FULTON COUNTY NEWS. Published Lvery Thursday. 13. W. Peck, Editor. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Thursday, Feb. l, 1900. COUNTY CENTENNIALS. SOME VALUABLE HISTORICAL DATA IS GIVEN. 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. visit the schools. If a man would start out totisk the tirst thousand pa rents lie met how many of them visited the schools attended by their chil dren during the past year, prob ably not more than tifty could truthfully auswer in the affirma tive. The greatest drawback to the public school system today is the lack of interest shown in it by parents. They imagine that when their little children are bundled up in the morning and headed toward the school room, then and there their responsibility ceases. They are willing, for some inexplicable reason, to turn the early life for the schooling ' is the life of their children over to some employed teacher or teachers, whom, the chances are, they never saw or met, nor even endeavored to see or meet. The parents buy the books, furnish the pupils and theu expect the teachers to do the rest. It is an alogous to au imaginary railroad that furnishes the track and cars, then hires au employe and leaves everything to him without supervision or direction or com pany control of any kind. Rail roads do not do this. Neither should parents expect nor allow the teacher to assume the whole burden of the child's school work. - . Parents and citizens generally should tako ten times the inter est in school work that they do. They should visit every school room in the district at least once a term if not of tener. By their oc casional presence at school build ings they could demonstrate to the teacher that his task is not merely a mercenary one, but one of education and uplift. All the more reason is there why parents should visit the rooms in which their children are being schooled Selfish interest, if no higher mo tive, should prompt this. How can a child be expected to take interest in school work if its pa rents cannot become interested enough to visit the school room once a year? Upm the results of our public school system depends the per mauaucy and stability of our country. Patriotism and educa tion walk hand iu hand". The lat ter inspires the former. They are synonymous and inseparable. The public schools stand for a bettor country, a higher citizen ship and a nobler destiny. Every encouraging environment should be thrown around them that they may grow and prosper and thus benefit the country all the more. To this end the interest of pa rents and citizens are essential, and without it the schools are im measurably weak. Au editor is a man. Ho can bear more ridicule than any oth er man, alive or dead aud they never die in lunatic asylums. They often die iu poverty as well as in jail. There are many kinds of editors rich, Hor, handsome, homely, good, bad, shrewd, igno rant, civilized, semi-civilized, bar baric, lying, snake, city, manag ing, telegraphic, financial aud many other kinds. Then there is the lighting editor. Many good citizens go to him to have their hair combed. They gener ally get it aud then sue the edi tor for libel tuul pay the costs. The Mercersburg tannery will bo in operation iu a few days. It will bo devoted exclusively to the manufacture of pateut leath er and will employ about 50 men at the outset. This number it is exjiectod will soon bo increased to 100. Charles Sigel the man ager of the Sigel Leather Com pany retires aud the name of the new firm, it is said, will be Byron, Brown & Co. Many Pennsylvania Counties Are Due For Centennial Celebration, If They So De sire, This Year. In 1904 a Lot More Can Jubilate. Written for the Franklin Repository by John M, Cooper, who, It will be remembered, own ed nnfl lived on. Rome thirty yenrx nuo, the Uenmer property up lit the foot of Sldellnif Hill. If all the counties in Pennsyl vania were to follow the example of Franklin aud some others and celebrate their Centennial there would be a gay time in the line of celebration iu the old Keystone as the years rolled along; and if every county did what it has been suggested that old Mother Cum berland shall do this year that is celebrate her sesqui centen nial there would bo a still gayer time. This closing year of the nine toeuth ceutury affords greater opportunity for county centen nial celebrations than will occur agaiu until the closing year of the twentieth century shall be reach ed, for the closing year of the eighteenth century(the year 1800) stands credited with the creation of nearly twice as many counties as were created in any other year in the history of Pennsylvania. Beginning with the three coun ties created by William Penu di rectly after his arrival in his in fant colony, I make up the follow ing list of names and dates, for tlio information of the readers of the Repository: A. D. 1(582. Chester, Philadel phia aud Bucks. 