THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA. SAVING THE IM By AUGUSTUS GOODRICH 8HER WIN. "Agreed!" Twelve mon clamped down twelve Ugly looking louded revolver! on a great flat rock at the word. Gib Dor kell, bully and former leader of tbe group, spoke the word. "Hud Gib," as he waa familiarly known, looked wickeder than ever as ho aspirated gutturally, hla rye shlolding a hidden Ore or hatred, lila teeth gritting, hla sinewy throat muaclus convulsing. "Don't get riled, Gib," spoke bold' Dan Perkins. "You've had the run of the camp while we were working. Now that we dlftbund fairness and equity la tbe rule. The majority says equal di vision on the crumbs of splints. As to the Hajuh, that goes by lot." '"That nigger In on the dual, too, I suppose!" growled Gib. "Didn't 'the nigger' find It?" chal lenged Dan, coolly. Had Gib was silent, but he darted a tiarmlng glunce of enmity at the lithe, uhiiuklng native who waa the cook of (ho camp. "See here," proceeded Pan, "you tossed ua into cutting away from a find where later comers found ten for tunes. Then you got your dander up and nigh well killed old Dinah, the mother of Kamon here, 'the nigger,' aa you coll him. Clydo Hurridge defend ed her and well, you found your Dlaco." Had Gib winced. A flashing. quiver crossed the face of the native, but In stantly repressed. It showed, how ever, a lurking blaze In" that dusky framo. "Vou drove the woman Into the wil derness to die and sent Uurrldge on the same route. It didn't please us, but you was swoan boss. You ain't now. The pact la broken when we ntop work. That waa the bargain. So )the majority rules." ' "And the majority," piped In nig Ben Boulder, the giant of the camp. The Glittering Eyes of Bad Gib Fol lowed Him. "votea for an even division on the chicken feed and draw lota on the Rajah." ,As Hon spoke he threw across the nek a chamois bag and, lifting one end, tipped out Into the suiillght a thousand prismatic sparkles of radi ance Then he selected a dull, yel lowed lump from the mass. "Two hundred carats. If anything!" lie gloated, gloatingly twisting the big diamond between forefinger and thumb so all could catch the prismatic glow shining past the Interstices In Its overcoat of native soil. "Mark some chips one to twelvo, some of you. Ieuvo one blank, throw them in the b,g, and here's to the lucky man!" "Lino up, men!" ordered Dan, Jangling tho gambling Ivories. Had Gib drew 13 and cursed viciously. Five others followed. It came tho turn of I'amon. VVItb his usual deference end timidity ho npprouchrd the hag, put In Ills hnnd and drew out blank! There was a dead silence except for a low murderous hiss from the Hps of Mad Gib. Then the bluff, hearty Dan grasped one hand of tho aston ished but delighted Iinmon, In honest congratulation and placed the won derful gem In the palm of the other. It was only for a very few hours that Ramon enjoyed his opulent posses elon. The glittering eyes of Pod Gib followed him every move he made. He nhmldcred when he met that metallic lentil probing, menacing. Still more distraught the poor native became vhen It waa announced that they would trek In a body to tho nearest river settlement, then they would break up, each man going hla own way. ltumon realized that It waa not with i In tho range of 'possibility that he would reach Cape Wold, the first met ropolitan safety point In tho district, fuire was ha that !t had become the una motive of llfo with the sanguinary scoundrel, Had Gib, to trail him step by -step, to catch the critical moment mid despoil him of fata Jawful posses sion, the Hojah. There were others In the group who coveted tho precious gem, but border donor was sacred with them. While they wore heedless as to the security of Damon, they would not deliberately net a plot to rob him.. He must, bow ever, protect himself. They lgnord and forgot him and his princely pos session. Ha mon sought I Jig Hen at dusk. He led him aside, Had Gib watching his every movement, waa glowering at him darkly from a near distance. "You are my friend," spoke the na tive to Den. "Listen It Is fate. The man who drove my mother to starva tion, death, and my only friend, Dur ridge, .after ber. will never allow me to get to Cape Wold with my treas ure." "Give him the slip, Ilamon," advised Ben bluffly. "I cannot hope It," asserted Kamon, dolefully. "My