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The state herald., 1899-07-14

On Tuesday sisht, the eth, q about
il:So s'olsck, the Windsor Touring mill
vss burnt 10 the ground with oil Ia
eontests sfcsptips ssms 90 sacks oi
nour asd . few sacks Of feed. The loss
y from twenty-five 10 thirty thousand
dollars. There 10 On Insurance Of si. .oooC
% the mill and $1,000 on the stock. II
every dellsr si the insurance 10 paid
there vill stiil b. net loss Of from ten
70 fifteen thousand dollsru. Geo. Ham
vss the hrst 70 discover tho 6rs, which
was bursting through tho roof on the
side adjoining the warehouse. There bs
Ing no possible way To est,nsuish ths
fire or check its progress, In = very sher,
time the mill with its valuable contents
wss . mass Of ruins ssd the crsmstsd
elements is oil that rsmains Of our az
csllsnt mill, the loss Of Which 10 aserious
enc. not only 10 owners, but also 10 the
tswn and surrounding country. The
mill was owned and operated by Oilist,
Bros.-E. N. Gillstt, mspngsr For,
Collins Esprsss.
oilists Bres. wsrs for several years In
business In Holyoks aud their friends In
this county will regret 10 learn Of thsir
loss,
The state herald., 1899-07-14

Read the new meat market ad in this
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
FumIgatlnr nn ..rohard.

The only remedy which is absolute
ly effective for all kinds OF scale is that
of fumigation. This was first prac.
tlced in California in the citrus belt to
check the ravages of the cottony cush- :
ion scale and the red scale. Hydro
cyanic acid gas proved most effective
and is now used almost exclusively.
@. w. Woodworth, in bulletin 1872
of the California Experiment Station,
describes in detail the process OF flu
migating trees in an orchard Briefly,
it consists in covering the trees with
some sort of tent, generating the gas
and allowing it to remain until the
scales have been destroyed.
The tent generally used is what is
known as hoop tent and ranges from
eight to fourteen feet in diameter.
The hoop itself is of three-quarter-
inch gas pipe, but half inch will do for
smaller sizes. The manipulation of
the tent varies according to its size.
If the trees are small, it can be easily
thrown over tree, put in place aud
then taken off. If the IL ees are OF con-
siderable size some effort will be re.
quired. In theilustration the method
of changing from one tree to another
is shown. After the fumigation is
completed, the hoop is lifted until it
is in the position shown at b. Two
men, holding the sides OF the tent,
carry it to the next tree and place it in
the position shown ate Then, with
out pausing, and while the tent is full
of air, the upper end of the hoop is
forced over the tree and down the
other side to about d. The hoop can
then be easily pulled down to the
ground to e. If there is any trouble
in pulling over the cloth. the third man
with the pole goes round the tent and
lifts the cloth away from the tree, re.
lieving some of the friction and enab-
ling it to adjust ltaelf to the top.
Common duck is used for making the
tents, most of them being of eight
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21

n part of this clover is pastured OF
1nown for hay, such will bloom the
second time, and continue in bloom
until after hard frosts. / have seen
bees working on this bloom in Oc-
tober, writes F. A. Smell in Bee
Culture, when all other honey yield
ing plants were killed with one ex-
ception, that being giant white-spiral
mignonette, which is sometimes
grown in flower gardens.
Sweet clover stands drought we'll,
but gives better yield of honey and
pasture with frequent showers. The
honey is light in color. but, to my
taste, not OF as fine flavor as that
from white or alsike clovers or bass
Wool In the dry regions of the
West. sweet clover and alfalfa have
proved valuable plants for bees and
stock. The hay is largely fed to
stock. Here cattle pasture ON il
freely, and the hay has seemed to
give good satisfaction, as stock soon
learn to like it,
This plant should be grown in all
waste places. and thus take the place
of the noxious weeds which grow
there.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21

