FULTON COUNTV NEWS. Published Every Thursday. B. W. Peck, Editor. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Thursday. Feb. 7. 1901. Published Weekly. 1.00 per annum in Advance. ADVERTISING RATH. Per xjunre of linen S time II KS. I'crauuHPO ench NUbNenuent ttinprtlnn M) All .dvprtlnementft inverted fir less thuL lores niouinn cenrxea Dy the Miliars. 3 moH. ft mow. I yr. ..tis.ooTiTjii.no. I taiiM One-fourth columa... One-tanlf column One Column . . Sft.00. 40.00. f.00. .. 40.(10. Hi.OO. 75.00. Nothing Inserted for lent than II. Pnifemlon.l C.rda one year tfi. Sand. I observed a locomotiee in the railroad yards one day. It was watting in the roundhouse, where the locomotives stay; It w.4 panting for the journey; it was coaled and fully manned, And It had a box the fireman was fill ing full of sand. It appears that locomotives cannot al ways get a grip On their slender iron pavement, 'cause the wheels are apt to slip, And when they reach a slippery spot their tactics they command, And to get a grip upon the rail they sprinkle it with sand. If your track is steep and hilly, and you hnve a heavy grade, And If those who've gone before you have the railsquite slippery made. If you ever reach the summit of the upper tableland, You'll find you'll have to do it with a liberal use of sand. If you strike some frigid weather and discover to your cost That you're liable to slip on a heavy coat of frost, Then some prompt, decided action will be called into demand, And you'll slide clear to the bottom if you haven't any sand. You can get to any station thut is on life's schedule seen If there's lire beneath the boiler of am bition's strong machine, And you'll reach a place called Kich town at arateof speed that's grand If for all the slippery places you've a good supply of sand. A woman is considered bright by the other women by tho num ber of kinda of a fool she can make of a man in Ave minutes. Some people would hitch bet tcr and pull more evenly if they had but one tongue between them like a team of horses in a wagon. The girl or woman who keeps her hat on at a place of amuse ment is a relic of the nineteenth century. Twentieth century la dies take them off. Every time a woman sits up half the night acting sweet to a lot of men.she wakes up the next morning and acts ugly to the one she is married to. The grip makes one feel as though all one's friends had gone back on him, and they just want to give him a kick and inform him to get off their track, and you feel like doing it, too. Edward Everett Hale gives the following three good rules for life: Frst, live as much as pos sible in the open air; second, touch elbows with the rank and file; third, talk every day with a man you know to be your super ior. "I notice," said Uncle Allen Sparks, "a couple of our learned professors have found the secret of long life. It is simply to have plenty of salt in the system. If that's true and I'm not saying it isn't Lot's wife ought to be alive to-day. Which I believe she is not." Parents should see that their children atteDd school regularly and only when it is imperatively necessary should they be permit tod to miss a session. Remem ber that an education is a legacy you can leave your children that adversity cannot deprive them of. Senator IJinkley, of the Indiana , tate senate, says that never in his life has he been in need of money, and never has he needed anything that he could not buy. He attributes this to a rule he has of never spending all that he earns, and to the economy of his wife. In traveling now days and stopping at almost any of the leading hotels, if you desire to e nicely cared for, you want to cough up a dime or a quarter for the porter or waiter among one of the first things you do, so as to insure quick service and good attention. Life a Century Ago. One hundred years ago a man could uot take a ride on a steam boat. Ho could not go from Washing ton to New York in a few hours. He had never seen an electric light or dreamed of nu electric car. He could not send a telegram. He could not talk through the telephouo.audhchad never heard of the hello girl. He could not ride a bicycle. He could not call in a stenog rapher and dictate a letter. He had never heard the germ theory or worried over bacilli and bacteria. He never looked pleasant before a photographer or had his picture taken. He never heard a phonograph talk or saw a kinetoscope turn out a prize fight. He never saw through a Web ster Unabridged Dictionary with the aid of a Roentgen ray. He had never taken a ride in an elevator. He had never imagined such a thing as a typesetting