"TON COUNTY NEWS. ill.N DOCTORS DISACRFE. loked at my tongue and ht shook hi 4 head Is was Doctor Smart lumped on my chest, and then ho Ssaid: h! there it is! Your heart! U musn't run you musn't hurry! tnusn't work -you musn't worry! Kit down and take it cool; U may live, for years, Icannot say, .In the meantime, make it a rule t take this medicine twice a day!" iokcd at my 'tongue and shook his 111 head - :S:'jB was Doctor Wise jr llvor's a total wreck," he said, bu must take more exercise! ; 0 musn't eat sweets, ( must walk und leap, you must al xo run; 0 ft musn't sit down in the dull old way; tit with the boys and have some I); fun 1 take three doses of this a day!" oked at my tongue and he shook i his head Is was Doctor Bright ' a afraid your lungs aro gone," ho said, nd your kidney isn't right. hange of scene is what you need, 'ir case is desperate, indeed, jrcad is a thing you musn't eat Munich starch but, by the way, must henceforth live on only lament ijl take six doses of this a day!" (ps they were right, and perhaps Uthey knew, 'kUn't for me to say; 'Up I erred when I madly threw Ir bitter stuff away; il'm living yet, and I'm on my feet, . grass isn't all that I dare to eat, 1 ! walk and run, and I worry, too. to save my life, I cannot see ,8ome of the able doctors would do acre were no fools like you and me. EI'ORMI ERE CA l'TLRED. Bed Ot the Post Office Rob. try tit IJerkeley Springs. Innoook Stur. St Wednesday, United States ty Marshall William Chris Dir of Jlagerstown, assisted I C. Qwiugs,- United States , jOffice Inspector, of Wash in and constable S. D. .des of Hancock, captured les S. W. DeFormiere, a Chman, near the home of W. Bishop on Sideling Hill, rmiere is accused, of the "3ry of the Berkeley Springs .Oilicei on the night of No er 28..' The robbers secur Jstamps worth M)iJ.92 and h cash, lie nau recently Conducting a barber shop in pwn, having come here from eley Springs. As a general tie waa hwked on with sus- ii.a and has been suspected by jcal officers of complicity in f crimes. if, anonymous letter sent to id States Commissioner ,er, from Hancock, gave the rs the clew on which the was arrested. It is alleged he has at different places as a lawyer, doctor, sol barber, etc. DeFormiere born ': near Paris, but has 'in this country about twen- 5;6 years. His education is 01 bd, but he is represented as l shrewd and sharp. He is " jEibout 54 years and is mar lis. f ' Tl!vr .mil'. jrybody remembers the ex .iJ young Joe Leiter in the -asly c t Y facts ; Md l.at market at Chicago a couple ;;;,irs ago, when the young fel succeeded in forcing the of wheat up from sixty to ar aad forty cents, and in- I '"'f pocketing millions of s 9h linn Irim vif iJ -, .,-.1 c ,i sly i crippled his father. aro called to mind by atll of V. Benton T pin of Joe, which occurred persTjown last week, kton went to Chicago and, W by his uncle's millions, . OlliU 1- L F h marriage to a beauti pstern woman his health be- b fail and his fortune melted y away. To add to his. vs his wife went upon the A mental and physical i was brought to the -f Ms mother in Haeers- boi ta year ago. His de -vvi. -i, rapid, and the ln.t, i oi lis life was spent in Mt, asylum. e a t must feel rather cheap auve gives her away. isn empire embraces i. THE SUNNY SOUTH, An Interesting Letter from a Former Fulton County Boy. MR. BURTON TROXEL, Who Has Seen Much or tne worm, Makes Pertinent Observations. The recent visit to my former home and friends in Old Fulton County, I shall long remember; as also, the hospitality with which I was received, and the delight ful experience I had riding a wheel across mountains, hills and valleys, some of which I trod when a bare-footed boy, or rode over on a load of hoop-poles on the way to Hancock at that time the largest city I had ever seen, or knew anything about. How the recollections of my boyhood life on the farm return ed, and how vividly did I recall the times when I used to try to steer the plow along the steep side of the old stony hill-field when the