THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBUPwC, PA.
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opartmont Our Readers In Fulton County and; Elsowhore May Journey
Around the World AIth the Cam or a on the Trail
of History Making: Happenings.
ENGLISH WOMEN AS MOUNTED NURSES
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J0TtHMOt efttnwUIn "? organlzfi1 the Women'. First Aid Nursing Yeomanry corp. to help the
'Hileri In tbe flolu. The Dhotoeranh nhnwa immo i. v. . . '
" ' uuuiuDiB i (ue corps nuuig across open country.
RUSSIANS PRAYING BEFORE FIGHTING
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Officers of the famous Preobrejensky regiment of the Russian army kneellntt In prayer for the divine blenainz
teiore going into action.
LOADING A FRENCH GUN WITH A CRANE
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So heavy are the shells fired by some of the French field pieces that they
"i to be londed Into the gun by means of a crane, which la a part of the
Clptnent of the great engine of death. The gun Is set in what is known as
ell and the gun carriage works on wheels so that the recoil carries it
"ifud on a smooth nlntfnrm.
MR. AND MRS. CHARLES S. WHITMAN
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'W,, S' VVnltman. the governor-elect of New York, and Mrs. Whitman,
a,,, , d at Ukewood N. J where they went to recuperate after their
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FSS EUGENIE AS NURSE
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toK.ii " "ospitai and per-Officers.
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, al0Bt years old, she Is
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' ou 'uo "n eiuire wipg
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''( C( -". uuicers. several
l:( ihj ,r? aro now recuperating
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Slot 18 near the great camp
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, t "Pftheloss. she entertains
llle dlBtlnguiBUed mlliUry
men who visit Aldershot, apologizing
for her plain fare nnd explaining that
her cooks have more Important work
now than preparing food for an aged
empress and her guests.
Driver Osborne of L battery, Roy
1 Horse artillery, Is likely to receive
the Victoria Cross for conspicuous
bravery. The battery was surprised
by tho Germans, every officer and
most of the men were killed or wound'
ed, and all but ono of tho guns put
out ot action. Osborno and two oth
ers stuck by tbo remaining gun and
silenced the German pieces one by one
until Anally tho enemy retreated.
COLONEL BRODGES
Britain Increases Pensions.
London. A white paper will be Is
sued announcing a substantial In
crease In the pensions for disabled
soldiers, but It will not concede 1!
weekly, which has boen asked. The I
childless widow will roceive 7s 6d 1
weekly and may qualify for an old
ago pension. Tho additional pension
for a first child Is Cs weekly and a
half crown each week for the next
three. For tho fifth child and onward
2s each Is allowed weekly. Thus a.
widow with five children would get
228 each week.
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Colonel Brodgos of the British army
has been highly praised for his
bravery in action, has been decorated
by the French government with the
ribbon ot the Legion of Honor, and Is
slated to receive the Victoria Cross
and the Distinguished Service order.
When the name of a new town
that's spelled chiefly with consonants
bobs up In the press dispatches, whnt
can & harassed telegraph editor do but
shut his eyes and hope tor tho best?
WHEN THE GERMANS REACHED THE NORTH SEA
Above, German Infantry, deflected from Ghent and Bruges, parsing through Hlonkenniirghe, Just outside OMond.
Below, the kaiser s Infantry which entered Ostend, marching along the sands of the North sea at that port, which
thoy hoped to utilize as a base of operations against England.
LADY LETHBRIDGE AS NURSEr COUNTESS GREY'S MILITARY HOSPITAL
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Among the many women of the
British nobility who are giving their
services to the Red Cross Is Lady
Lethbrldge, who established a hoHpltal
at Calais, where thousands ot wound'
ed Belgians and Germans are cared
for.
MAXIM'S GIFT TO SOLDIERS
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Sir Hiram Maxim, the famous In
ventor, chopping up pork to be used
In his gift to tbe Canadian troops,
which consists of 25,000 one-pound
tins of pork and beans, prepared by
himself and cooked by the method fol
lowed by the lumbermen of Canada.
