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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-06-01
None But the Brave

itated and was about to give another,
and then-curse me for careless beast
the man called Purdy spoke up. reading
from the rim of my hat: "Balfort'
And so gave my NAME
Mistress" said Marvin, your name
now"
Deborah Philipse," she said beneath
her breath, and then repeated part OF
what he dictated, though her arm grew
heavier and heavier in mine TIL my
wounded wrist throbbed with pain.
I thought then 1t was over, but he must
needs get paper and ink, and write out
blurred and rambling certificate that
Morton Balfort and Deborah Philipse
were married the 18th day OF september
$780, by James Marvin, a minister Of the
gospel whereupon those looking on
roared with laughter at him and his SOL
emnity, and most of all at his signature
that covered half the page, When he
had signed, Purdy cried OUT
Now, a toast to the bride!" and We
filled again and they drank and 1 tasted.
But Marvin stood up keeping his bal
ance as best he could, and droned out in
Knocked solemnity:
Gentlemen, you forget. The minister
has not had his fee"
Then. turning to me. he said in a
wheedling tone, with a horse pistol point
would not foroa+ tha nan of Cod who
,,,ada ,,o,, ~ s,r5o.oaaor ~ suoh az tbis ~,
Indeed had nnt econ n until that mo-
,,,a,t ,,or t,od ~ o,o,,rad N mo that 7
had on nv, erst ntsht In This country
fallen IN 1,,th gane If SINNERS I.
was clear enough now, and the amuse-
ment they were to have and were haY-
aa.';,,at. ,~,o,,,re
az - - ,.a. +ho foo" said tho Dir,
oaos,,, a,,d or,ina out silken nurse
80, 60, a. haiS n dozon gold ,ieoes
81 a,,srp, g.. 49,, ,,,osdings and handed
80 - Mt, oddtng ~ tbanl, Won
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,,,d ho,,o o.iod With rage at +bts
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A. -, ~. ,,nasa 80, a.ht i,+o =
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pear indistinct. A wreath will appear
over the martyred Presidents head and
the date of his death beneath.
The manufacture of postal cards is an
interesting process. From the paper mill
millions of sheets 3Ox50 inches in size,
are brought to the pressroom and print
ed upon presses having a capacity of 1900
impressions per hour. The sheets. each
containing 80 cards. makes the capacity
of the presses 100000 an hour, or one mill
lion day. The new forms will, however
contain 10 plates and the presses which
are to be put in in Maine will have a
greater hourly capacity; hence the daily
output can be increased. The Sitter,
which cuts the cards into strips of ten
cards each, is operated by one MAN. After
the large cards are slitted into strips of
ten cards each they are taken to the cut
ting machines which are operated by wo-
men. Here they are fed through the cut
ting machines. three strips at a time
for eight times, and then one strip maxi
ing In all twenty-five cards which are
dropped in bundles and banded by two
girls, who occupy seats near the ma
chimes. Twenty of these packages of %
cards each. are placed In a pasteboard
box these boxes next go to three young
men whose duty 1t Is to put them in
wooden boxes the cards are stored away
in the large fireproof vault to await ship
ment to the various postoffces.
To many large postoffices are shipped
full carload lots, and the sman postof-
fees. which would not use as many as a
car load in the course of year are sup
piled from the four sub-agencies-St
Louis Cincinnati, Troy. N. Y, and Wash
ington. Each of these sub-agencies is
kept supplied with a large stock and
from them packages of various sizes and
parts of carloads are sent out to every
little postoffice in the country. accord
ing to its requirements. Rumford Falls,
Me-, to which point the plant is soon to
be moved. Is a new town. at which i'm
portant lumber, pulp and paper-making
industries have been recently started All
the mills are run by water power, which
with the other advantages of that sec
ton, make the manufacture of paper and
pulp cheap
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-06-01
To the Japanese
They Talk,
If Not to Us.
rams or sSss
Varied Meaning

