INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS
Of l tcl and General Interest, 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 in McConnella
burg. When buying a cough medi
cine for children bear in mind
that Chamberlain's Cough Reme
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 Knobsvillo, returned
toNorristown Monday to resume
their work in the Schissler Col
lege ofBusiness.
U. II Hertzler, of Burnt Cabins
played "sub1' for his son Blaine
who carries the mail between
McConnellsburg and Burnt Cab
ins, and made a trip to the Coun
ty Seat through the ram Tues
day. Time is dealing gently
with the 'Squire, and he is as
active as a school boy.
Medicines that aid nature are
always most effectual. Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy acta on
thi8plan. It allays the cough,
relieves the lungs, opens the
secretions and aids nature in re
storing the system to a healthy
condition. Thousands have testi
fied to its superior excellence.
Sold by all dealers.
St. Paul's, McConnellsburg,
Preparatory service Saturday af
ternooc, 2:80. Sunday School, 9.
Communion, 10:30. No 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
provement clubs and residents
to endorse a project by which a
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 hia 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
sickness in 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 Akerville, 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 Plessinger.
f Belfast towrship. The name
"Texarkana" suggests at once
that part of the city lies in Texas
and part in Arkansas; or like
Bristol, Tenn., half lies in Tenne
see, and half in Virginia.
KEELEYGURE
,L ,cu,r ht has been continuously
tK"',"1 ,or more h ' y"
dri ,'",vf,t'Fi'ir or the .In. or
"Jk habit. Write, for pHrtli.ii Inn.
t. y .K,,' Institute in Western
nua. 440 MhAv... l'ltUburgh,
LEGISLATURE MEETS.
John F. Cox Again Speaker, and W. E.
Crow, President of the Senate.
Tho Legislature convened at
noon Tuesday and its organiza
tion was just as Genator Ponrose
had phnDed it should be several
montha or more ago. John F.
Cox was chosen Speaker of the
House and William E. Crow as
President Fro Tern of the Senate.
Governor Stuart's last mes
sage was read and a bill provid
ing over $700,000 for salaries of
members, the inauguration, post
age, 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 ad
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 member
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 feola flattered that
teachers of tho caliber of Prof.
Chambers should be interested
Prof. Chambers writes:
"In last week's News the fol
lowing example is given:
1909 5 8
09 4 29
1810 0 9
and the question asked as to
what is wrong with it. There is
nothu.g wrong with it. The ditti
culty ansos 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 pecks make one bushel.
On the other hand if we wished
to write a date like December 9,
1839 in the form for computation,
we would likely write
1839 12 9
we could, however, write
1810 0 9
since twelve months 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. Gailey Chambeks.
The many friends of MissMaude
Baumv'ardner, of Wells Tannery,
who is now the wife of Dr.
Humphreys, will be pleased to
learn 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
ooat drawn by natives. After
leaving the river, they will spend
the next twelve days traveling in
Sedan chairs carried by the na
tives. In writing to her parents
Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Baumgard-
ner at Wells Tannery, Mrs.
Humphreys says that when she
sees the great opportunity for
carrying the light of Christian
civilization to those benighted
people, she is happy in the thought
that she is permitted to be an in
strument in God's hands to assise
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 son
William, accompanied him to Al
toona. Wm. Cline of Dublin township
and R. W. Warner who lives over
the line m Huntingdon county
were pleasant callers at our office
yesterday. Mr. Wigner was ar
ranging for bills for a large sale
be 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. Vanhart, of Lambert
ville, N. J., is the guestof Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. B. Mellott of this place.
UNCLE JEDEDIAH'S DOG.
Painful Silence Followed the Owner'i
Tale About Him.
