INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS
Of t "Ml and Oeitraf latcrest,
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CONDENSED FOR HURRIED READERS
M an Mary Bishop of Covalt, is
vimtnif her aunt Mrs. Mary
Kelly tbis week.
Wanted Second hand bags
and bnrlap; any kind, and quan
tity, anywhere; we pay freight
Richmond Bag Co., Richmond,
Va. 11 12 10.
In Michigan a Judge baa decid
ed that girls who break engage
ments to marry must return the
engagement ring. It appears
from the proceedings in the case
that there aro some girls in Mich
igan who have made it a practice
to become engaged frequently
for the rings they could get
The fact that the rings in some
instances have been unsentiment
ally pawned to get pin money has
given the Court decision consid
erable popularity.
Haw Would You Like It?
How would yon like it you
grown man or woman, to be haul
ed along by a giant; your weary
legs vainly trying to keep up with
his seven-league strides?
Yet that is just what happens
when you take your small boy or
girl out for a long walk. Chil
dred often get spanked for bad
ness when they are cross from
utter fatigue.
Try walking at a forced pace
for an hour or so and you will
see the wisdom of the children's
specialist who insists that tbe
baby carriage or push oart should
go along on every long walk ta
ken by a child up to the fifth
year longer if the little one is not
sturdy.
If mothers would cling longer
to the push cart, nuisance though
it be, there would be fewer suf
ferers from curvature of the
spine and infantile paralysis.
Four-year-old Johnny or Mary
will probably rebel at being
pushed and consider it beneath
his or her dignity. But tbe
knowing mother will Insist upon
occasional lifts becau.se of the
benefits to tired legs and backs.
No child of three or four years
old should walk more than half a
mile at a time.
Stale Tarllt Book.
Dr. H. A. Surface, State Eco
nomic Zoologist, has issued a
bulletin, "Turtles of Pennsylva
nia," after tbe manner of his fa
mous snake book of several yearn
ago. The study of the turtles of
Pennsylvania, Dr. Surface says,
has been taken for the purpose
of emphasising the economic
features of those species of which
uninformed people know so little
and which are consequently de
spised, neglected and often de
stroyed. In this most interest
ing bulletin Dr. Surface tells
what a turtle is, its habits, infor
mation concerning its eggs, hi
bernation and capture, its one
mies, protection and capture.
All kinds of the turtle tribe to be
found in this State are thorough
ly discussed, and with the read
ing matter are a large number of
illustrations. Of course there
will be a demand for the turtle
book, just as there was for tbe
snake volume.
MAYS CHAPEL.
Dec. 4. Miss Mane Dorrier,
of Baltimore, spent a tew days
witb her mother, Mrs. Dorrier.
Edward Mann is seriously ill
at this writing.
Miss Sadie C. Kirk spent last
Wednesday and thursday in the
home of Mr. P. O. Grists.
Geo. Fisher and, family visited
at S. O. Deneen's last Tuesday.
Mrs. Emanuel Fegley spent
last Saturday and Sunday with
her aunt Mrs. Dennis Hull.
Our school has greatly in
creased this winter, there being
thirty pubils enrolled.
J. H. Dorrier arrived home one
day last week.
Some of tbe people of this vi
cinity attended tbe revival at
Warfordsburg.
Tbe Sunday School of this
place will give a Christmas enter
tainment Sunday night, Dec.
20 th.
WEST DUBLIN.
Mian Fannie Miller and her nephew
Clarence Hoover, of Dane, spent
Monday with the family of Mrs. ElUa
Hoover at this place.
Mra. Catharine Clevenger, of Laid Ig
apent Tuesday afternoon at thla place.
We notice the Maude .Willi concert
oompany will entertain the Fulton
County Inatltute thia week. MlaaWU
lla la a good reader and very enter
lalnlng.
J. F. Johnston has been sawing
wood for J, E. Lyon the past few
daya.
Mr. J. K. Reeder, of Hiram, la buay
getting out lumber for B. B. Young of
Hollidayaburg.
Staff lac Caw.
An institute speaker said:
"There is a saying: 'Stuff the
steer and starve the cow." In
some cases I would change it
to read, stuff tbe cow and starve
the stoar, in others, starve the
steer and starve the cow. Bat if
you want to be a Christian you
will 'stuff the steer and stuff the
cow,' If they are worth it; if not,
consign them to the sausage mill.
Don't feed a cow dried bread nor
JJ pie or oake. Give bar a variety."
DOTT.
We are having some anpw now.
