i 4 pro 'is. VOLUME 10 McCONNELLSBURG, PA., FEBRUARY 11, 1909. NUMBER 21 RECORD OF DEATHS. Tenons Well Known I Many of Our Readers, Who Have Answered Final Summons. ALL SEASONS ARE THINE, 0 DEATH. Frederic Truax. Frederic Truax, mention of whose illness was made in the News last week, died at bis home in theMeadowgrounds, four miles west of McConnellsburg, on Wed nesday evening, February 10, 1909, aged 48 years, 4 months, and 24 days. The funeral took place last Friday, and his re mains were laid to rest in Union Cemetery, Rev. C. W. Bryner, of McConnellsburg, conducting the services. One of his knees was injured several years ago, and this was followed by white swelling, which left him with a stiff knee. About four weeks ago this limb was at tacked by boils one after anoth er coming until it is said there were fourteen open, and this, with a general run down condi tion of his system, brought about his death. Mr. Truax was a most excell ent citizen upright in his deal ings, and his death will be sin cerely mourned by a large circle of friends. Several years ago he was mar ried toMiss Nettie Bivens, daugh ter of Mr. "Barney" Bivens, of Ayr township, and to this union there are four children living, namely, Miss Virginia, a teacher in Waynesboro;Mi8s Irene, teach ing in Ayr township; Elmer and Bernard, at home. The deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Truax who reside at Charles town, a village near Foltz, Frank lin county. Besides his widow, he is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Jacob.living in Dakota; James, near McCon nellsburg; Jane, wife of Lewis Crouse, Big Cove Tannery; Sus an, wife of Fred tlill, living at Char lea town; Kate, wife of John Houpt, living near Mercersburg, and Alice living with her parents. Martha Strait. On Friday, February 5th, Mrs. Martha Strait died near Gracey, in Taylor township, aged sixty six years, four months and eleven days. Mrs. Strait was the wid ow of Isaac Strait who died sev eral years ago, and was Aunt Martha not only to those who bore that relation to her by con sanguinity but to all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance. In her death the home and the com munity in which she resided so many years has lost a mother, a counselor and a cheerful helper, when and where most needed, whose place cannot easily be tilled. Deceased was buried at Center M. E. church last Sunday afternoon, a week, Rev. -Huffman of the U. B. church officiating. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. Alice McClain, Wilmerding; Mrs. Celia Shu man, I Shippensburg; . Mrs. Virginia Bee, Wilmerding; Mrs. Sarah . Taylor, McConnellsburg, Hayes, i Hustontown, and Dawson, at '; home. 1 1 V Report of Compulsion school in t 1.1 SI I- AMH.U. .u. fifth month, ending February 9th. .Number enrolled during month, 34. Those who attended every day during month are Helen Deshong, Clara Sipe', Rebecca V a nnokAnM !AMmA naarinnry "laye R. Sipe, Jessie Sipe, Ruth ipe, Pearl Sipe, Regina Decker, Jitb Deshong, James Sipe, Rub 1 Sipe, Charley Sipo, Pleasant )shong. Attended 19 days Mile Deshong, Lenora Decker, aye Sipe, Helen Laidig, Delber idig. Katharine Hoop, teach- School Report. ROBERT T. LINCOLN. ' Miss Maggie Michaels, of Ev erett, is visiting in the home of jer brother in law and sister, yIr. and Mrs. Geo. W. flays. Uvea is Chlcato, and Is Very Unlike His Father, the Great Emancipator. The only living child of Abra ham Lincoln lives in Chicago, at No. 60 Lake Shore drive, in a home which is quite as much of a mansion as was the White House in the days that Abraham Lincoln was President. He is Robert T. Lincoln, and when he dies there will come an end to the name for he leaves no male children to hand it down to posterity. The Lincoln of to day and the Lincoln of history the son and the father are widely different men. History is full of happy anecdotes that center around Abraham Lincolu's accessibility and affability. His son is one of the ten hardest men to see in Chicago. Once, a good many years ago, he was asked on the eve of one of his father's birthday celebrations for a sentiment. "Young man," he replied, "don't you know that I never talk about my father?" And for more than forty years that has been his attitude. He not only refuses to speak of Abra ham Lincoln, but he refuses to write about him. He declines in vitations to Lincoln Day banquets and celebrations. He never has taken part in memoripl exercises for his father. Mr. Lincoln has his own rea sons for his position. He never discussed those reasons, though. Robert T. Lincoln is the anti thesis of bis father m many ways. Stocky, fullfaced and bearded, with nothing of his father's an