KIue Albert of Belelum shows finali
ties of grit and endurance that would
have made him a star on the football
Qeld In his younger days.
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Countess Grey has converted her beautiful home, Howick castle, North
umberland, Into a hospital for wounded British and Belgian soldiers, and she
attends them with hor two daughters. The photograph shows SergL Joseph
Jacobs of tbe Tlrlemont regiment showing his wounds and narrating his
experiences to two of the workers at Howick castlo. He Is only eighteen
years old, but was in every engagement of tho Belgians from Liege to Mallnos.
TROOPS OF THE CZAR IN TRENCHES
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The success of tho Russians In Austria Is said to be duo largely to tho
precision with which they are moved from one position to another. A de
tachment of the infantry is here shown iu the trenches.
296,869 Prisoners In Germany.
London. A Rcutcr dispatch from
Amsterdam says that, according to
Berlin newspapers received there, the
number of war prisoners in Germany
up to October 21, aggregated 296,869,
Including 6,401 officers. Of these it Is
said that there are 2,472 French offi
cers and 146.897 men, 2,164 Russian
officers and 104,524 men, S47 Bolgian
officers and 31,378 men and 218 Brit
ish officers and 8,669 men.
War to Put Lid on Absinthe.
Paris. Permanent prohibition of
the sulo of absinthe and kindred alco
holic beverages In France may be a
result of the war. Transportation
and sale of absinthe were forbidden
when the war began, and the govern
ment now has supplemented this or
der with another forbidding the sale
ot alcoholic drinks similar to absinthe.
Honor for Undersea Chief.
Berlin. Captain Weddigen, com
mander of the German submarines !
U9 which sank the British crulBurs '
lloguo-Abouklr, and Cressy In the
North sea and has been active other
wise, has received the decoration of
the Ordre Pour le Mcrlto.
(Condnctrd by the National Woman's
Christian Temporanc Union.)
NOT WORTH WHILE OR SAFE.
In the Saturday Evening Post, Sam
uel Blythe, who after 20 years ot tip
pling decided to get on the water
wagon and in his book. "Cutting It
Out," tells us why he did lo, recently
wrote upon the question, "Is It worth
while to drink moderately, or Is It
not?" Basing the answer upon hla
own experience, he says emphatically
that It Is not.
"It Is my unalterable conviction,"
states Mr. Blythe, "that alcohol In any
form as a lipvnrni-o nnvnr ,IM nnvthlnz
for any innn tlint he would not have
been better without" Contrasting the
old game with I tin nnw." Hih ulivslcal
gain, he says, "Is so obvious that even
those who have not expcrlimcif' It ad
mit It, and those who have experi
enced It comment on It as some
nilrjirlo of lu'nlth Mint Iik hron at
tained" and he kip nn to ("escribe
In detail soma of tha remarkable
physical gains.
"Mentally." he rnnttnnp "I hava a
clearer, saner, wider view of life. I
am afflicted by none of the desultorl-
ness superinduced by alcohol. I do
not need a bracer to get me going or
a hooker to keep me under way. I
find, now that I know the other side
of It, that the chief mental effect of
alcohol, taken as I took It, Is to Induce
a certuln scattering and casualness of
mind. Also. It Induces a lack of do3-
nlteneRs of view and a notuble fail
ure of IntiMiHlvo effort. A man evad
and scatters and exnciM-rutes and
mnkes Ioomo sttiteinunts when he
drinks.
"Taken as I took It." Mr. Blythe.
be It remembered, was never what la
known as an "alcoholic;" he was a
"moderate drinker." When we think
of the numbnr nf mm .mnnr nur na
tion's leaders and lawmakers In whom
the moderate use of alcohol "Induces
a scattering and casualness of mind,
a lack of dcflnlteness of view and fail
ure of Intensive effort," we do not
wonder that so many national nrob-
lems remain unsolved. If anvnn
needs to "cut out" alcohol. It Is our
government officials, national, state,
municipal. For any person holding a
position of trust, moderate drinking
Is not only not worth while, but it la
not safe.
