THE rtTLTOir C0UNT7 NEWS, McCONm.LSBtT.Cr, FA. FULTON COUNTY NEWS Published Every Thursday. B. W. PSCK, Editor and Proprietor AcCONNELLSBURG, PA. JULY 27, 1916 Published Weekly. $1.00 per Annum in Advance. ntered at the Postoffioe at McConnsllsburg Pa., as second-class mall matter. DOUBLY PROVEN. McConnellsbnrg Readers Can No Longer Doubt the Evidence. This McConnellsburg citizen testifies long ago. Told of quick relief of nn doubted benefit. The facta are dot confirmed. Such testimony is complete the evidence conclusive. It forms convincing proof of merit. Miss Susan Peightel, Main St MnfVnnpllshur2. savs: "I was m poor health for some time and 1 believe that weak kidneys caus ed the trouble. I suffered great ly from severe piins in my back which otten darted into my head. 1 often became dizzie and had chills. I was lozintr strength dailv and felt poorly m every way. Doan's Kidney Pills, pro cured at Trout's Drug Store, brought me quicu relief." (State ment given November 5th 1907) Over Six Years Later, Miss Peightel said: "Whenever I need a backache or kidney medi cine, I use Doan's Kidney Pills. They relieve me." Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't simply ask tor a Kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Miss Peightel has twice publicly recommended. Foster-MilournCo , Props., Buf falo, N. Y. Advertisement. THOMPSON. A valuable horse belonging to James Shives, on the J. II. Co valt farm, got tangled m a halter in the stable and killed itself. Clarence Brewer has treated himself to a very nice auto. Russell Pecli and Walter Pitt man have gone to Berkley Spring t work in the sand banks. Mrs. Olhe Graves Stoops, of Grove City, Pa., has returned home after having spent a month in this vicinity with relatives and friends. She is the same jolly OUie who left old Thompson town ship nearly twenty-five years ago. She has a family of eleven healthy, happy children who will surely "rise up and call her bless ed." The picnic at Antioch was large ly attended, the day was beauti ful, the music by the Needmore Band was choice and the picnic grub was in abundance and of line quality. A wheat beard in its windpipe killed a tine shoat for II. W. Hat field, recently. The beard pierc ed the lung. Mrs. Margaret Barnhart is again very poorly. Our veterinary, Elmer Covalt, is kept very busy and seems to have good luck, lie is about ready to build a new barn. Is aac Peck has the contract for its erection. What has become of all the telephone companies? A line is badly needed between Neeimore and Hancock by way of Oaaly and Tonoloway churches. Harry Souders has a very bich horse. Threshing is next on the pro gram. Editor's note: This is what we call a news letter of quality, and we compliment the writer. Would it be asking too much to request one every week? Sever al items E3 good as the foregoing would be appreciated so much by former residents of your district who look in vain for home items in their weekly Mews Our Moral Stomachs. Everything in life morals, health, business is a matter of simple common sense. A lie dis agrees with you, and renders you uncomfortable, as doe3 a radish; you will hear from a dishonest action unpleasantly, as you will from a cucumber. We are as healthy as we are sensible, and it is said eighty per cent of the people have stomach trouble, to say nothing of other disagreea ble complaints that might be avoided. Selected. Let Her Vote. "The orator who wants to 'make himself solid' with coun try voters i3 fond of saying that the farmer feeds the world," ob serves the Rural New Yorker of May 20. '"The poets and the thinkers and the statesmen may not like to think so, but they and their wares must all take a back seat in public importance; for the man who provides the plain sub stantial bread and meat is boss of the situation. He is supposed to be, but he isn't after all. The feeding goes on further, for the farmer in turn is fed by the farmer's wife. Perhaps you nev er thought of it in just that way before, but unless the farmer was fed, and well fed, by the farm woman, he never could feed the world or even himself! There are a few brilliant excep tions where men can cook 101)6 meals per year, but if the farm woman gave up feeding the farm er, starvation would then spread abroad. The big problem now is how to keep the girl on the farm contented and happy. The boy will stay if the girl does." One way to keep the girl on the farm i3 to make her feel that she is to grow up with all of the rights and priviliges of an en franchised citizen. To Mom It Hay Coneern. When the Boy Scout organiza tion which was organized several years atro became inactive, about $40.00 debt was unprovided. At once the Scout Master, Rev. Robt E. Peterman, went on the look out to provide ways and means to refund the patrons who loan ed the money. At length the furniture and the Suits were sold and the money was used to pay the debt which has been reduced now to a few dollars. The re maining pieces of furniture con sisting of a few chairs and stands will be sold if not called for with in the next week and the funds after the remainder of the debt i3 paid will be turned over to the new