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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-30
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.TO-DAY'S ENTRIES.

Entries to-day at New Orleans and
Oakland. as reported by the local pool
rooms, are as follows:
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
Buys Bread For His Horses.

A delivery wagon of one of the big
bread baking factories OF Yorkyille
stopped in front of an uptown livery
and boarding stable the other morn
ing, and two men at once unloaded
barrels of bread and carried them into
the stable. The bread looked good,
and was good. There were all sorts
and sizes of loaves in the barrels
homemade, )" frye, "Vienna," "po.
tato," "graham" aud cottage"
The curiosity of man who saw the
bread being delivered to the stable
was aroused, and he ventured to ask
the proprietor of the stable what it
meant.
''There's nothing remarkable about
it, said the proprietor, with laugh.
81 simply buy it for horse feed. We
grind the bread up and mix it with
other feed, and it makes frst-class
food for horses. 1t is stale bread, and
costs us forty cents a barrel; and there
are fifty or sixty loaves to the barrel,
go you see it comes pretty cheap.
Some of the bread is only day old,
and is good enough for any man to
eat; but the bread factories cannot sell
it. What you see here are returned
loaves from the groceries. I'll bet
there is many soldier who would like
to have had al good bread in the war. Z"
New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
walst. wonderrul In Uut.

Truly wonderful are the designs,
both of fabric and cut, of the new
evening waists which made their first
appearance at the Horse Show. Two
Of the most notable examples are
shown in the large engraving. AL
though much OF the material from
which they are made comes from the
factories of the old world and some of
the garments fashioned are upon
French models, yet there are many
exceedingly handsome ones made
here.
As modish as any are those made of
satin, but not of heavy variety, and
thus the fulness of waist is allowed
to fit gracefully on the figure. This
is tucked, straight, in squares, in
diamonds, or hemstitched and drawn.
One Of the new embroidered styles
in made in white msuve and cream.
The embroidery is open and loose,
and through it is shown lining of
e.oth Of gold. The style OF this waist
is really blouse, but is open at the
front and filed in with knots OF NOUS
seine de sole or chiffon. The collars
- " DNhho va VI uohOd othg uhu thO o
lnarkable little jeweled buttons which
shine through the tilmy ruches of
chiffon which edge ''all things" add
not a little to the general effect.
Mauve and other delicate shades Of
lilac are much used.
Into these waists are inserted yokes
or vests, often collars OF plain CON
trasting shade or white, with Persian
c0lors in fantastic figures. A new
shade OF blue which is light, but not
baby blue. is another material
which is seen in smart waist.
Not the least fascinating are the er~
quisite blouses of guipure lace.
These are made entire. without lining,
and made to slip over any COLD lining.
One illustration shows a new style
of silk which comes in one piece--a
skirt-length, it is called. This has an
applique of mousseline do sole which
~ embroidered in neutral shades and
a set pattern. The silk differs from
the material usually employed ia
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
season, have been made up for winter

season, have been made up for winter
wear, declares Hsrper's Bazaar. The
light silks are to be used all through
the winter-of course not for street
wesr-whils some heavy silks, satins,
crepons, are trimmed with white lace,
and have quite as light and airy an
effect as though they were intended to
wear in July and August. For street
wear, black and brown-a warm shade
of brown-are considered especially
fashionable colors. The most stylish
house gowns are made of French fan
mel. But never before at this time of
year have SO many light grays and tan
cloths been made up. Indeed, all the
styles of dress this year are on most
elaborate and expensive scale, and it
requires considerable thought and in
genuity for the woman with q moder-
ate income to dress according to the
latest fashion dictates. Fortunately
there are q good many styles in every
sort of gown, whether for street or
house, that are attractive and quite
inconspicuous, and these are the best
to choose from where economy has to
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23

York very far forward of the face.
The new style of arranging the
coiffure which brings it high up in the
back means that the hat shall be worn
over a full roll in front, not pompn-
dour, but soft arrangement in which
the hair extends very widely at the
sides. The hat itself extends far ovcr
the face, that is not down, but up
ward at least from three to four inches
beyond the lines of the face, that is to
say the new pointed, round hats,
toques aud other styles which are
being shown.
The turban must be poised suAi-
ciently high, and though the hair is
being parted aud worn apparently
softer, there is no squat or fiat
tendency permitted. The forward
inclination of the hat gives a rakish
aud peculiar, but graceful turn to the
entire appearance when not pushed
too far. The entire outlines of dress
have an alternating effect. The idea
is to make the woman appear taller,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
Benefits of New Jerseys System.

