FULTON COUNTY NEWS. Published Every Thursday. 13. W. PtiCK, Editor. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Thursday, March 22, 1900. 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. WHEN THE MINISTER COMES TO TEA. Oh! they've Hwt'pt the parlor unrpct, ami they've dusted every chair, And they've pot the tidies huntrin' jest exootly on the square: And the whatnot's llxed up lovely, and the mats have nil been heat, And tho pantry's brinunin' over with the bully things ter eat. Sin hos got her Sunday dress on and Klio's friz.in' up her bungs, Ma's got 011 her best ulpacky und she's nskin' how It hangs, l'u has shaved as slick as can be, and I'm rigged way up in G, And it's all because we're goin' ter have the minister ter tea. Oh! the table's fixed up gaudy with the gilt-edged ()hii:y set, And we'll use the silver tea-pot and the eomp'ny spoons, you bet; And we're goin' to have some fruit cake and some thimbleberry jam. And "ri. biscuits'' and some dough nuts, and some chicken und some hum. Ma she'll 'polergino like fury and suy everything is bad, And "such awful luck with cookin,' " she is sure she never hud: , Hut, er course, she's only blullin,' for it's as prime as it can be. And she's only talkin' that wuy 'cause the minister's ter tea . Kvwybody'll bo a stnilin' and us good as ever wu., l'u won't growl about the vittles, like he generally does, And he'll ask me would I like another piece of pie; but, sho! That, er course, is only manners, an' I'm s'posed ter answer, "No." Sis'll talk about the church-work and about the Sunday school, Ma'll toll how she liked that sermon that wus on the Golden Utile, And if I upset my tumbler they won't suy a word ter me; Yes, a boy cun eat in comfort with the minister ter tea! Say! a minister, you'd reckon, never'd say what wasn't true; Hut that isn't so with ours, und I jest can prove it, too; 'Onus when Sis plays on the organ so It makes yer want ter die, Why, he sets and suys it's lovely; und that, seems ter mu, 's a lie; But I like him all the sumey, and I only wish he'd stay At our house for good and always, and eat with us every day; Only think of huvin' goodies every evenin'! Jimminee! And I'd never git a scoldin' with the minister ter tea! KENTUCKY WOES. Man born in tlio wilds of Ken tucky is of feud days aud easy virtue. lie fishoth, tiddlcth and fightoth all tho days of his life. He shuuueth water as a mad dog and drinkcth much whiskey. lie riseth even from his cradle to seek the scalp of his grand sire's enemy, aud briugoth home in his carcass the ammunition of his neighbor's wife's uncle's father-in-law who reveugeth the deed. Yea, verily, his life is uncertain and he knoweth not the hour when ho may be tired hence. . Ho goeth on a journey "half shot" and comethback on a shut ter, shot. lie rises in tho night to let tho cat out, and it taketh nine doctors three days to pick the buckshot from his person. He goeth forth in joy and glad ness aud cometh back in scraps and fragments. lie calleth his fellow man a liar and getteth himself tilled with scrap iron even to tho fourth gen eration. He emptieth a demijohn into himself and a shotgun into his enemy aud his enemy's son lieth in wait on election day, and, lo, the Coroner ploweth up a forty acre field to bury tho remains of that man. Manila American. At Edward White's sale in Franklin couuty u few days ago, three Durham cows sold, respect ively, for 10l. Vi-!, H.'ul $132.r.. A Durham live-mouths thii' calf brought $7", aud a yearling bull. $70. OIL DISCOVERED AT HANCOCK ;( Years A no. What Was True Then Is Equally as True Now. I'niin The Iliiiii'uPk Times. Tho following statement was received by a Director of the (Jraham Oil Company in reply to a loiter which he had written for tho purpose of satisfying him self and others interested, witli the important fact that petrole um exists in these parts. The letter containing the statement has reference to an incident that occurred some thirty years ago. Klkins, W. Va., March!), 1S.KH). Mr. , Dkak Sir: Your letter re ceived, asking mo to give a state ment of tho indications of oil nt the oil well I worked at, located about one mile north of