FULTON COUNTY. NEWS. Published Every Thursday. 15. W. Peck, Editor. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Thursday, Nov. 30, 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. TIIANKS;iVIN;. For us, O Lord, tin .veur has brought Its Modin mid harvest glory; To - us, , through changing .seasons, taught, ', ., , , ., Thy truth, In Gospel sti')'..: : Again mir voices joiu in ong, And bring their glad thanksgiving To" thoe, to whom all years belong, To Thee, the ever-living. We oft have sung with joy-crowned brow Of Thy new love a-ispr'niging, And Homo who joined our nongs ure now Amid the angels singing. Hut friends below and friends above Unito lu glad thanksgiving To Thee, whom all Thy children love, To Thee, the over-living. ' Thy power in prayer we oft 'have felt, Thy sympathy most tender, And seemed to see, us wo have knelt, Thy fuee in veiled splendor. For all these joys from Paradise Wo bring our glad thanksgiving To Thee, who every good supplies, To Thee, the ever living. So may we join from year to year, Thy goodness ever singing. And eaeh at last with rupture hear The bells of glory ringing. Then, safe with Thee, again we'll ruise Our voices in thanksgiving To Thee, in more exulted praise, To Thea, the ever-living. SCATTERED THOl'CHTS. Itisjiot wisdom to put your trust in man, for might full. All are liable to fall oven tho best men do fall. . ' u , Is it possible to 'cultiyat-rt; en courage, and draw'otit the-good that is in man tlii.it tho ,cviljn him will, he-restrained," cheeked, or -discarded'-1 The wicked and thoughtless, re gard all present gratifications as thy maiu thing to be acquired. The love of riches, honor, social and fleshly gratifications fill their souls, and the measure of their ambition. . You have noticed that when a man lias risen to fame has achieved some great or supposed great victory how our people praise, honor, and worship him. If he then fails in any point to meet the expectation of his wor shipers makes some mistake begins to totter the very people that have lauded him, will give him a push on the down grade, and even rejoice at his downfall. To theChrist-like light, peace, happiness, joy in God: to the wick ed darkness, gloom, misery, despair. The Christian's -peace and happiness far exceeds all the worldly pleasures of the wicked. Gloom and sorrow may at times cast their shadow on the righteous, but tho clouds will be dispelled by the sunlight of the most )wtent Power that ever existednrthat pnver that fillsall space is every where present. : Mill I 1. V. . . Hit 1 '" ',?,. I ....aji. THE MERCIES OP THE LORD. The recurring season never fails to find the same repeated mercies. We thank God this year for the same blessings as day. Again and again it is recounted 'in that book of the Bi ble which is all psalms of praise how unfailing and repeated is the goodness of God. ' "The mercy of tho L-ird is from everlasting to everlasting." "Thy mercy, O Lord, endureth forever." Let this, then be a day of gladness for all our people, whatever their condition, race or religion. Let rich and jxior together praise God to-day. Let Protestant and Cath olic lift up the voice of simulta neous thanksgiving. Let this be a national holiday of praise toGod, and a day when each shall add to the other's joy by gifts, and aid, and fellowship of praise. ; CUSTER. Boy-Jadet, Gflneral. ltY HKT.T.K V. CI1IKIIOLM. Why not order tho Nkws smt to some of your distant friends? A conference at l'Wt Laramie, Wyoming, June lH(i(5, could not prevail upon the Indian chiefs present to cede a wagon route to Montana. Military Mists were immediately established along the line. The chief, Ked Cloud, and others began a war which lasted twelve years. The Sioux Indians having re fused to go on the reservation as signed them by treaty, u.'forco of regular troops was sent against them. General George A. Cus ter led the advance with the Seventh Cavalry. On the 2"th of June, 1H7(1, he suddenly came upon the euemy. A desperate conflict ensued. General Custer, his two brothers, his 'nephew, ami everv one of his men were killed. Editor. ... General George A. Custer, whose tragic death, marred the record of the centennial , year, spent his boyhood ' days .near Cadiz, Ohio, where he "is yet re membered, and where upon- a re cent visit I was an interested lis tener to many little anecdotes and reminiscences of his early life. Hon. John A. Bingham, one of Ohio's most prominent men, who