1729. Lancaster. 174U. York. 1750. - Cumberland. 17.2. Berks aud Northamp ton. 1771. Bedford. 1.772. Northumberland. 1773. Westmoreland. 1781. Washington. 1783. Fayette. 1784. Franklin aud Montgom ery. 1785. Dauphin. 1780. Luzerne. 1787. Huntingdon. 1788. Allegheny. 1789. Delaware and Mifflin. 1795. Somerset. 1796. Lycoming, Greene and Wayne. 1800. Armstong, Adams, But ler, Beaver, Centre, Crawford, Erie, Mercer, Venango and War ren. 1803. Indiana. 1804. Jefferson, McKean, Pot ter, Tioga, Cambria and Clear field. 1810. Bradford and Susque hanna. 1811. Schuylkill. 1812. Lehigh. 1813. Lebanon, Columbia and Union. 1814. Pike. 1820. Perry. 1831. Juniata. 1830. Monroe. 1839. Clarion aud Clinton. 1842. Wyoming. 1843. Carbon and Elk. 1840. Blair. 1847. Sullivan. 1848. Forest. 1850. Fulton, Lawrence and Montour. 1855. Snyder. 1800. Cameron. 1878. Lackawanna. From the list it will be seen that no loss than ten counties were formed in the closing year (1800) of the eighteenth ceutury and might celebrate their cen tennials in this (1900) the closing year of the nineteenth century, and I hope they will do it. If they should, and Cumberland should join in with the sesqui centennial celebration, there would be an uncommon season of joliticatiou iu Pennsylvania this year. Another chance would oc cur in 1904, when. ix counties might celebrate the one hun dredth year of their existence. After that not more than three could celebrate at one time be fore the year 2000, unless they did so on reaching their half cen tury mark. If any county iu the common wealth could show good reasons for holding a celebration twice in a century, Cumberland is that county. In her original form, and soon after her creation one hundred and tifty years ago, some of the most important eveu ts in the American history occurred on her soil. In the year 1749 a French officer had been sent by the Governor General of Canada (then called New France) to take official possession of the country along the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, aud he had placed leaden plates, bearing inscriptions at the mouths of principal streams, to certify the claim of France to the country. The plate deposi ted at the forks of the Ohio, (now Pittsburg,) was dated August 3, 1749, not quite six months before the formation of Cumberland county. In June, 1852, when the county was in the second year os her ex istence a conference was held at Logstown, an Indian village on tho Ohio, fourteen miles below 'the forks," between these com missioners and the chiefs of Indi an tribes in that neighborhood, at which a dispute about lands on the Ohio which had been ceded by the Delawares iu a treaty made at Lancaster iu 1744 was adjusted, a matter of much im rtance. The next year (1753) the French decided to erect a fort at Logstown and another at "the forks," and the first move they made was to seize the store house of the English traders at Logstown, with skins and goods of various kinds valued at .t'20, 000. This act of hostility could not be passed over, and in October of the same year George Washing ton was dispatched by the Gov ernor of Virginia to find the French commandant wherever he might be and demand-to be in formed of the intentions of tho French. Iu the execution of this mission ho traversed Cumber land county from a point some what northeast of what is now Cumberland, Md., to Le Boeuf, about where the town of Water ford stands, in Erie county, thus crossing nearly its whole diame ter in' tho western part. His mission had no satisfactory re sult. Directly after his return to Virginia a company of troops were sent out to "the forks," and early in 1754 the the first building was erected where Pitts burgh now stands. The French, however, took possession in April 1754, and built Fort Du Quesne aud held it till 1758. In the same year (1754) Wash ington, as Lieutenant Colonel, (Colonel Fry having died,) led a force of three hundred Virgini ans into Pennsylvania aud defeat ed the French at the Great Meadows, killing Jumonville, their commander. Here Wash ington built Fort Necessity, but was compelled to surrender it to a large force of French, who laid siege to it before it was fully completed. Braddock's expedition