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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-25
Friday, July 25.

Democratic Nominations.
STATE TICKET.
Clerk Supreme Court,
JOHN l.. PICKERING.
State Treasurer,
GEORGE w. DUDDLESTON.
superintendent of Public instruction,
ANSON J.. BLISS.
Trustees University of Illinois,
JULIA HOLMES SMITH,
L. S. MAXWELL,
DIR. J. Z. WHITE.
COUNTY.
For Representative, Thirty-third Dis
trict,
WILLIAM r. MOORE.
For County Judge,
For County Clerk,
BENJAMIN FOUNTAIN.
For Sheriff,
CORNELIUS DONOVAN.
For Treasurer,
GEORGE w. HENRY.
For Superintendent of Schools,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-25

When you wake up with a bad
taste in your mouth, go at once to
all druggists and get free sample
of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets. One or two doses will make
you well. They also cure biliousness,
sick headache and constipation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-25

Only through car line to Asheville,
n. c., Queen & Crescent route and
Southern railway.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-25
TIPS TO TRAVELLERS.

One hundred miles shortest to
Chattanooga, Queen e. Crescent
route.
Queen and Crescent fast line to
Birmingham and New Orleans. Two
fast trains daily.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-25

Get a free sample of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets at all
druggists. They are easier to take
and more pleasant in effect than
pills. Then their use is not followed
by constipation as is often the case
with pills. Regular size, % cents per
box.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-25

BY THE j. w. POTTER co.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
Butchers and Consumption.

About once year a story goes
the rounds of the daily press to the
effect that butchers are immune
from consumption. These stories
have been permitted to go uncon-
tradicted for SO long that they have
got to be generally believed.
Now the truth is that the per-
centage of butchers who die of con-
sumption is quite as large as the
percentage of those engaged in any
other ordinary line of business. Ny
reason for giving space to this is
that some butchers might be led to
believe that they really are i'm
niune from consumption and there
fore become careless of their health
Butchers Advocate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
What Int rested Napoleon.

At one of Napoleon's reviews an
old grenadier who had made the
campaigns of Italy and Egypt, not
hearing his name pronounced, left
the ranks and asked for the Legion
of Honor.
"What have you done," said Ma
poleon, "to obtain this recon-
pense?"
at was I, sire, who, in the desert
of Jaffa, in dreadful heat, offered
you watermelon"
81 thank you again for it, but
that is not worth the Legion of
Honor"
The grenadier who so far had
been as cold as ice flew into a
paroxysm and said with great volu-
bility, "Do you count for nothing
seven wounds received at the bridge
of Arcola, at Lodi, at Castigloine,
at the Pyramids, at Saint Jean
d'Acre, at Austerlitz, at Friedland
IL campaigns in Italy, in Egypt,
in Austria, in Prussia, in Poland?'
Here the emperor interrupted
him, and initiating his vivacious
language, said: "Well, well, well
How you scream Now you come
to essential points; you end where
you ought to have begun. This is
better than your watermelon.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

upon those whose memories have
been execrated by those who have
lived after them? We shall OBJ.
tain but an imperfect view of this
subject, if we limit our thoughts
to the period of our existence
here. Our actions will travel on
in their consequences far beyond
the period of our continuance in
this world.
He who here tolls unrequited,
for the benefit of his fellowmen,
may hereafter be permitted to
enjoy the satisfaction of tracing
the results of his labors in bless
ing the world through coming
ages. The result of one impor
tant discovery, or the influence
of one good book, moulding, per-
haps, the character of thousands,
can never be computed till the
history of this world is wound
up-nor even then; for innuen-
ces set in operation here, will be
heard from in the echo of their
results far down in the distant
ages of Eternity.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
foKYo A CITY OF PLEASURE.
In Some Ways Japan's Capital Is
More Fascinating Than Paris.