is now a resident of the town, de scribes Custer as a beautiful boy, with fair' face and a wealth of curly hair long, bright curls, suggestive at once" of both a mother's care and a mother's love. Despite his more than eighty years, Mr. Bingham retains much of tho vigor and brilliancy of his more active life, and in' speaking of his youthful protege, General Custer, "My boy, George," his enthusiasm rose to eloquence. "I loved the boy as I loved my own son," he said. "I had been in Congress but a short time when I received a letter from a boy tlutt captivated me wonder fully. Full forty years have come and gone since the morning the postman handed me that letter, but I remember it word for word just as clearly as if it had been yesterday. Somtwhere packed securely among my imjiortaut papers I have that, iletier yet, . but there is no need of looking for it, as I can repeat it verbatinu Yes, I know it by heart. It is like this," and he repeated: " 'Dear Mk. Bingham: I am told that you can send a boy to West Point. I want to go there, and I am told that you don't care whether tho boy is a Democrat boy or a Republican boy. I am a Democrat boy, and I want you to send me there. I want to be a soldier. Gf.okg e A. Custer.' "It was a real boy's letter, written in a boyish hand, but the writing, despite the evident pains taking effort, showed a firmness of purpose, a determination to succeed, seldom apparent in one so young. I was struck with the originality and the blunt honesty of the letter and at once surren dered unconditionally to his de mands. 'I replied, informing him that it would bo necessary to se cure the consent of his parents. His mother objected, as what mother would not? But the boy was so eager to go that she finally gave her consent, and just as soon as preliminaries could be arrang ed the boy went to the Academy at West Point, and passing the examination successfully, enter ed upon his studies. "The years, full 'of"rcaVe.s'..ahd responsibilities, hurried by,.- un til, just on the" eve of my 'boy's graduation, the war, loug threat: ened, became a terrible reality. Men with some knowledge of tho tactics of war were needed to drill the raw recruits rushing from sill sections of the North , to the country's defense, and all the available material at West Point was put jnto the field to officer the rapidly-filling companies and regiments being mustered into service. So it happened that my protege came into tho command of men while he was yet a mere boy, with his long yellow curls hanging down to his shoulders. I heard of him time and again dur ing those first turbulent war days, but I did not see him until after tho lirst battle of Bull linn. "After that terrible massacre ho was promoted for bravery. A leader was called upon to stop a retreat and take a company of panic-stricken soldiers across a bridge held by tho enemy. Like Napoleon at Lodi, young Custer sprang to the front and led the charge. Tho bridge was j takc.u.tmd t,lie.boyvi)ttu'er; became a hero. I road "of his.l brave . ac : lion, and when; tho ...troops, came j thronging hack to Washington I ! made an unsuccessful effort to find him, ; One day a young offi cer came into my room without the formality of sending in his card. He was out of breath, and with some embarrassment intro duced himself by saying: 'Mr. Bingham, I see you do not know me. I am the boy you appointed to West Point. I have fought my first battle and tried hard not to be a coward. Since it was through you that I got tho chance of be coming a soldier I think it is my first duty to make my report to yon." "How proud I felt of my brave boy, standing there in his blue uniform, every inch a soldier. My heart went out in love to him then and there, and when he wrung my hand at parting it seemed as though one of my own blood had taken his life in his hand and gone out to do and dare, perchance to die, for the home and fireside of his country. From that time I watched him go up and up'to the rank of brigadier general and then to become the youngest major general" in the army. "Neyer shall I forget the day when he came to me in full uni form, bringing his bride as pure and beautiful as he was brave and handsome. As I took the young wife's hand in mine she looked up iuto my face and in a low, sweet voice said: 'I want to thank you, Mr. ' Bingham, for transforming my husband from a woodchoppor into, a general of tlie United States Army.' "Some months after this intro duction, during the battle of the Wilderness, a renort was circu lated that Custer had been killed. Distressed beyond measure, I rushed iuto Stanton's office and asked if the sad message was of ficial. " 'No!' thundered the war sec retary. 