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FULTON COUNTY NEWS
, Published Every Thursday.
B. W. PECK, Editor and Proprietor.
McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
JULY 20, 1911
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Church Notices.
Announcements lor Sunday, July
23, 1911.
HUSTONTOWN, U. B. Cll AIKJK,
K. II. Swank, pastor.
Hustontown Preaching 10:30 a. m.,
Sacramental service.
Bethel Preaching 2:30., Sacramental
service.
Knobsville-Preaehing 8:00.
IIUSTONTOWX, M. E. CHARGE.
L. W. McGarvey, Pastor.
Cotter Sunday school 0:30.
Preaching 10:30.
Training Class 10:15.
Fairview Sunday school 2:00.
Preaching, 3:00.
Hustontown Sunday school 9:00.
F.pworth League, 7:30
Preaching 8:00.
Prayer meeting Thursd ay 8:00. p. m.,
All are cordially invited to the ser
vices In the grove at Hustontown,
July24-30th. Servtces every night
and all day Sunday the 30th, also,
Thursday and Saturday afternoon
2:30. Don't fail to hear Dr. A. S.
Fasiek our District Superintendent.
Hakkiso.nvii.le M. K. Chakok,
W. M. Cllne, Pastor.
Asbury Preaching 10:30.
Ebenezer Preaching 8 p. m., Satur.
day befere.
If You Have No Ice.
The July Woman's Home Com
panion contains a great variety
of practical housekeeping sug
gestions. Here is one for the
housekeeper who gets along with
out ice:
"Obtain a larirs. common flow
erpot and seal tho hole in the bot
tom with plaster of pans. Ilace
in the pot the bottle containing
milk, or a covered crock contain
ing butter, and fill tho pot with
water to as great a depth as pos
sible without tho bottle or crock
flnatine. Cover the pot with a
board or a plate and set out in
the open air, away from tho di
rect sunlight, and preferably
where there is a current of air.
The evaporation of the water
from tho surface of tho porous
pot will keep the contents several
degrees colder than the ouiside
air, when there is tho slightest
amount of air stirring. The
higher the wind, or the drier the
air, the greater will be the cool
ing effect."
Population Center Moving Vest.
The center of population of the
United States is four and one
quarter miles south of Unionville,
Monroe county, Indiana, accord
ing to a Census Bureau announce
meet. Since 1900. when it was
six miles southeast of Colurrbus,
Ind., it has moved thirty-one
miles westward and seven-tenths
of a mile northward. The west
ward movement was more than
twice that of the 1390-1900 de
cade. This acceleration of the
westward movement is attributed
by census officials principally to
the srrowth of the Pacific and
o
Southwestern States.
' The geographical center of the
United States is in , northern Kan
sas, so that the center of jwpula
tion, therefore, is about 5;j0 miles
east of tho geographical center of
the country.
1,150 Postal Banks.
Postmaster General Hitchcock
has approved the application of
three hundred bar.ks in various
cities as postal savings deposi
tors. Tho total number of
banks thus far designated isl,lS0
mam
Burns whltt.
to the last drop. For the
sake of everyone in the fam
ily insist upon having
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THEV ISE THE ALTO.
No Read v 'Market Fur Stationary En
gines In West.
Stationary engines do not tin
a ready market in somo parts
of
tho American northwest Hinco
ranch owners have discovered
the possibilities in the automobile
as a motive power.
James Thompson of I'endleton,
Ore., is one of a number who do
most of their farm work with a
motor car. lie uses a Franklin,
1!)08, twenty eight horse power
touring car which has run several
thousand miles. The power of
the automobile is applied to sta
tionary uses by means of a frame
and jack shaft beanog three
wheels.
The main axle of the car is lift
ed from the ground to one end of
the frame, and from each rear
wheel of the automobile a belt is
run to the wheels on each end of
the jack-shaft. In the center of
the shaft is a smaller wheel from
which runs a belt to the machin
ery which is to be opporated.
Tho arrangement has been
found very satisfactory, and Mr.
Thompson cuts hay, saws wood
and runs all manner of farm ma
chinery with his automobile.
This fall he proposes to operate a
threshing engine with a thirty
horse power Franklin.
His present car recently re
placed fourteen mules which
wore furnishing power for a bar
ley chopper. Haiti made the
round so slippery that the mules
were unable to get a foothold,
whereupon Mr. Thompson rigged
up his car and since then has dis
pensed with mule power.