friend, see I must carry it about with me. I dare not hide it, for he U watching me." Ramon drew out a chamois bag and shook it. As he restored it to bis bosom the eyes of the observing Gib shone like two living coals of fire. "If you would do something for me." suggested Kamon plaintively. "See, friend," and be held up a knobbed club. It waa of some hard forest wood, hacked by usage and blackened by time. All of the camp knew of this souvenir of the father of Ramon, who bad been a native chief. It was a war club, sacredly treasured by the son. "You will reach Cape Wold In safe ty," Kamon resumed. "If perchance Hurridge haa reached there, or my mother, or you find only those of my kin, give them this family memento." "Sure, I will," acquiesced Hen, will ingly, bat casually. "Don't give up, Kamon. Light out You know all the trails. You ought to be able to slip Had Gib. That night Kamon stole away from the camp. Wlthlu an hour Had Gib waa also missing. Hlg Hen shook his head gravely. A month later to a day Hen arrived at Capo Wold. A surprise greeted him, for he found Hurridge ttioro, and In the same little hotel, being nursed under his direction, tho mother of Ka mon. Hurridge told a vivid story of how he had come across the outcast wom an In the wilderness, nearly starved and In delirium. He took the war club. The next morning be gave it to 'the sick woman. A week later, worn to a skeleton, with wild eyes and mixed emotions ol excitement and delight, Kamon ar rived on the scene. When h lenrned of all that Hur ridge had done for his mother he fair ly groveled at hla feet In a paroxysm of extravagant gratitude. "Tho war club It Is safe?" he In quired in a quiver of suspense and ex pectancy. "Your mother haa It," explained Hurridge. And then, when Kamon returned with the ancient relic to Hurridge, It was to disclose a hidden cavity In the knob end of the club, within which, snug and secure, reposed the Rajah. They sold the splendid gem for a small fortune. ' The share forced upon Hurridge took him -back post haste tc a certain loving little lady in a distant land, waiting to become his bride. (Copyright, 1314, by W. a. Chapman.) SEES AN AVERAGE CITIZEN Indignant Correspondent Describes the Only One He Knows Well Not Attractive Type. You don't believe there is any such thing as an average man? I know one, "Osra SlmonB" writes to the ed itor of the New York Press. He Is five feet eight Inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. He wears a blue suit which he has made to order, say ing that the stores can't fit him. He wears a scarfpln, a tie holder, cuffs links with diamond chips in them and a diamond ring on the third fin ger of his left hand. He gets $125 a month and always has currency In his pocket. In this rewpoct he differs from his wife, to wnom he glvea $10 a week "to run the house on." He sends her and the children to a beach for one week each year and tells his friends that they are having the time of their lives. Ho smokes cigars, and his tobac conist keeps a special box for him. He doesn't come home to dinner every night for the reason that the $10 a week Is not enough to buy the kind of food he likes. He goes to a restaurant and orders a steak with French fried potatoes and a large coffee. , Ho always seems to have a new straw hat, wherein he again differs from hla wife. He knows that Hirdlo Cree is back with the Yanks, but he doesn't know what his children read or whether they read at all. He bowls once a week, and belongs to a district club. Vikings Made Beeswax. About eight years ago at Oseberg, uenr Tonsberg, Norway, there wus un earthed a ship of the early Viking period. It was completely burled in the earth, and when disinterred was found to belong to the grave of a Vi king queen, who died about A. D. S00. Horses, carriages, and sledges were also discovered in the grave, together with all kinds of household furniture and utensils and personal ornaments, the wliolo forming a picture of the state of northern civilization centu ries ngo. Among the other artless found wero two dark rectangular masses, which proved to be wax that had apparently been used for the wax ing of sewing thread. This wax has recently been chemically examined by Dr. J. Sebellen, who found tf at Kb specific gravity and its melting-point ugreed with that of tbe beeswax of