FULTON COUNTY NEWS. Published Every Thursday. B. W. Feck, Editor. McCONNELLSBURG, FA. Thursday, July 19, 1900. Published Weekly. 1.00 per Annum in Advance. AUVKHTIMINO XATKR. Ipr MunrK of K line time f no. ltr Htimro eue.h Htitmeijuent Insertion .... to. All udviTtlMi'nientx ItiM-rlcd for vmh thuu three diodUik erried by the wiunre. Jt IIII1X. tllllOM. . .flli.m. I f-.H HO.j . . '."Mm. 4lUl. .. tool. rMi. I .vr. i:ul. TiO.IIO. 7.MHI. Onn-roiirth ooluniu... (nthiiir eoluinii One Column Nolhlui! UiBertiMl for Uwn thiin It, 1'rofeHMiotml CurtlH one yenrlA. Tin: old spkim;. A path that loud from thekitchetHloor, Through a little garden plot, Down past the cherry anil apple trees That grew in the pasture lot, Thenee on through a beeehen avenue Till you hear the waters trill Upon the pebbles and over the stones My tho old spring under the hill! The old spring under the hill Is cool, With blotches and rifts of sun; Tts air Is as grateful and fresh and sweet As the air of a summer dawn. The song of a bird In the trees above, lielow the song of a rill, Are the only sounds that are heard around The old spring under the hill. How oft wo have trudged lu other days, When boys and girls at our play, To tho shade and stillness of that old spring, Remote from the garish day! How oft by its sparkling waters clear We have knelt and q nutted our till! And never a draught was so sweet as that From the old spring under the hill. The years are many, the years are long, Detween us and that fair time; We hear no more the tinkling song, Nor the water's silver chime; Hut oft In the mirror of memory We can see the imago still Of tho winding pathway, tho shadows deep, And the old spring under tho hill. THE JULY CROP REPORT. Tho Government crop report for July shows an exceptionally low average condition of cotton and spring wheat and a slight fall in the condition of winter wheat as compared with the June re turns. The figures suggest the probability of another compara tively moderate yield of cotton and a spring wheat yield that will be tho smallest recorded for many years. Tho winter wheat yield will probably be 50,000,000 bush els in excess of the officially esti mated productjon for 18!)!); but the outturn of spring wheat on a basis of the Federal acreage and condition figures is a matter about which tho calculations of experts will bo widely at variance. The Government statisticians will not make an estimate of the produc tion in bushels until long after the harvest. If tho aggregate yield of wheat should fall as low as 500,000,000 or 435,01 H),(HK)bushels, as suggest ed by the official data, the coun try will need practically all of the carried over surplus from pre vious crops (roughly estimated at 100,000,000 bushels) to meet re quirements equal to those of last year. But even the present un favorable showing for spring wheat does not portend a wheat famine, and as late sown grain has been much improved in con dition by rains since July 1 the production of spring wheat will probably bo considerably in ex cess of calculations based on the Federal crop investigations to the end of June. It is also uot ini probable that reserves from last season will exceed 100,000,000 bushels, in which eveut tho avail able supply of wheat will be abun dant. The condition of corn is very favorable, and while this crop has yet to face the risks of August drought or premature frost, tho present situation indicates a very largo yield of a cereal which is every year becoming a factor of increasing iniortance in' tho ex port trade. Speculation has al ready pretty well "discounted" tho effect of the crop reports up on cotton and wheat, and but for tho fact that interior reserves of corn are low the splendid outlook for the latter would probably cause a decline in prices. It would take some pretty hefty arguments to convince the aver - age citizen that the sun is grow- lng colder. I.AKCMST IN Till: WOULD, The largest locomotive works iu llio world are in Philadelphia. TheJargest car manufacturing plant in tho world is in Pittsburg. The largest drug house in tho world is in St. Louis. The largest wholesale dry goods house