AS most of the wealth of the State
is to be found in the cities, the New
Jersey system successfully brings
about the construction of improved
gravel or stone roads without laying
their entire cost upon the farmers, and
without requiring them to contribute
more than an equitable share of ex-
pense according TO tho wealth of each
individual taxpayer. The State aid
system successfully answers the objec-
tion still made by many; that we can q.
not have good roads without over.
loading the farmer with taxes, of
which he is already paying more than
his share.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23

A correspondent of the Lon don
Times who is studying the plague at
Oporto has something to say on the
comparative cleanliness of different
nations which will probably be little
relished in England. After showing
that the general conditions in the
Portuguese city are favorable to the
spread of the disease because the peo-
pie suffer from lack of nourishmeut
and the health authorities are deficient
in system, he adds that the lower
classes have their advantages, never
theless, over the corresponding classes
of the British isles, since they wear
cleaner clothes and are cleaner and
neater in their housework.
AS if this were not enough, he ex-
tends the comparison so as to include
other countries, and puts the Britons
way in the rear. Testifying from au
experience in all the European States
with the exception of those in the Bal
kan region he says; "When we are
clean, no people are so clean, but when
we are dirty we are dirtier than any
body else. That dreadful smell of hu-
manity, which is caused by the reten-
tion OF bodily refuse on the surface of
the skin, is almost peculiar to our
country, and it pervades the persons
and still more the homes of the great
mass of our urban population"
Clean clothes, he thinks, are of
more Importance than clean bodies.
Therefore the Portuguese, who wash
their linen religiously every week,
have better protection against the
plague than the Russians, who bathe
frequently but wear filthy garments.
Both nationalities, however, are su-
perior to majority of the British,
who wash neither clothes nor skim
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
The PopuIar Handkerchief.

'"The hemstitched handkerchief is
always popular" said the man behind
the handkerchief counter in one of
the great linen houses. 'Scalloped
borders are also in fairly good de-
nlaud, but the hemstitched, embroid-
cred hsndkerchiefs are in the lead
They range in price from 1926 to
$5.75 a dozen, and we are offering
three different sizes variously en-.
broidered. The initials on the hand.
kerchiefs are not as much used as
formerly, though many orders come
IN for the single letter. Some women
prefer to have their full name EN-.
broidered in the corner"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MN
GOOD ROADS NOTES. |

A Bulletin by State Engineer Bond.
State Engineer Bond, of New York,
is paying great attention to the matter
of construction Of good roads and has
just issued bulletin calling attention
to the necessity OF care after the
roads are constructed. He says:
Roads in the country are continu-
ally subjected to the action OF the ele-
ments, the wear of the wheels and
horses feet, and the continual pound
ing it receives from passing loads
Therefore after road has been ac-
cepted by the State Engineer as COM
pleted, and turned over to the officers
of the county, it is then that the duties
of the officers really commence, and
it depends on their efforts as to
what the life of the road will be
whether they spend the money wisely
on maintenance, or will allow the
road to deteriorate and make expen =.
sive repairs necessary. As no pro-
vision has been made in the Higbie-
Armstrong bill for such maintenance,
aside from the provisions in section
13: can persons owning property
abutting on such road so improved.
or residing thereon, shall thereafter
pay all highway taxes assessed against
them in money, in the manner now
provided BY" it may be well to con-
slider the various methods in vogue
by which roads can be kept from de-
teriorating. This subject is so we'll
understood in European countries
that we need look no further for the
cause of the excellence of their roads.
Three systems exist:
~ By contract with private par
ties.
(2.) By the aid of the rural popula-
tion, and
(3.) BY the men employed for that
purpose by the community.
OF these three, only the third pro-
position is the proper one. This is
the system used by France and Ger
many, the objection to No. 1 being
that it has been tried and found
wanting; to No. 2 the aid given by
the rural population is not applicable
to the maintenance of an improved
road, as such road needs the super
vision of man perfectly familiar
with this class of work, and such p
one can only gain this familiarity by
being constantly and permanently
employed. Men who have been given
charge of piece of road soon become
interested in it, and will strive ener-
getically and intelligently to make
their portion of the road the best 1t
would seem advisable, therefore, that
the third proposition should be
adopted by the supervisors of the
county in which the improved road is
situated. That is, a man should be
appointed and employed permanently,
who should have the road or certain
portion of it in his charge, and who,
under the supervision of the officers
of the county, should be responsible
for its maintenance.
The bulletin then gives detailed in
structions as to the methods which
should be employed to keep roads in
good condition.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
Simple shlrt-waist Model.