The dismantling of the jack-
shaft arrangement can be accom
plished and the car placed on the
road in fifteen seconds.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, )
Lucas (Jounty. y
Frank J. Cheney makes oath
that he is senior partner of the
firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the city of , Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum ol
One Hundred Dollars for each and
every case of Catarrh that cannot
be cure by tho use of Hall's Ca
tarrh cure. Fuank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and sub
scribed in my presence, this Gil)
day of December, A. D.,
cr-.r A- Clkason',
l&tAL.) Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials
free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists. Price,
75c. per bottle.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con
stipation.
Honor Thy Father and Mother.
'Honor thy father and thy
mother that thy days may be
long upon the land which the
Lord thy Cod giveth thee" is a
commandment which recently
was the subject of comment by
Judge Steel, of Westmoreland
county, in a case in which a claim
was set up by a daughter tor
wages for services she rendered
during the last illness of her
mother. Judge Steel held that
tho estate was not bound to pay
the claim. In rendering his opin
ion the Judge said: "A chud is
not entitled to recover wages lor
services rendered from the estate
of a deceased parent unless upon
a clear and unequivocal proof,
leaving no doubt that the relation
between the parties was not of
the ordiuary one of parent and
child, but of master and servant.
It is the duty," said the Judge,
"of the parent to support his or
her child and it is the duty of the
child to support the parent
Filial duty aud common humani
ty require a child to nurse, care
for and help the parent." Judge
Steel will hardly be subjected to
"recall" for this clear statoment
of the difference between the re
lation of parent and child and
that of master and servunt.
desrsnd steady
thai Inferln- tank.WMffOfl kind. Eft VB
barralt direct irom our rinnn.
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FOREIGN TITLES
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Massachusetts Member Lost Seat
In Congress Over Contest
Back in 1795
SLAVERY QUESTION INTRODUCED
Law Permits Native Citizens to Ac
cept Nobility from Potentates But
Foreigners Must Renounce Distinc
tions Before Naturalization.
An Inconsistency in American law
lies In the fact that while native citi
zens may accept t!tles,of nobility from
foreign potentates, foreigners must
renounce their hereditary title before
becoming naturalized citizens of the
United States. That provision of the
Federal naturalization laws goes boclc
115 years, and the subject led to a
curious parliamentary fight In Con
gross. It also resulted In the tem
porary .retirement of a conspicuous
Massachusetts Federalist from publlo
life and stirred up a lively discussion
on the slavery question.
Immigration was exciting a good
deal of talk in 17U4, when French no
bles were still floelng from the reign
of terror which ceased in the summer
of that very year und when other
French refugees had recently fled
from the block terror of Huyti. So
late in the year Congress began to
revise the nnturallzution laws.
The residence period necessary for
naturalization was raised from two
years, at which it had been fixed in
17110, to Ave, where it hns since re
mained, except for a short time in
John Adams's administration, when it
was made fourteen years. While the
matter was under debate Giles of Vir
ginia proposed that foreigners seek
ing naturalization should be required
to give up any title of nobility that
they might hold.
It was at this point that Samuel
Dexter of Massachusetts, a Federalist,
brought tho slavery question Into tho
matter. He made a speech ridiculing
Giles's amendment as childish. Ho
proposed an amendment requiring for
eigners wishing to be naturalized to
give up any slaves of which they
might be possessed.
Dexter's amendment stirred the
Southern members, for they were a
bit uneasy In view of recent massa
cres of whites by the Insurgent slaves
of Haytl, and they protested that the
Massachusetts Federalist was Inciting
Southern slaves to Insurrection and
endangering the social system of the
South. Dexter, nevertheless, stuck
by his amendment, though some of his
fellow Federalists were a trifle un
easy at the storm he had raised, es
pecially as they well knew that Giles's
amendment would be popular in New
England.
Giles on January 1, 1795, did a
thing that m-ared Dexter's friends
even more, for be called for tho yens
and nays on both motions. Under
this call Dexter's amendment wag de
feated, and that of Giles was carried.
I)exter, although he knew he was do
ing what would be unpopular at home,
voted against the amendment requir
ing naturalized foreigners to give up
their titles of nobility, and he failed
to return to the next Congress, though
he lived to enter tho Cabinet of John
Adams.