in the world is in New York. The largest gun works in the world is in Essen. Tho largest brewery is in St. Louis. The largest tobacco factory is in St. Louis. The largest wooden ware manu factory is in St. Louis. The largest steel works are in Pittsburg. The largest drop hammer iu the world is the property of the Bethlehem Iron company. The largest bottle manufactory is iu Pittsburg. The largest spring works are in Pittsburg. The largest bank is in Loudon. Tho largest church is iu Uome. The largest beef and wrk packing house is in Chicago. The largest starch business is in Oswego. The largest copper mine is in Michigan. The largest pumping engine iu the world is in tho Calumet and Helena mines. The largest match factory iu the world is at Barbertou, Ohio. Its capacity is 100,000,000 a day. The greatest railroad in the world is in the United States. The largest hotel is iu New York. Tho largest marble quarry is in Vermont. Tho largest Hour mill is in Minneapolis. The largest copper and brass mill is iu Waterbury. The largest stove factory is in Detroit. Tho greatest whisky industry is in the United States, the out put being more than S0,000,0o0 gallons a year. The largest boot find shoe in dustry is at Lynn. The largest sewiug machine works in the world are at Eliza- bethport. The largest hardware house in the world is in St. Louis. Tho largest grocery house in the world is in New York. The largest state is Texas. The largest financier iu tho world is in New York. The largest broker is in New York. The largest stock exchange is in New York. The largest city (in area) is New York. The largest life insurance com panies are in New York. The largest build iugs are in New York. Tho largest corporation iu the world is in Pennsylvania the Carnegie Steel Company, capital stock, $250,000,000. The largest monument iu the world is in Washington largest in the sense of tallest and cost. Tho loftiest structure in the world is in Paris the Eiffel tow er. The largest steamboat ruus in Long Island sound between New York and Fall River. ' The largest steam ship plies be tween New York, Southampton and Bremen. The largest locomotive is on a short line in Pittsburg. The largest college or univer sity is Harvard, considering the greatest number of students. Its undergraduates exceed iu num ber those of Oxford. The .greatest shipbuilding in the world is at Glasgow. The largest suspension bridge in the world is in New York. Tho largest metal spans iu the world are in New York (Ihe Washington bridge.) Tho largest public gardens are iu Paris. The largest number of theatres are in London. Tho largest hospital in the world is in Paris the Hotel des Invalides. The largest stone structure is in Egypt. The largest falls are in New York. Tho largest river is in South ! America I j Little Charley "Papa, what is I broad-mindness?" j His Dad "Agreeing with j headstrong jiooplo when you ! know they are wroug. " CAKELESSNLSS Willi MONEY. The secretary of Ihe 1 rea.su ry has a very largo directory of care less people of people who have money 'to burn or otherwise de stroy, and who appeal to hint for reimbursement. Uncle Sum is kind enough to restore lost mon ey when he is satisfied that it is actually out of existence, mid tho treasury department has to look after this branch of his financial affairs. A woman in Indianapolis got ten dollars in greenbacks mixed with greens she was preparing for dinner, and boiled them into tin almost unrecognizable mass. A Washington man, a couple of weeks ago, went iu person to the secretary of the treasury to get :!." for some badly mutilated bills that his playful pup had been ex ercising with for an hour. A Boston man took from his pocket what he says he thought was a piece of paper, and burned half of it iu lighting the gas. The gas light revealed tho fact that he had used a $-0 bill for a light er. An Ohio man wants to sell the treasury department a mouse net for $100. He says he had that amount iu bills iu a bureau drawer, and that the mice appro priated it in bits to build a home in which to rear their family. A Wisconsin woman has sent to Washington a lot of tinder that she says was once !