MADE IN GERMANY.
"I chanced yesterday," said Rev.
James J. Keane, archbishop of Du
buquo, speaking ot the Niagara Fall
convention of embolics, "I chanced to
find a copy on the train of one of the
most carefully written reviews of so
cial movements In this country, and
that number, to my gratification, pub
Hnhed a brief review of tho results of
a study, made a llttlo better thnn a
year ago, under tho direction of the
Germnn government, with a view to
bringing before the German people th
Injiuious effects of the uso of alcohol.
Tho commission decided that whnt
was railed n temperate tiRe of alco
holic drink accounted generally Innoc
uouswas positively hurtful. It In
evitably works harm, the commission
says, and Is especially hurtful to thoso
engaged In any employment which de
mands of them physical labor. It was
a sober, keen analysis of n
ough Investigation made In Germany."
LICENSES GO BEGGING.
Kvldently In Pueblo, Colo., the sa
loon agent Is not looked upon as the
advance agent of prosperity, says Ellis
Meredith In tho Union Signal. Five
licenses which had expired were put
up at auction. Only one was sold, and
that brought but $3. "When you get a
community," she aptly remarks, "edu
cated to the point where a man Isn't
w illing to risk more than 5 on a chance
to sell drinks. It Is, in the vernacular,
'somo education!'" Pueblo, we are
told further, "Is a little Wttaburgh,
with steel works, smeltors, etc., a pop
ulation of working people and a good
nmuy foreigners wh.p are supposed to
be nnnble lo got ulong without their
beer, yet according to the papers the
number of saloons has decreased from
140 to 85 In the last ten years."
FIELD OF INVESTIGATION.
"Considerable literature of the pres
ent day Is tho direct product of brains
working under the Influence of spirit
and drugs," says Dr. T. D. Crothers,
writing In the Lancet and Clinic.
Study of tbo effects of alcohol and
other narcotics upon the Drain, he tells
us, reveals tho fact that books and
articles written under the Influence of
spirituous liquors hnvo certain mnrked
characteristics; written jnder the In
fluence of beer they show certain oth
er peculiarities; written under tho In
fluence of cocaine they have still an
other dlRtinctlvo literary style "The
writer who depends upon alcohol for
Inspiration," says the doctor, "uncon
sciously writes down the evidence, of
the spirits ho Is using and their sin
gular lnfluenco on his brain."
IN BAD REPUTE.
It Is hard to believe that the liquor
trade is in such bad reputo that a
two-thirds majority In both houses of
two-thirds of tho state of tho Union
could bo secured In favor of Its de
struction, but a very large proportion
of the trade has come to the conclu
sion that this Is not only a possibility,
but a probability. Bonfort's Wine and
Spirit Circular.
Cossack Cloak and Joffra Hat.
Tarls. The Joffre hat and Cossack 1
cloak are definite features of Paris '
winter fashions. The hat Is made ot
dark velvet. It is round and ilat
with a peak. The cloak Is heavy and I
loose, ending at tho knocs.
EFFECTS ARE THE SAME.
Dr. N. S. Davis, fonndor of the
American Medical association, tells us
thot "Accurate Investlgatloni show
that beer and wine drinkers generally
consume more alcohol per mnn than
spirit drinkers, and whilo they are
not as often Intoxicated they suffer
fully as much 'rom diseases nnd pre
mature death as do those who use dis
tilled spirits."
POOR FARMS ABANDONED.
Becnuse Kajsau has no psupers. the
poor farms of 49 comities have been
turned Into experiment stations under
the control of tho State Agricultural
college nnd ar now called "Prosperity
Frni "