plow would strike a stone and the handles seemed to to try to break my "slats," or throw me farther down the hill in a second than I would feel like walking back in an hour. Ah, those were happy days! There are some of us who be come discontented with farm life, and the country in which we live, and we start out seeking other employment in other quarters where we imagine there lies all the wealth, pleasure, comforts and conveniences of life; but go wheresoever we may over this broad land, we never find that ideal spot of earth, and wo often find during our peregrinations, that' it is not all gold that glitters. We are offered different induce ments in the different parts of the country. For instance the gold fields of Alaska offer us wealth, freedom and free ice, but in order to obtain all these, one has to undergo "nTliny hardships and privations, and, so it is, where ever we find one advantage' we find it counterbalanced by many little disadvantages. Away down here in the so-call ed Sunny South, we have a beau tiful country and a. delightful cli mate almost it continual sum mer with flowers blooming out doors the year round the very air wo breathe fragrant with the scent of flowers. The birds sing their sweet songs from early morn till dewy eve; the chickens crow and the dogs bark all night long, and the mosquitos never go to roost. But notwithstanding all this, there are some great disadvant ages. Just at a period when commerce is thriving, and there is peace, prosperity and happi ness in our homes. Yellow Jack suddenly makes his appearauce in our midst and causes a panic a stampede among the natives, such as would be produced by wolves in a herd of cattle. The panic stricken natives flee some to the country, others, to the frosty north, leaving their homes and their all behind; and in a few hours, tho senseless, shot-gun quarantine so much in vogue throughout tho state of Mississ ippi and some of the parishes of Louisiana, during the yellow fe ver epidemics, is put on, which paralyzes the wheels of commerce and travel, and even stops the U. S. mails, and no travel is per mitted between towns, until the last case of yellow fever has died out .and the quarantine raised. The next great menace to our peace and happiness is the south ern negroes, which differ in na ture from the northern colored people.' Thoy shouldnotbeelass ed as human. Space here will not permit mo to discuss the no gro question, but will say in con clusion that the negroes of the south do not deserve tho kind consideration and treatment that they receive from the white man. Were it not for the yellow fe ver, tho negroes and tho mosqui tos the south would bo that ideal place we have been seeking. THE WHEAT OF THE WORM). In December McClure's Mr. Kay Stannard Baker gives iu a dramatic way the interesting fact iu regard to the movement of the world 'h wheat crop, the sources and volume of production, the machinery and methods of distri bution, and the rapidity of con su niptiou. Of tho present outlook for an ultimate wheat famine Mr. Baker says: "There are at present about r17,00l),0lK) broad eaters In the world nearly eight times tho population of the United States. An increase equal to two Londous is yearly swelling the enormous figures, the additious coming partly from births iu the more advanced countries and partly from the training of the con sumers of rice, rye, aud the like into a preference for wheat foods. The deductions of years have shown that each bread-eater man, woman, aud child will con sume a barrel of flour bushels of wheat) every year. The French, tho English, aud the Americans eat more than tho average; the Russians and the Germans tat less. On the basis of this average the bread-eating world requires more than ",!!00, 000,000 bushels of wheat every twelve months to supply its table with bread. If tho wheat fields of the world produce as much as this, then there is plenty and prosperity the world over; if the production is less there is suffer ing aud starvation. Few people