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."
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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,
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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.
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