4 THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Pictures of World for Mews Readers Events n Thlo Deportment Our Readers In Fulton Around the World Alth the of History Maklnc I GERMAN CRUISER REPORTED TO BE AT . LARGE He ail INlcty Jou This Is tlio Ccrman cruiser lioon, which Ib Raid to have been near by on the day the British liner Appara was captured off tho Madeira Islands and to have directed ths raiders. The Roon, which Is an armored cruisor, was built in 1903. Slio has a displacement of 9,050 tons an 1 a speed of 21 knots an hour. She carries four 8.2-lnch guns, ton 6-Inch Runs, fourteen 24-pounders, four tnacbln i guns and four submerged torpedo tubes. She has a length of 405 feet and fi5 feet beam. Pho carries a complemo it of 557 men. CELEBRATES HER FIFTIETH YEAR IN BED j j i ' !j FT "'re ' Yf County and IZI Camera on th Happonlnss. KENTUCKY CITY SUFFERS FROM FLOOD i5i'!, -t 4 Ml A?' i M 4 f y- i t v 7 .'v,..t.:v,.r..-. i. i -i v Scene at' Hickman, Ky., when thit city was Inundated by the waters of tlio flooded Mississippi river. Hun dreds of residents were driven from their homes. AUSTRIAN BATTERY IN SNOW-COVERED ALBANIA V MSA , fW. .... . , I ii. iimi.ii. 1 An Austrian battery In action In the snow-clad hills ot Albania where the jeuuiunts of the Montenegrin army wero restating the advance of ths enemy. ' SUBMARINE H-3 AGROUND OFF SAN DIEGO Miss Molllo Knncher, called America's most remarkable Invalid, whose extraordinary case, with Its develop ment of what Is declared to be clairvoyant power, has puzzled physicians, surgeons and psychic Investigators, cele brated recently at nor home In Brooklyn the fiftieth anniversary of her confinement to bed. Though Miss Fancher cannot see, she Is able to write, can describe the dress of callers, and reveal with a surprising degree of accuracy, It Is said, the nast llfe of perxons she never knew before. HE OPENS THE PRESIDENT'S MAIL r v . - ' Ira Smith's Job Is to see that the president of tho United States Is not annoyed by the thousands of people who write to him, and Mr. Smith Is a very busy man. Every day many hundreds of letters addressed to the chief executive usually they are marked "private" or "confidential" reach the White House. As a rule about five of tho batch are sent unopened to Mr. Wilson. The rest have failed to pass Mr. Smith, who la a handwriting expert and can toll which of tho lettors the president must see and which h"wm,u u iuimu over 10 me executive omce 8tan ior answer. ' BMSCOIL . " i iu. .'3 '."i Ki I 1 " -n l Y I J to bl fl8 y 8coul, of Washington are learning, among other useful things, oe nre lighters. The capltal'a fire department has taken over the tuition lumnii i 118 8couU ,nd thejr have beon Pul h""ouh Jrl" In wa climbing, uping into fire nets tad all branchos of the fireman's work. The ScouU snown here riding back Worn one of tholi drills with the firemen. COOK DEMANDS VINDICATION jr j If : J ! f!;, j i-,. :. -f 51 5 J- 1 I Dr. Krederick A. Cook, mountain climber and arctio explorer, whe leaped Into fame a few years ago with the controversy over his claim to hav ing discovered the North pole, is In Washington to demand of congress an Investigation of his claim and vindica tion In the eyes ot the world. Doctor Cook says he has started the machin ery to bring about the Investigation and that he will not let up until his story ot his travels In the arctio la proved true by congress. Two of a Kind. "Well, young man. On your way to school T" "Yes, sir." "You don't seem to be In a hurry to get there." "No. sir. Where are you going T" "I'm on my way to work." "You don't seem to be In a hurry much, either.' v.. 'i v . This photograph shows the submarine H-3 high and dry on a mud Hut at San Diego. Cal. Tho H-3, one of the largest submarines In the United States navy, was Just completing a half-submerged run In San Diego harbor when she struck the mud flat bow on at full speed and turned over on her port side. A mistake in location of the channel, which Is deep enough to accommodate the largest sea-going vessel at low tide, Is believed to have been the 'ause. PLACED IN STATUARY HALL Statuary hall In the capltol at Wash Ington has a new Inmate. It Is a shaft representing Henry Mower Rice, tue first delegate In congress from the ter rltory ot Minnesota and the first rep resentative In congress from the state of Minnesota. The Rice shaft was un veiled February 8. Senator Knute No! son ot Minnesota delivering the speech of dedication, and Vice-President Marshall accepting In behalf of the United States. Each state Is en titled to two statues. This Is the first erected by Minnesota. The empire ot Japan Includoa near ly 4.000 Islands. FARRAGUT'S FLAGSHIP TO BE JUNKED I . A : " 1 V f if fvi v - j SI This is the bow of the old United Stales warship Franklin, Admiral Farragut'a flagship, as she lies at the government docks at Norfolk, where he la to be broken up and sold aa junk. (Conducted by the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union.) LITTLE REGARD FOR TRUTH. "I guess we will have to have a prohibition press agent for the state." remarked Governor Capper