THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, FA.
STATE NEWS
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Around the Aorld NAlth the Oamoro on tho "Frail
of History INIatclng Happonlne.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING
GUARDING THE SUMMER WHITE HOUSE
BABY PARADE ON BOARDWALK AT ATLANTIC CITY
Qlrl Finds Father Suicide In Garret
Boy Drowns In Backyard Creek.
To Wed After Forty
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Especially since the attempt to assassinate J. P. Morgan, President Wilson U very carefully guarded tu the
summer White House at Windsor, Vt. Watchmen and secret service men patrol the grounds constantly and
ring up on automatic time clocks on trees. A miniature telephone system also has been Installed, i
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WOMEN OF DENMARK CELEBRATE
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To celebrate the passing of the bill giving the women of Denmark the
right to vote, the women of Copenhagen organized an elaborate parade, the
4 of which Is here shown.
BRING MESSAGE TO MR. WILSON
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Pre?0'' J M' A8utlar (left) and MaJ. Irenoi Qarcla, couBlns of the late
dent Madero of Mexico, who came to this country with a letter from the
Cero family to President WLUon with regard to conditions In Mexico.
One of the smaller Italian mountain
guns In action on a height In the Aus
trian Tyrol
A Poet'a Tomb.
"Under my eyes," wrote Mistral In
his vein of antique tolerance, "1 see
the lnclosure and the white dome of
where, like the snails, I shall lie hid
In the gentle shade. Supreme effort
of our pride to escape voracious time!
Thta forbids not that yesterday or
today quickly is changed Into a long
forgetfulneBS. And whon people ask
of John o' Figs, of John the galtered,
'What is this dome?' they will reply:
'That's the tomb of the poet a poet
who made songs for a beautiful Pro
vencal maid called Mlrclllo. They are
like niosqultoos In the Camargue, scat
tered far and wide. But be lived In
Maillane, and the old men or the coun
tryside have seen him walking In our
paths.' And then one day they will
say: 'It's he whom they had chosen
king of Provence. But his nnme lives
no more save in the song of the brown
crickets.' At.laBt, at the end of their
knowledge, they will say: "TIs the
tomb of a magician, for of a 16-rayed
star the monument wears the Image.' "
The Century. '
Cost of 8chool Books.
For each child enrolled In the public
schools in the United States the total
annual cost of textbooks Is 78.8 cents.
The total expenditure per child for all
school purposes la approximately
$38.31. The cost of textbooks ! thus
approximately 2 per cent of the total
cost of maintenance, support and
equipment The cost per child on the
school-population basis (S to 18 years
of age) is 66 6 cents; the annual per
capita cost of textbooks on the total
population basis la less than 15 cents.
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Atlantic City without lta famous annual baby parade would lose much of it. distinction. The parade this
year was the most successful ever held.
IN A RUSSIAN TRENCH
Some of the Russians who have
been stubbornly resisting the ad
vance of the Austro-Qerman forces
on Warsaw waiting in their trench for
the appearance of the enemy.
ABOUT READY TO GIVE UP
Conflicting War Reports Had Driven
Unfortunate Man to the Limit
of Endurance.
A humble-looking, middle-aged man.
who had been reading the evening pa
per on the car, laid It aside with a
sigh that made the man next to him
ask:
"Did you notice the death of a rel
ative in your paper?"
"Worse than that," was the doleful
reply.
"Perhaps some great mUfortune is
to overtake you?"
"That s It," was the reply, with
solemn shakes of the head.
"You have my sympathies," said the
other after a moment
"But it won't do me no good, al
though you have my thanks. Before
I get home, my wife will have read
this paper and she'll be all prepared
for me.
"Prepared how?"
"Why, here's a dispatch from Petro-
grad which says that the Russians
have taken a half million prisoners."
"Yes, I see."
"And that the Austrians have taken
nearly a million."
"Yes?"
"And that the Germans have cap
tured 17 towns in France."
"I see."
"And that the British and French
have driven the Germans back 28
miles."
"Well?"
"I will have no Booner reached the
gate than my wife will come out and
wave the paper in her hand and shout
until she can be heard down to the
corner. The only thing I can do Is
to take to my heels."
Hut why?" asked the other. "Why
should your wife act that way?"
"Because I work in the Job office of
a newspaper and she holds me re
sponsible for all the lies printed in
the paper. Either the editor or I
must Bigr a pledgo to quit lying about
the war or take up some other way of
making a living. I've stood It and
stood it until I can stand It no long
er! Pittsburgh Dlspotch.
Muffling the Third Party.
Officer (to wounded soldier) So you
want me to read your girl's lettor to
you? 1
Pat Sure, sir; and as It's rather
private will you please stuff some cot
ton wool In your ears while ye read
It? London Opinion.
The Diplomat
' He I really don't know how I haro
offended you.
Srie You don't?
He No; but will you accept my
apology and let me know what it's all
about?
