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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

The bee smoker is great help in
working among bees, and if every one
who keeps bees would provide them
selves with a good smoker, it would
possibly be the means of getting much
better returns from their bees, than
to try to get along without it. Small
beekeepers, such as farmers, do not
provide many necessities in the line OF
the management of their bees, and in
most cases they do not have smoker
ut all. No one needs smoker so bad
as the farm beekeeper, for he does
not usually study the management of
bees without positive protection, such
as smoke will afford. The farmer has
but few minutes to attend to his
bees, and without smoke he usually
makes a failure in the short bit of
time he has to bestow upon then.
Quick work with bees demand
smoke, whereas with lots of TING and
patience we can get along in manJ
cases without it, but it does not pay
to thus spend the time necessary 10 do
it, and the smoker enables us to do
tsOSut NhNStAft NOIh Will
bees. Everyone should provide them.
selves with good bee smoker who
keeps but colony of bees, and in
every case enough extra may be made
from the bees to pay for Geveral
smokers Really. the smoker is the Sc
cret of success in handling bees, and
getting the best returns from them.
No apiarlst can be found. It matters
not whether he Is an expert in hand
ling bees or not, but is supplied with
a bee smoker, and it is his constant
companion when working with the
bees.
There Is no other method of apply
ing smoke 10 bees that will absolute
ly control them. and 1t is no use of
thinking that you can furnish Il sub
stitute that will answer the purpose.
You may furnish smoke enough to
quiet a colony OF bees on the start.
but about the time you have the hive
open ready to do some important
work. the bees come out at you by the
dozens. and your substitute smoker is
not the thing to put up defence
against such an attack. and the bees
have possession OF the entire situation.
The bee smoker is always charged
and ready for such occasions.-Farm
Field and Fireside.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

rlonly performed to change the bccr-
ing Of apple, plum and various other
trees and plants. 1t may be used on
very snall branches or stocks, but is
best adapted to large branches. The
tools used on larger-sized stocks are q
sharp knife for cutting the scions, n
sharp saw for cutting eff the branches
or stems, and grafting-chisel fer
splitting the stocks and fer holding
the cleft open while the scion9 are be.
ing inserted. On small stocks n sharp
knife alone 10 needed.
The work is done as follows: The
place selected for the insertion of the
scions should be where the grain is
straight. The stock is then cut square
off am is split through its centre to q
sufficient depth to allow the ccon to
be put ia place. The cleft should be
held open by the shaped part
of the chisel "a large nail will answer
the purpose in small way) until the
scions are inserted, when the wedge is
withdrawn. allowing the stock to
spring back and hold the scions in
place. If the stock does not spring
back into place it should be drawn
tight against the scions by a piece of
string. The number of scons put into
each stock will depend upon its size,
but generally not more than two are
inserted, and on small stocks only one.
1t Is absolutely necessary for success
that the inner barks of both scion and
stock come together, as shown in Fig.
l. When inserted the sclons should ap-
pear as shown in Fig .. The sclons
should be wedge-shaped for about one
and one-half inches where they go into
tie cleft in the stock. They should also
be wedge-ohaped crossways, as shown,
in Fig. l, so as to bind the inner barliJ
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

ard nodded. But when Jessie asked
for an explanation the boys only
laughed and told her to wait until the
circus opened. So Jessie and the other
girls were just as curious as could he.
and they were decidedly disappointed,
as the circus went on, by and by, to
discover nothing at all that looked like
snakes or flowers. And they couldn't
understand 1t one bit when Mrs. Sum-
mers, as manager in the temporary
absence of Charlie, who took part in
about every third turn" announced
presently that the next number would
he an acrobatlc performance by the
"rattooed Partners" They didn't see
where the "Tattooed Partners were
TO come from
The band, which was made up OF
Charles grown-up sister Anna. who
played the mandolin. Il couple of her
friends with guitar and banjo and two
of the boys with mouth harp and q
shepherds whistle, blared out beautl-
fully and out into the ring tumbled
Charlie and Gilroy, in bathing trunks,
striped stockings and tennis slippers.
And. sure enough, their arms and
shoulders We're ''tattooed" In curious
patterns and in shade OF vivid red
Why! They look just as | did after
that day on the beach at South Hav-
en- cried little Emma Summers
when the applause was beginning to
die away, and no sooner was the per-
formance over than she caught hold OF
Charlie and insisted upon knowing
how he got those funny marks on his
arms and shoulders. Charlie looked
at Gilroy, Gllroy nodded, and the boys
owned up.
I'VE got the idea from YOU" ex-
planned Charlie. "You showed me your
wrists where the pattern of your
waist had been burned on them, and
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

