THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. i OMELETTE By GEORGE COBB, JR. "Herel What do you mean ly bring ing me this BtuS when I asked tor an omelette Tartarin?", I Inquired of the waiter who served mo In the Cafe Na poleon. For whenever I vUlted Tarla I went to the Napoleon for one of Monsieur Duhamcl's famous omelottui. The waiter shrugged his shoulders. "Ilelas, Monsieur, we cannot provide the original omelette Tartarin any more," he said. "Only Monsieur Al pbonse, the chef, knew how to make heem, and he Is gone to America. He orks now In the Hotel St. Charles. This Interested me, for the lintel St. Charles is round the corner of the downtown New York block In which I live. And I had never known tliut the omelette Tartarin was to be bad there! ' The waiter glanced toward the dark eyed Mademoiselle Dubois, at the cash counter. ' "You see, Monsieur," he explained, "there was a quarrel between Mon sieur Napoleon, the proprietor, and Monsieur Alphonse, the chef, over Mademoiselle Dubois, of the cash counter. Each wanted to marry her. Eh beln! Monsieur Alphonse was re jected, and he went to America. And Monsieur Napoleon" "Married her?" I asked. "Mais oul, monsieur. Mademoiselle Dubois Is now Madame Napoleon. Only this Is a secret, understand, bo cause it would spoil business If It were Known. But belas; One can only obtain the omelette Tartarin in New York now at the Hotel St. Charles." 1 spoke to stout little Monsieur Na poleon about the matter. I did not re veal to bim my knowlege of the Boeret, however, though I saw the pretty cashier look suspiciously at me. "Monsieur," said the proprietor, "rerlly, since Monsieur Alphonse loft me my custom has fallen off sadly. "Sacrel Monsieur, Do You Asperse My Omelette?" He was the Inventor of the famous omelette Tartarin. Kings have eaten at this little restaurant, because the omelette Tartarin Is not to be obtainod :i royal courts. Now, alas, the ome lette Tartarin Is dead." Suddenly he caught me by the lapels of my coat, and stood holding me thus, his head a little on one side, and a beseeching expression on his face. "Monsieur," he said, "will you not be an ambassador of peace for me? Monsieur, you are of New York. You know the Hotel St. Charles, where that scoundrel Alphonse now cooks for a nation of unartlsts, who can never rise to the appreciation of the omelette Tartarin. When you return. will you not go to the accursed one nd beg lilm to return? "And tell him we shall all be good friends again," continued Madame Na poleon, or, rather, Mademoiselle Du bols, as, she must still continue to be known. Well, I accepted the commission. I felt sorry for Monster Napoleon and th disappointed kings, an! I thought that to forego my own chances of fasting the omelette Tartarin at the fit. Charles was an act of dlHtiucl telf-abncgatlon. The first, evening I had to spare after my arrival in New York I went to the St. Charles and ordered on omelette Tartarin. It was no more the omelette Tar tarin of the Cafe Napoleon than the present omelette of tho Cafe Napoleon was like the wonderful creations of yesteryear. I could not understand it "Is not Monsieur Alphonse your chef?" I Inquired of the headwaltur. "Yes, sir," he answered. "Fine chef, loo, he's supposed to be. He's got a gold medal from the lato king of Del pium for his omelette Tartarin. Didn't you find It distinguished, sir?" "No!" I shouted. "I've eaten bad omelettes In most countries of the world, but for sheer unsavorlness I've never tasted one as bad as the one I've had here tonight. llrlug your chef to me at once." The waiter looked as If he was go ing to burst Into tears, but apparently he thought better of It, and, being Im pressed by my manner, he summoned the chef, who presently made his ap pearance. He was a stout, black bearded brigand, with a furtive look In Ms eye that I hardly liked. "What's this about my omelette?" b'e began truculently. "MoriBieur Alphonse," I said, "you are a fake and a fraud. Either you are not tho original Monsieur Alphonpe, or else you have lost your mind, or else your skill has deserted you, or else tho Great American Hen lias been smitten with the craze for turning out on Inferior product. Come, out with your confession. What's the matter?" "Sucre, monsieur, do you asperse my oraolette?" he began. "Your omelette Is as degenerate as