TH1 FULTOH COtJHTY HEW. McGOlfNELUSBUIM. PA. COUNTY NEWS fished Every Thursday. i. tf. fKol, Editor and Proprietor McCONNElLSBURG. PA. NOVEMBER 8, 1917 Published Weekly. 1.50 per Annum in Advance. I ilrd M the Postomoe it MoContwIliburg Pn. ui laoond-olu mU matter. Thv That Lame Back? The uorning lameness those sharp pains when bending or lifting, made work a burden and rest impossible. Don't be hand icapped by a bad back look to your kidneys. You will makeno mistake by following this Mc Coanellsburg resident's exam ple, ' P. P. Black, McConnellsburg, fcays: "While at work, I slipped And wrenched my back badly. After that I had great pain across my loins and my back often got lame and sore. I ued Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at Trout's Di'ng Store' and .they ,soou gave me relief." ' Price 80c at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Black bad. Foster-Milburn Co, Props, Buf falo, N. Y. Advertisement. CLEAR RID0& Miss Emma R. Grore spent Monday at Saltillo. Miss Mary Jane Fields spent a day recently with Mrs. Mary E . Fleming. : Joseph H. Mower and son John of Mowersvilie, spent Fri day night in the home of Mrs. Mary S. Mower in this place Albert White of Johnstown is rusticating among his old time triends here, who are always glad to see him. Oh! our people hare been slay ing the bunnies; some got their . limit; some, a few, and some 'didn't get any. Revival services . in th9 M. E. church are being continued this tweek. " Miss Ethel Sipes and mother VI UL II mUlf ITCH 1U VIII ' last Sunday. Miss Gertrude Gelvm, of Fort Littleton, spent Sunday night in the home of Misses Maude and ' Mrs. Norman L McClain and son Robert, of Robertsdale, spent the past week in the home of her aher John A. Henry. Glei. ; 0. Miller and Scott Car mack spent last Sunday in their parental homes in this place. . Howard A. Kerlin and son Lloyd of Pittsburgh, spent the i. I ! . U TJah.. In nn n n n p&a wotu witu uuw-i u a pniauuB Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Kerlin, and . on Saturday, Howard returned home, but Lloyd remained for a longer visit Kevin Fraker who had spent some time at home returned to Harrisburg last Monday. Clarence R. Shore, of McCon nellsburg was a week end visitor in the home of his uncle W.,R Fields. Vernon Kerlin went to Pitts burgh the first of this week where he expects employment for the winter. Robert J. Fleming of McCon nellsburg called on friends here the first of the week. Mr. A. J. Fraker and daugb ters Mrs. Miner via Miller, spent last Friday shopping at the County Seat. James M. Brown is here doing a little gunning. Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Clip pinger, and their son Frank Cbppinger and wife of Fannetts burg; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Se ville and Mr. and Mrs. Grover Fields of McConnellsburg, spent last Sunday in the home of, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wlnegardner. Trespass notices for sale at the News office 6 for a quarter. Sent prepaid by mail if cash ac companies the order. DR. FAIIRfJEY HAGERSTOWN, MD. DIAGNOSTICIAN Only chronic diseases. Send me your same and address and I will send you a mailing case and question blank. Don't use dope for chronic troubles, get cured. It is a satis faction to know what the causs is. CONSULTATION FREE. The Production of Pork. "The question of making pork out of the small sboats is one that comes to me almost daily, " says L W. L'ghty, farm adv.ser of the Pennsylvania Department of Ag ncu tare "God fifty pound pigs sell at $16 to $18 and quite a few farmers who have no skim milk to feed are selling the pigs. O.bers are asking, 'Will it pay to feed for pork?' To say: 'Oh yes it will pay, ' is a foolish expression to which feeders will not listen. ''Feeders are business men and use the pencil in their busi ness. They find in the feeding of small shoats they get the saf est results in feeding half corn and half wheat middlings. With this combination we can average with good stock about 18 pouuda of grain for a bushel of corn and 50 pounds of middlings. We have to pay $3 a hundred for fine middlings and the farmers ask why they have to pay three cents a pound for middlings when they get not more than two cents for the wheat. The prices for new corn have not been established, but if the old prices' would hold, $1 90 a bushel, the grain would cost for feed alone nineteen cents a pound, but we think corn will come down to possibly a stand ard of $150 a bushel and if the middlings would be sold at a just price to us we could produce pork at a feed cost of about six teen cents and the other cost un der good management is between four and six cents. Thus we could produce pork at a cost of twenty to twenty two cents a pound. "Tankage and corn make a good combination for larger boge but in many sections tank age is not to be had, or the price is prohibitive. I meet quite a few farmers who are well ac quanited with these matters and are feeding corn and other feeds at present prices to a bunch of hogs, feeling quite sure they will not be paid for their labor but are willing to contribute this as their ' bit" to the world in distress. The items of cost in pork pro duction are the feed, labor, risk of unavoidable losses in breeding and feeding stock, interest on in vestments and depreciation of equipment. The big bulk of the cost is feed and labor. This season no man can afford to pro