tbe preseut day, Not So Thrilling. A little four-year-old, a most attrac tive little fairy, suddenly lost Interest In Sunday school. Sho had enjoyed so much learning nbout Moses that her mother could not understand the change of attitude. "Why don't you' want to go, daugh ter?" she BBked. "Oh," was tho astonishing reply, "I don't 'Ike to go to Sunday school nince Moses died." Woman'B Home Com panion. The Actor's Mistake. Toole, the English actor, used to get off a good thing occasionally. At din ner at a country hotel he was sitting next to a gentleman who had helped himself to an extravagantly large piece of bread. Toole took It up and began to cut a slice from It "Sir," said tho Indignant gentleman, "that Is my bread." "I beg a thousand pardons, sir," replied the actor, "I mistook it for the loaf." HAELEN, BELGIUM, DESTROYED BY GERMAN SHELLS r f" 'S 'TW.W,4 " i1' 1- "it"" ITtVV"t'wr I I S ft tMS. m ,HG22!sy$-:"9 life il.j.-.M- iV-s. '4- J If. kite: Some of the ruined houses of Ilaelen, blch the kalaer's artillery battered to pieces. KAISER'S Regiment of the German lancers BELGIAN Some of Belgium's brave soldiers way. GERMANS LEAVE Ik A jMi 4if.'W Last of the Germans marching out they sacked and burned. BELGIANS ENTERING THE BATTLE OF HAELEN rjf. SAYS VAGRACY IS A DISEASE Results of Study of 2,000 of Outcasts In New York Are Compiled by Gotham Official. New York. Results obtained In a study of 2,000 vagrants by the acting superintendent of the Now York mu nicipal lodging house go to disprove the popular fancy that vagrants In a majority of casea Is attributable to un (ortunato economic conditions. It la a common bollof thut the greater num 3 i , m,.7 LANCERS ENTERING that occupied Mouland on the way to INFANTRY READY FOR Just before going into action at Diest MOULAND IN RUINS f i v wrii- s of Mouland, one of the Belgian towns ber of any big city's vagranta are old men thrown out of employment on ac count of tuelr advancing yenra. Con trary to thla belief, It waa found that by fur the great majority of the va granta observed were men in the prime of life. It was further found that less than two per cent were foreigners of few er than three yeara residence in this country. And, again contrary to pop ular superstition, the vagrants were found to be mostly city men, born and bred in the metropolis. T-o average I i4. f X. A W I- 1 ! I W v v' mmm MOULAND Invest Liege. GERMANS The battle was raging less than a mile GENERAL RENNENKAMPF . Major General Rennenkampf, com monder of tho Russian army in east ern Prussia which seems to be ad vancing steadily toward Berlin. Well, BBked another, did you ever see a corn on the foot of a hill?--Mllwaukee Sentinel. time of residence In New York proved to bo 32 years and two months, while the average age of the vagrants was thirty-six years. About thirty-five per cent of them were unemployable. With 12 per cent there were evidences of defective men tality. About ten per cent proved to be habitual loafers and confirmed beg gars who had lost tho habit of work. Some firty per cent of the men were excessive drinkers. About slxty-Uve per cent of the applicants were the vlo UniB of seasonal trades. CONTRACTS GIVEN OUT FOR ROADS Balance in State Treasury Shows Decrease. DRAFT ACCIDENT PLAN State Authorities Draft Accident Re ports Plan Telephone Case Post ponedOr. Koenlg Gets Buretu Place. llarrisburg. Contracts for con struction of eight highways on the State aid plan were awarded by High way Commissioner Illgelow as follows: Oreen County, Franklin Township, Frank Oallardl, Connellsvllle. Washington County, Flnleyvllle Bor ough and Union Township, Bell Jlockel Company, Altoona, and New Kagle Borough, Tarson Construction Com pany, Brownsville. Luzerne County, Duryeaboro, O'Brien Brothers, Avoca. Dauphin County, Berry Township, M. Bennett & Sons, Indiana. Clearfield County, Bigler Township, E. 11. Brua, Holliduysburg. Totter County, Galeton Borough, Himpson, Mitchell & Crosby Company, runxsutawney. Columbia County, West Berwick, Mc Nerney Construction Company, Can ton. The contract for the 1913 automobile tags was given to the Brilliant Manu facturing Company, Philadelphia. The award was niado to the Brilliant Com pany after a letter had been received that the Quayln Company, of Albany, the lowest bidder, had failed to execute Its contract with New Jersey