OF all the lands in the world none
exerts the peculiar fascination of
Japan. Others have equal beauty
of scenery, greater grandeur, more
noble works of art, more interesting
problems of society, writes David
Starr Jordan in The Humanitarian.
But none possesses an equal fascina
ton. No one who has been in the
real Japan which lies outside the
treaty ports and the foreign hotels
and railways ever could or ever
would forget mis- experience. No
one, if he could, would ever fail to
return.
The great secret of this charm
lies with the people themselves.
They have made fine art of per-
sonal relations. Their acts are
those of good taste and good humor.
Two cities of about the same size
and relative Importance are Paris
and Tokyo. No two could show a
greater contrast in spirit. Both are
in sense cities of pleasure. Tokyo
is a city of continual joyousness, lit
tie pleasures drawn from simpl"
things, which leave no sting and
draw nothing from future happi-
ness. Paris is feverish and feels
the difference in the morning" and
the "hard, fierce lust and cruel
deed" which 60 with the search for
for the joys of the present.
No one who catches the spirit of
Paris can fail to miss the underlying
sadness, the pity of it all. The
spirit of Tokyo-not of all Tokyo,
but of its life as a whole-is as
fresh as the song of birds, as Sweet
as children's prattle is" and it is
good to be under its spell.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
Why We See People In prsamIand.

1t is quite possible that impress
sions upon the mind and upon the
nerves of sight might suffice to con-
vey the fullest conviction of the
actual presence of one whose image
appeared in dream, for the last
objects which the dreamer beheld
before falling asleep were his bed
chamber and its contents. He
dreams of these, and also Of the
figure of his friend, which seems to
be in the midst of them, and he will
in consequence assert most posi-
lively on the following morning
that che was not asleep; he dis
tinctly saw the figure standing be-
side his bed; he could not be mis-
taken. ."-Blackwood's Magazine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
A Wonderful Memory.

The following anecdote of Mo-
zart shows that he must have been
a born musician:
When fourteen years old, he heard
in Rome the "Miserere" Of Ale
gri, and knowing that it was for
hidden to take or give copy of this
famous piece, he paid such atten-
tion to the music that when he
reached home he noted down the
entire piece. He was enabled few
days afterward to check the copy,
when he found that he had not
made single mistake. The next
day he produced such a sensation
in Rome by singing the "Miserere"
at concert that Pope Clement
XIV. requested that he should be
presented to him. Thus by his
wonderful memory he was enabled
to begin with success his musical
career.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
Curing A Borrower.

People who are continually bor-
rowing household utensils and ne
glect to return them are annoy
ing neighbors. The problem of
how to cure them of the habit
was solved in an effective though
somewhat costly way by one long
suffering householder.
A new man had moved into the
neighborhood. One of the first
things he did, after getting his
goods into the house, was to bor-
row stepladder from his next
door neighbor, Mr.. Smith. He
needed it in putting up his win
dow shades, and "would return
it shortly"
Next he borrowed tack ham
mer, to use in putting down his
carpet.
Then he wanted hatchet, q
screwdriver and a gimlet, all of
which things Mr.. Smith, being
an accommodating man, allowed
him to take.
Several days passed and none
of the borrowed articles had been
returned.
"I'll cure him, 'said Mr.. Smith.
About a week later the new
neighbor came with the screw
driver, and apologized for having
kept it so long.
"That's all right" said Mr..
Smith, with a genial smile, "but
you had better keep it now. 1
have bought another"
With muttered apology the
new neighbor hurried back and
returned with the gimlet, the
hatchet and the tack hammer. :"
"You are welcome to those" >"
said Mr.. Smith, cordially. 81
have bought some others, and
don't need them"
"But"-
"That's all right. You keep
them. They Il come handy about
the house"
Again he hurried away, and
was returning with the steplad-
der when Mr.. Smith, who was
just going out, met him.
"Why, bless me-" he said,
"you needn't bring the ladder
back! I have G 1T new one, so l
shall not need it,"
The new neighbor kept the
things, but he never borrowed
anything more of Mr.. Smith. -
Youths Companion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
MILES OF VARYING LENGTHS.
Seventeen Countries That Have sps-
cial Measurements Of Their Own.

