1111011 C V; 01111 DLUME 1. McCONNELLSBURG, PA., DECEMBER 14, 1899. NUMBER 13. (S "HANG ME, JUDGE," r Zimmerman, The Veter an Horse Thief, Gets His Sentence. i i " " an week n; the Nkws publish iketeh of the ciiwi' of the aged oted horse thief, l'etcr Zimnier Ht Die time of his arrest. A il from Indiana, I'u., of Deccm- says: unusual scene was enacted In i White's Court in Indiana coun--day. Old Peter Zimmerman, - i head U us while ns snow, and bowed with the weight of "5 V, was arraigned for stealing a . He plead guilty and then told remarkable eoreer in crime, veteran hud spent forty years of !e in prisons in various parts of untry, and grew reminiscent as nnnerated the penitentiaries in he had been conllned. en asked by the Court what J lie done, he replied smilingly: g me, Judge; that sentence would l'keeplng with my long career of :k." n the old man, turning to his as led counsel, said: "I never could the impulse of stealing a good ) and if liberated will certainly It the offense aguin." judge then sentenced the old sin i 17 years in the penitentiary and fine. ood story is told of Zimmerman ras staying around among the 1 Irs in the southern end of this y. He had previously borrowed e from some citizen of the tnin 1 failed to return it and now to Is purpose was passing us a deaf umb man, but was recognized as erman by some people. Ho suc l for a time, however, in making nrbelieve it was a case of mistaken L'ty, until one day a lady who had , seeping tin eye on him remarked nly, "Why that clock has stop 'J' Zimmerman, forgetting him v.eplied quickly, "No, it hasn't. SiOing all right." This impru. caused him to leave the neigh--' od instantly, and is another il tion of the suying that "silence flflen. s WELL THAT ENDS WELL, Sfortune. us the etymology of the t Indicates, is just the opposite of fortune; and no one can spend time in this cold world without ngby practical experience some bf Its. meaning. Sometimes the fistanees under which it falls up lividuals or families makes its tion Deem almost the quintes of cruelty. fortune In the form of disup nent Is, perhaps, least easily I and elicits sympathy wherever t and, while the sympathy of lov- S lends does not make good the of our disappointment, it is u g balm for our wounded feelings. e serious rellections were Indue a touching expression of gruti 9 the Tyrone Times of last week worthy editor, to one of his l)ors. ) Veins that Brother Thompson had into possession of of a turkey for sgiving-ln what way whether 4-key .arrived at Harry's .coop fht or by duy-we are not in J; but' at the prospect of roast t oysters, und onion sauce, there Sy in, the editorial household, las! for ull human expectations, the time arrived, and all hands J?ed out to witness the beheading fa Aforesaid fowl- well, we can't ybe the scene for we have broken ylnt oil our pencil twice in our Y t tho turkey was gone. it got uwuy and whither it hud bo one knew. Hours dragged : Jr, by and whenjlhe children hud f reconciled, the 'phone rung out H "'ws thut the turkey hud been fended und would be promptly ' ' lid. kxfcriv,ing dinner timecume, and ;thw editor of the Times with diretl knife wn si uUlllfiill, i.,.. t "J HIIJ ll'W-y, Ihe editor of Mie Fulton r News was worrying his bruins .ie problem of how to make a ud thicken reach when there .dozitfi hungry children at table one 'wanted a wing. ;; ? KING POST. 'Ung of the member of U'lmr i-,iL A.; It., held in their Hall ut .,Hee on the 2nd inst., the follow fleers I,,r the yeur 1!(H) were elec-l-"mnunder, Midmel llehnun; Klll,,lt Jvay; J. Vice, Tnomus rtermuster, D. T. Fields; , Jin, kliehuel Lehman; ). 1) l Kelly; (). ti) Af UuIlvun. A(j. 1. Mulloy; Hepresentatlve to fmcntj Kneumpment, Cuptuin 1v: Alternute, U. Muly, Tne w'H be Installed Saturday, ?! f' K' The annual in L1 tke place at the same time. S3?;" m l'a,,blU: trust, "USIS, H iS by 0 ' llopoly, 5 TIIK cai si: or THAT I. IMP. An observer will notice that a num ber of pedestrians on our McC'oiiiiclls burg ftieels, liuve a derided limp. Some of the halt are not of that class so given to vanity us to alllict tlieni selves witli shoes u number or so loo small, and others wear n Am so re markably largo as to remove all mib picion on the subject. Then, too, there are a number of our town ladies wear ing No. o that would feel more com fortable if they were weuiing the box t lint the shoes were packed in instead of the contracted, but pretty nffuirs, their pedal extremities nro encased in. The