'No, thank God! it is on ly part true. Be was hemmed in by the euemy on all sides, but he cut his way out with his own sword covering himself with glory.' "Very much alive, indeed, he was, as after heroic actions fully proved. Up, up, he went never a cowardly action, never a mean deed marring his war record; no backward steps were taken, no uncertain paths were followed. Courteous to his friends, mag nanimous to his foes, just and true and noble in' every relat ion of life, he was the most manly man, the most soldierly soldier, the most heroic hero I ever met. Alas! my brave boy! To think that he came forth 'untouched from so many hard-contested bat tles to fall under the scalping knives of those miserable savages on the western frontier. "Though more than a score of years have passed since that no ble life went out by the hand of a treacherous foe, I cannot calmly recall the sickening details of that unparalleled message, which sent a thrill of horror all over the land and brought undying grief to tho hearts of many families." The old man's voice, eloquent in praise of the triumphs of his hero, quivered with suppressed emotion as ho ended the story of the heroic Custer boy, cadet, general, and at last struck down by savages. MT. UNION'S NEW CANISTER WORKS. ' Some queer letters find their way to an editor's desk.- And here is one of them, which is warm with life and feeliug and means business. Mr. Editor I sent you three weeks ago come Sunday a sketch of jiootry which was wrote by my wife on her birthday. I told you to print it on Sunday and send tlie bill to me; but nary a sketch of it or bill has I seeu. You has placed me in a damagin' predica ment by not printing iu 'cordiu to instructions, for my wife thinks I either didn't mail it or got full and lost it. Will you please drop me a line and set me right about it? I know I mailed it to you in the postoftico but I ain't got no wituesses. If you will set me right in the matter, I will write a piece for you myself. Walton (to fishmonger) "Just throw me half a. dozen of those trout, " Fishmonger " Throw thornr"' Walton "Yes; then I can go home and tell my wife I caught 'em. I may beapoortish eritjun but I'm no liar." The building of the new ganis ter works at Mt. Union is pro gressing rapidly. From the Times we learn . that the side track leading from the P. li. Ii. main Hue about two hundred yards west of the freight office, and extending almost to the breast of Faust Bros.' dam, has been completed, and they are now receiving from four to six carloads of material per day, such as red brick, fire brick, lumber, machinery, etc. The foundation walls for the large drying house, 140x200, are now completed, and the carpenters are at work fram ing the building. Tlie brick boiler house, size 40x00, will iu a few days lie ready for the roof, and which has al ready placed in it three Erie City hi filers, of one hundred horse power each. A large steel crush er lias also been erected which lias a capacity of crushing "00 tons of rock per day of ten hours. The foundation for the grinding house, size 40x!)0, is also complet ed, in which there will be four largo grinding pans erected with a capacity of grinding the crush ed rock iu such quantities as to make 480,000 silica brick per day. Iu this building there will also be located a stationary engine of 225 horse-power weighing 32,000 IKiunds, built by A. B. Farquhar & Co., of York, Pa. There are now twelve large ov ens for burning the brick fairly under way, six of which will be completed within the next week, and ground will be broken for four more within the next few days, making sixteen iu all, with a daily capacity of turning out C4,000 burned brick per day. The ovens are beiug erected in line parallel with the side tracks so as to load the brick from the kilns into cars. Grading the incline from the works up the mountain side to the quar.ries is almost completed, and the track will be laid shortly. A large drum will be placed on the summit of the mountain to draw up tho empty cars and let down the loaded oues. t There are now one hundred and fifty men employed on the works, and the work is beiug pushed rapidly, with a view of putting the plant in operation