A balanced ration" is the ration
that is best for the purpose. A cow
that produces milk requires more pro.
tein in its food than one that is not
producer. A steer that is being fat
ted for market should have more car
bonaceous material in its food. There
is no ration that wila serve all pur-
poses. and as no two animals are ex-
actly alike no kind or ration can be
said to be balanced" to provide the
substance demanded by every animal
in herd. The farmer should en-
deavor to use balanced ration as far
as 1t is possible to do so, but he must
be n close observer of his live stock
and endeavor to know every animal
and its characteristics.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
{ I. has 90 organizers.

f. OF L. has go organizers.
Mexico contains us cotton mills.
China possesses $50 Chinese papers.
Coal fields aggregate 1890 square
miles.
New Orleans has the only paper in
the United States that publishes Sun
day evening edition
There are now. IN operation in all
countries about Ioo,ooo,ooo spindles,
consuming about $4,000, 900 bales OF cot
ton. The Southern States furnish abou,
rs per cent. OF the raw material and OPP
crate only about 8 per cent Of the
spindes
A veritable quick luncheon, il is
said, is TO be had at restaurant in
Paris, where a dinner OF several courses
composed OF concentrated food in the
form OF tablets can be consumed in
few minutes. The entire meal indeed.
can be carried about in the vest pocket
or pocket book.
Judge Baker in the District Court OF
Omaha Neb. has decided that The stat
ute known as the female labor law OF
Nebraska. prohibiting the employment
OF females for more tnan sixty hour Il
per week is con stitufional The court
holds that il was necessary 70 limit sl.F
hours OF female employment Ia cr.l.vl
70 protect the pub health
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

We got an old lace curtain from GIL.
roy's mamma and wrapped pieces of
1t around us. Then we sat out in the
sun until the pattern was burned on.
My neck looks just as though lot OF
little snakes had been painted on it,
and GirlDy's arms are all flowers. We
thought we'd have two tattooed per-
formers Instead of one; eycqy old oii-
Gus has one. We must have looked
line us the 'Tattooed Partners.
"You did" said Emma, heartily
"but, my! how your arms and necks
must hurt. and how they'll hurt to-
morrow. Mine We're just awful until
Aunt Sarah put some cold cream ON
them and bathed them with witch
hazel. You'd better get mamma or
sister Anna to do ii for you right Off"
"Oh, rubbish" cried both boys,
laughing, MS they rushed away to get
some of the Ice cream Mrs Sum
mers was serving on the side lawn
the audience bought the cream for the
benefit of the Fresh-Air Fund, but the
circus performers We're to have all
they wanted for nothing. II guess
we can stand 1t without coddllng. kid
die; we've been In bathing often
enough to know how sun bllsters feel.
We're not tender like girls"
But the sun blisters proved little
more severe than the boys had antici-
pated. and that evening Mrs. Sum-
mers. going upstairs for the night, was
surprised to hear her presence request
ed by Charlie, who had gone to bed
several hours before.
SAY, mamma" he called, softly.
won't vou put some cold cream or
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04
The Udder as an Indicator.

