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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26

professional nurses have no bust
ness being so confoundedly good
looking" said young man who has
recently spent several weeks in a local
inirmary. "The nurse who was del
egated to attend to me while / was
laid up was distractingly handsome
girl, with pure Greek profile, red
dish brown halr-the kind that seems
full of little golden tendrils in the
sunlight-and eyes as liquid as o
fawn's. The first time she put hoi
finger on my wrist my pulse ran up to
at least 175, and she took it fol
granted had high fever and dosed
me accordingly. / tried repeatedly
to lure her into conversation, but sho
wouldn't be lured. She was strictly
business. When 1 started to pay her
compliments she would ask me to put
out my tongue, which was an insur.
mountable obstacle to conversation. |
used to lie there with my tongue
hanging out trying to put my whole
soul into my eyes, but it was no go.
No man can look romantic with half a
foot of furry red tongue protruding
from his countenance. Another way
she had of gaging me was by putting
the thermometer in my mouth. The
last week / was there proposed to
her five times, or, rather, tried to,
but she invariably choked off my dec
larations by thrusting thermometer
into my mouth. got so excited one
time that L came near swallowing n
thermometer worth several dollars
She was most excellent young wom-
an and had lots of sound common
sense, rs was evidenced by the fact
that she gave me no encouragement
whatever. New Orleans Times,
Democrat
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26
LAMP BuLns HIS WEAPON.
Burglar Put to Right by Being Bonn
barded by Them.

barded ny Ihen.
"Of all the outlandlsh weapons ever
employed In a fight" said a New Or
leans business man, Il think brought
the most fantastic on record into play
one night last week. My family are
away on a visit at present and | am
keeping bachelor hall out at the house.
On the night to which l refer | was
aroused at about 3 a. m. by a noise
somewhere in the region OF the dining
room and, thinking | had shut up tho
dog there. / jumped up very foolishly
and came down stairs in my night
clothes. without so much as a pocket
knife. When ! opened the dining
room door / was startled to see big,
rough-looking man bending over the
sldeboard at the far end of the room.
and after we had stood there en-
tableau for a moment the fellow made
a rush at me. / leaped back into the
hall and glared around for weapon.
On table near by were a dozen in
candescent light bulbs. which 1 had
brought home to replace some that
had burned out, and purely by instinct
1 BIlDttu OHe vi AHell anu AhitW ~
at the burglar. 1t hit the door cas-
ing close TO his head and. to my
amazement. exploded with a noise like
a young lyddite she'll I suppose It
was still greater surprise to the
other fellow. for he let out yell and
broke for the rear. followed by a rap
id-nre bombardment Of 16-candle pow
or incandescents, which l continued to
chuck at him as long as he remained
in range. They smashed against the
furniture with a series of crashes that
alarmed the whole neighborhood and
l have been gathering up fragments OF
broken glass ever sicce. The burglar
must have thought | was chasing him
with hand grenades 1t was the first
time l ever knew incandescents maze
such a row when they broke, An elec-
trician tells me It is caused by the air
rushing into the vacuum
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26
More rhnn He oonld stnnd.

"What's this?" demanded the police,
hurrying to the scene. ga hold-up?'
A pale, scholarly looking man in
spectacles was standing over burly
ruiiian and shaking his slender fist at
the PROSTATE form.
''Presume that is what you would
term it," he replied. "This fellow
stopped me just now and ordered me
to hold up my hands. complied, and
he began to search my pock cts. Il
will put a bullet through you. he said,
If you take them down all during the
time am and then l knocked him
down. All during is an abominable
peryersion OF correct English that nc
man can utter in my presence unre-
buked."
The unlucky iootpad had tackled 4
professor OF rhetoric. Chicago Tri'
bune,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26
Looking After It's soIdIers.