English speaking countries, says
the st. Louis Globc-Democrat, have
four different milcs--the ordinary
mile of $3.50 feet and the geo.
graphical or nautical mile of 6,085,
making a difference of about one
seventh between the two; then
there is the Scotch mile of 5,92S
feet and the Irish mile Of 6,720 feet
-four various miles, every one Of
which is still in use. Then almost
every country has its own standard
mile. The Romans had their mil
passuum, 1000 PAGES, which must
have been about 1900 feet in
length, unless we ascribe to Caesars
legionaries great stepping capacity.
The German mile of today is 24,318
feet in length, more than four and
half times as long as our mile.
The Dutch, the Danes and the
Prussians enjoy a mile that is
1s,440 feet long, three and one-half
times the length of ours, and the
Swiss get more exercise in walking
one Of their miles than we get in
walking five miles, for their mile is
9,153 yards long, while ours is only
1,760 yards. The Italian mile is
only few feet longer than ours /;
the Roman mile is shorter, while the
Tuscan and the Turkish miles are
$50 yards longer. The Swedish
mile is 7,341 yards long and the
Vienna post mile is S,796 yards in
length. So here is list of 12 diff
ferent miles, and besides this there
are other measures of distance, not
counting the French kilometer,
which is rather less than two-thirds
Of a mile.
The Brazilians have a milia that
is one and one-fourth times as long
as our mile; the Neapolitan miglio
is about the same length; the Japa-
nese ri, or mile, is two and one-half
times ours; the Russian verst is FIVE
eighths as long as our mile, while the
Persian standard is a fesakh, four
and half miles long, which is said
to be equal to the parasang so ia
miliar to the readers of Xenophon's
"Anabasis." The distance indicated
by the league also varies in different
countries.-Ledger Monthly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
The Cap and Hat Riots.

Those civil disturbances-the cap
and hat riots-were in Sweden from
1888 to 1771. The caps were the
Russians and their sympathizers /;
the hats were the French. For a
time the kingdom was reduced al
most to a state of anarchy by the
two contending factions, but order
was restored by Gustavus III. in
1771, who, desirous of excluding all
foreign Intervention in the affairs
of Sweden, forbade the use of the
names and sternly repressed all dis
orders growing out of the political
dissension between the factions.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
USES or RAWHIDE.
copwhecIs Made Of II and Maliets and
Many Other Things.

"One Of the most curious of the
many things made nowadays of raw
hide" said a man who handles such
articles in his business, "is the raw
hide pinion or cogwheel. You
might think that the teeth of such
wheel would break down and wear
off quicker than those of an iron
wheel, but as a matter of fact they
do not break, and a rawhide pinion
will wear as long as ON iron pinion,
if not longer.
"Such pinions are made of many
layers of rawhide pressed solidly
together and bolted through and
through to metal plates placed on
the si''7. The teeth cut across the
face OF the wheel thus formed are,
of course, each composed of many
layers of the thoroughly compacted
rawhide standing edgewise.
"Rawhide pinions are used for
many purposes. One of their great
advantages is found in their noise
lessness. They are used in machine
shops against iron gear SO as to
make less noise; they are used for
motor pinions on street railway cars
and so on.
"Another rather curious though
now somewhat common use for raw
hide is in the making of mauls and
mallets having heads of rawhide and
hide faced hammers. These are put
to a great variety of uses, as for
pounding on dies and punches and
On polished metal surfaces.
"Rawhide is used for bellcord in
street cars, for all manners of straps
and for shoe and boot laces. It is
used in the manufacture of arti-
fetal limbs and for trunk handles
and for trunk binding, for washers,
for many sorts of harness and sad
dlery goods and for whips and
lariats, and not the least of its uses
is in the manufacture of various
kinds and all sizes of belting."-
New York Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
The channlnn Elower.


During the summer of 1890 the
botanists made a wonderful discov-
cry in Tehauntepec, having estab-
hshed the fact beyond a doubt that
the native "hinta" has a flower that
changes its color three or more
times each day when the weather is
favorable. In the morning it is
white, at noon it has changed to a
deep red, at night it is blue. 1t is
even claimed that some individual
trees of this species have a flower
that changes to many intermediate
hues during the night. There are
only two hours out of the twenty
four-from II a. m. to l p. m.-
that this rarity gives out perfume.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
JAPANESE Bells.

