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
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are determined to close out all JftAHVi
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full stock of everything that pertaii Cur
to a large general merchandising9 f
business, they are receiving i Ja
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and best to select from. There tlstioi
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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
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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
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tno inclement wean
Tho Democi
and everything mr'
i hu
Quite a number o!j
tended the protrack
Pleasant Grove1
vu
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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.