machine or a typewriter. Ho had never used anything but a wooden plow. He had never seen his wife us ing a sewing machine. He had never struck a match on his pants or anything else. He couldn't take an anesthetic and have his leg cut off without feeling it. He had never purchased a ten cent magazine which would have been regarded as a miracle of art. Ue could not buy a paper for a cent and learned everything that had happened the day before all over the world. He had never seen a mower, reaper or a self binding harvest er. He had never crossed an iron bridge. In short there were several things he could not do and sever al things he did not know. Improvement of Public Koads. Three public road bills to carry out the provisions of the act of 18SJ7 came to the Senate from the State Highway Comtnission.com- posed of Hibberd B. Worrell, president; A. J. Cassatt, William L. Elkins, H. N. Breckeuridge, James A. Beaver and H.C. Suavely. One bill appropriates if 1,000,000 to the Department of Agriculture to construct and maintain roads in accordance with that act. An other bill makes the act take ef fect in January, 1902, and orders distribution of the money among the townships in proportion to the number of miles of roads, no township to get more than shall be raised by local taxation includ ing work and money tax. The third bill prescribes petitioning from the township authorities and consequent investigation by the Agricultural Department con cerning sharing the money. The Commission's report do- tails results of correspondence with all the townships on the best means to the desired end. Typical Weather la February. February will mete out severe winter weather, according to the weather-wise in general and Rev. Hicks in particular. The storm periods will be as follows, accord ing to the latter's forecast: 2nd to 7th; 10th to 11th; 14th to ISth; 21st to 23rd; 27th. Wintry dis agreeable weather will follow af ter these storms. The hardest storms may be expected from about Monday tho 18th to Wed nesday the 20th. As counter parts to tropical storms south ward, no one need to be surprised and overwhelmed by blizzards in the north and west. The month goes out with falling barometer, higher temerature and rain and snow advancing from western and north-western extremes. Like bad dollars, all counter feits of DoW.tt's Witch Hazel Salve are worthless. The origi nal quickly cures piles, sores and all skin diseases. Trout's drug store. An exchange says: When you run across a man who is contin ually criticising a county news paper, you will find he is a man who couldn't write an article one inch long, describing a dog or a prize fight, and that he nine times out of ten borrows h'n neighbor's paper to read. A Perpendicular Traveler. I j Think of travoliugapproximair ly 5,liC) miles a year and yet uct moving out of your tracks, so o speak, says tho St. L;;s Repub lic. Impossible? It may bo verified by mViig an elevat.ir operator in a.iy of the large ofllce buildings if Louis. Take the Union Trust build ing for an illustration, ami f.l.o figures presented arc interest!!):.'. I. B. Spencer, the starter, has them down very pat. In speak ing of the total distance covered each year by the six cages under his charge, ho said: "Our average working time is nine hours a day. We run oue elevator on Sunday, so, to get a fairaverago I should say that each elevator has 312 working days. It is really more than this, but I want to be on tho safe side, so I will make a low estimate. "Tho spoodof tho elevators un der full pressure is 200 feet every 14 secouds. Of course the cages do not make this speed, for they have, to make many stops each trip, but it is the time that they could make if there were none. "I will take only one elevator to show my figures. It is required to make a round trip every 2.J minutes, or two of them every five minutes. This gives us a bet ter basis to figure on, for if the cage travels H0( i feet in five min utes, we have 9,(100 feet for one hour, aud since there are nine? hours in the day's work, the total is 80,400 foot, or over 1G miles a day. The way I get the figures to make my calculation on is by taking the distauco from the grouud to the sixteenth lloor of the building, which is 200 feet. "Since each cage works stead ily for 312 clays, there is a grand total of 20,ft')(i,800 feet for the year. Reducing this to miles we have, in round numbers,' 5,10." miles, and since we operate six cages, tho total is 30,030 miles. It is something to think over. The distance is sufficient to belt the globe and go nearly one fourth of the way round again." Ram's