FULTON COUNTY NEWS.
Published Every Thursday,
13. W. Peck, Editor.
McCONNELLSBURG. PA.
Thursday, nov. 21, 1901.
Published Weekly. 1.00 per
Annum in Advance.
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rnfesNion:il Cwrtf tme year 15.
Railway Ties.
The supply of railway ties is
becoming a matter of increasing
cost to tho railways as the forests
are cleared. About $00,000,000
is now spent annually by the rail
roads of the country for renew
ing worn out ties, it being es
timated that 112,000,000 new ties
are needed each year. The total
number of ties now in use on the
railroads of tho country is cal
culated at 7b0,0tt0,000. This de
mand is so great and the hereto
fore sources of supply are so
nearly exhausted that the inter
national society of Aboriculture
has undertaken to encourage the
growing of catalpa trees, with
special reference to the need of
crossties for American railways.
White oak, canerack, white cedar,
chetuut, pine and redwood,
which have up to this time been
used for ties, are becoming too
costly, if not too scarce, to supply
the demand from this source.
The society suggests that the
catalpa bo planted along the right
of way of railroad lines, not only
as a future source of supply, but
as a means of adding to the pleas
ure and comfort of travelers.
Ties from this wood, it is claimed,
will last thirty five years.
The Pennsylvania railway is
making au experiment by ship
ping ties from South America.
These ties are made of Mora
wood, and come from British
Guiana. It is claimed for them
that they will last SO years, the
timber being exceeding hard and
possessing the (uality of durabil
ity. The present ties last from
three to ten years. The purchas
ing price alone for each tie of the
Mora wood is $1, and the delivery
price about l.ri0. The cost of
the white oak ties, which the
road has been using, is about 75
cents each. It is expected that
the work of laying these ties will
begin about the first of January.
Spreads Like Wildfire.
"When things are "the best"
they become "the best selling,
Abraham Hare, a leading drug
gist, of Belleville, O., writes :
"Electric Bitters are the best
selling bitters I have handled in
20 years." You know why? Most
diseases begin in disorders of
stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels,
blood and nerves. Electric Bit
ters tones up the stomach, regu
lates liver, kidneys and bowels,
purines the blood, strengthens
the nerves, hence cures, multi
tudes of maladies. It builds up
the entire system. Puts new
life aud vigor into any weak.sick
ly, rundown man or woman.
Price cents. Sold by W. S.
Dickson, druggist.
Tho chair which President
McKinley occupied at the ses
sions of tho cabiuet has become
the property of Secretary Cortel
you. It has been tho custom for
tho retiriug president to present
to some friend tho chair used by
him while presiding over the
meeting of the cabinet. Presi
dent Harrison gave his chair to
Executive Clerk Crook, aud the
latter regards it as one of his
most valued possessions. Pres
ident Cleveland presented his
charito his private seceratary,
Daniel S. Lamont. There is a
law which reijuires that govern
ment property shall not be given
away, but that it must be formally
condemned aud disposed of-at
auction. No one has ever ques
tioned tho right of the president
to give away his chair, however.
Secretary Cortelyou was very
uuxious to get tho chair which his
chief had occupied for so long,
aud it was accordingly condem
ned, put up for sale, and bought
in by the devoted secretary.
Notes From the Pennsyl
vania Experiment Station.
The Periodical Cicado , or Seventeen
Year Locust in 1902.
In tho Report of tho Pennsyl
vania State College, 1889, page
182, an account was given of the
uature and distribution of this
common aud interesting insect.
It will be seen by reference to it
that tho brood of 1885 will be due
next year (1902) in the counties of
Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon,
Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Franklin,
Cumberland, Adams, York, Dau
phin, Lebauon, 'Lancaster, Berks,
Chester, Delaware, Montgomery,
Bucks, Lehigh and Northampton.
It is not meant that the Cicada
will appear over the whole of this
large area, but that they may be
expected wherever the conditions
heretofore have been favorable
for their breeding and develop
ment. Brush covered and woody
pasture lauds are particularly
good breeding places. Inasmuch
as seventeen years is liable to
make a good deal of difference in
the utilization of land, it is quite
probable that in some places
lands which seventeen years ago
were not in cultivation, and were
good breeding grounds of Cicadas
are now cultivated. Upon them,
and in their neighborhood, the
iusects, true to their nature, may
be expected to appear, perhaps
in dangerously large numbers.
In mauy places the older resi
dents are able to locate these
grounds. If, now, there should
be young fruit trees or shrubs at
hand they ruu great risk of se
rious injury and mutilation by
the egg-laying process, since the
habit of the Cicada is to select
small twigs into which it proceeds
to cut iu order to make a suitable
place for its eggs.