Hancock, Md. "I was drilling tho night the water arose to the top of tho well and throw out a strong odor. Mr. Joshua Creager was running the engine, and so sanguine was ho that wo would strike oil on tho next shift, which Mould come on at 12 o'clock, that he would not sell his shares without he got a big price for them. Mr. Lewis Hoard and Mr. John Griff ith tho two men who came on at 12 o'clock that night were cau tioned to bo careful, and if they should strike oil and it was a llowiug well, to put tho tire out of tho engine aud call me. About 4 o'clock in the moruiug they called me, but instead of strik ing oil, they had lost the reamer in tho well. When I got to the derrick I could hoar a peculiar hissing noise in the hole. In letting tho tools down tho hole they fell, striking the ream er with such force that it was driven through the shell or crev ice of the rock. At that moment the water boiled up to tho floor of tho derrick. It continued to How aud recede for about eight hours, then it calmed down and dropped about 40 feet below the floor of the derrick. We then pumped water from tho well and put it in a barrel and we' could see globules of oil come to the top of the "water. There was a gen tleman at the well by tho name of Dodge, from Clear Spring, Md., who took about a pint of the wa ter to Washington, D. C, to have it analyzed. Tho analysis show ed it to be one-tenth oil. Tho hole was 004 feet deep and tho tools remain fastened in the well to this day. I believe if the hole had been put down deeper we would have gotten oil." Kespectfully yours, JamksP. McCustkh. There aro other places besido Rouzervi!lo where oil exists, and judging from the indications of oil, set forth in tho above letter, it is to be believed that oil would eventually be discovered, should the abandoned well at Praukin Mills, bo again operated. The di rectors of tho Graham Oil Com pany actuated by the recent oil liud at Kouzervillo have taken steps in tho direction of selling stock in order to develop tho hid den treasures, and we hope they will meet a liberal response from the people. "Cordially Yours." Interesting conclusions are drawn from a study of the differ ent ways writers subscribe them selves. The curt "Yours" and "Yonrs truly" aro found not only in business letters, but in perso nal notes as well, for there are plenty of correspondents who do not believe in gushing, and who think that "Your truly" or "sin cerely "means about all they wish to convey. Opposed to these sen sible and essentially practical persons is that class of writers, made up of youug aud enthusias tic individuals, usually of the gentler sex, who throw words about as careless on paper as they do in conversation, and thoso who sign themselves "affection ately yours" even when writing to casual acquaintances. "Cor dially yours," by tho way, is seeu more and more frequently now in notes between acquaintances who aro on distinctly friendly or cor dial terms. After all, "sincerely yours," when it can be used truthfully, is a simple and satis factory way of ending friendly letters. Homo people have tho habit of not prefacing their names with any set form at the end of letters. They stop when they Nit through and simply write tliftr signatures, mis ooiug an easy way out of the difficulty. THE WAR TAXES. The heavy surplus in the Treas ury is composed in large part of tho proceeds of the internal rev enue, or war taxes, imposed to meet the special emergency of the Spanish-Ainericau war. The customs receipts also are increas ing greatly, and are helping to swell the surplus. The dutiable merchandise imported iuto the country for the eight months end ing with February, 15)00, were, $7,5)77,07(1, in execs of tho dutia ble imports for the correspond ing period of last year. The Fed eral revenue3 aro likely to contin ue to exceed the current expen ditures at a rapid pace, bringing iuto the Treasury an enormous sum which would otherwise re main in circulation. To restore it to the active channels of trade tho Government is depositing largo sums in the banks. One of our. contemporaries, referring to this expedient, suggestively says that it is au anomalous situation