Horn lilasts. Great works are but small ones greatly done. The muzzle does not cure the dog of madness. The absent Christ makes the present salvation. it )s always easer to preach doubt than faith. The best activity in politics is shown at the polls. Only the pure in heart can be powerful and brave. xjiguuy uepenus not on trio task but on the master. Moral diseases breed in the swamps of the impure heart. A man shows his character most often by what ho laughs at. Tho future and the past are the powers that determino the pres ent. Men say that they die as brutes because they want to live as beasts. If God gives death it will not bo less precious than any of his oth er gifts. Dwarfed Christians are liablo to find their way into the devil's menagerie. Only ho can do God's work in the week who finds his rest on the Sunday. Tho mistake of tho christain soldier is in seeking peace with out instead of within. Many troubles may be God's spades digging deep for tho foundation of tho temple in our lives. A licenso is the string wo try to put on the ri.jvil by placing it about our necks and in his hands. The church that is forever fir. uring how to raise money will not cut much figure in raising the world. n with a wealc boiler, aud we ru can't keep up tho strain of an ac tive life with a weak stomach; neither can we stop tho human machine to make repairs. If the stomach cannot digest enough food to keep tho body strong, such a preparation as Kodol Dyspepsia Cure should bo used. It digests whr.t you eat and it simply can't help but do you good. Trout's drug store. Twentieth century grip is not much improvement ou tho nine teonth century kioJ. Josli Billing's Proverbs. Hashfulnossisignoranoafraid Conscience is our private secre tary. i'.iwrls is tho stepmother of .'.V'!lius. ! Ico-.ioi.iy is tho first mortgage o:i iv.ltli. An a t ist ocrat is a Democrat will his pocket filled. Fastidiousness is merely the ignorance of prosperity. Honest men are scarce and art going to be scarcer. Prudery is nothing more than coquetry going to seed. Pleasure is like a hornet gen erally ending with a stiug. Hope is a hen that lays more eggs than she can hatch out. Success is a coquet and a bashful lover never wins her. Flattery is like cologne water to be smelt of, not swallowed. Bliss is happiness boiling over and running down both sides of tho pot. Conceited people are like eggs too full of themselves to hold any thing else. The cross man goes througl life like a sore headed dog follow ed by flies. Laughing is tho sensation of feeling good all over and showing it in one spot. A "gentleman about town is one who pays, everything but his debts. Rumor is like a swarm of bees the more you light them the less you get rid of them. Marriage is an altar on which man lays his pocketbook aud wo man her love letters. ' Honesty is like mouey;you have got to work hiird to get it, and then work hard to keep it. Anxiety is inilkiug a kicking heifer with one hand aud holding her by the tail with the other. Incredulity is tho wisdom of a fool; it )s only a wise man who can afford to bo credulous. The positive man bets his last dollar on a card aud loses, then tells you he knew ho shouldn't win. Tho monkey is a human being a little undersized, covered with hair, hitched to a tail, and filled with tho devil. Curisoty is the germ of all en terprise-mon dig for woodehucks more for curiosity than they do for woodehucks. Kiss tho ouly way to define n kiss )s to take ono and then sit down, all alone, out of tho draft, and smack your lips. Friendship is like earthenware, if it is broken it can be mended; but loveislike a mirror once bro ken that ends it. Adversity is a poultice which reduces our vanity and strength ens our virtue even a boy never feels so good as when ho has been spanked aud set away to cool. Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there weren't any thing but contentment in this world man wouldn't bo any more of a success than an angle-worm is. There is no absolute cure for laziness, but I've known a second wife to hurry it a little. Stood Death Off. K. B. Muuday, a lawyer of Hen rietta, Tex:, once fooled a grave digger. He says: "My brother was very low with malarial fever and jaundice. I persuaded him to try Electric Bitters.and he was soon much belter, but continued their use until ho was wholly eur ed. I am sure Electric Bitters saved his life." This remedy ex pels i.'ialai ia, kills disease germs and pi! rifies the blood; aids diges tion, vegulates liver, kidneys and bowels, cures constipation, dys- popssia, nervous diseases, kidney troubles, female