duce very heavy hogs, fattened breeders excepted. It is well known by all feeders that the first two hundred pounds can be produced at considerably leas cost than the following two hun dred and this year the wise feed er stops somewhere about the two hundred pounds. The wise swine breeder will not sacrifice his good breeding stock now as the law of com pensation will ad just matters so we can continue to produce pork and live." Our Food. Saving Army. There are 2,546,003 women in Pennsylvania above the age of fit teen vears actively engaged in home making duties and they are being enlisted in the fight for democracy. List . July 700,000 pledged themselves to aid in the conservation of food. Today in every city and town and in the remote country districts school children are making a second canvass to obtain the written word of the women that they will save food. Just as the soldiers in the trenches are battling against Pru88ianism so the housewives of Pennsylvania are organizing for vic ory. The boys and girls who spread the alarm through city street and country lane are the Paul Reveres of 1917. It is expected that more than a mil lion women in Pennsylvania will have signed the Hoover pledge card by the close of the cam paign. The Pennsylvania Pub lic Safety Food department office in- Philadelphia has set a million as the mark and from the reports that have been coming in from many counties this figure - may be exceeded It has been esti mated in Washington. D. C, that if the people of the United States systematically consumed less meat and wheat each week there would be a saving of two b Jhon, two hundred and twenty million pounds of each annually. The largest peanut crop ever grown in this country will be harvt sted within the next few weeks. Soothero Crops locrease. It is good news which comes from official sources that in all of the Southern States diversifi cation of crops has been prao Used on an unprecedented scale Corn enough to supp'y most sec tions was raised, beans are a bu ra per cop and other vegetables and fruits have done very well It seems likely that this coming year wi 1 find the South making few demands on the North for food. It has been oneof the anomalies of our history that for more than a century the South has bought its food supplies from the North; that with rich land at its doors, with much of the land unutilized, it has insisted on raising cotton alone and sending the money North. The economic indepen denceof the South will never come, until it feeds itself. In it day seems at hand At the same time the South has a crop of cotton worth more thau $1,500,000,000 in cash with the world begging for it. Such a sum ought to make the South rich if properly invested. News from the South is that in unpre cedented scale the negroes are now buying the cotton patches which they have tilled as renters for fifty years. It was long the custom of the landlord to keep the negro patcber in debt, but high prices of cotton for two years are making the negro ec onomically independent, and in proportion as he gets possession of the land he is going to get recognition. Waste In Molding flogs. A loss of live weight of hogs and waste of feed result from the practice of purchasing local hogs in small lots and holding them in local stockyards until a carload shipment is collected, according to specialists vof the United States Bureau of Markets. They point out that at this and other seasons when runs are light, it often takes local buyers four or five days to aseemble enough small lots for a carload. As facilities for feed and water ing are inferior in Email yards, the hogs made no further gains on their feed and often suffer actual loss of live weight Local buyers, therefore, would do well to specify a certain day for the delivery of lots from the various farms and load and ship without holding. Farmers also could club together to make up cooper ative carload shipments on regu lar week days, thus saving the margin lost in individual small lot selling. EXTERMINATING FARM PEST8. During the past year over 250,000 acres of government and public lands have been covered with poisoned grain for the extermination of ground squirrels. Large areas of private agricultural land also have been cleared of these pests through campaigns conducted by the owners under the direction of representa tives of the biological survey. Op erations have been continued effec tively against prairie dogs, and ovei 1,500,000 acres have been practically cleared of these destructive animals. Improvements which have been made by the bureau in methods of exter minating prairie dogs have encour aged large numbers of farmers to de stroy them on their lands. NASTY ONE. ' She (after a till) I presume you would like your ring back ? He Never mind; keep it. No other girl I know could use that ring unless she wore it on her thumb. Boston Evening Tran script i OF COURSE IT WAS SAFE. Jones Is that taxicab stock per fectly safe? , Broker Safel Why, nothing is sure but death and taxis 1 EXCEPTION NOTED. He No one likes to show one's hand. She Oh, yes, if there is an en gagement ring on it. ' THE 1017 MODEL. Modern Schoolboy Teacher, would you mind telling my chauf feur I'm kept in and that he'll have to wait J Puck. ABSENT-MINDED. Corporal The men have halted on the left of the river. Sergeant Well, tell them to fall in. FRENCH INDUSTRY IS RECOVERING Natural Tferlft and Economy Promise Rapid