FULTON COUNTY NEWS. Published Every Thursday. 13. W. Puck, Editor. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Thursday, Nov. 23, 1899. Published Weekly. 1.00 per Annum in Advance. Prompt attention will be given to applications for ad vertising rates. Job Printing of every des cription executed with prompt ness, in a workmanlike manner and at consistent prices. I)i:t.y." I saw u sweet young; mother with Iter lirst horn at tier hreust: "And whnt'n the Imli.v'snatiH'V" I ii-Uod Of Jier so richly Messeil. She looked lit me with pity, iih Sly proudly poise,! her head: "We mil him Dewey, sir, of course," In teniler tones, she said. I met a dainty little rirl Who led u kitten by a strintr, And ns I stroked her head I asked: "What do you mil the pretty tiling She looked at me with wide blue eyes, And as she went her way, "I call my kitten Dewey, sir," I heard her sweetly say. I met a curly headed boy Who had a brindle pup: "And what's yourdofry'snimie I asked As I held the creature up. He. (jazed at me in wonder, and He proudly cocked his head: "I call him Dewey, sir, of course," He pityingly said. I stoppeil beside a rustic stile, And heard u milkmaid sinj; a son;;: "And what's your bossy's name'" I asked The lassie as she came ulonjr. She looked at me in mild surprise, And as she strode away, "Why, Dewey is her name, of course." f heard the niaiden sav. RAILROAD TIES. A fiict of some interest iu rail road construction is the groat di versity iu the number of ties used to the mile oil dillereut lines, as well as in the size and quality of timber. Thus, according to the construction details of the New York; New Haven and Hartford railway, the number of ties used on that line is L'.soO to the mile, three-quarters of these . being chestnut and one-quarter oak, while some roads use L',000 only, or 2, ")0(i to the mile. More than 00 per cent, of the ties are cut H feet long, 11 percent. ! feet and the rest HJ feet long; the nine foot ties are used chiefly by the southern and gulf group of rail roads, where pine timber is very abundant and cheap. The ..New England roads have their ties cut from live to six inches' in thick ness, while the southern roads seem to prefer sevei inch ties; the Width of the ties likewise va ries from five to 'six inches " iu New England to eight inches iu the central, northern and the southern roads. New York Sun. cjkeatly neclected. The law as to the duty of su pervisors in Pennsylvania in the matter of erecting and maintain ing guide ios1s or linger boards at the junctions of public high ways is: . Tho supervisors shall cause posts to be erected at the intersectii 11 of all public roads within th , '.respective' townships (where trees are not. convenient) with boards firmly fixed thereon,' and index hand pointing to the direction of such roads, on which 'boards shall be inscribed in large and legible characters the name of the town, village, or place to which such roads may lead, and th(! distance computed in miles. If any supervisor shall, after ten days' jH'rsoiial notice, neglect to put up or keep in repair, index bdurds'as a foresaid, such super visor shall for every such offense forfeit and pay a sum not exceed ing 10. Constables urn required by law to make a sworn state ment to 'each court of quarter sessions, stating whether or' not all index boards are up, rejxirt ing particularly any that are not i'l- , , ( . There are a uumber of school children running the streets, whose parents should lie made to suffer the penalties-of the coin pulsory school, law, because of their non-compliance with its provisions. One or' two prose cutions will have a salutary effect upon violators of the law. KILLED HERSELF IN McKEESPORT. Miss Grace Gassart, a former Everett , Girl, Fired a Bullet into Her Head. Had Consulted a Fortune Teller. The Pittsburg Post of the lL'th, inst., gives the following account of the suicide by shooting, of Miss (J race Gassart, who former ly resided in Everett: What a fortune tidier told Ifi-year-old (irace (.assart, of Me Keesport, worried her. She kill ed herself last night at the home tf a family with whom she had been living. She was pretty, and apparently happy until a few days ago when she consulted a clairvoyant. After that a pall seemed to settle over her. She grew despondent, and when the opjortuuity presented itself tired a bullet through her heart. She loft a note to her sister in which she said she had gone to join her dead mother. The life of Grace has not been the happiest, although she was of a jolly disposition, as girls of 10 usually are. Her pleasant man ners and sweet face interested ex-Chief of Police Joseph Stone. He thought that if Grace was placed under the proper influenc es she would become a woman any man might be proud of. He secured her a position at the home of George Spindler. Here Grace was very happy and con tented until she consulted the fortune teller. Just what the fortune teller told her she did uot reveal. .It must have been some awful fate was hanging over her by the way she acted afterward. Whether this or not Grace was continually speaking of her dead mother aft er the fatal