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INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS
Of I 'icl and General Intere., Gathered
t Home or Clipped (rnr our.
Exchanges.
CONDENSED FOR HURRIED READERS
Blank notes at the News office.
Howard W. Truax, one of Bel
fast township's rising young
farmers spent part of the last day
of the old year ia McCunnells
burg. When buying a rough medi
cine for children boar in mind
that Chamberlain's Cough Retne
dy is most effectual for colds,
croup and whooping cough and
that it contains no harmful drug.
For sale by all dealers.
John W. Gunnels, jr., and Ira
L. Peck, who have been spending
their holiday vacation with their
parents at Knobsville, returned
to Norristown Monday to resume
their work in the Schissler Col
lege of Business.
LI. II Ilertzler, of Burnt Cabins
played "sub'' for his son Blaine
who carries the mail between
McConneilsburg and Burnt Cab
ins, and made a trip to the Coun
ty Seat through the rain Tues
day. Time is dealing gently
with the 'Snuire, and he is as
active as a school boy.
Medicines that aid nature are
always most effectual. Cham
berlaiu's Cough Remedy acts on
this plan. It allays the cough,
relieves the lungs, opens the
secretions and aids nature in re
storing the system to a healthy
condition. Thousands have tcsti
fied to its superior excellence.
Sold by all dealers.
St. Paul's, McConneilsburg,
Preparatory service Saturday af
ternooc, 2:80. Sunday School, 9.
Uommunion, 10:.iU. JNo evening
church service, Christian En
deavor, G o'clock.
Tannery church, Sunday
School, 1:30; Church worship
at 2:30.
Mayor Nelson S. Pratt has re
quested the Spokane, Washing
ton, Chamber of Commerce, The
Ministerial Alliance, ward im
pr.;vement clubs and residonts
to endorse a project by which
work farm will supplant the city
jail as a corrective institution,
which, he says, is a relic of the
dark ages. lie also urges the
establishment of an institution
where the destitute can find em
ployment. Mr. Clem Brant, who had been
employed on the T. A. Coleman
& Sons' Dairy and Fruit Farm
near Altoona, during the past
summer, returned to his home in
Licking Creek township just be
fore Christmas, and expects next
Monday to remove his family to
Altoona. Mr. Brant and family
will be accompanied to their new
home by his sister, Miss Zena,
who will remain with them for a
short time.
Sister Anna Albright, of Balti
more, a Lutheran Deaconess ar
rived Tuesday to assist in the
family of Wm. Woodall. Sister
Anna was . ere during the first
Bicknessin the Woodall family
and nursed Mr. and Mrs. Wood
all and their daughter, Myrtle,
has returned to assist during the
continued illness of Mr. Woodall,
and to wait upon the two chil
dren, Frank and Stella, who now
have typhoid fever.
A letter from James S. Akers,
formerly of Akerwilie, but now
a prosperous business man resid
ing in Texarkana, Ark., says they
have not had a flake of snow this
winter, and but very fow frosts.
Their winter gardens are looking
tine. "There are some advant
ages to be gained living in Fulton
county" says Mr. Akers, "but I
should not care to try a winter
there again." He says their
town is growing steadily, that
thev have natural gas for heating
and lighting purposes, and that a
large glass factory has just been
Put into opeartion. Mi s. Akers
is a daughter of John piessinger.
of Belfast towrship. The name
"Texarkana" suggests at once
that part of the city lies in Texas
jnd part in Arkansas; or like
Bristol, Tenn., half lies in Tenne
see, and half in Virginia.
KEELEYCURE
a,ii. ,cu,r ,hat hi bo continuously
woh f.ul fo,r mor tn y (
,,nJf.h,'?lt- wm, fr puonun.
lv',,7 .,' e Institute in Western
nw. 44U Fifth Av.,l'.UsburBh,l'i.
LEGISLATURE MEETS.
John F. Cox Again Speaker, and W. E.
Crow, President of tlie Senate.
The Legislature convened at
noon Tuenday and its organiza
tion was just as Senator Penrose
had planned it should be severai
months or more ago. John
Cox was chosen Speaker of the
House and William E. Crow
President fro Tem of the Senate,
Governor Stuart's last mes'
sage was read and a bill provid
ing over $700,000 for salaries
members, the inauguration, post
ige, stationery and so on was in
troduced.
