Eh iultoit County ftcuis. VOLUME 10 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., NOVEMBER 19, 1908. NUMBER 0 SLEEPING OUTDOORS. Simple Health Hints from Physician's Wife, Who Is Herself a Mother with Two Little Boys. SHE DOESN'T WORRY ABOUT CROUP. So far as the temporal interests of mankind go, nothing is of so great importance to the individu al or the nation as a good healthy Douy. witnout neaith, we are not in a condition to e.ijo.y any of the luxuries of this life, nor are we able to add much to the com fort of those about us. There we s a time when it was thought that an evil spirit brood ed over the land and smote people with disease at his pleasure, and it was ours to submit patiently and take our mediciue. That day, however, has gone by, and it is now known that we are usually responsible for the ill health we may have. If we are careless in the observance of the laws of health, we must pay the penally by being sick. The tight sleeping apartment of to-day is responsible for much of the paleness, nervousness, and general hothouse condition of many people, who seem to be afraid of the air which, in reality, is the very source of life and health. The following article from the wife ol a physician is so practical and sensible that we gladly give it place in our col umns : "Our family, consisting ot my husband, who is a physician, ray qelf and our t vo boys (live and three years old, respectively) have such a simple inexpensive way of sleeping outdoors, that the impulse to tell about it is irresist ible. Ojr bedroom, about 16x17, contains three beds, a large one and two cribs for the boys. It has one unusually large door opening on a wide porch and three windows, two of them also open ing on the porches. The door is always wide open at night, so is one of the windows, sometimes two, sometimes all of them. The door, of course, is protected by a screen door. During the day, doors and windows are closed aud register is opened and the beds and floor and walls thorough ly dried and warmed. A little before six, the children's bed time, the register is closed and doors and windows are opened. We follow this program in all sorts of weather, and it seemed delicious to be wakened by a thunderstorm the other night,, the rain coming down in torrents and we seemingly lyitg in the very midst of it, so comfortable and dry. When the children were small and would not stay covered, I made jackets for them out of old blankets tc be worn over the night clothes, donning one or two, according to severity of weather and pinning blankets around their bodies. If anyone doubts the efficacy of ventilating by means of the door, let one of his boys careless ly leave the door open while he is ensconced in his easy chair some cold wintery night enjoying his cigar and book. He will not stop to argue whether the air circu lates at the top or the bottom. Of course there are some incon venience8. "Earth gets its price for what earth gives us," and air loes too, I suppose. It is not pleasant to get up in a cold room like ours and supply the children with drinks, and our oldest boy, whose bed is nearest the door, complained one night that the snow flakes were falling on his (ace. But one learns not to mind Huch little things as that Some times when the children have had colds we do disousw the advisa bility of sleeping like other peo plewe talk of it duriug the day, but when night comes, we open the door as usual and the colds disappear rapidly in spite of or porhaps on account of the door. One night the baby woke up with & i:i oupy cough. I heard my hus band bend over the crib and list en and I wad thoroughly fright- GET A MOVE ON. Necessity For Prompt and Energetic Ac tion If Fulton County Is to Oct State Boulevard. HEAVY SNOW FALL. MEETING CALLED FOR NEXT TUESDAY. For some time past Governor Stuart has advocated the build ing of a State Highway across Pennsylvania connecting the two great cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The idea has met with general favor, aud the nec essary support of the citizens and legislature is assured for the car rying out ot the project. But now Blair, Huntingdon and other counties have formed organiza tions to secure the construction of the road through the Juniata Valley instead of through the southern tier of counties as was originally contemplated. They urge several reasons for the con struction of this proposed great highway through that section. But the fact remains that the route through Carlisle, Cham bersburg, McConnellsburg, Bed ford, Ligonier, and Greensburg was the first great highway over which the early settlers moved, and over which a greit stream of commerce flowed up to the time a. i n me rennsyivaiiia railroad con nected the two great cities of the state. It was the original route of travel selected because it was