FULTON "COUNTY NEWS.
GEN. GEO. H. THOMAS. ,
Among Lliu ninny groat military
commanders which tlio War of
tho Kt.'liollion made prominent,
noiio sliiuos brighter than "Pap
Thomas," tho hero of the Army
of tho Cumberland.
From a boy ho had a desire to
bo soldier and at the ugo of
twenty entered West Point.
He was an apt student aud
graduated with high honors in
18-JU, when ho was commissioned
Hccond Lieutenaut of Artillery
and saw his first service in the
Seminole war in Florida.
After serving for eighteen
mouths in Florida, lie was order
ed to New Orleans, aud shortly
after to Charleston Harbor, where
ho became First Lieutenant. In
IS 15 ho was at Ft. rro.vn, Texas,
when the Mexicans besieged the
plue.e.
lie also fought at Monterey,
aud for gallantry in this battle
was promoted to Captain.
At Huena Vista, it was Thomas
who carried C!eu. Taylor's fam
ous order to Captain Uragg to
"Givo thorn a little more grape,
Captain !". aud for this he was
promoted to Major.
After the Mexican war he was
on duty at different points, aud
in lbu'j he was assigned to tho
.Second U. S. Calvary, whose of
ficers were: Colonel Albert Sid
ney Johnston; Lt. Colonel, Kobert
M Lee; Associate Major, William
J. Hardee, three of the highest
rebel chieftains during the war.
Iu lNCil all of the above named
officers resigned aud joined the
Confederacy, Thomas alone of
tho regimental officers remaining
loyal.
On the 5th of May of the same
year, ho was appointed Colonel
of the nth U. S. Calvary and com
manded a brigade under Gen.
Patterson, and afterward under
Ccu, IJauks.
On August 17th he was made a
Brigadier General aud placed in
command of Camp Dick Robin
son in Kentucky.
lie fought tho battlo of Mill
Spring, .Ian. liith, 18(12, gaining
a decided victory, after which he
was sent to Nashville, Tenu.,
where his division formed the re
serve of the Cumberland.
Oil April tA, lGil, he was
com missioned Major General of
Volunteers tuid subsequently
came into command of the Army
of the Cumberland.
lie exhibited great firmness at
Stouo Kiver and Chickamauga,
rolling back the tide of battle and
saving tho army.
In all the engagements of the
army, General Thomas showed
great generalship, aud at Nash
ville in December, 1804, nearly
annihilated Hood's army.
He had a magnificent soldierly
appearauce and a complete mas
tery of his profession in all of its
details. It is said of him that he
never lost a battle, or met the en
emy without giving him cause to
grieve over the encounter.
By some he was thought to be
a little slow, but, like Napoleon,
prepared his plans carefully, and
suffered no surprises. He was
always ready for an attack by
the enemy and always made the
enemy pay dearly for any at
tempt, to outgeneral him. Then
again ho always had the entire
confidence of both officers and
men under him aud never claim
ed any distinction or honor for
himself at the expense of others,
aud consequently no one disputes
his military genius or his well
earned fame.
At tho close of the war Geu.
Thomas was given command of
the military division of Tennes
see, including Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Georgia, aud Alabama,
wiih headquarters at Nashville;
bul his health failiug, at his own
roqjost, he .was assigned to the
Pacific coast with headquarters
at Sau Francisco, Cal. On the
liKth of March, 170, while sittiug
i'i hi office ho was stricken with
tip'iolexy and died tho evening if
lit" n;i mo d;iy(
tt'bim ii teacher at West Piiut
he met and married Mrs. Kel
logg, a lady of . rare accomplish
wonts wh , during bis whole life,
made one of the host of wives,
and who lived many years after
his death. At her request he
was buried in tho family lot at
Troy, New York, where sheMiaa
since been laid by his side.
Ho left no children to mourn
for him, but a grateful nation
will ever keep iu memory his ma
ny sterliug virtues and tho noble
services he rendered his coun
try. "Gone is our lim-o, strong Uiul brave,
Columbia wt'i'ii-) above Ills grave,
While high upon the roll of fame.