coniplaiutsjgives in '"- r, jeiiiuiu iuni)iuiuis;g)vet Verfoct health. Only 50c at W, ,S D,dis,m H l1ru"' tor,! ' A curious idea has just been put in operation iu Berlin. Ar rangements have been mado whereby parents of tho poorer classes in tho city and country may temporarily exchange their children, in order that tho city children may learn something" of country lifoaud profit physical ly by their outhugs, while the country children may secure the liberal education which town life affords. Thus far tho scheme has worked smoothly. Wliat Ants Can Do. From the New Orlrmi-i TliiiPH-Demnernf. "There are a good many ants of different varities on the lot nt my country place near Coving ton, "said a New Orleans business man, "and last year I began to make a systematic study of 'their habits. I found ita mostfascinal ing pursuit, and have resumed it with much enthusiasm during several visits this year. A little investigation will couviucealmost anybody, I think, that tho aut ap proaches nearer to man in poiut of intelligence than auy of the lower animals. Someof the things I have seen arc so marvelous that I would hesitate to speak of them if similar wonders had not been fully recorded by trained scien tist. Near a flower bed is a colony of small red ants that are extremely industrious in collect ing food, and they frequently performed the most astonishing engineering feats in transport ing heavy burdens to their homes. Not long ago I watched a party of about a dozen that had found the body of a small spider and were dragging it toward the nest. The spider had hairy legs, which stuck out in every direction aud caught on obstacles, greatly re tarding progress. For several minutes the ants rolled away with their awkward booty and then stopped and seemed to hold a council. A. minute fragment of dry leaf was lying on the ground; presently they all laid hold and pulled the spider on top of it. They then seized the edges and slid it along without difficulty. On another occasion I saw a large body of the same ants start out for a raid ou another colony. They marched like an army with scouts thrown out at the sides, and when several feet distant from the nest divided into two parties. Ono kept straight ou and was soon ecgaged in fierce combat with the other tribe, while the second detachment made a a detour aud fell upon the hill from the rear. The result was a great victory for the invaders. Anybody who feels interested in tho subject and who will put in a little time at close study will be certain to witness exploits fully as astonishing as those I have de scribed. " A Night of Terror. "Awful anxiety was felt for the widow of the brave General Burn ham of Machias, Me., when the doctors said she would die from Pneumonia before morning," writes Mrs. S. H. Lincoln.who at tended her that fearful night, but she begged for Dr. King's New Discovery, winch had more than once saved her life.and cured ho of Consumption. After taking, she slept all night. Further use entirely cured her." This mar vellous medicine is guaranteed to cure all Throat, Chest and Lung- Diseases. Only 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at W. S. Dick son's drug store. Rabbits Leaving. Farmers and huntsmen state that the rabbits are coming down out of the mountains and are leaving in droves. Thev are migrating south. A farmer com ing into town the other morning, says Cumberland Alleganian,met a drove of the little animals in the road. They skipped into a thick et until the men passed and then continued on their journey. It is said by the old people that this is a sign of a lato cold spring, that tho winter having been such an open one, the rabbits have eat en everything upon which they are accustomed to feed aud know ing that a severe spell of winter is yet to come are searching for new fields and pastures green. The extent to which women have invaded tho occupations at ono time almost exclusively oc cupied by men is ono of the most remarkable occurrences of the past half century. It has been estimated that fifty years ago but ono woman was at work in gain ful employments to every ton men; to-day tho ratio is ono to four. Thirty years ago two- thirds of all -ho solf-Hupporting women were employed as domes tic help; ap the present time not more than one-third are so em ployed. Has the hitter change oon for tho better? Many think not. People whohave pleuty to occu py their miuds are seldom heard gossiping. XXXXXXXXXXoOCCOXOCOOOO I J. K. Johnston's l Mid Winter Sale. " . $?! I Special Bargains in OVERSHOES. 