The sessions of both houses
were held Tuesday afternoon and
yesterday morning at 10 o'clock
the House held a session to pass
the appropriation bill on second
reading. The House then &
journed until January ICth when
the bill will be passed on third
reading and will go through the
Senate on first reading. On Jan
uary 18th the bill will have passed
the Senate hnallv.
More on the Age Example.
The following from Geo. Gaily
Chambers, a former teacher in
this county, but now a memb?
of the faculty of the University
of Pennsylvania, is given in an
swer to a query in connection
with the "lady's' age" last week
The News feels flattered that
teachers of the caliber of Pro
Chambers should be interested
Prof. Chambers writes:
"In last week's News the to
lowing example is given:
190U 5 8
C9 4 29
1840 0 U
and the question asked as to
what is wrong with it. There i
nothu.g wrong with it. The difli
culty arisos in interpreting the
result. If we wished to write a
denominate number like 7bu
3qt. in the form for computation
we would likely write
bu. pk. qt.
7 0 3
We could, however, write
bu. pk. qt.
0 4 3
since 4 pocks make one bushel.
On the other hand if we wished
to write a date like December 9,
1839 in the lorm for computation
we would likely write
1839 12 9
we could, however, write
1840 0 9
since twelve montns make one
year.
Therefore, whenever the result
of a substraction is a date and
there is a zero in the month's
place, that date must be read as
December of the previous year.'
Geo. Gajley Chambers.
The many friends of MissMaude
Bau m v'ardner, of Wells Tannery,
who is now the wife of Dr.
Humphreys, will be pleased to
earn that she is well and happy.
She and her husband are mis
sionaries in China, and just now
are making a long journey be
tween the cities of Shanghai and
Ninguenfu. The first fifty days
of the journey is made on a house
boat drawn by natives. After
eaving the river, they will spend
the next twelve days traveling in
Sedan chairs carried by the na
tives. In writing to her Barents
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Baumgard-
ner at wells Tannery, Mrs
Iumphreys says that when she
sees tne great opportunity for
carrying the light of Christian
civilization to those benighted
people, 8 tie is happy in the thought
that she is permitted to be an in
strument in God's bauds to assist
in this glorious work,
Mr. Jacoo Motter of the Cove,
returned home Monday, after
having spent twelve days on a
visit to his son John in Altoona
and his brother Henry at Blue
ball, Cambria county. His so
William, accompanied him to Al
toona. Wm. Cline of Dublin township
and R. W. Warner who lives over
the line in Huntingdon county
were pleasant callers at our office
yesterday. Mr. Wigner was ar
ranging for bills for a large sale
he will have in March.
Mr. Samuel Hess, one of Bel
fast township's hustling farmers,
spent a few hours in town on
business yesterday.
Mr. E. C. Vannart, of Lambert
ville, N. J., is the guestof Mr. and
Mrs. Geo, B. Mellott of this place.
JT UNCLE JEDEDIAH'S DOG.
Painful Silence Followed the Owner's
Tale About Him.
"No," said I'nclo JedoiKith, refloc
tlv:ly, as lie loaned buck UKalnnt tliu
mii;ar-l)urri'l at the poHtolllco, "I don't
BiippoHo anybody'd bollevo It, but tlnti
there dtigg of mine, Andy Jackson,
has been run over by thutty-two orto
nnibbk'8 Hlnt-e the bufrlnnln' o' tills
yere seaHon. On the Fourth o' July
three red honkers from up Portland
way come a-ttlzzlln' along the pike at
a forty-mllo-an-hour gult, while Andy
JnckHon laid anleup In tho middle o'
the road. Every bleuHed one of 'em
Jounced over him, and b' Gosh! I
thought ho was a goner sure enough;
but, after tho laxt one had passed
over him, he opened one eye and be
gun scratchln' his left ear with his
off hind leg, llko he thought there'd
been a (ly o two buzzln' around, and
then he gapped a bit and turned over
and went to sleep ng'In. A week later
another feller come ahlkln' through
on a llttlo pink gas biingy with a Noo
Jersey number tagged on to bin hind
wheels, nnd that old dogg stood square
In the track of It Just as If it wnrn't
any moren'n so much tlufT. I never
expected to see tho pore nnlmllo alive
ng'In, and I turned my head th' other
way, dreadln' the spektlkle I felt
shore he'd been turned Into, but by
Jlinlny! n half an hour later I found
him asettln' on that there counter
Jest behind the siigar-barrlll calchln'
flies. It's been the same all along.
