r FULTON COUNTY NEWS. Published Every Thursday. 13. W. Feck, Editor. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Thursday, Dec. 28, 1899. Published Weekly. 1.00 per Annum in Advance. Prompt attention will be given to applications for ad vertisimr rates. Job Printing of every des cription executed with prompt ness, in a workmanlike manner and at consistent prices. ANDREW CARNF.GIE. Howl Made My First 1000. Chooso at riiudom almost any solf-mado American millionaire, get if you can liis real life-story, and in studying it you will find that the hardest part of the work of building a great fortune is the laying of the foundation, the first $1000. Andrew Carnegie, for instance, spent perhaps the best years of his life accumulating his first $1000, years of hard, constant work. He began saving pennies at the age of twelve, but not un til he was thirty did ho stand forth owing no man and owning 1000. On the tweuty-fifth of Novem ber last Mr. Carnegie celebrated his sixty-first birthday by mak ing himself a present of a $1,000, 000 plot of ground, two blocks long, on Fifth Avenue. Here he intends to spend another $1,000, 000 building a "plain, roomy, comfortable home," to be present ed to his daughter ' two years hence. Since that proud day thirty one years ago when he deposited the thousandth dollar, the corner-stone of his present $2"),000, 000 fortune, in the bank at Pitts burg, Mr. Carnegie has become the largest manufacturer and ex porter of steel products, and one of the largest employers in this country. The steel and coke companies of which he is the head, and, as such, the controller of $(50,000, 000 capital, include seven distinct plants within seven miles of Pitts burg, and 40,000 acres of coal lands in the Counellsville district. He employs 1",000 men in the steel works, in mines and in trans lortation. His monthly pay-roll exceeds 1,U'3,)00, or nearly $."0, 000 for each working day. Orator and essayist, he is be sides, the author of three books of noticeable success. Vexed if called a philanthropist, he has given Pittsburg a $1,000,000 li brary, and has promised to spend $4,000,000 more in the city in which he has made his fortune. For libraries in other Pennsyl vania towns ho has given another 1,000,000, and to Scotland, his native land, half a million. "Everything conies to him who works while ho waits" is one of Mr. Carnegie's mottoes. Wait ing, but working meanwhile, he began laying up his first $1,000 while making 1,20 a week as "bobbin-boy" ia a cotton-mill in Allegheny City. His father, mother, younger brother and himself, the family, had just come from Scotland, and had hardly got th )ir two-room house "to rights" when "Andy" brought in his first contribution to the family earnings. But the lad of twelve was doing a grown man's work, ihidiug his way to the mill and beginning on his bob bin while it was still dark outside, every morning except Sunday, and working until after dark every evening, with only forty minutes iuterval at noon. Seven steps above this, eight steps in all, he had to climb be fore ho finally putthatthousandth dollar in bank. The fcecoud step was made in his thirteenth year. He became a dummy-engine tender in a bob bin factory, also in Allegheny City. Hut his work there was even harder than in the cotton mill; for he was put to firing the b jiler in the cellar, as well as to tjuding tho little engine which ran the machinery. The full responsibility of keep ing the water at tho right tern jMruture, and of running that little engine, the danger of milk ing one mistake that would bring the building crashing down upon him ; he stood the strain and this worry very bravely, for one reas on, namely; that he was contrib uting 2.")0 a week toward the ex penses of the Carnegiehousehold. Even then ho managed to keep out a few pennies every week for himself, and, instead of spending them, put them away in a bureau drawer that was all his own. After mou ths in thecellar ho was at last promoted to the office, and his income increased to three dollars a week. As he was skill ful with figures, and could write a legible, schoolboy hand, he be came his employer's only clerk, making out bills and keeping crude accounts, Thus he stood firmly on the third step, and nick els instead of pennies were de posited in the bureau drawer bank. The fourth step, at the age of fourteen, brought him into a now realm. The family had moved to Pittsburg, and here ho found a "job" as messenger boy. A stranger in the city, his great anxiety was that he might lose his position because he knew so little about the name and address es of tho men for whom telegrams came jxiuring in. He spent the evenings, there fore, wandering up and down the