follow ed the next year,(1755) and sus tained the terrible defeat which made it such a memorable event. Tho . succeeding year (175(5) Col. Armstrong, of Carlisle, led his celebrated expedition to Kittau niug and inflicted terrible chas tisement on the hostile Indians there. Hugh Mercer and James Potter, whom Franklin county boasts among the former occu pants of her soil, were Captains uuder Armstrong. The next great event in the history of Cumberland county, and it is one of the great events iu the history of the United States, was the expedition of Gen. Forbes, which marched through Cumberland county from her eastern eud almost to her termination at tho west, and captured the coveted and highly iniKrtant point at tho "fords of tho Ohio," where Fort Du Quesne gave way to Port Pitt. This was the great turniug point in the conflict between the English and tho French in North America, aud it was on what was then tho soil of "Old Mother Cumberland" that this controlling act in a great drama was enacted; as it was al so ou her soil that Col. Bouquet, iu 17153, vanquished the Indians after a long and fierce combat at Bushy Run, in what is now West moreland county. Many thrill ing events connected with bor der warfare aud Iudian massa cres also occurred within her an cient limits, but time and space forbid the attempt to detail them. TO DESTKOY COMPI"! ! HON. An object lesson of the baneful character of the industrial trusts, especially with regard to the in jury they inflict upon labor, is furnished by the methods of the American Window Glass Com pany. This concern, finding that the competition of the indepen dent manufacturers of window glass was becoming serious, re cently made a sweeping reduc tion in prices to the extent of 33 lj3 per cent., and on last Thursday it made an additional cut of 5 )er cent, in single and 10 per cent, in doublo strength glass. Tho independent manu facturers declare that the arbi trary reduction in prices involves selling the product at a loss, and is made solely to drive competi tors out of business, when prices will be restored to tho old rate. The cut is said to bo ruinous to the co-operative factories run by wage-worker', which are without the capital to sustain them in selling glass at a loss until the trust tires of the warfare. The Glass Trust is sustained by a practically prohibitory tariff. It was one of the earliest and most favored beneficiaries of in ordinate protection, aud with its resources, set apart from its great profits, it proposes to de stroy its competitors. When it has closed the indeiendent fac tories by purchasing them or forcing them into the hands of the Sheriff, it will have fully re gained its old monopoly, aud will apply the same screws to the con sumers that it now applies to its rivals and to labor. The imme diate result of tho cut iu prices must bo felt in the abandonment of some plants and the reduction of wages in those kept in opera tion. Iu this the Glass Trust pursues the identical policy of the Sugar Trust, which wars against its competitors by cutting them out of their trade, while it displaces American labor iu its refineries and gives employment to aliens, who do not understand' the English language and are content to work for a pittance. It is probable that the Sugar Trust has done more to lower the American wage rate than any other corporation in the country. With the Glass Trust following suit in a reckless attempt to com pel its competitors to retire from business, we may expect to see the employes of glass factories pinched in their wages until they no longer receive sufficient re turns to enable them to support their families in the comfort to which the American mechanic and artisan is accustomed aud en titled. Monopoly is destructive of the rights of the consumer and the wage-worker alike. Con gress, in dealing generously by American manufacturers, did not intend that aggregations of capi tal should derive the sole benefit. Tho protective tariff principle, as interpreted by the St. Louis Con vention of tho Republican party, is "equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly." The Republican party cannot bliud its eyes to the injurious procedure of tho trusts, and the people will not be content with vague resolutions against mo nojMily or time-consuming inves tigations that produce no fruit. Tho country demands action, and, if tho Administration con tinues to trifle with this question, it will furnish Mr. Bryan with a weajKin, armed with which he will be a most dangerous antag onist. We are hearing much of