A young army officer, who has seen
service on the Arizona plains and on
the Maine coast, and who is now in
Cuba, tells two stories out of his own
experience, to show the accuracy with
which the War department. follows the
movements of officers.
81 was with n small scouting party
in Arizona, he says, "and after two
weeks in the desert my squad came to
the railroad near small station.
Within ten minutes dispatch from
Washington was brought to me by
the station agent. 1t asked if wished
to be transferred to one of the two
new artillery regiments then forming,
81 answered by telegraph that /
should be glad to enter either of
them. Then we set Off again across
the desert.
'It was six days later when we
again struck the railroad, this time
eighty miles from the point at which
we had previously crossed it. But
my reply from the department was
awaiting me. 1t had been telegraphed
to every station within two hundred
miles.
"a more striking instance of accur-
acy occurred after my transfer to the
East. / was travelling home on leave,
and rs the regulations require, had
potihed the department of the day,
hour and probable route of my jour
ney. After | had been on the train
for eight hours. at a small station the
porter entered with telegram, ask
ing if any one of my name was pres
ent. On opening the dispatch, l
found that it was from the adiutant-
generals office, ordering me on de-
tached duty,
"Exactness of detail could not be
carried much farther. The depart
ment knew the whereabouts of an in
significant second lieutenant, even
when he is travelling ON leave of alb
sence
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26
EUROPE IN THE PACIFIC.
England First, Holland Second in East
Indian Possessions.

Arthur /. Street writes as follows in
Ainslee's Magazine: ''rhe Pacific
Ocean, westward of Hawaii, and the
Marquesas.is like federation of Eu.
ropean nations on Asiatic soil, united
by free commerce of the seas. The
nations vary in size, strength and i'm
portance, as the States of Europe or
of the American Union. Great Britain
commands the fields with n landed
area of nearly three million and a
quarter square miles. Poor Spain s
once magnificent empire is shrunk to
less than fifty square miles, smaller
total than belongs to black King
George of the Tongas. Holland, tho
country from which emauated the
doughty Beers, owns over 735, 900
square miles, settled with nearly eight
times as many people as inhabit the
larger area owned by Great Britain.
Germany, the new civili2er among M.
tions, has dominance over more than
100, 900 square miles and about az
many people as there are miles.
France, with less than one-tenth OF
Germany's land, is at some of the most
important points of strategy and al
the point of greatest travel Several
independent States lie in the midst OF
this federation, as Switzerland does
in Europe; several others in the un
happy, suzerainted position of the
Transvaal, in South Africa.
eff all the islands could be put into
continuous body of land, they would
form most heterogeneous empire.
They would include, in addition to
European peoples with their various
political and social systems, a tapgle
of aborigines, n confusion of savages
and semi-civilized cultivators of soil
and commonwealth, an emporium OF
products more diversified than ba.
zaar on a midway plaisauce, mystery
of American Indians. Profoundly for
ested in the Dutch East Indies, the
islands become in Western Australia
more barren than the lava beds OF
Eastern Oregon, and more irredeem,
able than the uppermost wilds OF
British Columbia. Fertile, balmy and
luxurious in the beautiful lands OF
New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti,
they are transformed into uninhabit.
able coral reefs or into hot and malar.
ial beds of struggle in the guano GOV,
cred or copfa- producing dots on the
map north and east of line drawn
from the Philippines to New Guinea,
and through Samoa to the Society Isl.
ands. "
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26

The slow tapping of a butterhy's
wings, according to Sir John Lub-
book, produces no sound, but when
the movements are rapid noise is
produced, which increases in shrill
ness with the number of vibrations.
Thus the house fly, which produces
the sound +, vibrates it wings 81, 100
times n minute, and the bee. which
makes a sound of A, as many as 90,
400 times. Professor Marcy, the nat.
uralist, has succeeded by delicate
mechanism in confirming these mum.
bers graphically. He fixed fly 30
that the tip of the wing just touched
cylinder which was moved by clock
work.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26

Despite all the attacks upon ma
chinery, an age without tools is an
age of drudgery and degradation. II
once men toiled sixteen hours day,
with single stroke Watts engine cut
off stwo hours in the morning for
rest and two hours at night for read
ing. The modern home, with thou.
sand and one comforts, is the gift oil
tools. We now compel steel fingers,
steel knives, steel wheels and steel
wires to do our work. Take away our
tools, and civilization would go back
one hundred years. Newell Dwight
Hills, in the Woman's Homo Com
panion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26

In an interval in the drilling one OF
the volunteers belonging to crack
regiment stepped out from the ranks
to light a cigar from that of his officer.
The latter took this evidence of the
democratic spirit of freedom in good
part, but said by way of hint; "In
the regular army you couldn't have
done this to an officer, Brown"
Fright you are" responded the
private, "but in the regular army you
could not be an officer"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26
washington and Cromwell.