streets, and before long he could start at the head of any given street and, with his eyes shut, name every firm on either side all the way down. He was now earn ing only a percentage on each message delivered or called for. When, at the end of the week, the amount exceeded $3.50 he added the surplus to the fund iu the drawer; when less, he drew on the private bank to make up the deficit. While he sat on the bench in the office, waiting his turn, the other boys talked, but "Andy" listened to the click of the tele graph instrument. At last one of the men taught him the mys terious alphabet, and very soon he became one of the very few persons in the United States who could take messages by ear, at that time extraordinary. This led to his taking the fifth step. He was made an operator, and his salary became enormous, $2") a month. With this he could and would take almost en tire care of the whole family. But how was he to pay the bills and save money even a little, at the same time? One evening, reading as usual, he came across the words "extra compensation for extra work." He began thinking'. The six news papers in Pittsburg were receiv ing their telegraphic news in com mon. Six copies of each dispatch were made by the operator at the next table, who received six dol lars a week for the work. The next day the ambitious young Carnegie told the six-dollar man that he, "Andy," would copy the dispatches for one dollar a week. The offer was accepted, and thus a hundred cents a week went into the bureau drawer. One day a locomotive came bel lowing over new tracks into a new station, bringing the first train over the Pennsylvania Hail road into Pittsburg. The Super intendent rushed over to the tele graph office, and gave Carnegie a message to wire to the General Manager at Altoona. The operator, who was then on ly sixteeu, clicked of the message as fast as the Superintendent talked. Later, when the Penn sylvania 'trung a wire of its own, that Superintendent chose "Andy" as "clerk and operator," and subsequently as train-dis patcher, at $!!.") a month. What a fortune was this to come with his sixth step upward ! The family, with money from other sources, was doing nicely with his :J00 a year; but herju was $120, tremendous sum ! One Satur day night the hoard in the draw er was augmented by a whole two-dollar bill, later by a crisp five-dollar note, and finally 10 were deposited in a lump. Thus, by dint of "Andy's"' persistent work did the Carnegie family rise. With tho seventh stop Andrew Carnegie became a shareholder in tho Adams Express Company. and for tho first time ho earned money by other means than work Ho was told .that a man had died who owned ten shares of the Ex press Company stock, and that shares could bo had for 0 each. Carnegie.tlieu past twenty, jump ed at the opportunity. But how was he to get the 000? lie went home, and the family, in joint session, decided that the brave sou must be given a start. They had bought a home in order to save rent. Mr. Carnegie's recollection is that the house cost $H00; anyway, they mortgaged it, and thus, with what "Andy "took from his bureau drawer, the 000 worth of shares were paid for in cash. The Express Company was then paying monthly divi dends of one per cent. The day on which he received his check for tho first two months' dividend "Andy" understood that he was a capitalist. Mr. Carnegie remained with the Pennsylvania Railroad for thirteen years. The important incident, the eighth step, which led to "his first $1000," occurred on a train as it rushed toward Altoona. A tall gaunt man, who looked like a farmer, came and sat beside Mr. Carnegie, and handed him a model of the first sleeping-car. The tall, gaunt man was Mr, Woodruff. Instantly Carnegie understood its value. Ho took it to his employer and friend, the Superintendent of the road, and a contract was made with the inventor, who thereu)on offered Carnegie a share in the enterprise. He accepted; but to his dismay he was told that his first monthly payment would be $217.50. Perplexed yet determined, he went to the local banker, who knew hiin well, and boldly asked for tho loan, declaring that he would return the money in small monthly payments. The banker agreed, and Mr. Carnegie signed his first note. The receipts from his sleeping car investment more than covered his monthly payments due at the bank, and within two years An drew Carnegie, free of debt, had to his credit iu that bank his first $1000. WEIGHT OF KAFIR CORN. SENATOR DEPEW'S SEAT. Chauncey Depew will probably feel much at home in the senate, it has been announced that a seat has already been selected for him, and its location has been given, but the important significance of the selection