Reuben Layton's family haa been
having quite a serious time. Two of
his children are- down with typhoid
fever, and another just getting better.
Some of our young people attended
revival at Pleasant Grove last week.
Mra. M. B. Hill la on the sick list.
Virgie Garland apent Sunday with
Ivy Deshong. ,
Mrs. Alex. Bernherd Is sick with
something like apoplexy.
Mrs. J. C. Fisher, has been ill, but
is improving. It is said she has heart
trouble.
There will be preaching at Cedar
Grove the third Sunday In this month
at 10:30 a. m.
Messrs. John Carnell's and George
Wilson's have moved into their new
houses.
Explodlst s Meaty Myth.
The old-time idea was that the
farmer toiled from dawn till
dark sixteeu and eighteen hours
a day, and had a very much more
difficult life of it than tbe artisan
with union-labor hours or profes
sional man twiddling his pen ov
er writing paper six hours a day.
The new farmer knows that
though tbe day's work may be
sixteen hours in the rush season,
it is often less than four hours in
the rainy and dull seasons, and
that the farmer's day's work to
tals up fewer1 hours for the whole
year than the artisan's; to be ex
act, I think the figures are be
tween six and seven hours for
an average. The new farmer
knows to a cent what bis labor
costs him in wages and board,
and what returns in cash that
labor gives him, and whether the
margin of profit is big enough to
guarantee keeping certain hired
men. Agnes C. Laut, in The
Outing Magazine for December.
of
Hibaohb tor tt Niwt,
Whal the Mlalatry Oaiat Ta Be.
Would not the first words
tbe Son of Man be i "Ye are
members one of another V"
Would He not lift those three
churches above the level of their
little pet dogmas and observances
into the large, clear atmosphere
of the kingdom," where they
would harmonize into one strong
church void of financial problems?
Would He not drive the sordid,
petty competition of rival sects
out of our land as passionately as
He drove the competition of rival
thieves out of the Temple ?
And would He not have an eye,
as well, on the young ministers
of to day, to see whether they
were being trained as He trained
those twelve original pupils in
His inimitable seminary ? Would
He allow His modern apostles to
focus their whole souls for fonr
years on two defunct languages
and such abstractions as exeges
is, dogmatics, apologetics, homi
letics, pedagogy, and pastoral
theology ? is it certain that He
Himself could have passed a per
fect examination in these mat
ters ?
Or would He have His young
pupils come to know, through
and through, the whole man. in
bealth and in disease, alone and
among the crowd? Would He
not found a new sort of seminary
to-day, taking His students into
the thick of life, .to show them
the far-reaching effects of heredi
ty and environment; how charac
ter is influenced by functional
and organic disease, and by such
social forces as neighborhoods,
schools, factories and clubs?
Would He not lead His classes
to such laboratories as tbe sweat
shop, the saloon, the dance hall
and the brothel ? Would He not
have them study the labor union,
the apartment house, tbe fai m,
tbe theatre, the department store,
the press, the corporation, and
tbe political club; and corrective
agencies, like the prison, tbe re-'
tormatory, the playground; as
well as educative ones, like the
school, the college, the library,
and the public press. Robert
Haven Sohauffler m Success
Magazine.
Not So Eaay As It Look.
Stick a fork or any pointed ar
ticle in the wall about fonr or five
feet from the floor and on the end
of it place a piece of candy. Tben
tell some person to place his fore
finger by the side of tbe candy
when he has measured the height
careiully. Tell him to walk back
ward about five yards, then shut
one eye and walk forward and
try to knock the candy off tbe
fork with one blow of the fore
finger. The probabilities are that
be will make tbe attempt a dosen
timet before be is successful.
When be w successful be nay
Ml tbe candy,
Local Institute.
The third Local Institute, of
Belfast township was held at
Maple Grove School, Friday
evening Noy. 29th. The meet
ing was called to order by the
teacher Miss Pearl Garland,
after which Mr. Abner Lake was
elected chairman. The following
topics were discussed by the
teachers present; 1. Value of
Local Institute Work to Teacher
and Pupil.
2. Reviews; How often and Value
of? 3. How Do you Teach Civil
Government, and What Is Its
Value?
Tbe exercises were interspers
ed by songs recitations and dia
logues by the school. Next in
stitute will be held at Morton's
Point school, Friday evening,
Dec. 18th. Nelle Morton, Secre
tary.
flood Rules To Bear la Mind.
It is a comfort to know that
most persons have settled tbe lit
tie problems which used to go
with Christmas giving. There
may be, however, a few who are
still unreformed or unconverted
To them we say : Do your buying
early. If you put off you will
get less satisfaction and less val
ue, and you will add to tbe bur
dens and unbappiness of over
worked clerks.
