HE rtJLTOM COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA. d eader n Thla Departmont Our Readers In Fulton County andiEli Around the NAorld Al-th the Camera on thi of History IVIalclne: Happenlncn. ewhon Trail May Journey JUST AS THE TORPEDO WAS FIRED ORANGE DAY FOR BOSTON UNFORTUNATES ictures of wor Events for Mews R w I r.J .ijr . t mm s. wvinu uniwo?- m Kemurkable photograph of (ho German Hubmarlne U-L'9 made from the deck of the British ntcam&hlp Head lan d a Just as the submarine fired the torpedo that destroyed the merchant vessel off the Scilly Inlands. This Is one of the photographs that won the $500 prize offered weekly by two London papers for the best war pictures. .:: .Vi . I V. .:. , ,V Rocne in a Serbian village showing LOST SUBMARINE AND ITS COMMANDER , . - 'J A m v v. , United Slates Eubmarine F-4, wbteh was lost tn Honolulu liurbor with I'm entire crew, and I. lent. Alfred J. Kde, tne commander of the vessel. GEN. SCOTT CAPTURES OUTLAW PIUTES ' li S - ft! VST www - y-MWH The capture of the outlaw Plutes who had started an Indian uprising In Hah, by Brig. Gen. Hugh L. Scott was a feat characteristic of the chief of "'alt of the army. Unarmed and with only his aid, Ueut. Col. R. E. L. Mlchie, and one private, he met the rebellious Indians and persuaded the r'ngleaderg to surrender. In the photograph, left to right, are: U. S Map hal Nebeker, Lieutenant Colonel Mlchle, General Scott. Chief Old Polk, his on, Hatch (Tse-Ne-Gat), Chief PoBey and Posey's Bon. The Futur Man. When one gooe way back to the man or beyond him to the time hen man walked on all fours and 'ept In a tree, and then reflects upon ht man Is now, he Is wont to 1m Mine what sort of a creature he will b hundreds of centuries hence. Bomo of "s who believe In the ascent of '"in are Inclined to accord to him an "8'llc form and grace, as far ahead ' the present man as he la ahead of m Prehistoric progenitors THE HORRORS OF THE WAR IN pea3ant8 slain by the Austrlans as J But now comes a scientist who sug gests that the future evolution of the human race may develop lips like the bill of a pelican. A circumstance that suggests this change Is '.he use of these bubbling fountains by the chil dren, which has a tendoncy to pro duce protruding Hps. What else goes with these protruding lips the sclen 1st does not say, but if they add to bis Ashing efllcloncy he must have wings for that, and wings we would all like to have. Ohio Stn' Tournal. SERBIA .s 1 1 hati - ' they retreated from the soil of Serbia. BOB GORDON AND THE MACE isr "Hob" Gordon, sergeant at arms of the house of representatives, Is here showu holding the mace of the house, which has been sent to New York to bo repaired. The Job must be done nulckly, for congress could not assem ble if the mace were not in ita place. Got Them Mixed. It happens that my stories are read in the family of a well-known probate judge up in Danbury, Conn., writes Irvtn S. Cobb. Otherwise the Judge's household la above reproach. Not the least Important member of the family is the queen of the kitchen, the old colored cook, and she has her fling at the magazine every week as Boon as the new one arrives. The Judge la a keen follower of all the war stories by different writers in the magazine, and he knew that the old mammy had been looking over some of the stuff herself, as she had expressed her opinions about the Ger mans and "alleys" on Beveral occa sions. One day soon after the story of my In terview with Lord Kitchener was pub lished, the Judge casually asked mam my how the war was going along, and If she thought they'd ever stop fight ing. "Jedge," she said, "dat wan gonna laBt Jes' three years." "How'd you find that out?" asked the Judge. "De king o' Europe done told Ty Cobb." Making It Right "I am going to sell kisses at the church fair." "Are you?" ''.'You should have said you'd buy some." "I could not well say that until I knew If they are to be your owr kisses or are to be furnlHhed by your cook. I don't ex-" for confectlonr- Pi M) Y The suffragists of Boston set aside little patients In various institutions. TURKISH BATTLESHIPS IN THE GOLDEN HORN This picture, taken by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the