(. Several months ago she hid it in a stove pipe hole, into which a pipe from a laundry fire was recently pla ced. As the pipe rested on tho bills, tinder was the result. A loving Philadelphia papa has asked for -0 for a few strips of greenish paper and a score of pellets of the same material. He says they once constituted a $20 bill, which his pet boy had torn to pieces, rolled into balls and blown through a glass tube at the cat, canary bird aud mrsomaid. A Kansas farmer has sent a lot of chopped bills that he says rep resent $40. According to his story they were iu the pocket of a vest that was hung on a feed cutter, and when it was being operated the corner of the vest that held the money got between its knives and with tho money was torn in shreds. The claim is now in process of adjustment. A Vermont farmer lias sent to the treasury department a mass of remnants of bills that ap proached tho condition of pulp, and asked for $280 iu return, which, after some ' delay, ho re ceived. He said he had very carefully hidden tho money un der the rafters of his burn, and somehow it had gotten into the hay and brau fed to one of his cows. The cow was chewing the green feed when its nature was discovered. John Wesley's Cure For Aleliiii. eholv. In the "Arminian Magaziue"in 178(1, John Wesley gave the fol lowing rules for persons afflicted with "lowness of spirits:" 1. Sacredly abstain from all spirituous liquors. Touch them not ou any pretence whatever. To others they may sometimes be of use; but to nervous persous they are deadly poison. 2. If you drink any, drink but little tea, and none at all without eating, or without sugar or cream. :J. Every day of your life take at least an hour's exorcise be tween breakfast aud dinner. 4. Take no more food than Na turo requires. Uiue upon one thing except pudding or pie. Eat no flesh tit supper, but some thing light and easy of digestion. 5. Sleep early aud rise early. Unless you are ill, never lie in bed much above seven hours. Then you will never lie awake; your llesh will be firm and your spirits lively. (I. Above all, beware of anger! beware of worldly sorrow! b ware of foolish and hurtful de sires. The Principal You have a bad cold, Mr. Jakes. Jakes Yes, sir; I think I caught it on Saturday, when I was collecting those old accounts The Principal Ah, I shouldn't bo surprised, for they were all over dew. The mosquito is always ready to present a bill for damages, ELECTIONS IN I !. This year Stale elections are I held in thirty-Mine states, in ad- j dilion to the vole lor J resident, Vice President and Congress men, common to all. No State election is held iu 1 i H m in the fol lowing six states: California, Flordia, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland. The States which will elect a Gover nor and State ticket are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hamp shire, Now York.North Curolinsi, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania will elect on the State ticket only the Auditor General, but the next Legislature will bo chosen. Deleware will elect a Governor and a State Legislature, which will choose two United States Senators. The only State officer to bo chosen in Iowa and Ohio this year is Secre tary of State, and Kentucky will, ou account of the tangled condi tion of affairs arising from the killing of Coobel, elect a Gover nor to succeed Beckham, aud a LieiitonautGovernor. Nevada will elect a Supreme Court Judge, and Wyoming will choose mem bers of tho State Legislature on ly. Oregon elected Congressmen and a partial State ticket last mouth, and both Louisiana and Rhode Island elected full State t ickets last April. Several States hold their State elections prior to the Presidential contest. Ala bama's State election is held in August,Arkausas elects its State officers in September. Maine's State election will be held on the first Moudiiy in September, Ver mont's a week later and Georgia votes ou the first Wednesday iu October., The early voting States are not pivotal or even doubtful States, and have not much value as "straws" indicating the prob able outcome of