Bells were in use in China, Japan
and India long before they were
known in Europe. In the space
fronting the temples of Nikko,
Japan, there are enormous bells of
exquisite purity of sound too heavy
to be suspended in any tower which
this people build, and so they are
swung on low frames of stout tim
Der, the bell being only three or four
feet from the ground.
They are rung by means of bat
tering rams, made of long joists Of
hardwood, suspended SO as to swing
by the united aid of many human
hands. They give out soft and
muffled though deep and farreach-
ing notes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
His wit Saved Him.

In the early Indiana days, when
both judge and attorney literally
erode the circuit" a newly elected
judge, noted for his lack of personal
beauty, was plodding along on
horseback between two county
seats one fine summer day. Sud
denly he was confronted by a hunt
er, who unslung his squirrel rifle
from his shoulder and ordered the
horseman to dismount. Somewhat
startled by this peremptory com
mand, the jurist began to remon-
strate. He was quickly cut short,
however, by the remark; "It's no
use talking. | long ago swore that
if | ever met a homelier man than
i am I'd shoot him on sight" -
The judge, sizing up the situation,
promptly got off his horse. Fold
ing his arms he faced his assailant
and said, "If | am any homelier
than you are, for heavens sake do
shoot, and be quick about it,"
Needless TO say, his wit saved
him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
Ruined by His Stomach.

The first Napoleon's fondness for
mutton and garlic is generally
known, and it has been contended,
and possibly with some reason, that
had he been more abstemious at the
time of the battle of Leipsic that
tremendous conflict might have end
ed differently. The emperor GER
tainly had to quit the battlefield, an
ugly rumor says, from a severe at
tack of collie brought on by over
indulgence in one of his favorite but
indigestible dishes. More merciful
critics see in his illness that day the
commencement of the cancer of the
stomach which seven years later
brought his life to close, but can
GER of the stomach usually runs
far more rapid course, so that the
disease could hardly have begun in
1913.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

McGloin was young ruffian who
had murdered saloon keeper at a
midnight raid on his place. He
was the fellow who the night before
he was hanged invited the chief of
detectives to "come over to the
wake. They'll have devil of a
time" For six months Byrnes had
tried everything to bring the crime
home to him, but in vain. At last
he sent out and had McGloin and
his two 'pals" arrested, but so that
none of them knew of the plight of
the others. McGloin was taken to
Mulberry street, and orders were
given to bring the others in at a
certain hour fifteen or twenty min
utes apart.
Byrnes put McGloin at the win
dow in his Office while he questioned
him. Nothing could be got out of
him. AS he sat there a door was
banged below. Looking out, he saw
one of his friends led across the
yard in charge of policemen. Byrnes,
watching him narrowly, saw his
cheek blanch, but still his nerve
held. Fifteen minutes passed; an
other door banged. The murderer,
looking out, saw his other pal led in
prisoner. He looked at Byrnes.
The chief nodded.
"Squealed, both"
1t was lie, and it cost the man
his life. "The jig is up, then," he
said and told the story that brought
him to the gallows. Jacob Riis in
Outlook.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

Give the COW all the food she
can eat at regular periods, and
weigh the milk. About two
pounds of milk make one quart.
If preferred, the milk may be
measured. Compare the cost OF
the food with the snm obtained
for the milk, and the value of the
COW as producer can then be
estimated. Test her also with
other cows, and if there is one or
more of the cows that do better
than the others sell those that
are lowest in the list and fill their
places with better ones. No far
mer who buys new cows will
know what they can produce un-
til he has tested them, but by
selling off those that do not pro
duce as much as should be ex-
pected in proportion to the food
consumed the herd will gradu-
ally be improved until each COW
will give two or more quarts ex-
ira per day, the value of which
will be considerable if the herd
is large one.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
IT REQUIRED NERVE.
But the Scheme Was Worked to
Successful Contamination.

