FULTON . COUNTY NEWS.
EARTH GROWS SMALL.
Time and Space Annihilated
by Modern Methods.
Measured by the yardstick.
says Robert B. Armstrong in the
National Magazine, the world to
day is as great as in the days of
the Pharaohs. A hundred, years
ago it still retaiued that formida
ble girth. To day, measured by
the hour glass, the planet lias
shriveled into a mere miniature
of its former self. Under the
compressure of electricity, steam
and steel bridges a spectacle is
presented of practical time and
space annihilation.
Seas have been dried up, conti
nents pushed together and is
lands wedded that this might be.
Nations once isolated are now in
earshot of one another, and the
markets of all peoples line a sin
gle street. American wheat
fields are days, not months, away
from British bake shops.
French wines are hours, not
weeks, removed from American
dinner tables. New York is on
the outskirts of London, and Par
is is not a block away. Deep sea
cables and laud wires hem the
buyers and sellers of the world
iuto a vortex of competition,
whose diameter is a minute, and
within whose circumference are
gathered all the products and all
the purses of mankind. ,
Iuto this vortex American en
ergy has plunged, and the splash
lias been called "American Inva
sion." Compared with future
possibilities in the game of inter
national barter the recent activ
ities of American men of affairs
abroad are merely preliminary
and almost experimental. That
American ingenuity and vigor
have contributed much to the
dwarfing of the planet is an earn
est that Americans will take a
keen advantage of every opportu
nity to produce a still smaller pe
riphery to the globe. Meantime
the shortened circumference has
brought complicatious which
have a bearing of great import
ance on the commercial pros
pects of the United States.
A century has been a revolu
tion in time annihilation. And
America, young as it is, has caus
ed many sparks to fly in this
greater activity. In 1800 the
world was sluggish. Thousands
traveled in saddle bags and men
crawled at a snail's pace over
land and sea. In America there
was no such thing as expedition.
Kentuckians knew nothing of the
election of James Madison to the
Presidency of the United States
until three months after the last
ballot had been counted. There
would have been no Chesapeake
aud Ohio canal but for the argu
ment that by means of it the de
crees of Congress were to be
speedily transmitted to the cities
beyond the Blue Ridge and the
Alleghenies.
The pony express was the ac
me of rapidity in the days of
George Washington, who requir
ed more time to ferry a message
from New York to Brooklyn than
an American does to-day to flash
a message around the globe.
Imagine the amazement of Ben
jamin Franklin if he could have
stood the other day as many mod
em scientists did, and seen one
of the most remarkable exploits
of time annihilation on record.
It was a test of thought trans
mission halfway around the
globe. A thirty word dispatch
sung over the wires to San Fran
cisco, theu to Vancouver, from
there to Nova Scotia, whispered
under the waters of the Atlantic
to London and back to New York.
Every wire had been cleared for
the test, and before the operator
had reached the last word of this
test message another operator in
the game room was taking the
first word of the same dispatch
hot from the cable direct from
London.
The whole world has caught
the electrical contagion of Amer
ica, and the globe is enmeshed iu
thought freighted wires. The
brine swept cables tied togetho r
ena 10 end, girdle the globe eight
nines. The wires that. tvin ,ri
sway in the wind
au told would make eight steel
puinways to the moon.
THE TELEPHONE.
The telephone has withered the
space that seDamto.l Ht.ioa a
towns, counties and states. Ti ll.
upns of steps have been saved by
this voice conductor, for two bil-
liousof telephone messeges are
exchanged every year. Over
plains, over buffalo wallows of
fifty years ag, farmers tele
phone along barbed wire circuits,
In Kansas City, every day in the
year, a business firm talks for
live minutes with its branch in
Boston, Chicago stock traders do
business on the New York Stock
Exchange and complete an entire
transaction iu thirty seconds.
London brokers, eager to deal
quickly on the Paris Bourse, find
ing the channel cables congested
with business, cable to Paris via
New York, and win many a pound
sterling by this long distance but
absolutely prompt action.
