A Wl - tat FtJLTOtt (JOttNTV K15WB. McCOttKHLLSSUftG. PA. A per , .Nburu fofgood a of the rhat proud it when it old-fashioned for two, when becomes a genu- fon such occasions, le for arrival at with the proper Dobbin seems to bee by long odds. B. FrankHenry's restless as it stood i r l us aoor on aunaay, and while turning in- , Way, connected with a which retained th vhile the horse went on ie blanket ana narness a a It animal turned into Second and when it reached the Jail, it stepped on the corner of the blanket, became entangled and rolled to the ground. Mrs James J. Harris ran to the horse and caught it On last Tuesday, Elmer E, Fraker arose to the needs of the day by substituting a bobsled for trolley line between Fort Little . ton and the County Seat Eight ladies of that thrifty village wish ed to come to town to do some shopping. Mr. Fraker gallantly offered the services of his sled and steeds. Accordingly, Mrs. Charlie Richardson, Mrs. Kate Fraker, Mrs. Baldwin Fraker, Misses Frances Fields, Blanche and Maggie Cromer, Sue Orth, and Annie Buckley took seats in le sled, and before they knew where they were at" Mr. Frak- called "All out for McCon- faellsburg." The cause of much bowel trou ble in little chickens at the age of one or two weeks, dates from the day they were hatched. Some one put his hand under the hen and raised her up to see how many peeps had hatched. The little wet fellows were in a tem- of not less than 103 de draught of 50 de jck them for five sudden chill at the vital organs, Indered why some l day slater. The rs when chicks incubators, and opened to "let feeps." igyto Mrs. Mil Vnorth eastern 3k township, W. Hays' ' and started Jed- AtFlem hop the sleigh with a sled, itened the ani- more. life sleigh righted plf and the horse crossed over iiidge by way of Peach Or- Jrd road. On the west side of he Ridge the sleigh caught John I'ible's loaded sled and backed it own hill a short distance. From there we heard of no further en counters, the horse having found fa clear track to its stable. Five big sled loads of "flittin," 'for John C. McDonald passed through here last Saturday. The goods came from Eastern Shore, ' Md., by rail, and were then hauled over Cove mountain to Saluvia to the 738-acre tract and farm that Mr. McDonald recent ly bought from W. W. McDan iels. Four or five additional , loads were brought over a few Vavs later. The teamsters were: at - by Sipes, Dick Deshong, George Id Christ Ensley, and George cDonald. Mr. McDonald is a' lative of the vicinity into which ae is moving, but for some time, is resided on the Eastern Shore laryland. Finding that his ih was not good there, he jded to return to. good old lunty ozone. We under- Mr. McDonald will go kcattle business at his taken out Xn s M 1 J S BITS HISTORY QUEEN DICK. 1 By A. W. MACY. Oliver Cromwell wit a strong character, but the same cannot be said of his son Rich ard. Oliver tried to train his son to be a worthy successor as Protector, but the attempt was a failure. Richard was easy-going and amiable, and more ad dicted to sports than to state craft. He was the acknowl edged Lord Protector from Sep tember 3, 165S, to May 25, 1659, but cut little figure as such. He did not relish official duties, and much preferred having a good time. The Cavaliers called him "Queen Dick," and others, still lets respectfully, spoke of him as "Tumble-down Dick." He was glad to quit when parliament) told him to get out. After his abdication, however, he con ducted himself with credit and even with dignity. He lived In quiet retirement for 53 years, and died July 13, 1712, at the ripe old age of SO. (Copyright, 1311, by Joseph B. Bowlei.) HUSTONTOWN. The sledding is tine and the people seem to be making good kuso of it. George Lamberson living near this place, fell on the ice some time ago and injured his hip, and has been in poor health sidcp. Mrs. Ida Heaton spent Christ mas week with her mother and brothers W. E. and J. F. Deavor near this place. Most of the ice houses are be ing filled with splendid ice. Rev. Benson and wife are very grateful to people of Hustontown and vicinity for a donation which he received from them the night before Christmas, a parse fall of money, horse feed, dry goods and eatables. Andrew Stevens, 'son of Nathai Stevens fell on the ice last 1'burs day at school an became uncon sci us. Dr. McClain was called and gave bim the needed atten tion, lie is better at this writ ing. J.F. Deavor and family are spending a week with Mrs. Deav or's pareats in Altoona, aod other relatives in Huntingdon. Miss Amy Hess, of Altoona, is spending a few weeks with ber parents, A. J. Hess and wife, near this placo. Norman Haton, wife and baby, spent a few days at Christmas with the Deavor families' Harry Deavor took advantage of the good sleighing, and took his aunt to Woodvale. last Thurs day. They returned Friday. Just as we were going to press we learned of the sudden death of a little son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Heeter, of New Gren ada. The boy took sick at noon last Saturday and died on the following afternoon, aged about 4 