0W mm VOLUME 7. McCONNELLSlHlUG, PA., MAY . 19()( NUMUElt 33 CHENG CIIOU, IIONAN, CHINA Ida C. Lawton, Who has Been in China (or Nine Years, Write a Letter for the Fulton County News. NO FARM HOUSES IN THE COUNTRY. You asked me to tell you some thing about the country in which wo are living. What I shall tell you refers only toHouan province. When we came upon the railroad, 1 said, how much this country re minds one of South Carolina. Acres and acres of wheat and acres and acres of cotton. You would say poor cotton. In the spring every farm seems to have acres of beautiful poppies from which thty make that hor rible drug which steals men's minds and robs women and chil dren of food ai d clothing. Then we havesandwhich makes much more dust than that 1 saw in South Carolina. Every time tha wind blows it stirs up the sand and carries it along. A. big , wind brings a Dig saud storm. Most f the people who live iu the city here, own land outside. Their workmen so out about four o'clock in the morning with niuies (ind oxen, and return at night fall. An ox and mule team being yoked up just over the wall from my bed room, announces to me the hour for busy people to get up. Thus you see that many of the farmers in this part of the country live in the city. A farm house in the country, i have not seotr'pue. Robbers are so numer ous and the people would not feel safe. There are many villages in w hich the people live close togeth er for protection. The people, rnen, women and children, work hard. Our native doctor's wife, who came with us from Kiausu, says, "the women her 3 never seem to have a quarter of an hour for play,"' but I would change her idea and say they have little time for idle gossip, and you know the result. .Better women, women among whrm it is a pleas ure to work. At this season ot the year they are too busy to rome to the meetings, but the lew who do come will, 1 trust, get clearly some precious truth, which they can help to impart to the crowds who will come after the Chine e New Year. Now, some days I do not have one worn au to come in, but they receive me gladly when 1 can go to their homes, i want you all to pray that ttie families of the men who have asked for baptism may all be saved soon. We are all happy iu the work and would not want to be auy place else. Last winter I did not see a white woman for six months, but this fall we have entertained more than thirty people many of ihetri mis siouaries going farther interrior, where they must endure much hardship on account of absence of home comforts. Now I must stop and will try to write to you soon again. . Faithfully yours Ida C. Lawton. Up Against It. The Carlisle Sentinel says edi tonally : The county commissioners are confronted by somewhat of a sit uatlon. By their Indiscretion they have had to borrow haav nly urg tlnd for the paymentof tbellarrisbu turnpike Jill, 400. Nowthoyfl that they will be compelled to i i as sume the permanent care of th roud and it will cost a large su to build bridges and put it i In to condition Besides there will be condemnation proceedings for the balance of the turnpike and they may unci fifty or sixty miles road on their hands to ba out good condition and cared for per waueiuiy out of the county trt ury. Then anew hrlrlln lower end will cost twelve or more uiou sands. They talk of incr lng the tax rat.. hut. tho., . 1 "v.ivjr VV1114JUU that about as unpopular i move m'i. w can he undertaken. COPY OF A NEW BILL, Attorney General Carson After the Rail road Companies. Attorney General Carson on Monday gave out a copy of a bill in equity which ho filed in the Dauphin county court a few days ago against the Pennsylvania Rail road Company, the Delewure, Laciawanna and Western, the Li high, the Cumberland Valley, the Buffalo and Susquehanna and the Erie Railroad Companies, asking n the name of thecommonwealth, for a perpetual injunction to re strain these roads from collecting a rebate of If 10 on each $20 inter changeable milcago hook sold. Among the reasons which the at torney general gives for asking for aj injunction to stop this prac tice are the following : That it forces the passengers to give bail for his conduct; takes the passenger's money to protect the railroads against scalpers; im poses all chances of loss of ticket on the holder; subjects the holder to unreasonable expenses and an noyances; gives the railroads the use of the public's money with out interest, and discrimiaies against one class of passengers. The prayer to the commou- wealth is : 'Wherefore, thecommonwealth showing that there is no adequa'.e remedy at law, prays : 1. That the defendants, their officers, agents and employes, may be perpetually enjoined from the issue and sale of said tickets within this commonwealth. .'. That they be perpetuelly enjoined from the exaction of more than a two-cent rate for one thousand mile ot travel. 