wenrer of a pair of shoes, be they Snrosis, Heguls, or liroguns, that causes pain, is not one to be envied, and while their heads may be uniting the stars and full of delicious fancies, their feet take hold on whutjuppeurs to bo a hot ter clime. Wc are led to these remarks by trying to explain the prevalent limp. Quite a nuinber of our people nre Buffering the twinges of painful feet, and it is supposed I he trouble comes from the leather, imparted by some ingredient used in the tanning process. However roomy, and appar ently comfortable the shoes outwardly appear, this drawing, crumping, burn ing sensation prevails until the. articles nre removed to the garret, which seems to be the only unuecu. But all scourges and culiiumtics have their re deeming features, and n has this. The vain and proud can attribute their suffering und limping to the leather, und the smaller the shoe I he larger the proportionate amount of pain they will experience. Another drawback which we would not have thought of were we not reminded by the poet, is "l'is snd to court a girl. And then not git her: I5ut sadder yet to court a girl Whose shoes don't fit her. KILLED A DEEK. From Orbisouiu Dfspuich. Mrs. I'.ra T. Slmupe, of near Saltil lo, was recently the heroine of h thrill ing encounter with a big buck, which she first wounded with a big rifle ball and then dispatched wiih iiUuil'e, nft- 1 er being attacked by the infuriated nii j imal. Mrs. Shoupe, who lives in a fine game country, was iihme at home when she saw a largo buck feeding in a nearby grain field. She immedi ately secured her husband's rifle, u 22 enlibre, and after n careful aim shot the deer in the right fore shoulder. The buck at once attacked the wom an, who, seeing her predicament, grasped a large carving knife and fought valiantly for her life. The au imul was somewhat handicapped by a broken fore leg, and at intervals would stumble nnd full. On one of thece occasions, Mrs.Shoupr, who bad already received seveval very painful cuts from the buck's uninjured fore foot, planted the knife equally in the animal's throat and cut the jugular vein. The deer expired almost in stantly, ami now Mrs. Shoupe finds herself famous. The buck, which car ried five-pronged antlers, weighed 143 pounds. Mrs. Shoupe is an expert in the use of firearms and has much ganio toher credit. In her encounter witli tho buck Mrs. Shoupe was painfully, but not seriously injured. PENNSYLVANIA'S OLDEST TEACHER. Miss Ilachel Denn Grisconi, of Head ing, the oldest public school teacher in Pennsylvania, celebrated ' her 91st birthday several weeks aero. Miss Grisconi began to teach at Heading in 1835. She was born in Salem, New Jersey, November T, 1808.; Her pa rents were Samuel and Ann Powell Grisconi. In 180!) the family moved to Philadelphia arid lived there eigh teen years. I lor first experience as a teucher was obtained nt Hancock Pridge, New Jersey, in a log house, when she was 17 years old. CUT YOUU REVENUE STAMPS. Unpatriotic individuals have been cheating the government by re-using war revenue Htamps. The fraud of washing the stumps is a difficult one to detect, because the stamped docu ments do not puss under the eye of government officers. The government lias issued additional directions for the cancellation of stamps. They must be mutilated. "Three parullel incisUins lengthwise through the stamp, beflin tiilig not more than one fourth of an inch from 0ne out thereof and extend ing to within Yino-Jpurth of u"n Inch of the 'othor end." TliV apples to docu mentary stamps of HP '"t'i "P- A RETROSPECT, The County Institute Estab lished. Changes in the School Term, MINIMUM SCHOOL TERM. When one looks in upon the large body of Intelligent young people as sembled in the court house this week, and compares the scene with the pic ture of what passed for a emmtv In stitute one-third of a century ago, it starts In the mind of the old teacher a train of rellections. The writer was present at the tlrst one and has not missed many since. A glunee over the thirly yeurs' exist ence of the county institute may be of some interest to the young teacher, at least. While there had been n growing sen timent that more effective work could be done by teachers if they should have tin orgunlzation, and meet at stated intervals for conference and in struction in the art of teaching, it wasn't until April II, lH(iT, that John W. Geary, Governor of this state signed the bill establishing by law a county teachers' Institute. That