to the satisfaction of officials of thut State. May Cancel. Suspended Tariffs. The I'ublic Service Commission granted permission to railroads pub lishing Pennsylvania intrastate rates and identified with the Central Freight Association to cancel all tariffs now undt-r voluntary suspension, but took under consideration a request to be al lowed to republish five per cent, rates orders as modified by the Interstate Commerce Commission on less than the statutory notice. The matter In volves that part of western Pennsyl vania nndr the recent ruling of the Interstate Commission In awarding the Increase. Tho Pennsylvania, Reading, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania lines, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, Lake Shore, I.Hekawanna & Delaware and Hudson have filed revised tariffs, advancing the mileage rate from two to two and a quarter cents per mile, effective Oc tober 1. State Balance Decreases. The statement of the operations of the Stnta Treasury dining August shows the total balance at the end of the month was $6,944,143.62, against $7,243,110.54 at the end of, July. The balance Is divided as follows: General fund, $3,172,841.93; sinking fund, $S04, 625.01; school fund, $22,094.68; motor license fund. $944,581. The August receipts were: General fund, $1,568,254.74; sinking fund, $39.23: school fund, $26.05; motor li cense fund, $27,590, with $15,510 trans ferred for payment of interest on pub lic debts, and $19,869 transferred to tho school fund as proceeds of escheated estates and sale of prop erty. The expenditures were: Ceneral fund, $1,779,366.94; sinking fund, $15, BIO, and motor license fund, $100,000. Accident Reports Plan. ' Representatives of the United States, Illinois, New York and other State Governments, officials of the State Department of Labor and in dustry officers of tho National Council of IndUKfrlal Safety and Casualty Com panies, discussed at the Capitol forms for standard Occident reports. The Pennsylvania authorities have drafted a plan which Is being studied for general official reports. Dr. Koenlg Gets Bureau Place. Governor Tener hns made these re appointments: Dr. Adolph Koenlg, Pittsburgh, to he member of the State Bureau of Medical Education (and Li censure and Dr. W. D. Delong, Rend ing, and Dr. J. D. Whltenian, Mercer, to be members of the State Dental Examination Board. Telephone Case Postponed. The Public Service Commission be gm Its first September session Tues day, but the healing of the Johnstown Wlndber Telephone Company's Involv ing the question of Interchange of mes sagvs, the first of the kind to be raised, was postponed. Deputy Constable Shot. Harry McAfee, a conslablc'a deputy, was shot In the leg and Constable R. Stewart doused with water by Mrs. Rose Frank, at West Falrview. The woman is nccused of refusing to pay rent. She hit tho constable with a bucket of water and ran In and locked the door. State Officials Probe $25,000 Fire. State Fire Marshals investigated tho causes of the fire which destroyed the apartment house, bakery and ware house of W. II. Wolfe, at Pembroke. llarrisburg will buy more land for playgrounds. ; INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALL Less than 7 per cent, of Ontario's population over five is unable to read and write. There are 17,000 agricultural banks In Russia. Of 18,000 clgarmakers in Italy, 16 09 are women. (Conducted by the' National Woman-, Christian Temperance Union.) yearToTexpTrIencT Cambrldgo, Mass., has been a ten perance city for 26 consocutlvo yeari In October, 1913, its muyor gave out the following facta: 188C. i913i Population 59,000 io.oqi Valuation ....$59,445,670 $117,156 Savlnga banks' deposits $6,560,93 ( $JC,3 13.73J Depositors .... 