"No," Bald Undo Jodt'dliih, refluc-tlvi-ly,
as he leaned buck against tho
Biifcar-burri'l at tho poHlolllcu, "I don't
biii)uhu nnybody'd believe It, but that
them dugs of tulno, Andy JnckHon,
bns been run ovor by thutty-two orto
mubblog Hlnco the bcglnnln' o' this
yere seaHon. On tho Fourth o' July
three rod bunkers from up Portland
way come a-Ri.zlln' along the pike at
a forty-mllo-an-hour gait, while Andy
Jnckson laid aflleop In the middle o'
the road. Every bleHHod one of 'em
Jounced over him, and b' GohIi! 1
thought he was a goner sure enough;
but, after tho hint ono had passed
over him, he opened one eye and be
gun Bcratcliln' his left ear with his
off hind leg, like he thought there'd
been a My ol two buz.ln' around, and
then be gapped a bit and turned over
and went to Bleep ng'ln. A week later
another feller come a-lilkln" through
on a little pink gas-buggy with a Noo
JerHey number tagged on to bis bind
wheels, and that old dogg stood square
In the trnck of It Just as If It u ain't
any morcn'n bo much fluff. I never
expected to Beo tho pore anlmlle alive
ng'ln, and I turned my head th' other
way, dreadln' tho spcktlkle I felt
shore he'd been turned Into, but by
Jlminy! a half an hour later 1 found
hlni a-settln" cm that there counter
JcHt behind the sugar-barrlll catehln'
flies. It's been the same all along.
Car after car has run ovor him, and
he's got so now when ho hears one
comln' he runs out o' tho 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?"
"Wa-al, I dun'no'," said Undo Jede
dlah; "but I gucHS his bark Is bo thick
they can't break through to no vital
part."
A painful silence followed In
which the stranger Joined, looking
rternly meanwhile out of the door.
"Can I sell ye a muzzle?" asked
Undo Jededlah, after a while.
"What for?" asked the stranger,
with a frown.
"The safety of tho public," replied
the old man. "I have reason to be
lieve, young man, that there be times
when you bile."
More Than Five Feet.
A certain newly-rich man had built
himself a lino house. Ite thought It
well to have a library, and went down
to a book store, where he ordered
some books.
"What kind of books?" asked the
clerk.
"Why, books," replied the mnn.
"Books, you know; reudlng-bnoks."
The books came and were installed
in the library. Soon after a fricud
came up to look over the place.
"Mere," said the man, "Is my li
brary. Hero Is where 1 love to get
with a book and a pipe, and forget
the outside world."
The friend was somewhat of a hook
shade. He took down a book, looked
at it, nnd put it back; took down an
other, loolced at that, and put It back,
nnil repeated the process several
tln:es.
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 many years."
"Hut Isn't It strange that you should
havo bought six hundred copies of
McOuffey'B Fifth Reader?" Washing
ton Star.
SLIPPED OUT.
"Snarely came near being engaged
once." .
"How so?"
"The night he was getting ready to
go and ask the girl, a fellow enma
along nnd asked him to go bobbing
for eels."
Little Willie Knew.
Little Willie, the son of a Gorman
town woman, was playing one day
with tho girl next door, when the lat
ter exclaimed;
"Don't you hear your mother call
ing you? That's, three times she's
done bo! Aren't you going In?"
"Not yet," responded Willie Imper
tnrably. j
"Won't she whip you?" '
"Naw!" exclaimed Willie In dis
gust. "She ain't goln' to whip no
body! She's got company. So, when
I go In, she'll Just Eay: 'The poor
little man has been so deaf since he'd
had the measles!'" i
Tricks In All Trades. I
Stranger. "Zum Uonnerwetter, nor
you have cut my chin a second time I
If you can't shavo better thnn thai
you will lose all your customers pret
ty quick."
Barber's Apprentice. "Not at alii
I am not allowed to shave the regular
customers yet, I only shave strang
ers 1"
Miss Meta Fryman returned
to her home in this place last
Saturday after having spent a
few days among friends in Mer
cersburg. She is suffering this
week with an ulcerated jaw.
Wilson Myers and C. P. Brew
er, two of Thompson township's
substantial citizens, spent a few
hours at the Couuty seat on bus
iness yesterday.
FAST COLORS.
Those Known ai Hydroiulphlte Said
to Be Beit on the Market.
The fustest colors on the market to
day are what ore known among dy
ers as hydrosulrhlte, colors that are
dyed In a caustic bath with hydrottul
phlte.
"These colorB are as near absolute
ly fast aa can be produced," says the
American Wool and Cotton Reporter,
"and have been adopted by the Unit
ed States Government to be used lu
army uniforms after being submitted
to very severe tests.
