I announce what it m
do it assumes an attitude1
and uncompromising opp
Washington Star.