by January 1, l'JOO. The citizens of Mount Union will imagine when the smoke from the consumption of 100 tons of coal per day as cends from these seven or eight huge smokestacks that they are living in the smoky city. DEATH OF IIOHART. The death of Vice-President Hobart last week recalls the fol lowing bit of history iu reference to the deaths that have occurred among the executive heads of the nation. Since the organization of the government in 17H'J, four Presidents have died, viz. : Will iam ILIIarrison, inlH41; Zachary Taylor, 18"0; Abraham Lincoln in 1K5.", and James A. Garfield, in IhhI, thelast two by assassination. Death made no vacancy in the Presidency until 1K41, more than half a century after the first in auguration, but George Clinton, Vice-President under Jefferson and Madison, died In 1812. Will iam Ii. King, elected with Frank lin Pierce iu 1K:")2, qualified as Vice President in Cuba, whore he spent the winter of 1h3 as an in valid and where he died before he reached theVieePresidont'schair. Henry Wilson, elected with Grant in 187;.', died iu 1H75, and Thomas A. Hendricks, elected with Cleve land in lsM, died in 18Hr. - The position of Vice President is not filled when vacated by death or resignation, but the Senate chooses a President protein, who does not now succeed to the Pres idency iu the event of the death of tho President. The position is now filled by Senator Frye, of Maine. A healthy mind in a healthy body is a recognized truism. If appetite goes for any thing, Wil son College girls are certain of mental destruction. From an ex change wo learn that if the cook wants to give tho girls eggs for breakfast, she doesn't think of frying less than thirty-six dozen; if chicken for dinner, it takes sev enty and large ones at that; and then, when they have turkey, if there are not forty roasted there is danger that some girl must do without a piece. A WINDOW H t A SHE R ; An eccentric or malicious indi vidual by the name Of ' Joseph May, says the Shipponsburg Chronicle, smashed three fine plate glass windows in Carlisle on Friday last. Tlie first was Ihirt zell's confectionery on West High street, and he deliberately threw a pair of pliers through the win dow. He next attempted to break the glass iu the show window at Choato's photograph gallery but failed, but laid better luck at the Farmer's Bank, where he broke one pane, about 2x3 feet. Cou lyn's jewelry store is next door and here he broke a fiuo French plate window. He then ran but was soon caught by an officer, who had some difficulty iu arrest ing him. May lay down flat on his back and declared that he was dying. Be was hustled off to jail and when iu his cell turned on the water and lay down in it until it was about two inches deepen the iloor. May was given a hearing in the evening and it required the unit ed efforts of Sheriff Harris and Deputy Keuyou to drag him from his cell to the office. When he was being taken back to his cell he pulled tho door shut suddenly after he and Deputy Kenyon had passed through, evidently with the inteution of overpowering Mr. Kenyon, but Sheriff Harris jerk ed the door open in a flash and collared the belligerent. He gave them considerable further trou ble before he was finally lauded in his cell, where he will remain until February term of court. May seems to have a mania for smashing windows and this is not his lirst offence. He has served time both in the jail and in the insane department of the country home. PARLOR RUG A MEMORIAL BRIDGE. Preliminary Surveys have been made at Washington for a me morial bridge across the Poto mac river stretching from Wash ington to Arlington. According to the survey made in 1H97 the bridge will start from the soutli end of Observatory Hill, near the foot of New York avenue. It will cross Water street and .Potomac Park and strike the Potomac river at a point directly oposite Arlington. It will spau Analostau Island and Little river and touch the Vir ginia shore on the Georgetown and Alexandria road, about two hundred yards north of the Sher idan gate of the National Ceme tery. The original estimates approxi mated a million or two million dollars. It would not be surpris ing if the amount finally decided upon should triple or - quadruple the original $,000,009 estimate. The structure is to bo "A Me morial to American Patriotism." In its scope and purpose it will include tho valiant men of every section of our common country. It will represent