The growing practice of utilizing
The waste products OF all mauufac.
lures has brought out the fact that
buttermilk possesses many unsuspect-
ed qualities. A medical paper SAYS
its reputation as an agent OF superior
digestibility has become firmly estab.
lished II is, indeed, a true milk pep.
tone-that is, milk already partially
digested, the coagulatiol of the
coaguIated portion being loose and
haky and not of that firm, indigesti.
BILE nature which is the result OF the
action OF the gastric juice upon sweet
cows milk. It is of great value in
the treatment Of typhoid fever, and,
being decided laxative, it may be
turned to advantage in the treatm ent
of habitual constipation. It is no
less valuable in kidney troubles, from
its diuretic qualities. 1t is in great
request for the treatment OF diabetes,
either alone or alternately with skim
milk, and in cases Of gastric nicer aud
cancer OF the stomach it can often be
retained when no othor food can.
Chemical analysis shows that in its
nature 1t greatly resembles koumiss,
with the exception of which it is the
most grateful, refreshing aud digesti-
BILE OF the products OF milk. - Eastern
Farmer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
A DANGEROUS cALLlNo. lI,.-
Animal Trtinefs Arc Always Likely
Lose Their Lives.


When you see an animal trainer per
forming with ferocious beasts you maj
be quite right il you imagine the mar
as fearless master OF them; but il yor
think for an instant that there is NJ
danger you are wholly wrong. A
trainer never confronts the beasts and
compels them to do his bidding with
out literally taking his life in hi:
hands.
He is so used to the danger that he
does not think OF it each time, and he
holds his mastery OF them by sort OF
power that becomes habit, second
nature, as it were, just as he eats his
meals or performs other common EN-.
ployments. Or, to make the case
more plain, he forgets the dangers
that surround him, just as men in any
other dangerous calling do--a painter,
for instance, who stands upon mar.
row platform hundreds of feet from
the ground. Nevertheless, the dan
ger is ever present, and all tho more
terrible because Of tho uncertainty Of
it.
A trainer must inspire constant fear
in the brutes. What power for harm
there is the elephant, for instance I
One swing of that powerful trunk,
and he could crush the life out of the
man; but he is possessed of an ungov-
ernable fear.
Some animal trainers live to q good
age and never have an accident. They
are absolutely fearless in their work,
and yet they may be no brayer than
you or / when other animals are in
question.
There was one trainer who gave q
wonderful performance with n number
animals in the one cage. He would
take all manner of liberties with the
ferocious brutes, compelling them to
do his bidding making them form
pyramids and lying down on them.
When you consider how cat or dog
will sometimes turn upon you il not
handled just SO you must realize what
n tremendous power the trainer must
exert over such huge, savage beasts.
There were always dozen other
keepers about when this performance
was being enacted, and they were
armed with pistols, hot irons and raw
hide whips. One of the lions turned
upon this trainer once, and his arm
was badly lacerated before he could
be rescued.
Ofall animals, keepers say the tiger
is the worst and the most treacherous.
1t is necessary to keep the eye fixed
pretty constantly upon it, or it may
revolt Mt any moment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
CURIOUS FACTS.

Chicago uses every year Al 900, 900
pounds of soap.
Fried wasp soup is considered q
great luxury in China.
Herod is the name OF Judge who
sits in police courts in Chanute, Kan.
Among the exports of Mexico last
year are to be noted two tons OF dried
flies.
The doll is probably the most an
tique of toys. 1t has been found in
side the graves of children of ancient
Rome.
Peru possesses such diversity of
elevations and climatic peculiarities as
to be able to produce almost any prod
uct known to man.
In the fourteenth century armor be-
came so heavy that many soldiers only
thirty years old were deformed or per-
manently disabled by its weight.
In Switzerland mikmaid gets bet
ter wages il gifted with good voice.
because it has been discovered that
COW will yield one-fifth more milk if
soothed during milking by melody.
Hildesheim's famous thousand year
old rosebush, which it had been feared
in the last two years was dying, has
sent out new shoots and runners from
a thick root stock this year, and seems
now to be safe to last for u good many
years to come.
The first stage coach in England
started in 1850. Its pace was about
three miles per hour. The first stage
coach in America started from No. 90
Ann (North) street, Boston, for Ports
mouth, n f., aud occupied eighteen
hours upon the journey.
The speed of an otter under water
is amazing. Fish have no chance
against them. In some places in In
dia offers are kept by the natives to
fish for them. They are tied up to
stakes like dogs, when not working,
wear plated straw collars and seem
happy.
Near the town of Capliina, in Bos-
MIA, archmologists have exhumed new
Pompeii in the form of Roman camp.
All the walls are well preserved. and
some of the rooms are decorated with
fine paintings, while weapons, lamps,
and various other objects have been
found in them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
Varied Career OF n Tree,