Hence it would be wise for
those iu the counties named, who
contemplate setting out trees this
Fall or next Spring, to find out
whether they are on or near "lo
cust ground" of seventeen years
ago, aud if they are, to defer
planting a year, or take this risk
into consideration.
If it seems best to take the risk
it would be well not to prune the
trees closely on settiug, but to
postpoue it until after the egg
laying of the Cicadas, which takes
place during June. By July 1st
at latest, probably two weeks
earlier in the southern tier of
counties, the egg-laying will have
been completed and all its injury
accomplished. The pruning may
then be doue aud cut-olf twigs
burned, thus destroying the eggs
of this insect, as well as giving
the form and character desired
in the young tree.
Nine-tenths of all the destruc
tion caused by insects comes
from not "taking time by the
forelock." People wait until a
horde of destructive insects sud
denly appear, and then comes the
pathetic inquiry, "What are they,
and how can I destroy them or
prevent their attacks?"
Here is a case which is of as
regular recurrence as the seas
ons, and preparation can be made
to meet it as one would prepare
for spring plowing or for winter's
snow. It is true that the coming
locust swarm may be reduced in
size or numbers, and may even
have been exterminated in some
jxirticular fields, but should it
completely fail it will be for the
first time in 187 years, and that
is improbable.
In addition to the publication
referred to, excellent accounts of
the Periodical Cicada are given
in Bulletin 93, and the Annual
Report for 1894, of the New Jer
sey Experiment Station.and.also,
in Bulletin 87 of the Ohio Experi
ment Statiou.
The annual reports and quar
terly bulletin of this station will
be sent, free of charge, ou appli
cation, and inquiries on agricul
tural subjects answered so far as
possible.
Address,
II. P. Amshy, Director,
State College,
Centre Co., Pa.
The teacher was telling the
class that the tongue is the organ
of speech, and that without it a
man could not talk. At this
Johnny held up his hand.
"Well, Johnnie, what is it?"
'I heard a man say, the other
day, that it was so cold it made
his teeth chatter."
A Questionable Experiment.
It is stated that a Brooklyn
physician has inoculated a young
woman with tuberculour tissue
from a diseased cow to test the
question whether human beings
can contract consumptioni from
animals. Board of Health offi
cials say that if he has done this
he is liable to criminal prosecu
tion; Physicians are as a rule hostile
to such experiments. Iu an in
stance reported by the American
Human Association a surgeon in
the Paris Academy of Medicine
operated upon a woman for can
cer. While she was still uncon
scious he grafted a bit of the can
cerous tissue npon auother part
of her body. The experiment
"succeeded;" the woman did de
velop a new cancer. But when
the doctor described his triumph
to an audience of physicians he
was overwhelmed by a storm of
horrified disapproval. To the
credit of American medical prac
tice it may be added that only two
such instances have hitherto been
charged against the profession in
America, and these apparently
without convincing proof.
There is no parallel between
this alleged inoculation with con
sumption and the case of the two
young doctors in Havana who lost
their lives by experimenting with
yellow fever germs upon them
selves. Whether a physiciau has
the right to take such risks him
self may be doubted; he certainly
has no right to subject a patient
to them, even with the patient's
cousent.
Astounding Discovery.
From Coopersville, Mich., comes
word of a wonderful discovery
of a pleasant tasting liquid that
when used before retiring by any
one troubled with a bad cough al
ways ensures a good night's rest.
"It will soon cure the cough too,"
writes Mrs. S. Ilimelburger,
"for three generations of our
family have used Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption and
never found its equal for Coughs
and Colds." It's an unrivaled
life-saver when used for desper
ate lung diseases. Guaranteed
bottles 50c and 1.00 at W. S.
Dickson's. Trial bottles free.
A Peace-Promoting Gun.
A new dynamite gun mounted
at Fisher's Island has just with
stood a series of exhaustive tests.
It developed satisfactory accur
acy at all ranges. It threw
shells, each carrying 500 pounds
of nitro gelatin enough to de
stroy any ship afloat 3,000
yards. It threw six-inch shells,
each carrying 50 pounds of the
dynamite, nearly 8,000 yards.
It proved itself an exellent rapid
fire gun for smaller projectiles at
the practial fighting range 2,000
yards. Within twelve minutes it
accurately delivered four dyna
mite shells, each weighing more
than half a ton.
This is probably the most for
midable gun in the world. It
seems to make a naval attack of
any kind upon land fortifications
an impossibility.