realize how closely the crop is consumed each year. According to the statistician of the United States Department of Agricul ture the world's total production of wheat in 1897 was 2,2il5,744,0ti.) bushels not enough by millious of bushels to supply the world's food demand and furnish seed for another year. Consequently countries of the earth where the crop was light were visited by want and high prices, in India the need even touched the point of famine. During t the following year, 1H51K, the ci'op was enor mous, reaching a tqtal production reported as L,,H7lJ,,J4,0!)l) bushels but this is probably an overesti mate; and as a consequence there was plenty of food in nearly ev ery part of tho world, with a pro nounced return of prosperity iu the agricultural regions of the United States. WHEN THE CENTURY ENDS. After being awake less than an hour, says a Williams'port, Pa. special of tho Cth inst., Nellie Wolf, tho young woman who slept fifty-six hours, again fell asleep last night and is still sleeping, all efforts to awaken her proved futile. She has now beeu asleep about seventy hours, with the ex ception of the very short timo she was aroused last night. SHE WAS WILLING. Perfect confidence is desirable between couples engaged to bo married, but it is not always that the young woman has as fine an opportunity to establish it as did a Norristown belle, to whom a wealthy young bachelor had been paying assiduous attention. Af ter worrying her a good deal about how many young men had been In love with her and how many she had been attached to, he asked her to marry him add ing: "Now, let thero bo perfect con fidence between us. Keep noth ing concealed from me." "Certainly," replied the giddy girl, "let us have no conceal ments," and, jumping up, she snatched the wig he wore from his head aud danced around tho room with it. In spite of this levity, the coup le married and, from all accounts, aro liviug happily, more particu laaly so, by means of using crude petroleum a nice little crop of soft brown hair is growing all over the husband's head. The man had never heard of crude petroleum as a hair tonic until his wife told him about it, so if she had not euforced his confi dence he would still bo bald. The New York Sun has receiv ed so many evidences of confused ; miuds regarding the begiuniug of the twentieth century that it will present a proof that tho twentieth century begins after the year 1900 is ended, in the shape of a little conversation: Question: What is a year! Answer: Three huudred aud sixty-five days. What is a century? One hundred years. When did the year No. 1 end? December ill, of the year 1. When did the year No. L' begin? January 1, of the year -. When did the year 9!) end? December til, A. I). 99. Did that complete a century? No. When was the century com pleted? At the close of the year follow ing 99, or at the close of tho year 100. When did the second century begin? January 1 of the year 1 of the i second century, that is, January 1, A. D. 101. When did the 19th century end? At the close of tho niueteen hundreth year, or at the close of 1900. Q. When does the 20th century begin? A. It begins on day No. 1 of year No. 1 of the LMHh huudred years that is, on January 1, A. D. 1901. Wo must still see two Christ ma ses before the twentieth cen tury dawns. AN INSULT W ELL HANDLED. A Unique Manner of Death. "I heard the following conun drum," said It. A. Fallows, in New York, the other day, "which struck me as distinctly clover: 'What character is there, iu the Bible who possesses no name, who suffered death in different form from any inflicted before or since that time, aportiou of whose shroud is in every household, and the cause of whose death has beeu made famous by a modern au thor?' Give it up, eh? Well, tho answer is, Lot's wife. She pos sesses no name; no ono else met death through beiug turned into a pillar of salt: salt is iu every household, aud Edward Bellamy wrote 'Looking Backward,' so thero you are." SCHOOL RKrORTS. Jacob Luke's School. - E. H. Mor