Car after car has run over him, and
he's got so now when ho hears one
coinln' he runs out o' the store like
mad and lies down before it, as much
as to say that he liked beln' run over."
"Well, that's mighty funny." said
the stranger in town. "How do you
account for It, sir?"
"Waal, I dun'no'," said I'nclo Jede
diah; "but I guess his bark is so thick
they can't break through to no vital
part"
A painful silence followed In
which the stranger Jollied, looking
tternly meanwhile out of the door.
"Can I sell ye a muzzle?" asked
T.'ni lo Jededlnh, after a while.
"What for?" asked the stranger,
with a frown.
"The safety of the public," replied
the old man. "I have reason to be
lieve, young man, that there be times
when you bite."
More Than Five Feet.
A certain newly-rich man had built
himself a fine house. lie thought it
well to have a library, and went down
to a bookstore, where he ordered
some books.
"What kind of books?" asked tbo
clerk.
"Why, books," replied the man.
Rooks, you know; reading-books."
The books came and were Installed
In the library. Soon after a friend
came up to look over the place.
"Hero." said the man, "Is my li
brary. Here Is where I love to get
with a book and n pipe, and forget
the outside world."
The friend was somewhat of a book-
shade. He took down a book, looked
at It, and put it bark; took down an
other, looked nt Hint, nnd put It back,
and repeated the process several
tines.
Then he asked: "John, where did
you get these books;
"Oh, replied John, "I picked them
up hero nnd there. Whenever I found
one I liked I bought it. It has been
the work of mnny years."
"Hut Isn't It strange that you should
havo bought six hundred copies of
McC.uffey's Fifth Reader?" Washing
ton Star.
SLIPPED OUT.
rvt
"Snarely came near being engaged
once."
"How so?"
"The night he was getting ready to
go and ask the girl, a fellow came
along nnd asked him to go bobbing
for eels."
Little Willie Knew.
Little Willie, the son of a Gorman-
town woman, was playing ono day
with the girl next door, when the lat
ter exclaimed:
"Don't you hear your mother call-
ng you? That's three times she's
done so! Aren't you going In?"
Not yet," responded Willie Imper
turably. ,
"Won't she whip you?" 1
"Naw!" exclaimed Willie In dls-
gust. "She ain't goln' to whip no
body! She's got company. So, when
go In, she'll Just say: 'The poor
little man has been so deaf since he'll
had the measles!'"
Trick In All Trades. I
Stranger. "Zum Donnerwetter, writ
you have cut my chin a second time!
If you can't shave bettor thnn thai
you will lose all your customers pret
ty quick."
Barber's Apprentice. "Not at all!
am not allowed to shave the regular
ustomers yet, I only shave strang
ers!"
Miss Meta Fryman returned
to her home in this place last
Saturday aftor having spent a
ew days among friends in Mer-
cersburg. She is suffering this
week with au ulcerated jaw.
Wilson Myers and C. P. Brew
er, twoot Thompson township's
substantial citizens, spent a few
hours at the Couuty seat on bus
iness yesterday,
FAST COLOR9.
Those Known as Hydrosulphlte 8ld
to Be Best on the Market.
The fastest colors on the market to
day are what are known among dy
ers as hydrosulphlte, colors that are
dyed In a caustic bath wit!) hydrosul
phlte.
"These colors are as near absolute
ly fast as can be produced." says the
American Wool and Cotton Reporter.
"and have been adopted by the Unit
ed States Government to be used In
army uniforms after bolng submitted
to very severe tests.
"The dyeing of theso colors on cot
ton yarn Is very simple, especially
when you use the Scotch tub system
of dyeing. The proper way to dye
tnose colors Is to use the vacuum
type of dye machine, as the dyestuff
experts say that all air ought to be
got out of the cotton bufore the dye
stuff Is put to It, and this type of ma
chine Is best suited for that purpose
because In this system the cotton Is
stationary and the dye liquor Is forced
through the cotton by means of
pumps."
Tossing In the Blanket.
Tossing In -the blanket, which has
been forbidden to the troops of the
Aldershot division as tho Bequol to a
fatal Bccldent, Is a very old sport or
punishment. '"Illnnketlng," Ren Jon-
son called It, and In Hollinshed (1577)
we find a denunciation of "Jesting,
placing, blanketing, and such other
lllthlo and dishonourable exercises."