"The dyeing of these colors on cot
ton yarn Is very simple, especially
when you use the Scotch tub system
of dyeing. The proper way to dye
those 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 before 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 the sequel to a
fatal accident, Is a very old sport or
punishment. '"Illanketlng," Hen Jon
son called It, and in Holllnshed (1577)
we find a denunciation of "Jesting,
placing, blanketing, and such other
lllthlo and dishonourable exercises."
The Fronch have a special verb, "bor
ner." for It, "borne" being the name
given to the sheet or blanket used.
Sancho Panza's 0B8lng is certainly
the most famous In literature, and the
question arises whether tho practice
came to France via Spain from Mo
rocco. For tho verb "bomer" Is also
used for the Moorish punishment. In
which four men hold the victim by
his ankles nnd wrists nnd Bend him
as high as they can presumably with
no blanket to catch him. London
Chronicle.
Tree Planting on English Waste Land,
Coke of Holkhnm. bo we learn from
Mr. W. 11. U. Curtler's short "History
of English Agriculture," began his
great agricultural, work about 1776 on
an estate where, as old Lady Towns
hend said, "ail you will see will be
one blnde of grass, and two rabbits
fighting for that"; In fact It was little
better than a rabbit warren. He
transformed the bleak, bare country'
side by planting fifty ncres of trees
every year until he had 3.000 acres
well covered, and In 1832 had probably
the unique experience of embnrklng
In a ship which was built of oak
grown from the acorns he had him'
self planted. Between 1776 and 1842
(tho dato of his death) he Is said to
have spent .536,992 on Improving
his estate. London Globe.
Dog and Horse.
As compared with the dog the horse
Is a stupid animal. The animal train'
er will tell you that In Intelligence It
Is '"nip nnd tuck" between the dog
nnd the elephant, ami that In com
parlson with either of these animals
tho horse Is nowhere. It Is only In
his docility uml affection that the
horse is the "animal next to man,"
and even In these respects the dog Is
I a worthy competitor with him. When
It comes to "knowing things our
faithful friend the horse Is left far
1 behind by our other friond and com
panion, the dog.
Time's Changes.
Mlldmny Is a philosopher In his
way. The other evening Mrs. M.
gave him a scolding that would have
made almost any other man crazy.
But 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 nnd call my little pootay
wootsy ! "
Lighthouse for Peace Memorial.
Would not a lighthouse be a fitting
memorial of the peace that has pre
vailed on the great lakes since the
war of 1S12? The neutrality of the
great lakes 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 Wa.;.hip.
According to dally press "reports
wireless telephony has not proved an
unqualified success on the battleship
fleet. It W8 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 vnrl
ouHly nttrlbuted to Ales.sandro dl
Spina, who died at Pisa In1313; to
Al Hazcn, the Arabian (eleventh cen
tury), nnd to Roger Bacon (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 are quite satisfied sit
still and do nothing. Those who are
not quite 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 Is a body of no mat
ter entirely surrounded by what's the
use. Life.
Electric Light Wires Protected.
It Is a misdemeanor to tamper witU
electric light wires In Colorado.
Old Soldier Tortured.
"For years I suffered unspeak
able torture from indigestion,
constipation and liver trouble,"
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
trouble. Only 25c at Trout's
drug store,
Special Prices on Ladies' Suits and
Coats at
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J that the follow inir iiiiiimI liiriiMM h:.v
llleil their petitions III the nillre of the Clerk
ol quarter ScssioiiHiil I'll Hon enmity. IVnn'a.,
praying (tie Court to (ri ant them License tn
keep an Inn or Tavern, anil to sell l.imi.ir
and that the same will he presented to the
i-ald Com t, mi Tuesday, the loth day of Janu.
ary, llMl, at luo'iloik a. ni.
Charles K. Whltstel, Kort Littleton, Pa.
Robert W. Ilroadherk, llurnt Cabins, Ia.
Ueorve Kexroth, McConnellxburK, l'a.
Harry Hamll, McConnellsburir, Pa.
OKO. A. IIAKRIS.
Clerk Quarter Sessions.
McConnellsburg. Pa
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11J2-10
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McConnellsburg, Pa.
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