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THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG,
y'ULTON COUNTY NEWS
j Published Every Thursday.
B. ff. PSa, Editor and Praprietor
IkCONNELLSBURG, PA.
JANUARY i, 19U
lished Weekly. $1.00 per
j . Annum in Advance.
CURIOUS BITS
OF HISTORY
PILLAR 8AINT8.
By A. W. MAQY.
It la marvaloui what ttranga
things men hav done In tha
name of religion, but none are
more curious than the practlcea
of the Stylltee, sometimes called
Air Martyre, but usually known
as Pillar Saints. The founder
of the sect, and Its most con
spicuous example, was a shep
herd of Clllcla named 8lmeon,
now known In church history as
8t. 8lmeon Stylltee. with the
Idea of gaining the favor of
heaven and attaining salntshlp
on earth he took up his resi
dence on a pillar, or column,
said to havs been sixty feet
high. The top of this pillar was
about three feet In diameter,
and was Inclosed by an Iron rail
ing. It seems Incredible, but he
Is said to have lived here for
thirty years, never descending,
eating very sparingly of food
sent up to him, always standing
or bowing In prayer, ani ex
posed to all klnda of weather.
He wore the skins of animals,
and always kept an Iron band
about his neck. At a certain
hour every day he addressed
those gathered at the foot of
his pillar, exhorting them to
lives of holiness. Ha died on
top of his pillar, and hla body
was taken to Antloch and burled
with Imposing ceremonies. The
practice of this extreme form of
Christian asceticism was taken
up by others, and "Pillar Saints"
became quite numerous In eaaV
em countries. The sect did not
entirely disappear till tha
twelfth century.
(Copyright. 1911. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
BRUSH CREtK.
We greet you, New Year, with
a smile!
Mr. and Mrs.N. B. thxon and
son spent Cbristmas with Mr.
and Mrs.W. IL Williams.
The Xmas entertainment a t
Akersville last Wednesday even
ing was well attended and report
a success.
Miss Pearl Barkman, who is
employed in the "Bio me", in Phil
adelphia, and Troy Barkman, who
h employed at Everett, spent
Christmas with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Barkman.
Ada B. llixon and Carrie Back
man spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. T. H.-Akers.
Quite a number of young peo
ple of Crystal Springs and Gaps
ville attended the entertainment
at Akersville.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bottom field
and children and "Grandmother"
Selling, spent Cbristmas with
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Lamberson
and family.
Blaine llixon spent Christmas
with friends near Warfordsburg.
Quite a number of our young
folks have been attending the pro
tracted meetings at Gapsville.
Russell Akers spent Christmas
with friends in Hopewell
Ira Dnvall, ot Dickinson Semi
nary, is spending his New Year
vacation with his father, W. II
DuvalL
Mhs Lizzie llixon spent Xmas
witn Olive llixon.
0. A. Barton and wife attend
ed the entertainment at Breeze
wood, and spent Saturday even-
ing at the home ot Mrs. Bryson.
Dr. A. Lee McKibbin, of Salem
W. Va., is spending bis holiday
vacat'on with his mother, Mrs.
L E. McKibbin.
Listen for the tinkle of those
bells, belles, sleigh bells', then
wedding bells, then rebels (?)
Jane Spriggs, wife of Thomas
Spriggs living west of town, went
to Chambersburg last Saturday
to attend the funeral of her fath
er Jacob S. Swingler, who was
killed in an accident at Hotel
Carrolton, Easton, Pa. He was
sitting by the elevator one day
when a lady came to ride in the
lift She called Jake's attention
to the fact that the elevator had
risen a foot or more above the
level of the floor and Swingler
stepped into the cage to lower it
As he did so it started upward
and caught him in the door across
the chest killing him instantly.
Jake was the porter at the Na
tional Hotel Chambersburg, for
many years and was known to
many Fulton county people.
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( WHIPS COVE.
A little more snow, please!
Robert Diehl's Canadian friends
came en masse to spend' the Sab
bath with him. Vill Diehl 'con
tinues very much indisposed.