day before the bombardment of the Dardanelles com menced, shows a general flew of the TurklBh capital and the Golden Horn In the foreground. On the extreme left Is the German cruiser Breslau, which was nomlnnlly purchased from the Germans by the Turks. The other two are modern Turkish battleships. CROWN PRINCE OF SERBIA n Serbia's crown prince talking to some Austrian prisoners of war. The photograph was made by one of Sir Thomas Llpton's Red Cross party In Belgrade. Opera at the Front. Walter Klrchhof, tho tenor of the Berlin royal opera, whose lot It was to sing in Beyrouth on one day and to march toward France on the next has given to the Frankfurter Zeitung a vivid description of the advance of the company of which he la captain, sometimes by forced marches of 48 hours to the front lj France. His men eventually came up with theJ army of the crown prince, near Ver dun, and when Christmas day arrived the soldiers organized a celebration Klrchhof was asked to participate, as sented, and In one of the churches near the battle zone, to the sound of booming cannon, sang Bach's "Ave Maria" to the assembled troops. Is It "Embuts" or "Embus"? ' A question of orthography In exer cising the authorities at the British war office. ' In divisional orders It la necessary to use a word to Indicate getting Into buses and getting out of buses; a bat talion la Instructed to "embusa" at a certain point and to "debuss" at an other. The spelling haa been ques tioned In Whitehall. It is argued that It ought to bo "embus" and "debus," with one "" It is held that It If against the genius of the English lan guage to have a verb with a Biugle "a" ter-' '' m. i j ' i ."T,?MW. a day recently for the distribution of oranges and other fruits among the The photograph was taken In the Children's hoxpttal OUR NEW MINISTER TO URUGUAY PHi ; ;C7 far 4 St Robert Km met t Jeffrey, new American minister to Uruguay, uud Jeffrey on the steamer that has just taken them to South America. CREWS OF TORPEDOED MERCHANT SHIPS ; ..... ' J t" lit1 -4A-W 4.JS , v .... V ifK v I XLA Thla photograph of the crews of the British steaniors Headland and Indian City being towed away from their vessels after they had been tor pedoed by a German submarine off the Scllly Islands was awarded a $500 prize by two London papers. Gold Nugget In Gooie. To find Imbedded In the gizzard of a goose which he killed a gold nugget valued at the sum of $15 was the ex perience of Jake Weller of Live Oak, Cal. The gold waB In an Irregular mass and adhered to the gizzard of the bird. According to a physician who ex amined the same, it must havo been lodged in the gizzard for some time, but failed to kill the bird. Weller has had the nugget mounted on a handsome gold watch charm by a Marysvllle jeweler and prize It very art w - ,r I il Mrs. bLh's : sr-4 highly. It la believed the goose picked the nugget up somewhere wblle feeding and swallowed It The goose proved to be a most valuable bird and Weller la receiving the congratulations of his friendB on bis capture of such a prize. Her Attitude. "Mrs. Glmpers pays you a great deal of social attention, doesn't she, Mrs. Comeup?" "Yes. Indeed, she Is quite acidulous In her attentions." (C'ondu. h it l,y I lie NutlonHl Woman'f "WHO DRINKS MUST GO." This is the title of an article in recent number of the "Technical World," a magazine devoted to me chanics. We quote a few para graphs: "Urlnklng will now spell prompt din missal for you If you are an employee of the Hershey Chocolate company, In ternational Harvester company, Bher-win-Wllliams company, Sheffield Car worka.L'uited States Sleet corporation, Western Electric company, Pul!u,cn company, Edison company. Western union, In ter borough company, Stand ard Oil Company, or any one of a thousand other American firms of the first rank. Sears, Roebuck it Com pany forbid employees entering a sa loon at auy bour of the day within mile of their plant In any direction. "Last spring . local-opttoa election was held In the 'dry town" of Three Rivers, Mich. The big Industry of the town is the Sheffield Car works The management of these works Is sued a circular letter to the many thousand workmen