visit. She never men tioned killing herself. There is no doubt that she had contem plated it. She says so in her last message.. During all of Satur day Grace was more depressed than usual. She scarcely spoke to anyone around in the house, and said she wanted to be alone. The opportunity she long had sought came to her Saturday evening shortly after the supper hour. Going upstairs she saw the room door of Harry Meckliug, a boarder, ajar. She knew that Meckliug kept a revolver iu his room. She went in and closed the door. To find the revolver required but fin instant. Then she wrote her last message. It was toher sister, Mrs. Ella Slack. At the time of the tragedy she was attending a performance in White's 'opera house. The note read: "Ella When you read this I will bo with my mother. 1 am tired of this life for moil' reasons than one, so I have decided to kill myself. I have been trying to find a chance to do it for a month or more, but this is the first chance I had. Let Edith take her choice of anything she wants of mine. The rest is yours, all except one picture of myself, that is for father. Tell him my last thought on earth was for him. Bury me beside my moth er. Your -unhappy sister, G HACK." After penning this message, which was found on a table near her body, Grace- prepared for her passage from this world to an other. She unfastened her cloth ing and placed the muzzle of Meekling's revolver right , over her lu'art. .Theu she pulled the trigger. The bullet went crash ing through' on its' missfou 'of death. Her aim was good. Grace dropped heavily on the floor. 1 The noise of her fall and the report of the revolver attracted Mrs. Spindler. She rushed fran tically to the room. There on the floor lay Grace, her life-blood gushing away. Oik? or two pa thetic moans, a few spasmodic movements of the Jimbs and it was all over. Grace Gassart had died and taken her secret with her. Mrs. Spindler at once gave the alarm. The sister of the dead girl at tho opera house was called. When she arrived the body had been removed to McKiuley's morgue. She followed it. The sight that met tho gaze of the on lookers as she threw her arms around the corpse of her dead sister was a pathetic one. It was with difficulty that who was drag ged away. She refused to bo consoled. It was sometime be fore she could be convinced that Grace was really dead and that it was not all a horrible 'nightmare. I'F.NNSY LVA MA IlISTOH Y FIRST. At the county institute at Huntingdon last week in a talk on history Dr. M. O. Brumbaugh said "It is a shame to teach the Pennsylvania boys and girls the history of the Boston 'Tea Parly' until after we have taught them the history of our own, for the first protest against the lauding of a taxed tea was instituted by William Bradford, of Philadel phia, against a cargo of tea which was then lying in the mouth of the Delaware, while the second protest was made by the people of Southern New Jersey, where they burned a whole cargo of British taxed tea. Before tho Boston Indians acted, they sent P.iul Kevicre to Philadelphia to got a copy of Bradford's resolu tions. After they saw these res olutions, they did in Indian dis guise what our people had done openly. Speaking of great rides, the poet tells us that the great ride of the revolution was 'Paul Keviere's Kido.' This is a mis take, for that ride of over eighty miles from southern Delaware by Caesar Rodney for the purpose of voting for tho Declaration of Independence, was a greater and one of more momentous imjiort. It was to make the Declaration possible. Here the teachers were informed how Franklin managed to get a majority of Pennsylva nia's Representatives to Vote for the Declaration, by keeping away those opposed. Huntingdon coun ty was represented in that meet ing by James Wilson, who voted for the Declaration. Be was af terward the first man to ho placed on the supremo bench by Wash ington. "Original Pennsylvania 'grit' was pictured by relating how one of General Wayne's sons carried his father's bones across the wil derness from Lake Erie, where he had boon temporarily buried, to Delaware county on an old two-wheeled 'gig.' Here the story of the murdered Ilartinan fartnily was retold, showing how mother and daughter were after wards reunited by the singing of a hymn. This address' covered many facts of Pennsylvania his tory, only a few of which we have written here." l'AII) HY UNCLE SAM. Every one kuows that it costs almost 400,000,000 a year to run tho United Status government iu time of peace and that the depart ment of war and the navy, tho In dian and pension bureaus absorb tho larger part of this amount, but iu flie course of years a large number of dependents upon Un cle Sam's purse have come into being of which the general public, knows little. Such, for example, are the in ternational bureau for the re pression of tho African slave trade, located at Brussels, a high ly laudable institution, to the ex penses of which our government contributes $100 u year; the inter national bureau of weights and measures, also at Brussels, to w hich frJ.LO is contributed, and the international Geodetic