Alfred Layton, who had been
slightly "under the weather" for
some time, was able to get out
aud join in the chase of a sly old
Keynard.
Lem Kirk of Pigeon Cove has
purchased a tract of timber land
from Will Diehl. and will soon be
gin operating a sawmill upon it
Henry Sharpe will cut and saw
the timber on the old Ringel
farm.
Benny Morris has located his
mill near that of Mr. Sharp's and
will saw for Simon Garland.
Jacob Schultz is drilling a well
on Simon Garland's farm.
A few ot the Cove people atten
ded the Cbristmas services at
Pleasant Grove last Saturday
evening. The program was well
rendered.
The services atBedford Chapel
conducted by Rev. Funkhouser,
of Ilancock last Sunday evening
were much enjoyed by a half doz
en of us from the Cove. A large
congregation were present, and
we believe were well repaid for
their trouble in attending.
John Clevesger has a crippltd
horse.
Christmas was a quiei day in
the Cove The schools were clos
ed and the teachers were away.
The Sunday school at the
Whips Cove church has been clos
ed until spring.
Aaron Hess continues very
much indisposed.
D. C. Mallott killed a gad-about
dog last week, which was after
ward found to belong to Will Martin.
Roy Rice and wife passed
through the Cove last Saturday
evening enroute to Sideling HilL
This neck-o'-woods was rep
resented at the Cbristmas servi
ces at McKendree last Saturday
evening.
Rev. A. R. Garland will preach
in the Whips Cove church Satur
day evening January third at 7:30
o'clock.
WEST DUBLIN.
Frank Rice who has employ
ment at Kearney has been unable
to work for some time on account
of a large carbuncle on his neck.
Lloyd Price and Samuel Laidig
who have employment at Kear
ney, spent the time from Wed
nesday evening until Sunday at
their respective homes in this
township.
.-Ralph Laidig came home from
Kearney to spend Cbristmas and
to help bis father Martin Laidig
cut logs for the saw-mill, the re
mainder of last week.
George King, coke foreman at
Kearney, spent Christmas and
part of Friday at his home in this
township.
William Deaver of Huston town
has sawed some lumber for J. F.
Johnson and expects later to saw
for Reichley Bros. The saw mill
is at thj foot of King's Knob.
Mrs. Sarab Shaw and sons Rus
sell and Bruce spent Christmas
with the family of Mrs. Eliza
Hoover.
The snow and rain of Christ
mas made the roads, which were
already bad for traviling, still
worse.
Samuel Hockensmith is helping
his son L. J. Hockensmith at the
sawmill on Broadtop mountain.
They are furnishing lumber for a
ot of new houses to be built at
Robertsdale.
ORACEY.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Berkstres-
ser visited at the home of Isaac
McClam's last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Cutchall
of Robertsdale, have been visit
ing at the home of the latter's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Cutchall.
Snow is here at last; but very
poor sledding.
Meeting is in progress at
Mount Tabor, at this time.
Isaac McClain killed a very
nice hog one day last week that
weighed 508 lbs. and measured
8 feet and 2 inches in length.
Mrs. Minta Miller, and son
Glenn visited a few days in the
home of Jesse B. Haefner's.
George Heefner has been quite
ill, but is better now.
Miss Lillian Gracey was home
for Christmas and left again to
take up ber work at Three
Springs.
Mr. and Mrs Charles Black
spent Sunday in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. D. A. Black.
CLEAR RIDQE.
James M. Brown spent the
time from Wednesday of last
week until Monday in Waynes
boro.
Robert Fleming, of the County
Seat, came to this place on Wed
nesday and spent Christmas with
his mother, brother and sister.
Clair Baker, of Altoona, spent
sometime with his parents Mr.
and Mrs. Calvin Baker.
A. G. Kerlin is busy sawing
wood for the community.
David D. Fleming, of Waynes
boro. spent the time from Wed
nesday until Monday with his
borne folks at this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi P. Morton,
of pDudley, Pa., were recent
guests of Mrs. Morton's home
folks.