Don't give beyond your means
To make a present that you can
not afford is robbing yourself and
is conferring no benefit on the
recipient. This is especially true
in cases of friends or relatives
who have more money than you
have. Much of our financial
trouble is due to the fact that
those who have less try to make
as much showing as those who
have more. Always remember
that anybody worth while never
looks at the Christmas present in
the price mark.
Give as many presents as you
can. It is extraordinary how
much of satisfaction may be
found in small gifts. Tbe fact
that you remember the person
is tbe great thing. The old
Christmas card, before it was
overdone, was a real agent of hap
piness. Even to-day it may be
used profitably. But there are
hundreds of small things that
will take the place of Christmas
cards and that will carry tbe
proper message of the season.
Don't let the Christmas spirit
leave you when you have sent
you r presents. It is a good thing
to have all the year round. The
happiest man we know makes it
a point to do a good deed every
day. It may be only a friendly
letter or tbe seeking out of a
st.-uggling friend to ssy a word
of encouragement But it is a
course of life that is filling his
heart with sunshine and making
everybody glad to call him friend.
If a man can do this successfully,
what limits can anyone set to the
possibilities of tbe sweet, sympa
thetic woman who believes that
the best way to find happiness in
life is to do one's best to make
others happy? The Ladies '
World for December.
School Veport.
Report of Back Run School
for the third month.
Those who have attended every
day during the month are; Lena
Thomas. Nora Ott, Esther Thom
as, Ursa Tritle, Harry Cutchftlj,
RellaOtt, Edgar Tritle, Orpba
Hees, Merrill Outoball, Pearl
Ott and Bertha Hess.
Tbe latter four have attended
every day daring tbe term.
Mary L Stinger, Teacher.
A Secret Alphabet.
Here is a way to write a letter
so that nobody can road it except
the person to whom you tell the
secret
Uegin printing the letters just
as you would ordinarily, but
leave some part of each letter in
complete. For instance, if you
were going to print trie lettle H
draw the two straight lines but
leave the crosspiece. Wben you
have finished printing a word
turn over the paper and, holding
it against the window pane, sup
ply the missing parts of each let
ter. When the paper lies on the ta
ble the writing looks like a series
of meaningless scrawls, but as
soon as it s held against the light
the marks on the opposite side
show through and tbe message
van be easily read.
Cider Making.
The undersigned Is prepared with a
first-class steam outfit at his home
near .lug town, to do older making,
and hereby gives notice that his mill
will be ready for business on every
Wednesday until the first of October,
and after that time, on Wednesday
and Thursday of each week.
8-20-tf. Nick Hohman.
VALUABLE MILL PROPERTY
AND
Farm for Sale.
on account of advancing years the
undersigned offers at private sale his
Mill property and Farm at Fort Lit
tleton, Fulton county, Pa. The Mill
Is splendidly located, and, there is no
better water power any place. Tbe
Farm contains 1)7 acres and besides
the Mansion House there are two Ten
ant houses. There is a good barn, and
all other necessary building.
Would like, if possible, to effect sale
between this and the first of January
1909, and a splendid opportunity will
be given the right man. For further
particulars call on or addreas.
ELIJAH BALDWIN,
Fort Littleton, Pa.
FARM for SALE
IN
Wells Valley
A Good Red Shale farm in Wells
Valley, convenient to Broad Top mar
ket, containing 185 acres. Over 100
cleared and in good state of cultiva
tion, 25 acres of good Meadow, 6 nev
er falling springs, land principally
level. Improvements BANK BARN
44x72, in manner new; MANSION
HOUSE, 24x55; TENANT HOUSE,
26x25 both in fair condition. Phone
in house, running' water at house and
bai n, wagon shed, corn cribs, 2-story
spring house, and all other necessary
out buildings. Good fruit, good out
let for stock.
This property can be bought right.
If not sold will be for rent to parties
who can give good reference.
M. 0. GREENLAND,
Wells Tannery, Pa.
fT. M. COMER ER,
agent for
THE GEISER MANUFAC
TURING COMPANY,
BURNT CABINS, PA.
for the sale of Traction and
Portable Engines, Gaso
line, Separators, Clo
rerHullers, Saw
mills, &c.
Engines on hand all
the time.
C. M. RAY,
Auctioneer,
Postofbce Address; McConnellsburg, Pa.