The mammary gland is, in my es-
timation, the most reliable indication
of dairy cow. l think it may be
considered more important than all
others combined in point of estimating
actual production.
We may, and frequently do, see
cows with an ideal head. neck, body.
etc, but IL her udder is not well de-
vcloped the COW is n failure in direct
proportion as this important feature
Is lacking. But do we ever see poor
producers with well developed udders? :?
1t seems to me perfectly natural that
as milk is secreted in the mammary
gland the greater the development of
that organ the greater viii be it's pro-
Duct. | think that we. as bereders of
dairy cattle, should pay more atten-
ton to the development of udders in
our ideals of breeding. In order to
io that. however, it would be well TO
have some expression as to what kind
of an udder is ideal in shape. size and
compositioD.-Texas Stockman and
Farmer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

A member of the senior class Of Nil.
waukee Medical College found mas
cot the last day of examination in the
shape of tiny black kitten. which
followed him on the street as he was
on his way to the college Not know
ing what else to do with 1t, he put the
kitten In his oyercoat pocket, where II
slept contentedly all day. When he
went to the Turkish bath late in the
afternoon the kitten went, too. and
after eating bowl of cream, curled
up ON the cot BY his protector and
slept as II he belonged there. When
the senior gets bis sheepslSin next
week and opens an Office the little
pledge OF success Will have home
there. Milwaukee, Sentinel.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

Where a fence must be carried
across stream or out into the edge
of river or pond. the plan shown in
the cross section given herewith will
be found useful Two logs are placed
side by side. and cross pieces of tim
ber are spiked to them. To these cross
pieces fence posts are spiked, and
boards nailed to these. as suggested.
The logs are kept in any position de-
sired by anchOrlng them with wires
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04
Improvement in Country Roads.


Americans have never been slow
about doing things, but we may be
said to be slow about doing some
things well. 1t was not. for example,
until the bicycle came into vogue that
people thought very seriously about
good roads, and even yet In many
parts OF the country. especially through
the middle West and the South. the
buggy and carriage are alike stored
away for three or four months out of
the year. the roads being in no condi'
tlon for any such vehicles. And even
when the bicycle became so popular.
bicycle riding was confined very large.
ly to the streets and boulevards. the
most uninteresting of all the ways for
bicycles. During the past five years
more attention has been given to good
roads, and now that the automobile
as well as the bicycle is here TO stay
there will probably be greater devel
opment In the so-called country
roads" during the next few years
than has ever been known In this
country before.
Golf. too. is doing its part in brinS
ing the people into the open air and
in touch with country life. 1t is diff
cult to understand how we have gone
along for so many years with only
one here and there appreclating the
beauties in nature that lie almost al
our very door,. With the roads along
the Hudson as well kept as the roads
along the Rhine tha Hudson WIN prob
ably be the more popular OF the two
famous scenic roadways.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04
HARLlE SUMMERS and Gil

HARl.lE 81 VI vi EitS ana Gll-
roy Curtis were getting up u
y circus in the SummersS back
yard. The price Of admission
was to be enc penny, and the money
laised was to go to the Fresh-Air
Fund. The shelter tent in which
Mrs. Summers sat out with the baby
when the weather was very hot. had
been given over to them for the week
and Charles grown-up sister Anna
had promised to get some of her
grown-up friends to help with the
music. A beautiful circus programme
with the cat for tiger and Gilroy's
big dog for bear, and the only thing
which the boys particularly wanted
was tattooed boy. Somehow or
other Gilroy had set his heart upon
having this particular feature which
seemed impossible to secure.
Then Charles little sister Emma
went across the lake for n day, and
when she came back she was full of
the funny experience which had hap
pened to her. She had passed most OF
the day In Michigan upon the lake
shore in the blazing sunshine. and
when she took off her dress at night
the pattern of her embroidered shirt
waist had been sunburned all over her
arm and neck. When Charlie saw the
marks on her wrists he shouted and
rushed off to tell Gilroy.
The next day the two boys. despite
the amused warnings of Mrs. Sum
mers, who had been let into the plot
borrowed an old lace curtain from Gill
roy's mother, and went of to spot
behind the Curtis barn, spot where
the sun shonc uninterruptedly most
of the day, and where nobody was
likely to interfere with or come upon
them. The circus was TO come off Ia
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04
v AGRICULTURAL. +.
eaAANl0l0NlNAAA


Plant peas about an inch deep, and
make the ground fine. Use plenty Of
seed, as the plants may be thlclxly
grown in the rows on good soil. Keep
the grass down, working the surface
soil only lightly. AS soon as the vines
have ceased bearing pull them up and
plant cabbage, beans or any summer
crop on the plot
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.