Harry N. Henry, travelling
salesman, recently spent a day
with his father John A. Henry.
THOMPSON.
Roy Gregory is home for the
holidays.
The Xmas entertainment at
Antioch Christian church was
very successful.
Mary Kellner, of Hancock, is
spending the holidays with her
cousin Mrs. John Yeakle.
James Funk and son Arnold,
of Tiffin, Ohio, are spending some
time in this vicitity visiting
friends and relatives.
M. J, Pittman, who holds a lu
crative position with the B. & O.
railroad people at Cumberland
is home for the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Moses Gordon
entertained their children and
grand children at dinner on
Christmas.
Infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Denton Everts departed this
life Sunday, Dec. 21st Inter
ment at Antioch Christian church
on Monday.
Mrs. Sadie Fisher left yester
day morning to spend a well de
served vacation with her son Ben
at Port Treverton, Pa. From
there she will go to Millville, N.
J. where she will visit herdaugh
ter, Nora (Mrs. A. J. Dohner).
We wish her a very nice trip.
Mr. Urner Truax. of Pleasant
Ridge brought Miss Annie Varnes
to town yesterday, where she
will visit the family of Frank Ma
son. Miss Varnes has been ab
sent from the county about six
years. Her home has been at
Republic, 0., for some time.
. The Attraction.
A rather eccentric man, calling on
a family blessed, by an observant little
son, wore kid gloves tbat bad been
cleaned. The little boy, seeming to
be much attracted by the visitor,
stayed close at hla aide. "You like to
atand by Mr. Blank and hear hla funny
stories, don't you, Jlmmle?" presently
asked Jlmmle'a father. "I don't care
about his stories," replied the honest
youngster, "but his hands smell Just
like our automobile."
About the Human Eye.
Greenish, hazel and spotted eyes
are accompanied usually with shrewd,
quick, nervous, restless temperaments.
According to Professor Hudson, Asia
tics with harel eyes are cunning and
weasel-like. Contrary to the popular
notion, persons with green eyes are
too Indifferent in passion to be at all
jealous of the opposite sex; they are,
however, frequently envious of their
own.
Lambasted.
A new trainer was engaged for the
circus and was told to put a Hon and
a lamb through an act He seemed
nervous, and the next his dobs asked
him how he sot along with the savage
lion. "Sure, the Hon didn't bother
me much," he said, "but that durned
lamb buttod the daylights out of me!"
Possible Solution.
"Why do you suppose It Is," she
asked, "that nearly all the great men
of this world have been married?"
"I suppose," replied the old bachelor.
"It's because they had to do some
thing to get their minds off the trou
bles they had at home." Chicago
Record-Herald.
How Cat Caused Fire.
A cat caused & fire In a dwelling
house at Port Glasgow, (Renfrew), re
cently. A hot cinder fell on the cat
lying in fraqt of the hearth. The ani
mal darted under the bed, and the cin
der fell among aome clothing and set
the place on fire.
Appropriate Present.
Mrs. Pozozzle is discouraged in her
efforts to teach polite table manners
to ber husband- "I think," she said
to Mr. Potozzle at breakfast the other
morning, "I shall give you a nose-bag
for your birthday."
Something to Break.
"This artlclo says we should keep
our servants Interested and amused. I
believe I'll get our cook a set of
books." ' T think a set ot new china
would amuse her more."
Hard to Satisfy.
I "Some men are not even satisfied
when they marry and are supported In
the style to which they have been ao
cuntomod," caustically remarked a
woman.
SPEED, THE AMERICAN SLOGAN
Fdrelgner Criticizes the Desire for
Haste Characteristic of the
United Statea.
One day in Now Tork I'was com
plimenting an example of American
architecture to an American architect
of great talent "Yes, yea," he an
swered with a touch of satire, "my
follow countrymen would willingly
spend a hundred millions of dollars
to build a church as beautiful as St
Mark's In Venice, bat they would com
mand me, as a condition of the work,
to finish it within eighteen months."