ton. Third month- number enroll ed, iil); average attendance, L'd; percent, of attendance, 90; attend ed every dayWilbur Deshong, David Fittory, Simpson Mellott, Calley Truax, Alison Truax, Har rison Garland, George Fittory, Albert Mellott, U. S. Mellott, Goldie Deshong, Edna Deshong, Mary Mellott, Lillie Mellott, and Miunie Mellott. Vallance's - L. L. Truax. Third month ending Dec. IK Pupils enrolled, !: average at tendance, ; every day--Ella Bishop, BessieKaker, Delia Hock ensmith, Teua Wible, Zella Mc Clure, Mae McCluve, Bertha Newman, Clara Ambrose, Zona Brant, Scott Bishop and Ira llockeusniith. Nineteen Cuiy. Samuel Wible, Charley Croft, Ernest Croft, Clem Brant and G race llockeusmith. You ' can always trust the American woman to take care of herself. The friends of a girl who lives in Eighteenth street are telling these days of an adventure which befell her one afternoon within the fortuight. She was standing, this Eighteenth street girl, at the corner of F and Elev enth streets waiting for a girl friend. A very dapper young man; a stranger doubtless in the town for most Washingtouians aro too well aware of the girl's social eminence to venture on any impertineuce to her stepped up, rjQwed and said airily: "Venting for somebody?" The girl turned to look at him. "Guess you've forgotten me," he went on with growing-familiarity. "I saw you at dinner last week." The girl looked at him steadily for a moment. "Oh, I remember now," she said. "It was at Colonel Blank's. You are Colonel Blank's butler, of course. No, I don't know of anybody who wants a butler. Have you tried the employment agencies?" And then, slowly and calmly, she walked away. i AN ALIEN FROM ARKANSAS. "When I was on tho bench," relates Judge J. J. DuBose, "we were once making up a special jui-y for a murder trial. The law yers were examining the venire, and I wasn't paying much atten tion to what was going on till one of the lawyers attracted my at tention by saying: "Your honor, this man is in competent for jury service. He's a foreigner." "I looked at tho man under ex amination and didn't think ho looked, anyway, like he was ac climated. So I asked him: "Have you ever been natural ized?" "No, sir," ho answered. "And you say you 're a foreign er and not naturalized? What country are you a native of?" "Arkansas." "Well, everybody in the court room laughed. I told the man ho could go. Ho wasn't much of a foreigner, but too much to sit on a jury in my court. Memphis Scimitar. It is said that cowbells are pro duced in only four factories in the United States and are made just tho same as they were 100 years ago and souud the same. In India elephants over 12 aud up to 45 years of age aro deemed the best to purchase and will gen erally work until they aroHOyears old. The waiter girl knew a thiug or two about table etiquette, so she sniffed scornfully as she said, "It is not our custom to servo a knife with pie." SALUVIA. Mrs. Spcer, who was so'paia fully injured by falling down ihe stairs at her home two weeks ago, is recovering slowly. Sylvester Deshong, of Johns town, is visiting relatives at Ilar risouville. Miss llettie Cutchall, of IIus tontowu, was the guest of her friend Miss Ella Maun, several days last week. W. It. Spoor, George A. Harris, Misses Cutchall, Cora Spoor, Ella aud Lydia Maun spent a highly enjoyable evening at Hit; hospitable home of Mr. aud Mrs. J. F. Johnson, of Laidig, Satur day eveniug. J. E. Moore, who has boon 'cm ployed in Somerset county, is home for the holidays. Will Hair, who is employed by tlit( Western Union, iu the eastern part of Pennsylvania, Now Jer sey and Delaware is visiting his family this week. (XOOCOOOOOOO xxooocooooc o o eisner & Co. bxtend ex Hearty Invitation To All Visitors to the "IN! TITUT E We arc now prepared to show 8 o our Friends the Largest and y o o o G Best Selected Stock of IN LIU ANDISE 8 FULTON COUNTY, 8 Oyti cianii ui.u 10 L'eiuj, tAuinivciy iiiacic. oauoi yui.il- self llimit lli'lt nintter Wo will lmw vnn flip LARGEST LINE OR O O