advising them that If they signed wet petition they would by that act be placing them selves in opposition to the Interests of the company. "Yes, and only a fow months ago the great steel works at Homestead. Pa., employing 12,000 men, decreed that not only would drinking be pro hibited during working hours, but that even tho slightest intemperance while oft duty would be cause for 1 in medi ate discharge. "This magazine could be crammed to the covers with similar instance of the strong front Industry haa as sumed against alcohol during the last two years. The sentiment of the ex ecutivea of industry la pretty well summed up In the pointed statement of Andrew Carnegie: "There la no use wasting time on any young man who drinks liquor, no matter bow ex ceptional ids talents." "C. L. Close, manager of the fa mous Bureau of Safety of the United States Steel corporation, a man who knows the social Bide of industry as few men do, declares his opinion that iu ten years, through the combined effort of American Industries the man ufacture and sale of liquors will be at an end in the United States." What does it all mean? The wrltei of the article goea on to explain that manufacturers have discovered the leak In their business. Scientific ex periment and the practical working of total abstinence among tbelr emploj ees have show n them that It la caused by alcohol. LETTER OF APPRECIATION. The wonderful transformation of the Russian people as the direct reanlt of the stopping of the sale of alcoholic liquors In the czar's domains haa bee a watched by the white ribboners of the I'nited Slates with intcuse Interest and deep thankfulness. The following letter, giving expression to these feel ings, was sent to the czar by tho pres ident of the National Woman'! Chris tian Temperance union: "To His Majesty, the Czar of Russia. "Sire: H Is my high privilege on be half of four hundred thousand mem bers of the National Woman's Chris tian Temperance union of the United 6tatea, to extend to your majesty ar. expression of their profound gratitude for the far-seeing action of your ma testy In abolishing the liquor traffic la Russia. "This act of your majesty is exert ing a mighty Influence for good In th I'nlted States of America and will prove an incalculable blessing to whole world. "With great respect, "ANNA A. GORDON, "Prcaident.- AGENCIES WOULD BE RUINED. A San Francisco employment agent of long experience Is reported by the Boston Transcript to have said recent ly: "The principal reason thee mei who aro out of work are busted is booze." When asked If the paper could quote him as saying this, he re piled: 'No, for if this state wero voted dry it would put all of the em ployment agencies out of business. The workers would all have Jobs and wouldn't need us." ONLY HOPE OF LIQUOR MEN. "Advertising is now the only hope of the liquor business," said Mr. James Schcrmerhorn, editor of the Detroit Times, In a public address. "The wets themselves do not have any expec tation of life running beyond ten ynrs." The Times threw out liquor ads, he said, because it did not wish to be a sellWig and distributing agency fv breweries and distilleries, or a solici tor for them in territory that has out lawed their business. IN GEORGIA. At the end of the very first year of no liquor In Georgia, which was a year of ftnnncinl panic, of low-priced tot ton, withdrawal of thousands of dollars of saloon property, the books of the state treasurer showed an Increano of J4.000.000 worth of taxable property, mostly In the rural districts. FRANCE'S FIRST STEP. In February the Frencii chamber of deputies passed a bill prohibiting the sale or absinthe. In the debate on the meamire Deputy Edouard Lachand used these significant worda: "Ab sinthe suppression Is only the begin ning. We will arrive at the suppress ston of all similar appetizers." UTILIZING ALCOHOL. The government of Rnssla an nounces that It has set aside a con siderable sum of money for the pur pose of organizing an International competition for the discovery of new technical methods of utilizing Indus trial alcohol. Prizes amounting te over $50,000 will be awarded.
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