3. That they be perpetually enjoined from the exaction of a ten dollar deposit orof anydeposit as a part of the price of said tic ket even though it be reclaimable. 4. That they be perpetually enjoined from making discrimi nations in the price of tickets of substantially the same character for long distauces, or frequent travel. 5. That they be restricted from accepting such tickets from other roads, and from acting is agents of other roads in disposing of such tickets, and particularly the Baltimore ad Ohio, Chesapeake and Onio, and the Norfolk and Western Railroad Companies. G. Further relief as to your honors shali seeio meet. . HUSI0NT0WN. David Ileefner, of this place, lett last Tuesday for Petersburg, Pa., where he expects to find em ployment. Drew Laidig and sister Estelle, of Laidig, were business callers in town last Wednesday. Jerry Cutchall, of SixmileRun, spent Saturday and Sunday with his pr rents at this place. Maud Fields, of Clear Ridge, visited the home of A. J. Larnber son last Sunday. N. E. Hoover and H. R. Lam- berson, who are employed at Mount Union, spent Saturday and Sunday at their respective homes in this place. M. D. Mathias left Tuesday for Illinois, where he expects to spend a couple of months visiting hi brother. W. W. Hoover, H. P. Barton and H. E. Chesnut left Monday for the county seat, whore they expect to attend Prof. B. C. Lam- bor son's summer normal. Frank C. McClaimis visiting in the home of his hou, J. B. Mc Clam, at Hustontown. B. H. Shaw began breaking ground for the erection of a dwell ing house, on his lot iu the Dawn- ey extetsiou. Other improve meuts aro being mado by pur chasers of lots in the same ex too sum. John A. Henry, his daughter J.issio and grandson, and Mr. uarniacK au or utoar wage, wero visitors In our town last Fiuturday evening, Subscribe for the "News, 'ouly $1.00 a year. DESERVES A VACATION. Methodist Minister Has Missed but One Sunday in Active Ministerial Work for Twenty-three Years. j And that, was lust Sunday. The ! Min!.(nK rM 1 tv n r. I Correll, of Irontou, Ohio, and is justly entitled to a vacation which ho is now taking. i Mr. Correll is a son of the late i !.. r,.,.v.i. n..,...n o nw.u.or.t. I minister of the Primitive Baptist church, and was born in Belfast township three years after the editor of the News first saw the light of day only a few miles dis tant in the same township. While there is only three years differ ence in theii ages, any one basing judgment upon the question and taking into consideration the flow ing black side-whiskers and glos sy black hair together with the fine stout build ot Mr. Correll, with the frosty locks and beard of the other, would readily con clude that the editor was old enough to be the preacher's grandfather. You see it pars to be good. Well, like most Fulton ciunty boys, Mr. Correll grew t man hood '.n his lather's farm, then attended a term at Hiram Win ter's normal school in McCon- lellsburg, taught the Philip Mor- gret's school in Belfast township the following wintor (1881), after which he was fitted to go abroad into the world and win success in the battle of life. He soon chose tha ministry as his life work, and entered upon evangelistic work about twenty six years ago, and twenty-three years ago, was ordained and giv en regular work. During th se twenty-three years he has served congregations in North Dukota, West Virgiuia, Kentucky aud Ohio. During the past four years he has been stationed iu Iron ion, O., acity of 13,010 people. His church has a membership of 400, and there are 400 members in their Sunday school. Rev. Correll reached this coun ty on Wednesday of laist week, and expects to leave next week to visit friends and relatives in towus and cities in the eastern part ol the state, and reach home by the first of June. Ol his father's fami y there are but two members besides him self living in this county, and that is Mary, of Pleasant Ridge, wid ow of the late James M. Lake, and Martha, wife of Ehas Wink, of Licking Creek township. Of course he has a number of cous ins, and other friends that he will want to see during his brief stay. He came to McCounellsburg last Monday with his nephew, J. W. Lake, of Pleasant Ridge, and during the time ho was here, he came iu and sr ent an hour with the editor which was greatly en joyed by the latter. After leav ing us he and Mr. Lake went to visit his niece and Mr. Lake's sis ter, Mrs. A. G. Shoemaker, who lives a cou pie of m iles ou t of town. An Impostor. A few weeks ago, a man calling himself John Mellott, who claim ed his residence was at Webster Mills, went to the home of Joseph Everts, near Saluvia, and asked for something to eat and the priv ilege of staying all night. He got bis supper and a bed aud after breakfast, spent a couple hours talkiug. After he had left Mrs. Everts went up stairs to put the room in order, when she discov ered that her visitor had taken two pairs c.f stockings and left in their place a pair of old, dirty, worn out socks. On inquiring wo learu that there is uo one by the name of John Mellott living in the vicinity of Webster Mills and no oneinthatnoigtiborhood knows a man by that name. He is sim ply an Imposter who imposed on tho kindness ot Mr. and Mrs. Everts. He told Mrs. Everts that he owned a good farm In the Cove, and thai he was intimately ac quainted with her brother Mr. S. 8.. Uann. HAt.CAI.At KEATI-: SEKMON. Preached to (irudiiatini; Class in I'rcshj tciian Church Lust Sun day Evening hy Dr. Vet. Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock the baccalaureate sermon was Punched to the yrii.luntintf lass of 11,0 McConnelNburg High School, ,)r- Wm- A- NN ('st' 1,1 lw Vr'- h3 tpnun All the pupils i mo school iiUeinlc.l the services in a body. The other ministers of the town wore present and assisted in the nor vices.. Before the sermon the followimr music wns rendered, with Miss Annie Dickson at the organ: Anthem By the choir. Bass Solo By Mr. Sehlicht. i. of Scotland, accompanied by Mi--Gertrudo Si pes. Anthem By the choir. Dr. West took as his text Phil lippians 3 13. "Forgetting tho-e things which are behind, and rear!) ing fortli unto those things which are before." With this as Ins t ; x t Dr. West drew in a most impres. sive way many valuable lessons. Good character coupled with lives of usefulness was the princi pal theme. The man who woold make the most of himself most make the right choice of the right thing and should make this choice 'urly in life. All individuals should have high ideals and should seek to form true and noble character such characters as bloom with christian graces. Dr. est stated that til! ago he stood where this years class now stands. . Notwithstanding the crowded condition of the room, the closest attention prevailed throughout the services. The Care of Shade Trees. It will be well to look to the shade trees early in the season. The gypsy moth, which infested maples iu many parts of the coun try late last fall, may have left eggs which escaped the applica ticn of insecticide advised at that time. I would advise going over these trees this month with the following preparation which 1 have fcund better than anything else I have, ever tried : .Melt a pound of Ivory soap aud mix with it, while quite warm, one piut of kerosono, Agitate until complete union takes place. The mixture can then be added to twelve quarts of water. An emulsion will readily be formed by the op eration of the sprayer. Spray the trees thoroughly among their branches, but scrub their trunks, using for this part, ol the work a stiff bristled scrubbing brush, with handle inserted in side in stead of top. This will enable you to get the emulsion well in among the bark, where eggs may have been deposited. If insects appear, repeat the application. In fighting tree enemies, not much can beaccomplishedin town or village whore residences are close together, unless all proper ty owners work in union with each other. If A and C will do nothing to rout the pest, B's ef forts will count for little, Here is v here community interests should prompt each lot owner to co-operate heartily with his neigh bor. Eben E Rextord in "Mak ing ihe Country Home'' in The Outiug Magazine for May. Barn Burned. The barn of Huston Heeter, of Clear Ridge, was destroyed by tire on Monday morning of last week between the hours of eight aud nine o'clock. Mr. Heeter was not at home, as he had left at a o'clock that morning to go t" New Grenada, and there was no one at home but Nassa and her bhud mother. Everything iu the barn was burned, consisting of mower, horse rake, hack, sled, sleigh, one colt 3 years old, two head of young cattle, and gears ot all kind aud all his feed. The barn was partly covered by insurance, but still his loss is heavy. Mr. Heeter is a crirplo and has our smypathy. He had just built a new barn not two I years ago. EASTERN WASHINGTON. Asie Spencer, Formerly of Bethel Town ship. Writes Interestingly of the In land Empire. Julia, Wash.,-April 30. As 1 see so tnauy letters written by I ultoii county people from differ ent parts of the Kuited States the writers of many of which 1 know personally; aud as their let tors are very intere.-liug to me, I think that, perhaps a letter from eastern Washington (or as they call it hero t" I' Imd Km pin) would i nte" ot ui.ui, i. f your read ers. I am holding (1 .a homestead i i Adams t.-oii in v Tin country is semi-ari !