yourself," I answered. "It may de ceive tho gay millionaires of the Great White Way, but It doesn't go down I mean this literally with one who has enjoyed the correct article at the Cafd Napoleon. Now, listen, Alphonse! Monsieur Napoleon wants you to re turn. He It pining for you." "Ah, mon Dleu, the ecoundrol stole my sweetheart," said the chef. "Since then I have vowed never, never to cook the correct omelette Tartarin" "Alphonse," I answered, "you are a married man!" "Monsieur!" be gasped. "How do you know?" "By the furtive look In your eye," I answered. "Hy the come-home-early atmosphere that you are shedding around this former home of bright bachelordom. Come, Alphonse, out with It." "Monsieur, I am married three months," he answered. "I adore, 1 worship " "Never mind that! How about Mademoiselle Dubois, now Madame Napoleon?" "Monsler, a passing infatuation, truly. I never cared for her. It was merely that " "Then you will take your wife to Paris and restore the Cafe Napoleon to Its former splendor," I told him. "Come! They will embrace you. They will double your salary. They will love you as the long-lost prodigal." "Alas, monsieur, It Is Impossible," he answered, sadly. "Alphonse," I said, "there Is some mystery about that omelette Tar tarin" "Monsieur, I will confess," he blurted out. "It was not I who made It. It was Mademoiselle Dubois." "What!" I exclaimed. "Truly, monsieur. And I had to pre tend to love her, that she should not betray me and lose me my position. Dut one day Monsieur Napoleon, who was already Jealous, ordered her from the kitchen. Then I saw that discov ery was imminent. I fled to America. I can never go back. Hut tell him the truth, monsieur; tell him that he has married the real creator of the ome lette Tartarin. In his delight he will forgive the doublo deception. And now I must go home, for I was mar ried three months ago and " "You may go, Alphonse," I answered sadly. For human nature is very frail, and the thought of the black-eyed mademoiselle's deception overcame me. However, I brought her to the confession point when I was last in Paris. The Cafe Napoleon has recovered Its pristine splendor. The. omelette Tartarin secret seems likely to be come hereditary. Alphonse cooks ex cellent planked steaks at the Hotel St Charles. (Copyright. 1SM4, by W. Q. Chapman.) FIRST FLOWERS IN PULPIT Parson Allen of Northboro, Mass., Led the Way in Braving the Old Prejudice. Few church-goers who note the floral decorations of tho pulpit on Sunday mornings know who It was that first brought flowers into a descendant of the New England church. Of course such a thing could not have beeu thought of In Puritan days any more than music, or stoves, or any other awe-reducing influence In the old meeting house. That makes it all the more curious that the custom of pulpit decorations should have originated In Northboro, Mass. The clergyman, Doctor' Allen, al though a true preacher of the old school happened also to be a lover of flowers. He had a beautiful, old fash ioned garden In front of his houBO, and one Sunday In 1834 he took a bou quet to church and placed It beside the Dlble. On seeing It one of the deacons' went forward and removed the vase, remarking: "Parson, I'll Just take them weeds out of your way." The next Sunday Doctor Allen again placed a bunch of his garden flowers beside the Dlble, and this time It re mained. Other churches took the matter up and sermons were preached about u It was blnsphemouB, and a wicked, worldly Bhow, It was declared. Dut the blossoms were there each Sunday' and are there to this day. It Is the custom of this Northboro church to use garden flowers or wild flowers or leaves when they are In Beason; but collections are taken up to buy flowers through the seasons when these cannot be had. Even the churches whoso preaohers once denounced the custom and con demned the originators of It long ago succumbed to the gentle missionary Influence of the pulpit bouquet. New York Sun. Facts About the Heart. The weight of tho average person's heart Is only 11 ounces, yet so power ful Is It that It does enough work ev ery day to lift 120 tons a foot high! Your heart Is, In fact, one of the most wonderful power machines for Its size In existence. It beats about .70 times a minute, and with every beat drives' six ounces of blood through the body. In