associ ation, tho expenses of which our government shares to the extent of l,ri0() yearly. Asa leading member of a group of nations specially interested in humane and philanthropic work we subscribe frJlTi a year to a lighthouse service on the coast of Morocco, about !; 1,"i00 to be divid ed among citizens of other lands for service rendered to shipwreck ed American seamen, sjOOO a year toward maintaining a hospital for sailors at Pauama aud !,000 for keeping and feeding American convicts imprisoned in foreign countries. Among the unfamiliar purposes in the homo country for which money is appropriated from the federal treasury is tho mainte nance of the Washington monu ment, costing 11, 5110 annually, and tho provision of artiflciallimbs for soldiers calling for "117,000. Till. DECOY OX OF TIIIC CHI CAGO cattle yards. Charley, dear, said young Mrs. Torkins, the baby is trying to talk again. It's Wonderful how he takes after you! What was he talking about? I think it must have been poli ties. Ho. started very calmly, but iu a few minutes he was as angry and red in tho face as could be. One of the sights of the great cattle yards of Chicago is an old white ox, named Judas. An ox may rise to eminence by his cun ning and wisdom as well as a man, and Judas has risen. He came to the yards a good many years ago, while he was yet a frisky steer and ho was immedi ately purchased by one of the great packing houses and driven from tho train which brought him from his Iowa home to a distant yard. The life of most animals at the cattle yards is very short-a week :it the very most. A few days after the arrival of Judas the herd of cattle which occupied the pen with him was selected for killing. The way to tho pack ing house led down a long alley way with high fences on each side, theu up a narrow chute and into the building. For some reason the cattle seem to know what is coining, for they already object to being driven up the chute. Judas was no exception. He plunged madly about among the herd, and tho cattlemen had more trouble with him than with auy other animal. At last, how ever, he seemed to realize that sooner or later he must go and be made a virtue of a necessity, trotted quietly up the chute and tho other cattle followed rapidly after. him. Thus he ran until he had just reached the door of the packing house. Then quick as a wink, he turned aud galloped down a side passage and escaped, while the other cattle went on ward into the building. Judas had been so very clever that the good-natured cattlemen let him go for that day, for geni us is to be appreciated iu a steer us well as in a man. The next day, however, they drove him up again with another herd. This time he made not tho slightest objection but trotted forward quietly; aud the other steers, having a confident leader, behav ed admirably. But, just as Ju das reached the door of the build ing he dodged again, so suddenly that tin; men couldn't turn him, aud escaned as he had done be fore, .while the herd behind him went careering into the killing r torn. Since then Judas has been a regular employe of the yards. Every day ho leads up a herd of cattle aud every day ho dodges just at the door of the building. He has saved the cattlemen no end of trouble and delay with riotous herds since he began his service. He has grown fat and sleek on the good living of the yards, and so highly are his serv ices regarded that the cattlemen have provided him with a white blanket on cold days to keep him comfortable. Aud thus he is living to a green old ago, but ho boars the disre spectablo name of Judas tho be trayer. JEWELERS IN MANILA. Oue of the odd features of the Philippines is the jewelers, whose fine skill is marvelous. They are all women, aud it is strange that in other lauds women have not gone into this, the daintiest and most esthetic of employment. The shops are small aud gloomy and the stock displayed is meag er and unsatisfactory. But if oue wants to buy the jewelers will exhibit such treasures that any pocketbook is too lean to buy all the pretty things desired. Necklaces of pale pink coral, statuettes of the coral, rosaries with beads exquisite in shape and tint; pendants aud chains of pearls, white and pink and yellow all these are to bo seen. There are a bewilderingly va ried lot of garnets shown, blood, orange and yellow, the latter set in silver; silver filigree work is popular and small bowls of moth er of pearl. Gold is worked up on pattern like lace. The womou buy the crude gold, make their own alloys, draw out the wire thread and beat it with hammers. They are equally skillful with sil ver and do delicate filigree work, very original and striking. One woman showed a necklace of blue enameled gold, set with gray pearls, that was a harmony of tints. There are pins, belts aud brooches, but few rings. The rings are mostly enameled gold. Some men would rather have a keg than a loving cup. A UNIQUE CATTLE RANCH, The important discovery has been made that the thousands of acres of land in 1 'otter county that have been denuded of hem lock make choice pasture for cat tle. As an experiment, George E. Brown