The requirement was so popular
that it was not repealed, when In
1798 the naturalization laws were ma
terially amended, and It was left un
disturbed when in Jefferson's first ad
ministration the residence period re
quired of foreigners seeking naturali
zation was reduced from fourteen
years to five years. The five year
period had prevailed in Virginia in
late colonial days. Oddly enough the
first man known to have been natur
alized In this country, Augustine Herr
man, one of New York and later of
Maryland, received from Lord Balti
more about 16G6 the title of Lord of
Bohemia Manor.
Some naturalized foreigners have
been known socially in this country
by the titles which they adjured on
giving notice of their Intention to seek
naturalization, though in all public
relations they have figured under sim
ple surname and Christian name. Of
the few native Americans who wear
titles of nobility moat perhaps owe
them to the Pope.
American hankering after titles,
which fell into general disrepute dur
ing the French Revolution, revived
early in the nineteenth century, and
it Is said that one thing to attract
some men to Burr's expedition was
the hope hold out that his SpanlBh
Amerlcan State would have orders of
nobility. Young men making ready
to Join hlra bantered one another as
to the titles that they should bear,
and a clever woman in the confidence
of Burr was said to have gono so far
as to draw up rules for court cere
mony and make sketches for ceremon
ial costumes.
' Within a few years a young Vir
ginian shocked some of his kinsfolk
by expatriating himself tn order to
claim an English title long In abey
ance in bis family. It Is said, on
the other hand, that although the De
Courseys of Maryland have an en
tirely clear and legitimate claim to
an English title, the rightful heir de
clines to give up his American clti
temjulp for the title.
Had a 8ure Thing.
An Individual, well known on the
Berlin Bourse for his wit, one morn
morning wagered that ho would ask
the Bamo question of 50 different por
sons and receive the same answer
from each. The wit went to first ono
and thon another, until ho had reach
ed the number of 50. And this Is
how he won the bet: He whispered
hnlf audibly to each: "I say, have
you heard that Meyer haB failed?"
"What Meyer?" queried the whole 50,
one after another, and it was decided
that the bet bad been fairly won.
In
6LESPINQ OUTDOORS1,'
Appeals to the Imagination,' but Hat
Its Drawbacks.
Sleeping outdoors Is a practice
about which there Is no such thing as
a lukewarm opinion. Either a per
son thinks there Is nothing like it or
he couldn't be hired to do It. The au
thor of "Lorna Doono" states that a
horse sleeps best In a cloned barn,
and a good many peoplo are like that.
What with tho croakjng of frogs, and
the chirping of wakeful birds and the
rustling of the trees, and other sounds
that nothing but a belief In ghosts
can explain, night out In the open is
not, in the opinion of such people, all
It's crncked up to bo.
All tho same, there's something at
tractive in the notion of being oxidized
while ono sleeps, and nowadays there
are so many storlos going about of
people who were cured of whatever
ailed them by sleeping out of doors
that It seems worth trying. Ono middle-aged
woman who has Just made a
great hit with a novel her first at
tributes her success to inspiration
gained by sleeping out of doors. Sho
has a cot on nn open porch at her
home, up the Hudson, and there she
sleeps in all weathers. The porch has
a roof, and Bcreens to bo drawn when
It rains, but save in hard storms she
never draws them.
"When I slept Indoors," she says,
"I used so often to get ftp in the
morning feeling heavy and logy per
fectly Idealess. It never entered my
head to write a book in those days.
I always had my bedroom windows
open, but anybody who has slopt out
of doors will tell you that no mntter
how wide your windows aro opened it
Isn't the same thing at all.
"I hadn't been using my porch bed
a month before my brain began to
wake up, and I'm firmly convinced
that the freiih night air wrote my
book. As for physical health, from
a bundle of bones I've become a crea
ture bursting with riotous health."
But even a porch bedroom has Its
limitations. Somo, people can't feel
that they are sleeping out of doors
unless they have the sky above them.
There Is something Inexpressibly
beautiful and calming about It.
To secure this, along with adequate
protection from tho weather, a speci
ally constructed outdoor room Is nec
essary. In a certain yard near a cer
tain American city, under some big
sycamores, is an. outdoor sleeping
room which seems almost ideal. Tho
floor is raised two feet above the
ground, to guard against dampness,
and there is a wainscoting three feet
high. But the great feature Is the
roof, which, except for a cap of wood
on either side of the ridge pole, is
of glass ordinary greenhouse sashes,
so fitted that they Blldo up and down
the rafters, being operated by sash
cords and pulleys. When tho night
Is fair they are drawn up under the
wood cap, and the sleepers' faces are
open to the sky. Even when It storms
the view is not interfered with, and
the peoplo who occupy that sleeping
house say It is perfectly delightful to
lie and watch the rain beating upon
the glass and the trees tossing their
arms above. The projecting eaves
keep any ordinary rain from beating
in at the sides, but to guard against
emergencies there are heavy curtains
of duck which may be drawn and
fastened down at the bottom if the
storm is very bad.