no North, no South, no East and no West, and no particular war from 177(5 to 1899, but it will perpetuate forev er the heroic deeds of all men known its-Americans throughout the world. Room For Him Too. A bland and patronizing New Yorker was passing through a raw and new hamlet in the west, which its proud founders had dub bed B City and were sure would soon become a thriving hive of human beings. Address ing a lank and lazy youth who was lounging at the door of one of the rude shanties that passed for a "shoe emporium," the New Yorker inquired sarcastically: "Who is that imiiortant looking gentleman with tlie red flannel shirt:"' "That's Sam Peters," was tho prouud reply. "He's just open ed the new post office." "Aud the tall person with no collar-"' "He's Long Mike. Just open ed a grocery store." . "And the plump individual with the bald head?" "Handy Jim. Owns the new saloon." "Indeed?" said the New York er. "Your city seems to bo pret ty well started. I should sup pose there was nothing left for a stranger like myself to open." "Oh, I duuno!" drawled tho lanky one. "We ain't got no loouatic asylum yet. .You might start that."- New York Tribune. V at r l" A I jlke 11 '-', An all wool Rug, 6 feet x 9 feet, weighing 2 h u to the suuare yard. Will lay flat -on the ll)oi v'ir,1i' tacking. . ' p 'ijfl Can furnish them any size from 6x9 feet t( tr,ow fi feet. Also a good line of CAKPI-TS at 5V n " F"" lend I la I iriou 1 (lio 1 i will be kept up to the high standard in qu; goods as usual. a 1 J. W. GRE ATHEAD. ' ang ?; Established 1792. Continued lrHl 0(1 i Pi Our asortment of h General Merchandise 0.00000000tf 00.00L0001t JOHN A. IR ,Oti ..1 ! 8 ft las ibs 0 0. 0 0. 0 0 o 0 0. X0 0. 0 0 l 'IS 0X, 0 0. 0. 5 0 0 0 X0 0 00.00.0,0X0X.0X,0.00K0 00X0.0M00K0Ujllll Will Tell The Fulton County Public All About His MAMMOTH 20th ANNUA a ! aas ,tiy 5pv( 4ai jtil (1 Holiday NEXT WEEK. toll fhi elv . -4E 13 y v Fulton County Farmers' Institute lr. To he held iinJc:- tlie niispiccs of tlio I'ulton County I AKi'iculomil Society, mid stute Hoard of Agriculture, WO In the Presby terian Church, P Warfordsburg, Pa., Dec. 7 and S, 1 Slier Program. o r 5 tl: m ii Evening; Senslon. Call to Order at 7 o'eloci 1. Music. 2. Tulk on Natural History fiabriel Ileister, ILxrrisbt $ a. Music. 4. Recitation Miss Lena Dowues. j 5. How to Keep Some of the IJrhjht Hoys on the Fi. i! Gabriel Ileister. mornlnjj Session, Call to Order c t -O o'cloqi m 1. Music. L iW 2. Devotional Exercises Kev. E. li. Simons. L 3. Address of Welcome AV. H. Uanck. 4. Response lion. I). II. Patterson. j, '). The Harnyard J. A. Fries, State College. h ij (. I arming and Some of its Hindrances Dr. Reinsi 1.$ 7. Question Box.. v Afternoon Sesilun, Call to Order at Ii30 o'H ,tjt 1. MUSIC. i ! 2. Saving and Increasing the Fertility of the Farm--If .j" Lighty, East Berlin, Pa. n 3. The Kind of Stock that will Pay the Farmer- l;(n 2 Warfield. , 4. Relation of Limn aud Marl to Agriculture J. A. Fi ju R. Poultry Raising on the Farm R. M. Kendall. L tt&i . ,x . . . . i :i. unest inn inv . it ---v - Evening Session, Call to Order at 7 o'e-lodjf 1. Music 2. Essay M iss Estella Logue. ?; il. Recitation Miss Bertie Kirk. ?j 4. Culture and Feeding of the Corn Crop-L. W. Light.1 T. Country Homes (labriel Ileister. Although tin-so Institute ui-u uVsigni'd und coinliu-tud for tl'1 V "H'ion und udvunlntfo of ftirnit'i-s, yt-t ull who art interuKted vilcd to utk'iid and show their apiireoiution hy taking part in ll vti missions. A Question 1 tox will be kept ou the Secretary's dv v' ull tire Invited to'plaeu therein such qustions us they may w have discussed. For further information address, V. ('. PATTH "4 .Me('onnellslmrn, l'a., Chairman of tlie Board of Institute Munf fo? for Fulton '(i"ity. COM MITT. Tlie way some husbands talk to their wives is positively awful, and the way some wives talk to their husbands is awfully posi To a girl who has never h- a love but once, love i t very se rious matter, but after she has been in love five or six times she pays about tli0 wiiue attention to it that sliv t Christmas. Charlie, the sou of Kreps, Mercorsburg, kicked by a horso tw agoK has been eompelk dergo a secoud surgk' tion iu a Baltimore hos v'ji in the I'merii.tino' 1 i. r second time for two dead bono boiujx roino his foot and all tho oth1 scraped. Tho surgeon is the bruvestpatientevt1' to tho iustitution.
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