takiug off the tariff to please the Puerto Ricans, but iu Adminis tration circles there is dense si lence as to letting dowu the tariff bars that bolster the trusts and oppress the American public. Senator Hanna, tho so called War wick of the Administration, is the frank aud strenuous support er of the monopolistic trusts which oppress both tho working people and tho masses of consum ers of trust productions. m:w usefok the trolley. In York county last week Judge Stewart made a ruling de signed to correct a lax method which in vogue in the granting of marriage licenses in that county. Ho decided that both parties to tho licouso must apjiear in per son to make the application. Mrs. Sara Dorau Terry, at tho age of 108 years, oue of Phil adelphia's oldest inhabitants, died on Suuday, January 14. She had never iu her life been serious ly ill until her last illness. She enjoyed good eyesight and pos sessed all her faculties. One of the aged woman's most vivid memories was when, as a girl she assisted Mrs. Oompton to pre pare a meal for Washington, the first president of the United States. From the North Amerlenn. In the cost of getting a pro duct to market often lies tho dif ference between profit aud loss. Therefore, whatever will reduce tho cost of transportation with out interfering with dispatch is of the greatest benefit to produ cers and consumers alike. The almost impossibility of a long and short haul rate that will work ex act justice to all concerned is now apparent, aud therefore relief must come to the local producers in some other way. At the pres ent time a farmer living forty miles from Philadelphia must pay about thirty-five cents freight on a barrel of apples to this city, but he may send the same barrel to Pittsburg for forty-five cents, and there does not seem to be any remedy for this apparent discrepancy in rates under condi tions as they exist. It is possible, however, that re lief for the local shipper may be held iu another way. The multi plicity of trolley railroads will in time remedy this, as well as a number of other disadvantages under which the rural population of the East now labor. It was the practice in the early days of steam railroads in Canada, and it was a practice borrowed from England, to load farm wagons and sleds on the trucks of rail road cars and haul them to mar ket without the expense of re loading, and this practice was only abandoned after the ques tion of time entered into the run ning of trains. In England what was formerly tho custom on steam roads is now being applied to electric lines, and the plan is so successful that there is no doubt that it can be adopted in this country with much satisfac tion. Experimental roads are already in operation in several places in this couutry and tho mode of op eration is very simple. The or dinary loaded farm wagon is sim ply driven upon a slightly raised platform and backed upon a spe cially prepared truck, and thus swung clear of the earth and se curely locked in its place, is at tached to a trolley car, and the load is off to market. It is readi ly conceivable that such a system must greatly decrease the cost of getting farm products into lo cal market, and must greatly fa cilitate the distribution of sup plies, which means not only greater profits to the producer, but cheaper goods to the consum er, and so must add to tho pro priety of all classes. bathed in molasses. E. L. Grier, Pittsburg, says the Valley Spirit, is a native of Chambersburg. He has some distinct recollections of war scenes that he witnessed. At the burning of Chambersburg the Confederates set fire to tho bed in which his invalid grand-mother lay. He was clerk for a gro cer at Gettysburg at the time of the battle. He was sitting at home on his doorstep when the Confederates rode up and order ed him to go dowu to the store. They put him in the cellar in front of the molasses barrels, where they kept him for three hours without rest filling their canteeus with molasses. A petty officer rode up and demanded that his canteen be filled before tho others. Mr. Grier replied ho was not accustomed to being ordered about and that the offi cer would have to take his turn. When he was about through drawiug molasses, tho men pour ed a lot of tho sticky stuff down his back uuder his shirt, smeared his head full, aud held him up side dowu and poured it in his pantaloon legs. To add to his misery he was enveloped by yellow-jackets, honey bees, and Hies, and was marched clown street to receive the jibes of his tormentors. Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, on whom mauy persons believe the mantle of Moody has fallen, is about to begin an active evange listic campaign iu New York. Dr. Chapman some years ago con ducted a very successful revival in Chambersburg.- Since last May he has been pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, at West End avenue and ninety-first street, which has prospered un der his direction. 1 6. W. Reisner t frted, are determined to close out all JftAHVi '-the Wi purchases there, Woolen 8 c 0 : M0 o winter stuffs, and it will be dolla W thn in your pocket to make yo J1, pn tin Sou. bp of ipling jongH Dress Good ploset that to-day could not be bought m i der 20 cents, they will sell you'hl 16 simply as example of wh.tg t; you can do there. ' tof jruni They have a few very nice Uy hclmt LADIES' ru ledult JACKET'1 u, th yet that you can buy very cheapWac .,. d anc good styles and qualities. Wl ji sigi Almost Daily, GEO they say of one article, or one lijr ci will apply all through the store, j8'" Remember that in order to keepl11E 1 full stock of everything that pertaii Cur to a large general merchandising9 f business, they are receiving i Ja New Goods fXt l was L to so that you always have the latesQ h( and best to select from. There tlstioi always odds and ends, incident to;!? wa! ad nc large trade that must go at a greijhey bargain. f a f J to O O fvalo 3 3fc road fckly jhe'r t on t sli o 0, a 0'A O 0 0. ti 0 ' 00M0M,0,000000 0,0000t0XH.. 0K0-J00 0000HM0 0A000i c ;s ;j (te.S, J its Please Call and See. . I. REISNER AMARANTH. Supt. Chesnut visited our schools last week. Charley Rice and Miss Emma Fisher spent Saturday and Sun day with tho family of John G. Spade, at Sipes Mills. John Decker and wife, of War fordsburg, were the guests of their daughter, Mrs. W. C. Mc Kee, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Emma Robinson spent Sunday with Miss Amy Hixon. James Carson spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Daniel Strait, of Robinsonville. Last Sunday, Mrs. Alex. Sipes and Mrs. Brown, of Silver Mills, were the guests of Mrs. Sipes's father, Robert Carson, who is very ill. Mrs. Geo. McKibbiu, of Buck Valley, who has spent the past two weeks visiting relatives near Haucock, came home Monday. John S. Crawford lost a bay colt last week about twenty-three or twenty-four years old. Joseph Lehman, of Lashley was over in our neighborhood last week. Jacob F. Spade is singing 'Rock-a-by-baby on the tree top. " Just a pair of girls that's all. Their names aro Nora Lois and Bessie Viola. Jacob is ten years younger than he was last wook, aud he says he is a thousand dol lars bettor off. Wm. Potter, of Lashley, was tho guest of Jacob Spade, last Wednesday. Miss Fannie Hendershot and Walter Spade were tho guests of Stephen Wagner and family, Sunday afternoon. . The farmers of Union township will meet at Buck Valley Grange Hall next Saturday at 12 p. m., for tho purpose of organizing au agricultural society. Como oue; come all. ' Hon. M. Edgar King, editor of tho Fulton county Republican during tho civil war, and later of thu Blair county Whig, published at Hollidaysburg, and still later of the Blair county Radical, pub lished at Altoona, died at his home iu Philadelphia a few days ago, being buried at that place on the 14th instant. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. WHIPS (y3 F0C . Pd Quite a change C(i phere since last w's w think that "winteil" ter is earnest." i The measles are I community. I'sa Mrs. Hoopengari(BDU recovering, iay Geo. Brabson, S - 0. are among the sick!601-: Elliott Ray, Biglf"8 paid the Cove a tm' cently. tmo Messrs. DieMa11 been busy sawing eral of our farmers f5'0 Supt. Ckesuut p;re our valley on Thurf t: itiug our two schotv'He His presence in ttrs' is an inspiration to f bu and pupils. On Tuesday eftrp number of young if. own and neighbor:rr,f assembled at theh Diehl, who is at h from Harrisburg ' ,hf been for some tm ped the "light faulty, the time of lively ts "wee sma' hours'VL ' when they sought t,ss well satisfied wither amusement. ida. There was pra)vfarl Jerusalem church o'W' 1 evening, which Vi larsrelv attended - v . . . ,5 tno inclement wean Tho Democi and everything mr' i hu Quite a number o!j tended the protrack Pleasant Grove1 vu weatii critic N ,s lnrfH It! It is proposed to ciety to be known a Daughters of the Fir It will com nose the of the members of l companies from "fi respond to the call Lincoln in 1801 j If you are interes' about it to your fi them to subscribe.
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