years. Funeral was held yes terday. JUST THE ONE. "Yes," he remarked, Btretching himself lazily in the one really com fortable chair in the commercial room, "I'm the youngest child of a big family." "How many of you are there?" asked a fellow knight of the road. "Well," replied the lazy one, "three of my brothers are dead, but there were ten of us boys, and each of us had a sister." "What!" gasped his questioner. "Do you mean to say that there were twenty of you?" "Dear, dear, no only eleven." CHRISTMAS CARDS. Christmas cards are younger than most people imagine, for their age is only about seventy years. Accord iiij to some, Cuthbert'Bede designed the first card when a student at Dur ham university in England in 1845, and designs of his circulated among his friends for two years before the printers conceived the idea of offer ing similar cards for sale to the gen eral public. Others claim the inven tion for Horsley, the artist, who de signed one for Sir Henry Cole in 1846. And a specimen of this card has brought as much as $250. , SUBMISSION. "You are going out in that goVfcJ one of these certificates and pay I hope you will put something moroVtyny for tl,e transaction. The fees 00 I I . i us, ut'iir. i tun going io put ou J T - . L - i. ' my gloves." Paris Le Eire. NOT LOOKING, AHEAD. What's your idea of an opti mist?" "A man who talks about the price of. ice in winter and the pice of coot iu summer." VICTOR HUGO AND HIS DUTY Desire to 8ee Man Whom He 8aved From Scaffold Had to Be 8et Aside. Had A hitherto unpublished story of Victor Hugo is tokl in Le Cri de Paris. It is generally, known and believed in France that Armand Barbes was saved from the scaffold in 1840 by four linos of verse ad dressed by Hugo to Louis Philippe, king of the French. Yet Barbes had never seen the great man and never saw him during his exile. In 1870, some months before the war between France and Germany, Barbes was dying in The Hague. The exile ex pressed to M. Claretie, then a young journalist, his regTet at never hav ing met the man through whom he had obtained the pardon of the king. Victor Hugo was at Brussels when M. Claretie came to present the de sire of the sick man to see him. Hugo hoard the request, and turn ing to his son Charles said : "Charles. Barbes asks to see me. Duty calls me. We must set out for The Hague this evening." During the day the great poet and romancer received a pressing letter offering him the presidency of the peace congress at Geneva and beg ging him to come immediately. Then said Victor Hugo to his son, "Between one man and humanity I have no right to hesitate. Charles, wn shall set out this evening for Switzerland!" And Barbes died without having ever seen Victor Hugo. NOT WELCOME Reggy Every time I aw call on her Bhe invites me to sit on a wickety old wocking chair. Why do you aw suppose she does that? Harry Probably she hopes you will take a tumble. ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN. Nearly a thousand girls who went on a strike in a Philadelphia hosiery mill have organized a union. Never before in England have so many women candidates offered themselves as candidates for town and metropolitan borough councils. Three women have already applied to Mayor Mitchul of New York city for jobs in the police department. Women students will be admitted to membership in the new ski club to be organized "at the University of Wisconsin. It is estimated that militant suf fragists in Kngland destroyed prop erty to the value of $2,550,750 dur ing the past year. One of the hobbies of Queen Mary of England is the collection of a rep resentative group of paintings by modern artists. The highest wages paid to women shoe workers is to the vampers, who receive 23 cents an hour. The low est paid are women treers or ironers. TRIBUTES TO HUMAN VANITY Craze for Titles Seemingly as Strong Today as In Any Period of History. Dora Pedro II., who lost the throne of Brazil in 1889, was the last monarch to offer titles for sale. In order to obtain funds for the erec tion of a hospital in Bio de Janeiro, the emperor announced that he would confer the title of "baron" on every subscriber of 100,000 milreis, and the title of "count" on every subscriber of 250,000 milreis. Many proved willing to become ennobled on these terms, and sufficient money was forthcoming to endow the hospi tal as wcjll as build it. Over the main entrance may still be seen the inscription suggested by Dom Pe dro, "Human Vanity to Human Misery." . Although French titles of nobility were abolished at the time of the revolution by a decree that was re vived in 1871, yet the ministry of justice issues certificates of nobility. Members of the French diplomatic Rprviee who imp titles have to obtain 1 tho na an rf n nVo amnunf in a marquis pays $2,000, a unt $1,400, a baron $300, and a r $2G0. ifieato is to the effect that, ec of the holder having ed, his' claim to the has been fully estab- seal of the republic s patent of nobility. 