LIBERTY BELL TRAVERSES THE COUNTRY
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Liberty Bell on its Journey across the country to the Panama-Pacific
exposition at San Francisco, has been greeted everywhere by many thou
sands of persons, the children being especially enthusiastic. The precious
rello is carried on a specially constructed car and Is protected by a detail
of Philadelphia police.
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other animals, by Hugh T. Drake of England, owner of an Immense private
menagerie. The donkey is Ave years old and stands 29 Inches hi?h at th
shoulder,
Perfectly Pardonable.
"Have women the strength of mind
to conduct themselves in politics like
men? Could a woman, like Caesar,
have refused the crown?"
"I think so," said the lady addressed.
Ot course, she might have tried it
00, Just to see if it was a fit" Judge.
Proving an Alibi.
Police Judge I believe you are a
sneak thief.
Tired Thomas No, I ain't, Jedge,
and I can prove it.
"What are your proofs?"
"Rubber-soled shoes always make
me feet sore." Youugstown Telegram.
Going Into the attic to note' the prog
ress of fruit she was drying since she
became the little mother of the family
a fortnight ago when her mother died
in a hospital, fifteen-year-old Mabel
Huckcnberg, of Beaver Springs, found
her father, Robert lying on the floor.
a suicide. Melancholia, Induced by bis
wife's death, It is believed, prompted
him to fire a revolver bullet Into bis
temple.
Mayor Ward presided at a pre
liminary meeting for the purpose of
organizing a local branch of the Men's
League for Women's Suffrage of Penn
sylvania. State Organizer Arthur M.
Dewees, delivered an address, while
Jacob M. ZrHik, organizer for the State
League, was another speaker.
Louis, the three-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Mathew Dolan, of Girardville,
while playing In the rear of their horn
was swept down the Shenandoan
Creek by the breaking of the fenca.
The body was carried to Homesville,
a mile away.
The Allentown School Board adopt
ed a resolution that all bidders on the
new schoolliouse would have to em
ploy union labor and sign the scale.
Bidders declined to comply, and the
m .tter has been referred to the Solici
tor for an opinion.
When Mrs. Harman Cronies, of
Beaver Valley, represented to the
Court that her son-in-law, George
Schllcher, proprietor of the Beaver
Valley Hotel, sold liquor openly on
Sunday, a rule to revoke the license
was granted.
Washlneton Townshli) taxnavers
have begun proceedings In equity to
restrain the school directors from
erecting a new building at Wayne
Heights, doing away with the present
high schools at Rouzervllle.
The funeral of John Thuma, Civil
War veteran, was held at Marietta.
being largely attended. Taps were
blown to fulfill a pact made on the
battlefield fifty-two years ago between
Thuma and Adam Wlsman.
The centennial exercises were mar
red at Kutztown when Howard Heth
erlngton, thirty years old, of Allen
town, a Reading Railway brakeman,
was run down and killed by his own
train while shifting In the local yards.
As a result of the dissatisfaction of
nearly 100 machinists over the ques
tion of wages at the Bethlehem Steel
Works, there has been a general rais
ing of wages among the men in sev
eral departments.
John A. Snyder, a Harrisburg, let
ter carrier, left for Los Angeles, to
wed Mary C. Stemler, to whom he was
engaged forty-two years ago. He Is
sixty years old.
Contractors started with the con
crete work for the foundation of the
ways at the new shipyard wlilch will
be established on the site of the old
Roach shipyard, Chester.
William S. Roth, chief detective for
the Lehigh Valley Transit Company,
while wrestling with a friend In camp
at the Poconos, made a misstep and
broke a leg.
In suing for a divorce from John S.
Kelm, of Terry Township, Sallie M.
Kelm avers that he caused her to
"work as a day laborer on neighbor
ing farms."
Francis Delowry, 21 years old, a
prominent athlete, had his head pinned
under falling mine cars at Kohlnoor
Colliery, Shenandoah. His skull was
fractured.
Practically all wheat fields in the
Waynesboro section have been harv
ested and the yield averages thirty
bushels to the acre.
Julius Kramsky, forty-six years old.
was caught behind a heavy fall of coal
at William Penn Colliery, Shenandoah,
and was entombed seven hours.
Martin Glrvln, eighty-four years old,
Quarryviue, ib in a serious condition
from the bite by a large copperhead
snake. He was putting some hiiy into
e trough for the horses, when a
ake. hidden in the hay. sprang at
him, biting him on the left band.
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Falling from the wharf of the Con
sumers' Ice Company, Charles Strat
ton, aged twenty -five years, of Ches
ter, struck his head against the rail
of the towboat Helen Bechtol and sus
tained concussions of the brain and
probable fracture of the skull.
The factory of the Nitrate Products
Company at Mt. Carbon, where ex
plosives in a raw state are manut&Cr
tured for the French army. Is to- be
doubled In size immediately. Work
already has been started and the addl.
tlon will be rushed to an early com
pletion. ,
Thomas Gibson and Isabel Springer,
both of Media, were married by a Nor
rlstown Magistrate. The bride con
fessed to twenty-nine years, and the 1
groom, who was only eighteen, had to
obtain his father's oonsent