ta t HE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. MqCONNELLSBURO. PA. 191 7 (Confluetcd by the Nutlonai wnm , Christian Temnrrnn,.. i,'..w?n,l TemDerdnrp a - - n v W-iiM$T -viwz m ! HE coming of New Year's Day nuturully suggests the remarkable case of Ilnp Hazard. Tlie mother of Ilapplzzos Hazard had alined to L'lvc li Ink a l'.llilo auiue out of tlio ordlnury, and her aim huh certainly good. It wag hard to pull, and hard to pronounce; and, pronounced properly, It Hounded very tuuch like a sodn fountain clerk mak ing n ll.z. Hut the boys shortened this Unusual cognomen to "Hup." The Hap Hazards were married on New Tear's Day, Hap very happily suggesting thai that would lie n good ay to start the New Year right. An New Year's Duy again approach ed. May's Aunt Ada, at whose house In Columbus the" Hazards wero married, thought It would he a fine Idea to ask the young couple back home to spend their wedding anniversary. Hap and May delightfully accepted, and wrote that they would leave Hometown for Columbus on the 20th. It was now the. 28th, and May decided It would be well to begin to pack, or at least to decide what she would wear and what nhe would take. It made her rather proud of her forehandednesa. - "And, Hap," she said, "you might go by the depot nnd get the tickets, nnd a couple of lowers, and everything, so o vhnll be nil ready to start tomor row. That will be easy to do." "Gosh!" exclaimed Hap, his pipe falling from his mouth, "easy to do? Say, d. you know I never thought boot those gol-diirnod. tickets?" He tdiored both hands into his pockets. How much do you suppose they will !e? I don't believe I have enough money. "I know we spent a lot for Christmas." Hap had $3.11. Mai had $0 she had left out of her last week's moucy. Tlier was $1.80 In the little drawer of the kitchen cabinet, and $12 In bills In-hind the picture of April Jones In she sitting room. That made $22.01; jii.kI Hap knew he could draw n few dollars In advance down at the shop lie had done It before. He found It was too late to get low ers, nnd they missed that train any way, for the time had been changed, nnd the train now went through half on hour earlier when It was on time ami this time- It was. llu managed to find an uppqr on the slow train for May, but he had to sit up In the snioker himself. linn did not sleei) very well. The train stopped nnd started and Jerked nnd bumped. It must have been near tuornlng, after an unusually heavy Jolt, that Hap distinctly overheard a follow jmssenger say : . "Yep, It doesn't look much like we would gt.t Into Columbus before New l'ear's night." "What's the matter?" he Inquired, uddenly sitting up, "a wreck?" "Nope," said the passenger, a fut man across the aisle Hap had observed liefore he fell off to slumber. "Nope, It nln't a wreck. On this gosh-dlnged road they can't never have a wreck." "Why not? Is It so safe?" "No, It nln't so safe. But they couldn't have a collision because nil the trains run east one day nnd west the next." ."That's funny. Whnt If you want to Cet to Columbus on Wednesday?" "Then you have to go east to Fltts luirgh on Tuesday and come west to Columbus the next day." Han tried hard to figure this out, tut finally gave It up ns a little deep, "But," he said, "they could have I rear-end collision, nnywny." - " "No," said the stranger, "they couldn't nuther. Y'see," he explained, "We're Going to Run on Schedule Af ter This." "everv train on this itoad runs so much slower than every other train, that no train can ever overtake nny other." "Then. If there isn't any wreck," asked Hnn. "what's the trouble?" "Well, to begin with," replied th fmncpr.' "the fireman , Is to blame, When we started out ho didn't figure iu how much coal he wns likely to need. Consequence wns, we run out of coal richt In the mlddlo of the Igtat" "What did we do?" K5 Va atnnned nnd (rot some frolU a by Dou&as Malloch farmer. He was madder thau dickens, too." , "But why didn't the engineer see to it that the fireman had enough coal?" "The engineer hndn't ought to say anything. Ho didn't hnve enough wa ter. It was a wonder ho didn't have n blowup. He was Just running along, and never watching the water-guage, und