8400 CHI VIC ltd I .... bei Vgat I titl V lis V i 18 1 FIRST TO ILLUSTRATE NEWS English Periodicals of Centuries Ago Led the Way for Modern Journalism. It is a little surprising to learn that the first journal to give illustra tions with any frequency was the Mercurius Civilius, which came out during the civil war in England with portraits of Charles I. and his queen, Cromwell and his officers and Prince-Rupert. More elaborate pic tures dealing with the war were, however, left to the pamphlets of that time: The Frost fair on the Thames in 1CR3 was made the sub ject of an interesting broadside and so also was the funeral of Queen Mary II. in 1095. With the eighteenth century the art of illustrating actualities grew. Caricatures abounded, now of the Jacobites, now of the South Sea bubble or similar exciting events. The Daily Post of 1740 afforded an example of a daily paper attempting to illustrate a current event. On March 29 of that year it published a detailed diagram of Admiral Ver non's attack on Forto Bello. The St. James Chronicle in 17C5 present ed its readers with an illustration of a strange wild animal that had created much excitement in France, but this illustration was obviously imaginary. The Gentlemen's Ga zette in 1751 gave a portrait of Ed ward Bright, a record fat man. In the Town and Country Magazine in 1773 there appeared portraits of the principals in a famous scandal. MAY BE MADE AUTONOMOUS Completion of Panama Canal Likely to Cement Group of Islands Belonging to Britain. Among the more important by products of the Panama canal we are likely to see the development of an other self-governing dominion or commonwealth within the British empire. This will cousist of the West India islands, and perhaps also the continental possessions of the British crown in Central and South America. These various colonies arc col lectively much larger jn population, commerce and wealth than is New foundland or even New Zealand. Yet they have no voice in imperial af fairs and have little influence be cause of their lack of unity. Of course their geographical distribu tion makes it less easy for them to be administered under a common government than a single compact country; less easy, but not impos sible nor even gravely difficult. Eor a score of years the gucstion of federation has been intermittently considered. Now the impending opening of the Panama canal and the prospect of profound changes in commercial relationships have given to the movement a new impetus and havx made its realization seem all but essential. NO PLACE FOR SPENDTHRIFT. A spendthrift in the world's busy whirl never makes on real friend or commands the respect of anyone, not even his own particular kind. He is of no practical benefit to the com munity, and in reality he is but a menace to society. A spendthrift eventually develops into that class who ciunot meet their bills. But this is to be expected they really can't help it; it is the natural order of things; nature will out in every thing, and bad habits are the hard est thing in the world from which to break away. The time comes when their money is spent,, they can't ' break the habit of extravagance, and they become a continifal credit loss ' baker, and you, the hard working toiler, must stand the burden of their perfidy. 8TARTED THE TROUBLE. "now long has this restaurant been open?" asked the would-be diner. . "Two years," said the proprietor. "I am sorry I did not know it," sy'd the guest. "I should be bet ter off if I had not come here then." "Yes," smiled the proprietor very much pleased. "How is that?" . "I should probably have been served by this time if I had," said the guest, and the entente cordials vanished. Harper's Weekly. ENVY. "My wife was very lonely when we met. You know she was an only child and an orphan when I married her." "What luek some men have'1 FOR SAFETY IN MINING. Gold-mining companies of the Hand field. South Africa, have been experimenting with electric blasting with a view of reducing the danger of miner's phthisis, a disease as cribed to the fine dust that results from blasting. By using electric sys tems the firing can be done from the surface and the air jan be cleared of the fine dust before the miners peed to enter the mine. STILL A MYSTERY TO MAIA Years of Travel Have Not Taught the World What a Japanese Lady Is Really Like. How I admiro those two! Aris tocrats to the finger tips, cultivated, courteous, refined, with a dignity of manner incomparable. While I puffed and fanned, in the thinnest pf lingerie blouses, the Jap anese "grande dame" sat cool and calm in a gray silk kimono, girt around the body with double folds of a heavy satin obi. She was a har mony of soft Bilver gray and aheeny dove colors. There was a glint of gold in the stiff fabric of her obi, a tiny gold clasp on the cord that bound the obi in place. A single am!or in their lines, in the massing and relief of black and ivory, stood out from the surplice 'folds of the kimono like a supcirb etching. As a work of art, she was perfec tion, a restful, perfectly composed and balanced study; the tones and values true. I gazed at her enchant ed, and thought how different was this grande dame before me from the vulgar travesty of the Japanese woman that