solemn tea feast. The little cakes are
handled with it, but one doesn't use II
to fan with.
Our dancers and geisha girls have
their own type of fan, decorated appro-
priatey, and our jugglers carry fans that
suit their trade. There is a kitchen fan,
to be used for bellows, and a bamboo
water fan that is dipped In water often
while being used. so that 1t makes the
air 1t stirs cooler
Almost every political event of impor-
lance in Japan has been pictured on
fans, and very often the rulers have had
to forbid the carrying of certain fans,
because they spread trouble and sedition
You could have a whole history OF ia
pan on fans, If you could find the right
fans.
Some of the old fans are not used now,
The ancient court fans were folding fans
of wood, decorated with silk artificial
flowers, and each noble family had
it's own flower that no one else dared use
THE war fan is of iron, covered with
lacquer. and the generals have silk fans
with iron sticks Have you ever seen a
dagger fan? The mobsmen in Japan carry
them, but 1t is against the law to take
them into China. Cinnamon have them
all the same.
Everybody carries a fan In China. 1t
pan. and there's so much fan etiquette
among the Chinese that l don't see how
~ have time to learn anything else.
You know what the fan stands for in
Japan. don't you? No. why, 1t Is the
emblem of life. and the rivet in the sword
of the God Kashima.
He received orders to subdue the world
so he ran his sword straight through the
earth and left 1t there. The world would
fall to pieces If the sword rivet were pull
ed out.
THAT story suggested the making of
the folding fans but there's an old le-
gend that says the widow of a famous ia
! panese patriot invented the folding fan.
| She went into convent in Kioto after
| her husbands death, and when a great
saint was dying of fever she cured him
by folding a piece of paper and tanning
! him night and day. The nuns copied the
| paper fan and the order is famous for it's
fans even now.
Some day 1 will show you all my fans
and tell you what each one means, but
l don't see how you can buy fans, and
Duy more fans, and never ask. What do
they say; what can they tell me-? We
Japanese always ask. Why? What?
Where? about everything
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Maryland Reports
Them First
Who Comes Next?
Seventeen Year
Locusts Appear