tho greater con test to follow. Alabama, Arkan sas and Georgia are regarded as surely Democratic, and Maine and Vermont are just as surely Republican, though the falling oil in the vote iu the South may dis close the measure of defection that willlikely be caused by the resuscitation of the moribund and repellaut Hi to 1 issue. Ore gon, which was not included iu the safe column by either party, furnishes the best basis on which to form an estimate and Oregon gave a decisive vote of much sig nificance in favor of tho Republi cans in June hist, before the Democratic Convention was held. The Democratic party has thrown its chances away iu tho Etist by going iuto the silver camp aud adopting Populism; the Southern delegates tit Kansas City were oposed to the silver madness, aud there seem to bo unmistakable signs that the West also has lost its onthusiam for the 10 to I cry. In 18SIH tho fusion pluralities were greatly decreas ed in Colorado and Idaho, whilo in Nevada tho fusionists had the narrowest margin, and the Re publicans carried Wyoming, Washington aud Kansas. The combined electoral vote of these six States is twenty-seven, or one more' than the combined vote of Indiana, Maryland and Dela ware. Montana, on account of the split in the Democratic party, caused by the tierce rivalry of Clark and Daly, is likely to go Republican, and prove au offset to Delaware in case the heroic light which the decent Republi cans are making to purify the politics of tho State should result iu temporary Democratic victory. Tho West was gradually aliguing itself with sound money before the Kansas City Convention was held, and tho protest is tl at it will hasten its steps iuto the honest money camp, and give' Populism its death stroke in No vember. Public Ledger. At tho late meeting of the Pennsylvania Teachers' Associa at Williamsport, resolutions urg ing Governor Stone to reappoint Dr. N. C. Seine ff or as State Su periuteudeut ofPublicIustruction were passed. There is no doubt of the very geueral and favorable sentiment Dr. Selnelier's choice would rolled, and the "News" would rejoice in his reapoitit-mont. HOW IM.KIN IS I I I). Among the dangers to which the foreign population of I VUm is exposed must he included tii.it of its food supplies being entirely cut oil bv the insurgents. At or- very lOMMT'V flllliw llli. cllv I.J V'lil'V v ' 1 1.. .1 i . . p gie.iuy oeponueni upon iro.eiijQ junners ot Kulton county; and being a farmer n,Vs, mciit broiiirht in from Mongolia on : ' ' me ducks oi camels. J lie .Mon gol Market, adjoining tlx- British Legation, is the rendezvous for mnumcraolo "strings ol camels and their half savage drivers, mid on this unsheltered plot of sandy soil, just within the city walls, may be soon expi-cl for sale l'ie carcasses oi sn.'ou strangely contorted, wnie.i havi been skinned while warm am left out to harden in the severe frost of a Mongolian night prior to transportation to the CIhine.se capital. Parti'idges and other game are similarly prepared for transit toPekin.and are purchase able in the frozen state throii gi.. out the long North China winter and well into spring. In the hot season live auimals are driven in to Pekin and Slaughtered, accord ing to demand, but the bull; of the food supply is at all times de rived from place at distance; even from beyond the Great Walls, there being but little produced within the confines of the vast city itself save root crops, and those on a small scale, derived from the fields that occupy part of the space known as the Wni chung, i. e., the Chinese? portion and separated by a cross wall from the Nui-chung, or Tartar City. How important is the daily sup- ply. by camel caravan of life to j mined tocurehim. He therefore the Pekinese may be gauged from j i!s!;i.,i him to preach. The invi the fact that over ten thousand j tat ion was accepted. The time "ships of the desert," ou au aver- came and the visitor began his us aga, outer and leave the gates j u;,l introduction, of the capital every twenty-four I "iSrethern, I have beeu so hours. Ride out at whatever 1 pushed for lime to-day as to have time one may choose it is certain