Fifteen Yearn' Kxperfenoe. OwIdk to tbe In
creasluv number of o&lln for mg aervtoes. I
have rieolded to notify the public In thin man
ner that I ahall bold mvaelf In rendlneax for
public Kales, auction, .v.-. Price moderate,
and aatlnfaotlon Kiiaranteed.
4-i-oa, ij.
M. R. SHAFFNER,
Attorney at Law,
Office on Square,
McConnellsburg, Pa.
All legal bua.nera and oolleotion entrusted
will eoelre careful and prompt attention.
FOLEY'S
HONEY-TAR
The original
LAXATIVE cough remedy.
For coughs, colds, throat and lung
troubles. No opiates. Non-alcoholic.
Good for everybody. Sold everywhere.
The genuine
FOLEY'S HONEY and TAR la ia
a Yellow package. Refuse substitutes.
Prepared only by
Foley A Company, Chicane.
Trout's Drug Store.
Racket Store
News
Underwear
Well, the time of year is here to be thinking about what kind of
underwear you are going to buy, and It has been for sometime, by
ffle way we have been selling it. You know what that 18-Ot. fleece
lined goods is. Well, we have sold enough of that case of 32 doaen,
that wo have to send an order this day to size up on. Think of buy
ing an 18-oz. underwear for 43c. each, or 85c. a suit. Our ladies' are
23c each, or 45c. a suit; boys' heavy fleece underwear union or sep
arate 48c. suit; children's separate underwear, 10c. to 23c.; ladies'
faacinatora, 24 to 45c.; ladles' fleeced hose, 2 pr. for 26c.: bed blank
els, 60-68-82c. to 1.25; horse blankets, 05 and 50c. Talk about
Winter Buggy Spreads
We think we have one now that beats them all, for the money,
double plush robe, weight about 7 lbs., for $2.50. See It.
It is a
CORDUROY PANTS
for everyone. Well, we have aold more of these goods than ever.
You may say, Why t Because the farmer and everyone else that
wears them find them the cheapest to wear; and another reason is, we
have them. We bought heavy this year. Boya' knee pants, 48-60-75
and 95c.; boys' long cord pants, tl.16 to 1.75; men's cord pants,
1 25-1.7V-$1.88-2.20-$2.45. These cords are all lined.
HOG I HOG 1 1 HOG!!!
The time of year is aiso here for the killing of hogs, and we want
to aay that we have our old line of Butcher Knives again, and at old
prices. We have that plain handle 6 in. knife at 15c., and that round
handle 6 and fl in. at 20 and 25c. We have the scrapers at 8 and Oc ;
also, lard cans, the same as last year, 50 lb. at 33c. each. Get pric
es on Grinders and Stuffers.
Geo. W. Reisner & Co.
We will give Extra
ordinary Bargains in
Ladies',
Misses',
and
Children's
Wraps.
We have the largest
line we ever had and
all new and up to
date.
SKIRTS!
Never was such a
line of Skirts shown
in this Town, the
very newest patterns
and fabrics at prices
that cannot be beat.
Don't fail to see all
these goods before
you buy.
Respectfully,
Geo. W. Reisner Co!
SHOES
Here is a shoe that we bought 48 pr. of,
and it is to be a soli,, leather shoe all
through. We have one of them here with
the sole cut through and the counter cut
through, and we find both solid leather.
Well, we hear you say that is the sample.
So it is; but the manufacturers allow us to
say to you that they are all to be just like
this one, and if they are not, we will get you
a new pair for them. The price is $1.75.
Bilt Well and Walk Over
These are two shoes that are growing
with us every day. To those who don't feel
themselves able to pay M.50 or $4.00 for the
Walk Over shoe, we want to say that we
have the best $2.50 shoe that ever was worn. They are all good, and can't
be beat for wear. Again we say, try our Bilt Well and Walk Over Shoes.
We never did sell as many Walk Over shoes as WE HAVE THIS FALL, so
far.
A good double bit Axe for 55c.; Mann Axes in two shapes, at 78c.;
single bit Axes, 40c.
Call and be convinced that we save you a good day's wages on
your purchase. Respectfully,
HULL & BENDER,
McConnellsburg, Pa.
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YOU ARE GOING TO BUY
Stackers and Feeding Cattle
THIS SEASON
You want to buy where yon can get the beat cattle for the least
money . Write or wire at once to
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1S3 EXCHANGE BUILDING
UNION STOCK YARDS. CHICAGO
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ESTABLISHED OVER 13 YEARS
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We handle more stackers and feeders than any firm in the world. A big
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Coma to Chicago and we will aell direct to you, or order at once by mail
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