getting water whenever ho could, but not knowing very far ahead when he could get It." "Well, this must be a fine crew on this old milk train. But. where was the conductor nil this time?" "Why, the conductor didn't know we was late until n few minutes ago. when I told him. You see, he wasn't keeping any particular account of the time. He figured that we was ou the right road and that sooner or later we would git there." "Somo railroad," thought Hap to himself, and la a few moments fell off to sleep again. , "He's looking at you, Aunt Ada," said May. . "He's going to be all right," said the stranger. "He's coming out of It." "Oh, I'm so glad," exclaimed May; and, to tho stranger, "I enn't thank you enough for all your kindness." "He must have hit the arm of the seat when that Jolt threw him out," "He's Looking at You, Aunt Ada," Said May. said the doctor. "But It Is nothing se rious." By this time Hap was wide awake, really awake. It took a little time to untangle his thoughts for hlra. "Everything's nil right, ohl man," snld the stranger. "You fell out of the sent vou've itot a bump on your head nnd you were a little looney for awhile. But we got you to your routs all right. Well, I guess I'll be running along." But Aunt Ada Insisted that the strnneer. who was a traveling sales man unnble to get borne for the holi day, should spend New Years Day with them Instead of at the hotel. Hap was so much better thnt he was nble to tnke a little walk that after noon. In a stationery store he stopped and bought a book. The next day was New Year's. That morning before they went downstairs Han opened the pnekage. "I've been thinking." he said to May, "thnt I wasn't so blaiued looney, after nil. when I cot that bump on the head, Maybe I've got more sense that way than this war." "Why, how you talk ! Are you are you feeling bad again?" "No. but I've been thinking that we run our house uud our household ex penses about like they ran thnt rail road. We nren't keeping nny nccount of what we spend, nnd we jinve Just about enough coal nnd wnter to keep us bo nc. without knowing wnere we can get more. It's Just good luck that has kept us from having a wreck. Now. here's nn nccount book, nnd we're going to run on schedule after this." The Forward Look. Tho old year lias done what It could for me; - All of It that was good for me Has now become a part of me; Whatever the New may bring to me. May only the good of It cling to me And enter Into the heart of me. New Year's Fable. Onco tinon a time there was a man and his wife who decided to start the New Year right. Ho agreed never to come home late with n large assort ment of mixed drinks. She agreed nivor to sneak a cross word to him w nirreed to clve her money whenever she asked for It. She agreed never to spend money foolishly. Both agreed never to quarrel. On Saturday night im mmo home very lnte and very un steady, whereupon his wife called him n maun old cood-for-nothlng brute nud demanded J0. He told her she couldn't hnvn 15 cents nnd wanted to know wW Rhn did with the other money She admitted she hnd squandered It foolishly on nfternoon wgnuniis and taxis and other foollshmcnt, nnd then thoY had the biggest fight of their lives. Moral What else do you expect of two hurann beings? i We New Year I Dreamer A woman fell nsleep, one Now Ycar'i eve, and dreamed a strange dream And when Klin woke, nhn told n nelcll bor about It, In some such words, ut these: "I tlimiL'ht T trnis In n Kirnniro coun try," sho said, "which belonged to us nil. There was no king. And 1 thought that In that country shoes were rendy-made, not fashioned clumxlly of leathers, as we fashion them now. and that the flax was all spun for us, nnd the flour all ground. I thought thnt the very cows were milked without our aid, and that we lived In cities with clean pavements between clean, bright bouses, and that milk nnd meat and bread nnd eggs were brought to our doors, 'day after day. I thought that there was some- thlnir called ens. thnt made our cook ing clean and quick, and things called cars thnt carried us safely from plnce to place.