has not been remark ed. The greatest delicacy and regard for the fitness of things is always observed in matters per taining to the arrangements of the senate. The habits of many dinners cling lovingly about the new sen ator from New York. If he had been given a remote seat in the senate chamber, along the outer edge or grouped with tho com mon assemblage, he would have felt out of place. The seat of honor is always his at table. There is no seat of honor in the senate or all are seats of honor but long continued custom has its influence upon the mind, and he ,was given a seat, therefore, just at the right of the presiding officer, where ho is sure to be at home. This delicacy of consideration was carried even further. Ho was surrounded by a group of tho most gifted and brilliant talk ers in the senate, among whom he will shine forth as a star of most peculiar brilliancy. As sembled about him will be For aker, Sponer, Beveridgo and Kean, and tho little triangular section, at the right of tho vice president will be known as the temple of eloquence. Spooner and Foraker were re garded as tho best speakers in the senate duriug the last con gress. Beveridge's reputation as an orator is national, and he sailed into ' the senate on the wings of eloquence by a quicker flight than Depew. Kean is an elegant, smooth and poetic talker, who charms by the softness of his speech, elevates by his xetio fancy and thrills by an outburst of eloquence at tho close. Though he and Beveridgo, as well as De pew, will on the assembling of congress, appear for the first time in the senate, they will not come as strangers. With such environments De pew's time in the senate promises to pass as agreeably as an end less round of dinners all at the K)oech making period -of tho re past. Washington Star. One man is probably just as good as another, but he usually considers himself a lUtlo bettor. We are indebted to Prof. John W. Fields, Director of the Okla homa Experiment Station, for the following article on Kafir corn. It is a leading crop in some sections of the west. We saw a nice lot growing on the farm of Eli M. Peck near Emma ville, this county, a year or two ago. From the appearance of that, there would not seem to be any reason why tho farmers of Fulton county might not produce it to advautage. "A bushel of Kafir corn, fairly well cleaned, weighs 5(5 pounds, and this is the legal weight adopt ed in Kansas; but this point has not been passed upon in Oklaho ma. The above is pretty gener ally known, but what weight of heads is neccessary to make a bushel of grain, and how to ascer tain tho amount of grain in the heads by measurements are ques tions very frequently asked. The last two questions are not so eas ily answered and considerable judgment must bo exercised in each case in determining the proper answers. Are the heads with stems from eight to twelve inches long, containing more or less leaves, or are they cut close and free of trash':' Are the heads, to bo measured, lying loose in a box, or have they been tramped in or settled by a long hauiy Refering to data obtained in thrashing out several hundred bushels of Kafir corn from weigh ed heads, and extending through several seasons, the percentage of grain in a hundred pounds of heads varies from 20 to !35 per cent. This would mean from seventy-five to eighty pounds of heads are required to produce a bushel of grain. Tho average runs about i() per cent., or eighty pounds of heads to produce a bushel of grain. The maximum amount was obtained in a case where the heads were extra large1 and well developed, cut close and well cured. The mini mum amount of grain was ob tained where the heads were rather small with long stems, and not well cured having some leaves among them. The past fall the station has received some 200 bushels of Kafir corn in the heads, and the heads were weigh ed before and the 'grain after thrashing. Eighty pounds of the heads were required to produce fifty-six pounds of grain, with very little variation. "Roughly, every two inches in a common box, "120 inches by 30 inches by 41 inches deep," con tained one bushel of grain. This determination was made with but one man's Kafir, consisting of seven loads. In this case it was tramped in the wagon as loaded, and then hauled several miles." An old citizen of Juniata county tells the MifHiuburg Herald a story of the old pine tree in the Concord Narrows that once mark ed the place of meeting of the four counties of Franklin, Huntingdon,- Juniata and Perry. A sturdy Path Valley teamster had his watch stolen and afterward caught the thief in the Narrows near the tree that then marked the corners of the four counties. Tying the culprit to the tree, the teamster