been quite unable to prepare a that long "strings" of these use- sermon. Rut if some of you will ful beasts of burden, the leading give a text I'll preach from it. quadruped bearing petween its I perhaps my brother hero, "-tiirn- humps a Mancliurum driver aud at its throat a bell, and foflowed by a score or so of its fellows, the head .of each animal roped to the tail of the proceeding one, Avill be met with beyond tho walls, either bouud inward to market or bound outward to the hills. The last of the string likewise bears a bell, and its tinkle assures the loading driver that none of his charges have broken loose. It is true that the camel traflic has of late years been appreciably dimishod by the facility with which supplies could bo brought up from th( coast by railway, but it has by no moans beeu abolish ed, and the railway not having beeu available for some time past, owing to the operations of the Boxers, the probability is that tho inhabitants of tho capital have had to rely more than ever uiou their Mongolian market for the menus of existence. -Loudon News. On Saturday last, says the Or bisoniaDispatch.a niutocn-mouth-old child of Wesley Ott, of that placo, was seriously cut on the head. Mrs. Ott, was engaged in washing bottles and had tho dish pan setting on the oil stove with the child setting in its high chair close by and iu an unguarded moment the child reached out its hand and pulled the pan over on the lloor and in so doing lost its balance and fell head tirst iuto the pan of broken bottles and dishes, cutting its head so badly that seven stitches wore required to sew up the wound. Was It A Miracle? "The marvellous cure of Mrs. Reua J. Stout of Consumption has created intense excitement in Cam mack, Ind. " writes Marion Stuart, a loading druggist of Muncie, Ind. She only weighed IK) pounds when her doctor in Yorkton said she must soon die. Then she began to use Dr. King's New Discovery and gained IJ7 pounds in weight and was com pletely cured." It has cured thousands of hopeless cases, aud is positively guaranteed to cure i all Throat, Chest and Lung dis-J eases. Tide and $1.00. Trial hot-1 ties free at W. S. Dickson's drug store. If ice is not obtainable, a roll of butter may bo kept hard, or a bottle of milk cool, by wrapping iu a damp cloth and putting in a draught. Tho cloth should be dampened from time to time. cooooooooooco ooooooooc 8 ni:.i in i j Q Agricultural lmplemen) McCONNltLLKHUHC J (' 1 V A 'IM.:..: C!. i iL I !.. .1' . ij j 01.1 i.i in.y ocYciimenm i ear in mis bus 'hk i " i.. . . N i V iivu e. . imoiw. i ilii uiii, iuii,,T oi I I I M ' 1 . Ml,. .. - "in s; mx tho t'ol!brawMi ohampion Mowers and B j cidedly tho best machine on the market to dnv. V Grain Drills -Spanglor's Low I I jf Down, and the Greencas tie Puree Pood. ;so Plows.--Notice these prices: No. L'0, and No. "()! j :t'.i..h casii. Ao. ;;o, tfii.ou. Spring Harrows - il 1 .ritol7.ro. Hay Rakes rroinsir.notol.no. S'iwLip; r.Lioliliics i r.to to i.'.-. Hi'.y Forks Complete for s'i.r.n. Iintlw..' Tuam Knte fi'nm S(l Till to 6 vy HikVv Nets. 1.7."i to &??.r."i. I XL i 8 i Good Live Stock, Grain, Hay, Lumber, iK j $ xchauge. ..i I .11.1 ,1. .T U IV ill I 1 11 1 1 Tl 1,1.1 4111.1 111 . Ill . II. ...I ii. : .1 1- IU" i.' v .-.j liv. ii i,i,... .............. I ,1 . I 1 Mu- jj,,, tiiid if you want anything in my lino call ami sec ii j win save you money. s. ,. NK.sft OOOOOCOOOOOCO XCKXO00d Floiliicncc at Hay. Pastor Thomas Spurgeon tells this capital story of a preacher w!io had a "fatal lluency of speech," for whom au acquaint ance laid a trap. lie had a way of promising to preach, and on beginning would say something like, "I have been loo busy to prepare a sermon, but if someone will kindly give in:- a text, I'll preach from it. One old church member deter- jug to the plotter near him - "will suggest a text." "Yes, brother," came iu ready resjionso; "your text is the last part of the ninth verse of the first chapter of K.ra, aud its words are: 'Nine and twenty knives.'" There was a pause, an ominous pause, as tho preacher found his text. He read it out, "Nine and twenty knives," and