when the government feels called upon to deposit millions in the banks to bo loaned out "to some of the same people from whom the money was taken in tho form of unnecessary taxes." The scientific, and direct meth od of dealingwith a surplus which must be thus manipulated, aud which invites raids on tho Treas ury in the interest of oxtrava gaut, indefensible aud fantastic schemes of spoliation, is to reduce tho unnecessary taxes which are producing the templing spoil. It is sought to hypnotize tho coun try and the lawmakers with tho seductive cry that this is a couu 'ry of limitless resources, and that its expouditurosfjshould be commensurate with its wealth aud revenue producing capacity. Hence wo aro hearing much of gigantic canal, cable and ship sub sidy projects, while the demands of the Governmental departments the military aud naval establish ments, the appropriations for un necessary public buildings, aro soaring high above tho require ments of government prudently, but not parsimoniously, adminis tered, for tho reason that exces sive taxation is producing a fund which the specious statesman can draw upon for tho "public bene fit." When it is necessary to make such prodigal outlays to re duce the surplus, tho country is entering upon dangerouscourses, from which it should bo recalled by statesmanlike action. If a tithe of tho heavy expenditure's which are contemplated by the various schemes of public plun der now pending iu various dis guises in Congress materializes, the country, so far from being re lieved from the burthensomeand annoying taxes which were im posed upon it for purely war emergency purposes, will become a permanent infliction, with the probability of increase. Once assumed, theouerous sub sidy projects now on foot will bo a continuing lieu ou our resourc es. They will bear with crush ing effect upon the country iu times of financial or trade de pression, which is the common lot of nations. A commercial war, or a more serious collision with a great Power, might se riously reduce the Federal reve nuo below that of uormally pros perous years. If so, the revenue absorbing schemes now incubat ing might loom largely as nation al burdens. The safe way to take care of the threatening surplus is to reduce it by abolishing at least a portion of the war taxes. Mauy of these taxos are of the vexatious, gad fly sort, which tend to -obstruct or dinary business. The stamp tax es on telegrams, bank chocks, bills of lading, policies, leases, aud other transactions should be removed. The ingenuity of our Federal lawmakers scorns to be occupied in devising ways and means to create a pretext for the permanent imposition of all tho existing internal revenue taxes, aud to discover new subjects of taxation. Good government con sists in lightening, not increas ing, tho burdens of tho people. On Tuesday of litst week the People's Register was transfer red to Mr. J. H. Roberts, of Cam den, New Jersey. This is tho first time since tho Register was started over twenty-five years ago by tho lato J. G. Schaff,. that its management has changed from tho direction of some mem ber of tho Schaff family. PETROLEUM SURE. Kfho l'ilot.OrftunciiNtle. The well upon the farm of Isaac Moiiiighau, Rouzcrvillo, was giv en another thorough test for oil Saturday by the lessees, Messrs. Amberson and Newcomer, in the presence of mauy interested spectators. Tho well is 43 feet deep and the 13 feet of water in was all pumped out. Then to bo sure of no "salting" the sides of the well wore scraped carefully aud the bottom also. In a few minutes from tho clay at tho bot tom came bubbling up little glo bules of what anyone will swear is oil. Samples of tho oil taken before had been sent to tho Standard Oil Compauy office at Lancaster and word came back that tho samples were crude petroleum of good grade, light in color. Before the water was pumped out there was over au inch and a half of the oil upon the surface of the water. A jug was let down with the cork iu and when it readied the bottom tho cork was pulled and into tho jug ran a quantity of oil. Into tho creek at Roadside for 35 years there has been ruuning au oil of about the same sort but no one ever knew whence it came. It is likely from tho same field. Youthful Precocity. A little girl who had just enter ed school lately jubilantly an nounced to her father that sho did better than all the girls above her iu tho arithmetic class and went to the top. "That was smart of you," said ho encour agingly. "How was it?" "Well, you see Miss Maggie asked the girl at the top how much was 8 aud .r; and she didn't kuow aud said 11'; then the uext girl said 5), and tho uext one said 11, and tho next 14. Such silly answers! Then Miss Maggie asked mo, and I said 13, and Miss Maggie told me, to go up top. 