- -no n in falling iu summer sea-ou worth --pc.Lking of. The ii'iuual rainfall is ouly about, ten inches. The winters are very mild with hut little snow. Tho past winter broke the "."th nf January, aud there was uo time after that date that the ground vas not in good order for plough ing except iu March, when we had a storm commenting on the 10th aud lasting, four days with freezing weather, the coldest ol the winter. But it was unusual. Tho old timers say it was the worst storm in 30 years. My nearest raihoad town' is Couneli oi the Northern Pacific, which is 28 mile from here; but as this state is go'ing through an opoch of railroad building, and two of them are heading tins way, it looks like we would get rehet soon. Besides there is a steam boat on the Columbia river (which is only seven miles from here). The great draw back to this couutry is the great lack of water. 1 have to haul mine from the Co lumbia, and lots of the big wheat ranches haul their water for all their slock ten and twelve miles. The great depth to which one must drill for water, makes a well out of the reacli of the man of or dinary means. This is a stock couutry, horses being the only stock on the range, and as Ihe country settles up, it reduces the range and stockmeu are obliged to eurtail their stock. There have been several roundups this spring, and many horses shipped to eastern markets. The settlersinvanably turn from hors es to wheat which seems adapted to the country 25 bushelsau acre being only an ordinary crop. Oi ly one stale in. the union raises a bigger average and that state is Idaho. The wheat crop is all har vested here with the header, and theCom bine Harvester which cuts and threshes at one operation, aud is drawn by from thirty two to forty head ot horses. Our main hope is in irrigation. The government has huished its third survey through here and an nounces tho project as leasible. As irrigat jd land iu this state sells at f i ora $200 to 1,200 an acre, it is worth looking after. The laud is composed of volcan ic 'ish, and the geological survey pronounces it among the best of the state. There is uo timberand the poorest of lumber sells for $20 per thousand feet. There ife not much game but jack rabbits, cotton tail, sage hens and coyotes tho last uamed making night hid eous with their dismal howling. As this letter is getting long, aud the waste basket is kept handy for such letters, I will close. ASIK Sl'ENl.'KH. Parental Responsibility. Addressing the grand jury at Easton recently, Judge Scott said "I don't know what will happen to the next generation. Young beys and j-n Is walk the streets ami visit haunts of vioe aud crime. V'heu they bocorne iucorrible their parents corny into court, ad mit a lack of cjntrol over their children and ask the county to bear the expense of keeping them at a reformatory or school. The county is not supposed to be the i?uardiuii of children of neglect ful patents. It is the duty of parents to keep their children off the streets and correct them Of ten parants'should be brought in to court instead of their children." THE MEANEST MAN. When Asked to Pay for Newspaper, Puts it Back In Postoffice. TheOkmulgeo (Kan.) Democrat strangely enough has been having somi! trouble tin winter collect ing from subscribers, winch has inspired the editor to print the following rebuke : "A man may use the mole on the iMick of his neck for a collar button; lie may ride a freight to save 3 ceuts per mile; ho may light the lamp with a splinter, to save matches; lie may stop his watch at night to save wear; use a period for a semicolon, to save ink; pasture his grandmother's grave to save hay, but a man of this kind is a scholar and a gentle man, compared to a man who will take a newspaper, and when ask ed to pay for it, put it tack in the postoffice, marked refused." Kansas City Journal. Birthday Anniversary. On Tuesday, May 1st, the home of James Kerlin was the scene of a joyous event, when friends and relatives arrived to celebrate his 8(lth birthday. In the early morning friends began to pour in, and by noon fifty were ready to partake of a sumptuous dinner which had been prepared. One peculiar feature was, that there were four present who were oc togenarians and past, namely, James Kerlin, aged 80; Grand mother Fields, aged 85; Thomas Cromwell, aged 83, and John Woodcock, aged 82. Among oth ers who were present were John P. Kerlin and family, Albert Ker lin and family, James D. Stevens and family, Mrs. William Henry and daughter, Mrs. George My ers and daughter, Mrs. Janries McEIhaney, Mrs. John A. Henry, Mrs. Nathan Henry, Mrs. John Mowers, Mrs. J. W. Grove, Mrs. Joimthan Anderson, Miss Myr tle Anderson, Mrs. Harry Wible and son, Mrs. Jennie Grove, Mrs. Jacob Winegarduer, T. E. Flem ing, wife and daughter, Geo. Tay lor and wife, W. R. Fields and wifo, Mrs. Trios. Cromwell, Cil vin Baker and wife, Johns Kerlin, Simeon Shore, Myrtle Shore, Charles Stinson, John Gallaher, aad Jane Fields. Many useful presents were brought to remind him