paradi our stage. Think of those plays we saw in London! the "Madame Butterfly," and "The Darling of the Gods!" What a million miles between this daimio's daughter and that giggling hoyden with frizzled hair and cab bage bunches of flowers over each ear. No, Europe does not understand Japan. Despite all these years of travel and photography, Europe does not yet know what a Japanese lady looks like, how she dresses, nor least of all how exquisitely smooth and simple is her coiffure. From Eliza It. Scidmore's "As the Hague Or dains." THEN HE DIDN'T Mrs. Benham Do you believe that odd numbers arc lucky? Benham Not when I remember that you and I are one. NO MERCY FOR WIFE KILLER. Feeling against William Josiah McMeen, convicted in 188G of the murder of his wife in Port Royal, Juniata county, was declared to be as strong as it was in 1887, when the board of pardons was hanged in effigy for commuting his senetnee of death to life imprisonment. Senator E. E. Boidlcman made application for pardon for McMeen. declaring he had Wn a model pris oner since sent to the Western peni tentiary in 1887 and there were grave elements of doubt in the con viction of McMeen. Senator Beidleman's arguments were attacked by District Attorney Graybill of Juniata county, who de clared that the people of the county feared the return of McMeen, whom he declared was still regarded as "a bad man" by men and women who remembered the tragedy in which he figured twenty-eight years ago. The board refused pardon. GET RID OF NUISANCES. The New York Edison company has perfected an apparatus for elim inating the smoke and cinder nui sance at its great Watersile station, New York. The smoke from the boiler plant, laden with soot and cin ders, is driven at high ppeed through a sheet of water, by means of which practically all of the material which mrxaf ifntnfl n mnannna la .lurwa!lttl a big water tanK. Jhc recent test showed an average efficiency of ex traction of 95 per cent. BURNED CANDLE FOR HER. Poet Charles ' II nnson Towne's newest story is about a clever woman playwright he knows. Another wom an wrote her: "Burn a candle for me, that my new play succeeds." The ;lever woman playwright wired back, "Burning cnndle at both ends for you." New York World. MADE HIM SUFFER. "Influenza is a terrible illness." "Are you subject to it ?" "I should say so. My wife's al- ' ways having it." LUCKY MISSES. 'Tlave any luck on your hunting trip?" "Yes, I missed three guides I shot at for deer." i WIND'S WONDERFUL VELOCITY During Phenomenal Atmospheric Dis turbances It Is Impossible to Estimate It Does anybody know hew fast the wind can blow ? It is an easy prom lom, under ordinary condition's, and the weather bureau in Washington gives out daily readings of wind ve locity, the reliability of which is uni versally accepted. But, in those occasional instances when a hurricane is raging, the deli cate instruments which science has devised to measure wind velocities are swept away, just as they begin to record really interesting figures. In November of lust year, just as an anemometer in Jamaica marked 120 miles an hour, it was carried off by the gale. The greatest velocity measured in this country was on January 11 at Mount Washington, . -si til.. j where the wind was mowing ai uio rao of 186 miles an hour. But wind ! has blown pine boards through tele graph poles or caused thin to pierce trees to the depth of several inches, thus indicating a velocity of at least ' COO miles an hour, according to sci entific calculations. As it is admitted that there are now no instruments capable of re cording such high speed, it is quite evident that we do not know how fast the wind blows, and will not pos sess this knowledge until an ane mometer is constructed that will not be carried away in any velocity. 'nEED NOT BE MONOTONOUS One Bridegroom at the Altar Has Shown That Costume May Be Somewhat Appropriate. It is hard to escape the conven tional black. When a man is going to be married there seems to be little else for him to wear. The bride groom drops automatically to the old dead level. There are uniforms in deed, but they are seldom put ov for a wedding. A soldier or sailor may fall back on this resource; but such favored types as policemen, airmen, chauffeurs, firemen and bellhops are but too inclined to demonstrate, when the hour is at hand, how much alike men are or want to be. Who, they seem lo ask, wants to look at the "happy man," anyhow? But a br.ive and resourceful young man in Maine has changed all this Sockalexis, the Indian runner, has "stood up" in beaded buckskin and eagle feathers. His course seems natural, suitable, justifiable on all grounds, almost inevitable. He has shown that bridegrooms are not patterned so monotonously as we suppose and are not necessarily doomed to eclipse. Perhaps other intending husbands may now dis cover legitimato ways to differentiate themselves by introducing suitable variations on a dull and tiresome theme, leaving the conventional and characteristic black to be worn only as a last resort. Bangor News. INJUNCTION OBEYED. Harry was inclined to be