last spring turned 700 young cattle, purchased iu the Buffalo markets, into hemlock "slashing" of about H00 acres, nnd during the past two weeks he has roaied a profitable har vest from his experiment by ship ping his cattle, now sleek and fat, to eastern markets. Their keep ing cost him nothing, except the wages of two men, who were em ployed to keep them from wan dering o.'T. Mr. Brown's unique herding having proven so successful, he has purchased nearly lii.OOO acres of "slashings" from the Goodyoars, and next spring will treble the number of cattle to bo pastured on his novel ranch. Be side tho cuttle, he will also try sheep, which, it is believed, will thrive equally well. Mr. Brown will first burn over the entire tract and then sow timothy upon the soil. A wire fence will be built about the ranch, thus pre venting the cattle from roving into tho remote districts. Little of the ranch is level. The val leys are not much else than gul leys, through each of which flows a stream. Mr. Brown paid but $1 per for the,land, and his successful experiment in the cattle-grazing business has awakened interest in a vocation that promises to be come general throughout the al most abandoned territory where the lumberman and the ax have hewn off the trees. i richtenim; children. Little Arthur R , while visit ing his grandmamma, came screaming from the yard where he was playing and throwiug himself into grandmamma's arms sobbed out: "Please, don't let him have me, grandmamma." "What do you mean, dear? What has frightened you so?" and grandmamma held the quiv eriug child closer to her bosom, fearing ho would go into spasms with fright. "Oh, grandmamma-, the old black dog has come for me; mam ma said he would if I was bad, and I broke your plate this morn ing. Oh, don't let him take me, please, don't." "No, no, darling, he shan't have you; I will hold you tight. Where is ho?" "Out in the yard, quite close to mo when I ran to you." "Well, we will shut the doors and keep him out, and then you can come to the window and show him to me." Arthur suffered himself to be led to the window, but tho sight of the small black dog running around the yard renewed his ter ror, and grandma had to quiet him by assuring him again and again that the dog could not get iu while the doors were shut. After he had slept off some of the effects of his fright, and the dog had been driven out of sight, grandmamma tried to undo the evil wrought by his thoughtless young mother by telling Arthur the dog was too small to carry off such a big three-year-old boy. But it was several days before his nervousness wore away enough to allow him to enjoy a play iu the yard unless some one went with him to keep off the black dog. How many children, like little Arthur R , suffer from the dread of bugbears of every kind that can be imagined by their thoughtless mothers and nurses! Their nerves are injured, and, what is far worse, they lose the sweet faith and trust which is childhood's heritage as soon as they learn they have been deceiv ed. Would it not be much better to retain their loving confidence at any cost? It may take more time and trouble to secure obedi ence by firm aud loving discip line, yet it is much better for both child and parent. Aunt Joan, in Christian Observer. Now that there is to be a broom corn corner, consumers may ex pect to suffer from the sweeping nature of tho combine. There is a difference between a man aud a gun. The man goes off to get loaded and the gun gets loaded to go off. NEW MERCANTILE TAX LAW. All .Merchants Must I'uy- None Will Escape Itciiiff Assessed. Merchants will find many rad ienl changes in the matter of mer eanlile taxes with the beginning of the new year, when the provis ions of the new mercantile tax bill passed by the legislature, just prior to the adjournment of that body, will be enforced for the first time. Under the old act of assembly, wincli has been iu iorce many years, only those whose annual sales amounted to 1,000 or over were subject to the payment of a tax, but under the new bill, the one which will soon go into force, there will be no exemption what ever. Every man or woman en gaged iu business, no matter how small their sales may be, will be compelled to pay tax on the same. The change is a sweeping one, and as a consequence will add largely to the work of the mercan tile appraisers. Blanks will be printed, a copy of which will be given to each in dividual, firm or corporation en gaged in business in the county, aud each will be required to state thereon the whole volume of bus iness which has been transacted during tho preceding year, that being the basis upon which each license will bo rated. HUNTINGTON'S WAY. A few years ago Collis P. Hunt ington's private secretary, Mr, Miles, asked for an increase of salary. "Do you need any more mon ey?" asked Mr. Huntington thoughtfully. "No, sir, I don't exactly need it,-' replied Mr. Miles, "but still I'd be glad to be getting a little more. " "Ah-hum-m-ni," mused his em ployer, "can you get along with out tho advance for tho present?" "Oh, yes," answered the sec retary, "I guess s," and -the matter was