Measured in thought transmis
sion this old planet is no bigger
than a dot. Steam and electrical
pneumatic and hydraulic inven
tions have so annihilated space
that there is but a small earth to
clamber over. According to Dr.
Emery R. Johnson, Professor
Transportation in the University
of Pennsylvania, it takes steps
only one-fifth as long to get
around the world to-day as it did
in 1800. In the sunrise of the
century it took all but sixty-five
days in the year to get olco
around the world. That was
when men traveled in sailboats,
post chaise, on horseback and on
foot.
Ocean steamers came back in
1838, and they cut the ancient
time table in two, for theu it took
only 1G0 days to embrace the
girdle of mother earth. In 1809
the Suez Canal shrunk the world
still smaller, and an enterprising
man was able to get around the
world in 100 days. Since then
Jules Verne has been outdone,
for, by the development of the
speed of steam vessels and rail
road trains, one can box the com
pass and get home in sixty days.
And the end is not yet. With
the completion of the new Pacific
cable Honolulu, in thought trans
mission, will be no further away
from San Francisco than Oak
land is, across the Golden Gate.
Manila, then, in the transaction
of all business, will be as near to
Wall street, the purse of Ameri
ca, as are the commercial ports
of Europe and South America.
Thus tho planet is still shrinking
beneath the onslaught of modern
methods.
All these things mean new con
ditions for the American mer
chant of to-day and the Amer
ican merchant of the future. Ev
ery facility at his hand is at the
hand of his competitor. The suc
cessful American will have to be
quick on the trigger. He must
stand with his ear to the tele
phone, his fingers on tho tele
graph key. He must be extem
poraneous in all business, and
never meditative. The American
merchant, if he will succed, must
speak quickly, and above all,
speak first The time for delib
eration and waiting for foreign
markets to come to him has gone.
The shriveling of the earth has
forced his competitors onto his
street, and it behooves him to be
original if he would win.
Two things he must have:
First, absolutely accurate and
timely information as to the in
dustrial pulse beats andcommerj
cial temperature of the world ;
second, he must have a system
of distribution by which hemjy
take advantage of this informa
tion, and deliver to their destina
tion, with the least delay, the
products most suitable for the
needs of that particular commu
nity. FEARFUL ODDS AGAINST
HIM.
Bedridden, alone and destitute.
Such, in brief was the condition
of an old soldier by name of J. J.
Havens, Versailles, O. For years
he was troubled with Kidney dis
ease and neither doctors nor med
icines gave him relief. Atlengvh
he tried Electric Bitters. It put
him on his feet in short order and
now he testifies. "I'm on the road
to complete recovery." Boston
earth for Liver and Kidney trou
bles and all forms of Stomach and
bowel complaints, only SOcGuar
anteed by W. S. Dickson. Drug
gist. Merchant Wanted.
A man with some cash, who
thoroughly understands mer
chandizing, to open a general
store in Saltillo, Pa. Apply in
person at once.
CONDENSED STORIES.
English Actors 8een Through
the
Ey of a Pair of Cockneys.
Edgar Norton of Viola Allen's
company tells the following story:
Ilo happened to be in a bar or
saloon in London when he over
heard two cockneys discussing tho
merits of popular English actors.
Said one: "No, we ain't got no
really good hactors now."
"Git hout," said the other.
"That's stright! 'Oo 'ave we
bloomin' well got?"
"Well, there's Hecrbum Tree"
'"E ain't nuffink to speak oft"
" 'Ow do yer like George Halex
ander?" " 'E ain't much."
"Charley 'Aw trey ?"
"Sumtimcs 'a orright."
"Well, wot about 'Arry Irving"
(convincingly) ?
"Well, wot about him?"
" 'Ow about 'is Macbeth ?"
"Jiotten."
"'Is Looey the Eleventh?" V
"It ain't grito." 't
"'Is 'Amid?"
"Oli, passable, passable!"