| the roots of the trees they are equipped
with sharp long beaks.
During the period of their life under
ground the larvae shed their skins many
times. At the expiration of the term they
tunnel upward and issuing from the
ground by thousands, climb the nearest
tree, shed their skin for the last time and
appear as perfect insects. Creamy white
in color at first, they turn rapidly to a
dark shade on exposure to the air and
their development is remarkably fast.
The ascent of the cicada takes place
about the end of May, earlier or later,
according to the local conditions and
the ascent into the trees is made between
sunset and midnight.
The superstitious believe that the To-
Gusts bear a prophecy. The seventeen
year broods have well-defined w on
their backs, and an old superstition is
that this presages the coming of war.
1t is supposed that the brood that has
appeared in Baltimore is the forerunner
of other broods which will probably ap-
: pear late in July and last through August
and into September. In case these broods
are very numerous the shrubbery and
small trees will show the effects In a rap
Id whitening of the smaller branches from
the tips inward, in some cases resulting
in the death of the tree. In some districts
of this state in past years the damage
from seventeen-year locusts has been con-
siderable notably in a swarm which COW
cred the central part Of the state in the
early sos.
arm in N IL
ties for several years.
or natural enemies the cicada has plen-
ty. In spite Of its predominance of shell
structure over flesh number of crea-
lures look to 1t for food supply. Several
varieties of common birds pursue 1t with
avidity, but by no means invariably with
success, for the ungainly-looking insect
flies swiftly and Is expert dodger
Squirrels pick the cicada off the branches
of the trees where 1t perches while sing
ing It's hot weather song In the south
its most formidable antagonist is the
great bald hornet which stings 1t to death
and Tugs 1t off home a reserve for a
rainy day. The cicada's only protection
is It's swiftness OF flight and the difficult
ty in distinguishing 1t from the limb on
which 1t rests. It's noise is little guide to
the pursuer as it is very difficult to To-
cate.
When entomologists have nothing else
to quarrel over they can find material for
discussion in the cicada family. Science
has not yet determined the periodical APP
pearance of the so-called seventeen-year
locust some authorities holding that the
appearance is to some extent fortuitous.
occurring some time at the expiration Of
thirteen or fifteen or seventeen years
while the other school holds that the thir-
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Piedmont w. Va.-Postal cards will no
longer be manufactured from West vir-
ginia wood. Fifty million cards are now
piled up in the large vauE and storeroom
at Luke, Md, across the Potomac river
from here, where the factory is, to last
until the plant is moved to Rumford
Falls. Me-, where for at least the next
four years the cards will be printed. pack
ed and shipped to supply every postof-
fee in the United States, Cuba. Porto
Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines.
During little more than four years
the postal card factory has been here. the
present contractors having begun opera
lions December l, 1897, and in that time
approximately 17,500,O0 pounds of paper
have been consumed in the manufacture
of $500. 600. 600 postal cards. The amount
of paper consumed would exhaust a con-
siderable spruce forest. The output has
averaged about $4,000. 600 cards a month.
although the capacity of the plant Is
much more than that 10o,0OO,OOO having
.een Sirned out in July, 1901. The same
conditions that are causing the cotton
mills 10 move to the south. where the
raw material grows. com pels the postal
cards to be manufactured where the raw
material can be most conveniently Sc
cured. 1t was this that four years ago
brought Colonel Albert Daggett to Pied
mont and practically the same reason Is
taking him to Maine. where the cost of
the paper upon which the cards is print
ed is much less than here The West Vir-
ginia Pulp and Paper Company has fur
nished the paper during the past four
years, and the Oxford Paper Company of
Rumford Falls, Me-. will supply it dur
ing the coming contract period.
Fifty million cards. which are now In
stock here. were made In order that there
might be no famine in postal cards while
the plates are being made for the new
= Mckinley postal card. which has been
adopted and will be used in the future,
after the present supply is exhausted
The new design will have a picture of
McKinley,s head. instead of Jeffersons
and will contain the same wording, with
out, however. The dark background,
which often cause the postmark to ap-
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From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
You want FAM echoed the smiling
Japanese merchant. What kind?"
The New York man looked around hope
itssly
"G)n. any old kind that's big and gives
lots oc wind. l want to get half dozen
Cor the office while 1 think about It,"
The japanese gave him six big fans and
came back to the Sun reporter. There
was r certain mild pity in his unfading
smile.
You are so queer about fans you Amer
leans" he sale in mis- soft precise little
fashion You want them only to make
you cool -
''Why not?" asked the reporter.
oh it's all right; it is all right. You
do not understand. A fan is nothing to
you. But to us-why, In Japan and China
a fan is a thing of Importance.
ITO cool one-yes that Is one use, but
only one use. A fan talks with us. 1t
tells many things.
you look at a Japanese fan. 1t means
pictures are pretty, perhaps That is all;
but to us who know. the color, the shape.
the decoration hold meaning.
You think the landscapes are funny.
We know they are pictures of real places
and we can name the shrines and tenn
pies and mountains and rivers. The men
and women all look alike to you, but they
usually represent historic characters or
characters in our romance and poetry.
'Fusiyama Is just a mountain to you.
II is sacred to us. You don't know our
flowers and birds and their symbolism.
IT could give you this little paper fan
with white storks flying over It and you
would never know that ! was wishing you
long life. and you wouldn't understand
that this cobweb design is for mourning.
II can't look at a Japanese fan in any
ones hand without having a whole swarm
of associations and fancy and sentim EN-
spring up and buzz IN my head and some.
times | wonder why you foreigners don't
feel enough interest to wonder what your
japanese fan says and look up the mean
ing. l should think 1t would be an in
teresting fad. and you love fads.
You see there are so many kinds of
fans In Japan. and each kind has Its own
use. Even the dolls have their own fans
and the children have theirs
There's a tea fan, used only at the
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From the N. Y. Sun.
Baltimore has reported the appearance
In the public parks there of the seven
teen-year locust, for which the natural
lists and others have been on the lookout
this month, and 1t is expected that they
will be reported within a few days or
weeks from other parts of the country.
What the ravages of the pests this year
will be there is no way to tell, but as al
most every year is a seventeen-year To-
Gust period In some part of the country
there is no doubt that the insects will be
seen in other regions than Maryland be-
fore the season is much advanced.
There are several species of the cicada
In this country. and they are known as
locusts and also as harvest flies. The
seventeen-year locust is the Cicada sep
temdecim. and 1t is found in all parts of
the country to the eastward of the great
plains. There are two races one of them
essentially northern in its distribution
and the other southern. which differs
from its northern brethren in that its pc
RODS are thirteen years. OF each species
there are several broods, so that the sup
ply is never exhausted in any season of
appearance.
The cicada deposits its eggs in the outer
twigs of trees, in groves cut by the owl
postor In about six weeks they hatch.
and the young almost Immediately after
liberation leap from the boughs, and bur-
row into the ground. in which the major
part of their life is spent. The young live
in the earth until near the expiration of
the period of seventeen years burrowing
to the depth of twenty feet in some in
stances.
The locusts in this part of their career
live on the roots of the trees, and on other
plants, and at the same time extract some
of their nourishment from the soil
through certain hollow hairs at the tip
of the proboscis To extract the sap from
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-06-01
She Would Not Marry a Dentist.