The Czarina shirt-waist, notwith.
standing its title, is simple model
that is suitable for making up almost
any pretty fabric, but a particularly
taking one included in the handsome
trousseau of an autumn bride is made
OF amethyst velvet and heliotrope silk.
1t is formed with deep yoke at the
back. There is a wide plat down the
front, where the waist fastens with
pearl and amethyst studs. The back
OF the waist is very closely fitted, the
sleeves close coat shapes, with velvet
cuffs, and the fronts droop a little at
the belt.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
Cost of a New York Rnad.

The speakers at the recent farmers
congress illustrated the working of
the New York law by citing one road
in Oneida County. The total cost was
$14, ,686. OF this the State pays $7343,
the county $5140 and the property
benefited $2202. The fifty per cent
paid by the State comes out of the
$50, 900 raised by the law and amounts
to one cent on $1,000 of assessed valu-
alton for each taxpayer throughout
the State. On the assessed valuation
of Oneida County each taxpayer paid
G3 cents on each $1,000 to raise the
thirty-tive per cent psid by the coun-
ty. So that each taxpayer in the
county of Oneida paid II cents OH
each $1,000 of assessed valuation for
the road in question, in addition to
to which the remaining S2202 will be
paid by the owners of the property
tenefited by the improvement. The
class OF work contemplated by the
New York law consists of grading the
;oad to established grades, constructing
drains and culverts and laying six
inch macadam surface.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Contrary to popular bolief, excite
ment causes much less insanity than
monotony.
According to Liebig, tho slkali in
asparagus develops form in the hu-
man brain.
Professor Dewar has succeeded in
solidifying hydrogen into CLASSY,
transparent mass.
Lord Kelvin in lecture stated tina
rs o result of recent investigation it
was estimated that the earth had
been the abode of life about thirty
million years.
italian physicians have satisfied
themselves that the mosquitoes which
abound in Venice never convey the
poison of malaria because it is not
found in the marshes of the vicinity.
An expedition consisting entirely
of women has been formed in Aus
tralia to explore the Solomon Islands,
the home of the fercest cannibals
known. Hitherto white men have
been able to penetrate only few
miles inland.
Increasing experience, according to
DIR. Hutchinson, confirms the view
that cancer begins as strictly local
disease, and that complete removal at
an early stage will cure eighty per
cent. of all cases. Thus far all search
for drug has failed.
A series of experiments made by
Benno Erdmaun and Raymond Dodge
show that in normal reading the let
ters are not spelled out separately
and one after the other, but that u
short word of not more than four lot
ters can be read off in less time than
single letter.
In the summer the Northern Hem
isphere is turned more perpendicu-
larly toward the sun, hence it is
warmer in, summer than in winter,
when that hemisphere is turned more
sideways to the sun. In the summer
the earth is more distant from the sun
than in winter.
Some incense bushes, now in full
leaf, are unique treasure of the
Botanical Garden OF the Vienna Uni
versity. The secret of VIII ere these
plants grow is carefully guarded by
the Arabs, but DIR. Oskar Simony
succeeded last winter in getting these
live specimens in Southern Arabia.
A house in Italy that was struck
by lightning last April has yielded
DIR. Folgheralter some interesting
facts. The lightning produced large
number of magnetic points and zones
in the masonry, amply proving that
lightning may Independently yield
marked magnetization, and that mag.
netic points may be so formed in tufa.
The light which comes to us from
the sun in eight minutes might jour
ney ten thousand billion years and
not reach the borderland of the uni
verse. 1t has no limits. 1t can
have none. Yet the same laws rule
it throughout. And every force, all
power within it, all the laws that gov.
ern it, work for harmony and happi-
ness.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
A Klondilse Crime Cure.