bill provides that the county su perintendent Is hereby authorized and required, once In each year, to call upon and invite the teachers of the common schools, and other Institu tions of learning in his county, to as sembletogether and organize them' selves into a teachers' institute to lie devoted to the improvement of teachers In the science and art of education, to continue in session ut least live days including a half day for going to, nnd a half day for returning from the place of meeting of the said institute. For the liniiiicial support of the iu-stil-ute, the superintendent is author ized to draw from the county treasury a sum eiial to one dollar for each three days attendance by members, provided tho sum shall not exceed two hundred dollars but may in all cases be sixty dollars. ( f course, the super intendent cannot draw any money from the county treasurer without lirst de positing with the treasurer vouchers showing that the money has been used in the payment of the legitimate ex penses of the institute. The evening lecture course Is an in dependent feature, and is largely a private enterprise. The superintend ent hires the lectures, and is personal ly liable for their pay. To meet this expense he charges tin admission fee. If not enough Is realized by this meth od he must go down into his own pock et for thti shortage", if there is a sur plus, he reports the same to the State Department, but, of course, Is not ask ed to pay it over. At the close of the institute the superintendent is required to submit every Hem of receipt and ex penditure, whether of day work or lecture course, to a board of auditors. It Is entirely optional with the super intendent whether or not he have a night lecture course, just as It is op tional with the teachers or n ny one else whether they attend. For several years after the estab lishing of the county institute by luw there was considerable prejudice against them; so strong was this in many districts, that it wus hardly con sidered safe for a teacher to attend, if he eared anything for his chances with the board next year. During the tlrst year of the common school system, three months of twenty four days euch constituted u legal term. In 1S.,4 the twenty-four day month was reduced to twenty-two, and four mouths made the minimum-teachers keeping school open every other Suturduy. In 18liH the school term was lengthened from four to live mouths but the number of days re mained unchanged. No change wus now made until 1HH7 when the minimum term was made six mouths, and the length of the month twenty tlayB actual teaching. . licfore this time, teachers were al lowed to close their schools on all le gal holidays, and count these days and the days in uttcndan.ie at the county Institute, us so much time tuiight. Hence, while live mouths of twenty-two duys euch constituted the term, after the school had been closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Washington's Hlrthduy, und Good Friday und the live days ut In stitute, there were but one hundred days of uctuul teaching, and the teach er wus puid for one hundred and ten days. To simplify mutters, our legislators in 1MH7 said wo shall shorten each month two days, and pay the teachers for their attendunce at institute. Thus matters stood until the last session of the legislature, when the minimum term was lengthened to seven mouths. 1 The county Institute of thirty years ago wus a very different ulfulr from thut of the present. It then took on the form of a school. Classes wera formed, or rather the teuchers were all placed in one class, and regular in struction In the common school brunches wus given. Tho principal feuture in the Institute of 18(18 was a spelling contest, Several prizes hud been procured by the superintendent from a contribution from the teachers, and were awarded to those making the best record. Mrs. Snllle M. Cook car ried oil the tlrst, a Webster's Un abridged Dictionary, William F. Hughes the second prize a Worcester's Unabridged, and so on down the writer had to content himself with a copy of "Wlckersham's Methods of Instruction." If an evening entertainment was risked It was thought to be a success If people could Vie induced to attend without money, .te. For several years the late J. W. Shoemaker, a line elo cutionist of Philadelphia was employ ed us a day instructor, nnd he could generally be prevailed upon to give an evenimg's entertainment, and Darius Green's Flying Machine; and Widow