New York (SpeciaD .---R. G. Dun q
Co.'S weekly review OF trade says: In
creasing distribution OF merchandise
particularly in the territory beyond the
Ohio river. including the far North
west, is a feature OF the general busi-
ness situation and tells OF widespread
prosperity and confidence. The rail-
roads are carrying more goods that
may be classed as luxuries than ever
before, and in spite OF Wall streets
slightly higher money market, there is
no fear on this score in any lin. of
legitimate trade. Crop news continues
good. there is less trouble from disa-
greements with labor, and the long
laggard cotton goods market has re
covered slightly with the reduction OF
unsold stocks oil print cloths,
Less interruption through labor con-
troversies at machine shops makes the
iron and steel iudstry more fully en-
ployed than in recent weeks, and for
another week there is assurance OF Wig
orous activity at mills and furnaces. In
many instances promised deliveries
cannot be made before July I, and ur-
gent business that is now offered cannot
be undertaken.
Bradstreets says:
Wheat, including -four, shipments for
the week aggregate 5,s2o,ooo bushels,
against 5,I5oIo7 corrected last week.
4,64s. .I8o in the corresponding week OF
1000, 3,746,7I8 in 1899 and 3,7oo,47o in
1903. From July to date this season
wheat exports are 2II,5I2,2I4 bushels,
against Io6, 48o, 1856 last season and 223,-
Io3.476 in ISoS-oo. Corn exports for
the week aggregate 5.52o,83I bushels,
against 2,56o,254 last week, 25T4.5o3 in
this week year ago, 2.S72,432 in 1899
and 3,oo2, ,32I in 1893. From July 10
date this season corn exports are 49,
oSI,o4o bushels, against IoS,76S,o2o last
season and los, ,2oo,I52 in ISoS--oo. 80
Failures for the week number IoS,
against 1888 last week, I67 in this week
a year ago, 100 in 1890, 22o in 1898 and
2I5 in 1897.
Failures in Canada for the week
number 70, as against II last week, "a
in this week year ago, 20 in 1899 and
10 in 1896
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

III the preparation of the seed bed,
the selection OF seed and the planting
have been well done, the cultivation
OF the corn crop will be easy aud win
accomplish its best results The cult.
vator should have in mind at least four
objects, viz, the conservation OF mois-
ture, the destruction of weeds the
feeding OF the corn plant and the aera.
ton OF the corn soots.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

The terms used in grating arc sc,~u,
which is the part inserted. cnd stock,
which is the tree grated upon. Cleft
grating is probably more generally
used than any ether kind. 1t is corl-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

attached to boxes of stones sunk to
the bottom Of the stream. Such
fence cannot be upset.-New York
Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

Human hair, wigs, albums. chrom, !:
and photographs are some OF the ar
ticles which Tue United States imports
extensively frcm Germany.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04
660d Roads Ro0Iss
b,

~ ENTIMENT among the citi-
~ zens of several OF the South
y ern and Middle Western
States. notably Louisiana
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-18
STOLE SHERRIFF'S "SPECS"
Was Having His After Dinner Nap
 When He Was Touched.

If the following is not story of piling insult upon injury, those who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows in the court house building would like to know what is. Sheriff Rigney had been to see the football game in New Haven Saturday and was reclining in his chair thinking how Princeton could have easily won had he been i'll the game. Then his thoughts turned toward the theft or an overcoat which Detective Cahcy had long been chasing up, or down as the case might have been, and he was wondering how long it would take the detective to oyertake the coat before the powers that be would deem if an act of Providence for him to take q hand in. The sheritf's feet were by this time on his desk and his glasses on the lookout on his nose. The shcr- if thinks now that someone touchcu him with his hand just then, but hls thoughts were so rapidly running over things criminal that he did not bother. What mattered it if Detective Cahey would oyertake the missing coat? Some time another overcoat would be stolen and he (the sheriffl could dis tinguish himself. Or. if someone ran away with team it would be time enough to get after him when he would be taking the train for the next town. Thus the sheriffs thoughts ran on and when he came to his senses and missed the glasses from their position of look out he knew that he had been touched. The loss of the glasses the sheriff does not regret, but the audacity of the thief he cannot forgive. Boarding a lion ill his den is not to be compared to the act of stealing the sheriff's glasses off his nose. The British army may walk off with Alaska and they may take all Africa, but the man who took the sheriff's glasses from off his nose must suffer and suffer bitterly. 1o- day the sheriff spent the greater part of his time looking for the thief. for that they were stolen, and from off his nose at that, he is firmly convinced.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-18
NATURAL GAS EXPLOSION.
Many workmen Injured by Gas Com
 ing in Contact With Torch.

