FULTON COUNTY' NEWS. Published Every Thursday. 13. W. PtiCK, Editor. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Thursday, April 12. 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. ROCK OF ACF.S. "Flock of agos, cleft for me," Thoughtlessly the. imiiilen ming, Fell the words unconsciously From her girlish, (fleeful tongue; Sang as little children sing; Sang as sings the birds in June; Fell the words like light leaves down, On the current of the tuno "I lock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hldo myself In thee." "Let mo hide myself in thee," Sweet the song as song could be, And she had no thought beside; All the world unheedingly Fell from lins untouched by care; Dreaming not that they might bo On some other lips a prayer "Hock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself In thee." "Ilock of ages, cleft for me," 'Twas a woman sung them now, Pleadingly and prayerfully, Kvery word her heart did know: Hose the song as storm-tossed bird Heats with weary wing the air, Kvery note with sorrow stirred, Every syllable a prayer "Hock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee." "Ilock of ages, cleft for me," Lips grown aged sung the hymn Trustingly and tenderly, Voice grown weak and eyes grown dim, "Let me hide myself in theo." Trembling though the voice, and low, Hose the sweet strain peacefully, Like a river in Its flow; Sung as only they can sing Who behold the promised rest "Ilock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee." "Rock of ages, cleft for me," Sung above a coflin lid; Underneath all restfully, All life's joys and sorrows hid. Nevermore, O storm-tossed soul, Nevermore from wind or tide, Wilt thou need thyself to hide. Could thy sightless, sunken eyes, Closed beneath the soft gray hair, Could the mute and stiffened lips Move again in pleasing prayer, Still, aye still, the words would be "Let me hide myself in thee.'' In another week the Cumber land Valley telephone company will have its line from Lehmaster to Mercersburg completed. The poles are planted between the two points. A stone bridge is to bo built by Franklin county over Dennis creek in Hamilton township. The point at which the bridge will cross the stream is about six miles from Chambersburgon the Fort Loudon road. Since the auditors' settlement at the beginning of the year claims for damage to sheep by dogs have been tiled as follows: A. R. Edwards, Taylor town ship, live injured, appraised dam age, 0.50; Oliver Hill, Bethel township, six killed and seven in jured, fcUG; Benjamin Weaver, Thompson township, six killed, $20. U. II Hain, for several years editor of the Duucannon (Perry county) Record, has sold the pa per to S. G. VanFossen, of Sha ron, Pa., and will engage in the grocery and huckstering busi ness. We wish him abundant success in his new Held and ven ture to predict that ho will make far more. money than he did in the newspaper business. Twenty-one pounds and four teen ounces of butter in seven consecutive days wustho result of a Holstein cow owned and rais ed by Samuel II. Eby, toller of the First National Bauk ofGreen castle. Ffty pounds of milk per day is her ordiuary yield during the pasturing season. Mr. Eby holds the belt of Southern Penn sylvania. Mrs. George O. Clark, of Bed ford county, has just finished a quilt that has one hundred and eight squares, with twenty-one pieces each, undone hundred and forty-seven squares, with seventy pieces each; the border has four hundred and live pieces in it. The total number of pieces in the quilt is Ave thousand, one hun dred and seventy-t'vo. Who can boat it? FIRST OF APRIL 1 I.MS. - , Prom Kiillou Hi'puhllean. Our poet dedicates the follow ing verses to those who moved this spring: As you near your destination Kilger eyes through curtains peer, All the furniture inspecting, Then come comments oft severe. And the people who'll be neighbors At the place of new abode Watch till everything is taken From the last big wagon load. Then the woman who is mistress Of the house just occupied Takes her turn, and makes inspection Of each room from side to side. And she'll make this declaration When the neighbors on her call: "I've seen many dirty houses, Hut found this one worst of all." Ex-Sheriff Frank Mason moved from Cleveuger property to that of Miss Jennie Carson. P. P. Mann from property re cently purchased by Max II. Sheets from M. S. Wilt to Clev enger property. John Sheets from house sold to D. T. Fields to that vacated by P. P. Mann. I). T. Fields from farm in Tod township to residence purchased from John Sheets. Hon. Peter Morton from farm in Belfast township to one pur chased from D. T. Fields in Tod township. William Riuedollar from this place to Shady Grove, Franklin couuty. Levi Dehart from Sheets prop erty to house vacated by Cooper family. J. Frank Sheely to residence vacated by Mrs. Erb. Mrs. Erb to Maryland. Charles Rider from Greathead property to farm purchased in Ayr township. 