Hedot were among the readings (reci tations hud not been thought of yet,) that captured the house, and brought forth uproarious storms of applause. That some idea may be had of the public estimation of the institute at tlrst, we publish, through the conrtsey of Editor Francis M. Taylor the no tice of the lirst county Institute after the passage of the act us it appeared in the Fulton Republican of January 2, 18(18. "We believe there wus u meeting of the teachers of Fulton county, com nionly called the "Instltoot." It was gotten up "on the sly,"' us no one, or, at least, only a favored few, knew anything about it. The several teach ers came to town unannounced and un heralded and the question was heard all around, "What means this (locking into town of all these well dressed, fine looking'ladiesaud gentlemen." Every' body presumed that they cuine to ut tend the Christmas Festival, but that was hardly a correct conclusion, some j surmised, as it was too early in the week for that. Gradually it leaked out that there was an "Instltoot" on hand and the problem was solved, Hut why this reticence about a matter of public Interest and importance? If the public in general, und the pur ents in particular, are expected to tuke un interest in these things, and en courage by their presence, why not publish to the world that there will lie a meeting of the teacher's institute e. "On Thursday evening, we ure in formed, there was a lecture before the Institute by an eminent educator from Franklin county. Hut in this the sume reticence wus observed, und the question pussed from one to another, "What is that bell ringing for?" with out receiving a satisfactory leply un til after the exercises were over." A Dclicutu Operation. An exceedingly interesting and deli cute operation wus performed Monday Dec, 4, upon a .'1 year old child of Charles Grove of Hancock, by Drs Myers, of Murtinsburg, and West of this place, who were ussisted by Dr. .1. S. U ieh 1. On Thursday the child while play ing with its sister put a 22 calibre emp ty gun cartridge In its mouth. A strong inspiratory effort caused it to be sucked into tho windpipe where it caused paroxysms of coughing and placed the child In imminent danger of death from suffocation. All efforts to dislodge the foreign body were vain, and on Monday the surgeons opened the trachea and found the cartridge imbedded in mucous secretion in the right bronchus where it was cutting off respiration from the entire right lung. It was removed through the opening made in the trachea, the wound In the throat sewed up. The little putient rallied nicely from the severe ordeal but about midnight the child died. Interment from Kpiscopul church at 10:3( A. M. -From Hancock Stur. The National Council of the Graud Army of tho Republic de cided last Tuesday that the next reunion will bo hold during tho hist week of August, l'J(K), in Chicago. Local Correspondence. bio COVE. Miss Hattie Kendall entertain ed cpaite a number of her girl friends Monday evening of last week iu honor of her fourteenth birthday. A goodly number of our young friends enjoyed tho hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Bard McDowell of Lohmaster, Thursday evening of last week. Miss Stella Cook, of Little Covo, is one of Big Cove's visitors this week. Wo are pleased to leuru that Miss Jessie Kendall who has been very ill lately, is convales cing. Mrs. J. M. Unger has return ed from her month's visit with friends in Wells Valley and other places in tho northern section of the countv. K ALU VIA. II. E. Austin, is rocoverinjf from iiijurios rt-otdvod iu tho run oil' in McCVmncllsburjj. Vdms day. Mrs. W. C Mtiuu and daughter j Miss Ella, wore in McComiolls burtf, Wednesday. After their j return home iu the eveuiug, the ! spirited young hurst? they were driving, been mo frightened whilo beiug unhitched from tho buggy and ran nwny, making a wreck of the vehicle. Fortunately uo one was injured. With their steam fodder cutter, Johnston Bros., of Luidig, cut up a large lot of fodder for W. IJ. Speer and W. C. Mann, last week. Miss Jessie Cunningham, of Wells Valley, sient a few days, the guest of Miss Anna Spoor. Rev. Sarvis, of Hustoutown, accompanied Dr. Yocum to Green Hill, Sunday ufteruoon, and assissted ut tho services. Rev. Hughes, began protracted meetings at Asbury, Monday night. W. N. Stewart, a progressive teacher of Ayr township, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stewart. Thomas 15. McCJraw, Hrush Creek's