- "And In my dream we were all taught, taught to read nnd even to write, as only the scribes do now, and that we rend books, books nbout strange things and wonderful places nnd snw pictures the greatest In the world I and that we could hear music: whenever we chose. And there were1 wise doctors to keep us well, and td give us magic sleep In our pain. "But best of all," she said, in a low tone still tinged with the radiance of her dream, "best of all, was that tht children were snfe. There were no nobles to seize our girls for their own pleasure, and to send our boys like cnttlo Into the wars. No man could kill another, nnd even women were ol vnlue. and children were beloved. II seemed to me a world of peace, and sunshine and safety !" "You drenmed of heaven I" said tho listener, her Incredulous laughter chanced to wistful awe. The othef sighed and shook her head. "No." sho snld sadly, "for In thnt country they were nil mndl" "Mnd?" rnmo the astonished echo. "Well, better our hardships than such a state. Better the village well thnt nolsnns our children nnd the tax thnt holds our men In bondage, nnd the pes tilences that sweep us I uctter tne dark houses, and the smoking coal fires, the hents of summer and the freezing winters, better even the agony and terror of bearing, unheipeu. uut tell, how were they mnd?" "Thev do not see the sunshine, they do not hear the music, nnd they do not taste their freedom," said the dreamer. "Their thoughts are chained to little things the stitches la a skirt, tho chopped nuts that must go Into a dish they cook, the shape of a chair. They long for idleness who have nothing to dot They long for pleas ure, who live In a world that might be heaven! They look nt this one envi ously because she can come nnd go to another city at will and nt thnt one enviously because her picture Is print ed In the books they rend. They weep because they' must buy flax spun on their side of the ocean rather than that which comes to them In ships, and they weep because the pnpers they have pasted on the walls of their rooms are too green or too blue 1" "Mad quite mad I" agreed the neighbor, struck. "Did they live long ago?" "No. their time has not yet come," the dreaming woman answered. "They will not live for- another thousand years. They will spring rrom us, wno live nnd work and die without the touch of fine linen on our bodies, or the help of a single hand with the planting and roasting and spinning and brewing, the bearing nnd renrlng. We nre their mothers, who will never rend a book or write a letter, or enter a playhouse. Let us make them a New Year's w'sh, that their eyes may be opened nnd thnt they may see I" They knelt down together. Kath leen Morris In Pictorial Review. How to Do Things. As the New Tear comes and gently beck ons ' And bide you Journey yet another mile, I hope that tear and sorrow, fear and shadow. Will be forgotten for a little while. For God Is wise and good, and all things blessed Will surely come to us, some soon, some late. . , , If we but learn each morning's holy les- Andnthe evening smile, and hone, and wait. A New Year's Wish. A very acceptnble messngo to send with your enrd to a friend on New Yonr's morning Is the following senti ment: . Now whnt is here? A word of cheer To herald in another year. May all Us days be free of blame A little nobler than your aim : May all its labors be confest . A little better than your best. tMXMXn The Fairies Messages .By If i Tl u juary oraiiani tJunuti rr3r3t33M3r3r3rjt (Copyright.; HE Fairies," said Daddy, "all thought . they were going to have a wonderful party until the Fairy Queen snld, '"There Is work for us to do.' "Of course the Fnlrles love their work ns they do 1 their play so they smiled when tho Fairy Queen told them there wus work fur them to do. '"And what Is It?' nsked Tilncess Twilight-Bell. 'Yes tell us whnt tho work Is to be, said the Fnlry rrlnccss Joy. "Shal we Piny nnd make music? asked Fairy Ybab. "Dear me,' snld the Fnlry Queen. How enn I ever nnswer so many questions nt once?' "The Fnlrles lnuched nnd then wnlt- ed for the Fnlry Queen to tell them whnt she wanted them to do. "When the New Year comes,' said the Fairy Queen, 'We must plan new work.' " 'Oh yes,' agreed nil the Fairies. "'It needn't exactly be new,' snld the Fairy Queen, 'but we must start off afresh In our work and get others to start off afresh too.' " 'We shall do that,' snld the Fairies. "'And,' continued the Fnlry Queen, 'we shnll nil go forth todny nnd whis per secrets to the Children.' 