From the Washington Star
NO" said Miss Cayenne. IT couldn't
think of marrying him."
why not?''
He is dentist"
Dentistry is a very lucrative and high
ly esteemed profession
Yes: but he would have the right to
insist on filling my teeth. Fancy giving
any one such deadly advantage in an
argument
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-20
New Grenada.

Clyde Hockenberry with his
portable photograph gallery is in
our town for few days.
Robert Gracey, of Weldon,
Montgomery county, visited the
family of Richard Alloway's.
Bert McClain purchased a new
corn0husker and shredder COM
bined, and is now running it "to
beat the nation"
Rev. Jackson stopped a night
with Jacob Orders.
Rev. Fulcher registered one
night at the Houck House.
G. H. e. Plummer is having a
new porch erected to his dwell
ing.
James f. McClain has built a
new kitchen.
l.. L. c., is on the toe path with
MS assessor outht.
Problem, No. 2 IfPaul Baum
gardner at the age of IA years,
could buy tame turkey from
VIM. Bivens for dollar, and pass
it off for wild one, weight III
lbs, how many dollars would one
cost and what would be its weight
when Paul was "a years, 8 months
old?
Mrs. Jerry Sprowl and Mrs.
Bert Deshong of Wells Tannery
were in town on Saturday.
Mrs. William Sprowl of Wells
Tannery and Mrs. Hoover, of Al
toona visited friends here during
the week.
New Grenada is great Secret
Society center. Last Saturday
the Grange at Waterfall was mov-
I'd to this place and now is housed
in Mills Hall. We now have l. o.
o. F., p. o. S. of A., and Grange.
What next?
Among the few who took in the
institute atHuntingdon from here
are the following, Mr.. and Mrs.
Curtis McClain and son Paul,
Misses Maud McClain and Maye
Cunningham, and James A. Nc.
Donough and Arthur Cunning
ham.
The Wells Tannery correspon-
dent neglected TO state that
Joseph II. Gracey was buried
with the honors of Oddfellowship
conducted by Wells Valley Lodge
of which he was a Past Grand,
assisted by members of Water
fall, Six Mile Run, Harrisonville,
Three Springs and Clearfield.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-20
Back Run.

Mrs. Marie Wright is reported
on the sick list.
William Patterson spent last
Wednesday with the family of
William Paylor
Joe Pittman of Thompson is
staying at the home of his sister
Mrs. George Paylor.
Mr. and Mrs. Powell Bivens and
daughter Miss Cora of Hancock,
were visiting Mrs. Bivens broth
er, William Paylor and other rel
atives last week
Moving is always in style
David Clugston moved into the
Rhodes house last Thursday
Miss Phoebe Paylor who has
been working in McConnellsburg
has returned home.
Our school is progressing un-
der the management of Charles
w. Seville.
William Seiders was in this
place buying chickens Last week
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-20
Plowed With Three Horses.

Two well known farmers-one
from Thompson and the other
from Ayr, went out to plow the
other day with three-horse team
After going several rounds and
having good bit of worriment,
they came to the conclusion that
there was something wrong. One
suggested to the other "you get
on and ride and [ will hold the
plow." Accordingly, one of them
mounted the off horse and went
two or three rounds more, when
they came TO the conclusion that
they would ask the lady of the
house to come to the field to see
what was wrong with the plow.
One of them went, and, opening
the door very slowly, asked if she
would come to the field aud see
what was the matter with the
plow. But she sent her father,
and when he got down where
they were working, discovered
that they had the two horses
hitched to the long end of the
oubletree.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-20
Harrisburg.