Defensive warfare has been
growing stead ily.easier and offen
sive warfare steadily more diffi
cult. This last contribution to
tho gratifying tendency of latter
day military development may
prove a powerful promoter of the
business of the International
Court of Arbitration that now
only twirls its thumbs at The
Hague.
Sammy Papa, can you tell me
what runs and stands still at the
same time?
Papa Why, nothing, my sou;
that is an impossibility.
Sammy How about a clock?
A Physician Testifies.
"I have taken Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure and have never used any
thing in my life that did me the
good that did," says County Phy
sician Geo. W. Scroggs of Hall
County, Ga. "Being a physician
I have proscribed it and found it
to give the best results." If the
food you eat remains undigested
in your stomach it decays there
and poisons the system. You
can prevent this by dieting but
that means starvation. . Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure digests what you
eat. You need suffer from neith
er dyspepsia nor starvation. The
worst cases quickly cured. Never
fails.
Uses For Salt.
Just as a matter of curiosity I
have recently been trying to find
out to how many uses 1 put com
mon table salt, says a writer in
the Southern Farm Magazine.
You would be astonished when I
tell you the result. I suppose
there are many more uses, but
these are of my own experience
and may interest some of our
readers.
WThen china is stained from tea
or any other cause a little wet salt
rubbed ou will mako it white
again.
A little salt stirred into white
wash makes it stick better.
Used as a toothpowder salt
whitens the teeth and hardens
the gums.
A teaspoonful of salt iu a glass
of hot water will relieve a sore
th: oat if used as a gargle.
Salt will relieve a cold in the
head if snuffed through the nose.
Wash your willow furniture
with strong salt water, and then
rub dry with a soft cloth.
Wash your mattiug with tepid
water a cupful of salt to the
bucket once a month and it will
last twice as long.
Rub your gridiron with salt
wheu you want to fry cakes with
out grease.
Rub your cake and bread pans
with salt to keep the cake from
sticking.
Wash your hair with salt water,
as hot as you can bear it, to stop
the hair from falling out just
enough salt in tho water t taste.
Sago tea with a little salt iu it
is the best of all hair touics.
Put half a cup of salt iu a buck
et to wash your butter in, and it
will draw out all the buttermilk
and save you much trouble.
Bright colored cotton goods
keep their color much longer if
always washed in salt water.
As a fine remedy for nausea,
put a little salt on your tongue ev
ery little while.
Strong salt water held in the
mouth after a tooth has been pull
ed will stop the bleeding.
Two teaspoons of salt in a glass
of tepid water is an emetic always
conveuieut, and will relieve the
stomach of poisons before other
remedies can be administered.
A salt batli is one of the best of
all touics for a weak constitution.
It must always be followed by a
vigorous rubbing down.
Dry salt applied to a fever blis
ter will generally drive it away.
Flatirons rubbed with salt are
smooth and cleau. It is a good
plan to keep a little box of it on
the ironing table and rub the iron
in it every timeiyou take it off the
stove.
Silks and ribbons washed in
slightly salt water will be very
much nicer than otherwise.
Irou while wet.
It is said that small doses of
salt will relieve hemorrhages of
lungs or stomach if promptly
used.
Salt mixed with lemon juice
will remove mildew. Rub it on
tho place and put it in the sun.
Eggs packed in salt will re
main fresh.
When we think of all these
uses, and then remember how
tasteless and insiped our food
would be without salt, we are
forced to the conclusion that it is
one of our greatest blessings.
The Children's Friend.
You'll have a cold this winter.
Maybe you have one now. Your
children will suffer too. For
coughs, croup, bronchitis, grip
and other winter complaints One
Minute Cough Cure never fails.
Acts promptly. It is very pleas
ant to the taste and perfectly
harmless. C. B. George, Win
chester, Ky., writes: "Our little
girl was attacked with croup late
one night and was so hoarse she
could hardly speak. We gave her
a few doses of One Minute Cough
Cure. It relieved her immediate
ly and she wont to sleep. Wheu
she awoke next moruing she h id
no signs of hoarseness or croup.'
Tommy asked his mother if
men go to heaven, and wheu she
answered "yes" he thoughtfully
said:
"Well, I've seen a good many
pictures of angels, but I've never
seen a man among them; they're
all women."
A McKinley memorial postal
card is to bo issued by tho post
office department. Tho stamp
will be a portrait of Presideut
McKinley, with the date of his
death and birth, his Dame aud
"series of 1901" printed around
the design.
Tour Columu.