'What sorts of secrets?' asked the Fairies. " 'We shnll tell them,' said tho Fnlry Queen,, 'that to be happy they must be cheerful and pleasant. We will tell them to see how wonderfully It works Just to give It a fair trial. Tell them to get up every morning with a bright smile for everyone they meet. And then they will see how much happier It makes everyone.' " 'That's a splendid Idea,' said the Fairies. " 'And Yba"b with her Fnlry orches tra will sing little songs while they sleep and somehow or . other when they wake up the next day they will Another Year Another year it now ttarting. At midnight I heard the belU ring Their final farewell to the old yeor Oh, what will the new year Iringt i Shadow and then tome tun thine Neither can alwayt last; Borrow and pain and pleasure Just at the year that't past. Hone can foretell the future, It't hidden beyond our gaze; But mott of the year that't com ing "-Will 6 made of commonplace dayt. Horning and noon and evening Filled up with little thingt, Dayt of rett and of labor Thete are what each year Iringt. Oo on then into the future, With never a thought of fear; Trvting the hand that leadt ut To guide for another year. Qrace Bulkley. ft ifJi -in l ' 1 be so hnppy. They will not quite know whv hut wo will know thnt It 18 Ybab's wondrous fairy music " 'Ah,' smiled Ybab, 'how happy that makes me ! I nlwnys love to sing nnd piny. I think I shull sing them a song like this, nnd Fnlry Ybnb waved her wnnd nnd sang: "Music, music makes us glad. "'Crossness only makes us snd. " 'So let's be happy, bright and gay, " 'And then we'll love both work nnd play.' "IThat will bo a fine song,' said the Fairy Queen. 'I am sure the Children will love It. Of course they will hear It while they sleep nnd when they awnke they will hnve forgotten the words but they will remember the meaning of the song.' "And when -shall we start? nsked the I'rlncess Twilight-Bell. "Tt's get started very soon. said the Fnlry i'rlncess Joy. "'Oh yes,' said Ybab In her silvery voice. 'I want to be singing nil the time.' "'Thnt Is the wav you must mako the children feel, Ybnb,' said the Fairy Queen. 'They must feel so happy ev ery minute. They must be Joyous nnd have such good times nnd make every- "Whisper Secrets to the Children." one around them hnppy. Don't for get, little Fairies,' she added, 'to tell the Children to wake up every morn ing with a smile. That will be such a good start for the day.' " 'We won't forget,' said the Fairies. ni off thev.went. All over the Earth they flew and they wore their invisible robes that no one can see but a Fairy. To homes and homes they went nnd over every child sleeping thnt night they whispered the Fairy 'Queen's messages. her sone. and before she had finished, a smile enme on the fnce of each child who heard her. wi.nn tho Fnlrles returned to Dairy- land where the Fairy Queen was wait ing for them, though she hnd been off on a trip too, they toiu ner 01 tueir work. . . . " 'Ah, she snld, 'they will be nappy now I feel quite sure, nnd though they may not know that tho Fnlrles have cn tiiem. thev will somehow uetru iw ' . ... feel better and we know that It will be because of the Fnlrles I WHAT NEW YEAR'S SIGNIFIES i Time to Resume Another Journey of Life, Starting Out With a Clean Slato. Tho need of getting n convenient division of time Into (Jays nnd yenrs which correspond with the movements of the earth nnd sun is not sufficient explnnntlon of the New Year's festival. That need is wholly mechanical, mathematical, and serviceable. The mood of New Year's Is not mechanical, mathematical, or serviceable. It is wholly ono of abandon nnd heedless- It is such because the day represents an accounting and a sponging of the, slate Life needs renewed beginnings. It cannot lead away across unbroken and unmarked plains. It must have Its deUnlte stops, its prospects in the Intimate future. The traveler must hnve In thought as he goes along the road a possibility