Boy Scouts organization. Thanking the many friends for the earnest cooperation in the work several years ago, I am as ever Robt E. Peterman. The Country Newspaper. The old country weekly how dearly I love it! From crisp city daily I quick turn aside To read its quaint "leader" the heading above it A hoary-headed editor's joy and his pride; Its columns of locals in which all the doings Of Kinsman and neighbor so tersely are told; The births, deaths and accidents weddings and wooings; The sheriff's sad notice of land to be sold: It3 crude correspondence; some villager's caper; Its tritely told stories of sor row and joy They all may be found in the country newspaper The old country paper I read when a boy. W. II. T. Shade. No Farm Laborers. So discouraged are some of the farmers in the western part of the State over their inability to gather their crops that some of them are offering their farms for sale. Two large farms in Bea ver County were offered for sale last week because the farmers despaired of gathering the crops and other farmers will follow suit unless they can get help to gather the crops. There are oth er counties in which many fields of wheat still stand because har vesters could not be found to gather it and thresh it Lighty to Be Here. County Chairman of Farmers' Institutes, Mr. Frank Ranck, in forms us that W. L. Lighty, one of the State Farm Advisers, will be in the lower end of the Coun ty on August 8th and will hold a meeting at Warfordsburg in the evening. All interested in agri culture are requested to attend. Mr. Lighty will remain in the County five days, during which time he will visit any farm to which invited and freely give ad vice and suggestions. Mr. Lighty is an authority on dairying, dairy buildings, &c, as well as on gen eral farming and stock raising. Subscribe tor the "News' only 11.00 a year. ' COSTLY STREET-CAR TICKET, Brought One Thousand Dollars In To ronto for tht Benefit of the Red Crose Society. Many unu.suul contributions have been received by the various local Rod Cross socioties and patriotic funds in Cuuiuda since the war began. From Indians in the far North to she children in back-country schools, ;be Canadian public has taken a gen ;rous interest in this necessary war time work, although the gifts they have sent have almost as often as not been in some other form .than money. Into the oflice of the Manitoba Kod Cross society there came one day in April a small box of anemones, each flower carefully packed in wet cot ton. A letter inclosed with them explained that they had been picked out on the prairie by some school children, who wished them sent to the "Red Croiwrs" and sold for the fund. Their desire was carried out, and the dainty spring flowers, first blooms of the season in the prairie country, sold readily for $3, which went into the treasury with many larger but certainly not more fra grant gift. In a campaign for the patriotic fund in Toronto one of the teams reported among iU collections a single street-car ticket, which evi dently had Ixen contributed by some moneyless well-wisher. The sugges tion was made that it be auctioned off among the members of the execu tive committee, then in session, who included some of tho wealthiest men in the city. The bidding began at once, and in a few minutes it had gone up to $1,000, at which figure it was "knocked down." It was per haps the highest price ever paid for a street-car fare. Youth's Compan ion. DIFFERENT "I hear you're taken up charity. Do you really like visiting the poor?" "Why, yes, dear; it's just lovely. But I sometimes think how dreadful it would be if the poor should ever take up visiting us." CRUISER FIRES LAST SALUTE. The guns of the historic cruiser Boston sounded for the lost time when they shot forth a salute to the cruiser Marblehcad upon its arrival from San Francisco to become the training ship for the Oregon naval militia, the Spokane Spokesman-Review's Portland (Ore.) correspond ent writes. The Boston has been stationed here for several years. Its machin ery long since went into disuse to such an extent that it can no longer navigate under its own power. It now is to be scrapped. The Boston was in Dewey's fa mous fleet at Manila and is said to have fired the first shot in the battle of Manila bay, opening on the Span iards by mistake before the Olympia did. When Dewey returned to the United States after the war he used the Boston as his flagship for the trip. THE RESULT. "Money, after all, is nothing but trouble." "Maybe that is why so many are given to borrowing trouble." OF COURSE. Professor If a physician is called to see a patient, what is the first question he should ask ? Student Where he lives I Judge. BIO ONE WAY. She This silk is very narrow to cost two-ninety a yard ! He But see how long it is 1 Chi cago Daily News. RULING THOUGHT. Belle Harry says ho is for fair elections all the time. .Veil Yes, Harry fdways did like blonde eHucU. HIS OPPORTUNITY. "Our dentist says he is going into politics." "Well, he ought to have a pull with the public." COMPARISONS. "My wife is always throwing cold water on me." "You're lucky. Mine keeps me in hot water." ' npl ONE INDUSTRY