To haw our nppreclntlou of the wiiy In
which thq Fulton County Nqwh Is being adopt
ed Into the home of the people of thin county
we hnvc net npiirt this column for the FUEK
une of our nulworlttent.forndvertlRlnir puruonnn.
flublent to the fnllnwlnir enndltlnnii! I
1. It In free only to those who Are paid-up nub
Rorlbers. 3. Only pernonnl property can be advertised. .
8. Notice must not exceed 30 wordn.
4. All "leual" nolle a excluded.
5. Not free to merchnnm. or nny one to adver
tlHA (roods nold under a mercantile license.
The primary ohject of thin column In to af
ford farmers, and folks who are not In public
business, an opportunity to brlnn to public at
tention product or nlockn they may hnve to
ncll. or may want to buy.
Now, thin npnee In yourn; If yon wiyittolmy a
home, If you wunt hired help. If you want to
borrow money. If you want to nell a pig, a butt
K.V, omc hay, a goose, or If you want to itilver
tlec for a wife thin column In yourn.
The Newn In read weekly by elirtit thousand
people, and In the bent advertising medium iu
the oounty.
Wanted. The News office
wants a load of coal.
Foil Salk. Six nice calves and
a milch cow that will be fresh in
about a month.
Thomas McClukk,
Near Hustontown.
Wanted. A man with a small
family to occupy tenant house,
and work by the year. None but
sober, industrious men need ap
ply. Good pay to right man; al
so, 3 or 4 good milch cows wanted.
C. J. Brewer.
McConnellsburg.
Church Directory.
Frksbyterian Rev. W. A. West D.
D., Pastor. v
Sabbath school, 0:15.
Preaching service each alternate
Sunday moruing counting from Aug.
12th, at 10:30, and every Sunday
evening at 7:30.
Junior Christian Endeavor at 2:00.
Christian Endeavor at 6:30.
, Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 7:30.
Methodist Episcopal Rev. A.' D.
McCloskey, Pastor.
Sunday school at 9:30 a. m.
Preaching every other Suncfay morn
ing, counting from June Kith,' at
10:30 and every Sunday evening al
7:30.
Epworth League at 6:30 p. m.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 7:30.
United Pukshyterian Rev. J. L.
Grove, Pastor'
Sunday school at 9:30 a. m.
Preaching every Sunday morning at
10:30, and every other Sunday even
ing counting from August 19, at 7:30.
The alternute Sabbath evenings art
used by the Young People's Chris
tian Union at 7:30 p. in.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 7:30.
Evangelical Lutheran Rev. A.G.
Wolf, Pastor.
Sunday school 9:15 a. m.
Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday evening prayer meeting
at 7:30.'
Preaching morning und evening ev
ery other Sunday, dating from De
comber 9, 1900.
Rei-ohmed Rev. C. M. Smith, Pas
tor. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m.
Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday evening prayer meeting
at 7:30.
The Mysterious Yoice.
It was a warm summer night
and the hour was miduight. The
scone was Madison Square Park,
New York. The policemen on
the four sides of the rectangle
were getting dull with sleepiness.
So one of them said afterward
the one who tells the story.
Suddenly into the stillness .of
tho uight a shrill cry projected
itself:
"Help! Help! Murder! Mur
der!" The cry appeared to come from
within the square. And simul
taneously the two policemen near
est at hand rushed into the park,
the leather thongs on their night
sticks in place for striking.
"They'er killing me! Help!
Help!" spurred them on.
The policemen made a system
atic search of the green area,
ending finally in the centre.
"Well, where Is it?" asked one.
"Give it up. I thought 'twas
here," was the reply.
"Keep away! Keep away! Don't
come near mo!" cried the shrill
voice.
Slowly and warily the police-
men made their way to a bench I
a little to the south of tho centre, j
which seemed to be the snot ,
wheuce tho voice came. And
there they stood for a moment,
woudoriner what it uieHut. Then
from llin Inn nr Vinu nt llm irimla
overhead a wheedling voice said: I Good government get tho peo
"Pllv ant n ovn,.to, l Ple'8 wealth, w'hilo good instruct-
xno mystery was solved. It
was somebody's parrot, escaped
remained in the park for a day
or so, resisting all efforts to be
captured, and then disappear! d,
haviDg perhaps found its wiiy
back to its cage.
from its cage, which had ulnviid : muur W,U1 uieir sirouginaregov- anfesianw aim digests an
. . , XT ' 1 erned by others. food. It gives Instant relief
this joke on two of New York's uni,f u " lf ,, fulls to cure. It allows you
clevaroat, r,lir.pmn Tl,0 . U,i ! A. i" " , .7', , . "a lV the food you want. The imoh
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J. K. JOHNSTON'S
Announcement of
Fall and Winter Goods
Bargains for Men
Men's Hluck Knits,
$z.w. .n., m.ir,
J7.50, $!UK) and 10.