Successful Contamination.
1t began to rain, and the stranger
in the city said, 81 wish we'd
brought along an umbrella" His
friend, the New Yorker, quickly re-
sponded, ''Wait; Pll get you one"
As it was late in the evening all the
shops were closed. A moment later
the New Yorker drew his wmpan-
ion into a brilliantly lighted cafe
and walked briskly up to the bar.
"Is that umbrella there the one
left here the other day." he
said to the man in front of the
glasses-"crooked brier wood han
die, silver band ?"
The man turned, opened a locker,
pulled forth half dozen umbrellas,
found one with crooked brier wood
handle and a silver band and hand
ed it out.
"Could you do that in every sa-
loon?" the stranger inquired timid-
ly when the two were once more in
the street.
81 could, but you couldn't" the
native declared "You couldn't say
it quick enough"
"But how did you know they had
a brier wood, crooked handled UNI
brella in there?"
81 didn't; | took chance. There
is not well patronized cafe in the
city that does not have a collection
of lost umbrellas. Some bright
Thursday morning l will lose that
umbrella at the same bar rail-
New York Post
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
The wIsdom OF Exper,encr

When was 20, thought ! was 40;
when was 30 thought was 80;
when ! was 40 thought was -.
and when was so wondered " they
were going 10 bring In the high chair
at the table and give me the bottle
w. W. Goodwin, Retiring Harvard
Professor at Dinner In His Honor.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
A Generous Hostess.

"Our cook didn't break dish
while she lived with us, but we had
to buy new ones when she left"
SLOW was that?"
"Oh, we think that every time any
Of her friends visited her she gave
them souvenirs" - Detroit Free
Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

Should the ground not BE- f or
ell plow the garden plot us early
as possible and let the frost get
to work pulverizing the clods. If
the asparagus bed has not been
attended to burn it over, so as t.
consume the tops, and then up
ply manure plentifully on the
bed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

Additional local trains will leave Harrisburg
as follows: For ChambersburR and intermedi-
ate stations at 5.l5 p. m for Carlisle and inter-
mediate stations AT 9.37 a. M, 200 o. m & ~ N
m, $50 p. m, II on p m. also for Mechanics burg.
and 3l5 p. M :" .''
and Hagerstown.
:, Pullman palace sleeping cars between New
YORK ana Knoxville, Tenn, on trains / west
and 10 east
Through coaches to and from .PhiladelpAla
on trains and east and and o west
Daily.
Daily except Sunday
p. m.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

In the real estate business
deeds speak louder than works
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23
CUMBERLAND VALLEY

Additional east-bound local trains win run
daily, except Sunday, as follows: Leave
Chambersburg 800 a. M, leave Carlisle 5.45 a.
m, 1O5 a. m, 1910 p. M, 3l5 p. M, S15 p. m.:
S.37 p. m. '
Trains Nos. and ITO run daily between Ha-
minutes late on Sundays
Daily.
Daily except Sunday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

Little Boys Suitees, from
A to 8 years, from 90c to 50.
See them. A splendid lit
tie overcoats, from 4 to s
years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

with a satin lining-at $500
that is a Bumper. You want
to see this suit. We know
it cannot be matched any
where for the money.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

A tremendous pile at any
price you want. We have a
Storm Coat that we defy the
county on, at the price.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-01-23

We want to call special at
tention to our Mems and
Boys Clothing in Suits and
Overcoats. We have a line
of Mems Suits in Black
Cheviott-strictly all wool
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-27
The Secret of Lorg and Happy Life.

You sometimes see woman whose
old age is as exquisite as was the per-
feet bloom of her youth says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. You wonder how it is
her life has been a long and happy
one. Here are some of the reaons:
She knew how to forget the disagreable
things
She kept her nerves we'll in hand,
and inflicted them on no one.
She mastered the art of saying pleas
ant things.
She did not exDct too much from her
friends.
She made whatever work came to her
congenial
She retained her illusions and did not
believe the world wicked Or unkind
She relieved the miserable and sympa-
thized with the sorrowful.
She never forgot that kind words and
a smile cost nothing, but are priceless
treasures to the discouraged.
She did unto others as she would be
done by, and now that old age has come
to her. and there is halo of white hair
about her head. she is loved and con-
sidered. This is the secret of a long life,
and happy one.