much shorter more than sixty miles less from Harrisburg to Pittsburg than the Juniata Val ley route. The distance from Harrisburg via Bedford to Pittsburg over the old turnpike li 188 miles. The distance over the Pennsyl vania railroad to Pittsburg is 218 miles', and the proposed road would follow the railroad or near it a great part of the way. This is an importaut fact to consider. A saving of fifty miles and more in distance is the great argu ment in favor of the southern route. Again it passes through a rich agricultural region that is cut off, in a great measure, from the main lines of travel. Such a road would promote the development of the southern counties in a won derful manner. Organizations havealready been formed in Franklin county, Bed ford, Somerset, aud other coun ties along the lower route, and a determined effort will be made to have it pass over the route or iginally suggested, that is, through Uhambersburg, McConnellsburg, Bedford and Somerset. While this is the shortest route, it can, mile for mile, be built at less ex pense than the other routes pro posed, besides giving advantages of travel to sections not already supplied with trolly lines and steam railroads. If the road is built through this county, it will add thousands up on thousands of dollars to the value of property in this county, and that too, without any outlay upon the part of the local taxpayer. All Previous Records for November Snow and Cold Beaten During the Last Few Days. While there was enough snow tell on the morning after the elec tion to whiten the roofs of the buildings in this place, and to make November 4th the date of the first snowfall here, it was left for last Saturday to give us our first real snow storm. Snow be gan to tall here about eight o'clock in the morning, and kept coming down until after dark in the evening. A strong wind was blowing all day, and the day was very disagreeable to those who had to be out in the storm. The fall here was estimated from six to eight inches. The storm was general East of the Ohio valley and the lake region, althoug'i along the At lantic seaboard rain fell during the greater part of the day. It snowed during the early part of afternoon in most of the cities along the Atlantic, but later rain fell. The Hakes were damp and stuck to the wires of the telephone and the telegraph companies but were not "So be ivy tha any wires were snupped. Later on in the night a sixteen-mile-an-hour wind came along that shook off a lot of the snow, but little drifting re sulted. On NovembAr 9, 1892, the heavi est November snow fall occurred prior to Saturday's record. It amounted to 4.8 inches. Not content with creating one new record on Saturday, the weather started in immediately after the snow stopped falling to make a new cold weather record for this Fall. The temperature got as low as 4 degrees on Mon day morning, and more than one housewife was surprised to find her house plants frozen. HYDROPHOBIA. Symptoms as Manifested in Animals and Man With Suggestions in Way of Treatment. ALL DEPFNDS ON PROMPT ACTION. ened aud was sure things would have to bo closed now. But baby went on sleeping, so did we, aud the croup bothered us no more. When I think of the many, many people, whose lives during the day are spent in close offices or stores, must be snout that way, and whose nights are volun tarily passed m atmosphere just as bad. when the pure air is all around them to be had for the asking only, I almost got the burglar's instinct of opening their drors and windows. My husband makes professional use of our bedroom; uses it for an object lesson. Many a time 1 have heard him wain refractory patients m there to show them how our babies Bleep. They go home and obediently opeu one window at the top an inch and a half." Mrs W. F. Prather. Journal Amer. Med. Assoc., Vol. 50. d. 1189, HON. WM. P. SCHELL DEAD. He Was a Former Resident of McCon nellsburg, and Fulton County's First District Attorney. Hon. William P. Schell, pro bably the oldest lawyer in Penn sylvania died at his home in Bed ford last Sunday. Mr. Schell was born at Schellsbu rg, Bed ford county, on the 18th day of February, 1822. He was gradu ated at Marshall College, Mer cersburg, read law, and was afterward admitted to the Bar in Bedford county in 1845. When Fulton county was stricken off from Bedford county in 1850, Mr. Schell removed Xf McCon nellsburg, and in the same year was elected Fulton county's first District Attorney. He repres ented this district in the legisla ture in 1852-53, and was made Speaker of the House in 1853. In 1857 be was elected State Sen ator for a three years' term. He was elected Auditor General of the state of Pennsylvania in 1877, and served until 1889. For many years he has been greatly inter ested in the collection of data pertaining to the early history