of Kansas to a representative ol the Kansas Cily (Mo.) Journal, as bu ran through a big raft of letters and communica tions regarding prohibition. "It is remarkable how little regard for truth some people have," said the governor. "For Instance, here Is a man in Brooklyn, writing to the Now York Tribune, soluuiily stoting that during bis residence in Kansas from 1905 to 1913 ho saw moro boys under sixteen years old drunk in this state than bo had seen men drunk in oilier states in all bis life. Just think of uch sn absurd statement. He alto Hays that the hotels in nil tho big towns of the state pay monthly fines for handling liquor. As a matter ot fact there Isn't a slnnlo hotel in Kan sas paying monthly iincs; nor In fact are monthly fines being charged any where The supremo court knocked that system out nlno years ago. "All sorts of arguments nre put up by the wets against prohibition, but there are two points they ignore. One is that Kansas Is well pleased with prohibition, regardless of what others may think of her; tho othor la that if a rn-n cart spend his nickel for a glass of bcor he has that nickel with which to buy a loaf ot bread for his family." QUESTION NATIONALIZED. "I have been forced to tho conclu sion that tho only effoctive way to deal with tlio liquor question is by ond through tho action of the national government," Is the declaration of United States Senator Corah of Idaho. "Tho llquoi interests themselves have nationalized tho question. The large distilleries and manufactories of Intox icating liquorr supply every slate in the Union from some particular manu facturing plant so that it becomes in every senso a matter of interstate con cern and a mniter which can be ef fectually controlled and regulated through the national government which alone can deal with interstate' matters. "If I had felt that it could be dealt with by tho statcc alono I would ve much preferred to see It dealt with in that way. But I feci sure that it has passed beyond tho control ot the states and has become a national question In every senso, economically, commer cially and politically." BOOZER A POOR PATRON. A letter purporting to come from a business agency, asking for the cred it ratings of certain men, was received by a banker. Discovering that it came from a liquor dealer, he replied as fol lows: "The fact that you did not state the nature ot your business led me to suspect that you wero asking in the interest ot the liquor business. It my suspicions aro correct, I do not blame you tor being ashamed to show your flag. I pity you for being in the business at all. I know the men rcforred to but have no specific In formation for you. I know this much, which I am willing to toll you, that they would havo better credit In this bank if they did not uso your BtufT. "As a bank, we know that the man who Is a good patron ot your business Is a poor patron of ours." WANTED, A NATION-WIDE POLICY. The policy of prohibition has failed to achieve among us In tho past an ad equate success, becauso wherever tried it has been only prohibition in spots! But sanitation in spots vac cination, quarantine, scwerago, pure water supply only hero and thero such an arrangement would not give 1 a satisfactory improvement in pub lic health. Nothing will do but a pot Icy of public hygiene that is nation wide, just so with prohibition, a ne cessity to public health, moral and physical. Tho liquor power can only be struck at Its vital center when hit by a national law. Tlint blow given and then scores of minor evils, caused by drink, that cannot otherwise be reached will disappear. Tho Congregationalism HAS LARGE BALANCE. The treasurer of Kalamazoo county, Michigan, the county in which is situ ated tho city of the same name, re ports a balance of $25,723 for the year ending September 30, 1915. This bal ance Is significant when It is remem bered that tho county went dry on May 1 of that year and thereby for feitnd $20,000 in liquor license rev enue. For tho year ending Septem ber 20, 1914, the balanco amounted to only $G,87S.30, practically $19,000 less than for 1913, although the county treasurer received for 1914 the liquor license revenue which was forfoited the following year. DRY PRESS BANQUET. The Missouri Press association climbed on the water-wagon at a ban quet during Its annual meeting in St. Joseph. No Intoxicants were Berved. Each one of the newly elected officers is the editor ot a dry nowspaper and Is himself an exponent of national con stitutional prohibition. COMINQ OR GOING. "The moderate drinker is either coming or going. Ho is coming back toward the morn of sobriety, or he Is going on toward drunkenness." BOOST FOR DRY WATER. "We heartily commend the steam ship and railway companies which do not permit the sale or serving ot al coholic beverages, and we petition all others to fall Into lino for dry water as well aa for dry land." National W. C. T. U. Convention. COST OF DRINK AND RESULTS. The city of New Tork spends one million dollars a day for drink and It pay, more than that to foot the bills for damge dona.
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