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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
The Movement I'm New York

Governor Roosevelt received at the
Executive Chamber over n hundred
delegates from various parts Of the
State, who were in Albany to attend
the Convention Of Representative OF
County Boards OF Supervisors to dis
cuss highway Improvement under the
pro posed operation of the laws enacted
for good roads. The party was mar.
shallcd into the Governors presence
by State Engineer Bond, who intro.
duced Mr.. Joseph L. Lee, of West
chester. Speaking for his colleagues,
Mr. Lee said they wanted an appro
priation of $1,000, 900 for good roads.
and if the Legislature refused to make
such an appropriation, he believed the
party deserved to be driven from
power. He Lelieved that the Gov.
,rnor would ospouso their cause, MS
he always had the cause Of everything
just and right.
Tho Governor, in reply, said he was
glad TO meet so many earnest cham
pions of the good roads movement.
He thought 1t unnecessary to assure
hem of his hearty sympathy with
their cause. This State must have
good roads aud we must improve our
methods of communication, especially
in the rural districts. The Governor
said that he thought that, as a rule,
the members of the Legislature would
respect the wishes of those whom thcy
represented when the people got those
wishes properly formulated. He, there
fore, urged thom to organize and make
the strength and sincerity of their
purposes apparent. When this is
lone, the Governor said, the difficulty
of getting appropriations would end,
The Governor said he thought the
delegates wero getting the movement
in good shape by such meetings as the
one they were now holding here, and
he hoped the convention would bear
fruit in practical results.
The Good Roads Convention adopt
cd resolution that it was the sense
of the convention that there should be
no amendment Of the Higbie-Arm.
strong bill this year. The delegates
decided to ask the Legislature for an
appropriation of 81, 200, 900. which is
considered the amount necessary to be
paid by the State for proper inaug.
uration OF the work. proposition in
favor of tho employment of convlcts
on the roads was approved.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
THE OLD oAcueRREorYPEs.

BY
Il. ntItI found locked In the cedar chest.
folded which as be
waistcoas gay with stripes,
ofo worn.ou fashion-tbess old oaguerreotype
autlI folding fastened with tiny hook,
made o lit the latch and look,
,inoa III purple vev odd little frames OF gold.
i,lno ho brought from the days OF old
.ndoa nd rrnndma,
.ndfo oa,qbo n marvel, grandpA's collar show;
finyt her baby hands
noticein gllterng, glded bands.
80 md nnces and cousi starchy and array,
blooming, wrinked and
tfbronrh M glasses they sitting here
with smile that Is half tenr
pictures for hcaress 1. in TRUTH
daylight these ghosts OF vanished youth
10 chamber and lavender.
the wonderful days
N'+T~r-T Saturday Evening Post
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

An interesting effect OF the employ
ment OF women in many new spheres
If labor which has been seen during
the last twenty years is the remarkable
extension which has been caused in
the working period of n woman's life.
Every day the term OF woman's &c
tivity is being heightened, and instead
Of retiring from strenuous work at
thirty five, which was the limit form
erly fixed of the ordinary woman's
business career, the woman of to-day
at that age is only approaching the
plenitude of her powers. G. Il. Col
lett, in regard 20 the domestic bear
ing OF this change in the status OF
women, says: Formerly at the age
of eighteen the young person was ex-
pected to relieve her invalid mother
of household cares and brighten her
aged fathers declining years. But
mothers in 1900 refuse to become de
crepit and take to the sofa merely be-
cause their daughters are grown up.
The new mother may be considerably
over thirtyfi five, bordering on fifty
perhaps, but she neither feels aged,
nor looks it, and is raj her inclined to
look beyond her home for ful scope
for her powers when tlfas set free
from maternal cares. Mental activity
gives freshness and interest to life,
and TO be fresh and interested is to
be young" Miss Collett insists that
it is because girls have been Taught
to use their brains, and women have
been encouraged to keep them in re-
pair, that this old stereotyped con-
ception of the necessary failure OF
woman's power after thirty-tive years
of age has become absurd.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
A Home Example.