Get Weighed, First Thing.
"They keep the scales busy, I can
tell you," said the platform mnn on
nn elevated station that receives pas-
Hungers from a ferry line. "They all
want to know how much they've gain
ed while they've been away in the
country.
"The people that own tho scales
know their business, take it from me.
You observe that on this platform,
for Instance, they put the scnlo whero
it can't be overlooked and they stand
it, do you note, facing the Incoming
crowd, whero the peoplo can't full to
see Its face with Its suggestive point
er. "And now you let a train boat come
In and the crowd carrying suitcases
and bags troops up the stairs and
along the platform. They see that
Bcalo the first thing and down go the
bngs, the people group around the
scale and in go the pennies into tho
slot and around spins the pointer and
oft steps the smiling man. He's gain
ed seven pounds or fifteen maybe, and
unless he's a fat man he's well
plensod.
"Why sometimes they stand around
that scale coining back from the coun
try waiting theft- turns to drop their
pennies In the slot and step up; they
all want to get weighed the first thing
when they come back, excepting the
fat ones. I'm thinking up a scale now
that will give the true weight of the
lean folks and make the fat people
eeem lighter than they are. I think
there might be money in that if I
could got it installed on platforms
like this."
To Make German Easy.
A radical change in the study of
German in the Chicago public schools
which involves the elimination of
Gothic type and German script wns
proposed by Mrs. Ella Flagg Young,
the school superintendent
Two reasons are given by MrB.
Young for her desire to use Roman
type and English script in place of
the German characters. She says that
I Gothic type and German script are
harder on the eyeB than the type and
Kripi ueu , "h n 6nr
pie. and Uiat pupils who attempt to
loom lwth ihn KnirllHh and German
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leurn both the English and German
1 ecrlpt usually are poor penmen in
both languages. Boston Common.
I cannot see why women are so de
sirous of Imitating men. I could m'
derstand the wlBh to.be a boa con:
strlctor, a Hon, or an elephant, but a
mnn! that surpasses my comprehen
sion. T. Gautler.
Jane Addams mentions, In passing,
the fact that In the city of Chicago
ono Sunday evening last winter four
hundred and sixty-six theatres were
open.
The French Senator who has Just
denounced the American Invasion
of Europe" did not refer to our heir-OBiei,
GOLDEN CROP 01 "'
ABANDONED FARM
Scientifically Trained Agricultur
ist Growing Melons on Impo
verished Soil in Md.
OLD MCCULLOCH FARM REDEEMED
Charles W. Heltmuller of Hyattsvllle,
Grows Canteloupes in Rivalry with
Famous Rock Ford, Col., Product
Wealth for Disheartened Farmers.
Charles W. Iloltmulicr, a farmer
living near Hyattsvllle, Md., about
five miles from Washington, seems to
have solved the problem offered by
tho many abandoned farms In tho
southwestern part of Maryland. Ho
is growing canteloupes where tbey
have never grown before with a suc
cess that, by those who have tried
other agricultural ventures in that
section, is considered liUie short of
phenomenal.
Because of the Impoverished con
dition of the soil tho land in Prince
George County, where Heltmuller la
located, has been for the past 40 years
scarcely ablo to support the most
economical of farmers. Heltmuller,
who is a practical farmer with a sci
entific agricultural training, is Betting
a pace that promises a canteloupe
raising section outrivalling Ilocky
Ford, Col.
On a 250acre farm, formerly a part
of the country estate of Hugh McCul
loch, Secretary of tho Treasury in the
Lincoln, Johnson nnd Arthur ndmlnls
tratlons, and which have been a dead
weight on the heirs of the McCulloch.
estate until ho took It, Heltmuller
this year raised enough canteloupes
to support an extensive agricultural
establishment. Including a graduate
scientific farmer, who draws a salary
of $1,200 a year.
When ho bought tho property two
years ago Heltmuller knew that other
farmerB had failed to draw a liveli
hood out of that soli. Scores of aban
doned farms In that locality served as
constant reminders of what others
had been unable to do.