1 Mrs. George McQuade from Ayr township to Greathead prop erty. J. Milton Uuger from farm in Ayr township to Isaac Hull's house. Eli Largent from Daniel's house to Gress house. C. C. Rotz from Gress house to farm of Samuel A. Nesbit, in Tod township. Harry Linn from Mrs. Jack son's house to Daniel's property. Mrs. Egulf from Mrs. Unger's house to house of Mrs. Jackson. Harry Gress from farm iu Ayr township to house of Mrs. Uuger. Edward Brake from Baum gardner house to Wagner's. Prof. Miller from Wagner's house to Hopewell, Bedford county. Charles Tritle from Senator Alexander's house to Mrs. Baum gardner's house. William II. Nesbit from Dick sou's to Mollie Seylar property. Misses Sloan from farm iu Tod township to Dickson property. Edward Grissiuger from town to Sipes' tenant house on farm recently purchased from Dr. Trout estate. Aaron Richards from Big Cove Tannery to Sipes farm. Robert Cutcliall from Sipes farm, east of town, to McQuado's farm, west of town. James Henry from his farm at Knobsville to one recently pur chased from Sloan's heirs, ad joining this place. Will Cowan from S. A. Nesbit's farm In Tod township, to farm of George Stiger, in Franklin coun ty. Strike. This b a world of strife, aud this an age of much striving. The nations are striving for possess ions, the individual, for objects, until it all seems like a mad whirl for the thing desired. Gold and silver, honor aud power, all are the weak beggarly things of the world, and how small they look to us by aud by, if by their attainment we barter life eternal. Paul recommended "striving to gether for the faith of the gos pel;" and from the lips of One who spake as never man spake wo hear, "Strive to enter in at the straight gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to outer in and shall not bo able." For what are you striving? For what am I striving' For the meat which perisheth or that which eudureth? A slick swindler visitedllagors town recently and worked u bo gus check game. He rented a house and got money in change on a bad check. It is believed ho worked this old game upon oth ers there. WF.IRI) (iVl'SY OFRFMONV. i i Vi'llcy Spirit. April . Within Hie shadow of the old Holly well .paper mill this after noon, a weird ceremony, the chief actors iu which wore mem bers of the famous Lovoll gypsy tribe, of Elizabeth, N. J., was en acted. Last November So1.li Lovoll, a leader of the tribe, died in a Philadelphia hospital, leav ing a portion of his worldly pos sessions in Chambersburg. It was for destroying these possess ions his wife, Rhoda,, and her nephew 'and niece, Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, Israel Smith, aud Lovoll 'a adopted son, came to Chambersburg this morning. Immediately upon the arrival of tlie party here they made their way to the carriage shop of Lem uel King, whore Lovoll 's van, in which he had made many trips, had been stored for the winter. The wagou was taken to Holly well aud there, with many of the dead man's belongings, was cov ered with kerosene aud set on ti re. The ceremony was not without its pathetic features. On a small bauk near the burniug'wagou the gray haired partner of the dead gypsy sat and wept out her grief calling Him her "dear Seth," be moaning her loneliness in the world and wishing that she might join him, assenting her readiness to die. The wagon of ferod up as a sacrifice and tosti menial of her affection cost $ir(0 and it contaiued articles of the husband that made the total val ue of the burning property 2( ((). William Smith, the uephew.had charge of the ceremony, although the wife kept a watchful eye from her seat on the bauk that there should be no hitch in the program and that all of her lius baud's belonging's be destroyed. The wagon was a substantial ve hide built of the best material aud of excellent design. Pre vious to going to their cam) the gypsies obtained a large quantity of kerosene aud it was poured bountifully on the iuside and out side of the wagou. The custom of destroying the wagon in which the gypsy had been accustomed to journey is au old one. Israel Smith, whose wife died last fall, burned a wag on at Latrobe. Lovell, the man iu whose honor the ceremony was performed, was (50 years old. He was in this section last fall aud when the tribe returned to Elizabeth he was taken ill. He was removed to a Philadelphia hospital where he died. The weather was not propitious for coming here until a few weeks ago and thus the ceremony was delayed. Quito a number of town people witnessed the ceremony, iuclud Burgess Hamilton and Chief of Police Mull. When the wagon containing harness valued as $200 aud a quantity of bedding had been partially destroyed it oc curred to the wife that the gun of her husband had not been iuclud ediu the lire aud she directed her nephew to place it iu the bed of the wagon which was still on tire. Things Worthy Of Imitation. It would be worth while to im