THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURQ, PA.
of Wood
for Me
Head
HE SAW THE LIGHT
8T0HY ABOUT JIM yVILLETT'S
WIFE "COT" MR. HYNE,
PlCtTOS
in
This Department Our Roadors In Fulton County and Elsowhoro
Around tho Aorld itra tho Camora on tho Troll
of History Making Happenings.
INlay journoy
SERBIANS RETURNING HOME FROM EXILE
NEWEST AND BIGGEST FRENCH GUNS'
ft F mS-J''y"w -".w-,'.'T'- x"'sr,ys""'s v-yy iffyiM
'cS5ssi5S?!'5'''- - -- n 1 .ssr.-, , ' S
Hci62:as v-w ;ssr u ;ii , :
T-J' "-'irTV-i
'UK., miiiws Si'iiilmi rcltiKfi's whii, uiiiT livluj; In f.vno mr u year, lire lotuniiiit,' to thulr homes la southern Ser
bin. This is the territory recently won back by the vletor.ous Sorbimi soldiers.
V; :
This huue Kim is ihe In tost type mid one of the largest i-'ims bilnu' iisim! ly franee. It Is wild to he superior t.)
nny other piece of ordnance now used on ihe baltlellelds of Kuropo by any of the waning powers. ThotoKniph shows
11 small army of nun moving the monster Into position on the lliins line.
COMFORTS OF HOME ON THE BATTLEFIELD
IMPROVISED CAMP OF "TOMMIES" IN SOMME REGION
I":
V
1 1 f r.
it yf iaw
rt-'i i.r j.
t .'.s-ir
i Vx"
v.1. w.w vii wwi)
1 N
r 1
1 .. tlUI- .1-4 '.Jvw . -. ' .
English troops In their roughly constructed camps on tho Somme,
TW.'n-'.'TrT-.X::
'priwp.p of pii nTR" 1
"DEATH CHAMBER" OF A WARPLANE SERBS stilldrow beards f .
ti'.'rrl"' IJ- - V VM I i Wi V?f I-1 UVU'i
LfF r -i n 'J -aVI I h V i V . Vrfi
ThttTnW fiiiiiiiWiriirti"niii j iinnmin rtt- T-ir" ..iTi'ivifiinm'-nn.Mimit p nkjs . s v J! V TW )i
I .--r-..!;;.-uu-. j
2
I ii if I
, I "51
1.
NT
4
'i i.... i ,..,iii. 'i,iini.v h i nu ki'il mil mi iiiiiisuul snoL in tins srrue nl rm K mid nun, to lake a snooze,
--" -; . ... . . ., , ... . r ..t liirn..i!
sleeiilng on the hard prounu he has been unatilo to resist uie comioris in imine uiui m n-nuina
I up In such an unusual manner.
Ills snooze I liable to be broken up at any minute by the thunder of shell lire.
NOBILITY DOING FIELD HOSPITAL WORK
" 14 l, '
AWW'Mf,WM I ill '
but after
An unusual picture showing the "death chamber" of a French wnrplnne
loaded with shells. Tho shells are releused from tho bottom of the aeroplane
through a shoot.
Hrecrl
K .Wxx..JN J
An luterosllng photograph of noliillty doing Held hospital work In l iaii.e.
On tho left the Duchess of Sutherland nt her tent hospital at Ilimbnurg,
France, Installed by her after her hospital In Dunkirk was evacuated. She
has lately reinstalled tho hospital at Dunkirk. Standing nt the side of the
duchess Is tho Count de llnlbinnl, chief of a section of tho American ambu
lance, who was decorated for his work with his section during the bombard
ment of Dunkirk. He is now In the American nvlatlon corps. On the right
Is tho Viscountess Ilenoit d'As-.y, v ho has done splendid work in Dunkirk
during tho bombardment. Her husband was the naval attache In Washing
ton during Roosevelt's administration.
AFTEirTir
Hlo Friend Peaslee Had to Aik Hint
Twice, but Then He Wanted to
Be Sure He Got the Right
Opinion.
Mr. reoslce, lutely returned from a
visit to the city, proudly displayed a
new cane, brave with hammered silver.
How does that piece of wood look
t' ye. Uyne?" lie demanded happily.
"And them silver dewdads, tool" Mr.