Men versod in woodcraft in the
vicinity of New Brunswick, n. j., are
puzzled about the experiences OF a
large cedar tree on the property of A.
V. Schenck. Until about six months
ago there was nothing to distinguish
the cedar from many others except
that it was one of the finest looking
trees on the place. Then gale Of
wind gave it a decided lean to the
northwest.
Shortly after it recovered from this
another gale of wind blew it back to Il
vertical position. Once again gale
of wind blew it on the slant, and few
weeks ago gale from the opposite
direction not only restored it to an up
right position, but oyerdid matters to
such an extent that the tree has de
cided slant to the northwest again.
Through it all the tree continues Wig
OrOuS
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21


SO many farmers SOW turnips as a
catch crop in corn and potatoes that
they forget there is any better way.
As rule catch crops do not pay.
They always interfere with the late
cultivation of hoed crops, which il ai-
ways important and sometimes neces-
sary il there is a dry time late in sum
yyer. Now that most farmers Guilt
-'sste Ihoed crops very shallow late in
the summer. merely scratching the
surface to kill weeds while they are
small, there is less objection TO late
cultivation than used to be the case.
In the old days, when a pillow was
used at the last cultivation TO pile the
soil up against the hills of corn or po-
tatoes, the result was always injury
and often ruin to the crop. In such
case, too, there was little chance for
turnips to g = as the soil piled up
against the hills turned the water IN
to the middle OF the rows, or rather
the corn leaves themselves did so, as
they bend over to the middle Of the
rows by July aud often in June turn
ing the Flightest slower into the mid
die of the row, where most of the corn
roots are. Under the hill the soil is
cost alwavs dry until the corn is
The potato top does not lop
20 much. but it, too. throws a
Teal OF the moisture that falls on
the space between the hills.
3ultivator.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21

ounce canvas. After the tent is made.
it is rendered gastignt by one OF three
methods. The first is coating it with
thoroughly boiled linseed oil, applied
with brush until the entire cloth be-
comes saturated. If properly done,
the tent remains strong and tight and
is not too stiff. The second method
is the use of sizing and paint. The
sizing is applied in the same manner
as oil, and penetrates the fber in the
same way. AS soon as this coating is
dried, it is followed by coating of
flexible paint, usually on both sides of
the tent The third method is to satu-
rate the cloth with decoction of
chopped leaves of common prickly
pear cactus. This is made by filing a
barrel two-thirds full of chopped stems
aud adding cold water until the barrel
is pearly full. Allow the stems to soak
for twenty-four hours aud then draw
off the solution, which is ready for
use. Tents treated in this way are
liable to mold, but by adding to the
solution little tannin this is pre-
vented. Soak the tent in the solution
over night aud then raise in the morn
ing and allow to dry. The cloth is
scarcely stiffened and seems to be very
satisfactory. Potassium cyanide, in
an earthen vessel, is introduced under
the end of the tent, sulphuric acid is
added, and the hydrocyanic gas is gen
Grated. The amount OF cyanide will
vary with the size OF the tree. A tree
four feet high, three feet in diameter,
will require two ounces of dry cyanide,
one-third ounce acid aud half ounce
wafer. III the tree is seven feet high
and four feet in diameter, use one
ounce. Of cyanide, one-half ounce acid
aud two ounces Of water, and so on in
proportion. Fotty minutes are re-
quired for the gas to do its work ef-
fectively. The fumigation is best done
at night. The gas is deadly poison,
and great care must be used when flu
migating. American Agriculturist.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
Eject. Of Feed on Esrs.

Anyone who has observed eggs
closely has noticed that some eggs
have what poultrymen call greater
consistency than others. That is, out
Of a dozen eggs bought at q store hall
will have whites and yolks so thin
that they will spread out thin and
wide and be almost fiat.
This is the effect OF the feed given
the bens producing the eggs. Hens
that are fed on milk aud grass aud
allowed to pick up their living about
the manure piIc produce eggs with
thin yolks and whites, and these eggs
are invariably insipid and tasteless,
aud when boiled or poached are not
exactly appetizing. There Is flavor
about such eggs that is not atogeth ell
Pleasant In any case and often it ID
positively repulsiye to one who under
tands that this flavor comes from
sating impure food.
N Take 4 lot OF hens and feed them
5pilk and grain and their eggs are firm
and consistent, and they have hayol
that makes them relished by tha mos
/ 'isos. The grain furnishes the
epnstituents and the albumin
70. ~ connection With sh'
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
Smart woodpeckers in Maine.