Otto Dorner, Chairman of the L. A.
w. Highway Improvement Commit.
tee, who is considered one of the best.
informed good roads men in this
country, says: "We are not obliged to
go to Europe for illustrations of good
roads, for we have, fortunately, few
localities in our own country which
furnish such examples. Mecklenburg
County, N. c., not long ago began
the construction of a system of mac
adam roads. 1t was customary there
to load up two bales of cotton on a
wagon to be hauled by mule team
The mules could draw this load all
right. After rain, when the roads
were soft, the load was too much foi
even q pair of tough mules. When
the country had built few roads il
was found that tho same mules were
able to haul as much as twelve bales,
or six tons, in place of their former
load, which amounted to only a single
ton. And moro-the improved roads
made it possible to haul this load in
wet and dry weather alike, for, being
properly built of stone, they were fl
for use Immediately after a heavy
rain"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
Confectionery For the Army.

"Candy" has been added to the ia.
tions Of the American soldier. Fifty
tons OF confectionery have been sent
to the troops in tho Philippines, Cuba
and Puerto Rico by one New York
firm. The sweets preferred are choc
olate creams, cocoanut drops, lemon
drops and acidulated drops. These
are sealed in one pound cans of an
oval shape to fit the pockets of a sol.
diers uniform. AS we have before
mentioned. the Germans have found
that sugar improves the endurance oi
soldiers, and issue chocolate and Other
sweets to the army. Jam is also good
for men in the field. London Globe,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
* GOOD ROADS NOTES. !


VIII NOb lucTehsf taAnNtous
7 n her travels and missionary vorI
to promote the sentiment for goos
roads in Illinois, Miss Harbe1
z claims to have been very success
full in enistiug the cooperation 6
commercial bodies in different towns
Among farmers, however, she bat
somo difficulty in explaining that the
association sho represented was
working not for hard roads but foI
good roads. The average farmer, she
found, easily became frightened at the
proposal for hard roads, for that makes
them think of macadam. which woulc
mean increased taxation. In recent
address Miss Harber said: "Our sole
aim Mt present is to make good soft
roads, which in years to come will
furnish foundations for good harC
roads. As an association wo regard
our work as experimental aud educa
tional. Wo aim to have at each of oui
conventions manufacturers and ma.
chimes for constructing sample pieces
OF road, that farmers may see in a
practical demonstration how road
should be built to bo OF value to the
community. The object lessons show
how road should bo built so tha,
water will draiu of; how culverts
should be constructed aud arranged
in order properly to fulfill their mis-
sion, and how really inexpensive it is
TO make good roads when the work is
done intelligently aud systematically.
"We do not intend to increase taxa.
| ton one penny, for we know that tho
81, ,000,0 900 annually expended by Hi
nois is sufficient to build good roads
throughout the State. But we do ask
that the farmers will let the State do
the work, according to an approved
| system, and not work out their poll
tax by pretending to build good roads.
Not that they do not mean to do theii
best so far as they know or have the
ability, but they have not tho facili.
ties aud cannot do the work as it should
be done. We know that under the
proper system n good rural road can
be made for less money than it now
costs. We want, if possible, to sec
the poll tax reduced to 81, but want
the farmers to pay that dollar into the
State treasury, instead of working il
out, rs is now the case, aud We expect
to convince him that it will bo to his
advantage to do it.
The State and Interstate Good Roads
Association, represented by Miss Har.
ber, embraces twenty-five or more
States, and is the outgrowth of State
convention held IN Missouri in 1897,
at which 700 delegates were present.
Miss Harber and six men were ap
pointed a committee to travel over the
country and organize county associa.
lions. At the end of one year, when
the first interstate convention, at
tended by $500 delegates, was held in
st. Louis, seventy-two counties had
been organized, and as Miss Harbei
had organized sixty-six of the total
she was unanimously chosen general
secretary aud organizer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

Many OF our newspapers continue
to talk about the National City bans
robbery" This is very strange. Sec
retary Gage has fully explained that
there wasn't anything but convent
ence." The bank didn't need Jim
my" to break into the United States
treasury.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
Tho wit of "a "Best Man. ~

A gallant "best man" came to the
rescue at recent wedding, when the
ring was not Forthcoming at the right
time. He drew from his tie the slen-
der stickpin that had been adorning
it, and, bending the wire into ring
shape, handed the improyised we'd
ding ring to the distracted groom.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
War. Millions of Victims.