dropped. A couple of years later a new boy appear ed at the Miles home and tho secretary thought the time pro pitious to renew the application. "Why, my dear sir," said Mr. Huntington, when ho had heard him through, "I raised your sal ary when you asked mo before?." "I never heard anything about it," said the secretary iu amaze ment. "Probably uot," returned Mr. Huntington, "in fact, I used that money to buy a piece of property for you. I'd just let it stand a whil if I were you." Mr. Miles thanked him warmly and retired somewhat mystified. Recently Mr. Huntington call ed him into his private office. "By the way, Miles," he said, I have sold that real estate of yours at a pretty good advance. Here is tho check." Tho amount was !C0,000. The property was part of a large section bought by the railway king as an investment for his wife. TO MARRY FOURTEEN WOMEN. Fourteen women, every one of them betrothed to John A. Schmidt, met at the Grand Trunk Station in Chicago last Sat urday aud awaited the coming of Schmidt. They were wholly un known to each other, but as their waiting hours passed they con fided to each other that they were waiting for their lovers, who were to hie them off to vineyards iu California. The similarity of their stories aroused their sus picious, and a comparison of notes developed the fact that they were all there to moot the same Schmidt, and that ho had cruelly deceived them all. After a good heart-to-heart talk, and the in evitable cry all arouud they went to a police station iu a body aud unbosomed themselves of 14 tales of woe that wore painfully alike, Schmidt claimed to bo a former Philadolphiau. Ho se cured the trunks belonging to some of tho women and money from others. It was a colored preacher who said to his llock: We have a collection to make dis mo'ning and fo' do sake of your reputation which of you stole Mr. Jones' turkeys, don't put anyfing on de plate. One who was there says, Every blessed niggar iu the church came wid do rocks. CORN. The corn carnival i: of tho great valleys of tral West "when the fr the pumpkin and tlmc, the shock." Thorp neckties in the show in corn-husk parasols an'1 the possession of fair mi' til destrians, cornstalk ca ily swung by prosper,, .i. . i -i lilts coru snoes auu (initio dren everywhere. Tli, 9 1 value of corn for hou he personal adornment lm ,.) feature of each succory val, and this year 's vm) v totally eclinsed anvlhii M" fore witnessed. on But while the carnivi-j sizes the ornamental sjf is an undercurrent of , r I about this adaptation i,'1 its by-products that m.jj concerns the people th jn. sider might imagine, i th never used iu so many P'r ways for commercial n.!)r facturiug purposes usij year or two. If we en- 8i duoe the Europeans In he corn for household usetf manufacture it into diffsv tides of commercial vu'ft they must take. This ir be the trend of thugl.-? corn belt, and new i' and discoveries anniuill now consumptive inii:&0 corn and its products. gradually entering in-ip trios that seem far re every sense from this j the fields. The queer c,, corn hats, dolls aud ttli which wore made and for celebrating the corr.P stand in sharp contrast jjH corn oil, corn cakes auije ber. p i Tho one hundred ia odd receipts for using , t) article of food, which g, f experts published tenyjr for the benefit of beni; ropeans -who did pot a) . this article of food, arc portaut in increasing sumptive demand as sn is .. recent discoveries, for instance, which irom tlie gram, has au demand in various trad . vegetable oils are esseii L i lii' i. ... f1 WHICH IS SUDStltUtCU Corn rubber is a rubber in certain liues,' This cheap substitute :-U( with equal parts of ii jc rubber. The corn pii!y substitute is taken froul fuse of tho glucose ij About 5 per cent, of tlnf making glucose could m ly be utilized, and th seemed absolute. Tlm: rubber is manufactured apparent waste, and wh with pule rubber it pi'"0 especially valuable coin;t The comparatively hi1 foods owe their existcm K employment of corn ii manufacturing purposri them have received L tests and the indorsenn ports in cattle feeding. 4 oil cake, which is really fuse of factories, coutiti- j mont of a high order, iijg properly fed, in conjum other foods, it is of gn'4r tho animals and moiu'T pockets of the farmers j meal, gluten feed, andi fco are other cattle foods iu their origin to the diflV; tories employed iu el coru into products of en and scientific use. p. The manufacture ufp has oliened un a whole I dustrios, and the i til St j it'll mfiiDu riinlii 11 I'lU IWIU l'Ull'1 il IjllllA'k ly into the refining of s, f lies aud fruit preserves ' glunj; ' t i ill I'W I.'IW '. l'V 1 I" LIFE. l Diagrams prepared bh pert for one of th insurance companies tf ' the comparative loi clergymen, farmers, lawyers and doctors, si 42 out of every 170 niin the gospel reach the a;-' The farmers como in' 2roportion for 70 years1 imr 40 out of 170. Next teachers with i!4; the P show 25, and the doctoi 'f with only L'4 out of 170, Journal. P. A man may not be abh a horse, but he can hav mare with little or no i"
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