'Course it was 13. "', "That was nice," said the father. "I didn't know you could add so well. How dhl you kuow it was 13V" Why, I guess ed it! Nobody said 13." Phila delphia Hulletin. A DARING FEAT. (ji-i'L'ueustlo l'ress. On Saturday night Mr. Elmer Pentz, a resident of this place, and a flagman ou the C. V. R. R. proved himself a thorough and efficient railroad man, by the dar ing and miraculous feat of cap turing part of a runaway freight train, that came dashing into town, driving ahead of it tho en gine aud tho rest of tho train. Mr. Pentz was on tho Public Square when he discovered that there was something wrong with the freight coming iu from Claim bersburg. Iu a moment he took iu tho situation, and as the engine came sounding the danger or dis tress signal, ho was quick to com prehend that tho train had broken and was coming iu two sections on a down grade, tho last half chasing tho first half, which was doing its best to keep out of harm's way. His thorough train ing told him just now aud what to do under the circumstances, but it was a dangerous undertaking and a misstep might have cost his life. As the wild section came into tho square ho mounted to tho platform of a freight car aud applied the brakes in succes sion and was soon master of tho situation, averting a costly acci dent to life and property. Ho was highly commended by our citizens and should bo rewarded by the company for his fidelity. The Potato Candle. A uico young American girl who was engaged for service by a West Philadelphia family, being directed to leave a candlestick and caudle iu tho lower hall for tho master of the house, amusod herself by paring a potato into candle shape and sticking a clove iu it for a wick. This sho made ready with several matches for her employer, who, having turu cd out the gas, spent live minutes in vainly trying to light tho pota to candle. Then he stumbled up stairs iu tho dark and asked his wife to explain. She called upon tho maid servant, who replied that it was so lonely there sho wanted to bo turned off the next day, when sho would get her whole week's wages, aud so she adopted the candle expedient. THE PAY OE ACTORS. Franklin Fy les, wr i ti n g o f ' 'The Theater .and its People" iu Tho Ladies' Home Journal, touches interestingly upon tho earnings of actors and corrects the oft re peated reports of tho enormous earnings of players. "Salaries vary with circumstances," ho says. "The managers may find at $25 a week a player whose moderate talent exactly fits a part of considerable importance. He may have to pay $150 if tho role is singular aud lit candidates scarce. If he wants celebrity in addition to ability, ho may bo willing to make the salary $500 a week. In that caso he takes into accouut the public value of the name aLd makes a feature of it in his advertisements. "Not more than ten actors in America, aside from the stars, receive as much as $250 a week, and not more than five actresses are paid this amount. Iu fact, $250 a week is exceptional, and $100 will engage au excellent hero or heroine, a fine comedian or a delineator of eccentric character. Tho wages run down to $75 for a soubrette, ingenue or old man, to $50 for an old woman, juvenile man or juvenile woman, aud so along to utility and chorus men and women at $12 or $1H a week. Thoso aro tho wages of thorough ly competent actors iu companies of good grade." VARNISHED 1 OOT-WEAR. "I have been experimenting with a new scheme, and behold the result!" exclaimed tho prac tical mother, as she displayed a small pair