An army officer estimates that in
the century juet closing no fewer than
10000, 900 men have been killed in
war in civilized countries.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
CURIOUS FACTS.

On wager that he could put coll
lar on an ungovernable horse, travel
ing man deliberately killed the ami
NAL in Main street, st. Paul, Mimi,
the other day, and then adjusted the
collar. He was arrested.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

No woman can make man weak
who cannot first make him think he
is strong.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

Glass bricks are gradually coming
into use. Glass will soon be used for
making statues for public places. 1t
resists the corroding effect of the
weather much better than marble or
rranita
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
when Women Feel At Homo.

lots of women never feel really at
nome unless they are away visiting
somewhere. New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

Several weeks ago calf was born
on Reuben Bairs's farm, in Thorncreels
Township, Ind, and instead of the
regulation hair the quadruped was
enveloped in fine coat of black wool.
The calf is fine one and is growing
rapidly, and so is the wool on it.
When it bias it is difficult to tell
whether the sound resembles that of
q lamb or a calf.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

The Russian photographers have n
strange way of Furnishing those who.
having received their photographs, do
not pay their bills. They hang the
pictures of the delinquents upside
down at the entrance to their studios.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

There are 10000 miles OF railway
now in operation or under oonstrue'
tion in Africa.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

The smallest inhabited island in the
world is that on which the Eddystone
lighthouse stanus. At low water it is
thirty feet in diameter; at high water
the lighthouse, whose diameter at the
base is 293 feet, completely covers it.
1t is inhabited by three persons. 1t
lies nine miles off the Cornish coast
and fourteen miles southwest of Ply
mouth Breakwater.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

Professor GriIoway Describes Experi-
inents by the Agricultural Department
mt washington-Seeking n More Nu-
tritIous Corn-New Forms of Fruit.
ck'HE breeding of animals is
we'll understood and has
been practiced for years,
but you cannot say as
much OF the breeding of plants" said
Professor b. Il. Galloway, chief Of
the vegetable physiology division of
the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington. ut is true, nevertheless, that
the breeding of plants has been car
ried on with most satisfactory results,
mostly by private parties, but with
little attempt to determine the princi-
Piles involved. The possibilities in
the breeding of plants nre just rs
great az in the breeding of animals.
We find all through nature n constant
effort on the part OF the plant to i'm
prove. There is a constant progress
sive tendency in all organism, animal
as we'll as vegetable, aud in tho ques.
tion Of breeding man only takes ad.
vantage of these conditions and uses
them TO his own interest. The fact is
that most of the improved forms of
plants we have to-day arc derived in
moro or less spontaneous way, and
have been propagatod by people who
have discovered them and have taken
advantage of the improvements. Ma
ture has been made to do tho work I'M
assisted. AS / say, most OF our oulti-
waited fruits and plants at the present
time were developed by nature, and
are Therefore to be put down as acci-
dents.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

''The most important feature in the
work of crossing is to exclude from
the stigma all pollen except that
which it is desired TO use. In the
manipulation of orange flowers ma
ture buds nearly ready to open are Sc
looted, and the tips carefully pried
apart until the stamens are exposed.
The pollen is then transferred to the
oistil of the flower selected, and ma
ALA paper sack or gauzo bag placed
around it to prevent foreign pollen
entering. The hybridizing process
IAN be carried as far as the expert
nenter pleases. 1t consists of taking
jhe pollen from the stamen and trans
,erring it to tho pistil. Where the
jwo organs are found in the same
lower it is necessary to destroy the
stamen before it natures to assure
shat pollen from it does not interfere
with the experiment. We have also
carried on extensive experiments with
oineapples, and have succeeded in
getting crosses with certain important
varieties in order to develop forms for
which there is demand. 1t ia possi-
ole to produce plants and fruits to
meet any demand. We are now work
ing to develop pineapple that has
qualities different from anything we
aow have.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