itate the elephant in his stately quietness. It would bo worth while to im itate the seal in his amiability. It would be worth while to im itate the trained dog in his pa tience. It would be worth while to im itate the bear in his affection. It would be worth while to im tate the camel iu his willingness to assume burdens. It would be worth while to im itate the horse iu his air of good breeding. It would be worth while to im itate the tiger in his diplomacy. Millions (jiven Away. It is certainly gratifying to the public to know of one concern which is uot afraid to be gener ous. The proprietors of Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption, Coughs and Colds, have given away over ten million trial bottles aud have the satisfaction of knowing it has cured thous ands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, La Grippe and all Throat, Chest aud Lung diseases aro surely cured by it. Call on W. S. Dickson, Druggist, and got a free trial bottlo. Regular size 5()o aud $1.00. Every bottlo guaranteed. l'l T.LISIIF.R AM) l'ATRON. There is no class of business men who are imposed upon to the extent of newspaper publishers, add no men who lose such a large percentage of their earnings through the dishonesty of pa trons as do they. There are many people who make it a rule to pay for their pa per in advance;; there are others who feel that it is only fair to re ceive the paper a year before a year's subscription be paid; aud, then, there are others who will take your paper year after year and will not so much as pay you a quarter of a dollar; and if you press them for a little money, they get mud, and swear your pa per was'ut lit to wrap up old clothes for a tramp. There is not a publisher iu the State who would not cheerfully furnish his paper with the under standing that it shall be paid for at any time uot exceeding the end of Hie year, if every subscriber would live up to that rule; but it is those- people who start in to take your paper the second year when they know they owe for the first, that hhlp to shorten the life of the publisher. The publisher can't play auy game like that. For every pound of type, paper, ink, or auy other kind of material he uses, the cash must bo paid; at least, not later than the eud of the current mouth. When pay day comes around every month, the office employes must have their month's wages in cash. If you try to put them off they get mad, kick the stove over, pie a form, rub ink overyour facc,audgooutuud slam the door then you are in a fix. "The Fulton County News" is one of the few papers that does not have a complaint to make along this line. Not one of its many hundred subscribers owes as much ns a year's subscription to it. Nearly every one has paid something. A half dollar drop ped id a couple of times a year keeps -your paper always paid up; or twenty-live cents runs your subscription ahead a quarter of a year. It shall be the policy of the News to drop from its list the name of any one who may be careless enough to fall behind a whole year. If they appreciate the paper they will pay up and have it started again; if they do not appreciate it they would uev or pay anything at any rate. The law regarding subscrip tions to newspapers condensed aud arranged is as follows: . 1. Auy person who receives a paper from the post-office is by law a subscriber, whether the paper is ordered or not, as it is the privilege of the recipient of the publication to refuse to ac cept the paper from post-office, WHEN ALL AKKKAHS AUK l'AIl). 2. Notice to the publisher that papers are no longer wanted, and will not be paid for, does not re lease the subscriber from the re sponsibility for the subscription price until the full amount of cur rent year's subscription is paid, together with all previous ar rears. !!. Failure to receive a copy of a newspaper, without fault of publisher is no defense as the publisher's responsibility ceases when the papers are delivered at the postoftice in the town iu which the paper is published, properly addressed to subscri ber. 4. Parties receiving a newspa per or periodical who do uot give notice to discontinue at expira tion of paid term are considered as wishing to continue their sub scription, from year to year. Parties moviug to other places, without notifying the pub lishers of the change in their ad dress are. responsible for all pa pers sent to the former address. (i. By rule of implied contract any person receiving au article, even in the absence of a direct order is liable for payment for such article received-. 