Progress. EXPORT BUSINESS GROWING Our Grat Ally Poimm FUouparatlv Power Whloh Justify Blif that 8h Will Mt and Solve Triumphantly th Problems Whioh Confront Her After the War. With Paris Boulevard echoing with "rlvea" for American troops our inter est in the welfare of our ally voMlly Increases, end the facte are not lack ing to eucourage the belief that she Is alruudy on the road to recovery from the blow of Invasion by ruthless en emy. One of the moat Important devel opmeuts Is the announcement that one of the largest banking institutions In America concerned with foreign trade, the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, has opened a Paris branch to handle the rapidly increas ing volume of French business. This action may surprise many per sons who had thought of France as AW SOLDIERS IN THE VERDUN 8ECTOR REPAIRING A RUINED CANAL. bowed under a calamitous Invasion. The bank, however, gives figures Indi cating that France is not only meeting I t military and civilian problems with a stout heart and never falling cour age, but is re-establishing her export business with this country. In 11)14, the year of the outbreak of the War. imports from France to this country totaled $141.flU.2.r2. This to tal was reduced to $77,l.r8,740 In 1015, but last year the value of French im ports to the United States rose to $102. 077,000. "A nation that can achieve such a commercial recovery while her terri tory is being ravished by the invader," says the Trust company's statement, "possesses recuperative powers which Justify the belief that she will emerge from the present conflict prepared to meet and solve triumphantly the prob lems which confront her." The commercial and industrial record of France, following past wars, indi cates that she should recover quickly from the actual physical destruction Inflicted in the present conflict The reconstruction of railroads, the erection of factories to replace those destroyed, and the replacement of the mechanism It i . ..,. . 1 ".. IN THEIR RETIREMENT FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORY THE GER MAN ARMY DE8TROYED MILLIONS OP DOLLARS OP AGRICUL TURAL MACHINERY. of Industrial activity that will be re quired and that is In part already planned, offer a peculiarly inviting field to American capital and enter prise. Tentative steps have already been taken by representatives of Amer ican engineers aud business men In this work. Aside from its attractive business aspect, the enlistment of American money and effort iu the great task of reconstructs that will remain at the end of the war will tend to cement still more closely the ties that bind the two great Repnbllcs together, and will en able Americans to discharge In part the debt they owe to France for her friendly Interest In the welfare and progress of the United States from the beginning .of Its life as a na tion. In Judging the Industrial status of any nation, its production and con sumption of coal, iron, and steel and the growth of its trasportatlon sys tems are highly significant factors. In 1809, French industries consumed II million tons of coal, of which 13.5 millions were taken from home mines. In 1012, the consumption was 01 mil lions, of which 41 million tons were taken from Some mines. In 1808, the French output of cast Iron wis 1,880,000 tons, and of steel, 1,000,000 tons. In 1914, France pro duced 5,811,000 tons of cast Iron and 4,6311,000 tons of steel Dried Pumpkin. Remcve the rind and cut the Dumpkin in (mall pieces. Cook it ery slowly without adding my water until it is reduced to a pulp. Continue the cooking un til much of the moisture has been evaporated and the mass is fair ly thick ; then spread it on trays to dry it For serving, soak it over night in a very small amount of water and prepare it as usual for the table. The lncreni)? activity of her ran"- wuy g)tuui Is similarly demoiiutrnhle. In 1S(M), there wore lii France 10.743 wiles of railroad truck; in 1012, therj j were 81,540 miles. I Between 16(19 and 1912, inland navi gation increased 150; while the trutlla of her mercantile marine bad amusing ly expanded. The touuage entering French ports in 1809 is set down as 11,000,000 tons. In 1012, this had been increased to 63,000,000 tons. Leaders in American finance ascribe the solidarity of tho Freueh republic to three influences: flrst,' a thoroughly sound banking system, centralized in one of the greatest banking institutions of the world, the Bank of France; sec ond, the" ingrained thrift and frugality of the French people as a whole, to gether with a national economic vigor not elsewhere surpassed; third, wise su pervision, and patriotic coUpernttou by the government with banking aud bust, ness Interests. The government does its part to wbn rant nnd retain the confidence of the holders of its securities. One of its wise poMclos is to impose new taxes to defray the Interest charges on new se curity issues. It began this practice after the Franco-Prussian War, and is today following the same rule in regard to securities issued to finance the pres ent conflict This continuity of pur pose, doubtless, will prove reassuring to all holders of French government securities. The Franco-Prussian wu of 1870 1871 taught . the French people the meaning of thrift and economy. Bo well did tbey learn this lesson, that the whole sum of the Indemnity de manded by Germany, 1 1,000.000,000, was raised within the republic's con- fines