of Bedford county, and has done more than any other man to hand down to posterity a carefully written account ol the interest ing things that have trauspired in his native county. (iOOSEBONE WINTER PROPHECY Generally Open, But With a Number of Very Cold Spells. J. B. Musse, a Roadiug goose borie weather prophet, anuouuees that the breast bone of the goose is marked very peculiarly this year. There is a dark spot here and there, making au accurate prediction difficult, indicating that the winter will be generally an open one with a very cold spell now ana men. uocoiuoer will little snow. January will have some snow with a warm spell during the middle of the month. February will be a severe month with plenty of Ice and snow. March will be open with a warm spell, and plenty of rain and hail, aud a late spring will follow. The distressing circumstances connected with the death of E! mer Trogler, near Mercersburg, at the Pasteur Institute in Balti more last week, as the result of having been bitten several weeks ago by a mad dog, has awnkened a local interest in thaigreatly-to-be-dreaded disease, Hydrophob ia or Rabies, the latter term be ing usually applied to the disease in animals, and the former term, when applied to mm. The disease has been known from early times, and is alluded to in the works of Aristotle, Xen ophon, Plutarch, Virgil, Horace, Ovid,. and many others, as well as those of the early writers on med ionfe; and it is notcon'fined to any particular part of the globe, ser ious outbreaks have been recordj ed as occurring among dogs, wolves, and foxes in diffarent parts of the world, particularly in Western Europe and in North and South America. It is very frequent in Europe and seems to be on tho increase. England is becoming more frequently visit ed than before, though Scotland and Ireland are much less trou bled than England. The disease is almost invari ably fatal in man, and in the dog it nearly always terminates in death, though instances of recov ery are recorded. It is also fatal to horses, cows, pigs, goats, cats but not to fowls, many of these' recovering from accidental or ex perimental inoculation. While the disease is readily conveyed from animals to man, it is not of ten conveyed irom man to ani mals. The period in which the symp toms of the disease become mani fest, especially after accidental inoculations, as bites, varies ex tremely; indeed there is no dis ease in which the period of la tency or incubation is more vari able or protracted, this being sometimes limited to a few days or weeks and extending in rare cases to morethan twelve months Of course, this immunity may be due to natural non-receptivity, to the wound not having been in flicted in a very vascular part, or to the saliva having been ex pended from frequent bites on other animals, or intercepted by clothing, hair, wool, &c. In the dog, the disease does not commence with fury and madness, but in a strange and anomalous change in its habits; it becomes dull, gloomy, and taciturn, and seeks to isolate it self in out-of-the-way places, re tiring beneath chairs and to odd corners. But m its retirement it cannot rest: it is uneasy and fidgety, and no sooner has it lain down than suddenly it jumps up in an agitated manner, walks backwards and forwards several times, again lies down and as sumesa sleeping attitude, but has only maintained it a few min utes when it is once more moving about. Again it retires to its corner, to the farthest recess it can find, and buddies itself up into a heap, with its head con cealed between its obest and fore-paws. This state of agita tion and inquietude is in striking contrast with its ordinary habits, abd should, therefore, receive prompt attention. Not unfre quently there are a few moments when the creature appears more lively than UBual, and displays an extraordinary amount of affec tion. Sometimes there is a dis position to gather up straw, thread, bits of wood, &c, which HYDROPHOBIA AT LOVSBURO. Mad Dog Has Caused Great Alarm at That Place. The residents in the vicinity of Loysburg have been much alarm ed over the appearance of hydro phobia caused by a mad dog re cently. A vicious canine bit a horse belonging to the McLaugh lin Construction Company and about two weeks ago the animal became violent. Upon investiga tion it was found that the horse was suffering from rabies and it was promptly shot. The dog was also shot and every precau tion taken possible. The canine had been runuing at large, it is said, before the horse was bitten, and there is no telling how many horses, cattle and cats it came in contact with, or how many may have been bit ten by this same dog. The dis ease is reidily communicable to horses, cattle and cats, and also to persons. Everett Republican. CATTLE DISEASE. be very cold, but there will beTio industriously