selfish, and when he was sick he had some nice oranges given to him and he did not want his sister to have one. "Why, Harry, dear," said his mother, "don't you want the Lord to love you ?" "Yes, mamma," said Harry. "Well, my son, 'the Lord loves a cheerful giver,' so don't be selfish." Later on in the day a little friend came in to see him, and when he had gone his mother came in to give him his medicine and found it gone. "Why, Harry, did you spill your medicine?" she asked. "No, mother; I gave it to Johnny. He liked it, and you said, 'the. Lord loves a cheerful giver.' Do you think he loves me now ?" NOT AN AMERICAN IDEA. Berlin has a "theater novelty" in the form of a perfumed program, of which a "patron of the stage of many years' Btanding" says in one of the papers of that city: "Inasmuch as we must pay for the playbill we might be spared the perfume. It mingles with the otlvr theater odors, it clings to one's cout and suggests tango, and is liable io cause trouble in households where women allow husbands to go to the theater alone. No matter how we rebel, it must be endured. Are we indebted to Amer ica for this novelty?" NO TALK LOST. "So Kate and Alice are not on speaking terms." "No; but they more than make up for it by what they say about each other." MISQUOTED. Bix See here, what do you mean by going around telling people I am a first-class idiot? Dix I didn't say first class. THE DIFFERENCE. "How well the lawyer acquitted himself with that speech !" "But it's more than he did for his client with the jury." Irl R. Hicks 1915 Almanac. I The Kev. Irl Ii. Hicks Alma nac, now ready, grows more pop- ular and useful with each passing year. It is a fixed necessity in homes, shops and commercial es tablishments all over this conti nent. This famous and valuable year boob: on astronomy, storms weather and earthquakes should be in every tome and office. Pro feasor Hicks completes this best issue of his great Almanac at the close of his seventieth year. The Almanac will be mailed for 25cts. Tbe Rw. Irl E. Hicks fine Maga zine, Word andWorks, is sent one year, with a copy of hisJAlmanac for only a dollar. Bend for them ti Word and Works Publishing Company, 3101 Franklin Ave, 8t. Louis, Mo. You will never re gret your investment. A Tryit for 1915. 12 3-4t. Donation. The members of tbe Lutheran o.burcb of town surprised their pastor and family on New Year's evening with many beskets and packages containing the good ihirgs of life. Along with the natenal contents of the donation :ame many greetings and good wishes for the New Year. The fiastor and family wish to express '.heir appreciation of this splen did, remembrance. Double Holidays. Did you notice that this year .ve get double holidays? Memo rial day and July Fourth come on Sunday and Christmas comes on Saturday, givirg two days to ob serve m each case. If the last two figures appearing on the name tab of your paper are 13, it shows that you are paid up to some time in 1913, and con sequently, are from two to three years behind being paid in ad vance. If the figures are 14, (1914) it indicates that from one to two years subscription is due before we can push the paid date ahead a year in advance. The tab on your paper shows, every week, the date to which the pa per is paid. Franklin county farmers who intend having public sale this winter, or next spring, must first notify the State Veterinary, C. J. ivlarshalfr Harrisburg. Mr. Marshall will then have the stock and premises examined, at no ex pense to the owner, and if no dis ease is found, he will issue a per mit to hold the sale. No permits are needed in Fulton county as it is not under quarantine for foot and mouth disease. fc. Ex-County Com mission' L K Cline, residing now at Rockbill Furnace, Huntingdon county, pent a few hours in town yester day. Lee had bis bip broken a bout three years ago, and has not entirely recovered from tbe acci dent County Auditors William Wink John Woodcock and Harry Lam oerson, with their clerk, M. L. Kirk, are busy this week examin ing tbe accounts of the County Treasurer, in makiBg bis "annu al settlement." D wight M. Sipes, ot Licking Creek township, returned to Mercersburg Academy yester day for the remainder of this scholastic year. Dwight missed the fall term on account of ill health. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston N. Nel son arrived from their home at Huntsville, Ohio, at noon yester day, having been called here on recount of the death of their little grandson, Hat old H. Kendall. Mr. Maria Palmer, Dr. J. J. Palmer, wife, and son Paul of Net d more, and Fran it Parker, Paris, 111., are visiting Mrs. Pal mer's daughter, Mrs. Harriet Dixon, Cham bers burg, Pa. John Hoopengardner came ''own from Riddlesburg Monday on account of the serious illness of his mother Rebecca Woodall, and was with her at tbe time of ber death, Monday night. Rev. Peterman will preach m tbe Dig Cove Lutheran church next Sunday morning at the usu al hour. , Get 1915 license blank for any kind of a machine from M. R. gbaffner. He bas a full line, , i e
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