by its own Inhabitants and paid off more than one year before the time stipulated by the Germans'. ' The habit thus acquired has never been forgotten by the French, and to day the aggregate number of Investors purchasing the French war loans has reached the amazing total of 4.5)0,000 Individual subscribers. Perlinps no oth er country, in proportion to Its popula tion, can make so good a showing. ' France Is particularly foruuate In that her small Investors prefer "safe" Investments rather than offerings which promise high returns. Government Heutes, in 'France are perpetual, and this characteristic seems to obtain for these government bonds increasing fa vor in the eyes of the French peo ple. The points of sympathy between France and America are too many to enumerate, but the spirit of liberty and lta resultant democracy, are, today as always, the major ideals of both na tions. Seeking no victories but those of peace, no territory except their own, no sovereignty except sovereignty over themselves the independence and equal rights of the weakest member of the family of nations are to the people of the United States and of France en titled to as'much respect as those of the mightiest empire. In defense of these principles, France Is engaged In a death atruggle with militant autoc racy and ruthless aggression, and It Is not surprising to learn that she has loaned to her allies and to other friend ly states 7.0110,000,000 francs with which to further the cause of democracy. It Is In keeping with America's traditions thnt since tho date on which we for mally ullhed ourselves with Francs and her allies In the great struggle, our (iovernmeut has lent to France $370,- 000,000. , It Is eminently fitting that America should now be fighting on French soil to make the world safe for democracy. The liberty that America has enjoyed for 140 years France helped her to achieve. The swords of Lafayette and Rocharabeau, aided by the guns of De Gras8e,upon the high seas, assisted In cutting the foreign ties that bound the American colonies prior to the War for Independence, - and from the private purse of King Louis himself came the flrst loan to America unsecured and unconditional to finance that historic undertaking. It was With entire Just tice that Washington wrote to Hoclium beau, "To the generous aid of your na tion and to the bravery of Its sons Is to be ascribed hi a very great degree that Independence for which we bar fought." Damascus an Ancient City. Dninnscus Is the oldest city remain ing in tho modern world.- It Is first mentioned in Scripture In connection with Abraham (Genesis 14:15), whose steward wus a nutlve of the place (15:2). Daniel Webster's Warning. Tho lust hopes of mankind, there fore, rest with us; and if it should be proclaimed that our example had be come an argument against the experi ment, the knell of popular liberty would be sounded throughout the earth. Dunlel Webster. CULBRANSEN DICKINSON Player Piano You Can Play It I A Million Melodies at Your Command JlL'gy -. tP- alii-. Jtrr-; WW A t 1 I LsSIWW m'muxss;'jini Easy to Play, Easy to Pay For. $395, $430, $475, $525. 12 Rolls Music, Bench, Scarf, 2 Free Tunings. DUFFIELD MUSIC HOUSE, 61 SOUTH MAIN STREET, Chambersburg, Penna. New Real Estate Agency. Having retired from the Mercantile business with a view to giving his entire attention to Real Estate, the undersigned offers his service to any one having real estate for sale, or wanting to buy. His thorough acquaintance with values and conditions in Fulton County, coupled with long and successful experience in handling Kcal Es tate, makes it possible for him to bring about results in the shortest possible time. Write, or call on, D. H. PATTERSON, WEBSTER MILLS, PA. 1 JW'Wt.W T. V. Tv'Tv But Alfalta Failures. Warren Yi. Oley, Cumberland County Farm Demonstrator in New Jersey, reports that the greatest cause of failure in new stands of alfalfa i sour soil, arid states that "alfalfa needs p'enty of lime and many men do not use enough". He goes on to say that, "practically everyone inoculates properly, though one man was found who spread soil over the field in preparation for seeding and left the soil in the hot sun without harrowing it in. Under such conditions, he would have a failure, as bright sun will kill the needed germs. " Tests of the effcieny of inocula tion of alfalfa made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in a number of different soils, bhow clearly it is much more success ful in well-limed soils Lime and bacteria work band in hand toward better alfalfa produc tion. The farmer fahould re member also, that alfalfa uses lime as a food, and he sbonld take care to seo tbat neither of these factors are the caube of failure ADVERTISE IN The Foltoa Coaaty Hew r. mar F. '-T T.T J DON'T GET COLD FEET Boy Good Shoes from thcStoij where jou do not pay nj prices 8rd have a LARGE STOCK to select from. The Real Family Shoe Store Shoes. Hats. Trunks, Snllcud Umbrpllas, GIcvps, Mens .Hosiery, &c. PETERS & IIElNTZELMAIj The ."Day light Store" on the Squire, Chambersburg, Pa. Matel Protect Your Buildings frcm FiJ Ue Gould's Fire Keilj Perm per the Paint in all colors. ItPrese beautifies, and wears asloi tilt of follicot longer and is cheaper, nthnr Rtandard 1 aiuU 00 M An Bnrfana a llnn Will CO"? la: tod Mrs oquare feet two coats, paint, too, in all colors. 1 oaie oy .4 G. W. 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