AIDED BY WAR Brier-Pipe Manufacture Hat Been Given a Decided Impetus Beet Wood Comee From Italy. The war has given an impetus to the brier-pipe manufacture, which as a commercial industry in England had its inception in 1S50, though its age on the continent antedated that eriod considerably. The French white heath (Erica arborea), whose roots furnish the pipo material, flourishes 'n all countries bordering upon tho Mediterranean and grows to a height of 3S to 45 inches. Around Florence, Italy, it is the custom to cut the long, tough, young shoots each year, hind them together, and I sell them for use in sweeping streets in cities and towns. Outside of this, j the plant is allowed to grow for three or four years, when the roots will have developed sufficiently to permit cutting them, enough of tho plant be ing left to permit cuttings every throe yen re. The roots most in de mand for pipe-making, a certain aroma and brightness of wood being the test nro those obtained from the Tuscan Marcmme in tho neighbor hood of Follonica, Cecina and Oros soto. They are preferred by manu facturers to those from any other part of Italy, or from Algeria or the Orient Most of the land in the Tus can Maremme growing these root is owned by French and British con cerns, who maintain warehouses and workshops on or near their lands where the roots are washed, boiled and roughly shaped, after which they are Borted by size, color and quality. JUST LIKE ANY OTHER BOY Long-Held Idea That "Preacher's Sons" Generally Turn Out Bad. Is Mere Foolishness. A reader of the New York Herald who writes as one of them calls at tention in the letter column to the interesting fact that both of the great political parties have selected for leadership .that much maligned per son, the "preacher's son." The fa ther of Mr. Wilson was a Presbyteri an clergyman. The father of Mr. Hughes was a clergyman of tho Bap tist church. It is an interesting coincidence, one that should prove pretty effective in disposing of the idea that the "preacher's son" is headed for the gallows if any of that worn, old su perstition still persists. There never was anything to it from the beginning. Its foundation was assumption that the son of a minister should he something alto gether angelic, with wings in full feather. Nine times out of ton he is just as human ns any other boy, and just because ho is lie goto a bad name. Instead of being an object of sym pathy and solicitude the preacher's son is a being to be envied. Farly in life he has to "got out and hustle" for himself. It is "hustling" that brings success in this great republic. MATHEMATICS. "Mathematics represent cold, hard facts," said tho man who deals in fig ures. "I don't know," replied the citizen who was waiting for a suburban car. "Did you ever start with a couple of dozen eggs and see what an enormous poultry farm you could figure out as he result in a few venrs?" DANGEROUS STUDY. She It must have taken a lot of persistence on your part to learn to play the ukelele so well. He It did. I had to go con stantly armed for three months. Punch Bowl. UNKIND. Ethel Here is a notice of Olive's betrothal. It must be her fourth this year. Max She is getting to be quite a veteran of the engagement ring. A DEFINITION. "Pop, what's an endurance con test?" "The average argument." ONE EXCEPTION. "Few men advocate tho recall when they think it might apply to themselves." "How about actors?" BUSINESS EFFECT. "How cheerful that auctioneer is." "Why shouldn't he be?" "Are not auctioneers, by the way of business, of a mor-bid tendency ' THE. REASON. Hp You are always throwing your money in my face. She I wouldn't if I could keep it out of your hands. THE REMEDY. ' "I have so much of that rundown feeling." "Then why not take pick-mo TO LEARN SCOTCH INDUSTRY Plan on Foot for Russians to Familiar, ize Themselves With the Mak Ing of Tweeds. "Instead of giving orders in their fine southern brogue, the textile fore man operatives of Howick, Scot land, will soon be talking Russian to industrial students, who, after the war, will be brought over to acquire a teclinical knowledge in the making of tweeds. There is a characteristic .story be hind this simple announcement Mr. Ix)viagin, director of tho imperial Russian ministry of commerce, Has been to Scotland with a view to pro moting a reciprocity of interests be tween the Scottish tweed factories and Russia. Tweeds are in great de mand in Russia, and it is resolved to take the trado out of the hands of the Germans. To this end the direc tor mentioned wants Scotsmen to go to Russia and teach the industry, and he will guarantee that Russia will take a large supply of tweed goooN or many years to come. A system has been put into being to promote this entente, by which Scotsmen will at once begin to learn Russian, and Russians to be sent to Scotland will learn English. Books are being bought, study classes formed, and a local paper in Howick remarks that the whole thing looks "Bulsha dobra" (very good). KEEP UP FIGHT ON WEEDS Means Money In Farmer's Pocket If These Pests Are Not Allowed Chance to Spread. Clctting rid of grass, weeds and un dergrowth alxnit the farm is one of