After the American Revolution,
Washington's great character, sound
common-sense, aud entirely disin
terested patriotism, made him Il bul
wark both against anarchy and against
despotism coming IN the name of a
safeguard against anarchy; and the
people were fit for self-government,
adding to their fierce jealousy OF
tyranny q reluctant and by no means
whole hearted, but genuine, admis
sion that it could be aYerted only by
coming to an agreement among them.
selves. In consequence, Washington
would not let his officers try to make
him Dictator, nor allow the Cont
mental Army to march against the
weak Congress which distrusted it,
was ungrateful to it, and refused to
provide for it, Unlike Cromwell, he
saw that the safety of the people lay
in working ont their own salvation,
even though they showed much wrong.
headedness and blindness, not merely
to morality, but to their own interests;
and, in the long run, the people justi.
fled this trust Theodore Rooseyf'
in. .Scribner's.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26

The Australian insect fauna is esti-
mated at 10000 species, but it is be-
lieved that the actual number is con-
siderably greater. OF these the great
est variety is to be found in New
South Wales, the scientific collections
formed in Sydney and elsewhere being
of singular attractiveness and in
terest. In the vicinity OF streams may
be found large aud beautiful dragon
flies, often of considerable size; while
everywhere during the warmer months
of the year the ceaseless hum of the
cigale reminds the traveller of similar
insect experience in Italy. Native
honey bees are plentiful in many
places and are easily recognizable by
their small size, being little larger
than the common house fly. Mos
quitoes are practically unknown in the
dry interior, but their place is taken
by the sand fly, an equally mis-.
chievous insect. There are spiders of
all sizes, few being poisonous, but
their webs are generally of most
fanciful character The splendid APP
pearance of some of the butterflies
rivals that of the most gorgeous in
sects found in South American forests.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26

An epidemic of typhoid fever has
recently been traced to the use OF
celery grown on some sewage fertil-
lied ground. AS it occurred in an in
stitution it was very easy to trace the
cause. Owing to the peculiar nature
of the stems it is very easy for thom
to become saturated with fertiizing
material.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26

The ordinary hydrometer is ver-
tical float, with scale to measure the
depth to which it sinks and the corre-
spending density of the liquid. A
new instrument measures the density
by the inclination of float, and as
the readings are not affected by capil-
larity, it is much more accurate than
the common form, and is capable OF
wonderful sensitiveness.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26

John Murray recently summed up
the latest discoveries concerning the
ocean. The deep sea, he says, is
region of darkness, as we'll as of low
temperature, because tho rays Of the
sun are wholly absorbed by the super
fetal layers OF water. Plant life is
absent, but animal life is abundant in
those night-haunted depths. Tho
majority of the deep-sea animals live
by eating mud and by catching the
minute particles OF organic matter
which descend from above. Many of
the indicating animals are of gigantic
size compared with their allies in
shallower waters, but they are the
prey of rapacious enemies armed with
peculiar prehensile organs. Some
deep-sea fishes are blind while others
have very large eyes. Phosphorescent
light plays an important role III the
great deeps. Sometimes the ami mails
are furnished with phosphorescent
organs which recall the use of bulls
eye lanterns.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26

The injury to soil from flooding by
a high tide is variously estimated to
last for five to twenty years. A late
investigation in Essex, England.
showed that the soil was left with two
per cent. salt mostly to the complete
destruction of earthworms.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26
popULAR SCIENCE,

Clouds that move in a contrary di-
rection to that of the surface current
indicate change of weather. because
they prove the existence of two air
currents, one warm and the other cold,
and the mingling of these frequently
causes rain.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-24
HAIL INSURANCE.