She writes that loveil and honored
name,
Tho 'Hock of Chickamauga.' "
TEACHES LANGUAGES
TO PARROTS,
i jicuunar proiession is matoi
A . 1! 1 . I t .
a man in Chicago who is a teach
er of lauguages to parrots. The
Chicago Tribune says that while
the foreigner was floing transla
tions and giving French and Ger
mau lessons at starvation prices
he chanced one day to talk witli a
parrot dealer, and asked him if
many birds were sold abroad.
"No" said he, but only on ac
count of the difference i u language.
English speaking parrots would
hardly be iu demand in a foreign
country.
This gave the linguist an idea.
Ho took home an uneducated bird
and in a few weeks taught it to re
peat some shortFreuch sentences
After that ho began a regular
occupation of teaching French,
Germau aud Italiau to parrots in
stead of to people. "
Diet and warmth are important
conditions iu this system of edu
cation. The birds are keep iu a
temperature of HO degrees, and
are fed on nuts, bananas and oth
er fruit. The lessons are given
morning and evening. One word
may be pronounced for days to
gether. Later several words are
joined iu the form of a sentence.
A clever bird will learn a short
sentence iu less than a fortnight.
Oue important secret is that of
teaching a bird to speak oppor
tunely, as if it understood what is
happening at the moment. If the
teacher pulls out his watch at the
instant of saying, "what time is
it?"the parrot soon learns to say,
"What time is it whenever ho sees
a watch.
If he is to be taught to greet a
visitor, the teacher on giving the
lesson, must enter the room by
saying, "How do you do?"
To induce him to say, "Must
you go?" "Good-bye!" the profes
sor picks up his hat and stick,
and leaves the room as he repeats
the words.
GOOD AND BAD LAUGHTER.
Is laughter a good thing the
laughter which is directed to
something "which fails to comply
with a social requirement," which
is compelled by the Bight of incon
gruity, or by sudden surprise?
asks the Spectator. All laughter
at all events, is not good. The
giggle aud the titter are laughter
debased, people who trifle with
laughter, wrote Carlyle, only suiff
and titter and sniggle from the
throat out-ward, or at best pro
duce some whiffling, husky cacchi
nation, as if they were laughing
through wool." But though the
snigger is detestable, you can still
have too much of hearty laughter
of the roar of Teufelsdrockh. It
is only the unrestrained or the
irresponsible man who laughs
tempestuously often, and, indeed
as a man grows older and gets a
wider view of the world, he laughs
no doubt, less loudly. Professor
Sully thinks that as a nation we
lave lost some of the mirth of our
forefathers. If by that he means
the noisier, self-abandoned mirth
of two hundred years ago' it is
not perhaps to be regretted. It
is true that hearty laughter is of
ten an index to an honest soul.
Carlyle was probably right when
he said that "no man who has
once heartily and wholly laughed
can be altogether bad." But there
is a better laugh tl an Teufels
drockh's, and that is the deep
found chuckle of kindliness and
exierieiice together. . Perhaps
we laugh more wisely, even if
more rarely, thauour forefathers.
SAVES TWO FKOM DEATH.
"Our little daughter had an al
most fatal attack of whooping
cough and bronchitis," writes
Mrs. W. K. Uiviland, of Ar monk,
N. Y., "but, when all other reme
dies failed, we saved her life with
Dr. King's New Discovery. Our
niece, who had Consumption in an
advanced stago, also used this
wonderful medicine and to day
she is perfectly well." Desperate
throat and luug diseases yield to
Dr. King's New Discovery as to
no other medicine on earth. In
fallible for coughs and colds. 50c
and $1.00 bottles guaranteed by
W. K. Dickson's. Trial bottles
free.
A PARISIAN MARVEL
Paris Laa a new marvel in a girl
dramatist, who, though only ten
year old, has tompo-ed sevcrul plays
of miu.li precocity. She is Mile.
Chuiiipmoynat, and her literary
name is Carmen d'Assilva. Tho lit
tle one has been admitted to the So
ciety of Dramatic Authors and lias
been complimented and encouraged
to pursevero by M. Victorien Sardou.