the best protective measures the farmer can use against crop-damaging insects the following year, says the department of agriculture. Weeds, matted grass, dead vegeta tion and brambles along fences, road iides, margins of fields, banks of lit tlo streams or ditches, especially in irrigated territories, are the natund hibernating and breeding places of nany destructive insects. This vege tation gives grasshopiH'rs, chinch bugs and other insects most favorable conditions for reappearance in the spring and summer. Similarly, vol untary growths of wheat harbor the Hessian fly; while 6tray alfidfa plants in the fields end around them moy be the source of the incursion of grasshoppers. The Hessian fly in the absence of volunteer wheat at times lays its eggs on the young crab grass which may spring up in the fall after a tract has been burned over. Late sowing cannot be expected to protect winter wheat from attack in spring if volunteer wheat has been permitted to grow up either in near by fields or among the late-sown grass. Grasshoppers lay millions of eggs along the banks of canals and ditches in the western country. Chinch bugs hibernate in bunches of broom sedge, with many other de structive posts. COLLEGE MEN IN BUSINESS Demand for Trained Minds Responsi bleWill Relieve Pressure on the Professions. The romance of world-wide busi ness is calling college men. Our country's largest bank invited 14 universities to designate double that number of students for a special course in financial training. In re sponse to that request 450 students from 77 colleges have madc-ajipliea-tion. This is a decidedly wholesome sign. Modern business has grown so big and complex that the trained mind commands a premium. Ameri can bankers found when this war be gan and thrust upon them a huge volume of foreign trade that very few bankers in tho United States knew anything about foreign ex change and international money usages. Our men lacked a knowledge of languages as well as a knowledge of foreign countries. American cap tains of industry were in nearly all instances trained for domestic service only. It is to meet these new inter national conditions that this great bank has appealed to the colleges for young men. Since nearly all the professions are crowded to suffocation and income from them fails to mount w-ith the rising cost of living, the call of the business world to college men be comes louder. Philadelphia Public Ledger. DETECTS WATER LEAKAGE. To the proprietor of a large estab lishment where the water supply is drawn through a meter the matter of leakage is important. A means of detecting and locating these leaks has boe,n devised. The appearance of the instrument used is much like the re ceiver of a standard telephone set. The point of the instrument is placed in contact with on iron rod driven in the ground or to the key which has been placed in position on tho street surface valve, and if there is any leak in the vicinity, it is be trayed by founds in the instrument. AIR BUBBLES PROTECT. PIER Great Waves at El Segundo, In Call. fornla, Are Now Broken Up by a Unique Device. One of the most unique and suc cessful methods for protecting a pier during a etorm is in use at El Seg undo, Cal., the Pathfinder states, The pier there extended more than 1,000 feet into the bay, but a violent storm some time ago carried nearly half of it away and rocked the re maining structure to such an extent that people feared it, too. would soon go. As El Segundo is one of the great shipping porta of California, it was recognized as vital to the interests of the community that the pier be preserved if possible. With this end in view a four-inch perforated pipe was laid in the bay about 145 feet be yond the end of the wharf and parol lei to it Each end of this pipe was coupled to other pipes running back to the pier and attached to two air com pressors. Additional piping was laid around the end of the pier and also connected with the compressors, making in all more than 300 feet. Now when a storm comes up and waves begin to roll in, the com' pressors ore started working, causing innumerable air bubbles to rise to the surface from the perforated pipes. Almost instantly the waves often 15 feet high are broken up into myriads of tiny wavelets no larger than those scon on a quiet summer day, while farther out, be yond the protected area the waves roll as high as ever. As the pier is a costly structure, the owners do not feel that they are subjected to an unduly heavy expense in protecting it in this manner. IN TRADE TERMS "Do you think George means busi ness?" "Business? Well, rather! ne snatched a kiss last night and he said the sample was sq good he would open negotiations for all I had. am considering his tender." ABLE TO RESIST RIFLE FIRE Armored Motor Car, Belonging to United States Service, Is the Last Word In- Army Equipment The first unit of the armored motor-car train which is to be presented to the New York state National Guard is completed and on exhibi tion in several cities of the state. The car has an open top, but is pro tected on all sides by 2,400 pounds of armor plate, which by actual test, has been proved capable