of the occasion. A Guest. Memorial Day This Year. Decoration day. had its origin in 1H1W. Early in May o! that year N. P. Chipman, then adjut ant general of the United States army, conferred with John A. Lo gan, the national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, concerning the matter of having the G. A. R. inaugurate the cus tom of laying flowers on the graves of soldiers who fell during the Civil War. General Logan immediately issued an order in which he named May 30, 1808, as a day on which all members of the G. A. R. should repair to the cemeteries in the towns in which they'lived and there spread flow ers on the graves of their dead comrades. Though, strictly speaking, Decoration day is not a national holiday, it is recogniz ed as a legal holiday in most o! the states. Decoration or Memorial day, not a church holiday but a state holiday for the commemoration of soldiers who fell on the Union side in the uation's civil strife, fa' Is on Wednesday, May 30. The arrangements for its observation in McCounellsburg are in the bauds of King post. New Pension Law. The age limit pension bill pass ed by both houses of Congress has become a law. Under its pro visions when a soldier of the Civil War arrives at the age of 110 years he is allowed Iftl per month with out examination as to disability. AHil he is allowed $8 and at 70 years $12. This measure does away with any question as to dis ability, and Rives every Boldier t pension regardless of disease con tracted in the war or since that time. ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW Snapshots at Their Comings and Goings Here for a Vacation, or Away for a Rert1ul'Oiitl"'. NAMES OP VISITORS AND VISITED Rev. David Kelso was a visitor to town on Monday. Hon. D.T. Humbert, ofThomp. son towhship, was seen on our streets ou Monday. May McEldowney and Mrs. G. " J. Mellott of Gem, were in Mc Connellsburg last Friday. Mr. Charles C. Brubaker, of Saxton, spent a couple of days with his mother. Ernest Doyle, wife and two children, of Washington, D. C, spent Sunday with Mr. Doyle's father, Wm. N. Doyle, of this place. Mrs. Delia M. Brubaker and little daughter Helena, who have spent the last few weeks visiting friends and relatives near Everett and at St'.xton, have returned home. Hou. S. W. Kirk broke grouud on his lot opposite the Court House last Tuesday, for the erec- -tion of a brick dwelling house and office. Wesley may now be seen with blue overalls on. Hamsher W. Karper, for many years with Stine & Co., as travel ing salesman, has resigned his position to accept one with the Farmers and Merchants Trust Company, Chambersburg. Holy Communion in the Hebron Reformed church near Big Cove Tannery this coming Sunday at -10:30 a. m. Preparatory servi ces on Saturday, at 2:30 p. m. Di vine services in St. Paul's church of this place, on Sunday, at 7:30 p. m. Albert Greenland, who several years ago drove the western hack when postmaster Woollethad the route, died at Mill Creek, Hunt ingdon county, on the 2'Jth ult., aged 42 years. Mr. Greenland had been in the hotel business for several years, the last place being at Jersey City. Thomas K. Henderson, ex-sheriff of Huntingdon county, and fo many years one of its best citi zens, died athis homein Wai riors- mark, last week, of diseases inci dent to old age. For several month? past he had been in fail ing health and his death has end ed a long and useful career. John Winters, one of Thompson township's best citizens, in com pany with John Douglass, Plum Run's enterprising merchant and farmer, spent a tew hours in Mc ConnellsburglastThursday. Mr. Winters says that preparations aie being made to build a new barn to replace the one burned "' for his son George last summer. Squire Logue Wink and his wife of Belfast township, were in town a few hours Monday. The Squire is one of the new justices of the peac?, and he was here lifting bis commission. May he never lose any costs, never have his judg ment reversed by Judge wope, and never have the tail end of the county tax to collect. We have been there. Amsley Gordon. Miss Savannah Gordon, Big Cove Tannery, and Frank Ams ley, Foltz, were married at the Presbyterian parsonage in Hag erstown, Wednesday. , About Sheep Killed by Dogs. In ordr for farmers to receive remuneration for sheep killed by dogs, according to the latest law governing that subject, they must qualify before a magistrate, jus tice of the peace or alderman that they have made ap. effort to dis cover whose dogs Wfere responsi ble for the mischief and that the carcasses of the sheep were, bu -led within twenty-four hours of the time the audit of the damage was made. It is provided, how ever, that owners of sheep killed by dogs shall be paid 60 ceuts for burying each bheep no killed. A
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