of a comfortable end ing of the day at an Inn. We seek constantly a realization of completeness, of a beginning, - mid die, and nn end. Life, which is form . ' fnrm riven it. It IPSA. Ill US I Ml w " . must hnve Its stopping places, where , Jim "1 IDT. i mP AT IDEALS FOR THE NEW YEAR By Dr. William DeYVttt Byda. j TO weigh the material la scales, ct persoaal, aad measure Ufa br the ataadard . of love To prise health as eoataclons happlaess, weslth as potential service, repntatloa aa latent In fluence, learning for the llsht It cao shed, power for the help It caa alve, atatloa for the good It cna dot , To choose la each case what Is h whole, and accent kmhUr Incidental evlhi la 2 vol vert .... To pat my whole self Into all that 1 do aad Indulge ao single desire, at the expense of myself as a whole i . To crowd out fear br deyotlom to dntr, and see preseat aad fu ture as one to treat others aa I would be treated, aad myself aa I would mr b" frieadl To lend ao oil to the foolish, hut to let mr light shine freely To make ao rata br another's loss, and bur ao pleasure with another's paln To hnrhor no thought of an other which I would be unwilling thnt other should hnowi To ssr nothing unkind to amuse myself, and nothing false to please others I To take no pride la weaker 1 1 1 n era and HM I BO T11B 1- Ice toward those who do wrongi To pity the seiusa ao iesn man the poor, the proud .as much aa the outcast, aad the cruel evea more than the oppressed! To worship God la all that la good and true aad beautlfuli To serve mnsi waerever &.-. Mn i,-, midi hnnnT or a wrong; will aet right! aad to rec ognise God's coming kingdom la every Institution and person that helps mea to love oae aaother. VVVHVVVVVWWVVTVVVWVWVVvia It relaxes by a fire nnd is genial. It cannot go on traveling without defined purpose, with no objective, with no inns Inviting by the light through so cial windows. It must have objectlvea In the near prospect. It seeks a definite and well laid out plan, a scheme, and, therefore, regard less of the need of dividing time into periods which enn be used for the ma terial needs of DeoDlc. It makes periods which satisfy the demand for nn ob jective. s Thn New Year's festival Is an .Inn which folk reach at the end of a long Journey. They sit a while and. are merry. They take up their Journey again. Clifford Ilaymona. Better Than a Happy New Year. There are better things sometimes, than havlne a hnnoy New Yenr. The lesson we learn In heaviness or neart, thn emerlencea which trv our Datlence. and test our strength, are after all, the things which make life worth while, it our friends' wishes for a hnppy New Year are not fulfilled, it Is becnuso God hns something better for us Just Make Believe New Year's i Psalm tf Life 'mmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmm If there Isn't any pleasure Walts for you beside the way, If there'a not a thing to grin at In your Journey day by day. If you've got excuse for kicking And for stirring up a row, Don't you do Itl Don't you do Itl Just be hnppy nnyhow. Just be happy. Just be happy; Take the Ilddle and the bow. BnuKRle It up against your shouldor. Limber up, and let 'er go, Till tha world Is full of music, And there's Joy In every string; Till you get all outdoors laughing. And you make the echoes ring; It's a duty you are owing To the world to shake your feet. And to lift your voice in singing. Till the muslo fills the street! If the world Is dark and gloomy, - And you haven't got a friend. It's your duty to dissemble. It's your duty to pretend. If you meet the world a-grlnnlng, Then the world will grin at you. Tou can laugh the clouds to flinders, Till the blue sky glimmers through; If you Just pretend you're happy. With your whole heart In the bluff. -Then, almost before you know It. You'll be happy, sura enoughl EVERY MAN AT HIS BEST1 Men nnd women ns citizens uro th product of four environments' -r physical, the morul, the Industrial J!! the political. 