The Kansas State Mutual Hail Association, with head,
quarters at Mcpherson, Kansas is again in the field and
through its agent wishes to thank the farmers of Sumner
y for their patronage in the past and by fair dealing expects
to gain many new friends in the future.
The company nsures growing grain against hail at from
$500 $500 per at per cent thus $500 per
costs cents per acre. SIS 90 per costs 30 cents and $500
per acre costs 80 cents The remaining after losses
and expenses paid is proraed back to the insured this
amounted to Al per cent last year reducing the actual cost Of
insurance to little over per cent.
The Security State bank of Wellington has been made
depository for the funds of the company for this county
While the cash must accompany every application many
of solicitors prepared to take good notes and put up
the money themselves
Every officer, agent and solicitor and every bank that
handles any Of the companies money is under bonds.
By collecting its premium cash. just safe any old line
company and prepared pay its losses the hail
is over
This company makes complete report to the Insurance Depart
and each of members showing where every dollar goes No other
Hail company the has done this The companies bylaws
printed each application and policy that member may know
just what is required Of him.
We ask the farmers Sumner county and the carefully
consider plan before placing their Hail Insurance.
H. F. HARBAUGH Agen:
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-24
NO SURRENDER.
BOer ENJOYS DenOunce British Reports Of
Contemplated Surrender.

The most important Development 10
Thursdays war newi 10 The statement
cabled from Cape Town announcing
that The bOer delegates had advised
the TransvaalerS TO surrender II de.
ieated at the vaal. The remarkable
announcement is vOuched .Ur on good
authority and evidently obtains more
credence 10 Cape Town, than would
mere rumOr. A dispatch from New
York, however, says: Messrs. Fischer,
Womerans and Vessels, constituting
the enjoys from the South African re-
public and Orange Free State, who
arrived here yesterday commissioned
by their government to endeavor TO
induce the United States to use its
Influence for the establishment Of
peace in South Africa, were ques-
Ji0ned today regarding the statement
from London that a cablegram from
Cape Town asserted that they had
advised surrender should their coun-
trymen be defeated on the Vaal river.
Severally and collectively the ENJOYS
vehemently denied that they had
given any such advice and they de
clared that they were opposed to sur
render.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-24
Pointer for Boards Of County Commissioners.

Paola, Kas., May l6.-At an ad-
journed meeting Of the board Of coun-
W commissioners yesterday the board
came near getting 10 deep water and
suolectlng Itself TO a fine and impris-
ODment.
At the regular April meeting a
number OF bills against the county on
account OF the smallpox was laid
over to the July meeting This was
dene that the board might have op-
portuniiy to investigate the matter.
Among these bills was a number by
people from Osawatomie and they
naturally resented the delay.
Yesterday delegation Of business
men from that city appeared before
the board and asked that it reconsider
the action taken in April and take up
the bills at this adjourned meeting.
Commissioner Thompson opposed the
proposition but Beck and Shannon
favored it and it was so ordered.
Then Commissioner Thompson dug
up the law which declares that the
board shall allow bills only at a regu
lar quarterly meeting in January,
April, July and October, and further
says that no bills except for election
expenses, shall be allowed at any ad-
lOurned or special meeting and max.
ing the violation punishable by fine Of
$500 or one year in Jail, or both. Beck
and Shannon tumbled over each other
in their efforts to get back on safe
ground and the order was rescinded
and the order made in April will
stand.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-24

Vince Davenport anC Harry Renick
were fishing with a skiff above the
dam Thursday. The water is running
over the dam about twelve inches
deep, and they drifted over it. Dav.
export managed to catch hold of the
plank on top Of the dam and saved
himself. but Rpnick went over with
the Skiff and got a lrst-class d licking.
He was not badly hurt.
Mr.. Cav, vino is said 10 be the real
shrewd man Of the Baden Produce
Co. Of Winfield. is in the city looking
around with A view Of locating. He
has severed his connection with the
Baden company since Mr.. Baden died
and is looking for a location. Mr.
Gays friends attribute the success OF
the Baden Produce On. Of Winfield to
his management. He is a man of
means, and the Commercial club
should encourage him 10 locate 10
Wellington.
The Sheldon edition for the Topeka
Capital was a success for one week.
but E. F. Andrews of Newton. Kan.
says: 'Beggs' Blood Purifier has been
a standard spring medicine IN his
family for twenty years" Permanently
cures all skin disorders. For sale BY
all druggists.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-24
Marriage Licenses.