Uyne glanced at the stick slduwlse bat
offered no audible comment.
My nephew gin It to me," Mr. Peas
lee went on complacently. "He fetched
home two of 'em one night, noil he bjijh
to me, 'There they be,' tt'ho; tuUe ary
one you're n-nilnd to.' "
"Huh!" grunted the deacon.
".Mr. Peaslee glanced nt his friend,
ami presently a smile of understand
ing spread over his face.
"You kinder remind me, Uyne," h
begun, "of Jim Willett's wife when
be bought her u new settln room car
pet." '1 lie deacon looked up. clearly suspi
cious of what was coming. "I don't
know .lini Wlllett, nor Ills wife, cither,"
be observed.
"Will," Oilcb replied cheerfully,
"you'll know siithln' 'bout 'em in a
minute If you'll quit lidgetin'iind listen.
Jim and bis wife lived over on the
Spruce Knoll road, but he moved away
before you come to town to live. Fr'm
(lie lime Jim married her she never
was suited with the place win re they
happened to be livln', and she kep'
him movlii' fr'm one place to another.
"She was the iiaggln' kind, nnd her
face nnd temper was both as thin as
a case knife. If she ever hud a good
word to say for Jim, I never heard her
say It. I never knew her to agree with
him nor allow that his Judgment was
wuth anything.
"This tlmo Jim had been to the ctty
with a load of truck, and suthln' put
it Into Ills head to buy a new settln'
room carpet. Ills wlfe'd been more
crabbed'n common lately, and be Jeul
oused if lie dfclu't fetch her suthln'
from the city she might be even wuss.
"So when be got home, ufter he'd put
up his boss, lie took the roll of carpet
liuiler his arm nnd went Into the honse
wiih It. Mis' Wlllett was In the settin'
room, and one of the neighbors with
her. She sort of sniffed when Jim
come in :
" 'Whnt've yo got In that great bun
dle?' said she.
"So Jim unrolled the carpet and
spread It out, and fr'm what the neigh
bor told me ufterward 1' was a band
some piece of weavln'. The neighbor
woman went to carryin' on 'bout how
pretty it was, ami nil that; but Mis'
Wlllett never nunli a yip, with her
ii iimt li drawed down at the corners
and trot tin' her foot a little. She must
have acted, I sh'd jedge," said Mr.
I'easlee slyly, "a good deal as you did
when I was n-snowin you my cane a
spell back;" and Mr. Uyne grinned
wryly.
'Wal, anyway," Caleb went on, "Jim
saw she wusn t goln to speak, so ho
made the mistake of snyin' suthln'
himself.
"'There was two of them carpets
for the same price,' he snys, shiftin'
from one foot to the other, tryln' to
make tilings pass off pleasant, 'hut
tbljt one seemed the better one to roe.
so 1 took It.'
"Wnl, that was 'noiigli for Mis' Wll
lett. and she turned on him with her
eyes fairly snnpplii'.
"'Do you mean to stand there and
tell me, you witless critter,' she
snapped out, 'that you bad a chance
to ilmose betwixt them two carpets
and then wont and fetched home this
thing, when you ortcr known I'd liked
the oilier one twice as well? There,
she says, turnlu' to the neighbor wom
an, 'now you c'n see some of the things
I have to put up with fr'm that man.
No more jedgmetit than n child!' And
the neighbor had hard work to keep
fr'm liiugbln' right in her face.
"Now, Uyne," concluded Mr. I'oasW,
"I'm goin' to ask you again what you
think of my cane."
The deacon Unshed consciously. I
guess you picked the handsomest one,
Caleb." he said. "1 shouldn't say there
was a mite of doubt 'bout it '" Youth's
OmpaiiUm.
4
Heard raising among the soldiers
went so far thnt the French gencrnl
staff recently sent out nn edict thnt
In all cases tho razor should be wield
ed freely. As a result several tons of
precious whiskers came to grief, nnd
this Insplto of Ihe fact that luxuriant
growths of whiskers are supposed to
denote courage. But whiskers still
grow untranimoled on tho faces of
tho Serbians and Ihe courage that
they have recently shown In trying to
regain their lost country seems to
prove the old theory about the effec
tiveness of whiskers. The photograph
shows a particularly luxuriant growth
upon u Serbian on the SaloniUI frotit.