"Well (triumphantly), 'ow about
'is Shyloek? Ain't that tricky?"
"Yus (musingly), yus; it's werry
tricky, I grant yer, but but it's
werry wulgar to my way o' think
in'." Curtain. Philadelphia Tress.
Not Good on the N. P.
Talking of railroad mistakes, this
is one of the latest stories told bv
J. J. Hill, president of tho Northern
lacitlc: A station agent on that
road had been granted leave of ab
sence for the purpose of getting
married. The usual passes for tho
happy couple had been issued from
the main office. On the trip the
agent met u new conductor, who de
manded his ticket.
"I have a pass," replied the acent.
handing out an envelope.
The conductor read it very sol
emnly and, handing it back, said
witli a shake of the head:
"Gee, man, that pass is good for a
very long and it may bo a very fine
journey, but not on the X. P."
It turned out that the agent had
put his pass and his marriage cer
tificate in the same envelope and
the conductor had taken out the
former.
A Narrow Escape.
A friend of Tom Dunn tells tho
following anecdote illustrative of
tho ex-sheriff's pluck ai)d ready wit:
Dunn and a party of friends had
been spending a half hour in an
uptown cafe and paused at the door
for a moment on the way out.
As they did so a man entered,
slamming the door so hard that a
basket of champagne which stood on
the edge of a shelf over the thresh-
im-
"ANOTIIEH SECOND AMD THE CHINKS
WOULD HAVE SEEN ON BE."
pact. There was a general gasp, for
Dunn stood immediately under
neath. The ex-sheriff was the only man
in tho crowd who kept cool. He
had seen tho basket start and ho
caught it neatly in midair. Then,
turning to tho others, the basket
still held over his head, he observed
calmly:
"Boys, another second and the
drinks would have been on mo."
New York Letter.
Senator Plunkltt Interpret Latin.
State Senator Plunkitt was re
ceiving his retainers as usual in the
rotunda of tho county courthouse
when one said:
"I don't like this talking about
triumvirs iu Tammany Hall. It's
worse than the cry of 'boss.' "
"Nonsense!" exclaimed tho sena
tor. "Just think what tho word
means. 'Virs is Latin for men, and
'triumph-virs' means tho men who
are going to win. That's what you
iwant, isn't it? Just don't you worry
about those 'triumph men.'" Newv
York World.
FARMING
IN THE SOUTH.
The PsKnenuer Depurtment of the Illinois
Central lUllroud Company I Imulnv mouiUly
olroulurn oouoereluK fruit growing' vegetable
rardealnif, stock ruinltm, dairying, eta., In the
button of Kentucky, Went Tennessee, M'nl
Ippl. end UJuUlnon. Every farmer or Home
seeker, who will forward bis osme and addres
to the undersigned, will be mailed free, Clruu
lurs Nos. I, S. , , and t, and others an they are
published from month to month.
E. A. RICHTER,
TRAVEIJNfJ FASSKNQEii AUKNT
PARK BUILDING, PITTSBURG, PA.
old was knocked down b the
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When You Come to
8 PiharnhfiTChnr'n'
J' Just go up Main street till you come to Queen street.
)J Right at Bloom Bros.1 corner turn to the west half a
rL block and you will come to a modern 3-story cream
H colored brick buildiug. Step inside and you will find
ff the nicest rooms, and the largest stock of good furni
ij ture and its belongings, to bo seen in the Cumberland
l Valley.
You will find many articles hero that you do not see
in other stores. There has been a furniture store on this
spot for 73 years and yet there are many of the younger
people and some others who don't know it. That is the rea
son we are telling you about it.
About a block farther, on the bank of tho Conococheague,
whose water drives the machinery, you will find our facto
ry ; where with skilled mechanics and seasoned lumber we
cau make almost anything you may require.
COME TO OUR STORE and look around Much to
see that is interesting even if you don't want to buy. We
want you to know what it is and where it is.
Open till 8 o'clock in the evening now Saturday till nine.