enterprising nursery man, wits iu this place last week, soliciting orders for Spring de livery. John Sipes and Mr. Stevens, of Hustoutown, spent a few days with Mr. Sijios's cousin, Emanu el Sipes. The rabbits kept out of tho way during their sojourn here. Mrs. Spoor, met with a very serious accident Friday night. She had gone upstairs, and pre pared to retire for the night. After extinguishing the light, she got too close the stair laud ing, and fell to the bottom, land ing in the kitchen, seriously in juring her paralyzed limb, and cutting an ugly gash in the side of her head. A physician was summoned, who rendered neces sary medical aid. Her many friends hope for her speedy re covery. John P. Sipes, Esq., of McCon nellsburg, attended services at Green Hill, Sunday afternoon. Frank Cunningham, of Enid, was a guest of Mrs. Spoor's fam ily Saturday night. George Duvall, one of Hrush Creek's successful teachers, at tended Endeavor at Green Hill, Sunday night. TIMBER RIDGE. Mrs. Cattlett, who has been spending some time at Bruns wick, Md., with her daughter, Mrs. Fisher, returned home last week. She is still critically ill, and is under treatment of a Bruns wick doctor. Mr. and Mrs. Anna Sharpo spent last Suuday down at Pappy Gregory's. Messrs Strait and Waltz moved their well mochiuery down to T. II. Truax's. They will drill u well for Thomas this week. Jacob Myers and Miss Lillio Fisher were seen passing up tho Ridge Sunday en route to McCon uellsburg to attend Institute. W. C. Pock expects to go to housekeeping this week. Hewitt Brothers are busily en gaged sawing lumber on tho Car baugh farm for Mr. Bridges, of Hancock. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Evans call ed to see Mrs. A. J. Pittmun the lirst of this week. Institute at Independence on tho Mil was well attended. Loo Cattlett and wife, Rhoda aud Mrs. Martha Strait, were in McCounellsburg last Monday. E. M. Funk burnt a limekiln lawt week. Mrs. P. P. Shives spent last Suuday with her mother. Peter Wright, our champion hunter has killed fiii rabbits, 87 squirrels'aud wild 8 turkeys. If everybody was like Mr, Wright game would be very scarce. Rev. Barney will preach at An tioeh next Saturday at 3 P. M. THOMPSON. John C. Brewer killed four nice pigs that weighed H67, 30H, and 1h(5. Emanuel Keefer and Jacob J Gordon, the champion butchers , of Thompson, did the butchering. John Tayman has purchased I the two farms from his father on private terms. Mrs. Ella Fite bought the Rach el Brant farm for frCX.). P. P. Slaves and wife spent Saturday evening with John H. Brewer Mr. and Mrs. John C. Brewer were the guests of L. M. Shives Sunday. Eli Funk and Frank Martin wore tho guests of Margaret Truax. David Humbert is the champi on trapiM'r hereabouts. A young man iu Thompson ex pecting to be married in the near future, while working at this place, did not know that a look ing glass hung in tho hall aud al ways complimented the house on having such a nice picture, when all the time it was Jim looking iu the glass. Guess his best girl lias beeu telling him how good looking he was. Wait till the honeymoon is over aud then look. There will be an entertainment at Antitx-h church on Saturday evening before Christmas. CLEAR RIDGE. Everything is quiet while the children are eu joying vacation. There was an interesting local institute held at this place on Wednesday evening, December 0, but it was not well attended by teachers. The uext one will be held at Ft. Littleton. Rev. G. P. Sarvis lias closed a successful meeting at Center, aud he intends to begin one at i this place next Sunday evening. There will be an interesting Christmas entertainment held at this place on Sunday evening, Decern ber "4. Mrs. Ruth Swope, accompani ed by her sou, spent Sunday with the family of S. L. Bedford. Mrs. Bedford returned home with them. She will spend a few days iu Bedford this week. Mr. aud Mrs. A. W, Brown spent the past week with friends at WttterltK). John Woodcock, who has been tin the sick list is slowly improv ing; also Mrs. James Kuhn, Jr., is improving. Clear Ridge school reports as follows: Number enrolled, 87; av erage attendance, 5!U; those who attended (50 days are Nellie and Dora Baker,, Irene Kerlin, Lucy Stiuson, Jessie, Lilliau, and Smith Henry, Loyd and David Fleming, and Sadie Wilson. NEW GRENADA. Now, for a good snow! Rev. Bickle has moved his ef fects from Beaver ton to New Grenada, where he will reside in tho future. J. G. Cunningham, "our village