EDITOR News Enclosed you
will find my subscription to the
News for another year. To say
that l appreciate it's weekly Wis
its and admire it's makeup and
worth, is but mildly expressing
my opinion of it. 1t usually
reaches me Thursday afternoon,
and from it l learn much that is
interesting, aud of the happen.
ings | would never in any other
way find out,
1t will soon be eleven years
since left Old Fulton, and many
are the changes, and many the
young folks that have grown up
that 1 am not personally ac.
quainted with ; but their family
names are very familiar and in
teresting, and, therefore, brings
many recollections of those now
living, and many that have passed
away.
Every branch of industry in
Harrisburg is active, and plenty
of work for everybody that will
work. The building trade, in
which | am mostly interested,
has been very active, and much
building is being done.
Now that the coal strike has
been partly settled, the miners
having returned to work and the
national guard withdrawn, much
uneasiness regarding thescarcity
of coal and the possibility of freez-
ing this winter is removed. In
this, as well as other cities, our
local dealers are having their or.
ders partly filed, so that by eco-
nomic use of the black diamonds,
we can keep reasonably warm
this winter.
AS my letter has already been
drawn out too long, I will stop
wishing the News continued sue
cess.
w. HOWARD WAGNER.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-20
BARN IURNED.
ID. w. Cromer's Barn at Fort Lit.
tleton. and All its Contents.

N.O
The large bank barn on the
premises of Daniel w. Cromer at
Fort Littleton was consumed by
fire last Friday evening, together
with all its contents of hay and
grain.
About dusk a peddler stopped
at the door of Mr.. Cromer's
dwelling and asked permission of
Mrs. Cromer to stay all night.
This she refused, and went into
the house and continued her
evenings work. About ten min
utes later one of the children
came in and told her the straw
stack in the barnyard was on fire.
Mr.. Cromer was not ut home
She, with the aid of the children,
went to the barn, aud while her
first impulse was 10 try to put
out the fire in the stack, she soon
saw the folly of any such attempt
and FASTENED to the stables, and
liberated the horses and cattle,
took out the harness, and did
what she could to save as much
as possible, but the flames from
the stack soou attacked the barn,
and while the neighbors began to
arrive it was all they could do to
save the house. The barn, inclu-
ding all the hay and fodder, about
200 bushels Of wheat and 40 of
rye, the binder, windmill, and
other things stored in the barn,
as well as the ice house which
stood near, were totally destroy
ed. There was some insurance ::
how much, we have not learned.
1t was, at first, thought that
the peddler may have had some
thing to do with the fire, but as
no one saw him set it afire, no in
formation was made, although he
was arrested near McConnells-
burg next day by Sheriff
Fields, and committed to Jail by
Justice Sloan charged with ped
ding without license.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-20
Burnt Cabins.
w. HOWARD WAGNE

Mr.. Allie Minick and family
visited Mrs. Minick 9 father, VIM.
MCGOWAN, on Sunday.
Carl Gallaher's moved into part
of Mr.. Dull's house, on Thursday.
Miss Mamie Speck is improving
slowly.
Miss Mary Welch visited her
brother Edward at Spring RIM a
few days last week.
There has been quite large
fire on the Fannettsburg noun
tain during the past week.
Miss Mildred Mccarthy and
her cousin Janet Appleby, of Mt.
Union visited Cora Doran last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Kelly at
tended the county Institute on
Wednesday and Thursday at Nc
Connellsburg.
George Fore, of Philadelphia,
and Fred Harmony, are guests of
Chas. McGehee's at present
Alvin Sipes of McConnellsburg
spent Saturday night and Sunday
in our town, l guess to see the
sick.
Chas. Hassel and sister, of
Johnstown, are visiting friends
here.
Mrs. Chas. McGehee and son
Roy spent Friday and Saturday
with Miss Rhea Fore.
Miss Blanche Wiser returned
to Jacob Miller's Saturday, after
spending week with her mother
at Shade Gap.
DR.. Wilds and Mr.. Ager Nor
row of Harrisonville, spent few
days in our vicinity hunting deer
but did not succeed in getting
any.
There will be a local institute
held at the Mckinley school house
on Friday night, December 5th.
Every body invited.