'"rhese experiments / have referred
10 have been on the soacoasts of the
country. Aside from these we are
carrying on extensive experiments in
ihe interior in the crossing of wheat,
,orn and other cereals. This year we
lid extensive work IN Nebraska with
,orn. We have been trying to develop
varieties that will have greater food
value than those now in existence, and
tain to be in different ratios from that
which we now possess. There has
been considerable talk OF tho possibil-
ity and desirabiltity of increasing the
heterogeneous contents of corn. That
is one OF the things wanted. The nj
trogeuous contents of corn are low
compared with other cereals. If il
can be increased, even by small
percentage, it will make it's food value
much greater.
"The experiment is being conducted
something in this way: We find that
there is marked variation in the
heterogeneous contents OF corn not only
in different varieties but in the diff
ferent grains of tho same variety, on
the same stalk but in different ears.
The nitrogen could be increased by
crossing two varieties having Other
characteristics and value with high
nitrogenous contents, and by selection
of the ears and grains obtain variety
with higher percentage Of nitrogen
BY selection and by crossing corr
known to possess high nitrogenou'
con tents forms can be developed tina
will, If the experiment is carried fal
enough, result in materially increas
ing the value OF corn.
'fThere are male and female organ
in corn and the plant is one of tn,
cas- lest in the world to GROSS, owing /,
the fact that these organs Of roproduc
ton are separate and not in the sam,
| fiotyar nha taaaal ot tho ION 80
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

A very curious case is recorded in
the surgical history OF the Civil War,
in which three officers were hit just at
the same time. One had his leg from
the knee down carried away, but he
rode ten miles to the hospital. Another
lost his little finger, and he became a
raving maniac. While a third was
shot through the body, aud, though
he did not shed drop OF blood OK.
ternally, dropped dead from the shock.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

There isan old church in Waukegan,
Wis, which has no steeple, because
of a court mandate forbidding such
construction. In 1869 severe storm
swept over the town, hurling the orig.
inal spire against the house next door
and wrecking it. The owner of the
house got an injunction restraining
the trustees of the church from build.
ing another spire, and this order has
held for thirty eight years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08

Emphasis should be placed upon
the fact that plants are not fixed en-
titles" continued Professor Galloway.
al am aware that this is the general
impression, but plants are exceeding
ly plastic and can be modelled within
certain limits TO meet almost any de-
sire. Looking at plants from that
standpoint the wide field and posi-.
bilities in developing new forms will
be seen. The process of hybridizing
plants, as this is called, is neither
difficult nor mysterious, it being sim
ply necessary 70 understand the gen.
eral structure OF the flower to be
used. Flowers have sexual organs,
the stamen and pistil, the former be-
ing the male, are usually several in
number. The very numerous small.
yellow, powdery grains of pollen,
which constitute the male formulating
clements, are born in sacks, and when
tho portion of the flower which bears
them, known as the anther, natures
it bursts and the pollen is exposed.
A quantity Of this pollen must be
transferred either Ey natural or arti-
fetal means to the stigma of the fe-
male organ in order to insure fecunda-
tion. The pistils, which are the fe-
male organs, occupy the center of the
flower and are surrounded by the
stsmens. The upper portion of the
pistil IL usually somewhat swollen and
moro or less rough. 1t is on this por-
ton of the pistil, known as the stig-
ma, that the pollen must fall to pro-
duce Foundation. In the majority of
plants the stamens and pistils are pro-
duced in the same flower, as in the
orange, tomato and our common fruit
trees, but in certain plants they arc
produced in different flowers on the
same plant, and in others on different
plants.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-08
HOW PLANTS ARE BRED.
INTERPOLATION PROCESS NEITHER
DIFFICULT NOR MYSTERIOUS,

Professor G,iioway Describes Experi-
inents by the Agricultural Department
mt washington-Seeking n More Nu-
tritIous Corn-New Forms of Fruit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-30
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PERSONAL MENTION
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Mrs. j T.. kenppie. Of st. Anthony.
Nh vheale,a & Albion, was Is
Tho CITY on business Monday,
Mr. ara Mrs. W q Hakenan. of La
Mpiis. visited in the cit; Monday.
MISS Is,a,iehe Weaver returned, Nor
siay lsersiiss sro.sl a short yisid With.
ie;laa}Boek Friends
MS. Frank DW ver + hone from st.
i.aais. Mtie,a she has ben visiting tive.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-30
MORE COFFEE FACTS.
study the Question Yourself.