Twelve volunteer ambulance drivers nnd two orderlies sailed from New
lork on tho French liner Lafayette for service with the American ambu
lance In Frunce. The photo shows George Kenneth of Sheboygan, Wis., nnd
Itaymmid James Whitney, formerly a Chlcugo newspaper man, whose home
' In Bedford, Ind., Just before their departure for the battle front. .
City Directory Divorce Check.
The name of the wife In parenthe
ses opposite the nnme of the hushnnd
In the city directory may bo n feature
of the next Toledo directory, as n
means of reducing the mntrlmonlnl
litigation in this country, in small
cities names are run In thut manner.
Having tho wife's name In the di
rectory with her husband makes It
bad for the married mnn thnt tells
n chaueo acquaintance ho is single.
"I think the Idea of putting the
wife's nnme with the husband's In the
directory is good," said Probate Judge
O'Donnull, who sees tho ,sad side of
many matches. "I should ho in favor
of such a plan." Toledo News-Bee,
Nungesser of the French army avia
tion corps and known us tho "I'lince of
1'Ilots." He has the distinction of hav
ing won all the military medals. Ho
has been wounded many times. At
the beginning of the war, Nungesser
was n cavalryman. As such he was
promoted for distinguished service,
but refused to nccept the promotion,
saying thnt he wished to learn flying.
lie entered the flying corps, and witn
In three months had' taken part in
bombarding expeditions.
What Did He Sing?
An Indianapolis dentist, who in ad
dition to the accomplishment of drill
ing niolars, can sing In a line tenor
voice, has a brother-in-law who Is uu
undertaker. When the undertaker
gets up against It for vocalists to sing
at funerals he asks his dentist relative
to.heip him out. This ho did recent
ly when tt bartender was to be bulled.
"What shull 1 slug?" asked the den
tist. "The family says either one of two
songs will do," said the undertaker.
"You can have your choice between
'Crossing the Bar' und Tvo Beached
the Land t.' Corn and Wine.'"
51 ,4! fll
Everyone of these guns represents n soldier dead, wounded or captured.
Most pictures of stacked guns represent them us being on the night before the
battle. Theso guns are after the battle. They havo been picked up on the
bloody field In a drive ou the western front.
New Idea lr Film Production.
A new Idea In exposure meters on a
means for accurately Judging the aclin
ic value of the light at the time of
making n picture, nnd thereby arriv
ing at the correct length of exposure
to he given the sensitive til in. has bwn
recently Introduced by an American
film manufacturer, according to the
Sclentille American. The Improve
ment relates particularly to those
cameras which carry a roll film. As
these dims are now made thoy are'
backed with n sheet of black or red
paper for the purpose of protecting
thorn from the light, and they have
Imprinted unon them numbers which
appear under a tiny opening In the
back of tho cninern and servo ns a
guide to the operator In properly spac
ing the cxKisures on the film. The
new scheme. In addition, contemplates
attaching to the backing paper, pieces
of sensitized paper of regular Inter
vals which pass along under another
opening, nnd by observing the change
which takes place In the color of these
pieces as they are exposed under tho
opening, the operator Is enabled to ar
rive at the length of time the sbuttel
Is to be opened In making the exinisurr
for the desired picture.
POSTSCRIPTS
nussellvllle, Ark., Is enforcing Run
day laws so rigidly that even telephon
ing on that day Is prohibited.
Chinese Rhlp eggs long distances In
good condition by coaling them with
n paste nmdy of sea salt, vegetuble
ashes and water.
Pith of sunflower stalks, which is
about ten times lighter thnn cork, Is
extensively used In Russian life-saving
apparatus.
Fuel-snving Is tho purpose of n re
cently patented ring to bo placed
around the burner of a gns or oil stove
to protect its flame from drafts and
concentrate Us heat.
Dominican Republic.
The Domlnlcnn Republic has nn area
of about UO.fKX) square miles nnd Is
Inrger than Belgium, the Netherlands,
Denmnrk, Switzerland, or Turkey In
Europe, or than the combined nreas of
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware,
and Rhode Island. The population Is
estimated nt about 700.000. which Is
about Xi people n square riille, while
Haiti, Its neighbor on the west has
nbout 200 square miles and Porto Rica
has more than 300. Most of tho fer
tile land of the country Is still virgin.