Professor Eastman j. Clarke, with .
party of students from Connecticut, a
few days ago returned from a long
trip after natural history specimens in
the Maine woods. While on the
headwaters OF the Allagash, hs says,
he found family of downy wood
peckers which seemed to be endowed
with more intelligence than falls to
the lot of the average bird, Wood
peckers feed upon worms that burrow
into trees. AS an active borer makes
a gallery three or four feet long in q
single season, the woodpecker is often
obliged to make many punctures in
order to get at its prey. The family
of birds which came under Professor
Clarke's eye has adopted labor saw
ing device which has proved of great
service. The rankest plant that
grows in the Maine woods is the
Indian poke, the berries OF which are
charged with an alkaline juice that is
very offensive to all animal life
According TO Professor Clarke, the
Allagash woodpeckers, having opened
up gallery made by borer, drops
pokeberries in the office. The berries
give out such an odor that the grubs
are forced to come outside for fresh
air, aud the woodpecker does the rest.
New York Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
Audao,ty of American woman,

The remarks of Emperor William
to the two American women who cor
nered him on his yacht and forced
him to listen to long arguments in
favor Of the new woman will doubtless
become historic. None but American
women would have attempted such au
act Their arguments must have
been tiresome to his imperial majesty,
yet he cannot be half bad fellow,
for we are told that he heard them
through with patience.
The Emperor replied to thom; 81
agree with my wife, who says that
women should not meddle with any
thing beyond the four k's-kinder,
.kirche, kuche and kleider (children,
church, cookery and clothingl -
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
screen. For Stable Window.

The wire screens commonly used in
houses to keep out flies are now so
cheap that they can be profitably used
in stable windows for the same pur-
pose. But it must be remembered
that the stable is itself the most COM
mon breeding place for flies, in the
excrement from animals in which the
flies deposit their eggs. Unless care
is taken to gather up and remove the
droppings before there is time for
eggs to hatch, the window screens
will serve rather to shut the flies in
than TO keep them out. Stables should
never be built near houses, because il
they are nothing can keep houses
from being overrun with flies. Next
to the stable as breeding place for
these peets is the sink hole, where
slops of all kinds are thrown to pass
of through drains underneath. 1t is
possible that where these conditions
prevail, flies, though annoying, are
really beneficial. Flies doubtless de-
stroy much dlth, and thus lessen the
malaria which would prevail If they
had not been created But it is far
better to place all decaying sub
stances under ground, where the earth
will absorb their bad odors, than to
leave them on the surface to breed
flies,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
What Soda water L.

Soda water, SO called becau
made with soda, is mineral
made Of carbonic acid and wat
favored with various kinds OF
Its common name has now no
ing, because the soda water
present day has no soda in it
bonic acid will mix with water
common heat and pressure OF
but If the heat be lessened
pressure increased, much MOI
can be forced into the wate
making soda water the carbon
is obtained by pouring weak SUI
acid over marble dust, which ST
the gas. This is then fore
means Of a powerful pump il
water contained in very str
tight vessel. The water th
pregnated with gas is drawn
fountains or is bottled. III
nothing injurious about the liQl
cept that its coldness may
digestion and thhs injure the 81
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
WORDS OF WISDOM

They also serve who only st
wait. Milton.
The man who pardons easil
injury. -Corneille.
The best teacher one can
necessity.
Good manners and good MT
sworn friends and fast allies. =
To be good and disagreeablt
treason against the royalty Of
Hannah More.
1t is not the place that ma
person, but the person that
the place honorable. Cicero.
The opportunity to do mis-
found q hundred times a
that of doing good but once a
Yoltaire.
The conditions of conquesN
ways easy. We have but t
while, endure "a while, believ,
and never turn back .-Simms
SO remarkably perverse Is
turc OF man that he despist
that court him, and admires
will not bend before him. i
des.
Mental pleasures never cIoy
those of the body, they are il
by repetition, approved by re
and strengthened by enjoy
Cotton.
Much ostentation and mucl
ing are seldom met togethe
sun, rising and declining, nal
shadows; at midday, when he
est, net at all.-BiIhop Hall.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
milk, and The combiualion is one thet