7. When judgment is entered defences are barred. The proper time to settlo nn account is before the case gets into court aud be fore costs are added aud publicity is given the matter. The Valley National Bauk of Chambersburg, of which George J I. Stewart of Shippeusburg is the president, has been designat ed by the United States Govern ment as a depository for Govern ment funds. This is the only National depository in this sec tion of the State. not ni.i:..MiM)i;i). l-'ritiii thn llcruUl uni! IVONbyM.'i'. This word occurs only twice in the New Testament, in .las. i. K and iv. 8. The Greek is "di psuchos. " "Psuchos" comes from "psucho," which is usually translated "soul." The refer ence is rather to our moral than to our intellectual nature. In i. ' 8 James says: "A double-minded .! man is unstable iu all his ways"; j and in iv. H ho says, "Purify! your hoarls, ye double-minded." j The Apostle has in his thought j not the opinions of those to whom i he writes, but the heart and the will of those affections aud voli tions which control the character aud the conduct. But what does lie mean by call ing a man double-minded? Is it that he has twice as much char acter mid energy as his fellow men? Of course not. Such a man could not be unstable and vacillating. The idea evidently is that this unstable man, whose heart needs to bo purified, has a divided moral nature. He is a half-and-half minded man. He has a sort of twofold con sciousness. He is drawn by his inharmonious affections towards two discordant objects. He loves with one-half of his heart what he hates with the other. He resolves to seek with one half of his will what he resolves to llee from with the other. Such a man is like a ship with two rudders. He whose baud is upon one of them is trying to steer to windward, while the oth er is trying to steer to leeward. Such a double-ruddered ship could not make a successful voy age, but would be iu constant peril of shipwreck. Double-minded men are not ab normal rarities, like the Siamese twius. Even Paul, the great apostle, was, for a time at least, such a man. He gives us a graphic account of his experi ence in the seventh chapter of his Epistle to the Romans. There was a law in his members which warred against the law of his mind (verse 2.'!); when he would do good, evil was present with him. And there are multitudes of Christians to-day who might, if they would, make a similar confession. They love God with one-half of their hearts, and love the world with the other. Some times they love all the brothers, or think that they do, and then, at .other times, they are filled with envy because some of the brothoru aro more gifted or more highly honored than themselves. To-day they have faith, and al most think that they could re move mountains. But to-morrow they will doubt the reality of their owu conversion, and even the power of Christ to save. The explanation of this double miudoduoss is that two diverse aud coullicting powers are trying to control the spirit of truth and the spirit of error, the spirit of light and the spirit of darkness, the Holy Spirit from above aud the evil spirit from beneath. Of these the Holy Sjririt is the stronger, but hcwill not coerce aud enslave us. Hence, if we would put an end to the conflict, aud to the moralinstability result ing from it, we must "resist the devil." We are responsible for all that wo permit him to do, since God is ever ready to help us as soon as we try to expel him from our hearts. Job says, in one of his discours es about God, "He is of one mind, and who can turn him" Job xxiii. HI? There is unity, harmony, and therefore efficiency, in all God's operations. A double-minded dei ty could not have made and ruled the universe as it is to-day. For myriads of ages infinite intelli gence and energy have carried out a plan which was fixed iu the counsels of eternity. Aud there fore Moses could say of him: "His work is perfect" (Dout. xxxii. I). If we would bo iu harmony with him, if we would accomplish any thing in this life commensurate with the ability aud opportunities that God gives us, we must try like him, to be of one mind. And Paul tells how iu Phil. ii. 5: "Lot this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus." Study the life of Christ, pray for the Spirit of Christ. Thus only cau wo es cape the blight of doublo-miuded-ness. Advertising is the lever that moves the' business world. JAMKS lU CIIANAN. Franklin county has a histori cal society. Its object is to col lect and preserve the unrecorded local hislory. Fulton county ought to have one. The older folks who remember the happen ings of the early part of the cen tury are rapidly passing from earth. Last week Hou. W. Rush Gillan, a familiar figure in our courts, road a very interesting paper on James Buchanan. We have room for only a few -paragraphs of this excellout paper. "When James was about five years of ago his parents moved 1o Ihe village of Mercersburg, where ho received his first school ing, and was taught the Latin and Greek languages. The school was at first kept by Rev. James K. Sharon, a st udent of Divinity, with Dr. John King, the Presby terian pustor.and afterwards by a Mr. McConnell and Dr. Jesse Magaw, who married Mr. Bu chanan's sister." S waking 'of Mr. Buchanan's later life Mr. Gillan says: "Mr. A. .1. Ungor, of