began tit once. ''Notice the number of these knives just exactly nine and twenty; no:, thirty; not eight and twenty. There were no more and no less than nine and twenty knives." A pause along pause. Thou slowly :n;d emphatically. "Nine and twenty knives." A longer pit use. Then, very meditatively, "Nine and twenty knives." Again he rested. "Nine and ! twenty, knives and if there were nine hundred and twenty lames, I could not say another j word." OKI-l'asliioncd Dinners the Hcsl. Many people who are constant ly trying to concoct new and templing dishes overstep tho mark. People who eat large quantities of the various preserv ed foods are not always tho strongest. The old-fashioned meal of roasted or boiled beef served up with its own juices, with two plain vegetables and a pudding, was far more whole sonic? than the eight-course-din-ner which is served nowadays. Pew people know the true Jlavor of'polatoes or rice. In this coun try, seasoning too often means salt and popper ouly. People in the Eastern countries, especially thi' Turk's, make most delightful stews and soups by using a com bination of vegetables, cooking tlioiu slowly enough to draw out the llavor. Extracts and sauces prepared chemically, aud mus tard and horseradish, may be taken now and then, perhaps to advantage; but, us a. rule, things of this Kind should be avoided or used sparingly,- June Ladies' Home Journal. An I'pitapli. A traveler just returned from the continent reports 'that he found tho following epitaph in a Devon churchyard, on a tomb stone erected to the memory of a farmer who had been killed by his son's pet bull: "J'wuh m.v noil John thai m Ucil tho hull. It cutila inn once alone. ' P"""' ;ii , i .... s i i.. . i ... 1 1 o.i i.,.tu'ii!ll 1W i u. i ui.hi in(v nun, tuo uiiii i hipi-ii in. , Millie ui i" Auil in v sou ruined this stone, -I ,,. cllUHO' ill. Mimi! run uruIii.) Itryup"",ul " Machine Oil to iu,Vi, Maryland Piiohato - :;,. in the market-. ,.V(. guaranteed 1,, , 7') tons sold to farmers last year. Iron Safes- from ;.-!, tll Repairs forOliveriunK- . Plows: Osbnrtii., v; Champion, W'ih.Iis eye, and other n,;,,' Fencing Wii'c,llnrs,.(,ii,ir Lawn Mowers, Km .. t. Production uS I'd The statement thai greater producer of than America will d touisn many people wlji cied that this country cally a monopoly ()f i supply. Leaving ,ln contribution ontof en: tin; production in i,,n. past year in I ; ussia w:J in America, iriiuM; j ;i-ln,iMHi: in I Ion mai ami in rsuniaira, I'.onii. r(MI,(Mh). Jt wouh that Ihe visible supj l louni iu this country uig from year to y cud of ls;i7 it. was in Is'.lS it had l':;!leu tons, and at the close it was clown to liijii,1 Russian potroleuiii gaining favor in vurr even Kngland, for plained reason, envim her consumption of very largely. In C the contrary, althoj; been an additional cieia: Russian product, con mainly upon Americana German papers havi mentiug upon these have been asserting h! future ( ieraiany may to Russia for lier sit the Gorman Auth: which hates cverytl Can, would dollbtles set buck 111 tieAinel leu m industry, the l'ut has been a decreasi supply provosimt!iiir.f 1 the market; lias moiv ) sorbed llieontpiit. Ti : reason to believe tin years to come (lerm main a pmtitaUe : American oil hi spil'' competition: for if 1 had not beoir preler and prh nsiilem have been replaced this bv the petroleum or Pnssian liehls.- Record. White Man TinncJ Great ceiislerniitH the friends of M. A. Lexington, h'y., "''"'f he was turning .V'll' slowly cliangeil eel eyes, and lie His malady was tra Uixt ilodors. h"l w" Then ho was mlvisei trie Hitters, thevi aoli and Liver writes: "Aftertax ties I was wholly trial oroves its mill" for all Stomach, l'lV nev troubles. Only W C l)u.,-SOll. llW 11, ii. - An Old "c0 July 7th ilti. W .'ittofuev for llfiy Black, gni.Hlchihh'';1' Judge Jereiuiiil .... s tl,eKeeistcri"H ol'iieo in C'liaial"1 from the Into IVo ISuchanau to Ju' tract of land in lvu' no,ir Mercershui ..1 T,, 17. I"1'"1 240 acres of lu' money ifd.V'-1' .... I4n,..stillg""' .li-iiniruislieduieni" it,.assedandbc;"'i j
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