gularity ot figure nor leanness of countenance, tbeLlncoln of to-day nevet, would be picked out of even a dozen people as the son of the great emancipator. - Neither has he the distaste of luxury that was one of Abraham Lincoln's predominant' characteristics, nor the love of simplicity, nor the homely manners of his great father. Robert T. Lincoln is a type of the big successful corporation head of to-day, with little in com mon with his father except the same profession. Like his fath er, Robert T. Lincoln is a lawyer, but not a practicing lawyer. By a strange caprice of fate this son of the freer of slaves is among other things, head of the Pullman Palace Car, company, which employes more negroes than white men, probably. Be sides this office, Mr. Lincoln holds half a dozen or more directorships in corporations and other busi ness institutions. To Delinquent Subscribers. In order to conform to the re cent Postal Ruling, issued Janu ary 1st, 1908, which practically requires all subscribers to keep thetr subscriptions paid in ad vance, we are ayain compelled to call attention to the matter. A number of notices have been sent out to delinquent subscrib ers requesting a remittance, but in several instances no attention has been paid to the matter. We have no choice in this mat ter, except to comply with the Postal Laws; therefore, if in ar rears and you have received a bill, kindly give this your atten tion, and you will greatly oblige. If our requests are ignored, we will be compelled to stop the paper and leave the claim for col lection. We hope it will not be necessary for us to do this. All those who are in arrears ov er one year are respectfully re quested to give this their prompt attention by sending a remittance at once, or at their earheBt con venience. . All patrons are treat ed alike, and those who give this matter no attention will have no cause for complaint if costs should be added to the claim. Mrs. William Hoop and daugh ter Miss Katharine, spent last Saturday in town. SPECIAL HIT BOULDER. Although Oolni 70 Miles an Hour, Pas sengera Unhurt. The Pennsylvania Special, the fastest long distance train in the world, en route east on the eigh-teen-hour schedule from Chicago to New York, Monday morning at 6 o'clock, ran Into a huge boul der which was part of a landslide in the track at Kelly's culvert, east of Newton Hamilton, and al though the train was running at a speed of seventy miles an hour, not one of the fifty-one pas sengers sustained the slightest scratch. When at tremendous speed the locomotive running through a dense fog ploughed into the pon derous boulder, the stone was shattered to pieces, but the mo mentum of the heavy train behind the engine carried it forward at least three car lengths. Four cars were thrown from the tracks. All but the train's crew and the Pullman employes were asleep at the time the first crash came, which derailed most of the train. allowing the engine and cars to rumble over the ties. Two Necessary Reforms. The Legislature ought to es tablish two reforms in the crim inal laws and the court procedure of Pennsylvania. The conditions which those reforms would change and remove are deplorable and should engage the attention of every humane and just man and woman in the Commonwealth. The notorious and barbarous "third degree" should be abolish ed, and defiance of mandatory in hibition should be punished. Re course to that method of tortur ing a prisoner suspected of hav ing committed a crime robs the suspected person of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The Constitution of Pennsylvania declares that no man shall be compelled to give evidence against himself, and the "third degree" is for the purpose of making him give evidence that will enable so called detectives to fit an extort ed confession to their theories. The fundamental laws of the State and the United States de clare that no cruel punishment shall be inflicted' upon persons convicted of crime; and all accus ed persons are presumed to be innocent until they shall have been proved guilty. The "third degree" torturers conclude that the suspect is guilty, convict him in their own minds, inflict upon him a cruel punishment and make blm give evidence against him self.