That is a significant phrase. How is
It possible to beautify a world which
Is incessantly in transformation,
wherein nothing is stable, and which
wishes to multiply everything It pos
sesses buildings, as It would furni
ture T To create beautiful palaces, to
construct beautiful furniture, to at
tain" the distant ideal of perfection,
time Is essential time and wise de
liberation, reasonable limitation of the
multiplicity of human demands, and a
certain stability In taste. No one
could have built St Mark's or Notre
Dame In 18 months, and France could
not have created her famous decora
tive styles of the eighteenth century
if public taste had boen so fickle as
ours, and if everybody at that time
had wished to change his furniture
every ten years. Quglielmo Ferrero,
in the Atlantic.
LITERATURE NEW OR OLD?
Matter of Reading Has Long Been a
Point of Dispute Between
Authorities.
An author was asked how his new
est book was selling. "I am afraid it
Isn't a very good book," he replied
dubiously, "it is selling pretty well."
Emerson Is credited with the advice
not to read a book until It is ten years
old. Whether the dictum Is held to
flatter that sage or slander him, it' is
a safe rule for fiction. What reader
who chews a mental cud has not felt
a sinking of the heart on overhearing
some misguided soul profess to be
"keeping up with the current fiction?"
But the rule Is not so safe in other
kinds of reading. The clergyman who
reads only theology ten years old Is
known by his sermons; the scholar
who reads only criticism ten years
old is back with the dust; the jour
nallst or politician who read only
history ten years old would soon be
promoted to the job of sweeping out
the office. Some men lose their self-
respect unless they are at least 20
years ahead of their time; these are
they who think new books faster
than authors can write them. Some
men find it all they can do to keep
up with the procession; these are
they who read the significant books
as fast as they appear. And some
have no faith in a book unless it is
old.
The Pope Remembered.
In tbat distant time when he was
only a humble priest at Tombolo, Plus
X., then Glusoppo Sarto, dispensed in
charity all the meager emoluments of
his office. It once happened that
when his purse was empty he bor
rowed from his vicar some sums to
meet a presFing need. Then Giuseppe
Sarto, called suddenly to another
charge, forgot to pay to his vicar
three lires that he owed to him.
Time passed, Giuseppe Sarto was
named pope. He had forgotten his
debt. Recently an old priest came to
kneel at the feet of the holy father.
It was the old vicar of Tombolo. The
pope recognized his voice, and at the
same moment he remembered the
three lires so obligingly lent him,
The pope then caused to be given to
the old man from his private purse
600 lires, and named him for an Im
portant curacy. Only sovereign pon
tiffs can pay such interest! Le Crl
de Paris.
Due Warning.
As illustrating the remarkable re
sults sometimes obtained by the mode
of expression so much In vogue by
a certain class of darkles in the south,
Senator John Sharp Williams tells of
a handbill, announcing that a "colored
picnic" would be held in a grove near
Mobile.
After the preliminary statement as
to the delights in store for the sub
scribers to this entertainment, the bill
concluded with this notice:
"Proper behavior will be strictly
and reservedly enjoined upon all pres
ent, and nothing will be left undone
which will tend to mar the pleasure
of the gathering."
Soon Turn to Dust
What becomes of the millions of
millions of pins that are turned out
annually by the factories? They "get
lost" Yes, but If they merely "got
lost" our floors and streets would be
littered by them. They not only "got
lost," but they vanish by meting away
to dust.
Dr. Xavier, a Paris scientist, has
been keeping tabs on Individual speci
mens. He finds that an ordinary hair
pin took only 164 days to blow away
in dust. A steel pen nib lasted just
tinder 15 months. A common pin took
18 months, while a polished eteel
needle took 2Vs years to disappear.
. Inter Pocula.
The old man with the rosy nose had
become cheerfully communicative.
"My father," said he, "was an inn
keeper. He accustomed me to wine
while I was being taught my a b c's."