Washington, Pa. Nov 1S.-A natural gas explosion occurred along the main pipe line of the Wheeling Gas com pany at Buffalo village. eight miles west of here, last evening, which re- suited in injuries to six men, two of whom will probably die. The eXplo- sion was caused by the gas igniting from q torch in the hands of one of q gang of repairmen. The injured are:-
 w & Bronsell. burned about the head and arms: it is thought he in- haled the flames; may not recover.
 Lyle Maxwell. burned about the face and body; may not recover.
 John Wallace. burned about head and arms.
 Martin Hogan, severely burned in face
 George Bennison. severe burns.
 Carl Martin, slightly burned on hands and face.
 The big gas main of the Wheeling company sprang q leak yesterday morning near Buffalo and the company sent out q repair party. The gas was turned off all day and the men were at work in a deep ditch making the re- pairs As darkness fell several torch es were used to give the men light.
 The repairs were almost completed. when through some mistake the gas was turned. on at the gates and ran along with great pressure. Bronsell. ignorant Of the fact that the gas had been turned on. was holding the torch near an opening, and the explosion of the gas resulted
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-18
COLLISION IN BAY.

Philadelphia, Nov 1S.-The Cosmo- politan line steamer Hanseat, outward bound from Philadelphia for Rotter- dam. and the schooner. Mary F. Sod frey collided off Brandywine shoal. in Delaware bay, both vessels being bad iy damaged. The Hanseat was fOrced to return to port and the schooner ar rived here today in tow. The Mary F. Godfrey struck the Hanseat on her starboard bow. carrying away the rig ging. railing and everything mOyea b.e. Part of the schooner's bow was car ried away. together with her jfbpoom and headgear. --sss
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-18
WHO WILL BULL? l?
The London Papers Again Dis
 euss the Canal Question
AN EMBARRASSING POSITION

Englishmen Found Themselves in Last
 Tear by the Blundering of American
 Statesmen. One Paper Says-People
 Are Advised to Accept the Agree
 ment. Which Win Give All Wanted.
 But Win Not be 3 Triumph of Di-
 plomacy.
 Gazette this afternoon publishes an al- ticle contending that, even from u British viewpoint, it is desirable that the United States should build ex- clusiyeIy and guarantee the neutrality Of the isthmian canal and that if Lord Ldnsdowne obtained full commercial privileges in the canal for Great Bri- tain the treaty will not be wholly one sided Inc article concludes with ad- yising the public to expect to be pre- pared to accept a settlement which will substantially give us all We want but which outwardly will not appear 10 be triumph of diplomacy. By the blundering of American statesmen we were put in an embarrassing position last year and we will show some magnanimity if for the sake of policy settlement without q recollection of that event Let us remember that We have had some success in recent deal- ings with America. The Behring sea award and the Venezuelan treaty were both substantially in our favor ands if we get open water in the canal, we shall be the gathers by the loss of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty"
 The Pan Mall Gazette takes a simi- lar view of the matter, and says:
 ''We are surrendering q right we would never seriously think of eNer- ciSing, but which might be infringed at any moment to the serious detri- 1nent of British dignity. On the other hand, it is understood that compen Sation will be found in the absence of a heavy toll or tariff restrictions. The canal is expected to be thrown open to the world and the opening of that door will be the price the British gov ernment obtained for the abandon ment of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
 The St James Gazette says:
 We have confidence that the Amer ican people will recognize in the aban- dOnment of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty I further sign of the value we set on their good will and the earnestnesS of our desire to help forward their aspi- rations after greatness. Hearty rela- lions between mother and daughter are more to us than academlc treaty rightS.