blacksmith" butchered the mam moth ixirkers of our town so far. His two pigs mado him nearly 700 pounds of moat. Arthur Cunningham took in the sights of Fort Littleton re cently. He reports a very pleas ant time. All aloug the way. Our town was well represented at the lecture (A handfull of hits) delivered at Pino Grove last Fri day night by Rev. Gilbert of Huntingdon. J. H. Edwards expects to leave for Pittsburg in tho near future. Thus, ouo by one, our young bloods are leaving for richer fields. . Death uguin has cast a gloom over tho entire community. Last Sunday night the Angel of Death visited tho home of Lewis Bergstrosser and claimed as its victim "Uncle Lewis," as he was familiarly known. He was es teemed by all who knew hi in al ways cheerful a good word for everyone. He was a consistent member of Zion M. E. church for upwards of (10 ytvirs. Ho serv! us class leader for 50 years un til it was Impossible for him to at tend that means of grace. He had but a fewdaysagoturnedinto his eightieth year. His remains were interred in the Bethel cem etery, Tuesday. The funeral ser vices were conducted by his jMtstor, Rev. W. J. Schaeffor, of Three Springs. INOPERABLE. Six Doctors With Mrs. Bishop Tuesday Afternoon Patient Doing Well Again. Her many friends will lie sorry to leuru thut Mi'H. Bishop of thin place, who for thrt'o yurs, has boon Hiiffer inff from a complication of alxlomlnal trouble, Id not ho well ugaln. The tapping proeeiis hatl to lie resort ed to more frequently, and nlie, ut lant, consented to a surgical operation. On Tuesday, Doctors Ramsey and Palmer of ('ham)Mrsburg, assisted by . her attending physician, Dr. Garth walte, diagnosed the case an Ovarian Cyst, which unfortunately proved to be Inoperable To use the language of nn Ksculaplus, "the peritoneal ad hesions were so intensely Interwoven with the vital organs" that it would have been very unsafe to proceed.' The incision made through the walls of the abdomen for the purpose of making the examination was closed, and at this writing, (Wednesday) Mrs. Bishop Is doing well. Doctors Dal Ik'V, Smith, and Mosser, of this place were present FARMERS INSTITUTES. This is an age of advancement. While the State has a depart ment of Public Instruction, and tho county teachers' institute is incidental to that department, so the State, likewise, gives the Ag ricultural interests a department; and the farmers who cultivate the soil, are provided with the same facilities for the acquisition of knowledge in their particular work as is given those who culti vate the human mind. Tho farm er is an agriculturist; the school teacher a menticulturist. To bo successful, each must understand tho nature of the material upon which he operates. The head of the Department of Public Instruction is Nathan C. Sheaffer at a salary of 4000 a year. The head of the Depart ment of Agriculture is John Hamilton who was borne on a farm down in Juniata county nearly 57 years ago. He receives a salary of $3,r00 a year. Then tho other members of the Depart ment are a Deputy Secretary at $51,000; an Economic Zoologist at 2,500; a Commissioner of For estry at $2,500; a Dairy and Food Commissioner at $2,500; a State Veterinarian, at $2,500; a chief clerk at $1,(500; three mino clerks at $1,500 each; a steno rapher at $hm), and a mossenp at $(100. The Deputy Secretary is eh ed with the management of ' tutes for which a Bjiecial r priation is mado, and V .ro are each held throughout the Sta year. With such provisions'! vhore is no reason why eve&e. farmer should not turn out ar oinake tho most of tho institute?'1! they are brought to his door r ;ch year. . Just as there waaVindifference toward, and preice against, county teachers '-ins titutes at lirst, so the ff'ners' institute has had much'Jiie same exper ience. The institutes held in this county la "It week showed that the jHKiple aVK beginning to real ize tluit tley must pay their share town M tho maintenance of this deprr tmeut, and that they may jus,,as well reap some of its beuetlt.; and the attendance at the dJ.erent points, the enthusi asm Manifested, and the general intelligence shown proves that oui farmers are keeping pace wHh our toacbrs, and that the farmers' institutes will receive the same consideration as does tho teachers' institute. When a boy goes to hunt any thing, he alwuys begins by mak ing everybody in tho room get up to see if they Hre sitting on the . lf)t Article
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