milk, nnd the combination is one thet
makes good eggs. Hens fed ex-
clusively op grain do not produce
eggs OF the best flavor, but their eggs
are infinitely better than those from
hens that must depend altogether on
themselves for their living.
The quality of eggs depends alto
gether on the feed the hens eat, and
where this is understood, consistent
eggs are valued as being worth twice
as much as those lacking consistency.
Pomona Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
a Noysl sIght n Eeuador.

The most novel aud amusing spec
tacle in Guayaquil, Ecuador, is don
keys wearing pantalets. This is not
due to motives OF modesty, for most
OF the children go naked and many OF
the peon women nearly 80. The pau
talets, made of cotton cloth and sus-
pended by strips of tape over the
shoulders and launches, are humane
invention to protect the animals from
the vicious flies which attack them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
rhe yItni Neah Of Cnnl.

The industries by which nj
are supplied and the communici
land or sea, by which these m
ere reached, have, since 1915,
20 depend more and more upOn
The twentieth century will
marked increase in the prize
Goa! OF the United Kingdom. OF
pesn Powers Russia has by Il
greatest reserve of coal. India
tria. and South Africa will CO
the aid OF the British Empire; B
United States must become the
of the worlds coal supply, to
the far future, perhaps supplal
China and Japan. How these Cd
will affect the relative sea-po
nations it would be rash to atte
predict. --Nineteenth Century h
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
queer Companions.

The Kennebec (Me.) Journ'
of man who has a fox and
that are boon companions.
both animals were in the pup
they were placed together, an'
now enjoyed a year OF each oth'
ciety in peace aud harmony.
sleep together and play witt
other much after the manner
frolicsome pups.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21

A farmers wife near Wellil
Mo-, while feeding. chickens rec
dropped an earring, which was
ly gobbled up by ons OF the
She could not pick out the part
chicken, so killed them one by
twenty seven in all--but failed
the earring. Then she began Y
around and found it in the
where the old hen had dropped
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-21
AN .oeyecT.LessoN N NJ.
now an American Girl Is Teso.,
French the Magic Power OF ~. '

HOW an American Girl is Tes..,
French the Magic Power OF ~"
Parisians had heard of than.
Gould and his high-piled mi y
money, but for the past two ' q g
have been receiving a spechs
lesson on the power OF wealN :
world hands, in the effor "a. "a.
daughter, the Countess de c, sal
to reproduce in Paris the pal,
Grand Trianon, MS built by d II,
Kings ut Versailles more THAI
turies ago. Three-quarters
Of land was bought at the iut r.
OF the Avenue du Bois de y,
and the Avenue Malakoff. Al M,
peuse of close to q million Of w!'
this being the most costly rele'
site in Paris. Public inte ttu1
been made keen by the annoulns
that while the exterior would y
to the fourteenth century. ps
terror was to be n blending n1
fourteenth and fifteenth pe,st'
the Gould millions and the e.
of the French architects cophz
pass this unique desire. tn,
of two historic periods in Frer "
tectural history was so rer 'o'
an undertaking that from ID ,
ming the progress of this ho ou
been followed with such a ,iom 1s'
terest as has been given to fel gu
private building projects. lam
family was occupying the cetSa,
tion, but the interior decot
the two wings probably ca tn
completed in less than two yeS' q Z
When il became known such M
was to be attempted manyiti
French said it would take gu
years to build and furnish w
treasures; but Western enterr@
local ingenuity promise its col
in q fifth OF the time. The rlne
will then have cost thirty mi S
francs, or six millions of dollahn
the Count and Countess are G
of rare art works and bric-a.h ey
in single year, it is said, t,,9'
pended million of dollars ie,
chases for their new residenc. =,
the matter OF ceilings was Md,
ranged for the Castellanes
Italy and sought the splendijSoa'
OF Verona. They did not W.
palace, but coveted the eley. /
ings it contained from the d
Tiepolo, and these could be
only by the purchase of the o ,rr
ture. Edward Page CASTOR 'sr
Woman's Home Companion. !,