a year the heart beats 30,000,000 times, and drives over 5,000 tons of blood through the body! Three score years and ten is a man's lifetime, and, during that time his henrt has moved enough blood to outweigh half a dozen of the biggest ships in the world! Let us look at this In another way. A pint of blood weighs roughly a pound, so that a little over three gallons of blood ore forcod through the heart every minute, or over one million five hundred thousand gallons a year. Ancient Furnace Uncovered. One of the most Interesting discov eries by Egyptologists throws new light on the relative origin of copper and bronze in the Mediterranean coun-" tries. At Ortu Commidue, alongside some ancient copper mines of great prehistoric age a foundry has been un covered with all the furnaces for smelting and molds for casting Just as it was abandoned thousands of years ago In the transition periods between the ages of stone and bronze. The methods then obtaining In the Sardin ian foundry industry as here demon strated were most Ingenious. f rr. The canal through Cape Cod, which represents an expenditure of 112,000,000, Is now ready for business. The canal will shorten the distance and provide a safer route for 26,000 sea craft which yearly travel between Iloston, New York and other Atlantic seaports. The canal Is eight miles long and Its minimum depth Is 25 feet The upper picture shows the Massachusetts bay approach to the canal, and the lower is a view of the canal at Dourne, Mass. "ANNUAL SWIMMING RACE OF NATIONAL WOMEN'S LIFESAVING LEAGUE If Miss Marta Hogstedt of Drooklyn (Indicated by X) won the long, hard swim from Rockaway to Drlghton beach, The twenty-year-old lassie defeated some ot the best women swimmers In the country. CARRIED OFF A t V;tv1 m Gen. Joaquin Maas and Maria Maas photographed on board the 9. S. Espagyne on their departure from Puerto Mexico with the million dollars la gold stolen from the banks at Saltlllo. liEviTTORO BOAT DESTROYER LAUNCHED f 1 hi A 1 "b1 riiiiiii)tiiiiiimi!iiiiiiiiiiimHiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimuiiiiw The torpedo boat destroyer O'Drlen was launched recently at the Cramps' shipyard, Camden, N. J. The sponsor of the craft (shown In the Insert) was Miss Marcla Dradbury Campbell of Cherryfleld, Mo., a great-great grandnlece of Capt. Jeremiah O'Drlen, for whom the boat is named. Captain O'Drlen was the leader in the first naval engagement of the Revolution. Virtues of Psrislennes. Mme. Marcel Tlnayre, the author, In a causerte on La Parislonne recently corrected some of the notions preva lent In England and elsewhere regard ing French women. She characterized as an absurd le gend the opinion that the Porislenne Is' flckle and frivolous. Appearances, It was admitted, are often against her, for In a drawing room she some times looks like a doll, but In reality she Is usually a strictly honest wo man and an excellent mother, only NEW ENGLAND'S LITTLE PANAMA CANAL MILLION IN LOOT iUlHls sb.o does not make a parade of her virtues. She Is rather Inclined to con ceal them. The Parislenne Is practical. She knows how to give herself the 'Illu sion of luxury en a modest revenue. Her ingenuity Is marvelous. She can make the simplest room look refined and attractive. Many Parlslennes make their own clothes and bats and can cook an excellent dinner. They know the shops where they can get the best values for their money aud the dutes of the bargain sales. She A SWIMS 15 MILES, SHACKLED Duster Ellonsky, the New Ixindon youth who has more freak swimming records to his short career than any other long distance swimmer, endeav ored recently to chalk up anothor rec ord by swimming a distance of 33 mllos on three tides with bis hands and feet shackled. He made his start from pier A, North river, New York, and covered 15 miles, when he was forced to quit because of the strong wind that was blowing against him. He promises to make another attempt when conditions are more auspicious. Attractive' the Word. Patience This paper says that hol lowed heels for women's shoes to hold money and Jewelry, the opening be ing Inside the shoe, have been pat ented. Patrice Women are always trying something to make their feet more attractive. Is a born coquette, but her apparent lightness Is only a veneer. London Mall. Disastrous Fishing Season. Not since 