of resisting rifle fire at 50 yards' distance. It is equipped with the best lighting and starting system, including a disap pearing searchlight and headlights set close to the ground. The anna ment consists of two machine guns housed in armor-shielded turrets. The driver's seat is as low as that on a racing car, so its occupant is well protected. The total weight is about 10,000 pounds. Four similar cars to complete the train are in process of construction. NEW PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE. To take orphan girls out of the uniform of the asylum and furnish them with every opportunity afford ed other American girls, the late Robert N. Carson of Philadelphia left five millions of dollars. The re sult is to be Carson college, in the suburbs of the Quaker city, and with in a year the first group of buildings will lie ready. All ofthe five mil lions are available for the unique col lege. J he beneficiaries of this edu cational .venture must be real or phans, between the ages of siv and ten. J hey must bo girls whoje par. ents are dead, and preference will be given to those born in Philadelphia, secondly to those born in Pennsylva nia, and lastly to those born in the united States.- The testator made it clear that his benefaction was not to be used to build up an institution that would be looked on as a charity. Each orphan admitted will gain an education limited only to her capac ity. They will be drilled in the do mestic arts as well as in the higher branches of learning and art. The college will be a little village by itself. The rules will be ns few as possible, and the surroundings and atmosphere will be homelike as well p academic, 1 1 It, i n .i; 26 ' 1 Trj It. The hign price of hogs should spur more to provide fall and winter pastures right now. Fulton county people need a fe good explosions of some kind to wake us up to the possibilities lying about us in these old hill. We have been told that so often however, that it is losing force There are thousands of acres in the County that are not payjr,. the taxes-all because of lack of seed of something for hog pa,, ture. A highly intelligent citizen of McConnellsburg, now gone to his final rest, said that the man who says Licking Creek town, ship lands can be pastured "don't know Licking Creek, for I tried it and it was a failure." We let him live on in his belief. But we may now safely reveal to our readers the extent of his "trial." He bought a lot of horses and cattle and turned them out on some old lands and let them eat off everything that was on them. It never occured to the old gen tleman that the weak native grasses would die out on such usage. It never occurred to him that some good grass seeds would have kept the pasture up. Smart as a whip in his chosen business, but he refused to believe his own eyes and ears that hilly and poor lands may be kept in reasonably good pastures if top dressed and grass seeds sown on 'them. No need to break the sod to let the scanty soil wash tway. Try it! Lawn Services. The first of the lawn services for July and August, was held at the Court House last Sabbath evening. There was a large turn out and the weather was fina Prof. E. E. Stouffer, one of Har risburg's prominent teachers, was the principal speaker. He represents the Anti Saloon Leage, and he gave some very convinc ing reasons why the use of alco holic drinks should be prohibited by law if the State expects to abolish the chief cause for im perfect citizens mental and physical. IT'S Insurance EVERYTHING FOR EVERYBODY :FRANK P. LYNCH, McConnellsburg, Pa. Western Maryland Railway. In Effect June 18, 1916. Trains leave Hanoook at follow! : No. T 1.40 a, m. (dally) tor Cumberland, Pitta- ourgn ana west, also West Virginia points. No. 8 J.38 a. m. (dally) for Hairentown, Get tysburg Hanover, York (exoept Sunday), and Baltimore. Ne, 18.30 a. m. (dally exoept Sunday) for uuraoenaua ana intermediate points. No. 4 9.07 a. m. (dally except Sunday) for uBKeratown, mutimori-ana intermediate points, Washington, Baltimore and New York. No, tt.K p. m. (dftlly) Western Express for uumpfinuna w Virginia mur.ir, auu Pittsburgh, Chicago and the West, , No. 1-2.67 p. m. (dally) Express for Hagert- tsattown, Waynesboro, Chambersburg. Get- tysour.-, Baltimore, Washington. Y nu delchla and New York, for York dully except Sunday. v O. F. ST15WART1 S. ENNES, Oen'l Passenger Ag't uenera 'Manager. TO MAKE MONEY on the farm you should never be without the National Stockman and Farmer the paper published in the 'interest of Pennsylvania farmers and the one that has saved more Fulton County people from error than everything else com bined. It comes weekly at ll.CO year. James S. Brattan, at the Fulton County News office Mo Cnnnellsburg, will receive ne sub scriptions or renewals at special rates and give receipt. Ask for ample copy. 6-1-tf. CHICHESTER S PILLS I.adlrat Aali jonrVrofglurwX rilbin H,1 and Uoli m,iiK HMJ. ttlM With H114 R,WM,. Y T.k. .. fcw Bur .,,. V VruffUt. Alk f.,r( lll. IIVh TFR "''"ll IIHitNII PilX. yonhnowa l Rest. Sa rati. AlM.iKaJiibM Vfc. ataT 5010 BY DRUGGISTS EVERIMLRE
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