of shoos, with dilapi dated uppers but comparatively good soles. "I was lamenting the size of our shoo bill recently, when I was advised to 'cover the soles with three or four coats of copal varnish, and they will never need re-soling. ' As in less than six week's time our little chap's new shoes are ready for the cob bler. I immediately invested in some varnish, and, in lieu of a brush, made a swab, aud varnish ed the soles of all the footwear of the family expense, 10 cents, and some varnish left over. I found (after a-while) that I had preserved the soles indefinitely. The heels needs varnishing as well, and the more coats you give shoes tho longer they will last. It will be found that soles aud heels preserved iu this way will outwear the strongest uppers." One Against the Mean Man. A capital joke is related of a man who positively made a line art of meanness. When travel ing, as ho very ofteu did, ho would keep railway porters busily at-' tending to his luggage, and then purposely defer the much-deserved perquisite till tho starting of tho train made its payment prac tically impossible. One morning, however, when about to journey to Birmingham, he executed this manoeuvre once too often on the same niau. "Dear! dear! I am so sorry, "ho said, as the train gave a lurch for ward, "I quite forgot to get some change." "And I'm rale sorry, too," was the porter's dry retort; "I quite forgot about that brown portman tay of yours it's lying on tho platform." Power of Habit. "Habits of temperance or in temperance," says Dr. Mary Wood-Allen in "Baby's Firsts," "may bo inculcated in the baby by the plan pursued iu its feed ing. The food,' if given irregu larly, is of necessity given intern perately, and the child is thus taught to eat for the gratification of tho sense of taste, which is of itself the foundation of iutemper auce. If tho child is fed every time it cries, or to still paiu, the lesson taught is to try to forget present discomfort by puttiug something into its mouth. It will not bo surprising if a child thus taught follows out tho teachiug in maturity aud attemps to quiet sorrow, to drown care, to deaden paiu, by putting some thing iuto its mouth, learning after a time that alcohol has a charm that temporarily annihi lates all grief. We thus come to seo that the regular habit of feed ing infants has in it a moral qual ity, aud is worth our borious consideration.,. A WAYNESHORO MAN'S INVEN I ION. An invention that is attracting considerable attention over the country and being commended by many firemen and builders, says Valley Spirit, is the produc tion of a Franklin couuty man, James I'. Lowell, of Waynesboro. Mr. Lowell no doubt actuated by recent appalling fatalities of fires iu mills rosultiug from the opera tives Doing compelled to jump from the windows to escape tho flames, lias devised a fire refuge chamber, to be built in counec liou with windows. The win dows aro often the only means of escape in case of tiro. In raising these drafts are created so that tho flames and smoke soon pour out of them, forcing the unfortu nates who have taken refuge on the sills either to jump to their possible death below or to remain aud be smothered or burned to death. 11ns chamber is formed of shutters of iron, or suitable uon iuflammable material, their de sign being such that when the lower and upper shutters are res pectively raised and lowered, and the side shutters folded iu against them, a smokeproof chamber is formed. In it one may take ref uge and remain until tho firemen have an opportunity to raise lad ders or stretch jumping nets. This arrangement effectually pro tects tho one who has taken ref uge iu it until they aro rescued, unless, of course, the fire should first destroy that particular part of the building. The fact that the window is thus closed helps ma terially iu preventing the spread of the flames. Besides, it is op erated from tho inside of the building, and thus forms a fire shutter that can be more quickly placed iu operation thau shutters ou tho outside of a buildiug. Another Post Office Ruling. Tho Post Office Department has authorized the issue and use j of tho mails of reply