H. SIERER & CO.,
O Furniture Makers on Queen Street,
O Chambersburg, Fa.
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SPRING
of een the
Daffodils and Roses!
OUR EASTER LINE of DRESS GOODS and TRIM
MINGS rival the flowers in their beauty.
I PERFECTION
in Style Color and Choice being as usual to our
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T. J. WIENER,
K Hancock, Md.
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PULTON COUNTY NEWS
is the people's paper
$1.00 a Tear in Advance.
YOU NEED ABUGGY
HOW DOES THIS STRIKE YOU?
A Bran New Falling Top
Buggy with Full Leather
Trimming, Spring Cushion
and Back, Thousand Mile
Axle, A Grade Wheels, Pat
ent Shaft Couplers and Fine
ly Finished throughout for
ONLY $50.
Large Stock to select
rom.
I am also handling Hand
made Buggies and Wagons.
W. R. Evans,
Hustontown, Pa.
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WHY HE DIDN'T GO.
The Superintendent asked me to take
charge of a Sunday school class.
"You'll find 'em rather a bad lot,"
Bald lie. "They all went fishing last
Sunday but little Hand. He is really
a good boy, aud I hope his example
may redeem the others. I wish you
would talk to them a little.
I told him I would. A soon as the
lesson was over I said :
"Boys, your superintendent tells me
you all went fishing last Sunday -all
but Utile Johnny here. You dld't go,
did you, Johnny?" I asked.
No, sir.
That was right. Though this boy is
the youngest among you, you will
leurn from his own lips words of good
counsel which I hope you will profit
by.
I lifted him up on the seat beside me
aud smoothed his auburn ringlets.
Now Johnny, I want you to tell
these wicked boys why you didn't go
fishing with them last Sunday. Speak
up loud now. It was because It wag
wicked and you bad rather go to Sun
day school, wasn't it V
No air; it was 'cos I couldn't find do
worms for bait."
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SPECIALTIES.
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M'CONNELLSBURG
BAKERY
D. E. Little, Proprietor.
Fresh Bread, Rolls, Cakes,
Doughnuts, and Pretzels on
hand all the time.
Free Delivery in town on
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs
days, and Saturdays.
For Parties, Weddings, &i
we are prepared on a couplo
of days notice to furnish all
kinds of cakes &c.
Your Patronage Solicited.
D. E. LITTLE.
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PATIENT.
An eccentric old deacon in a New
Kmgland town was approached some
time ago by a young man who sought
his daughter's hand in marriage.
"You can't have my daughter,"sald
the deacon.
"Hut I love her dearly, and she
loves me," pleaded the youth.
"No matter; you can't have her."
"You know, sir, that I am amply
able to support a wife, and you know,
ulso, that my reputation Is without a
blemish. "
"I could not ask for a more thrifty
or a more upright man but for all
that, you can't have my daughter."
"Well, stuce you seem to find no
fault with me, please explain your ob
jection to my marriage with your
daughter V"
"H is simply that she has an ungov
ernable temper."
"But Sarah is a devout Christian,"
pleaded the youth.
"That may be true," said the dea
con. "But see here, young man, you
will come to know before you are as
old as I am, that the Lord can gt
along with many persons that you
couldn't get along with."
KEMERg'
We want every per
son interested in
Nice Dress jj
Goods
Waistings, &c.
c
For Summer Wear, g
to see our Stock. JJ
We have already sold quite a lot and have
just received some new patterns in O
Mercerized, white and colors, silk, g
wool and cotton. They are beauties,
and are all right in price. See them. W
Our Shoe
Stock
We can fit most
price.
Clothing
A large Spring and
know is alt right in stvle and nnce.
Don't fail to see
We have a largo stock of
Garpets, TWattings, S
Cinoleums, g
W)indoA? Shades
paints, Stains, Y)arnisb?
Inrushes, Gte.
For housekeepers. Q
please oall. Respectfully,
Q. W. Reisner & Co. g
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any one in Shoes and
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Summer line that we
them before buying. Q
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