Mmi's liusiness Suits
3.50, $4.75, $0.00,
$7.00, and 10.0(),
Cliildrn's two
piece Suits, 65,
90, 1.00, 1.50,
2.00, 2.50 and
3.00.
Roys'Ileefet Coats
1.75.
Children's Vestee
Suits 3 to 7
yeurs old 1.25
to 2.00.
mm
Overalls - Men's
strong, nevcr-rip,
50 and 75 cents.
Men's Ov-
, crcouts .
i Storm coats
?ith largo
storm col
lars, from
$2 50 to 10.
I Joys' and
Youth's )v-ercoats.
w . ' "Astr ii a. a
xrr-n jut
I I A - Villi i
J. K. Johnston
McConnellsburg, Fa.
OOOOOOOOOOCCOzOOOOOOOOOOOOO
PHILIP F. BLACK,
Manufacturer of
Sash, Doors, Newel Posts, Hand
Rails, Stairs, Banisters, Turned
Porch Columns, Po sts, &c.
McConnellsburg, Pa.
Doors 2 : 8 x 6 : 8; 2
inches in thickness.
asn 11x20; 12x24;
12 x 34; 12 x 36 inch and
j
on hand. '
Sash four lights to window from 45 cents to 70.
These sash are all primed -and readv for the
Both the doors and the sash
and yellow pines.
coxxxox
Chinese Proverbs.
Dig a well before you are thirs-
ty.
Tho ripest fruit will not fall in
to your mouth.
Gro.it wealth means destiny.
Moderate wealth means industry.
Tho pleasure of doing good is
tho ouly ono which does not wear
out.
Water does not remain on the
tnountain nor vengeance in. a
r(JUt niind.'
To nc,l"'h the heart there is
nolhDg better than to make tho
desires few.
! When life comes, it cannot de
1 decliued. When it troes. it cannot
bo detained
ions get their hearts.
Thoso who labor with their
Thoso who labor with their
minds govern others. Those who i
rope cannot be used to draw wa
; ter from a deep welt
j Let, every man sweep enow
j from before his own door aud not
j busy himself about the frost of
hi neighbor's tiles.
Kverydav Pnnts, 50, 7 ".,
and $1.00.
Press Pants, $1.00 to $2.75.
Men's t'nilerwear, :!'
4H, and US cents.
Children's Underwear,
Vest or Pants-10, 12, 1.'
18, 25, and 30 cents.
Suspenders, 10, 15,
25 cents.
unci
25 Dozen Regular 2Kci:iit
Neckties going at 9 cents o"
3 for a quarter.
Latest style Linen
Collars 4 ply at 10c.
Linen Link Cull's -15c
per pair.
fi
if
Men's and Hoys' Dress
Shirts 25, 4 ami "5ccnts.
Men's and 15ovs' strong
every-day Shirts, 25 an 1
18 cents.
Men's heavy Won! Over-
shirt. 4H and Oh cents.
Men's Fine Kid and
Dog.-skin dri'ss gloves,
silk li I, 1.011.
lfuck.skii), Calfskin, i ;i
dian tunned, lire uv.d
waterproof work ing
gloves, 5Mc to 1.25.
Liidics', Men's and t'liii
' dren's wool mittens. 15,
25, and 5th1.
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8
8
6 x 6 : 6; 1 and three-eighth
12x28; 12x30; 12x 32; 0
a quarter thick alwavs O
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are made from best white X
Tho editor of an exchange r
marks that he always feels sorry
for a girl who elhigs to a fellow
who will spend a dollar for ico
crcarn aud chocolates and three
for a Sunday buggy ride for her
on a six dollar a week salary, and
sees visions of barefooted chil
dren, a frowzy headed woman
over a washtub, tin cans for dish
es oo the table, aud a combination
of a corncob pipe and a niau in
tho eoriier. The you ug man who
lives within his meaus while siu
glo usually has means after he's
married.
Dyspepsia Cure
Dfnests what vnn
This preparation contains all of tho
kinds ol
and never
to eut all
itsensitl vd
liv it.susa many
thousands or dynpcptlcs have hueii
cured after everything else failed. 1
unequalled for the stomach. Child
ren with weak stomachs tlirlvo on it.
Cures all stomach troutlss
I'n rnrtrtonlT by E. O. I)BWiTT&Oo.,ihr(ro