The French have a special verb, "ber-
ner," for It, "berne" being the name
given to the sheet or blanket used.
Bancho Panza s -tossing Is certainly
the most famous In literature, and the
question arises whether tho practice
came to France via 8pain from Mo
rocco. For the vorb "berner" Is also
used for the Moorish punishment, In
which four men hold the victim by
his ankles and wrists and sond him
ns high as they enn presumably with
no blanket to catch him. London
Chronicle.
Tree Planting on English Waste Land.
Coke of Holkhnm, so we learn from
Mr. W. H. It. Curtler's short "History
of English Agriculture," began his
great agricultural, work about 1776 on
an estate where, as old Lady Towns
hend said, "all you will see will be
one blade of grass, and two rabbits
fighting for that"; in fact It was llttlo
better than a rabbit warren. He
transformed the bleak, bare country
side by planting fifty acres of trees
every year until he had 3,000 acres
well covered, and In 1832 had probably
the unique experience of embarking
In a ship which wns built of oak
grown from the acorns he had him
self planted, netween 1776 and 1842
(the date of his death) he Is said to
have spent .C.r36,092 on Improving
his estate. London Globe.
Dog and Horse.
As compared with the dog tho horse
Is a stupid animal. The animal train
er will tell you that In intelligence It
Ih "'nip and tuck" between the dog
and the elephant, and that In com
parison with either of these animals
the horse Is nowhere. It Is only In
his docility and affection that the
horse Is the "anlmii. next to man,'
and even In these respects the dog Is
a worthy competitor with him. When
11 comes to "Knowing things our
faithful friend tho horse Is left far
behind by our other friend and com
panion, the dog.
Time's Changes.
Mild may is a philosopher In his
ray. The other evening Mrs. M.
gave him a scolding that would have
made almost any other man crazy.
Rut Mlldmay said never a word in re
ply. He only murmured to himself:
'"And that Is the woman I used to hold
on my knee and call my little pooUy
wootsy!"
Lighthouse for Peace Memorial.
Would not a lighthouse be a fitting
memorial of the peace that has pre
vailed on tho great lakes since the
war of 1S12? The neutrality of the
great lakos Is a triumph of common
sense and humane Instincts over war
like Impulses. It also Illustrates the
superiority of the unwritten to the
written statute.
Wireless-Telephone on WavsMps.
According to daily press reports
wireless telephony has not proved an
unqualified success on the battleship
fleet. It ws Impossible to sond mes
sages over any great distance except
under the most favorable conditions,
and when the telephone was In use
the telegraph had to keep silent.
Spectacles.
The Invention of spectacles Is vari
ously attributed to Alessandro dl
Spina, who died at Pisa lu1313; to
Al Hazen, the Arabian (eleventh cen
tury), and to Roger Hacon (1214-92).
It Is quite safe to suppose that the
Invention was not earlier than the be
ginning of the eleventh century.
A Word for the Unsatisfied.
Those who nre quite satlslled sit
still and do nothing. Those who are
not qu'te satisfied are the sole bene
factors of tho world. Landor.
Racy.
The race Isn't always to the swift.
Sometimes It Is to the wise man who
knows how to fix things. Chicago
Dally News.
Now You Know.
New Thought la a body of no mut
ter entirely surrounded by what'a the
use. Life.
Electric Light Wlrea Protected.
It Is a misdemeanor to tamper with
electric light wlrea In Colorado.
Old Soldier Tortured.
"For years I suffered unspeak
able torture from indigestion,
C.nnstinnt.iim nnrl livor frnnKIa "
w b.'wv.wm Mu .ITV4 VtUUVIU)
wrote A. K. Smith, a war veter
an at Erie, Pa., "but Dr. King's
New Life Pills fixed me all right.
They're simply great." Try them
for any stomach, liver or kidney j
trouble. Only 25c at Trout's
drug store,
Special Prices on Ladies' Suits and
REISNERS
ryjMft& for Men. Women and Children.
u want genuine Ball Band Goods, and
we have them. In
NOTIONS
We have the thing you want,
of Underwear. Don't fail to
store, the best
All Wool Blankets
You ever saw for $4.50. Everything in
the way of Domestics.