1 sr 1 JV -4 1 - Men's Buckle Arctics 1.00 Women's Buckle Arctics 80c. Felt Boots 1.75. A few O Ladles Capes and a few ! Men's and Boy's Overcoats S? will be ' 0 Closed Out Quick 1 to make room for new stock. Men's and Boy's Heavy Caps. A We still have a few of those cheap Blankets and $ Bed Comforters will not carry them over. q Underwear, Gloves and S Mittens. g P. S. Ask to see the town. 00XXOCOXCoOXXC0X0XX "Daeiology." A TT T 1 ... i . ii. ivansas uuck wnicn nau so faithfully stuck to her business during the summer and laid sev eral dozen of large frtwn-colored eggs complained that fsho was not apprecia ted. "See that hen over there,' said the duck, "she hasu'tlaid as many eggs as I have nor as big, butthebooks writ ten about her and verses written in her honor, while nobody is saying a word about me." "The trouble with you is" said tho wise rooster that was standing, near, "that you don't tell the public about what you have done. You lay an egg and waddle off without saying a word, while that sister of mine never lays one without letting everybody in the neighbor hood know it. If you want to cut auy ice in this neighborhood you must learn to advertise." There is always danger in using counterfeits of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. The original is a safe and-certain cure for piles. It is a soothing and healing salve for sores and all skin diseases. Trout's drug store. No honest man can feel the least offended when an honest bill is presented to him. When a man gets angry because of a dun itisan evidence that he knows himself to be dishonest and is probably not the only one that knows it. SALT RHEUM CURED BY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLES. I. JUST SEEN Nature, in her eflorU to correct mlKtakes, which mistakes have come from careless living, or It may be from aDcestors, ahooU out pimples, blotches and other imperfections on the sk n, as a warning that more serious troubles (per haps tumors, cancers, erysipelas or pulmonary diseases) are certain to follow 'it you neglect to heed the warning an5 correct the mistakes. " Many a lingering, painful disease and many an early death has been avoided simplv because these notes of warning have Vcn heeded and the blood ken t pure f.y a rwht use of JOHNSTON'S 8AUSAPARILLA. P Miss Abbie J. Itande, of Marshall. Mich., writes: I was cured of a bad humor after suffering with it for five year. Tho doctor, and my friends said it was salt rheum. It came out on my S neck and ears and then on my whole body. X was perfectly raw wiuf it! What I 1 did I U"e fiT".y?'"''.,8 n u No.ho.iy would be T lev? me if enough r? med'je that was advertised to cure it. I spent money !3 buy V,"u,se- I JOHNSTON'S SAUSAl'AUILLA highly Cshed" fr f rV-.0 ,fc 1 ber'an 10 lm''rOVe rlf ht Wav. "'' Whan nI since i tir.l,i,rd "ta ptetely cured. I have never had a touch of it KAMAPAnnT?' ?y '."A0 d, me the leaHt KOOii tiU 1 tr' JOHNSTON S bAKSAPARILLA. 1 would heartily advise all who are suffering from humor. trn1dlbT of ' to ' m I "J-o a good dfalTstomaTh made me aU rM"" mljBOral'10' but JOIiNSTOlf'S SAXtSAPARILLA The blood j your life and if you keep It pure and strong you can positively re nat disease or face contagion fearlessly JOHNSTON'S hXhsAI'AKILLA never lails. It is for tale by all druggists, in full quart bottles at ouly one dollar eauk MXOIIIQAW XHVO OOMPAITT, DMTHOIT, MtC at Tioul'n llruy Blur. 'Cat cheapest double-bit axe in Harmony In Nature. Naturalists say that when ex amined minutely with a micro scope it will be found that no creature or .object in nature is positively ugly; that there is a certain harmony or symmetry of parts that renders the whole agreeable rather than the re verse. So the most disagreeable tasks in life, when viewed in their proper proportions, reveal a poetic, an attractive, side hitherto undreamed of. Turn on the sun- light of good cheer, the determi nation to see tho bright as well as the dark side, and you will find something pleasant, even in tho most dreaded task. Recent experiments show that all classes of foods may be com pletely digested by a preparation called Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which absolutely digests what you eat. As it is the only combi nation of all the natural digest ants ever devised the demand for it has become enormous. It has never failed to cure the very worst cases of indigestion and it always gives instant relief. Trout's drug store. Sixteen hundred persons in the crowds which assembled in Loudon on the return of the vol unteers from South Africa re ceived injuries which required. medical attendance. IN Tine.
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