carried away; a tendency to lick anything cold, as iron, stoves, &o. At this per iod no disposition to bite is ob served. These symptoms in crease, and later it will ho ap parently watching something in tently, and then jump up qulouly and seem to pursue some imagin ary thing snapping as though trying to catch a tly. At other times it throws itself, yelling and furious, against the wall, as if it heard threatening voices on the other side, or was bent on attacking an enemy. Neverthe less the animal is still docile and submissive, for its master's voice will bring it out of its frenzy. But the saliva is already poison ous, and the excessive affection which it evinces at intervals by licking the hands or faces of those it loves, renders the dan ger very great should there be a wound or abrasion. There is no dread of water in the rabid dog; the animal is gen erally thirsty, and if water be of fered will lap it with avidity, and later on, when the throat becomes constricted, and swallowing be comes almost impossible, it will make the effort. The mad dog does not usually foam at the mouth at first to any great extent. The mucus of the mouth is not much increased in quantity, but it soon becomes thicker, viscid, and glutinous, and adheres to the angles of the mouth and to the teeth. This much is given that the owners of dogs may be acquaint ed with at least the premonitory symptoms, and act promptly whon such occur, and in so doing, may sae the lives of members of their own families, as well as those of others. All dogs sus pected of rabies should be cap tured, and, when the existence of the disease is confirmed, destroy ed. Rabid dogs should be de stroyed at once. It is a great mistake to kill suspected dogs, which have bitten people; they should be kept until their condi tion is ascertained, as, if they are found to be healthy, this will greatly relieve the mind of those who have been bitten. If the suspected dog has rabies, it will die within two weeks, and it is of the utmost importance that by postmortem examination, the di agnosis be confirmed. Without this, the diagnosis of the person bitten cannot be made with any degree or certainty, ur course, if the dog wps not mad, its death is not likely to occur. All animals known to have been bitten by a mad dog should be killed or securely quarantined for a period of ninety days. As in the case of a snake bite, ttie best thing to do, if one ib bitten by a mad dog is to suck the wound at once, and then cau terize the wound with a hot iron. Tire wound should not be sucked by a person having and open sore or wound about the mouth, or who has auy cavities in the teeth. In the absence of a hot iron use carbolic, or sulphuric acid. Tins should be followed at ouco by hastening the person bit ten to u Pasteur institute, as every day of delay adds to the uncertainty of a prognosis. The probability of recovery after the symptom have developed are extremely doubtful the Pasteur treatment being preventive and BOt eu naive. State to Kill 350 Diseased Animals, and Pay Owners $50 for Registered and $25 for Others. QUARANTINE IN FOUR COUNTIES. A contagious foot and mouth disease of cattle, known technic ally as apthous fever, has broken out with great severity among the herds in the counties of Mon tour, Union, Northumberland, and Columbia, this State. Since election day more than 350 animals are infected, and the government Secretaiy of Agri culture has issued a quarantine order forbidding the interstate movement of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats from or into those counties, except shipments by rail for immediate slaughter. On each farm the animals are quar antined separately even to the dogs and cats. A peculiar fea ture of the fever is, that horses are immune, although they may carry the disease to other ani mals. So contagious is the dis ease, that merely by walking through an infected cattle yard a person may carry abroad the germs of the disease and infect other farms. At a meeting of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board in Harris burg last Thursday, it was de cided to slaughter immediately all cattle now infected, and to slaughter any other cattle as soon as they are discovered to have the disease. Diseased animals which are killed must be cremated or else boiled in steam and buried far from streams. At present, about 350 cattle are affected. The law provides that when diseased ammalsareslaugh tered the State is to pay $50 per head for registered stock and $25 per bead for non-registered stoclf If the cattle now affected are non-registered, the bill for kill ing will be $8,550. It may run to any sum to twice that amount dependent upon the number of registered animals. The Live Stock Sanitary Board has about $26,000 available fci Hilling diseased animals at the present time. Should