LADIES' DON'T FORGET
THE R. & G. CORSET
more comfort and ease than you can find in any other. Men's and
Boys'' Overcoats, and Suits to please all tastes and prices. Try the
Corliss Coon Collars.
When you come to Institute, call on us.
GEO. W. REISNER & CO.
I II hNSK NOTK'K.-Notice I hereby (riven
li that the fcilluwinif ninci i.t.rv.MiM h:..
Itjeil their petition In tile olllie of the Clerk
wo." ier essionoi union eouiitv, IVnn'a
rayinv th conn In Kruut them Limine to
m-i-' ,111 lllll or l.lVfl'll. IIIKl t.i m. 1 1 l.i.tn..r
that tlies.imu m ! presented to the
k-ui i. on i ueii;iy, tne loin Uay of Janu
ary, mil, at luo'cUuka. m.
Charles K. Whltsel. Fort Littleton, Pa.
Konert W. Ilro.ulbeck, Hurnl Cabins, Ia.
Oeorife Kexroth, McConnellburir, l'a.
Harry Hamtl, McConncllsburir. Pa.
CiKO. A. HAItltlS.
Clerk Quarter Sessions.
MeConnellsburir. Pa.,
isec, zv, iimu.
IMilO
M. R. SHAFFNER,
Attorney at Law,
Office on Square,
McConnel!sbur, Pa.
All leifu bus new ami oolleolion. entrusted
will eoelva careful and prompt attention.
A Comnl.ra Llhrarr Ob. Yatama.
Coitkiainf Soma laiermatiaa Aaaat
EM.jthlni a.d Cf.rylalmt- Aa.at
Araat Hu; TBlafa.
Io want u-rurtui ptitiraUn f tk Omfri
Ml titctior. iIm 11)1(1 .niiu, marfttu, enn.
li prlcu o tuplt product., Mrul irtur.-
BraU, rltatifie dKconnn ud KplontlOM at
1010. "in and otli tmuaruiit kUiorlcml rail,
flrwlh nf tht United HUIM, lunula. pomtlaUoa
and amth at rouutrlta. Suit, ud cIUm. the
tariff, tht tnuU aad parti platforou, Oaairaa.
llnokl itranla, iportln. mnli, world racarda,
w.uhu and mmuraa. unlTtralUra. ralltieui inlin
dttitl of nalloni, laduatriaa. fathar foracla.
birth., narrticea. dirorraa aod dratlia, railroad,
liilipini, Uiikiot. Buori, taiaa. tiuuraaca, po
litical turtle. Mcrat aocltllM, cluba, lb prelum,
thia movement, womao'l mflr.ie aad
lO.tMMt Other fact, aad Kl.urea ia to Dat.
of tttri dar Inlrrral aad talii. to atenlmrfi.
No mrrrhailt. faram.' .Uoorar. buaiu... m.
hoiLvwilt ot l.illlueM wum.n artioul it... . ..J
ihonld h without a ropj of thia talu.tile reirr.
r- folume of uaeful information, i-rti-e iflc.
Mt III Itufl.lO .n.l Plftal.iin. Mlk. I It. ..t
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Western Maryland Railway Company.
In Effect Mny 29. 1910.
Trains leave Hancock ns follows:
No. 106- S..S0 it. ni. (Sunday only) for Baltimore
iinu intermediate polula.
No. - 00tt. m. (week days) for Huircmtown,
tiaiiiinore, v ayuL-nioro,l;lmiuberauurg,
aud lutermedlutu.
No. 18 SO a. m. (week days) Cumberland, and
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No. 4 10 OH a. m. (week days) Baltimore. Get
tysburg, York aud ItneritiHrtmte.
No.-l2.W p m. (week days) Little Orleans.
Old Town, Cuiuberlund, Klklns and
west. Vestibule train with observation
bultet cur.
No. t a 00 p. m. (week days) Baltimore and In
termediate malum. Vestibule train
with obaervutlon buffet ear.
No. a 9.40 p. m. (week days) leaves Baltimore
6.05 p. ci., Hagerstown 8.40 p. m.
No. 105 UUf p. m. (Sunday only) leaves Balti
more 6.16 p. ui.
W. M. COMERER,
agent for
IHh GEISER, 'MANUFAC
TURING COMPANY.
BURNT CABINS, PA.
for the sale of Traction and
Portable Engines, Gaso
line, Separators, Go
rerHullers, Saw
mills, &c.
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