The child herself states that hor
brain is always working up dramatic
situations and incidents. She ob
serves everything that pas.-es nud
prefers largo cities with their bus
tling crowds, which she studies, to
the quiet country, where everything
seems to her inert aud dead. Tho
precocious infant also tells pcoplo
that she comprehends everything in
life thoroughly. She 1ms in fact,
learned to understand all the springs
of human action. Likely enough
she does, for she is a sad pessimist,
this ten-vear-old. The world is
abominable, in her estimation, but
amusing. Carmen is now writing a
comedy on woman before and after
marriage.
Long and Short Ml let.
English speaking countries have
four different miles tho ordinary
mile of 5,Vh0 feet and the geograph
ical mile of 0,085 feet, making a dif
ference of about one-seventh be
tween the two; then there aro tho
Scotch mile of 5,028 feet and tho
Irish mile of (J,T20 feet four vari
ous miles, every one of which is still
in use. Then almost every country
has its own standard mile. The
Romans had their mil passuum,
1,000 puces, wliich must have been
about 3,000 feet in length. The Ger
man mile today is 24,318 feet in
length, more than four and a half
times as long as ours. The Dutch,
Danish and Prussian mile is 18,-149
feet, three and a half times as long
as ours, mid the Swiss get more ex
ercise in walking one of their miles
than we get in walking five miles,
for their mile is 9,153 yards long.
Earned Hit Tip.
Secretary Shaw told this story on
himself the other evening :
"Sam, the darky who brushes my
clothes in a barber shop in Wash
ington, is particularly clever in deli
cately reminding customers that he
expects a tip. One morning just be
fore the Fourth 1 was thinking of
other things and was walking away
without dropping a coin into his
hands.
" 'Let me brush your coat again,
Mr. Secretary,' said Sam, running
after me.
" 'Why do you want to brush it
again?' I asked.
""Cause, Mr. Secretary,' said
Sam without cracking a smile,
' 'cause I might brush out some gold
dust, sir.'
"Sam got his tin." New York
Times.
Havana's "Boneyard."
The "boneyard"' of Colono ceme
tery, Havana, is one of the odd and
grewsome sights of the Cuban cap
ital. This famous pit was first dug by
Don Pedro Vuldas in ICO'.'. It is
110 feet square and 20 feet deep,
and an eight foot wall incloses it.
A man dies, is buried in a rented
grave, is forgotten in a short time,
and tho rent is unpuid for one year.
Then his bones aro dug up and
thrown among his ancestors' and
others' ancestors in the mass of
deud humanity. The grave, being
open, is held to receive tho next
body.
A careful estimate puts tho num
ber of human skeletons in tho pit at
700,000.
The Sultan and Coffee.
Tho sultan's diet is very simple.
He eats very little of tho plainest
food and never touches wino or
liquors of uny kind, but consumes
enormous quantities of coffee, which
aggravates his nervousness. Up to
a few years ago a servant with a
coffeepot always followed him when
he went out for exercise, and while
driving in the park coffee stations
were placed at frequent intervals
where he could stop and refresh
himself. By the advice of his phy
cicians ho now limits himself to five
or six cups of his favorite beverage
a day, and it is said that he has him
self noticed an improvement in his
health. Be is not so nervous and
sleeps better.
Russell Sage'e Home.
Russell Sago owns the house in
which lie lives, at 500 Fifth avenue,
New York, and Elbridgc T. (Jerry
owns tho ground, upon which it
stands, Mr. Sago some forty-four
years ago taking at first a twenty
two years' leaso at $700 a year. At
tho end of that period the lease was
reJiewed for an equal term at $3,300
a year. Now another renewal has
been made at a rental of $12,500 a
year, which Mr. Sago says is out
rageous, but as ho and his wife can
not bear the thought of moving
from their old homo they concluded
to submit. Mr. Sago's house haa
been steadily deteriorating in value.
"Mary," her father called down
Htaii's, "just ask your young man If
he doesn't think it's pretty neur bed
time."