1898 has the Newfound land sealing fleet Buffered such a dis aster as befell It this spjlng, when seventy-eeven lives were lost The crew of the sealing vessel Newfound land was caught In a blizzard while on the Ice floes throe or four miles from the ship. The ship carried a crew of 189 men. V I (Conducted by the National Woman'! Christian Tempranc Union.) NOT ALL BEER ADVOCATES. (From addrM by Mlm Anna A. dor don, president of the National W. C. T. V., before the senate Judiciary subcom mittee, May 1.) One of the speakers at the hearing on April 25 stated that all Oerroam are drinkers. We are sorry our Oer man friends dJ not know that many hundreds ot German women In this country are members of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, and In Germany we have a splendid following of thousands ot total abstainers, band ed togother In a national society of ab staining women of Germany affiliated with the .World's Woman's Christian Temperance union. The whlto-rlbbon ers of Germany Jiave for their presi dent the great-grandnlece of the gal lant Gen. von Illucher, who led the allied forces with Wellington in the famous battle of Waterloo. We aro surprised that our German frlonds did not allude to the most con spicuous figure In the fatherland, Em peror Wllholin, whose good advice to the naval cadots to lot alcohol alone has everywhere been noted and coin mondod. Evidontly the kaiser believes as we do, that the naval dofenders of a great country must be total abstain ers If they are to reach the necessary degree of efficiency In service. The gentleman also asserted that Von Moltke was a drinker. We know that he was a total abstainer. Von Moltke said, "Doer Is far more danger ous to Germany than all the armies ot France." Our Oermun frlonds claimed that boer has great food value. Germany's famous chemist and sci entist, Lloblg, many years ago de clared "There is more nourishment In the amount of flour that can be held on the blade of a knife than there is In a quart ot the best Havarlan boer." All Germans do not agree with the speaker that beer should not be classed with alcoholic liquors. "It is Just this precious boer," writes Dr. Max Gruber, president of tho Royal Institute of Hygiene at Munich, "which lowers the Intellectual capacity and willpower of thousands and thou sands of people and makes them old before their time', ruins stomach, liver, heart, and brain; brings them into the poorhouse and prison, hospital aud asylum, and early puts them under the earth." BOGUS ARGUMENT. From Noah down, men have used and abused Intoxicants, but that sig nifies nothing whatever. From Noah down, men have done all sorts of fool things, and as to some of the things have gradually learned that they were follies and so eschewed them. George Washington drank rum before break fast. There is no more reason for sticking to George's rum than for cup ping and bleeding patients for every Illness. That normal human nature does not need alcohol we know from the millions of men and women who do without It and female human na-. ture has always been able to subsist without gottlng drunk. The histori cal argument is bogus. The moder ate drinker need not be considered at all; for If a man Is truly a moder ate drinker, alcohol Is of such slight; account to him that Its presence or absenco can make no difference. Saturday Evening Post, PROSPERITY A-PLENTY. "No place for the calamity howler," says former Lieutenant Governor New lands, speaking of temperance In North Carolina. "The state Is enjoy ing the greatest prosperity In every line ot business It has ever known. If Coxey's army ever crosses Its bor ders It will get no further. Manufac turers and farmers In North Carolina need men to turn out their products and to help harvest their crops. There Is no excuse for a single one being Idle when everjr opportunity Is pre sented and Inducement held out to la borers, both skilled and unskilled. Wt are going to have bumper crops In the state this yoar, and the people are will Ing to pay good wages tor holp, be cause they have the money to do so.'1 BRUBACKER'S OBJECTION. "JeBUS made wine." So he did made It out of water Just water, nothing else. And when our big brew ers make their beer out of the same Ingredient and nothing else they may put my picture and my signature on every bottle. Dut as long as they" put