"Wasn't that early?" said the prim
individual In the next eeat.
"Early, do you say? Why early?
Didn't I learn my letters off a wine
list?" New York Evening Post.
People Worth Watching.
There are certain' persons whom
physiognomists say should be avoid
ed by certain other persons. Thus, the
talker Is warned to keep away from
the person with the overhanging fore
head, for he will prove exceedingly
deep In argument. The business man
is advised to watch carefully when
dealing with the manrwlth the reced
ing forehead and chin, the large,
curved and prominent nose, for he will
prove shrewd In business.
Wagdns! '
Wagons!
One car load of Swab
Farm Wagons now on
hand 20 wagons, from
1 -horse up to 4-horse.
Solid Steel Axles
chilled boxes, will run
one-horse lighter than
other wagons and will
never wear out. We sell
the best wagons made in
the State, and sell them
as low as possible to do
so.
C. E. STARR,
Three Springs, Pa.
W. M. COMERER,
agent for
IHhGEISER MANUFAC
TURING COMPANY,
BURNT CABINS, PA.
for the sale of Traction and
Portable Engines, Gaso
line, Separators, Go
rerHullers, Saw
mills, &c.
Engines on hand all
the Urn tt.
Western Maryland Railway Company.
In Effeot Novorr.ber16.1W13.
Trains leave Hanoook ai follows:
1.06 a, m. (dully) Fast Express (or Cumberland
Connellsvllle, Pittsburgh, and wsstero
points Pullman sleeper.
3.(9 a. m (dully) Express for Hasrerstown, Bal
timore, New York, Philadelphia, WttHh-Ink-ton,
eto.
B.41 a. m. (dally ezeept Sunday) Expreat for
Cumberland and Intermediate points.
9.01 a. ra. (daily except Sunday) Express for
Hagerstown, WnyneHboro, Cbunilienthurif.
Haltlmeie and Intermedlatepoints. New
York, Philadelphia, Washington, eto.
(.1! p. m. (dally) Western Express for Cum
berland, West Virginia points and the
West.
166 p. m. (dully) Express (or Hairerstown,
Waynesboro, ChumberKburf?, Hanover,
Gettysburg, York, Haiti more and Inter
mediate points, New York, Philadelphia,
Washington.
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Last Call for Ladies' Suits and Coat1
Misses' and Children's Coats.
We have said that we did not carry one of last Season's Coats
oyer, and WE DID NOT; and we will not carry one of this year's
over, if a way-down price will move them. If you want a bar
gain while they are going come in and you shall not be disap
pointed. -------
Men's and Boys' Suits
at bargains.. We have sold more Clothing this season than
usual; but we bought more, hence a lot of bargains. We have
the smartest and ------
Best Line for. Children
5 to 8 years of age; Boys' 8 to 17 in Norfolks and plain Double
breasted Pure Worsted and all-wool Cassimeres from $2.50
to $6.00. Other suits at $1.50 to $2.00.
Lots of Dress Goods
all cheap. The 39-cent serge advertised will be in again in
shades that were closed out. We will give - -
Special Bargains
in Black Goods, Black Dress Goods that sold for one dollar we
will sell at 85 cents; and so on, through the list. Lot of
Notions, Shoes, and Rubbers
! all kinds, Ball Band, Diamond, and a few cheaper grades. A
y splendid Rubber for Ladies at 50 cents.
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and your boilers overhauled. Put your ma
chinery in such condition that you will be
ready for the busy season.
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Bring your broken parts to us and let us
repajr themwe make all kinds of Iron and
Brass Castings.
We also carry a complete line of supplies,
such as valves, fittings, packings, tolts, nuts,
rivets, gauge glasses, etc.
Special-Week January 5th.
We will give to each purchaser of $5.00 worth of goods I
complete Summers Automatic Shoe and Harness" Repairing
Outfit FREE.
COME IN AND SEE OS AND MAKE US PROVE WHAT WE SAY.'
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HANCOCK, MARYLAND.
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