0ua A physical incompetent by B,1ler, qualities of the unconquernliU. S(,ui mu-y lift himself out of the chains of dlsens nnd pain nnd make hi, fP. lows his debtors, but no mnn deny me when I say that thnt whirl, makes for physical Incompetency in oa enemy of the slate. A moral Incompetent connot be i good citizen. An industrial Incompetent cannot be a good citizen. A political Incompetent cannot be a good citizen. I submit to you thnt the lienor In. stitutlon Is the supremo tun t,0 foe of the state, because It Is the mirem posltlva promoter of physical, moral, Industrial nnd political Inconine! tency. Millions of citizens, men nnd worn en, Immediately vltnl to the national nnd world progrnm of thli republic, ennnot be at their best until the liquor Institution Is destroyed. Other nnil 'unborn millions nre physically, mor ally, Industrially and politically pre. damned by tho eugenic taint of iileo. hoi. And America need every man ut bis best ! Daniel A. I'ollng. BAD FOR THE WASHERWOMAN. So ncute hns become the local short igo In washerwomen thnt it ann.unt!) to a "famine," says Robert 1'hUod in th Americnn Issue. It van not always jo. In the hntcyon day when Denver hnd saloons nnd the uiy envelopes were being cashed In the thirst par lor's, thousands of the wives of drink uig men were compelled to take In washing to eke out n slender living for he little family. This condition suited the booze Interests to n T. One of the wet newspnpers In nn eurhernot jutburst of phllnnlhropy urged tlte sa loonkeepers to send their "family wash to the wives of their patrons" and let the saloonlsts rukc In the pay checks. But nil this Is but a dream since this city went dry. Daddy Is now spending his money for household sup plies nnd wife hns ceased to take In washing hence the "famine." verily prohibition has "hurt" the washerwom an business as well ns that or tne un dertaker nnd grave digger. GERMANY UNDER PROHIBITION. The Germnn nrmy was practically I mobilized under prohibition, Miss Jlur- gnret AVintrlnger tells In the Union Signal. Germany actually clambered I over the wheels of the water wafon, ehe snys, by reviving, the law of Un; ...i ,.i i 11 "Fori nn uuheard of six weeks even Deerwiui under taboo In ull Herman viiitt.w.1 And to these six weeks Oenminy owt her Initial success "In the war. But! ive firmly sented she fell off tlie wai ter wniron. In October the law 01 m State of Siege was lifted and there folj lowed the wretched village orsies, m the atrocities in lJelglimi wiilw wi forever blackened Germany s w eon." . LUMBERJACKS OPPOSE SALOONS for tirohlhltlon l furnished by the nctlon of WwM ton lumberjacks. About imyui' H men had been ughting nres m ... .... ... i ,. am . I - l.lntv nnd Washington (both dry suuw .r,i cm intn Montana to porfori """"" w "- . .k lni the snme service oecnuse wv i iw If thoir oTnnRed themselves tOUl mill. ... J i . ,,..U i a wot Htnte. they won. lose nil their earnings In the M So they turned down nn uim- -i help nt good wages anu n-u ary territory. , j Montana's statutory prohibit Ion l1 enncted November, I'Jiu. n nhnr at. 1913. After UlllB IU - .1 n ii'Ml'l UO Sliuu" lumberjacks or by anyoouj - j boozers. . urllTDil IZES FOOD' Food Is not only wasted In ' 1 ufacture of alcoholic """; ,. . t-o ntipntory im Ur.nK useii i rtt U trttive vniue ui en. rut n tuiay "-- , i It hardens instead of f ln does when placed in tJ pound of beefsteak, chased W Lit nnt furnish more than J Villi . . IhA M cent ns much noui4hment to ' 1 ns when it is enten un"'- PROHIBITION Out or nn exi m touched nil classes and men, I am willing to ,s a ti that in this present . i States would be Dem the high duties before 11 were general n Charles C. Whitman of ew j . , AtmR BO REFUSE TO Bn t-'" ERS. 10tT. dlrf Inquiry in January, - to every publican"" States, no matter whnt u or frequency of l', ot nt 8,307, or nenrly one-u d(, publications in the co s to serve ns a medium oi T,, tlon, says the C.vc st .nee 'nnd Prohibition, , , K. church. At t n (lie otners imam roll. THE POPE'S VIEWr-'ft tv A few yenrs npo r. of Illinois wrote the I ... p:i to whether it wax riy ,,1,, Catholic to voio f m i" received the nnswer m Ion prohibition wnS ,urt the evil, it was - his duty, to' vote .or i DRINK SHORTENS Ut The man of twenty a probable Hfo of nr ( m . . .i.nier on . 4 nun, tne "' nlt,r9W years. Professor V
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