Foltz, tolls me the two gentlemen came driving over the pike from the direction of Mc Counollsburg. They tied llieir horse somewhere iu the village and proceeded to walk through the gorge to Buchanan's birth place, Mr. Unger, himself being a boy, having observed them. A teamster, who had gone into the mountain for a load of sand, saw t lie two men, and recognizing Mr. Buchanan from pictures which lie had seen, rushed to the village, 11'.. . u T I i . camug, .jimmy iHicnanau is up here." It was but a few moments until every mnu and boy in the village was on his way up the path to see the candidate for Presi dent, aud at the head of the party was Brady Seylar, who at that time ran a foundry at the Gap, and Mr. Unger's father. They were both acquainted with Mr. Buchanan. He received them very cordially, and left a very pleas ant impression, especially upon the boys of the party. They drove over to Mercersburg, and whether on .that occasion or some one prior to that time, I do not know, but Mr. Buchanan at one time, spoke at a mooting in front of Colonel Murphy's, now Fen drick':: hotel, which was presid ed over by Capt, Jack Cushwa. ' "On the 17th day of June, 18(i, Mr. Buchanan, in consideration of ::.ir,li2l, conveyed to Jeremiah K. Black two hundred and forty acres and fifty-nine perches of hind near Mercersburg, known as the Patchwork farm. This was the last real estate which he owned iu this county, aud was the Duuwoodle farm which he spoke of iu his autobiography as Inning been convoyed to his fa ther in IT'.M. This farm is now owned by Henry Van Tries Black and Mary Forward Black, minor children of Henry Black, the youngest son of Judge Jeremiah S. Black. "Mr. Buchanan Hover accepted a railroad pass, but always paid fare. He never, while iu public ellice, accepted a gift. On the day on which he was ejected President of the United States, Mr. Unger, who 1 hen conducted a distillery close to Buchanan's birthplace, made a barrel of very fine whiskey. He. kept it for three years aud then sent it with his coinplinieuts to thePresideut. Mr. Buchanan accepted it, but shortly afterward thero came to Mr. Unger a package post-marked Washington, containing sev-euly-live dollars. Mr. Unger was at a loss to know where it came from, and showing it to .Judge Carson, of Mercersburg, who was familiar with the writ ing of the President, was at once informed that the package had been addressed by the Presi dent's owu hand, lie never al lowed any expense of any enter tainment at 4ho While House to be paid out of the public funds, but always insisted that what his salary did uot pay for, must be paid from his own private purse Among the anecdotes of Mr. Buchanan related by Mr. Gillan was one illustrating his practical turn of mind. Mr. Buchanan was traveling eastward from Pitts burg in a stage coach with a party of gentlemen, one of whom was Mr. Mackcy, the father of Capt. W. H. H. Mackoy, of this society. Between Somerset and Bedford it was observed that the burr had boeu lost from ouo of the spindles mid Ilia: ti,,. leme the (V won as ilt ried and ,,Xl. accident ly repaired, ing around, OF cottage iit i. to it he ;isW F"' ' nil old sin,,, fe the 11 duced and ft, jhovetnt CUt the h,,,.. t. "Will in the i i' On tl end of H1(.S1 fcolasu traveled Fflt 01 tas inci italute LICK! .ed. in )M set John Met, in pub Clearfield ft j,s eUt: returned !, , invest Our new j Surrcu Hughes In,,! t,s." Sunday alVn Grnun preaching in;, (fas ti day in the ,,. id As ten o'clock i When ' Miss Em,.; took s! turned lui Mrs. A L'i je com ,ot wit Hustonlown, Imong time with !,- conn' Mumniii. t-A n Daniel i;ilsi in thir ed service ui - ternoon. u fwr1 The mads a; 6 tha dition-toi n i f" P gines. Jounti Captain UiJas y line horse Ian, deil from D. K. Jl,8Urn for his depart fu'in . year, Our orgiauv . ' , ' Jctors Sunday alt,,,, UuJ son. " jexce! ' equet '''l-jjidortf -.in m Aaron Uis Jit we is improving!.. Inl Mr. Ezra (1 the friends in tliiv S1 The pro;!, pir(1 Grove last Su:ne8S attended timilil Jefi'Palm ihroi ('IT:, were visiting . I Friday evening. !oUN Miss Fiuini- j home, from Pi: J11" countof the ill: Jdd6 John Tniax P'11 moved tohisfa'l00 MissDiauaS::tur sick list. The PloasaD' closes next Fri e' drou will begla , tQ Preaching sit !0 V' next Suudiiv uv f"Sf tf tl ...... .. fe fol cov Bd f: John Fislii'i'iii moved last wirk. i Isaac Barnlwrk like the West v understood that home soon. Charles AIyi'i diana lustTi dtt poets to work k gn To tun Hess. William W. I tins place, wim it . at Pittsburg li:ii'g0( Illinois. nnois. j There was a m or Barnliai't's'. 'L a an mi uing. They r uu The new 'ori'h,,, fording is nearly ' The Sunday M. E. church last Sunday "it1 dance. Our farmers lu' ing for corn. 1. v a lo: I at There was also; c Wilson Myers's 1 t evening. ip: Rov. Barney w'-j ley next Sunday a:bn The CaliUiii"1)1' have missed mir (ei H. W. 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