the opi demic continue to spread, this money might be quickly exhaust ed. It is believed, however, that the Federal Government will bear a share of this expense. The disease is believed to have come from cattle imported from Buffalo. In the present outbreak only about sixteen farms are in volved, and a determined effort is being made by the State to con fine the disease to its present limits. The disease spreads with faci lity and develops in the infected animal with excessive rapidity. it is characterized in the onset by trembling and fever. Later blisters form in aud about the mouth and between the toes and upon the udder. These blisters soon break, leaving ulcers. The animals are often very lame. Milch cows suffer from a general inflammation of the udder. This is no doubt the same dis ease which broke out in the New lOuglaefd States in 1902, and which cost the United States Government a half a million dol lars to wipe out. ABOUT PEOPLE YOL KNOW Snapshots at Their Coinings and fining Here for a Vacation, or Away for a Restful 'Outing. NAMES OF VISITORS AND VISITED M. R. Shaffner, Esq., spent several days in Huntingdon coun ty on business last week. School-director James A. Al ter, was in town Tuesday, attend ing to some business. Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, of Dublin Mills, is going to Pitts burg to spend the winter. F. Morse Sloan, of Pittsburg, is visiting his parents, Mr. aud Mrs. Thos. F. Sloan, of this place. Miss Grace Lake, of McKibbin, is in Philadelphia, visiting iu the home of her sister, Mrs. Hugh Gantz. Married. At the Methodist Episcopal parsonage at Three Springs on Tuesday, November 10, 1908, Rev. J. F. Fleegal united in mar riage, Mr. Charles Newman, son of Mr. and Mrs. George New man, and Miss Mary BergBtres ser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bergatreasor all of Water fall, this county. The happy young couple went into their own home at Waterfall on Wednesday to enter upon the realities of housekeeping. They are an es timable young couple, and have the heartieBt congratulations of their numerous friends. Subscribe for the Navws. Our old friend Robert Everts, of Thompson township, was in town attending to business on Monday. Miss Mazie Mellott, of Phila delphia, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Mellott, in this place. Miss Bessie Simpson, of Thompson township, is spending this week with friends in town and vicinity. Jared Pittman and Jacob Waltz both of Sharpe in Thompson townehip, spent last Friday in McConnellsburg. Mrs. C. B. Stevens, of this place, is spending ten days visit ing among friends in Harrisburg, Newport, and Chambersburg. Mr. and Mrs. L L. Detwiler, of Philadelphia, have been guests iu the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kendall Johnston duriug the past week. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Woollet. Mr. Henry C. Miller and daugh ter Miss Elizabeth, and Mrs. L. F. Skinner formed a little party that drove out toHustontownlast Friday and spent the day among their oldtime friends. County -Commissioner-elect D. W. Cromer, of Fort Littleton, was in town Tuesday having the doc tor dross his hand. Mr. Cromer is getting pretty tired carrying his hand in a sling, and we hjpe he may be able to have the use of it soon. W. H. Peck, one of the road su pervisors of Belfast township, was in town a few hours Tues day. He appreciates the honor imposed upon him by his fellow citizens, but he does not care much who has the job after his term of office expires. Mr. and Mrs. C. Martin, of the Cove, spent the time from last Saturday until Monday with their son Amos near Lemaster, Franklin county. They were ac companied to Franklin county by their little g'andson Chrmti Martin, who had been spending several weeks with his grandpar ents. A. D. Bergstresser, of Enid and his brother-in-law. T. Snewr Dickson, ol Philadelphia, spent last Friday night in the home of the Misses Dickson, of this place. apeer, is spending his annual va cation among the friends of his boyhood in this county and re mained in this place until Tues day, when he returned to Pinla- delphia. This office received a letter Tuesday from Mrs. Laura Mc Cormick, formerly Miss Laura Gordon, of this county, who went to Colorado about a year ago, from Path Valley, seeking a more favorable climate, on account of consumption with which she was suffering. She weighed but 85 pounds when she left Path Val ley; and while she says she does not weigh quite -200 pounds yet, he is feeling well, and to prove that she has not spent the sum mer in bed, she raised twenty acres of beets, from wbicb she has delivered to the factory 200 tons, and has received five dollars a ton for them, and has one-fourth of the crop in silo, for future de livery.
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