- All of this is in such direct violation of the Constitution that the torturers are guilty of a grave crime and should themselves be prosecuted and punished. A law should be enacted to cover their case. Furthermore, the evidence thus extorted from a suspect should not be used in his trial and the Court Bhould not allow it to be mentioned in' the presence of the trial jury. The Legislature should also en act that a man convicted of any crime shall not be sentenced to solitary confinement That is a cruel punishment, inasmuch as it often results in the destruc tion of the reason ot the convict The large percentage of insane inmates of the Eastern peniten tiary has often been commented upon, and the sentence of solitary confinement has been denounced often, but it is retained never theless, and convicts are now go ing into solitary confinement to be deprived of reason as well as liberty, just as men were punish in the Dark Ages. There is involved here no mawkish sentiment for men ac cused of crime nothing but hu manity and enlightment, coupled with obedience to the Constitu tion which plainly prohibits the barbarities of the "third degree" aud solitary confinement Har risburg Independent MUST KEEP UP WAR ON SAN JOSE SCALE State College Expert Urges Continuance of Fight A gainst Fruit Tree Pest. State College, Pa., Fob. 14. The need ot continuing the war fare against the San Jose scale at this season of the year on the lines of campaign drawn by Prof. H. A Surface, the State zoologist, when he made the trip through counties in the southern tier is emphasized by Prof. J. P. Stew art, in charge of the department experimental horticulture in the Pennsylvania State CollegeSchool of Agriculture and Experiment Station. "No other insect has so great powers of destructiveness as the San Jose scale," he said to-day. "Unfortunately the presence of this insect in an orchard is usu ally not discovered until the at tack has reached considerable proportions. The indications then are red spotted fruit, with the limbs dying irregularly, and an evident unhealthy look about the trees. The natural color of the twigs is absent, and in bad infestations the bark appears as if it had been dusted with a fine ash color deposit. "Since the Sin Jose scale is sucking insect, it nan only be combatted with a caustic spray that kills by contact. Of these the lime-sulphur wash is now one of the main reliances. It is ap plied while the trees are dormant, as at this season, and it may eith er be prepared at home or pur chased on the market in a form ready for dilution. Here is highly-satisfactory formula: 15 pounds of best stone lime. 16 pounds of flowerx (or Hour) of sulphur. 60 gallons of water. Prof. Stewart recommended that the lime be slacked with about fifteen gallons of water and that the sulphur, mixed to a thick paste with water, be added to the lime while vigorously slacking. After slacking water is added to make a total of twenty or thirty gallons and the mixture boiled for an hour, after which it is dil uted to make fifty gallons. The wash is strained on the way to the spray tank and applied while hot in order to prevent the crys tallzing of the heavier lime-sulphur compounds. "Be sure to make your spray ing thorough," urges Prof. Stew art. "Systematic application is essential to success. The spray has marked fungicidal properties in addition to its value as an in sect destroyer. It often happens that an orchard is sprayed year after year for the scale, while a few 'old relics' that are infected nearby are left unsprayed, 'be cause they are not worth it' The infection is thereby spread be cause of the incomplete applica tion of the wash, and next year the parasite is again tbriving." NEED MORE MONEY. To Cover Expense ot Stamping Out Foot nd Mouth Disease. Secretary Wilson, of the De partment of Agriculture, has communicated to Congress the fact that unless another appro priatlon of $250,000 is made to cover the expenses of stamping out the foot and mouth disease, the work of the Bureau of Am mal Industry, which has charge of the meat inspection branch of the government, will be seriously hampered before the end of the fiscal year. Early in the present session the Soeretary asked Congress to give him $500,000 for this work, but only $150,000 was appropriat ed. He says that $183,776 al ready has been expended and there are further liaoilities esti mated at $03,285, making a total of $247,061 up to this date. All of this money was taken from the appropriation for general expens es of the Bureau of Animal Industry. OUR TIME STANDARDS. The Four Sections That Divide the United States. Every nation has its own time standard, but the United States has four. These time sections, as they are called, were introduc ed in the year 1883. chiefly for the benefit of the railroads, and are known as the eastern, central, mountain, aud Pacific. The east ern section extends from the At lantic coast to an irregular line drawn from Detroit to Charles ton, S. C; the central includes all between this line and another ex tending from Bismarck, N. D., to the mouth of the Rio Grande riv