A returned Klondiker says that
Dawson City has adopted novel aud
effective cure for crime. 1t is Il mou-
ster wood pile. and it is enough to
awe the most hardened oflonder. A
man convicted of any oifense is com.
PEELED to saw wood. He saws ten
hours day steadily, day after day,
until his sentence expires. He must
saw regardless of tho weather. In
the most intense cold, Tho hardest
rain, the flercest snowstorm, he il
compelled to continue saving, and ii
the day has not ten hours of light,
lanterns are provided TO enable him
to put in full day. When the pilo
OF saved wood begins to get low the
authorities sentence men 70 saving
for very slight oirenses, and the re.
snlt is that everybody behaYes for fcar
of getting dose of saving Omaha
Bee.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
To Locate a vessel Mt Sen.

A novel method of detecting the
sound OF steamships propellers has
been invented by an Italian. He has
made an apparatus which is q varia-
ton of the telephone. Several trans
mittess are submerged and arranged
on land, or to point in different direc-
tions, oil being connected with re.
ceiver on board another ship. Tho
direction in which the sound is loud
est indicates the point of the compass
in which the distant ship is to be
looked for.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23

One of The leaders of the Gresraclo
ChNutauqua in Maine is DIR, Lewis n.
James, a scholar who beneath qnot
exterior wells considerable humor.
At the recent summer session OF that
famous institution there were lecturers
numbcrless from all over the world.
Meeting friend, the Doctor asio |
him how ho was enjoying himself.
"Finely, up to yesterday, when L
heard Professor X"
"Didn't he lecture well?"
"Not at all. He simply told US
what he didn't know"
ia he still talking?" quoried the
Doctor as he walked away.-Philadel-
phia Saturday Evening Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
Desirable Dress Fabric.

Among the new expensive novelty
weaves in dress fabrics are those with
a rough surface, but a firm underweave
which prevents the material from
stretching or breaking at the waist
seams. The surface is broken by la.
teral lines of chenille or narrower vel
velvet woven in a raised design. The
crinkled effect is greatly enhanced by
the extreme sickness of the fabric,
which emphasizes the deeper black OF
the chenille or velvet stripes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
An Artificial Food Product.

Experiments in German hospitals
with an albuminous powder called
"tropon," n substitute for meat, have
been so satisfactory that it is likely to
become an article of commerce. 1t is
claimed that ono pound of tropon is
equal in nutritive value to five pounds
of meat or one hundred eggs, and its
cost is only seventy cents. The hos
pital patients liked the tropon so well
that nearly all OF them preferred it to
meat. 1t is now being used as an in
grcdient of various foods, as, for ex-
ample, in flour, roll containing five
per cent. of the powder equaling in
nutritive value five eggs or half q
pound of meat. 1t is needless to en-
large upon the future of tropon, if
there has been no exaggeration in
the accounts of the experiments with
it. The inventor is a professor ct
Bonn. The Merchants Review.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
MODERN CITY OF MIDAS.
THE lNcALcULA5LE WEALTH OF THE
JoHANNe SBURc REGION.