21.215 G3M This, the mayor believes, Is more than tho natural or ordinary incream and undoubtedly due to the no llccnti policy. The number of children aticnfliiij I '- n - - J i, i. ivJ'i I, 0 whom DIG were In the hlnh schooL In 1913 there were 16,000 publ school children, of whom more tbS 2,000 were In the high bcIiooIh. This," points out Mayor Bary, "sliowi marked Increase in the number o( children who by renson of bette:- con ditions are privileged to continue their education in the higher grailes." Concerning the effects of temper ance upon the business inti-rcsta of the city, ho says: "During tlie yeara there have located in tills city over twenty new concerns representioi various industries. It appear (bit these new concerns employ nbni' ; thousand persons, with annual pa; rolls of over $1,000,000, .mil Imve ei- pended for suitable buililiu;s to carrr on their industries In this city over $400,000. "We have it from some of the busi ness men who have recently come U Cambrldgo that one of tlin iirinrli things that attracted them to locata here with a large number of employe! was tho fact that Cambridge l U established as a no-llcense city." DOCTORS DISAGREE. Writing on "What Science Sift About Alcohol" in a recent number d Munsey's Magazine, Mr. Burton J.Hen- (I rick alludes to the differing methods employed by physicians and laboratory workers. "The latter," he says "can nothing fi theories und inherited knowledge; they submit everythhj to experimentation to the test tub and microscope. Tho remarkable fact Is," ho continues, "that, thousli til doctors may disagree about alcohol ns about many other things, the acto tists apparently never do. l'mctM!; all who have really experimented hart rendered the verdict strongly agalmt It. Alcohol In their view Is not a atln- ulant, It is not an 'appetizer,' or u aid to digestion, it i not a food Inav real meaning of the word, It Is notu inspiration and help to mental wort and it does not increase muscular at tivity. In other words, cold blooded modern science brands as untrue prac tically all the claims for alcohol whi.l poets, philosophers, conviviallsts at pvpn rihvMicians have made since & beginning of civiliwitlon." A LIVE TOPIC. The subject most universal' i cUBsed, aside from the weather, lstt'l of temncrauco. In the licwspap! world It 1b no longer the nuatry 1 lv nn, I the small citv daily, but ta errat nuttrnmillLnn miners, as well hi the smoking compartments of Pullnl cars, nt week-end parties, eu thepuoi In the family circle, niiit.ng buine I men at their desks, everyuhcre, n preatlon of tho liquor ttvilic Is the1' I est question up for gem r il difcus.l before the American public- "J magazines, too, aro downing man mace to the discussion. Story are teaching the lesson of tl rjl-J of abstinence nnd the werlhli'ssn1 1 tho man who drinks. It Is no W'l the lonesome lleht of the pri'acW'l and the extremists; con.-i rvative iiidm Kenan nnrf poiiHcerati d patnn'r- havo also taken up the ctnlfifl afj mo Dusmess or legau.ia-; - destruction. Alabama Citizen. LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND NATION. Tho total amount of revenue ? nali-url fmii, llw. limine tHllI'lC, iW" Inir rinMnH nn Ininorls. is h'f "1 s:!.M) nfio nnn uniiimiiv. Tho cost of the trnfllf " "" ""i $3,000,000,000, or over $14 f"r f' revenue dollar received. Tho raw material of the ihl linv llu llnluhml urnilnct Is t lie df-'l ard. . . ... . ...wvs rcQPLS. LIU UIN It-It INMVI V"'-' n J . ...i i. i.-i . t.... "o Secretary 11 1 ..... ...... !,,!,, efM. M leia ary euici wum . John Barleycorn walked tho Pla 1 (l. A ..... -!.,,. I...Hli. lllll. I una nun nf Interest. SilV thC VK . J l.nl,.ioa nunonlllllv OS tllO VCS W J f filed Mexicnn waters. On hoard I . . ,i.i ii, o first l lorK, July i, was mm , smoker. Soft drinks wero set I ...-r.TFMENTS- PKOM m a? " L7 aCl Tne Associatea iu" Mj . . . l ronventw j America ai u ami""- , ,i. iisi'SU" Toronto dlscusscu ' r i' newspapers acceptiut, Using. While some m . - . , were of the opinion t"'lt J tree ironi misHuut".- sentiment was againsi Tho heorttesi api-"' tl.tm when Mr. E. O. Cliuo'" Jti apolis Journal in 8"u"' opeecl condemnea uuv m6-" -mcNTS. MISLEADING STAi t In reirnrd to ore""- in regara 10 --", fer( monU claiming U u. M the. ..lo tn drink beer, ' it... statements harmful aul . jjei ry Jackson, M. V '"' School. FALSE BELItr. ir Nothing is more Me . $ lief that the dlslodgiw'111 cohollo drinks oy o( j the destructive ff', Ism.-Prof. O. M- Von IM Basle, Swltzerjand. Sia JfaOl pai Vnat Ifae Hat katc I i rn Mo: : ' It w. Ren H Si: i flag 'ling four fed to ito I fi itai klid c F'y i l will and lb uiind erto Krouj), li'dly; H it I that t kerb. Whai Jlforoln, 1 PUbli aa led m, and I eak, Will , end bi iWtleni, In 0 fiv. . I ' tho ' mom l1" fa. n I le food Fjn, tI I b(lr. 6Hli 0 t'.'atlg, Dlv J hard have era, !Sfa, fm e. P1 10 da, Wo.1 A "i i. " ti
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