envelopes and cards without prepayment of j postage. To tho merchant or j business man having an exten j sivo mail business this mea'sure ; will bo of great importance. In . sending out reply cards under tho old system the sender had to i prepay the postage aud take the risk of receiving any reply at all. I A merchant who sends out thous I ands of these cards is thus' sub j jected to a great loss because the I reply cards on which ho has paid postage aro frequently left un j used. Under the new plan he ; will not bo called upon to pay the j postage upon tho reply cards un til they are returned to him. Telephone und Telegraph Mes sages. Telephone aud telegraph mes sages wore scut successfully ov er the same wiro one day last week between Chattanooga and Kuoxville, Tennessee. For some timo tho Postal. Telegraph com pany and the East Tenuesseo Telephone compauy have been experimenting on the probl-mi of sending telephone and telegraph messages over the same wires with a vio'.v of adopting the sys tem. A practical demonstration was made and the officers of both coinpitLioM ;iro now coaviacud that both telegraphic aud tele phouic communication can bo successfully established and op erated over tho same wiro. j DOTT. j Ora Laytou is sick. I James Mellott expects to move his sawmill to Franklin Mills next week to saw a largo lot of j timber for William Golden, i Albert Boss and Ben Gordon attended proaehiug at Mays Chapel last Sunday. I Heury Laytou has captured dur j iug tho past season eight coous, j twenty-eight polecats aud twice I that many possums. Guy Deuoou was homo last j week. He looks well, j Lillian Fisher spout last Satur : day aud Sunday with Grace Lay- ton. Ira Hess and wife were guests of Bert Hixsou's family last Sun day. Some miscreant stole Roy Gar land's buggy whip at the debate at Gordon's school house last Friday evening. Ohio Garland had the misfor tune last Suuday evening to have her arm severely injured. 'I HE IM),v, The anui 1 - -agents wlii,.,krA'' by tlH Coin,,,; Affairs will bii"' form of nu ir.ei lortof tho (',. show that tlR., prk illation is !i; j" 11 " 07!) wear citi?, 1''' 31,5J23weuri;:" and r.ivili,.j who can read t r ( 53,314 can caf; Led aid: W'Utfl MilllOll it are 25,230 dve; withiu the last Wf 11UI uirr in Ml rills deaths ri.LTi;) es; i iO I uians were and seven wi, tor 1' 'i. One Tnrli,,,, .... Indians. Tl1;"1 criminals pT ' r There were ,U,,)UKe members aud s. ?-rt'u x, ivel, mgs on tl levari ' TheamountoftP' in tho last yoar F , other societies i tion, $20i,r1ir,;flJ'to work, $115), -la;, f Now York fortlLy t 1 ... 1 V , f rtunuui ;siai)iis, Hrt n I tw March li'.-jeas has been iayijuud tives in Bedford f $2,' Mr. and Mrs. J tr. their nephew ai i Mrs. J. W. ('nfcjov,: M. L. Shaw 4t B attended proatlg f last Sunday. Jug;i Mrs. .Tallies Li bu' as having lM!(!ueBu$ Luther Hiet Ue, ; Virginia toliisfcimir mill, which lie r-, ed from Andrai jmp Tho.parsonagrfear. Baptist "''ch'Tboa pleteu anil Jaim in April 1. Miss Kate Sli list api her sister, MrsJj n clay. L th Miss McCulk. jri burg, was visitLi head Suuday. f8j TH0.M Sim leaf March 15. M.j8 j, still quite ) oil.y jj0 Mrs. B. F. Hevjo,,, urday with hw L y McEldowuey, u-0,,i W. H. Hess si jd with D. T. lluml 'liu During tho p I to there were 241) cc-'h v iters at Hess anil ceo store. 5. Tho abscess otgC head has not lwa an Mr. aud Mrs.' t Waynesboro sp1: 1, Sunday at B. F. tfext Our friend Saii to Needmore ocivP , a fine gal; isu'Ul i y( jtlit DUBLL'tc -tin March 14.-I ed to Trough OO-w fJome of our Mo: entertain incut at f 1 day night. fl,s' Scott ami J"..ifia ScottWine'iir(liH':to 'possums Tliiirs" It is reported imi inger is goin-' '"fy vale. iu William Kai'l'l'f10 lime. or Venie Vinrf r; . I'll recovering. E Kev. Sellout farewell serin""" II. ;n : evening prior t Conference. ?V ' Howard HuriK'tr ill f,. o.inu WlW" covering. Frank KoiW"1 ion wrestler. It Ll Din tl SAIXV March lit- Our er John Hu' marksman, Hl'ur sisted by )l,ut ; others. slauKhtt'1''' I". t for Merchant W. week. ' The uuiw"1 alive; and 704, dn Mrs. Bulta-r Bick list. King MaloU'""; Speer's now nt day. V
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