Tho UitInnders Have Built In the Trans.
vnal Desert Such City as Would DO
Credit TO Any Civilized .:Country--w Was
Named After PhiegmRtio Boer.
Almost in the centre of the great,
undulating, desert-like plains north
of the Vaal River on which some six
thousand sturdy Dutch farmers estab.
lished themselves after the great exc.
dus, or "treck," CT 1886, stands the
city OF johannesburg.
In the midst of wilderness, almost
trackless, devoid of trees, huge
tableland six thousand feet above the
sea-level, on which the semitropical
sun beats down and the clouds de-
scend, belching torrents for which the
name of rain is far too feeble, rises,
like Aladdin's palace, majestic
modern city, alive with energy, cleo
tricity and hustle. 1t is thronged
with vigorous humanity in breathless
pursuit of wealth. 1t harbors nearly
two hundred thousand persons of more
than ordinary activity. 1t is a. hive
of busy workers without a drone. An
oasis Of intellect in desert of dull
squatters, mighty metropolis COM
pared with which the colonial capitals,
Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg or
the Port Of Durham, are as Pensacola
to Chicago. Such is Johannesburg,
the one spot in the tiny South African
Republic which makes that quaint lit
tie nation of supreme Importance to
the whole world, for the possession of
which the blood of thousands may be
split, and which has focused upon the
arid plains of the Transvaal the covet-
Gus eyes of powerful nations.
Although this mushroom city, until
recently hundreds of miles from the
nearest railroad, was only marked off
by stakes driven into the unbroken
veldt and digni6ed with the title of a
township on the Goth Of September.
1886, it has to-day hundreds of sub
stantial and artistic stone and marble
buildings, many miles of well-paved
streets, palatial club-houses, magnifi-
change, : five first class theatres and
opera houses, hotels with elegant ac-
commodations for thousands of guests,
stately churches, hospitals, museums,
electric street railroads, race tracks
and polo grounds, with an undue pro-
portion of gambling houses which are
wide open night and day all the year
round.
There is misapprehenson in the
minds of many that Johannesburg is
merely mining. camp, a rough and
tumble collection of diggers' shanties.
a sort of semitropical Klondike. This
was 80 not more than ten years ago,
when all the buildings were of CORFU
gated iron which had been carted over
hundreds of miles of trackless veldt
ON huge OK teams; but since the rail
road connecting johannesburg with
Cape Town was completed, in 1898,
the town has compared favorably with
any OF our fourishing Western cities
having about the same number of in
habitants.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
Re,na:ns OF nn AbIo Enlor.

Tie lc,aains of gigantic prehiS.
toric alilaal, which naturalists at
Santa Fc, \. M are unable to class.
ify, lbs been found at Tcouque. lis
upper jaw consists OF twenty layers
OF bones overlapping each otLcr, each
provided with twelve teeth like hH-
man lAolars.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
ZINC AntI.Kut AGItatlon In prIcr.

In Berlin all street repairing is done
at night.
There are 664 good roads orgeniza,
tions in Pennsylvania.
1t is the narrow tire that is destroy.
ing our roads. As soon as the rains
soften them the narrow tires cut like
knife.
If the farmer wants good roads, and
we know that he wants them, he should
insist upon State aid in their con.
struction.
Other things being equal, the ma
tion possessing the best facilities for
transportation and distribution of it's
product will take the lead The bicy.
Gle hao been instrumental in bringing
10 foro the public the vast Importance
OF better highways.
81 do not believe" says an expert,
that there is, or ever will be. coun-
try road constructed that will stand
the narr ow tire. A fiye-inch tire.
however, will press and mako the sur.
face still more solid, especially when
the road is softened by rain, instead
OF sutting as marrow tire does"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
why France Is DInsrsnt.

America is the home of the shock.
ingly bad road, hence it is not sur.
prising that this country has been
slow to become affected with the germs
OF automobilism. In France, where
urchins might play billiards on any
country road, automobilism has
reached the height of national craze.
High speed races are held, automobile
clubs take the place of the absinthe
drinking and idling organizations, and
the person who drives horse is re.
garded almost in the light of luna
tic who clings to the delusion OF the
Dark Ages.