er; the mountain extends from here to the western boundary of Montana, Idaho, Utah and Arizo na, and the Pacific includes all the remainder of the country to the Pacific coast. The difference in time between adjoining sections is one hour, so that when it is 12 o'clock in New York city it is 11 o'clock at Chi' cogo, 10 o clock at Denver and 9 o'clock at San Francisco. The true local time of any place is slower or faster than the stand ard time, according as the place is west or east of the time merid ian. Thup the local time at Bos ton Is sixteen minutes faster than eastern standard time, while at Buffalo it is sixteen minutes slower. Harper's Weekly. THE METHODIST CONFERENCE. PLEASANT RIOae. Mr. James D. Hoop, of And- over, one of our bright young men has enlisted in the U. S. Army, and will be stationed along the Atlantic sea coast for the next three years. Scott Wible, Thomas Mellott, and Russel Swope are sawing at Aaron Desbong's. Mr. Deshong expects to build a barn next sum mer. Hartman Truax, wifeandgrand n, and Mr. and Mrs. William Truax were pleasant callers at E. Mellott last Sunday, Mrs. Ella Swope is now suffer ing from a very bad cold. Mrs. Anthony Mellott is still very poorly. Plenty of rain and mud now. Our school is getting along finely under the care of 0. W. Mellott Miss Alice is now at home. She expects to spend about four weeks with her parents, then she will return to her aunt's home at 'olU. Surprise Party. Mrs. Richard Deshong, of An- dover, was reminded on February 3rd that she had reached another milestone along life's pathway. Notwithstanding that the weath er was disagreeable and the roads bad, about fifty persons assem bled at her home with well filled baskets of rich eatables and pres ents. Dinner was served about 1 o'clock, and the tables were la den with the choicest viands of the season. Mrs. Deshong was well pleased with the day and will long hold the day in remembrance, wishing for many more such occasions. She was the recipient of many useful and valuable presents. About 4 o'clock the crowd be gan to break and wend thair way homeward, feeling that the day was well spent. Those who made their way through the awful storm, were William Deshong and wife, Mitchell Mellott and wife, Edward Strait and wife, Charlie Hess and wife, Conrad Sipes and wife, Charles Mellott and wife, Frank Hess and wife, Morgan Deshong, TiceHann, Uriah Kline, Earl Mellott, Garfield Shives, Hetty, George, Emma, and Lottie Hess; George Strait, Maynard, Ralph, Einmer, Clyde, Helen, and Mary Deshong, Frank and Clyde Hess, Urner Truax, May and Clara Sipes, Simpson Mellott, Charley Sipes, Charles Hess, Jes sie Sipes, Richard Deshong, Lau ra Mellott, Mabel Mellott, Job Heat. y Will Be Held In Harrlsburg Commeocinf March 24th. The 41st annual session of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the MethodistEpiscopalChurch will be held in the 5th Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Harrisburg, beginning Wednes day, March 24th. Bishop John W. Hamilton will preside. Each forenoon a busi ness session will be held from 9 to 12 o'clock. In the afternoons will be held the anniversaries of the various women's societies. Among these are the Woman's Home Missionary Society, on Friday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, and the Woman's Foreign Mis sionary Society, on Saturday afternoon at 3 30. The evening sessions will be varied in character. On Tues day evening, March 23, at 7.30, the anniversary of the Board of Education will be held. On Wednesday evening at 7.30 the anniversary of the Board of Sunday Schools and Epworth League will be observed. Thurs day evening will witness the an niversary of the conference tem peiance society, at which time an address will be made by ex Gov ernor Jos. Hanley, of Indiana. On Friday evening at 7.30, there will be a lecture by Bishop Ham ilton upon "Some People of Qual ity of Boston." On Saturday evening at the same hour the an niversary of the conference an nuity will be held, at which A. A. Stevens, of Tyrone, will preside. On Monday, March 29, the event will be the anniversary of the Preachers' Aid Society and the Board of Conference Claim ants. On Tuesday the Board of Ex aminers will conduct the various examinations for the undergraduates. LINCOLN DaY. Buildings Decorated With Flaes and Bunt ing, and Streets Assumed a Holiday Air. LARGE CROWD AT COURT HOUSE. Bid COVE TANNERY, Calvin Cooper was a welcome caller at Ira Diehl's last Sunday. Raymond Paylor was seen in this vicinity on Saturday even ing. Mrs. Ira Diehl and son Ross visited her home last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bivens visited