In cedar shavings and cannabis In dira blossoms and acetic ether and sulphuric acid they can't use my pic ture Dut my friend says 96 per cent of beer Is water. That's true, and It the 96 per cent of water could be drawn off 96 men couldn't make you drink what's left. Win. A. Brubacker. A GOOD SHOWING. The census figures for 1910 show that for the whole country the average number of prisoners committed to penal Institutions was 652 per 100,000 population. The number committed in prohibition Kansas was 196 per 100,' 000, whllo In license Nebraska the number was 485 per 100,000. In the av erage commitments per 100,000 for every state In the Union, ouly two oth er stintes are lower than Kansas North Carolina and North Dakota, both prohibition states. Was Looking for It, Too. "I say, my friend," called the motor ist to the farmer, as he drew up along side ot the field, "I'm looking for a decent road to take me Into Squlgglea villo." "I'm derned glad to hear It," replied the farmor. "Ef ye happen to find It, stranger, send me a tellygruin, will ye?" Home. This Is the true nature of home It is tho place of peace; the shelter not only from all Injury, but from all ter-' ror, doubt and division. Ituskln. Luncheon Delicacies DibJ Bwf, (Heal wthr thin, hickory nul ad with cbaice lUvof thai you will-auata Vino Sumi jiul riihi foe Red Hon, w am cold. Try thtn ternd like thin Cut rn knul ia this tKccj, Kmad with craned bulla u4 nmoraciwti. CuulJbbT'iVierotSMiu;.i.ii UnithwiM, Uy as bmd. Plicaeulopoftheani s Itw Ihia ilea of LibW'l Mid-rt Pick,,. rJl I L II J I: L.I . wiu mi wv , hwi, ino ugnuy ugeUMt, sawn New railway 232 miles long ( connect Calgary, Alberta, and Cut bank, Mont Posted. "Is he a credit to his family ?" "No; a debit." Pleasant Time Anticipated. He I am not myself tonight. Sho How delightful! We nhoull have a pleasant evening. Father's Feelings. "What did father say, Alcy, wha you asked him for my hand?" "Oh, he said 'Yes.' " "Anything more?" "Er yes; 'Good Lord!' I believe" IrrtDortant to Mcthera Examine carefully every bottle ol CASTOR1A, a safe and sure remedy fen Infants and children, and see that II Bears tho Signature t In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Caatorii Menace to the Nation. Of the 75,000 deaths from cancer In the United States In 1913, about thir ty thousand were deaths from cancer of the stomach and liver, 12,000 from cancer of the uterus and other organi of generation, 7,600 from cancer of the breast, and about 25,500 from can cer of other organs and parts. Breaking It Gently. Said the little boy, who stood at tbi door of the splnBter, "would you kind ly let me get my arrow, maduai? 'It has fallen In your garden." "Certainly, my little man. Hut Jo you know exactly where It MI? "Yos In the side of your cat." For Tired Nerves. Plenty of sleep and plenty of fresb lr will do all the necessary doctorinj for the tired nerves. Old Mother M ture Is very kind to her children n less they fly In her face. Kor disobe dience to her she metes out seven punishment, but to her obedient daughters she Is the best of nurse And sleep and oxygen will freshen ti and rejuvenate the tired body. Tuberculosis Legislation. Legislation dealing with tuberw losls has been enncted In l& b"iw and territories of the Unlt' d States, according to a comprehensive bulled on this subject published by the tlonal Association for tho btudy Prevention of Tuberculosis. Only b I the states of Arizona, Idaho, .Sevan Wyoming anod Alaska has the subject been given no legislative consimw tlon. A Chlrannan. No Doubt "Tickets," said the collector M aponed the door of the car In lllcl jat a man who looked as If ho was ;hored to his seat. The man handt Dver the pasteboard, which was dull inspected. Then, looking around. I collector said : "Is there anotuer tleman In the car?" "Xn." "Is that other portmanteau yours. I then, too?" 'Titltnt iinrima n ton 11 " "Yes; on the floor there by thl other." "Tlmon" onM Hm traveler wltO M I nlty, "are my feet." Delays Sometimes Expensive Business or social en gagementjust a fetf minutes for lunch-can t wait. for service. can be had quickly? Order Post Toasties with fresh berries or and cream. Theywi served immediately, tw are nourishing and tas mighty good, too. Sold by Grocers , -everywhere ,
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