"Yes, papa." replied the sweet girl,
after a puuse. "George says if you're
t leepy, go to bed by all means "
Tci Laxative Dromo Quinine Tablets.
Savta MHHon koxM soM la pott 1 3 month. This Signature.
THE RACKET STORE
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A FEW PRICES FOR FEBRUARY.
Just received anew lotof Felt Hoots, with a heavy duck rolled edge
over, tho best you ever saw, for !.!); also, two cases of candeo Water
ed Silk finish, ladies overs, at tlie old price, liV. Wo still have a
few pair of good cheap Host Grade Men's Cum Hoots, 2.7Z.
We have this month added to our stock" tho following goods.
Yankee Ft inn Urjdles, homo made, l.tit. 1-inch tie straps 24c.
Homo made leather halters s.'c. City made 4-ring halters, (.c
Ureast Chains L'nc a pair. Hut-traces, 4e pair, Long plow traces,
50, (SO and xuu pair. You will do well to see these goods.
TIINWRE! TINWARE !
No. , good heavy Wash boder, (i5c, L' jt covered Buckets, 0c, iJ qt
Sc, 4 qt., ll'c, 10 qt., flaring pulls, li'c, 10 qt., galvanized pails, 17c.
Tin cups i'c each, dippers 4, o, 1, Hi, L'Oc. 3 qt., tin stew pans, .'c,
11. in., tin Wash basins Tie, I'-qt., copper pots 7 to 10c. Gruuitc, -3
to ;j.r)C IV phitos '2 for Tic. Dish paus, to fOc. Flour sifters. hH
Colanders, loc. Milk strainers Inc. Copper tea kettles HQc.
CLOTHING AND UNDERWEAR.
Iu overalls and .shirts, wo have the best and cheapest ever made
Jn suits, we have children s 0c to tfl.'.H Long pants suits for boys
at 1.5 10 to Men's suits L4.' to iy7.lT). Underwear for boys
and men good fleeced lined, -',) to 40c.
HARDWARE ! HARDWARE !
Diamond tooth cross cut saws, with handles if 1. 10 & if 1.15. Manns
double bit axes still rOe. Clippers, double bit, (mc. Clothes pins lc doz
Give us an early call and save money.
HULL & BENDER, PROPRIETORS.
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I When You Come to
Ghambersburg
Just go up Main street till you come to Queen street.
Hight at Bloom Bros. ' corner turn to the west half a
block aud you will come to a modern 3-story cream-
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colored brick building. Step inside and you will find O
the nicest rooms, aud the largest stock of good furni- O
ture and its belongings, to be seen in the Cumberland
Valley.
You will find many articles here that vou do not see
8 in other stores. There has been a furniture store on this
spot for 75 years aud yet there are many of tho younger
O people and some others who don't know it. That is the rea
O sou we are telling you about it.
.' About a block' farther, on llie b:ink of the Conococheague,
v whoso water drives tho machinery, you will tiud our facto-
St ry ; where with skilled niechauics aud seasoned lumber we
Y cau make almost anything you may require.
X COME TO OUR STORE end look around Much to
X...see that is interesting even if you don't want to buy. We
X want you to know what it is and where it is.
q Open till H o'clock in the evening now Saturday till nine.
II. SIERER & CO.,
S Furniture Makers on Queen Street.
3 Chambersburg, Fo.
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Daffodils and Roses!
OUR EASTER LINE of DRESS GOODS and TRIA
MINGS rival th-2 (lowers in their beauty.
1 PERFECTION
in Style Color and Choice being as usual to our
SHIRT WAIST SPECIALTIES.
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Nice Dress
Goods
Waistings, &c.
For Summer Wear,
to see our Stock.
We have already sold quite a lot and have
just received some new patterns in
Mercerized, white and colors, silk,
wool and cotton. They are beauties,
and are all right in price. See them.
Our Shoe
Stock
Is in better shape this Spring than ever.
We can fit most any one in Shoes and
price.
Clothing
A large Spring and Summer line that we
know is all right in slvle and vrice.
Don't fail to see them before buying.
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