the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. James Bivens last Sunday. Miss Lillie Cooper of Webster Mills, visited Mrs. Biddis Lynch one day last week. Miss Alice Hays is getting along nicely with our school this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Unger visited Mr. and Mrs. James Biv ens last Sunday. SIPES MILLS. Henry Truax spent last Sun day afternoon at Anthony Mell-ott's. The new roller mill Is ready for operation now. Miss Pearl Mellott, who teach es the Jacob Lake's school, spent last Saturday , and Sunday at home with her parents. When a feller puts on a false- face and goes out to scare another faller, he must make sure that the other feller does not have a gun otherwise he may be the worse scared of the two. Mr. R S. Meilott and mother spent last Sunday at Charlie Bard's. Spade Siding, On Wednesday, February 8, 909, Mr. Crist IL Spade and Miss Mary E. Sieling, both of Fulton county, were united in marriage by Rev. Charles F. Weise, at the M. E. Parsonage at Breozewood, Mr. Spade Is a son of Jacob F. Spade and the bride is a daugh ter of Mr. Gates Sieling, of Akers- vllie. Both are well respected young people, and their many friends unite in extending their best wishes for the young couple. Subscribe for the "News, 'only 11.00 a year. Never in the history of this country has a national annivers ary been observed so universally, and with such hearty good will, as that of the centennial annivers ary ot the birth of Abraham Lin coln, which took place last Fri day. There was a time m this county, when a very consider able portion of its citizens were not in sympathy with the policy carried out by Mr. Lincoln dur ing the dark days of the Civil War. The war was terrible, and as husbands, sons, and fathers were taken from their families to lay down their lives on the bloody field of battle, there were many who blamed the whole affair on "Old Abe Linkum," and who be lieved firmly, that if it had not been for him, there would not have been any war. Particularly bitter did many of our people be come, when it became necessary to draft men compel them to go to the front and fight whether they wanted to or not. Of course, the South felt that their cause was righteous, and they fought to the last ditch, and only surren dered when tbey were starved out. Those days have gone by. The Union that was so nearly rent asunder, is now stronger than ever, and the people who at that time could noc see as Lincoln saw, afterward found that he was right, and when the day came for celebrating theonehundredth anniversary of his birth, every one without respect to party af filiations, took pleasure in show ing to the world their apprecia tion of the work of the Great Emancipator. McConnellsburg was not be hind in its effort to tako a credit able part in ibis anniversary ser vice, and at 7:22 o'clock, in the morning, the bells m the differ ent church towers, and that on the Court House, were tolled for a few minutes, followed by a simultaneous ringing and clang ing such as has not been heard for many a day. Flags were swung out from the houses, and bunting displayed, giving the streets a genuine holi day appearance. The plan made out by the teachers of the public schools or iginally was, that the exercises should be held in a quiet way in their respective schoolrooms. But as sentiment became awak ened, and the Woman's Relief Corps, and the G. A. R. people took hold, an understanding was had with the teachers, and it was agreed that tne exercises should be held in the Court House; and the general public invited to par ticipate. The "general public" did not need any coaxing, and when two o'clock came, the Court House was filled to its ut most seating capacity. The pu pils of the public schools, assem bled at the School Building, and marched in a most orderly man ner to the Court House, aad were seated together. Prof. Emery Thomas called the meeting to or der, and introduced County Su perintendent B. C. Lamberson, who delivered a much appreciat ed address. Mr. Lamberson was followed in a short address by the editor of the News, and then the pupils ot the schools were turned loose, and for about an hour, they gave aneutertainment that wa very creditable to them selves and to the teachers who bad taken so much pains in help ing them select their parts in the service. One of the most pleasing things . in connection with tne exercises was the singing of number of the old war songs, and this was done to perfection. The Relief Corps had decorat ed the Court Room very prettily, and, with the teachers, are entit led to much credit for the suc cessful carrying out of the day's program.
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