The Belgian hare craze has struck
Wellington, and A. L. Maxwell is e.
pecting Belgian hare TO arrive by
express every day. The Belgian hare
craze is the very latest. The craze
was started by Denver sChemers, aud
is working like a charm. The hares
are imported, and sell as high as $3.50
each. American bred Belgian hares
sell from IS to $50 each. 1t iS.clalmed
that their meat is as fine as chicken
meat. Their value is 10 their repro
ductive capacity. IL is said mat
Belgian hares yield a litter of young
every six weeks. The statisticianS
who formerly racked their brains
showing farmers how the government
debt could be wiped out with the in
crease from one good SOW, are now
employed by the Belgian hare promo.
tiers showing hOV a person may be-
home rich in six months with an
investment Of few dOllarsi 10 Belgian
cares. Literature telling how tC
raise and breed Belgian hareS success.
fully has commenced to arrive II
Wellington, which indicates that tht
Belgian Hare Farm cOmpany's bureau
Of promotion is getting in working
order. A Belgian hare company wa
recently organized at Kansas Cit
with a capital Of $1,000.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-24
Dead Among the Living.

Edward j. Fink, composer Of
Rocked in the Cradle Of the Deep,"
prOnounCes Hugo Carlander's sony,
Dead Among the Living" as among
the very best OF his works. We repro.
duce the words OF the song for the
benefit of readers Of the JOURNAL:
| was youth beyond my teens,
10 time Of life the best.
l stood with saddened brow and look
And sorrow 10 my breast.
A vessel lay upon the wave
Not very far from land;
The sails were spread, the anchor
heaved.
Life is sweet, but sweeter is forget.
ting,
Fer thirty years have | been dead
One dead among the living.
| stepped on board the ready craft
To leave ny native home,
And with breeze we stood to sea
And rode upon the foam.
| stood upon the tarred deck
And looked with fearful eye
At the dear land where | was born
A mirage in the sky.
Life is sweet, etc;
| thought of home, Of childhood days,
When | was young and gay;
And of the shady lanes and lawn
Where often | did play.
thought Of father, mother, all,
That had been dead for wears.
There was weight upon my breast,
could not speak for tears.
Life is sweet, etc.
In this sad word l stood alone
On stormy sea OF life,
| had no home, had no kin
To cheer me In the strife;
But had youth and | had strength
And thought that men were good,
And felt no hatred should exist
Among a brotherhood.
Life is sweet, etc.
Toward a foreign land my course
Was steering with hope.
| hoped TO 1nd both friends and gold,
To suit my Horoscopes:
In twenty days stood again
On land, and walked with men.
That spoke with other tongues and
miens,
That strange were to me then.
Life is sweet, etc.
The gold | sought l did not find,
But found wife and boys,
And girls with flaxen hair-and eyes
That added to my joys.
They all are gone, the Lord took
them
| am alone again.
1t was Gods will it should be so
And shall not complain.
Life is sweet, etc.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-24

Sergeant Buck Taylor, one Of the
famous Rough Riders, is a personal
friend of Governor Roosevelt, of New
York. He accompanied Governor
Roosevelt on his great stumping tour
through upper New York state. He
was promoted through gallantry in the
field during the late war.
The Sergeant has the following to say
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medicine on earth than Pe-ru-na, for
catarrh. 1t has cured me. 1t would
take volume to tell you all the good it
has done me. Pe-ru-na is the best ca
tarrh cure on earth, and l know, for l
have tried nearly all of them.
Respectfully, Buck F. Taylor.
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