When The doctor said no roi's cof-
fee, Mas tlismayed. for as an ardent
lover Of coffee anda crank in the mat
ter 81 irs nrfparation. had grown 10
baliepe tliat life was not worth living
witaout II. hui tle dull stupidity and
the almost aally headache so integfered
wi,it my profession .Iiteratureo tnat !
WAS compelled u seek the Doctors adj
vice
| saw an Improvement from the
start, bat missed my morning bever-
age aud felt a great lack. II was At
the nome Of d friend and Postum apos-
lie Mrs Of I.onsdale, shat !
tsstea my frs, Postum. Her family
had sworn by IL a year or more and de-
lclared themselves from the least 10 the
greatest. benefited by It's use.
II Was surprised To find il really pal-
atable and determined that | could inn
PROVE on il myself. ] purchased box
| and as we ALI do on the first trial. made
| a lamentable failure Of ii thru INSULT
| cient boiling, and the Postum was
poked away ON an upper shelf until the
l.oft reiterated newspaper statements
made me- determine to try II again,
With long boiling.
took Twenty-Five minutes % pre-
| pare 1t, about ten minutes 10 bring IT
| up To a boil. and then allowed it To boil
steadily for fifteen minutes, and from
the first sip / WAS enthusiastic over the
new beverage and even wanted sec
ond cup. 1t has never palled upon me.
morning or night. Nothing could in
duce me 10 go back to the berry coffee.
The change Postum has wrought In
me seems little short of miraculous.
| For the first time in many years l am
really Well. my color has freshened,
headache has not visited me for many
| weeks and my ability for work has re-
turned with all it's old zest. shall
| never cease to be greatful for what
feel is remarkable cure, due to moth
| ing more than Postum Food Coffee In
place of the oriental berry.
Sincerely yours, Mrs. r. B. Tall
man, Centredale. r. L.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-30
MARRIED.
Kca1ing-BrusIl.

Mayor Pierce united in marriage
Monday evening Mr. Charles A. keat
ing and Mrs. Lucia NJ Crombie- Brush,
both Of this city. Mr.. Heating has made
his home IN this city for several
months. He was former resident of
Oskalcosa and is a brother of Capt.
Heating. of Company F, Fifty first
Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-30
ADJUSTMENTS.
An .Anateu-isi Performance nj Pop
ular Prices In ..OId Uncle jed

uiaf ffices IN s'Old Y nclc Jed.
Another top-hsavy audience Of very
fair-sizsd proportions was present at
the t,deon Monday night to witness the
appearance OF q melodrama Of the rural
type styed Old Uncle Jed The play
WAS decidedly amateurish. and the cast
contained but one member worthy of
any especial notea an Irish character
lersonified by MIR Frank Murphy, wiio
u as here ast season in the leading role
in rShantytoNn. The play vas a pop
u.ar prices and it seemed to please thu
majority of the audience. About thG
oniy enjoyable feature Of the entire per-
fGrmanee VAS the seyen-piece orchestra.
which WAS fairly good. Andrew Her
mans columbus Descriptive Fantasia
was given between the first and second
acts in g way that might have credited
an organization of much larger proper
tons
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-30
I.lcenscd ID Mod.

Rasmus H. lsru laborer. aged %, OF
Gilman. ana Raenel Kittleson aged -.
cf MarsaalHewi-
WeiHngton Dudley. laberer. aged %.
and Florence Williams, aged u, both Of
Aiar9haittoNsn,
Samuel Kjormoe, farmer aged -. and
snall Manselier aged is, both Of Mar
shaitoWn.
chafles \ Keatine. student, aged 81,
lard i.uelia NJ. c'rombie Brush, aged 80.
both II Marshalitown