adies' Wraps AMARANTH. John II. Strait and wife, of Pleasant Ridge, spent part of last week visitiug relatives here. J. C. llLvon aud wife wont to Hancock Saturday. Miss Flossie Mellott spent Sun day with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Mellott. Lewis Richards and wife, of Clearliekl.pussod through tho Val ley Thursday en route to Berke ley Sprfu-gs to see his mother, wht) is very ilf." ' Levi Crawford 'Jjas just com pleted a new barn. Mrs. Lizzie Oax, of Robfiison ville, spent two days last week io. Buck Valley. Miss Maggie McKibbinis spend ing a week or two in the upper end of the county. Sheldon Lushloy und wife pass ed through this place Sunday to visit relatives in Lushloy. Wo wish Thk Niows "A merry Christmas and a happy New Year." O thai Fulton cuunlv lias ever had in it. and at orices as O 0 low as is consistent with perfect jjoods. The ranjfe on O O Hlush capes ,52,50 to 13,00. Cloth capes as low as O O 1.25. see them. Jackets, 54,00 up. We have the O prettiest line ot o q Leidios' SkJrts O to show you from 20 CSIltS to $2,00. o Dress Goods in Stacks. (? A good Wool Suiting for 19 cents, well worth H") cents, See our stock of Ladies' and Men's Neckwear, (''j Lots of now, nioo things. q A matter of interest to all is good warm UNDERWEAR, O for cold weather. Wo have it. Q We have a case of ilj dozen of MEN'S SHIRTS and V DRAWERS, at 40 cents apiece, that lots of people won't no slow to asif ;u cents lor. They are perfect in make aud tit, aud in every way acceptable, Of course we have lots cheaper, and several linos of Underwear at 50c., 75c. and $1,00, and up; Ladies,' from L'Oc. to $1,00. Children's 10c. niii mi ! . Send The Fulton Coikty News to an absent relative t r friend f.:r a Christmas gift. On ly $1.00 a year to any place in the United States. Prof. M. L. Thornhurst has boon elected superintendent! of the Soldiers' Orphans' School at Scotland. Ho has boon tiding superintendent since Col. Magee died iu April last. Kind words aro like music to the world; they have a power which seems to be beyond natur al causes. No ono has ever been converted by sarcasm; crushed, perhaps, if tho sarcasm was clev er enough, but never made bet ter. Tkkmk ok Court, The llrst Lerimif Uu! Conns of Kultim coun ty In the ynw sliull commtMiuu on lUu Tm-Mliiy following! tliu Kt'i'oiiit iMoinl.iy ol Jiiairi-.v. ul HI o'clock A. M. The nccoimI term coniuicnccs on the thiul Molality ot March, ul o'clock 0. M. Tho illlnl term on Ihn Turwh.y next follow iiitf the second Momluy of Jnuo ul 10 o'clock A. M. The fourth term .in the Hi-st Monrtuy of Octo ber, ul o'clock i'i M. ' fe?j&i ... 'k ) y o A-Word about S County Officious. I'reslileut JuoVe - lion. S. McO. Svvopc, AHHoeluie JuttKCs- Lemuel Kirk, Oder Mor ton. 1'ioiliimolury. io. Prank V. I.vuch. District Attorney :.mo:u I). Daniels, 'Treasurer -TIilo Sipes, Shcriit Daniel Sheets. Deputy Sherltf -James Kumcl, Jtirv Commissioners- David ltotz, Huniuel II, llocltcnsinlili. A milium John S. Harris. D. 11. Myers, A. J, I.uiuIiai'sou. Commissioners L, V. ('tiuulutiliuiii, Allierl fies-siuKer, John Klutikaiil. Clcrk-S. W, Kirk. Coroner Thor.ius Kirk. County Surveyor Jonas 7,akc, County Supcrinteatleui t:im Che. nut. Attorneys- vv, Scott Alexuiulir. J. Nelsou Sties. Thomas K Sloun. I-'. MoIM. Johnston, M. It. .Mi itluci', llco. 1!. Daniels, John 1', slS. HOES Wo have two lines of Ladies' and Children's Shoes that we Q will stand against anything anywhere, price considered, for 8 tit, and wear, and appearance A general lino, including Men's, Boys', Ladies' and Misses', that will stand against any line, wo don't cart? who produces them, or their prim A. We are selling a very fair Children's Shoe, H-li! at 05c. r A tivwr.viitii I iil Hi i sin, in l,.i. .it IIM.. S as low as $1.50. Men's Hoots A very good one. g Ready- made Glothing.1 ? y A larger stock than you 2 will find anywhere else in & o town. We know the prices S are all right, every time. ooooooooooo ooooo
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