The first year ho planted ten acres
in canteloupes. The seed he used was
the result of several years' experi
menting in the laboratory of nn agri
cultural college. The experiment was
a great success. Tho melons throve
as mightily, without the irrigation
that is supposed to be essential to
their growth and Bweetness, as the
same fruit does In Ilocky Ford, when
watered by Irrigating ditches. He
shipped to New York, Philadelphia
and Washington', bearing the shipment
of Western fruit to these markets by
several days.
Lnst spring he planted thirty acres
of the Bame fruit. A large force of
men was engaged to pick nnd pack
this crop. -He shipped, ho says, 10,000
crates.
If other agriculturists in that vicin
ity follow Ileitmuller's example In tho
choice and treatment of crops, and at
tain anything resembling his degree of
success, It will mean millions of dol
lars in the pockets of owners of farm
ing land In that section of Prince
George County. It will turn the vast
idle estates Into small, paying farms.
Now that section resembles more the
! g(X.llong 0( the South through which.
the war pnssed than a Bectlon of a
prosperous State. Formerly the en
tire country around there was called
I Cherrydale, because of the large
cherry orchards that crowded tho
hills and surrounded the homesteads.
Now the cherry trees have wasted
away, the fences are down and the
hills and valleys hardly offer oppor
tunities for an Interesting fox chase.
The historic Baltimore ani Wash
ington turnpike, famous in Revolutlon-
i.nry and early nineteenth century
times, runs along one side of the Helt
muller larm. A few yards back from
the road may be seen the wreck of
an old half way tavern whore Wash
ington, Jefferson, Randolph and oth
er Virginia gentlemen stopped for the
night, en route to or from Baltimore.
Adjoining on the west Bide Is the land
formerly Included In a magnificent
"10,000 acre estate of Count Dominue,
a French exile, who lost his head by
' returning to PariB while the Revolu
tion was on.
Putting Ants to Work.
In Burmah and the Far East they
have a curious fashion of setting ants
to work. Sandalwood, as we know,
is worth its weight in silver, but it is
only tho hard heart of tho wood that
is fragrant and valuable. Tills preci
ous portion Ib overlaid by a soft and
worthless layer, which forms two
thirds of the trunk of the tree. When
a tree is felled and cut Into suitable
lengths, the loggers Just let it lie.
Then tho ants, attracted by the sweet
ness of the wood, attack the chunks.
Within a few weeks the little Insects
have finished their work, and the valu
able heart of tho ,wood Is freed of its
worthless sappy covering and bocomes
a valuable article of commerce.
Carving the Grand Canon.
The popular idea that earthquakes
and volcanic explosions played a part
in forming the Grand Canon of the
Colorado River is thought by the best
authorities to be without foundation.
I We are now told that the canon
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the river, nnd that tne most enective
tool employed was the quartz Band
brought down from the sources of tho
river In the mountains. This sand Is
harder than any of tho constituents of
tho rock strata in which tho canon
hns been carved. Hurled by the swift
water against tho sides and the bed
of the stream, it cuts the rock as eas
ily as a (lie cuts soft Iron.
Big Haul of Catfish.
On one "trot" lino nt a single haul
C. D. Rider caught 200 pounds of cat
fish in the Arkansas River near
Muskogee. Thero were five fish, one
weighing sixty-five pounds, another
fifty-one pounds and the others rang
ing from thirty to thirty-five pounds
each,, Kansas City Tlmei. ; ,
IN BUYING
An Automobile
You want the best your money will get.
No machine on the road to-day possesses
so many attractions to the careful buyer as
THE E. M. F.
For size, speed, appearance, durability,
ease of control, hill-climbing and sand
ploughing, this
AT $1000,
is the greatest bargain on the market.
The Flanders at $700,
is a smaller machine but none the less de
sirable. Don't tie yourself up until you
have carefully examined these machines.
THE EVERETT CARRIAGE AND AUTO COMPANY,
Agents for Fulton County.
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ties for the proper handling of Ins business All of these aro
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the new accounts opened daily, the fact is widely recognized ami
appreciated. If you are not already one of our customers you
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Government. Pays 3 l'er Cent. Compound Interest.
TWO CARLOADS.
Two Carloads of Buggies at one time, seems prelty
strong! for a Fulton county dealer, but that is just whut
W. R EVANS, Hustontown, Pa.,
has just received. In this lot are 5 dilTerent grades and
styles, of Buggies and Runabouts includiug the Milllm
burg. He has on hand a largo stock of
Hand Made Buggy Harness:
The Prices? Don't mention It. If the prices were not be
low the lowest, be would
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