proceeded to castigate him, walking around it while the operation went on. Thus the whipping was administered in four counties.' The whijpee aft erward tried to prosecute the whipper in all four counties, but succeeded in none. Another story from the same source, is that of a man mimed Leaston who lived in a house iu the same neigh borhood, partly in Franklin and partly in Perry county. A Fan nett township constable tried to serve a warrant on Leaston, but he stepped from his dining room in Franklin county to his kitchen in Perry and was safe. SERVES HIM RIGHT. Two appeals have been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Courts of Franklin county, against the extension of the bor ough of Mercersburg, provided for by an ordinance recently passed by the council of that bor ough. Tho plot for the new lines were tiled on Nov. 21st by II. II. Spangler, Esq., attorney for the borough. The appeals by J. C. Reed, whose paper is signed by a dozen other property own ers, and from John F. Snyder. The appeals are from freeholders whose property would bo taken into tho borough by tho enlarge ment of the limits. Old Jealousy, editor of a news paper published up north, growls because a young couple kissed and hugged each other at mid night in the passenger depot iu his town "right before a lot of unwilling spectators" who were waiting for a train, and says they were Ilobsonizing each other. "Great ginger!" exclaims one of our exchanges in commenting ujwn the incident. What are young people for anyway t If the spectators were 'unwilling' why didn't they put their hands over their fiiees and look through their lingers' Why didn't they go outside and give the young folks a chance? He says the hug ging and kissing were disgust ing, but we don't believe it. It was delightful and we'll bet on it. Then tho pessimist threatens to give tho names of the couple in print. We never saw the editor, but we picture him as a lank, dried up, wizened-faced, cadaver ous galoot, an old bachelor or a tyrant of a husband. Hook-nosed, green-eyed, bald-headed, one leg shorter than the other, one shoulder down, eats onions and smokes cubebs. Must have been raised on a bottle. We'll bet the dogs are afraid of him. Kicking iu the nineteenth century be cause the train was late. Sup pose the train hadn't come at all' Suppose that poor couple had to stay in the depot two weeks waiting for a train? Going to have them sit back like bumps on a log, eye each other and never show their love, just because an old warped, leather-lunged editor with egg on his chin and cold pan cake in his craw was one 'unwill ing spectator,' ain't ye? Don't understand the inscrutable fas cination of surreptitious oscula tory co-operative juxtaposition, doyou? Never palpitated tumult uously owing to the opalescent scintillation of a pair of unso phisticated cerulean blue optics, did ye? Never indulged in noc turnal responsive, interchange able hallucinatory embracing, did ye? Don't understand the intricate peregrinations and met aplasm psychic investigation and inebriant sinuosity of human te lepaftiy, can ye? Oh, no, you old impecunious, rhombohedra, iras cible, antiquated, inexorable ca luniinating quill jabber! You peevish old villifying, diabolical, acrimonious ink slinger! You satirical, old pig-headed, insidi ous, hollow-chested Cape Cod traducer! Confound it, why couldn't you let 'em hug?" Win dom Reporter. Philadelphia is in high feather. She has captured the Republican national convention. Chicago is correspondingly despondent, and her newspapers are voicing the cheap witted utterances of jeal ousy that indicate a narrow nat ure. The convention will meet June lilth and its sessions will be held in the big auditorium of the National Exiort Exposition, which will be enlarged so as to seat 15,000 people. The Repub licans declare that they feel so sure of victory that they can af ford to have the convention in a Republican state. It is of groat advantage also to the administra tion to have the meeting so near the capitol. The ticket is prac tically made up, although thero may be some kind of a slip on the vice presidency. Mr. McKinley will bo renominated for presi dent and Elihu Root, secretary of war, is scheduled to be named for vice president. The platform will be largely upon lines laid down in the president's message. The day after tho selection for the place of meeting was made the Philadelphia hotels were del uged with applications for rooms, some delegations calling for en tiro floors, the Associated Press securing thirty rooms and one New York newspaper alone more than that number. Headquar ters will be established at the Hotel Walton. 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